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Few Paragraellis
Worth
Professimal
Frenth judges an
from riding in o
Mrs, Be -sward
Mo., has given hli
tivins. They are
It is believed t
bread makes big
thari bread made
A. Kansas pape
fatal aecident to
by .saying he "me
of a. horse."
The chief food
rows are breed, 1
wheels grow spoil
pert of the island
will feed a man.
Private bull -fig
given by, the v
Madrid, and guee
as they would be
Three women a
towel council of L
residentare cony
know how to rule
At an aristoor
London no woma
cups, a, seat at t
bn ehe afternoon
taken off Ler hat
Some of the P
gratitutou A psrfo
times a year. Th
poor people, and
line axe usually a
fore the house is
The polar fox
its coat. In sum
in winter it is s
mai can scarcely
ers over the slam
Gout is rarely
working elasses o
munit,y from this
to be due to the
...racists largely
The music sun
Rome, is entirely
vocalist or music
have his, pert in
he is actually p
'An electric Ugh
at a distance a f
be established. at
French coast, oppo
of 3,000,000 candle
Women axe in
cars of Chillocoth
hats they wear
word "Condactor.
hear them say, "
One hundred
crosses were last
the Empress Aug
German servant
continued for fort
at one family.
One hundred y
States, when chu.
taken up they
bag suspended to
A bell was atta
arouse sleepy wo
At a Sunday e
City of Mexico t
were pitted again
easily vanquishe
them and gca•ing
helpless in the ar
The amount of
propel cannon pr
the weight of th
jectile 4 inches i
pounds; 54nel, 5
8 -inch, 500-; 12in
16 -inch, 2,370 poux
A. prize hog, WE
has been raised
Meigs County,
dimension--; heigh
diameter, '7 feet;
°hes. It is cons
hog in the world
A. soldier's
Philadelphia, die
thirteen years it
It has just li
her daughter has
for the past twe
drawing her pens
Paper floors for
coming into use
are formed of se
stout paper, da,
rolled. They ha
joints to bettor
are yielding to th
Two little pigs
tween a. couple of
in Shannon Count
both pigs. They
them, and when t
ed to 890 the liti
eadb taking a pig
An eminent p
rays that no pers
bed to, drink tea
he has attained
yeers. In the y
ages uniu y ex i
and have an inju
digestive organs.
A rade remar
cao.sed justice R
Kansas 'City, to
tem minutes.
and in less than
Inge was a yang
battered fees an
the justice was
met an the benc
ie 'insults thi
to fight." •
A V
Papa—My eine
pimiless, are you
fight, your wag i
Manche— I thi
been through th
Yearly.
She—neve you.
out Wordsf
JI'—leve heard
rat
teeter that th
plane were (aloes
' INTERST,
ireetcli Will be Found
itteadiug,
stiquette - prevents
.
a jual,Giaa rail:gale
anib,useeli
:exile, a Riclainond,
th to seven pairs of
ell living«
hat a diet a corn
ter men, physieallY.
of wheat flour.
• tersely xectirds
. .
a prominent citizen
b death et the hands
f.,
iroducte of the Lad-
, .
cult and ccenanms)
taneouely in every
e, One cocoanut tree
•
ets are oceasionany
Ary rich people in
s are invited to then e
to a dinner.
id one man form the
incoln, Neje and the
bleed, that tbe women
the town. '
ale restaurant in
k is permitted to Jae-
ble, after four o'clock
s until she ha ed
Asian theatres i
g-ve
manes three or foot
sy are intended for
hose who are first In
t tbe doors hours Ve-
opened.
thanges the color of
ter it is almost black;
o white that the ani-
be seen as it scamp-
..
known among theI
f Ireland. Their im-
complaint is thought
fact that their food
f potatoes,.
. is ea Peter's, at
in manuseript. No
Lan is permitted to
ais hand unlessevhile
a -forming it.
t that will be visible
arty -eight miles is to
Cape Grisnez, on the
ate Dover. It will be
epower.
Metro' of the electricslightf
is Ohio, and on their
ribbon bearing the
' It is pleasant to
itep lively, please,"
,nd forty-four gold
year distributed by
usta among as many
•siiis who had each
y years in the employ
ars ago in the Unitedo
rch collections were
rare deposited - in a
the end. of a. .pole.
ahed to the pole to
•shipers.
tertainment in the
o lions, one at a time,
st a bull. The bull
1 the lions, tossing
them until they lay
raa. '
powder required to
Ajectiles is about half
projectile. AA. pro-
1 diameter weighs 33
6 inch 100.
I pounds; - , ,
b, 850; 13 -inch, 1,100;
ids.
Aighing 1,524 pounds,
y T. W. Williams, of
Fenn. 'Here .are its
t, 4 feet and 6 inches;
, length, 10 feet 2in-
idered. the largest
idow, a resident of
l there in 1877. For
A had been a pension_
sen discovered that
been perseilatbag her
ity-one years, and
.on.
dwelling houses, are
En Germany. They
.eral thicknesses of
aliened, pasted and
.78 no crevices or
Last or vermin, and
e feet.
cause& contention be-
neighboring farmers
e, Mo. Each claimed
went to law about
he costs had ararnent-
rants compromised by
-
eisician of St. Loeb
on should be permit-
er coffee until he or
the age of eighteen
oung those beve -
l'
e the, 06 .70u system
•iou3 effect upon the
: by Wm. jennings
obert M. Bowling, of
idjourn court for fif-
ley went outside,
five minutes Jeno-
eished man, with a
t two black eyes, iAs
thole to resume his
b he said "Any man
, •
s court will have
THE CASTING
' —OF—
MRS LECKS AND
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• (Continued.)
