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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1891-7-3, Page 7( ThilLY 3, 1891 NOMPOOPOPOOPPIMMENOMMIN, 1 THE BRUSSELS POST, 4111•010•11.11111.0.1.0...9111PIPMIMPOPOPM.I.P.O. LAMON OF HIGH CLIFFE AN OLD SOLDIER'S LOVE STORY, By C, Deleeuw, Author of " the 'Fits )rao High," The &tat and the Mon," " Into e Largee Room," Etc., Etc, -- mine had offered to be her frieed, it would Moe) been e comfort to me. I want you to look upon me just as if I were thitt—en old comrade of your father's who takes an in- terest in you, Will VOL) ?" The tears sprang to Laity it eyes. He wits very kind, anil it was pleaaant to think that she had a friend in the world—and such O friend I nut wny was he so Bad? And why did her heart ache as he looked at, her? 'Thank you thank you " she cried, hold ont both her hands. "Indeed I will." And then—for the overflowing pity of her woman's heert would have a vent—" and I ean't bear your going away," she said gently, " The plaoe will seam so empty withont, you." For the space of an instant he looked at her searchingly, Could it be that, after all, lie wits mistaken 7 Then, while he stood hesitating, feeling for the next word, there crane through the trees a sound they both knew. It was nothing but the whistle with which Pertly Winstanley was accustom- ed to summon his favourite dog—a beeutif Itt old deer-hound—from the yard ; betit made &diversion. The eon was repeated two or three tines hnpatiently, and Letty became restless. '1 do believe they have tied poor old Beauty up," she mid. "It is too bad. Shall we come and see, Colonel Lyndon? There was no further quiet talk between Lathy and the colonel that day, mud on the following morning he left the Castle before she was up. Shortly after the colonel's departure, Ver- onica, who looked pale and worn after her recent illness, bet who was on her feet: again, celled to pay her farewell visit to Castle !MOM'. Lady Flora, had been prepared to maeive her coldly; but being touched by the change in her appearance, she foi•got the displeasure in motherly anxiety. " Are you really fit to travel ?' she said kindly "Are you quite mire you will not be overtaxing your strength ?" " Oh, not .And if I do, what matter ? shall have plenty of eime for rest. You know I need never do enything else," said Veronica, with a forced smile. Veronica's visit, and the change in her appear:race and manner, made hope revive in Lady Flora's breast. Girls—espeeially rich girls—are whimsical. It might be that Percy had not taken quite the right way with her. Or perhaps she expected him to persevere in the teeth of refusal. A sprained. ankle, Lady Flora was convinced, could not have coused so great a change. Percy, who had rejoined his regiment, was away from home when Miss Browne pada her farewell visit to the Castle. On his return for one of those brief leaves which, he often took now, his mother spoke of it, hinting at her suspicion ; but the ocintradie. tory young fellow did not take the hint kindly. " I have done with rich girls," he seid • " they think to much of themselves And 11 don't believe, under any circumstan- ces, I should have cared to owe my fortune to a woman.' "But I thought there was no question of money.," said Lady Flora. "1 thought—" He interrupted her; "Yes, morher, and so did I think ; but we ere all liable to error. I admire Miss Browne : I shall always admire her ; but I shall never again ask her to be my wife. And you may be sere," he added, with a leugh, in which there was nothing forced, "that she would never have me." Throughout that winter, which, for the sake of economy, Mr. Winstanley and Lady Flora had decided to spend in the country, Percy was constantly.fly.ing backwards and forwards between Ins regiment and his home. Ettrick seemed never to have been so de- lightful to him, and certeinly he had never been more delightful to his family. Gentle, kind, considerate, full of fun, and ready to token part in everything that WKS going on, his frequent visits made the life of the soli- tary country -house, when the sharp, bleak wieter days frightened its otherguests away. None of them knew—and least of all she who had wrought the miracle—to what influence this happy change was due. None of them could hove suspected that his chief attraction to Castle &trick that winter IMF the slight, fair girl, with the heart of a lion, who had gone out of her way to reprove him for his selfishness. As for Lefty, it was natural that she shouM be interested in him. He did 1109 mean it subtly, but if be bad artfully calcul- ated his conduct beforehand, he could not have adopted