HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-9-21, Page 2EDEAN .AND g.ts.. DAUGHTER
ER XXXVII
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lever been a bight ora very happy one
I mast live it pub fur a, long as the god.
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door of our box, o k gp my heed, elft, with all hie emanative a ,
le grasped ie and shook ie heartily, bat
tenderly, lu the iruestand simplest iingliah
midge, and so went his way,
For the very soul of line w0., sorry for
the man, And yet I could not sae at that
moment, at any rate, how I could possibly
have acted otherwise cr have said or left
unsaid a'tingle word,
come, as 0mere matter of forth, before lift
ing the latah.
Of course, 1 bowed graolously, and
Men,
tinned to him to enter ; and equal,,
mum, he wee in amamoat ab my aide.
" I hardly expected, Lady Craven," the
Prince said, "to find you and Mrs.. For -
theme in Paris l and I certainly never
dreamed of finding yell hereof all pleats in
this moat %harming of cities."
Prince Balenikoff, I need scarcely say,
came to breakfast, and did nothingbut
talk about, .R,ngland, and declare that he
had half a mind to live there. The more
he saw of the English, the better he got
to understand them and to like them. It
was a mistake ` into which foreigners poly
too easily fell, to assume roughly, that the
Eng lieh were all churlish, and difIonit to
get on with. It is nothing of the sort. All
that you needed to do, was to take them in
the right way, which meant of course, to
flatter their vanity and play upon their
foibles, and they were the easiest people to
manage in the. world. That the men were
brave no one had ever doubted, although
they labored under the delusion that
bravery was a virtue of which the Anglo-
Saxon ram had a monopoly. Before the
Crimean war, they were under the delusion'
that Russians could' not fight. They had.
actually forgotten how Napoleon himself
found the Russian rank and file more than
a match for his picked battalions.
The Prince was a Russian, and no doubb,
"spoke fine ," or, to be more exaot was a
most abominable liar, But that he had
made money, or had, at all events, some-
how got the control and command of ir,
was beyond all question; and it was money
after all, or, rather, what money could
give me thatwas the only thing now left
for ine in a world, the rules of which, like
the laws of the Medea and Persiaue, alter
not,
But there was one good influence that
kept me back, when 1 might otherwise
have been weak enough to give way. It
was the memory of George - Sabine, with
whom, as with a touchstone, it had long.
been my habit to test in my own mind every
man across whom I came.
How little the world, as it calls itself,
knows of the truth 1 the very man to whom,
if the world was to be believed, I owed my
ruin, was the one the mere memory of
whom kept ine from evil, against which I
might otherwise have been weak and power-
less.
Before very long the inevitable, exactly
as I had foreseen it, actually falsified the
reputation it has of late years acguired,end
came to pass most naturally.
The Prince began 'to say thab be feared
he was like all hie countrymen, little better
than an immense schoolboy (atthisperiod
Ethel, with a deprecatory murmur, was
wicked enough to leave the room); that it
was idle to attempt to conceal the foot from
himself, and that he wan sure he could not
possibly hope for a moment to conceal it
from me. He knew perfectly well that he
was risking my very gravest displeasure,
and risking it most unwarran tably. I
should be inont entirely justilied if I
were to forbid him ever to speak to
me again; but he could only throw him-
self upon my meroy. He never wished
again to set foot in Russia. Out of that
country he could defy the Czar himself.
Hie Imperial Majesty would utter terrible
threats, no doubt, but threatened men lead
proverbially long lives and he had for him-
eelfno reason to tear that he should form any
exception whatever to this most pleasant
and wholesome rule—a rule of which alt
despots are perfectly well aware, and upon
which they habitually acted. Whatever
articulate expression the anger of the Czar
might take, ne had long ago made up his
mind to leave the country, and in fact, had
made all his preparations for doing so. He
would be safer perhaps in the United States
than anywhere else, for although the rel,•
time between Washington and the Imperial
Chancellerie were very cordial, the United
States had almost moat sternly refused to
regard political ofi'ancee as mattera of ex.
tradition.
For himself, however, he did not care
where he went, and would leave the choice
entirely to me. All he had to do was to
beg me to reconsider my decision. And
then he fairly, and without the least lis•
simulation, lost all control over himself,
and urged his affection with a vehemence
that almost terrified me by iia obvious and
painful sincerity.
Here, at all events, there was no acting
or pretence. The man was eavegely fn
earnest, and his wild and ungovernable
temper was something more than danger-
ous, it was absolutely terrible.
