The Exeter Advocate, 1891-11-5, Page 2The ISOPY,
'Rbia _Mao to baby Mee,
adth ealtering stops, ond S1OW,
Irlth patterine echoes soft and sweet,
Into my heart they go,
They aio o ie grimy plays,
Tz muddy pools and.eusty ways,
Then through the house i.n tract:eta inaze
They wander to ancl fro.
Who baby Made teat clap my wick
With. toy:mace dear to itio
Are the seinehauds thatsmash and wreck
The lulteetend feul to
_ see.
entry pound. Izie mirror wish a cane ;
Thenrend the mauuseript in twain;
Wedespreed dentruetion they ordain
en wasteful Jubilee.
The dreamy, murtu'ring baby voice
Teetcoos its; t aue,
That makes my Listening bean rejoiee
Like buds Utica% June,
Can wake at midnight dark and atilt.
Arid all the air with howling fill
That splits the ear with echoee shrill,
Like cornets out ot tune.
—R. J. )3ur4ctte.
THE SISTERS
" My intention," said Patty, firmly, with
her little noee uplifted, and a high eel= in
her fate, "is to put an end
to this useless and culpable waste
of time. The man I love reel am
engaged to is working, and slaving, and
waiting for me ; and I, like the the rest of
you, ant neglecting him, and sacrificing him,
as if he were no coneequence w1iever.
This shows me how I have been treating
him, I will not do it any more. I did not
become Miss Yelverton to repudiate all I
undertook when I was ouly Patty K ug. I
am Yelverton by name, but I am King by
nature, still. I don't want to be a great
swell. I have seen the world, awl. I am
satisfied. Now 1 want to go home to Paul
--as I ought to have done before. I will
ask yon, if you please, Eingscote, to take
sny passage for nie at unce. I shall eo back
next month, and I shall marry Paul Brion
as soon as the steamer gets to Melbourne."
Her brother-Mdaw put out his hand, and
drew her to him, and kissed- her. " Well
done," he said, speaking boldly from his
honest heart. " So you shall."
CHAPTER L.
"Tiff TEOPLE SITAT.L ME NY morels"
Patty softened down the terms in which
she made her declaration of independence,
when she found that it was received in so
proper a spirit. She asked them if they had
any objection—which, after telling them
that it didn't matter whether they had or
not, was a graceful act, tending to make
things pleasant without committing any-
body. But if they had objections (as of
coarse they had) they abandoned tb.em at
this crisis. It was no use to fight against
Paul Brion, so they accepted him, and
made the best of him.
But Patty was dissuaded from her daring
enterprise, as first proposed; and Paul was
written to by her brother and guardia,n, and,
adjured to detach himself from his nem -
paper fok a while and come to England for a
holiday—which, it was delicately hinted,
might take the form of a bridal tour. And
in that little sitting -room, sacred to the
private interviews of the master and
mistress of the house, great schemes
were conceived and elaborated for the
purpose of seducingMrs. Brion's
husband to remain in England for
good and all. They settled his future
for him in vhat seemed to them an irre-
sistibly attractive way. .
When Mr. \Yelverton wrote to Paul
to ask him A visit them, Patty wrote
also to suggest that his precious health
might sutler 'by corning over at such a
season, and to advise him to wait until
Felartia.ry or March. But the moment her
toyer had read those letters, he put on his
hat and went forth to his office to demand
leave for six months, and in a few days
was on board the returning mail steamer on
his way to England. He did not feel like
waiting now—after waiting for two years—
and she was not in the least afraid that he
would accept her advice.
Paul's answer arrived by post, as he was
himself speeding through Europe—not so
much absorbed in his mission as to neglect
note -making by the way, and able to write
brilliant articles on Gambetta's death, and
ether affairs of the moment, while waiting
, for boat or train to carry him to his be-
loved; and it was still only the first week
in January when they received a telegram at
Yelvertou announcing his imminent arrival.
Mr. Yelverton himself went to London th
meet him, and Elizabeth rolled herself in
fare and an opossum rug in her snug
brougham and drove to the country rail-
way station to meet them both, leaving
Patty sitting by the vsood fire
in the hall. Mrs. Duff -Scott was
in town, and Eleanor with her, trying to
see Rossetti's pictures through the murky
darkness of the winter days, but in reality
bent on giving the long -divided levers as
much as possible of their own society for a
little while. The carriage went forth early
in the afternoon, with its lamps lighted,
and it returned when the cold night had
settled down on the dreary landscape at 5
o'clock. Paul, ulstered and comfortered,
walked into the dimly -lighted, warm, vast
space, hung round with ghostly bannersand
antlers, and coats of mail, and pictures
whereof little was visible but the frames,
and marched straight into the ruddy circle
of the firelight, where the small figure
awaited him by the twinkling tea -table,
herself only an outline against the dusk
behind her ; and the pair stood on the
hearth rug and kissed each other silently,
while Elizabeth, accompanied by her hus-
band, went to take her bonnet off, and to
see how Kingscote junior was getting on.
