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Lucknow Sentinel, 1892-04-01, Page 7• p1,41.16.11••• is a noble fellow, much too good tobe wasted on suels a life." He gave Clare a detailed account of what had passed theA afternoon am sorry he has gone on the stage, she :laid. " I hoped he would have done • great things. It seems to me that a man like that might have wonderful influence in public life." "And yet in some ways he is admirably fitted for his preaent work," said Mr. Brit- ton. " His voice is very fine, and his acting really first-rate ; I went to hear him to -night, and was delighted with him. Would you care to see him to -morrow? I want you to look him up, for I think, poor fellow, he is leading the life of a dog; and he seemed so pleased at the thought of meeting you again. I have promised that the carriage shall take the vicar into Ash - borough in the afternoon ; he preaches at . ;d y rive with young Donati." St. prian's in the evening. Would you like t ,go in, too? You might, perhaps, go for "It would be the best chance of seeing him alone," said Clare. "Thank you, I think I will go, and ofi Sunday I suppose he is sure to be disengaged." Accordingly the next day Clare, having set down the vicar at St. Cyprian's parson- age, drove to the Royal hotel, and sent in her card with a little penciled message ask- ing Carlo to come for a drive. As she waited there she felt a little anxious, and even shy, for after all it Was many years sine.) she had been seen Carlo. Would time have raised a barrier between them? Would Signor Denati, the public singer, be less approachable than the frank, light- hearted, Italian boy, who at onetime almost worshiped her.? The first glimpse of him, howelkr, dispelled all her fears ; he came quiclerly forward - with the same edger, boyish manner which she recollectedso well, . and took both her hands in his. "How good, how kind of you to come !" he exclaimed. "This is the greatest pleas- ure I have had for a long time. Gigi —he turned to pick up a small boy—" this is Miss Claremont. Should you mind, Clare, if I brought him with me? Sunday has come to be considered his special property." Clare was delighted to welcome the little -fellow, and made many inquiries about his narrow escape of the previous day. , "What a great pleasure it. must be to you now to feel that you saved. him !" she said. "1 have often wondered how a rescuer would feel afterward." " It's a satisfaction to feel that I have not failed in one thing undertaken," said Carlo, rather sadly. At first sight Clare had thought him hardly altered, but on looking more closely • at him she saw that his face, when in repose, bore signs of friction • and, thorigh still very young -looking, told Plainly of grief and sor- row undergone. . " That is a sad way of putting it," she said. " I thought, toe, that you had such. very great success ; Mr. Britton led me to • believe so." , You see," he replied, " every artist •' leads a doubllife ; just at that moment I .• was thinking more of my own personal side of the question, but really- sometimes I think I'm making a failure of both.'2 • "But you have surely had a very rapid success ?' "Don't think I am ungrateful for my re- • ception," he said. '11 know I have made • what the world calls a success, but I'm not • yet satisfied with myself. ; and each time I go on the stage I feel that I may fail utterly. • An artist's life is a life of eternal anxiety. But then to counterbalance that we have the moments of inspiration, and they are worth all." "And I suppose it was your wish to be near your sister which prompted you to make the change ?" she said. He was surprised and yet relieved, that she had guessed as Much. " It was my last promise to our mother," • he said. But he was quite silent as to the sacrifice it had been to• him to take up the • profeseion ; and Clare, who 'had not the faintest suspicion of his love for Francesca, could not, of course, realize what he had • been through. She wondered whether his plan had been a wise one,.and recalled Mr. Britton's description of Madame Merlino, and his conviction that ip this case chivalry would not avail. "1 know you don't approve of the stage,". he said. "Had I thought you would have seen things as I saw them I should • have written to you when we fist came to England, for I was horribly lonely then." " As a matter offact, you know," she said, in ier sweet, •bright way, "1 am a very ign rant woman as to these matters. I have n er been inside a theatre, I have • never co e across people connected with the stage, and I have no doubt that the evils • connected with theatrical life are painted more darkly than they need be. Indeed, I should be very glad if you could convert me." Curiously enough, however, the question •• of theatrical life was to be handled once more that day, and not with Clare's mod- eration. .. • St. Cyprian's was some way from the Royal Hotel ; but Carlo, having chanced upon a very dreary service in the morning at a neighboring church, was determined to go further afield, and hearing from Sardoni that it was considered one of the finest churches in England, resolved to seek it out. . " It's at least a mile," said Sardoni ; " however, the choir is worth hearing, and if yow're going I don't mind going with anu." ' lic Sante Old Thing. (TO be Co Aimed. Chmso-201d Soak had a terrible fall last night