T.he question of the relationship of
the three persons, of whose existence
we bad discovered traces,, was a very
interesting one to Mrs. Leeks and Mrs,
Aleshine. A.
"I can't 'nuke up my rcAind," said the
latter, "ivieether Thanly is the mother
of Lucille or leer daughter, or whether
they are both children of Mr. Dusante,
or whether he's married, to Lucille and
Emily is her sister-in-law, or 'whether
she's his sister and not hers, or wbe _
tber he's the mole and they're his
nieces, or whether Emily Is an old.
lady and Mr. Du.sante and Lucille are
both her children, or whether they are
two maiden ladies and Mr. Dusante is
+- heir brother, • or whether Mr. Du-
—
sante is only a friend of the family,
d b ds. h b o two wo
an oar ere) because n 1 -
inen ou.ght to live in such a lonely
place without amen in the house."
.
aer
"Well,"said Mrs. Lecks,"whether .
Dusante coines beck wethl two nieces,1
daughter,or Mrs, Du -
or a wife an. .:
sante and a mother-in-law, or a pair
of sisters, all Nme've got to say is, 'The
board money's in the ginger -jar,' and
let them, do their worst.
In my capacity as gardener I do not
think I earned the wages whieh my
e for I
companions had. allotted to m. ,
merely gathered. and brought in. such
fruits and vegetables as I found in
proper condition for use. In other
wags, however, I made my services
valuable to our little family. In a,
closet in my chamber I found guns and
ammunition, and I was frequently able
ing i a few birds.Some of these
to bring n
were pronounced by Mr. Aleshine un-
-t
sin abl e for the table, but others she
cooked. with much skill, and they were
found. to be veep good eating.
Not far from the little wharf which
has been mentioned. there stood, con-
cealed by a mass of growing palnas, a
boat -house in which was a little skiff
hung up near the roof. This I let
down end lau.nehed, and found great
-pleasure in rowing it about the lagoon.
- • • • •"Then
There was fislung-tackle in the boat-
house, which I used with success, the
lagoon abounding in fish. Offerings of
this kind. were muoh; more oncepta,ble
to Mrs. Aleshine than birds,,
ish
"There's some kinds of f es thet's
better than others," said she, "but, as
a gen'ral rule, a fishl is a Hale, and if
you catch 'em you can eat 'ern; but
it's very different thine with birds
1 a Ty - 'em e f '
7henaryou'vois never
1 steeDt 11 ,'t 6 61faeli
a v u goin o e u w
they're - - 14. t owl, •
some in o an a. pigeon-
hawk, or a crow? And. if I once get
it into my bead. that. there's any of
. ' '
that kind. of family. blood in em, they
disagre;e with me Just the same as if
there really was.
One afternoon as I was returning in
' '
the boat from the point on the other
f the nwhere I had. found
si-d e o isI.a.d
the rustic at and. Emily's book, I
,
was surprised to see Mrs. Leeks and
Mrs. Aleshine standing on the end of
the little wharf. This was an unusual
thing for them to do, as they were
very industrioes women, and seldom
had an idle moment; and it seemed to
be one of their greatest pleasures to
discuss the work they were going to
do when they had finished that on
which they were then engaged. I
was curious, therefore to know why
' th idly they should be standing us on
the wharf, and pulled. towards thein
as rapidly as possible. -
When r had rowed neax enough to
hear tb,em Mrs Aleshine remarked
' •
with cheerful placidity:
"The Dusanees are coming."
The tide was quite low, and I could
not th ' f
see over e reef; but in a, ew-
moments I had grounded the skiff and
had sprung upon the wharf. Out on
the ocean about. &mile away, I saw a
-
' tl I a' roach: -
boat, apparen y a large one, pp
ing the island. , h• ,, •e
"Now, then, Barb ry Ales ine, said
Mrs. Leeks, "you'll soon see whether
it's bis two nieces, or his daughters,
or his wife and sister-in-law, or what-
ever of them other relationships which
you've got so at "
you g p •
"Yes" said Mrs. Aleshiee, "but
' find : t .f he's
what's more, we'llou 1 go-
ing to be satiefied with the board mon-
ey we've put in the ginger -jar."
•IYIrs.
.
AWAY .
.
,
''''''" ,
MRS, ALLSHENE.
ALE•
During this dialogue I had been
thinking thee it was a very strange
thing for the owners of this place to
vieit their isiahsi. in snob, a fashion.
Wei should they bis in an °nee 'boat?
Ant7 , .,d ,, - , ee.
weenie di they come zone her-
live it
ever they might , was zot at ail
probable that they woeld thoose to
be rowed from thet point to this. From
the general charaeter and appoint -
t hous ' in which we had
ments of ille 4 .
found a refuge, it was 0 i e n
-.1" te - lai
tat its owners were people in good
. t' th h IA
cirouras anoes, who were ea 6 babit
of attending to their domestio affairs
in avery orderly and, proper way. ft
was. to be pnesemed that it was their
custom to come here in a suitable ves-
,
sel, and to bring with them, the stoma
needed during the intended stay, Now,
' :
there was little or nothing hi that
boat* and o t 'a whol I did no be-
,, A , n h ea - se
wiTe ,that it contained the enand
°1 ere —
this island..
