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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1906-12-13, Page 2OR, A SAD LIFE STORY -0++0$04 0-1:-0$O•+0$O+•O+O+0 ()$o+0+O$o$0•4-o+04-0-4'0+0+ CIi.1P1'EB 1. from Ihe exuberant ease and mirth that "do lothe Piazza d'Azeglio," says she had utarkod her intercourse with Byng, coaxingly, her spirits raised by the Jim had already had a flash of speete harshness of One of his interruption of talion about the child, as to whether ire her speech, and half persuading herself, might be a late -come little brother, ar- that It owes its birth 10 the supposition rived on the some t a periodsubse• being too ()Mittel to be faced by him. fluent to his own connection wtell Ilse He looks at her strangely for a ma- family, since plainly the span of his merit, then— smell life ,ti,l not stretch to a decade. "Why do you wish me to go to the "Borth, is a new friend," be says lkind- Piazza d'Azeglio?" he asks, in a tune ly; "I de not know Beebe.' that 'Is no longer overtly cross, only "His mother, Mrs. iloehe, is a cousin constrained and odd. "Why are you of ours; she has a villa on Bellosguardo. driving me there?" Perhaps you know her?" "Because 1 think you would like it," I ant going to a parte at her house she answers; "because"—taking his hand on Wednesday," cries Jim, ht a tone of and passing her lips, which he feels to eager pleasure at the discovery of this be trembling a lilt,, very gently neer Ilia fresh link, and of the vista of probable back of It—"becutse all through your, meetings which it opens Up. lila I want you to have exactly what you "I shall meet you there?" like, always." Elizabeth turns her head slightly aside Ho draws tris hand away; not- unkind- and shakes ft as slightly. ly, but as i'f shocked at the humility of "No 7" her action. "We are not going out.',, "That is so likely," he says, mourn- The forinula implies mourning, and fully. yet the clothes both of Elizabeth aid her There is no particular mirth in 'Bur- mother are unmistakably colored ones, goyne's mind as he mounts the stone and give no indication of an even rnoder stairs of the !rouse which announces it, ately recent loss. But it is so clear that self as 12 Itis, in the commonpince new Mies Le hlarchant means to add no ex - square of the Piazza d'Azeglio. But yet pinnation that ho has to change the it. is evident that, 1f he wishes to be in subject. tune with the mood of the family to "Though Beetle Is not an old friend," whom he is going to pay bis respects, he he says, smiling, "yet 1 have come across must not be only mirthful, but musical. one here to -day --she opened the door to At the door of the entresol, to which he ore; I should have liked to shake hands is directed by the porter, opens in ans- wer to his ring, burets of laughter, among which he can plainly detect Ihe voice of Byng, assail his ear, mingled with music, or rather anise of a sort, but what sort his ear, without fuller evI- dence than is yet before it, is unable to decide. The person who has admitted him is an elderly Tsnglielnvomon, whose features at once strike hint as familiar— s° familiar that it needs scarcely one reaching back of memory's band to cap- ture the fact of her having filled the olflee of nurse at tire Moat, at the period when the nursery there had been the scene of those frantic romps In which he himself had taken a prominent part, and in which Elizabeth had been to him by turns so able a second, or so vigorous an adversary, Ile would like to claim acquaintance with her, and, perhaps if she had made any dilfculty as to ad- mitting him, might have screwed up his courage to do so; but as she lets him in ‘without delay or hesitation, he follows bee in silence along the passage of a by no means imposing little entesol— they are not so well off as they used to be is his passing thought -1s ushered Into a small sitting -room: and, entering behind his own name, which has been Completely drowned by the din issuing from within, has time, before the con- sciousness of his own appearance ihas disturbed it, to take in the details of a group til•)+ich his entry naturally breaks up. Set slanhvise across one angle of the room :s an open cottage piano, and beside it stands Elizabeth, her elbow resting of the lop. and all her pensive face convulsed with helpless laughter. Upon the music -steed is seated a large collie dog, supported from behind in an upright position by Byng. Before him Is a score of music, from which he is ob- viously supposed to be playing, as in- deed he is doing