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The Brussels Post, 1895-11-8, Page 28tories of Adventure, "I° RnallerOr did not et firth Mlle Much upon the weer. Perlar.Ps the deaths ot Despienee and Tremeau etill Weighed heavily up= spirit.. Pas alwaya reeerved man, and in these thine, when every hour brought him the neWe ef some emcees of his enemies or defection of his friends, one could nth expect him to be a merry companion. Nevertheless, when X refloated that he levee carrying in his bosom those papers which he valued so highly, and which only a few hours ego appeared to be fore over lot, and when I further thouglat that it was L Etienne Gerard, who bad placed them there, I telt that I had de- served tome little consideration. The Same idea may have oeourred to him, for when we had at last left the Paris bigh road, and heel entered tlae forest, he began of his own accord to tell ine that which I should have most, liked to have asked him. ."As to the papers," said he I have al- ready told you that there is no one now except you and me, who knows where they are to be concealed. My Mao's' Juke carried the spades to the pigeon house, but I have told him nothing. Our plans, however, for bringing the packet from Paris have been formed since Mon- day. There were three in the secret, a woman and two men. The woman X tA." -dug Ceunt 'Bertrand and my' pelt, and w io infentnally eletanied them, ye sixlry Whiell I weeld tell you, WOO noe the end, bee not yob ame. Some clay Yen will heae Of these Pape and you will eve Mite, Alter he has been so long in his grate, that great men can still set Europe shaking, When eliat day cornes you will tlainle Etienne Gerona and you 'will tell your children that you have heard. the Story friane the Ups ot the Man Who took pert in that strange hietory—the Men who was tempted by Marshal Bertiner, who led that wild 'pursuit upon the Paris road, vvho was honoured by the embrace of the Emperor, Mad, who rode with him by moonlight in the Voreet of Fontaine., blau, The buds are bursting and the birds are calling, my friends. Yon May find bettee things to do m the sunitght than liebenMg to the stories of an old, broken soldier. And yet you may well treasure what I say, for the buds will have burst and the birds sung in inany seasons before France will see thole another ruler aa he whose servants we were proud, to be, (The End.) would trust with my life-, whith of the two men has betrayed us I do not know but I think that I may promise to find out." We were riding in the shadow of the trees at the time, and I could hear him slappiug his riding. whip against his boot, and taking pinch after pinch of snuff, as wa,s his way when he was 13X- eited. " You wonder, no doubt," said he after a pause, "why these rascals did not stop the carriage at Paris instead of at the entrance to Fontainebleau." ln truth, the objection had not oc- curred to me tint I did not wish to ata pear to have less wits than he gave me credib for, so I answered. that it was :indeed surprising. Had they done so they would have ade a.publict scandal, and run a chance ofeinissing their end. Short of taking the berline to pieces, they could not have discovered the hiding -place. He planned it well—he could always plan well—and he chose his agents well also. But mine were the better. It is not for me to repeat to you, My friends, all that was said to me by the Emperor as we walked. our horses amid the black shadows and. through the moon -silvered glades of the great forest. Every word of it is impressed upon nay memory, and before I pass away it Is likely that I will place it all upon paper, so that others may read it in the nays to come. He ;spoke freely of his past, and something also of his future; of the devotion of Macdonald, of the treason of Marmont, of the little King of Rome, concerning whom be talked with as much tenderness as any bourgeois father of a single child; and, finally, of his father - in -Jaw, the Emperor of Austria, whO would, he thought, stand between his enemies and himself. For myself, I dared not say a word, remembering how. I had already brought a rebuke upon myself; but I rode by his side, hardly able to believe that this was the great Emperor, the man whose glance sent a thrill through me, who was now pouring out his thoughts to me in short, eager sentences, the words rattling and razing like the hoofs of a galloping squadron. It is possible that after the word -split- tings and diplomacy of a Court, it was a relief to him to speak his mind to a plain soldier like myself. In this way the Emperor and I—even after years it sends a flush of pride in- to my cheeks to be able to put those words together—the Emperor and I walked our horses through the l'orest of Fontainebleau, until we came at last to the Colombian The three spades were popped against the wall upon the tight -hand