The Brussels Post, 1891-6-26, Page 3,TuNE 26, 1891
TEE BRUSSELS POST,
LYNDON OF HICTH CLIFFE,
AN OLD SOLDIER'S LOVE STORY.
By 0. Dssrarto, Author of " Whim tee Title Wao High," "Till Artist and the Man,
" Into a Lae r Romu," Ete„ ISte
CHAPTER XII
A LITTLIS 11001 OF PeAnl.e.
Business hod trolled Colonel Lyndon front
Castle lettriek. His solicitoe, the head of a
limn that had managed the High Clitle pro-
perty for many years, had weitLen, mistiest,
ing him, if at all poseible, to 10601 him
there. Basiuese was more important to
Colonel Lyndon than it had been, for he
had, or as be hoped and believed, he would
soon have the NI:create of another besides
himself to consittee, He saw Lady Pere,
who begged him to return as soon as lie Wae
free, aud travelled south.
It was partly the setnewhat mysterious
purport of the lawyee's letter, and partly a
fear of being premature, that prevented
hiinfrom speaking to Letty before he start-
ed. He still thought of her flesh, and he
would not, foe the mem sake of witting his
own mind at rest, have r sketl the
dener of losing her confidenee. But
bar friendly way of bidding him farewell,
with t,he frank pleasure which had shone M
her sweet blue eyes when he toll her that
he would certainty retuni to Castle Ettrick
in a few days, encouraged him to hope that,
when the right moment came, she would
say " Yes" to the entreaty that was
trembling on his lips.
The businese at High Cliffe ,was soon trans.
acted. Colonel Lyndon took the opportunity
of looking more closely into his tanks than
he had previously done. He found that the
value of his property was increasing, that
he could afford to make good settlements on
a wife, and that, a little painting and re-
deeerating would nutke High Clitre a de.
lighttul summer residence. These he set
on foot tit mice, to the great satisfac-
tion of his man of business, who had been
fearing that he wont(' never settle at home.
" Lynrion of High Clitre is going to marry;
you mark my words," he said to his wife
that even i
His suspicions would have been confirmed
11 118 could have followed hie client to Loll.
don the next day.
The colonel had one intimate friend living
there 1 she was the daughter of their near -
eat neighbour at High Clitre, and the had
married a man who was kept in London by
his busiuess the greater part of the year.
Immediately on his (snivel be called at
her house, and Was shown into the drawing.
room, where she was sitting over fancy-
work.
" Elizabeth," he said, " r wo,nt you to put
on your bonnet and come out with me.
you?"
"Coi tainly I will," sheanswered " Where
do you want to go?"
"To a jeweller's ; one who may be depend-
ed npon."
He smiled, anti she shook her finger at
him.
" A t last," she said. "I prophesied it."
" Prophesied what?"
" That you would fall in love before the
year was out.
They went out together. The colonel
hailed a hansom.driver who took them to a
jeweller on whom his friend said he could
depend, and they spent, an hour at his
counter. He made his choice at last—a,
small hoop of pearls, exquisite in form and
color, and a necklace of the same beisetiful
stones, enclosed 100 casket lined with pole
blue velvet. Should they be sent? the metier
of the gems asked. No, he answered. He
would pay for them at onto, and take them
away.
Outside the shop he thanked his friend
for coming with him, and soid good-bye to
her.
" You will let me know ?" she said , look•
ing at him affectionately.
If there is anything to toll," he answer-
ed, with a curious smile.
"The woman that you love, and that
does not love you," said the lady, " vrotdd
be--"
" Hush 11(0011 1" said the colonel hurried-
ly,—" Remember my age."
Without waiting tor another word, he
hastened elf, made his final arrangements,
and, with the little ring, of whosepossession
he was never for one moment unconscious,
in his breast-pooket, took the night mail for
Scotland. At Edinbugh he remained for
an hour or two, Mr. Wuistanley having re-
quested him to see to some business of his
in passing, and this brought him to Ettrices
at about the same hour 18 On the former
occosien, when Milly and Letty had been
Ms travelling companions. Wishing to give
a pleasant surprise to his friends, lie sent
round the °menage aontammg his traps by I ;
the back way, and walked ttp to the house. I
It was a clark night for the time of year.
The skv was (layerwith clouds wiclouds awl oc-
casionally there could be heard in the dis-
tance the low ruinbling of thunder. The
colonel saw no one in the grounds, but he
heard voices which made him suppotm that
some of the party wore out of doers. With
is quick, swinging, step he walked along
the avenue, anti ran up the steps that
led to the terrace, Lady Flora, who was
alone in the drawing -room, taw him, and
gave a little cry.
