The Brussels Post, 1889-3-29, Page 2THE DESERTED FARM
A
TRAGIC STORY.
INTRODUCTION. open apertures which had ono° been win -
Ib was my regular habit, while 1 resided sows, 1 lookedt the in t was llhrone aof nd that thand
in Montreal , Canada Ewa to spend six
• or walla and ceilings were in a similar condition
to those of the passage.What, however,
struok mo with amazement, was the disoov-
ery that the abundant, and apparently ones
bandeome and wetly, furniture of the apart-
ment still remained within it; the chain
and tables, the large mirror over the mantel-
piece, the sideboard loaded with china orna-
ments, and the pictures in gilded frames on
the wall --rare bhinge to be met with, even et
the present day, in this remote portion of the
province—reermined as they had been platted
when the but were we.
erect with duet nd tenanted
r nil d� blackened by
damp and ago,
On my return through the front garden, I
remarked, with surprise, a large, almost
throttler spot in the centre, whioh was per•
feetly denuded of grass, or vegetation of any
desortption; the soil having, apparently, been
maltined by the action of fire, and which pre
seated a strange and startling contraeb to the
luxuriant, though rank, vegetation by which
ie was surrounded,
On again consulting my watch, I found
that I should barely have time to retrace my
my steps to my lodgings before the dinner
hour; mud, to tell the truth, I was not sorry
to get away from the singular spot into which
1 had penetrated. I hastened, therefore, to
climb the steep hill whiob led to the num
mit of the oliff and the road to St, Claude,
As I passed through the valley on my re-
turn, I could not help remarking the strange
abeenoe of animal lite. Not a hare, rabbit,
squirrel, or weasel—bheugh these creatures
abounded in the neighborhood—oro0sed my
path. I did not hear the song or ohirrup of
a bird, not, even the buzz of an mecca The
only audible sound was the whispering of the
lofty pines and cedars ; and to my excited
fancy, there was something unearthly in the
sound, heard amid the strange solitude, as
though evil spirits were whispering in the
upper air.
The utter loneliness in whiob I found my
self weighed upon my spirits, and itwaswith
a feeling of positive relief that I was once
more clear of the valley, and on the summit
of the oape ; then burning abort, and gazing
again for a minute at the deserted farm, I
made the best of my way homewards.
On my arrival there, 1 found that I was
late, and that old Janet, and his wife and
elder children, were—with the French Can-
adian politeness—waiting dinner ; although
the younger children were already seated ab
their own little table, busily occupied in
discussing their pottage.
I apologized for my tardiness, and express•
ed my regret that they had waited for me,
and in five minutes we were all seated
around the table, whioh was spread with an
abundant and wholesome, though humble,
meal.
"M'sieur must be fatigued. He has walk-
ed far f' said the motherly Madame Junot.
"Yes, madame," I replied. "I rambled a
considerable dietetics beyond the Cape.
Nevertheless, the day ie fine, the walk was
pleasant, and I am not at all fatigued."
And then, being ourious to learn the history
ofthedeserbed farm,I related my adventure.
Had a bombshell fallen through the roof
of the peaceful pottage, the listeners could
scarcely have appeared more disconcerted.
Pierre Junot and his wife dropped their
knives and fork, and raised their eyes as if
in appeal to heaven. The elder son and
daughter almost started from their chairs,
and even the younger children looked amaz-
ed.
At length madame found ubtoranoe,
"You bave truly, then, visited the acnes•
ed farm ?" she exclaimed. "Yet what mer-
cy that you have returned safe. Never
should I bave pardoned myself had any evil
befallen you. Ib would have been my fault.
1 should have warned you. I should have
warned you. I should have told you to
avoid the muoh dreaded spot. Yon are a
stranger, and Providence hasproteoted you;
say, then, you will not go thither again."
I hesitated to make any promise, howe ler,
and requested my worthy hostess to give
me the history of the farm and its former
inhabitants, and to explain to line by what
means ib became forsaken, and reduced to
its present ruinous and desolate condition.
Pierre and his wife and hie son and
daughter, however, alike hesitated to grata
fy my curiosity. In feet, to a certain de•
gree, they professed ignorance.
eight weeks <,f every summer to travel tug
of Canada, or in the United States. I had
in this way, slatted the greater portion of
the Upper province, Niagara Falls, Sara.
t oga Springs, the City of New York, Pnila
delpnia, and the oapital of Waabington into
• no one occasion, had pe
the Far West, until I reached Kansas.
One summer I resolved to change my
rout, and intend of going westiyard I de•
aermined to make a tour through the eastern
dietriots of Lower Canada, where the French
Canadian inhabitants still retain the
peouliur characteristics of their Normacio
encoders.
With this objeob in view, I travelled along
the southern shore of the Sb. Lawrence
until I reaohed the little village of St.
.Maude, where ab I resolved to sojourn for
hree or four weeks.
