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The Brussels Post, 1907-10-3, Page 2404-0-3,04-0-e-see-t404-04-04-0-0-0-1-04-04-0-4•04-04-04.04-04:0-41:04ts I , ! 1 •: 13 11 OR, A SAD LIFB STORY Vms.**.miam......onalo•••••••••••••••.••••MOM•0•00110..amnon• iS--0+04-04 0+0+0+ 0-4-04-04-0+0;414.0.40+04.04,04.0 +0+04 j had lived In the parish for ihe requisite hale beforeliancl, nor could we be mar- ried at a registry Milo, us our names had not been mitered in. the registrinOs book for the legal time. I think I should- have broken down altogether when I heard this if 1 had not had to comfort him. , lie was so ovrawhelmed with the fear 1 that I alumni think IL was his fa-ull-lhat he had not none his best, Homo/ knows I had no such hard thought of hlml Although we ooneulted together all Mat evening, told 1111 late into the night, we could not hit upon any expedient, Ito had been told vaguely ihaHhe Smelt marriage law differed Iron the linglieh, and that hi Edinburgh we might be mar- ried at (Mee. But We had net enough money to- leksus Mem, Otte whole Mock would ouly jtial buy an ordinary license, keep us ono dny more at the hotel, and hike Us benne thircholues. What should .‘11,..-'01dceN!ottiNt\tg.o-_clhlidittnolatsetveeltlefliiiiigt?" laugh In her voice is (ho some echo of some pitying sorrow (hal had before offended him; hut his interest Is now too strung up for him to notice : "I did not once eknie iny eyes that night, and when -1 - came down next morning I had made up my mind to beg him to let me go home and ask father Leanake everything right. I had such confidence that tether could set everything right. When I came into the sitthig-room he was not there. I waited lo him, and after a while the brenkfasl was brought up; but still he did not MM. I waited on. It seemed to me odd that, at, such a crisis, when we were both so Miserable, he should be able to oversleep himself. I an afraid" -with an Invent of Mast regretful z'emOrse-"that, did think hardly of him them I looked at the Mock; I had been down an hour. I rang for the waiter, and asked him to go and tell the gentletnan this. He was so long in coining back that I lost pa- tience, and went out into the passage. I saw a litho group of people gathered rcund a door some way down it. They seemed to he whispering and speaking excitedly, and one Chainbermald was crying, In an instant I was among Mem, through them, in the. mon). IL was his bedroom. Ho was lying half on half off the bed. He had evidently not undrassed all night, tuul had taken off nothing but his coat. Before they could stop me -I believe that they humanely tried -I had caught a glimpse of his face, and had heard someone, as if at a great distance off, pronounce the word 'deed'( Then everything went away. I believe I crashed down like a log, as Mr. Byng did. When next I came to myself mammy was leaning over me. The people in the hotel had found a leb tee in my pocket, with my address, and had telegraphed for her and father. They Look me home. I do not remember anything about that, but so I was told afterwards, as. I Was also told that ha had, died of deep-seated head -disease, aggravated by his anxiety about me, I 'have never brought good -luck to any ono that had to do with me 1" CHAPTER NLIV, "liven Ile, hIgh-flown as he was, knew Ono would have thought, that Jim had that it yetis impossible that Millet' could peernit ow. inarrieee it we asked' hie ilx‘enatnik,sii"11,11,11:gi.,"01,,gs",',',3,1,..),,r(T,,t"(1,g f"ir 1,1"; censent; but What he labored to convince • e "list4 - - -"?' -- si -0 ''''er'lea'''' in - of was, that if the thing were done flesenenla of Mr. 6reetioelis converea- tIon with the Devonshire elergytuttn at clime and irrevorable, father would soon, Florence last year; by tile tweinnulated d'iling as he did 00 iiie-P3ti kli(IW 110 evidence of there being smile Might upon del Me on me, pew fatherl-he would Elizabeth's life; end, lastly and chiefly. soon megive us: and I, after awhile -oh! d by the Paving; of Ilyng. Buther t e is11woellieved_fte:1;ititieivlotili;;fidetoillist not rflohrlitile1011.1.itiviltiss something so different from all these, 00 11111211111'11,01,0 (1,,,,,c."). in hearing gete the severity of her silent judge_ this flaked etntemene from her own lips, "and 1 have alwaye all my life been ter - that it slims hint as nitteli as it kw bad rilly enelly persuaded -I gave in." never received any hint of that ruinous 1'j0away a dull cloud, rain -charged, secret in the backgrounil of her life. is settling over lint Kabyle mountains, Having now uttered it, she slope rubbing out their toothed ridge. Can either lo pick up her own spent 0.1,10 111_,olduou‘t fill Alie. end? She has not strength or to give him the oppurtunity hem sa... to won, e•e . for some question or comment. "We Were 8e011 given an opportunity. Ho makes neither. . Father and mother went away for