After that Paul and Patty parted no
more. They had a few peaceful sveeks at
Yelverton, during which the newspaper in
Melbourne got nothing whatever from the
fertile brain of its brilliant contributor
(which, Patty though t, must certainly be a
most serious matter for the proprietors) ;
and in which interval they made compensa-
- tion for all past shortcomings as far as
their opportunities, which were profuse and
various, allowed. It delighted Paul to cast
' up at Petty the several slights and snubs
' that she had inflicted on him in the old
Myrtle street days, and it was her great
luxiiry in life to make atonement for them
all—to pay hini back a hundredfold for all
that he had suffered on her account. The
number of " soft things " that she played
upon the piano from morning till night
would alone have set him up in Fridays"
for the two years that he had been driven to
Mrs. Aaroni' for entertainment; and the
abject meekness of the little spitfire that he
used to know was enough to provoke hirn to
belly her, if he had had anything of the
bully in him. The butter -like consistency
to which she melted in this freezing English
winter time was such as to disqualify her
for ever from sitting in Judgment upon t
• Patty, with a Dash of her ancient spirit. antual parting alone, but she got over it itta
• Whereat Nelly rejoiued that she would way that gtive great satisfaction to Mrs.
mind it by keeping her fiance in his proper Dia -Scott and the major, and relieved
place when her time came to have a fiance. them of all fear that they had been selfish
She would not let him put a rope round her about bringing her away. They joined the
nook and tie it to his button -hole like a hat- mail steamer at Venice, and there felled
string. She'd, see him farther firet. Mr. Westmoreland on board. He had been
February came, and Mrs. Duff -Scott re- summoned by his agent at home he ex -
turned, and preparations for the wedding' plained ; one of his partners wanted to re -
were set ping- The fairy godmother was tire, and he had to 'he there to sign pap re.
determined to make up for the disappoint- And since it had mo happened that ale: 'as
melt she had suffered in Elizabeth's case by obliged to go back by this panic
making a great festival of the second mar- boat, he hoped. the ladies would make him
riage of the family, and they let her have useful, and let him look after their luggage
her wish, the result being that the bride of and things. Eleanor was properly and con -
the poor piese-writer had a trosseau worthy volitionally astonished by the curious coinei.
of that coronet which she had extravagantly denee, but had known that it would
thrown away, and presents the list and happen just as well as he. The chant -xi,
description of which filled a whole column for her pert, was indignant and annoyed by
of the tee/velem Advertiser, and made the it --for a little while ; afterwards she, too,
hearts of all, the local maidens burn with reflected that Eleanor had spent two unpro-
envy, In March tkey were married in ductive years in Englaud and was growing
Yelverton village church. They went to older every day. Also that she might cer-
Loudon for a week and came back for a taialy go farther and fare worse. So Mr.
fortnight; and in April they crossed the Westmoreland was accepted as a member of
sea again, bound for their Melbourne home. the travelling party. All the heavy duties
For all the beautiful arrangements that of escort were relegated to him by the
had boom planned for them fell through.
The Yelvertons hed reckoned without their
host—as is the incurable habit of saizguine
major, and Mrs. Daft -Scott sent him hither
and thither in a way that he had nevereheed
accustomed to. But he was meekand
human nature—with the usual result. Paul biddable in these days, and did notOnind
had no mind to abandon his chosen career what uses he put his noble self to for his
und the country that, as a true Australian, lady's sake. And she WOS very gracious.
he loved and served as he could never love The conditions of ship life, at once so favor -
and serve another, because he had married able and so unfavorable for the growth of
into a great English family ; and Patty tender relations, suited his require.
would not allow him to be persuaded. meats in every way. She could not snub
Though her heart was torn in two at the hen under the ever -watchful eyes of their
thouglat of parting with Elizabeth, and with fellow -passengers. She could not send him
that precious baby who was Elisabeth's away from her. She was even a little
rival in her affeotions, she promptly and un- tempted, by that ingrained vanity of the
complainingly tore herself from both of them female heart, to make a display before the
to follow her husband whithersoever it other and less favored ladies of the subject -
seemed good to him to go. like homage, which she, queen-like,ire-
CHAPTER LI. ceived. Altogether, things went on n a
very promising manner. So that when no
PATIENCE REWARDED. farther than the Red Sea—while life seen ed,
Eleanor, like Patty, withstood the sedate, as it does in that charnainglocality, redu e4
tions of English life and miscellaneous Eng- to its simple eletnents, and the pleasu of '
lish admirers,and nested to beMiss Yelverton having a man to fan her was a con e-
s.
