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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-11-8, Page 2' 040' 14.0-10' '0+04.0 '¢- $OO$O�O-4• f? '•Q•O$o• P s- -.�- 14 ,OR, A A SAD LIFE STORY eso+eeseeee eeeseneetc$ce+a+0+O+0:o4-04"O'$O+04-0-e O-0-4'O+O+O� C:IIAI'1'ER IV. wave, her rather thin cheek grows In a ripe civilization such as ours tinged. "„ there ere 1ornda, pruvided to meet the , "Did I ever climb theme" she says, requirements of every exigency that maywith a bewildered look, and speaking in Possibly arise; but anortgst them there Is notnae which teaches us how to greet a person cone back from the deed, because it Is held impossible that such a eenlhigency can occur. Perhaps this is elm reason why Jim Burgoyne, usually a docile and obedient member mf the hacfely to which ho belongs, mist flies In the face of all the precepts twinkled Into Min by that society's cede. At eight of Elizabeth Le Marchant entering, The room, clad in a very neat tailor gown, instead of the winding -sheet with 'which lie had credited her, he tit first stands transfixed, staring at her carie a hardness of intensity which is allowed to cis in the ease of Titian's "Bella," or Botticelli's "Spring," but has never been accounted permissible in the case of a more living loveliness. Then, be- fore lie can control, or even question the impulse that delves him, it has emoted hint to her. "Eiizebeth I" be says, In that sort of awed semi -whisper with which one would salute a being plainly returned trorn the other side, tearing that the full- ness of a living voice Wright strike too strongly on his disused ear—"Is It really glizabeth ?" Had Burgoyne been quite -sure, even now, of the fact; if he had his wits well about trim, be would certainty not have addressed her by her Christian name. But from the dead the small poops and ceremonies of earlb fall off. We think of them by their naked names --must we not then appeal to them by the same when they reappear before us? The girl—for she docs not look much more—dors rudely and startlingly bom- barded, drops her Baedeker out of her aline gloved hand. and with a positive junip at the suddenness of the address, looks back apprehensively at her inter- locutor. In her eyes is, at first, only the coldly frightened expression of one dis- courteously assailed by un insolent stranger, but in a space of time as short as had served him to note the same ntelanu,rphosis in the nee of her par- ents, he sees the look of half—three- quarters—whole recognition down in her eyes, Mimed— alas! there can be no mistake ahont it—by the same as- piration after flight. There is no reason why she should not recognize hint again at once. He has fallen a prey neither to hair nor fat—the two mein disguisers and disligurers of humanity. His face is us smooth and bit figure ns spare as when, ten years ego, he had given the pretty tomboy of sixteen lessons in jumping the Ha 1 Ha 1 And as to her identity, no shadow of doubt any longer lingered in his mind. It eorewhat tremulous voice. Yes,-- slawly, 08 with an effort of memory— "1 believe I did." "You have forgotten all about it," cries Jlnt, in an accent of absurdly dis- proporlioned cliseppohitment. "Have you forgotten the kangaroo, too? have you forgotten everyt.ung?" Perhaps site is putting her memory to the swine strain as he had done his in the case of her mother's name on the occasion of their Oxford meeting, At all events, she leaves the question un- answered, and the elder woman again hurries to her help against this persis- tent claimant of reminiscences. "You must not expect us alt to have such memories as you have," she says, with a touch of friendliness in her look. "I must own that I too had quite for- gotten the kangaroo; and so I fear had Robert, until you reminded us of it in Mesopotamia." ' "How is Mr. Le Marchant?" inquires Jim, thus reminded to put his tardy query—"is he with you?" "No, he is not very fond of being abroad; it is not"—smiling"'dear abroad' to hint, but i think he will very likely come out to Florence to fetch us." "You are going to Florence?" cries the young man eagerly. "So am I1 oh, hurrah I then we shall often meet." But the touch of friendliness, whose advent he had hailed