The Brussels Post, 1893-10-20, Page 2THE BRUSSELS
HISINJJIAN BRIDE.
. ROMANU.tj ()V THE CANADIAN NO1 TIi-WEST
CHAPTER IX.
T1114 Mutt OP 001inaints,
When Freesias Armour left his wife's room
o slid not go to his own room, but quietly
descended the stales, went to the library,
andsat down. The loneliest thing to the
' orad is to be tete-a-tete with one's con.
donee. A man may have a bad boor with
n enmity, a sad hour walla friend, a peace•
tut hour with himself, but when the little
warf, eonsoienae, perches upon every
hillock of remembrance and makes slaw
signs -those strange symbols of the language
t the soul—to hint, no slave upon the tread -
ill suffers More.
'The butler came in to see if anything was
equired, but Armour only greeted him
�ilently and waved him away. His brain
Wag painfully alert, his memory emit-
lady awake, It seemed that the in-
• idea of this hour had so opened
up every channel of his intelligence that all
hie life ran past him in fantastio panorama,
asby that illumivation which comes to the
drowning man. He seemed under some
strange spell. Onae or twice be rose, rubbed
his eye's, and looked round the room, --the
room where as a toy he had spent idle
hours, where as n student he had been in the
hands of hie tutor, and as a young man had
found recreations such as belong to am-
bitious and ardent youth. Every corner
was familiar. Nothing was changed. The
books upon the shelves were as they were
placed twenty years ago. And yet he did
not seem a part of it, It did not seem nat-
ural to him. Ho was in an atmosphere
which surrounds a man, aa by a cloud,
when sonic) crisis conies upon him and lois
ife seems to atand still, whirling upon its
+arrow base, while the world appears at an
interminable distance, even as to a deaf
man who ma yet cannot hear.
There came home to him at that moment
'vital a force indescribable the shameful-
ess of the act he committed four years ado.
He had thought to Dome back to miserable
+umiliation. For four years he had retuned
to do kis duty as a man towards an innocent
• onlan.—a woman, though in part a say-
ge,—now transformed into a gentle, noble
Creature of delight and goodness. How had
e deserved It ? He had sown the storm, it
was but just that he should reap the whirl.
Ind ; he had scattered thistles, could he ex-
pect to gather grapes? He knew that the
•sympathy of all his father's house was mot
ith him, but with the woman he had
Tonged, He was glad it was so. Look-
ing back now, it seemed so poor and paltry
thing he, a man, should steep to revenge
imself upon those who had given him birth,
a a kind of insult to the woman who had
ightly set him aside, awl should use for
that purpose a helpless confiding girl. To
evenge one's self for wron"to one's self is but
a common passion, which has little dignity ;
to avenge some one whom one Ins loved,
an or woman,—and, before all, woman,—
Las some touch of nobility, is redeemed by
oyalty. For his act there was not one word
f defence to be made, and Le war not pre-
ared to make it.
'Pine cigars and liquors were beside him,
'tat he did not touch them. He seemed very
ar away from the ordinary details of his
ife : he knew he had before him hard
ravel, and he was not confident of the end.
e could not tell how long ho sat there.
After a time the ticking of the clock seemed
sinfully loud to him. Now and again he
cards cab rattling through the Square, and
•he foolish song of some drunken loiterer in
he night caused hint to start painfully.
+verything jarred on him. Once he got up,
ent to the window, and looked out, The
eon was shining full on the Square. He
ondered 1118 would be well for him to go
at and find some qutet to his nerves in
;'-Sang, He did so. Out in the Square he
oozed up to his wife's window. It
vas lighted. Long time he walked up and
own, his eyes on the window. It held him
ike a charm. Once he loaned against the
you railings of the garden and looked up,
rotmovin for a tune. Preseutly he saw
he currant of the window raised, and
gainst the dim light of the room was
utlined the figure of his wife. He
new it. She stood for a moment look.
ng out into the night. She could not see
im, nor wild he see her features at all
tlainly, but he knew that she, like him,
;vas, alone with the catastrophe which his
'ickedness had seat upon her. Soon the
mrtain was drawn down again, and then
,0c) wont once more to the house and took
„is old seat betide the table. He fell to
:reeding, and at last, exhausted, dropped
to a troubled sleep.
