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
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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.
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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.