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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-05-19, Page 2eegate t; 3 To a Woman s Eyes. Black ey ',Ike dark gems that the red torch- bc-ms flash on, As deo? in some cavern they hide from the liBlaze fftfally forth when a glimmer of passion Disturbs their fierce beauty and startles their night, But blue eyes are brimmed With a light all their own, That isnot bedimmed, Though all others have flown - 3o soft in their shining, yet strong to illume, When turned on a heart that is haunted with gloom. IL tuous nor Like tropical skies when Brooil.so'er them at night, are black eyes repose Like topical skies when the cyclone's swift anger Breaks forth, are those eyes when the passion o'ertfows. But tender blue eyes, Whether mournful or glad, Are like April skies, At once smiling and sad ; And the tears that they shed fall as gently as dew, With a sense of the sunshine just quivering through. uI. dh, dark eyes, I fear ye ! Your mythical splendor Must charm me, moth -like, though.I follow in fright. Then lure me no more, lest my whole soul sur- render, thy And sear its weak wings in light. But blue eyes, confiding And wistful and sweet, Shine ye for the guiding Of wandering feet! -Most heavenly things are divinely deep -blue Tis the tint of pure skies, 'tis the color o you. either the visit he had received the previous night, or the fact that he had been at the funeral. But on tbe second point he was not left long without information. " I suppose," said Matthew after a pause, "Jem is not much cut up on account of her death ? " " Well, no, Matt," was the solemn reply ; " he couldn't very well be cut up. He did his duty by her, better than most men would have done—better than she deserved. It must be a relief to him, though he doesn't say a word." " What does he intend doing? " "I don't think he has any plans yet. If yon are inclined to - overlook the past, the best thing to do would be to let him go abroad for a while—not very long—and by the time he returned he would have got over everything." - It was the very thing Matthew wanted, nt he was not going to say so. He there- fore took some minutes to think over it be- fore he answered. - " If he wishes to go away for a bit—and to hvae the past overlooked, he Paid, mea- suring out his words slowly and with em- phasis, " you may tell him I will supply him with all the money he requires. But it will be ontwoconditions—first,thatheleaves England atonce ; and second, that he holds no communication with his mo',her . or any one else until he returns. If he agrees to these, you may come to my office the day after to -morrow and I will give you the money for him." " Very well. I think he will agree. Then, about ebaby"---- " What ! here's a baby, then ?" he ex- claimed, with an angry start. He was more than angry—he was indignant. What was the good of the woman dying if she left the luckless marriage perpetuated by a child ? Yes, there was a baby, Joseph said in a pathetic voice ; a pitiful little thing, just such as might be expected from such a mother—sickly, puny, and ill -formed. " It will be a mercy if it dies," Joseph observed ; " but it isn't likely to die. Things of that sort die hard." Matthew Bulbous rose and paced rapidly up and down. He was powerfully moved over this matter. Again and again, he indignantly exclaimed in his angry thoughts that the woman might as well not have died at all. But there was one thing clear. The baby must go !—it must leave his path —it was a tact with which no compromise could be contemplated. Did Joseph Bulbous, sitting there silent and apparently abstracted, suspect what was passing in his brother's thoughts? Pos- sibly he did, for he was the only person who knew Matthew down to the sole of his feet —knew him, indeed, better than the elder brother knew himself. " You wouldn't care, Matt, I suppose," he remarked thoughtfully, "tor your wife to know about this baby? Women have such unaccountable ways where babies are concerned, you never know what they'll do. You wouldn't care, I suppose," Joseph ob• served mildly, " to have the child in your house?'` For an instant Matthew glared savagely at the mere suggestion, with the blood hot in his face. " Look here !" he exclaimed, with suppressed anger, " it would be ill for my wife, or for any woman of our family, to oppose me in this—ill for her and hers. I'll have none of it ! You understand me ? I hope Jem has not written to any of them about the child ? If he has, you had better for their own sakes, let them know what I say." " He has not done so. Nobody knows anything about the child. But what do you intend to do with it ?" This re.luired thought. There was one thing clear to . Matthew Bulbous—he must depend on his brother to help him out of this grave embarrassment. There was no one who could accomplish it better, if he had the will ; and, notwithstanding the past, there was em one else on whose fidelity he u d be rely.1 could so fully But it would neces- sary to confide in his brother if his agency were to be secured in this emergency. " What do I intend to do with it?" Matthew repeated. " You must help me in this matter, Joe ;. it is the last service I shall ask of you, and I shall not forget it when you are going. Now