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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-11-11, Page 2TELE BRUSSELS POST. 0 1 A HAPPY HOUSER° D. By MARGARET LEE, Author of Dlyoroo-4 Brooklyn Iwasolor-Lorbaor nue Wlfo-nto, Pliz:f4t n1RafIcttati01§4k: CHAPTER XX. "1 am goin u ask ail these people who ora concerned in your welfare to dine here this evening. We can die- , cuss the matter thoroughly and get ready for nation to -morrow. Let me see ; this young follow who under- stands about the busbeees and thinks be routs" manage everything with me bank aceount behind hieu—eh? We must have him. Then, that chap with the big heart and bright wit, who en- • joys idleness—we'll need him to enliven us." "But is it wise—under the circum- • stanees?" "I think it is always wise to be sensi- ble. You must this somewhere to- day; why not here 1 1 know how you feel, cbild. Now let us talk this over from the bright side. You will be willing to do me a kindness. I want this clay to be one for you to recall always with delight, You have bern too much absorbed and excited to rea- lize what a momentous day it is in your life. You shall put away all sad thoughts for to -morrow, and we'll set about making your husband and his people feel happier, if only for a few hours. Now, we'll assume that Ever- ett is alive and strong -1 have no doubt of the fact in my own mind. W'e'll place his chair at the foot of the table and drink to the absent. I'll get my noes off and then we'll plan all our little delights." Mr. Pounce wrote his invitations and left 'the room with them. Rose was grateful for the rest and quiet, and when the old man returned, her dreamy smile rewarded him for his goodness. She spoke playfully. "After all, there are fairy god -fath- ers in the world," taxes a good little girl to make one appear. You see, after all, my propensity for saving is pang to re- sult in something very useful to you. 'Old money -bags,' as they call me, will open some of them and let you scatter the treasure. Perhaps, one of these days when I am going where money is not needed, you will come and hold my hand. You will not let me die neglected and alone—unloved, un- wept ?" "Ale but we were not to think of such things to -day," "That is so I This IS to be a lovely ,pccasion. I have just been in the con- servatory. You shall have Easter lilies to decorate the table and theht- Ile ones of the valley to wear. We'll eight up all the scones in the hall and dining -room, and put great fires on the hearths. It will be strange if I can't find something in this house to grace and honor your wedding -day llo you prefer strings? Music is al- ways soothing, A. quartet of strings, or what you please. And I have ord- ered a cake—that will please you, I know. Every girl thinks of h.r wed - cling -cake. I see you like pearls—I have some good ones." He looked at- tentively at the anchor, which had slipped from its lace covering. "Is that your motto? It is a proper one. Hope is a mainstay as well as an anch- or. Do you want to give your bus - band. a pleasant surprise when he mimes? You shall show him a pic- ture tint will always be present to his eyes. Hp in the olive rotate In a box, you will find a white dress. 7 remembered that you chose that room as your favorite. I often buy costumes. You know el dress may be a work of art, as much as a book or a painting. I went some weeks ago to an exhibi- tion of imported gowns, and this one thought worth having. It seemed to me then that it might have been de- signed. for you. It is heavy and rich. the lines are all long and the stuff is heavy and rich. Then the draperies are delicate. They have some French name for the material; I forget it. While you are making yourself more bride -like, I'll find those pearls for you. I think the house will seem dif- ferent to me after to-day—less like a museum and more like a home. Per- haps you will often come to bless it with your sweet influence 1" "It is like being in fairyland, with- out even the effort of waving the wand." CHAPTER XXI. Toward the end of the month, Rose , yielded to her husband's advice and re- turned home with her father end grandmother. The city was het end dusty, and the monotony of suspense was beginning to tell upon her ap- pearance. Carefully prepared state- ments had apprised the public that the bank was solvent,iand that the pecuni- ary affairs of its missing president were in a flourishing condition. So the fact of his absence ceased to attract general notice and discussion, and his family pursued all known means for his discovery, with only dishearten- ing results. Mrs. Everett and Mollie remained in town, unwilling to be away if news should come. The fear of covert y and disgrace being removed, they could indulge in grief of a purely personal nature. This passion resembled a spring which, overflowing suddenly, sweeps away' all artificial boundaries and makes its natural channel. Mrs, Everett lived over her early years of married life, and traced, as it were