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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-4-10, Page 2ICONFUSION Lofty OF CASTE. it N'iso.biiity 0, soul, Wireasweeaseirass3ssitaVinvirS3440.4-.9,01~4.0. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CII.A.PTERS.-Evil tongues have bee gun to clack abotIt the relations; IM- : tween Mr. Trelawney, a scholarly re- cluee, and his housekeeper's niece, Letter. Ile esks her to marry bim. CHAPTER VII, In spite of tee sudden change that hie enghgement had nuede in all tangs, Mr, TeeManley still thought it beet to hold to his intention of going to Brighton on the following day for ft few weeks ; but his fur- ther Weenie of wintering in Peels • Whs ,,of course given up. At a saonth's end he Weald return to Shepton, And "the sootier we oro. reareiech then, I think, the better," hesaid te ears. Markham. Before he wore; away ho talked over. all bis arrangements with Mrs. Markham in a very business -like, quiet way. "Oh, sir, I'm sorry for what you've done 1" he exclaimed, at the first Moment when he told her what had happened, and she sat down and cried, With genuine tears of vexation and regret. "It's not that Letty isn't, a goodgirl-thank God she's good 1 -but I never wanted you to think of her in that way, sir; I never had a wish of the sort for her my- self. She's a good girl, 'and she's a pretty glee ; there's many a lady not half so pretty; but • for all that she's riot,a lady, Si,, and your wife ought to be one. That's what I feel. It's not, I nt sure, that l'm ungrateful to you -such a thing is more than Letty ever could have looked for -but • I'm afraid of what may come of it, sir, and that's the truth." "I don't know why you should be afraid," he said. He was sitting leaning on his desk as he talked to her, with a calm, grave face that was not much like a lover's. "I don't know why you should be afraid. Of course difference of posi- tion makes a certain objection to our marrying, but we know one an- other well-Letty knows what kind of 111011 1 am --she knows thoroughly the life she will come into. I do not feel for my part, that the risk is great. And besides; what else can we do ? We do not want to live apart. I should miss her now where - ever I went, and she would not be happy away from me. What can .we dc, but marry ?" "If trouble were to come of it, sir, it would be better to separate." • "Yes, but why should trouble come of it ? There :will be a talk in the place of course ; perhaps people won't care to visit us, but what of that ? we can live without visitors. Perhaps, indeed, as far as I am con- cerned, I can live better without them than with them. ef we make one another content, I think the opinion of •the outside world need give us very little pain ; and have we not tolerable reason to believe that we can make one another coil - tent ? No doubt I am mucli older than Letty, but if she does not feel -that to be an objection ' you can hardly expect me to do so." "Oh, sir, I don't doubt Letty's love for you," Mrs. eltirkham ex- claimed. She hesitated a moment, and then -"that's the only thing that makes me glad in spite of my- self -the thought that if she wasn't with you she'd pine away." "Then how can you doubt it being best that she should be with me ?" he milled. And to that she had no- thing left to say. Be went out next morning to Letty as she was in the garden, and, walking up and down with her, he told her Of the plans that he bad made. "I am sorry to go away vein you to -day,". ho said, "but it is best to make no change in this, and you won't he unhappy when you know I a,m coming lack soon. You must write 'to me, too, Letty, and that will give you something to do for me. I shall be home again, you know, by the beginning ot Septem- bee, and then I should like us to be married as soon as possible after that. Do you think you can be ready so soon ? You must talk it over 'With your aunt, and she will help you to get whatever things you need. YOu see you will have yoUr hands quite full -so full," he said, • with ar smile, "that X Mousey you will hardly miss me." "Oh, sir, you don't think that I" she said timidly, half under her breath. , "Well -no, X doh% suppose I really • thirik it," he replied, with something almost like a sigh. "I know you 'will be glad when I come back -- gladder • than X deserve that you shotad be. But I shall be glad too," he added, quickly. "If X could dee with you noW it Would please me far better than to go away." It, was not much for h girl's lover to say to her, but 'she treesurect up these coldly kind words when be was gene, eild was setisfied and leoPPy with there.. She was too humble to be exacting; or to think, as yet, that she could della almost any- thing from him. His