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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-9-28, Page 2TUE P Q S Tr: EPTEMW 128, 1894 •••rrr---111,,,. 777ryryry '''777��^^^�� mT�_'•�•tt� it la ]1.Ei Thi 7"1 T., JJ• irk N I 1 ,J,�J ('',�.. T"1 ]� TIT � 1�,�! �:] io L t� uu 1 1' f1 I.J. „ff-- ��•• ,L ...IL• „11--„11 J,. ! t Lhat I ®hall net It '1) GP wpib. Waitingi@ alwa st9rribie .p7p, Jv3 r� 4 time to Welt ha "it la ea vary sudden it, • ha rp r Plead", zr th4, That ren'L fats,'} he auewered. " You have had five dare, Surer that la .quite long onau It Ido mall believe, to the oo aIq ue of m damo0ita man times g Y y over, thnMoritae have acne em; of anyilonge Sorel dims 1,o court hoed not longer Y g dofer its judgme 011 Do, pray Airs. Goa. coigne, kindly let me know what I have to.11/1147,1,4, loo forward to in life at once, and thou 1 will take you back directly to where the lighge are brightest,"A +' Well then, Lord Aelnwell, I like you very much, and 7 will do all that i own to try and love you• I daresay it will not' be a very difficult task," "You Sheen yea?" he asked half in doubt, " 1 eupnoea so," T replied, is verythe " good of you," h@ answered, " It's more than I deserve. It's more than any man In the world deserves. But I will try and rove myself Y P Y worthy o it an Y" haw, Then we both sat for a feW minutes in ailanoe. We mild hear the sound of the river, and the more or Seca d1otant. murmur of voncee, and even the retitle of the foliage overhead, And then suddenly the band buret out in full force. It wet the Myoso- hie Vales. This valse is mine, I hope," he said, "unless you are tired." "Not at all tired. I shall enjoy 01," And in a moment almost we were whirling round to the music. The'band played to perfect tion. Lord Ashwell was far more than a good dancer, in the ordinary exception of the term, kle kept pace with the music unoeneci°uely, as if it come way took pos. session of him, and made him move with. out effort or even volition. And on the other hand he almost oarried his partner, although •you could scarcely feel en, the tonal' of•hie hand, so light was it, It was the perfection of dancing.in Round we circled, quicker went the tnuaio, quicker still. There was a rest of about a ognple •of bars, and then the full strength of the orchestra brought unto a standstill with one great finaloraeh. And once again arose the 'pleasant betel ofmeans happy voices ¢nd bright laughter As I turned into bed that morning fairly tired out, and In foot almost half asleep, from Id oinhert l yh ie v 1 plat° donee thebri ht •ever Y P. g thing, and the best thing. And with thisof comHe nese flacon fall re tasleeion yd althoughh P+ g bushes immediately under my window.° more than usually persistent nightingale was tilling the •air with his notes. (TO BE CONTINUED.) �i-IQJES(��i'Pl ,. BROST ST I11,S (f lu lJ iJj J� BaOST ttLV 4it .: THE RF,QORD O1 A MOST DREAD- BIIL CRIME. r �� Alatltor an(1111other lllnr'ler mar gen An allNlatce -EY@ry rl�,hl at Twelve the upon nlu ue of 14 in l ,ii ret 1110 ' leggy, In Sptle er Stara owl B011s.--• oY TWO sleety vinic° 0 nn11 W Soh r chs a all Art Uertlrl ,,tn�, h to z_. t a• In a range of the houses in North Shields .(says the Newoastle, Eng.,Chroniela),olqud• ad with the shadow of ballast hill stands Milbourue Place, the site iden•tt6ed with what, was known as Fafty 0 Gltost, Fatty Bailed from Shields Harbor in an In. yto dlan loader, He was a amnion seaman, and child of oor, struggling p , toggling parole, Attermucic his de erttir@ n@ver a word did the 1tear from mem the sea of their absent son, The ship earns home, bpi not the sailor lad, n°0 were therm spy tidings as to his fate, They had Scat him; they knew pot how. Ona wild' and storm night the married y daughter mime to their housebringipg with her a sailor in search of lodgings. for the night. Receiving him kindly, they gave him ' of their homelyfare, and his rough g nature warmed to their kindness, he threw offwere the guard of prudence and boasted of his golden store in belt and pouch. He showed them dazzling coin and splendid eweller and the old people glared the Y •; P p g unwonted sight GREEDY Eras AND 100NGERING 80111.9.gg They were poor. so vary poor, and old ami cold and weary. Tho guest, merry with drink and a thousand dancing mem• otic of Bygone days, reeled elf to his hard and humble bed. There he slept— heavily slept—slept to wake no more. The wretched host waited till all was quiet save the breathing of his guest and the beating of two guilty hearts. Stealthily