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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1891-6-5, Page 22 ...smossmsomoss.s.scoussessosmsx0e.......... LYNDOIN OF HIGH CLIFFE, AN OLD SOLDIER'S LOVE STOHY. By C. Ditsvann, AUthOr of " When the Tide was High," " The Artist aud the "Into a Larger Room," Etc., Ete. CHAPTER IX. TIETWautt vAbri40 ETTItn'K aNL mote nt,,ANE. Winstunley came back the next day, bringing with hint news that gave the great- est pleaeure to every one at Castle Ettnek. Pery had obtained his exchange. The yogi. went to which he was now attacked had its heacbquarters, for the moment, at &Jim burgh. He had joined at onoe, and there could be no reasoneble doubt that he would soon obtain theater leave. For the few days of Perey's absenee-a circumstance which naturally et rengt hound Lady lore, s mew ftboot the ti•uu point of attraction at Castle Ettrick --there was less intercomme between the Castle and farm than there had been. Both houses were busy preparing for the company ot shooting visitors, who were to arrive on the twelfth and this, no doubt, was one reason for the change. But Janet. who rode over /done one afternoon, to take a message from her Lather to Me. Winstanley, told Lady Flora that Veronica did not seem so well or so brightdits usual. " We aro a little puzzled about her," she -att. " Mother thinks the air may be too strone for Mr. But I can't believe it is that. " Oh 1 no ; not at ell likely. When did the air of the moors Mr do harm to any one and you are ehelterefl at Deep Deane, said Lady Flora. " Persuade Miss Browne to come over to me, and we will cheer her up." Janet did not aeswer that it was pre- cisely to Castle Elttrick that Veroniem veins. ed to come. Shs thauked Lady Flora, and promised to take her message. When she reached home, she found that Veronica's depression had gone, and that she had made up het mind to ride over to Castle Ettriek on Brown Bess the following day. "I met the school.room party out on the moor," she said : "inEhIy I mean, and her pretty governess ; and your gallant old soldier, Colonel Lyndon, was strolling about with them, and they all pressed me so warm. ly to go over that I could not resist. Will you come, Jenet I think the colonel may s ride. oet to meet us." "01 1 in that ease 1 will stay at home. We hove about as much As We can get through before the tweifth,"said Janet. She was surprised by the f•hange in Veronfra, whom she 1,egan to think caprici- ous ; but she thought it wiser to make uo remarks. Percy was due at Castle Ettriek on the following afternoon end wshall imagine how pleased Lady islors. e was with her mod colonel anti her dear Letty when she heard :at they had persuaded. I1ie4 Browne to ide ever. " We must do our best to keep her until eroy econes,'' she said artfully. " It would ever do for hint to feel the house dull after ming saurifieed so much to stay with us a ttle longer, Colonel Lyndon, I shall de. end upon you." " We shall all exert ourselves,- said the colonel cheerfully. " What do you say, Miss Morrison 1 will you So year part 1" " Oh, yes, indeed I will," mad Letty. " Veronica loves Letty," cried Milly : " she said so to me. I believe she would like to take her away from us." " But there is no danger of any one taking me away from you, Milly," answered Letty with an effectionste smile tit her little pupil. " We shall see ! we shall see t said Lady I Flora. • .As for the colonel, 11 pulled Ills long moustache and said nothing. Letty contin- ued to be friendly and contideutial towards hint ; but he had uo1 ventured yet to cross, by the minutest paint, the boundary that separates friend front lover. In spite of all Lady Flora could say to re -assure him, he , felt keenly the difference between them, ' and he feared to do or say anything that might prevent her front looking upon him as a friend, On the following day he rode out to Deep 1 Deane <Arty in the forenoon, and found Miss ! Browne looking marvellously handsotne and , capable, in Inc close riding-dt•ess, going over the farm on horseback with (Seamed Mac. kenme. The colonel was well mounted ; but his horse was not so swift as Brown Bess, and once or twice, as they rode back to the Castle over the springy ground, she shot on in front of him, and before, by coaxing aol gouda handling, Veronfra could I wing Inc 1 back into bee, he had time to admire the 1 giri'e seat, her courage, and the easy way ut ; which she managed het horse. They had a delightful ride tosether. The I colonel, who felt amiably disposed inwards all the world, and who was sullieiently ' sted in Lady elora s designs to smsh to take the day at Castle Eared: pleasant to tiss Browne, played his part well. She saw that he admired her horeeman. eip, felt his friendliness of manner, and oped that he had forgotten Inc foolish leis - the of a few days be ore. Throughout that day Vet'onica was ami- able and expansive, tull of bright spirits, ! which gushed fed massif/130y in little snnl- lies of littemlessfen, and more interested than ever -so, at least, Lady Flora