The Advocate, 1887-10-06, Page 2gatIfu Xteste
9 weary hands I that, all be day,
Wore set to labor hard' an4 len&
ljew sottlY fails the ahadoWafgalf.'
The belts /Ire rung for even song,
An hour ago the golden sun
San4 slowly down into the west;
Foor, weary hands, your toil is done:
'Tie time for rest; 'tis time for rest
o weary feetthat many a mile
Ilu,ve trudged along a stony way,
At last ye reached the trysting stile;
Irlo longer fear 0 go ;astray.
The gentle bending, rustling trees
'noel; the young birds within the nest,
And softly singe the tiyet breeze:
"'Tis tinie for rest! -Us tiniefor rest!"
0 weary'eyes 1 fromlwhich the tears
Fell many a time like thunder rain --
0 weary heartl that through theyears
Beat with such bitter restless pain,
To -night forget the stormy strife,
And know what heaven sball sandhi best ;
Lay down the tangled web of life;
Tis time for rest). "tie time lor rest
IR HUGH'S LOEB,
"It was lie who implanted in me a thirst
for knowledge ; all the leisure moments he
could snatch from his own studios were
devoted to mine.. During his college terms
he corresponded with me, and planned out
my worlt 'during his abseoce, sparing him-
self neither time nor pains; and from the
night he carried me in, poor weary claild,
to the light and radiance of hie peaceful
home—he seenied to have adepted me
peculiarly, meant oame to be understood
at the Grange that Crystal was Raby'e
darling and belonged especially to him.
"1 think that if Margaret had not been
endowed with that singular unselfishness
that belonged to her nature she must have
missed. something out of her We; once she
bad been everything to her brother, but
now it was Crystal 1 Crystal who must
bring him his books, and hunt out the
words in the dictionary. Crystal who muat
tidy his papers, and lay the little spray of
flowere beside his plate at breakfast.
Ceystal who must go with laim mine rounds
among the sick 'and aged—for true to the
priestly office to whit:ilia/le proposed to
dedicate himself, the young undergraduate
already devoted a potion of his time to
deeds of charity, Little by little in my
childish selfishness I stole from her her
sweetest privileges; the many little offices
with which a loving woman delights to
minister to the objects of her' affection, be
they father, brother or husband. .
" I took the stool at his feet, theldw chair
at his side, but she never complained; for
the brother and sister understood each
other most truly. In their quiet looks,- I
have read a mutual assurance that spoke of
perfect trust and undiminished, affection ;
Margaret could never be jealous of Baby,
or Baby of Margaret.
"Baby had very peculiar notions; on the
subject of female education.
"Mine, for example, was carried on in
rather a desultory fashion. I was not
fretted by restraint', or made stupid by long
tasks; just sufficient knowledge was Ira -
parted to excite my reasoniog powers and
arouse the desire for more. Let her learn,'
he would say, but let her learn as the bird
learns to sing.' And when Margaret, in
her gentle way, sighed over my lamentable
ignorance of all feminine acquirements and
household method:
" Let her be,' he would reply, with
reascraine peremptoriness, we must nos
force rutture. When the time comes for
her womanly instincts to develop, not an
English eastren or even our own clever
Margaret will excel Crystal then.' And
still, more strange to Bay, he rather stimu-
lated than repressed my vanity ; and so I
grew up quite consoiout deny own personal
attractions; but without the knowledge
having undue weight with me., -
"From the first he -would • have nie
dressed in the quaint rich style in: which I
came to them first. „
" It suiti3 her peculiar style of beauty,'
I heard him once say, when Margaret re-
monstrated with him on the extravagance
of the idea. I was curled up onthe window
seat, reading, and they did net think I was
listening.
" Ratty is right,' observed 'Uncle Rolf;
she will never make a quiet -looking Eng.,
lisle girl like our Maggie here•—were you to
dress her as a Puritan or a Quaker; ah,
she will break hearts enough 1'11 warraht
With thoeci dark witch eyes of berg; we
nausb be careful of the child 1 If Blanes's-
beauty were like her daughter's One cannot
warder much at poor Edmund's choice.'