St, Claude consists of one long street of
wooden cottages. There is the usual wheel•
wrighb's ablaohemith's,andearpenter'a shop,
and a general store. A short distance from
the main street stands the little toylike,
white•washed, red•roofed Roman Catholic
church, near which is the residence of Mon•
sieur le Cure—bhe largest and neatest cot-
tage in the village.
The residents of St. Claude (lilt,@ those of
Lower Canada generally) are dartainly a
primitive people. With the exception of
M. le Cure, scarcely a dozen among them—
and they number some four hundred—have
over journeyed fifty miles from their homes.
The villagers all dress alike in the ancient
costume of Normandy, The young women
and aide, however, displayed their abund•
ant ebony tresses, uncovered by Dap or bon•
net, and being very neatly arranged, they
present a very attractive appearance.
As a rids, these people are in a state of
perfect ignorance, not one in fifty being
able to read or write, or oaring to acquire
the knowledge. They are, in fact, well
satisfied to follow in the footsteps of their
forefathers—chiefly to make their own gar-
ments, to cultivate their small tenures in the
old.fashioned style, and to live and die in
their native village.
I did not and it an easy matter to procure
lodgings in St. Claude; there is no hotel,
and moat of the cottages contain bub two
rooms. however, after much difficulty, I
obtained apartments at a farmhouse of the
superior class, occupied by one Pierre Junot,
his wife, and family.
On the fourth day of my sojourn at the
farm•hous, I strolled away towards Cape
80. Anne ; and having clambered to the
summit of the lofty cliff which -overhangs
the river, stood a long while gazing around
me at the fine and majestic scenery I was
enabled to survey from the eminence I had
gained,
Long I stood watohing the effects of light
and shadow upon the water, where not a ves-
sel could be seen, save, perchance, some ice-
bound wreak upon the rocky shore, and
whore the country in the rear, now green
and fertile, and rejoicing in the beauty of
summer, would be shrouded beneath a pall
of glittering snow, from amidst whioh the
tree, denuded of their now brilliant foliage,
would rice like so many spectral objeota
scattered over the drear landsoape.
At length, I burned aside, when my atten-
tion was arrested by what appeared to me to
be a ruined and deserted farmhouse of a de•
seription very far superior to any at present
existing in this part of the province.
It stood in a deep valley, a utile or more
distant. Several outhouses were oeemingly
attached to it, and it was surrounded by
large fields and paature•grounds ; but, so far
as I could perceive, the place presented a
singular aspect of gloom. Not a human
being, nor even a solitary animal of any de-
eoripticn, was bo be discerned from the emi-
aance upon whioh I stood, and which Dom-
manded a perfect view of the entire estate.
Altogether, the place presented a strange
and startling oontresb to the generally bright
and smiling Bummer landscape. Suoh a
sight would have been remarkable in any
part of the world, bub it was especially sin-
gular in a comparatively new country, in
whioh ruins do nob form one of the attrao•
tions in the eyes of travellers and strangers,
and in which, as yet, nothing has been left
to decay.
I looked at my watch. It was yet early
in the day, and I resolved to descend into
the valley, and discover whether the farm
was, in reality, the desolate spot it appear-
ed to be viewed from a distance.
As I drew near the house, the absence of
any trodden pathway seemed to confirm the
opinion I had formed while gazing upon the
spot from the summit of the cliff. Evident•
ly there had once existed a tolerably broad
rood, leading, apparently, from the valley to
the village, and severed wide footpaths
crossed and recrossed each other ; but all
had been long disused.
I turned the angle of a Dope, the trees of
which were surrounded with undergrowth,
and entwined by parasites, and came into
full view of the house. Ib was &large, roomy
structure, whioh might have served, in the
earlier days of the province, for the country
seat of a nobleman, Vestiges of carving
and other ornamentation were still visible
over the door end windows. The palings sur-
rounding the garden had rusted and fallen;
the paths end flower -beds wore overgrown
with grass and weeds ; the roof of the house
and the chimneys had fallen in ; the win•
dow frames and glass were shivered to
atom, not a single entire pane of glass re.
maining ; the whole front of the house was
blackened by age, and overrun with fungi,
and every surrounding object presented a
sad aspect of ruin and desolation. The out.
hooses, barns, &o., were in a similar state
of dilapidation; the largo kitchen garden
and orchard in the rear of the dwelling, and
the large fields and pasture grounds, had
evidently been nnoulbivated for many years,
and had become a mazy wilderness ; even
the neighbouring words appeared as though
they had long been left to solitude, shunned
both by man and beast.