thought -in Castle Ettriek anl its inhabitants. No one had any difficulty tupersuaffing her to prolong Inc visit autd after Percy's arriv- al. He came sootier than he was expected, to the great rapture of the expectant house, Veronica, was in the dewing -room, het meg to some old mother's stories about Perey's prececity as a, child and amiability aes amen, when be rushed in, radient with health and recovered energy, to report himself to Lady , Flora. They htul purposely refrained from telling him that Mies 'Browne wee In the house, met it seemed like a good omen to him to to Inc sitting there, looking very mud, at home, as Ives her custom wider every set ef circuit. stances. " This 18 011 unexpected pleasure," Inc said, shaking hands with her. " Not to nie," answered Veronfra frankly " Then you knew 1 was oorning 1" .KrieW you were coming ! How could have helped it 1" said Veronicamiechievous. ly, " When I rode over this morning the very windows seemed to blase with the newe. " You must excuse us," mod Lady Mora, lookiug with tenderness at her darling. "It Is foolish to make such a fuss over him. And e does not deserve it in the least, But m afraid we can't help it." Sher hetet site thought the weakness ex. isable, and believed thatVeronica thought le same. Who that was unprejudiced ould have felt differently? To see him Anding there -so bright, and handsome, sec' gay, a emile ou his lips, and the light of happiness in his eyes -even to see him was to lost him. He was horn to be loved; he wits born to be happy ;, lie was horn to make difficulties ive' way before bin:. • So thought Lady Flara on that summer day when she weleomed her son home after his brief absence. Poor Emily Flora ! Ami she was said to be 0115 of the most capable and farmeoieg women in London. I would depeuti on my wife's judgment in an emergency soon- er than on my own," her husbend said, end theeo were lenity who agreed with him, Her judgment 1 Alt ! how Love blinds us ! and bow sweet it is to dose wide-awake eyes, and have them tenderly bottnd up by his subtle hand ! Lady Flora had no bldg. ment where Percy was concerned, nor did she desire to have any. As Inc Veronica, she was touched and ehat'ined by the hoppiness she witnessed Perey did not Louis rtelieulnes, as so many tlo Is.hen they are put on pedestals by their partial friends. lie Was the kindest, as well its the handsomest, of young princes, If he had um; been so yottng, and if another feeling bad not taken possessirm of her heart, Veronica might have fallen in love with him that lay. She had never seen one, perluips, had ever seen him - at greater advantage. He had ee little airs of superiority with his friends : he aeoepted their kind immeshes and the many small ser- vices that were showered upon him with a most charming grace, No one, not eveu Mills' who hovered about him like a bee round a favout.ite flower, was told to let hini alone and not :nuke 0 fuss. Then he Was perfectly flank al me t himself, conecaluy rom none of thein his bet ish delight at finding hhniseif at home again. Veronica, as she watched hint and Milly together, thought that it would be One of the p letv.stnt est t Mugs in the world to have it Mother like Percy AV instanley. She had two cavaliers to escort her mmoss the moors that evening, for in spite of her protest, Percy, who declared that he was longing for a gallop, would persist in accom- panying them to Deep Deane, All the way over, Itis spirits were at their highest, end when, at the gates of the farm-futher than which Vete:nice, refused to take them -he and the colonel bade Inc good evening, it was with urgent entreaties that she would come over again soon. eromea promised readdy. Ols s a; you will see me again," she said. "1 tun not tired of Scotland yet, and I delight in Castle Ettrick. But go home ;go home. Ipso:nixed Lusly Flora not to keep you late." . She turned from them, waved Inc hand, and put Brown Bess into a cantor ; and the colonel and Percy, seeing that she would not take them further, went back through the fertn.gate, and up the valley. Silence had fallen upon them both. Percy WaseXhausied bv the high spirits of the day, and was in 0 morel to be coMiden tial, though be scarcely knew how to begin. The colonel was thiuking of him, and thinking of him. self, and wondering, with a vague sense of tmeasiness, whether everything would come right in the amt. Further and ftu-ther they- went up the valley, pacing slowly, and still in perfect silence. They were out in the open now, usid they stopped to look round them. The colours had faded ft•ont the west ; in the " miraculous vault" overhead star after star came tremulously teeth ; the silvery grey of twilight rested still upon the hills, and the yellow harvest moon, rising slowly over the level plain to the east, touched with pale gold the light clouds that lay sleeping in the silent heavens. The deep pathos -the unspeakable mys- tery of the scene -touched the hearts of the two men. They were neither of them poets ; they were men of action, to whom the ecstasy of