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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-1-18, Page 2-3,, .qi .0044.seigiee4iefeeelieeecoreria A LITTLE REBEL. o I am talking to you ,*bout zny narett, Ciii1t4 You underatand that1 don't your —the henteur increm. ing. Dlc Du you now, of CHAPTER X, late, 1 have often Wisned 1 wae 811300 body 'sun le all anout the world em body else, because thee I should have hnd a different one." , See, gardiDge at this Point, orallentlY re - The breath and strength of very ; tea ns from a threadbare quotation Spring anti we . Periz Lieo, l000, end ewe on our oWfl P311111113 be is too Lee °readied to be al le to reuierober it, ; 'tenets." The liens are buruing Jew M the " 11111 11 is charmiag31' says baa°rneii 1 eonservalory, soft perfeenee froze "'hi" ci"fussillY• the Many lik were fill the air , From, "It is abetted," soys Perlaetua, cold- beyond—sornewhere,-1 hero is a deli- Or• Mous drowsy uneertainty about the There Is evidently ne pity In her. where—comes the suand of musio, ear 411$1 ales! wben we tbink what that. rhythraieal, sweet. Perhape it la from awect fee11ag 18 akin to, on ihe high." est aulherPy, one's bopes for Hirdinge ono of the 2(10018 outsifie,—(rmly seen airongil the " Not eo eheurd as Yode 1 w Co loses bis heed a little, guardian's, green folinge—where the 9c11 ligtas are mere brilli••nt end forms ere moving. 13u1 just in here there M no 11 wevsr." 'hiss h" rsaling• 11111 he""" musle save the tin I eg drip drip of sity for saying eomething without the the little fouotain that plays idly am -1 Pi w'" to me nuf eel 11 re it. 1 " Mr Curzon's? What is his tomer 0110 the teens. Ledy Baring Is at hems to -night and asicet,she, rising out of ber lounging in the big bare rooms outside d , .neine .3 ,y1 on and looking for the first tome interest ed. 18 going on and in the seemliest rooms. The ddeus." tiny tragedies end comedies are being mutated 1 y ameteure who, oh Perpetun nfter a prolonged, stare, wand -laughs a little, roue tale 1 do know their parts end ' , What a name!" says she"We•rse speak them albeit 0") 5(3(g� " proper ', than mine, And yet," . . stIli laughing, has been preperecl for them. Perhops' . "41 suits him, 1 think." that is why siege fright is nit for, Hardinge laughs with her. Not at them—a stage as big as" all the world' leaves actors very free. ' his friend, but with her. It seems But in here—here with the daintyI olear to him thet Perpetuaa is mking flnwers and dr' pp ng fountains, t here gentle fun of her guardian, and thougb Is surely no thought of comedy or tra- gedy, Only a little girl gt wned all in Iaging her in her naugbtiness, Mill he g white, wit h snewy arms and neck, and icannet refrain. "Be is an awfully good old fellow," diamonds glitterinin the soft masses of her waving hair. A happy little says he, throwing a sop to his Car - girl to judge by the soft smile upon ; avi c her lovely Hos, and the gleam in her 1 " Is het" says Perpetua, as if even dark eyes. Terning batik in her seatmere amused. in the dim 0,0)1 reeessee of the (tenser -I She looks up at him, and then down eatery among the flowers end the again, and trifles w th the fan She has greeneries, she Iroise like (1 little • teemn back from him, and finally armpit in love with the silence, end laughs agnin: something in iher laugh , , this lime h wever, puzzles him. the senee of rest ;het the hour holds.1 , 11 le broken however. ' Yeu don't like him?" hazerds he. "I am sorry you are not dalleing,' . '•" After ell, I suppose, it is hardly na- sals her companioneleaning towors e tural that a ward should like her guardian." her. His regret s evidently indeed to Bindings the evening is an ... ' .1. e , in "Yet And why ?" asks Perpetun . slot sea rig pail apperently amused ill -spent one that preehides 11 8 da110-" F n• 008 thing. tbe sense of re- ing wth Perpetua Wynter. etre int that bel nags to 1 he relatione 1 "Yes?" she looks up at 131m from eetween 111830. A guardian. you know. her low lounge among the palms. w uld he Able to eornatil one in a nom- " Well. so am le do yell Imort 1" tell- ere Ing the truth openly, yet with an evi- ? "lVnuld he? dent sense of shame. "But I den't dimes n w het-muse—it is selfeih, len t • • • 1 "Well, I imagine 90. lt is tradition- it—because I should be so ualmopy f - au. And you 1" terwards if I did 1" ' "I don't emow about other people," a "4. perfect reason!" says Elardinge, says Miss Wynter calmly, "I know very earnestly. 