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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-1-5, Page 2f, TEE . RUSSEL IN THE MIDST OF ALARMS BY P OBBI%%T BABD, Ill "LIPPINCOTT'$ MAGA.ZINf.i Say ! elie'a in love with ?one other fellow. I found that mole promo." You asked) ,lpres "Well, it's my profession to sad things nub; and, naturally, if I do that for my .ppaper it is not likely thab I am going to be behmdhand when it come$ to myself. She denied it at first, but admi tted it after ward$, end then bolted, "You meet have used great toot and de"imoy." " See hem, Renmark, I'm not going to stand any of your sneering. I told you this was a sore subject with me. Pm not telling you because I like to, bet because I have to. Don't Put me in fighting humor, Mr. Renmark. If I talk fight I won't be. gin for no reason and then beak out for no reason. I'll go on." to take book "I'll be discreet, and beg all I said, What else?" " Nothing else, Isn't that enough? Ib was more than enough for me—at the time, I tell you, Renmark, T sponb a pretty bad half.hour sitting on the fence and thinking about it." " So long as that?" Yates rose from the fire-Indignautly. " I take that back too," oried the Pro. Moor, hastily. " I didn't mean it." "It strikes nee you've become awfully funny all of a midden. Don't you think it's about time we took to our bunks? It's ate." Renmark agreed with him, but did not turn in. He walked to the friendly fence, laid his arms along the top rail, and gazed at the friendly stars. He had not noticed You are too good, Ronny, therefore duh and how lovely the night was, with its impress - uninteresting. Now, there is nothing a ire stillness, as if the world had stopped as woman likes so much as to reclaim a a steamer stops in mid•ocean. After quiet. man. It always anaoya a woman to know ing his troubled spirit in the restful stars, that the man she is interested in has a past he climbed the fence and walked down the withwhichshehas had nothing todo. Ifheis road, taking little hoed of the direction. wicked and she eau sort of make him over, The still night was a soothing companion. like an old dress, she revels in the process.. He Dame at last to a sleeping village of She flatters herself she makes a nen wooden houses, and through the oentre of man of him, and thinks she owns that new the town ran a single line of rails, an man by right of mauufaoture. We owe it iron link conneoting the unknown to the sex, Renny, to give 'ern a chance at hamlet with all civilization. A red reforming us. Ihave koownmen who hated and a green light glimmered down tobacco take to smoking merely to give it the fine, giving the onlyiadication that a up joyfully for the sake of the woman they train ever same that way. As he went a loved. Now, if a man is perfect to begin mile or two farther, the pool breath of the with, what is a dear ministering angel of a great lake made itself felt, and after cross. woman to do with him? Manifestly, noth' ing a field he suddenly name upon the Mg. The trouble with you, Renny, le that water, finding all farther progress in that you are too evidently ruled by a good and direction barred. Huge sand dunes formed well-trained conscience, and naturally all the shore, covered with sighing pines. At women you meet intuitively see this and the foot of the dunes stretched a broad have no use for you. A little wiokednese beaoh of firm sand dimly visible in contrast would be the making of you." with the darker water, and at long toter- • "Do you think, then, that if a man's vale on the sand fell the light ripple of the impulse is to do what bis conscience tells languid summer waves running up tate himis wrong, he should follow his impulse beach with a half -asleep whisper that be. and not his conscience 9" " You state the case with unnecessary seriousness. I think that an occasioned blow-out is good for a man. Bob if you ever have an impulse of that kind, I think you should give way to it for once, just to see how it feels. A man who is too good, getscone-abed about himself." "I half believe you areright, Mr.Yatea," said the profeaeor, rising. "I will ant on your advice, and, as you put it, see how it feels. My conscience tells me that I should congratulate you and wish you a long and happy life with the girl you have—I won't say chosen, but tossed up for. The natural man in me, on the other band, urges me to break every bone in your worthless body. -Throw off your coat, Yates." Oh, I say, Renmark, you're orazy." "Perhaps so. Be all the more on your guard, if you believe it. A lunatic is some- times dangerous." " Oh, go away. You're dreaming. You're talking in your sleep. What 1 fight? To- night7 Nonsense?" "Do you want nee to strike you before you are ready?" "No, Renny, no. My wants ate always modest. I don't wish to fight at all, espe- cially to night. I'm a reformed