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Lucknow Sentinel, 1891-05-29, Page 2, a • 1.*tlitmo* 18 The Traetar at age (Wasidonten re00 iteessaanot weak. he cannot eliealt. •• Notting he knows of booker -Men; • Beds the weakeet of tile we'''. Alid'hoe not etreesth to held a pee. lie lies act pocket two n0P019No ever yet has owned But hes More riches thimble unrse, Becituae he wants not fley- - He rulea hisTarents-bre-bree-- And holds thein eaptitaby a simile A despot strong through letlinoe.. . • A knee from lack et tetteeeenee orowg, his mother: " &With wait passing, and I called her " (1:0 Was the reply, " Oh, indeed 1" said 111/re. Atherton. That was all, but it meant a great deal, and Laity knew it did; but she would not appear tO wind it. Atherton rang the bell eherply, and when the eerviu0 00114/L hde kw 1.0 On Move the -breakfast thinge, her tone imply- ing that they should have been taken away long- sincee " You hart better write to Misses Porn ton," she said to Letty. as she wag going - eat of the room. " I thick it quite time you told them whether yoa are going or nat." " I will write this morning. It will do eeiteur or so," said Lefty, glancing at corn cropvir."4atle watoh, one of the treseurea z.& _nut • e , 1:' o "glie . W Get 13. North 32Op. m • Hotood i ough 4.30p.ine . r,• ,...v.IA ••,,---, • .,...,,,,4a.Y.b.s,,z-7-____A.4:72=-•..dp,'-'7,174'"- „,,,,,,...,........,.! . —. ma-a....y-6Virtrart.16 nigetteitike clay. "Oases he takes as rightful due, . - And murk -nee has his slaves to His subjects bend beforeadm, too, I'm one of them. God blebs him. men pr as . ea It. prot wor wan 1 roll 4 wei , T Ern poralporoh,$ little 60. , there* he kiiit fever -walaaito - Pr lie (at elak,,04 dress him ; rpu " You're almost es fond aa mae'l eaid she. " It was only bee night the ; he laid hie arms about its neok, as it e• )od with its paw on hie °hest, and Edo bell ,ve there Wee more than one tear on its o et when he put it from him." " Why; what was Jena doing • be BO much notioed 2 " asked "Letty, be ehe led the way into the parlor, the dog clogs behind, whining and en :.dog at every step he went, as though aeeli g some- thing. " Oh 1 nothing in partioular, 11 ias," re- plied Judith, "only I suppose m -star felt and at parting ; he was always ni tin fond oflepp—always.'' A sadden faintness came over Laity, and she turned the handle of the door moral times before she could menage to open it. " At Parting, Judith 1" she esid. "Did Dr, Canard leave Fenmore last night ? " "Yea, Miae Letty, and I'd made aura you knew," replied Judith. " He went late in the .evening, and he would not as much an let Joh& drive_him tonhe_seateoes e_ he walked off by himself in the dusk,evith his portmeutesu in his hind, just as any poor lone man might have done." appear oshireLinteteinit- down to the table, and ponred out a onp of coffee, and while that was being drunk by the tired woman, for Judith had walked a long distance that morning, she went bank to the window and knelt there, with one hand resting on Jepp'a glom molt. "And didn't the dootor call here. Miss ttyle"-a-sked-Judith--- " No,' retitled Letty, " and he has not been here since Monday last, and be did not stay then, for my father was out." Well, now, I wonder as that," asid Judith ; " but I suppose he is too ill to mind." " Ill I" cried Leity, with, unknown to hereelf, a ring of terror in her low, Meer voice. " Was D. .Lennard 111 when he went away from home kat night ? " "Indeed he wae, Mini," replied Jadith— " morewore and ill than ever 1 thought to see hint—snoh a fine man as he was, and hie father before him—a fine a man as you could see in a long deign; ride. And Well a young man, Mies Letty—he's quite a young man still, though he's aged and grave for hie years mayhap, but he' e had sore trouble to make him." " Yea, yes; I know he bee," seid Letty. "But I wonder he should go away and be ill." " Well, Miss," spoke up the good woman, boldly, her honest, motherly fees all aglow, and one brown, sinewly hand smoothing • her lap vigorously," I think, if I may melte so bold as to judge, that it is not his body so muoh as hie mind that is ill and ailing. Lest night when I saw that he was going Off like that, carrying his own bag, whioh wasn't right, and refusing in his quiet, Mournful way, all help from John and me, se though he couldn't bear to trouble ne, my very heart fells fit to break ; and I pat