HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-2-26, Page 3FEB 29, 1892
A SCRATCH IN PLAY,
THE BRUSSELS POST.
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PATbT aurae a miserable happy time when my
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But coining,' of wounde, and net embraces.
nese of old lack mus with ev11 fears:
Xat mora of kittens white and soft
be wary,
My siveethaart W'ta j List each ie Iittlo fairy,
Adel yet (1110 wall -nigh scratched my heart to
Mores.
Oh abild 1 0 ewoot love) door beyond nal
nionatiro
fnw (Mold those eyes so bright and oloar de-
ceive me?
That little tiglee inel
t!ndepaw,ousots:nail treas.
are,
Ohl could Ito my burning 111is but press thee,
My heart the while night bleerl to death and
bless thee,
I am very sorry to have to say it, yet
moat speak the truth even of her X
most ; and I repeat, what I always have
maintained, not only that sits wee com-
pletely in the wrong, but that she ought to
confess it.
We had loved each other mil our lives,
Our fathers wore old brother.ollicora mud
the closest of friends: and each , being
widowed and the father of an only child,
what, was morn natural than that when
they left the service and her father
settled on his estate, my father should
take up his quarters in a pretty cottage on
his friend's domains? 14 -hat plans the two
old fellows used to mako for their children's
future ! I, of course, should enter the old
regiment ; and she, of coureo, should marry
me, Alas ! I myself was the cause of the
shattering of the first dream ; and subsequent
events very nearly put an end to all ohance
of the second's being realized.
When 1 had reached the age of eevonteon,
when my brain ought to have been on fire
for the sound of the drum, and ley sleep
disturbed by dreams of the glories of war,
my dear old father discovered -through en
intolerable odour which prevaded the house,
and was traded to a mysterious box in my
bedroom—that my mind turned towards
science, and that a macerating pot or the
dissecting table was more to me thou the ex-
termination of the entire British army. I
often sigh now as I think of the sad head -
shakings the poor old gentlemen must have
indulged in as they discussed my extra-
ordinary fancy over their wine; end I
know that my little playfellow,
Avis, treated mo to a good deal
of contempt when it was confessed that I
actually turned from " the profession suit-
able for a gentleman," and deliberately
ohoae that of a mere sawbones.
Poor old father 1 He loved me too well
to oppose me: and ono dull autumn morning
I left the old home to enter upon my studies
at rho university of Edinburgh. Why did I
was a
it
go to Edinburgh, and not London t Well,
I think it because I
had
a feel-
ing
Y
in that I was breaking
with all the old life
and therefore wanted to put hundreds of
miles between me and the old home, as I had
put hundreds of diitoolties between my
father and the realization of his old hope.
How well 1 remember my arrival, that
cold, gray morning, in the beautiful city 1 I
left my luggage at the station, and climbed
up the steep hill that leads from the land of
steam and nesse to the moat beautiful street
nave yet seen in my wanderings. How
grandly, away to my left, rose the magnifi-
cent "Old Town," topped with its castle;
and to my right, the gardens and splendid
buildings of Princes' Street; while behind
me couched the " Lion," watching over the
safety of the maiden city ! How lonely I
felt among it all—how utterly lost ! I think
that, if all had approved my design to be-
come a doctor, 1 should at that moment
have turned and gone back to England, and
promised my old father to do anything ho
might wish. But the vision of a child with
long Howie heir, defiant face, and hands
fast clasped behind her, came morose my
mental tistnu. She had refused to bid me
good -by. How she would triumph if I
came home again, my work undone 1 No I
trust go on. So I plucked up heart, and
wandered on Mono in that unknown city,
looking for is place wherein to ley my weary
head. Before long, I found lodgings, and
had my things removed to a little street
near the theatre. And nob many weeks had
passed before I was as happy as a king,
drinking in all the new mysteries of my
ohosenprofession. Ah 1 that first o,tlnts-
iasm, why doesn't it last ? Why, as the
years go on, does there come in its
stead such utter loathing of each
fresh step t I did not in the least mind
the dissecting room ; but the operating
theatre—the hospital—the horror of it all.
Well, it is over; and to that supercilious
little figure with the flying hair end the
clenched hands do I owe the obstinacy that
carried me through these four years of sun-
shine and shadow. Give in, when she had
said: "1 Moto you will hate it. I hope you
will give it up1" Shall I give it up? Never!
