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The Brussels Post, 1895-5-17, Page 2LADY ALYMER! CHAPTER II, ,t N' UNE2;IEOT)lp Al'roINT1uaNT. About two menthe after this a eget of avalanche fell upon the little household in Palace Menefone. It took the form of a letter from Lord Aylmer, the old savage at A 1 Field, and as IX* fn his first toothed away from hie wifo'e tender heart, Yes, Lord Aylmer wee at home, and her ladyship aloe ; and the servant, having no epeoial orders about Mr. Aylmer, et 9008 showed hien into a pretty little room off the emailesp of the ewe drawing -rooms, and told bim that lie would inform her ladyship of hie presence, And in lees than mere 8 , three minutes Lady Aylmer came. m most y . bl dear Dick . she said, I Ain :uterine exclaimed ; `"Now, who the devil pleaeod to 008 you. I did not know that wan to expeot the old savage would be up you were 101 town. Is it true that Lord to 1hi0 sort of game 7" Skevvereleigit has made you hie military y It began by assuring his nephew that 11e secretary . I quite thought y rf had was enjoying the.very best of health, that your face yimer t India at any p c for some. D1ok Aylmer was so surprised that be he had not, had a 10tto14 of gout cab staring at his uncle's wife in speechless thingover three mouths, but that her laay surprise. She noticed his look, and asked, ship was in exceedingly queer health -that with a laugh ; y chat is the matter, Dick? the was,indeed thoroughly ons of sorbs, You look as of you had seen a ghost." , 6 "Not a ghost, Lady Aylmer," he said' and at present giving beth himself and her reooveriug himself ; '" but I certainly medical adviser pause for the gravest anx- expected to see more of a ghost than you, fel . Then he went on to say that he had are at this moment." Y Y '"Why, how io you mean ?" jest had a visit of nearly a week from kis " I had a letter from Lord Aylmer this old friend Burry Boynton-" That's Lord morning, and he said that you were ill.' Skevveroleigh," said Dick, as he read the "Ill I I ?" she echoed. " Noosenee 1" letter aloud -and that Barry Boynton had You must have mistaken him. I was never better in my life. just been appointed Governor.General of ,, I couldn't possibly mistake bim," said Madras, and that as he -"the old savage " Dick, firmly. " However, I'll show you -Melt 1118 nephew could not lose by advance. the letter, there ie nothing at all private meet in hie profession, whether be ever in it So Lady Aylmer took the letter and happened to oome in for the Aylmer title or read it. " H'm," she muttered. " I am, not,he had put in a good word for him with afraid the wish ie father to the thought, his old friend, with the result that Barry my dear boy," she eaid drily. " It'strue I Boynton had promised to appoint him as hada touch of toothache or neuralgia about s week ago, entirely because he was coneum- hie military secretary. ed with gout -though, mind, he declared "But, Diok," Dorothy tried, " that stoutly that he hasn't had gout for more means India 1" than three menthe- and persisted in hay. "Not a bit of it,my darling. Diok cried, ing the window open. all the way from "I'll see the old cava eat perdition before Leicester. But as for my health or anyone's g p health but hie own giving him a moment's 1 aooept it. I only go to India on one eon• anxiety -why the idea is ludicrous, simply dition-that I eo as a free man ; that is, ludicrous. The gravest anxiety indeed I withyou asacknowledged wife.'' m1 If I was lying at the point of death my g s lordship might be anxious till the Then they read the letter over again,and eath was out of my body." made their comments upon. it -she with her " That was just what I said to -to my. sweet face pressed against his cheek, he If,' eaid Dick, who had been on the very with his arm close about her waist. oint of uttering his wife's name. However, Lady Aylmer, I am very glad to find that "The amount of delicate information he you are alright and in good health." conveys is really remarkable." Dick "Thank you Diek," she replied, holding laughed, for Dick, by the bye,was on a ten- out her hand to him; then, after a mo- de •s' leave, and was jovial and inclined to mo- ment's silence, she suddenly buret out, 3 Diok whet is he atter . view the whole world through rose-colored " Lord Aylmer? I don't know!"Dick an. glaesee in consequence ; "that is to let me swered. know that I needn't expect to step into his • " He ie after eomething; I've known it shoes for many a day yet. Bless me 1 if he for weeks, but I can't make out what," knew how little leaved about ft,onc way or Lady Aylmer went on. " First by his