On my bonnet and cloak, and followed him right off to the station. I dared not iet him so muoh as witch a flying peep of mee fat yon know what a gentleman master is to be obeyed, and he had esid positive as none of no was to go with him ; but I think if • he had gone away like as he wanted, with no one to wish him a. ' Godspeed," it evonld have laid heavy on my mind to my dying ' day. So I jest waited about till I saw him " get into the train, and wattle hinted! by the window with hie paper to read ; but little, I think, he was heeding the printed words, for his eyes kept wandering np and down, as it he was seeking for someone, till I fairly trembled lest they should fall on me. Bat for all he looked so, I don't think he es* much AEI wag going on ; for once, as I went nearer to the edge of she platform, a porter dame along, pushing a heavy trunk before him, and so get out of hie way I had to page right before the window Of master's carriage; but blue yon, Miss Letty, he never so muoh as eaw me." The faithful servant's eyes were brim- ming with tears, and Letty, her tem pressed ohm spinet the glees, looked oat on the leaden sky and the leaded sea in silenee. " The last glimpse I lied of his feats as the train wag tearing past, I shall never forget, Miss Latty—never, were 1 to live a hundred years ; a face, so white, and pinebed, and sorrowful, I hope never to me again." A 'step sounded in the hall, and a soft voios giving some directions to a servatt, and ,Judith got np, and rubbing the corner ot her shawl briskly across her ayes, prepared to depart, for the voice 'was that of Mrs. Atherton, who had never looked with a friendly eye upon Judith. " I will go now, Miss 'Jetty," said the old woman ; " and I'm euro I thank you kindly / for the oup of doffee, and I hope the next One I see you, you'llbe looking more like yourself." " Thank you, Judith. Good morning," replied Letty, ablientedly, to this little epeeoh, and, kissing Jepp once more, she left him free to go after her. On the threahold Judith met Mre. Atherton face to face. She did not stop, but with a deep oonrtegy, which met with' a very slight reoognition, else went on her vday, out into the line, and toward her bome Jepp following her. "My dear," asked Mra. Atherton, blandly, as oho entered the " what brought that woman here this morning ? " she spoke, and meek shere, locked herself in. The room was as email as it was the &et night Letty lay down to eleep in is, long before wealth had showered upon her. It looked out on the same little strip of garden and lonely °transit ot yellow wield with the creat ndar tine • an t the small white bed was draped with the simplest white draperies, and on she tiny painted deeming table stool a tiny painted glass that swung between thin poles de- void of ornament, and the white boards were,eperely covered with stripe of dragget. Now the small conoh wee a tie); fleet of enowy hoe and linen, and on the well- inenished dressing room table a glass, almost too large for the room, swung between its maeeive carved pillars. There was a thick, rich carpet , on the floor, all a -bloom with lilies and roses on a delioate gray ground, and on the walls hung eome exoellent, well-chosen water. color alien:thee. Altogether, for He size, there was not a prettier, oozier room itt she kingdom •ieven the pale November light, coming through the sweeping curtains of pink and white that fell over the old-faehioned, deep- seated window, seemed to ehine clearer in that roam than in any other in the house. Letty bad grown aeoustomed to all this luxury, even as she had been aeoustomed to the scanty furniture in the dim gone by ; and it made no impression on her. She went and flung hereelf down on the broad, low, window -Beat, and drew the delioate lace eartains round her as me - leaky as she would have drawn the (simple meant% ones that used to hang there. She -gitifefedhereilf-up-in tiliesp, so to speak, - and ()leaped her arms round her knees, and tested her lase on them, and gat there perfeotly still for a little time. There was a great yearning of pity in her heart as Letty thought of that lonely man, eitting with hie white, sorrowful face, looking out on Fenmore, in she chill dusk miserable. She She saw, in imaginationthat pale, sorrowful face, as plainly as if ebe and not Judith, had Mood on the platform, and watched it flying past. She Nit with a shrinking pain, that the Bottled