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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1890-2-20, Page 7FAL$E._..F.R.I.END, A STORY OF THE 1.100.4RN 134.BYLON. catPzEtt 111. The circumstance* of the nourcler—for snob, it undoubtedly wass—were so cruel and, exceptionel, -*diet a thrill WAS Bent through louden- when the newepepere were deliver - ea on Monday morning. The vlotina was Margaret Neale, the 0ount5se of Southfort's governese ; and her body hed been die. covered by a constable, soon alder dawn, at the bottom of the flight of *steps leeding down to the fountain from the side next. Park Lem. OA fine ;seeing the body, he had thought, from its attitude, that ib wise a woman, sleeping there; bad on deecena- ing the stepe, the constable perceivea with- out touching her that she was dead. Oa a eurgeon being quiokly brought to the epot, he pronounced life to have been extinct for several home; and from the dew upon the deed women's clothing and certain other ap. pearanoes, the body meet have lain there all night. Tire authorltiee hall bad AU Sunday to proeecute to , riee before the murder be- came public in 4 next mormagess pepeee ; evidence. " but m far as fuid be gatb,ered, they awe Lady Southfort inelbeed her bead; Alad not found much light. Fine Of au, ebe amid deep ellence wrote ta fow wordo on dentity of the viotire in iteelf made le dil- e:01e to get at a clue. She bad gone back o Ledy Sontleforth house 14 eltesvenor Square alter *dogleg at this concert., and had i ovestainlY not left the hou np to the hour of • Ter (0,11.pmt eight), At what* hour ehe selt out, 110414Y QUIlld ; but it numb have been dug dinner, twee, when sent for by Led)? Sonthfort et r dinner to come to thO dreevingarieme to the general eurprise eshe was nowhere to be found. But a eon. Itabe WhO was On duty la Perk Letre had seen a lady of the IsesnotIOTOt And eimilerly dratted hurriedly cam the reed from Mount Street and eater the email gate of the Park At a quarter pest nine ; he noticed thee else weut straight eaters* the rota toweede the e fountain. At tea °Jacek the gate referred ' o Wet always 010444 for the night. There waft little doubt that thin wee Mies* c,.Aa a R,,gloa.,y ()eau,. (Geeing the ad. Neale s butthe Identification did nob go a . .e, - A L . far. 8,4012,4 never been known to leave „e 4 tespectee tee register myeelf, '''' when ehe told roe Of it" h01140 batore, exoepts for :some well-known "Sow de you, know that Jelitie Verner& purpease and at a uthel hour ; and the foot of ber *steeling out.—aa the must have dolga— waa an "snrag4 nan/a r "After their merriege her hueben0 elder. the examining solicitor, "that there wets something elee besides conatitational ohy. nese which caused, the deceased to shriek from, notice. Was that the csee—to your ladyshipts knowledge Lady Soublifoxit heeiteted, and the sileuce of deepening intsereet made her hesitation mem more eignificante "There was some- thing," the mid at length, in a low and dietinet voiee, "known only to myself, and involving painful Aetna of Mies Nettle's life. I do nob me how ib heath upon the woe at all— and I would fain preserve the poor girl's secree still." There wee a minute's enema. "It was nothing to be aehamed of," the Countess aeded, "or le would ates have been Miss Neale's." We heve $1044t 1413 to that," °Imre ed the corouer ; "and every person in court sympathises with your Leslyship Bub we (=mob pass the point* over. If you would make enown to me, privately, the character of the secret ia question, I would decide whether or nab it ehould dieclosed iz A leaf of'a meuserauslum, book, tore the led web and passed Ib folded to the caroner. He read it with attention* and pausing a 1110101114 mid; "1 thank your Ledyship. Af ter reeding what you have been goad eueugh to commueicate to me, I meth regret* to ay that the Information may have a very imports:13* bearing upon Margaret Neale's* deetle." The solicitor thee continued his exemi- nation. "Pray, what was the Agorae, Ledy Soathfort "Miss Nettie was merried." " .1!o whom V "1 do not kootv. Iler beehend married her, over flee year ego, under the num V axnan Jaime Verney. But it was an assumed name.'" 44 Where were thee married V ttlitett to toll zne xyAstrateri tlye,a .A.1111 uletnothing roptehplaerge tIalg ea theerey. I deseet know which branola of discovered to eungeePb anexonunta ntilt leLvi.eL; ni3Lb therrue.,Well no cifi3er of thee e ofherb'belvr ndur' nc:arintenWluseeli --47D'a..t*h"o"w*TfeloZk'se"olw the breach of the uv"i s melee to which her hathend belonged!" and WAB thy and, retiring in disposition, To "No ; she had no ilee, Ile went abroad lady Southfort, who knew the wellit was incredible that she governeas ao I soon after obtaining his emendate% adobe , ehould have been in Hyde Park after dark—incredible ii,BtlY° SAW Mal "WI*" "Do you d " and incomprehenalble, the Lady declared; un. 111,10, alerteher. 