side of the ruined door, and at the sight of them the tears sprang to my eyes as 1 thought of the hands for :which they were intended. The Emper- or seized one and. I another. "Quick!" said he. "The dawn will be upon us before we get back to the pal- ace." •We dug the hole and planing the papers in one of my pistol holsters to screen them from the damp, we laid them at the bottom and covered them up. We then carefully removed all marks of the ground having been dis- turbed, and we placed. a large stone upon the top. I dare say that since the Emperor was a young gunner and helped to train his pieces against Tou- lon, he bad not worked eu hard with • his hands. He was mopping his fore- head with his silk handkerchief long be- fore we had come to the end of our task. • The first grey cold light of morning was stealing through the tree trunks when we came out together from the old pigeon -house. The Emperor laid his hand upon my shoulder as I stood read3P to help him to mount. " We have left the papers there," said he, solemnly, "and. I desire that you shall leave all thought of them there also. Let the recolleetion of them pees entirely from your mind, to be re- vived only when you receive a direct • order under my own hand and seal." "1 forget it sire," said I. We rode together to the edge of the town, where he desired that I should separate from him. I had saluted, and was turning my hero when he called me back. "Th is easy to mistake the points of the compass in the forest," said be, " Would you not say that it was in the north-eastern corner that we buried them?" "Buried what, sire?" " The papers of course," he cried. im- patiently. " What papers, sire ?" "Name of a name I 'Why the papers that you have recovered for me." I am really at a loss to know what your majesty is talking about." Ho flushed. with auger for st moment, and then he buret null laughing. " Very good, Brigadier 1" he cried "1 begin to believe that you are as good a diplomatist as you area soldier, and I cannot say more than that." So that was my strange adventure in ethieh I found myself the friend and confident agent ot the Emperor, When retarned from Elba he retrained from digging up tbe papers until Ms position should be smarm and they still re- mained in the corner of the old pigeon house after his 611110 to St. Helena, It won at this time that he was desirous of gel ting them into the hands of hit own supporters, and for that purpoett he wrote me, as I afterwards lammed, three lettere all or which were intercepted by his guardians. Finally he offered to support, bitnselt and lite own establish- ment—which he mighe very easily hate done oub of the gigantle suin which be- longed to hint -it they would only lease one of his lettere unopened. This re- queet was refused, and so, lip to his death in '21, the papers" still remained evhere 1 lieVe told you. How they came THE GOLD PRODUCTION FOR 1895 ;three enereasee in the untied stotet—rbe ttrowing rroduction In eolith Africa. The indioations continue to point deCisively to a gold production for 1895 not materially below $200,000,000, and perhaps in Emcees of that amount,. • The countriee expected to show she greatest increase over 1891515 the United &Moat om $39,500,000 to $46,000,000; Soueh Africa, from $39,• 690,330 to $46,000,000; Australia, from $41,760,000 to $43,000,000 and Russia, from $27,646,000 38 980,000,000. Small inereame ere also promised in Mexico and other gold -producing districts of the world. The aguree given for Russia thin year are simply based upon a report that there would he a large increase, and the actual figures may be much larger than the conservative one e,depted. The contest will be a close the between the three leading countries for the honor of the maximum productiori, but, the chances are now favorable to South Africa. Australia will probably he surpassed by either South Africa or the United States, and the figures thus far reativedjustify the belief that South Africa will lead. The produotion there has thee* reached a total in eight months of 1.510,573 ounces, which is more than the AGGRROATI: PRODUCTION' The Vicar's Governess CHATilIR I. 'Aheap of dust alone rernains of thee: 'Tie all thou ert, and all the mond shall bet" In ati upper thaMlair, through the closed blinds of which the eun ie Vainly striving to enter, Ilegineld Brans - combo, fifth Earl of Sartoris, lies dead. The sheet is reverenbly drawn aorese the Motionleaa limbs; the • onee reetleate now quiet, Mae is htdden; all around is wrapt in solemn unutberable silence, ce that belongs to (loath 41. 