the old mon sought a cruel knife, sharp," strong- bladed. The pale, cloth woman motioned him to speed his errand, and shade g the candle with her floated hand, she Sod the way t° tike chamber of rust. A look, a tiger leap, a deadly lounge upon the sleep. ing form, abroken sec, a shivering spasm, a long lest sigh, and all was still cave two throbbing hearts, stirred to a painful fever heat that would never more subside. Then came the rifling of the dead. There was gold enough and none forbade the aeiz- urs, then they buried their dead out of their sight, yet so Lhatthey must tread on his rave with ever remaining stn of life, Y g P The terrible deed time accomplished, the guilt couple passed the fearful hours of Y P P the night in one strong agony, and longed for the pale beginning of another day. Be- times the daughter came to about the guest, and when they tolasker he had got and otte aw she cried out, "Gone P g ¢y', , away—wherever to .' They did not ask, they said they did not know. 1Vhy, mother," mxolaimed rho woman, ? dist ye not ken him: did he not tell you . Tell what?" the aged mother asked in fierce alarm- a—°'tvho was ha?" "It was Jim, and you not, to know him I Ob, you stupid and let himgo, and lis never P telling—well, Ido declare. I Lever 'heard of such 9a muddle I But what ails thee, mother . She sank into her chair, and fining her stony gaze on the blank wall before her WENT INTO A FIT. The old man, too, seemed petrified with horror, •"Jim," he said, "poor Jim, never, it couldn't ,Le, Maggie, it saver Could be .Yim." " BIM it was father, for all that; he came and told the all about it, and showed me his gold, and said how he g had come to comfort his old father and mother, and make all our fortunes for us, Oh, he's not, gone far; he'll soon be back. warrant ye.' "Never, Maggie, he'll come back no more," But he did come back. That very'oight he came, and every night as the clock attack ,twelve the door mot, in of jars mod bolts. hinges henitherahehitered a�luge Newfoundland dog, that came tip to each in turn, fondling with its pews, Shying 118 great head ou the mother 's knes, and ' up with soft melancholy'as ifin reproaching her, i4 shrank away to the other room and there kept watch at the foot of the bed on which the stranger lead met his cruel fate, lying there tilithe cook crow theurushingfrom tlieheusewithfearful fury, howling as he passed. It needs not to ho told that the heartless mnrderera profited little or nothing by their ill-gotten wealth. They dared not spend, They could only hoard and hide the spoils of crime. Wasting and eiekeese tell iht ron them. The mother pined to death, and when on his deathbed, the father unburd- tined his guilty soul with the oonfessiou that lie bad MURDERED TUE SON whose return he had longed and, prayed for many a weary .year. The house was thsod nhd lhanutad. None dared live hi the stricken and polluted swelling. It mumbled to ruins, and so long as brick remained on brick the black dog prowled amidst the rubbish ;but when tike ground was at last cleared, the ghost ceased its heard denims •; its dismal liowlinge wore heard no more South Shields, too, can boast of its ghost story. Itis thus to•ld by the late fir• Witham BrocLie lornatiat, in a paper whish he contributed ad to the N°rtltern in thTebhoose for sem lady,whom nnrlkial e� anddalt her family used Co hear and see arrange things in it. Dreadful deeds must have been perpetrated some time or other, in its sp0°ious and once spiendidMit unu ghostly rooms. On one of the greatmantelpiebee she fella me, are the merits of two bloody Sugars and a thumb, whit!' no °hunnlau art known to her mother, who ia a notable housewife, could efface. Serabbin and. g securing had no effect ; and even through successive cents of paintthe mnrksreappoac- ed. So true itis that the stains of murder are indelible and that when everything else is silent the ver walls or out. y e y y Tho fingerprints are doubtless those of arms female victim of lawless brutality, for bhe time° of her who impressed them is 80106• times seen. One �pt, tt her bed rea not sleeAl p,. so she fiat up. iu o het' recoding. merit, tout midai htahoamw, •t0 her aatouisp „g A. TALL, IIAN0000011LA»Y, dressed iit'white, with a scarlet waistband, glide "role 110 room from a door which was. always abut up, toward ono of tile windows et the opposite aide, Wheto she disappeared. She made no sign, however, Itor intinnatod env wish to dhoti/eta tinea ha. od1'OE, But the at where ah@ tlietappear• the o had it been anarehodr