"Olt, colonel 1" she said; " how glad 11101
to 800 '0U I We did not expeot you so
soon.',
"I thought I might venture to steal a
march on you," he said. "How are you
all 7 11 0801110 ages since you went away,'
"It seems ages bo me," said Lady Moms
with a sigh. "'Everything 10 as it was,"
"Letty—Miss Morison, 1 inelin—" •
" 1 believe she is in the school -room, I
will send my innAd to bell her you have
come."
Tlie meld, 1011.0 was rung tor, went in
search of Lefty and returned with the news
that she wee neither in the selmobroom nor
With Miss Milly.
" Then she must have gone nut. Foolish
child—and the weather AO threatening I"
said Lady Flora. "1! you ace not too tired,
00101101—"
" I will go in soar= of 1101'with pleasure,"
he miewered,
At this moment Mrs, Wilson, Lady Flora's
daughter, and two et. three 011101' 111(1100
eamo into the drawing -room, saying that the
rain had begun. Colonel Lyndon, who
stood in the ,shadow while they Were in the
light, made sure that Letty was 1(01amongst;
them, and bhen hurried away to look for
her.
beyond the eltrubbery that bounded the
law»,
In the entranee to the suminer.hoese 0110
stopped arid looked. book. Iler heart wao
beating much faster than (Isnot, but her face
was pule, and her foot and hands were as
cold as lee. Seeing no 0110 she breathed a
deep sigh, which 11.11 partly of ('01101 1(110
partly of trouble, nail (1.1(0 about to retraee
her stops tweeds the house, when it emit -
ling sound amongst the shrubs to tho right
of the stunitter-licu,e struek her ear, and she
hesitated for a moment.
In the next, moment she heard a familial'
voice saying—
" I beg your pardon for distuthIng you,
bliss Morrison, if le really 700*—"
the eound he of tvoice Letty trembled,
and evevy particle of culotte left her face,
The moment she had been at onee dreading
and longing for hail come then. She was
bound to (meek.
" Captain Winstanley," the said, tit a low
and tremulous voice, which hail 01,1001 curl.
fete effect upon him, " I want to speak to
you. Will you be angry with me if I say
exaetly what I think ? "
" Angry with you 1" he exclaimed.
She interrupted him hastily. " 011 I please
— please, do not speak in that way. You
would have every right to be angry—and —
and—I know I have no right to say anything.
But there is no one else," cried poor Letty
piteously ; " and I love them Aliso. And I
thought if I told. you—I, who have no in-
' terest in anything but seeing others happy
— that—that---"
Poor child she had undertaken a task
that was almost tee mu= for her strength.
"Sit down," said Percy, drawing her Into
the suinmer-house ; "7011 are trembliug.
All there is the thunder. We shall have a
storm And you have nothing on your head,
nothing on your shoulders."
11 Prey—pray—do not 111111(1 use," said
Letty earnestly.
"But I do mind you. Who could help
it? 1,1110(1 you so miteli—" and there he
broke short, awed, ib might be, by the
startled expression of her face. "1 mean,"
he said seriously, " that I am ready to listen
to whatever you have to say."
The poor 01111(1 rewarded him with one of
her sweetest smiles. "Thank you," she
said; "that makes it easier for me to speak."
And then she pouted out what, for 00 mmly
days, she had been hoarding up in her
heart : told him, in eo many words, that he
eels meting oelflahly ; bagged him. not to go
11110 a foreign army ; said that if he did so
it would break his mother's bean, and end-
ed by giving him in a few words her siinple
creed, "Wo were not put into the
world to live far ourselves. I am
certain of it," said Letty. "If we time
in that way, we are going against
our nature, and we must—we must—be
unhappy. God wills us to ham _pleasuee,
but only So—oh 1 ant sure 01 )1-1 11111 sure
of its -only in min
making happiness and good
for others. If 11 15 tor those we love,' she
cried, her sweet voice thrilling with a pas.
51011 which she could not restrain, "then
we may suffer—yes—suffer until we die,
and yet count ourselves Nest"
To all this what could Peroy say? They
were new thoughts to him. Letty had
judged him rightly. It 1000 00 111(110 selflsh-
uess of character; it was thoughtlessnees or
inability—only too common, alas !--to =tee
into and understand the feelings of others,
that had been the cause of his unconscious
cruelty. Brought face to fose with Letty's
simple creed oflife, she saw his own life as
he had never seen it before
When, after a brief pause, during which
one of them could have heard the beating of
the others heart, Percy apoke, there Was
no trace in his manner of the airy gallantry
that, had not Letty been the most innocent
and simple being upon earth, might have
alarmed her at the beginning. He was too
deeply penetrated with respect and admira-
tion to be able to speak to her lightly.
