The Brussels Post, 1899-9-21, Page 2THE
BRUSSELS POST.
SEPT, 22, 189
/STORY OF TIIE WEDDIG RING.
By BERTHA M. CLAY,
Author of '! 4 Quoon Among women, "' now Will lb nue," "The nnreea oP a soma,"me,
ICHAPTEft I. Let but their orbs in sunshine move
Looking at them as they lie in the And earth below and skies above
show windows of the vendors of old May frown or Faille for me."
gold—weddingddi
ug rings
of every size—
"Is r
ul<
-
notlike
beautiful
w
rf
e
worn,bruised, Y4kP , most of themILobu ,admired byall a° world. Tnm
ronhunds hat will never more b0 jealous, and would
fain keep her all
raised to ears or to threaten—who to myself."
realize the tragedies that belong to "'!'hat 'moist what would please me,"
their history ? The love of whieh'she said. "1 Wog for this beautiful,
they Were the outward syinbol is great world you seem to despise. The You into collision with another veh
knownonme earth no inure—the wave of idea of passing my whole life in this in passing. There is no pleasure
tall trace; sseut d over
roi obliterating'
t o- pretty little cottage dots not content driving' such a horse single, for he
mance, avhat tea ad ever equalled netted the me. I feel like a bird—I would fain quires constant watrhin Ile
S Y q stretch my wings and fly away," She g,
stories attached to these old. worn looked laughingly at him. "Ito you liable to jump aside at any moment
wedding rings $ not think I am right, pawl. Answer to stop so suddenly from a sh
I have a story to tell of one—the me."
ring that Paul Waldron placed on his " No,'+ he replied. " A woman should
wife's finger—a ring of plain, thick he content with the love and admire
gold. ation she wins in her awn borne."
The birds that bad built their nests 1 de ,not think," said Ismiy, frank -
In the grand old trees of Dene Woods ly speaking, than they will aver none
were singing their vesper hymn; the tent me:'
forest glades, the dell
seto
On the Farm,0
�a
HORSES THAT SHY.
Shying seems to be a fault universe
al in horses. There are exceptions, it
is true, but the horse, that does not
sh
at throe s i s verycera. Sa e r
m as
worse than others, and when the habit
becomes confirmed and vioious It is de-
plorable. With a badly shying horse
110 0110 is safe. He may take you over
a precipice or into a stream, or bring
animals. Both lose money in the end,
The breeder who sells eutls will soon
have a corresponding reputation, The
Loaner who buys culls will lose many
times the difference in price, and his
faith in pure-bred stock to a certain
extent. Stook breeding ie not an ex-
alt science, and culls will amen ocoos-
ionally, but do not sell or buy them
for breeding purposes,
SALT RILLS .Ar'
�D
N#A THISTLES.
,
Two years ago 1 haft apateh of Can-
ada tblstles about 10011. long and half
that wide, says a writer. From the
time they made their appearance In
May until none would come forth, a
Tole period of about seven weeks, 1 ape
in!plied salt once a week to each and
re- every sprout that made its appearance,
is I scooped up the plant ands about two
inches of ground with a shovel. I
or placed a bandful of salt la the hollow
are and then put the ground hack, after
grasping the thistle at its top, pulling
it out of the ground on the shovel and
putting 11 into a basket. As many
as 173 thistles were thus treaters in one
week, while the season was at its
bight. Iluring the decilue less than
100 a week came forth, Last year they
were attended to in like manner, The
o' highest number I got in one week was
on about 12. I write this on June 23, and
ry th.ugh I searched carefully I was not
his sorry that 1 foiled to find one. The tops
we gathered were destroyed.
trot as to throw you over the dash-
board. A badly shying horse should
be driven double with one that is fear-
less. There are horses that tvi11 shy
and swerve ten feet around a wet spot
s, the ohs did not perceive )tow 3€'r words lu the road as large as a dinner plate,
dark, .tangled shrubs, were all bathed tarred upon his sensitive nature. He and will pay no attention to a locum
in On the eastern
a flood of golden sunset light. had been homing her tightly elasped tive or steam roller. 'The dispositi
stood the pretty little side
cd te that hawood in his arms, but now he let his arms to whip a borne for slt in is ve
Call nervously. She looked up at him hying
been given to Paul Waldron for him- again with 'a smile that was beautiful strong, but, as with a balky horse, 1
self and his beautiful young wife—a
cottage such as " s'iuoru,
g poets delight to sing "Wail it ho so very long before you
of—all covered with wild roses and •
only makes matters worse. When a
horse is whipped for shying the re-
w•oodbine, and with trailing sprays of are rah, Pauli" nlembranee of the punishment is first
jessamine, its windows framed with I cannot say, Limey. At present and foremost in his mind when he
withe secrlet creeits pers, mrch end itsrgrown cchofieldsve t little chance. 1 ant Squire'
steward; 1 keep h s woods meets the object again, and he tries to
old-fashioned garden contnininglarge, in order, and Leos after tbe farms. 1 escape from both, with the result
most every sweet flower th:'t grows. have just'suffir.ient money to keep our ithee, he will likelyrear and tura
As it appeared now in the evening h"ate—no more." truund or run away at lop the air so full of richest fro- But,' .,lire'"
her love -I` speed.
