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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-9-18, Page 2*1-144401.4444+14+1-1-i+1444 i14401-1-1.1+2-1.14.1+4÷1.1+21 The Power of Persuasion Or Lady Caraven's Labor of Love. CHAPTER IV. "Lord Cetraven," eaid Hitched, eine 1,lay SOon after this little sen% 1"Wila the person-g.entleman, shoUld eay, Perhapie-who contee here eo eftert?" "Do You =Leen :Sohn Blatttyre, my faithful friend and steWaiti?" he ask - d, laughingly. "Ho comes every day." "le Viet ids name? I do net like iisface," "Why not, Hildred?" he asked. It is not the face cif an honest man, unlese Nature hiae for once .made a mistake in her own hand- ' writing." "It is not e bandeorne face, cer- tainly," said the earl--"fae from it." "I am not speaking of mere beauty ni feature --and perhaps 1 judge Miu harshly," she replied. "But it does not seem to me. an honest face, I !Woula not trust the man for — Do you trust him, Lord Caravan?" "I trust him implicitly -indeed X do not believe r have ever overlook - his accounts." She looked at him in wonder, "Never overlooked his accounts? How very careless of you!" she said. "I am not careful by nature," he told her, laughingly. "But, '' she observed, earnestly, Y'ruch carelessness is wrong. 'You put a terrible temptation hi his way by not keeping a check upon him. ' "I suppose," said Lord °maven, indolently, "that I find it easier to let myself be robbed a little than to look after matters for myself," 'The dark, eloquent eyes that were raised to his expressed a great deal. "What do you do with your life?" she asked. "It seems to me that you have no idea of duty." "Nor have I. I know well what to do with nay life -I enjoy it." "There can be nothing more to add," said Hildred, "But if I were you, Lord Caravan, I should look after my accounts." Hildred's heart sank lower and lower -every day brought her some fresh revelation of her husband's character which was utterly unendue- a.ble to her. The worst trait of all :Was that he seemed to her, as it were, to lounge through life. He lit- erally did nothing -no useful occupa- tion ever seemed to attract him. He never read -be never wrote. If any letter of importance required an an- swer, he passed it to her, or threw it aside. If the agent brought the ac- counts, he said, in his indolent man- ner: "Lay the books down -I will see . to them soon:" but he never looked at 'them. He had but one idea, and that was amusement. No idea of work ever seemed to occur to him -self-indulgence and indolence was all that he cared for. Hildrea's heart sank in dismay. She looked at him sometimes as he lay lietlessly stretched on a couch, and wondered why Nature had given SO fair an exterior to One with so little soul. The handsome face seem- ed to have no purpose in it. If he spoke, it was always about some plan or other for his own special amusement -it was either of billiards or of one of the games in which he took such infinite delight. He nev- er adranced any scheme for the bene- fit of others; in fact, the people, ex- cept so far as they ministered to his pleasures and his will, did not exist for him. His was a hopeless char- acter -far more hopeless than that of a man of graver faults.. His young wife looked at him sometimes won- dering if anything would ever inter- est him, would ever arouse him, would ever stimulate him to action. "It is a terrible thing," she said, sao live so entirely for one's self - a terrible thing." She thought to herself once that she would sketch Ms day. liEe never rose until after ten; he sat for some time over his breakfast, reading his letters and newspapers. The former Were thrown aside, and seldem, if ever, answered; even those of im- portaime were, ignored like the rest. There was generally. . a. muttered word over the bilis if any came. Then he took a gallop on his horse wherever his wild fancy led. That was followed by luncheon. When his lordship did not spare his wine; af- ter that came billiards or cards, if any one worth playing with was in the house. Dinner was followed by wine and billiards until the early hours of the morning. It was not a noble life, it was not even a digni- fied life -it had no end, no aim, no .object except self-indulgence, and the young wife looked on in sorrowful dismay. On every side she saw the eame evil -nothing was attended to, nothing done; the indolent ectee of • I. the ger' seemed to extend to every One with who= he game in contact. The servants were centinuaaly being Cliangaci nothing Went eight, as nothing does when the master of the house takes no interest in anything that Pewees in it. Another thing digressed