He merely thanked Mir for speaking to
him with so 11111011frankness, and said that
he would 00(111(101' what she had said. In
the meantime, he hoped she would believe
that he did not wish to tnake his mother and
friends unhappy. Then—for the threatened
sterol had not come—he walked by herside
as far as the terrace -steps, and bade her
good night with the respect he might have
shown to a queen.
•
When Colonel Lyndon lett Lady Flora,
he took the direction m
of the sumer-house,
whleh lie know to be one of Letty'sfavourtte
taunts.
The little hoop of pearl% was in his pocket,
He took it out of its case, and lied it in the
hollow of his hand. Would it, or would it
not, be transferred presently to the little
hoed which was so dear to him? This was
the question he 1000 asking of himself as he
walked slowly across the shadowed sward.
He approached the summer -house front
theleft. It was surrounded on both sides
by the trees, 80 that he was not seen. This
was the moment when Letty was standing
in the entrance 01 1110 surnmer.honee, and
when Percy, who had come up front the op-
posite diem:tient was looking at her.
It was usual 1» the evening for the shin-
inerhouse to be lighted by a swinging lamp.
Tide lamp swung ova the entrance, and as
Letty stood, its light shone full upon her.
Both of the men, who, being each uncoil-
eeieus of the other's 'presence, had their at-
tention fixed upon her, noticed the svistful
eagerness of her face. One was on the point
of speaking ; the °thee, as we knew, spoke.
When Percy Winstanley's voice fell upon
the eitenee, and when, with the ale of one
whose expectation is fulalled, the 700015 011.1
in the white dress went out to moothini,
the second wistehee turned away, breathing
heavily for a moment like one in physical
pain, Ho shot into a, side path, and
walked on aimlessly', until he reach-
ed the outer gate of the Measure.
ground, Then, semembering that tile
hOtir 10011 grOwing late, he tetra/red his
stops. Ile had not go= far before he
knocked up (spinet Percy Winstatiloy, W110
WAS strolliug in the opposite direction.
Poimy had not heard of the colonel's areival.
He gave him esi overflowing welcome, to
whieTi there was scarcely any rosponee ; and
they walked on togothee towards the house
111 ellenee.
Presently he made the oolonel (stub by
saying, "You take an 111100051 111 Miss Mor-
rison, don't you ? I have Mot boon seeing
1101. 1(1."
Colonel Lyndou made a vague romork
about the weather beieg doubtful for evening
rambles, and Pereyfurther Burps/god hitn by
ying—
She braved the Weathee, poor little
thiug I braved it, 1 believe, on purpose to
speak to nio, Colonel, I 1011 700 the tenth,
I =lad net have believed 10 unless I hod
seen it whinny own oyes. That timid 0..1
has the heart of to hero. She puts my 00011
people to the Muth. My mothee Would -hot
haVis spoken to me its alio did 1"
0
* * * * 0 *
After her little supper with Milly in the
eehoolsreom that evening, Letts, had stolen
down into the garden. She was dressed,in
the dead•whito robe that she had worn when
the took, for a fog momente the 0101.00101.of Marguerite tut Deep Deane, and that
Veronica had insisted upon giving to her ;
her head was without covering of any kind,
and as she walked slowly across the green
sward, with her hands arnetiecl in trent of her
and lior eyes out, sho Melted in the failing
light like a beautiful phantom. Meeting 110
Ono, she walked on to the =miner-house—a
little rustle lodge, Which eroWned a low hill
" Veer mother I" said the colonel housee.
ly. " What do you Me= 9" 1
"I don't wonder in the leaet that you
are astonished," said Percy. "i Was, 30
11111011 so, that et firet---but it would be cruel
to her even to mention what, I thought."
lie laughed tis Ile went on. Nile gave
me a regules. oernem, I have never keen 00
preached to in my life 1 told, me I WaS Set.
6011, begged tne not to make my people un•
happy, gave ine one or two 01 1181' opinions.
Upon rey soul " Pertly. carried away
by his enthusiasm, " if a Mall WM to fellow
.theni he Avould be a liern—a :mint 1 the
world would not be worthy of him,"
He stopped, 1111(1 for the space of five
seconds the eolonel was silent, then he said,
hi his ordinary tone of oieo—
Aol NVhal, did you. say, Percy 2''
"I scarcely remember, You see, I was a
little taken (Meek. To 101 leetered by a
young girl -.and suela a girl I Have y011
found out that she is lovely—exquiellety
lovely ?" cried Percy.
"I always winds= Misr( Morison," soh'
the colonel. " But here We tire at the house.
Gond night Percy."
When the oelenel went to his roo(0 that
night, the little pearl 11,11 110 had taken out
of its ease was still in the hollow of his
hand. Ile looked at it, preased it to his lips,
and sighing deeply, put i1 asi.ay tit the hot-
toin ot hie portmanteau.
