The Brussels Post, 1891-12-11, Page 22
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DAFFODIL.
BY I,1LI.Ali
CHAPTER I1I
Aud ell the wools' o' 1t."
Poor Daffodil thought this world a chaos
of gloom that night when e110 {vent home.
So the world alw'ayn hooks when soma dear
with of ours has been thwarted. Even the
neat ino1T ling when 110 wake smiling we soon
remember to be sail again. Daffodil yawned
and attired about lazily, when she \yoke the
following day, for some momenta before eho
remembered tat burden on her heart. and
she bit her lip vrxotionsly a' ,l the rose flush
of her cheek., 1 1; :,1••d as she ran over f11
her miner all that hail oet: said to her by
Mrs. Dovey and Mr. Carewe, It is a very
bitter experience 'o have our faith in our
own capnbilitles shaken, to be told however
gently, that w0 are less clever than we
considered ourselves to be. Froin anger,
Daffodil's feelings turned to those of keen
disappointment and senslt iv0 sorrow and she
put her (sands over her face and cried.
But she could not lie there and nurse her
wounded ambition ail day, so after being
called three times she emerged at last to the
roost where the breakfast table awaitelher.
Had Leila been these she would have
received enough petting directly to have
ohased away the crass looks. To do her
justice it was not a couulton thing to see a
downright scow( on her bloomiug face.
Sho 0fttlt growled a little at things that did I
not suit her and retorted sharply when she
was scolded but it was only a passing cloud
and seldom was her beauty marred by any-
thing approaching sullen, sour disagreeable-
ness, this morning, however, she went
about extremely sulky. She began clearing
off the table in silence and when Hortense
asked her if she did not iutend eating any-
thing, site cast a contemptuous look at the
collation before her and said " You know I
hate porridge 1•
" Well. that's not all there is 1" Hortense
reminded her,
Daffodil curled her lip and vouchsafed no
answer. She helped herself to tarts though,
when site opened the door of their hiding
place to put something else in and a cup of
coffee but nothing else. " Never tend,
Daffudil," Hortense did not try to resist
saying as she saw her choice, ' Yon will
some be having your breakfast prepared to
order like your dresses."
Daffodil turned her back on this unkind
out. Indeed, she could not answer. Sonn-
thingin her throat choked her and ber eyes
filled with tears. She thought her lot a
very hard cue and all she did taint morn-
ing was done with a mist obscuring
her vision. Het' sisters were uneynr
pathetic and and she had no one to go
to, for comfort. We think she was to be
pitied, although we do not excuse her foolish
little dreams of being an actress. And we
quite understand how it was she felt so
abused and Ciurlerelia•like when, in the
afternoon her sisters {vent out for a long
drive with friends to a luncheon in the
suburbs, and left her with strict orders to
go down and see to the assistant in the little
lack room and not to go out by any aneans
and to -etc, eta, till she wished they would
act a little more as if she was a sister of theirs
and not a servant.
She took a bit of sewing with her and went
down where the meek little apprentice sat,
busy as a bee and quiet as a mouse, and
pouted away to to her heart's con-
tent, undisturbed and caring nothing for
what her companion might think of
her. She started a little, though, at the
striking of the clock and looked down at
her dress which was only a plait morning
wrapper of dark blue, untrimmed, unless
one would call a train a trimming. She put
her hand up to her throat, yes, she had a
ruohin, there, -to her bangs, thcyfeiLfiufty
-and it was only ons Howard, after all.
He could just conte in Lite little back room
anis say whatever he hurl to say. Sho would
snot talcs hint upstairs to entertain him. She
smiled a little then, as she thought of re-
ceiving a proposal before Annie. "I have
the advantage this time," she thought.
"How angry he will be ! "
But her little scheme fell through. Mr.
Howard did indeed look disappointed when
he saw Annie and sat frowning horribly for
a time, while Def odfl chatted indifferently
about topics that were very uninteresting to
him. But he brightened up presently as
Annie went out into the shop to wait on a
eonstomer and Daffodil felt that she was in
for it, after all
Annie had with much tact closed the door
after hoe and Ile. Howard left his seat to go
over and stand beside Daffodil who handled
her scissors with great steadiness consider-
ing the position she was in.
"Do you know what I Want to say to you,
Daffodil?" he began. "Are you going to let
me say it?"
Well, Mr. Howard," Daffodil was fore.
ed to say, " I don't know that I can com-
mand you to keep silence, But please
think twice of what you are doing,"
011 Daffodil, those words parry dis-
couragement
ie•couragement in their tone. Is it possible you
have been playing with Ina all this time I
And why is it ? Is there some one else ?
Have you given yourself to some other
man ?"
He had taken possession of her hand and
was looking down very beseechingly into
the eyes she deigned to raise.
" Oh, I am quite flee 1" sae will 1,001ily,
" I belong to no one but myeelt-"
Olt I low they both started ! Ling -a
ling ling I went the telephone. Daffodil
jnmped up to answer It.