Something in my uncle'e speech aroesed
My childish petulance. I closed my book
and came forward.
"'1 don't Want tO break any hearte 1' I
tried; angrily; only want Raby'e—I am
going to belong to Baby all My life, I will
never leave him, neVer a and I stamped
my foot in a little fery.
" They:all laughed, Uncle Rolf long and
merrily, bob Baby colored up as he Braila..
That's right, darling,' he said, in a low
'Tow go back to your book.' Aad
I went at Mice obediently.
When I bade him good-higait that
evening, and stood lingering by hie chair on
seine pretext or other, he suddenly took
hold of me, and drew bee towards him,
Little Crystal,' he said; you think
you ken Relay indeed; I aft tete you do,
and Heaven knave hew street your childish
affeothira it to me; but de yell
/MOW — will yotc ever ktioW he*
Rebylovee you?' and putting hiahailds on
my head he bade God bless my innocent
face, and let- me gm
Oh, those dellaieles days of my Child-
hood. But they ate gone—they are gene
Long ratables tm the see -shore with
Mergatet, end in the corrafieldewith Baby;
bow Mitting in the copte or gathering bruit
toed"' in the lanes eettieg oat austeave,
betty feast wader the great elin-tree ori the
Wen, Or picking lip fie -coned in the Bed.
Mead avenile: Sprieg flowers, and autumn
stinseta-bright baleyon days of ity youth
Made gloriale With• lat.
'4 Rif' as yet tie shade* of the futute hall
fallen Open irlefne tib , of that ihherited
'passion had revealed itself; perhape Math.;
hag had oeciared to raise the dotfriatit
tweeter lulled by the influence of thief liapey
home, Bet the time came, soon. eeeega,
Shall I eVet forget that day?
"It Wail daring the:Eastern tratetie1
.naust hale bald netiely 13 then. itaby had
been untrell ; thrtie IOW feveriSh attack heal
seized him, and helehe just ill r e otgh to
lie on the sofa all (ley and be petted and
waited upoli rWab perfectly happy freati
morein te Witt ; 1 dee ted mye1f t
atitueernent ; reeding to hita, talking tsti 'at
ler eWanati4t4ig ettentlY heside.ltint While he
elePt.
0 ' Our Qt•yetal ig getting qoite a veconao,"
he said once when I turned hie hot pillow
and pot the eocaing deli* beside laime; ape
at that brief worded praise inY feu+ Miele&
with planners, end I lett amply rewaedea
'' She wee a tell, steiking.looking giaL
motile hndsonier than her sister Emily,
and the must have been two or three yeers
older than Relay. She always seemed th
like his society, so; while the others talkea
to 'Uncle Bog and Margaret, he sat on my
low chafe beside ItOy's couch, and talked
to hlre, without seeming to notice aoy ono
else.
" Miss YVie was Very handeente and a
flirt, and Raby was oily a yogog an
"at would hardly have been natural if he
lied not seemed gratified by her interest io
him, though I did not know until after-
warcls that he valued it at its true cost.
"Still she WeS pleasant and her tittle
airs amosed him, and he entered into a
long conversation with thme enjoyment,
and for once I was forgotten. I tried to
join io once or twice, bot MiseVyvie treatea
me as a child, and scarcely deigned to
notice me ; 'but Baby did not seem to re-
sent the indifference or want 9f courtessy.
He only cares for nee when others
are not by,' X thought, and my heart began
to swell with jealous emotion. But just
before she left something eccurred that
fanoed the envious spark into a flame.
4. Her white hand was resting on the
little table that stood beside the couch,
There was a diamond ring on her finger
that flashed as she moved ; presently she
stretched it out to Baby with a bewitching
smile-
" • Oh, what lovely lilies of the valley,'
she exclaimed, pointing to the floWers ;
'they are the first I have seen this year,
I adore lilies, they are perfectly eaquisite.