man, I tell you. I have no desire to bid good -by to my best girl with a blank eye to -morrow." "Then atop talking, if you can, and de- fend yourself." "It's impossible to fight hero in the dark. Don't flatter yourself for a moment that I am afraid. You just spar with yourself and geblimbered up while I put some wood on the fire. This is ton ridiculous." Yates gathered up some fuel, and managed to coax the dying embers into a blaze. "There," ho said, "that's better. Now let me have a look at you. In the name of wonder, Renny, what do you want to fight me for, to -night?" "I refuse to give in reason." "Then I refuse to fight. I'll run, and I can beat you in a foot -race any day in the week. Why, you're worse than her father. Heat least let me know why he fought me." "Whose father ?" "Kitty's father, of course,—my future fabher•in-law. And that's another ordeal ahead of me. 1 haven't spoken to the old man yet, and L need all my Eghting grit for that:" What are you talking about ?" "Isn't my language plain? It usually is," "To whom are you engaged ? As I understand your talk, it is to Miss Bart. lett. Am I right?" ltighb as rain, Renny. This fire ie dying down again. Say, can't we postpone our traces until daylight? I dont want to gather any more wcod. Besides, one of ore is sure to be knocked into the fire and thus ruin whatever is left of our clothes. What do you say?" Say 9 I any 1 am an idiot.' Hello 1 reason ie returning, Renny. I perfeotly.agree with you." " Thank you. Then you did not pro. pose to liar—to Miss Howard 7" "D: ow you touch upon a sore spot, Ren - mark, that I am etrying to forget. You remember the unfortunate tosieup ; in fact, I think you referred to it a moment ago, and you were justly indignant about It at the t!me. Well, I don't care to talk muoh about the sequel, but, as you know the be. ginning, yon will have to know the end, because I want to wring a second promise. from you. You are never to mention this episode of the loos•up or of my confesaioe to any living nous, The tellhug of it might do harm, and it couldn't possibly do any good. Will you promise 7" "Certainly. But do not tell me unless Arm wish to." "1 don't meetly yearn to talk about it, bat Itis better youthould understand how the lend Hee, 00 you won't make any mit• Mho, Not on my account, you know, but I would not like it to come to Kitty's ears, Tee, 1roposed 10 biargerct—first, She Wouldn't look et me. Con you credit that?" "Well, now that you mention ib, I "Deadly. I eta you Han areditib, Well, I couldn't at first, but Margaret knows her CHAPTER N1IV. "il'atee stood for a moment regarding the a9Ojeoted attitude of hie friend. "Hello, old man," lie cried, "you have then -met hark•from'the.tambe' appearance 1 ever saw. '+ Wheb's the matter?" .' Renmark looked up. " 0h, it's yen, le it?" " 0f course it's h Been expecting any body oleo 1" " No, I have been waiting for you, and thinking of re variety of things." " You look It, Well, Renny, °migrate - late me, my bay.She's mine, and I'm hers, —which is two ways of stating the same delightful feet, I'm up in a balloon, Renny,' I'm engaged to the prettiest, sweetest, and most delightful girl there is from the At- lantic to the Peotfie. What d'ye think of that? Say, Renmark, there's nothing on earth like ie. You ought to reform and go in for being in love, It would make a man of you, Champagne isn't to be compared to it. Get up here and dance, don't sit hero liken bear nursing a )ore paw. Do you cam• preheud that I ant to be married to the darliugest girl that lives ?" "God help her!" "That's what I say. Every day of her life, bless her 1 But I don't say It quite in that tone,' Renmark. What's the ,natter with you ? One would think you were in love with the girl yourself, if such a thing were possible.' "Wily is it not possible?" "If that is a conundrum I can $newer it the first time. Because you are a fossil. t a put it t t t i fe o i will 0 Do nk w 1 anti l off solo g2" " Safer than trying to got away during bhe day. After breakfast I'nl going down to the Bartlett homestead. Most have a talk with the old folks, yen know, X'11 Spend the rest of the day makingp��a for that interview by talking with Ribby, Stoliker will never search for me thorn, and now Nett he thiflke I'm gone he will likely make a visit to the tent. Stoliker is a goo fellow, but his strong pointle duty, you. know, and if he's certain l'm m gone he'll give lire country blie worth of tta money by searching. I wont be back for dinner so you can put in your titno reading my dime novels, I make ;lo refleotione on your (looking, Renny, now that the vaoabion is over, but I have my preferences, and they incline towards a final ,Heal with the Barblotte, If I were yon I d havoaliap, You look tired ob." "" I am," seed the professor. Renmark intended to lie down for a few moments until Yates wee olearof