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"What la love? 'Tia not liege
Present nartb hath present
" What's to come u3 still
"Bridget1 Bridget!" cries
young mistress, in a clear, as
There is something of max
-enough to make the old
whom the name belongs bali
swiftly from the kitchen to
ingeroem than is leia usual
"An' whet is it agra 1" says
Ong OVer the threshold tuna 1
the big, bare room to wher
third window, a tall, slight,
tigare ie standing.
"Screethling, dreentu.1, rm
Come hare Come here!" beck
riedly to the old WfAnftlf WIt110
ter eyes ag the window. nilu
peen Look out over there,"
"What is that? A man, eh
tart, wounded1"
"Tata, 'tis that!" says the ol
laying her band to her brow
Ing into tbe growing darhne
November evening.
"What can be the matter N,
Bridget 1"
"I don't know, me dear.
look bad, whatever it is!"
"He shouldn't hare came t
yte Miss Mellennot, a•nxioust
now those bogs down there,
Oh,, Bridget I did you. see
nearly in thee!"
"May the dieril carry him,
Bridget wrathfully, "whoever
troublin' ye like this! An"
heavens ein.t him sinse, to
for the future from search -in'
mud baths at this sayson 02 t
"You ne•ver care a pin a
hang, Bridget," says her y
tress gleaning angrily at her
;shoulder, "except-"
"Yon, me dear!" retorts tile
am promptly; whereupon both
read maid laugh in a subdue
ray, as lf a little afraid of bei
re "Pon me consciencel he'll
all night if the morning do
bien in the other world," say
'woman, presently, who agath
turned to her watching of tis
figure that is trying in an
fashion to cross the morass.
She IS & rather handsome ol
With masses of snow -whits h
age but partly hi,dde,n beneath
reacge snowy eap. later dress i
the -Ordinary Irish peasant, w
, ;abate apron flowing over the
'the ;gown-
"- "Whoever he is," seas
mot peering over the old.
iaxouider tbrougb the parlor
"lie tartan:ay knows nothin
neigbborbood. Ours is about
dangerous bog about here. D
think, Bridget, we ought to s
erne to help haul"
"'Melees ye mane me," said A
nal, whose Christi= narae is
"I don't know who ye oan sin
know well enough yersela
ee, -fain 'tits you've had cause to
tam master niver lets Patsy at
Aright from mornin' till night.
be rintalous to count on hinx.
eidea-Glory bc, miss? did ye
For a wieged bird, he's a s
liePPera"
Indeed, the men in the bo
Seems, in spite of the feet t
battling with an injured aria,
laBar117 full of life. The ill ludo
fed him into this dangerous
Water end spongy soil is no
anough to destroy lam; even a
watohing biro breath
The window of the gaunt old ho
elanns.t given way to despair,Ix
last effort and, landing on a
• turf: jumps from that eget
firm. land beyond.
That Test effort seems, hol
, save exhausted. hitai. •Ife stag
.1•Iker than walks toward the h
is nears it, the ,girl watching
tee how ghastly is his face; a
kg open the old-fashioned
Fifa,215 abrnpt gesture, ohs
Aowst to the soft grass bane
attardless of the eld servant's r
lamest
ielt few emanates brings her
Avenger's slate
"You are hurt, sir. You ar
It.eauonma. Ohl vre wattled y
tog that terrible bog end at
we feared- But you are sate
• arill come he? Your arm„ 1 tea
s'iBralree," says the young in
re nervous smile..
"Ole I hope not. Spraine
• bape-but not broken. There!
easier alma? Lean heavier
•aee't mind it a bit, and -oh, do
Dh, Patsy 1 Patsy I" to the groo
tner, boot -cleaner, matt-of-ailes
acmes hurrying up to her.
Itini 1 Ileas awfully heavy."
*easy catches Man.
"Is he dead entixely, a'ye
"No; only fainted, There!
• His arm, he says is broke
twee! Oh, is that you, Bridget,
old woman wbo has hobbled o
In it very- angry frarms off mind.
*au
we put hIDi, do you think
tattle rooanh"
"The hall will do hirm. Pre
• ail the dmhtor tell us where
lama' says the rad women, ion
With cacti unevillingne,ss she
band to oonvey the fainting
the house.
flavo or, three theirs arras
ell make an improriaed tarot
he emeoeselotts man lying o
looks so miserably ancomfett
alto girl's heart diee within
"Me can't stay there! Take
Vie north room," she says, al
"ISfies Duleinea, don't do tb
ridgct, Compressing her lips,
rthrig her young mistress
•ions tgaZa. "'Tie unlucky
that
it halt -dead. mature shou
,thei threshold:, but to take,
geep himeetill death claims h
be bad, mies,i tellin'
your undoln,'
TB
TIMES
n••••••••••
ATS.
at leder Steen"
•;), has written
f *The First
It tiiroe gun-
liward we pass -
4. and through
lie Queen of
lemon, and.
p• ire• on the
in a. few miles
rts of Metenn
iree miles back
e fortit in"Sac-
looked very
-like as fW81
each fort was
through , oar
n running into
for the at -
to the west of
red. a force of
apparently weU
in two thou -
opened fire at
iry eepliea van
s for the most
tag slowly ore
succession, and
xtreine range
abreaht of the
was one thou -
9 were then
octet being the
the hoteat of
all our eleells
other in, their
from the left
ned on US, thp
in thick sorab
ds away. We
n their diree-
d them.
burst on boara
ting Mai feed
roasly wound -
right pit
hexe ethe Brit -
Then turning
a. eneiny'sforta
them to est
below, picking
the way.
, we steamed
taoir, but Ow -
inane of ark
, we couldnot•
e enemy's fire
and. they, had
f -their nuns
✓ other two
shells, and vrat
ed by t•ifle
/3.06 more pa
centrsted oitb
ts, which we
hours at the
d all the Der -
ay hands Ota,
the captured
✓ return ante -
very far aux
and the e
and refuse e
were obil,ge,„
d engineer, alit
attempt to
edz unsixeceaat
to be towed,
UNTESS.
e of a Comae*,
sons 'with info
phew and heir
al who playea
rt of th'ee Tull-
med niece of
ough her mil--
remdenblatt-
z about eeyeair
rowitch, niece
. He took his
to live with
and ;sued for
hat the Coati -
e a mother,
o insanewith
• and raade her
one evening
Countess wee
ys, alone had.
had been her
ed up and Sa.W,
Ling et them
they were pet-
pted to rise
utak)] de.rt,ext
e contents of
ID faoe of the
leaning liquid,
s of the- Wel
brought, pee -
mese was itt-
is
be ecadined
life in, a lima- ,
s and the lit-
he great met-
nna,
oue steers old,
ye. The other
✓ life with it
The unfortu-
ing•ty injured,
relate sur -
• wee and
rned away by
hooking Crag -
ate in Viente,
(1 has 'vrettteci
os1D,
ID beaueifeal
idol's head.
eirosy pld
I.lendors tee
lif
es st
Wil 1 greup.
