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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-10-6, Page 7LUCY WATSON'S LOVERS. UCY WATSON had two lovers.— ebbs would be an unfair allowence in these days, but fifteen yore ago there were more marrying men in India and fewer maidens. Beeides, Lucy Waft really sweee • suough to monopolize the abten- • tione of any number. Of tieese two evvains one Was an elderly swain --that is, if the collector of a distriot on two thousand and eorne eeld hundrede of repees a month and A "fund" of the most liberal lutture -eau properly be called at main at all, whii ch s doubtful. He was a good fellow, was John McAllister, but ab least twenty years older thine Jewry, and, witat was mere to the point, very prim and stiff and aolenin and ruinous, arid, • in fact, destitute of not only appearance, but the thoughte and ways of youtb. And so when Col. Watson deed instances of the happy marriages he had seen. be. 'tween elderly gentlemen and youthful eassiea—he used occasionally to draw on hie Wraagination a little—poor Lucy would piteously reply : 1! Yes, papa, but it beet his age, that's nothing, nothing "--oh Luoy, Luoy—" but lea so old in his ideas and habits; he has nothing in common with a girl." And then there would be e little break down in the voice, and a tear would fall on the colonere hand, and he would turn away to smolee a cheroot, and make the beat of it, for be did not want to force his child into a distasteful marriage, he eves too fond of leer or that; but with eix sena roe:ging from 15 to 5, that his one daughter thould motry a well-tmdo man was dietinculy Peneions were good in those days, but even 21,100 a year ereemed small with suoh a troop of boys to educate and put into the world. And then there was a trifle of debt -which McAllister would—but whet was the nae of thinking about it if it would make little Lucy unhappy? It is almost salter- luons to say that the other adoror, whom Lucy mil like, was a hopelese George Farleigh was a subaltern in her father's eegiment, of about five yearie ser- vice, .1 tine young fellow, good at epode, but o^t,.h absolutely no prospects. There was no chance of the adjutancy falliug vacant for a long time, and there was no depot:mental openings, so far at least as he erns concerned. •In a small, up -country stetter( these two had many opportunities of meeting, and, to do them justice, they took advantage of all they could get. But Lucy was not without a mixture of sound, common sense, and abe would not pledge herself to George until he coald show some reasonable rounds for believing that his position will soon justify marriage; she would not listeo to the idea of an indefinite arrange. meat Matteis were thus at a deadlock'and there seerned no hope of a solution. lelonths passed by, weary months to all concerned. Then All of a sudden came a change. The new Governor-General arrived in the coun- try, and it 'so happened that in. former years he had known George's father rather intimately. The natural result followed. Nor a boy w -ho had passed nothing but the higher standard in Hindustani it was not possible to do much at once, but heel, ee might be eri Wee.' t On' a semipelied State for, ielie •-wwwleiffelhee'ae tisdej14 on and ab How 9" 0 A There was a tearful parting. "Noe', mind, you are not to write to me unless I write te you fine. Papa woula be very angry if you were to write direct to no; and, ed course, I won't have anything deem in a roundabout way. When. I writ: to you, if I do write at all, sir, then yoa may answer." So, half crying, half laughing, Lucy die- m/seed him, and both the Colonel and Mc- Allister tend goodbye with a eigh of relief. The sagacious Lucy had a reason for the condition she imposed. Over and above the difficulties of a correepondence -which her father would object, she wanted to test her lover. Married ladies often prone to dismal advice had sniffingly told her of the inconstancy of man, and she had also reed stbout it in novels and poems, ao she thought that an expetimout should be ' made. "IF we begin by writing to each other," she argued to lierseff, "ho won't have a oltanme of forgetting me ; but if there is no communication hetween us for scone time, then thee will show veheihm his affection is sincere." Left alone in the field, good, holiest Mc- Allister could make the running at his own pee; but eolnehove he never seemed to get ony ne trer the winning