• He woke with a start. Some one was in
she room. Ha heard a step behind bim,
s came to his feet quickly, a wild light
'n his eyes. He faced his brother Rioh-
ltd,
Late in the afternoon Marion had tale-
,raphed bo Richard that Frank was eorning.
lie hed•been away visiting some poor and
lick people, and when he came back to
lReyhope it was too late to catch the train.
But the horses ware harnessed straightway,
tad he was driven into town,—a three
tours' drive. He had left the horse at the
stables, and, having a lateh•key, had come
n quietly. He had seen the light in the
tufty, and gusesed who was there, He
entered, and saw his brother asleep. He
cab olted itfit for a moment and studied him,
Chen he moved away to take off his hat,
tad, as he did so, stumbled slightly. Then
t was Frank waked, and for the first time
n five years they looked each ether in the
ryes. They both stood immovable for a
moment, and then Richard caught Frank's
iand iu both of itis and said, "God bless
lou, my boy 1 I am glad you are bank,"
"Dick 1 Diek 1" was the reply, and
rank's other hand ()letohed Richard's
boulder in his strongemotion. They stood
ilebb for a moment longer, and then Rich,
,rd recovered himself. He waved his hand
lthe chairs, 'the strain of the situation
vas a little painful foe them both, Men
Jo shy with each other where their
motions are in play.
" Why, my boy," he said, waving a
and to the wine and liquors, "full bottles
ocl unopened boxes 2 Tot, tut 1 here's a
iretty how•d'-ye-do. Is this the way you
oast home (porton ? You're afine soldier
or an old mess I"
So saying he pouted out some whiskey,
hen opened a box of cigars and pushed
hem towards his brother. He did, not
Ore parrionlarly to chink or smoke himself,
at a•man—au Englishman -1e a strange
Vallee. He it most natural and e,t ease
hen he is engaged in eating and drinking,
e relieves every trying situation by some.
ivolona or selfish occupation, an of clis•
li
mberieg a partridge or mixing a punch,
" Woll Frank," said itis brother, " now
Why
,t havo you to sayfor yourself V
h
Y y
n'tyou dome longago 2 You have g t i vo la �.
the dventurer fr live years, and what
vo you to shove for it ? ,Have you e, for.
nc ?" Frank shook his head, and twisted
( a shoulder, " hat have you done that is
I worth the doing, thaw!"
" Nothing that I intended to do, Dick,"
was the grave reply.
" Yes I imagined that. You have Been
them, have yon, Frank?" he added in. a soft.
er voice!
Frank blow a great cloud of smoke dace
his face, and through it hes:tbd, "Yes, I)icic,
I have seen a damned sight more than eI
deserve to see,"
"Olt, of 000111•3o 1 1 know that, my boy 1
but, so far as I on see, in another direction
you are getting quite what yon deserve :
your wife and child aro up•stau's ; you are
here."
He paused, was silent for a moment, then
turned o,er, caught his brother's arm, and
said, lu a low, strenuous voice, "p'raulr
Armour, you laid a hateful Little plot for
us. It wasn't manly, but we forgave it and
did the best we amid. Butane hero, Frank,
take my word for it, you have had a let of
look : there isn't one woman out of ten
thousand that would have stood the teat as
your wife has stood It: injured at the start,
constant negleot, temptation--" he pans.
ed. "My boy, did you ever think of that,
of the temptation to a woman neglected by
her husband ? The temptation to men ?
Yee, you have had a lot of luck. There has
been a special providence for you, my boy ;
but not for your sake. God doesn't love
neglectful husbands, but I think He is
pretty sorry for neglected wives,"
Frank was very still. Hie head droop-
ed, the cigar hang unheeded in his finers
for a moment, and he said at last, "Doak,
old comrade, I've thought it all over to-
night sines I came book,—everything that
you've said, I hero not a word of defence
to make, but, bv heaven ! I'm going to win
my wife's love if I eau, and when I do it
1'11 stake up for all my cursed foolishuesa—
see if I don't."