.11e8 Mad
S IDtile soup,
,
a-
fe
_____
.
fuilously„ "1 theught yea' wer. e
talking of-ota,"
"Well, 1 wesn't," says the old. arm.
an, dryly, "1 woulde't preaume to let
meatongae run a race about there Eng.'
ash folk." , •
"You, really think the poor man we
rescueel wee -is -an Ertalishmena"
"Sorra delibt Of 'et! Bad. twran to the
„ , „ , ee ..., .
aah We sew atien, he et see now, unes,
'twill bring- 'la n° Inek• 'An' lialight
but a wandherite ertiat, I'd bet =elite!.
The mild lord. above there is (aerated:on
I ' • • * - I)
-foola o then kend, lan tw.
"Why should artists be. tooter asks
gukea ea„ perhaps a little coldly.
"Well, for eat) thaw, they never has
a penny to their name." .
e ..
cilre haven't a PennY ettaert aa'Ye
the girl with easu,perb straightening
or her lovely figure, "Are we fools?"
"More or aess," says Mrs. Driscoll,
sereuely---"yer father anyway! What's
he bin (loin' wid the property tell these
years 'V Makin.' dunks and dhrekes ca
ib. 'However," say's the old womain, "let,
AtreDerneot ao what he likes, It's not
of the likes of him. I'd dare spaket the
unkand word,. but thin. other! wi
" with a'
amteraptuous sniff. "XVhat's thine?
Netball:1'1 People as go thravelin• here
an' there throu.gh the country an flitter
a' roof to their heeds, or a grandfetleer
to their Portion. A MeDerraot slimad
nc t be named in the same day wid
ham, penny or no penny." .
"Ah, the pennies taunt, Bridget,"
steeyi the girl with a quick beet heavy
,
sig ,.
them that are risin' but not
. ,
wid the ould stook," says the old worn -
an eagerly. "A McDer.mot poor is tbe
same as a MeDermot, rich."
"No, no, shaking her head sadly.
"Ye say that? The more shame to
'
thine as makes ye feel it 1" exit* the
old woman fiercely, her lips quivering,
"How dare any one forget the, days,
not so long distant, aytber, when, this
ould house was the best in the Count
County
cork, and when the Mel)ermots could
shake their fists in the faces of all their
mei:aka te
"I suppose we could do that, now,"
says Duleixtea, laughing in site of bar-
self. Tbefn, going back to her former
mood, "Well, that' 11 Bridget,"
s a "over, L
says she tan" Patiently. The end a the
ivi D 4 -
e emote bas come. Father, you
know is the last of than "
"o,'• . ,
e out there'a
nI don't. There's'
you!" cries the old. • woman hastily.
• e a ° •
n anela.ncholy specimen," says the
• 1 ...
gir , WILD a rather sad laugh. "I'm
af al I should never summon up en-
rad
ough courage to shake ray fists,aa any-
body"
•
"There's one at whom you shake it
often enough," says the old, woman, re-
proachfully. "Take care ye don't do it
°nee tcl° often." '
"Would. the consequences", -(seuoily)
"be so disastrous then?" •
"Aix! now, me dear! ye bet-
ther about that than I could. tell el"
e . y _
Who could tell me et you couldn't 1"
purposely misunderstanding her. "And
do I shake my fist at you, Bridget?
And wbe•n I do it once too often, what"
(mischievously) "what will you do to
me then, eh ?"
"Ah, you will haae your joke, alanna 1
I know that, whattver c,oraes o' it. But
don't go too far wid Sir Ralph, miss;
he careful I'm tenni' ye. lie's none o'
yer soft sort. alle--" •
"Oh. bother Sir Ralph!" says the
girl turning •with a. little petulant ges-
tura and walking away.
y•
To Be Continued.
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STORIES OF CELEBRITIES.
• ! , , . ;
,..
THE =TED FRANZ LISZT AND HIS
• .' '
ERRATIC -‘11/AlfSe
•
sAtileibbtebryt7,0:!.4:00:w:,oaarenildtall;:ta:rehttinej7eiriloarild:
,
lowed, dueler,' waiele ehe bad Spells of
;
eneallita• 14am.„this time her ,Matiner
alai laa,bita elsagea and thee* years be-
fere her death, a eeparatieue, took place
betWeett her And, huabatitd, who, how -
ever, hisited her fregeently and or-
_eh__ _ , _ , . ., , , , . ,.. ,
aosPernaea wan eel. A. emeriti() sus-
ceptihilita of •temPeraMeat seems to
This- fact illustratee the wistlera of
"Yabett: akeeneptheaae. 17:18°;:eh9altvet:I.iesr dlaedaYri
Taoranson's advice.
ea ' '
Treat me, the tender • are the most
, . .
Revere." • • '
INTRRESTING
(tethered
arotwaede
lief
and
thMe
St.
a
Parry
clerk
Wednesday
dent
Bible
jail
.
when
to
ability
sessraent
•
gembatan,
of
Albert
had,
running
Braetford.
. '
joyith
the
soil-
raatheniatical
le
Bella,
who
sent
two
S
Some
nese
is
sheep
.farmer,
with
.
eighteen-year-ol
' G
°hued
township,
mill
There
St.-
frora.
L yn
•
stock.
. 'sermon
ball-
large
are
crutehea.
'A
Mills,
when
•
smashed
ite
.elf
low-boarderarrested'
ear
The,
and
'A
Fowl.
the
storm.
and
The
Enniskillen
rough
it.
good
Lord
real
Christmas.
spent
.extra,
' Mr,
man.,
ge
ea
at0e.
