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bz,ni uner beet hed passed,
aro b.a4 bee e gathered le, the
•it bat bee a placated faun the trees,
the lovely eerte lay restieg i tee
IS Wight ot etatunaae The sea evaa
eif deep enelodiee. 'Elodie epeut wliole
lies in lietening. to its music.. One
hewevite. lying Tette
va (shine. the waves. She was so
ebaneed thee she looked like aaaotbet'-
Elodle. The deepair and unrest had
left bee; her face was value sweet and
taut She was worn to a sluselew; but
her, eyes were still bright. Her true
aria faithful uurse--the one eineere
friend to whom she owed everything
---,stood by her side, watching every
lc en. ale. mother could hews been kincl-
ee-no sister more tender. Saddenly
the tiara eyes opened and looked at
-"Atidreiy," she staid, "I should like to
flee Ilan once more -just to tell him
that 1 am Kegs, for the past. and hear
him say teat he forgives me. 1Voula
he come if rent meted him?"
There was something. so wistful izi
tbe pleading voice that Audrey's eyes
filled -with tears.
"I am sure he trill not refuse," she
replied
Lest there should be any error,. she
. went herself at onee to the telegroph
offire. and sent a telegram to him. It
ran thus:
"From Audrey Brooke, Rookdene, to
Sir Roche Villiere, Rowan Abber,
King's Wynnee-Come to me at one,
without fail; you are particularly want-
ed"
She knew that be loved. her so well
that A she had asked hen to got to the
other end of the world for her he would
ha.ve dime it.
The moment Sir Roche react her sim.
mons he started for Rookdene. He did
not enow why Audrey wanted him;
but he had some vague idea tied it
was isi relation to unfortunate Elodie.
No matter what it was, be must obey
her. tele traveled Meessantly, yet it
was event..., before he reached Medina
Villas.
He had never seen .Andrey since that
terrible hour M winch she. had, parted
from henwhen they had stood face to
faze with the stoey of hie first marriage
between the xte ailis heart beat, his
eteong form trembled-, and hie face
ialanehed as he stood in the. little, drew -1
ing-roora• waiting for her. She came
in, tall, slender and greeeful, with the
same pure face, the same sweet smile,
and he coald have knelt and kissed the
be= of her dress. When the clear
light of her pure eyes aell him a
great tearless sob rose to his lips, a,
great saudder passed. over him. She
held out her hand to hen in kindly
greetteng.
"You are very good to come so quiek-
lee" she said; end then there was a
few nainutes' embarrasaed. silence.
Audrey with her quick women's teat
was the teirat to break it. 1
'You jeeve gtiessea. perhaps why
I sentto yea" she said; "Beanie iN
-feet .
-.gag and she wanted to sea you. once
more." •••
•"'Are you. staying with her" he ask-
ed.
have been here since June," she
sev-er e cl.
"How good. you. are, Audrey -how
noble, how uxiselfish I our father
• wrote to me and told nee whither you
were going, and with what, idea you
hen begun anther enfe. -
;trete not talk about it," she said
gently, eElodire was 'alone in the
world, end quite for,gotten. I found
her in despair; now she. ealm and
tranquil and ready to die. That is bet-
ter than to have worn my life away
Lit useless lamentation or in sullen
gloom;, there is something in it that
fits my notion of justice. Roche, you
will be very kind to her ? I have learn-
ed to love her very dearly."
• ale looked slightly embarrassed..
"I do not see wbat is to be gained
by seeieg her, A.udrey," h ebegan, "un-
less you really wish it."
.1 do really wish it," she -said, firmly.
"She will die happier for lia.ving seen
you and heard you say that you for-
give her."
eI will do it," he replied, "no matter
what it test me."
He sat down and. Audrey told hina all
about Medics's illness, and hew" the doc-
tors said the was reelly dying of a
broken heart, At first there was no
definite malady -it was the fret and
fever of the wahappy gout, the grief,
the despier, the baffled love, aria paid°,
the lost ambition, that wore the free-
ile body away. Lately a nervous fev-
er bee set ire and of that Elodie was
dying. Sir Roche ws not. ashamed of
tbe Mars tbet rattled down his faces
of the sole that he coald not csonceae,
when Audrey told him all the pathetic
detatis of the lonely life, and how
Elorlie bad been hoping always thot ha
would forgive her, There was a light,
not, all of earth on her face, her 'words
Nvere eweet and wise. !When ale had
fiadehed speaking the said to him;
"It is too late for you to sea'
tiers evening Rothe; come back in the
morning, end I will take you to her."
eVithoitt, ainotber word he took her
baud, kissed. it, and left her
The titin ahotie briglatly the next
morning when Sir laetrile found him-
selt in the little drawing -mein at No.
4 Meilen, 'Villas. He was startled when
Audrey gene le to him. She had been
bitting up all night; licr fate was pale,
ber twee, had a worn look. She eeemed,
weary, Yet --sig held mit her hand with
a smile to Sir noche„..
