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BRUSSELS POST,
Off, 26, 1899
STORY OF THE WEDDING RHG.
By BERTHA M. CLAY,
eta, ead, eugroesed with utelauchole
thoughts. I cannot understaud you.
Are you withholding any secret frum
m' smity r
She elasped her arms round his ueek
and drew ma face down to here. She
said that he was the truest, the dear -
author ot "A. Queen Among NYoallio," °How Willit ned," "no Mellon of iN Soorot." Sto, 052, the beet of husbands and that she
loved him, and ended with passionate
tears,
CHAPTER folly as lightly as passible, yet makiug 130 sighed deegiy as ha swilled he,
"You have the privilege of speaking it qaite apparent. As she listened, 1'bat had coms* to this lovely young
Plainly," he said; "do not abuse it, Do the dainty wildroee bloom faded frmn wife, of his? Ile little dreamed of the
not institute comparisons; there melte her farm, her eyes dilated with wonder terrible straggle geing utt ja the heart
AlOne between such a man and myself, that was almost fear. Iler whole, fig- he believed to be all his own.
It is absurd to, suppose that he would are trembled as a leaf sways in the 11; seemed to her that her very soul
have sensitive or refined feelings. I wind. He finished, and his last welds
• . .he •lngecl -*
beve no doubt that a goodly sura; of sounded to ber as though they Ot11110 an intensity of longing for wealth,
money will make ample amends to him from the °loads. A red mist swam be- the rank, the position, the grandeur
for the loss of his wife. What did fore her eyes, and then she reoovered that had been deseribed to her.
you say, Mr. Ford?" herself with a great, gasping sigh. , She WrLS noil surprised at what ithe
"I said, may Heaven pardon you, my . "You must be brave," he snid "you.. had hoard ; there had always been in
lord?" have worse to hear." . • • c
now-
' lhank you," wile the sareastic re -I "And I," she said, "tun really that- ! ledge that her mother was a lady,
t urn. "Tile honor of my name is great lord's grandchild?" and that she herself was nett in her
dearer to me than anything on earth "There is not ale -gal doubt of it.,', right Mace lc seemed •;e cruel that
besides -.-how dear, even you. eould not he replied."Listen et 3et 1 Wal- mitt shtutd be deprived ,,,,, all ote &ode
tell. I should sully it if I offered that 'dron. You are undoubtedly thecus advantages she had longed for,
man a home here." !daughter of Katrine isnuty Carlswood, because she loved her husbatel and
"You sully it far more by seeking to -who ran away from home with Thorn- tamed not leave him,
Von t those whom. God has joined. Illy , ton Cameron. Yoa are the grandchild!
lord," continued the lawyer, with pass- ' of Lord Carlswood, the Blaster of 1 How happy she would have been, in-
stalled at Bralyn, mistress et that
ionate eloquenee, "I no longer wonder Bralyn, and its rich ilepelldlelleiea. The grand mansion 1 How tbe great pito-
at the French revolution—I shall won- 'child playing there may one day be
ud-
der no more at -t the revolt of the poor Lionel, Lord Carlswood; you yoursemir
lf _Po_ o e giant,eoi eon ave
ed her 1 W•hat jewels, what dress -
against the rich — if these be the ways may be a wealthy heiress. But there es she would have heel? Nu wonder
in witich the great men of the world is one candition attaching to all this—a that when elle thought ot all she had
treat the humbler ones, If you bad condition I am ashamed to lay before Lest she grew sad, silent and unhappYi
two doves—two tender birds — yua yo,. and one that I cannot advise you '
*would hesit b f • t 1 t 'r . he lit! le cottage became unbearable
OM'S NM PHASE.
ODD TURNS OF FORTUNE THEY
TELL ABOUT AT ROSSLAND.
Fortunes suddenly Discovered M. Shares
Sanyo/tea to ite merle eninee'ree
Volute emensionen wire nenemancen,
xenerinet tens er tterety someinett-,-
MP Pa Poet*.
"What'S (hat?" asks the stranger to
Roseland the first time ha hears the
ore thundering down the (Mute from
the War Eagle mine; nrid the Ross -
lender viewers with the pride al an
inhabitant of a solid camitt
"That ? That's dividends."
The mining camp (het has divided
fevers and the mum) that has only
properties " wbich will make a mine"
are very differett things," says a
Rossland lelter. And a camp like
Roseland, which bas passed through
its period of depression and showed
that it has bottom, is very likely to
prove a surprise to the stranger from
the East, who usually expects to find
11 'few shacks stuck on a MD along with
one general store, a. log-ealin betel and
twenty-five saloons. As for he saloons,
he Is tight, but he finds also, as an
•addendum to these and the mines a
ctty of 6,000 'people, regularly laid
081101:vvtkyou a Inehmeal mining edu-
" Have you it professien
Lo"rildugo-bat-IStiaPeRsoglIriRt'Uttri6w°efre°11:1
there, and that's how I got thie let-
ter "
" yea. Delightful pilule, Oxford.
Now, I beg uration, 3..00 know, bet have
You any money to invest?"
" Well, Mr, Smith, 1 say to you as
to dozens of men before you, if you
have money enough to pay your ea a -
sage oet uf here ulo h. It's the, ha
est eountry to 'nerve in that I know.