so joyfully, has vanished out of Mrs. Le Merchant's voice, or, at least, is overlaid with a species of stiffness, as she answers dis- tantly, "we do not intend to go out at all in Florence—I mean into society." "But I am not society," replies be, chilled, yet resolute. "1 wish"—glanc- ing rather wistfully trent one to the other—"that I could give you a little of my memory. I1 I could, you would see that, after being so infinitely good to me at the Moat., you cannot expect me to meet you as total strangers now." In the sense of ill -usage that fills his breast the fact of how almost entirely oblivious he had been of the persons be- fore him, dining the greater part of the long interval that had parted them, has —such is human nature—quite slipped his recollection. 11 is brought back to him in some degree with a twinge by Mrs. Le Merchant saying in a relenting tone, and with an accent of remorse, "and you have remembered us all these years." Ile cannot, upon reflection, conscien- tiously say that he has; but is yet distn- gcnious enough to allow a speaking silence to imply acquiescence. "And you are on your way to Flo- rence, too ?" continues site, mistaking Tile violence and shock of his attack the cause of his dumbness; the tide of have made her crimson, have matched compunction evidently setting more her cheeks with those long -withered strongly towards him, in her womanly damasks in the Moat garden, with heart, at the thought of the entire want which they used to vie in bloomy vivid- of interest she has manifested in theease ness. But even yet he does not treat of one whose long faithfulness to her her quite as If slie were really and vera- and her family had deserved a beeter tebiy living; he has not yet got back treatment. his conventional manners. "Yes." "I thought you were dead" he says, 1115 face clouds so perceptibly as he his voice not even yet raised to its or- pronounces this monosyllable, that lits dinary key, some vague awe still sub-- interlocutor inquires, with a growing cluing it. kindness— It must be a trick of his excited "Not on any unpleasant errand, I imagination that makes it seem to him hope?" as it she said under her breath, "So I Ite laughs the uneasy laugh of nn am 1' Anglo Saxon obliged to fell, or at ail But before lie has lime to do more than events lalling, some intimate detail distrust the testimony of his ear's, Mrs. about himself. Le Marchant strikes in quickly— 1 am going to see my young woman "We cannot help what Mr. Burgoyne —the girl I am engaged lo." Minks," says she, with a constrained 'Well, • that Is a pleasant errand, laugh; "but you are not dead, are you, surely?" (smiling) Elizabeth? We are neflher of us dead; on the contrary, we are very much alive. Who can help being alive in this hea- venly place? And you? When did you come? What hotel are you at? have you been here long? Do you make a long stay ?" She pours out her questions with such lorrenl-force and rapidity, as gives la her auditor the conviction that it is her aim to have a monopoly of them. After one look of unbotmded aeton- isemetlt at his companion's onslaught, Byng has withdrawn to a discreet dis- tance. "You never mentioned her when I met you in Oxford," says Burgoyne, disre- garding her trieial and conventional questions, and turning his eyes 'away with difficulty from his old playfellow, Mrs. Le Merchant laughs again, still constrainedly. Probably you never asked arta' her." "1 was afraid," he sayssolemnly; "after ten yea's one is afraid; and as you diel 001 mention her—you know you mentioned alt the others --i thought you had lost her I" A sort of slight shiver passes over tine woman's -frame. "No, titanic God l No 1" During the foregoing little dialogue ebcett herself, Elizabeth has stood with Iter eyes on the ground; but at the end et it she lifts them to smile lovingly et Iter mother. They aro very pretty eyes !still, but surely they 50 0111 tohave ct tried a.gocd deal, and now that the hurrying Mend has left her cheek nein, Bur- goyne sees that site looks more nearly her . age than he had Imagined at the first glance. .1-16 has pot honed her voice yak, she has not spoken, unless 11111E first sllalccn whisper—somualt more likely to ted the 'freak of his own heated Could y-- rtauld soltnd for speech. Ile must hear her tones, 15a they keep en echo of the, Otho' world, as be still imeghles that he WS a shade rant .it lying lingeringly across iter face? "Do you ever eilnnb appledrees neve?" Elie bales abruptly, She starts slightly, d ogafn, . tenet with a weaker red "I wonder why you thought she was dead?" The other makes a rather impatient movement, "I had nn reason --none whatever. 