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MY DARLINGS I{ANSO
THE EXETER TIMES
only knew that a business calamity of ; THE LAST REDOUBT.
the gravest kind had befallen the house. ; All was orbileand their
By Alfred Austin, the New Poet Laureate)
fss void to
minds,
av Menem) Doweas-0.
..... railwayestation next day, Mrs. Wanklyn
:hid the only hopeful thing she Could
As the sisters-in-law parted at Oas
' Kaeelyevo's slope still felt
For a last redoubt up the hill remain -
The cannon's bolt and the rifle's pelt;
of the most cruelly injured of all the
innovent sufferers. 'rho men with
whom I have the honour of heing so
long aesociated were axosious to t'
, ra aeed by any sueh token of their se m -
pat he.' ome
personally and express their regret to
eernt, hut I took it upon myself to say,
sir, that your distrese would only be in -
The yak,. of the old Man trembled
az; lie spoke. .
'Yen will tell all the men from me,
lVest.m.-,
It %Va.% the first time he had ever om-
itted TO put the eeremonious prefix to
CHAPTER XII..
On the wretehed Saturdey that the Ho.;
onan and London closed its doorsor ra-
ther on the Set urday they did not open
-the City wore sackcloth and nshes.
)1' h to -nine
eens so refined and well-bred
as to sneer at atiymie le he has to do
whit tee City leseend put111; to St . Paul's
when there is a servieo of national imh
emanee. or egad:seam tires io jeerIE
ohe shonM meet the lege eteeeleezehow
IT 'fbere suarese-ed to to
in the eery ponage eireles. a refhtin hroken 1' :tried the old mart, deeply may -
:amount of reserve in. reading the ed lay this signifieant elem. of a level-
s:, a sigh of 11.1inietere 1113 Chewn ealatuity in the affzurs a a•man
alien Lered t lie t3 II a '1h" 1 (0-. t f're'n ,11,1'11:111 IlitsePlelttiLtmllial from me t hat
hieneten House :tiler admirer. Ng ream 11. 13 deeply thankful to them for their
et.,f4 r cv !,‘;'111,14/11...;esei ;It 131. t dy
texestie-sz reet to drag his :le:Weenie. r,'Ilis„," 11;1 ;F't"f, 2teelhig "Is I 1"Igh h"
met ter w hat see: .1 Mask or leteh gi lute I see,: I, !;J: a ,
t unt'l-until
ever leetiu*.iit one :oil the :Keene elle to- I Here velee eve:tine so unsteady
! nee. e Lae, taste es kinniLt a 2 .2)14 he Wet etop. IA hat t hat dread -
turn, shetliai never own to :my knee- h.,. n
et iltelire to know. Ile N%11S
the old clerk's name,
si a
t Itink of. By the Russ yet held, by the Turk not
'You know, dear,' she whispered as gained,
she kissed Mrs. Stainer, 'that neither .
you nor Henry ever was extravagant. mamma
You, rny dear, can economize; the boys
weird;
Ali stroked his beard,
a to take His lips were clenched and his look was
yu-rill klineottnle,11 thoasvheifit;r(hzisttl,ieniselves; :1 11(1
care Round him were ranks of his ragged
f t 1 e' 1- '
, The meeting of the family that even- Their faces blackened with blood and
Mg was sorrowful. No one even ire smoke. ,
to be eheerfu.l. The boys all went out •
after dinner, although it was raining , " Clear me the Muscovite out!" he cried,
dismally; the girls went to their own . Ilea tee name of ,,Auma 1.
recipe; and Mae. Stainer sat in the big , And the rifles were clutched and the
echoed wide,
,
trung-rcom a it hex hue ant 0 tire -bayonets lowered,
t ended to busy himself over some ace I
And nn to the last redoubt they poured.
