The Brussels Post, 1894-2-16, Page 2TSU ,BRi:r 011" I S
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THE TROUBLESOME LADY,
and I wouldn't trust Louis's, he'd like to
get any one into trouble, I ant thanktully
fgnoraat of this horrid country : I watlb tc
be: 1 bate O. But you meet coma in and
get dry and have your horse rubbed down,
Whet lovely dog l'
The fat woman, who bed descended the
steps unobserved, Bore interposed anobjoo-
tion, clutching the girl's arm tightly, wad
talking hastily iu whispered French that
sounded like a prolonged hies, so great was
icor wgttattoll .
"Hush up, hagl"'seed the singular young.
Woman, again freeing herself. " And now
do some in for a little while."
She wes bareheaded, and wore soma kind
of a sleazy gown. As the rain was speed-
ily wetting her shoulders, Oliver was forged
to go up under the roof of the verande.
You needn't be shocked,!' she went on,
J7. merrily," ab whet I said to here she does
not know a word of English, and she's
CHAPTER. I. gone and won't come any more. Half the
The steady rain of the fall afternoon had fun I have is calling herher names icee would ao and
oblitereted the mounteene and sunk thetsaying things c
e
' to know —Louie,' take the gentleman's
trail, et best narrow and dangerous, inLo
the bed of an erratic brook. Down this
Craig Oliver'e.fine mere slipped hopelessly,
while his shepherd dog, a masa of disoon-
solate wetness, trotted sullenly behind, his
nose close to the hence; heels. Oliver's nor-
ditroys wore eoaktug, from his sombrero a
stream of water dripped down hie back,
and the damp carcase of a defunt antelope
swung to his saddle became painfully
odoriferous. That very antelope had lured
him to the top of Sisty'e Peak and had tak•
on revenge for the first shot which had
brought its demise.
Craig, naturally hot -tampered and
impatient, swore audibly. He wond-
ered why a man should want to
go hunting in the Rookies ; why
if he did, he could not tell when it was
going to rain,—or did anybody ever know
Colorado weather? why, if a man knew
enough to go to the top of a peak, he could
not Sad his way down. He had no idea
where he was, and night was near at hand:
under the aspens that slapped him merrily
with wet branches as he passed, it was al-
ready dark.
He wondered where Doctor John was,
That ass would make a jest of the matter :
he was offensively personal in his jokes.
He would not think of going to look for a
comrade, --not he, the laziest man in the
world. W hy, then, should Craig Oliver
take meat to Doctor John, aatelope steak
he so favored, brought from the summit of
a cloud -reaching peak? Yet that invidious
doubt of Boater John's 1 there must be
evidence, or he would tell the story of an
imaginary antelope and imaginary shot.
It grew darker,—i f possible, wetter. The
sodden antelope flounced about, and the
dog whined dolefully,
'Coufound you, Mac," criedOliver, "if
you are bored, what meet I be? Do you
think I'm doing this for pleasure? Besides,
you dao shake the rain off your coat, and it
soaps into mine. If I stay outside to -night
it means rheumatism, sure, I'll bet the
doctor is huddling over the fire now with
that infernal pipe of his, and Mike is clean-
ing his boots,—the doctor's boots. I pay
Mike, but he cleans the (looter's boots first,
last, and all the time. Some men have a
faculty of imposition."
The more uncomfortable Oliver became, ceeded to make them acquainted. Skye
the more he thought of his guest snugly instantly became a fluff of growl' and fight ;
ensconced in his hunting -cabin miles away but Mao, with an eanuyeed sigh, stretched
on the Troublesome, --an untrustworthy himself and lay down co rest. He realized
horse and give her good care, None of your
tricks., for Monsieur might this one* like to
be friendly: you never can tell ; he and
Lord Morris were. Monsieur awn be agree.
able, quite lovely to strangers, if he wants
to be."
The man, grumbling to himself, led the
mare to the barn.
"I don't fancy leaving her to hie mercies,"
said Oliver, uneasily, as he watched man
and horse from the porch. "Somehow I
have not overmuch confidence in your
servant."
Isn't he evil looking? Annette,though,
thinks he is beautiful. But Louie will be
good to your horse : he is fond of them, and
a thoroughbred, too, like that one, will
delight him. His liking for horses is the
only human trait he has. Do Dome in, just
a little while : we're not robbers or Bend-
ers, though things are funny. Bring your
lovely dog. Will he fight a little mite of
one 1"
" If he did I'd disown him," smiled
Craig.
She stooped and pinked up a fluffy Skye
terrier, and, holding ib in her arms, led thio
way into a luxuriously -furnished room with
piano and fine pictures, a bright open fire,
and evidences of travel and culture in brio-
a,brae. It was strangely ab variance with
the wild and lonely country oateide, but
oddly natural in Colorado. In the Rookies
the unexpected is always happening : a day -
laborer is often a college graduate waiting
for a stake, or a cowboy may be the son of
an earl acquiring experience.
