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• A ROMANCE fAITE
As Abeeraneo advanced, tell feud com-
mending, through the court to the laclosed
garden, his retainers one by one sal eted hint
with atteotiouate reverence. They had the
air ef men ready to forego life or teith for
their roaster. Their bends twitehed. with
Lawlessness, and their beards trembled with
wild daring tnet even Abet-reutu had found
it hard toaa eeot.
"He might to be king of Shiner aud^of
Ur. Who is there like unto hint?" they
whispered, nodding at one aeother and at
him, as the son of Teralrla clad, in a sheep-
skin, with a turban of ouzel% hair, and
with bare feet, strode into history.
The paradise was cool, Grateful shades
lay under, the stately date-palme. The
garden was intersected by flowing canals,
andthe growth of flowers, oflotoe, alinonds,
pomegranates, and acacias was intexioating.
Unexpectedly, one would find an altar
hidden in a grove, • Yonder an open space
was tiled for a bathiog.paarilion. The
garden was two acres inearetti—a princely
size for a town garden,—and. every foot of
it was busy with growth. Only the famP..y
of Teralth and his intimate friends had.
amass to the spot. Melons, citrons, figs,
and grapes were carefully reared, an
abundant. Rare odors of spices and into
ported flowers traveled lazily about the
inclosure. All, the contrast to the desert I
What a relief from the withering sky and
the brazen battle with the sun I A.budoetteu
drank in the cool fragrance that leaped to
meet him. He loved this paradise almost
as much as he did his father. Hie senses,
refined by the renunciation of the desert,
by the mystic thoughts that are inspired
through solitude, responded not to women,
nor to the sensuous luxuries of wealth,
but to perfumes and to natural shade,
"Ido not think," he eaid in an under-
tone, asif talking to a blue lotus in the
water by his side'"that Hurki is here,"
"Aha, 0 Abu lShall I tell the king ?"
The son of Teralth stopped as if a javelin
had whirred past hie can He recognized
the musical laugh, the tones of semi -sarcasm,
which used to nettle or amuse him. But
he was under the narcotic influence of
the garden, aud he forgot his natural dig.
nity in the pleasure of seeing his little
friend again. No rebuke sprang to his
lips.
"It is Iskah," he said to himself, look-
ing around, Then aloud "Where art
thou, Iskah? Showthyself, child. Come !"
The last exelamation of impatience was
met with a road, ringing shout. A white
cloud seemed to rise from behind a cluster
of pomegranates. It fluttered to his side.
" Child ? 0 Abu 1" it said in reproachful
tones. "Behold I"
Iskah with a deft motion unwound a
Hight veil that protected her from the hat.
Her head, neck, and right arm blazed bare
in the filtered sun. Abu-ramu started back
with a rueful expression as he confronted
the most beautiful woman in Ur.
"Iskah, my child—can it be thou?" he
stammered.
The girl uttered another merry laugh.
Tell me, 0 most ancient patriarch, am
I a child?" As she Said this, Iskah drew her-
self up superbly. A tbss of her head, and
her black hair formed a frame for her face
Her ruddy lips were slightly parted in an
irresistible smile. Her olive skin, upon the
delicate surface of which emotions had not
yet left their imprint, was now dimpled
with witching lines of laughter. Her eyes
bubbled like springs. Her figure was as
stately as a. palm. • Thur, after years of
separation' Iskah, the daughter of Haran,
'confrontedher kinsman.
While Abu gazed upon her beauty in a
helpless way, she too looked upon him.
And as she looked, his high stature, the
comeliness of his features, the fire of com-
mand that quivered in his nostrils and
shone in his eyes, above all, a spirituality
that was foreign to her own nature, and
which seemed to cover him like a precious
ointment—these caused Abu-rat:1u to find
renewed favor in the eyes of the maiden.
"There is none like unto him in Shiner,"
she thought; "but he shall never know it
from me." Then she said aloud:
"Why chest thou not salute me? Am
I not a priestess of alehouse of Rudd ?
Thou must do me' reverence." She ad-
vanced a step, cast from her countenance
all girlishness'and assumed an expression
of such pious dignity, that Abueranau in-
voluntarily brought his rigat hand up in
the recognized attitude of devotion. it
this moment her eyes seemed to :communi-
cate secrets to the stars.