look of sorrow on that weary face had ite origin in something connected with herself. She loved him too wellnot to know that his heart was not cold to her, and again and again she wished that this ill-fated money had never come to her—that she was still plain, poor Letty. " I should know then," she said, " it he loved. He would be free to come and tell me eo, if he did ; but, as it is, hie pride drawe bit» back. and we may die, loving eaoh other, and never telling our love." And then the piotare she had drawn seemed go pitiful to her, that she buried her face in her clasped hande, and buret into passionate sobbing. "1 shall never gee bim again! " ahe wailed. " Oh 1 he might have come and said ' good- by.' • If only for oae little minute, he might have come." That outburst over, Letty got up and brushed her hair away from her face, and stood for a few seconds gazing dreamily at her own dark reflection in she mirror. " It is very plain," she said, eadly, humbly almost, as though in being so she was guilty of (tome wrong—" rio very plain, it is no wonder he oaree little for leaving me." Bat her letter must be written at once, if Wall; and Letty sat down to her little treble to write it. The Mime Poynton were new -made friends, brit to till .appearanose they were very true ones ; and they had sent the kindest of letters some three weeke before, inviting Letter to their house—a pleasant enough mansion, by all accounts, standing in the midst of its own gronnds on the out- skirte of a breezy Yorkshire moor. She had not oared to go then—she did not care to go now, bat for a very different reason; still, any pleas would be better than Fen - more, she thought, for the time being; and this letter was so tell them when they might expect her. It was not in time for the early post. When Mrs. Atherton °erne knocking for it, she had to go away again empty- handed. " It is not quite finished," Letty mined out to her from within; but ahe did not open she door lest her pale face and red eyes should tell too plainly why the letter was not finished. "1* might have been written twice over," thought Mrs. Atherton, no ehe sailed leisurely down stairs, but she said nothing. When the letter was finished, it was each sorawi that Lefty was aehamed to send it, so she tore it up and began to write another. Her head wee throbbing, her hand burning and uneteady ; writing at all sae positive pain to her; bus she persevered, and =imaged at length to write a letter that watenot all blote and aoratohes. It was now noon, and the children were trooping by to their dinners from ont the one school of Fenmore. The narrow lane was echoing again to their calls and oriee ; and ae Letter stood quietly watching them as they went tearieg and hurrying peat, one little fellow, looking up, eaw her and smiled. It was a cripple boy, the son of one of the fishermen, and once the plague and terror of all the children round. lie had been a cripple from hie birth, and the misfortune bad soured what would, perhaps, under no circumstances, have been a very sound or sweets temper. This child, deformed, negleoted, savage, utterly mieerable, 000n attracted Dr. Len - nerd's eotioe—hie pity and -help also. when hesaw thereel condition of the boy. HO did what no one had ever done before but the dead mother, to whom this little weak- ling. had been far dearer then the other seven brown legged, sturdy archins all put together. He spoke kindly to him; he had him np to hie own hong% and while he sew *et all este for the body was hOpeleee, he net about saving the poor. wayward soul. As a notate' oopseguenoe, the lad poured out all the lova oft& passionate heart on the doctor. For the guerdon of a smile, he •made himself Omani gentle; for a wad of praine, he teltobled newell as, he _ooald, hie fierce, clliarreleocie notate, and eat patiently over hie books in the village school- room, without seizing, as formerly. every chan000tinfliding_pams_p_. hie next.door neighbor, Ouch a change wee too great to -be-marvelledi at ; and velum the ohildren found that their fierce companion was al moat lamed, they crowded about him and made much of him, thinking more of a soh answer from "Gross Johnny ” than they would have thought of a real sacrifice from any other. 