in her turn, unappropriated and indepead-
tively strong sensation—when at thi
ent. And, like both her sisters, though Pitiens ieneture' Mr. Westmoreland be -
more by accident than of deliberate inten-
wailed his hardfate for the thousandth
tion, she remained true to her first love, and time, and wondered whether he shoald ever
after seeing the world and supping full of have the good fortune to find a little favor
pleasure and luxury, ,eeturned to Melbourne iu her sight, it seemed to her that this sort
and married Mr. Westmoreland. That is' of thing had gone on long enough, and tbat
she might as well pacify him and have done
to say, Mr. Westmoreland followed her to
England, and followed her all over Euro
pe with it. So she said, looking at him Ian-
-dogging her from place to place with a F:tidly with her sentimental blue eyes—
Well, if you'll promise not to bother me
steadfast persistence that certainly deserved
reward—until the Major and Mrs. Duff- any more, I'll think about it."
He promised faithfully not to bother her
Scott, returning home almost immediately
any more, and he did not. But he asked
after Patty's marriage and de- Mrs. Duff -Scott, being thus deprived of
her presently, after fanning her in s'ilence
parture, brought their one ewe all her children, and finding china no longer
for some minutes, what color
lamb, which the Yelvertons had not the she would the substantial comfort to her that it used
like her carriage painted, and she answered.
conscience to immediately deprive them of, to be, has fulfilled her husband's darkest
back to Australia with them; when her Promptly, "Dark green."
While they were yet upon the sea, a l
pnredictions and "gone in" for philanthropy.
persevering suitor promptly took his pass- London she served a short but severe
age in the same ship. All" this time Mr. letter—three letters, in fact—were desapprenticeship to that noble cause which
patched to Yelverton, to ask the consent of
Westmoreland had been as much in love as seeks to remove the curse of past
the head of the family to the newly -formed
his capacity for the tender passion—much ignorance and cruelty from those to
larger than was generally supposed—per- engagement, and not long after the party whom it has come down in heredi-
mitted. arrtved in Melbourne the desired permission tau entail—those on whose unhappy
Mr. Westmoreland, being fond was received, Mr. and Mrs. Yelverton hav- and degraded lives all the powers of evil
of money, as a constitutional and ing learned the futility of opposition in held mortgages (to quote a thoughtful
hereditary peculiarity—if you can call that these matters and hexing no serious writer) before ever the deeds were put into
a peculiarity—was tempted to marry it objectionto Nelly's choice. And their hands—and who are now preached at
once, when that stout and swarthy person then again Mrs. Duff -Scott plunged and punished for the crimes that, not they,
in the satin gown and diamonds exercised into the delight of preparation of trousseau but their tyrants of the past committed.
her fascinations on him at the club ball, and wedding festivities—quite willing that She took a lesson in that new political
and he could have married it at any time the "poor dear fellow,' as she now called economy which is to the old science what
of his bachelor life the above possessor of him (having taken him to her capacious the spirit of modern religion is to the eccle-
it being, like Barlus, " willin',,' and even heart), should receive the reward siasticism which has been its unwilling
more than " willine" Her fortune was of his devotion without unnecessary mother, and has learned that the rich are
such that Eleanor's thirty thousand was but delay. The house was Already there
. , responsible for the poor—that, let these
a drop in the bucket compared with it, and a spick and span family mansion m interesting debating clubs that call thein -
yet even he did not value it in compaaison Toorals, bOilt by Mr. Westmorehies -1-fe5the peoples parliaments say what
with the favor of that capricious young father, and inherited by himself ere the first they like, the moral of the great social
lady. So he followed her about from day gloss was off the furniture: there was problem is that the selfishness of the past
to aay and from place to place, as if he had nothing to do to that but to arrange the must be met by unselfishness in the present,
no other aim in life than to keep her chairs and sofas, and scatter Eleanor's wed- if any of us would hope to see good days in
within sight, making himself an iusuffer- ding presents over the tables. There was sthe future.
able =fiance to her friendsvery nothing more possible. It was "hopelessi
. . "Ib will not do," says Mrs. Duff -Scott to
often, but apparently not offending Mrs. Duff -Scott said, surveying the brigh her clergyman, who deplores the dangerous
and shining rooms through her double eye-
i
opinions that she has
her by his open and inveterate pur- mbibed, "to leave
suit. She was not kind, but she was net glass. Unless it were entirely cleared out, these matters to legislation. Of what use
cruel, and yet she was both in turn to a dis- and you started afresh from the beginning, is legislation? Here are a lot of ignorant,
tracting degree. She made his life an she would defy you to nutke anything of it. vain men who know nothing about it, fight.