" Hello!" she called into the transmitter
with engaging rioarnoss.
Of course we cannot presume to give the
other side of the conversation that ensued
but from Daff'odil's replies, we can, like her
listening suitor, ahnost imagine what it was
like, especially when wr notice the little
starts and laughs and the risleg color of the
girl whose lips uttered to the mystical
machine the following disconnected mitten.
ccs
"Olt 1 isityou 1'
" Yos, I recognise the voice I
"Do yon ? Well, I am listening eery at-
tentively."
"Tho starts and vivid flushes that Dame
in here made Mr. Howard most intensely
anxious and impatient.
"I don't believe understand you, Mr.
Daycer ! Surely-"
" Yes -s, I will be home."
" You can hardly expect me to decide so
quickly."
011 I cart talk about it -you see, I am
not alone."
Sho gave Mr. IHoward a laughing, apnlo•
gotie glance. He turned on his heel and
stood gazing at a picture on the opposite
waft
"Please do not say anything more now,
You may Dome to see me to.nigltt. Good.
bye."
With the ringing off of the connection,
Gus. Ilowerd tnnued end began again,
eagerly,
"Will you answer now, Daffodil? Will
you marry too?" but his voice was very de.
epondont.
lt. itENTt1N.
She put ap her band between his eyes
ad hetes and tuned floe face away. " 1
cannot, now," slosaid with an emphasis on
the last word that confirmed his suspicions.
" You tattoo free, you said, five mutates
ago. Have you since then pledged your
troth to any one?"
She dropped her head a little, He threw
the hand he had caught, away from hint.
"That rascal, Dayeer, saw mo coining in
here and he has divined my errand and
forestalled mu by a rare stroke of cunning ;"
Ilk' said hotly. " All well ; May you be as
happy with him as if ho were good enough
for you. And may you never repent your
choice. Allow me to wish you good after -
210011."
Ile bowed himself out abruptly, The
customer in the store had gone, he knew,
and Annie hail made herself busy where she
was, till Daffodil should be alone ngaiu,
Even In Howard's disappointment Ito noted
the modest girl's taet and admired it.
Annie went back to the room afterwards
and began her work again, a little nurious
but silent. Daffodil was sitting on the sofa
and Annie could not see her face. So she
went at her own tasks again in silence.
Daffodil was thinking eery deeply. And
about important lssnee. Here was the case
Two suitors, one worthy in all respects -
Gus Howard -n, very ni00 young man, the
one she felt the ought to take, the choice
that would be wisest ; the other, almost a
perfect stranger, a -a -why, what did she
know about him, after all, save that he was
strikingly handsome, and seemingly, very
wealthy. She ahnost desired to recall the
first one, Sho know where a note would
reach him. Poor fellow 1 Why not make
hint happy and herself too, perhaps ; for a
life in a cosy cottage with a kind husband
might be very pleasant after all. She sat
up on the sofa, half persuaded. For a few
moments wisdom and womanliness soften
her glorious eyes, she thinks about the
whereabouts of the letter paper and whether
Auuie would take the note of surrender and
accept an earlier release from work in return.
Delays aro dangerous. How stood less to
repeat it. Datlordil's indolent nature held
her fioos decisive action too long. She was
yet wondering how it would seen) to sit on
the other side of e. tiny tea table from Gus
Howatd endpass him buscuits mado by hoe
own hauls and receive his cup for a second
tilling of uncolored Japan, wlsen the outer
shop door' opened, and a boy entered, with
a noisy cry of "Parcel 1"
"For me Daffodil said, stretching out
her hand. without rising. A little round
Lot it seemed to be, and the two girls look-
ed at it curiously. When the wrapper had
been pulled off and the spring of the oddly
shaped leather ease abouttobepressed,Annie
turned to her work, like the discreet little
maid she was and Daffodil's own eyes saw
the contents first. A great hot wave of
pleasure coloured her cheeks. On a tiny
card was traced in minute claraotere, "For
my Daffodil." And in a moment "his" -
Jack Dayeer'a-Daffodil, had slipped on her
dimpled finger a most beautiful diamond
ring.
Look," she said, " look, Anuie I How
does that look on my finger? "
"Oh!lovely I" Annie answeted. "How
it sparkles ! "
Daffodil gazed at it, lovingly. Her mind
was entrapped by the glittering pronyise of
a future of luxury and pleasure. How hail
she ever dreamed of being Gua Howard's
wife ? Bali ! " I have had such a beautiful
present that I feel tory good-natured,
Aunie !" she remarked, " Wouldn't you
like to go Home now 1"
And very soon she was alone -before a
mirror.
D)1Todil's fondness for gazing in the glass
might be traced back through the ages to
the first Narcissus (you know daffodils, nar-
cissi and jonquils are all of the same family),
whose favorite orenpation was admiring
himself in a limpid stream and who at last
pined away for lore of that very image. In
the stead of that Prince of egotists there
sprung up a little flower whose marvellous
perfume and blossom have given the world
much happiness. Ah ! yes, Daffodil, that
vanity must die ere you can be a flower of
precious fragrance and grace.
