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THE DEAN AND HIS DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER X,
Alone atBrighton. Nevertheless, 1 tonne
the plana insuperably dull, I believe ite
only merit to bo easy settees from London,
An immense amount of nonaell;e be talked
about. the air ; but 1 have never ,been able
to see that the air of Brighten Min Any way
better than any other, or that the Brighton
downs are 0 bit bettor than any other.
flownµ.
Americans, in moments of ill.advised
confidence, will tell you that Saratoga
itself is an over-estimated place, and that
if you are rash enough to try it, you will
End 'Itvery tiresome end stupid, and,to use
their own expression, with no more points
about it than any other place.
Brighton, so far as I have troubled my
self to enquire into its history, owes its
success to the people who have visited it.
The Thrales, if I remember rightly,
aotually persuaded Dr. Johnson to
go down there ; and Dr. John-
eon's opinion of Brighton was by no means
a pleasant or a flattering one. Then the
Prince Regent went there and built himself
the Pavilion ; and after this we find Brigh-
ton gradually becoming more and more a
London suburb. Dr. Blinker has his select
academy there for young gentlemen. Big
hotels grew up ; and, finally, the Brighton
of to -day is no more the pleasant little
watering -place it once was, than is West
Kensington, with it immense avenues of
stucco palaces, the 'dear old Kensington
which Thaokeray so loved.
For my own part I found Brighton and
everything belonging to it, a0 intolerable
that, one evening, in a fit of worse than
usual despair, I wrote to Mrs. Fortescue
and suggested that a change of air might
possibly do her good.
She had been moat careful not to looee
sight of me since we parted at Cowes ; and
had, ie feat, about twice a week reminded
me of her existence, and of her extreme
and, indeed, almost sisterly affection for
myself.
Consequently I happened to know that
she was at this moment quartered on eome
friends in theneighborhoodof Sandringham.
She had Bent me moot glowing acnounte of
Sandringham itself, and of the exalted per-
sonages there, and of the great fun she was
having.
So I wrote, pleasantly I hope, but not at
all enthusiastically, suggesting that a few
weeks at Brighton ,night recruit her, and
Spent quietly with myself, prove a pleasant
contrast to tie vortex of gaiety in which
µbe had lately been plunged.
Ireceived my answer with a promptitude
as appalling an that with which our tradee•
men down at Ossuleton used to respond to
my father's airy suggestion that they should
send in their accounts.
Mre. itortescue was absolutely wearied
of Norfolk. She had never been more bor•
ed in her life. It had bean well enuugh
for the first few days ; but she had oven
found out that the men talked about noth.
ing except the crops and the partridges ;
and the women about nothing whatever
except the toilette. Their ideas on this
subject, she added, were as primitive as
their clothes whioh latter inuet unquestion-
ably have come out of the Ark.
"It will be the most delightful ohmage my
dear Miriam, to be with you ouceagain and
to enjoy, ifonlyfor the shortest time, com-
plete rest, which my poor shattered nerves
sadly need, and a little rational converse,
tion, which I can assure you I need still
more,
"1 ;hall start at once, or as Baan, at any
rate, as I can make a decent pretext for
leaving. And, to be with you again, will
remind me of the many happy hours we
spent together in St. James' Square.
"Pray remember me most kindly to the
Dean, who, of course before long will be
wearing the mitre. I am getting tired of
the pomps, the vanities, of this wicked
world : and I wish he would pink me out an
eligible second among his Minor Canons so
that I could go to choral service twice a
day and hear the rooks caw in the
Cathedral Close, and walk in the beautiful
old cloisters if it were wet, and read 'Holy
Living and Dying,' and get the Christian
Year by heart, and do my hest to forget a
very great number of years which I am
afraid have been ahatnefully wasted.
"I do not mind telling you in confidence,
that, when I went the other day to hove
my hair singed, I was told to my horror
that there WAS a grey hair here and there
amongst it, Of course, I have had rather
more than my fair share of trouble. But
even so, dear, one does not like eo get old
before one's time."
A postecriAdded that she would not
of course hying her maid, as doubtless my
treasure, Jackson, would be able to attend
to her few simple wants.
The widow was as good as her word, and
made her appearance with military promp.
titude. One fly conveyed herself, and
another her trunks, each as long as coffins
and twice as roomy. And she was more
than ever radiant with delight and enthuei•
µ8m.
