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CHAPTER X.
After the pitiful defection of my little
curate, there was evidently nothing bo be
'Bete but to leave Leamington, ee�i to leave
It at ibo beet,in the very height of he hunt•
In season,
Then arose the question where to go
next, I had begun a sementutioel habit of
coesultingmaple So I took down my atlas,
and turned over the map of England,
Aly ohoioo wee somewhat narrowed, as 1
ed resolved sat to try the aea,.exoopt in
the very last resom•ne, The sea now only
remiadod Me Of George Sabine, and I hated
the very eight of it as passionately tie I had
once loved it,
Untimately I fixed on the Cathedral town,
of Salohostor. Salohester is of immense
antiquity. Its hurt two Syllables point to
its having once been an old Boman garden.
Re first, probably bo the existence of salt
works there; although upon this point
antiquarians acid Bounty historians are
divided,
I decided to stop at the principal hotel
for a few days, and then to take lodgings,
the beet that could be got in the Close
1' •lf, or at any rate, as near to the Cath -
aural as possible; to eugage a maid in the
town, who would go about telling everybody
exactly what I chose to let her see or
magine; and to attend the Cathedral eery.
ces regularly.
Always think out your plans thoroughly.
You thus save an immense amount of time
and friction afterwards. And it olronm-
stances baffle -your plus, you have only
lost an hour or ao of quiet thought, which,
after all, is in itself a useful mental gyre
mastic.
Having thought out my plans, I went
down to Salohester, stopped for the night
at the " Bull," and the next morning
secured the very lodgings 1 wanted, my
landlady being no less a person than the
wife of one of the lay clerks, or, as they are
profanely termed, singing men.
My conduct was method and circum•
speedos itself. I breakfasted at eight. I
attended the Cathedral service at ten. I
bad my little dinner at two. At four, I
attended the afternoon service- Then I
had tea, and was careful to go to bed at
the orthodox and respectable British hour
of ten to the minute.
My landlady was charmed with me, and
was too well satisfied with the way in
JULY 27, 1894
days were dermal , and yet I, absolute tuts-
ress v r t Tile ULarge oidia Unlort Brigade on'rfiut
d Sean Santh, tzrruoraWl' lt'1ctd.
The conversation woe extremely dull an Y ' As time colli on the iuberest in this glare
T bed my boxes peeked, left Pee, aitrrls,
11
t f myyself, bad been loitering and
_. hesttatang Instead of 'ening strati,ht to the
INPIDENT>S OP WATERLOO.
O rnotdotne. The ieetnen. Galksd scandal, adroitly eatnhleg all myy. friends vitt, and
Or, to do them jugtiee that comparatively y 1 h I found myself
lone British viotory dear not 8eom to dim.
harmle811, Lowe agnt, and discursive ',hid of felt thoroughly y nippy w on
e uilal known at, goq°i . alone in the train tains rapidly whirled rmsh. The 13fst01y and incidents of that
s a p towards London. I mafnorableoampatgn inBelguim mid Frame
Phe hlow reand r the low countrycthe glade Of course i land written to Ethel to an. are ageleaad again reoourtted and the reline
Men who were volution ardeylrprinciples ; but nounoo my determination, and I bad paid of :the contest even to rand 130 ,
I c spread of 1p not atingrY aolerch ;.but my maid two months' wages sad, given her straps
I could wee, t help noticing the church men. our old 1400000. Nothing could ,'.are highly prized and carefully preserved,
fast woe, as a l,ody, mush more truculent three eor f
have been better arrasiire,d ; and I felt at The splendid serrates rendered by the
than were nest laymen' last reolrlessly Ergs. and tetUnzgghaht as 1 I Highland. regiments will ever remain a
It was g t up at a public that d I drinner toasted m foot before 010 fire of my little g
who once got up ata dianor and de m Itawho s Hotoh
"eared the satisfaotlon it would give hint to
room g
see Mr. Joseph Areh dragged through a
horsepoBis dad me the honor
The Bishop presently
of ;Addressing me,
' I hope, Mrs. Allen," ho observed peter-
sally, find with a gesture of the handl;
which seemed to indicate an irrational 48811e.
to commence the oongfirmetion service at
once upon she whole body of his guests,
"that you find the air of Salohester sett,
what 13 I fear, and have indeed heard, e
delicate constitution."