her, She (Jaw that his old love of gambling Was returned in fall fome. There tvere times when his face grew very dark over his betting -book; and lie would leave home on all the great rem days, remaining away for eome tines, and returning more indolent, More selfish than ever. Time had familiarized him with her presence in the house; but it was sel- dom that he took any special notice of her, seldom that he spoke to her. As for any display of kindness or love, it was out of the question. It was a dreary fate. She tried,to bear it aravelse to store up knowl- edge and wisdom; but at eighteen, when the heart longs for love, and the fair opening life craves for its full enjoyment, it is difficult to live on knowledge and wisdom. She strove hard; she told herself that marriage was irrevocable -that hers could never be undone. The only thing that remained woe to make the best of it. How to do that was the great study of her life. When the month of May came round he decided upon going to Lon- don. Malby House was prepared for them, and the handsome earl's friends made ready to receive him with open arms. He had been Wel- tome in his penniless state, and, baying married a wealthy heiress, he was now doubly welcome. Those who had won money from him before looked forward to winning more; those who had gambled and betted With him before lookedaforward to a renewal of those delights. He would be welcome. The elite of the fashionable world were not sorry to receive their fav- orite again. The rumor that . Hal - by House was to be thrown open, that the young Co:mixes of Carttven was very beautiful, that the earre revived prosperity would enable him to vie with the best party -givers in London, was good news. irhe only one indifferent to it was the young couatess herself -and she would fain have hidden her sorrows from all' eyes and remained at Ravensmere. The people of the great world did not quite understand Lady Caraven. She was among them, but not of them. In crowded ball rooms, in the opera house, at garden parties, and where the lovers of fashion congre- gated, her noble, beautiful face, with its look of proud reserve, appeared out of place. She was very popular -very meth iiked-but not quite un- derstood. Fair ladies whose lives were ono gay round of pleasure won- dered -why smiles did not come as readily to her lips as to theirs -- why she was graver, more thought- ful, more abstracted. It was so strange a life; the world around her was so brilliant, so gay, there seemed no room ia it for any- thing but laughter and song. There were times when she looked wonder- ingly at the bright faces of others, crying from the depths of her soul: "My heart is empty!" The tender, loving human heart was empty. She had loved her fa- ther very dearly, and he had sold her to the handsome earl for a title -for the gratification of a paltry ambition. She had tried to love her husband and he had amused himself by telling her of his conquests - he had frankly owned that he did not care for her and ,that he never should. Her heart was empty. It was too noble to be filled with friv- olity. She might have turned to that refuge for the destitute, flirta- tion; she might ha-ve thrown herself into the giddy vortex of the world -into the whirlpool of gayety; she might have lived on excitement. But she was too noble for any of these things -she could not have consented to them. "What shall I do with my life?" The cry that arises from so many aching hearts now arose from hers. She had no one to love. no one to care for -the very duties that might have occupied her were token from her -and something of all this was told in the beautiful young face. She had many sad thoughts. Ono morning she was restless and eould not sleep. Slee had been thinking about her strange lot in life until her head ached. Tito pillost, was hot; she longed to be up and breathing the sweet, fresh morning air. She touthed the repeater; Id was just four, She thought a. boolc might, eeethe bee, and Wee much iii- tereeted in 0, neW n01(01^ ,9110 was alweye conelderate alMet ilOr aeta Tante. Many latlies Weida have Meg for their Mehl, and have sent bee fee what they recinired; hut TaadY Caraven rose and Mit eri ilea areas- ing gOWn, entending to go to the arateingeroont herself. Then the leer Wei water in her deeeeing Mem 1900 'so tempting that she ataPPed arid bathed her tace ana bands in it. She chew her wealth of dark hair behina iter PrettY like care. She bed no thougae of the lovely picture She preeepted- her beeutiftil face glowing with roses from the celd water, her hair failing in most picturesque disorder, tha graceful 'hies ona curves of her