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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-8-23, Page 2THE MYSTERIOUS CRIME ON THE S.S. NEPTUNE CHAPTER 11S—Continued, The captain jumped at the Idea, and :was going down tocurry it into effect l !when Ronald stopped him. ' i " r say," be caked eagerly ; "wbo is that pretty girl with the dark hair?"' "Ole, that, said Templeton with a laugh, 'lis the object of your suapio- ens—.Miss OoLoner," `Cpt0.tn Templeton t ed Away. and Ronald discovered the young lady in question Was the vary one be bad seen on the Barraca, and of whose face he had been dreaming ever canoe. She, gaiity of a orime 4 The thought wee madness ; if anyone even hinted 'at gush a thing he'd throw him over the side, and he no longer was aston- ished at the ceptain's indignation at his suggestion. The fact was, Master Ronald was in the first stage of that universal disease called love. He ap- ee-rproaehed Mrs. Pellypop as she Sat knitting industrioualy, and took a seat beside bar; of course she com- menced on the great subject of the day, and expressed her opinion tnat it ewae a " lamer. ,But what motive?" asked Ronald. absently ; " couldn't be robbery—noth- ingwas stolen." ' Then it must have been a atew- ard," said Mra. Pellypop, determined- ly. " Mr. Ventin looked like a man a ith a temper, and very likely struck i ll' • taliated kt in - steward, who retaliated g a v by him,—oh, it's as clear as day to me." "Put where did he got alis weapon r asked Ronald. "Stole it from the plats basket," said Mrs. Pellypop, whose idea of stil- ettos was vague. "It was not a table knife?" began Ronald, then broke off suddenly as he saw Miss Cotoner move away with a tall, slender, dark man. " I say, Mrs. Pellypop, who's that 4" " Whom 4" asked Mrs. Pellypop, put- ting up her glasses. " Ob, the girl from Matta 4" No, not bliss Cotoner, 1 kuow who she is ; but the fellow 4" " Oh, her cousin, the Marchese Vas- ealla," answered Mrs. Pellypop; "not that I ogre much for foreign titles myself, but he looks a gentleman," And, as a matter of foot, he was by no means ill -looking, but when Ronald saw him be instantly took a dislike to him. Why, he did not know, unless it was on the Dr. Fell principle; it might have bean instinot, perhaps prejudice ; but the fact remained nev- ertheless—he did like Matteo Vassal - la. A handsome face certainly, with swarthy skin, brilliant, black eyes, and a coal black beard carefully trimmed. In his slender, sinewy figure there was something of the lithe grace of a panther ; and what with the grace- ful movements of his hands, and the deferential, manner with which he bent toward Mies Cotoner, he decid- edly did not impress Monteith favor- ably. But the lady—well. she has been de- soribed before, and as Ronald looked at her he only found new perfections. She had rather a sad expression on her facie, and her head was a little bent down, but far the rest, she was as atraight and graceful as Artemis. Ronald, who had stoutly resisted all the blandishments of the pretty girls on board, caught one glance of those brilliantly blaok eyes and surrendered at once. He also caught the glance of another pair of• eyes which did not regard him In such a friendly man- ner, and drew himself up haughtily as he left Mrs. Pellypop, and went down to the saloon. " What the deuce did that foreign end mean by staring at me like that," he muttered, quite forgetting that the oad in question bad a title, and was of bighor rank than himself ; "I don't suppose he has anything to do with her; perhaps they are engaged -bang it, it's impossible, she'd never throw herself away on a thing like that. I'll oak old mother Pellypop to -morrow, she'll be lure to know all about her In that time." /laving thus to bis own mind, uatis- faotorily eettled the affair, Ronald went down to his cabin to dress for dinner. Meanwhile Mian Ootoner and tier oouein were having a few wards on the subject of Mr. Monteith. " What a handsome man,' said Miss Ootoner, following the tall figure of the Australian with her eyes. "Bah ! a beef -eating ifngliebman," retorted Vassalla, with an angry light in his wicked black ogee, " be has ne brain." "You've to find that out yet," re- torted the young lady, who seemed to take delight in tormenting her com- panion. " I think he's charming, f'm sure he looks it ; I saw him yesterday on the Barraca." "Remember you are engaged to me," replied the Marchese, angrily. "(By my parents, yes," she replied, coldly ; " but not with my own con- sent." " Consent, bah! let wiser heads guide yours, Carmela." " Well, I certainly would not ask your bead to take the