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"Now, however, there was no obstacle in
the way of the gratification of A'Iodams Dae.
jarniars' desire. Willing as they were to
adopt the little orphan themselves, the
fathers and mothers of the village poroeived
that they would be standing in the way of the
ohilde beet interests should bhoy put in a
oleic in opposition to the wishes of their
wealthier and land hearted neighbor. Most
of them already had daughtora of their own ;
Madomo Deajarniers had none; and, there•
ford, with the general upprobatten of the
oommunity, the little Lento Legric became
the adopted daughter of the wealthy fanner
and hie wife,
"Felix Deejarniere bad at this period just
completed his twelf th year, He was a noble,
manly boy, with dark eyes and lair, and a
fine open expression of oouutenanoe, The
little Louise was just three years hie junior
—a golden•hoired, blue-eyed child, with
pretty, delimit° features, a graceful form,
and an expression of countenance in which
the archness of girlhood was mingled with a
since pensiveneee rarely seen m one so
youthfuh
"The good, simple villager% used to de-
olere that she was the very image of bhe
Madonna which stood in the niche about the
church porch.
"1 oan only say," amid the worthy priest,
in parenthesis, with a smile, "that bhe
imago of theMadonna whiohIthen adorned the
village cburch must have been very much
handsomer than the present one, or the good
folk must have sadly maligned the ohild.
and therefore we ought to welcome them all
the more gladly when they do uo the honour
of vieiting ue. Does Monslour intend to
roman long at Se. Claude 1"
"Throe or four weeks," 1 replied,
"Them" said he, we must become Mende,
I shall be happy to we you et my humble
dwelling ; and es your time ie limited, the
sooner we become (deride the better.
Will you do me the honour to dine with neo
to • marrow ?"
This was jest the sore of invitation
I had hoped for, and, of °aurae, I gladly
a000 ted it.
" I shall regard it es an honour on my
part to make aoquainbaaoo of Monsieur 10
Cure," said I ; and with thio we wished
each other good day.
The next day, at four o olook in the after-
noon I tapped at the door of the cure's nob.
Cage, and was admitted by his housekeeper,
who conducted me to the diniug•room,
where I found the good father apparently
anxiously awaiting my appearance,
CHAPTER 1.
3ETROTEEAL AND T110 OLOPEniENT,
M. Dabois's household consisted of him•
eelf, en aged female, his housekeeper, and a
little girl of ten years of age ; the former the
wof a fisherman of theand tho rvillage, who e orphan daughter
per.
billed in the exercise of their perilous own•
potion, to whom the good priest had given
a comfortable and happy home.
We eat down together to a plain bub ma
petiaing repast, after which we adjourned to
a little summer -house in the garden, whither
the housekeeper brought a bottle of excellent
wine,
" Come, fill your plass. You will find the
wine of bhe boat quality, though I never in•
dulge in ib save when 1 have visitors."
After a brief oonvereabion on various top-
ics, I ventured to introduce the subject
whioh chiefly occupied my thoughts.
" Ah 1 the acoursed farm 1" exclaimed my
host. r' So, then, you have already visited
the spot? You would learn its history?
Ab, my friend 1 'tie a sad and painful story.
Still, if you care to listen, I will relate it to
you. Come, let us go in -doors. It 19 grow•
ing dark and the air is always chilly after
sunset, at St. Claude, We shall find a fire
in my study. Gertrude will bring us
another bottle of wine, and I will tell bhe
story.
In the course of a few minutes we were
seated by the fire in the good cure's cosy
little study. We both replenished our
glaesee, and M. Is Cure, having settled him•
self comfortably in his easy chair, prooaed-
ed with the narrative of the " accursed
farm."
"Neatly a century has elapsed," cam•
menoed M. le Cure, " though already the
province has passed from the possession of
France to that of Great Britain, since An.
tome Desjarnier, and his wife! Lisette, bra
migrated fnbn Canada from their native Nor•
mousy.
" Antoine Deejarniere was of a close super-
ior to the ordinary emigrants from France.
He was, in fact, a small landowner, and
when he had sold hie farm and stook in
Normandy, be found himself in posaeesion
of a considerable capital wherewith to
commence operations in the new country of
his adoption.
' This gave him a vaso advantage over hie
fallow immigrants. He not only purchased
a muoh larger treat of land than they, with
their more limited means, were able to secure
to themselves ; and supplied himself abun-
dantly with °etble and sheep, and every var-
iety of neoeasory agricultural implements ;
but he was likewise looked up to with respect
by hie less fortunate countrymen. And well,
acoording to all accounts, was he worthy of
the reaped and regard voluntarily a000rded
to him. He, and his fair young wife, to
whom he had been wedded only a few weeks
before he quitted France, were kind and
generous to bhe sick and aged ; were always
ready to extend a helping hand to the poor
and needy ; and were prepared at all times
to take the lead in every movement that
seemed calculated to tend to the welfare and
happiness of the little community.
They prospered, as the kind and good
deserve to prosper; and within ten years
from the date ofhie'eettlement ab Sb. Claude,
Antoine Deejarniere created a large and
oommodioue dwelling, with barns and out.
houses adjoining ; and imporbod furniture,
and pictures, and •
various costly ornaments
from France, whioh caused his house to be
regarded as bbe wonder of the surrounding
country, and as a fibbing residence for bhe
proudest and wealthiest seigneur in the
province.
