The Brussels Post, 1891-6-19, Page 22
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LYNDON OF' HIGH CIF
AN OLD SOLDIER'S LOVE STORY.
By O. DaSeS.no, Author of " When the Tido was If igh," " The Artie'_ and the Man,"
"Into a Larger Room," Eta, lite.
RAPTER XL
venoeinia's InsarromrivisN•r.
In the morning, when Colonel Lemelon
encouragements hail taken due effect upon
his mind, Percy was far more eoutieleta anti
hopeful, They rode over to lamp Deane lin•
triediately after the Castle Ettriek lunoh.
At the door of the tome Mrs, stkeozi.
who looked mysterioue, met thetn.
"Come thee way," she mut, leading the
way to the dining -room, " They del not
expeet you go soon."
After they haL1 chatted together for a few
minutes, there came sounds of clapping of
halide from outeide.
"They aro ready," said. Mrs. Mackenzie ;
"follow me. Yon tuust excuse them," elle
added turning to Colonel Lyndon. It seems
frivolous ; bet young people \vat be young
people, end Veronica being an Mvalid, we
are hound to do what we 01/31 to ammo
her."
So saying, she opened the door of the draw-
ing -reran, and ushered her gueeteee to a scene
which, for e few nen:tents, pet plexed them
must ecrabls .
The room WitS darker than usnal, a crim-
eon curtain having been dropped over one of
the windows. In front of this window, and
forming the central objeot in the room, was
a slender, stately figure, deemed in a flow-
ing robe of dead white. The ffgure was
slightly bout : golden hair fell in waving
masses to the waist the eyes were cast
down : the sweet, tremulous lips were half
parted, and the face wore an exptession of
trouble and perplexity pitiful to behold. A
truer and more exquisite Marguerite Intel
surely never been seen.
It was so beautiftil—so true—that Percy,
who was the first to enter the room, was
completely taken by surprise. " Who is it?"
he said, in a hurried whisper ; then etilllower,
"What a lovely—lovely face 1 I did not
think there was such a Merguerite in all the
world." '
This war: delightful M the little audience.
B it one felt diopbeaoeii, thnugh why he was
displeased he would have found it hard the
exulain. " Do you not see wile it be ?"
Lai 1 impaleently.
" Oh don't, 1Colone1 Lyndoix, dou't 1"
cried eldly in an agony, while Jonet and
why she had beee left alone with Pevey
Whistenley. oh, how cruel it was ! Every
one of them 1 Mrs. Maukenzie and damt,
who ought to lieve known better ; Colonel
Lyndon, too—for hail he not aided and
abetted them ?—ited the other*, very likely,
thought that Pere), h.td n r:ght 10 hope—
thought that she had the:waged him.
Encouraged. bftn! The coloox Named to
pant eromme face, and her eyes tilled
with meaty tilers. Did they think that she
would hem neared the man she loved SO —
that She 01.001,1 haVO laughed 01 11/111 atel
with hine—that she would have sent him
lime wards and forwards upon her ertande
Ah how little—haw little eny of them
knew
" Yon are dreeming," she mid, when,
fter trying to put Perey off, elte Sias driven,
at lest, to speak to him seriously, " It is
quite impossible you e011 be 111 earnest,.
" 11'hy1 " lie cried, the mlour starting; to
Itis face. " Doyoti thielee--"
" I think nothing. You have taken me
by serprise. Do—do—umay those foolish
words. I liked you so muidi yesterday, and
I like you still, .seel Veoniea pttifully
" But if you like me a little, you might
oome to like meanore," faltered Percy,
"I shall uever like you as you wish—
never—nevee ! Do, pray, understand Inc.
It is impossible "
" Impossible !" he repeated, his face
turning vet•y white. " Do you veally mean
that?"
'1 do, 1 do. If you have any regard for
me, say no more. I ehoual like to keep you
as a frtenti," said Veroniee.
He beet low over her ofreteil hand, and 1
turned speeehlees away, If she had beets 1
any one elee—any one but the richest
womati In England—he might have gone on !
pleading with her. There was as much that
he had intended to my, and he had said
nothing. Poor young Yellow ! He knew,
he turned away, how those unspoken words 1
would bent him. He could. pot speak them. ;
The thought of her riches weighed like lead I
upon his heart, and meted up his lips. !
