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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1895-8-23, Page 2STOW Ypu do very well, my rn0 with some little revel ing tee you are )bo ev1nl ygurd0lves, It is not mo rnanstu0hgd officer who hie omelette or dsainieg a pdeoe, of history, and of idetary 01113011 04r0 own ( ry hoe over had. Ill 1 th0�lest of these wander who were veterans when whe learned to nee a aw razor, and who during a h never once let the enemy their knapsacks, For tw 4eaohlug Europe how when they bad learned t only the thermometer, a net, w11i0ii could break down. `Berlin, Naples, Libelee, Moscow -we 0'. in them all. Yes, my fr that you do well to send me with flowers, for the the trumpet calls of Toren have seen her staudarda i. may never be seen agate 1 Even now, when I Boz r I can !tee tdwee great e'er. me -the greetneackeeed o ouiressiers, Ponietowsk white mantled dregoo bearskins of the horse then there comes the thi the drums, and<througlt and smoke 1 see the line the row of brown faces, t 1 of the long, red plumes lines o steel, And ;her .his rad head, and le eU v e e vLemnos [ h h' jaw, and W L and then amidst the gl J the flaunting feathers I him, the man with i f the rounded shoulders I. o@' eyes, Thera is sleep, my friends, fo from my chair with a era and a silly hand outfit "'faux has Dee MadameTi the old fellow wUohves a Although I was a full when the wars Game to every hope of 00011 bein Division, itis still rather that 1 turn when. I wi glories and' the trials of you will understand tri has so many men and ho • hoe his mind full of _recru fodder and fairies, and even when he is not in enemy, life is a ver for him. But when lieutenant ora captain heavier than his spa shoulders, $o that he ca and swing his dolman, d kiss his girl, thinking 0 enjoying a gallant life. when he is likely to hay it is most ofteu to that turn in the stories whiol tun So it will be to• .you of my %deft to the 0 the strange mission o Dune, alta of the horrib who was once known and afterwards as the that You must know, thea ruaryof lee7, immediate of Danzig, Major Lege commissioned to kin remounts from Priests. laud; The hard weather, a great battle at Ey]au, h of the horses that, there •Y " of our beautiful Tenth fug a battalion of ligh knew, therefore, both that we should be ver front. We did not adv¢ however, for the snow w ro, `' deteetabl'e, and we hadb mg invalids to assist impossible, when you h of forage, and Hemet] to move Morose faster t am aware that in the .•'i' " ravairy whirls poet st tri lops ; but for my own campaigns, I shculd be n that brigade c know tm Y march r upon the mar , and trot P rho -enemy. This I say o <Masseurs, mark you, so t \ the case with Quire/Were For myself 1 am fond have four hundred of tri and ¢hose and character, panda, wee a very great They were from Portiere. Part, though same were and some from Alsace, a ' to notice that the differ .W yy much as the people of ch observed also, what I h Mace that the nature of a by his colour from the cot full of fancies and new chestnut, and from the d pig-headed rusty -black. nothing in the world to but how is an officer of with his tale when he fi boroeswaiting for him a ism habit you see to t Y , interests myself, and so I interest you. We creased the Vistula warder, and had of as f g n , Major Legendre ea who M o �`. 1 g in the poet•house with an hand, You are to leave m despair upon his face. It was no very greet that, for be was, if l m worthy to have snob a su ed however, in silence, t, " Itis an order item he continued; "you ar Russel instantly, and to he beaiquartere of the r No meet/ogee/mild hove T was already very well superior ofiieere, althou none of .them did me evident to me, therefore, . order meant that the re to see met vice once more •r' understood how ]seem 1 would be without in0. came at an inconvenient keeper of life post -house one of those ivory -skin Polish girl° -wham Ili sante further till: with,' the pawn to argue when player move him from tri I went, saddled my. bi Rattplen, and set.:Rif in lonely journey, My �)vord, +.L wee a tre -771 B ,Atratrsr 23, 1S9,7 ^� F( OF food,. t0 treat etlCO' far in honer • t i both Prance mu• rel au aid grey,/ y , gS i 011 sae cedes bit 'lase but it ie 1, , the hies lenses, g ir' any other Conn. io you see cue of ful mon., bhp man they were tot boys ors earlier thane undred baetieshed see the colour of e¢ty yearn we Were to fight and,even heir laesaus It was Id 00000 the boyo the Greud Army Vienun Matlrld ' ' titled our horses :elide,' 1 say again your aliiidtee to se ears have heard oe and these eyes ' a v 1. lauds where they e in my armchair, rdorsstream before hasoeu ncers gtaot y's lancers, 1-e us, the nodding grenadiers. And ek, low rattle of wreathe of dust of high bonnets, he