the Damp, after which he determined to pay a visit; but Nature, when she got him leaked up in sleep, took her revenge, He did not lame Stoliker and his satellite) search the prem. ,see, just as Yates had predicted they would, and when he finally awoke he found, to his astonishment, that it was nearly dark. But he was all the better for his sleep, and he attended to his per. soual appearance with more than ordinary care, Old Hiram Bartlett aooepted the 'situ- ation with the patient and grim stolidity of a man who takes a blow dealb him by a Providence which he knows Is'inearuteble. What he had done to deserve awes beyond this time was ei lateen,. tett and the hiscomprebension. Hesilentiyhitoheduphieg pretty, apple of her father's eye ; rather a clever little person, who, having left school,want ed now to go to college. But she did not understand money matters, and became, under the presentoiscumstanoes,jnet a libtle annoying to her papa. For her remarks were perfunctory and childish ; and A C�et1y of Errors. CHAPTER I. 7XXn 7801X09000. Mus, Farquhar was thirty pare younger than her hueband. The fact, originally a pleanm'e to him, became afterwards an offenoo, and he quarrelled with her for no better reason. At least, so said Mr. Nevill, his cousin ; and so said every one et all acquainted with the barmlese lady. Old John i'arquhar died at seventy.aix, and lefb his widow nob opepenny of money. And hat' son, young John—as good a boy as over was seen, a smart young soldier, who had never offended his father all n year ago, and then only by over -warm in- tereession for his mother --found himself out down to a plttauoe of two hundred a year. la hila, on the other hand, Mr. Nevill's daughter, little 3805108., Whom no one knew, and who was totally ineignifi cant, beoame the possessor of a house, and. a park, and a heated thousand pounds. It was scandalous. Of course gentle biro. Farquhar pried herself i11, and said it was all her fault; and of course young John was aghast, and be- lieved himself on the workhouse threshold, Rut Mr. Nevill took the matter more to heart than did either, and hie very hair stood on end wibh dismay ; for be was an extremely high•souled geutlem an,h orrified to think a member of his household should pro- fit by such monstrous injustice. Jessica at horses, and for the &ret time in Ma life drove into Fort Erie without any reasonable excuse for going there, He tied his team at the usual corner, after which he eat at ono of the taverns and drank strong waters that had no apparent effect on him., He even went so far as to smoke two native cigars ; and a man who can do that can do one momeab elle was building wt anything. To bring up a daughter who her wealth some extravagant castle in would deliberately accept a man from "the Spain, and the next clamoring to pack States," and to have a wife who would aid it all up in a parcel, .and send it -off by and abet such an action, giving comfort post to her cousin John. Clearly, however, and support to the enemy, seemed to him there was bub one comfortable solution of traitorous to all the traditions of 1812 or the difiiotlty; the heiress mutt marry. John any other date in the history of the two Farquhar, ands° restore to him his mberi countries. Ab times, wild ideas of getting Canoe. This project was the simultaneous blind full and going home to break every invention of both bfr. Nevill and the widow. breakable thing in the house rose in Ifs mind, but prudence whimpered that he had to live all the rest of his life with his wife, and he realized that his scheme of vengeance ,pari did not altegothor like' the part he i fl i rfelt 1 in this he Was playing t mar, f0 himself turned into an object of cola• passion, the role least seined to en Eng- lishman ; and, ntoreover, the male animal relinquishes with a had grace hie privilege of wooing. Still, he hoped for the best, having heard that Jessioa was pretty ; and ice was enamored of getting his position m- etered and his few debts paid ; besides which, he wanted to please his mother and to make her oomfortable. For John was Xooantioally devoted to hie mother, and she was in ill health, and altogether unifb to Dope with poverty and disuppointtmoub The wedding was fixed for the 8umnn, and the Outline were to be intloduoed in the summer. Just now it was spring. And, alas !