a "1 thought -I hoped-thai you had couple of nights upon a visit, and left guessed, from whin Mr. Byng said. I us under the nominal chaperonago of a believed that when he was not hint- deaf old aunt at mother's, and of Me self—" governess, who, as 1 have told you, was Agein she breaks off, but still no sound caws frme Jim. "You understand, of course, that Mae - was what I told hhn. I wanted to tell Min the rest, but that time he could not hew' it, and the last time he-hae-elid not care to hear It." His continued muteness must daunt her, for she here makes a longer pause than before. Indeed, it is only the fear lest she should mean it for a final one that enables him to force out the two husky monosyllables: "Go on" She is always most obedient, and she now obeys. "lle came only two days after you left us, that was why the sight of you was so-so painful to us at first. It was not yeur fault, het we could not help milt- ing you up With him. You remember how we tried to avoid you -'how discour- teelle, we were? You forgave. us after- wards, but you must have observed it." The listener makes a slight motion of assent. "He was a Hungerian, and had been recommended to father by Sir—, who, as you know. is always so extraordinar- ily kind to struggling artists, end who thought highly of his talent, and wished to got him commissions. Ile was al- most starving in London; that was one great reason, I think, why father em- ployed him," Even at this moment the thought darts across Jim's mind that he has never known Elizabeth miss an opportunity of implying somo praise of that whose harshness toward herself he has so often bad an opportunity of witness- ing. "He was quite young -not more than twenty -three -and he looked very ill when he first. came; indeed, he was really half starved. It has always bean the surivet pas.sport to mammy's heart to be poor and sick and down in the world, and nothing could have been kinder than they both were fo hitn." "And well he rapald Mete kindness," says nin, Indignation at last giving Ithn \rents. She puts out her hand, as if to stop 11111). "Wait, wait r she says; almost au. therileuveled "do no1 abuse him. tie seeneel very grateful to them, and they ali-we all -became quite fond of hen. 'When he gem:: stronger, lie turned out le he very lively and light -hearted -ut- most ;le light-lieurled as we." She pauses, pulled up by 0 deep sigh, at llIe reininiscenee of that young gaiety, then Inieriee onas if afraid of 1.1s again breaking in upon her narrative with Solite scathing -i•jaollitilion. "1101flre them weeks were over -you know how eheerful and eaey-going we were -he was quite one of us -quite ae- rie' intimate tie you wore." Jim slits uneasily, galled by the. com- parison. Was a tong lime pninting My plc- ture-eineil not satisfy Itimeelf with the Melees -and began it over again say. mai times. Al fleet there wns always someone in the room with us %viten 1 eel to him, but by and by, as .11e became reeire 1111d More one Of us -as Ills pra- same among us greW lo he a noiller of e,Olirse--Wft wero allowed often to be tele -adobe" She stops to let pass two Frenchmen and a Frenchwoman of the petit boar- geois Muss who are eauniering 1)01110. 4051(8, frisked about, by two little cheer - fa( cure, and will' armfuls of hawthorn -yes; real English hawthorn -in their embram. They look fruptieitively, but not rudely, at the pale couple, and now they are out of sight, "It was a Very One autumn, as you may remember, end we ased to go out ..elcelching together, Ile was composed to give us skelebing looms -the chit - /Iron awl one. The gtherness was by way of elweys being there, but she tees O Sentimental creature, generally stray- ing amine" hy herself with e poeLey-boos, and wo were virtually alone," 3101 ciero how ineeitasingly, bow hoe - /11.1y difficult of relation Is the Into as it mare ilo calaslrephe; but he Is (Mlle In- opuhic of helping her. "We fell in love with one another" - almost, brusquely ---"and he nsked Me 1.0 marry him. What did his miserable poverty _Miter to us? He town' almost aa Mlle of the practical blialtieSS or life no I, and ha Was hill 411 (101(1 and ambi- tion. Ile 'was convieed Ilia ha hed a. flebree before him, Perfume ho had, ''etatie knows?" 