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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-5-13, Page 22 hero Paul hall would stay all the ahem 'an, V �( D 1 but from the would ttlmpst hely passing LOVE[) Q� �O Lcloud migllt drive 1801' Menlo, AND "rive Egypt a bit of your skirt," said Mies Ball, mottling herself aomfnrtably in May's chair, " and me a bit too for my feet, nil of m sudden her tea seemed to choke and she shall pat Iter manicure toes on poor mamma's," she added to the little clog, in cot+f)deetial love. Egypt, 11011011 round en May'.s skirt, turned her back to Pant Ball, aud went off to sleep with a hoevy sigh, May stroked the logo silky 0)108 7e1d kept selene; s110 never trtulplod In make conversation with TRS?. BRUSSELS POST, CIIAPTER L her, and the bun upon hor plate to be a mountain ; she sat stating at it, Eat that o 1.x af,ttnrN Mal/HAT/AM"bowl \ever•—" hlewsy,"--looking like thin ft Whet, fa elle miserable, dreary world, ban, perhaps ---she--- In tine, she got. all shall I do?" the emotion out of that chance word which It was one of the few riga, completed others receive about their logs in years of days of summer, _the 101It of August in a gradual disillusion. 1L was a desperate Berkshire landscape. And the scene was holu8•tlieust ; she tied a veil over her face any 0115. a garden which cat tanlylooked neither mho before she drove to Windsor, Ill.cone who Miss Ball looked at her, and after pre. ernble nor dreary. It was such a very fait.' has none with the world. It mover 0000)1111 Inking that she hoped Bray would " stroke garden --a rime (wit. of law,, belted wall to her that the 00lne remark would have the 1)g 1.I oars towards the lige to prevent flowers and firs ; pots large garden by pu1Y' hetet good about her beauty for years—that 1I,e dog's the blood in her ho 5100 she )means, just a beautiful stage which unto the hiewsiness was not even hinted at its plunged at once into the how's with W11i011 L0n(1ou people exclaim as they got a glimpse existent, only surmised as possible in the site had been primed. of it in delving to Ascot from greater houses future, With all the energy of a perfectly " Well, dear," she sold, " you know in the neighborhood. " Gh Hook how love. I healthy mind, she jumped at once to the alias Boater's 110 better ; they call it rheu- ly, against that baultgrouud of dark wood .1 conclutltou that, something moat be dune. nlatien in the hand, I call it gout ; I Just the sort of thing the theatres can never It was the most tantalizing conclusion to always knew she drank, So long as it give us ; they always give us muted castles , which she could have jumped, for there was kept in her Foot—rho gent, I moan, not or enburbal villas, suggeetious of ten thou- I nothing she could plot or plan. sand acres or half an acre -0800r anytling Driving along, she formulated briefly between 1" The impressions this garden I wheat was expected of her—she must get gave were of renlovedness, of light and, married. Not the faintest ghost appeared to shadow, of grass anis roses. It was blocked . her iulagauings as suitable to bo the other away front the roads by rbododeudrou 1 party to this compaot. To change her name clamps within the walls; only wham tltestripp.t—tone Mrs. Something, if she lookedlike ed boughs had robbed them a little could • Mrs. Something—to leave off being May you get any real glimpse of the garden. But James—that was what she demanded. It nobody except the people on the Ascot-! was not a wish, it was a resolution. She bound coaches eared to see ; the villagers was in the habit of making her resolutions knew that Mr. James took a pride in his ,trickly and of acting upon them at once ; garden ; the agents round would have said as a rulevj•hoy did not matter. nothing that the Loge had about two acres, nicely dreadful was done by her sudden decisions timbered. And as Mr. James hated the to order mutton or have the lawn mown. villagers, and, never letting his house, had At that moment she was quite capable of no need of the agents, he did not care what requesting the aurae to espouse her, simply they said, one or the other. to go into Windsor again with a clear con• Mr. James tuns a valetudinarian, and he science in ease any one asked her name and gardened for his health, assisted by a stay- state. Had she a lover, which she had not, t -home Welsh gardener aud a boy who, • she was certainly in the frame of mind to 'with his work of clipping, rolling, weeding, " name the day." To be au old and led a life about as varied es a donkey's at " blowsy" girl WAS a " fearful thing." well. Sometimes his daughter helped him Of course the fit passed ; but something when the gardener and the boy were away remained front it, permanent in hor Immo. among the vegetables ; she had spurts of tion. She determined that she was " not activity after occasional lapses into idleness, built to be an old maid,' and 1101 quick, although she knew no chronic discontent, practical, half-educated mind wrenched it. but as a mile she only broke off three or four self from the consideration of otic n• thiugs of his standard roses and