0 • • / h rt count- o ,les he had brought then.
genie:him; was he did not yet kr.ow
tat tito hhinuniein ie TO hero. he! may a peen. eeriest.
z • o ?er Uireesge.' .* is a- i teleea' e, ie.h1 for w ard nterele in of t he Ciy of
; he, 1 he is, pee ,,,e1 e ewe Loreeet. 44 140 WOUldi 11:1Ve gone to the
: ite n to he the iountairehezei et t tax ,...;:::114;;;I.'r141:;r1I V101!:114, t'411:111: ,t1;1.%.0111,
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1tt t. ,.etet ewe. / it t.„ eitee e. pie.," who?' i'yreeti upon. lam ot hers.
to thee ti,t2.",. 0:3,1‘i i.t• to 1 it,..1,14%.11, Ise :eel los teenager Itiol t hen a long
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rts:,,• of, gentile y. I let f., el' is was !,14.11 .VV:+ste Ni1';'17nri(4.1I025•StIt‘•'•111irst.ho
II; ?t,ct:Eti qt. Otte really eann+.1 so pro lu ••• a t :met ba la nee -sheet. It t oak
far ee ely that 0440 10194 eetet he ,-.4%48“ 1)L1 1 it %%DS reedy th.
1:ee er; ..ut title eley, t ele thoet When Weston ?.routr.ht in
reeeti:111 leilleNnee-sheet, he found Mr.
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teeore to.tri. you Itee".., `eel,' set.' :dr. Steiner. vil it a tone
iu tee y v. I /,,ly retrret ful coteplatzeney, 'you think on
„tete,. _mei u.a. eel, ',ern ft !inlet are aeotai . en
up , ov•tr ami abeve our huutt
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• • •:•'. eeile eeeee , 0!r-.-h'fl thousand at the very
4. r fees. geee 11 ' • VA It you izihrio. ieetut 4344
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t• :us: :et aeneee 1,,,..^ ,11... ;,,'411,1B. :St 0: OM it (ixevri any way al two thousand.
he re---; meoe-r 1.4.eac.:mr UV 0,.. l',..3 lit,eii."Y i twn hundred end fiftY.'
i... ,.' ea : pee.. or OU. 4,'o4) Leave 4 nee :wee ; ' 11:' be 4 , sir ! A ou don't t h ink they
tee , ,..,,,,,s :,,,, awe, aim. ''% 'I ail ; ail insiet upon your private house go-
, tieehe, 4 2:ge* lieu a. meet :tter ifien,i,i !isle in as an aseet 4" asked the obi clerk,
w ,t , •. 1 14.1, ie tete :teat vi. -.14.2. 1.F02. 1121 i eumeing and looking up inerealulously.
i tee s tee 111C •ii,l, ii 4t'Zi1001 vitae. ot %Thiel 'I it.iit 11:11 1 hill king 01* What Iht"y Wiii
i it -, liey •..4eit,1 time mane an arratige- 1, .1o. le exeon; I am only thinking* id w bat
t mem, 4..e :M. OW U I lie LA% it,., Liiiit tine 44441" 1 1 rause do. Put down two thousand two
1 ertehu ;ilia toes. seazoasee ,,,,eweetneett ; hundred and fifty for the Clzipham
I....item.). iigore aganiei tile law iit 1 he i hotisfi..
.1,444,1ree ‘',,iiii i every year, eith thew l4ud -I he band. of the old man trembled
1
attt 41,11, ql, to a. iee• u, it. r Mut li:TU, rittal as 119 wrede the item. He had been in
;
aa e.r,•et eroils and ••4.4,ii.u,„.,, on a large the eusiness fifty-five years, during
I:scale, i he gey niaget. come tu ilia toter- 1 whiell time the house had never failed
ut tel. ie.' the very, Very euperior people 1 for an hour to meet a single engage. -
X wet: tieiew ine.y- are gentitouen and I 'tient; and here. was the head of the
i lattitze, and who upuu OtTaBiliiita iinpari. 1 houhe now calculating the value of his
i private residence as part, of the resources
1 their seeret. lei you..
1 on tied. dnntinul S•aturday 3/r. Siam- ; ce the business house Put at last the
'er reaeited the L'ay a. ruined Luan. 1 sum had been added
•Tliat, ie fifty-five thousand two hun-
dred and fifty, isn't it V
• 'Yes, sir,' answered the old man
huskily.
'Now, let me see -let me see. Put
down two thousand under that. Two
1 house nd.'
'I'wo thousand with a blank opposite
the figure, sir V
.'No, no -two thousand for furniture,
• - ,
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r' • r. s, 43,410
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Moderate. her:tall 0, (Mt.