11 was an idiotic inference." Byng draws tang breath of satisfac- tion, "Well, at all events, I am very glad that sho is not." Jinn turns upon hen with something of the expression of face worn by Mrs. Sarah Gump on hearing Mrs. Prigg ex- press her belief that 1t was not by Mrs. Harris that her services would be re - (mired. "Why should you be glad of that, Betsy? She is unbeknown to you except by .)tearing, \\'hy should you be glad?" As Byng's case is a more aggravated one then Mrs. Prig's, seeing that Eliza- beth Le Merchant is unbeknown to him even by hearing, so is the warmth, or rather coldness, with which his friend receives his remark not inferior to that of "Sauey." "I do not quite see how it affects you. Why ere you glad 7" "Why am I glad?" replies the younger man, with a lightening eye. "For the same reason that I am glad that Van- dyke painted that picture"—pointing lo 11—"or that Shakespeare wrote 'As You Like It: The world is the richer by them all three." But to this poetic and flattering anal- ogy, Jim's only answer is a surly "Humph 1" (To be continued). BENEFITS OF DISASTERS SMALL FOLK OFTEN BENEFIT BY BIG CALAMITIES. Sometimes Means Money in the Pockets of Shrewd and Unscrupulous People. Il plight be too much to assert that when Vesuvius recently went in for the worst eruption Uhae has been known fat these IIIty years, and dict great dam- age, and threw thousands of people Lu- te a state of terror, the sole motive of the playful Dante Nature in causing all the trouble was a desire to benefit a 'aNespolitan macaroni seller. Yet this was very probably the way in which Pito t erruglni, the mat in question, regarded the matter. IIe was in the habit of selling his wares In the streets of Naples, and when Vesuvius recently belched forth innumerable tons of blinding dust and ashes, so that the beautiful city was plunged into a stale of darkness and terror, he turned his familiarity with lin place to account by guiding fright- ened tourists from Naples, and lending other folic through the streets, which had been familiar enough to them a day or so before, but were now render- er, invisible and bewildering by the un- natural darkness. FORTUNES FOR ARCHITECTS. After the ooaurrence of any great at- e -unity it is common enough to hear 'd units or That big industry benefitting. Titus, the wrecking of San Francisco will mean the earning of millions c f dollars by architects, builders, and the manufacturers of steel frames and gird- ers for the "Skeletons" of "sky -scrap- ers," But there ore extremes In everything, and it is frequently curious, to say the least of it, to see how scene gigantic calamities bet -milt not only big firms, but very small folic, indeed. It looks as if Nature and Fortuna were fond of jesting together, by making the un- expected happen. At San Francisco, for instance, after the enrihquuke had laid the chief busi- ness parts of the city in ruins, and when the grand hotels had vanished from slghl, dirty, out -of -lie -way little resteu'atis, which had hitherto strug- gled desperately for existence, end had been patronized by none but lhe humb- lese1 customers. suddenly leaped into prosperity. and fonrid themselves flooded with weellhy men and elegant, dell - nate lndfes, wile were ready to pay fam- ine pricee for the coarsest tare. ENHANCED PRICES FOR FOOD. Another humble individual to whom the wrecking of San Francisco was a '"Crest selon I" replies Jim, gloomily.; have a piece of ill -news Lot i;lc sing was n young man who had for yea's been trying to establish himself us n slorlchrolcer. When lee earthquake suddenly re - (limed Hoary wealthy mon to a slate of teinpoiery beggary, the stockbroker saw h1; chance, • and lent them money evilly.It gel evilly. Nobody grumbled et liit'- Mg Io pay extort:nettle