The Brussels Post, 1890-4-4, Page 22
St. Mary of the Angels
OR, IIIS FIRST AND LAST:LW E,
BY 'THOMAS A, J AIMEE.
THE BRUSSELS POST:
APRIL 4, 1890.
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neittee right tint now, tut's:it that grave. ,
ENTOMBED IN A ORATBR. Wed: after his first wife died, mut on dem.
_ _ IIATE BRITISH NEWS
yard linsiness settleil wait for Idle" 1 . wsy from the Registrar's :ghee the issipb.
..._ _ . moli of sev,nd hiliiiii.eil persons, \rho at last
The Bun -Dance of -the BiotlX. 1 A party who bane been exploring the nee to tho house of IL relatiVe, 'while the
betanst se turbulent I hid the bride :1 to
critter ot, lova beds shoat i trinity miles south- AliitelSed by it 311114)b,
Lieut. SchWiltha contributes to, and viva.
CHAInffER IV. orw Remington graphically illustrates Iti, , , ,
there such a thing, as one single honorable tho Morel, Century 0 eurions elistolli ,.f We
, Volleo ;or toe ,rit,o,11,11ess of t he story i•elitt.
Hardy's nature never eaut been a gentle Man in. the web! 'f' Then the heroie tones sioux. From this article we quote the 10- ed by J. A, lit•elon and 14,, W. London,
1,y ...m. seen nothing died out of her voice, and her comituding lowing ; :: when ail had assembled and the These two gentlemen slated that on their
ono, and there eertaii 1 h 1 i
softening in the experiences which had conie pose ,..banged to it 1:sik of fear and weakness, nie,iieine-men had set the date for the begin- way to the Mithatis they inis, a siexican who
to lihn during his three years of life on the .• 0h, John, John !" She Pahl, " I thought niug ,,I. the grrat, donee dediented to the SIIII V01111100%81 for a few dollars to go and show
frontier ; being now stirred to its very depths, that you really would help me. I never the i sampele ' wafi kleleCted, A bonhomie' gt .1 1 ie. , Tr a .1‘ V 1: lal itnlgi o t I', ,7,‘IVAI II, Tiit,L,1Te';,apt:::,.titAinit as
it Luning passion had been aroused in him, thouglft of anything like this," 811e Sank yonng pine or fir, forty tir 'iffy feet high,
in which every turbulent element in his be. down on the stone again, and buried her with the straightest mid most uniforml • and shun the vicinity of the lava beds, but
Al-
ing Was involved. As he strode Istekward face hi her Munk m0 began to cry. , this man agreed to go, He piloted the Al -
tapering trunk that einild he found within
t. I ' .
and forward through the length of the t wo Hardy felt, and looked it little, like a dog a ressonable dIstance, Wilki C.1.10$011, 'I he thl!oughl ontoits' to ow /loot, of „idol, „ wiir,„
, .sinall rooms, he :dosed and opened his hands, that had received a deserved beating. selection is always maths by some old wouna ,
Jut breath came hot and short, his styes shone Alitry's piteous appeal. even more than her generally theoldest ' t1 • u 1 'fti 1,' vapor ascended, Viewing the surroundings A medal has been strut* in minnow:v.
dangerously, on his nom WNS N I ha.k dash, s- -- s - (0" 111 2e " "' 1 '` in a em secom s t le 1 len ll el Still 1 • i I , athan 4 the fiftieth luiniversary in England
is nny way id determining, who leads a mum ' . i* " ') of penny postage.
low rumbling sound like distant thunder
He remembered the touch ef Mitry's hand on ber of mitidens.gaily dressed in the beautiful ani the lava -beneath' theft. feet trembled, '
happened to come into tho station just them The Alexi:mu fled immediittely I II
.o _to open There sr • • • • l' r t th • • 1. • . -
e nom, it: con ins 0 encm : lice
his ,shoulder that no wiling. ilint Harwood beaded 11110skill goWnS they wear cm State •
°evasions 1 the ran a ow maidens is to strip tory just issued, 2,234 newspapers published
the tree of its limbs as high ess possible with- .i,u the United Kingdom, of which 185 are
he certainly would hare shot Will on sight. air, but. before the gentlemen could realize
.At last the Lim :d waiting msts end. out felling iL 'Woe to the girt who claims it a portion of the bottom of the cave fell, "mu".
