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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1896-7-31, Page 2FATE'S INSTRUETS, CHAPTER; V, 'Under pressure of eiroumstances men 's'ory often do what they have declared they cannot f.ossibly do; it happens with Private individuals no less than with Apolitical parties. George creel r d 7i could not possibly go to Peektop,before Saturday; but be was sodlsgustedwith his position that be tbrew all other engagements to the winds, and etart- ied early on Thursday morning, deter- mined not to . fat* his friends again without attempting to prove hie words Old Dawkins 'n'es dead, but the .ler was, and the policeman might be alive and, on his return to toWIl, he could see Jennings, the clerk's son, who had settled clown to conveyancing in Lin - coin's Ino, and try to refresh his mem- ory with materials gathered on the spot, For George had already seen Mr, Jennings, and Ms. Jenningsremember ad nothing abcnit it—it was not his first brief,—but was willing to try and ,re- call the matter if George would get him the details and Mt him see a picture of the person wanted—a request George did not wish to comply with at the mo- went. So he went to Peckton, and found out perhaps as much es he could rea- sonably expeot to find out, as shall in due course appear. And during his ab- sence several things happened. In the first place, the Bull's-eye was publish- ed, containing what became known as the "First Paragraph." The "First Paragraph" was headed "Strange Charge against a Lady-Rumourecilero- ceedings,"" and indicated the Neston family, Neaera Witt, and George, in suoh a manner as to enable their friends to identify them, This paragraph was inserted with the object of giving Nea- era, or George. or both of them, as the case might be, or anybody else who could be " drawn," an opportunity of contradicting it. The second event was that the Neston's friends did identify them, and proceeded to open the minds of everybody who did not. Then Mr. Blodwell read the Bull's- eye, as his custom was, and thought- fully ejaculated "Peckton 1" and Lord Tottlebury, being et the club, was shown the Bull's-eye by a friend, who really could not do less, and went home distracted; and Tommy Myles read it, and, conscience-stricken, fled to Brigh- ton for three days' fresh air; and Isa- bel read it, and confessed to her moth- er, and was scolded and cried; and Ger- ald read it, and made up his mind to kick everybody concerned, except, of course, Neaera; and, finally, Neaera read it, and was rather frightened and rather excited, and girt on her armour J for battle, Gerald, however, was conscious that the process he had in his mind, satis- fying as it would be to his own feel- ings, would not prove in all respects a solution of the difficulty, and, with the selfishness which a crisis in aman's own affairs engenders, he made no scruple about taking up a full hour of Mr. Blodwell's time, and expounding his views at great length, under the guise of taking counsel. Mr. Blodwell listen- ed to his narrative of facts with in- terest, but cut short his streams of Jn- dignant comment. The mischief is that it's got into ihdopapers," t s e thhaeC it said. tcch." " Not matter much?" grasped Ger- ald. I suppose you don't care whether it's true or not ?" "It's life or death to me," answered Gerald. Bosh 1 She won't steal anmore shoes now she's a rich woman." You speak, sir, as if you thought—" " Haven't any opinion on the sub- ject, and it wouldn't be of any, import- ance if I had. The question is short- ly this; Supposing it be true, would you marry her ?" Gerald flung himself into a chair,and bit his finger nails. "Eight years is a long while ago; and poverty's a hard thing; and she's a pretty girl:' IL''s an absurd bypothesis," said Ger- ald. "But a thief's a thief." " True. So are a good many other peeple. I should have to consder my father and—and the family." " Should you? I should see the fam- ily damned. However, it comes to this —.if it were true, you wouldn't marry her." How could I?" groaned Gerald, "We sbould be cut." Mr. Blodwell smiled. "\Veli, my ardent lover," he said, " that being so, you'd better do noth- ing till you see whether it's true." "Not at all, I only took the hypo- thesis; but I haven't the least doubt that it's a lie." A mistake—yes. But it's in the Bull's-eye, and a mistake in the news- papers needs to be reckoned with." ' What shall I do?" "Wait till George comes back. Mean- while, hold your tongue." I shall contradict that lie." " Much better not. Don't write to them, or see them, or let anybody else till George comes back. And Gerald, if