The thought of the look of triumph I should
whether Iyivns to stay oonbentodly at home
for the rfis't of my lire or mutat once tnoromi
my travels to heal a broken heart as best 1
could among foreign laude and unknown
faces. I sometimes fanny that if we could
but turn back the "forward•llowing tide of
time," I would live these weeks over again.
But at lensth they came to an and. Ono
still June evening, when the moon was but
a croeertt in the sky, and the uiglitingales
were einging with all the strength of their
tiny throats and fervour of their great
hearts, my little lova laid her golden head
somewhere abont the lower edge of my
breast-poelcut, and geeing up sin my face,
promfeed to overlook the fact that I was
only a sawbones and no gallant officer.
" Well, you see," whispered the little
voice, "youmco, so big and strong and hand-
some, it is no lite trying to 8ghbaga lletyou.
I love you, I love you! and after all, you are
my own dear old Clinton; and I'd marry you
if you were a swoop, which is oven worse
than a dootor," And. the bravo blue oyes
looked up at me so proudly and 8o trusting-
ly, that I thought no man had ever before
such loving glances cast upon him,
Oh, what a happy time we had! I thought
that trouble cotticl never touch me more.
As I strode home through the eofbair to toll
my father the glad news, I felt like an arch-
angel.
Yes, I fancied my troubles were at an end
—that I was going to be blesssdbeyond all
human flesh ; but I slid not yet realize what
it is to be an engaged man ! No sooner
were we safely and firmly betrothed, than
my young lady oontraoted such a habit of
flirting as made me stand agape. T main-
tain that she flirted. She insists that she
did not 1 Sho says she was only making
herself agreeable for the sake of my prac-
tices. She repeats that she smiled on the
curates, youths from Oxford, retired mili-
tary men, &a., not as men at all, but purely
as possiblefuture patients Future patients!
Did I want them bought with her smiles ?
Still, such an injured saint did she look when
I ventured to expostulate, that I hardly
knew how to bear myself ; and I used to
wonder whether I really was the most sus.
pieious brute on the taco of the green
earth.
At length matters reached a climax, and
I turned et last.
It was in the week of the " Lawn Tennis
Tournament "—the one great excitement of
our little country-side—when a young hus-
sar made his appearance, and contrived to
get hirnself drawn as her partner in the.
doubles 1 She doolares that I an simply
talkingnonsense
when Ia
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0rt that at Ie f
of
himself drawn es her partner ; and she
says that it is allclone by lots, and that
people muse play with just whoever fells to
their lot I Well, that is neither here nor
there. She need not have behaved as sho
did. Ile did not live in these parts of the
world : he could not be considered as a pos-
sible patient; yet the interest she took in
him was most marked. If it is a fact that
she eonld not help having him for her part-
ner in the "doubles"—as they call the
thing—need she have stood watching him
with all her eyes in the "singles," clapping
her bands at each stroke he won, or have
been the first to congratulate him the mo-
ment he had put on his abominable loud
" blazer " end marohed off the field or court,
victorious ?
I do not play tennis, having more impor-
tant matters to attend to; nor do I deuce
particularly well ; still, ab their insufferably
dull " Tennis 13a11," sheneed not hove thrown
me over for him in tho pronounced way she
chose to do.
"Oh, Clinton, busy I give Captain Smyth
one of your dances? You won't mind, ?wad
you?
"011, certainly not; give him the lot if
you like," I answered blandly.
like a mmbment, emoothiog coarse pillows,
oumforthng sad hearts, calling smiles to
parched and fevered lips, and locks of love
to heavy eyes.
How :vas it that she could bo so tender
to ethers, could so hurt the heart that loved
her 1 How could she keep up our quarrel all
this time, when she must woo how it was
wounding me, killing met If only she would
say site Weesorry she had vexed me, I should
not whieper a word of blame. But say it
she would not, And so the summer peened ;
autumn came with its storms and decay ;
and yet we were no nearer being Mende
again.
at NIIAD,
(TO DA tl 0 TI )
QUEER WILD POLES IN BRAZIL.
Feels ,?bent r lie Savage Iteter.:dos and
mei r Interest.i an 'Ways.
"The lletoandos of Brazil are among the
most interesting savages in the world," said
an obhnologist. "A.lthough other wild peo-
ple in various parts of the world distend
their lips and ears with wooden pings for
ornamental purposes, Indians of this race
curry such practices to an unparalleled ex•
tromp. The piercing of the flesh for We
object is performed when the child is about
seven years of age, a sharp spine from a
kind of palm being used as &surgical instru-
ment. Openings having thus been made in
the lower lip and lobe of each ear bits of
wood aro inserted to keep them from heel-
ing, bigger and higgor pieces being substi-
tuted until the plugs attain a diameter some-
times of no much as four inches. These plugs
aro at from a tree which furnishes a wood
quite as light as cork and of a white color.