lightest kind - noes was still to her like a grecious undeserved boon, his few eareSSea like a hing'e gift. "Oh, atiht I aol so happy 1" she had said to Mrs. Markham the night before, with her lips trembling, and her eyes bright with tears "I elmo,st think I am too happy to live And so indeed, to her simple 'meat, It almost eeemecl. The tiling that had happened to her was, to her mind, like something out -of a fairy story: she felt, in her foolish, beauti- ful, blind happiness, like one • who had been cauglit up into heaven. Her joy was so great that in Mr. Tre- lawney's actual presence it almost oppressed lier, for her love was too intense to fled any utterance before him : etre:lige as it Was to her, she almost seemed to need to be alone for si little, to understand the sweet thing that had Mime to her. Sho was not lonely whon be bad gono away, because her thoughts, her heart, her life, were filled with him. What passionate dreams she dreamt in those sweet, silent, sununer daysl what pictures she patited of the per- fect years that were to come -years that she was to spend in serving him. Her work In this world hence- forth would be to do that, she thought -work the most blessed (as it seemed to her) under the sun, Feebly anit timidly in bee letters to him she used to try now and then to express how happy he had made her. He had told her to write to him, and so she wrote, spending hours over each poor little letter, and copying and recopying ,it with a love and care that knew no weari- ness. She had written few letters in her life till now, and so these were hard to her to write, for sho loved him so that in her humility she dreaded lest she might say a Word to him of which his taste should disapprove, and so, in her anxiety to write only what he might wish to hear, the timid epistles were cor- rected, and rewritten, and pared down, till sometimes, under these various processes, tbey reached al- most the last point of attenUation and feebleness. And yet there was something in their very weakness that made them touching r the effort and the purity so visible too, and so pathetic. Be used to receive and read them al- raost as a man would receive and read letters from a, child. He had told her to let him know what she did, and how sbe spent her time,, and so with implicit obedience she sent her simple chronicle to him and he would glance over the lines that sho had toiled to write with a half smile and with sometimes a half sigh. IXo usea to answer these childish, innocent letters, and instinctively he answered them as if she had been in reality ahnost a child She was very good to tell him all that she was doing, he wouldsay to her. He was very glad to hear that she was going on so steadily with her les- sons : it would be well to keep them up till he returned ; after that he must be her schoolmaster. She must go on being busy, and making ready for his coming back. For himself, he was getting a great deal of good out of Brighton. And then he would tell her a little of how he spent his days -how he bathed and walked, ancl did all he could to get strong - that he might come back, to Shepton the sooner, possibly he would add. And after that, with some few kind words -a sentence, perhaps, to say that he raised her, or that he thought of her, or, it inight be, to bid her (a needless bidding 1) think of him -be would reach the end of his paper,' and subscribe bienself her "affectionate G. Trelawney." "My dear Letty," the lettere al- ways began ; he never used any term of greater endearment than that; nor ever objected to her that she addressed him always, as she did, simply as "Dear Mr. Trelawney' and signed herself only "Your grate- ful Letty." Possibly it satisfied him best that she should write so. Ile was going to stoop to marry her, but as yet, ho neither himself for- got, nor perhaps wished her to for- get, that he was stooping. So she wrote to hire, and treasured up the poor letters that he wrote her in return, mid, besides that, did lite tie else but think of him. I am afraid that, though she tried to go on with her lessons durIng these weeks, because she thought that, it would please him, the progress she made in them was pitiably small, She was so entirely one of those wo- men whose forte lies in loving not in , • letienieg, She loved by oettire dee hae elWeeel Meant froth bookee deed), Ana With hein-uelees the beeke were stelae% • and Mee the thelen/ ee them. Then, indeed, the Weleld master thole with little Offeet, ehroWieg herself into the Wee ivith such vivid inter- est that the men and women whose histories they told hor NVCre for the time mere red to her than the world in Whieli he lived-almoSt aa reel as her owe life had 00001110 to her now during these bright en- cbauted