"Art thou a woman, Iskah, or a god-
dess?" asked Abu-ramm .Ele did not yet
understand that modestyoesetitll as caprice
can, at a moment's notice, convert a guile-
less maiden into a consummate actress. The
girl looked at him softly. To -morrow she
was the moon -god's and the king's. Hence-
forth she would be imprisoned within the
court of the mighty ziggurat. She dared
not question herself as to the full meaning
of this immurement. But at this hour she
was free, and her favorite kinsman was
with her. She said gently, with a sigh:
"To -day, 0 Abu, I am a woman; to-
morrow a goddess, if thou wilt. Come to
the birds; I fear they will starve when I
go. I feed them for the last time." With
sad smile she turned, and he folloveed.
Could thice be Iskah? Abu-ramn felt
himself confused. Was this the child he
had chased like a butterfly through the
paradise, and who fitfully allowed herself
to be caught? He counted up the years.
She could not be more than sixteen. Six-
teen? Impossible
Now Abu-ramu watched Iskah feeding
her pigeons: her motions had matchless
grace, her body undulated in perfectourves,
and lie remembered the ferocious leer of the
stone god Hurki. is father was proud of
it. The more horrible the god, the greater
the art. But Abu-rsmu's heart cultivated
in the loneliness of the desert to gentle
thoughts, shrank from the hideous thing.
In silence he continued to observe the
maiden. Her slender height, her supple.,
nese, and, above all, the queenliness of the
pose of her head and neck, began to mob
upon him like fermented wine.
'Shall symmetry serve the misshapen?
Shall beauty be priestess to a monster?
Shall a white soul redden before nameless
mysteries? Shall Iskah he a bond -slave to
Maki?" Such questions effervesced in his
heart. Hisgrap tightened upon the bow
that he carried in hie leithatid. He seethed
to fight. But with whom should he do
battle? Hain? The king ? The city? Tat.
nation? And for whom? Iskah? Why, h,
why* indeed?
,,Thou lookest at me strangely," said the
maiden, suddenly turning to him.
"13ecause thou wilt be pries tees," answer-
ed Abu -Tame, simply. Though his Words
were restrained, nevertheless, his eyes
betrayed hie new feeling,
The girl looked at him gravely. Her
levity had already fled like the lizard at
her feet, His color had deepened under
his beard. "He appeared to her like& son of
the morning. 'sloth's heart almeet etifincat.,
ed her, True, she had prayed for him every
day- at her altar, that, feverish winds and,
T1R T:
thy hold heavier than the king's, and thou
If thy sod ie greeter then my god, mid
win me from the high alter of Uurki, thy
will shall be mr will, and thy handmaid
Will follow thee as thy noel leedeth her."
A a shrill voice from the other mid the
garden laterrented their whisper,
"At the hour of sacrifiee I will 0411 upon
my Cod," whispered Abu-rainu age glean t.
"130 thou ready, and feet Pot."
They clasped, they kissed, they perted.
Like a white bird, or like the princess that
she wale, Iskah awept away. Even as the
gate of the women's court their eyes shi-
t
braced. The great love she gave bore
Iskah along on the torrent of A,Mareenu's
convietiom In those old days women cave
themselves blindly when they loved. They
did not reason about it.
"My love, Abu -0 terrible Hurki l" she
cried, flinging herself exhausted before her
inner sanctuary. "0 thou new God, if it
be in thy power, make me his wife !"
(TO pa
spells and malign gods might spare him;
Ana had. secretly gloried in his reputation
and influence and wealth. He was ae her
pride would hey° him. And few are the
noble women who find their soul's desire,
, Heart's peers do not often meet, Why did
the words of het kinsman give her such
dangerous pleasure? lakah was troubled
because she could not understand her own
emotions. She would be priestess—yes
die before lie should. suspect them.
At this word the girl, well knowing the
horrible puulehreent meted out to those
who did, not bow down and. worship the
popular god, sprang forward, and with a
cry of•fear pat her, hand upon his mouth.
