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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-11-30, Page 2THE ,13I USSIILS POST Nov, 90, 1699 w3( w.lfte" ray a.eas,raii". ' STORYOF THE WEDDING RING. By BERTHA M. CLAY, Author of "A Qunao 413:;1413 woman, "How will It Bud," "Ttio mete. of a Seam." so. CHAPTER XVIII. Fox' the first time he thought of this Lord Ca,tlawuod looked up in dismay. affair under its religious aspect, he Fla had beau dining out and .Sixty. Wal- thought of the sin. Hitherto it had dron had given orders that she was seemed to him a proper thing to do not at home to any oue. Be was pleas- to mark hie disapprobation of unequal ed to find her alune; the dinner had marriages, to keep up the prestige of ftytigued him, and he leas glad of the his family honor it name; now, since ' Naoepect of e. quiet evening. He had' Jamey's words had frightened him, he drawn hie chair to the wwduw, mak- saw things in quite another light. leg eome °tireless remark about the Thane whom Heaven had joined to- lverauth and beauty of the eiglet. There gather he bad put asunder, He had Was aka reply, and the old had thought tempted a young girl to be false to her she had not heard Ilim. diter a Lee, vulva, to break her troth, to desert her he spoke to her again, and again there husband; he had robbed an innocent eam8 no reply. She wee etaudiug by man o1 his wife and child, he had the mean window, her faze hidden trout caused unutterable sorrow and done him. immeasurable wroug. What arouse "Ismay, what are you thinking oft" could he otter? The reasons that had he asked, once seemed all suf£ieient to him, now Then 5118 turned to him and her appeared weak and worthless. He, too, face frightened him, it woo so white, teas afraid, and wished the deed un - with colorless lips and shaduwod eyes none. -the face of oue who has received a " I might have adopted the child, an mortal blow; she seemed almost un- have left husband and wife togeth- conscious of his presence; unable toet'," he thought. " I have done wrong. Understand his Words, Ao was shock- ;or a Earlswood to acknowledge that, ed and terrified -be went to her and meals tbat lie must frankly own it took both her bands in his, and atone for it. 1, who prided my- " ismay," he said, " what is the mat- self on my long descent, on my un - ter, my dear child 0' blemished bonor, on my stainless name The eyes raised to his were dazed --I must ,go to this man and ask his and heavy with grief. forgiveness" What hae happened to you?" ha He want again to Ismay, and from ' cried. You look so ill, you frighten her learned where Paul was. ma; you look as though you were dy- His wonder was great at finding in •.lt1g. What a the matter?" the new member, the gifted orator, I have seen Paul," she replied, and the "man of the people," Paul Wal - \the tone of her voice was so changed dron, his grandchild's husband. He so hoarse, so altered that he did not dared not to wait to express hitt sur - know it, ala sesn I all she 114- s greatdanger, - a "I h • prise. She wa in dao et and pasted, and I asked him to take mo he believed that her husband's eras bank -to taste me back because I love ene would save her. Her life seemed' him so -because 1 aria so guilty, so ebbing fast. Heaven help him if he wretOhed-•and he would not. He said should be too late! I had broken his heart years ago and Once more Paul Was disturbed at his the thounht is killing me." books, this time it was by the unes- The white 1a0e drooped -her hands peeled a e hadehenr of "Lord Carls- fell nervously -the words died away wood."He heard nothing of his on her colorless lips, and the next leaving illness. Ile had resolved uPon minute Ismay Waldron, the beautiful he couldEnot look upon land after that face again. view - woman, the unhappy wife, lay white He rose from his seat when he beard and senseless at the old man's feat, the name, and stood ready to receive He moaned as he bent over her, hia visitor. At last they stood face I have killed her l" he said. She to face, the injurer, and the injured, is the victim, not of her vanity, but on; proud ear and the proud common - of my pride, I have slain her !" er. Paul saw a stately figure hent be - Soma hours afterward Lord Carla-, fore him, a grand old face quivering wood sat by Ismay's bedside. .11 grave- with emotion, and pale with dread. faced doctor was there, and he looked In his