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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-2-10, Page 6ti 0 tl I•W IT ENDI31 CRAPTER IV. Makes all ears glaa that hear." 0 tress aeheo, where ere ye, ream, alias MeDermot, thus a,behdorted„ animist for a full nitwit* motionless. Lag 3 Doubtless her first feeling is astoniste 0 stay and hear I Your true love's ment in that title loretefore abject love coming - That ear sing both bigh and ime,Bet 1 or here has now proved. so masterful. e vi ellee next is rage-pere end site- TrIp no further pretty sweeting." p . lt is in a distinetly aggressive raood. TO treat her like that? He 1 Ralph! teat she goes to. the drawing -room an who had t)5 e5() humbly glad whea she had en. fallin with her father's hour later, to keep her appoiremeut views :Stout him. and permitted, him to with Sir &teeth- She finds lana. there, be engaged to her. The world naust lounging in a, big chair, with his hands be conuag to aa end. She is staring through the window chtepea behind his bead, gezina ,moodily that hes seen him. depart. I-Ier haecis tato the fire- There is a fr()-wa %mu- are hanging by her sides. Her. tall, Ws brow that he does not attempt to slight figure bas grow,ji rigid. get rid of, as he gets slowly on, his feet The world must be owl:1.0g to an end, but who,s,e. world? His, yr hers? Who to receive Ilea is to fail in. this exeounter? Which "You did aot trouble your to of them will be counted emong the hurry," says he, unpleasantly-. slain? "You gave me the inapression, that Not site, at all events. Despite the wild throbbiug in Iter throat, she coat - any time would. da" retorts she, with mends herself so fax as to forbid the a, little area of bar pretty shculdere. teara that are struggling for an open- • "No time would. have suited you, 1 inge Re may still be there -oat there daresay," seas he, bitterly. lathe chill of the exquisite early night and he might see. "Meta better, if •you are going to Re! Tyrant 1 And to this num her he in a bad temper," with a touch a father has given her 1 A man, who on the smallest provoca,tion, has shower - temper ea her own part. ed insult upon, insult on her head. Well Axe:retell looks et her intently for a he shall see! Father or no father, she Moment. There is a CUriOUS light in. will never inarry hini1 On, he shall ills eyes -a quick fire. He even moves , see; this lips as if he would have spoken She grinds her little lovely white but by a strong effort controls hina- teeth together, end with aelast defiant glance at the window leaves the room. self. In the hall she checks herself. An "Is my temper the only thing against idea -a thought of vengeance has ce- raeit" he asks presently, with a smile corral to her. This other - this that, if atilt resentful, is also stranger; he loves her, at all events. In very - lam lies a chance of rescue! Rescue sad, from marriage with this detestable "I have mule no complaint," returns man, who has told her so many horrible things all about herseif, and all, natur she /oily. - 'weuld!" cries he, She elle', untrue.opeats "ThenI -with youthe door of the old school - 'fiercely, Ws late control flung to the room, and entees it with a vehemence wends, and a. very storm of passion that calnhardly be misunderstood. "What! do ye"Something has happened," say eleakang bine, yea think 1 s • Eyre, getting onto his feet with some am a, stone or a fool that 1 ean't see difficulty. "What is it, Dukier how you treat me? Find. year fault! "Oh, he has behaved. abo.minablye:, State itl Let me reee where I fail!" says she, her eyes flashing. "He said "If," says Miss McDermot, laying her the most cruel tbings." "Neeer raincl. him dar i C ome hand on. the back of the chair nearest and sit dow ' 1jag. n by •me, and let us try hle.r-"If it was to -to roar at me you. to find a. way out of our difficulties,' aaked me to meet you here, I think "But I must mind him I" cries she you would. have done better to reserve - - • "WhY, I can't tell you all he said." , endianantlt- your invitation." • "IM so glad of that," he puts in She is very pale as she thus defies soothi ngly. "But I must tell you all that," with him but her lovely head. is well thrown ne, and battle declares itself in every c,.11arnal2g inconsistency. "I remem- ber every wore. They seein burned featureinto my brain. Oh, he was so rude! "Well -I beg you patclon," says An- Ih•a-nee Ws telling m.e that I ruined his ketell, with the air of a man. who, find- uf,ai t seems to me that he is trying to ing the inatter hopeless, gives in, "Let via, „me.'" us -grimly-- "presume I have no "Miner Ste gazes at hini a mom- ent as if not quite understanding this, end then; "You dent understand," says she, "Now could. he ruin mine? murely. But