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The Brussels Post, 1891-7-24, Page 3riy us, Ind lito orb tier on, lie, 139 jur,y 24, 1891 THE BRUSS4LS POST, LYNDON OF HIG-H CLIFFE, AN OLD SOLDIER'S LOVE STORY, Be C. Dunetan, Author of " When tno Tide Was "The Artist and. the Man, " Into 11 LarErOr Room," Eta., the. OffAlq11113. XVI. AN V NEN 1.1n min aiBrai. Kn. All that night the snow eontinued to fall, oh- and tho darknezie through the count*, was not appalling. The train travelled olowly , the actlimi beittg more and more heavily blocked 1 B. svith thew as it went northwards ; and the eolonel, who 1100.13 extreordinavily anxious to roach his journey's end, began to fens that he would be detained for an indefinite time is hat >01'- l'10 1(10 ans 130 - its of the it% e, a lald its iy the ing ..)mS cat. ups 0110 wee left Zen VMS nail gan th ugh ngs lees Jest rith tete ms, ood and ten - ice% the e'll 110 910 •tal len ,ec- in 1gh he :lid oid ish rigs )00 [A, sod 1 is eat 1 to rth ars ine er- of the the Om be - )08 180 101) th. 110 Oat rill ter ing 111. for his SO iho till ild sly as. ng ,ke Id, in. 00- 110 on de re- ad 11C1 110 in- tu- air tab lin tb. 00 ,131 (00 to ey Ise he ho nd 0 Ys hare 00011 001110 of hor fete's:1e, I may tell you in confidenee thin her position 18 better than any of no therugh I.—different Altogether, I WOS 0000 (01y0 a writer in the in fent One moment Ifore ine rod, if period prevails in October, la driven nort(1. pine (AI)" beet " to it stalwart, middle. you oun. I have been tuttitedly sent as It ward by the fitst nunfall, the latter goner- aged bridegroom, noted for his courage and messenger by her friends to lay eertain pro- ally coming about the Mose of that month, feats of daring, aed whee t he thee 0311110 ter posal$ before your parents. I tell you Heated meter the Trope of C'eptecorn and35 10 go (1" olo the bride and plainly duct they are geller0910, and I hope (ivied through the downer( of (1 ton019 and the ber altetelanie, Ito nearly leol a lit, awl he your father and Lady Flora will accept limonite sandy expanse of the elahara,tins looked like a walking oret.eee all through the impetuous witol sttr0. the whole surtace,101 I'1I(O1I3' 1110(1111 keep ertyiug : "Brace heaving up and &eying along showers of p oid I„)y 01111 .„ „„ ow, 3,,nevc (1131 TRAVEL IN TRE SAIIARA, ltorrien HO in the Desert B011it show ere or Mond. The over bright sky of the Sithera 10 strong coutauet to nee changeable weather, Thu alniuspherietti 14mq,, whist, 333 our MOW t vit•ft brieg min aud wind at alinoet fixed pee. Mile, are not in foree there, '1'1le only re,sular atmospherical variation 1$ the equitersial shoe co. Tins light wind, which tenliee direet- ly Nom Southern Africa, where the hottest 111,831 I arose at daylight anti broked around, I could seareely eettlfze that watt awaso. The plain wore quite a dilfereet so. These large 1011,Voi of rend that I hail nocieeil 1110 peuvious day had tilt -appeared, A dune fifteen feet high had vino hetet eta Intneel and several of the eminencem had been reformed a few !Mies further on, Ifthsittoo alter:els Ba811911.1 BridegroOMO, them. Now, judge for yourself. If you on the road, At last—they were elm to tt, wont to be armed with your inother's eon. Et ttion for he could see its ugh to in the senn and approval, would else not be more likel to listen to you ?" " am sure she would. Then why Rpoil your own ohange of suc- cess by being in such 11 MB): 9 00,110 bleak with me, Pertly. Bliss Memnon has promis- ed to remain where she is pail I see her Mrs. Alorton, who seems a good, kiwi woman is delighted to have her. In any WM, it' is oely the difference 01 19 few days," "You would have to feel as I feel, to know what that difference means," said Percy, with a deep sigh. " Bet no doubt you are right. I give In. When you aro in love, if you ever "Alt 1" said. the colonel., with smile, "my day for that kind. of thing has zone by. I ant content to play the part of tho elderly unele 110W. And," Ile added, perhapa to prevent Percy from feeling too great sur- prise over the deep interest he took in his affairs, wile in love with your mother epee. That is why I am so 11111011 interested in you." Ae o. fact, Percy was not extraordinarily imprised by the interest which the colonel took in his love affairs. It occupied a largo space in his Warn Mind, and it seemed to him therefore, only natural that should none distance — the train pulled up alto - ether, Few passengers were in the 001011018 ear - Aar the teerible night, only one other man besoles himself. This person, who had been fretting Elm' fuming, and bewailing his hard fate the whole way, thrust his head out of the window and soreanied out to the guard to know where they wore and what had