clays. It woe this, her owe love dory, that ehe dreanre of and pondered over untiringly during the wedge while Mee TreitavrieY was away. - carrying the thought of it with her through every hour of every cloy -- living in it as she might have lived in some strange, beautiful, new -dis- covered country, so that, though the working world was round her, she would forget it utterly for hours to- gether, or would see it only through o lease glamour of bright suosbine, as she lived . her separate glorified life, •and • called up pictures and visions of the things that would never be. . Once or twice Miring his absence, Mr. Trelowney wrote to Mrs. Mark- ham about matters connected with his arrangements for the future - never on such subjects eonstiltiog Letty. To Letty he merely wrote what might amuse ahd please her ; whatever be had to say that touch- ed 0/1 business he addressed in- stinctively to Mrs. Markham. Tile division, to his own mind, seemed a perfectly natural one to make ; to the two women concerned it seemed also uatural, the eider accepting his communications by reason of her eeniority, tho younger being too ehildlike and humble to resent their being addressed to another besides herself. In her eyes Mr. Trelawney could do nothing that was not just and good, "In her simplicity she was Satisfied to be ouly to. him what he chose to make her ; in her onee thoughts she had no rights but what he chose to recognize. "I shall be glad when he comes back, Letty, fer there's so many things to settle," Mrs. Markham be- gan to say often, when the month of Mr. Trelawney's absence was draw- ing to a close ; for, not living in a fool's paradise as Letty was doing, nor, like Mr. Trelawney, despising or being ignorant of hail the common things that went on in dnily life, the thought of the impending future was lying heavy during these weeks on Mrs. Markham's mind, and difileu/- ties that she could not solve were rising fast before her. How was anything to be as it had been before, she had begun to ask herself, whea Letty should be made Mr. Trelawney's wife ? How could Martha wait upon her who had hitherto worked with her ?-how could even she herself remain as head serve -at in the house in which her niece was mistress ? "They think zo more or all these things -neither him nor her -than if they were going to live -In heaven," she would exclaim, • almost impa- tiently, to herself ; "and yet they'll all havo to be settled somehow, and what to think of them and what to advise, 1 donjt know.. There's Lotty troubling herself ho more about any- thing to come than if she was a baby in arms, and Mr. Tkeleevney- he seems to think he's just got to walk to church with 'her one morn- ing, and then Mt everything go on gigMn as it's been going for those twenty years. And the-LoFd knows, instead of that, there'll be change enough and worry enough to make others sad and sore, if not him." "Oh, Lefty, child X hope it'll all go well with you 1" she would say. YealealeglY, sometimes to her 11 1000. She used to be loath, from tender- ness, to talk to Letty of the diffi- culties before bel' that sho herself saw or feared, but sometimes her anxiety would break out in sudden wistful sentences that the other could hardly understand, ror how could it fo-il to be well with her, Lefty thought, when God was giving her the sweetest lot in all the world? The only fear slie ever had was that she was not good enough to deserve to niarry him. She thought of that; she used to say, sooletimes, even with team, that sounbody so differ- ent from her might to bo 'his wife ; but, for herself, how when she was married to him could she be any- thing but 'happier than all other women ? "Ishall want nothing 0150 m all the world -not one other thing," weefi • To prove to yen 01511 Di riles aczia 32gemean and every form of itching, bleeding and protruding piles, the manufacturers hallo guaranteed it. Soo tew thionials In the daily gross and ask your neigh. hone what thor think efit, You can 1100 15 and get your money back If not cured. Soo a box, at ell dealers or JEGDMANSON,13.ATES8GCO.,Toronto, Pre Chase's Ointment she would. say. "Jus e think of it 1 to be given all one wants in a single moment I Oh, aunt, is it not like something in a book ? And when she spoke so, what could the older ero- inne say ? She used to preach M- elo semnons to LeLty about the Rich Blood, trong Nerves Are Necessary to Good lifeagah-BOah ROStlit From the Use of Dr, Chase's egkeleileel Food. "About one-flfth of all the blood used in the human body is sent direet to the brain, and out of this 10 crehted the nerve force, which controls and regulates the action of the various orgaes. Whoa the blood gets thin and watery, as it usuelly does at this time of year, the nerves