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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1905-8-10, Page 6ter said Alba. "Ito has had a bad 1: THE CRIMSON '';* SLEEP... 1,;) tee esteeeetereeeeeeseesteseeseeerejseee,4 1. High above the hum and roar of the Oily came the boom from the greet thick -tower as Basil Vyuec stepped into tho hall at Chesterfield Mansion% where he and Erie Jere inyn shared a ilat together. • Twelve times the boom thundered through the night, like a salvo of canna». It. ciehood and vibrated in the hall, as Vyner closed the door hotline him. Emmeline was waiting up far him, as usual, pretending to be busy. Whatever time he came home, be found her wattieg, "Not in bed yet?" he questioned. ''You really should not stay up so late, Now, of( youtrot, you—stott. visen, Good -night!" The girl was the daughter ce, his dead clerk. Ile had taken her into his service when her father diet There were times when her gratitud oppressed him. He did not kno that often when ho had walked i his sleep to tke head of the stair cese, the girl, ever watchful, ha ]ed him backto the door of his roo end saved him from harm. She ha often longed to warn him. Ye gomehow, when hecamein at nigh be always froze her courage. "I like to know you're in, sir," sh ventured tremblingly. As she spok her eyes grew Mutinous. They ha a look of sadness and pity. Sh looked up into his facto mutely, a dogs sometimes look up into th face of those they love. "Good night, sir," she added. An.d sb dragged her weary body slowly u the stairs. Vyner had been hard at work in the courts all day. After seven years of waiting at the Bar briefs had come. He worked at them early and late. They were a fever in his brain. His keen, strong face was be- coming thin and haggard. 711s eyes shone like lights in deep, clark cav- eros. The great god Success had the grip of him. And it was making hint pay. Success has no mercy when it grips a man as it gripped Basil Vyner. He made his way upstairs to the room of his friend. Jermyn glared tip trete his hook at Vyner's whiso face. "Hallo, Basil!" he cried. "Where did you see the ghost?" "What do you mean, Eric?" 'Look in the mirror, my Mend,' "Oh, bother the mirror!" exclaim al Verner, as he sank into a chair wearily. .lerniyn's answer wa.s to ring th bell. Alba, the valet, came in. He had served the two fri.•nds for six years, and had received ninny kind- nesses from them. "A short cross-examination, Alba, if you please," said Jermyn shortly. "Where did you see Mr. Vyner at four o'clock this morning?" "On the landing, sir." "How was he dressed?" "In his night things, sir." "What was he doing?" "Looking over the rails of the landing, sir." "IVhere have 'you seen him every morning about the same time for a month past?" "On the landing, sir." "Same ate ire?' ' "Yes, sir; always," "Looking over the raile?" "Sometimes Mt*. Vyner looks nom tho retie, sometimes he tries to endo the catch of the street window," "That will do, Alba." And the valet went out Vyner had listened, grey -Mad. The grey hl slowly crept. over the white his face, Now he so 1 with 11 is head bent down. Ilis Ilmetee were interlocked between his knisse Jormyn went to him, and laid a strong hand on his friend's shoulder. "Now, then, Bach," he said oat, nestly, "you have heard. Get this present rase off your hands, and come and have a holiday with me. II make a man of you again. Prom- ise mo?" "All right, Eric," Vyner said lan- guidly; "when I get through with this care. I own it has gut an my trees. Leclerc admits that tho re - Aver found on kiln after 1 he inur- e) was hie. But he says he bought year; ago, second -Matt. :me t hat won't go off. I've been experi- enting with the thing, at I -Ie. -Wend cirri toenight, Either the bullets ne or leave the muzzle erratic:Ally.' tring at on object, it is twenty chancel; against one that the bullets i not leave the barrel. Oe . the her hand, there le that ono ,lance in the twenty. NoW, steproehest•—•-" Jerneyn stopped his friend alas/M.1V. "Let the suppositiotot of prosecute g counsel welt till his mind is fresh enough to tackle them!" ex- claimed Jermyte "I'm Heed, who- thor you are or not. act ofT to bed like a sensible fellow. Good -night!" The hands of the two mon mot in a firm elesp, and a few moment s later Basil was. creaming the C011.1- 001 tO his own room, Ire undressed rapidly in