So, as the bridegroom was particularly ;es- with one another for what they can get,
and the handful amongst them who are
really anxious for the public good are left
nowhere in the scrimmage. It is we who
must put our shoulders to the wheel, my
dear sir—and the sooner we set about
it the better. Look at the state of Europe"
—she waves her hand abroad—" and see
what things are coming toe The very heart
of those countries is being eaten out by the
cancer -growths of Nihilism and all sorts of
dreedfixt isms, because the poor are getting
educated to understand why they are so
poor. -Look at wealthy England, with more
than million paupers, and millions and
millions that are worse than paupers—Eng
land is comparatively quiet and orderly
under it, and why? Because a number of
good people like Mr. Yelverton "—the
clergyman shakes his head at the mention
of this wicked sinner's name—" have given
themselves up to struggle honestly and face
to face with the evils that nothing but a
self-sacrificing and independent philan-
thropy can touch. I believe that if Eng-
land escapes the explosion of this ferment-
ing democracy, which is brewing such a
revolution as the world has never seen, it
will be owing to neither Church nor State—
unless Church and State both mend their
ways considerably—but to the self-denying
work that is being done outside of them by
those who have a single hearted desire to
help, to really help, their wronged and
wretched fellow -creatures."
And the man who set her to this good
work pursues it himself, not in haste or
under fitful and feverish impulses of what
we call enthusiasm, but with refreshed
energy and redoubled power, by reason of
the great "means" that are now at his
disposal, the faithful companionship that at
once lightens and strengthens the labor of
his hands and brain, and the deep passion
of love for wife and home which keeps his
heart warm with vital benevolence for all
the world. Mr. Yelverton has not become
more orthodox since his marriage; but that
was not to be expected. In these days
orthodoxy and goodness are not synonymous
terms. It is doubtful, indeed, if orthodoxy
has not rather become the synonym for the
opposite of goodness, in the eyes of those
who judge trees by their fruits and whose
ideal of goodness is to love one's neighbor as
one's self. While it is patent to the candid
observer that the men who have studied the 1
new book of Genesis which latter-day
science has written for us, and have known
that Exodus from the land of bondage
which is the inevitable result of such study,
conseientiouely pursued, are, as a rule, dis-
tinguished by a large -minded justice and
charity, sympathy and self-abnegation, a
regard for the sacred ties of brotherhood
binding man with man, which, being incom-
patible with the petty meannesses and
cruelties so largely practiced in sectarian
eitelee, make their unostentatious influence
to be felt like sweet and wholesome leaven
all around them. Such a man is Elizabeth's
admirably suited to their present modest
requirements ; and, by the joint exercise of
Mrs. 3/Of-Scott% and Petty's own ex-
cellent taste, educated in England to
the last degree of modern perfectibility,
the purveyors of art furniture in ourenlight-
enact city trensformecl the humble dwelling
of less than a dozen rooms into a little pal -
;me of esoteric delights. Such a subdued,
harmonious brightness, such a refined sirn-
'Way, such an unpretentious air of coin -
tort pervades it from top to bottom ; and as
a study of color, Mrs. Duff -Scott will tell
you, it is unique in the Australian colonies.
It does her good—even her—to go and rest
her eyes and her soul in the contemplation
of it. Paul has the bureau in his study
(and finds it very useful), and Patty has the
piano in her dra,wing-room, its keyboard to
a. retired corner behind a portiere (draped
where once was a partition of foldingdoens),
and its back, turned outwards covered
with a piece of South leensington
needlework. In this cosy nest of theirs,
where Paul, with a new spur to his energies,
works his special lever of the great machine
that makes the world go on (when it would
fain be lazy and sit down),. doing great
things for other men if gaining little glory
for himself --and where Patty has after-
noon. teas and evenings that gather together
whatever genuine exponents of intellectual
culture y be going about, totally eclipsing
the attractions of Mrs. Aarons' Fridays to
serioliS workers in the fields of art and
thought, without in any way dimming the
brilliancy of those entertainments—the
married pair seem likely to lead as happy a
life as can be looked tor in this world of
compromises. It will not be all cakes and
ale, by any means. The very happiest lives
are rarely surfeited with these perhaps,
unwholesome delicacies, and doubt if
theirs will even be amongst the happiest,
They are too much alike to be the ideal
match. Patty is thin-skinned and pas-
sionate, too ready to be hurt to the heart
by the mere little pin -pricks and mosquito
bites of life ; and Paul is proud and
crotchety, and, like the great Napoleon,
given to kick the fire with his boots when
he is put out. There will be many little
gusts of temper, little clouds of misunder-
standing, disappointments, and bereave-
ments, and sickness of mind and body ; but,
with all this, they will find their lot so
blessed, by reason of the mutual love and
sympathy that, through all vicissitudes,
will surely grow deeper and stronger every
day they live together, that they will not
know how to conceive a better one. And,
after all, that is the most one can ask or
wish for in this world.
ecstacy of miserable longing for her, keep-
ing him by her side like a big dog on a
chain, and feeding him with stones (in the
prettiest manner) when he asked for bread.