happened, " Are NVe to be frozen and starved to death out here?" he cried, " .A 11 right, sir ! lino blocked, ' answered the guard, who Wari lintrying from earriage to carriage to reassure the passengers. " Right ! I call it all wrong," gt'oseled the injured traveller ; " they work the lino with too small a 8taff. Never any one at himil in an emergency. There ought to be tin army of men on ahead Mearing the lino. If I catch my death of cold "—he looked fiercely at Colonel Lyndon—" I shall demand compen- sation of the company. Guard ! where are we ?" " Berwick on alleacl, sir. We'll get on there in a few minutes." " Have to remain there all night, I sup- pose ?" " Well, sir, it's the morning MM. There'll be an hour delay, mot ootne that the down train's in the station, occopy large.spacei n tile nund of nnother, full of passengers too !" But he took, as Ms manner was, gracefully " They'll have eaten and drunk every- this scrape of ancient history, end relied thing in the place. I know these Scotchtnen more than over on the colonel's advice and —11. tribe of locusts !" slid the irate pes. assistance, sensor as the gutted hurried. on. " You When the down and up trains parted cm - mark my words we'll not get one bite or Pans , Percy went north instead of south. sup to -night," He took a place in the eompartment which "It will be good, in any ease, to get the colonel and his irascible travelling coup sight 01 11 fire," 8(1(1 the colonel. cheerfully. ',anion had occupied from London, oncl that person. Who had not been treated well at " 1 we are moving. How wonderfully they work There are piles of snow in front Bev oick —the fire had been blocked by of us." shivering nonentities, and the best of the 'Why wasn't it clone before we came up ? provieions had been devoured without any that's what I want to know. But it's of a foresight as to his preferences—was so angry -piece with everything else in this wretched with the intrusion that he took himself col tounother carriage. This delighted Percy -country nowadays, from pelitics downwards. I am sick of it all. Lipen my word, I some- ' 1131110 Wa0 able to pour ont his hopes and fears, and his rapture of love and admits, - times wish I had been born a Turk ; then I wouldn't have bothered myself: 191)011 111)10330 tiou, into the ears of the celonel. They had plenty 01 1(3110 for conversation, as the snow - as they came." fall and heavy atmosphere continued, and " An excellent idea," said tho colonel, their progress Waii lamentably slow. Percy. laughing ; "1101 here, thank goodness ! ere began to fear that his short leave would. be 01380 1181000 lee rettolied Castle butrwk. At Edinburgh, however, mutters improv ed It little. The snow ceased to fall, and the sun shone, and the heavy batik of fog said the colonel. Iliteil itself off the earth, and there was an He jumped oat of the carriage and made a dash for the refreshment room, which was exhilarating freshness in the air. They es. rived too late for any train on that day, and full of passengers ftom the down train, were obliged, ourbing their haled Mime as "Hulloa, colonel 1 Yon here ! Now best they could, to sleep at an hotel ie. where did you spring from ?" The epeaker, who had just left the refresh- Edinbureh. mem room, and WaS making. his way across • (oo DE CONTINT1111) the platform. was behind the colonel. He turned round io haste. " "'gross", he said, " is it you?" "1: think so, colonel." " In my train. Strapge that I didn't see you at Euston And how did you mime to bo Loudon 1" "I am on my way to London." "Then yen were not at home when my telegram arrived ?" " I left home three or four days age. I had reghnental duties which I was bound to attend to. I have only from to -day until Monday now—a iley to go, a clay in London, end a clay to come back." "33033 were coming to me?" " I hoped to ems you." " But that Wag not the object cif your journey?" "No, colonel, it was not. 1110111 tell you the truth, for I believe you are my friend: besibes, my mother has written you her version of the affair. I have just found out where Mist) Morrison is, and I tun on my way to see her --to ask her to be my wife. ' A glow of the sincerest satiefaction he had ever known in. his life diffused itself through the colonel's heart as he listened to theee words, which were spoken with is quiet, manly deterininatimi met NVOil Ills respect. For 11110 had been. his only fear—that Percy's love was 11 boyish wham ;that it would peses that he had been fatally staggered by the first breath of opposition: - • ' ' • Voilingthis true,eentindeilishe,spoke seri- ously, " Are you quite prudent, Percy? ,Hteee you considered her position anelsyesur On?" " Look lien, 'colonel I" said the young man, " if 3300 91103911 to 311100 01) this line, we'd bettegsay geed night here. You're it good fellow, and I 11031 31 'want, to quarrel svith. you. But I shoeld like you to understand that thie,geeetion is mot, to be dismissed betWeon 'Asti :/ Uwe ivet for 1190 face,' Heaven ' thoiigh Oho cisle of the. loveliest -ifunitin beings .1 everlieheld. 