"Alas 1 house and furniture, outhouses
and farm, have been alike, for many, many
years, neglected and deserted, and left to
ruin and decay.
" About twelve months after the arrival
of Antonio and his wife in their adopted
country, their mutual happiness was in-
creased by the birth of a son and heir, who
was named Felix, after his maternal grand-
father. Felix grew up to become a fine,
handsome boy, alike the delight and pride
of doting parents, who now only craved for
a daughter to crown their felicity. This
craving, however, Provideno, doubtless for
wise reasons, naw fib not to gratify. At'
length they resolved, if possible, to adopt a
little girl as their own; bub this they found
no such easy matter as they had anticipated.
Although bhe oommunity consisted chiefly
of poor farmers and fishermen, there was
not one father or mother among them who
was willing to part with any one of their
own little daughter, even in favour of the
Deejarniere, muoh as they were loved and
respected. Where were none so poor at to
find the,00st of supporting o family a burden
to them. On the contrary, in that young
and thriving community, children were re.
garded as a source of wealth, and"tho larger
a mans family, the greater he accounted his
riches. The poor fishermen and farmers
feared lest a daughter adopted by the weal.
thy Deejarniers ehould become proud, and
forgetful, or neglectful, of the authors of her
being.
There was one sweet little girl, who
bade fair to grow up the belle of the village,
upon whom, eapeoially, Madame Doajarniere
looked with a feeling of envy that s'ie could
nob claim the child as her own. This girl's
name was Louie° Legrin. She was the only
ohild of a widower—Pierre Legit!, who was
one of bhe poorest fishermen in Sb. Claude ;
but nob for ten times the wealth of the Des.
jarniers, twine told, would he have parted
with bit little ewe•lemb, his only earthly
treaaur, for wli000 sake he toiled night and
day, aid often went forth to sea in times of
Aorta and danger thee kept his brother fish -1 drink the little girl miteed her
amen at home in their suug cabins, that he mother, went in search, and wandered out
might fnoreate hie store, and provide a of the oar door, falling off the brain, whiob
" It was, moreover, a °ommon remark
that no two children oould have boon found
better suited to hold the relative positions
of brother and sister than were Felix mad
Lonnie, wlio soon Dame to love each other as
dearly as a real brother and aster could have
loved. Happy bad it been had bbis brotherly
and sisterly love never been disturbed by a
love more passionate, and still more tender,
Happy, perhaps, had it been if M, and
Madame Doajarniere had remained montane
with the one child whom heaven had be-
stowed upon them, and not craved so long-
ingly after a daughter, whom Providence
had seen fib to withhold from them. Of ten.
times, alas 1 the boon whioh we poor, short-
sighted mortals most earnestly crave, proves
to be the fertile source of our future great-
est affiicbion 1
' To proceed, however, with my story.
FOREIGN NOTES,
MARCS 29, 1889
tsummeaunmttei
The grandmother of the Queen of Mada.
gresoaris dead. She was a hundred yeare
Geronilno, the Train Robber,
"Of all the smooth and ellppory outlaws
now twee and enjoying perfect freedom, the
smoothest uud slipperiest is ilernulmo, the
train robber of Areena and Moxi00,0 said
old, A. A. Herring, the mining than, u.: Castle
Australia nae just made to a projected Dome, Ari, I du nob refer be the wily
railroad a gr, at of 11,000,000, acres, or 20a- A pamollmo chief,
red o uua Shore
the fre ontier, bued n
000 agree a mile. The grant to the Pacitie y p , b
railroads in tale ueuutry ameurated bo to the wbttc namesake of hie, who, if any.
about 6, 400 acres a mile, thing, pommel more mauling,
In Stoohholm Choy hove not yet finished ammo iu malty Pacific (boast Sento and
houni'iug Jenny Lind, A " 14"4 much seem' bo he. known of Ger-
whim
°ew street has , Territ•nrioe eu,.side of Mama and the
just been called after her, and a sou''phor m
ountainous region to the math, Ole Mee
nae tonearly fiuialt04 a status representing
1 from one side of the Mtxioan lino to the
her in the costume of Norma, other in a ft home, uud ie as herd to gob
A pony is being daily sent up in a balloon, slam of se a will o'•tbo•iviep, He gees .got
and being let down by a poralhube, a fa' the moot civilized towns of the frontier
Baldwin, in London, and the Society, for the I whenever ho wants to, and nobody eosins to
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is being ' have the nerve to same him,
agitated by anxiety to know whether the I "Geronimo was connoted with two or
paay is soared or nob. , three of the hoavisob robberies on the Atohi•
The Empresa of Austria carries a travel. ' son, Topeka and Santa Fe road a year or so
ling basket fitted up so chat she is able bu I ago. He lout a halal in the latest hold-up
make soup on the Dare. Ib has silver suttee , on the Southern Paeific. No detectives are
pans with gold handles, and the Empress i after him, or if they are they make no
declares that she oan make in it better brothheadway in capturing him. Ho seems to
than any chef can concoct 1 have the right to go aaywliere unmol.