55055 o oppressive Dalin is upon everythinge—a feeling of loneliness, vague and shadowy. The cloth has ticked its lasb an hour ago'and now stands useless in its place, The world without eaoyes on unheeding ; the world —Pope. Within knows time no more 1 Death reigns triumphant 1 Life sinks into in- signifionce I Once, a little flickering golden ray, born of the hot sun outside, flashes in through some unknown obliek, and casts itself gleefully upou the fair white linen of the bed. It trembles vi- *vaciously now here, now there, in un- controllable joyousness, as though seek- ing in its gayety to raook the grandeur of the Xing of Terrors! At least so it seems to the sole watcher in the lonely chamber,. as with an impatient sigh he raises his head, and, going over to the window, draws the curtains still closer to shut out the obnoxious light ; after whith he comes back to where he has been standing, gazing down upon, and. thinking of, tlae dead. He is an old name, tall and gaunt, with kind but ;passionate eyes, and 11 mouth expressive of patience. Eis hands—withered hut still sinewy—are °Wood behind his back; every feature in Ma face is full of sad and anxious thought. What changes the passing ole few short hours have wroughb I—so be muses. )esterday the man now chill- ed and silent for evermore was as full of animetion as he—his brother—who to -day stands so sorrowfully beside his corpse. His blood had run as freely in his veins, his pulses throbbed as evenly, his very voice bad been sound- ing strong and clear and hearty, when Death, reinorseless, claimed Wm for his OST. Yeti tholil1 neb hart:. reenained so long " Well, it le all over now," Sartoris says, rarity, sinking Into a thair near MM. I was 10tiniele it once/ for all, Those private rperEi kept in '0 a er or later and now rnY t in that reentraione.' his own room Should le eXarnMea acith- 50 ena 3 feel More contented.' 0 wee there anything beyond Very lietle, 3Mit one letter ;sated Alld directed tO me. It contained ra de- eire thab poor Mud's letters ahould be buried with MM. I found them let a drawer lay themeelVes, neatly tied with pale -blue ribbon,—her favorite color, —and with them an old likenese et her, faded alraost white." of 1893, and much more than two-thirds of ; Pcor Reginald! Had he knewn of the the produotion of 189..4. The figures will fell disease that had nestled ao long be large without assuming any further in- within his heart 0—or had no sYmp- crease during the remainder of the year, toms ever shown' themselves to give but if the history of the past three yeara is him kindly warning? Certainly no veriaed, each succeeding month will show hint of it had ever passed his lips, even a gain over the month which went before. to the roost neer and dear to him. He The largest Morose in the United States had. lived apparently free from care or will he in Coloro.do, which showed a pro• painful forebodings of any leind,—a good duotion of $9,491,514 in 1894, and is now and Useful life too, leaving nothing far those behind (who loved him) to TO - estimated to show not less than$13,000,000 for 1895. The miners of the State claim an even leeger inereage, but the officiale are conservative in their estimates, Oalifornia, will probably Mercian her produot from $13,570,397 to $15,500,000. There has been aome confusion regarding the production of Mexico owing to tho large amount of gold which has been smuggled morose the border to escape the export duty which is levied by the Mexican Government. Mint Dir- ector Preston of the United Statee made epecial efforts last year to verify the places of 001910 of the gold received av the Ameri- can refineries,and marked up the production of the country, as a result of his inquiries, above the figures claimed by the Mexican Government. It was found that as much aa $2,500,000 had been extracted from Mexican ores in American refineries, in addition to $1,000,000 imported into the United States in Mexican nullion. The comparison adopted of the world's production of gold for several years past, excluaive of the production of South Africa, will boogie still more interoeing when TEN LARDP FIGUBPS for 1805 are inoluded. While the South African production has steadily grown for nearly ten years, the product of other countries has also grown, as that the total, exclusive of South Africa increased from 9103,855,300 in 1887 to '3115,764,361 in 1891. The comparison for the four years since that time, band upon recent esti- mates for 1895, will ran as follows: Total South African Total Without Tsar Produot. Product. South Africa. 1392-$1.40,815,100 $23,220,108 9123,094,992 1003- 157,207,000 28,203,801 120,003,109 1591.. 170,005,600 39,090,330 140,209,270 151,000,000 1595.. 