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The Brussels Post, 1901-9-19, Page 7ij 4. R,PM R4i1Egn4 t:14l,i:i',4.i,01#(a) 07WAgt}I OW4PRI i, ,ORA f:4;iW7i °Tr xl eWitch i . Of ,4 ilia :+Q1pS'Ca11,7 t9 0 i4; :fry. , ;®k 4. 41,4.4^ t 4 . - ,M•� 1;4!��'fi®,,,@is;4,0iO CHAPTER V, Tile Seventeenth •ale i' di' c 110 a.a 11 10 aurae and with it Lady Va'ey's ball, It was already so far advanced as to enable ono to declare it a succuss. There was a superabundance of flow- ers, excellent music, and a floor be= yowl praise. Where wove almost as niftily, men as there were women,, which in the country moans every- thing, being a rare occurrence. Mrs. Dunclas arrived late. She al ways arrived Mtn as a rule, perhaps thinking it a pity to waste licr entry on an empty room, u'i Bhp was gen eialIy tho best dressed, and quite as go/levelly tbo loveliest woman where - ever she went. Having taken this fact to heart ev;11y In life, she mould- ed her plans to emit her Icaiowledge. To -night, being a stranger, she would have been sure of much atten- tion had she boon plain and dowdily attired; as it was, elle created a per- fect fueoro, And, indeed, she was well worth a lengthened exon:llhetlon, Tier, gown was white satin, h,a• ornaments dia- monde; but one hardly noticed all this, as her faeo caught the eye. She looked superb, sparkling, brilliant. There was a touch of expectancy, too that heightened her animation. As she let her plush cloak drop from her into the arms of the at- tendant in the dressing -room, and as • ler' whole exquisite figure betrayed itself to her in an opposite mirror, she smiled to herself complacently, and her blood ran quicker through her veins, and her eyes grew brighter With the sense of 'conning and sure triumph. It was in one of the 'dainty rooms off the ball -room that she stood, a little later on, looking round her. She was listening with parted lips that smiled enchantingly, to the n'1un beside her; but her glance was stray- ing delicately here and there from ane form to another. At last it rested. If she started, it was so slightly' that her companion know nothing of it. The pupils of her• eyes enlarged, ' and though she still spoke to and smiled at him beside her, her glance did not again wander. It was fixed on a corner of the room in which she stood, where a man of about thirty, distinguished, if rather dissi- pated in appearance was loaning against the wall conversing with a fair-haired woman sitting on a lounge below him. She was a very ordinary woman, an every -day person—a nobody, in fact, as ICI's. Dundas decided after the first cursory glance; but he She bent her large, full gaze upon his bowed face, and waited:- Perhaps there was some magic in the concen- tration of her regard, because atter a Little while he grew restless, ab- sent, troubled, as it were, and, at last lifted his head and stared im- patiently around him. fie appeared to Mrs. Dundas bored, weary, dis- satisfied, and this belief did her good; it added now fuel to the life within her. His eyes travelled slowly, as if against his will, up the room and down again, ever nearer and nearer to where Donna stood in all the in- solence of a beauty that could not. be surpassed; nearer, nearer still, as though the magnetic fire in her eyes was compelling him to seek her. - At last he saw her. .She was still smiling, with her beautiful llettd thrown a little backward. She no- ticed the quick indrawing of the breath, the jailor that overspread his, features upon his recognition of her, and—she noticed, too, how ho withdrew his gaze, and bent it with redoubled eagerness upon the woman near him. She saw all, and laughed to herself, and watched again pa- tiently for what she know would 00110. A sense of amusement stirred her, as site noted his evident deter- mination to escape her, his resolve not to look again. A soft color began to burn in her cheeks, her fingers tightened on her fan, she threw all her will in the steady look she directed towards him. The battle had begun, and she. would bo victor. As she watched sho could see that bo grow oven more assiduous in his attentions to his companion; be throw all his onergy into his conversation, lie said some- thing to her, and laughed aloud as he said it. Ile seemed very near victory, when all at once he gave in, looked. straight at donna. Mrs. Dundas drew her breath quick- ly, and her teeth carte down sharply on her stili smiling lips. The smile died, indeed, and she scanted on the very i dint of giving way to some emotion when she conquered herself by