1 el she saw with her OWn eyes the Melees 'She "ver regarded It 4°' 'Ea Iv" Pa"' and unable to maintain her until he got pro. proof of it. motion. She was willing to maintain /lateen So much the newspeper reports, in aub. nod' then. It wao her hope this five pew& stance, contaleed auhlonday rootning. Dar. foreign service would be mat:lone to enable Ing the Gonne of the day miner people applied him to come beck to her. Meanwhile, oho Lor admiesion to view the body. To some it was very semitive of °Nervation, and se - wee allowed, and to Prank tiolmes amen ewe, baton as moil as pagible.,, others. As he deed, silent, reels% on the white placid face of the rourdeted girl, Mr. Pressed further on the point, Lady South - Clayton the benker canto Wide, him. They fore admitted that she believed the wife to were both listening again in tansy, to the have hem &Northd. The man never wrote notes which had moved thistle so singularly' aline to her after leaving Bogland, or owe a few hours berme the hand of e swift and her any evidence of being alive and reraem. arced deetheilenced her sweet throat for overboring her. Whether anytear of deaertion "It is awful, liolmee," Geld the banker had crept into the wife's breast, Lady in a whisper. "Oaly think of her, on Sat. Seutbfort could not say; she was bravely way afternoon—and—look at her breast" holding on to the hope of the five years, -- They turned away, and lefts the place. notwithatending hie idleness and UeRleet. On the streetealr Clayton stopped, and lay. Aeked if ahe had noticed any alteration in *in his nand „Teeny on tbe younger man's Margaret Nessie'a manner of late, she exclaimed "Frank, if the tour- answered in the negative; the had been a derer Is,i'"1.410 within the next twenty. ilbtbe fiastered after the applause alto won at the coaoarb, but that had pseud away in An font hourte:TA 040iterts? themeless pounds reward aver my o me for his arrest." hour. Holmes listened without comment, The "Now, Ledy Southforb, kindly think benkerwaspowerfally exalted; but the other, before you answer. Can you remember more emporia's*, though not less moved, anything which would throw light, upon her WAS profound* interested in this tragedy, " No ; nothing whatever. I have been had his fenced and uuder control. He leaving your home that evening?" not alone on atm ant: of the character of the constantly thinking upon it since. It was poor victim, but by reason of the dark cloud the only time ehe bad ever done such an of mystery which enveloped the deed. He act, and I could hardly credit it, until there knew privately that the police—for the pre- was no room for doubt. She always break. sent --were literally at fault. Miss Neale's fasted with me; the letters were distributed manner of life had been so simple and re at the table ; Mho Neale had not received a gular and retired, and her character in letter for weeks except one, which was from a Lady Southfort's house—outside of which a musio-seller. She never appeared to she WAS not known—so gentle and winning, expect a letter, and always took a morning that even imagination was at a loss to am- paper to look through." geab a motive for her death. It seemed "D) you knew if her husband is still Feasible to be accounted for only as a mistake living, or where he is 2" in the dark; bets nobody in Lady Sonthfors's "I have not the slightest ides." house or out of ib could throw, the faintesb This concluded Lsely Southfort's evidence. light upon tbe unprecedented act of the It was deeply interesting, In the dearth of governess privately leaving the house and at each an hour. The ever enterprising and eager evening papers felled to add one iota to the infer. mation already made public. This was to many a disheartening eign; and the inquest., hallo take plaoe the next day, was awaited with anxious interest. The brevity of the proceedings in ths coroner's court was significant of dearth of Information. Only two witnesses, or at most three, demanded special attention. The first was the police constable who had made the discovery; he was passing near the foun- tain at halfloest three on Sunday morning when he saw the body of a well-dressed young woman lying at the bottom of the steps. At first, he thought she was asleep - but drawing near, he saw that she was dead --murdered by a wound in the breast. Ex. cepb some blood upon the tonee where she lay, no marks were visible. A surgeon was brought; and a eine and exteneive examin- ation of the vicinity made, but without result. The doctor who made the postemortem examination deposed that a sharp instru- ment (a knife or dagger) had