40 Abu, the deeert bath made theerilea
She trembled, •panting as she spoke
"PeteceI" she said, still holdingherperfutxt-
ed. itinsi to his lips. "I fear some slave may
hear thee, and tell the high priest, arid
thou dieet."
"Dost thou care?" he whispered. Agitta
ktihoamsm.
ns new eto him swept over him like the
"0 Ishtar I" she exclaimed, throwing
her head back, forgetting herself.
At this artless mention of the goddess of
love, the veil dtopped front Abu.ramu's
heart, and in that moment was revealed. to
him his soul's desire. His blood surged to
his ears and deafened him. It mounted to
his eyes and blinded, him. He shivered
like the motionless water when a stone falls
upon it.
"Iskah," he said softly. •
"Let me go !" She drew back, trying to
unclasp his hand. "I did not mean it;
Rurki would not do this."
"Iskah, I have needof thee," he whisper-
ed in.a penetrating, low voice.
"And Hurki of me," she gasped.
"Hurki," he blazed,"shall have no part
in thee, Iskeh, for mylovehath seized thee
to haute wife."
He said this solemnly, like an oath,
pointing according to ancient custom, to-
ward the rising of the moon as witness.
The swift Oriental way of loving had taken
him, He did not withstsaad such an intoxi-
cating fate. Iskah repulsed him with her
eyes, straightened herself with pretty hau-
teur, relaxed, and, mastered e by his love,
melted into his arms. Then did the two
understand the meaning of the ancient
proverb which tells Us that a minute in the
tent of the beloved one is equal to eat eter-
nity within the gate of the king. Gently
Abu-ramu raised hereface to his, and gazed
into it with the intensity of an astrologer
seeking for a sign in the heavens:
"Thou art more beautiful titan the her-
ald of the morning," he said reverently.
"'Thy word is the breath of the gods. Thou
enchainest me."
Iskah returned his look in rapture. Then
her face trembled from her chin unto her
eyes. Her tears began to fall slowly.
"Abu," she said, trying to hide her face
in his mantle, " how didst thou know that
I loved thee? For I put mine eyes in bond,
and my lips were sealed, theta° love might
eseape them. Why didst thou not come
sooner, Abu? For rodr freedom taketh wings
on the rising of the sun, and it is death for
the priestess of Hurki the Brilliant to look
upon men.
c
Iskab," he said in a tone of commaad,
"dost thou hive me?"
She answered steadily:
"Now thou knowest it, my_lord. Thy
yoke is upon my soul until my, breath gass-
es to the west. Perhaps," she added with
inspired eyes, until the gods are dead; but,
alas! my body is Hurki's !"
When he heard these words, Abu-ramu
expanded as if Nergal, the god warrior, had
challenged him. Iskah looked at him in
wonder. fie seemed to grow in stature,
and lightning played over his brow.. He
drew a long breath:
" Iskata my beloved, now I will tell thee
the hidden thing of my life. A new God
hath sent his command unto me in dreams."
HeItopped, for his voice, charged with
energy, choked him. Iskah stared at her
lover incredulously, but his high mien con-
strained her respect.
"A. new god !" she repeated. " So& a
thing has not been heard of since the great
gods fashioned men with the faces of the
ravens."
"There can be—there are no other gods
besides him," Abu-rainu continued hoarse-
ly. "His countenance is as blinding as the
sun. His voice is as soft as a whisper. I
worship no other gods but him, not even
Hurki. My God, he is aot atone. He is
a spirit."
What was the meaning of these words?
Iskah's beautiful face expressed a bewilder-
ment which was hard to enlighten. But
she loved like the women of her race and
time,
who did not protest, but accepted the
faithand will of a lover with his first kiss.
"What is his name'?" she asked in an
awed tone. "Thou art his priest?"
"Hie name he has not revealed to me,"
answered Abu, reverently. "Re is the
everlasting; Ilu Shaddai, the God Almighty.
Harken unto me," he coatinred with -a
steady, rising voice, and clasping her hands
tightly; "forget it not, fear not, tremble
not, for my God, ---the father of the great
gods, whom diviners and augurs and sooth-
sayers have never seen, for he is not made
with hands, nor fashioned from stone or
clay,—the supreme Du, shall establish my
seat. He will build up my might. Re will
increase my papyri,,, my corn, my silver,
my cattle, my furniture, and my servants
in my hands. He will guide me to a better
land. With the fruit of my loins e will
enrich the four corners of the P -for
thou wilt be my wife."