courtly, high -bred fashion, as though he had no very favorable Lord Earlswood held out his hand, embavercllm to give. lsmay lay quite utteredun- "I have done you a grievous wrong, fell oeus. No word that was sir," he said, "and I am here to ask Poll on her cars. your pardon You sap,' repeated the old lord Lord Cartswod was gazing Into a " that she has bad some great shock I' face, as proud as his own. "Yes," leas the grave reply, "This "I have ne pardon to give, Lord illness comes from the mind, not the Carlswood," was the haughty reply, body; there lits been a strain upon "It is too' late to ask it." the mind and that, followed by ashock "You must mot refuse me," said the has been too much for a not over- old nobleman, strong brain," "Years ago, Lord Carlswood, you Lord Earlswood looked at him. tempted from me my wife, whom I "She !s in danger, you think t" loved as no man ever loved, a woman " She lies 'n the very shadow of before ; you took' from me my child ; death," said the domes.; " human skill you laid my life bare and desolate ; can avail her but very little." you robbed me of every hope. For Days passed and the shadow of such wrongs I have no pardon." death did not pass from the house, It The old man, bent his heads with a seamed to "hose who watched Iamay humility rare in him, so anxiously, tbat she was conscious at "I did wrong, sir. I did not think so times, but even thea she lay with °los- at the time; 1 see it now. I am an old ad eyes, heedless of everything and mien, ands 1 ask you to forgive me." every one annum bee. "You ask an impossibility," was the A fortnight had elapsed, and one ev- stern reply. ening she looked at the nurse who "I came of a proud race," continued stood by her bedside. the old man, "no man springing from Will you telt Lord Carlswood I it ever bent! his knee in. supplication want him1"' she said, and the old lord. to his fellow; man. I do it to you." hastened to obey the call. Paul half turned away; he saw tears Are we quite alone?" she asked. gathering in the old nobleman's eyes. " I want to speak to you." "I shall look' upon myself as an as - Ha kissed the worn face, be hold sassiu unless you pardon me," fondly in his own the thin, white he continued. "It was I who wronged heads. you, not Iamay, your wife, I tempted My darling, wbat can I do for her -f studied every foible, every you ?" he asked. weakness of her character. I lured She raised her large, mouruful eyes her away iromi you, and it is not just to his face. that she motile bear the blame," "Grandfather," she said, "I have Paul stood in silence for a few min - not long to live," atee, and them he said: He would have interrupted her, but "I do not understand your motive she held up her hand for silence. for asking my pardon," "I have never been what people call Lord Carlswood looked at him in aur - religious," she said; " but I am going (prise. to die. I shall have to fans the great; "You did not know that she was i11 I judge. What shball I answer about my Ismay is dying, air I I am sure, if you duty as a wife?" would go to, her, if you would speak The old lord looked distressed and kindly to ber, she would live - she dismayed; he tried to eoothe her. would get better, You refuse me. For You will get better, Ismayy; do not the love of !leaven, come and visit despair." her l" But some time or other I must die. • "Ismay dying 1" repeated Paul, in - What am 1 to say 1 You tempted me- terrupting the passionate flow of what ,shall I say?" ' words. The words smote him like a, sharp-- "Come with me ; if she dies, I shall edged sword. Were this death and fear feel that I have killed her,' and Paul, of judgment the result of what he had loking, saw the, old man's eyes were done, the consequence of his sin'1 The full of tears. mournful eyes, the faltering voice, the "In the presence of death," he said, frightened face filled him with dis- kindly, "all human love and bate dis- play. ' appears. I will go with you." o Do you wish it all undone, Iamay?"', And you forgive me ?" eaid the low he asked. voice. "Yee," she whispered faintly. "1I There was a short struggle, and would give me life to undo it; but it then Paul laid his hand 011 the trembl- is too late -Taal says so." Ing arm. "I forgive you," he said, and She was Lo weak for tears, but the they lett the[ house together, anguish of her face frightened him. -- "I went to ask him to take me baok; CHAPTER, XIX. I would willingly have been poor with Gently and noisalessl him. But he is rich now. He would y they want up not take me back; and it is killing the broad el.alcease that led to janaay's hie. I am afraid to die -my life has room, They passed the marble sta- been so empty, my sin so great" Ines that gteamod palely between the Then elle fell beak faint and ex- costly hangings, the rare pictures that haust'ed. He rose in alarm to call for adorned the walls. Paul, looking on. help, but she might his hand, the magnificent display, thought to "Tell me before you go -you tempt.