figure showing to greatest advent - age. She went dowir stairs. and was surprised to see the large lamp still burnipg in the hall, She thought it had been forgotten,. and went for- ward with the intention of putting I t out. To her still greater sur- prise, she saw Adolphe, her. hus- band's valet, asleep in the great arm-thair. She spoke to him. "Adolphe " ;Me said, "what are you doing here? Why is this lamp gill alight? It le morning." The tired man -servant looked around him with en air of stupefac- tion for half a minute, then arose, and, seeing the young countess, grew puzzled and half alarmed. What was be to say if she repeated the question? "What are you doing here?" she asked again. He dared not say that he was waiting .for his master; but, before he had time to reply, there came, fortunately, a knock at the hall door, and the next moment the earl stood before her. In amazement he looked at the vision before him. "Iiiicleed," he cried, "what are you doing here?" "I came down to and a book, be- cause X could not sleep, mad, seeing the temp burning, I intended to ex- tinguish it." Lord Caraven took out his watch. "Four o'clock," he said, "X ani late -or rather early. X have been playing billiards since eleven." She looked contemptuously at him. "I believe," she said, "that your whole soul is engrossed in bil- liards." "I have played the best game to- night that I have ever played in my life," he told her, laughing. She made no reply. He contin- ued: ' "I tvill quote a popular line -1f yoa're waking-, call me early' -that is, some time after noon. We. shall have a grand mateh at the club to- morrow evening, and I hone staked a small fortune on the champion bil- liard player of England." arildred looked at him -the hand- some face was worn and haggard, the eyes were tired and dim. The picture was a striking one -the girl - 'wife in all the fresh beauty of her youth; the husband; still in his ev- ening dress, haggard, yet handsome even in his fatigue; the lovely light of the morning struggling with tho garish light of the lamp. She went into the drawing -mom and opened the shutters, ;letting in all the glory of the sunshine all the fragrance of the morning air. She opened the windows and looked out at the tall green trees. How fair it was -this world on which she look- ed! The sky was glowing with crimson and gold, the dew lay shin- ing on the grass, the western wind was fragrant with sweet odors. , Looking at the morning sky, she remembered her husband's handsome haggard face under the garish light of the lamp, and she turned away with a shudder. What a false un- natural life it was! How she loath- ed it! She laid her head against the cool green leaves of the plants that half filled the window, and, looking still at the morning skies, dreamed of the world, of life as it might have been -so different -ah, so differ- ent, if she had only married some one who loved here' (To Be Continued), lies To prove to you thab Dr. Chase's Ointment is a certain and absolute ours for (mob and every form ot itching, bleedingand protruding piles, tee manufacturers have guaranteed it. Soo toe. timonials M tbe dally' press and ask your neigh. bora wbat they think of it You can uso it and get3mur money back if not cured. 600a box, at all dealers or Enuarison,Bamcs & Co.,Torraito, DrrOhases Ointment A FROST A.LARIJAL Electric contrivances which give alarm by ringing a bell at the ap- proach of frost have been used to some extent by California fruit growers. The apparatus consists of' a battery relay coil, thermometer, and alarm bell, and it le so adjust- ed that when the mercury in the thermometer falls below a certain point the electric circuit is broken, and the bell rings. As the instru- ment can be set for any temperature, it can be used in hot -houses for vari- ous crops. It is set to a few de- grees above the point of danger. Remarkable ec kmery ervous Collapse. From A Methodist Minister Tells How He Was Rescued Frain a HeinieSS Condition by Dr. Chase's Nerve Feed. That Dr, Chase's Nerve Food pos- ,sesses telustlaS control Meer the herveS and rekiaellee nervous en- iergy when at oma, means fail is ;Well illustrated in the case destaeiied Wove. Me. Brown Was itaNee - give up his ministerial work, so tar exhausted that foe a time he Was positively helpless. Do c tors Mere edimulted and many remedies were resorted to, in vain, Every ef- fort to build up the systole. teemed in vain, and it iS little wondee that the sufferer was losing hope of re- covery, wile: 'eaten 1,0 use Dr, eintse's Norte rood. Etv, zi,„ /hove, Mothodist linis- ten of Omeniee, and late of Bethany, Ont„ writes: "A year ago last