are nest to suf- fer; they Me starved and exhausted. Headache, dizzy spells, indigestion, Weak action 01 tho heart, languid, depressing feeliegs, weakness and functional derangements of the bodily organs are the result. You can feol Dr. Chase's Romeo Food doing you good day by day, as it strikes at the root of troeble and cicalae new, rich blood, You can prove that it builds tip new tiaSueS mid gelds flesh , if you weigh yourself ,eguili week while usieg it. Mr, gr, eleFteul, tiMperiter, 815 Manning avenue, Toronto, state' -"I have used Dr, Chase's Nerve Food for acute indigeotibm nerveueness and inability to sleep, and now, after gt thorOugh test, 1 am pleated tie eaa that iny nervous system hae Wen built up, and X net and sleep Well. I can spenle very 'highly ot thia prepaeation, knowirm it to possess eurgetive propertlee Which 1 Imre failed to find hi other eemedies," Mrs, let Colwell, 558 058111gtOrl 0N81100, Terento, ethtes:-"X think Dm Chase's Nerve Feed a Splendid median°. X NV1S veey much run down 15 health, had dizzy spells, yam Mate tiervoue, end was troubled e greht deal from indigestion, The use of Dr, Cameo's Norte) Food has greatly improved my health generally, ley nerves ma steadier, my digeetion Is good, and X have not been troubled with ditziness of lathe Dr. Chase's Nerve Feed is for the blood, as well ea the riervege 'It euree each, and every aliment re - elating from thin, weak, ivateey blood, He cures are permanent, because it restores gout revitalizes the waste, ed and depeeted eolith, 60 de. a box, 6 boxes for $2.50, et ell deelers, er ledmanson, Bathe It. 00.$ 'Parent*. treebles ef the world thee Sooner er later eoeee to eVerY one ; Mit eilOY Peeeee 001058 Letty'e ears, arid bardiy tolichee her. Yee, trouble Pedialle Mud 00100 19010 day ; she • assentee to that ; but surely, When God wee so goad te her, it Would not come yet ? not While the WIte young ? and to Lett', who Was eighteen did not age gem abeieet eo eternity away ? "I will be back with you to -mor- row, ter. Trelawney wrote at last one day in the beginning ef Septem- ber so Letty outdo 'herself ready, and her timid, jeyfel fece wae the first thing he sew wine he cameo up to his owe house, Sim wns standing at tee °Pon door with the color in her eheelcse and her eyes mere than her lips giving their welcome to him, Perlutim the sight of.her totiched hint with a mo- mentary emotion. "My Rine Letty I my dear Lofty I" he said to her quickly. Ire took her hand, and kept it ; he looked at her with eyes that bad love and almost for the • moment a, touch of pride in them. Sho was so young and freeh and !pure, like a spring flower. Was it not something to coin° home and be welcomed by such a face 00 this by such oyes as these shining through their joyful tears ? I (To Do Continued.) TRIBUTES TO- BELAB,EY, STORMS WHICH REDOUND TO IHIS CREDIT. British. Praise for the Boer Gen. 1 eral Who Captured Lord Methuen. 1, In no country, perhaps. has the 'Soar General, Delarey, received heartier praise than in the home of the people ,whom he has cost so dear -England, On all sides he is praised . for his skill and gaelautry no less ;than for his patriotism and htt- 1 211010111rotmv. the thee that the news catele i of his capture of Lord Methuen, the British press has been full of stories of the man who Is probably the best 'fighting Genet al now in Smith Af- rica, and every story redounds to his ' credit. He is cleicribed as the most dignitied of all the Boer Generals. He is of Huguenot ancestry, says a writer in the London Daily Mail. as is shown by his high -bridged, 1 Onely chiselled noee,, his well -poised head, his delicate hands .and feet. leis breast is swept by a well -combed Ibeard, and his whole stature short- ened by the massiveness of his fine head. Douglas Story had a curious discussion with Mr. Reitz once as to the HEIGHT OF GEN. DELAREY. "I had called him a smallish man, and the State Secretary contended that he was tall," says Mr. Story. "In matter of inches I believe Mr. lleita was correct, but if I were des- cribing the man to one who desired to recognize him X should still call him a smallish num. His massive head, and heavy beard, set on a spare, clean-cut body, give him the appearance of a man of very medium stature. And yet, I suppose, he is 5 feet 10* inches in height. clle has none of the trim neatness of Louis Botha, none of the alder. manic impressiveness of Lucas Moyer yet his •keen eye and sad reflective face 'commanded respect. Hisnative dignity asserted itself at all times:" No other Boer General, not °e'en the famous De Wet, has inflicted so many disasters upon the British troops as Delarey. The War 1108 brought personal sadness to him. Ills boy of 15 wan by his side at the 'illodder