"I am so glad you are cones," she said;
"Motile ha.a been talking athettit you.
fette ties ea teeny hours to live, (tome
with me to see bet."
They went tiettether2 Tighe, bad
never seen tbe /legless lefty slues the
eight a the ball at Quorn House. Ti
emberelteerel hie last glimpse of her -
ha woe her pale, shadowy dy-
flare loot,: tee Notre rzf her diamonds;
PE ARL
the reeeert of her brilliant dx.ess. Now
he sa wher again -a pale, shadowy dy-
ing oreature, whom the weight of' her
own sin bad (gushed ale was deeply
tousted; inemory of Ris own wrong
'lied away. He went up to ber, and
kneeling by he side, uttered her naMe
softly.
She was startled at first. She reds -
ed her thin hands and tried to hide
her face from. hien hut Audrey drew
them away.
"Be kind to ter, Riocilte," she welop-
ered;• nese what she ha a suffered."
-lee did as she wished. Ile stooped
=era and kissed the thin, wasted,
di
"Mea," Le said, "I un. sorry to
find you so ill."
"My see has killed me, Roche," she
anstvereet, eatow tgood you were to
come to me I want to bear you see -
time you forgive met"
Her Moe fluehed as she ematinued
"1 should • like to get up and kneel
do-vea before you. to beg your par-
geveness; but 1 eaexiot. Listen to me
for a anometit. Roche, I never meant to
do wrong -I had never even thought
O. it. It was not deliberate or inten-
tional -it was not, indeed, 1 was
thoughtless, but I was not wieltedeand.
I have repented. until my sin has killed
tine. Say you forgive me, Rothe."
He laid. his hands on, the golden
head.
T forgive you even as I pray Heaven
to forgive you."
'Will you. calf me "wife' once more,
Roche -once more, for I loved. you. very
dearly?"
He looked A.uclrey, and there was
earemente silence. Then Audrey
went up to hem with the eeme bright
lfa
ight on her ce.
"Do wht sbe asks yea, Roche," she
said gently.
And he, bending aver the Nvhite face,
said:
"My dear wife t"
The two that stood tiear her. will ,nev-
er forget the flush of startled. joy DU
her face.
"Tbank you, Roche. May I die with
my head upon your bre-ast?'
Tben she took Audrey's hand and
kissed it.
"It is to you, ab, true and dear
friend," she said, "that I owe all!"
Two hours afterward the noon-
day sun was pouring a flood of light
into the room, and the musio. of the
wa:ves was borne on the. wind. The end.
was very' nea.r. The doetors had gone
away: and Elodie lay dyiug. with the
truest friends teornael. ever had near
her.
Once they had beet aver -hew think-
ing ber eyes closed forever; bet a sun-
beam fell across her face, and she open-
ed thera. She was dyiing, as she had
asked to die,, with her head on hart hus-
band's breast, and Audrey by her side.
Suedenly she looked up at him and
ell -tiled and with that the spirit took
its flight,
Sir Rothe was not ashamed. to weep
bitter tears over her -to (geese him-
self of being hard and cold -to fold
the tired hands over the quiet beert-
while Audrey stood by weeping. Pre-
sently he looked. at her.
-"I should like to thmak you in her
name, Audrey," he said.
Bat she held. up her hand.
"I will have no thanks," she return-
ed, "I have sire.ply done my duty."
She took her place by the.side a the
dead.
"Roche," she said, gently, "I want
you to give me your heed."
She took it in her own, and- Jaid it
au the still breast,
el want you." she added, "to promise
taie two latogs." t
a ate I promise you anything you
ase," he replied.
-Promise me first, that on her grave-
stone you will place tlie name of your
wife. Elodie
"1 Promise," he ensnared,.
"Secondly, here in her presence, pro-
mise that you will send bath to that
man his miserable numey; that you will
tell him that the woman whose life
he blighted is dead; and that, fearing
his money might bring a curse with
it, you,. have sent it bath, Will you do
tea?'
"Most assuredly I will," he replied.
"You are right in this, Audrey, as you
are in everythieg dee. I will do it at
(-411;;:ea 'Audrey bent down and kissed
ICJ dead face.
"-My work here is: done," she said; I
"I will go home. And yam, Roche, who
have recognized her in death, you. will
give her the. last honor you. ean pay
her. Elodie," she cried laying her
fresh sweet lips on the dead ones. "El -
oche, 110W 1 shall not fear to meet you
hereafter 1"
She went bome--her work there was
dont-and Sir Roche remained. He
paid all honor! to Elodie. He did not
take her back to the stately mausoleum
where so many women of 'Ms rave
slept. She was buried in the pretty
churchyard by the sea at Rookdene,
and on the striae merles montt-
naent was inscribed the simple
words:
"In loving memory of
ELO:DIF.,, LADY VILLIERS, -
Aged 25."
In (lath, though not in life, she
found her lose name again.
