The Brussels Post, 1891-7-17, Page 2THE BRUSSELS. POST
<Tura, 17, 1891
LYNDON OF HIGH CLIFFE,
ANOLD SOLDIER'S LOVE STORY,
By C. Dessetan, Anthov of " When the Title was High," " The Artist aucl the tlan,"
" Into a Lueger Room," Etc., Etc.
or Me With great determinist ion ;
CHAPTER, N.V. , the feet is, there has been a Lyndon of High
; OHM fo.• so many generations, it seotus
soyartxo no one KON,Tlie pity. It wee1s1 he easy enough, you know,
, to raiee money, if N•ott are in want of it."
()no look at Letty's face was enough for .
" I su vic so but that woald not snit
• the oolonel. She tvied to hide her hurt ; she • g •
•
was deterusteed that 110 one shouls1 suttee on e. s ,
" the c'olonel ; ••• hut as. in a very s
her 77(470Ulti it she could help It, but she was
iew' -ears' time, the Lyndons of 111 h
00
ing
ask
tiv•
e?"
for
LI!"
ade
wundtit1 to tisoheart,
With him, lifter the very lirst, she here
herself bravely. She was gra.eful to him
for minims to eee her, met she received his
offering of dowers with pleashre, sald she
talked eittiout flinching about the fettles.
"Mac. Morton is so kind," shesaid, " and
I have promised to stay with hov for a lit-
tle Gine ; she thinks 1 i -ant rest after my
journey, lmt I must dud something soon.
Lady Flora mid I might consult you. How
do you think I should set about it ? I should
like to go very, very far away. Perhaps
some of your friends m 10111, or some one
going out, might want a governess. Would
you be Se sated 44 10 speak to them forme ?"
a hey wet.s ;the s•. lov Mrs. Mortoe, who
wee in Lesly ,• !ore s eontisience, after intro-
ducing limosef Lo Colonel Lyndon, and that.
ting with him for a few minutes, bad left
the drawing-roont
Both Laity mid the colonel were glad of
this.
He pulsed for a moment to think after
her little speech, and then he said serieue,
ly—
" You have asked my advice, Letty.
Will you put yourself entirely in my
hands?"
She looked up at him, startled for the
moment, read in his eyes that he knew what
had happened, and why she had left
Ettrick, dropped her own, and said in a
*broken voice—
" You are very kind, but---"
"My dear child!" he interrupted grave.
ly, " there must be no • buts.' Your life
has reacheda critical moment. I believe
0417 help you ; will you trust me ?"
"Trust you-- " she cried, and then
stopped, her voioe choked by some strange
unaccountable force of feeling.
s• Tintt'e enough," said the colonel, whose
lace was radiant ; " underetand then, I leek
upou you ;le my tlaughter—my Merl chiltl.
Do you agree, Letty ?" He took her halal
ana held it in his for a single moment.
" You aro smilleg," lie went on, " that's
right. People frown when they mean Lo say
no. I give you Inc warning, my. dear
daughter, 1 alll a despotic father. I Intend
to be obeyed. From this dete—where is my
pool:et-book, I must put it down—Dees:lobo
24th. 'Vicar me ! Christmas Eve, and I ntn•er
remembered it."
" Oh 1 how Milly will miss me to -day 1"
sale Letty, her oyes filling with tears.
" I an going up to Sootland in a day or
two. Shell 1 try to persuade Laay Fiore
to seel her bank with me ? I must not
allow my new daughter to be dull," said the
colonel,
At this mad proposal Letty laughed ord.
d. "But aro you really going ?" she exclaim.
e
"Yes, really. 1Vhat message shallI take 1
f. om yen?'
"Say I am happy end comfortable. Say s
ant not at all arratd about the future. You 1
anti Mrs. Morton will find me some-
thing. a
"1 TA cried the colonel ; "but who said •
that I would find you something? 1 am too I
much -exalted in my mind about having a s
daughter to elow her to go ateny amongst
strangers yet. Later—if she is disobedient," 11
smiling, or if I get tired of her."
"But," began Lefty, who felt a little per. t
Timed, "I must. You know—I cannot. tl
Oh, Colonel Lyndon 1 you must under, si
stand."
"1 utulerstand this far, Lefty ; you have ti
put yousell in my hands, and you must be
alloyved to act for yeti." He rose his 1
feet and stood looking. clown upon ber u
with shining eyes. "1 wish you to remain
here for the present,'' he went on ; "there tu
must be no running away to the ends of the e,
earth, or any such folly. Mrs. Morton ia ab
delighted to have you. If not, I have an in
intimate friend—a relative—who is longing GI
to mole your acqueintauce. Am I too des. le
porta ?" he asked with a smile.
" I am afraid I like despotism, when it bo Ibi
such despotism as yours,' answered poor w
little Letty, smiling through hev tears.
" 'Peen I am sure we shall get on togeth.
he said gaily. " Coodattm nosy, 1 fe
will see you again when I come bock from m
Scotland."