fastened then[ into and turned to look at Love. Perhaps it was her dress—not that she cared for roses, but an interesting thing to care for some one. they became her well. Ills daughter's name How ? The toneept of this attitude was was May—she was always on the lawn— gradual; but slowly it changed her being. Phoebe to its forest of Arden (aud Phiebe She was like a person with a pet invention ; was not more inappreciative of Arden than she got, after a short time, to think nothing she). To describe the garden without her else but the one thing the existence of which l would be to describe a nage without tibial ; she had before hardly allowed, Aud as the she was there so much, aud, alas ! she had inventor, convinced of his plan, frets and been there so long. If one wautcd a chafes till he has tested it—must have his synonym for weariness, it would have been try—she fretted aud chafed, at lest, in her May Jones upon her lawn. uneventful days. The apples ripened round her in the long shadows and the dew where an orchard belted one side of the grass ; now and then one of then[ fell with a little soft thud on the turf—over-ripe. She smiled bitterly, her eyes were heavy with auger, as she re- viewed her position slowly, She was sitting on her lawn. in a garden chair, ripening, in her pink and white dress ; she could not stay the hurrying hours, they flew by her empty-handed ; she could neither stop them nor fly with them to the other side of the world. The world? She knew nothing about it; it was anything.—opal or black? Her 01011 fancy or her own gloom colored it. And so at last she threw herself back and looked up at the blue sky and the green leaves, and down again at the intense flowers, orange and scarlet and blue and the fallen apples ; and all the prospect brought her was the cry, "What, In this miserable, dreary world, shall Ido? 'May James,' indeed 1 it ought to be Poreoue, !" She was eager for any Lazard ; but she did not want to ripen much longer. She had been roughly wrested from her summer dream, she began to feel that it was autumn. Mr. James had married late in life a young woman, who had nursed hint in all - nese for hire, and whom he bad meant to be the unpaid nurse of his declining years; instead, being no doubt tired of nursing paid and unpaid, she was not even the nurse of the one girl-otlild she bore him ; she died just alter its birth, and as she had never eared the very least about anything in lite, she did not appear to have any grave dis- relieh for death. 11 was as though she had bequeathed to her daughter all the vitality she ought to have expended herself. Per- haps 11. had just rested in leer—at all events it was wide awake in May, as if after not one generation but many of refreshing sleep. Uf Mrs. James's descent, nobody—not even her disconsolate widower—could have told much. She became a professional sick. nurse, some said, because she had an aptitude for the oare of the sick ; others because she had had a dis- appointment in caring for the strong ; others owned it was because she had no money and nothing in the world to do. Whichever it was, she had been dead for eight-aud-twenty years, and nobody talked --- about her any more, or even remembered CHAPTER II. that she had been accustomed to exist. She had no relatives who survived her, and Mr, " Part. nArn. .Tames had survived all his, He was past Enter, to her, Miss Pauline, Dudin Ball, seventy, enjoyed bad health—was in reality the gossip of the village, whose intimates very well and likely to live long—was in called her Cricl.•et•Bull, because she was so abject terror of death, aud hugged two con- lively, and whose oontemptuous superiors solations—the chief being that such of his called ber Foot•.Ball, because she had 110 carriage. The rest of the parish, indiacrt- minate but rude, called her merely Paul Ball, and she had got used to that name. '(ho was a thin little woman, with a tongue like an innocent asp, and she led as perfect- ly happy a life at Wooctshot as she could have led anywhere with her own inseparable acidity to keep her company. She was equally ready to say an unkind thing and to do a kind one. Thee was always just enough going on to occupy Paul Ball. When she had got an item of news, she embellished it and then took it round to herneighhors. By the time they had done with it she managed to have heard or invented another to succeed it. She never did any particular harm, partly because site was not at heart malicious, and partly because nobody believed what she said, She was the daughter of a minor canon, the Reverend Durlin Ball, and she forefathers as had taken anything like care of themselves had lived to be ninety, the lesser that if he did live to be ninety his .daugh ter would be only forty-seven—a, coni petent age which he would have wished her to have reached before she came into the world. Be would look at her sometimes, .about half as often as he looked at his own tongue in the glass, and the unexpressed wish of his heart would be that she might sober down and get over her forgetfulness of his tonic and her distaste to drugs. The face she never failed to make