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LIKE FATHEIii, LIKE SON. p It t t tt t t wnrrole my Loy, the Ueuils that ba
g
that da " s; loch ago and nb st
TI i rose and lrow h»narl! a}t to his did, f The Fatal Accident at the Blezetd Mine
MI height, if an 1 the ! he + h locpkcd tie the withered blossoms and
leek, and he wan very' digutlied. the 1'c:u rel Dentir of rive men -lmporUu4t
" It is a ruistortuue, Illy boy," he said ting res theeno every Ltlday.
against the pato Com nheaverteN_aotes,
l 1 t l 1 i It L h lie
gently, "and, as you say, one of us must I S
an hiuuell thou, but ht a which to•uetreow, when she be0a1110 aware of a footatop that A correspondent of the Nall writing from
had been e young 1 m go away, \Vu will soul
not thought it beneath his dignity to go i'ht an(l Cod bra".., you :'" : \ens canting tovttide her under the trees, Sudbury, says : -Considering the lumber of
had Now 0"I'mg" 1 minutia; comernin the child's •Lal'` kissed Jerk ns If he She listened. It was a Slow footstep, as of inoxporinoce$ men that barn been employed
food
had
into ell the t! g He bent fol a r
end clothe ; and the smart officer little boy, and Jaclt Maria some one weary and out of heart, and 00 it in the mime of this dialriut we a
load ]tad been still 1
h in at horses with his baby buy, and a e. mubt7tua, y ; draw dearer, site forma that it teas nceont• very fate nwideits of n so'ious daLure, 4`t•,
P lye inetruetiug him in the art of tit l "' } i paused by a laboring breath which canto in fact, of tory kind to record, lint lost
littl later 1 vont like a rutound sigh. As rho wAy week l t
cricket,
•
d h jell +ivett to Ill t al THE NTCIICLE RANGE
lied t\ t settle H het ). j seemed tt her
replied the major. hi - that their faint perfume followed het
Thiel 18 'Or
was lel et' Own wherever she Went. POI•llipl It l It , nl'
Every one had atwaya agreed in saving
that Major \VQI1Olentse was alt excellent
father. Flout the day of his young wife's
death ho )tat t eve -e' 1 else ' o is son.
° "' J1 ' dear, dear maw le murmurer . hot Most disest•ous and fatal m eicient
iAkot was con ulvred gn110 a pretty sight " tied biers yon t" sad rho major again, and 1 into he that has ever taken place on them a 4`c•
Aldershot, Then the two mon lighted their candles fever canto closer, she stopped out »n t t 1
at no (limp.
I 1m'o'm road to moot him, 510 w'k4e u0 coward, told tittered at the Blamed mins, by which five
And the mnjor had met with P and went up•atuirs, parting at tion major's r
pointing rebuffs at the hands of his hnther dee • with 0 4`1.110 hand -clasp, she thought tint hero was sumo one, ill at men were instantly killed and another man
i? i g Jack Wodahousv laved his father . 0m• later the major softly eened his ease like herself, whom x110 ;night assist, was badly injured, 1Vhilteopatting 11 ti, bleat
of belt
spr n}r. An h J,
hearth , ami from the time when he tad• dao azul came down•stt ifs with a Ul'tdstnno lit tit° gloom of the trees she deaoried rho at the foot othe firover 2fiU tons that had
diad Uy, dttdda 4 aide in n white 111alc bag in Jtis hand, Entering his study, ho figure of an old malt, welliiug i11 a laggards and ore, weighing
scarlet sash, through the schoolboy
'tete, and leaving it 0u the pace and tarrying' a beg, In a few moments got loose on the side of the shaft near the
and a wrote a short
\ when bo bud • eotfided all his csen-tionsl • opened. the w below end ho had reached the open spite° by the gate top, fell down upon thorn, about seventy.
\dnry
stage t table, h0 can } p
es and troubles to the governor, to the
out into the warm summer night, where Hato stood, w tick 1000 now flooded five feel, crushing them almostbeyond
eyond to
pad wont
days of fins full much°4`d, his father was
'three hours afterwards, Jack else enterg• with moonlight, It wits the Major. He ognitiou, Snell aeoi loofa 1
his best and dearest friend. Jack, tnd°od,
el noiselessly frau his room and desetnded was a good deal aged, hitt Kate recognized happen in all mines,
ase denUm that mine ia aIle forltl0 been
had refused to go into the army bemuse the stairs, lie carried a small portmanteau, him Instantly, and with a little cry of joy generally regardedf1
' f tl tot h • the I tiho aprnng t° his side year or more. Some Cornish miner's, 1 am
1 a d Informed, had refused to work in it on this
i ,count. The new maal,'el', who is tL
thorough•gaiug and pra:tioal mining man, is
said to have been putting the Intuit into as
safe condition as possible since be took
ohnrgo of it, but under the previous manage-
ment the uneergeouud works hid evidently
not been timbered up right.
he would not leave ms a wt' t o and in ono hand he hold a mead envelope,
tine the lad's profession began to baa which he deposited 011 the hall tablo. Then " Oh, Major Wmlehollse, is It you?" rho
Iter of tlisoussion, the major had 1011101 1
lie let bimsetf out into the flagrant mere• exclaimed.
in ft' mrd desappoared rapidly down the " Kate ! Miss Layard !" he said, tent -
from the service, and had eettled at a pret-
ty pace called Uplands in the village of
Staunton, std Jack preferred to bo articled
to a solicitor in the neighboring town and
stay at holm, than join the finest regiment
in the world, cud quit the man who had
been to him father, mother, and brother all
in owe.