grace, the roses all abloom, the little ly eyes growing dint with tears, "you: It is always sensitive and nervous
brook close by singing as it ran, the told me that you woul,l snake moneyhorses that shy, They are made to do
birds tilling the air with jubilant song, some, day." so by their treatment, and they can be
the cottage in itself furnished matter His faro cleared; brighter tlaaughta cured of Lhe habit only
for a poem. evidently arose within him. y by long per -
At the door, looking tntenly down "That will be my patents, Ismay.severance and patience. Many senate
one of the broad woodland paths, stood 1 have something like a genius for ma sive horses are always to a corm
a young and most beautiful woman— chanics, I believe. 11 1 could but find'extent shy, and ready to get frights
may Waldron, Paul Waldron's wife, time tn,,work at one of my invent loos, l ed at anyg
he mother of the lovely little toy I think 1 could make a fortune,•' f unusual sight, or oecurrenc
laying on the geese. She was only "Then it is all uncertain?" she clues -,But even hurls of this temperame
nineteen, and marked by great girlish tioned, despondingly, lean be made gentle, docile and affe
beauty. He drew his tall figure to its full donate enough by proper hundlin
She had hair of shining brown, which height. whoa in
ooked like gold in the suushine; it "I am vain enough to think the con -
covered It a head of mast perfect shape trary, sweet, I have now an idea—if I haul -mouthed threatening man, th
nd symmetry, raining in waving could but work it nut—as to an infix -;g
is
p
a
THE BUBONIC PLAGUE,
re—
m-14ves In. Mist stud In llenorally 1lusnn-
eaa:re. Conditions.
To many people, the reports, a few
years ago, of the appearance of the
'plague in China, and later in India,
Dams with a shock of surprise. The
plague was a disease associated in their
mind with antiquity or the middle
ages, and, was thought to be, one of the
Lin extinet scourges, of man, as safely bur-
st• fed as any of its victims,
e. In reality, however, it has never died
et out Although it retired from Europe,
0- driven before the slowly improving
g. cleanliness of modern civilization, it
he l has been preserved through alt these
at years in some of the almost inaccessible
d and indescribably filthy regions of i
er western China and the neighbouring
et countries of Central Asia. It exists al-
e_ so in certain parts of Central Africa, i
le and a small epidemic prevailed in As- c
STORY OF POOR CARLOTTA
THE MUST UNFORTUNATE EMPRESS
OF MEXICO.
As stented IDy the 1h'ineese Snlnt•StQut•-
»epesed totem Pointy Dwells to mime
state in ;n I1astaut eat neussels Ise.
n'at
n .
Poor Carlotta] The memory of her
is woven in among the saddest exper-
iences of my life, I marvel greatly
that the world has forgotten her—that
there seams to be no beast thrub of
human sympalby to respond to the
thought. that fog 33 years she has been
confined in the royal retreat for an
insane Empress at Palace Laoken, in
the outskirts of Brussels, writes the
Princess Salm-Satin,
As a member—a lady in waiting—of
her Court• in the City of Mexico, 34
years ago, I Lake up my pen to in-
scribe her story, the parallel of which
is not contained in bistory, certainly
not in modern history.
Carlotta, daughter of Leopold L, of
Belgium, wife of Maximilian of Mex-
ico, niece and namesake of the Dueh-
ess of Kent, cousin of Queen Victoria,
friend of Eugenie, sister of the Ring
of Belgium, although linked Ln count-
less ways to the present time, hue yet
been as one dead for a third of a cen-
tury, In leer own country her name
is an unspoken 0110, In tbe City of
Mexieo many 01 the monuments and
decorations of the clty bear tribute to
her memory, while at the castle of
Miramar, in Trieste, the recent ho
of the late unfortunate Empress
Atustt•ia, are still many evidences
Carlotta's residence there.
)3orn a Princess and educated
wear a crown, now, although Carlot
has lived but 89 years, 33 of the
have been passed within the wails
an asylum for the insane. Marri
at 17, a Queen at 21, and a lunat
at 20, she was bereft of father, bus
band, empire and reason in the sho
space of 18 months, and then, by t
ropy of fate, forever banished from
human memory, •Carlotta's care
vas almost kinetoscopic in the rapi
ty of its ohanges promising in its in-
eption, magnificent in its rise, pathe-
le, dramatic, tragic in
ITS DECLINE AND FALL.
