HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-8-10, Page 2THE DEAN AND S DAUGHTER
For a week or two We were very dieereet,
• CHAPTER .I*XIII, I wont up to i+onden, saw M. George
stny od some few weeks longer in the 1 Wylie, anti laid' the ease before him, sag.
prinaipalfty asGenafbly ruled ostia that it mi ht be worth while to
little ed by the ' ensuitt some ernhremt barrister.
Fringe of Monroe and, tie los Amerleen 'Ile laughed outright, end tow ,me ib was
visitors say, "bossed" or "eon" by those a matter of A, 13. O. Whether I wee
MonsieurBlanteseueeessors, married by beam or by lienee, my exact
it would vis ate
Which is perhaps the beat time of the year a{therlioouae or banns and make tee mend.
for .lame Carlo but I felt the migratory age void, ae would also marriage iu an
instinct on the again, and determined to assumed name, whether it was surname or
only 0hriebiail,
leave on two modes of Lastly he added, that any olergyman
There are, after all, 1 could refuse to marry me, and that clergy-
Tila r , Y
lie, One is that of the bara•door fowl.; ;Iron had more than once declined to perform
the other that of the albatross. One is that the marriage service on the ground that
the lady bad been divorced, and that they
of the individual who never seams to ' would consequently be giving the sanction
philanthropists, position es a divorced woman must be trade
1G war sow the early part of January, known, Concealment
of v i
trouble himself further about the world
beyond the limits of his parish, The other
that of Ulysses, who found it impossible
to rest from travel. For my own part I
felt the spirit of Ulyases strong in me, and to
the obvious anncyenee of Ethel, although
she took the thing good-naturedly, I deter.
mined to leave the Riviera for anywhere,
subject to the fixed date of my return to
my little Ithaca of Salohester.
Wo first ran to Venice, of which I could
say a good deal were I writing a guidebook
or a seutimeutal journey, and not the story
of my life, put in the most plain and un-
varnished manner.
Then from Venice we went to Geneva
witch they tell ane is very muoh like the
English Lakes, only mors so, the Swiss
hotel.keepers, who boast themselves the de-
scendants of 'William Tell, being extortion-
ate, most insolent, and more aggressive than
ever their Welsh brothers in business.
There are two infallible recipes for the
destruction of two very special illusions. If
you believe in William Tell and the brave
Swiss, try Geneva. If, as 1 once heard
George Sabine say, you believe too much in
the happy ;reed of your childhood, try
Palestine.
There are a few English people in Swit-
zerland, at Berne, and Zurich, and other
such places. They live there because it is
cheap, and their children become polyglot.
For the rest, Switzerland is one of the
world's greatest shame.
We were told that we had oome at the
wrong time. This is what you always are
told. "It never was euoh fine weather as
it had been for the last three weeks. The
rain has only just set in. It is eo singular
hat the fish should be off their feed. Only
up to the day before yesterday they were
biting magnificently, and gentlemen, who
really know nothing of fishing, werepnll'ng
them out as feat as they could put iu their
lines."
Ethel only laughed. "Dorm not know
the story, Miriam, of the Frenchman who
invited his English acquaintance down to hie
country chateau for to sport ? 'If,' said he,
'you seg an old hare with but half of his
left ear, fire not at him, mon Grain„ he is
the p'rc de fa=ille ; and should you see an
old ]tare who limps badly, fire not upon her
it is Madame, his wife. But if you see
another hare, young, and gamin, fire at him
with all your will ; itis the little Alphonse,
who has mocked me all these months.'
Wherever you may go, you never get the
game that you are promised.
"I remember clipping into a book once,
called 'Try Lapland.' They did try Lap•
land, and according to their own admission
they would have been extremely jolly, had
it nos been that prices for the most ordinary
pothouse accommodations were about four
times those of Meurice's, end that innsgni-
toes and other nametsas insects all but nib-
bled away their toes and fingers. No, my
dear, 3ierchadte have given up the idea or
the North-Weat Passage. They stick to the
old routes of commerce—the Suez Canal
atone excepted; and we do not owe the
Suez Canal to nature. Let us stick, tor
ourselves, to the good old places. Nolo
episcopari in partibus, which naming inter-
preted, let us got back ea soon as ever we
can to a Christian land."
