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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-7-18, Page 6'YOUNG FOLK. woods, usually vool and refreelling, should he so Wall11 and CiliplieSsiVe Oil tine Getober *ley. lie hailed an he reached the hill N11111 - the tree line, end looked Lament the hill tops taut iwress the valley. And then be maw something which stertled him. It was a line of tiro. Beginning at the edge of a ilieired spot in the midst of the Lane wiege it was spreading neross the strip and eweephig eteadily Rurely THE BRUSSELS POST, July. 18, 1800, _ ,lammeeriminm.mai.sismairmimioniam..i.moisipismairosok. eye,. and parted lips as he tarn crept- eafely abing up and up, over the perilous eteep, Now • a few feet may renminea between him and the top i:f the ellit At Met his hand grasped t he railing, be drew himself ce. f ulle over the edge, Waved Ids hand ls.wk to the ghee li0. low and ilisappettrol. Tw iligh .wa settling down upon the reviee when the girls tinellyheard Mei% calling to them over the pet:mince. All the neighbere ef the 10=1, it seemed to them, wore look - straight towards the road that lea at,wn ing dwelt the side. They were tyiloottel the hill mid (writes the hollow.—the highway tegingeullsnf ropee and Hien a stem Mum where .1 Minh and Ellen were no doubt tit long nee now dangling dowinvatel leisurely walkieg. tit the ravine. Stoutly splieed together, ."Phey won't see- the tiro— the woods are all the rope in the neighborhood hed been so thiek on that sitle---they %von% know long, adjusted into a sort of harness, with where the heat (scones front till it is right strum; minis littaelnel, to (how the girls upen timm," thought Wellington. up tho clitle Judith helped adjuel. the lines He elipped las book -strap from his shoul. about Ellen's arms and waist, and watched der, pulled ,dis jacket end kid it core- her, pertly climbing, parn tly drawup the full'e h y with his boeke beside the highway, steep. Then the harness came swingingbeek. And there witheut a moment's besitiation, In the fast gatheriug darknose Judith fasten. he dashed down the hill straight into the ed the reties upon Memel and umde the trip, leweing woob end the beets were quickly. carried home by The fire ents making greater headway -m the anxious and sympathizing frieude. aiming the iley pines on the hillside then (in It was several deys before Jedith thee the the 1, ever ground. Already he could hear path to seheol again down the blackened them crackling behind lane Escape to the hillside and through the woode where, upland by the road would soon be cut old Autumn beenty the lire bad blighted. It But he had no thought ot turning back, was weeks, eren,beftwoWellington w110 ('ecu The boy who disliked to wet hie feet, the again in his seat at school. One of his blister - boy whew his ghoulmates had called a ed lianas, lacerated by climbing the eliff, was Manly, kept on straight towards the heart of the Hunting woodland. "The girls must have come so far that they can't get back to the village," In ro- lleeto&l as he ran. "We shall have to strike braids over her scarlet jacket, reaching to off front the road and Inc through -the Aroma :her waist. Site had thin features and a dark ahead of the tire round the foot of the bluff complexion, but her bright black eyes and to the ravine." red lips made her face rather attractive. The air was like a furnace when the chih .There was something about Judith's move. dren met, midway of the woodland strip. ments and oetlincs that suggested the In- Judith and Ellen were burrying along, (Nan ; and indeed her father was proud (if the frightened and panting, the perspiration fact that one of his farmenty ancestors had streaming down their flushed faces. been the son of an Indian clued Judith was waiting for Wellington Bailey, O neighbor boy, who always walked with her through the Laue woods on the way to the village academy. Wellington was about a year younger than herself, He had been a . city boy, but boarded at the house of 3 farm. must be almeet, here. We must run bet the er cousin who lived not far from Judith's g"liv." home. He had been a pole, delicate boy While he spoke a streak of flame shet into when he mane to the farm, two yearebefore ; view lietween the trees. Catching n but country life bad made him well and me hand of each girl, Wellingt011 darted With tive though he was hardly as strong as the them into the wood, ued for a few minutes they left the sight and wend of the fire behind them, judith was tall and nimble. Ellen Was littbe and lithe. But only by the help of the fleet -footed boy who led them could they have ke it up that swift flight through An InVitation. "Open your 1nouthnd eshut your ryes Axel .1%.t give you something to make yen wise." If you were to Itate Efluimaux, Jeorn in a kind. of lee filet snow. 