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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-1-27, Page 6C L "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. , - 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 . . • '''""w- ' r,...---...---. ' ' 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,