The Brussels Post, 1893-12-8, Page 2N THE MIDST OF ALAR.
HOJ3T. BARR, IN "LII'k'INCOTT'S MAGAZINE."
"But this is an outrage," Dried the: pro
foam, indignantly..
CHAPTER X.
QVhen the two prisoners with their throe
ptors oame in sight of the Canadian vol.
iteere they behold a scene which was much
are military than the Fenian Damp, They
ire promptly halted and questioned by a
plot before coming to the main body, and
e.sentry knew enough not to shoot until
had asked for the countersign. Passing
e picket, they came in full view of the
adinn force, the men of which looked very
• and span in uniforms which seemed
anfullynew in the oleer light of the fair
one- morning. The guns, topped by a
;istle of bayonets thab glittered es the
sing sun ahone on thein, were stacked with
at precision here and there, The men
ere preparing their breakfast, and a
mporary halt had been palled for that
irpose, The volunteers were scatter•
t by the side of the road and in
to fields. Renmark recognized the colors
the regiment from his own city, and
iticed that there was with it a company
tat was strange to him. Although led to
tem a prisoner, he felt a glowing pride in
is regiment and their trim appearance, a
ride that was both national and civic. He
istinetively held himself more erect as he
oproaehed.
Renmark," said Yates, looking at him
ibh a smite, "you are making a thoroughly
ritish•mistake."
" What do you mean ? I haven't spots.
"No, but I see it in your eye. You are
ndereatimating the enemy. You think this
ratty company is going to walk over that
ody of unkempt tramps we saw in the
roods this morning,"
" I do indeed, it the tramps wait to be
ralked over,—which 1 very much doubt."
" That's just where you make the mitt.
eke. Most of these are raw boyo, who
:now all that can be learned of war an a
ricket -field. They will be the worst•whip-
ied set of young fellows before night that
his part of the country has ever seen.
Veit till they see one of their cen-
ades fall with the blood gushing out of a
vound iu his breast. If they don't turn
nd run, then I'm a Dutchman. I're seen
aw recruits before. They should have a
ompeny of older men who have seen ser -
ice to steady them. The fellows we saw
his morning were sleeping tike logs in the
lamp woods, as we stepped over them.
wrongnow."
bhey are veterans. What will be a mere
"" See here, Benny," whispered Yates,
you get book to the tent and see that
everything's all right, 1'll be with you in
an hour or so. Don't look so frightened.
I won't hurt Stoliker. But I want to see
this fight, and I won't get there if the
colonel sends an escort. I'm going to use
Stoliker as a shield when the bullets begin
flying."
The bogies sounded for the troops to fall
in, and Stoliker very reluctantly attached
one clasp of the handcuff around his own
left wrist while he snapped the other on
the right wrist of Yates, who embarrassed
hint with kindly assistance. The two
manacled men disappeared down the road,
while the volunteers rapidly fell in, to con.
tinue their morning's march.
Young Howard beckoned to the professor
from his place in the ranks. "I say, pro-
fessor, how did you happen to be down this
way ?"
"I have been damping out here fora week
or more with Yates, who is an old school-
fellow of mine."
"What a shame to have him led off in
that way t But he seemed to rattier like
the idea. Jolly fellow, I should say. But
I wish I had known you were in this neigh-
borhood. 111y folks livo near here, They
would only have been too glad to be of as-
sistance to you."
"They have been of assistance to me, nod
exceedingly kind as well,"
"Whab? Yon know them? All of them?
Have you met Margaret?"
"Yea," said the professor, slowly, but This
glance felt as it encountered the eager eye..
of the youth. It was evident that Margaret
was the brother's favorite.
"Fall back, there," cried the officer to
Renmark.
"May I march along with them? or can
you kava me a gun and let ire take part ?"
"No," said the officer, with some hauteur;
" this is no place for civilians." Again the
professor amtled,as he reflected that the whole
company, as far as martial experience trent
were merely civilians dressed in uniform,
and he became grave again when he remem-
bered Yate's ominous prediction regarding
them.
' 1 say, Mr. Renmark ," cried young
Howard, as the company moved off, "if you
see any of them don'b tell then I'm here, —
eapeoially Margaret. It might make them
uneasy. I'll get leave when this is over and
drop in on them."
The boy spoke with the confidence of
youth, and had evidently nopremonition of
how itis appointment would be kept. Ren -
mark left the road andstruek across coun•
try for the tent, which he reaohed without
further molestation, finding it as he had
left it.
Meanwhile, two men were tramping
steadily along the dusty road towards Wer
land, the captor moody and silent, the
prisoner talkative and entertaining.