swine and voee amid life sloping p, 5 e e with o rides 1\ t Y with h' bulldog r wit is e g a Gascon swagger; east of braes and ae n f n oh a innr a to Awhere gcountry the pal° 'with', , and the far- tou anal oa riuy P P g voice calling Med t ofto g, retched, so that more laugh at the u)Omefiofe a shadows. Brigade an end, and rind g made a General tom easierda s sh to talk of the a soldfer'e ]fie, For It when e lan curer roes under him he its and remounts, quarters, eo that the fare of the • serhe 1Dus matter is 011111 , he has nothiu g ulettes upon his u vtiak. hisspursaffardhomemanslnpaeareoreatfon,-seems. rain his gime and f nothiu .cave of g That is the time e adventures and Lime that I shall t I may have fcr night when I tell ,elle of Gloom ; of 1 Sub -Lieutenant le affair of the lean. as Jean Carabin, Baron Sttauben• that in the Feb- ly eater the taking ndre and I were g four hundred into _Eastern Po• nd especially • the ad kellled eoma o danger any o[9Huasare becm t fnfautty. �.7e the Major tend I, y welcome at the nee ver rapidly,g 1 deep, p' ut twenty return- us, Besides, it is ave a dailychaneDolomite's g mea nous at all, ha¢ a walk, L story -books the e maddest of .gal- Fact, after twelve verysa isfie o f d t -P ould ¢ilea u 01¢16b Yp . in the prnaeneo of f the hussars and hat it is far more or dragoons. of hones, and to em, of every age all under my own pleasure to me. .pleasure for the most ft°m Normandy eel it amused us fn charavter as. se provinces We eve often proved horse can he told pettish light Ixe bay as, to the hardy ocile roan to theLhe'eighty All this has lo with my sooty,' cavalry to get on ode four hundred 7Be t the outset It alk of that which Mope that I may 0 Dai a nice• PP t N r er ae Riesenber g' me into rot room open proper fn hie c," said he, with grief to me to do ay say em, hardly Ualtern. 1 saint -aid General Lasalle, e to proceed to report yourself at m imeut,' gg pleased me better. thought my ill I may any that fuatioo. It Waa that this sudden el was g and that Lasalle ole m a uandron Y q It is tree that it moment, for oho. bad a daughter- nod, hleck.hnired ud hoped to; have Still, it 10,1160 for the ffngets'of the 0 square;no'down g black , harger,, atantl y ,on my` ,, "• .0 foo those poor 7 r y 1! rd 1 I I M .i. -.A J to 4(r POOH and :news, Iv is have ee little t0 brlgilteo thdlr Gall hued, t0 fed ouch a 1ptere ae lilac l eiere bheir doors, 1 h@ t Oety scorning air made Ijataplau' great. black ilmba au the beautiful pliry@e of No book an(i aides gleam and. ellimmer With @very gambade, 4o for roe, the rattle ni ho0ta upon. a ryad, and the JlagIe of bridle °being which o01ned with every toes of a @Huey head, would eVep nuW 4e3 my blood' deuetngthreUghmYvetus, You may think, then, how I carried myetue fn my fiveeauti. twentieth year -1, iltlenne Gerard, the Molted horseman end tureet blade la the regiments ofbussars, Blue wee our eolour in the Tenth- a uky.blue dolman and peyase with a scarlet front, -end It was said of ua to the cant that we could set a whole population running, the women towards us, and the men away. There were bright Dyne in the I0ioeenberg windows that morn1ng, which mimed to beg me to teary ; bet what can a sewer do, save to kiss Iiid'Isand and ¢bake hid bridle as he rides upon his way ? Its we a Ulaok season to ride through the poareau and ughcat cauutry he Europ@, buU there was a oloudlosa' sky above, and a bright, oold sun, which ohffnm@rod on the )cul;° enowflehfs. My breath reeked into the frosty air, and 'Rataplau sent up. two feathers ofsto m £torn iia nostrils, whtlo the icicles drooped from the elle irons of hit; bit. Ilei him trot to warm his limbo, while for my own' part I had too much to think of to give mneh heed to the cold, Tee north end Beath etretalled the great plains, mottled over with dark Clumps of fir and lighter patches of larch. A few Cottages peeped out here and thorn, but ttwas only three months since the Greed Army, had permed that way, and you know what that meant to a country: The Poles were our friends, it was tree,. but out of a hundredin thousand men, only the Guard had Ai o t v as b 05G th0 one and the rust ha dt i° Y + might, It did not surprise ma, therefore, to see no signs of cattle and uo smoke from the silent houses. A weal had been leftthe • t host t great the across the a lm gUe had passed, and it was said that even the rats ere starved wherever the Emperor bad led hid men. (To fit, oor;Tlrttxn.) PRACTICAL 44allbiget� invert a wnrkehn penymg'1. such for driving and da that driven' ^• le' cart, booking the Arden garden necessary (Member, floored, that tion that wily, 'One making during .too lona, prevents, or souring, cream secure to bitter.oream. It ninth o keep a he yet materially fit. While it is making and that with doing sii do this but