interest at such a linos of danger, and many frantic nun were willing to offer anything for "I ell her • then, with a half -shy effort fo escape into generalities, "which way do you think that ill -news reads best^ --on paper ae viva voce?" She shivers a little. "1 do not know. I do not like it either wayr." Then, laking out her watch, with the evident determination to be surprised al the lateness of the hour, she ct'ies " Is actually a quarter to two f Are' not the Means of buying fond for their you famished, Elizabeth? I tort 9' wive,. !nut eNkleen, nxl getting away There is such apparent and imminent wilt them 10(00 what SL'emerl al eily cit departure in her eye that Burgoyne feels doom' that there is ne time to be lost. 11 needs no saying that, there's not "Have you decided upon your hotel in Florence?" lie asks precipitately. "We have decided n gal s l them nall " is her answer,- "We have token a little °pertinent—a poor Iiltle 5nlres01' but it is such a poor little one, that I should be ashamed to ask any of my triends to come and see Inc there." She accompanies the last wordsas ft to trice the sting out of them, with es sweet end friendly a emi10 es any he remembers In the Devonshire days. But the sting is not token out all tete same; it lingers, pricking and burning still, after both the fall, titin, black figure, and the sling, little grey one have disap- peared. Tito moment lime tine k the cese. Byng rejoins his friend, a curiosity old alert interest in )lis young ryes, which his companion feels no desire to grati- fy. lie is unable. 110ne-ver, to rnninfain the entire Menne he bad intended mien the ellnieel, since 13ynfl, after wailing for what, to Ills impstiene0, appears a more than decent Interval, is constrained to remark— "Did 1 heli" yen tell that lady, when fleet you spoke to her, that she was dead?" "11 thought site wale" "lied you heard it?" "No.i, "f)ld yott see it in the papers 2;, ' A pause, murk pldlenihropy ht eouneelimt wet trading 00 the nevi'=atlas end terrors I' ones fellow-el:enlace,: (hieing a time of panic; but it 14 very deu'ldedly busi- ness, 1h5 stranding of the Menilgu, whl'•h bus net John Buil 0 million dnllnrr.' worth of l)reeelnss lighting t (Tin I, was a godsend to the 1 ontnu'n i,1 llfro- callbe and round about, who, durhig the summer, nee reelect 0 (.*.uht,p her- v5st by taking htutdt'c'cls of curiae: vi,i• lot's to stn the great Ironclad hold. 115 fast nn the rneli,s as though she leul been a child's boat. MISSING REl',A'fIVIeS, when felt^ago wee burnnt down, mere, than thirty ,rears ago, with the renee- quelt loss of millions of (Milers, at hest one humble person made Made bis fortune out of tile calamity. That was a buy who had, up 1111 then. been melting n slender living by Welting a butcher's cart. 'rho destruction of the city look away his regular employment; but, no- thing daunted, he set In work to seine+ among the smoking rules, not for tin sake of plunder, but with the abject of kerning the fate of, and tracing the whereabouts of, as ninny as pnsstele of the homeless victims of the itakt- mity. All the information he collected he took to the police, who wcro deluged with inquiries from frantic, distracted people who had been separated from, or were anxious to have tidings of, those dear to teem. Thanks to the butcher boy, many people were reunite ec' who, but for him, might never have found each other again, amid the terror and confusion of the smoking city. The rewards be netted helped him to start life hendeonely on his own account when the city was re -built. 1t sounds cold-blooded to say In so many words, but the .10t remains that n big calamity almost always means to golden opportunity for some small per- son, sharp enough to seize it. :Net to show how this fact may be proved by all sorts of instances, it can be men- tioned that there is a large and finer- ishing shop in London the proprietor of which owes his success ENTIRELY TO CALAMITIES. He was a newspaper hawker in the Wreck, and was very watchful and in- telligent. He noticed how lceenly public interest, was aroused by the occurrence of a great catastrophe In any part of tete world. Ile did not see why he should leave all the profits derivable from such