ea his watch to his pocket -during the Neither Was injfired, hilt the ground upon By the new rules just issued, no one who
ed. Hardy shivered it little as he return. mid they with it, into intense darkness,
to be a midden, and joins the procession the
ohl squaw forms, agitiust whose elabas any owns to move than twenty.three yeers is
reputable wasrior or SqllaW mity publicly eligible to admission im a student of the
final minutes he had held it in his hand- wide]: they fell seemed to sway to and fro,
proclaim. Her punishment is swift told Royal Academy sehools,
and went out into the quivering heat. In all Fortunately one of the party had a candle
the thne that he had known her, in the old and smile matches, niul alter innumerable English anti-vieisectionists are inteimsted
sm•e, and her degradation more cruel than in -
days, he hail not even kissed her, he thought, turesting. attempts to light it the inutile was made in an advertisement. I I 1 " live lish, dressed
ne he walked Wong. '"The selection of the tree is the only rely for cooking " that has appeared in ono
to burn.
A little below the point et width the rail- special feature of the first day's eelebration. When light was obtained a lake iif water,
. road crossed it, the river bent sharply, imil of the religious weeklies.
After It has been stripped oi its branches black as pitch, lay at thoh• feet, while the An attempt is being made to resuscitate
heyond this turn was the bluff on whieli nearly to the top, the la•usliwooil and trees opposite shore appeared to be moving the Thames River professional rowdies,
stood the town. Hardy walked toward the for a considerable distance about it are re. from right to left, It seemed. that they which were ithitncloned in 1875. Competition
railrosd bridge, bet on the side id the em- moved, and it is left standing for ,the cere- hail lamled on a floating island or a is to bo limited to the Kingdom.
.
"ba..niranent farthest from tho engine -house
and tank. In ease any wakeful person
chanced to see hint the natural inferenee
would be that he was on his way to join
Boxwood at the pump -the steady beating
s of which sounded regularly through the hot
air. A footpath, the shortest way between
Barwood"s house and the pump, ran along
the valley, parallel with the stream, through
thiekets of flimsies and mesquite, and follow.
Ing this, Hardy mine ili a few minutes to the
epot where he had bidden Mary meet him.
Bhe wits witither for him in the path. As he
caught sight enter --a look of eagerness on
Iter face as she heard the sound of his foot -
stein: the sunlight sparkling. in her hair,
her rotuul white arm showing, as she
shaded her eyes from the sum -his
heart gave a bound. lk did not trust him-
self to speak. For a moment a dizziness came
over hint and be put his hand to his forehead
as though in pain.
Notamlied. by the near -by water, the mes-
quite bushes hereabouts were grown to be
little tt•ees, which formed a Lomve, sereenint,
the face nf the mar, A faintly marked path',
worn by the goats, led crookedly through
this grove to a narrow open space, above
which rose the bluff, trending outward. He
drew her along this path, and seated her on
a f-alleu stone in the SlindoWy nook formed
by the rooky overhang. Here they were
hidden completely: but above the bushes
they could see ill»vn the valley, and out
across the .great sun -beaten plain, that far
away rose In long.slopes to the flanks of tha
gray -blue monntams which girded it in. A
slow current of 1111Z -dry, hot, stimulating -
set up the valley. The only sound that
broke the almost palpable stillness was the
low throlihingof the pump, To themboth this
smut brought bash vividly the memory of
that Sunday afternoon in the Wyoming -Val-
ley, three years before.
• _Hardy seated himself beside her and drew
ler toward him.
"Oh, John-youinustlet," she said, speak-
ing in it, low, frightened voice. 13.ft a
made no effort to loose herself from his grasp.
He did not answer, but he settled her
head against his shoehler and drew her still
snore elosely to hint The flush on his face
had deepened.