Yates's conversation often went beyond
the entertainment, and became, at
times, instructive. He dieouesed all the
affairs of both countries, showed a way
out of all political difficulties, gate
reasons for the practical use of common
sense in every emergency, passed opinion
on the methods of s,grioulture adopted in
various parts of the country, told stories
of the war, gave finances of men in cam
tiviby murdering those who were in obarge
of them, deduced from theta ancedotes the
foolishness of resisting lawful authority
lawfully exercised, and in general showed
thab he was a man who respected power
and the exercise thereof. Suddenly branch-
ing to more praotioal mattere, he exolaint.
ed,—
"Say, Staliker, how many taverns are
there between here and Welland?"
Stoliker had never counted them.
" Well, that's onoouraging, anyhow. If
there are so many that it requires an effort
of the memory to enumerate them, we will
likely have something to drink before
long,"
I never drink while on duty," said
Stollker, eurtl .
" Oh, well, don't apologize for it. livery
man has his failings. I'll be only too happy
to give you some instructions. I have ao
qgulred the useful practioo of being tibia to
drink both on and off duty. Anything can
be done, Stoliker, if youive your mind to
it. I don't believe in the word ' can't'
either with or without the inverted am.
ma,"
Stoliker did not answer, and Yates
yawned wearily,
"1 with your would hire a rig, °enstable,
I'm tired of walking, I've been on my feet
ever elites three tine morning,"
"Of course it is," replied Yates, wee rliy;
"but the woods are full of diets. Thro'e's
always outrages going on, espsoially in so.
called free countries ; therefore one more or
lass won't make much difference,—Come,
officer, who's going to take me to Welland ?
or shall I have to go by myself? I'm a
Fenian from 'way back, and oame here
especially to overturn the throne and take
it home with me. For heaven's sake know
your own mind one way or other, and let
us end this eonfereate,"
The officer was wroth. He speedily gave
the order to Stalker to handcuff the prisoner
to himself and deliver hint, to the jailer ab
Welland.
"But I want assistance," objected Stolt -
ker. "The prisoner is a bigger man than
I am." The volunteers laughed as Stoliker
mentioned this self-evident feet.
"If any one likes to go with you lie can
go. I shall give no orders."
No one volunteered to accompany the
constable.
"Take this revolver with you," oontin•
ued the oflloer, " and if he attempts to ea.
cape shoot him. Besides, you know the
way to Welland, so I can't send anybody
in your place, even if i wanted to."
Howard knows the way," persisted
Stoliker. That young man spoke up with
great indignation :
"Yes, but Howard isn't a constable, and
Stoliker is, I'm not going,''
Renmark went up to his friend.
" Who's acting foolishly now, Yates ?" he
said. " Why don't you insist on seeing
the colonel? The chances are ten to one
that you would be allowed off."
" Don't make any mistake. The colonel
will very likely be some Iuesy individual who
magnifies hie own importance and who will
send a squad of volunteers to escort me,
and 1 want to avoid that. These officers
always stick by each other : they're bound
to, I want to go along with Stoliker. I
have a score to settle with him."
" Now, don't do anything rash. You've
done nothing so far, but if you assault an
officer of the law that will be a different
mater."
" Satan reproving sin. Who prevented
you from hitting Stoliker a short time
since ?"
" Well, I was wrong then. You are
kirmish to them will seem to these boys
lIlte most awful tragedy that ever happen.
Id."
Some of the volunteers crowded around
the inoomere, eagerly inquiring for nays of
he enemy. The Fenian had taken the
remotion to cut all the telegraph -wires
eluding out of Fort Erie, and hems those
n command of the companies did not even
chow that the Feninns had lef6 that locality.
hey were now on their way to a point
here they were to meet Colonel Peacock's
oroe of regulars,—a omni which they were
eatined never to reach. Stoliker sought an
ifioer and delivered up his prisoners, to.
ether with the incriminating paper that
ates had banded to hint. The officer's
envision was short and sharp, as military
ecisions are generally supposed to be. He
,rdered the constable to take both of the
•risoners and put them in jail at Port Col.
.erne. There wao no time now for an in-
• uiry. into the ease ; that could come after-
vards ; and as long aa the men were safe
n jail everytbiug would be all right. To
hie the constable mildly interposed two
bjection, In the first place, he said, he
••as with the volunteers, not in his capacity
s constable, but in the position of guide
nd mon who knew the country, In the
ecoid place, there was no jail at Port Col-
ette.
Where is tine nearest jail?"