There had always been perfect Mammy
between these two ; they had never hal
what people call words ; no breath of dia•
ension had ever marred their happiness.
Nothing, indeed, had ever occurred to
disturb their beautiful relations till one
summer day when they met on the thresh-
old of Mrs. Layard's house, each with
flowers in his hand, Jack was two -and -
thirty now, handsome and popular ; and
the major, who was twice his age, was
handsome and popular too—tall, erect,
with eyes that were still teen, and a
moustache that was thick if it was irol•
grey. The major's flowers had been tied
by the gardener into a stiff bouquet;
Jack's roses had been thrust esthetically
into a little basket. They were both evi-
dently offerings, and as evidently offerings
to be made to Mrs. Layard—a recent ar-
rival in the village—or to her pretty daugh-
ter Kate. For the first time in his life,
Jack glared at his father, and for the first
time in his life the major frowned at his
son. But they had u0 time to speak, for
the servant come quickly to the door and
usbeed them into the drawing -room.
Mrs. Layard'a drawing•room was col
and pretty, and full of sweat scouts, partly
of Indian fans and cedar -wood boxes, end
pertly of mignonette and pinks ; and Miss
Kate, coming forward to receive the gentle-
men in a white gowri with a rosebud at her
eyelet, was a cool and pretty and sweet ob-
ject.
"How good of you to come 1 I am so
sorry my mother is out," she said, with a
smilefor both. "Let Inc give you some
tea."
Now, thought Jack, was his father's op.
portmtity. Would he express regret at
Mrs. Layard's absence, and say that he had
brought her some flowers?
"I have brought you a few roses, Miss
Layard," said the young man in blunt
haste. "I don't know if you care for roses,
but if you will accept---"
"Indeed, 7 love roses !" she interrupted
him. " How good of you to have thought
of me 1 And how pretty they look in that
basket!•
Then it was the major's turn.
"I an: exceedingly sorry to miss Mrs.
Layard," he said. (" So far, so good,"
thought Jack.) " I hope I shall have the
pleasure of seeing her another day. But
my call leas really upon you, Miss Layard. 1
heard you wore fond of picotees, and I
!nave brought; you two or three, if ,'on will
ihonor me by accepting them."
Kate was charmed. She thanked the
'major in the prettiest way imaginable, and
looked at the scene ed blossoms as if she lay.
ed them, Then she poured out the tea,
'chatting brightly.
It would have been impossible to say
which gentleman Kate preferred, or if in.
'deed she preferred either, She was need to
'rsociety, and she was seven or eight -and.
'twenty, and she knew quite well how to en -
terrain a father and son without showing her
14tand. So she inserted the tiniest soupcon
'•of deference into her manner towards the
major, and just the suggestion of pleasure-
in-his•oompany iu10 her way with Jack,
and she satisfied neither, and filled both of
them, for the first time, with ugly thoughts.
The major took his leave first, and it
would have been noticeable to any one
who had known them long that foie exit
was unnatural. Usually when the father
and son paid calls together, the former
would arise and say, " Well, my boy, I
think we must be going," and Jack would
respond cheerily and jump up willingly.
But today tate major said hesitatingly, "I
don't know if you are corning, Jack;" and
Jack, who had been listening vaguely to the
chatter of Miss Kate's young brother, re-
plied, "No, I'm just going to see this young-
ster's guinea•pigs, if Miss Layard will allow
me."
So the major went home alone, heavy
hearted, and that was a dismal evening at
Uplands. Even the servant who waited at
table marked the constrained oonversation,
and told the other domestics that "some•
thing was up." A great mountain of for.
mality seemed suddenly to have sprung up
between the two men. They talked cer-
tainly, but they talked as if they had been
acquaintances They were polite, and,
being good tempered men, they were not
surly ; but all the frankness end the fire had
gone out of their intercourse. After thirty
two years of the closest affection, Love the
Beautiful had stepped in and struck a dila
deviant note.
