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The Clinton News-Rec'ord
the parlor et Kennaaton, the Most of
Dly Lady Peggy . joy et knowing* blieself to 'have been
' In lier heart almost equals, the mad
the Kruse!, and the denritila of big
the mystery is Unraveled by light of
anxiety that cense:nee blui now as to
Goes to Towri her life and well tieing.
CHAPTER XIX,
U'
-• NTIIifiti
natell-Wer he rldea. over
to Kenntiston twice each daY,
. morning and night, to find
' • out how It tares- with her,
and 'twits not until then that the earl
gave hitu hopes be nalgbt see ber, Iler.,
imps, within the se'enutglet.
Notes there bad beentally as soon as
Choeltee' had let IMP .1thow that her
mistress was in ber head once More,
but never yet .bad sbe been able to
bring herself to scribble one line to her
suitor or to send flay Message flaVe
polite civilities by °hockey,
• 'Twas only after the buxom damsel'
(having the night previous heard from
Grime that his wester was like to die
, of suspense and having impartee the
same to her ladyship), together with
tlie lady mother and the• earl, had ar.
gued and preached into her the great
• and chleelrems devotion of Sir. Percy,
flea Peggy at ;net bed brought hr
mind into u condition of acqueeteang in
his coming up to her tuoruing room ou
the Thursdey (being St James' day)
after tite• sixth euutlay after Trinity,.
vttich same she cueefully marked in
her .prayer beets with a dale ef the .
crimson her mother sent in to beautlfe
her Pale cbeeks with, against air Per-
ey's advent, •
•• "Ole Blitterklue, Madam!" erles the.
abigall under !ter breath, "And asking
yeur ladysbip's• pardon, but how can
, I do up your ladyship's hair an! it•no
1 hanger than the neltry of • a •meedoelt
•'-' Mouse?" •
• -
' • "True enough; Jnee. °hockey," replies
..her mistress, contemplating her. coun-
tenatice in the' mirror. "Of a fact, I
kosemblif nothing so Much as otte of
1 those weliech little vermin. tely pose Is
eharpetno, and my elteeks"— •- . •
'' "Stay, my lady," says Chock., taking
• hp the rouge and putting on leyer tater
layer, • Who'll sity your Iticlesbip can't -
' lin ielsOme now? .14 wk, mads mi Yeti
look like ;an: tingele . What n . blessing
• bf Providence the •French is avail their
. bestrews!" • • • ,• •
• Peggy regards herself,.
• "Now,my - lady," cries Choekey,
"would yen ' bet horrow. your. lady '
thothetes • worked head, a, 'cup of • pow -
dee -.ana her ladyship's 'pink feathers.'
. atop .of it, whet a sight would you be
for Sir Percy .to behold!" . • . -
•, • ,- Peggy sifakee 'e'er head,' • The three
feet ,of :wire; Nfeol; pomade. frizz and •
•.plumage the hatelmaSeen sug,gests•even 1
cauee's bee to Ittugh itiondas shefigeree
it above tier. own 'rave.. . - ' •
• . "Chock," says alto., "I'll do as Lain.• ...
Sir Percy hae seen,. uty •.eropped- bead.
Faith, he awns. you tell meethatletelie
ed the tail of tne leeks toKennaeten•
In hissaddle pocket or tied epee aka
• somewhere?"
, "Aye, tny lady, Mr. .-Grlieseti • snYs
never,. .since Adam Old Eve. began
- . •
Ar&
Dy FRANCES AYMAIL MATHEW' S
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couraged when my busband epeeists bottle le 0.4 copyright, 1,01. by •HE TROWER-Hnaa
of Hood's Sarsaparilla and rtersuaded me .t. 114.
o try U. 1 advise ell to take it, Xt bas
cured and built me tip." etas, Ryon au -
notes, Weld Llecomb, N, 0.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Cures catarrh—it soothes ated streutah-
ens the mucous membrane and btulda
up the whole 'system.
..e•esreeseenoseeeseoeserreeesiests,
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I --MAY'S —
• Northern
illg up of wholesome terror can urge
grOWfl° SOWS
Thrueting the bit of paper bate his
waistcoat, Percy gasps and gazeg. Ile
beholds air Robin and bis man lifting
'a 'Imp and slender form, ill defined,
'Us true, in its Swathe 01 camlet cloak,
into the coach; he beholds a bead a
dark, short hair, a face of ashen pallor.,
and in two seconds more, before he
can rush back and leap Into his saddle.
motioning Grigson to do tbe same, the
coach containing Sir Robin and his
prize is dashing as fast as whip, spur,
sixteen thoroughbred legs and a back-
Nol thorn Grown Seeds
are known to be sa-
perior to any other,being
earlier, hardier and mon
prod u.ci ve.