'There is intend with the herry end ,shernie enel enmesh of her 10111 such an eleMent of almost -regretful compaseion OS she pronounces Mese last words, that lenTotte wrath 0403t000. Does gee, then, dote him still? In her heart for hoW tunny is there lodging at /meet For Ilyrig? For this wilenewn Fier how many Mere 7 ' • . worse titan uselese. You know Mot OW railway -station was not more than a mile from the lodge gales; we had, there- fore, no difficulty in slipping away from the others while we were all out. walk - i1)1), making our way there, and getting into the little branch -like line train which caught the London express at Exeter." She has repeatedly put up het. hand- kerchief and passed it over her brow, hut a is useless. The cold sweat breaks out afreslm and afresh. "That journey! I did not know that it was the end of my life. We both set 011 laughing and saying to each other what a good joke It was. That was at the beginning, but long and long before we reaehed London -it was not till very late that we did so -I would have given all the woied to go back. I did not tell him so because I thought it would 11001 him, but I have often thought since that perhaps he was feeling the same." Again that touch of ahlieSt, lender ruth hee voice makes her auditor writhe. "We went to an hotel. I think it mist have been in some very out-of-the-way part of the town, probably the only one he knew of, and al 110e1 they would not take us in because we had 110 luggage; but they consented at last. I heard him telling the landlady that I was his sister. I suppose she did not believe 11 as she looked very oddly at Tim. I did not understand WhY she should; but IL made nue feel very wretched -so wretched that 1 could scarcely swallow a mouthful of tee supper he ordered. I do not Mink that he had much more appetite than 1; but we tried very hard to laugh and keep up each other's spirits. They gave me a very dismal bedroom -I oan see it now" -shuddering -"and as I had no change of clothes I lay all night outside my bed. It look a great deal to keep me awake in those days'and, wretched as I was, I slept a good deal. The eittel nornMg I awoke, feeling more cheerful. We shouhl be married in the forenoon, return home in the afternoon, to spring our surprise upon the children and leraulain, arid be ready to receive and be pardoned by father anti mother on their return toonorrow. It hed not oc- curred to either of us that there would be the slightest difficulty in pursuing this emcee, We had decided upon at once inquiring the name and address of tho clergyman in whose parish the hotel was -going together to ask for an inter- view, and beg bine to marry us at once. We had a vague idea that a license might be needed, but relied upon the clergyman also to inform us where that. might 101 got. In one respect our plans had to be at onee modified. When I carne down I found that there wns such a dense fog that he would not bear of my venturing out into it, particularly. lie said, as my staying behind would entail no delay; since, when he had obteined the license• and engaged the clergyman, he evotild, of course, at once collie back lo fetch me to elution. I gave in, though I had rether have gone NAM him and fought my way through the fog ancl stayed behind, R10110 in that dewy sit- ting -room, I was there nearly all day hy myself until late in the afternoon. The fog woe so thick that I could not see O finger's length beyond the window, 11.01' eVell acmes the room, 1 (Id neither took nor work. I had nothing to do hut welle up and down by the flickering light of the bad gas, whieli was Miming all day, and look at a wretched little cad aucuha In a pot. Sometimes I went out al the landing to see if there were any signs of his return, 1 had done this for [he fiftieth lime, when at lost I saw him through the gas and the fog, com- ing Up Mu staircase. I could not wait 1111 he had reached me, but cancel out over the bannisters, 'Welt? wen!' ens only answer was a sort of sign lo me to ga back into Om room; but 1 ffid not understand it at MM. Not until 3 saw coming up tho stairs lam a little behind him, the faee of-eif-that clergyman you sow at Cerfo.sa-our clergymen whom we used to mak0 fun of. Oh, why did we?" She breaks off, With a low moan, but at once resumes as if she could not trust herself to pause 1 "As soon as I caught sight of him I rim been; but it WaS too tele. 1 knew. Ilea be had recogebael me, I do not, lo this day, understand how 113 canIc to be 111 that oithebthe-way place; whether it wee a mose unfortunate coineidence, or whether he bad seen 'us in tho train or al Paddington, and tracked ue there, I ran book, nit I have said, into Go room; but ! did not many mind nutch his having seen ine; it, would an he eeplainect so soon, and 1 was to 11111011 taken tip with the biller disappointment In slore foe me to give ltim more than a pneeing thought. Of course, yoit W111 unclerale»d Met 11eviee 1101, in the power of any clergyman to marry ue, as neither 01 us She Is crying quietly now. Is it her tale or her tears that have softened Jinfs heart? Ho no longer grudges her that tribute to the lover of her youth, "For the first few days after I came home I (11) 01101 feel anything at all, and 1 saw nobody but mammy. At the end of a week slie came to me. and told me that I must pull myeelf together, for that my father wished me to go with hint lo an agricultural meeting at Exe- ter, whieh we were always in the habit of attending. She said that there were