Iskah was filled by the son f these
words as a person standing in a belfry
tower is filled with the sound of a great
hell. Great hen eta in all ages have made
religion love, and love religion.
"Art thou greater than Harki, 0 my
lord?" asked Iskah, clinging to him. in an
ecstasy of terror.
I have preyed to the great goda—to
Ishtar, 'to Sea, to Atunit, to Nebo, to
Shamasta and to the great inomaged Hurki,
and verily my prayers are dust. 1 em
greeter than Humid."
He tittered this mighty heresy slevely,
with the conviction of a, man who bed
thoroughly tested the subject. He had a
grand look. The two trembled with the
ahem:tonnage that this unique apostasy
meant an epoch in Shineee
"Thou art a god, 0 Alm, but art thoti
mightier than the king ?" This laical said,
Wit the enlightenment of one Whoperceives
the difference between the spiritual power
of a stone god and the temporal power of a
despot.
In answer the man of the desert grasped
his weapon, and shook it exultingly,
"1 have stretched the arch of the bow
once, and King Arnraphel has trembled.
have stretched it twice, and he has turned,
The third threat etretoll the Wood aged shall
tumble to the earth, and a king shall topple
from hie throne."
"Abu," said the woman, hiding her face,
" boast not for my sake I Spare thyself I
The god elaitneth me,"
"If I smite the god, wnt thou be my
wife"" he deneended imperiously,
NOTE AND qorixErr.
The Heathen Chinee is still too onto for
the keen -witted Yankee, with all his Geary
laws and immigration inspectors. A
Chinese woman who has just been leaded
at Portland, Oregon, claiine admission on
the ground that sixteenyears ago she was
betrothed to Chung Chu, now an Ameri-
can citizen. She was then two and Chung
Cho was eight, but the marriage has since
peen completed 'by proxy. If this soheme
works the immigration authorities see
nothing to prevent the gradual admission
of the entire female population of the
Chinese empire.
The French Parliamentary Customs nom-
nate° has recommended a sliding scale
duty on corn, undar which when wheat,
eta., is cheap the tariff will be high and
when grain is high the duty will be low,
the range running from $2 to 2e cents.
France designed the double tariff, with a
low scale of duties for flattens who gave its
products cheap entry and a higher rate for
countries which preferred to be indepen-
dent. Evidently there is a strong fund of
original thought among Galli° lawmakers.
Newfoundland is rather slower than
other countries in issuing the Government
trade returns Those for 1892 are only
now made public, when an energetic com-
munity would he looking for the stetistics
of 1893. The statements, however'are
fairly satisfactory. The imports, the fig-
ures of which are imperfect owing to the
burning of St. John's Customhouse, amount.
to $5,012,877, while the exports were $5,,-
651,111. 'Of the, imports $1,981,406 came
from Canada, while the United States sup-
plied only $960,261. It is apparent that
the Dominion has a lively interest in the
welfare of our lonely sister in the Atlantic.
An enterprising Newtoundland fisher-
man, Captain Blandford, finding the cod
fishery on the old grounds failing;started
on an exploratory voyage along the Lab.
rador coast, Alith the result that he came
to several well stocked grounds, The
ocean has its unexplored mines of wealth
as well as the land,
'Distant hills, we 'are told, always look ,
green, and that probably is why many
Canadian fewmersego to the United States
to settle' notwithstanding that they might
do muchbetter byastaving at home. A
farmer in Algomae title Wm. Allard, Sault
Ste. Marie P. 0., has been giving the pub-
lic: his experience in a part of Ontario
which is generally considered to consist
solely of rooks and wilderness: Seven years
ago, with no capital save a desire to work,
he settled upon a free grant, and last sum-
mer he had fifty-five acres of what he con.
eiders the most fertile land in Ontario
under cultivation. The crops were all
heavy and uniformly good. Besides this,
he has considerable livestock, which thrive
admirably with very little attention. Land
in his locality now sells at fifty cents an
acre, and that is much better than good
farms can he secured for in the West,
within reasonable distance of civilization.