We are selling these
• seeds at the same price
as the big departmental
stores.
2c a Package
15 Packages for 25c
33 Packsigee for 50c
• 68 PackagesNfor $1.00 •
Make out yOUr list of •
2Vegetab1e and Flower
1Seeds and bring.it to our
store. We havethelar-
Igest variety to choose•
from. In -ordering by
mail send postal note.
••••••••••••44****
1 H. • B. COmbe,. ,..
t
it over the bleak and grewdome Waste
of Farnham 'heath,
"Slit% elrigson, man!" cries Percy,
digging steel into the poor roan's flanks
till they spurt blood ha a' stream. "We
must overtake 'em, unhorse 'em spill
'out the wretch inside. I'll intO the
coach. Olen to proteet the lady; you
mount the leader and gallop us over
the heath for your life."
"Trust Inc. air Percy.," answers Grig-
son from a length behind hie Master,
"God grant, sir. that the roan drop not
out of the race and leave Us but one
allele betwixt you and me, sir." •
"Peer beast!" says Percy, priekIng
her hard and striking her shoulder
with the flat of bus rapier. • "See'll die
and In a geed ause if she gain me the
goal." •
And all the while they're speaking4
dash and crack go the whips of SO:
Robin's postilions, and air Itolan'e
splendid beasts cosier the ground with
a swing end a will that keeps the coach'
rocking, but yet awakens not Lady
peggy, whose dark cropped head re-
poses on the crooked. sboulder of Sir
Robin, while her white eyelids' remain
sealed ape ao quiver of returning Con-
seleeetiess thrills about her drawn and
bloodless lime
"Gad!" exclaims Petty', as he beholds
the vehicle swinging and Spinning fare
tiler , and :farther from him and as
Grigson's • black mew is. up • nose' and.
eose, with lila own expiring. mere.
Chemist and Druggist; "Gad, girl," bending bis lips to the
• roan's laid back, ear, "go on! Help me•
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. SO!" • • • ' • •
MANY CALLS are receieed from As if the faithful creature 'contpre-
business firms and many stueents• r.re • • 41104,' tier waster's entreaty, with
placed in good positiens each year by
the femme
CENTRAL
STRATFORD., .:ONT.
-This school stands for the bighest
and best in business educatrov in' Can-
ada teday.. Many busiaess eolleges
employ our graduates as teachers. We
have scores of applications from other
colleges. Ask to see them the day you
enter. Commence course now, .Cata••••:..
lope free. •
W. J. ELLIOTT, Principal.
LAD1 ES'
RINGS.
Of 100 Ladies, 90 at least
prefer Rings to any !other
kind of Jewelry. For this
reason we pay' spectar atten-
ion to this line.
You will find all the favor
ite Stones and combination
at their best with US.
D I &MOND:5, • PEARLS,
E E R,A LDS, It URI ES,
SAPPHIRES, OPALS,
OLIVINF,S, TURQUOIS,
Every Ring at its very best
both as to value and qual-
ity.
st
A.. J. Grigg,
JEWELER AND OPTIOIAN
Celebrate
May 24th
by having your pho
to taken. Posing is
perhaps the most im-
portant point in se.
curing a good pioture
and it is apoint to
which we give 11111011
care.
We will be croen all
day on the 241:aut se-
cure your sitting be.
forehand so as not to
be kept waiting.
OMITS PHOTO STUDIO.
•
the off leader's back and relay 'trope
the swooning figure within the attach -
"Mite, sir, whoever you are, raise
• your eyes! I am Sir Percy de Bober',
at your service any Wad three hours
hence,"
Sir Robin glances up, hie crooked
itt-
tle legs .now bowing More lute an are
than beforeas he hears the dread
elaanse of his rival,
. Clapping hand to hilt, however, he
stands. up.
"Sir," says he, pushed -Into a valiance
he hue no smallest sympathy' with sole-
ly from fear that Lady Peggy may
have open ears by this time. "Sir, that
lady is ray affianced. I command you,
quit her and leave us to pursue our
Journey in peace. D'ye hear, sir?" Sir
Robin brandishes his weapon, lloW re-
entorced by the approacb of bis sera -
ants. "I'll stick you where you stand,
sir!". shouts MeTart„ prancing a bit
nearer and aethally touching Percy's
shoulder with the paint of his weapon
—be It remembered De Boltunas back
was toward' him as he eeaned into elle.
coach arratiging the cushions.
"Will yell?" says .Sir Percy coolly,
teeming and !WART the little mates
• blade and administering therewith to,
its oseaier a mart box on his out liap-
• ping ears, "feed I. time to waste,"
• adds Percy, uovejumping into the
ethich, "I'd leave • your carcaes here.