"The jail of the county is at Welland, the
ounty town," replied the constable.
" Very well take them there."
"Bob I am here as guide," repeated
toliker.
The officer hesitated for a moment. "You
even't handcuffs with you, I presume?"
" Yes, I have," said Stoliker, producing
he instrument.
" Well, thea, handcuff them together,
nd I will send one of rho company over to
Vellenti with them. How far is it across
onntry ?"
Stoliker told him.
The officer called one of the volunteers,
nd said to him,—
" You are to make your way across
'auntry to Welland and deliver these men
p to' the jailer there. They will be hand-
.uffed together, but you take a revolver
'tab you, and ff they give you any trouble,
hoot them."
The volunteer reddened and drew him
elf up. " I ant not e policeman," the said.
'I am a soldier."
" Very well, then, your first duty as a
soldier is to obey orders. I order you to
site thesemen to Welland."
The volunteers ha l crowded around as
this disouseion went on, and a murmur rose
thong them at the order of the officer. They
vidently sympathized with their comrade's
bjectiou to the duties of a policeman, One
f them made his way through the crowd,
nd:cried;
" Hello I this is the professor. This is
r, Renmark. He's no Fenian." Two or
three more of the University students
recognized Renmark, and pushing up to
him, greeted him warmly. He was evident-
ly a favorite with his class. Among others
young Howard pressed forward.
" It is nonsense," he oried, " talking
about Bending Professor Renmark to jail
He is no more a Fenian than Governor-
General Melnik. We'll all go bail for the
professor."
The officer wavered. "If you know
him," he said " that is a different matter.
But this other man has a letter from the
commander of the Feniaos recommending
him to the consideration of all friends of
the Fenian cause. I can't let him go
free."
•1 " Are you the ohief in command here?"
asked Renmark,
" No, I am not."
"Mr, Yates is a friend of mine who is
hero with me on hie vacation. He is a new
Yorlc journalist, and has nothing in common
with the invaders. If yon insist on sending
him to Welland I must demand that we be
taken before the officer in oenmand. In
any ease he and I stand or fall together. I
am exactly se guilty or innocent as he is.
""Wo eau t bother the colonel about every
trivlallty,"
A mans liberty is no triviality. What
in the Warns of common sense are you fight-
ing for but for liberty?"
' Thanks, Renmark, thanks," said Yates,
"but I dont caro to see the colonel, and I•
shall welcome Welland jail. I am tired of
all this bother. I name here for rest and
quiet, and I airs going to have diem if 1
have to go to jail for them. I'm coming
reluctantly to the belief that jail's the most
comfortable place in Canada, anyhow,"
THE BRUSSELS
"I have no authority to hire a buggy."
"But what do you do when a prisoner re.
Nees to 100110 ?4
"I'd stake him move," said Stoliker,
shortly.
" Ah, I see. That's a good plan and
saves bills at the livory.etable,"
They mune to a tempting bank by the
road•aide, when Yates ettotl,—
" Let'e sit down and have a rest, I'tn
tired out. The sun le hot and the road
dusty, You can let me have half an hour
the day's young yet,"
" I'll let you have fifteen minu.tee."
They sat down together. " I wish a
team would oome along," said Yates, with
a sigh,
" No chance of a team, with most of bhe
horses in the neighborhood stolen and the
troops on the rade,"
" Chat' so," assented Yates, sleepily.
He was evidently done out, for his chin
dropped oa his breast and his eyes oloaed,
His breathing oamo oat and regular, and
his body leaned towards the constable, who
sat bolt upright. Yates's lafb arm fell across
the knees of Stoliker, and he leaned more
and more heavily against him. The cons
stable did not know whether lie wao sham-
ming or not, but he took no risks. He kept
hie grasp firm on the butt of the revolver.
Yet, he reflected, Yates could surely not
meditate an attempt on his weapon, for ito
had e, few minutes before told him a story
about a prisoner who escaped in exactly
that way. Stoliker was suspicious of tete
good intentions of the man he hal in
charge ; he was altogether too polite and
good-natured ; and, besides, the oonetable
dumbly felt that the primmer was a much
cleverer man than he.
"Here, situp," he said. gruffly. "I'm
nob paid to carry you, you know."
" What's blurt ; \Vuat's that? What's
that?" cried Yates, rapidly, blinking his
eyes and straightening up. " Oh, it's only
you, Stoliker. I though it was my friend
Renmark. Have I been asleep ?"
" Either that or pretending,—I don't
know which, nor do I care."
"Oh I I must have been pretending,"
answered Yates, clrewsily; "I can't have
dropped asleep. How long have we been
there?"