the daek. Would Natut•e grant him a little sleep out of night, sir." As soon as Vyner's footsteps had ceased to 501111(1 on the stah•ease, Alba, unlocked tho door of Jevinye's bed -room and entered. He had been itt previously, unknown to anyone, He walked a towrds the bed. Jermyn iny (Mot, his Neu looking up from the pillow. The eyes stared from under his brows like fixed glass. A thin rod Stream had Healed from a, wound in his forehead down the side of his fame but Mut now al - 11108t (named to do so, lender his neck w as a little pool of de en rking red. There teas a Millet 31010 in the (telling, another in the wall, another in a picture, another in a chair - back. Jermyn lay quiet, because ho was dead. His features showed no Omen of pain, 110 bad died wit bout a struggle. Alba left the bedside and went to the dressing -table. From a small drawer in It ho took a now revolver, which his master had never touched since he bought it. It was loaded in six chambees. Carefully, ono by one, Alba withdrew the bullets, Theo he went to the bed again, and placed he trevolver in the dead man's right I. hand. Presently, having looked care- fully round the room, he Melted the W door, and wont into tho breakfast - Id t, -room. Ire started when he saw Emmeline there. A seared look was on her face. Fora moment tho two :faced each other without speaking. Einem,. line was the first to break the sil- 0001, "Is not Mr.—Mr. Jermyn taking e —taking breakfast this morning'?" e she questioned hint nervously. d Alba stood deep in thought for a e while, with his eyes turned to the S floor. Men he raised -there, it was e to see tears streaming down the - girl's cheeks. o "I went into his room a little after fi p rse this morning," ho answered, "and—and I founcl Mr. Jormyn dead. He has killed himself with a revol- ver. Colne and look." Shrinking from knowledge of the worst, yet anxious to know it, the girl followed Alba into the room. She glanced at the dead man's face, and a poignant- cry came to her lips as she looked, She crushed a core nem' of her apron into her mouth. The cry broke as a pitiful moan, "I've 110 doubt he killed himself," Alba repeated quietly. "it's very shocking." And he led the weeping girl back ieto Gm breakfast -room. "What, are you going to do?" Em- meline was faltering presently. She was consumed by alarm and perplex- ity. "Do, Emeine?" answered Alha. "I shall fetch the police, now that Mr. ' Vyner has gone. I'm all of a shake -.and a shiver, but there's nothing else • for it. It's awful—awful " Some confusion in the .answers Al- e ba gave to the officers when they mercy? he riled himeelf, \Vas It Worth While to fight the numster Night agele—to fight again only Icr fail again? His teeth gritted to- gether, mouth Set bard. TIP Would light- Vet he did not elwer for mow homer. Tvy as he tynuld, the Leclerc 1 -ase and the problem of the revolver kept his brain awake, IT. Alng!, imine ohtloek Vytor went in- to the brealtfaeteromneedhere he ex pected to end Jertnyn. Ire was see. prised to see the table set only for one. jermytf begget T would ask yott to exellee tmbm VHS Morning," came in, turned their suspicion to- wards him. Besides, there were sev- eral spots of blood on his clothes. Almost before he knew what was happening, a pair of bandeulTs snap- ped on his wrists. HI. Vyner was racked with grief. Though be was all but convinced of Alba's guilt, he sent a solicitor to I him to give him, a white man's chance in a white man's country. On the clay when Vyner entered the1 coronal's court as an ordinary wit- ness, he was a mere wreck of his �lml self. Ho reeled into his seat like a man drunken. After one of the pollee had de- ecribed the cordition of the roem, the appearance of the body when jacket with the bloodstains upon it, a found, and heel exhibited Aibg's Vying was called. He could only say ,e that be had loft Jermyn well on lo the previous evening, and that When 1 y 1 Itho public, Alba himself, Stared lb a St oniehawilt. Vyner gazed at the girl by las side, as amazed as the rest. Being nearesl to her, her cov Inel struck through his nervous frame like a suddc n tmlimh, "Ile isn't guilty! Ile isn't gn11*!" cried Emmeline Wildly, bet arms ihtng out in distracted supplls (lethal. "Ile didn't do it. 1 know be didn't." Then she fell back /teethed her seat; and buried her Oleo against; Vyner's shoulder, "So it all this CO 013 is eoneere_ ed," said tho enrolee', "tho verdiet ms given." "Ole Mit he didat do it," Wailed the distracted girl. W110 d id?