Young men on the farms of Ontario who
propose to make a start in life on tbeir own
account ought to investigate Algoma, and.
if they do they may find it will pay to stay
in their own province.
Justice seems down by the sea to have
been neglecting her duty. In Newcastle,
N.B., there is a prisoner, seventy-five years
of age, who has been held in custody for
the last seven months to await trial on a
charge laid by a man who has left the
country. He was arrested for horse -stealing,
and the complainant, who had come from
the United States, returned there with the
animal. Seven months have passed, but he
has not been heard from. The local judge
says the prisoner cannot be released except
on a writ of habeas corpus, and as he has
no money, no proceedings are taken on his
behalf. Shoe the case has been laid before
the Minister of Justice there ought to be
reason to hope that in this case justice will
be speedily done.
Who is he? The Midland Counties
Herald, a Birmingham paper, making a
report upon the property market, says.
"In Ireland business is sla.ok, but Scotland
still keeps well to ehe front, the numerous
transactions iii lauded property recorded
north of the Tweed this week including
the purchase of a large Dumfries estate by
an Ontario gentleman for close upon $20,
000." It would be interesting to know who
this gentleman is.
Madame Patti's Proudest 31,ornent,
Mr, Arthur Warren asked. -Vfadatne Patti
what had been the proudest experience in
her career. "For a great and unexpected
honor most gracefelly tendered," saidPatti,
"I have experienced nothing that has
touched me deeper than a compliment paid a
by the Prince of Wales and a distinguished la
company at dinner given in honor of the 0
Duke of York and the Princess of May a
little while before their wedding.
dinner was given by Mr, Alfred Roaiecliild,
one of my oldest and best friends. There ,
were many royalties nreseut, and more s
dukes and duchesses than I can eaehy re. t
member. During the ceremornes the Peinee
of Wales arose, apd, to my great astonish- t
mend proposed the health of his old and a
valued Friend Madame Patti.' He made A
such a pretty speech, and in the couree of 10
it said that he had first seen and heard me ee
in Philadelphia in 1$60, whee I sang in ti
Martha,,and that Since then his own is
attendance at what he was good enough to at
call my victories in the realm of song,'
had been among his most plbasent mord. t
ler:dons. he recoiled the fact that . . .
his wife had held up little Prince George A
in whose honer we were this night nation ee
bled, and bade hint kiss me, en trait in after
life he iniont say that he had "kissed the
iambus Madame Patti,' And then, do you
know, thet whole cempeny of royalty,
me-
bility, and men of genius rose and cheered
time and drank my health."
A HERO OF BILICLAYA.
The followinglittlelittleriws 6i 'ur oe :Idea t was related
to me by a friend of mine, Whose name
need not mention here, and who was one o
the principal actors in the little dream. The
story, even to details, is strictly true, only
for the selte of convention I have changed
the name of the various persons interested,
The name,however,was "William Wilson,"
or, as be was called by all those who knew
him, "The Heichts o' Alma," He wea
private in the 93rd. Highlenclere at the time
of the great Crimean war. He used to
bake great delight in recounting the luei.
dents of the war, especially the exploits
of the 93rd Highlanders under Sir Colin
Campbell'but above all he woeld, speak
as long as there were listeners of hew Cott
although they were, in total ignorance oi
the extent of the Russian forces, yet 'with
complete unconcern the small army of fifty
thousand men set out on their, few hours'
march soutliwafd into the immediate' pres-
ence of the Russian enemy,who werestrong
ly posted on n. line of hills rising steeply
from the river Alma. From this it appears
that he received his nick -name. One day
a friend of mine met him, and noticed that
he was labouring along painfully with
stilts, apparently 'unable to use One Of
he
"Hello, Willie," said he, "what's wrong
vvi' ye the day 1"
Ah !" said Willie, "it's awful whan an
auld man comes to this gate. I oiled the
Heichts o' Alma when the bullets were flee -
in' past me on a' sides—I've seen my twa
mates shot doon on each side o' me—I've
seen my deid and wounded mates as they
fell rowin' helplessly doon the hill, when
we left three thousand cieid on the field that
day, but never a bullet struck 'me, and al
though I was in the thiokest o' the feoht
cam' oot wi'oot asoratch ; but, oh. man, I
wad rather gae throd ta' again than gang
aboot wi' this sprained fit."