- himself: ed ml ybu are old and viae -tall me It was for this she. deserted me, and what answer shall I give.in extenua- 6OTd11 nyth vo." tion of my sin?' e bitterness died out of his "May Heaven pardon mei" said the heart. She was dying, and he Was go old man. "I do not know," ing to her; to forgive her. He could not hear it; he gave one Lord Earlswood pointed to the door morn look at the closed eyes and the of her room, white face, and hastily quitted the ' You had better go ite alone," he room. Those words haunted and fright- Bala' and Paul, turning the handle, emit him: quietly went in, ' Tea tempted me. What ghat! I ale never forgot the scene, the say 1" bright sunshine came in, softened and AN ARMOURED TRAIN. Destroyed by Boers at Kraaipan Station, South of Mateking. 'rill~ BALLOON CART, subdued through the shade' of the rose colored blinds; the room itself Ives magnificently furnished -every luxury, comfort was there ; the sun- beams fell oue the bed with its low hangings, and on the white, worn, beautiful face that seemed to bear the very impress of death. The nurse left the room, as Paul entered it, toad he knelt down by the bedside, lsmay had fallen into a restless, troubled 516111, and as he watched her all the burning anger, the bitter vengeance ,pherished through so many long years, died away. ;tie forgot the present-, he forgot the agony of those ten years -he remembered only the beautiful girl he had wooed and won -the lovely young wife he had worshipped; he thought of all her bright, graceful ways, and now she lay dying, they said. She was so young when they tempted her away, and they had tempted her through ber love of all that, was beautiful' and luxurious. She had not left hire far another -toad, never given one thought to any other; trail and feeble as her love was, she had given it all to him. And now she lay dying -never to give her love to any one again. Was it true, as she said, that hen woman's soul was only just awakened? It might be. "And in the awakening she turned to me," he said -"no one else but me." What she must have suffered to be brought so near death because be would not forgive her I How she must have loved bine after all 1 Her whole heart must have yearned for him. Was it not through love of him that she lay dying? As he thought of that the last remnant of pride and anger died out of• his heart. How she must have loved him 1 -He remembered that and nothing else. He bent down and kissed the thin' white hand. When he raised his race she was looking at him -the sad, sweet eyes were Lixed an' his face. Sbe did not seem, surprised to see him, "Pant!" else whispered. "Am I dreaming ?" "My darling," he said, gently, clasp- ing her in his arms, 'you are not dreaming. I am here to love you, to win you back to life, and to make iyou, so happy that we shall both forget the wretched past." He raised her, and the beautiful wan face dropped o11 his breast. She tried to put ter, arms round his neck, but they £ell weak and helpless by her side. "Put my arms round your neck,'dar ling," she whispered; "and if I hay to die let me die 50." Tears ware raining down his face - her weakness touched him as her beauty never could have done, "You shall not die, sweet," he said, "if the strength of a mighty love can bring you baok to life," Then kneeling by her side holding her tightly clasped in his arms he told her the, story: of his love and his sor- row -of his life mince he had lost her. f She was as happy as a lost child ;re- a stored to its mother's arms. a "How strong love, is 1" she whisper- ed to him, "1 feel that 1)11110 you lova ma so dearly, L cinema die." He soothed her with the long -silent musie of loving words until the sweet ayes grew heavy, and then she said: Paul, you will not leave me if I a sleep? Let We wake and lInd you t Ahere," Waking, she found him thele, and his love did for her what the dootor, had said human skill could not do -It brought her bask to life. Once, as Paul was sitting talking to her she held her left band up to him Ivith a smile. 