The sea made her feel at least ten years
younger. So, at any rate, she declared,
She was astonished to find Brighton so
little altered. Did Mutton's still exist ?
Did we eti 1 go for morning rides on the
downs ? And was that charming physician
atilt practising in Royalty Square ? And
so she rattled on, wit'n n string of diecou.
erected questions, never once waiting for an
answer,
I judged It upon the whole to be the
eafeet policy, so far as my own nerves
were concerned, to let her run her-
self down, Ultimately, when she had
Raked all her questions, and told mo
all her news, and suggested that after
a long journey a cup of tea with cognac in
it had been positively ordered her by Sir
Humphrey Jerkins, she retired to dress for
dinner, leaving me to reflect on what I had
let myself in for.
1 began almost to repent of my unfilial
conduct towards the Dean, and to wish that
I had him down with me, and could eo
play off my two visitors ono against the
other.
At dinner I need
hardly ardl suy Mrs, For.
fescue knowingor t
t oasis that
,licit
was
g g
champagne in the house, declared that she
positively required a glass to steady her
nerves after the terrible vibration of the
express ; so a bottle was produced and two
glance were tilled, She finished the re-
mainder herself, and I can honestly declare
that ft made her more for maoioue, commnni•
native, andcritical than ever,
She put me up to a wrinkle, as she term-
ed it which was nothing more than the
fact that brandy and water is really nece's.
cry to "settle` champagne. "Else, dear
1liiriam,"she added, "thechampagne, pleae.
aria and exhilarating ae it is, will most
infollihly settle you, awl leave you with a
terrible headacle the next morning."
So she had her brandy and water. The
Doan, to do him justice, need to pall things
that he liked to eat and drink by their pro-
per Humes, I almost began to wonder
whether she would not tell me that het'
medical man bad recommended her a cigar.
She etopped short, however, et this partier
alar trial of my patience, and contented
herself with two or three diminutive Egypt.
ian cigarettes ; and after several attempts
to keep herself awake, declared that the
ljourney and the change of air had thorough-
y exhausted her, and that she should not
be herself again until she had hada thorough
night's rest.
It was a somewhat dreary outlook with
the certain prospect of a fortnight at least.
So I resigned myself to the inevitable, and,
as I blew out my candle, (could not help
wishing I were the man on the Eddystone
Lighthouse, or St. Simeon on his column,
or even Teufeledrooktt in his garret. Any
of these places would have, at all events,
the one advantage of affording a eanetuary
from Mrs. Forteeone.
A day or two after my gueet'e arrival, we
were walking, or, rather, sauntering in the
morning along the King's Road orowded as
usual with its indescribable mixture of
Brighton residents and Brighton visitors,
flys, Bath chairs, goat chains, boarding
schools in double file, .Taws as obtrusive as
their own noses, and here and there an
Indian Ayah with her baby, when it pleased
Airs. Fortescue to become suddenly, unac-
countably, and violently agitated.
"My deer," she exclaimed, "there he ie 1
1 declare, there he is I What on earth are
we to do?"
"There is wlto?" I asked somewhat snap-
pishly.
"Why, Mr, Sabine, my love. Look, he
has seen us, and is coming up."
Afr. Sabine it proved to be, looking corn•
pletely himself. He had been knocking
about, he explained apologetically, as of he
had no business to be in Brighton at all.
He had been to all kinds of places, to Deer
ville, to Hamburg, to Baa,.,, and Carlsbad,
and they had all alike, heed him out. They
were dull and tedious. He had now come
to Brighton to get out of the way, and to
see what entire rest and the air of the
Sussex coast would do for him.
Ha had brought nobody with him, and
had not expected to meet anybody, least of
all myself, whom he had supposed to be any
where rather than in this terrible London•
our -flier, where the Londoners had steamed.
ed in spoiling everything except the glorious
Channel breezes.
Hitherto. his forecast had proved correct.
He had fo_... —Pee -elf re nneirely alone as if
he were at Margate, or Blackpool, or West-
on -super -Mare. He was etoppiug at the
" Old Ship," where there was not a person
vellum he knew, and iie was dividing his
time pretty impartially between the tennis
court, the Parade, awl the downs. It was
quite a relief to meet a face he knew. Where
were we stopping? Might he vary the
monotony of his own existence by looking
in to afternoon tea ?