I were you, I shouldn't quarrel with George." He shall withdraw it, or prove it." Mr. Blodwell shrugged his shoulders and became ostentatiously busy with the case of Pigg v. the Looal Board of Slush - ton -under -Mudd. A very queer point this," he remarked. The drainage sys- tem of Slusbton is—' And he stopped with a chuckle at the sight of Gerald's vanishing hack. He called after him— Are you going to Mrs. Witt's this afternoon?" No," answered Gerald. " This even- Blodwell set at work for ten min- utes more. Then he rang the bell. Mr. Neston gone, Timms?" "Yea sir." "Tben get a four -wheeler," And be added to himself, " I should like to see her a ain, under this new light, I won- der 18 she 11 let me in. Neaera did let him in. In fact, she seemed very glad to see him, and aa. cepted with meekness her -share of his general censure on the " babbling " that had gone on. "You see," she said, handing him a cup of tea, "it scarcely seemed a ser- ious matter to me, I. was angry, of cour®c, but almost more amused than angry." h e • k " etera11', answered Air. Blodwell. Be , my dear young lady, everythibng svhiah is public is serous, An thing is tow paella, for no doubt to- nmmorroes aw's nd Bou11 des-er'*sye ses.w"ill give all your; "I don't care," said Neaera. Mr. Blodwell shook his head. You must consider Gerald and his people." " Gereld doesn't doubt ole. D. be did-' Neaera lett herreoreant lover's fate to the imagivatiou. "].int Lord Tottlebury and the world at large? The world at large alwaYs doubts one," I suppose so," said Neaera, sadly, " Fortunately, I have conclusiveproofs." My dear Mrs, Witt, why didn't you say so before?" Before there was anything to meet? Is that your way, Mr, Blodwell?" " George may bring back something to meet. rose and went to bor writin, table. , 1 don't know why 'shouldn't show it to you," abe said. " I was just going to send it, to Lord Tottlebury, It will be a pleasant surprise for Mr, Geo. Neston when ho comes bavk from Peak- ton with his proofs l" One handed Mr. Blodwell a sheet: of notepaper. He took it, throwing, one quick glance at Neaera. ' You wish me to read this?" it's letting you into the secrets of my early days," she said, " You see, I wasn't always as well off as I am now," Mr. Blodwell adjusted his eye -glass and perused the document, which set forth that Miss N. Gale entered the service of Mee. Philip Horne, of Balmor- al Villa, Bournemouth, as companion to tbat lady, in March, 1883, and re- mained in such service until the month of July, 1883; that during the whole of such period, she conducted herself with propriety; that she read aloud with skill, ordered a household with discretion, and humoured a fussy old lady with tact (this is a paraphrase of the words of the writer) ; finally, that sbe left, by her own desire, to the re- gret of the above-mentioned Susan Horne. Neaera watched Mr, Blodwell as he read. Eighteen eighty-three?" said he; "that's the year in question?" Yes, and April is the month in ques- tion—the month I am supposed to have spent in prison I" You didn't show this to George?" " No. Why should I? Besides, .I didn't know then when be dated my crime." Mr. Blodwell thought it a little queer that she had not asked him. "11e ehould certainly see it at once. Have you. seen anything of Mrs. Horne lately?" "Oh, no; I sbould be afraid shemust be dead. She was an old lady and very feeble." It is—it may be—very lucky—your basing this." Yes, isn't it? I should never have remembered the exaot time I went to Mrs, Horne's." Mr. Blodwell took his departure in a state of mind that he felt was unrea- sonable. Neaera had been, he told him- self, most frank, most charming, most satisfactory. Yet he was possessed with an toverpowering desire to cross-exam- ine Neaera. Perhaps it's only habit," he said to himself. A protestation of innocence raises all my fighting instincts." The next day witnessed the publica- tion of the "Second Paragraph," and the second paragraph made it plain to everybody that somebody must vindi- cate bis or her character. The public did not care who did it, but it felt it- self entitled to an action, wherein the whole matter should be threshed out for the furtherance of public justice and entertainment. The Bull's-eye itself took this view. It implored Neaera, or George, or somebody to sue it, if they would not sue one another. It had given names, addresses, dates and de- tails. Could the most exacting plain- tiff ask more? If no action were brought, it was clear that Neaera had stolen the shoes, and that George had slandered her, and that the Nestons in general shrunk from investigation in- to the family