per- sistence that he has not got the gout. I the other." had been married to him a great many "Nor I," Dorothy chimed, in ; ""except- years, but I never knew him except that we should always be together deliberately deny himself the pleasure then, Dick,"with a soft touch of yearning of gloating over hie gout be - then, Dick," voice. fore. He must mean something by it, I "But we are always together in beart,my thought, of course," she went on, with a dearest," cried Dick, fondly, "And my nonchalant air, "that there was somebody lady's health is causing him the gravest else. But his anxiety about my health, anxiety-h'm 1 We may take that with a and his desire to pack youoff to India, grain of Balt. Gravest anxiety I Why, if where he knows you don't want to go my lady was lying at death's door that old make one think differently. In 0ny ease, savage wouldn't be anxious, unless for fear Rote the library and nee him, and what- thatsheahould get better. However, ae ever you do, my dearest boy, don't irritate they are in town I must go and inquire him. Don't contradict him; to tell him at India - after her ladyship. She's a hard nailenough, that nce that you you really donon't ut want to deice; but she has always been good to me in her way, and she's worth a thousand of him but if he insists, take my most serious ad - any day. And then I can tell the old vice and temporize -put the time off any- how-tellsavage that he may use his influence with him you must have a week in bis dear old friend Barry Boynton for which to consider the idea." somebody alae." Yes, I'll do that," said Diok, rising. " But you won't do anything rash,Dick?" "Stay, we had better send to him first," Dorothy Dried. said Lady Aylmer, touching the button of "Certainly not -why should 1 ? But I the bell. "Yee, Jenkins, tell LordAylmer shall tell him I have no fancy for India, thatMr. Aylmer is here and wishes to see and that Pd rather atop at home." bim," " But supposing that be Rays no," said "Beet to treat him in the imperial way Dorothy, who in her heart regarded Dicke that satisfies him," void her ladyship to old savage" as an all-powerful being, Diok, as the man closed the door behind who had it in his power to make or mar him. "1 always do it when I want to make her very existence. him a little more humble than usual, I " Oh 1 1 think he will hardly insist, one don't do it at other times, because he is way or tbeother,"he aneweredeaeily. "Any eminently a person with whom familiarity way, I most go and be civil to my lady, breeds contempt." who isn't half a bad sort, and gently Diok laughed outright. "Very well, I intimate my decision to my lord." will be most careful," he replied ; then " When will you go, Dick 7" Dorothy added, ""It's awfully good of you to give naked. me a good tip out of your experience. I " To -day, I think dearest," be replied; have never been able to hit it off with his " just after lunch will be a good time. The lordship yet. Perhaps I than be more savage is never quite so savage after a meal fortunate this time." as at any other time." "You may be. You know, of course, A strange and sickly faintness began to Dick, that it was your steady refusal to creep over Dorothy, a dull and indefinable marry Mary Annandale that set him so tense of forboding rose in her heart, and thoroughly against you." threatened to suffooate her. "Shall you "Mary Annandale's money," corrected be long there?" elle faltered. Dick. Well, if I am," returned Dick, with a " Ah 1 yes, it is the game thing," cor'e- laugh, " it will be a new experience for my leoely. delightful uncle, for 1 never stopped atingle "But I dou't believe Mary Annandale minute longer in his house than I could would have had me,' Dick declared. help, since 1 can remember." "Perhaps not. Stili, you never gave her Then he happened--ettraoted by her a chance, did you? Now, of course, it is alienee, and the abeenee of the sweet laugh too late," which generally echoed hie -to turn and ""Very much too late," returned Dick, look at her. The next moment be had promptly, and grinning good.humoredly at caught her in his arms, and was kissing her the remembrance of now very much too as a man only kisses the one woman that late it was for him to build up the fortunes be levee in all the world. of the house of Aylmer by means of a rich "My love, my love,'" he cried, "my wife. dear, sweet little love, don't look like that. Be turned us the door opened again, What is it you fear? Not that I shall ever "Hie lordship will be pleased to see you in change toward you, or be different in any the library, air," eaid Jenkins. way, eo far as you ere