never rain& th,at-that's folly I Just "There are some papers to be signed hear the other dreadful things he said: Re " with regard. to our marriageg• says he; "Dbegan by telling rae----al:der-he checks her hy a wav- ing hand. "After all, you know, he cae't have wanted me to hear him. We needn't go into detail, need we? It Is enough for ine to know that he has been -well, beastly to you." "Beastly! he hasn't been that," says she with quit.' unexpected. fervor. "Beastly is a vulgar word. H.n has been horrid. I," with a desaion that carries a frown with it, "don't deny have always your int•erests at beart." that; but he has never been beastly!" "You. are too good!" returns she "You. are a. generous foe," sage Eyre, with a satire of her own -so fine that smiling. Her generosity, indeed, his sinks into insignificanee. Then, strike,.s him me being something out of quite suddenly. she name to him and the way, something beyond words-• crosses the room, reaches the hearthrug teaming. It would have Imen so easy on which he is standing. "What is it to her to abuse thie troublesome-thi,s all about ?" a.sks she, with a. change so evicleatly rundesired lover. And yet from finesse, to utter straightforward- she cannot bring herself in her in - rims. "Something has vexed. you. tegrity to deny any small virtues he What r may posses, "Well, then, we will let so ennch you have troubled him slide, if you like; no use talking yourself to discover," says he, with a, about, a low sort of hound like that." harshness that she is clever enough to -What abominable language you know is born of grief. "Something! use 1" says she. "Even if Sir Ralph has How many things, I wonder. My life behaved unkindly to me, I don't see for the past month has been a hell. Be- why you, a stranger, should, call him cause I don't say much, you think I a-a-a-er-bad names." oan.not feel at all. "What do youthink Ioa are quite right, and I am felt on that first cursed evening wrong," says Eyre, giving in delight - when that fellow came beneath your fully. "But„ surely -now, after all you roof-whea you told old Bridget that have told. ma, you don't still feel bound ycni were 'tired of hearing of Sir in duty's chains to marry that disagree - Balt& V' able person." She is standing opposite to him, with "Certainly not," says she, with a the fire -light illuminating her face. A firni co/npression of ber mouth. "If little quick shiver seems to pass over there is one think' on earth eboutwhich her, bet beyond that she m.akes no I have quite made up my ailed, it is sign. • that I shall never marry Sir Ralph." E suppose you lama -that you wish "And a good thing too," says he. -to break -our engagement," she says,: "You mean it?" her voice conaiag from ber in little "Can't you see that I mean it?" broken pieces. turning to him an extremely pale and "That! No. That is the last thing unhappy face. should mean." "I can't," says he, gazing at her re- deem, yet ,te yea believe me tired of gretfully. can see only one thing, you surely you would wish to—" encl. that is that you are unhaper." "/ should net!" coldly. , "Of coulee I'm un,happy, after the "Not even then? Tired of you( You scolding I have just undergone. Why, heard. me say that and still—" father never scolded me as he did!". .7 shall never break off my engage- "Can't you. forget him?" says .Eyre, meat with yea," says he slowly. "Never!. imploringly. shall leave the breaking- of our en- "X mart. It is very hard. to forget gegen:ant to you." the people one hates. However, whe.- "You mean," gays she, in a little ther I forget or remember him, my ehoking yoke, "that you will leave all mind is made up; f shall never marry the odium, of it upon me?" "1 mean that I alien never break "Marry me, anatead I" says Eyre, with you until you break with inc." bonny. "You are a tyrant 1" cries she mid.- "Your "You don't are for Me, yet It would be impossible to deeiribe you will hold tee in spite of me I" the amount of aston.ishment she has "Tee that your readin,g of it? ' - thrown tato We word.. "Yes, that is what I think -what I "Yes. Why not? You know -flume honestly thiek, Do you know," look- told you -how I love you. Give your - ng straight up at him, her charming self to me. Let me resotte you from angry face brilliant with emotion, "1 this tyraney that is oppressing and. de - believe that in yoar heert yoti hate atroying your life." me, eral thee the penishment you have "IT.yrann.y l" repeats she as if struck laid. out for me is to marry reel" by the word. "Yes, he is a. tyrant, "Is that what you think, Dulcittea?" isn't he?" A step takes him to her, and a moment "Oh, sever mincl him. By all ac - gives hire time to eateh her firmly by , counts he's not worth a thought," both eriire end no hold her