for o d. i tit tlt0 atlt of been searched, fee /Meath that ti elelywae as iMeo6ee o hapaniobo y never thought of prying into. Through a knot hal nig dropped out of the wood thele was a hole into Pie place, flown width email 8' 'V 848h as tittla°ttou bgh o &C, telling; and, though go. were q 111)10 van various atoned ug lir various way@, it always get p en again. One of the family undertook g Y °se day to fish the things up with a hook ed wire. He did so, and with them, drew outlets of beetleeand outer vermin, snob as infested gravos� an indication 000 Would think of what was below. Mrs C. regrets to this day she did got gauss the ells to be raised. But it was not that room above the grave that gave the house its bad name, My' informant once caw what she landed be the arean,I010N 01'4 SOLninu standing on the landing place at the head of flthe MtimesPeand others of the (family [e' e aw him hkewt T woe one apartment ie the house whish na soul ever enhered, barrio ,of course, dieem• g bodied'' souls, fpr auph it was d@°m favourite haunt.No earthly tenant would have it for nothing, let alone pay rent for it; so it remained shut up from year's end to year's end" What Sao in it heaides the ghosts nobody knew or dared to investigate: Or even to peep into it through the key hole would have needed more eooutage than most people p088088. Strange noises were hoard is ft occasionally, as it the ghosts elves.kiPerhu Perhaps a hidden treaa racket eureh la • hidden ut.der the floor with the moulded hoose of murdered men. The elements had free mcoeee into 10, for not a frame of 1¢ee Was left in the window ;but the door was nailed up feet, and the window ed situated that it would have been difficult teriorb a glimpse borough it into the in- T 1 '[j11 (j WO iU jM dJ (�j!1 �i L jlJ ROUND .•••••••-• -. WHAT is GOING ON IN THE FOCI CORNERS OP TDB GLOBE, __ e1,1 anoew n hole, 1lir1(1 l-Uit of lolorit pens„ el.Bll Iirlelly^Inlq►gatlNY MN rihi,huaot ueoens nate, British ladle h'as 10,417 lieeneed °pini shops, The correspondence of the Popo is cattle on in Latin. Russian is not legally of age bill he 26 yenta old. T, ° e .are 1 ea thou 700 uro•blcode Greonlan e 01? - d ran• Ladies' smoking 0008 on Russia railwa, ore wellpatroni od, The Emperor of Germany hoe compose to several son e g • ietn taheeiBritiman Is $1 theannualcost , Maintaining r One in five oh the de06hs fn London 000ut in a wing Ibe ea ane a hospital. During the hot century 100 lakes in Tyri have au etded and disappeared - One-half of bhe wealth of England is i the possession of 1,000 individuals. At a water:drinking ag twelve in Paris r cantly the winner drank twelve quarts, The shake, 00 soldier's hat, i almost thing of the poet in the French army. Deserters from the British army Cann' ba arrested out of the Queen's dominions. Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar launohe in 1706, is now lying in t?ortsrnouth ha! Uma Coal from Jantallness y pan ie 01108084But ing upon the Welsh oohs in East India markets. Ycatio of eleotrioit smelting The of iron ie Lein experimented wito t g g Sweden. A shoemaker in Glasgow displays m wig which reads as follows : "Squeaks takr out of shoes." army surgeon suggests the it means tion of shoes with rubber heels as •of lessening •fatigue. M. Caeimtr-Purist Le another etatesme who seems to owe.avery large share of h success in life to his wife. Royalties have, as a body, defective'ey sight. Princess Maud of Wales is bhe on royal ladywho wears a singleeyeglass. y g o Princess Victoria of Walee,,aoatempbg i Sher father„oaa eonaoct a more tempnir • Welsh rarebit than any other woman Enuland. Miss Alien Rothschild is owe of the mo -enthusiastic woman hortieulturisto in 11 world and her collection of roses alone valued ab 750,000. Beha zin of Dahomey,recently, woman traveller who saw describes hint' agood-looking mea, 55 years old, with e; tremelywhtte hair. Paul B. du Chilly cornea to the aid of Pr fesssr Garner. He says not only that mo. keyslanguage, Y have.a Inn uu e, but that nett aagroes imitate it. The number of furnaces in bleat in Be g}um at the commencement of Januar, 1894, was 26, while there were 16 furuaa out of blast at the same date. Elizabeth 3aWrightofsand 1oouay Murphy, I and la yearn of age, were oouvictad at, Gln gow of having been drunk and iocapabl notes and disorderly. There are more than two thousand i students at resent (0 the London Gutg1 P hall School of Music, and of these abet three hundred are studying on the violin .thearrmSpain £20,000,000 to mainta , and