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The Brussels Post, 1900-2-1, Page 2T4E Bletti$1311100 POST A LITTLE REBEL. ClakleTElt Xizz,-Cantlnnad, lierdinge, getting uii, moven abrupt- ly to the window and back again, "Xof have known me a long time, 'Conon,' says be at last. " YcW-you leave been my friend. I have family, '-+p'Osi ticn••,man ey^I-" I am to'nnderatand, then, that you are a candidate for the hand of- my ward," oaya the,profeseor, alowlY, 80 slowly that it might suggest it eel to a disinterested listener that h great difficulty in speaking at all, Yes," says S;ard=nge, very diffident- ly. Ile looks appealingly at the pro- fessor. "I know perfectly well she Might do a groat deal better," sage he, with a modesty that site very oharmfngly upon him: " But if it comes to a ch0nee between me and Your broth- er, I -I think I am the better man. By Jove, Curzon," growing hot, it's awfully rude of me, I know, but it is so hard to remember that he Is your, brother," But the professor does not seem of-' fended. He seems, indeed, so entire -1 ly unimpressed by Bardinge's last re-; mark, that it may reasonably be sup-' posed be hasn't hoard a word of it. 1 And she?" says he, '"Perpetua.) Does she—" He hesitates as if finding it impos-� Bible to go on. "Ohl I don't know," says the young- er mail, with a rather rueful smile. " Sometimes I think shee doesn't care far me more than she does for the ver-' feat stranger among her acquaint- ances, and sometimes—" expressive pause. "Yes? Sometimes?" "She has seemed kind." "Kind? How kind?" "Well -friendly, More friendly than; she is to others. Last night she let mel sic out three waltzes with her, and she! only sat out one with your brother."( "Is it ?" asks the professor, in a dull . monotonous sort of way. "Is it -lam' not muoh in your or her world, you! know -is it a very marked thing for a girl to sit out three waltzes with, one mon ?" " Oh, no. Nothing very special, I have known girls do it often, but she is not like other girls, is she?" The profeaanr waves this question aside. "Keep the point," says he. "Well, she is the point, isn't she? And look here, Curzon, why aren't you, of our world? It is your own fault,; surely; when ono sees your sister, your; brother, and -and this," with a slight: glance round the dull little apart -n mens," one cannot help wondering why you--" " Let that go by," says the profes- sor. "I have explained it before. I deliberately chose my own, way in life and I want nothing more than Ibave.! You think, then, that last night Miss Wynter gave you -encouragement ?" "Oh, hardly that. And yet --she cer- tainly seemed to like, that is, not to dislike, my being with her, and once -- Well," -confusedly.-" that was noth- ing." It must have been something." "No really; and I shouldn't have, mentioned it either, not for a mo rent," The professor's face changes. The apathy that has lain upon it for the past five minutes now gives way to tt touch of fierce deapair. He turns aside, as if to hide the tell-tale features and going to the window gazes sight- lessly, on the hot, sunny street be- low. "What was it -what? Shall he ever have the courage to find out? And this is to be the end of it all? In a flash the coming of the girl is present before him, and now, here is her go- ing. Hid she -had she -what was it he meant ? No wonder if her girlish fancy had fixed itself on this tall, handsome, young man, with his kind-: ly, merry ways, and honest meaning, Ah I that was what she meant, perhaps when last night she had told hies; "she would not be a worry to him long I" Yes, she had meant that ; that she was going to marry, Hardingel But to know what Hardinge means? A torturing vision of a little lovely figure, gowned all in white -of a lit- tle lovely face uplifted -of another face down bent! No 1 a thousand times, not Hardinge would not speak of that -it would be too sacred, and yet this awful doubt Look here. I'll tell you," says Her- dinge'e voice at tbis moment. ' After all you are her guardian -her father al- most -though I know you searoely re- lish your position;. and you ought to know about it, and perhaps you can give me your opinion, too, as to whe- ther there was anything in it, you know. The faot is, I," -rather shame- facedly=' asked her for a flower out of her bouquet, and she gave it. That was all, and, hurriedly, " I don't real- Iy believe she meant anything by giv- ing it, only," with a nervous laugh, "I keep hoping she did I" A long, long sigh comes through the professor's lips straight from his heart. Only a flower she gave him I Well— " What do you think?" asks Har- dings, after a long pause. "It is o matter on which I could not think," " But there is this," says Hardinge, "You will forward my cause rather than your brother's, will you not? This Is an extraordinary demand to make, I know -but -I also know you," "I would rather see her dead than married to my brother," says the pro- fessor, slowly, distinctly. " And— 7" questions Hardinge. The professor hesitates a moment, and then: "What do you want me to do ?" asks hB" Do? ' Say a good word for me' to her ; thatis the old way of putting it, Isn't 11? and it expresses all (mean. She reveres you, even if—" If what 1" "'She revolts from your power over her. She is Leigh -spirited, you know," says; flardinge. " That is one of her charms, in my opinion. What I want you to do, Curzon, is to -to see her at once -.