After dinner, Jack murmured a fav
words about business, and withdrew to his
own sitting -room. It was not a very com-
fortable apartment, because, as a matter of
fact, Jaek never used it. His father's so.
called study had been fie general living -
room of the two ever since Uplands became
their home, and there they had made them-
selves snug, and accumulated all their peo-
Soua litter, end steeped the air with tobacco
smoke, and been inordinately happy. But
on this evening 'look felt that he mast be
alone, and he therefore stalked across the
hall to the room which was called hie, shut
the door after him with a decided hand, and
throw himself down in a leather armohair
in no enviable mood. The major did meoh
the amino in the room opposite, Ho, too,
shut the door on hie Borrow, and sat clown
sadly toponder the situation.
At eleven o'clock, when the house was
quiet and all the servants in bed, Jack pre -
;tented himself in the study.
" Father," he said.
"'S'.'es, my boy," replied the major, with -
but looking round.
Somehow the major looted older. Ile
dive. bring.
When the servants tame down the next `los," cried she; " it i0 I—Kate
morning, they found the front door unbolt- Layard !"
ed and the study window open, and a note' " Kate Layard I" he repeated.
on the stud • table directed to Jack in the " Yes, Kate Layard. Olt, Major \erode•
major's writig, and a note on t shell table house, don't you know me C'she cried,
directed to the major in Jack's writing. ; "Mat is the matter with you?
You look
And the bedrooms of both gentlemen were so strange. What have you been doing?
empty, and some of their clothes and other and where, oh, where is your son?"
necessaries were gone. The butler hurried"Where is Jack 1" faltered the major.
off to the station, and there learnt that his I Ho staggered, end Kato, with a strength
old master had left Steelton by the mail- that she did not know she possessed,
train at 1 a.m., and that his young master stretched out her hands and supportedhinl.
had departed by the 4 a,m. train, and that "Dear Major Woclehousee you look so mm
!loth had booked to London, In dispair, and so tired," she said soothingly. I
the man telegraphed to the hotel where so glad to see you I Let tee take your arm
Major W'odehouso and his son generally and help you home,'
slept in town, to their bankers, and to I 'Bet you said, where is Jack?" said the
Jack's office. But no ono could throw any major.
light upon the extraordinary event, The He seemed half dazed. Ho looked etupid-
gentlemen had not been seen or heard of, y at her. In four months he had grown
Only en undated note reached Jack's part- ;ten years older.
nee in the afternoon, in which Jack stated "Yes, dear Major Geodehouse,' said Kate,
chat he had aeon imperatively called away trying to speak steadily through her tears.
by private affairs and hoped that his cud- "He went sway the same night that you
den absence would not be inconvenient, did, and he has Leon travelling in Germany
The ast001011ed servants stood aghast, and ever since. I believe there are hundreds of
they were still more astonished when upon letters awaiting you front him, Oh, let us
the following day, two letters wore deliver. make haste and get to the house !"
ed at Uplands, o110 bearing a French post- "Jack went away the same night !"
mark and ai dressed by the major to his son, echoed the major. "illy boy, 111y boy, ho
the other bearing a German postmark and murmured, "you might have trusted me 1
addressed by Jack to his father. Yon said, 'Which of us must go?' and you
It was evident that something had driven might have known I should be the one,"
the two men apart, but that each believed "But why had either of you 10 go
the other to be at home, and Jack's partner away?" asked Kate,with irrepressible curios -
took upon himself to desire the butler ity.
to go m1 as usual, saying that no doubt The major drew himself up till once more
Major Wodehouso and Mr. John would he was a fine man. In the moonlight he and
soon return or communicate with their Kate scanned eaoh other,
friends and servants. " Kate 1" he said solemnly and with old -
But this hope proved fallacious. Every fashioned couttesy, "I am not ashamed to
day or so letters cause from the major to say that my boy and I both aspired to the
Jack, bud from Jack to the major, always hand of the same demand sweetlady. When
with a fresh postmark as if they were I found it out, I resolved to go away, hop -
travelling without halt, the major's letters ing that you and 11e would marry and be
always from France, Jack's always from happy, and I wrote and wrote beggine him
Germany, It was certain that each Miley- to try and win you. But at last, my dear"
ed the other to be at home, and was eluding —the major's voice faltered—" at last I
pursuit by constant ]movement, and by could bear it no longer, for I have never
leaving no address at the temporary resting- been separated from my boy since he was
places, Jack's partner wrote to both at born, and I hoped I might have the honor
various posies restnp,tes, but _set 110 answer, of calling y01 my laughter, and, instead
and presently he gave it up.
"Itis a mere misunderstanding not a
quarrel," he told the butler, " Any one of
these letters would give us the key to the
mystery ; but we have no right to open
them, so long as we are assured by their
regular amoral that both gentlemen are
alive. Beep the place in order, and be
sore one of them will turn ep in time,"
5o a great pile of letters from France and
Germany accumulated and people talked
a great deal about the disappearance of the
major and his son, and made many 001.
miaes, and suggested numbers of more or
less plausible hypotheses ; and the summer
grew to its height end waned into autumn,
frosts and falling loaves began to herald the
approach of winter ; and still nothing was
heard of the absentees ; and as Uplands
was situated a little off the highroad, out
of eight became out of mind, and the affairs
of the Wodehouses were canvassed less
and less every day.