EILBER Licensed Ana.
tioneer for tee Counties of Harem
t M1.14 icsen • Salea corelacted ee teed.
crate 1,4108 uriv.re • a t P..4t•-ortae (118a.
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VETERINARY.
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Tennent & -ferment
EXETER. ONT.
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rmilnatevofthe Ontario ha:twine"' II:
e,
OFFICE : ono it0Or Beath of Town Hall.
TH.E WA.TERLOO 11.13TUAL
FIRE INSERANC EC 0 .
E h 114 1863.
IEAD OFFICE - WATERLOO, ONT.
This Company has been over ['teener-el:et
years in successful operttion in Western
Ontario, anolcontiattes insereagainst loss or
derange by Fire. Buil linee Herchaelise
manufactories and all ether ieSeriptioas of
insurable preeertst Intending insurers have
theoption of insuring on the Premium Nuteor
Cash See tem•
Dttrins theyast ten years this company has
issued 5, ,09 coverinz property to the
amount of ta,49.872.038: and paid loses alone
1170e,752.0.i.
Assets, v,41.76,100.00, consisting of Cash
it, Bank government Depositand the unasses-
red Premium Notes on hand mei in fume
.LII •Weeene,..1.10.. President; 0 M. rAYLUIS
-Pecretary : J. B. Hucians, Inspector . thisse
NELL. Agent for Exeter and vicinity
arsamormumsmesmi
ITERN E
BEANS
NERVE Dr...1.Nh ore am:
cover, that mire the worst cases of
Nervous Debility, Lost Vigor and
Fafflng /11anhoud; restores the
weakness of body or mind caused
by over -work, or the errors or es -
ceases of youth. This Remedyab•
solutely mires the most obstinate casea when all othes
TRSATMEti TS have failed 0100 10 relieve, i.;old hydro&
gists at per package, or els for $5, or sent by mail or
receipt of prier by addressing THE JAMES
4.78,41.1,. 0,70... 11,1' I 'I,. •••• "
Sold at Browning's Drug Store Exeter,
THEEX ETTER TIMES.
e spublitme.1 evoryTh.ursilitr inortmg,1.5
Ti MES STEAM PRINTING NOUSE
e 07,11 -street ,nearly opposite Pittmes amatory
t rm. e,Eiteter,Ont.,by 'White ttt Sons,Pre•
Pri e tors.
BATHS OF ADVINVCMING
f stinger tion perliue... cente
'.schenbstaqueettusertion ,per line.. -.3 cents,
To insure insertion, a,lvertiseinen't B should
isehtin notiator than Wednesday morning
ourJOB PRINTING DEPARTalENT is oue
t Mita largeat and besteerapped in the County
01Ruron.All work entrusted 1.0 075 willraosiva
reepeompt o.tteution:
)eesions itegarding •
News-
, papers.
4 lAyperEamwho takes a paperregalarlyfro
,theposteettice, whether dire° ted In his name or
enother's.or whether he has subscribed or nos
eresponsible for payment.
2 Ha person orders his paper discontinued
• Leniust pay all arrears or the publisher may
ontinue tosentelt until the payment is inede,
nd then collect the whole amount. •vbether
paper Is taken from the office or not.
13 In suits for subscriptions, the sUlt may be
nstituted in the place whore the paper is pub
ithed, although the subseriber may reside
hundreds of miles away.
Thecourts have decided that refusing to
aknewspapers orperiodicale from Imo poet.
Mc. or removing a,ud leevia Gil U•tao_tiloi.
,eprenafacie evideaci of iato,lbi )1 fr An 1
Prisoners in France are permitted to
)ay one visit to dying parents.
ltuin to a rugue a II main tun -
ale east. Of tile die, ituna to AU hottest
nein is die eross ••itiii art tire paha. 'et.)
ail honest urea eusin•*se yuu cannot
do le uree to him than 4`,illtOrs hill/ it> be
ruined ity bontething wheel is no fault
of his oen. \s' hen. insiness luau who
iittS 1.41d pullet welly all Isis life has to
• , '1 (tarixtot pay; I leive :suspended
p...yment ; 1 heve called a meeting; you
14114 get cuemeir, something has been metures, books, linen, plate, &c., of the
done %%Idea 'lever ma te• undone. Clapham house.'
an hour atter, ne was aide to put down 'What r cried the old man, dropping
forty eiiiiiings in the pound, eomething his yen and looking up, 'what, sir ?'