Lotty was left alone to think over this t„
strange interview. She was puzzled, but rt.'
she was comforted. She ho;c1 much less ex. fo
perienee of life than the girl at the fiorist's te
I 103r any ease have run thenew ves
what ssan it matter 'tI am only entedat
, 0W11 &wean by a few yeses. I must
I you to close at *me with thesegnertnte p
Moors. The know the phwe, of cours
" .1.4eysayt havac. tae.eh I 1 !
r eye CM it
Rompers. Very odd very odd intlee
said the little man.
He took his bat meehanically, end 01
Inc the door,
" Let me know La soon as it is all settled,"
(stied. the colonel aftev him.
11 W1LS all settled in a miraculously short
time. The estate was encumbered, and,
having been In Inc possession of one family
for several generations, uo elaborate search
tsr tale was necessary. the purchasers
as the sigent had stated, were solid
men, accustomed us the handling of large
m
tos of money. In less than twenty-four
hours after the interview between Colonel
Lyndon minute man of business, the pur-
chase -money for High Clifte—some twenty
thousanctpounds—waspaid in to the colouel's
banking amount.
Upon receiving news of the completion of
the purchase, the colonel, who was "as
happy as a lover," wrote to Letty and to
her hostess, Mrs. Morton, begging that no
change might be made until Ills return to
London, and despatched a telegram to Scot.
land, stating that he would start for Castle
Etriok that evening.
Six days only had gone by num he receive
el that memorable letter from Lady Flora.
It was then the twenty.fourth of December,
it was now the thirtieth. The colonel, who
had been too busily occupied, both mental-
ly and physioally, to take much note of the
flight of time, was surmised when he found
that he was so near the end of the year
"So much the better," he said to himselt
joyfully'. " The new year, if Gott prospers
tny mission, will open well."
11 wee one of those bleak sunless days
which, dreary everywhere, and gloomy be.
yond expression in London.
Me colonel,, 0-10 el, ee semsaeteristically—ho
WM always a little beforehaua with time—
had made all his arrangements: long before
the hour for etarting, sat at his window,
looking np and own the strOut. It was
early in the aftez•noon, but the gloom deep.
nett to a mirky darknese, dazzling to the
eyes. The never ceasing trellis; alackened
its pace, the passers-by locked like pale
phantoms flitting uneasily from one island
of light to another.,'P
resently the snow
Legal' to fall, large Slakes, that dropped
noiselessly through the still air, and rested
where they fell.
Thinking that it woald he as well for him
to start for the station at onee, as later the
streets might be impassible, the colonel rang
tlie bell and ordered a hansom to be called.
Almost at the same moment his own outer
sell ran.
" See who that is," he said to his servant
'If it is a visitor, say I am just leaving
some,"
In a few moments the man returned with
letter, "Left by a lady, slit" he eaidI
drove up in a carriage and pair. Saido
vas to give it into your own hands. Ha
om at the door, sir. Heavy travelling."
" Very heevy indeed ; I only hope the
se will be open," said the colonel.
It took him about an hoar to roach Mo-
on. The air grew blacker andblocker, tint
se snow continued to fall with terrible per -
steno°. Even London was silent now.
here was an unspeakable Solemnity about
se great shrouded city.
Arrived at Boston, the colonel gave his
river a sovereign and advised him to pot
p for the night.
I1 wee still early in the evening. He
rned into one of the waiting-romns, where
bright fire was burning, found that he was
)out two hours to soon for the limited
ail, and only then remembered the letter
at had been put into his hands before he
ft his chambers.
That letter gave the colonel food for
ought throughout the night. And yet it
as very brief ;—
Ily DE.M CoLoNEL INSDON,—I beg 3701.1
t to be frightened by the enclosure. It is
r Letty Morrison. I have seen her o,nd
as. .Morion, and I have heard fent Janet
ackenzie, so that I know how things are
ing. I also know that you have under.
ken to met for Letty. Do not despise me
saying that money is a help its these snot.
re.
shop, and she clid 00t thillk Wet, 10 the
love of studs a man, a woman, with tbe true hi
heart ot a woman would gladly die; but she a
was moved. to ite inexpressible tenderness of „,
gratitnde and affeotion, when she thought ei
of his kintinese to her. Only the day be.
fore she had been feeling like a deserted Be
createre, had been long,ing or the torment ha
of life 1,0 be over. This new affection re.
stored her to herself, It was possible to I,
live., now that some one whose affection she 4;
eoulcl think of, and after her own fashion sit
return, eared for her. She would live, and
155
perlospe, if God willed, she wottld some day hi
be heppy again.
lit
Colonel Lyndon, in the memtitne, WM oil
completing ins arrabgements.
The day after he atm Letty, High, Cliffie
was advertised as for sale in the papers. ey
"If possible, keep my name front appear.
g. Represent the enclosed LAS a gift from
triond of her family, or a legacy. With
anagement, I believe everythsng will come
glut." '
The welter of the letter was Veronica
myna. The enclosine was a draft on her
iskere fov five thousand pounds.