13u1 —oh 1" he cried, " if you had watch0 ed her as I have clone ! I bell you, . oho is an angel, a saint that' elOntICIti '60in: monplace, ' poor I'emy ruefully— " and I know I'm not a good hand atsityin what 11111811(1, 13ut this I *Inlay': the man itlpis loved by that sweet girl ay . think himself the most fortinnate fellow udder' the elm. Mind you, I have no reason to seppose that I on so happy," he said; with e'breati in hie voice ; "1)131 I mean to try." For two or three eeconds (titer this ini• passiohed *Feels of Petcy's, there was silertoo between the two men, - They were making their way across tho bridge that leads from one platform te the other. The colonel had forgotten that he was cold—forgotten Butt lie was hungry. Suddenly he remembered whore 110 WOS— stoppod, and lei(' his hand en Peroy's arm. "Does Mies Morrison expect yoti 1" he said, " have yen written ?" " Certainly net I am no fool, She left Castle Ettrith to prevents ine 1130111 Hoek - ins. ern oonvinced of it. She would joe: away agaie. She would do anything rather than vex my people. 13u11 11101)0 to melte her see that slic is wrong." " Von will fail , Percy. know her. She will 1100017 run email= to youe mother's wishes," "If X fled out diet she loves me, wM gaiti my mother's consent." "Girls have wonderful °mirage, Sho now hide her feelitigs from yeti," "9 think I 811cond know if I zeriv her" HoweVer, there is no spying. Colenet" skid the poor young fellow "give me your edvicie," "My advice -111y ;strong advioe—is thet you come haelt to Ettriek, Wait &moment, INseey, Koop your Impatience till yon hear Whet lutvo to sey. I have 00on ; the station lights. " What's the use of lights when there's no food ?" " Well ! I shall try for some, at any rate, sand and to go down 9' to got him etarted., and at the morns tie neso, door he way idietio enough to clutoh at me whieh are perceived in their coining hen- und say : "Say, Fred, how wonhl it do to deeds of tulles aWay. 11 generally last e from 11000 .3113.13' an 11110 preacher slip in hers and two to three weelts with more ot• less intim- itaye it afi ore, moss 110101.0 3,0 go down st sity, 1>11111 during daytime and inereasing all? 1 can't go through it before all that toward night, sometimes to the fury of a crowd." " Idiot," 1 aaid, pointedly enough to leave no doubt am to my 010041313331 "Mary won't come in here, foal you %Oil go down this instant." He got through at la.et, with- out doing or saying anything ridiculous, in which respeot he Wag Inekiee than another stalwart bridegroom of myttognaintance, who was so dazed and overcome that he held out one of his own fingers for the ring When the 3311(1303,00 saki: '' With this ring I thee wed." Another bridegroom 33 know lost his head to such a degree that, when it came time for im to say " I, liorace, take thee, Annie, to be my lawful wedded wife," he said, in an unnaturally loud tone: "I, Annie, take thee, Horace, to be my lawful wedded wife," and when the time 001110 for him to introduce his bride to some of his friends who lied not yet seen her, he did ft by saying, awkward. ly, " Ah, or—Miss Carter, tins is my wife, Miss Barton," calling her by 1101' maiden name. Few men say "(11)' wife" easily and naturally the first time they use the words in public. A funny' case was that of Et badly rattled bridegroom who stared blankly at the tninister until asked if he took " this woman to be his lawful wedded wife," when he started and said, in the blandest tnanner 'Bog pardon, were you speaking to me ?" A village prea.oher said.that he once married a rural :couple at the home of the bride's parents in the preseuce of a Ittege company of invited guests. The bridegroom was a big, bony, red faoed young fellow, who looked as though he could fell au ox with his fist ; but he shivered aud turned pale at the beginning of the ceremony, and at its close fell dn owin a dead faint, to the manifest annoyance of his bride, who had been as cool as a cucumber. hurricane. On one jonrneying from Wavgala te Gotta We were atruck by one of the storms alluded to above. Wo left the luxuriant group of oases of -which Wargula is the thief towu, and resumed our Ivey along the wild desert, following the dry bed of the Wad Alia. Though it was October, no rain had yet fallen, so that the earth still lacked her Win- ter nutntle of green. The conformation cf the land during the first five days was a variety of finnoeslibly and sandy gtntuel, while