e, course more certain to win her. Anti when his manner towards her be- gan to be marked by a peoulie,r gentleness when she SEW in the eyes that on rare ocea- sionssoughthersasunny brightness, for whites nothing but the sympathy between their un- spoken thee ghts couldaccounna new fooling, one of which she did not try to understand, took possession of her. He became her hero. She set him up on pedestal of her own, and her innocent girlish heart; bowed down before him, This was the condition of things when one evening, early in Dern:bee, after au unusually long absence Captain Winstianley appeared suddenly at Ous Castle. He look- ed much paler than was ordinary with him, and there was an agitation in kis manner whiob &roused his mother's anxiety. After they had dined, she called hies into her boudoir, and for more than an hour they wore shut up together. It was it painful in. terview to both of them, When Lady Flom heard of her son's latest fancy : heard that his love had bessed from a rich girl, who had all the world at her feet, to a poorlittle nobody., her indignation Ithew no bounds. ''10 is itnpossible, ?racy," she cried} "im- possible ! This is a mad freak. The Not a sitigle word against her, 'nether, please 1" he said angrily ; "01)0 is perfectly innoret of this. She does not even know how I feel. For all I can tell, she my re- fuse me." "That is very likely indeed 1" said Lady Flora soGrioally, ''1 think it is1,"answered Percy ; "1 know she is too good for me, far." Lady MOT& laughed. In her anger end disappointment she was scarcely mistress of herself, "I you take 11 in this woy.----" said Percy, rising. " Oh I stay a moment, stay a moment, I" 8110 cried. 'Have a little conaideration for me, Peroy I" "If you will resider me, mother, I will consider you," sada the young man, ought) to treae Inc seriously—to treat me ee Mon. Do you think I would have come to you before any one elae—even her—if it was not 10 5013' mins Matter with me? Can't we Speak of it mlietly ?" "1 will try,?' she answered ; "but yon meet hove patience with me." There followed a long dismission. Lady Fiore tried her hardball to dissuade her son CHAPTER XIII. ow"r tie emit wousEn. The drawingeoom party bieke up early that night. Lady Flora seemed tired and r•ut of sorts, and she was glad to eseape from the task of entertaining, which,dm'ing these poet days, had been a heavy burdeu to her. Hoping to see something of Colonel Lyn- don and Letty, she stood out on the terrace for 0 few minutes after her guests had gone ; then, hearing ond seeing nothing, elle went to her own room, She had not been there for more than to few mometts before there came 0 knock at her door. Gureing who the intruder was, mho cried to her to come in, and a little white.robed figure, with a curiously rap- turous expreseion in its eyes, stood liefore her, Lady Flora smiled. " Ah Letty, my darling, !" she said, " I was expecting to the you. Here, you shall take down my hair, and bring me my dressing.gown, and then we can sit down together and have a talk." Silently Letty obeyed. In few moments Lady Flora was in her favousite arm -chair, and she was araled up on the rug other feet. " I have a confession to make," she said tremulously, taking one of Lady Florit's hands, and clasping it in both hers. " I thought so,' answered her friend, upon which Letty coloured and faltered, for how coral Lady Flora know unless her son had told her " Then you are not angry with me?" she murmured. "Angry !my child !how cooldIbe angry? I knew, of course, that this would happen some da,y, and with my great interest in you— " But," broke Letty, to whom all this was very perplexing, "11 has nothing to do with me. I want nothing except—except —to see you all happy. Why do you look et me so, dear Lady Flora? I believe it is all right. I think he sees how foolish lie has been. I do not think he will go to Turkey Or Russia, now." "He will go—who will go 1" eked Lady Flora, who Wail now as much perplexed as Letty. "1 mean Captain Wins -Malley," said Letty, blushing up to the roots of her hair. " Captain Wf nstanley !" cried Lady Flora, in great astonishment. " What have his affairs to do with you ?" She had drawn herself up in her chair, and loosened the clasp of Leity's hands upon her own. " I do not understand,"she said coldly. "There intuit be some mistake." In a voice chok ed -with sobs—for she began to fear that she had done something really nnentural and forward—Letty began to ex- plain what had happened. " 1,800 Captain Winstanley in the gar- den," she mid, " and it had been on my mind all day to tell him how cruel it was of him to mitke yon unhappy becerase