The city bells striking six called her back
to earth -and supper. She flew upstairs and
humming something about a Miss Rooney
sot about getting tea.
It had been ready some time when she
heard the girls returning. Some one was
with them. A man I And oh I it was Jack
Dayeor, At the sound of his voice she hos-
tily betook herself to the lower regions again
where site remained in silence, even when
they celled her many times. They seemed
to decide presently to let her alone wherever
silo was and she heard them sitting down to
tea, nhatting and laughing. She was not
long left in peace. Jack was anxious to
explore the place and they soon found her,
lounging on the sofa,
The sisters exchanged a startled glance as
Daffodil sprung up and in that movement
disclosed a story by the glitter of her ring.
"You were here this afternoon? You
didn't tell 05-" they both exclaimed, rather
incoherently in their first realization of their
hopes.
No, I wasn't here this afternoon 1" Jack
denied looking swiftly around the room land
then Mick laughingly at Daffodil. " Did you
like my modern way of declaring-"
No, not ono bit I" his fiance inberrepted,
with a false displeasure in her manner that
became her well, as she knew. " And you
must never do it again."
Her lover laughed, Her sisters looked
very ourious and:Tack took pity on them and
pointing to the telephone, said "Tlte bal-
oouy scene of Romeo and Juliet is quite out
of date now. Your sister gavo herself to
me this afternoon through the transmitter
of your telephone."
He took her hand then and in a more ser-
ious tone asked Clotilde and Hortense to
say the engagement was pleasing to them.
"Pleasing I" exclaimed Daffodil "They
aro pleased enough. It's I who ought to be
asked that, But do let me get upstairs to
that supper table. Iran just starved."
And flying away, she made then all follow
if they would have any further conversation
with her, Jack followed mate willingly
but the Misses Marsden had something or
other to do, of course, that kept them a lit
Ole longer mnoh to Daffndil'e vexation for
she 11,1 not want to give Jack a chance to
sound the depth of the heart he fancied was
his.
" Dear Daffodil," be said, loaning over
her chair, as she sat at the table, demolish.
ing the eatables thorn on in a way quite
contrary to established rules concerning en.
gaged young ladies, " You don't snow
how happy you have outdo me. What a
future is before us. Have you thought of
10? Look ab mo, darling-toll'mo-"
How eau I eat and talk too ? lois " dar-
ling " sail, deigning to spare Lime enough
for a smiling glance. " Besides thorn lvill.
be years and years in which to talk -)r
'FRES BRUSSELS POST.
" And eat also I" he added,
I)afTodtl gala her Imad a lit alealicka.
\Vo don't know --talk never fails, eat.
shies sometimes do,"
" Nor fear, cony own 1 1 will alwaye sue
!toil that want for t' "
i),olt din turned serious (yes upon flim,
" flint le a COlttraet which you may wish
some day you hail lint taken, The girls eau
tell you 1 want everything 1 see,"
" If money. will o it dearest, you shall
have yo„" wishes fulfilled. Now give me
just oat: 1.180 before they conte 1" lie plead-
ed as steps wore heard on the steles.
' What for, play?" Daifodit asked going
around to tho other side of the table and
looking on at his disappointment wills an
exasperating iunoconce.
The girls entering then, the conversation
became general.
After he was gone for he did go at last,
Daffodil stet the volley of questions levelled
at her with a oharaoteristio outburst of wil-
fulness.
" I didn't go out into the hall with the
poor fellow to say good night because I
didn't grant to I I ant going to marry him
because you want me to. And I am going
to bo led to the altar whenever he gets
ready to do the loading. And you need not
begin now with a series of "musts" and
"shoulde"for youknow T don't care spin for
all your " ought to's and " ought nets."
I shall bo rude to him if I like and throw
him over in a week if I like. So if yon
knoe' what you're about, you'll let ane alone
or 1 won't bo a rich man's bride at ell."
And with this petulant declaration of
rights she took herself off to bed.
(To BE coxTl-ru1:n.
you won or mo ung.
Daring Escapes from Custody.
A man named Davis, otherwise " B illy
sock Charley," was apprehended in London
by the police the other day, he being well-
known its an extant coiner, and having ou
several occasions been convicted of passing
and nsannfacturieg base money. Davis had
in his possession between seventy and eighty
counterfeit half-crowns and florins, and hs
was only secured after a struggle. Ho was
conveyed to the Peckham Police Station,
and placed in charge of an officer, bot during
the latters'e temporary abeenccho managed to
effect his escape. Detectives were despatch.
cd in all directions in search of the fugitive
but he was tett recaptured un tit Saturday when
be was found in a pttblislmuse at Chatham.