"If we tried to snare travellers," said
the young lady, coolly, " Louis would
rather hurt our business, his manners are
so bad. This is the den of Monsieur de
Restaud, who came here to avoid the war
with Prussia: he was only a young lad
then, but a born coward ; and his/ father
er
is a colonel in the French army, his
a general. He daren't go back to France.
Sit down. Here's a chair for your coat;
you will feel better dry. I'll excuse your
shirt -sleeves,"
Talking all the while, she set a chair for
his coat, one for himself near the hearth,
and then, kneeling down by the big dog,
she put the Little one on the floor and pro.
"T breakfasted thle morning,".answered
Oliver.
"Well, 1'11 get you eometbiug'to the
Please let met lb's /Moll fun to have a vire.
tor, And don't you mind if yon hoar
growls from the kitchen."
She ran out before Oliver could objeot r'
eo he eat and watched hie etee'ningcoat,
wondering if the proprietor would ahoot on
eight,ids remembered now eoeing the
"mraey Freuohman," en ho was palled in
the valley, a small, wizened creature, look.
ing as if he took morphine, from hie strange
color and the unnatural brightness of hie
eyee. The pity of iti the girl -e. ohild,,
almost—was his wife. Tide le odd, he
thotigfit, "an adventure, end bootee John
will never believe a word of it.. Unfortu•
uatoly, Mrs, de Restaud had left the 'door
ajar, and Oliver -became painfully aware of
her conversation
"Atmette dear, bow I wish the Utes'
would carry you off 'I how tired thoy'd be,.
though, of them bargain I—let me genital
tea. Don't you touch me. Witch I they'd
hung you in Salem days. I am getting
this for the stranger who looks like a bore
one of a book,—a big, broad -shouldered
man; nota little, evil thing, like your dear
Monsieur or your own pet Louie with his
Sing Sing manners, 5uoh a oharmiug
stranger, with the kindest smile- and eyes
that smile too, and a gentleman like I used
to know before 1 was shut up here, Cat,
let the waiter alone 1 I hate your Mon•
sieur !his own father called Mina coward.
Oh, wait, my love, until I pruotise eltoot-
ing : some day I will put a little round
bullet -hole in your lovely cap -frill."
A crash of crockery, the slam of a, door,
and Mrs, do Restaud Dame bank; flushed
and triumphant, with a loaded waiter and
a conquering air.
Cold ham, fresh bread, and tea," she
said, setting it on the table. " it is better
than nothing. I have been on a foraging
expedition and outgeneralted the enemy.
Now do eat. Perhaps you aught to have
whiskey; but Monsieur has the keys."
" I have a flask," smiled Oliver, " but
this tea ie much bebter."
"I think so. And are things niers, truly?"
" The very best, and how good you can
imagine to a man who has fasted since seven
this morning. You see, I was bound to
have that antelope : I was on his trail the
whole day."
It seems cruel to kill the poor little
things," she said, wistfully, " they have
suoh a hard timo in the winter, and the elk
are so starved then they oome down to the
corral to eat hay with the oattle. I would
like to put hay out for them, but I am not
allowed ; and just think, my money has
bought this rapah : it was mortgaged
for all it was worth,—Monsieur spent
everything, you know ; but you don't
know, and think 1 am dreadful."
She ran to the window and looked oub.
"You would not mind," she said, anxious.
ly, " hurrying a little? lvlonsieur ought be
be back any moment. 11 heand his frtenda
have been drinking very much, they are
ugly, especially Monsieur, Oh, I did not
mean you should stop."
"1am through," said Oliver, uneasily.
"It was very nice Indeed ; but I am afraid
I have made you trouble, will do you harm
by being here. Yon must know where
Morris's place is."
"Down the road here somewhere,' bat I
don't know just where. I never was there:
it was not a fit place. Don't you think,"
she went on, feeding his dog scraps from
the waiter -while eke spoke, " that it is
funny of me to talk of my husband to
strangers?"
I don't want to be a ebranger," said
Oliver, gently, 'and you know one could
not live here without hearing something of
—of--"
"The crazy Frenchman."
Oliver put on his coat in silence. The
big shepherd dog loaned hie beautiful head
againeb the girls knee while she fed him,
and little Skye, quite content with a stray
lite now and then, looked on in approval.
Oliver thought he would like to take her in
his arms, as if she were the child she looked.