in a sense—that is to say, he Is bringing down first one large paw and then another heavily on the keys, accompanying each crash with a short howl to express the agony In. Meted upon his nerves by his own per- formance. The scene is so entirely different a one from what he had ex- pected; the immoderately laughing Elizabeth has so much more kinship with the sweet hoyden of the Moat then with the pale woman with a history of his two last meetings, that for a second or two Burgoyne stands in the doorway as if stunned. it is not 1111 Mrs. Le Merchant, coining out of an inner room, advances to greet hint, that he recovers himself, "How do you do?" she says, smiling, and with less constraint Ilan he has of late learnt to expect. "Are you fond of music?" (putting, as she speaks, her hands up to her ears). "1 trope so Did you ever Maar such a shocking noise?" "I de not knees which 1 admire most, the vocal or the instrumental part of the performance,' replies he, laughing; but even as be speaks, both cease. Elizabeth lifts her elbow (rem the panne, and P,yng removes his hands from under the dog's arms, who, at once, iny- ful and released, jumps down. upsriling his music stool with the impetus of his descent, and yet itnm,diah'ly, with all a ring's real good-henriedness, begins in swing n liandsotne Inil, to show that he boors no reel notice for the odious prac- tical joke that ihas been played upon taro. The olenmroes fell of dog and music-sinol reveals at object which hnd been hidden behind both, in the shape of n; 111110 boy, in whose behalf, es it darts 000000 Jim's :mind, the eecenlrie con - rest, for which he has Cana in, must have been got tip. "Ole do go on!" caries the child shrilly. "Ola, do mete him doitegainl Oh, why do you slop? And indeed through the whole of the ensuing conveicntioit this cry recMw ort short intervals with the, Iteration of a gutnoa-hen. But none of the three per- formerssrCm disposed to comply' with this regtiesl, Two of them sit down de- ententsiy on chairs, and the third throws himself upon tine floor panting, showing ri fine red tongue, and drogghig himself luxurlovsly clang en his stomach to show his relief a the enrrag being d - ed, The child hes followed Elizabeth, 'end now stands beside here, tiresctnely .potting al her while hands. "Bettie has coma to speed the clay well ors," alto says, looking c"xpbinalolre fly up at elm; bei, speaking with a lOrtnality very different, as he feels, gently, though In a rather troubled voice, "you have the whole field of the present and the future left you; are not they wide enough for you?" Ills brows draw together into a pain- ful frown. "Perhaps I have es little cause to be fond of them as you have of the past." It is a random ,shot, a bow drawn at a venture, but it could not have hit more true apparently had it been level- ed with the nicest aha, As her daughter had done before iter, Mrs, I.e hlarchant elites hastily, and loaves him—leaves him to reflect Irene cally upon how wisely Aurelia had acted In insisting upon his visiting these "dear old friends," upon wham the effect of his conversation Is so obviously esenia- rating. "I wish I hod not come; 1 wish it was time to go home!" The small fractious voice Matt wails the Iwo preceding sentences 500111S 10 be Jim's own mouthpiece. It is, in polnt of fuel, the voice of Beetle, tv110, tired of uttering his unregarded request for the repetition of the concert winch had 1111ed hits with 511011 delight, has of late been trying the effect of his unassisted pow- ers to bring about the desired consum- mation, by putting Ills arni6 ns far as he can round the dog's body, and endeavor- ing lo lug hint towards the mesio -stool. The collie has been enduring lids treat- ment for live ninnies—ciiduring it with an expression of magnanimous patience, which seems to say, that, though ft is undoubtedly an unpleasant experience, yet, as it is inflicted upon hint by one of his own tamely, he must of course put up with lt, when Elizabeth gees to the rescue. Elizabeth goes alone, since Byng ie held in converse by her mother at the other side of the room. Verbal persua- sions having entirely failed, she tries to loosen the child's arms; but his grasp, though puny, is obstinate, and the only per,lel,tible result of her endeavors is the utterance by her young friend of the two polite aspirations above recorded. "He does not, wont to sing any more to -day," Jim hears her saying in her gentle voice; "you really are hurting him; he is too polite to say so; but you are squeezing hint so tight