Parent P It every Lh0t when her bilin .done milk0re,.thtewill ant One t0 the time care bottom eronm d,atriboted becomes tmpm•te °teem One before the summer, having Ree keoflt This et all amply The ];heir thio and culated the sacrifice fact need Cod lgirings ,detract vow depended Another Avo the dairy 'deadly amid food life and dome next glee. food of milk amount is decreased vows feed, There .as little sumo well. season short year reasonably latter the axe the season One the eel' first. and The e• round readily, hue thornu arset with Plow in a to cow !anti them. will hi a & At 01]11 00 secure the evenly mix then danger One and �p �+ y W#11'kSholl gareletier and •11 .And tool uetra len abuildiu , It In with Aorta, enc woo pair of the Loam out handily, r x y�l :' 4 7An;aand �e� . -t j "oat^ FARM woaltaseor or cultivator, ler turning around. Wilding 10 a worltahop a tsu0es pap pP repairs executed. but simply where may aro out of season, and repairs, and would otherwise Dairy of the moat butter on the winter, 'A low temperature or rather' and it de is kept until a proper acidity, P A good' quality eke a�G q - i verbudder) 9b Y a now of t muC°ivefullr. The PasvitaFlowoflmilk, Y g y the increased met lesson the 19 may bo rather the fain that one the farmer, • take care of trio in•a short time all the neasesary the work with It may. be dtfiloult am long as his the 000000ity will 11 he is oblt ed g seams to be a item is to' be should not be a heifer is trained to allow any one worried or excited. and it b°oomes be of milk. thing is often thorough stirring a trash lot ie ¢does. moist be cream; but also ushering to the or }nixed decomposed a bad flavor WLeu is at P of our best flair a farmer's institute his pastures n° selling crop, a aloaela count shows importance times if the and that and a good p oduct •now¢ are kept milk or their 'being the case, their mann emont should. gtime t0 seoura the way indicated. either of these that a vow gives not interfere call, nor should n good oalf from her as that is agood milker on bring a item that keeping, of cows cows, s dailyante. the same, whether milker or poor neceaeary for tri to make up and then the after tit° is taken a small amount as waste in proportion secured is greater of milk, and acvordingly. in,the dairy is --- SowingdoothaGts are few ;mops work as turnips there are few While in what they require season for growth, tiwfth another the early. From a y art of is P July limo bofnglnrGeI and the Condition item i° eeaential popared a eeour° a good germination LMeu a good start soil should be is haat when bet old ground been Immured al tucorporated thio cro uuure is p well and harrow line eilth, The on rough, +h, clods b le to Mee o considerable Generali rather .ive'bettor ryesults Fdrferiand, the. lime, when be beat to sow just a gqn�dok and seed, Geo plenty no poi/Able. 'A the zed with cleat[ BOW, as by this of getting them of the big C.veriet108 purple top, ).strap p •F .. and farmer house. ahowe nae two aultiVatore, door¢ on may be or hitched - wa ,,,'/../e./....;_.�, �' .. ' Alun Tool driven be a be put lumbar many be constantly - Notes. common the farm is in keeping retards, often the it 10 bitter y, and Y if er she good, of her opportunity hard of the himself, milk he will conveniences as little to wife bevome -to -de mall item, considered, overlooked, to bo to milk necessary a ohriukage`i0 overlooked, of the to nllx from ¢Eden with in a to the foto the y men. said getgiugahort he oamifioueed is a and flow of' it can obtai on the calves, breeding, be best It is for the a large with the when a milker. can a good is sten o an d Wed the cue. e n. s pp the daily milk out. of milk, thau of course, pramtioallya Turnips. and crops maybe but a yet better m the agood and fine tiltU el the reasonably '.Ft can can with with always mitt. seeds aro Y or ]ow in every01 it eau alter good of semi very wood plan too think. i° leaved, m g l , INN TOgI BO11e]p, eheuld have The ACp01It le good plan far largo doors etc„ the back else unhitched and 3n. and the �^ . - . ;, }f • ' y 1iQ0SE.. out without I¢ Ilio and of where many made and many TherIs oft, partially ools up small true. for cone rt c odds and ced in thebaro ° mistakes in particularly the milk of the oroani fermentation case that. the in order to it is fm impossible P e of hutter from it is a(i ifi blJ v a ca e as Ua sed her A al g keeping will for pro• to say, yet. advantages in do the milking and cream, Fs supplyhrimself for labor as pos• indnee him to does the wort:, readily ap- the work. but when. it ie one and it is, milked, tome]; her without If this, ie not to °Mange 0110 and that ¢ream every In doing thbo, not only the the skies, as and notbeing the fresher, meaenre and whole lot of churn.. in an addreoe that'during and cut. orn cowshit void. found