1 hie, then, was the child who, looking her preparatione completed. Her beetle '7704reellielreeteiCieeeWreeeziefeeleeeliekeeeetE,MWeeefrreW,,eeeotettelnete le-keeneltyr were all piled together in the hal ; anai4eity say an herself, pale and tired -looking; eat at their late breakfast, her hair pushed into a silk net, her feet in elippera, and one of the oldest and plainest of her morning wrap- pere round her. It was not a very beooming toilet for a young heroine, but then there was not a tears, and let us thazilhOod if they itre the only blots upon it. " Any change must be for the betters" said Laity Leigb, and as she epokeschange was drawing near to her, though she did not know it—a change eo great that it Weld Mike Mean tow .0119r1 months of prosperity appear se *be levered itiftriell dream, r present pities childieh petulance, not to be counted among the real trouble of life. am—guingiolluteton;"--shcr esidi-whe she met Mrs. Atherton at dinner, " and I hireza written to Laura to say oho may ex peat me on Saturday next." "Very good, dear," said Mrs. Atherton, smiling,- 1 think you need the change." That was Tuesday, and by Saturday morning at breakfast -time Lease had all be eery ‘113000.fte0 and I don't for on thinks you would Letty was sorely She vianted so get away from her own but, as it could not, then as far from every- thing that would pm -on -that eore -heart _ea she could gel. " I hate Fenmore," she oried. "0h Mrs. Atherton ! you catel know how muoh +hataitl" "-Yee, Letty, I do know," said Mre. Atherton" know very well; but it ie one . of our difficult parts, my dear. .to oraeh down such things, and strive so to aot before Cue wueid tliet Iva chill =et need to blush for ourselves when the gay bubble burefill.1 Of course, dear, you can go or etay as it pleases you, and I will tett your papa that tee bine know whioh you wind°, in, you to leave him, ant expect that he 11 zzled what to do.. ay from Penmen, earth if it oould be; grit Je little face, with ite wistful eyes, once s tierce in their light, glanoing up softly at hr, brought Di'. Lennard and his many kindly generous deeds so foroibly before her that she looked down on the boy through a blinding mist ot tears. The troop passed by, the crippled lad the Iasi to dieappear, and Letty sat looking out ereiteeenforesiessese with sharp pain. She had no reason for saying so; she had never heard it even in the idlest village gossip. but she kept re• poetising is over and over to herself, halt unthinkingly:" I shall never see him again; he will not come back to Fenmore." She seemed as one who, standing out alone oa 60030 ragged headland, pointing into the sea, saw .on one gide heavy storm-olonde drifting up to overwhelm her, and on rho other side the °leer light of noon ; but the brightness seemed going from her further away every instant, and the dark aloud wreck drawing nearer, till she lost all hope of ever emerging from out the shadow of that heavy darkness. She loved Dr. Lennard with all her heart, and he was gone from her. He loved her, she hoped, she knew; still -he was gone. What probability was there that he would ever dare to some break again ? The hope of winning his love openly one day had shone down upon her like the ligbt of a blessed noon, that hope was dying„ out, is had died. The thought of spending a life. time at Fenmore wiedont hie love 'wee a heavy blackness; and sitting there in her own little room, looking out on the shifting grey ilea and -the palely- shining- yellow sande, she felt that blackness surge end settle round her, never more to be lif ted up. Heering theeohnd-of wheels On the gravel, - and looting down, she sew the trap stand- ing before the door, evidently waiting to (wry Mr. Leigh to the etation. She had forgotten all about the strange letter and this hasty journey, and she went hastily down now, to bid her father good -by. He stood in the hall, giving some puling direetione-tonintehhheragett smile still on hie fame, strnggliag through a thin veil of mysterious importance. He was warmly muffled already, for the day wee chill, and the night would be chillier still, and it would be deep night before he could molt London; but Letly, k'ssing him, drew the high collar of hie coat still closer round hie neok. " Don't etay away longer then you can help, father. I wish you had not to go at all,' she said, clinging to him. " Do yon indeed ? " said he. " Then, like many another, you wish a very foolish thing. Ws more for your sake than my own thee I am going." " Oh 1 father, if it is Only on my account you are going, do stay," cried