Do let me have them, Mr. .'errere. I klietf
they grew in the narden, Mud I hall keep
them as a memento of Sandycliffe and the
deat Grange. Conae, you must not let me
break the tet la commandment and covet
any longer,' and the fair girlithhand xested
near the flowers as she aimless.
"Raby looked embarrassed and
hesitated.
" X had gathered those lilies for him
before the dew was off them. They grew
in a little nook of the Redmond grounds;
they were the favorite flowers, and I had
walked ah thope railes to hunt for them.
"
'Come,' she said, 'surely you will not
refuse me, Mr, Ferrero,' and her smile was
very winning; and Raby, though reluctant,
laid the little spray, of lilies in her hand.
He could hardly have done otherwise, but I
Was too young to know that.
" 'There, she has gooaat last, the pretty
chatterbox,' he exclaimed, with a yawn of
Jeal or pretended weariness as the door
cecsed upon our visitors. 'Crystal, my
neild, come here - I have not heard your
voice for the lashour. l Tell me what you
think of Miss Tyvie ; is she not a lively
young lady ? '
" I made him no answer. I was past it.
"Oh, if I had only gone silently out of
the room to recover myself. If he had not
spoken to me just then. He started wben
he saw mylace.
"'Crystal, my dear child, what is the
matter? and then—then it burstforth. Oh,
my God, I menet have been beside myself:
Surely some demon must have entered into
my childish heart, before I could have.
poured forth that torrent of passionate
invective and reproach.
"They had never witnessed such a scene.
Margaret, sweet soul, cried and trembled
as she heard me, and Uncle Ptolf grewquite
pale.
" ' That child,' he cried, 4 Edmund's
childr and his voice was full of horror;
but Baby rose slowly from his couoh,
and without a word he led me from the
"I do not know whether I yielded to
that firm -touch, or whether his utrength
compelled me; but still sileht he took me
up to my room and left Me there.
"Oh, the awfulness of that mute
reproach, the sternness of that pale face;
ib recalled me to myself sooner than any
word Would have done. Almost before the
door closed my passion had spent itself,
and then the agony ef shame and despair
,that followed 1 I lied forfeited his good
opinion for ever.. He would neVer hive me
again 1 If Icould die—oh, impious prayer
that 1 prayed -if Icould only diet But I
*add never tee his face „again. I would
go where they could neverfind me, wheee
I wohld never grieve them more,
" Fetn, it was a strange" feature that
Marked those laatsionate fits of miner but
I never yielded to them afterwards evitheut
the same desire Seizing me to go away and
see them no more -, and but for the watch -
u1 mire that surrainded me at these thithe
/ should often have escaped,
"It came upon me now; this horror of
restraint, and overmastered me. TO'nay
fancy, I seemed to feel the walls eallieg in
upon me in judgment for my sin. 1 was
suffocated, and yet restlees. Ok tote away,
theught, to he away from thoeerepreach-
frd facts; and /rushed down steles; thtesligh
the house, and delve • the yew -tree walk;
but the garden door into the lane was
locked, and at that slight obstacle I shivered
and lay down en the grass and erushed my
face spinet the ground, and felt like some
youthful Cain, btanded with utextinguish-
able shame.
'rhea lost Baby's love. 1 had forfeited
his tespect. Theth ley the unbearable sting.
Never shadd 1 forget that pale stetn face,
eta the,utapolten tetirnaoh M those dark
ogee.
/Omelet bear f 'cried; 1can-
not, eb,nnot,bear it.'
"My child,' said Baby's &aye voice
close to me, ' if you are betty, and yOur
gtief tells mo you are, you Med askpaeddia
of olit Father in heaVeri.