"1 must wait," 110 0101)1 to hitnselt. " The
tIme hoe 005 00(110 yet,"
('ro Itt. tenserirteso.)
Oliver Cromwell's W
The watch which was once the property
of Olivet. Cromwell is of an English pattern,
with a double ease, the outer part of which
is removable. The outer ease to covered
with shrank skin, riveted on with braes
rivets, Tile numerals on the dial are ir•
regular Arabic characters, and the time-
piece, like others of the period, has no see.
ond hand. The inner ease woe once very
massive, but it has been worn quite thin
and is aonsiderable battered. The move.
ment is a peeuliat one, Its machinery is
piled up in Int odtl.shaped beech, ss Moll is
surmoumteil by an elaborately engraved
shield. The mune of the maker is not
shown on the movement or on either of the
cases, but a piece of work, evidently insert.
in repairing, bears the inscription,
" Jam's ltbery, London," Within the
outer case is a circular piece of paper, on
which is printed a coarse woodeut, sur.
rounded by the hisceiption 1 "(1. Hieckle,
patent -level watchmaker, St. James Street,
69, Liverpeol," The history of the watch is
well authenticated. It descended to its
present owner nom Prof. (-titivate wee a
direct descendant of the Cromwell fatuity,
and possessed ample proof that the watch
W�8 01.0(11 by the Protector.
A Blind Student's Unprecedented Re-
cord.
William Stewart, of Toronto, has achiev-
ed for himself a record as a studeat that is
probably unprecedented. After graduating
from Qiteen's University in 1870, 01 1110 age
of 16, he contracted smallpox and lost his
eight. Entering the Institute for the Blinil
at Bradford, Ont., he studied music and
became 11 first class piano tuner. Having
acquired a little money at his profession he
began the study of law in 701101110. At fleet
it was hard work, the text having to be read
repeatedly to him, but gradually his studies
became nut= easier. He developed extra-
oedinary mental powers, remembering almost
everything that 10 read to him. Should his
memory fail him he has eeeourse to his notes,
which lie makes on ordinary foolscap paper
with a small machine made forpuncturing the
surface, so as to give it a corrogated appear.
acme on the reverse side, and which he reads
by feeling oVet! the surface with his fingers.
Recently he passed his final examination as
a law student and made a splendid showing.
His papers were almost perfect.
c,La rer eot Mau.
The peoportions of the human flgure are
six times the length of the right foot.
Whether the form is slender or plump, the
rule holds good on an average. Any devia-
tion front the rule is a departure from the
beauty of propoetion. It is claimed that
the Greeks made alt their statues aceoeding
to this rule, The face from the highest
point of the fbrehead, where the hair begins
to the end of the whole stature ; the 110101,
front the wrist to the end of the middle fin.
ger is also one-tenth of the total height.
From the mown to the nape of the neck is
orte twelfth of the stature. If the Mee,
from the roots of tee hair to the chin be
divided into three equal parts the first divi-
sion determines the 'place Wier° the eye-
brows ahould meet, the second the opening
01 1110 nostrils. A man of good proportions
is as tall as the distance between the tips
of his fingers when both arms ore extended
to full length. The best teal of symmetry
is simply turning CI, man with his face to the
wall. If he be peefeetly moulded and 07111.
metrically made, his chest will just the wall,
his liege will be 4 in, away, his thighs 5 In,
wed the end of his toes :3 tn. The average
weight of t01011 8110(191. 190 1190 lbs, and his
height 5 ft, 9 in.
Every change is not a change for the
better. So thinks Henry Holt, a contributor
to the Tune Form Referring to the
present generation and the sources from
which they seek their mental supplies, Mr.
Holt says : " The book•buying habit has
fallen 011 ; the pamphlet•buyiug habit has
taken its place, The pamphlet soon finds
Ito way to the waste basket, whieli, in
many oases, it should never have risen
above, and the Permanent possessions of the
household are less than they ought to be by
one book. The average American citizen's
source of intellectual pabulum is 11000 the
"news stand," 11 1111(1 the toy shop with
piles of pamphlet " libraries" at ono end
have too generally succeeded the bookstore
The old habit et dropping into the book-
store and buying the latest good thing—
latest in form or matter—is now indulged
in by few people and in relatively few
plums,"
A bulletin issued by the American Census
%mean intimates that the total number of
insane persons treated in palate 01.11,1 private
institutions in the United Statod during the
yeas' 1889 was 9 r,535, while during the year
1881 there were 56,205 teeneed, an increase 1h
in Om nine years of 41,3;30 or 7:3.53 per cent. t
On the othov hand the peecentage of increase b
in the peptilistion during the last decade p
was only 194.86, On the Mee of this looks p
as if Americium wove fast becoming a nation b
of madmen, and that in the course of a few 0
generations there will not bo enough sone
people to take earn of the insane. This in- 8
femme would hardly be correct, however, as a
thebrilletinehows 011000 110 greater numberof
pOrSonS treated at those institutions is not 3,
due to a relatively greater number toquiring
treatmemt but to the fact that there has a
boon a larger menet of asylum acoommoda- v
Hon peovIded auti that those whose friends
require trod:numb aro more ready to avail a
mlaamoivaa af the bait:ice thus offered, in t
these matters its also in theme concerning h
crime, bat% statistics and percentages aro 10
novae a safe basis for drawing conclusions, d
,atemis.p.,,perawagra,,,Ttra!FlowliproMNO.