It would t d li . t
no o, owever, o assuine,
anything of tbe kin& •There might
.
have been a disa,ster; in fact, I knew
nothing about i , ce t
t. n i was my'm-
a - - '
mediate duty to go and, meet these
people at the passage; for, if they were
unable to unlock flee bars, their boat
could not exit r arid I ust ferry
s, tee . --a 7
them across tne lagoon. withoue
eommunicating my doubts to ray come
Penknife I berried into the skiff; and
Pulled as fax as possible into the pas-
sage through the reef. The bars, of
which there were more than I at first
supposed, were so arranged. that it was
impossible for a boat to go in or out
at any stage of the tide
w minutes
had been there but a few '
when the boat from without came
slowly in between the rocks; and al-
most as soon as I saw it, its progresJ.,
was suddenly stopped by a sunken bar.
'Mellor' cried several men at once
"Hel to 1" cri d. 1 ' return. "Have'
the k te tk in
you key o ese bars ? '
A stout man with a red beard stood
. e e • e
up in the stern. Key? said he, what
keY ?"
, you do not belong here ?" said
1. "Who are you
At this the gentleman who was sit-
_ , g
ting by the lady arose to his feet, He
--
W58 a man past middle age,r tall
, pa rather
and slim, and. when he stood up the
rolling o emade 1M
th boath'
stagger, and he came near falling.
"You'd better sit down, sir," said the . a
man with the red beard, who I saw
was a, sailor. "You . can talk better
that way..
The gentleman now- seated himself,
and thus addressed me:
"I am, sir, the Reverend Mr. Ender-
ton lately mis io r t
Oh ' a na y o Nanfouchong,
ma; and this is my daughter, Miss
_n _ . ___ . '
el derton. We are returning to the
United States by way of the`Sandwich
Islands and took passage in a sailing
,
vessel for Honolulu. About two weeks
ago this vessel, in some way which I do
net understand, became disabled—.
, "Rotten forem'st," interrupted the
, •
man with the red beard, "which give
way in a. gale. and strained and leaky
b 'd " ' • -
besides." es. .
"I did not know the mast was rot-
ten," said the gentleman, "but, since
the occasion of our first really service-
able wind, she has been making very
unsatisfactory progress. And more
than that, the whole force of seamen
was employed night and day in endeav -
oring to keep the water out of the tea,
thereby "causbag such a thumping and
pounding that sleep was out of the
question. Add t this th f t that
o , , is . e. aeThe
our meals became very irregular, and
were sometimes entirely overlooked—"
"Prog was gettin' mighty short," in-
terpolated the red -bearded man.
"You can easily discern, sir," con-
afloat/. the gentleman "that it was im
• - ' -
Possible for myself and daughter to re-
main longer on that vessel, on which
we were the only passengers. I there-
fore requested the captain to put us
ashore at the nearest land, and, after
more than a. week of delay and demur,
he consented to do so."
"Couldn't do it," said the man. "till
th band • h .
ere was nig enough.
"The captain informed me," continue
ed the gentleman, "that this island was
.
inhabited, and that I could here fient
shelter and repose until a vessel could
be sent from Honolulu to take me off.
He furnished me with this boat and
three seamen, one of whom," pointing
to the red -bearded man, "is a coxswain.
We have been rowing ever since early
this morning, with but a very raoder-
ate quantity of. food and much discom-
fort. Now, sir, you have heard my
story; and I ask you, as one man to
another, if you still iotend to bar your
weter-gates against us ?"
"I did not bar the gates," I said,
"and I would gladly anlock them if 1
c,ould. I belong to a ship -wrecked par-
ty who took refuge here some two
weeks ago."
'And how did you get in ?" hastily
inquired the red -bearded coxswain.
'"Our boat sunk when we were within
sight of the island, and we came here
on life -preservers, and so got under the
bars."
The two men who had been rowing
now turned suddenly' and looked. at me
an
They both had black beards, d they'
both exelaimed at the same moment,
"By George 1"
"I won't stop here to tell any more
of our story," said I. "The erne point
• 1 - -
now is to get you al ashore, and have
you eared for."
"That's WI' said the coxswain. And.
the two sailors murmured, "Ay, ay,
The bar which stopped the progress
f th 1 b '
o e arger oat was just under the
surface of the vvater, while another, a
foot above the water kept my skiff
about six feet distant from the otherda
boat. There was some Ioose flooring
in the bottom of the coxswain's boat,
and he ordered two of the boards taken
• bridge' '
out, and with them a was meet/
. ' '
one end resting on the bow of the lerg-
sr an the on e iron bar
boat, d ether t la ':
by my skiff,
"Now," sec). th " . "let th
1 e coxswain,a
lady go first."
The elderly gentleman armee, as if he
Would. prefer to take the lead; but his
daughter, who bad not yet spoken a
Word, was Passed. forward bY th6 e0X-
Main, steadied over the bridge by °us
of the sailors, and assisted by me into
the, elliff, Then her father caste
aboard, end I rowed with them to the
Wharf. .