concerned 7" " I will some," said Dick. " They are your people," the faltered, "" And good luck go with you," said Lady and"— Aylmer, kindly, as he went. "" Come beck " My people 1" he echoed, contemptuous. and tell me how you get on," ly. " yes, so they are ; but you -you are Poor Dick 1 he did not get on very well. my life -my very soul -the light of my He found Lord Aylmer sitting in 8 big eyes, why, you are myself. Wby,to put 047 chair in the library looking ommouely love and care tor you fnuomparioouforone in. bland. stent with what I feel for all .my people " Good morning, air," amid Diok, together, would be too funny for words, if "Oh, good morning, Dick, sit down, my you were not distressed about it. But boy,' rejoined Lord Alymer, quite tender. when I see you look like that, darling, it ly. • hurts me eo awfully -it cute me up, eo that Dick gave himself up for lost at once, I can hardly talk or think sensibly. My but he eat down and waited for ", the old dear little love, there is nobo.iy in all the savage" to go on with the eo0versation, wide world that I could ever put beside you, For n minute or so Lord Aylmer did not or ever shall," speak; he moved his left. foot uneasily, in '"You are euro ?" she cried, 8 way distinctly 0ug,;eotive of gouty "I am quite sure," he answered, locking twinges, and fidgsted a little with hie her straight and true in the eyes• ""An rings and finger nails, now, my dearest, itis half•past 11 ; let me "You got my letter," he remarked at last, take you out for a turn before lunch "" Yea, I did, Sir; that brought me here," tithe," Diok answered. He always found it an easy matter to "Ah, that's all right," said the old lord, in comfort and reeesure the little wife who a soli-aatiefied tone, "Great piece of look loved him so dearly, and, although by living to muoh alone and without proper companionship, eho was apt to brood over the circumstances of her lite, and to conjure up all sorts of gloomy fancies and dread shadows which might Dome to pass et some Still, of course, 1 had to tell him you were future time, these matte always yielded devilish anxious for the appointment." before the irresietiblo sunshine of hie love, ""But 1'n: not devilish anxious for the em- end they were happier, if possible, than pointment,'" Di -k 1001te in at het, I'm they had been aforetirne. not anxious for at ..t all." In hie innermost heart, however, Melt For a minute or two the old man looped was not so easy about hia approaching at him in profound amazement. "Demme, ieterview with. Lord Aylmer a8 he made :sir,do you mean to say you are going to Dorothy believe; end be knocked at tbo tern round on me after all the trouble door of the old ,,,,,a 'a town house with TEE rr k7, 1$. Vis! r4 kms P o em .keeplug Leder Ayltner'a advice in hie mind' rr000m ; Patel y Yt :hall give me a pup of and tell him the dooieion to which he had » "And you've not peewis0d to go ?" the asked, es she Hagan to make the tea. ""No, don't ereeble Diok, dear, 1a 14 lighted; aid the water will boil In two miuutee." She had a pretty little braes stand, a. tray, a irit•lamg and kettle, and with this apparatus she always made the tea herself, With' muoh pride, and tome help from Diok, It generally £ell to Dick's lot to light the lamw, bet today she was all reedy for him,and had but to turn up the dight a little to have the water boiling, "There," she paid, after about five min- utes, and handiug him a cup of tea. "Now, tell ice all -everything. " Well," said Diok, finding himself thus fairly up in a corner, and unable to put off the evil moment any longer, "I wear," " Yes ?" eagerly. "And I taw her ladyship," "01 land is the up?" "Up i My dear ohild, Lady Aylmer io as well as 1 am,"he answered. Dorothy looked at him in wonder. "011, Diok I" she oried, "but what a wicked old man ?" "Ah 1 I fancy it rune in the blood," said Dick, easily,' "'One man oouldn'b have so' muoh original elm of his own as the old savage bee ; it must be heredity." "Then do you think you will'tell hor ribly wioked stories when you are Lord Aylmer, Diok ?" she asked roguishly. - "Perhaps -who knows ? All the same, there is one story I shall never tell you," drawing her tenderly toward hien, "I shall always be true as the gospels' when I tell you that I love you better than any other Woman in the world." Something in his voice bouohed the ten. derest chords of her heart, and set it throbbing and beating with a sickening sensation of fear. "Dick," she :add in a whisper, " is it very bad news that you are trying to break to me -does it mean India after all?" Dick looked straight into her clear eyes. "My dear