My ourlosity inducted me to enter the
garden—bhe gate of whioh lay deeply am
bedded in the soil—and peer into the house
through the windows or the doorway, the
door iteett hanging half open on one Indy
hinge, o
I would indeed have entered the bougie,
but the Waage was strewn with the debris
that had fallen from the coiling, and had
Welted up the parlour doors on either aide,
and 0 saw that the staircase wars broken,
and the stairs were in well a rotten condi-
tion bhab they were unsaf,il nob impaboable.
The Wall, like the carbide of the house,
wets over•grown With fungi, and pools of
water, whi'8 had dripped from the broken
r A earthly,
the floor, oxo visible ony,
roof,Were
death•likesmell provadd the plan,
and I Was glad to turn away and breathe
the lrosb alt, after having tithed in the pas-
sage for half a minute, As I passed the
"There are many stories," said Madame.
" We do not speak of it. Tb is regarded as
unlucky to allude to the subjeot. We avoid
the spot which has for many years been
accursed. Yet stay," she added. ,'If
M'sienr is really curious to learn the history
of the odious place, the cure will no doubt
be willing to gratify his desire. He is se-
cure from the machinations of evil spirits,"
With Ode I was content, tinea a eubsequ•
enb endeavonr to obtain the information
I sought from the elderb son of my host
and hostess proved to be a complete fail-
ure. The young man evidently did nob
like to talk on the subject.
My ouriosity was all the more excited in
consequence of this strange reticence on the
part of my host and his family, and I resolv-
ed, if possible, to solve the mystery from the
lips of the cure, whose acquaintance, how-
ever, I had nob yet made.
Monsieur Dubois, cure of the pariah of Sb,
Claude, was a short, shout, fresh -coloured
man, of about sixty yeareof age, For twenty.
five years he hod of fated as cure of the
perish. He was a cheerful, kind-hearted,
!heritable man, indefatigable in the perform.
woe of what he considered to be his duty,
and beloved as well as revered by bhe simple.
minded, honeeb people with whom his lob
was oast, who looked up bo him not only as
their spiritual pastor, but also as their advis-
er in all temporal difficulties.
Hitherto I had merely bowed in return to
M. Dabois's polite salutation, as be passed
the house at whiob 1 lodged one morning
while I wag strolling in the garden. I made
up my mind, however, to attend mate at the
little parish church the next Sabbath, think-
ing that the most likely way to secure the
friendship of the good father, and perhaps
procure an invitation to risib bis cottage,
especially as I had been informed thab ho
was always glad to receive the visits of the
few ttrengerwho Dame to St. Claude, and
to hear the news/ from the outer world, from
whioh he, good man, bad been so long Ballad-
e&
The next Sunday, a000rdingly, I made
appearance in the ohurola, and was politely
apcommodated with a ewe near the altar,
although the edifice wag thronged to eaoh a
degree that many of the worohippers could
not find standing boom, and were compelled
to wait outside the aburoh doors. After
servile, and when the good priest had
heaped bteseings on tho children of his
oefved
mo and step-
ping
pp e g ho er
arishion r ,
P
forward, cordially welcomed mo to
St. Claude. o •
We seldom tee stronger,„ said h . r'
grange to a rarity in our remote villager
" Years passed away, and Felix and Louise
— who had assumed the surname of her
foster parents—were already on the verge of
man and womanhood,—the one nineteen,
the other sixteen, years of -ago, and were
universally acknowledged to bo the hand•
eomest youthful pair in the parish of Sb.
Claude. Both had been well educated for
this position—Felix ab the collage at Quebec!,
ani Louise at a school ab Trois Rivierea ; and
bots had returned home, for good. About a
twelvemonth after their return, a great
change bad taken plane in their feelings to-
wards each other. They no longer appear-
ed as brother and sister, but regarded each
other with a stronger and more tender affirm
tion. Ia foot, they had secretly become be-
trothed to each other, and looked forward
to the day when they should become man
and wife. Nor were Monsieur and Madame
Deejarniere blind to the change that had
taken place in their children s sentiments;
end though they were ignorant of the fact
of their secret betrothal, they were far from
being averse to their future union. The
fair Louise had been to; them all that a
daughter could possibly have been; nor
could they have loved a daughter of their
own more dearly. They rejoiced, therefore,
ab the thought that Louise's marriage would
nub separate them, bub that the youthful
oonple would still continue to live with them
at the farm -house, until death should remove
them to a happier world, where they would
await an eternal reunion with their beloved
children.