No - Veil -Mee 1 tvae overtaken with nerv- ous exhatzetion, For six mouths I cltd no, work, and during that time e ace to be waited on, not being able to help myself. Nervous eel - la per was complete, and though I was 1:1 the phyatelan s hands for inoeths, 1 did pot seent to improve. Al any liLl1c. exertion my streagth woeld 1 'WM me, and 1 would tram- ble Wi eerVou,seese. • "From the first X 'used a. great Many nerve remedies, but they eeem- ed to have no effect it my case, I had alinot4 loge hope of reeoveey, PO?. FARMERS SeesOfiable tied PrOfitable flints for the allay Tillers of the Soll, veiVrealavalaa34;(444.Ele*e*ealateaMiei*e* r. FALL PLOWING., Viewing in autimm has two Voiy distinct advantages. In the first Place the work can be done when farra operations aro not pressing and It is 001 Of the way in the spring When so many thinge demend atten- tion at owe, The eecona consider- ation is that 00 alanY soils where plant food is locked up in insoluble forms the action of the frost tends to break down those compounds and make available mattere that can be used by the crop. Tile soil being turned up to the oaten of the oxY- gen of the air and frosts, ismore effectively acted upon than if it had not been stirred with the plow. Where the soil is loose, fall plowed land bas sufilcient -time to become well compacted before it is neceseary to put in the seed. Qn heavy soils this is not so important, but on sandy land it is exceedingly neces- sary to look after this feature. The thief objection raised against fall plowing, especially on heavy soils, is that before planting time there are apt to be a, number of heavy rains which will so compact the land as to make it necessary to go over the fields a number of times with a disk or other deep -working implement. Then, too, if the plant- ing is delayed for any reason, weeds are apt to start and it is more difa- cult to keep the atop free from them. Another objection frequently urged Is that there is always danger dur- ing a wet sewn of the soluble plant food in the upper layers being wash- ed out and lost, This might have been quite serious when surface drains, were the rule, but with the advent of tile, there is little danger. Even if the soluble material is, dis- solved by ram it is again taken up and held by the soil as the water passes through the tile. It is doubt- ful whether this objection has any weight at all under present condi- tions. SPRING MOIST -NG. Those who object to fall plowing and urge doing the work in the spring, claim that the soil is Mel- low, fresh, free from weeds and in the very bast condition to receive the seed. The sun can permeate spring plowed ground quite readily, hasten germination and push the de- velopment of the plant more rapidly at the start. In this way it gets ahead of the weeds and makes such a vigorous growth early, that drouths are not so apt to injure it later in the season.. Of course, land should be plowed quite deeply in the spring and thoroughly worked down with disk and harrow until all the clods are broken up and the par- ticles are pretty well corammiral. The principal objection to spaing plowing is the fact that it makes a lot of heavy work doling April. and May, when the teams are working hard and in no condition to do extra work. Then, as noted after fall plowing, it is more difficult to get a compact seed bed in at light soil of any kind and consequently drouths of July and August may do more serious damage than if the ground had been plowed in Autumn. Sod land should always be plowed in the fall if possible, so that the roots Will be rooted and the ground suf- ficiently mellowed to make the pre- paration of a suitable needbed possi- ble. This is more notably true of prairie sod of the tame grasses, with the exception possibly of bluegrass. However, in any event it is advisa- ble to break all pastures and mea- dow land or wild prairies in au- tumn. There can be no possible ob- jection to this and eVerything is in its favor, Where the grass is want- ed for pasture, delay the plowing as long as possible, so that stock will get the most from the field.. TRH FLAVOR OF MUTTON. The "sheep taste" in mutton is generally caused by aimlessness in dressing and washing the carcass; or by cooling it too quickly. , This taste is undoubtedly stronger in the oily Merinos than in the mutton breeds of sheep and it is also un- doubtedly induced by scrub care and scrub feeding of poor animals. The presence of a large amount of yolk In the fleece makes the meat par- ticularly aiable to taste sheepy. But with careful feeding, even the oily Merinos may be made into very pal- atable mutton. The best flavor in mutton is due to both breed and feed. It is certain that foods do influence the flavor of muttou. Take for example the sheep fed upon the downs of England, where herbage is short and eveeet and whore there are great quanti- ties of such plants as wild thyme, etc., o,nd we get a quality of mutton that is famous the world over. So also with the black -faced sheep of Scotland„ where wild grasses and herbs am the principel food the year itound. 