"Solcheoter, My lord, suite me in every
way, I have actually not had to tall in a
medical man. I find the air from over the
downs as bracing and exhilarating as that
of Brighton itself, and the scenery is de-
lightful. I manage to get little drives,
and am learning to know the neighbor-
hood."
"It is a very beautiful neighborhood,"
he remarked. Moet of our Oathedralo
have been most happily placed, although 1
fear,the credit must he given to the Monks
who chose the localities long before the Re•
formation.
Having delivered bimsolf of this astound•
ing piece of ecclesiastical history, he con-
tinued :
"A river was necessary to them to pro-
vide fish for their fast days, and a sense of
duty also impelled them to seek busy
centres. It is the neeessityof the irou road,
and nothing else that has compelled us to
give a bishopric to—let useay—Manchester.
We muet, of mune, move with the
times."
With this profound remark he ran him-
self down like aclock, and waited helpless.
ly for me to wind him up, ,
This wa8 by no means a difficult task as
I had pretty well got his measure. I
talked to him about anything that came
first—about the architecture of the Oathe-
That evening I actually booka email
privets box, and went in one of the hotel
brotty'hams to the theater. 1 wonder if
bad' habits aro hereditary. W hen I got
back to my quarters, 1 actually found my-
self ordering; a pint of Perrier Joaet.and a
plate of dry biscuits.
(To BE CONTINUED).
wliioh things went on, to make beraolf at drat, about Tintern Abbey and a still more
all 3onnieitve. Even the most uneducated wonderful Abbey, which, as a matter of
Englishwoman has a certain amount of tact
and savoir faire, if you give her as little
trouble as possible, and wink at her pretty
deviations from the striot paths of recta
Jude and honesty.
This is why, as a rule, a man in furnished
lodgings never quarrels with his landlady,
and a woman always invariably manages to
elo so.
Well, things went on smoothly enough.
Before a fortnight was over the wife of one
of the Minor Canons called upon me. 1
had forgotten. by the way, to state that I
was passing as Jiro. Allen. and had resole.
ed, instead of risking troublesome false-
hoods, to evade or else entirely decline any
conversation as to my past life. As I paid
my way in current money of the realm, my
task was comparatively easy.
Before long I was in the magic circle of
the Close, and had actually dined at the
Deanery itself, where the Dean, who,unlike what poor George used to calla stone and a
my own very reverend father, was really n flat and thorough beating over four miles
So far then everything was in my favor ;
the days passed very pleasantly. 1. proem.
ed an old sure-footed pony and a small
basket carriage, just suoh another as I had
at Leamington, only more ecclesiastical in
its ensemble and with lose suspicion in its
appearance of any sinister intention to go
and see the hounds thrown off. This I
kept on the famous "gig•manity" principle,
and was most careful to let it always beat
the disposal of any of the ladies at the
Close. The pony was not one at all likely
to run away with them. And they were
welcome to let him down for all that I
oared, as his knees were badly broken
already.
And by these and other similar little
devices I managed to get on famously.
After all I was doing no .wrong. I was
leading my own life—a simple harmless life
enough, and being asked no questions had
no occasion to tell any lies.
On the whole I think I really enjoyed my
life. 1 mounted fern cases in my windows,
procured myself a piping bull -finch and a
magnificent collie, hired a good serviceable
piano, and began at last to find the spring
returning to my step and the roses to my
face, and to think dreamily about those
pleasant and lovely planes so exquisitely
deacribei to me by poor George Sabine,
and even to plan a visit to some of them.
To oue or two ladies, who were rather
curious about my antecedents, i replied
that my husband had been in the consular
service and had died abroad under very
painful circumstances. And then I would
bring out my pocket -handkerchief.
Some of them inclined to the view that he
had killed himeolf with drink ; others were
in favor of a fatal duel ; others of suicide.
They fought the matter outamoagthemselves
with some waste of time and loss of temper,
but none of them came to me a second time
begging me to determine the dispute in her
favor.
I did not meddle with them in any way.
I did not try to eclipse them or to compete
with their unmarried slaters or their elder
daughters. So tbey unanimously came to
the conclusion that my life had been 0. very
sad ono, and that the manner in which I
bore up against my sorrows, together with
my unostentatious mode of life, spoke vol.
umes for my resignation, my humility, and
my other Christian virtues.
Women are easily managed enough if
you will only abstain religiously from any.
thing calculated in the slightest degree to
make them jealous.
