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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-1-11, Page 2TEO ,811U8S01.119 FOOT, • 14 • 3EK*************0 A LITTLE REBEL eel% VIIIee.attatinued. May 1 teak, Mr. Curzon," ettys sleep with great dignity and. more temper, swbat May be the xneanin' of all thier The Professor's tongue eleevea to tbe criet et hie mouth, but, PerPeLUOS tone goo reoutiese normal. She junaps end rune Lo Mrs. Mulcahy With a beaming face- She baa lead semething LP 014L1 11,114 IS once again her own' buoyitet, waytvard, light -hearts(' little zelf. , "OM tt isell right now, Mrs. Male oahy,', cries elle, while the professor gruws oold with horror at this audimioas advance; upon the mili- tant Aletioaby. "But do you know, he said first, he hadrtn anything to give ma and I was starving, No, you mustn't soold llim-he didn't mean anything I suppose you have heard the. profeseor strikee I/entente to 150 fsecul of Herding% lie looks at hinl• Mut the 'professor'a htuxter is shortelieed• Ile einks neon a their lo a Lired accre of a way, letting hie arta fall 01/ar the eidetic ef it. ne a type Of utter deePair he is a distiageiehed elieennen, "Why don't you telt@ bin. Immo again, back to the old, auntr says Hardinge, moved. by his misery. "1 ean't. She tells me it would be useless, that the house is loeked up, and -and besides, flaming% her aunt - after this, you !thew -would be—e "Naturally." Bays Hardinge, after whittle he falls back upod his cigar. 'Light. your pipe,' says he, "and we'll think it over,' Tbe professor lights it, east both men dew nearer to mush other. "i'm afrad she won't go back to her aunt any way," says the professor, as a be liming' 1.0 the "thinking it over." how unhappy I wee with Aunt' *Tune? Itte pushes his glasses up to lus tore- -1158 told you, 1 daresay," -With a lit- head, and finally discards them alto- tle flinging of her hand toward the gether, flinging them on the table trimeling, profeasor-"beeause 1 know" --prettily- 'he is very fend of you -he ofLen speaks to me about you. Ohl Aunt Jane Is horrid{ I shouldhave told you about how it was when I Game, but 1 wanted so much to see my guar- dian, and tell him all about it, that I forgot to be nice to anybody. Seel" There is a little sileaee. The pro- fessor, who is looking as.guilty as if the whole ten commandments have been brokee by him at4 once, waits shivering, for the outburst that is so sure 1.0 come. 11 doesn't emote boweverj When the mists clear away a little, he finds that Perpetua has gone over to, where Mrs. Multiaby is standing, and is talking still to Una gotta lrtsliwotuun. It is a whispered, talk this time, and the tew, wurde of it that he catelees go to his very heart. "Pm afraid he didn'1 want me here," Perpetua is sayitag, in a low, distress- ed little voice -"Pm sorry 1 came nuw -but, you don't know how cruel Aunt Tarte was to me, Mrs., Mulcahy, you don't indeed! She - she, said studs un- kind thins about - about--" Per - 11801'. "lf she saw youl how she might un- derstane," says Harding° - for, in- deed, the professor without his glasses lose thirty per eent. of old Time. • "Slee wouldn't," says the professor. "And never mind that. Come back to the question. 1. say elle will never go back to her aunt." , He looks anxiously at Hardinge. One can see that he would part with a good deal of honest coin of the realm, if his companion would. only not agree/ with him. "lt looks like it," said Harding% who is rather eujoying himself. "Ily aovel Nehru a thing to happen to you, lur zon, of all men in the world. 'Velum ars you golog to do, eh?" "It lean so tamoh that," says the professor faintly. "It is what is she going to do?" "Next!" supplements Hardinge, 'Quite sol It would. be a clever fellow who would answer that, straight olf, 1 say, Curzon, what a pretty gir/ she is, though. Pretty Mile the wore. Love- ly, The professor gets up suddenly. "'You know nay edam, thee' seem the professor preeeetlY. "Yes, She is very obtaining. HOW le In I heee eever etten you therein' "At bet' bowie?" edee ner reettp0ene?" "I have no taste for that sort of thin, eutl tie time. Patellionable dittelete bores me. I go and sea Gwen on of clays east early /mere, when 1 aen ellre thee 1 ellell tine her alone. We are frienla Omagh bewail/see," With a sigh, "thea -she some to disapprove 0/ MY Mode of living. But we gel on very well, on tne whole. S110 la a very good give" says the professor, kindly, who ahvays thinks of Lade Baring as e little girl ia ehort freeks in her nareery-the nursery he had occupied with her. To hear tbe beantifal, courtea, beuglety Lady Baring, who has the best of London 'Lk her feet, called "a good gal," so ticklers Mr, laardinge thee he leans back in Ids chair and burets out laughing, "Yes?" says else professor, as if ask- ing Co c an explanation of the joke. "0111 nothing -nothing. Only - you are Buell a queer fellow!" seri Hard- ing% sitting up again to look at him. "You are it rara avie, do you know? No, of course