Atthough Carlotta was more pose
tial in Mexican history during b
short reign in that country than wa
her imperial husband himself, the r
cords of that time ignore her effort
belittle her achievements, and refer t
Castle♦ of letiremar is a tabloaa which
closes the last not of the drama of
Carlotta's life before the curtain rose
opens the tragedy. It presents a pic-
ture which In intros/peot seems al-
most prophetic of strrfo, turmoil, sad-
noes' and despair,
Carlotta was the sacrifice upon the
altar of natlotte and she was exactly
21 years of age, Maximilian 82, when
i
lherl oyes old o
h fti S
Y tbe m
first time the
land v
la where a ho
h x t hoped to regenerate
n Inai•at°
amartin. `
g
Thc' • anpr i
It i into a .i
of Mexico wan u Lriamphal ono The
splendors of their court were unpre-
enrolled, Carlotta knew bow to be en
Engines, I shall never forget her in
her royal robes of state. She was
radiantly lovely, litho and graceful of
figure, eminently befitted to adorn
orown.
The royal pair resided at the palace
of Cha{pultepeo, which is four mitre
from the city, on the outskirts of
'1'acubaya, at Lim extremity of the
1'asseu de la Itoforma, one of the most
magnificent boulevards n the world,
and which, under the delloate touch
of Carlotta's genius and taste, became
and remains to -day, the most beauti-
ful. The palace, or as it was then
called, the Caatle of ChapulLepee, was
at tbat time an uninviting mass of
chaotic) mltsoury, surmounting• u gig-
autio aggtomoration of bowlders which
some prehistoric seismic disturbance
had prujected out of lbs level plain,
IL was practically in the same oundi-
tipn !n which the Americans left it
after the battle whilst( has made its
name hislorlo•
The beautiful park which surrounds
it was neglected, the resort of wander-
ing anomias and bandits, and Car-
lotta's first work was its renovation,
Her deft hand left its imprint every-
where among the giant cypress trees
in the park, in the new and winding
roadways, among the new statuary, in
Lherojumention of14 onteznma's hath,
me in every vista that: the oyes sought
of and in every pathway upon whloh the
of feet mould tread. 1 Her own private
garden was, and still remains, upon
to the roof of. the castle, and there,
among the favorite flowers, the young
to Empress and her busbaad passed their
ro, hours of leisure. There she tended the
of
growing plants with her own hands;
there no servant ever entered save un -
ed der specifics directions, and from it
1e even the Emperor was excluded by hla
_ own order, except when invited to par-
rs tici/nate in its beauties
he BY ITS FAIR AUTOCRAT.
Des about the horse as if he intends
masses round a neck that also was pensive method of improviug the work- murdering h'm, and with a mann
perfeet—imasters , was to such hair as the old ing potvel' of steam engines. If zany- 111(10 suggestlyo than lbs whip th
paint in tbelr fame thing should ever come of that, I shall ruins a sensitive horse. We have a
ons pictures of Mary Magdalene. She be a rich man Isms ." ways nudged in
going into is stab
had eyes of an indescribable violet hue, "Ther y
you must turn your mind to di i,u tied by a high -tempered, bats
with a golden ligbt in their clear It, Paul," she said, caressingly,
depth; they were bright and proud, "My darling," he respa>nded, wistful- strung,
ationed man how each bight
but the long silken lashes softened ly "1 would rather be poor—ah, believe strung; nervous horse is ready Lo jam
them into wonderous beauty. Her me, love!—far rather. I am quite out of his skin merely at the man's a
brows were straight, and her forehead happy in this peaceful woodland life pearanee. We recall now an insletne
was white, rounded at the tem. les, and of ours; it seems to me ten thousand uf a horse jumping over the mange
full of ideaIicy. She had ripe fed lips, times more beautiful than anything at the sound of the hired men's vote
the upper one short, the lower one tun that m,:ney could give; and it seems to and of another, where Lha horse won
—a beautiful mouth that would have me that if I won wealth I should in invariably spring bank and break t
made even a plain face lovely ;the chin some measure lose you. Why,Isms halter when the stableman approac
was delicately moulded, and the curves the whole world would not copensate slhiit(, although he would evince not e
of the neck and shoulders were full of me for the loss of oue atom of byghher trepidation when upproaohe
grime. your others.