when she gave him his medicine robbed the draught of its charm. He hardly ever let her leave him, though she had been to school es e. child. When she first came hack from school, the few neighbors they had at Wooashot, see- ing how handsome she was, took some notice of her ; but country neighbors, when onoe hey have satisfied their ouriosity,, soon be. come used to any way of life. They thought Me. James clever and odd—he was not had a small competency. What WAS atonce really clever, but oddness does duty for most ridiculous and most laudable about her cleverness in the country—and knew that was her devotion to her dog—a little brown be liked to keep his daughter at home. She dachshund named Egypt (because as Miss only hadapony carriage ; she could never Ball artlessly explained, ' the Sphinx was her godmatnmm ) When, 011 this August afternoon, Miss May James saw Paul Ball approaching her across the lawn, with Egypt bringing up the roar, she did not feel that the world had suddenly become less dreary, She made no ,movement of impatience, because she was so used to Miss Ball's rfsit0; but she sighed witty to herself and murmured," Il ne mrngn)ait quo Bela f' One of the good fortunes of her nature was that she could sometimes forgot the trivial round. It was characteristic of Paul Ball that she always spoke to her dog before she spoke to her hostess, " Come along, then—brown 'losses," she was saying, " and turn them in and turn thorn out and bo manuals own beautiful Poggins "—an exhortation which the little dog obeyed with great dignity while glancing at Hies Ball as if to depre- cate 00011 advice in public—away 111g8lave of looking, which says politely what could never be politely said. "She thought elle'e just come and 000 A1111110 May," explained Mise Ball; "she sa»d, 'Mamma, put on year hat and toddle 1110 round to \Voodshot Lodge, and lot us hear all the new0.'" l;gypt's thoughts must have recurred with great regularity, as she appeared with her fend mistress every Sunday. "It's you who toll 10 the news," said May, dexterously evading Miss Ball's kiss by stooping to pat the dog. 1t was a nlal- lnas a weelt alit always deceivedabout four andtialways pleased, Hiss Ball, and between them they had got to do it with a certain grato. May James slid not like lcieees. "No chair for me?" said Mies Bald, " Why do you sitout? Lot's go indoeteanl have a nice long chat ; Egypt can lie on the sofa. She shall a-Poggine Meg, cho ellen lio on the sappy, she shall 1" "1 don't want a oltair," said May, and sat clown on the glass. Orme indoors, she allowed to visit), or 10hother 818,1 lou m0ant La aLidO in Bingle hlesse,hlees. (ngnl•hyO," she said, stooping again from Pant .Bull's kiss, in the familiar nuen- teuv 0. "Uootl-loye," said Paul 131111, kissing the empty air, and taiting up hor burden of "Ansa did 'cm wag (11's precious tail, end did 'ten come with nut?" Llto girl's eyes fol. lowed the mid lady aud her dog across the lawn; but site wet not thinning of either. (Tu es ooN'rtxrtsu,) TRAPPED BY BUSKINS. An Adventure That Turned Hie Boor White in 14 Pew Hours. Patel ineVe 181.11'8 Narrow Barco, front Death b) Tor' tore n4 the sleuth or the Indians—Ms eiim /nalnns Awful Este. Everybody in Montana, and, in fact, near- ly 0101') 0110 living west of the 1!11.ou01, 01�E CHINESE POWER, knows or lite leard et Paul 11et'. relfelt, _ who lute theme of Senator Tem l'ower's The Celestial, 5'8,01Y'ke1.' Su150e Toa 0(1(1» intm•usts at J antigen City, and 10110 for drip, can Sleep,1lway0. years hos even 11)0 wily. little Bepublioau Senator's right, bower in his defile with the In the itemoff eleop 1110 Chinese eetalheh- bulimia. Nearly six feet in height, broad - es a difference between $imaeit and the lie- sh',uldored, 000,101111 of 14[00, and with cidontal, Generally speaking, ho is able eyes as keen (s i1 haw'It s des Alto the slight to sleep anywhere. None of the trilling die- defect in the ]id of the left nIb. Paul is nn turbanees whiolt drive tis to despair annoy ideal fo'etltlereldall, t(e leftito w'ittl till who him. With u brick for a pillow, he eau lie know 111111, and 1011005 11001'005 w'}t1t (110 down on Ma bed of stalks or mud bricks or 1'160 has been displayed in maty a tussle rattan 01101 sloop the sleep of the Jo t, with with the Indians. Not every one, however, no refore s o the reit of erection. knows what tuned Paul's hair prematurely the drink—she could brazen »L Out, 135 loos not want his 100111 tlal'kOnetl, nor whale, fop• the breve follow is 100.1.11 to dwell though what she did with the petiole, 1 does he require others to be 111.111. Tho "no 1)11011 this tuo1dout in 181'0 eventful 0ltrae) don't know—but now she must give up font crying in elle night" may continue to whereby he sn nearly lost his life, and which playing till no one calif; ca uite say when." ory for all he res, for it does not disturb caused los snearlcent crop of jet black What a bore it is 1" said May, who him. In some regions the entire popula- curly hair to take on the whiteness of driven was without much sympathy by nature, surly. mid did not thine. it worth while to affect it before Miss