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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-10-26, Page 22 ' E 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 31 31 11 1 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( 18541 1 70 c 1 urs ool end. i135173117,as widely distributed, and have more ex- ct 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