That sounds well, Frank," was the
quiet reply. "I like to hear you talk that
way. You world be very foolish if you did
not. What do you think of the child ?"
" Can you ask me what I think ? Hs is a
splendid little follow."
" Take care of him, then, take good oars
of him : you may never have another,"
was the grim rejoinder.
Frank winced, His brother rose, took
his arm, and said, " Let us go our rooms,
Frank. Thera will he time enough to tally
later, and I am not so young as I once
was:"
Truth to say, Richard Armour was not so
young as he seemed a few months before.
His shoulders were a little stooped and he
was grayer about the temples. Tho little
bit of cynicism which had appeared in that
remark about the care of the child showed
also in the lines of his mouth, yet his oyes
had the same old, tree, honest look, But
a man cannot be hit in mortal places once
or twine in his life without it being etched
on his face or dropped like a pinch of aloe
from his tongue,
Still they sat and talked much longerr
Frank showing better than when his brothet
came, Richard gone gray and tired. Ae
last Richard rose and motioned towards the
window. " See Frank," he said, " it ie
morning," Then he went and lifted the
blind. The gray unpurged air oozed on the
glass, The hght was breaking over th'
tops of the houses. A crossing -keeper early
to his task or holding the key to the street,
went pottering by, and a policeman glanced
up at them es he passed. Richard drew
down the curtain again,
"Dick," said ['rank, suddenly, you look
old, I wonder if I have changed so muoh."
Six months before, Frank Armour would.
have said that his brother looked young 1
"Oh, you Iook young enough, Frank,"
was the reply. "But 1 am a good deal
older than I was five year s ago. .
Come, let us go to bed,"
Many weeks afterwards an anxious fam•
ily stood about the Sot of a sick child.
The family doctor bad just lef b the room.
Marion, turning to the father and mother,
said, " Greyhope will be like itself again
now, I will go and tell Richard that the
danger is over.
As she turned to do so, Richard opened
the door and oa'ne in. "I have seen the
dootor," he began, in his cheerful tones,
"and the little chap is going to pull along
now like a house afire." Tapping his
brother affectionately on the shoulder, he
was about to continue, but he saw what
stopped hien, He saw the beginning of the
end of Frank Armour's tragic comedy. He
and Marion left the room as quickly as was
possible to him, for, as he said, humorously,
" he was slow at a quick march," and a
moment after the wife heard without do.
mato her husband's tale of love for her.
Yet, as if to remind him of the wrong he
had done, Heaven never granted Frank
Armour another child,
[Tea Ent)
KNOWS WHEN RE WILL DIE.
Bismarck Says !la is Amara of the Day of
lila Death.
A despatch from Kissinger to the Lon.
don (Eng.) Central News says that Prince
Bismarck's illness is clangorous, Hie family
does not approve of the suggestion that
has been made that Emperor suggestion
visit
him at Kissingen, as they fear that the
slightest increase of excitement might
prove fatal. It appears now that his return
to his home is at present impossible.
Like many other famous m en of ancient
and modern times, Prince Bismarck is said
to have some queer superstitions. For
instance, he would never alt down to din.
nor of there wore 13. He dislikes Friday
so much that he would never sign any im-
portant document on that day, nor would
heset out upon ajourney on that day of
the week.
When General Boyer came to ]aim to ne•
gotiate in the name of Bazaine, Bismarck
word(' not resolve anything of importance
because it was nn October 1.4, the date of
Hoahkirch andlJena. When he was offered
the title. of Count he hesitsted before ao•
aepting it, because many families in Porn•
crania when it has been conferred upon
had died out in a short time, " The little
country can't afford accounts," he said,
Ile was a firm believer in the influence of
the moon, and will never have his hair out
except the moon is growing toward the
fall.
On November 03, 1870, he was speaking
of his own death, and said he know when
it would happen—•the day of the month,
year and all. His friend cried out that lie
must be inlatakan, hitt he only still, " No,
1 know—it is a mystical figure." Sever
oars afterward he repeated these
me elate
but adder!, (:ad's will bo fano, however,
in all things,"
The pnaamatio tube idea originated in
1607.
(Hili NEW GO tE1lAll1C•GENERAl).