Lefty. " I would rather have you stay with me then anything this visit could give me. Do etay, father." He put her arm from about hie neck, a little crossly. " You know nothing of what you are talking about," he said, gelding into the trap, and settling the rug across hie knees. " I shall send the trap back with Mre. Hall's boy. Good -morning, 'adieu." He gave the horse a smart tonoh with the whip as he apoke, and dashed off for the st &lion. Letty's talking had madelt a hard mat. ter for Mr. Leigh to reaob the station in time for the up -train for London. If he missed that he would have to wait till the next day before he could go. Seemingly he had no intention of wigging it, for he wee making the horse go "almost at fall speed between the high, narrow hedges. Mre. Atherton went indoors immediately. Letter shied in the porch, gazing wistfully lifter her father. Her lot in hie appeared very ead-oolored as ehe got a glimpse of it then—always the same duties, the same weary round; one day the sample of the many, with no one but her father to live for, and he an old man. " Will it never end?" ehe thought, as ehe stood there. " Any change must be for the better." Presently she went in -doors, and down to the kitehen, to gee that Jane wee getting ready for the early dinner—for of late Ildre. Atherton had left many of what some people might think ought to be her own duties, to Letty'a care. every it me tired as she looked, anAthree times as miserable; all her best dresses were lying neatly folded in the hall; her hair would have to be plaited and twisted Op artiatioelly for the journey, or rather for inspection at the end of it, and what more reasonable than to let it be now, and to take her breakfast in peace and quiet, nndieturbed by thoughts of stray visitors or shabby morning wrappere. But the very time we are the hetet fit to be seen—that is, shoes among ue who are ever unpresent- able—is jest the time of all others tint eome one pope in to see us. Letty did not escape this fate—why should she ? Heiresses are only mortale, and breakfast was seemly over when, chancing to look up, she wag aetoniabed, startled almost, to eee her father pees be. fore the window, Ernest Devereux with him. Mrs. Atherton gam them, too, and Boiled the ribbons of her cap oomplaoently —ehe was not in deshabille ; but Laity rose hastily, too disturbed to remember her fatigue; ebe wee a true woman, and her morning dress was a fright. So with a few rapid bounds she osoaped up the staircase, ae Mr. Leigh and hie oonapanion oanie into -the hall. ----- " Why, who ie come, Mrs. Atherton ? " was Mr. Leigh's salutation to that lady, as abe name egracefally forw_ardte. WelQ(103e_ him. "No one, my dear sir," was the reply ; " but we are about to lose some one instead. Miss Letty is going to -day on a visit to Ralston.' Ernest stopped short in his greeting to glance aeide at the piled -up boxes, and then at Mr. Leigh's cloudy face. "C1bndealy bard,' hirthnsughte-"-if I have gone through all the bother cf the peat few weeke, and come here only to find my last chance slipping out of my fingers; I may pack off bask to Calais as soon as I please, after this." " Just like her perversity, and the per- versity of things altogether," Mr. Leigh wee thinking; " bat I'll see to it that those boxes are unpaoked before the hour's oat, or I'll know why." The two gentlemen had walked from the elation ; they were dusty and tired, and ,Mrs. Atherton's oup of good tea was very welcome to them. After braelifest Ernest Deverenx went to hie room, the same he had occupied when with Charles Temple on his former visit. He found a fire burning brightly on the hearth, and everything looking home -like and comfortable. But he did not look very comfortable in mind, whatever he might be in body, se he Hang himself into the low, obintz.covered rocking. chair, and laying hie lege over the buffet, sat smoking moodily. His face was pale and get, hie hard month harder than usual, and there wag a sullen light in hie bine eyes that reminded one ir- resistibly of an animal that felt itself in the toile, and eaw open to it but one doubtful chums of esoape. Hie one chance lay in a speedy marriage with Elizabeth Leigh, heiress in her own right. . Laity Leigh he liked very well; but Dotty the heiress he wee not only willing, but eager to marry. His chance of ever doing that seemed small enough hist at pregent. The respite