onle £300 00010 ad 110810 tl children It is the exception to find t1 Spanish farmer who is able to read i write. An advertisement in London recants f 'a governess for two little girls at one ho drat and twenty-five dollars a year brougi one hundred and sixty-two replies in tv days. There is are ort that the German or gator will visit Dublin next year fora} purpose of making acquaintance with ar Inspecting the Royal Dragoons, of which 1 is honSara racy colonel. Sarah Barnhardt has earned and aper more moneythan any other livingsettee: In 11ie 0, ao wenty years she hs earn, £500,400, and circulated it with the extra vaganoe of a princess. In the last annual parade of truck hors, London there were two ands a horse enh eh measuring eighteen hands—that 1 standing just six feet high at the should —and weighing at least a toe. Nelson's old battle ship, the Foudroyan 08bemgexhib+ted atvarious ports ia Gre Britain. It is said thatever timber of tl old - ship is as sound Eo•dayas when she w launched a hundred years ago. A boa 'onatriotnr, which lives in tl tangs the other elaide Zoological1 a Gardens, ng. Being unab to disengage itself, it proceeded to atvulld the rug, which was 7 feet, by 6 in size. The British Royal Commission of tl Chicago Pair says his official reportbh y the exhibition was by far the most b agni. octet ever }telt and that it was nota r elated in Europep at its proper vahte. PP P P Tho tallest woman in the world is ti 71441,1088 Rosita, who was born in Vieni twenty-six yenta ago, and ie now on oxhil three itches, and site weighs 651 pounda- thou in 0100, . Her Leight is Dight e. It has been estimated that the far stook of the o United Kingdom—coal sheep, and pigs duly—have a value of i 1°ss t obths 0 00(1,000, aid that from the the butcher ".smelly receives fat anima to the value of 177,000,000. In Corea every unmarried man is to gretl a boy,though ho should live to be be hundred.• No matter what his age, i S follows in position rho youngest of tl married men; despite the haat, perhaps, having lived long ouotigh to be their fathe Lord Salisbmy •rises early and tabes walk before breakfast, and when in Loydr has his constitutional in the Green part Prom breakfast until 1 o'clock he is aloe and at this time nothing short of a menet from the (ween would reach him. The full°win aro a few of the "hrtin : g found in the Seine during the year 1803: of dogs there were 7,662; cattalo 3,30,; ra 9,1(18; fowls1,720;yari0usotfierblyds8,04 rabbits 1,000 ; young pigs 798' ; calves 4; horses 3shso. r 15; monkeys 1 ] Y serpents G. . I CHAPTER R KKK K. One da ab a Country hoinei is for all the y world like another, There is eo VPriabl0 e do of turning. Rear floes neither ha w g Y i ed country cootie has or ou hb Ire app, me y ,& tohave its sundial •• and the life of the h , house is that of the dial. At the exact hour it toile the exact time. You know what everybody is doing, yen know where d you know where to find them. they areas y ani as It, i as much matter of entire oast cGy 10 life on board an00ean liner. This parts• oiler man will be for' a certainty at the ken' ela or the stables, or in the billiard room; nIt this or that a0tioular lady with or with• m t Pso out the particular mane whom she may af• fe@t, will be in the shrubberies or et the, hamefarm. I,Waa seated one morning very pleasantly under the awning of the marquee. 0xteber in the valley of the Thames .la often th most delightful month in the year, In g there is September it rakes. In October an equipoise. It is not till. Novomber.that yon get what Bailors call dirty weather s and laatatioaa are 'turnip a The wood P g rich russet -a dull, pleasant clot upon whish it does the eye good to rest. Prat. tically, and as a matter of fact, it is the ex00t tint of stewed Normandy pippins. ere not primroses the very color of flowers of sulphur? And does not the mere mention of flowers of sulphur recall the memoryof Mrs. Waekford Squeere and the brimstone and treacle? is a strange fact but. a true one, that at the most critical moments of your life, the memories and reoollectioee that crop up and force themselves upon you are the moat ihcongruous. Lord mAsheloatinoountering up,apparent• 1 unprepared. As a matter of foot, I could I ly see ab oce that he was dressed for the meta- f Mon. He wore the I Zingaria uniform,' which in its way is as mecca distinction as is ahs uniformofbbsRoyalYaohtSquadron. I bad then , so to say, hoisted his colors, i trebleebo+.ted hie guna,nnd was now sailing; down wader full top -calla, o0ngnering anti to conquer. Once again 1 What a contrast to George Sabine 1 "It is a surprise to find yon here, Mrs.sweet." Gascoigne," he said (what very unskilful j liars men are)" " I strolled down intending to be alone, and here I find you." "Then,":said I, "it would be cruel of me to disappoint so laudable an intention, I was just about to return to the house,and I will so leave you to your solitude and its valuable results."A He turned as red as a turkey cock, and, like that ridiculous bird, beeam to gobble or gabble -3- wonder which is the correot etymology—in an leeoherent fashion. "This to a beastly dull place," he said. 