position," re- plied Carmela, contemptuously. "Why do you annoy me like this; do you think Z left my sister only to be wor- ried by you ou 4 No, I don't think eo. there is too much of the hying -pen. into the fire theory is that for me." " I will get your sister to take you back," he said vindictively. " Oh, no you won't," ebe retorted, turning on hien ; "I'm of age—my own mistress, and I have sleeted to go and stop with my cousins in England. If I choose to marry an Englishman I certainly will, in spite of your threats ; so good-bye Matteo, I'm go- ing to dress for dinner," and she walked gracefully away, leaving the Marchese in a delightful temper. "'Bahl" !" he muttered angrily to himself ; " she is Duly a woman ; pa- tience, my good Matteo, you shall win her yet, and then--" He closed his mouth with an angry snap that did not augur well for the happiness of Mies Cotoner's future life. " What a flirt that girl is," thought Mrs. Pellypop, as she looked after the young lady; "I'm sure I don't know what the world ie coming to ; I never flirted," and to Mrs. Pellypop's credit, it must be said, she never had, but then, as Rochefoucauld remarks, some women are safe because nobody seeks after them. Wean Ronald emerged from his cab- in in evening dress he was caught at the foot of the stairs by Pat, who in company with a few convivial spirits, was having a cherry and bitters. " Come and have something to drink after all your labors," he said in a hospitable manner ; " anything new about the affair i" "No, I don't think so," replied Ron- ald sadly, "poor Ventin! To think be was so jolly last night and now dead." "Do you tsink the person who kill- ed him is on board ?" asked Pat, con- fidentially. "No, I don't," retorted Ronald, de- oisively; " I believe she's to be found at Malta, and 1111 bunt her down and punieh her somehow." "Why ?" "Because I liked Ventin—be had a miserable life, and a miserable end, and a wicked woman like that wife of his is not fit to live." "Stop a bit, old boy," observed Pat, coolly, "you haven't brought the crime home to her yet." " But I will," reiterated Monteith, doggedly; " I'm sure it's she, and if it isn't 1'11 make it my business in life to find out who is the criminal." "I say, Monteith," said Bentley, a vacuous-Iouking youth with no brains and lots of money, " Ventin's place was next to you at table—who are they going to put there?" " I don't know and I don't care," growled Ronaid, savagely turning Dr. Chase's Ointment Is the World's Greatest Cure for Itching Skin, Eczema, Salt Rheum and Piles. It is extremely doubtful if there ever Was a remedy that was endeared by Much an ovea'w1el'ming mass of evi- dence as is Dr. Chase's Ointment, The remarkable soothing, healing qualities of Dr. Chase's Ointment are a mys- tery to physicians, and, though they are slow to recognize merit In any dis- covery, they join heartily with people of; other callings to endorsing and rer commending Dr, Memo's Ointment as the most sunoeseful treatment ever devised for itching skin diseases. Rev. 1. A. Baldwin, Baptist Miniator, Arkona, Ont., writes; "For over twenty years I was a great pufferer from Meshing and protruding piles, I used many romedlos and un- derwent three very painful surgical egaratinns, all without obtaining any Permanent, benefit. When about to glee up in despale I ]was bald to use JIr, Choate! Ointment and did so, find- ing relief at onto. 3 need three boxes, kkmd am almolGt' entirely' meted, Vito itching is all gone. I have advised others to use it, believing it would cure therm es it btuq me." You mush not think that Dr. Chase's Ointment Is for piles only, but we men. bion this ailment as the most difficult to cure of all itching akin diseases, and the disease which has never been absolutely conquered by any other treatlment. Among the ailments for which Dr, Chase's Ointment is being used by !marcs of thousands of people with' unit vernal success may be mentioned: Eczema, salt rheum, tetter, baby. eczema, rash, barber's itch, chilbaine, Itching eyelids, ulcers, poleoned 'flesh, burns, scalds, sores, blind, lashing, bleeding and protruding piles, and itching skin diseases of every deserlg' teen. Dr. Ohasa's 0l04nent is. far sale alto, all dealers or sent ppebstpetid on reeellpt of prim, 60ote,, by Edins eon Rates -& Goa Toronto..' TEE $ lit USK away, onrsing Mr. Bentley under leis breath for lase calque way of !peak- iw1g. " Seems eat up," lamed .Bentley, pu t - ting up bis eyeglass, in nowise dis- turbed. " Well, it's no joke leaving a fellow Yen like murdered," said Pat, finisb- ing his sherry ; " and Ventin, wan a good sort, anyhow." Then they all 