HOUSEHOLD. Plum, RV 81.1: 11 11.111MIE0. simmove the
Mille from your berriee and in a eel:Bides,
Bed -Tittle Boug.
twkaby habv, 1015110111' clear,"
Hort ly 1 eing, is he Id n neer ;
Power til tire 1.m,, nn,i- 114101101 the brow,
!Peter tini rino to babyla ad now,
" lidckabY, reeleiby dear.
" iteekehy !bibs, rooltaby altar,"
btyl 11110,4 1,a,01111%. 1110111,11, et 5near.
Bird, ara asleep in nest. snug neat.
In teem their p 011 ennuis pattering feet.
" ItindcithY, rockahy, dear."
" Iteekithe haby, rocitaby
idear,"
1irhei=ke
p 1',i44tiruj i;s g
BrighenIng the gloom atm dark;,, 01 nigh
" Itoeltithy, roektiby dear,
" itoolotisy baby, reckaby
11011 lookotli down from 11Is honks Up above
Bito Ming tha bird. and I; o 11.10 mutiny; 0
Bearding alike, t bogie:at and the small.
" Itociraby, reekaby dear.'
" Ithekaby baby, rockaby dear,"
Sweet rosy cheek,, two lids linger near.
Lids grown too heavy welsoon hide from vie,
Beau' Intl 111' OI Lho b0IIII1(14 MU.
" itoefiaby, rockany dear."
" ltockaby baby, rocket; v
Softly I s ng, n head ensiles 0r
iie,
Past, M41140014 Stin 1 linger in
Oa. Heaven .anni tril:hue:k
it,b,iii,niutr111.1, 1
" ockaby, rock Ow dr, v.-
Saving ller Boys.
I tide k %then a bey hae become an habit-
ual Maley he is then ready for something
worse, and I was greatly worried to find iny
boys eome slipping in very quietly about the
time the store; closed for tho night, so I
just resolved to) try and make a more ptea•
00,11 place to spensi the eveninga than the
aforeseld starer,.
Our best room had hitherto been kept
%tiered 1,. the use of visitors and for tiab•
bath ; 1)111 01(01' thinking the:matter over
Very oerieitsly I started a tire, arranged
everything es nicely ae though I were look•
ing for company, and then let the boys have
it. So far the plan has been 14 great success,
foe, although I never said a, word to them
abollt 11, they took right up with it and now
spend theie eveniuge at home reading and
playing (for they are alt three musical,' and
besides being better for the boys, Ibis better
for us.
Now, sistero, just between ourselves, of
course they'll spoil the carpet, and it's a,
real pretty one, too, and 1 have been an
earefel of it. 13111 I mean, through God's
help, to have my boys env= up to become
good men, and if it's going to take a pretty
mom and pretty carpets to help do it, why,
atn yeey glad 1 have them, that's alt.
Home Making,
Often yonng housekeepers are discounter.
ed when they eee the orderly households and
well cooked mettle of someexperieuced friend,
and despair of attaining a like degree of ex-
cellence in the liousehoftl ate. But do not
be discouraged. Title result was not reach-
ed in a day. It has often been preceded by
just such triala and mistake% 00 you are e::-
perieueing 11010'. YOlt see only the restilt.
The bong years of patient labor, of triumph
and defeat, of sueuess and failure, are hidden
in the past 13011 of this be assured, the
genii of the household reveal their mysteries
only to those who exercise thought and bear
patiently with their failures, in the mean.
tune ustng every means to increase their
knowledge. Do not understand 010 to say
that te be ogee(' housekeeper means to make
evueything else subservient to this one idea.