post. Bat the three months never pissed, for one fine day the Colonel, with a white face and broken bones, was broright book an a dhooly from the parade ground (his horse had filer), and though the bones were soon mende I, complications set, in, end the doctors ordered him hoine--" internal in- juries ; nevereget right in this pleee ; mono will atilt' tom strength etc. Then the poor inen told Lucy that the reasly h 'better makeup her mind, that he collet 111 afford .he expense of taking her to England, aed reminded her that she del net get on too moiler with her stepmother, who was lookieg after the boys. Atari Lucy did make up her mind. She wrote straight to George that very afternoon, telliog him everything. " I hope it isn't very unmaidenlv ,dear, lout there la no time to stand up m formal. Rees. If you still care for me ; if you think your position theta:Wetly hopeful to Paz -tory- miming, come down at once or Write. Bat if "—here a tear would fall on the paper--" you find that for any reason it cannot be, then don't &weer, I shall metiers tend," It was three days' pose to George's at time and Lucy told her father she would tithe.: over tho nutter and would give him 11, definite auswer id A week, The eixth dee, came, and the poor girl was trembling with • ermine -Ilene ; the *seventh, and she could imarctly keep still for a moment. But the • post came—arid no letter, At firat a feeling of numbing despair seized on her, bub she immediately rallied • the hair lotions are (me add all dangerous " How stupid Tam 1 There may uot have) humbugs, his ease is a difficult one, Yet Inez time to 'catch the mail, or George maw ' there is a remedy. He can no bareheaded. 'have been out shooting." So to melte sure, und leave though num- gle, the begged her father for three dame race, for she tomer doubted George. But the three days passoxl, and there was no >ripe _ • Lucy wailma nied to McAllister a fort night afferward. ti A very shore engagement, my deer," mid the niajorei wife to her bosom friettd, •" but yott see the poor dear colonel mat be off at once ; can't with atter longer, the dootors say, and it is everything to 'have J.Inoy nettled before he goes, I wrote and • told George Vairleigh it was emideg off— ewful blow for hini, poor fellowMilos be has forgotten all eboue her, which it probelee." But he hart not forgotten all AlaPta her, awl for home after reeeiving the good laden ee.OPet tl, quite caltnlyt The MeAllieters and George hetirleigh never met, for hot weet lute the pelitical line, and went froth One native etete to another without come retorning to, hie former Preeidency. Beb he now arid again herd of thern—how they led anieliper- entlY happy life int Viet Way no particular love perhaps en her part, but a -sincere ate te.ohneent to her husband, Aud peeeently McAllister retired end Babied Begiand, It wee just fourteen yore ehico Geuirge left Me regiment. He had got on well, and Was now readouts at the entre of an imbecile price with an unproneunceshle name. It was a hot nighb, and his solitame dinner was marcely OVer when the day's post came Englieh With it—so he lighted a cigar and left the tattle for a long arm elmir in the veranda. The bearer placed the lamp wouv,eniently retired to doze. The first letter that caught his eye Sva3 from the PostmasterGeoeral, and, wondering what that exalted functionary could want with him, he opened it before looking at the English letters and newspepere. The following is what ib said: "Sir : I have the honor to inform you that an old man died lately at the village of Sreepore, in the State of Achinabad, who was formerly a tappet runner in that State On his death bed he confessed to having stolen one of the letter bags many years ago, under the belief theft there was rnoney in it, but that he then became frightened and hid the letters in a box without opening them. This box he buried, but after some trouble it has been found, and the con- tents are now being distributed as far as the Addresses can be traced. The enclosed is apparently for you, as on inquiry it has been ascertained then it is you who were at the time in Achim/heel. have the honor, etc." George knew the writing on the en- closure at once ; it was .Lucy's. The feithful bearer wondered why the Sahib was so long in coming to bed ; also he did nob seem to be reading, for there was no rustle of paper, so with cat -like tread he crept to „ the ver- anda. The Sahib was lying back in the