We accordingly returned to Faris, where
I loitered a few days to purchase necklaces;
and then, after an affectionate farewell to
Ethel, found myself once again en route for
Salohester,wibh the roses firmly established
in my cheeks.
I think at Salohester they were glad to
see me back. I can quite understand that,
n some uncertainly defined way, I was a
change for them. Anyhow, I was most
cordially welcomed. 1 re-engaged my little
maid, laid in a fresh stock of wine, and
started once more the washing basket and
the broken -kneed pony.
Curiosity had ceased about me. I was a
fait accompli, and 'very much by way of
fossilizing down into such an institution,
that were the actually authentic details of
my life to have been published in a broad
"suet, they would have round no credence
in the sacred limits of the Close.
The life was very dull, of course ; but
what would you have ?
It was now about the time of the sprig
equinox, and we were all looking forward
to May, when an eventoocurred which very
much altered the whole course of my life so
far as it had been hitherto arranged.
There was a certain Minor Canon, the
Reverend 4r. Sebastian Meadowsweet,
who, one morning after Infinite blushes and
with considerable gasping and choking as
of a newly -landed fish, did me the honor to
lay himself morally and physically at my
feet, and to beg that I would bind him to
my chariot wheels forever.
I had a great mind to humor him Let
of the Ohuroh to an sob of adultery,
He suggested that we should be married
in London, when I could qualify myself by
a previous residuum at a hotel enfficiene to
give me a parochial locus standi. But that
I could be married under any other name
than that of Miriam Craven was absolute.y
out of the question,
His own advice, he added, would be that
I should, without the least reserve or heal.
atiou, tell my intended husband the truth.
The truth must, sooner or latter, most cer-
tainly come out, and it would be jaab as
well to have it out at the beginning and to
have done with it.
Re was extremely sorry that he had no
device of his own to suggest, and for his
own Fart he onnsidcred the existing state
of the law very infamous; but we must tithe
the law, like all other human institutions,
as we find it, and as to its state on this
particular point that so concerned myself
there could be unfortunately no possible
manner of doubt. The thing had been dis-
cussed and argued over and oyer again, un-
til there was simply no more whatever to
be sail about it.
For himself he was only confirmed in the
belief he had always entoreained, that the
laity are far more tolerant and Christian
than the olergy, who, when they ouoe take
to law, seem to be seized with all the spirit
of Torquemada in its very worst form.
Now itis all very well to talk pleasantly
about Torquemada; but the terrible ques-
tion stared me in the face—what was I to
do?
Most assuredly I could not commie per-
jury, or what was next door to it. It was
equally clear that without a groes decep-
tion I could not get married. The only
thing to do was to take Sebastian into my
confidence and tell him everything. The
idea terrified me, but the thing had to be
done.
I went back to Salohester and for eomo
weeks lived a life of intolerable torture. I"
could not bring myself to tell Mr. Meadow -
sweet all at once. On the other hand I
knew what would be said by everybody
of my delay ; fur during my absence, our
engagement had got wind, and I was con-
gratulated by everybody, from the Bishop
and his wife down to my landlady.
My position beoame et last perfectly in-
tolerable, especially al Sebastian began to
urge the to allow him to have the banns
published in the Cathedral.
It was idle delaying or hoping that any-
thing would outer to alter the situation, so
one day I screwed up my courage resolutely.
1 was expecting Mr. Meadowsweet to call
and bathe me out for a walk. Some few
minutes before he was due I made myself
look my best, fortified myself with aliberal
dose ot Eau de Cologne and water, and then
when be arrived, pleaded a bad headache
which was, in fact, the truth, and assured
him that Ifelt unequal to leaving the house,
which was also strictly true. For I really
do not believe that I had at that moment
the strength in me to cross the Cathedral
Close.