'commenced talking again about the mystery till Pat grew weary of the disausslon, and went on Bleck, where he found. Ronald leaning over the side looking moodily at the water, „ Well, old allay," said Pat, slapping bine an the shoulder, "don't take it so much to heart." " It wasn't that," replied Monteith; I was thinking how we meld find out his real name," " Why, wasn't it Ventin?" " He eel(' it wasn't." " Search his baggage." " That's been done, but without re- sult—all his linen is marked L.P., all his letters dtrt'cted to Lionel Ventin, in fart, it's the only name that can be found." Then it must be his real name," asserted Yat. " Nut necessarily ; he told me he changed his name, so he evidently did it thoroughly." " Any crest that might give a olue 4" " No, nothing." "Oh ! it seems a deuce of a muddle: Hullo, there's the dinner bell—came down. old boy, l'm starving." They went below, and fund nearly all the tables full. Pat went to his own table, and Ronald sat sadly down by the side of Ventin's empty chair. He was not there very long when he heard a rustle, and on turning round saw that Miss Cotoner was sitting be- side him. Yes, sitting in the dead man's chair; so, with u sudden im- pulses, Ronald arose. " I beg yor pardon," be said, towing; " but would you mind taking my chair instead of that one?" " Why 1" asked the young lady, cold- ly. " Because—because," he stammered, confusedly, "it was Mr,—Mr. Ventin's the gentleman who died." " Oh!" she sold and turnea ratber pale, " thank you," wising—" I will ac- cept your offer." and sbe sat in Mont- eitb's chair while he took poor Von - Of course this little incident was ob- served by all, and by cone more so than Matteo Vaesalla, who sat at a distant table and looked remarkably savage. " Wait a little," he muttered " when you are mine, I'll tame you." Pat, indioating Ronald and Mies Cotoner to Kate Lector, hummed the Bast line of his favorite song, "I love a lubly gal, 1 do." " What do you think 4" he added Miss Lester laughed and nodded. "I think the same as you," she an- swered. CHAPTER V. The inquest on the body of Lionel Ventin was resumed next day, but nothing new was discovered, and tak- ing into consideration the strange etory told by the deceased to Monteith the time of the committal of the crime, which, acearding to the Doc- tor'e showing must have taken plaoe when the ship was leaving Valetta, there appeared no doubt but that the murder bad been committed before the steamer left Malta. As the de- ceased's real name was not Ventin, and all the evidence was purely cir- cumstantial, the jury brought in a verdict of " Wilful tourder against a Person unknown." The evidence was taken (town so as to be handed to the authorities in Gibraltar, entries were made in the log -book about the af- fair, and poor Lionel's body was teem - milted to the deep. There is something inexpressibly sorrowful and solemn in a burial at sea. The body, wrapped in a sail, with iron shot at its feat, was placed on the lower deck near the open bul- warks, and was covered with the Un- ion Jack. A number of the passen- gers were present, leaning from the upper deck but many of the ladies, among whom was Mrs. Pellypop, were reading the service for the dead to themselves in the saloon. The captain, surrounded by his officers, read the service over the deceased, and at a signal the body was pushed over the side, slipping from under the •Union Jack, and fell with a dull splash into the sea. Then everyone dispersed, the engines, which had been slowed down during the burial, resumed their usual speed, and life on board 'went oa as usual. There was a gloom, how- ever, over all the ship, for it was not an ordinary death, and it was not un- til the "Neptune" reached Gibraltar, that the passengers began to recover their usual gaiety. Meanwhile Ronald Monteith had be- came the slave of Carmela Cotoner, and, judging Ernst her gracious man- ner towards him, she was in no wise displeased at having him at bee feet. Ronald had hitherto laughed at the tender passion, but now he was being paid back Eat insulting the god of Love as he found out to his cost. He s always at Oarmelo's elbow,—mar- S P'OS'E vied liar rugs and ,pillows about for lice, danood with bar, read poetry to bee, and, In feet, was rat eonatant ie ale attentions, that it wan scan pat- ent to the whole ship that lilonteith was madly in, love with the glee iron Malta. And, indeed, she'wus hailed nothing else, Drs. Pellypop, not knowing her name at Punt. liad given her that ti- tle, and everyone else followed quit. She was the belle of the ahtp, vice Hate Lester .resigned, and was always Pollowod by en