on a map, the lines of departure from ways of love and consideration to those of selfishness and indifference. Her remorse troubled her son, who was. trying to make hope and faith his sup- , ports in the daily duties that fell to 1 bis thane. Powers was irresistibly lovable and eneouraging. He Man -1 aged to keep Everett In sight when away from home, going with him on sed quest s and cheering him with 1 theories of bright, possible eleances. Mr. Mint urn wee back and forth, doing kindnesses for everybody, and, inspired by his daughter's faith, would reach Everett with its influence still possessing end controlling him. Mr. Pounce revelled in new hopes. The young.enple (Tent tr. week with him, and visions of future visits brought lip tlic meet ezegnieite pictures for hie quiet contemplation. One lovely morning Rose looked at her (teamster and realized that it wes! the first of Juno. She had been en -1 deavoring, by increasing her every -day °coup:L1 ions. to lose eight of time, whieh seemed to creep with her. Life had 'suddenly become an enigma. It was hard to feel that she could de noe thing 10 help those whom she loved. Sbe was seueible enough to admit to herself that she was best off in the country. Her presence in the cley only added another to Larry's eaves, and he had enough to burden him. She sat down on the porch to meatier Ui' beauty of the day and what use to make of It. . 0 l'he birds were noisily pursuing their search for food, and a humming -bird that found Loney in her vicinity in- terested her. Wben it flew off to- ward the barn something impelled her to follow. This old barn was her most charming refuge for the enjoyment of day -dreams. Why not go In, find a fragrant meat in the bay, and think of the wonderful incidents that follow- ed ber marriage for the night, Rene received a little nolo, and going a short distanee down the road, found Larry awaiting her. He bad driven himself over ho a light wagon, and they took IL turn in the dewy air and compared happiness joy is a giant—a perfect foree. When the throng of graduates as- membled fm• their Class Day gloeinen- thin, lrerat1 helti, his coveted pew!, in the rank's, His party was a large one. It included his father, in buoyant health and spirits; a venerable gentle- men with sharp eyee and. a 51 001 stiek, who devoted himself. to a handeome old lady: and a tall girl with bronze hair and a brilliant smile, who went (bout %OM him aml was made known to his intimates as "my wife." The End. 111111IN Gill 110101111 • In spite of her preocimpation, :the knew that the aide door of the barn was open—an unusual circumstance. However, it earned an extra draught, the morning was warm, and she plac- ed. herself comfortably to enjoy the breee.e. After a while she made a pillow of hay, and while thinking of the strange condition of family affairs she dozed. When she awoke the drowsy sensation continued, so she indulged it, for she had become Re - gleamed with restless nights. Coming out of a tight sleep and lying quiet ant thoughtful, she waS conseioue of a sound that was strange and unaccountable. Rose knew that her nerves were not in their normal audition, axed her' first impulse was to rise quickly and call one of the 'en- trants. She had a natural shrinkmg from tramps and stray animals, and tbie peculate mita/ was certainly pro - 'dined by heavy breathing. After reaching this cuncla•ion. she located the irregular respiration. Between her seat and the side door stood a row of stalls no longer in use, and they concealed the object of her eonern. bleep is helpless. She summoned her courage, and going softly to the end of the partition, bent forward and looked beyond it. The floor was cover- ed with loose Straw, and stretched upon it was a figure that lio,e knew welt. For a second her heart !seemed to be in her throat, She made no sound—only observed; She was aware that for this man sleep was the great boon. His head rested on a small val- ise, his hat was carefully lail aside, his gloved hands were comfortably placed in the straw, his light overcoat was unbuttoned, and his watch -chain was visible. What a wonderful sight was this! Rose could only geze upon it in an ecstasy of delight. Then a sense of gratitude—overpowering, silent — poc- sessal her. Presently, without la ing sight of the barn. she ran noiselessly to the nearest wing and sent for Mrs, Min - turn. They decided upon the tele- gram. and then Rase went to keep her ,joyous vigil. At noon her, grand. relieved her while the ate her lunch, and then she returned to her post. The family physician came at intervals, looked, put Inc fin- ger to his lime and stole back to the house. Rose imagined the effect of her telegram. When the sun was low in the west and the bees that inhabit- ed the barn were returning, so heavily laden that they passed close to her ion, Rose was attracted by a slight, broken sigh, and met Mr. Everett', eyes fixed upon hers. A startled ex.