'You'd like the greagest kind ef And teeth. bear's lama e, dainty (lisle Or if limel le a chine, hung Pee' tots paled choose a geed fat mouse. Ante' i,ggs-are a treat to the simmer, And mane folks likeli the vers of gee -e, Some. :Pee beard, eat snail, en meg While °there fillet on a gthesecieper roast. Bunnell, people take nineh eride lc serving meuste gutted and fried. But "open 0000mouth ana glut 3010 0301' For none et these dein tie. shell make you white Henee eumetlang grows where the Mane time, Rimming under tho skies of ,1 anc— something awe. red and epiey end eweet With a (Melt of sour to make it eomplete. It sae on a met so soft and green Tle 111 for the fingers of king or queen, lay mouth 1" wateringiug fora taste As dip It. in sugar—se now make Imete To " m open your outh endut shyuur oyes And 111 give you something. to make you NV1Se." WELLINGTON, The Story or the Heroism ot u Tioad Foy. Ono October morning Judith Haskell stood by. the gate at the tell of the lane which led. from her father's house to the highway, waiting. Judith was a. streight and temple girl, tall for her fourteen years, Tier Week hair hung in two long, thiek "Oh, N.\ ellington ! cried Judah. Ai e ilia woods on lire? Whitt -way is it coili- ng ?" "From the east," said Wellington. oould see it from the hill. We can't get away frhe om it by troad, eithe er way. It other country boys, and Judith, only a year .older, was fully half a head taller. Judith andWellington-were the only ace, demy pupils who lived beyond the Lane woode. The Haskell and Bailey forms were off 10011003 upland about a mile a,,1half from the village. 'Neither of the young the weed& "horns tore their clothes, brush olks minded the walk in deasaut weather, scratched their faces, they stumbled over ern was Judith at all afraid to go through the woods alone ; but for the sake of companion- -ship she waited for Wellington, and the children were generally excellent friends. Presently Judith saw Welliugton coming, hurrying across the timber lot. Wellington was quite out of breath when Jae came within speaking distance. "What made you so late, Wellington 3" Judith asked. "1 began to think you wasn't moming and I was going on alone." "I've been eltasting the cows along with CoueinDavid," Wellington answered. "They all broke loose this morning, and it took about an hour to get them together. We had to run over the whole lot in the hol. lo ' "And got your feet wet audited to change j your e,hoes and stockings, I suppose," said 'Judith, sarceatically. "Yes," answered Wellington, stoutly, 'though he colored a little. "I wasn't goime all day with wet feet. I don't like it." "The other boys wouldn't mind it much," Judith remarked. - I de," said Wellington. They had' about half a mile to walk bet- tors the road dipped down into the Lane woods. "How dry the woods look and how dusty the road is for this time of the year," Judith remarked. "Yes," said Wellington. " Cousin David says if the Fall rains don't setin pretty soon there will be danger of fires." " Oh, Wellington, see what a handsome Dower that is," cried Judith, pointing to a bright red blossom springing from the side of the steep bluff, " Climb down and get it for me, will you ? I want to take it to aohool." "It's pretty steep down there," said Wel- lington, doubtfully, looking over thebluff. " Oh I If you're afraid"—Judith began. I shouldn't be afraid if there was any meed of my going clown," said Wellington. "lint"— 1 Before he could finish the sentence Judith had sprung down over the edge of the cliff, and, catching hold of the bushes to steady her weight, was deftly clitnbing towards the lower, She picked it and climbed nimbly back to the highway, fastening the flower in her belt with a smile. "1 wonder how your folks happened to octane you Wellington ?" she said, a little later, as they were going through the wood, " I don't know, Probably they liked the maxim. Why, whet is there strange about it ?" asked Wellington. " Oh, Wellington was a great general, you know --a very brave mane'said Judith, pro. yokingly, "Somehow the name 11005111 80010 to suit you very well. Wellington flushed with resentment "I know what you mean, Judith Haskell," said he, "and you ought to be ashamed of your- self. just because I don't wish to splash through the mud and get as dirty as a pig and won't break my heck for nothing but towers you've no business to say I'm a cow- ard." "I didn't say so," retorted Judith. "Well, you mune pretty near it, You might as well have said it. You're telwitys tinting such things because I won't do fool- ish tricks that there's no use in. But I don't care." "I should. think you'd want to be more plucky," said Judith. "Boys might t,o be brave. 