history; all this was still clearer, if they ,pursued their extraor- dinary conduct in not forwarding per- sonal narratives for the information of the public and the accommodation of .tbe Bull's-eye. Into this turmoil George was plung- ed on his return from Peck -ton. He had been detained there two days, and did not reach his rooms till late on Friday evening. He was greeted with two .um- bers of the Bull's-eye, neatly displayed on his table; by a fiery epistle from Gerald, demanding blood or apologies; by two penitential dirges from Isabel Bourne, and Tommy Myles; and, last- ly, by a frigid note from Lord Tottla- buy enelosing the testimony of Mrs. Philip Horne to the character and ac- complishments of Miss N. Gale. In Lord Tottlebury's opinion only one course was, under the circumstances, open to a gen- tleman. Philanthropists often remark, apro- pos of other philanthropists, that it is easier to do harm than good, even when you are, as it were, an expert in doing good. George began to think that his amateur effort at preserving the fam- ily reputation and punishing te wrong- doer looked like vindicating the truth of this general principle. Here was a hornets' -nest about his ears 1 And would what he brought hack with him make the buzzing less furious or the stings less active? He thought not. " Can a girl be in two places at once," he asked,—" in one of Her Majesty's prisons, and also at—where is it?—Ba1- neorat 'Villa, Bournemouth?" And he laid side by, side Mrs. Horne's letter and a certain photograph which was among the spoils of his expedition. Georgy had not the least doubt that it was a photograph of Neaera Witt, for all that it was distinctly inscribed, Nelly Game." Beyond all question it was a photograph of the girl who stole the shoes, thoughtfully taken and pre- served with a view of protecting soci- ety against future depredations at her hands. It was Crown property, George supposed, and probably ,he bad no busi- ness with it, but a man can get many things he has no business with for half a sovereign, the sum George had ppaid for tbe loan of it. It must be carefully remembered that Peckton is exceptional, not typical, in the laxity of its admin- istration, and a long reign of solitary despotism had sapped the morality of the fat policeman. ' The art of photography has made much progress in recent years. It is less an engine for the reduction of self- conceit than it used to be, and less a means of revealing how ill -looking a given person can appear under favour, able cirenmstances, But Peckton was behind the time, hero as everywhere. Nobly Game's portrait did faint justice to Neaera Witt, and eight years' wear had left it blurred and fadecl almost to the point of indistinctness. It was all very well for George to recognise it. In candour he was hound to admit that he doubted if it would convince the un- willing. Besides, a great change comes between seventeen and five -end twen- ty, even when Seventeen is not half- starved and clad in rags, Five -and -twen- rssULs•O►$"".. ty living in luxury, and 4ea34o1 in the glories of 8nrllrner7. 'It won't do alone," he said, "but it will help. Let's have a look at this-- doeumept." Wlen he had read it be wblstled gently "" Oh, ho I an alibi, Now I'veof bei i" he exclaimed, But had bee Be carefully re -read the letter. It was a plausible enough letter, and eonaluatve, unioss be wan IMO - Pared to charge Airs. Witt with deeper schemes and more dangerous accom• plishments than be Diad yet thought of doing, Men are Mistaken sometimes, said a voice within him; but be would not listen. I'll looand Bed out Who at thin again to -morrow,,, he seed, in o " Susan Hoene'oene' is. Then he read his letters, and cursed bis luck, and went to bete a miserable �horesentment of truth', not the in- culcation of morality, being the end of art, it is worth while to remark that he went to bed a miserable man simply and solely because bebad tried to do his, duty. CHAPTER VL The general opinion was that Gerald Neston was foolish in allowing him- self to be interviewed by.the Bull's -aye. Indeed, it is rather od, when we con- sider the almost universal disapproval; of the practice of interviewing, to see how frequent interviews are. Denrnan- tur et. crescent ; and mankind agrees M excuse its own weakness by postu- lating irresistible ingenuity and auda- city in the interview. So Gerald was publicly blamed and privately blessed for telling the Bull's-eye that an atro- cious accusation bad been brought against the lady referred to, and brought by one who should have been the last to bring it, and would, he hoped, be the first to withdraw it. The