The Brussels Post, 1891-8-28, Page 7AUGUST 28, 1801,
A MIDNWET ENCOUNTER,
It wax a :leek, etormy night 111 wintee
when I returned home front a lengthy visit
in town. 1101 AMA dling fiereely turd a
terriiie gale blowing 114 1 drove from the
station. 1 need hardly say Imw glad I folt
when the hall door was thrown open end 0
flood of warm light streamed out into the
dark night I quickly 0114014 1.110 hid1,
thon 1.114W a great commotion going on. All
the servaute wore Melillo:I together et one
end, end papa ma my brothers, looking
"IT ox011:011, Wore talking angrily to a dark
sullen -looking man wile, I underetood, had
entered the house tts footman ehout a fort.
night before, Pape welcomed 010 ouly by
laying his hand upon my head.
" No, no," :said ho, evidently going aa
with hirs remarks, whioh my appearance had
interrupted ; not one inetant longer shall
yon stay, you incorrigible ratteal ! The coun-
ty goal le the only place fit to hold you, and
there, waerant nut, you'll find yourself
soon enough without my assistance .'
fathee paused to take lascath. The
men looked up, and said, in a subdued
voice,—
" Sir, this is a fierce, biting winter night,
I have 110W110r0 10 go ; the last train has
left for London, Consider what you are
doing 1"
But my [once was inexorable.
"Hail, rain, or 13110W, I care not 1" he said.
"Leave here you shall this very night !
Not one word morct 1"
The man gave him a dark look and with-
out another word, strode ortt into the dark.
110SR. 1 followed my brother into the dining -
room.
" Oh, Will," I whispered, "I wish papa
had not driven that poor 111110 0111 011 such
a night 1 Whatever his fault could he not
have been allosved to remain till morning?"
" No, child You know nothing about
it," answered: Will. " The servants refused
to stay another night under the :seine roof
with him. My father was quite right."
Nothing more was stid on the subject.
My cousins end some friends arrived the
next day, and WO hacl a merry weak of
it that Iliad almost forgotten the unisleasant
occurrence.
One night towards the end of Jamittry ell
onr guests had left, and papa and my
brothers were going &Ito a dinner -party in
the neighborhood, and I was to be lef t aloae,
However, before setting off, Will said to
me,—
" I dare say you'll find it a bit lonely
moping by yourself. I know you like sou-
sation ; so liere'a something.jolly to keep up
ynur sgirits diking the witching hours of
IT gave me one of those periedicals that
are foil of what Flo oalls real down-
right shivery ghost -stories. Will called it
" jolly," yet it hall a certain faecinatton, and
I read on till after eleven o'clock ; then,
knowing papa would be displeased if he
found me up, I mounted the stairs to pre-
pare for bed, humming a tune to keep up
my spirits as I wont.
1-faving looked well under my becl 01111
made a careful survey of all the oorners,
cupboarde, itt presses in my room, I
jumped into bed and with one detertniued
puff extinguished my candle, then covered
my head with the clothes, 0,1111. 80011 fen
asleep. l3ut, alas, my slumbers wer haunt-
ed, and 0110 spectre in the theelitional shroud
advances' so menacingly toward me that I
woke up with a, start ! I could not go to
sleep again, but lay thinking of the wretch-
ed stones I had been reading, end wonder-
ing if papa was home, what the Glue 1909,
.01111 110W long it would be before daylight. I
longed for something to break the deathly
stilluess,
Suddenly a n10E11011 sound broke on my ear
from the passage outside my- door --not the
eound of &fearless footfall, du:honest click of
a look or the ordinary shun of a door ; it
was the noise of a eautioes, stealthy 111060-
(0001. jumped noiselessly out of bed, amp -
ped myself in a clerk dressIng-gown, and peer -
Omit into the passage. It was as clerk and
still as the greve. I stood for nearls: 0 min-
ute motionless, then my eyes grew accus-
tomed to the blackness. I could discern
the door of a small closet where the honse.
maid kept her brushes and dusters ; but
not a wand more did I hear.
1 W11,9 11.1301.1t to return to bed, blaming
myself for being the victim of nervousness,
when, without the least preparation, tile
door opposite opened softly and tile head
and shouldere of 14 man protruded. He
peered eautiousiy 1111 11101 dOW11 1110 passage,
and then retired into the closet without
seeing me. My eyes nearls, started ont of
my head with surprise and fear, but I did
not cry out or fly from the spot. I gazed
:stupidly and silently before nes for a rno.
ment, then in a spasmodic fit of heroism,
darted across the passage and. bolted the
cloect door.
1. breathed again. The robber was as
secure 110W 05 if ho were within the wells of
a prison. A few steps more and I should
be safe in Will's room, and the whole house•
hold would bo alarmed in lase than five
minutes. Alas, Edits ! I hod just tatened to liy,
when I felt somebody else crouching close
beside me, and a hoarse whisper fell upon
103, ears,—
" Hold your oonfounded 110i.501 yo olumsy
fool, aucl follow me 1"
I obeyed, blindly groping my way after
the figure, my mind blank with fright and
my throat, dry and parched, unable to pro.
duce the faintest articulate sound.