The only work I can give you Is man-
ual Mime in the mines, ore sorting at
$2,50 a day. We have several Oxford
graduates there now, and elenty of
other good men, But tts for it position,
at present, we have down 250 names
of, Men Wanting what clerieal Posiciono
• there lire in the vompany. Again I
tell you, gat out of .hera, it you eau,"
And the manager is right. In min-
ing eampe there is /milting but mite-
ing and the professions, unless man
has capital, and for an educated man
0u1na:Ecent.ainted with mining, as for oth-
and starvation, Thus it is thnt many
evs, the choice is betweea day labor
leare
the country at once, but some Indsremain
to take what they can get, and very
Pluckily tbey take it, too. One.
young fellow, who had come out with'
ett • f •
1 e. S
equally well known;
514 betore on ler e 01 t h ti 1 • a 1.1 1 •
y crep e option rests en le y them, the needful ecouumies most
them; but this man, with a man's soul, with yourself "
keen to suffer, with a man's heart, full
of deep affections, you will torture,
and not even own that. the torture is
pain."
Lord Carlswood smiled, and no great
anger darkened his face.
I like you none the less, Poril, for
your frank. speaking; there are few
who dare say so much to me. My opin-
Ma is still unchanged. I shall receive
any graadchild ismay and her sun on
on those conditions, I will leave Yo
to consider the matter. If you ci
cline the further management ere m
affairs, eo be it—if not, I will author'
you to raake all arrangements."
Left by himself, the lawyer though
the matter over.
"If trebles, some one else will d
it," he said "some one who has no i
Deems over him, and who 011/1 ueve
do anything for their good; 1 hay
some little influence, and I will use
for their benefit. Let hint. have Isma
and ber son; his heart will soften i
time, and then I shall be able to pe
suade him to receive the husband, too.
Wnen, afterward, Lord Carlswoo
came for his answer; Mr. Ford said:
"I will undertake the affair, in
lord; but let me tell you first that
do so under protest. In my opinio
the whole thing is cruel and wicked.
That same day he returned to Ash
burnham. He tried to . comtort him
self by saying that it would all oum
right: in time; but his heart was henvy
within him, he did not like his commis
sion.
"I must see Mrs. 'Waldron alone,'
he thought. "It will not be fair to he
if I tell her before her husband. Sh
must have time to thinle it over alone.'
Once more at Ashburnhana he watch
ad Paul Weldron leave his Mime, an
then he wont to the cottage and asked
for his wife, She was looking more
beautiful than ever, Im thought, Sh
had been out in the garden tying up
the roses; the perfente of the crimson
blossoms seemed to linger about her
her face was exquisite in its daiety
bloom. She snxiled graciously when
she saw her visitor,
"You have returnee to make the
sketch," she said; bat there was ao an-
swering smile on his face
"I have returned," he replied, "be -
ease I ws.nt to speak' to you, Mrs,
:Waldron. I have something most ira-
erten!: to say to you. Can you spare
Me
it little time, now, at once?"
Her beautiful faee grew pale with ap-
rehentrion.
"It is eothing that need frighten
ou" he said, "Some people would per..
ape call it good news, I shall leave
ou to think of it •as you will. 1
hould like to eeh you alone," be con -
'need, and Istuay led the way to the
retly seat under the elm tree.
"This is my drawing -room," she said,
vith a bright smile; "but I clo not
now that I have received a visitor
ere before."
She had gathered sumo roses as they
valked down the path, and while he
tithed to her she palled the fragrant
eaves from the stems. Long years aft-
rwards the perfume of a roee vividly
•eaalled the scene to her—so vivinly
t • •
S 1 eetS, Sel et al exerlient buildings, el -
1 hateful, lite husband Dar whom she had
1 "A condition!" she repeated, her Eau secrificed so much, a source of aver- ectrie lights, ;rater works, shops of
recovering its color, her eyes flashine.
g, mon se an kinds, five banks, plenty of hotels,
with light, "Yoa do not know how 1 i i and a cleb with a $20,000 home. Six
Then a sudden fit of remorse wetted
have always longed to be rich. I can-' years ago the place teas a hillside of
I seize her ; she wonted prove her love
net believe that my longing is grati-
•tied• there will be no condition tou dif- for him by the most loving words. the rocks and trees, oue of a dozen such
ounclabout.
:Emit for me to accept." most tender caresses; she wonid laugh
Site history of Roseland is the his -
"I am tun so sure 06 that," said the ; and sing all to :Mow hitn that she WIIS '
COPPS 1 She weuid utter a thousand '1;10' of must camps. In 1890-91 two
man of law. "Lord Carlswood is a krench-Canatlittns prospecting among
very proud. man—I should a no mi i extravagances, attain. their little liolle
s y n
the mo i ti 1 1 1 1
Polities, and elMarquis we oleos n 1
financier, took the job of ahovelling
snow and washing bottles for the first
winter. At the end of that time he
otered by the manager to
WaS 11110011,
whom he had brought the letters, and
was asked what he thought of the
country.
" Well," be said, slowly, as though
loath to admit even so much defeat,
111 jUSt the least bit disappointed
. un a ns, c tanee on 1. i s a 11 in ie don't you know."