I did all that I could to quieb him, and,
to put the matter as bluntly as possible,
to get rid of him, I told him with all the
Plainness that truth has, when you can
bring yourself to speak it out courageously,
that Iliad really loved but one man in my
hie, and should most certainly never love
another; adding, with ecareely equal vera-
- pity, that 1 meant to treaeure that man's
memory, and to live faithfully as hie widow
until the day of my death ; that I had
vowed as muoh and dare not break my vow;
that if I did, the vongeanoe of Heaven
would most certainly overtake met and
then, having 00 other arguments left that
occurred to me as at all likely to be of any
avail with ham, buret into a passion of tears,
which were as genuine as any I had ever
shed, and begged him to show ,little mercy
and leave me at once.
" You wield an authority," he said,
"more potent over me than that of hie
Imperial Majesty himself, If I disobey
him he can kill me, and wore he to set him-
self to work about, the task in anything like
earnese would no doubt emceed in it. Well,
you can only kill a man once. I have seen
men shot. I once saw a wretch of a Pole
knouted to death. It was nob exactly a
plangent sight, ; but it was intereeting, and
I admired his courage. To use your Eng,
lieh ideas, he died game. I think—in fent
I am sure—I could do the enure myself. But
you are condemning me even to a death
in life far more terrible then any
deeth,more terrible and more hopeless than
even the deepest and darkest Siberia mines
10 which we leave our worst malefactors to
tot. I hardly deserve, this of you, aur is it
merciful or like yottrself. Aud yet I can
not see what 1 am to do or to say, I imp.
CHAPTER. XUXV1II
I stayed in Pari, for a few days longer,
out of mere indolence. There are pertain
place, in the world which tempt you to
remain in them. The effort to gave them
is as great ne that reyaired on a cold frosty
morning to virtuously jump out of your
comfortable bed and plunge into cold
water.
For my own part I cannot believe that
Providence intended the world to be un-
happy for us. And here let me briefly give
my own idea of what the world ought to be.
It is the world of which George Sabine
spoke to me. It is a world within easy
reach of Loudon. It is a world where
nobody gives you any worry or bother, and
where you on your own part are . equally
cautious and discreet. There is no post -
office, there are no daily papers, there are
no fashions, there are no lions to expect to
be feted, there is no Opera -house, there is
no oiroulating library. But,. for benefit.
of men, who are always selfish, there are
clube and music -halls. These are frequent-
ed by the men alone. No woman shall
willingly stay in them for a minute, or visit
them a amend time.
I continued to think of this world vague-
ly anis indefinitely.
Ethel was delighted at the mere idea of
a change. A genuine English country
house, like that of the Fox's, opened up
unknown possibilities to her. I need
scarcely say that I knew the English
country house only too well. There are
the hothouses, the kitchen -garden, the
stables, and, perhaps, the home farm
Country houses resemble each other as do
mountain peak,, or millstones, or telegraph
posts, or daisies ou the lawn which is spread
in their front. How ridiculous it is in
these days to talk of goinginto the country
for a change 1 A railway takes yon to the
summit of the Vigil, and you are offered a
brandy and soda. You reach the apex of
the Great Pyramid, having been hoisted up
ky attendant. Arabs, and you find Bass'
bottled ale, with a red pyramid on the
label, Watling's pork pies, and Blandy's
Maderia.
At the beginning of October we found
ourselves at The Uplands. It was one of
those English country houses for which a
Parisian banker wouldgive at any minute
a dozen chateaux. It was an old ugly build.
ing, to which story after story, room after
room, and wing after wing had been added,
with no regard whatever to the inexorable
requirements of architeotare,butsimply ac-
cording to the immediate necessities of the
moment.
Behind the house itself plantaticna of
Norway pine stretched up to the turnpike
road. From the front of the house down
to the river ran a wilderness of lawn, with
red geranium and gaudy heliotrope. Then
a carpet of turf, as smooth as a billiard.
table, brought you to the river's edge,
where there were boats and punts, and
where under the shelter of her own house
lay the little eteamlaunch,whieh was always
ready to start, and to make any number of
miles in the hour. And from the bank, If
you ware so diapoaed,you could catch perch,
nr gudgeon, or eels, to your heart'soontent;
while in the big eddies lay antediluvian
trout, proof against any some, .and con.
temptuous of their riparian owners.