- preseion changed to one of eager sat- isfection. Ile looked about him, and seemed gradually to recognize his sur- roundings. He epoke slowly. "Wbere am I?" "Taking a little nap in the barn." "When did I get here?" "'This morning," "That was quite an inepiration. 1 made up my mind yesterday, the mo- ment I felt my head growing heavy and numb, to come here. I left the offioe and started. I knew that Larry's little girl would be glad to see me, and I thought of the restful at- mosphere of this spot. But, dear mel I have had most vivid, disagreeable dreamsl It seems to me thee I have been changing ears for an indefinite period of time. Did you ever have such a dreeme" "In•leed. yes. You went to reach a piece. but you always go in the wrong direction. It wales you out, in sleep." "That's it exactly" "But, you awe, you nee here with us, and it is nearly dinner -time. Daddy had Some business that called him away. so grandma and. I will have you all to ourselves." "Did you know, I really have an appetite. So much for country air and a sound sleep," "Will you take my arm?" Rose leughed. "No, you shall have mine, Ole we're going. to h IVO re jolly little vaca- tion. 1 won't be needed for a week, at least, and Larry its bent on winning prizes. We won't interfere with Idea —eh?" Rose elnwly reflected her 8011801, 00(1 letvina shown Mr. Everett to his room, Blue consulted Dr. Coleman, who was reading in the library. He concluded to heppen in accidentally and stay to dinner, make his own notes, and then uteet the Everetts at the train and give them his opinion rind advice, The (leerier proved charming in eest•y particular, and having lingered for a little Melt Firma smoke with Mee Everett, Die Coleman reluctantly pleaded professional duties. His de - onion was most satiefeetory. He sent Mr. Minturn home to mount guard over his 'At -invited guest, told young Everett to return to New Haven, and counselled Mrs, Everett and Mollie to go book to the city and quietly remove all traces of their recent tryingordeal, Idis recteons were perfect. Everything now depended upon giving Mr. Everett the complete repose of mind that ho exposited. ele had ebosen his viee of refttge, and there he was safe and in good. oars. In due time Mr. Minturn art Ned with proper clreueasta,nce and eel/el:ion, and, found Mr. Everett and Rose on the porch discussing Larry. tater on, after Mr, Everett had retire 111C 6),6111 Of Ille Elle .1 CHAPTER. 1, One Sundsty morning, late tu Octo- ber, the church bells were ringing merrily from the square grey tower at the end of the villege, and the red yellow leavee were fluttering down in quick little showers from the over- hanging limes and chestnuts on eith- er side of the road, el. mut stream rustled and gurgled with a pleasant murmur through a narrow green meadow which divided tbe straggling irregular street of thatched and gabled cottages on the right, trout the cid church, in its green churchyard to the left. 11, the (thumb, stood upon a little conical hill, that lifted it above tate road, so that any- one upou the bridge across the river could only see the porch and the lower portion of the ivied walls, and the green, swelling graves that surround- ed them; all the upper part was hid- den by the long arching hougas of the avenue trees that led up to it, and whoee branches, like friendly bands, stretched forth and interlaced them- selves evetheed. On this particular Sunday morning, the autumn sunshine glinted down through the half -stripped branches, and lay in yellow streaks upon the road Leneath. It came down, Loo, with sunny radiance upon tbe little Slat, green meadow, and upon the rippling waves of the river, lighting up all the brown pebbles at the bottom of the ehallinv-stream. The speckled trout lay basking in the warmth, here and there, under the atones, or darted about swift- ly in the opalescent water. Leaning upon the stone parapet of the bridge, looking down with a keen interest at the spasmodic movements of the finny tribe, was a young man ol enz-and-twenty. He was tall, and rather slight in build, and he had smooth, dark hair, and eyes that were as brown and translucent as the waters into which they were gazing. He was plensant-looking, rather than hand- some—be might not, possibly, he ever mistaken for a hero, but he would nev- erfox, ainnylitYingooblmuPts anYg, euh talveemab tee.n taken Iiia clothes were the ordinary coun- try dress of a gentleman on a week- day—a brownish tweed suit, and a brown pot-hat—there was about his at- tire no trace of the "go to meeting," orthodox black coat, which the relig- ious ceremonies of the seventh day seem to exact of us as a moral =cas- ette,. .Ergo, this young man, had, evi- dently, no intention ol obeying the mandate of those tinkling bells, not a hundred yards away from where he stood. The villagers, in groups of three or four, in twos, or singly—in best bon- nets with blue and red ribbons, in long cloaks puokered up round their necks, or in clean smooks of faded green and dingy drab—mime hobbling by on their road to morning service. The