'My brothers weren't afraid of any- thing when they were an old es you are, and they'd be aehamed to once for a little dirt or hurt." "Maybe you think I want to be as rough ea they are, but I don't," retorted Welling logs and rocks, but never stopped, for semi the roariug. fire was heard behind them, the scorching tar from the bnruing trees swept their faces. Now a swift flame flasbed past and caught at a limb overhead. Burning leaves fluttered to the ground. A shower of sparks drove through the air. Wellington caught a burning fold of Ellen's dress and crushed ma the fire with his hands. On and un they hurried. The air grew hotte: and hotter, the flames drew nearer. Then a little patch of open ground v them a moment relief. They etopped to catch their breath, and then struggled On. They must hurry through the trees beyond and round the bluff before the fire could dart around the glade. Blinded by smoke, half fainting with the heat, they pass through the last thicket, gained the bluff where that arm of the wood ended, and, tnambl- ing with exhaustion entered its sheltering shadow, They coat heer the flee roar- ing through the wood ad they orouohed by the rock and bathed their blistered hands and faces in the brook that crept through the gully. The steep wall of earth and rook WU a barrier of safety, and the fire oteuM come no further. When the colcl water had a little allayed the pain of their smarting eyes and scorched hands and facesthe children began to make their way slowly between the brook and the foot of the bluft ono line ettith the highway at the top. They could notgo back through the fiery path of the wood, though after a little while a lull in the 0000 01 the fire told that the flames had spenttheir fury at the ravine, having nothing more to feed upon. Yet for hours there must be dense smoke and heat along the hillside and hollow, where the woods had burned, and the ground would be a pathway of hot coals. So they crept along as best they mad by the preci- pice which rose almostporpendicularly more than two hundred feet above them, Limp- ing, tired and blistered, Ellen could not keep back the tears of suffering and weari- ness, and Judith's usual self-poseession was all gone. "We never could have got out of the woods, Wellington, if you hadn't come beak and helped us," she said tremulously. "But how 000 105 going to get home ?" Wellington's bands were smarting, and his face WELS pale with pain, but he answer. ed bravely: "I shall have to climb the bluff, and call the folks to help you and Ellen up." "But you can't. Wellington, am you?" returnod Judith in a tone that was—for bee—strangely gentle am' timid, "It is so high and steep," "I think so," said Wellington, "Any way I can try. We can't stay down hero. Besides, the folks don't know where wo are, and they'll be dreadfully frightened when they know about the fire. They .had reached the part of the bluff where, in the morning Judith had stepped over the sloping edge at the top and peaked the rod flower. She now looked fearfully up the steep side, The boy still etlent amulet muddy placee, ^ A DESPERATE LOVER, -- SheldS Sin' 1111 elltS MS own Tli reit A terrible tragedy °emitted at Lee, Emit., t Eng.) on Feeley eight, whiell, owing to the pereona being well knoW11 the neighbotie- liood, hag paused a great settention there, It mimeo% that a young 1111011 named Frederick 111.11mm whose 'temente reside at Chishentret, leis been for mime time peg 0111(13' friendly rein thine with married lady, Mrs, Haley, of Burnt Ash Hill, a pie/Leant suburb jest enteide Lee, end whoa( Ituslaml is engaged a inerentit ile liouse. On Friday night they I,,,,1 snoper Ea New Cross together, accord. ing to thelady's gory, after which they took trait, le Grove l'ark Station, and obout quarter to eleven o'clock were on their way to Mrs. Haley's Pin the Bromly Road. Just before parting Hannan imbed her to elope with him, and his re(' nest being ecifuset1 he pulled mit milver•pleted revolver aud tired twice nt her. I -Tatman &Hemel -de took out a pocket-Itnife and ent his throat. Ac. eording to el es, Haley's stoey, he asked for hallElkerellier to staunch the wound, which she gave him, and wide!) was afterwards found in his poseeasion, Hannan was v,f ter. wards found fiend ill a swamp eome distance off meth h is win d -pipe completely severed and seree 0.1S.IIRS 00 n.I.C11 011011 of the ueck extending back to the spine, ancl it is thought lie must have inflicted these wounds on himself after leaving the lady. brushed his hair and blackened his shoes Mrs, Haley Was ecniveyetltoeerhome, and liee husband arriving shortly afterwards. Drs. Gould, of Middlesex Hospital, and Hutchens Williams examined and treated hen 00munds pronouncing low escapefrom death asmavel- lots. On alighting at Grove Park they went WIR_ELETS, towards her home, walking neen-in.arm. Han. nan suddenly asked her to look at the lights, The police killed seven nittil dogs