-not to -day, she is going to on afternoon at Indy Swanley's-but to- morrow, and to -you know," -nervous• ly-"to' nutiko n formal proposal to her." The professor throws beak lits bead and laughs aloud. Stroh a strange >augh. "I am to propose to lien --I?" days' be. " Por me, of ooui'ae, It Is very usual," says $hrdinge, ,' And yeti are bar guardian, you know, and-" Why not propsoe to ber yourself says the professor, turning violently upon bim. "Why give nes this ter- rible task? Are you a coward that you shrink from learning your fate ex- oept at the hoodsof another -another wlto- --" "To ''ell you the truth, that is it Interrupts Rardloge, simply, "I don't wonder at your indignation, but the foot is, I love ber 'so muob that I fear to put it to tbe toukob myself. You will help me, won't you ? You see, you stand In tbe place of her father, Curzon. I1 you wenk re -her eager, I should be see- ing 10 youjust what I am saying now." " True," says the professor. His head Is lowered. " There, go," says he, "I must think this over," " But I may depend upon you,'-anx- lously-'+you will do whet you can for MB?" I shall do wbat I can for her.' CHAPTER XIV. "Now, by a two -beaded Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time." Hardinge is hardly gone before an- other -a far heavier -step sounds in the passage outside the professor's door. It is followed by a knock, almost insolent in its loudness and sharp- ness. "What a hole you do live in," says Sir Hastings, stepping into the room, and picking his way through the book,, and furniture as it afraid of being tainted by them; "Bless mel What strange beings you scientists are, Rags and hones your surround- ings instead of good flesh and blood. Well, Thaddeus -hardly expected to see me here, eh ?" "You want mei" says the profes- sor. "Don't sit down there -those notes are loose; sit here." "Faith, you've guessed it, my dear fellow, I do want you, and most oon- ,foundedly bad taus time. Your ward, now, Miss Wynter I Deuced pretty little girl, isn't she, and good form, too? Wonderfully bred- consider- ing" I dent suppose you have come here to talk about bliss Wynter's good mahuers.' "By Jove! I have, though. You see, Thaddeus, I've about Dome to the length of my tether, and-er-I'm tbinking of turning over a new leaf -reforming, you know -settling down -going in fur dulness -domesticity, and all the other deuced lot of it." "It is an excellent resolution that might have been arrived at years ago with greater merit," says the pro- fessor. "A preacher and a scientist in one! Dear sir, you go beyond the possible," says Sir Hastings, with a thing, "But to business. See here, Thaddeus. I have told you a little of my plans, now hear the rest. I intend to marry -an heiress, bion entendu-and it seems to me that your ward, Miss Wynter, will suit me well enough." "And Miss Wynter, will you suit her well enough 7" "A deuced sight too well, I should say. Why, the girl is of no family to signify, whereas the Curzons—IL will be a better match for her than in her wildest dreams she could have hoped for." "Perhaps in her wildest dreams, she hoped for a good man, and one who could honestly love her." "Pouf 1 You are hardly up to date, my dear fellow. Girls nowadays are wise enough to know they can't have everything, and she will get a good deal. Title, position— I say Thad- deus, what I want of you is to-er-- to help me in this matter-to-craok me ui' a bit, eh ?-to-you know." The professor is silent, more through disgust than want of anything to say, Staring at the man before him, he knows he is loathsome to him -loath- some. and his own brother! This man, who with some of the best blood of England in his veins is so far, far be- low the standard that marks the gen- tleman. Surely vice is degrading in more ways than one, To the pro- fessor, Sir Hastings, with his hand- some, dissipated face, stands out, taw- dry, hideous, vulgar -why, every word he says is tinged with coarseness ; and yet, what a pretty boy he used to be, with his soft, sunny hair and laugh- ing eyes -- "You will help me, ah?" persists Sir Hastings, with bis little, dry chronic cough, that awns to shake his wbolc frame. impossible," says the professor, simply coldly. "No? Why" , The professor looks at him, a pene- trating glanne, but says nothing. damn Lt all l" says his bro- ther, his brow darkening. "You had better, you know, if you want the old name kept above water much longer" "You mean--?" says the professor, turning a grave face to his - "Nothing but what is honorable. I tell you I mean to turn over a new leaf. 