that ha can says 'qr. Eyre, with severeiga con- oompeI her to meet hie gaze. "Yeti tempt. think that of me? Ane why? Look Who accounts?" seers 1" with euddett passion, "how dare you so thilf,k of nee? Yee; wbose sole "ltliner delight emote to be to ruin, an honest "Well, haven't you abused. him to me? Meta hapistheze, how dare yea so Inis- Ilaveal you bad cause to do so r t rim e There 1" releasing her. "Oa mime 1" says she. T ein a fool to eater as 1 do," • She grows silent, and stands near hite, ihruste her from hire and, walk- with gaze beet upon tee ground, and 'ward the window hinge it up brows drawn. together, Suddenly she eps into the growing night, looke up at Wm mad he can me that leer eyes. are '11.11I of tears- "Dulcie," eries he, impuleively, "you • are leahappy, Why stone], any one "Theti ditlet delight Mims ea be ueliappy ? We have ao short a time Ali 1 little pettiee; thy voice • to live that it is folly riot to make Mho *thee hearts retake, the beet of every hour of it, Forget fault." "13y all means," acquiesces she de - "that was why I asked you to eonee hare, but you delayed se long that-" "Well -what?" "I fancied that you were happy where you were, and so I would not have you disturbed. I told your father I could come again to -morrow, and so could the solicitor. You see," satirically, "I 111APTER V. 41 this. Throw up yotir erigageMeat, •ead marry me." • "Ohl" feintly, "I couldn't.' "What! Will yot stay here, then, and. marry that Maier "Never I Never 1" "Why not let /aim am at once, them that he bas no power over yon -that hiaiMPertinent lecturing mia be direct- ed at somebody elm, eat at your "I ehould like to let him know that, certainly," says she, her eyes flashing viadic t Ively • "Let Me speak to your father, then." "Re -would be eo angry," seys she, hesitatingly. "And"-quiekly would be of no use, either." "You look as if you were glad of that." "Why should I look glad? I'm not glad about a/re-tieing," says elle, smile -so sadly Oa be forgets his etispic- io-e at her and, goes book to his first thought. "Let me try your father, at all events. Let me tell him how miser- able you are; that you can't bear to leerier Aeltetell, and--" "You raay certainly tell him that!" -vehemeatly. "I shall never marry Sir Ralph, not if he tired to be a, thous- and years old." "I may try your fatber, then? You authorize me?" "Yes" -slowly --"you can try." "Delete!" says he quickly "do you know what that permission means? Do you darein.g?" Be luta caught her hand and 'would here drawn her to hira but something ie. her bee, something thoughtfal, troubled prevents him. "Let me tell you something," says She; "that thougb we are engaged, Sir Ralph never onee called me that." "Called you whet?" "Darling. ' "Oh; he's a fool!" says Mr, Eyre, with coavietrea. "But do you, understand, darling? If I speak to your father with your permission, it means that, if I succeed with him, you will marry me." "Does it?" sa,ys she, with a sigb. "Well," shaking bato a chair, and elasping her knees with her elan. fing- ers, "you won't succeed; father will never give in." "It certainly couldn't if I were An- ketell's inferior," says the young men, judicially; "but my prospects are as good as his any day." "I don't cease about prospects," says Mies MeDerenot; "whet I went is to feel free- I can't bear being ordered to do t hings. You said you could Ira- agine a girl being told to marry a mare but that you could late imagine a girl doing it. You remember ?" "Against her will." "Ohl that's the same thing," says she. "If she wanted to marry him she wouldEnt want to be ordered to do "True," says he. "To be ordered to do a thing is at once to want not to do it. That is true also, isn't it?" says she. "Nothing truer." "Well, you thought me weak and de- testable when I told you I had promis- ed to marry Sir Ralph." "I thought then"--distinctly-"just what I think now, that no woman should. marry any man unless she loved hira. It is an injustim both to him and. to herself, end you -you don't care for AnnetelL" "1 have told you that 1 bate him," says she, making ne direct answer; "but if I were to break with him! You" --lifting her eyes to his -"you don't know father; he— I don't really EX1T1111 TIMES GANGS TIIAT DO MURDER,. ?Alas suauRps IhiRa/STED BY AN ARMY Or THUGS. toy* awe Than Riny lanoes ot Their Thum , - Recovered ;rota the scom in 'three teroutes eight ar the Police te irreak Co the Otentatzeitea - Women •m the Mmes. In the mouths a May, Tune and jute, a last aummer, fifty-three bodies of persons apparently drowned were recovered fro rn the Sebee in the single stretch between the towes of Suresnes and. Asnieres, both suburbs a Paris, writes a correspondent, Many of these bodies bore traces of injuries