reports ahout me in the county, which nothing but my appearing In public would contradict. She said •she knew how hard it Was for me, but that she Mow, too, t•hal, I nmuld hy to make the effort for their sakes. For their sakes I" -in a heart -wrung roicte-"was not IL Ili e least I could do, Inc their sakes? I got up; my legs felt as if they did not belong to me. She dressed me herself- daeling inammyt-and she tted on my veil, end -put somo rouge on my cheeks! Think ef mammy rouging any- one! Tf you remember, We had some charades while you were with us, and bed beught some rouge for them. And then she took me down to father, and we wenl-ho and I." Her breath. has grown shorter, and her narrative more disjointed; but she per- severes, Is not she neor the end 7 "Wo tvent-and we welked about among the shorthorns -and the prize peultry-and the tents -father and 1 - and we met a great minty people whom NV: knew-tho whole county 1,0110 there - but we were too late, Our rector had been before us with lhein-and not one of them would spent; to me! And then 1,1'.1 Went. home, OIL poor father!" She hae covered her face Nvith 1101, transparent hands. The emotion that she would not permit herself for herself bee mastered ber at the ree•olleclion of thai tether's abasement end none,. "Ile wee quite right -it was quite natural that. he should not allow me to live at home, alley that. Ife said 31111.181 not, blight the children's lives -must not stand in the light of the others. So I Was Sent away lo live with 501110 old friends of mainmy's-two kind olcl ladies -with whom she had been 111 sehool ; and they weee very good M Me, and I lived with them until, as efiriam and Base were maaried, father thought I could not do anyone tiny more harm, and he let me come home again. There! Mei is all!" She stops, her lele endeca sighing with the inexpressible relief of that Wind load. Speech from hire now would be tat interruption -would be kindly, ra- ther, and weloome. Yet lee still Stares blenkly before him, Wby has she told 1)1111that painful tale? Is 11 that ho may carry a more lenient- judgment of her through the tosl, 01 1)15 life -that life to be finally severed from hers? Or is It Nvtth mune hope'llint Mat fold Into may keep him forever beside her? Sho does not love him, She loves Byng. But, as lit lies oiten told himself, elle la nee cif the sluff of which great entistanciee are made, And, since ilyng hns forsaleen her, whom has this pliant menture, 11)01 nature mule eo clinging find etircum- stances' so lonely, left to throw her ten- drils round except, him? Sho does not love 11140, and yet In the depth of his 1)0811 (111 knows Mae if he wished ft, lie email make her love 111111. Shell he wieh 11? Shall lie May • shot to have those empesite eyes, end yet laughingwatelting for hie tightest wish; thal tripping step Iteer,lng lime 10 Ins up Me 11111e tind through the Nalleys nf nee that delicate sympathy, soaring will; his highest thonghts, roul yeh playing 011111 his lightest fancies? Shall he? lilleehalli is looking down upon the asphodels, stooping to steoke, as if 11 went a sentient thing, a greet PllinlY plant, like a eort of glorified fennel, out of whose Denim breast u puissant sheath rises, noel which en unfamiliar (1000' Is p"8111"g. WWII a fascination theca is .11 IIIIS alien Vegel111101), 111 Whia every shut calyx holds a delightful se• 411 shall he? For himself, lie believes her story implicitly, feeling, indeed, with 11 shirk of mixed surpriee and remorse, whet a past want, of faith in her is evi- denced by his 1/n31)mb:tilde l'elief at Ifs being no Worse a one, 13til who else will believe It? And the 111000 penciled- legly Sweet, the more poignantly dear she is to 111111, I he' sharper to him will be the agony of the eye averted Iran) her, the suspicious whisper, or the con- temptuous smile. Is hie Mate stout enough, is his courage high enough, lo support and uphold her through her lile's long contumely? Dares he under- take Mat hard task? DUOS he? Elizabeth Is never one apt to fake of- fence, or she might resent his delay in making Any observant», on her ended story. Probably slie divines Mal what- ever may be the cause of his slowness, 1.1. is ceetainly not want of emotion. AL length his tardy speech makes 11- 8et1 heard. "I do 110( 141)011 how -I have not ll'OrelS Strong enough with which to thank you 14 telling ne." "I <IV not want my friend to go away thinleing more hardly of me than he need," she answers with a poor, small smile. This is one of the bitterest CllpS 10 which her lips have ever been set in the collese of her sad Instory. His next sentence is utmost inaudible. "I could not well think much better of you than I have done all along." Ile knows, without seeing -it, that Irr trembling band makes a half -motion to go 011 to him at those kind -sounding words. but it is drawn back again be- fore