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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-7-11, Page 2TEE BRUSSELS POST: Jura. 11, 1890. eneezesswesewswatworsoreoweseeteseworeeerweenoweee _ ettotwooteereetecessecowesseteeteetwee, _ MY FIRST LOVE. UHAPTER IIL ! He had come and gone, end Armes. nee wed, She could nut tell why, hut she hail aneheipeted it Tilly's first visit with llue4 oupreme delight, as something to fill her 111t11 It new uuteeted toys tt had elevate and q00,0, and left belinelit may itemise dieappointment, It was e very vague sense indeed, Ruh Cs 1.1111C 110A 8011101i11103 wamlering whaled= with SWIlet11CMill$1 stirred her, and then was gone. "Spirits finely touched" are subject to nigh eettentions, have peveliar chords of their ewn, by nature's phenomenti eitruck. Aunie had never walked through haydiehl with the grass lying loose at her feet but the sudden ecents en the breezee had smitten het' half with pain. And as she set alone with her twaree aeknowledged grief like a strliege prophetio instinet came batik those old vivid sensations. She could not . it ell how it was, but the breath of now - :MOW». hay seemed to come across the daisies and the tall feecue.grass in the zeteadows, wafting with it the fear and sad- . !MOSS it 80 often had brought to her before. She recalled, with fond nue:taus minuteness, every word aud look of 11.. Tilly. land M nothing dune or said could. she find a cause s tor her uneasiness ; perhaps, not even in any- thing left undone or unsaid, and yet the pain lay there, and haunted hoe reetlessly, 8he even thought :if Kate with a sigh, not whol- ly of pity—happy, careless Kate, who lived like the flowers of the field 1 But Annie's was too healthful a nature to harbour willing despondeuey ; and when slur went dowa in the large low -roofed parlour, clone with her mother over her homely needle.work, the peace of common things (stole :mietly back into her life. If she was graver then her want, that was all ; and the tender thought of her mother found easy ex - Venation for It. "It has come to you too 50011, my bitirnie, on ye eannot hold yourself up with a bolder brow to meet it. Yell be a winsome wife, 'MN Tilly may well be proud ef, but ye shall oat tine your maidenhood till ye do it with ▪ thintent." And Annie drew a little sigh, and blushed, cud was silent. But the sigh made the mo- theepause in her knitting, 'Indwell her daugh- bre, this time anxiously. " Lay bye your seam, Annie, and take a race through the fields, and see the Miss Bur - ✓ idges. I promised, when yu came home, ye '1* weeld carry them the newsofkife ; and now ye have news of your own forbye, that Miss and Miss Grizzy will both be fain to bear." " 0 mother ! how could I toll them that '?" " As ye please, then. But run, dear. The feeds eir will do you good ; and the Miss 33exridges will be wearying to hear about Kate and Mr Tyne." And so it was that .Annie, through lack of power to resist, foued herself in the after - :mons on her Way to Chrisay-holm. Chissy- beim lay norms the fields ; a very grand old hoarse, or one which had been so in the palmy eleye of the past. It was even considrable eneugh to be grich in legeml and ghost, one et its great gloomy chambers having lodged, oceasion, an arehbishop, though how the nrclibishop and the ghost became connected t hrough years, eebody was able to csplabie It had cense into the family eaf the Berridges nearly forty years before ; and from that time downwards, the presiding genii of tho had been Miss Berridge, Miss Bell. and Miss Grizzy. ?Miss Grizzy had been bridemaid to Annie's grandmother ; for Annia's mother had gentle blood in her veins ; and there were plenty who thought she forgot what was due to her family when see married tho wealthy ,burgess. Thus it was that Annie was accepted at (Chrissy-hohn, Bat 8110 WAS not a frequent visitor, for the pride of the place was less cangenial to her than it had been to hand- sel -lie Kate 1 the great arched lobby always oast a shadow of awe upon her ; and she had leered thence, as had also Mise Berridge and Miss Bell, that she was not born for high things, as Kato was born for them—who carried herself superbly everywhere. But the old ladies received her with quite flutter of fondness. •" Eh, Annie, lass, but ye have been long oef coming ! We thought they were keeping _you in Fife, and that would not have done. •—And. how is Mrs. Tyne 1—Kate that was. ;And how is the minister ? And now are yo yourself ? Ye are a hantle bonnier than when ye went away, and that is saying mickle—eh, Annie, lass ; and ye must stay Witlet take your four -hours with us, for thereei Harry Faulds coming to do the same. Harry's been in London near a whole year ; and Miss Berridge made him promise he would come Chrissy-holm to give us all the news this e'en. For Miss Burridgo was in London herself once upon a time, and we have a cousin but twice removed that bides a Iberrister there And Harry was aye a canny hand to bring the news ,to Miss Berridge, or do an errand for Grizzy or me." AndMiss Berridge, stately in hertepestry. chair, her white wrinkled hands folded 011 her wine -coloured silk, smiled complacency rued welcome with that regal reticence which, eM the eyes of all Chrissy-hohn, sat upon her :es a crown upon an empress, But Miss Grizzy took possession of Annie forcibly with both hands. Miss Grizzy was of the weft type of maidenhood, and had been pretty in her day. Annie never left Lollymere 1/Ut Mi8s °Tizzy was sure, co her return, she must. have some dainty love episode to regale her own private tier with ; for Miss Grizzy at fifty-eight was - as greedy of love and its belongingsas when, with her eighteen years, she had fired all Ithe hearts of Craigie. item last Miss Grizzy would tell in a low languishing whisper, ad would also Miss Berridge aud Miss Bell in ee more assertive tone ; for Mims Grizzy'slove affairs had served for all the family, and though an old faded woman now, she was etill the MIN Grizzy led Annie away, and helped ber to take off her bonnet, to thrrange 1101? curls and her rather, and emooth out tho folds of her dress. Thou she put her arm round her waist, in confidential techool-g.itt fashion, and led her back, saying as she did : " I've a deal to spear at you, Annie ; but my Meters, Miss Berridge mid Bell, will be fain to hear tho news ; wadi ' have our own ohat again, dear." So Annie was eneconeed in the drawing. room, eloseby the old-fashioned spinet, where bliss Grizzy Med placed her chair, that they ell might see her and hear her. Annie was weensetomed to such ordeals periodical. ' ity at Chrissy-holm, and 811O dill 110t mind them much, while she had but 'ter maiden inguisitors, But Harry Path% had come a.; little too soon for the Mies, making es ethology an ongegtencett an hour or two later, An engagement hohould not avoid,Harry harl wild to Miss Berridge, before Miss Grizzy and Annie returned to tho drowing.room, Herry forgot his engagement when he %Ott heside Annie Gregory—a thing not pleas. 'ing to Annie, recalling Rate's weeds, as obe 10111—" If Harry Fttekla had Asked Me." 0, Knee, Hate 1 And Murry :deo would aelt alma Kato te thousand interested gum. ! (Holm " You sister imist find -Loanie-burnie at quiet place to live Mr " Yes, But Ulm duets not matter, loll knOle, Isteauee it is hoe home none" ' " eel epoken, Annie, haul . Miss Bur. ridge Irons her high•backed Audit " But, Miss Berridge," said MINA cieizey " a weman surely need 110t. ti.110 friend aethialutmee for the reaton Me has got a man." "A man ! no!" retorted Niles Berridge "but for the melon she has got a homes. ;elle mut be disereet, 114111 LL keeper at home. myself have aye been en, I Was rine- tress of (finitely holm." "True, Miss Berridge," acquieseed Grizzy meekly; "but there's no many like you." "I gave Kate a good advice," resumed Miss Berridge, unetteg, from her sister to Annie: "belike she has not token le She was ithe a thoughtless queen." "I tion't knew what advice yon gave her, imam," said Annie, who stood in sonie ewe of Miss Berridge ; "but I doubt not she would take it ; and she is not so thoughtless either." "That's right !" said Harry Feeble. "Stand up for your sister, Miss Gregory." " Yes," said Annie. "And Mr. Tyne•—he's proud of her ?" "I'm sure MS is," said Annie, " uever ENLIV Kate look better or handsomer in all her life." This was partly for Harry Funds' benefit. Annie could be proud for her sister, if she could not be so for herself. And it was hard to brook the thought that lie should glle8S 0701' 00 lightly that ohlgirlish longing of Kate'e—" If Harry Fatulds woehl ask ine I" She could not help glancing at Ithn from hoe:seat beside the sentiet, as ho stood leaning agninet the mantel -piece, behind Miss Burridge's chain The grand old spinster and thu grand old home certainly did uot awe him, as they had always awed Amite from childhood. But he was of tho same kith, aud. nerved in the samo sphere ; besides, he Wt40 DOT boy—he was seven years older than Annie. Kate had told her so. Kate always found WAYS and means to learn what she wished toknow. And Annie, as she looked at him hisopen, goodly youth, eever wondered again at the secret love of her sister, "She would. have been a happier woman if Harry nitride had asked her ; Iknow thee well, for he is good." So Annie mused with a little cloud on her brow, wIneh nobody guessed the cause of, or, perhaps, even noticed. But the cloud was on her healt, as well, and umele Annie sad. If, for a little while, Miss Buridge's discourse dispelled it, or Miss Bell's practic- al comments, or Miss Grizzy's gentle chatter, one a those generous smiles which lit Harry Shields' face would cast her own back into shadow, and make her sigh inly : "Poor Kato!" She wondered what Harry thought of 'Cate. He must have liked her, she was sure—liked her, possibly, in quite en indif. ferent sort of way, as pretty, pleasant, and. gay—no more. Yet he was interested he her still ; he listened whenever SI10 WAS named, especially if Allele mimed her, mad spoke of her life at Leanie-burnie. Who knew but it had cost him something tocrushoutan incipientleve, whieh hisprid env ambition for- bade him to own or cherish ! And so, for her sister's sake, her interest deepened inHarry. She WE18 glad when the &anti& fen, and, alone again with Miss G•rizzy, she was re. seining her walking attire, that the conver- sation tuned on Harry's affairs, not on Kate's, or her own. "1 aye liked him, Annie; but Miss Ber- ridge sets -lightly by him. She says he will neither Will nor keep, whine may be cure true. And it's been a goodmerehent•family for more generations than I ken. It would be wae for Craigie to see it :some down with Harry. But Ile has not will enough, and he's oevre good and generous, not that I should e'er say his forebears were not the same. Maybe he'll take tent in Urns, and leave busi- ness alone : bis hither will leave him plenty to follow his ein will." • Annie longed to ask of very different matters—of Harry's loves and fancies, about which, uo doubt, Miss Grizzy Ingl had her eurmises. But she oould not bring herself to what might have bore such misinterpre- tation ; especially, knowing, as she did, that, by patient waitiug on her Informant, all she wished to know would be certainly yokes- teered. Miss Bell's clamorous voice, how- ever, dispelled all such hope. "Are ye no ready, Annie Gregory? There's a shower coming vont the braes : and ye do not haste ye, yell got it ere ye're through the clover -field And Annie made speedy adieux, and was out on the fields with Harry Feeble without another word privately With Miss Geizzy Annie liked to talk about Kate, and Harry liked to listen. Harry had never been at Lomnie-burnie ; but Annie would tell him of it—of its (likes and its level fields, and its qeeer old rambling thatched manse; of how much she missed Kate at Craegie, and how mach Kate missed her too ; of•Mr. Tyne also—of how very grand he looked, and what a power he was in the parish of Loanie-burnie. All this she told with great truth and simplicity, sayiug siothisig of limited brows, nor fretting loves, nor weal, Mess. Only Annie'a heart misgave her a whon Harry's generous face spoke all the pleasure he felt et the happy lot of her sister. And the hearty ring of his voice whea he sold : "She is werthy of it," made het•e spirit sink within her, as if it insulted Kate. CHAPTER IV, "Goodonorning! Annie Gregory." The fresh morning breeze came up from the river -bed, mid fluttered the daisies tend the short green rug, spreading through the hot heart of enure ; and Anme, rich in the joy and hope which a breeze will sometimes wake, was crossing slowly, in tweet medita. tive mood, this long stretch of °oilmen known as tho Craigio Green, "Good-mornieg, Annie Gregory." And her path wee intercepted by a broad, low, sallaw.faced figure, dressed with careful richness in a medley of brown end black, "Miss Tilly I" Annie spoke her grouting in rt frank burst or stnilos, and hold out her hand to the ungainly friend who hail broken her reverie. "Miss Tilly, I thought yo would have come to see in° ; but I was not going to stand oe ain right, but was coming to the Gerbille this very day." ri Ms en A 1111iC sawsho had made amistalt for there was no responsive cordality in Miss faeo or manner ; and she was vexed with herself, and suddenly :dime rye other things to do than gad about, bliss Gregory ; it's beet for the like of you that's own dainty to :toil your ain hands. "What do ye inean, Mess Tilly ?" asked Annie in undisguised surprise. "Have I offeected yo in aught? Then X ans sorry for it. And if I (der kept my hand from doing a good tura for you, I did le unwittingly, as ye sure. ly know well," "I know neither ono thing nor other, bet maidens are no toe mei:lolly will come a dey's ;journey with tiled in et post.ehaiso, Will a pleage and a promisee OTO 1,110Y COMO tO tho end of it." "Miss Tilly," exclaimed Annie, firing ep as hotly CH Katt could heve done, "ye wrong MO a hundred times, and ye know in your heart that yo 110." And then Mies Tilly relented, for elle bad :Token in anger arid vexation, anti she was 111 11171.ke IUM.IldS for it as they paced the cool ne•adoe• together. • "Never heed me, Mem Gregory 1 I'll be 0, lone lone W01111111 W11011 my brother gots you for a wife. Wee hearts make foolgtpettehes ; Ind never heed Illr -I'll got :wer it in tune. tql iee end Annie, with bitter tears in her eyes, "and this is instead of the couguitulatione 1 expeeted, and all the pleesant crack WO eight have about one that's dear to us bet h !" "Yell lieu no mere alteut it, an yell say naught of this to my brother," "No, no 1 Why should I vex him, and my- self, end yon 1" "Ye have promised," aaid Miss Tilly, checking her steps, and Melting full in Aniste's faee with glittering, ilhomened eyes. "Yes," said Annie, withdrawing her own uncomfortably, Mise Tilly omitted a little :round of satis- faction, stetted ttpm her companion with significent reassurance, and then they resum- ed their walk along the rivecside. "I saw ye last night when ye did not see me." "Where ?" asked Annie with a little start, which Miss Tilly treasured in her memory. "tl ith a very brew young gentleman, crossing the fields Chvisaydiohn." " 0 yes," said Annie, her face lighting with pleasure: " that was Mr. Harry Fault's. But how did ye happen to be theve ?" "Just on the Inenel road, coining home from my brother's at Hurley." " And ye saw Me, Harry Fauldeeend me 1 That was droll. Ye may truly think him brew; but he's good, aud that's better. I wish ye knew Mr. Harry Faulds, and I wish Mr. Tilly knew hint; I will ask hint if he does," " He knowe hitn none," said Miss Tilly. "His folks are mere high for the like of my brother and me." Annie did not like this speech, It WOUIld ed her, for Mr. 1 illy was her own; and sh thought nobody in the world too high to muitch with Met She could not persuade herself that all men mut women were not t charmed and won by him as W118 hoe own fond heart. 