Ball —" shall I have to play on Sunday? I can't tell you [now I hate it. There are tittles when I loath music—near- ly always 1" "No, you won't," said Miss Ball, "you won't ever have to ploy the organ in blood- shot church again," " Why not? Hae the whole parish risen and declared against me with one voice? sr are you going to play'1 (in a tone as if this were the less probable alternative). " There's a man coming," said Miss Ball, in what would have been a shout if it had not been so gutturally suppressed—" a young plan eon -1111g over IromChurnborongh. Isn't it a Mercy we've just got the organ done up ?" " I don't know. Yes," said May. "About how old is the man ?" "\Vhat a horrid quoetion1" said hiss 3a1l, rather rudely. "I can't say, but 1 can. tell you his name, His name is Mat. thew do Nismes ; he has come to read with Mr. Passmore." "To read? he must be quite a Loy." dine out unless they bent for her. They got used to her beauty, and latterly had even begun to disparage that, because she had not accomplished the itnpossible, and mar- ried, whore there was absolutely nobody to marry. ' There meet be something odd about May James 1" "She must be cold or repel- lent 1"" Men don't admire her 1" they be- gan to say, forgetting that there was no marriageable man who had come within the range of hor vision. She had happy, un• roving eyes& Meantime babe, child, or woman, she had been perfectly well, and perfectly careless what they said of her or what they thought. Site was also almost perfectly handeono, Indeed, she was so tall and so -radiant -looking, and had such a. beautiful skin and such glorious hair, such lashes, such tenth, each a figure, that the pen would hesitate to describe her per- .. feetior.s. If she had but had a squint or a mark tllebeauLifel rest would have seemed to have more value, but as she was, her physical perfections were no more remark- able than those of a Loc France rose ; and they contented her all her life. Without being particularly vain or anxiou0 about it, she existed in the sense of her own beauty, until she felt that it had reached its zenith. This conviction came • to her by the morest accident, and in this wise, She drove into Windsor one after- noon ; it was a long drive, and the pony had pulled a good deal ; she wa0 tired, and went into a pastry.000k'a to get Home tea. Sitting there—she took it at a little marble table whieh she hated over afterwards—she heard her name. A Woodshot neighbor was being iurcrviewod shoat her by a Windsor magnate, " Still May James 1" she hoard the Wind- . 8or magnate say. She must loop sharp about it now; that's the sort that soon gots blowoy." " What does that matter? I'm not going to marry him," said Hiss Ball, annoyed at being interrupted, " besides, he may be quite a 1111141—some men are dunces all their lives. He played at Churnboroagh the day before yesterday, and when he hoard of the new organ here and bow ill Miss Beaton was (and how badly you played), he offered to come over every Sunday till Miss Beaton was better. The lady who told me had been in the church ; she had seen the back of his head with her own eyes, and said he was quite good looking." The aocuraey of this testimony did not affect May James deeply. " le be a gentle- man ?" site said, after a pause. "Ho is half Trench and half English," said bliss Ball dubiously, as if she did not know in what sort of rank ,1180 combination )night result. "Nobody here knows much abont him ; 11e has only lately come. f wonder where he will lunch? It's hungry work playing through the morning service ; I know Bliss Beaton found it so ; I asked her in once afterwards, and she polished off three parts of my rabbit." " At the vicarage, I suppose." "But they go to Switzerland on Thursday He can't possibly hoc t at Mr. Ford's lodg- ings --an egg and a piece of tinned tongue ; and Churn -borough is too far for him to get hack to Paesmore's. I quite wish I wasn't a lone female, I should aslt 111111 myself. But I suppose I should be drummed out of the parish for that ?" " Egypt would ohaperon you,"said Blay; "I dare say the Hall people will want him," "Too far the other side, and you know slow seldom they cone. Nov I thought that you, as you have your father always at hone, might have given the poor man a mor- sel. You sit so near the chancel, and I would have looked in to join you myself. Your Sunday joint is always more than enough for four." "Yon know how papa hates strangers," said May quickly, influence more by Miss 13a11'a implied invitation of herself than by anything else. ("Miss Ball's chatter ab- solutely stultifies digestion," her father said to hor once. " If you must feed hor at my table, give lit0 a bone on the mat, and let her dog have my seat "—a request, the hu- mility of Which wa0 not to be taken as liter- al but hyperbolical.) Paul Ball knew well enough whore she was wanted, and the ad. volt of tea turned her thoughts in other channels ; she fell to work upon her favor. its Heal, Nicely you have these buns done," she said presently; "toasted and split; I think I could eat another, and Egypt (walte her up gently) shall have the