a supreme effort, and forced her- self to return his gum. She leaned a little forwards, and made a faint movement with her fan. I10 came to her. Ile was beside her now, and lien' partner of a moment slime having somehow faded away, they were vir- tually alone. Throe ,years floated from them as though they had never been, and Venice, and moonlight, and a love that then had appeared endless, and 000n now seemed strong as death (at least to him), Was all that was left them. She was the first to recover 'her- self. "So you did cone back," she said mockingly, yet with a latent tenderness. Iler lips took a half- scornful curve, 11e knew then that she had road his dopes Imre on her arrival, Iris hesitation about return- ing for this dance where he knew ha should see, her, leis final craving to see her that drove tom homeward, all aright. Something reckless with- in slim that was always there, made ]line rejoice in that she knew, for the 1110111011t; later 011, whan her presence was withdrawn from hint, Ito felt a servo of .shame, Just now he `had no thought for anything but those old days in which she had reigned queen. ITo was slow- 01' to emancipate himself front such Rae d1 yeul',protestation,•".olio said, " 1t ROMs to 1110 that you have 'f0 '- 1 h cause they clung to slim with t greaterporsistoncy,, ("You are changed," he said at last. She shoots her head. "It is only that you have forgot- toil," she 'Saud, knowing well that forgetfulness hac! 1101 beim with him. She had never removed her eyes from phis since that first time when she saw him leaning against the:l pall,. 0111 11010 the swift, warm blood rush- ed into her cheeks and lit her eyes mid made her beautiful, Varley seemed to find a,.clink:01ty in relnov ing his gaze from her ,face, "Forgetfulness is what you should wish in me; it Is not what you 'call accuse mo of," he said, in a low tone.' Ile spoke strangely; it was evident that 11e was battling with some powerful emotion; His dark eyes burned into hers. Ile had forgotten that there were people in the room, and that ho was still holding her ]land. She, who never forgot, re- membered this, and noted his agita- tion, and, lifting her mead, laughed softly. She moved her hand with a tremulous coquetry within his, as though to remind him of it "Would you 11011 mo thus forever?" she asked. The words wore simple, the tong full of meaning, Varley caught it, as she intended he should, and sono fire shot into tho dull despair of his eyes. She checked it as it was born. "L'orgotful you are, indeed, in gotten that there is anyone in the world beyond you and ane." She in- dicated by a swift glance from under her long ]ashes the other occupants of the room, one or two of whom were regarding them curiously. "Yes, I had forgotten," said Var- ley, ITo dropped her hand. It is very warm. here; is there no cooler place? This is your house, yet you must remember I am a stranger in it," said Donna. Her beautiful bosom rose and fell with a quick sigh. "Come," returned Varley, unstead- ily. She went with him out of that room, across a minor hall, and into a dimly-lit fernery. ..beyond. The drip, drip, of water fell pleasantly upon the ear, and the tender notes of the music, coming to thele from the distant ball -room, sounded sad, re- nibte and plaintive. - Donna sank upon a cusmioned lodngo, but Varley remain- ed standing. Tho faint light from the colored lamps shone like drops of blood upon her satin gown, and threw many glittering rays into the diamond stars that lit her rich red hair. "There was a reproach in that last speech of yours," ]1e said presently, standing over her, "A stranger in 111y house! That is true; but by whose fault?" "Was it mine?" said she. "would it be wisdom to dcny'it? After ail, was I not always in fault? And yet—" She paused, then looked full at hint: "ln.what hot haste you were to wed!" "I hope you and Lady Varley will be friends," returned he in a studi- ously careful tone, w711c11 was, how- ever, thrown away upon her. "Don't be a hypocrite," she said, calmly, but shortly. At this moment Lady Varley ap- peared at the entrance to the fernery came in, and passed through it to a. door at the other enc]. In passing she looked at Mrs. Dundas, smiled graciously and inclined her (head Donna, who had followed her move - 010111,0 in silence, turned to Varley as the door closed on her. "You see, old adages come true," she said: "Talk of nn angel—we were talking of her just then. To think that you—you—should have married such a one!" "To think that you should have married