chair with hie hand over his foe. Three and four times the • man returned, and always to find his master in the same posi- tion. Ib was not till the gray dawn made the lamp light pale that George roused himself front a long dream of teem might have been and of what had been and even then he did not feel in the lout sleepy, so for sheer lack of something to do he took up an English paper that had jest arrived, and chancing to open it at the deaths, read: _ "April 15th, at 104 Greenfair Gardens, Cheltenham, John McAllister Esq., late of the Indian Civil Service. McAllister, papers please copy," * * Next month George Farleigh started for England on urgent privets affairs.—The Million. Couldn't Re Imposed Itpon. The amateur farmer looked wise. He had tramped or driven over a large portion of the tarm, had passed judgment on the rich- ness of the soil, and had talked of the put. - chase of some improved machinery. Alto- gether he was veryfavorably iinpressednued announced that he had about made up hia mind to buy the land. Then he noticed a little pool of bubbling Ot(te. Corsica is, it would ripper, atilt the home boitoothe elfie htlee Coraieane have it in ebeir Sinew the thee of Merimee, bas there been a ^ Wheriet•ere the singeler island who has nob • breught' bowie:some dramatic) eitorY having 4 ciearacteristio 4' color" e They are nob merely adventures of bandies and "von. debt',; the etentitneet et honor molly leeds ditvei Beare to strange excesses. •t.M. Emile Bergerat, who, dining hi trivels in that interesting country,. has be- come greatly interested in it,has just pub- lisher:1 one et these peculier dramas, in which O. family conetitutes itself a tribunel, aud an implacable 'one, againsb one of its geilty membera, It is the adventure, witle a tragic dm nouement Of a Preceptor—the result of an indiscretion eommitted by him. • It is well known that the dream of every Corsicaa is th become an office -holder ; this unfortunate man had eucceeded in getting hinwell appointed Preceptor a a email can- on. • Be was married and had two chil- dren, and for a long time his life had been particularly regular, Whet change took place in him ? To what evil inspiration did he yield? We know not; but the fact remains that this Preceptor, who had, up to that time, been perfectly honest, one day yielded to a fatal temptation. Havingprossing need of money, be borrowed some hundreds of frame from the funds entrusted to him. The embezzlements), which were theignifit cant, were only suspected. One day an In - vector of FinanCea, who was not looked for until later, presented himself to verify the accounts. The poor man tremblingly brought out hie books. The discovery of what was wrong was not long in coming; moreover, the man did not seek to defend himself. He broke down, feeling himself lost, and made it complete (*newsmen ; then, losing his bead, he fled from home and dis- appeared in the mountains. The eldeet son of the Preceptor, a youth of 16, but singularly resolute and decided for hes age, returned home jut at this time. He was made acquainted with the situation by his mother, whom he found in tears. He turned very pale, but eitid nothing, ex- cept— bo'x' gem muck is missing from the cash The Inspeotor informed him of the amount of the deficit. The young man thanked him and made an appointment with him for the following morning. " To -morrow morning," said he, "the box will be in its proper condition." • He took his gun—that gun, without which one cermet imagine a Corsican of the interior—and went out, bidding his mother the courage, and assuriug her that dis- honor should not enter that abode wbere honesty had always dwelt. At the appointed hour the Inspector of Fivances—a functionary originally from Paris, who was much interested in the man - nem of the country, where be was a new- comer --found himeelf at the rendezvous. He had not long to wait. Very soon, in fact, the young man and the Preemptor himself appeared, the latter pale, weak, his countenance haggard, and with the air of a prisoner. His son had hunted hem out in the moun- tains and brought him back by force after biotin etettletfeirttelniet twftrireterfeter dre erg his relatives and friends the sum twee miming ; they had all contributed bout hesitation to make it up—althougla ey were poor—in order to escape a scan - del. The son threw the moneyon the te.ble, begged the Inspector to count it, then de- manded of him what action he woald