It was at this time when the nuts were
ripe and the Virginia creeper scarlet and
the chrysanthemums in bloom, that Kate
Leyerd began to look pale and languid, and
to seem00 if she ware moped by life in the
country, or as if, at all events, the air of
Staunton did not suit her. Miss Kate's
beauty did not diminish, but it assumed a
very delicate character, and her little Hand
grew smeller, and the color in her cheeks
came and went, like moonlight peeping
through clouds. She coughed a little,
and people wondered if there were con•
sumption in the family, and what Mr.
Layard had died of, and some even wont so
far as to commiserate Mrs. Layard on her
daughter's failing health. But Mrs. Layard,
whatever she guessed or know, revealed no
secrets.
It was only the autumn weather," she
declared, " Kate had been bred in London,
and perhaps it was damp in the country
during the fall of the leaf. She thought she
would send her to Brighton for a week, or'
on a visit to some friends at Earl's Court,'
But time went on, and Miss Kate went
neither to Earl's Court nor Brighton. She
looked fragile; but she was as discreet as
her mother, and though she was unhappy
and troubled, site always said that she was
well, or at least that she only had a head.
ache,
you tell me that any boy has fled.
Kate burst into a passion of weeping.
" Oh, Major \Voclehouse," she sobbed, "I
don't know whet ycur son feels about me,
but, whatever happens,let me be a daughter
to yon !"
Thou the major kissed her tenderly,
" MIy dear," he said, " whatever happens
I will be a father to you."
And she took his arm and guided his
wearied footsteps to his own door,
An hour later, Kate and the major had
read Jack's lint note and most of itis sub-
sequent letters.
hly dear Father," the young man had
Written on the morniug of ins cleparture,
" Kate Layard has come to be all the world
to me, but I cannot forgot that you have
been all the world to mo all my days before.
So I ate going. When I think you are mar-
ried, I 11011 wait in some place for news of
you. Till then, Isltall write, but push on,
and leave no address.
"Believe me truly, dear Father,
" Your Loving Son
LOOKING B.ENOEWAND.
1'114' Fatlllrrt or nn ttmreefnl ed Lecture to
the moat 114 11 1/,
After tiro regular bnalnees of the weekly
meeting of the Limekiln Club hod been ecu'
eluded, Brother Uardner anuounne1 that
t110 Hun, 1)ackstep Johnson of West \-ie•
giula, was Wailing to deliver a lecture,
After the Iloor hod been eplrinkled with
water, the mina' windows mind, 111td Samuel
Skin cautioned about falling asleep and
swallowing the glass slapper of 0 bottle he
w'as holding iu his 111011111 10 Mire Lint of the
habit of stuttering, the reception =melt.
teebroihht the s(rauger in. Alr,,Johnson
appeared to bo about 47 years old. Ho
was tall, thin, mrd sari010, with a stiff leg
end a bald head. He brought in with hint
front rho anteroom, us if mistrusting rho
honesty of the janitor, a largo lank satchel
of the crop of 157'3, encu a cotton umbrella
which probably saw the opening of the civil
ear. Iia had tt hearty welcome, however,
and Ito deposited satchel and umbrella, re-
moved his poet, and got to business,
"My fren's," he said, 1n a 111110 WhiOhl'0-
minded everybody of n corn shallot' hard at
woai, "de 0ubjco of my imperious remarks
dim eavenic an entitled ' Looking Honee-
ward.' Dar may bo some among yo' who
11oen know what 'homeward' moans. I will
clarefore explain dal it menus beyand—in de
fuoher—way off ahead. [Applause from
Shindig Watkins, who hall been pnzzli» g
over 'henceward' for the last two months.]
Yo' ;tin look back thirty ,'ars alt' see what
progress de culla elan has made, but de
atelier mm what is ahead of no, De fucker
is a headlight to guide us on de upward
path illi' finally seat us on the pinaolo of
greatness an' verbosity. While we may
feel proud of de peat, we am justified in
feelin a feolin of gloriosity ober de fltchor.
[General applause, which sagged the stove-
pipe in the middle and threatened a talt»u-
ityl.
"My free's," continued the speaker as he
helped himself to a glass of root beer from
Brother Gardner's pitcher and wiped o0' his
chip. "Iut de past behind me an urge
yo' onward to the Richer. IVidin de next
hundred y'ars dm am gwine to bo doh a
mighty change take plc" dat it atmos'
takes one's beef away to think of it. It's
gwine to be a change to put the culla men
what• he belongs—on top do heap, T pre.
dict ;
1. A gradual but sartin change in (le
hair. 1)e kinks an knobs will all atraighteu
out, de ha'r toles on a gloss, an will be de
envy of de civilised world.