John Dundas!" "You havo me there, I confess. But there was nothing else left to me. My uncle .was dead; youwore gone; I was penniless." TTe moved abruptly, and paced once or twice up and clown the narrow space between them, "You could have written," ho said; "Too latel You were married to your saint. Why should I disturb your beatitude? I abstained from troubling you, and later on I re- ceived my reward 111--" "In what?" eagerly, "John Dundas! Every ohne tells MO leo is quite perfect. And we have always been taught thnt what every one says must be right. So you see,"—with a sudden outburst of gayety—"if you have your saint, I too, have mine. I amu as good as you any day. You can't outshine rue, A word in your ear, however." She leaned forward and whispered to hien "Don't you and the sanctity rather trying, she Bald. "Deadly dull, eh?" He laughed in spite of himself, and taking uli one of her 'little gloved stand's, beat it lightly against his own Ialnl once or twice. "A truce to all such heretical sen- timents," 11e sold. "Which, after all, only means that you agree with me, but have not the courage 01 11001' opinion Do ,you know, ir'rederfc--" she stopped abruptly. "Frederic,'' she said again, show it recalls everything!" she said. "Yod roeollecl;? You were Fred to me then, and sometimes—in fun—I used to call you my Friedrich "Don't!" said he sharply. "It touches you still?" .she spoke as if surprised. "Andyet it is a long time ago," rho sighed quickly, heavily, and then smiled. " I shouldn't have thought you Wo!lld °ver be t1e one to taste anything nu grand serious," she said; 'snore es- 1100ial1y so ordinary a thing ns an affair of the heart," memories (0511 sho was, pert:tips bo- "Yeo have outlived it :then?" "I have outlived most things. I have seen more trouble than most." s est 1 ars )011 "It ]l not 1 to ] i s u a 1 n] 1 YOU," SOW110 bitterly'. He ]oake4 with angry admiration at the fair, sereee time before hint, without line, or mar, of seal', o1' any of grief's disfigurolnonts, "Do you regret that? Would you have ane bent and bowed with sore rave's burdell? Am I not better as T ant?" Sale eeelnod a little alnu8ed. "What a'blood-thirsty person you "I l w:oul diel" she said, Ue i°vo you d have ;n0, if you could, crushed out of all remembrance. But w1ien, one comes to think of it, I don't believe I ani a person easily crushed: 1 Iivo,have "endured a good deal, and yet 1 "What have you endured?" said he ocornf011y, "Jahn,Dnndas, for one thing," re- turned she, with an irrepressible laugh, T hear he is kindness itself to you," 'said Varley, gravely. Ho was 111 the humor to quarrel with anyone even with her—most of all with him- self, "For once gossips etealt true," re- plied she, unabashed, "Did yctt hope he was unkind? What a face, Varley=so cold, so' reproving! If you worn somebody else it !night have its effect, but as it is—1 con- fess it only wearies 111e." She yawned behind her -fan, and rose slowly to her feet, "You will return . to the ball- room?" asked ho reluctantly, in spite of his ill -temper, as she noticed. "To dance? No. I am sick of dancing, But cards, dice, You re- member Monaco and the old nights?" "A needless question. I have al- ready told you that my misfortune is that I cannot forgot." Ilis voice was strained, his face pale, iso was evidently intoxicated by her beauty, and the memory of the past delights that still held hint, because—fatal thought—there might yet be warmth enough in tllom to bring them back to life! Donna watching Olin, read him eas- ily, and loaning 'against the silken curtain behind her, laughed in her triumph, in that strange, noiseless fashion that, she had. IIe was hers 5101 at; SU 'wonrota sitse qv moo Add Red Witch. hers then in the past days, as ho would be hers forever—so long (silo understood him well) as her beauty lasted" "There was at least no fear of stagnation in then:. 1110 said, alluding to those "old nights" that had their fascination for 1101 still. "You recollect how we used to play, you and I together, and our luck? It grew to bo proverbial. Why was it?" "Who can say? You spoke a while since of old adages. Hear another: 'Luck in play,: unlucky in love.' We were lucky in play." "It was tho only luck we knew," said she. "Than we wore together; now we are apart as the poles." Then suddenly, her whole afar chang- ed. 