The Brussels Post, 1891-3-20, Page 71
Mirii 20, 1891. THE BRUSSELS POST.
A ROMANCE Of MIRE AGE,
BY JIHELAND,
(WAFTER, II,
Tho next morning nothing unusual inark.
eel the conduot of either of the NliePowere.
MIAs littlishin WM calmly dignified, as was
her wont ; and if Miss Elizithethet cheeks
were a shade paler than usual her laugh was
ever on her lip, and her epiritseeeined even
brighter than usual. That pride of ours
whish bide toe don the mask of mirth was
strong in her. Sabrina ehould never guess
the impression that Dr, Meadow's oonduct
had ;merle upon her foolish old heart ! While
the teeters were sitting at breakfast, Widget,
their one domestic, -brought in a foreign -
looking letter, Chloe, their married sister,
was living in Marseilles with her husband,
M. Cervay, a French aveltheat, who was
euperintendingthe building elle large theatre
there; and her weekly letters were looked
forward to with great pleasure by both sis-
ters, though Miss Sab'ino had an inborn
horror of Jerome and everything French.
The very word suggested something highly
improper and objectionable, in her opinion.
But this was not the usual day for Chloe's
letter, so they felt n hole anxious as the
envelope was torn open.
" I hope nothing is wrong, Sabrina ?"
asked Miss Elizabeth, She would not have
dreamed of looking over her sister's shoulder
to ascertain for herself.
"No ; nothing is wrong, Elizabeth ; but,
the letter contains some important news,"
answered Miss Sabrina, heading the letter
to her sister.
The news was that AL Corvay had been
urgently requested by his father, who lived
in °Waage, and was failing in health, to pay
him a long vielt as soon es his present work
should be at au end,
" Eugene will see the completion of his
week here next week," wrote Chloe, " mut
we shall then start for Chicago. 1Vork is
scarce here ; and my huaband thinks of
settling in the United States, probably near
his father. But, meanwhile, we should like
our one chtkl, Men Aimee, who Is about
nineteen, to have a quiet house. She is not
very strong, and the unsettled life we shall
load Inc a time would be very bad for any
girl. 1)ear sisters, you can guess what 1 ion
about to ask you. Will you take our child
till we are settled in a home of our own? All
arrangements shall be Made. While I write,
a telegram hes come to hasten our visit, as
my father-imlaw is growing rapidly worse.
Counting on your ready cionsent, we shall
put, Aimee under the escort ole friend who
is also coming to England, and she will be
with you, all being well, on the evening of
next Friday."
Then f 'Unwed ineny in) unctions to take
care of" our dsr,t ulnkl, our Bien Aimee,"
and to teach her the houeowifely gifts that
Chloe knew her sisters possessed,
When Miss Elizabeth had finished reading
the lettee, she deew a long breath.
" I am glad Chloe has such confidence in
our love for her," said Miss sabrina with
moist eyee. " I shall write her at once to
say bon more than glad we shall be' to have
her child, She will brighten us up, quiet old
maids that we are."
" We will give her the front bedroom,
Sabrina, and. I will move into the little one
over the kitchen," said Miss Elizabeth, ever
intent on kindly deeds.
But her sister oppneed her with quiet de-
termination. " I shall sleep in the back room
Elizabeth. You know, my de t r, how liable
you atm to take cold ; and there is a, most
trying draught from that chimney."
The intervening days—it was then Sunday
—were spent he removing Miss Sabrina's
belongings and flatting the guest's room as
pretty as possible, NIes Elizabeth denuding
her own ronm pf many of its quaint orna-
ments that 'Bien Aimee might have °earthing
bright around Iter.
.011 the Friday morning, Miss Elizabeth
Went down into the villiage to order supplies
for the week -end, and as she came op the
hill carrying a basket of fresh brown eggs,
she met Dr. Meadows coming out of the
chemist's shop. He accosted her with a
friendly greeting. The hand that lay in his
for u moment trembled, and the basket near-
ly fell; but remembering Sabrina's injune.
tions, bliss Elizabeth drew her slight form up
with wounded pride and resolved to treat
Dr. Meadows very coldly.
"Shall I man your basket for you, Miss
Elizabeth ?" he asked, bending down to
catch a glitnpse of her averted face.
"Thanks, Dr. Meadows ; but I prefer to
carry it inyself."
For a few moments silence ensued ; and
Dr. Meadows stopped at the pate of his own
house, and determined to make one more
attempt to melt the little ladyec icy tones.
"May I walk up with you, Elizabeth ?" he
asked. in tones of reproachful tenderness and
respect.
Wounded by whet she was forced to be-
lieve his meaningless sentimentalism, Miss
Elizabeth looked straight Wth Dr. Meadows'
eyes and said coldly : "No ; I thank you—I
perfer to walk by myeelf."
With a low bow, the Doctor turned in at
Ws gate ; and Miss Elizabeth, with sore and
wounded heart, toiled up the hill alone—
only prevented from bursting into tears by
the grim satisfaction of having done her
duty.