River. The)) a bullet laid the lad low, and in half an hour the boy was dead. What this meant te him was shown one night when some of his men were sitting in bis tent discussing Lord Roberts, one of the men saying Lord Roberts had earned in the war an Earldom, B100,000, the highest position in the British army and A WORLD-WIDE NAME. Delaney listened quietly for a long time and then said : "YOU speak' of what Lord Roberts has gained, and seem to envy him, but do ybu ever think of what he has lost ? None of, you has lost a son in this. tver, but Lord , Roberts and I have, and X can sympathize with him. I will guarantee to say - that ho would 1511101537 give up 8.11 the honors that he has, every palmy of his fortune, and return again to the position of re lieutenant, aye, even to a Tommy, 11 by so doing he coula regain his son. 1To is a Field- efarshal, certainly, but he Is a 11551- e r, also. "X know what his feelings were when he heard that his son was killed. I have drunk of the stone bitter cup, thoegh he has drunk deepef than I, for in his case lie lost hie only sou and X have others left," Delarey is known gta a silent man and has the thoughtfal lecenhe habit of slowly Passing his hand ever his forehead aud over his head. Even in the Volksearal, whore • lie Sat /or eleven years, he was knoWn as the silent man, De 18 said to be a true patriot and fonght for his country rather than el' his President. "No good can possibly come to the State until the old hum is out of the Way," he mice exclaimed. Indeed, it was his knottet opposition to President Trill - ger that colt him the position of Connecoulatt-General when Piet Jou- beet died. ,roirgsy limn OFF. Mamma Was serving the jam pud- eing, "Johnny, will yoe take a MA tie pudding?" Johnny-•"YeS; Will you give ine the ends, please'?" Mtuenna-"But why do no wish to have the olds, Jolimme" Johnny - "Why, when 1 Was in the kitchen X heard Mary say to cook: 'Put a good lot of ,10.01 in the ends, cook, be - 001180, yeti know, the mitts are hie Ways left foe us." Guest (inmatietitiy)-"I soy, wait- eie how Meg have you been employ- ed here" leetiLer--" 'Bout h week, sire' Guest --"Oh is that MI? Thee I must have given ney order to some °thee whiter. *A A ON THE FARM, CHEAP SOIL FERTILITY. 0110 of the highly important ef the legoinggonOlernutenet 15 s iie0011 f colol] itoYf thlos n most cotPeasive of the three leading ingredients of a properly eompound- ed fent:lila, it is also the most vola. - tile. In consequence of tills fact it Is liftble to be loot by improper treetment. 11. 1 a WO1 1-1COLOVill faCt that nearly* four-afthe of the atmos- phere we breathe Is. compesed of nitrogen, As yet 'botanists have found but one family of meets that have such an affinity for this BUD - stance that they cox attract or re- tain it. To this Class bC10116' .0011` common red and white clovere, agi well as the different varieties 01 1)008, beans, vetches, etc. The form of nitrogen found in nitrate of sada is. perhaps, all things considered, the most available. While it is as easily dissolved as sugar, it is the • only form of nitrogen that plants can appropriate. To this form mut all other forms of nitrogen be dimmed before the growing plants can. as- similate- it. In connection with this it will be proper to say that crops requiring the greater part of the season to make their growth, should bo furnished a peat of their nitrogoe in THE ORGANIC FORM. • Tehlle it is true that there are three leading ingredients entering into plant life,' still tho man who uses these chemical substance » ex- clusively, without stable reenure, grass sod or vegetable matter of any kind, will and his crops failing in times of drought, his soil losing its; friability, gradually becoming more` and more lifeless and ba..0 Such: conglitioes revealing theinsolves , many cases to many parsons, WO have been toid•that phosphates burn' the life out of the ground, Do you see that giant of the forma which was leit standing years ouch years ago ? Your ancestors, per-. hops, cleared those acres from the, primeval forest. Suppose we cut' this greet tree into convenient sizes and burn every particle of it. When the heat hes passed away, a man can gather up all that remains of that great tree, put it in a bag and walk ofe with it. A short himo ago that tree would have made a lood for ten horses. Row a, man carries it with, ease. What has 'made the change ? The fire 'has tried it and has found sorne things over which it has no power. It could not destroy ehe mineral elements, the potash, the phosphoric acid. You ask : "What has become of that great mass of wood that existed so recently in the lordly oak ?" In the economy of nature THERE IS ND WASTE. The bre has resolved the wood into its original elements, That