little love,' he said, "I am afraid it does mean India,after all ; but if it does, it shall mean India for us both." He told her everything then -how Lady Aylmer had received him, how she had openly declared that her husband had some scheme of hie own' to get rid of them both, how the old savage had received him, and what end their interview had come to. "But of course," he wound up, "although 1 took time to consider`it,my mind was made up in a moment. Iohall refuse the ap- pointment." There was a moment's silence. "Dick, dearest," eaid Dorothy, In a quavering voice, " ie it a very good thing to be a mili- tary eeeretary to 8 governorgeneral?" "011 1 well -yes --it is, dear," he admit. ted. "I mean would you have refused it if you had not been ,married -if you had never seen me 7" "No, I don't suppose I ehould. I daresay I should never have bothered to get such an appointment, because, as you know, I hate the very idea of going to India, but at the same time,to be quite honest,I don't suppose I should have refused. Idon'tsup. pose any mon in his settees would." Dorothy drew her breath sharply, and for a minute or two did not speak. Dick, darling," she said, at length, " it is true that you are married, but I don't see that that le any reason why you should not be in your senses, too." What do you mean, Dorothy ?" he aeked, quickly. ' Well, just this. Supposing that Lord Aylmer had let you refuse this am poiotment, and had not made himself die agreeable about your allowance, we should have to go on just as we are doing now. And, of course, Dick, dear, I should like to. be Mre. Aylmer instead of Mrs. Harris, and to live with the regiment rather than in Palace Mansions ; hut -but, at the same time, since there is so muoh to be gained by it, I•would just as soon be Mrs. Harris in one. plane as in another, if I must be Mrs, Harris at all." Diok caught her close to him," Dorothy, you mean"—he began. "" I mean," she ended, firmly, "that I would sooner go to India as Mrs. Harris than drag you down in your profession, and put you at loggerheads with your uncle;because he is your unole,and the head of your family even though he is tach an old savage as he is." "But, my dear, my dear, do you know that in that case I should have to go at once 7" he cried. '" Yes, I know that, Dick," the answer. ed. "But I oau't leave you alone, just now - I can't Dorothy," he exolaimed. " It's Im- possible ; it would be inhuman. Why I should be out of my mind with anxiety and distress." " No, no -you would know that I was proud. and happy to be able to do eomething to help you," she replied. "I would rather that you were here ; but, then, I would al• ways rather that you were here. That is not a new feeling for me. And I shall not be alone. I shall have Barbara, you know. Barbara will take care of me, and let you know exactly how I get on," "" No ; I cannot let you do it," he said, when she paused. " Yes, yea, you can, dear. Besides, it is not only enrolees that we have to think of. There is the child; and, although if we go to India together, we might be able to get along pretty well by ourselves, we should not be able to afford to send the ohild borne, if the climate wae bad for it, Why, Dick, dear, we should not be able to' afford to come home ourselves, if we could not stand the heat." "That is true," lie admitted. "And don't you think," she went on, eagerly, " that I would rather live ae I am doing now for a year or two longer than I would run the rfsk of seeing you die, per haps, beeause we had no money to bring us home? Just think what I should feel like if we were in such a ease as that." ""But, darling,you don'tkaow-you don't realize how very different life would be out there," he urged. "Here, very few people take the trouble, to notice ms, one way or another, and if they no, it does not much matter. But out there, as military score. tary, I should have a lot to do. I should scarcely have a moment to myself. I should not be able to go anywhere with you, and probably very seldom be able to come and BOO you." 