the netton lias passed muoll beyond tlie stage of a project. The wind has fallen. With how al- most disagreeable a istrength does the sharp and pungent smell of the Minima- erable asphodels assail the nostril. The light grows lower. Dares he? Has lie the steady selfless valor that will be needed to fight through many years by lhe side of this forlorn creature against an enemy uglier -and, ohl how much mare potent! -than any of the fierce for- est creatures in contest with which he has so often lighuy perilled his life? Dares he? Ile lias never been lacking in self -reliance -been, perhaps, too little apt to blanch at the obstacles strewn in his life -path. Is he going to bleneil nOW 7 Whether it be to his credit or his Shaine, the answer does not come all ae once. Dues he? The response comes at last-somes slowly, comes solemnly, yet comes certainly ; eyesdi Ile cum never again laugh at )3yng for hte tears, for he is undoubtedly crying himself now. "Elizabeth! Elizabethr-he cennot get further than that al, first -"you --you are the worst -used woman in the world 1 and I -I hove not the least desire to see the &curial 1" (The En(1). THEY WORSHIP THE SUN PECULIAR RITES OF SOUTH AMERI- CAN INDIANS. Women are Notet)ilrliow:ed to See Wea- pons used 10 Drive Off sits It is not generally lenown that while the Mid typo of American Indian has almost paesed from Me North. American continent, there still exist , in South America tribes of savages not as al - ennead la leivillzation es those which met, ColuMbus whon he landed on Am- erican soil. The ibarbnrous 'tribes are supposed now -a -clays to Othablt Africa, and the 0111 Erast, NV. 0. Cook partly in the interest of tho Bureau of American Ethnology, has =Me a recent, trip to certain por- tions of South America, where he einno in contact with Mese South American Indians, and be tells of 1.he strange 14op1e it a 111011 111100(51(111) way. With elte Cook was Senhor Antonio Cattalo de Carvalho, a noted Brazil- ian enterer. These two coelected many mate° implements, ornaments, and olher objects, which are in the National Museum hero, EXPERT HEAD DRESSING. "The long, straight, sparse black hair et both males and females hangs in a tringled mass about their shoulclens, ex - cent above the forehead, whero it 1.5 kept chopped off to form bangs, Nearly the single young plaster these baegs with a sort of red gully made from the small yellowtsh-red fruit of the 1301'4 palm and fish oil, and tho same paste is used bo paint the entire body. Boys and girle who are esteemed by Melt parents olso halm the foretop erranged in this way, and a few at the Meter W11.3 are regarded with special Oyler have 11 3)1)1110(1 With a layer of beauti- ful recl feathers from head to loot, with a brinier'', plume in their hair, ell young nion and boys wear suspended from a bole in the lip, bored during LtlfeneY, a kind of ebaln nogo- clan, about six inches king, made of tint oval-shaped bits +of shell, Women - Ming in D. red leather. Tho older men halm e plug in this hole, for if left, Open et elitism diffloulty in drink- ing," "The village itself, ilecorcling to Mr. Cook, Is jast as etrango, lie soya: "There Wore thirLy huts in the vil- lage that encircled in a very Irregular way, liming in every (lineation, 5 very Mtge hut that stood In Um tonere mut Was celled baebylu. Bao (by) is the neme 10 (110 ordinary family hut. This tbachylit is the bachelors' the bead - mumbles af alt the unmatried mon, the workshop whore the men make semitone •and ornaments and 108(021. 1(111.0, ithe dining -room, the town MID; Where most public lemetlo»s occue, and toe ChM 'when visitors ere reeeived and eittertained, The butterfat is entered Ilwough nn opening at saeh eint,llko a 11010 111 haystaCk, and within Is eh \rays clamp, gloomy, and rout 8(11(511. (11(0. LIVE IN FILTHY HUTS. 'The faintly huts 211T mostly like a reef resting on the mound and oblong ly resemble un buystaele .wblh. hole eaten 10 each end, though moil satnally the lull is raised 0 111110 and 4000011 paint branch tongues form a baeleellike wall. Drop gloom reigne within these hula. Teey are Made (1111.4 11'111..CL4 1 (ILCIIICLY 01111153:1111irtislilletamd11111111tliTes51111110111(1 to the meof are botvs and bundles of airows, war clubs, (telling gear, and fitsiettmonts and ornaments 3101, In Use at the illeille111, "1(1.11 Oeellptints of this human late are eipettethel on a palm lent rug, with 1. leg of wood four inches in diameter for pfleine and sleeping or gnawing an me of corn, a bit of (Oh or vegetable, or itting tailor fuellion making heads, arrows, or other objects, or kneeling hy the little fire, preparing food. When 1110 111th becomes unbearable, or diSetisft 15 prevalent, they do not Double to clean house, but eimply abandon end born the old and build ft new one 011 Fl Mean epot. Motility the entire vil. Inge moves be a 11040 place some