-- In the spripg a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of to lo, John Farquhar. the engaged man, was not sutfloiently alive to this springtime danger in whish he stood. (TO na coMTaxvSn,) It was propounded to John, who, after a little hesitation, and having no fancy for the workhouse, agreed. Provisionally that is a in Jessica's interest he inserted in the bad its drawbacks. Finall he untied ma treaty a saving clause. "If," he wrote, patient team, after paying his bill, and "'your daughter is perfectly willing; at drove silently home, not having returned, present, and when we shall have become even by a nod,any of the salutations ten et. ed to him that day. He was somewhat re. hayed to find no questions were fasked,aand John says is admirable. Yon are to be that Ms wife racohafaed the not hecongratulated on our husband, Jessica• was passing through a ornan: a eyerbhoose g y there was a steely glitter in the eye he on. Sits down, my dear, and write him a cordial r easily quailed under, which told him a line eepnnee.' Jessica obediently took a pen and wrote f acquainted." Very proper," commented Mr. Nevill ; ""wild not be more proper. Every word came softer and softer until it was merged had been reached which it would not be in the aflenoe beyond. Far out on the well for him to groes. She forgave, bub it dark waters, a point of Light like a floating mustn't go any further. star, showed where a steamor was slowly When Yates kissed' Kitty good-nipht at making her way, and so still was the night' the gate he asked her, with some trepida that he felt, rather than heard, her pul-tion whether she had told any one of their sating engines. It was the only sign of life engagement, visible from that enchanted bay,—the bay No one but Margaret," said Kitty. of the silver beach. " And what clid she say ?" asked Yates, Renmark threw himself down. on the soft as if, after all, her opinion was of no impor- eand at the foot of a dune. The point of tante. light gradually worked its way to the west, " She said she was sure I should be happy, following, doubtless unconsciously, the star d 1 k would be a good hum of empire, and disappeared around the headland, taking with it a certain vague sense of companionship. But the world is very small, and a man is never quite as mach alone as he thinks he ie. Renmark heard the low hoot of an owl among the trees, which cry he was astonished to bear. answered from the water. He eat up and listened. Presently there grated on the sand the keel of a boat, and some one stepped ashore. From the woods there emerged the shadowy forma of three men. Nothing was said, but they got silently into the boat, which might have been Oharon's matt for all he could see of it. The rattle of the rowlooke and the plash of oars followed, while a voice cautioned the rowers to snake leas noise. It was evident that some belated fugitives were eluding the authoribisa of both oonatries. Renmark thought with a smile that if Yates were in his place he would at least give them a fright. A sharp command to an imaginary company to load and fire would travel far on such a night, and would give the rowers a few moments of great discomfort. Ren - mark, however, did not shout, but treat- ed the episode as part of the mysti- cal dream, and lay down on the sand again. He noticed that the water in the east seemed to feel the approach of day even before the sky. Gradually the day dawned, a slowly -lightening gray at first, until the coming sun spattered a filmy cloud with gold and crimson. Renmark watched the glory of the sunrise, took one lingering look at the curved beauty of the bay shore,shook the sand from hie clothing. and sterted back for the village and the camp beyond. The village was astir when he reached it. He wasanrprised to see Stoliker on horse- back in front of one of the taverns. Two assistants were with him, also seated on horses. Tho oonetable seemed disturbed by the sight of Renmark, but he was there to do hos duty, " Hello t" be cried, "you're up early. I have a warrant for the arrest of your friend : I suppose you won't toll me where he is?" " You can't eepeot me to give any infer. mai ion that will get a friend into trouble,. can you ?--eapeolally ae he has done nothing." , That's as may turn out before a jury," said one of the as+istante, gravely. "Yes," asseuted Stoliker, winking quiet- ly at the professor. "That is for judge and jury to determine,—nob you." "Well," said Renmark, "I will not in. form on anybody, oleos lame ompmlled to, but I may save you some trouble by telling where I have been and what I have seen, I am on my way batik from the lake. If you go down there yen still see the mark of a boat's keel on the sand, and probably foots prints. A boat came over from the oche shore in the night and a man got on board - I don'tsay who the man was, and I had nothing to do with the matter in any way except as a spectator. That is all the in formation I have to give. Stoliker turned to his asalebante, and nodded. "What did I tell your" he asked. "We were right on his track." "You said the railroad," grumbled the the man who had spoken before. "Well, we were within two miles of him. Let us go down to ths lake and see the traces. Then:we Can return the warrant," Renmark found Yates still asleep' in the tont. Ire prepared breakfast without dim barbing him, When the meal tees ready he roused