'But you would be able to come some•' times," she answered, with a brave smile. "Every one knows that half aloof is better than n.0 bread, and if one cannot get even half a loaf, it ie foolish to quarrel with the: slice which keeps one from starving," Dlok's heart telt like to break, "'Dorothy, Dorothy," he said, "my dear, little, bravo, unselfish wife, every word you say makes m toe you a thousand trmes:mo ed re than vI did before. My dearodt, I, give id to any-, thing that you wish ; you shall decide everything, and 1- 1 will give all the rest of my life trying to make you fool that you did not, throw away your love and confidence when you gave them tome," So they arranged that Dick ehould accept thea ointment of military a"oretary' to but -- ; while, fall ou all ahout it," come: Dorothy lead begged hire to go ens "Then what do yon mean,, sir 1 roared the old man, lolling bio temper eitogother. "I mean bhln," :aid Diok, firmly, "Up to fire Iaghaafvn,t 0goiron ktonoIwn,diaway118a1c0t smoy loath the very idea of it. England is good enough for me, and I went with the Forty- third on purpose that I might not have 80 go to India, or lose a lotof esnioriby, What want to know is this ; Wiiat has made you take a lot of trouble, and put yourself tinder an obligation teased Skevvereleigh, in order to bring about what you know Would be utterly distasteful to me 7". Lord Aylmer looked at Dick se if words had failed him, but presently he found hie tongue and used ie freely, 'Demme, sir,;' he roared ; do you mean to accuse me of any sneaking, second-hand motives;'Pon my soul, air, I've it gond mine to write to Lord Skevverelcigh and ask hint 00 000. sides the appointment refused. But stay," as he saw by Di'sk's face that this would. be the most desirable (muree he could take, "I will do no such thing. Damme, sir, I've bed about enough of your airs and graces. Hark you, and mark what I say 1 To Indict you go without another word, or I out off your allowance from thio day week, every penny of it. Ae you yourself said just new, I go to a lot of trouble for you, pat myself under a great obligation to a friend in or. der to serve you, and all the return? get for it is that you get on your high horse and amuse me of second-hand motives, Demme sir, it's intolerable -simple intoe. erable, And I surpoee you think I don't know why you want to shirk a year or two in India, eh?" "I don't understand you, sir," said Diok with icy civility. "No, no; of course not. And you think I didn't see you the other night at the Crlterion,and mopping your eyes over ' Da. vid Garrick' afterward. Bah 1 you must think I'm a fool 9" For e, moment Dick was startled, but he did not show it by his manner in the least. "Well, sir," he said quietly. "-I have never been in the habit of asking your permieeion to take a lady to a theatre." "No," the old savage snarled, in return ; "nor when you wanted to eterthousekeep- ing in Palace Mansions either." 'No, air," said Diok firmly ; "nor when I wanted to start housekeeping,: either." "And that was why you refused to marry Mary Annandale ?" Lord Aylmer snapped. "Not at all. 1 refused to marry Miss An- nandale because 1 did not care about Mase Annandale." Bahl" grunted the old man, in a fury. "I suppose yon believe in all that rot about marrying for love." "Most certainly I do." "And you mean to do it?" " I don't mean to marry anybody at pres- ent," veld Diok, coolly. He felt more of a sneak than he had ever felt in all his life to leave the old man in his belief that his dear little Dorothy was less to him than she was, yet he knew that for her sake, for the sake of her actual bodily welfare, he could not afford to have an open declare. tion of war Met then. Sneak or no sneak, he must manage to put the time on a little until the child had come, and all was well. with Dorothy. Lord Alymer rose from his chair in a rage of tottering fury. " Listen to me, air," he thundered, It may be all very pretty and idyllic and all that, but you wouldn't marry the woman 1 eboee for you, and now you shall go to India to pay for it. It's no use you thinking you have any choice in the matter -you haven't. I've had enough of your excuses, and your shiliyehallying, and all your sentimentality, love, and all the rest of it. What do you want, with love?" i believe you married for love your- self," suggested Dick, in his mildest tones. " And repented it before three months had gone over my head, and have gone on repenting ever since," the old man snarled. "Damme, sir, that woman ie never tired of throwing it at me. If I'd married her for her money, she couldn't very well have thrown that at me -been a fool if she had," There was a moment's silence, then the old lord went on again : Look here, Diok, you've got to make up your mind to one thing -I mean you to go to India, so you may ae well go with a good grace." "I'll think It over," said Diok. "I want au answer now," irritably. "That's impossible, eir,unless you like to take no for an :newer, right away,' Diek replied, firmly. "I suppose you want to talk the matter over with the young lady in Palace \lan• bone," said the old lord, in his most savage tones. "I don't think that would interest you, whether I