Already she woidel he elassing him with !
those others—the " heaps upen heaps of fele
lows" who had pursuit he' :mesh° 'would
pursue her for her money. If he stayed, he
might read her contempt of him in I.er eyes,
*Wm -
T HE BBUSSELS POST. JuNE 19, i I
home before night," ettid the colonel roles-
euriegly,
I /inner raw and passed, hl r, Winet anley,
who himself 1111115 all his arrangements be -
forehead when the house WPM balI oI V ISI WM,
wee coneidc nasty annoyed b' Pevey's empty
pleee 1 end Littly Flora was In ail agony of
nervouseess leen any illeehanee should have
come to her !tailing, so teat theilinner•hour,
whieli at these masons was gene:idly the
gee est of the day at Castle Et 111011, dragged
miserably.
'The ladies left the table early, and Linty
Florae who could bear the suspense no Inger,
tnade a sign to Colonel. Lyndon eo follow
her.
" I m est do something 1 11111101 send snme.
where," she said, drawing Itim into the ein•
brasure of a window.
" Perey may have (tome bath," he sitaL "I
will find out "
In a very few moments, as the limnlady
sat trembling amongst her guests, she SAW
the colonel on the terrace, end, making EH
mum to them, stepped out of one of the
open windows and joined him,
"110011 news l'' ale eaid beeethlessly. "
read it In your filet',"
" I hope you will cell 11 gool news,," he
answered. '' Your son has 001110 back,
and is in his own room."
" I willgo to him," she said.
"If I might ventere to advise you, Lady
Flora, I should leave hint to himself. He is
naturally a lade Irritable."
Ah, well 1 you know best ; but the
thought of kis trouble cuts me to the heart
Still, that he is safe is a grand thing, How
could the —how could any one—be so cruel 1"
said poor Lady Flora,
It was certainly a mystery—and a mys-
tery It was destined to tetnain for some 0011.
sidarable time. Percy did not rush off
to the ends of the earth, as heti been
his intention when he started on that wild
ride. The ends of the earth are easy to
talk of, but very diffieult to find. He did
not even re•jont his regiment, which, under
Ile eneemstanees, weuld have been ae eon-
sibled. proceeding as he aould have tithe.
He amaieed at home, hovering like a sing-
ed tnoth round the fleme that threatened
to devour him, end making every one, and
especially his mother and his little sister,
wretched by his moody temper arid his wild
projects.
Lid OW from his infancy, and accustom.
ed to think himself of the greatest jetport:
sem in the sum of things, Percy could not
be tolerant of defeat. He was angry and
Impatient under It His sunny temper end
channing "tanners seemed, for the 11100 to
have evaporated. He talked cynically, was
mopped in gloom, and ceased from thet
pleasant consideration of the feelings end
"r em wavier •ro MATEY TV \MATE VET VOL" PIAVE 00 s ir,"
Veronica held up their /tigers waenutgly.
"But who is it? who is it 1'' pereieted
Percy. " Miss Browilee oreseing over to
where Veronica lay upon her couen, enjoy.
ing the little mystery, "do telt ma."
".Marguerite " seed Veronica,
The figure in white lifted its eyes from
the ground, and blushing deeply, messed to
the couch.
"Miele Morrison " said Percy, in great
surprise.
"Yeo, Letty—my Letty 1 and you didn't
know her," cried Milly, Wapping her hands
triumphantly. " We have been ha ving
life' pictures, Percy I do you know what
that is?"
"1 thiele I have heard of them before,"
said Percy, smiling.
" Oh, well, I hadn't ; but I think they're
lovely. And Veronica says Letty does them
splendidly. We had Sleeping Beauty just
now, and I was the Prince; shall we try
something else now? Veronica has heaps
anct heeps of dresses and things, and it's
such fun,"
" Oh, no, no!" said Lean who had been
curiously embarrassed by her tastexperiment.
"1 said it was only for ottreelves, Milly ;
and I could not be anything else after lelar- j
guente, I know. I will go away and get '
into myself again now, if everybody will ex•
ease me,"
"Do, darling," said. Mrs. alackenele
"and then potencies Captain Winetanley and
the colonel will wheel out Mies Browne 10,
the verandah, andJattet and I will tidy tide
room for visitors. 1 :should be aehamed for
it to be sem; as it is."