that you really are hurling him. Why now" with her, only she looked so Haughty' (with a little accent of pain), "you aro she ne--- _ -- --' ' - look haughty a. the ..._,:_ Moat." "Do you mean nurse?" she asks. "Yes, I knew her in an instant, she is not in the least changed, less even"— hesitating a little, as if doubtful whether the stiffness of their new relations war- ranted a personality -"even less than you." She snatches a hasty look at hie, a look upon which he sees, to his surprise, Imprinted a character of almost fear. "You must be laughing at me," she says, in a voice in which be detects an undoubted tremor; "I am very much changed." There is such obvious apprehension in her whole manner that hes one thought —atter a first flash of astonishment—is 1.0 reassure her. "0f course I was only speaking of ex- ternals," he says quickly; "ten years could hardly be expected to leave any of us quite where we were as to our in- ner selves;" then, seeing her still look flurried, and becoming himself nervous, Ile adds rather stupidly, the hackneyed Swinburnian couplet— "'Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives!" though I never could see that that was quite a necessary alternativel" Ere the words are out of hes mouth she has risen with precipitation, and be- gun hurriedly to rearrange the branches of lilac in a scaldiho on the table near her. She is apparently so awkward about it that one odorous white bough fails out on the floor. Before Jin can stoop to pick it up, Byng has rushed to the rescue. In eagerly thanking hem, In receiving it back frau him and accept- ing his services in replacing it among its perfumed brothers, the girl, perhaps involuntarily, turns her back upon her former Interlocutor, who sits for a mo- ment stating rather blankly at her, and wondering what slings there could have lurked in his eppa•enliy harmless words to drive her away so abruptly. What- ever may have driven her away, there is certainly no doubt as to her being gone. Nor as Jim sees her moving about the room, followed by Byng, and showing him her treasures—the little wild red and yellow tulips she plucked in the field this' morning; the chicken -skin box she bought at Ciamppolina's yesterday, and mixing all that she shot's with her deli- cate light laughter—can he buoy himself up with any reasonable hope of her ever, with her own good wi.l, return- ing. Ile must be looking more blank then he is conscious of, for Mrs. Le Mer- chant's voice sounds quite apologetic in This ears, when, having been, like him- self, deserted by her contlianions, she takes a seat may ltlm. "Elizabeth is so proud of her bar- gains," she says, glancing with a lenient smile towards her daughter; "she must show them to everybody," "She never offered to show them to me," replies Jim, rather morosely; then becoming aware of the almost puerile jealousy evidenced by his lust remark, he adds; "1 ant afraid 1481(1 something that en- nr,yed Miss Le Marchant; I cannot think what it could have linen. I told her how wonderfully little changed i thought her in the last len pers. but It could not !rave, been That, could it?" The mother's eyo is still following her chill, and, if it w•cro not an aliened es- snmplian, Burgoyne could have fancied riot there was n sudden moisture in 11. "Site is very sensitive," M.l:s, 1-e Mar- ehant atlswere slowly ; "perhaps it would be safer not 10 say anything about herself to h tr." "Perhaps It week' lr, safer;' rejoins Jin, with some ill hu err, "if you were draw t s , l0 h tv n a list (r h e 1 t els for me 10 avoid; 1 have nor wish lo )•Iny the part of to bull in a china she;,,, amt yet T seem to be always doing It; imprimis" (shrik- ing the forefinger of hes left hand with the right), "imprimis Ilio Moat." Ile pauses, as If expecting a disclaim- er', but none such names --"Tic past generally" (moving on to the second ,, t et n nl 1 Il 1 n d a m ha lin • but with b , h tto & g more result than before), "yometeh'es" (reaching the third finger), Still lint silence, .which, if it mean anything, mast mean assent. 'Ile looks impatiently in her thee, to seek the respanso,wlilah her lips refuse frim. • "On your own showing," silo says Jim has been looking with lock -lustre eye out of the open window at the young plane trees exchanging their frowsy buds for infant leaves; al Ilhe one Judas tree pranking in its purple blossoms in the Piazza; but at then low complaint he makes one step across the room, and, whipping off Mester Berlie alike from long -enduring dog and plaintive woman, stoops over the Tatler as she sits upon the floor, passing one band over the other, upon which the child's angry lin- gers, transferred from his first victim, have left rosy prints of pain. "I wish 1 had not come; I wish it was time to go home!" whimpers the little boy. "Sipco he is so anxious to go home, I will take him 1f you like," says Jim in a stiff voice; "I must be going myself." She looks up at him front her lowly posture, charming, hal!