of feediuy wall milk is to be n ane profit• farm either for or both, and feeding such as is ani development in hardly best to other. The flow of milk her bringing a feet that properly fed In fact, a euerall be g _ Ycannot Bala. overlooked is a d sd especially of"Mydarling,' Yo This is ram.,.1 animal le a. In all cases the ort of animalprofession im waste mutt or beef onmes If the animal the cost' of to the amount with a large the prom Feeding pont waste of that require in a favorable that yield as termed a fair oomparativaly taking one plan is to sow middle a ddle to the time to sow, determined by of the soil. that is to Neve' •do In ordrr to of the. 00ed. clouts to grow, glob ; new be secured • be teed if it rotted manure. a sof. T00I oUjeatlonable • the coif •is so small that ill y -prepared portion of moistground' than Y n be oleo,, it a rain in order gmrmluatiou of and sow ae good plan 10 to tunes and .there i0 less the Hid s an .' +, t: d The White egg, Arld Om clic ypllpw sighs, are good' verieGied. They xneke a gem/Iced for Fluor @ soliped Qh11 advantage pn Alwaa b„#,.111 feF4 to the MOM w1tiF i snail., and Ghore Id very Uwe danger Of growing toQ.meay,' -�^^^ ry�J� p , Ul, ,i TRPS rove, Roger hie feet inhetitauge brothers ej(ipbment, ot•ame d lawyer recorded stendire feeling disposition, en eenorabie, 000ner made had bequeathed hq precured in to restore g revenue brief tenure to say that Roger on ex reoced P eo hie dead aidered that for hie daugbtor, wrong to Marham the name poseeesed a Oven Ie n A handsome through Mint, He . the will' had the Ueliaf ,crasser -Ghat papers Boat r kind beekindyattheaoldmansionIna Grey quietly Gardens, delay,":A trees and re on their- Roger was all the necessay through proved,, return to In broken °ive for the displayed . ••• am a -.few weeks; inteude to with ine, Roger. 'S Yes, rejoiced. the old lady Sh.ome days wtsoeliu!ngrnthsi•ijatleselyiaa her handsfoldedin'her,lapandherergots• ice mtstyebtefixed as a ley9teted April sky, sonsed an opening the cute," The lovers 6IId 11001 both hearts At loot down at devotedly 'alt is to. you to bur fofrnth will, so I here !" drawing is her Hilda took with iia elaborate ,DIrs, Palmer'e Roger's band. last letter broken. words 1 mybelf. wife of myheir. "Row ¢rely, "how harm for both," f ere with ao •rawft l fixed between generous penniless of earning tar every " Ii- is ed Hilda, wished to I was peunile,s, now you 'fortune which .you. Oh her lover's here a beggar allleao°tsnte Hilda hid afresh. Roger beat}, 'exclaiming; " Will bnwill PPisle, baro the .mac hod Nay as she laid shoulder, When evening after eat down old friend, :,Iarltam, were to be meat could the Vicar. hon of her He also trtd row he had had ret'lrxied knowledge Mr. Hentheotenuswero latter in. ° week before wedding. daughter g proceeding had token staying, Mrs,. Gr° Wee an though lkatoa 'cieutly to and tronssnau ave tedy On #net°tad short i t uheit a ttm0, Mr. Heatheete r •ray obi's CIIAt'7,'ER did in his viii, Haas in hie surf aware t0 whfrsll of tide behalf himself it leave to cue of the them, fortune, auto her solicitor never been - w) of h. the and, r P ' shrubs tender able, and and that theAbbey/semenasshepleased. tones kindueas in •! thinking realgu as my she "'Well, the door, they Laing Roger the fovea: a ruined -day, ey wrote to Anroes between I still illegitimate cuel ue looking fond y promi00,now men, allying one you bursting sacrifice refuse .Roger,° face, her drew my lova , then most to minioter Roger,, her " notelnve, Roger and Mr. telling married be would nephewsa the been Hilda peraou, He Maria, to for attended Y' The April take takingequate to supply t° supply . .parfki lleart. 1 q.7• ,' ,,-. h v.lte•rl ll,} C110,1CQ, .leaving Maria with her friend, b bd peod le pmo hg11f between hie youngfriends, to IGIarlole diegnst, titerwedding tt0 bil A' yerY CIUipt affair, and the lie ly ]Harried dr would gostraight fr o11t1rolt to tilde, Where the intend Y Y spending a Week before proceeding to t Abbey. The wedding day dawned brig and clear, and, ¢handed by. the few frion lube Wer@ e pr decor to wttneey Lho cerement ho Hildat t 'before the 00 fondly and plight herto the meq so fondly loved, dtannehly true, .And surely the Ap eilnalllne pe VPC shone u R¢ a ran. bridegroom er a ha ter beide thaiii loo of 6 Hiliiu as they left oho glanuty Lond church to tread li£e'a paUtway togeth " till death should them part" ' 9 * * ;S brilliant dayin M as d a ' ix tc F Woe;the birdwere wingingrtlhem w hometheir meed, while the nighte gales were &Uses oho event • with bholr @x uimte, plaintive melt Tho grouse end gardens of Marti Abbey were ablaze with rhodode tone and azal0110, while from tit •eurrou,, Mgbhiolteto the onbblo per IMO 11111 P r and syritlgae Heated on. the breeze. Lv r thing aiont tin 0111 