I'll tell you exactly how it stands." He related what had passed between him and Lord Polonius, and of course Joseph Bulbous saw tbe situation at once. There was a silence of several minutes. Then Matthew spoke again, but all he said was the monosyllable : " Well?" There are many ways of pronouncing this short word, and the way in which Matthew Bulbous uttered it now caused his brother to draw a deep breath and slightly raise his shoulders. " What .I have said to Lord Polonius, Joe, must be made true, in fact. The Thing is not worth being in the way of a less im- portant business. I don't care how it's done or what it costs, so long as it is done safely. You understand me now ?" " Very well," replied the other. "I am acquainted with a—private institution, wh ich makes a specialty of that line of business. I'll see what I can do." On the next day but one Joseph Bulbous called at the office. James Bulbous had ac- cepted his father's proposal, and was ready to start for the continent that afternoon. Matthew gave his brother a roll of bank- notes for the purpose ; and then the latter reported the gratifying intelligence that he had arranged an interview for Matthew with the Lady Principal of. the institution which be had referred to. Matthew made a grimace, as though he would prefer to de- cline a 'personal meeting ; and suggested the arrangement being entirely carried out by Breaking of The Voice. Joseph himself. " That's impossible," replied the latter. " The lady is a lady of high standing in her profession, like yourself, and will only ne- gotiate with principals." On being assured that Jem had not com- municated in any way with his mother— whose knowledge of the baby's existence, gentle as she was, Matthew felt would have been unfavourable to his business—he re- luetantly agreed to attend at his brother's lodging at seven o'clock. He felt far from comfortable as he drove to Chelsea in the eygping. The conscious- ness that he was taking a principal part in putting an end to a life that stood in his way, made itself very troublesome in a breast. which ,was naturally cowardly. Matthew had, while keeping well outside of the law, taken a hand in shady proceedings before now in order to make money; but he had never been concerned in so hazardous a matter as this. Not that his moral sense was touched—it was the risk he was think- ing of ; the infant's life itself was as nothing to him in comparison with the advantages -to be gained by putting an end to it. As he stepped, out of the cab, he rallied himself with the reflection that this kind of thin was done -every day—was, in a sense, legitimized foe Want of evidence to hunt it down when done by careful professional ids'tont as the People who try to hide behind one another At his rettnest Joseph wen church will try to do the same thing in lady came�iiii, for it was.a businessnot at the judgment. . piruta a ... tees. Matthew glancedIt never pays to send the boys:intc ties fuer. curiouus� the wore a reassuring �' street to ere quiet in the parlor. pest• of f$t chews" in her countenance, look- dangerous 04-iq�i'~i �••.S._,.�il -'� -`.Lr rte'-`."'7�".•�u.� ing straight at him with an expression int OVER A MILLION DOLLARS. He cleaned up a big fortune out of his her steady eye and well -set mouth—the lat- i Chicago business, which was known as the ter encircled by a growth of resolute "Boston Store," and was a rich man long bristles—which indicated strength of char- The Profits of a Chicago Wheat Speouia- marketbefore he began eg nsellingn®ut his dry -goods with the grain aster. Mrs. Griffon proceeded to business tor in a Single Day. store he began observing the market. This without delay. She understood that Mr. B. was fifteen years ago. —it was her professional practice to men- !From a Chicago Correspondent.) Pardridgis very modest in speaking of. tion names by initials—wished to entrust The very interesting game which the his success. I was on the right side of the to her care an infant whose father had gone Chicago Board of Trade presides over has abroad, its mother being deceased. She developed some marvellous" plungers" dor• market," said he, "and that is how I made also understoodal rig the baby was Bulbous re- ing the twenty years that it bas been a factor money. I told the boys last summer when wheat was selling at $1.15 that it would and uily implied right. Mr. was so. Thene- in the speculative markets of the country. sell under 80 cents inside of a year. They gretfuily implied ter this so. There were "Jack" Sturgis, who ran the laughed at me, but I stuck right to that Mrs. Griffon uttered a sympathetic famous corner of 1873 ; Phil Armour, who g frequentlycarried 10,000,000 bushels of prophecy, and I saw it under 80 since°" "Ah !"and pointed out how them"Is the rumor true that such tremendous was babies d objects-suchs lived when other wheat ad all the pork in the country ; gambling is affectingyour health?" died—that was her experience ; Cudahy, who was equally sweet on pork g ,. I don't call it abling, because it is that they seemed to live on their misery, and wheat ; " Old Hutch," whose transac- tionsf were so enormous that the crowd a game ofpure luck or chane. When one course for the care of such a baby as that, stood aghast and allowed