So ho went on until he had fairly launch.
ed Mre. Forteeone ou the full flood of her
small talk. When she showed eigns of stop•
ping, he caught the ball, and threw it back
to her. Anti thus, before I could tell how
it had all happened or came about, we
found ourselves hack again in front of my
house in Montpelier Road.
I was about to say that 1 was obliged to
sok hint in, This, however, would not be
strictly the truth, for I was if anything,
glad of the chance.
He was, anyit,w, a relief to Mrs. Fortes.
cue's persistent babble, which was be-
coming as wearisome as that of Ten-
nyson's brook. Ile needed no pressing
'.ut came in at once, and stepped quite
naturally into the part of a tame oat
lie showed us how to make tea in. the
Russian fashion, and to drink it with little
slices of lemon instead of cream and sugar.
He rallied Airs. Fortescue on her weakness
for an oocaeional cigarette. He told us
how Russia is the only country in the
world where you get champagne; because
itfa-estate fur years in advance the entire
yield of the champagne district ; the only
country in the world where fresh caviare
is to be procured, and the only country
where ,you get amino tea, because Russian
teats brought overland by caravan, and
so does not lose its aroma in the course of
a sea voyage,
The mere he talk d, the more it became
impossible to evoi3 °entreating what ho
had to tell fie with the terrible platitude
of Sir Henry. And I began at last Indo•
rattly to wonder whether he might not be
poeeesoed of some secret mission front St,
Potereburg, and so probably knew far
more about my Imsbend and his foibles
than he might ehoee to reveal.
The idea was amusing, if a little far-
fetched, and I could almost fancy I heard
Sir Henry himself pondernnely declaring,.
as if it were a new discovery doing hien•
self infinite credit, that Mr. Sabine was
evidently a most highlyedueated young
man, with exceptional abilities and powers
of observation, who must have spent many
years of his life in travel, and have mixed
in the most exclusive circles.
When Mr, Sabine at last took his depar-
ture, Mrs. Fortesgne was comparatively
youthful with radiance.
" Did I not always tell you so, my dear
Miriam? Ie he not marvellous? I believe
there is nowhere he has not been, nothing
he has not done, and nothing that he can-
not tell you all about, I sometimes won.
der whether he is not the Wondering Jew
himself, of whom they tell you at Venice,
v here he last condescended to show him•
self that he was the most accomplished and
(ruminating person in the world. You have
never rend the ' Wandering Jew,' I sup-
pose. I know that Mr. Sabine always
bring; him to my mind. Only they say the
Wandering Jew is indiscreet at times, add
apt to let out who he is and where he
,tae been, Catch Mr. Sabine letting out
anything about himself. Wily, he does
not even beep a servant for fear the
fellow should chatter about where he has
been and what he has done. I am sure
that there cannot be any other reason,
for lie has plenty of money. At Vienna he
ren horses in his own name, and had over
some of the beet English • jockeys; end
at Paris last year, towards the very end of
the seauon, when we were all grumbling
abort the heat and wi8hht :ourselres at the
North Pole, it turned out that lie had act-
ually gone right tip to Spitzbergen and the
Kara Sea in .a yacltt of his own, and had
shot white bears, and had epeared walrus
and driven it sledge of lilsquimaux doge,
and seen the sun in the sky for weeks at a
time."
"Ile seems a very wonderful man," I
remarked.
"Next time he comes, mention Patagonia,
I am sure yon will find he has been there,
like dear Lady Florence Dixie, mad seen the
cannibals, and in all probability, if he were
to own to it, shot a number of them, whi0h
would be quitejuetiflable seeing that they
ere terrible ereilturee who have no religion,
and do not Bock their feed,, and murder you,
if they get the change, by strangling you
with A piece of rope and a big strne at
Oath olid of It. I doelare, my dear, that,
fascinating as he is, be sometimes makoe me,
in elite of myself, feel quite uneasy and al -
meet creepy,
0f 00080 I could only reply, that for lay
own partI saw nothing 80 very terrible
about .lir. Sabine, and did not eonerder that
Mrs, Forteseuo need be under any immod-
IAle apprehension.