Thus, then, I became insensibly an in.
etitution in the town—a sort of Jack
dawees of Rheims. The life was lazy and
monotonous, but not, as my life with Sir
Henry had been, tedious. And 1 almost
began to wonder whether I might not
possibly "long live the pride of that coun-
try side, and at last in the order of sant.
ity" peacefully depart this life.
And yet, up to now, I had had so much of
the vie magma. that Saloheeterwas begin.
ning to weary me almost as thoroughly ao
Ossuieton had overdone, and, as I felt my.
self growing stronger and more resolute, I
began, as do birds of passage, to feel an
indefinitecraving for motion and freedom.
After all, I could return to Salohester at
any timet pleased. I had been economiz.
ing, not as a virtue, but because my income
was far beyond the few expenses incurred.
Had 1 lived up to my means I should prop.
ably have exotted suspicion.
Why then should I not give myself n
holiday, pleading that unanswerable ploa,
a craving for sea air?
We bed reached that time of the year—
Melton e, blanket writhe the day
When
lrmgica
pe'
AnheaiStamped n clay,
fecal only knew from photographs.
Then I paida,tribute to the memory of
Bishop Selwyn and asked bis lordship, gaz•
ing critically at his chest and shoulders,
whether he in his time bad rowed in the
University eight, or whether his studies
had made it impossible for him to so aid hie
Alen Mater.
He replied, of uourse, that he had been
warmly pressed to take a thwart in the
middle of the boat, but that more serious
pursuits had compelled him, like Caesar,
to thrice refuse the crown of laurel.
When you once get a man who is well
past fifty to chatter to you about his ph),
goat powers, you have pretty accurately
ascertained the length of his tether, and 1
in my own mind finished my reckoning up
of hie lordship by patting him in my men-
tal museum of busts as being at any rate
capable of giving my very reverend parent
THE EMPEROR WANTED TO FIGHT
An Illustration or Germany's Readiness
For .War with France..
The general disarmament of European
powers was the subject of an interesting
interview which a Figaro reporter obtained
last month with a French officer of Corps
Commander's rank. At first the interview
attracted comparatively little attention be.
cause it wee anonymous. It was made sud-
denly famoue,however,wlten several French
Deputies announced in the Chamber that
Gen. Marquis de GRIMM, tete greatest
of living French cavalrymen, was the 'nen
whose authority was behind it. Although
learned man, and wtthout a grain of world•
liners in his composition, was charmed with
Me.
I was particularly careful not to irritate
the women by my dress. I wore always tee
plainest frocks, of a very simple and ordi-
nary kind. I also, although my hair was
as luxuriant as ever, adopted a most discreet
little cap. My rustic Abigail always came
early to fetch me home. When any of the
grandes damea par le onde
ue
honored me with a call,I regaled them with
tea which I knew they could not match, as
I got it from Twining's, and with the bast
cake and hot -house fruit that the town
offorded.
If the men came, I would have claret on
the table. Parsons are, as a rule, good
judges of claret, and you are seldom amiss
in offering them a large glass of Tanqueray's
Larose, and pressing them to take a second.
Claret, I explained, was ordered me ; and
I had indeed been recommended a variety
called Haut Brion, which proved, however,
I found, to be beyond the range of -my
somewhat limited purse. Of champagne
there was not a trace, and I found life per.
fectly possible without it. I think what
pleased the men most was my andonfabaly
good wine. The women were charmed
when they discovered that I had among
my effects very valuable jewels which I
never wore, although, of course, there was
no reason why I should not do eo ; and they
were still more oharmed when they found
tbat I did not set my cep at their husband's
and lovers.
Within a few weeks I had established my
footing securely. The men all swore by me,
in so far and after such fashion as swearing
is permissible to ecclesiastical dignitaries.
The women had ceased to be jealous, and,
if anything, exhorted me to vary the mono.
tony of my seclusion by a little harmless
dissipation, some of them going ao far
as to suggest croquet. Lawn ' tennis was
mot as yet considered sufficiently serene
and sedate for an old -going Cathedral
town.
My rice at last reaohed its culmination in
au invitation to dine at the Palace, where
T found the Bishop and his wife ell smiles
and affability, and had actually the honor
of being taken down to dinner by the Arch-
deacon, a very worthy old gentleman,whoee
conversation was garrulous, and hie manners,
to borrow from Sydney Smith, "absolutely
and purely arohidiaconal."