'Pon my soul, I mean that. I'm sick of all this old racket, it's killing me. And my title is as gond a one as she oan find anywhere, and if I'm dipped -rather -her money would pull me straight again, and--" t. He , face. tuck by something in professor's "You mean-'-?" says the latter again, even more Slowly. His eyes are beginning to light. "Exaotly what I have said," sul- lenly. "You have heard me." "Yes, I have heard you," pries the professor, flinging aside all restraints and giving way to sudden, violent pas- sion -the more violent, coming from one so usually calm and indifferent, "You have come here to -day to try and get possession, not only of the fortune of a young and Innocent girl, but of her body and soul, as well] And it is me, me whom you ask to be a party to this shameful transaction, Her dead father left her to my Bare, and I am 10 sell her to you, that her money may redeem our name from the slough into which you have flung it? Is innooenoe to be sacrificed that oleo may ride abroad again? Look here," says the professor, his fare deadly while, "you have come to the wrong man. I shall warn bliss Wye - tor against marriage with you, as long as there 10 breath left tin my body," Sir Raatinga, has arisen, too; hie faoe Is dark rod; the orlmsan flood bad ehis f r a d. a t ale rot:Allied aehadan dyed 1 ah Most blank, Now, at this terrible moment, the likeness between the two brothers, ee different In spirit, oan be aeon; tbe flasiting Byes, the sooxnfnl lips, the deadly hatred, It 18 a shook- int'likenaes, yet not to be dialed. 1Wbat do you mead, demo you?" 8578 Sir. Ilastinga; he sways a little, as if hie passion is overpowering him, and clutches feebly at the edge of the table. "Exaatiy wbat I have said," retorte the professor, fiercely. "You refuse, then, to go with me In this matter 1" "Finally. Even if I would I could not. I -have other views for her." "Indeed) Perhaps those other views Lecithin: yourself- Are you thinking of reserving the prize for your own special benefit? A penniless guar diac-a rich ward, as a situation, it is perfect ; full of possibilities,," "Take care," says the professor, ad- vencing a stop or tiv0, "Tutt Do you think -I can't see througb your mune?" says Sir Hust- ings, in bis most oftenstve way, which is nasty indeed. You hope to keep me unmarried. You tell yourself, I can't live much longer, at the pane I'm going a know the old jargon -1 have R. by heart -given a year at the most the title and the heiress will both he youre 1 I can read you -1--" He breaks off to laugh sardonically, and the cough catching him, shakes him horribly. "But, no, by Heaven 1" cries he. "I'll destroy your hopes yet. I'll disappoint you. I'll marry., l'm a young man yet -with life-long life before me -life--" A terrible change comes over his Moe, ho reels backward, only saving himself by a blind clinging to a book- case on his right. The professor rushes to him and placer his arm around him. 'Stitt, his foot he drags a chair nearer, in- to which Sir Hastings falls with a heavy groan. It is only a momentary attack, however; In a little while the , leaden hue clears away, and, though still ghastly, Ms face looks more na- tural "Brandy," gasps he faintly. The professor bolds it to his lips, and af- ter fter a moment or two he revives suffi- ciently to be able to sit up and look round him. "Thought you had got rid of me for good and all," says he, with a mali- pious grin, terrible to see on his white, drawn face. "But I'll beat you yet I There I -Call nyy fellow -he's below. Can't get about without a damned at- tendant in the morning now. 'But I'll cure all that. I'll see you dead be - before I go to my own grave-�" 'Takee your master to. his carriage," says the professor to the man, who is now on the threshold. The maun- derings of Sir Hastings -still hardly recovered from bis late fit -strike horribly upon his ear, rendering him almost' faint. To be Continued. —o -- FRENCH HOUSEWIVES; There are few women so busy or so thrifty as the French middle-class housewife, the bonne bourgeoise of the towns, or the better -half of a man who has retired from business to a small country eatate, or even the wives of notaries and doctors in the provtnaes, Many take an active yet retiring part in their husband's busi- ness, by keeping the books and acting as cashier, but when this is not neces- sary they are the best housekeepers im the world. I'n the Aitnmu they are very busy indeed, They colleot the moderate- sized tomatoes that ripen after the main crop has been gathered, see that each one is perfect, wipe