200,000,000 10,000,000 These figures show that even if the discoveries in South Africa are to be treated as is fortunate acet. dent for the supporters of the single gold standard, the gold production of the world has been steadily inoreasing with this element eliminated. The production of the world, exclusive of South Africa, will be nearly as large for 1895 tie the production including that of South Africa was two years ago. The product, exclusive of that, of SoUGh. Africa, moreover, will be nearly 50 per cent. larger for 1895 than for a considerable ono of years before 1889. The big product of the Witwaters- randt and the other South African mines has simply piled another 50 per cent. upon the normal gain in other °Quarles and made the present product nearly twice what it wee in the years from 1873 to 1888. The amount of gold now available for monetary uses is, of oourse much larger than the amount ot gold and silver avail. able for such uses in those years, because the demand for goldin the arts has not increased in proportion to the production, and the demand for silver in 'the arts is still supplied front the produotion of that metal. " For lam long be remerabered her I" says the young man, in a tone ot slow astonishment. " Teo long for our present day," re. turns his unole, absently. Then there is silence for a moment or two, broken only by the chatter of the birds in the sunlit garden outside. Presently Sox- teris speaks again. "Where 1.8 Hor- ace f" he asks indifferently. " He was here, half an hour ago, with C1114r1S1114. She mine over when ehe heard of—our sad newt They went out together,—to the stables, I think. Shall I find him for you?" " No, I do not want lahn," saYSar- toris, a little impatiently. ",How strange no the told me of Clarsea's coming 1 And why did you not go with her to the stables, Dorian Sure- ly you know more about borsee than he does." About twenty years before my story opens, Dorian, fourth Lord Sartori% died, leaving behind Man titres sons.— Reginald (who now, too, had passed in- to the land of shadows), Arthur, the present earl, o,nd Dorian, the younger. This Dorian E4lope, of all the brothers, had married. But lais wife (who was notable' for nothing beyond her deceit- ful temper and beautiful face, being as f also as she was fair) having died too, in giving birth to her eecond child Hor- ace, and her husband "having followed her to the grave aboub three years later the care ot the children devolved upon their uncle Reginald, who had been appointed guardian. But Reginald—being a somewhat careless inan in many respects, and lit- tle given to children—took email beed of thena, and, beyond providing masters for them at first, and later on eend- ing. them to school and college, and giv- Mg' them ehoice of professions, had left them, very much to their own devices. True, when college deble accumulated, and pressing bills from long-suffering tradespeople came pouring in, he would rouse himeelf set fioiently to remon- strate with them in a feeble fashion, and having received promises of amend- menb from both boys he would pay their bills, make each a handsome pres- ent (as atonement for the mild scold- ing), and, having thus dropped a sop to Cerberus,—or consoience,—would dis- miss money matters, nephews, and all from his thoughts: So the children grew, from youth to boyhood, from boyhood to early roan - hood, with no one to whom to appeal for sympathy, vvith no woman's voice to teach them right from wrong, -e with few hardships, fewer troubles, and gret. Indeed, of late he had appeared' LoGeVelertifiliel,v1fithhe imlittrellibolVethgliTre'inIt°^ glOVeci hands upon his elionldere, and Presses her UP With tender sYnepathy to bis °heels, " ead it all hi I " She eitri, with a little break in her voice. ")ow can I tell you all I feel for yeu 11 you had only had the faintest Werningt Ihn it was all so suhlen, so dreadful. " Whab Idled ohild tom are, Cloy I" says Sartoris, gently; and to oome to tia eo soon, thet was 00 good of you." Was it " says Cleric:me, uhielely, " Time ia what has been troulalmg me. We only heard the terrible news this morning, and papa said it would be In- trusive to call so early; but I-4 could not keep away." "'Tour presence in thie gloomy house is pri undeniable comfort," says Sar - toss, "1 am glad you under - good us well enough to know that. It is my greatest wish that you should tegard us all with affeetion," He glances from her to Dorian, as he volts, with anximie meaning, But Dorian'e gaze is fixed thrnightfully up- on the stained-glass window. that is flinging its crimson and purple rays upon the opposite wall, and, has obvi- ously been deaf to all that has been pasamg, ' As for Mariam she has turned, and is looking into Horace's dark eyes. Sextons, catching the glance, drops Miss Peyton's hand with a sigh. She notices the half -petulant action, and compressed her lips slightly. "Now I have seen you, I shall feel. better," she says, sweetly. " And—I think X must be going." "Will you desert ue so soon?" says Sartoris, reproachfully. "At least stay to luneheon-,—" Ile pauses, and sighs profoundly. just now the idea that the routine of daily life must be carried on wthheeirthecrouotero or relosvteadnd lineviridgeadii;upouron path, is hateful to him. " I hardly like," says Clarissa, ner- vously; "1 fear--" Dorian, rousing; himself from, his natheoghts, COMBS back to the present mo- " Ola. stay. Clarissa," he says, hur- riedly. "You xsally must, you know. 