1t was thin and sha- aowy, "Look," she said, " my ring Is get- h ting to large for me," i d litrIrissed the white hand, and the a gold ring. Slie smiled. i t " Paul," aha said, gently, "19110 would think there was such a story attached to my wedding ring?" Tsmay reuovered, and when she was onus more herself Lord Oarlswood de- °lared that he would interfere no more -that she should accompany her hus- band to his own horns, yet still be a0- knowledged as his granddaughter. By that time he bad grown to have a sincere affection, and a warm, true liking for haul. Ile admired his talents and respected his independence, They made a compromise, Imlay went to tor husband, and Lionel remained valth Lord Carlswood as his heir. Paul says laughingle 111a1.,he can spare one son,. for the oltie walls of Ravensdale re- founded with childish laughter and the music of ehitdren's voices. There aro times when Malay is inclined to think that all happened for the best. "1 should never Iwo been either a sensible or a contented woman if I had not suffered," she would say to her husband, with a Smiit% There are tears in her eyes an smiles on her lips when she tells t story of her wedding ring. d� SLAVS TO DOMINATE EUROPE. Ili 9 FEAR OF LIGHTNING STORMS. Nervous Persons Ol'lea Victims or Nec tl leve S11Mcring. The keen suffering which some un- dergo just iu advance of or during a, thunderstorm is of a dual nature. The sense of impending danger alarms and terrifies, but there is also a de- pu•0ssio11 of spirits which is physical and real brought about by sone as yet unknown relation between the ner- vous system and condition of air pres- sure, humidity and purity. The suffer- ing due to depression and partial ex- haustion requires, !from those who are strong, sympathy, rather than ridi- cule. The suffering due to alarm, and fright, however, is unnecessary. It is largely the work of the imagination, To a nervous nature there is some- thing appalling in the wicked, spite- ful gleam of the lightning and the • mash and tumult of thunder. But such a, one should remember that the flash is almost always fate distant, and that thunder can do no more damage than' the low notes of a ohurnh organ. The question is often asked, "Do trees protect?'' ,The answer is that the degrees of protection will very with the character of the tree, and its dis- tance from a water -course. An oat{ ie more 1ieble to Lightning stroke than e. beech. The character of the wood, the aueai of leafage, the extent and depth of root, will determine the lia- bility to stroke. Another question which is often ask - A. Obtuse at the Racial Ileeenstrneta4,1 Now 4:141118 Oii. The Slavonic race in its varioe branohes is increasing more rapidl than any civilized race known in his tory, and we must accept. tile fact 0 thia growth in Europe, as something for the 'present at best, final, and t be arguer! with, or gainsaid, ant's ih London Spectator. The Russian e,npir now numbers 130,000,000 and though these numbere' include Germane in th extre,ne west, land Monguls'in the ex trema east, yet the masses are pair Slays, presenting thu's a homogenate retre in history. But, in addition t: Russia, we have Slavonic offshoots ova a large European area, whiob rendes the future of much more than half Europe certainly Slavonic. The trou in Austria have reminded us of the Slav kingdom of Bohemia, only tha the Geenaao is face to face with the Slav ; he is em in Galicia, in Carinthia and Cariente, while the magyar is sur- rounded by an ever-increasing Slav population in the land of his birth. In the Balkan peninsula it is a case of Whether Slav or Greek will inherit 1aeds, made -desolate, by the Turk, and few who have studied the question in. the light of recent history! can doubt that it will be the Slay. We need not quote the hackneyed saying of Napoleon-" Cossack or re- publican "-,it is more to the point to sayv that, whatever, the future political forma of Europe may be, her actual Fopullttion will be largely, if not pre- dominantly, Slavonic, and that this FIRMNESS NEEDED 13T GIRLS, Beware tae .nem 40'. ln+lo[i 1111,' TIN11y" 136+1 Alna of "Long tau:wring." fou reship,, There is