Instind told me how the mete stood,
This 111011, seeing the outline of my figura in
the dark dressiug.gown, had taken mo for
his contrede whom I had looked up in the
cupboard ; and I bolt that, if he found out
his mistake before I coahl summon assist-
ance, I should be a dead girl. He °rept
along, nettling to know his way well and
turnecl to the left: toward the turreted room
at the ond of the house where papa always
slept and where he kept; the family Jewels
and some valuable pieta. I could follow
undiscovered as far as that room, thoeght
I, perhaps Heaven Would give me power to
arouse papa while the Lhiet WOS seeming the
valuables, Oh, what a walk that W11.0 1
Never, nevelt siren forgot it 1
Papa never looked his door foe fear of firo
so Nve—blio burglar and - easily entered the
room. Here 1ny companion produced a
small shaded lamp which threw a faint light
over the bed, but not sufficient to awake
even the lightest sleeper. I could perfectly
dieearti my father's figures -he was lying on
his back, with the bed•olothes s little thrown
off his shoulders,
"No bungling now ; keep close with the
gag 1",siticl the intruder to me, in a very low
win:spots without howevee looking up, for
he was busy altering tho light.
At that; instant I recognized the wieked
footman whotn my father hed fawned out of
the house, and at onee felt, sure that he
meant murder—cruel, oold•blooded tnurder
—and nothing else, The 000111 ailet all tka
furniture seemed. to float round me, Oh,
Whet should do if My senses failed me en.
tirely / clutched wildly at my theoat to
try to force out a ory,but failed, I endeavor-
ecl to got to the bed, but the man stood
bolavoon me and it, and I knew that, if I
torrobed him without awakieg my: father, I
should be quieted, probably forever, by one
THE BRUSSELS POST.
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" CAULP ORROBs'
Moe: of les huge list. Ho ben; ovee the bed, — -
and I SAM a, shitrosteel is! t led ug in 11 ie
from my hen rt u 11 eliven. Asit i mutineer, the S11" 0r 1)0('111.1"r111171'1.1glit Alimug
hand 1 Ilene 101culesS prayer fer help went
1 ion will wonder, ot "souse, why a dollli0
miceper stiertel faintly ; and :he et her
: ‘1MU". Vall111 8i11/1.1111 110VU re:Alive:1 0(201: a. name, but
a few eeconde, paseed his heed o gm.): ot:ar it iii 1., iiii
litary recertle, awl no mail
1110 blado, 111111 1110L1"111111 111" '11°061 1.1t 111'1 ever attempt to explain iL Lo you with.
Hide. I slipped behind a werdrobe rtittliuitt,g0,11:9,iy:06ilits over the reeolleetione me:mite:1
eut In the I:111100 collars:, on the
Katmai' frontier when the mei men were
Intuiting smelt it light against the troupe beet
out after the elose of the rebellion. They
had ewoopod down on the Smoky Hill stage
route and sealped and slaughtered right and
left, and our command had been hurried for.
weed to proteet Ruch mettlers as might have
maped and to open the route again. Gay
after day the red men hovered on our flanks,
and night after night they crept upon tut like
serpent:5 anti sent their snout, arrows into
(ramp to find living targets,
Ono night, when the day had been full of
excitement, end when it seemed as if the
Sioux had determitied to vetreat no furthei.
the sentinels were warned to extra vigi:
lance. We know that peril menaced us,
and we who stood sentry after midnight
peered into the darkness with bated broit01
and 2901•0 ready to fire at the first sus:pi-
t:ions sound, At 1 o'clock thought heard
a light footstep on tiro grime. IL was 12
dark night, with now and tliell gaitt of
wind sweeping up with lonesome sound,
and I could not be semi I henzil aright.
I waited, with linger on the trigger,
ready to lire if I heard the footstep again,
but it did not come to nur. Scarcely
ten minutes had rr18021 when the sentinel
CM 111y right, Wil0 was only thirty feet
away, fired into the darkness. Tho report
of his carbine had not died away '1141 011 a
loud, wild soreant ranged. out upon the
night, aud every man who heard it know
that it wee uttered by a woman.
It is a good many years back ts that night,
but I remetnber every incident as well as if
only a week had paesed. Now antl then I
have dreamed of it, and that scream has
aroma me and taken all my nerve. As
soon as we could investigate we found an
ranazing thing—a woman lying dead on the
grass with a, yoar-old baby in her arms !
The sentinel had shot her dead in her tracks,
but the beby was stilt asleep, with one of
her arms huggtug it to her breast. We look-
ed and looked, and it WaS hard to believe
WO SAAV aright. It was a settler'e wife, as
was afterwards knowu, who had escaped a
tna.ssaure more then forty miles away. She
had wandered around for five days, suffering
tvith hunger and thirst, and had no doubt
became crazed with anxiety and exhaus-
tion.