1 only tbis, thet noteely ever yet eon - He is still leaning trward her, hiS Ir lied me, tied I don't suppose now elbowe on his tnees his eyes on hers. that aneoody ever will." It is RR intent gaze tint seldom wan- ' As she says this she looks at him tiers and in truth why should it? with the prettiest smile: it is a mix - Where is any other thing as good to tura of amusement and defiance, Bar - look at as this small, fair creature, dingle gazing at her, draws conelu with the eyes, and the hair, and the Mons. " Perfectly hates Itiim," dee des nee that Lelong to her ? I he Re has taken possession of her film; It seems to 1:1103 a shame, and a pity, And gently, lovingly, as thnugh indeed' too, but after all, old Curzon was hard' it is paxt of her, is helding ir, eel's- ly meant by nature to do the peter- ing it sometimes to sweep tbe feathers nal to a strange and distinctly spoilt of it across his lips. : child, and a beauty into tbe bargain "Do you think so?' says she, as if ' "I don't thiek your guardian will a little puzzled. "Well, I confess I have a good time," says he, bending don't like tho moments when 1 hate, over her confidentially, on the strength myself. We all hete eurselves some-, of this decision nf his, times, dent we 1" looking at him as' "Don't you?" She draws back from if doubtfully, "or is it only I myself,' him and looks up. "You think Ishall who—" lead him a very bad life?" "Oh, 1)0 1" says Eterdinge, "All! All "Well, as he would regerd it. Not of us detest ourselves now and agein '05 I should," with a sudden, 1111485 - or at least, we think we do. It comes sinned glance. ' r to the ;Lime thing, but you—you have. Mies Wynters puts that glance be - no cause." , hind her, and perhaps there is some- " I should have if I deuced." says thing—something a little dangerous in she, "and I ceuednit hear the after re- the soft, soft look she now turns upon , pooach, so I don't do It." him. And yet—yet you would like Yeti "Re thinks an, too, of course," says dance?" 3 elm. ever so gently, "r den't knew—" She hesitates Her Lone is half a question, half an and suddenly looks up at him with assertion. It is manifestly unfair, the eyes as full of screrow us of mirth. "At whele thing. Bardinge, believing, in all events. I know this," saysshe. her tnne, her smile, falle into the trap. "that I wish the benewould not play Aliadful of that night when the pro - mph nice waltzes!" . fessir in despair at her untimely des- Hardinge gives woy to laugbter and cent upon him, hid said many things presently she laughs too, but, soft- unmeant, he answers her. "11..rdly that. But—" "Go on." "'There was a little word or two, you knew," laughing "4. hint?" laugbing, too, but how ly and as if afreid of hong heard, and as if, too, a little ashemed of herself. Her color rises a delicate warm color, that renders her nissolutely ticlorable. "Shell I order them to stop?" asks Herdinge, laughing still, yet with strengely I "Yes? And—l" something in his gaze that tells her "0111 a mere hint! The professor is he week] forbid them 10 play if he trio loyal to go beyond that. I sun - could, if only to humor her. pnse you know you have the best man ' No I" says she, "and after all— in all the world for your guardian8 philosophioally—"enjoyment is only a Hut it was a little unkind of yourpoo- 310300," pie, was it ndt, 10 give you into the "Thetis 8111" says R•irdinge, smil-; keeping of a confirmed bookwarm—to ing." But a very good one." savant—with ecareely a thought be- ' Let us forget it,' with a little sigh, yond his studies?. " and talk of something else, something ' "Ile could 0(11 Iy me!" says she. "I pleasanter." I should be a feeeh speeinaen. "Than enjnyment?" I "A rara twin jnj" 41 but not such She giVes Way to his mood 11114,3R the professor's soul covets, No, be - laughs afresh. : Neve me, you are as dust before the " Ah I you have me there!" says wind ia his learned eye." she. 1 "You think then -4 hat I—am a trou- "I have not, indeed," he returns,ible to him?" quietly, and with meaning. "Neither 1 "It hi incenceivable," says he, with there, ner anywhere." a shrug of npolooy, "but he has no room. in hie duly ihought, I verily be - He gets up suddenly, and going to her, bends over tbe chair on which sheilieve., for enytiang beyond his belov- is sitting. "We were talking of what ?" asks sbe, with adrairable mrage, "of names, was it not? An endless subjeot. My name, now? An absurd one, surely, Perpetua. I don't like Perpetua, di you?" Sim is evidently talking et 080" 8030, "I do indeedl" says Hardinge, Promptly and fervently. His tone amentuntes his meaning. '013, hut so berth, an unusual l" tall, gaunt figure, through the hang- " Unusual! That in limit mast itutes ing oriental curtains at the end of charm."' tne conservatory, rheees her %Jamb, "T was going to add, however—die- Sir Hastings Curzon i$ indeed taller efereeable. "Not that—never that," says liar - dirge. 'You mean to say yme really like Perpetual" her large, soft eyes, rimm- ing with amazement, "It Is a poor word," says he, his Inns noW very loove "If I dared say that I adored ' Porpotua,' I should be----" " 011 yen laugh at me." interrupts she, with a little impatient gesture. "you know how orude,' how attenge, how—i* "I don't indeed. Why shoeld you malign yourself like that 8 You—yoU— whn are ---0 " stops ehort, driven Le silence by a look in the girl's eyes, "What have to do with it? 1 did not ehristen tnyeelt," slue she. There is o Suspielon or hatlieur In her tone. ed books, and notes, and diecoveries." "'Yet I ate a disenvery," peamists she, looking at him with enximis eyes, and Lending forward, while her fan fans idly on her knees. "Ah I But AO unpardonably recant I" returns be, with 13 smile. " Ta•ue 1" says zihr. She gives him one swift, brilliant glance, and then sud- denly grows; restless. "13.'ew warm it 1st" she any's, fretfully. 