"Its not myself, my dear, es fd Mre,
Fortescue, nodding her head meeteagoly
and emphatioally. " It would be vanity
on my (cart eo pretend as mead, But you
should be very careful with him, Miriam,
1 am quite sure that he is a vary dangerous
man ; notat all the map," she added, `for a
Devonshire village, or even A Cathedral
town, and I doubt whether there is much
that he could learn even in Vienna itself.
Perhaps Sir Henry may be able to give
Min a wrinkle or two on his return from
that ehockingly wicked city. Conetenti•
nople, which they trey combines all the
vices of the old world and the new, without
a Bingle redeeming virtue from either. If
anybody could bo match for him, it would
most oerbainly be Sir Henry."
And with this parting stab in the back
both for Sir Henry and for thyself, my
good friend retired to divest herself of her
war paint, and see what a nightie sleep
could do towards temporarily repairing the
inexorable ravages of time. •
To DE CONTINUED
A New Plan for Digging a Cellar.
The size and shape of one or more apart.
meets of the dwelling usually determine
the size and shape of the cellar beneath. Iu'
consequence of this, the storing capacity
of a cellar construotod after the common
plan of excavating the entire area to a depth
of five or nix feet, is often far beyond the
requirements of ordinary use. This is
eepeoially true of city lots and small coun-
try eetatee,where a cellar is needed more
for the protection of small quantities of
provisions against extremes of heat and
cold than as a storeroom for large quantities
of perishable farm produce held for mar-
ket,
To seouro the same benefit at a less cost
than by the usual plan, a neighbor, some
years ago, excavated the whole area to a
depth of only two or three feet, digging a
wide trench through the centre, and
leaving the soil on either aide in the form
•
FIG. 1. PLAN AND SECTION OF CELLAR 001011
EARTH SHELF.
of a broad shelf, as seen in the section be-
low the ground plan in Fig. 1. A heavy
coat of cement was laid on these shelves,
and also on the sides and bottom of the
trench. The subsoil Here was clay, and
the eement was laid directly upon it. It
has stood the test of years and remains
without a break. By this method nearly
one-half the excavation is saved, and the
coat of stone wall around it is reduced to
little more them half. Where stone must be
hauleda considerable distance, this aloneisa
great saving in time and money. Agoinet
this economy is to bo charged only so much
cement elle sand as will cover the entire
floor of the cellar and the cost of putting it
on. To do this properly requires some
skill, but not beyond the reach of the or-
dinary workman who is wilting to be care-
ful Ono pert good cement and two parts
clean sand, by measure, with just enough
water chat when the whole is thoroughly
mixed together, it will neither " stand"
nor sink to a level when pat into a vessel,
makes an excellent and durable cement for
this purpose. Only a small quantity—
FIC. 2. CEILAR EXCAVATIONS WITH DOUBLE
ALLEYWAY.
about half a bushel—should be made ftp at
a time,and thismustbe laid on immediately,
using a plasterer's trowel, and smoothing
down as rapidly as possible. In gravelley,
or otherwise loose and porous subsoils, tbo
sides of the trench may be faced with a
single layer of brick, and the cement laid
on this. Keep the break saturated with
water when applying the cement.
Plans adapted to cellars of greater widths
aro given in Fige. 2 and 3, ae illustration;
of this method of construction. Modifica-
tions of these, made necessary by o different
position of the outside entrance, as well as
the introduction of a stairway leading
to the rooms above, will suggest
themselves to the builder, and the plan
)e,
Fitt. 3. A: ovum 00,1N OF CELLAR EXCA•
OATIO9.
may be varied accordingly, The elelves
may be given a gentle slope towards the
trench, and, unit the water used in sorub•
bing and washing out the Boller may bo
removed' through a drain, the bottom of
the tie Y
t t place, nab should carr. it oone lace as
iudioated by the direction of the arrows in
the diagrams. But the greatest advantage
of this form of collar over the ordinary
form is found in Its use. There is no
back -bending noce0sary. Every thing ie
placed on the shelves at a convenient
height. Vegetables are confined in shallow
bins, that may be removed when n o longer
needed. Barrels of molasses and vinegar
are put up Isere also, within easy reach.
And there is no form of cellar more easily
kept clean, as it may be scrubbed and
whitewashed with comparatively little
labor,
PAINTS PICTURES WITH HER TQES.