accusation did seriously concern the lady's character, and nothing but the fullest apology could be accepted. He preferred not to go into details at pres- ent; indeed, he hoped it would never be necessary to do so. Such might be Gerald's hope. It was not the hope.of the Bull's-eye, nor in- deed, of society in general. What could be more ill-advised than to hint dreadful things and refuse full infor- mation ? Such a course simply left the imagination to wander, fancy free, through the Newgate Calendar, at- tributing to Mus. Witt—the name of the slandered lady was by this time public property—all or any of the ac- tions therein recorded. It's like a blank bill," said Charters, the commercial lawyer, to Mr. Bled well; "you fill it up for as much as the stamp will cover." The more gossiping fool you," re- plied Mr. Blodwell, very rudely, and quite unjustifiably, for the poor man merely meant to indicate a natural tendency, not to declare his own idea of what was proper. But Mr. Blodwell was cross; everybody had made fools of themselves, he thought, and he was hanged—at least hanged—if he saw his wait' out of it. George's name had not ate yet been actually mentioned, but everybody knew who it was,—that relative of Lord Tottlebury, whose legal experi- ence, 31 nothing else, should have kept him from bringing ungrounded accusa- tions ;" and George's position was far from pleasant. He began to see, or fancy he saw, men looking askance at tam; his entrance was the occasion of a sudden pausein conversation ; his re- lations with his fernily were, it need hardly be said, intolerable to the last degree; and, finally, Isabel Bourne bad openly gone over to the enemy, had made her mother invite Neaera Witt to dinner, and had passed George in the park with the merest mockery of a bow. He was anxious to bring mat- ters to an issue one way or another, and with this end he wrote to Lord Tottlebury, asking him to 'arrange a meeting with Mrs. Witt. As you are aware," he said, "I have been to Peckton. I have already told you what I found there, so far as it bore on the fact of 'Nelly Game's' con- viction. I now desire to give certain persons who were acquainted with 'Nelly Game' an opportunity of seeing Mrs. Witt, No doubt she will raise no objections. Blodwell is willing to put his chambers at our disposal; and I think this would be the best place, as it will avoid. theossip and curiosity of the servants. Will Mrs. Witt name a day and time? I and my companions will make a point of suiting her con- venience." (To Be Continued.) THE ANCIENT TOPERS. 01,1 Saxon. 0ninking ilablts—The. Firs Tea"ptnvncc ;Pledges. The Saxons were mighty eaters and drinkers. The mead horn plays te great part in the very earliest litera- ture, and already in the sixth century the temperance movement definitely be- gan. Members of the Church oL Eng- land Temperance Society will be glad to know that it began with the Church, but that unfortunately was because the Church required it. St. Glides the Wise (A.D. 570), observing with pain that not only the laity but also the clergy, were scandalously given to hab- its of intoxication, issued some rules to his own monks, and ordained that if any one, through drinking too freely, gets thick of speech, so that he cannot join in the psalmody, he is to be deprived of his supper." This does not err on the side of severity, and the test is charmingly naive, but at any rate the blame was laid ou the culprit. St, David (A.D. 509), took a more mod- ern view, and pwiished the publican in addition, so to speak. His monks were also accustomed to go about and get drunk in a friendly way, so he ordained, among other rules, that "Ile that forces another to get drunk out of hos- pitality, must do penance as if he had got drunk himself." However, things seem to bave gone on very much the same until we come to King Edgar, who, at the instance of Dunstan, made the first attempt at sobriety, by Act of Parliament—if the anachronism may be allowed—as near as may be 1,000 years ago. He suppressed a great num- ber of alehouses, and, in order to lessen the depth of his subjects' potations, in- vented 'drinking to !pegs," which would be equivalent to regulating the size of the tumbler, People used to drink them out of wooden pots, holding half a gallon; and the King had eight pegs or pins inserted, dividing the pot into so many doses or half a pint, like a r medicine bottle. But, alas, for hu- man attempts to circumvent the de- mon of drink 1 Drinking to pegs pre- sently became a merry pastime, arida means Iof encouraging intoxication like "buzzing in the last century; and at no distant date Anselm