in New and When she turned her head aside to look York on Saturday. at the London lights he shot hoe in the tem Edwin Chadwick, the Englieli writer cm ple. She screamed but he held her round so 3!al economy, is dead, the neck, and pushing the revolver ham her A new Spanish Cabinet has been formed mouth tired again, exclaming that he knew with Senor Canovas del Castillo as Prime 11 10,45 impossible he could ever win her, and, therefore, it was better theyshould (lie el Mister. together. Then be knelt. dOW1.1 by her side The French Senate has voted in favour of a duty ,d three trams on cornaml six hones and deliberately cut her throat. Shetold hint he should heve thouela of her poor children before cloingsucha thingand he askedwhether 51111 WAS She answered she believed she was. At his The Niagara River Fruit...Growers' ARSo- request, she took a handkerchief and staunched the blood at his throat, Thou fear overcame her, and she ran away, Hannon had taken her to dances and ra- tios, with her husband's knowledge and con- sent, but on this occasion he was not aware they were together, as she, was supposed to be dining with some friends. At the in- quest Mr. Wm. Herbert Williems, clerk, Lewisham, said deceased was secretary of the Thomas Lighting Company, and be last SaW him alive et Cannon Street Station last Friday. Witness spent Thursday night with deceased, and he appeared strange in his manner. Deeeased tad him lie With very much in love. Ile could not sleep on Thurs- day night, and had every strange expression next day. Witness IlletOTIT MAO MAO. carefully, was as averse tie ever 10 10,1 Vlq. feet or soiled clothes ; but note of his schoidnettes ever again thought or spoke of 11 offington Bailey as a dandy 00 0. coward. ton. 'I'm glad I wasn't brought up that way. My father is a gentleman, tend I'd rather be a white man them tth Indian." This Was the beginning of the first seriotts quarrel thet had ever occurred between the two. Judith was provoking and both were ,angry. echool.girl friend eves to go home with Judith to ;vend the night, and -when school was out Wellington started quieltly along the road without waiting for the girls, as ha would usually have done. Judith purposely kept baek, and Wellington was out of sight in the woods before the two girls started on it leisurely walk from the soboolehouse, The sun was stiff warm am Wollitigton ran towards the Woo& the Stnittnet hoat having lingered well into October, mid he took off las hat to cool his head as be plunged into the ehatheive, Half way through the wood Wellington Sat down upon & beech log to rest. A Nall *cue etre& MS !aeons he climbed op oaf, n ..the trees' shadow, 31 was singular that the "It is as good apiece as any," mad Well. ington. "Theta are some bushes here that I can catch hold of, in places, and it is no steeper thail the rest. Ho carefully began to climb, Bits of jutting rook now ancl then gave him a little fuothold, sometimes a branch of a shrub or bared root proved geeing enough for him to trust for a hold. Foot by foot, pica by yard, he drew liimitelf tamely tho steep side. He was thirty feet above the ground when a branch to which he was clinging milled lose ond he began sliding backward. Only for a few feet, however, his foot fauna 010(13111131 place on a bib of rock, he grasped another shrub and patiently resumetl the ascent, About half way 1131 1115 Ural' o lecliee pro. joeted for a foot or more, and when his feet raged securely on this Wellington stopped for a few minutes to rest and gain his breath. The hardest, most dangerous port of the climbing was to come. He must cling tightly to the fame of the bluff, crawl slowly, try every object most carefully before trusting his bold to it, and avoid looking down, The temptation to Measure the distance whiell ho had climbed with that still to bo covered wail almost irresistible, but he knew that to keep his beeel steady and free from dizzi• neSe he must not glance downward for an instant. How Onxfonsly the girls watolual the climbing boy, forgetting the 310111 01 their burns in their terrified sueponse, liometimes they covered their facies with their hands to 011111out the eight tte he hung by tho slights est support high up on the terrible cliff; then they wero watehing hi tn again 101111 strained on cerumeal, The Portuguese Chambers of Deputiee has passed a bill providing for a general increase cif mix per cent, on taxation. elation report that apples, plums, nail peaches are very light ; berries, cherries, currauts, and paps fair to ayeettge. Mr. Caine, who was recently defeated at Barrow-heteurnees, has written to Mr. Gladstone that he has reterned to the 1lied- stouian party, and that he will aceept the principle of Home Rule, -while reserving liberty as to details. The relatives of the poor woman who kill- ed herself the other