the reporter and told him of the meeting with Stoliker, advising him to get beak to New York without delay, Yates yawned sleepily. "" Yoe," he said, " I've been dreaming. it all out. 1'11 of father•fn•law to tote mo ""My dear Cousin,'' with afull stop after ft."" What, my love, is the matter ?" inguir• ed her father. Jessioa threw down the pen and began. to cry. Then it came out. "1 don't want to marry John Farquhar," sobbed Jessioa. Mr. Nevill bit life lip impatiently de- manded reasons, and Jessica found it supremely hard to make them intelligible. c" I don't want to marry till I'm ab least bn she new you twentwyeight papa. I shouldn't mend if I band. ere an old meld. I want 10 go 10 Girton, She's rather a nioo girl, ie Margaret," a , and to be—to be cultured. I mean, remarked Yates, with the air of a roan Ba 1' willing to conoeds good qualities to a girl I want to be superior." other than his own, but indicating, after You must try to express yorfrself more all, that there was but one on earth for clearly," said Mr. Nevill. him. "Papa," said Jcssiea, who till this " She is a lovely girl," said Kitty, en- moment had imprisoned her aspirations' thusieatically. I wonder, Diok, when in her breast, and who though elle you knew her, why you ever fell in love loved her father dearly, was not much with me." in the habit of talking to Mtn—.papa, " The idea ! I haven't a word to say and now Stecolla ne vis a so stoumarriet, and at Nae eo against Margaret ; but, compared with my much to do, and she always seems so tired girl--" of her husband, and so tired of babies, and And he finished his sentence with a pram every one thinks her so 'stupid." Meal illustration of his frame of mind. "You have not yet made your meaning As he" walked alone down the road ho clear, ;legatee," said Mr. Nevill• reflected that Margaret had acted very handsomely, and be resolved to drop in and I should muoh rather be like dear Miss wish her good -by. But ae he approached. Snow, who is always so nicely dressed, and the house his courage began to fail him, and who reads so much, and writes for the he thought it better to sit on the fence, Sunday at Homs, papa. 1 mean, .whab ie near the place where he had sat the night the good ofmarrying at all?" Dried Jessica. before, and think over it. It took a good , "And if ever I do get married, I want to deal of thinking. But as he sat there it was marry a—person—whom I esteem and— destined that Yates should receive some worship." HereJossicacolored. information which would simplify mattsra. I Mr. Nevill explained that she was at full Two persons came slowly out of the gate in liberty to worship John Farquhar, but that the gathering darkness. They strolled to. she must not keep him ten yeara waiting gether up the road .past him, absorbed in for his money ; and then he advised her to themselves. When directlyoppoaite, Rem ' go on with her letter. mark pat his arm around Margaret's waist, 1 Jessica tried agate. " But John Far - and Yates nearly fell all the fenoe. He held quhar seems quite an ordinary pereon,papa, his breath until they were safely out of and I don't suppose I shall find it the least hearing, then slid down and crawled along possible to esteem and to worship him." in the shadow until he came to the side- t " Then you had better love him,". said road, up which he walked, thoughtfully Mr. Nevill dryly --"that will does well.' pausing every few momenta to remark, I Jessica grew very pink. "Papa, I Well, I'll be --v but speech scorned to could only esteem and worship and—and' have failed li.im; he could get no further. I —here she blushed furiously— love any He stopped at the fenoe and leaned against ono who was quite my ideal in every single it, gazing for the last time at the tenoway." glimmering white, like a misshapen ghost,' Mr. Nevill puton his spectacles and star among the sombre trees. He had no energy ed. " Jessica, are you thinking of Mr. left to climb over. Hobson?" "Woll,I'm a chimpanzee," he muttered (Jnr. Hobson, the curate, had made asud- to himself at last. "lhe highest bidder can den prosposal for Jessica two months ago, have me, with no upset price. Dick Yates, and had been declined with a few tears.) I wouldn't have behaved it of your You a " 1'apa, you know 1 hate Mr. Hobson." newspsper.man? You a reporter from 'way I I know nothing of the sort' said her back? You up to emir? Yates, I'm ashamed father testily. ""Are you thinking of Sir to be seen in your company. Go back to Edgar Lee?' New York, and let the youngest reporter , "Papa, Sir Edgar has never so muoh as in from a country newspaper scoop the day- asked ere, and I bete him worse oven than light out of you. To think that this thing Mr.Of whom are you thinkfna?