•• asked 'Ismer. '"I'ell in.' the truth—lor that 131a0'8 sake, Tell me the whole truth." was you! It was you!" she cried, sobbing against Ids shoulder, Vyner jumped to as feet. Her words smote him like a paralysis. His face was like white marble, with tho veins in a quiver, Staring ter- ror Was in every line of it. "1? I?" he gasped. "Yee, Yes," sobbed Emmeline. "Yort—yott did it in your sleep, with —With thiti." And she thrust into his heeds the old revolver with width he had been experimenting at Scotland Yard. "I saw you go into his room. I saw you come out. You dropped the revolver on the landing as you walked back to your roma Alba saw you come out, too, lie came out on the corridor, though he climi not see me. I was too late to save you—oh, too late—too late' But they can't harm you. You didn't know, 1 wouldn't have spoken If they hadn't said he did it. Forgive nie, master, forgive me!" Emmeline cowered against him, rocked by her anguish. Vyner stood rigid, like a pillar of marble. One question oily came from his palid lips. It was address- ed to. Alba. "Did—you—see—me, Alba?" he gasped. "1 can say nothing against Mr. Verner," said Alba stolidly, "Mr, Vyner has always been good to me. He and Mi'. Jermyn were like bro- thers." For a moment Vyner remained mo- tionless. Then a perceptible striver shook that human pillar, and it be - gate to totter; tottered and fell heav- ily upon the seat.. For a few moments Vyner writhed in his despair. He did not think 1 of himself. He had ceased Lo cure for himself. He was dust end tithes. He has killed his friend—killed the friend whom he loved, and who loved him. This was his life's rent cools- trophe, as he saw it. This was the iagoriy which wrung the aobs frum lim A pollee -officer touched him on the shoulder. "I am sorry, Mr. Vyner," he said, in a sympathetic voice. "but I must arrest you," "I ant ready to answer," said Vy- ner brokenly. And he was led away. *.tete4trete0041.eteeteedicere<eittle44.ete Ae A About the Breeirsesiebhe•erererheseeleieeeeteteeeree SPIIE 11A N Tit Y Care cannot be given the pantry, for it is here that many false move- ments may be :made and Mane' false steps be taken if the place be not in every ck'tsi 1. 10 most bowies the baking 18 pro - Pared hem for unless it is possible to prepare many dishes on a broad shelf in tho pantry it lemurs that all the ingyediente used must. be (tarried from the pantry out into the kitchen to the table and back again When the baking is finished. lir a snout convenient pantry there is a broad shelf sufficiently large to holci a. wide bake board, this shelf being at right angles with the shelves where the supplies aro plaCcd, and it. is possi- ble to stand in one place while pro - paring a baking and at the most take but a step or two to tho farth- est end of the shelvem, In loent of this shelf is a large window which gives perfeet light by which to work without straining the eyes. All up and doen tint sides of this window small brass hooke are fastened into the woodwork, and on each of these hooks is placed OM) litenSil used in cookery. When one is at work it is possible to lift any one article without disturbing the rest, and, as each article is always kopt on its own book, it becomes al - rest a mechanical movement, to 'each for any utensil needed. On the wall at tho right of the bnite board is a knife rack, and all around the wood -work of the door as wen as On the back of the door more brass screws aro fastened, and on these seueepans, balcieg pans, and larger utensils are hung, each one on a hook by iteelf. Papers are kopt at hand all the time to use in Varietal ways, and on the upper part of the pantry 4100r is fastened a receptacle for the pap- ers, is most simple in consteu lion. Au oblong piece of denim is turned in on all the edges, a selvedge being usecl for tho top of the bag. The clentin is then laid•• t tho back of the door and tacked into dace with large headed tacks. An- other lino of tacks down the middl divides it into two compartments, yid 311 One Side lleWSpaperS are kept vhile in the other ere placed paper bags of all sires and pieces of clean trapping paper. The linings of all !aka and cracker boxes are saved, or these may be used underneath a flat iron as a