He was very pleasant and sympathetic.
Tea was produced, and at last 1 found my -
sell taking the fatal plunge.
"There is something," I said, " which I
ought to toll you, and whioh, in fact, I
' must tell you before we are married."
"What is its" he asked in a tons of
curiosity, but without the least trade of
uneasiness.
"If we ars to be married," I said, " you
must, I fear, give up your Minor Canonry
here, and we mast live abroad fur a while
at any rate. I have considerable influence,
and if you want pariah work, or clerical
wotic of any kind, I believe I could secure
an Resnais living ab some watering -place,
or, better still in the heart of the country.
On that point I can satisfy you; but we
mustnot be married hero, and we must not
live hero after our marriage.
" I confess Ido not understand you," he
said with a marked trace of irritation in
his tone. "You aro the last woman in the
world whom I should have aocused of
whims ; and yet this seems to me very like
one, and I must say a very unreasonable
whim into the bargain."
"It is no white at all," I answered. "It
be the nose sober, matter-of-fact common-
sense. I cannot marry you here, because
my real name is not Allen. I have been
hiding here in honest search of peace and
quiet under a name that is not my own."
"'i'hat is unpleasant," he said, "and
certainly strange. It will require explana-
tion, but I do not see anything impossible
in it."
' You will see soon," I answered, " I
changed my name for the very beat ot
reasons. 'could not have lived here with.
out doing so. I have here, in this portfolio,
all the reparbe of my own Cage, the Case in
which 1 was concerned, and of which I have
no doubt you read at the time. It is not
so many menthe ago, and it was very fully
reported." And I offered him a little
locked memorandum.book with the reports
of the trial, and with the comments of the
Press upon my conduct, all most carefully
"laid in," as book collectors say, which
means neatly cut out, and artistically
pasted down as if they were (tholes etohin ga.
" You had better look at it," I oontinneel,
"at once."
so, that you Wave released me Irons my
mtgegomont. They may say what they
I ite of me, it inattel'e. nothing. It la fee
arm, and for youalone, teat Ietnooaaeened,
'Weiner =Meth her that le diverged coal.•
initial) adultery.' Believing that es
fully, ami as firmly as 1 behove in
your, own innooen00, It .makes it impose•
ibls forms to keep to sty engagotnoub. I0a0n0t
and will n01 break whebl believe to he in
very truth, the Divine law, But I cannot
keep myself from saying that I feel as if you
were my own sister, and that you will find
it brother in me whenever you need elle,
Even if you do not believe me now, you
will, I thunk, come to believe me as the
years page by."
I had encs to my feet and I held out my
hand to him, He took it, bent over it,aud
kissed Is.
Good.bye," ho said.
"Good.bye," I answered, and the door
olosed behind him.
I hewed him descend the stairs, and I
could see from the window that instead of
turning towards the Cathedral, he strode
away in the direction of the Main road lead.
ing into the open country, and that Ile
avoided the footpath,
I loved the man fol' rho first limo ; but T
tbink my time for tears had passed. I
made my way to my bedroom, threw my-
self
rayself clown on my bed, and burled my head
in the pillows.
CHAPTER:XXIV.
Mr. Meadowsweet kept his word faith.
fully ; and I need not say that I for my part
kept silence as to what had taken place be.
tween us, and met all attempts to draw me
out on the subject with what, for those
who had enfiloient intelligence, was a strong
hint that Guy own matters were my own
business and not theirs.
Evidently there con Idames been noserious
quarrel ; for Mr. Meadowsweet and I re.
=tined on friendly although not intimate
terns, never passing each other in the
street without exchanging a shorter or
longer greeting, and sotnetintes even joining
company. Thus, then, there could have
been no violent rupture. Wo must have
dreaded either to postpone the marriage in
definitely orelse forsome unknown reason to
abandon all idea of it. Certainly every
probability pointed to the lattst hypothe-
sis.