-apologetic, wholly peace-maidug senile fleeting across her small face, while she still chafes her hand—that little pinched land which makes him feel so ridiculously tender. "Are you, too, sorry that you came?" she asks. 1 The question takes him by surprise. lie is not prepared for so friendly and almost intimate a sequel to her short. shy answers, and iter abrupt quilting of hint. He hesitates how to answer it; and as tie hesitates, she rises and {,lands be- side him. It is not cosy for a grown person to rise gracefully from a sent on the floor. Jim catches himself thinking with what a roll and a flounder Cecilia would have executed the sono manreu- vre; but Elizabeth, supple and light, rises as smoothly as an exihalation from a summer meadow. "If I was rude to you just now," she says, rather tremulously; "if I ant ever rude to you In the future, .l hope you will put it down to the fact that I-1— am very ignorant of—that 1 know very little of the world," The two men are gone; so is the child; so is the dog; and Elizabeth is shutting up the piano and removing the score, "What a noise we made!" site says, smiling at the recollection. "If you nealke such a shocking noise again, the signorina and the other lodg- ers will infetewty interfere." ht's. Lo Merchant, has followed her doughier, and now throws one arae about her slight neck, with a gesture of passionate affection. "If you knew," she says, in a voice of deep and happy t:g..alion, "what it was 1) ma to hear you laugh as you did to- day!" I have a good many arrears in that way In make up, have not I, mammy? And so have you, loo, answers the younger woman, laying her sleek head down caressingly on her mother's shout - der; then, in a changed and restless voice: "011, if we could stop that man talking about the Wail Why does be go on hammering about 11?" "Why, indeed?" replies Mrs. Le Mar- chant with a shrug. "hien ore so thick - seemed; but it is saltier touching, his havnig remembered us all these years, is not It? For my part, I had almost forgotten his existence --had not you?" "Absolutely!" replies Elizabeth, with emphasis; -'and if 110 will only lot me, 1 inn more than willing Ib forget it over again. Oh, mammy" (turning her face vaand, and burying it on her mother's breast), "why can't we forrfo1 every- thing? begin everything afresh (ran now—this delightful noiv 7" (1 'o be continued). 'f--4 IN A elEN1CAN HAT STORE. IIalf a Intron straw feats is no un- common sight to bo met with at one nine in the hat stores of Mexico. 'Tile hats .are made of a long pampas grass which grows nowhere else in the world; it is specially aull(vnled for the hat in- dustry. So tepidly ai•e the na tais made that some 8101110(1 workmen can turn out tenor a dozen a da and the are then D Yr Y sent. to all ports of the world, 1.107 east about 8 Cents each to make, ere retailed el. from 30 cones in et, and are so durable that it not iniregoonily hop - perk that these of en economlcal turn 01 mind stake d single ltat last ton yaws, ON THE FARIt 1101Rslis TlfIf 1IARKII"1' DEMANDS. I have always insisted that the draft hcioe is the best type for the farmer to raise, writes Mr. James hope, Ile can do it to better advantage and make awe money at it than by attetnpling. to raise fast horses. During the past summer I have weaned the draft horse market with interest. It Is true that for the most. part, civet boxes from the middle of June io the middle of August this year brought slightly lower prices than they did before that lino and s.nee. Tho fault, !however was with the horses and not with the market, Had lite !horses clueing that time been of 'hs high grade as usual they would have sold fur as Teeny dollars. The taste in the horse market is changing, as is also the manner and time of buying. For instance, the lum- berman, feeling that if he wails until the usual (lute, he will not be able to gel what he wants, appears at the lend- ing horse markets many weeks ahead of its usual trips, fills his orders and 1 {loos enabled to get what he wants. Further than this, eastern dealer's aro not only represented in the wholesale centres but Myr their agents scouring the connhey trying to buy at first hand. Pride does not seem to call much flgure. The greatest denuee( for Ihe drafter is in the largo cities. Take it all in all, he i., the most easily handled of all breeds. Ile returns a larger net profit and is always saleable at most any Ihmc after he is five months old. 