" Thien—may a inetciful God forgive
inc fer my blespheraya—I cried, not His,
bait yours, Raby.. I canriot live ',without
your /eve ; ' and then I allithst choked
Y
'' Crystal,' he abaci, with a testy sigh,
can this be my ohild., 'Whom I have taught
and guided, my della for whan 1 illeVe
prayed every eight;' mad teethed by the
gentleness of laivatehe I erept a little ilearet
and clasped his feet.
1411 can haviit be f &given," 1 SObbed.
What had heaVen to de With- atlas a genet
"Ah, libt1 ne," ho ahalvatecl ‘dialre
.;
hot I threiVert 'thee, and I Wee etristehed tin
no &Dui fee thy sake;' and then, kneeling
dolvia by My aide, he relate11 eay Wet kW
frolii the grass, and leid it gently ai his
I arta and 14960, its and then 1 inen! 1 Wee
forgiven.
rat, neVer shell 1 tg00 bo W he
4 11",i t to inea.-eltlid yet he Wal4 ill---eEi a
pricet tool How he 14114
the tarter of the On and the
- lel ,ay e =twice ; how, Without
•eel. a iota cf its gesilt cre one aread
s conee(ueneeet he led me te
al; ' Qs j time ' Thy sine, eve e thine,
C 4 „a, regieea thee,' and then he took
',e ea e house, °est aown indeed
and llama 1, 'out no long despairing, and
led me to Thiele BolL
a +Father 4 he said still holdingmyhaod
perhaps beceuse he felt haa I trembled,
' father, Crystal has collie te askyour pardon
and Margetetai also for the pam she has
caused you bale and to say that, with
God's help, she will iever effeod so again.'
"Never' 1 oh Baby, •Ilever 1 when the
iobero. enemy was stroog as death and
cruel as the grave, Ob, my good ensel,
Raby, what have the years weitters against
me ---against me—your unhappy ohild?"
CHAPTER XXIV.
A GRAvn DhcisioN,
From the day
I brought te England my poor searching face
(An orphan eyen, of lay father's grave);
He liiiailired me, watched ine, watched his soul
Which in ler'se grew, and heightened into love.
X tizohetli 13arrott Browning,
•e The years rolled by,but, OW they
borught no added happiness with them.
The taint in niy nature that had mailed
itself so unexpectedly only aeyelopea xnore
strongly as time went on; at rare intervals
—very rare I am thaukful to say—fierce
gusts of passion overeoastered my reason,
so that for a brief time I seemed like one
posseesed with an evil spirit.
"They tried everythinee—everything that
human wisdom and kindness could devise
to save me !rem myself, but in vain. All
causes for offence were removed, and every
meens taken to ward off the threatened
excitement; but when theparoxYares earner
they wasted no weeds, no ',severity upon
me, they simply left me to myself.
"But the punishment that follaved was
a terrible one. For days aid days after
one of these outbreaks, •sometimes ,for a
week together, Raby would xefuse to
speak to me or to hold any communication
at all,
"Our walks and rides, our pleasant
studies, were all broken off, every little
office and attention refused, my remarks
met by a °Wiling manner that drove me to
silence.
"Left completely to my Own society, I
wandered aimlessly about the house or sat
moping over my books or work in a corner.
I never sought to rebel against the rigor
of my sentence; it was a just one I knew,
and I bore it patiently as I could. And
then all at once, sometimes •when I least
expected it, when I was most hopeless and
forlorn, a hand would be placed on ray head
in the old caressiing manner, and a low
'forgiven darling,' would bring me back to
sunshine and happiness; but, oh, how he
suffered. I never knew until afterwards
that his punishment was even geeater than
mine. /
"1 one speaking now of myyoungerdays,
but presently there came a time when they
treated it less as a fault than a malady;
when Raley dreaded the repentance more
than theparoxysm, for so poignanv was
my anguish of remorse thatit threatened to
prey on ray health.