adoring crowd of young teen, of whom Ronald grew unspeak- ably jealous, and would get quite sulky if she smiled or spoke to any- one else, He carried tbis absurd be- havior to suoh an extant that Pat Ayers took him to task one day for his elms. To 13e Continued, DODGING DEATH. Some Wane Freahs of Euele Keato hie ease the Reaper. A man who, while poor, is not more afrald to die than most people, often develops a haunting terror of death after he has made a big fortune and spends an unhappy life end huge sums of money in trying to avoid the com- ing fate, frequeutly hurrying himself into a premature grave through sheer worry and fear. This passion has turn- ed the brains of a good many wealthy people, and made monomaniacs of them. They resort to the most child- ish expedients to keep death tram their domes. You remember Kipling's character who had his chair slung on ropes from a beam that the world might spin un- der him, instead of earryiug him along to grow older. There was an actual ease very like this a few years ago, when John Islip an Englishman, who made a huge fortune out of silver in Mexico, drove himself mad through worrying about his death. After exhausting all the safeguards London could offer, he bought a small rocky island called Bryahil, on the West Irish moat, taking with him one faithul servitor. Here, in feverish haste he had four stone pillars raised, and a small ONE-STORYED CABIN. with three rooms, rather like a house boat, slung ou chairs from iron gird- ers that crossed the pillars, and swung. clear of the ground. Once inside this, he shat hlmsell up, with some books and a pet jackdaw for company, and never left his swinging house until his death. The attendant, who lived in a small house close by, used to row to the mainland—a mile and a half;—when the weather permitted, for provisions. The master spent his time reading and looking out over the Atlantic from the Debbi windows. His brain had given way, of course, and he im- agined hie life stood still, while the earth revolved under him. Ile bad no relatives to insist an hie entering e private asylum, and he diedthree years later in the cabin, worried out of life by the; fear of death. His hair was avow white, though he was only forty-three. Another wealthy man, Jean Ingle - sant, though he had made a fortune by shrewd speoulatton, also gave way to the dread of death. Ha conceived the idea that all movement and ef- fort wasted the tissues of the body, and this notion sunk so deeply into his mind that he want to bed in a quiet country house, and hardly mov- ed hand or foot for years, if he even stirred a finger he did it with dread, believing ii: used up his vitality and shortened his life by so much time, He spoke ea little as possible, some- times not opening his lips for days, and was fed by attendants with spoons. . All his food consisted of " slips" to save him the fatal exer- tion of chewing, and his one amuse- ment, was being read to by the hour together, for he would not hold a book or turn the pages. Evan the reading he did away with toward the close of hie life, believing that listening short- ened his existence. ONE OF THE QUEEREST CASES was that of a Mrs. Holmeis, a very wealthy widow, who had a terrible fear Of germs and bacilli of all kinds. She had studied the subject deeply, and it affected her reason, to all ap- pearance. The dread of death seized her, and she was convinced she would die by some wasting disease inspired by Iniorobes. Knowing that cold is fatal to the average germ, she had two rooms adjoining each other, fit- ted as refrigerators, and kept con- stantly at a temperature of about 110 degrees, or just below freezing point. Ona would euppose this to be more trying than any quantity of microbes; but the owner wee happy In ter eon- saioneness of freedom from germ dis- eases. Winter and summer the rooms were kept at the same point, and the adjoining rooms and hall were also kept pool that no ourrent of warm air might bring 'bacilli in. This lady lived diad in furs through- out the hottest days that blazedout- side, and her attendants and serv- ants were obliged to constantly dis- infect themselves before entering/ear presence. They lived in a perpetual at- mosphere of carbolic acid, and their mistress had to pay very high wages, to -induce any servants to stay with here IN THE BAYS OF THE BIE(II. TIM LATE Cw11O. 'W, STE VSNS AT LADYSMITii, .40 ,,trclhleaeau ll•he would It411!er lNr POOP the Union .