him to take their caexerce judgment and skill it is not terequiring extraecs attentionlyhih andhetceteras, money when he pleased. gambling. Matchingpennies is pure gam - was necessarily higher than ordinary ; But " plungers" have their day, usually g , g° likewise, as we never know what may hap- a short and decisive day. None of these filing, but selling a million wheat—well, pen, there was doctor and funeral expenses old giants of the pit are now seen on the that is entirely different. No man can have to be considered. The result of the negutia- boar. " Old Hutc" was the last one to confidence in a gamble. ile may have nerve tions was the payment. to Mrs. Griffon (in go.He always said he liked a game with- and all the utthereward eisi ae struggle.nce fcofi end of three weeks, should further arIn the cash) of fifty pounds, provisionally ; at the out a "limit." But two years ago he dis-inwardly range• market it is dican b . menta be necessary, a small sum would be covered there was a limit and he got it in :� The field can be surveyed, there are paid y for the child's maintenance. the neck for the limit, like Harper and statistics and conditions which call for an re weeklynit and exercise of foresight. This begets con - This sum would be so small that it would Keene and some others. Then he the board was without a plunger for some fidence, and one is convinced he is right. obviously not be the interest of Mrs. Griffon time. Of course there were a score of mem As all men do not think alike, the deduc- to look forward to it. Regular reports came to Matthew hers who would buy or sell a million or two anybine, but there was nobody in "Old tions drawn are not the same, and what one Bulbous, by request. No parent was Huch's" class. analyzes as a bear market another is con ever more anxious. In three days he vinced means a bull campaign. You pays learned that, after all, the baby a vital Suddenly out of the pit came the man for your money and you takes your choice. ity did not seem so tenacious since its whom the crowd was waiting. He was a This is the way I sized up," he ice. u- mother'sdeath. Mothers, as Mrs. Griffon ex- small man, an unassuming man, a quiet man, ed, referring to the big deal which he began plained, contrived to keep such things alive and his name was Ed. Pardridge."He some six months ago. " I believed we had when all the attention and science of an ex- went out against the crowd and they raised the greatest crop this country had silenced nurse failed to do so, which was trim- med him as they had trimmed Harper, ever known. I believed that the invisible one of those strange facts no one was capa- Keene and "Old Hutch." Pardridge'a first resources of this country were infinitely ble of explaining. Consequently, though attempt to follow in the footsteps of 01d larger than people imagined. I believed far from desiring to alarm Mr. Bulbous, Hutch " cost him $600,000. He said noth that foreigners, in their fear of short crops 'Mrs. teriffon felt it her duty to prepare him ing but laid in some more wood and sharp- and famine, had bought aa great deal more for what might happen in the course of ened his saw. This was last August. He wheat than they needed. .I knew that when nature. Joseph Bulbous came to the office was then a bear, he is now a bear. Very this was apparent to ilia triide wheat was one morning at the end of a week. " The few remember when he was not a bear. But just as certain to go, down as the sun. doctor," he stated gravely, "says it is im. in August wheat was ren up to$1.15on him I sold wheat, and on this down turn I possible to keep the child alive—he has tried and he settled at the loss stated. To make traded as I never traded before in my life. all his skill." a settlement he was forced to mortgage As soon as there was a moderate decline, "Oh, he has, hashe? " Matthew observed. his million -dollar State street property although I knew the price was going lower, " Yes. Radical disease from birth - call- for $350,000, which-hethe turned over to I sent my brokers in with orders to buy. ed it some hard name which I forget.— successful bulls. This punishment did not Then, when the market rallied, I sold them M.'s. Griffon," he added, " wanted to leave convince him that wheat was going up. On all they when t ed. That was the way the town in a couple of days, to pay a visit to a the contrary he still stayed on the side that campaign opened, and instead of having dear friend who is ill ; but she can't leave had swallowed his $600,000. When Decem out an enormous line, with profits only the baby in that critical condition." her wheat was $1 a bushel and May wheat res ective I have managed to have at my $L06, and the great mass of professional disposal lenty of ready money to meet and outside traders were talking of $1.50 the calls for margins that are occasionally for May, Pardridge said, " Well, boys, 1 made upon me." believe it will go to 80 cents before it goes "Do you k nthievery man can become a to $1.50." It was a case of one man against successful speculator ?" the markets of the world, for the opinion "Certainly not. It isn't every man who that higher prices must rule was ed in has the right kind of a nervous constitution every market where wheat was traded in as to stand