Could my health bo the cause? Nobody
who knew anything of my habits of life
could for a moment suppose as much. The
idea was ridiculous. I was as robust for my
sex as Mr. Meadowsweet himself. Could
my private income bo dependent on some
condition, prohibiting a second marriage?
That too, did not seem likely. If so, there
need have been no secret about the matter.
Besides, Mr. Meadowsweet's own income
would have been almost sufficient for us,
although, no doubt, we could have manag-
ed more comfortably with a little more.
Ultimately the matter dropped, and I
gathered from my little maid, who was told
it by her mother, who was told it by her
husband the verger, that Mrs. Dean had
said emphatically that she did not like peo-
ple who were mysterious, and that Mr.
Dean bad expressed more or less concur
ranee in the sentiment at being a sound one.
One day, however, when I had thought
that the matter wee over, I received a let•
ter through my solicitors, which I felt eon
tain at the time meant trouble, although I
did not guess then in what shape and man-
ner the trouble would come.
My father bad written to me under cover
to lelessrs. Wylie & 31 yhe, who had very
wisely refused to give him my address. It
was the old story of course. He very much
wished to see me,and he badly wanted a little
money, Could we not meet again, and
could I not listen to his troubles?
Then came a long string of evcnees, false
on the face of them, for las intpeuunions
condition. His expenses were enormous,
his account was overdrawn, and would not
be set right until the next Michaelmas
Cathedral audit, if even then. Alt he want.
ed was a little mousy, net to pay into his
bankers, bet to look up in his bureau, and
"l I Was now, bo use a homely '01'480 04
exactly expl'Oeeee Iny moaning, getting on
fawned)"in Salohester sooieby, The women
were stil illy friends, auil the men my de.
Voted servants, It Wae agreed unieeraelly
that I wao.a rates, quiet) amiable body,
entirely devoid of malice or mischief, end
whatever my pasttrouhlca might hive bean,.
ft world be unkind, and, in feet indelicate
bo aunties) into them. They wore, so every•
body oonoutrcd, entirely my own affair,
mill I bore my cross with a meekness and
resignabien that was highly creditable to
me,
el`a to alr, elettdowaweeb, opinion was
divided. Some people were only too rowdy
to denannoa dila as a iortene.hunber,-who,
having been disappointed in hla idose as to.
my position, had not scrupled' to
gill had
very shabbily. One old lady,, d
it front her brother, who ween lawyer in
London, and had got his informetion in the
strictest oonfideueefrom aaleck fothe of ee
of the solicitors of the late Ur, Allen, that,
according to Mr. Allen's will, all my money
if I married again was to go away frotn
ale at once to bis own relations, nvho in
oonsequenoewatohed iso me closely as a
conclave of oats watching a mouse -hole.
Tina was an admirable explanation. It
suited all the facts, 11, had an element of
romance m it, and it was dieeredttablo to
poor Mr. \leadowoweet.
This latter foot, when I come to oonaider
it, annoyed me so thoroughly that I had
half a mind eo take the old Dean himself
into my confidence. He was prejudiced,
no doubt. He night even tell ins that he
could no longer receive me at the Deanery,
and auggcab the advisability, entirely on
my own behalf and for my own good, of
my changing my quarters.
This would be unpleasant ; but it was a
risk I was quite prepared to talcs for Mr.
Meadowsweet's sake, His behavior had
been that of a gallant gentlemen, and it was
my'evidsut duty to see that he did not
suffer.
I had all but decided on taking this step
and I had, in foot, convinced myself that
common justice demanded 1 should do so,
when aeircumstance occurred which saved
me the trouble,
(TO BE 00ratiUED.)
me give the points ie his favor. He had He took the hateful volume, and opened
been at Winchester and at Balliol ; He was it hesitatingly. Hie eye caught the title of
tall, extremely good-looking, and not with. the Case in a moment, and I saw his faoe
out claims to be considered an athlete ; he flues and then turn very pale.
had an exquisite tenor voice, and he was as 'But what has this to do with you?" he
loyal and as simple as Sir Galahad himself ;
add to this that he was perhaps a few
menthe—say a couple of years—older than
myself.