nothing m„r,* murtifyAtg 1.o a girl, if she really cares for the man, than to she 1113(1, ns the monilia grow into years, the Ulan whuin she has grown to regard 05 )101' lover has apparently no intention of tieelariag 1liaaself so in reality, 11 is also ex- ,'CSSively annoying to the girls par- ents, who while they do not earn to put :1 stall to what may ('nd 1n n happy marriage, yet at. the saute time are naturally in0ensi+d at. the conduct of this dallying lover. Marriage is .undoubtedly a very 8011.1.11/38011.1.11/3undertaking, and nut it thing to 10' ru•dted blindly` into. Sad 111 - though some melt have a way of de- ciding very quickly, once and for all nbuut the woman they wish to wed, others are of, much more lingering disposition, 113ot, all the same, there is a limit, or should be a limit, to this type of lingering courtship. To fix a definite limit to the period within which a man 11111) ps honestly' in love with n girl should propose to her is really an impossibility; hut it may be fairly said that wheln a man is con- stantly with a girl, and has had every opportunity of studying her character and disposition, and ascertaining the strength of her affection for him daring the space of 12 months, if he then is "still unable to make up his m,nd to ask her to be his wife, it 1$ better for the acquapnlnnee to far- m: 3(a to. There is a certain class of man to t whom a girl's society is specially pleasant. He gets gradually on terms .B of inlimn°y with a ,certain one, for 3r [bis sort of map le by no means gen- eral in his affections, and that is 1, where the roe.” harm. 101110A In, and • though ho may axe her very much- o may Oven be very meets in love with o her -he will never ask her to be his e wile, for the simple reason, tbat he hs too utterly sellisp ever to sacrifice °', bis much -beloved bachelorhood to what - he is prone to believe is a mere senti- O anent, y This type of mon will never pro- o Close to any girl., though[ he is always loath to give. up the society of one 1•, who has become dearer to him than • any one else except himself', He is really never honestly in love with a u- girl., for he never considers her feel- ings, never thif Lha yin n, mori! nks o - slicalion end bitter disappointment t that may be her lot when, the inevit- able day of separation comas. Some of these nonproposiog gentlemen will when they see that separation 113 necessary -unless matters are brought to a definite conclusion -go ao far ns actually to make a formal offer of reengage, although in (heir hearts the (nuptial eeremany is the very thing they have no intention of going through. It is Always fixed for an ind.ctilnite date. "1 con never marry, ed is whether there 1's danger aboard a large steamship during a thunder- storm. On the contrary, there are few salver places. Sufficient metal with pro - Per superficial area ie interposed in the path of the lightning and its elec- trical energy converted into harmless heat and rapidly dissipated. Accidents occur chiefly beee,use the victims generally place themselves in e the line of greatest strain and thus forth part of the pa' h of discharge. For this reason it is 00" wise to stand under trees, near flagpoles or masts, in doorways, on porches, close to fire- places or near barns. Those who are not exposed in.any of these ways may feel reasonably safe. It should be re- membered, in the event of accident, hat lightning does not always kill. It 3103'6 often results in suspended ani- mation than in emanate death. There - ors, in cape of accident, try, to restore nimation, keep the body warm and end for a physician without delay, MADE 1d1S, FORTUNE. The Prince of Wales while shooting u Austria caused temporary trouble nd ultimately made the fortune of he nearest ladies' tailor, by stipulat- ng that all ladies receiving invita-' ions to shoot with him should Dome n correct shooting costume. This, in , Austria, ooneists of a short skirt, com- et; half way between the knee and ankle, and a short, tight -fitting ,jao- et, with waistcoae of another color, trots of brown leather and a Tryolese at with a feather. None of the la - Les h el just these clothes at hand,, led the tailor had to double his foroe� o supply, them, • fact may mean a different Europe from that lrnow•n In history. .aur where, from the point of view of num- bers, is the counterbalancing element to the Slav to be found? France