We were welcomed with the utmost
cordiality. Whatever London may be
there is, at all events, ltttle onnntraint in
an English country house within the Lon-
don radius. Ethel and I were at home at
once.
The men staying at The Uplands were
pleasant enough. With the vermeil 1 some-
how could not get on. Perhaps there were,
faults ou both sides—the faults being mainly
jealousy and eu5plaion on their side. For
I can deolare most truthfully as far as I
was concerned, that I was entirely iniucent
of intention to give or willingness to take
offence.
`hey were annoyed by a number of
things; by my manner, whtch waa certainly
not theirs; by my toilette, which certainly
differs from theirs; by my self-possession
and reticence, and unwillingness to be
pumped or to join in idle gossip for its own
sake. We had, to sum up the position,
no common interests. And I may fairly
say, and without any conceit, that I felt
myself very much like the ugly duckling
in the wonderful story of Hans Anderson.
The people in the house were to use the
ordinary phrase, mixed.
" How do you like Cowes, Mr. Snip 1"
once asked a prince of the Blood Royal of
a most eminent Saokvilbe Street tailor.
" Very well, your Royal Highneae," was
the answer; " bat I find the company a
little mixed."
" Bless my soul, Mr. Snip 1" the Prince
answered, "did you come down here and
expect to find us all tailors?"
Well, the society at The Uplands waa,no
doubt a little mixed, but il; did not entirely
consist of City people. On the nontrary,
it was almost as varied as are the hues in a
kaleidoscope.
There are two kinds of rich men. Some
have immense wealth, but not much reedy
money. Others have moderate wealth,and,
within reasonable limits, any amount of.
ready money. These are the men, who are
able at any moment to write a %heck in four
figures without muoh anxiety, although a
war, or an unexpected turn of the markets
may ruin them, and sometimes does. But,
as a rule, they are very seldom so ruined,
and, upon the whole, have a happy time of
it. Dividends and coupons aro far more
easily to be collected than is rent. And
these two kinds of men were'well represent
ed at The Uplands,
The lawn was nearly full. I can only
piok the prominent guests. There was a
London Rector, with his wife and eldest
daughter. His parish was in the Oity, and
be had only ten pariehioners. He drew two
thousand a year, paid two hundred to a
curate, woe Chaplain to four or five City
ootnpaoioa,and preached at Whitehall upon
occasions. But he was.. a good man, eharit-
able to a fault, and thoroughly sincere,
There wee a West -end doctor with an
enormous practice. Hit specialty was
latent ooneumption: You might not have
got consumption at present, but he could
stake hie professional reputation that you
would be an incurable victim to it within
six months unless you took hie advice—his
ddvice being, that you should go to Men,
tone, atop there es long as you liked, and
gee him again upon your return.
There was the editor of the Comet, a
weekly six -penny paper to which gll,the
taleote ootttrtbuted, and wbioh erowo_1 each
Saturday ea loudly as the Dock to oah'a
Ark would have done, if that patriarch had
been weak enough to allow the bird to perch
itself upon the roof for that express pus -
pee.
There was also Lord Robert FJta.Ronry,
third brother of the Duke
of Berkshire,
with
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income whioh
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nt
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rel
y
de-
voted toeaohttia�never getting foot on
shore excpt for chew.
Ile had taken
hie eorew-ateemer, the Miranda, to Spite-
bergen and to Cape Horn, to the Straits
of Sunda, and to the Bay of Sao Franoieco.
He was unmarried ; preternaturally tall ;
bony and inueoular ; intensely ugly, and
with all the generosity and dash of a sailor
just paid ole:
Loeb amongst the company was Lord
Ashwell, heir presumptive to the Earldom
of Cambridge. He was a mild young man,
with more promlee in him at present than
reality ; but of promise there wee abun-
dance. A trainer would probably have de.
aeribed him as a leggy colt, Leggy colts,
however, are apt to develop into dark and
dangerous home. I became somehow in-
terested in Lord Ashwell and took notice
pone I must aooept my fate.. My life has
TONS OF POWDER J O .E1
PREUAVTIONs TAKEN IN TRANS-
PORTING THE EXPLOSIVE.. '
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loaded.
The Wilson line stoamahip Lydian Mon-
arch, Clapt, W. S. Morgan, arrived in New
York from London col Sunday morning,
having on hoard ten tons of amokelese
powder. Ten tons of powder, smokeless
or any other kind, is a tioklish thing for a
steamship to carry, but the officers of the
Lydian Monarch say they have been carry-
ing powder for years and have never had an
accident. Great preoautione ore taken.