take ne;..te stun having been 'promptly reim- bureed, the Inspector declared that all was as it should be, that he held the eulprit ac- quitted, and that he would not prosecute him. Then he withdrew, troubled, in spite of himself, at the sombre attitude of this boy of 16 years. If be had known what was to take place after his departure! Up to thie point it is a commonplace story enough; but here is where it begins to be terrible. The Preceptor thanked hie son for having raved him, but his joy was of short dura- tion, One of the people enjoined him. to descend to the ball of his dwelling ; he found there all his family assembled. He was to be judged by his own kindred, if not by the courts. There was not the slightest indecision. His son spoke in the name of all. He sim,ply said to him: Do you wish to pay a visit to the tomb of your motherV' " "Bub it is not the anniversary of her death." There was a moment of solemn silence. "Then go up to your room and finish what you have to do, while we pray for yo -sr soul') The Preceptor understood; he was con. elemned to death ; he must kill himself. "You have an hour before you," they aclaeo. Th rm fortunate man turned beseechingly tower,' his wife; elle turned away her head. •It wee all over 1 He must meet his fate, resign birnself to the sentence pronounced against Mtn. He could nob hope for pardon. He bowed hie head, cast a de - sparing look upon theme whom. he loved, with whom he bad lived, and slowly mounted to his chamber. The family remained kneeling in silence. At the theatre such a none would assuredly be profoundly dramatic ; judge, then, of what it must be real life. A half hour passed in anxious waiting; no sound was heard save the steps of the condemned man on the floor above, as he paced feverishly to and fro Suddenly he called. He wished to em- brace his little daughter, a claild of 6 or 7 years old. Her brother, the pitiless judge, sent the child to him. The :preceptor kept her with him about 20 minutes, then a voice cried to him that the time granted him was about to expire, and commanded the little girl to come down. The young man, inipaosive in appearance, kept his eyes fixed on the clock. The women wept, but the idea never occurred to •any of them to protest against the authority of him whom they now regardedae the head of the femily. Finally the hour' began to etrike. At this momeet a shob was heard ; the 000demned mem heel executed hirritaelf. He had put a bullet through his heed. The boy threw down his own gun; vehieh he had been holding in his bands—for if' his lather bed hesitated he would riot. have failed to kill Mtn hierreelf ; honor derrianclod it ! From this moment the attitude of thie 16 - ear -old judge banged;ohow that honor 61{ owed, hie sereibilities reateerted them - ayes mid he coedit cep for the father whom be lied doomed to death in expiatiou of the fault he had committed. He maid. fasted, in feat, the settle geief he woeld have felt had he who had limb died nob been his olden. Ile WM, pertiettlar that the obee- qieies thould be impoeingi towl tollovved the eorteree witbont seeking to elimemble hie sorrow, yet 'without reineeme Atheedieg to hie mewl he had aecomplithed hies dirty, however emel ib mightbe. Whet e eteenge ementry, Where streh clistf,rae Sentimants are noseible ! "Cersica is stilt in the period of Coletritesei Mid Mi confitfeit e " A cold spring!" exclaimed the amateur farmer. " Yes, sir, and as clear as crystal." " Look here 1" said the amateur farmer, 'sternly, " do I look like a man who can be imposed upon ?" Why, no "—• "Would you pick mo out for a man who doesn't know his business ?" "01 course not. 1 "— Then do yota expect to unload this farm on to me handicapped by that thingi" " Why, what's the matter with it'?" " Matter with it ! Don't you suppose I read the papers? They kill crops." " Spriogs kill orope ?" "Cold aprings do. Yon can't fool me, °id man, if I do look like a city -bred man. A cold spring is worse than a backward spring, according to the Youeg Farmers' Weekly, and you wouldide dare to try to sell me a farm witb a baekward spring on it." The old man leaned against a rail fenee and didn't know whether to laugh or swear as he watched the amateur farmer stalk haughtily down the lane.