you don't! You are one of the fen' People who don't know their own worth. I don't believe, Oureon, though I should live to be a thousand, that I shall ever look upon your' like again." "And so you laugh. Well, no doabe it i a pleasant refleotion," says tbe professor, diameter, "1 begin to wish now, I had mver seen myself." "Oli, come cheer up" says Hard - logo, "your pretty ward will be ail right, lf levly Baring takes her in hand sise---" "AsIst but will she?" says the profes- sor. "Will she like Per - Miss Wyntere" "Sure to," said Harainge, with quite a touch of enthusiasm. " "re see her is to love Mr, and love but'--" "That la of no consequence where say (me is concerned except Lady Bar- ing," says the professr, with a little twist in bis defer, "and; my eister has ma seen her as yet. And, besides, that is not the onlyquestion-h1 greater one remains." "By Juvel you don't say sol What?" demands Mr. Hardmge, glutting earn- est., "Will Miss •tVynter like her?" says petua break e down again - struggles 'Not that,. say. be, raitang h.s hand with herself vadantly, and finally in his gentle fashion -that has now burets out crying., "i'm tired, something of baste in it, "et - I - sleepy," SOUS she neseraley. YOU 11110W what 1 mean, Raruinge. To Need 1. say what. Mame.: The pro- aISULL68 her -herself, I mean - and tessor stung to the Liu,ok by those for- here-" torn Kobe, Lots Ilia eyes, and - behold! "Yes. Yoe are right," says Harelege he sees Perpetua gatherd. to the slowly, with, boevever, an i.r.ere le ample bosom of the formlitable, kindly stare al the pemessor. et is a eroleete- De uleahy. ea stare. tle is very fond of Curzen, "Ootne wise. me, MB 1.0011).". says that thougn knowing ausolutely nothing excelsthe woman. "Bad seran to the about. him beyond the tact that he is one that made yer purty heart sore. eminently likeable; and it now, strikes Lave her to me now, Mistner Curzon, him as strange that this silent, awe - dear, an' Pli take a mother's care of ward, ill -dressed, clever MALI SSOUld 116 ber." This is an aside to the astound- LIM Ons to teach him how to behave ed promseor.' Th, re now, elanual Tells himself. Who is aurzond Given a bet - °memo nowl teure 'tis to the right ter tailor, and a worse brain he mignt shop ye've come, anyway, for 'tis be a reasonable -looking meow en - daughters I have meself, me dear- ough, and not so ola either -forty, fine, s•hrappin' girls as ,coulie putt you perhaps less. "Have you norelation so in their poLkiene Ye peer craLher1 whom you email send. her 1" he says et Leckie. t Lope that mad. (evil of an meet length, that sudden curiosity as to o' yours won't. darken these uoors, or wbo Curzon may be prompung the shiest git wbat she W00% like trona question. "some old lady? An aunt. Biuoy Mulcahy. trhare now! 'Tis Imo for. example?" yer bee 111 suk ye Maaeli, for 'tie "She uousn't seem to like aunts," worn-out ye ure-tiod help yet" says the professor, with deep de„eution. She is gone, taking Perpetua with • Steal,. beame to her," says Hareinge, her, The, inefeseor rubs ha eyes, and smoking vigorously. "I've an aum-- then saadensy overwheiming eense but ' thet's another story l' Wel, haven't re gratienue toward Mrs. Mulcahy you a cousin then? -or Lennethingi" takes possession oi him. What a wo- "1 have a sister," says she proiessor maul ole had never thought so muth slowly. moral support could be got out of a "Married?" laatuady-uut Mrs. Muleany has care "A widow.° Lately tided him sate.y over Inc of "Vivify old person, out sometvhere in his elLficuldes. Still those that the wiees of eanottley," says Bathing° remain are formidable enough to himsele. "Poor Lexie girt -she won't. to quell any foolish present faxecy that either!. atlempts relief. of mind. "To -mor- "Why not send her to your sister row, awl to -morrow, aad. to-mort owl" thend" says be aloud, "How many to-atorrows te she going "lem noL sure that she would like to to remain, leered 01 mapossiLlei Not have her," says tem profeseor, with an hoar must be wastem .By the morn- -hesitatiou. "1 oonfees I have beau ing light something must be put on thiaking it over for some days, foot. to save the girl, from her own but---" foolhardiness, nay ignorance! "But perhaps the fact of your ward's Once sunk in the meshes of being an hairese---" began learoinge depreseioa, the persecutee piefessor --throwing out a suggestion as it were tieseentis co the room where elarsdnge -but is ,.hocked by something in the ;wales him. p reteseor's fees. "Anything new?" demands the late "My sister is the Countess Of Bar- ter, springiag to his teet. ing," says he gently. "Yes! Mrs. Atelshay °tune up." Teen }Jardine's Arse thought is that the the profes.or's face is se gloomy, that prolessor hes gone oat of his mind, Ller,lege. may ee torg.ven Lor sayieg and his sewed LOOL he himself has as - to himself, "She has assaulted him!" complishea that deed. tie Mane across !nem glad it Melt visible, says he, the table. Surprise has deprived him staring el the professor's nose, and oe his usual good. manners. then at Ins eye. 130th are the usual Lgely Barmal-your meter!' says he. "Eh?" says the professor. "She was -- visible of course. She was kinder CHAPTER 1X, thee I expected." 