They aro three quarters of an inch thick.
" rhe wooden disk in the bpis worn most
of the time, but is from time to time, remov-
ed, when the lip bangs in a hideous loop of
flesh against the chin, looking like a great
worn, and displaying the teeth in a horrible
grin. Ordinarily the pressure of the ping
against the lower front teeth pushes them
out of place and causes thorn to fall out,
thus adding to the unpleasant effect. When
the plug is in position, the features being in
repose, it is parried horizontally, a smile
causing it to touch the tip:of the nose. In
quarrels the perforated ears and lips areal t
to suffer, and it is no uncommon thing to
see then broken. When such an accident
occurs the severed parte are tied together,
and the plug is replaced. Blore often than
not the ear disks are not worn, and the loops
of flesh are left dangling, sometimes reach-
ing to the shoulders. In travelling through
the forest such loops would hes likely to
catch upon boughs of trees, so they are often
turned up and hung over the ears for son•
v000ience.
The color of the Botooudes is a light
yellowish brown. It has been said that they
are capable of blushing occasionally, which
an nacos
i liohment
would ecce to be
P
worth Navin„ inasmuch
as both sexes com-
monly go stark naked. When brought into
contact with Europeans they manifest not
the slightest embarrassment on account of
their lack of clothing, however. From
certain seeds and fruits they obtain brilliant
dyes, with which they adorn their bodies.
There is no set style, the method of paint-
ing the person varying with the taste of
the individual. A favorite fashion is to
paint the face above the mouth a bright red,
the upper half of rho body being stained
black and rod stripes enuirclmg the
waist. A now warrior thus decor-
ated, with lip and ear ornaments,
preeents a most demoniacal expression.
The colors employed aro mixed in the upper
shell of a turtle, and are carried in joints of
the bamboo. When at work on plantations
belonging to the whites the men often tie a
shirt by the nets around the waist, letting
the body hang down in front. They are
never seen to wear such a garment other
wise. The woman adopt a tattered skirt.
But these articles of apparel are immediate-
ly discarded as soon as they return to the
forest, where they roam about without oven
a fig leaf apiece to Dover themselves with,
' The arms of the Botoeudo oonsratof the
bow and arrow. His bow is made from
the wood of the airipalin, frr•m five to sever
feet in length, and so heavy and strong that
no other 0tan pan bond it. The arrows are
six feet long, with shafts of strong and light
reeds, tipped for use in war with a javelm-
lido head mule from the side of a joint of
bamboo. This head, which is convex on one
side and concave on the other, is sharpened
to a long point, the edge being rendered as
keen as 0 knife. Such arrows aro employed
also in the chase of the tapir. They are
plumed with the feather of a large bird.
The wounds they make are terrible and
particularly dangerous, because of the con-
cave shape of the arrow head, whish facili-
tates bleeding.
")!or birds and small game the savages
utilize arrows with blunt points, which stun
the prey, but do not tear it. They capture
small lizards with these weapons. For call•
ing one another in the forest they have
speaking trumpets made from the skin of
the tail of the great armadillo. . While tra-
velling through the woods they build for
themselves temporary shelters of palm
leaves, etiokingthe stems into the ground in
a half circle, 8o that the tips of the fronds
arch together and form a sort of roof. When
encamping for a considerable time in one
place they oonetruot houses often big enough
to hold several faniliee, Tho furnishing of
a 13otoenda cabin is extremely simple, beds'
being made from hark fibro and the fire be.
ing in the middle of the dwelling. Gourds
aro used for drinking purposes and in the
preparation of food.