That pretty little yellow gown, the bright
girl's face, with its saddened look, touched
him sorely. He was not wont to be inter,-
Gated
nter•Gated much in women; those he met were
of two classes, and this ohildWAS of neither
elaes,—a different being,—a pathetic,
haunting one ; a child in years, and yet two
years - a wife, and of such a man. She
glanced up and saw his grave face. Her
ripe quivered.
"Dont think me dreadful," she said,
piteously. " I am so lonely, so forsaken,
and you brought back the old days. You
look so kind, the words just came ; I could
not help it. Suppose you were me shut up
here, my father lost at sea, my mother dead
two years ago, and my only friend, my only
relation, saying it wes my duty" (a sob)
"bo live hero for ever and over. I wish
that you would try to like me, and that I
could feel there was somewhere in the world
a good man who would be a friend to me
and pity nee."
He took her little hand in his big one
and looked down on her sunny head.
" You are a little child," he said, softly.
" I know your life must be hard ; I cannot
bear to think of it. I shall be proud and
happy to be your friend i 1 haven't many.
When one has lived long in the world he
has sorted the wheat from the chaff; and I
can count my friends on my fingers,—on
one hand, indeed."
" Then let ire be the little finger," she
said, shyly.
The sound of horses' hoofs outside made
her withdraw her hand suddenly, and a
frightened look came ever her face. Oliver
picked up hisridibg•whip, bit his lower lip,
and waited. Mao, with a growl, slunk up to
his master's heels. The door, was flung rudely
open, and a man stepped into the room, ars
overaonie with anger he could at first form
no word,—a little man with a dark evil
fare, sunken eyes, and long black beard.
His corduroy suit was dripping, and the
hat he flung on the table soaking web. He
had bhp air of one who haz ridden fast in an
evil mood,
"Aro you keeping a hotel, Madame de
Restaud1" he hissed, "Truly this iia very
pleasant surprise for a man."
"The gentleman asked shelter, Henri,"
the ,girl said, trembling. "He lost his way,
and Louis would not tell him how to find
Lord Morris's place."
"You can of course give me the direc-
tion," Oliver said, courteously, though his
hand clinched the whip -handle tighter.
"Lord Morris told mo of your hunting.
exploits. I thought wo should have met
before bhie ; hub Doctor John and I aro
unsociable sort of men and don't go aboub
much."
"Tho road you came, strai ,hb down two
miles, turn to the left," acid De Restaud,
aoldly, "My man has your mere ready."
"Thanks.—Mrs. de Reetand, you have
shown true Weetern hospitality. 1 ellen
always remember it. Good•night,"
He could not look at that shrieking fig-
ure, with its frightened eyes.
" Good -by," rhe said, eerily. "I hope
you will find your road."
Aa he closed the door he heard hor give a
cry of pain, roe if she had been rudely
Weed, and he ahnost stopped, then went
hastily down the stops. He wished one of
little stream that maundered through the
mountain perk, irrigating the crops boun-
tifully in the spring, but often aunihilat-
ing them in midsummer.
` He's toweling his tbm shanks at my
hearth, smoking my tobacco, ordering my
servant about, and he would leave me out
here to perish. Ile knew it was going to
rain : that is why lie s yid he had the tooth-
ache. I swear he hasn't one of hie own
Date 1 believe it is gout ails him. And
Mike Hasn't sense enough to go out with a
light. iia 1 there's one 1"
The trees more widely scattered showed
him a sadden glimmer of light across the
murk below, like a fallen star. He urged
the mare forward down a steep hill, and
found from. her quickened pace he was on
a travelled road. Then she shied and stop-
ped, and he was close to a shat gate. He
dismounted, opened it, and, mindful of cat-
tle closed it after him After a short walk
•the melees dismounting infers' the pgroh
oehecahllooek,liked
to anthers Nenvoehoweer,,
levee 'Louie led the mare up in silence..
Oil Yoe looked her over as be mounted, Wei -
ed the mate it dollar, and said, ao he cantered
off,—
" rill meet a in m
Itrustyonaudlw ta
again, y
civil friend,"
Thaate wes open, ae h4 went easily pact
all pitfalls, and, the mare being rooted, in
a short time he saw the light Prem hie own
oabin, and with an odd 6001ee of oomfort,
too. A lost, homeless man is a pitiful ob,
Pet the world over, Mike rushed out to
tape the mare ; he Was (stet going to look
for him ; the dodge had worried. But
Oliver, withouta word, went igloo the hotline
He went' to, his cigar •box, lit a cigar, then
stood before his own hearth with a queer
air of poeseseion. It was juatae be thought.
There sat Doctor John in that ridiculous
flowered dreseing•gown and embroidered
oap, with his eternal pope, as unoouoerned
as possible..
"Bank et last, old man ? " said Doctor
John, cheerily. " We were getting woe -
elect about you."
" Thanks," growled Oliver.