had to forbid his clergy expressly to "go to drink- ing bouts and drink to nears.!' • "Billy is in love with Miss Billing- ham." Did he tell you so?" "No, but he's got her picture hung up by the side of the portrait of his best dog." AO RJCULTURAL PR01':ER TIMI. TO CULL FLOCKS, "Now is a good time to cull the (looks and herds and to ouli them bard, "The prices of farm animals are low; lienee one bats not to Jet go so Inuoh . value as he would bave to in better tunes Possibly that ie a doubtful consolation, but I do not think so," says a welter in Country Gentleman, "1 can part with a slightly inferior animal when it brim only $25 with better grace than when it brings 550. Why ? fee- .ansa a good anbnal can be got to take its place at a corresponding Low price, The clrange dove not cost one so much as it would were Prices good. 1:'or ex - envie: The brood mare of a certain quality will now sell for 550, Some years ago a brood mare of like quality would have brought 5100 and she will Possibly command such a price again. It may seem better to hold her until she brings e better price, althougb site is not as good as one should keep. Not so, Now is the .time to get rid of her, For when she sells for 0100 it will take $150 be buy a good one to put in her place. Now a good ono can be got for 575, Of course I am speaking of good farm chunks. The change can be made now for 525, and when bettor prices prevail the good mare will be tivorthb 556 more than the inferior one. One will have doubled his money cif the prices of some years agb prevail again. Certainly, prices cannot go lower, so one cannot Jose money. But i.e the change is not made until the good prices prevail it will cost 050 to make it, the chances of being able to add the 550 are poor and the probabilities are, on the contrary, that when one wishes to sell the better mare he cannot get back all of his $50. "Now this rough statement reveals a principle applicable to all horses, and to sheep, cattle and hogs. The most economical and profitable time to cull is when prices are low. 'Then one can inky good animals to the best advantage and the chances are good for making a nice profit because of the advance in prices. There is good rea- son far getting: rid of poor animals now rather than when prices are high, although one invests only the same amount he has received—sells three $50 animals, for example, and buys two $75 animals—for the advance in price will always affect 'the better animals first and most forcibly. \Vhen prices recover from a period of depression, the prices of the best animals always advance before the prices of the poorer animals and at a greater ratio. Hence, the reason for changing from inferior to superior animals now. although one bas no bank account to draw on. "There is another reason for culling now—one may be able to make a pro- fit from inferior animals when prices are good, but he certainly cannot now. To keep them longer is to only further reduce the profits from the year's oper- ations. The quicker one gets rid of them the less money he loses. True one should never keep inferior animals. If prices are so good that inferior ani- mals are profitable, good animals would be more profitable. But one can less afford to keep poor animals now. There was a time when it paid to keep a mare too old to work. The colt she raised made it profitable to keep her. Such is not the case now. To be profitable the more must be able to work. So with other classes of farm animals. The cow must be a good milker, and also capable of producing a good calf. The sheep or the hog must be strictly first class. One cannot (afford to put more than the minimum amount of feed in- to the offal in these times. The best animals and the best methods must be combined to make a profit. 1 believe that very few stock raisers cull as severely as would be profitable. We are too much disposed to bold on to inferior animals. If we are not certain that the animal sbould be got rid of, we should not give the animal the bene- fit enefit of the doubt. Let it go. "Now is the best season of the year to get rid of inferior amimals. Tbey are m good condition now, and have been on the cheapest feed. When the hot weather, fly time, and short, dry pastures come, they will not be in good condition and cannot be sold to as good advantage. Certainly one can- not afford to feed these animals grain to put them in good condition. To keep, them till the season of grain feed- ing is sheer folly. One will certainly lose money if he. does that. Nor will it pay to give these animals grain to put them in better condition itt this season. The pasture is now