° has poen going on right under your well de. SEERIn° A WAR1d. ROUST. JANUARY Di, 1$94 BRIO AND IIiTEREOTIIiG'• England has 4,000 idle clergymen, Wesson of rank go bareheaded in Maxieo Most workers in Switzariandlabanr %bon eleven ileum a day. Only fl per pent. of 08000 of amputation are fatal, Manner or Fliglit and the Speed Made by Migratory lairds. Nearly all the native Canadian. summer birds make migratory jjeurneys southward at the approach of wiliTer,. A few of the varieties, such as the Swallow family, leave a$ early as the latter part of August. As son as the young are able to leave the nest much time le spent on the wing by those birds that have bhe fall journey to make, and when the breeding ime is well over they bunch into troops, having a holiday time feasting on the new crop of seeds and enjoying the fine weather, Children all grown up, no household oar'ee, the young rejoicing in the use of their developing pinions, they frisk and flutter, scour the surrounding country, but no one sees them leave. Singularly enough, the warblere. make these journeys in the night, That noisy and now unwelcome and voracious pat,, the English sparrow;' is nob migratory, so far as autumn journeys pertain to im- migration. They were imported to Nue, a strange climate to them,. and have nob learned to leave with the 'approach of winter. VS Nether or not they are an in. seotivoroue bird in their native isle, they certainly could not be otherwise than granivorous here in the winter. They are hardy, pugnacious and aggressive, well typifying the peculiar characber of the Briton. The catgut in tennlo raoket0 le made from the entrails of sheep, The island of Malta fe the most deuseiy populated spot op earth. Two'thirds of the gold now in use in the world was discovered during the last fifty A puzzle to the scientist R to solve the problem of where the energy can come from to sustain the expenditure`9of force involved in many occasions of bird flight. That a diminutive bit of stomaoh, charged with a few seeds as fuel, should generate a force to cleave the air, eontinuoualy bear- ing the body forward at a rapid rate for hours and sometimes days, seems incred- ible. No land or water locomotion can compete with it. A goose, swan or duck may start from Labrador and snorer than an express train could do the distance, many reach tate everglades of Florida. And this is probably done on lees than the equivafeut of half a peek of corn. We understand the physics of their motion, we can grasp both the mathematics and the mechanics involv- ed in the wing movement, but how this necessary energy R conserved is a matter that simply confronts our researches with defiance. years. Pawnbrokers are not 00085 1m take wine and opirlts in pawn. The Czar's Royal yacht, the Polar . Star, oosb over 91,000,000 sterling, Three persons are eromatod, on an aver• ago, every week at Woking, Englund, Thirteen million four hundred thousand Bank of England notes are issued yearly. Ap mullet says that seemly one in toren ty of watphmakers suffers from weak eyes The Greek Church employe two rings in the marriage oeremony—one of gold, the other of silver. The longest artificial watsr.course in the world is the Bengal Canal, 000 miles; the nextfe Erie, 303. Paoli cost nearly 810,• 000,000. Some of the healthiest children in the world are found be the Scottish Highlands. where shoes are seldom worn at an earlier age than twelve and thirteen. Itis said that pansy leaves, spread among ftor o and woollens, will protect them from 2moths, The United State% have 245 life.saving stations -181 on the Atlantic, 48 on the Lakes, 18 on the Pacific, and ono ab the Ohio Fella, Louisville, Ky. The slag that accumulates aboub iron furnacee, and that heretofore has been a great nuisance, bee been discovered to con- tain valuable fertilising qualibies and the German farmers are using it freely. Mr. Sime Reeves, it is said, receives 30s, per hour for teaching' at the Guildhall School. This is in addition to the fees he receives from pupils. Statistics show that 23,010,000 inhabit- ants of the United States are maintained by -agriculture, 15,620,000 by manufac• burse. Ousters of glover, if hung in a room and left to dry and shed their perfume through bus ab, will drive' away more flies than sticky saucers of tressle and other flytraps and fly -papers can ever oollecb•. In Germany, when the vote of the jury stands six against six, the prisoner is acquit- ted. A vote of seven against five leaves bhe decision to the court, and in a vote of eight against four the prisoner is convicted., A frog cannot breathe with its mouth open. Its breathing apparatus is co arrang' ed that when iia mouth is open its nostrils are closed. To suffocate a frog it is 010055' sary to prop its. jaws so that they oannob %hub. A lady physician attends the (,nesse of Corea, and receives pay at the rate of A'5,- 000 a year. When the queen is siok the eatery stops, and of course the physiofan,ab such time, feels almost as wretohed as