them with a' clean cloth, and pack them in large earthenware jars, completely cover- ing them with good olive oil, and then tie, them down. The air is thus quite excluded from the fruit, and during the Winter the tomatoes Dome out a few at a time, perfeotly fresh, and the oil, being quite clean and good, is used to fry fish or vegetables in. Not the least particle of waste attaches to this method of preserving the popular and Wholesome fruit that, is even more valued in French than in our cookery. When the Frenchwoman leaves her country house in Autumn, and re turns to town for the winter, she is very particular about closing the rooms in such a manner that there than be no close or damp smell about them when reopened the following t.eeson. Every sprig of mint that bee not been dried for Winter is gathered from the garden and strewn about the floors. It dries very gradually as time goon on, ane leaves a faint odor, but the aimospnere remains perfect- ly fresh. When feathered game is brought is it is plucked: and drawn, and the inside filled with small bits of veget- ab`e chart oal. The birds are 'ben ae.vn up to white muslin ' or what we call cheese cloth, and hung in a dark place, where there is a continual current of air. Poultry is treated in a similar way, but not plucked. There are two ways practised of keeping fish fresh for Lwo or three done, One is to cut the principal artery in the neck and: remove it, If skilfully done, the smaller veins come away at the same time. Another is to make a paste of white bread at•umb and alcohol, stuff as muoh as possible In the gilts and the mouth, and thor- oughly wrap the fish up in a big bundle of fresh -cut nettles, covering them tette_ straw, and sprinkling with water one or twice a day. If there has been a good crop of grapes, it is desirable to keep a few bunches for Christmas and other win- ter festivities. The 'French house- mistress bas them out with a very long piece of stalk on the end nearest the vine rod, and places this stalk to a bottle of water, with a bit or two of charnoal In It The bottles must be very carefully placed in a dry store- room, and the stems wired to prevent them from falling out, nod the grapes will keop perfectly. Another plan is to cut the bunches in the ordinary way, and put emcee in 0 bag of oiled paper, so large that it does 001 toad' the grapes. The mouth of the bag is gathered up round the item, and secur- ed with seating -wax, eo that no air gets in, and then the bunches are hung tram hooks in a dry, airy room. While in lie country, or whenever she can get fresh sorrel, the Lorena' PBX ),r 1900 cook will take rare of the water In wIil h it heti been boiled and wash her sponges in .It, ,).'lain method la quite as eifeotual as cleansing them with lemon -juice of ohemieals, and eon- elderable cheaper, niel0 in one method of coeking the anuehroome so abundant til. Autumn that is well'nign unlversal in Franco. Tile peasant praelicoa it as well as the ober, and It preserves both juice and flavor, Use thean perfectly fresh, peel, wipe, and lay lo a snap plate, eir a little'eartherivare pan, with a lid to it. 'ff It is a soup plate, turn another over it. Put in a good plow of but- ter and a sprinkling of pepper and salt, and stand on a.ltot plate or in the oven. Cook- 1111 tender; and let no metal touch them' unleae it bo a sliver fork or spoon, Great bunches of heather are often out and dried. 'When judieloualy Picked into sprays, ,bey make 'capital backgrounds for Winter flower vases, ar mlxed with freshly -out blossoms, they make a few go a„long way,' and Daly the initiated ever know what the light-colored little flower is, THEY WOULD NOT SPEAK, SAILED AROUND THE WORLD TO- GETHER, BUT NEVER SPOKE, U waved the Other's Lir, But Stat They nernallicd z,nanaar", and Tnul+ Serer:ale elope for tamer tb•nn, Nand., First Officer Jas. L. Mumford, of the British ship Canara, lately at the Delaware Breakwater 'after a voy- age of 244 days from Iloilo, in the Philippines, tells a strange story of the long run. When the Canara sailed nearly a year ago from Belfast she had on board two young men who, although not enemies in the common acceptsnoe of the word, still had so little use for one another that they never exchanged a word. Mr. Mumford said that Franois Clark and Louis Pitt, as .he knew them, had formerly been fast friends. He said that the younger, Pitt, apparently had considerable money, while Clark, al- though of a well-connected English family, had eleoted to follow the trade. of a machinist. They lived in Leeds, England, and wars inseparable for years. Disputes, however, became fre- quent, and finally they stopped speak- ing and avoided eaob other as muoh as (possible. It so happened that Clark was feel- ing unwell and determined on a sea voyage. He bad lots of friends and little trouble was experienced in se- curing