"We waited supper," continued the
other, a little, elderly man, with bright
blue eyes, close-out gray hair, and long
gray beard. " Mike was bound to go for
you.
"And yon to prevent him," sneered
Oliver.
" Well, I did think it nonsense. Where
could he look? Let's eat."
"I am not hungry; 1 heel supper.
" Where?"
"At a house," Oliver. answered, briefly,
as Mike entered with the mtppor•thinge.
However, he sat down, and found himself
eating heartily.
Neither man spoke, Doctor John being
used to Oliver's moods. The meal over,
they sat before the fire. Oliver took a
rigor, while Dootor John lit hie pipe.
' I was rot the summit of Siety's j•.'eak
to•day," said Oliver, after a long silence,
"Ah? " interrogatively from Doctor
John.
I followed an antelope,—a splendid
shot, the best I've had ; a big buck."
"Too bad you did not bring ib. We're
out of meet."
"But I did. I know you." Oliver
smiled. "The evidence ie on my saddle."
"There's a butcher -shop at Parkville,"
said Doctor John, meditatively.
"Is there?" said;6Oliver, indifferently.
" I wee not that way. I had supper at
De Restaud'e."
The crazy Frenchman's? Honestly,
Graig ? "
"I give you my word. His wife is a
sweet little woman."
" They are all to you, my boy.. Your
weakness. You don't say l—at De Re -
steed's l"Doctor John smoked a while over
it; "actually gob in his house I Why,
they Say he is the very devil. You were
lucky you didn't lose your life instead of
your way."
Craig looked into the fire. He thought
of the little girl in the yellow gown. How
plainly ho remembered even the bangles,
the Skye terrier, the dimple in her cheek ?
perhaps Ile had lost his heart.
(TD DE e000u DED. )
he was intruding, but meant. to make the
best of it in peace. She jumped up, the
dog under her arm, and flung a log on the
fire.
"There, are you comfortable?" she ask-
ed, standing and smiling on him, a lovely
flush on her face.
" Delightfully so."
Oliver looked at her in wonder. Was
she child or woman? A slight, girlish
figure, bat beautifully formed; tiny hands
and feet, a mass of short reddish curls
around her neck, parted smoothly in' the
middle, hazel eyes with dark lashes, a nose
retrousse, piquantly so, and a rosebud
mouth that showed small white teeth of
dazzling brilliancy. Her skin was almost
unnaturally pale, and a dimple in the left
cheek drew attention to its soft roundness.
Her gown of yellow china silk clung to her
beautiful curves, and thewide ruffs a of the
yellow around her throes was 11ke the
he saw the dark outlines of buildings, a petals of a flower. He looked at her left
hoose with corrals and barns ; from the hand: there was no ring: in fact, all the
last came the savage barking of dogs and
the clank of their stretching chains as they
leaned from their kennels Mao in duty
jewelry she wore wes a buneh of silver
bangles on her right arm.
"Do you live here?" he asked, lamely,
bound, set up a challenging uproar, edlenced i as she knelt again on the rug to pat his dog,
kyr in her sans.
Instead of replying, she made her dog
sit up on its hind legs and beg,— an aceom-
plishmont Skye disliked showing, as be
desired to get acqueinted with the newdog, and this circus business seemed derog-
only by his master's whip. From the 5
lighted windows Craig saw the house proper
was built of loge and raised considerably
from the ground, with a wide veranda ap•
preached by ulong flight of steps. A door
in the L that was on a level with the ground
suddenly opened, and a men came out with story to his dignity.
a lantern,—en under•sizerl man, with a "Seel" said the young woman, breath -
white face, fee; •annken bleak eyes, and a leanly ; "isn't he ounng? .Bat he does
scrubbybeard uronnd his chin of such a ( m
it much better when there is not company :
blue -back color his face looked deadly I he never will show off. Can your dog give
pale• his paw?"
" What a State's prison mug 1" Craig " I don't think I ever asked him," stem -
thought; but he said, politely. "I have mored Oliver, who was thinking what a
loetmy way.,'
" Well, this is pot it," said the man,
holding his lantern rudely near Oliver's
face.
"Ido not need your asearance of that,
my civil friend ; but if I insulted you
with a bribe could you put up my horse
and give me shelter for the night ?"
" Noe,
"Western hospitality is evidently out of
your lino I fanny New York or the ad -
PROnfillgOI'$ OD TRAMS,
low tenor is 1"altl On all Kaneohe$ oran-'
Marley—W 0000 ➢teoulvod by tt#o Tallest{
la 1Iany c'ountr'ies,
Dile Itlajesty of Portugal, fn oonsidera,
Mon of the small size of We kingdom, eon•
tents himself with $63.1,440 a year,
The food of German miners panaista of
breed and vegetables. It is very seldom
they can afford a hit of neat.