Davis said Ito was glad ho had bean taken,
for he lad had no peace since his escape,
being always in fear that the police were at
his heels. Ile teas again token to the Peck-
ham Police Station, and he will bo charged
at Lambeth Pollee Court with being concern-
ed with others now awaiting their trial at
the Central Criminal Court on charges of
coining. The officer who allowed Davis to
escape was suspended from duty with loss
of pay till Saturday evening, when be was
reprimanded and reinstated. Detective
Kemp, J. Division, attended before bfr,
Bros, as the North London Police Court on
Saturday and said that a boy of nine, name.
ed Arthur Hastings, who had been commit-
ted to the Hackney \Vorkhonse during re-
mand on a charge of pigeon stealing, had
escaped three times from the workhouse.
When first he got out he made his escape
from the ordinary room in which boys were
confined. For better security he was placed
in a room with only a blanket, tint next
morning he was gone, although he had to
drop 40ft to reach the ground. Apparently
he had tied his clothes to the blanket, and
let himself out of the window. He was re-
captured, and placed in the sane room on
Thursday night, but all his clothes were
token from lam, and he had only the l:unkot
for warmth. As an additional precaution
the window was nailed up. The boy, how.
over, succeeded in making his escape in 0
nude condition. The work house authorities
now requested the magistrate to commit the
boy to Holloway Gaolfor bettor security.
Mr. Bros, however, said the Act provided
that children should bo remanded to the
workhouse. He should mike no other order,
11.9 he considered the guardians responsible
for the safe custody of the boy.
Dramatis SRltilde of a Bride,
A telegram from Paris-to;,Dalriol's agency
on Monday gives an account of a suicide of
a most distressing and dramatic oharaotor,
which took place in Paris on Saturday night,
A young lady of 17, named Pauline Mallard,
was married on that day to a M. Leeoinre
thirty-six years of age. At the wedding -
breakfast and throughout the day, even in-
deed during the ball, with which the fes-
tivities wound up, the young bride appear.
ad to be perfectly happy and thoroughly en-
joying herself, not missing a single dance.
At half -past elevenhor mothsrcondnotod the
bride to her apartment. Haff -an -hoer later
when the husband followed., he found his
young wife writhing in agony on the bed.
She had just strength enough loft to toll him
that she had polaoned herself with laudanum,
as she had sworn to be faithful to another
man whom she loved. A letter was found
in her handwriting, which ran as follows
-" My dear Henry, I beg you a thousand
times to forgive me for the wrong I am
about to da. I know you love me sincerely.
I know it was wrong of me to allow him to
visit mo, I love you also, but I love an-
other, to whom I have sworn to bo faithful.
In marrying you I was no longer able to
carry out my promise without doing you a
grievous wrong, and this I would not en-
tertain for a moment, because you are an
honourable and a gotta man. I commit sui-.
Dido so that I shall only belong to death.
Forgive mo one0 more, and also ask
my doar parents to forgive mo, for I love
them with all my heart -PAunsan," M.
Lecointre was distracted with grief, and his
reason seems to have given way under this
terrible misfortune. ]le had to bo taken
home, and has since been carefully watched
in order to prevent him from attempting his
own death.
The Sabbath Chimes.
0 Jesus, I have promised
To servo Tboo to the ons ;
13e Thou forever near mo,
My Master and my Friend
I Ilan net fear the battle
If. Thou art by my side,
Nor wonder from the pathway,
If Thou wilt be my guide.
0 lot me fool Thee near me;
Tho world is over near 1
I sea 1 ho sights thatdaszia,
The tempting sounds I (hoar;
Illy 0000 are ever 1100.1'1110,
Aroma' me anal within ;
nut, Josue, draw Thou nearer
And shield my sottl from sin,
ft lot ire hear Theo meeking
'tl aeconfs clear and still ;
Above the storms of passion,
The murmurs of self-will 1
0 speak to reassure ma,
'P0 hasten 0r control '
0 speak and makome listen,
Thou guardian of my soul
0 Jesus, Thou bas mouthed
To all who follow Thee
fiat Whore 'nen art in gory
l'ho1"0 shall Thy servant be;
And, Jesus 1 have promised.
To servo (Thee to the end;
0gamine gamete follow
lay Master and mylrrlontl,
Sing, Little Bird,
As through the forst, di•:urrayed,
113 111111Nnv, ,,Is,, hie 1 .1r:ged,
1 lun1l3 (nhdsll'1 l ed the wood
:+as sharing to the solitude
1 laved illy um‘ie, thug 1 11,1
01' hon u'rr shy prroh aha t,.,ve• wore spread2
Was
S.c1,rt was Illy tong. hot .: wool er nun'
Thy r11r,d 0111he hatless Moban
Sing 1111 lc bird! thy unto -bun cheer
The sadness of the dying year.