maneign ryad greun was 10 perfeat order, for on this day t exiled hmrosd and bac husband were gates CO arrive, •7`he great gildo(t dr. gates • were surmounted with an exgius arch, composed of evergreens and ew Spring flowers, and similar 'ashes w to be found ¢panning the whole length th0 village streets, while every cotta showed some token of welocmo to t bride and bridegroom; The carriage h been sent to the station to meet Mr, a Aire. Montecute, and the exalted villas wee eagerly watchfug far doe omen] Ililda returued to the home from win she hnd.fled'with the bitterness of sou her heart throe h the loom and sat g g Hess of the Winter tnidnight . As 0 bowed her ankaotvI meat° of the r d g luteus 1 ]e r greeting which ¢watts( i every side, her eyes were so lull of than fol ha tears that she could bar > happy oo ' ntze ha h ilia ea ILD L hut:tiler r #ac and 8g who was anxiously watoinag her, thankful when the carriage stopped att g rent hall door of the Abbey. Tho •of °f M°them and \traria stood upon thpet tone] her andbar of friend's i ye a k greeting qufteupe0t the oxejted git•1, a Boger hurried her throe h the wait] d into 1 gni oxip of 00o oussif in Go Bible he l an avodd ' scone y' of whiols he had all a man's boor, ' Vain ]topeI Asurprise •was du sloe both husband and wife of which Gh little dreamed. As Roger tenderly' led rids wile into t 'cool, flower•eeeuted apartment, etrivi: to calm her agitation by his eoothi words, an old lady, who was seated in easy chair by the window advanced meet them, and, to his utter sur rfi A Roger perceived that it was Mrs, Palms Drawing the 'trembling form of his w; aloaer 00 foie aide, Gh°young man was abo to epealt, but his aunt uterr,opted hi, Holding hertliin, wlutehandatoh ne hew, she Asked,' reproachfully I g Did. you nod it so easy a thing t° f of r m°g m elove eaud wCiflifetime, let hagvan6 hot Y boy, willP its dead. I 000001 tluarrel-with, you f would. Forgive me, Hilda, for my ori. and harshness. Ihavo heard hole nobly y have endured your gruel sorrows. For t future we will befriends, you fend I; it o for the sake of our mutual levo for Boge And, with toe music of the joybe Gauging through the room, the you clasped bus earliest friend to his heat erten sea,] : 'J3W U Ventilation, The dissuasion of the enhjeet of bubor• °sloeie in cutely ne0e5sal'tly ']Recluse the eebjeoe of the aauuee o, the dame which are often found in illy ventilated beret, The tendooeof the fattest is winter is to Yeery gat A largo amount af.wurmthfar his /tattle d0 ad to cavo the ¢oat of feed. To dopers heat ho has supplied little. room for hie cows And had Out out the poll air en much afl nasib1e. sof ubllori linen the p A a tyg health of the cow days that the stable t0 be healthy, should be well ventilated and ree frem Bran. its and to acoom bah this draughts, P air should be admitted at the floor fine and sufficient space should be provided at the apex of the roof 00 allow the heaped air to e0pup0, Six hundred �uhde feet of air necessary for Shorthorns and their grades, and lose, of course; for the emitter breeds, But many a Partner will be' confronted by brie' impoesib,lity of building a larger far the purpose of securing the teethe. nary extra 'amount of air epa0e. Tho system, of ventilating named above lb a poor One, as 'ie ie not eeonomfoal of fresh warm air and it subjects cattle to direct ,draughts of gold air. it is the system that has been long condemned by arehiteete. To supply men or animals with pure air at lowest cont, tri@ im ora, air :Mould not escape at filo higher Dint, bub at the 1°wast ciub near the floor, Pain."' Fresh air should he edtnited near the floor by ashmft' reaching to the outside of the barn.. Another shaft s foot or more square should run the bol e I the q u whole h i tt of g tiara and latae the roof outside. This ahaft'should extoud to ivi0hin a foot of the bottom oft citable.' he a e.' Ae the air taken in fro u o t of deers aomofi he rod it rias¢ a and as it becomes impure ft will seek an outlet at the only: poit it can got ft;u P the shaft._ Thus the air ,in the stable in- stead of being gold all the time will always be warm,a and beingeoutinuall changed1 Y g Will tie fresh. � XIV, lviJWQ$ tfAKFLTIU ALr,. TIIr M ( POP AND 1ATltt' nob leo the grads grow under endeavere to restore nor to Iiflaa• A p0 of hie last thpr with a uotia@ of delved upon Colon@] Del• a few days after the events my last chap_ ter. Notivtth. , morose temper and un Y p Reginald Daloreine was upright mac, and he wee no Ghat hie brtGliar Mark his property to Hilda than. quit the Abbey, even poet, to the youes beircas the Y 9 he had expended hfe P during the estetee, .It ie needless was promptly refused by of Hilda. The old soldier ver strop 1 with re and y a Y g . brother's'' eon/loot He con. was Mark'a duty to