1 wieb—" What she Wee going to say witInev- er now be known, The approach of a TIE BRUSSELS POST, lovely eYee, nOW, and her emelt hand has tighteoea round her fan,' Some» liznes-1 talk folly I Am a feet" With a tolleh of deflaam "8 Illeo Sir Taion tinge, although be la nay' geardienal brotherl—my guardian wbo Would 80 gladly get rid of me," Tbere Is llitternese on the youmg, red Mouth. 2 You eboUld not look at 11. 40 that ' Should I not ? You ehouid be the last to say that, seeing (hit you we're the one 1.0 show me how to regard it. Besides, you forget Sir Hastings is Lady Daring's brother, too, and—you haven't anything to say against her, have you?" 4.11 1" '3311 11 a midden, love- ly, " yoe, Sir Ron inga ?' "You are not dancing," says the tall, gaunt man, who has DOW 00100 Up to ben "Se much T bave seen, Too warm? Ell? You show renson. I think, And yet, if T raloht dare to hope tnitt you would ,give me Ible waltz—" "No. no," says she, still with her most charming air, °I am not thinn- ing to -night 34 shall not dance this Yein'Trl" ial is a Mediae law, no doubt," 'says he. "IX you will not dame with ine, then may I hope that you will give me the few too short moments thet this we:lie may contain?" Ilardinge makes a vogue movement. hut AD impetuous one. If the ale] hed realized Ille feet of his love for her, she might bye been touehed and in- fluenced by It, but as ilt is she feels only a sense of anger towards him. Anger unplaced, undefined, yet nev- ertheless intense "With pleasure." slue she to Sir Beatings, :milling, nt him across Har- dinge's outstretched bend. The latter draws back. "You dismiss me?' says be, with a careful smile, He brws to her—he is gone. "A well-meaning yoUnq men," says Sir Restings, following Bardinge's re- treating figure with a delightfully lenient smile. " Good-looking, too; but earnest. Here you noticed it ? Entire- ly well-bred, but just a little earnest! Such a mistake I" ' "I don't think that," says Perpe- tua, "To be earnest! One should be earnest." "Should one?" Sir Hastings, looksde- lighted expectation. "Tell me about it," says he. "There is nrahiug to tell," saysPer- petun„ a little petulantly, perbaps. This tell, thin menl what a bore he is! And yet, the other—Mr. Hardnge —well, he Ives worse, be was a fool, anyway; he didn't understand the pro - tassel. one bit! "I like Mr. B.ardinge," says she, suddenly". "Happy Hardiage 1 But little girls like you are good to every one, are you not 1 That is what makes you so lovely. You could be good to even a scapegrace, eh? A poor, sad outcast like me?" Re loughs and leans toward her, his handsome, dissipated, abom- inable face close to hers, than most men, and is, besides, amen hardly to be mistaken again when .proved himself one of the bravest once seen. Perpetua has seen him very/ fighters Great Britain bas owned, was frequently of late • CHAPTER XI. "But all was false and holloW; thougb his tongue Involuntaxily she recoils. "I hope every one is good to you," says she. " Why should they not bel And why do you call yourself an out- cast.? Only bad people are outcasts. And bad people,' slowly, "are not Lin wn, are they 1" "Certainly not," says he, discon- certed. This little girl from a far land is proving herself too much for him. And it is not ber words that disconoert him so much as the straight, olenr, open glance from her thoughtful eyes. To turn the conversation in anoth- er channel seems desirable to him. "I hope yoa ere happy bere with my sister," says be in his anything but everyday tone. "Quite happy, thank you. But I should have been happier, sititeIthink, if I had been allowed to stay with your ',rather." Sir Beatings drops his glasses. Good Heavens! wbat kind of a le,r1 is this! "To stay with ray brother 1 To stay," stammers he. "Yes. Re is yoae brother, isn't he? The professer, I mean. I should quiie have enjoyed living with him, but he weuldn't hear of it. Re—he doesn't like me, Pm afraid?" Perpetua looks at him anxiously. A little hepe tiott he will eontradict Ear - dingo's statement animatee her mind To feel /aerself a burden to her guardian—to any one—she, who, in the old home had been nothing less than an idol! Surely Sir Hastings, hie own brother, will say something, will tell her something to ease this chagrin at her heart. "Who told you that ?" asks Sir Res - tinge. "Did he himself.1 1 shouldn't put it beyond him. Ile is a misogynist; a mere bookworm! Of no account. Do not waste a thought on him." You mean—" That he detente the best part of life—that be has deliberately turned his back on all