silent meditetionwas unknown ; but Love, the magiCian, had leid his hand upon their lives, sod, for ones, they felt as poets feel the mein of the world. " Colonel," said Percy, when they set out again, " (lease% it make yeu feel rather queer 1" "W bat, Petcy?" said the colonel, with a smile. " Why- everything. It does me. But perhaps' am in a pecular state of mind.'' " That is uncommonly likely, I should say,"returned the colonel. Then you Mist guessed?" " My dear fellow, no One could look a vou without knowing that you are in love. hest seen a good many in your condition," said the colonel, with a laugh, " but, epee Inv word, t'ou arc the most transparent sort of lover I ever met," " I have Mei; behaving like a fool -en merry Andress. sail Perev hotly, " Say so at once, C'olonel Lyndon : Say that have no more self•vontrol than an idea ! It Would be the truth—" All at onee he stoppedpulled up his horse, and stood listening. " What is itt' said 1 h • ,.olnuel " Dia you hear nothtng ?" " Nothing whatever. Whst did you hear ?" " I fenciefl--111 1 there it in again 1" In a moment -before Colonel Linden un- dermood. what had happened -Percy had set epurs to his horse, and was tearing down into the valley again. " Poor boy 1 Inc iS off his head -quite off Itis head," saicl the (*lone' to himself, as he followed him. ens TA cosnxr.en.) Everybody Likes Her. There is a type of girl that everybody likes. Nobody can tell exactly why, but after you have met her you turn away to some other woman and say 2 " Don't you Ole :Miss Grosvenor 2- Now, the reason you like her is a eubtle one ; without knowing all about Inc you feel just the sort of a girl she is, She is the girl who is tiot " too l•right and good" to be able to find joy and pleasure all over the world, She is Um girl Nein) appreciates the filet that she canned always have the first choice of everything in the world. She is the girl who is not aggressive and does not tied joy to bluffing aggressive pew pie, She is the girl who has tact enough not to say the very Oleg that will cause the skele- ton in Inc friend's closet, to rattle his bones. She is the girl who, whether ib is warm or oold, okay or stormy, finds no fault with the weather. Sho is the girl who, when you invite her to emy piece, compliments you by looking her best. She le the girl who is sweet and womanly to look ELL end Eget] to, and who doesn't; strike you as 0 poor imitation of n demimon- daine, She is the girl who makes this world is pleasant place because she is so pleasant herself, And, by anti by, when you oome to think of it, bat she the girl who makes yon feel she:likes you, and therefore, you like her? -Masten Globe, THE BRUSSELS POST, A SMART LAWY 0051 Lard Itrongh-n-m-iteenme Famous. 1 Was ollee lraVelling by midnight mail to the North, ill company with a very pleseent felluespassmger, and in the course of gen. cral topics the conversation turned upon o otable celebrities, 0 Do yon know," asked my fellow.travel. what it was that made Lord Brougham one a the greatest nwristers we ovee had ?" • 01," sahl I immediately, " queen Car. olinc's trial, of course." " Yon are mistaken, sir," Inc replied ; granted that that capped his fame tbut there must have been smeihing whieh had previously made him prominent, or he would never' have been entrusted with the coedited of (Suomi Caroline's case against eleot•ge " do not know what it was ; hut of course there must have been something," I assented. " Teen I'll tell you, my friend," said my companion. " It is worth knowing, for a more clever piece of sheewtiness has neVer been heat d since in a millet of law. It hep- pened about 18b2, seven yetu's before Queer' Caroline's action, that Brougham was doing the northern ejecta, The night before the sessions, on his arrival from Londt,n, ho put up at an inn a few miles from the town wheat 'tetras gel:Gott t he moerow to conduct an important case. The old Itunbermg emelt started very cat'ly the next morning, and Brougham, with his %meted assiduity, was the first to enter the vehicle. It wj as ust on the point of starting, when an elderly j geetleman jumped m and seated linemen' opposite the rising barrister. He were a meet dejected annl woe.begone expression, which did not peas mmoticed by the lawyee, who guessed that the men was labouring under some mental anxiety. This belie was confirmed by the repeated deep.tb•awn sighs which issued from his pale lips " Pardon me,' said Broughton, but have volt sustained a very great, trouble? ' " The other looked up in a melancholy way, and saiti: ‘" Sir, the greatest trouble all old man could well Ruston ; it is ruin.' " Brougham, with that met for which he was note'', showed his sympathy by silence, knowing well the other would ease his mind unasked. Ruin,' repeated kis companion, and no man ram help tne. The facts are these, sir. I am the landlord ot the inn we have just left, and am ou my Way to the sessions to receive what is little sliint of my death warrant.' Oh,' said Brougham, you have case on ?' " tSot good eounsel 1' None whatever, it is