—Deeroit Free Press. While the Duchess of Albany was dis- tributing prizes at the annual show of the Cottage Garden Society at Sa.ndown Park, a fox terrier ran from the spectators, mounted the royal dais, and, standing on its hind legs, begged for a, prize, too. "Oh, Mr. Hunker le exclaimed Mies Dorothy, who is an enthusiastic ornitholo- gist, "which of the American birds are you the fondest of ?" "I prefer the hen, Mies Dorothy." "But the hen isn't a song bird." " Well, it's the only bird whom lay I care for." SAITny. Guess what naughty Sandy did? (Sandy is my brother,) In the collar dark he hid, Just to frighten mother. From the cellar issued shouts; Mother was enlightened As to Sandy's whereabouts; Some one else was frightened. There are other sums itt space that are in- finitely larger than the one which gave us heate light and life. The star Areturue, which is known to be a sun for a far -away system of planets, is 11,500,000 times farther removed from us than Is elm solar luminary. Ilia diameter le 71,01)0,000 and his eireurrifereuce tetedit 224,000.,000 mike 1 Our 800 18 but 866,000 miles it) diameter, a fact, which proem that, A rentrue le at Jesse 551,000 thrice green r in bulk than is our "great orb of day." A beldheacled bachelorcorrespondent, who dada himself handicapped iu the race for feminine favor by his leek of hair, begs the Record to help him out of his difficulty. As he does not with to wear 5 wig, and as Kind natere colrerS the liam bead wibh pro-, tooting hair, as aim covere the bare ground with waving grass. If wo hail been a leas people, we would tome of ue have heen hairless. By cover-big:the heed we promote diriense of the sweep, and even softeu the skull. Claildreu--boye and girle—thould go unboeneted out of doors a% much tie poessible. • Women am lees liable to bald heads than men, owing to the airy arti twenty howl wear ivitith tee), pm - stet in denting all the f cer through, IP the hummer treason women go hatless in curlew) oftentimere and be the ;Ma, A eunthecle by day is the neatest eyeteeth to head covering ohe sees; at night, perhaps, gauty veil Oates the beentiful treessee. Sumnieri end, wioter alike the sterner aelt go with coveted heads, while their leoltier enters reloice in bartheadedness, rs ,oeibly ipforestettou bh rove like Mee ii adaato. Then fel, three months mat of every We vet, and bee:shook ititeriele eogethem swain dare COUrbd.t at 50 Yeere of age' they Cdtia show busby XtlAil the desneetie oectireenee' in the paper Mettlpe.--Phiectcle/phice feecordo Bergeret, ia recounting this iirAg10 a Or TkiiVt is en1W tee plaint—Ri BiginUs. Weenie etantlief 1101MWS. Kindnees eleneraley liteettive 'Where the Merin Is Not. reeder who has had experience in the managetuene of balky horses, says of en In- stance whereio he was called upon to drive teara thee woe noterielle for its balking proponeities : The load being ready I took my while and gismo the word to ;dart, loue insteed of etartmg with the load, old what a sight met my gaze! The leading pear impel to plunge and bound. The near horse trying to get over the off one, got his feet entangled in the harnees, and all sorts of gymnastice. The wheel pair trying to act as bad as the leaders, but could no, beceuse they were encased, each one ion pair of heavy ehaft instead „ef pole, as in this country. I stood a few seconds and watched their per- formance and finding they did not get their accustomed whipping, but instead a few mild words, they began to be a little more quiet, Then againlrequested them to start, when they again became frightened and rushed any way but the right. I told. them to stand still and oot be worried, patted them on the neck, rubbed their noses and told them I knew they had been sadly abused, but that kind of abuse was done with; talked to them as I woule have done to a little child, I think perhaps we stood there fifteen minutes. I took the nigh loader by the head, after throwing my whip on the load. Letting them, see I had no vehip to use on therm I said to him, Come along, sir,' at the same time walking off rnyeelf. Then not locking at him in the face, but looking the way I was .going, and • being assured they were not going to get whipped, they all four put shoulder to coder and took the load half wayup the hill, when I etopped, blocked the wheels andgave them a few seconds to breathe. Again I asked them to start, when they began to wall here and there, trying to turn around and many other antics. I also began my part of the amusing performauce by getting them into shape, all the while talk- ing mildly to them and actino in a melees way as if I was in no hurry. asked them to start, and after one or two trials at that place they started and took the load up the rest of the hill. After this they seemed to place confidence in me, and I had no more difficulty during that day, although we returned and drew two more loads. Three days after the above I was Sent to draw a heavy loadout of a very bad place, where the waggon cut ha to the hubs, and when I was ready I spoke very carefully to them, so as not to excite their fears; they both- ered for a few minutes but the whip was not used once, and when they found they were not misused, they took boat and drew it out, and here ended once and for all the idea of balking. 