which came from tho soil, and that only, is contained in the bag of ashes. We should not forget that 35 per cent. of tho load 16 lime, in the form of carbonate, the form most closely al- lied to the vegetable. This accounts for reach of the success some claim to have met with in getting a good catch of Meier frdm the implication of wood ashes The lime neutralizes the acids contained in the soil, mak- ing- it possible for the cloyer to suc- ceed, which it could not well do on a strongly add soil. That which came from tho Mr has returned to mingle again with its original eleinents, re- maining there until ill is conunission ed to reappear again in vegetable life In another place and form. • We would urge upon emery per- son interested in the reetoration of impaired fertility the need of imi- tating nature in this particular. Select a renovattng crop from the legume faznily, capable of obtaining its supply oh the expensive nitrogea from the atraosphere. Furnish the soil with phosphoric acid, in the form of acid phosphate and muriate of .potaeb, FARM NOTES. The milk must to aoratea and freed from all undeetrable odors: It should not be. cooled below the temperature of the air. Milk of the morning and evening should be taken to the factory in separate eats. Un- less the milk Is well aerated the' cheese cannot be of the hiahese quality. Farmers complain that good farm help is difficult to secure. Wages are high and help poor, Certainly there Is ground foe complaint, but still we' think that if the farmers will seo to it thht his help is well treated and cared' for, he can reasonably expect that his help will feel it 801100 01 oblightion to him and will serve , him accordingly. , I The foundation of farming is grass and in order to be successful the' farmer should ,nover omit .graes from' his rotation. A good , sod to turn' under, at least every four yeeas will' make the farm more profitable, mid' 33111 be reeely worth to the /armor in' the benefit inverted to the soil morel than tha l'0100 of the grass for bay: or misturagee When plating in • a' grass crop in the Oriel; the careful' preparation of the toil shined be the main °Meet, I /1 a breeder of stock comet secure choicest metles he should itt least ovoid using h ceoss-breett sire, If farmers in it coniniuhity will 00131- 0 bine for the putposo they ca5 secure, the 00N1. Ilifteli individual, however,' should select' his most prollteble f0 - male feom which to improve. .50 OA to have oath genekation better than' tile Peeeeding.ono. The leek of capi-I tal,has been an obstacle to improver!' that may be &mead by Co-operating' merit, bet farmers can accomplish all to proeuring'pure-bred males, 1 PREPARATION FOR CARROPIS Ono of the best Crops UM; call leo geowe, and which may be platted as °filly tt8 the ground warme, Is 803'- t'Ots, The etteller the eeed is, put in the better, so lie to gle% the plante the whole o/ the growing senerne mai also to allow them so good 1Mart beiore dry weather •comes. 11 15 eeeential that a piece 01 5105030 be Seleeted that Wee 36011 eultivatee laat year ill order to Refold weede ufi pulob 110 Possible, 11 Mealere 15 used it slegiuld be thoroughly deemnpogged and free frOni the soda of Weeds. PrePare the ground so ae to hew) it deep and flee, and keep the plants free of weeds until the crop is ma- tured, THE BATTLE OF OOLENSO BRITISH orruxqi.s 73EGUILED T A PAIRSPY'. Military Paper 111Loncloh Calle , For Inquiry.--Eneray lenew Bx,lans, The Military. Mail, of London, a Web posted paper, devoted te the British army.service, prints tho fol- lowing :- A Story reachee us as to' the real reason for General Sir iledvers Bul- ler's repulse at Colenso that, if it did not come from a usually well- informed source, and •Wriel ab8011,1t013, vouched for in every particular by our informaut, we should hesitate to publish. As it is, we give it un- der all reserve, neither accepting it norrejecting it, io the hope that something authoritative may be given' in reply which shall either dis- prove its correctness, as we holm and trust, or else place its coreect- nese beyond the possibiliey of doubt. A CHARMING LADY, It is stated by our informant that a, week or two prior to General Bul- ler's Ill-fated attempt to force a pas- sage of the Colons°, arid soeleaYe the way clear for a speedy relief of tho gallant' but sorely -tried garrison of Ladysmith, a lady -not exactly young, hut undeniably tharming in person ,and manner, well eaucatecl, and accustomed to moving in the highest society -arrived in the Brit- ish headquarter camp, where she proceeded to instal herself, and in- troduce herself to the higher -placed officers front the General conunand- Ma downwards. Tier name she gave as llfrs. —, but where she came from and