penetrated the heart, and that death men have been instanteneous • the face retained the calm expression of seep. perplexing and nasetistectory. If the Wien- tity of the husband could be established, the pence would he better able to eee exactly where they wore. As uonal, some arredta were made on sus- ploton, which her a week or ten demi heint the public excitement going. Then, from dearth of froth incidents and the supply of daily interred the murder began to pave out of the public mind, bne not out ofthe thought* of those more immedietely interested 14 the deceased grerneas. Feet* Holmes had it constantly in his Wad, for more than one reason. While the • public dropped the tragedy with the unsatietaotory conclusion —where there waa A 00010104 At 1111-440 WU Neale was the victim of a blow Meant for some one else, be, more experienced in oath matters, formed no such opinion. We august Bay that as yet he had euffioient grounds for any opinion; but in connection with the tragedy he was somewhat puzzled by the intereet felt by Mr. Clayton, one of the moat practical and unemotional of men. Almost every day brought) hint an inquiry from thab gentlemen as to whether anything had been discovered yet. Oee morning there lay among other letters on his breakafat tilde one in Ur Clayton's handwriting, Con- jecturing its contente, Holmes lefts it un- opened -while he glanced through the morning pepers. For two or three days poet there had been hardly an ailusiort to the murder in Tiede Park, which a week ago had been in every wets thoughts ; therefore, he reeeived a surprise this morning to reads under a prominent heading, that the police were now very probably on the track of the Murderer, and that within the nexe twee four ISOUra it Wag ezpeeted.they would have biotin custody. (ro 118 cent qua% ) To the Young WiheO. AY Una crIUSSMISTAIS4 am A farmer's wifevoasequently ant 040110 to do all I am to aelp teem, for I think they, of all other WOMessi Peed help 4To bo toro and why not, your hapax. a And anOollrage1001114 1 Want t41 ray te the glory, me lerd ?` sap: Tim; and whir? he Yougg wives, dog% as aeon se you are ulo'r- bad thine eut the lard makes ohlee AV wen ried and &steed down, over -haul yonr hue, evident a tell, an' ay meder evident ARM 1 "WAKING" TEE DEAD stens Which Still Obtabs$ lis Man/ „Vossatry Districts et Ireland* The =atom of "wakingthe dead in Inc. hand, seem the Lersdon Spectator, though by no meana existing in ite ancient glory and vigor, still obtaiaa in a modified and shorn form in many oorintry districts. Briefly do seribeel it amounta to this —thab the nigh. bore of the deeeesed assemble and apend the night in the room with the corpse chettIng and telbing stories in the meenwhile, of aouree, taking "a bleat av the pipe" and a drop of "the eraythure" to sustain them during their vigti. Th.e omwereetion on such occasion rsatuselly turns to a large extent on the virtues of the departed, which are duly enhelliehed with all the natural elo. queue° of the speaker& No one tusfamiliar with Uganda= at all manes what a scene "wake' preeents, and we propose to give is sorb of epecimen of the coneereation which prevents on each an OCOMOGYAR "An ouid folterer" is generally in e Brag of honor, clam by the head of the bed. She has been a nurse, perhaps, 14 the family, and as the recke her aged body baekward and forward ehe pours forth with A 011 fie - sees southern brogue, in a Bad, WaillUg tone, A long piece of delighttedly discursive demos* history., nAh, wishee wish& lave me alone, the mother was the grand man;: Thade Began Was the grand man: he milk. ed up to forty °owe. anis inspliese bluer lee was a clairylarmer, whose stoat amounted to that number,1 Share it'll meeelf remimbere the day eo hie weddin". Lard Niwerd was at ileum et the time by the IRMO token, en* as he wint by our otabin Iteord mo teethe.; to Rey, B7 ger, there's; the lard up P Ate Imre enough he was, for he was on his wry to Tim Reoleissee, who WAS Minding _thirty hop far idea. 'Tura thine MO, Tim,' mays; the Lard; 'turn thank out,' 'Ay; he, 'for I went to choose out two of Oita,' OAVa he, itend'a truide, take out ine Uttlo aiuketei keepesalree, **tures of his friends!, eto., that he has boon ses °eyeful of, and put them in the sitting room for the duet ttoon to :spoil. Ib is nob right, but it often dale, and don't you think he would feel a little herd An thin ho eeye to Tim, slays he, "'Wee thim two haiku kilt,' says he, 'end give thim to the people that'a coral& to Teede Regan'e evediba, ' says he, 'for their dinner,* ways he. A13, wiaba, deeling, but the lard WAS mighty _fond AV poor Teacie, toward you whenever be looked ad Them? may God be wid then both I An' doe't I Never let Sunday morale corm; witheue A well remineber the