About eight o'clock that evening the
age omnibus drew etp at the back gate of
Sunnybank Cottage, and a slight tall girl,
with pale tear -stained cheeks, alighted, and
ran into the (0(1(15 00 kindly hold out to greet
her. She suffered herself to be led into the
cool drawing -room and hied on the couch by
the open window.
"Poor tired ohuld 1" said Miss Sabrina,
with unwonted tenderness, smoothing the
girl's dark hair as she la.y and oried for very
weariness. " But cheer up, iny dear. Here
is your aunt Elizabeth bringing you some
sweet cakes of her own baking and a glass
of new milk. Tey to eat, and then you shall
go to bed.—To-morrow you will wake up
quite refreshed and happy."
Thus urged, Aimee dried her eyes, and
slippiog het: arm rotind her auntes neck,
kissed hor on both cheeks in her impulsive
foreign way.
" You are a good kind aunt.—Annt Sa-
brina, is it not ?" she asked in broken Eng-
lish.—" And yon aro Aunt Elizabeth? But
I shell OM you Tante Elise ; 11.10 prebtior,
do you not think ?" she added, turning to
Miss Elizabeth.
" Call Inc whot you like, dear, if you will
only cat what 1 have brought you. To -mor-
row, we will hear 011(01)001. your mother and
father," said her mint, stooping to kiss the
cheek hold up to her.
Ah, yo(( are so kind, so kind ;" and the
tired girl fell to crying egain, touched by
the tenderness of the two gentle ladies.
" Come, my deer," said Mise Sabrina when
Aimee had been preerailed upon to drink the
milk and nibble a, morsel of cake, " 1 am
teeing to put: you to boil without asking your
leave,"
Nothing, loth, Aimee followed her aunt: tiF
stairs, and Was soon Imoltod up in 1101' wel.
00(110 bed, whore she slept the dreamloes
&Mop of wearied yeah, and woke the next
morning to see a yellow ray of 000011100
!dentin in through the white blind,
" Ail, you look !totter to -day, icy Elect',"
Mitie 80141110 said as Aimee eame to break.
laetehne with cheeks rosy front 0 walk I
round the garden and eyes Ink after a I
long sleep.
" Olt yea, me tante. I do not
mean to he a dump blanket --I think
you stey,"she answered gaily 1 " and I
may expinee those lovely woods be.
behind the house, and learn to bake theme
sweet eek es—ma y I not ? And alb but there
will be thousand things to do ; and you
must hear all about la belle France."
A few days passed fail of delightful novel.
ty to Aimee ; but Miss Sabrina noticed that
her sister's cheeks wore growing paler, and
was not deceived by hew e(0550015(1cheerful-
neee.
" Elizabeth," she said one evening, after
Aimee had gone to bed, tired front /I long
eamble in the woods, "I have been think-
iog that this would be a very good oppor.
tunity to pay your long -promised vise. to
Mrs, Carruthers"—naming an old friend of
Miss Elizabeth's who had recently become
a widow. " You sea, I shall have Aimee
to take mere of me ; and I think the change
will do you good,"
There was no escaping the seratiny of
those all-seeieg gray eyes, so Miss Elizabeth
quietly dropped her musk and aesented,
Accordingly, the non day she packed her
little trunk, and steamed away submissively
1.0 1(0)' friend's house at (iarlisle, a distance/
of about, twenty miles.
On the evening aftee her departure, Aimee
was watering the grass in front of the pore)),
when a low ors marched her oars through
the open door that led into the lobby. Run-
ning Into the house, she fennel hor aunt sit-
ting on a chair in the hall evidently in great
pain.
" Melee 1" she " what is it you have
done, ma tante?"
" I fear I have sprained my ankle, dear,"
answered Miss Sebrina, her (Roe all drawn
with pain. " Will ymi seed Bridget for Dr.
Meadows ? I (Rennet move till he has done
something for inc. I stupidly caught wiy
foot in the stair carpel where those Italia
have come out.
In (01)0111. 15 quarter of an hour Dr. Mead-
ows oame hurrying in,
and, with Bridget'sassistancs,
assistance, 0(0(110(10(0(110(1Mies Sabrina up to her
bedroom, after first baudaging the injured
an kle.
Leaving her with strict injuoutione not to
move, he wont down•staire, followed by
Aimee, who introdueed herself in her pretty
foreign way 1" 1, one savez—ah, you know,
moniieur—that Tante Elise is away—Mees
Elizabeth, I should say. It would be boiler
—would it not ?—to keep the news of this
little accident from her, in order not to
spoil her holiday ?"
" Is Miss Elizabeth away ?" asked the
doctor rather abruptly, knitting his heavy
brows.
Al, yes, She was not looking as she
ought. Hee cheeks were pale ; so me tante
sent her to get a leetle ohauge."