•
A year passed, Audrey spent it at
home, Sir Roche itt restlese wandering,
vvondering always whether he should
ever win for himself again that pre-
dates pearl of womankind. Ile was
efraiti to ask Audrey to return to him.
During the year he had written to her
but five or six tintee; tiocl they were
merely friendly letters; t'et his whole
1, soul was longing for her-- he could
find no rest, by night or by day fot
, thinking of her.
'At last he summoned up courage, and
went to Ilohneeclale The rector and
his wife received him. kindly; but they
looked armee when he asked to see
t Audrey and td see her alorm.
1 She must have eepected him; for' she
betrayed no eurprise-sbe offered ne
cottiraent. She went to hire in the
lierary, where so many yeare before
she had read the werds of the mart
; liege service. She looked ep at bine
n., }smile that seemed to ban MI-
A UsUally sweet.
' bawd: tome for me, Roche" she
eairt, "f am willing to go back with
"Mamma," she said a few hours aft
eerwarce "will yon glee me my wed-
' ding ring? 1 aball want it to -morrow
I needling."
.A.MI on the inorrovv they ttent,
T B X T TI11
through the soiennrviee together
again,
Audrey wished that' the wbole story
should reneau anzenealed, hat it did
not On the contrary, it found, its -Ivey
into the newspapers, and all England
was teraebed by it,
For the nett-spepers told it all -how
elle had Aileen tip wealth, heel% love
and luxury for conscience sake; how
she had devoted heeself to one who was
more utihappy than herself; hose she
had nursed, the hapless lady through
a, twig iline,ss, had soothed ber death,
had reconciled her to Sir Roebe, and
time had, bemanely, eaered her. They
dined ber n earl among women
they teethed that more were like
her.
Then she took her place again in the
great world. Al gooti influence seem-
ed to emanate from her -the spell of
goedness and purity lingered rouncl
her -only kind words and thougbt
eould live in her sweet presence. 13efere
her evil and wicloadnes,s seemed to
fly.
Bright haired children grew round
her; but neither she nor Sir Roche ever
forgot Elodie. They went every year
to her grave, and the only time that
Lady Villiers ever thought her huts -
band harsh was one July morning
when they stooct by Elodie's grave +a-
gethe,r, Tbe men tvtio bad charge of
it had planted white ascensiou lillies
upon it.
'Take them away,", said Sir Roche
"eon maY have roses, or passion flow-
ers, or any other flowers that. bloom
but not these."
She looked up at him.
"WIty do you. say that, Roche?" she
asked.
"They are out of place, for one
thing, Audrey. Another reason,
they are your favorite flowers,
and I do not tike, to see them
there."
So the white Mlles were taken away
But Audrey soon forgot that one in-
stance of sternness. No husband was
kinder, raore devoted, better than
hers. They loved each other with a
true and perfect love that no man
could put asunder.
(The Bede
THEY CAN SING.
Royal. Perronaties Who Have Melodious
Voices.
Few outside the intimate -court circle
at Berlin are aware that the Kaiser has
a very fine barytone voice,and that he
is exceedingly fond of singing Germ,an
and English ballads, Nt-hich he does with
a good deal of expression and feeling..
His performances in this direction are
restricted to the evening -Nvhich be
spends with his family, none but the
intimate friends and nearest relatives
being admitted to -the imperial eirele.
On such evenings as these the hours be-
tween dinner aul bedtime are devoted
to Mask, the Empress beiog• a remark-
ably clever pianist, while whenever
Prime Henry is present he produces
his violin, on tveich he is a far more
afaeomP)ished performer than even his
Linde Alfred the second and sailor son
of Queen Victoria..
The Emperor never sins unless
either his wife or his blether consents
to accompany him, for eingIng is 01.18
of the few things -perhaps the only one
-in tallith he is not absolutely sure
oi hi,s superiority, end it is propaley
precisely on, that account -that is to
say, in cousequence cif his diffidence
-that he really alines in a very pleas-
ing mcan4ier.
4 ts 1in Oscar, hoNt-ever, who pos-
sesses the finest barytone voice in Eu-
rope, and experts have declared that
had he been forted to sing instead of
to reign, for a living he would have
surpaesedevery professional barytene
now on. the stage. Queen Marghet itt.
of Italy is passionately fend of sing-
ing mut '4 music, but her husband,
King Humbert, Like King Leopold, of
Belgium, abominates the very sound of
music, which grates upon, his nerves.
None of Queen Victorie's fatality pro-
fesses to have a suftletentiy good voice
for singing to encourage him. to ter -
form. solos. But they are all gladi to
join in eingino, no matter when or
where, and their °Neticite are esesily*dis-
tineuishable 'above those of the remain-
der of the people singing, I never have
_been able quite ea make Get whether
this is due to the peculiarity of their
ateeet or if it is attributable to the
filet that owing to their royal rank
they have a right to pith their voices
tegher awl louder than any one else.