' The 13otoeudos aro particularly fond of
the flesh of monkeys, but they always sub-
sieb upon ant eaters, aligators, and boa eon -
striders. Fish they usually shoot with
small bows, which they use with great dex-
terity ; but sometimes they employ a poison-
ous root, which, put into the water, soon
brings the fish to the surface. They regard
as a delicacy certain kinds of huge caterpil-
lars, which burrow in decaying wood. These
unpleasant grubs are impaled on a sharp
stick, a number at time, and toasted at the
fire. This is their usual method of cooking
animal food. Inciis to then very valuable,
because if lost it oat only be rekindled wig.;
groat difficulty by moans of the friction of
wood, and so they take muoh care that it
shall not go out
"Tho emu usually take but one wife
each. A warrior purchases the woman ho
wants from her father, and there is no fur -
thee ceremony. Whom the husband is angry
with his sponse ho boats her unmora l:illly
and outs her with his knife. So 00101000 fs
this latter method of conjugal discipline
that it 18 a rare thing to 800 0 married wo-
man who is not covered with the soars of
terrible wounds on hor Saco, back, breast,
and arms. All hard worts is doe by tho
woforlornaments re col larsy:lade of harrdyborol
y-
lilto fruits strung mt threads, nenkltoea of
monkey's tooth or the hoofs of wild pigs, and
atm, -lets of hoods and teeth, 'Phellotocudo
have been hunted doyen and massacred by
the Portngncse. Undoubtedly they precbiae
cantt maim more or loss. It is a. ronmrkablo
taco, but the last survivors two rapidly pose.
Ing away.”
in the eyes of that young girl anted as a
spur to me.
I worked on. I hardly ever wenb home;
for I was really "keen on" my work, and
spent most of my spare time among the
foreign hospitals and schools. Then a seri-
ous illness, conning upon me just as I had
completed my course, made me decide, on
my recovery, to go a9 doctor on board a great
ship sailing to the other endo of the earth.
So, thanke to one thing and another, it was
not till the slim, awkward boy of eighteen had
changed into a great weather-beaten man of
four or five and twenty, that I once more
stood on the old walled terrace of the home
of my little lovo. And by my side was the
little love herself 1 And such a little lova 1
At twenty she was no bigger than she was
at fifteen ; but oh 1 so much prettier. The
hair that had often been dragged back into
a stiff pigtail now waadared fn wonderous
waves over her little head, poised like a
flower on her sweet nook. No more ink -
bespattered pinafores and scratched hands ;
no more long thin spindle -shanks showing
under a short and skimpy skirt 1 No ; she
was as dainty air a fairy, and took now as
mush pains to adorn her already perfect
little self as at ono time she had seemed to
expand on trying to personate a sonroorov.
Yes; I stood -by her once nein, and
knew that I was likely to bo near her for
the rest of our lives. e'er my dear father
was getting old, and longed to have his
only son beside hint, So I was only too de-
lighted when tho offer cane of a practice in
thenefghborhood. Yes, I had mime Immo
" to live and die," as my aged nurse cheer•
fully pub it, in the home of my childhood'
and I could hardlybelievo I was not chile{
again, as once more I Bottled into the well-
]mown routine; dined with the two old gen-
tlemen ; strolled out as of olden the terrace
with my early playmate; climbed at night
once more to the familhter room ander the
thatch.; and listened at in years gone by to
the murmur of the stream that ran from hes
home to mine, Yee, it was all rho same i
The 01d woinn seotnod not a clay older;
the trees vary little bigger ; the river just
to it bad always been. Only, how different
ib all was; how cliil'i•ent the thoughts that
I did not know till that moment that the
sweetest of blue eyes can flash sparks of
ice ; butt I saw them do it than.
" Oh, thank you so much.—There, Cap-
tain Smnyth; that is delightful: you can
have three more than I promised you at
first."
And without waiting to listen to my
angry expostulation, she sailed away.ou itis
arm. I knew I had boon rude and wanted
to apologise ; and tried bard to catch her
eye as site swam round with the handsome
captain, who could dance. But never mice
were the long dark lashes lifted, never once
did the old smile play across the sweet little
face.
I went hems utterly wretched. Ab, how
the little paw coup wound my big stupid
heart 1 1 lay awake all night, mud daring
the long hours 1 med° up my mind to
hasten the very first thing in the morning,
to ' make friends' with her. I should tel
her I was sorry I had been rude, but should
also matte her understand I had e good deal
of cause to feel injured.
"Olinton," she began very quietly the
moment site entered the room, " 1 am glad
you have come. There are some things I
must say to you. I consider that the way
in which you have behaved since our engage.
ment has been most humiliating tome."
"To you 1 I do not see what cause you
have to speak," I broke out,
"I ate going to speak," her soft, even
voice went on, "I consider your unreason-
able jealousy as nothing short of an insult.
If you cannot brunt me, you had butter bid
me good-bye. There eau be no happiness in
a marriage without absolute trust."
I hardly know what I said then, whether
I pleaded or upbraided. .I remotnber little
of what befell till I found mysolt striding
through the fields, their porn -flowers blue
like those angry eyrie, and their poppies
bright like her Roomful red mouth.
DEOAPITATION AS CAPITAL BUNISR
MOT.