'Them was nothing disloyalto Tilly in her admiration of Huey Fluids. It ' was as her sister's first love that she always thought of Hain; when she thoeght of Ms goodness, it was as something her sister had lost ; never, never as any- tlfiug coveted for herself. And love of goodness was a passion in Annie, as the love of beauty might have been, or the love of art, or song. 'it hen she said Harry Faulds was good, she expressed all her heart desired —her climax of admiration, her highest flight of praise. How she would sometimes thmk of him I.—of his full, soft, blue -gray eyes, rich benignity, redolent in generous thought—of the fine emotional lips, where pelemps, as Miss Grizzy had said, there was scarcely will enough to light tho world's bat - ties well, yet which :meld be bold for truth, and bold to defend the weak—it beautiful, brave, moral nature, of a type that has few representatives—which to know was to know the whole man, hew keen soe'or might be the intellect, how faultless the face and the form. And Annie thought all this, yet was loyal in her heart to Mr. Harry Faulds was het, beautiful ideal; Mr. Tilly her heart's love— And lova must still be Lord dole She bade Miss Tilly good-bye with a sad henatolevertheless, and made uo calls at Graigie, but went straight home to Lolly. mere. Anniehadtoo sweet a nature to fret or mink. or into peevishness ; but nobody could help noticing the restless wearied excitement to which her old placidity gave way. Every interview with Mr. Tilly was somehow anew disappointment. Her love did not abate, as others might hathpily have done it seemed deeper in intensity, to give with the richer plenitude for all that was withheld from it. She was tolerably indifferent to most other things—to wealth, and position, and praise; but she must love with heart and soul ; she bad no life apart from her love and she had given it to Mr. Tilly, purely, withoutlreseeve: she could not withdraw it from Min because he seemed weary of it. " Weary of it." Annie learned to say that phase till it became MI illt01011111C CIlgUish. And she would often lie awake, and wonder for hours and hours why to her had given but thee one little exquisite flash, that, ahnost insufferable happiness, and then only Amber on shadow, only eveaeisome doubt and pain. She could not write to Kato about it—Kate, who had warned hes so, She could. nottell her mothee, who had no thought she htel any trouble but the over-anxiouness of love, the already fore -shadowed parting from her early happy home. Sometimes she thought with a shudder of Miss 1?illy's ominous eyes, of the shadow they had met upon her heart that noon by the river -side. Attd so the months went on till the brown scant leaves of October were hanging on the trees. It was a still, starry night. Mr. Tilly had been some hours at Lolly -more. He had bade her good evening with the rest—not a word, or a glance which mightnot hero been for her father. And sitting with Mr. Greg- ory, close by the great ruddy fire, Ise had discussed the state of trade, the threatening aspect of Europe, the inefficiency of the Gralgto magistracy, the last speech of the Premier; and never a word for Annie, who silently bent :drove her lace cushion in a shady corner of the room; for she had 'plaoecl the candles, with a little enguessed art, so the light might fall on Mr. Tilly'e face, and the shadow wrap her ONVII. Allele spoiled her laoo through tho dark and her trembling hand, through the long sorrowful glanoos which stale to Mr. Tilly's fem. She did not know what they were saying—it did not matter to her ; but she honed Mr. Tilly's voice, and that was more their enough. At last she did comprehend only two or three words, It was Mr. Tilly who spoke with a little, harsh, greeting laugh; "Bo stun it will tern out wroug if a woman's hand. is in it." Why should Annie take these words, and appropriate them all to herself —th cso inmost, menningless words, thrown, perhaps, at some great owlet ledy ? But Ammo could net help R. She gathered np her lane ; faintly, very noiselererly, the glided out of the room. She could not go to hey own, she was too restless and unsatisfied. She haunted the staircase, and tho lobby, and the gravel about the door, It, was a very still, soft night, with te little now edge of moon shin. ing down poatool prophemes through the few rod, loose, oak 'wives. Yet it was cold in its peace • Mid Alltd0 ellivered and Robbed coming out 'from the ruddy warmth, and bright loqueeious indifference which was all for -MN. Tilly, And then she heard in the parlour