Queen Visitoriies third daughter, the
Prierfess Chrietien et Schleswig-Hol-
stein, belonge to there' societies in
London. and Windsor white give public
concerts, In these the Princess takes
an active part. Nothing is more in-
spiring than to, bear the Prince of
Wales viewing on Sunday at church at
the top of his yoke his favoriteahymn.
Onward, Christian Soldiers," the
roiling. "re" giving- it something es-
me,ntia I I y znili tan t. and,raili tary.
TEB Alt.lf feAN NATIVE AND THE
1,0001%10'1'f V F,
tionee interesting remarks.by the Ma -
fatale on the steam engine are record-
ed le, Mr. 'franca It'oxt one of the re-
cent visitors to flulifwao. Phe, locomo-
tive was thus d.eseribed: "It is a huge
animal leilonging to the white man. It
has telly 0110 eye, t be head tamp, It
feeds on fire ana hates Isork. When
the -white nose peseta it to make it
work it screams. It aonate troth some
where, but, no OUP ithoWS from tvbenoe."
Of a siasam traction engine, eeets
when. the driver was oiling it, the Me-
ta.bele Held that "it was a huge animal
which baa the fever very Nulty, be-
cause the white man poured in inerti-
eine at so teeny parts elf its body,",
BERLIN 'S leIREIVI EN
In Berne the firemee wear water-
jaelteLe wit,h a double Skin. Witich they
ere able to fill with wafter from the
hese. If the space between tile two
layers becomes over -filled the water
eteapes thaveugb a valve at the top of
the helmet, and flowa down over the
firentan, like a. cascade, protecting him
&Ailey. The smoke helmets, largely
• used in Germaty, Anstria, Holland and
enahl,e the wearer to breathe and
Pee nt his ease iri e smoke -leaden at-
ateapherfe. n acme iristemeee the tip-
pitratioN teetudee a, means af telephotic
gentnetnieallen with fert street below,
DRIWIEAN BATTLE PIADS.
allied fctee, weal on Sept. 8 in tbe
1
following year, when( all hope of fur-
ther resistance was aver, the Ras
-
aegis deoided te make a fearfitt seed,
fice-to destroy the' tatty of wbich they
ere so justly, proud, rather than, let
it fall intd the betide of their enemy-
SABASTOPOL IS TO -DAY A VERY
•0011(MONPLACE TOWN,.
Ga. the illoody Flew er lettermen -The
Utley er Vtaiattieva and the Monona
Charge- ofr les a Newsy and treaute
Clay..
Shortly after dawn! wrt andiored in
the harbor of Batoam, and soma I
Was on Ilueetan soil, writes a c•or-
respondent,
The town of- Betoune with itsfour-
keit thousand to fifteen thousaud in-
habitants, is built an a projecting
tohgue of land, some few miles north
of the mouth of the .River Tchoru,k.
Almost immediately labind. the teeii
lies a large dreary -looking swamp,
stretehing back tot the eills that, run
alinest parallel with the aeastiores. This
swainki is a veritable hotbed of man
aria, and it is said that few Europeans
visit Batouta tor the first time ts-ith-
out being attacked by the intermit-
tent fevers ox' agues that infest the
dietrice
Under Russian rule Bateum has
rapidly developed, and were it not for
the groups of Turks, Armenians, Ta-
pes, Cisea,ssians, Georgians, Mongols,
and 'Caxton& that tbrong the streets
one could easily imagine one's self its
a. European town. A broad the -wee°,
that has only recently been coxistract-
olu
seu,,Ci10.0.r.eillSTuarloknigall tilho6uS4e7 hfautn.:Irille; alt
been aupplanted by sub-stantlai stone
buildings, while commodious quays and
warehouses have sprueg up ori every
By means of the Ba.ku-Batouin rail-
way that coanects the Caspian witb
the Black sea, Russia, is able to trans -
fax' her vast reeourees from the in-
terior to the shores of the Euxine.
THE FREE. I'ORT OF 13A.TOIJM.
being admirably suited for the concen-
tration of her products. A subse-
quently constructed railway, connect-
ing Petrovsk with the more northerly
Novorossisk, %tables Russia to dupli-
cate the transference of her resources
to these pa,rts i- And as the Petrovsk-
Nervorossisk line is at the same time
.contiected with needy the whole of
the Russian railway 'system these ports
an the eaztern shores of the Euxine
occupy a most important pOSiti011, not
only from a, commercial but from, a
military point of view, for by a sim-
ilar process troops; can be transferred
tot and concentrated in the Black Sea
region from almost every corner of tee
Russian Empire.
During theelast fifteen years or, so
the petroletun trade at Batonrn and
manganese are trade at Pod have in-
creased by leaps and bounds; and to
cope with this remarkable development
of recent years, Russia has gone ,to
considerable expenditure in rendering
both Poti and Retoum safe ports of
call.