Leeke read Mre. Alefshine Penee
forwar,d most eordiallY to meet.thera.
,tur.m.,..t., I suppose?" said Mrs.
llieb).,ifsl,_reAmiln:IiIrs. •A-.11iTt 11111:111a4,1:)Yr
,w:01.0. ,. a pay ear, s liCiiie
Lunly y
As quickly as possible I expleinee the
eituation Par a. few moments Mrs.
•
Lecke and Mrs. Alethine stood. speech.
less. 'llething which had happened to
Deere, the wreck ,of the steamier, the
sinking a the boat or oilr exPerience
With life -preservers, affected them s0
' t• in re-
inueh es this disappomtmen
gard tt'i the Problem of the Dusante
family' Travel by sea was ail novel to
them., and they had expected all sorts
of things to which they were not acme-
timed; but they had never imagined,
th at Fate would be so hard upon them
as to snatela awls( the solution of this
m story' just .. th es.' about to
pit thei'r handaseu oielyit.wTheit,inspite
of this sudden bloPw, tbe two good vv•o-
A
men quickly reeevered theinselves, and.
with heart and k' lly words hurried
y in(
the missionary and. bis daughter to
o bring over
the house, hil I nt t '
e, w e . we
the men.
I -found. the thre,e sailors busy in se-
curing their boat so, that it would not
be injured by the rooks during the ris-
Ing and falling of the tide. When
they had fi ished this job, the had to
' P . y ... .
do a good deal of semi:chime name
they reached my skiff.
, sa e
"We thought at first sir," id th
coxswain, as I rowed there across the
lagoon, e • ..i mon about
that it was al le, in
your not livin' here and. no kesise
to them bars; but we've come to the
'pinion that if you'd been able to un-
lock ,e 'd h done it some
in you . have, r
than take all this trouble,"
I now related my story enore• fully,
and the men were greatly astonished
iv en they heard that my companions
h
in this adventure we two women
re.
Upon my asking the coxewaie why he
had come to this island, he replied
that his captain had heard that people
Heed on i •t, although he knew nothing
about them • 'I Id b
, and that, as 1 wou e
alen t • ibl t t h' brigh
os iraposs e o get is ere
with the wind that was then prevail-
.
ing, and as .he did not wish to go out
of his course anyway, he made up his
mind that h would 'A. th
e wou rather . ose e
services,ellithree men than keep that
• / , .. .
rams onary on word a day longer.
'
"Yob. see, sir," said the coxswain,
as We went ashore, "the person would
not never take it into account that we
were short of prog and lea.kin. like
am ; an because Inge were un-
S Hill- d r things
comfortable he growled up and he
growled down till he was wuss for
te . . ,
' e spirits of the men than the salt
water comtn' in. or the hard -tack giv-
in' oat, and there was danger if he
wasn't tt b it h d
• • go rid of that he'd e p e e
overboard and left to take his chances
for a whale. And then, by sendin' us
along, that give the crew three half
rations a day extrv and that'll count
- - s' . they're - ,
for a good deal in the fix ine
When I reached the house, I took
the men into the kitchen, where Mrs.
Aleshine already had the table spread.
There were bread and cold meat, while
the t t '
ea-ke tle steamed by the fire. In
a very short time three happy marin-
ere sat round that table, while Mrs.
.. — . .
Aiesmne, with beaming face attended
t dthem' 'any
their wants, an plied with in-
n.m.ner questions. The h no
able y had t
finished eating -when Mrs. Leeks enter-
ed the lit ben.
_ cA. . .
, To Be Continued.,
T. MITI D'ITMDT Tinto nu IT A'111
LOUB aeljelejejejell IV UN 1111„fillii
(MEAT DIPLOMATS—OF THE. WORLD
'
MUCH DISTURBED.
—....,
Britain and Russia Stay Fieht Over China--
.„„„„., • . `" e .. ....,,,,
I'm the °hue° s'aies "e
*lir In the Struggle le clime ei,;,;;;;
'reale Doers. , .
With one war perhaps just over, it
d • • • • f , •
nee s no steaming o ears to heal the
ominceis rural) in • o •
1 gs ot en thei gather-
, The most optlixistie student of
ing. , .
events in the fat East admits that soon -
sr or later R I a Greatat •
use a an )311 am
must fight over the Chinese question.
The 'latest so-called triumph of Rus-
elan di loma b
p oy.. y winch rap.v.es were
h
c ecked aud China apparently made to
, .
flop from her friendly attitude to 13rit-
. . ..
ain, into the arms of the enemy, Russia,
h a s exasperated the British so much
that, as one expresses it, "Much more
and the guns will go off of their Own
accord."
In the whirl of diplomatic serif '
, e. in
:stronger
the Orient where the per ti si
, 1 e an who
wins a point for the nation he serves
findsth d ' •
on e ay follownag that a rival
statesman b • I th ' th
as segue( e ear of e
unstable Mongolian andreversed. the
move, Great Britain has just Met with
defeat in one o her pet projeots. In
' f
pursuance of the "open-door" fight a
-
struggle for the remova .
is o ibarriers to
free trade in the vast market of Chine ,
in which Great Britain has been battl-
•
mg. for Ameiectin interests, as well as
her own, an agreement was made with
the Pekin Government wli r b 't as
B e Yr' w
understood that British '' influence
should dominate the Yang -tae -Kiang
Valley, and that this vast area Should
be opened for all time to
MERCHANTS OF THE WORLD.