The steamer is not permitted to take the
powder aboard until ehe has left London,
and when New York is reached she must
discharge the explosive portion of her cargo
before looking, The smokeless powder
that came over on the Lydian Monarch was
packed in half.pound copper Daus, one hun.
diad of which were carried in a wooden ease
lined with zino.
lie was close upon six feet and large
limbed, Most women would have called
him awkward end uncouth. He had a pink
fade, red lips, a downy moustache, eyes of
gray blue, and a mop of crisp yellow curls.
Re blushed when you spoke to him. He
never seemed to know exactly what to do
with hie hands, and his powers of conversa-
tion were moat distinctly limited. He was
about four.and-twenty. If you had dressed'
him in a slouch hat, a smock frock, cordu-
roys and ankle -jacks,. it would have been
impossible to take him for anything but an
agricultural laborer, until he had opened
hie mouth. Then you would have found
that you were dealing with an English
gentleman, somewhat diffident, but more
than usually a000mplished, and well read.
Somehow or other I took a fancy 80 this
young man. He was in no way whatever
like George Sabine. Theis was not one
point in common between the two. And yet
neither would have compared disadvantage.
ouely with the other, and I am sure that
if they had met by any aooidet, they would
have proved firm friends.
It is a fallacy to suppose that men of bhe
right sort must needs resemble each other,
as closely as do peas or potatoes, or, for the
matter of that, pearls. The merit of a map
is his individuality. The more be is unlike
other men the better, as a rule, will ft be
worth your while to .cultivate him.
About stupid people and winked people
there is a very dreary monotony. Rogues
are so like each other, that a detective with
any experience can single out a pickpocket
in the midst of crowd.
(TO DE 001:TINVBD.)
A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.
The Awful Creme of Man 111 Austria—
Killed Ole 5011 instead of Guest
A Vienna correspondent writes :—In
Tarnopol, in Galicia, a peasant is about to
be tried for the murder of his own son,
under circumstances so uncommonly tragic
that the trial, which under ordinary cif
0umataneee would have excited little or no
comment, is now assuming the dimensions
of a cause celobrc. The prisoner, Adam
Gavrido by name, who has a little farm in
the village of Zbarats, ekes out his liveli-
hood by keeping fowls and bees, and he
lately disposed of this year's honey to a
merchant named Solomon Barb for the sum
of 50 florins (£4 2s), stipulating that the
quantity should in no case be leas than the
minimum agreed npou. On the day of
delivery drawing near, the peasant inform -
TI+MI33+II 21, 1894
SUMMON NOTES.
Prefeeser Dolboar sage oleotricity pea-
sa0050 0.0 virtue ne such for the 0010 of dia.
ease. It will make as bad ulcers 0.e it will
heal, and destroy life as complacently tel
Strychnine or the guillotine.
The aerial space within the limit of our
eo f
p have dam
fro
' calculated 0.v i
o a au atod to
VinOn i% u
of
0 011C
a it mar e
ile and o au f
4,OAo0,000 m s,
1,329,742,000,000 miles. And this is only
a fragment of the imineneity of space.
Labe explorations have extended bhe
length of the famous Adelsberg Dave, in
Austria, to six mlleo,which 10 three fourths
of a tulle greater til notitan hw rove of arded gas eche
k
in Hungary,
Jargeet of the European 00.950,
Iti ie nob likely that earthquakes ever re-
sult from electrical disturbances, and it has
not yet been proved that they over give rise
to any such, though when large messes of
rook are displaced, me in Japan in I801,
erlfghblooalohangesin magnetic curves have
resulted•
The Lydian Monarch took on an assorted
cargo ab London and steamed to a point off
Gravesend, where lighters having on board
the casesof'powder were in waiting. Be-
fore she was allowed to get near the small-
er craft all her fires were put out. Even
the galley stove was extinguished, and
every match on board was stowed safely
away, far from the epof where the powder
was to be placed. Then the lighters came
alongside, and the work of gutting the
powder on board wee begun. Just before
things were ready for the powder the sea-
men on the steamer, who are indulged un-
til the last moment, were required to lay
aside their pipes, 'so that when the first
Daae of powder was lifted over the rail
there was not so much as a spark any-
where on. theateamer. .Despito the weight
of the aaee0 they were taken on board by
the men. A hoisting machine would re-
quire an engine, and an engine a fire, all
of which, would have been in violation of
the law.