So far, then, he was certainly eligible, if
not, indeed, entirely desirable. Besides,
au has her caprices. I womreally liked the
man, and I felt that with my money and
my help generally, he would soon be some.
thing more than a Minor Canon.
Hos defeats were not positive ; they were
only due to youth and inexperience. Hie
merits were very sterling, and far out.
weighed them. Could any woman sot
otherwise than I did under all the eiroum-
stnoee? I resolved to accept him ; and I
did, stipulating only that the marriage
asked, evidently still hoping against hope.
Simply this I answered that I am the
Miriam Craven there Spoken of, and that my
father and Sir Henry Craven are still alive.
lier,Sabine would have married me if ho had
lived, and every word he swore to is en-
tirely true. I was as innocent as a ohild ;
but Icould not fight the evidence against
one. A good deal of it was true but did not
come to much ; part of ib was perjured, but
of that it is new idle to taut. I was an
inuocent woman ; before God I swear
11."
He rose to hie feet and laid down the
horrible volume on the table os if the very
tenth of it polluted him. Then,in a choked
voice he began to speak.
"I
shall hold your confidence absolutely
RELIABLE EGG BOILER.
A Cloefeworlr Arrangement Which Never
Paris.
The proper boiling of on egg is not alto•
gather such an easy matter as it seems. If
it is taken from the water half a minute too
eon it is too little cooked for one man's
trete and if it is taken out limit a minute
too late itis cooped tooinuoh for another's.
In view of this long-rsooguized difficulty
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and ata any
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about without half•a-Drown in his pocket' tions. When the water boils in the sauce.
or not to have a sovereign ready if it were pan the eggs are placed in the trey pro -
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write mo any promise or undertaking to pay la pointerattaohed, the machine tsetse to the
that my lawyers tnight suggest, and they
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There are in London eight "Dietriee feet
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Within the delivery dietrtobof emelt of these
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there is also telegraphic service, The
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—se that there is in that city a Post Offices
to every 0,268lnbabitaubs, The number of
officers and subordinates regularly employ.
ed in the London local postal service is
10,800, of whom 5,886 aro letter carriers, in
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able for extra duty whenever required.The
amount paid the letter is equivalent to that
neeessery for the constant employment of
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sub•atabions, at all of which, in addition to
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Oity, and numerous other cities, towns and
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The number of officers and employes of all
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This contrast between the postal facilities
enjoyed by the residents of chief city in
Europe and those vouchsafed to residents of
the chief city in the United States is not
gratifying to our municipal or national
pride ; and one of the least agreeable inci-
dents in the oliicial life of a Postmaster at
New Yora is the receipt of written and
oral comparisons, made by foreigners and
travelers, between the service here and that
provided in London and other European
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might then sot upon it, if t ey thought fit,
should the utter impossible sou agency of his
net making punctual payment occur.
This, he added, he meant in earnest, but
could hardly help regarding it as a joke,
seeing that, his word bad always been as
good as his bond. (This Last remark was
unconsciously true.) Sir Henry, he con-
tinued, had, to his great surprise, most
positively dealined to assist him further.
Finally, ho begged an immediate answer,
nearing me that time was of vital impor-
i anee.
• !could hardly help laughing as I read
between the linos of this pitiful begging
letter from a man who, to put the matter
most plainly, ought to have saved money
and to be saving it, Matted of to be thus
abjectly out at elbows and down at heel.
Then I became indignant when I recol-
lected what my relations with my father
had always been, and what part he had
played in the history of my unhappy life.
I could scarcely at.first trust myself to
write to him, but I did eo at last after a
lapse of a few days. I put no address and
Nene the letter to London by the guard of
the train with instructions to post it there,
registering it, and bring me bank the re.
ample
I am very much surprised," I wrote,
"that you should come to me for money,
although nob at all surprised and quite
ready to believe that you are in what you
consider a necessity sufi'lcient to justify the
appiicetiou."