He generally roamed up and down the
country, although his "principal residence"
was in a small town some miles distant from
Edinburgh. I have chosen to report the
story in the direct speech in which I received
it, as possibly, thereby additional interest
and vividneas may be lent to the incident.
My friend said to me
was busy at my work in the shop one
morning a week or two ago seeing that
every one of the workers had got his work
for the day, .vhen the ina.Ster,'who was also
proprietor of the woodyarci and my brother,
stepped up to me and said:
"Hairy, I hear there has been a death at
one of the common :odging.houses in the
town. Did you hear of it?"
"Yes I replied, "I heard that old
Willie 4Vilson, the Crimean veteran, was
found dead in his bed this morning, is that
the one you mean?"
"Yes, that's the one. I've just received
word from the Parochial Board officer that
he was to be buried to -day. I wish you
would go over and see him."
"I really, don't like the job, Robert; I
wish you would send over one of the men.
They are able to take the sizes just as well
as I am. I never was in Williathson's
lodging -house, and I don't think- I would
care about it."
"Oh, it's nothing much, Harry ; take
one of the men with you if you like. You'll
be back in less than half an hour."
Accordingly, when I had seen that all
the men were fully employee. I stepped
over alone to Joe Williamson's lodging
house, to take the necessary steps for the
old Crimean veteran.
As I walked down the dirty and screalid
street I stepped at the door of the lodging.
house,,and was about to knock, when I saw.
a woneart approaching from the other side
of the street whom I took to be Mrs.
Wilsheliasmson'
Awas about to enter I said—"
hear you have had a death in your house
this morning ?"
She looked hard at me for a few seconds
and then was about to enter the house in
silence,when a thought struck her, and she
turned round and asked me if I had come
along to see about the burial.
I told her that I had. Would she please
let me in to make the necessary arrange-
ments ?
" Joe I" she cried. " Where are, ye,
Joe? Here's a man cometo see aboot auld
Willie. Com' and take him in
"Joe," the proprietor •of, the lodging.
house, was a tall, gaunt, large -honed man
of about fifty years of age. The grizzly
beard and long, grey, shaggy hair and deep
set eyes gave you an uneasy feeling when
in his presence. He stepped out of a house
about twenty yards up the atreet and
approached with a slow solemn step.
"So you've come to see aboot Willie,
pair man. I fittle thoeht that when I rase
this mornin' I wad find him ganee Re sat up
craelein' as cheery as ye like last nicht till
a' 'oors and seemed to be quite well. It
was my wife that fend it oat. This morn
in' as he cam doon to light the kitchen
Bfior e,sheh
she satysol 11, 'wasestime
w mi ne' ya efnwe' rgeu tet et,.
ting•'it's half seven ;' abut he never
moved. She came ben to tell me, and when
we luikit we fank him cauld and stiff. His
bards were stretched up -ewer his hid, and
his mooth was open as if he was gaun to
speak."
"Well, if you please, will you show pie
the way? I want to take the requisite
measurements."
"Co
ledthe way waarwyiaynt othai:o owmeYo'f" cosnallt. j
e raobeleadnd
i -
Men si on ; but so dirty that I staggered at
the door. The room contained five or six
beds, which (here my friend confided to me)"
you would not touch with your walking
stickbifl youssevoeuld heldreight
it.
About
no
t trampl • were
ither sitting or standing about the room
with their hats off. Not e word was
peken. The corpse of the old man lay on
no of the bedepovered With e white sheet;
lid on his chest there was placed a huge
late 'if salt. I have not been able to make
le what is the origin of this custom, but
turned ao Joe and said 'Why is that
late of salt on his chest ?" He only looked
b me hard with his glittering eye Fhid,
lade me wince. I took the requisite men-
urententh, and as I was going away I said
o those present.