- -n
stone
Rebert-
team
ge
tea,
waggon
arrived
ea
The
.1.
e
a great
. .
et.
the
eapenally
f rebodings
'8
vietim
flat
wbat
graee
fle
they
not
fore
'WS
when
ers
sve
we
moot
He
diotioni,
-
In
night,
opened
II
a ,.
so
o 1!
renterk
'Who
he
perceiving
at
one,
an
interestieg
ter
-
e.
Chatham
Brantford
'.
of
Brantfora
six
e:bt:Iridtioaln
market
Reports
3. Gordan
B, N.
of
The
shows
g.
A tramp
bave
Brantford
Molson's
:Woodstock,.
his
.
Hamilton
Mr. 'W.
Collegiate
ia te,
ran
to
.yeers
in
only
Heery
. having
reenless
from
George•
de
,
dwindled.
numbers
able
farmer
-
perils.
re
'ha
.
with
P.
dismissed
parta
Island,
main
walked,
With
constitutime
Highland
•
eompe;nies
k az'
tatVl'e
--
Cay.
:seizes/
arosel
m
fea
tt
of
:
'
•
Certainly
habit
'.
-
only
lee
each
promises
plate
promise
it
'
t hey
ought,
trust
'vvill,never
will
Illeoncisbury,
a
utter
, ,
entirely
some
' •
eelaletti
ease,-
,, ;:,.
end
and
y,' gm mliN
. . •
'
18
-
'
OUR .
ha
' ,
.
over-
.
re-
. '
° r
for
hall.
teethe.
.
mail
Erie
preen
of the
Miller,
. founa
advis-
as-
at
• •
- -
car-
.
a ma-
On
. .
Inger-
he w
Col-
of 14,
been
f or
• .
i tar-
This
than
his
pur-
Foley
on in
me
Wood-
,
.
foot-
still
aid of
bay
and
has
a goi-
is
h'
go to
snow-
ice
O'Neil,
some
eat
a
Mont-.
.
as ..a
be
•
two
raise,
Alex.
kin
Linelfe--
f age.
his
the
in it
he,
bright
tb ,
side,
. ' '
les
. a
See
but e
not .
when
dose
be-
that
waa-
, and
. ,
.. If
dread
do,
hene-
'
other
noise
by
was
--ons
only
was;
Tlum
her'
quiet
put
very
. .iilLg GUNS°
r --
.ait Intereeling Letter erf
Woetirte•
Maker Stuart Wortle
•
the follo-Wing necoant '
. . . ,
•Atte* on /I/Teta/each:"
"We left -Berber vi.
,
boa, ana etearaing sow
ed them:amide of Mee
the 'weary whence t
-
ahelea came to visit
teund oarseives at 5
' • •
moyniug of the 16th wit]
of the town awl. ' ix
FThe.
.ahe camp lies some t
tione the, river, itis mar
ce,ssi n 1 na the bat*
• °' a ° a'
inenacing and. business
' - '
apart:ached.. Between
.
a ahelter trench and
a .... e
Finest's we eeInin see 131
them and .preparing -•
. . - - . _ .
tack.-- On 4 . ridge
„ • , . ... ,
an e town tame appet
aboah 15,°0°. men, 411 t
expert . •
"We steemed to witi
• •
sand yards, and then
the first fort. The enei
ermely- , but their shell
e 0 el een e. ' at -
pare en, eaore ..nearc
• ,
we shelled each fort in
threw some shells at
.. - ' '
into the town When
the nearest ' fort
sand yards frora us. 'N
hotly engaged, and our
heading one, we got al1
e.
rine axe.
"our fire was . goon
bursting one after the
embrasures. Suddenly
bank a rifle fire w.ae °Ix
enemy being concealed
about four huedred yar
,turned a, lVfaxim gun. i
tion, which soon silence
eA Kra p
p shell then 1
ert the lower dent, on
f..i ' t d. d
pe in two, an Lenge
ing one man. We wen
Ale tenet' o opposite 1
te t'
ish camp was in 1885.
round and engaging tie
.
we steamed. past
island- about five miles
up six of their boats on
"On Sunday, the 17tI
up and renewed our al
ing to the Serge 'expete
munition the day befoia
t* ••t 1 T
oon mue i very ong,
improved a. good. deal,
'
increased the number 't
during the eight. , Ou
steamers were hit with
were pretty Well peppe
bullets. We steamed c
, e . an then co
th forts,' d '
fire on their grain bo
sunk. a . .
. . . .
' We steyed. - a few
island, While we collect(
vish animals we oould. 1
,
and pushing them into
boats, we sterted on ou
nee.
Y • . .
'
•"Before • we had gone
machinery broke down,
gineer turned, mutinous
twork a ore W
0 any In •
to depend on the sec=
ignorant man, whose
Patch' ula.' the wreaks peas
and finally we bee
, „ .
back
.
h -.."- -
ITEMS ABOUT
.
OWN COUNTRY.
--....
.from v.riou. pointi hem
. A,saantgficy,sniteuentne::ypreic:ash
• • • -
public eoboole, are
•
-
isperit $1096 03, on the
- ' '
the 'poor in 1897.
has now poetal delivery,
b act
rat new poetmen. •
ero
retraatii:g
Thonaas people are agitating
edjthning the new city
r o
from lumber amps
Sound distriet are. encouraging.
glliot,. a evelleknown
. . ,
of the M.C.R., died in Fort
a
• . •
Britton has been' elected
the Kingston 'branch
Society., : . -
• '
annual report ot the Montreal
2,842 prisoners committed
a • •
tee year: ' . '
from Londonahos.epli
arrested at Brantford, was
• .
diphtheria. •o
, is considering the
of app,ointin'g a permanent
commissioner.
Bank will open a branole
-
N.W.T„ with P. C.. Rhodes,
as manager.
Lyon, an Otteen.inatorman,
•
arm broken tbrough ,bis
into a load of wood.
Township voted • by
of, 81 to a• bolishi the toll gate
and Brantford. road.
.
,Ar.. Gouenlooka of the
, .
Institute, • is the
master at Lendoe
• ' -
, . ,
Amos, a Montreal girl'
a
away from her home, has
tire f t f • '
ie re orma ory for girls
• .
t farmer's. hew•
one ou _a
a hotel shed. et Midland.
one degree loss mean
stealing: ,
. Vahey, -a. Marcie TOWD8ilit)
has been. arrested, ' eb,arge-1
- 1 11 assaulted
ng °rim na y
omes le. '
d d' t" '
' • • • h
Bros„ of Milton, have
.