he was unhappy himself, and so--" " And so you told him ?" " Yes, I told him." "In those very words?" Letty hung her head. "I am afraid I told him that he 509 selfish," she faltered. To her surprise and relief Lady Flora he- wn to smile. " Well," she said, in a voice from which the sternness bad gone, "ad what did Captain Winstenley say to yom• sermon ? Did he promise to be a good boy?" "Ile said 1 was quite right, and promised to think over what I had said. Was I very impertinent ?" said poor Letty. No, not impertinent, dear ; impertinence is in the intention. A, little foolish, per- haps. You meant well, so I will say no more about in But another time you must consult me before you give way to your rather Quixotic impulses. Will you promise me this?" " 011, yea, yes 1" answered Letty seedily, and then Lady Flora kiesed her, and bade her good night ; but ever miter Letty re- tained an uneasy feeling about her bold proceeding that evening. There was etill some interchange of cour- tesies between the Castle and Deep Deane, .where Veronica remained, her foot not being sufficiently recovered to allot? of her travelling ; but Colonel Lyndon, was now it more frequent visitor than Percy, and Lady Flora paid no more attention calls at the fem. The little hoop of pearls was still where Colonel Lyndon had placed it on the night of his arrival. For he alone, of all those who were tthout the Castle, knew, or even gu,essed, whither things were tending. Once Lady Flora ventured to hint at her surprise that he took no decided step, end then he told her grimly that they had both been mistaken. Yet he and Letty were constantly together, and Ile admired her more than ever, and she showed, in a hun• dred wive, her confidence in him and her regard for his opinion. "Men aro perverse —wilfully perverse," said Lady Flora to herself. “1:here is no doing anything with them." All her people were dissap- pointing her, mulatto'. schemes were coming to nothing, and she felt, naetwally, little indignant with the world in general for nod submitting itself to management. Scene of this irrith,bility may have been apparent in her manner th Colonel Lyndon, or, possibly, hems over -sensitive. He came to feel presently thot he had worn out his welcome, and that it was thne he should leave Ca,stle Ettrick, On the tley before his departure he inade an opportunity for speaking to Letty edone. It was not to tell her he loved her, or to bid her on hnpassioned forewelL Thet was nob the colonel's way. He left it, as he would hove sad& to boys and weaklings to blazon out their want of self-control to the universe. He was a man, and he was able to bola him- self in cheek. They rime in the garden early in the after. noon. linty was with them ; but she ran off af ter the dogs, and Inc a few moments they were left alone. " you remember," said the colonel, looking down et Lathy with grove, kind eyes, " ralk we had one night coming home from Deep Tiettne 1" " Oh 1 yeti, yes; you were so kind ; yon helped Inc so much by what you said," an, swered Letty very earnestly. " Did I help you? I om very glad," sold the colonel. "And you made me e, promise, Do you remember that 7" " Yon asked me to look npon you as rny friend," "And esk you again," he Bela gently. "1 admire you—not as young man would, of ammo. am a man neerly old enough to be your fother, Lathy, And 1—well I the fact ie Mutt I can't help being Berry sometime, When think of the lonelitess Of your poeition. It hits come to mo that if Ihad married et the age When men generally mar - of one hundred and fifty pounder:, year from 1 Some Thstorio1 Antipatiliefe "1 like to Hee cote ft bout ; but 11 000 rubs against ley flesh it itImost eends me into Site, and nothing would make me touch one tins, verlitips, he had not ktiowu before—A ea oviitiy. stuff and „id „f villages mattered along the vomit of his father. This, es he was well aware, had not covered hie expellees ho the army. That his father would Murree his allowance on BAIT mum, As:important fiewfoeualeild Ina mos'. hia marriage was unlikely, rho property— voluntarily, remarked a young lady re. A very important tretle in the small bowel y burdened, and Improvements were her litffenere, " I've no patience with 811011 Nvwf"undlaml 10 „th" "i,!,(.1)111g, l"t1 "nd urgently needed ; they were often hard Put' antipathies." Many people take Ole same in 10011r 000" "" c"te""Ig '" " i4-4.!1"6 i 00011. 