-sume eine anima of a rielde self -es- 'IA hy, Weston, don't you think they'd
teem-hae ihen lust fur ever. An ideal bring as much ? They ought., I tun
. statue of dishonesty, widish le• had in the sure; from time. to time they cost me
secret lien:deer of ids n breast, and more than double that. Well, put them
before whim' he worsLupped, has van- down at ftfteen hundred. Strike out the
ished for es er; and heneeiorth he must two thousand, and put them down at
do reverenee before the voranion pub- fifteen hundred.'
lic brazen figure which has been sub- The old man took up his pen, and
ject to all he vicessitudee of time and tried to write. 'Your furniture, sir -
weather, of prosperity and disastemthe they won't be such -such heartless
miblic homage :end the public seorn. wretches as tn take your furniture!'
The bad news had reaehed 111r. Stum- 'Ge on; put it down,' said Stainer me-
er's warelemee before himself. It uas chanically,
town -talk ley the time he got. through The old man bent over the paper, and
his doorway in Cannon -street. As he caught the pen; out he could not see.
passed up to the counting -house, behind One by one the tears fell from his old
which was his private office, no clerk eyee on the paper beneath. Suddenly
in the outer office raised his head. The he dashed the tears out of his eyes with
porters affected not to see him. Ile' bad the back of his hand, threw down his
always been a good considerate master, pen, and cried in a broken voice,
'No. Mr. Starner, I will not put down
that item. You may get some one else
to do it. I'll never lend a hand to put-
ting down • the value of the chairs and
tables your wife and daughters have
been used to all their lives, de -n me,
if I do!' and with a sob the old man
walked out of the room, going by a
back door.
Then, and not until then, Starner re-
alized what such ruin really was. The
tables and chairs his wife and daughters
had been used to all their lives I He
and his servants grieved. for him. He
felt their delicacy, and that delicaey cut
more keenly than anything else he had
ever felt before. He was not a proud
man, and yet he could not turn around
and thank them; he was not humble, or
simple, or great enough for that. He
was not a vain man, and therefore he
did not resent their sympathy; he was
not an arrogant man, and therefore he
did not despise it; he was not, a callous
man, and therefore he did not ignore
it. His beautiful ideal had been shat-
tered, and he was now walking with .broke down. at the spectacle his .xmag-
poor, hare, sensitive human feet over the inatum conjured up, and throwing his
sharp fragments, and they cut lum cru- arms on the desk, he rested his head
elly.
It was not his custom to salute his
staff as he passed through the ware -
room on entering; of a morning. This
omission grew out of preoccupation,not
indifference. He had the kindest of
hearts when he attended to his heart;
but he often had need to be reminded
he had a heart; for his thoughts ran
mostly on bus business.
As be passed through the counting-
house, he said,
'Mr. Weston, will you. kindly step
this way, if you please?'
Mr. Weston was Mr. Stamer's man-
ager -a slender, fidgety, white-haired
old man of seventy., who had been in
the toncern ever since Stamer's father
started it in Eastcheap.
Mr. Weston wriggled nimbly off his
high stool inside the groundglass parti-
tion which separated him from the main
body of the .counting -house, and followed
Mr. Stamer into the private office. • The
proprietory of the concern sat down in
his usual place, and made a motion that
Mr. Weston was to take the chair, op-
posite him. Between them stood. an
ordinary writing -table.
'Mr. Weston, I suppose you have
heard the news?' said Mr. Starner, rest-
ing his chin on his hand, and keeping
bis eyes fixed on the blotting -pad be-
fore him.
'I am sorry, sir, to say I have. We
are all deeply grieved, sir, to find such
a thing has happened. There would be
to good in trying to conceal from you
the fact that, it is known you will be one
on them. and groaned.
That was a dreadful day in the City.
The whole commercial fabric was shak-
en. It was impossible yet to tell where
the rum would end. Men who had been
rich men yesterdays were paupers to-
day. Gradually it leaked out that So-
and-so and So-and-so held shares in the
ill-starred bank. It was certain that
some of the smaller banks were totter-
ing, and that many first-class business
houses would have to close their doors.