luxuriant and palatable; the animals ought to be in good marketable condition on pas- ture alone. The cow or steer might be put in a little better condition if given some grain. Grasses are, of course, not um as prime condition as those given some grn.in. But even grain will not melee a first-class beef animal out of the steer or cow you sell as a culla There can he no rea- sonable hope of making suoh an ani- mal fit for export, or even of the class that commands the best price for home consumption. Hence, the best thing to do is to put it on the market as it comes from `the grass. It is now. in a good marketable condition at a less' cost than it will be for another year. This is true of other farm ani- mals. At this season of the year culls can be disposed of to the best advant- age. And it will be to the material ad- vantage of other animals if the culls are disposed of before the pastures be- gin to dry up and shorten." EARLY FINISH OF LIVE STOCK. Early returns from a venture in busi- ness aro always in order. The meat producers are slow enough at best. Not long ago a beef animal was not finished for the block until past forty months old. The sheep and swine were then considered mature for meat at about twenty months of age. A score of years ago, with much cheap land and often wild free grazing, the cost was not considered seriously. Now every Rein of food is to be taken into account, as a rule. Grain may bo cheap when used, but earafully stoked the same grain is worth a good price within two years after harvesting. The value of mes•ts should, therefore, be calculated by the average value of the grain con- sumed. In early maturity the grain pro- duces at least one-fourth more meat per bushel than when an anima to Sed to a ripe age. This means a gain of one-fourth in the prize of the grain and other food used. In another view it means es much, in the way or rex turns, from forty acres in a quick fine • ae front fifty gores In the Old 1507 Of „ripe" finish, The risk of bolding live stock through an additional six menthe or MOM'. Is e great uonsidoratlon. 'ibo interest on themoneY invested, the probability of some deaths in e herd, and the failure et some animals to make a good gain in wei ht are all In argument against a leegthened period Of feeding grain,' Where grazing is the main , sour.* of an animal's growth and finish the period of maturiLy can be lengthened to advantage in the ease of cattle mand odesheep,st. of. 11a50,,howeve5r,301s81houldrhavegularlye a quantity : and should'go to market at from seven months to ten months of age, MR. DEAN AND THE PRINCE. ,t lfi,itdiaare man 'Writes Aimee IIbi Shah Ina banes With Albert kchoari, Mr. "Tunis F. Dean, of Baltimore, who is travelling abroad, had an interview with the Prince of Wales recently at the Ascot races. Ile was presented by Sir Henry Trying, whose guest he was at the races. In a letter to a friend in Baltimore, Mr. Dean gives an account of theineidont: "What do you think—hold your breath. while I wbispor-I bad the rax'* privilege of being -presented to II.R.H. the Prince of Waleslll' "Weil, 1'11 tell you bow 'twos. Dere was tree uv us, see I Me and der Prince and Sir Henry1 "It was just after the gold cup race, when the 'Prince's borse, Florizel II„ which was the favorite, had lost, much to the disappointment of two-thirds of the spectators. Sir Henry asked me to come with him, and along I went, lit- tle knowingwhat a rare treat I was to have. Almost before 1 realized 'where I was at' Sir Henry spoke to a gentle- man in the following style: "Your Highness, I wish to present an American friend of mine, Mr. Dean, from Baltimore. "Bless mel But there I stood in the very presence of the future King of England. Just plain me, and without a rehearsal of a word of preparation! I certainly must have preseuted a sorry sight in my embarrasment, but I ex- tended my hand (which 1 shouldn't have done as r afterward learned it was not good form), I3.R,H. kindly clasped my hand and said: i am always pleased to meet an Am- erican. I remember with great p1- 531151 rs myago.visit" to your country many L muttered that I hoped it would notreplibeed :his last visit to our shores. He "You are very kind. Are you enjoy- ing the races to -day? "To this 1 answered.: "Yes, indeed, I am`' your Highness, but I am so sorry your horse did not win. Then he said: 'Well, we can't al- ways win,' and it was all over. We made (Sir Henry and I) a graceful obei- sance (at least 1 hope mine was accord- ing to the code)), and for the first time I realized that i bad shaken hands with the Prince at Wales 1 "I could not thank Sir Henry suffi- ciently. I