Colonel Lyndon had given a hint of the
state of the ease DI the good -mean ed lady, .
and this was her way of itelpiug Percy to
the realisation of his wish,
when the colonel Mel helped to wheel the
couch into the verencla, he meld Mai he
would go and have a look at Dearest Boss,
and bring back word how ole was. "Percy
will ammo you until wo come beak," he
01111,
"Oh, yes ; I am sore Ins will. Captain
Winstanley is always amusing," said Ver.
°nice lightly,
In a very few minutes her opinion of
Percy was changed.
At first she could n()t—ShO would not —
underetand whoa he meant, Tie to talk to
'er of love I This kind, pie:monk amiable
young fellow, whom shelled looked upon as
a brother, and fro ,it whom she had accepted
a thousand kindnesses 1 Ib wee too much,
H ithe nad liked him lees elle would have
found it easier to boar. And that he shoeld
misunderstand her 001 that they all :slit:mid 1
Poe, ivitb e burning sense of shame and in.
dignetion, Veronica had begun to reallee
and contempt front liar would kill him.
So, at least, he mad to lumself, as, without
waiting to see any one, or to consider what
any one would think of him, he deshed
headloim away from the house,
Colonel Lyndon 11101 him at the door of
the stables,
'' I am going 4.4" lie said, "Say good.bye
to Mrs. Meakenzie for tne."
"Going otr 1 Where ?" cried the colonel,
aghast.
"1 don't know. Anywhere 1" he shout-
ed beek.
The colonel followed him into the stable,
where he woe giving directions about his
horse, and tried to draw hitn aside, But
Percy resisted.
" Can't you let a fellow alone?" he eaki,
"I—I—don't feel very well. They're too
lively for me up there. Now then "—to the
groom—" brimg hitn out."
In another instant he was in the saddle
and clattering np the avenue.
The record is kept at castle Ettriek to
this day of Percy's dare•devil ride that Gran.
ing, His horee was strong, fresh, end full
of corn, and he spayed neither hen nor Win -
self. Ile wars pose:mewl by that imptilse
whioh comae to us all somotimes—the
impolse to rush awa.y front our trouble --to
hide our humilietion from the eyes of the
world by hiding onreelvee.
An hour later one of the shooting party
returnee; quietly to Cestle littrick, after the
sport of the day, saw against the eery the
Sparc of a man on Iterseletek, flying at what
seemoo to hen a teen:en:let z pace over the
moor. He stand watching until it disap-
eared in the elwelow of te a hills
o " Either that horse or 111411 at rune
way," ha said to himself, as he tensed
perms his way.
When Colonel Lyndon returned to the
Caetle, Percy was still out. Altar what had
passed between hitneelf MIA LedFlora, he
felt bounil to toll hor that he httd not left
him at Deep Done, and that there heti been
some httle disturbance there,
" 1 know nothing for certain," he sigd ;
" but I believe Percy asked, and was refue.
ed. This is between ourselves, of course."
Lady Flora turned very pale.
" 1111, 10 80 we shall soon finnl out," she
answered. " I wonder whore the poor boy
is now?"
"That is more than I atm toll you, Lady
Flora. Ire left Deep Deene tthout an hour
before 1 did."
"1 hope —I hope—ho luts met with no ma-
ablant. What was he riding 't"
" nine Charlie—the SarCHt [111 d strongest
horse in Mr. Winstanley's stable, 1 em
sure there its no fear of that. He is takieg
a longer ride than 01811111, We shall sea him
udshes of others which had made his pried -
pal charm.
Lest Percy should lose altogether the
sympathy of same who may hoem bognei to
Gem an interest in him, let me say, in pas-
sing, that there WAS nothing abnormal in
the change that had come to him. Kind
womee all over the world are forming men
after his typo. If we bring up our deelings
in an atmosphere of indulgenoe, if wo teach
them to believe that the world is made for
them, and that others, sum as thoy can
minister to their comfort and pleasure, have
no right there, what are we to expect when
Nature, who has no favourites, takes them
in hand 1 Surprise and indiguation, as a
result, ortainly. Aed these were what
Percy felt.