ed his customer that he could not bring
together anything like the quantity stipu-
lated, but he undertook to pay to Barb, as.
damages, whatever sum the Rabbi should
declare was reasonable. The pair accord-
ingly sought out the Rabbi, and laid the
matter before him ; whereupon he adjudged
ten florins to the defoliant, which the
peasant Gavrido paid immediately. The
two then
SW0010191) TO A TAVERN,
where they enjoyed themselves—as enjoy•
meats go in that out-of-the-way dietriat—
Lillan advanced hour of the evening. As
the rain was falling in torrents when they
left the public -house, the peasant, whose
house was hard by, r.roposed that the
merchant sltould pass the night with liim.
The latter aonepted the offer with thanks.
As soon 0e they reached the farmhouse.
Gavrido prepared a shakedown for his
guest in the hayloft, and having Been him
safely to bed,bade him good -night, clueing
the door very carefully behind him. This
superfluous trouble he gave himself to
fasten the door awakened the suspicions of
the merohant, who softly left his rude
pouch in great terror, groped about in the
dark until he found a second door, which.
was fastened only on the inside with a bolt.
He rushed out of the place as fast as he
could run, until he almolb reached the tav-
ern
auern where he had spout the evening. Mean-
while the grown-up son of the peasant re•
turned home in a state of iutoxication, and.
finding the door of the hayloftwide open,
entered, flung himself upon the straw, and
waasoonfast asleep. A gendarme, meet-
ing the merohant on his way to the public,
house, stopped him, and aaleed him to give
an account of himself, which Barb very
willingly did, narrating the ev'enta of the
day. The gendarme, however, disbelieved
the story.
ARRESTED THE NA10RATOR
and took him' to Govrido'a house in order
to verify hie tale. They knocked at the
door, kinked, and shouted, but no one gave
any sigh of life.Ti'ereupon the gendarme
broke In the door with the butt -end of his
gun, and be found Gavrido washing hie
blood-stained hands in the middle of the
room. The moment he espied the merchant
he nearly fainted, and screamed in terror.
"But I have out your throat this moment;
how did you come back to life?" The
gendarme took him into custody, and then
returned to examine the hayloft. There he
found the body of Gavrido', son, the head
almost severed from the trunk. Gavrido
wrung his hands and wept bitterly when he
learned what he had done. His trial is
now about to take place in Tarnopol
When the Lydian Monarch left London
she was laden to her oapaolty, except o0
the starboard aide of the lower deck aft.
In this part of the steamer a sort of wooden
nage, not unlike a huge chicken coop, had
been built for the reception of the powder.
It was made of heavy boards, nailed. aogeth-
er with copper nails, and wee just beside
the main hatchway.' The oases of powder
were handled carefully from man to man
until they reached this store room, where
they were packed for the voyage by First.
Officer William Sanders and Second Ofliaer
Hugh Dibb. As soon as the last case was
packed away and the entrance to .the
magazine had been bolted with heavy strips
of wood, the main and every other hatch•
way were battened down so that it would
be impoelible for any one to get near the
powder. Not ones during the trip were
any of the hatches opened, and severe
punishment wouldhave been inflicted upon
any man caught lighting a match or
smoking near the spot where the powder
had been stored. All of these precautions
were kept up during the trip and on Sunday,
when the Lydian Menorah dropped anchor
in GravesetsdBay,the powder was in exactly
the same condition as when it was placed
on board at Gravesend,. England.
Earlyyesterday mor nip g preparations were
made to remove the powder from, the steam-
er to lighters, Before a hatch was opened
every fire on board was put out. The
lighters then came alongside, and as deli -
mealy as they would have handled cases of
fine china the seamen of the Lydian Mon-
arch removed the hatches, opened up the
magazine,and began passing out the powder.
About fifteen men stood in line, two feet
apart, and passed the cases along until they
reached the lighters, where they were laid
in piles upon the decks. After all the
powdek had been removed the Lydian Mon-
arch got up steam again and proceeded to
her dook in Brooklyn, where she discharged
the rent of her cargo.
To areporter Second Officer Dibb said:
"Of course, its neoeesary to use every pre.
caution when you have so much powder on
board ship, and while . to a landsman it
may seem teat weare running great risk
we are in reality in no danger, for I can
imauine no way in which the powder could
he exploded unless the shin naught afire.