day by throwiaig her- self out of a window at the hospital at Hamilton, threaten an action for damages against the corporation 01 111111 city on the groun(1 that proper precautions evere not taken to secure the safety of patients. A True -Bred Man of Sussex. A sketch of the Sussex tharecter could not pretend to completeness in the smallest sense if the question of humor were entirelb left out. Tho South Saxon is, as might y expected, heavy in WS RS in all else. Thee, is nothing keen or delicate about his per- ception of the ludicrons ; nor is there, see the other hand, much that is ill-natureon Take the following illustration. It isd. true story, told. me by a clergyman as ha a ing happeted 111 1118 03011 parish no grey - while since. Obliged to be absent from tat duties of his church on a cart -ran Sabbaths he had secured the services of a very wish, grave, and reverend ecclesiastic for thee clay. The latter was a man of great reputet Hon, The may doubt his friend had Wan whether the visitor was not too learned for the country folk that he would have to preach to. Returning in tha following week, the clergyman hastened to Ms parish clerk to inquire how the services of the preeedineg Sunday had passed off --in particu- lar, how he had liked the sermon, " Oh, sir I" said theold clerk, 10 00 ecsta- sy, " it was the finest sermon that I ever heard. I wouldn't presume to my that I understood is single word of it." Pompous old divine 1 Good old clerk, listening open-mouthecl and with wondering eyes I Thou, old clerk, art true.bred Sus- sex. Lines on the Remains of a Mastodon Pound Near Toronto. Perchance thou hest grayea where leviathans neighed, And masteeons, mighty of hone, Gave war to grim forms among earthquaking storms heat.heaving mountains of st,one. When the morning scarce broke Owechimer- ian Betake, And chaos evae lost from the the sun, In the mom( of older° the starmhoir extolled God's work, with their chansou "well done," Mote art dumb, and thy date from oblivion's old strate Has been witetted by the river of thee; And we never can know why earth welters in WO% With imitate( of unharvested crime, 0 could that black cloud coned, "mortality's shroud," Be Wafted fereyor away, That mankind might, recount all that WaR since the fount Of the light WO eonominate day! He used to sit up studying till three or four in the morning. Witness received a will from deceased on Saturday, with a request to settle a few debts. The will bad appar- ently been made on Friday, but witness did not got it till alter the tragedy. Several letters were found on Hannan, One dated December Sth stated that deceased had passed n, restless day and night, and was contemplating suicide. He could not then decide on the tune and place. On the lith Jos wrote, "Death is preferable, because it is an unecuseious state, and perhaps the absolute condition." The lag entry was on the lab, on which day Ile burnt his love letters tinci bought a revolver and cartridges. Be was troubled with the idea that he might ,lie naturally or prematurely before he could caery his resolve. A verdict of the majority was taken to tho effect that the deceased committed suicide by drowning whilst lebouring under mental derange- ment. When the moon had no power, or tho sun, for im Mine The gloom of this globe to relieve, From the ogee of night, with her mantle of Or his beitutiful glory of eve. Ere old Time COMO th raise out of dome las clays, Or our race was created for care; When 11 nature W1114 bound by a shadow pro. fount? And the world's soothing surface was bare. But it came, Hoaven's great year, and each ungel and sphere 001 shout in the delicate fight; And tho darkness made room for a world full of bloom, As e Samson receiving his sight, Wert thou there, then grim brute I ale& thou hear that salute. And behold earth released from 101 114101 Like a swim from its nest, with the down on its breast, Or en caglo careering in air? A. ItATISAY. Now York. SLIMMER SNICKERS. An early settler— A. col:kWh A poroue plague has its draw books, lan m uivI.tibroker, atter all, 18 Inn, a poor, A man should be sure he's right, then follow hie knows The trouble with Justice is that she does so little beelike holding her swami. The ephere of the sewing.giri 18 1101; 0011 1. Meted ;11 iii ellen ct hommy-sphere. The beet illustration of minglel hope and fear is a leay man looking for 0vork. A goodmatured spinster used to boast that gni always had two good beaux—elbows. Whore ignorance is bliss Were folly to pee, $2,00U a year to send a boy to college. "Is your sweetheart 11 tailor-made girl?" 1`1'.Ntst,nhe's quite domestic ; short home 1 Ilan was made to 10011011, lmt he has fixed things so OM Ilia wife thkes the job off hie hands, " The only way to prevent what's pest," said MNel uhloon," le to put a stop to it be- fore it happoes." ie