But she grew very partial. to her big dog in
the process of tormenting him and witness-
ing his touching patience under it. She
was "used to him," she said; and when,
from some untoward circumstance over
proud of his furniture, which eves both new
and costly, and would have scouted with
indignation any suggestion of replacing it,
Mrs. Duff -Scott abandoned Eleanor ;estheti-
cally to her fate. There was nothing to
wait for, so the pair were made one with
great pomp and cerernony not long after
their return to Australia. Eleanor had the
which he had no control, he was tor a little grandest wedding of them all, and really
while absent from her, she felt the gap he aid wear "woven dew" on the
though she trampled on b.' ' -Moreover eeession—With any * quantity of lace
sit it hat; abotit. it of extravagant delie,acy and
left. She sensibly missed lsise. .
And now she has settled her -
her to see others do it ; and when Mrs. .Ptaionsneso.
Duff -Scott and Shigscote Yelverton relpeo; edi ia her great, gay -colored;
tively aired their opinions of his character house, and' is already a very fashionable
and conduct, she instantly went over to his and much -admired and much -sought-after
side and protested in her heart lady—so overwhelmed with her social en -
if not in words, against the in- gagernents and responsibilities sometimes
justice and opprobrium that he incurred that she says she doesn't know what she
for her sake. So, when Elizabeth became the , should do if she hadn't Patty's quiet' little
much -occupied mother of a family, and house to slip into now and then. But she
when Patty was married and gone off into , enjoys it. And she enjoys leading her in -
the world with her Paul, Eleanor, left alone I fatuated husband about with her, like a
,
in her independence, began to reckon up tame bear on a string, to show people how
what it was worth. The spectacle of her very, very infatuated he is. It is her idea
sisters' wedded lives gave her pleasant of married happiness—at present.
notions of matrimony, and the state of I CHAPTER LH.
single blessedness, as such, never had any 1 cosecensiorr.
particular charms for her. Was it worth 1 While Mrs. Westmoreland thus disports
while, she asked herself, to be cruel any • herself in the aaay world, Mrs. Brion pur-
more ?—and might she not just as well sues her lees brilliant career in much peace
have a house and home of her own as Eliza- . and quietness. When she and Paul came
beth and Patty? Her lover was only a big back to Australia, a brMe and bridegroom,
dog upon a chain, but then why shouldn't free to follow their own devices unhampered
he be? Husbands were not required to be by any necessity to consider the feelings of
all of the same pattern. She didn't want relatives and friends, nothing would :Satisfy
to be domineered over. And she didn't see her but to go straight from the ship to Mrs.
anybody she liked better. She might go 1 WIntyre's, and there temporarily abide in
farther and fare wove. And—she wa 1 those tobacco -perfumed rooms which had
getting older every day. once been such forbidden ground to her.
She scoffed at the Oriental ; she turned up
her nose at the Esplanade; she would
not hear of any suites of apartments,
no matter how superior they might be. Her
idea of perfect luxury was to go and live as
Paul had lived, to find out all the little de-
tails of his old solitary life which aforetime
she had not dared to inquire into, to rum-
mage boldly over his bookshelves and desk
and cupboards, Which once it would have
been indelicate for her to so much as look
at, to revel in the sense that it, was improper
no longer for her to make just as free as
she liked with his defunct bachelorhood, the
existing conditions of which hadhacl so many
terrors for her. When Paul represented
that it was not a fit place for her to go into,
she told him that there was no place in the
world so fit, and begged so hard to be taken
Mrs. Duff -Scott broke in upon these
meditations with the demand that she
(Eleanor) should return with her to Mel-
bourne, if only for a year or two, so that
she should not be entirely bereft and deso-
late.
