HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1891-6-25, Page 6is
THE MAD SPANIARD.
By the Author o£ "Tile +GROSS OP (eft Neseetiera."
WOMAN'S RAT KINGDOM,
Where 1l'eu Constantly Study to Nalco
Their- elates Melt.
The women of Sumatra owe all the wealth
and it is the coasters( aim of the men to en-
rich their wives. They have a law by which
z Just this 'time there tesla to Ennis- a titan's property caunot be inherited by his
W e ail wonaer,.d what broeeght hint into children, but must go to his. parents, while
this wild district so tar from les own hand, store Ito ase—Lord Clare phaee--itis son, the belolaging to his wife descends to
or what induced him to 'ake up his aberde in Captain Ormond. He teas net the eldest the ofspring ; and, of course, they
that. •ihl ruined tower. Sleet :n place ea it , *one, elite to • .e_ :•«t1, eldest: anal had been get around that law by putting all their
was'.: mase ;a Irene in : (:ray and aid .aww.a.' ..t isle with tha.omurd to the (wars, wealth into the hau(1e of the women.
scorn., -neaten; with deee,creviceu, into which lie hell L.een with Lord (lough in India ; 1 Each ratan bas but one wife and each wife
you eonl.l put ;emir ha::.1, bet ween its huge had tr'eted s.e.u•.ls with the Pnnlab one husband, and the live perfectly moral
stones ;and ettitt.nooks ,inthe high taw- .time,:lit .ti: the p.a.ssg* 3f the Smtlej, lives. They are Mohammedans although
eourees, in which the w'tuaertu,gewellows in ; had*p seen the sun darkeutivitb the haze of they are monogamous, both in theory andira
summer -titre i,uilt their nests ---seine might battle ou the p1- ins of . iedh►a; and had fact. A man inay divorce bis wife if he.
see by the straws and moss ' that, Deepe,# teen. one ref the h lit to reach the ramparts chooses but he must .allow her to retain
thereevez ; et wcs about as unlikely a spa's as •:t the neat day of s :ct,it when the ilagof " the property in her possession. Divorces are
any :ice not altogether demented weed 1 be Englae d wee alanteitnu'bc h-oodstainedre.
» �' i .eout.is of l'.hetli:tttww•tatis- fled been seriousl not irequcttt, riot neatly as frequent in ro-
ealiete,.l to select for Ilabitatul t. Platte Y portion to population as they are in Vali-
Vali-
wee natltingetandinghet the tare walls, and wounded, too, and wee house now for a time farnea. A man does not live in the same
how thiet; and strong they were '- Leal invalided, a house with his wife. Re has his one apart
laiitort- and tradition had alike failed to tell • A gay. handsome, stalwart young fellow and visits her only in the evening, like a
its story ; it h:ad been recites and ruined r l:t> nos, notwithstanding a that he was lover ealling on his mistress. When the
for longer then tee fathers auel grandfatteta obliged. for the time being, to use a, children grow up the boys are taken away
ettb. presets( generation could remember le trench to midst lieu in walking ; and from their mother's home as soon as
and wwaa likely to remain so unci: thelapsiug , no one would thettft, looking at his bright- they are old enough, but the girls stay
agesslnould snake its malls errtnble on the: pleasant, leughing ,yes, teat he lime ever with her until they marry. When
precipice they surmounted. aU.l-cau.e them , tk,twn fiw,,rd to write a feetnau, or tont that event takes place an addition is built
to topple over into the sea.—Not. incleell, he had ridden over a battle -held with the
Olt to the mother's establishment and the
that tees could fall right Onto the see, sate (lead Gut dying lying OK around him. I newly -married daughter melee that her
when the winter winds sent the aseeeat roll- lint the ware of ltunlau destiny ave wonder-' hoarse. When there are many desighters the
fug w eves of the Atlantieinwardsaa.iswept fall, and ee it Was, that en his ratult'ea over oaigintl home grows and grows, as they are
theme, leaping tied merging, to the bee of the lade of (.'pare in search of heath he carne married of. until it becomes almost a village.
the 1c.. At such a time they would, no ' into the ueighba)rhotel of Mona C'aetle. When a woman's hueband dies she pante a
detabt, if they ecce way, descend into the , ,linil 4toming auto the neighaorlioott of the post in front of her particular door in the
sea ; Beat at other periods. they would simply .dei t'uiu, of course he heard of the stranger family :mansion and bangs a dap on it, ,ki s
fall on' a small strand, ereseent.shepe.i, of ; that had settled down there ; and of course, long as that flag waves she may not marry
the iineetsend, :es white as flour ; or, other.1 too, out of an indolent eurie ity , he visited again. But when the winds have torn it
(vise, sin the great beams and timbers pro- 1 the place. into shreds and scattered the bits on the
trudiue with uue:ttitth promineu.e thrangh t It was only a few days ai er the sweet groundv her teem of mourning is conatdere,
it—the relics of a great vessel that some ; foreign young lady had cane to it, anal ilo to he over and she may accept a second
time its the pa;tt itad Won wreak+ by, the .louht they mutt here beet: ea1ti;Iiletely tin- lovers advances. The women aro very
lnitile s sea, sad driven in there. , known to one another. ibit they unght beautiful, hawing good figures, exceedingly
1' utast levee been a ship of no oriiva y leave known elle :acether for vara, so ante' fine complexions, and bright eyes. And
hied that was thusdriven inandwrecketi,for ; mete theybecame itna :mart ((treee they they tlressmostelegantlyand extravageutly,
it3 i;igautiebealne were too (nwieldy for tarry , were always together. IF Dunma Gmeta • They have both silver and gold mines in the
+•estels that our Wend lead ever acese More- went for a wall: along the elife ov erloohing island, and these people bavesuffieient know•
over, they were fastened and it mpea wit's the enclitic, it was not Iong unto she ewes ledge of the arta to smelt and draw the in -
it tamend'topper
n1erF,t, netsin retee, awl ., joined l} C utai:Ormond. I. t o eta were
f got into flue wire,which they
then weave
it tterse,lit', Wene lriby*aril Itra, s.mnell eac.. end the tamel it into sheet o
utto cloth for dresses.