he bad won, wish infinite pain and endless prom- iees, from the more pressing of hie creditors, was but a short ono; and it this throw failed, he had nothing to look forward to but au exile in France or elsewhere, until enoh tithe adi his creditors, wearied of watching for him, gave up all hope of ever getting their does. He had lived a gay life; he had frothed and floated among the creme de ld creme, a penniless, heir of a good old name, with nothing to keep it up on. He might have been Bea to have lived by his wits for some years, but that it is each a vulgar way of expressing it, and Ernest Devereux and hie kind so shrink from vulgarity. He could live eo no longer and he knew ; not be- cause hie wits, were growing lees keen, but bemuse dearly -bought experience was sharpening the witsiof, many round him. The groat shark had gobbled up all the little fishes in its neighborhood so long, that thelittle fishes were growing centime, and the great Auk found it necessary to move into deeper water, or be gobbled np in turn. So, all things considered, it.wan not to be wondered at that he should puff at hie oigar so savagely, nor that the down cushion of hie reeking chair failed to give him ease. " By Jove 1" he thought, as he gat there, "if she goes to -day We all up, and I'm not quite enre the old fellow can stop her." Meenvehfie, Mre. Atherton, commissioned by Mr. Leigb, had eought Letty in her own room, whither she had fled oh the tinlooked- for interruption. She had to tell her that her father did not wish her to go to Ralston, as she bad promised ehe would; nay, he desired her not to go ; and seeing that her thinge were all packed, end hermit getting ready to inert, it wag not a very pleasant mission. But Mre. Atherton wee equal to the omission, as all great men or women should be, and she laid the mute down eo clearly, end showed so foroibly how vary rude it would be for Letty, the real mistress) of the house, to go away and leave a guest to his own regoiireee, that Letty, though not convinete;,h,abeotirgod. gantofieelweeverygoingunoobmfoertioarbelei iutl knew of hie vide. Be bitted eee that I wee, .for there are my bozo ready oorded before his °yea." "Yee, to be sure," said Mre. Atherton. " He knows yon were going to.day ae well CHAPTER V. "THE WOMAN DE HAD VOME DOWN TO MABEL". " Any (Avenge mast be for the better," amid Lesty, in her weariness, that dull No- vernber morning. Is Letty the only. one in the world who has so thought—go said? Have we not all, at one time or another, been so tired. and sick of the monotony of our , lives that we would have hailed any change se a relief? Toiling along in the lowly venom we have fooked tip toward the shining mountain peaks, towering eo awful in their beauty, so grand in their atrength, and longed, with paeaionete, rebellione longing, to reach those glowing eummits &at, to oatoh the smiles of the morning. Some have gone to their graves with that longing unsatisfied; others have reached the peaks of those giant hills, and found, when too late, that it the first glory of the summer can came down upon thew, the first terrible fury of the Bummer etorm, the first pitiless blast of the winter bSil descended also. When we are lowly, we would fain be high ; when high we look down longingly on the lowly, humbly plodding on in their sefe, if narrow, track. , The fickle, human heart ie ever peeking after el:lenge. Discontented with onr past, tired of onr present, how many of us ory out, like fretful Children, for a new leaf to be turned in the book of our life I We dream of each noble oharectere to be im. printed thereon, mob thrilling etorieg of truth and worth, and when the page is turned, we too often find it stained with as I do; but he known, too, tint it would (To hal Continued). They Make Good me,rvants. Buffed° Sunday News " It I had fifty Canadian servants tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock they would all be gone in an hour," said Mr. Stephenson, of the Univer- other day. " Why do I specially adverkitie to furnish Canadian servants ? Well, because they are not afraid to work. They come here and say they want places, and want them right away ; they ddn't. want to upend their money for board while waiting for a situation. They will often go to a place at 9 or 10 o'clock of the day they oomo here to apply They are wantto waeh and do all kinds of work, don' eke Le to go out evenings, and