'Your face, my Thane, is as a book, "So L see. She might so easey ha;.ts • the professor. "That is the Teal point." "Ohl I see!" says Harainge. thought- fully. The, next day, however, proves the profeseor's fears vain In both quartets, ALFRED COUNIDRATI JAN. Lig 1.000 Mon, Before ids time, the principles 0311 of Pallt3Cal 801)(11v/elan, were dimly Lip - preeeneed, but little peeetioal option had been made of tIteM. Under MILLENNIAL YEAR OF THE FIRST the direction a Alcrea, tbe whole ee artgAT ENGLISH KING. the Saxon territory wee divided into eountiea, hundeecle and tithings; Lee Mielaied lereeemiet ter the Great Vele- neendrer of men W111011 OP111,4 be Pat into !Lenten -Mired the 4Avent WM Ft Ifitlelltba f,$,S1(1 was, thae aeenratelY hteewra Stentarloode ewe - iteten, Wei, the "4 we .1Ziebilfizetien of the .artzee' bee flls .1 0S1 N001 SW 10 mu Seek) Illeleil 0. °Amo, °the:83; :dig 0611'&1}116. n'Yornaltifula'ed Ali° l'"g1""it-"4 1118 0'"Press 0" II°. en- -eiveenenl: which eactibell.00 a0 talleet- 'teemed er Tielety, for organization not Ulterior to that Very extensive preparations are width originated the German mine tery 8y81.0113 of to -day. Jay tbe adop- tion of thls plan, he was enabled, ;Mb brale the millennial auniversary of „Leal, often with inferior numbere, tee death of Alfred the Great, wbieli succesefutly to oppose the awarra of occurree Oa Ootober 27, 901. Every 10- enemies tallith, during WS reign, ie- cality identified with the name and it tiv 13eset his country. °8161fpreci the law -maker was 10 no whet aehleVeMente ef the man who laid the inferior to Alfeed the sold er. The cri- foundaLions of modern England will Hoe who make it their business Lo de - have a share in commemoraang the tract from the fame of every man vhom the world calls great have tried Leh Boil, So active was the life of lthoeshjelzvonthasytsAtellerew4 bdiloilh nioot tourei giionuaItle. greatest King that ever ruled on Eng - Alfred, so incessant were his I abor se dation of modern English law, that ed and the bateau that he, fought for 'sted before the time of Alfred. But the people he was called to rule, that he who makes practical a system al- ris a settled principle of antion that there are few lottelities in Soulhern ready existing is as much entitled to bonor as he who invents. Alfred nee and Central England but are entitled to nave a celebration, timed the Saxon laws to a system; from an unorganized body of precede The central point oe.the oommemor- ont, be eatabliehed a eomerehensive peeve services. will, of course, be the code; out ot a legal maze, of 0011aPer- queer cid civ of Win,hester, Alfr,d s gnation and superatitious ordeal, he ose t blished the prineiple that a mae me capital, a place whiele in his Lime, and owed ot crime has a right to for 710 years afterward was of great A. TRIAL BY HIS EQUALS. importance on acumen. of the iumber and ori this fact rests the personal libe and size of its monastic, establish- arty of the Briton and American te- mente. In the time of Henry VIII, day. raost as many monasteries at Winches - there W0.00 over sixty churches and ale The worth ,of the system was prove property thro ed by .the seourity it gave to life and tar, and it, was the wealth displayed was said in bisownthinaised,°Linhairt-ir eshilId1 by these that, during a brief visit, so might walk the highways.of England excited the cupidity of the Ring as with a golden crown on MB head and to induce him to form the scheme of no man would harm; purses might be hung on the trees and none would suppressing the monasteries through- touch. Hyperbolical as the saying pTob- oat England in order to seize their ably 18 it expresses a security wnich dose not exist in England to -day. property. Alfred passed a great part of his life at Winchester, and But the practical work of A.Ifred for his people extended far beyond the was buried in the old minster which peepara tion of the code of laws I or he fottuded. Shortly after his death their benefit, and comprehended such the mental 110.11 his remains removed sehemee for the well being of the masses as the most advanced philen- to the new Minster Church, whence thropist of tbe present day could de - they were taken to Hyde Abbey, and sire. Save in the accident of birth Al - when this was destroyed. fred was a man• of the people. The HIS GRAVE WAS LOST. story of his residence in the neat - herder; cottage, the tale of the burnt An aura, vi.e. to Lacey. Barmg, and an It was rediscovered only a few years mikes and the scolding may be myth - anxious appeal, brings out all that ago, whan. ereavations were made for ;cal, but it illuetrates the. feet that cm iehtthl woman's beet 1,1.18.11 I i .1a. One the f d • • the Xing \VOA famintsr, by actual ex- . e - . e• was remoVfid and reinterred under a wants o the humblest of his people. 