His mother, who, while sho could nob
help feeling very angry with Veronica for
refusing him fell a little angry with herself
for her-blendness in thinking that he could
not be refused, was wonderfully pietienb and
gentle with him, It was only when, hav.
ing gathered from Janet that Ins suit was
I hopeless, he began to telk wittily of leaving
the English ermy, and engegiag himself as
a soldier in a foreign country, that oho
began to feel angry with him, and then
there were one or two little contests be-
tween them, which had no result but to
embitter Percy's feelings and her own,
Milly was the Wil.U0SA of one of. those
SQ0U0S, and she told Letty about it, weep.
ing. The two had left Deep Deane by this
time, end were bard at work on their las-
eons.
" Oh, Lathy 1" alto cried, " what shall wo
do? Percy is ao unhappy, And poor mother
crass every evening: And he is talking of
going away now, end getting himself killed
—away into Turkey or Russia, where
they my, there will be wee soon. And if
he does go mother will die, I know tho
will," sobbed poor liltba 1E4.
Letty comforted her at well as eho could.
Net, brother was talking wildly, she said.
He did not know whet he was saying. In a
little lime he would be himself again. But,
ealtny as she spoke, her gentle heart was
burning with such au anger as she ltd
mover lett before. How could he—how
could any one—make those who loved hint
miserable only become he was sufroring
hentself 7 One's own heppiness—one's own
comfort—it was such re little thing to Letay,
who, indeed, had not boon broughb up in
the lap of Indulgence, t/1101 Eh found it
difficult to imagine how 11 could be ehoson
by any human -being before the happiness
and comfort of others, It had boot this
domain Peroy's nature—his slimly Mtn -
per, end his readiness to serve others—
which, before his unhappiness, had made
Letty admire hiut, That one disappoint:.
meet ehould thange him m WAS, ehe
thought, very pitifut and ead. And then
Letty, who was indulgent towarde every
ono except, hereelf, begeu to think that
Percy did not kuow how nithappy he made
ids Mends, and that some the (eight to to
She had no one to whom she meld speek
about these things, foe Mille. would sot
havo looked at them as she did, and she
could not bum rendered to speak to Lady
Vlore of' hey son, and Colonel Lyndon had
left Omar: lettrick for a few dere Aud
Effie brooded end brooded, looking on WiLll
a keenness of :sympathy that, ie its form,
amounted to poen, upon the RUPPOW of her
Metals until tit het she meld contain her -
sole no longer. " re no one else will tell
him, I must," eke thought.
They were sitting at lunch in the dining-
hall—she and Lady Flora, end elilly end
Percy—no one else, and the two or three
ladies staying at the Castle had driven omit
in the waggonette to take the gentlemen
their 101101>. Percy, who was merely bill-
ing with his knife and fork, looked unhap-
py and restless. Lady Flova's eyee were
rod, ea if she had been weeping, and poor
little flinty looked from ono so the GLIM
sadly making matters worse instead of bete
ter by her mute appeal. It was then that
Letty made up her inind.
"11 will be very hard to do ; but I must
do it, There le no one else," she said to
herself, with decision,
But how to do it ? That was the question.
She thought, over it all the afternoon,
growing hot and cold by turns, and wish.
mg, more than once, that the idea had
never come to hey at all. Before evening
her resolution Isms taken. She believed
she knew a means of carrying it into
effect.
(TO BE 000TI01'ED.1
An Actress's Palse Neek
A welt known actress of advanced years,
who recently appeared ie this city in a
youthful character'used an ingenious eon.
trivenee to make herself presentable in a
low out dress.
A strong leather belt is clasped about
the waist of the pevsons wearing the
machine, and this forms the basis for strips
of pepier macho which go to make a bust,
nook and back of generous pteportioes.
The outside covering of tide counterfeit
consists of the 100101001 kind of flesh-eoloyed
silk, lined with the softest kind of kid leetlier.
This combinatiou makes a remarkably
lifelike skin.