did or not," earl Dick, coldly ; "but one thing is very certain, which is that I am not going to India without think- ing the whys and wherefores thoroughly over. I will Dome again on Friday, and tell you my intention." "And you'll bear in mind that a refusal rf the appointment outs off your allowance at once." "1 will bear everything in mind," said Dick, steadily ; and then he shut the door, leaving the old man alone. "Well 7" cried Lady Aylmer, when he looked in to the little boudoir again. "How did you get on ?" "We didn't get on at all,"Dick answered. "He means me to go to India by hook or by crook." And I wonder;" said my lady, thought- fully, "what it is that he has iu his mind. No good, I'm afraid." CHAPTER 11?. D1NNA FOR1ET. After this interview it was Dick'," pleas. ant task to go home and tell the news to his wife. It had to be done ; it was nee• lees lila trying to shirk it, becauee Dorothy knew why and whore he had gone, and W013 too pager to hear the result of hie viola to hie uncle to let him even light a cigar. ette in peace, until she had heard all that was to bear • in fart, as soon as he put his key into the door she flew out to meet him. " Dick, is it good news ?" she cried, eager. l7' Now Dick could not honestly say that it was good news, but, then ho did not wish to tell her how bad it wan all at once ; eo he gently prevarioated, kissed her with even more than his usual tenderness, and asked her if the had been very dull with• out him and whether he had boen too. long for 300, my boy; groat piece of hick, I away , couldn't have got it for any one else; in 1 Hie well•meaning prevarication had fact, I ratifier fanny Barry Boynton had ; exactly the opposite effect to that which somebody oleo in hie eye, though, of 1 he had intended, Dorothy's eeneitive heart course, he couldn't very well refuse me. went down to zero at ono°, and the corners of her sweet lips droopedominously. " Oh, Diok I it le bad news," she said, mourn- fully " and you aro trying to hide it from me," " No, no. I am not," he said, hurriedly. "But there'll noticed to tell all our private affairs out here for .everybody to hear." "But there ish't anq everybody,", said Dorothy ; " thoro'o only Barbara." I ve taken for you? Demme, " Damme, sir, 'do yet In spite ofhis anxiety, Diok buret out a pp rather waking heat and something of 1000n 10 bell me that? laughing.(.ams in hero, my darling, Lord kevvereleigb, and that two de,ye later cite yegoe dread which he had coaxed and "Not exactly that," answered Diok, still he said, drawing her toward the drawing. i he ehouid.go and see his uncle again, end nee bun 'rho foliowmg clay, bet Diok 14018 MO firmly there, No, he would have one more 1140 day 0f liberty before he went over to enemy and gave hima0lf upl1. "We will havo a real happy day,derling," he acid, when Dorothy bed given way about imparting the new! to the savage. "By and by we shall have more money than oppor- tunity of upending it together ; let tie inako bay while 400 0001. First, we, will go and have a look at the shops together, and I will buy yon something you pan always wear till we meet again; then we will go to some good place and get a little lunch; and, afterwards, have a drive, three book here, dress, dire somewhere, and do a theatre after it, There, what do you say to that a real happy day 7" Dorothy eald that it would be delightful, and thought -well, with something like dismay, that the should never get through it all. Yet the fear of ono giving way and breaking down altogether kept her up, and she went bravely through with that happy day, which afterward lived in her mind es being one long spell of agony. ' And after that she wore upon her wrist Dick's trust gift to her -a golden bangle, with two words ineoribed upon it in little diamonds, which caught the light and flashed their message at her a hundred times a day -two simple words: "Dinne,Forget." (ro LB CONTINUED.) COMMERCE AT THE "800." Mich Greater Than That Passing Through. the Suez Canal.. During the past eight years 2,000,000 tone more of registered tonnage has paeeed through Sault Ste. Marie Canal than has. passed through the Suez Canal. This brief statement contains a world of suggestion. Through the Suez Canal in 1893 there passed 3,341 vessels of 7,659,000 tone. Last year the traffic was about the same, The important eteam tonnage of the world goes through that waterway; but in the ten yeare ending in 1892 the tonnage on the Sault St. Marie Canal had inoreaeed from 2,042,259 to 10,647,203 tons. And when the vaet extent of territory yet tobe set- tled up in the northwest and the certain future for