tints that poor Thade, eloan, fdeely trended ehirt and pair ef seeks* peat hie owl, bought the farm near the rea for your leuebeed, have no patience wIth bog, an' how 1 attimied et tee dinner that the wife who eve "Thi* shirt has A hole awne day.). In it, John, but 1 gates you will lieve to At tide janeture another apeeker. wear it. 1 reallY could not lied time „_to Ing be etaatla have an Name, oxen the mend lie" Now I am tura that during too nurse a drink, and while sate is occupied long week there must have been :something thee she might bettor have neglected than ber buebaue'd ohirte If baby has * bed cell and it la difaealt for him to breathe, jut put one or two drops of any good freeh oil (Pen's oil is best), in eaoh. uostril. Then warm a :loft piece of lien- nel, and, lifter oiling hie cheat well, place the worm a innel on it, and pub bun in a lea, men, wont ye have a Ow? an I'd tell wenn bed. In the mornhog I, Muir he will him I had wan, but he'd ley, 'D )W12 toll mo be better. you bed not' an' av coorae I'd say, 410 Now for a few kitchen hint% Keep pa- e. 4 lit. tautfor tbe a4"ea AV 1110 IO contrediot A pars cue in teuares and hung over the gintleman like your hoar,' an' Judy would kitchen table. Ttley aro eery convenient) to iiii le up mewl pub uuder kettle:), frying pane, eto., when A driver of a hoarse who was present you pleee them on the teble. If you have a would add se firotioae which seemed to him loef of bread that has become dry and. hard, suitable to the occasion, "I tell yes:: all wet It ell over with odd Inters Put it la u that I have been driving a heeree men ate baking pan and place another ono over it boy theth twinty yore An' more. I have (to keep the cruet from baking harder), then druv deb An' wor ; an' whin the wind. was put ib in the even and bsim it as bong as You an ma haoh the emelt ay them both wail j hit alike, an' 1 didee like it, nether. And whin I comes acraaa is man who has 200 or 360 paled% andafletttkIthis cepara ate antial, I There are 2 750 languages * says to meself « 'What a uladlatlsur ye sire ; ter or lard irnwmediately after moulding. The but wad, ma bey, uutai 1 have ye in tho Auseriola was diecovered in 1402. color from the colored olothea often udheres home, an' then yell be q riot and May Envelopes , were first need in 1880. to the wringer, and is very hard to wash eft enougla' Shure, 1 wallet dru se jedge to the Telesoopss ' eere invented in 1590, bub if you will try using kerosene to clean it graveyard, an' I saw the yall clay shoveled A barrel of oe weighs GOO pounds.with you will haveno more trouble. Kamen° down an him as well as aim* -.....ee: he rot i • is also gookto aleen zhane wash diehes, eta, ting wid money. Ged save ne I" ThA barrel of ila weighs 196 pawls. is obeerva- 1 want to tell the young housekeepera tion called forth a general' exclamation, A bend °I pereeYeighe DO pound. how I cook the pert of the beef that is only "Wen, Ned, yet° a terror." The old mime, good boiled. After earefully washing it I„ "a charred and wrinkled piece of woman - place it In A kettle With salt, pepper, A/14 hood," being now refreshed, would take up about: one and oneehalf quarts of water. her 'parable again. and offer her snuff-box, Let its boil until this water has entirely or rather her anuff, to,every one present, It boiled away, then if the meat la not thor- eras done in this way; holding the box in her mighty cooked I add a little more water but nos much, as we want lb all to boil away. After the maths done end there fano water left in the kettle, take out all the bone, slice the meat and let it fry a nice brown In the kettle. To cock cabbage— Slice or chop fine, pub lb in a skillet with water enough to cover. After the water has all boiled away let it brown a lighb brown on the bottom of the akillet, then add a little more water and let other information ; but didh lead any one it 000k a while longer, or until tendeeethen to a clue to the seoret of the Arra death 2 season with ally, pepper, hatter.aad e inegar. Nobody could believe so. However, it gave the police something to work upon, The and anything was better than nothing, A Dream. y sat together on one warm sparkling though its was not easy to form a theory Baud, the mother and the child. The tiny from the melancholy revelation made by golden head nestled against the protecting Lady Southfort. Tone was etill a strong breast ; the wan face was lib by the evening prevalence of opinion that Miss Neale had sun: the eyes were closed, and a smile parted been murdered by mistake. the bloodless Hp.. The maiden :slept. Following the report of the inquiet next The mother watehed beside leer sleeping morning in every London nesvspaper was child, and she—scarce more than a child her - the oaer, printed