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The Brussels Post, 1889-10-25, Page 66 THE BRUSSELS POST OCT, 25, 188u. 3119..'t7WL6A 1.' '4M19A fY'JdiM�+t.++aR.TN�++^rJ ur•""i..7".S'L.teu": krt``•ar•m•. •' 7—A"'"" --R " !T4T.,wB:L-71"Y.Cyr' r'""""+"t7 at,''0,4 i r"-"1."'^•"zs, - •-"••r•J"Lt'`dT)I. 11 `111�1C1`1111.C1*�.0tes, i "Aly DearNephow," it ran -on I will tell et once) what gave mo .l I spoke of closi"Y ng np your business that sensation, and was also the = :attire auci Doming back among weans of eaviug my life. A prickly D4elboerne, Australis, is to have a temperance hospital. Of the English Bench of Bishops twelve are pledged abstainers. Nearly every Catholic priest in San Francisco is a total abstainer. The consumption of alcohol has doubled iu France between 1876 and 181;u. Intoxicating liquors in India aro called by the natives "Government abame-water," A deaf and dumb temperance league has been organized in Liver• pool, England. In 'Damascus the natives style drunken men as victims of the "English disease," Watermelons "stuffed" with champagne or Burgundy is a late Philadelphia notion, ,",ardinal Manning has written a letter warmly approving the Irish Suudayclosing Bill, Nearly 24000 English churches have adopted the use of unferment- ed wine at communions. The new Parliament of Victoria contains 06 members, of whom 60 are supporters of local option. A leading Ohmage brewer says : "My advice to any brewer is to sell. There is no telling where prohib- ition will end in this country." Experiment — A. Laboring man tries to support a family and a saloon at the same time. Result— the saloon gets the support, and the family gets—loft, The open barroom is the Whis- key Devil's strongest fortress. Dis- lodge him from that, and he will weaken everywhere. Converge your fire brethren. . The Organizer gives the follow- ing, as a good text for a prohibition speech : "Where twelve men made beer in the Wainer brewery, Law- rence, Kau., one hundred persons are busy making shoes." "What good has the liquor -seller done 2" asked a public speaker. "Can anybody think of one whom the liquor business has benefitted 2" The silence was broken by some one crying out "the grave digger." Nobody defends drunkenness, but many are defending the open bar• room which makes drunkards as surely as malaria makes sickness. A. Christian conscience ought to raise a mac above eueh folly—and it does. They have caught the St. Louis whiskey -dealer who has bean ship ping his fire -water to the Indian Territory marked "dry goods." The red men want him put where he can have time to study the differ- enoe between dry goods and wet goods. We concur. The evils of the liquor business are seen and acknowledged on every hand. The saloon=keeper himself acknowledges much that is charged. in the indictment against the traffic, and while he is unwilling tosur- render what he calls his "personal liberty," he submits to every legal restriction imposed upon him. He repudiates prohibition as degrading, and a species of legislation whereby he is outlawed ; bnt he seems never to think that he is tar more de- graded by the law which, for the protection of the country, is com- pelled to discriminate against him by placing burdens upon him, and throwing restriotione around him that ate inflicted on no other dealers in the country. ' The Real Jewel. Homeward bound 1 What a throb those two short words caused my heart to give 1 I bad seen America last when, twenty years ago, I had bade it farewell a lad of fifteen. It had been a splen- did opportunity that had opened be. fore me when Mr. Graham, the rich Calcutta merchant, had offered to take me with him upon my father's death, and to make my future his care. Mr. Graham bad been a friend of my father's from early youth. At the time of my parent's sudden death he was twitting at our house. I went with him when he retnried to his own /tome, and I have never had reason to regret the step. Like a father he loved and guided me, and I responded with all of a son's affection, and when he died I was left sole heir to his large for- tune. Thus, at the age of thirty-five I was independent as regards for- tune's favors, but on the other hand, poorer than the poorest, in in that bad no end to love or to be loved by, and no home to which to turn when the shadows draw in your ownyoouutrymen. 