The Bishop was o dull, well-meaning
pompous man, He had been a college tutor
at one of the very smallest Cambridge Col.
loges for the whole of hie life, and had
managed to forget nearly all the mathema-
tic'', which in thedays of but full youthful
vigor and intellectual force, had landed him
triumphantly as bracketed twenty-ninth
among the Wranglers.
He had edited Newton's "Principle" and
the "Epistle to tee Hebrews," preached a
number of indifferent University garment,
and, after a brief visit to Palestine with a
ereonally conducted tour," written a
volume called " Galilee and leennesareth,'
which reviewers had noteven condescended
to tear in pieces.
People said that if ho lived long enough
be ,would probably be Arehbiehop, as ho
was in every Way so eminently safe. By
which they meant that whatever hie
opinions might be, religious, political, or
social, he kept them profoundly to lemma
His Wife I eon deal with almost in a
aentenoe. Mrs, Johnson was one of the
numerous daughters of a poor Irish peer.
She Wee vieaoloue and agreeable, and had
evidently ohne been extremely good.look.
,ing. Beyond thio one could only say of
liar What the stranger told Seal Smiley of
his frog—that he could see no more pointe
in him than in any other frog.
Gen. Mercier, War Minister, denied the
possibility of Gallifot's uttering the sen-
timents expressed in the interview, almost
everybody on the continent has accepted
the Deputies' announcement, and the inter.
view hos been reprinted in about every
city daily in' central and western Europe.
Of the next war, the old roldier said:
"0f course Russia is a high trump in our
hands, but we must not forget that Russia
could take no decisive step until the sixth
week after the beginning of the mobilization.
With three or four army oorps Germany
eau prevent any swift action on Russia's
part. 'i?he Germans have provided for this
emergency. We spend on an average about
1,000,000,000 francs annually to prevent
war, the extraordinary exlenditure not
included. Now we must again overhaul
our arms, the Label rifles and cannon—an
item of 000 or 700 millions. Thus every
expenditure is repeated with every advance
of military Gramme.
"Now, provided that theoretically we
oan mobilize as rapidly as the Germans,
provided that we areae well as if not better
armed, provided that our officers corps is
equal in numbers and training to the Ger-
man officers' corps, still the Germane will
haye an inestimable advantage over us,
despite alt our sacrifices—they oan come
dawn upon us suddenly and swiftly. The
German Emperor is sovereign lord over
war and peace. Here we talk by the hour
and day when something is to be done.
You say we should deolaree,,war before there
would be time to attack vel. Well, listen,
I know front en unimpeaohable source that
on the evening before the Empress Fredor-
fok left Paris, owing to the unpleasantness
during her waft here, Freiherrvon Mae
achall went to our Ambassador and said:
"' Your Excellency must know that no.
body desires peace more than we do ; yet
this morning we have had the greatest
difficulty to dissuade the Emperor from
ordering our troops to march over the
French bolder. Kindly see that nothing
more unpleasant happens before the Em-
press's departure from Paris ; otherwise
we shall not he able to -morrow to prevent
hie Majesty's doing what he neglected to
do to.day.'
" There, you see, we should have been
surprised. Imagine the moral effect 1 Yet
while It was doing we should have been
arguing, and meantime the trains would
have been bringing German troops over our
frontier, In general it is fairly certain
that in the mobilization Germany would
have twenty-four, or thirty-six -hours'
advantage at us.
" Until recent years I have desired war
in order that I might make my name
hiatorioal. I have changed my opinion.
Standing at the head of 210,000 man, I
formerly asked myself how I should have
them fight. Today I ask how I shall have
them fed, how I shall have them march.
War means a perfect standstill in the livea
of Germany a• d France. Disarmament is
undoubtedly desirable, but the question is,
'How 0011 it be done?' The lost provinces
are in the way. To be lure, in the re.
accretion they did much for us, hut now
they are et the way. Perhaps their neutral-
ization by a congress will prove the
solution. At all events, however, France
cannot speak the first word for such a
plan."
The General also expressed the opinion
that the Socialists in France would threaten
the emcees of French arms in war.