'She turned her oyes ouickly up- on his. "But are we?" sne asked in a whisper that was .only a breath. Sho had drawn nearer to ,hiin. IIe put out his hand and pressed her back from ]lila. "Take care!" he said, in a danger- ous tone. "Take care what you are doing, you may go too.. far! Iles nothing changed you? Those two interminable years? Your ma•- ringe?" "Don't scold me," she whispered, with a mischievous Iretcnce at pen- itence that had its charm, and heightened every beauty she posses- sed; "1'11 be very good for the fu- tune. I won't do it any more. if you will. only--" She made a' deliber- ate pause; and then with an exquis- ite pout of her red lips, and 0n incli- nation towards him: 'If you will on- ly kiss and be friends." A second later she was laughing gayly, "No, no!" she cried. T did not mean R— oo course not. Though after all it would not be the first time. But if they knew it what would my old boy and your stately saint say? Fred!" Contrition smile-` within her eyes. "So long as my hands aro idle, I wan you, l shall work mis- chief. Ts there nothing to 00 slope? Bio card -room 111 this house? Not even a bagatelle -board?" "There is a billiard -room old n card -room also," said Varley rattler absently, ":Errol you don't say sol And stere have I been all these hours wasting my precious time. You have degen- erated, Fred; once you would not have been so dead to the desires of a pretty woman. And I am that, ell?" "Co on. What is it you want?" asked Varley, refusing to look at her, "To handle once more an ace of trumps; to feel myself victor on one field if not on another. I doubt I ala growing old and ugly; my empire in Cupid's camp is past; and I would therefore lord it over the card -table, if kindly chance permit," IIe laughed grimly, "Ard you tired of conquest?" he said. "Satisfied at last! That Must be a new experience for ,you. Card-tables—yes, of course. there is a room somewhere, whore all the old fogies, the fathers and mothers of the rustic maidens, aro now assem- bled." ''So mach the better. I am not so dead to les convenanee that I cannot sec the use of old f:rgees. I shall bo chaperoned, countenanced by them. A quint little loo will suit mo down to tho ground, and T leave It to you to snake tip the table. As for our stakes, the fogies need know n0(1110g of them." "They will wonder at your ab- sence from the ball -room," "On the contrary they will regard mo as a steady and sedate, young matron, wino very properly Inas turn- ed her back upon such frivolities as dancing." "You would have to bo born again before they would believe nil that." "Not a bit of it, And if the fri- volity business won't do, why, lot las say 1020 delicato, and that much dancing might n1ak0 me mad," As she said this she smiled saucily, ,vet with a tut -on languid air that was admirable, 'I'11 melee you up a table if you like," ,said Varley."There is Bary, iso pipes 0, game; and 1 e0therstol►, he will probably demur on prineip10 at high stakes, but there won't bo any t1.Ouble with him. And there is Colano B s � l load and 111 wife. o. 1 don't know no that elle would 'run to laugh, but,—' She will do --as a sola to Mrs. Grundy; and if site has oven a;smal- lost -touch of the Are, T cantrust myself to raise 1t to a fiamo. To tell you the truth, alio said, With a sincerer . touch of reality than she had yet shown, "if I all to live ]fere at all,. I moat have something to !seep MO going. Otherwise ,.hero will be mischief." "And' your husband; he will not (Meet?" "He is not by any 'nouns n, stupid man," said she. To bo Continued, BOY'S NORFOLK SUIT. 4 to 12 years. The Norfolk suit as here shown is one of the latest modes for little boys and growing lads and will be much seen this fall. The original is made of cheviot in a 'mixture of browns and tan with threads of green, but all wool suiting cloths aro. suitable for 0011 weather wear, linen, duck and galatea for summer Suits. The knickerbockers are cut on .the most approved tailor lines, and can be gathered into bands below the knees, as illustrated, or drawn up to the required ' size by means of elastics run through the home. The jacket is made with a smooth yoke that is pointed at the lower edge and finished with a collar that rolls over with the fronts to form lapels. Below it the jacket portion is laid in box plaits and a belt passes around the waist under or over the plaits as desired. The sleeves are in coat style, 0111 a patch pocket is stitched to each font below the belt. To cut this suit for a boy of 8 years of ago 41yards of material 27 incites wide, 3, yards 44 or 50 inch- es wide will be required. EARS IN QUEER PLACES. In Some Annuals These Organs Are Placed in Strange Positions. A wise man's oyes are in his head, and his ears also, but these latter organs in some animals are pieced quite otherwise. Fishes, for exam- ple, have both ears in their head, and also structures in the skin of the body which help them to per - Mitre any movements in the neater. A dark line, easily seen along either side of a fish's body, is the seat of such organs. If you examine a lobster or prawn, you will find two pairs of horns, or feelers, sticking out of his head, ono pair being large, another small. Lodged in each small feeler is a lit- tle bag opening to the outside, which enables the creature to hear. '1d4as'F 'M ale!