etay a geed.!hile in a place. They want the . esme ages over here that the A.merioan girls get. It they have been receiving $2 50 a week in Canada they want $3.59 or $4 here. Often a lady comes here and asks for a Canadian gervant, saying tied she has had one and wants another. American gide seldom want to get a plaoe under two or three dery after they come, even it they could have just the situation they are look- ing for. They will welt sill they have spent the hut cent, and then take the fiat place that offers. They are very partial" - ler, too, about the amount of work they do, and the' kind, and still they want high wages. Oue lady complained to me that her last girl 0.merican) wanted to go out every evening in the week beside -Tuesday - and Friday afternoons, end refused to work . • after' dinner on Sundays, so thee she 8, have an -advertisement now in the Cana hot papers for 80- girls. If the Government would allow me to have an agent over there I could have 150 sent over at one time and no difficulty in finding placeso for them." 0.101.Leral01011•41sorallniora, At the Mikado's Court. -Hui-Imperial Majeatycomeerfirefeandesil alone. His arm is too seemed, too separate, to be taken in public teen by the Empress, who comes behind, a email, exquisitely graceful Isdy, dressed in a mauve satin toilet of Parisian style and mauve bonnet, with parasol to match, all borne with the utmost charm and beoomingneee. Behind, Her Imperial Majesty, also roweling singly, a bevy of ladies of the court, alt but one in European dress°, and following the ladies the gentlemen of the palace in black frock - costa and tall hats. Hie Majesty wears the undreee uniform , of a general—cherry- coloreci trousers and blaok frogged cost braided with gold lace, and on the single olose-out brows a kepi of goarlet with gold bend. His bow in recognition of all bare and bended betide is the eligbtest possible inclination whioh rigid mueoles can make, yet withal accompanied by a glance, kindly, benign and full of \evident good - wit), for hie lips almost smile, his eyes are alert and lighted, his air is, one might almost dere so say, genial, and these node of she Japanese Jove must be meeteared by loyalty with a micrometer. The Major's Blunder. The late Major Barttelot was °desisted at Rugby, where he ie etill remembered as the hero of one of the moat delightful schoolboy blunders. "What ie the mean- ing of the word.' adage ' ?" WAS the question which was being aeked by the master. Various shote were made of the usual wild description, when it osme to young Bartte- lot, who, without hesitation, replied, "A place to put °ate into." Everyone laughed; and she master, who was as muoh mystified as the reed, °send him np at the end of the lesson and aeked him what had put Ouch an idea into hie head. " Well, sir," said Barttelot, looking very muoh injured, "doesn't it say in Shakepeare, ' Like the peer oat in the adage' ?" A Philanthropist of India. Tho Times of India recently contained 'a record of the generoue gift of Htirkisondes - Naroteindag, of Bombay, who has placed at the disponi of the Government the munificent sum of Rs. 100,000 for purpose of constructing a lunatic say' for females. Mr. flurkisondee is one of the leading citizens of Bombay, ie a Judie° of the Peso°, a fellow of the Bombity University, and a Councilor of the Municipal Cor- poration. His name is generally segooiated with all publio movements and °heritable institutions, and he is a member ot the most ancient Hindoo families. " Four years ago," writes Col. David Wylie, Brookville, Ont., May 1888, " I had a severe attack of rhenmetiem, end could not eland on my feet. The pain was ex- ornoisting. I was blistered and purged in true orthodox style, but ell to no pnrpose. I was advised to try St. Jecoine Oil, which I did. I had my ankles well rubbed and then wrapped with flannel eaturated wit the remedy. In the morning I could wit without pain." Some Brutes Have New York Recorder : " Do brute(' have s language ?" aeked the Preeident of the Millville Literary Cirole at a recent meet- ing. " Do they 2" replied the Seoretery ; "yon ought to hear my husband when he loses his collar button. The pastor of a Boston congregation amid that be must have beer to drink, and by a vote of 190 to 10 they advanced his Wary $180 a year in order to permit him to enjoy that luxury. The Duchese of Fife gave birth to a daughter yesterday.