a little flutter of parting ; and Mr. Tilly CA."10 10 the lobby, and enveloped himself in hie greatcoat. Annie row him, with the lamp shining down upon hoad, while she stood one m the dark, where he meld not see her. Her nu,ther had gnu to seek her : 0110 heard her voice be the Metre:co ; "Meth, Annie I er you not coming down to Me, Tilly ?" And then Annie moved into the light, and gave her hand quietly to their guest. "Good -night, Annie. Ye got tired of us, 001)115::: Tilly's hand telexed, and Aneic's dropped at. Uvalde. • like to look at the liftwhen the moonse sae young mid hoenie.?'' "A thankless thing," Raid Mr. Tilly. Ile WCA hardly looking at her, but the reproaell wee& implied burned. down I into Annie% stout. They mid geed. night I as coldly as worde could be speken. And Annie wont straight to her room, burdened with a eick presentiment of some impend- ing calamity. Two daya later, thie presentiment WAS 111191013 1::1 1 :111,48 0118(41)11Y—I hardly fted now tied 1 have a right to at -lames you otherwiee. I write to leforte you tint if yeu have any wish to be ree :from the engagement which we formed, per- haps prematurely, you are amply at liberty to °wielder it at an end. Citeumstauces daily oonvince me that, we aro unsuited for each other ; and that, but on eertain con. siderations, you would never have accepted my proposals. I have no dould you will soon be happy with ono whose society you find more congenial than mine ; and that if we have deceived onrsolves into belief in a passion which scarcely egisted, we will speedily experience the relief of undeceiving ourselves in regried to the same. If this suggestion does not meet with your views, of course you can hold me bound. But I would mushier it happier for both paean, that where love eas ceased to exist there should be no further compaet.--)N tiding your reply, I atm, doer Miss tiregoey, yours, wit:Immesh esteem., A Tilly. This letter was brought to Annie while she sat alone in the narlone ; and she read it in a sort of stupor, read it again and again before comprehending its contents. Then, very quiet and pale, she rose, and clinging to the banisters, for support, went up -stairs to her room. There she locked the door, and drew hor weiting-case to her ; ahe could not trust herself the de- lay of a angle home She wrote thus, with an effort to steady her hand, till the loth was aceomplished. MY DEAR MIL 'TILLY—Your letter stuns me • I cannot realize it but be it as you will. I can bear aught that brings no grief to you. I will aye love you ; 1 will aye prey fee yam I ahall nem,. be your 'Pilo.— Yours forever in Iowa, butt nothiug more. Asmn. Almost Amite signed her name ; and. as she took her little Olden seal from its place, the seal she had used so often with proud pleasure in its pretty affectimmte de- vice, a feverish energy which was quite foreign to her nature seized possession of her, She pressed the seal on the paper as if with a will she could press all the love from her life ; aud with hot glowing cheeks, and eyes that burned unsteedily through a mist of soreow aud incomprehension she wont hastily down.stairs and out to the free air. " Archie," she said to the gardeuer who eras clearing the fallen leaves from the flow. er-beds rotted the door, "please, take this letter to the town. There's no need of ye saying ye go on an errand from me. Take it quickly, Archie, as ye would do me a kindness." And then she turned hastily away : she could not beer that any one should look on her sorrowful face. She wont down among the great strong hollyhocks, with their me emotional heads, coerse, and rich, and greed, like the pursethroud merchants, of wham there were plenty in Craigio, bowing their wealth osteutationsly, wafting no beneficent fragrance, bending never in gracious humid- ity. If you are sad or troebled beware of holly. hocks, Do they not taunt you with thee. glumly gladness, their self-sullieiont upright- ness, the glittering phalanx they will meet you with, in the umot of a gardemwalk. Happily, in an October noon, you have abundant oompensations. As the docleens grow beside the nettle, over the bed of the holly -hocks rustle the kinclly leaves. Yellow, and crimson and brown, the winds bear them near and far, with a sad, soft, uncertain aroma, a sweet. nese unutterable. The brilliance of autumn leaves, nature tempers with her decay, end so we have psalms when wowill, despite the hollyhocks. But Annie's grief was too new for either psalms or peace ; the holly• hocks oppressed her, butt the leaves had no healing In them, She had written the he revocable words: "I shall never be your wife," and until they were 'mem/able, elm did 110t know what they cost her. She could not recall them now- —her letter already might be in Mr. Tilly's hand— and the dio was cast ; and Annie was alone. She seated herself ou the grass in a shady corner of the. garden. She could not yet realise the thing Ulla had come upon hey— how, through the long winter days, her heart would go forth imploringly, yet find no answering love to keep it warm mid safe —how it might make shipwreck of itself on that dietary strand, for