1 Basten tothorn. bosh grew on Ibe edge of - the write, so as to fore -stall any other i ravine, and into its branches I had plan that may bo 'in your mind. , fallen, to bo hold there so tenacious. Your father was my favorite broth- I ly that when help arrived my clobb- er. Had I possessed the requisite' es had to be out piecemeal to dison- means, I should not have allowed gage me. his sou to go among strangers and At the iiret alarm Gertrude, after I now feel that, in offering to you a giving utterance to the ehrielce I had home in my household, yon will heard, had swooned. It had been not for en instant, deem me admit. Hope's swift feet that had hastened ed by any but the moat disinterest- for aid and brought it, ed sentiments. Your aunt and eon During the descent my head had sins unite in my invitation. So, my struok upon a rook, and the blow dear Richard, when the steamer added to the shook which my nerves lands you in New York, do not re• bad sustained, had produced con. main there a moment longer than oussion of the brain. is necessary, but check your I had been unconscious for some baggage and take a train at once days, when one morning 1 knew for the direction which you will for tbeifirst time what was passing read below. Come with the full around me, I could dietinguieh expectation of an ardent welcome, soft voices that were familiar. It will be the next best thing to I tried to open my eyes and to seeing Walter, my dear, lost speak, but in vain. A. weight, as of brother, himself, to clasp his son in lead, pressed down my lids and tied my arms," my tongue. Then followed several instructions But I could hear, at first faintly, and an address. then distinctly. As I closed the leiter, a mist 'Isu't it very strange, Gertie, how dimmed my eyes for a momout. certain misfortunes are to come to• Each word breathed the .genuine- gether 2 Only to think of the bank nese of the writer, and the voice of in Calcutta failing, and of Cousin affection was ever quick to reach Richard losing his fortune, while he my heart. is lying here sick and unconscious,!' It was evening when I arrived. 'It is more lieagreeable_ than My uncle met me at the station, strange, l think,' Gertrude's voice and after a brief drive through a answered, 'for from a great catch lovely country, whose beauties the he has become a pauper. I must silvery light of the moon magnified, say it's disappointing enough. 1 1 was introduced into what seemed know he loves me devotedly, Hope, to me a terrestrial paradise. and I had almost grown to like lam Mrs. Dean, my uncle's wife, was as well, but now of course, when he a gentle -faced, matronly woman, gets better, I shall have to put him and her welcome was as fervent as at once in his true place.' her husband's: 'Gertie I Gertie I don't make There were two daughters iu the yourself out so heartless and mer - family group. The eldest was canary ! Hope cried, her childish beautiful. I had dreamed of such voice grieved and pleading. 'Say loveliness, but had never before you are only jesting I Please do ! seen it realized. She was tall and You don't really mean that, while a slender, with a purely pale oom. man is rich, you can give him your plexion, and eyes whose lustrous heart only to bake ib away again midnight splendor absolutely made when trouble comes to him I' me start when the white lids would' 'Tbat'e just it, Mise Hope ; and be languidly raised. when you've seen a few more years Her sister was fair, too, but very of life, and learned liow nice money different, with a round, girlish face. is, you will abandon your high- lier eyes were blue and placid. minded attitude and learn to look Her hair fell in long braids below out yourself for number ons.' her waist, adding to her childish I abuddered through all nay appearance. She was sitting close feebleness as I 'listened. Could by her mother's side, with her hand such sordid, wicked wards be issuing stroking hers softly from time to from the beautiful -mouth of her time. whom I had deemed my ideal 'A pretty little thing, but not to woman 2 compare to:Gertrude,' I said to my- There was a rustle • of drapery, self ; and that .+ opinion passing and Gertrude rose from her chair weeks served to strengthen. I saw by the window. but little of Hope, who was her 'I'm going now, Hope, , for I nee mother's right hand in household mamma coming up the path. She matters. Gertrude was accomplish• will relieve you in a few minutes, ed as well as beautiful, and the and 1 want to practice a little.' hours spear in the parlor, with her Owning to my bedside, she pans - sweet voioe singing to me the bal- ed a moment. Lads I admired, I cameo to regard as 'Poor Dick,lbow pale he • looks!' the happiest of my Life. The Hope said, softly. monehs slipped by on rapid wings. 'He looks more yellow than pale,' Summer had come, and our cm- her sister answered. 'But here eupations were varied now by fre- Domes mamma.' quant excursions into the woods to The door that opened to admit obtain the wild flowers which little Mrs. Dean's motherly form olo sed Hope's nimble fingers fashioned in- upon Gertrude. to such. shapes of beauty for the 'You need the fresh air too, H ope. adornment of :home. One after- Run away, dear, into the garden. noon we three started for a long I'll take care of Cousin .Dick. The stroll. As we walked along the doctor will be hers soon. I think side of a small ravine, at whose foot he will see improvement.' a tiny stream purled, Gertrude ex- 'Do you mamma 2 He looks very claimed : ill'to me,' said Hope's voice above 'See down there at the ledge I my pillow. Cousin, Dick, won't yon get gentians 'Do you really think he will get for me 2 Why they are too lovely. better, mamma'?' I must have them to paint." A tear fell upon my forehead. Coming to her side I glanced 