1 never bad one moment of diffieulty in regard to a refusal' to do what I aeked of them after this. Permit me to ask if you have a balky team? Be ever on the watab, and the moment you see signs of their balking, speak in your ordinary tone of voice and say whoa.' Now sit or sten.' eta', as the case may be; wait a few seconds, and then give the word to go. • If they refuse, keep emesejtonp done quietly, pat them on the relate iedneiddeme elee APP,!.DIACANTDR110:FSF,.T110 IMAMS, REMQV wattheilt load ele attentielaT p balked. Alertly's 'nimbi emit WO yourself. But if at any time you should find it absolutely necessary to use the whip do not use it while they are hitched to the load, but drop them out, gather up the lines firmly in one hand, take the whip, bid them go, but iu a mild tone, and give each a sharp out around the legs, letting them go a rod or two; then stop them a few seconds; then repeat, driving them in a circle around to the pole, hitch on, and in nine cases out of ten they go when bid. GUARANTEED 10, X, CALVXN. TO9tItCh Truvelli PutettlAtt eiceiet, re, etem entWandie lealsortactSereeyet dula; -Sta SOC,04 AkaprOl.reps,ta WU Otto a few aPaarattDas riet OWY IVICINffblYT91310ed excgestye clalutrufr aCturat; nen tout Appiteit AtPtng gr tWihr14.14:6410 004 aue eliewe Wad pigiaoted a ybablecroliFta.. Reeteree eaditite hetile Orielnal eoleie44. Stein falling, Of halee ffeeite thnecele Olen!). ,va Makes heir Min end Pliable, Promotes Groweeen itee ilfEetoIeelt REWAEWED. One of the Boys or etereve De'veloped Jy the commune. • The scenes which ettended the sup- pression of the Parieiare Commune in 1871 were comparable in their horror to the bloody ersmodes of the French Revolution, en the lase decade of the last eentury, says , the Youth's Companion. Hum:trees of mon and boys who, scarce knowing what they , did, or in the gereerel confusion, to what force or ageney their allegiance was really due, had joined the lately triumphant Conn mune, were led out on the plain of Satory, rothlessly shot down by files of the soldiers of the new Republic, and buried in a com- mon trench. This terrible period, however, was not without its humane incidente. One of these is related in a book width has lately appeared in Paris, "The Journal of a Conquered One," byM. Pierre de iLand The order has been ssued by the new Re- publican euthorities that Communist insur- gents who were taken with tame in their hands should be put te death immediately. The order was being reluo lenity exeeuted when in the garden of the Blysee Palace, a detachment of Republican loops mune upon a mall bend of armed ineurgents. Amcmg them was a boy of fifteen yeare, still inshore-, trousers. The band was col -Awned to a larger party of Communists deafened Inc execution. On , the way the fifteen -year old -boy broke out from among his companions, and placed himself in front oi the oolonel who com- mended the eecee b. Making the military t ealute with ft good deal of grime, he said "Mister, you're going to hoot me, I suppose?" "Certainly, my lad," mid the Connie'. " Taken with arms in your hands, it's all upwith you. That is the order." , Akl right," said the boy, "but see here: I live in Miromeimil street, where my mother is concierge itt a hotise. She'll wait for me if I don't come home, and she'll worry a great deal. I just want to go home and quiet her a bit, you know. And then again, I've got my watch hero; like•to give it to mother, so thee' have as much as that, anyway. Come, colonel, let me run home a little while. I give you my word of honor I'll come back to be shot." The colonel was struck with Astonishment at the boy's demand. It also began to amuse him a good deal. • ""You give me your weird of ironer, eh, that you'll return in tinee to be executed ?" "My word of