ever wandering home. lessly, like the ghosts on Pluto's shore. Annie did not realise this ;yet tho flesh of briof indignation faded away from her cheek, and, with cold passive hands in her lap, she sat =Monte:is among the drift- ing loaves. Hor home; was too wildly fond to lumber its anger long ; but still, through the gray autumn mist, the ominous oyes of Mies Tilly Lose like a doom before her. "She has done it !" moneed Annie, "Cruel, oruel !" (TO BE CONVINCliali) A Dead Corpse. Ann MCafferty WU, perhaps, once able to Nay of Edward Owens, " YOU W01.11 born with butter in your mouth, and that is what makes your orations to the fair sox to be ao soft end melting 1" but, alas on Saturday they quarrelled and fought, and were march- ed off to the polies statime Policeman—She had bottle of Whis- Ity— Ann—Is that, a crime ? Policemen—And she struok Owens with the bottle, (Laughteve They wore fight- ing. Anti—Oh, titre tits I Wid I waste it like that ? (Laughter.) Edward Owens—Whisht, Ann (Laugh- ter,' Here's the richt sob o't, There wis a num wine :trapped doun adied corpse—nnetali. tor)—in the Bird Market. Weel, Unlike I to myser, maybe, noo, I ken the debt corpse. (Laughter.) Up Pin gem' to the oft's— Magistrate—What has that got to do with your being out and quarrelling at throe clock on Sunday morning Felward—Well, I CM telitn' yo, I Wall gaun' up to see the oorpso, (Laughter.) Magistrete—You aro moll fined 15s or ton flays, Tommy—"Pa, what does foot mem ?" Papa—"St moans, my son, the ability Nelda a WOMATI has of sponging money front her buboes(' so that he can never find enough in his pocket to buy a, cigar or pay car faro," Ito that cannot forgive others breaks tho bridge over which ho must pass himself ;3fer every man has need to bo forgiven. LATE FOREIGN NEWS. SMOKELESS POWDER TEST. A Sensation In .A. STRANGELY MANNED SHIP, .Uaportaut Naval Events. Ilismarek's weight is 181, he having once weigheil 210, The Frettell have tried emokeless powder with the biggest guns, suceessfully. The coming European rille is said to be by Milanovitch of the Servian army. The late King of Pottugal, who died in. testate, left less than $100,000 personalty. A seneation has been product in Heidelberg by the rumor that the Governineet rimy close the University, France's census of carrier pigeons shows that in time of war the Government would have at its dispneal upward uf a quarter of a million of them. The full edition of 'Marshal Mac,Nlahou's memoirs, six copies, has been distributed among his nearest relatives, with the in- junction of seerecy. The best shot of her sex must be the Countess Maria von Kensky of Bohemia, who on One day lase winter on her estate of Chlatnce shot 138 hares. A now dramatic sopvano has appetwed in Paris in "The Jewess." She is Mlle, Morons and has a powerful voice, well cultivated, She comes from Brussels. 1\111e. Janine Dumas has just been received into the Catholic Church. Alexandre 'hones has usually 'Wowed his children to choose their religion on their coining of age. Tho Alliance Francaise, the object of which is to promote the study and speaking of the French language outside France has received 10,000 francs from M, Cer- nuschi, M. Tem Leiw, a Parisian sportsman, hos bet 100,000 finites Unit he will ride from Paris to Berlin, ebout 700 miles, in ten days. Ho started on June 13 from the Odeon Theatre. The :nen upon whom the woman foll when jumping from the tower of Notre Dame a maple of weeks ago, died of hie internal in- juries after having been discharged from the Paris Hospital as all right. Tho highest military muthorities have de- termined to build in. the boyhood of of St. Patersberg a large factory foe the manufacture of smokeless powder. The building is to be finished this summer. A vessel sailed into the port of Odessa the other day manned by monks. Cap taie, mate, second mate, boatswain, cook, end sailors, all wore the dress of the monastery of Mont Athos. The name of the ship is the "Pro. pliete-Elie." The sale of indecent publications at the Heigh= railway stations has reached. such a point thee the Miuister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Railways, M. Vandenpeereboom, has had recourse to such a heroic remedy as the total suppression of the book stalls, A worthe: companion to Gerced, "The Lion died recently at Dijon, in the person of Bombounel. He shares Gerard's honors by ridding Algeria of its plare of panthers, as the latter did of its lions. He was always a driedup little man, and died at 74. Th e regular running of trams botweenBaku aud Tiflis on the trens-Cetionsian line wart stopped for over an holm on May 13 because inune»se masses of locusts covered tho tracks. A largo gang of laborers wore required to clear the way. Now there is a sweeping tnaohine attached to each train. The University of Berlin, with its 0,000 students and scores of famous professors, has a capital of but $750,000. Its largest en- dowment, that of the Countess Bose, is only $150,000. Nevertheless, it is the sent of the highest German learning, and claims to have the ablest corps of instructors of all the world's schools. The Ressien Impotent