'To be sure, I do. My child, down and hesitated. I was no your heart is too sensitive for coward, but the descent was' preeip- the others' trouble. You are grow- itons, and the rocks beneath did ing to look like a shadow yourself. not have a pleasant look. Run out into the garden this mo. But I did not like to refuse Ger• meant, or the doctor will have two trade anything. Though no words 'I patients instead of one,' of love had passed between uta, it So this was the nature I had had grown to be a settled purpose deemed inferior to the other ! I had with me that, if it were possible, I neglected the fragrant violet while would win her affeotion. So my . stretching my hand • to . reaoh the hesitation was brief: more flaunting rose, and in doing Throwing bff my coat, I prepared so had diecovere3—thank fortune, for the descent. Juet then a hand in time I—the thorn. grasped my 'arm. It was little Several weeks passed, during Hope, who lingering behind for which I gained strength slowly. some floral treasure she had covet- The girls were frequently with me, ed, had just rejoined us. but it was not Gertrude's haughty 'Surely, Cousin Dick, you cannot beauty that riveted mytaeoinated be intending to climb down there 2 attention, as of old ; hut sweet, Why Ethan Bell lost his life there dove -like faoe of her younger sister. last Summer. He was trying to' I knew her now, and recognized get some of those very flowers and beneath the unaffected, childish ex- lost bis footing.' terior the. noble, womanly character. 'Gertrude wants some, and if Gertrude did not experience the possible I am going to gratify her, trouble she had anticipated in put - I replied, ting me in my 'true place,' for it Hope turned a face of grave in was Hope now to whom my con• dignation upon her sister, as I ba versation was directed, and whose gen my dthem goodwill I strove with all my I kavaa diem I I cried, a few powers tb gain. At length I had momenta later ; and those were the the satisfaction of knowing that my last words uttered by me for many efforts were nob futile. and other men's lights shine oat days. As I spoke the stone upon their greetings through too dark- which my feat rested rolled, and nese., 1 grasping ineffectually at the bushes, The project of returning to my I felt myself slipping dow the steep native country, and of recalling my decline. I heard shrieks and ex - self to the memories of the few re, cited exelamatione ; _theta I was latives I had there had already be• eonseious of a sudden arresting gun to form in my mind, when a medium, and of a sensation all over letter, which I received in answer my fncl!and hands of intolerable to one of my own, decided my I pricking and smarting ; then I course. knew rlo more. 'But I thought it was Gertrude you cared for, Dick,' she said to me, after, with all the eloquence I could master, I had told her one day what she had grown to be, to me. 'I admired Gertrude—I love you. Hope are yon sure, now that my &thine is gone, that you care .for mo enough to become a poor man's wife 2, A proud flush crossed the sweet son -!Live face, 'Ne girl could be poor whom you love,' -be answered. Aly uncle and aunt were truly fond of lne, and made no demur when they learned the state of affairs, I have forgotten to any that both Gertrude and IIope were children of Alre, Dean's first mar- riage, so that no objections oould he mead on the point of relation- ship. Our marriage was to take place in a year's time. The days rolled by until a month before the blissful event, One day uncle came into the library with a piece of intelligence. 'Merlowoocl,' a magnificent place that had for a long time been un• teranted, had been purchased by a gentleman who was soon to bring there a bride, 'Oh,' exclaimed Gertrude, 'what a prospect for a bride 1 Merlewood is a fitting abode for royalty itself. I wonder if she is pretty, and if she appreciates her good fortune.' 'I can answer the first,' I inter- rupted, smilingly, as I took Hope's tiny hand in mine. 'She is very, very pretty, and better she ie good. As to the last, I do not believe she appreciates what you call her 'good fortune' as yet, for she does not know of it. She still thinks that her betrothed is a poor man, not realizing that a part of a fortune may be lost through the failure of one bank, while the greater bulk may remain unharmed in another.' Rising, I led my wondering Hope, to her parents. 'Uncle, Aunt and Cousin Ger. trude,'I said, 'allow me to present to you the future mistress of Mer- lewood.' Of course the questione then Dame fast and there was some little excitement, not unmtngled with chidings directed at myself. In the midst of it all, with a mix- ture of expressions upon her usually calm face, among which surprise and chagrin were foremost, Ger- trude took her departure from the room. And so I won my wife, my jewel, and my Hope, the anchor which will hold me fast no matter how many may be the temptations and trials which the coming years may hold. ld1 •11s/PON Y TO LOAN - P. 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