For " Order is Iteltveresfirstlaw,"and
" Cleanliness is next to Godliness," are oft -
repeated maxims. Trifiy, both should be
maintained so fares iseennistent with other
duties ; but to aseriflee one's pleasure, good
nature and health for this object, seetne to
me foolish in the extreme. Childreu freed
something, more than clean dresses, and a
husband something more than a spotless
kitchen floor and meals ready with meohan.
teal regularity. The wife and mother who
gives all :mt. attention to these will have no
time to be companion, friend and counselor.
She wilt make her life as wife and mother a
miserable failure, and her home, though it
will be one of scrupulous neatness, will not
be one of whieh the ehildren will carry lov-
ing memories throu_g_li 011 their tires.
a couple r quarts only at a time. Pour
dove a a
pn of sirup made 0( 5(00 pou rule of ea
water over to 1,10,0150 them. Ravo Oln Wk Strong
Makes the -
while etigite 11111 half a aaprat of water, drop
the bertiee int» 11; allow them 50 cook
rapidly for twenty minutes ; remove all
the scam that rises, but do /301 the
fruit •, pour into tumblers, and when you
aro all done cook your sirup and jelee to a
jelly and MI up your glaseilis f.ot eland
till next day mid tie up with thin paper,
over which put a eioth, Keep in a dry Owe,.
Semen C11 Klatt -0 pounda of fruit, 4
t. pounds of sugar, 1 pint of eider vinegar, 1,
eance of cinnamon bark, „!, ounce of whole
cloves.
Let the sirup oalue 10 11 boil before ()tit-
ling in the fruit ; 'took the fruit until the
ekine break ; then take Gut the fruit and
boil the sirup down until 11,11.10 11,11 over
fruit hot.
The marked benefit which people 111 rim.
down or weakeeed state 01 health derive
from good's Sarsaparilla, eonclusively provee
the °lane that tide medicine "makes the weak
strong:, It does net met Ilite a stimulant,.
Imparting netitious strength trem watch there
must follow a reaction et greater weaknese
than before, but le the mg natural way
fleas Sarsaparilla overcomes
That Tired Feeling
creates an appetite, purities the bleed, and,
ln abort, glves wear bodily, nerve, meant
and digestive strength,
"I derived very niucli benefit front good's
Sarsaparilla, o,lilolo 110010 ter geuend debility.
It bunt me right up, and gave me an excel.
v lentappetite." ED. Jamiengl,gt.Savuge,Md. .
Tested lteoe ipts.
CARAMEL CAltn.-11,1ak0 by the first n-
ips and bake in buttered pie plates for a
layer cake. The caramel filling is made as
follows : Three tenoupfuls of brown
sugar, one of sweet cream and a heapiug
tablespoonful of butter. Put all in a tin
P0» and eet on the stove to cook, stirring
frequently to prevent burning. Whim suffis
ciently done to rope or harden if dropped in
cold water, take it from the fire and beat
vigorously for a few minutes. Spread be.
wean the layers of peke while the caramel
El still warm, the cake having previously
men allowed to get cold. The coke may
lave a layer of the caramel (wee the top, or
be iced if preferred.
CrroratevreCaNs.—Th is cake may be made
as the caramel cake, or be 110(10 00 the gold
ake and baked in layers. The tilliug is
node as Must for the earamel cake, with the
ddition of three-fourths of a teacupful of
nely grated Baker's ohocolate, Never
Ise sweet chocolate as it is inueli
Merlon The chocolate filling must, be
arefully stirred, as it scorches very easily,
Cot/taxies Cake. —This should be made the
same as foe white cake and bakedin layers,
For the filling, take (Ave and eno-half eupfals
of white sugar, bile cupful of the milk contain.
ed 311 a coconut, and butter the size of a
Avalnut. Sweet milk may be substituted for
the cocoanut milk. Place all in a tin pan
and wok till it begins to rope, then side in
gradually enough grated ecemanut to make
it of the oonsistency of thick batter. Let it
cook five minutes longer, then take if from
the stove and beat rapidly 1(0111 000017 colds
Spread betweeh the layers of cake, and
with a sharp knife trim the edges of the
cake evenly all around, Nov spread a thin
layer of the filling MTV the whole DC the nut.
aide and oprh,k10 grated ceeoenut thiekly
over all. Tite coommut will stick mid give
the eake a beautiful frosted appearanee.
Cl'ILILANT 911111., —Wash and strip the
=newts from the steins and put them in 11
preserving kettle ; mash them as they get
01 and let (hen) boil half an 1)010(1 then
mu them into a worse hair sieve or jelly.
s,g and let them drip. When through drip.,
nig, without squeezing any, ineasuie and
our into the kettle to cook, After it has
oile,l about ten =tram p111111 the heated
ugar, allowing& pound of sugar to o, pint of.
ally, and the jelly still set as soon as the
1151010urisr, dissolved—about throe quarters of
11
Eittlnalth axis irrthi —CUL up
our rhubarb end wash it ; put on the fire
vithout any water at all, Take good, sour
pplee and pare and quarter, and cook in
ory little water, Strain the ;juice front
oth and put them on the stove to cook for
Rom minutes, The)0 add the hutted sugar,
limo 10010000 1110091 011511( 00 jam. Boil
esti for twenty minutes 3111111 into glasses
nd set in the sun, 11 9)0001110, for ball a
ay. Seal the next day.