Put up steer pistol, sire'. sive. he, Mill-
ing his own straight at Sir Robin's
rtoW, unwigged pate, "or you'll be cold
insidea. second. On with' yoe, Grig-
- sonle calls master to man' ."Life' and
. death are In this matter.If the four
beasts' and you, ter., drop at the
get us to Kennaston • faster than the
• wind travels." • , • ' • • .• • "
. . Even while he speaks he•liattebes the
s. still white fnee se Pear -him, 'with his
fieger mi his trigger,. Sir ltoisin
di-
• backing away and. rending -the
• :air With noisy and impotent euesest
then a plunge, a long, rest:Medial; cell
from Grigsoue the two lackeysegog at
finding . themselves,. alive, Sir Robin's,
cola. abuts on as if the -evil one Wm;
self were in its wake. • .•
Percy does' not drawPeggy. to him::
• he lays ber'beele aneweg the pilloWe; he
• Mines her heed and nee and 'heeds
• with liquor front his flask; 'Itelde.the
.
.• "Slender flegers in , his paim,, as,:Muhl
. awful' terror Met his lady die, •.he
racked With consternation luta wonder
. at, the preeOut outcome, and he hie els
treught .mital- endeavors to patch • and
iiieep out the strange network01 ,tto' courtin' under the fig tree. 'has' auya
Mystery now Veginning. to Sollie::itself young nobleman been scen itt eueba
before les:eyes, •• • • "• frenzy es. Sir peeee about Your lady'
• 'As. he•peays God•tci spare her, if not ;ship. . Lawk; Liebe Peggy! When
' for hinefor.seme better man. a pane young gentleman gee"; ofr his •feede,
weird sound seines' hisaar. ' . ceases .ewearee • and . cenehe his man..
• Ferber throws .back .hle. bend andlis aitid stops down e In the -country nigh •
• teas. urts the long roan neighing- for three •Enciriths In the season, a-readin'
••the last -time back on Faruhaiu beide, toed ;to big deat. aunt, there ain't .no
. where sir Rohl!), picking up, lila !equity:. sort of . doubt, as to the quality of 'his
• dejected, shivering like an aspen (slew passion!" •• ••
•
he would reite bades with. n pelt to, se-. Her ladyslitp smiles as she spreads
epre a ha'penpy .and fairly: weep e tier. 'train and -glance's-at it over her .
••the sixpencesfie..eauStrecovera present . sboulder. -• • • • . • •
• le.attil.ruefully, etee of 1315 men beheld. ecisteek.". says, she, "leek', you :fiow,...
While I &pea the room •• Does the pa..
hinal fashione rothee running at
'his Ide. turns back to-Tootine; on top duesoe stand ent.Well over my hoop'?" .
of Grigsopa black, his fox teeth chat'Like the dielteloet, MY' -lady, when I
:terieg in, his wide. Mouth.• as te eon- sPreada' it to dry Cieer one.. Of the bige
.gratulatee Weisel(' . on his secOndeand gest 'hencoops. , .'Tis .•raonstrotie Ilhe;
• , miraculous wee° from the•fainope Sir finer, 1 .should Swear; than • anything
• Percy de Belem: • ' • . • • . Lady Diana' .coilid :have!" • -Chockey
"artvas, in seoth, for Hee latter a' bite siges, lost inuclirdaiticin: "Though 4e,
eilfeeess! Mere!". Mr. Hipleuxsymemet
that net u.nceramon• last flash of suPen-
• huin.an strength that inheres itt Mane
and beast alike, the roan ettleed her
• line head in the.air; pricked 'mi.:ears, •
stretebee out "her•-necit, .gathered her -
Self up with a twitch of her nerves that,
thrilled to her eider's heart, and oft -
in her beat days, when shetonad dis-
tance the fleetest mount in the contityi
off, with the whirl • andwhir of those
coach •Wheele beckoning to ,here off,,
with that Pair of straining:eyes, those,
parted lips, 'blessing 'bee 'as she beget!,
tO gain On Sir Robin. Beganto? eNay,
'twas all a Metter 01 beginning and
.ending in, a breath. Batted the pos-
tilions, ..eiriid • their own • • clatter and
math& had eaught hint of the pursuit
the keen ens up with the windows,
out of whicb the :apprehensive little'
baronet vvas peering. ettia seed= of -
terror e- "Highwaymen!. Faster! On,
lads, ont A hundred pounds ie we. o14 -
'em! 01:1173Vas their first adver-
tisement of &ogee; • • -
Butwhile the two Were drawing.
their bangers from their belts Sir
Percy, with ,a swerving datth, pulled
tbe roan; onber hind legs directly In
['rent Of the galloeiug leaders. 'Tires
but an interposition of. Provadence •
(templed with very eidellent cool head-
od hoesemanehle) that be was notthen
and there dispatched into the•hereafter.