"2. A gratitud but sartin facile out of
color until we become whiter den white
folks. Dey will probably be mad an jeal-
0ns abonb it, but what am to be will be, an
day can't stop it. I predict dat Givoadam
Jones, heah on my right, who am now do
co or of a black 00W at midnight, hasn't
got to lib ober fo'ty y'ara to bleach white as
a Governor's Sunday ihirt.
"3. A gradual bub sartin acquirement
of grace an beauty. It won't be fifty y'ars
befn' yo' can't fi;el a bowlegged cull'd elan
in aweek's ten n,,1, an' ono wit a °ald head
or a pair of ,:roes oyes will be as .ouch of a
novelty as a mastodon. Our monis will
contract, our lips fall away in fl1dh, an' poets
will rave ober our dr°opin' blue eyes.
White folks will be mud 'mute to bust, but
eve mus' go right along au' pay no'tenehun
to deir empirical feelin'0.
"4. In de co'se of the next hundred y'ars
de cull'd man will be on top do heap in ora-
tory, poetry, paintin', astronomy, an' all de
arts and sciences. He will sit in de -vhito
House, au' he will matte do laws. He will
melte de history of de kentry, an' he will
also write it.
5. Instead of de blaclt folks gwine to
Africa to lib, de white folks will probably
c'lar out fur Mexico or do Sandwich
Islands, Today de great problem of die
keotry am not what to do wid de black
man, but whet is gwine to become of de
white folks in a few ,'ars mo'.
"6. A gradual but sartin oontrackehnn
of feet till a No. S will fit most eberybocly
in de crowd. Yon can't ekassly eompre•
hend it as yo' look at ole No. 13 boots adorn -
in' de feet of Waydown Bebee, an' pinchin'
his hoots at dat, but sick will be do result
of progress. Brudder Bebee himself may
lib to see that day.
" An' now, my fren's," continued the
speaker, as he drained the pitcher of its
contents, " I do not wish to take up your
walnable time. Idid not cone heah to dedi-
cate an evaporashun of cupidity, but to
briefly connive my oantileveroue consan-
guinity towarda bituminouspropagashun of
what T airnestly believe will cone to pass,
I thsnk yo' gentlemen, thank yo' free
de bottom of my heart, an' I shell
ober hold de memory of dim eavenin
tie one of de most electuated in my fallaci-
ous career."
The gentleman left the hall amid wild
and tumultuous applause, but when he had
disappeared the silence was profound. It
was not broken for a couple of minutes.
Then Brother Gardner arose and said
" A hundred y'ars am a long titne to
wait, but I reckon we'll hey to. We will
sow break de meetin in two an go home.'
ONTARIO'S 01't'ORTL'NIT1'.
The greater part of American mining
capital goes into silver and iron alines. But
the recent drop in the Trice of silver will
probably ;Becourage capital from going as
freely into silver mining for some time to
come. This is Ontario's opportunity tointer-
est American capital in our nickel alines by
giving special inducements for 11010 cont.
patties to come in, and more especially as
there is very great danger that some of the
companies now in the field will secure a
monopoly of the best properties on the
wltolo range, In speaking to a prominent
Government official here yesterday on this
subject, he said that a bonus would be more
in accordance with common sense than put-
ting a royalty on the mines.
IMPORTANT 001.10 DISCO\71RlOS.
Some very rich gold ends have been
made this year in the Wahoapitoe district,
but beinga green timber country and muoh
of it covered with moss, the mother lode has
not been discovered yet. There is a good
deal of prospecting going on there, and such
estraordieary samples of free gold as are
shown would create a wild boom in any
Western mining camp, and here as well,
only for the lack of interest caused by the
new Mining Act,
There came an afternoon it late October
when the white mists hung low above
the earth, when the red and yellow leaves
lay rotting in heaps upon the ground, when
only a robin's voice disturbed the melee-
oholy silence, when all was still and damp,
and the year seemed oppressed with the
burden of its clays. Kate had gone out, as
she often did now—for the pensive evening
suited her mood after the afternoon
tea, and almost mechanically her feet; the ma or had written, "but I levo you
took her almIn t the quiet roadiroad
led I even more, my boy, and'1 retire. Win her,
a cool and bowery place,where the trees Jaok, and God be with you both."
A fathers love is beyond words, he
said to Kato. "I ought not to have thwart•
ed hint."