The men as well as the. olficere appreciate
the fact that the utmost care tnust be ex-
ercised. It would be absolutely impossible
for a man to reach the powder, as there
are hundreds of other cases packed all
around it, and the hatches are battened
down and watched night and day."
Drawing' the Line.
Mrs. Do Fashion -"My dear, I have
picked onto, husband for you."
Mies De leaehion—"Very well ; butt
want to say right now, mother, that when
it comes to buying the wedding dress, 1
am going to seleot the materials myself, so
there."
Sir Fredrick Leighton is a linguist, read-
ing and speaking French, German, Italian.
Spanish and Ibusai80, while he has some
considerable knowledge of Turkish.
SPENT SIX DAi)S UNDER A WHARF.
Though the petref'is swift the frigate
bird is far swifter, Seamen generally be.
Rove that the frigate bird pan start at day-
break with the trade winds from the coast
of Africa and roost the same eight upon the
American shore, Whether this is a fanthos
not yet been conclusively determined, but
it is certain that this bird is the swiftest of
winged oreaturea, and is able to fly, under
favourable couditiooe,two hundred miles en
hour,
In Berlin there are several electrical
victories run by storage batteries, and
guided by a man who site in the driver's
seat. In Paris there are also three or four
steam and electrical carriages whioh are
permitted by the authorities to travel over
the streete. They apparently work with
smoothness and certainty, roll along swiftly,
and only frighten a few horses. In New
York city there are two electric carriages
which occasionally arouse the sightseers
on Fifth avenue and in Central park,
but there is no general demand for convey.
owes of this hind..
M. Girard, chief of the Paris munici-
pal laboratory, in late researuhea concern-
ing the bacilli of cholera and typhoid fever,
has once more proved the efficacy of aside
in destroying microbes. He finds citric sold
to he the most useful and powerful of all.
One gramme, he says, added to a quart of
tainted water, will destroy all the microbes
that may be in it. Consequently, he recom-
mends the Dae of natural lemonade 0e ad
excellent beverage at all times, and espec-
ially during epidemics. If necessary, a
littlebicarbonate of soda can be added ea a
means of neutralizing the acidity of th
lemon.
Old World News.
Af, Sottueider, the headof the great
Crouse!) was married the other
day 10 Parte, Cr1u130 hoe grown in alxty
years from a village of 000 inhabitants to a
town of 30,000 people—larger than Krttpp'e
town of Eason.
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with the B►aek Sea, 4acor
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report, The river% Dnieper and Dwina aro
to be joined by a canal ; surveying has
begun at the ends of bhe route and (Amnion
is spoken of as the harbor for the
canal on the Black Sea,
The merohaob tailors of Grata, Siberia,
have sent a petition to the authorities of
the university, reeking that hereafter no
student shall receive* diploma until he Mee
proved that he hap. paid his tailor bills.
Some of the M e:dente say that this is a
deadly blow at the higher eduoatfoa 01
young men. w •
Kempen, In Germany, will soon oelo,
brace bhe nix hundredth anniversary of Its
exietenoe with a festival procession repre-
senting the history of Germany from the
German warriors of Caesar's time to the
soldiers who fought against Napoleon. In
the prom:mien will be represented Thomas
a Kerne-As, the writer of the "Imitation of
Christ,' who woo a native of the town.
To what extent Spain is still under the
influence of mediaeval lows and restriotione
which hamper les progress and develop..
ment may be gathered from the fact that
among other imposts which the taxpayer
is called upon to pay ie that entitled "Tho
erusado," which was originally instituted
for the purpose of providing funds for the
Concedes, and which has remained in ex-
istence ever since. Ila proceeds: are now
applied to the repair of churches, the pay-
ment of the atipende of the clergy, and
other ecclesiastical porpoise.
The facts in iegard to prehietoria man
are increasing almost every day. Among
the latest finds are some ivory statuettes,
or parte of statuettes, and bones, among
the cinder of an ancient cave dwelling of
Quaternary age, at Braaeembourg, in the
Landes of France. These relics have now
been examined by MM. Edouard Piette
and Jean de laporbiore, and decided to be
remains of the rhinoceros, mammoth,
aureola horse, and cave hyena, the figures
being rather rude effigies of the people who
were contemporary with these, in moat
cases, extinct animals.
THE SAD FATE
That Was Met by the Affectionate Yea
eectt.