Bank clerks in Germany receive from. $142
to $1100 salary. For the fleet three os. four
years they servo without Pay -
Clerks in' wholesale and retail stores
in Dusseldorf receive from $9 to $14 a
month ; women clerics, from $7 to S10,
OD many railroads of Germany the rte.
tion agents are permitted to keep bees
which thele form a small source of inoome.
Station leborers on the German railroads
are 'required to be on duty from 5,30 e. m.
bo 10.30 p. in. Seven days 0 week.
Tito laborers in every occupation ere paid
from boyo, to five three as much in the Unit-
ed States as in any country in Europe,
An Italian miner receives 5 shillings a
week ; a cotton mill hand, 10 ; a dyer, 12;
a etope-cutter, 13 ;'a mason, 14 ; a bailor,'
12.
German editors receive an average of
$6, 71 salary per week ; proof-readers, $5•-
22 ; compositors, $3,96; the devil gets $1, 42.
An Italian laborer has soup in the morn-
ing, soup, bread and potatoes at dinnw',
bread, ,wine and macaroni for supper.
The food of working people its Holland is
mainly potatoes, vegetables, banns and peas,
With the exception of horse flesh, fresh
meat is v. rarity.
The tip to a.00nductor onthe oars inGer-
many is from 50 to 20e, for which he secures
the passenger a good seat and sees that he
is not crowded.
Dressmakers in France in 1870 averaged
11) penes a day in wages ; Ilower•makers,
embroiderers, laoemakers and laundresses
averaged 23 pence.
In the fifteenth century the selefy of the
French King's doctor was £15 a month ; of
hie hnnteman £30; of his chaplain £15 ; of
hie bugler 1:15.
pretty picture the girl made.
"Well, he is too tired to tease new. Oh,"
jumping up and standing by the Ora, "you
asked who I was."
" No : if you lived here."
" Do you tkiak,' half sadly, " a person
could live here?"
" I --I don't know."
"I dol" said the young woman, emphat-
ically. "I have tried 10 two years and
winters, all the long shut-in months. I
jaoent islands are more to your taste than a eat, sleep, breathe, but I don't live. I am
ranch in the mountafne, Perhaps you could
direct me to Lord Morris's shooting box
it's on the Troublesome, about five miles
from Parkvillc. I am a stranger here, as I
only bought the lodge this spring.'
" I dont know where it is."
"Ah 1 a stra.rger too. You own this
pleas?
I don't see bloat that is your affair."
"I might make it mine, if the odds were middle name. Allow me to introduce my -
not so against me," Oliver muttered, I self : Graig Oliver, of Denver, and your
turning, andtighbeniog hie seddle•girthe. neighbor in the valley of the Trouble.
A door in the house suddenly opened, and scene.
in the flood of light streaming out Oliver "I am "—she hesitated a moment and
saw a ali;ht gfrlfsh figure peering into the looked at himdefiently—" Moeda Restaud.
darkness, II know you'd have to know. I pub it off
" Whet is it, Louie? Not Monsieur de on purpose. Now please don't look at me
Restaud? Is—is he hurt 1" ( out of the earner of your eye and wonder 1
" Only a tramp. Go brook into the am not more dignified and atop being pleas -
house, called the man rudely.ant to one be cameo I amarried.
A, fat little warmth in a nap ran out, I am monied."
"I don't see," raid Oliver, unooneciously
seized the girl's arm, end tried to drag her becoming more distant, " that your being
F1•witviU Y 16, 18Q4
UNDER 0 AVALANCHE.
A Vliele Troop8ipotllerod by a Snewsliee
in the ld•onntaine.
SOWN Ran Stony ,Wer Start lite Destructive
mass to t➢otioet—ilorrllilo stanlrestnttott
orNat,#re's ltelcntiess l+or,eee e,e #t Triflic
It➢ountn1t0Olopo,
We had gone out from Fort Owen to open
the pass in the Big Hole mountains to en,
able the weed choppers to get a supply of
fuel for the post, 1t had snowed for'toventy
hours without a break, and at several
points in the pass there were drifts twenty
feet high. There were twenty-five of us,
under aommaoid of a lieutenant, apd
abol tt
noon we had deg our way half through t l
pass. The mountain slopes on eagle side
were rough and rooky, but,.•tho avow
lay 00 deep that oath elope looked as
level as. a floor, though the etanb was much
sharper them the ordinary house roof. It
Was a good. 1,000 feet to the cedars grow-
ing on the ridge. and it made ono dizzy to
look up and realize the distance.
" ?,'e are liable be meet with a disaster
here," the officer lead said as wo began work •
with our snow shovele in tate morning.