'Of course there are such things as white Ilea. There's no harm in a white lie. Very much the contrary, It does you goodtaad it eaves a lot of trouble,especially for a fel- low like myself, who have G got the gift of the gab. 'Gift of the gab' is beastly vulgar onlyow but had their is ft of the gab like ust what 1 omy beast Ymother, of a younger brother has, I should be sit- ting for the county now. I know what I mean as well as. any man, but I can't bring t one.'' sure ynulan. aw"7 tbinand Sk I now what You will understand ins—that 1 can help a lame dog over a stile. You are very kind, and you have coma down here to talk to me because I am aloe. Now, as it uappena, I mime down beta myself became I wanted to be alone, and as that is so I inn ante you can ' y easily find or invent something else to do. A man in the country has every advantage over a woman. There is always some Y amusing cccupatien to which he can tutu. A woman has literally nothing. I am at this moment engaged in doing nothing. It is n very delightful pursuit, and I shall be very grate to you if you will let me con. time it uninte• ruptedly. " He was no match for mo Look what a training I had had. Again he flushed from ,white to red, and then paled from red to white, and then beton toebammerandstut• ter inaO13ticulately, are clever for me," he said "You are laughing at me, and twisting me round your little Seger. You aro as mer• otiose as the famous tennis player whogives you half -forty with a bisque, and as he steps nrfavarto iteahaeervice eidWLatsonOearChwhich is your is the good of torturing me ? I know what I mean, and you know what 1 mean. It's cruelty to animals to worry me in this way. I can stand a facer an well as any man. If Sithe t Bake let me have band praynue is to come, do avdontor goodness " You are talking in parables," I replied. "I assure you I have not the least idea of what you menu." •' You must have," he answered. "What I mean is that I love you, that I would be shot for von, or die for you in any way, or do anything for you. Surely you know what that means. And surely you can give mea 'Yes' or a ' N0' to it. Yes or no is not a very difficult matter. I know how to take an answer." " You have paid me the greatest oompli• moot a man canpaya woman; I am veryprobably grateful to you for it.I know you are . eincere, but—epres—the thing is out of the question. 'Let us remote the very best oftriands, Lord Ashnvoll, and be euro that should you ever need my friendship you will have it to the utmost." He took hie answer like a man. iso ltd not attempt to argue. "Leg -before -wicket," ho said, with a cheerful laugh, although a little forced. "Umpire says so, and umpire isalwa s right, or, at all events. there is no appeal, l won't argue %Ire. Gaecoi es. You ,ave been ver kind and sural h tor• ward and fair. I a am quite sure you have meat til do mm agood taro; anif ever I can doyou a good urn you maybe g q gutta ours that I will. But look here, we needn't- draw the stumps yet. Go my word of L°apt, I don't wont to worry you. Think honor, We shall have another opportunity PP Y of talking vex y all this; and you may treat Ise not to sex you unneeens¢rily, or push into your way between now and then. Look, the hook is closed for the present; but it isn't Snaked, and I chess 'most certainly hot give up hope until you p tell me itis locked, and untillamsnretbat. y g on are doing so in downright eitn a b What an, earth 19 000 to d0 with a Loy 1120 thio?I know what I should have liked to g and enough of do for I telt old enough and f him, and, for the matter of that, proud enough of him and proud dough of hie love for . myself, to seize his. head by the curia, anti tell him he was n dear good bav—a9. indeed, he .was -'nod kl88 him as he deceived, But that kip' of thing wear of ° u0se,'MOM the tiPati"ap. ^--'^^ CHAPTER KL, Tbaq evenly ,after the ladies had toured, g I adjourned to Ethel a room, and tee talked over the events of the day, I had AP Secreta from my friend, and I old her ovary thing, " 1 cannot understand," she said. "why you did now aomepa bun then and there. Of °puree you moon to have him, And, in my o mio,you are unw'ee10 Pinang any rick! 