a, mountem range leads directly to El Golea. In all parts the firm aoil appeared to be excellent for culture if it could only be watered. Treats of sand of the color of iron rust were to be noticed along the Wad Alia, denoting the existence of soine ferruginous spring. The spot where we encainped in our sixth stage Was a sea of sand interspereed with dunes rising from 30 to 40 feet, One mount, 70 feet high, probanly formed by a whirlwind, was noticeable emove all at 9000- 1(1)19 distance from us. Several lonso and straight eminences, four or five feet high, with a striking similarity to waves, were to be seen. During the preceding nights the suffocat- ing sirroco had been blowing hard, without, however, eausing.much disturbance. But now an almospherical revolution broke upon, our map. A fearful blaster Arionik.D l'S FROM SLEEP and terrified the horses. Blast followed blast ; our tents were teeribly shoken, while the %void grew rapidly to the force of a, cy• clone. 'The horses were neighing and the camels groauing. Everybody was awaken- ed, and all were obliged to take a frentic hold of the tents from the interior. Some trietl to get out to pitch the tents more se- curely, but could not stand the whirl of sand. Showers of sand were beating upon our tents like a heavy rain. Tho more ceumgeoue men were swearing against thet impertineut element which had inter opted them sleep end was blowing clown them flimsy shelter. Others were terror stricken, fearing immi- nent destruotion. All svere clineing despe- rately to their tonts to prevent 'them from being carried away, but in spite of their efforts, all the tents, one after another, were blown down. Each tram underneath grasp- ed frantically ot one side of his canvas -house and rolled it 033311191 1118 face for protection against the sand. The camels, despite their groaning, wore little injured by the gritty whirlemul, and seemed to be quite accus- tomed to it. Their imeomparable vital strength en- ables them to withstand the sorest priva- tions and the severest weather. They live, indeed, day and night io the open eir, ancl are feel anti waterer' ooly every three or four clays ; thus becoming Inured to every hard. ship and strees of weather. The horses felt the violent pelting of the sand quite differently. As they are stand- ing up they offer more hol11 to the florets wind' and min resist less than the camels, whiell always lie when at rest. They be- came distracted and Devenelliro Oream, A Canadian Inmeekeepor writes to the Count??? 0e11t/e0(00 the proper Way to pre- pare this dainty : Strain into a bright tin milk pan four or five quarts of etch, eew milk and set 111 (3.1003' in your dairy or cellar or wherever the cream will rise best. In twelve hours, or after it (8 10011 risen, carry 700( 1)011 as carefully and 3304417 98 you Mtn into the kitehen, and eat on the top of the stove or range, but 11031 111 tob hot a place. Let the intik gradually 00010 to a scald, but on no account must it begin to boil. It will take half an hour or three-quarters, if the heat is not,too tierce, and when done the surface of the Main is wrinkled, and, as the old English cottagers say, "700 will see a twig on top the size of the bottom of the pan." This means thet about an inch from the sides of the pan, all &rotted, the cream will break away &sit con- tracts by the heat. Now liftyour pen again, with equal care and steadiness, back to the cool dairy or cellar, and leave it there twelve hours or more, Then skint off the cream, which'ehoulcl be in a thick, rich, solid sheet so you could' almost 0011 (11 up. Put it into a very wide-mouthed pitcher or into a little silver or ohiue 1)03311 (0.0 ib is too thick to pour) and have a spoon to help it With. On fresh strosvbervins or peaches it. •Is. Most deliehms e. oh early rhubarb, or, 011031 011 all the _poepataticns of oatmeal 013that -cream eaten, The trouble a prepaeing it se 1011310031 nothing, end of 0011100 .31130 scalclingkeeps it sweet for 8. verylerodtinie. In face, hi hot weather this is one of its great advantages. Devon. shire butter is matle.bypreparing the creetn in Ennlotly the, ahoy9 way, and skinninug, into a big bowl. Then put on a large apron-, take a tablespoon, and begin to beat the thiok oreitin us yttei Voila eggOwith.e long, steady lb Will 0044gets VISE; thin, fthd tiles( sallicSE Aotorn Yhti kue 1e• will break into bid lumps of butler. 'Theirs are thee washed end salted in the 1155111 way, and made up into fanciful little pate and scrolls for the table. Very little snit is used, - as the butter hes a peculia(1. 