13' living is prouder; he hes the greatest 1 aad her
wou..d. f" tow
affection for it. And- then and staked out claims. In one. day they Some Englishmen come out with
a reverence for what he culls the honor
e ou'd be intensely wreteh u again. e
1 1and she
111e ae"e1.%°: e. located the present rich mines, Le Rot, ueither remit:tattoos nor introductions,
e- of his house; he would, I believe,Wax Bugle and Centre Star. Having but only a beautiful confidence. Oee
Y rather die any death Chan tarnish it, majilleri h 1 h b
s tvent On fee throe long weeks, Do money for recording purposes, they such, swaggering eround a day or
um ter ea t egan to fail. °Hared a man in an adjacent settle- two after his arrival, Watt questioned as
, "resell. to be musti Seel.) looked COO filet sold for $12.5D, The French- I shall become superintendent of One
0 Ltird Carlswood will receive you as his;
la' grandchild—will give you n large for -1 i 1, her face was a ways a t
rm. i hei flush -
h!. d ehe neen, being men of no inoney, eonsidered
r tune — will make your little son his eal or white, her hands trent _e e the $4600 tr hich they finally got out
e heir—all anon condition that you leav8! wane rtem.'11:'1, cyst erica!, unlike het' -- of the claimer to be a fais clean up, yet
it your husband, whom, he considers low-' aF.i'• en va,ia her husband. tried every to -day their hillaide is calouleted to
xi again." , et b , e, more unhappy i han herse Le.
her ; he was, if pus-
s born, and promise never to see laim . 1".11g 1° P'ease . have a producing power of $15,000,000
yearly, under improved working con-
c-: It was wonderful to see the light ; lt had been such a glimpse of Para- aiu,„,. A year 01, on ar,e, th, 10-
-, that flashed Into her face, the indign- .dise to her; now. the gates were shut, eating of the Maims an American geli-
d' ant gleam en her eyes, the scorn of
I and she was debarred from entering. eral came in, bringing along Ins cook.
; the proud lips. She had not said one word to Paul; 110 re,i , ,
.1. S C003, ts
Y i "Leave my busband—promise never •was still in (bittaternignoraillnlcrsheSiLew
THE FATHER OP ROSSLAND
1; to see b'm again! 1 wou'd not do it f("Irlte,hweelf clawed,l..
ehat t re t 1
n cm eded she must be and tee Man for whom the town Is
n te; be a queen ! Paul. loves me—I will t
not bretak his heart." ither rich without her us an , or name . a S 5 out h h b d d el tak d t the present
-1 "You have answered jus as I poor tent). him, town site, and has found the stakes
-. thought you would, I shall not at- In tile meantime Mr. Ford had told an exeellent investment, so far 'lav-
a : temp, to infeueece yout I an, hound the old lord all; he had Imitated tbe inc made some $3110 000 out of the sale
55 Think how he values it when he treat- '
ed his only daughter le une dead be-' A iith:er woman, having once made ment his choice of the claims for the to what he was going io do.
t cause she married beneath! her. I will; the' 'actin". 1/a.vee nebhl,d, vdstbLeit:i reeording fees, He chose the Le Rot
be brief, for the subjeot pains me, i She wavered even wfliel Thus n. mine ram. eomputed $0,000,s Way, "00(1! dI athro1iLin tl,'Tf-frihTncit
'• to tail yeti that, if you refuse,•Lord girl's beauty in vivid colors; he had of the real estate.
- Cartsweeirt wilt find another heir, and described her anger, her indignation, such iustancee are nothieg, however,
' You. will hear 170 more of the matter. het' resolve never to leave her bus- in a country where paupers become
Perhaps yeti had better take time be- band, never to break his heart; he had millionairee within the year:Two years
r fore Mei decide.' delivered the inesaage word for word, ago a miner in Roseland. was borrow -
Lord Carlswood mailed grimly, iog alew cents to get food, while the
"Leave my Inablnd 1 ' she repetned, like that," he said; "it is the true other day he was entertaining Spo-
with bo st of passionate tears. "He Carlswood spivit. But she will give ie. lane, Lhe Mecca or miners who have
d must b.) wicked to think NN nutd Sne seemed to waver at the last, you mace) their stake, at a large hall.
so. I ecu d not. Paul 10V05 rae so. say? She will give in. I have thought Twenq-four months and the hungry
He sat in silence, while the burst of 'of a intuit: he added. "You shall ratter is worth $2,000,000. S01110 curious
e passionate tears lasted. Presentlj•
she !timed angrily to him. wait a month, so as to give ber time stories are told of the Le Rol mine.
:to think over all she has lost, and then For instanue, mie men, a tailor, doing
"A ou should not have presented surb you shall go again) and this time you business in Spokane, had a Roseland
an offer 10 010," she crted. "Dow "ea shall invite her to Bralyn, and escort customer who wanted await of clothes,
t you tempt me so?" her here. You shall bring the boy, but had nothing to pay with, save
"Madam." he replied. gravely, 'I have
but. followed my nstructions—neither too, for a month's visit — not her has- shares of the Le Rol, thee unheard of,
mese nor fess." band, mind. He cannot refuse /318' After persuasion the tailor gave the
; grandchild permission to visit me; and, Rosslander a suit and received 6,000
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at she could not endure the flowers.