the strain—forit is a strain, and a a speculative commodity. It was an up - big one, on a man who is extensively in the hill fight. He was called a crank, a man market." who was flying in the face of Providence, "How much money have you made on whose fortune would be recklessly dissipated this- decline ?" on the short side of a rising market. Friends "Oh, Lord ! I don't know. I've got a volunteered advice. Relatives importuned. few dollars in the bank and my latch string The little man listened—and sold more always out." wheat. He never let up selling until it was Mr. Pardridge has a palatial home on generally known that he carried 15,000,000 Prairie avenue, and a charming family. He bushels. Other "plungers " had carried has also the supreme satisfaction of know - that much wheat for a day or a week, but ing he was right and all the other fellows Pardridge carried it for months. were wrong in the market. One day May wheat closed at 801 cents. He has paid off the $350,000 mortgage and announces that he has $1,200,000 to invest in real estate. All this was made in selling May wheat from 1.06 to 80 cents. Millions and millions of bushels were sold by his brokers, and on many occasions his short line would run as high as 20,000,000 bushels. Thismeanttlrat a fluctuation of 1 cent up or' f A BOYCOTTED BABY. CHAPTER III.—JEM'S BABY. Matthew Bulbous was thankful when the daylight came at last on that Christmas morning. H'e rose at once, and wandered restlessly about the rooms below 'until break- fast. In spite of his vigorous common-sense, the affair of the previous night left a most uneasy _ impression on his mind. Not that he troublediimself aso what it really was —he knew this well enough ; but he could not shake off a superstitious fear as to what it meant. More than once he went into the study and regarded thoughtfully the spot on which the visitor stood. His memory was usually excellent in even small matters, but it disturbed and annoyed him excessively to find that by no effort could he recollect where he had seen that face before. The strangest fact was his recognition -of the face on this occasion without being,able to see it. " At anyrate," he reflected " the thing was ati imposture. It was not Jem s wife, who was quite another sort of female. But where did I see this one before?" It was no use vexing himself with the effort to remember. After breakfast, while he was impatiently wishing it were four o'clock, an idea struck him of f(oing private- ly to Jem's wife's funeral. It would help to pass the time, and it would also be satisfying. He announced this Christian resolution to his wife, by way of set-off to his uncharitable feelings of the day before, and left home. But he did not know the address, and much as he would have wished to see the funeral without even kis brother's knowledge, Joseph was the only person from whom he could get the address. When he arrived at Chelsea, how- ever, the landlady said Mr. Joseph Bulbous was not at home. Interrogated further, she said he had particulary mentioned that he was going out to Penge to a funeral, the funeral of his nephew's wife, and that he was not coming back until late in the even- ing. The information was satisfactory, in eo far as it confirmed the fact that there was no deception about Jem's wife being really dead. Matthew Bulbous straightway drove to Victoria Station but took a train to Penge where he arrived in thirty minutes. at the four -wheeled cab station, Finding a _our-whee he inquired of the driver if the cemetery was far off—there was a funeral going there which he wanted to meet. The driver knew all about the cemetery, and he also knew of a funeral for which a friend's s equipage had been chartered—the name was Bulbous, and they would pass the house. M atthew got into the cab. After driving down the main street of Penge, they turned to the right up Croydon Road, and he observed with a feel- ing of reassurance a hearse and two mourn- ing coaches standing before one of the small villas which fringed the road. On the top of the hill there is an inn, where another road crosses Croydon Road at right angles, and from this spot the ceme- tery was visible on rising ground about half a mile off. Matthew thought this would be a good point to obtain a view of the flineral as it passed, as he could conceal himself in the bar of the inn. He detained the cab, therefore, and went into the house. Presently , theefuneral came by. The hearse was an honest hearse with glass pan- els, admitting of no deception as to a coffin being inside. Next the hearse came the principal mourning coach, whose occupants he scanned narrowly, but with a nervous start which attracted the curiosity of the barkeeper. First, he recognised his son, with a band on his hat ; but beside him sat a lady heavily veiled in crape --the same person, if identity between substance and shadow were possible, who had visited Mat- thew Bulbous the night before ! Her face was so thickly veiled as to be indiscernible to an ordinary eye ; but -Matthew Bulbous's recognition of it was undoubted and start- linF r some miniif s he was dazed ; but the purpose for which he came was still un- consciously active, and he followed the funeral at a distance in the cab. He was able in due time to