0,1)11 distinctive teete of oWie, .a0111011 ninell liked by tdroost every oste. -Not only is tins butter 'sit:seined 1011 a grOat rlelicaty, bet it is an 1111344110,1)10 30393' of butter -making to a family kisepieg onenow, and not (110 3,0 spare cream enough far a vaginae churning. How often a person ltas just two pans of cream, or per. haps, ale pan that they can spare. A very short time and the least possible 'trouble will convert that into a delicious pat of Devonshire better for the broalcfast tee tea table. And there is no mess or fuss about ; you can sit on tho verandah talking to O friend while you beat up the little bit of oreoan 1111131 30 to appear on the tea table as fresh butter, and 110 000 wonid ever imagine Mutt you wen churn -lug. Sanitary Item. " Doctor, do Writ feet cause pneumonitt?' asked Gilhooly of Dr. Blister. " Yes, that's the opinion of thobest med- ical onthorities," replied. Dr, Blister, " Then why don't dogs have pueumonia 9 111039 111100 four feet to got wet instead of two, end yet 311)033 330000 die of pneumonia." "'11)0 metter will prnbably be before tho neXt aession 01 1.3)0 Medioal Association," FLUNG FRANTICALLY against their invitible provoker. The officers shouted to the horsemen to mind their horses, but no one darecl move. Finelly several horses broke loose and blinded by the sand ran among the tents, tumbling against the men and falling upon them. Screams and struggles .ensueri, increaaing the disorder and confusion in the camp. Those who knew not the cause of these ories, were prompted to go out and 800 1011193. was happeniug. Finally the horses got up unaided and were captured by some of the Arabs, who, bettor accustomed to this hur- ricane, were groping and crewhng along with their feces covered. With a drapery. The emelt commanding the Arabs, 80011133 11)33931 we could not be qualified as " warriors of the desert" as we Were enable to brave thet unexpectedenemy, ordered hie 31109, 310 look to 11110 1)1)0800 1101111 theitempest ciettseieli After two hones of Waggle, cairn Emmett. ed 111 the atmosphere and pettee in our oxlip. I wept 0(331 3.0 see the effeete :of the storm. The dawn whieh faintryi ePPbered through the dust•clouded space, threw a gloomy light upon 11110 031041), reyealleg the siverturn. edtents With:the htthllll f firms underneath Failute• Voting Ensbend—My dear, Imeinere re. verses hove caused tne to noncoms sasignmen Young Wife (toarfully)—Ym.,a, Young Husband—Wc will go abroad and 3.9199001 for ft year or two, Just Like a Woman. 3,000 YEARS AGO. 11111011¢1.E1.1.1.1.1.1100 Pharaoh intereesee With the eteStters, " Them 14 nothing neW the 9011" rooeiveo noWliore a more Mantling verilloo, (ion Oita in the matter of etrikee "The way In 1013411, our work ingmen 1,9modems Europe ry 1. coorve their employere Wart ill 0111)- 01,13i13e the svay adopted by their darkelltin- !led (1,33411133 poorly fed prode,,,•ss,,,, in (he land of the Nilo before Bloses led the lerarilites out of Egypt. Al. Auspero, who is well 131141111011 (0 emeak ti all poirliki eon - rusted with Egyptology, lots us into 0 few secrets regarding the first known strike. It seems that the families of the working elasees were quite as improvident in Egypt thirty centuries ago (10 001110 of them are in England at thepresent day. At the beginning of the onnitli, When they had jun. reeelved their Month's rationS, eating end drinking 139001 1)11 without restraint. By the middle of the mouth the stock began to fail, and famine begun to ntare the thriftless house. 1101,1e in the leen So agein and again they went out on strike in order to extort more free, their superiote. .A Insilco of 11(190(1010 30 de:seabed ly 31, Mesmer° in detail, and some parts of the deecriptien might almost be mistaken 100 011(39113,0 front an Eliglitth or German 1(13 0081111100 in the nineteeoth century of the Christtan era. On the 111(11 of the otonth 11.0 builders days past a 313(01133 111(13 handsome ‚313011180 31.318 eniployed t the temple rectlied out, of the been hanging about the Continental Hotel, place whore they 10(101(1.13310(101(1.133 313111 .3t plume the Einpreed Eugenie is staying, ia clown behind a chapel in the temple pro- the hope of obtaining admission to her oincts, exclaiming " We aro hungiy, mei 3711,IiistY• silo Is about' SI) Yea!'s of all% there are eighteen days before tho next, pay well demoted, and is employed in a shop ho. day." They chargod the paymaster with the Faubourg Saint Denis. On Sunday she dishonesty, asserting that the latter gave made an energetio attem to Eee the Ern - false measure. The paymastera, on the other hand, charged the men with want of foresight, allegiog that they spent their wages as soon as they touched them. After some thrthet cmeotiations with officers of the Government, the men resumed work 00 the tonleretanding that the King 11;030011 of 1100 04100011011, but every 01010 1100,11 she en - should receive their complaint. 