'This mutton is particularly delicate in flevor and widely eel°. Mated. among epicures. • Sheep which have bean fed a lib - era' ration of sound turaips, or even of earn silage, along with the full feeding upon suoli feeds as bran, oats and linseed meal, hew a fine quality of flesh, and all these kinds of mutton are free from the objee- ionable slieepy taste when preperly dressed, Screb sheep fed on scrub ood make an inferior quality of ob- actionable flavored flesh, and this este is aggravated when the carcass Id badly dreSSett And too quickly e°6littli: Wo the eheep le 'deemed in very cold weather, with the thermometer at zero orbelow, and the Carcass is quickly frozen solid after dreseing, the flesh has a bad taste. In skin- ning the animal, use care to keep the wool away froM the fleela ' Take out the intestines as quickly as pos- gbh, and wash the dermas thor- oughly with clear Water. Keep it at a moderato temporatere, where it Will not freeze solid, and let it hang when I hoard of Dr. Ohase's Nerve f Food, ancl began to use it. As my .; system became strongee I began to t do a little work, and have gradual- ly increased in nerve force end vig- or, un til 110W I am about in ray normal conditioa again. X coneider Dr, Chase's Nerve Food the best medicine I ever used. Not only has it proven its wonderful restorative powers. in my Own cam, but ale° in several others where 1 have mem., mewled 1.1.'' Dr. Chem's Nerve Food, 50 canto a box, 6 boxes foe $0.5Ch At all dealers, or Edreeneont I5atce 00,4 Torontckg tor seratttatl daYle AlOcr44 1sh,otlid Mit be alieWed .,0 hang until 0014.00 genies", 13though there are Stelae Wile like eteete mutton, but the Meet linproree greatly in lenelernees and in qttaltter after befog Wiled SQV,, Oral deye or a Week. PROFITS asall) LABOla, Poultry lute beeeme an IMPertarit branch of industry on farmin France ampere(' with those itt this Wintry. Ae Many' as aye handred fowls are RePt en an acre of lend; but carefel attention is given and the profite are INV, la this Wee - try the poultry department seems to be beyond the notice of the farm- er, the Ilene being turned over to the female members of the family, but in France it is the most im- portant of all. Poultry as it busi- ness deamaide too remelt labor, es- pecially in winter, to expect women to care for the fowls. If farmers will give naore consideratien to the poultry themselves they /sill find they can secure much larger prone in that direction than from any other source in proportion to the amount of capital invested. PRESERVING MANURE. Dry earth is one of the best ab- sorbente that can be used for pre, serving liquid maneire. Charcoal is excellent and so is plaster, but the plaster absorbs the ammonia and does net change it to sulphate of ammonia directly, as many auppose. The use cif dry earth as an absorbent is within the province of all, as it is easily procured and is a clean su b - stand° to 'tamale. Even the soil quielcly absorbs gaseous matter, and when dry earth is thrown over de- caying matter the disagreeabla odors cease. There is no material that will absorb liquids as perfectly and satisfactorily as dry earth and a is easily spread upon the soil. The use of dry earth both in tbe stalls and on the manure heap, need not interfere with the use of ens. other xaaterials, such as leaves, cut straw or shredded corn stalks. BIG LIES HISTORY TELLS BABYLON WAS A COLLECTION or zruo HOVELS. Poinpey's Pillar Was Only Ninety- four Feet High--Selomon's Temple. Just as, some thirty years back, Signor Fiorelli uncovered for us the ruins of Pompeii, thereby enabling us to form,a very. excellent idea of the appearance of a Roman town ,of the first century of the ChrisCan era, so, 'during three years past,. have the Germans been uncovering ancient Babylon. The results have been, though scientifically interest- ing, Somewhat disappointing, for the city has proved to be by no means either so magnificent or so . exten- sive as popular imagination has al- ways pictured it. Indeed, Dr. IColsay, who is in charge of the excavseions, asserts positively that the fteMous walls were certainly net more than eight miles in circumfer- breadth and height, and so 00018 