When violets prnnked the turf with blue
Anil uuu•uing 1111ed their elms with derv,
Thy slender rule" with rippling{, hill
The budding .0,111 bowers would 11111,
Nor passed its Joyous tones Away
When April mewled Into 3boy
Thy life shall hail no second down -•-
Sing, little bird '1 the spring in gone.
And I remember-m.011•a 01s'! -
Tho full-blown 41111110{ roundelay,
As when behind a brold tired 0lreen
Some holy maidens sing{ unseen:
With answering notes the woodland rung,
And how every tree -top found a tongue.
flow deep the shade! Ole groves how fair 1
Siag,llttlo bird 1 the woods Etre bore,
Tito summer's throbbing chant is done
And mute the choral antiphon t
The birds have loft the shivering pines
To Ilit among the trelisw, vines,
Or fan the air with scented plumoa
Amid the love.sleIt orange bloom,,
And thou art here moue-alone-•alote-
5ing, 111110 bird 1 the rent have down.
The rr.o has ;Mapped yon distant hill,
At n1, 00 the running brook was still,
From driven herds the clouds that rlso
Aro like tho smolto of seer' Il co ;
Ere long tho frozen soil ,hall meek
The ploughshare, charged to stubborn rook,
The brawling streams shall soot bo dumb -
Sing, little bird t the frosts have conte,
Fast, fast tho looglho ing shadows creep,
The songless fowls fire half asleep,
The air grows chill, the setting sun
May leave thee oro thy song Is done,
1'he pulse that warms thy breast grow cold,
Thy soerot die with then untold :
The lingering; sunset still is bright -
Sing, little bird.! twill soon be night.
0. W. Itotm.s
Crossing Merinos,
Some breeders aro inclined to cross their
-Merino ewes with some other breed with a
view of bettor profits than wrong alone fur-
nishes. As a hint wecopy the following from
the \'al iota! ,Stockman and Farmer :
"In the Anurirren. ,SIu;,:p lh ,rkr this
question is asked ; ' \\ ould you advise
crossing highgrade Merino ewes with Shrop-
shires'!' Answer by editor : ' We would
advise but one cross at most, Subsequent
crosses are unseat uml usually -meet with
unsatisfactory results. A cross with a
Shropshire rant will lengthen the fleece and
make it coarser.' IL is not often that I take
up a pen to comment upon the remarks
mode by others that find their way into
print, but this question is ono of vital im-
portance to thousands of sheep breeders
throughout the length and breadth of this
country, and these breeders are not content
with a short answer, oven if it does come
from tut associate editor of as valuable u
paper as the Sheen J3reeder,
The only object that any owner of a
flock of high-grade Merlons would have in
crossing there with Shropshire, or any other
Down ram, would of course bo to thus pro-
duce a lamb that would possess merit in the
benerel market:ler mutton as well as wool,
The Shropshire cross mentioned (as well es
orosses made with some of the other Down
breeds) produces a lamb that fattens readily
at any age, from one month up to matur-
ity, weighing about 33 per cent. heavier
than when the Merino ram is used, andsell-
ing in the principal markets from one to two
cents higher per pound live weight. The
wool from that ef"ss 10 of a class that the
mannfaoterers of fine cloths are after, and is
known to the Ueda as; blood fleeces, weigh-
ing about 10 per cent. loss in the dirt than
full -blood wool, but little or no less in the
scoured fleece.
' Now for the second cross, which friend
Powers says is unwise. The Down ram
being again use:l, the half-blood ewes can
be depended upon to drop thin lambs, and
as those ewes are invariably fond nmthoes
and good milkers, 10151(0100111, of lambs is
about the evsrago of tamllh raised by most
flock owners, \Vo have then one fourth
more lambs than the first Dross, that may
average a little less in weight at six months
of age (generally about 10 per cont.), but
little loss when a year old, and 15 per cent
heavier when filly natured if a Shropshire,
Hampshire or Oxford sire was used. The
111020 is then classed as medium combing ;
a doss of wool that commands one year
with another as high a price as any in the
market, and weighs per fleece about 5 per
cont. less than the half-blood fleece. The
second cross then gives us 25 per cent more
lambs in the market, to offset from a to 1
pound of wool worth from 15 to 80 cents.
We now have a throe -quarter bred flock
ofewos, either Shropshire or other Down
breeds, 00 the 0,00 may be. We again use a
purebred Down ram, and then what have
we? Why we have a fine 7-8 blood flock of
Shropshire or other Down sheep ; a flock
high in merit as mutton producers, produc-
ing a fleeeo of fair weight, on the average 8
to 10 pounds of wool that is cleaved as medi-
um combing wool. If wo sill continue to
u0othopure.brodDown taro we are situ ply geb-
ting nearer to the pore breed ; and is there an
ewnorof any 7•Sblood, 3.4 blood or 1-2 blood
Dawn sheep in the country that floes not feel
proud of his possession? And why ? Bec,use
they bring hien in dollars yearly and he knows
full well that when he has a surplus, buyers
can be found in plenty to pay him lard
melt for theni. We have thus traeecl this
crossing up to 7.8 blood and found money
in it, and if we go on we will soon have
purs•breds, and 110 mat is simple enough to
say that any of the Down broods oro not
meritorious breeds. Wherein, then, is there
a disadvantage in the mooed cross, or any
other oross that may follow, clear up to
purity itself ?