The leaders plunged, grinding the
tvhcelers with their hind hoofs; the
wheelers fell back of a heap, tintaehing
in the fine front glasa and eating Sit
!Whitt across the lip, but not so much
as'welting his burden front her death -
hike sleep, . •• "
"Doevii With. ales Sir Percy. a
pinol in elieh hand, as Grigsta1 rides
tip. With whither brace to re-eaoros
his master, putting eieliand as Well to
tire quieting of the Coach horeen.
"Aye,`tiye, Hirt But spare our lives,
and we'll do -your bidding!" cry Sir.
•
Robin's !adopt, leaping to the great&
"We've not groat betwixt us, your
honor, on•otir rife!"
"I want 'no groats, 'nor guineas el -
dim" says Percy, now leaving his
man to cover the steed e and the pOstil-
ions, while Ile $timps off the roan's
• haek and latrine to the Ilide of the
conch,
To wrest the doer front the feeble
0044 of the ehrlekIng little gentleman
Mtn Kent, tO open It. ?Seize him. MOPE •
ping his frantld. mid traven Mee With •
n thrust of a Pocket napkin in his '
mouth, to Will Mw out and send him
spinning over the turf with his gold
and 'silver scattering Pena purse and
pockete is With Sir Percy the work of .'
a very few seconds.
"Mercy) Mercy. Mr. Ltighwitytuatir
whimpers the baronet, cringing on hht
terie sad % hour which was speut. in. tike 'Leeds Kennet -ton, wouldn't
ththk-
covering the distanee, betweest the heath . ate" • • , • ••, •
. andthe castle.. Revieed a bit, no &Met "And, Chock, look again." :Her, ladye
:by thefilmes. of the limier,her, lady- SiliP crosses back to .the ."
ship'e • Ilde ; 'quivered, contractedand thee the town ladles- give the -true
filially opeheds but ti, 'wee •with dis- quality sweep to their fretuse• Give Me
• •traugat 'end •unreeognizing stare' that , the treetet sip Percy' 'sent raw last
• atbeeserVeyed Iser companion. .."-tilitt." Peggy takes 0 .fen of: 'most
• " 'Sdenthr cries she Mond...her feeble. beautiful ðers from a motber-of-
right heed seeking her sword. side.. pearl bey and *eyes it back and • fettle
tell:you,. Chock, your mistressis now 1 "'Tie se, Check; the London tine ladies
full 'fledged ti weal Hist, girl, an yea.: 1 flutter the :fen, as 'tie' ealled, and every,
love me, keep it close; Sit Peecy's Wed t wrIg.gie With a different Meaning?"'
''-to Lady Diana! Aye!" .Peggy laughs -1 • "Ohl" Chealrea is well •nigh. sPeecii-
. • with such a heartbreak in her, voice less iis• she watelies" herthistreissidling,
end Such tears in•her winkers 03 eralies bridling, agitating the lan back, -forth.
• Petty a palm 14 crueiest•misery.
e. "Tut, tut, Chock! • What's his -maze.
siege AO me? Fetch the pack,
.Beemetel;,aee, I'm at Your service, 1o,
crimp or Whistt I, Sir Robin Menet, •
• '11 layyou a thousand to 'nothing!.
Zounde, sir, fetch Coffee to stain• my•
•'faee with, end where, oh; where's my.
precious bundle evith'My womairs.dede
in't. my patch box that I burned and •
the long tail of My hair I 'cut off wben .
you, Chock, bought the the counterfeit i
of Sir Robin's own wig at the perru-
quieree In. Lark lune? Aye! • See -no,
no, tor' A,id now 'ix shaver and a
'lower Ione, as Lady. Peggy, With her
wide, wild eyessehrank back in thelar
corner of the jetting teach.
"My lady mOther—I cemlnand yote
Chock, tell her net of my eicapatleg, and
,wben Percy coipes home with his bride
SWear elm, as will 1, I was Off pleaEtpr!
ing in Kent at my godmother's. Moth- 1
orl • Mother!" cries she. piteously now,
as Peril's amiss enfold her and a thou-
sand. feed Words jostle each other on •
his lips.