'There is ne lend too high for the profitable pro- duction of draft horses, but there is a right and wrong way of going about it. It stands to reason that the higher the price of the land on which the horse Is bred, the higher should be lite atm of the breeder. It is en old saying and a true ono that it costs as much to rear a horse the sells for $100 r as it does fa ono that brings three Lines as much. Hence it is largely a selection of breed- ing stock. When it coshes t0 buying n high-class sire, the question of cost must not bo given undue weight. it pays to get a good. mare with strong points, one that will bring sizoble and well proportioned colts. A trite drafter with large bones, correct in conforma- lion, a good actor and highly bred, will always do well, • it is a safe proposition to select a big horse, short of leg and with plenty of substance. Sometimes it may be necessary to Itr- homilies) a little more range or shorten top the lacks of mares in a certain dis- trict, but even then 11 will be found that the properly [esteemed sire will take the shorter road to the end than one more or less of a monstrosity In the di- rection indicated. In short, in the breed- ing of present day drafters, we must use sires that are considered good toy contpelenl judges. It is the very quali- ties that the judge observes that sell the cells for big money. 11611: DAIRY TO CONSUMER. 1 have been in the dairy business for about 25 years, have conducted a retail milk business for 12 years and a whole- sale mills and butter business for pri- vate customers a good part of this time, says Mr. Peter Gearhart. During -this period 1 have had much experience with various breeds of cattle and their care. As to breeds, if I were starting a herd for a milk dairy, 1 would get either holstein or a milk strain of the Red Durham or Shorthorn family. If I wanted a butter herd I would get either Jersey or Guernsey. But in any event, pure-bred cattle. They mast have better care than our native stock, but will more than pay for the extra care and feed. At present i have a• he'd et Jerseys and make butter for private customers nt 30 cents a pound the year around. The demand is always great- er than the supply. 7'he butter is made to rolls or sizes to suet the customers, put an wooden plates, covered with parch- ment paper, and marketed once a week I use the deep setting pled of skimming.' Pasture in 'summer and feed silage' with clover in winter. Some grain is fed iho year round vaying the dnlount to suit the needs. 1 have always [Wind that the greater variety of grains and rough feed, the better the remolis. 1 would not advise feeding- silage exclu- sively. Dut no one who !keeps six ar more cows can afford to be without a silo. Silage, undoubtedly, is the best and cheapest winter reed yet discover- ed I aim to melte my cows average 250 pounds of buter. a year. VALUE OF A IIAND SEPARATOR. Every progressive dairyman should have a band sopurale•, You can then give the calves fresh, sweet skim milk, ft be expensive to feed calves on whole milk, especially when yell eon sell iho butler for 25 cents per pound and sup- ply the, fat taken from the milk hy (Ai- mee] or ollcalce at a few cents per pound. From the other side, the operator is Certainly a splendid Inimetmeut sae a labor saver. it is also calami' 50 a means of getting all the boiler int from the milk, Get a good Pinwheel ma- chine, but don't get a very smelt size unless you have only a very few news, For ten to twelve cow's we would cel - thinly recommend a 450 to 650 -pound' pe hour sepaelo'. Wash tate nmehine every time it is itsed. Don't believe the neent who tells you That you con wash his nlnrhin0 by simply dipping the parts in warm water. Anyone tela has handled yes- sets,.in which mill( has been kept, knows that tient is not so. Dee n brush, 1101 d (ilsh rng, bo wish each piece of Ihe mer boiling separator, then p g hot w tner over the pats end slim in dry. Use plenty of o11 on the bearings and Ihits r_rently encase ho lifo of the machine,. Fasten aha mounter securely to the floor, take three minutes to speed it up, heat e p the howl with a liltie lukewarm water Mere nepirntng, then flrrsh outwith h Mlle clean