suffiel- eet to have caused death, such as deep outs a'nce„ fra:tured skulls; but these wounds, If was thought, might equally have beee the result, of iraettat against abutra.e,nts mod laceration by the blades of propellers; in acny event, none of the bodies was submitted to an autopsy to determine the extvot mese of death. It was asstmed that the persons were suicides -by drowning or by jumping from bridge after the infliction of Mortal woend. Color was of course lent to. this as:sung:tie/1 from the fact that many persons are led to destroy ttl:thaer nealOZ .tialflteinietlimartithots tnhaclanyeaoh, oanlisde the river as the means. But a suspicious fact wa,s overlooked. by the authorities either from carelessness or to save trouble --the fact that the rate of mor- tality from suicide uas jumped some- thing like 500 per cent. for the .speci- fled niontb,s and for that particular part of the Seine over the ascertained ratio for a long series of years. The police, however, contented themselves With sayieg that the fact was extra- aLdsthan ioaryv ; ever ry weregued thatssemore Per- sTIRED OF PAYING TAXES. sun3Mer, and. that they were seek- ing a quiet place down the river in which to get rid of themselves because the Paris waters were already too crowded. Ceeteraporaneously with the finding of these bodies complaints began to come to the Prefect or the Seine rela- tive to depredations by a band of high - war robbers, who .roamed the streets of Neuilly, Suresnes, Puteatix, Asni- eres and other suburbs of the OitY, robbing and maiming by day as well as by night. After nearly a hundred of these complaints hal been filed the police started an investigation. Within • week they were able to fine. sixty persons who had been robbed by this band. Ivithin an area of one square rails north of the Bois de Boulogne. Fifty of tame persons hed been injured so badly by bullets, knife wounds, and blows from sandbags and brass knuck- doors, when a mother or nurse has to les that they were confined to bed in be up much in the night when fires ,h1 DISGUISED PQLIOE tioeured the outlying dietriets, and har•dir a night pessed without a fight between there arid the euttlireets, Often the police were worsted, but severa1 bttoliller:aaferheleYel eebnLaincigllyetad to a,a'net4iritictf 0.ChlusIlag emit Illtmliutegnan ii was kept ep. An important motile° wasbt5ehrQer tly aalbrtadndlolileenratoiveegriatCwielenhtYY mera NlrvVearo0 coxialllrutParliSIde:andbtaken.yo,,srouxlaTwhoinie abr ad virago, Nthattri it, took six pollen -ilea to srnuabudlueedf eTYLeis4 tniii lean, bauety ewyeertver sb aodlidy, wee not Only the leader of the gang, but held an len:portant place, in the (*linens of tee confederatioo of bands. She boated of hieing planned many crimes and of being tbe inventor variousmurdterous Implements with which the) footpads were supplied. One of these was a Y-shaped. tool used to gouge out the eyes of the TiOtiL110 of a robbery if they made a dangerous resietance, It bat been used a number of times, as the injuries of persons art - tacked by the band showed. Several of the bodies found in the river were also eyeless •' but the police had thought that the farat indicated nothing, as the eye's might have been eaten out by fish- es. Another Invention of the girl con- sistedio depriving a victim of his shoes and stockings after robbing him, and ot leashieg the soles of his feet with a knife, so that he would be unable to pursue tele robbers -even if he were otherwise able, winch was not often. The capture a this band was the be- ginning of the end. The police drew the lines olosee and closer around the remaining bands and gradually the weaker of them, began to give up, die, heartened. Fivaliv a few days ago the heat gang of any bneorta,nce, that of "Little Peter" of Neuilly, was cap- tured, with scarcely any resistance, This consisted of twenty-eight yopng men and four girls, the oldest of the lot only 23. They have to their' accoent about forty highway robberies, not to speak of several murders. With this last; eontingent safely behind the bars, the suburban residents are beginning to breathe freer and are fence more sen - tulles into the streets after <lark. But unfortunately the feeling of security will endure only for a little space. Nothing very serious will be done to the cap.tivers, and after a trespeotable interval of sechision they will be once new gaags oxganized as good, or bet- ter than tbe old. It is the history of tbe suburbs of Paris for a century and naore. RIcIEP YOUR FEET WARM. The footwarmere of our great- grandfathers disappeared long ago and their place has never been adecmately filled, but a very satisfactory substi- tute has been adopted. It is a piece 'of soapstone or talc, an inch thick or so and