lamely Waldron was that most affection!" Thera is eoareely any animal thtt
feat of all mems—a beautiful woman.And again that deep and wonderful gentleness and kind treatment will no
Her dress was quite plain, but the love of his seemed to master hirci in time conquer and control. It is Lh
homely material only showed the mar- Yon think of nothing but love,"she prime requisite in a hurse trainer, 1
velour beaus of hergirlish figure to said. '1 drink of a thousand things you have a Wald, nervous horse, on
y g besides." likelyeverything
greater her advantage. The, hand that He looked at her half doubtingly. - roadan 1 sin thet fields, avoidn htie
ars
fhl
shadedOne mightes as have haveheonde ee and d ho w i s f have read of women whose souls measures with him. Give him time L
she—living in a cottage, the wife of a were nut fully awakened, he said; consider when his attention is attract
man who worked hard for hie della but that cannot be the ease with ed. Remember that although he re,
bread—cams bythis da int beauty, yon. My own soul came into full, suns precisely the same way as you d
this delicate, y perfect and beautiful life when 1 first (—Prom cause and effort—his "tarngle
would have been graceful
dowry ass that saw and loved you. Money and loos brain" works mors slowly,an
queen, ury hays no charm for me, ' d th
Suddenly her eyes brightened, and a' !'hey have a great charm for me, emotion of fear, working more rapid'
low musical laugh name from her lips, `pant. Of course I love you very dearly; gid the all bestofhis reason, A tial
She heard her husband's footsteps, saw but, when you have won for me all m wants. Never force
him in the distance and hastened to y frightened horse up to a moving ob
meet him.nai
hearts desires, I shall love you ever ject which is coming toward him, Le
Paul type of facedrdark, hon had andsome,he true Nfull p' The words were not kind; but she nine cases ohim stand stilbol and flook i at it, In
fire and power. Ile had dark eyes bent her lovely faro near him with a examine !t and arrive atgiven
av on time
i n
from which an undaunted soul looked smile that made hint forgot everything he will ascertain for himself that 1
out on the world, dark hair that; in the world except icer, will not hurt him and pass on quietly
clustered round a noble' head, firm, . 'If lam to make a fortune," he said, Blinds are good things for shying
well -closed lips, at tall, manly figure, suddenly, ' Imust study hard. Shall burses. They prevent them from see -
a free, independent carriage and bear- we have just. one half hour out among Inc too much. When your horse
ing, as though he felt himself to be the flowers? Afterwards I will get my sbows a disposition to shy hold him
any man's equal—and so indeed be did. books and do my best.'' with a firm hand, with Ins head, if
His whole face (hanged and softened She accompanied him, and as they possible, directly towards the object of
when he say his beautiful young wife. stood among the roses, Paul Waldron his dread. Let him look at it until he
"You are waiting for me, my elect said to himself that no flower that appears satisfied, then speak gently
ing," he said—"waiting and watching wifebloon If ed were possible, he o fair as bis beautiful but firmly, and force him towarit b
for me, p would twin will soon find that there is nothing
She clasped her little white hands' nam°, fame, and gold for her tweet be frightened about, to
round his arm, and they walked slow -;sake --he would study bard, toil that ___
ly„ home together. I she might have the toys her heart was WHY TEE SILO IS POPULAR
'You have not been dull to -day, Is- fixed upon.
may, I hope, said the young bus I "They ere but toys, atter all,'' he As a matter of economy in the store
band, questioningly, said to himself, "She loves dress and age of foddera the silo has several ad -
"Not more dull than usual," she re 'noels — these are women's toys." vantages, More fodder can be stored In
plied, Oh, Paul, make haste to be He took himself to task for having
rich, and !et us leave this 'quiet, borne, even for a moment felt impatient with a given specie than by any other
ly little cottage I" i her. method now In use, The grain, stalks
His countenance fell as he listened Should I feel vexed because the and leaves are generally all peeked in
to her, Re drew tbe beautiful face birds love the sunshine," he said to the silo together, and thus are fed to -
toward him, and kissed it with a pas- himself, "or the butterflies love flow -
lion that knew no words, ors? They follow their instincts. MY gether, saving a considerable ex -
My darling wife, to me this little beautiful Iemay, In hying all things Pens° for husking and grinding the
aoLtaga is more beautiful than a , bright and fair, only follows hors." grain. More cattle can be kept on a
palace; that is, because I love you so • "1f 11102207 000111 not buy beautiful
dearly, and it is our home. no you things, you would not care for Lt, Is_ given area of land when silage is
not love it also?" may,' he said, looking earnestly at ninthly depended upon than in the
She smiled °agelessly. !her. old system of using dried largely
to s• The
"Yes, but I cannot go into raptures' She laughed aloud that sweet, music- farmer can also be largely indepen-
over it. When we have a grand man- al laugh which stirred his pulses and dent of weather conditions in Mover,
large house full of all kinds thrilled every nerve as some soft ing his foddera. Crops of clover, for
of beautiful ehings—then I shall be as strain of music would have done. example, mita often be stored in the
charmed s ever you wish me to be. "You shoat have money," he said, ee silo with good results, when field cur-
" But, Ismay, l must work long and will never cease working until I have ing would be practically impossible,
hard, dear, before attempting to find won for you your heart's desire.' It also supplies the her with an
you a large house. Will you never To bo Continued, abundance of succulent feed al that
be happy or contented until then?" season of the year when it could not
A slight shadow came over her face, be as economically provided by any
My darling, he oontinued earnest -other means,
ly, "you will never—ah, believe me I— WHY THEY DO IT.