"1 must start at once," said the energetic
woman, suddenly seized with a paroxysm of
home sickness and a sense of the necessity
to be doing something now that at Yelver-
ton there seemed nothing; more to do,. and
in order to shake off the depressing effect of
the first break in their little circle, "1
have been away too long—it is time to be
looking after my own business. Besides, I
can't allow Patty to remain in that young
man's lodgings—full of duster papers and
tobacco smoke, and where, I dare say, she
hasn't so much as a peg to hang her dre.sses
on. She must get a house at once, and I there, if only for a week or two, that he let
mist be there to see about it, and to help her have her way. And a very happy time
her to choose the furniture. Elizabeth, my they spent at No, 7, notwithstanding many
darling', you have your husband and child-- little inconveniences. And even the inconven-
I am leaving you happy and comfctrtable— levies had their charm. Then Mrs. Duff -Scott
and I will come and see you again in a yesd. and Eleimor came out, when it was felt to
or two, or perhaps you and Kingscote be time to say good-bye to these humble
take a trip over yourselves and spend a eircumstances—to leave the flowery carpet,
winter with us. But I must go now. And now faded and threadbare, the dingy rep
do, do—oh, do let me kee Nelly for a lit- suite, and the smirking Cenci over the
.
le while longer! You now I veal take mantlepiece, for the delectation of lodgers
are of her, and I cmildn't bear the signt of to whom such things -er0 appropriate ; and husband, and as time goes on she ceases to
my house with none of you in it !" , to select a house and furnish it as befitted wish for any change in him save that which
So she went, and of course she took the occu ation of Misa Yelverton that was Melina progression in his seladotermined
Elizabeth's conjugal attitude. She fell so c
low, indeed, that she bedtime, in her turn,
a mark for Eleanor's seoffing criticism,
Well, / never thought to see you E
grovel to any living being—let alone a man s
—as you do to him," seed that young lady h
n one occasion, with an impudent smile. a
" The eitizene of Calais on their knees to .ni
Edward the Third were truculentsvvaggerers I
by comparison."
You mind your own business," retorted r
leanor, Who secretly longed, for the land of mid her (now) distinguished husband. eourae. It was not lightly that he flew in
unshine after her full dose of "that the face Of the religioue traditions of hie 1
By good fortune (they did not say it wag
(Avid English climate," and who, with a
ister at either end of the world, perhaps landlord next door saw fit to die at this par -
good fortune, but they thought it), the old youth; rather did he crawl heevily and I
unwillingly away from them, in irresistible
issed Patty, who had been her companion ticular juncture, and NO. 6 was advertised obedience to a conscience so sensitive and
).y night as Well as by day, more than she to be let. Mr. and Mrs. Brion at once well-balanced that it , ever pointed in the l
would miss Eliessbetla. The girl was very pounced upon the opportuni ty to secure the direction of the truth, like the magnetic
needle to the pole, and hi which he dared to
eady to go.- She wept bitterly when the old house, which, it seemed to them, was
trust absolutely, no matter how dark the
outlook seemed. And now that, aftermuch
aeareh, lie has found his way, as far as he
may hive to find it in this world, he is too
intently concerned to discover whet Truly be
ahead of him, and in store for those who
will follow him, to trouble himeelf and
others with irrelevant trifles—to indulge in
spites and jealousies, in ambitions that lead
Tiowhere, in quarrels and controversies
about nothing—to waste his precioes
strength' and faculties iu the child's pley
that with so many of us is the occupation of
life, and like other child's play, full of
pinches arid scratches and selfish equabbling
over trumpery toys. The one who has
learned that 'the hope ofnature is in man,"
and something of what great nature is, and
what man should be, there no longer exists
much temptation to envy, hatred, malice
and uncharitableness, or any other of the
vulgar vices of predatory humanity, not yet
cured of ita self-seeking propensities. fle
is educated above that level. His
recognition of the brotherhood of men,
and their common interests and high
destiny, makes hiin feel for others in their
differences with him, and patient and for-
bearing with those whose .privileges have
been fewer and whose light is less than his.
Elizabeth is a happy woman, and she
knows it well. It seems to her that all the
prosperity and comfort that should have
been her mother's has, like the enormous
wealth that she inherits, been accumulating
at compound interest, through the long
years representing the lapse generation,
for her sole profit and enjoyment. She
strolls often through the old plantation,
where, in a remote nook, a moss -grown
column stands to mark the spot
where a little twig, a hair's breadth
lack of space, was enough to destroy
one strong life and ruin another, and to
entail such tremendous consequences upon
so many people, living and unborn; and
she frequently drives to Bradertham Abbey
to call on or to dine with her step -uncle's
wife, and sees the stately environment of
her mother's girlhood—the "beautiful
rooms with the gold Spanish leather on the
walls," the "long gallery with the painted
windows and the slippery oak floor and the
thirty seven family portraits all in a row."