events to the newspapers. Therefore, with a Irene eye to business, he nearly starved himself, and wandered about the streets many a night, to save as much a5 he could. At last he had a few pounds fat a capital; end Then ho wailed for same big misfortune to happen. \Vint did happen wes the frightful Overend and Gurney smash—a financial catastrophe which plunged thousands and thousands info ruin and poverty. Everybody was talking about the affair, and the interest in it rose to fever ]teat. Then the humble capitalist sank all hie money 1n bringing out it sensation- ally -written and crudely -printed account of the failure. It sold like wildfire, and the profits helped him to embark n similar ventures, as fresh catastrophes 27 per cent; or the cultivated 5011 will occurred; until he Ind laid the solid contain in an acre 104,000 g0110ns to feundalion of a forhme.—Pearson's 153.000 gallons more water than the un - Weekly. cultivated soil. This added moisture together with the air admitted into the THUNDER LORE. soil by culture unions phosphoric ac- id, potesln and other mineral elements. Ancient Beliefs as to the 1lfeaning el The growing of legumes by their root Noises of the Sky. system going deep into the soil, also aerates it, so lent the plant food ele- Thunder, just because it is a noise for ments can he elaborated and conserved. which there is no visible cause, has al- These crops• improve' the physical ways excited the imagination of the condition of the soil by filling it with unscientific; so it is natural .that the humus and admitting of the free pas - must outrageous superstitions about sage of the soil waters, and retaining storms should date back to the line this water to be taken up by the tree when everybody, 10o11e or less, was un- as required, lastly it must he remem,e scientific. Ona old writer explains the bered that a legume crop managed in belief of his day—that "a storm is said this way 10 an orchard will give to 1, follow presently when a company 1 each acre 203 pounds nitrogen, 49 hogges rune crying home," on the pounds phosphoric acid end 202 preinds ground that a hogge is most dull end potash, valued in the market to -day at of a melancholy nature, and so by ren- $143. Tbis ,amount or necessary plant son doth foreseen the rain that coo- food elements is therefore returnee to ell" Leonard Digges, in his "Prognos- the soil less the amount required for the licalinn Everlasting" (1550), mentions growth of the crop itself, 0nd as may that "thunder in the morning signifies be eliminated in the process of dislnte- ,wind; about noon, rain; Wed hr die grution. evening, a great tempest." Dr. Warren of the Cornell station 'rhe seine writer goes on to say, "Sonne shotes that New York orchards tilled write (but their ground 1 see not) that ave )ears yielded 80 per cent more fruit Sunday's thunder should bring the than orchards left in and five yea's, death of learned men, judges and others; where cml(1ilions were similar and suh- Monday:s, the death of women; Tues• slanlally the same. 1110 question, there - day's, plenty 0f grain; Wednesday's, fore, of adapting a system that will bloodshed; 'Thursday's, plenty of sheep bring best results should he easy of so - and corn; Friday's, the slaughter of a lution. Location, eceuitlimns, environ - great Haut and tither horrible murders; mentnt0nt will necessitate 501118 modt- Salurday's. a general pestilent plague tlestion al any system lint any he and greet dearth." After this, the goy adapted, but the principles must he and lightsome manner shorn by Lord observed where regular . Minuet crops Northampton toward these grave mat- ing. of fruit of high quality are to be se - fere in his "Defentnlive" is most cheer- cured. "11. eee„„0eth sceuelanes,. tie The best evidence- of the advance Ihnt writes, "to thunder about that time and horticulture Inas mode 11es in the Inst season of the year when swannes thatch that we control conditions surrounding their young; and yet no doubt It ie a fruit culture, instead of envier; condi- paradox of simple men to think that a tines control us. The modern demand swanne cannot hatch without a erotica of the market for trait is lint It must „r thunder." - he of 111girest quality; end