., Should war break out to -day," he said,
" we would be more anxious about what
might happen behind us than about all the,
possibilities at the front. What would
happen? We fight. We are in the
midst of battle. The Commander-in-chief
must sacrifice a General—for instance must
sacrifice the right wing to give the left or
centre a victory. Now, we live in a land
of gossips, where everybody knows every-
thing too aeon. At once there is a tremen.
dous outcry against the Commander•in.
chief. He ie deposed ; that is nothing.
He is ehot ; even that is nothing. He is
dishonored; that is something."
All things considered, the Gemmel
thought that Franco would derive every
advantage from a general .disarmament.
aoureo of pride to Scotsmen, and elle de.
attendants of the men who bore up against
Napoleon's protease through that long and
fearful day may justly speak of their sum -
tors as honorable.
Scotland's only regiment of me airy, the
"nil Royal North British Dragoons, as it
was then styled, hen its share ut the glory,
and though the actual time ie was employed
in active work was comparatively short,
yet it was none theater valerous, and oer.'I
thinly it was brilliant in the extreme. Ae
is well known, the Greys were brigaded
with the let Royal Dragoons and the En.
niskilleus-these represented the three
kingdoms, and hence the title "Union
Brigade" which they wont by. Major-
General Sir William Ponsonby commanded
the brigade, Sir Archibald Alison writes
of his oountrymen'sdoingsin a sympathetic
spirit. Here f0 a sentence or two describing
the inoident:—
"The rush of horse was heard, and
Ponoonboy'e brigade, bursting through and
leaping over the hedge wliioh had conceal.
ad them from the enemy, dashed through
111e intervals of the infancy (Pack's brigade
consisting of the 42d, 44113, 92d, and let
Royal Scots), who opened to let them pass,
and fell headlong on the wavering column.
THE S0O0li WAS IRRESISTIBLE ;
ITEMS OF INTEREST,
Little eteamboote are displacing gondolas
in Venice,
New York city 1388 34,000 miles of under•
ground wires,
The beet brioks le the world are nude by
the tribea of Central Ada,
Live flab have been 0afely'committed by
Mail from India to London.
The brewers of New York city produced
3,000,000,000 glaae0 of beer last year,,
Pneumatic tree have been found very
serviceable on hospital ambulencee.
Faehiouabie young ladies in Japan, when
they desire to look very attractive, gild
their lips.
The largest bronze statue in existence ie
in St. Petersburg. It represeute Peter the
Great, and weighs 1,100 tone.
The elephant is the chief beast of burden
in Siam and Afghanistan, Au " elephant
load" is eetimneed at two tone,
Jewish guides in Rome never wee under
the arch of Titus, but walk around it. The
reason ie, it commemorates a victory over
in a few seconds the whole mass was pierced.
through, ridden over, and dispersed, and
the soldiers in despair fell on their faces on
the ground and called for quarter. In five
minutes two thousand prisoners and two
Eagles were taken, ono by the Greys and
'the other by the Royale, and the column
utterly destroyed. Transported with.
valor, the victorious horse, supported by
Vandeleur'sbrigade, ohargedagainet asecond
column of. D'Erlon's mon, which quickly.
were ridden down and a thousand more
prisoners were taken. The Highland sole
diers, vehemently excited, breaking their
ranks and catching hold of the stirrups of
the Scots Greys, joined .in the charge,
shouting ' Scotland for ever l' and collected
the prisoners made during the fiery onset."
They finally charged up a height and
dashed into D'ltrlon's batteries of artil-
lery. Here is what James Armour, the
rough rider of the Greys, says of this latter
incident:—
their race,
There is a way o bricking artificial ice.
in France so that when a big square of . it
is violently rapped, it separates into email
and perfeob'tubes.
When an alligator is about to attacker
large animal, it swallows a heavy stone.
TiIS into enable ft the more easily to drag
its enemy under water.
At the funeral of en unmarried woman
in Brazil, scarlet is the mourning hue. The
ooffln, hearse, Lha trappi cgs ofthe ltoree0,and
the livery of the driver must be scarlet.
Mrs. Betsy Shelton,' of Webster County,
Ky., le the mother of 14ohildren,the grand
mother of 117, great -grand mother of 282, -
and great•great-grandmother of 19, Here
age ie ninety-six.