easily, tar) been eenteined Veto oe three thnee Over inSide the MOM hall ef 0i,wopia, Whielt ie 440 feet long', P50 • feet wide; and 100 feet hig1. the..hing's palace,' Which, wee twiee as' big tigi the 9.1001p10, w'ould make but a poet. show hy the Side et' Blenheim' Meuse, . or Eaton Hall; while the gold used to deeorate the interiore of tho two al matures, piul which so excited tile adiniration and estoxiieinnent 00 the old Jewioll chroniclers, would be but e d102 b110103t at1 cohlpared with the volAsuuns or TEII VATICAN. Trim, we meddyns have never built a Great Pyramid; bet, that is be- fellowing 10 the form of inVitatimu by, the _King and Queen to invite '"TJIQ lord steward is commanded dwiii: six:::::62:6154: 0Pb781:Sed-' Ws, Vanderbilt , to dinner, Thurs., cloy, the 1.5th, at 9 o'clock, Full, , Alexandra,. give a state' dinner ' the ityllou atxtilz. 110;0%1 aFr7sittan,a quQ, on The guests assemble in the draW., Ing 'tom,. .and. there arrange.them, selVee iii v1 crescent to await . their Majesties' entrance, which is ,made • without an announcement. With the for great pyramids,. An intoltelY (limier find their roYal bests in the inifteye. onGlyursttolietilinviltutwedtsoliaaklurgilyce:tee- cauee thie utilitarian ago ilea 110 0$0 drawing sewn to receive them. The guest of honor eits on the King'e right hand and. the royal family on the left, . Tim precedence at state dinners is as follows; Foreign arnbasse.dors more $theendens iVork is, however, being undertaken at this present moment by us personally in the an- cient land of the Pharaolis) WM al - Moat under the very shadow of the nuilding alluded to above. The un- dertaking in question is, of eouree, take precedence of English aobles; the new Nile reservoir, which in- archbishops rank with dukes; bish- volvea the construction of two gi- one with earls; foreign counts and 1:411,t1e [lane aereSS the river, • the barons take no precedence, but rank one at Atsouan and the, other at with English barns of great landed A$Siout, 'and which will, when com- proprietors; and in entitled preced- Plated, add millione of acres to the once an earl's grandson or near m- ama, now available for cultivatien. Sixteen thousand,men are now busy at this titanic task, mid it will ab- latives of the aristocracy precede the esquires or country gentlemen; next come Wives ief country. gentle - sorb all their energies for a period men of no profession; then barristers of five years. By ehe. time they have and that wives, naval officers and finished, it is estimated that they their, wivea, railitery men and their will' have handled, thrice as niuch wives. Physiciane are ranked in material 69 is contained in 'the, the royal household as next to bar - whole of the seventy-five odd pYea- onets, At private dinners usually mids, big and little, of which Egypt some members of the royal houeehold b°04 etsg. raphies printed not more than nalbi3eireeseallbto;utth:royal household 00. fifty years ago, declare - Pekin to be 'There is no rate prejudice in Eng- a larger and more populous city land, and bad not King Edward lo- th= London. The 'eeason for this 'sued a decree to the effect that wi- is that exaggerated accounts were dews of peers who had married corn - spread ' abroad concerning it by. moners had forfeited thereby .Prero- Marco Polo and other early travel- gatives as peeresses of the realm lers. We know now that its alleged there would have appeared -among splendor is a myth, that, its size is the latter at Westminster Abbey on comparatively insignificant, and that coronation day a nogross of tho'Hot- the scattered and indigent impute, tentot type, for a widow of the Bari tion, containsd within its walls of Stainforcl has lately, married a would barely suffice to decently fill Doer. ' a second-rate London suburb. - On state occasions there is a Similar stories, too, only 'more splendid display of snit& and gold, so," used to be told of Merv, the crystal 'anti fine porcelain toeing more mysterious Central Asian city, in,ovidence at private dinners., The which, it was gravely asserted, Was dishes which the flunkies carry about ineircled by a wall .185 miles in Mr- must be deftly balanced oh throe curaferonce. In 1880, however, afe. fingers. One dinner sat of pure gold O'Donovan; who was afterwards will dine 180 guests; ,in another set slain by - the Mahdia at EL Obeid, there are 400 silver plates,. The succeeded in penetrating to the oasis sideboard is . decorated with a lot and returning in safety to eiviliZa- of goldentrophies, , some captured tion. . from the Spanish armadas; on the WONDERS ABE NO MORE. walls of the banqueting roera of He found the eite once