forlmalely the fruit grower can grow quality into his fruit b$' feeding his trees a full bal- anced ration just as hest results ere oh - d n' herd b the rn er 'nrd in n fat a v Y p n balanced feed. In the degree that fruit growers will meet, the requuemenis : o clenriy indicated by scientific invesligii- lion and practical experience, will her• ticulluro .still further advance as the noblest occupation of man. Arae dapanTea Drinker?. EU SO, ASH YOnt, GROCrrkt 1'OR (CEYLON GREEN TELA. IT IS ABSOLUTELY. PURE AND FAR MORE DELICIOUS THAN JAPAN. Lead peemete only. 40o, 50o and 600 per Ib. cit all Lrr000rs. ON TNF FARt Meta obtaining ncreas to nlillc, end to control those that cannot he kept out. Tree seedlings aro quickly bruised and ] f h•1'. since, ' s f trampling to n i 1 rnu,hed by leo I 6 Hungry cattlebruuso upon them. The soli heroines packed herd, unable to retain moisture so needed. Don't thin your tZ,/yeeeneetA oche dS? wand let too !meetly. 1f you do, large CLEAN CULTURE FOR ORCHARDS. openings are made through which the sunlight streams in, drying the soli end The cultural system of orchard man- elleotlrnging the growth el grass, which agcmentl practiced upon a thoroughly should never be suffered to replace lin practical hosts end in accord with pre spongy humus that forms the natural sent knowledge of soils end tree and 101) layer of sell ht a healthy forest. A fleet physiology Is suited to a greater •• canopy, formed by lino leaves and branches, should always shade the for- est Moor. 'coo much light encourages the formation of brunching, short stemmed trees. 11110 y of =Mittens than any other system and is within the- reach of every orchardist, writes Mr. A. N. Brown. This method, pursued as it should be, requires that orchards bo plowed as early in the spring as lite soil will pet• - m11. After plowing they should be cul- tivated once a week. This is continued can week until July 1 to 10, accord- ing to lateness or earliness of the sea- son. Culture should be given twice a week in times of droulh. \Vhrn -this culture ceases the orchard should be seeded down to eowpeas, crimson clo- ver, soy beans, or hairy vetch. "These should remain on the soil until follow- ing spying, when they should be plow- ed under and this Intense sy'sleul 1'f culture resumed. The advantages of tilts system are that the wood and buds for the following season's crop grow in the early sin-. LIVE STOCK 'NOTES. To make the horse's coat shine, feed him a bit of oil meal every day. Begin lightly with not more than a tablespoon- ful at first. Gradually increase until ee will take a pint, then hold at that. Begin now to give your fowls it 111011e heavy ration of nitrogenous foods, such ns linseed meal, animal meal, etc., and thus Induce tireul to grow a new coat of twitters before the sold weather catches them in nude condition. A fair test of the milk given by a herd of cows may vary from 3.5 to CO per cent. fat. This, of course, will change according to the period of lactation ,f mer when they should be grown, andthe cows, the nine of new 11111011 COWS the culture ceases, to afford opporltl- not being usually so rich as that of ni!y for wood and buds to harden and strippers. 11 will pay any reface 10 !nature fully before winter. Again it feed his cows so that they are in good, makes it possible for the trees to store healthy condition and produce the max - up all the necessary plant food elements imum amount of nlillc which their Ha- to mature Its fruit fully by the time the Meal cepaclly as dairy animals will per - culture ceases. The enema also con- aft them to glue. serves the tn0isture, aerates the soil, and in lining it exposes a larger surface to the action of lite oxygen of the air; thus rWASIHING DAIRY UTENSILS. liberating phosphoric acid and potash, putting the soil in em1d11ton for the The principal things necessary ter operation of the feeding roots. \\'ithout keeping utensils clean are hot water or humus in Ito soil and constant culture steam, some alkali, a eerubbing brush to conserve the moisture and the lining 0' a coarse cloth, combined with plenty of the soil it is impossible to maintain of elbow grease, to mace these agents the moisture supply needed. effective. All utensils should he cleated The Illinois experiment station has immediately after using. Tine method determined that the amount of mots- for cleaning varies slightly, according lure in soil enllivaled as against that to what the ulenells have contained. if in soil not cultivated varies from 13 to they have been used for milk, they should first be lensed whit cold or luke- warm water, so as to wash off the vis- enus albuminoids, which, if suLecled to heeling water, would coagulate and ad- here firmly to the tit, thus becoming difficult to remove. 