80 nameroes were the aces be perform- trial be jury, in its embryonic state, oun ation of a house, the coffin neriencei with the conditione and may see ibo young stspelation alone she makes, that. she' ally coneselettag hereele to chaiierune Plain slab is St. Bartholomew's her stamy throagle the remainuer of churchyard. There i6 no monument, the seuson. not even a tombstone, and one of Ole The professor, filled with hope, bias back 50 1116 roams, calla for Mrs. Mel- 'reelects of the commemorative service 00113e tells her he is going to take his ward for a drive, and gives that worthy and now intensely interested lanelady full eirections to tea that Idles WyMer looke-"er-nicel you will be to place suitable memorials, not only at the grave, but also in Westminster A.bbey. In the history of this remarkable lenow, Mrs. lefulchay her beet suet, man there is no doubt =oh thatrests upon traditionary authority And ts therefore of doubtful value to the his- torian. There is much more which is probably mythieal and entitled to no consideration whatever. Living as he Mrs. Mulcahy came generously to the rescue. "Her best frock, sir, suppose, an' her Sunday Lonnet. Ova oesen w:shed it before, Dir. Curzon, an lem thinkin' that itell ba the maims of ye; en a handsome, puny: little crathur she is did In an age when what little learn - an' no mistake. An' who is to give Ing there was existed only in the away the poor dear, sir, askin' yer monasteries and ameng a class amen pardo tie" -who tette little share m the stirring "1. am," says the professor.' events of the time, Lt is not strange "Oh, no, sir; the likes: was never that. myths and traditions should with - known. 'Tis Lhe father or one of his er about the name of Alfred. but the belongings, as gives away tbe bride, fact that they have done so is of it- niver the husband to be, an' if ye have self sufficient evidenee not only that nobody, &I', you two, why Pin sure I'd Alred impressed les personality on be proste. to mu foe ye in this mother, els own age, bee peso en the minds of Faix, don't disguise from ye, Misch- subsequenl generations to such an ex- ec Curzon, dear, that I feels like a mother to that puny able& this mom- tent as to make Isis re.gn remembered ent, an' tea th:s, that if yet don't as the most notable era in the early history of England. 'Alfred is thus behave (Meant LO bar ye% have to an- one of those giant; forms whiell loom swer to Mrs. Mulcahy for that same." "What Wye mean, vroman?" roars nified rather than dianinished by the up through the centuries and are mag - Imagine that I--?" "Do you mists of time. He is to early England this profeesor, Ineignantly. "No. tel belave nothin' bad o' Ye," what Mimeses was to Egypt, says kers. Mulcahy, velem:11y. "Ova what David was to Israel, what cared ye these six years, an' Mier a Charlemagne was to Central Europe, ulti,astial.eeLteerxvtire Great ewlyasoutto more dterune fault. to Bed. But that child beyant, few whi a ye take her away to make her question the half -mythical stories that yer wife—" ere recorded concerning him, there "You must be mad," says the profes.. sor, it strange, ourioue pang contract- stilt reelable in authenLio history am- 101', his Meat. "I am not taking her pie evidence that he was by far the most remarkable man of his age, and away to-- I -I aml taking, her to mt sister, who will receive her as a guest. among the greatest figures that bave ever appeared. "Made" repeats Mrs. Mulcahy, fur- iously. "Who's mad? Pnix," preparing BORN IN 849, to leave the room, e yerself was at a time when the island was not born widoat a grain o' sinsel" only harassed by an active and able The meeting' between Lady Baring enemy, but was almost hopelessly di- vided by civil war, he aucceeded to the throne, a mere boy, when the throne waa apperently not worth having. The Danes were at that time the creel rulers of Southern England. Every shore was laid waste by the Prate ships, every coast town paid tribute to the men who bore the raven banner; a, Danish King ruled in the eastern portion of the island, and the march- ing army of the Danes penetrated Saxe on territory in every direction. Of course, the first care of the youthful Xing was the protection of his do- minions from Denish• incursion, and this was accomplished only after a series of bloody wars, The mterehes antl counter marthee, the battles, vie- tories and defeats ott Alfred of them - Helves fill a volume. There is some- thing heroic in the equanimity of this reraarkable, man in adversity, in his self -balance during prosperity, He W118 never unduly exalted by victory nor depressed by defeat, but under all circumatances, preserved that mental equilibrium which made him the great- est man of his age. As a military commender, the au- thentic accounts of his prowess end fertility of resource entitle, him to a place among the world's; Generals, 1114 stretagems weft worthy of Hanni- bttl. On one ocomion, a Hellish Eleset penetrated the River Lea, tbe