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The Brussels Post, 1889-6-28, Page 2xx BRUSSELS XOST. itaillialaMalenteallareMaiaaaaelaatifilleWerieraatortmoirameareraaaalaitMoursaffeaternaiMeerewoortemenomegrawoonatrammeasenamalleremtrantamesliatellamonettnarataleanfallin him that the day ie line, or that it is rainy him to sea in his canoe. Then poor Roblu• as it may happen, and pass on till yon oome son looked at hie retreating island -the is• to r.nother gate and another warder. You land whish he bad always galled u pia- n- tull him that it lo fine, or that it is rainy, as and wished that he might return to it, bo. before. He also calls you by name, and soya oauso it wee his home. bo p>or Antony, who that you are loohtng well, and you enter a had always despised the Catturaugue and second puesago, Tole pump is provided Optimums, now wished that ho had them in hie hands, In point of fact, he put back the box into the cull from which be had takenit, end ho crone at once to his lawyer cousin. But the lawyer oousin wan not in. Antony did not like to tell hie queer story to a stranger ; be therefore borrowed a hundred dollars from the lawyer cousin's clerk and went that night on the train to Pittsburg. SAFE DEPOSIT. Marna Ray, EDWArip LVORETT HALE, D,D. CHAPTER I. Antony Blake left the ofiiae of Rumrill & i well little catacombs or columberia, precise - Co. a good deal disappointed, He was hfm• self a shrewd and intelligent follow. Ho had secured the patents on hie new invention and woe ready to proceed with the manufacture. He had oarried the papers, the drawings, his model machine to Rumrill & Co„ and they had them in consideration. They now offered him $800 for the whole thing if he would turn it all over to them, He had pro. posed one and another scheme by which he should go Into business ea a partner with thein. Theeo had been referred by the managing partner to'Ithe Mr. Jerkins behind the scene, who was an imaginary puma created for the purpose of saying no when the managing partner was ashamed to. Prato ° tioally all these schemes had been refuted, and Antony was now to take the $800 or nothing. Thie was not hie Grab ex perienoe in such business. He knew by this time that the people who bring things before the public, be they inventions, be they books or be they ideas, generally expeot to be well paid for doing ao, and he knew that the system of eo•operation, which people are hoping for and praying for, was by no means yet established. With some bibterneae of feeling, it must be oonfeseed, though he woe a good natured fellow enough, he walked down the street of Tamworth considering whether he would take the $800 and le done with it, or whether he would go to Picts• burg and see if there were better chances there. lutony Blake did not believe in debt, and he knew how to live on a very little money, but for ell that he had very little money in store, and be certainly did not have the $10,000 whioh would be neoeoeary for him if he were to equip a little machine shop of his own and make his own automatio car coupler. Bab as it happened, ho was a person well esteemed in bee whole com- munity of Tamworth, as he deserved to be. I should like to know, however, how much of this esteem he owed to one queer circum- stance. While he had to start in life with absolutely no property, it happened that he did hold, se trustee for his mother, some bonds, which ho considered worthless, in the second issue of the Cattaraugas and Opelono. as Railroad. These bonds had long since been taken off all lista known to brokers, and it was long since any coupons had been paid. Still the Cottaraegas and Opelnoses exietod, and there were sanguine people, among whom his mother was one, who supposed that at some time payment would be reamed. Antony, being her trustee, had to keep these bonds somewhere, and he had been notified by legal advisers that he must keep them in one of the security vaults which are now established in all the consid- erable cities. He had hired a modesb Bate ab the Amicable of Tamworth, and ab the Amicable you have the faciltlee of e charming reading room, where are all the new magazines, where you can wash your hands if you need, yon can make an appointment with a friend, you can write a note on the Amicable'a paper. These facilibiee are thrown open to you be- cause you have hired, perhaps for only $10 a year, a safe in that bank. Antony had found that here was by far the beet club room in Tamworth. In that city they have what fe known as the "Strangera' Rest" well developed; you oan go in and pay ton cents an hour for all the comforts of a club room, and then go out again. Bat Antony found arta in the long run, $10 a year was cheap• er for him then the Strangers' Ret at ten cents an hour, and what I should like to know is whether hie etanding in that com- munity had nob materially risen since the old done and widows and railroad trustees and other such persona who had their safes there found that he was one of the habitues of the reading room of the Amicable. He suspected himself that it gave him these advantages, and he was careful nob to preaumeon them. He took care not to sit there writing letters in times when a busi- ness man would be at his counting room ; he only