[colt /line lave limier Iho \Yells l'la,, We woke pn Satturdny mning the acoultomed couples euorbangs•t—o Long, Toro end the four -point -seven, )ben Bilomas, Wo dressed and breakfasted with disquietude, What devilieb 1 rick were they up to nowt Ewe minutes later everybody with- in a mile radius of the town knew that Sir George White had sent out —more white flag—to ask General Joubert whether the stoic and woaud- ed, women and children, and pou- eomibatants might leave the town, Evea'ytiody assumed, Heaven alone knows why—it speaks 'better for the. rePutattowi of Joubert's magnanL• anis than for that of hie common- sense—that the reply would be "Yes." Almost everybody deckled to go. They debated awhile whether it would be railway or road, then decid- ed that 11 was a ease of driving to Maritzburg, Those who had casts were popular mein. Those who had many horses sold all but two, those who had two looked about for a paok-saddle, those who had one made a selection of thew goods, uaid greased their socks. Those who bad none sought friends who had. Within five minutes I become the le- gatee of five months' stores. PREPARATION FOR FLIGHT. The whole morning buzzed with pre- paration. Just iiefors lunch time it became known that the answer had arrived. Nolbody took much interest to that, everybody was sure it was "Yes." A etet halaf-way through lunch the text of the =ewer floated in on the summer -laden air, It was "No." Nobody .could possibly be allowed to go South. The sick and wounded, women • and children, and non'-cpm'batants might remove to a point four mdse out within twenty - foul hours. They were to go—you have guessed it—under, the whoa flag, and they were to have no communica- tion with the combatant part of the garru;on. Also no man who went out was. to fight again daring the siege. And a meeting was to be held before the Tawe Hall at tour to consider the question, The meeting was duly held. Out- side the Town Hall—it looked like a miniature study of half the town halls in England—to-day, a drench of iodoform prof mimed it as a hospital —gathered the cavil population of Ladysmith. The ivayor and Town Coiled" on the steps, a hotelkeelper, about six parsons, sixty unshaven man in soft hats, and a lady and Lour men on horseback behind. Mr. Magor—his bare head relieving his muttonchap whiskers—opened the meeting, and requested the town clerk to read the correspondence, The honourable gentleman inaudibly did so, and then at the request of three- quarters of the civil population, in- audibly did so again. . Then the discuseton vegan. mound - eyed Tommy watched it from the skirts of the crowd. So did ox -eyed Ram Bux, the Indian doolre bearer, not knowing wharf: it all meant, nor oaring, ignorant and indifferent how the war was going, content to carry the wounded out of action, and leave Ins own fate and everything else to God. But that lancet the point of view of Ladysmith. Vetoes ;began to ring, 'Hear, hear, and 'No, no,' to growl. The Mayor was for going out. The hotelkeeper was for taking a rifle and joining the tiring line. Some were for this, others for that. In the end rose the Archdeacon, and said that for his part he would rather die under the Union Jack than live under the white flag. So said they all. "GOD SAVE THE QUEENI" Bareheaded under the Ban they sang "God Save the Queen,' and went forth to hide their women' folk end children in holes in the hills and clefts in the river bank. We had, they, said, till noon on San - day. But by before that—when I went out before breakfast—there was a new Ladysmith. The old one was shut ap, deserted, an empty, shell of mach - board and corrugated iron. The teem- ing centres of population were void and soundless. The poet office, where three days ago, you steamed and stewed ten min- utes 10 human juice bobore you could buy a penstamp, os11 Curthor ttotinyne and portouilisedwascled with1! hey bales. Of the bospilal remained only the bare walls, a few skeletons of beds, and the smell of iodoform. The local Whiteiey had his rolls of dress fabrics ou the pavement, and had substituted bimseld for them in his cellar. The Royal Hotel held out gallantly tint the last moment, the wanleas disappaored by day, but the manager and barman cooked the din- ner, end the natives crept in assents 11 by night, Bet by Monday morning even the Repel Hotel was derelict. The man- agee and ibarmen and one faithful watter bad ontrenehed themselves be- hind bags ea flour in a cleft, of the Mils, tend.wfth aage* of whlskeia and a good eoalsoitenoe they Were sorting 111,e ac0oualts, which we Mean to pay Wheel the bombardment in over, Beeealy, Lederman lived wndex- grouual. You turned aoornal' and in natural easy olluir sat e lady under a sunshade reading a yolleevahack novel i'raeott1,Y You Mone to a pit, Wherein equated a Week earee i