1,700 acres of timber in
and will move the Clarkson
Milton to•Foley, .
SE considerable agitation,
f - ' f trolley1'
in avour o a.
Hamilton by way of Copetown,
• St , G i e Paris and
n, . eo g . ,
e
-
fes,Ve 'arab' to football,
- •• •
into hockey', and
. of the . population
to walk without the
„ ' .
n,amed Rich of Horning's
was heleting bind a load. of
the binding ' pole eat loose
- --'' -- a • .
his nose. Been farming
. .e.
13 t had
. ax, o Brantford,
f t• 1th
or en ing
apiece of match on a string.
M. thought the case too trifling
it. '
of mune 'who left Grant's,
-
near 'Penetang, to
• e t '
land, go • los in a
They finally. • struck • solid
ashore much exhausted.,
3-year-olld son og Robt.
township, got hold of
on rats and proceeded to
the .aid of a doctor and
he will 'recover.
St athcona tee given the
r, g
• Cadet Corps $100
-
money Will
box.- The mon
..
in providing' uniforms for
it is proposed to
Robert Fisher, ' of Deloraine,
Who at one time gave Hon.
a job as mason on the
barn, is visiting' in the
a • • • - -
He is over 90•years o
Coutts, of Elravale, had
on it oliattel mortgage,
in the eight, harnessed
loaded• 'his vvorldly effects
and diseppeared. When
in Parry Sound he was arrest-
theft. ,
-
atter.
laughter,
aesurea
Bridget's
ret torte.
ety in it
._
lau "'
be nwre
the sit-
oustam.
she) etella
miring ula
a, in the
childish
,
()erten,
nhighur-
at taking
rry„ can't
pointing.
?---a man.
1 wanton,
end star-
s of the.
eith him,
ut be do
!is way,"
r. "Yon
and those
' Hewes
1" says
he is, for
„
nay the
rape hire
for cowla
.,
he year.'
ou.t any -
ing mis-
over her
.
old. wom-
mistress
I sort of
ng beard.
he there
earth
s the old
bas re-
e. distant
nacertain
1 woman,
air, that
her still
a that of
ith a big
skirt of
i MeDer-
servant's
window
of the
:he most
on't von
-
ind some
Era. Eris-
Bridget,are
(1; as ye
niss, sale'
kaow in
it ov his
Twould
An' be -dressed,
!ft that
ondertua
; below
at, he is
xtraord-
that has
nass of
i strong
. the two
fessly in
ase, have
a makes
firm bit
a to the
ever, to
gees ra-
1136. As
him can
id fling-
aseraent
springs
Oa re-
nelonstr-
I
to the !
'may
9 taint
(morose- •
one time I
ow. You °
., is-" I
art witlf !
1
1. per- 1
-are you 1
m me I 1
at faint! '
ca garcl- 1-
ark, who
- "aete.h
•t
1
think, '
;
Pe (ere- '
n. There I
?" to the.
1 to her
eagheee 1
In the
,
thitahnaa
ID eind
, lends a
-fan int01
• i
d IA the '
oher; but
t thent, '
.Me that ao'
I
. hint to
tarply, 3
p, says ,-
and re- ,
with an
motto
Id 'cross ,
n in-ao
ina that
a a will
f "Nensenee !"
a iy. "what superstition
bnotkgoihi, tte'
ro en, et sy,
the eorth room,
"Mies Daleie,
I tell ye a hurt
An' aer tether,
Wheat% he ea
"The MoDermot,
, would not grudge
' feinting- mean."'
"Well, well
now in eleexte
be ill ouYgla t of
this."
"Let bbn hear
angrily. "Am
even before I--
, funieh the sentence
1 sha a• frown
!low, broad Greek
hearing of Sir
Glid later in a
toae,
,A. tone loud
of the foremost
eater theleall
CHAPTER
"0 sweet ll'aney
Everything is
*
"There is a ga.rden
He is a. tall
He
thirty-two year,
ably older. Not
even a commonly
more decidedly
bled way than
Wlould be difficult
large mouth
eyes earnest
face. But one
a magnificent
up znan than
.more vigorous,
in the Irish
longs.
Miss alelOermot's
been quite dear
gaged to her
not finding them.
rand a swift
ever, he takes
the gimes gees
•
at the
chairs rather
comes tome to
n11111.
He had entered
fal even in its
the lower door
den, followed
latter -The Mei/era/lot-is
gaunt. man, with
overhanging
ged mouth,
gerl has taken
red a control,
she has inherited
truth, and. honor,
&la affection
peeted within
"what . ...
es this?
meads her father,
in the dim.
•
twilight, tbe
/3111mm% in
slender baud
quiet. for the
tale.
The whole
hardly to be
as once seen
The soft gray,
scarcely lights
the central figure
the. old woman.
-
hair and cap
henarng figure
here, where the
widow fall full
slight figure
fullest height,
uplifted. The
Ing sun fall with
her nut -brown
to gold. She
ions; she is
toward. her father,
eyes! Blue, deep,
like the ocean
-are turned.
lips are. parted.
gnawed, the two
awl thk, lover's
Lag,"I
"Re is ill, father,
ed," says the girl,
with fear,
Ife?-erha is
mot suspiciously.
"Ali 1 of that
hand is still
says he is to rest
a swift gesture
less lounge, "until
"Certain:1a nett"
mot, taking a-
Here, Patsy, what
ry this stranger
"The northanam
has been prepared
atot coma"
"And even if
Patsy. Father,
• She runs to
tog, and. thrusts
arm under it,
hangs helpless.
She is a. seco.nd
prised. at finding
if somewhat unceremoniously-
"This is a.
man's," says Sir
teously. "You
0 you. find nee.
"1,Vho ie. he,
asks Miss IVIeDerraot
er of her henchsvoinesa,
soothed down
proper frame .of
"Hosv one I
be the devil
know' an' fey,
Who 'bat the
through that
name at all, 1
way 1 Was there
or &whorl; be
Bat what's the
them igtenelish?
grain o' mime
"Yen then*
"'Conking, you
cock o' his ousel
blind. at ' her •iis
'note:that much,
ale townie,.