looked in there ab the hours when the most prominent of the done were there ; he took care not to appear to it as the enlyloaf- ing place which he had. In proportion as he was cautious in these regards the done began to respect him as one of themselves; that is to say, as a person who did not have to work very hard for hie money, and who had in the chamber adjacent, the secrete by whioh a quarterly revenue comes to the initiated, •without much cracking of their finger nails or griming of their hands, 7n this partioular morning Anthony was obliged to break his rale. It was just the hour when he should nob ordinarily have gone to the Amicable. It was seldom in. deed that he had any occasion to look at his mother's bonds in his sate, for they wore as worthless one month as they were another. But to preserve the reepectabilities of the place it had been hie habit to have hie safe opened for him once a quarter -about the let of May, August and the corresponding quarters -which he observed to be "ooupon quartere " for some very distinguished dons. He would retire Into one of the little cells provided for the ocoaeion, open hie box and then carry it back that it might be deposit• ed in his safe again. The laeb time that he had done this, Anthony had placed two fifty dollar bills in hie little bin box, to guard himself from spending them. He knew that he should have enough money for his current expenses beeidee, and he had not oared to make a permanent investment of this sum, Bat if ho were to go to Pltte- burg he must have these two Mica in his pocket, and he walked down to the Amicable, gave the number of his safe, and his box was given to him. CHAPTER II. Ib is possible that there are one or two of the humbler readers of this little story who aro not acquainted With the careful macni- nory of a security safe company, and as the story hinges on that machinery it may be well to explain ib, You ace you are to have the double combination, patent, absolute se- curity that Is given to the largest torpor - tion in the world -say the Bank of England -and ab tho some time yon, who are as poor as Antony Blake was, are to have your own little separate ooll in whioh your own pro. party le kept, and notody eleo in the world may interfere with it. All tibia is arranged by a very ingenious system of policemen, attentive clerks, doorkeepers, gilt pickets of iron, iron doors below and above, no that fire cannot barn your securities nor water drown them, nor theivea break in nor rust corrupt them. The most honorable and virtuous warders aro 'selected by the most engeniouo and high- ly approved competitive examinations, You present, yourself at the gate, and you are personally known to the warder, who Speaks to you cordially and opine the gate toyou, es he would not do if you were ono of thole ly like th000 under or near the city of Rom o, except that these are mach emallor and that these oataoombe have now no doors, but in the security vaults eaoh catacomb has a little iron door, and these doors aro numbered. You remember, by mnemonic processes known to yourself, what is the number of youre ; the number e 1 Antony's wee 4 927 You meet in this pneeage a smiling, gentle manly friend who also calla you by name, expresses hie hope that you aro well, and toile you what the weather is. You also tell him. These aro not passwords, but they are the civilities of the ocoaeion. You th'n mention to him, in o whisper, if you please, the number of your la x. lie carrots to re- member- dose remember, perhaps - and with hie key adjusts the look of your oataoomb. But, please to observe, he cannot open the catacomb because he has not your key. Your key hna been given to you long gime when you hired your catacomb. You then open the catacomb with your hey, which you can- not do till he has first turned bis key in the look, In the catacomb you find a long, nar- row lin b, x, unless you ahould be a very great don. In that ogee yon have a large catacomb and you have a large tin box. But Antony was a very little don, as the reader knewa, and he had therefore a box long enough for any coupon bond, but not large enough to contain many. He drew out his box, thanked the eourte• one attendant, passed warder No. 2 again, who asked him if all was right, and then in the passage between Noe. 1 and 2 teleoted a little room like that in which you eat oysters in restaurants of oome cities, when 11 is supposed that you are ashamed to eat oyetere and wish to have a separate cell arraigned for the purpose. 