Aow the Tarlo Ilxumttlonor Does His )York,
M, Deibler, the public executioner, is
tho lion of the day, and all the papore are
full of him. After tltirby-four years spent in
the art of decapitation it would have been
only natural for him to seek repose, Hence
the report that he was going to retire into
private life. But it appears that he is not
yet tired of hie profession, and hopes to
shorten the existonee of many more crh nim.
ale before bo quite it, Hie record up to
the prseeutamouute to 118 heads—ammmbor
of which he is, perhaps, justly proud.
When ho has raised it to 300, ho in tendo to
throw up the guillotine, but not before.
Tha moat oolebrated event of his career was
that which happened at Rouen about
twenty years ago, when he exoouted four
Bailors, ono after the other, without the
slightest hitch, Ho has never forgotten
thio feat, and talks of it with '
rNnodx Pall AnmiltATION•
Tho culprits on whom he has had to
operate have been nearly all men, and fur
this he is thankful, as he limo a weakness
for women, who moreover give frim a great
deal more trouble than men, "I would
ratherguillotinolifty men than one woman,"
he says. The last woman on whom he had
oto perform his painful duty was young and
beautiful. She hail murdered her father,
and, according to ancient custam, wan led
to the knife with Bead covered with a black
vail, but on reaching the fatal instrument
struggled so violently that Deibler
and his assistants haul to seize her by the
neck, her hair having boon out oil',
and thrust her head into the lunette.
It was a terrible task, and for
years after it haunted his mind. Since
than women have not undergone the death
penalty. Deibler, however, thews no sign
of sensitiveness in his dealings with men.
If in the crurse of the exaction he seems to
lank the n000ssary sang froid, itis simply
because he is afraid of making a mistake,
which would be immediately made public
by the reporters, with when he is on any-
thing but friendly terms. To a great extent
he works for tho " gallery ;" his amour
propre is excessive, and what he desires
above everything is to cut a good figure.
At the sate time he is timid. This may ap•
pear strange andiucompatible with his call-
ing, but is a fact. In private life Ma timid-
ity is equally conspicuous. He is a man of
few words.
IID niBES 'EARLY,
and, after a frugal repast, reads the police
news. The rest of the morning is devoted
to his violin, on whish he is a fair player.
He then dines with his family like an exem-
plary patriarch. After this he loaves home,
and goes to a shed in the. Rue de la Folie-
Regnault, where ho superintends the duab•
ing and greasing of his two guillotines, one
of which be uses in Paris. and the other in
the provinces. When an execution is near
at hand he seta the guillotineinmoti
n every
da
and aou
kindof,ire8 s re•
heyrsml, so
ons through a s to prevent the possibility of u
failure. On ordinary occasions he allows
assistants to ado the preliminary work, but
in the case of an extraordinary criminal he
erects the guillotine himself, for he has
little confidence in his assistants, whom he
always suspects of foal play in order to get
him dismissed, and to succeed to his post.
This suspicion is said so be unfounded, but
he entertains it strongly, and therefore
takes every preoaution to frustrate the evil
designs of his imaginary enemies,
PERSONALS.
ray brain the feelings
:thrilled e i through
Was it all at an end, then, the dream
of my life? YOB, of aovrs° it was—over,
ell over ! I must get away, away back
to the sea and the wild strange lards ;
away, somewhere, anywhere—from all
this. Bob my poor old father 1 1
could not leave him. I must not leave my
work :some of my cases wa rs jn critical con-
dition. There was no escape. Karol mast
stay ; meet her constantly ; shako hands
with her ; and yob bo as if the world stretch-
ed between us, And the dreadful past of
it all was that sho seemed not to caro one
1fttlo bit, Sim was the sang bright, merry,
dainty little creature that silo hes always
been. Why was she 80 ernel ? Why would
she not oto° loop et me with a glance of
pity, love, ronoreo? How gladly, at her
smallest overture of gree°, would I have
oast any0elf utterly on her many, and vow.
eel anything she chose to denaud of tn0,
But she gave no sign ; anti I was too proud
to approach her unless she herself seemed
to summon Me,
'What a wretched time it was I now
fiercely week by week did 1 try to harden
my heart against her I But everything eon-
spired
on.
spired to mako that impossible. Tinselly a
eottngn did I anter but 1 heard. of her iota
. t, iti + kiiuln0ss. who seemed to go abon
that throbbed in my heart 1 6-
King Monelek of Abyssinia is cultivating
the friendship of the President of Emma.