So important 1 • this • • t
was is concession o
British :` ,
and can commercial in,
Amen
terests that when Lord Salisbury came
. .
out publicity with the assurance that
nothing would be allowed to interfere
with the carrying oe f h c r
' ' t o t 'a ont act
that give to the British s•upremacy in
one portion of China his tormer vacii-
,
la -ling and incomprehensible policy was
overlooked and the da of un ielding
, y Y
firmness 'welcomed. It seems that this
i ' t f It ' d-
rejo meg was prema. ure, or is a
mitted by British statesmen that Rua-
• .
sia ordered China be break her agree-
rnent with Queen Vietoria's Govern-
. , •
ment, and. that, instead of refusing, in
dread of the Lion's wrath, she allowed
'
herself to be bought over body and soul
•
by the Russian bear.
T g -o back a little, in order that the
°
situation may be understood by those
-
to whom events in the Fax East are
• .
unfamiliar, the direct point at issue is
a railroad running from Tiensin north-
.
ward, and intended to reach Neweh-
•wang, a city that is built on the Lieu
Tung Peninsula, where are situated the
towns and harbors of Port Arthur and
Talienwan, -which «were leased by the
Chinese) to Russia. The capital for the
eonstruction• of this railroad was to
hays been furnished by the Hongkong
d Shanghai B k a i3ritish organize.-
an an ,
tion, and the money advanced was to
have been secured by a mortgage on
the property. '
action that has just caused so
much consternation was the refusal of
the Tsung-ll-Yarnen to 'allow this deal
to be m.ade, which refusal, it is known,
was directly prompted by the Russian
Government. The. Chinese method of
e a.gieement with the Brit-
breaking'th •
ish was toxefuse to sanction the grant-
ing of the mortgage; of course, without
its money being secured the Hongkong
and Shanghai Bank could not make the
required advance, and so ehe whole
A
plan was wrecked. •
This is not the worst. Some excuse
might age been oun • or e Russian
- ht h b f d 1 th R •
Government's successful , undoing of
plane to build a railroad . to
Newchwang, which would be a menace
to important strategic' points owned by
th
Russia, but the fact at the tailroad
is to be completed .
'UNDER RUSSIAN INFLUENCES,
.
And that the Chinese have broken an
agreement with Britain, only to make
the same a reement with Britain's
..
a '
great rival, andavowed enemy, is what.
caused. e, red-hot vea,vepeeedignation
to sweep throughthe BritishEmpire.
It is admitted. everywhere that a crisis
.
is imminent.
The only excuse that cen be found for
y . .
this last humiliation being allowed to
pass in silence, is that Queen Victoria
and not Lord. Salisbury, is responsible.
It is stated, that the aged Queen is un-
alterably opposed to hexing the closing
years of her reign darkened by a bloody
war. With the British, however, moth
tisir Queen, the em -
as theyeeeverence t e r. , _ .
pre is first, and no sentimental notions
will stand in the way of a declaretion
of. war unless in some manner, not at
present possible to foresee, the atmos-
• , •
phere in the Orient clears. , •
What would be the result of a war
•
between Russia and Great Britain ?
' This is the question that is being dis-
d h . th Q ' b• t
CUSSO w erevel e ueen s su jec s
gather. ' On the continent, where
Eranee is expected to ally herself with
• i
Russia n the fight with Britain, the
prospect of America siding with the
letter is regarded with considerable
. • ' • e ••
meesmess, It is ree ized that 'against
. . ie possible
Great Britain a1 one, wih t
alliance of japan, Russia and Fra.nee
would have their hands full. Against
a, eomlainatioe that includes the
UNITED STATES AND GREAT
BRITAIN.
The hepokeseese of a Eget, by itessie
and Frame is too convincinge
Cooler heads 'among. the British dip-
lomets feel assured that Russ'a. has no
1
intention of allowing herself to be
drawninto a conflict with Great Brit-
ain. One prominent Stateselan sums
up the situation in this way t .
"Since there is no educated middle
,:tlass whose erms can be trusted th gov-
TM hOneStlY half a province on a pitt-
,
erieer as 1,100 -White men rule neariY
'00,000,000 of people in India, it follows
. •
het, the real ieterests a Russia pulp-
ably lie in the direction of Peace, hot
tat W. So tar. as my, obeervations,
reeding and eonvereatieee enable me to
itliaedgelairtheeeir•veatexIne Ind" teieveletealdiunAenrir tliine
next 20 years than Russia herself.
Peace ibiring the next five years is not
°IllY essential to her ,Awelfare, but if
Russia were to visk e conflict with tiny
Eurepean nation; especially with F.nge
land, the strain upon her admiiaistra-
tive services would quiekly revel' to
•
an astonished Europe. the feet. of clay
now ()bemired by the sparkle and corns -
cations of 1, brillient di lomacy.
e . . . 0 r
In the far East, that is, in Am u
Primorekaga, the area on which any
war with Britain or japan would be
• , a
partially fou.ght out, there dwells
' f ti. of a million of
population o quarter,
13'"es'an subjects. Provisions for
these people, and for the convict, island
of Sag•haliee are sent all the waY froin
Odessa through ths Suez Omar The ax-
• ' '' •
pease of equipping an army with its
commissariat end transports and send-
in et by seal to the fax East is a task
to ivhieh the vaurited Russian power
would be unequal. Even if transports
were forthcoming, and the troops or
their stores ever got through the Suez
Canal and the Red See, nothing could
th f th British fleet ia
save the, or a
in fact than it is cm Paper.