see, from a safe place, the coffin lowered into the grave and the earth shovelled in upon it. Then he drove to another station, and got back to Black- heath by train. He was glad to have been able to wit- ness the burial without the knowledge of his brother, and he told his wife that, being unable to find the address, he had not left London. Joseph, therefore, would be left in the dark. But he did not suspect that, in passing the public -house, Joseph, who sat in the second coach,. had glanced into the bar as an object of interest, and had detected his brother's face through the door. At four o'clock Joseph Bulbous arrived, and after paying his respects to the ladies, went to -the study andremarked that it was all over. ` " All over, is it ?" said Matthew careless- ly, putting down the newspaper he had been reading. " I thought -of going myself, after allmand actually went to Chelsea But you ween gone, and I didn't know the address." " So you: eat home again ? Well, now T remember it, I never did give you Jem's addre you never asked me. However, it doesn't matter, I suppose ?"- " Not in the _least," said Matthew. Now, as the reader knows, there were two points on which Matthew Bulbous was ^pe tieitIIrlyautiiotts to obtain information e -namely, the identity of the lady y d wheth- er het h - who sat with Wagon inthe first,carriag , a er lhaa!e was a .baby. As to the first, -his seated' belle would not divulge WORLD'S Chauncey M. Depewe has bset tlected president of New York's World's Fair board. Commissioner Gorton W. stn is vice-president. A monster panorama, 445 feet long and 51 feet high, representing the Bernese Alps, with the Jungfrau in the background, has been painted for exhibition at the Fair. A private exhibition of the work was r°fently given to the press in Berlin. An effort is being made to collect $25,000 with which to build at the Exposition a headquarters for the Sunday schools of the United States. The scheme contemplates asking each school to contribute men amount equal to ten cents for each officer and teach• er and one cent for each pupil. The steamship lines covering the west coast of South America, have agreed to carry government exhibits free, and private exhi- bits at half price, afar as Panama. Passen- ger rates also have been greatly reduced. It is reported that one hundred tons of exhibits for the Exposition have already been collected and are awaiting shipment at Lima and Callao. Owing to the recent increase of Great Britain s World's Fair appropriation to $300,000, British exhibitors will not be charged tor space, as at first determined. President Diaz has recommended to the Mexican congress that Oct. 12 of this year be made a national holiday in commemora- tion of the landing of Columbus in the new world. He says in his message that the work of collecting the Mexican exhibit is progressing rapidly, and that a display of Mexican troops will be made at the dedica- tory exercises. Mr. Robert S. McCormick, resident Com- missioner for the World's Fair, at London, has received word that an influential com- mittee in Geneva is actively promoting the formation of a creditable Swiss section at the Fair, and is meeting with gratifying success. Watchmaking will be one of the chief features of the display. It is consid- ered possible that Switzerland will yet appoint a government commission on the Fair. Bavaria will send to the World's Fair two professors from its institute of technology to report on the progress of the United States to technical :natters. " Hasn't she some one to take her place?' demanded Matthew. " Yes, of course there is the—the staff," replied Joseph, wiping some moisture from the corner of one of his eyes. " But, pro- fessionally, she feels bound to be in at the —I mean, to be on the spot on such impor- tant occasions. However, the doctor says it is very likely she will be able to go." Matthew Bulbous drew a deep breath. He would give a thousand pounds for the whole thing to be over. He could not com- mand an easy moment until it was past and safely buried in oblivion. "Joe," he said, " telegraph to me im- mediately—you understand ? And I would like to know the nature of the disease. Ask the doctor to send me a report, and I will pay him for it." Within two hours the report arrived by a messenger who was instructed to "wait an- swer." The report was scientific and satis- factory, and Matthew Bulbous wrote out a cheque for five guineas and sent it to the doctor. Sending a cheque was not a prudent act, as he recollected after it was gone. The doctor, he was aware, or he suspected, was a confederate of Mrs. Griffon, and if any- thing went wrong, the cheque might be awkward evidence of Matthew Bulbous's relations with the parties. He had been careful to pay Mrs. Griffon in cash and without a witness. Now that it was too late he was annoyed on account of the cheque, much more so than another man would have been, for Matthew Bulbous was in the habit of carefully considering minor details in connection with important transactions. The hour of his deliverance was nearer then he expected, but it carne accompanied by a fresh circumstance of great vexation. At nine o'clock that evening he had a telegram—from his brother, of course, though it was not signed—in the following