Some years ago I paid a visit to a friend
who rented a cottage on Hughenden Manor,
where the late Earl of Beaconsfield reared
the celebrated white peacocks, which he
ultimately begueatked to Queen Victoria.
Soon after my arrival my friend, who was
confined to her couch by a spinal affection,
amid:
"I expect ,gentleman to tee. at6 o'clock;
would you please set the door ajar, for he
cannot open it himself."
1 thought this Strange, but made no
remark.
The sitting room was approaohed by a
long, narrow paeaags, sad presently—the
tea service being laid—we heard the tap,
tap of a regular tread approaching the room.
Then followed a decided jab at the door,
mod in swept a magnificent peacock. No
wonder, thought I, that in the early ages
of chivalry the most solemn oath was taken
on the peacock.
Our visitor walked straight to my friend,
lookingaround as if in search of something.
She produced some fruit and cake, which
he ate out Iter hand, and then pecked
up some crumbaaoaked in milk from.a saucer
on the floor, I put forth my hand to caress
him upon which he raised himself ou his
toes and uttered a shrill cry, repudiate
Mg all my blandishments vigorously.
'In the same manner he came every even-
ing, remaining about half en hour. His
aliection for hie hostess was evident, but 1
never got beyond his toleration.
Two months afterward my friend left
Hughenden. Subsequently she wrote me:
"Poor Ralph ie dead. Thatebttpid game-
keeper never tet him into the cottage nor
fed him in the evening, as he promised me
to do. I hear from the little' maid you re-
member that the poor bird refused to eat
and would lie for hours beneath the win-
dow, uttering n0casionally a plaintive cry.
At night he pereioted in roosting in the
cedar tree in the cottage lawn. Becoming
too weak to fly upward, he lay among the
bushes in the dew, and was one morning
found dead."
littngina ton Beaus inti Without 'Stood—
Besotted Aleve—A Strange Story Fron.
Montreal
A despatch from Montreal, Saye:—At an
early hour Monday morning an aged man
was picked up from under the. long wharf'.
in a semi-conscious condition and thorough.
ly exhausted. Upon investigation it was
ascertained that the man, a week ago last
Saturday had fallen from the long wharf,
and as he neverrose to the surface, It was
though he was drowned. It now appears
he was an excellent swimmer, and after
muoh trouble swam directly under the
wharf, where he hung to some of the arose -
beams, and there remained for six days
and six nights without provieions. Ho had
a little, however, to eat, being able, by
holding on by one hand to the wharf, to,
grab w iib the other rotten fruit or vegetable,
meat or fish, with which he managedto
keep himself up until rescued. Messrs,
Favreau, Demers and Gauthier says that
they were present when the man was taken
from the water, but they do not know his
name.
Misplaced Emphasis.
A gentleman who spent a summer in
small village in Maine tells bow a kind.
hearted woman, without the slightest idea
of making hien ridiculous, gave his Moeda
and fellow -boarders a chance for a hearty'
laugh at his expense.
We had haddock for supper ono night,
and happening to be peculiarly hungry,I
ate heartily of it, bub' unfortunately
swallowed a bone. One of the young wo-
tnen of the family endeavored to comfort
me by saying that no harm would ever
come from a fishbone, as it would dissolve
of itself. `
Mee. H, had been observing me anxious,
ly, and now spoke.
"-Don't be too sure about that," she Said ;
"I think yen ought to take something right
away, Mr. 8,, for we boat a hog once by his
getting a dolt bone in hls throat,"
The Chinese Plague Bacillus
Dr. Yertin, a pupil of the Pasteur In
stitute in Paris, claims to have discovered
thebacillus of the Chinese plague. His
diagnosis corresponds with that given by
Defoe of the plague which decitnated Lon-
don in the reign of Charles IL According
to Dr. Yerain, the period of incubation is
short—from four to five days. The malady
rune its fatal course within twenty-four
hours after it declares itself, unless within
that time its virulence abates. Sometimes
there are many "blind" boils, but more 'of-
ten one only. The fever is coot venom and
accompanied by delirium: 1f there is im-
provement within twenty-four hours, the
boil soften and breaks on the fifth or sixth
day.
Dr. Mersin lived for weeks among plague -
stricken Chinese. He found by poet -mor-
tem examinations, that the bacillus was lo•
oalized in the boil, the liver, and the spleen.