"About five minutes."
"All right." And Yates's head began
to droop again.
This time the constable felt no doubt
about it. No man could imitate sleep so
well. Several times Yates nearly fell for-
ward, and each time saved himself, with
the usual luck of a Bleeper or a drunkard.
Nevertheless Stoliker never took hie hand
from his revolver. Suddenly with a greater
lurch than usual Yates pitched head -first
down the bank, carrying the constable with
him. Tho steel band of the handcuff nipped
the wrist of Stoliker, who, with an oath and
a cry of pain, instinobively grasped the links
between, with hie right (hand, to save his
wrist. Like a cat Yates was upon him,
showing marvellous agility for a man who
just tumbled into a heap. The next in-
stant he held aloft the revolver, crying
triumphantly,—
< How's that, umpire ? Out I expect."
The constable with set teeth, still rubbed
hie wounded wrist, realizing the hopeless-
ness of a struggle.
Now Stoliker," said Yates, pointing the
pistol at him, "what have you to say before
I fire ?"
"Nothing," answered the constable, "ex-
cept that you will be hanged at Welland,
instead of staying a few days in jail."
Yates laughed. "That's not bad, Stoliker,
and I really believe there's some grit in you,
if you are a mac -catcher. Still you were
not in very much danger, as perhaps you
knew. Now, if you should want this pistol
again, just watch where it alights." And
Yates, taking the weapon by the muzzle,
tossed it as far as he could into the field.
Stoliker watched its flight intently, then
putting his hand into his pocket the took
out scone small object and flung it as nearly
as he mulct to the spot where the revolver
fell.
Is that how you mark the place ?"
asked Yates, ""or is it some spell that will
enable you to find the pistol ?"
" Neither," answered the constable,
quietly. " It is the key of the handcuffs.
The duplicate is at Welland."
Yates whistled a prolonged note and
looked with admiration at the little man.
He saw the hopelessness of the situation:
If he attempted to search for the key in
the long grass the chances were ten to one
that Stoliker would stumble on the pistol
before Yates found the key, in which ease
the reporter would be once more at the
mercy of the law.
"btoliker, you're evidently fonder of my
company than 1 am of yours. That wasn't
a bad strategic move on your part, but it
may cause you some personal inconvenience
before I get these handcuffs filed off. I'm
not going to Welland this trip, as you may
be disappointed to learn. I have gone with
you as far as I intend to. You will now
oome with me,"
"I shall not move," replied the constable,
firmly.
Very well, stay there, said Yates,
twisting his hand around so as to grasp the
chain that joined the ouffs. Getting a firm
grithey hadhe vtrked ptramped. ale fewminutes
oad nwhich
before,
Stoliker set his teebh and tried to hold his
ground, but was forced to follow. Nothing
teas said by either until several hundred
yards were thus traversed. Then Yates
stopped.
Having now demonstrated to you the
foot that you must accompany me, I hope
you will show yourself a tensible man,Stoli.
ker, and come with me quietly, It will be
less exhausting for both of us, and
all the same to the end. You can
do nothing until you get help, 1
am going to see the fight, which I feel sure
will be a brief one, so I don't want to lose
any more time in getting back. In order to
avoid meeting people and having me explain
to them that you are my prisoner,I propose
we go through the fields,
One difference between a fool and a wise
man is that the wise man always aocepte
the inevitable. The constable was wise.
The tivo crossed the rail fence into the
fields and walked along peaceably together,
Stoliker silent as usual with the grim conk.
dance of a man who is certain of ultimate
suooess,who has the nabiod behind him with
all its machinery working in his favor ;
Yates talkative, argumentative, and in.
struotive by turns, (ooasaonally breaking
forth into song when the unresponsiveness
of the other rendered conversation diffi•
cult.
"Stoliker, how supremely 'lovely and
quiet and restful are the si)ont soenbed
spreading fleas 1 How soothing to a spirit
tired of the city's din is bhissolitude,broken
only by the singing of the birds and the
drowsy droning of the bee erroneously
termed "humbie'l The green fields, the
shady trees, the sweet Eras inees of rho sum.
mar sir, untainted by city smoke, and over
all the eternal serenity of the blue and
cloudless sky, --hove can human spite and
human passion exist in such a paradise?
Does it not all make you fool as if you wore
an inn000nt ohtld again, With motives pure
and connoionco white?"