However, the height of the deceptive ert
is reached in the ingenious arrangement
m
which maithe breast rise and fall -to eine
respond to the breathing end the emotions of
the wearer. Direeely beneath the outside
cover of silk and leather bit thin ale cushion
stretched to the proper shape by means of
wire. Broad but very. flexible springs rest
against the wearer's bosom and ave con-
nected 10 the air eitehion. The slightest
heaving of the bosom is communicated by
those springs to the nir eueltion, and es a
result the movement is mauled enough to
deceive even the nest expert. The silk
cevering ie made gradually thinner Dear the
top, and end:: pretty well tip on the neek,
which it eloeely deeps. A neeklace of dia.
monde &ewers the avrangemen 1011 this point
and makes the deeeption
dolphin Record.
Proof of the Earth's Motion,
Take a good-sized bewl, till it nearly fel
of water and place it upon the floor of the
room whielt is not exposed ai shaking or
jarring from the street, Sprinkle over the
surface of the water 110001.115 of lyeopodillill
powder—a white substance which is some.
times used by ladies in making their toilets,
and which can be pinehased of0.11)'druggist.
Next, upon the surface of this mating of
white powder melte, with powdered akar-
acme a straight black Hite, say an inch or
two in length. Having made this little
bleak mark on the surface of the contents
of the bowl, lay down upon the floor eloee
to the bowl a stick or some &thee straight
object, so that it will lie exactly parallel
with the charcoal mark. If the line happens
to be parallel with a math in the floor, or
with any stationtwy object in the mom, this
will serve as well, Leave the bowl undis-
turbed for a few hours and then observe the
position of the black math with reference to
the object it was parallel with. It will be
found to have moved about, and to have
shifted its position front oast to west—that
is to say, in that direction opposite to thab
of the MOVement of the earth upon its axis.
The earth, in simply revolving, has carried
the water and everything else in the bowl
around with it, but the powder upon the
surfam has been loft behind a little. The
line will always be found to have moved
from east to west, which is perfootly good
proof that everything else contained in the
bowl has movell the other way,
The Cost of U. S. Soldiers' Graves.
It costs the United States about 60c, a
month to take care of a dead soldier who
lost his life in the seevioe of the Union. The
sundry civil bill passed by Congress at its
last session appropyiated 8100,000 for ex.
parses of the national cemeteries during
the fiscal year, In addition to this there WES
the sum of 576,000 set asido for salaries of
superintendents of these burying grounds,
and there were also some odds and ends,
amounting to several thousand dollars, for
supplying headstones where they were
lacking, and so forth,
The govevemenb takes charge of all these
cemeteries, which aro under the direat con-
trol of the quartermaster general of the
army. There eve 82 of them in all, including
an aggregate of 327,1 70 burials,
Tho biggest of the 82 netional cemeteries
are at, A nelerson villa, , with 13,702 dead;
Arlingtom Va., with 16,350 ; Chalmette,
Lie, with 12,620 1 Chattemoop, Tenn.,
with 1 3,023 ; Frederiuksburg, Va., with
15,273 ; Jefferson Barracks Mo., with 1 1,•
647 ; Antietam, Md, wthi 16,837 ; Mari-
etta, La., with I13,982 ; Nnehvillo, Tenn.,
with 16,537 ; Salisbury, N. 0.'with 1 2,132,
and Vieksbutg, Miss., with 16,620. Of ehe
327,1 70 interred, 178,223 are known and
148,054 unidentified. About 0,300 of the
emtive number are Coufaclerates.
It is Brave.
To auger alone,
To ignore unkindness.
To seek for sun:thine in lifo.
To be cheerful amid trouble.
To refuse to listen to scandal.
To discountenance wieltedness wherever
found.
To keep an entrusted morob when ite tell -
leg would benefit; you.
To my you ottit'b afford an expenditure
Whieh would cramp your purse.
To este about things you ought to know
end don't,
To follow your oonviobions in the tam of I
Morn.
To saorifloo premise gains for definite
right:,
To wok to live, end in living to wrest
Itappleose from your surroundinge,
A SIBERIAN WINT.SR MARKET.
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meats, Fish an II .111 are 0014 Frozen *11
*Clocks.