lining for cake tins end or wrapping the various parts of a uxmth.'out SO t.bat one a 0 Will not bo contaminated by the rest. There are many other uses to which these box linings may he put. lino idea for pantry shelves is to use two coats of white paint and then a finishingcoat f .1 it t tome Wosh the shelves with cold. water as soon as the enamel dries, cul than it will harden quickly. War this place no oilcloth or papers nit leave the shelves hare and notice ho Improvement; since there are Do memo under which crumbs can col tet there is no encouragemeia for uce, the enamel is easily wiped on lth a clamp cloth, and with suertr,altit Irish it Is never nece.esary to el ho entire pantry at once. It keees lean all the time, 11 el NOTABLE TEA. TOPERS. 11 Nen Who Drank the Stimulatin ensu halve, leaving tho pit la oil half. When all Are pared, drainit the limo water, cover with fres water, risen Wel1 and weigh, Tal h, half the weight of pared fruit 1 es granulated memo', put IL over tho Ili A in a preserving kettle, With halt A pint of ginger tem and the juicer o 10 lemon to each pound prepared a follows; Pare air the yellow hullo rind before squeezing, and put it 1 with tha freit. Make tho ginger to by bruising half an ounce of ging() for each pint weave, covering 1 with belling water, and letting i stand 15 minutes before straining, Boil 1,310 5( (111) live minutes, them ming it well at leak, twice, and wile 11, boils hard, drOp in all the peach() it cover, Leave them in unti the kettle again stelkes a boil, that skim out with a perforated skinener and put into hot glass jars. Set th jars where they will keep hot, anti all tho fruit, has been in the syrup te Brew to Excess. g 11 The 111081 hardened (ea drinker may a admit that tea (Molting van be, and t often ix, overdone, amid yet!. the best. knoWn topora do not appeal. to 11 have suffered in terneequence of thelr le•excesmive indulgence In the cheueing (11 1imbm. QuInCey Waft El. notable tea er. 111 his picture of a winter even- t, ing in his cottage among the Cum - I berland bills 110 mentions the tell I Kill ipage on a table berdele the fire, and bellied tho table a fair tea malt- ei ar, wbose duty it was to 1111 an al - 1 , mord endlees procession of cups. Be 'IQuineey deviator; that lie drank tea o'• front 8 o'clock. at night to 4 the !morning, and claims the infusion ea "the favorite beverage of the Intel - IV, A few clays afterwaeds, he was brought before the magistrate with a Alba. Alba elected to give evidence for his master. Enanclinc followad. Vyner wifit int o the wit ness-box, too. The MSC ter the defence woe veiny the ease for tho prosecution; I 0 could be 110 other, The story elie 'Red the sympathy of all who lleard 1.1‘ Strong Mell heard it with Cniiv- eying lips. Wetrien Were. S0031 10 weep. The . 'voice of the magistrate trembled as he spolie.. "Mr. Velum, and you, Alba," be said, addressing the prisoners, "it has been difficult for me to discharge my duty for pity and sorrow. 1 feel 11 ANNINfl PF,ACIIIIIS AND PleAllS.. Fruit of medium size and high flu- or is best for canning. It should bo illy ripe, but firm and free from raises or rotten specks. Clingstone caches are much the hest, Choose mit front tho neurest orchards—that •hich has been shipped a long (Us- ti:tee seldom pays for 'canniug. This particularly true of pears, which re almost flavorless unless ripened n the tree. Fruit must he picked ist es it begins to turn for long dis- trict) shipping, hence is always more r less insipid. 'Wash and drain the fruit before be - inning to pare it, if it is the least it dusty or sticky. 1 are as thin as ossible—tho finest fruit flavor lurks oxt the skin. Drop Poaches as fast s pared into a deep Jar half full of 011'lime water. This prevents their ening hrOWII, and in a measure lum- ens them. Leave thew whm ole iless oo big to go in the can. In that ft hat no Mry would convict on the b vidence before Me. Your place at p he Bar, Mr. Vyner, is an honored ft 11,', Ito not let what hns hap the e wreck your career. Yon hove not ost e single friend. You have not ant anyone s sympathy or good a Nestles. You are diseharged, both of 0 cm." .11 A wild Maze broke out of the hush H. afore the last words were spoken. 