'rtes° young men never know their Own minds, Ha may ht, devoted t°you today, and madly in love 'With me tomorrow, AS I looked at 17the1, who, by.the.way, was not at her beat en deshabille, I felt far as she tiered( was 000001ned,. my risk was almost infinitesimal, Give me a middle•a ed man," she con. g tinned.When love, It is love and „ "they. boys as a rule, hut I stn bound to admit tthat your young gentle-' monis as exception. • He will be immense- ly rich, Qld Cambridge owns half the country, and hasn't a farthing under eighty thqueaad a Year' You had better make hay while the sun chines.; Otherwise our dun friend will be tannin n bo town youngt p and falling in love with some chorus girl, or dander, or person of that kind who will know how to play her cards. Those kind of women have unbounded experience, and seem to know how to manage these young anon. For my part I cannot understand it, I am told they are very stupid. They:are oertainly not batter looking than we 'are nor are the I believe a bit more wicked." " My dear Ethel, I�don't oars whether he goes to town or whether he doesn't. 1 don't care if I never set eyes on hint again. The fact i8 I am not a scrap in love with him, and I am more than doubtful whether 1 shall accept his offer." "Then 1 uhlak you are mad. Are you waiting fur m Orowu Prince to Propose to you?" ' I am not wafting for any one to pro• I pose, To tell you frankly, I ant sick of the i whole business. Look at my frightful luck. Nothing eueoeeds with me, If I were to accept Lord Ashwell, ave to tall him the truthho'hereuld lis vo h l for that+ and even P if there were I should not avail myself of it." course,you must, tell him the truth; but you do8+'t imagine that will make any. aileranoe 11 he is really in love.” I don't know. Look at Mr, Meadow- There are very few Mr. Meadowmweets about, my dear Miriam. His knowledge of the truth did 001diminieh Cagtain Maltby's affection, now did it ?" i"No, lthat i true,onr 1 ane neand eay that wilrellrsparanver few eh coin Alsltb e Y P Y' about."g -- CHAPTER XLL Four days later came a big ball, the invitations for which had been sent out,and all the other arrangements made before our arrival. The rooms were, as far as possible,u thrown en suite, and decorated by an emi. hent London firm not far From Sc Mary Axe. There were immense elumpe of exotics+ and choice stands of orchids from the neighborhood of West Kensington. The supper cook in Berkeley Square, s looked (whose nae is pastry- household word ; and the baud was simply a perfect. I remember that the groundsand shrubberies and summer houses glistened with many colored lamps, and here and there were which Mrs. lit Forteswiieli tl,e artedbric to light,lie mixed blearing, pleasant and pretty in it- self, but trying to the complexion, and apt at times to burst upon you when you Mast needed it. To give a list of the companyis outof the question. Half the county Sero therefrom Y the Lord Lieutenant and the High Sheriff down to the Rectors and small: quires. Ar• ran ements had been made bywhich a thein g from Paddington brought down several Saloon carrim00s filled with guests from tendon, and stopped at Windsor to take in a detachment from the garrison there. Without multiplying details, it can only besaid that everything had been admirably planed, and that in no single point did there occur the least breakdown or en•ou delay. If, as Ethel afterwards said, it had been the Dukeof Buckingham miningoldno inghae ofimoslenter- - g Europegazing Stowe, the thing could not possibly have been better done. 7 had what I suppose young girls call a fairly good time of it. I danced 0.8 often as uadrillalywiLhwalked molomnled�tlrou h and more y g 4 r Bridgman Hale, the distinguished wearer of the ermine, who was staying with the Fox's. . Lord Ashwell did not talk twaddle either10 was evidentlyrs, or filled with tl a supper,soibut n 0i y g talking, and when I declined further plan- tine, or mayonnaise, 00 ohampagae 01M, he somehow managed to get me out into the grounds and into a smaller marquee, where refreshments of a somewhat lighter order were being served. To avoid refusing to stop, I allowed hint to procure me inn 100. He, I noticed, steadied himself with a tumbler of champagne. %Vs were practical- ly