1 hare rarely seen any thing more in.
terestine than the nuirlice, here, EA Ole Illlg0
open spasm rasped to the cellio,trotb, whieb Is
deserted on °thee weeks days, becomes
Saturday ono of tile most unlimited 50.01100
coneolvable writes .4 0DIT0141/011d011t ill
Kr001101APSii, Siberie, Thu twasents for
miles around arrive by hundreds and Ittin•
tirade, driving in their sledges laden wIte
various wares. These 01..0 fDPIl101i Up in
seotions by the police. Every thing 8001118
to have ite regular place, for on eiteh mar-
ket day the arrangemeut is the same. Now
a stroll through the noiey _crowd reverds
curiosities quite unknown to the untraveled
leuropeen.
To &eeriest i.110 900110 le one teeming with
interest. All kinds of prmdsions are eltielly
sold. They are Emmert out either on the
ground OP 011 the sledges. You will notice
the grotesque effect of the frozen mutton,
also the frozen pigs. Between them, oti the
grotted, are seen round white blocks, whith,
to my groat astoniehinent, I found were half
gallons 01 >111 1 As It matter of fact, here
and now, everything ill the " eatable lbmie"
is frozeu, so it can be kept without datnage
the whole winter.
Live se eels, eeanto omit fish, sulliolent to lost
several inonths, are killed as soon as the
frost sots ia, and in It very short titne become
as hard as stone, SD that it requires some
considerable heat to soften them. The
prices of the varffius edibles are, tts a rule,
astoundingly low. I give you a short list,
which I think in: y be of interest : Beef,
mutton or pork (I ny part) averages from le
pence to 2 pence per pound. In the fish
market starlet or eturgeon, which fetch in
St. Petersburg 5 ell:filings to .J7 shillings 6
pence per theea pounds aro hero sold foe
about 1 shilling 0 pence. Butter averages
0 pence to 1 altilling per ;manta milk le
pence and 2 pence pee gallon, black bread
penny and white bread h pence per pound.
lettering thu summer months every thing is
elightly dearer.
Italians in the United States,
It ta believed by many that the providence
which evolves good out of evil will yet turn
to the ath•antage of the American nabion
the bloody Etna tingle happenings that have
given to the eity of New (Means such an
unenviahle distinction. These assert that
an immediate result will be the closer ecru-
tinizing of immignente from Italy, the land
of the tuitvierous Mae, Mild Ulla thus many
undesirable persons will be deterred from
seeking a home ort this side the Atlantic.
That some will be thus kept away is not
improbable though it is very doubtful whether
the most undesirable class of immigrants
mu by existing laws be sifted out. That
the recent tragedy has not lessened the mem
bey of arrivals in evident. Indeed the ate
rivals tele spring are more nummoue than
ever -1 7,077, mostly from Italy and dm
southern eounthice ot Europe, lamled
at New York :luring the week ending Anvil
ee, while the arrivals for tee eorresponding
weeks of 11110 and 110110 wet•e 131(1 10
7,07 1, reepeutively. It is clear theme:see
that some other test must be adopted, titan
that which requires each 110W 110:11el. to be
possessed of belonglige of a certain speehied
value, if the tide tenni these eetnitries is to
be perceptildy idayed. Tit, New York
beee:thig Post suggests a knowledge of the
Engle:11 language, the Tante a tax on each
immigrant, while the 1)1' suggeets the
family test. It says " what we want in thie
country is eitecens, not sujoureere. When
O Lath:au:en or an Italian or other
foreigner ethies lime to live Et, few
years, make tnonoy, met tit',, return
to hie native century Inc spend it, he always
opines alone, lee.ving his family, if he him
one, on the other side. If a man has a wife
and. children releet him unless they are with
hen. Such n test would bopmotiotble, andso
far es it went wholesome. Aenan away front
his family in a foreign country naturally
drifts into reckless habits, The promisee of
the family would not only act as a restvain-
ing influence upon him, but it would be ae
ovidenoe that the mats came to this country
with the inanition of making a home here."
11 15 not too inuoh to say that the immigra-
tion question is not the least among the inany
difficult problems which the republic) has at
present on its hands. Thankful should Can -
adieus be that the same problem does not
confront us, and that our interest in the
American situation is one thet springs
largely from contrast. We have land and
homes awaiting thousands ot fatuities of the
right kind, lent for such as many of the re-
cent new comers to the United States we
have no wokome. No immigration is a thou.
sand times better than such immigration.
Railway Laws in the United States.