dis- tance away. WORSHIPS THE SUN. "The Damen considers the sun as the fountain bead of mejesly and :power, and even, of boneficenee, 111111 fin the abode of tho mat priests who have pnesed to the spirit world end tem him. Dope means spiel'. or clisemhodied seul, but they Seein te have no Idea ief a good spirit. '('ho bope, who are evil Write, most theretnre 110( 111 offended, although they roust be delveaway, To drive the spirits oft they use a bull marer, a peculiar Instrument made of a slab of wood about half an inch thick, shairped semen -this like a fish, and of varying size, tong by o long cord from the end Of a slick Rico a fishing rod, and iswung round and mind theough lete air. As it swings and rapidly re - valves it sends forth sounds to a sur- ptieing distance, intoned from a sepul- elral moan 10 un unearthly shriek, elm wall rising and descending the scale according to th* rapidity of the swing or the size of 'the histrament. '10 hear several of these manes 11 once certainly produces most u•nusual sensations, particularly when operated as we heard them, during a tropical storm amid the play of lightning, the crash and 0001 of thunder, the falling floods and dismal gloom. "No female ts allowed to see this in- strumene under pain cif death. New ones are made as occasion demands, and they art burned immediately after their need has passed. We• entered the buchylet 88 Some a those tourers were being mode for the funeral prelude, Tnere twao a deep silence, and the word hope was whispered low and mysteriously. Certain warning calls are given some hours in advance of the time for bringing the memos into use, end, hearing these warnings, the females oilier their buts, elose the open - 1111)5, and hide their heaths. The roar- .ets are manipuleted outside Me village up and down through the hush. We bad difficulty in securing exurnples of these instruments. They were brought to us at night, securely wrapped and amid greatest secrecy, every precau- tion being taken to make sum (hat we 'would keep them where there would be no possibility of et female seeing them:" BOY'S SPLENDID DONOR. Paris Gamin ICept Promise, Came Back lo Death. The street boy of Pads has, deep down in his heael, a sentiment of honor. IL slumbers heavily enough, so that only great, emotion can arouse 11, but, it Is nevertheless there. We have an admit': able example of it in an incident that occurred during the siege of Paris, when this Parisians were being shot down like grime by the enemy. Among the victims who were about to present theinseives one day as a living wall against, this pieraing shower of -shot there was a boy who deted out from the ranks of the ecndemned and dared to speak to his executioners. What was it, ne Wanted se near tlie moment of death? Some- thing for himself? In his possession -his sole belonging, in fact -there was a big silver watch. He wished to take 11 back to his grand- mother. who lived at the other eild of Paris, and leave it with her as a token before the long parting. He had 310 parents. This WaS Ina only request, and it. startled the officer out of Ms habitual bru y. "How long will you be goner he asked, "An hour." The onleer meditated. "You give your word of honor to re- turn?" "I swear." "Then go." An hour later the boy -and lle was "only a gamin"-cania back and met, his death. When It dentiat hunts trouble be goes armed to the teeth, M a school examination the in - WOW WEIS so pleaoed with the class under test that he said they could ask tiny question they liked. Some were asked and replied to. Seeing one 111118 fellow In deep thought, the inspector asked bim to put a mete -loin. "P -please, sire' said the boy gravely, "If you was in it 5101 mud -heap 'up yOlir neck end I was to throw a brick at your head, would you dueler ION TR FRI PliSMATI11.111, II17:11131.:MENT Ofe CI IA iSt ONS... It Is a popt1140 though thoroughly groundless bolter thin defeat in (1)0 0111)40 ri»g meens diegraie. end lessening or value. NO 1.0110A111 evor been ad. 01111101 for the eeletence of 11.10 falln• clous tenet, but that it dee; enjoy. n Voglie .10 one Call deny, Winning e nest 111.(7,0 or ebtimplonStliji 111 keen ectilele11" lion at sons grant show does inveel- no animal lege net 011110r 01 01010py 10 tin extent wfilek will outline, ownia. ID sell hint fin' more (toilers than ff lie hall lost, but the purehaser le w111111g pay ille added stink 'not beenitsu the 11111- m0l Is boiler individually for his vie- eiry, but because Mere le good adver- tieing il. Those of his -defeated cont. patty can rotifer 00 deterioration of value on or0011111, of thole defeat. Thnt one is better than they doce not make Mein 0001,50. This Idea 111111 defeat. mane Jrasening of Valtle 11110 indtated many owners 10 Pis - 1111.4 their Chan-1140ns ;011g 1401.011' their Ila. 1118 only bungle, perhaps, to Mt sire to WialdrilW a eliampien Pole the showynrd undefeated, but it is doubtful it Mem ever wits wisdom in withdraw- ing Inin so ltmg as he minimal the full [lush of his prime. l'here luny he some application of the pileber and the well sMry in the showytttel, hut it Is 1)111 1,0(1011 O great, °hempen], gets beaten by ci greater. 