smaller' half." Egypt was wide awake already, ane matte short w ork of Paul Ball's bun for her, so that her mi8treesdid not see bow clay's thoughts had down back to that choking morsel she had been engaged upon at \\ indsor when she lad heard the prophecy of her "blowsy" future, In that moment her mind was made up that she would invite Matthew cle Nismes to Woodshot Lodge if an opportunity should occur. It need not be difficult; she had en• tortained two oe three of Mr, Passmoe's boys ere now. Indeed, she drolly remem- bered one of theta—a mature army student making a sort of attempt to embark in a flirtation with her years ago. -lint she had not much recollection of such things; they seemed to her rather absurd and ugly, Nov she would perhaps regard them with alter- ed eyes; she out about considering flow she could. got hot father to clnu'eh on Sunday morning, (the invitation must somehow 000)0 from him), and considered it to a mild tic. conlpanimont from Miss 'Paul Ball, of "Was '010 then an own Peg�gine, and did it take its bit of blot -bun like a lady, and did 11 want its milk in mamma's saucier, and did it say it was getting a ,hill on the grass, and did it think it must go hone to beddy- by-bye and warm its nosey -11000? IIcroin Paul signified (tett she had sal out long enough, and had enough tea, and—in• cideltelly—that ao,other old[ maid was cont. ing to sue her at Nilo Clottage, am she had lately token to calling her small d0malu; and between the two of t11e)n young Mat- thew do Nlemes would be nicely canvassed and his future. cut old dried. "Are you going away at all this autumn?" shirt Illy, as Miss Hall rose to go. "Visits;" said Paul Ball, with a little sharp nod, "notfor my own sake; you know I never want to go—almost as great a fossil as you, clear May --but just for EgypL'e health, she regnires change, aud there am half -a -dozen leases I can take hor to, Your old friend Lady I'Iolford's in the hist too, now that poor clear Dandy is mercifully re. moved. Think if I'd had pug grandohil. drone Brit now I shall spend the greater Part of September with her. 2lay smiled es she looked at the little dog, and womierel if Egypt would regret Dlthdy'edolniee at, Haifordsloigh (opo of the few houses at which she herself had been Mon coon to fall asleep,as bycommon in- stinot (like that of the hibernating boat') during the first two hours of the Summer afternoons, and they do this with regularity It hepponed early in the seventies. Paul with a number of traders, lad gone up the Yellowstone in a floatboat totaled with goods no matter where they msy be. that they expected to exchange with the At two hours after noon the universe 01 Crows for skins and such whet. commodities snoh seasons is as still as at two hours after as the Indians had to barter for the gaudy midnight. In the ease of most working peo- :blankets and calicoes so highly prized by pie at least, and also in that of many others, the buclks and squaws. At this time the be easy to raise in China gnenoe. Ito in sleep is of 00 sort of cense- ON TIIL WARPATH an army of 1,000,000 men—nay of 10,000,.1 000—teeted by competitive examination as against their natural enemies, the Crows, to their capacity to go to sleep acrosslwhioh made travelling in that country even three wheelbarrows, with head downward, like a spider, their mouths wide open and a fly inside. Poison m the Air. A new poison has been discovered in 1110 smoke which surrounds factory towns and more dangerous than usual. But the trad- ers were all old Indian Bolters and trap- pers, thoroughly Weiler with the looality, and not likely to be scared off by trifles, besides which Paul McCormick, their load. er, was known to he the bust shot in the Territory, and whose knowledge of Indian clues and the danger from breathing this }51 tactics had been gained in many a dearly not iucousiderable. A part of the smoke' hough[ field of experience. that goes into the air from burning coal is! Landing at Pease bottom, the outfit made arsenious and mixed with carbon. Coni the floatboat fast, and, after selecting u differs in the amount of impure matter suitable site, proceeded to build a block - which it throws off, but it is eetimated that house as much for the purpose of protection one ton of ordinary coal burns oft' about against the hostile Indians as to store twenty to thirty pounds of 0nlpltnr. This their merchandise. [:very morning it de- salpluu• is transformed into sixty pounds of l volved upon the keen -eyed McOorulick to sulphur») acid, which leaves stains upon all marble buildings and statuary, Along with this sulphuric acid a groat amount of arsen- ious acid goes and the two breathed into the lungs continually ant as a1 strong poison. Next to this active pois011 the soot in the air makes factory towns unhealthful to live in. An examination of the amount of soot which was deposited in London recently showed that on an averege 1,000 tons wore deposited over the city every ten days. The amount of carbonaceous and other particles deposited upon glass houses is a good indi- cation of what the atmosphere contains, In most cities where factories are