Several inoklente in railway experiences
with the American courts of law and the
law-tnakers have recently occurred that aro
of interest es showing that our neighbors
are nob disposed to allow those important
and necessary public servants, the railways,
to Isemome absolute masters and dictators.
The other day a jury at leluncie, Ind.,
rendered a verdict for the plaintiff ill a suit
against the Lake Erie and Western Rail-
way`for damages due to ejectment from a
Mans for refusing to pay an extra charge
because no ticket had been bought before
enterieg the train. It is well known that
this extra, eharp is imposed solely to reduce
to the lowesbpotnt Iboodaiger of " In -making
down" by oonductore coiled:Mg fare on the
trains. It did not appear to the Indians,
jury that paesengers could fairly be taken
to iosure the company against the dishottesey
of its own agents. On the seem day a bill
was reported favorably in the Michigan
Legislature compelling sleeping car Isom -
pines to keep the epper berths closed when
not in nee. Hero the right of the passenger
is not to imperative, eine° in any ease he
gots all ho pays for, but as he pays a very
good price for what ho does get:, there is no
reason why the company ehould nob give
ae much as it can without loss or hum-
vonience, The ,pietatice of " making up"
the upper berth is only a device far making
the lower one by itself undesirable and thus
enItming the passenger to pay for Et
" section" of two berths. It will bo re-
membered, also, that 0 recent clealsion made
sleopimg ear companies responsibe for valu•
ables I 11 the berths unless a safe place woro
provided for them, In all these eases the
law simply tries to make the companies do
what, le they had sense, they woeld clo
themselves and eeattre the credit of doing
it.
Tho Lord knew what wee best for man%
peace oe mind when he failed to pub oyes in
the back of the hoed.
Teach solf•denial, and make its practice
pleasurable, and you create: for the world a
destiny more sublime then over issued from
the brain. of the Wildeet dreamer,
" No, mum," said Bridget, "I didn't
bring any references. I didn't think you
would care for the opinions of some of the
persona I have boon workieg for," And
Bridget was twomptly ougageth—New York
Per:eerier,
DEFENDINV TUE DEFEINGELESS,
ing.land's Solicitu_41nda,efor Two drietut
L
strliring ef meg Wale
" The Etir of England," mid Lord Mania
field ono bendred mei nineteen VOW'S ago,
" lute long been toe pure fric a alums, 44141
evevy men Is free who breethee it. Every
men who mines into Englan1 ti entitled to
the proteetion of Eng'ish hew, whatever
oppression he may heretofore havesnifered,
or whatever may be the color of his skin."
These weeds were uttered in the oase of
negro slave who had been brought to Lon-
don from Virginia, whose tuaeter was about
to send him to the island. of Jemaina, them'
to be offered for sale in the slave market.
While the vessel which was to take Itint
away lay in the 'Cleanses, a writ of enberm
101p110 was sued out in behalf of the negro
and the ease WES heard before the great,
Chief Justioo of England, who male -rod the
primmer to he discharged from custody.
Lord alantheld's opinion, from which we
hitve quoted two sentences, ranks itinong
01100.
After
celebrated decisions in jurisprucl-
neeAfter the lapse of more than a 001liAlry,
1111(1 now that slavery is no longer tolerated
by law in at*, colony of &ghoul or in auy
part of the American Union, it seems
strange that any question relating to the
tight to
moan meta re; RONDAVE
should come berm an English court • and
yet only a fortnight ago the Chancery 'Diet,
sion 01 11)0 High Court of Justice in London
was ettfied upon to appoint a guardian for
two African children on the ground thee:
they were about to be taken back to South
Africa, where they wotild be held in a
form of servitade WAS practically
stavery,
A sliort time since there was a, show in
Regent street, London, known es the Stan-
ley and African Exhibition. At this show
two little boys were exhibited, named Goo.
too and Inyokwana, who were deSeribed 05
iatives of 1,Imzila's country, which lies to the
oeth of the Treusvaal and east of Matebe•
Leland. The parents of these children hied
been killed in SOID 0 tribal disturbances, and
the boys eame into the posasesion of 11, White
railer. This trader feend his way, ill and
stilided, to the hones el a Mee. Thorinien,
he wife ef an Englishmen who settled in
50111), years ago. elm Thorburn
cared for the sick man unt il his recovery,
am' in gratitude for her 'thirteens lie made a
monist of the little Alaimo boys to her.