Wb.eti Batmen firet fell into Rus-
sian banes; an ungainly Turkish I al-
aar rau straight down to the sea-
shore, passing throagh, a part of .the
fortifications on net way. To remove
this eyesore was one of the problems
with which the Russian official mind
had to grapple, for the feet of its
being built upon rendered it illegal to
confiscate the ground. One night a
mysterious fire broke out, and--euri-
e,us to say --no effort was
MADE BY THE RIJSSIAN
authorities to extinguish it until
nearly the whele of the bazar was raz-
ed to the ground. Rumor has it, that
this fire was not; the result of acci-
dent, and the rapidity with which the
authorities set alto,ut constructing a
street upon the cite of the destroyed
bazaar tends eonsiderably M strength-
en the probability of this rumor be-
ing correct.
stayed a few days et Batmen,
and than changed into one. of the
"bigne de Crimee-Caecase" boats bound
for Novoroesisk, Yalta, and Sebasto
pot.
Owing to its eharming position on
the rustily wooded, slopes o.0 a perfect
crescent, of hi '-. where, amid luxx-
ux•ia.nt foliage, , • ,tas, and man-
sions, atand in quiet a eision. Yalta
has deservedly become one of themost
fashionable pleasure resorts in • the
;south ref Russia,. '
It was but a few houra after mid-
night when we dropped our anchor
in the hareor ef Sebastopol. The forts
of Nieholas and Constantine stood on
bath sides of tile entrance, while on a
narrow tongue of land, formed bythe
SE.`41, on one side and a little bey on
the other, lay the hietorie -town it.
self.
Serowe the famous liornbardinent of
°atelier 17, lfliale ithen the rota' of the
deadly broadsides from the ships, and
the deafening din of the hannoriade
from thn lend was heard many leagues
off, 88haSE01,01 was, a large and beau-
tiful eity, thee rose elegantly from
ttheLterheore in the form. of an To' -day it it is inehing more than a
earamonplaise town. showing does of
fleeted, on every, side, and remanding
one; ot
'ITt It TERRIBLE, tr),RATTI BLOW
that was struele by it hold and en-
terprieing enemy fel Russia's greatest
and strongest nava,' iosenal,
In the early part of the eighteenth
century Seinetopol as a pretty Ter -
tar village called Aktitiar. In 1788
it fell into the hands of the itussiehe
and under the aegis el the Empress
Catherine it rapidly developed, until
It attained to a position of great pol-
itical importance.
At the time of the Crimean war the
town ,N'as strongly fortified on every
side, Six polvVerful, batteries defended
the Senitbern salet of its port, arid
four its Northern mete; and eo
etrorig svere the svelte that tor it long
time tbe. heavy disebarge of cannon
that battered agnieet, them almeot
unthaeingly, morel y ma rked and dent-
ed them without dieramitline a single
leer nearly three hund red nd fifty
days Set etstopol ' ^ et gee inat t he
very preparatien was made for this
terrible helmet -let of War, and very
soon the work of destruetion commenc-
ed. Magazine after; magazine was ex-
ploded until the- whole town was en-
veloped itt a, eee, of living fire, When,
shortly, after, the English enteredit,
they found nothing but it fear-
fiti weeelt of masonry- the remains
of the once so formideble forts end
Itetverful defensive works of Seeasto-
pol.
My, first date after landing was to
the -famous &Mlles 01 Malakeff and
Little Reda a, which, (Wring the days
of lithIeztLtEeprrii.bviiel'Isnee T11riwecroeR1)8Es
of hundreds of slain and mangled Rus-
siana. These two ditches lie immediate-
ly behind the town ma the strip of land
uated between the clookyaed creek
and the harbor. It was here thee the
Russians had their batteries. To the
right of the Malekoff was the valley of
the Tchernaya, River i and across the
Nyatcr, on the apposite side of the har-
bor, lay the 'Wee village 01 Inkierma.n,
on rugged ground, intexsected by nu-
merous ridges and, hollcrws, ao deep
that during the fatemis battle of tlaat
amine several encounters were going on
simultaneously, while the several divi-
sions of the troops were hidden from
the view of each other. A grey granite
obelisk, bearing the name and date of
the battle and the -words, "Erected 'by
tbe British army," in English, Rus-
sian, Greek and Turkish, marks the
very centre of the battlefield.
I next clrovei to Caelicart's Hill, the
burial place of Six' George Cathcart
and a great number of the British
soldiere who died in the Crimea. From
the summit of tbe hill an excellent
view is obtained of the spots where
tee principal events of the bombard-
ment of Sebastopol. and the battle of
Tehernaya took place. Looking to tbe
north one sees, the town of Sebastopol
the Malakoff, the Maraelon, the Little
Redan, the Valley a the Tcbernaya,,
the village of Inkermate-and beyond
-the barren, undulating steppes that
extend over the ,,greater pdrt of south-
ern Russia. TO the west are the spots
where General Cenrobert and Lord
Raglan had their headquarters. On
the east we seethe Tehernaya winding
• its serpentine course over the rugged
country; while beyond the moun-
tains, in the squth, lies , the valley
of Balaklava, where that most bril-
liant episode of the Crimean War -the
p"Fahcaer.ge of the Light Brigade," -took
Si hundred 13ritish light horse,
their swords glittering in the morn-
ing sun, rode recklessly into the raidst
at the Russianswho were drawn' up
in strong columne to receive them. 'At
a distance of twelve bundred yards -Um
heetry fire of their cannon- was open-
ed upon them, ;enveloping all for a mo-
ment in a, flood of smoke and flame.