terms : " Child died at seven o'clock. Will be buried to -morrow." Joseph Bulbous had had large experience in framing telegrams in terms intelligible only to the receiver. Was he drunk when sending this, not to remember that it was a case specially calling for careful phraseology Matthew was excessively vexed, and took some , time to cool down sufficiently to realise the full iinport of the news. He felt puzzled and disappointed. It was curi- ous that the receipt of this momentous message, so anxiously awaited, failed to produce on his mind the effect for which he had prepared 'himself. The death of the unhappy infant i eaut everything to his ambition, removed the one obstacle from his path, making all smooth to him. Yet he was not elated ; he hardly felt satisfied ; and almost began to get angry against his own unreasonableness ; and although he knew it was illogical and absurd, hs felt a secret anxiety which he could no more root out of his breast than he could now—if he so wished it—call back the spark of life into the baby's miserable little body. Nobody, except his wife, knew that Matthew Bulbous did not go to bed that night. He could not rest. Hour after hour he grew still more restless and anxious, till the dawn of a day of wrath fell on his shrinking face through the study window. (TO BE CONTINUED. ) The peculiar physiological causes of what is called the " breaking of the voice" are not quite understood, but it is known to depend immediately upon an organic -change in the larynx, the organ of the voice, which occurs in the male between the ages of four- teen and sixteen. Before that age the larynx of boys resembles that of females ; but when the voice begins to break the vocal cords become lengthened at least one-third, the angle of the thyroid cartilage becomes en- larged; and the muscles which connect the organs of the voice with the hyoid bone and base of the tongue become elongated. While the change of form is taking place the voice is unfitted for singing, and should be used only with great care. In other words, the breaking of the voice is due to the rapid development of the larynx, which takes place at certain ages, and which leads to a change in the range of the voice. The peculiar harshness of the voice when it is thus breaking" seems to be due to a tem porary congestion and a swollen condition o the mucous membraneeti f the vocal of ord accompanying the th whole larynx. Who can prove that a boy isn't happier in his first new boots thanColumbuswas when he discoverd America? Ulster in Fighting Mood. An English correspondent writes : It has been spoken of as noteworthy of late that orators of Ulster and their English sympa- thizers have been less outspoken than for- erly in declaring that the Ulster -men down involved a loss or gain of $200,000. would never submit to Irish Horne Rule. less cf $25,000. There are few men who ' An occasional outburst of that sort has hap - The change of an eighth of a cent meant apened, but as a rule there has been little could risk a fortune, take the chances in- talk about dying is the last ditch rather volved in a transaction like this and retain than accept the new order of things. On their reason. Yet for weeks and weeks, the contrary, the text of most public speak - warned on every side that only disaster ers has been that if Home Rule is carried could result from these operations, Pard- Ulster will inaugurate a constitutional ag- ridge moved about the floor of the Board itation for its repeal, and will meanwhile cors of the and joked with his friends as if he hadn t a refuse to pay taxes to the officers care in the world. The nerve of the man home Government. From certain startling commands admiration from even those who facts which your corrspoudent has just do not approve his methods. discovered, however, it appears that this Nobody knows how much money he has sudden moderation of speech is deceptive, made on this decline, and he says himself and that thoughts of violence continue that he does not know exactly. He has to animate the people of Ulster. It is acknowledged that he made $1,550,000, but learned that the leaders are secretly the gossips of the board have it that$2,000,- and actively organizing for what will 000 is about the i t sum. In addition to be,if entered upon, virtually a civil war. the wheat deal he 'nas played successfully Ever member of every Orange lodge in the on the short side of corn and provisions, and province is pledged to provide himself with his profits on these side issues are put all a rifle and several hundred rounds of ammu- the way from $300,000 to $500,000. To -day ninon within a month after the date of the the speculators who laughed at his predic- success of the Liberals at the general elec- tion six months ago have, after contributing tions should that party be victorious. Drill - thousands of dollars to his bank account, in in the use of fire -arms is carried on at come around to his view of the situation and every lodge meeting. The Orange police- acenowledged that he is the only' man on men connive at this procedure, while no the Board who has been right all the time. policeman who is not an Orangeman is al- " Hutch " said of Pardridge that he was the lowed to get wind of what is going on. nerviest