in large type, of a self—murmured a mother's prayer. "Lord Next to oles.nlinese and to fresh air there reward of Two Thoutand Pounds by Jesus, save my little girl." Again and again es nothing more important in the rearing of Mr. Clayton, the banker, of infsrmation 'She repeated it, " Save my little girl. children of three and over as the proper leading to the arrest and conviction of the That was all. food and the variety of it. Babies are well murderer. Before evening the sum was 0 God I why are the poor born to be so supplied with general and special diet increased to more than Five Thousand unhappy ? directions, and it is after the child begine to Pounds by the subecription of others. Softly she drew the threadbare tartan run about and talk and ask tor what it It was a remarkable circumstance that, al- shawl round the slender frame. Gentle as craves from the general bable that the though the most careful and exhaustive was the motion ib roused the sleeper. The vigilance of mothers usually ceases. The search was made both in town and country, great blue eyes opened. little creature has got past its dreaded no photograph, no letter, no trace whatever •1 Dld I wake ye, Jeannie?" "second summer," and of course, the me - of the dead woman's husband was discovered H,No, no, mither'ye eidna wake me; 1 ther reason, it can get on very well. She —nye the record of the marriage of Mer- woke my Ain'. I had a bonnie dream, then runs between two dangere—either feed- garet Neale spinster, and Jolins Vernon, neither." ing the child with everything on the family bachelor, a; the Registry Offiee. The re- "Aye, dearie, what was it ?" table that it ono for, popping a lump of gistrar before whom the marriage took place The mother looked down anxiously. sugar in ita month when she wants it to was dead. There was only one noticeable "Afore I went to sleep 1 wes watchin' be quiet and not disturb other people, or she point about the record—the signature of the ships vvi' their white sails flit -ten' ower gives it a too restricted diet. It saves trou- Julius Vernon was much sprawled, as though the water, an' wondered whar they were a' ble to Beetle down on one iron -clad rule it had been written with a bad quill, or gaun. I looked, an looked, an' than I and feed the child forever on one thing, re - there bed been a hair in the point thought I was in a wee boatie, wn white gardless Of the point that children, like of the pen. The date of the husband's sails, too, mither. They said it was gaun to everybody else, crave some little variety in departure from Ragland it was difficult to Heaven. The sky was black ewer my their food, and always enjoy having it fix with any preoision. Mies Neale had head, an' great waves tossed my boatie to an' prettily served up to them. A pretty plate been four years in Lady Southforb's service, free Bub far away the sun was glintite on to eat from, a rosy finger -bowl standing by, BO thet ehe had been a year married the water, an' there were step of gowd hie own mug and spoon; ail these little when she became govereess to that lady's gann up, up, up. They add that was matters help the meal along. Dr. Newlin children. A detective officer had an inter- the wav to Heavai. Islt no, • mither ? Are Peirce less taught us that so far from all need view with the Countess for the purpose of ye liatenhe 2" of oars in food being done with when the obtaining further more definite information The mother's face was turned away, child has out its teeth, the foods should than the ceroner'e inquiry had :dieted. "Aye, aye, Jeannie, I'm liet'nin' to ye." be provided with especial reference to When Miss Neale entered her service, Lady "I sailed a bang, hang time. I was tired; strengthening the teeth, that need exercise Sonthfoet knew nothing of her marriage. but I came nearer and nearer the steps. I in their way as much as any other of the It was long afterwards --the Countess was ahriost there, rnither. They said, 'Gee, digestive apparatus. Too much oatmeal could not say exactly how long, but thought Jeannie, an' yell no be tired ony Main" I porridge is almost as bad as too little, as the it Was about two years afterwards—when was gaun, but they said again, 'No the noo, tender Hale teetbaequire to be :strengthened the governess made the oonfeesion to her. Jeannie, the next time.' Mien 1 awoke, with exercise upon hard foods. When child - What was still more regrettable—from a Was' it no a bonnie dream, mither 2" ren are fed„too exolusively upon soft foods policeman's point of view, at least—was that "My wee lamb" was all the mother could and spoon foods they lose the advantages her Ladyship—who was always a much pre. say. She pressed the frail form to her. The that come from biting into and chewing hard