He has just sent a messenger to M, Carnot,
offering him as a present two splendid Nn.
bian lions which are now at his court. The
same messenger took a letter from the King
conferring upou President Carnot the High-
est decoration of the empire. '
The royal family of Portugal has decided
to retrench personal expenses, His Majes.
ty, the King, announced recently that the
salaries of p011lic fmietionaries wore to be
reduced and that the law reducing salaries
should be applied first to his own family.
Household expenses have been cut dawn.
Among the luxuries which are to bo lopped
off for time is State subsidized opera. In
other directions there am to be drastic e0ou-
omies.
Sir Frederic Goldsmicl, in a recent leo-
Mire on "Persia," says that the groat poet,
Omar Khaiyam, who has become so well
known to English readers through Ifitrger-
ald s beautiful translation, is little known in
his own country, Few people there read
his poems, and fewer still understand them.
The most pm alar and honored Persian poet
is the Sheik Maslihed-din, who wrote in the
thirteenth century, and has the highest dis-
tinction as a poet and moralist. His "Place
of hoses " is appreciated out of Persia, and
it may be seen m India, printed or litho-
graphed in cheap form, packed in chests and
sold in hundreds and thousands for use in
the many schools where Persian is taught.
Von Moltke's sister, Frau Brooker, has
just died at the age of 84. The lata Field
Marshal was wont to refer to her in his let-
ters as his favorite sister. Empress William
sent a wreath to be laid on her coffin.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, who has earned
almost as muoh fame as a traveler and Egy-
ptologist as by her work as an author, is
likely to be placed by Queen Victoria upon
the list of those who receive literary fund
pensions as an aoknowledgmont of their or -
vices to the cause of literature.
Miss Florence Nightingale is ill with the
grip in London. Her recovery is doubtful
as she is now 72 years old. She has been
an invalid for a long time. She has just
returned to London after a four months'
stay in the country, her health not having
boon improved by it.
Mr. Charles Villiers, who recently cele-
brated his Neth birthday in England, had
been in Yarbament just three years when
Victoria ascended the .throne. He was
an important figure in British public life
fe
forty years ago, though but little of,, h
fame has descended to the present genera-
tion,
WI'NTEIt WRINKLES.
Bettor late than rle5Or---Going to bed.
The old•timu father and ;nether were fro.
quently a epankiog team.
Jealousy will creat: heartburn, and so
will too moray buckwheat cakes.
t,)uestion four times a year by the ladies
of Paraelise : " What's the naw fashion in
wings ?"
" Is is ready true that champagne will
bleach people's hair?' " Well, rather, I've
seen hsL% of people made tight•headsd by
champagne."
Ikey (slipping a ring oil her finger) ---
"Now we're engaged, Robeoua, ain't
we 7" lisbocva---" Not till fader examinee
the ring, Ikmy,"
"Homo woman are just bundles of curi-
osity 1" said Jones. "Now, there's my
wife; she'll wake up three times a night
just to lied out what Dims it is."
" i'a, has our new nia got hydrophobia 1"
"No, child. What made you think of
that?" " 11 hy, 7 just beard her say that she
got awfully bitten the they elm marl ied
you."
Aplacard posted through acauntr4 town
once mineunced the opening of the theatre
Royal " under the nauagemettof Miss —,
newly decorated and painted."
" How many mon doee it take to make a
full company, captain ?" naked' the visitor
to calm). " One bartender eau do it in two
hours,' returned the captain, absent-mind-
edly.
At the Ballets—Dolly —"The idea of that
creature exposing herself like that. I should
he ashamed. of myself," Priscilla—" So
should I --if :nine weren't a hotter shape."
"My aunt says I'm so like my papa that
she cant tell us apart, but I knew the dif-
ference," said Tommy, "What is it?"
asked the visitor. " Papa wears suspenders
and I don't."
Smith—" Why, old man, glad to Boo
you ; but you look ill. What's the matter?"
Old Man (who lives in a flat)—" Ihn study-
ing the rule of three—a baby, a wife and a
mother in-law."
She—" But why do you say I don't care
for you any more? Ho—" Oh II know I'm
nothing more to you. Only rho other day
that puppy died and you had it stuffed.
Would yon do as much for me?"
Page Boy (to Jeames)—" Where shall I
put thish'er dish of ammen&?" Jeames
(with dignity)—" I'm suprieed, Harthnr,
that at your hags you 'aven't learnt'oW to
pronounce the r in harmonds 1"
" Miss Palette is doing first-rate in decor-
ative work. She has a beautiful panel in
the Academy exhibition." " Yes—and I
am told she has designs on a rich old bache-
lor she met at the private view."