Ii Stoliker felt like an innocent oltild he
POST
did not look ib, With olottded brow ho
eagerly scanned the empty fields, hoping for
help, But if (the oonstablo mato no reply
there was an answer that electrified Yates
and put all thought of the beautyof
the attars, out of his mind, The dull
report of it musket far in front of them end•
denly broke the ailenee,followod by several
scattering shots and then the roar of a
volley. This was sharply answered by the
ring of rides to the right, With an oath
Yates broke into a run.
" They're at it I" he cried, " and all on
account of your confounded obstinacy I
shall mise the whole show. The Feuians
have opened fire, and the Canadians have
not been long in replying,"
The din of the firing now became locos•
sant. The veteran in Yates was aroused.
He was like an old war-horse who again
feels the intoxicating smell of hattle•smoke,
The lunacy of gunpowder shone in his
gleaming eye.
"Come on, you loitering idiot I" he cried
to the constablewho had difficulty in keep.
iog pace with him,—" oome on, or by the
gods, P11 break your wrist across a fence
rail and tear this brutal iron from it."
The savage face of the prisoner was trans•
formed with the passion of war, and for the,
firsb time that day Stoliker quailed before
the insane glare of hie eyes, But, if he was
afraid, he did not show hie fear to Yates.
"Come on, you I" he shouted, springing
ahead and giving a twist to the handcuffs
well known to those who have to deal with
refractory criminals. " I am as eager to
see the fight as you are."
The sharp pain brought Yates to his
senses again. He laughed, and said, "That's
the ticket. I'm with you. Perhaps you
would not be in suoh a hurry if you knew
that I am going hobo the thick of the fight
and intend to use you as a shield from the
bullets."
" That's all right," answered the little
oonstablo, panting, Two sides are firing.
I'll shield you on one side, and you'll have
to shield me on the other."
Again Yates laughed,and they ran silent.
ly together. Avoiding the houses, they
oame out at the Ridge Road. The smoke
rolled up above the trees, showing where
the battle was going on, some distance bo•
yond. Yates made the oohstable erose the
fence and the road and take to the fields
again bringing him around behind Bartlett's
house and barn. Ito one was visible near
the house except Kitty Bartlett, who stood
at the back,watchiug with pale and anxious
faoe the roll of the smoke, now and then
covering her ears with her hands as the
sound of au extra loud volley assailed them.
Stoliker lifted up his voice and shouted for
help.
(TO itE CONTINUED.)
THE COST OF
RIDEAUHALL,
Some Interesting Figures Relating to the
Governor•aeneral'e Reeieenoe•
A Chnpei fur the i'reseul Governor But 11
Will not Cost the Country Anything,
When it was alleged a little time ago
that Lord Aberdeen upon a brief inspection
of Rideau Balt had decided it to be road.
equate to accommodate his large retinue of
servants and that he would like the Derain.
ion Government to make some addition to
the hall, there was a howl in the press. It
is a are spot with the tax -payer, this old
vino -regal abode. Some have oharaoterized
it as a perfect sihk•hole for public) money.
Possibly this is the result of the system of
management, or mismanagement ; possibly
the result of the fact that the building was
never originally intended to enshrine the
purple. Whatever the cause, the cost
there and the mere mention of now expend-
iture makes the tax -payer wince. As a
matter of fact the new Governor•General
did not make any requisition upon the
Government for additional accommodation
for his forty-seven officers, seoretariee,eides
and sertanbe, and it is possible that the
report arose from the fact that he did
possess this unusually largo household for
aeon a Governor-General, and that there is
an addition being made to Rideau Hall.
A CHARAOTUURISTIC. ABERDEEN 5101'1,
But the addition is not for servants quar-
ters. It is quite a characteristic addition,
au Aberdeen addition, ono might say. It is
a chapel. And Lord Aberdeen brings his
own chaplain from the land of Burne. It is
undorstood that family worship is an
tmvarying feature of the Aberdeen domestic
life, and it will be reodily under.
stood that with so large a domestic
establishment, soma adequate provision for
holding the regular daily worship is almost
a necessity.
Bat the Government will not need to foot
the bill for the chapel, Lord Aberdeen
does so out of his private purse. It is quite
an unpretentious temporary structure,
dovetailed among the offices itt rear of the
Hall,
The figures in aonueotion with the vice-
regal residence may be divided under two
chief ]readings, the Governor-General and
Rideau Hall.
LIFE ON THE .PLANET VENUS.
Speculations is the Light or Science as to
!That Sort ern Time they Have,
It will be remembered that about two
years ago the famous Ibalian astronomer,
Schiaparelli, announced that he had disoov
ered that Venus, which is a world very
slightly smaller than ours, makes only one
tura on its axis in going once around the
sou, It• would follow from this that on
Venus there is no succession of days and
nights as upon the earth,but that perpetual
day reigns on one side of the planet and
perpetual night on the other. In other
words, if Sohiaparelliis right,Venus always
presents the same faoe to the sun, just as
the moon forever turns the some hemisphere
toward the earth.