" I am sorry 10 hear she is not well," said
Dr. Meadows, as he stood with hie hand up.
on the half:open door—" Well, you will not
allow your aunt to got ont of bed, 105 Cor-
vay. I will call in the morning. Oood.
001015to you."
" How Mee Monsieur le Docteur is," said
Miss Sabrina with some constraint. " But
we have been fortunate enough not to re-
quire li0. professional services very often."
" He is married, n'est-ce pas?"
" No ; he 100 widower ;" and the subject
dropped.
A week or two passed, and the doctor
called every day. He wee tuntised by Aimee's
impulsive ways, and enjoyed listening to
her lively chatter. Soon she became quite
at home with him, and told him about her
father and mother, and "la belle France
for lie was not a busy man now, and would
stroll round the garden with her after seeing
his patient, and draw out her childish onm
Helloes, 1011 1100 affectionate nature, togeth-
er with the instinct that made hor trust him
so completely, soon caused her to regard
him as an old friend—almost as a temporary
father.
Soon Miss Sabrina was allowed to Come
downstairs for a few hours every day, and
from the clrawing•room window where she
lay on the couch she watched the middle.
aged man and the young girl take their hab-
itual stroll together'and gradual y the idea
grew in her mincl that Dr. Meadows was
seeking a bride in earnest—the niece, and
not the aunt.
The night before Miss Elizabeth's return,
Aimee was talking to the dootor of hor
younger aunt. He had boon drinking tea
with 1110111 in ho11o00 of bliss Sabrine's first
walla round the gaeden. "I should say, mon
ami," she said reflectively, "11 Tante Elise
were younger, that she had " la Braude pas.
stem" For see, 001100 1) girl in France has
it, she grows pale ; she seem not to hear
you when you speak to her ; and then her
laugh sounds strange 0111 haysh. So it ie
with Tante Elise ; and aro not English and
French alike in that? But thee, alas 1 I fear
she is too old for la grand° passion."
" Too old 1" said the Doctor indignantly,
adding involuntarily / am not too old,"
Something in his voice caught the girl's
attention. She looked up curiously at him,
and he, foolish anoient lover, blushed like a
girl beneath hoe inquiring eyes. " Alt 1"
she cried a,rohly, " you—my mock:papa,—
are you in lore ? Why, of course," sno cried
again, clipping her bands in childish delight
at her own quick perception. " Yott are in
love with Tante Elise. Why all not guess
before?" Then, noticing that his facto was
very grave, her mood changed at ono, aod
raising, hie hand to her lipe, she kissed it
" A113 'ant 00 50103'," she said
apologetically. I should 1101. 1(1005 said it.
190111 not be rucle again ;" and with a hasty
"Good bye" sho turned and ran back into
the house.
Miss Sabrina had boon watching the little
seeno, and never doubted that Dr, Meadows
world now ask for Aimee hand at the ere 1 -
est opportunity.,"I shall 00101 1)1)0 to her parents, of course,"
she thought ; " yet I am sure they could not
but approve. 1 knew ho would choose a
young bride. What a good thing I warned
Elizabeth in Limo. I shall tell her first thing
when she comes home ; and meanwhile I
will not mention the subject to Aimee."
The next chey Miss Elizabeth returned,
looking a shade fresher for her change ; ancl
for a long time that evening the sisters wore
closeted in Miss Sabrina's bedroom. Al; tho
end of that time Mise Elizabeth emerged
very white and drawn, and she knelt long
into the silenbwatches of the night, praying
for the spirib of unselfishness, which should
melte her rejoice in her noiee's good fortune,
When De. Meadows left: Aimee at the
gate, he swore inwardly at having betrayed
himeolf ; bite when his wrath had cooled a
little, ho thought altar words, and soon the
manliness within him began to ery out
against the timidity and self-dopreouttion
that had hold him back from making a
straightforward appeal to Mime Elizabeth's
feelings. !then and there ho decided once
mom to "5:30000 his oonvage to the sticking.
point," and " We'll not: fah " lia said to
himself as ho stood on the doorstep ; and he
pulled 11(0 1)011 AO vigorously that, the set,
vane came rtenning to the door in dishevelled
alum.
Aaeordingly, the incoming, after .Miss
retum he donned a fine whith
waitit coat, buttoned up his frock.coat with
Recite fingers, and sallied forth to ?lam Inc
happlceso in the /male of fickle foreune. He
was fortunate enough to find Miss Elizabeth
alone in the drawingwooni arranging flowers
in a gown of Quaker grey. Determined at
once to broach the subject uppeemmet in his
mind, he beteg!' —after a IP tie humming and
hawing in this wiee : "Mots Elizabeth, I
have come to speak to you on a subject
which ooneerns my happiness very deeply.
So it was true ; Sabrina had been quite
rigIlbI
" Yee, 1)r. Meadow," said bliss I'llieaboth
nerve11s1V, _pulling a pansy to pieces as she
spoke, " I know—ehut is -010 are (mite
prepared—I will go and fetch Sabrina,"
" Fetch Sabrina ?" echoed the good Doc-
tor in astonishment et this novel we.y of re.