Nor did he ever forget it — the garden
with its fragrant blossoms, the 1411
elm -tree, the cool, spreading, shade, the
bright, lovely face framed in the
bright brown hair, the wbite hands
playing with the. crimson bUrIS-41 pic-
ture se beautiful that Mr. Ford looked
eti in admiration too great for wine's.
He was silent tor some little time,
his heart troubled within him at what
he had to say. He looked al Mrs. Wal-
dron, and while he owned to himself
tbat 1m had never seen any woman one
half so fair, he thought how much bet-
ter and happier she would be living
here in the midst of beauty and peace
than tomted about on the waves of tbe
great world.
Unmet wondered What be was think-
ing of, why he lookel so grave, whet
anxious tboughts brought so mem an
expression to his face. end why he wee
glancing et tem with .1,1 etrange
mingling 01 wonder, fetr, regret, and
admiration, fler face grew erineree,
under his lingering gaze.
"I have no need to feor %La
thought. to herself, with 5tritre im-
patience. "He mum have vgtor..bing
important to gay, or he never weuld
have asked me to come oin here."
"What butte you to tell nerS" ehe !mir-
ed at length, with a coqueetien truffle.
And then the grave look returned to
Itis face, and he sighed deeply,
"I do not like my mission," he said.
"You meet always remember that
undertook it sorely against my will,
hut that my motives for acting es I
do is that I may be of use to you in
time to come."
His grave voiee, his earneet manner,
surprised her. She raised her lovely
eee ine and, on tt was the. simple
wonder of a startled child.
"Only Heaven knows," continued the
grave voice, "whether what. have to
say to you is for men. good, whether
evil will :tome of it, Listen, Mrs, Wal-
dron, and deeide as you will."
Slowly, gravely, dellberntely, weigh-
ing each. word, Ford told 1,1er the
Who/et story, ornitttne, ito single grain
of evidenee, elwePhee set bar mother's
"Tell ii!m, his proud lord, front me, ie she comae; r wiii undertake to say share, or Le RotIle
t th
ci*
'lea Mrs. Waldron, "that, I will never th h • h - Let 11
eave my husband—that I would net .
°nee taste such a life as she will lead
break his true, tender, loving heart
far all the wealth in the world. Tell ihere and she is mine."
him that front me, You, have roads, , Sorely ttgainst his will, 31r. Ford eon -
me ill. My brain seems tutrning. e_ seated, He went once more to Ash -
leave me. Let me feign how you it3a—ve burton and found his way to the pretty
tempted me, if 1 orin." :cottage in the wood, Ismay's face flush -
Mr, Ford arose. She turned away ed deepest crimson, when she saw him.
tvith a low, passionate cry, and then She held out her haud with a gesture
looked at him again, and spoke with ,a1,111, ost sublime in its despair.
a ring of passionate grief in her voice. You mtxst not come to tempt me
"I was trying to In lumpy," elm said. 'Pagraai.„nni'easvhee merei.V. "Il am not strong.
"learning to In content ., and now you e '
have ceme to spoil it all," ; I am here only to invite you and
She looked so lovely in her pride your son to Bralyn," he returned.
her anger, and her tears, that the !"Lord Carlswood will leti the question
lawyer wished his empleyer of adoption rest Lot' a time; but he
°paid have 'wants to see you, you and your little
seen her.
not tempted you. I have simply done whitening lips,
Lionel,"
husband?" she asked, with
-Etter wit ness,' be said, "that I have "Not my
as I ;vas 0:d to do. 1 tell' bid ou fa. e.
well." "No, he will not receive Mr. Waldron.
You can please yourselt of course as to
She looked as though inclined to de- accepting the invitation or not,"
lain him.
"I should like to go," she said
He he it t d
pa" em away
and forgot about them until months
later, when a. mining friend asked him
to invest a trifle in developing a gold
Maim,
"Not tallith," said the tailor. "I was
only in one mining deal in my life
anti I got bang up for a forty dollar
malt. Cot mild with a lot of shares
of some blamed mine that ain't worth
O darn, I guess. Where are those shares
anyway?" ILE. routed them out of an
old desk and held them up, contemptu-
ously. "Thar they are," said he, "are
they worth anything, anyhow?"
As the shares were bringing earth
itt the time, the tailor made $85,960
on his suit of clothes. It is related
that another man, who originally put
in a capital of pp() for an interest
in the mina, sold his shares after the
property had been worked, for 01,043,-
300, besides hafting received some
wpm) IN :DIVIDENDS,
Tins reads more like romance than
mining, yet it is quite overshadowed
"Will you take time to think over eagerly. "I have longed to see a lit- by What is told of the earnings of a
tie of the beautiful, great world. Tell eertain other mates dollars. This
itt' he asked."Shall I go antty, and re- me—tell me all about Bralyn,"
turn in One atonal. from 00W i" man, with his pertiter, used to own a
H
"Yes," she replied, almost inandib-, e described the place to her; he bid bar in Roseland. A customer, owing
ly frem her no details, of her grandfalle them a bill of 0130, came to them one
er's wealth, position and grandeur. day, :mid he had Ito money, and offer -
'AIM will you take my mat:Ice?' be emusht go;,, she cried t•gain. "Paul ed 46,000 shares of Le Rol stook for
COM Laded.