" Then, when they; saw how I wept and
strove against it,and bow the torment of
my own undisciplined nature was more
than I mild bear, then they grew to look
upon me as one upon Whom some deadly
sesourge was laid—some moral siekness that
they could not understand, indeed, but
Which, out of their great love, they could
afford to pity.
"Years rolled on. Baby had passed
through his 'University life with honors;
had gained a fellowshipa and had taken
orders, and accepted a curacy soraedistance
from Sandycliffe.
It was only a temporary position, until
the church at Senaychffe had been restored
and was ready for use; the living had been
already promised to him, and small as it
was, he washed to hold it, at least for the
present. Baby, was a man singularly devoid
of ambition, and though he must have been
conscious that his were no common gifts,
he always told us that he did not wish'. a
wider spheeceuhtil he had tested his powers,
and hadworked a little in the home Nip&
yara.
" At this time he was much ascupied
with his stuchaseand some doctrinal treatilte
on which he was engaged; 'and an only
Sunday duty was requileld of him, he Wad
able to be with us trete Monday to filature
day, a great bobn to us as 'Uncle Rolf's
health was failing, and his son's tionstant,
presence was a great comfott to hien. He
died when I was about fifteen, and then
Baby became master of the Grange.
'The next two years that followed were,
in spite of my dear unCle's loss, very happy
met.
"'rhe fits of passion becanie more rare
and decreased in violence, and for a time
ceased altogethet. It teemedto be ,coming
true what littbyhad awe prophesied, that
should outgrow them when I beetteasa
*Malan. ,
Thitt was tier chief joy.; btit later On,
after a year Or CO, Thigh :Redlesaid came
more frequentlytes the Grange; and by and;
by Margetet and he Were engaged= . Baby
gave his Colleent tether thlecteettly, he
alsbetys told ree he did mit centider hien
worthy Of; a Webeeri like Itatitgetete, he
thought hien trealetaild inepelsiVe atid With.
mit ballast ; but llergetet had abet het
heart to her bench:erne Wing levet, and
could the no 18.1.11t in hina and: for a tinie
all Went Statiothly: but / ton anticipating
a
"The event that etealds peinninetitly sn
my repellection Wee a ball that was to be
given in: henor Of young Egerton Traletr.
hey, the eldeet to of a Wealthy- tinateltaiat
living at Phattenbilit. Milightiat Was going;
and of etAit.fie He& Rearrenid; 'Weald be
there, but they Wale net- rengaged then.
Margaret had induced Rehr to let Me
atooMpanYlliet, fer I Was neatly eeeentetiii
then, end,VotyWorcenly far toy ego, He
Ocineented rether"teltiettlestly, 1 thaight,.
and the atilajOet dtOpped: Another' there I.
thetilaliath tried be extort a more graci�hs
tieithialera, for my ;heart •WaS tet on the,
a11 bit het let Oahe tithe 1 had noticed
elight-ohlingein Baby's: neenhet to rate an
itiaperatiptible'fietetee that Made hie little
leesfet nly eaee With hita ; it *dB hot that
he:failed in kitidneris, for he hall nearer betel
so adal ta'eate,,.blit theta' tela. dart= y
betWeeft bit. Hiti 'teased td
I
treut roe a olaild, tiMe wee aPenlething
deterenthd in his tendereeee ; hia form; 41414
keen 'airatellfill loesk 41; they rel3te4
en Pie that Perplexed Me,
I wee beginning not to underetand
Baby at all; either be was not quite happy.
or I had disappointed him in some way;
and yet, thoegla I longed to questioo him,
an unuseal •ehynees held me back.
"It wes the evening before the ball, and
Roby was in the libratY sp abeiethed in
his Hebrew manuscript that for once he
had nothnissed me from my accustomed
Place.