him a passage in the Canara. Young Pitt's people couldn't under- stand the estrangement between the pair and they resolved on a novel scheme, no less than sending Pitt him- self on the Canara and trusting that the close companionship entailed '1 y the limited quarters on the vessel would again restore the lost friend- ship. THE MEETING " It was a strange meeting,” said the mate, in relating the curious episode. "I knew a great deal about the men and of the pride which possessed them and I waited with interest to see what transpired. They simply passed each other on the deck, as though each was an inanimate object. Throughout the entire long '"voyage to the far East, though we had all worked industrious- ly toward that end, we could not bring them together. " The eventful passage began in the early spring, and should have been completed in August. In the early Part of July the Canara encountered a howling storm little short of a ty- phoon. For many days she lay ember beam at the mercy of the sea. THE STORM. Lashed to the rigging, to prevent being swept overboard, the orew suf- fered terribly. Sails were torn form their gaskets and left in ribbons streaming from the yards. Young Pitt had lashed himself to the mainmast, Clark, the other strange sailor, with the remainder of the crew, sought shelter on the gratlings. When the storm was at its height the mainmast suddenly broke off close to the deck, carrying Pitt with it. " The sea was raging In fury and tremendous waves swept the wrecked deck of the Canara from etem to stern. Then in the misty haze the men caught sight of young Pitt still lashed to the mast, feebly wave his hand for help. He had been hurt ,and could not untie the lashings which held him to the Spar, ' Help was asked, but it was risky to give it. The only way was for a man to make his way to Pitt and se- cure a rope to him, by wh1Gh both could be drawn aboard. The bravest of them hesitated in that awful sea, and there is no doubt but that the unfortunate young man would have ,perished bad it not been for Clark. He had watched the entire incidentin moody alienee. Captain Swatrldgo ask- ed for a volunteer to make his way to the mast. Clark stepped forward. There was little time to lose, for one after another the shrouds were part- ing feat. A rope was put around Clark's waist and he started on his perilous mission. THE RESCUE. It was a stupendous feat. The sea was running mountains high and three times the brave rescuer was swept from it. It required fifteen minutes to reach Pitt and almost as many mono to more the ropo. Tho two men were cruelly battered before they got safe- ly on board. Both were unconscious, " When the fallen mast was out away and the storm had abated the Osnara, under jury rig, stood for Na- tal. ;She reached that port with her crew, exhausted nod praotically help- { less. Neither Clerk nor Pitt had re- Icovered consciousness. They were promptly removed to the British lens- ; pilal, end when the Canara, baying i oompl.eted rep3ire, sailed on Ontober 27 for the Delaware Brenizwn ler, neith- er had yet rr.nognized the other, and acted as periost strangers.' .ne--p-,-•e^•-•-•-•-•-•-•--11P- . f Young Folks, A SETTER FRAM A OAT, Dear Editor; I hereby take ilXy !pan 1n paw to 867, Can you explain a anr'ious t1Ing 1 found the other day? There is another little oat Who sits behind a frame, And looks so very ,mueb like me You'd think we were the satire, I -'try to make her play with me, Yet when I mew and call Though I see leer maw In answet, $hs makes no sound at all, Andto the dullest bitten It's plain enough to see That either I ain mocking her Or she is mocking me, ,. It makes no difference what I play, She seems to know the game, For every time -I look around I' see her -do the same, And yet no matter though I 01'eep On tiptoe lest she bean'. Or quickly ,dash around the frame, She's sure to disappear! DAISY'S FUN. As soon as I have time, said Mies Daisy, seating berself in her little red their, a very much soiled dolly in band, Pm going to tell every person I know how to enjoy theirselves. . It's as easy. You must only have fun. That's all. To bave fun you got to have ear- rings and things, and if you haven't got 'em, make 'em 1 I do. I bave nine essquisite earrings that I made myself oaten of beads and things, and I'm going to make some more soon. If you can't be took to a matnee make a matnee yourself, and if you can't wear your mamma's organdies,' wear Mena's aperuns tied on sort ot loose in the baok, so's they'll drag gnod. I make matnees and picnics and go- ing -a -ridings, and Sunday -schools and every mortil thing. Once' I made a barber shop, and it was jest ezzackly like a real one. Mamma made me a big roily man outen a quilt, and tied papa's old football on for a head. Then T put bim in a big chair and soap -Budded 11110 and shaved himwith a knife till