For a few seconds the colonel could scarce -
believe the evidence of his senses. So
agnificent a gift, and offered in this frank,
nple way, as ifit were a matter of no mo-
nd. whatever When he recovered from
s fleet astonislunent, he smiled. "My
tis Letty is a woman of property after
he said to himself. " think there
11 be no diffloalty now."
The emilo was followed by a sigh. Hie
Inpathies had been yvith the one young
; had forgotten the other. also was
love, To Ills simple logical mind, there
thl be no further doubt, She leas in love
d she wee mill'ornig as he had slone.
In the (lowering of the girl whin she
let necessarily look upon as hoe rival, and
her wish that no one but hillutelf should
ow of her generne (1(3°4, She WAN acting
er the colotsel's own heart.
For the first time since he met Veronica
swim, he thank of her with entliso
sin."
Letters followed front his friends, breinftil
of lamentation and boodle.. But the oolonel
held firmly to his resolution. High Cliffe 051,
was for sale.
Two days efter advertisemeet had an- 511
timed, tlse head of the Inciof agents that on
had for many yens managed the properte.
oiled upon Min at his chambers. The poor 1 to
man, wlso could not reconcile himself to the ttst
estate messing for over away from the Lyn.
dons, looked ;send with agitation as he Bit
opened out; his brteineee,
"1 ans bound to tell yo, Colonel Lyndon,. Oja
he said, " that au offer has been insole for
your estate."
"Already 1" saki the colouel. 1
" Already • tted, between osi-,olves, a .1
Inagnificent offer. I ought to know hotter T
than any one else what the property is nol
worth. There may be toillOrah4, of worse, 1 or
Barring that—a. more oluialOO, poor
one I ehould say -4 on bound to tell yon
that the price offered is as much again, in
my humble opinion, ae the property is
worth."
"And the proposed pnrchaser is solid?"
" A firm of'bankere, sir, one of the most
eubstantial banks in London, Not the real
purchasers, no doubt; but ready to glee
every guarantee."
"'You have closest with the offer, I sup-
pose . Inc
" Colonel Lyndon, 'mire not ; ns
Wanted to soo you once mors, You wrote salu
(To TIE OONTINTON)
The Turk and His Beard.
he Turks esteem the beard Ls the most
sir ornment of the male sex, and mint -
it neve iefamous for a»vone to have his
beara out off Chan to be publicly whipped,
pillorietl, or branded with a red hot iron.
Almost any orthodox Turk would prefer
being p0110 death rather than have his beard
removed from his fare. In that country to
pull or irreverently handle the beard is an
eon which tam only be avenged by taking
the life of the perms who iss rash enough to
commit such a, crime, or for the 'Ark to logo
his own in malting 471 attempt to call the
offender to account, Turkish wives kW their
baud bearde,and children their father's,
often as they come for the customary
to,
ITEMS 01' INTEREST,
A gergle of vineglie will dissolve smsyll
boneellelekiy. Wil04011, large bone happeue
to lie aeross the windpipe or throat,e, dexter.
ous me of the thigets will dislodge it, when
other mons a l'13 lucking, provided both the
operator and patient keep calm. Hee Majesty lute been pleases' to promote
Lieutenant Charles James William (avant,
Inveterate uarelessness In money matte's , of tho Indian otati Coro, son uf [mute (7011•
was a sbbsss1 aharacteH'tia or 1110 lentiMg 151, Joint Grant, of the Mantua Lens, to be
flotienal wrItevs of France Nom forty 50major and also to 'confer num' him the Via.
fifty years ago,
' torte el7048, 104, LIS 010 tle !lays :
The netted strength of the British troops The conspicuous bravery ond devotion to
in India is rather over 71,5100 men, the total I his country displayed by hilts1 iliseing., epos&
population of the dependency being s280,. homing on Much 27, 1391, of the Oletteter
WO 000 11 ttri, a onto vo unttetes to attempt
.
Tile Duke of Beaufort, upon tele ocemion the Miura the British captives, svith eighty
picked itp a brace of grouse whin had testae° soldiers, and having tole:weed with
oanoned and killed each other in mid Inv. the ereatost intrepidlty, ca nun Timbal
1 his oolbiIing Is not MB infrequent oveur- 5544 tianitntvi, and hall it against a lttrge
Charles de Bernard, the French Dickens, I spired Ids men with equal heroism by an
reuses. force of the t.nemy. Lientennat Grant in -
Frederic Soulie, Hour Marne, Alfeed Is ever•nree?tlf examn("w
ille of Persoal in soul
The story of Lieutenant Grant's march to
and hie repulse sI that
phice of the tianipuri army, whom he hold
at bay with eiehty men from March 31 until
Apra 10, is told with men interesting
detail ill Use Inditta newspapers just re-
ceived 1—On Meech 28, before the full
octant of the divides. at Manipur was
known, Lieutentsut Grant started front
Tanen to the relief of alr. Quinton with
fifty men of his own regiment, the Ilth
litirmah Infontry mostly Punjobi Mussed -
mans with o, few Fathoms, ate' thirty Hilts
of the 43r1 Goovishas, the latter undue the
command of Jemmies! Balder, who, yell Is
thirty.fonv men of that oorps, had just
fought his way to Tammu from Langthobal,
giving a good account of those Manipurie
who had opposed him. Twenty of the r
lieving force were old soldiers, the remain-
der being reunite of less than a year's
standing. The Goorkhas were armed with
Martinis and carried fifty rouuds, all that
could be obtained, and the others had 100
sounds per men for their finiders. Fighting
begets early. The expeditiou had (nicety
marched seven miles when they were fired
upon from an ambuscade by Chins, who
is ere quickly disperaed. About midnight a
number of trees were found felled across the
road in the course of the third stage •from
Toannus. The Momiparis were entrenched
on the hill above the road, but in such a
position that their fire was harmlese. Lieut.