044400604 A Boston schoolboy was tall, TiJealS and sickly. Y His arnis were soft and flabby': 1 He didn't have a strong muscle in his entire body. The physician who had attended the family for thirty years prescribed .Eirtz8Ba t to a. NOW: To feel that bay's- arrr"m would think he Was apprenticed to a blacksniith. ALL 1Dg1JCidts'1`t3: Sdo, ANfS $1Woo .+41,4044.00040541004#4104040...40 0 FARM NOTES. The older the country boconies, the more carefully formers must study the culture of grain; for the fariner;s busi- ness is not merely to grow grain, but in get value out of It. Ile is not work- ing for beshols hire for dollars. Three is no reason under Iho slut v'hy any crdinarlly henllhy man should " be 11011)51055 in tins eeul)rV. 'J'he115ittds of farmers are working two 1111115 to half their time Inc landlords hecausethey imagine they could net make a living on 11 emelt grin of their own. ,\Uor a set'hes of axperhnents enema - ed et the tbnivrrs)ly of Illinois, .it is urged "that extreme cleanliness is nl- salulely essential to the most suoeeseful dairying." Investigations of recent yea's have shown that, all Iho trouble• sante changes that nolo plana 'in mill( and maice el (7Ifileult in llandle'prnper• ly 1190 aat,sed; by bactcrio, In feat, alta• cessftll dairying defxlnds largely -upon the, ability .10,,111nie the nh11iber Of bete - TIMING A CAMEL. Dr. Nachliga.l, the celebrated African explorer, once suit to .a youth who ex- pressed n desire to cross the Sahara on (90niel back; "Young men, 1'11 tell ,you how you can get a meal idea of what riding a conn] in an African descents tiler, 'Take en can stool, screw It up as higih as possible, ani put it along with a savage dog, into 0 w099011 with - nut any springs. '!'hen seat yourself on the stool and have it driven over un- even and rocky ground during the hot- test- pals of July and August, being careful not to eat or lemic more than 0000 every two days end letting the nog bite you every tour hours. This will give you a -faint idea of the exqui- site poetry of camel riding 111 the &t- horn." MARRIAGE 1397 C1OAR. In Slain the lighting of a cigar In- dicates e letrollal. In Ihet catuttry o person wishing to become engaged to 'u girl of Ws choice offers 1101' a flower. r1' takes a ligid, from a etg0r or cigar- ette if she llappoes to have one in her mouth; mid thereupon, provided there is no impediment, steps are et once talc - e11 to arrange fur the payment, of the dowry. ONE ON MA19Y. "Now, Mare," sold old Podlrine, "when you bring in the tea ogafn, al- ways renegnhet to put on tine cosy." "'Yessir," quoth !Very; and the next limo— r,slhe elld. usm<rooOnoctat-a ac;o n v croataq; VO U 0 FOLKS lsaaoc>oapaoaa0- 0.000'$9 ( A REWARD OF IIONOII. iter name was Honor Elizabeth Capon, but grandee ultvays called her "Honor Bright," She level reading bet- ter that anything else, and 51111 was 1101701' so happy ad when curledup lo sumo cozy corner With a sle'y boon. Ono vacation 11,1101' wroth to visit Iter grandpa, lie 991111 n 1111rlisun, and tend' a large library. The moment Itenor 11¢99 that de1191dJ01, buck-1111tr1 room, sho gave a el'y 01 Joy alt., rushed toward the shrtvrw. But grandpa wes afraid As rend loo much. "Honor Bright," said 110 teat evening, "would you like a turquoise 11119'1" "A hu'qunls0 ring! Oh, grandpa!" cried ]tenor. "Yes," said grandpa, "1'11 give you the eery prettiest nue I nun find If you will not 09150 a singto book ur magazine for a week:' "A week --not read for a whole weekl" gnspnd lionor. "Wouldn't you like the ring, honor Brlghf?" "Yrs, grandpa." "Then will you try to earn it?" "Yes, grandpa," said Honor. The first days of that long sl0ryless week 9751'slowly. '!hon