. , •
All the military stores, commissariat
army from the fax East are drawn
f •
Dm MOSCOW, Flea Petersburg, Odessa
a N'k I • ff II il th Te -elle.'
an i o aie . nt a eti,ns e ,
erten Railway is finished every one of
these re -enforcements must travel by
- ' I I
sea. If the Suez Canal -were bloc oat
the Russian iiimies for the far 'East
milst pass (wound the Cape of Good
. ..
Hope, or march 1950,miles in . Eastern
. Siberia.Th RussianGovernment has
e..
no financial credit for such an entei-
prise as this. Nothing but the ignor-
anc,e of the population, which the Gov-
eminent does its utmost to maintain,
prevents the formation and expression
etA a public opinion On the subject, the
influence of which Russian Ministers
are themselves the last to deny.
-
SMOCK MARRIAGES.,
. ... ---,,,
s e le 14 n
',mini:long Lege. ugh- Makes ..o...iii
Qiiatut Discoveries.
.A, Bangor, (Maine), lawyer attending
t' th - ttr ofeir t
°our in e ancien own iscasse
went rummaging tl • the Col-
reeen y in
.
onia reeor o e p ace an
f Court ds f. th 1 d
• t h • -
In he course of is reading ran across
the official re tstration of a "smock
g
• ' ,, -
marriage. Not knowing .w -hat sort of
a enarriage that was he looked. forth-
a. • • •
er an got considerable light upon a
in Englad
t that'•prevailed. " E land a
Gael °le
century or two ago, and. also to some
extent in the American colonies f
Smock marriages were weddings
where the bride appeared dressed in a
white sheet or chemise. The reason of
suck a garb was the belief that if a
'
man married a woman who was in
debt he could be held liable for her
indebtedness if he received her with
of her property; and. also, that if
a woman married a man who was in
debt his oreditors could not take her
property to satisfy their claims if he
received nothing from her. In Eng -
land, says en. antigearian, there was
,
at least one caele whlere the bride was
clothed purls naturalibus while the 1
,
ceremony was being performed at Bir-
m13103'0132; The minister at :het re-'
fused to perform the c.,eremony, but
finding nothing In the rubric that,
would excuse him, he married th,e pair.
. To carry out the law fully, as the
people understood it, the ceremony
;should -always have been performed. as
it was in the Birmingham church. But
'modesty forbidding, various expedients
were used to accomelish the desired
Purpose and t 'd th d' ' 161
ye avoid e un cora e
features. Sometimes ths. bride stood in
a closet and. put ber, head through a
hole in the door; sometimes she stood
behind a cloth screen, .. and put her
hand out at .one side. again,she wound
.$
about her a white sheet burnished for
the purpose by the bridegroom, and
sometimes she stood in her chemise, or
smock. Eventually, in Essex County
t I t 11 immodesty' ' d
a eats , a was avoide
by the bridegroom's furnishing to the
bride all the clothes. she wore, retain -
. .
ing title to the same, in himself. This
he did in the presence of witnesses,
that he might prove the fact in case
he was sued for any debts she might
have contracted. A marriage of this
kind occurred in Bradford in 1783 tind
a •
the following is a true copy of the re -
•
of the same -
Bradford, Dec. ye 24, 1733. .
This may certifie whomsoever it may
concerne that James Bradford who was
enarried.to the widow Mary Bacon Nov.
22 last • •
past by me ye subscriber tialen'
declared that he took the said person
•
without any thing of estate 'and, that.,
Lydia the wife of Eliaier rbank. &
Mary the 'wife of Thomas Stiekney &
IVIargaret the wife of Caleb Burbank'
all of Bradford were witnesees that
the clothes she then had. on were of
his providing & bestowing upon her.
• William Belch, Minister of ye Gospel.
• It is rioted; by the same writerthat
In all cases of smock marriages that
have come to his knowled the brides
h e ge.
aye been widows.
•
It is thought that during the reign
of George in there Were .
. many smock
marriages in Maine, then a, part of
peso, u e s ay —
the province of M ch s tt B
chiefly it Lincole and.York Counties,
or in the territory which is now so
known. There is bothing to sho that
tie t• tl• Cl. . 'w
e prae ice ou we the Revolution.
In Maine, up to 1852, a husband was
liable faxdebts 01 his wite oontraotecl
before , marriage, and to smile subter-
Lou re-
f age as the spook marriage '• Id
ii eal .
ee e h . .
PEARLS OF TRUTH.
.I
One may smile an - d se and be a
ian
illain still—Shaker
v Pear •
The first indication of domestic hap-
piness is the love of one's home.—
Montlosier-
E. eas nothing as much as sin, and
your moral heroismis com 1 t C
P c /3'.--- '
Simmone.
Good humor is one of the best axti-
eles of dress one can wear in .eoCiety.