useless ; every attorney has said my ease is hopeless, and it would he only robbing mato take up my defence.' " The lawyer lifted Ins brov s in the way he was wont to do when thinkny, and the old man proceeded : ." Every market day, as you may guess, we have it lot of customers at the inn, and I help in the Inc to ease the nthers. Well, last market day, while 1 was thus engeged, three men mune to the little window and asked me to wiled a bagof money for them until they met with a suitable pus'ehase. The bag contained about e1,000, and I under- took not to get up tee bag unless all three men were present.' " I see,' said Brougham. " I took the bag M the hurry and placed it oo a shelf underneath the window, and ' went on with my work. The men had scarce- ly been gone a quarter of an hour, when I heartl a voice exclaim, as though speaking to somebody else, " Well, if you ve arranged it satisfactoeily, we'll buy," and with that one of the men camehurriedly to tho wintlow and said, •‘01, Mr. B., we've met with a purchase ; please give us the bag." In the pressure of business I handed it to him, ancl be departed. He had not boon gone five min- utes beforetheother two came and demanded their bag of money. I told them indignantly that they had received it; but then it dawn. ed upon me that I had been fooled. The one had decamped with the money, the other two men had not been peosent, and I had broken my enclertaking not so hand the bag over unless all three were present. The two men have now sued me for the recovery of the money, and I am on my way to the sessions. There is nu hope, no earthly chance of escape, Llmph 1' exclahnecl Brougham. ' My friend, I am going to the sessions, too, awl I will listen to your case, and if I see a chance of helping yeti In sissy way I will.'" I was getting very ffiterested, and nty companion, after a pause, continued : " The ease came on for heitring ; the facts were stated, the last (nerd admitsed his ol'i gin al undertaking, and the comesel for the plai n - tills, after delivering Ins speech to the jury, sat down. But at that motnent te ensiling ! was heard in the body of the coute, and Lord 13rolighant, in wig and gown, stood rtp, 10 the utter astonishment oF the counsel for the plaintiffs, who never deeamod there was any defence. " 'My Lord and gentlemen of the jury, said he, calmly and coolly, ' this case need no farther ; my client admits his liablli ty, mid has come here prepared to stand by his original undertaking. Produce the throe men, and the money shalt be paid.' The effeut was electrical ; the judge and juey sew the polut and smiled. The third man had absconded end could not be found, and the result was t t Cese distnissed, and the defendent's wets allowed. " Now you know," said my chatty corn. pitnion, as the train steamed into the sta- tion, " what brought Lord. Brougham into notoriety." It May be True but Hard to }Mien. ' " I observe a reference in the sl meriean .•1?,uhr touchily upon ehowers of fishes, le which it states that science has eot yet fully si,sSIdained the phottontena, sass a All et in attire's Retain, This is perhaps slightly incorrect, Several causes have boon suggeet. ed. Might it not veryprobably bo thetfisli and frogs which fall neparently from the skies use bred there Witter fowl, It is known very frequently carry eggs of fish to great :llstanees, having eivollowed them, anti ni their Itight disgorging the samounharmecl where they can and do fructify and mature in water over which these birds pass. The eggs of many old fish aro veryglutinous,aml readily adhere to substancem brought in cent- ime u'ith them during pertioulae Limos of thee' ineubstion. Is it not; very probable that 1101 oulyclo those birelsoonvey ova upon their wings as well as in their crops, and when flying at greet heightsthe ova, beam. ing detached feom their wings, may mettle suspoutled in the moist atmosphere,which is quite possible under certain conditione of atmospherical pressure andthat wIten under development they b000metoo betvvy,and na. timidly fall to the earth, as frequently wit. /leased 1" Tact is hypocrisy in its most delightftt fortn. ,forsy suits for children having plaid or striped skirts, UNDER TRH EARTH, ems or the Secrets or low:laic Action lite. vested ley MIne Jitot.ings. The workmen in the deepeet tutees of Eurepe swelter in almost intoleramle heat, and yet they never p ems rat 0 eve ono seven - thousandth part of the distil -nee from the sm'face to the (wider of the ote'th, ln Lite lower levels of some of the Cone stock mines Lite Men fought scalding water, and could leiter °My three or four hours at a time until the Sofro tunnel pierced the mines and drew off some of the terrible heat, which ltd stood at 120 degrees.. The deepest boring ever tnafle, that at Sperenberg, near Berlin, penetrates only 4,172 feet, about 1,000 feet &eke' than the famous artesian well at St, Lotus, Anil° borings and mines reveal 10 Us Only feW secrets relating solely to the tempera. tore aud constitutioit of the earth for a fow thousand feet below the