0 "'ever have sura cheers been heard 1 a comet of law. Allat's face was g reathed in smiles. Vyner drew him - elf up. As tho sunlight streamed M hrougel tho window it seemed to tin that ho stood at the Wide-open ales of a new world. "I knew they wouldn't harm you!" cried Emmeline, 1aughlug and (testing by turns, Venter turned to her, with a sad smile. Then he gripped .Allt's hand, In in sight of the court. tV "Alba," he said fervently, "we inc L he entered the breakfast -room the Inceet morning, Alba had told him 'that .Jermyn was usleep, and (lid not I whet to be disturbed. It was nega- tive evideneel but it was the first 'link in the circumstantial chain against Alba, is h Inc e 111 t. nee , 1, I She swayed from Side tO side as sho w !stood. She said Alba had only or -h g s dered breakfast rm. one, and she had not Seen. ibfr. Jermyn since the prev- ious night, when lie was in hits usual health. That was all she knew. Alba elected to give evidence on his own behalf. :fro repeated his story. With the revolver found in Jermyn's hand on tho desk in front of him, the 001.01ler oommetreed to put his questicers. "You quite mulerstroul what you're Saying, Alba?'' lie commenced. "Yes, sir." "Thin W118 the revolver you found in the dead man's hand?" "Yes, she" "You say ho must have shot him- self with it?" "It moat bo so, sir." "Then the bullets found must nee- 1esecteily have fitted that revolver?" "Yes, sir.", "Then, Albo," 1411.111 the coroner quietly, but with the confident air of a man who haslogs:lied the bot- tom out of a trumped-up story. "E have to tell you that they don't—not one of them. They aro all too large," Alba glared round tho court help- lessly, wildly. Ilis native wit had not beett clever eneugh. When he ma the 3'01,0117E3r iti Jormyn's hand, he had not asked himself whether the Minute would fit the weaPell. Ile tried to in k. 1 tbti voice cu'utmlced aL thc• back of his throne Ito could not argue, ibm, could hot, contort the evidence... ile ryes detel The ((Molter summed up demi againat him. The hlry, Whhollt leaving the box', roinrued 11 verdict Of "Wilful murder" egaii;s; him. 'rho police again closed round their 1)118011er. The eoroner rose from his seal. I lie Jury commenced to lettVe the b07:, woman sitting next. to Velier. It Then a pit•Ol1E1 We 11 terse P11111 10 enter from lertme.line. The exodus ceased. Coroner, jurors, the pollee, b 13 11 0 Cl to t Ore P1011 Servant and master now, e are friends—while life lasts."— ondon Anewers. g'esee sree Pea 011508 " --le miiitn. '0 eel< • _deo- ser-711%,„ eee eeses :e• r • „sa ss Me; Tine SA Fel PV CROWN, Bomb proof center deeigned for the ("ear by loving relatlees Who do not Want his job. (Mission patent applied for.) Add a pint of frsh syrup for each half gallon already used, bringing it to a quids boil, skim thoroughly and 1111 the cams with it, boiling hot, Scatter thm lemon peel well through the fruit, when it is put in the jars. Seal after filling, and let stand where tho cooling' will be gradual. In filling cans let them stand so' oral minutes before Reeling, so tho liquid falls below tho fruit, mole may be put in. Pears may be earl sed or brandied in exactly the sem way, If a tart flavor is desired, use two lemons in place of one, Tho abov recipe has been tested and found to bo excellent, chooses the picnic spot with referenC to shade and accessibility. A day or two before the picnic the list edibles to be taken should be writ ten out, together with the necessary articles and utensils, so that when the luntheon is unpacIced it, will not be found that the salt was left at hoote not' thut Utothat oi cr, are nmiesl ng. As the package goes on each article is checked alt the list. A hamper will hold everything safely, but if the mewing is to he divided among tho j itnickers peek the sandwiches in a box, the cake in another, and so on, keeping futzh viand separate, Broiled or fried chickem a small baked ham, the best portion sliced anti the rest mincteri for sandwiches, are setisfactory meats, A cold po- tato salad, tomatoes, 01 1Vell, and salted almends may bo edited. Cake r • • Martel," Another tea toper was Hazlitt, the essayist, who was not only vely fond of the beverage, but aeonis to have drunk it of extraordinary etrength. We are told on excellent authority that ho used two ounces for his breakfast and two for his tea, with cream; and that for this tea—the line ost Soochong—he paid at first four- teen shillings and aft encore! twelve - shillings per pound. Perhaps this ex - e. travagarit and