"1 dOn't think
la so'. dark,
A.net from where
. "One o* than
at 13anYbeg, I'm
come last tight,
Murphy, the cab
mlOs 1" .
,,.
.• No -no," dreamily,
"What! Not
rah,.what ails
a011, Larva 1
,
seas the girl, Koran).-
i Besides ate is
d',- b h. ' ia
ai. weasel . is- arm ,
gore et hand here --•to
I tell you!"
darnel% be sinsible now .
meat brings no luck.
darliea-think ea him!
t"
whatever hes' faults,
hospitality to a
1 maybe. .But look here
1 Tea r * Qi. , Rebell to
1 If le° elhoUld hearr ot
of it I" says the .girl,
I tee study his wisaes,
?"' She pauses as it to
is, distastetiel totter,
contracts her exa ' ite,
brow, "Ikea tired of
Ralph!" eays she a seee
elea r' r. vrathf il
r, Inoue, N 1,
enough to reaoh the ears
of two men eybo now
by the lower door. •
.. •.----e .
Oliver Goldenallas Platen Poverty one
es It i
. 0, on r -• ;Lady tame meat oat aeon-
•hoes, awl,. seas,
''" ' ANZ ISZ •
EVerytitie:Ranout tilt's lie.riegara, gen-
tus seemed. erra.tic and weird. A lame-
. .
gale= by birth,' a fierce and ardent'
Part:riot, Liszt seemed. made for Storm
end battle. His life in Paris and Vien-
tea, wall. reatarkeble for its artistio
. . . .
triuraplas and the havoa he played
among women's beats. Religion had
never Meant muoh to hini-his a,rt and
tJae fame it brought him satisfied him.
,, ,. ., . , bis „ .
"'" uq Yea" "'Newt on In -me greW
greater, and when he went to • Ranee,
thio(agh no longer young, hie charm
sv:as great meaugh to win and his will
'
enough to 'enable hira to break
strong enough
off an intereating 022 air with a hoble
Poliah lady trara whom marriage di-.
ended aineethe eahaerous fony of
%Thiel), friennship was known to all the
World' ,,, • •
Among the distinguished ' guests at
a Party givenby a certain Roman Pre-
• • '
late Lisit attenetea ,roore attentionextending
than any a the cardinals or the bettati-
tul womxn. upon that occasion. His
sliaht figure. his long gray hair, fall-
'
ince straight and wiry to his shouldersa
a
has restless eyes atria powernal, rough-
hewn features made him conspicuous.
e
Alter' afiralesely vvandering about the
rooms, the great artist sat down at the
• • • . •
piano. The wild, gland, :melancholy
ana passion.rete inusto which. oaths) from
the. teetrument was indeseribinle.
Liszt's rugged, furrowed face was light -
ed. With a wonderful radia,nce. Sad- .
li tones still
d/SalaV be rose,' leaven"' g t. e
-
vibretinge leaving the learts vibrat-e
- , t
mg, anal here was. no sound to break
the spell a the enraptured. silence.
Lai the summer of 1862, Liszt went to
- live be a talk -ruined eacinastery just
outside .the gates a Rome. In these
bare whiteewalled. roams he seemed aere
featly happy with his piano in one corn-
' and. his
., er of the cell-like sittiagroora
writleg-talile • piled with books and
music; beside these, there was nothing
of interest in the rooms. His *window
looked, out upon one of the most glori-
ons views in the. world -the Razy Ca.ria•
pagn.a., the Alban hills cutting a clear
Profile against the vivid. ani Rome,
in: ell its beauty, ia the distance. Her&
• ,
Liszt seemed, a:nether being; his art
possessed. him more palpably and more
Individually.
Later the world. was electrified by
the news that Franz Liszt had receiv-
ed. the eceleeiastical tonsure, and hence-
font]) was to bear the title of "abbe."
He became a favorite of Pope Pius IX.
and often played to 'him at his villa on
-the classic Lake Nem.. .
Alevays a great. artist, this wonder-
ful man passed through, many phasee
less enduring -patriot, spendthrift.
etheiet, convert and almost saint! .
.
serha .
GOLDSMITH'S POVERTY.
''' Tn 1758, two years after Goldsmith:
returned. from his wanderings on the
continent, he preeented.- himself at Sur-
geom. _hall for examination as a bespi-
.
tal mate, with the view of entering
the army or !navy, but he, suffered the
raortification of being rejected. as un-
qualified. Tbat he might appear be-
• - . . . . „
fore the examining surgeon suitably
Goldsmith obtained a new suit
of clothes for which Griffiths, the pub-
lisher a the Monthly Review, became
securita• The clothes were to be re-
, .
tur.aed immediately wth,ert the pur-
pose Was Served, Or the debt was to be
discharged. Boor Goids,mith, havin.g
fa,ibed be his object, and . probably die-
tressed. ha urgent went, Pawned the
clothes. ale_ publisber threaten.ed,and
Goldsmith replied: • '
know- of no misery but a jail, to:
which my own imprudence and your
letter seems to point. I have seen it
inevitalele these three or four weeks,
an& by heavens! reatiest it as a faNi01`
-a. favor tat may prevent. something
in:ore fatal. I have been -some years
struggling with re -wive:01*d. being-
with all that conte,miet and indigence
bring 3Vith -it-with all thole strong
.
passim* which -aiake Contempt. tnsup-
portable. What, th,en, has a jail that
la formidable?" . -
Such was the hopelessness, the deep
despair of Ibis itnpracient but amiable
manor who has etadea to the delight of
millions and to the glory of English
literature. ,
—.
--ea
:
FISH STORIES FROM THE NORTH.
.
The Great genneratetee or lashes from ti"
aolumeta to the waken -
'', The waaers of Alaska.both oceanic
, , .
food . •
aal'a taland, have a od ,supply eceim to
' 1
the dealands of a continent," said H,
C. ,Deming, of Vancouver. "Nobody who
.
hae "not •aotually seen the teemang life
., . ,
iu these Waters can- believe the truta.
In gearing Sea there, are fishing lianas
Where boa ad menhaden are caught
in numbers that put the. atewfolinalande
banks away into the shade, The herring
•
Mae are enormous. I have seen the
. . .
Peculiar ripple caused by .herring shoals
over the surface oh the sea
as far as the eye coald reach, arta fish-
eamen .
tell me they are actually in-
creasing, ' notwitlystanding the terrible
el
slaughter .by seals , and a blackfish
W ,town
hioh not only ea.ts fisla but catches
seals, and when wounded will attack
an ocean steamer. ,
, .