"Now, if there are any of you who want
o go teehe funeral, t..,lte acoffianit vwitatf
l sbeehuer,,ee,
ttl tOelinr naittindutthees funeraltofour tbwe knocked at
the
dging-house. Tbed brought one of ourvans
ith me and three workmen, We entered
le room with the coffin. A peoper's coffin
easily meal°. There are -loan
ot ts ttbout it either inaide rt
covered with black o an no
hat is all,
The condition o the room was un n eel
beet a dozen silent, beredieerled s
are in theornorn. asked if any of 111
itt
Ia
ould like to eseist us in peformiur ml.
st, rites for old Wdlie, bet there was no
ta,ponse. As we vvete putting him in his
st hod a look of tenderness flashed across
he features of Jota and he. came Op to me
nd, whiepered-4, Has the pnie auld 'man
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tae have nee pillow?" "No, Joe, the parish
can afford none of these things." Joe, said
—" Then wait a meenit," and disappeared,
and presently returned with a little pillow
which considering ,the surroundings, was
wonderfully clean. 'Gie um that," he said,
and handed me the pillof .
I put it under his head, and then, turning
round to the men in silence, I said, "Now
then, who are going to old Willie Wilson's
funeral?" No one spoke,, so I turned to
Joe and asked him if he was going. "Na,
I canna gang; but some o' you chaps micht
gang to the cemetery up the hill yonder."
One and all abook their bare beads, and
would not leave the house.
"Then we must go ourselves," I said,
turning to my three companions, who were
proceeding to Mose the coffin.
"Hold on a meenet," says Joe.
We stooped our work, and Joe, standing
in the centre of the room, took off his hat,
and, looking up to the coiling, he said—
"Let us pit up yae prayer afore the auld
man gangs awa forever."
lie shut his eyes and began—" 0 God
hae mercy— on this p -poor amid man. 0
God hae—I dmna ken what tae say, but
Ye ken fine what I mean. Ereends,
enema, pit up a prayer--I'an no' use
wi't."
We led -the way out of the house with,the
burden, .N o one stirred. One man only put
up his hands to' his eyes. We laid the
coffin in the van and made our way up the
hill to the cemetery. The grave was all
prepared and ready, and there, as the silver
moon was gently rising and flooding the
whole landscape with a soft, pale light,
which made the still, marble tombstones
glisten white, poor Willie Wilson, who had
scaled the heighes of Alma amid the rattle
of muskets and the hiss of bullets, was in
•tarred in a pauper's grave. With not a
single friend in all the world to say, "I
knew Willie while alive; I'll mourn him.
deacl;" only four workmen told off by the
Parochial Board to lay him in his last rest-
ing place.
Wiindrolls for Electric Lighting. t
There are said to be, says The Electrical
World, no less than 500,000 windmills in
actual daily operation, and yet the econo-
mical value and thorough reliability of this
prime mover is but little appreciated by the
public at large. From a comparison be-
tween wind power, steam and gas for
pumping purposes, which would equally
apply to electric lighting, it appears, tak-
ing all the factors into dinsideration, that
the fermer is more than seven times as
economical as either of the latter, even
when they. are worked under the most
favoiable circumstance. The records of the
Signal Service for the past fifteen years
show that the wind may be relied upon to
blow with sufficient velocity' to drive a
windmill to its average working capacity
eight boors out of every twenty-four. But
duce there are hours of absolute calm, the
employment of a windmill is necessarily
restricted to two eleezez of work I. To
work admitting of frequent interruption.
2. To work where power cart be stored for
future use. It, is hand by experience that
it requires, on an average, a wind velocity
of six miles per hour to drive a windmill,
i. e,, to overcome the friction of the bear -
lugs and transmitting gears, hub that the
mill will actually run at least eight hours
per day. From this it is safe to assume
that one third the total movement of the
wind is lost, so far as windmill work is
concerned. The remaining two-thirds
should be distributed over the eight work-
ing hours of the mill.
It is in -work of the second class that
windmills find their true field of usefulness
and they are already largely used for.pum-
ing and storing water, and for compressing
air, Another use, which was first suggested
by Sir William Thomson in 1881, and
which has several times since then been
tried with partial success, is in the produe-
tion of electric light, the dynamo being
driven direct from the windmill and a sec.
onriary battery being employed to store and
distribute the electrical energy to the lamps.