"I have a small inoome, club of whioh,
as a hatter -of -fact, I am able to save, and
do what I can in the way of charity. Yours
dons not seem to me to be a case that at all
calla for charity and, personally, I oonaider
that you hove not the alighbest claim upon
me."
"If you wish to save yourself vexation
yon had better take this as my final decision,
and if you want money you trust set to
work and borrow it as other men do, and on
the best terms you can.
"You might find your past- experiences
at (Manistee usefal, and perhaps Mr. Thack.
er, now that you are transferred to a wider
field of usefulness, might he disposed to
meet any little request on your part in a
correspondingly wide spirit. You have
certainly quite as mush claim upon him as
upon myself, and I know no reason why,
with a little diplomaoy, you could not got
him to see how moderato your request really
is."I sealed the letter boldly with a Craven
signet-ring, which I had happened to have
among my effect*, and,aesubsequent events e
svill ui'oientl show,it reached its death i
In the contest for the envoy medal which
nati n, and. also prodeed exaotly its in. wee presented by Dr. Hamilton, Mayor
be deferred for a few months, and tended effect. of Cornwall, for compsbibiou in Public
should "andy p eohool of Goderioh Mie* Etbet Rh nae is
that fah some time our intention should be sacred," he seed, shalt not, hesitate to icor tray own art I dismissed the matter t y
kept a eeoret from Salohester sooleby, tell everybody, 11 you will permit me to do from m mind, the winner.
time required to cook them ; the arm is
pressed down, the apparatus placed iu the
pot with the basket under water, as shown
in figure 1, and a lever is moved to start
the machine.
It is claimed that the eggs can then be
safely left, and when the appointed time
has expired they are automatically lifted
out of the water by the machine, when they
eanbe removed at uonvenienoe.
AUGUST 10, 1804
0QI1]ITION OF TRATE,
VIE MAIN FEATURES OF THE
BUSINESS SITUATION SHOW
LITTLE CHANGE,
v la e c deoided or Orman nb
Ivoe it rase of p
improvement in trade oonditione,'or Oso
eonamnpbioa of manufactured goods have
0on10 to light. The volume ofdomestic
trade as canceled by exchanges at clearing
houses and railroad earnings ttt'e still otos
en 20 per cent, lees than a year ago, when
the movement Gish even was eliglibly re.
striated RS compared with two years ago,
or tee avor.ige of the past ton years. Judg
0d by the money market there is more eon.
fidence In the public mind, as interest rates
Meth weakened gradually of late, and the
supply of ourreeoy ie not restricted though
the volume of loans is deoreasing. The
main features of tate business sibuetionshow
little change. Crop conditions, as, a rule,
are encouraging, partieulariy for ;winter
wheat. The stook 0/col-tango markets have
been much better supported than might have
been expected in view of the comparative
apathy of speculation and the financial
stringsnoy. Wheat prices were+'strength
Quad early in the week by stronger Europ-
ean advices, an improved foreign enquiry,
and reports of a decrease In the past two
weeks of over 5,000,000 in the world's
stook ; but most of the improvement has
since been lost as a result of freer epooula-
tive selling on 'favorable harvest news and
prospects of in°i'easing shipments from Ohi-..
oagoand New York whose large stocks aoa
like a wet blanket on the market
The United Stater crop report, which
indicated a destine of nearly 20 per'cent, ,r
in the oondition of spring wheat, had, in
the face of the largo surplus both on this
continent and abroad, little or no influence
on the markets. Notwithstanding current
low prices, there is an evident willingness
to sell on the pare of farmers, and now that
the wheat harvest is at hand a free move-
ment of the new crop may be anticipated.
There is no change in the product market.