1 ou go into this cell, which you find lighted. There ie a little table for yon, with a pen and ink end blobting paper and a pair of large eoioeore. These eoiesore ate there that you may out off the coupons from your Londe. Observe with admiration that both the requirements which have been referred to are fn'filled. You are here as lonely as Robinson Crueoe was before Friday Dame. All your wealth is in your hands ; you oan do with it what you choose. A minute be- fore this wealth was in a safe which nobody excepting you could open, and a minute hence it will be in that safe mein, Oa thie occasion Antony Blake found oome difficulty in opening his box. Rio key seemed to be out of order; but, being an in- genious person, it happened that ate had 1 little skeleton hey with him, and with this he threw open the look of the box. He saw in a moment that it was not .his box. The eeouritiea in tt were those of the 0., K. and W., C., B. ani Q„ B., C. and D. - securities, many of them, absolutely "gilt edged" in the market of the moment. There were one or two United States bonds, and, in short, if a good Petry had touched hie mother's bonds and changed them into bonds cf the very beet (ehe could not have done better for him than had been done here. Antony Blake was smeared and dazed. He lifted the bonds out one after another to see by what process of evolution the Other - moue and Opeloueae had been thus changed, and with a vague feeling that he should field his two fifty dollar notes at the bottom. The fifty dollar notes were not there, but there was a little parcel of five or eix mann. script notes tied up with a whits ribbon. Antony had no disposition to get at other people's secrete, but he did want to know how these things came into hie box, and he looked at their addressee, ae he could do without, opening them. Three were to Evelyn Haddam. Three were to Fergus Maolntire. Antony had never heard of either of these people. The lettere were numbered, and tho date of eaoh was written on the envelope. Antony observed that the last two were written on the same day, May 29. "Ib is a romance, I think," said he, and he thought ao because of the ribbon. But clearly the most curious thing in the romance was that the letters were in his box. CHAPTER III. If young Blake had gone at once to the bead centre of the wonderful combination of warders, guardians, clerks and assistants who made up the hierarohy of the Amicable, this story would never have been written, and the reader would at this moment be seeking other occupation than that he has in hand. "Before a story oan he told," says Mr. Anthony Trollope, " there met be a story to tell." All that follows on these pages spring from Mr,Blake'e averoion to take the head centre into hie confidence, or indeed, any other of the guardians in the hierarchy. In the first place, he knew none of them personally, though, ae has been aeon, they all screw him professionally. That is to say, it wart the professional business of eaoh of them to know Antony Blake by eight and to see chat he always had the box in No. 4,927' when he wanted it ar d that no ono else ever had it, and also that he never had any other box than hit own. Bub all of them had been imported from New York to carry on the Amicable, whioh was a new entorpriee in Tamworth, so that he had not made their acquaintance other than officially. In the emend place, ae occurred to him now for the first time, he should have gone to the head centre before if he meant to go at all. He should have gone when his little key did nob open the bond box, He should not hove pinked the look of a box, whioh, as he now knew, was nothic,;with his little skeleton key. In the third place, he was nob sure whether he should beat advance the ends of justice by going to the head centre. He could say that hia $100 were not in his box. But here were eeouritiea of three or four hundred times as much worth; and, ae he well knew, there was not any one outside an idiot asylum who would steal Cattaraagus and Opeloueas bonds. Ib might be that the head oenbre and some of the others were engaged In a common fraud, of whioh ho had in his hands a little clew, These ooneirleratfono passed through hie mind and determined him, wisely or not, to make no oomplalot to the head centre till he had taken the advice of a lawyer friend. Meanwhile tie first beeriness wan to go to Pltteburg and to get the $100 whioh he needed for hie journey. There was no money in the box, and of course Antony could not have taken it if there had been, seeing 11 was not hie. "Greenback/," mays an eminent legal authority, " aro the oarrenoy of thieves." But oven had Antony boon a thief he had no opportunity to steel. There wore the eix lettere, tied up with tho white ribbon. Antony did look at the addreeoee, ae had been said, Bat at the moment bis only with watt that his despleed Cabtaraugne and Opelousas unknown loafer who have no sato in the bonds were in his hands. He remembered, _.. Isecurity vault. at he often had r emembered before, the You passtbrou bbhie Prison gate ,o tolly. Pathetic griefof Robltison 4rnaeo, when the for yen know fills no pricer to you, you toll great entreat of the Grimm was sweeties CHAPTER TV, This is not one of those stories which tor - meats the reader by refusing to tell him all the writer koowe. Once for all, let the reader understand that the bonds and the letters which Antony Blake fouud in bis box belonged to a very nice girl whose name was Edith Lene, How it happened that they wore all in this box shall now be briefly told. It was some eix months before Antony Blake found them that Edith Lone's father celled her into hie own room. He then ex plained to her that she was so old that the mast learn to take Dare of her own affairs, " I do not mean," said ho, " to turn over to you now the whole of your mother's property, but I do mean to turn over to you so much that you shall not have to come running to me when you want to buy a ehoeatriog and a paper of pine. I have placed in this envelope a number of bonds ; 1 am going to show you how to oat off the coupon's from these beads. Yon will have to do this twice a year; you will then have to carry those coupons to the Waverley Bank, where I have opened an ac- count for you. When you want money you will write a check on the Waverley Bank, and you will go for the money yourself or send for it. You can do es you please about keeping an account of these things, 1f I were you I would keep a little cash book, but I ahall ask no questions. 