The new 1241 fines Arargaret had
gleamed for mein Looden ha a just arrived,
and she had coaxed me to put drawn my book
aod try it on in awe any alterations
should be eeqnired, bad never seen any
gown I likea oetter ; the rich ereanay tint
Inst set off neer olive Oompleiciori and coi/sof
black hair to perfection. I wag quite startled
when I saw myself in ehe long pier glass;
nay neck and arms were gleaming through
the dainty cohwelaby lace, a, ruby pendaot
spateiled like a nrimson star at my throat.
Margaret was enchanted.
" Oh, Crystal,' she exclaimed, how
beautiful you look, just like an Esther or
Vashti with their grand oriental faces.
Come down with me and /et os startle
Baby from his dusty old folios; he will
thbak he sees a Viei0e.'
"1 followed her smiling; I was pleased
that Baby should see me in this queenly
garb. 1 stele gently behind his:chair. Oh,
king, live ,for ever,' I said, laughing, and
then he torned around; and as I dropped
him a mocking curtesy, he tried tosuppress
the exclamation that rose to his lips.
'1 Shall I do?' I continued, mischiev-
ously. ; shall I do, Baby?' and I made a
sweeping obeieance to him such as Esther
might have made to Ahasuerus, bat no like
sscptre of favor was extended to me.
"'Yes, you will do very nicely,' he said,
•curtly, and then he went back to his folios.
But I had seen the expression in his eyes,
the long wistful look he had cast at me, and
I triumphed.
"But my triumph was of brief duration.
The next morning Baby treated me with
almost chilling reserve. In vain I laughed
and talked, and strove to win him to merri-
ment ; his manner repelled all such
attempts, and I was obliged to chat with
Margaret,
"'Where are you going?' I asked pres-
ently, when he had closed his books and
was preparing to leave the room.
"i am going up to West Point to see poor
Lettie White,' he returned; 'her mother
has been down this morning and tells me
she is worse. You had better not accora-
pally me, Crystal,' for I had started up
from my chair.
"'And why not?' I exclaimed in a hurt
voice; it is such a delicious morning, and
there is no such place as the West Point
for a breeze; it will freshen me up fcir the
evening.'
'" Well, do as you like,' he returned,
coldly, and closed the door. The indiffer-
ence of his tone wolinded me. What could
I have done to offend him; but I was never
proud where Baby was concerned, so I
put on my hat and accompanied him.
"For the first mile or two we were very
silent. Baby walked on with his shoulders
slightly bent, and his eyes fixed on the
ground, a habit of his when he was think.
ing very deeply.
"'Baby,' I said at last, rather timidly,
Iwish you would walk a little slower, I
want to talk to you;' and then he lanced at
inc with sorne surprise.
" '1 Yeas only thinking of my next Sun,
day's Bermona he replied as if in apology
for his want of attention. told, you you
had better not corns with me, Crystal.'
" I know you aid tioi want me,' I
answered, lightly; your mahner made that
feet very apparent; but you see I wanted
to come, andece I had my; own way. Of
oourse I know what teat you Willa choose,
Raby. 'What a pity it is too far for me to
come and hear that sermon. To thinkthat
neither Margaret or I have ever heard you
preach, and to .lose ,that- sermon of all
others. L "
What do you mean? ' be answered,
rather irritably, for my gay mood Wit8
clashing with his sombre One.
"1 Obithe text will be, at Vanity of vani.
tiest saith the preacher. All is vanity"; that
will be your tubjOot, Raby, will it not a'
"He turned round at that, and a smile
dispelled his gravity; and then he took hay
hand and put it on his arra, and held it
gently there.
"1 think you have guessed mythoaghts,
Crystal,' he said, quietly, (but not all of
them. Do you know I have been thinking
as we came along thatyou and I, dear child,
have reached the ethos' roads of life at last,
where each must choose, his or her path,
and gle on their way alone.'