located the glass roofs of houses and the windowpanes have to be washed and 0,15(41 evooy few days to keep the soot from blackening them. When all of this material is floating around in the air it cannot be wondered at that weak and peer health are noticeable among the inhabitants. Science las yet to discover moans to collect and Hold this smoke and soot as it conies out of the chimneys. Seven Years Without a Birthday. A Scottish clergyman who died nearly thirty years ago, \Ir. Leishman of Kinross, used to toll that he had once been seven years without a birthday. The statement puzzled most who heard it. They could see that, if he bad. heed born on the 20th of February, he would have no birthday ex- cept in a letup ,year. But leap year comes once in four years, and this accounts for a gap of three years only ; their first thought would therefore laterally be that the old. man, who in fact was fond of a harmless jest, was somehow jesting about the seven. There was, however, no joke or trick in his asser- tion. At the present time there can be very fete if there are 011), who have this tale to tell of themselves, for one who can toll it must have been born on the 20th of February at least ninetysix years ego. But a similar line of missing dates is 11010 soon to return ; and indeed there aro no doubt semo readers of this page who will have only one birthday to oelebrate for nearly twenty years to come. The solution of this puzzle is to be found in the fact, which does not appear to be very widely known, that the year 1800 was nota leap year and 1000 will not be. The February of the promo year had twenty-nine days, but in all the seven years intervening between 1806 and 1004, as well as in the throe between 1.802 aud 1506, that month will have only twenty • eight,—[Rev. George illoArthur in April St, Nicholas. saddle his horse and, with his trusty Sharps across his saddle bow, ride t0 the 1)1111111it of the nearest butte and scan the country for Indian signs. This completed, be would lope Ids horse back to camp to assure the boys of cold trails and 0 prospect of unin- terrupted work on their hoose. One bright morning as Paul started out nn hisaccustomod scout !ie (('as approached by an old trapper known to the rest as 0 riz- zly who said he recokoned he'd jinn Mac in his ride that day if the latter didn't keer. Of course, Paul was glad t0 have company, aud willingly waited until Grizzly brought up itis horse and cinched on the saddle. Lured by the brightueesof the morning and intoxicated by the fresh, delicious air which they inhaled in long breaths as they gallop. ed over the short, curly buffalo grass, the traders strayed much further from the camp than was customary with Paul when he was alone, but as they had sealed several buttes without noting a trace of Indians, each rode along unsuspicious of dangeo, lost in the en- joyment of the perfect June day. They had walked their horses up a pretty stiff butte, and, arrived at the summit, were breathing the animals while taking A survey of the country. For miles around not a sign of life could be seen, save in the far distaloo where a black speak in the sky caroling earthward told them of a possible breakfast awaiting the industrious buzzard which bad already scented its prey. (frizzly had bean discussing with Paul the 11081 method of de. fence, in Baso they were surprised by Indians aud found it impossible to break away. " I'll shoot ther critter right than, Mac," said the old trapper, indicating a spot be- hind his mare's ear, " and She falls 'hthoet or quiver. Then doom cleat ter )her carkiss yer squats, an' behind these breastworks yer pumps lead inter then bloemm' savages, an. stands 'em off 011101 then boys gets anxious about us an' forms a rescue party. Et's jest ez simple ez—" But old Grizzly never finished hie sen. truce, for at that monneut ujl rose from the sage-hrueh, where he had lain concealed, a tall be -painted Indian, who »Tr stn A 10111) WHOOP, and in 011 instant the sagebrush all around vomited redskins, fowling, shoottng, yell- ing in concert, intent upon soaring the animals npon which the traders sat, so they would become unmanageable and handicap the riders in their effort to escape. It seemed to Paul's startled reuses that where a moment before no sign of life we visible now circled thousands of whooping savages, eager for his blood, and if for the 1101100 110 loot 1110 customary nerve he was surely excusable. The animal he bestrode was a wiry mustang, full of energy, with a good deal of the devil in him. His gyrations under fire required all of Paul's skilful horsemanship to prevent his beaug unseated, especially with a dozen Indians firing crosewlee over and under the brute's body. Apparently the redskins were more desirous of oaptur. ing Paul alive for the purpose of torture than to kill him outright, whiull may ac- count for his almost 01lracnhon0 escaped from the hundreds of bullets that zip I zip. ped 1 in the air all about him. As for Grizzly, he had encountered a chance shot at the first onset, and, stone dead, sat up- right ie the saddle, with his amts out- stretched, Ms head baro, and