man who ever traded on the short side of grain. This opinion is shared by a large proportion of speculators the world over. Wherever there is a market for grain the operations of Pardridge are the subject of daily comment. fe Now to the man. What manner of man is this who can play with hundreds of thousands as other men play with dollars? The feeling is one of disappointment on seeing him for the first time. He is not a good dresser and he has not the manners of` a "high roller." On the contrary, he is a most common -place looking man. No one except a green goods man would look at him twice in a crowd. His face gives very little indication of his character. He is forty- eight years old, small in stature and slight in build. He wears a $25 sack suit, his trousers are innocent .,f crease and his derby hat is not always the shape which fashion prescribes. He effects nothing gaudy in neckwear. Plain black ties, or summer silk tied in a plain bow -knot are good enough for him. He looks like a fairly prosperous country storekeeper. His face has a guileless expression that completely masks his two great characteristics, nerve and dogged determination. He spends most of his time during a session of the board on the main floor, close to the wheat pit. He always has from five to ten brokers to execute his orders. His chief broker, A. J. Cutler, is always near' him. A motion of his arm brings them all to his side. His orders are instantly given, and the effect is felt at once on the market. Frequently by signal he starts a dozen brokers selling like mad, or buying, as the situation warrants. His brokers have made comfortable fortunes on his commissions in the campaign jest closed. Pardridge never acts like a man to whom the fluctuation of a quarter of a cent in the market means a gain or less of thousands of dollars. Whether it is against him or with him he never increases his pace, he never loses his temper, he never winces. One day when the market was dropping like mad and his profits were piling.. up at the rate of $1,000 a minute he went down- stairs and spent half an hour consuming milk and pies. Leigh S. Lyneh, World's Fair Commis- sioner to the South Sea Islands, has cabled that he has completed arrangements for an exhibit from the Phillipine islands and is now devoting his attention to Java. There is every prospect that the exhibit will be one of great interest. M r. McCormick, the London agent of the Columbian Exposition, has forwarded to Chicago an application from Mrs. M. L. Mullinger, who wishes to establish a gypsy encampment within the grounds of the Ex- position, probably upon the Midway Plais- ance. Mrs. Mullinger is alluded to as being remarkably ova ell versed in gypsy lore, and proficient in gypsy learning. She manages a gypsy encampment near Liverpool, Eng- land. Costa Rica has one of the largest and finest archaeological collections in the world showing many Columbian relics and historic data relating to the discovery of iemerica. This collection goes to Madrid this year for the Spanish Exposition and will afterward go to Chicago. The scene which the Exposition grounds now affords, with most of the buildings near- ing completion and the construction being pushed forward by more than 6,000 work- men, is accounted so interesting and won- derful that from 1,000 to 5,000 visitors a day willingly pay the admission of 25 cents to witness it. Before the abolition of the free pass system, the visitors often number- ed as high as 15,000 or 20,000. The work of construction was interfered with, eo that it was thought best to charge an admission and thus diminish the size of the crowd of sightseers and at the same time add to the financial resources s of the Exposition. Position . Karl Hagenbeck, famous for his ability in taming wild animals, is devoting his time in- Hamburg to a group of lions, tigers, jaguars and hyenas that he expects to bring to the Fair. This group consists of fifty animals, all to be kept in one big cage. Hagenbeck has already spent a fortune on the group. The Bedford stone -quarries have donated $3,000 worth of stone for the Indians. World's Fair building. The cutting of the stone is included. A Spring Cold. A spring cold in our climate may be quite a troublesome one, and a cough in n child at this season should be looked after with special care. A cough is always a serious matter, as it is usually the precursor of a more serious disease than mere cold. Measles Your correspondent accidentally }earned the 'and manyother diseases are preceded by a facts in the case through a London financier, slight cough. Itis always safe to use means who on Saturday gave £500 to the fund that excite perspiration, provided the child being raised for the purpose of buying arms and instructing local leaders in military is well protected afterward and kept indoors. tactics. This instruction is being furnished A teaspoonful of ipecac dissolved in a tum - in a curious manner. The London volunteer bier of cold water, and a teaspoonful of this diluted mixture given once an hour, will force is utilized for the purpose. About a ; often break up the hoarse cold of an in fent score of Ulster men arrive in London every child. There is no harm in laying hot flan - week and join a selected regiment