at 11 1018 passed Stindey agai)n. "'i'o-nlo'rrov 1 (9811last read," said honor, happily, 'That atl5rnoon a 81011dy rain ,eel In. Grandpa had a caller, and grandma want upstairs for a nap. 110nor, left to herself, wondered into the library. Tho big roost seemed very dreary, and sho wished she could think of something perfectly splendid 10 do. Suddenly a bit of something rod caught her eye, wedged in between the wall end 111e shell above. She gev0 a pull, and down crone a her-i1'—a very old and rugged hook—"Uncia 'l'otu's Cabin" —and 1-ionot' had never read 1t. Hour aftt'1' hour flew by. The rain slopped, the lire died down, twiligllt shadows crept into the room, and still honer Bright, deep in the story, read on and on and on. "Honor! Hottu•t" called gran lma nt Inst. "Where 505 you? Grandpa hes gene to the vesper 55rt'iee, but he lett this for honor Bright." ilmlor opened the tiny box dreamily, and saw the little ring with the shining blue stones. 'fry it nn, dear," said grandma. "1'm sure you deserve it -- 111110 110005 13right." But in a twinkling lite little maid was out of the house and splashing through the puddles to the dtureli across the sheet, "1 would never be donor Bright agtnin if I kept 11," she sobbed. Grandpa wins just entering the church when lienor overlook him. "glue's the rut;,,, graudpn " silo wets- ptrid. "1 forgot and rend 1111 the after- -mon, so I mustn't keep it a single minute." 'fico grandpa kissed her ten- derly and said 00i113', "Of coarse 1101, my dear Menem Bright." The next weak Honor went hnnr5, end Iwo menthe later, on her birthday, n little fox came to her freta grandpa. It contained the turquoise ring, inside of which, in limy letters, was engraved, "Honor Brigitte'. HOLD ON, BOYS. "Let dogs delight to belt and bite, For God hulk made them so." Some boys, like sane dogs, are con- temptibly mean. They show their ugly natures every dry. '111ey pick quarrels with their schoolmates, and snarl end fight. They are o•erbeerhlg 81111 11e00. 'rimy find a noffendtng ' good-natured buys, frighten them, threaten to strike them, step on diet' toes, and do other Baleful things. Such boys inalco bed 1uen. Thugs, and tbievee, and "plug- uglies," and sharp criminals, all come from the ranks of had boys. Some one has written good wards, entitled, "link] cel, toys": hold on to your tongues when ,you ere just ready to sw0110, Ile, or spank bud Holddy. 011 to your hated when you ere about to patch, scratch, steal, or do any improper pct. Rohl on to your foot when you are on the point of kinking, running oft from study, or peening the path of error, eI1a1,0 001 0 001,115. dell m1 l0 you0 temper when yon are angry, excited or 11111)050e upon, or otters are angry with you. Bold on to your heat when evil es - secedes seek your company, and Invite you to join in their mirth, games end 101' Jtold151)'. on lo your good name at all three, for 11 is 0f !Born value 111e11 gold, high places, or fashionable attire. Hold on to truth, for It will serve you well, and do you guod throughout Cler- nity, Held on In your vil'Ine--jt is above all price to you at all lines end places. h Hold on 10 your c a'111oder , for it, is and over will be, your best wealth. NO OLD MAiDS IN RUSSIA, The urea is still allew'ed to prevail in Russia. thin singto lite is 11 disgrace to women, for there are no old maids ex- u'pl in the religions orders,if the par- ents crane, m•rang0 a innerringe for the daughter slur, makes a 90110)09, and is 1)1(18 lust la 111.0 gossiping cnneminity. 1oen reports are circulated of her mate range to a foreigner. Long absence brings forgetfulness, so that when the story is told of the death of the foreign 11081 1111 int o strange land there ere few wino vera to inquire further, Indeed, it is a breach of etiquette to suggest doubts tender snc11 cil'Otrnisllinces; and the Wo- man neatly r01ur'ns as a broken-hearted willow, She has met ilia ennd(110ns of camltey, and 6110 18 no ionger al single person in society, 'Thus the fro- ilan of "110 unmarried women" is pre- eerved in the domain of the 'Tsar. i1'_--'• _ Yeest: "'Docs yetti wit'e 111911e with you ogee?" Crlrnsonbeski "No, hldrodl floe elle you call 11 arguing whefn, alt the talking iseitt her side "