provide bub that he was very the Abbey and estebes of who had no right to hear proud rano who had so long 1 re to nan0aetaddhe of mons which Hilda . y p offered to settle, upon knew the mesas by which discovered, inclining to ,' � o or for re o R bo t o - ooh an g ft rind been disnavered among Nigel SVoutworth, after iia t i a tlemen of ) her alfa' U s t orMee a Y remained hPark consequent upon' the law's 1 was far advanced, and the in the parklvere putting liverof green, before to announce to Hilda that forma bad been gone her f'ather's ,villi hod bean she was now at liberty to she, thanked the deteo. and zeal which he had her esuse, of go in to to Byighton for ou' know that Mrs, Grey Y Y nor koeuapefon bare and live housekeeper," said Hilda to told me of her interstice," he I know you will make happy.:" after this °onversativn Hilda low uhair, on the softwhite clouds •over the tender-Ulue'of the when n firm, manly tread stone stairs, and Mro: Grey, , announced' Mr. Monta• had not ins} for seine day ' clasped hands in silence too full for utterance, eoid, sorrowfully, Iookxn fair face of the woman he so man who is speaking Kilda, I received' no re- aunt l discoverywhen of your wrote father's ngafn a few days ago ; look a •letter Trout its coker, g p there e large, square envelope monogr(yn.; addressed m' well•known writing, from It .contained her lover's. hie Hunt with the seal eine the .envelope were these - Hilda O'Connor and decline to 'accept Mr, dao bier as the g g - l' exelaimed Elide, passion; unjust l 1 010 encu ae. now, Roger.I hove enough.. tip in. her lover's grave fl i at# io y -non d a eot n. gfraternizedat replied the u man i e e o n P g o on. not �ee,vh to gulf is d y a g us ; how can I claim your that I am ¢homeless, with or means, 7 What a heroine bun• would consider mo !" wheeze cruel now,"exclaim• into tears. "You everything for me when as well as nameless, and en accept a share in the ie utterly valueless without. lifting her wet oyes to "'I would rather stand to -day than lose your love world l"laud lex �e Doi darlfu me face in herhands'eud sobbed her closely to his beating : tudeed mak° you •appy? dearest.; you w'1 et least t devoted slava that neer wo- toyoureveryw!ah," repliedthegirl, golden a aihet his g. S but king, n .o AUTOMATIC LOCO MO TION. The Extinction ora /gorse within a-IleIV sonnblepttsu,uae• The 000088s of the recent trials of self- propelled road 0arriages in France appears to bring the extinction of the horse -so ar as the present extensive use of that animal is concerned - within a measurable distance, That extinction will of course Home by slow degrees, but that the day will arrive when the horse will only ba Y used for pleasure, and by three who dna highly probable• Already he 'has found red] ions competitors in the trolley oar P g P y and the bicycle. The country is being covered with a net work of electric oar lines and the streets are becoming fuller and tulle: every day of pneumatfv-tired wheels. But the repeat fresh departure in P the way of road carriages in France, whiah is shortly to be followed by similar ex- perfmonte in England, indicates a further uhenge. Prizes were offered in France for eelGdriven vehicles that should macre a run of 750 miles. Tho brat prize was gained by a four -wheeled carriage driven byfour °and was exhibited} in Pa ca just after Fee return from a journey ACROSS FRANCE AND HnCK• It was covered with mud, baton the whole it did not seem eo be much the worse for its trip. What has been done in. France can be repeated elsewhere. We may take it for meted that carria es, in using B white the horse is replaced by meobonfom, will soon be in use, Ft Duly as the toy of, millionaires -on the roads of the IInfbed States. We shall no doubt the • them here, In England the use of carriages driven by steam or other power along the Common roads is for•idden Uy Aetof Pnrliameut, but there is no doubt that the Act, which wail one of ears ego, will soon berep repealed. Y g P The latest. �develo menu of the automatic P 'a ea is the of,'er bythe Engineer, carriagee , t meet g g a London journal of great influence and wealth, of a thousand guineae,in two prizes, Cur competition -etition b aelf•drfven veh'cieson o. A y `'ue of the main roads of the • United King* dom. It seems likely that in England steam will be the motive power employed, and that 30' he be produced io a light but 0000119 boiler by the aid of coal nil burnt with an air -blast. Electricity, on. a000001 of the weight of storage batteries, is out of besides being the running,cin verymuch more g expensive than steam. Itwillbe Interesting to Bee what the •$8,250 offered by the , Engineer brings forth. It appears to be he the repeaprobal of the Actle that, ethatof 1R ts 30001w rb fots rbids use of vehielee driven by steam