1030 clays rintyoured to proems an interview With her later Pharaoh actualls visited th, temple, Majeaty she NVMS prevented by the gentle - ordered relief to be given to the woe•begone yetti• protection. Take me to her," she ex- " I have come to ask for and when the matter was laid before him, 31(0.19 of he'. "ite' but soon provisions failed, and discontent doubt my word," cried 13150000,For a Abort time there was quiet, but " Oh, yen broke out again with renewed violence. On the 1(311> of the following month the !strike was in full force. Not a man would work. On the 1 7111 and llith they still refused to lift a tool. On the 10th they attempted to leave the precincts of the temple in order to (tarry their grievances into the outer world, but found that the peraon who was placed over them had taken precautions so effectively that no one could leave. So they spent the whole of that clay in laying them V Is the most analent 0(1(1 13(01>3. general of alf disease'', geareely a family is onUrely frea from lt, while tbousatide everywhere aro its set -tering slavee. 11:10118 8:testy:trine has remarkable suceess in 077011139 every for01 or scrofula, The nest si'verti and painful run -- Mug soreS, ravenings In the nttelc, er goitre, humor in tho :lee, causing partial or toted bilndiets$, and every other form of blood disease linYe yielded to the powerful effects of this nuelielne. Try it. ood's Sarsaparilla Sold by an driitiaits. for psi Prepared roar. by C .1. 110011 Bc CO,. A1.o1herarle8, Mau. 100 Doses One Dollar A Daughter of the Empress Eugenie. A Paris correspondent BByri (—For some Just as 1113108 going out to day the lady in the rooms across the hallway of the apart 11101111 110101 begged to see me, says a lady in O city paper. She looked dreadful and she WM half orying. "Wool yeti please lend me a dress or a cloak? I have got to catch a train," she gaepeel. She seemed to need a dress, but I knew her only slightly and I made up my mind she had gone marl. "131y trunks have all gone." she wailed. " John is to meet 11(0 01 the wharf. We sail for Europe in an hour. I simply can't miss the train. I have no one to tern to, 108111101 get a dress made—you 10.0 see that yourself. If you have a human heart you will help 098 0113.. Give me a clorik—end pair of shoes and a—thick veil. Oli, please be quielc." I told her that she needed rest and per. feet quiet and that I would rub her head, I asked where she got the dress she had on. "It's an old thing I was going to leave," she sobbed, "0(111 I don't want my head rubbed. I want atone clothes. You see, packing 18 0(1091 warm work. I decided to put on these old things and just slippers —you must give me shoes, too—and—oh 1 I shall miss that boat." "My dear mattam—" • "Oh 1 don't you und erstand," she sh ieked. "I have smoked everything—everything. The clean clothes that I laid out and my traveling dress and everything—they are all packed—and gone—gone. I forgot I had these things on—and'I packed everything— everything, and John ia at the wharf now, with the children from grandmother's and yOU Will 110t help me." She went completely into hysterics right in my hallway. Poor little woman. She Irna a good deal smaller than 1, but I fixed her up. I wonder whet john 80111 when he saw. her. LIKE WIlrrlt sitnOTTOS covering martome. Thu sand was heaped up against their bodies, and had filled (111 1110 interepaces, between the men dying undeie theiselnin tioltt almeet levelling o surfaoe smooth meat 'table et" he height' of their. shoulders. • 9,*01931 up'th the- animals; aud found the horses sniffing and sneezing, While the camels, a little on, were lying part. ly covered with saald in peefeet quiet. They seemed to have bravely home the Meant of the stor(111. Enveloped in their drapery, the Avabs Were sitting. Ott the geound, with logs drawn up, Dna 1)1010 bodies loaning upon the basks of their camels ne anon. a pillow. One 01 11)1001 hearing mo, raised his head mid un- veiling his drapery, gave me a lons look. " Have you not been (righbollooll"I Bahl to him, " At Whet ?" he answered, as if notonieh- eel at my queshott. " At what ?" I repeated, amazed. " At Aetna has jest happened, 01l muse." " Ancl what has happened?" asked he in- differently. " Did you sleep so deeply thot this tierce too pest oould not awaken you?" " le this peculiar tveother for you ?'' re. joined he. "10 it neturel weather for you?" I de. mantled. " Must Ileavon itself fall upon your head to surprise you ?" " The tom7 of tho glothilth (thoecol, and the groan of the caanoi are two sounds fa. miller to its since birth," he euswered. Dumfounded by such stoicism 1 returned 3.0 (11>' tent, wondering what such a, people would 11011 1)0 able to endure, They are truly herdy and toughened in