The inhabitants of the sunward side of
Venus, then—if there be any—never see the
sriu set, while the inhabitants of the other
side never seethe sun at all, unless they
visit the opposite hemisphere of their
globe,
Of course, no one knows whether there
are inhabitants upon Venus or not, but we
do, know that Venus has an atmosphere,
and that in its atmosphere watery vapor
exists and that clouds float, and that upon
the surfaoe of the planet the force of grave.
tation is not very different from that which
it manifests on the surface of the earth.
Accordingly, there are some reasons to be
urged in behalf of the opinion that Venus
may be an inhabited world.
But if one half of Venus be buried in
endless night while the outer half lies
glaring beneath a never -setting eon, it is
evident that the inhabitants of that planet
must have experiences that would be most
strange and brying to 05. So the question
whether Venus really does rotate on its axis
once to 225 days, the period of its revolu-
btou around the sun, derives an added in-
tereat from the consideration that the
planet possibly has inhabitants.
The older observations indicated that
Venus rotated in between tweatythree and
twentyfour hours, giving it days and
uighte about equal to those of the earth -
In order to settle the question it has re
eently been proposed to apply the spec.
troaoope. It is known that in the spectrum
of a celestial body which is rapidly ap-
proaohiug the earth the speotrosoopio lines
are shifted toward the blue, while in the
spectrum of a fast retreating body the lines
are shifted toward the red.
The principle has been used in measuring
the rate of the son's rotation. The lines
are shifted toward the blue on the pastern
and toward the red on the western edge of
the sun, and by measuring the amount of
shifting the rate of rotation is found. 11
is easy to see that tho same method may be
applied to find on how fast Venus re-
volves on its axis.
Every one who watches the glorinus
evening star growing brighter and brighter
in the sunset sky during the coming months
will certainly be eager to hear the latest
news from the astronomers who are trying
to find out whether Venus has successive
days and' nights like the earth or has only
a day side and a night side.
DT; i xiii+,i.i 8, 1893
maintenance ; 2. Furniture, 3. Care of
gardens and grounds, and 4, Fuel and light,
In every moo the Dufferin regime shows the
biggest figures, The totals aro ne follows ;
Rent of domain, 1808.09
Purchase, 1800.,,,.,..,,
Additions
Furniture
Care gardens and grounds
Fuel and Light
$ 7,854
82,000
547,144
118,863
04,340
151,371
$1,001,571
The are of the garden and grounds is
contracted for with looal gardeners. The
usual cost is $400J or thereabouts, Latter-
ly there has been a fixed allowance for fuel
and light of $8000 a year,
Oombined, the cost of the Governor.
General and of Rideau Hall since Confed-
eration is not far from three millions,
Perhaps Canada after all gets off mighty
cheap when she pays a hundred thousand
or so per year for her Goveenor•General
and gets British soldiers and Bailors, am-
bassadors and consults free when needed.
TIER GOvsRNOR•GE,1'ERAL.
The Governor.Cieneral's salary sines con-
federation has been ten thousand pounds
sterling per year, or translated acourately
into decimal currency, $48,600.80. The
other items in his case aro : 1. Travelling
expenses ; 2, Salaries of Governor -General's
secretary's office; 3, Contingencies of Gov-
ernor -General's secretary.'s office. The
totals'of each item from 1858 (oonfederation)
to 1882 ioclusivo are ;
Governor.General's salary. sl 016,611
Governor's travelling expenses 116,603
liavcrnor's secretary's etlloe, salarles270,350
Governor's secretary's ollice, contin-
gencies, '17,126
$1,551,315
The travelling expenses were not oharged
till 1574. The first Governors -General,
Lord Monck, and Sir John Yottng (Lord
Lisgar) paid their own way. Lord Dufferin,
the prince of spendthrifts, changed that,
and since 18714 the vim -regal travelling has
cost Canada an average of seven or eight
thousand a year. The big year was 1877,
when Lord Dufferin had a farewell blaze of
glory that cost $22,554 in travelling ex.
pones. His terns expired the following
year..
The Governor -General's secretary's office
ie dominated by His Excellency's military
seoretary, generally an officer of the Guards,
and His Excellency's right hand man in all
matters both social and public. Tho mil-
itary secretary has leave of absonee and
his pay from the Imperial authorities, and
gets $2400 from the Dominion Government,
The business of the office is to transact
correspondence and other general routine
business affecting the Governor-General,
and the staff consists of a chief clerk, throe
other clerks, a messenger and an orderly.