A shrill soiled of mingled shouts and
death shrieks arose echoing and re-
echoing in tile valley, and tbe smoke
dispersing revealed the fearful gaps
which the enerny'a bells had made as
they swept through. the British
ranks. With a ringing cheer, and
without a, moment'e hesitation, they
again plunged -but with greatly dim-
inished numbers -into the smoke and
fire of the Russian batteries, and em-
erged, at the rear of the; enemy, reel-
ing wounded in their saddles, but with
the blood of the Russian gunners drip-
ping from their; swords. But there was
no time for hesitation, for they had
to return and confront anew themur-
derails fire of the batteries and the
fearful valleys of the musketry. Wheel-
ing rapidly round they again Dew into
the smoke and fire of the guns, and af-
ter a deadly straggle, during vrtioli
General Besquet's Corps de Cbasseurs
came to their aid, the gallant Light
Brigade emerged, with two-thirds of
their number left dead or dying on
the field. I
. From Sebastopol I steamed direet to
Odessa, one of the gayest ansa mese cos-
mopolitan of Russian dties.
Ode,ssa is most picturesquely Situat-
ed, and the view of the 'town from the
sea is very striking. Laid nut in
spaciens squares, boulevards, broad,
handsome streets, beautitut parks and
promenades, and possessing aiso num-
erous elegant public buildings, several
theatres, first-rate hotels and eleellent
shops, Odessa presents an aspeet en-
tirely Parisian.
To the student' or antiquarian Odes-
sa. times, perhaps, as a kind, of min -
climax after a round in the. more
reessizal towns of the Orient, but tbe
oedinttry traveler, host/ever, will be
able to spend a week very pleasantly
in this gay and charming city. •
WORKING AT NIGHT.
its Effect Goon the Health or Women and
It may imam incredible that there is
a, large end. growing body .of women
who work regularly all night. Be. is only necessary to reflect that all
the department stores, railroad depots,
office buildinge, and other Sky -scrapers
in the large cities are scrubbed by WO -
men at tight, to verify this etatement.
The telephone girls in the offices of the
great dailies work at Meet; and in one
of the great electrical works, which
employe more women than any other
ramiufectuting leetablishment ea 1111 -
nets, girls ace e.ngaged regularly from
0 et night lo 5 in the morning 1.8weeks
of every year. The oiled, of this work
upon the health is ruinous, for the gees
do eat acquire the habit et regular and
sufficient sleep by day,hut work, as
the say, "On nerve," using stimulante
for the peewee of keeping wake.
A LA Mete' G DEGEN ERA CY IN ITALY
Out of eveig 100 young men inscrib-
ed for inilitary iseririt:e in 1898 in Italy
scarcely 42 were found fit for service,
49 were either Iteleover till the fol -
1011,10g • are,ar or rejected altogether,
while the remaining nine repreaen ed,
the deserters. Italian sodologie to as-
cribe the cauaea to the backwerd con-
dition of hygiene ia /emote lecatitiee
poor food, bad aehoolt; and the complete
abseree of an organ i zed, system rtf
nasties fn' for youth.
It A N le RESIT LT&
What's the matter I etwee t
andeis wife?
He's leen gawking tba higarri that
She; ova him for Ch ris toms ill the
house and the odor melee bet deathly
stek,
PURELY C1111111)1IN PIEW8
INTERM$TING EOEI11s AROUT, OUR
OWN COUNTRY.
Gathered train Various Pointe from the
atlantic to the Pacific:
The matibinery far the Cameron 113 -
Landmine bas arrived in Rat Pottage.
A. G. Irwin., asoiseent secretary of
the Montreal Ilea,rd of Trade bas re-
signed,
Rossland'a latest voters' list shows
1,218 voters.' in the 41aetropo1l,9 of the
Kootenay.
Regina Board of Trade will help ma-
vertiee the Priece Albert route to the
Kiondece..
eixty-foar canneries were operated
on the Fraser last season, and the
ouce broke all previous record.
Peewee:cm is rapidly filling up with
`isrs, `wbo will sta,rti for the
esteem as peon as amerig opens,
James Paul, a. 17 -year-old Iloesland
boy, shot himself becOuse his mother
reproved bile. Ile will get better.
.tas. McCreary bas resigned the prin-
cipalship of the Woe Ward School,
Peterboroe Re will travel a petrified
man.