There wee none but old veterans in that
camp, but there were tears in all eyes when
that poor dead body was brought into camp,
and when the wakened baby cried with fright
and hunger and held out its little hands to
the very trooper who had fired upon the
mother. No one could blame him in the least,
but he blamed himself. When he realized
tvhat he had done he turned away from us
without a word and walked away as men walk
in their sleep. We had washed the mother's
life -blood off the baby's heeds, and the
Colonel himself wee feeding it with the gruel
hastily prepared, when there came another
shot end another alarm. The trooper had
gone just without the lines of the camp and
fired a bullet into his own hettrt. Remorse
had driven him to it.
Somewhere in the West that boy baby,
noa, grown to manhood, etill lives, but the
two graves wo dug next morning were y,ears
ago levelled aud obliterated front all sight
but that of God. At the last great day he
will awaken the dust of their dead.
231. QUAD,
stood near to the bet"
Everything W00 ready ; the victim wee
breathing pectoefully. Again the ruffian
hie cruel steady hand a few ifeconfle
more and my dear father's heart woltld ha1e
etmeed to beat forever in 11110 world. lvfy
hands enctionehed themselves, the blood
llowed beak into my veins ; with all my
might I pl.101,1011 the heavy werdrobe on top
of the crouching wretch. fell, end one
of tho doors of the wardrobe tburet open,
struck him, cut epee his forehead, and he
lay struggling and groatting on the llooe,
My father sprang up 111011 a shout of
" Who's there? Witat's the matter ?"
Then I r000vered tny voice and, with tut
effort, got out the word,—
" Thieves 1"
I don't remember mitell more, I jest
heard them all hurrying into the room, and
the shrieks and :struggles of the ruffian
while they were disarnung and strewing
him, Smelted), slipped a pair of papru'e
elippers on my foot, somebody else poured
brandy down tny: throat, and my brother
Will carried Inc book down the now noley
passages into my own room. Then a cir-
cumstance whi011 seemed. to me to hetes
occurred nearly 0 week before came into
my mind.
"'Not in here, please," I whispered ;
" there's another in Martha's cupboard I
had forgotten hint 1"
Well, tile two house.breakers were tried
at the assizes, and, as several other convic-
tions were proved against. them, they were
bcth committed for fourteen years.
Shearing the Royal Looks,
In some Eastern countries children's hais
is not eat until they aro 10 or 12years of age,
the giels then being considered marriageable,
Up to that time it is coiled on the top of the
head and adorned with fresh flowers. When
the groat, day for cuttiug comes there is a
grand ceremony and much feasting.
One W110 was present at a royal hair-
cutting tells that tho darling of the harem
was robed in long flowing garments of silk
and lace, confined at the mast by a goldeu
girdle. Her long hair, coiled for the last
time, was fastened by diamond pins which
gleamed and glittered among fresh white
flowers and green leaves like pearly drops of
morniug dew.
There, in the presence of the ladies, her
father and an officiating priest, sureounded
by her maidens, some two hundred in num.
her, she knelt under a canopy of flowers and
leaves while prayers teem chanted.
Then the beautiful tresses being unbound,
say:s the Irish. l'inces, her royal father, dipp-
ing his fingers in rose water, and Ilrawing
then, carelessly over her head, clipped otr
ahout an eighth of an inch of hair and threw
it, into a golden basin, depositing at the same
time on a great salver placed ready to receive
them, presents of jewels and gold.
The priest cut the next piece, her mother
the next, and so on, each guest serving in
turn, until the little lady was shorn.
All gave costly .gifts intended for her
marriage dower, princes, ministers of state
and dignitaries of all sorts, who waited in
the outer courts, Bending in theirs by the
atteuclants. The day ended in feasting and
a display of fire -works.
Gambling in Montreal.
According to a correspondent there is a
great deal of gambling going on in :Montreal.
It is asserted that if the present condition
of affairs continues the newspapers will be
teeming in the emir fature with social, com-
mercial-, and political wrecks, brought ou
by this excessive and illegitimate plas,. It
is a notorious fact that at the present time
more business men are ruined, more families
plunged into want, by gambling than at any
other period hi the past history of Montreal.
Many instances of this mut be cited at evers:
excursion that takes place ou the river or
elsewhere where the groat middle classes
are wont to congregate. Last week at ono
of these outines, a man in charge of a wheel
of fortune paia $150 for the right to rue his
roulette and at the end of the clay it was
calculated that he had made a little less
than $1000. Ono gentleman lost $240 et
cards, seormil $175. Tho same stors: is
heard at all clubs aucl other places of fash-
ionable resort, Only a few (lays ago the
sporting community reported that a, well.
known French-Canadien medical man had
lost 618,000 in a eingle night, but, fortunate-
ly for the doctor, he won ahnos1 the
entire amount back a short time after. It
will then be seen that there are other
scandals besides political that need. to be
rooted out from the very bottom.