"But you see,. Jack, I loved you," return.
trees no longer proteetod from tee heat but ed Kate conclusively
shut out the fading day ; It was already So the bridal was celebrated, and Jack's
night in this grove, and Kate felt almost Partner' who was the o I °thee preen who
rerigg ached a gate loading tnew why the major and Jack had vanish -
into an when ado r4` A t g ed, made a speech, in which he seta words
againeinto an apse td ear w. She went and leanthof such oracular significance that the bride
was Uplands,
and with
its d
the scndcne, There blushed, and the bridegroom and hisfather
was rising abo e e tr its gthe p, anti ields l .y exohen ed lances of dee affection,
babet; the groes ;the placed fields lay 1 "In every inch of life," sada tide gentle.
before o on, a moog hayed to the usdisttano ; Man, "my partner Wodellouseaudmyfriotel
aboveho moon, almoso .the full, ting just tieing the major have acted sitnilarly. elven in
the horizon. Everything was un, their love affair—if 1t becomes me to tread
She
10 peaceful eUi c Kate's sighed
en ground so scored --it loam been with
deo y. '11> towarda r 0000 owned to ear. than a ease of 'Lilco father, line son.'"
deeply, She had never leave MAIM,
self why she hall been miserable since rho' -y
was sealed low clown in lois easy chair, and fair .1uno day, when the mem had eotno to Talking and eloquence) aro not the sem; ;
his'spae form seemed shrunken; his voice her with his piootce0, and Jaen with his to a can and to emelt wall are two things,
even soundedthhmor. Jack stood e ndlock• rosea ; but. there are sone things--faate of p p g
0c nr }idtuplacidly. � men's through h'a
which of us Weis t go away?" acknowledgement. Kato had kept some of stomach ; to his head th ottgh his pothole
he asked at last.
o
The sucoeeding letters were written in
the same strain, and at last came several
from Bonn impatient for replies.
The major groaned.
" Why didn't he trust ole?" said he,
over and over again.
" But you will write now ?" suggested
Kate ; or telegraph ?"
" I will telegraph," said the major eager-
ly, opening the drawer where ho kept tele.
graphio forms. " Ho will be at home the
day after to -morrow, mild you---"
I, said Kate, blushing, " am going to
Brihton to -morrow."
"-What ?" cried the major.
But he could say no more, for hurrying
footsteps were heard in the hall and a 00180
that °vied, "' Where is he? Where is my
father ?"
And the major rushed out, and Kate sank
half fainting into a chair.
I do not know exactly what jack and the
major said to each other, nor would it be
fair—even if I knew—to relate the precise
terms in which Jaalt spoke his hopes to
Kate nor how. Kate made answer. But I
will say that Kate walked home in the
moonligbt on Jack's arm, and that bile major
looked after them without etvy,0ndthottght
that, at past sixty, a daughter is better than
a second wife.
The major appea'ed the next day, spruce
and tall as ever, and nobody but Kato knew
how nearly sorrow and'separation had 'nada
an old man of hien. As for Jack, when he
read hie father's first note and successive
letters, he felt more inclined to cry than he
had done since he was a little lad and lost
a
favorite marble. " I love Miss Layard,"
OT1{S.
The last quoted price of refined nickel is
60 ants per pound.
Mr, George Weide, M. E., has opened a
laboratory and assay office here.
A laudable attempt is being made this
season to attract settlers to Algoma , but
until the American Homestead Act is adopt•
ed in Ontario, no another glacial period
occurs to grind down the rocks, the tide of
immigration will continue to go vest. The
best farmer on the range left for Manitoba
last month.
The meanness with which the Alien Con-
tract lave s enforced along the international
line on the American side is in striking
contrast to the generosity of the Canadian
Government in this respect. For instance,
a poor =politer 1000 sent back from the
American Soo a few weeks ago with his tool
cheat twice in one week, but the \lichigan
lumber companies operating in Algoma are
allowed to bring in any numbe•of men and
teams from the other side every fall to work
in the camps here.
met overhead and the blue sky and the sun.
light peered merrily through here and there.
Bob in autumn it was gloomy ; the path
Was wet w1t11 remelt rain the aunt bare
et1. !, £b J2.
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LATE �.� OREffl1V NEWS
A Paris physielen newts that the present
0111110174 came from the "81100 brought theca
in 18.54.
ant :if 131 0ntriee rev the '','rq' distance
ride front Vicuna to Berlin, , 1 (have con-
firmed their intention to compete.
Seventeen deaths on Alpine mountain
tours occurred in the Swiss Alps in 1501,
Sixteen were touriobe end one a guide.
Tho Austrian Emperor line approved the
bill to jploteet the edelweiss against being
gathered by the casual Alpine climber.
.And bioyoliet travelling into Franco will
have to pay the regular duty of fifteen 00
twenty dollars at Ids machine, according to
weight.
The Soclalistie Congress at Tours passed,
among others, a resolilttctl forbidding mar.
fled women to work outside of their own
houses.
Kaiser le' illinm will keep the entire mew
which sailed on the Menem oil the salaried
list throughout the winter so ns to make sure
of them next season.
The d70•carat diamond front the South
African mince, of ehialt270carats are being
taken off by the diamond nutters of Antwerp,
is almost ready for aalo.
It is stated that 011 s•tentle of the sten who
elle in Switzerland die prematurely from
excessive drinking.
The French Minister of Marine has sup•
pressed the boarding pikes and boarding
axes, which, for three centuries, have form.
ed parb of the armament of tlteFranah man.
of -war.