An electric net for catching fish has been
invented by M. Trouve, a Frenchman. In
the interior an incandescent light burns to
attract the fish. When there to a large
gathering, the pneumatic rim of the not is
inflated, and slowly rises to the surface,
thus imprisoning the fish without alarming
them,
A soientlfie authority, quoted by the
Indianapolis News, states that by saturat-
ing a bullet with vaseline its flight may be
easily followed with the eye from the time
it leaves the muzzle of the rifle until it
strikes the target. The course cf the
bullet is marked by a ring of smoke, paused
by the vaeoline being ignited on leaving
the nuzzle of the gun.
" We now got amongst the guns, the
terrible gunswhich had so annoyed us. I
think they were six or seven in number, all
brace, that I was engaged with ; mostly ail
the men were out down, the harness tut,
and the horses boughed. We thought we
were done with it, and bed nothing to do
but return from where we same, but what
should we behold coming away across be-
tween us and our own army but a great
number of these Cuirassiers and Lancers,
the first I ever beheld in mV life, forming
up to cut off our retreat. Nothing daunt-
ed,
Athletes and Consumption.
"There 10 very greab danger of an ath-
lete dying of lung trouble if he ever cease°
hie sports," seed Prof. A. C. Mathews, "In
athletic exercises large lungs are required,
and they become inflated beyond their
natural size. If the athlete mane his
practice and adopt° anything approaching
a sedentary life, the lungs, falling largely
into dlhuoe, easily dooay, and the result is
quick consumption. It is frequently the
ease that young men in college who are
WE FACED' TIIEM MANFULLY.
" We had none to command m now, but
every man did what he could. 'Conquer
or die' was the word. When we retureed
from the charge, in the troop that I be-
longed to there did not number above
one or two unwounded men in the front
rank."
Sergeant Weir, who was pay sergeant of
his troop, was found dead on the field of
battle with hie name written in blood on
his forehead. A comrade of his, Corporal
Scott, stated that this had been done by
Weir himself to lead to his identification.
It appeared that he could have been excused
fromserving in the notion, but was allowed
to go at his own earneet request, and when
mortally wounded he had marked himself
thus that it might not her imagined: he had
disappeared with the money of the troop.
athletic loaders after graduation go into.
stores, offices, or oountinq rooms,' and in a
few years die of eonoumption. Every one
is surprised, and it le said, 'Such a strong
healthy man when he loft college. Who.
would have thought bo would die with I
ooneumption ? Must have bean hereditary.'
As a matter of foot, he hrought it upon
himself, U failing liN to keep u the p
root180
8
that expanded his lungs.',
J lou ahold.
A Mother's Duty,
There is no part of a woman's duty to
bar child that a young mother should so
soon make it her business to study ae the
voice of her infant, and the language on,
veymd in its ory, The study is neither hard.
nor difficult, close attention to its tong and
the expression of the baby's features arothe
two most importantpoiuts demanding atten-
tion. The key bo both the mother will find.
in her own heart,
11 is of the greatest importance that
young children should be carefully protest.
ed from the praotioes of unprincipled.
nurses who, while calming the mother's
mind with false statements as to the char-
acter of the baby's cries, rather than lose'
their rest, or i'fevote that time which would
remove the pause of suffering, administer
behind the curtain' those deadly narcotics
which, while otupifying nature into sleep,
insure for herself a night of many unbroken
hours. Marey nurses have not the hardi.
hood to dose their Want charges, but they
do not hesitate to employ other means to
still the constant and reproachful ory, The
most frequent means end loyed,•for this
purpose is giving the babe something to
suck—something easily concealed from the
mother, nr, when that is impossible, under -
the plea of keeping it warm, the nurse oov.
ore it in her lap with a shawl, and under
this blind inserts a engin, between the
parched lips which possibly moan for drink.
Under this delusion the infant is paoifled,
and drops into a tronbled:deep,
We again urge mothere to pet themselves
•
sympathetically is communication with
their ohildren'so that they will bo able to
recognize the carious shades of expression
n tho infantile voice.
A Combined Sink and Slop Drain.
How to dispose of the sink and slops
water in a safe and expeditious manner is
what greatly perplexes many residents in
the country. In cities where 'there is
the benefit of water works and sewers, this
is an easy matter. A simple plan whereby
this may be accomplished is shown in the
illustration herewith. The dotted lines
indicate the location of the sink. The nom.
mon outlet pipe passes downward in
the usual manner, but immediately under-
neath the sank or under the floor, as most
convenient, a foul air trap is made by
simply bending the lead pipe in the torah
shown at a; it should extend upward at
the bend a little more than the diameter of
the pipe, so that the pipe at the lowest
point of the bend will always remain full
of water. This, of course, prevents the
sewer gas from escaping into the room.