occupied leader of town and country society golden head sank back drowsily, biscuit. The late D. N. Amber Randolph --could not remember whether the gover- "The Dela time.," [000Mmended Oatmeal biscuit became of the noses husband had already gone abroad at The sun eat in crimson glory over the sweetnees and palatability which the oaten the time of the confession, or went abroad sande and eat •' heavy purple night clouds cake developed to the taste by chewing, an after that date. Lady Southfort, on rodeo- overshado sed the earth. Ere the glory entirely different quality from that whioh is tion, was inclined to the hatter supposition, faded the little maiden was far away on her enjoyed in the oat meal porridge or mush. founding her opinion upon the recollection journey up the golden steps, Still the The child Meat be taught, however, to thew that it was only within the Ian two years mother watched and prayed, "Lord Jesus, long and well, and not to "bolt" large pieoes that Mine Neale's avoidance of :moiety had save my little girl." of the bisouile or the good use of the little m becoe so noticeable. All this was very God bless those who awake from sleep. grinders will not be called out WHAT TgEtENO01-56" 43,EfAgh. TIONS More About the condor Mew* Europe. Elf EMS* 1r UNG FOLKS Oa the day that war is declared between Fran:mend Germany, what will happen? At drat there will be, of course, the general mobilisation *cording to the new method whitth the German ataff has recently adopt- ed. On the German side that mobilization will be effected in a very short time. Ix less than seven days s. little over 1,409,099 will be conoentyated on the frontier at the points fixed ef the general staff. The ears are ready, and the coal for the railroads was lad in bong Age. Pour or five days after the floe advance, 800.000 men will form the second line. Finally there will be the landstrane with about 1,100,000 on the first call. All these troops are thoroughly drilled and armed with the repeating rifle, The artillery ea cavalry have all thee is necessary for undertaking a campalgo. One can imagine, therefore, whet the next war will be. It will be frightful and merciless. It is quite possible that the victor, will he just as natieh exhausted and decimated as the conquered. Certainly the France Gomm; war of 1870 will book like child's pity wavered with the coming struggle, which everybody hi talking abeue tut which nobody but a madman would desire. We do not believe that; there le se sensible men la all Germany who does not prey for a long peace, because the next wer, even If it :should result in a victory for Germany must make more widow e and orphans than en the wars of Serape during the laet hundred year& Ceder the title of " HOW Shen We Attack in the Cetnioe Wier 1" pemphiet haS reoently appeared lo eupposted to be the work of a eOlf elthesze It treats of the present cauditioass et etteek by infantry in view of all tne changes of tactics m de necessary by the repeating rifle and the stool:elm powrtar. 44 WO Oen no longer eouut," nye thie writer:, 44 upon our euperiariry 14 numbers awl in aretement. There is only one superiority thet we MUSD endeavor to ensure, and the!" la the superiority of teetiese and our tactiots mutes be Adapted to the conditions% ef reodecri arme. New, thine conditione heve changed with the enemy, and we must eoou do he him. It le high time to etude the effecte which the new arms matet heve upen the taotice of bettle, upon the way to lead hoops into :Isaias. In future all infantry which is not completely hors de combat is inhaluertableic. front. Tim SUMO Ot war- fare meet prove AA exceptive and a remain the rule. Tele does not mime that A pool:lea canuot in future he carried ; every polder: can be curled, hut not in front. "In the aext war the German infantry cannot count, as in 10-'71, upon tea aupport of the artillery,lor the array hal merle rie much program in artilleryhei Oerinony, if not more; and, oonsideneg the range of the present Who, the artillery must ktxsp Ibsen at a greeter distauce thea it did in years pmt, and !veva the beta* to be decided by the infantry. The advantage of the superiority of indlyiduel tieing else tends to deoline the long range and, above all, with. weepone so von; hendlea ni the modem smell hero." The psi nphlet concludes: with the martian, thet while tlenofferutive le atilt the bed form of combet, mad the one to be recommended, it musk tail entirely if the enemy is not euvelopea by awning enovemeete by which. he Cala be plaasci under octeverginq tiros. -- [Poem Courier. with it be °burro; "Wiabe, ewe:loch, it was the poor resether that wee fend av bis ramming drop; menet, the time he'd take me wid him late Judy Malan% little pub Bo, An' he'd esty, Juiy,' he'd