"'Oh, Baby,' I exclaimed in some dis-
tress as I pressed closer to him: what can
you mean by saying anything so dreadful
I hope your path and in will allvays
the same.' r ea41
" 'My dear,' he thtorned gently—Very
gently; but there was pain and sane iltianige
selemn meaning inhisface—' I disappointed
youdast night: You thought that r tiolg
not praise your finery or stoop to flitter
your innocent Variity, that, I held Motif
from your girlish pleasure. Ah,' .with a;
sudden change of tone, 'you Iitthi khow
what brilliant Vision hauntedme last night
and .droie sleep from niy eercs; how it
lured and tempted me from my settee qf
right; but God had mercy' Oa Vies Poor
priest, and strengthened his•haada ha the
day of battle.'• r
"The white abstracted look of hit fad,e,
the lav veherhence of his tone, thrilled nacy
airs:met painfully; never had Baby looked
or spoken like that.
aatifts,, he Went on sortaw-
haret wrong this child 1 have
guided and protected all these years, or
take advantage of your youth and inexpeti-
enee, by using my ihflueriets end condemri-
ing you to elite for 'Which yon ate riot fittoa.
GO forth :into the werld thee, Iny Eetheea-
did not Margaret compete yeu to Esther—,
:hake eitperience Of ite Plealuteca it'd trials,
itt tiodnations, ibs hits() Wooinge, and its
clatzling henore ; if they tell you your
beauty might win a Corencit they *Mild he
tight."
" let Ma Afifth go into the
pleatie yon—if it Meet .oltiit you away --Eon bt tne Ciintoti Oben' hal feet ts,
World that oleithe hilt if it fait. to bum
and btakeh awaited, theri cane feinale 'ptintet this Week—Misses tirInts,
'benk' to me, ray daiiing, cortie 'back ata Prat k Cron, the filthier bf when' geee
to Baby; he will he praying for Skin to 0'.1eIt to fetid° eta the hltter to Isathhill.
hero,' They ate to be rhattied, haying cloleri the
'Shall I CrWtaliget hid tone; my ;Stick and takiiig Op the Deka. Plata)
two fell fast as I listeoed to him.
s What do you meao? ' 1 sobbed.; ')4PW
have ; (*ended you? WhY de You prOpeee
to sand Pie away item you?'
(To be centime*
/loath of the Maharanee Bhuleep
London World: regret to say that the
Maharanee Dhuleep eliog,h, who has been in
failing health, died somewhat anddenlY on
Friday. The Maharanee elways conciliated,.
showed much good feeling, and wee afayoe-
it° wi.th the QuetiO. She wee aT;seaant.tee
woman with a strain see Abyssinian blood
in her veins. She refused to associate he.
self with the gabarajah's ceotinental yaga-
ries, Her elms acted with similar good
senee, and Pelee° Victor, now a eadat t.
Sandhurst, bids fair to become a popolar
British officer and country geotleman, Pre-
liably the Maliaranee's death will not pro-
duce muoll effect Opal the wholoin Saffolk
magnate and member of the Carlton Club.
Dhuleep Singh has shown himself more%
eager to sever every connection with his
old life the more desperate his fortunes
have become. They have reached a love
ebb since his protector, Katkoff, died, mod
the official Russiao Gevernment is under-
stood to be by no meatis enamored of his,
offers, noe will tin last effort of the Moscow
Gazette this week to lift him into promi-
nence have much effect beyond accentuat-
ing his political insignificance.
Too Old for Miss Limy.
The following story is told of a Virginia
gentlenaan, ratber advanced in life, who.
was about to be united in marriage to alady
very much lais junior. Going to make her
a visit just before their wedding, her old
colored mammy came courteayinffl into the,
parlor, eager to make the acquaintance of
the future lord and master of her young
lady. W011, Aunt Chloe," said the gcirt-
tleman in question, after the preliminary
greeting bad been gotten through with,,
what do you think of Miss Luoy's choice,.
now you've seep him ? "
"1 likes you mighty well, Mars' John,
fur as I've seen you," replied Aunt moo,
after a moment's deliberation; "but you's
too old for Miss Luoy."