is sta- tionary, and very nearly so are Spain and Iolttugal. Germany le full, and can only main- tain h501181f in comfort, by reason of the American outlet of her surplus: Austria; ie actually a ground for Slav,' as against Gelman, increase, Italy, like Germany, and her surplus over the Athletic. The.great future of Eng-; lish•peaking people is not in Europe, but in America and the southern map. The Norpe people are hemmed in by 1arren lands and are probably in-' creasing fetter in :the northwest of the UnitedMta,tes than at home. Now, if we set against these facts the eel nal growth of Russia herself, the increase of Slays in central :Europe, and the ei•oba.hle future of the Slava in the Balkan peninsula, w6 cannot fail to see that within a measured period, the Slavonio element in European society, will prepondere,te in the balance, ' What effect will ship mete r6con- struction of Europe exert ,en mankind? It will be et long time before we shall. realize that if we want to find the' groat mute of the historic peoples el, Europe, we shall .have to look beyond Europe, to Teutonic North America,, to Latin SouiliAtnerioa, to Teutonic Ana- t1'e.hlsia., Yet 1 his tvill,so far as ono can 566, certainly be the ease within another century, assuming 111e pees ent general drift of things to onntinue.! FLIPPANT. She threw him over because sbo heard he wee a bad penny.' Then that shows, I sup'.p05e, that she didn't case a flip about him. dear. during my mother s life 1 says I one. The said lady Is, perhaps, a hale and hearty woman of about 50, and. as 1 she may he quite ma50nnbly expect- ed to survive another 25 years, it is a form of engagement which, while very pleasing to the man, is execs- . oively unfair to the girl. Others put i off marriage until a certain: income is secured to them, and this income i always a thing of the future. I fact, !there is no and to the excuse which men of this stamp make to avow tying the knot that cannot be undone and at the same t.me are, in their utter asl ishneas, averse to losing the rem BURIED AS SEA. til'lnl Tales 1N' 1'1111@71113 on Soars /treat Oeean•I40t6g 7e4ee1,4, There is no place where death is more univi+lcoul6 than +an board a taxmen gar steamer; and between the death and burial of u sea -traveller the molau- (holy iufluenee of the 07(91 I. text undo to every one on board. Tile limitations of space are very likely responsible dA Part for this, for there is the feelings thief until the body has been east into the, at•1ns of the sea there is no get- ting away Prow it. Sailors dread u deaths on board their vessel as 1011011 as anything and when ono moues. they are all anxiety to ren- der the body the lust service; and this fart Is ffequeutly 1.0alioneibte for the haste and *leant consideration with which burials at sea are too often con- ducted. 13ut 111e cey$ o1 au011 cere- monies are fast dying, and efforts are now being made which will permit of a body being rarrled for the remainder of the journey utter death, and pro- perly buried oa land. Even now it is generally only sail- ors and steerage passengers who are buried aL sea, and frequently these are CAST TO THE WAVES without so much as the vessel being slowed down, and within an hour or 1tv0 of their death. Often enough a death o0cu1,5 in a vas - eel without the taut becoming known to more than one or' two of 1110 mew or steerage passengers, Every effort is made to keep the event morel, and in the stilluess of night, when better class palss8agers are comfortably curled up to 1118(1 hunks, a little band of mon, moving like shadows aeruss the deck. bear 0 body from below, and while the vessel is ploughing the sea; the mortal remains w, apped In canvas, or enclosed 111 a dely made 110x, are quietly slillp- ed twee' the ship's side into the mys- terioutsrudeelr. The presence of a dead body on board hap sometimes not 87011 been suspected by the passengers until SUMO one has n01i0eel tiro rebuke Mat are following; for it is n0 mere sailor's story that sharks know when n alter coutalna a corpse. A vessel carrying a dead body and passing; through waters frequent ed by sharks is almost sure to be fol lowed by One u1 0101'0 04 those fishes it LL does not out -slued them. Rather than bury a 0011180 while sharks am following u vessel, the cap- tain will ,sometimes have the body plac- ed in the ice-abarnber and fall steam put on the engines until the hungry