mnsbng a bunch of children, But thefashion- Ale quarternew. was the river bed. Ladysmith has the. felicity that the il.lip River flows twice round it in the shave of an 5, tend the KIM River banks ane high and steep, and of a light treble soil. They have branch - hag 'olefts. "wherein you might find whole fasnlltes dozing under blankets propped up with sticke, comforted with the presence nit many stalwart Natal Volunteers. An you rode along the,, 'beak you heardfamiliar voices end saw familiar faces grinning wp frown holes in mid preoiptos, where they dwelt with flasks and potted meats like monks of ',Athos. Others grilled beneath hutches of galvanized iron, which, slightly spread with earth, is reported it sure defence against shrapnel, Lor Boar shrapnel tinkles on their roofs as tris tinkles en a lemon sgaash. As for the' Im- perial Light Horse, they drove nine tunnels into the rover bank, and made the place look like adeep lead mine in England. You could not go ten yards without seeing a freshly dug hole, freshly abandoned for another yet more hermoticall, THE AGONY OF EXPIOOTATION. We, were all troglodytes 1 tr to tes and lake - dwellers 'and cave men now--rook- rabbles and comes and lizards. As for me, I intended when the real bon bardknent began to lie to the river, with the tip of my nose and, a pair of Zeiss glasses above the water. . But in the meantime the amusing thing was that the bombardment did not begin. f woke at three on Mon- day morning to the uproar of a aqua- dran of Light Horse getting under arms. "0, ye msreiful powers,' I sand, "has it 'begu:n already,' and then I went asleep again. Iwoke up with a jump at rivet -and the firmament was still uncruoked, Tentatively I crept out of bed, steailt'hily Ishaved and felt unusually naked in my tub. As eight the calm was Sabbatical, 1 laid in breakfast lastest the whole day. At nine l went forth to view the world. It was difficult to find it, but such as I uprooted were unscathed. At teen an eremite, who !teed in, the face of a cliff, came in demanding gm unit water. Noiw, as I write, it is after lunch, and I more than half think it worth while going oat to try and buy meat and bread for dinner. But where on earth is the bomleardenent4 This ab- sence of bombardment. is the most na.rve,•_aiattering thing in the world. NICE SUMUMER BEVERAGES.' There is nothing one braves more on a sultry summer day than an iced bevanage. Indeed, in many houses the hot "cup that cheers" and the steaming ooffeepat are almost banished at this season. The cool drinks should, however, be prepared in a very dainty and particular man- ner. 7!'rothed eoEfee should be a strong, clear, drip coffee. Sweetened to taste chill and just before serving drop on the tap of each cup, a large spoonful of whipped !ream, slightly flavor- ed with vanilla. Iced cocoa is simply made with water, simmered for five minutes and then cooled, milk or cream being ad- ded when it is used. But a more fanny drink is known as— Cocoa Cap—Prepare 1 quart of aloe but not too thick cocoa, using half milk and half water, sweetening to t:tste. When cold stir 2 teaspoons of vanilla into a gill of amain and add to the cocoa. Plage in a bowl on toe, and pour over a large bottle of well - chilled seltzer water. Egg lemonade is highly reeotnmend- ed as a "pick -me -nap" when ane is tilted. Allowed 1. raw egg and a half lemon for each glass. Whip the eggs unlit very light and frothy, put in a portion of the lsenoa and water and beat again, then add the remainder of the lemonade and atritin. This is particularly palatable when made with Apollinaris or plain soda water. • Pineapple punch is very delicious. Boll together 1 qt of water and 1 bb of granulated sugar for 5 minutes. Sbratn and add the juice of 1 lemon and a eup of freshlygrated pineap- ple. Let stand far 1-2 hour. Theu strain again. Serve in tall, thin glos- ses with plenty of finely crushed ice and a few whole strawberries or rasp- berries and bits of out: pineapple. Temperance punch is liked by many. Suffuse 1 tablespoon of good green tea, im 1 quart offreshly boiling wn- ter. Allow it to steep for five min- utes, keeping vary hot, and then pouroff the clear tea upon the juice and yellow peel of 3 lemmas, and 1 orange, Stir in 1-2 lb sugar and coni in the refrigerator for at least 6 hours. ;When ready to use add 1-2 pint cherry, raspberry or acme other fruit syrup. ''Fill the glosses three- quarters full and then 'tathe Ispwith lend water or ;plain mods water, Nevar be afraid of what Is good. the good is always the road to what is true,—Hamerton. A1v0178T 29, 1900 HISTO IISAL INS, ANOE 4 ASSASSINATION O AMBASSADORS IN