00111111) 5 etwech cco obvious in its meaning.
11.1 150 Elizabeth became more and MOM
flurried, " Well—I will fetoh Abnoe," she
amid tremulously, Then, catching the Doe -
toes eye, and reading estrange tale therein,
she itdded wildly, in hor confusion, " or both
of them,"
Suddenly it all [lathed upon the Doctor
Ile moved to where bliss Elizabeth was
et whin it, and took holdi 1153' !teak in his. "Ts
it poseible, Elizabeth, that you can mistake
what I mean ?"
"Olt, please don't talk like that, Dr.
Meadows," sobbed Miss Elizabeth in die.
may, " 1 promised Sabrina that I would
not lot you lead me into foo-oo lish swat-
" What do you mean. Elizabeth ? I love
3'00.I went, you to be my wife. It le
Yes.' is it nnt?" he asked tenderly, for Min
Elizabeth had un000soiously laid her head
roe his shoulder end was eobbieg as if her
heart would break,
" But Sabrina said you wore only a bee.
she murmured piteously through her
tearti, " and that yott—flew about—sucking
a little honey --here and—there ; end that
if you over were to settle, it would be on
some g.gorgeous flower ; and I am only a—
(Imperatively p -poor old inaid." She had
teethed her lesson well.
At that moment Dr. Meadows hated Miss
Sabrina with 10 vindictive hatred. But he
controlled it, and gently putting his arm
around ;Rise Elizabeth, lie drew her to him
and tried be snothe her agitation. " 1 don't
think 1(0)11 a bee," he said, hardly able to
seep from smiling at the apt otenparison
" and if I am, why, my dear, I have got a
cosy hive, and you shall come and be
my queen."
Then ho laughed at his foolish words, and
Miss Elizabeth laughed. too, and was just
wiping her eyes, W11011 Sabrina opcmed the
drawing -room door. She stood still for a
few moments, looking with bewildered eyes
at the " tableau vivant."
"Miss Sale:inn," said Dr. ...Meadows, step-
ping forward, " I have asked your sister to
become my wife, and she has done me the
honour to accept my offer. I cannot ask for
youe sanction, but I should like your bless.
lug and continued friendship. Believe nie,
11501 not the light rover you imagine. I will
teke care of Elizabeth, and yen r hall not
feel that you have lost asister ; but only, by
God'et help, that you have gained a brother.',
And stooping, he raieed blies Sabrina's hand
to his lips.
[THE END)
THE DEAD RIVER,
ItY NV. 0. FLAYEENCE.
One night last summer a jolly party of
salmon fishers were sitting round the din-
ner -table in their temporary house ell the
bank of the Natashquan, in Lower Canada.
The state of the table bore convincing proof
that the appetites of the fishermen had been
good, and as the stage of " pipes and grog "
had been reached, alt the party had settled
themselves into attitudes which bespoke
comfore if not grace. Among the party
was a halfthreed, well known through the
Canadas as a most expert and reliable fisher.
inan, trapper and geide. Matallac was half
asleep whoa he was soddenly startled by
the inquiry :
"Why is that part of the stream above the
bend called Tho Dead River?'"
" Why 1" said he, as he slowly
drew himself into a more erect position,
" don't yon know that? There ain't any.
one ocenes hero but is told that story right
off 1"
" A story I We haven't heard it. Come,
Mot, tell us, like a good fellow 1"
" Well, gen'lemen, menet goocl at spinnin'
yarns, 1)011 11 you want to, Fll tryand glee it
to you as near as I cm, in ;he words of all
old chief, who told it to me many years
ago."
" Let s have it, old man. Silence, boys,
for the General 1"
Matallac took an extra long and strong
chenk, shifted uneasily in his chair, and
after having looked at the ceiling for inspirer,
tion, began
* c.
Great many years ago this bank of the
river was inhabited by a powerful tribe of
Indians, whose wigwams extended from
where it empties into the St. Lawrence Op
to the Isle of Doves—a distance of about ten
miles. The chief was called Blamonah, and
although he was nearly sixty years of age,
he was still on 1110 witepagh and hunt, and
ruled his people with ell iron Inend. The
bribe's mien source of income WOS the price
they received 100111 traders for the skins of
seals, which abounded in the river. These
animals were too wary to often show them-
selves during the day, but on moonlight
nights the hunters would conceal themselves
on the banks of the river, and shoot tho
seals when they mune up to 'breathe.
So much did the Indians prize the right
to slur t 1, this river that for years wars
had been waged for its posscsnon. The
01081 powerful oppor cults of Blamonah's
tribe had been the Waohitos, who for-
merly lived on the opposite bank.