Medical Council is now at work on a plan for the regulation of the praet ice of dentistry. It is proposed not to allow tiny person to practice as a dentist unless he possesses a thorough medical educe - tion and is a graduate of the sixth class of a gymnasium. The sixth is the highest class but one in Hussite's high schools. About twenty years ago a plun lofts 11100t- Od tO SOM1 'ergo expstlition to explove the not•thern part of Siberia, but it was aban. cloned for the lack of means. Now the Geo- graphical Society of eit, Petersburg have revived this plan, and they expect to Obtaill 15.11 adequate subsidy from the Government. The eccent movements in Siberia, as well as tho efforts which have been made of late by foreigners to explore that region, seem to have created a necessity for the Ituasien Government to gee a better knowledge. of the land and ehe people of that part ot its (lominioes. Professor M. P. Beck° of the University of KUM died on May 18. He was a native of Finland, and was appointed to his post in 1800. He devoted himself to the study of tho Finnish tribes settled in Kazan and the neighboeing eastern governments of Russia. He mado frequent excursions to their settle- ments and wrote several interesting essays on the clialeots and manners Of the Tau. vashos, Tchorcanysees, Volyakes, and other offshoots of the Finnish rape, The scholarly world of Russia deeply regrets the untimely end of this scholar. He left a groat work on hie favorite subject) unfinished, Among the various charity societies of Moscow there is ono for the ondowtnent of poor brides, The funds of the society tiro console tly increased by the gifts or boettets of benevolent persons, brit only. the interest of the money 18 used for the designated pur- pose, This you the distribMion was an the first Mondey in June, The manners had previously designated the anin to be given and the number of beneficiaries among whom it shetild be distributed. On the appointed day religious sorvices were hold and 81)00011CH 111C(10 In honor of the moiety, and then the opplieftnts drew lots for the prizes, '.1.'wenty•five poet. brides drew lucky dances anti their dowries will be handed to them we soon as they present their merrier tiertificettes, leeportent nrival events have taken place within a fortnight at Potorsbut,g. The launching of tho imperial yacht Polar Star end the imw gunboat Groejaeliee, et which the Emporote tho Court, and all the mem. bees of the diplomatic writs° woro present, was followed by the laying of the keel of the Bulk, a lams cruiser, :eel a new iron. the Nese 0:no, The Groejechee has been built ill lees then four moat's entirely of Russian mete i Hor dintensione tiro 4. thei mot ; breadth, 41 foot 7 inches ; depth, 11 feet ; tonnage, 1,402 tons ; hoes* power, 200, Rev eides aro defended by thick non plating of Russian manufacture. Now that the aristocracy and high official. of St, Petereburg and Moacow I tit,i,e;31,111,1igleeii»giali,stieit,txr,s, tiztlIse tot:1st:0 III sounded with Mee:nee:1 watehfulnese evillest train wreeltere. el,ty about 10 o clock p. ni., ewe trains renewing elosely ono upon the other had a 11111T0W li$C11.14' 1,11 the Nizlie- gets-deity Railretel, fur eloecow. A apintreittly taken front the shops of the Gbiralevka elation, wee found fastened aectes the treek. IL Wildl dimmer:el in thee by the waiolunan, who, rimeing to meet the approaching train, ethpped it about '200 yards from the Met met ton, The train which followed sett WILH 10 /Mitt+ la an. other ahem ion id the 'text station tine ante etepped. in time. it took move than an hour t rt` 111000 ht. 01111 1.111,1jim from tho track, The number of watchmen has been increasua en all the teneke near the wo cities. The French Government is melting great progress in its tests of smokeless powder, which hue been suceessfully employed in the Hotehltise rapid.fire guns and in other guns of larger calibre. At a recent test by the Selinuitter Contheny theusot the powder 111L5 ill guns of as high as 21 centimeters, end extents:timidly high veloeitiee were ob- tained at low presume. In a 0-inell gun, 30 calibres long, 132 pounds (Margo, with an 88.pound projectile, a valooity of 2,542 foot seconds was obtained, with 10.7 tons pres- sure. In a 0.1nell gun, 30 calibres long, with 110 pounds charge, the projectile weigliing 301 pounds, wee given a velocity of 2,502 foot eeconds, with 17 tons pressure. Thews results aro about 400 foot seconds greater than would be given by brown powder, and the u:lvantages of no smoke and diminished noise aro also valeable features of the result. In a recent letter describing a trip down the African west coast, the .veiter says thee at a town nu the Gold Coast he sate a. one- armed. negro and anethet• with only one leg, both of whom, he was told, drew a very comfortablepension from the Dutch Govern. meet. lf Ms may had been prolonged he st•ould probably have nem quite a number of these pensioners. It re almost forgotten now that as late es nineteen years ago Hel- loed had large intermits on tho Gold Coast, which in 1871 she turned over to England. She heti taken hundreds of her African