`.,! nzl 1 RTA ONTHEFAflM8 GiV 1a'LAVOR 1N MILK ND 1T5 PRODUC'J S,A 1100( flao 1 eelle milk, cream, but- ter and cheese ; poor flavor con - cleat= them, flavor is that indes- cribable something which in good daily products appeals pleasantly to our £011508, but often pa?SC5 0211101- iced because so familiar; in poor pro - duets it is equally indescribable, but more often characterized in vigorous language, when "frowsy" butter, "garlicky" milk, "bitter" cream, or "strong" cheese present their offers- ive'odors and tastes. The ordinary consumer calls flavor the "taste" of the article which tickles his palate; but, the expert knows that the nerves of smell play the larger part and 11e depends for his judgment largely upon a trained nose. Hence we see the butter judge or cheese scorer pass the trier beneath his nostrils, with deep drawn breath and meditative study of the aroma which arises. Shells, however, can- not be pleasured in degrees or sep- arated into their elements by the spectroscope; therefore, we have to depend upon general tarns, often Cliiiering with the different experts in our discussion of flavor, yet we have some well -marked classes which serve as a basis for reference. We can separate the faulty flavors into glaeses BY THEIR ORIGIN. The minute particles thrown off by dairy products, whose impact upon tongue or nostrils give rise to taste or smell, may come (1) from com- pounds in the food of the cow or de- veloped in her body, (2) from mat- ters other than germs, taken tip by the mills while it stands in poorly ventilated stables or rooms reeking with foul shells, or (8) from sub- stances which are the -direct or in- direct result of the activity of liv- ing organisms in the milk. Odors of the first class will be most noticeable while the hulk is warm from the cow, and will not increase with time. They are really far less common than dairymen gen- erally believe, and may be avoided almost entirely by careful feeding, Garlic, turnips, cabbage: and such "fragrant" edibles will, of course, taint the milk, if they are fed with- in a few hours before milking, but when fed soon after the cows are milked, the volatile oils to which these odors aro due will generally disappear from the animal's system before the next morning or evening. Too often odors of the second class are assigned to the first, and the old cow takes the blame for TIM MAN'S FAULT; as milk very readily takes up smells and tastes from its surroundings. When the owner delivers milk to the factory and is told that it smells bad he forgets that he or his alga let it stand is the uncleaned stable to draw in the cowy and wase od- ors, while the cows aro being fed and some other chores attended to ; or, that they poured it into pails that lacked a little of perfect sweetness ; and he immediately= says: "I've got to stop feeding silage." "The cows ate some cabbage trimmings last night," Or, "Someone forgot to close the rye -field gate." Odors of these two classes, due to volatile compounds in the mills, are of the„nlost importance in the 711111 and cream trade, as the faults large- ly disappear in making butter and cheese. Thorough aeration is often helpful in the removal of such flav- ors. Odors of the third class, except in some very rare cases, where the ud- der itself is the seat of colonies of bacteria. The bacteria molds and yeasts wlnicll causes them must have a chance to develop and to set up chemical changes in the milk ; and this rarely occurs to any great ex- tent within 1.2 hours from the time the mills is drawn. A ITIG11: TEMPERATURE, however, is favorable to the growth of these low forms of plant life : so in warns weather milk faults arc common. In butter making nncl in cheese ranking, also, the heat often used to ripen the cream, and the high temperature at which tike 1111110 There is a little shrimp, the opos- is held in setting and cooking the sunt shrimp, which has an ear con- curd, furnish conditions very favor - bedded