Writer after the mill( has Dun through, 10 get alt 1710 MOM. The fetal number nt shtdents 'rt!he have bie rlattlnind•nl Cambridge fell term was 1.001, er thirteen mare lion last year. Flits number boats all records, et Fr the ar ens The Purest and Cieaiiest Green Tea on Earth. Delicious and Economical in use Lead pnokote 01.15. CEYLON GiIEEN TEA. 400, 600 and 600 per ib. At all groom. TERRIBLE BLACK BAND t'111 SECIIGT TERIIOn or AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES. How This Society Bad Its Origin-lntro- dueed into America by Foreign Emigrants. But few people realize how serious is the problem presented by the criminal societies of the United Stales. The chief of these, the Society of the Black Hand, or the Mafia, as it is sometimes celled, is one of the most mysterious associa- tions ever formed. Precisely how long it has baffled the detectives of the world it would be dlfllcudt to say. But the list of crimes attempted or carried out by it Is simply appalling. it 1003 an attempt was made to blow up the Cunard liner Umbria by means of an infernal machine containing 100 lits. of dynamite. A warning letter was, however, received in time to prevent the disaster. The letter„ explolaed that "The Society has declared war against England and has ordered the destruc- tion of every British steamer flying Uro British flag that sails out of New York (earlier." Superintendent Murray, of lite Bureau of Combustibles, who exam- ined the machine, declared that et was the largest and cleverest he had ever seen. The affair was a mystery at the time, and has remained so ever since. GRIM FOUR-MIONTIiS' RECORD. But it is chiefly against private per- sons, and with the object of gain, that the Black IIand Is directed. As the society has over 5,000 members in Now York alone, it is not surprising to learn that in four months 54 persons were killed or manned, 7 building blown Up, and 700 attempts at blackmail made under threats of death. The late Mr. Russell Sage was in con- stant fear of assassination though his refusal to pay blackmail; while Mor. Wesson, the revolver manufacturer, is said to have paid over $5,000,000 as the result of demands by the society. The Black iIatd of America undoubt- edly had its origin as a branch of the terrible Mafia, and Was introduced by foreign emlglanls. The inception 01 the Mafia itself is said to be as follows: In 1292 a young citizen of Palermo and his betrothed were about to bo married. 'While the lover sought the priest, a drunken sergeant of the French garri- son staggered up to the girl and kissed her. The girl fell in the struggle, strik- ing her head against to pillar. QUICK RETRIBUTION. At this moment her lover returned and, seeing what had occurred, stabbed tate sergeant to the heart. The incident led to the revolt of Palermo against the French, tate Italian cry being "Monte Alla Franeia, Italia Anclea"—"Death to the French is Italy's cry." When the ofrenzy of revolution passed and the day of French retribution came, the citizens termed themselves into a patriotic league, making Mafia their password. Societies of this sort are extremely cautious. Orders to commit murders would arrive in Italy and Spam from Geneva and London, and it makes one shudder to learn that Panizzi, e. member. of a similar lawless band called' char- coal -burners — Carbonate -,- who was exiled from Italy, was for.man)• years the chief librarian at the British Museum t The election and initiation of members into the Black' Hand was exhaustive and terrifying to all but those of strong nerve. After strict inquiries, and a un- animous vote, tiro candidate would be summoned lo a meeting; after flying at a crucifix to show he hod no sonllnnont that would prevent his being faithful to (lee band, he was blindfolded' and ac- cused of being 0. spy, whereupon the chief world order the company assem- bled to REND (HIM LiMB FROM LIMB. If lie did not flinch. they tore the ban- dage from bis eyes, and he found a dozen musket, barrels presented at his body; this lest passed with no sign of fear, he would ba told to pick a coin from the floor, and as he stooped the members tried to strike Ilse coin with their daggers. often passing them turough the neophyte's fingers. Their a vein eves opened in his arm, and he signed the nate of secrecy and fidelity in 7015 own blood, nesicics being established at San Francisco enol New York, the 131aoic Hand Is represented at St, Loafs, Chi- cago end New Orleans. Al the latter place it was particularly active and vio- lent sixteen years ago. In