not always proper to address the young man behind the Hoch fountain as doe. ton even though he is 10 fizzicittn, "Papa," Raid a talkative little girl, " am made id dust ?" "No, my child ; if 7011 00000 you would ,ley up once in a while," It was a Hamilton girl who married at fif- teen so that she couhthave hey golden wed- ding when it would do her some good. A chemist says thee Wood can be nuule palatable and nourishing. lint lisn't the kind of board we aro haekering after, When the dude remaeks that he has some. thing on his mind, We 3101 ,1 carmine concep- tion of the intinitesimatality of infiniteshnal, " Jones, what is your idea of the milieu. It is &Brays to have a friend at hand who will tend ille ten without security." " Waal" drawled the wagomnaker, " I be a sort er doctor, too. I know what's the nitlaettte, r 'ith a 0003131111100031311111by lookini at thee bit- 311101 many people who arc taking in Sum- mer boarders are peeple who have soon bol- ter days and lived betterSo have their licarders. There is a brilliant, chance for 00100 3011031 man to make up a joke 011 tile waterinelen beiug a water -berry, in comiectiou with the watch on the rind, She—"I do believe OraCe Thormlike gets engaged to as many twenty fellows every Summer." Ife—"Ahe !A kind of three days Game, as It, were." Yowls Goslin—"Mr. Rocks, I wish—er —that is, I dosire—er—the haud of your (heighten" Rocks—" What's tho matter with the rest of hen" First Saleshuly—" Have yon seen Mollie's new fellow ? What does he lone like ?" Se- cond Snleslady—"Oh, he's just a bargain counter affair, that's tell" Judge—"As you have been convicted of the mime with which you were charged, I now proceed 10 31000 sentenee"--crinunal—"Clut it short, Judge, if you please," "Pa, what is ttemdent insurance?" "Acci- dent ingwance ? A technical tent my RCM, signifying that when you meet with a miso. hap i1 will 150 001 accident if you get your ie. surance." De Smith—"Don't yon think Miss Jinks has a very bright expression on her face ?" Jones—"I can't say that her face is very Might, but there is no doubt about her being lantorn.jawed. "What's thereeson, dacha], dat you sips rinse' Jawge Washington Jones, P. D. Q. 'Dose yore lettabs' my title. I ain't no simple IL D. Ise a Pill Doctor of Quinine in de swamps," Old Gentleman (from head of the stairs at a late hour)—"Clara, I think you and that young ,,,an have talked long enough for one evening." Clara—"All right, pa. We won't say another word." Sweetheezts, When he comes to see you, let me give you a few hints as to your treatment of him, says & writer on sweethearts in the Ladies' Home Journal: First of all, my deer, don't let him get 111 idea that your one object in life is to get all you can out of him. Don't lot him believe that you think ro lightly of yourself that whenever he has en idle moment he can find you ready and will- ing to listen to him. Don't lot him think that you are going out driving with him alone, even if your mother should be lenient enough to permit this. Don't let him think that you are going to the dance or the frolic with him; you are going to make up a party whiell will all go together. Don't but him spend his money on you; when he goes away, he may bring you a box of sweets, a book or some musio; but don't make lam feel 011111 300 expect anything but courteous attention, Don't let him call you by your firet name, at least not until you are engaged to him, and then only when emu are by yourselves. Don't let him put hie arms around you mol kiss you when he put the pretty ring on your linger it ineone that yo11 were to be his wife soon, he gained a few rights, but not the one of inclisorhninate caressing. When he pieced it there, he was right to put a kiss on your ; it 10a13 the seal of your love ; but if you give your kisses too freely they will prove of little value. A maiden fttir 18 like a beautiful, rich, purple plain 1111100310 high up on the tree and is looked at with envy. Ile who would get it most work for it, and ail the trying should be on his side, so that when ho gets it he appreciates it. Yon know the story of the intuit who sow a beautiful plum 011 co tree which he very much wanted. Next to 'it hung another plum ; it seemed as beautiful, and it was apparently just as sweet as 1110 0110 Ile want- ed. The seeker for it stood under it for a moment, looked at it with longing eyes, and, behold, the plum dropped into his mouth. Of what volute was it then 1 It was looked at and oast aside, Experiencing 0, aloud Burst. A young man living on Chemplain street has lately boon proporing himself physically for a trip to the Far West, Among hie preberations Was thee of sleeping under a tree in the garden every night. Saturday nigbt he wes there as usual, a horse blanket spread over him to keep off the chill, amnia was penult% the