my, "giro Nicholas something to warm him And take the cowld ant av Ine atumodok this freathy mormieg.' Ate by And -by he'd stay, 'Moho. disi the Aret time it watt belled, Husbend likes it better than bath broad. A good way to prevent bread. from craokbag open when Iatereeting Pacts. ,, baking is to erease the loaves ell with but - The 03untess of Southfort, who was several times deeply affected in the course of her et'imade HOMES interesting state- o mentk,,, ioned as to the history of the deoeas\ .ilae said that Miss Nettle was the only child of a clergyman, now dead, and had been in her family as governess for four years. Lady Sorithfort knew nothing of the girl's relatives— she had no near relations. and had never corresponded with any. As far as she, Lady Southfort, knew, Miss Neale had had no acquaintance outside her own doors. She had habitually avoided strangers, and has been very remarkable in that res. peat. Then the following passed: "Was it from constitutional shynees that she avbided strangers V's "Yes:ao a great extent. Miss Neale was very "She sought a concert on the day of her death 'V' e.. "It was a prteete concert, and I had to use coneiderable Psrsuasion before I could induce her to sing.", "Was she in the evaetim et daging In your Own drawinieroonlhalektundrogstioe,sexts 0%o "No; I never asked when the gueets were operate, frionah; whom the was well acquainted witha "I infer from is previous aelvev.,, mid \ A firkin of batter, weighs 56 pounds. The steel' pen was nada in 1830. A span is ten and aes'en-el htb inch A hand(horee measur Watches were first oo right hand, ehe poured out some of its con- A storm moves thirhy. tents on the palm of her left Whether you used the snuff or not, it was considered ma A hurrioane moves eighty lucky AU 111101Vil to re#00 to take a pinoh of 18T3le Brat irozt eteatuthip ite Among the lower class " wakee are still very prevalent; beggars have their own " wakes," and ever little children are "waked." A "wake" is quite an expensive ceremony to a poor' straggling workingman or tradesmen ; hubhe teals he world lose caste withoute.holding it and hasnot the moral courage to break through the custom. The expanses of the wake in the " strong farm. ing class are a very serious item indeed. The &man (Whelk: clergy nowadays gen- evilly or universally discourage this custom; but it is so deeply rooted that its eradication must be a question of time. Itterist toe* of the birds sterloae„. I theetIl dew -bells hri8ht ehueltNe in of the dimplisd rose Till sheer% ghts in the ;stare dim Ii The glowwe Ws lamp I hide in the I stesel the wild beets iting ; pinch the toed till his legs are agiratolf, .And clip the beetiett wing. ho 1 0 hey I My pranks I play With never a note of warnieg. I sefa there for the moonbeams lair All wrought of spider -web twine; I bangle the naughty children's hair In a awl of rare design. I flit through the hause yrittiout any .-There a never an elf 40 sly; break the toys of hal little bops And the cross little girls who cry.. 0 hey 1 0 he I I work them woe, Till crow* the cock in the rooming. iSt. Nipholas for Febraulk •••••.1.01 --Tor Teethe TER lama liA147-1)01,44A3. Once upon 9. time, them Reed au old ceuplr whet had only one child, who was Neer), This; little girl's name WAS Goody; ad because „she was 'away a kind and obedi- ent, Now Goody lived in a tumble down elele berme ; wbkth was hardly any proteetieete especially, in colder etaraty weettier. Although the was AO badly off for shelter ha fared still WOX0 for food. Sometimes, the neighbor.' would giro holit eemethine for 13,er end her mother; hutee Z they were poor ileo,they (maid not give them much. The mem of all thie little girl's rotary, wee her father, who ween miser. Althougis, Gvocit'a bather lived in ands Pvers7i be was A tory elele man foe be had ghost upon chest of ;pia end sitter conceeled in the cellar where he retired every night to count it. Several times the little girl had 011144 th few pennies ; with vrbieb she Intended to buy food for her and her mother; but her father had always found it out, and *ken the money frem,nor, to Add to hie tato= ha the °eller. Althengh the little girl wets me badly treated, 1110 WA* al way a ohearini ; and tried her beet to =eke her, mother (whom she loved very dearly) more cemfortiable. Matters kept getting worse and worm, wine* one day a little old men stopped op to the door. " ROW do you de, little girl," he seld, hz a squeaking voice "will you give me novas - thing to set 11 Now Goody ems jays eating A very herd ornet, just then ;(Lt wee ell she had to eat) bat alie Wooded what remained to the old men, who seemed to be very hungry. "What makes you look in glum little girl" ho tusked after he„ heil hulehisd the 11'4116 " Mother is very sick, aud there le no*. Ing for her to eat," apaa Goody. - TIM is too bid, answered the Mean= ; how le it that your father 15 10 poor?" Oh, !ether is not poor, for he hes heave upon heaps of gold and. :diver in the oilier; hub don't fedi Anyone,' se% Goody. 