Ulnae disemberked end began to revege conntry. Alfred had not eutfinieet force at hand to engn.ge theme with n reationelde bops of suocess, but est ab- tishieg an intrenched camp, he ne- serrabled sevarm of Inherent, dug n tame diverted the course of the riv- er, left the Detifeh fleet high arid dry 1 11 iL8 130(1, and, when his reeenforce- manta arrived, fell upon the bewilder- ed invaders and SLEW THEM TO A MAN. lie wan the rime ruler In England to understand the value of organiz1. made it your Itp - or your nose- and Perpolus. is eminently sabsfactory 01---" • May real strange matters." Tbe latter, looking lowly, but a little "What is there in Everett's cupboard "I see zio reason why she sbouldn't frightened, so takes Lady Baring's besides tbe beer 1" demands the pro. bee' seys theyeof StOr stalinly-ie these artist:10 soul by storm, that that great teaser angrily. bor Heaven s %sleet a taiso,. 81.14111.1011 ot haisur in 1116 attend to me, and don't se1 there grin_ toned "As we are on the subjeot of my - nine like a first-class thimpanzeel" self, 1 may as well tell you teat nay This Is extremely rude, but Hardinge brother is Sir Hastings Curzon,: of takes no notice of it. whom" -he turns back as 11 to Lake up "I tell you she, was kind - kinder some imaginary artifee from the flour than one would expect," says tha pro- -"you may have heard." lessor, rapping his lenuokles on the "Sir Elastingel" Alr. Hardinge leans table.' bacle in his chair and gives way lo "Ohl I see. She Miss Wynter?" thought. 'Phis quiet, nard-working "No -Mrs. litfuleahyl" roars the pro- student -this man whom he hali count - teaser feaniically, ',Whereas your head, ed as a nobody -the brother of that man? Mrs. bluleahy came luta the disreputable HaeLinge Curzon' "As room, and took Alias Writer into her good as got the baronetcy," says he, sharge iia the - sr -1h e most wonder- still thinking, "At the rate Sir Bast- in' way, and carried, her off to bed.. bags is going he at possibly last for rhe peoiessor mops his brow.another twelve months, and he is "Oh, welt, that's all right" says ' this fellow liviug in the.se dismal liardinge. "Sit down, old chant and lodgings with twenty lhote and a year let's talk it over)' , before his eyes. AI Itatley thing for "11 is not all right," ;says the pre_ him that the estates are so strietty en - testier. "It is all wrong. Here she tailed. (Mott Ilea:mast to think cil a Is, and here she apparently means to man with all that almost in his grasp tenet. The 'poor ohild doesn't, under- being happy in a coat thee must have stand. She thinks Ira older than Me- thusaleh, and that she can live here tvith me. I can't explain it to her- rou-doe't think you oould, do you, liardinger , 1 don't indeed," says Hardinge, .n a hurry, "What on earth, has erought her here at all?" "To stay. Haven't I told you ? To stay for ever Sbe says"-wittlit a groan - been butlt In tbe Ark, and caring for nothing on earth bat the intestines of frogs and suen abominacions." "You seem surprised again," eays professor, somewhat satiricallyH. "1 confees it," says ardinge. "1 can't Hee why you should bo." "I Jo," says Hardiege, dryly. "That you," StOWly, "you should be ter Hast- ings' brother! Why—" sI e m going to settle mel To - to "No moverinterrupte the professor brush my hurl To -- make ney tea, She eha 1.10. He lifts bit band. "Not tinge I'm her guardiam mad insists on another wora- 1 know 'what 700 are living; with me, She (Memel ender- going to say, 11 18 one of my greet - stand! Hardinge," desperately, "What est troubles, that I always know what con 1 to dot" people are going to say when they "Marry her!" stiggests Hardlrige, maati°a hlra• Let him alone, Hard - Who I regret to say 18 Meeting with InFa'" "Ohl I'll let him, alone," says Hard - laughter, "reline is a Jeette says the professor inge, with a gesture of disgust, , eaugistilee Tale unusual tone trent r-raara la a Paaaa' lady thea and there accepts. 111.0 mtua- Lion, and asks Perpetua if she will come to her tor a week or so.Perpetua, charmed in turn by Lady Baring's grave and beauty and pretty ways, re- ceives the invitation with pleasure, lit- tle dreaming that she is there "on view," as it were, andthat the invita- tion is to he prolonged indefinitely: - that is, stilt. either she or her hostess tire one of Lhe other. The profeesor's heare sinks a little as he ems his sister rise, and loosen he laces mewl the girl's pretty, slend- er throat, begging her to begin to feel at home at once. . Alasi he has deli- berately given up his ward!. His ward! Is she tiny 'Imager bis? Has not the great world Maimed her nowf and 91e5e0137 will she not belong, to 11, So lovely, so tweet she is, will not all men ran to switch the prize? -'a prize, bejewelled, too, not only by. nature, but by that gross material charm that men reit wealth. Well, well, he has done his best for her. There was, in- rleed, nothing' else left to do. e To be' Continued. BACTERTA. AS ENGINEERS. amprobable as it seems, says the