every respect', deaf to the sufferiegs of other% dumb to their own, meted to fetigne, , end insensible to hardship. The ttwelccoung cell was pot sounded that morning, tho colonel wishing to know before starting how much damage had been 1101183 Uthefilior tho mou wore lit to unwell, Mysterious Double Tragedy. A horrible and mysterious crime svas evealecl the other day, when the .corpse of young man named:toyer, WW1 fouud in a (001 in the suburb of Balsa. It was est" lent that lie had jumped on been thrown icon a window in a 1)00111080 houzie, under vhich the body 11905 lying, and where 11 33001 afterwards foetid he was an apprentice. Wheiathe peace entered the apartment which Speyene. occupied with another em- ploye, namedSchrnicit, the latter shot himself blue:nigh the head, falling dead at the feet of the policeman, to whom be hadfirat heeded 39 letemy Tide preyed tothp eieonSeseion. In it heStafed 3.1)113) 1(0 hod ilititt.Spdykr while the 111,LBON,Y440 asleep,. endhad,,then -thrown tho body frOns-the..whitlopi 390 (1103333111 sus- pielon and, ceerate 'the lturestoil thet, h e had fallen of inri iod oat: 'Litt 'renters°seised hien, atid hp doculo,1 to nitrite an ena of 1131 - golf after freeing his mind 00831001'iblelottd. Ho Concluded bOtating that his Nelson for ltilllog hie compenion was that the latter had 110de00line:1 him Ifs the effeutions of a .young • hely ',whom he had hoped be marry. Both •youtts men were of e33e0lleistOfamily1 The lady in the use is safid to be au heiress — press, mid was requestei by mom of the ser- vante to withdraw. In high dudgeon she proeeerleil to the :mave51 police office, and addressing the astonished mrigistrate, said that she am the daughter of the Empress. EngenM, and esealti bring proofs in support the young woman. " Well, look at my neck, my hands, my ems, They have been - branded with the Imperial Crown by means of red -bot iron." This. by the way, is not the first occasion on which the person ia question has put forward such a claim oa the ittrength of these imperial emblems. She seems to be the victim of a harmless mania. plans. On the following day they resorted to more noisy methods. After vainly ap- pealieg with loud oriea to their manager, they rlecided to apply to the governor of the city, and therefore rushed through the busy streets to the inconvenience of pedestrians 001 8101)1)1(133 until they reached the Govern or's palace. Like their European artisans success- ors, these refused to work-, spent notny hours its dos- " I inherit some tendency to Dyt... diseontentlecl tisans stubbornly tubed the order of the streets by 1)1011'MI- o Depsia from .my mother. I suffered cusseng their position and pro meets, dis t petuous movements, and ultimately obtained II years in this way ; consulted a trace the strike back for 3,000 years, that is, Relieved In number of doctors. They chd me yournogo August gIutsht evni ouws eectir part at least of their Cleo -lands. So we can to a period when Rome was not built a,nd even Greek civilization was still in its in- and it was just two - f days when I felt great relief. I soon Flower" How old the method seas at that time it is impossible to say. Perhaps the custom is as old as the Pyramids. Possibly the first strike pro:totted the most ancient of the ex- isting monuments of civilization. Work Wins. " We look back into the p101310 a restric- tion ofspower, a restriction of liberty, and a restricEloa of sphere. History was the biog- raphy of the few, and the history of a people was 110000 110(11110(1 till the presept century. A. great ohange has :tome. The chances once held by the brilliant and the strolls, and other chances non-existent then, have opals - .ed out on every hand. There is work snd success for the men 01 00003' kindand degree of gift ; not alone roo,11 at the top, as there always was, but all the way up ; not only for the best thiaga of the 1)13831 111011, but for every man's best, The very perplexity in the outlook before the young Ma11 0130 is from the • embarrassment of riches.' It appears in the ever increasing forms of material and business enterprise, in the specialties of the professions, ia the recon- structions of history, in the boundless range of scientific investigation and. the practice' applications of science to art, in linguistic and archosological researches, in the lines of Biblical investigation, In tho enormous expansions of philanthropy—till we May say tO every man, What can you ,do ? Go and do it. Whatever your gift and drift, there is a place waiting for just 811011 ft man 00 7003 300 if not, you can mice such o, Place.' The man 1910,1 18 ready finds Ile cpporennity also ready. The few who make their opportamitiee find a Providence open- ing the way. Work win's. And