Grant, with twenty men, rushed the trench
from the flank, and its garrison of
50 fled, leaving guns and accoutre-
ments. On the morning of the a
rival of the force at Palel Lieutenant
Grant learned from a, prisoner that nine
Sahibs had been killed at Manipur, and that
theofficer commanding the road from Tam nnt
had been ordered tos esist any troops nso v in -
on the capital, The Lieutenant decided to
send the news to Tammu and push on,
leaving it to the authorities at heademart-
ers to recall him if they thought lit. Hy
dawn on the 31s( the detachment was ansong
the villages four or five miles from Tholsat
Driving the enemy before thew., the troops
advanced along the road, which ran through
im open plain, and wee1 to the right et a
line of walled compounds. Seeine a bridge
burning, Lieutenant (i rant Interiest Ms men
up in order if possible to save it, suet at the
same time galloped on to vecommitre. lie
reached the watercourse, and then, withoat
the lease warning, fire was suddenly opened
from the opposite sicle at a range of fifty
yards. Seeing the enemy itt force, Lieu
tenant Grant galloped back, getting a bullet
through 11s coat. His career was nearly
ended, as the ball bruised Isis back, bat the
wound was lenity a trifling one. Now
came the time to test his men in earnest,.
They were in lighting formation, twenty
being in firing line, ton tit *import on each
flank, and forty witls the baggage. :The
order was given to advance, and, to use
Grant's own Words, " they behaved beattti.
fully. It was like e 'sego out; of the drill
book. There was a volley from the right
party, and a rush from the left, aml vies
versa. We lost only one man in the first
rue's, Ho was shot through the head. I
thought for a moment he was hanging back,
but on reaching hitn saw that Ise was dead.
The enemy were tiring through loopholes in
walls hidden by hedges. We got to within
i00 yards of them, but si watercourse was
between us, and I could not tell their nuns.
bees. We lay down end fired for ten min.
utes, but made no impression. I went back
to the supports on each fink stud ordered
them to creep up wide of the first living line,
but like Maya fellows as they are they
jtttnped up, rushed forward to the edge of
the stream and began firing. 7.'he fighting
inc fixed bayonets andjoined thetn. There
was a ory from the left that the euetny were
running, ansi then we plunged pollonell into
the watercourse. 11 waa rather deep, and
one littla floorkha clisappeuxed altogether.
For a scent' I myself got fast in weeds, and
was ignominiou ly hauled out by a jemeciar,
but we got acvoss somehow. 'The illanipuris
were seen in full flight, their white clothing
Inaking them excellent targets. On tins
enemy's left was a lino of rifle pits, and in
these Isumbers were caught like rats in a
trap and bayoneted. On the right were the
compound walls giving good shelter, but be-
hind them lay a number of clonal shot through
the head. There were 800 Maniputes holding
this position." After this sueoess Lieutenants
Groat occupied tlsree of the compounds al.
ready referred to, whin were beyond the
wsttereourse. For purposes of defence he
oleared away met of the houses within the
walls, and ad the trees so that the fellen
trunks aud branches :should hinder tts intich
as possible any rue)) inade by his antagon.
lets. Afterwards he constructed tt covered
way to the watercourse, to (come Me teeter
supply, The ravino peotectea his rear, and
on his right was perfectly open eountry. A
quantity of provisions was found in the
housee, Next afternoon the enemy attack-
ed in form. A well in front of the camp
was lined by Savoys, who let them get with.
in 800 yards inure tiring. On receiving a
series of steady volleys the 51 an i pn ris re.
treated, and promoded to shell the camp
with two severepouselers at 1,000 yards,
The Martinis wore equal to the occasion,
hotveve end the gtmneve, fouling them.
selves lots gnuaSs, retreated to 1,500 yeaels,
anciently., ed to lire with only (»to gun, A
later atm was repulsed. 5si t los follow.
Mg morning at three mum the little gerii•
4011 started sillies, mislay bags and instil
LIMIT, GRANT S DARING.
-1_
The Story or hie ;tsarists 10 and Pe
rest or the sinninurk
Musset, and Gerard L e Norval, all mado
considerable fortunes by their yvorks, end
all died poor men.
It is aliimot impossible to " tweak tho
bank" at Monte Casio ; that, is to say, res.
der the bank incapable of paying the stokes
lost, or of foreleg it to confess its inebility
to play any longev.