The outfit 10 almost purely ornamental.
As to the contingencies, which used to
average ever ten thousand a year, but have
latterly come to seven or eight thousand,
they are usually half made up of cable.
grams, telegrams, postage, stationery and
printing. Newspapers eget from five bun.
deed to a thousand dollars. Subscriptions
to Canadian papers last year footed up $300,
to British papere $240 and $33 was paid for
United States papers.
RIDEAU HALL ,1Nt5 SURROUNDINGS.
A Boom in Whitewash"
A . missionary stationed at one of the
South Bea islands determined to give hie
residence a coat of whitewash. To obtain
tide in the absence of lime coral was re.
ducat to powder by burning. The natives
watched the process of burning with inter-
eat, boileving that the coral wag cooked for
them to eat. Next morning they beheld
the missionary's cottage glittering in the
rising sun white as snow. They danced,
they sung, they screamed with soy. The
whole island was (mhfnsion. Whitewaah
became the rage. Happy wag the coquette
who could enhance her charms by a daub of
the white brush. Coutenbions arose. One
party urged there superior rank ; another
obtained possession of the brush and vel.
ianbly hold it against all comers ; a third
tried to upset the tub to obtain seine of the
cosmetic, To quiet the hubbub more white.
wash was trade, and in a week not a hut, a
domestic utensil, a war stub, nor a garment
but was as white as snow ; not an inhabit.
ant but had his skin painted with grotesque
figures ; not a pig that Wart not whitened l
and mothers might be seen ib every direc-
tion capering joyously and .yelling with
delighb in the contomplatien of the initialer
beauty of their whitewashed babies.—Mie.
sionery Uhroniole,
A REMARKABLE ADVENTURE.
An Insane hussies Spends Twenty Years
Naked In an Outhouse, and Then Re.
severe.
The Rusakaia Staring, a Russian review,
publishes the memoirs of 114. Valerie Panaiev,
who mimes of a family well known in rho
world of arts and letters, In these me•
inoirs is related the ease of a very near
relative.
The victim was a refined and educated
gentleman, who after the death of his
brother, Volodia, seemed to have become
insane. The peculiar thing about this
Volodia was that his glance was so sharp
that no one could endure it turned upon
him. The victim of the adventure used to
drive Volodia out of Inc proaenoe. Itn-
mediately after the death of the latter a
profnee growth of hair appeared upon the
remaining brother's body, and he became
insane. His insanity became more and
more pronounced. Finally his parents de-
termined to have him seized. Ile ran into
u outhouse and, fortifying himself, defied
all efforts to dislodge him.
In this he remained, entirely naked, for
twenty years. The hair covered his body
completely. Ho seemed not to suffer from
the cold. Once every week a number of
dishes of food were placed before him and
these he lapped up. No other food passed
his lips. Ho lost his power of speech. He
communicated by a sort of fowl, which nc
one could make out but the old nurse who had
brought him up. He knocked the panes out
of all t10 windows in his shed. In midwin-
ter the temperature was often far below
freezing.
Some twelve years after he went insane
the old nurse died, On that day he opened
his oyes and exclaimed :
"Volodia, when will you release me ?"
From that moment he conversed with
his relatives. They tried to take him to
an asylum in Kazan, but he threatened to
commit suicide. Once they aebually got
him out of the building, but he esoaped and
went bank. M. Panaiev saw him there
twice and conversed with hint on all man•
ser of topics, iuoluding literature and
politics and his old university comrades.
His mother and the rest of the family used
to take turns in reading books and news.
papers to hien. When his mother died he
left his post, dressed himself and saw to
the funeral arraogementa. After the burial
he went back to bis barn.
But the charm, or malediction, was
broken. ily and by he resumed his former
life and lived until very recently.
He became a great patron of the drama
and literature, married and was visited
several times by his relative, the writer of
the memoirs, M. Panaiev. No one has as
yet explained the nature of bis visitation,
but it is, of course, attributed to his
brother's piercing eye.