London Lancet, it appears to be a fact that haeteria are able to cause the breaking down of htone walls. Re- cent investigations have shown that natifying baoteria swarms in the mud formed by the disintegration of cee ment 10.1 reservoirs, andl it is believed tent tho decay of the oemene rosette from the action of nitroue acid, pro - timed by the baeteria, Yet those aamo mieroscopin engineers, whose myriade are nevertheless of immense thee to mem betlantie they are chief agents in the purification of water. Hi8 Plans for their benefit included better hotness, nourishing food, warm clothing and more than ORO hint in his writings indicates that he had at least a premonition of the modern idea that governmente exist, not for the purpose 01 draining the people of their substance, but to bring the greatest number. Hence, in times of scantier and public distress, be INSTITUTED RELIEF WORICS. Roads were made, canals were dug, embankments were constructed, the channels of rivers were cleared and deepened, and the misery of great numbers of people was thus in large measure relieved. It was the commun- istic idea, put into practice more than a thousand years ago, and in a way HO practical, SO free from objectionable features, that even the moat earnest steel:lir for royal privilege and the divine right of kings could find no fault. WAR AGO.RY AND SORROW. A Weller Weenies* the Awful Mance set ilte net Witten' el' ent }MON Private lettere fret= a reeident Durban depiet the horroeti Of the Transeifill War in vivid eelore. The fwulgtt3t°0,r etrrtaegl I 0:1'0; Itenieluesburg, because, ap leutbarel ol an Finglieh Wealae, he was touteected of. British SeMpateies. He had visit. ed the hattlefield of 14 lemma: - "1 judge there were about a thou- sand dead and wounded op the battle. field of Cleneoe, when we haseed it. on Oot, '41, in the afternoon. I shall tuner forget the sight, for I haven't slept a second since then. "Pleture to youreelf heaps of bodies, Anne stroteeed out beyond their own lengtb, it seemed, as if they had grown longer with the inanity of torture, others purled as if they had beep searebine for a fciondly hand, and Oa their anxiety, had, perhaps, caught hold. of their OW11 11.11.11/8. "There were rows of Boers who died kneeling in tbe trenches in a na- tural po.ition. "Several bodies I found standing boldly uprigat, rgainst trees or °tiler impediments that had pre- vented them from falling. They were all SHOT IN TILE HEAD, and their faces veleta black from pow - der, dust, or the beginning a putre- faction. "A.nd all over this livhag grave rose the gut gang welling of wounded and espeeng men, who giceined and sighed for help, or for death to come, while their hands and nails clutched at the earth and grass. "Au, that oue might, by a ministering augal, despatch some of those unhaelee °nee by a benefit:tent dose of poison. 1 caught myself running away howling anU blubbering from tee sidts of a Boer, who was vainly trying lb stop the flow of his nfe-blood. There a brave rifleraan bas bitters off his tongue while seized by aptssies. 1 saw three or four men die within arms length of me. One suddenly runt, jumped high in tee air and fell back dead. "Outside the hospLtal Lents I found Boers lying 10 cots, fidgeting with their arras and murreuting: 'What's Lhe use -let's retreat and back gel th'em'Hece was a sveole row of sharp- shooters disposed ill excellent order with their officer in the centre, evid- ently struck by a volley as they were obeying a command to shoot them- selves. "An overturned battery there, the piece of ordnance buried in. the .sand, parts of human and horses bodies min-. glad badissolubly, swimming us a pool of blood, But the philanthropic labors of Al- fred were not confined to efforta to- ward the material welfare of his sub- jects. He comprehended the fact thnt no material improvement could be Permanent without mental advance- ment so he directed his attention alto toward the education of his peo- ple. There is no record of his attempt- ing to extend his dominions by con- quering the Danish portion of Eng- land. After be had repressed the Dan- ish spiaie of aggression he made no effort to expel the inv.aders, but al- lowed them to live quietly in the part of the ielond they hali conquered, and devoted himself to the improvement of his dominions, It Is a strange sight in that savage age to see a king who enjoyed the reputation of the grent- est warrior of his clay, busying him- self with translations from the Latin into a tongue which at that time did not possess a literature, and strang- er still to note the oharacter ot the works he translated. BOOKS FOR THE FARMER, practical treatises on husbandry, and the care of stock, a geography, an ex- Ithmetic, books of morel, stories, homi- lies, books ot philosophical maxims, works of devotion; an extensive circle this, a comprehensive scheme of prac- tical education, tind religious training. Had he done nothing but write he would have been entitled to rank with the first