Every time the sinit is used the water re..
maiuing in the pipe ' is forced nut by the
weight of the now addition. Tbie is one of
the most simple lessons in hydraulics, and
of great value when rightly put in practice.
It is well also to flush the snit pipe
occasionally with strong washing soda,
letting it stand in the trap all night. The
refuse water from the weekly wash. mop -
plug or sorubhing, may be emptied into the
funnel at at, and be earrted any the drain.
This funnel is of wood one foot square at
the top, tapering to the diameter of pipe.
The drain pipe ehouldbe at least four
inches in diameter and placed below frost,
and discharged live or six rods from the
dwelling, so that the water will spread
"Too Good a Gun."
When Mr. Charles Montague was hunting
in Africa a young native was importunate
to be allowed to shoot for him, and
Mr. Montague at last let him have an old
single -barrelled gun. The fellow was
delighted. As the Englishman says, "He
put in a small handful of powder and about
a quarter of a newspaper on top of it and
then a bail, and then rammed the whole
charge tightly down," Then ho depart.
ed.
He returned in the evening in a woeful
plighk 1110 nose and mouth were split, and
bis face was swollen like a balloon.
He approached me and squatting on the
ground announced that he had no talent
for hunting, and would return home the
following morning.
"Good gracious ?" I said, "what have
you done to your face ?" And he auewered
as follows
"A little after noon I found the track of
elands. I followed it till 1 found them
feeding. I crept up to one of them. He
was about twenty yards off. 1 rested the
barrel of the gun on a atone, placed the
butt against my nose, directed the muzzle
towards the eland, and pulled the trig.
ger.
"I do not know what happened for I
seemed to be deaf and blind for some short
time, but when I came to, I found myself
lying at the bottom of the gully, and the
gun was behind me, My face was as you
now see it, and I was bleeding. The elands
had gone away.
"Son of a white man, it was very kiud of
you to tend me the gun, but it is too good
a gun for me,—it ie a powerful gni,—too
strong for me. It needs the wisdom of a
white man. Farewell!"
What's in a Na me.
" Thin is a beautiful moonlight 'tonne you
have hare, isn't it?"
Mies Brushes—I will gee in juste me,
meet, when 1 find the little book that I
keep the names in.
A Use.
"I don't gee what lnteineee a kicker has
on earth," said the irritable man.
"011," replied the philosophei^, "ho is
very email,'
,.How ?''
"He makes yon appreciate the 'people
who are good-natured,'
Best Modes of Preserving Food.
A correspondent writes:-1live in the
country and find it impossible to secure a
daily supply of ice. Last year I made up
my mind to dispense with foe altogether.
I will state for the benefit of other house-
keepers, what I consider the best modes of
preserving food.
Meat should be carefully examined every
day in summer, wiped dry, and suoh parte.
as are beginning or seem liable to taint,
particularly kernels, removed. In hot..
weather it may be kept for several days
more than it otherwise would by wrapping
around it a linen cloth moistened with
vinegar, or equal parts of vinegar and water.
The acid vapor keeps off flies, and the,
moisture causes cold by evaporation. Fresh
charcoal bruised to powder will also pre-
vent meat from spoiling for some time.
Meat, when slightly tainted, mayy be fresh-
ened by boiling it for some miautea with
several pieces of fresh charcoal.
Fish should be kept in a very cool place
—a spring -house if possible ; but if that is
not available. they should be laid upon a
stone floor or shelf, and dipped in cold salt
water everynight and morning. If it be.
necessary to keep them for a few days,
immerse them in a pickle of vinegar and
Water.
Cabbages and other vegetables should be
kept in a (tool, shady and damp place, not
in water, as that Metres their flavor. The,
best way to refresh them i0 to cut off a
portion of the stent and sot the cut part in
water. They should not be laid together
in a heap.
I gather my fruit before it quite ripe,
place straw upon my shelves and lay the •
fruit an thein in such a way that there is at.
least an inch space between each piece of
fruit. I cover my poultry and game with a;
muslin net and hang it in the cellar.