and, was taken home insensible. I3umso—What did 'his poor wife say when 'he was brought in? Curnso—She simply said, "Chestnut.' Ready for It. Jack—I'm an -dully glad Lent has come ; I'm ready for it. Ethel—Are you prepared to fast ?! jack—Oh, yes, l'm prepared: I've known all winter that I was going too fast. A Sure Sign. First Servant Girl—The missus hasbeen riving it to the master this morning. Second Servant Girl—How do yon know? , First Servant Girl—He just kinked the ; cat as he came out of her room. , .The growth et the nail is more rapid in • '132 days. to renew itself irieWiotof wonhl dp 1thesame work in 116 days in the stamen children than adult s, and slowest in the than in whiter, so thatthe nail that requires, ,ged, It goes on more rapidly in smnmer 4 HER SIX PROPOSALS, Why She Refused Her Numerous Devoted _Lavers. . My first offer was made me by a boy 18, and the way he propoeed was: "1 sa May, don't you think it would be jolly f if you and I were to get married ?" says writer in Yankee Blade. I didn't think it would. He was awful wretched, poor fellow, for a fortnight; b he didn't die of a broken heart, as he ea he should. The next was a young curate. He led t way to the point by Scriptural steps. "Mi p—," he said, "'Entreat me not to lea thee, and to return from following aft thee,' are very beautiful words." I agre they were. "Very beautiful words," went on, " and—ah ! ah !—very appropria td—to—nsore occasions than one." I su posed they were. " Yes " he said, "to mo occasions than one. Tile the ah—ah! ah —the present, ah! for instance. I wou myself—ah ! ah !—apply the words -to—to ah—to myself. I—I—would say—ah! ah the fact is I love you." 1 was sorry for hi for he was a good-natured, honest-hearte fellow, though he was so nervous an clumsy. The next wooer was a man I deteste He was what its called "a lady killer. His dress was exquisite. His hat, h collar, his tie, his cuffs, his cut of cloth were all superb. One day, in spite of a rebuffe, catching me alone, he seized th occasion. " Miss D ," he said, " you know it really ridiculous. My intentions are, assure you '—here he felt if his tie wa right—" my intentions, I assure you, are the most serious—positively of the mos serious—ahem !—character, haw! Perhap you had not suspected it, but I have no been joking, I assure you, not joking at al ynu know. Seriously, 'pen my honor, yo know, I wpuld really ask you to be in wife l" I gave him a very decided answer. The next was a man of business. 11 thought it must be a wife. "1 have $5,00 a yeare" he said, " will you share it ?" H was a good and honorable man, thhug sharp and business -like, even in his way o proposing. He got married withinsix month of' my refusal of him. My fifth lover was an artist, and his mod of proposing was somewhat out of the usua way. We -were great friends and he use to show me many of his manuscripts for' m to road and give him my Opiaion on them One day, I received one of these. It wa the story ef a lover who had sighed a Nig time in Secret for love of a girl wile was pictured in all the frantic fashion in which men who are in love write. At last, how ever, after numberless obstacles had been overcome, the hero told his love, and just when I was expecting the usual ending to it all—the story stopped. I • thought it strange. The next day the authorealled on me, and then the explanation came. The hero of the tale was himetelf, the heroine was rne—and the conclusion was to be as I de- cided. I was really sorry for him, for he was one of those fearfully sensitive men—clever, though eccentric—worthy of a woman's love, and sorely needing it. I had a good cry all to myself after he had gone,' for I am sure he suffered much. My next offer was made by letter. It seeing to me that there is something wrong with a man who is afraid to propose in per- son and takes refuge in writing. I could never cOnsent to marry one who dared not ask me to be his wife, looking me in the face. I rejected all of these because, as I have said, I loved someone else who never pro- posed to me. I am grieved to think that I must have caused pain to some, but my conscience is clear. I never consciously encourae.ed any of them to fall in. love with me, of y, un a ly ut id he 88 ve er ed he p- re ld m, d. )3 is es 11 is of a 1, 0 d The Widow as a Wife. Isn't there every reason in the world why a widow can make a young man happier than a young girl can? You see, she has gone through it all. She knows the small meannesses, the nagging tendencies, the tiresome curiosity and the 'tiny fault-finding peculiar to mankind. She knows how to ignore all this, and to blissfully accept all the great big virtues that, thank the Lord, are predominant in man. She knows how to cater to his appetite, material and men- tal ; she knows how to make him think as she does, and she doesn't adopt the tactics of a young girl for this. Oh, no, not.by a long manner of means. When a young girl doesn't agree with a young man she con- tradicts him. That's first blood for him. A widow does nothing of the kind; she agrees with him, and then she talks to him ; tells him just how clever he is, daintily brings forward her own view, suggests to him that she know e that be has been thinking that way all the time ; that he was only trying to see if she could guess it, and hey, presto ! before he knows anything he has veered arouud