school children trooped past with the neat little teacher behind them—his little sisters and their governess hurried by him—but still the young man in the brown suit, with the clear brown eyes, turnedinati his back upon the village corn- iIT, and stared down at the trout in the rippling stream, "Not going to reaurcbr erted avoloe behind him." Oh, Geoff 1 I wish you would! it does set such a bad example, 1 10 see you lounging here when every- body else is going to chureb." Thus reproachfully addressed, Geof- frey Dane slightly turned his head, but did not otherwise niter his posi- tion. There stood behind him a young lady wit n number of hymn -books, and roll of music under ber arm. She had a clever but not a pretty face, and she had brown eyes like her brother's—only they were not gene so pleasant to look t—end she had no pretensions to ele- gance either of form or attire, but wore a plain, useful sluff gown, very short, to keep it out of the mud, and a pair of good strong country boots upon ber feet. The eldest Miss Thine was organist and choir lender in her father's chureh, and was on her way to Sunday morning duty. She (005 1(00 years older than her brother, and wee a good specimen of a heed -working, sensible -minded, country clergymen's daughter. She was her fatber'a right bend, and the prop end support—ns well as the admonisher—of the whole villege of Coddishnm. "My dear child," said young Dane, 1(1 ansner to this young wornan's some - whet dictatorial appeal, "Do you int - 0(1100 that I come down all the way from London to Coddisham In order to set a good example to the village?" "I think you needn't at all events flaunt your &nib/We-breaking in the fare of the whole Parisb—it esn't really respentable." "If you worked as herd as I do from Monday to Saturday, you would be glad enough too not to be what you can ;aete7:aetee 00 a fine Sunday morn- ing like Ilia Go on, Flo, you will be With a gesture, hall of anger, half of ,sorrow, Florence Dane bursted on and left him, Presently, came by the Vicar, but he only slunk his hand with a smile as he passed bis eon, "Not going to honour me, Geoff 1' "Not this morning, sir ; you said you were going to preach about the pro- digal son, and you always have a ant at me over that parable. I can't face The Vicar laughed Fie was broader - minded, and perhaps, too, easier -going than his daughter, 5 0 man who had read mutt and thought mueli would he likely le be—lelorerece molt themore practical if more narrowing aspect of the (Wells of daily life, but It dia not shock Mr. Dane at all that. his son should prefer an idle morning on the bridge, with his pipe, and the sunshine, and the trout, to the long service in the erowded little ehureb; he thought it very natural for a man who was 121110104 00 in n Loudon office all the year Emend, and would have been more incanted to blame him for e pharisaleal attendance, than for his more honest nbseere, So Geuffrey stayed no t be bridge, and It wits not accounted unto him for Bye 11(1 1130 1 he (emeriti bells stopjied, and the last straggler went in, and the doors were shut, and there fell a proforma silence upon the road, and the world without. Now that the clinging sounds were hushed, you could haat', With a delicious dietinetnese, the soft undertone of Nature's voices, the, gurgling of the runniug water, the far- away " Coo -cc -woo" of a wood -pigeon, end even the rustle of each particu- lar little brown and yellow leaf as it Dolled down to its death upon the tneist bosom of the earth. Tile young men upon the bridge might have heen, carved out of stone, so quiet, so immovable did he remain; and so intensely 11115 115 in harmony theLlibsolte and delicious stillness h How long this lasted he never after- wards could have told you, but all at °pro, he beceune aware with that strnuge occult instinct that we a11 pos- sess, more or less, though few of us know the why or wherefore of it, that he Was no longer alone in that still lanclecape. Some presence had invaded his sole ucle, some other human entity beyond his own shared in the sweet influences of the sunshine end the air. He lifted his head aharply—and saw the figure of o woman coming slowly along the road towards him under the over-nrching !wenches of the chestnut trees, There was something in the as- pect of this female figure which caus- ed Geoffrey Dane's brown eyes to open themselves to their widest and full- est, thereby displaying the fact that they were very beautiful eyes—and el - so still further to give signs of oaten- . ishment by a sudden reversal of him- self—that is to say, whereas up to now he had leant forwards upon the para- pet of the bridge, be now leant back- wards upon it, supporting himself with his elbows behind him upon the wall so shot .he faced the on -coming fig- ure along the road. The reasons of this meat loin although simple expression of surprise and in- terest were twofold. Firstly, he had never seen the person ivho was advanc- ing towards him in his life, before, which, ennsidering that ho knew ev- ery man, woman and child within radius of ten nines from Coddisham was peculiar, and secondly, in the whole course of his existent() he had never, tn his knowledge, seen anybody yet in the very least like her. To be Continued. TO BECOME, A ZTEPOO. 