But nearly twenty years before the
time when whet I am going to toll you hp.
paned, Blamonah Inul, in &groat baLtle, do.
foaled the Wachitos so severely that the few
who escaped left the river and departed
northward. Among the captives taken by
]3h 110,10.11, and the only ono he spared, 1000
&baby boy, to whom ho gave the Milne of
Notontah. This boy soon beoamo a great
favorite with the ohief, who took him into
his own wigwam, and brought him up with
his MU daughtote: Ootehulta, Under 131a,
inenithis training Netontith grew up to 1)0 the
first young breve of the tribe. None could
equal Iiiin in feats ofldh1, strength and emir"
age; and ell the Indian maidensamitud 00 11)111.
le Mental!, had, however, eyes for only one,
Ootehuktie Tho Itoy'e love for his sister had
tetown with hie growth into tho man's pas-
sion for the woman he yearned foe, And
Ootchulca loved him, but neither dared to
tell 131amonah.
Ono day tho chief dolled the girl to Ithie,
" Oetchulett, you have reached tho ago When
you should mem, Prepare yourself, for
the bravo lentianah is coining to elaim you."
" But, father, I cannot love him. I fear
his wilcl looks and harsh voice,"
" Ho will spotlit softly to yen. Why,
Fay, out yen not love him ? Ito is strong
And fearless."
"Father, 1 lova another."
" Who 9 is name I Quick, Mei 1"
"Netontah 1"
" What 1 That Wachito clog 1 That ger.
pent I warmed at my fire 1 Why did
spare that spawn of the Evil One 1 The
Witold tos have ever been eilr oerSe. 1 SeATII
one, and he carries out the mission of his
tribe. You shall never 050 him again 1 He
shall ge front here before the mon sets to.
night."
" But, father, 1 love him ; 011113(101 1(101 I
shall die 1"
" Then die ! Muoh as 1 love thee, Oot.
chuka—and the Great Spirit alone knows
how much that is -et would rather see t,1 a
dead than married to a Wachito."
" You tvill aeo deed them father."
" Go, girl ! Semi Netontalt to me, and
beware you stay not to speak further with
him."
While waiting for Natoli tah, the old chief
paced up and down like an angry tiger lash.
nig 111015011 11110 greater fury.
Ootehulce sought Natant:di, and though
she kept 1110, but 0 moment, *ho found time
to tell him to watch for her that night when
the moon was full, nn,1 she would swim
aoross the river to him,
"Blamonah, you have sent, for Netontah ;
he is hero."
" Dog of a Wei 111.0 ! I spared you when
a baby. I have taught you to be bravo ; to
kill the seal and caribou 1 now you turn
around (((111 1)110 me. Once I loved you like
a eon, It is because of that I spare you
now. 00 from my sight, but if by the time
the moon rises you are in the camp, you
die 1"
" 131amonah, you say you once loved me
as a MI, It is because I do love yea as a
(matey that I listen to words no other man
should say to me and live. All !level owe
to you, even m life ; therefore I obey you.
I had almost forgotten I was not of your
tribe ; but I should m truth be the dog you
called me did I deny illy race."
" Why did you dare to love Dote:hut:a ?"
" I del not deem her beyond my reach, but
if I had, still should I have loved. Love
will dem all, and heeds not what it dares."
"Cio, boy, go. Yon wring :ley heart."
Sadly, and With a yearning gesture, which
Blamonah repelled, Netontab turned and
left. A few moments later he might have
been soon urging his canoe across the river.
After some time spent, in trying to calm
himself and smother his grief, Slamonah
sought his wigwam. " Ootehuka," said he,
" the moon begins to rise 1 give my gun l'll
watch for seal."
" Yes, father 1 Think you there will be
many seeds tomight 9"
" No, but I must do something to quiet.
ine. I can not sleep."
Hours passed, and Blamonah not re:
turn. Ootchuka feared that she might
meet him on the way to the river, but just
as the moon had remitted the full, she stole
down to the bank, and with all the confi-
dence of an Indian 1110deu plunged boldly
She had almost reached the middle of the
river when the sharp crack of a rifle sound.
ed through the clear air, and with one
Forcing ecreant Ootchuka s life was
ended.
As he hear 1 that scream, Blamonah, who
had tired the shot, felt a pails of fear numb
hie heart. " That was no seal's cry," he
said, us he sprang into his oanoe, and with
fierce blows of !Ins paddle drove it toward
the dark object floating on the evater.
Summate had he reached it and learned
the awful. truth, when another canoe, which
had shot out from the opposite bank, oinne
up:
' Blamonah, what has happened ?"
"Oh Netontah, I was wetting for seal,
and I leave killed my cluld 1 my only one
Ootehaka 1 Help me to carry her to
shore "
With a broken heart poor Netontah gave
the asked for help. IN hen Ootoluthe had
been carried to the wigwam, Netontah
knelt by her side, pressed his lips for the
Last time to those that were now so cold,
then rising, turned to go.
" Netontah, whither are you going 9"
" Yon ordered me frone here,"
" Netontah, I am a wretched old man.