thee warm our Axial-- enee here worth the having. I should cell him a fool, but filet one so dis- lii:es baying an imbeeile in one's fam- ily." "The. best part of life! You say he ims turned his hack on that." She let her hands fall up= her knees, and turns; a frowning, perplexed, but ways lovely eine to his. " Whet is it," antte abe, "that best pert?" "Women 1" returns he, slowly, un- dauntedly, in spite of the innocence, the serenity thet shines in the young and exquisite fare before him, To De Continued. BULLER'S BOYHOOD. ting.ltso Itenerat 1913(an AI5.ltoiul,l Young Ititsetti at SC111901. Fn epite iat the Mory books it is not always the good boys who have become great men. Sir nedvers Buller, the man who, in spite of his iment defeat in the English war with the Boers, has Dropped manna, and would make the worse appear The better roamers to, -perplex rind dash ATaturest counsels." BRITISII TROOPS IN INDIA. not a studious lad Ily any means. A man. now -ti elergymart, whu, as a boy, ant in the same beat with him, says they both leoked fozward nearly every ,hey to a thrashing — and generelty got K. (Thee he fought with young Buller and goi a blank eye for his prtins, giving a bloody wee in rehire, "Shall I Lake eou to Lady 13aring 8" The man who is busy leading a great says Rardinge, quickly, rising and army against the Boers to -day woe bending ha if to offer her his arm. "No thank you," coldly. "I think," anxiously, "you once told Me you did not care for "Did I/ It teems quite terrible the amount of things T have told every- body." There is 30 distinct flash in her JOHN BULL WILL TAKE NO CHANCES Ok" ANOTHER UPHISINQ, greet:tem young Boerne, who rent bird's nesting and raiding otehe rile, who neglected his letzsons and got intn mischief, who took his whitm1ngs1‘ P /t- out a murmur and made his teacher say be was "the most atulacitem boy in the aehool." liumettee Aemt West tee IllittilitnIned here Ilthlle the nitstperate Struggle lit the Tr usenet 41eo3 - 1339 A 31801 Pays a on 010139 Ellgi 1$1101(.0 949. I I'll 1E0 I OE 11(9111 I lc 45 11,11,09. It is signifietint that very few, of the Beglish troOPe in India bave been called upon to take 'the plan) of those killed and disabled in the South Afri- eau eamPaiget. While the army in al - Most every other part of the world has been levied Open the army in 1n 418 remains almost Intact. The only re - (Meal explanation of this circum- stances le teat Johnny Pull still has a vivid recollention of the terrible In- dian mutiny and will take no chances at another eerie:mg and eonsequent loss of human life. From 1.805 to 1857 England governed India with an iron band. One of the most laorrible in- cidents itia the annala of history of Mankind was the Sepoy revolt, At no time during their rule had the Sopoys been contented with their masters, and the signs of mutiny had been man- ifested in various ways for eeveral years. The mutinous spirit brokeout early in 1857 in a most peouliar way, and then began the series of atroci- ties which shooked the entare and are always referred to with feel- ings of horror. The military authorities, very fool- ishly as it afterwards proved, decided to arm tbe Sepoys or native soldiers with Enfield rifles, and a new kind of cartridge greased in order to adapl if to the rifle here, A. report spread amoeg the native troops that as the eartridges in loading had to be torn with the teeth, the Government was about 1.0 compel themto bite the fat of pigs and cows, the former of which would be defilement to a Mussulman and the latter would be sacrilege in tho eyes of a and= THE WILDEST EXGITEMENT rebels, and it was net nail November that O'ir Deli» CamPbell, afterward. Lord Clyde, eat MS way into Luoknow, and effected the final delivereoce of the garrison. The siege of Delhi began on the 8t11 of june, just one nanoth ter the outbreak at Meerut. There were only 8,000British outeide the city on the ridge, while the rebels within tbe walla were more time 30,00e strong, On September 14, re-enforeed by Ni- cholson, the Brit:lett force asenulted Delhi, and after six, days of desperate anti bloody fighting In the streets, Delhi W300 wen egain. nusormrts KILLED OFF -HAND. Thdeon, the int-MP:4 leader of a eorpts of irregular lioree„ hunted down end brought in as a pr sonar the old Mughal Emperor, 13abadah Shah and then shot down the Emperor's $005 1,11111 WS own Mind, After the fall of Delhi, and the relief of Leal:mow, the ever lost ite drernatic intereat, though fighting went on in venous parts of the country For 18 mon hs longer. The last fugitive had fled across the fron- tier by Januery, 1800. 11 Is even now feared by the Englit.h that many of the same causee which produeed the mutiny of 1857 may arise agnin. They have kept a sharp eye on Dusela, who would undoubtedly make a united al- taok on Englend's possession in Ind 0 and Asia. The 138er might eXP301, assistance from the dissatifsietl tele ments which are always to be found In semi-eivilizod entintries where the iron hand of law and order is distaste- ful and irksome, The British are not to he Laken by surprise again. The troops in India will stay there, and all the recruits needed for tbe work of subduing sir Beers will be drawn from other sourees. If anything more solder'. w mid he sent lb 'India as a lemming to the native.