IN THE ELEOTRi0 ORLD,
40me Drawbacks About Telegra pity 1n
Alesleo Peat end Thought.
lsimaco is not a telegrapher's paradise.
When the line is erected, however, the
troubles of the telegraphist. have oely just
begun. Travelers in Northern Mexico,
riming ou heraebeek over the vast, treeless
and melancholy ploine, stop at night to
camp, and finding the telegraph pelee est-
easeible and admirably seasoned, cut them
down for firewood. The rancher, too, geeti
with Ids peen servants anti calmly cuts
down a mile or two of Isere whenever he
wants to fence in an incloeure. So that when
the inspector of the line semi rows of poles
wireless and, again, long stretches of wire
withele poles, he has a shrewd gum aa to
the source of the deprodatious,
'Man, however, is eot the only enemy of
the telegraph pole in :dexter). Besides a
tiny worm, celled the " jonen," which in-
sidiously honeycombs the poles until they
crumble into' dust, there is a woodpecker
. ,
which sits up near the top of the pole and
amuses himself for days in peeking rotted
the pole until the top and Wirus and 01:099.
arma come tumbling down. The linemen
are almost afraid to shoot him, for they say
that where One dies forty come to the fu-
neral -
In some parte of the country, especially in
Tabasco, the scoriae are full of monkeyo
whose favorite diversion, when not in ques
of food, is to betake theinselvea to the tele
graph line for gymnastie exorcise, and hun
dredeof these able-bodied animals mey some
times be seen swinging on the wire, fes
monkey -fashion, by the looping o
their tails. The continuous vibration o.
these antics starts the iron nails used on the
cross -arms, which are thus often torn down,
bringing the wire with them. Then mon-
keys are so robust and aggreseive that it is
no easy :natter co disperse them.
Linemen have feu= that on shooting a
monkey swinging on a wire, they have been
pursued. by 11 whole regiment of brothers
and sisters '4 1110 dead shiliau. In speaking
of Gibs experience, one of the linemen said
recently : " It ts no joke to have a tribe of
monkeys pursue one. They are very ettenag,
and can hit with a stone or rt stick in
fashion to make a man howl with pain, 0
thing the monkey enjoys hugely."
' TI1OVI:ItT TenNED INTO 110.12.
A writer in an electricat journal has pro-
posed to measure thonght by means of the
heat developed within the brain actinglepon
a thermopile. The propoeition was received
111 80100 quarters with considerable scepti-
cism. The thing, however, can easily be done.
Not long ago a eelebrated eleetriman stated
that he could " think a hole tht.ough an inch
board," and by connecting a drill, se that it
could be esthete(' by the (=rent produced,
he actually did it. A. E. Dolbear, writing
on this subject, says that the experi-
ments, far from beinghew or Impracticable,
was carried nut in tins country. more than
wenty years ago by•Dr. Lambard, of Har-
vard College.
A thermopile was connected with a deli.
erste °static galvanometer, and a person ses
lected for the test. The individual was
placed in a reclining posture, and the ther-
mopile touched hie head. A certain place
was found where temperature 01100008 111 the
skull is•ere more quickty apparent tlian else-
where, and the inStrumenl was fMed at that
place. So long as the subject remained
mentally passive the galvanometer needle
remained quietly at zero, but as anon as a
word ivas spoken to attraot his attention,
the needle would at once bo deflected,
through no muscle had moved.
A notae outside, a door opening, nr any
incident that would cause concentrated at-
tention would have a marked effect on the
needle. It is now proposed to measure the
relative strengths of various metal efforts,
as, for instance, working out problems ill
mental arithmetic or geometry, reading
English, Latin, German, or any other lan-
guage, in all of which processes it will be
easy to aseertain by the movements of the
needle the respective degree ef effort made
by the person experimented upon. In this
connection it may be mentioned that Charles
Dickens remarked that the mental effort in-
volved in learning shorthand was equal to
that of learning several language's This
humorous idea 00.11 UOW be put to an exact
test.
An Empress in Distress.