010' 8101y Teim a Slap r or Men, itakona• l•elra W111 NOW Become a Pet or Cidt deem, The European press has contained no more interesting "personal" of late than the brief items concerning the great Burmese elephant, Hak-da-i-chta This link -sausage of a name may be several syllables out of joint, but it doesn't matter. The beast will have to be renamed anyhow—"Fritz" or "Max" or "Ernest" or possibly even "Wilhelm." Because he is not going to be a Burmese elephant any longer, but a Berlinese, a naturalized citizen of the German Empire. "Fritz," assuming that to be his new name for sake of argument, is an elephant with a history. He has been for sixty years the chief public executioner of Durmah. And. as ele- phants are very long-lived, he has still forty yeers to live in the Berlin Zoo. It will be a great change. Men have trembled and turned pale at the bare mention of Fritz's Burmese name. Robbers and murderers were his play- thing. When •they were thrown to him in his pit, be welcomed them with a wide grin. Very deliberately, but conelusively, ; In set his broad foot upon his man, squeezing the life out of him in one agonizing moment. It was, at any rate, I more merciful than the "peine duce et forte—the death by pressure of the Middle Ages. And i11, may be more 1 merciful to let an elephant kill orimi- nals than to let Lhem be shocked to death by electricity, as is done in some places even now. !Alta was won- derfully clever at the hengenan's trade. Useless for a man to attempt to get away. Slow and eumberous as his movements may seem, an elephant can outrun any man In the open, In a narrow pie he can reach about with bis mighty trunk through a rad- ius of enemy feet and pick uu his vic- tim, strive lee never so earnestly to ,Alweye the end was the same—the brief shriek, the groan of death, the crushing weight. Strangely enough, Fritz is not more vine inous of temper than other els- ehants of his great age. The German officials of the 'Zoo do nut took forward to any great difficulty about manag- ing him. Ile will use bis great strength to crush peanut shells. Pink lemonade will not be his drink, how- ever. He is not a circus elephant. But for this lank of tone, his life will be couleur de rose, He will no longer have to work for a living, Whether be will regret his bloody oreeupation, no one will ever know - A report has been circulated since it was known that Fritz was to go to Berlin that the warrior Kaiser is much interested in the beast and means to see a experiments cannot he made him to cleteriniee eine how effec- tive elephants may be in =den war- fare. Guest, a anniversary dither—You belong to one branch of the host's family,; believe? 'Poor Relation—Yes, 1 belong to the branch that never had any plums an 11 TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION, DETAILS OP THE RECENT HURRI- CANE IN THE WEST INDIES, The illorPonr 51 SI. Swett' Presented a Most Grandly Awriti !Oases pe-Gralthte Description 11y aft Dye.witness or thp litiattalealt• Weld Indian papers givegraphic, ace counts of the terrible hUrriertne that recently vielted the island. The 13ar- bati0es Advoceite Hays: "At nine oelock on the fatal night, the wind wan blowing with hurricane force. The sky, which had been of inky blackness, was now one mess of gaivering brillianey, continuos elec- tric, waves leaving the eley a lurid red- dish hue. Against the hillsides and down the valleys the electric fluid flashed_ like shining streams. of quiele- silver. The waving branches were ono moment a mass of silvery ligbt, the next they vanished from sight in the blade pall of hurtling darkness. Be- tween eleven pma, and midnight the atom reached its height. The barome- ter had Dellen to 20.462, and the velo- city of the wind, for one mile., was sev- erity -five miles per hour. The raging of (lie ivied deadened the sound of even the thunder, and the strongest houses wand to and fro beneath the gusts. "Out from the vinages, ever and anon between the pauses of the evince accentuating them with tragic ef- fect, came Lbe cries of the poor people whose frailer houses were being swept away. The crash of falling trees, the snapping of telephene posts, the shrieks of the inhabitants, mingled with the roar of the elements and impressed the mind with a sense of horror and help- lessness rather than of fear, afeeling vividly implanted on the mind and ne- ver to, be forgotten; yet, like the cause from which it arose, impossible to per - featly express. At two a.m., the storm had spent arteries, but the flood -gates of Heaven were opened, and the mis- erable ruins that the wind had made were deluged and floating away. "When a sunless daybreak came on Sunday, town and country were under water, and