* and to foreign Powers that Great Britein intends to pre- serve the domain wheb has cost her so much blood end treesure to gqin There is no more interesting story to the generel readers, whether Or 1101 a lover of history, th in the details of the massnere of Cawnpore tine h • siege of Lueknow and the world of- fers few pnrallels Lo the daring, the patience and the sublime (mu ruge of the imprisoned gerrison. There hes never been any definite figures giv- en as to the number of Europeans kill- ed in the Sepoy mutiny, but it 11•1113 several thousend men and hundreds of W001631 and children. prevailed for a time, but the substi- tution of tbe old for the new me-h.:tip temporarily prevented an outbreak. Meanwhile, though the greased car- tridges had not been used elsewhere, the ory of dan.ger to caste and creed had been raised at many other sta- tions, l'he first blood was shed March 29, 1857, at Barrackpoor, the leader in the revolt being a private sepoy 'in the Thirty -Fourth Native Regiment nam- ed Mengel Panday. A 81111 10008 for- midable upriteng Took place...at Mer - rut on May 10. The Europeans Were massacred and the mutineers march- ed to Delbi where the garrison frater- nized with them and another butchery was committed. Tim rebels proclaimed the restoration of the Mogul dynasty and thenceforth acted in the name of the Xing of Delhi, who, flattered by the allegiance joined the rebels, and for a long time Delhi was the head- quarters of the mutineers from other seotions. Tile revolts in the north - westerns provinces of India took Place almost simultrineouely ern! on Jrunis 27 the terrible wiseacre of Cawnpore Look place. That and ihe siege of Luck - now are tbe two important incidents of the mutiny which has caused the English to never ietax their vigilance and to refuse to weaken the garrisons of that country. 331E CAWNPORE MASSACRE. The cantonments at Cawnpore con- tained the largest native garrison in India, and in tbe immediate neighbor- hood at Bother was tbe palace of Dan- dhu Panth, the dieinberited heir of the Met Pasha, wimee more familiar appel- lation of Nene Sahib will be ever hand- ed down to the infamy of history. At first the Nana was profuse in his pro- fessions of loyalty, but as 80011 0.6 the sepoys mutinied he put himself at their head and was proclaimed Peshaw of the Marbattast The Europeans at Cawn- Pore, who numbered more woruen and children than righting men, abul them- selves up la improvieed intrenchments, where they sustained a siege for 19 days under tbe sun of a tropical June. At last, trusting to a safe conduct from Nana as fax as Allababad, they surrendered their position, and to the number of 450 individ.uale embarked in boats on the Ganges. Forthwith a murderous fire was op- ened upon them from the river bank. Only a single boat escaped, and but four men, who swam across te the pro- tection of a friendly Rajah, ultimate- ly survived to tell the tale. The resi. of the men were massacred on the spot, the women and children were reserv- ed for the same fate 0 few days lat- er and tben the avenging army of Havelook, the most revered of Eng- lish soldier heroes, nrrived. The story of the ne,rvelous work of Havelook who only aurvived his great vietory a short time is tarailiar lo all students ot his- tory. The whole story of the Indian mutiny 18 a suereesion of horrors in which men were butchered in the most fiendish manner, nor were the women and children spared, but they met the same fate as their husbands, brothers or fathers. The sepoys and their al- ines were frenzied against people of the Christian faith and they found in that motive a sufficient excuse for their deeds of slaughter, The native ar- mies of Madras and Bombay remained true to their colors. THE SIEGE OF LITCIKNOW. And the siege of Lticknow, is a story E thrilling and historie interest. Sir RenrY Lawrence, the Chief Commis- sioner of Own, bad seen the coming storm with a prophetic eye, De bad fortified and provisioned the resideney at Lucknow, in good time, and thither Ile retired with all the Beropenn in- behitarlis and 0 weak Itritirch regiment on July 2, Tovo clays later be wee mortally wounded by a shell. 