• Then she slnke into the shiver again '
luta reelable so entil the great coach
rolls through the ;Sark 'and up to the
entrance of her bathe; Until Percy, With '
few %reale lays her in the atout tame .
of the faithful Chockey and sees her
tuother bending above ter, her father
distract in his niglitrail andcap, cook I
walling, being" front Korey end prompt I
nt any sort of hubleib. Bickers' tooth- '
less mouth agape with ,groatis; sees his
Indy carried up, limp, little hands
closen hanging, to her chamber out of
hie sight , 1
Sle Percy leaves Peggy's bundle,
withal he find gathered up as beet he
tould. and slung about his sbeelders,
on the Wile In the bell, The little
genii) of paper he carries away with
him and reads when be reacheteheM0
that night "Fie her ladyship's note to
him, written oft the fly leaf Of the
mayor bet* of the youbg curate of
Breek-Armeleigh Village, AS be Beans
it, Preeette it to his lips, site Wail
dawn, remembering many things since '
he parted treat Ills lady long .ag,st In
"Ah, NO% My adored One,"
hither and yon. "Madam,' 'tis ainaeln'•
mind! A ghtee of poet new. my lady,
es by the orders of the surgeon?"
"NAY." says Peggy; ."1 ain't in need
01 Bitch." •
"A mug Of elea °Ider? Milk?"
"Ial none of :ern,. Chock," rebirth] her
ladyship, seating herself on the divan
.and •spreeding Mit the pfulunsoy as
'twere a tall and she the peacock own-
ing it. •
• "Set my eftl beside me on the stand.
Place that large chair off yonder by the
window for Sir Percy, that he may not
Isturb nry nirlielowe,
• "Unra. !mutate! Hoofs!"
"Luella 'tries her intlyellip."1115 now
home's hooted I've learned the ring of
'eni as well as:l Once knew that Of the
poor long roan," Peggy sights, She
has heard nine!' (luting her eontailete
once by way 'of Mr. Origami and the
ablgall,
"Do yeti down, Ohock, and, after
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ouch decent few minutes," cries she
after the girt, "as may be occupied in
dutiful greetings to dad and her lads,-
011ie, Yell wee eclat Sir Percy up to
see me."
She hears his Voice in the hall greet.
Ing her fattier and =tenser; she glances
over at the mirror, and, snatchlog her
pellet napkin from her bag. Peggy
tips it to the top of the Menet* bottle
and rubs the red from her cheeke; she
Hinge the fan, desvu, draws in her
splendid train to a crumpled heap
about her, gives the hoop as smart a
.tintist as her aeable etrepgthe will. per-
mit, Imre a focestep - axid promptly
buries tier slatiocti face in the etaiblotts
or tile divan.
Wie does not enswer tlit4 light rap
cat the' half open door, nor eoes iter
levee wait. Ile miters, and In a eceoltd,
kneeling at her feet, Me two arms
about her, lie raises her sweet face nue
lays lila myelitis lips on her ladyslepes
own beautiful' meth.
"Ah, IieegY, my adored one." says be,
devouring iter pale face with Me lumpy
eyes, stroking err ctupped head with
caressing linaere.
' ."011, Percy l'emys she, with real rowel
blooming in her ebeeks,
"I know a deal," whispers be, "but
one thing I must ;tele You'll tell me tit
once, wihi yeti?"
"What is't?" says she, spilling, as
she leaveher two hands in the hold
of one of his..
did you adventure so much?
For what, for whom? Whose sake?
Witerefore?" The young males voice is
feyerisil With anxiety. • .
She bangs her boa; raisesit proud-
IY; 'wishes 4Ie bad bimat a distance,
and, so, leave to swing her train tinte
use her fen indifferent. •
• "My beloved!" 'cries he.. "Answer me!
'Tis your owe Percy, him that Wer -
ships .the ground you trend upon, who
bas never had a thought Apart from
eoti, to wbom every other lady on
earth's but a puppet, that asks. Eh;
:•Peg, for whom, who'?" coaxes be, with
'eyes, lips, hands, heartbeats. • ••
"For Your 'sake, 'sir, and none other,"
•
She answers. "'Twas because I knew
I'd done wiling and sent you from me
• careless. I Would not :give .in; but you
pp in town, Ken writing..me.as he did,
I could. ablaeit nolonger, and I went."
"Now, heave]] bless you," says be,
taking her in bis arms end at the setae
instant pulling from his waistcoat
pocket tile' scrap or a note she'd writ-
ten hint .the eye of .the scaffold. .
"Peg, •Peg! I'm not worthy t� .mate
• vetth . You, 'a14 when 1 learned of nil
'your hairbreadth 'sca•pee, your tuacte
seeing of my llfeeewleen I teed this,
'Wife! Me lady, .whate a man like me
to Mech. as Your •
• "I'll telt you," sayeshe,. laying'. her
head on his shottider. "He's the man
-she loves." • e. • " „ "
"Will you marry 'me in a fortnight
"Peggy?" asks he; rapturous. • • •
"Naar. nnswes she,laughing. • area• ,
another -stator to. consider, isir."