the rain continued to fall ivith more or less regularity until Monday morning. When at length it was possible to get around on Sunday, the signs of desolation on every side were heartrending. Never had it been our lot to look upon scenes more re- plete with misery and woe. The streets were shallow rivers filled with trees roofs of houses, telephone posts and palisades, and were impassable except to foot passengers. On every side roof- less cottages met the eye, whilst thou- sands of homeless, Wanly, rain -soaked half -naked persons wandered around, faint from fright and- want of food,too dazed at their misfortune to do more than stare blindly at the places from which their homes and all their posses- sions bad been swepc away. The eity presented a woe begone epectaole." AWFUL SEASCAPE AT ST, LUCIA, The Voice of St. Lucia describes the effects of the hurrioane in that island. The journal says: "The harbor presented a grandly aw- ful, seascape. The water, caught up by the ivied gusts, rushed in showers of white mist seaward, Each succeed-. in(1 squall whirled the sparkling spray into fantastic shapes which. broke up- on the headland, leavIng the harbor entrance indistinguisheble In amass of white vapor, within which the sea armed be heard distinctly pounding among the hollows of tbe Vigie rooks. To- ward the evening it began to rain in earnest, with occasional flashes of lightning and the rumbling of distant thunder. With the oncoming of night the lightning became incessant, 'flash - mg with lurid vividness, and the thun- der rolled out in staccato claps t3Ug- gestive of some terrific artillery battle, but a short distance away. Then the flood -gates of ,Heaven were opened, and Niagaras of water poured in a con- tinuous downfall upon the island. For ten mortal hours the deluge continued without let or pause. xi ay e 001- ley front the 11181118 presented the ap- apearanee of an immense lake in which fields of well -grown canes stood out as islands, Mr. Bennett waded and swam about the valley on Monday, for the whole was one sheet of water, "The Rosseau Valley was in much the same plight., but with the added misfor- tune (hut the landslips were numer- ous, and nearly all the prosperous came plantations in this fertile valley have sustained permanent injury; some are said to be completely wreaked." DESCRIPTION BY AN BICE WITNESS A correspondent writing from Kings- town on September 16th, states! Although it seems that the few per- sons who have barometers warned as many as they could that ahurt•icane was approathing, it may be wifely as- serted that comparatively few persons knew, on Saturday evening, of the ter-, rifle storm that was about to burat on this place on the following any, Alas! many of those. who awoke, fall of life and strength on Sunday morn- ing, were before the close of the day either erusbed or drowned out of deist- enee, others again were cut or knock- ed down and killed in the open by 1-)y- 10(1 missiles, The weather had been hot and unsettle(' of late. • My own experience of the hurri- cane began about nine a.m., when I left; my rooms to walk down to the Ca- tholle ehurob, a little under half a mile away. Although 1 named that the wind was blowing rather strongly I, being unaware that ahurrienne was exeected, did not turn back. Kings- town, 1 my here explain, is practically formed by three parallel streets run- ning east to west, with mess streets running north and south, These three etreets, although, I believe, bearing other nonce, are commonly (sailed Day, Middle and Back streeta respective. My road to mY destination lay ale ong the Back street, across, end clear above, which the wind win blowing from it northerly direction, I emelt? See the rain being driven at a, great rate before the wind, which was playing furiouely among the perm and other trees, yet so well above the etreet did it blow that I bad no (Infirmity In holding up any tunbrel le, On passing. the Wesleyan chapel, n Strong gust en liamt 111e to run for shel- ter in a doorway in one of the cross streets, From tide place I was ablo to Make out the two mash of a schooner whleh 1watt told had been blown ant of the harbor to sea, Where, when I SAW ber, she was in great danger of foundering. After a few minaies I left cover and made for my destination which I safely reached, On my way down I noticed that branches of trees hill been, and were being, b.roken, one palm brawn falling a few yards be- hind me in the streets. and some tele- phone wires had come down, but no house that I could see had aufferea meth damage, THE VIOLENCE OF THE STORM, .Bad as was the weather, it was not bad enough to prevent a few persons attending the Mass (8111011 18115 said by the parish priest. Mass over, I could hear the violence of the stoma out- side increasing, and now and thee mai- ms and disquieting creates. Not until the raging stoma of wind and water was such as not to be mistaken did I realize that a hurricane was on us. Signs of coming disaster soon became epparent. Cries