men of hts age, but the lit- erary work of the Saxon giant W08 only a small part of his achieve- ments. Ele perceived dearly the maniple that has acluated English statesmen, that has actuated English statesmen for NO years, that to be prosperous England must have peace, and to Mem peace, the nation mulet always be pre- pared for war, But the army mune be eupported, so Alfred organized a system of native service and reaerve, by which oely half the able-bodied meet of the nation were at any one time waled into the field, the other belt' remaining at home to cultivate the mole To secure his imeders egainst incursion and his coasts from inva- sion, he created over lefty forts end made of every border town a fortrees. Then perceiving that nuecessfully to contend with the Danes, he must foie lew thern on their own elan:Lent, he or - pelmet the beginninge of that navy which mule Enema the mistress of the stens, The &rennet fleet dales ite origin from the strong throe of gal- leys; which Alfred placed on the south- ern cond. He conquered the Donee on their own element, and /from him time latae tbe steady growth of Anglo - Solana rupremeey on land nnd 808, ORIGINAL, Markham - Your wife is full of me- rle/ devites, Luttileyg Leenlay -- Right you are The olhe er tiny the netted!' my hair vgas gel- ling thin, and proposed giving i min- ing -out party for it. MANY Ole THE DEAD c had Lheir faces turned 10 the direction of the sinking sun. Their spirits were shaking at 1115 sante Lime, I reclean. "Over the flying hospitals hung the awful smell of euloroform. Saws were buzzing over betas, lcnives sharpened and draughts concocted in the open air. The sentinels and outposts shot vultures by the dozen without driv- ing them away. 'Thank God the hue man hyenas of the battlefield were miesieg, thongh, there are not enougu poems ilsbs neighborhood to yield these auteasts that in civilized Europe abound. "One of the English sanitary officers showed .me a basket full of letters wbieh hie men brad gathered on the battlefield. Wounded to the death, despairing of timely. rescue, many English ofLizers and men had died scribbling a word, of ferewell to their loved ones, or, else, pressing to their lips some lines received from mother or father, wife, sister, bride or intend- ed, I myseit ran asrose 801110 of these messages. One or two emened stain- ed with tears, all had blood spote on them. Several were, beyond decipher- ing. "A hospital nurse told me that be found many dead Engeislimen street li- ed on their becks, knapsacks under their heeds anti photographs in their uninjured hands. May be they lind been dying for hours, having had juet strength enougb to make themselves comfortable and take the picture from their Pocket." 11 J3ALTh. BREATHING:. We haVe often epoken ef the mow alty of breathing Properly, if the body le to be kept: in Use beat peseible heaitn acid eo ip etsncU'tion to Vadat the et- kaekte pf dieease. The sUbject, however, 11 ot sixth vital importaaPe, as records etspeetally tee prevention of leng dies owes, that no apology need be offer ed tor retirrning to it. 01 all the substancea utilized intim Maintename of boatels and life, pone ia tee Ltheolutely intlispensaele as Ore, - gen, and this ie taken in 'with the air We breethe, whether we receive a euf- fieleet eupply or not eependa entire- ty upon how and where we breathe. Bat the eupplyIng of oxygen le not the only Cunt:Lion, Although it is Lho most direct and vital one, of proper breathing, Thorough expansion of the Wiest eneures the proper filling of the icings with air, dilates all the initi- ate air cells, especially those at the summits oe Lhe lungs, where motion is least and where the seeds et eon- sumption are usually firs1 planted; and Lnoreases the circulation of the blood throughout all parts of these organs. I &Lill another effect of proper breath- ing its a beautifying one. The chest is lgoadenetl the shoulders are thrown back, the figure is Arcot and the 0511' - riage graceful. Perfeet breathing is not natural to 'moist men and women of sedentary oc- Dena/ion and indoor life. Like all good things, it must be worked for; and the work must be persevered in until full and deep respiration has become a habit. The means of obtaining this object arb variouls and cannot be recounted 'lame bit they are all lewd upon the principle of removing permanently every obetacle to the free entrance of air into the lungs. Sehool children sitting at their desks, clerks bending over their ledgers, seamstresses at work with the needle or the sewing -machine, type -writers, and all who must stoop as they earn their tinily bread, should learn to stop from time to time, sit back In the chair, or. 01Se, throw back the sboulders, and draw in ten or Lwelve deep, slow in- spirations, holding the breath for three or four seconds each time the lungs are filled. These exercises, like breathing in general, should always be done with the mouth dosed, for the nose is the only proper channel for the passage to and