day, Only be was bald. But I used four' bottles of hair colic on him, and that hair.was moat as muoh fun as nutting his Then the Sunday sobool, I -had Gran' an' ber canary bird and the gold- fish and mamma's statuaries of Beenus and Paulbenearus for scholars, and we all enjoyed ourselves. Picnics are fun, too, but they are Longer to make. First you must get an apple the same as when you go to play butcher shop -and a cooky, and oaten of 'em, make banana and pickles and cakes and sardines. Then get a match box and pack 'em in and have plenty of bananas nando. Then when the luncheon is all ready put on an organandy or some other grown-up thing and go to the picnic on the rocking -chair street can You know bow to make that, of course. Wear ear- rings and a shawl and a'pairsole 'cause when you get to the picnic it will rain awful and you must eat lunching witht he pairsole up. Then, when you're just wet as you can he, you must go under a tree to get dry. That's the sofa or the hog3nany ta- ble. Than, when you're all dry and snugly again, eat a few more bona - Oita and go home in the rocking-ohair horse car. But a circus. 011I You must be a riding lady in a long dress and sit on the side of a big trunk covered with the red table cloth and have pink pa- per on your checks for paint. Then sometimes I play I'm she dancing - legged lady, with my legs going right down into the ends of' my toes, but they don't, very good. Where do danc- ing -legged ladies live? I never sane one on the street, and I've looked and looked. I asked Uncle John if they were angels, and he said no, they only played angels. And the alownd, too, I never saw him on the street. Isup- pose he's so white he's 'fraid bell gat soiled if he comes out. I don't see how he can ever enjoy himself. Boys' most fun Is when they go skating and freeze their ears and have to have snow rubbed into them to keep them from spoiling. Onoe a boy who used to run away from school and go fishing caught so many fish he broke his arm carrying them home, and his nut gave him 10 ocnts a pound for 'em. Tben when ho got bigger be oonld paint picksures of fishes so good they were smelly,. and now be is an arterist, and has an artery of ]kis own, and makes fish to sell for an awful lot of money. Papa says that's because he was a had boy. and run away from school instead of being good and learning bow to tvorlr in an office all day. Now he just sells fish pioksures. In the suminer I have essquisite times playing garden. 7 go over in the Int 'where that lady keeps her goat and I name all the white flow- ers Lily, all the pink ones Rose, and all the blues ones Violet. But the most ones are yellow ones and I just eel" 'am all darling, so's not to hurt their feelings. I charge a pin for enough flowers to fill the jodrunaire, and I have seven pins in Gran's cushion,that I made that way last summer, They're empty -lot flowers, but their esaquis- site, 71 you tare the little fire shovel and dig all ni76 around en empty -tat flow- er and then pour three catchup -bot tots Of water onto It. it will grow as tall as you ere and have eight bop- quets on top. 'then pick them for the jodrnnnire. Did you ever sprinkle a goat? I did in the bot time last summer, I sprinkled him every dayiso's be could keep enol and enjoy hisseif. In the lust time I sprinkled ever mart 11 tbing I could. Gran's eenary, the lettuce on Mena's Sunday hat to keep it from blitherin' and mamma's goldfish. Then you know the big tree on the tether? I poured five livery pills bottles of water on it every day, be - tilde when I helped the janitor with the a t a hose. It grew U I It a em as if thtkra is so roan things todoa portion doesn't have time to go a plaoe or do a mortil thing. There's sa muoh fun, maybe I'll loot nave time to 'bave it all before I stop being a little girl, You stop at 8, you know, and then begin being n big girl, I'm 'afraid I'll cry that day, bot Tben, maybe big gide 'joy thoirselves, tool YOUNG MEN SHOULD R11111EA'f13LR, That it takes more than muscle to make a man. That bigness is not greatness, That it requires pheek to be pall - e it, That selfishness is the most unman- ly thing in the world. w Tliut consideration for mother and sister' does more to mark a gentleman than the kind ot necktie be weare. Thatpiety is not priggishness. That the only whole man is a boly That to follow the crowd is a., con- fession'of weakness. That the street cornere are a poor college, Tbat one real friend is wortha score of acquaintances. That to be afraid to be one's noblest self is the greatest cowardice, That It is never too soon to ,begin to make a man of one's se1f. That what is put into the brain to- day will be taken out of it ten years hence, That the only manliness worth pos- sessing is os-sessing`is shown in the life of the Son of man. CHECKING THE PLAGUE. ---y A. ,tussles., Doctor's