There lies all that stood between our loves.
Can yon not fotive me 9 Let our griefs
bring our hearts together again."
Blemonah—father 1"
" Netontah, my son 1"
And over the body of her whom they had
cloth so loved those two poor Indians Fayed
to, the Great Spirit, for the soul of Ootohuka
tho heroine of "The Dead River."
A Railroad Manager.
Ohio and :Mississippi Railway, Office of
the President and Genel Manager, Cinoin-
nati, Ohio, U. 8. A., Nov. 15, 1886. Gentle-
men : Recently while in the teot of alight.
1115 from my oar I stepped upon a stone,
which, turning suddenly under my foot,
threw me to the ground with a severely
sprained ankle. Suffering exceediugly, I
was helped into the ear, and my man
rubbedeme most, generously with arnica,
and kindred remedies, but to no avail.
Reaching a station where Sb. Jacobs Oil
could be scoured, two bottles of it were
bought and the application resulted at
once in a relief from pein, which had be-
come well nigh unbearable. I was out and
about my work in three days. NV. W.
Psethoov, Pres't and Gang Manager.
A now diamond mine, the deposit in which
is described as similar to that of the richest
claims at Kimberly, has been discovered in
Griqualand West.
Mrs, Julia Ward Howe is President of the
Town and Country Chb at Newport, which
encourages out -door sports and anything else
that tends to advance the physical health of
Remembers.
At HuntingdOwn Assizes on Saturday, a
labourer named Cox and his wife were in:
dieted for the manslaughter of !their child,
four years old, by starvation, not a particle
of food being found in its stomach. There
was an insurance on the child's life. The
man (005 (501)0111.0(1, and the W0111011 sen Mooed
to six months' hard labour.
The house of a, forester named 1Vilded
Ballenstaclt was (says a Berlin telegram) at.
taokocl and riflocl by them masked robbers in
breed daylight on Saturday. The wife of
the forester, who had just been &whined,
fired at the robbers as they wore leaving
with their booty, killing ono of them who
turned ont to bo the midwife who had been
attending the tomatoes wifo. The other
two robbers have boot idonbifiod as the
husband and son of the dead woman,
The lesepeito 11.1/101(051(915 that sumer/810
trials have boon made at Spezzia, of tho
system Of Capt. Cnniborti for applying petro.
loom (55 10 °embus tible to marine boilers. It
says that the use of liquid fuel will tend
greatly to emnomy, intunnueb as eighteen
clays' steaming with 00101 0013' be said to cost
110,000 lire, while with petroleum a moving
of 17,520 lire (83,355) may bo °froth&
With petroleum, Rays the Zweite, battle
shlp May keep tho mut at Masl three three
as Tong as Would bo poseible with coal. So
satisfactory ern the -Italian trials appear to
have been that a eouree of inetrootion in the
1)000000y procedure for the application of
11111111 fuel Mahout to be minneencod on the
training ship Altoona.
A REGION OF 1,
Booking Gold and Finding.Nameloas
Gram,
HOW itiOnee ads pr flee Lost Their Liven on
the fellentum or Pe Hama -Daily rune/ell
1'r$,& to Monkey 11111 Cernet Pry.
More mon have died and are buried and
more money lia,s been made and likewise
squandered, on the Isthmus of Panama,
along, the line of the pro_posed canal, than.
on 01(7 equal amount of territory In the
world. Thousands of men came from all
parts of the world, sickened and died under
the influence of the deadly climate in a few
months, weeks, or oven days, while fortunes
were made by a few honestly and in a legiti-
mate way, but in numerous eases 1 y down-
right robbery, nr what amounted to that.
It was in 1887, the year before the final
collapse of the canal scheme came, that I
visited the Istliumas of Pennine, says a writ-
er. I there met Jack Gardiner, of Toronto.
" What brought me to the isthmus ?" ho
said in answer to my question ; the sante
reason that has owned other men to come
here—the search for gold. In Canada I
only earned 811 a week keeping bgoks in a
commercial ,ouse, although I tun an expert
in my business. Here g am getting 8230 a
month in a simple clerical position in tho
Panama Railroad Company's offices. Of
course, I take the chances of being carried
0111. 1.0 Monkey Hill Cemetery within a fow
hours at any time, for neither yellow fewer
nor the fever which the natives call table,
meaning 'knock you down,' so sudden is
11 1(1 ite attack, aro respecters of persons,
and elte:Tea fever, though slower in its ef-
feets, ie almost as deadly.
gne Milk:DAL THAI
"We have in Aspinwall 00110.1. 10 known as
1110 'dead tram."/Ins consists of three nr
four ordinary box (f11.8 and a locomotive,
beloeging to the railroad company. Every
afternoon et 4 o'clock the train *tarts for
the cemetery 01 'Monkey Hill, Unless the
deceased is te person of some importance the
burial only takes a few minutes. The
grave diggers know in advance how many
510005 00 115,00 00(013'. They don't lose much
tune in making them extra deep either.