ANCIENT TIMES, 8ureys Have /teen Murdered with the Veiupvatice e5 the 94ov0rnni°wt to ll else 'alley nave .teoredlted. The excitement of the pant month that has agitated this oountury and Europe eonoerning the Roreign minim. arra and attaches at Pekin reoane the fact that tram the merit ancient times the person of an ambassador or min- ister bats been held inviolable-- the privilege being expended' to all the personnel' of his legation ; sa that when Eriendly relations are severed between hie government and the one to which he is aoeredited, he is given. paesparte to Insurehis safety until he shall have passed from the limits 01 the country. Even to insult an ambassador bas al- ways been regarded aa a most serious international offense, -Alexander the Great destroying the City of Troy on that account. So strong,-indeed,is the protection. aoeorded to an envoy at all times, that there are but few instances of the ant ualoompllcity of a government being traced to outrages upon his security. Chief among aueh, however, . was the murder of Dr. Donislaus, the Bri- tish Minister to Holland in 1649; that of the French Envoys to A•uetria in 1799, and in this century of the Bri- tish envoys at Kabul in 1841 and 1878,, respectively. The assasatnati,on of Dr. Donislaus was duo principally to his connection' with the TRIAL OF KING CHARLES; as one of the parliamentary uounael A number of English royaliets had sought refuge at The Hague, and on the day after the dootor'e arrival sue - (seeded in dealing him a fatal blow. In this case the thinly veiled sympa- thy of the reigning stadthoder pro- tected the murderers from arrest and punishment, though the crime was re- garded by other Princes as even greater than the execution of Icing Churlea. The aesassination of the lrrenoh en- voys at Bastudt in 1799 was of a par- ticularly treacherous character. War had been declared between France. and Austria, but the three French plenipo- tentiaries remained at their post, re- lying upon the protection of their of- fice. On the nigbt of April 28 they were suddenly ordered to leave Bas- tadt, and had gone but a short dis- tance when they were ambushed by a regiment of Austrian Hussars, MM. Bonnier and Robergeot were instant- ly killed, but the third, Jean Debry, though wounded, succeeded in making his escape back to the city. Perhaps the nearest parallel to the present tragedy at Pekin, was that of the maasaere of Sir William Mao- naghten and his oampanions at lia- bul in 1841. The British 'envoy and two officers of his household having been lured, unarmed, to the palace, were there RUTHLESSLY BUTCHERED. by the Ameer's son. The story or the subsequent retreat, of the 4500 Bra. tisk troops, of whom 600 ware Euro- peans, and 12,000 camp followers is one of the most terrible in history. Among the snow-covered passes they were en- compassed on all sides and attacked. at every step by fanatical hordes of Afghans. Of that army, only one wretched individual, Dr. Brydone, arewled into Jalalabad to tell of the horror of that march. Again, on September 3, 1878, Kabul wee the see,ne of the assassination of another British envoy, Sir Lewis cav- aguteri, after holding out for several days in the residency against the Amoer's revolted troops wits oompell- ad, by the firing of the buildings, to sally forth and perish with hie cons - pentane. It was to avenge this out- rage that Lord Roberts made his fam- tees march to Kabul and Kandahar. The last serious attack upunthe life of an envoy was that of a Japanese fanatic upon Li Hung Chang at the °lase of the Japan -Chinese war. The manner in which the Japanese Government swiftly visited punish- went upon the perpetrator, and the ample satisfaction offered to the Chi- nese Minister, in a large measure em- phasized the claim of the Japanese to be considered ono of the olvillzed pow- ers, CHLOROFORM WILL NOT WORK. It has been found that an apparatus for killing animals with chloroform in England would not work in India, becauee the high temperature pre- vented the concentration of the chloroform vapor. That thiswas the ease wasproved by the fact that by placing ice in the box the aniinnle were readily killed. In some of the German hospitals an iced chloroform Is used, which gives much better ran sults in Its prompt action, Its safety and the entire absentia of any tin - pleasant after effects, than the or, dimity chloroform. CIRCU815TANCES ALTER CASES. You er•,ue1, wicked boy, to kill that harmless, little bird. II was jai' going tet offer it for Yea, lady, for ter put do wings in yet oollection on yet headgear. Oh, you generous little fellow! Ana they're just the right abode!