4411 your father very fond of money!" he quired the little mare " Yee ; be likes it better then anybody or anytking ;" replied, the little girl. "Well," staid hie little /0.1411, .4 tell hithe that I left tide half dollar piette for hini.; so saying, he v When Good Astonishment; and get the As soon era edam, rolled off the floor thee ru What Shall the Children Eat? The Arab 'stoner meat w G315 was diaeovered The fine hone re' 1826 7. Tee average human years. Coaches were &at us 1569. Modern needles first came into use in 1545. The value of a ton of pure gold is $602,- 799. 21. One minion dollars gold ooin weigh(3,685- 8 pounds avoirdupois. The value of a ton of silver is $37,704,84. Oat: million dollars silver coin weighs 58, 9299. Kerosene was first used for lighting pur- poses in 1826, The first newspaper was pub:ish in Eng- land in 1588. The first newspaper advertisement appear- ed in 1652. Until 1776 cotton spinning was performed by the hand spinning wheel. Glass windows wore first introduced into E /gland in bhe eighth century. was a fairy ; whe and her troubles, resolehtli to neiplisr. me piece a money was bowitehed, an& world not allow a mortal to touchit. More- over, it Dossesaed the power of making any- one, whom the little old man wished, follow it wherever it went. ThZ accounts for the diseppearance of Gaody's father; who followed the money - for weeks and weeks; and' perhaps he is following it still. A Cations Collection. A postal card sent from Reading, Pa., to Stroudsburg, fifteen miles away, one year ago, has j as t reeched its destination. A Hnelsondale, 'Penn., man has worn the :same hat for twenty-three years, end he seys that it has come into stele nineteen times. Distance is continually being abridged. By the new route via British America it will be possible to go from London to Yokohama In twenty-three days. They have just unearthed in Kansas the remains of a turtle which must have been in life at least 15 feet long by 12 broad and have been capable of floating a dray horse aoross a river. lady tit Titusville, Fla., has a novelty in the way of roes. One of her many vari- eties bears a btla which is green when it blossoms. In the bud it is as nearly the color of the foliage as to be hard to distin- guish. Allen McLain, of Danville, Ind had la grippe and recovered. Subsequently, in a violent fit of sneezing he lost his vein, and has been unable to utter a word sinoe al- though apparently perfectly well. Two Atchison, Ke. youths, in love with the same girl, agreeeto draw straws to See who should have her, the loser to kill him- self within thirty days thereafter. Lords Kurth lost, and shot himeelf en January 6, but stinl survives. Fruit as a Medioine. Fruits are the natural corrective for die - ordered digestion, but the way in which many persons eat them converts them into a curse rather nhaire. blessing. Instead of being taken on an empty stomach or in combination with simple grain preparations. as bread, they are eaten with oily foods, with meat and vegetables, pungent season- ings or ether unwholeaorae oondiments, or they ar t *Gnat the end of this meal, after the aton t eh is already hill, and perhaps the who, uses of food washed down wit& te s. coffee r other liquid or they are eaten at all hours of the day or late at night, wide los cream, cake or other rich desserts. Fruits to do their best work ahould be - eaten on an empty stomarsh or with bread —never with vegetables. In the morning, before the foot of the Right has been broken they are not only exceedingly rehashing, but they nerve as a natural stimulus to the digenive organs. And to produce their fullest, finest effect they should be ripe,. sound ,and every way of good qual- ity moreover they shouldbe eaten raw. Virhat is bolter than a bunch of lus- cious grapes or a plate of berries on cherries: en a summer morning the first thing on sitting dOWn tO breakfast? Or a fine ripe apple, rich and juicy, eaten in the :same WaY In our climate, apples should constitute,, not the finishing but the beginning of the meal, plirtionharly the breakfast, for at leaat six months in the year, and fruits, raw or cooked, should make a part of the morning and evening meal during the entiee year. The good effects that would follow the abundant use of haling are often more than counterbalanced by the pernicious habit a completely saturating theta with sugar. Very few fruit', if thoroughly ripe, and at / their best, require any sugar, particularly ih eaten in thanker state.