learned with considerable dismay that 'the Prince never shakes hands; that upon an introduction to a gentleman the said gentleman sbould stand, besving with his hands behind him. But Sir Henry assured me that bis Highness was not offended; that his very courteous bearing toward me was a proof of that, The Prince is immensely popular with his subjects. He is just as plain and unassuming in manner as any plain American, and I was agreeably disappointed in this respect. Now, if you are good, when I return, I will per- mit you to shake the hand that shook the Prince's." HOW TO WEAR THE HAIR. It is a matter of wonderment to many rich people that women who have very small incomes often look better than those who spend double the amount of money on their personal adornment. The clever woman who al- ways looks as though she were dressed in the very latest fashion has some one point about her euetnnle that is new. It may only be the ribbon about her neck that is tied in some new style. The trimming on her hat is put on a ebic way that ]pas just only made its air pearance, or she arranges her hair with taste. The present style of hairdressing is somewhat startling, and it will not do Co follow it in the extreme mode which some women have adopted. The fiat has gene forth that "bangs are out," but no law has been issued that the hair should be so tightly drag- ged off the face that it almost interferes with shutting the mouth. Age shows first of 'ell on the temples, where the hair grows thin, and the pulling back of scanty locks would be trying to the Venus of Milo. To attain the very full Pompadour roll which some people ef- fect requires a "rat" under the hair, but there is no necessity for an exag- gerated effect incl small combs put' un- der the side locks will give all the ful- ness that is required or that is becom- inThese combs—side combs, as they are called—aro now worn inside as well as outside; when used for the former pur- pose they are quite plain; for the lat- ter, are ornamented. To put the side combs under thehair, a parting must be made directly in the centre of the head, and the hair again divided from the crown to the ear. The combs then are put in es far forward as possible, and the hair turned sharp- ly back over them, Even the straight - set looks assume a wave that is ex- tremely pretty when turned back in this fashion. Tben, after the front roll is satisfactorily arranged, the side locks must be pulled out to give also a full effect—not loose and flying but kept down with little fancy combs. Pull- ing the, hair out to look full and soft makes it becoming to any woman's in last year's book width were not con - face and it is even permissible to have sidered essential aro this Year dropped a thin curl or two stray over the forepP head. At the back the hair is arrang- out, the directory of 189ti-7 contains 21,123 names. Taken on the generally used calculation of three to a family, Ottawa would appear to have over 60,- 000 population, but such is not the case, as last year's civic assessment list showed the population to be a, little aver 50,000, a growth of 1,800 over the previous year. The population is put down at over 51,000, Juii' 011 3.. ROUND KHOLE;uo��. WHAT Is aoINO ON IN 'THF; DOUR CORNERS QP THE cil,QBE. Old and New World Event( of interest Ciento (sled Ertefly--Interesting tiappeninga of Recent Date. Italy has two kbuls of naturalization —the one under the law and the other conferred ley royal door**. New industrial companies capitall'1•od et 5501500,000 were advor'Llsed in one day's issue of the London dailies (re- cently, The future town roeidence of Prince Carl of Denmark and Princess Maud will be a flat in the palace of Copen- bagen, A train runs now 17eto een Paris Q d, 51. Petersburg in 48 hours, the0.7 change of oars being at the °Russian frontier, The annual increase of the German nation during the last five years has been more than five times as much as that of the French, A wbeelman In Bedfordshire, Eng- land, had bis bicycle wrecked by it stroke of lightning as he was riding it. He was unharmed. The British torpedo boat Desperate stands now as the fastest vessel in the world, with a record of over 31 knots, or about 36 miles an hour. Dirs. Oliphant has recently removed to a picturesquely situated residence overcooking Wimbledon Commou. She calls it 'the Hermitage." The biggest bug in the world flour- ishes in Venezuela. It is the "elephant beetle," and a full grown one weighs about half a pound. Some Japanese magicians are so clev- er that while smoking they are ,able to form letters and short words with the smoke that issues from their lips, It