The combination here suggested- really
forms an ideal method for ieelated plant
lighting, and it is likely to grow in favor
as the advantages of the system become
more generally known,
A.ddinons to Bilahurgh ITaivers
Edinburgh ITniversity is just now decid-
edly in luck, being about to add to its pos-
ses/does Me E vvan hall, built eta coated more
than $50,000, for graduation and other
public ceremonies ; University hall, erect,
ed through the efforts of Prof. Patrick
Geddes, a fitiedee professor, but aft Edin-
burgh graduate, as a hall of rosideece for
men students; Masson hell, about to be
erected as a hall of reeidence for women
stadente ; a field near Oorsterphine, per -
chased for £0000, and &acid out at a cost
of £3,010 more, for eahletio sports, awl a
chair of Pantie Health, for ondoWing which
the late Mr. A. L l3reco has' left £15,000
\inn wen hell is named after its founder,
McEwan, M, la, and Meagan hall
Prof. Masson. Masson hall and Una
ty hall, thongh connected with the
,11versity, are net university property.
One pound's weightt of bees eontaine 6 232
•GETTING, RID OF TEE BEARD.
Electricity win do Om Work, but not
Without Considerable Cost.
The hair of man is gradually disappearing
before the march of civilization. Nature,
who is an economical dame, has gradually
removed the hair from the top of the head
' where it is no longer useful. Still, kindly'
intentioned, a decorative fringe is left for
ornament. Man himself would have gladly
compounded with nature, and bartered
some of the growth on his face for a few
handfuls of hair on his head. Nature, how-
ever, knew the value of shaving as did.
pline and refused to interfere. Now, tt
appears, man sees the way to establish a
permanently clean face tor himself. No
more early rising for a ma,tutinal shave nor
dallying in barber shops awaiting turn.
The method is simple but expensive. It is
done with the eleetrie needle—at a cost of
about $3 a hair, a decline ,from the first
rates. The operation takes time. Owing
to the strain on the operator's eyes, the
removal can be done only in patches unless
a relay of physicians be provided.
THE OPZRATIOIT IS PAINLESS,
as the ground has beenprepared by cocaine.
With the later improvements in electric
lights and magnifying mirrors the time may
coma that a man will era4ate the bram-
bles of his face as easily area farmer mows
down a hedgerow. A Roman youth used
to receive his toga virilis the'day of his first
shave. The occasion was a fete. Cornelia,
Lesbia, Flavia and the rest had been hem-
stitching and feather stitching his toga in
secret moments for weeks betore. In the
new day the occapjanewilteed ubtless be the
money, will have ready an ele trio needle,
*
same. The girl.l.t4 eir peke
ivory mounted or in repousse silver, with
monogram, when the youths* first growth
is sufficiently sighted for removal.,. Thus
far it is easy to predict an aristocracy of
smooth faces. Even at wholesale rates the
effacement of the beard is bound for a long
time to be beyond the reach of the multi-
tude. This of itself is certain to make
smooth faces fashionable.
The usands of Ownerless Cattle.
A Chamberlain, S.D., special says
immense herd of cattle branded "J. B. S."
ranging in Lyman county has been levied
on by the Treasurer of that county for taxes.
The owner of the herd. was John B. Smith,
who is reported to have died suddenly in
Minneapolis while on a business trip to that
city some weeks ago. The Lyman county
authorities, however, ha,va no proof of his -
death, and there is no record in the Probate
Court of that county showink that his el:
tate has ever been probated. Paettes
claiming to have held a mortgage on the
stocur, but who are now known to be rust-
lers, have been running the cattle out of the
country without any process of foreclosure,
and the Cminty Treasurer finally came to
the conclusion that it was time for him to
act, and accordingly levied on the balance
of the cattle for the taxes due. Nearly,
.10,00d cattle were run out of the country.
Smith left frem $8,000 to $10,000 in life
insurance, beside the large herd of cattle
in.question. It, is regarded as very peculiar
that his heirs have never attempted to set-
tle the accounts of the deceased cattleman
When Baby was stet, *e save bee Cast.
When shevrad a Child, she Cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorki.
When slashed Children, shegave teem °Astoria,
Fifty thOusend incandescent lamps are
made in the United States each day.
PUREST,STRONGEST,
coltain5 no Alum, Am tronie, Lime,
Phosphatee, or any /*Haut
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