or other power on ordinary roadie and that it will greatly bong Bariza the idea of locomotion without _BIG DIAMOND DEAL. •- ' - A London Syndicate Secures lila tiro• duet of the Seitlt Al Noon Fields. a A $20,000,000 diamond deal has just -been consummated. in London. The rich' London diamond a ndlcate, cornpoead of Y Charles Abrahams, Werner, Bert & Co., Joseph 8rothors and J. Sat•snato, nae P made a contract with Lhe Do Beero-Iiim• berley syndicate, of South Africa, by wvhf011 the latter agrees to deliver to the Lonaoheyndicateitseutirooutputof:rrug- ()]amends until July 1301. For this con- cession the London syndicate pays to the 01110beers-Kimberley 00 ceot over the¢ 018001DW exftlstiuCe p A 6 of This means that as the he Sououtput. African the mines controlled by ch South African corporation amounts to $$20,000,000, the De lieera•X'mberleq syndicate will make $2,000,000 clear profit over the profit ir, would make under present Oondhi0na, Just what the ordinary revenue of this colossal eynd'cate is, not to speak of this extra g_,000,000, will be made .plain byman. 'Mguree given below. P DIAufo: De WILL 001110 ufnu.. The immediate result of this deal will be, tosendthe Post of diamonds ' upward x With the extigradually, but with certaintysi• exception of o few Earle endeet mines in w ouch Africa, the Dep Eaeis•liimberlay syndicatecontrolsthe world's supply of d T former contract with the London syndicate still has a year to run,' so that the contract just made cover¢. the from July, 18330, 10 July, 1307. Caere is the showing made by the diamond monarchs who own the De Beers company."Choose The ort is for the last fiscal year ti to A Y P ent month. bh�pe°esvenue of the De Beers company' alone for that period rine Ueee S1f,,020,000. The expenditures were $0,205,000, leavingP a groes profit of $9,7o0,000. nxeaimens in' Horn QVARTa. To the utter ur ries f ole and expert- s v P P eased miners,diamonds have. been is over• d aY among the gold quartz in several of the Transvaal gold mines. This circumstance is regarded as peculiar, Seldom have this gam and precious metal been found in sn°h close proximity. When the mib008 at Tilers• dorp discovered thee their heavy ,stamps were pulverizing large diamonds with the gold quartz consternation ensued and.an. instant order was ioeuod all along the line to be on the sharp weeoh 'for diamonds, Some then were found proved to be of the vary first water and Were Uyexperts as peoeliarly unique. At Johannisberg .Dom° line diamonds have been with the gold quartz, SPANIARDS TREATED CORDIALL'. I•tstt o r (bell' Sblps Evolres nu lettere Inn ltemarit front the Outten. The viea of the Italian fleet to Por mouth, England,last week wee followed • the. stay of the Spanish equadron_at P mouth, where the Spaniards were treat with the greatest cordiality, in accord¢ wit}, the Queen's own inatruetiona sent the author}Giea of Plymouth, An fetors 1n remark in this.conneptioie was made the Queen during the course . of a dinner r previous to her ,MajosG Windsor for departure far Osborne. A guest suggested that the visit of t warships of Spain would have been m interesting if the Spanish and Italian seek o tsmouth whet bad pPortsmouth, . besides the Spaniards would have soul to see more naval works than they could Plymouth. 7,'11oreupon,the Queen cheery quietly that Plymouth Hao would inter them more. This reference to the histo. scene there at the time of the'Armede 8 emphasized by contrasting the hietori dfepntclr sent from Plymouth to . Q.ue P4lizabeth at Windier 3U0 years ago w" her own kindly massage sent that d inetrueting the authorities of Plymouth show lila .Spanish sailors the warm 11ptp'tfmlitp. le was off Plymouth Hoo (a high rook), will be remembered, that the 'British L High Admiral, Lord Howard o ll MI:mha hoeing under him suoh renowned morin oeDroke, Iiewkdua,(wdFrobfeher,ussemU compare, vely small and ligh armed. veesels, which, ou July 21, 15 (July 31,old-style), went. out to fight Spanish Armada,: consisting of about 1 large ships, then sweeping up the chant long. formation their linefl beingenv mile¢ -long, flow the British Oaetharnsa mud broke up the Spanish fleet is a mat of history, only fittyCourshattered wash s in hili o succeeding of li n i f 8 sin n that 6 P h P in Cadiz, Ing :It la worthy of note that the first v] at the SpanisH fleet to Plymouth for c 1110100 Web made. upon the anniVer0ary the visit of the great Arinada to the eo ahma Plymouth. • ACCIDENT INSURANCE FOR CYO LISTS. -- companies leer/flexed Over it Yewlilemerit llt!I'11e'ie mistiness. „ Tho bicycle is a revolutionist yt tmiist ; it over- tnrna one thing after another with the ease of a Young Samson, Horaea have to. go, not ou the ¢cresta but from them Fa Farmers find their markets for oats cut down ; new bradeB are created and huge