>, ,tt<let•i, :het they hal remained there :molten gold, until it sp •ta"tawat glistening
foe teteer1•ienti untouched by the inlial,tt• to the horizon. be sure if a spent: brelte tee '.
e,•ete who would tallier do wieuaet tiring level reach of glowing waters tt w:as Captain
thee o to tete tr:mu ,apt o- mating them t when . ,c* , A domestic tra .eel,•, which has created
'►� :e� :a it 4 state tacrr ; wire irznne,l it : nvlmen Paye. tag stria lora. Citarli;� a trluoitt#—tor � & ' • bo ° of Y..Giron
it tiaeee the 'mai; tubal nation's -flag( it bore' en the tenantry tecta* Tenet afle.tton• ' excitement in the neig11 (hood tfaRouen,
al ft , were ell t"aiir`�s that the great ever- etely to Ball titineeeeed to laugh gaily was enatteel at falteourt, near
1 great If ally ere hiked him ole the ;sole'. and twine. Some time apo a man named Bouteil•
ti f heti d
OW .uuhi tee of dery about them, they ;orraghlitreturn for herteacitang tram the had ,atnd to icd a most somet(i)+Bite
were Maly .o last as long as the old castle ; :>panssh language. Hat we all ,knew very
.. , resolwed to take this opportunity of severing
ties lase.+ga sate wee to the , i.mtncement , p y , where. On being released from custody
of ria} attire. had F:aicly Bewitched titin. I,nwsitclicd him,
i, �t • I - o,r cin„ inttk.e,1. ie the only way to say .it, for after y u I3o�mtelller endeavored to t persuade tl is
If rem ti small;1withered, blas t i t , . wife to tree wvitli him again, and on meeting
little teem I remember very well wheal , tow montes, and when the e,aptatn wag re•' with a refusal beat her and threatened to
are: newhite---standing at the door et the , stored to as geed hhealth as ever he was in, kill her. To escape his ill -usage Madame
old cantle, lookiseg Bowen on that strand and the order for his recall erecta. lira regiment Bouteiller sought an asylum in ier father's
,war they sea. awl takinge.note caregenerally of was orderedldo fp. But he did novice t agent,
f house. Hero l3onteiller presented himself,
the pato. He might be sixty years of age, the • had offered him Ithe colonelc of his broke the window of his wife s room, anti
or only forty, franc what any one coulajudiee l regunent, tray, if they had hada hitnygettcral i endeavored to effeet an entrance. The 'vo•
by ?.hie' appearance. `�e1ud the gibberitsti he • of tiirtalon or cofumander•in•chief, he would man, rendered desperate, seized a revolver,
:apt),..: ,twain (unt(: 1 °mak° all thel"4"1) Iuave rrfused it, fortito pkaauro of listening fire:, and killed iter husband on the spat,
hoe:, Phgh when they heard it, blush he to Donne t,raeia's silver aeeontsand basking Madame Iionteiller, wvino has been aarroxto:l,
,tared .about thin laughing! He ordered in (Omits having intentionally taken her bus -
timber, yn .. a local: tarpeutcr to help him, in the light that streamed Ecom her suntty hand's life, and deolares that abe did so in
tu•i .itmn to to a portion of the ohl castle , eyes, ;rite felt belief that he came to her with tiro
reefed in, Hail two or three rooms made;It was a time when England needed all }.
o histhreat
to mur-
'en of carrying out t e
ltittUtl
Its'r (lien, and when honour :end duty were 5 4
inn it, tin, quite , amfurta though it was ' wards first nu ail men's lips, and, for the ; (ler Iwr.
the wonder of everybody what a swede man, lty for.a nutter of that, in all men's hearts temp t and
antiAnil t en itt'b to be or loured that she had! . the firer eensequcneo of Charlie Or niond's I! The Grip of ra New Idea.
Ana ni ¢ en became ru ou
4 h
s' ingoing was that; he'
taken a le Ise of the plate from Lord ('tare,
delay or reluctance g 1 .gtl , A silversmith in Now York, who has a
as if he were going to live in it for ever: was broke from bis commission ; and the' ' 1 d 1 t f t 1 an
la i k ti heads,and: second that he was, in a fit of wrath n t l be greeted 7 Y Y Y
.Domestic Tragedyin Lenin.
j atelier
w ¢ i Ortinee e e orregh with the Spanish "
a. d hent wove o tune :a Faroe airway .' tete " ' ler was sentenced to a term of iinprison•
alai Bme«.�iatn .gut 4 eight. And for engin -a' h•' w.as oral; tem, ttizey, lair to 5 t the S . .cut and. his wife, whom for some time leo
itself, lk; sx . hinge canine over thea t and ! well how t, tugs, and the. tltosof wtinaomo' the conjugal solations, and, quitting the.
the tterainndin a quite uneepteetediy : and :