surfaue we are able by moles of volcanoes to form some notion of what is going on Rt tL greeter depth. There hest Mien many theories about the causes of voleanoes, but ibis now generally held that though they are produeed by the intense heat, of the Interior of the earth they aro not directly connected with the molten mess that lies many miles below the immediate sources of volcanic citergy. Everybody knows that many rooks axe formed on the floor of the ocean, and it has been found that a twentieth to a sev- enth of thole weight is made up of impris- oned water. Now, these rocks are buried in time under overlaying strata, which serve a* a blanket to keep in the Q110E111.118 heat of the interior. This heat 1 funs the water into • superheated steam, whicle melts the hardest rock, and %then the steam finds a fissure in the strata above it it tweaks through to the surface with terrific energy, and we have a volcano. Wo find that these outpourings that have , lain for coundees yes minty thousands of ! feet below the surface are well adapted to I serve the purposes of mum. Nan • a, Vine• I yard flourishes on the volcanic as les from 1 Vesuvius, and robanie mail lets clothed l the hills of New 'Zeal Led with fine forests and its pl tins with luxuriant verdeee. The most wonderful display of the resulte nf volcanic energy is seen in the northwestern corner of onr 01101 land, a region of lofty forests and el great fertility. Running For Life. While foraging in the vioinity of Tiflis in the Caucasus, one morning, an Englishman spied a herd of antelope, at which, after getting within reasonable distance, he fired two shots, typarently 51,U a rut Dot a most unpleasant adventure resulted, as the shots rousedsome savage sheepdogs who were &lug duty over a tioek near by. The man Was surrounded in a moment, and as the dogs were closing in on him a shepherd ran teward the scene with a sheet which still further Milan:0d the Mutes, one of whom rushed apon the Englishman, mid bit through Otto of the tendons behind the knee. Drawing his revolver the exaspeested. Englishnian fired at dm dogs. thus for the moment free:11g himself. Then he ran t tho shepherd, seized him by the collar, and forced him to eall them off, after which he resumed his search for an antelope. He wandered fruitlessly about for many hours among the hills, and finally stumbled epos a campfire, round which throe Tartars were seated -among them his friend of the morning. An invitation to join them was immediately given, which, not being wet:opt- ed, took at once the form of a command, A signal -cry was sounded, while two of the Testers made for their reluctant guest. My fleet thought," says She Englishman, " was to stand and fight, for their intensities were obviously hostile. But unless I meant to use my rifle, ray chance against the four -for another had now appeared -would evidently be poor ;so with a good start I took to my heels and ran. " Up one hill and over its brow into the valley that separated it from another no bigger then itself -from that to another and then to a third, the chase went on, the pursuers growing in umbers ench time I looked back, until, when quite blown, I stopped to see whether my rifle would in- timidate them, they had increased to over a dozen. "A shot from the rifle did stop them for O moment or two ; bet before I was well at tho bottom of the hill from which I had fired, I heard them coming on again. And here I began to feel that things were really extremely serious for me. "I had lsilled their doe, and had, therm fore, little mercy to expect f vont them. I wits dead bent, and my bitten leg, made running all the more difficult, I Itad only half a &Men cartridges wide me, and let the best I could not hope to make a good fight of it, so poorly fern tshed with ammunition, against so many rascals with their blood up, in a Weft where there was no stone or bush to got behind. " But here a double savett me, At the bottren of the little hill wee a wide earth. creek ; into this 1 jumped, whilst my pur• suet's were still on the other side of the stilton's and following the 00tMle of the chasm I doubled round the base of the hill little way and then waited. Yelling like demons, the 'DIANN eanle over the hill, and to my infinite relief, supposing 010 probably to have just topped the next rising groend, redoubled their exertions to overhaul me in the direction which they fancied I had Whets " The moment they were safely past me, I turned and mut back on my track for some dietetic° and then made for the plains, I am thaukfui to say that them 1 found my friends and the horses, anti hear,' no more of either dogs of Tartars,' An Actress Oritioized to her Face, A good story is told in the Stuttgart -.Wig, Alunik-Z•ilito ()oncoming one of the meet eminent Gomm aotresises and a theatrical critic, equally well kitown to fame. A num- ber of ladies and gentlemen were tho other dtly travelling together in a railway carriage from Dresden and Leipzig. Only two of the passengers know cacti other, but the eon- vereation soon became