The Emperov has given permission for
three of the !Meet military bands in the
service to visit London this 40471071 to play
Us the grounds of the German Exhibition at
Earl's Court. Eaoh band will remain about
a fertnight or three weeks.
The most expensive street ear in the world
is owned by the Troy Electric Railway' (...!ar
Company of Cleveland, Ohio, ft. 8. It cost
10,000 dollars, or 12,000,
%Abe Emperor of Germany has given14, 500
for the celebrated yacht Thistle, and His
Majesty intends to enter her for competition
in some of the English regattas this eeason.
Experiment has shown that when coal is
burnt in ass open grate from 1 to 3 per cent,
of the coal escapes in the form of unburnt
solid partieles, or "soot" and 4bout 10 per
cent. Is lost in the form of volatile oompounds
of carbon.
The gains of litermy men axe very min.
monly overrated. It has over and over again
been assumed, for instance, that the most
popular novelists of one and another period
have amassed enortnous fortunes; and, when
their time has come, the balance to the
credit side of thole worldly accounts has
been found scarcely sufficient to defray their
funeral expenses.
About the year 1783, a Bristol plumber
named Watts dreamed that he was out in a
shower of molten lead, die observed thet
the metal eame down in nitwit:al drops, and
afterwards, to find whether it would be so,
Ito went to the top ofss church and poured
melted metal into a yeesel of water belosv.
To his greet delight he found that the lead
had gathered into beautifully.formed globe.
ler halls, id he at once took out a patent.
The art of ship -building was first i0W021ted
by the Egyptians ; the firat ship (probably
galley) being brought from Egypt by Darius,
1485 u. st The firet ship of 800 tons was
built in Englund, 1500. Tile first double
-
decked one both in Englattd was of ta,100
tons burthen, by order ssf Henry VII. ; it
oost.114,000, and was called the Weal Har-
ry. Before this, tweuty.foar gun sllips were
the largest in our navy. Port holes and
other improvements were tirst invented by
Desehargee, a French builder at Brest, in
the reign of Louis NII„ 1500.
The Doming War.
Sine° 1371, whezt the Franco-Prussian war
came to an end, the great Continental
nations of Europe have been preparing for
what is feared trill he a general atingle
It is not only new tactios, new weamnts sold
new powder they have invented, hat those
interested have set hp new positions of
offence and deielleei 11110 especially have they
effected means to place enormous hosts in
the field at Abort totiee, and to quiekly
transport them from pima to place. Almost
first in the plans of Ruseia, Germany, Ans.
tria, France and Italy is the sysetem of strate
gloat railroads. With their preparations far
advanced or completes], it di evident that
the late Federal and Confederate armies of
the United States would make but meagre
show in numbers compared with the forces
that the countries of the continent could
bring into the tield. An English military
writer sets down tho population of
Russia in round uumbers ot 120,000,000,
one-sixth, or 20,000,000, of which, it is
stated, can be, first and last, drafted into
the army. That, however, is au extrava-
gant olaun. Assuming that Flatlet: should
be Russia's ally, in the event of war, as 51, 15
likely she woulel be, she has population of
40,000,000, or 1,000,000 men fit for soldiers.
Together these to countries might have a,
militztry contingent of, say 20,000,000, from
which it would be practicable to promptly
recruit ti force of from 3,000,000 to 5,000,•
000. On the other side there would be Ger.
many, Austria an Italy, whose aggregate
popnlation approximates to that ot Russia.
To these there might be added the 20,000,.
000 of 'Turkey, and finally the 39,000,000 of
Britain and Ireland, Frotn these combined
populations there could be drawn, it is esti-
mated, armies as large as or larger than
those of Russia and France. It is diflicult
to imagine such gigantic forces opposed to
each other, and, ot course, they would nob
be so opposed in any single battle, but
their enormous proportions suggest how
great a number , of men could be brought
Mee to face on diffeeent sides in meted oon-
tention, shoald that European war of which
o muoli is said at is ever occur.
The fitter's:sr of the teeth,
One of the 'noes, interesting questions re.
listing to our planet, says Protessor G. P.
Sorties, is that of Ito interior nonstitution,
Observations made in deep mince and. borings
indieete that the temperature Macaws as
we go downward at tee steerage rate ot ono
degree Fehr. ftsr every 55 feet of sleaziest, so
that if this rate of Munn continued, the
temperature at the depth of a mile would ha
Mote than 100 &greets higher than at the
surfaces, and at the depth of forty milee,
would be so high that evetything, inelnaing
the metals, would lic in a film condition.
This cieW of the uonslition of the eartide
interior has been adopted by Inany, who
hola that theertet of the meth on which we
dwell ie like a shell surrounding the inthri•
But ealealations based upon the tidal
or.
effects that also attraction of the sun and
tnoon would have upon 51 globe with a liquid
interior have led fiir Win. Thompson !tad
others to mama that such a, condition is
impossible, and that the inteeior of the earth
must be solid and rigid to its very entre.