a streak of blood trickling over his long, gray mous- tache that fell from a round ballot holo sunk square between Isis eyo0. Grizzly's mare, bearing his dead rider, at first broke away from the Indians alul circled over the plateau, but, o'oBlroiiug, reit 0011nd trial round in a still nartvwing 0irole until a well -aimed shot dropped liar in hor tracks. All 1.h»0 Paul saw before he managed to break through the oordon of Indiana that endeat•nred to snare him. Several times the lithe savegee wore running neck and freak with his mustang, and 0000 a 0101011n tug nearly pulled hint from his horse, but ho kiekod loose, and with MAY 13, 1S92. nconrred to Min to use either the rill, or tlto revolvers, although lie might levo (lona 00110 damage with the latter when he Intl the udlans at close r11ng0. The speotaol0 of their leader galloping madly over the prairie 111111 11 startling e(fe01 upon lb, little band of of mum marpentare 1.11,11 pntling the finishing touches to the blook•louoe, It wee not necessary for Paul to shout " 1111hans 1" All knew well en00g11 what hie appearance so olearly denoted, while the 511411 11161014 A1/01100 of Grizzly plainly fucllanted thorn hail been more than at passing eoriennege. Barely had l'aul lea pod 4'ou1 the saddle when thegellml1.1(111• nal that had earned hint 111 safety to Itis feitunle fell forward on tho ground, anti, bleeding from several gaping wounds, getve one or two gasps and expired. For a few 1110111811ts Paul stood mutely watching the fallen animal, tend the tear Mutt etrept to 'tie eye was 1101 unworthy the brave follow. But Ile felt that it was 110 time for sentiment, and dashing 1110 hand savagely across his face he tar110(1 to hie comrades, and in n few geaphl0 words told then) of theunlbne0ade to which he had so nearly fallen a victim and wlliehl had mom) n DIAT0I T1ne to p000 Grizzly. " But we must go back at once, boys," he added, "and bring in Grizzly's body for decent burial. We can't afford to have it said that wo left a comrade in the open to become food for coyotes and buzzards, Get a move on you tend seddl0 the horses in0111ntly. You, Saunders and Brooks, remain here to guard the stall'; the rest of its will skin bank to Big Butte." lie at ver short time Miasmal) body of de- termined nen, legit by the intrepid McCor- mick, were on their way to the scene of the reeontambush. Few words were uttered by the party. All realized the errand was a sad one, and m his heart oaoh vowed vengeance on the murderous Cheyennes. But not a hostile was in sight when they reached the summit of Big Butte, up which they had cautiously stolen in a manner worthy of trained IndiLn fighters. Already the coy - otos and birds of prey bad assembled for the feast, some of the latter that had perch. ed on the ea0caes of 1rieely's horse boldly continuing their ravenous banquet in ole fiance of the appeluance of the I'es0ners. Paul was the first to 0lunlble on the body of hie late conu'ade. In a dozen other ways besides that of ecalping their venin, they had maltreated the defence- less dead, nu10h in the sante 1111411101' In W1)1011 the poor follows of the Seventh Cav- alry were treated on the Little Big flora a few years later. Small wonder that, as Paul McCormick stood by the body of Grizzly, fasoinated by its horrible appear, lance, and thought how narrowly he had es. caned a like fate, a mighty revulsion of na- ture took place in hie system, so that when he returned to camp los raven looks had forever lost their pristine hue and had sud- denly changed to the mnnutlrel whiteness they have ever since assumed. A Useful Marine invention. A now invention called the submarine sentinel is attracting 1110011 attention in nautical circles in England, aud is honored 1>y a 001tun1) and a half descriptio[, with an illustration, in the London '1(10(s. Itis an inexpensive device, simple in action and to look at, but it seems to contain a potency for good which it wa'ld be difficult toexag- ggel'ete, A written description would be difficult to understand, but the instt'ttment consists of two pieces of 111000 qul10100 1nc11 board screwed together an right tingles and sharpened at one end. To the sharpened enol a catch and bar are attached, When this contrivance is suspended at a certain angle from a wird attached to a ship in motion 1t immediately takes a header towards the bottom and follows the amuse of the ship at tiny desired dietanoo below the keel, according to the length of wire given to it. Supposing, for instance, that it is set at twenty fathoms, it goes quietly along until the twenty fathom limit is reached, :198 sharp end always travels first, and as soon as the bar at - Welled to it touches the bottom a spring is released 1111011 dotaohoe the sentry and pee - mita it to rico to the surface, while at the same instant a warning bell is rung auto- matically on dock. The invention huts been tried uncial. varioue conditions and huts air ways wonted to perfection, and itis olaim- eilthal no ship provided with tilde appar- 01)10 could got into shoal water without the officer of the dock being instantly awer0 of it. The importance of this, if