Too old, Aunt Chloe exclaimed the,
gentleman, somewhat discomfited by Aunt,
Chloe's unexpeeted candor. You don't
know what you're talking about" (straight-
ening himself up). "Why, I'm just in ray
primee2;
" Y, sir, I sees you is," replied the still
unconvinced Aunt Chloe • " but when Miss
Lucy gibe in her prime, e:har you gwine be,
den?"
An Alleged Abseonsion.
The latest absconsion of prominence in
the Western district is reported by the
London Free Press from Strathroy, in the
person of Mr. L. R. Ritharason, the well.
known cheese dealer, whose absence from.
his neual business haunts since Thursday
week hes occasioned considerable talk in.
commercial and other circles. Mr. Bich-
ardson was a proraineni operator on the
Lonaon, Ingersoll and Woodstock cheese,
markets, and in his adopted town was
recognized aa an energetic, pushing roan.
Ple was an unsuccessful opponent, in the
Conservative interest, of Me, John Wetter -
worth for the representation of West Mid-
dlesex in the Ontario Legislature several
years since, and took an active interest in
party politics.
The Debt Had Been Standing a Tear.
A long-suffering tradesman sent his little
-
reminder as follows :
"Dear Sir :
"Your little account has been
standing now over a year. Please send a.
cheque and oblige."
Hardened debtor replies:
"tsar Sir:
"1! that little account is tited of
standing, let it sit down. Yours."
The Long and. Short of It.
"Do yen know," said a dignified -looking:
man, 44 that 1 never tasted whiekey 2"
"No ," was the reply. "1 know lots of
fellers thaagulp it down quick that way,.
but somehow I could al wore get mote enjoy-
ment out of it by lettin' it go slow, unless,
it's clear pizen."—Washington Critic.
0. W. Mathewson, of DeKalb, Ilia has a
tame Maltese rabbit which will eghb nioet=
anything from a mane np to an elephant..
It recently had a bone to pick with abound.
Waiting until the hound was wrapped in,
slumber, it quietly approached, jumped on
the hound'o back, and made the ft* 1y in a
Ammer which would be a caution to ma
Sandusky, 0., proposes to abolish her
street -lamps arid lightthe city by elecitriciity..
-Thicken yolk' piano singing; broaden
without breaking your declamation. Prac-
tice various ways of singing same passage..
Avoid, monotony; la your emotional.
nature color your voice ; practice 'the pas -
'stone vocally. Learn to utile, your voice.
Sit at anYliody'S feet. Delight ' ythirself in.
findihg out your failiegs. Try, try again.
I know the temptetion to rush at the result
without waiting on the means for i hill it,
myself, and that'll the reason 1 went you,
to hasten slowly.—Iaemteay, , the Scottish.,
Votalist, 15 His Children.
It is ;interesting to note just; at this time
that a new translation of " Slialispeare'S
playe " lute been made inDutch.
gersdyk, the famous poet or Holland, had
made the translation; which ie said to be a
work of art, His " Metheth " was recently
gieen before a brillient audience at an
Ariesterdain theatre and teceived great
applause. The populatity, of Shalcspeare
m laonata ata Germany' ie threerliable.
•
Miss Aliee Henry, of Aelpen, Cal., diecoye
ered alarge beak neer her father's 'cabin
recently. She was Mena,: hut tholight She
could kill the boat.' Taking a rifle, she
waited iintil bruin Was busy deveurieg 0,
pig; end then lodged &bullet in hie brain.
Ho Weighed 600 pounds,
Aeeorclitig to tho LdILCbb adisetover y ,haa
just beeri Made of great irreportaliecitethete
le the neighborhood �f caisintaptive
liati0nte, Sane Dias Which hall beefs seen
to enter apitteone eenteinitig the singer' of
phthisleal aittiente Were -delight and
exareified, when it Waif, foetid thae they
Weise fell of tubotaidlieeilli, Thar iedicatele
thet the disease be widely speetcd by
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