A Happy Esoape,
Slie—" It is useless to urge mo to marry
you, When I say.ino, I mean no."
110—" Always ?
She—" Invartably."
He—" And can nothing ever change your
determination when you owes make up yew:
mind?"
She—" Absolutely nothing."
118—" Well, I wouldn't care to marry a
woman like that anyhow," '
A MODERN INSTANOE.
Devotion 813011 Thi.= Ka0 Reen a Favorite
Theme or Poets and Sievettsts.
On the 10th of last mouth a W01110.11 died
in New York elty whose life was etnbittered
for the last twenty years by her unrequitted
love for a scoundrel whose name has lately
appeared in the English papers in conuection
with the Bank of England forgeries of 1 373.
In '70 this lady lived in Toronto, and was
employed embroidering 01101011 vestments.
She was of French desoent, and extremely
beautiful, gracious and vivacious in form
and movement. At that time there Nvere
two brothers named Ili well, living in To-
ronto, They wore ostensibly commission
men, gentlemanly in appsarance, intelligent,
ancl welt educated. With the younger,
Byron Bidwell, this girl became acquainted
and 10 a short time very 11111011 in love. The
man paid her constant ad:00110a and was
lavish in gifts. They wore driving out one
evening when carriage paesed them and
one of the men in it, looking book, gave 0
loud exclamation and stopped his team.
Bidwell instantly turned his carriage in tile
road and drove back to the city' at full
speed. Ho spoke no word, but his compan-
ion saw that his face WEIA very white. Sud-
denly he stopped, sprang out of the buggy
and disappeared atnong the buildings. .A.
moment after the pureuing party came up,
and tho girl, to hee terror, foetal herself in
the hands of the police, and learned that het,
lover was a, noted criminal who had been fol-
lowed from the States, where he was wanted
for forgery,
She had some moans, and quitted her em.
ployment to find her lover. Witlt wonder-
ful prescience she followed his track, and
found hint hiding in New York. With him
was his brother George, and tall handsome
Canadian named Macdonnell. Byron and
the girl wont to Philadelphia together and
lived there for about eight; maths. She did
her best to induce him to leave his emulates
and be honest, but in vain. The party were
then planning their raid on the Bank of
England, ahd through elaedonnell, who Was
& skilled penmen, a forgery on Hallet Ss Co.,
New York, realized them 512,000. All theit
plans were complete, and one morn iug Byron
Bidwell went out to get shaved, and from
that moment the never saw him again,
For eight months she wandered itom city
to city, looking for hint, until in August,
1 873, the newspapers told her of his fate :
Ho had been soutenood to Portland Prison
for life. Sho at once crossed the ocean, but
was net permitted to see him.
For 1110 last eighteen years she has been
interceding with the Englielt authorities on
his behalf, They W01.0 vevy courteous, but
fine, and never gave her any enema:ago.
mein About four months ago sho returned
from London broken in heart and health,
And so ended her weary life
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0ANA.D.TAN PORTLAND CEMENT- 1
.fre that, Work Will kr eitErlaii Oa all winter.
tes.-1,1 eery , driven by powerful
MiLKING.
• ,,tealo engines, 1..r the grinding, mixing and
Nen nun ino ;orlon' Collodion Ditaltrar. mealier; et t he twirl and elity ieto the fonts
or liteilt 0410. Tiledif 110 10211 1111 011
luring Industry.
email ease mei rue into anether large
Portifed 111. 11,/1118.11 1'1'1.8101 0r8 111111H1Rql•
:,,i111.14Limisof 111:4 tu whiell are 1 5 drying turaiels," 70
WRY anti ether large bridge+) and other feet long retch and aboat , or 8 feet square.
Roney eseosed 1,/ W111 frest, Hitherto Into theett hot air is foreed isrge :punt:
these have all lasol Imported jot, comilda , titles by poweefel mtuthinery for drying the
piano' tally from England, and some yeare moulded material. It in next taken to the
hig 1 MR 11011 11, million barrels have 1/0011
requireil. As the cost io froin $2 to $3 per.
berrel the imincuse outgo from the llotnin.
ion for this one arldele &one hes been onto
mons, It is 110W' pldAty 0 V Went that in the
near fetere Canatla will be able to supply
all its: own needit in this eespeet and probe
ably may also export large quantities.
This content, whitei hardens ieto the con-
sistency of etone when ra100(1,
mado of marl, or " lowland chalk," as it ix
often called in England, and a peculiar
quality of clay. Those two are mixed to.
scalier iff proper proportions and then dried
and burned and afterwarde ground into a
fine powder end barrelled up for use. As
oath the marl end the clay require to be of
just tho richt chi:mien" proportione and are
kilns for burnitig, Those kilns are large
domes of Jiro brick about 50 feet high and 1:2,
feet, in eireumfereuee at the baee, tapoeing
much smaller the too—mm:11 resembling
large bottles. in these are platted alternate
leyeris of :mkt, and the dried marl and elay
and fires are titarted which continuo mall
the fuel is communal and the brieke are
burned into " eliakers" utterly air hard as
granite. It hi then taken int.' a largo
mill near by, where, by powerful machin.
cry it is fleet broken up bt a large
mother, awl then pasties through
another machine and reduce 1 much finer,
after whioli it goes through a sot of etr.ery
stones and id redused to the nceoesary tine.