Lord and Lady Aberdeen Established at
Rideau Hall.
nett' Regime Wilt Probably- ne the Most
Popular slice Lord Dulferitt—Por'
trails of the Retiring tioverteor•Goner-
al tout 111.: Wife.
The Earl of Aberdeen,who was appointed
to snooeed the Hari of Derby as Governor.
Colored of Canada, has been sworn in and
duly installed at Rideau 'Hell, the vico•rogal
mansion at Ottawa, Itis lordship is a-war)n
personal friend of Sir, Gladstone, whom he
visited at Bbaokuraij; Castle, jaet prior to
his departure for Canada, Gladstone ad,
mires !trot for his sincerity, his integrity and
his generous treatment of those about him,
and his appointment was doubtless cine to
his nomination for the oilioe by the Grand
Old Mau. His liberality towards his ten-
ants illustrates tho generous aide of Aber-
doer's nature, In the twenty-three years
that he has controlled the Haddu House
property in Scotland he has expended 8700-
000 in improving it for the benefit of the
oconpaots, in 1170 Lord Aberdeen present-
ed to each tenant halfja year's rent, an out.
lay of 8100,000. Only thirty nine out of
1,130 farmers have appealed against the
rent charged, and in some instances the
courts have raised the fee, while the
reductions have been few. In 1886
Lord Aberdeen consented to further
reductions, aggregating 825,000,and in 1800
he struck off from 8 to 15 per sent. Owing
to a bad harvest this year 10 p r cent. of
the rent for the current half year has been
remitted.
LORD ADERDEEN.
Aberdeen appears to be another Dufferin,
so far as sympathetic nature goes, and he
will doubtless win the hearts of the Oana•
dian people just as the Earl of Dufferin and
Ave did. He is net a stranger to Canada,
having resided hero for several months a
year or so ago. He and his countess have
traveled over a considerable portion of the
dominion, and his lordship owns and works
two large farms in our northwest, one at
Calgary, N. V.T., and the other in British
Columbia. The vice -regal couple are well
known in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and
Hamilton social circles already, so that by
social and business relations they have been
Canadians for some tone. They were Pres-
eat at the opening of the World's Fair in
Chicago, end it was there that Lord Aber
deco first learned of his appointment to the
governor -generalship of Canada.
A ruuit,t00 :RO0'IO CO0IPLa,
Lord Aberdeen is a member of several
religions and philanthropic societies and
oontributed 85,000 toward General Booth's
scheme for alleviating diatrese. Their gym -
pathetic natures led his lordship and the
countess to assist at a benefit entertainment
given on board the Aurauia on their recent
voyage home. An old officer of the Cunard
Company died, leaving a widow and fam-
ily. Several professional musicians were
passengers on the Aurauia, and a committee
organized a noncar; for the benefit of the
deceased's family, The earl and countess
took a prominent part in the entertainment.
Hie lordship sang in a duet, "Since drat I
saw your face," and es a seoond item he
rendered tate old Scottish ballad "Jock o'
Hazeldean" in fine style. He was vocifer-
ously applauded, and his singing added
much to the success of the concert.
The Countess of Aberdeen is it loveable
woman, indeed, if all the good things said
and written about her are true. She is
fond of Canada, having a brother and a
host of personal friends there. The count.
ass is in the front rank of modern British
philanthropists and site is also considerable
LADY AI0LRDi10N,
COCNTESS oaousa TULIta OTIr010 NOTED sOoTASN,
Like the Getman empress, she employs
poor women to make baby trousseaus, and
then gives the trousseaus away. Like Mrs,
Gladstone, she keeps a home running for
-
women oonvaleseents who are discharged
from hospitals cured but cannot go to work.
Lilco Mono. Carnot, she always has a found-
ling home in the city where she lives,
and has a babies' nursery connected with
it as well, Like Queen Victoria, she gives
a certain sum each year to each and every
charity in her town, Aud,likc Mrs, Cleve-
land, site has a passion for kindergarten
work, and personally assists in teaching a
school room full of little tots at least one
day every week. In view of all these things
it is little wonder that the people of all
conditions in Canada are delighted with the
selection of one so gracious to represent her
majesty in Canada, whose wife fa so tendon,
held Lod and possesses the proud distinction
of conducting charities in mare countries
than does any woman in the world.