general, and the Court theatre at, Dresden bootee the sub. jeet of discuesiom Otto lady, who had been present the evening before at the repromenta. tion of Buryanthe, was load in her expres- sions of disapproval, " Worse than all," elle exclaimed, " thot Maclaine Sohrooder is much too old for ber part; her singing is be. coming unbearable, Dont yon think so, too?" oho asked, turning to thc gentlemen nest to Inc. " Would you not rather tell all this to Madame Schroeder herself ? She is sitting opposite to you," he replied coldly. After the general silence which followed this remark the oritical lady turned to the actress with many confused apologies. " It hi that horrid critic, Schmieder, who has in. fluenced my judgment coneerningyour sing. Mg. I believe 11. 10 he who is always writing against you. Ho must he a most disagree. able and podantio parson." "Had you not bettor tell all this to it Solindoclor himself?" oahnly asked the actress "he is sitting next to you."--flall (lect Ifo 1011.1.43121/11111,111133103/11141.10=1.111 J2JAN'S PARLIAMENT. s'eft ;miser noose ie timenteir liestile to tee esteem ve meeemintent. The Jessam.se pitellament, or dint, as it 1.0 be 1,11iviolly celled, hex set foe near. ly Ilya menthe, end the chief chisracteristice of Lite Lowey Mese so far two a iniu.ked hos. tility to the government and a marvelous faeillty for raising deltoid° points of colisti• tittional lew and in•itetice, the diseussions (01 which are 11811011y eitrriati on with great heel to a resolution of the home, which the goy. eminent either milkmen wholly to itecept or aaeopts only after sonic dillieulty, But when the last, mail left mattet'a bad at length reached what appeared to be a deadlock in regarul to tntO important topics. liy the constitution delegates of the gov. ernment tan appear at any time in either house and explitin govaimment measures. They are also limbic to be queetioned by the members, This ptstutice has led to frequent squabbles, delegates tedusing to answer par. dottier questiens the house calling for now delegates, anti the government supporting their delegates. The first serious difference between the house and the government took place on this questine, and 110W it has been 1.0iSed agaiol in another shepe. A pt•olonged debete on the budget, lutvity been contended by the closure, just as the divieion on the main question was about to be taken the delegate from the fot.eign offiee (deleted the right to speak, 08 delegates amid speak at any time. There were violent objections to a delegate speeking when Ito eoul,1 not be answered, and the house voLed ngitinst hear- ing hint. The following day t he pri tee 111111 ister himself appeared in the tribune and declared that t he t'ef total to hoar the delegate was unconetitutional, and that 0 the house objeeted to the eights given to goverement delegates the proper course was to make a representation on the subject, and, if noces. sifillt;eyt,, have that provision of the constitution , fled. The house appearcd disinclined to take this view, but the delegate wide drew, rffisetviiig Out as the prime minister Intel said all he wanted to say ho need not stay, The wand topic is much more serious. The committee on the budget 11 id cut down I the estimates in the most extraordinary wit . • Mikes ate) abolished final -milli legations abroad), the staff or depat•tieents aro reduced to a Mere fraction of their num. bee sub.depertments and Mullane Inc se ept away altogether, and tho salaries of the officials remaining, beginning with the prime minister himself, aro reduced some- times to a third of the present amounts. The sixty•seven th nettle of the constitution provides that a large portion of tho expo:Mi. tore, classed as " fixed expenditures," shall sot be reduced by tho diet without the concurrence of the government, and ordin- ance was passed defining these fixed ex- penditures. The lower house, however, has resolved that this ordinance is ultra vires, and has interpreted this clause of the cent- stitutem for itself in a sense wholly opposed to that of the government, and in a, such a way as to largely reduce the items of ex- penditure, with which 0 has no power to deal without the concurrence of the latter. Both the prime minister and the inin;ster of finance delivered vigorous addressosto the house on the unconstitutional nature of its proceedings, and the minister of finance declared that the government wettla, if the house persisted in its eourse, announce its dissent and take other monstires pruvitted by the constitutioe. The situation is t•egarded by the native press as one of great gravity, but there appeared at the time the mail left to be no prospect of the house altering its position. The house of peers heed not yet come to the consideration of the matter. 1 The Dreadful Habit His Wife Had. " Samantha," g.