fro of the air. A. school -teacher who will interrupt the studies once every Sour through the session, and teach the class to do this breathing; exercise, will be contributing more then she can ever realize to the future well-being of her youthful claarges. OLIvie OIL BERT FOR HAIR. . GRUMBLING MEN. A noted divine has declared that a husband's grumbling and scolding was often only his way of beginning it eon.. versation, and he maintained tbat if a Were Sulky the worse he Willi the more theerful his wife should. be. Certain- ly husband end ;vile shoull bear and forbear, he says, and the sae answer turnelli away wrath more eftectively by the domestic hearth th sn eleewhere. Then business is often worrying, and (be husband coming home neede nnd uaually deserves to find there all soothing end calming iniluences. Bat surely it should be mutual kiadness; at times the man must take his turn in meeting IrritabiliLy or low spirits with cheerfulness end kind, gentle consideralioni As to the the- ory that the wisest, and bestcourse is for the wile oe a sulky. tyrannical Man alwitys just to give in. and crouseh be- fore tbe storm, he does not think that is dieser good policy or real kindness ultimately to 1.he men hisseself, FIRST SeORE. Mery, said Mr, Thomas, when a Sil- ence, fraught with unpleasant mean- ing, bed followed the first altercation with his yonng wife. Yes,? said Mary, interrogatively, Whimit tuna arid his wife have, bad a -a difference, said Mr. Thomas, with jediscial air, anti istieb eonsiders the other at fault, whieh of the two do you think simuld make the first ad. VS ne I owe rd routine 1 i at 1011 '.1110 981800 at the two, said Mrs, Thome, promptly, end so, my deer, 011 say at once. iIiiil 1 am very sorry. It othurred to letr. Themes thal it might have been as well for him i to luiv.t elude the flint advanee, after all, but be 1 houghtfully refrained hem 941715)5 80. To the well-groomed woman the Caro 01 bar hair is a subject of paramount importance, and every new recipe to prevent it frene falling out, to keep in the necessary condition of wave, fluffiness and .generally well cared Lor appearance is hailed w,th joy and imenediaLely LeaLed, SWOP well meaning persons have sworn by kerosene, and inane &mile' pereuaded women bave tried it, only to Lind themselves a nuisance Lo the lamay wh.le else ."cure' was in pro- cess, and in the end obltged Lo 01.80.' don its use from the very desagree- aule after drama of the treatment. All authorities 0111118 subjeet of hasr doetoring agree that Lhe ntsLural oil of the hair, judiciously augmented by an artificially appeed oil, yill be of material benefit in producing luxur- iant, glossy tresses and prevent the long ends from splitting and the ha , from falling out, for the reason Lhat the roots are properly nourished. Another reason why souse good oil should be cal:Melly applied to the roots of the hair is the necessity of keeping the scalp loose from the head, and by this means permitting Lhe na- tual oil of the hair to nourish it as nature intended it should. 11 has been found that the best, purest olive oil, purchased at some re- liable grocery or Italian warthouse or in small quantities from the drug- store, bas all the medieleal qualities of kerosene without any of its dis- agreeable after effects. Use only very little at a time, dip- ping the fingers into a saucer eon - tattling not snore than half a teaspoon- ful of the very bast all. Then massnge the scalp thoroughly, not letting the oil tomb the long ends of the hair, until it is .worked in so completely that tbe scalp feels almost dry. This treatment applied orme e weak, with a shampoo the prinaipnl ingred- ient of wbinh is the white of an agg, and then washed with hot water and wbite mettle soap, and afterward care- fully and thoroughly rinsed with hot water Once every two weeks, it is said, will prevent the hair from. fall- ing out, will keep it fluffe and yet glossy, and those who have tried it say it is one of the best of the many recipes recommended. APPLE WOIVLeN'S A000a1PLISH- Megus. " Working among the poor of Lon- don," mad Dr. Iillis in "The Inverse - meet of Influence," "an English au- thor searthed out t he life career of an apple woman. Her story makes the sLory of kings and queens oontempli- ble. Events had threat hes' into pover- ty, hunger, eold end two rooms ie a tenement. But there were three or - Mum boys sleeping in an ashebox whose lot wee herder. She lent her heart and life to the liLtle waif& Dar- ing two and forty years the mother- ed and reared some twenty orphans - gene elient home and bed tine food; taught them all she knew; helped sane to obtain a want knowledge Of the trade.s; helped pellets off to Canada and America, Poveriy disfigured the °mete woman'a :garret and want mane 11 wretehed 0001 1101PM, 00. gels heveree over it. PRACTICALLY SETTLED. Her father has told me never to en- ter his house again and never 10 speak 10 her M Mune no matter where we may meet. Whee does the wedding telte paled