the best kind of genius isp. genius for Wise, hard work." . The Strength of the Bible.. • "The 1311)1e shosYs Rift it is fully inepir- ed by its newer to live," says the Preebyter. imt, " notwithstanding all attacks upon it Nevor WitS there a book so criticised and BO 0,1110.gonipel, yet it maintains a growing hold upon mankind, True, sceptics claim that it is passing met Of date, and that science and edueistion ato seperseding it, but facts de not Warrant theilestateinents. Never were BibleSociefies so octave, nor Scriptures so dissemineted. The number of Volumes issued -by the Britiali and Foreign Bible Societies during the pest year wee four million, while the A.nierioan Bible Society wns only a little bolded in ite issues. It thus appears that thole were more 1311)1e0 mablished and circuleted during 1 800 than there were during ell the centuries proem'. ing tho present one. Noe, in view of the wenderful 01)0013133 111 heathen lauds, has the Bible over had a mom promising prospect for gaining poisession of mind and heart allover the world. As from age to ago itluts Shount itsef s Med to all conditions of people, so, as the ages mono amigo, will it beoome more luminous with its triumphs over supersti- tion, ignorance and sin, and manifest to the rlisoomliture of its assailants Out it, is the Weed of Life Ana Power for tlio ream." liamilton Takes Something, Ales. Brown, living in 'the 00(11111.y, had five trunks carried un from the.station, some ten miles eway, by an old Wathservant. The day teas very rainy end the old man 1005 soaked through when he drove up to hoe house. Mrs, Ilrowa (With sympathy).: " Why, Remittals, you must be wet !" Hamilton (shivering) : "910-0s, ma'am," Mrs. Brown 3 " Aeon% you 'afraid you'll take cold, Randltioo ?" Hamilton 1 " Ye.yes, nut'am ; rheumeti1 pretey bad, ma'am." Mrs, Brown "Don't you ever tithe eomething when you get soaked through, idamilton ?" Ilandlton (eagerly): " I:ems—yes ma'am" (rube the bade of his hand 981080 1315 mouth). Mee, 13rown " Well, here are four tWo. grain quinine pills, Hamilton ; take them as soon its you get home, " 'Collapse of Hinoilten, The Long-headed Rousekeeper, Clork...-You say you have five WindOWS and only ueet foue :careens ? Customer—Yes. / want to keep ono 10113.4010 013911 to let the flies got out, got so that I could sleep and eat, and I felt that I was well. That was three years ago, and I am still first- class. I an never Two Days. without a bottle, and if I feel constipated. the least particle a dose or two a August Flower does the work. The beauty of the medicine is, that yam can stop the use of it without any bad effects on the system. Constipation While I was sick X felt everything it seemed to me a maxi could feel. I was of all men most miserable. I cart say, in conclusion, that I believe August Flower will cure anyone of indigestion, if takerr Life of M isery with judgment. *A.. M. Weed, 229 Belle- fontaine St. Indianapolis. Ind." di Chief Rabbi of The Empire. The great Bayswater Synagogue at Lon- don, Eng., was profusely decorated with flowers and plants on Tuesday last and was packed to its 10111081 capanity with the most representative of the Jewish world of this oity and others who had assembled to wit-. nese the imposing ceremonies attendent upon the installetion of' Rev, Herman Adler, Ph. D., A., as Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. The Lord Meyer of Lon-. don attended in Stete, and a number of. members of Parliament,. several ot the Rothsehilds family, Chief Rabbi Rahn of France and meity of the most inthienbial, bs:nkere were present. She (on beide' tette)—George, have you beee sluokingall this .while ? Foal mo', please. Don't you feel how hot the ear is I ' There, I've dropped -my handkerchief too. He—Hasten% y ou been admiring this grand. scenery ? " .7 She—No ; I've been thinking how mach plrementorl it would be for people to take their bridal tours while ,they were engeg- A. Two -Strike. The out -door household week in summet suth as that of tho sununcr.kitchen, wash- ing and ironing, is a sort of makeshift with many mishaps like barns end 00311110. lint Mr, jno. Roinetnan, Middle Amine, Iowa, U. S. A., has found the true remedy. lie seys " I swatted my log With boiling weter, and had 0,0pr:tined ankle at the Mine time. Ono bottle of St. Jacobs Oil promptly cured both." Thet doubles its valor) easily, end sheen its groat useful:sees. Sailor bias, vory tinnily and choice, two shelve, made of shirred Point d' YlspirIt nats in Limit. while, gray and tan color, AC )4 CREKt iiEMEDY MI'CXE1. DIAMOND VERA CUBA CODES DYSPEPSIA AND INDICESTION If you cannot get Diarnond Vera, Curs front your Druggist, send C. for sample box to taNatHAN DEPOT 44 and 46 Lombard St. TOtic Nto, 0 0 oNT.