To the objections that the phenomena
of volcanoes contradict the asenmption of a
;solid interior, it is replied that unquestims
ably the heel is very groat deop beneath the
euretee, and that ruorvoirs or molten rook
oxht under volcanic distriete, but that,
taking the moth's interior as a whole, the
pressure is so greet that the tendency to
ligtiefaeation mussed by the teat over.
hammed thereby, The whole question, how.
over, is yet, an open ono.
them to imeerre their fire until the enemy
were within 200 yerds. The ti tosipures took
efWeri 411013 eight o'olook Lieut. Greet,
deeming it desirable to relieve Lite pressure
ots Isis; loft front, crept along the wittercourse
wlth ten (Moriches, enfiladed the walls, awl
111 a few minutes cleared that side, At
eieVell 74 Ill. 110 impression Mut been made
on the clamp, the sepoys being 40 well pro.
teeted that they (souk/ lire thtemgh the loom
holes without exposing thentoolvest Llett•
tenant, Grant now determined to try and
clear his front a little, taken; eix Comeau
of the nird, with their havildtut lle him-
self WilS atmed with a dou Isle 'serpents('
six teen- bore breechloader and revolver. The
patty crept up the ditch between the roam
nil the compounds itnd enfiladed the wall its battlements, and though its upper
dvs 110 had geld, mad ;staged contain meals exquisite carving, tbere
hwellisliutli'd°Eityliiell there were one hundred Is tot lightneee ou its scarred indomitable
of the enemy, who ran at once ; ea face, but only strength. The same strength
fames tha ecimer end cut off from it by is reeesiled within the church by the four-
teen huge cylindrical columns:1 frotn width
deep ditch full of water MUIR well flee feet
the arches spring to bear the heavy roof of
high, from which the 'Alanipuris begets firing.
Luultily it Wile 710t loopholes!, eo they had the nave, in ,spite of the groining and
to expose themselves when alining. The elaborate traceriee above, the end) eastern
GoovIthas had (tome flue map shots at the windows, the luxurant doeoration of the
heads as they wore raised on the wall, while Wintry chapels and tilde monuments,
their young 0017111117.171304 aajpg hose. these fourteen columns give the note of the
hot cartridges with effect. At last the Maui. edifice, To them we return, and standing
puris, finding the exposure was elmost beside/teen-I enable to ignore Dile 11111tilmvion
(tertian death, sneaked away from this hot of yeurs, anti see the old church as It was on
corner, anti his immediate front being °leer. a certain seeing day in 147 when its paint-
ed, Lieut. Grant retuned to his entrenlio. ed windows colored the white faces, end its
nsents. nme ilamidatt Gondol. tom, wea ceilihg echoed the cries, of the beaten Lan.
vas with him, haul the Imre!: joint of his castrians that (along to its altar for sanct.
right thumb smashed by a bullet ; but he uotY•
For " in the field by Tewkesbury," a little
lever let go Isis rifle or complained of being
to the south, beside the highway thetruns to
wounded. After this there was a pause of
Glotteester and Cheltenham, the cvown of
about an hour in the fighting, during widels
Englaed has been won and lost. There, on
Lieatenant Grant sorrowfully emptied hie
last box of ammunition. After it had been the 4th of May, 1471, the troops of Queen
served out the sepoys of the 12th llatenah Margaret and the young levince Edward, led
hail fifty rounds/m.140o, whilethit LyGoork. t he Duke of Somoreet froin Exeter to
email. Lieutenant Grant epeeists in the
has with ielartinis had only twenty rounds joie another armt. that the Earl of Pembroke
was leasing in Valets, were overtaken by
higheet terms of the way in which all Edward IV., who had hurried out froin
Ins men huslusaided their ammunition Windsor to intercept them. Footsore and
bedraggled they lin reached Tewkesbury
throughetit. There was no wild firing, and
thelid, and " pight their field in a close
the diciplhie was admirable. After the last 015
reserve of atninunition had been served out, mum hard ut the townetf end, hauing the
he lulled orders stopping all firing. The towne and abbeie at their beckes ; end di.
mettle before them, and upon each side of
enemy were to be allowed to approach to
withm one hundred rude before being greet- thorns they were defended with cumbersome
ed with volleys. The men were ordered to lanes deepe ditches, and mania hedges, be-
sides'1114 and dam, Boas the place seemed
lie down wider covet' one in evety six being
left as a look.out. The Alanipuris reopened as noisome OA might Ise to approach unto."
fire, but their aitn was as bad as ever. mos From this acme position they were drawn
look.out mu showed supreme contempt for by a vuse of the Crook ban's, and slaughter-
ed like sheep. Mealy, we know, fled to the
their enemy, and not a man winced, thosigh
the trees about them were eonstently betng abbey, were mized there and exented by
struck by bullets. As the efternoon wore dozens at Tewkesbury Cross, where High
on Lietstenant Grant told off his best &Int and Burton Street divide. Othere
shots at the loopholes to shoot stead. were chased into the river by the Abby
Mill and drowned. A house in Church
ily at such Manipttris as exposed
uhle number were accounted for. It
themselves. In this way a nOnSider- Street is pointed 011t as the place where
Edward, Prince of Water, wae Main, and
was a trying time, but she enemy, aftev the sonic stains in the floor boards of one of the
experience if the moruing, never made an upper rooms are still held to Ise his blood
marks. Tradition has leaked his burial -
metallized rush upon the entrenehments.