eels- jects to the East Indiest to serve in her army there. They made very good soldiers, and some of them enlisted again and again after their terms of service had expired, and only SOYell 00 eight you); ago they were still go- ing home in little squads, travelling at the cost of Holland ; and all who had been dis- abled or hods:treed. certaiti number of years felt very comfortable beeanse they knew their names were on the Dutch pennon rolls. So it happens that quite a stun of money from Holland still finds its way down to the Gold Conk every year to be distributed among the black veterans of the Uuteh East Indies army. A royal progress in Japan is Still 01/SOTV011 with el:Washer:led rigor. When the Empress recently visited the city of Osaka the follow- ing regulations were Rublished "for the guidance of the people : "When her festy shall pass akmg no one must look at her from the frame built on houses for the drying of clothes., or through cracks in doors, or from any position in the upper portion of their houses. If any one wishes to ace her Majesty he or she must sit down at the side of the road by which her Majesty will pass. No one must look at her Majesty without taking off his hat, neckcloth, or turban, or whatever else he limy be wearing on or about his head. Moreover, no one must be smoking while he or she is looking at her Majeety, nor must any one carry a stick or cane. Only women wearing foreign clothes will be permitted 1;,, retain their heed cover- ing. Although it may rain, no person will be alh»vol to put up au umbrella while her .Majesty may be passing. As her 'Majesty passes no one must raise his voice, nor must any sound be heard, nor nmst the crowd close in and follow her carriage: for no noise must be made. When her Majesty reaches Umeda Station them will be a discharge of lifty lit•eworks." A curious phase of prison life is exhibited by a "Medical Correspondence" of a Moscow paper. It often happens that a respectable man is confined in prison for a few days far some slight ofl'enee. AL Limes even an. elder of a small community must submit to such a pentilty for what the Rus- sian law calls a neglect of duty. Slush. a person is retained in a Imp room tovether with a lot of obdurate criminate, who are either atvaiting trial or seutenued to be put at hard labor in a fortress. When the re- epectable prisoner comes among them, they begin to press Mtn for " treat of good fel- lowship." He must send for a bottle of brae:1y. If he is not as liberal ELS they want him to be, they harass and torment him. &mild he make a threat to complain before the authorities of their conduct they im- mediately decide upon performing on him the " operation of 'cupping," as they well it. The poor fellow is then stripped naked, stretched on a bench, and held hist. Hia mouth is stuffed with a rag so thee Ms cries cannot be heard outside. A spot on his breast is made wet, and ono of his torment - toes rubs 0; with his unshaven chin until the skin becomes red. Herettpon another ono slaps that spot with Isis fiat leind with all his might. A large blister immediately appears on the wounded place. This Is what they call seteing a cup. Six or eight such "ceps "are aometimes set on the breast, the sides, and the back of the eufferee, so that he is unable to lie down for aeveval attys. In some iestances more serious in- junes are cannel by the blows he row:lives, The publication of patent medicine ad- vertisements is combined with great diftl. wellies ill EclaSill, ana tooth ,powder, cos. moties, medicated soap, and similar prepa- rations are comprised within the eatogory of patent medicines. The article must hese be submitted to tho exatnitaition of the medical authorities, If they approve of it, they place Use manufacturer under bonds that ho shall make his preparations for the market; precisely according to the semple they have examined. Hereupoti they give him a ear. tificete which must be deposited with the Medical Censor. letter agisin gives hitn a certificate which must, Ito presented to the General Centsorthip Beroau, If the General Censor has no objeoeion to the weeding of the advertisement, it may go into the papers. If ono and the stone advertisensent is to be published in twenty different papers it i11110 go through this procees front the Medical Commission down to the Couorship Buena for twenty different Ones, ll'he mime of the papor in which it is to he published must bo speeially mentioned and the wording and size. of the advertisement designated m the originel applioatioe and approved by the verious authorities. Now, in order to do away with this laborimuttwocess, oe lamb with the repetition of it In the caw of each publieation tho Medical (Mundt of the lelinister oethe Interim' propoees to have each authentic:died advertisement of this kind published in the Pravittlairemiti Vie. mar (the general official organ) of St Peters. burg, and to allow all other papers to copy it reek:Ube literatim from that pa,peewith. out extre revisioli, Of oottese the publioa- tion in the fled, as in all the subsequent instances, 111 1181i be mule "et the expellee of tho advertiser," V