is a popular superstition in Ger- many that if a young girl buries a drop of bar blood under a rose bush, she will be sure to have rosy cheeks. Sir Henry Irving, although notthe millionaire which some Americans credit him with being, is still a weal- thy man with large property interests in London. The Danube flows through countries in which 52 languagesand dialects are spoken. It bears on its current four- fifths of the commerce of eastern Europe. Barely 52 per cent. of the household- ers of London take a morning newspa- per, 00 per cent. take Dither a morning or evening newspaper and 31 per cent. purchase neither. According to the method which is now adopted for reckoning leap years in England,, December, January and February well be the summer months about 720,000 years hence. There is hardly a city in the civiliz- ed world from which the Mikado of Japan does not receive letters, many of his correspondents anticipating that through him they can gain an entrance to the Japanese market, The number of inventions offered to him for sale is enormous. A feature of the Paris exposition of 1000 will be a section devoted to the history of Christianity from the be- ginning to the present day, with repre- sentations of the temple of Jerusalem, the scenes of the life of Christ, Pagan and Christian Home, Constantinople,and the lives of the saints. Pref. Franz von Lenience, the cele- brated portrait painter and friend of Prince Bismarck, by birth the son of a simple peasant of Schrobenbausen, and the husband of a niece of Field Marshal Count Moltke, has formally declared to the priest of his parish his intention to renounce the Catholic faith. An English paper tells a story of the late Earl of lortarlington, who was always forgetting the names of people whom he had mete Once on receiving a gracious nod from Queen Victoria at a Marlborough house garden party, accompanied by a few words of kindly inquiry after his health, he replied: "You are very kind, madam; your face seems strangely familiar to me, but for the life of me I cannot remember your name." Francis Joseph of Austria is one of two independent European sovereigns whose presumptive heirs are their nep- hews, the other is the Bing of Rouman- ia. The Emperor of Itussia and the Bing oL the Belgians have presumptive heir's iu their brothers. The Ding of Spain's presumptive heir is his sister, and the Queen of the Netherlands, her aunt. All other independent European sovereigns have sons, unless the Sultan be an independent leuropean sovereign. Mr. 0. L. Watson, of Glasgow, the designer of the three racing yachts, the Valkyrie, the Britannia and the latest achievement, Meteor, is a hard man to deal with. No man has designed so many yachts in a given time, nett yet he has never owned, one. Su jealously does he guard his new designs that none were ever known to have gained access to his model room except Loril Dun - raven and Lord Lonsdale, the latter of whom represented the Gorman Line paror during the building and launch- ing of the Meteor. Robert von Bunsen has the rare dis- tinction of having been a "Ph. A." from his childhood up. Ho was born March 81, 1811, at Gottingen. His fa- ther was rector of the university, and according to the statutes of that in- stitution the diploma of doctor philso- phiae was laid in the cradle of the son of "His magnificence."t At the age of nineteen he found no difficulty in pase- ing the examen trigorosum and obtain- ed the academie dignity rite. The Hungarian National University has just renewed his diplomn, thereby making the oldest doctor figure also among the youngest, A CITY'S GROWTH. Ottawa is steadily growing in popu- lation. opulation. The new directory this year contains 1,138 more names than last .year's directory. Although some names ed in a round knot; but there is an evident tendency to arrange the hair in the chatelaine braids fashionable years ago, A broad flat effect must be given at all events. With evening gownsthe hair always looks best arranged high on the bead, as the lines are more artistically car- ried out by so tieing; but for streetwear the hair arranged low, as described, is for the present the correct fashion. The A new pavement in use on the strode summer fashion in hats accommodate of Vienna is composed of granulated themselves 10 the styles in hairdressing cork mixed with as halt and other co - better than the winter ones did, and hesive substances. It is'compressed in- life is not now a burden with arrang. to blocks of convenient size. Its ail- ing the hair every time one has to put vantages are cleanliness, noiselessness, on one's hat. durability, and economy.