—which she contrasts with the bark -roofed
cottage on the sea cliff within whose walls
that beautiful and beloved woman after-
wards lived and died. And then she goes
home to Yelverton to her husband and
baby, and asks what she has done to deserve
to be so much better off than those who
went before her
And yet, perhaps if all accounts were
added up, the sum total of loss and profit
on those respective investments that we
make, or that are made for us, of our
property in life, would not be found to
differ so very much, one ease with another.
We can neither suffer nor enjoy beyond a
certaia point. Elizabeth is rich beyond the
dreams of avarice in all that to such a
woman is precious and desirable, and happy
in her choice and lot beyond her utmost
expectations. Yet not so happy as to
have nothing to wish for—which we know,
as well as Patty, means "too happy to
last." There is that hunger for her absent
sisters, which tries in yam to satisfy itself
in weekly letters of prodigious length, left
as a sort of hostage to fortune, a valuable if
not altogether trustworthy security for the
safety of ler dearest possessions.
TEE END.
A Traveler Wicking.%
Summerside, P. E. I., Oct. 10, 1888:
Having used St. Jacobs Oil for a badly
sprained knee, I can testify to its peculiarly
curative properties, as less than one -bottle
completely cured the sprain." GEOP.GE
GREGG, Traveller for J. C. Ayer It Co.
"V Tea."
.Philadelphia Record : The following is
the wording of invitations sent out for what
is termed. a "0 Tea," in Germantown: "A
collation and cheerful collection of cunning
caprices will be completely compassed by a
comely clique of charming country cousins,
who contract to courteously cater to cap-
tivating couples. The cuisine contains a
cutely contrived conglomeration of concoc-
tions. Cash consideration, 25 cents, con-
tinental currency or copper coins. Consid-
ering that our citizens may be confused
concerning the charaoter of this collation,
the consistent course is to corm and C on
Wednesday evening, Oct. 28th, at the
Parish Building of St. Lake's Church.
Courses: Cereal compounds, creature cheer,
chopped composition, ,crystally clear, cold
carved creature, cucumbers, cider cured,
coagulated curd, country cousins' comfort,
churned ereem, China cordial, curby crisp
cuttings, clam chowder and con,geteled
cream.'
0, woman, despairingandvrretched,
Dreading, yet longing, to die,
Dear the glad chorus that rises,
Filling the dome of the sky:
Sisters, be glad, there's help to be had;
No longer be miserable, gloomy and sad.;
Lost health regain," rings out the refrain,
"Poor creatures, be healthy and happy_ again.'
How? By taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite
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for all kinds of diseases peculiar to women.
It brings back tone and vigor to the system
'weakened by those distressing complaints
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against the approach of diseases which often
terminate in untold misery, if notin death—
which is preferable to the pain and torment
of living,. in many instances. It is the great
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and for it she cannot be too grateful. It
cures her ills when nothing else can. It is
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returned. Absolutely sold on &zed
Feathers.
Feather toques are shown with or muff to
match.
Many brown and green effects appear in
fancy feathers.
Wings are medium in favor and breasts
are ignored.
Bandeaus of coques plumes lie around the
brim of medium-sized hats.
The pompon, aigrette and plumage effects
are almost exclusively noticeable.
Fancy feathers are shown in large
quantities, and can safely be promised as
good through the fall and winter.
Among the very much fancied designs are
the blondine pompons made in the shape of
ostrich tips which come in bleak and colors.
—Dry Goods and Fashion&
Never Touched Iler. ,
Diggs -1 found a pretty caustic mother -
hi -law joke in the paper and shovved it to.
my wife's mother.
Figgs—What did she say!
Diggs—She laughed, and said she supposed
there were just such mothers -in -la,* in the
world.
Men who feel "tun down" and "out of
sorts," whether from mental Worry, over-
work excesses or indiscretions will find a
speedy cure in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
All dealers,
VitnAll—Sayl Burton, to got a new
Oster- Burton—You don't say 1 Come
et's have something. When did it happen?
VanA 11—Last night about 11,45, I pro-
posed.
How does he feel ?-11e feels
cranky, and is constantly experi-
menting, dieting himself, adopting
strange notions, and changing the
cooking, the dishes, the hours, and
manner of his eating—August
Flower the Remedy.
How does he feel ?—Fie feels at
times a gnawing'voracious,insati-
able appetite, wholly unaccountable,
unnatural and unhealthy.—August
Flower tho Remedy.
How does he feel ?-1-ie feels no
desire to go to the table and a.
grumbling, fault-finding, over -nice-
ty about what is set before him when
he is there—August Flower the
Remedy.
How does he feel 7—lie feels
after a spell of this abnormal appe-
tite an utter abhorrence, loathing, an
and detestation of food; as if a
mouthful would kill him—August
Flower the Remedy.