.."Aed who Maher • ' • • •
"Sir Roble . eleTart ,He was over .
yesterday to ask my bandtrom:deddy,"
"The devil!" • •• •
. . • • '
• eNaee.tar, ..not mueugn 'courage for,
that!" - • ••'••
.• • ; • . • •
. • ''Peggy,. sweet lips, will you be Intim
. the Tuesday after Transfiguration?"
• "Lud, no, Sir Percy! That will I
not!" • •• : • , • • •••
e
"WhenwIil you, then, love?" ' e • •
"Next Christinas.a. ." . •
•. "Split it!":' .cries be imploringly.;
' "Make it the first quarter of theeactria
'ber moon?" •'
"Weil,'! she answers, .looking ine' to
••Where.,,eor father and =thee steed in
the deotivay, "an daddy and My My
mother: consent, you .shall have your
Way, .sir.' , ' , •'
,
The • young man giatiees: up, follow-
ing Peggy's ekes, speings to bis Peet-,
• raises her. from the old divan and leade '
her before theta.. • : . • .
• "My lordand your iadyship,". Says•
.he, "wila you consent;•as.Peggy has, to•
our beingsniade men 'and wife;on Oo•
.Jober• the 5th, •and will you giVe-iiii•
• lady. and 'rile, uttivorthy Seltyoui blese-
Mgr ••••• e• • • ..• • . • • • a
•
• They kneel .dowie and the eati puts
...out his heeds alicare their. heads, the
Weeds Stumble, foratheta are drops in
'hit old vetsas he leeks' and beholds'
about their faces thatinost spiemild of
atil aureoles, the text of hare and 'faith;
totter with youth, and hope and whole.
some minds to guide. ••
•
TIE END. •
, The Gentle Englishman. ,
Mortimer Menpee, the'Engileh•artiet,
in • a book:ea •Indla tells of the brutal
coxiduet • of ,Sctind 'British' soldiers' toe.
wiled the natives in the, Victorian era
• Ire ,writese "One day a subaltern got
Ike a fleet eitists.rittleveY carriage: and
found. sitting there 'a 'colored gentle-
man.' In n tit of Age he seized •the
• Poor an by the shoelders and 'sheeting
Out, to him, 'Ont you go, you black
,'est -0109d hint and •Iiis partmate
'T1t1 to Ws.
great astonishment, caused conelder.
Able disturbe nets and when he inquired
vitae , the .people ' Meant 'by' Putting -
themselves 'Outover a- black num, an
• Englishman. who was passing by an-
swered, 'Well, perhaps yea don't knose
It, but you have thrown one Of her
majeitjee jedges 014 01 the &nine"
. .
• •
.0siontehone. •.
The natiVe word for India rubber
(ctieutehoec) sounds much like a.
sneeze and is pronounced as if spelled
kee-chook, with the 'aceentestrieng on
the firet.Syllable.
The Size ex' the Isreantlds.
, The • largest of the pyramids was.
'Originally 481 feet bigh and. 853 feet on
the sides, the base 'covering eleven
acres. The stones; Which are in 208
Myers, average sixty feet in length.
Ono neeount says that 850,000 • men
worked for twenty years ill fashioning
the titanic pile.
The Age of the Mandolin.
The mendolin ras an old instrument
a cOuple of centuries ago, having then,
after a long series of evolutiona, reach.
ed its present shape at Naples, Which
city has .always clahned the honor of
its origin.
• Horns of Unman tones.
Among savage nations it is Often ciue.
foetal to use Littman bones for the
purpose Of making horns, and a terra
bin screech an be brought mit of these
awful instruments. Tito braves in
many aotith A.Merlean tribes in the Vis
clnity of tbe Aluagen entpioy these pe-
cullerly constructed berm) 40 IMAM= s were itinerants.
CURIOUS SURNAMES. •
Kim Zetresrehoore A*4 Grotisque ro.
tresyskies Horse Sr Eespestable
•
Mir/ever groteSqUe Sore° of the
moo et lite Molted illagdont.
names chosen by our novelists lor
their CharaCterS May be, says a
writer in a "London paper, it Is safe
to 'my that the meet extravagant of
them all can. he inatched in real
i What Writer of iletiott, tor instanee,
hall{ ever introduced into his • pages
such seemingly impossible nettles its
these: Kognose, Pickett, No -Yes,
Cut -Mutton, and Addle -head? And
yet all these surnaance have been
borne, and some are still borne, by
respectable Britons; though why they
do not change them is perhaps, ono
of those things that pass under-
standing.Taet•eare scares of Brit;
names which hed their origin ia
terms • of contempt and ridicule ap-
p e to the original bearers of
them. In this way, no doubt, we get
such psalattering names as Leether-
head, Sheopshenks, Woodhettd, and
Screggs, to say nothing of such cog-•
nontens • as Silly, Silliman, Trash
and Huseey, •
Sortie years ago there' war at least
(Inc family of Gallows, a name which,
suggests, at least, an ancestor who
reached a "bad eminence" in life.