occupied'by Buckingham Palace are displayed the "Sovereign City of the ljni- Many, gold,shields,. mounted on scar - verse" (Mery Shah -I -Johan) ea the let; a peaeock of 'precious. stones, place used to be termed, a waste of valued at $100,000; a tiger's head mud ruins, uninhabited and ainin- with a solid gold tongue and din - habitable. A few evil -visaged nomads monde for teeth. The value of the were, it is tree, seem but it was royal plate, including services for judged advisable to admit them to every function, is Over 88,000,000. as little intimacy as possible, since To pay its yearly household ex - their reputation. was of the worst. pollees about half a million ' dollars Indeed, their neighbors, the Bole: 10 neeessary. harihns and Khivens have a pro -1 verb: "If you meet a viper and Et END OF THE Ill'Olti,c. Meryl., commence by killing:the lat- • --- ter and afterwards despatch the Possibility, of Being Destroyed by foArirdr.a"s with e • the artificial "won- Some Huge Cosset, Although it is exceedingly iinprob- dors of the world," so, largely, is it once. In other words, Babylon was with the natural. ,The "Mountains able that the earth may be destroy - ever so much inferior in size to mod- of the Moon," for instance, have dis- ed by collision with a comet or ern Pekin. Nor is this all. For some huge meteor, still the fact that appeared from off the map of Af- not oniy was the city comparativelea a nos. le pea 0 0 -Kane" has. TI "0 S a. fsuch a. contingency is possible is insignificant as regards size, but discussion tlia • been proved to have existed only in. even its . vaunted splendor and the perfervid imaginatien of that subject; ad for imagining what the wealth of architectural dean could,result might be. distinguished Atatic explorer. There 4 The earth is moving around the the doctor declares, have had no is no- 'Poison Valley" in Java, lisr 1 sun -at a velocity of eighteen iniles real existence. Sun-dried mud -bricks any "Maelstrom" off the coast of t a second, while the sun, with all its constituted the only building ma- Norway. "El Dorado," the "Gold- , attendant planets, is being hurried tenial available, and large or Im:pos- en Country" concerning the exist - on towards the great fiery constelia- bee edifices could not possibly have once of which the old Spanish navi- tion of Hercules at a far greater been constructed by their aid alone. gators had as little doubt as they velocity-. The very fact that small In reality the explorers ,have con- had of their own, has long been non- meteors exist proves the possibility vinced themselves, by actual meas. signeel, to the limbo of fairyland. of the existence in space of meteors urement, that not even in Nebuch- Even the reality of the "Antarctic adnezzar's royal palace was there a , of inconceivable magnitude - even continent" is beginning to be ques- great Ufa& dead worlds may lie single private apartment which tioned.-Pearson's Weekly. 1 in our path, like breakers in the would be considered large enough path of a ship. Fifty miles a second is not an unusual velocity for ilea- vently, bodies, and some aro known to move at a speed even in excess of one hundred miles a, second -five hull - African Port. tired times the speed of a rine-bell. long. The houses of the common Lorenzo Marquez is the destined Seemrtailil amtetaeovreitireitr oifelifrioamacIttwontltiya ipsehoepsle" were mere hovels. So per - harbor and gate of the most modern to thirty miles a second, are in - A CHERISMED ILLUSION. and Most -wealthy of all recent stantly consumed by the friction It is probably the same with not cities, writes a correspondent. lVith- generated with the atmosphere. a few of the semi -mythical wondoks 'in sixty miles of a State which we Large meteors, however, occasional - of olden times. .Age, no less than are to -day trying to build up afresh Iy reach the • earth, escaping de - distance, lends enchantment to the with the very latest improvements, ' struction from. their size, but are view, causing things to appear blg- it,is also se much the nearest and found to have their surfaces fesed ger and more splendid than they most convenient port for aohannes- from heat generated by the passage really were. The famous Colossus burg that, if things were equal, no ' through, the atmosphere, Although of Rhodes, for instance, which has ---- --- otter harbor in South Africa wouia it is not probable, still it is possi- given a word - "colossal". - to the have it , chance against it. But all ble, that the earth May some . time English language, and which was es- that length of history, all those con- encounter , such a shower of small teemed ono