you will never be happier than Did you aver sem your dog walking According to the testimony of scone
pp' youg of the hest of the dairy farmers, the
are now. You, have sunshine and around and around in a circle? 02 silo is next to a necessity in modern
music all the day long; the birds sing course you leave, but we don't ex- dairying. It has dome to slay and
to you, the Tittle brook there murmurs pest you know why they do it. its real merits are being better under -
sweetest melody. 1i am no poet, Ismny Years and years ago, more years stood and appreciated year by Year,
—not Oven an educated-man—but Iean No farmer who lens given the (silo a
hear all these. You have bright flow- than you can count, perhaps, the dogs thorough and systematic trial is pre -
erg, the beauty of the morning heave were all wild, like their cousins, the pared to reject it and go back to`,the
ens, the glory of the sunadt, the long wolves, and had to beat out a hole In old system. The use of the silo is on
gloaming, and soft, dewy nights. You the grass or the snow before then, the increase and its merits will Bon-
will never be happier, sweet," a rinse to be disauased until all dairy
With a earsless smile, she looked in- could Ile down. And the dogs have farmers have been made acquainted
to his earnest ?one, dane the same way ever since, They with its advantages.
d
" I should like a Jorge house beets" had to keep thein noses clean, too, so
.---
elle said. they could smell the rabbits and other CULLS DEAR
"I have you bare all to Myself," he animals they ate, a long ways off, so AT ANY PRICE,
resumed, " my beautiful bird of bright they never let their noses touch the The time of good prices for pure -
plumage, and Lean worship you as I ground, going t0 Weep wills their noses bred stook is a time do. Your beauty maks my heart resting on their paws, And they have ms of more or less
Rind—you love maims earth like heave Clone that ever since. temptation for the breeder, as
me.en But, it we were rich', and The cat is always washing herself also for the farmer who buys for Lite
lived in the great world, you would and ie lenown to be the eleanest at all improvement of his
belong to so many °that; othere the animals. Well, away back long her a, she breed.
delight In your loveliness, end ago the eats had to keep clean or the °r is tempted to keep and sell some
-
would
you. with praise, You know those little animals she waited patiently for thing that is not good enough 10 use
favorite lines of mine, I m would smellbreeding.
g
Ismay ?•� her a loft ways a 4
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d y. pared with lnari.torious pure -fared
There are, to -day, growing trees and
shrubs in Carlotta's garden, which
or were planted by her own ]rands, end
d- therm is in preservation a bed of vio-
lets exactly as she planned and cared
for it. Stranger still, in that land of
changes, the gardener who assisted
Carlotta presides over this spot still
Old and bent, swarthy and forbidding
of aspect, he speaks of Carlotta 05
0- reverently as he dues of the Blessed
he Virgin. He keeps alive one human
e heart that hos not forgotten her, and
her bend of violets look just the same
e- now as it did whoa she last knelt be-
e, side it, unconsoious of the fact that
O the grand structure created by her
ambition was to fall in ruins and ro
Ire of everything she possessed say
d life.
est Carlotta constituted -herself Presi
t dent of the Woman's Charitable So
piety, and never' during her stay i
Mexico did she neglect the affairs t
h state, regarding which sho was at al
, times her husband's chief advise
_ There is no doubt that in the mor
important measme5 adopted by Ales
miltan she was the brains and poten
n tial element,
✓ Then the United Slates interfered
e Napoleon was ordered to withdraw hi
t_ troops. Hee again was Carlotta dom
troops.
She would go herself to Franc
e and intercede with the Emperor.
n What can be more pathetic than th
specie°le of this girl l.mprens, then
but 20 years mid, pleading with th
' Emperor of France and the Pope
h !tome for the means end soldiers to
save from ruin the empire of her bus
band, at a time %then Maximilian had
been already many weeks dead, mur-
dered 'by ,the people he had vainly
tried to rule? The wile, pleading for
the husband's preservation weeks aft-
er that husband was moldering in his
untimely gravel The Empress strug-
gling against hope for the empire
which had ceased to exist, for an Em-
peror was slain!