‘umbled Mr. Chugsvater, fumbling in one of the bureau drawees, " I'd like to know whetm itt the name of common sense you keep my souks." "What pair do you wont, Josiali 2" In- quired Mrs. Chugwater. "Any pair, if they ere only mates. Here's an odd gray sock and an odd black one, and down here in the corner is an old pair of last Summer's socks, with holes in the toes. I don't see why my things can't be kept in order, the same as other men's." "If yott had only told me-" " Told you I Have I got to run to you, ?dm, thug.water, for every little thing want? le that your idea about how to carry on the household besiness If you'd just take trouble enough to pile things in here so I can find 'em when I want 'cm it would save nie lots of bother." "Josiah, if you will let me-" "NOW, there's ne USe of your getting ex- cited about this thing. If you know where I can get a pair of half -way decent socks just ray no and I'll hunt. cm up 1 and if you don't know and will hero the kindness to Put the feet in plain Englieh I'll go out and but. opals. That's all." If you hadn't tumblenl those things all out of shape, Josiah-" " Tumbled them out of shape, have I? What's a burette drawer foe, anyway? Is it Lo hid things in, madam 1 If I don't find what I wont on top haven't I got to loolo down ululate I'd liko to know ? Any woman that will pack and jam a bureau drawer full of things mid arrengo them so you've got to dig and clew all through tho whole business to got what you're after, and then don't got it, hasn't got the right idea about errenging it inan's haberdashery. If you know whetm it socks are, Mrs. Cffiugwater, why don't you say so, instead of stosiding around like to stoughton bottle and doing uothing ?" "I could have found them for you in a minute and saved you all this trouble if you had given me a ohanee," said Mrs, Chug - water, as she straightened out tho tangle in h drawer and brought to view from otte of It bottom corners five pairs of clean soaks. " When you want anything of this kind hereaftee, J0810.11, if you'll just lot me know -" trouble with you, Samantha,' growled Mr. Chugwater, as be jerked a pair from the top of the pile end wont off to ono corner to put them on, "is that you tells too much." The prop--osal of the Montreal steamship o wners to reduce the space allowed to each head of cattle while on board ship from 2 foot 8 inches to 2 feet 0 inches, is sold to be creating groat dissatisfaction among the ex. porters wile (bolero that the reduction will etlin the trade, Of course only those who have had to do with these things can speak in telli gen tly, but to Inctlay mind it seems that if any ohange is made it should be in the direction of enlarging and not of reducing the spree. How a full growe animal can Ile down, get up, end stand at ease in (Inc epee of 112 inches is a question which we venture to say has purled many a ono. It is to be hoped that (Inc government Whom the ship owners are petitioning for permis- sion to melte the reduction, Will satisfy themselves befoto aecedieg to the request that the change is both expedient end ho. Inane. The cattle trade of this country is too hnportant, amounting last year to 6,000,, 000, to allow the interests of any ono elms of citizens to come into competition with it. juNF, 5, 1S91 SIAM'S GEM MINES. newt% tind sapnell.04 Jo 011 tee Pewees -- now They ere 0(1 n ed. The gent mines of Skutt are at !Seely Kral, and Nisi I i II, poilite 4,1. ist ploy, Clep,„(1,, en( on tile Seaport of ( 'limo ohms Thoy are shortly to be leaned ; hut el. present the only condition required Inc eidering the mined ia the payment of a small fee to tho head matt of the flistriet. The digget.'s lirst °West is to discover a Myer of soft, yellowish sand, in whieli both rubies and sapphires are deposited. This atentum lies at depthe varying from s few inehes to twenty feet, on it bed of sabsoil in which no precious stones are found, sS pit is dug, and the cart le removed is taken to a neighboring canal or stream, whore it is mixed with water mid passed through an ordinary handmieve. In his search for this peculhir alluvial deposit which is generally frse from any admixture of clayey earth, the digger has often ti peuetrate into the jungle that grows thickly as ound, and com- bines the work of clearing with the eectipa- tion of gemsliggee No sapphire has yet teen extriteted of higher value than about $1,400, or ruby of higher price than $4,800. No meekly,' or 'mechanical processes Inc washing the soil have so far beett introduced. ISubies and sapphires atm found at all the diggings, often deposited side by side, in the sumo layer or stratum of sand, Tile ru- bies are enmity of a dull, light tel hue. 'I'M sapphire le of to dark, (lull blue, with. out ally of the silken gloss distinctive of the Iblrinal, and t'eylou stones. The Dread of Sea -Sickness. Hundrode of women -and men, too, for that matter -who inteml going almond this miming emblems dread the possibility of being nett.sicit. Every pre,ali Lion ever thought of, pi lilted 01' told, is borne ill Mind, and Melly go 011 1)011.111 Ship With 14 quantity of emealled " remedies " enough to kill ten ordinary persons. 