fishes have dropped astern completely, lu one cash at least a body 1va5 ac- tually cremated on board by the cap- Lair's orders BECAUSE OI' THE SHARKS. But sharks are not often obstacles to prompt burial nod„ generally speak- ing, when a death omens al sea the body is slipped into the &titer at night with none to w'itne8S the proceedings but a couple of the crew•and the cap - lain, who reads an abridgment of the service from the Prayer Book. The manner of burial, of course, de, pends greatly upon the captain's own feelings in respect to the dead, and it must be acknowledged that these feel- ings are in some oases all that should be. Some captains have- the greatest objection 10 "dumping" a dead body ' nt0 the sea, and when it is unavoid- able will do their uttermost to conduct the ceremony with all possible ravera time and respect. For all that, there is always the feel - ng of the ship's Drew and the melan- choly effect of the presence of a,aorps° to be r'eekoned with and the argumant 5 d ' nlansing Perhaps after ell, the best guide a j: girl can .have In aurae matters is her 1 own instinct, ,After a certain period c of friendship with a men a girl will 6 most likely instinctively know if he is really honestly in love with her and 1 wants her hie IYLfe, Then to he sure, if there •1110 temporary eUfCicui- ties to a marxiage, as there ofttimes are, she will willingly wait for him, happy in the certainty Ot his love ; but if, on the other hand he belongs to that entirely 56111811 and contemp- tible class of then who do not wish to give in girl. 3.10, but have no inten- tion of marrying her, the acquaintance should be tamale Led at once, and for, ever. This might be hard to do in some aaa05. ,But it: might also bring 1110 recreant to terms. haat more consideration Is due to the iving than the dead often prompts a *bale Lo " dump " a al eerago passen- er in the dead of night without men- ioning tho event to more than a cou- de of hands. Thus it often happens that while a concert or a private theatres' perfor- mance is going on 13( 1110 saloon, the captain is engaged making arrange- ments for the burial of seine unfor- tune,te creature, , THE CAUSE OF IT, h OargMin Saye 4 3)83ehl4 the Legs Win n Pause Appen diel! Is. I1 was recently announced by awell- kuown medical man that the reason men suffer s0 muuli from dyspepsia is becauee.tate stowed' is orowdod out of im5iliohl and cannot readily perform s pi'npe1' functions. Now comes a 1rgeou, u'ho pule Ionised the sug- cation that appendicitis is 00(1111100 ,'cans.. of the habit of seting with one leg thrown over the other, Many causes have bean quoted Pot app133ltd tis but. none has SU, isfart0.r- ily explained wily men should more frequently suffer from the disease au women. " The habit of siting with he legs crossed,:' ant's the surgeon, reetri0ts the option of the digestive ypa'tttns, especially of the lower fn - aline, and 00tiee5 stagnation of the collimate and the stretching oP the opening of the vermiform appendix making it poseiblo for ob5tru011ons to roach the latter organ and thus caus- ing append/elite. The appendix is only loosely attached to the mecum, the portion where the small intestine 3oitu, tho large intestine, and there {a -al- &enys solve half-digested food in the lame brag. 11y 010ssing the fogs, ane it is generally the right log that is nett upon the ateetoh, the undigested food passes into the vermiform uppan- dix and sets- tip a1 inllamntatiun, In the space of a few hours pathotogiaaj ptrocosses set in and an attaok of a;ppendi0itis has been deve'ioped," TREACHEROUS LONG WORDS, Are you quite sure that your ort.ho• graph,' is absolutely corre d: a asked tire old friend. I don't know, answered airs. Cum - rex, apprehetetheely. T hope it'll do. I don't see how 1: eau find Odle to start in now and study: natural his- iary, TRUE GENIUS. Iiia -That fellow Jenks is a &•.)ever, ingenious chop, isn't 11e? it Dixx-Why, 1 13e701' heard of his s doing anything remarkable, 11ix-Thais ,just R. He manages to get along nicely without doing any- thing. ONE MAN'S VIEW OF 1'C, This'papor, said -elrs. Repeals, tells to of a man who actually folgol he was married. Memory, retorted kbr. 1+)npeck, ie a ail good thing, but there are times when to forgetfulness is beptter, .sty ti:if ,'y3,u• tri:. too `-re ..r at 4.0=0' • ▪ �.- ��- ornicEtts WATCliihi0 '11111 ENEMY PROP" A CAPTJV BA:LL+OON,