Al.out three feet is the usual depth, and
when the heavy rains come pouring down
the sides of the cemetery hill the earth is
often washed away and portions 0( 11)5 body
expesed. You eill see in menyplaces
throughout
Aspinnedl, espeeially in small
side streets mid alleys, plain rough board
coffins stood up on end against the sides of
houses. eVlion an unknown man dies on
the street the native policemen merely go
for the nearest public coffin, put the body in
it and place it on one of the railroad box
oars, where it remains until token out to the
cemetery in the afternoon. Then the corpse
is dumped into the grave, dressed as it Wee
when fourd on the street or elsewhere, and
the coffin brought back to town for farther
use.
A NIUDEIIN
" common thing to find mere prin.
oipally poor negroes or natives, lying dead
on the sidewalk or tinder the stoops or
porches of houses, in the morning, whore
they hove lain down to die of fever during
the night. No man living knows just how
many people are buried in Monkey 11il1
Cemetery. The railroad hospital authoti-
ties, of course, keep a record of the number
of deaths ito their institution, but the native
city authorities keep no mortuary statistics
whatever and of the hundreds of xneu who
die here e ere: year and are buried by the
city no record whatever of the burial is kept.
It is by no means an uncommon thing for an
old grave to be opened and another body
buried on top of the first one, this being
done for want of room. How many people
are buried 0111 1(1 Monkey Hill? Certainly
8,000 or 0,000; probably 11,000 or 111,000,
but It's all a matter of guess work as to the
exact number. The cemetery might not in-
appropriately be called Golgotha, the place
of skulls.
THOUP.kEDS OF DEAD CatiSASINa.
"But the ground about Aspinwall only
holds a small percentage of the 10en who
have died on the Isthmus. The 0113' of
Panaina, of course, lays olaim to the largest
member of lmrials, but loan aay without ex.
aggeration that 1110 entire line of the rail-
road and canal from the Atlantic to the
Pacific is a continuous graveyard. At Ma-
tochin alone over three thousand five hun-
dred Chinamen met their death in one day.
That was 25 or 30 years ego, Nt bile the
Panama Railroad WAS being built, and long
before work on the canal was began. Ten
thousand Chinamen had been brought from
China to work on the canal. Over half of
them were camped at what is now Alritochin.
Smallpox brow out neon thein and the mor-
tality became so great that the Chinamen,
always easily excited, became panic-stricken
and, preferring to die by drowning, ran
down the steep sides of the hills near their
camp and throw themselves into the Chagres
river. As I have said, 3,1100 of them drown.
ed.
(1011' TO STAHL' MONET,
" It's a vary easy matter for a sharp,
clever, but dishonest num to make thous-
ands of dollars on the isthmus in as short a
time its it would take hint to make hun-
dreds in Canada, The Panama Railroad em-
ploys only white men as engineers and
ooncluotors, who have previously been rail-
ihad men in the United States, For many
years, up to within a short time ago, the
passenger fare from Aspinwall to Panama, fb
distance of only 45 miles, was 825. No
tickets were sold at way stations, passengers
paying the concluotors on the trams. This
they usually did in Colombian silver. When
the conductors arrived at Aspinwall or Pan-
ama in the evening they would bring in tho
money received for fares on the trip in largo
OallVile sacks, and 11 1.1951110 had boon rather
heavy on that day the oonduotors would
need help in carrying the silver from the
train to tho oompany's office. ID was not
thought at all unusual for a oonduotot to
" knock down" 8100 a day. Half of this ho
would have to divide with the engineer of
his train. The company olosecl its oyes to
this barefaced robbery, for mayoral reasons,
among them being the fad that It was a
difficult matter to obtain exporienood
road men to take positions on tho isthmus,
while 0001.1101 080501) was that the company
was making so numb money that the atetal.
Inge Were considered too Milling to tiotioe.
The end is soon coming ,and the world will
quickly hoar of the collapse of the cenal
scheme,"
My friend spoke prophobieally, for in the
following year the final melt atone, ruining
thousands of poor people in Fenno° and eons.
ing untold misery to thousands of penniless
workmen on the isthmus who Wee stranded
bar from thole own countries. To -day about
all that remains on tho Isthmus of Panama
fte.evilenee of thehuman greed of gold aro
nollione of pounds of what was once magni-
ficent machinery, but now is little more than
old iron, 301(11 (100 bleached bones of tons of
thonaands of men,
7
King o
Medicines
4 Ctfre (c4Linost JIIEraculous,'
"When I was 11 910)110 of age I had a severe
attack of rheumatism, and after 1 recovered.
had to 50 00 °retches. A year later, sort/ft/14
In the form of white swellings, appeared Oa
various parts 01 (1(3' body, and for 11 years
was ell Invalid, being confined to my bed%
years. In that time ten or eleven sores ap-
peered and brake, causing me great palls and
suffering. I feared I never should get well.