eight by ten inches broad. It may be out in various sizes and shapes. This plain footwarater costs only a trifle-bwenty-five or thirty cents - and actin be heated very quickly on the gas or on or in the kitchen range. Wrapped in a thick newspaper and theta covered. with a cloth, the stone will retain the heat eight or ten hours. W hen one must take a cold jour- ney, when a child wants to play out - know whet would happen if he heard hospitals or at their homes A num- ber had fractured ekulls, and of these several subsequently died. In the early part of August a bat- talion of police, •despairing of catch- ing the malefactors by any ()thee meth- od, made a concerted re -end -up of the infested disiricit, arresting half a hun- dred suspicious characters, Thirty of these, all youths between the ages of 16 and 25, were armed with revolvers, kntves and other implements of foot- pads. Young as they were, they includ- ed a number of notorious criminals, the leader of the gang, knows as having ement more than half of his twenty years in duress. They were Promptly tried and " put away" for short terms, and the police congratu- lated tbeniselves on having rid Lite colima ara:nityleaosft. a dangerous band, for a A SIGNIFICANT FACT, I del not want to marry Sir Ralph." "Why, your marriage with meellaat is the first thing that would happen" -with a smile. He takes her hands and carries them to his lips. "I love you. You know that, Dulcie, don't you? 'You do know it?" "Oh, yes, I know it," says she, with a quick, long sigh, and a droop of her pretty head. This calm acknowledgment of his pas- sion for her strikes Eyre with a sort of shock. Involuntarily he glanoes at her, and examination of that lovely face disarms unkind criticism. The poor ehild is so unhappy that she has forgotten to dissemble. Girls of the sort he has been accustomed to meet in towri and fashionable country boas - es, would have pretended to doubt his love with a view to stronger expres- sion of it, but this poor little girl is too hardly pressed by circumstances, and is too altogether a cbild of na- ture to hide her honest beliefs. So ranch the better. Ana what a charm- ing little head it is,, bent like that, with the soft, sunny nut -brown curls wan- dering over the broad forehead, and the .delecate contour of che.ek and chin laid beret What one among all those polished women of the world of whom he has just now thought, could com- pare in gea.cs and breeding with this sweet flower of country growth? sa'yel,s nahaa.y speak to your father, then?" "Eh?' says she, as if rousing out of a reverie; end then, "Yes, yes 1" -fev- erishly -"do. The sooner I can feel that he and I are separated forever -- the better." This outburst, incoherent as it is, has evidently something to do with the re- verie into whieh she had fallen. wa"tYeholunamiejearm Anketell 1" eays Byre, "Yes.' noddirg her bead with de- termination; "I have been thinking, taie:efa.i.,t, seems to me be wante me quite as little as want him. Let him go, "Ey all memos." "You tbink"--anxiously--"es I do, don't you le -the 1, he doesn't care for 030 either?" "I have never thought about him.. If you thought, of him as Iittle es I do, it would be better for you." Alt liarti atyiseen. ottutieIt htehievemt0inida aywouell how3 the people who torment one most." She seope and. looks searchingly at him - 'Do you. know," says she, slowly. "r have come to the conviction that he hates me," "Re's brute enough for anything, in my opinion," "And that he would be glad to know our tiegagement at an end." "Way, if so," says he, joyously, "our task is imlf aecompliehed.. 'Why net let me speak to Irina in a casual sort of way, you know, not mentioning' any- thing, exactly, but---" "No, 1 forbid you to de that 1" says she, •almost fiereely. "Speak to fath- er if you will, but not to him." Tot Be Continued. PRutintnaD etiSDITOR, A preferred ortaitot is one who neve r :sake are hie Alone,. and one which seemed to surprise the polies exceedingly, was shortly remark- ed. The silicates, which had been main- tained at the high average of the early summer until the very "day of the ar- est of the Lariats, immediately went back to the normal...rate and. renaainecl there. This fact, together with some disclosures, wrested from the less hard- ened members of the gang set the Pre- fect of Police to thinking. The result of •his thinking was tbis: He reached the conclusion that a the fifty-three ladies found between Suresnes and. As- nieres at least forty were those of per - sous, who had been robbed, killed, end thrown into the river, afterward by th,e preciouSt. young devils forming the band he hal broken up. Forty murders committed in the public highways at the gates of Paris, without hindrance or detectioa