The universal belief was that no owner
of even one share who did not possess
a large fortune could stand the strain
which would, now be put upon him. It
was confidently said that not only had
every penny of the original capital of
the bank been lost, but that four out
of deposits equal to five millions ster-
ling had followed the original capital.
There was no chance of any man in
Stanaer's position standing. It -was ru-
moured the first call would be five hun-
dred pounds a share,and that the calls
ha the end would reach ten times that
sum.
That; evening Mr. Starner wrote to his
wife, briefly telling her what had oc-
curred, and asking her to come home -
bringing with her the girls, of course.
The only trace of bitterness in the let-
ter lay in what followed:
'As we have no longer, on Loo's be-
half, reason to fear any adventurer
however desperate, will think of here
Starner's wife and daughters and sist-
er were overwhelmed by the news. They
could not realize what it Mean t • They
1
All this time the one grain of consol- 1 One fell, and a second quickly stopped
ation in the poor wife's heart was that ; Tee
se rieken mate. She should eeononliee• !
+ s um . te re smite p to her The second -a third straight filed hie
gap that he left when he reeled
and. dropped ;
place.
When the hushand and wife had ktseed ; The third and a fourth kept up the
their ehildren and. got to their rooneshe , race.
streve to elieer 141111 with words, and at '
last she said, seeing she had up to that
made no progress. Over their coapses the living sprang,
• And the ridge with their musket -rattle
yktiliqieHiprze, WiTye.anifrealimly gliiyytt; 1
on' Yeltne•I rang,
Me 4141 it you can weekly or monthly, I'D Till the fluxes that lined the last. redoubt
Could see their faces and hear their
shout.
In the redoubt a fair form towered,
That cheered, up the brave and chid the
cosseerd ;
Prandislung blade with a gallant sir.
Hie head. erect and his temples bare.
" Fly! they are on us I" his men implor-
ed;
But. he waved them on with his waving
sword;
"11) cannot be held; 'tis no shame to
go 1"
But he stood with his fare set hard to
the foe.
Then elung they about him and tugged
and knelt.,
He drew a pistol from out his belt ;
And fired it blank at the first that set
Foot on the edge of the parapet.
Over that first one toppled ; but on
Clambered the rest till their bayonets!
shone. ;
As hurriedly fled his men dismayed; I
Not a easonet's length from. the length,
of his blade. ,
My Darling's Itaneom.
shi 1 1 1 1 f 1101
make it go as far as 1 cane
And he said,
'But, Mary, we shell have nothing at 1.
all to live on, except some kind friend .
will give Me thirty shillings or two
So .she went to. bed, and ivept herself
to sleep; and lie lay awake all night, ,
hell mad with anger awl despair.
'ehie ssas the beginningof tho long
and s •eime teiels whieh la. reamers had ,
to endure. the worst !lel not vorae at
once; 14 rarely does. The lank went in-
to liquidation, awl it was scene time be-
fore the first call was made. This Mr.
Sooner 44*04.. easily. It ues not the 1
sensational five hundred speken of the !
day the leink aa fawn, but fifty ;
pounds. Things turned out not to b45!
quite ell bad as had originally Leen sup-
posed. By selling out some of the 311.1-
ras relines- Si 1.1.1•VP, a se enel and tided
call were rlD•I tint lilt' till 41411 sl ill
there was no hope. 1 It i•riat ty t hey
44 0111431 equeeze loni dry. The first fuel
see, eel teal had been neat very ell; but ,
11*" Odra ell the we:Ike:are fell out,
an1 t lie tintabor iif 4440'" v. ho 1entoun..1 •
4141.•.vznisnft.:4:Nittly less Orin 418'"'.'who pad
i
44.
The third eall did not cripple, Mr. t" Yield !" But aloft his steel he flash -
Steller ; anxi naless he feurelt wae en -
ed.
era/timely greater then the 4 hint, he had • And down on their steel it ringing
no dottilt ho shoule h • aisle 10 Fly. 11.4 el:wile:1,
was September hefore t fixer; 41 de-, Then haelt he reeled witit a bladeless
hew
re as t hen leo
ft him nly a temple , His luitiii; ii!tfull, but his life -blood spilt.
mend tir. Stainer next it.;
of thous:4nd eat of his lielian railwaym.