in each side flap of his _tail, able to the germs present, and they quite the wrong end for it. Shell- develop with great rapidity. In their fish, such as mussels, and cockles, food growth part of the milk is used are blessed with n single 'fleshy foot for food, and in its breaking down which sticks out from ender the side into simpler compounds the aromat- of the body, and is used to shove is substances which make flavor, the animal along. Two little bag- good or bad, aro formed. like ears are contained in this, so that the creature can listen to his own footsteps, so to speak. Plies and other sorts of insects carry one pair of feelers on 1,11e head and there is reason to think that these enable their possessor not only to fool, but also to smell old hear. Such things as grasshoppers go in far a pair of ears contained in two out of their six legs, and those are constructed to appreciate the "chirp- ing" noise we hear in the country during the summer time. And we may suppose that Mother Grasshopper has to box her unruly offspring's ears by smiting his legs. t IN FAVOR OI' HARD BEDS, A well-known doctor advises the adoption of a hard bees, and that children should be trained from the beginning to sleep upon no other kind, It is certainly trim that as a rule a hard bed conduces to the most refreshing kind of sleep, the feather bed, so dearly loved by our grandmothers, being enervating in the extreme. NOT UNUSUAL. AIay—IIave you heard '01 Clara's hard luck? Belle—No, What is it? Now that they nr0 married they have to retrench awfully to shake up the money ho wasted while courting her. The flavor of good milk and crealn, then, is an inherent qunlity due to the normal colstit eats of the milk; the flavors of the butter, both good and bad, except that due to the fat and odors absorbed by the millc, are I hold to be the result of bacterial ac- tion; the fundamental flavors of cheese are probably due to chemical decomposition, started by unorgan- ized ferments known as enzymes , joined with which are other flavors marking the individual cheeses, 'which are probably due to bacteria; and it has recently been found that in some cases yeasts have been the 001.180 of bad flavor. WARM POULTRY HOUSES. Poultry houses should be so con- structed that even in the coldest winter }weather the temperature will not go below 50 degrees during the night. Of course a healthy ,flock of fowls will not caro for cold Weather during the daytime provided they have a nice light shed where they may scratch and hustle, but during the night a warns house is absolute- ly essential. TIens that are found to roost in a mouse where water will freeze will not lay, and it is folly to try to make them. Build the house so that the heat may be easily regulated, but 10 not attempt to supply artificial heat by Menne of stoves or heaters. Powis subjected to unnatural heat will easily colltl'act golds and in time booing sickly. Lot the ventilation bo so a `'a l 11 nl,od that when the Wens tiler moderates tho ea nl heat a t a y be once reduced, and do not force the fowls to stay 'et all times in a house w11i011 Is intended for zero Weather. If .the same 0011ditions could be made to exist i11 winter as in sum - 'mer the hens would lay equally well all seasons, but 011100 the natural order of things very so much, 1t therefore rests with us to supply, as nearly as possiliie, those things which Mature has deprived thins of, Heat, light, exercise, pure food aro most to be considered, without one of which there is no sure road to success. All else hinge on these, and our profits will depend 011 the oeotonlical way we have provided for the fowls, THE PIGS. keep the sows and pigs out on the ground. Pig eating is caused by a lack of nitrogenous food. Lied on awn and like foods of a heating character the sow becomes feverish end irritable. Give her a cooling, nitrogenous ration, such as clover pasture, bran, middlings and oats, 0111 there will be no trouble, 1f the sow shows all inclination to destroy her pigs, give her a chunk of loan salt pork and this will sat- isfy 11e1' craving for nitrogenous food. When feeding the fattening pigs, cornmeal and skim-nlillc with the clover pasture will cause them to make rapid growth. If' fed in this way they will be ready for the early market in the tali. The advantage of giving grain on pasture is that all the grain given will go to make flesh and growth, none being required for maintenance. Care should be taken when grain- ing animals on pasture that their appetite is not wholly appeased by the