11ut his example inspired the Mlle garrlsoe to b Od out under unparalleled ,hardships and overwhelming otitis, until rotten - ed by Hevelook end Outram, on Sol% tember 25. Hut the invading force it- self mots Infested by fresh swarms of OLD LIES • I believe it is an old lie that the night air is unhealthy, writes ilark- ley Harker. Mere people are injured by too Mose aleopimg-roome than were ever slain in battle. Tell me what poisons the night air. The evening exhalations from swamps toad unheal- thy spots are all Over by two hours after sundown. Then what remains to make the night unhealthy? Noth- ing, absolutely nothing. Compare the poisoned air of a chamber shut.; up so tightly that no vital breath can enter, and that, too, through long hours of Lhe slowly beating heart when poison cannot be thrown off. Open your house at night.. Look at the police and the various workmen who toil in the niglat. Not- withstanding their unnatural hours of sleep, are they not healthy men? Sum- mer nights have no sunstrokes. Win- ter nights freeze up the noisome thaws that breed pestilence. For one, Ilike the night air, have plenty of it, and as a result am always clean -tongued enough to be hungry for breakfast. I believe it is an old lie that one should not eat just before going to bed. Not hearty and heavy foods, of course. But an empty: stomach is one of the most prolifio and uncon- querable smarms of sleeplessness. The children sleep after filling their stom- achs; they ory tiLl they get their milk. C0W.1 feed until their made are big enough; then they lie down to doze. The lion and all other active beasts are restless and even furious when hungry; but they grow quiet after food. I have had 80/1Ie experience with szle,eplessnesa. 1 knoov that I can in- duce sleep in 00 OL11011 way so surely as by drawing the blood from a con- gested brain to digest some simple food. I have often dropped to sleep on, a glass of milk, a cracker or two with water; or, what is better than all for me—and in the busy season 5 Canada last year wen 4140,323,04, always have it brought hot to the end of the exports, 5161,152,1E3. The total inaports since 18.8, library about ten o'clook—a goblet of °rumen.' gruel. Make the gruel with- amounted Lo $3,3115,477.31inclusive, 7. and, ex- ports, 52,916,319,168. The exceas of imports last. year was 51-3 8211,630. bear elese Incepeeticel. I semiotic, that fILti4ot. Lehxoptewialuero $01101Mixweaevieret ulatisee ia not 9 felltne Q dresemaredey be le geueine. A Miereaeope neyr /14.1'10 1110 anpearatioe 0 pere gold. It. is felee (bol, Ifindnues will win everybudy and anybody. The tartlet of life slio3v that there are some people so bitee, SO thormagilly selfatia that the Linnotyr8 yanotati duo, rioilzueueitutt,,A1,1,eroMatirree 33,14- yoa vents w110 grow cunning by indul- genoe, who meatake seer kindneas weeknees, and plot rteamet id, te tette adventage of you, alley do best when treated with simple, rigorous and im- perial/ jueliee; tney are liampable confirlenoes, and the !Gest you say to them the better they like you. 4. bergain Is a baegain, To enact. people kaiduess has a maim to 001113 in And Stlftell iht) hard lilies ot Lbe Lignin; but hot, to all people, As there are wittah-dogs who wiil endure no foud- deg, be1 witl simply ;Wen if to 1.1.1L ir Ana', laut map at 22811 a friend who attempts to carves them 10 thcre are inee and women who eaanot endui•e a soft word ; .1 angers aeon. 'Obese ere 1.11e 000l.101109131y awes . God pitrtu yli,u,1,11v.. CITI; 1.)111 1. ,111.itTIL:hm a.)t:nly one way ru It is a delusion to suppose that any lituouut of mire can keep the cast.e 1, 5"% ays. le .8 not the thoughtless end Garet. es alone who are event:ken by ,lisaster, 'this ery is often unjust: 11.3 fool I fie ought to have known het Lrr HI haa on,y himself to Win •I' tetaileseneee is a saddle for trouble; Ine trout)... Dan walk if 11 Ilan no !eget, met snaffle. All the watching in ibo WOrld cannot deliver man from his eigannied lot ; end 'min, is burn unto 3111,113, az. th • smirks fly 1.1111re rd." How hetetut are th.i Gruel reproaches lie; one emu •times hears a parent fling at a r11.11, or an eznployer at his serv:int, NV11.0 s inae wheel lies broken or some milk has bean spilt. As if it wen aiwaye 84119 one's fault, often. l'he iron h flaw ie 11 which no on- etnilit see. The car jurzon the track; nu one min Lel why. Yet "No one lo blame, as usual," is printed with 31 cord sneer in the newspapers, es if it could nevr be literolly true. Alan is finite, an.I rear:hes his limits. Man is mortal, and must, die. 1.1 10 91) old lie that if you had called the ehysiel in . a r ler your child woul I be itevc tualay. ' If I ba l" ie the rauokary of anguish. At times it may be Isle.; but .11 a good man's life it rarely ie. And n twin Nis •hoo•I is that sinister sugg stion of the devil in inanis le•ari, wou Averts rah the musicians would have exerted them. se,vos mere ce or, "if you were rich, yeu might take the child to Europe end have h •r cured." I doubt if there :s anything under the sun whieh dis- ease respects less then riches. The poor, statie los actnaly show, on the average, excel in !zenith in this coun- try; their Main faro, th ir constant ex.e•cise, .heir temperance, all oontri- Mite to this. reconairaind to ray readers to see how many popular lies he can spot in tbe next month of careful and dis- ernilinating observation. It amazes me to look back on the delusions that I have proved delusive; on the fenrs that -I have been disenthralled from: on the. bad "rules" that I have come now to break, not only without harm, but with actual profit to myself, Prove all things., Hold fast that which is good. CANADA'S FISH. Seam interesting JI 0IH33 tneeerning the Creel 501 aral Initu•elr . Tn 1898 Ontario exported fish to the value of §e81,015; Quebec, e485,13'; Nova Scotia, 5e,728065; New Bruns- wick, $617,6e4; Manitoba and the Ter. ritories, $2e1,748; 13.ntish Columbio, $3,811,346; Prinoe Euward. Island, e5i0,- Left milking the total of Canada 510,- E141,6131. Tee imports of fish, were, dutiable, 5364,450; free 441.9,861. The distribution of last year was, In Ontario, 078,3‘..