true, is mono - thing that ran be readily appreciated by the veriest landsman. Child Labor in 0111180, ']'here are no laws against child labor in China. They begin to work as soon as the walk. A hey or girl at -1 years of ago will 01(00'y the baby " ptggyi/i1Ok half e11 ]lour at a tune and mind it from dawn till dusk. They also hunt up the pig when lie is lost, lead the 11111.5)' bulialn, or 1,011(1 11. limed of sheep with ahnesmune 8110800 004 the , ea grown man. '..'hay work lo the garden, bring water from tiro wells, destroy hoists, caterpillars and slugs, pull otic the wo0d0, and in every way show themselves oxcellaut llorttolllturtets in miniature, Disoovery of Human Bones. An interesting discovery of human bones was gado ou Saturday afternoon last at Hastings, Eng., as some excavations were being made to - forma carriage drive to a now church which has just been ereoted for the use of railway 011en. The edifice is built on n patch of laud 10111011 has for years been used as a kitchen garden, situate below the old castle walls on tete west001 aide. Tile workmen first came across a skull, and on digging carefully unearthed enx skeletons almost complete, and in ono especially, all the teeth w01.0 (ound. The bones were sub- mitted to Dr. Retlmayu, who states that they were those of young 01011, Mild ventures 1111 opinion that the place nets a disused burying ground connected with St. An- , drew's Church ; but having node a careful serve) of the ground a correepondent doubts this, and 511, ks that during the wars which followed the battle of 1066 a trench was dug of the western stole as well as the deep one there, the latter being still shown to visi- tors. Tho discoveries will mulishly lead to a thorough investigation, and the bones are to bo kept. Tho 'Tremendous orco of Waves. It is difficult for one to believe the huu- dreds of wonderful stories told to illustrate the power exerted by a sea wave of the regulation size and strength. At the time of the high waves 011 the North coast of the Shetland Islands, gneiss boulders of three tan weight have been moved upward of 300 feet in 0 single night. United Britain, the paper which first est the stories afloat about the enormous waves at Bishop's Rook, Eng- land, declares that it is a fact that an iron column, 23 feet long and weighing (1,000 pounds—part of a lighthouse being erected on the rook and whish had beau chained by means of eyebolts to two heavy boulders was moved twenty feet in one night and de. posited upon a projecting rock eleven feet and. ton niches higher than its original position. At the same time a blacksmith's anvil weighing 200 pounds, and sunk in a pit three and a half foot•deep was washed out of the pit and actually floated and rol- led 100 yards from the site of the light. house 1 0 01(111, 01' n010IAN(Ig ga110110,1 madly 010191 the bntto in the direc- tion of the blooltlmusea 111111111'011 bullets Dinging in his oars, 900taldeadlyearnest by the Cheyennes, who viewed their intended vietinl'0 escape with deep chagrin that found vont in a chorus of yells. Straight to the blookhon5o rodo chased for tho first few utiles by about a dozen bravos, who fired as they rats, but without inflicting any haulage save 1.o wound his horse. So intent 10111 he been on his es- cape that not upon had le; volumed the hr0 of hos foes,ell lough in a 1,'ition to his rifle ha carried two big navy 1,. elvers in his belt that hold Mx roumds of earl rid oseltoh, 'Co a friend, late' on, ho confirmed that itnever Rothsobild's Maxims, The older Baron Rothschild load the walla of his bank plaoarded with the following maxims ; Shun liquors. Date to go forward. Never be discouraged, Never tell business lies. Be polite to everybody. lanploy your time well. Be prompt in everything. Pay your debts promptly, Boar all troubles patiently. Do not reckon upon chance. Make no useless acquaintances. Be brave in the struggle of life. Maintain your integrity as it sacred thing. Never appear something more than you are. Take time t0 aoneider and thou decide positively. Carefully examine into every detail of your 1)1101n00H. '.Zhou work hard and you will be certain to mooed lft lifer Genesis of the Horseshoe. Itis known that the hoofs of iloreee were protected by boots of loather at every early wariod in the world's history -at a time hich at least antedates Pliny and Aristotle, both of whom make meutian of the faot. '.phase loather boots worn sometimes studded with metal nails, but more usually worn without extra trimming, the cheapness of that commodity malting it possible for the owner of the steed to "reboot" Mtn (Many time, Homer speaks of " bruen.footod steeds," from which we naturally infer that in his day horses were shad with bronco or braes. two reputable ancient writers tell us that the moles of Nero wore silver shoos. Iron shoes wore first nailed to the hoofs of war horses i11 the ninth century' they were first introduced into England by William II. 1,bent the year 1088, At the prosont day the Jill/101M use horseshoes mato of braid- ed straw, and several European countries use eompresood rawhide for the sante pup, pose, I