SAFE METHOD OF DISPOSING OF SLOPS.
over a large area and quickly evaporate
The sink outlet pipe ehould be one inch in
diameter. Dither of lead or iron. The fun•
nel also sate as a ventilator for the drain,
and should not be locatednearer than fifteen
feet front the building. Cast iron pipe is
best for tloo dram, 08 sewer pipe or wood,
unless the joints are cemented, is liable to
leak, which will prove dangerous to the
well and cellar.
When is a Cow at Her Best?
Prof. Wall disouesee this question and
comes to this conclusion : That maximum
annual production and the greatest profits
come at five to eight years, and that young
animals give dollar milk than older ones.
On the question, how long to keep a cow,
he aaye:
Keep her as long ae she page for her
board, and some mere. In tndividual eases
it is not readout to find very old cows that
aro still very profitable, while on the other
hand we also find cows that are worth but
little when over 10-12 years old, '(A good
Hygienic Summer Dishes.
The close, sultry mornings and the hot,.
uncomfortable nights of July make the or-
dinary bill of fare appear very unappe-
tising. There are people (one shudders to
think what digestions and constitutions they
are imparting to their children: 'by ouch a `•
course) on whose -tables appear an unvary-
ing course of hot, fried or baked meats, in-
digestible pastries and fried doughn ate the
year round. The stomach is a muoh abused
organ and stands a good deal, but your chil-
dren, even " to the third and fourth gener-
ations," muet pay for your misuse of your-
self. There is not the slightest doubt but.
that, as a general thing, people jest too
much. It is meet often the elfin with the
email appetite who weathers euoceesfully
many a storm of illness; A small appetite•
does not mean a dainty one. The dainty
appetite Tooke for means of stimulation
which too often include nnhealthful dishes_
If over the housewife and mother needs to
study hygienic cooking it is in summer. If'
ever there is an excuse for vegetarianism it
et in sutnmer,.but this I. do not urge other
than that there shall be a free use of vege.
tables and fruit.
Spanish Ragout.—Fry in butter a minced
Spanish onium or an equal amount of white
onions; add a green pepper minced fine
without the seeds, and sprinkle these over
six large tomatoee that have been sliced and
fried. Put a poached egg for each person.
on top and pour around a cream sauce,made
by adding cream or milk thickened with
flour to the butter, in the pan in which the
tomatoes were fires. There to no more de-
lightful hot weather appetizer than this,
. Potato Omelet. —Take a pint of cold Mash-
ed potatoes
rash-ed`potatoes and heat over the fire with two.
tablespoonfuls of sweet cream, beating with
a fork until smooth and light. Add four
beaten eggs, pepper, salt, and a little nut-
meg and press through a sieve ; beat one
tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan and
cook half of this mixture like an omelet. Ie
is delightful with bacon or ham out in thin
inhere and fried oriep.
Chopped Omelet mid Egg.—Hove your
round steak cheeped very (Inc and freed
from skin and sinews ; season with salt,
cayenne, and minded parsley and onion (a
teaspoonful of each of the two latter to a
pound of steak), add the beaten yolk of an
egg, and make into small flat caked. Fry
in drippings until cooked through and
browned on both sides; pour over the gravy,
and crown each with a poached egg. S5,
Lobster Cutleto.—Mincea pound oft,
lobster small (the.nannod may be used),
Beason with salt, white peppe";_tWI ounces
of melted butter, two beaten eggs and
enough fine, sifted broadsrumbe to make it
cling together.' Shape in the form of out.
lots ; dip in crumbs, then in egg and again
in orumes, and Iry in hot drippings. Them
ate very palatable with green peas or
tomato sauce. .
limey cows do not have to grow twelve
years old to be worth little, either.) There
are examples that cows have given large
quantities of milk up to the a wentieth year
or above, but such are exceptional cases.
What is a cow worth when beyond ten or
twelve years of age and in faot nearly time
will of course depend on a great many eon,
ditions ; constitution, feeding, length and
number of her past periods of lactation,
treatment received, eta. The cow, Lady
Bright, 10?t years old, gave over a pound of
fat a day during the ninetyday breed
test, and woe Mill a good and profitable
cow, hut she had doubt.eee long ago passed
her, highest mark. The better a cow is
cared for and the bettor the system of feed-
ing and the general oouditione surrounding
her,tholongcrwill eke be apt to give a good
flow of milk ; it furthermore seems ration.
ableto suppeeo that prolonged lactation
periods, eepeeiallyif the cow is milked up
to calving time year after year, Will tend
to shorten her period of profitableness.
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