by the police! This intelli- gence was coaveyed to the public through the press. There 11780 not a single ete-apaper commentary; appar- ently the news was taken as the most ordinary imaginable. Although the murders stooped, or at least, .diminished, the robberies arid as- saults were as numerous as ever with- in a few weeks. The police were active, but as their efforts were more or 'less sporadic, the effeet was barely notice- able. The :new Prefect, M. 131anc, came into °Moe about this time, Ile made a thorough investigation of the mat- ter, sending scores of disguised, detec- tives into all th,e districts from whieh complaints came. With each new re- port from his detectives, the situation grew more alarming. Finally, he awak- ened to the feet that, he had not to deg with a, single band, of desperados, but with an armly of there perfectly organized, and subdivided into compan- ies of twenty or 'thirty, ea,ch eon:mead-. ed by an experienced criminal. This errey of toughs formed a oomplete chain Mout Eerie, having camps and heeciquarteers in the fosses of the for - in' the seoluded Imeta of the Bois de Vineennes, and even in the :suburbs, All told, they numbered not far from our hundred, youths and young women, meet oe theta disebermea jail -birds, �r realefactore convieted of Crime, hut free wider strepermion of eentence. The Prefect proieptly set to work to rout thie army, Fer two Weeks large forme of are low, vvben one has been out late in the ram h or cold, when fires have died out in the spring or have not been started in the autumn, these soap- stone footwarmers are the greatest ootaiforts imaginable. - • Many tines brain workers suffer frame cold feet and eidigestion when a hot stone under foot and one in the lap, with the window tottered from the top, will afford great relief. A hard ch:11 may be thrown off and peen - recurs, prevented by resting the feet on a hot stone, and if some one will blow their brea,th between the shoul- der blades, the circulation is speedily restored, and greater ane speedier re- lief obtained than by the common re- medy of a, mustard poultiee. These stones may be made attractive and dainty enough for any purpose. A soap -stone out in the form of a heart made an acceptable gift to a young girl at school one fourteenth of Feb- ruary. It had a case of yellow velvet -and black ribbon -the case cut like a box -two hearts with a rirn between a little wider than the thickness of the stone, the ribbon an inch and a half wide. It was lined with canton flan- nel and. had a filling of cotton batting; Mere was a space a'ong the cleft in the heart long enough to slip the stone in and out easily, the opening conceal- ed with bows and long loops of the ibbon. The hearts of velvet may be finish- ed, each with a, rim, and one fitting a little closer than the c.ther, so as to close like the top of a box, and hooked. or tacked together, This was sewed and turned so as to be strong and readr. • These verses were painted on the stone: - Some say .1 am stone, Mere "talc," you will own, Though perhaps 'tis not meant for abase: Some charms are more patent - 'Tis true raine are latent, Pra not pretty, I'm jut made for use. Though Berme scream, • You sweetly xuay dream, With this heert et your feet, sweet- heart mine: But first make me warm, Therein lies the charm, Then take 1110 for your valentine!" HOW THE WORLD WAGS. Average Man -What hes beeorne of that old. fool, Wilkins? Used to call himself a colonel, or emaletbing. Citizen -He heppeoed to own apiece of land on which oil was found, and iff now rich Lives in it palace oh the EIN00f118. Average Man, eome hours later-Ilel-• lol That looks like General Another Citieee-Yes, that's the gen- eral. Do yOn Jamey him? Average Citizen -Yee indeed. The general and 1 old friends. The eloree otf LorThs-ardon are disappear - tug eine by one, and among the latest that is now wader tient:once is the maze of narrow, tortaous and filthy streets at the back oif :Ltmehouse Church, lv"th':111olvvpsii),IkpettlP13 olrIgtelaralPe fsrecegnueeded. tbilye Prague Riderlood in "Our Mutual Friend." In it aleo was located tbe op- tion den that figured in "The Wry of Ediwie proud." TOTALLY FBA.RIZSS. Setae tor tithreitItsietailtox iiinipinlItta.duceeSS or One of the "grips" thee enables Rag- land to hold India is the fearlesSeees of Britiala Officers, civil and military, There are other "grips," --the bravery Britieh Soldiers, the justice of Eng lish administratioe and the equity of the Laxes,-but the eatives, prince, tlleffgtaltvil:olt arm 'Eug- odone, thet be will da even if it costs him his life, Two illustrations of this fear- leseness are shown by Colonel Pollock in his "Reminiscences of India" D'Oyly was an assistant of the dep- uty commissioner