of, the seven wonders of tutees of tenancy by a picturesque' ineteors the world, would, if standing to - and inefficient race, have made comet, fhpateritahposheilaitthoef fcoolubuositiona day, be quite diverted by the gigarte theas.s way unequal, and that is from friction with our atmosphere, tic Statue of Liberty erected at the might destroy all terns - jest where the Delegoa, Bay problem the poisonous gases thereby and ---- lies. Of course there is always the generated, fever problein as well. Of all the un- trial iii°' . healthy African ports this has one of 1 ' W' the woret reputut ations. Oof every SANG THE 'MONEY. *------- ten people you meet, including. nn-; In a certain parish in Scotland tives, you always calculate that one collectors were lately going round will he dead before the year IS out. soliciting contributions for the In a bad season the death rate is kirk, On coming to a wretched thirty-three per cent. Vet men will little hovel, they hesitated whether face the risk or decimation; a deadly, Or not to enter, but finally decided climate does not necessarily stop to "try their lu." A hale old man ilar modern structdres. 'Yet it, like trade, and with money and energy' greeted them, ' and to him they ex- -the Rhodes statue, has given a word 'Ca' holleStr a geed deal could be plained their errand, tut he ready -"inausoleuna'! -- to our language, done to cheek even the "pernieious had nothing to eve them, he said. and was accounted, one of the won- fever," as the local variety is eom-: "Can't yo gi`e up your winisky?" monly called. Money and enorgy-' one of the visitors asked, "No," tion used to picture the Great honesty too, our success hem as Pleasures of snuff. ders, of The schoolboy of the last genera- to beer, and if we can only keep , Perhaps then he could forego ' the %qua ANCIENT WORLD, those are the things we could brieg' he Said, "he didn't dxroliilthc:wdhidtiny.t: : '0 Harry, the famous battleship of elsewhero in South Africa Would be snug, The collectors prepared to Henry VII.'s reign, as only a trifle certain. But the difficulty hero is„' move on, "Stop a UM" cried the inferior in size to the Great East- how are we to get our starting ' old fellow. "I pay Sandy, the, la- orn; and the sehoolboy of to -day point in the face of a slack andborer, twopence every Saturday doubtless conjures up a vision of bankrupt people, who aro certainly; night for shaving ins.theTSaldi. thInr something between the Campania no more , holiest than other South meenister ter of feet, she" was more like an of their national dignity just in pro - and a modern ironclad. As a Mat- , he can have AmIcans, and are sensitively jealous he'll come and shave me ;himself!" overgrown Chinese junk, was so un- portion to their national insignia- Photographer (mechanically) - wieldy that thrice within a year came. "Now look pleasant, please." (With she came near to capsizing in calm 4 agitation --"Oh, don't smile quite weather, and she certainly did . not The disciplinary council of the so much; I have only a . small plate exceed 1,000 tons burden. Her to- Munich Dar has just had brought be- in the Camora:." tal coSt Wag 4114,000, a sum which, fore it a barrister charged with the even u. lowing os tie di13erence . In high crime and. misdemeanor of talc- "T round," said the 'man who fie - the value of moneY, would now be ing part in amateur theatricals, The quanta the races, "that I seemed to deemed altogether inadequate for the impugned lawyer pleaded that he had i win every secolid day, so I made up building and equiPinent of one , of icluteged no fees, but the Dar Conn-, my mind to make a fresh start, and the smallest of cruisers, , ri. declined to admit that this want . bet only every second ' day," "And Solomon's Temple could certainly pi prudence purged the offence, aim how did you find it answer ?" "Weil not haVe measured more than 185 limposed a rine, together with 6,1 think I must have started the re8t in length, by sixty-seven it _sharp reprimand. - lettere° 00 the wrong day.."1 nowadays for a lady's boudoir. Thor, biggest public ,room was the ban- DEATH RATE OF DELAGOA. quoting hall, wherein occurred the 'Mona, Men°, Tekel, Upharsin" in - It Is the Nast Unhealthy South eiclent, and this was barely fifty feet entrance to Neva York harbor, Solomon's Temple could certainly again, about which such wonderful etories uped to be told, by early travellers in Egypt, has been found to 130 only about ninety-four feet high. The temple -tomb erected by Queen Arteinisia, of Halicarnassus; to the memory of her husband Mausolus, yea eertainly inferior, at all events in point of mere size, to many sim-