Monsieur and Madame Deejarniers had
continued to prosper, and their wealth had
increased to such a degree, that there were
few few in the province who wore possessed
of greater riohee ; though M. Doajarniere
assumed no upstart airs, but still continued
to live the simple, quiet life of a humble
farmer. Nothing, meanwhile, had 000urred
to disturb the even tenor of their way ; and
and lb appeared as if heaven had exempted
them from the ordinary sorrows and troubles
whiob aflliob poor mortals in aimed every
condition of life. It had been at length ar-
ranged that the marriage of Felix and Louise
should take place when the former had com-
pleted his twenty-first year, and when Louise
would, consequently, be eighteen years of
age ; and a publio betrothal, followed by a
ggrand fete elven to all the villagers by M.
Deejarnier, soon afterwards took place.
Felix would have been better pleased had
the wedding -day been fixed ab an earlier
period ; and perhaps Louise was secretly on
her lover's aide. Both however, were con.
tent to abide by the wishes of their parents.
" Everything, in fact, seemed to go smooth-
ly with the Deejarniere—aged and youthful ;
yet a terrible calamity was swiftly approach-
ing, whioh would shatter all their dearest
hopes, and blight their happinees for over.
But I muse not anticipate my story. It
lacked but five months to the day appoihted
for the wedding of the youthful couple
when M, Desjarniers name bank from Nova
aerobia, whither he had gone to purchase
octal°. He had made a large purohms° ; and
having arranged for the reception of the oat.
de on his farm, he was about to return to
Nova Scotia in order to bring them home,
when Felix, who probably felt the time
wearisome as the day of his marriage drew
near, and wished the intervening epaos to
pass over as speedily as poscfbl, expressed
his earnest desire to proceed to Neva Scotia
in his father's plane. I6 was expected that
it would 000up'y four months bo complete the
journey to and fro, and that would bring
his wedding day close at hand.
(To RE CONTINUED)
What purports to be the skull of Darn•eared,
ills n woes aro considerably improved
ley, the huebanrf whose violent death history, I by his robberi°a of Walls, Faro & Co.
°hmrgea upon Mary Qumran of Socio, has beenMina owners, too, oeugheout with well filled
found in an English museum, It indioatee ookete, as well a° numerous travellers, have
that Darnowas a libortfn, and paid trfoute to him. Mexican and American
aftlioned withbh a loathsommee disease. I cattle and borne ownera have suffered,
Two English servants, Ann Wards and Thew three
have been car fad on for
Eliza Wylde, went boa Salvation Army; three and possibly for five years. A very
meeting on a Sunday evening, overstayed round aunt must have Bono into Geronimo's
the time when they shows have been homes exchequer in oonsequence.People moat luta for fear of a welding, tied themselvesexchequer
with the oirouustanoes of his plunder-
t„gather with m woollen scarf and drowned' lug figure his galas at from $100, 000 to
themselves in a canal. I$200, 000. Parhapa oat lose thou sweaty
Heathobateemen, from Count Tolstoi men havo bean killed also, yet bio has boon
down, ore aiding in the organization of so. 'rewarded as a myth by many who have only
ditties for the prevention an impression of heard about him In a ouraory way.
inebriety, Total abstinence, exoope from . "1 assure you he is about the liveliosb
light cider and levees, and aoid drink with blood, mnswlo anabolic myth, however, that
little alcohol, is the rule they seek to °stab. there is agoing, Thera are no Mee o0 him,
fish for boo hard drinkers. and evidently it is a good man who will get
A Sootohman in bhe picturesque and airy him—a second 13"b Garland or somebody of
costume of the Highlands boarded a train at , thateort. He knows the mountains as well
Lyons the other day bound for Nice. Two' as Billy the Kid aver did and hotter than
French ladies were en the carriage, and the' any other outlaw now living, He came to
moment the Highland laddie made hie ap- Tombstone first about three years ago.and
poaranoe they were terrified, and rushed on want under tho name of White.
the platform yelling for help, I He stayed for a short time around bhe
gambling houeos. He never wail known to
They are talking of having omnibuses in engage in honest labor. Ho was a fair
London, especially for those who want to gambler, though he never played for big
smoke when they ride. Apparently there is stakes. .He seemed to play for pastime
a Yankee in the scheme, for it ie said that more than anything else. In a short time
the vehicles will be fitted up with reeks of he disappeared and went to Clifton. Then
newspapers, and also with drop•a•niekle-in- he began hie open oareor of crime. MIs
the -elan machines that will deliver cigars, lath hauls wore on bhe Atchison and South.