He found it but rarely in the blood and in
these few eases the germs were not num-
mous, Mice inooulated wibh the virus
died in twentyfour hours, while guinea -
pigs died some in three days, some in nix
days after inoculation. A rat died in five
days. The minrobe can be easily cult' vat,
ed in gelatine, to which it gives a uniform
white surface.
A Willing Meroury.
Fleet Boyy" Wot's the rush 1"
Second Boy—" I heard pa invite an old
friend to dinner, and I'm hurryin' home to
tell mamma."
Dill v'r father send yah 5'
"Then wet you runnin' y'rself to death
for Z"
"'Cause, if mamma knows company is
cumin', we'll have a better dinner."
Cardinal Lavigerie'a plan for the civil
izabion of Africa is to be tested. The first.
caravan of 100 African pioneers reared on
the Algerian and Tunisian forme on the
confraternities founded by him have just
left Marseilles for Madagascar, where they
are to nettle es agricultural colonists.
Another hundred will be sect as soon as
these are established, and other oompaniea
are under orders to go to the Soudan, the
Touareg country, the Tahad region, and
the Cocgo, whore they will spread the
Catholic feitli and French civilization.
A Chinese, theotrioal company has ar-
rived in France. It is formed of the play-
ers
layera in ordinary of the Emperor of China.
The Barnum who presents these Celestial
comedians to the playgoiog world of Europe
is a Chinese merchant named Chong Beng,
who carrles on a large trade with Marseilles.
Contrary to what has been written in many
publications about China, the stage women
are not boys, but actual women. There
are in the Chong Beug Company twenty,
seven actors and five actresses. These
Celestials are bound for Antwerp.
LAND GRANTS IN NEW ZELAND.
Men and Women Over 17 Entitled to Take
Adv:m loge %ref.
New Zealand is making surprisingad-
vancos. in the system of land grants and
loans to settlers with little or no capital.
The late Premier, Mr. Ballance,wes credit-
ed with entertaining a gigantic scheme
involving a capital of $150,060,000, but the
measures actually proposed by the present
Government are much more modest. 87,-
500,000 is to be raised in the old country
$8,7.0,000 locally by Colonial consols
and other means. The sixteen million odd
dollars realized will be applied to the ex-
tension of the system of towns to settlere.
already in foram The scheme was started
six or seven years ago, and there are now
900 settlers holding. 22,677 acres of land
under its provisions. The settlers never
obtain actual p0aseesion of the land, but
pay 5 per cent. of its capitalized value asa
perpetual rent. Small loans aro advanced
to them on the security of the improvements
on their fame, and the interest on tite
loans fs added to the rent. In this way
over $123,000 has been advanced, and the
yearly payments of rent and interest now
amount to about $60,000. Of this total over
610,000 was in arrear—rather a considerable
amount in proportion to the whole, and
almost enough to deter a cautions Govern-
ment from proceeding further. Bub the
Naw Zealanders are apparently well enough
satisfied with the success of the policy to
extend it further. A careful valuation has
been made of the improvements effeoted by
the settlers, and it is estimated that they
are worth $185,000 more than the $123,000
advanced by the Government to enable
them to be mune, This gives the Govern-
ment fair security for the loans and it is
also getting $52,000 in the way of rent for
lands which night otherwise be un000u
pied. Hitherto advances of this kind
have Leen limited to farms of not more than
50 acres and worth not less than 85 au
acre, and it is now proposed to extend the
system 'to pastoral land, Men and women
over 17 are entitled to take advantage of
it under conditions of, residence, improve
menta, etc., which are easily fulfilled by
bona fide setters. Western Australia and
Victoria are promoting settlement of a
somewhat similar character
Large as a Dollar
'Were the scroftda•sores on my poor little boy,
.sickening and disgusting.. They were espe,.
dally severe pn his lege,
back of his ears and on
his head. Ills hair en.
so matted that combing
was sometimes impossi-
Ide. His legs were so
bad that somotimos ho
'
',could not sit down, attd
when he tried to walk
his legs would craolt
Jos. Ruby. open and the blood start.
Pliysicfans did not elfe0t
a cure. I deckled to give him Hood's Sarsapa-
01110. In two weeks the sores commenced to
heal up; the scalescameoto and all over leis
body new and healthy flesh and shin formed,
When lie had taken two bottles of
Hood's Sarsaparilla
he was entirely frog from sores.. 1,llt19IG
hear, Ilox 1556, Columbkt, Pennsylvania.
HOOD'S PILLS aro a mod, gentle, enttneos,
onto and or Int cathartic. Always reliable. 710,