Tho'yand0r•rfil Lrmiess grttet 0h000 Per
traits are Eamoas'FItroughout Iiurepe,
An "'.armless wonder," who, if elle would
orient to exhibit hereon on the stage,
would oemmend a very largo salary, le 090
of t e most celebrated portrait painters of
the old world. She ie Mlle, Aimee Rapin,
the daughter of.a Swiss barrister, who died
when µhe wee twelve years of age, and elle
le both young and beautiful. She wee born
in the little town of Payerne, Switzerland,
without hands or firma. Whenher father
died, a wealthy gentleman, a patron of art,
became interested in her by seeing some
paintings wide)) she had made, holding the
brushes and polette in her toes. He under•
took the care of her artistic training and
sent her to the arb sohool at Laueanno.
From there etc went to Geneva where B110
took several prizes at the Academy, She
studied principally under Prof. Barthelemy
Menu, and devoted much attention to the
old masters and Holbein's portraits.
She exhibited a portrait in Berlin in
1891, and in the spring of 1893 went to
'London. For some weeks she gave herself
up to the study of Rembrandt and Van•
dyck, in the National Gallery. Then she
painted the portrait of Princess May, wife
of the Duke of York,and it created a dietinot
sensation. Commissions from members of
the English aristocracy follrwed, and when
it finally became known that the artist wee
without hands or arms hor work became
still more appreciated, because of the al.
most insurmountable difficulties which she
had overcome in her career. She eetab•
Bribed a studio in London, which became a t
once a fashionable resort. It was hero that
the sketch of the armless artist, the only
one y hich she hoe ever permitted to be
made of her, was taken. Her portraits aye
remarkable for their elegant simplicity,and
are modern in tone and noneeption. Site
i ere also painted some original composi-
tions, the most remarkable of which is an
anatomical demonstration probably aug-
gested by Rembrandde celebrated picture.
The oxpresaion and character in the features
of the operating surgeon are moat remark.
able.
Mlle. Rapin is also an accomplished
pianist, but it is said that she only playa
before a female audience
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
The millionaire of the United States navy
is said to be commodore George E. Perkins.
In the army the wealthieet man is General
Nelson B. Swcitzer, who is also a famous
cavalryman,
Professor Ibrahim Hakki Bey, the Turk -
commissioner to the world's fair, has
returned to Constantinople so Americaniz•
ed that his friends are afraid he may get
into trouble,
:Hiss Ella Hepworth Dixon, the laugh•
ter of Hepworth Dixon, who is making a
name for herself In the literary world of
London, is also an artist of more titan
ordinary ability.
Prince Constantin Wiseesky, of Russia,
is an indefatigable traveller. He has just
returned to Paris after a trip of 43,000
kilometers across Asia mud is ready to 'tart
on a tour through Africa.
Mr, Gladstone has received vast numbers
of lettere, the bulk of them from members
of the working glasses, and not a few ac-
°empanied by personal gifts, which the
ex -premier is earnestly besought to accept.
Mrs. Claudia Herrera, who died in San
Francisco the other they at the end of 120
year0, was born in Rial de Jesus Maria,
Mexico. She moved to San Francisco when
she was 75 years of age, and since then
until recently was an active worker.
Mr. Jenkins, the almost forgotten author
of "Ohm's Baby," has been chosen by the
Dundee conservatives to run for the parlia-
mentary representation of their city. He
represented Dundee in the 1874.80 parlia.
meat, and it was then that his book, which
attracted a great dual of attention, appear-
ed.
The Empress Fredericit hoe induced two
Berlin sweeties of amateur photographers
to co-operate in bringing about an inter-
national exhibition of photographs by
amateurs in 1895. Her majesty has uuder-
taken to be a petrones0, and has requested
Princess Henry to act as her substitute on
the oommitteo.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward eve that before
she finished her first novel she was seized
with writers' cramp and that every wordcl
the novel had to be dictated to a shorthand
writer, Shn has since recovered the use of
her hand. Airs. Ward often rewrites a
page twenty times before she is satisfied
with the result.
New Canadian Route.