Alley withdrew at sunset, end the firing Place in ihe Abbas,' Church, and writteu
was at sin end. Lieutenant Grout then above it, " hosninuns Inc or matris
counted up his lessee, which were anuteing. tu sola lux es, at gregie apes." The
ly One man killed, two sepoys and duet of his enemy Ctarenee—" false, fleet.
one muleteer wounded, two ponies killed, ing. perjured Clarenee"--hes but, a little
two wounded, end two elephauts wounded, way ell', behind the altar soveen.
For fifteen hours men had been under There in, earrow 5i,t1,1, one of the lase
that Avon washes. doe's; the cantle of whith
arms without a mouthful of food ; and they
had well earnest the reward. which they runs m narrow with y.len tiered watercourse,
enjoyed of a good eigliCe rest. A hunt 8,000 It is called the " Meadow," after the
rounds were tired at the camp during this carnage of that day, when, es the story
slay. Un the 8th he rot:Men Isis orders to oes, blood enough lay at its font to float 11,
f back ou „,ptm,ill presgotee, meat oat ; foul just beyond, our river is gather -
evening theve was tremendous thunder. ed into the greater Severn. --tHarper's
. Maga:due.]
storm, the kind Whiell 0011104 when the mon
noes break in this part of the country.
Getting his men together, he set oat, in The Btone Age.
pouring rain at seven p. sue, the night being From the tools that are found in these
pitch dark. The movement was of the lake.dsvelliuge, in the caves, end in peat
slowest, as the column had to wait for each beds, we suppose that there were three die -
flash of lightning to see their way. It Lissa pothole in the life of monkind First
took two hours Lo (10 the first hallos -the but canes the Stone Age, in which tools and
the sepoys toiled on, passing. within a few weapons were made of utore second, the
yards of their sleopitig enennes, who could Breeze Age, in which thetr were of bronze ;
not hear them in the storm. Not a shot was and third, the Iron Age, in which iron im.
fired at them.. Lieutenant GrautAs meet• plements appear.
ing with Captain Presgvave Wes deenlittlei We must remember that wheu the first
Tise young soldier was mannbling along men lived they had no too's to work with,
through the mud, almoet dead beat and half- nor weapons with which to battle against
asleep from fatigue, when a eepoy im- wild beasts. W hen thrown upon their own
mediately in front of ilil11 stopped told re- resources to defend themselves, they prob.
tnarked, in quite an ordinaey tone of velem ably threw stones. I think a small boy'o
" Guard aya, Sahib." Lieutenant Grant first instinct in fighting is to throw things.
sked what gustrd—that over the baggage or They soon found that sharp stones were
whatguard. 'FromPalel," was the response most effective, so they began to ruts
Lieutenant Grant looked up, and by a flash them together to sharpen them. They
f lightning saw Captain Presgravestanding next put pointed stones in the ends ot
before him, This tvas about two o'clock on sticks and made spears. To cut up the flesh
the morning of April 10. The parties united of animals, they inside stone knives. They
and munched on to Patel. Such was the discovered the use of Glebe's' and arrow, for
end of the brilliant exploits of Lieutenant some of the sharpened etones that are found •
Grant and his eighty senors. The gallant must certainly have been arrowheads. They
officer was with General Graham's column nuts hammers, and axes, and chisels of
in the fight some time later at Thobal. The stein. All these were chipped so as to give
enemy having hung out a flag of truce, he them a eutti»g edge, They made grant
jumped up front his isomer and ordeved his stone mortars and pestles for grinding emu
mats to costae firing. They had clone so when At first there was little ovnamene, but to.
a volley was fired from the Manipurie' fort ward the last of the Stone Age the knives
anti a bullet. struck the lieutenant,. passing had carved !sone handles, and even nen.
through the muscles' of his neck, and knock- laces are found of roughly carved amber
ing him over. The mepoys immediately heeds,
stormed the place, Lieutenant Want being They. had no combs nor pins nor needles
among the first in, and shaved m tho hand- nor thread in the earlieeb times. Bat they
to.band fight until overcome by exhaus. soon found out that they meld faeteu thirtes
tem, tegether with the fibers of plants, or with
Mumps made from the skins of animals.
!They made implements of horn which served
for needles. They early discovered the use
of fire. Maybe men first got fire from a
volcan0, os' they may have deopped or struck
one piece of flint on another and have seen
the epark. It nuty be that it; set something
on fire and they felt the effert—the
wartntlt.—(Terese CI. Crofters, in July St.
Nicholas,
THE OLD TOWER OF TEWKESBURY
Famesse 411,110 of the Middle Aget6
If to one who followe the windings of
Avon the rottenest ;suggestion of its scenery
be that of permanence, here fitly, 151 tlse
Ohl tower of Tewkesbury, he finds thet pets.
mamma embodied monumentally in stem.