„O6Je Qeebeo, 8,485O0.;4 New Brunswick., 04,8 7ene tsove 6,0111, 5ee.00,e00; Bethel' Columb,a,59,950,13a; 4Manwitooba, elate/0,000; a total of 011ie,- 77The salmon pack in British Colum- bia last year was 484,161 cases. 1 The came of the sealing Lent of Can- ada decreased from 73,614 in 1805 to 55,- 677 in 18e6, and Berne in 1,97. The value was 5713,5e0 5501,093 and 5e04,110, respectively. adrior to 1878 very few seals were killed by 'Canadian sealers. Iluntiug was not carried on further than 20 miles from shore. From, 1871 to 1897 the total products of the Canadian pelagic sealing in- duetry amounted to 61i1,627 seal skins, iThe smile landed at Victoria in 1808 were 28,551 a gradual decrease from 73,014 landOd there in 1855. The total value of the imports of out milk, salt it, drink it slowly, tell a story, and laugh or readia pleasant book; say your prayers, and then go to your room to sleep. I think it is an old, lie that a penny saved is always a penny earned. Economy ie a virtue, But thei penny saved is of 110 00001101 tO anybody. Money in a drawer isno more thee The imports for home coneemption amounted to 030,058,000. Thexa The total ports nts d impor amounted to 5504,475,736. The imports ot coin and bullion amounted to 54,- 390,814, end the exports, $4,023,138, ; THE WABASH RAILROAD. Is the shortest and true route from Canada to Lhe wee!: allil southwest the !TAN. 18, 1D00 Work for Women The time Ives when 'he only 000310513o6 work open to wornen were teaelting, sewing end domenie serviee. Later, P.fiee work Was vouetisated them; and every g:r1 capable of treining an in- tolligene eentenee—And some, un- luckily, who wale not—emceed lute this new 'x=1)110011, Men Were thrum( out Altogether Dead still the field wee overcrowded. It lOoked for a Cum 38 tbough all womankind would evolve into a reset of steno - grapheme , Some few olovor women have die. eovered, at length, that there are oth- tie things to clo in the world than thumbing a typewriter, and things /10.1.8 es useful and dignified. Ingen- ous brains have thought out new "0- ('1(11003,"0- ('1(11003, that. are both pieasant and re- asunereave. And they have found Lbem, oddly enoag,h, in those °coupe.- acme naturally belonging to wumen-a- that is, t)cueutitnis wuiela reline to the teem -15 her ,.1141 10 COVOted prove •143113 Of 03011's profession. In prianiniva times, men were more .0(1 Opentiont. thciu they are to -day. Me iminan periormed every branch of ((18 (*0113 blenaelf. Ile relsed his W10.9.1 and ground it, lais flux was 5(020,n, apun, 3500333 1111d manufactur- e.: min garments by his own house- hold. He Wile 115 01011 "htlLeher and nakar and cundles.ick-maker." hy degrees, divisiou el labor grew up, One man I.:tuna that he could do nutter by rearing wheat exclusively, while his neighbor ground IL. One men confined unused to the cultiva- .100 of flax, while another spun it; enother wove it anl yet 'mother tuanufactured clotemg. lio through a long series of mofflfications the Ls oek of 50.5150100 insteed of biing per - [einem, eaoh inen for himself, was di - led into an infinite number of trades and professions, and these, again, sub- divided into many classes of work- men. During all these changes woman's ,Lark alone recnnened unehanged.. 630- 11180111'economy was for centuries inurh the same drudgery that it was :11 the beginning of ritilleetion. Each 13oasekeejter superintemied every Wand] oi her own housework. There was no more justetiention for this aye - tun :0 a woman's indostries than in MU'S. But. feminine apathy and the ; 033(10903' to contorm to tradition per- petuated 11 from age to age. Woraan's work admits of especiall- ..ation as readily as man's. Every bnineh oi it may be made a profession, and there is as great need of division of labor 1.31 the work of Lhe home as in ,he work of the world. There is infi- nite diversity in the capabilities of indialuals and etioli oan necomplIsh the most work and the best work by aepl)ing himself strictly to that whioh betenoyS 00(1 600 which he is naturally meted. IL is economy of time and re- souroes for each to the tea-room should be made as muohl.ke fashimiable af- ternoon tea as possible. It follows his own peouliar bent.. Wlay, then, should housekeepers