'You cannot imagine what a relief, you are to us: help us to bear our gloomy MOMOTiO5, Besides, Arthur has tasted nothing for houxs, and your being here may tempt him, perhaps, to eat." "DI can be of any use--," says Clarissa, kindly. Whereupon Sartomie gives her his arm, and. they all adjourn to the dining -room. It is a large, olcl-fashioned, stately apartment, oak -paneled, with large mullioned windows, and a massive mar- ble chin:may-piece that reaches high as a man's head. A pleasant, sociable room at ordinary times, but now im- even gayer, happier, than before ; and noWen 'Arthur Branscombe, indeed, who had lt seems such a little time ago since they both were lads together. A. tiny space taken from the great eternity; when all is told. How well the living 131011 remembers at this moment many a boyish freak and light hearted. jest, no affections. come back from Ittdia six months a er his father's decatia. and. had. stayed at Hythe for two interminable years (as they seemed to him), had during that time so worked himself into the heart of the eldest boy Dorian, and had so far taken him mto his own pa return, many a kindness shown an g thab long years had failed. to efface stowed by the dead that until DOTI the fondness of either. Indeed, now had well nigh been forgotten I He thinks of tho good old college days when the worked little, and fought hard, an -framed their fresh young limbs to do mighty deeds, and the heart of the man. walked, and rode, and held their own Horace, the younger, bad chosen his with the best, and showed open dell- profession, and gone in heavily for law. once of dons and deans and proctors; But Dorian, who inherited two thous - he lingers, too, on the days. still fur- and:a . year frorn his father, and a charming residence,—situated about three miles from Hytlae, and two from the pretty village of Pullingham,—had elected to try his hand at farming, and was at first honestly believed in by menfidin.g tenants, who discussed him la a being up to his eyes in agricul- tural lore and literally steeped in new and improved projects for the cultiva- tion of land. But time undeceived these good souls. And now, tliongh they love him better, they believe in him not at all. To adore one's horses, and to be a perfect slave to one's dogs, is one thing; to find a tender interest ht the price of guano, and a growing admiration for prize pigs, is .quite another. When Dorian had tried it for six months, he acknowledged, reluctantly, that to him mangels were an abomination, and over- fed cattle a wearynig of the flesh 1 Every now and then indeed, he tells himself that he must "'look about him," as he calls it, and, smothering a sigh starts for a quick walk across his land, and looks at a field or two, or into the nearest paddock, and. asks his steward how things are going on. and if all is as satisfactory now as in the old days when his father held the reins of gov- ernment, and having listened absently to comfortable answers and cheerful predictions for the future, strolls away again, thoroughly content, not caring to investigate matters further. He is fond of London life, and spends a good deal of his time there • is court- ed ansi. netted and made mu'oh of by enterprismg dowagers with marriage- able daughters, as a young man charm- ing, vvell bred, altogether chic, and un- doubted heir to an earldom.; for of Ar- thur Sartoris's ever marrying, now he has so long passed the prime of life, no one ever dreams. that he had returned femin abroad (only as fate has willed it, to take his brother's place), he finds the love he had grafted in the child still warm in Chloroform's Effect on the Mind. 0'1 dare say many of us," said Sir James Crichton Browne in his late lecture o dreamy mental Oahe', "recollect the story ther on, when Reginald, having abtaifl ed to his kingdom, lavished witb no meager hand upon his more extrava- gant brother the money so sorely needed. Now Reginald is gone, and he, Ar- thur, reigns in his stead, and --Alas I alas 1 poor Reggy 1—Poor, dear old fel- low 1 He rouses himself with an effort, and, going very softly to a small door that opens from the apartment, beokons gently to somebody beyond. An old woman, dressed in deepest mourning, and of the housekeeper type, answers his summons, her eyes red with excessive weeping. " I am going now," Lord Sartoris whispers to her, in a low tone. 