"There must be no shooting with your re-
volvers, no,horae play, no shouting. If the
snow gets started up there not a man of us..
will ever be found before next June."
The pass ran east and west for a distance
of 200 feet and then made a sharp turn to •t,
the north. At the turn we had whatmlaht 14:
be called a third mountain in front of us.
The slope was as sigh as others ansi photo -
ed to the west, or down the pass.
thus had three slopes, two pitolung throes
the pass and the other lengthwise of it, For
the first hour every roan was nervous and
afraid, Then the feeling began to wear off,
and some of the mea expressed their con-
tempt of the peril. At the end of two
hours the officer had to repeat his words of
^aution. At about 11 o'clock a fall of snow
from the left-hand slope revealed • the'
mouth of a cave about thirty feet above our
heads. 1t was believed by all to be the
lair of a bear or panther, and at noon,
when the men sat down in the pass to eat
their pork and hard tank, the officer start-
ed to go up and 'investigate. Without a
word on his part I followed him. The fall
of snow had left the rooks bare and reveal-
ed three or four small trees, but it was a
herd climb to reach the cave. It wasn't a
cave at all, but only an indentation in a
cliff, with a shelf of rook overhanging ib.
This overhang extended out for perhaps,
fear feet.
STARTINO TILL1 DES0RUCTI\'L•• sTREAtr,
The men were not all in a bunch, but
some of them were even oneed eight around
the bend. Aftor discovering that we had
neon duped about the. cave we stood looking
down and across, and were just moving to
get down when one of the men below us
lumped up and shouted;
"A deer) A deer 1 Hurrah, boysi Venison
for supper
The deer was above us, but we. could not,
see it on account of the overhang. All the
man had their revolvers, and as they began
to flourish them and prepare to fire the
officer salted oub a command and awarning.
11 they heard him they did not heed him.
He was still speaking when three or four
shots were fired almost simultaneously and
some one cried out that the doer had been.
hit. It was the concussion that started the
snow and it started from the very top of the
slope, where the warm sun loadsofteneddt
soonest. I felt a trembling of the mountain
and leaned back under the overhang and au
the lieutenant and I stood side by aide the
Plowmen and reapers in Bohemia are paid
30c a day, females employed at the same
labour receive 200, neither board nor lodg-
ing being furnished.
The little King of Greece is paid by Inc
own subjects $200,000 a year. Po help him
to pull 1 hrougb, England, France and Rus-
sia each contribute N0,000.
In the English woolen mills female em-
ployee, though doing the same kind of work
as the men, and often doing it better, re-
ceive only ono -half.
The annual eatery of the Queen of Eng-
land is 81,925,000; the Prince of Wales
gets $200,000, and the rest of the royal
family somewhat smaller amounts.
Farm laborers in most parts of Germany
are engaged by the year, and have a oot-
tage with abit of laud. They receive 90 a
day in winter and 10c in summer.
The Kine of Prussia ins a salary of only
13,852,000, but then he is very rich in hie
own right, eo does not expect his people to
pay him as they ought.
The wages of farm laborers in England
in 1850 were 0 shillings a week, in 1850,
17; in Germany, at the same dotes, the
wages were respectively 8 and 12 shillings.
In the German Empire children under 12
years of ago must nob be employed in labor;
under 14 not more than six hones a day;
under 10 not more than ten hours.
In the Middle Ages the value of a count avalanche swept over us. Daylight was
as a fighting man was (19 per month; of a blotted out in au instant and the grinding,
baron, £1.1; of a knight, 13 shillings; of a roaring, and crushing were something tem -
man -at -arms, 3 shillings; of an archei, 6 fir,
pence. It seemed as if the mountain rooked and
A Lerman female farm hand, employed pitched like a steamer at atm, and the noise
in hoein ' the fields, receives l2o to 17a a was louder than any clap of thitader you
day, with schnapps at 9 o'clock, potatoees
and coffee at noon and black bread
beer at 4.
Tho wages of seamen in sailing vessels
are about the same ell over the wnrld,aver•
aging GO shillings a month, with food; see -
men employed on steamers receiving about
10 per Dent. more.
NEGLECTED CHILDREN.
➢QnvaTon Room rim One?^no yon Ret ow
where There is Romeo
The Children's Aid Soafety of Toronto is
desirous of finding homes, throughout tee
Province of Ontario and elsewhere, in
W111011 toplaue out children under the con-
trol of the Society. These children hero
either been deserted by their parents, or
by reason of their parents' neglect, have
been committed by the Courts to the care
of this Society, which by the Children's
Protection Aci,passed at the last Session of
the Provincial Legislature, is constituted
their guardian until they become of age.