11 ls When the Owner eXhilnis Inti champion when the leaf of Inc greet- ness has begun to lake on the sere and yellow lingo indicative of decay. No one will advocate showing a greet, animal niter it has Irwin to decline. The .p11. 0110 will surely get broken at the well in such a case, though the damage will not consist in the lessening of value by defeat, but in the exhibition of lessened greatness ancl Ille arousing of suspicion that the animal never was ae good ae he seemed to be in former days whoa he carried all Moo tum. Many a good horse has been held out of a race which he could have wOn and many a good animal out of the show - yard where he might have achieved a notable triumph, under the mistaken notion that clefeal lessens value. A showman should be able to judge et - ornately when the time comes that his champion begins to go back. Unlit such time have not the breed, the breeders and the public some claims upon him lo stow his best? No one will for a mo- ment deny that it is the inalienable peer - ()Settee of every ono to do es be sees fit with that which belongs to him, but foe ail that there are some obligations im- posed which are not coutained io the deetsa nii°gtlet lunalterable natural lew [hal things MISp1105, but not that they must puss and leave no sign. The greater (be measure 01 1(10 elfin carved in the show - yard ehe greater the arnount of good on enlinal has done. Men 1111Ve SilOWn their champions successfully to the end ; Mere have at last seen them, me [it as ever they were, go down to defeat be - fere younger end fresher rivals. In :melt a defeat cLisgowe never inhered. The inmeriel purple makes a g1001011S sliroud.-13reeders' Gazette, DUAL PURPOSE: COWS. Joseph Ie. Wing bas been telling us in the Breeders' Cinzetle Mnt he eon, settle wondeefut duni-purpose Short- horns in England this SUMMer, end Mem is a multitude of them on English farms, ems Mr. Alva Agoo. John F. Cemningliam tolls utt ite the Ohio Farmer that he recently saiv are mincing Short- horns at the home of Charley 1101111100, in Muskingum comity, 0., and the farms lying ett.Slward from Clumillersville have grand clual-puepose herds, I briOW Hint lids Is bus, ;mil yeL our specialists te dairying canna find or belieto in the existence of an animal that 01111 priA 11 CO both a calf ancl (11131) 1015 thal calf. They have the two things disassocioted in 11111r ninds as is orthodox in an expert deleymen located in n section needing no calves for grazing and. feeding. 11 is specielizetion run riot. 13 the specialist haa a breed of owe that cen make tn•eve 111111( or butter than some other breed Mat puts some value into ralves for grazing, it is all 111)111 10 believe in 11101 breed for himself, but he should mimed Um huger elites of live stock Menem who wont both milk and grazing calves and rejoice that they have COWS that pay them better than the specialist's eow.s weuld pay them. The Jersey, good as sbe is tor the specialist in butler produc- tion, has done tt lot 03 111(1111 on the graz- ing farms of the Ohio Valley. The tettly dual-purpose cow peys her owner in milk alit( bullet' and pays [main le. lier call that 'makes a. good grezee and feeder. There is room in this country for the puee dairy type, 1110 pure beef type and the splendid animal that meets the needs of a great multitude of farmers whose location and surroundlogs de- mand an nnlmal that has 1101 (10011 ren- dered worthless either for milk produc- Son or beef produCtion, but Mat is a first-class farmer's first-class cow. A matt can do no wrong -atter the undertaker gets him. • "Otto 05 a man who sings at hls evorlc," says Carlyle. Yes, deliver him into our bonds and welt gledly do the rest. 4)90042,042,4440,:, 41, 6.000 4,,001)6,1),,,, eNte0 0 , The effect of S'coti*.s Erntitsion on thin, , 6 pale children is magical. 0 It makes them plump, rosy, active, happy. CO , It contains Cud Liver Oil, Hypophosphites „R., and Glycerine, to make fat, blood and bone, ;427, and so put together that it is easily digested 4 \ ;11; by little folk. tC4 ALL DROODISTS; 50o. AND 04.0044.0.00430 00044-0 0 el":"" _ HEALTH '47.9 tti4ti]f4I>*44,*42444$44.01t.441%.4 PitEcomus c1111,1MktN. All them' entrueted with the care of the young me faced by a grave problem in ale enSe lif Citadel. n 40i10 111110111 ier Tile 5.110111g 141 iniallhily of normal child, who passes naturally ham singe to stage of its development, compinedively easy matter. The iNuidc is largely Ilia the natur41 of pre70cil3' As 114/1 NOSI. (1111- 01.1.14, for example, hall the signs of it with delight, and do 1111 they can to tomer them, They tree1 precocity as it gold -mine, to be 'worked for an 11 is weigh," but ham they tnnke 0 great 11110111e1g, '11aro several types of precocious eltildrem preeenling varying degrees . peril to the training system, and thie peril Is greatly leeeenett by a etioneity to clatisify • the types, There eve 001. 