Choice butter continues in demand and
firm in prise. There is believed to be a
surplus of rather inferior butter, but still
in the hands of speoulabors, but as there
is no export demand at present quotations,. •
170. for best dairy tub, low grade and
medium from 14eo. to 151o., and creamery
rolls from 22c, to 230., a drop in inferior
grvdos may be looked for. Grooeriee aro
moving steadily it about the same volume
with a slightly better demand for sugars,
on account of the fruit preserving season.
Dry goods still hold up fairly well after
elle recent reduction In .prices, but wool
shows a tendency to dourine even lower. In
fact all the Reuss that enter into the cost
of manufactured goods aro lower. Even
the average of wages is lower. There has
been no important resumption of business
by any, of the cotton, woolen or other
industrial industries whichsuspended
operations on account of the shrinkage m
the volume of orders of manufactured
goods of all kinds. Some boot and
shoe factories are waking on reduced
time, and iron establishments are curtail-
ing their output. Yet our people aro fac-
ing the situation with confidence and cour-
age. There is one strong features in the
situation whioh leads to Lope and that is
the euprising volume of Dur export trade. -
Outs is increasing in a greater ratio then is
that of the neighboriug Republic. Lew
prices are attracting European buyers, who
are tatting our products on a large scale.
Roughly speaking, we aro exporting in
volume, though not in eurrenoy, 25 per
RAISING A BRIDGE.
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tined Five Feet Without Interrupting
Railroad Traffic.
The raising of a bridge in Switzerland
upon the line of the International Railway,
from Paris to Vienna, has attracted con
sidorable attention from the methods pur-
sued. The occasion for the change, says
Locomotive Engineering, was that the river
orosssd—the Rhine—had lost in the sec.
tional area of the passage between the piers,
about 25 per cent, in thirteen years, owing
to the deposition of gravel and sediment,
while the high water level had risen to such
an extent as to pile fleeting debris six foot
deep on the bridge floor in times of flood.
The alterations included some reinforce-
ments, besides the raising of the whole
structure about five feet. The bridge was
continuous over a centre pier, and had two
main vertical posts there and four vertical
end posts. T each of these posts an in- cent. more than two years ag9. In a period
alined strut was attached in a transverse of universal depression, when all agriogl-
vortirel plane, presenting a surface for the lural produce exporting countries have
top of a hydraulic jack to net upon. Eight free and unrestricted acesaa to the common
COULD NOT TAKE IT ALL.
Too Much Freight Offered to the Wnrrl
Alps for Shipment.
A dospatoh from Vancouver, B. C., says:
—On her last outward voyage the Austral.
fag steamer had molt a large freight lint
that there was not another available inch
of room. The captain was obliged to re.
fuse freight. This is the Warrimoo's sixth
trip. The Australian line is past the ex.
peril -mute] stage. The brefflo so long drawn
to San Francisco was not at the beginning
very extensive, but in six' months that
traffic has grown beyond the expectations
of the most sanguine. Thepassenger list
is also very large, and constantly growing
bigger, the all -British route being attrao.
live to English travellers. The Warrimeo
on her last trip had 2,200 tons of freight.
special100-lou jacks were used, with an
eight -inch stroke and a wonting pressure of
400 atmospheres, the piston being -nearly 0.
7 in diameter. The fluid used was a mixture
of water, alcohol, and glycerine. Sixteen
men operated the jacks, their movements
being synchronized by a code ofeignala, de-
signed to secure nititormity of action. The
bridge was raised a foot or two by abort
lifts, followed by thoroughly blocking, and
then building under ono aourae of out -stone
masonry. The total load was 546 tons,
and the maximum loud on a single jack was
eighty-seven tons. The bridge was raised
In four stages during intervals between
trains. The longest interval between trains
was about two hours. The weight of trains
wog rigidly restricted during the time tate
bridge was undergoing repairs, and their
speed was limited to three =ilea an hour
in crossing the bridge. In addition, a
speotal ?hock system was organized upon
that sentient of the line upon which the
bridge le located, so that operations could
be suspended, and the track metered five
minutes before the arrival of a train at the
site.