Mr, Joseph Teasaud, eldest son ofFranois
Tussaud, and grandson of Madame Tussaud,
who founded the well known waxworks
early in the present century, has just died,
aged 61.
Heligoland has erected a monument to
the poet and philologist Hoffmann, of Fal-
lerelebnn, who was born at that place in
1708, and died a few years ago. He is best
known by ills collection of folk -songs of
Germany, Holland and Switzerland.
On the occasion of unveiling the memorial
to Alfred Krupp, at Essen, his son Friedrich
Krupp, who now carries on the works, put
into the hands of the committee the sum of
500,000 merles to build small dwellings for
workman of his factory who have become
unable to work on account of age.
Beggars swarm so in Malta, that, at: -
meth -lig
ceding to the Rev. J. E. Hardy'ssketoll of
Maltesolifo, the only way to avoid being
pestered by them is to put out your hand
and anticipate them with their whining
"Give Inc something," "Me plenty p000
man," "Me very large family." Some of
these beggars are supposed to have acquired
a good deal of money, and it is said that the
priests ceder persons to live by begging tor
awhile as penance,
A terrible crime wee committed last week
at the larracks at Sohouvnlovo, near St.
Petersburg. Front the particulars which
have transpired up to the present, it ap•
pears that a bandsman of one of the regi.
meats of the Imperial Guard, actuated by a
feeling of jealousy agefnst one of his com-
rades, came behind hien while at mess with
the rest of the regiment, and, dealing the
uufortnuate man a terrific blow with his
sauce, completely decapitated him, the
head rolling into his victim's plate.
A Boulogne telegratn says :—Tho express
from Paris in connection with the Folkestone
boat arrived on Monday afternoon, Oh ty
minutes late, in consequence of a terrible
fatal a00idelnt having occurred on the line.
When passing a 'evel crossing at Pontremy
at cue o'clock the train dashed into a man,
a woman, and a child of three years, and
out them to pieces. The child belonged to
the gatekeeper, and got on the track as the
train was approaching. The parents seeing
its danger, ran simultaneously and seized
their child, but were unable to draw back
in time, and the ti'11010 family met their
death together.
Superstition has been the cause of a hor-
rible murder at a small village named La
Ohappe, in the neighbourhood of Bordeaux.
At en early hour on Monday morning the
body of an old woman, a milksoller named
Melanie, sixty•eight years of age, was
found lying in the road in a pool of blood.
The head which was crushed almost out of
recognition, was completely separated from
the body. A gun -stock covered with blood
was found near. A peasant who was ar-
rested on suspicion made a full confession
of the °cline, explaining that the old woman
was a witolt and had east a spell over him,
Ho committed the murder in order to have
his revenge.
Chivalry and Matrimony.
With all its fine expressions of ardent de-
votion to the fair sox, and the multitude of
its exquisite pretenefone, chivalry was the
degradation of the highest and tenderest
human instincts, the veritable curse of the
course of true love. Such a statement pre.
sents itself to the romantic believer as a
terrible counterblast ; but it is true never-
theless. The records of the Treasury and
the la* courts of those days, in furnishiug
the experience of popular life deeply marked
by the worst shades of modern shortcomings,
provide the fullest proof.
Chivalry did not make marriages, at least
in the sense of those born of love's young
dream; it entirely ignored all sexual affem.
time, and sold its victims with ruthless in -
differentia to all mutuality. There were
net two parties to its bargains ; there was
only one, who was always the third of the
group, and the one interested, not is satis-
fying the yearnings of the impassioned, but
in a pecuniary sense of their value. He was
the vodor, and might beeitherKing or Bar -
no. But whichever hewas he was the incarna-
tion of unscrupulous power. The matrimoni-
al transactions of chivalry,were mercenary.
To them there 10ere no "oontracbing per.
ties" in the shape of whispering lovers, ardent
swains, and coy maidens. On the other
hand, there were bub sullen indifference or
hating compliance. Chivalry canted about
itafaith in women and the purity of its own
motives, because it could not sing of love—
it may be said that it so canted because it
knew it must cant.
It knew that its marriages had not been
inade in heaven and of ethereal aentimenta.
They were coarsely bargained for, either in
the King's Exchequer or in the open mar-
ketplace. Chivalry knew itself as a social
falsity end the parent of lust. As a conse-
gttempe bho "lower orders" have had to give
us the notnenclature of our love affairs.
Chancier, the very mirror of the era of chiv-
alry, has typified lust wibh his master's
band; but he has no piobure of the gratified
tenderness of longing yontlL In his .aur-
roundings it was notsuil'ered to exist. 'These
surroundings had no terms to enumerate the
ardent steams, and coy maidens of rn0birity.
But if the aristocracy own produce no one
instance of the coy maiden, and the rustic
sweetheart remains to mock the dubious
fiance, it has a wealth of the arts of diplo.
maoy, end an inexhaustible list of the terms
of intrigue, Chivalry gave expression to
the word mattress°, which may have, and
had, the funniest of meanings.—[Tile Gen,
tleman's Magazine.