"D" 1101. sat.' Pete word of will not object to my going there when the debt. It being the only thing to
this to ,vour husband until t have ecen'be knows."
you again.' do, the sateen men excepted what they
I "You have not told your husband?" thought a worthless seourily mid
CHAPTER K. .questioned Mr, Ford, . wrote off the debt, Nitwit :mettle that
There came an evening when Paul I "Not one word," she replied. "Do yaw besides owning it bar in common, they
Wagiron sal in the beautiful garden, think be wilt be unwilling for me to ale° had a raceliorme, and when the
a prey to most anxious thoughts. The go?" • shares came in one of them verse:Mod
sun was setting, the birds were sing- better judge. Xou will have to ask his pteine.r to give hint all the horse,
ing, in the green depthmt a the shady ; "I cannot tell, 'You. must be the the partner taking all the shares as
trees. He had returned home early 'permission." equivitle.nt. To do this the first bed
the! evening, and had found his wife, ! She sat for some minutes in thought- to make out that the 811311101 WaS ail -
With a sad, pale face, standing list- fel silence, and then with a grave, pale ing but unlit; to race any more, 13u1
lessly at the rettege wind,w. No tea ,face, looked 01 the lawyer, summer coming on, it turned out he
was ereltared for him nod the sraile "I should like to go to leralyn," she had lied earl the horse that season
thy usustlly greeted him was absent said. "I should like to see just once won $2,500. The second Partner Mit
trtra her Mem ilul nee, Ile loved her what the grand world is like. Of fut'ious, wished his sheres at the devil,
Meirly lit offer any remonstraneo course I shall come back again. Con- and started to sue his partner. Not
--te went up te her and kistred her. sidering the great sacrifice, I have to long after this, seeond man sold his
'1 ou ere net looking welt to -day, make, 1 think" may allow myself this 46,000 shares for $8 reshare, thus ran. -
buoy," be said, gently, pleasure, but I am afraid, if Paul . Being $308,000 from an original amount
ife ems airmen startled when she knew what grandfather has pro-. of 0100.
(Meg her arms round hitt neck with a , posed he Would never let me Pt is probably the clienees like
tette peesienale cry. and hid her face go. 1 Neve been thinking that these given by a mining country that
to les breast, you might tell hien the :nosy have brought emit droves of young
"You are not well, Istrtny," he re- —inform him who my mother was, and Itinglislituen to British ('0101511111 (30(111)5,
pealed. "Never toind tea for me, Come ,of Lord Cariswooci's invitation wile/tot , Roseland, for instance, is filled with
cm, and 1 will try to eheer you, The saying anything about his conditions Englishmen. Most of them live on
room is eaten—come into the fresh for adopting tny hoy and myeelf," ; money from bottle and are everywhere
ai.i, and. oh, my darling, give me one To be Continued, " 1 k
bright look, or all the world tent be to
Ci"dark to neI THE POWDOP ell'SI,
0
TIM marvellous attune Hutt are 1
sometimes produced by musics may •
"1 cao1101 Understand you. Ismele , eVenittelly receive it ineentific °emblem-,
Yea are so rhaeged, you are so van- 1 don. 1 0 a recent lecture at Oxford c(?,i"
able. 013' darling, so unlike men sweet, : irniesreily iteetetser memd, la • 0
rig it sell, One moment you ere i that, while the NI/irate ett11/1OPIicrili
d wi'..
here, anith peter arms clasped. . of the auditory nerves are only juel ,
round My neok —loving, lender, all . being unravelled, it is probable t hat "
that my heart desiretr; the titlei mo- the roots of those nervee are more II(
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I 1 h ,
As they walked itIceig he said to
her ;
nitwit as 10001(122051) num while their
assion for golfing caps give them their
Cher designation of the small lutt
•owd. Some of them lacking remit-
ncee come out armed with lettere of
troduction, cars
tming the signature
s1
any thing from a Marque: a.K.
.M.G. These letters nre usually to
rimmtger of the British Alneri Oa
orporntion, the hig London realm:my,
iterating in British Columbia, and
the bearer alwaya Mut:sines he is
fall ieto n high elnee and large in-
ime, his talk with the manager is
(‚00 20108 11 It tweet; tetnive connertione then theme of any
your slave. At times you seem to love ether nervee in the lumen body. Re -
me. anti then agate you: seem to We :searches on the auditory eerves Ma-
rne. One tiny I think you are perfect ly cafe thitt there is searcely a 9011011 0(1
haiWy—Yial smile and Hilig and your of the body whieh may not in affeeted
face la more beautiful then ever in its by the pulsations and harmonic mon-
sweat content; the ttext yeti are eile hinatieus of musieal totes.
" Ah, yes," eays the managee, after
preliminary eourieelee. " New, RS a
matter ef. fare, what tan you do, Mr.
Smi I h
"Welt 3 ran (111 ainent anything."
large mines here.