An-....trArA5A •10 -
Trimming Evergreens,
It isnotggoneeally known, that ooniferou
trees, and Norway spruces espeoially, may
bo made to throw extra vigor Into the
lower branches, and assume a dense mass of
healthy verdure of a natural oharm:tor, by
simply tatting out the leading shoot and
training up ono of the side branches to 00-
oupy the position as a loader. Whor, this is
done no further trbnnling or ehoaring of any
kind is required to produce the douse mass
of vigorous green lower shoots so desirable.
L1 cutting book this loaloe ib is boat not to
bake it wholly out the f)rot year, but to
leave a portion of it standing as a atautp.
To this stump than the lateralbranah istied,
the lateral branch which is to take the
piton of the loading shoot finally. This
lateral branch is tied tip to the stump and
so remains for a low months or the first
year, when the eLump is cut away oloso to
its base, But it soon heals over and the
littoral 8hnot than remains area, and forms
the ultimate leading shot, Tide chock is
all that is required to force the vital power
pito the lower silo beam:hoe, An actual
test with knife and oaring will explain more,
ppartiottlarly how this fa done. Not only tato
Norway sprad0, but all pines and firs can be
troatec[ in the 011,1110 ways enol Lhe result of
this simple treatment is epoofinens of beauty
which could hardly be appreciated by those
who have had no exited owe with such work
OUTLIV.EID IIIS SENTENCE,
D.ic, 11, 1891.
HEROISM 011' WOMEN CONVICTS,
Longevity of n 711114 t',llldemulrd l0 100 ,_..._..
Brocar!enh'n.ee.
A certain housebreaker was oundonmed in
the Lau or part of the last matey in Franco,
and under pecalfar cirentnstanees, to 100
years in the galleys, and strange to eclato,
that loan recently made his alqumrence in
his own native province at his advanced ago
of 100, he being about 00 years of age when
Ute sentence which coudeemed him to so
dreadful a punialnnot0 was passed, P. in
difficult to convolve 11111E the feelings must
have been with which he returned, as Boon
as emancipated from the shackles which had
mt' hrahlod hint for a century, to breathe onto
more the cherished air of 1h scenes of his
infancy. Bourg, in the department of Ain,
was his native hone ; but time had so much
changed the Repeat of the whole place that
be recognized 1t only by the old church of
Bron, which was alto only t1!ng dolt had
undergone no alteration, He had triumph-
ed over lows, bondage, man, time -every-
thing, Not a relation had he left ; not a
single lining could he Inailae an aeqnein taupe ;
'et he was not without experiolofog the
homage and respect the French invariably
pay to old ago. 100 himself he had forgotten
everything connected with his early youth ;
oven all recollection of the crime for which
he had suffered was lost, or if at all remain -
bored, it was but as a dreary vision, eon -
founded with a thousand other dreary visions
of days long gone by. His family and
connections for several generations all dead,
himself to living proof of the clemency of
heaven and the severity of man, regretting,
perhaps, the very irons which had been
familiar to him, and half wishing himself
again among the wretched and suffering
beings with whom his foto had been so long
associated -well might he be, called the
patriarch of burglars.
NOW 30,000,000 BUSHELS,
A -Lectin Lead 0r Wheat Leaving Winnipeg
About Every IinlfIlour.
.1 It is inswing as fast as wheels and coil
can take it out,' said a grain merchant to
a Winnipeg Tribune reporter's question as
to the expeditiousness of the railway com-
panies in moving east this year's wheat
crop.
` The yield of wheat is enormous. Thresh-
ing returns beat those of any previous year,
and in feet the records aro unequalled any-
where in the wide world. -
The bulgiest railway yard in Canada tn•day
is in Winnipeg, where the rumble of wheels
and tooting of locomotives is heard without
intermission from daybreak to daybreak. -
Hundreds of cars laden with hard wawa.
arrive in the yard each day; many pass
inspection here, and the balance ere sent on
to Port William for shipment via tho lakes,
The C. P. R have a herculean task ahead
in moving thirty million bushels of wheat --
that is theostimate of some of this shrewdest
dealers; and no one thinks the export will
go under twenty-five millions. The great
corporation had fair \yarning and prepared
themselves for a big task, so that they aro
now sending out trains every half hour dur-
ing periods of the clay.
The deliveries at points throughout Man-
itoba amount to not less than a quarter of a
million bushels par day, and if the fine
weather continues these figures will be
increased.
Several grain dealers interviewed by a
Tribune reporter had no fault to find with
the facilities afforded by the railways.