The Society places oat no child which on
the order of a Judge lees not been cerbified
by a regular medical pra^tibioner to be free
from all chronic, or contagious disease. The
ages of these children are from three to
sixteen years and they are bright, robusb
and intelligent, needing only a chance in
life to become useful and respected citizens.
Reader—have yon room for one in your
home?
They are placed out under regulations
issued by the Provincial Government, and
those who desire one or more of them
should send their applications, addressed—
"The Children's Aid Society, 34 Confedera-
tion Life -Buildings, Toronto, Ont." The
applications should be accompanied by
three references. One from a minister and
two from people of known standing in the.
neighbourhood.
Frequently the Society has children for
adoption, and at present has in its shelter
under its control, six boys from 6 mase to
3?, and one of 7 years of age. Perhaps the
readers of this article could inform the
Society of likely homes for some of these
children. Newspaper proprietors and edi-
tors who see this article can very materi-
ally assist by making known through the
columns of their publication the fact that
the Scalen y, is desirous of finding homes
for these children.
Indeed every one can help. The expense
of carrying on this work, which is necea-
serily heavy, falls entirely on the Society.
No collectors are employed. Ile funds are
supplied solely by voluntary contributions,
and readers of this article who cannot take
children to their hearts anti homes ear, aid
the Society by forwarding generous con-
tributions towards its work. Its otbaers
aro : J. K. Macdonald, Esq„ the Manag.
ing Director of the Confederation Life
Assurance Company, President ; Rev. J. E,
Starr, Secretary and Agent ; J. Stuart
Coleman, Assistant Secretary and Agenb ;
A, M. Campbell, Treasurer ; and it is in
fact pratically the Agent of the Provincial
Government, The Society is Nor,-Sectar-
fan,
called Minny,—christened Minerva, after
my father's shipp —a funny name, that does
not suit me. Children eughit to be allowed
to name themselves : don'b you thinly so "
"It might be better, but Moony is a
pretty name, and," wiblt a smiling glance
of admiration, for Oliver liked a pretty
woman, "suits delightfully. I was named
Peter,—think of that 1—but luckily had a
in the door ; but the young woman defend.
ed her rights vigorously, and, freeing her-
eelf, ran down the steps.
" I have entered a romance," thought
married makes any difference,
"I am glad ; for up here they claren't
talk politely to me because of lelonsieur : in
fact, for weeks I only have Skye to talk
Craig, advancing to the steps. "After to. I know I run out foolishly ; but I am
travelling in extremely beaten paths for like an exile meeting a notglnbosr from
forty years, I have suddenly aohneved an the home country. No gentlemen come
adventure." "I have lost my way," ho store : Lord Morrie wee not; he might have
sold; lifting hie hale "I ani not a tramp at been once, bait liquor changes everybody.
all, but a neighbor, -even a landed propel- Since Aunt Haunch was sent away, six
etor. I did hope for shelter, but I will months ago, there has nob been a living
only ask a dn"--•
irectio" soul here 1 oven endured. By the way,
" But I don't know any directions, sir, smiling again, "are you hungry?"
In 1835 the rate of wages in Europe was.
very low. Day laborers in Italy received
8c per day ; in Russia, 12e ; in Holland,18o;
in France, 30c ; in England, 40e ; in the
United States 84e.
In 1880 English printers received 32 shit-
lingsper week, painters the same, pluinb-
bers 33, tailors 25, shoemakers 31, carpee.
ters 23, masons 33, smiths 31, tinsmiths 28,
bakers 27, colliers 24,
The Czar of Russia receives no salary.
Hie income arises from 1,000,000 square
miles of land that' he owns, comprising
farms, forests, mines and other resources.
He is estimated to be worth $12,090,000 a
year.
During the Bummer season Krupp sup•
plies hie workmen with cold coffee and
vinegar ab intervals through the day, and
such of the meg employed in connection
with the pudding works receive one.eighth
of a quart of brandy.
ever heard. It couldn't have lasted over
sixty seconds, though the time seemed ton
times as long. Then wo looked down to
find the pees at the solos of our feet. In
other words, it had filled up to a height of
thirty feet with snow, bowlders, trees, and
earth. Two hundred feet to the west of
us was the lower mouth or opening—
beyond that a plain. The snow had not
only fellen from our slope, but from the
one opposite. We were streak dumb for
the onoment, and as we stood gazing blankly
the snow started on the third slope. Away
up near the crest a ball startedsolliug, and
Len seconds later the snow on a spans 300
feet long one moving. Instead of piling up
in the ravine it struck and forced We snow
down there to the erect and followed after.
DISCIPLINE Oa2'TO DEATH.
A German artisnn'r breakfast consists of
coffee aid broad ; his dinner, soup made of
water, slices of bread, slices of onion and a
little butter, moat once or twine a week ;
soup, cheese, potatoes and bread, with sate
sage and boor.