,Carlotta's ambition and pride were
crushed, her heart broken, and then
God, in His infinite mercy, drew the
veil of forgetfulness over the mind of
this earnest woman in miler that sho
might be spared the agony that mast
have been hers with the knowledge of
her husbnad's awful death. Young—
only 20—beautiful, ambitious, loving,
on the very threshold of youth and
hope, she was seized and torn from the
world by the relentless hand of un-
reason and east into the
MIDNIGHT OL` UTTER BLANK.
For 98 years she nits been banished
to an oblivion that is worse than
death, In Belgium her name is an un-
spoken ons, but to Palace Laeken, on
Lire outskirts of Brussels, she bas
passed a third of a century waiting
for her soot's release front its useless
prison. She believes that she is still
lampress of Mexico, awaiting the re-
turn o£ MaximiliaLn, wbo has gone at
the head of his army to quell a revolt
against hie authority.
Since Carlotta entered her retreat
shim has been 5000 by no one outside
of her household, which is conducted
in an imperial manner from the for-
tune ,left har by Leopold I. Every
month of the year Carlotta holds
mimics court. The members of her
household, which numbers more then
800 persons, aro presented to her 1u
the same ceremonious manner Ln
which Queen Victoria holds her draw-
t'ng•traom.
She presents them with 01115, which
are formally received --the /Natures
taken front the walls of the palace are
presented, and then the following day
are restored to their places—merely 0o
Indulge her demented fanny, Every
00111tiel• and lady. of honer plays the
part assigned with mimic digntiy.
Tho grounds surrounding the palace
aro very large, and there Carlotta
drives about daily to her (mach of
slate, with her cavaliers in attend-
ance. There, too, she somo1fines wan,
ders among the Howells, planning im-
provemonls, as she did about the
grounds of Chapaultepec, in Mexico,
Poor Carlotta 1
- trakhan in Russia only about twenty
• years ago.
1- Since 1804 we have board constant-
o iy o£ the plague in the seaport Loomis
✓ of China and in India, chiefly in Bora-
e' bay, and now it h reached M
has
re0c a ecce,
he and has been brought thence to the
h shores of the Mediterranean by return -
e ing !!Mohammedan pilgrims.
d The plague is a microbic disease. It
t thrives in filth and in the generally un -
t sanitary cunditiuns assuclated with the
o crowding together of !rumen beings in
f small and dark habitations. Rats suf-
e fer from it, and are believed to be in -
e strt>,ntental in its spread. Fleas are also
h charged with transporting the virus
o from the.siek to the well.
It is called the bubonic Plague be-
-ecause of the swelling of glands in the
o groin or armpits, which is one of its
d chief and most constant symptoms. The
o disease begins like all fevers, with bead-
y ache, loss of appetite, nausea, indefin-
e oto mato in the muscles auce bones, las-
e sited°, a chilly sensation, and so forth;
but the sign which enables the suffer -
1 er to foretell his fate with almost ab-
solute certainty is tenderness on pres-
o sure under the arms and in the groin,
the forerunner of glandular swelling.
t There is little to do for one who has la
the disease, but much can be done to w
prevent it. It canuot thrive in sun- si
light and cleanliness, and an extensive b
epidemic could hot prevail in any city w
where modern sanitary regulations are s
enforced.
The " pneumonic " plague, from which
several persons died in Vienna last de
year, is a form of tike plague which at- to
tacks the lungs chiefly, the symptoms e
being in many respects very similar to et
those of ordinary pneumonia. This form 10
is exceedingly latal, almost every case to
ending in. death. Of sufferers from the de
bubonic plague about eight out of ten see
dia.
au
TREES SLEEP, d
Trees and plants have their regular pp
times for going to sleep, as well as vi
boys and girls. They need the some e'
chance to rest from the work of grow- Q
lag and to repair and oil the machin- wi
ery of life. Some plants do all their ti
sleeping in the winter, when the w
ground is frozen and the limbs are to
bare of leaves, In hot countries,
where the snow never fits, and it is
always growing weather, the trees rest
during the rainy season or during pe-
riods of drought. Tbey always choose
the time when they cannot work the
beet for doing' their Sleeping, just as
mankind chooses the night, when he
cannot see to work. A Norwegian
scientist hes made interesting experi-
ments trying to cihlorotorm plants,
and hie has found that the fumes of
this sleep giver make the plant steep
harder and grow faster when it woks
OP -
her endowments of executive ability
political sagacity, mental culture an
strong womanly character in the mo
impersonal and incidental manner. I
wan her regal training, her dominan
spirit, her constant lnststence, tvhic
prevailed over the weak, vacillating
easily influenced and almost effemin
ate oharacter of Maximilian.