Tile new governor-general's staff has also
arrived. Ms private secretary is Arthur
Gordon, his oouain, who was formerly the
private secretary to the new Baron
Stammers (lately Sir Arthur Gordon),
daring the letter's term of service in New
Brunswiolr, the Fiji Islands and Ceylon.
His excellency's, aicls,de-camp are Captain
Kindersley, of the Coldstream Guards, who
will act as n:ilitary secretary, and Captain
Urquhart, of the Cameron Highlanders,
who will bepersonal A. D, C., with Messrs.
Erskine and Ferguson as extra aids.
RIDEAU WALL,
Ali social functions at Ottawa revolve
more or less about 1Zideau Hail, The hall
is a plain, roomy structure in Ottawa's
most attractive square and the grounds
about it at this season of the year are
brilliant with flowers and foliage of many
hues. The governor general has aoleeted
an tipper salts of rooms for himself. The
coentess will occupy a suite on the ground
floor next to the conservatory, Mclean
Hall was planned for the reception of large
eompaaies; and Government House "af•
fairs' are always attended by as many as
ran crowd into the immense drawing.
rooms. It is not believed that the
Aberdeens will entertain as lavishly as the
oonnt and countess of Dalfecin or as royally
as Lorne and Louise, and Ottawa society,
consequently, is on the tiptoe of excitement
awaiting developments. To bo recognized
at Rideau Hall is no very difficult matter.
There is a visitors' book, iu which one's
name must be written AS a condition prece-
dent to a oard from "Har excellency the
governor-general's lady" to the next recep-
tion. The music and theater parties 'are
the most exclusive of all the vice -regal en-
tertainments. There is a strict code of
etiquette, and social precedence is observed
as rigidly as in the British court, Even the
wife of a cabinet minister at Ottawa de-
mands "the deference clue to her," The
task of lubricating the social machinery at
the capital is not an easy ono, and devolves
almost wholly on the A. D, 0. who attend
to all the details of arrangement, invitations
and announcements, and it is surprising
how soon they beoone familiar with the
names and social standing of those who aro
entitled to court favors.
A Chicago paper, referring to the Matt -
PARLIAMENT NT B'(1I
of a poiitician, having made several speeches
in Scotland to large andieneee in the last
general elections, At these meetings "the
earl's toddy," es oho is affectionately called
was always well received. Lady Aber.
doom ie passionately fond of Scotch heather
and she thinks it oan be made to grow as
luxuriously in Canada as in Scotland. Great
boxes of her favorite plant have been taken
to Ottawa for decorative purposes at Rid.
eau Hall, and roots of heather will bo lib.
orally distributed to those who will assist
the countess in making the heather a die-
rinot feature of floral cleooration at the
capital.
Lady Aberdeen's first month at Ottawa
will be fully employed in state matricides,
dinners to the members of parliament, and
in applying to her vfce.regal "court" the
roles laid down by the queen for drawing.
room etiquette and court use. As eel
1 Seen as
possible thereafter- the eetintesa will devote
herself to charitable works, Tho first to
engage her attention will be the establish.
meat of a society of girls to make Irish
point lase,
LDINGS, OIITAWA,
guration of the now Governor-General says:
Americans,' es the Canadians gall us,
are always well received at Rideau hal).
When parliament convenes and society be-
gins its winter whirl
the American eoneul
at Ottawa has always
proved ono of the
moat welcome gnats
at every affair, 1)ue-
ing all of Coned
Hotchkiss' time his
wife and daughter re.
ceivncl perfect ova.
j a� Linux, As a ride w,i
have been very for.