to her opinion and hasn't the remotest idea, that he has ,changed his mind. —Exchange. Justified by Appearances. , 4 man prominent in Canadian political life, but careless of his dress, was once on his way to call upon a gentleman of Quebec, and stopped an Irishman in the street to inquire the way. " Can you tell me where Mr. Hunter lives ?'' said the statesman. " It's no use,your going there," was the unexpected reply. "But do you know where he lives ?" " Faith and I do, butts no use going there." The inquirer began to get angry. "1 didn't ask your advice. I sitnply wanted to know where Mr. Hunter ives. , "Oh, well, he ligves down that street yonder, the first house round the corner ; bit I tell you it's no use your going there, for l've just been there myself, and he's already got a man." Mr. Hunter had ad. vertised for a servant the day before, and. he statesman, so the story goes, Went at once and bought a new hat.—Chiegeo Jonrnal. •It !And Get a Right of war, In a receet address in Chicago, W. F. Cowling stated that a street railway in I hat city, beginning a few years ago with a cap- ital of $$O,000 and a gift of the right of way, was enabled without further investment to pay largo dividends for years, and to finally sell out its steak above par, and capitalized at the enormous sum of 812,000,000. A French naturalist has stated that 'an insect which at tacks hop vines can produce Duluth, Minn., is to have the 6,000,900,b00,.young •once dosing. the month . docke ix ahe world. Theywill or six weeks of its ox istence. capacity of 1,000,000 tons a year.. TORTURE BY TUE WARD. The Homely Mustard Plaster Coates Ready Rolls. • The made -to -measure mustard plaster of our grandmothers is a relic of the past, just 'as are the aforesaid grandmothers. Modern invention has crowded out the great pillow - like expanse of linen and mustard mix that the dear old ladies were wont to preiscribe as the cure for all ills of the flesh. How well we remember the days of pld and the days of our youth, when sore distress would seize our frames as the jingling school bells would., commence their morn- ing jangle. Well do we remember dear old grandma with her ever handy mustard plaster. Never can its effica- ciousness be doubted. At the mere thought of the terrible alternative the distemper fled. Its application was wholly unnecessary, and we reluctantly placed hold of our school books and dragged our weary way to school. But grandma and her made -to •measure mus- tard plaster will sink into oblivion together. They are Of the past. The present genera- tion buys its mustard plasters ready made. It comes in rolls large enough to enwrap an entire Swampoodle family at one time, in- cluding the goats and all the dogs. The fiery composition is spread on one side of a bit of linen, and resembles sand- paper more than anything else, but a bit. of sand -paper in violent agitation upon one back is not a marker to the ready-made nmetard plaster in sweet and simple repose. A roaring hotel fire does not approach it. The mustard elenient seems to have bcen smeared on in layers, and as 'the force of one layer is spent the next one starts in with renewed vigor. Electrocetion must he a pleasant pastime alongside of the mustard plaster. The man who fell into Vesuvius' crater must have died a calm and peaceful death when compared .with the tortures of the man who Slept with the patent mustard plaster. We dallied ;with a ready-made mustard plaster a few nights ago. After raging three hours the co41a- gration was subsiding, when the plaster broke away from its moorings and the heat generated in its presence warped the bed slats. There can be only one improvement in the ready-made mustard plaster. The man who iasues them with a fire insurance policy printed on the back will fill the bill. , &looking "to the Glory 'of God." Twenty years ago nearly Mr. Spurgeon raised a nest of hornets about his ears by sonic remarks lie made in the pulpit in defence of his habit of smoking. With usual outsphken boldness, Mr. Spurgeon not only justified the practice, but declared that he " smoked to the glory of God." The anti - tobacconists and a scoffing world at large raised such a hubbub over. this rather un- fortunate phrase that the baited pastor of the Tabernacle felt it 'expedient to reply to their strictures in some ofthe daily papers. This he did in characteristic fashion: He demurred emphatically to the idea that tobacco . smoking was a sin. "There is growing up in society," he wrote, "a Pharisaic system which adds to the commands of God the preeept of men ; to that system I will not yield for an hour. * " " The expression 'smoking to the glory of God' standing alone has an ill sound, and I do not justify it; aut, in the sense in which I employed it I will stand to it. No Chrietian should do any- thing in which he cannot glorify God—and this may be done according to the Scripture in.eating and drinking and the common actions of life. .When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshirig sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God and have blessed His name ; this is what I meant, and by no means did I use sacred words trifliogly." The Origin of a Title. - • A correspondent writes to Modern So- ciety "In your last issue you speak Of the Earl of Dysart. The story of the origin of that title is but very little khown and may perhaps interest your readers. :The first Earl of Dysart and Baron Huntingtowet was Will Murray, son of the parish priest of Dysart, who held the post of whipping boy to Charles L, an office which doomed him to undergo all the corporal punishment Which the Prince deserved, Murray rose to be page, gentleman of the bedchamber, and the trusted confidant of his 'royal master, whose secrets he was generally believed to have betrayed to his enemies. Charles, who was not "aware of his real character, created him Earl of Dysayte arid Baron Hunt.ingtower. He left no sons, and his elder daughter, who inherited his titles and estates, married Sir Lionel Tollemache, the.representative of an ancient and wealthy Suffolk family, to whom she bore a large family of sons and daughters." 