The story of a very curious misapprehen-
sion at Meanest= Imperial Court when the
'tome of the attempt upon the life of the
Czarewitch was received has just husked
out. Among the despatcheS received by the
Czarina was one from the Empress of Japan
beseeching lice to set her mind at rest, as
the Czarewiteh was not seriously injured,
and mots being Nroll taken care of. This tele-
gram was signed "Harn-Ko," The first
question her Imperial Majesty asked WILS,
"Who Is Harti-Ko ?" Nobody present was
able to answer the question, but 80010000
know just enough to assure her Majesty
that Hern.7('0 Wile the 0101110 of a woman.
The immediate effect of this information
wets to convert it meseage which W0.9 111011,111
to be a tranqUiliSing 0110 11110 a, communions
tion full of diequietiug suggestiveness. Um,
der the impreseion that her sion had fallen
into tho hands of some designiug Japanese
priestess, adventuress, or Averee, her Mates-
ty's distress 1008 greatly augmented. At
lain it occurred to someone te refer to the
" Almanac:1s de Gotha," when the mystery
was immediately solved, and Harii-lto was
found to be none other them the Imperial
Consort of the Mikado.
In the Morning.
"70111. yeare ago," writes Col. David
Myna, 13roekville, Ont., May, 18/38, " 1
bad a seveve attoelt of rheumatism, and
could not stand on tny foot. The pain was
excruciating. / was 'blistered and purged
in true orthodox style, but all to no purpose.
was advised to try St. Jacobs Oil, which
I did. Thad my ankles we'l rubbed and
then wrapped with flannel eaturrited with
the remedy. In the miming 1 eould walk
with out pain." Many get up and walk in
tho same way.
Fagged Out
"Last spring 1 was completely tagged out.
My strength, left me and I felt sick and mis-
erable all the time, so that 1 could hardly
attend to my business. 11001 ono bottles ot.
Hood's Sarsaparilla, and it cured me. There
is nothing like It." E. C. Beams, Eetitm
Enterprise, Belleville, mieh.
Worn Out
"good's Sarsaparilla restored me to good
health. Indeed, I might say truthfully 01
saved my lite. 78 000 feeling tired and worn
out I would earnestly recommend a trial of
Hood's Sarsaparilla." Mits, PassaMostraa,
00 Brooks Street, East Boston, Mass.
N. B. It you decide to take Hood's Sarsa—
parilla do not be induced to buy anything else
Instead. Insist upon having
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. 51; els tarp. Prepared onlr
by C. 0.6100)) 4, CO.,Apothecartee, Lowe11,31106-
1 00 Doses One Dollar
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
unttway IT rain Streak, Through a Itr20ge
—51111S 1(11111 Ilinndreds InJured.
A despot= from Berne says 1 —A most
horrible aceitlen t oe)urred ou the Meehan -
stein and Bele railway to -day through the
collapse of a bridge beneath Fl he:wily loaded
excursion train. The train was crowded
with people on the way to attend a unteical
fete. Sixty persons svere killed nutrights
while hundreds were injured. Two engines
and the hrst car pluegett tutu the river, and
all the patieen,vers in the ear were drowned..
'rive cars remlined suspended front the
bridge. All the trainmen were killed.
Thirteen care were saved.
ugust
Flower"
Dyspepsia.
There is a gentle.
man at Malden -on -
the -Hudson, N. Y.,
named Captain A. G. Pareis, Vick
has written us a letter in which it
is evident that he has made up his
mind concerning some things, anti
this is what he says:
" I have used your preparation
called August Flower in my family
for seven or eight years. It is con-
stantly in my house, and we consider
it the best remedy for Indigestion,
o and Constipation we
Indigestion. have ever used or
known. My wife is
troubled with Dyspepsia, and at
times suffers very much after eating.
The August Flower, however, re-
lieves the difficulty. My wife fre-
quently says to me when I am going
to town, 'We are out
Constipation of August Flower,
and I think you had
better get another bottle.',. I am also
troubleciwith Indigestion, and when-
ever I at:, I take one or two tea-
spoonfuls before eating, for a day or
two, and all trouble is removed,"
Trouble Again,
" You dress that dog of yours too loudly,"
observed the exchange editor, scowling
at the animal.
" You mean, I suppose," answered the
financial editor'fiercely, " that he ought
not to have thatbrass band 1.11110(1 1(15 neck."
" No, I don't," rejoined the exchange
editor, waving his shears defiantly. "1
mean that 10011 hear lus pants."
Fruit put up early in the season should
be carefully looked over during the very
warm weather. Keep jellies in a warm
place, 'mimed fruit cool.
ftlEME
2D-Nok3n. .3%T.
DIAMOND VERA CURA
CUBES DYSPEPSIA AND INDIGESTION
if you cannot get Diamond Vera Cura
front your Druggist, sond ese. for ample
box to
CANADIAN DEPOT
44 and 46 Lombard St.
TONONTO, -