' Bat it is the saarnon rules that en-
..
cite the greate,st wOn.der. These fish
go up the rivers in the spring and. early
e _
summer to spawn, and sometime* in the
shallower parts of a stream, are so thick
thatthey actually climb over each other
and the I 'dieothers 11
n ns and. secure a
they want with clubs and pitchforks.
When they encounter a perpendicular
fall they. leap to a astonishing'height
., ta,g
and millions are killed by falling back
to the water and rooks. Only • the
strongest suceee•d in reaching the high-
est points on. the strea.ms, end. they are
generally so battered up that when
they are caught on their return they'again,
are not considered fi • food by the
't for •
white- residents of the coast. I have,
seen the banks• -of the Skagit and the
SneaualMie, Washington streams,Pil-
ed up two -feet highwithdead salmon,
that are hauled away in immense num-
leers to enrich. the farm. hauls,. and
•
yet there is apparently no diminution
aa. the vast numbers that come from
i . .
their winter home in the -deep sea each
season: Some idea of the Wonderful
extent 4 the salmon fisheries may be
obtained froth the fact ' that the sea-
Jam runs extend from the' Columbia
to the Yukon, including a coast line
of more than 2,000 miles.
"The strange creatures • of tae sea .
that are usually found, bx tropical -yea-
ters are also found here. I .bave seen
an octopus with arms fifteen feet long
caught in Seattle -haabor, and. sea.
anemones, sea cueuinbers, pea urehinse
starfish, roaonfish, dogfish, and sharks
•
are to be found. everywhere en the
greatest abundance Rock coi • sea bas
- -a-- a ' s'
-ling, end. other game fish of the sea
are very plentiful, and. clams r
a 8 88
abundant that . every saloon has -clam
•
bouillon on tai free 'to every comer.
The 'Northern Pacific and Behring SeaCul
• • - . -
wonderful storehouses."
' -
.
II
I Let her loose;
spoilt by use." an
* • * I.
in her face."
main between thirty and
but looking consider-
a hanclsoro.e man -not
good-looking one. A
plain man in a. well-
Ralph • Anketeill it
to find. • That hie
is kindly and leis saiall
does little to redeem his
thing at least he has;
figure. A better set-
he or one stronger or
is hardly to be found
county to which he , be-
last 'words have
to him, and. being en-
he y be pardoned for
exactly palatable. Be-
glance. at the girl, how-
no notice of them; and
astray, as she is look-
prostrate figure on the
than. at him a fact that
- .
Annetell with a. little
the big hall, beauti-
decay and disorder, by
that leads to the gar-
by Duloinean father. The
a spare,. tall,
dull eyes covered by
brows, and. a, most dog-
Perh,aps from him theknow
her •obstinacy and hat-
if from the dead mother
atte great love of
and the well of hid-
tint lives almost unsus-
her breest.
. s
What is this? de-,
hurrying to where,
growing of the autumn
silent figure lies.
a, low tone, and with a
uplifted, as if to insure
wounded man, tells her
scene makes a picture
forgotten if once seen-
it was!
dying light that
up the grand old hall;
prone, inanimate •
.
there, with her white
end scornful air; the
of the man servant and
lights from the eastern
upon her, the proud,
of the i 1 dr
g r , awn to its
rena. with the love]face
rays frem the depart-
a wintry rapture on
hair, lighting it itt parts
as lookIng stirred, am.-
leaning a little forward
end her eyes -such
'heavenly blue ; blue,
when it dreams of storm
expectantly to his. Her
And in the back-
figures -the father's
-both silent, wonder-
be will die if move
ia soft tones fraught
,
he?" mike 'The McDer-•salt,
we know nothing." Her
uplifted. "But Bridget
there -there !"- with
toward the comfort-
the doctor comes."
says The bleDer-
step forward. "There 1
are you about? Car-
to -where, D'ulcie?"
is the warmest. It
for Andy; but he
says Mies MeDermot,
Jae does— Take care
his arxza is broken.'
the body they are lift-
bar owe young firrad
where the broken linab
later a little sur-
herself thrust gently
aside. .
SUM% WOrlf, not it wo-
Ralph curtly, if came-
mast try to forgive ine
in the way."
do you think, Bridget?"
half as hour lat.
when she has
net angry dawn to a
mind.
tell, lationey 1. He may
hitneelf, for aught .1
1 •woaldn't vvondher,
ould boy could come
bog alive? Whet did he
wonaber. bsi (*min dale
(no, one to Warn bim?
an eye in bit Own headt
good of an eye wid
Why, th•ay haven't a
between thieve" .
be's hinglimh 1" - eagerly.
eee ilauat roma in the
„Pala, yeare near as
himself it ye tatildn't
ana the strange twist
....
Oeh 1 English, 'sure!"
he 'looks English! He
Did you; rnotioe• tfial?
is het' What is hel"
young gintlemen up '
thinkin'. Two cif 'ant
as 'I'm hyoid by Larry
dritVer. You know him
"Net at all."
Larry the Thief 1 Ar-
ye at all, ms dear?",
Oh 1 of etuirse,," ,bluslo-
i
al/GAR-EATING NATIONS,
—
Figura rha t meditate aka t mealtime, People; '
Extra la,lim Consfiroptloo.
•
The sugar crop of the world. amounts
in a normal year to about 8.000,000 tons•
of which the larabout 4 500
ger part, „-
000 tons, comes from beets, an•d the ban
bane 8 500 000 tons, from, sugar cane.
, e ,
Of the latter the largest proportion
comes from the West Indies and &large
.
e.va 4.ro-
amouat from the Islet:ea of h . -
ong the countries producing beet sue
gar, German comes first with about
Y ' .
one-third of the worlan crop ; then A.us-
trite with' about as xnueb, and then
France, Bessie and Belgium and Hol-
land together,1-13substantiallyth
wi. e
same quantity. .