—Thackeray.
g is so an assume
Nothin ' haughtyd '
• •
ing as 'ignorance) where self-conceit
sets t e • •
f llibl --S th
up o be in a e. ou
youxse anman, an
Mlake If honest d
then you may be sure there is one
rascal less in the world. --Carlyle.
Th -
e honors we pass with happy pro-
snects in view are more pleasing than
- g ..„old-
ded I h f
those w t ruition.—G
crow
smith' '
arms -
A. houss. is never perfectly 1 • h
ed for enjoyment 'unless there is a child
• •British
t rising8 ' Id d
la 1 years o , an a kitten
of g weeess_sontiay.
• -
s one It icif the most beautiful corn-
pensations of this life that no man can
sincerely try to. help another without
helping hiraselt.—Herbert.
A men has no more right to say an
ms.n
uncivil thing than to act one; no more
right to say a rude thing to another
than to knoek him down.—Johnson.
God never accepts a. good inclination
instead of a good aetion, where that
nay, so much the
mayacon be done; y,
contrary, that, if a good inclination be
not seconded, by a good action -she want
of that action is male so much the more
criminal and inexcusable.—South,
HE KNEW.A. THING OR TWO.
A fele evenings ago a gentleinan step-
d f t • t f tis
pe from a rain a one o eLondon
stations, when a young lady skipped
t h' h
up o hi, threw er . arms, rapturous-
lv about his neck and kissed him man
i • • ' Y
tinaes, saying, " Oh, papa, I'm so glad
you have come "
- '
The old gentleman threw both arms
around, Ler and heist her firmly to his
breast. . .
'Soon she looked up into his face, and
horror stood in her eyes.
"oh; ray 1 You're not ray papa. 1" she
.
said, trying to free herself from big
embrace. . •
Yes 1 STU " insisted the old gentle-
. ' '
man holding her tightly; "you are
my loieg lost lighter and I am go-
ing to keep you. in my arms, uutil Iget
8, polienrcan." '
When the officer arrived ,he fotml
the Id gerttlemen's diamond pin in the
, 0
girl's hand. '
—
, , , ,
PART III.
When the boat which we siew aP-
prociehing the island had com.e near
enough for us to distinguish its owe-
pants, we found that it contained five
persons. Three sat it the stern, and
two . were rowing. Of those in the
stern, wie soon mede out one to be a,
woman; and, after patting our eye-
sight to its very 'best efforts, we were
&sited to admit that there was only
one :female on board.
"Now, that's disappeatine" said Mrs.
Aleshine, "for I've wondered and won-
deed which I should like best, Emily
or Lucille; and. now that only one of
them has come, of course I can't ten."
The boat came on almost directly
toward tlee passage -way in the reef,
and it was not long before the two
women had been able to decide that
Mr, Dusante was an elderly man, and
that the lady was moderately young,
and in all probability his daughter.
"It may be " said Mrs. Aleshine,
h ' h
"that t e mother, whether s e was
Emily, or sthether she wee Lucille, has
died, and. for that reason they are
comin 'back sooner than they expect-
"Weil, I hops you're wrong there,
Barb'ry Aleshine," said, Mrs. Leeks,
"for ey see ots of things here
til '11 I
that will freshen up, their affliction
and that won't make them any too
lively people to be with."
"On the other hand," said Mrs. Ale-
bine, "it may he thee Emily, or else
, as, go merrte , an as gone
7. 11 h t ' d d h
;1161 6 *th h h b d. t t 3 d
away with her us an o rave r an
y the rue s es go a, 1 e a. y s e
b time h . t lett' b b la el
Male here to live on eccount of the
saa air for thle blind; and that'll Make
the house pieasent, Arm Lecke'
"I'd like to know how long you ex-
eat to live, here," said 1VIrs,Le010,re-
Tardier; her friend with some severity,
"That's not fax me to say," replied
Ars. Aleehirele "knowin" nothire about
•te Bait this r wilt say, that I hope
• hey have brought along with them
:me indigo -blue, for I nearly used up
t,1 I therp was the het time Iivaellede
suE LovEs Ems.
The dowager empresS of China is des
voted to birds of all kinds, aed 'uniting-
erable bird pets are kept about the
palace. She is reported to have wept
copiously about the death of 'a favor-
•t • ' t .
i el nightingale no long ago /Yvan bee
leg told at a Chinese girl who had cone
11104110 bitterly of the drearinese of
life, dais exalted. lady remarked sage-
ly that a woman ought to take so much
pride in her heme that it could be a
heaven th her, adding; "There are al-
weis birds ma flowers." She is a clev-1
er artist' and delights isa painting here
.'
eateee.
lTERAAN.
:, if I should die,
. well prepared to
a the battle otilifel
nk so; fa,ther; I've
ree engagements al-
----
OISIOAL.
eica,rd Songs With..
a lot of them with-
s incident and the
4,
TO PLEASE BIRDS,
• c en, i once p n au Anna ic,
I test ixt a t t'
musical box an the lawn and spent
many /mere yeetehing the robitu,blue.
birdie and other birds gathering abreit
it. A booking -glass Put UP Where thr
birds oan gee themselves in it is aisr
very et -treaty°, while a combination of
mnsical box and a looking -glass pleasee
the lairds More th,an anything elee one
aould. put out fax their amuserneet.