alone. The hirers waiters mod maids were neither listening nor caring to listen. They were counting the minutes to the P Y d happy hour when they occults have supper on their own account. There were a fewotherpoople in the tent, but they were all busywith themselves; and thus it cisme about that Lord Ashwell and I were as much alone as if we had been hidden •du the deepest shadows of the shrubberies. Ho began what he most evidently was going to say, with a elseo determination to take the lead at the start, ad to ken up the ace to the ver finish^ fE the mato ht- in very be pace be permissiblewhere, unless It himself, the can champion has no competitors. young Phand hoI "1pe,"he said, "yet have been think• it,g over what we talked about the other day. In fact you promised me you would do se and so I yin sure you have. Of course I .wash bo know what you have L° toll me. If it is what lam longing to hear, 1 don't exaoty know what 1 shall do or say, although 1 need hardly promise that 1 shall do nothing nilly. But l do want to say this—" I Was loosing at the ground, and he, 1 could feel was looking Pard at , me—'that I and determined no case to rest until on . ea' es lase, y , y ' y Of cacao thea, is. vary pesurcpui otta in me, but I inn stay ; and if I have to stay, 1 will, and I only hope" -ants here .hie voice dropped quite naturally from a tone of determination, into. something al, ,most like the accents of a child, asking for something it covets and ni wlttoh its (Menem are'problematical—" I only hope THE BIBLES OF THE WORLD. 7rhere Are Seven or Them Ami Eno one Bea Believer&Arrenoh The eaves Bibles of the world are the Koran of the Mohammedans, the Tri Pitikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings .of the Chinese, the Three Vedas of the Hiedue, the Zendavesta of the Pereiane, the Eddae the Scandinavians, and the Scriptures of, the Christians. The Koran is the m°atrecenbof all, tat• _ y ing. from about the eventh Century after . Christ. It ie a compound of quotabiona, from both the Old and New Testaments .wad from the Talmud. - The Tri Pitikes contain sublime morals and pure aspirations. Their author lived. •and died in the Sixth Century before Christ. The sacred writings of the Chinsee ars oslbod the Five Kings, the word "kin e " g ' g meaning web of cloth. Prom this it pre. sumed the were ort engine wrlteen o five Y They Y y rolls of cloth. Tho containduties wine sayings from the sages on the of life, but they cannot be (raced Further back than the Eleventh Century before our era. The 'Vedas are the most ancient books in the language of the Hindus, bot they do not, according bo late commentators, ante- date the Twelfth Century before the Chris. .tiara era, ouTBil ]ahe nis reckoned among avesta of the ascholars as being the greatest and most learned of the sacred writings: Zorooater, whose sayings it contains,lived and worked in the Twelfth Century before Christ. fifteen bend hundred yearewrote tl ePentateuch iteforethe birh}1 0f Chrug ; therefore that portion of our Bible 1s at least three hundred years older than Ehe most anriant of other soared writidgs,. The Eddae, a eemi•sacred work of the Scandinavians, wasgiven to the world inY 1.. urteenth-Century, FACTS IN FEW WORDS. -- The railroads of the United States have present debts amounting to $11,000,000, • 000. New York dog whose eyesight is at- feared is daily seen Soaring a pair of epee tulles• Some Chinese and man Africans was the ear as a pocket to carrycoinsand other small articles. The tongue recovers from an injury much more quickly then any other part of the human system, The quiet and timid hare, when she cries in fear, can•be heard farther off than either dog or made from potatoes is the diseov- ery recently made by a French chemist, He always removes the eyes from the pota• to before he begins work, as his process is a secret one, leaf The ainttheitcommeroen of nofoghe�world into Ewae caused by the repairing with plank of that wood of one of Sir Walter Raleigh's vessels in 15n1. The humans stem can endure beat of 272 y degrees, the oiling point of water, because the skin is a bad conductor and because the perspiration cools the body. bleu have withstood Without fmjnry a heat of 300 de- grecs for several minutes, A 118700 had a streak of leak while fish- ing in the F tint river, near Albany. His Shia became tangled in somethingwhtab proved to be s'lady's gold necklace, which had evidently lain at the bottom of the river for man yearn. A policeman in Jersey City,findhng a thief was getting away from him, jumped aboard a trolley ser, impressing it into the city's with his man, presently overhauled ad 0 chase An ancient bell dug out of the ruins of an Indian church at Albuquerque was pro- flounced b local experts to contain gold worth MON. After the Denver mint coverers wore on it tor migueathours bethe die. brass brick worth 31.21. THIS WAS CHEEKY. —P not It Woo a `etre and Fortune Far the Poor clerk. In 1822 Mr. Lebouahere a relative of the P resent member of Parliament of that game waste clerk fa the bunking house of Hope hofis Amsterdam.