Tho proposed Anglo-Caaadian•Australian
steamship service, in combination with a,
Pacific cable is obviously desirable,
says the London Globe.. An alterna•
tive route to the east, passing entirely
through British territory, would complete
an at present imperfect circle, and would
render us considerably more independent of
all the incalculable chances end conditions of
war. Any project, moreover, which tends
to the more direct connection of the several
portions of the empire, stands upon merits
which call for insistence. There is always
the question of cost, and the further question
es to whether the cost would be commen-
surate with the advantages t there ie the
feasibility of the project, and the nature of
the control of the system if completed. All
these important matters, and the swarm of
resulting details, will require the most
anxious attention of the Hnperial Govern-
ment, Canada cannot fail to have the
virtual command of the route, of which she
will be the keystone, and from which she
will obtain so meant of the direct and indi-
rectprofts in ordinary times. Of course
theusuallyncoeptedtbeoryis that the profit
and cost of au undertaking should go to-
gether, and it would nob bo easy to
assess what proportion of the latter would
represent the proper charge for increasing
Imperial unity andoontinuity. In short the
merits of the eche ft0 depend very largely
upon what the Dominion itself is prepared
to undertake and this is much toor racticed
a matter not to warrant exceeding careful
and prudent looitation before adopting a
scheme which would so extensively modify
all the present conditions of traffic, and
therefore se many intere860 of all kinds,
Tile name, Sandwich Islands, is English,
When Captain Cook diaoovered the group
in 1778, about a century of ter the Spaniards
had first landed there, he christened them
in honor of Lord Sandwich, of the English
Admiralty, who had .taken much interest
in. Cook's voyage in the Pacific,
BEVAOTATION AND R1iIN;
10,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS IN BRIT-
ISH 00LUItIBIA.
T1t0 Riled Ithe Misted 13ix Days and is
5i11t ,fixing-..yleamers 11e1µ$ Pressed
Into the Warlt. cr Re1eae,
A Vancouver, B, 0„ (via San Franol800)
doepatoh enye :—Devaetation- and ruin are
the only words to express; the awful gal'
amity in the Frazer River Valley country,
"Still rising" ie the momentous exolama•
Won heard on every hand, for the turbu-
lent swollen torrents of the Frazer River
have for six weary day; and nights been
elowly sweeping away the requite of years
ofarduous toil and hardship,. One hun-
dred miles of country have been del•ested
and the end is not yet. Small mountain
streams have changed,as if by magic, to
roaring torrents, bringing down upon their
bosoms thousands of tone of snow to add
to the destroying elements already included
in the juggernaut -like journey of the de•
brie. The appearance of the entire Frazer
valley is changed. Where the prosperous
rancher attended his Realm and herds, and
where rich fields of grain nodded to the
plaoid waters beyond the dikes, the same
waters are now raging 1urinusly in rushing
torrents, presenting an appalling panorama
of ruin. Hundreds of trees are piled up
with a medley of other debris, such as hen•
coops, outhouses, bridges and fences, and
ae one floating mass glides by another slips
into sight, Bloated bodies of thousands of
sheep and swine twirl in the mad current,
followed by upturned boats or A gigantic
tree with chickens roosting iu its branches,
kaleidoscopic) views of hundreds of homes,
broken bridges and destroyed Jarmo.
NO TRRAINS 0R TELEGRAMS FOR EI00T DAYS
The Frazer River has now reached the
highest point touched in 1832, the year of
a great flood, and it is still rising. Miles
and miles of the 0.P, R. track have been.
washed sway between Ruby Creek and
Mission, and no trains or telegrams have
reached British Columbia by this route for
eight days, and there is little prospect for
mails or communication by telegraph for
another ton days. At Katzlio Prairie the
washout is a third ofa mile in length, and
so deep that piles cannot be obtained long
enough to trestle the break. Almost all
the bridges in the flooded district have col-
lapsed and the large mission bridge is ex•
pecbed to go every hour. At Maria Island
the waves are six feet high and are washing
over the track for 500 yards. Besides these
five or six smaller washouts aro reported.
NUMBERS REPORTED DROWNED.
The Conadian Pacific has 1,000 men at
work night and day and the Government
has steamers plying the river incessantly,
rescuing the ranchers and their tattle. In
spite of every precaution being taken a
number of people are reported drowned.