her noble patient. A rainmaker now operationg in India has an apparatus consisting of a rocket capable of rising to the height of a mile, containing a reservoir of ether. In its descent it opens a parachute, whfoli causes R to come down slowly. The other is thrown out in a fine spray, and its absorp- tion of heat is said to lower the temperature about it sufficiently to condense the vapour and produce a limited shower. While making some excavations beneath a ohuroh in the Prussian town of Anger - burg, the workmen made a horrible dieoov' sty—a small walled -in space in which' they found a human skeleton a broken -chair, and the remain of a helmet and $pair of w boots. The walla bore marks as of finger- nail scratches, and there was other evi- dence that some person had been walled in alive. One versed in ornithology should know the kind of bird in its flight and walk, as wall se if in hand. Each family of birds. has a wing -stroke peculiar to its class. Buz. zards apd the familiar chicken -hawks k11y in circles, with the wings outstretched and still much of the time. The crow affects a peculiar swagger in its walk. A quail and pheasant can not sustain a long flight. Owls have a light -bounding movement, as if much lighter than the air. Nearly all small birds flyby jerks, and, of course, rise and fall, and these also bop when on the ground. Woodpeckers open and close their wings when they fly, the line being a series of rising and falling curves. Larks walk. The killdeer is a runner and when not on the not is never at met. The hum. ming bird has a wing stroke almost as rapid as that of some inseots, but this can noc be muoh prolonged. The grain and grass eaters are the speediest and sustain the longest Rights. Birds of prey all have a wide base of brain, largo combativeness and destructiveness, and very few are the kinds that deserve destruction. own mind, there's no question about t hat out to Fort L+ tie to.nighb." veloped hose and you never saw it,—worse, never had the faintest suspicion of it,— thrust at you twenty tines a day,—nearly got yo .r stupid head sinaehod on account f it and yet bleated away like the "I am not thinking of anyone," ")f'xouse me, my dear. You called him your ' ideal,' 1 think," "" He isn't any one," murmured Jessica. o it,—and The Battle Ship of the Future. The battle ship of the future will, like a human contrivances, be of gradual growth, resulting from the adaptation to her usel of improvements and discoveries in many branohes of science. Under the crucial teat of war it may found that many mistakes have been made. If I should venture to point out one of +hese, it would be the multiplicity of devices which every brmiob of physioo,l science bas contributed to over. crowd our ships. Not that they do not admirably serve their purpose, but T fear that we, as sailors, are growing to rely, upon them, and will be lost when the rude shook of battle breaks our electric wires and diear- rauges the delicate machinery upon which we now depend in a thousand ways. In the main, however, I venture to think that the beetleshipof to -day has a sound reason for all her principal features, and the type will persist. The stability will continuo to be oar -fully protected by veal - nal armor. Many of the ano!dents, both in battle and in times of peace, to wldob gteat chips are liable, will be diminished by the adoption of liquid teol, The main battery will be mounted in turrets furnish- ing complete protection to the guns, and, an far as possible, to the machinery for their manipulation, and for the supply of ammunition. The secondary battery will be protected in proportion to its itnportanoe, while every gun position, with its orew, will be protected against machine and rapid gun fire. The time will never cone tl'hen we shall cease to demand hither require. menta in the beetle ship. Foetnnately, ail requiretnen10 are interchangeable. Armor may be substituted for guns, guns for fuel, so that the 0aviugin one (Motion may at once be utilized in another. The advent of hard.serfaoed %enter will demand that the calilre of the main battery be, maim tainocl;for until projectiles of Brea ter strength can be produced, the only way to overcome Harvey armor 10 to crush it with inn over- whelming blow. In addition to bhie,it will undoubtedly bo found that all armor under the oonetantly-varying angles of impact in battle will furnish groabes'prteebhcto Loon 18 considered possible when judged by the: re. suit of normalimpacton the proving ground. For this reason again, the larger calibre of the gun must be mail:Mined,,and thie,in its turn, determines the greet size of the battle ship of the future, snhjeot to the reed-iotions which have been indicated,—[W, T. ,Samp- sou, Captain, United States Navy. Maud "bid you know that chaperon in Oh, a figment of fancy 7 Then I can't innocent little lamb