'rile Simple fact is deft no malady in so little understood by the doetors as seessiekness, find no mat- ter what they may receillinend to quiet the fetus of.intentling Voyagers, there is no Snell thing as a remedyle there any cause for uneasiness in this? Not a particle. There is nothing in the world so productive of good results es eeassieltness. True, it in un- pleasant, but so hl any good medicine. If women wutild anti:At:ate set -sickness less, they would l,e inore comfortable. A good dose of sea.sitkness is the best internal Turkish bath imaginable. Yon may feel as 0 you are going to die, lett depend upon it yoll Will tiot. As a rule, two days is the limit, and I. hen 0 is over, and never Will you feel so well. Lemons, orauges, champagne -till these are reeOltilkiended, but the best, recommendation, tho most peareical and ecimmonmense, is to let the see -sickness have its way, and then you are over with it. Yon can modify any possible attack by to little care as to diet a day or two before sailing, by avoiding greasy and rich foods, and thie is wise. But don't go on hotted with the settled idea that you, aro going to be sick. Dismiss tho thenglis Keep on your feet the first day out. Walk up and down thedects comet:twisty. By this niethod you get neenstomed to die motion of tine ship, tire yourself out, and, it you are any ssrt of a eleeper, yon will sleep scenelly the first night. Then the werst is over. But if not, and you doget sick, j ast aceept it philosophically. Of course, you will fuel miserable, But, let the spell run its course, ana it is antis. And you arebetter for it, and certainly wiser thau te try and Cure it by a mixture of things, which, instemlof remedyine matters, irritate the stomach and giro it a reaSOli for a continuance of proceedings. One of the leading medical authorities in the world says that fitteen grains of sulphate of (Tillable, ad. ministered two hours, or four hours at the most before embarkins, Neill completely freo even sensitive subbiets'from the horrors of seamickness, , The experiment is wot•tl, try- ing. In any event, it will do no harm. What good it will do remains for every person to deuide. Clever Blind Men who Have Beoome Fa' 1)1005. Vidal, the blind sculptor, is one of the wonders of the French ettpital, He has been blind since his twenty.first year. IVe can quite easily understand how a blind farmer would cultivate the ground with the plough, spade and itue. How he would feel around the tender plants and gently loosen the dirt from their roots, or how the blind Birtnins,.. ham, Alm, miner tolls, with the sense of touch alone, the direction and to whet depth to drill Ids holes before putting in a blast, bet tide work of -Vidal steeds out in bold re- ltef, enique, wondered and ineunistrable. To he a =tiptoe it is generally suppose(' that one must have the " mechitniee eye" ana the artist's taste and peespieuity. The letter freebies Vidal hns to tut exceptional degrees -oven more acute, ha believes, than 0 the former were not lost to him for ever. By slowly passing his hands over an ob- ject ho notes its external proportions, Rsa 'mamas them in clay in a menner which strikes the beholder dumb with saprise. A dog, horse, }lumen face, or anything alive or demi, he models with its emelt ease es any of the dozens of Parisian soulptore who still retain the faculty of sight. From 1855 to 1871.3 Vidal received more medals than ally other exhibitor of works in the Paris art exhibitions. Many of his works, inttde in the solituSe of Inc perpetual mid- night, are now on the shelves of the Great Exposition, where the blind wonder contends in friendly rivalry with his less unfortunate brother ertists. Ho never complains, is I always genial and festive when anions his friends, who always speak of and to inns as though Ile cella(' see, and well may they do so, for Inc is ouo of the beet art °rides in all IPaTrils10110V, W, H. Milburn, known through. out tho civilised world as the " blind preach. or," is one of the most rernarkable mon of the age. He WU born in Philadelphia in I 821 Ho totally lost the sight of one eye when quite young, the other becoming badly impelled from sympathy, so much so that it soon darkened for ever. With spirit un - &meted. he studied anel wits ordained as a minister at the age of twenty, and, it is claimed, travelled over two huncired thou. sane' miles filling appointments, Me, Heereshoff, the blind peosident of the Herresholf Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, seems as much out of his element in hie present capacity RS the blind sculptor. Aside from Edison, the Government has reeogelsed him as being ono of the greateet inventors of tho titnes. Many of the torpeele boats and steam launches how used by all the civilimeiGoventtnents on the globe are the inventions of this sightless genius. His steam launches have made tho highest synod with but few exceptions, end his torpedo boats aro ranked among the most efficient in use. He worlcs on his models in the quiet of the night shut up in the darkness of his room, but thls is all the amine 10 Horreshoff,-the brightest inid-day woeld be to him ne bleek as the darkest niid.night,