grain. Feed the grain in the late afternoon so they will rustle through the pastureduring the clay to satis- fy their lunger. The young pig will not make as much use of grass as the older ones, but he should be encouraged to do so as much as possible by giving hien access to fresh, tender clover. When pigs are weaned at six to eight weeks old they should have plenty of skim -mill.. With no milk at hand it is well to let the pigs remain with the than until about three months old. When two litters are raised from the sow each year it is necessary to wean the pigs at from six to eight weeks old. Hence the two -litter method is most successfully maintained on dairy farms or establishments where waste and highly palatable products are continually at hand. 0 A HARD IIEAN TO HILL. Adventures of a Captain of a Whaling Ship, Accounts of whaling voyages often convey the idea of n very agreeable pastime, but sometimes, as in the ease of the historic tiger, the whale takes it into his head to hunt you ; then look out for trouble. Mr. BM - len gives, in "The Men of the Mer- chant Service," a description of the experiences of Captain Gardiner of the ship Union, which resulted some- what disastrously for the fearless mariner•. While he was in pursuit of his call- ing off the west coast of South Am- erica a sperm whale flueg its jaw upward across the boat, and caught him by the head and shoulders. The blow did not sweep kiln overboard, but laid his scalp back from the skull, broke his right jaw, tearing out five tenth, broke ifs left arum and shoulder -blade, and crushed the 11071 on the seine side between tlio whale's jaw and the gunwale of the boat. In this deplorable state he was car- ried 0» b0arel his ship, and his young officers may well have been excused for considering his ease hopeless. Hill brave spirit, however, did not recognize defeat. TIe gave directions mostly by signs, for the preparation of bandages and splints, and in- structed his twilling but ignorant helpers in the way- of using them. lVlen ell had been done that lie wished or could think of, he ordered tate vessel to be taken into posit, and although apparently at the point of death, lie lay in a com- mending position and piloted the ship. A Spanish surgeon was bro,ght on board, who, as soon as he saw the sufferer, advised sending for a priest, as the case was hope- less. This advice was lost upon the va- liant Yankee, who sent a messenger thirty miles for another doctor — a German. This gentleman hastened clown to the ship, caressed the skip- per's wounds, 1101 had him trans- ported on a.0 ifnprovised ambulance swung between two mules up to the healthy highlands of the interior. In six months ho was fit to 1.05111110 command of his ship, which 111ean- while had made a most successful cruise under the nate. The captain's left hand, unhappily, had been so badly mangled that it was hardly more than a stump, the first two fingers being so twisted in the palm that ho was afterwards al- ways obliged to wear a thick mit- ten to keep him front being entangled in a lance -warp while he was lancing a whale, This good man was for a quarter of a century master of a whaler, and lived to be nearly ninety years old. 'PIITa SCHEMER. Dick Everybody's remarking how soft you aro on that wealthy Miss Millet, What are your chances with hor? jack—Very Va y promising. She likes roe pretty Well, and I'm doing any best now to get her 1)0101nts dead -sot against mo. So yeti want to marry my daugh- ter do you, thundch•od the stern fa- ther. Y -y -ss, stammered the ter- rifled young man but not any worse than she wants to llnarr;y ane. ENEMIES lii1011111 �1VC ire PEOPLE WHO HELP 72I11, 70E5 TO FORTUNE, Two Australian I3ushlnen's E:sper- iallee With the Boors in South Africa. There are two young Austrswli1i.it 'Bushmen who have 310 i r l deo of ¢- turtling to their !tomes when the war' in r SouthAlt'iea is' over. Three months ago they were out 011 scouting dutya few miles east of ,Jacobsdel, when the ping of a Man- der bullet n' bl l of sailed them that they had. better get to shelter, `Choy galloped off to a neighboring ravine, and took refuge between its steep and »arrow sides, Picketing their horses, they then' continued up the ravine; !hoping by this means to creep near enough to the enemy to get a shot in return. The rock channel grew more and more narrow, until at last the two were forced to crouch on their hands and knees, and wait until "TIP BOERS CAME IN. sight. But the latter were 'in no hurry, and the Australians amused themselves by