what her business was she did not state. nor-astenisbing as it may sound -did it dawn on anyone to ask her. Being practically the only representative of the fair sex in the camp, trit0 tbo exception of a ,few wives of some of the officers,. she was inade heartily welcome, and she soon ingratiated herself among the officers. She was a fearless rider, and evidently posse.esed an in- timate knowledge of the surround- ing country. Incidentally. S110 WaS able to give the Intelligence Depart - meet much information. on which they were not slow to act. A SOCIAL LIONESS. To say that this fascinating lady became a universal favorite te to put the case very mildly. Morning, noon and night she was riding 01' walking with members of the Head- quarters Staff, while invitations to luncheop, tea, and dinner were showered tillon her. Things went on in this fashion hail active preparations M the camp told that the general move forward to assault the Boer position NVILS at length be- giniung. Then, . ohe fine morning, Mrs — was missing; sho had van- ished as mysteriously as she had come fakiug with her the, amount of information which the too -trust- ing British officers had imparted to her, with the result that when Gen- eral Buller reached the banks of the river he found that his every 111010 was known to the enemy, who were waiting for him at every part select; ed for attack. Information gained some time after Lord Roberts had entered Pretoria shows that Mrs. — was seen IN THE, I30ER CAMP converelng with the leaders the night before Colons°, and on tho morning of the battle. Incidentally it has been found out that she was ono of the best trusted and most skilled spies in the service of the Transvaal. Certain it is that she completely deceived the members of General Buller's stafl, and 'wormesi out of them all they knew of their leaders' Such Is the Story as It reeches us. As we bave said, we cannot bring 'ourselves to believe that British officers could so far forget their duty to tee army and ,,their country as to babble ,secrets to an 'unknown visitor to the camp, Mit cevtainly the mate - tor ought .to be cleared up one wav or the °thee, •We have been able from independent. sources to 001101111 thembove narrative, so far LIS the presence of a mysterious lady otellee deniable charms In the 13rit1ehee04up is concerned. FROM A STRONG' SOURCE. Editorially, the same paper says h The statement we are enabled to publish, howeveie is so cireumstan- teal, that it enema be lightly passed over, and the fullest enquiry into the affair ,should iot ono- be Made, At preSellt the reputation of every officer who Was with General Buller the British camp lies 0114.101' 03 Strain, gted in their inteeest elone the story should 13e Other author- itatively denied or confirmed. For ourselves, oer position is . that of dispended judgment. That there VMS at themelamentable sliteknese among the 13'eadquarter stage of the Natal army has loog been latOwn, end, in- deed, has 000(1 niore oe Mee common knowledge. SOS,01.01 1.1111/10aSallt Stor- 1035 Of Staff ()dicers idling aWny their time tea -drinking and cited plitaing wilco the sittuttion demanded thet, they should be in the field Immo reached- us; mid We fear that in soine *quarters: 150 liaVe 'incurred' egone neemint, of dietavor by reaming to publish these. , Things aro alLogothor differene in the preseut case hoWever. Hera the Writee of the information not only volunteered to sige hie aecottut, but gave es sueli a wealth of detail and' eotroholettlea evidence thae 150 111(1 not feel tiny jestified hi with- holdirig the story from Publication. Our infolentott, who, by the way, bears a very Well-known name both in mid out of the serviee, le evea prepared, 11 cliallermed, protium:I the Montle of the stare' ofecere mostly in the emptily of this allurieg spy from the Boot' linee. 00111012 ENGLISH LAWS ziNg$ wagkr MEN CANNOT VB AltalgaTgp. Whm Whey iloompeta0effer7tyt Hole. ever, TheY Must ,Sulemet to cel3rt4o.011015t 01.1101'0011.10011117s' 1.1010500, 4as, 115(14 elergyman M exempt from arrest so long as "he is actually conducting Divine fierviee." Moreover, should he be so arrested, the °Meer 'or other person. arresting Min, is guilty `of an ollence at coalmen law, and may he himself arrested, and brought' 1.0 trial in his turn, Teal immunity would appear to have arisen, not so much out of re- spect to the priest or his office, as because the arrest of a clergyinan at the altar, and 111 the inidd of his flock, might, very possibly cause it eerioue breach of the peace, i4 the course of which the officials effecting or attempting to effect the capture might net invariably 00010 00 11r8t bsetOastun'eeV,ebl'aunarZ3rd, 1881, for in- ttentpt was made by , William Limerick 'Martin, a