f Lunate he sending men
Eiltr, Ot n)11SY, to represin,t its a,
Am;i<Oi 1.N s al l.i:),);• 15,"ado's cal s Pit SI:
Co;nsoo. 11i:en thewivesWin
d
anghLurs of senators, onarnnor:a, and ]sigh
offlaials gather in oddly built little Ottawa
our consul is usually the ane man regarded
Se a standard of judgment for all " Van -
Item" He attends every " aWTair" So i )Pie
wife and daughter aro critically passed
upon, When parliament adjourns of is
" prorogued," as they say in Canada, the
" court" goes to " Caspapedla," the do-
minion's star summer resort, After some
fishing trips, which boyo already been ar•
ranged for the new governor, he be to go
Mr upon. a Our of the Canadian watering
places, that hie acquaintance with the local
abstooracbes may be improved upon,
"Next winter the
earl will learn what it
parliamentary session
really is, A salute of
twenty-one guns from
the fortress is the
official annonnoement
that 0110 has hawse,
The governor-general,
cladin his military or
other rank, the royal'
decorations glittering
on itis heart, goes "as
her Britannic maj• COS0N''E1S 0f DERBY.
esty's representative in Canada" to the
throne in the senate chamber and formally
declares the parliament in aoesion. 'Then
the political pot begins to boil and the
social world to whirl.
"The earl of Aberdeen will be one of
the few dominion rulers to acquire an Am.
erioau reputation through personal visite in
this country. He and lois wife aroused en.
thusiasm everywhere while here at the
world's fair not many weeks ago. When
viceroy of Ireland under Gladatone's former
administration he proved more popular than
any tnau had baen be in most
dbffioult position, IIs Is eforstill iu histitan prhwo,
and great things are expected of him.
The earls of Aberdeen are also via -
counts of Formastin and barons of Hecld°,
Methiie, Tarvis, and Neliio in the Scotch
peerage, as the family is abranch of the old
Scotch Gordons. The present earl's wife is
noted for her talents and liberal seat.
meats."
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES -
what the Chicago Cattail
10 Say' 00 One Exhibits.
Canadians took prizes atnounbing to be-
twoew (3 and 7 thousand dollars for cattle
and horses,
An Irish railway company have written
for a catalogue of the wood-workingma.
chinery sena Isere from Canada. They wish
to equip their stores.
The stairway leading to the big cheese
is very nearly worn through with the con.
stant tramp, tramp, tramp of visitors, if
Ms not soon renewed some heavy+weight
will one of these clays go through. The
Big Cheese plays to a full house every
Y
The fishery awards have not yet been
made public ; bub it is nnderstoed the ju•
rors have stated the Canadian exhibit as a
rvhele is superior to anything else in the
building.
Quebec shows musk mellows which for
size and flavor have astonished people who
know not what this province man produce,
When the colored gentleman gets near
those mellows their fame is bound to
spt'ead.
Mr. li'oclverton, of the Horticultural
department, is distributing samples of
Canadian fruit. The general verdict is
that the countries which are given to the
irrigation of lands can produce larger fruit
than Canada shows, but nothing to equal
it in flavor.
The Commissioner for New Mexico is Mr,
T.M. Green, au ex•Canadian. He Inas been
closely inspecting the various displays made
by his native land and this ween wrote
these words iu the Visitors' Book in the
Cauadian section of the Zlorticultnral Build-
ing ; " The Canadian exhibits in this and
other buildings snake a fellow proud that
he is a Canadian." Shake, Mr. Green 1 Wei
liko your build,
The Big Cheese is the best inspected ex.
hibit in the Agricultural :Building, Crowds
surround It during the whole day. The
steps leading to the mammoth cheese are
alive with humanity, especiablyinthe after.
noon. Canada knew what she was cluing
when she spread herself on cheese. Altogeth.
er her agricultural exhibit is a thing she may
justly be proud of. Alot of active and wide.
awake officials inform visitors ns to the
Dominion resources, take their names, sup-
ply them with literature, and send them
away with impressions regarding Canada
that willin the future bear good fruit,
A party of Turkish merchants, who are
large distributors of lumber in Asia and
Turkey, after examining the Dominion's
forestry exhibit, determined to go home
via Canada, for the purpose of entering in.
to business relations with Canadians. They
are now in the viomity of Ottawa, inter.
viewing manufacturers of lumber, who will
undoubtedly find the Turks °eminent cue.
toners. Who says the Columbian Exposi•
tion is nob doing Canada a lot of good?