enlarging ivitll knives and fingers their very cramped quar- ters. Suddenly one uttered a slight exclamation, and picked something from the soft bank, It was a quarto pebble, lined and seamed with gold. Just then the Boers came Tiding along. A brisk fusllade from the ravine emptied three saddles, and the rest went off. The Bushmen took a few snore samples of quartz in their pockets, and then quietly re• joined their column. But they each have a map of that kloof in their heads, and, if they survive the rest of the fighting, intend to join the ranks of South African millionaires. If curtain of the sub -chiefs of the Sultan of Brunei had not become jealous of the friendship between that gentleman aid 5112 JAMES BROOKE, the world would probably never have heard of Rajah Brooke, nor the great province as big as England which 13e added to the Empire. The chiefs tried to murder Brooke, and the Sultan promptly gave him the job of suppressing them, This gave Sir James a chance of using the six six -pounders with which his yacht was equipped. He employed them to such good purpose that the few rebels who were left were only too glad to sue for peace, and the Sultan made his English captain Rajah of Sarawak, a post which he, and his son after him, filled with the greatest distinction. It is curious, indeed, how often an underhanded attempt to ruin a man results in the very opposite way to which it was intended. An instance in point was the splendidadvertise- ment given to a play, "The Next Maid,' when it first camp out at Manchester, England, some years ago. The writer, Henry lremp, had got himself disliked by a p1uc10.Y.,at- tempt to clear the gallery of the theatre in which his play was to be acted of a very objectionable set of roughs. The roughs assembled in force on the first night, and, after much hooting and hissing, hurled a volley of ginger -beer bottles on to the stage. The author himself led the police in a rush to CLEAR OUT THE DISTURBERS, He was badly hurt, being knocked down, and getting several ribs brok- en. Next clay the papers were full of the matter, and crowdecb houses were the rule for many nights to come.. The Desmond block and tackle, which le now so widely used, and which brought its inventor so many thousand pounds, would probably never have seen the light had not a rival inventor 10110 his best to make a bonfire of both inventor and in- vention. Desmond had for many months given all bis spare time to his invention, and at last perfected it, but was too !lard up to do more than provisionally protect it. His enemy, a man named Flynn, who was desperately jealous of .Oes- nloncl's 011ccess, one night set fire to Desmond's house, hoping to get rid of his rival and the model at the same time, By good fortune, the model was already at the railway sta- tion,rcady to be sent up to Landoll, and the insurance money which Des- mond received for his burnt house enabled him to take out his patent. lelymn was caught and got a long sentence. in rather similar fashion, his dead- liest enemy presented 11. Leon Saye, the notod balloonist, with a fortono of 510,000. In the summer of 1808 Saye was experimenting with an en- tirely new form of balloon—a large double air -bag. 1ic inflated it for the first time ill the grolrnds of 111:, louse, near Chalons, in fiance; but as he was not sure how it would net, gave orders that it should be held eaptit-o by tho usual cable, wound and unwound by a steam traction engine. Clentence, who had once been 5uye's foreman, but had been. discharged for theft, stole into the yard in disguise, knocked down the 111011 who 1101 been looking after the engine, and TOOT1 0ITAR012 OF IT IITMSELF, So soon as Saye, who had seen what had happened, signalled to be brought down, Clemcnce wound in Lino cable until the balloon hovered only fifty foot above the ground. Then he quickly cut the cable. The balloon bounded five thousand feet into the air, and was rapidly swept away lnortllwards. But its navigat- 0r ne0er lost his head, and so well did he manage that he landed safe- ly, fifteen ]tors later, near Wiud- brol, in Germany. 1Tere a farmer took care of 01111 and gave 11110 lodging, Next day tho balloonist, walking across the fal'nn, came upon a seam of nickel ore, of the value of which the farmer knew nothing. Saye suggested working it onshares, and a year later sold his interest for .$40,000 cash. London is the only town in Eng- land which has not control of its own police, They are n11, except those of the city, under the direct cont rol of 1110 Honie S0crettu'y.