How does he feel 2—He has ir-
regular bowels and peculiar stools --
August Flower the Rernedy. (a)
WALKING IN AFRICA.
Three W0/11C111. Who Are Not Afraid or Wild
Ileasts.
Three women footed it in July and
August last from the Indian Ocean 200
miles to Mashonalaud. They were meme
leers of an Episcopal order, says the New
York Sun, and were trained sent out
to take charge of the hospital which has
been started in that new. country. The
bishop of Mashonaland expected that pro-
viaion would be made to carry these young
women into the interior, but the force of
porters was unexpectedly small and the
women said they would endeavor to walk.
With extraordinary courage they set out on
the journey. There was no waggon road
and for much of the way no paths were
found The party suffered terribly
at times from thirst. At night
the bush was always alive with lions,
hyenas, buffaloes, leopards and other
animals. At one time the party observed
two lions drinking quietly thirty rods from.
them. The grass often exceeded twelve
feet in height for miles and miles and some
days the table caravan marched through
incessant. rain. They suffered severely
from the desertion of their porters, and of
the thirty-two carriers with whom they -
started only four remained at the end of
their journey. The women had no tents to
sleep in, and • altogether they made the
journey under conditions which would have
tried the strengths and courage of the
stoutest men. They safely reached their
destination, however, and they are the first
white women to have made such a journey
into the interior of Africa, the others travel-
ling either on steamboats or being carried
on ha/unlocks or chairs.
World's Fair Notes.
Florida at the recent World's Fair con
vention, decided to raise $100,000 for
representation in Chicago in 1893.
A New;York company that manufactures
oaf -winding clocks has offered to furnish
free of cost all the time -pieces that will be
needed in the buildings during the Fair.
The magnitude of the building operation
now going on at Jackson Park can be stir
mised from the fact that an average of
from thirty-five to forty cars of conseruc-
tion material arrives daily. The Expo-
sition buildings are rising with wonderfu
rapidity.
Between 340 and 350 men are employed
in perfecting the landscape features of the
Exposition site. • It is the intention to make
the grounds exceedingly beautiful byi
• walks, drives, lawns, terraces-, fountains,t
shrubbery. and 'flowers. Several hundred t
thousand dollars are to be expendedfor this '
Purpose -
The evoirien of Illinois,' Who have the
spending of 0,000 of the $800,000 which
the State appropriated for its representa-
tion at the Exposition, have been granted,,
for their exclusive use, one-tenth of the
space in the Illinois Building, which, alto
gether, is something more than an acre and
a half. The women will make a separate
exhibit.
The Palace of Music at the Exposition.
it is now expected, will stand on the great
island formed by the lagoons, and will be
surrounded by a magnificent garden of
flowers, ten awes or more in extent. This
location is desired by Theodore Thomas,
Musical Director of the Exposition, but has
not yet been finally passed upon by the
Board of Directors. The structure wil
measure 150 by 250 feet, and cost approxi
mately $100,000.
A mammoth labor congress is to be held.
in Chicago in 1893, under the auspices of
the Worla Congress Auxiliary of the
World's Columbian Exposition. John
Burns and Tom Mann, who led the great
London dock strike to a successful issue in.
1889, have promised to be present, as have
many other prominent labor leaders. Wm- f
E. Gladstone and Cardinal Manning have
accepted honorary membership and will
submit their views in writing. T. V.
Powderly, Carroll D. Wright, and uumer-
ous others deeply interested in labor
questions, are earnestly supporting the
movement. '
"Fat Doctor Deep Make Lean Wens,"
but Sage's Catarrh Remedy costs less than
One doctor's visit. Catarrh is a loathsome,
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when to suffer front it is a disgrace. No
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inflict upon his friends his offensive breath,
disgusting hawking and spitting and dis-
agreeable efforts to breathe freely and clear
the throat and nose—hence the cultured and
refined nec Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
And no wise and prudent man cares to run
the risk of leaving his family without a pro-
tector, by letting his "slight catarrh" run
into serious or fatal threat and lung troubles,
hence the wise and prudert use Dr. Sage's
Catarrh Semedy. The proprietors of this
remedy are eo confident of its curative
properties, that they have made a standing
offer of a reward of $500 for a ease they
cannot Onto.
A Maine judge recently intervened to pre-
vent a waste of words. He was sitting in
chambers; and seeing from the piles of
papers in the lawyers' hands that the first
case was likely to be hardly contested, he
asked "What is the amount in question ?"
"Two dollars," said the plaintiffa °duns&
"I'll pay it," said the judge, handing over
the erioney. "Call the next caSe.'7.--- Lewis,
on jouna4