THE FLYING MAN FALLS.
Herr l.ilientlutl's Wonderful Machine
Collapses at 300 feet F the Ground.
Engineer Lilienthal, of Lichtsrfelde,
reoently ednatrunted a flying machine,
with whioh he has succeeded in beaching
considerable heights. While practising on
Sunday at 13russels,'Bslgium, the wings of
the machine collapsed at an altitude of 200
feet, and he fell to the ground. His fall
was broken somewhat, bap los was badly
injured.
Herr Otto Lilienthal, of Berlin, the
" flying man " has far a long time been
trying to invent a flying machine, and his
°Sorts have boon rewarded with an
encouraging measure of aucoots. He was
born 433 yearn ago 1n Anklam, near the
Baltio ooaat of Pomerania, about 60 miles
north of Stettin. A residence so near the
sea afforded him in early life many
opportunities of pr0aeeutieg his favorite
studies. In later years he migrated with
his younger brother 0 ustav,of Berlin, where
he established and now conducts a manu-
factory of small ateann engines, the moohan.
icer appliances of which furnish him with
every facility for the menstruation of his
flying apparatus. He resides, however, in
the suburb of Liehterfelde, and his regent
experiments have been 000duoted chiefly
in the neighboring localities of Steglibz and
the Wills near Berlin..
markets of the world, it is difficult, no
mutter how favorably situated in many
respects we are, to procure a sudden change
in business conditions. The question is no
longer "What have we to sell ?" but how
shall we sell it profitably. Insurance and
financial institutions are begingiug to feel
the depression,as large industrial operators
and general jobbers are now doing business
on smaller stooks and consequently requir-
ing lees insurance. One wholesale home
in Toronto reduced insurance on stock by
over $50,000. The money market is
steady from 4 to 41 and mercantile dis-
counts from 6 to 7 per Dent, a000rding to
risk.
Avoiding Temptation.
Cholly—"Quick ! This way t Hers cremes
my tailor 1"
Argy--"Inevah knew you to dodge your
tailor before.'
Cholly—"Yaps, but this time I have
money, and might be tempted to pay
him."
SOME TEA SECRETS.
annexe Carefully Guard the made erse-
lect.ion, nrylnu nod Preparing.
Owing to the jealousy of the Chinese gov
ernment preventing foreigners from visit-
ing the districts where tea is grown, and
the information derived from the Ohinese
merhsnts at the shipping ports, ooanby as
it was, not being depended on with any
eertainby, mush mystery and confusion for
a long time existed regarding the species
yielding the varieties known to the trade
as green and black teas, by whioh nerues
they are best known to the publio, many
authorities contending that the former
were produced exclusively from the green
tea plant, and this latter solely from the
black tea variety, while again ib was held
by ethers that both uommeroial varieties
were produced from a single species, the
difference in color, flavor and effect being
due eutiroly to a disparity in the soil, cli-
mate, age and process employed in During
the leaves for market); also that green teas
were grown from plants cultivated on the
plains or mew lands iu soil enriched by
manure and black teas from plants grown
en hillsides or mountain elopes.
Later and more careful invesbigationo,
however, disprove of all these opinions, ie
being now admitted, even by the Chinoee
themselves, that the green and black Rae
of commerce may be and are prepared at
will from either and both species of the
plant, different methods being pursued in
the process of curing from the first stage,
green teas only being distinguished from.
the fact that the fcrmer are not fermented
in the preemie of curing or toning as high'
or as often by excessivoheab tie the latter,
in the firing process to whioh they are
eubjected before being twisted and curled.
It was alae a commonly received opinion
at ono time that the distinctive odor of
teas was imparted to them by being fired
in copper mins. For this belief there is
not the slightest foundation in fact, as cop.-
per is never used in the process of firing
leaves, repeated experiments by unerring
testa have conclusively proved that not in
a single vaso has any trace of that meta
being detected, the only difference lying
in the different mode of preparation,