No building that I know In England—not
Westinineter Abbey, with all its eleoplim
generittione--eonveys the impression of dile.
ability the note degree am <lees this Nor.
man tower, whielt, for eight eenturiee, has
tithed foursquare to the storms of heaven
and the frenzy of men. Though it rises
132 feet Iron the ground. to the coping of
Squirrels in Winter.
Some interesting remark on &talents are
made by various writers in the Zmotoolee It
is often said that stittirrels are torpid during
winter, buts there is no really soand evi-
dence foe this view. Mr, Masefield, writing
from Cheadle, Stafford, Eng., says (Natio%
March III) 11 have seen squirrels mimed on
fine days in, I think I tnay say, evevy one
of the winter months ; and while pheasant-
ehooting near hove on a sttimy day Man,
lastt, whesh was about, the middle of the
!neat seimre frost we have had for many
years, with several inches of snow on the
ground, I saw a squittel jumping from. tree
to tree, before the /meters, in the most live.
ly condition." Mr, Blagg, also wetting feom
Cheadle, his$ " frequently nen sgairrels
abroad in the middle of the wintev, Wilet1
there has been sleep snow on the ground
and ft keen frost le the air. I
remember," be adds, " once seehig
mitirrel thread Ourinte a severe storm
01 aloe( and rah) ill wInter.tune, and Ise ap-
peeved to be Isot et all lueonvenionced by
the rough wenther." Mr. 13Iagg'e idea is
that the egnierel probably does Weep good
deal snore in whites...time than in $417111104,
as do many °thee wild animals, but that ho
hags with mine los the ramparts, us- bas to be oontinnally welting tip and. taking
4.,.„0, wino whim, tad tam *Lai pp was nourishment. Thu period of reproduetion
boa down as "eetanglemente," and other 10 unfavourable to tile notiott of an Meson
improvemen te Were made sts the position,
Un Aptil 3 negotietione were begun. Their
muse wm fully in tinted in the telegraphlo
despatchee wit lel) Is we beets publish ed. By
way of conveying tho Menipstri
mender the contempt of the 'British foroo of
their foes, 'Autumn, Grant added (0 0,10
of 1110 letters the post mript, "I am going
to s1100b 401TIO 711.10k 5, DOW( be amid,
Thanks to his ottutios foul Height into the
elutrenter of those with whom he host to deal
the attempt to got the hotter of him by di.,
ploinacy haled, and resort was had nee
more to force ors the ffeh, when, after an
hourhz artillery fire, till's Manipur infantry
eattioltml at seven 0. In, (tient, Grant kept
hig men on this oeeasi(elide.
73114(111477t tlso watoreours , and as annuutil- The outrages upon foreigners continuo in
Lion W103 runuing short (Akre werogivou for China,
complete date of torpidity. The editor of
the tl'oo/oniee ronords that he has notes of
" finding newly -born squit'rele 015 Mareh 12,
(three young), April 9 (three young), April
211 (four young), and April 20 (two young).
Those fortesl at the cud Of Mertes mid begin.
ing of April were slaked and blind; those
were about thromparts grown," According
to the minor, tlso eld squirrel:1, in ease of
clangor, remove the young from the nest oe
"Litcy," semo hole its a tree, whither they
carry them me by ono in (10 mouth, just 114
a eel., carries her Etta* One of the prat.
ties( sights in the world is to no an old
squirrel teaching a young ono to jump,"
—Science.
Prospeots of Probibrtiou,
Mr, Spotless secretary of the Derain.
ion Allianee, delivered a lecture at Wood -
Stock on Monday evening, Isis theme being
"Prohibition Now." The Prohibitionists of
the Dominton seem to be determined to pusls
the question now before the Haase of
Commons to en issue. And, with their pet-
itions mid evoesed public opinion, the
Goverm»ent will find it difficult to shelve
the matter. At the oonelusion of Mr.
Spenco's soldress the mooting resolved 1
" That this mooting de horebyprofess
profound convietion of the impovtanee and
lleeeSSity of the immediate prohibition of
the ligenr traffic, and we call upon oar re-
preeentatives in the Dominion Peoliament to
rise est nal to t Ito present crisis in our history
and sesspoud to the petition of the hunarecis
of thousands of the people of this Dominion
by voting for tote' and immediate imolai.
lion, "
The resolution Yves metered to be sent to
dantess8utherland, IVI.P. for North Ox.
ford, 'The weed "immediate" has a grave
significance, and Mr, Sutherland, being op-
posed to total prohibition, will have an tues
congenial task to poidorrn.
The Congregetiontil Union, in session this
week et Guelph, puta spokom the Prohibi.
tion wheel by missing a resolution ennui-
monsly as follows :
" Resolved. That we urgo our represents,.
-live% to stand liens in demending that the
present, Parliamentenact a bill foe immediate
prohibition unassociatod with other issues."
Xis the face of all this agiCatiolt and com-
b -1110d notion it will be mtereetitig to note
tho attitude of the f.lovernment when the
subjeot of the proposed plebiscite comes up
again,