"Mrs, Mawkins," said Mrs. Mawkins'
k "is a ware fa mule. She ownl ave
duo g y y g
n friend Mistier Hogin,
the arbn a con-
my g i w g, g
theater, fifty Dials for his Christmas, and
him as foine a ginbleman as iver shuts
ashus,"
''� " Makes
re L . i
And by so doing Flood's Borate:ullltt amen
scrofula, suit rh0en, and all other blood d10•
05805, aids proper digestion 00100 ,iyspepsla,
given strength to every wean of the body,
mut prevents attacks of that tired reeling or
more serious 1Nfeotlon. The fact that 11 1150
en rad thotsuuds of others to sufthci: rat reason
`or heliaf that ft will cure
N. 11, lie sure to Lhet
loo 's
:� rill,
;:aLt by ,11, ragt•tets, el; u e for86. Preparceerts
. a C. I. I+0015 k C.O., Ap"uherar,ee, Lovell, Pant
J+ 'Doses Ort?; i2o(lb,•
Beekeeping in Ont :ria.
•
President Allan Pringle, of Selby, in the
couroe of his annual address before tis On-
iaria Beekeeping Aas"ciati"D last week,
said the changes in lieu euituru ,haring the
past 00 years ball been greeter that: during
the previous 1-,,00 0 years, especially in the
methods and appliances of beekeepers. The
honey aeaaeu of the past year had been fair-
ly prosporntts throughout the Province.
The principal work of the association hued
been the warfare against the foul -brood
pest, the prevalence of which had been
wider than generally suppoeod. Sums bee-
keepers had not properly co-operated with
the inspectors in fighting thedineaseinetead
of destroying the colonies. 'Bus Government
grant had been insufficient to keep both in -
specters at work daring the whole season,
but although they had exceeded the grant
the Minister of Agriculture paid their ac-
counts in full. The president urged the
inadvisability of exceeding the Government
greet during this season. The inspectors
had performed their duties faithfully and
well, and had succeeded in overcoming the
disease to a certain extent. Their English
brethren, he said, treated the disease to fit
the theories which they held, while the On-
tario foal brood dootors paid but little at-
tention to theory, but adopted a treatment
Hutt, resulted in a cure. After communicat-
ing with the Minister and Deputy Minister
of Agriculture, the president was assured
that an order in Council would be passed, if
the association so desired, quarantining or
checking altogether the importation of bees
into Canada.
L`
ugust
Flower
la.
Mrs. Ipatein—" Yot for are you bowing
and scraping to clot man ? Is he a Lionel obf
yours?" Mr. Ipstein--" No ; don is Mr.
Soaker. He has been dree monts by dot
Keeley cure and his system is ohock full oltf
gold."
Thurston—" Do you think women under-
stand men better than they understand
themselves?" Nagley—"I do. I have
often thought myself perfectly sober when
my wife would know I was two-thirds
lull."
A Railroad Manger. '
Ohio and Mississippi Railway, Ofhioe of
the President and Gen'I Manager, Cincin-
mith, Ohio, U. S. A., Nov.15, ]Sea. Gentle-
men : Recently while in the mat of alight- 1
ing from my oar I stepped upon a stone, '
which, turning suddenly under my foot,
throw me to the groand with a severely
sprained ankle. Suffering exceedingly, X
was helped into tho car, and my man
rubbed me most generously with arnica and
kindred remedies, lint to no avail. Reach-
ing a station whore St. Jacobs Oil could be
seamed, two bottles of it were bought and
the application resulted at once in a relief
from pain, which had become well nigh un-
bearable. I was ant and about my work in
three days, W. W. PicAsonY, Pres't and
Gen'1 ,Manager.
A Mohammedan Evasion.
Mouth's Companion : According to ono of
the tenets of the .Mohammedan religion it
ie a sin to make a pieturo of any living
thing=
A gontlenan who visited a Moque in
Algiers found that the tiles with which the
building is decorated, which wore very old
and beautiful, adorned with flights of birds.
He expressed much surprise at this, and
asked if the command against such repre-
sentation worn a modern edict.
" 0, 110," aneworod the pious Algerian to
whom ho addressed the question. "These
aro not pictures of living birds."
" lint they are painted as if flying a0ros8
the tiles," the other said in memo asbotlsh-
anont.