of a, province in Burma, where Nieuwe Goung Gee, a tebel leader, gave mach trouble An attack on the leader's camp caused the Barraese to bolt, and. Goung Gee's state elephant, it magnificent brute with splendid tusks, escaped. D'Oyly determineg to capture or kill it, tbough sheeveknraelkewtera h:ett.he elephent had killed Be had. had no experience in hunt- ing elephants, but he started to find the bride, accompanied by a mehout (an elephant -driver) and a plucky Bur- man. Thinking that the elephant VMS in the neighborhood., he put only a bis- cuit or two in his *pocket, and armed himself with nothing but a double- barrelled gun, loaded with spherical bullet. The elephant had wandered so far that for two days and nights his pur- suers followed his trail, subsisting 00 what they could find to eat in the jun- gles. 0,n the third dee' they- came up with the beast, and tried in vain for hours to capture him. At last D'Oyly determined to shoot him. As the animal charged an bim, he knelt down, waited until it was with- in et few. yards, and fired for the bump between the eyes. Tbe bullet struck a little too high, and did not check the elephant's rash; but the second bullet, firecl a litthe lower down, penetrated time brain, and the monster fell. dead at the hunter's feet. One day, wink D'Oyly was busy with his civil duties, he received infor- mation that several of Goung Gee's lieutenants were in a house a few miles off. He thought he would ride out and capture them, and would Lave gone unarmed had not Pollock peas- uaded him to take a hunting -knife. Their revolvers were in Promo, and he would not be bothered with a gun. • He was accompanied by eight sowars of the cavalry, and they rode eighteen miles before they arrived at the house. D'Oyly, guided by a mounted man, led the way, and soon left the escort behind. Arriving at the house, be jumped off his horse, reshed in, a,nd found himself confronted by four Bur- mese, armed with two-handed swords. Nothing daunted D'Oyly stood in the knnaffreceivn dheiosrhwaanyci. 'with the hunting - The Burmese, ewed by tbe resolute bearing of the Englishman, hesitated for a moment. That hesitation saved D'Oyly. A shot was fired -a Burmese fell dead; there was the flashing of a sword, and another man fell, while the other two leaped head -first out of the verenda into the long grass, and. escaped. A gallant sowar, little more than a lad, ontstripping the other cavalrymen, had. ridden up just in time to see his leader's jeopardy. unslinging his car- bine, he shot one man; then, jumping into the house, he disabled another - and did not think he had done any- thing out of the common. POY.NTED PARAGRAPHS. False eyes should be made of look- ing glass. The tailor is engaged in a fitting oc- cupation,. ' A cloven breath is equivalent to a plea of guilty. • 1c • The more we thenk of some people the a less we think of them. g A man seldoxn gets so full of emotion that lie has MD room. for dinner. Most men are generous to a fault when the fault happens,- to be their awn. 1 The ardent lover is all at sea when a his best girl throws hint overboard. e No mac hos th.e courage to tell the 2 No man hes t,he courage to tell a woraam the things that her mirror does. t irfe,n and woman have more faith in each other than. they have in their oeee sex. • When. a mere tears it leaf off it cad- g ender be realizes tlaet his days are s numbered. NEWS, OF OLD ENGIAND. BEADA13LB PARAGRAPHS pAotrain • BY THE MAIL. tolow,s et' ramie Across tee sea loteteSt fiffiitttile,rietsliinfortoO.O itY Paves of Ttghm It is reported that the ",(ertnee on Wale' flospital Fend amounte to 4187,.. t2s 01:1•:06337:: .3 lir: ilvai e,ranbr el:di:1;11:5o v nob00,151;:issiosi .et, ,snr see o fwii; sb 03: :71,0,0eky? esa07,120.d000f p2ixwoa;c:r010e000:: rftroca.61;:ionit:Aoorli::leaerne:broattlhatGoaAtc,:o:m7m0.78an:dlyptetbni,ettasBlene2tht' 2e2/1,• 1VrnIedirliee.uelritr: oftatileBrotilisrotenr,' ,Eslaigteht04:1111e1 South Coast Ralillway, died. en the anti the experience of 1897 stforde net vmaTerrleeetylodTheise,liainnieaetfteslhiopfhwauilucluite io:raatrl; :1191 'Teat' e6raeorilisee, aretd e I ssann tnioencIrt:L °:11y:1117:1,droiDtatplIgtiliii,:au:Trly:3:01.ent11;1.,eSho eo0iti" r • Lon- oe9416(>113'W"ballevusenl' Hatsol;epelledfraveltoFyeu(*anrralls..tthrlibu'thtee 1)1111,0e(100 meti:sioinAba rbdyeenti:eQtuisete,n.Mr. Jolin Mit- chell, has completed three paintings in water colou.re for which he was o0M- 000T.haendto4;ofalpnuurres :ebe8,r00o0f. derelict umbra- cordieg to a report just issued, is las fin London cab.s for One year, ee-• tkheTeelippearigestlets ertroepoinig:gelrierpeagensaittiionoan•abeoatarpnaa07yselesBassitnali tist place a worship in, Eneland. 