- One day h0 was sant by hie petrosa to Mr. Baring, the celebrated Lou- don banker to negotiate a loan. Ile display- °d in the affair so much ability as to entirely win the esteem and confidenoe of the Eng: fish banker, "Faith," said Labouchere one day to Baring, "your daughter is a charming creature. I wish I could persuade you to give me her hand-" "Youngman,you are joking, j g, foraerious• neverybecomet mus arhs wife of aisimplese iclerk.."ld "ll said Labouchere,9' if 1 were in .partners ran with Mr. Hope . Oh, that would it quite a different thing; that would entirely make up tor all other deficiencies." Rstnrnin 10 Amsterdam Labou°Ihete said g to his patron ` "Yon muss take me into partnership." My young friend, how oanyou think of such a thing? It is impossible.• You are without fortune, and— "13ut, if I became the son-in-law of NE Baring?" " Lt that ease the a6'air. would 8000 - be settled, and so yen have my word." Fortified will these two prorrises, La- bouehere returned to Ragland and two months after married alias Baring, because par, Hope }tad promised to taste him into Partnership, and he became allied to the of linpe on the atrengtlt of that •promise of marriage. Sibyl Sanderson. Sibyl Sanderson, the American opera. sin er, now in Paris is one of the most g M beautiful and talented women on the lyric stage, which it is rumored, she fs soon to _abandon to become the wile of `! Touy''. Terry, the popular American millionaire whose wife is now suing for a divorce. It is only a veryfewyears since Sibyl Y e Sanderson went to Paris and nimde her name. Thanks to the patronage of the composer, Jules Alassenet, who was taken with hoc the first time hs hoard her sin g, her auu°ems was easily and quickly made It may be said that she grow Emmons in a single night. That was the fortunate night when Massenet first heard her. He g tO for ho< immediately ficeelyears ay o nhecmade her: debut is •Paris ab bbs O era Comi oe i,,, his opera "Eselarmonde." Since then her natant m Pirie has beep one unbroken Chainhouse of trium the. I She has had many offers of marriage, some from princes and their peers in the world of art, and ar, one time it was oven hand l rumoured that a 'Vynderbiiq straight her in marriage. All offers were declined, however,,1. is neturall the lllvi ohs a eye lof moraI, 1' much jealousyamong the crowd of rejected suit• g 7 ora, who must now be content to remota at distance, and nurao thou, envy a happy of the happy "cony." Solved the Problem. Mime 01 miemied—" Pardon me, but if I am not mistaken you aro one °f the poor underpaid working -girls whom our lsmaneipaWeb Sgoiety tried to benefit—mat you were two •}.elate a o. least g Fair ` otto-r—" That is true," " Then our society has evidently not been without influence, for you look very prosperous now. P " pp I have overyth�ug I way t, and never. was so happy.in my life. , Thank 7.hauk heaven 1 You must have calved the taxman Problem."lherons , " Glorious " Glorio fel Tell me how you mnnagod:" " 1 married nice young mon." ° * A Great Boon. •, '.Hahn' said Willie 'Wishin ton, "le g onefad• lef tt r s te00 olfte ns consideanred." "The generally 7 un opulah mind is The f o 00. mfe00. otvally appweciatedou wthath habitlsisbwhat people thins the enjoy without makes poopi g y having to go to' the • twouble of wemem, hewing to do them." And Willie paused in silence and rested his mind, Caix);ltt• Mr. Slimporso—'.' Do you know that is cream, instead of making one cooler, mak 000 warmer?" Pretty Girl—" When did you bear that " I have ltnown ib for yearn." " Hump 1 Strange that you did n think: re ,aunt;,,,,-tr. t,.sO ml„t„rt+ • The Usual Al19Wer, Dorm—"Men may not think 80, but how. atliye there ere a ggroat .many girls whet have no intention Of ever marrying." George—"Oh, I kaon• it, I've proposed to a dozen of them." ti . What did you do when he proposed ? "I lost my aslf•poseesslon.at mum." d e d >1 0 n h 9 y g n o• e 1- s 8 e, a ie d s, ar ,t i0 1e e a tt ob