LIORS 11111/1 use. It 10 then peeked up and
ready foe shipping, It is expectoil that
eeldoin found, a fow localtires have had the these works will begin wi th the tietenfacture
monopoly of the inanitfauture, t is only 1 of I 00 barrels a day, giving constant employ
recently thin it has been known that there 1 to some 4.1.1 hands, but the full eapaeity of
the establishment will Ito 300 1, trreht per
day with 75 or SO hands at work. In the
same building, by otlier inaohinery, '200
barrels it day ot water lime, or hydraulic
cement, can be ground and packed.
At Napanee Mina, which lord scarcely
an existence at all ton yes.10 ago, the Works
just referred to have 110W al] existence, and
aleolarge kiinsforbureing ordinary lime and
water lime are in full blast. Great beds of the
stone fur each of these lies at the spot and in
almost nalitnited quantities. There is also
good building limestone here, and excellent
qualities of clay for brick, term cat& and
cement making.
The prinei poi mill of the No,panee Paper
Company is aleo here and some tons of print-
ing paper,such as these peges,are printed on
are turned out daily. This paper is matle
almosteutirely from the pulp of bass -wood
poplar ancl other soft woods. Many thou.
sands of cords of wood aro thus strangely
transformed mob year, giving the farmers an
excellent market for what was all bat
worthless for their previous to the establish-
ment of the business.
To what extent Portland 00010111 mane.
facture, and possibly earthenware too, may
attain in a low years it is not now safe to
predict. It is certainly cote of oar " in-
tent industries" which may be watched
with interest and the prospects are that it
may yet become a giant among the wealth -
producing inclustrtes of oar great Domin.
ion.
Tootles W, Clasee.
N'apanee, July 28111, 1801.
exists in this Province a great e.bnudeante of
good raw material, and dim, too, in close
proximity 1,0 oath other.
AT 11.1m...BANK
in Enet Hastings there oxiSts a great altund.
auee of marl of great purity. A practical
man who has bent engaged in 00010111 mak.
ing for malty years hl England, tells lite that
this marl is almest ribsolutely pure carbon-
ate of For many years past a capital
quallt3r of whiting has been manufactured
from. it without any special refining process.
It is said, too, te be an excellent tooth pow.
dor, and i t makes a beautiful quality of lirne
for plastering purposes when burned, but its
original OW1101.0 were not aware of its value
for the more important purposes of cement
making, nor were they aW1160 that near at
hand were large quantities of the very kind
of clay seeded to mix with it for that par -
11000.
The marl 5001110 to be eomposed entirely
ef decomposed f yeah Water snail shells. Just
at what t,ime stroll myriads lived as gave the
material for such great beds is not known,
The period, however, was not very remote
for now it is quite easy to pick out, near
the surface, well formed shells, but most of
them have become so soft as to crash into a
fine powder beneath a slight pressure of the
fingers. At this point, Just on the borders
of the counties of Lennox and Hastings,
there lies three small lakes, each of some
nundreds of acres of area, and the bottoma
of these are covered to a depth of feet
with this beautiful white marl, Etousewives
thereabout are in the habit of dipping it np
in a semi...fluid state and using it at once for
an 0220ellent whitewash. These are Lime
Lake, in Lennox. ; White Lake, near Elena.
ville village ; and Dry Lake, beside the little
village of Maribank. Into the latter there
flows a small mill -stream from some higher
lands ancl ponds above, the water of which
is still strongly impregnated with the lime,
and it is clear as ceystal. The lake has kept
filling up irk this way so that of an original
400 acres of surface less than 30 acres are
now under water and these only to a depth
of two or three feet. The probabilities are
that in a few years it will be entirely dry of
water. Nene by is 111 field, now beating a
rank growth of timothy grass, W111011 Wad
also evidently at one time also the bed of a
niarl lake. Here, as elsewhere, the tnarl bed
is of groat clop th and. purity. In places holes
have been stmir Mit to twenty feet and
poles hove been driven down much farther
without any good indication being seen that
the bottom of the rich mine has been reach-
ed. Probably within a radius of a few
miles between 500 and 1,000 acres of such
beds exist. Intelligent men who reside in
the locality feel sure that enough exists here
to last for centuries to come, even though
thousands of tons a yoar 011001t1 be taken
out,
T118 1.14W WpIt120.
Tory Brown Wasted a Dollar and Hie Wife
Regretted it.
" hy Jeremiah Beaten 1" exclaimed
Mrs. &Wily 49 I1011 1111038,011 returned from
a short railroad journey, " is this s,o0 alive
and in the nosh S"
" Why, o' eourse it's me, replied Mr.