In the British army a colonel receives
£1000 per annum ; the French Governmenb
pays £280, the Italian the same. An Eng.
lish captain receives £212, a lieutenant
£118, a private £18. Tha French and
Italians of the same grades receive from
one-third to one•balf as much.
In many parte of Germany the hardest
ont•door work fella to the lot of women.
'They plow and spade the fields, follow the
coal carte throwgb the melee and put the anal
in the collo rS while the male driver sits on
the wagon,and draws the milk wagons into
tha towns, a woman and a dog generally
making a team for the milk cart.
It was a great river of snow sweeping
pasb us, Logs, trees, and bowlders which
weighed tens of tons were borne along
like straws, and eo swiftly that the eye
caught no second glance. All at once there
was a cheek, and right before us a soldier
was shot to tho surface. It was Corporal
Herte, who was probably farther up the
pass than any other roan. Ho popped oub
of the snow head first and at full length,
and for perhaps five seconds was within tea
feet of ea and looking equarely into our
faces, He was bareheaded, hisovorooab
gone, and his face bleodiiug. He knew
what had happened, and no doubt realized
his peril, but as ho stood there, saved for
the instant, up went his hand in :a salute
to the lieutenant. As his arm dropped Ito
disappeared from sight. It was discipline
in he face of death—an instance that will
never have its counterpart.
Out of thee narrow, rooky pass poured
the tide with a fury which scraped it as
bare as a floor and tore great rooks from its
sides. Ab the west mouth the snow filled a
ravine fifty feet deep and then poured out
on tho plain for a quarter of a utile. Ib Was
no use to look for the bodies. Vivo bun•
dyed then could not have moved that mase
In a fortnight. Twenty four men were honied
there. Ib was idle to hope that any of them
still lived, Along in the last clays of June
wo found them, one afterauother, and even
then we had to dig. The snow would have
smothered them as ib rushed down,bubwith
the allow camp rocks which ornelted some of
diem to pulp. The corporal who had salut-
ed as he looked into the eyee of death was
the last one found. He was at the bottom
of the ravine, the body withoub a shred of
clothing, and the arm he had raised bait
been tore frotn its socket as lee was whirled
along with that grinding masa,—EM.
Quad.
Another „Flying Marling, In 1$87 Levi estimated that the earnings
A Russian inventor named Tsehetnoff of English agricultural laborers were £75, -
has submitted a mathemabioal formula 000,000 per. annum ; of those engaged in
relative to the problem of navigating the textile matrufactures, £47,000000 ; build -
air, wiled; has been commended by high ing trades, £43,000,000; metals, £132,000, -
terrestrial authorities. The gist of his idem 009 ; ships and railways, £33,000,000 ;
is that birds have great lifting power in servants, £00,000,000 ; showing that
their wings because their underside ie agriaultnro was still the most renouncers.
broken up into many parabolic eurfaoee, so live businessfor the laborer.
that the in'erstices between the feathers The earliest known scale of wages is that
aro really helps to flight. A bird would ,fixed for the whole Raman Empire by the
not be able to Darty a heavy abject if the Emperor Diocletian in A. D. 303. A shop -
wings presented a solid surface to the air herd was to bepaid 20o a day; a day laborer
but the cotnbhtatisn of separate curved, and a mule driver received the same as the
end minutely divided surfaces enable it to shepherd; a baker got 40o, and the same
do 50. The difficulty with flying maohinee was paid to the masons and oarpentere rood
up to the present time hae been that they smiths• stonecutters got 50o and painters,
will not fly, and it will be interesting to 600.A briolemaker get 9,to per 100 betalrs;
learn whether M. Teobetno0 can success- a shoopshearei' gob $1.00 per 100 pounds.
fully apply Ida formula. A ommnon Salibal toaster received 60e. a
month for enoh pupil; one who taught
" Did you know thab bliss Bjones was ere fee was 512.
Greek or geometry, $. per month. A law -
going to,marry young Smith t" "I know _
it; butl, cannot underetand how a girl as Prisoner—'Ten dollars for stealing a pall'
intelligent as she rs oak consent to marry a of minute Judge—"That's what 1 said," Tho Dost of a firet•olass battleship, carry
man stupid enough to want ,to marry her. "Wloy, jurlgeitlsey didn't 0t,' ing 000 mon, Is about £1,000,000.
NoVNeeti of Cards.
Mrs. Do Style—" We have forgotten
about the halve cards.'
"Mr. Do S.—"Cards?"
"Ceriaini . To be in the fashion, we
must have cards with the baby's name and
date of his birth, and acid them to one
friends, so that they will know that we
have a baby,"
"Oh, they will know it fast enough if
they pass this house anytime between tnid,
night and morning,