1f you oome to mo at any time for money I shall thou ask questions. But it ie a great deal better that you than learn to take care of your own af- fairs before I die." Poor Edith was dietreooed and pained to hoar her father talk of dying. She acid as much; the said that she knew nothing about business, and eho had a great deal rather go on as they were. But he was flint. He told her that hie preoiae object was to teach hor to draw a cheek and to keep a bank a000unt,. and to teaoh hor something of her interest in the community, not to say her duties in the ocinmunity. He had begun with thirty or forty thoueand dollen of her iortene, which he had put into these bonds. in a falee poeition, which the heti etnmblg,'l her little coupe and bade William drive her STEALXNEl FROM JOSOERNAIIT. dumbly home. Her only thought woe to toll her father ,e Curious Yarn Told by an Indian Army all that had happonod, and to confess that macer. she was a foolTho tale which I am aboub to relate vas Of coarse, this would have boon the true thing for her to do ; but there wee, unfort- told to mo many yeere ago by a distinguish• unately, a delay. Her father was In Onicago ed i fliaer of the Ivladrus ormy. For obvious for two dayo, and Satan had all that time to reasons the names have been altered, but to inspire her with other counsels. Now, eta thie day by the camp fires of the greet fora though Satan might have done his worst bo- rival held every year le told with bated tore he could make Edith Lauo do anything breath the terrible halo ot the jewels of wrong, it was easily in hie power to metro J uggernnub and of the vengeance of the groat her do eomothing very foolish. For, as godt�lan am ago," said m friend "I Hoary Kingsley well eayo, when the devil "Many Y y , motet achieve his purposeo by sending a was quartered ab Fuzurabad, an important knave he does the same by a much metermilitary station Omit 100 miles from the prooess and sends a fool. For the more the Madam coast, There were a largo number brooded over the matter the more the poor of troops there of all deeorlptlons, and girl poreueded herself that oho had bettor certainly for half the year the life we all not, at first, speak to her father. Besides the feeling that she was a fool and had made e. horrible mistake there was a little aide trouble which increased end increased as Mel thought of it till it at last became a led was gay and high enough. " Unfortunately, at the time I was there gambling and batting wore muoh io vogue, and many men plunged and name to grief over their debts of honor. Of all that gay giant Afrite, destroying all her ponce. It oempany nobody wae more popular and was the recollection that eho had pub in her better liked by both men and women than box the six lettere whioh had been intrusted young Fitzroy ; bub, unfortunately, he lost to her by her amain Evelyn. money et the runes, tried to recover himself Now tide Cousin Evelyn had hada horrible et the whist table, but failed, got into the love pauoago with Fergus McIntire. 1 have hands of the Mawareeo, and got deeper and no richt to call it diegraoeful, though I am deeper into the mire of debt. You could very glad that none of my readers was ever see by hie careworn and troubled expression rro oompromioed. It was a very bad bueleesa, of face that the poor young fellow was In a and Evelyn had been pulled out of it only real bad way. 1 was not surprised, then, with great boob and difficulty. All the nom- when one day he came to me and said : promiemg lettere had been brought together 'Major, I'm done for, I'm utterly broke, and should have been burned up. Inebead I can't get any more money in the baster, of burning them Evelyn Haddam, when she and they'll Ino me in unlesa I oan get away hoard Edith hada safe of her owu, had for a bit. I must get to Eastland and eco if bogged her to take care ot them, and at her i can raise tho wind there, but goodness second visit to the safe Edith had put these known,' said the young fellow bitterly, letters with her bonds, The reader knows 'how I oan dare ask my poor old governor. what had broom of them. Major,' aonbinuod ho, 'I mush get away ; it's Now thia was the only secret whioh our simply killing one. You were a great friend poor Edith had ever had from her father, of my father, and promised to help me. T She did not want to have these lettere wish I had stunk to your advice, but it's too brought bo light by any investigation which late now. Will you came away with me i should be made. Tho poor child instantly Give out thee wo have taken ten dayo' leave fancied herself before a police court as A for some shooting, and see me down to the thief ; ehe fancied the discovery of her box coot If I go off alone 1 shall be