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Until God is believed in everything He is is not believed in anything. •' Saying yes to a sin. is saying no to Christ, no matter how little it id.; The world is slow to believe that a sin. is black as long as it pays well. Heaven's windows are always open to those who are fully trusting. It got very dark in Job's time, every- where except right overhead. • Take the money Out of the whiskey busi- ness and it couldn't live a year.—Ram's Horn. A Paying Contract. • In February a colored man made a written contract with a restaurant keeper of New Haven to work for him as a waiter for one cent the first day, two cents the •second day, four cents the third day, and doubling each day for thirty days, when a new arrangement should be made.,The waiter has retired, the proprietor hiving become tired of the contract and brought suit against his former employer for nearly $4,000,000 under the agreement. It is said that the waiter went to several •lawyers before he found one that would aecept the case. Two or three years ago a suit of this kind, under a contract, where one party agreed to sell a certain quantity of rags at one cent for the first bale and doubling the price for each succeeding bale, came before the Supreme -Court in Buffalo and was promptly dismissed by the judge on the ground that such a contract was not enforc- ible. • A Sight Draft. ...A curious 'custom of the Greek Church was illustrated at the funeral the other day of the young Grand Duchess Paul of Russia. Before the coffin was closedthe metropolitan placed a written paper in the hand of the corpse, which read : by the grace of God, prelate of the Holy Russian Church, write this to our Master and friend, St. Peter, the gatekeeper of the Lord Almighty. We announce to you that the servant of the Lord, her imperial highness the Grand' Duchess Paul, has finished her life on earth and we order you to admit her into Heaven without delay, for we have absolved all her sins and granted her salvation. You will obey our order on sight of this document A‘illicir we put into her hand." • Ungrateful. Photographer's .Assistant --Mrs. Van Per- kins complains that her portraits don't look like her. Photographer—Complains, does she? She ought to be grateful. Both Affected. Mies Bleecker, of New York—I was just tickled to death. Miss Emerson, of Boston—I was also fatally titillated. Ten .men can be arranged to march in single file 3,628,000 ways. The eldest daughter of BOulanger is en- gaged to be married soon. She lives with her mother in Versailles. The younger daughter has been the wife' of Capt. Driant for several years, and is with her husband in Tunis. •." How do you like your new minister?" " Very much, indeed. He preached a stir- ring sermon to •day." N es ?. " Yes. It was a denunciation of the self-righteousness, die pharisaical, the envious, the •spealre; s - of evil, the covetous. the wealth worshippers— in short it was a 'fine effort. Whata pity that none.of the.people t whom: it • appked were at church to hear it !" 4— BACHELORS' LIVES, The x Are Short i kut Would, Harrtage Pro long Them By some Scotch statistice recently pub- lished it appears that, in the -five yearsof life between the ages of 20 and 25, the mor- tality of unmarried men is 1,174 in 100,000, and of mareied men only 597. From 25 to 30, the figures reepectively are 1,396 and 865. These figures, as above indicated, are derived from the death registry of Scotland, but the proportion of bachelors to the bene - diet death -rate is believed to be about the same in this country. Taking the whole of the married men and the whole of the .un- married men, from the age of 20 till the close of life, it is computed that the lives of the former average only 59i years, while those of the latter average only 40_years—a difference of 1914, years in favor of married men; that is, marriage increases the aver- age duration of man's life by one-half, lack- ing six months. • The Tenor's Joke. A tenor who has jusrarrived from Europe after a rough voyage says he never struck sonnany high seas in his whole career as he did on this ocean trip. , la) While two fishermen were engaged at their work in the bay, near Seattle, recently a large devil fish clambered into their small opeu boat, and was killed only after a hard battle. wiroamescabsonazgmemzeimmerrammeel C N. L. 13 92 HOLY LAND PARTY. $435. . Sails April 16th, per S. S. "Fulda." Programmes for EuroPean Excursions now ready. Monthly Excursions to Italy, rm. Send for "Tourist!' Gazette." 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