8 1110 strange 11 view of these peoulier dielikea, but history the oslo employment of the majority of men ill Ouse loeitlities, Very early 3 to it to intuit, necessary expenses. Necreary expeuees with Lady Flom included the aett- son in town, a house full of visitors in the country, elaborate dinner.parties, hunters and cartiage.horses ; necessities they were, or how could elle have done without them ? She was so determined to prevent, him from allying himeelf with the pretty nObody whom she had imprudently thrown in his way, that she exaggerated their embarrass. inent, " You must see," she repeated, again and again, " how impossible it is." But Percy could not, or would not, aee any. "Xis only ray OW11 idiom I shall not trouble either you or my father for enything," he said. '• If 1 chooth poverty, who is to blame me?" " But yon are our only son ; yoa have the family to consider." " And I clo consider the family. If I bring the noblest and sweetest woman in the world into the family, every member of the family ought to be grateful to Inc,' said Percy. All lady Flora could Istein from him, finally, was that lie would not speak to Lathy until his !ether had been consulted, and his ;wither had spoken to hint again, So it wes decided between the mother and 13011 brit another besides themselves was to have a voice in in Letty, though she did not know it, bed long been in love, and her love -history had reached a stage when a mere nothing—a breath, a whisper, the tone of a voiee--•brings revelation to the startled heart. Percy kept his promise of not speaking to hr. Lady Flora was equally prudent. But before the next day was out her resolution had been taken. When Lady Flora was dressier for dinner that evening, she knocked at her door, and asked to speak to her, Permission was given, much more coldly than 'usual, and, without so much as sitting down, the girl said what she had to say. "1 must leave you,' she said abruptly. Then, as Lady Flora looked at her like one petriaed, " Please don't ask me why, It is herd enough as it is -1 mean to leave you and my dear little and this house, where I have been so happy." " Why should you leave ?" said Lady Flora, her fur assuming a stern expression, for she could ' only suppose that Percy had broken his engage- ment to her, "It is right that I ahould ask. Has any one —' "No one has done onything," broke in Lethy, with feverish haste: "110 one has said a single word. Say I am capricious. Tell people so—Janet ,ard Mrs M ackenzie, and Milly. Say 'I am tired of the'country— anything—anything —only don't ask me questions." In spite of herself, in spite of the anger that still 'burned within her, and her bitter disappointment, Lady Flora was touched. "My dear," she said, in a changed voice, and looking anywhere rather than into Letty's pale lace, " this is very sudden. What do you intend to do? Have you any plans? " "Oh, yes," answered the young girl. "I mean to try and be a governess somewhere else. If you would let me, I should like to 51001 at once. I suppose I could not go earlier than to -morrow morning, Then perhaps you woulchell =where to go at first. I have fifty pounds in the bank; that will keep me for some time. And then if you are kind enough to say I am a toler- ably good governess, 1 shall soon get another situation. I want togo a long, long distance away—to America or Russia." A feeling of the deepest compassion came over Lady Flora's heart as she listened to those simple words. But for the dignity of the family—bet for those necessary expels. sea which had to be met if the family was to hold its own in the world—she would have taken her little favorite to her hear, and bidden her remain at Castle Ettriek, and be her son's wife. As it was she could only sigh and con. sent. " Per'haps 300 are right, dear," she said, very sadly, " there are seine situations which are only to be met by flight, I will make arrangements that you shall stay in London for the present." " And I need not come clown to -night?' said Lefty tremulously. "No, yon may stay up-staire. Milly shall stay with you, Yon had rather not? Then you shall stay alone. I will come up and see yen after dinner." Slowly and sadly Letty went up to her OW11 room. She had done it for the best : because she would not give polo to thone she loved : because, under this new and strange stress of feeling that had come to her, she aould not trust her- self ; but no one knew, no one who had not once felt as she bad felt could imagine, what the siterifice of that evening meant to her. When, having locked the door, to shut out intruders, she threw herself upon her bed in the darkness, it seemed to her its if the rest wore nothing. The leaving of her home, the separation from her friends, the looking forwarcl to long years of loneliness, all this she thelcl bear ; but to go away without once looking into his face, without thinking Min for his love to her, without telling him that though she must leave the place where she had the unspeak• able happiness of seeing his face, she 'would never, never forget him—this was almost more than her gentle heart could. endure. Sh wept mitil her beevy eyelids fell. But she could not sleep long, Lady Flora 150.8 at the door of her room, and Milly, looking cavities and anxious, 1505 with her, and she had to sheke olf her languor, and prepare for her journey to London, (50 BR CONTI101.111.D). 