cigarettes, tobacco, and matches. ! ern Paoifio roads, where, ft is believed, he
The jacket which the Empress of Russia gob nob less than $20, 000 each tune, Then
wore at the time of the railroad accident at he went to alexia° and was captured by the
Borki recently, has a hole as large as a hand regular troops while driving away some
torn in bhe loft side, and the bubtona have horses. But t e Sonora jails were nth strong
been crushed, aviiontly by a shook. She enough to hold him, and he is now baok In
has ordered a duplicate of the garment, Arizona. He often visits Tombstone, and
minus these reminders of her narrow escape a short time ago was aeon playing billiards
from the Paris dressmaker who made the in the Comet saloon there.
original. 1 "He has no headquarters, and his devices
Kraezewski, the Polish author and pat- to elude pawners aro always auoceseful.
riot, who was imprisoned for years in a Gor- Nothing is known of his presence till the day
men fortress, has jusb did in Italy. He after he has loft a place, and there is no
left to his family 92,000 rubles, a valuable doubt that three who know where he is
collection of paintings, a library of 42,000 keep still !boob it, for fear of death ea his
volumes, and a large number of valuable hands. His companion is a renegade Maxi -
manuscripts. The Imperial Library of Sb. Oen, named Federico. It has been said
Paberaburg has entered into negotiation that Geronimo is a Mexican, but this in
with the heirs for the purchase of these a mistake. He is white, or very nearly
manuscript, many of which relate to so'„ Geronimo is o dead shot, and officers or
Russia. The Prussia War Minister bas just pub- 1 anybody else aro nob in a hurry to try their
liehed in two volumes a history of the colors skill agatnat him. Some stiff rewards have
of the Prussian army from 1807. It art been offered by the railroad and express
pears that in the campaigns of 1864 and companies for hin, and private parties have
1866 ninety-nine standards were pierced by alae offered bonuses for him,
balls. In the campaign of (870 the number ° The Governors of Arizona and Sonora
of regimental oolorn pierced was 151. The have offered something like $3,000 eaoh.
flag of the Seventh Regiment of Infantry , There is monoy in his scalp, if it can be gob;
was bit by twentythree balls in the single I dub to get is is the trouble.”
battle of Rlare•le-Tour. In the entire I
Franco Prussian war thirty-eight Prussian 1
standard bearers were killed while hold-
ing their colors.
The Australian ballot system, whioh has
been the topic of muoh disoussion in the
United States, and whioh meets with gen-
eral approval, appears to be simply the bal. 1
lob system in use in Canada for many years.
Australia is otodited with having first adopt"
ed the plan, it high afterwards became pope
lar in England, Canada and several other
countries. Massaohusetts has now made ib
the system of the State, and ib will be used
for the first time in the vete on State prohi-
bition this spring.
One of the most remarkable engineering
feats appears to have been achieved in
China, in the face of extraordinary physical
diaioulbie, namely, the euooeseful etretah• !
ing of a steel wire cable of seven strands
across the river Luanne, this feat having
been accomplished by the Danish engineer �
Delind, wanted only by unskilled native
labor. The oable extends between two'.
points, at a distance of nearly 4,700 feet
apart, the height of the first aupporb being
about 450 feet above the preeent level of the
river, and the eeoond about 740 feet. The
cable in question is said to be the longest in
bho world, with a single exception, namely,
the Gabel across the Kiebns, measuring some
6,070 feet. There are also two cables acmes
the Ganges, of 2,000 and 2,830 feeb, roe-
peotively.
CHILD LOST FROM A TRAIN.
Itsutnrliableltatatle or aUttle One Who
hell weraFast ltxpress.
ST. Twain/s, March 27.—On the arrival of
No. 2 Michigan Cenbral railway express at
Welland at 2,10 the other morning, Conduct-
or Lyons reported to the officals new that a
six•year•old daughter of Charles Schneider
was missing from the train. Mr. and Mrs.
Schneider, with eight children, were on
route from Iowa to Brockport, N. Y,,
and ft is supposed that after the train
left Waterford when Mre. Schneider step
ed to one end of bhe oar to get a
French Fisher -Folk,
The industry carried on by the coast poo.
plc on the French foreshores le quite a sight.
Even the little children contrive to make
money by building fish -pond, or forming
trenohoa in whioh to gather salt, or in some
other industry inaidenbal to seashore life.
Some of the people have old rickety boats
patched up with still older pieces of wood
or leather; sails mended here and there till
it is difficult to know the original portion
from those that have been added toil); nets
torn and darned till they are scarce able to
hold a fish ; and yet, that boat and that
°rippled machinery are the capital stook of
perhaps two or threogener.tione of a family,
the concern having probably been founded
half a century ago by the grandfather, who
now sees around him the series of hungry
generations that it would take a fleet of
boats bo keep in food and raiment. The
moment the bide runs back, the seashore is
at once overrun with a legion of hungry
people who are oager to clutch at whatever
achy fragments the receding waters may
have left; the shallow pools aro eagerly,
hungrily examined, and contents grabbed
' with an anxiety that belonge only to paver.
! by. Ab soma places on the ooast, how-
ever—the adoption of fish culture healed to
a traffic in eyeteeth that is surprising—in.