The " dollars in front," Englishmen
was the kind, who, it is related,
SAVED THE CITY OP SPOKANE.
in the early days. Some fifteen years
age it Was a town 00 1,500 people, with
no future and every one dead broke.
alt this juncture in otime an English-
man with $30,000. He was induced to
deposit this in the bank which at the
tune had just $e00 on hand. Then they
got hire to imtest $15,000 in real es-
tate, and this amount circulating
through the town gave it an impetus
and got it on its feet, again. It was
connintted that $250,000 worth of debts
was peed off with this $15,000. Spokane
is 11020' a place of 40,000 people, the
New York of northern Washington
and Southern British Columbia, to
which many miners retire when they ,
have made their stake. Here they live t
in much splendor, la houses furnished
throughout by the deemator ;Ind sur-
mounted by as many *turrets ate pos-
sible.
In a country of to much drinking
and Minn/ling men attend Pratte' thor-
°uglily to their own damnation, and
some one else must look to their sal-
vation. While there are clergymen of
several denorainations at Roseland the
English Church parson is the clerical
character of the please. This is an old
Cambridge man, a great oarsman and
football player in his day, who has
been in British Columbia for twenty
years, and is known for and wide as
Father Pat. Father Pat is distinctly
western timber for a western land,
prides himself on being one of the
boys, and ;v1 11 take Ida whiskey at the
bar with yo0 witenever you ask him.
By sheer force of character he made
himself reepeeted and loved in the
roegher days of British Columbia,
\viten a man of more dogma and less
strength of body would have failed,
In these days his pity:deal fights were
many, for the miners thought 0110 3100-
800 ratuth like another. It in said that
one of his first exPerienees was t14
attempt to hold services in a saloon.
Mere ;vas no Plaice else in the camp
to hold, the meeting, so he walked into
the largest saloon in the plane on
hSl
euncasd
y morning, anremarked (hat'va
GOING TO HOLD A SERVICE
there. When the mlnera got over
their daze one big fellow stepped
out,
"You don't hold no service bere, un-
less you Bak me first," he remarked.
"All right," said leather Pat, cheer-
fully, maybe, and squared up to bine
AN the Millet Wan aS strong and as
oluerny as it bull, and knee. textile'. less
Tese Chinamen, while cloudy an
Industrious, are as a rale surly ft
tml
ti'
te
CI
.1- ••-elealleeteleolt
!owe, end haide to startle hotteekee
ers by their vagaries. One Ronelat
woman, for Instance, Mut oeeasion
leach her Chinese cook how to mai
a new cake, and for the filen On
111111111 ithersatf before him, The reel'
ealled for si± eggs, and after she lo
upened four them ehuneed to be tyt
bad °nee, which slut naturally thre
he lienne to
le; -,4'el HOW TO UTILIZE Touou Jour.
etiugh steak tender, anil new that beef
It le entirely potetible to make m
W to
the (molt bail made the cake excellent
several limier, she Imppened to be 1
eggo, then timely two awns and 1 In'
.UwieentltIottnd.len when he mem at the vale
!maim The 011011,M:111 Opened lot
ftWil‘yVifiCitit• 7011nskiltit111..ew (lin" 11;
Aulthy,. rue do /Ikea yeti," said jolt
ed out he did It ettch time he mat
with eurprised stare. And It tele
the cake. So much for their itultatfititit
Another woman of Roseland lin '1
Puppy gi her, which she fume
over to her Chinese servant to loo
af ter
"JOhn," she said, "11115 PuPP7 ho
just been given to me, 1 want you, t
take lilm into the kitchen and be ver
eareful of him."
" understatul," sata John.
At dinner that night John brough
in a covered dish and sel it before hi
master,
"Me heap careful," he reniat•ked t
his mistress, as be raised the cove
with a pleased smile.
'Under the cover WitS, of courae, tit
puppy neatly cooked. Such Oriente
intgre,tulit,,anirist,teeetx,nerntlietrice 11,0011.,:181,ytkiitmexelf
China boys, as theY call them, eom
Mete substitutes for the servants 0
then Eastern days.
ly! SO high, is well to know how.
' Take a mend leak sear it well on
11;
ir bes %Saler, and let thinner for :leveret
i'l.itioluvrist. skillet, clearly rover with boils
li
'1141111.1111 1
r"
11tre 0
g1.7117.4151, MIy
LT hoe
ittailt' lo
telii'W(u
t to bave 0 can of mushrooma itt the
11, ; IMUse mid them to the gravy and
you -Wye a delicious Melt. :During the
le void 'Jaye, wiem range 114 going
111 aft the time tins will be found an Imo-
' nomien) metat to IIHP a tough steak.
a, Or, you van sinuner your meat NI.
about an 110111', make it dreesing of
4 stale bread crumbs, an egg and it sea-
soning of onion with salt and Pepper.
8 1 and butter. Fold it into the meat and
u roast for an hour. This will eta 4110
ulizeiegc
nslieohand be found a velm
ry aa-
tTOO MUCH CANNING.