13rown, testily, " ain't this the timo when I
said vt be back ?"
" .Ancl you ain't boon in no aeoident and
got killed?"
"Do I look as if I WILS defIll?"
" A11C1 you ain't lost both legs or both
arms?"
" No, I ain't."
" Nor even one log or ono arm, or an
eye?"
22 No,.
" And you dida't so miteh as got hurt
enough so you osin sit in the boase and not
work for a month oe two ?"
" How many times lutve I got to tell you
there ain't 110011111' happonoll 111
" Well, you do beat all 1" There you went
and paid a dollar foe an accident insurance
ticket just beton you left and you haven't
done anything to gob money out, of fit A
whole dollar wasted for nothing I" And
you might as well heve merle 510,00n if
yoe'd only got killed. Nieo manage:, you
are 1"
TWO -Legged Rena.
Wife, what has become of the grapes ?"
" I suppose, my dear, the hens picked
them off," wee the reply.
"Hens—hens—some wo-legged hens,
fanny,- said the ItuabiLal with von, impet-
uosity ; to which she quietly rf..121., .1
" My dear dicl you. over soe oy other
ki la 1"
A. Murderous Cook,
A Paris cook lately attempted to murder
her mistress under extraordinary cir-
cumstances. The girl was thoroughly honest,
her only fault being that she was not
expert at making sauces. Her mistress hap-
pened to be wheeler as to the sauces and
gave her a week's notice. After that time
the girl was always crying. She behaved
like a lunatic. She ttsed to take down the
pictures froin the walls, would go out during
the morning when she was most wanted
about the house, and one day mune home a
quarter of an hour before lunch time to serve
up a meal for twelve persons. She scarcely
ever spoke. At last she went into her mis-
tress's room at 4 o'clock one morning on
tiptoe, with her face hiddeu in a, towel, and
with a huge kitchen knife in her lutucl. Her
mistress 17118 asleep with her little girl in
her arms. The cook seized hold of
mistress's shoulder and. plunged the
knife in her breast. The knife penetrated
four inches, missing her heart only a hair's
breadth. Akt the shrieks of the unfortunate
victim the whole house was aroused, The
servant had disappeared. A doctor was
called. The police surrounded the house.
The cook fied to her room on the fifth Hoer.
She couldn't get in, akshe had lost her key.
Distracted with fear, ale ran all over the
place, found an open door, opened a window
and jumped out. She fell into a yard near
I grating, breaking one of the bars and
smashing one of the paving stones with her
lead. Which they picked her up they forted
only a bleeding mass, The lady she had
vounded is expected to rollover.
Two er three years ago a couple of Mon.
troal millers became aware of the practical
value of those beds for 00010111 making and
made arrangements to secure considerable
property in the locality. Twenty-five bar-
rels of marl and as much clay were sent to
England for a practical test. The cement
mado from these nutterials peoved solisfite.
tory, An English syndicate was formed
with the corporate mune of " The English
Portland Cement Company " and a practical
man was sent out to superintend the erection
of the necessary works. For more then 0
year quite a large number of mon—thirty to
foety most of the time—have been engaged
itt clearing away and erecting buildings and
placing machinery. It is said that already
0 1 00,000 have been expended and possibly
nmeh more will be laid out before any
thing will he got back from the oetlay. A
large building for engines and machinery
has boon 0001000ml and tho machinery has
been plaeoct Some large buratto, kilns are
also completed, but it is probablo*thr t near.
ly the entire yefte will be gone before praotb
cal work at cement making can be com-
menced. These works lie immediately beside
Dry lake and near the (day beds and na the
tritok of the 110W extension of the Napanoe
and Tamworth railway, so 11101 06017 thing
10 tavorable for successful work onee that it
is ready.
It is said, too, that the intention of the
syndicate is to go quite extensively into the
manufacture of earthenware W11011 once the
other works are in successful running order,
The same materials, in different proportions,
are well adapted to that purpose.
AT x,trA:iint MIMS,
The Rathbun Company, of Deseronto,
wall known for Inge and successful business
enterprise—have also been hard at work for
months past getting reads: also for Portland
cement making. This Company has large
torm-cotta works at Deem:onto, where a:
greet deal has been done with the clay boils
in ther near vieinity, It has also largo works
Napaneo Mille, four miles op tho river
ronni ho town of Ntipanee, for the manufac-
ture of water limo, in winch business 11011011
has been done tor a number of years pest,
The company has 12104.20 of the V0.1 00
of these marl beds for some time,
but it is only a few mooths sinoe
milway .passed near enough to them. to
make thole working praeticable. Last
winter they sent their manager, Mr. Bra -
vendor, to several works in the
States to get all possible practioal know -
lodge about, the working and the hest
kinds of machinery, -Early tho
year several hundreds of barrels wore
manufactured at the water lime works and
the expeviment proved successful, thottgh
carried on itt considerable disadvantege, bo.
cause of the lack of proper machinery and
other fateilities. Foe some monthe large
eumber of 111011 have been et work putting
up the nectessary buildings and machiner9,
and it is said that, over 830,000 being
thus expended. In the eourse et a month
theire works will bo in successful , peration.