Prof. Thurston, consulting engineer, has
a high opinion of Canadian agricultural and
general machinery, In smoothness of run-
ning it is in his opiuion equal to any to be
seen on the grounds. Prof. Thurston was
officially oonnected with the Centennial,
and nobing the advances made in manufac-
tures since 1876, rloolares that the exhibit
made by Canada shows the Dominion to
have made granter progress in manufactures
than any other nation represented et the
White City, Coming from an American,
this is praise indeed.
Slaves From Zanzibar.
Mr, Reoweliliodd, the Acting Agent and
Coned General in Zanzibar, having called
in question the statemeute made by the
Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti.
Slavery Society reapeoting the number of
alavos estimated to bo shipped from Zanzi-
bar, Mr, Allen has addressed a long letter
to Lord Roeebery, containing official es-
timatee made at various periods during the
last50 years, They show that not more
than 5 per cent, of slaves shipped from
African porta have been captured by
Her Malesty's cruisers. As 20 staves Wore
capture<� in Zanzibari waters during
ono month in this year, itis safe to ea.
timate Limb that number represents 4000
slaves shipped, and many of these were, no
doubt, destined for the Island of Pemba,
which absorbs many thousandelaves in rho
cultivation of the slow. Others are smug-
gled into Zanzibar to be let out in largo
numbers as porbors to caravans. 'Phase
facts Mr. Allan alleges, were ignored by
Mr.
fads,
who basest -his calculation entire.
ly upon the oversea traffic to Arabia and
Pernik which in reality only constitute but
a portion of the Zanzibari slave. trade,
Tho Double Meaning,
A deaeeu oneo formed hisSondayeehool iu•
to line, and marched them along the aiales—
hirnaelf fro frett• -singing : "Bold tho
Vert."
The consternation which seized allr arties
at the second sLanzn--
" Soo the mighty boat advanoing,
Satan leading Dir--"
mon be better imagined than dosoribed,
Deacon 13.has objected to now methods over
claw,
OCTORER 20, 1893
A CITY Of WHITE ELEPHAN\S,
Ohicago Ponders Mtion,eans for Their Dost ruo
Nlneleeii 01111ions in 'tenni 11'm Slrte, i t,,•.0$
As .inehsoa Earfc—No Wrecker A'ot
Pound le Tear i'heot halt's,
In lump figures $10,000,000 wont into the
oonetrnotion of the World's Fair buildings
and the preparation of the grounds for
the exposition. The point that now inter.
eats the stockholders, and incidentally the
whole city and country, is how mush calk
bo realized from that $19,000,000 worth of
time and material, It is safe to assome
that the time is dead waste, It le safe to
say, also, that a large—a frightfully large—
proportion of the material will have to go
by the board. In the rosy days of pro.
motion it was figured that 33,000,000 could
be realized from the sale of the buildings
and tate materials. Smoc then there lute
been a slump in the expectations, and to.
day it is a toss-up whether there will be
enough salvage to pay for the tearing down
of the buildings, the removal of the materi,
abs and the
RESTORATION 010 THE 1'Alttc
to the condition in which it was before it
was turned over Co the Exposition Com.
tfearante.
theftf' ire ucorth lark or tionnnwillaforfeir its
ono•hondred•thousand-dollar bond and
abandon tho buildings rather than attempt
to tear them down and restore the grounds
to their original condition. John C. Flem-
ing, Chicago representative of the Carwegie
companies, which furnished about twos
thirds of the iron entering into the biuld-
Ings, says " that a very large part of the
iron at Jackson Park will have to go into
the scrap pile," That means that it will
have to be sold for old iron, and at a pries
which may not pay a half or a, quarter of
the prion making it available even for that
disposition. There aro 7000 tons of iron
in the Manufactures Building, costing
about 370 a tou to put in plane, or nearly
8500,000 in all, There are nearly 30,000
tons in the several buildings, representing
a cost of over 81,500,000.