1;he heart mostly do not require open The way to a ma U
"''I'1ilhary
A Story Told by Quebecers.
A strange story comes from' Quebec. Ie
is said that a convict, who hail just been
released after serving a seven yeas' form
in the St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary,
visited the t\ntient Capital last Thursday,
and that armed with a piekaxo and shovel,
he engaged &carter and drove out to the
Plains of Abraham. There hepr000ded to
a certain spot, end after digging for a while
he ulleerthed a rust•oncrustod iron box and
When opened wee seen to be tilled with bank
notes and gold, probably the spoils of a for-
gotten crime for lv1tlsh possibly ho served
his long term of imprisonment. The mat
drove beak to the otty With his booty and
loft the meter or Ste John stroet, who then
reported the strange case to the pollee,
Always behind—A male's oueegy,
Panic on Board a Steamer,
The late experience of the captain and
crew of the steamship Millon, from Penang
to Lengkat, has conte to hand, The Milton
loft Penang with a full °ergo and some Asa
alio passengers. On the morning after her
departure she sprang a leak, and the water
quickly rose above the stokehole plates,
Orders were given to throw the cargo over.
board, when the captain discovered that
some of the passengers end Drew had been
seized with a panic, end had made off in the
ship's boats. Two of the boats were over-
turned. A big see was running, and some
unfortunate passengers, who jumped into
the sea he the hope of reaching the boats
instantly disappeared, and were seen 110
more, Eleven hands, all told, remained on
the Milton. Some hours after the departure
of the two boats, one of them reburned
alongside the veseel, Thecwpbain took com-
mand, and ordered all the oocupants, pas.
songera, as wallas crew, to help ihthe work
of lightening the (told and baling out water.
Two Atohineee passengers showed fight,
taking out large knives, and had to be over.
powered, At length it was impossible to
keep the vossei afloat any longer, The cap-
tain and Drew got into the little boat, bub
some pa00ongers refused to join them, as
they feared overcrowding. Blankets were
hoisted for agile, as owing to the large nem,
bee
e m -
bee on board only two Dara could be used.
The haat was iltene°, of food there was none
and there was mutiny on board, the cep.
thin having to threaten the levo Atchinese
with a loaded revolver. icor two whole days
were the nnfortuvato occupants of the boat
tossed abort on the ocean before they were
picked up by the steamer 1,15000111 Margaret.
A Ve,'etable Otlriosity.
Nakao farntalnos a freak near Ashburn.
ham, Mass,, in a tree leaving but ono root,
but sending forth two kinds of foliego, that
of a pine aedthat ofenoak, re the antenna
pine burs fall en nue side and a00rns of the
other.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily
News, telegraphing says :—The shop girle
of Paris have called a meeting to protest
againab the refusal of the Chamber of Dep.
ut100 to extend to them the law for the reg.
ulation of the conditions of work in work-
shops. This refusal was disguised under
the form of an adjournment on the score
that their grievances were not yet ripe for
discussion. The situation of shop, girls in
Paris is one of great hardship, their pay is
not handsome, they are obliged to dress well,
and they have to be in the shop from 13 to
14 hours, meal times included, At the Bon
Marche they have pleasanter conditions, but
the fate is a hard one in most other great
houses, One of the hardships of which they
complain is being forced to stand for so
many hour. The air Is generally exhaust-
ed, as customers fear draughts,
Decorating St, Paul's'
The decoration of the interior of St, Paul's
London, with mosaics instead of the paint
ings (whioh proved impracticable owing to
the bad atmosphere) is proceeding slowly.
4V. B. Riohmond has to fill with mosaics
twelve spandrills about the arch tope in the
choir, twelve window spaces about the win.
<lovs in the clerestory of the choir above
the spandrila, three sections of the vault
over the apse, and twelve'"pendentivea" or
spaces on the vaulted ceiling about the base
of three donne whit% light the choir, In
the thee domes the acts of creation are to
be shown, namely, the creation of birds,
fishes and boast°. The fall of men and the
redemption provide subjects for spandrills
and window walls, In the vahitof the apse
a loading design shows Christ seated In
judgment with recording angele by his side,
The kit :shaped pendentivee narrowing
down from the beam of the domes will con-
tain each en angel with many wings, the
arms raised upward and outward, so as to'
fill the space; there aro twelve, or four to
each dome, Mr, Richmond has already
placed the mosaics in two spandrills and
drawn the designs for the other ton and for
the east end fieuros. At this rate of pro.
gross the dull interior of St, Paul's will in a
few years glow and gator with gold and
brightlass mosaioe, alit was meant to when
thee atliodral was first credal,
Unused machinery grows ,rusty, so does
unused mind.
A whit reno may not know hew to deal a
pack of carats, bus oho oat amity Wee the
donee by dropping tt tray.