0t acer. aims which seem to have a founr0t0t)00e 01ifittion in ill the 700e the lir" be°. more than " stuff and 11011801180." . pilre111010t1 by the The oelebrated Erasmus, elthough a, caught in seines by the Heirs, as the eatives co:14131mm is Irene herrnig. The fiell 000 native of itotterclain, had such an aversion rail 110 bait 'leek"' They ere frezee "4"1 fever, Ambrose l'are had a patiera who elm (au a placed it, the vessel's hold, where they aro to fish that the smell of it threw could never see an eel without fainting 1 ••overed up aud kept fresh for three or fen,: mid &pother who would fall into ravel. weeks until the weather heemnes too warm Mons at the might of a carp. to allow of their use, Then it becomes ite• resat), to put ice on bait, Which is placed in pens ni the hold, it layer of chopped ice be. Mg spread between each layer of herring. About the middle of .linte a (+Doge in baiting is made, capelin—ii smell fish great- ly reeembling the smelt -being used. These MIT ea unveil in small elteg4eulee nettle es. J osepi Seelig() rand others could nevei'drink milk. Gerdan was disgusted at the sight of eggs. A king of Poland and a seet•etory of France bled at tile nose when they look• ed at apples. Henry III. of France and many others had a great aversion to cats, rime and snide's. A great huntsman in Pealed y for the purpose. I 'ivy are stetted Hanover, who would valiantly attack a away in the same manner as the herring, of a roasted pig. large •luantitiem of iee being talker' into small piece:s and spread over them in the send boar, always fainted itway et the sight Amatus Lusitanne knew a person who halt Pelle. fainted whenever he 80110 rose, and hence The most popular forni of bait, however, ill always kept his house when they were in the squid. The 11 el"is 14'5 begin angling bloom. Scaliger mentions a similar ease in for them in the latter part ef July end con- Breogyaircdhitomsleillfletsu,rialenddpitidneyalet soebeeinn alit 1,1voanteey,... dram until they dieuppear in October. At the beginning of the season they are taken crosses. in enormous quantities, so loony being Tycho-Brahe fainted at the sight, of a fox, caught that a ehltde daY ves5e1 ea" 00.. and Marshal d'Albert at the sight of a pig, cure 80,(100 or 40,01;0 of them without stop- Athelaidev.vfoisidnekrfuolresnoctuig.h, cAoul,tril :not, ennodtt tsr0e Ping in the harber long enough to make it necessary to haul down her tulle. The strangely, was known to feint whenever he method of procuring this variety of bait is heard a, servant sweeping. Vic:valor swoon. quite interesting, the only apparatus being ed whenever he hoard a bagpipe. nayse a kind of heel' called 31g. TIM; consists fainted at the sound of mplashing water, of a stoat line secured to lead eylinder — Wood Pulp. Wood fibre has come into general use 0,8 a substitute for the cotton rags and other materials formerly employed in the making of paper. This fibre is called pulp, having taken the name which used • to be given to the cotton and linen fibre when it had been prepared by maceration for spreading into sheets of paper. The wood fibre used to be prepared, only a few years ago, by a wholly mechanical process. The blocks of wood were ground, or rasped off by action applied obliquely to the grain. The length of fibre depended partly upon the angle at which the block was held during this process. In place ot the old mode of obtaining wood pulp, chemical treatment of the wood is 110W 10 vogue. As formerly, the bark is stripped from the wood to secure fibre of uniform quality. All discolored or decayed parts are removed for the same reason. Then the wood is cut across the grain into thin chips, which are carried to the top of the mill and dropped into large drums about fourteen feet in diameter, and twenty-four feet long. The drums are made strong enough to beat a pressure of from soventrfive to two hundred pounds to the square inch. When O drum is packed full of chips it; is filled with sulphuric acid and other chemicals. The wood is converted into a cotton.like product, which is then pressed dry and mashed. It is next mixed with water, roll. ed