'te" I have finished everything. You will remain here until my return." " Yes, Mr. Arthur,—yes, my Lord," she answers, nervously; and then, as she gives the old title for the first time to the man before her, she bursts out crying afresh, yet silently, in a sub- dued fashion, as though ashamed of her emotion. Sastoris abs her shoulder kindly, and then with a sigh turns away, and Passes from the room with bent head and hands still clasped behind him, as has become a habit wibh hira of late years. Down the stairs and along the hall he goes, until, reaching a door at the lower end, he pauses before it, and, opening it,enters a room, half library, half boudoir, *furnished in a somewhat rococo style. It is a room curiously built, being a complete oral, veibh two French win- dows openmg to the ground, and a glass door between them—partly stain- ed—that leads to the parberre outside. It is filled with naediaeval furnibure, uncompromising and as strictly uncom- fortable as should be, and has its walls (above the wooden dada) covered with O high -art paper, on which impossible storks, and. unearthly birds of all de- scriptions, are depicted as rising out of blue green rushes. This room is known as "my lady's chamber," having ever been the exolus- Ivo property of the mistress of the house, until Dire. Dorian Branscombe, in de- fault of any other mistress, had made her own of it diming her frequent ideas to Myths, aod had refurnished it, to suit her own tastes, ethic% were slightly aesthetic. Now, sbe too is dead and gone, and the room, though never entirely closed or suffered to sink into disrepair, is seldom used by any of the household. AS Lord Sextons goes in, a young man, who has been standing at one of the windows, turns and comes quickly to meeb biro, XIs is of good height," and is einely formed, with brown hair cut closely to his head, a brown mus- tache, and deep -blue eyes. His whole appearance is perhaps more pleasing and aristocratic than sbricitly band. some, his mouth being too large and his nose too prototineed for any par- ticular style of beauty. Yet it is his eyes—perfeet as they are in shape and color—that betroat the thief faults of his disposition. De is tee easy-going, too thonghtless of corr. sequences, too mush given to lotting things go,—witboat consideration or fear Of tvhalt the end may bring; too full. Of life end spirits to -day to &earn of a sadder morrow i—so happy in thos presenb that the future troublee hint nob at all. "Hew ill you look 1" he save, anxe lonely, addressing his uncle. "My dear Arthur, yoU have been overdoing it. of the protestor who, having experienced a magnificent thought in the early stage of chloroform inhalation'reeolved thatbe would by one bold gaily lay hold of it auti so read the riddle of the world. Having composed himself ia his easy chair in his toady, with writing materials at hand, ho inhaled the chloroform felt the gloat thought envolvo io his mind, rses,1 i,irnsslf for an instant, ocized the pen, wrote deeperately 1,s Icnew not, what, tor even ea he diol ea he felt hack unconeeieue, On comiag to himself he turned eae,erly to the paper, to find inutile el on it, in sprawling hut legible charm, ten+, the secret of the unlvereo in thein words, A stronz el turpentine per- vades the weele.'" If we can advanao prepositions both trite mid now, these are our own by right, of discovery; aucl it we tan repeat whet fe ell more briefly and brightly than others, thie also becomes oar own by right oi ciongraist,--Coltors NOVEMBER 8, 1800, ABOUT TEE HOUSE Waste In the Kitchen, In this tend of ahundauee, went) under fee a greet deal of the poverty of families latet) must live on small ealeriee. Tina 14 lergely duo to want of kpowledge how to combine food, A root of beef or a belled joiet esquires only Dimply prepared vegetebles an so, companiment, such as potatoes, nee or tomittoes, while a very simple down, or none ae all, will not render the dinner un. enjoyable, If the ;mum mid the meat from which it is made, forme the chief feature of the meal, then more elaborate vegetable. dishes, euth as poeato croquettes, potato& a la eremite, tomato faroie, baked or Beal - loped tornatoee, stuffed egg.plese, eon pudding or a tempting vegetable paled, ehould accompany. the pisin dish 01 meat. , When the dinner ut light, the dessert may. be more substuntiel. In many householde, old vegetablea ane thrown into the sloptub, which is a great, waste, as homeroom dainty dishes may bs node from oold poteteet, tomatoes, bone,. corn, and, indeed, all vegetables. French ooke make their most appetizing entrees, from left-overe, and combine a great variety of ouch into delicious (litho. All house.. keepers may learn to do the emu), saving 3ieerly an outlay of many dollen, and giving a pleasing variety to their. tables. Celery. • Very Nice Boiled or Steamed Celer3t — Cut up the stalks into inch pieces, put in es eaueepan and add just enough water tee cover the whole. Throw in a little siala and let boil until soft, but not enough so. hat it falls to pieces. Drain off tbe water, pue the vegetable into a dish and, while hot, serve with butter. The green