"Ealy In 1000 I went to Chicago to vislt
sister, but was confined to fey bed most of the
time I was there. In July I road a book, 0.A.
Day with a Circus; In which were statements
of cures by Hood's Sarsaparilla. I was so fru—
/tressed with the success 01 11110 medicine that^
I decided to try It. To my great gratification
the mires soon decreased, and I began to feel
better and in a short time I was up arta
out of doors. I continued to take Hood's Ser-
sapttrilla for about a year, when, having ttsett
six bottles, I liad become so fully release,
from the disease Wet I went to Nvorlc for thee
Flint & Walling Mfg. Co., and since then
=Ira NoT LOST A 5120GZ11 DAY
on 8000101. 0! sickness. I believe the disease,
is expelled front any system, I always feel well,
am In good spirits and have a good appetite.
I nm now 27 years of age 8(1(1 01(11 walk as well
as any one, except that one Ilmb is a little
shorter thou the other, owing to the loss of
bone, and tint soros formerly on my right Mg.
To my friends my recovery seems almost
miraculous, and I think Hood's Sarsaparillll
is the king of medicines." Wu.xmar
Limn, (500. Railroad St., Kendallville, Ind.
ood's
Sars parilla
Bele byall druggists. 51; sixfor$5. Preparettouly
by C. T. HOOD DO., Apothecaries, Lowell, etas&
100 Doses One Dollar
VIMPLIrtrenrc.Wimon.M1.1er•OSTMAPRORRII010
The wolves are this winter causing great
consternation in the interior of Roosia and
Finical& .A few clays ago, in the govern-
ment of Kehl; a young gui end her sweet-
heart were attacked by a pack of these
ferocious animels, and the girls as torn to
pieces, Her companion attempted to escape
by climbing a tree, bet loll down dead from
flight. Curiously enough the wolves did
not touoh the inanimate body.
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Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca„
Mo., during the past two years has
been affected with Neuralgia of the
Head, Stomach and Womb, and
writes: "My food did not seem to
strengthen me at all and my appe
tite was very variable. My face
was yellow, my head dull, and I had.
such pains in my left side. In the
morning when Ingot up I would
have a flow of mucus in the mouth,
and a bad, bitter taste. Sometimes
my breath became short, and I had
such queer, tumbling, palpitating
sensations around. the heart. I ached,
all day under the shoulder blades,
in the left side, and down the back
of tuy limbs. It seemed to be worse
in the wet, cold weather of Winter,..
and Spring; and whenever the spellf
came on, my feet and hands would
turn cold, aild 1 could get no sleep
at all.5 I tried everywh'ere, and got
no relief before using August Flower
Then the change came. It has done
me a wonderful deal of good during
the time I have taken it and is work-
ing a complete cure."
G. G. GREEN, Sole Man'fr,Woodbury,
•••
FRIED POTATOES.—Thke eight or ten tuft
large potatoes :pare and slice thin. Have
reedy In the frying pan two tablespo onfuls
of hot lard ; put in potatoes, salt, and pep.
per, and cover closely. Turn often to pre,
vent burning and so all may be browned.
When nearly tender, add a little hot water
or milk ; cover tightly and let steam a few
minutes.
A terrible aceiclent, occurred in a village
near Roubaix on Saturday night. A woman
living at the hamlet of Pont Rouge, on per-
ceiving that hor kitchen fire was nearly out,
poured a few drops of petroleum upon the
embers, and the flame produced nnmed lately
ignited the contents of the can, and a ter-
rific explosion followed. 31) 010 instant the
unfortunate woman was enveloped in a sheet
of flame. She rushed into the courtyard
shrieking for help, but when the neigh bows
hmt extinguished the flames it was foun01l
that the woman's body was simply an nor.
mous. wound. She still breathes, but her
condition is regarded as hopeless.
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WILTERE- Thf0PIEs T,t4oTne oro
Fth7dreVisei."?.:. tilt!
FORE.
In tho 11(01. 11(01 it is better, in being more
prompt and sure, and therefore the best for
tho speellio purpose. 11. 10 not 0.0 1110 c,atch-
lino that strikes the eye thus;
ST- CO S OIL
THE GRERT REMEDY FOR PMN,
THCBEST.
01 15 the best cure for all aches emir:03M
101 11 holds
THE T,* DE PROOF.
To this speeifie Piet Archbishops, Mob*
ops, Clergymen. Lawyers, Dootorso Gov-
ernors, Generals, Senator's, Morn -bora of
Congress and Legislatures, 97.0. Consuls.
Army and Navy Officers Mayors and
Officials, testify and Unite in Saying; "Wo
mitered pent;
OTHER REMEDIES PAILEDe
and St, Sacohs 011 cured promptly and per -p
manently," Por the ettme reamen
THr 13..0.0Et IMAM
11055what he eeeks end needs, 10 1101 deceived
and will have it at an/ price,