fiat, and cut into shape for bundling. In this condition it is said to be made up of sixty per cent. moisture and forty per cent. fibre, In this shape it goes to the paper mill. It is found to be better to pay the freight on the contained water than to cheapen the cost of transportation by pressing cut the water, for the pulp packs hard when it is dry. One cord of spruce wood is estimated to make twelve hundrecl pounds of dry fibre, worth from one dollar to one dollar and half a hundred pounds. A sulphite plant that wilt use up from eight to fifteen cords of wood every twenty-four hours costs about ten thousand dollars. three inches long, fastened to which are s • rad stmt. fins bent upward. No bait is eN 111 I used, the jig being let down into the watee and kept constantly in :notion in imitation111 of a small fish. A squid will throw its long 0 0 d S Il tentacles around the jig and iinmedietely become caught in the pins, when it is dee- 1 troesly hauled into the boat. Squids Intve Sarsaparilla a very unpleasant habit when being thus landed of discharging a stream of salt, water Bold by all druggists. $1; sizfor£15. repared only , into the faces of their canton, and this is by V.1,000» 0 CO, Apothecariee, Lowell, mass, King of Medicines Cure " Atuteet 1ff trueuteue,” "When was 14 yeare of age 1 bad a SeY090 attacik of rheumatism, and after 1 recovered Mid to go on crutches. A year later, serofula, le the form of white swellings, appeared OR various parts of my body, ami for 31 years was an Invalid, being conlined to my bed 6 years. in teat time ten or eleven Bores ap.. peered and brolce, causing me great n51140,4 suffering, I feared 108001 :Mould get well. " Early In MO went to Chicago te visit to sister, but was confthed to my lied most 01 1)80 thee I was there. In July I read 0 book, DilY with a Circus,' in wheat were statements of cures by 11 00)15 Sarsaparilla. I was so Im- pressed with Inc success of tins medicine that I decided to try it. To my great gratiRcation the sores soon decreased, and 100(1110 to feel better and in a short time I was up and out of doors. 1 continued to take Ilood's Sar- saparilla for about a year, when, having used six bottles, had become so fully released from the disease that 1 Well9 to work for the Flint Sr Walling Mfg. Co., and since then RAVR NOT LOST ifk 91:113LE DAY on account of sickness. I believe Me disease Is expelled from my system, I always feet well, am in good spirits and have a good appetite. I am now 27 years of age and can walk as well as an), one, except that one limb Is a little shorter than the other, owing to the loss of bone, and the sores formeley on 103, right leg. To my friends my recovery seems alinost miraculous, aud I think Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the Icing of medicines." WiLmaat A. LEHR, 9 Railroad St., Kendallville, Ind. almost instantly followed by a jet of a dirty. 100 Doses One Dollar blank, ink -like substance. As a matter of course this is decidedly disagreeable, even to a weather-beaten squid•fleher. Oceasionally giant squids are caught, some speeimens being so bulky as to furnish bait for two vessels—on amount equal to 90,000 or 70,000 of the small variety. Salted clams ere very frequently utilized for baiting purposes and very often birds— eeds as the hagdon or great puffin, noddy and stormy petrel—serve the same purpose. 1 hese bit ds are caught with a hook and line, and upon being pulled on board are killed with clubs. When bait runs short, fish en. trails—called " pray" by the fishermen— are called into requisition, In addition to these lady-fisli, lant. fisMeggs, alewives porgies, pickled menhaden, yellow.fieh and salmon are used by bnth the trawlers and he.nd.line fishers 001 the Thinks. & BROW SWIM in His Hat. The same causes which produce a fall of snow in the open air—namely, ft subjection of 0 moist) atmosphere to a temperature cold enough to crystallize the drops of moisture which are formed—moy of course, take place under artificiel conditions. Lo—Nrature, a French joarnal of science, relates that a gentleman who was walking rapidly along the street on a cold, fair day, and had, by violent exercise, brought him- self into tt condition of profuse perspiration, took off his tall hat in saluting friend. As he did so, Ito was astonished. to feel what was a slight fall of snow upon his head. Upon passing kis hand over his head, he found several unmistakable flakes of snow there. 