excessive consumption of tea may account for some of the essayist's quarrelsomeness. O Cowper, as we all know, appreci- ated to the full the charm of the fragrant leaf, but there is hardly suf- ficient evidence to show that he was guilty of undue indulgence. The most lemons tem toper was, of course, Dr. Johnson, whose feats with the cup which MIT. Thvale filled THE PICNIC, The wise organizer of a picnic so assiduously are too well known to need enlargibg upon. His record - appears to have been twenty -eve cups, which he drank at a sitting, • but in mitigation of judgment it should be remembered that in all probability the cups worn much smal- ler than the teacups in use at the present thne. Still, Johnson told Miss Reynolds In playful verse: Thou const not make the tea so fast As I can gulp it down, ver, cat•amel, lady roll jelly, or mere ble cake, cookies, and jumbles, Lot to mention the ever popular e1101 - elate, are all good picnic cakes. Sponge cake cut in thin slices, and retread with orange, given gage, and pineapple marmelade, or wtter crys- tallized ginger chopped up and Mois- tened with orange juice, and, then rolled up in waxed paper, are found tasty bits of sweetness. Fruit juice in the proportion of two oranges to one lemon is sweet en - ml and poured in bottles, securely corked and put, on 110 OVer night, al - SO a, jar of mayonnaise dressing made with cream, and a jar of treys for the coffee 11 coffee is desired, are also put on ice. Just before startling, - at in ecivct'al thicknesses of neWSpaper, and then In flannel. This keeps them cold for several hours, This is n good net to follow: Chit: - ken broiled or !,'led: halted ham, sliced Mon sandwiehes, biscuits, cake fruit, potato salad, salted nets!, olives, mayonnaise, cheese fresh eggs, table cloth and paper Impkins, wooden plates and tin cups, salt. and pelmet-, corkscrew, comb and Muth, towels arid soap, ham- mock, twe or three shawls, arnica, court plaster, 'USEFUL HINTS. If sponges are treed for seal) they should be rinsed met daily; otherwise they aro sure to become slimy and most unpleasant. lit any ease they require periodical tleaeing. Dissolve some borax or soda in warm water and let the sponge soak in it for an hour, Squeeze it sell out and then rinse m data warm water. Many People make it a habit to put their sponges outside tho window after using them in order that they may air and dry ill readiness for tho next using. When oilcloth loses its shiny sur- face it can be made to last longer told to look smite new alma hy var- nishing it over with glue. Wash the oilcloth thoroughly and let it dry, Then at night when the traffic of tho clay is ovr, go over it. with a piece of flannel clipped in gine water. Choose a dry day for it, and in tho morning the glue will bo quita Leed nod tho flooreloth new looking. The glue water must be prepared some time before it is needed, putting a 81111111 qUalltity of glue in a pint or so of water and lotting it stand on the stove until dissolved. Fruit stains may be removed from table linen by moisteniug the stain with milk and then covering with powdered common table salt. Mar - wards wash in the military manner: ],r you want 10 break off a glass bottle quito evenly soak a piece of string in turpentine foul tie it around the glass just where you wish the break to come, Then fill the glees to that poi ne with cold Water and set fire to the string, The glass will slum all nlolge the heated lino. 13y breaking off the top of a broken and battered (even -ter, if the base be in- tact, it may be ttonverled Into a use- ful howl A BATICIAIN IlLA.NKIIITS, Salve MorosofT, the Butts:Ian "Wool: king," is dead, aged only forty-four. Ho employed in factories over 70,000 workere, Al the beginning of the War with Japan he made the Government present of 100,00q 'blanket, but thoe never reached the ermy in Manchuria. Officials tried to sell thorn foe their own profit, tted ono of them, not knowing whence thoy luttl come, ectuaily Mewed them to MoreeolT at 0, greatly reduced priea And he described himself as a "herdened and shameless tea thinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this • fascinating plunt; whose ltel (bo has scarcely 1ime to cool; who with tea solactis the midnight and with tea welcomes the ramming." It is an amezing I confession, but wo are bound to re- member that this intemperate -tea bibber