Example !Oared Its Ravaxre. There is no argument 60 effective as example. This was proved anew last summer, when the plague broke' out in the village of Anzop, Turkes- tan, a place of loss than six hundred • inhabitants. The story, as told by the TLmee, is a remarkable one, It was furnished by a Russian nobleman who lately arrived at Bombay, and wine was at the village when the out- break occurred- The village Of Anzop is about two hundred miles from Samarcand, and lies in a hollow of the mountains at a height of more than eleven thousand feet. Its absolute seclusion is not due to its flight alone, but also to the en- circling mountain. There are places on the way to the village where the traveler has to creep along perilous ledges on the mountainside, holding to the rocks as he advances. du this secluded village the plague made Lee appearance. . Three hun- dred and eighty out of the six hun- dred inhabitants were attacked, and almost every case proved fatal. As soon as the news of the outbreak reached Samarcand, the Russian auth- orities telegraphed to St. Petersburg, and medical aid was sent. The chief of the party was Doctor Lieven, one of the group of scientists who went to Bombay at the beginning of 1807. Doctor Leiven had a supply of Doctor Haffki:ne's prophylactic, and pro- ceeded to attack the plague by its use. Tia case was desperate. The worst mortality return in China had shown no parallel to this. Doctor Leiven began by telling the people that he had come to stop the plague, and that he had with him a medicine that would be sure to do it. He was met by the objection, familiar enough in India, that if be gave them tbo medians he would give them the disease also. In answer to this Doctor Leiven at once tnooulated himself in the pres- ence of the assembly, and then inocu- lated the village offieials. The exam- ple had great effect, hut atilt the peo- ple doubted. They feared that the medicine administered to them might be taken from another bottle, or that another instruznwnt anigilit be used. On being aasured that they should be inoculated from the same bottle and with the same syringe, they could find no more to say. If the doctor was not afraid to use the medicine on himself, surely It would not hurt them. Soone by one they oama for- ward, all who ware yet unattacked by the plague, and were inoculated. The plague was stayed. There were no fresh attacks, and the last death occurred four days after Doctor Lia- ven appeared. EXTRAORDINARY 1VIARCHING FEAT. t0Rtrten So5,iters 4reatly Afsitngtatsls ThciomeireS, Some remarkable marches were per- formed at the Austrian manoeuvres by the Third and Fourteenth Army Corps, The :Third Army Corps was defending Carinthia against the Fourteenth, winch, after having conquered the Tyrol, and marched eastwards, threat- ened the defending province. Some of the regiments engaged have performed marvellous feats, The 501h Infantry Regiment, together with the 14th, two Landwohr Regiments, and the 10113 Uhesseur Batealion marched over the heights of 7`uroole, over a mile in height, while a heavy snow- storm was ragi,rg, the weather being so cold that Turooh Lake was frozen 0761'. Tho troops were obliged to spend n night in the open before descending by mountain paths to the Blemperalm, The weather was so intensely cold that the men had icicles hanging from their hair, The snowstorm continued throughout the whole of the march, but not a single man fell out. Three mountain batteries were taken up the slee e t heights within alt exlr aor- dinarily short time. One man lost his life, He was on the point of being cap- tured, but jumped into the River Drau and was carried away by tbe strong curreent, Thmpeiror Frannie 7oseph ex- pressed himself highly satisfied with the marehi.ng capacity of the troops, and complimented them on their smart appearance on arriving at tan manocvro ground. REVIVAL OF VALO0N1lY, )title hong Seaileatett uor0l or Sport .)gnat iteaetning Pep0laa' 50 !1ui-01,o. Few' people have any idea of the sport Wanda. the hunters of Europe dee rived, two or three centuries ago, from )looking with birds, , It ie not easy to acoount for the long neglect of thin form of anteing, The only pert of the Continent where it survived as a normal national sport was in :Bosnia, where the landowners have never nue- ed to fly their biome at partridges that are found for there by Polo lona. Now, that falconry has begun to re' viva, the Dutch hawk oatoliere are un, able to take enough falcons to meet the orders of their Pngllsh and French patrons, These Dutob falcons, take en when. following the flights of all kinds of birds, are the Irick of the catch, but far more are taken from nests when they are young. In France the goshawk is much In favor and high flying falcons are less In demand than in England and Scotland. To -day the best' establishments of, hawks and