There la first 011 immense bedding into
which trains laden with elay awl marl wil1
run and be unloaded, These materials will
be so well protected against:storms and eolcl
Her Anewer.
I stood beside her in the surf,
Beneath the moonlit skies ;
She met: my (Agee questioning
‘Vith tintitl, downcast eyes.
"Say, darling, shall this ham" bo seine—
My own for aye and aye'?"
Weto those salt, teardrops in her oyes,
Or brit the salty spray
Then suddenly she turned on me
.A.10 engttished look of wee
And wildi y shrieked," 01) , take my hand
,A. arab Imo got my too 1"
A HUMAN MAGNET,
Flows The, yee strong, for MO Miran,
Parkapn j I, 1407:10hrL:ily 1[110W11, but in
the eity of Lowieten, Me., lives 0 lnali who
is possessed of a 11114411001 Or some kind of
wouderful power which it trely miraculowt.
Osene F. Whitman, the man in question, kr
311 yeare old and lives with ltle wife and little
daughter. A reporter milled on Mr. Whitman
and received. a cordial reception, Whit -
Mall le a 111011 abOlit 1.110 average height with.
a pair of broad Rhouldons and a deep tritest.
He ia in every way an othletie arid healthy
appearing speohnen of humanity, and his
face though at times it appears atom, ie in
t self a pieture of benevoleoce and kiedness.
jammed to the kitchen and Mr. Whitman
poAwfette..r a La id converaation the party ad-
protteeded to give 011 exhibition of hie
Seating himself et the head of a large table
in the middle of the 100211, Mr, Whitman
huld his bands ont at an aught of about, 45
degrees. In a short time a convulsive ex-
pression seemed to creep over his facto, and.
plactieg him linger tip: on the table he raised
It up awl held it in tile ale 110 if it Wad 1101,11-
ing loit a sheet of paper. The reporter,
with Mr. Whitman's consent, then took a
*WILL at the opposite end of the talde and tried
to hold it, but the magic finger tips wave too
much, and he was pulled over chair and all.
Now, Mr. Bratlimey prides himself on being
a pretty strong Mall, so with a smile on lue
face he changed his iota for the one at the
enil of the table. Grasping the table legs
irmly he braced Ids feet, and the look that
stole over his facie plainly said: " Now,
friend spirits or whatever you are I've
got you." He did not have them, tiiough,
arid the 213 pounds of 11001ati flesh, chair,
and table followed the dictation of the
wonderful finger tips over the room in ft
minium which -made every one elee laugh.
Mr. Linseott during those pi:weeding&
Ian been rubbing up his muscles and prepar-
ng for a grip with the supernatural. He
took the seat, calmly got a good hold and.
announced that lie was ready. He was
•eady, too, for his muscles stood out like
vliipeorcl, but still he 31,081 not " in it," and
ike the others yielded to the inevitable -
Messrs. Tarr and Wood concluded it was no
use to try it, and so this part of the pro-
ceedings came to an end.
Now some think that Mr. Whitman is a.
valking electric) plant, but such is not the
ease, for he placed a pane of glass on the
able and placing his lingers on it lif ted it j use
as if the eon -conductor was not there.
Mr. Whitman does not olaim to be a.
piritualist or an electrician. Whets he
wants to use his latent power he holds his
hands out as stated above at an angle of
45 degrees, and the currea starts from hia
houlders and runs to his finger tips, and
vhen he is done using it he dips his finger
n cold water, sprinkles a few drops on hes
oreheacl, and, holding both hands in the
air, allows it to run back to its receptacle
n his shoulders. " It seems," said Mr.
Vhitman, " as if there was a hollow in. my
renes through which this power is transmits
ed." '
This laewer was noticed in Mr. Whitman
when be was a small boy. Sometimes,
vhen playing with other children he would.
place his 'fingers on a ohair an'a, for his
musement, pull the other ohildren aronnd.
he room hanging to it. Mr. Whitman.
grew up the same as other boys, and being
of a rather reserve' disposition, said little
about his powers. He has been working
midis now employed as a cutter with the
firm of Gay, Woodman & Co., although
ately he has not worked more than half
he time.
0aught in His Own Net.
A young lawyer WM trying a ease 1.10
ong ago, a -hen v. witness was put in the box
testify to the reputation of the place in
question.
This witness, stage -driver, in answer to
a query as to the reputation of the place,.
°plied, " A poor shop !"
The lawyer inquired, " You say it has
he reputation of being a ' poor shop '1"
NYVeliso, l'i!rdid you hear say that it was am
poor shop'?"
The witness did not recolleet of anyone he
lad heard say so.