honor, roister." " Well, write!' Bahl the colonel, " this young scamp has wie 0.8 well as aseurance. A rather yonug rebel. towboat, too. Well, his assurance bas seyed eitn. Go home, boy 1" • , • bo•outh owed and scampered off. Making it Easy For Ilim. The time was approaching midnight. The old gent was listening from a coign of vautage at the head of the stairs. He had been there in his stocking feet for as long as thirty-two minutes. The young man was lingering at the front door with the old gent's daughter. As a listener he was a succese, and he wee aided and abetted by the girl. This, also, the old gent knew, as well as severalother interesting things. That's why he became tired of listening at the head of the stairs. Ile was not hearing any newo Al last he heard a shuffling of feet. "Ibis so hard to say good-nightolarling," the young man said to the girl,who believed every word he uttered. As they always do before matrimony gets in its baleful work. "Don't say it George," sung out the, old man; "wait about five minutes and say good morning." It was then that the impediment in GeorgeW speech was removed, and with at least four and a half minutes to epare, the girl closed the frontdoor and George trotted along home. --Detroit Free Press. Ile Saves Many lives. Bunting—Dr. Paresis is the most success- ful physician I know of. He has marvel- lous success, in fact. Larkin—lie know e medicine thoroughly, I suppose ? Bunting—It isn't that altogether. He has his prescriptions written out on a type- writer. A. Good Ex.ense. "Why don't you sign • the pledge ?" pleaded the temperance edve,ca,te. iteI will next week," promised the subject. "Why not now'l" "Because I'm going 'fishing to -morrow for three days." Love'a labor lost --a second husband going on 0. tinie with kis wife's first husband's in- surance money. Mrs. Dix—I wonder what present bum hand will bring me to night? Mrs, Melee—. What makes you expect one? Is 11 your birthday? Mos, Dicke—No-o; we quarrelled this morning, The man who discovered that a rubber tip is the proper caper on the end of a leed pencil made a dean $200,000, bub the ITIal) wbo discovered tete,t the proper etudes of mInkind is rnen died poor. Such la life. At Bombay all the libido° sentries mita° any palming black cat, thinking 11 rimy possibly be,t,he Bout of an English officer ! eh° riling nein wed makes the game die - errand ring terve for him second engagement rimy bo aid•4 e kill two birds With ono l'he fleece's of ten goats and he week of severel .enmi for half a year are required to Make,e, grsitline cashmere eheetel a yield and hell Wide. , , Ife-eTherede old Oayn delving with Iiia pint ty,young Wife. She—res, Oho seethe to be Vette', . • 16 ie itiAbed QUA- (lifting hie reoeut vile to mIroltrulAwgItIllIttlire7rl'onWndilsitaannd PsfseaetrolaCrohnia. beliw a picituringtie reit on a hill !Rohl his net palace, -01 "dee o...,„„dohhdoo -OOMMord Nairn . iete dt. forgotten, in the" pee'sioe-ide l-terfibles „ .neh nese, all about, the bo Ye whoni he regarded as having been definitely set free.- But all at once the door opened, and the bey -Com- munist popped in. "Here I am, iniater 1" he exclaimed, " I saw mamma, told her, gave her the watch, and kissed her. Now len ready 1" Then the Colonel did what perhaps none but a rough soldier woulcl have done. 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It must not be forgotten that the circus manager who, in England, first elevated circus riding to the dignity of a fine art had been a eergeant of dragoons This was old Philip Astley, the founder of the historic amphitheatre in the Westminster Bridge read, which was subsequently asso- cited with the names as leesees and man- agers of Ducrow and Batty, said is now prosperously conducted by Mr. Sanger but which, to the poplar mind, will be known as " Astley's." Old Philip was the boldest of the bold dragons, and on retiring from the service his commanding officer made him a present of a higinapirited but docile charger. The non-com, bought another horse at Smith- field, and set up an exhibition of horseman- ship in a field at Larabeth. In the course of time he occupied successively more and more extensive premises. Hen -es patronized by royalty, and his name and amphitheatre became household words. Aaeley was as well known in Paris as in London, end en the Bouldvard du Temple he built a theatre for equestrian entertainments, winich at the time of the revolution lead