stopped opened by a judge and these letters of by those cursed Mawareee.' Evelyn's and Fergus' read aloud and printed "After some hesitation I agreed. He in all the Sunday newspapers. She Dried sent in hie application for leave to Europe over it; she wrote a note to Evelyn which on private affairs, and I gave oat that I ehe destroyed ; she wrote another note which was going on a tendays' shooting expedition. she destroyed also, and finally said to herself A week later, with a couple of tongae, we that she had rather lone all her own property had started moue long and wearying tourney which was in the safe than have any revela to the coaeh, where my poor young friend tion made as to what was in the box. If hoped to pick up a steamer to take him is ehe could only be euro that whoever had the Europo. On the second day out wo mot the bonds would burn those hateful lettere, crowds of people tramping along -men, wo• it seemed to her that she should be perfectly men, and children -and the next day still happy, greater crowds. 1n reply to our itquirioe In all this, of oouraeeEdith Lane was quite we were told that they wore returninu from the great festival of Juggernaut held at Puri, now only some three days' journey from wrong ; but as the reader Will Bee, ehe was Egibh wae frightened, and said she did tato really from no fault of her own, Poor Antony Blake is the person who de- serves the most consideration and sympathy from the reader. He was most hospitably received by old Mende whom he had known at the Polytechnic Institute. He eaw all the marvels ot gas distribution, of glare staking, of ironfounding and, by Mr, Weet- ioghouee's kindness, he wee taken through the wonderful machine works from which that exquisite apparatno is produced which preaervee every year the lives of I dare not say how many thousand people in thie world. He saw some of the Tubal Caine whom he had gone to see, he showed to them the plans of hao machine, whioh were cordially commended. He had one end an- other suggestion made to him ae to the ways for putting it upon the market. Bat it was clear to him, as it had been in Tamworth, that the deotruotion of the poor ie their poverty and that he was in noway to get any decant return for the very exquisite ooutrivance which everybody admitted he had in hand, unless he himself could inveet $10,000 or $15;000 in the complicated mach- inery which was necessary for producing ib. • (TO an CONTINIIED.) nob know whine ale would keep the bonds, and she was afraid they might be stolen. "That," said her father, "is the second thing that you are to be taught. You will not keep these bonds; I do nob keep mine. I have brought these this morning from my own safe to give them to you. I have order• edthe carriage, and 1 am now going to take you down to what la known ae the Amicable Sole Company. I am going to hire a little sofa there in your name and you will keep your bonds in that safe. When you want to out off the coupons you will go down to the Amicable, you will have the safe opened and yon will cut off what you need." Thie frightened Edith more than ever. She almost Dried, Lie in her, distress she referred to an old joke of the family bor• rowed from " Georgia Sketches." 10 is the story of a young man whose father was urging him to marry and said to him, "Where would you be if I had not married?" The young fellow replied, between his sobs, "Yee, dad, but you married mother and I shall have to be put out to a strange gal." Edith said she did nob want to be put out to any Amicable Safe Company or any Waverley Bonk. She wanted her father to take care of her money and to give her what the wanted to spend. Bat he was perfectly firm : the carriage came to the door, and Edith had to go up to put on her hat and aacque and gloves to go down for her fireb lesson. What she was taught the reader already knows. She was taken through the gates, she wars introduced to the attentive warder, and she had anima ed to her one of the mealiest safes, exactly such a sate ae Antony Blake had, and as- it happened the number waa next to hie No. 4 928. The reader now has a partial notion of what miebake had occurred. In poinb of fact, about a month before Antony Blake had met his disappointment, it had been so ordered by those minor powers who, under orders, overrule this world, that he and Edith Lane went nearly ab the same time to the Amioable. Antony had gone simply to show himself, that he might keep up the reputation whioh he had acquired as a don among dons. Edith had gone, on her second visit, to out off some ooupone, whioh she had done e000esefully, and which she had oarried to deposit ab her bank. But it had so happened that when she brought book her little box. to piece it in her cafe, Antony Blake wee already in that corridor of the columborium and was opening his safe to put hie box away. The look made eomo little obstacle. and he had laid his box cm the floor that he might have both hands in handling the key. Bildt had to wait a moment for the operations to be Soiehed, and, ae it happened, she laid her box on the floor as she otood by him, being, in fact, if the reader Ie curious putting g o n her gloves at the same moment. Antony touched hie hat to her, stooped, picked up the box and pat