lived to the age Of 75. johnsen's record was equaled by liiehop Gilbert Burnet, the author of the well known "Histmee of My Own Times," who is reported to have dig- ; posed of twenty-five cups itt a morn- ing. Another man of letters of a very different typo, Nathaniel Haw - theme, who might have equaled the doctor mt eed his tea drinking; pro- ; penstiles early. When he was a very yo .ng man Hawtborne was in the ihabit of i isitiug at a house wlere the hostess made exterl Iem. tea. and Ione evening when the veitor's 51111 WaS paSSOd to be retitled she said: "Now, Mr. Hawthorn°, I am going to play Mrs. Thrale to yam' John- -son, I know yeu are a slave to my tea." The young Man made no re - PLY, but he had no inclination to play the role assigned to him, and for five years from that night Haw- thorne did not taste a cup of tea— proteat Which Wenn: aS exuessive in its wny as the inclination which his hostess had attributed to lih. ahem hate been other het•oes of the teapot nut a fon- Hartley Colo - ridge may Oth•ly claim a place among the tea topers. Some one is said to have asked him mice how many cups he usually drank aril to have received the scornful rply: Cups! 1 dant count by cups. I count by potrier Then there have been others whom it would be hardly fair to rank as tea topers, but whO have shown marked devotion to the teapot. Tit recent clays Mr, Glad- stone end Dean Stanley would ap- pear in this class but indeed Mier list of enthusiastic levers in recent times of what Waller called the "best of Wm" would be of most; inordin- ate length. Al! :ANSWER 11F,ADY. Evert a severe eviticiser may be disarmed of its SOVerity by a happy anewer that changes its meaning, and it is often no less fortunate to he able to turn a good-natured one, Sir .(ohm) Wetson melon, who 01 timate- ly immune President of the Royal Scottish Academy, rased to tell this story of Lord Palmerston:— 'I had exhibited for' several years, but without any particular success. Ono year, howevie, Lord Palmerston took a sudden fancy to my picture called 'Summer in the Lowlands' arid bought it, at a high price. Nis lord- ship at the saner time made inquir- ies after the ertiet, and invited mo to call upon him, 1 waited upon him accordingly. lro complimented nee upon the piettire, but said there wan one thing about It he could not understand. 'What is that, my lord?' 1 pokd. 'That there should be such long 1 grass in a field where there are so nutey sheep,' said him lordship, I Promptly, and with it merry twinkle of the eye, It was a 'decided hit, and, having bought the picture and paid for it, he war; entitled to his joke, 'Irow do you account for it?" c ho wont on, Smiling, and looking first s at the picture end then at me, " 'Thoee sheep, my lord,' I t•epliecl, "Were eels, turned into that field the s eight before I (Wished the picture.' 1, "His lordship laughed haertily, told said 'Bravo!' at my reply, end gave I me EL cominfesion for two rnoro pie- 0 tuari res, d havecashed since then scene veret notable cheques Of his, dear Old beetle! 1 Lig ngered Loo— Di yoU ever f etudy geometry, NociT'e Nimble Ned— y 'I clId.1t Tpeiogiilecteelitin:nerzeld, Leo—"Oood. t wish you'd toll Me how to square 0 SOME PECULIAR WILLS wrins AS LEACLES. 111 MANY iNsztialms, Bitter Pilla to Swa- llow, But Pot: - tunes in Money Decided the Cass. John Wi•O, of Cooker, County Longford, Boland, willed his farm to Patrick MacCarthy "under coudis ticin that withia ono year after my death he ecintraet marriage and 001110 to nemhou e Ill y se ot Cooker with Rose Anne Reilly, daughter of Philip Reilly, of Totteyg•ardect." Ga the teetator; death some time after - weeds MacCarthy sought out Mies licitly In America and offered her marriage, She refused his hand, Lind lie had to r(11,11411 with the terms or Mr. Wren's will unfulfilled, He (lid not, however, lose the farm. for 1.110 Irish Master of the Rolls, be- fore %Alain the matter Caine for hear - trig, considered that in joerneying to America and prhe oposing to tlady he had done ell that lay in his power to carry out the testator's intention for the miscarriage of which he WEI8 ill 110 WiSu to 1)111131e. Finally, the judge hold MacCarthy to be the rightful owner ofethe farm, and nut Miss Rcillys brother, to whose, ac- cording to the will, it was to have, reverted in the' event of the marriage/ not taking place. A legacy saddled