Undoubtedly the domain was bought
cheap. It was net a bedsore of house, and
along with it went a noble natural park of
a couple of hundred acres. The hall was
built by a lumber king named McKay, and
sold by his estate to the Dominion Govern-
ment in 1800 for $82,000. It stands on an
eminence a mile or two east of Ottawa,
with a tine view of the pity to the west
across the Rideau river, while on the other
side is a pine wood, sweeping down to the
Ottawa river, the Grand River, as the old
residents affectionately call it. The Hail
at first was merely a large and handsome
house. Now it is a pile of half a dozen
houses, looking homely and plain un the
outside, but not without a certain piotur
esqueuess. Governor after governor bas
made additions. Dufferin stook on a big
dining hall to the weat,Prineess Louise add-
ed a racketmere ou the east, other regimes
increased the ofloos and stables, and now
comes Aberdeen's chapel. But there are
large conservatories; there is a natural
hollow on the east which makes a fine little
pond for ourling and skating in winter, or
a lawn for tennis in summer ; a fine cricket
field lies at the foot of the slope on the
western side ; the pines seclude bio Hall in
most directionsthere are capital stables—
and in short it Is difficult to imagine the
vice -regal household better off for healthy
recreation combined with welcome privacy,
Ineide, the Hall is an irregular but very
comfortable and homelike abode, with large
low rooms studded with grates for coal fires,
and mostly with pleasant and generally
picturesque outlooks.
Lord Dufferin first opened the eyes of
all wide when in 1873, his first year, he got.
fiftyfive thousand dollars spent in additions
and repairs, Up to that year, too, the
Governors•Goneral had paid for their fuel
and lights. Dufferin got $5000 for ibis
tucked on to the publio burden. The next
year, 1874 he got $35,000 more spent in
alterations and repairs ; $12,000 on furor
titre. He averaged 330,010 a year for the
next four years for !,hose smite purposes,
and ran ftp the fuel and light bill to over
$10,000 s year, When the Marquis of Lorne
emended DaBdrio, his royal bride kept
things lively still, But neither under
Princess Louise nor any one else before or
after did Rideau Hall out two-thirds what
it 014 under Dufferin.
The expenses fit oonetialou with the Hall
oame under four tteadiegs, after the Rest
oast. 1. Additions, alterationo, repairs and
Coal and Population.
It is quite true that the temperate regions
of the world are becoming more populous,
j tst as it is equally true that the stook of
ural in rho world is being gradually ex.
hausted. The coal supplies of the United
Kingdom are, for all praatleal purposes,
mush larger than they wore fifty years ago,
when a great geologist persuaded a great
minister testate) off a prospective danger by
Imposing an export duty on coal.
Since that time new coal fields have been
discovered, DPW mines have been opened,
old trines have been worked at depths which
would have been declared impracticable
then,, and the stook of available coal, though
hundreds of millions of ton have been con -
sunned in the interval, is actually larger
than it was at the commencement of the
present reign. Just tlto same thing may be
said of the great countries in the Western
and Southern Hemispheres, which are be-
coming the new homes of the Teutonic
rase.
Almost every new trade route, almost
every now colonial railway, has opened out
fresh territory to the colonist, and the land
available for colonization, instead of beeom•
iog less, is, for all praotioal purposes,
greater than it was fifty years ago. True
that, in the United Statesmoat of the land
has already been appropriated, while the
population has increased till it has doubled
that of Great Britain. Bub, vast as is the
population of the United States, they would
easily sustain, if they were peopled as Eng-
land is peopled, twenty times their present
numbers.
The Anglo Saxon race might go on multi-
plying at its present rate for 250 years, and
might pour the whole addition to its num-
bers into the States, and at the end of that
period they would not be more thickly
peopled than the Netherlands are now.
The States, however, are only one of the
countries which are available for European
colonists. How thick stand their numbers
on the fertile territory of Manitoba, or on
the still larger and undeveloped regions
whish may be vaguely included in the term
Northwestern -America I How little do we
still know of our great Australasian teal.
tory, and how tnueh of it still remains
available for approbation in the coming
oenburies I
S1---- A
Mrs. elugqggs i 'That horrid Mrs. Prilla
told Mrs, Noxtdocr that I was a regular
old oat. What do you think of that?"
Mr. Mugge , I think she never taw you
in tine same room with a mouse."
(,mean Wilholmina, of the Netherlands,
recently celebrated her fourteenth birthday
and among the preoonte given to her by her
,mother was a collodion of some thirty
largo dolls, each of which was arrayed in
rho uniform of an (Alcor of the Dutch army,
the object of the Regent being to make hor
daughter acquainted with the appearance
and eaoouutromentetof the of0oore holding
hor commissions. The little (ducat seems
to have looked open the present from a
frivolous point of view, since she immedia.
toly insisted on being provided with an
equal number of dolls dressed as ladies of
the Court, so as provide entertainment for
the officers, who might othetWiee pine for
feminine soolety,
it