1(1111 children, born of healthy mut let - filtration stock, with fine physiques, They inherit nsually very acne° nerve - contrite, which imply, uniong other [hinge, qulek and eimer brain process.. tee Theee childrin ere11,11 lcd 401111 Na- nce es the legitimate neweeing or their heredity, and then till concerned, in- cluding, of course, the poor ehild stele hasten. to W.11.14 1111000 Wail 11111 Mir mospeet by 41 cruel and shortsighted eyestem of foming, These -children, being nlliurally strong and well, enn Isar an enorm- ous amount of the system without breaking down, but .titey donot make the men and women they would have made under wise restraint. They ehould be kept much whit, other Cbilthon, minced Mlle be' theer elders, interested in. .physteni. leursuits, andi molded into symmetry by a peralatani holding back. Them may ita1 be much wrong with the child who reads the Greek Testa - mord at four yeurs of ego, but thero is certeinly something wrong with Me purents who let, hen. There is 0110010r very different typo of precocious childran. These are lho offspring often of gouty or -tuberculo- els paremes, and inlievit, 11 not actual, disease, al least faulty physiques. They terc often beautiful,. engnging eltildeen ot grain mental brilliance. They often have phenomenal memories which are developed el the expense of ell other eneotiti faculties, They are oolphysi- cally strong enough for any susteined *Mut, and niter a brilliant childhood they exhaust themselves and become -commonplace. 'These children should be med.e to haft physteni 'eves, every effort being derected to form a good 00115111111km. A. country life is almost a necessity ill [Mir case, and the menta1 develomuent sbould be made as gradual as possible. Deopsy is mil a disease in itself, but is a symptom asseCiated Wttli it 11111e- 1.01 of differ..11 1 &senses, ebielly of the heart aud kidneys. It consists in the effusion of a watery fluid eililer Um mese tissues lying beneath the skin, into the cavities of the 130d3., into the (Leiter parts and tiesues of the 0 1, g1111 S. The lerm etlenue is epplled to a drdpsy ol the deeper parte of the leely as well as to that elf the tissues just under Um elcin. The effueton of feed into 1110 alstommul Levity fs 411(1 id as- cites. late fluid of dropsy is usually clear and of a pole embee color, ellhough it may be eloudy or even 311111ey, or it illay have a reddialt Unt. The swelling 11 edema can be distinguished fiom Wet. ling due to other causes hy the fact Mut 11 the finger is pressed flemly on the skin for a moment 0 degreeelon. er pit, wilt be C11111011, Which will re- main for e thee tater the finger is teleen away. Dropsy begins in the depetulent parts of the body, the feet tuid ankles 11 the per, on is out of heti, eaher YiltIng in 11 chair or walking afoul. Thls etvelling at first disappears during the night, while the patient is in bed, but returns again toward evening of the following day. Finally 11. increases so in emount that it persists thiembli the night, un- affected by the retemeal of the pun ot geavity. Dropsy may be clue to 11 number c I couses; 11 usually is nseoelaled with nth viineed elesectee of the heart or kidiews, but it may also occue when the blood Is watery 00 when 11 ronlidlis 1111(10 11015011011s. 11111ePhil Which urreels 11)0 lining of the minute nrteries, turd per- mits 0 leakage of fluid. There are various local forme 0.1 0101011 which nuty be very oerinue, euee es edema of the terms or of the lunge ni" of the brain, but In general ale con- dition is one which does not in itself odd malerinny to the clungee of the Ms- oase in wleich II occurs us it symptom. When the amount of Mild is very great an effort rimy be ninde lo reduce It by Mereasing Ihe excretion of fluid by the skin, kidneys, soe bowels; or in eases of extreme ticcumuintion in the oLdontinal cavity a fine tube is snine, times passed theough. Ihe • wall uf the mildly and Ihe fluid Mewed lo drain away.-Youllis Companion, LIFE'S ELIXIR. A latish is jest Me. eunshine, • TI, freshens all the cley ; IL (Me the peak of life with 14413 And delete the clouds awes', The soul glows glad then hems 1.4 And feels Its courage strong -- A %up is just like, sunshine For cheering follee along. A laugh is just like. nutsie, It lingers in ilia Newt, And Where its melody is heard The ills of life duple ; • And happy thoughts come erowcling Its joyful notes to greet - A laugh is just like MUSIC. For making 1101ria sweot Thera ate times when every ernall 13030, woniers what parants aro good for, ele ,