' deed, a new life has dawned on some dit-
triote; and whet% at one time was poverty
and squalor, there is now wealth and pros
parity. _
dowry for his darling against the time when
she would arrive at a marriageable age.
was running ab a speed of 50 miles an hour.
All the soden foremen between Waterford
"Alas 1 poor Pierre Lapin dared the ode- and Welland were immediately notified by
menta once too often, His little bark was telegraph to eoaroh their rospeotivo dfvi•
aanpht inn heavy gale in the estuary of the slops, and at 4.10 a, m. the child was found
Sb. ` and neither he nor hie tittle threo•quartere of a mile west of Abtoroiiffo,
Lawrenoo,
vestal were seen or hoard of more. Poor on the north side of the track, lying in the
little Lonnie was left an orphan at vine ditch in three inches of water. There was
years of ago—an orphan, without near re- a bad out on her forehead, bub she Was eon-
taken to A
bteroliffe station
' us She was
1 nob epic
s for Chore was
not friettt lass
ons bnt o
lei ,
ext train to Steven -
that
the n r S
sect o
oraiehofSC. Claude and forwarded P
r
it i
n the village
that would not hve g,idly, sheltered rho cion Bridge. The physician at Sutponsion
poor little child, and adopted her as one of Bridge says ne bones are broken and bhet the
their ecru. ablld Will recover if fever does nobseb in,
The Paris correspondent of the (Seoolo) of
Milan reports en interview with M. Naqueb,
in whioh bho Senator says: "Boulanger hasn't
at his baok either an Arcola or a Marengo;
bub who knows? they may dome yet, Bou-
langer will never renounce the rights of
France to Al.aoe and Lorraine; but be won't
daolore war against Germany, because he
knoWe that if France atbaoked Germany she
would have all Europe against her. He will
wait for Germany to begin the abtaok. Only
one oiroumstanoe might force him out of the
line of prudence, and that is a deolarabion of
war against Germany by Russia. Then
certainly he would abtaok Gerirany on The
Rhine with the entire French army, The
triple alliance exists still, and it would be
absolute madness on our part bo commonest
hosbilibiee single-handed.”
India Rubber Pavements.
The Berlin Paper "Iiuhlows" says : "For
paving streets India rubber threatens to en.
ter into competition with asphalt. The
new pavement Jo an invention of Herr Busse
of Linden, who has introduced ib in Ham
over. He used it firth in ,the summer of last
year for paving the Goethe bridge, whioh
has a surface of about 1,000 equate meters,
or 10,764 square feet. The new pavement,
it is abated, proved so satisfactory that
1,500 square motets (16,146 square feet) of
ordinary carriage way in the city were paved
with ib this summer, The Berlin corporation
being favorably impressed with the now
pavement has heti a large area paved
with India ribber 0e an experiment, and
try -
The merits of a new church organ wore that the magistracy of Hamburg is likewise try-
dooaribed by a Weal paper . "The swell diad ing rho pavement, I6 is asserted that the
away in a delicious auffoc&tion, lfk° one now pavement combines the elasticity of
ranging a sweet bong under the bedclothes. India said
bo with the reg noiseless,
of of granite.
Ib ie said to be peefectly noiseless, and un -
Teacher : " Now, children, I will give affeobed either by heat or cold, It ie not to
you three words—Boys, Boee, and Bears 1 slippery as asphalt, and le more durable than
and I want you to compose a Bentenoo whioh the latter. As a covering for bridges it
will #naiad° all three words." Small Boy : ought bo prove exoellonb, as It reduce vibra•
" I have it." Teacher t "John Mo- brationt but a question may be coked at to
earthy, you may give us your sentence." Ito coot, The expense tenet be heavier than
John McCarthy : ` Boys beep bare when that of any known pavement."
they goeo in owimmin.' ,r
The Chinese grass, known as ramie, so
valuable as a textile plant, and yielding a
fiber as fine as 01111, has nob, hitherto, been
cultivated to the extent desirable, owing bo
the lack of maohiosty suitable for extraoting
the fiber. In 1880 the Indian government
offered a prize ai $26,000 for such a machine,
French ministrya ricultute
and now the rii renof
fS
offal f,6000fn prizop
for maabinos or pro.
tbat end. Ramie 10 grownnear
wises to
Peale, and some of the theme will be used to
limy the competing ma0hines,
A foliar Easily Earned.
First Tramp—" Hallo, ,Terry, onto in and
havo a cocktail,"
Second Tramp—" What 1 Cookbail 1 Yea
must be livin' on Edgy genet now."
First Tramp—" Yee, I rather guosa I nm,
I'm gobbin' a dollar a day for oebtin' in
show wder oadvertise
in 't anow
toilet] soap,"
,
Sogond Tramp—"
Rate 1"
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qualm, I represent the t before nein',! "
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