alone, of all the world try to carry on many profes- sions at one and the same time. It is folly. Women a.re beginning at length to grasp the idea and to dement! protes- sional laborers for special branelies of 3(0(10. Already the demand has called into existence a great variety of in- dustries. Baking, mending, scrub - mg. washing, tree.ng, e001105.. nursing end the tending of children have be - (OM dietinot ti•ades and professions. We have our bakers and earterers, our seamstresses and trained nurses, our meaning anl mantling bureaus (3111 our iknintedIsii.genee mfites where laborers can be °Unlined for speelal work of all Not only 11310,1 all branehes of rou- tine housework been taken up as 900- 20881008 but certain unique vocations have been developed. Tnere are, for example, professional shoppers, who earn El good coramission from march - ants 01 addition to their fees from the women for whom they shop, One briget women in New York has made house cleaning a profession. She has her assistants and furnishes tho neceseary apparatus. Housekeepers have only to turn over their bodies to her, with swab instruotious as they wish Lo give, and the work is done without further responsibi,ity on their part. Anything broken or otherwtse damaged is replaced. The idea was an inspiration and the field opens great possibilities for en- terprising '30000811.A trained nnree in New York bas intioduced a departure in the „profes- scion in the guise of nursing by the Lenin She can be secured for a short Lane to tend ebildren or to eelleve those who axe on duty in the sick 1114/111. Stmh an undertaking should certainly be successful in any largo city. Tnere are many people who can- not have the servites of a professional nurse whc, would be glad to have a skilled and relitible person to relieve them for a short time. These illustrations show wbat can be done by women gifted with common sense and energy. 1V.Ilxrh as has al- ready been done tor the comfort and convenience of the people, much more remains to be done. The field is by no means exhausted. The ides of dust. You commit eat a penny, nor specializing along these lines opens a• kiss it, nor talk 10 11. nor clothe your - gnat winter tourist line to California, vista of infinite possibilites to those Ilf self with its little dime You must Mexico, nexas and all southwestern who have the brains to recognize their spend. it to get anytbing out of it. It y34 7ortYttiWucteedtni. etsoatairyi well to take up suen work as this in - generous with his penny as it is to ')I'inntunitt". 'Women would do la as difficult to teach a boy to be ppe0iin•soltall ear will leave St. Louie for Los Ange- stead of dabbling in nouttear art or teach him etionotayThe W180 Use Of les and San Francisco. Passengere gems into the already over -crowded , wiokednesa is wicked; but I think a ra"ah ' • Toronto on evening trains field of office work. the penny is the proper thing. MI 166,.virig St LOirri next day at 2,p.m., Sea ventures may prove the ulti- emendthrift is rather less hateful, if you oan compare hateful things, than a miser. I eensithar it a lie that next-door neighbors eon never be the best of friends. ill la true ' that such close [maxi's:1.4y brings all the bad, points of people into collision; but ao it dOes their good points. IL was my next- door neighbor who ottme firstl to my resume when my wife 'was burned by aa explosion of water-gae. My next neighbor gave up the use of the piano while / was stick almost tent° death, That neighbor was the first to hang out a flag whesa I was cleated an al- dernant. That neighbor has confided in um mote than a hundred Umtata. There aro 110 truer friends. that my neegebtar that sort of man that Will Kansas City 9.80 pen., same evening and Denver next afternoon, Ail Wa- bash trains have free reolining (hair cars, and aro solid vestibule front end to and. Itull particulars from any railroad agent, or T. A. Riehardson, Distriet Passenger Agent, northeast corner King and Yonge atreets, Tor- ento, and St. Thomas, Ont. ' ELEPHANTS AS NURSES. Siamese women entrust their ehild- ran to the care of elephants, who are careful nevet to Inert the little area - turas ; and if danger threatens, the sagacious animal will curl the child gently up in his trunk, and Bering di: ttp and out of itarra's way upon its own breed bank. e mate soluton of the industrial, pro - biome which have grown outt of WO - man's entrance into the business end professional world, At all evente, they deserve to be encouraged. 4. A DWA.111? QUEEN, lei ebably Um mealiest monorail in the world reigns over the Ilindoo "'m- eal state of Ilhopattl, and wavelets a people 08 300(13 flute 1.000,000 votils. This dwell is a woman, Djihan-Begurn by name, bute although she Is about 11o0 years old, she does not appear larger thee a e5111d of 10, Her dimieutive size does net prevent her, however, from holding the reins of government with a firm hand, and in her real 511101 and order are supreom, s •