it into hie own safe, without any thought that he had made a transfer. He passed out the door, saluted the warders and was gone. Eiith put the other box into her oafs, and as the reader sees, the change was completed without a thought from either party. It was not till Antony Blake was well in Pittsburg, dealing with the various sone of Tubal Cain, who make that city one of the rioheot and loveliest in the world, that Edith one day ordered the carriage, drove down to the Amicable, took out what she supposed to be her box and found in it Antony's Cabtaraugue and Opelousas bonds and his hundred dollars, Of course Edith know the had made a mistake. and she instantly supposed, as she usually did, that everything whioh was wrong was her own fault. This, thenwas the firet result of her father's training hor to bnsineoe-that the had lost all her own property and had stolen some other property of vastly more value, For the girl know nothing of the worbhleeeneseof the Cattar' august and Opelousas,• and it was easy for her to see that whereas she had left in her box only thirty or forty thousand dollars worth of beads, she had under her kande two hundred and fifty thousand dollars' worth of the second ieoue of that unfortunate road. She did not do what Antony did, however. She took the whole parcel, hundred dol lore and all, and put 11 (oto hor little ea chol. She pub book the box into hot tete, and as quickly as she oould escape the eye of the warders, ell of whom the thought looked on her with suspicion as if etc A Philanthropist's Fust Bargain. The late Mr. John Rylands, the Manches- ter cotton spinner, who bequeathed $25.000 to theBalla Independent College, would often humorously narrate the history of his first bargain. One day, soon after he had left school, in passing through a carnet of St. Helen's hie eye was caught by an auction• eer'e plaoard announcing the Bale of the etook•in•trade belonging to the father of one of hie school fellows. He went bo see what was going on ; and, as he had saved a little pocket money, he bid for one of the lots, a drawer full of trinkets, which was knooked down to him at a low price. These on reaching home, he found to ooneiet of differ- ent pieces of jewellery, much tarnished and corroded. Ha pulled them to pieces, clean- ed and polished them, and Bold them separ- ately realizing a, good probt. A former nurse of Mrs. Ryland's heard of the lad's successful purchase, and being herself with her family very handy at the loom, said to him, "Supposing, Master John, you spend this money in a little yarn, and lob ue weave it for you." Thie was done, the calicoes were returned "beautlfully woven," were soon sold, and all concerned made a hand- some profit. The process was repeated on a continually enlarged scale, for about two years, and the youth who was diligently helping his father, became already a minia- ture capitalist. At the expiration of this time hid oldest brother, Joseph, proposed to join him, and the two lade initiated business on their own account, John undertaking the poet of traveller. The father, himself a shrewd and capable man of baeineee, per. ooived what his Bone were doing on their own account, and proposed to join in partnerehip with them, contributing a larger capital than they could muster. Thee the well-known firm was originated. Women's Heads and Waists, The Venae de Modica's head measures around the temples 20ia inohee ; allow for the wavy hair a half inch and call it 20 inoh• ee. I make the wafer 27 inohee,but ae the figure ie bending slightly forward it may vary accordingly as the measure le applied. The nook is 13 inches, A lady friend was Fro kind as to measure several other ladies for my benefit, and I do nob find ouch a marked difference, The heads are generally larger and the waist smaller, it is true, but take one instance :-Head, 21a Mabee ; waist, 24jt inches; neck, 121 inches, A young girl of 16 measures 21a inclose head and 24b inches waist. Another lady mew orad just 20aa Meilen head. The meaearen were taken over the waist of the tunfo, Ono would suppose the measures would bo lose if taken after classical manner, bub by some mysterious dispensation of Providence aro waist of the moiern woman in aoknow• ledged to measure more when untrammeled. -Art Student Hard on Early Risers. Charles Hadley Warner was complaining to one neighbour of another neighbour's don• key, wbloh rote with bre lark, but was a poor musician, and woko hi it up at daylight, Well," said the friend, "why don't you rico at daylight, as 1 do 1 The donkey doesn't disturbo me." "We ace now," eald Mr. Warner, "what kind of people get up early were a detected tbiof already, elle ruched to in tho morning." ^,,•here Wei were. Tho imp 'Wallah kept tor interested with a graphio description of the festival and of the great god, which wan especially remarkable for the woodertul jewels it possessed -two emerald ayes of inestimable value, its lips formed of the finest rubies in the world, and a necklace of priceleoe pearls. The sun was oinking as we neared the town of Puri, and we could see the pinna - oleo of the temples rico above the trees whioh surrounded the plana. Half a mile the other nide of the town stood the Travellera' Bungalow, where we intended