The name Pennyrather, which Is now
• eo respectable, origina'lly meant it
miserly lollow, and was used as an
expression of coetempt; Lennie was
nothing more at one time than. a
corruption of the French word for
a donkey; and God was a person cif
groat stupidity,
?deny. of these undesirable sure
• napaes referred to some physical pee
euliarity of the ancestors who were
known by them. Thus we get Long -
shanks and Grookshanks, Longnesse
and Hunchback, Greathead and Leg-
less, Ugly and Itubblejam, na,mes
Which have been Itanded delete from
generation to generation. feet even
'such dubious cognomens are prefer-
able to Rotten and licrttenheryina•,
Scrapeskin mad •Stabbeck, Bedrnan
and Blackmonster, which, if no long-
.,
er in existence, •were once familiar
surnames in Engla»•d. • -
Not very pleasant, perhaps, • but
less o e i on it ble than the forego-
ing, are names derived from physical
ailments, such as Hewitt:cite and
Toothache, Creirip and Celtic,'
head and Akinshle, as well as Fewer.-
encl.:Ague; white Gumboil is not ex-
actly a narne to appeal to fatitidioes
tastes. Decal sone. surtiames derived
from perts. of the body like Shin and
Shanks, Legge. Kneebone, are
nct, such as oue would willingly'elect
to, be known 'hi, theso
why be prelerablelltit011tkoewvP,1131
anlcie inICIiicisntryn.ot be .i;riagined, however,
• that • e.11 amnia. whech appear t�
uncomplimentary were eVer meant. to
Pc so. Take 'the following, • tot- in-
stance, Waddle, Worrnewood,
• Cuckold, and Sincillbeck. These surl-
nemes•-aro derived directly' :from the
following places: • Wahull,- • Ormond,
Aichorne, Coe:mold, and 'Srhallbach;
while even welt 'reinarkiible suraames
SS Spittlehouse, Killinghack, and •Alr
shop have a similar Innocent origin.
Some vory honorable names int;
ported ioto Great Britain • from for-
. eign Sourees have been Sadly changed.
- for elue1 worse Once their errivet
Thus De -Ville; once a mem; of dis-
•tinction, has generated into ,Dovile-
De=Ath boath:' $.cardeillle- into
• Scaredevii; Tiabereille tato Trouble -
field; ,T•ailleellois, the iamily-naine of
a• very great. baron a coMpanion of
• the 'Conqueror, into Tallboys; • De
Highstepo into leuckstepp; De la
• Chanibre into Dealchamber; •and le-
Iceirleaum into Higginbettom.
sh our -
- Some amazing names haVe • been
given to foundlings and perpettietea
by their posterity. One infant found
near Shepherd's Busk was named
Thames •• Shepherd's Bush; another,'
•ho was discovered tied,lip in it nap-
kin by • the side of a brook, became
Martin NapkirieBrookere arid an ins
fent picked up at Newark, velio la,ter •
on: won seine fame as Dr. Themes
Magnus., Was ehristened Torn A.mong
Us. •
.A..0114 SattiO.R!tort. •
• The sensa•tioa of tho evenihg at the
Canada ChM ' dinner to.. Alfred
Lyttelteri, says The London Tetley;
was the reply of Sir John nopitioo
to the Emperor; -Sir Charles Rivers-
Wilson,Who gave .the toast of "The
/tripodal 'Forces," vsoupd tip with a
-teferince to the Emperor's claim. tee
Waterloo as Gamine battle "when,
the Admiral who was to respond 'fOr
the Navy jumped tip --bluff old . salt
that •• he is—and in • a voice which:.
would have sheave,' a . foghorn ex-
claimed: 'There• may be some doubt
as -to who was at Waterloo, •hut
there can be none about..Trafelgar.•',
For 'five Minutes aothiag. cthuicie be
heard through the &heel's: •Sir Jehn,
with the Sine* of seventy seintesteeen
his head, looked. the perfect 14, Pe of
t•iie British seaman as ha stood, and.