11 What !" saki the lawyer ; " you have
sworn this piece has the reputation of being
1)1111` shop, and yet you cannot tell of any-
one you have ever heard say so 1"
The witness was staggered for a moment
at the words of the lawyer. The lawyer
vas feeling triumphant, when the witness
gathered himself together, ancl quietly:re-
:narked, addressing the lawyer :
" Well, you have the reputation of bola
a smart lawyer, but I have never heardany
one say so."
Resources of Nova Bootle.
Nova Scotia. is marvellously riclt in natural
'08011 NOS, Within its limits there are more
-aluable minerals by far thou aro known in
any other territory of equal size—coel, gold,
eon, mauganose, antimony, marble, gypsum,
i in es tone and sandstone being. found in great
tbundance. There is scarcely a, county in
'he province, says a writer in Harp Bator,
rom one end to the other in width valuable
leposits of one or more of these minerals do
tot exist. Its extensive forests' afford the
best facilities for profitable lumbering and
ehibuilding.; its rivers,lakesand mast 1311101%
teem with nsh ; its fertile valleys, productive
1101111 10,111 slopes, ancl inexhaustible marshes
are edapted to every variety of agriculture,
and its equable insular climate, free from
all extremes of heat and cold, of wet and
leought, is surpassed by that of few wen.
tries itt the world. The land on which the
New Englanders settled, and of which large
thecae wore freely given them, consisted of
the famous dikes of the centre of the pro -
ohm, together with many acres of the almost
148 fertile upland neat:, The two townships
of Horton and Cornwallis, in 11111011 1nany
ocatod, form poet of the " Garden of No ra
Scotia," as fine au agricultural and fruit
growing country as any in the world, stretch.
ing eastward 1111(1. westward between the
adjacent mountain ranges, in a soft, ever
changing, luxuriaut landscape, on which,
almost uninterruptedly, eleitr, bine skies
look down. TheNew Englifild people who
first settled in this charming region have
transmitted to their descendants solid moral
qualities and a high degree of intelligence,
1 n efluvation the county of Kings is foremost,
and 1:11031, 110 1)0(1 of the continent whore
purer, 1 hod almost said so pure, English is
spoken, or so few solecisms in speeoh aro
heard.
"Mabel."
The mess -grown marble bore thie simple word -
Upon its time worn MCC, in lettere wide
wondered W110 she 'Wad, and how she diod,
ind pondered long upon the childish name.
E'en ea mused, I heard ad in a dream.
'he silvery laughter of a careless child;
The laughter ceased, and on the breezes mild.
rhe fretful moaning of a child was borne.
heard the mother's prayers in sorrow deop,
The restless pacing of the watchers' feet ;
Tin heavens bright throng received the suffer-
tInift nefi
And o eg oils proclaimed tho grief on earth..
Hem doth she sleep, 'tin death shall sleep uo
more,
And tears of grief be quenched, and Glory:
reign;
No graves, death, or fears shallnwe the dream-
er then
Or turn hoe youthful health to restless pain.
Beier KELLY.
" On Time."
It is a matter of pride with railroad com-
panies to run their trains on tinie, or as
tear to punctuality itS possible. This well-
known fact no donbt explains an incident
videlt an English traveler relates in con -
motion with a Journey which he took across
the American continent, It was on one of
the grottt transcontinental lines whieh
md special promises as to punctuality.
On the 3ourney the English traveler
seemed to notice a marked disregard for
the cune.table, but 110 WEIR interested in
the eountry, and made no complaint.
At last the Pacific terminus W11,8 reached.
There he met a beaming, official of the corn.
pany, who, pulling his own watch out,
said
" Just) look and see what you've got wilt
yoe, please ?"
" It wants ten minutes of one," said the
Englishman, littla lar0010d,
" Yes, sir ; tavolve-tlfty exe.etly 1 .And
that's the time she's scheduled to arrive
How's that for promptness 1 Crossing the
continent, almost throe thousand miles, and
getting hero at twelve.fifty o'rolock, pre.
elegy as advertieed."
" can't deny that, you know," said the
Englishman. ' ICA vory fine, no doubt ;
but look here -*how many days wore you
10,1 1011,
a matter of two or three, perhaps ;
but We struelc the cost at tavolve-fifty,"
An Indisputable Pad.
A good story is told of a young man who
on a certain election day went to the polls
2,o cast his maiden veto, It seems that his
father and ho were not agreed in their poli-
tical views and the old gentleman being
steong in his convietions, determined, if
necessary, to challenge.: the son's vote, They
loft home each determined in his why. Ar-
riving at the polling plaoo the old gentleman
exorcised his right of suffrage. This cowl.
plated, the younger man stepped up, gave
Ins name, but before anything olso °mild be
done the olcl gentleman said 2
" object, This young man isnot of age,"
The young man answered, " Yes, I am,"
11 But," said the old num, " / am your
father, I guese I ought to know. W110
there."
11 Wen," sold 00 son, " wasn't I there,
too 1"
Ite voted,