Miss elfary Heywood of St. Thomas,
liteeeme despondent on Sunday and took
a dose of toothaehe medicine. She will
recover.
The Quebec Exposition Company has
decided to buy Gowan's farm -and
transform it into a permanent exhibi-
tion ermines.
W. j. MeLeod, werden's clerk at the
Kingston pepitentiary, bas teen ap-
pointed steward at the Dorchester
penitentiary.
Dan McNaughton, who was acci-
dentally killed by d gensbot while
hunting in British Columbia, was a
native ot Lancaster, Ont.
Rev J. W. Spirwell hate left Wood-
stock, for New We,steninster, B. C.,
where he Neill be principal of the Co-
lumbia Methedist College,
A Canadian Pacific brakeman was
blown off the top of a twee near
Sebam last week. He lit in a snow
eank and escaped uninjured.
A deal for the sale of eighteen can-
neries on the Fraser has fallen through
as the English syndicate say the cc
tal is drifting toward the Klondike.
Jeanes Grant, of Stewart, is rejoicing
becauee an unmarried brother has left
en estate in Oregon valued at
and he is one of the six who will di-
vide.
The Merchants Cot ton Co., of Mont-
real, have decided, to place their goods
with the wholesale trade and naanufac-
turers direct through a special selling
department.
Alfred Robert .A.ngers, former clerk
a the Court of Appeal at Quebec who
laas,beee a novice at the monastery of
La Trappe bas taken his final vows
as a brother of the order.
The Le Rol mine has nearly complet-
eti its contract to supply 75,000 tons of
ore to the Trail =clear. In future all
ore will be chipped to the company's
own• smelter at Northport.
Quail are numerous in the neigh-
beurhood of • Brantford, A railroad,
train killed over a sonre last Wednes-
day night. Butt then everyone who
goes shooting quell can't carry a rail-
way train with bina
A stranger tried the tfiek of sub-
stituting a- paste diamond for a real
one in a St. Thomas' jegellery store,
but the clerk discovered the fraud in
time to make thea-steadier give up,
though he escaped himself. •
A Gore Bay come able has been carry-
ing on an indiscriminate shooting of
dogs. Christanas day be shot a vain -
able canine belonging tu the mail dog
train and now the municipality is the
delleadaet in a suit fax damages.
carload of live hogs from Listowel
went through the Sarnia tunnel on
T,hlureday, consIgned to the Chicago
stock yards. It ra,s the first importa-
tion of Canadian liege for slaughter
known by the United States customs
officers. •
The latest; verdiet in the, celebrated
'Turner vs. St. Clair Tunnel Co., was
given at Port Huron the other day, 11
was §2,200 for the plaintiff. Turner
lost his hearing while working in com-
pressed atr during- the constraction of
the tunnel.
SOlVIE FAMILIAR NAMES.
Lake Mid:igen signifies in the na-
tive tongue "a weir for fish."
Java is a native leelay word signify-
",.'". of nutmegs."
. en the. So menet, t "eh as,
eignify*, ef the dlIwn,"
Connect icut in the Indian forte was
Quineitukut, meaning "the country of
the tette' river,"
Egypt expressos (bit Hebrew for "the
land of oppression," ;eluding to the
bondage of the iaraelites,
Africa, trees; its origin to the Phoeni-
cian afer a bleak man, atiri the Sanskrit
act the earth, a country.
Lake Eria is the lake or • the "wilct
cat," the name. given to a fierce tribe
of Indians exterminated by the (re-
tied's.
' ele1PLA.INED,
,
Mrs. Hymen ---1 eite :Amid you, do
not :think as much of me, Charles, as
Y0]. 'eseci te1 care rethember when
you declared 1 Wag Worth eny weight
111 gold.
Mr, Ilymen-Thet'e what still say,
but eoe mtist, lenge:thee: that yen have
loft 01 leeet twee ty pounds the last
year,
A N A :P PET fT:1,1 DESTROy
had no appetite ror tovalcsast; this
morning, said the bookkeeper, as he
eame in and took off his coitt.
thst late last. istgete towriod tho
sista ill. outnager.
That wrestle. it, 1 fount my lioard
ITt besidvt my plate.
4I t
' t
e( lilli111121.4°
s1t"
Landpj 4.1se teeth in
t11,E.
civf,a%iy,o
uriosityins
11, o
dentists in Ina W
i/frj".'-ou.Ydn t -t
criticism by vigorou
whatever is pieced before
ddoerule
esfnotasecv.en, hesitate at cholas,
ing their bonee to powder with w
"I bought tile- clog abroad," ,
Moesly remarks itt Tid-Bits, "for et
stud fleet as, although old, be possesses
many good points. Be had no teeth,
hotweVer, and 1 foetid that we had to
specially' prepare his food for elm, He ,
became very unfortunate in the keit-
tele, -where the dogs Nvortild worry lane
without his being- able to defeed him-
self, caul treat him with the etmoret
oontempt. So the, idea, ocourred to me
that I might make bim o et of false
teeth. It had never been done before
to my knowledge, and there were
great difficulties int the way, nue 1
save no reason why it Should not be
done,
re'ra'SGoveId ctlahleorfoefwormstamedi apdsenheletuaivaelnd
laeIx.
