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A LITTLE REBEL.
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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
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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,
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