might have conie straiglit •froin the
'old Vietery and the companions.• of
Nelsons .4 Crimean hero, there is
pleitty of light in him still, and in
spiee of his ago Pc can wrestle with
a. bicycle es:effectively •es: any •new -
made ntiddy; •
-
. •
The intellectual activity of that
octogenarian prinee , of science, Lord
Keivirs, ebowe no same of abate-
ment, He receutly read before the-
Itoyal Seiciety . of Edinburgh; • of'
which he is preeident, his 'solution -
of the piebionts raised lay a.. "Free
Proceseion of Wavese in .Deep Wo -
131 continuation of 'a comment- .
cation read by him seventeen years
ago, hopes to 'return to the
subieet again. but "at a much short-
er interviste'•
The 'Wreck Stilt there,
• Twenty yenta ago a vessel was
Wrecked in an Euglish harbor. Its
Mast still 'stands erect forty feet mit
Of the water. The hell is tieW entirela,
coVered with gond, ' •
Tito COost Of ,
The coast of Alaska, affected by the .
warm Japanese current, has a tem-
perature that rarely fall's below zero
and that does net Vary more then 25
degrees, Winter and senimer. The rain
and sweet, fall is esteessive there.
Ile Mated Wier',
routtauts, the great traveler, hilted
Wig@ and got into innutnerable broils
by snatching off tho liefurcovering of
every tnan he met who wore awig,
• Statlettere..
The- title "stationer" was adopted In
the first years of Old invention of print-
ing by all booksellers and printers
froin their keeping fixed sheds, or
stalls', finlike all other venders, who,
smut ot wttr.
May atti 1904 •
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OLD ENGLAND,
Green ROO of Englanal wheresoe'ere
Across this wetery waste we foie,
Gone linage at our hearts we bear, .
Green fields of moiled, everywhere.
Sweet eyes in England, I must flee,
Past where the waves' -lust confines be
Ere your beloved Smile 1 Name to see, 1
Siveet eyes .mnglaud,. deur to me. •
•
Dear home in nugland, safe and fast,
If but In thee rny lot- lie east. •
The past shall seem. nothing past; ,
To thee, deur beinerff won lit last;
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7--s-Arthur nugh :Clough.
• •• NOTED,J...01DONI CHURCH.
53
Whore me. !Igen i;reacUrd , and nritIsk
Princes itrursOlpired.
Passineup .Waterlots Place, .o'n the
left-hand side, as ono enters Lower,
'Regent street, stands. a dull red ,
building of Corinthian architecture;
on the Wails is a notice to the ef-
fect that the last service will be •
hold on -Sunday next, when the ser-
mon will be preached by Dr. Pigou,
Demi of Bristol. That is St. Philip's. •
Brunt eighty-four' years ago • as a
eleepei of ease to St. James' OhureN
St. Philip's has sadly iallen from its
high estate. .•• .
At ono tirne 1,500 persons crowd.
od it.S..portals to listen to eloquent
•serrnons front its then vicar, now
Dean . Sottie of -the highest
personages in the land regularly at -
'tended Divine Service 'there. •
But for many years past -the sole.
' cofigregation has considered oi 13411
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tie dozere perione; . It, is for ill; xeite
• sea that the eltur0 is to Ito pulled
doWnand the land sold. .
Ali the rich folks who Used' to
live in :Carlton flouee 'Terrace • and
round there seem to have game
away, or else do not -gb 'io• church"
• enY longer;" simple:iris the old eitre.,,
. taker, who has watched the congro-
•gatiOn. dwindling for twenty years. ,
•St. Philip's has no:, paieeh and no
endowment, depeliding entirely en
As' PeW rents. These at the apogee
of its prosperity amountedto iSia.
200 a year. Now they ,are absolute-
ly
Wken brilliant preachers liko Can-
on ateptoe and thenon Pigott Were -
/fear, large and fashionable emigre-
gatibee flecked to hear then».
-At- one. time .on aSundayetaartange
the Duke of Cainbridge, the Duke ot
Mecklettberg-Stralitz, Princess Mary
of Teck, tho Niko of Marlborough,
Lords Derby aud Elcho, etti, Glade '
stone and .inany: other notables could
all be seen in the pews.•
Opo delightful old character was
A.dinirat Boyle,• Having listened to:
the accoilet of St. Paul's shipWrecica
Pc waited outside the church for Dr.
?igen.
'Well', all I can Say," remarked
he, "is that if a captain in Her Ma-
jesty's scrviee hed handled his ship
as that man did he WoUldhave been
eourt-martialed the same day and
dieetissed from the service,"
Melly tradesmen, attracted by thee
•fashiontsble gathering, attended the,
• church. One of them, it wine mer-
chant, seeing, that Lord Derby eel-
fered much from gout, wrote to hire
arid recommended it Certain brand dr
t• Lord Derby replied, "Dear site •
luive tried your sherry, anti much.
prefer -the gout,"
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