IY CANADIAN
INTEiRIESTING ITEMS ABOUT OUR.
OWN COUNTRY.
F1•10.1•10.
Gttliered from. Various Points from thi•
Atientic to the Pacific.
Selkirk 148 organized a rowi
el ib,
Berlin is undergoing' a diPhtheria
se
Native sulphur has been found on,
the Kelvin'river, B. 0.
Emerson and Pembina will at once
be conneeted by telephone, ,
atireoIntsti.os sbaeidsetniatatthaiXEaDclairitmiSahliwarshiPas
now the subject of speoial regula-
South Alberta petroleum land
Canada has had no contagion's or in-
fectious disease among cattle for siX
There will be an exehange of duties,
between tbe Imperial and Canadian jar-
tillery.
The old Martin block, Rossland, has.
beoesnsu%odvhot
edouxn the site of the recent
B
The Ledge says New Denver will
have afire hall if the day of judgmen,t
keeps af long enough.
A bear surprised the citizens of FA
Saskatchewan by walking down the,
main street. It was shot.
The last mining excitement in the -
north is at Pike Creek, near Tagish
Lake, B.C. Eight thousand gold hunt-
ers.Charles Gray, of St, Thomas, was.
tax,
t
ed:05. and e2.35 costs for deelini,ng
to pay his poll tax. He had, to pay the.
Paris has a choir strike. The Metho-
drioastcihe.nrela people, out the salaries of'
the leader and organist, hence the
t ,
St. Thomas city council is dickering -
with the People's Telephone Co. and
t!reviBce.ell Telephone Co, for cheaper
E
At Moyle City, BC.., recently,
tonics ,Brino, an Italian, stoned Puer
e. fellow-countrynaaii to death and rob-
bed him of goo.
Peterboro• now sends all tramps to do
duty on a city stone pile for a month.
There is a scarcity of the species in.
the neighborhood.
A new railway up the Kootenay Val-
ley to Golden, B.C., issaid to be receive,
ing the consideration of the Great
Northern engineers.
Good tobacco is being i'rown at Okan-
ogan Missions, B.C., and the cigars-
rabinufacturea. from the leaf are said
to be of excellent flavor.
BelieviliS smalls boys tie a string
to a cent, drop it into a slot machine,
get the gum and then pull back the
cent.. The police are after. them,
Charles McKeown, a Belleville boy,
collided with another boy and bumped.
his head 'so hard on the granolithio
pavement that his recovery iseu
tiain.
Ed. Spearing, forenerly of the Duf-
feria. Rifles, is now a fu,U private e
the Third. Regiment Prince of Wales.
Dragoons, one of tha finest cavalry re-
giments in the Empire.
One of the passengers on the train.
in the recent wreck at Ingersoll as
Lieut. Wilcox, of Roosevelt's Ro6fsh
Riders, who -was on his way home to
Michigan from the war in Cuba. Ot
course he wasn't hurt. "
--- ---
CHANGES.
A curious mental experience some-
times comes to us. It is as if we
were taken up onto a high hill from
which we can survey all the surround-
ing country. No longer down on the
road along which we have been walk-
ing, we are so far above it that we see '
it in a, changed light. Things assume
new proportions, and we discern their
relative value with wonderful clear-
ness in this purer atmosphere. How
small really are some of the obstacles,
some of the barriers ivhich trouble(' us .
so long! And other landmarks,
which we have heretofore thought of
little value, we now see are of the
greatest consequence.
It may be some great sorrow or some
great shock which has put es on this
mental elevation. It may be sakara-
tion trona one we love which hae,I.en-
ed our eyes to this wonderful ineverd
seeing. Whatever was the cause, the
changed new aspect of the chances and
changes and conditions of life is some-
thingewe can never forget or ignore.
We
. but our whole
mikkgo back to the jog -trot of
everyda
point of iexistence,b
ew of life and its joys .and
sorroivs has" ehanged. Our body per-
forms its dailMunctions—the eating,
br fidno rgder. al I In Our uh arggivingai ne74:11:14t°14erka'irinntt-gil•At' g:e :gag /c) °m- mar-
rying
ditions, and with startled,opened eyes
reads the wonderful meanings written
under the daily how—sits and. reads,
and marvels at its former blindness.
NEATLY" DR D 'MEN.
There is exquisite charm about a
neatly dressed woman. She does net
wear her hair twisted up carelessly, -413
if just about to fail over her 'Amh*.ul-
ders. Her gloves are not rippe-1(df"at
the seams, nor any buttons missing
from her boots, Her veil does got re-
veal a hole over her chit, nor does the ,
binding a her skirt show ragged in
tPildeieneets NinoIlmiahnesyelv1°Itmtleen deehteawils,thbeliirt
it is a pleasure to meet the girl or
s woman,ale own al n fs tts ()hTehuieseiveiltaehtf3ohlial :gage 'sevtin:re:°
polished, her bonnet or hat is pinn
":11 there
a •tla e s ith speek nor spot
it, Her linen collar and cuffs a
snowy white and. remain properly fix
1. their plates. Her gloves do n
wrinkle, but button smoothly over b
wrists, her shoes are kept clean a
on straight and hor hair is neftth
fmnih aShas wishotlheo8orne
pietuLdr, \
eoofecrlioc
t
whatwoot tecentei rl d . come across her s