Terlible'Death of a Earls Journalist,
A Paris correspondent telegraphs :-A
Journalist: named Titard, trim was found
terribly injuredat two on Saturday Morning,
died on Monday at 110011 at the Hotel Dieu.
He rallied slightly on \londay, trod recovor-
od oonocionsness for e. few hours, but full
115111n into tt comatose state, which continued
until he 1100 uo more. During his short
period of consciousness, he said that the
man who ran 011e top of the umbrella into
the base of itis nose, pnshfng one eye from
the socket and blinding the outer, was
one named Avisse, of no profession, who
used to speak of himself as being on the staff'
of the /O'anre, whore it turns out ho was
mavor employed. Thera was carrying on an
intrigue with a married woman, the wife of
one of bis friends. Her husband has boon
for sante time away from Paris, which enab-
led the woman and her lover to see each
other often. They were to meet on Friday
night at a cafe. When Titard wont there
he found her loaning on the arm of Avisse.
At two in tho morning he was found with
his head lying against the railing of the
Bourse senseless. Surgeon Labbe found in
the wound the tip of a lady's umbrella, which
after passiug in through the base of the nose
between the eyes, broke off at the base of
the cranium, which it injured. Titard refused
to toll who injured hint until he wee told
that his mistress was suspeoted, He then
said' " It, was not elle, but Avisse. We had
been quarrelling about her." Wheu Avieso
was arrested he denied all knowledge of the
affair. Or, being informed that Ticard had
denounced him he changed colour and nearly
fainted, but continued to deny the crime.
He was on Monday interrogated by aJudge
of itlatruobion and ootfronted with the corpse
of the nafortunate journalist. Avisso turn-
ed up as the wounded man was being remov-
ed, and followed to the Hotel Dieu, He
said he was a friend of Titard, and wanted
to know whether he could be of any use.
He asked for paper, and wrote the following
note 1-" Dear colleague,- Having by
chalice heard of your two.dent, I have cone
to see you. Do not forget that I am yours
to serve you if you have Hoed of me in any
way." Ile asked that his poor friend might
bo given the note, and went away.
The Consumption of Tobacco in France,
A Parris correspondent telegrapha:-A°.
cording to the excise returns for last year
French smokers 10000100 of foreign cigars
2,OL0,000fr worth, of home -ma do 2000,1)00,
of cigarettes 10,000,000, of snuff 20,000,000,
and 01,000,000fr worth of pipe tobacco,
malting a total of .150 millions of francs. The
greatest snuff -takers aro old peasant womoc
and priests. Snutl is often allowed to els-
tors of oharily, 68 it renders 0110 none insen-
sible to the bad smells of slums and hospi-
tals, sed acts as a disinfectant of the air
taken in by the nostrils. The greatest num-
ber of ptpe•enokers aro ebong tho 002001100211
Nantes 1,0 Calais. Fisherwomon as well as
senors fad solace from thohardshipo of their
lives in the pipe, The censttmptior 0f 11111100'
cigarettes rose from 101,1100({ to 800,000fr
last yens, and the orders received at the
tobacco manufactory pronlse a still fclrtbcr
Inerraso of r"vnune under this head, There
is one anti. tobacco society in Franco, but it
vd
Drebss not appear to have made nal
y OOu
Out of Plaotioo,
Publisher -le tie Dopy for the boort on
etiquette ready ?
Reade' --All reedy, except "dew tc do.
cline politely an invitation to drink.''
Pnblisl,ir -Why does that hang fire?
Hamlett -Thu author is drunk,
Daring the Andaman Cyolono They Saved
Many Lives,
FORMING A 111'HHAN Rt)1'E, MCI' 11 131,1E11
71'IAF, 11I11S.pPil,llh.
Further partilula:s received in London
from Calcuttrt'show that the cyclone witioa
swept over the Andaman Islands, a British
convict 0ottlement in the liay of Bengal, of
Monday Iota caused it very touch largo{ lose
of life them wits at lint reported and that
the damage done was far in excess of the
amount first tolegrtplted ]tore. In 0111110011
to the drowning of nearly all of the Drew of
H. M. S. Enterprise, the Clovornmontsteam-
e' engaged in conveying the convicts to and
from the settlement, by which seventyeight
out of eighty three mon lost their lives, ib
is now officially ally lanuounco(l that the total
loss of life is nearly two hundred and that
about two hundred and fifty people iu addi'
Lion were sovaroly wounded.
The Andaman Islands, it should be ex.
Method, forst a group of islands in the Bay
of Bengal between latitude 10 degrees and
13 degrees north and nearly under longi•
tilde 113 degrees east, about 180 miles south-
west of Cape Negrais, a headland on the
coast of British Burmah. Port Blah', on
Chatham Island, is the headquarters of the
convict settlement, the latter being naturally
the most important fndtlstrlal centre of the
islands. It was at fort Blair that the
greatest loss of life occurred and 11 is believ•
ed hero that when the liuttl returns come in
it will bo seen that considerably over two
bemired, and possibly three hundred, worn
victims of the oyelono's fury, for the pope.
lotion of Port Blair, or 131airStation, is over
14,000 souls.