11; is supposed that the freezing, outer air condensed the moist warm air within the gentleman's tell hat so sudclenly that a veritable snowstorm, of ininiature propor- tions, was pi:educed upon his head. A similar moident is related lsy the same *mei. During the past Winter, on a very cold clear night, an evening party Wall given in a Won. m Stockholm, Sweden. Many people were gathered together in single room and it become so warm in the course of the evening that several ladies complained of feeling 111. An attempt was made to raise 0, window, but the sashes had been frozen in their place and it was impossible to move them In this sithation, as it was obsoletely nec- essary that air should be admitted, a pane of glass WIL0 smashed oun A cold current at oncerushed rushed ratted at the same instant flekes of snow were seen to fall to the floor all parts of the room. The entrance of a frosty current into an atmosphere which was satureted with moist- ure had produced a snow.fall indoors, Stable -Boy - Baron Ward began his career as a ork- shire stable -boy, and bectune one of the cleverest financiers, diplomatists and minis- ters of the day. The story ef his life, as related in Blackicnod's MayaLinc, suggests one of Demas's romances. The Duke of Parmo was fond of horses, and kept a magnificent stud. He used to visit the stables every morning. One morning his attention was called to several horses whiell had just arrived from England. The stables were not in good order, and he overheard some one say ; " We would not stand this kind of thing in Yorkshire." "Was it you who spoke-?" asked the Duke, turning round muckly, and seeing a young Englishman. irig'ilian'eeslls,.,1 did say something, yoer Royal ' What'syour name?" is Ward, please your Roy.el Highness,' enswered Ward, tugging at Ins forelock. "What do you menu ?" 'Only, please smur Royal Highness, in Yorkshire I thinks we know how to keep horses." The Duke turned away ; but shortly after Ward was appointed the Duke's personal groom, The duke always rode behind his master until they were out of Parma; then, by order of the Duke, he would draw near, and reply to questions about the manage - very severely. My condihon then ment of horses and stables. One day all Farma WRS astonished. The yonng Irk- I compelled me to do something. I shire stable -boy was appointed Master of got two bottles of German Syrup. I Durk or Oat? "An Observer of (Inman) Nature" writes; " The most graceful of domestic animals is the mitt while the most owkwamd bled is the duel' ; but when you call a woman a suit name, call her a cat instead of a duok, and see what will happen," A married math°. matician calculetes that the chances are 100 to 1 that that "0 bserver of Humen Na. tura" WAS &married observer. Undortillcer (to Canadian youth who it: lighting a cigarette)—" That's right, You smoke The eigarettee ; we do the rest," If everybody improved the minutes with the zeal thet a hen puts into Ims, work while inoking a surreptitious five-minute mull in a flower garden whet a world this wouldbe. " Tirne brings strange reversole. There's poor old Henpeck, for instanee, who mar - nod his typewriter." ". Well, Where dews the reversed come ?" " Why, it WAS he wed to dielate," The Me dical Rcrord, in an article upon the habit which is becoming increaeingly prevelent of ding the smoke of cigarettes s tys tint it is akin to the opium liable " Inc old eig teethe, smoker," seye the Record would not exchange a few deep whiffs of his cheap eigarette for the finest Havana that could be bought with gold." The habit, once formed, becomes. aecording to the testimony or physicians, practically incurable. IlLt era MOUES. —Look them ever carefully, wash them, and for every quart can allow one cupful of enger; iti,1 water enough :to cock without burning. An twat:levy crate hole. &oxen quarts and will can about ten. Ten minutes cooking is sufficient. Can the same as other fruit. In all canning or pre- serving, use the hest sugar, as you can never be sure of sneers with a poor article "German Syrup 99 - Here is an incident from the South —Mississippi, written in April, 1139o, just after the Grippehad visited that country. "1 am a farmer, one of those who have to rise early and work late. At the beginning of last Winter I was on a trip to the City of Vicksburg, Miss. ,where I got well drenched in a shower of rain. I went home and was soon after seized with a dry, hacking cough. .This grew worse everyday, until I had to seek relief. I consulted Dr. Dixon who has since died, and he told me to get a bottle of Boschee's German Syrup. Mea.ntime my cough giew worse and worse and then the Grippe came along and I caught that also Horse. 