been the wax- work saloon of the ingeuious Swiss Curtius, the uncle and inetructor in the ceroplastie art of Mme. Tussaud. During the long years of the Napoleonic s Aetley's property in Paris was segues - 1 lot at the peace he was reinstated in " la French ".nginga, and he died at his One of the courts bas decided that shoe- makers cannot keep shoes sent to them for repairs any longer than is necemary for doing the work. Maybe they can't, but they do. , Juliet—Arthur, how long is it since we became engaged? Arthur—Engaged ? I did not know we were eugagecl. Juliet— Stupid, how little you know any way ! Miss Summit—Are you fond of walking, Mr. Deshaway. Dashoway—Yes, indeed, I am. I go down to the races every Satur- day, and I always make a point of walking back. 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Teeenle i 1915 house on the Boulevarc He was succeeded in equestrian nianage- ment by an Italian named Fratconi, who had been in high favor with Napoleon— first, because he was an Italian; next, be- cause he was a most accomplished eques- trian artiste, and finally because the extrava- gant dandyism of his every -day attire gave the Emperor, when he was in a facetious humor, the opportunity of annoying his brother-in-law, Murat, King of Naples, by telling him that what with his furred and embroidered pelisse, the snow-white plume and diamond aigrette in his cap, his crim- son Morocco Hessian boots, his white kid gloves and the light driving -switch with the jewelled handle, with which he led his division of cavalry to battle, he looked far leas a king than Franconi, the riding - master. This renowned professor of equestrianiem founded a family whith still carries on ata a. fine art the craft pursued with such con- summate ability by their ancestor. Nor must it be forgotten that circus riding as a fine art was practised in the United States long before the late Herr Ernst attained celebrity. Five and forty years ago that astonishing American equestrian known as the young Hernandez was universally ac- knowledged to be the best trick rider the modern ring had seen since the days of Andrew Ducrow, while not the least among the many strings to the bow of the tete Phineas T. 33arnum were the equestrian circuses with which he delighted two gene- rations of sighteeers. Of our own circus riders, says the London Standard, especially the performers on bareback steeds and the ladies who figure in the graceful display of the haute ecole, England hos every reason to be proud. We are the equals of all the nations, and the superiors of some, in ring performance; while, as respects the Euglish ring clown, he has never been surpassed, and In is as eagerly applauded on the banks of the Neva, the Bosphorus and the Hooghly as he is on those of the Thames the Liffey or the Clyde. A BERLIN liOMANCE.. A Would -he Suicide Besotted and Married ny An Army 011tee'er. A Berlin cable says: Elizabeth Exalter, a young woman of good family and considerable beauty, was betreyea four months ago by the young man to whom she was to beve been married. He deserted her recently and went to Vienea. Fearing to reveal her ehame to her parents ehe decided to drown herself. She wrote a eonfeeeion to her mother, mailed the better, and then jumped into the Havel, near Picheiriburg, e ehort distence from this oily. .An army officier who had followed her to the river bank jumped after mad rescued her, Ile placed her in a cab and started for her borne, in epite of her protestations) that elm nould never again fttee her parents. Whiie the dab was crossieg a bridge Miss lirehner suddenly puebed opeu the door, leepeti to the roadway, and before the officer ceuld follow, threw herself into the teeter. The °fame event • alter her, overcame her strugglet to free hermit from him, arid brought her to shallow water, Where the eehmen came to his emietance paid dragged both, completely exhensted to tho benk. After entering the carriage agait the officer proposed marriage aria Miee lerelinet accepted hint. ear, and Mere Itereliner gene their coxisent to the nisteriegei toed yeetem day the engagenient was announce& The bicycle has its drawbacks. it paid a permanent curve into bootee Mid te stoop into thtt ilhoulrlettl of persieteot lidera Legs were attached le the Intrnell eatatomy tel Walk ripen, TilOSS Witto prefer to roll along, atop of wheels, cannot expeet that they Will hot ba pliyeicelly Adjitsted lo their style of locomotion.