His business was still ulittmelied ; of Mehemet Ali came and eaw
ceurs-e were his house and furniture. The riddled breast and the tender law, •
The (wee: upon whieh now his fat e " a bier of your arms," he
tar NV:IH. Would the proeexels of the
fohrth eall equal the expectations id the "And daintily bury this dainty dead."
lignialetors ? If it did, he should con-
sider himself well out of the wretched They lifte*1 him up from the dabbled
effair. For, though he had. loground,st all the•
money he had put. by for his children. His limbs were shapely and soft and
is.n 1 his old age, the 1,,3,0,11,',4(
still re- round,
u1,
and while t hat continued mead No down on his lips, on his cheek no
they might be comfortable, if not af- shade;
fluent. ; "Blemillah I" they cried, " 'tis and in -
On the 1st Deeember it was an- filet maid IA
nounced by the liquidaware that the • -
fourth call had been insafficieutly met, "Dig her a grave where she stood and
and that a fifth should lei made on the
1st of January next. This was the 'Gainst the jackal's screech and the
largest demand yet. On elle- number of ultures
shares held by Mr. Stainer Ode fourth Did the Muscovite men like their maid -
demand Would come to twenty-five ens fight.
In their lines we had scarcely supped to-
night."
So a deeper trench hmong the trenches
thainsand pounds.
'It. has coma at last," said Mr. Stain-
er, when he had read the announeeneent.
They ueclare that this will positively
be the last call, but if I sell the coat there
V. as dug for the form as brave as fair,
of my back I cannot pay it. Everything
will have to go noAnil none, till the judgment trump and
w. Weston, yau had
better find me some respectable auctitsn-shout,
eer, and let him make an inventory of bhall drive her out of the "Last Re-
t.he furniture. Nothing, ean save it or doubt."
me, now, We, are peer. praying for.
' Exeuse no, sir,' said old Mr. Wes-
ton; ' 1 do not wish to intrude. myself
into private matters, but is there no
way in which you think you could get
the money V'
'Absolutely no way.'
If I might make so bold as to offer
suggestion-'
' My dear Weston, you are only too
welcome. You do not think I am very
senehive after this year's troubles?'
Well, sir, I thought that as this is
a fair -going business you might get a
i
partner into t, who would give you the
money.'
'Why, Weston, the whole bueiness is
not worth anything like half what we
want. No man in his senses would give
more than seven to ten thousand for
the whole business as it stands.'
' I did not mean a man who would
look on it altogether as a business spec-
ulation. You have promised to forgive
my boldness; but I have heard it said
that Mr. Stanley Bayless is very anx-
ious to become a member of your fam-
ily. Why should he not., at the same
time become a member of the firm?
For a moment Starner paused. At
length he said,
'Weston, I know I may trust you im-
plicitly. That thought has crossed my
mind also; but there ie a great diffi-
culty in the way. I do not think my
daughter shares his wishes.'
'But, sir, even supposing that is so,
such things often happen as that young
ladies are not the best judges of what
is for their ONVII, worldly good. We must
not expect an old head on young shoul-
ders. And then. sir, if you would tell
her the whole case -how it would save
you and the business, and keep the fam-
ily together, you could hardly fail.'
It is a strong case, I admit,'
'Sir, it is, as far as I can see, your
only hope. The money would be noth-
ing to him.'
' No, the money; is all right there:
but she-'
' Sir, try it. Take nay advice, and try
it.'
'1 am half inclined.'
'Be whole inclined, and you will suc-
ceed.'
For the first time since that awful
Saturday Mr. Stamer smiled natural-
ly, and taking the old man by the hand,
said.,
'Upon my word, I will take your ad-
vice and do all I can.'
And there the matter ended for the
time.
.(To be Continued.)
LOW RATES BRING C4ISTO1VI.
Good Dame -I was so glad to learn
that you had at last joined the anti -
swearing sooiety. But why didn't you
join before ?
Young Man -Too expensive. The fines
used to be a dime for everything; but
lately the rates have been reduced to
six cusses for a quarter.