A western woman regietts the am -
0 bition of Sonle weetnn to out -db each
other in miming. She says sensibly:
ct When fresh fruits are to be had,
1 from 'deviant in May uutil the last
; apples are gone the next entring, whet
is the use of vatting up quarts and
O gallons of one kind end then gallons
the next until One fairly dreams ot
strawberries, tied all other kinds of
berries and peaches and grapes, and
hates the odor of them cooking, and all
for tweet, ? I'll tell you one good strong.
15515011 many women have—it is the
telling about it to other women, es-
pecially tbose tvlio havetet so man'
gallons canned,
A reasonable. amount of canned
manse and jelly is a Men thing to have
_ in the hose for use during an eines-
] geney, or to help out a diminishing
supply
o nay to overdo the matter edien fresh
- trait is so cheap and wholesome, and
_ when there are so many kinds of
dried traits which are delicious when
p rope rl y preen red, Really, 11012', did
you ever know a woman who had it
f great quantity- of fruit canned to re-
frain from telling all about; it when
opport unity of fe red ?
ACETYLENE GAS.
Ii93111, a MO 111.11i11111(.10i itt 1331 l'OnOnnell
itt ill4 estimation of Prof. J. Vert ess,
the adage, "All is not gold that glit-
ters," applies with special fitness to
the attractive gas acetylene. The 00111
meats of Prof, \Melees were elleitec
by an official extuninatiou whirl 11
matte oE the ileW ylene pleat whieh sup
plies the town of Veszprine in Hung
ergs Ho says the carbide from which
the gas is made is 11110111 WM, but al
ways oontains at least tin per cent o
impurities. The effect of this ie to
make it moet difficult to ascertain
with any approach to accuracy whit
'nature ot gas inn be scoured from a
given quantity of carbide. Further-
more, the earbide is so little home/gen-.
eous that several samples must be test
ed in order to obtain a mean value
Prof. Vertess calls particular atten-
tion to a Mot which seems little known
to many who advocate the use of tteety-
ene for donaestic lighting, Carbide
contains sulphur, phosphorus ancl
nitrogen and it follows that aoetylette
vill be contaminated with strtphureted
hydrogen, phosphureted hydrogen and
mmonia. Tee aeetylene must, there -
ore, be purified to the same extent
as is coal gas, for fear that its use in
closed places might 'muse serious ace
oidents. But the greatest drawback
of all is that acetylene burns with tt
smoky flame. 12.1 first, the flame is
beautifully bright and elean, and alto-
gether captivating, but after 21S) or 300
hours smoke begins to be formed. This
comes front the burners attaining a
temperature higher than that of the
decomposition of the acetylene, and
a
11
-11
11
0
• , nut is utilized in a "cream" of some
sort, ztnd served on. Thanksgiving and
Christmas„just as appropriately as on
the Fourth of July.
The same general rules as to freez-
ing, packing and ripening are used for
nut creams as for any other, with this
one exception, that a tenger time must
be allowed both for freezing and ripen-
ing, on account of the oily nature of
the nuts. Any good recipe for plain
cream may be used for the foundation
oE the nut creams, if a pinch of salt
is added to each quart of cream, to
overcome the flatness of the nuts,
For an almond cream, blanch and
pound to a paste 1-4 lb. nimonds —
weighed after they are sbelled —witb
ft few drops of rose water and a little
cream. Heat a quart of cream to a
steaming, not boiling, heat. Melt
siigar in this to make as sweet as de-
sired and leL it cool, then tied the
almonds, a few drops of extrect of
bitter almonds, a teaspoonful of va-
nilla and the pinch of salt
Hazelnuts, English weinuts, filberts
or American walnuts, hickory nuts and
chestnuts may be used in the Saint%
!manner as ahnoncls, with' this differ-
ence — that they need not be rubbed
to n. paste, Mu simply chopped fine.
'Chestnuts may be boiled: end mashed,
lor used raw like the others.
1 Irule. With the chopped nuts, the rose
The amount of nuts used is the same
in each' caa se, quarter of a pound to
each remelt ot (newt). being the usual
water is not needed, and any flavor
i may be used in place of the bitter al-
monel. Otenge Mice is very lliCe with
!the chestnuts, but the question of
flavoring is ono of individual taste,
_
24111' ICE CREAM
Time was when Me cream 1055 C011-
sitiereil a summer dish exolusively, rend
only the plain Crellal was seen, but;
nowadays every known fruit, berry or
of boxtng Hem an elephant, he Wall
hus the gas is decomposed into :Jarboe
net hydrogen, A curious phenornen-
n us noticeable in the gas pipes. Not
nly do they deposit a finely divided
arbon, like soot, but they condense a
ery remarkable liquid, consisting ot
arbides of bydrogen. These bodies are
leo formed in the generators, whence
he necessity of using siphons. It is
has seen that the claim that acety-
erie does not require purifying is a
annoy. • Prof. Vertesspoints out an-
ther inconvenient result of the im-
urities contained in acetylene. When
eetylene is burning in a closed place,
sort of Log will' often fill the room
fter a longer or shorter interval. The
ause.of this is that from the decom-
osition of the auttylene in the burner
he carbon is deposited while the hydr-
gen burns, inducing the formation a
vatery vapor, Una IL is this, in con -
unction with the ammonia, the sot -
b tt re Led hydrogen and the phos
hureted'hydrogen, which produces the
og• and induces the distressing heed -
knooked out ineide cia two nainulea ,
Then nnother came 011.1, and after him
a third, and when they had been
thrashed in suecession, theirfellow
s0013 fellos
not only cheered thr
e ;temte b
iat help-
ed him rig 11) 11 ohureb in :the saloon,
and the freedom of the camp. became
his, So the stories go of him in (11)1113'cases. The miners in those days could-
n't Understand a parson, but ' be gum
O parson that can fight 's all right,"
as one said. In these more advaneed
days, when afternoon teas are heard
of in Brinell Columbia, mining camps,
there are 110080 WhO object to this kind
of minister, who say that he cruet
preach and Mm
eo nothing 03 doctrine;
that he shouldtet drink and that it's
che and women so well khown to
hose who helve tried terming iteetya
ene in theic own houses.