"Yes," the htussaln;an replied," but as
you not neo that about lite neck. of each
there is a tine black lino? That is to show
that the artist painted only dead birdo, and
the pomntand 01 the Karan is not violated.
Good Sootoh Broth,
It requires time to make a good Scotch
broth. Three pounds of mutton will make
'two quarts of rich soup. Separate the bonds,
fat and lean, carefully from each other.
Throw the fat into the soap -fat can, resorv-
ing only the lean and the bones for the broth.
Put the bones over the fire in a pint of cold
water, and the lean out in bits in a soup ket-
tle in three pints of cold water. Add to the
soup kettle halts cup of barley, one slice of.
peeled turnip, two slices of carrot, ono smelt
white onion, ono leek, and two stalks of
celery. Mince these vegetables fine and add
them to the soup. Let the soup come to the
boiling point vary slowly, then put it at a
part of the stove where it will merely bubble
gently. Let it cook in this way for two
hours. Daring this time the bones also
should be boiling slowly in a saucepan, but
not hard enough to reduce the liquor on them
perceptibly. At the end of two hones' cook-
ing strain the liquor from the bones into the
sonp-kottle. Thicken the soup with a table-
spoonful of flower and a tablespoonful of
butter, stirred together until they are the.
roughly mixed. After adding this thicken.
ing, let the soup boil up rapidly for six or
seven minutes, stirring it continuously; then
add an even tablespoonful of pareloy, minool
fine, an evou tablespoonful of salt and a little
pepper. Serve the soup at once. It has a
thtoky creamy consistency, audit is especial
ly nourishing to invalids who aro recovering
from a languishing illness and require a
stimulating food which is easily digoated.
It is expected that by 1893 France will
have 200 torpedo boats, and soon thirty new
cruisers will be ready for sea.
Lady of the House—" Hasn't the news-
paper cense yet, Lotto? My husband has
boon aekin_g foe it several times." Servant
maid----" lie can have it in minute, ma'am
I've got as far as Lho supplement."
Mr. Lorenzo F. Sleeper is very
well known to the citizens of Apple-
ton, Me., and neighborhood. He
says: " Bight years ago I was taken
"sick, and suffered as no one but a
" dyspeptic can. I then began take
"ing August Flower. At that time
"I was a great sufferer. Every-
" thing I ate distressed me so that I'
"had to throw it up. Then in a
" few moments that horrid distress
t' would come on and I would have
" to eat and suffer
For that "again. Itooka
"little of your med
Horrid "icine, andfejtmuch
Stomach "better, and after
" taking a little more
Feeling. " August Flower my
" Dyspepsia disap-•
"peared, and since that time Z
" have never had the first sign of it..
"I can eat anything without the
"least fear of distress. I wish all
" that are afflicted with that terrible
"disease or the troubles caused by
" it would try August Flower, as I
" am®satisfied there is no medicine
"equal to it." o •
Milk in Siokuess.
" Milk is so especially adopted for chil-
dren's need's by beneficent nature that every
effort should be nude to induce it to assimi-
late in those cases where it does not seem
to agi,055 naturally," said the family doctor.
"I have never yet found a child who could
not bo made to drink nulls with advantage,
and in case: of wasting diseases it is inval-
uable, often saving a patient's life. How
important it is, therefore, that the right
way of administering mills to those with
whom it, apparently does not agree should
be tested while the children are well and
able to bear the experiment. There are
many ways in which it may be made to as.
shuilate. The simplest way is to add a
couple of teaspoonfuls of lime water to each
glass of milk. If this does not succeed,
make the child sip it slowly, Dating bits of
raw cracker mottnwhilo. This I have found
an excellent way. Another is to heat the
milk very hot—not boil it, as that gives a
disagreeable taste, This is the boat way
yet for delicate people, and although a
child may not like it at first, they will soon
grow fond of it. Bribe them to take it if.
necessary, but do not force them.
" If all other methods fail cooked milk
in the shape of gaols,etc., may bo resorted
to, but the plain milk is the best. Of course I
there are digesters, such as preparations of
pepsin and other medicines that may be I
given afterward to assist digestion ; bob S I
always prefer to snake the stomach do its
own work if possible. It is vary apt to.
turn lazy if assisted too much, and to refuse
to Eton independently." .
Bidica:alii7l'611WMihhleftsmsattadb5L1t
THIRTY YEARS.
,;/',.,• �M to , N. B., Match 11, 5889.
, I tubled for thirty years with
palns'in rosy side, which increased and
' became very bads. w I used L
4.
and it completely cured, I give it all praise."
MRS. WM. RYDER.
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