mining in Minnesota alone is considered, the volume of business tribu- tary to the Sault Ste. Marie is seen to be enormous in the near future. The business leas increased in great leaps and it is sus- tained. Present and future business, the latter assured, present the strong urge. ments for .the definite amplification of all plana for giving the northwest a waterway to the sea, It ie no wonder that the northern waterway, rapidly becoming inadequate to accommodate traffic, bas been instrumental largely in the reduction of freights on ton mileage of several trunk linea between the north Atlantic coast and the Mississippi from 2.9 manes to 6.39 milia between 1865 and 7893. In view of these facts it seems remark. able that all that New York proposes to do to retain the big grain traffic which comes to her through the lakes is to deep. en the Erie and Champlain canals by only two feet I For the empire state to have. shown a curious indifference to her own bueiuese interests seems incredible indeed. New York business men seem to think thatothe traffic will come that way perpet- ually, no ,natter if the Erie Canal is not improved. But it won't. There is the great empire west of Lake Michigan and Lake. Superior which must have an ade- quate outlet, and, if it cannot Get it through New York State, it will get it down. the St. Lawrence. In a few years there will be 50,000,000 tone of freight pouring through the greet lakes and the urgent necessity brought about by such conditions will compel abrupt attention to the construction of an adequate outlet to the sea. The present is the time, however, to agitate the subject. WEARS AN ALUMINUM EAR. want Science Rat 11000 for it Man whose Ear Wall Diseased. We have had people with glees eyes, per. celain teeth and artificial whiskers, and now comes along a man with an aluminum ear. He is 63 years of age and was admit. ted into the Queen's Hospital at Birm. ingham, England, in April, 1893, with an epithelioma of the left auricle, The greater part of the diseased ear was out off by the attending surgeon and a plea - THE MAN WITII 0991 ALUMINUM BAR. ter of parie cant was taken of the left side of his head. Then 001 artificial ear was built up in wax to match the healthy one on the opposite side. The bogus ear was then. made in vulcanite and aluminum, tinted and enameled to harmonize with the complexion. No artificial contrivance, such as a sp0o1a- ole frame, was made use of to support the aluminum ear, and adhesion to the head.. was effected by mein of a saturatedaoletion of mastic in absolute alohol. Tho man can now hear as well as aver, but ho takes care to sleep on his right side at night, eons not to break offliie new ear. At the same time he has no fear of having it frostbitten, and he ie probably the only man alive who could even 'partly comply with the request of Moro Antony : " Lend mo your earl." `,Re• -"You told mo your father 40088 a retired capitalist, and now I find, after marrying you, that he is not worth scent." She -"I only told you the truth. Ho writ noe:but fore e • n118t o after the nolo hit a captt , p him he retired from the et:Idealist bueineso completely." "My mother -lithe never understands a joke, 0aye a correspondent.' ., "So I was eurpriserf to receive a letterfrom her 8 few Woke atter my little boy had swallowed a farthing, in which the late words were, 'Has Ernest gotten over hisfinaneial diffi- oulties yet ?' ' MAY 17, 180 WHAT UNCLE SA1 IS AT, ITlri4S OF INTEREST ABOUT TOE" BUSY YANKEE, Netgpborly tntereet 115 DM Doings -Wal tern of moment and DWI* (lathered (rent ,tile pally lt000rd. EyPoetmaster General Wanuamaker is talk0d of in Pepnoylvania as a preaidonbiai possibility, Joshua M. Sears, of Boston, pays a tax' of $48,019,92 .on real estate aoeeseed at 33,751,00, Stillwat0er children under 16 years of age are net allowed on the streets after 0 o'olook'at night. Smallpox record for the winter in United States cities shows Milwaukee, Wit„ to have ouffered the most. Thompson McDaniels, a veteran of the Black hawk war; died Friday at Kansas City, aged 00 years. A Woman's National Sabbath Alliance ham been formed in America 0e an auxiliary to the Amerigan Sabbath Union. Governor Morton bps pardoned Frank L. YYallao0, 40110 was sent to the Elmira Re, formatory from Buffalo in 1892. James A. Hill, postmaster of Paris, Ind., reported two Dente as the entire receipts of hie office during the last quarter. Steps are being taken in St. Louie for the utilization of the unoccupied land in the city for the benefit of the pnemployed poor. The New York Central bag made a mica case of lighting its care by eleotrioity