thatou are, and never allow him to be a rival to John, A fanny 80011 suspected! Dick, you re e. three.eheet- le of no importance." poster fool in colored ink. And to think Oh, papa, it is ! it is l And, besides, that both oF them know all about the first you want, to upset my Whole ilia. I am not roposell—both of theml Well, thank one of those girls' who are alwaye talking even, Toronto is a long way from NOW and imagining about 'falling in love.' 1 rk.,, [Tina loco.] A Shall Hole. John Wenn,trom, aa.ingontous German, „ My Boar; ' aid.ti r. NCViu, "falling in thick all that is such nonsense. I want to go to Girton as Flora Williams did, and learn a great, groat deal, and—and be tem Bible. Oh, I can't explain," ended poor Jessica in despair, has invented and patented amachme which, love not nonsense. It fe very carious ; et first thought, one is apt to tlorinkwetttlldobo noneotully to women, whence judged chiefly as uselose as the fifth wheel u a g... by the way they de it, They teach nothing It is abolo-boring contrivance, That is •my be driven either by foot, hand, or steam and may , about it at Gi toe, I think ? ohicf reason for not ponding you there. But power. The holes drilled by this dainty all this is irrelevant. You need not study instrument aro but one ono•bitousandth of the question in the abstract. You are to an inch fu diameter, and are the smallest I marry -our cousin Johu, and the sooner that man has yet been able to pierce. The ; v maohino has a capacity of 22,000 revolutions' Wrbte y in lave with him the bettor, per minute and is intended, solely for drill. J ss canto lotto" ley love."tie. p Jessica could not make her father under. r ng throng hdiamonds, sapphires,rubles,and stand' that he was trampling on the other practnas etonee, a finest sprouts of her delicate Soul. She, submitted;. and iti the summer John Mamie—" Uncle George fe going tore ism ' Farquhar wap to 0ouho to Nevill .Lodge h wee nunaontlne nnbfominino?" Mario Sister Etta away ab the wedding. Tommy to make hie betrothed brides acquaint- 1! ranr a w .-.."h 1 Leave her palone an' she'll (10 epee.—.Rea— „ wish i had been born hu e; herreelf, )low, it must be confessed, the young ( Fran ee 1liY ? Ilow I BRITISH DEFENCES UNMASKED. . The Pions or pour Important Anglo Indian Ports Taken by a French Spy. Advices just received from Rangoon British Burmah, show that the British Government defences at Aden, Kurraohi, Bombay, and Rangoon are probably as well known now in Paris as they are at the army headquarters in London. The plans of these most important defences of the Indian benpire were secured by a French• mat, who, under a German name, obtained employment as anengineer in the Bj;,'g SE, India service. Last September he obtatc»ed leave of absence at Rangoon, but when he failed to return an investigation was made, which revealed his treachery. ;The dis- closure created great excitement in Ran. goon and Bombay, end there was much cabling between those cities and the Home Office an London, but it was a case of look- ing bbe stable door after the steed was stolen. The man who scoured accurate plans of the fortidcatiou of these four Indian ports was known as Wald. His real name was De Boulanger, and he came of a prominent family in Marseilles. He was educated for the army, and when still under age served in Pondicherry, but it quarrel over a woman forced hun bo leave the colony. He was transferred to Algiers, bub soon tiring, of this hard life,' he came back to India and obtained a position as oorresponding clerk in a Bombay commercial house. While there he tell in with some British officers, and, as he went by the name of Wald and claimed to be a German, he was induced to enlist in the Royal Artillery at Colaba, "Bombay. This was six years ago, He was assigned as gunner at Aden, and it was noted then that he slientmuoh time in his room, making drawings and notes, all of the latter being in French. He was soon transferred to Kurraohi, then to Bombay, end finally to Monkey Point, Rangoon. He was noted at each place for his close oaten - tion to work and his studious habits, At IKnrracbi he gained a place on the stats and became chief clerk, which gave him unlim. hod opportunities for securing information about the defences. He epotic English, French, German, and Italian, and his com- mand of Made:demi and Burmese was per• fecb, - His labors in his room wore supposed, to be supplementary to life regular work and no one suspected that he was a spy ie the service of France. Hisdisa earanee oolnoided with the departure of�1Mins. N— a French woman of Rangoon, and it is thought the couple loft together. At Bombay he bought leo tickets for Paris, but he had already reach- ed the French capital before suspicion was aroused, as he had ouunfuglyapplied for three weeks' furlough, SIX anarohist0 have been expelled from Buenos Ayres,