putting up for the night. Daring the last twenty-four hours my young companion bad kept oileooe, and waa moody and almost sullen whenever I tried to rouse him. A more uncomfort- able meal I never ate than the dinner which was served up to tie that evening, and I was quite thankful when the poor lad said he was dead beat and would go off to bed. My own room was on the other side of the bungalow, and I took my pipe and oat smoking on the veranda. The moon WAS just rising, when I thought I eaw the figure of a European stealing along the wall of the compound. Strange, I thought, and wondered what other European could be here at the same time. An idea struck me, and I went across to my companion's room. There was nobody In it; the bed was undisturbed, I throw down my pipe and rushed out into the moonlight. "A few second later I was out in the road, and turned inetinotively in the direction of the town. Running down the road, I noon oamo to a Bandy lane, which wenb outside the village walls in the direction of the temples, their pinnacles stand. lag out ulcer and distinct in the moon- ligh . In the dietetic° I thought I saw the figure of my poor lad, but soon the turnings] and twietings of the lane, with its thiole cactus hedges on eaoh side, abut him out from my view. In a few minutes I was close by the big temple compound. Running up to the wall I looked over, and this is what I eaw : An enormous courtyard of paved atone, on whioh were lying a number of priests, their white garments wrapped around their heads and bodies. In the back- ground was planed temple after temple, bub in the centre stood one solitary shrine raised on three separate flights of stops, and inside I could see the great black god raised on three other smaller flights of colored marble steps. The moonbeams shone directly on the god and lib up the emerald eyes and ruby lips, while the pearl necklace glowed on his huge black bosom. Not a sound was to be heard except come distant tom -touring. The festival was over and Puri bud lapsed into solemn silence. To my unutterable horror I saw my companion walking right emcee the courtyard. "Not a living creature moved, until a pariah dog rose up from near the wail, gave one bowl, and then stunk awry and crouch. ed down again. Still no one stirred. My tongue clove to the roof of my mouth, I dared not Flout even if I could have raised my voile. A ghastly horror tock bold of me ae the idea streak me that in his mad• noes my poor friend intended to move his honour in tho greater dishonor of robbing the idol Speer:Mesa I saw him mount step. after step, and the next moment I saw him enter the eaared ohrine and oroas the thresh• held whioh no other foot but that of the Brahmin has ever mooed. Nino steps led up to the god -one, two, three, four, five, Dix. He paused. I tried to shout, but no sound would come, He raised hie hand as if to tear off the pearl necklace. It was still above his reach, Hie foot then touched the seventh. Can I ever forget the sight P. In the moonlight flashed out two arms oovor- ed with a hundrod-nay, two hundred- daggers and clasped the daring youth to the blank god's breast, At the earner moment the sound of a gong broke, the Millirem of the night, and in one moment the priests had cast off their coverings and were rush, ing to the shrine. Two minutes later I eaw the ainazed, and horrified priests carrying, out the lifeless body of the diehonored Eng' nehmen, and I burned and lied," A Faded Flower. She-" Isn't Miss Amber a perfeob daisy Y" Mr, Jonathan Trump-" Yes, they're all daisies, but after a while they lose their petals in the game of ' love me, love inc not., ,i A Western paper heads an editorial, "Why Lynohioge Ooour." Wo know ; It's Laramie he fellow can't get away. IN %ABE1tLAND. Or. Wnneen'a Trio en. Snow.SI•es, Since Dr, Naneen'e return to Domnark he hao Added very interesting dobailo to the story of 11 trip emus Greenland whioh was briefly told in the letter he sent to Europe last fell. Tho fnob th01 1110 party, after leav- ing the ship within twelve miles of U,nivik, where they expected to begin choir land journey, drifted many mike south in the ice and wero over throe weeks reaohing,their destination on the coast, shows the immense. rl ifirulty of penetrating the too barrier that the prevailing winds kr pt constantly pecked against the eastern ahoros of Greenland. Some of the isolated natives, unaccustom- ed to the right of white men, rL1:i) In TERROR, though Cap. Helena sojourn among them during one winter should have taught them Letter. Probably no tribe were ever so thoroughly introduced to the public by means of the oatnora as these nativeo, or whom numerous photographs appear in Capt. Holm's recent book. The six men of the Nauoen expedition were a cpeahnal° worth seeing as they gained the lofty remark of the inland ice, all tied together with a rope, as tbough they were climbing the elattorhorn, It wee a wise pre- caution, for the mow concealed not a few gaping orovioee in the think ice, and now and then the fragile bridge gave way under eomo member oI tho party. It was hoevy sledging is the soft snow of the Arctic sum- mer, but tho party, on their enowehoes, dragging five little aledgco, made fifty miles in the first twelve days. They