It was Carlotta's ambition, to be a
Empress that was the cause of thin
anisfortusies,l Had she waited for th
drama of circumstances to unfold i
self she would have occupied th
throne of Austria, for M.aximilia
would have succeeded Francis Joseph
his brother, whose only son, Rudolph
committed suicide.
If her star had reached its zenit
tet' in the century, her memory
ould have lived, perpetuated by her,
eters, not for the ambitious Empress,
ea for the high principle of genuine
°manhood, evidenced by the good
he did and the charities she ills -
need.
The childhood of Carlotta was ren -
red serious with responsibilities and
itio:n beyond her years. Her motb-
e whom history has named the "Holy
neon," died when tbo little girl was
years old, and for several years
o dark cloud of mourning oversize -
wed the palace. Court etiquette
1 queenly dignity, amounting to
sterity, were constantly instilled in -
her braise and heart and made the
eepest and moat lasting impressions
on Carlotta's childhood, While yet
child she knew thoroughly the in -
Mate rules of court precede
n0el
Her father educated her to be a
mean. She was px'ecocfous, and ten-
sely he forced upon her respousibili-
es tar beyond her years. At 17 she
s far 10 advance of her years in in-
1ligence, and it was then tbat she
met her hero, Archduke Maximilian,
younger brother of 'trends Joseph,
Emperor of Austria. He was tall and
fair end gentle, of military bearing
and spotless character, and eight
years her senior, It was a case of
love at first sight, anti in two mouths
they were married. Sho, ambitious,
energetic, possessed of the exooutivo
force tit a man; be, weak, vacillating,
trustful in the goodness of men and
IDEALIZED INTO HER HERO,
,For. five' years they lived at ltl:ira-
mar Castle, on the outskirts of Trieste,
Maximilian having been appointed
Governor of the Lombard -Venetian
kingdom, and there Carlotta passed
the few untroubled years of her life.
Then, at the very acme of all, that
was beautiful and harmonious in her
life, the Goddess et Fortune appear-
ed with her tempting offer of a scep-
ter, and' a crown. It was the story of
the Clarden of Eden told again in dif-
fomtit phase, and once more it was
Eve who Zell, for it was flue •to Car-
lotta',e ambition mare than to tbe im-
portunities of the Mexican delegation
that Maximilian finally accepted the
golden apple of empire, anti thus at-
tuned 'the instrument which was de-
stined to play his own and his wife's
,requielm, However, to the credit of
Maximilian, be it said, the first offer
Was utaquat'ifiedly declined, but when
the delegation came the second time
bearing wbat seemed to be proofs that
a majority 1
ria r of
people 0
1 Y e f Mexico)
p
p
'clued with the i
J m n the re not h
yielded, and the first ant of thestrag-
edy b gen,
;110 ,rmeeption of the Embasay at the
A A EAL iLL e
TOILET HINTS.
Houle -Made Cucumber Oream,—Put
six ounces of sweet almond oil auto a
double boiler, filling the outer ono
with cold water. - Carefully wipe two
bare of three 11 o c
sea u u box
g m s and,
n
wtthoat paring,cut them In blocks
s
about two inches agaitre. Put them
into the oil and bean to boiling point,
Move the saucepan to a cooloe' part of
the stove and let it slmmer—not boil—
for four or five hours. Strain, and to
each six ounces of the strained liquid
add ono ounce of white wax and two
onncee of lanoline or hazeline. Put in
the saucepan again and heat till thor-
oughly mixed, shoe take Off the fire
and beat with an egg beater till cold,
adding, during the boating process,
two teaspoonfuls tincture of benzion, ,
FOR ASTHMA.
I have been a great sufferer with the
asthma and I want to toll you what
has oared me writes L, 13. Eames, Our
old physician' called one day to our
house and I was very had with asthma
and he told me to get ripe elderberries
aid squeeze out Lho juice, then boil it
down very thick, I put in some sugar,
and eat it freely. 1t is excellent for
colds and sore throat and is very.
palatable If made good, Use a tea-
spoonful on going to bed and Iet it
melt slowly.
IN CASE OF IVY POISONING.
A treatment highly recommended by
a scientific magazine for poisoning
from ivy is to wet a slice of bread with
water, dust it with common washing
soda, and apply to eruption, keeping
the bread suet from the outside. Half
an hour of this treatment is said to be
a sure cure,
CARE Olt THE 'NAILS,
It is not possible to be too particular
in the core of the finger' nails. Clean-
liness is a mark of refinement, and,
Le:a, lack of cleanliness is unsafe, es
disease germs are often carried under
the nails when foreign matter le allow-
ed to collect there.