fuatariea built; new ]utecpr010tione of the law have to be mode ; ladies altos the fashioua that have resisted reform for a generet!on •; modes of rearoation bre modified ;language receives additions 1 the values of real estate are ; new dioeaoes are meted ;mada aro rectustritoGe(i ; and now the attendant in. euronoe o01ttpauies are rattled. They find that their old ualaulationo for risk will not ic• Th have disvry • d that tu'ur!os Y frem bicynlo aoahiente-gra more serious then the average abs that ridingex case¢ g A router number to rlok than ivrmcri so they think of raising the Wee. It also appears that in the West where ibis gauerallylevel,the deka aro much less than in the hilly and inouutafn°usrogioes, The aul>jact, with fmot:and. base hall risks, wad referred to 0 o minitbee for fix ootigation, It 10probablo khat the great mm,ber of adults learni»g to ride ham much to da with Both the number t and t• ori °' charant0t of the u0oldnnte. blest 0f rile 1001 0s 000 grown up, , �` hen the riders, loot], ins child. , ren the risk will be' lens f i the risks were based only on those who have learned they would, probably not bo above the' "e"gn, SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. - - The loather apron as worn by the black- smith e. men n by Pliny a in use m '' mentioned in a ' his time• Vinegar • is mentioned in. the Egyptian reootdb as a medicine in the tenth canonry, B. C• This is an age of wonder, Fine drawin s 6 g made in London, have been eucceastully transmitted to Paris by telegraph with the of the (ars teieuto to h.Upson Y g P Abram Atwood, a poelterer,of Lewleton lee., sold a turkey to ea patron, and the latter found in the fowls crop a gold bosom pin worth twice the price plaice turkey, The world's record id .claimed by the Dirigo Hose Co,, of Ellsworth, Me.,. whioli the other'cloy ran. [l0 yards to the engine home, then 233 yards with Lho hose reel, r -cupids the 13000 to a hydrant abrl the nose zle to the h0ae, all to 1 minute l ,, seconds, That lightning does sometimes strike twice in the came plana is proven in the once of a windmill is Butes Co., Mo., which Vv:1i Net week atruaka holt in exactly by t}teepot worm it w<s aimilarly.etrunk throe yam ago. Four genaraLions af.one family were baptized together at Litchfield, Conn., en' a recent Sunday.' There wag a little boy, 1 collard Morrill, hie father and mother, grandfather and grsndmother,'nnd greet. rand fallter and reat• •rand, other the g g 1' r� grrat-grandfather being HOyearh•ld,' The group catered the water at the on�i a time, _ _ returned to hie hotel' that ion iutorvjew with Hilda ho wrote along letter to Ilia kind Iiaathoate, the VIeno. of him 0109 H• de ti 11e as soon' as the settle•• gob ready and begging that moo Mre. I'alinera°d inform pproaohtng marriage, kind old man all the dor. suffering 01 0100 his 00310 hie lettere and r°fueed 10 00- es his wife. '` the young mads nrrivuig in London about n Lho day fixed ,upon for the wee acoompanied by his and the lost notime Y the apartments which Roger Hilda, and where alio waft by her faithful old friend, meeting between the girls g One of smiles and : tears, 0o on recovered herself eufil- nu intermit in Ffilda's dress which elm ion0unesd to , P her for an r itro u and ra fares for b round of as fat as pnsher in ac the defici°uoy in her toilet. had eeturtind to, MArhaml: Important to Hay Growers. Complaicto, have been forwarded tr England to the Department of Agri/mitt g • p that injuries have resulted to Lugli horses and mtittlebronf seting hay 0111' had been bound with wire. It is mid t some of the wire had been neeidentally up with the fodder and the short pie swallawo(i, cousin the death of save g animals. The is a ,natter of import:e 00 Canadian Iter lowers and deals Y g Like all vendors they must naoful13 stn the wants of their oustomcree and if the is the least danger of prejadioing tri chances In the market by tytu baled w• g wire some ether teethed renal be .adept 1Lu(iliah buyers aro unhsorvatfv° in ma wa: a and profitable 11n00 of ahi In h y, P Pp g often been injured by a failure to condo to their a heft. The export of hay 30, favorable theme, au ltrade. u ;part 0090 0 1 s 9 a agricultural trade. Tooimu Dao n d flat be °xn lure 0 m avoiding a mollies liable to injure Dun roduots iaa ,brittsii market, 1 A 1 Parts of bii0ltigan'wors- visited a July franc n1 wn p12 w W- fro ed (0 ht ie et 9R til dor er on ay ut- Gil' 11" Maar od- ics, do he 0 oR ito cot We gee he ad nd ere 0 tit k. he a, P on than dl Y er W he oar as P nd nd ng he 'a or. for ey ne og ng an to 30, !r. to ut m. er or fes ry fI de on. he my C.11 Ile ns, t, 0- ts• by PI ed ace to at. by ac Majesty he Ore ors e b10 at ed set ole he cal on tri' my, to Det it Lo m, e08 lad ;ly 88, the 50 lel en ed tar 1 a P Ch• it et of net bo