May, IWO, a band of Mistiest laid in ambush for a company of tate Stappngltera, a secret society opposed to the 131ackc Mince and killed and wounded six. Forty murders had already occurred among Italians and Sicilians In that city, So the police made a special effort in connection with this new crime and arrested six persons: But curing rho trial all the witnesses were assassinated, MAFIA ALMOST BEATEN. In spite of this, the prisoners were convleleed, but counsel appealed success- fully for a new trial. Mr. Hennessy, the Chief of the Police, made such exhaus- tive research pending the fresh trial that the Mafia feared its entire discovery and annihilation bolts In America and Euro - epee Ten members of the Black IIand were; disputed to assassinate hint, and a vol- ley of bullets was discharged al him from a Clark alley one midnight. Ifo emptied his revolver, fully twenty shots being exchanged. Eleven Sicilians were arrested on suspicion, but in spite o ove'whelming eviden00, the jury, in- timidated by threats of murder,' found six not guilty, giving then{, as they al- leged, the benefit of the doubt, A fresh charge preferred against then{, however, sent them back to the county gaol. The populace of New Orleans were now wildly exceed. and indignant. Led by a lawyer named Paricerson and several prominent public officials, 2,000 persons assembled at tete Clay statue on March 14111, 1801, and, armed with guns and revolvers, stormed the prison where the nineteen accused lay. • JUS'('10E WITHOUT T1iE LAW. Some of the assassins had secreted themselves in the women's quarters, hoslily vacated for their benefit; bol they, were all found and edllet' shot down to the prison or taken out, hanged from the nearest lamp -post, and riddled with bullets. • The United States had to -pay $25,000 to the Italian Government for the widows and orphans of the persons killed, bya a severe blow had been dealt at the Mafia for the time being. This rough treatment, however, served to win for the Black (land the sympathy of maty Italian gentlemen in the united States 'who hod never before counlen- uttced their wicked acts. WHERE TO LiVE LONG. A German statistician hes made a care- ful investigation to discover in which countries lite greatest ageisattained. The German. Empire, with 55,000000 po- pulation, has but seventy-eight subjects who are store than 100 years old. France with fewer than 411,000,000, bas 21.3 per- sons who have passed their hundredth birthday, England hos 146; Scotland, forty-six; Denmark, two; Belghun, five; Sweden, ten; rand Norway, with 2,000,- 000 inhebilants,, twenty-tbr0c. Stvi- zerland does not boa.^,{ a single centen- arian, hut Spain, with about 171,000,010 population, hes,410., Tho most amazing figures creno from that troublesome and turbulent region known as liie•Baleen Penlnsule: Salvia has 573 persons wile are more then 100 years old; Roumania, 1.018; and Bulgaria, 3,883, In other wo'ds, flagella has a centenarian lo every 1,000 Inhabitants, end thus holds bboo International record for old people. In 11102 alone there died in Bulgaria 350 persons who bed exceeded lite century, t am inexpressibly sorry, Mr. Smith- ers," she anal, "ln leant that when you called Ihe other clay TIger bit 50111' ' 0h, bleat's all right," he said, with n forced effort to he cheerful, "No, It isn't," she sobbed; "lite peer little follow has been 111 over Since," 444810900640 Oa& 410 it 0 Her system is called upon to supo.yctio l t$Ilin%r'iSllnlTtelB$ for two. Some form of nou:ishmenxt that will cto t Wo easily taken up bre mother's system ie1.2 d0 is needed. S'S,Scott.c EvnxLdg vcontains the eatest possible amount of nourish. rent in easily digested ested for`lm. 40 � at ,45 eto 40000 00004400 0 Nursing baby? gt's- a heavy strain on mother. 0 0 Mother and baby are wonderfullsr helped by its use. ALL lottlJtictsY'St tee. API',? Moe 4:141000400044004000 001400044 •:� et'a?OO-oi 0000,?b Gq'Ooo•O•o'cQ YOUNG FOLKS D' oocso-o-o-0000pee-tesecefedeteeeill A RAVEN, Poor Mrs, Van Loon was a widow; she had four children. The eldest was Dirk, a bny of eight years. One evening etre hod no bread, and !los children weir) hungry, tike folded mea• hands, and prayed to God.; far see served the Lord, end she believed that lea laved and could help her. When she had tnlslted her prayer, Dirk sold eo her, "Mother, don't we rend In the Bible that God sent ravens to a ;Anus neon to bring him bread?" "Yes," answered the mother, "I3ut that was long, long ago, my dear." "Well," said Dirk, "then the Lord may send ravens now. 