CA.LV.1.4 AS A GAIDENER,
Singing in the opera and cultivating
tt farm are about as wid dy different
from each other as two oecupatione
can well be. Perhaps this Is (bit very
reason why Mademoiselle Calve, the
great prima donna, retiree every sum-
mer to spend her vacate 1 on 01,1(01
among the Cevennes, a eht hi of moun-
tains in southern France.
The famous s:nger, says the ?illimita-
ble Post, waa very III and nervous
hen she went to the Cevennes, but
lois free, opeinair life and vigorous t3X.
'else soon restered her to the most
°bust licalth, and when friends ttsk
er the seeree of her Mire. ans-
ers, "Spades and potatoes,"
Last summer she Went inte het' kit.-
el
es he ien-gerden and cared for her own
egettthles. No one was allowed to
Itch them, and Hie results were far
Wee than when her gardener cared
r the things. Mademolselle Calve
ore, a short skirt of blue jeans
. OtS, and a inen shirt -waist. She
acted and hoed and watered her vege-
bles day after clay, and protxdly sent
1114 09 the finest fruiter of her Inhere
friends in Paris, .
A BROAD ATM.
Ids, mist is out on the etreel throe,
g ;donee at the horses I
Ilave the drivers ctomelatned?
No, but. she Pet hit !het new lade
met door in the beak yard,
wicked le fight. But tha
e tnners still
seem to think that a parson is about '
right who will sit up all night with t
their stoic ehildren, or ride twenty-five et
miles to nurse a man with a broken r
leg, even if he doesn't care anything
about ritualism,
Thus, though a pioneer like Father w
'Pat has seen great 'changes in twent
years, they are nothieg to the coming
clangof tnext twenty; The am-
ount of Enatern and ilinglish capital v
invested in British Coitimbia, is Pro. 110
.
o
c 'us, an 1110 nrOVI.21Cle IS being open- b
ed up. with amazing rapidity, With to
the extenuion of the Canadian P11113310w
tines will eim • ' P sa
lotion, end women, in Particular, will sp
probably go into the eountry in fee ts,
greeter nurnbere than heretofore. At gi
present there le a keen demand for te
honest female Mot in South British
Columbia, the vountry depending 'an -
3:1e:47 on Chinamen for cooking and
detneetic service. For this work they
get anywhere froln 111
$'20 311 almonTrt,
atel women dome -dies would command
like prieee, 11
tee,
F011 THE COORS,
Chocolate Cake.—One-half cup of
better, two cups sugar, one cup :mid
water, three (nips sifted flour, three
level leas000nfuls of baking powder,
whites of emir eggs, one teaspoonful
each of var,111a, lemon, clove,s and nut-
meg, and tee square letker's choco-
late, Crean the butter ancl add the
stusar, beat tt %ether five minutes; mix
and sift flour and baking powder ; add
the flour aucl water alternately, 10 the
first mixture; then add the spices and
dissolved chocclate, mitt lastly the
beaten whites of -the eggs, Bake 35 to
minutem and cover with a boiled cho-
colate icing.
Potato potatoes not
,seitable to emelt with target' obes
should be laid aside and used for sal-
ads. Boil them, and while warm peel
and aim thin ; chop some parsley, an
onion, and edd to Hie sliced outatnes;
sprinkle with salt end pepper and pour
over two or three des:met-spoonfuls of
nil, or melted butter oat> be 1.150(1, and
ntoistee the whole with vinegar, Silo-
eti beet and cucumber can be added
to the salad, but 0 must be done bo -
fore Om oil and Vinegar aro mixed
with the potatoes.
Nuts arid Apples,—A modification of
the old time Way of serving nuts and
epplee raW is given below 1—With and
core 10 Or 12 large tart apples. Chop
filet a euteful of waleet nteats; mix
with Mar tablespoontula of brown su.
gar, till 3m cavities, Warm them in ix
dieli and pour onn and a
hmtIt enufals ef hot water :vowel thein.
send bake (Moiety. Wheu done, remove
all the apples to tt dish, except one of
the softest; Mash tide to a pulp, first
taking the skin from it with a fork,
add to the emeer and junta iti, the
men; add a dash ol nutmeg, a pinch of
salt, and a ILIUM of butter the size of
n'alnutt Pour all over the aoples In
the dish in which they are to be
served, elift powdered sugar over the
top and eerve cold with