The puzzle, aftert the mouth was pre-
pared, was hose to fit the, plate. Ev-
erything bad to fie specially made, but
at last succeeded in taking! model
of the dog's, mouth, and the most dif-
ficult part of the operation =sever,
or so'.at least, I congratulated my-
self. From the models metal dies were ee
east, and natty little platinum plates te-
struck to fit each jaw. These plates
had to be made of double thickness in
order to obtain sufficient strength, as
Myn Duivel, having no fear of his den-
tiesiasotk'slibllo,neiss. reckless in the way he
'It was a formidable task -the most
'difficult operation I have performed
in a professional career of 'nearly 20
ht7ovauernrsiyi_nt
Efoaerxhepottaffrittnlhageeimteeth oempied two
anydouasertillial:muniNd'eerre-
stand whet a dreary task it was.
Forty-eight hours of grinding! And
then each tooth haa to be ground to
the exact size aria shape, and there
was great risk of breakage. But it
was done at' last and Myn Delvel was
fittedegitil bis new set of artificial
!Mete.
He revolted furiously at first, and
fought violently against the innova-
tion, Itut at length he became recon-
ciled, and he is now an extremely
proud, not to sag a conceited, dog.
His teeth are taken oat and cleaned
each niglit with his Own tooth brush
mad a spacial powder.
"The outlay for materials used in
experiments and failures," said Mr.
1Vfosely, was considerable. Me lead-
ing mechanic was employed on the ea
for over tett days, and 1 put in more
hard work and took more skin off ray
finger-tips in shaping those teeth than
I have done irt a year of ordinary
work, No, I shouldn't care to do
another one for a patient, unle.ss
I had carte blanehe in both money
end time, and even then. I should think `
twice."
U• NIFORM IN AFRICA,
The Natives Show a Love of Soldiers' Cast-
• en' Garments.
• "1n the course of my travels in South
A.friee. 1 bare been greatly etruelt by
the fondness of the natives fox' gin:dye.,
apparel, particularly uniforms. These -
are the esst-all uniforms of the vari-
ous regiments time have been station-
ed in the. country from time, teetime.
Here at Durban one can see every
daY scores of natives dressed in most
ludicrous fashion, partially elothed in
military apparel, the coats usually
having all the Luttons, stripes, a,nd the
• like complete. Yo -i4 will see a, rag-
ged, unkempt Kaffir, leading a team
a oxen, wearing a niuch stilled scarlet
tonic, or a dark bine tunic with tat -
eared yellow braid or gold lace, and
woefully dirty; or, else, a stable jacket
out at the elbows, with the. yellow
braid Or gold 'wire "lines," probably
rorand hM waist -no shoes, stockings or
11:abdzthr,e,s.and mere,le: a cloth, round
bis loias or, at least a ragged pair
"The coolies, who are employed. here
so largely, are just as great offend-
ers. All about the place one sees shops
ip.slriatyhedlarfogre sagireatiittlesisofnoutnivIrray siodnisg-
ago that tbe authoritiee at home woks
up to the feet that it was derogatory
to the dignity of the cloth; to allow
Sandwich men and otbers to wear east -
off uniforms, andthus degrade the
soldiers' garb, it was bad enough in
all conscience to etee the loaters in Eng-
land wearing uniforms, but far worse
is it to, see dirty niggers and loafing
Indians strutting about the Streets
partially dressed in our genteel, sol-
diers' clothes. 11 18 an insult to the
whole British Lent*, and a etrong re-
presentation elsoeld be made to the eel-
ony that the wearing of military limn
torme by civiliate hiou1d lie discontent-
ed, toad made a punishable offense, as
ii Etigland."--Corresporenteee of the
Landon Grapbes.
PIGS AS 1,IFE-SAVElle.
A (emoting steamer was tvreelosa
near Sydney, The Captain tied life
lines to some pigs whiih forme4 a part
et the cargo. Thee, on being thrown
o-verboard, quickly etvani ashore, tak-
ing t he lime with them, Communi-
cation heiag taus establislied every
person on, hoard was rescued.
Pl tJrlD THE 1311,1
Merchant, presenting itemized state-
in(qii,--t,00k that over, erreitterel,
mid Fend me a elleak at your Ideate
ontld ulna' ytoliteeirtlitrit„ta,
trflitti
at4tn etitIriitisttulsrsottye
that the lady is ono of the, most
charmingaltie m'irri6civin" te.)131fey rililittest118.uitrieakt:
mad 1. you a inob ;a me -emit wife.
1,1i Loral, r a min rig Si a -lemon t-
1 youSi roritesits thee ;Abe the
hill.