wild. Apache in his dreams when sotto joker threw a pail of wotor over him from the alley, In MS sudden waken- ing the young man ron against tut apple tree and broke his nose, and was at Police Head, quarters yesterday to say "I want ot least four dotootivos to bo put on this wee and I want the villain run down regardless of cost, Here's 1 ,50 start with, and don't lose any time or try to 000notnize on money, A follow who will hit a, sleeping nntn with a cload-buret must he given short ropo,"—EDetroit Free Press. A Mystery Cleared Up. Pa—" Have you seen with the microscope all tho little animals that lute in the wat- er? Tommy—" Yos, papa, I saw them. Are they in the water we drink I" " Certainly, my child." Now / know what makes the singing in the teakettle when the water begins to boil," Shrinkage Somewhere. "'This isn't fifteen pounds of ice, It's only tort." "Can't help it, madam. It was fifteen pounds when it left the storehouse, and no- body's been 110110 it since." "Johnny ! Johnny I" said the minister as he met an urchin one Sunday afternoon carrying Retiring of fish. "Do thosebelong to you?" "Ye.yes sir ; you see that's what they got for chasin' worms on Sunday." Prison Warden (to new prisoner)—"Wo tulways like to assign the prisoners to the trades with which they are most familiar and shall be happy to do so in your case. What is your trade ?" Prisoner—" lam a commer- cial traveler.". A lover received the following note, tic. companied by a bouquet of flowers: Deer —, I send u bi the boy a Intelsat of flows. They is like my love for u. The nite shoid manes keep dark. The dog fenil inens I am ore slaive.' Mrs, Morritt —" I hear your daughter lost her place as typewritter. Did she make some mistake ?" Mrs. Badger.—" Yes, she fell in love with one of the clerks before she had given her employer Hine enough to take O liking to hen" Give and teke'; "Come kiss ma, please," I said to hen: "You're parents sleep it will not wake 'em." " I do not give my kisses,sir," Sho said; "my friends just simply tithe '0111." Parson Widemouf—" Deacon 8105131101' lion, 1 whush yo'd make 10 p'int ter be at de chu'oh nex' Pse gwan gibyer midi& Vont de so ob do Pestles," Deacon S.— Well, parson, ef yo'll jusl take doox an' ohop de sermon in two, I reckon hit'll gree mo' wid de patience er congregation." An old lady alighted from a ear and seid "All I" in a tone of approbation, "how much more polite young men are nowadays than they used to be. Why, I hove always plenty of room in an onmfbus, but when I was young I could 110000 ride in one without ba- ng crowded. Such things never happen eW," Homo Life in DP3)1480118. dos nititot drItWei near ono of the daughtprs Meth 0131 and IllyS her Wniilt 111 Its idnee, am? 1+11.1011 Itereell wit h lu. remainder of the pro. parat lona for dinner. Tito kebab, 881,111 leve idready been lad oil 1 he Skeirel'H, are e'en, fully broiled on a elver lire, or the Mew in t netted ever te eve if the meitt is tender and the gravy 1,Nei teed to its peeper ecnisisteuey and ;jauntily. A. fuw drops of lemon juice are alwayn added to both these (Belies. With Ili,' lettee is generally an ithoompeohnent of rico cooked in elaritied butter and boiling water. `rho evening meal paesee cheerily, and is taken in the Iowan'or room with one side open to the court, whieh 15 11000(1 merry ocienn Work ontl household cares lure &pear. ently frogotten. The meal over, the nar. gheoly carefully prepared for fether and mother, and a tiny Munn of coffee handed to oink of them, preparations two inntlefoHrit..ohiei crowninga pleasure nd relaxation of the day, which is nothing else than the favoriiet by the rivets:lido. Close to Bab 'llootne Biota of Teomne) is the part of tho river called. the Sooftinlyeli, and further about it quorter of an hour's distance, 10 anothor part called the tultuashariyeli, 'Chest, are favorite spots The latter is the prettiest ; but tho former, owing to its nearness to tho city gates, is the chosen resert of those who aro itttended by wife and children. The gath- erings of family cheiles in this place aro in. n umerable and i udescribable. I shall never lenget the scene which pre- sented 115011on 0110 4(1 these occasions when I acceded to the wishes of some friends and accomounied thein to the Soofttnlyeh. Each family group sat together and apart frorn the rest, and yet they were so cloao together that it Wag illipoSsible 10 ernIllt them 00 to see what they were sitting cm—the women with their wbite eezars, or large cotton veils, which only allowed their facet and hands to be semi; the mon with their long pipes in their mouths, and their johns, or long jack- ets, thrown carelessly on their shoulders; the sellers of roasted nuts, almonds and melon seeds =Mug ont their Warali tile ven- dor of coffee, who bus set ep his little gall and is geing about