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Cockroaches at's. never willingly slain
by Chinam.en. -They consider them sac-
red insects, and think it portends ill -
luck to step on them. As they never
make any effort to exterminate them,
the Chinese quarters are usually over-
run with these pests.
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THE MAPLE LEAF FOREVER 1
.A. Enited Empire Loyalist's Blunt Letter
to at Boston. Paper.
In a. letter to the Boston Evening
Transcript, Viscount Forsyth de From -
sac, member of the Council of the Unit-
ed Empire Loyalist Association of Can-
ada, expresses himself in this patriot-
ic style: -
If you will permit "fair play" in
your columns, I would like to give con-
trary evidence to your correspondent in
his "Re -adjusted. Europe" letter of
Saturday, Feirruary 8114, in which
among many miscalculations he imag-
ines that England will give "Canada in
exchange for an alliance with the Unit-
ed States."
In the first place, it is against the
policy of Britam to give territory for
a mere alliance. No British territory
has ever been yielded without a fight,
as the Yankees know from their 1770-
83 experience, and it was only yielded
then because France, Spain and Holland,
together with the League of the North
joined against England and Russia stir-
red up the insurrection of nyder Ali
in British India. Britain then gave up
part of her American territory and
turned on her enemies. She stripped
Frame, Swim and Holland of most of
their colonies, ruined their navies, and.
locked Russia up in frozen seas, from.
evhich she has not yet escaped. The
same calamities will befall any power,
should any power offer to dismember
the British Empire. No statesman in
England will eer be bold enough to
offer Canada in exchange for an Am-
erican alliance -Canada, the most loy-
al of the British dominions, the key.
stone arch, as it has been called be-
tween England and India. Besides,
Canadians have a government and a
policy of their own, which must be
reckoned with. If the declaration of
the Canadian Parliament in regard to
the United States interference is not
enough to open the eyes of the stupid
annexationists in this country, let me
tell who the Canadians are. They are
not the riff-raff of Europe -for the
riff-raff come to the TJnited States.
They are the descendants of the French
nobility, officers and soldiers and hon-
est pioneers and their families of the
French epoch; the descendants of the
88,000 "United .Empire Loyalists and the
flower of the American people of the
epoch of 1770-83; the descendants of the
farailies of officers and soldiers of the
British army disbanded on Canadian
soil, and the families of sturdy Scotch,
Irish, English, and Welsh *yeomanry -1.
all full of the traditions of glory and
majesty of the British Empire, of the
flag that has breasted the battle and
the breeze for a thousand years, of Old
World ideas and honour and chivalry.
SHE KNOWS HIM.
There is usually one woman in the
congregation who doesn't regard the
minister as a saint nn earth. Yes, she
is his wife, of course.
A coon utterly devoid of hair eteppecl
into a, trap at Coos River, Ky. 'How it
lost its hair, is a mystery.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Cadorig
INDIAN GLUTTONS,
They W111 Eat Anything They Can Oet
Bad Of -Au Officer's Experiente.
If an eating raateh were to be ar-
ranged, and one of the contestants was
an Indian, the chances are that the In-
dian would win the mateh "hands
down," for in his ability to dispose of
min:nous quantities of food of any and
all kinds his equal is hard, to find.
The Indian does not require the services
of a .French Chef to prepare his food so
as to titilitte his over -keen appetite.
It is simply a question of quantity, not
quality. It is well known that the In-
dians are perfece gluttons, and that
they will Mt ahnost anything.
A brief description of what some eye-
witnesses have seen them dispose of in
the way of quantity and kind will not
prove uninteresting. in the first pikes
he is not part:leader as to the manner
in which the food is prepared or cook-
ed. He do's net care whether it is very
rare or "dune, to rags." The food is
placed on the fire, and hunger regulates
the lengtli of time -for cooking. In case
he is very hungry he will take the food
froiu. the fire When it is hardly warmed
through and eat it with relish. One
offieer who spent nearly all his life
among the Indians says that the aver -
ago Indian during a night of feasting,
dancing and st•ory telling, following up -
044 a successful hunt, will consume from
10 to 15 'pounds of meat„ and if there Is
an abundance and he can seleot the
choice Lid bits he desires, ht• will con-
sume without indigest-ion or inconven-
ience, not less than 20 pounds of meat.