SIMPLE GYH1NASTICS,
Simple Gymnasties.—To Ile on the
floor lice down and then to rise slowly
on hands and toes, with the arms and
legs held stiff, develops the muscles of
Ihe legs and back and at the same time
neep.'ns Lhe rheas,
FOR TIM EYEBROWS.
"How do 1 keep my eyebrows dark?"
she said. "By rubbing perfume over
b tem every manning, Perhaps it is
the alcohol—I could not say, A11 E
° know is that it keeps them dark."
MY i1i0, Itis I1NOWS.
pMy tea, he scolds me jes' boauz
1 He says Pin gestin' tough;
r,
He says 0)7 face !e never Van,
°
MY'
y 7runds "flue
rc ulivaya rough;
Alexi I'm ,tot bebaviu' lilts I should ,
An' guilt' wrong I s'poso,
But ora, she takes an' :pats my hand,
An' smiles, Inoue sho knows.
s My pa liuln't gut no use for boys,
3 s'puse he wants 'em mon,
e I wonder IP ,Ire's clean forgot
'eke boy he must 'a' been;
e -Far ma, she says they're all alike
'Bout fare an' hands an' clothes,,,
e Au' says 1'll learn to be a man;
of An' ma, I guess she knows.
My 10, ha says I ain't no good
At dein' anything;
I'd ruther fool away the time
An' whistle, dance an' sing;
But uta, elle smile, an' says I'm Young,
An' then site up an' .5008
An' kisses me,' an' e,lt0W0 me how,
For iota, you bet she knows,
FEW EENOW IT.
.Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a recognized
authority on the subject of love,
Speaking of it she says; "Very few
people really love, I dare say not
one-third of the human family ever ex-
perienced the paaaion in its height,
depth and breadth, Scores, yes, hund-
reds of people go Lo their graves be-
lieving they have known love, when
they have encounteredits pale shadow
—a warm friendship, or a tender at-
tention, or a good comradsbip,"
DULL Oh' COMPREHENSION,
Old Gent, who knows the young
man's enlery—Tf you and my daugh-
tor could live respeclnbie and ecmtort-
ably on ,$20 a week, 1 should not
ob-
oottothe math. 13h you onnt.
YoungMeir--Nb• but
my eatery i
420 a week, and that added to the1330
a week you are talking about would
make forttye
3308N WITH t A e,2
t
� LFl7R SPOON,
6
N.
The Marquis of Titthfield, sore of the
Duke of Portland, is boor to £4,000,000,
Ile is 0 years old,
MY pa, he says f't1 never be
A business man, like him,
Because 11111101 got any "drive"
And "get-up," , pluok and vim;
But Inn, i0ho says, so solemn like,
"A tnan's a boy that grows,"
"An' boys must leave their playin'
spells,"
An' ma's a trump, an' knows I
boy pa, he shakes his bead an' sighs
An' says he doesn't see
Whore I get all the careless ways
That seem jos' barn 111 ate;
An' ma, elle laughs, an' laughs, an'
• laughs,
Till pa's face crimson grows,
An' then sho says, "'Tis very queer,"
But somehow, ma, she knows,
My ma, sae knows' most everything
'Bout boys, au' w'hnt they like,
She's never sooliltn''buut the muss
I snake with kites and biles;
Sh'e says site wants me to be good
An' conquer all my foes,
All' one jos' bet Out goon' to be,
'Cuz ury sweet ma, she knows.
IGNORANT.
Scene—Soldiers' barrack room at
dinner time, Orderly officer, inspeot-
lug men's dinner, asps; Any oompiainte
men?
Voice from the end et the table. Yes
ale,
Officer—Well, what is it?
Officer—Spuds is bad! litaw—er,
turning to Sergeants Spada is badl
Rawl What Maes he moan by spuds,
Sergt. Murphy ?•
Sergeant, glaring at culprit — The
man is luggerunt, sir. He meant
taters i
AN ACC CRATE II) OBI MOON,
"Uorath:y, I saw a boautilul gown in
a shop window to -day."
"What was it, 7nlius?"
"Well—it was that zigzaggy hind of
cloth—and it had these braided things
across the front and down the hack;
end some alvlu1 stylish pointed things
en the skirt—I wish you would get one
just like it." -
COMING 10171.1. WAY,
Mamma, said the sweet young girl,.
think I halt
14fr,f .
lY.rnrinws lovesi
mo and s
begiOng to
have serious heteolWhat,the fond raskd,has
brought you to this opinion
ole laughed beartily at ono of papa's
jokes last night.