with bis tiny coffeepot and timer hojau. Thei,,, at a little distance from the "hareem" or families, is a given of 308111131 111011 who take it upon themselves to supply the music; 0110 diltlYS a tambour from his pocket, another a flute, another the iod, to native iustrument, and a fourth begins a well-known song. All listen eager- ly and give sips that if the music has been uneolicited it is not unappreciated. Be- tween each ecmg the finjan of coffee goes reload. The Berry Market, Particular Cu stom er— "I want some berries, bot I don't want any which Imo been stand- ing at your door for a week. Hasa you any fresh oitroi ? Dealer—"Yes, madam ; ton orates—just received," Custotner—"I want five boxes," Dealer—"Yes, madam. john I Bring in five boxes of those sour, green berries just received, Going to snake pickles, I presume, madam." A wife Was complaining bitterly of her cruel husband. A friend advised her still to treat him kitelly and gently and thus heap cools of fire on his head. She replied ; "Ah Huth will not do, for I have tried two kettles of boiliug eviller on his head end he's to - bolter," A„—"So that is yonr wifo. Splondici women ; you ought to bo proud.' I am; only she is a bit thoughtless. For in- stance, I sent hor to town tho other cloy with a heap of money to buy ine a dozen shirts and what do you think she bronght stetud?—a, new bonnotl" The Parlor °look. Tema fancy parlor clerk, Encased in glebe of glass, With lovely chiming envoi. hells And front all made of billsS. Steed upon the mantlepleee For almost eighteen years Aticked and chimed and: na told the time With 00000 111) fears. But now my hands begin to shake, My face Is white with dread, Per coming down the oaken stair, 1 hear the gentle tread Of Angeline, who's just returned From reset -tee Mime. school; I know that Awn she looks at me I'll feel Just like a fool. 01 Ciellnie she'll surely have a bean, Wheel come on Sunday nighte, And stay and ghee and stlek mid stay, While dirtily bitril the lights. I knowing. how they'll Carry on And bow George will embrace Mar Angeline: bat 1 Shall keep ely hands before my hum. They'll never hood the warning chime 01 017 sweet sounding belle, But sit and spoon beneath the moon. While he her stories Lulls. But 1 can stone it all. I know. Gnat some fatal night When Angelic will etty to 0 verge "I know that Meek ain't right. "It =Abe 11,111 50 hour fag; It never kept gond time, And 'Just hate the nelse it makes When it begins to chime." And then 111 take my meet revenge, rlin an hour slow. And While they think "118 eaely yet" Munn) and "let her go." 311 ring so long, so loud and strong, That her paternal sire Will come and sweop tho noor with George And roll him in the mire, And .Angeline will go to hod, And I will laugh and mock Her anguish with my ceaselem sound— Tick took, tick tack, tick tock. , A Double Event. Mrs. Moriarity " Sure, it's just her husk I Did yen hear an that, now, Tim ?" Tim—" Whet is it, mother ?" Mrs. M.—" What is it ? Faix, Mrs. Brannigan got five Pousand fram the road for her b'y's be, Ah, thin, it's the fine airs she'll be putt& 011 5010," " Nivir tnind, mother; we'll bate that, begor. I'll get the two taken off and that'll be tin thousand," Mrs. .M.—" Blessin's on yoz, darlint, It's always tho pod b:y you was to help your poor ould mother.' The Inquisitive Tramp. " leladeen," said the tramp, politely, "you will pardon my ragged condition, but I was thrown from my carriage a few miles back. Is there a man about the place ?" "Thera is," 0010011001 the matron at the door. "Myhusband is in the barn, my son is behind that tree over yonder, end the hired mon is just around the corner. Shall I mai them for you?" "3 will tot trouble you," answered tho tromp, bowing low, "My curiosity is grati• fled. Can you toll me whether your neigh. bor has any dogs ?" Method and Habit in Early Life, Tho want of method and habit ,in early life is answerable for many evils to manhood. The youth accustomed to regular and in- dustrious employment will seldom lose such habit in after -life, while those who have been suffered to pass & desultory childhood will require extra fortitude and strength of character to become persevering, energetm and inthistrions in later years. -- The Number of Her Berth, Nervous cna Lady (in sleeping.cor)—"Oh, porter, porter, where do I sleep 10 "Porter—"What is do numbah ob yottah berth, ma'am ?" Nervous Old Lady—"I don't see wile; thet has to do with it, but if yon must know, ita third—there were & brother neal sister born aheod of Inc," First Critia—"I toll yeti, sir, that whoe we oall burlesque nowadays is not burlesque at all; it is mom extravaganza. True bur. 1080510 shotild satirize sonlething--ehould • ttke Off' something, ItS 11 evere." Second Critic.—"My door follow, burlesque noW. adays takes off almost everything.w