111 go and open the door, else they can't fly in." in a trice Dirac jumped to the door, which he left wide open, so that ,rho light of the lamp fell on the pavement of tiro strat. The wealthy burgomaster of the town son chanced to be passing the open dour. Looking into the room, he was pleased with Its clean, tdy 0pp00ran00, and with the nice lithe children, who were grouped around the Mother. Ile could not help stepping in,( and approaching Mrs: Ven Loon, lie said, "Eh, my gond asmthwoan, is?"why is your dooropen so late lobe. Von Loon was a little confused when elm saw such n welt -dressed gen- llama in her poor home. She quickly rose end dropped a courtesy to the gentleman; then, taking Dirks cap from his head and smoothing his hair, elle answered with a smile, "My little Dirk i10s done it, sir, Thal the ravens ought fly in to bring us bread" Now the burgonasler was dressed in a black coat end Meek trousersand he wore a black hat. He was quite black all over, except his collar and shin - front. "Ah, indeed!" enc exclaimecl cheerily, "Dirk is right. Here is a raven black, you see, and a large one, loo. Como along, Dirk, and 111 show you where the bread. Is." The burgomaster took Dirk to leis house, and ordered his servant to -put tem loaves and a shall pot of butler into a basket. Phis he gave to Dirk, who) carried a house as quickly as ho could When the other little children sow the broad they hrgnn d tnrmg and chipping their (lands. The mother gave to rich of them a think slice of breed and butler, which they ale with the greatest relish. when they lad .flnisbed their Inoel, Dirk went to the open door, and, tak- ing his rap from his head, lotted up to the sky, and sold, "Many thanks, gond Lnrd1" Anrl after having said this ho shut the door. HOW COMMON SENSE SAVED THE. PUPPY, "Charlie, Charlie, come quick, cried Mabel, in a voice shrill with terror; "tee puppy's in the cistern." Charlie obeyed instantly, dropping the old pan into whheh he had deposited swarms of potato bugs, Even the swift thought that they would all crawl into the vines end have to be gathered o•ar again did not stay his footsteps, What were a few hours' %vette even though )turd and disagreeable, 511510 compared with Ihe life of his beautiful Newfoundland puppy? lie thought 11 would be the work of a few minutes to rescue iho little fel- how, An old lin pail was at hand, Mabel brought the clothesline, and, in a moment or two, the pall descended into the Marto hollow. Charlie hooted 11 close to the puppy, n1 iho same time calling to flim in coaxing and endearing tones. But the poor little animal found Is impossible to fasten his feel upon the hard and shining sides of the pall, ole struggled bravely at the same limo cry- ing pitifully. Mabel, who was watching eagerly, at last began to cry lousily, es sire saw the puppy's repeated vain attempts. "Ice's going' to drown, I know he is," she sobbed aloud; "see, bo can hardly keep his head out If water now." The hued man was just driving into the barn as she made This outcry. Ile dropped the reins on ilia horse's back, and, wilt a few strides, reached the cistern and gave one glaneb into els (lap! hs, Ito next jerked the clothesline around so that he had hold of the end that lay on the. ground, el the sumo time coiling to Charlie. "Get me that wooden pail on the steps, there." The wooden. pail soon struck the writer close to poor puppy's head. Ito threw out his feet In one lest desperate effort. They clung fest, and In another nye meet the poor liltie soaked body was in Charlie's a'nie. "How diel ,you happen to think of the tvatulen pail?" asked Mabel lookin; at the hired mat in awed admiration. "Comeem sense," sntd (loo mon, ,'rr tu•ning°to Ills welling horse. "Commit. sense," a m . repealed Mnbc+T; "tees go tell mother; you know 8111 is always saying lent Ile broiler to have onnlulon apnea than talent." C' THE n1'Ttl:ll 1311', The blew tial d.strny, the ,fleet al an adverse exenmudtun is ticrnsinielly more Ihe result, of en accident tenet of censeinus effort, In a lrhrl not 1011 0710 a 100'3 01011)1, \•fines w,ls in the box,and after bonns through his • re d(xt was ready to r011re. One question romaine: "Nov, Mr, —, lone not an attempt been made 10 Induce you to tell rho voter n different story?" "A different story to what I have told sir?" "Yes; is it not sr?" "Yes; sir," "Upon ,veer moth, 1 dentend to know who the persons ace Who have attempts 00 this•" Nell, ser, you've -tried n8 hard as any 'el 'ern," was the unoxpee1soI ah= ewer. it ended tiro 04nvorsatien.