stalks apd leaves, usually thrown away, are all useful. Cut the stalks into small bite, and use them for flavoring soupa,broths,eto. Put the leaves into a pan or dish and place in the oven to dry. Watch them that they do not burn, and, when dry, crumble them and place away in a wide mouthed bottle and keep olosely.covered, Thie will be found goad. for flavoring soups when the celery is out of the market. Celery seed is good to keep in the house for flavoring, and celery salt is to many a necessary condiment. pregnated with the vague gloora that This ple.nt is o. great nervine, and those hangs over all the house and seeks even suffering from any nervous trouble are much here to <heck the gaudy brightness 01 the sun that, rushing in, tries to il- benefited by e. liberal use of it. .1.0 is Mao recommended for rheumatism, some mita- lurainate it. . . . At the sideboard stands Simeon Gale, orates going so far as to say thee, when Ilythe, who has lived with the dead P freely eaten, it is a sure cure for this ainfal disease. the butler and oldest domestic at lord as man and. boy, and now regrets him with a grief more...strongly resem- bling the sorrowing of one for a friend than for a master. (To be Continued.) TERRORS OF THE RED SEA. The neat is Kamm am end 1110 French dieu aud Wounded fr0111 madasasear WM Have a liard Time. "The veritable hell of our earth," re marked the Calcutta representative of a commercial firm, home, on his biennial vaotion, the other day when he saw a cable despatch stating that the invalid Bafflers of France's Madagascan campaign would be returned via the Suez Canal netead of voyaging around ehe Cape of Good Hope. "It is a sea that is literally infernal in its heaa It does not look large on the maps, hut it stretches for nearly fifteen hundred miles between the incan- descent shores of Egypt) and Arabia, and its greatest width is less than two hundred "I have traversed it six times, and I He ktows all the beg people in town, and puts in a good Mane when there; is a fair hand at whist, and eat beat roost men at billiards; will now and then put money an a favorite for the Oaks or the Grand National, but can - nob be said to regard gambling as an amusement. He is extravagant in many ways, but thoroughly unselfish and kind-heareee and generous to a Man. He is much affected by. women, and adored by children, who Angina- ively accept him as a trite friend5 lloracie, both in faee and in figure, is strangely like his brother,—in cher- oder very different. He is tall and well built, with eyes large, dark, and liquid, but rather too oloselr sot to be pleasing. His mouth is firm and somewhat herd, his smile soft, but un- certain. He is always chaemmg to voi- men, being outwardly blind to their caprices and an admirer of their Lol- lies, and ie therefore an immense favor- ite with a certain ohms of them, whese minds are subservient to their bodies. 'Yet to every rule there is OM excep- tion. Arta by worms good, and true,. and lord, lionice bas been, and is, have been on the verge of collapse every trip when we reaohed Adele or Port Said, sol think ichkely that many of the French sick and wounded soldiers will not survive the journey. ‘elhe heat is terrible. For nine months in the year the mercury remains at about ' 98 degrees in the shade and when there ia a breeze from the torriddeserts to tile wese or east it is hot as the breath uf a furnaigs A year frequently goes by without 10 drop ot min falling, and I have heard in. credible stories of the heat whioh the desert Bandit along its banks seem to store up. I have never eared to laud to verify any of them, but an Englishman told me that he put 11 thermometer in the sand once and the mercury slid up to 178 degrees. "The water of the Red Sea, as may be imagined, is also very warm, and I have heard it atiorted that it losee ey °vapors.. tion each year enough to make itself an aqueous blanket twenty.three feet, thick. Naturally it is one of the softest bodies of water on the olohe. It is lolly a sort of an arm of the Iiidiau Ocean, you know, and receives no water to speak et from any other source. It, has been estimated that if its supply were out off by closing the Strait of Bab el Mandeb and the Suez Canal it would take only a few years for the fierce sun to dry it up entirely. "It takes the P. and 0. steamers about a week to run front Aden, at the southern end, in Arabia, to Port Said on the canal, and going either way the boats always atop at one or the other of these two ports to take on a gang of Arab firemen, for 110 other rano has been found that oan stand the awful heat of the furnace room in thie torrid climate, 'Theo Ambit are thin, muscular fellows,almostaa dark as negroen, and it is worth running the risk of fainting to got a glimpse of them w hen they aro at. work stark naked down in the boiler -room of the vessel, looking