Think of it, when it is known that
the capacity of the stomach of :1. MAR
weighing 150 to 175 pounds is about five
Oats, and a. pound is usually called a
pint.
This same officer says that on one
of his hunting trips he had with him
some soldiers and some Indian scouts.
Having killed a. fine elk, he If 8V14 pare
to the soldiers and part to the seouts.
That night, the seems made a nightof
feasting, and in the morning their meat
was all gone, •vhile the eoldiers had
enough to last them for three death The
Indians had cohsumed on an average
over 15 pounds each during the night,
arid this included the entrails, which
W('116 -eaten raw, and which are consid-
ered a great delieaey. There is an old
saying that an Indian will not, eat, a.
wild t urkey, as he believes it will make
the eater cowardly, me the t urkey runs
from its pursuers. All this has passed
away before the eravings of an empty
stonmeh. no matter what the stmersti-
thatIA. the tribe W1444 at, one one. At
one military post an old gobbler had
been roasted, but could nothe eaten,
as it was too tough. lt 11.415 boiled, hut
was still too tough; it was then put Orl
and boiled for 2.1 hours, and about this
tine: an old. Indian came around for
food. 'rho kettle MIS handed to him,
and in a short, time lie had eaten the
entire contents, which was figured to
be at least two g,allons, ier 16 pounds oZ
liquid and solid fuod. It is a well-
known fact to many officers that, an
Indian will sit down by the carcass of
a deer he has just killed and eat raw
-the heart and liver, and sometimes oth-
er portions, before he arises from the
ground. Dog flesh is regarded by the
Sioux as almost a sacre(1 dish, and is
used on occasions of ceremony. The
Cheyenne sand the Arapahoes are very
fond of fat puppy, but eat dog only
when forced to do so by hunger. Horse
flesh is looked upon as a greater deli-
cacy than beef or deer, while fat skunk
is most highly .esteemed as an article
of diet. An Indian will catch one of
these animals so shinnied and beat out
its brains on the ground, holding the
animal by the tail, and perfectly obliv-
ious to the odor, which would drive a
white man wild. It is a common occur-
rence at army posts where Indians are
to be found for them to make daily
rounds of the post, visiting all barrels
of refuse, and horses and other animals,
which have died and been hauled out-
side the post, for burial, are quickly cut
up and. carried away as most delicious
morsels for the table.
SATISFADTORILY EXPLAINED.
A fire burned down some business
premises in Sydney, and, among oth-
ers, the shop of a man who was so
well covered by insurance that the
company disputed his claim.
Among the stock alleged to be lost
were 10,000 mourning hatbands. The
counsel for the company cross-examin-
ed the sufferer by fire about these hat-
bands. Wasn't it an extraordinarily
large number? What probability was
there of death creating a demand in a
single shop for 10,000 hatbands? Repli-
ed the witness:
"I did not keep thet hatbands for those
who .grieve for the death of their
friends, but for those who go into
mourning for the grease on their hats."
He got his insurance •money.
A DIVIDED DUTY.
Woman (to tramp) -There, I have
obeyed the divine injunction to 'Feed
the hungry,' and now I hope you will
remember that one good turn deserves
another, ancl chop a little wood for me.
Tramp -Pm very sorry, mum. but I've
got an engagement, an' must, be off.
1,Vhy, what have you to do?
It is my solemn duty, mare, to go
out into the highways and by -ways, an
tell hungry. gents like myself that this
'ere house is a good place to get a
square meal.
omoomming
NO MORE KISSING THERE.
lt has hitherto been the custom of the
children attending the public schools of
Austria and Hungary to kiss the hands
of the teacher.on arrival and departure.
This has now been forbidden by an ord-
er from the imperial board of educa-
tion, which bases its action on the fact
that sanitary investigation has shown
that kissing is unhealthy, and should
not be practiced when absolutely unne-
cessary.
ALAS, FOR THE RARITY.
Miss Quizzer-Do you believe all the
disagreeable things you read in the
newspapers?
Miss Buzbuz-I do if they're about
people, I know. ;
COUPLE.
Wife -What a happy -looking Couple
thos etwo arel I wonder how long they
have been married,
llusband-Oh. I guess they're only en-
gage
amousgottinteesses.eo
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