1 began using them, and before taking The Duke was a keen Judge of character, and had a liking for Englishmen. He kept Ward as his petsonal groom, and often talk- ed with him on subjects uneonnectea with the stables. Ward acquired courtly mean ers with such have felt that way evet facility that the Court of Parma, wits aston. pirnot ----------- caya,Hines much of the second. bottle, I was entirely clear of the Cough that had hung to me so long, the Grippe, and all its bad effects. I felt tip -toy and P jelled ; buthis Yorkshire plrunness of spbech se 1 adhered to him. One day the Duke review ed the Posimeran troupe. " What do you think of their drill ?" ask- ed the Duke of Ms Master of Horse. "I don't think much of in" answered Ward, bluntly. " Whitt do you know about military mat tors 7" " hove been in the Yeomanry six years your Royal Highness, and have seen a good, deal of soldiering in Yorkshire." " Do you think you coeld make these men drill better ?" " I am sure I could." Shortly after this conversation Ward was pieced at the head 01 11»' military department where. he at once introduced economy and efficiency. Then he was made tinnneeminis. ter, and immediately there was tt great ins. provement in the revenue of Parma. Rapid and rem:trate as 0000 this stableboy's rise, he showed so much shrewdness and good sense that Ile wits popular even with those he had supplanted. The Duke sent him on adiplomatic mission to the Court of Vienna. The Emperor of Austria matte him a baron, and 13aron Ward he returned to England to represent the Duke of Parma. English ministers took to him ; his elevation had not thrown him off his balance ; he showed tacit, and retain- ed his simple mantas. In 1851 the Duke of Parma WM 0.88assinat- ed, and his widow imagined that Ward intended to seize the sovereignty. His 1101113e Was surrounded by Austrian eoldiers, and Ile was banished from Parma. The Austrian Government, welcomed hire, and treated him with greet coneideratiot. The chonge, however, Wes toogreat; hefell into a state of Nection, and did not long survive his exile. But Yet to Mother. There are no ties that; bind as close as those of mother -love, and none that cost so dear. An example of this was given a few days ago, in the mei) of a mother in it city, who lay on her deathbed, She had given up life and the world, aud was sinking peacefully Otto that sleep which knows no waking, when her little dopester who had boon away on a viiiVreturned hotne, in =ewer to to tele. grain, The child was led into the room and stood sobbing at the bedside of her dying mother. She lied been told Oust she meat control herself and she tried bravely to smother her greet grief, but when she saw the be- loved face so white and still on the pillow, her whole soul was wrought in one great cryi "Olt, mernata, mamma, doe't. go, mammal With for me I" Back to earth and its sorrows dtifted the soul that was almost weltered in Heaven. The pele lips that luta been speechless for many hours parted in reply, as the words reaped liko ghosts of sound ; " I—Will—swat—for—you, derling—Iseill wait till—you-00mo." Ana 00 givehis last reeognition, and soy these few weeds of comfort; tO hor child, the mother Bettered the agony of 0, second aeath, Brit it, is through these divine mysterieS The Ti2nt.9 of India moots that over one thoesand of the pilgrims who go to Bombay and M0000 never return owing to overcrowd.. ing the steamers oe owing to diseases on the land Jennie from Jodcla The Pimes , . anathati might have dieclandlefther alone, from his purpose, She pointed ont what calls upon the ovranment to inquire o of 'pain that Goa prepares us for His com- I might have had . a daughter like you, and that if, when 1 WaS dying, a comrade ofpentattiem hifieettatposition 0008. I-18 110d 0.11 olloWtteee the matter. " No drink between trips ' is a New York railway ordm, The laundresses of London, Eng., sup- ported bv numerous trades someties, aggre- gating 80,000 persons, held a demonstration in Hyde Park yesterday. They netrehed to the music of bands, many of hem Emery- ing hamlets, and they tit:teen:0d a curious spectacle. John Burns and all the ladiee7 leaders spoke in fever of the workday of eight hours, and Louise Michel havangued the am! from the theialiet platform.It is rumored that & tramway strike is immi- nent. ear_erannewafix•MWORA Great GAMS. TIM greet, Ainorieen game, Baseball, in the States, and the great English game, Cricket, in the Dominion, are in full career, and it is apropos to consider what &eel:Air:lt. cd pitcher says : Mr. Lonie Rush, 49 Preston St., Detroit, Mich, 1.1. S. 4,, writes "Ito pitching hall I sprained my arm . two op. vacations of St, Jacobs Oil cured me," If you 5,000 00 be ready for the next de,y)try b. 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