of volun- heeu nels, dipped in camphorated oil, over the teers as ordinary recruits. This has been chest, if there is any sign of hoarseness, but going on since about February 1st. The layers of cotton batting should take their plan is to give each batch about two month's lace when they are removed. It is useless training, when they resign and return home : to doctor a cold of any kind unless t he pa - to make room for others, and to themselves I tient is kept from running outdoors or in act as instructors of their patriots at home draughty, cold places in the house, as all The fund referred to is drawn upon for the medicines open the pores and render the suf- expense of the journeys, and also for living ! ferer more susceptible to take extra cold if expenses while in London, provided the re - 'exposed. In such cases an ounce of preven- crnits cannot find employment of some kind I tion is certainly worth a pound of cure. during their stay which would aid in paying i their board bills. The fund is also intended to be used to transport to England any iso- I What Ball -Room Decorations Cost. lated Protestant families who may desire to Little more than twenty years ago $100 make the change in place of residence. The or $125 was considered an extravagant amount to pay for decorations for a ball in scheme is so extensive, and is necessarily London. In 1871 the great furor for elabor- ate floral decoration began,and was instigat- ed by the late Sir Edward Scott, who gave up his house for three days to his florist, with carte blanche orders to charge what he liked, the only stipulation being that the handsomest decoration of the season must be I produced. Everybody imitated this extrava- gance, one of the most elaborate ciamples being the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon," on the occasion of a ball given by the Mar- -quis of Bristol, when six tons of cut ivy were tiled alone, to give a castellated effect to the bare walls of an improvised ballroom. A few days afterward Gerard Leigh gave a magnificent entertainment, the flowers o; whiih cost $2,500. Shortly afterwards Mrs. (now Lady) Sutton gave another entertain- ment, for which over $15,003 was paid to one firm alone. July 21, 1873, the first large public entertainment was given in the con- servatory of the RoyalHorticultural Society in connection with a ball given in honor of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, and ice was for the first time used in large quantities for cooling the atmosphere of crowded rooms in England. True contentment depends not on what we have. A tub was large enough f, r Diogenes but a world wan ',00 small. gar Alexander known to so many interested people, it is not likely that it can be kept from the knowledge of the general public much long- er. An nquiry m Parliament upon the subject iseamong the probabi1 ti s of the near future. Kindness is a language the dumb can speak, and the deaf can hear and under- stand. Good actions crown themselves with last- ing days ; who deserves well, needs not an- other's praise. I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole party. A Racine Wis., firm is planning to have a complete tannery plant in operation at the Exposition. That . which makes people dissatisfied with their condition is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. A great deal of knowledge, which is not capable of making a man wise, has a natural tendency to make him vain and arrogant. Mr. Pardridge was bort` in the State of New York and for many years was -identi- fied with the dry -goods business, first in Buffalo and after the fire in this city. As a dry -goods merchant he was a big ,access. Walt Whitman, just previous to his death;' superintended the erection de. vault ewherein he was to lie. It is located in Harleigh Cemetery, about two miles from Philadelphia. ] 0?TA Ai,r Ei N ;' Den Netts \l. ti-�terward in her couldn't imagine enough to qua Ugh tred Oarnegi: a penitent mood, that -lith lovers. ed a geed roun soleiasnly kissed - thioga never s' settled basis bet the game. You you thrust in right spoke the quarrel begins a of de* love ma It was a summ and Talmy, an stroll' -d out to picion at times the high chalk d Holmbury. Ho hate knew, already some m• agreement, whi. right to quarrel if she thought down the hangi. where the wild rigs Ott last, o perversity. The ful ; no mere m• thing that Ugh-, to make a half very naturally imputation of r At slim end of grown into as pr lady novelist c. chapters. Netta had bu tears, refused approved fashio tred't &wort ho him excitedly f. It was all ab if two older or by unseen to v would sagely h. with a shake, t, the p ur would arms with m forgiveness. 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And +lone or ilte id deep in_h wonderir g ould so easi ways is the ieart constr :ourse emmi tory fashion iroprietr �e that she nee .nd that si -axher go al. ler. But, . i prompt Ughtred w. sound, and use expr -r ae had e ve n the Orth the real She was on trying, t -'o., tred. So she sa an, minute misery, till d in the the curfew dawned up prise that a —Ughtred word and to her. At that upon het This was what had s too far, an never goin said good -b aver ? - Terrified crying, ah narrow £s+i ing, l'_ 4: this tirti - x • • 11