of distress from Wo- men could be heard. above the roar at the wind. Soon after half a dozen or so of them drowned to the skin and In a state of abject terror, Wok re- fuge in the building. A, crash in the yard told of the western portion of the roof of the Presbytery church having come off, A man who, reporting that his house had been blotyn down, had come in for shelter, warned us that the roof, which oould be seen slightly going up and down at the western end was likely to mime down. Looking around, the space under a gallery et the eastern end and almost under the tower seemed to me the safest place and thither we went for safety. There, feeling anything but comfortable, and More or less drenched( to the skin, the refugees, among whom was 3, witness- ed the western portiere of the roof be- ing lifted up, and saw it come down with a crash inside the church, a first, a. second, and a third time, air various intervals, leaving the western half of the building unroofed and amass of wreckage inside. , THTe SECOND HURRICANE. A friend coming to look 015 10(1 told me that the Rev. J. H. Darrell, the principal Wesleyan minister in this col - one, bad bean warning the people that a second and WOrSe, blow VMS near at. hand: On all sides it is seed that Mr. Darrell, by goiag about and warning all and sundry that the worst wee not over was the Manna of seeing many life, which, but for that warning, might. have been lost. The second sec- tion oft he hurrienne,which blew prin- cipally from the south-east, was, from all ancounts, more destructive and very much worse then the first, for it blew down many buildings which had with- stood the assault of and caused the death of many who bad escaped un- scathed through the first. When 1 was able to go and have a look round the town, the streets were strewn with tiles, slates, galvanized end other roofing, and nearly every where barred by fallen houses or trees —telephone and telegraph wires help- ing to obstruot pedestrians. The en- tire roof and most of the town house of Mr. Ernest A. .Riehards, merchant and land owner, was lying in a con- fused mass across the upper part of the back street, His country residence at Sion Hill has, I have since learnt, been rased to the ground. The roof and upper masonry of the Public. Lib- rary was on the ground, and the fish - market shed neon it. The Wesleyan chapel and Wesley house the real - denim of the minister, were partially wrecks. The Anglican cathedral which has recently been undergoing repairs, was nearly stripped bare of slates, and only the remains of the cupola were to be seen. AN UNPRECEDENTED SCENE. Early in the day crowds of people from the country began pouring in the town with tales of death and disas- ter. About five p.m., I went to the court house; and an unprecedented seene met my eyes. The place was fill- ed with a (weird composed principally of poor black people of all ages, Who had been rendered homeless by the hurricane. The great majority were soaking wet; only here and there a Iew who had managed to save and protect as dry garment or two, could be seen in, or putting on, dry clothes. Among the sights that met my eyes that of a young negro and a young ingress with a baby in leer arms sitting com- pactly enthrallei in the .131shop's chair was about the most incongruous, Go- ing out front. the Cathedral into the pitch dark eight lighted now and again by flash -es of lightning, my two friencle and myself ,gitigisely Din; our way along one of this footpaths leading lo the street, and headed tor our homes. About the worst feature in the ilapee1 of things is that altuust the entire is- land is bereft: of fruit and other trees. The trees, usually so green with leaves ars bare, and look like trees in mid- winter, or as though a fire bad raged over the land. PATHETIC INCIDENTS. A very, pathetic sceue occurred at Myers .13rulge, 81. Vincent. About mid- night, when the storm WEIS at its height, the despairing screams oe a wa- Mau rang out above I he din of the el,oam, In the streets of the village distracte.dfemale, end in the min- tiest clothing, was rushing about, Her five children had been ewept away by a landslip which hacl overwhelmed her home, her youngest child being nter- ally dragged out of her hands. But evon more pathetic was the tate of a little girl at .Leborie, who was the sole inmate oe 0110050 close to the watee. To the honer of a number of speotators the child, who was stand- ing at the window smiling and quite uneonscious of danger, was -swept away to sea by the ebb oe the tidal :mate DISCRIMINATING. Do you mean be assert that you never sew nn honeet horn rene3 in- Oxired the spate:smart, 1,17511, enswered Mr, Corlitossel, 1 reeketi Hie hoss was hottest enough,1 But 1 niters will have my s'pleions • about the jockeys. NOV, 11, 1898. ..... . KITCHENER AT FASHODA• Dow Sledlic 1101 ItIoJor .11014.1inini and Ills Mon. The war eart•espondent, of the Lon- don :Daily Telegraeli gives the follow- ing aceount of Lord Kit thener's