the moat enthusiastic fol- lowers of the apart aro found in Eng- land and Scotland. The Hawking Club meets every spring on Salisbury Plain to fly falcons at rooks. Every- thing, is w.e11 done as in the days of James I., There may be from t•Welve 10 twenty falcons, with the falconer and his cart and the members on horseback. There la plenty of dash and exettment in the buslnesa,.Some- times an old and keen falcon is flown et a rook within easy reach, but she does not want the prey so near at hand and so mounts to the very clouds, till she spies another flock, in- to whdch she: darts like a shooting star. Riders, dash off aoross the down, their eyes fixed upon the hawk and the falconer shouts "she has kill- ed" when she sees something fall frog} the 'flock. Off dash the riders, who have marked the descent of the .vita tem, and soon the bird is taken up, Later Ln the year the membera will be flying their falcons at grouse on the Scotch and Northumberland moors. Not a few hawks and falcons are now kept in and about London and taken into the country by train when they are wanted in the field. The reason why the goshawk bas become a general favorite in France is because of its superiority to the falcon for hawking in a closed country among hedges, trees, plantations and gar- dens. It seizes its prey in tbe air, on the ground or even on a tree or bush, witiaout hesitation, and its adroitness, speed, courage and quickness of eye are astonishing. It ie no exaggera- tion, to say that the owner of a pro- perty of five or six hundred acres would take as muoh game oa It with tbe single goshawk as be oould kill with a gun. SIR BARTLE FRERE'S PROPHECY AS TO THE TRANSVAAL. In July, 1870, tbe late Sir Bartle Frere, who was High Commissioner in South Africa, from April, 1877, to Au - goat, 18E0, placed on record the fol- lowing prophecy:-" And attempt to give baok or reatore the Boer Repub- lic in the Transvaal must lead to an- archy and failure, and probably, at no distant period, to a vicious initiation of some South American Republic, in which the more uneducated and mis- guided Boers, dominated and led by better educated foreign adventurers- Germans, Hollanders, Irish Hume Rul- ers, and other European Itepuolieaos and Socialists -twill become a pest to the whole of South Africa, and a most dangerous fulcrum to any European Power bent on contesting our naval suprecnaoy or in injuring ire in the colonies. . . There is no escaping from the responsibility which has been already incurred, ever since the Eng- lish flag was planted in the Castle here. All our real difficulties, have arisen, and still arise, from attempt- ing to evade or shift this responsi1il ity. . If you abdicate the sover- eign position, the abdication bas al- ways to be heavily paid for in both blood and treasure. . Your objeot is not conquest, but simply snpramaoy up to Delagoa Bay. This will have to be asserted some day, and the asser- tion will not become easier by delay. The trial of strength will be forced on you and neither justice nor human- ity will be served by postponing the trial if we start with a good cause." Sir Bartle Frere said he was content to .appeal from the injuatica of his contemporaries to the ultimate verdiot of his country, adding: -""It is quite possible that the verdict may not (tome in my time. All our history points to similar oases of mei who have done their best according to their lights, and to whom justice was not done till long after they had passed away." IMPORTANCE OF BY-PROI),UCTS, "This is the day and date of the bye protluol," said a cotton seed oil buyer. "Instead of launching into new lines the tendency is to go back over the ground and gather up what we have wasted.. I Gould name scores of Indus- tries that are at present actually pay- ing their running expanses by the uti- lization of something they used to hire people to carry away. "The cotton sped oil business ie a good illustration of modern eaononrie methods, It is all the development of a few years, comparatively speaking, and to -day the demand for what was formerly a waste material is far ahead of the supply. In 1804, for example, I had 250 oil mills on my list, located within certain boundaries in the cot- ton holt. 11.1 present I have 5£10 in a considerably smaller territory. Mean- while the uses to winch the seed, is ap- plied have. boon 81 cattily increasing, with no signs of reaching a limit. The oil enters into a dozen different food Lrroduots and has practically replaced olive oil for ordinary table use. Thous- ands of gallons are exported and mine hack with labels on the bottles as good or better than the real thing. Every part of the seed Is now saved exoe'pi a few chemical elemantn of the outer hull (het Paas away In stoops; In foot, we clo ttoarly as well as the prominent packers, who utilize all of the pig except bis'sgtiea1"