with a wife is not, indeed, always an unalloyed blessing, as a young Liverpudlian discovered a few years since when he siteceecled to a handsome fortune con- ditionally on his espousing the tes- tator's wiclow, a woman of unattrace tive appearance and shrewish tometie. Being, however, in sore pecuniary stt•aits, he accepted BOTH LADY AND FORTUNE. The former dying within six months of the marriage left hint In peece to enJoy the latter. Not long since Bt•istol gentleman left a considerable fortune to Ills nephew, provided the latter should marry his eousin. Now, althmigh the nephew was already deeretly mated ho had luckily for himself wedded his nice Americen in Chicago, where the bond matri- monial is by no means unbreakable. So with his rolfe's connivance a di- vorce on the ground of incompati- bility of temper was obtained, and by marrying his cousin ho was en- abled to secure the accompanying fortune. An ecCentric citiven of Ih•eoklyn, who owed his son a grudge, left him nt, his death $250,000, $addled with the condition that within the space of a year be should marry a weinan hearing the Christian mance of 'Pheo- closia Sophonisba. booting this name the yoimtig 11100 sought far and wide, and he WaS be- ginning to dttspair of success when the longed -for daniScl Owned up a foW miles frt»n his own home. No beauty wits she, however, who bort) the requisite names, but his late father's scullery -maid, a fullthlooded nem ctss, whom the testat had doubtless hall in his mind's eye when be drew tip his fantest eerily punitive testament. She Was a bil ter matri- monial pill to swallow, but, as she was well gilded, the legatee gull oil her down and departed into another Ccaintry WHERE DE WAS UNKNOWN. Somewhat similar though riot so verdict lye, in spirit was the bepost of $25,000 by a Mr, Muir to two distant relatiVcs named Adam, con- ditionally on their °spots/ eg id thin six months two sisters named leve who kept, a small milliner's shop in a Midland. tlIV1.1. At first the laillem, who, like the gentlemen, he d not been eonselted in t he matt 01',de- murrect at rec.eiving the addresses of two strangees, but pt•ud(•nce at length prevalled—thy wero no longer. young, and the future was cloudy—and the double marriage duly took leave only, by reclean of the illness of ono of the brithts, two days previous to the lapse of the specified Lime. A gentleman living in the North of England espoused in second nup- tials a lady weighing fully 1180 llire, thereby °vetting the ridicule of his 1.wo sons, 15310 WOr0 11111ch (3Xatiperet- ed at the mareiage. Ou teeth, father's death soon afterwards they f mild to their dismay that the ample leg- acy that had hem bequeathed them was conditional on their leading to tho altar within six months LW° sia- tors liVIng in the reigliberhood eho were cet•tainly of not less avoirdu- pois than their stePniother. The elder preferred to forfeit the money; bet the younger, by espotteiejs. ono o• of the stipulated ladies, when ample .' proportions would bave earneci her a place in a freak 1111.1$01.1111, Se01.11.0d 1118 patrimony. —_-_+ THE DARINGNIIIS% OF JA Ci. e. Tho number of sad neeiclente which take place every year in the Britith Navy go a long' way to &thew that ., Jack Tars aro men of deering-do, A • motto of the Service seetes to ho "Nothing venture, nothing. cl 011J' ' for the Navy oan neVer be accused of tot teying to excel in everything that they tem a hand to. The keen- 1 less shown in gun practice et:counts IS for many big accidents. After every mend fired the gun is supposed to er be carefully sponged, but it is well mown that this vele is "winked at" to a very largo extent, Whirl) 0 11- • counts for the rentarkablo results in speck -firing attained on some occa- sions. Sponging a big gun Means lelay. Jack consequently taltes the e. 'ice; jest for the chance of winning at practice, NOW coal then there is a big explosion through neglecting to 1.4 ponge properly, It caoldorn heppens 1 hat the real truth of the accident is tt made knowe, and although all the latelymen collld tell they eiMply entinue in their claringuese. 'A schoolboy recently wrote the fol - owing essay on "Frindship"; "A riond is ono Who knows all abOut 011, rad likes you, all the same," If hero Is amething more to be said :a the subject, eve cah't Beagle() What it suaY hte 11 a el 11 bt ke rc 51 di a ta al it Si ta tbt- ye