Among scientists the opinion. has been
gene3,as that a moderate amount of ou..
gar like a moderate amount of
sh.oulti. 'enter alto the dietary of the•
People of each nation; but it is only
hola
figures o . e co/tam:pet
when the f' • f th
•
of eugar are examined that it is seen
that the quantity coneutaed varies reel-
inlay, and it is a CLITLODS fact that in
those countries, in. which the maritime
spirit -the spilt of navigation, com-
merce, travel and colonization -is
. •
strong, there • is a very considerable,
consumption' of sugar per capita, where-
as in those countries in which these
qualities are not predominant among
the inhabitants, the consumption is
smaller. In Englend. first among the
maritime nations of the worn', the con-
sum/aloe ot sugar is 86 pounels a year
for each, inhabitant. In Denmark it is
45, in Hollered 31, in France 30, and in
Norway and Sweden 25, whereas ID
Russia, it is 'only 10, in Italy 7, in Tula
key 7, in Greece 6, arid in Servia 4.
The consuma,tion et sugar seems to have
very little connection wither relatiort
to the prxiduction of sugar, for in Atis-
trio., the sugar product of whioh is
large; the average consamptiorr is only
19 polands, while in Switzerland, in
which there is no production' to speek
of, it is 44. And another curious phase
of the matter is tbs,t there is a great
disparity io the consumption of sugier
in the two teeedrinking countries. Eng-
land* and Russia, The large amount of
sugar cousurned. in France is attribut-
ed, in part to the feet that the Frehoh
confectioners and eandymakers, and
more especially those doing lamina* in
the city of Peale, nee in their trade
eimemoug quattitiee of sugar in a
year, adding abnormally to the aver-
agenotteareifetiOn of miler he thelnencli
Republic. . ' ., • •
' '
ABOUT FINGER NAILS. •
- .--
The nails ot two fin gees newer grow
_ ...-- -
with the same degree of rapidity The
' - '
nail of the mid.dle „finger groves with
'
the greatest rapidity. and that of the
thumb with the least. It has been
computed that the; average growth of
tbe finger nail: is one -thirty-second of
an inohper week, a little more than
aa mein -and., re half per year. , '1h.e
growth, however, depends; to a great
extent upon the rate of nutrition, and:I'
during• de f't ' '
perm o sickness i is re-
tahden. • . -
, leuthoeitiee differ with regard to
the equality of growtb on botb. hands,
SODa0 holding that the nails of tharight
h • d
an grow faster than those of . the
left, but others can perceive no differ-
once between them. . According to the
rate of growth' stated; the everagetime
taken for •each* finger nail to grow its
fall length is about four and a ' half
months, and at this rate it woman
renewea_her '
of 10 •Would., havefinger-
nails 186 times. : , • - „
,
•
REVENGE OF A CC
•
—
Dashed. "(whet en tee tee
' '
midi nxtr.uce tier awn
'Aced.
Baran von laudlieb-ne
of the wellaknown gateei
t part 80 great a par a • he cot
leriesoaarried the dam
Heine hed. inherited' tlar
.d. 'th V' h
ions en . e Jenne .
deserted his Wife in Graf
ago"for a Countess Greg(
,of the Premier of Seryle
two little boys -with hie
-' '
Mat Coantess in.- Vienne.
clirmne"
gearing the oth•er day
• ,
te•ss was a•beet to beeox
. , • ,
the deserted wife, drive
fury, travelled to Vieana
.
reppearanies anennounoed.
the boudoir where the
, .,, ,, • _
31."Ing' with Erie two re
heard her eater, so silent
step, .and wben they look
ber standing there gee:
without uttering it wore).
rittea with,. amtonishmen,1
s - e ule ess a. tern
A th Go, I &tti
from her their Barone.ss 1
forwa.ra and emptied 21
a bottle of vitriol over t
Collates some f th 1
-4' e e '
spattering into the fee(
•
little 'hoes,
Th ' f a Usre
o ar,t t, re
'
1)1° b° he wane* ' he "1311'
rested.' and will doubtle4
fat the ran:healer of ape'
f• , 1 - --- - -a
ac. asy um. Tao Countes.
tie boys were taken t o t
ropantan hospital in Vie
One of the little boys, 1
she last the a ea1 - ea '
t
, 7 a''ha elle
little tenon- es mucked a
' Vitriol burn on his,oheek
•c - " '
nate, . . s is so s o
ountes -• h el
that death' wilt he f
DI'S .1
vival in lie -r MSS. AIOX4 i
Dart k her nos • vre b
.th a • -I -• '- w• ' • -13:
e vitriol,
- It is one ot the attest r
'edam thee have, taken pl.
,
in many along year, an
it tremenclous •eeasation.
ME VARIED
' THE OLD GA . ,
Whitt is the complaint against
the prisoner? a,sked the Klondike
hea.dge, .
Your -Honor, related. a mail with
a. melancholy, hopeless . expression
on -his face, be sold. -me this gold
. . . .
brlek •
'
what's Wrong about that?
. Why, ' Your ,Honer, ,he cheated
"me, .. - -
' ale did? How did you: fina out that
,
the brick was not pure gold? - ,
That's juati the trouble,. Your HOD-.
or; it is . pure . gold, , '
Then what are yea .kiokba,g about?
Why, good heavens, Your Honor,
the seoundrel represented it tO me .as
a ehurik of brown breaa. -. '
. •
A. POET'S 'NWT.
Buena was standing one ay upon
the queer at Gree'nock. whea a wealthy
. .
mer.marh belongingt th t Ilad. o e own a
se , . ,.Well,
re nestortune to fal nto e harbor.
' 1 1 i th
He WAS no swimmer anadeath, would'
Mare been. inevitable had, not a sailor
Who happened to be' paesing at the time
rescued bine The merchant, upon re-
covering a little from hie fright, put
his liana into his, packet. and '.geher-
on -sly presented the sailor with it shill-
Log. The orowd •which had collected
lonely protested against the contemp,
table insighifica•nos of the sum:- but
Burns with e smile of ineffable scorn
=treated them to reetanin their clam-
or, "for," said. he, "the g,entleman is of
counse the beet judge of tbe. value of
hie own life." •
' '
- • •
ITNIFOR'aITNATIll Lion LAMB.
Many of Byron's' amereharmixig arta
tender verses are 'written to Lady
6 to. . 1 . . . .
a, toe Team ) the novehet yellow itte-
a
' • ., 't
was- aatill iatereating• . She was max-
ried before the age of 20,.,..to the Honor-
able William Lamb end, was lengethe
fitvor•ite of fashionable circles for leer
litera two lishm is, her ersoli-
ea attrYeetivern!,7s 'nett grace!) Vuon
a r n'a• a .-, 3 . , -the
nieeyang Lord Byron, she Acanla '
victim of an; unfortunate infatuation
for the, peet which eentinned • three
years awl was,, the cause of much corm!.