'The gallant Gordon Highlanders storming the heights of Dergai formed Tau:sealruvdta'abiLeaomilxdonat,tfroa;tiOliunraisteiga:."me • A greet flee occurred in Lynn on the 27th ult., eaused by a lad throwing draperydetivate I :kat a ,ttl e)aldtstinennita 710. 011:0T0h0ae7 damage18 The ex.te,nehve sawaniels and general joimnery establishaneaat of the Cliff Reuse Sawmills Compan,y, West elar- 24th ult. The damage is estimeted at tlepool, were destroyed by tire on the The experiment of opening the ex- hibillon galleries of tee I3,ritish Mu - :seam every eveneng for t,lie benefit of the classes whilch have no leisure dur- Lng the day lias preyed a failure, and f will be abandoned. A. meractrial tablet was unveiled on the 22n4 ult., at Becket= Square Congregational Church., Balgrev,e Road, =doe, Ica raenaory of th.e. bate 1)r. Hides Iliteken, who was the. minister there for 26 years. Princess Beatrice, youngest daugh- ter of the Queen. and -widow of Prince - Henry of leetteaberg, has wietten a mourn wog. The book hes been pub- ideisyboted:oimita:DI abrunsooktaddeta.lieg with widow's At the London Bankruptcy Court recently, Ileglstrar Linkleter epprov- ed en arraugument between Colonel Walpole and his cxeditors, debt the adopted son of the late Earl of °e• lf:rod; elnoisaltgabthouet ii£02r0t,t000Loonnatelien tsesurf: sions recently, Mr. W. R. aroCenn,e11, Q. 40u.o, It:me:reel:1st: al:1'111:knife,sai mnoi entsreferredtoafnettiltonegt num- berihnteehieeo% tsassination of t,he late Mr. Terriss. • Lord Wolseley, lc addressing the a,dets at Sandhurst on Devbel. 21, poke in high terms of praise of the allant cenduct of the young officers n the Indian frontier, many of whom, reehelleseztaild.' had recently left the At a imeeting of the Poor Clergy Be- -/jet Corporation„ ae seatherepten t3reteot, £L2o5nwdoenre, nireac,ce:tilE grants3aea ses7f from j107e.,21ey7pemlilre7.11scetshareacebileeened gigErtasnotfedeloLtriinligg, In the Divorce Court on December. 21 he wife of the Rev.Fredrick Mills Gar - alt, a, clergymaa, formerly ot Chet- Gaerwpuaeav:rne,act,I:toBcoeinntifwonopithradsralho.ye,aiam.•,sty,Thootiuiotaalagithneelraddhaytijanbundanincidiemdsi All parts off Frogmore, ittiv,e a great interest for th.e Queen. She purchased it ottt of the Priey purse in 1841. Tio inventory was made by Mr. 'raceme Dowbiggeo, who was eamp.loyed by the 'Woods end Forests Depart,ment, and the valuation is put drown at £5.302 10s. The interesting case of the alleged sale of American hams by the annior Army and ,Navy Stores as Irish and English at dififferent,prices, resulted in the iteelietion of a fine of 410 and costs and £41 10s. and costs against the stores eticl. rn sakean and fore -a) elan were fined the same are:sant. A 7 801011 Lime was inflieted in another ease. We have to guess what the future and the men:bent who never adver- time bas in store. There, natty be ooehing new under tes. Gun, but the imitatic.n,s frequently surpass tbe original. It is better to purchae,e tvvo cats' woreb of music daily from the organ - grinder than to owe for mi grand. piano. Oniy a few years ago people gazed in wonder at the arse gas light. Now they gaze in worneer at their last .gas b i li o. You can draw your own eonclusion frona the fact •that there isn't enough tratilit itt existewe to keep tongues of gossips constantly wagging. MORAL SUASION, Pretty Wife, poutingly-That Mrs. De Plaine bee, a dozen dresses hanesamer than tlae only good one Pe, got. Smart amsbainid.-A honaely woman like that needs rich attire to attract attention from her. fece. You don't, Pretty wife stibeides. CONDUCTED BY WOM.EN, Mane, Marguerite :Durand is to be the editor of a new paper for women that is to be started ie Paris. Mile, .rea,nne Chauvin, the woutd.-be barrister, takes oharge of legal quest:tone, and other departments are conducted by women, All the reporting, too, wiil he done by Weltrien, The paper will not be rut it the interests of any associatiot, buti will eppeal to the publie on its oveo nacrite, Lord Macauley ueed to declare as an II' imetan.ce of the retentiveneat a Ins memory and We. k,nowlleelge of Loudon that be ecold tell the nittne and the situation of every street there, Sleet a feat would be itmoosellee Itttheme days, when tile number el streets has so greatly increased, One ie appalled by the, kuowledge that there are 00 fewer than 7,000 thoreughfaree• In Lon - den. It is said. Chet, th,e, becaelt between Levi Charles lisreaterdetend the Prince of Wales will never now be healed. Curious stories are afloat as to the na- •A Lure of tlie final quarrel, but probably none aro reliable, Lord Charlt.s has It blunt longue, and it in apt to Fay tedinge which, however, boacel arel tree are not diplomatio, Lord Chael.es inces- ford eopeere 14:4 be ra,thee foxed b,Y smart Society,