A TERRT)1L1: STORMI.
The filet approach of the eyolonic dieter.
Noce w110 denoted by the dendly stillness
which settled over the islands a011 by the
feet that the birds and animals seemed Lobe
trembling with fear seeking shelter every -
0 -]here and apparently having entirely lost
their dread of maw's approach to them.
Tion the air became most oppressively hot
and banks of dark clouds began together of
tate eastern horizon, while in the distance
could bo heard the low rumbling of thunder,
the clouds now and then being broken by
flashes of vivid lightning.
By this time everybody of the islands had
come to the conclusion that asevere tropical
storm was approaching, but nobody really
imagined that a disaster woe impending,
The fishermen and coasting vessels were hur-
riedly sulking for shelter, and the crew of
the Enterprise began to batten clown and
get ready to let go their spare anchors.
- Soon eater the thunder rolls and lightning
wore noticed rushkg sounds wore heard ml
the air and these increased until aflame gale
was howling across the islands, whipping
the water into foam and bending trees like
whips before its breath. But this was as
nothing to whet followed. Suddenly the
fury of the storm seemed to be redoubled
and a wild burst of wind bent down, uprooted
numbers of buildings, sent planks, small
trets,cleuds of foliage and even heavy beans
whirling through the air, which by this time
seemed to be charged with electricity and to
be positively thick with oppressive damp
pleat.
PANIC STRICKEN CCNI'It'TS,
The convicts}who were not in confine.
ment, nearly all of them being East Indians,
ran panic stricken, hem and there, leaking
places of shelter or falling prostrate upon
the ground. They resigned themselves
helplessly to their fate, and muttering
Prayers preparo-1 to clic. With the emn'iots
10 confinement the situation was 1011011
worse. 'L'he shrieking cyclone, the fear-
ful thunder and lightning and the thetas of
command and warning on all sides speoatl
such 00100,' among them this they raged like
wild beasts in their efforts to free themselves
and at least sleet death at liberty.
Then game the sound of falling buildings
of crashing roofs and shrieks of agony as
scores of helpless convicts were crushed be-
neath falling beams and toppling masonry.
On all sides was the air filled with yells of
agony of despair, anti mingling with the
fearful sounds of the cyclouio fury these
lamentations caused a scene which, happily,
rarely if ever has been equaled in that part
of the world.
To the credit of the guards be it said that
they did their utmost to release the confined
convicts ; but during the awful sweep of
the storm over the islands every man, wo-
man and child there had all they could do
to look after their ownjpersonal safety.
FIaMTNINE 0EROISIA.
A most gallant example of woman's pluck
is recorded. When Who bravest and strong-
est men quailed with apprehension, it was
noticed that a building standing near the
seashore had been crushed down and actual-
ly hurled into the surf by the fearful force of
the wind. Some of the convicts confined in
thlsbuilding succeeded in escaping before it
was blown into tho water, others were drown-
ed in spite of their effortstoescape, but about
nine or ten of these oonviots succeeded in
clambering upon the roof of their cyolone•
crnehed quarters and there loudly appealed
for help. The guards and others, however,
were too much occupied with other matters
to bo of any service to the imperiled men.
in this emergency a gang of female eon.
vices displayed groat bravery. Undaunted
by the shrieking Dyclone, and listening only
to the frantic appeals for help uttered by
the mon in danger. they boldly joined hands
together in a long line, a human rope, the
boldest of the women at the end fatting the
water, and i11 this manner they slowly but
steadily ventured into the raging surf beat-
ing upon the sihoe0, and though tiles" at the
extremity of the line wore frequently swept
oft their feet and were almost half drowned
by the tushing waters, they finally succeed-
ed iu reselling sixmativo convicts who would
otherwise have perished, for their compan-
ions bad been swept away and drowned,
This is only a single instance of the cour-
ago displayed upon this intension by the
female convicts of the Andaman Islands.
On all sides they won tat, highest praise by
ministering to the dying and nursing the
wounded. While the 111011 seamed wowed
with terror, the women a.0 a rule displayed
the most remarkable courage, so nitwit so
that it is understand that the flonotel
Governor of the penal station will r000m•
mend that a number of them bo pardoned
and that the sonto sees of a largo number of
Miters be oormuted to short terms of im-
prisontnett.
Self-Eclueatod,
First Bol' Bm gglae --Say, yet, got de swag
Second Boy l3mgtar-Yor hot .I got 10
First 13. It (admiringly) -My, but yor a
daisy at {lis biv 1
Second 13. 73, --Yoe bet I'm a daisy I
Wye 8'1)0140 I. go 00 der dime museum shows
and road do, clime story books for nuthin'?
Dero's 11111111,1' like improviit' yor mind, mo
boy I