:he brought them to England ne servauts,
andeent them tothe exhibit eel Nt Lore theyat-
traded n goal deal of at million, and beeatne
a :subject Of iniereet te the Britith and For-
eign Antieelavery Seeeity. The seeretitry
ol Obi aseeela• Me bee 1111.1 HITtell1311NIVe that
t lads if taken lime, to Atm Ma would
`.10TrAL1.Y 110.') 11 sLAV 1.
there, and c, he applied last autumn te
Baron Pollock, one ot the 1,' go .1/ thp Ex-
die-gni:1' Division of the flip eatut of
netiee, fois a. writ of helit e0'po to in-
quire into the legality of Mrs, 5 horbuen'e
:nista:ay Over the cell:trete At the hearing
which then took place, the learned Judge
expressed the opinion that there was no
evidenee at all thet the lads would be treat -
4,1 otherwise than as domestieservants upon
their retuen to Swaziland with Mrs, 'Thor.
bum, anti nething to show that any condi-
tion of slavery existed there, The writ,
therefore, was dismiesed.
'aids result did not please the Draish and
Foreign Antheitavery Society, and that as-
meiation upon the 8th instant implied to
Mr. Justice Sterling, in the Chtuesery Divi -
lion, for the appointment of a guardian for
(Motor: and Inyokwana. In behalf of the
society, evidence was given tending to show
that the tribal laws in Swaziland have nob
been affected by the abolition of slavery ber
the British Parliameet. "0.01 thea in Swazi.
hunt it mild form of slavery, serfdom, or
vassalage is pettetised which depends very
much upon the temperament of the owner."
The testimony on the part of Mrs. Thor -
burn, however, indicated that neither
salvery nor anything like it peevailed in
Swaziland, but that the boys under the
hIAVS of that dependency were the wards of
Mrs. Thorburn, and would be at liberty
to
00 \MUM 01050 PLEASED
npon attaining their majority. No question
was made as to the leinclnese of Mrs. Thor -
burn toward tem children, and her counsel
insiated that if the court were to take these
boys at the instance of such a sooiety ottt of
the custody of people who had taken good
care of them, "11 might find itself called
upon to appoint pardians for thousends of
children who were in the same position at
the instance of any busybody who chose
to interfere,"
Tho learned judge, however, decided thet
a guardian for the little 'Africans ought to
be appointed, and he directed a reference to
take testimony as to who was the mese fit
and proper person to he guardian. He ex.
premed his agreemenb with the opinion of
Baron Polloak that there had been no ill
breatment of the boys by Mrs. Thoeburn ;
but the advantage of eppointing a guardian
would be that there would thou be some one
under the jurisdiction of the mud responsi-
ble for the welfare of the children, who
could be held aceounteble in ease the boys
should be practically enslaved ttpon their
return to Swaziland, From the tenor of his
remarke 11 did not seem improbable that
Mrs. Thorburn herself might be chosen as
the guardian : but if so, it would be with
such reetrietions as to render hey amenable
to the process of the court:, and to removal
and punishment in ease she should ill treat
the boys, even 111 South Africa.
It would be difficulty to find a more
striking instance thou tlus case affords of the
world-wide variety of rights and ititevests
which come before the thuds of Greab
tain foe adjedication.
The Reart.
The heart's youth does net pass, as long
as its purity and inn000nee mimes, We
sear our own hearts by the cherishing ofsenti.
month eve are directed to expel ; wo b000me
discontented and oatl our discontent Icnow-
ledge ; we forget that all knowledge, whiolt
does not inorease our happiness, is spurious,
aild not to be teusted, How strong are the
heart's first ;struggles under SOtTOW ; hOW it
battles with distress and WILL'13 against; de-
spair and diseppointiment ; how vigorous its
efforts to combat and overcome ; buti sorrow
is tho strongor—ay, sorrow is the stronger—
it is drawn into the heart by the Arst breath
that wo inhele of this world's eir—o, small
seed, but still it grows and grows, and
twists and twists, until it ertiehee the poor
home: ; oud then, than we clio
No man met totswer for his own valor or
courage 1111 he has boon in clangor.
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