Went, The poet ID said to have trifled
with her feelings and a quarrel 'took
/gave, aloe ee e da c . ii
m y yettre ett, SAO Ile
led a. life .of eoutuara,o,ye senusion et
prookot. gam *ha% riding, , , d '
.0110 ay
with Mr, Lunn, she met 02 the perk
tee 1 ' • hi, h .
an. the ISai,80 W. 1 0 was ceavevena
--e----------
THE inhIGHT SIDE.
, -
habit of InikIng at the
tit' ' i 1 1 '
ings s af goo( one and *woe,
'
deal to each one whoi cultivates
•• -
one ehould. not cultivate
et looking on -the' dark
• ' ' - ' i• d
wh.ea he ems • raw on
-
end epprehensions for
' •
of that dark side, mid thus
whet - does' not ;exist.
may neeree eeitit. God. promises
each time of need, bat
.
time. of worry and anxiety..
to be with his people
through the 2itr6, but He
tonextin.guish the fire
has been lighten ate says
'etYs1,0 wasS tare -nail thet
'- P --- ea ' ---- -
mot overflovw them
. shall,. .. ,
.. . . , , ,
to be eatisteed, with that.
. , ,
lin Goa the disasters we
onne, or if they
change the disaster into
•
—
'WHAT'S MARRIAG11 FORT,
,4•.•
xounz Min Wh don't you get ip
- --• a `••:
Y 1 - - t .
and give this, Peer lee a a seat?
A Party -Huh! Games , ,net1 •Wity,
she's rev wife!
'
- ' -- ' •
AFTTIR BUSINESS • HOURS.- -
. . • . .. - . • . ..
• . e Circassian eninc AreS.SS-- ,yoti
Th
'11=1' • -
ready 0 go o e .. • _
The Tweelleachal. Girl•-Weit a rain-
We. 41.re my hats on straight?
lalORE APPROPRIATE
- -
:tones is t. walinag• eneyelopeclia, isn't
hie? ' , -
WWII, I should. Say staggering' eneY-
„ad„....itt . .
•
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' ' now re RAppENED,
reienee-Did trout husband provide for
,, . . ,
that monument in his will? ,
iWidowee„Way, of cotitee, he did. You
don't, 8413(46 he'd, h•itve got such a inori,
oaont ae that arty other way, do ,y,an 9
. '
A QUIET altallGLA.R.
' .
Englena, the '
hely, being awakeeed, by a
, . .
the door te be confronted
etrae er Thee
. g • . position,POETRY
novel that the eonventi
l " 1 t ' itt 2 T1
,y vsere , os stg , 0 . .ie
. • ,
that , occurred to. her
are you?" With equet teankness,
" / am ablieglar 1",
that,this• failed to pat
he added: "But a vrey
.
The enteence of the police
to what promised to be a
eleseeietion of his thane:-
mothoda Of peocedure.
" HIS AFFLICTION.
•,
D I $ •ft ' T ' t . '
__ nilia, eta -- ee me see! Inat,yotiag
Aar, mobleheadshae an intpediment, in
h a speeele . base t het
1- . Gay -.No;, . . .
'sally 1As• 1mpatbmont is in
..eu.
tu ti ht , . .
i s . imig , s' -..........- •
TOO LATE..
gawkieue-Ste you, seat for a dee.
tor2 Does he think Pau, win he Otit
,weu/ •
Bobbins -I imagine sp.:. ale said. hie
. . . •
wiabed I had sent fOr Vivi see/ier '
.
VS. Pll
"law poet retie* of 1
„..air •
a' •
,
Thet crowns his . fair
And oils the man
'beat;
Who hatores, ,its s
stead .v
Yes, the. poet; of it Meli
' ate glories in verseh,
Bat like other neoital:
.
If 11, Oland of it gel
n••••••••••
ATS.
at leder Steen"
•;), has written
f *The First
It tiiroe gun-
liward we pass -
4. and through
lie Queen of
lemon, and.
p• ire• on the
in a. few miles
rts of Metenn
iree miles back
e fortit in"Sac-
looked very
-like as fW81
each fort was
through , oar
n running into
for the at -
to the west of
red. a force of
apparently weU
in two thou -
opened fire at
iry eepliea van
s for the most
tag slowly ore
succession, and
xtreine range
abreaht of the
was one thou -
9 were then
octet being the
the hoteat of
all our eleells
other in, their
from the left
ned on US, thp
in thick sorab
ds away. We
n their diree-
d them.
burst on boara
ting Mai feed
roasly wound -
right pit
hexe ethe Brit -
Then turning
a. eneiny'sforta
them to est
below, picking
the way.
, we steamed
taoir, but Ow -
inane of ark
, we couldnot•
e enemy's fire
and. they, had
f -their nuns
✓ other two
shells, and vrat
ed by t•ifle
/3.06 more pa
centrsted oitb
ts, which we
hours at the
d all the Der -
ay hands Ota,
the captured
✓ return ante -
very far aux
and the e
and refuse e
were obil,ge,„
d engineer, alit
attempt to
edz unsixeceaat
to be towed,
UNTESS.
e of a Comae*,
sons 'with info
phew and heir
al who playea
rt of th'ee Tull-
med niece of
ough her mil--
remdenblatt-
z about eeyeair
rowitch, niece
. He took his
to live with
and ;sued for
hat the Coati -
e a mother,
o insanewith
• and raade her
one evening
Countess wee
ys, alone had.
had been her
ed up and Sa.W,
Ling et them
they were pet-
pted to rise
utak)] de.rt,ext
e contents of
ID faoe of the
leaning liquid,
s of the- Wel
brought, pee -
mese was itt-
is
be ecadined
life in, a lima- ,
s and the lit-
he great met-
nna,
oue steers old,
ye. The other
✓ life with it
The unfortu-
ing•ty injured,
relate sur -
• wee and
rned away by
hooking Crag -
ate in Viente,
(1 has 'vrettteci
os1D,
ID beaueifeal
idol's head.
eirosy pld
I.lendors tee
lif
es st
Wil 1 greup.
.11e8 Mad
S IDtile soup,