neglect' at Fashoda: ' On the tenth (ley oat the flotilla ar- rived at a point opposite leashoda. irhe Nile there is moderately wide. The Fermat were holding a small peninsu- la or island—for there was a marsh be- hind this peninsula, whose acres was about five MVPS. The margin oe the river wee covered with forest, curd at this season of the year the banks were bush, for fully half a mile inland. Be- yondhe tcountry was open arm moreeIe'ated, elevated, witb abundant geese and The Keeler landed alone, Mayer Mar- chand baring eome to the bank to meet and greet !lime Major Marehand said that at first he thought the Khalifeas 'steamers and, the Dervishes had returned lo attack bine. The Sir- dar said he hed 0001e to re-oceupy the country and to establish garrisons on behalf of bis government. Major Marehand said be would not attempt to optima hien with force, nor would he withdraw unless compelled or in- structed by the French authorities to do so. The Sirdar thereupon landed his men, hoisted the flags, and formed. a post behind Major Marchand's islet, practically barring him from access te the mainland. Major Marchand made no objection to this; and, indeed, as 1 have already stated, he toasted the liri. fish 100, jabci ol sweetish champagne It appears that four out of Major Marchand's nine French colleaguee died, two of the disease known as ber- ri-berri, whose characteristic is sleep. lessness, accompanied by sickness; one was killed by falling from a tree, and the fourth was EATEN BY A CROCODILE. None of Maier Marchand's officers were killed in fighting. The French doctor, en energetic and charming personage, was anxious Jnr help to enable him to combat herrl- berri, as there were other cases among the Sengalese soldiers 1 believe that the disease in question hen Invaded a Dublin hospital. Tin Nue was teeming with animal life, corcodiles and hippopotami being abundant. Forty of the latter beasts were often seen in the course of a single day's journey. Large game or all sorts also abounded in the woods. Major Merchend is described as be- ing of just above the middle heiqht, and as wearing a beard, bushy side- whiskere and long hair. His compan- ions are rather undersized men. None of them were anquaiuted with the Ara- bic tongu.e, in addition to the 130 or thereabout Sengalese Tirailleurs, Ma - local natives, Shilloeks. -for Marchand. had with him about 100 When the Sirdar's men landed, the Sbillook soldiers in the Eleventh and Thirteenth Soudanese Battalions fra- ternized with their countrymen, win expressed their delight at seeing them, and their determination to adopt again the former rule. With the 6'irdar'il permission, the natives wore allowed to visit the neat fortress and the gun- boats. They noticed, however„ that only a dozen or so availed themselves of the privilege at the time. Observa- tion dlsolosod the foot that the &ni- twit soldiers disliked letting their countrymen and women arrive in tin national costume—a state of nature— so they had furnished wardrobes of various descriptions, but only suffi- cient for a dozen at a time, so that his visitors took It by turns to inspect Lite forts and gunboats. Doubtless there should be a demand on the 'Lipper Con- go for Manchester cootton geode. SPORT IN AFRICA, The 11,11.1.1,11 Fight or an Orr.: and 1.1011. Mid -Africa and East Africa, climate eecepted, are still the sportsman's paradise, In Somaliland and German East Af- rica are found the largest herds of wild antelopes. And bene occurred the thrilling fight between an Ory( and a lion which a returned traveller thus describes: "The oryx—spietzboek, the 13oers call him—is a graceful antelope with extremely long, alender, sharp horns. He is not much afraid of 0.nof his forest neighbors for six reasons. Four of these are his legs; two are bis helms, "Menem hunters have often seen an- telopes grazing in full sight of a lion and making no effort to get away, knowing that their flight would be swifter than the lion's ehtuzge. '1111- 1ss ibe lion can eatob en antelope et the outset he must seek another din- ner. It be tonteet of quickness rah. er than strength. "I once by rare chance saw te lon in the very act of leaping epee a su- perb male oryx. The animal was graz- ing quietly near the edge of the veldt and the lion had erept my unseen. "In the very moment that the lion sprang the oryx San" him. It was too late to rem But like a Hash the oryx turned his men to the ground and threw his mighty horns forward. "The lion fell fairly upon their sheep and slender tips. Lien, moment the Aerator body oe the oryx wes crush. ed to the ground, but the lion fell with him, the horns of the pluelty entreatb driven clean through the brute's body as you might skew ee a bit of meal, "They died toaether. When I ran up 1 econd the lion bleeding to !Tenth, the oryx dead—Ineneek broken by the fan I have his head mounter', the horns still reddened from their pass- age through the huge hotly of the mar- deroue cat I have never seen a beget tIlo Inc bravely."