gen- erated by the'revolutione of the axles. According to the, city directory just. issued, Baltimore has a population of 647,- 799, an increase during the year. of 27,917. Paul Schultz, recently removed from the poaitfon of general land agent for the Northern Pacific, committed euiaide at Tacoma. John F. Halloran of Gloucester,N.J.,hao been informed that hie uncle, John Hallor- an, who recently died in Australia,. left him 3800,000. William Shelp of Newark, N, Ir., killed himself to prove to his wife that he wee not a coward. She hal taunted him with lack of courage. A West Virginia man has recovered $9,- 000 damages from a telephone company for deetruetion of hie residence by fire commun- icated by its wire". Miss Marion Talbot has been appointed dean of the Woman's college in the uni- versity of Chicago, taking the place of Mee. Alice Freeman Palmer. The longest distance a letter can be car- ried within the limits of the United States is from Rey West, Flw, to Ounalaskn, 6,. 271 miles; and all for two cents, Five Seventh Day Adventists, who were convicted and sent to jail in Rhea county, Tenn., for working on Sunday, have been pardoned by Govenor Turney. The Spreckleo company has been 8000 ee- ful in its experiments on growing sugar cane in San Joaquin county, California, and is extending its operations there. The comptroller of the currency has de- clared a dividend of 13 per cent. in favor of the creditors of the insolvent First Na- tional Bank of Sub Dance, Wyo. Mary Croughen of Lynn, Masa., died from the effects of a tumorous growth in her throat, which caused her to hiccough. She had hiccoughed since July of last year. Mrs, Merles Mott, of Patchogue, L. L, celebrated her 84th birthday reoently, and among the invited gueete were 18 whose combined ages aggregated 1,421 years, Rev. Charles Device, pastor of the Bap- tist church at Harrodsburg, Ky., a week ago Sunday immersed seventy-six converts in twehty.nine minutes, It was a cold day, Dr. John Hall's church, Fifth avenue, New York city, has 2,438 communicant members. Ite contributions last year amounted to $147,052, of which 396,749 went to benevolence. Dolly Ferguson is the name of an old colored lady who resides tear Carrollton, Md. She was born in Buchanan county, Va., Aug. 901777, and is therefore in the 118th year of her age. The Scriptures are to be published by the Protest and Episcopal Church in the classical Wenli language in China. The translating has been in charge of Bishop S. I.J. Sohoreadhewoky. It is believed to be the intention of the New York Central Railway to get its power from the tunnel power company to run its oars by trolley system between Niagara Valle, N. Y„ and Buffalo. • Gen J. E. B. Stuart, the dashing Con- federate cavalry leader, it to have a imit- able monument erected to his memory. The Richmond City -Council has appropriated $10,700 for the purchase of a site. A Frenchman who settled in South Caro- line a few years ago planted 150 aores of asparagus. At the end of six years he sold hie farm and returned to' bis native country with a fortune of a quarter of a million dollars. Lyndhurst, the home of Reverdy Iohnson, and one of the finest pl0cee in the suburbs of Baltemore,hae been sold to a company of speculators to be cutup into building lots. There were nearly 300acres Mahe Reverdy Johnson farm. Moater3ohany Bazemore, aged fourteen, of Ohoopee, Ga., became tired of bachelor life, and two weeks ago he married the little lady of his heart, Mite Emma Lynn, aged thirteen, at the residence of one of the bride's relatives. Greater New York, a typographical statietioian points out, will cover an area of 317 square miles ; three poles the sire of London and twelve times that of Parls- Rome,Babylon, and Memphis are not to be mentioned in the oomparison. Rev, Dr. Richard M. Smith, profeoeor of Greek, Hebrew and Sanserit in Randolph. Macon College, Ashland, \'a., is about to resign because he oalloot accept all the doctrines of the Methodist, church, under whooe patronage the college is maintained. a' A bill before the 'Missouri Legislature proposes to tax baohelore•ao follows; Be. 1 tweeu the ages of 30 and 35 years, 810 ; between the ages of 30 and 40 years, 313 ; .. betweenand 45 years, $30; between .15 and 50 years, $50 ; between 50 and 55 years, $75, s A Great Lawyer's Carelessness. Great Criminal Lav er- I worked very hard to get you off;. but 1 foiled. Convicted Murderer (haply) -You might) 'a' known you would. Three o' them men you lot on that jury was reopeotabie, Fuddy-"Tho villein! But you made bim mallow hie words?' Duddy-"jiow oottld I, when they were 00 bitter y"