Among them are R. McTavish, .a O.P.R.
official, and a child of Peter Brown at
Langley. Numerous Indians have lost
their livee. Disconsolate farmers and half.
dazed ranchers are constantly arriving by
steamers, but few particulars can be ob•
tainerl from them. In answer to all
questions they say : "I am ruined. It's
awful ; I have lost everything."
2,000 FA MIMES IIOME0ESS.
It is estimated that over 2,000 families
are homeless, and a property lose of 3,•
000,00e has been suffered. Steamers from
the river and Puget Sound are still being
pressed into the work of rescue. Though
no more lives have been lost during the past
two bays, there have been many narrow
escapes and thrilling experiences. Many
families have been driven from their houses.
One steamer brought 307 settlers from
Westminster late last night. Among them
was the family of a rancher from near
Langley. The man had built a ['truer raft,
upon which he took his entire family and
10 blooded horses. They were rescued in
mid -steam, after haviug been afloat for 10
hours.
Royal Executioner.
Peter the Great particularly delighted in
drawing teeth, and strictly 0njuined his
eervante to rend for him when any service
of that kind was to he performed. One
day µ.favorite ryebtde rhanrtnre seemed very
melancholy ; the czar asked hitn what was
the matter.
" Oh your majesty," said the .Ian, " my
wife is Buffering the greatest agony from
toothache, yet she refuses to have the tooth
taken out"
If that ie all," said Peter, "we will soon
cure it ; take me to her at once."
When they arrived the woman deolared
she was not suffering at all ; there was
nothing the matter with her.
" That is the way she talks, your ma•
jesty," said the valet; "she is suffering
tortures."
"Hold her head and hands," said the near;
" I will have it out in a moment," and he
instantly pulled out the indicated tooth
with great dexterity, amid profuse thanke
from the husband. But the emperor dis-
covered a little later that Ida valet had
used him as an executioner to punish hie wife
who had never had au unsound tooth in her
head.
MOLAR)) ACTIVE.
In Central America—)fleet an AUIPelcatl
t:orreWeellent Illy to Any.
A City el Metriee specie) deepntoh awl 1—•
The Remittent tiritiell diplumettioagentsin
Centrtd Amorioe aro attracting attontien
here. It lir believed Ragland intends to
seouro a foothold hoar tine proposed NI,oa
ragua canal. Reports from ',emus sources
in Central Amerloa Agree in regard to Brf•
lab elinietergosling a inn eencoat Managua,
Great Britain, under the gelato of protooting
her interests, i t is feared will noire a nbstan•
tial control of an lmpertant piece of tern•
tory, hoping later on to confirm her title by
treaty. By a recent treaty with Mexico
Great Britain gained undisputed possession
of Belize, otherwtae known ae British
Honduras, which the MoxiCan a long regarded
0e propertybelonging to their country,. The
advantages Mexico Baine by the treaty are
the amicable settlement of a long disputed
question and protection for her citizens on
the Yucatan peninsula from the attacks of
savages, instigated by British colonieta in
Bailee, who for many years have been
furnishing arms and ammunition to Indians
for raids into Yucatan. British diplomacy:
has not been so active in Central America
since the period of gold discovery in Cali-
fornia,
Farewell.
It is acid to be au old story, this ofa man
named Doherty, who was drilling with hie
squad of recruits
in London. Do-
herty was nearly
six feet two in
height, and at
that time the ser.
geant•major was
a man whose
height was only
five feet four. On
this day he ap-
proaohod t h a
squad looking
sharply about
him for some
fault to find.
Ali the men
squared up ex-
cept Doherty,
and the sergeant.
major at once ac. •
coated him.
"Head up there, plan 1" ea lied he.
Doher y raised his head slightly.
" Up higher, sir 1"
The head was raised again. Then the
oergeant•major managed, by standing on
his toes, to reach Doherty's chin, and he
poked it higher, with the remark:
"That's better. Don't lee me see your
head down again 1"
By this time everybody was interested
at seeing Doherty staring away above the
eergeant•major'e head, when a voioo from
above said, in a rich brogue :
"Am Ito be always like this, sergeant.
major?"
" Yes, sir 1"
"Then I'll say good-bye to ye, sergeant.
major, for I'll niver see yez again 1"
Women in Chili are employed as street.
c00Iconductore.
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by John Lyon in 1571.
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