Illustrative of the cost of taking down
iron work, it may be stated that the archi-
tecture of it
Maokaye's skeleton Spec-
tatoriom estimates that ib
wl1.r, cosi 43,000
and every dollar that can be realized from
the sale of material to pull down and re.
move that unsightly monument of yet other
blissful promotion moments. The owners
of the Ferris wheel expect to pay 883,000
to responsible contractors to take down,
transport, and set up that wonderful piooe
of work on another site. Emil Phillipson
says it will cost 3100,000 over and above
the salvage to tear down awl remove the
Manufactures Building. Diligent enquiry
among wrecking firsts and oontraotors fail-
ed to uncover any that would confess hav-
ing any intention of bidding on the destruc-
tion of the White City, or that would ad.
mit that they knew of anybody who had a
definite purpose in that direction. No
matter who has the work to do, there is
going to be grout trouble and expense in
disposing of the waste and rubbish, Where
to put it will be a tough problem to solve.
It cannot be dumped haphazard into the
lake, as much of it would be washed bank
upon the shore by the action of the water,
The authorities would not allow that
disposition to be made of it. There will be
between
10,000 AND 12,000 CARLOADS
of waste material to be hauled away from
Jackson Park, according to the calculation
of a prominent contractor—that is to say,
between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 cubic yards
of rubbish. There will be some thousands
of carload of stuff alone to be carted away,
There is no hole or swamp to fill up within
transportable distance of Jackson Park. A
saggestion has been offered that the waste
material be used for the creation of an arti-
ficialinonntain at the southeast earner of
the Park. Ito the loose form it will be in
when carried frotn the grounds, the waste
material will make a pile 1,010 foot square,
and between 15 end 20 feet high. The sur-
face area of such a creation would be about
bwonty-three acres. It was said while the
buildings wore being emoted that the iron
framework of several of them would be '
sold to railroad companies to be used as
stations, and there seems to be no chance
to dispose of the iron frames here. The
question the officials want answered is:
What shall be done with the buildings and
the rubbish?
LEND OF AN ENGLISH BULLY.
itis Slayer ItegterdcU !Villi A.altnlra(IOre by
tarn EntH+o Connunnity.
A rather odd affair occurred in the prov-
inaea the Other day, says a Paris correspond-
ent, It seems that in a certain small peas.
ant oomnannity there existed a man who
was the terror of the place. Ho exacted
tribute from all the farmers in the shape of
provisions and wine, while the poorer
peasants ile let oil' with a few days of labor
in his fields. He was a perfect Hercules Go
size and strength, and had been a. soldier,
but bo left the army to lead this most easy
going existence, No one daredto refuse hie
exactions, for if they did they were soundly
thrasher!, The rural policeman whoa nom•
plaiued to went to remonstrate with Murat,
which was the smne of this pleasant person,
and was so severely beaten that he was in
bed for a week.
No one dared to invoke the aid of the
luw,for Murat threatened terrible reprisals.
The victims wrote anonymous domanoba,
tions, it is true, but when the court order.
Id investigations no one would coneent to
testify against their tyrant, This fin'de-
sioolo lord of the manor seemed destined to
rule for years over serfs who had got used
to his domination and called him Prince
Murat and endured him as one endures the
hall and the phylloxera, because they did
hot see how they could do otherwise, 1ft.
fortnnately for the Hercules in question,
however, he fell foul of ono of his serfs, a
rabbet lazy old man, and left him for dead
by the wayside.
Naturally the victim refused to prosecute,
whereupon his son, who was a sturdy man
and a groat poaohor,'sought out " Prince "
kitorat, and expressed his adverse opinion
of the princely personage's eondueb. He,
objecting to oritieism, struclr the insulting
erectors with hie heavy chub, whereupon the
poacher, whose name was Court, plaobdly
shot hien through tine head with the gun
which was a neoessary tool of his trade,
The assassin then walked, calmly oft,
and meeting the rural polfeemen asked hien
politely to arrest hits, se he had killed the
"Prince," Whereupon the policeman loll
upon his nook and embraced hint with tears
of Joy. Tho assrsshn was escorted to the
jail byepodes e triumphal a es f alible hal yrocossion
1 r
of all the inhabitants of tho village, and be.
ing ,promptly acquitted on the ground of
havng acted in solf•dsfenso the grateful
neighbors clubbed together and presented
hitt with S boaoocbsome suns of money as a
small tolcoa of their gratitude,