like a band of devils feeding the infernal firee." well be °tea. Some Hints. Buffet clothe, whicth are included in the list of table liuen,are usually made of plain linen, hemstitched and decorated with any kind of embroidery that will stand wash - ng. A pretty idea for a room where the oolors will hermoniie is to have the buffet °loth, table center, tray cloth end carver's, cloth all of pale pink or corn linen, em broidered with white. For table linen the material is usually either single or double damask—though plain heavy linen, hemstitched and decor- ated with any kind. of embroidery, ia sometimes chosen for special oocasiona. An economical housekeeper who has mime fine danmek table cloths that are beginning to wear out may convert them into tray clothe by cutting. out the beet parts, hemming them and finishing with torclion lace. Unbleached damask will prove much more durable than bleached, as the ohem- 'kale used in the whitening promise injure it in scene degree. The faint yellow tint of this flax is not objectionable, and a very Bfrowvyiswihtsitetb the laundry will bleach it. Tray and carver's cloths not 'only look well on the table, but are genuine saving in the wear and tear of frequent washings. aa they catch many a eplash of gravy or drop oi mince which otherwise would soil the fair linen tablecloth. As Lord Sartoris and Dorian owned the hail, they Met Horace, and a Peebty girl—tall, slender,and graceful—oorn-' ing toward them. She appears sad, and slightly distreseed, but scarcely unnerved: there is a suspicion of tears aboap bey large pay eyes. Der gown, at violet velvet (for, though they ore in the Merry month of May, the days are still cold and frettal), site closely to her perfect, figure; a Langtry bon- net, to match het dress, covers her head and suits achtdrably her oval face and Groin nose and peath-like cona- plexion. , _ Cartridge Made of Mlea. The uses of ntica are menifold. One of its latest developments 09 distiutiely novel. An ingenious Australian hue .invelited and ntroduced a mica cartridge for emoting and military • guns, The filling held° the cartridge is vieible, ' end a further Another point to he remembered ,con - earning t tablecloths is the ironing. The ordinary laundress is apt to make a cross fold. which mare the smoothness of the linen, Direct her to fold the cloth length - win and then fold once more only, also lerfgthwiee. advautage is that inetead of the usual wad of felt a mica wad is need. This substance, being lo non.conductor, unaffected by scads or fumes, ants as ca lubricant. 'Where ernokolets powtionesuoli as cordite or other nitroglycerine compounds, are used, inioa ham a distinct adventage over every .other material need in carttidge inaunficolatee. Being trenepatent eny chemical °linage In the explosive ears be 1 once detected. The peettliar property it hos of withstanding intense heat is hero tmtllfzocl, the breech tool barrel being kept constantly cool. The fouling of the rifle is also avoided, the wad actually cleaning the barrel, Autumn Dinners, 1. Fresh pork, sweet potato roast, Bina beans; bread pudding. 2. Rabbit soup, broiled ham, cauliflower, tomatoes, apple pie. a. Pigeon soup, beetateak, onions, pota- toes, beans, Indian fritters. 4. Oxtail soup, veal cutlets, turnips, tomatoea, dried peach pudding. 5. Pigeon pie, smoked tongue, winter squash, turnips, apple.rice pudding. 6. Stowed heart, old ham, oabbege, potatoes, pumpkin pie. 7. Root fowl and oyster sauce, turnipe beam, roast potato, crauberry pie, pre served quince. --- Scrap Pail. A scrap pail ie very handy for the emving-toom and may he very prettily ornamented. Paint.. with liquid gold or bronze, then Hue with silesio, of a bright color, 'Lay the Bitten& in plaits and fasten each one with a fancy headed or braes nail. 11 more decoration is wanted, paint a Spray of flowers on the outside or paste them on. Gild the hatidle or hingen to matth the outside of the pail. Add a bow of ribbon to the handle, if desired. Bicycles Good for the Llingt. Wall meats of training the respiration Dr, Fenoglio Fax thinks oycling is th best. When so person first takes to cycling he is troubled with thermos of breath, hie heart being uncomiortably and his legs got tired, but after some treining these diecomforts disappear. Why shoulo1 tot people liable to attacks et asthma also train their respiration by stunt a kind of oxeye eise—el otiose., on the oondition of Clic heart and lungs being in perfect health? Cycling OXeroian Ora of all inercasee tho depth of breathing, and, that without fatigue, as Oro respiratory movements are automatic, et the same tune it will acme. Lan the rider instinctively to take in at each respieetion the volume of air required to aerate the blood and to eliminate a fixed proportion of carbonic noid, leaving in the eiroulation tho proelse amount compatibles with health.