deputy - inspector of tbe Boaal Irish Con- •stabulary, to arrest Father McFad- den, tho parish priest of Gweedore, Dofiegal. InePector Martin did not actually lay hande on his prospective prisoner 'while he was eonductidg Divine Service, but waited until he had dismissed his hock, and was leaving the church door. Even so, however, he was set upon and beat- en to death by the enraged peasan- erY, and this although a strong body nf constabulary was stationed scarce 0, stone's throw away, ' AN AMBASSADOR'S SET -WANT, Foreign a.mbassa,dors resident' 115 Britain are privileged from arrest. So, too,' are their servants, 0i3Oa though they be British sabjects. A, knowledge of this latter fact was turned to eccount, some few years back, by a certain Meyer rogue, who, When hard pressed by his credttora, and ahnost ran to earth, somehow 'managed to obtain for himself a subordinate appointment at the Turkish Embassy in London.. The sherifl's officers, however, rose to the occasion, He was induced, through an intermediary, acting on behalf of those whom he had de- frauded. to enter into a business partnership with a third person. Tben. as soon as the deed was sign- ed mid sealed, 110 was promptly ar- rested, hie creditors being apparent- ly aware -what obviously thele debtor was not -that, an anibessa- dor'S servant engaging in any busi- ness forfeits his immunity. Of course, there are many places ancrcircumstancea wall013 confer tena. porary freedom from arrest -on. . various individuals. MeMbera of. Parliament are immune so far as CiVil proceedings are concerned while f,arliamentis in session, and . foe forty days before and after ; nor may they be arrested, even on a, criminal charge, While actually with- in the precincta of the Eouse. This latter fact was unpleasantly bnpressed upon a certain ever -zeal- ous London polietecOnetable, Jere- miah Sullivan by name, who, in 1888, attempted to arrest Mr. Sheehy in Pelage Yard, Mr. Sheehy was a .shining light of the Irish par- liamentary party, and his colleag-ues were up in arras about it linrae- diately. The adjouteunent of, the House was moved, and a efoornittee to consider the alleged breach of privilege appointed, This committee after taking• voluminous evidence, affirmed the bread), and Parlament severely censured the unfortueate officer. . PRIVILEGED PLACES. For a long time there wore In Eng- land certain "places of sanctuary" - swill the Alia. Savoy, and White- friars in -London -wherein all perseim were privileged from arrest, on the ground oe their being ancient royat palaces. These privileges are now held to have lapsed, though why it is not easy to see. There still exist, however, a "scamtuaree" in Eclat - burgh, eche Ho/yrood Palace, where debthire reiort for protectioe, taking lodgings 'within the precincts," after the good (er bad) old time- honored custom. Members • of Convocation, barris-' tors on circuit, and solicitors,. actual- ly engaged 01/ (my cause, enjoy tent-• porary privilege from arrest, a fact which, as regardsthe latter class, people have occasionally discovered to their cost. Royalty is, of comic, 111111111110, 08 uo action can possibly lie against the sovereign or any ulembee 'of his family. So are the ordbutry stir - vents of the king or queen regnant, chordate, , lords of the bedchaather, and other officers of the liousebold. This privilege, however, does' not extend to 'the seervants of a queen - consort or doefffeser ; nIthough Mullet strait -ling of Dm meaning of the term "servant," it is held to ap- ply partially to' tho king's soldiers, nano of whom (while ectually ser- ving with the colors) can bo arrested on a civil suit. Paces of the realm .are, of course, immune from arrest. except on felony themes, and this privilege also extends to peeresses by 0110, creation, or mataittge, 10.1 well as to . Scotch and IMO peels and peeresses. But not even the Proudest peer of the realm is so calmly 'above and beyohd the law as 15 15 common 501.. '1181' whet) on sentry, Not only me while dies occupied, hot be arrested for any offence or on 0117 proemial whatever, but he is legelly justified in himself arrediefe mid eletainieg itt hie sentry box aller one, he meatier who lie may be, tiett attempts in any way to molest him. Poor, ratiele-aleimed Tommy Atkin:4 le, in fact, for the time behig,• tot- ing as the direct representative of his Sovereign, mid behind him to beak him. up, 11(5 has the rnighle and ' elle majesty of the entire 'British army. This he One of peace I le lime of war his inviolability is steeegtheeed 11, tbousandefold 510 ' ch 50, indeed, feint he wettlg mul be perfectly fustified 114 ehootine doeen like a dog tiny civilian -whether policeman or not -Who peoetinted 00 ileterteee with hiel.arehrtioahl Week.