wore steadily olimbing toward the summit of GREENLAND'S ICE rLAIN, which, as we have learned within the pool few years, is higher than any other extensive plateau in the si orll except those of the Pamir and some parte of Tibet. The party ocoopied over two weeks in morning this almost Leval expense of ice, 0,000 feet above the sea, It woo now Sep• tember, and at the (marmots height of nearly 5,000 feet above the summit of Mount Washington, it is easy to understand that the Greenland tourists were impeded no longer by soft and yielding snow. The emperature, however, was seldom lower than 20 0 below zero, but many anow storms ant greet drifts impeded the pt•ogrese of the travellers. At Met they marched the eastern elope of the frozen no, and, tainting their sails, they foucd that much of the time it, was no longer neoeseary to haul on the sledge ropes, Often they travelled behind their sledges to hold then beck, and robticd down tho long slope ata splendid rate. Now and thou, however, they were face to face with 7'IIEtT ARTLINO DANGERS, MOST as onto, when they paused on the edge of„a great crevice which seemed like the mouth ot a bnttomlese abyss, They bail other narrow escapes, and once nearly loat their lives through the breaking of a snow bridge. Earlier travellers on the inland ice of Green- land have found that the need of making long detours to get around crevices was one of the greatest obctaoles in their way. Ab lash the fiords of the western coast wore reached. In forty days the little party had travelled 300 miles from sea to sea. We do not yet know what scientific value at- taches to this expedition ; bub it is likely to add interesting Leta to oar knowledge of this stupendous ice mass, which, moving very slowly towards the coasts, finds some outlet for its accumulations through the Horde. Contemplating this tremendous ice movement, it is cob drfffoulb to believe that we see in the Greenland of to -cloy the con- ditions that, in a past geological age, tore great boulders of trap from the Palisades,. and huge granite and more rook massae brow• far northern regions, and strewed thein along the shores of Long Island. Prfnoess of Wales. It takes the Prioress of Wales Ivo houro to dress every day. Deepite her increase in years, theta aro courtiers who declare that. she looks handsomer than when she first ar- rived in Eogland, and they take as the reas- on the fact that the style of dress suite her so much better than what is now considered. the dowdy dress of a quarter of a century. ago. Nobody knows where the Princess gets, her gowns from. It is generally supposed that her maid makes them from patterns. supplied. However, the Princess cannot pose as a leader of fashion, except to women. of o certain age. For instance, she cannot. wear the gaud o flower•crowned hate that are coming into season thisspriog, and yet these. hats will be what is known as " fashionable" nevertheless. Who makes those pretty: fringes? Some say that hor barber ahilte his lodgings every week. Obhere declare. that this hair•dreeeer supplies the material and that a maid makes in up. Really the Princess of Wales has very little hair` It amounts to nothing more than what women know as a " wiep." At Sandringham there is a room jest like a Luge hatter's shop. All arouud 11 are little receptacles, varied by pier glasses, and these recentaotes contain, the bate and bonnets of the Princess. When ale is at home she wears two or three differ- ent bats every day, but she always wears a bonnet when out visiting. Por a princes& her bonneha should nob be 000sidered extra- vagant. She generally gives about $7.50 for a hat or bonnet, not at all an extravagant. price. Olcl Bank Notes. The oldest bank notes are the " flying money," or convenient money," first Lotted in China 2097 B, C. Originally these notes. were issued by the 'Truantry, but experi- ence dictated a change to the banks under Government inepeotion and control. B, writer in a provincial paper saya that the early Chinese bola were in all eseeniiale, similar to the modern bank notes, bearing the name of the bank data of issue, the. number of the note, the signature of the tffaial boating it, indlcatione of its value in figurer, ire words, and in the pictorial representation in oome or heaps of eolne. equal in amount to its face value, and a notice of Oho pales and penalties of count- erfeiting. Over and above all was a lacon- ic exhortation of industry and thrifts "Produce all you can ; spend with econ- omy. The voters were printed in blue ink on paper mado from the fibre of the mut. berry tree. One keeled in 1339 B. C. is Atilt carefully preserved in the Matto Mue- eum ab St Petersburg. A Damper on Him. Julia (with a dreamy look in her wet - Can . you et--Can.you guess of what I am thinking,, George f George (taking her hand tenderly) -No, dearest Julia, but 0 hope it is of me. Well, partly ; but I was thinking of the. cozy little room wo w111 fix up for mother' after we return from our wedding trip, (George didn't look so pleated.) Some 3wits enencore aro plonningan Aerial railway by whioh they, propose to connect, two of the peaks of Mount Pilatue with wire ropes about 2,000 feet long, and to nand touriete from summit In care eliding along he wires, '