Suddenlyshe gave a short, gnick sob, and
her head drooped fot•ward until it rested on
his breast. Then she bsgan to cry, softly,
aS a child cries while being comforted.
"It all has been so dreadful," she moaned.
"Your -your curse came true, John,"
He dicluot answer for a moment, but his
arm clasped her less closely and more telt-
. derly, while the flush cm his face slowly faded
and left him very pale.
"My poor little girl," he said. "Tell me
on that lias happened. I can help you, you
know ; and I mean to do it."
And then slowly, bit by bit, she told him
Ile same story that Harwood had told him --
but fx•om the point of -VieW not of the
wrong- doer, but of the wronged. It did
not seem to occur to her that she had
in anywise contriblited to her own sorrow ;
mid, withont the mitigatingfaets of her own
moodiness and coldness, the ease that she
snade out against Harwood was a Meek one
'indeed.
"And it is worse here in Santo, Merin
than it has been W itil, John," she went on.
"Will was wild and cruel, and ,got drunk
inthose other places; but here Ile is mixed 1111
with these dreadful Mexicans in ttll sin.ts of
wicked things which make me shiver to,
-think about. 'flame is smuggling going im
all the time, and they all are robbers, awl I
know that he was with them when that
s•anch was raided and those poor mon wore
'killed." Mary shuddered violently. "011,
, it is horrible, horrible 1"
"And this Mexican woman?"
Mary's face grew crimson, and then pale.
' She tried to draw away froin him, trembling.
Then in a, voice scarcely above a svhisper,
she said, "That -that is the very worst of
all."
For a little time they both were silent.
The flush had come back to Hardy'sface and
his hold upon her hail tightened, She °Dula
feel the strong beating of his heart. His
voice was unsteady, and. had a strange sound
in it when ho spoke.
"Mary, will you let me talk you out of all
this?"
"What do you mean?" she asked., in a
troubled, frightened tone.
"I mean, tvill you come away with mo
from this brute and let Ine take care of you?
, Don't push me away. Don't answer yet" -
he held. her closely, and spoke rapidly in or.
der to cheek her rising words, "You know
how I loved you ill the old Mines, Mary,
Yott were everything in life to me. And
now I love you more, greatly more, than
even I did tthen. This man has no right
to yeti; he has thrown away ids right to
you -he has thrown it away, I tell. you i
Think of what his lifo line '130011 -of what
it. is now -of the insult he has put 'upon
you here in your own home. He has no
right to you. Mary, And I have a right
to yon because I love you Ro. I will take
• such good care of yott, Mary ; I will spend
all my life in making you happy onoe
.• more -in trying to inake you 'forget how
. unhappy you have beets Don't -don't
Sro coxseneit) Slory"rolil by 0 Pally or were polled With 'lee Ilour, inal peas by a
IINVIerere 10 New Illex1eo.
11011e0 leek :are a ow ad inan,
. _
\Il 1 .1 A DUBIOUS INVENTION BY A A young physician attaelied to the Chelsea
OLEVEE DOCTOR. 1 lc:spit:11 for Women lins invented lost used,
it Said Willi success, it machine Id: h1i, itt
eases of cancer, relit alive!. eurrent of elm:.
SMall-pox in daloutta, trieity against it diseased cell strong enough
te destriir it mid the same tine. will not,
t•IsEATI.Mx 'ens; EN441.18ix laanstoAliS, injure a withily cell. Those that
strop(' are solilfto turnint o a ha sd slits; t anee,
that 11.11110M without causing the patient any
00141 Ina the 1,1veraeoll 110 hs.
dh ub Roy, a wealthy Indian
gentleman, has been upset in the Calcutta
musts, because, having lost the use of hit
hands, he requested a friend to sign it for
him in his presenee, :tad the h being
unable to write, used it meek. lf Slit:huh
Boy hail made a mark himself, or if the
friend had signed instead of marking it
would have been 01 right, but the Indian
law does not reeognisai a. :nark by a substi-
tute.
Charles John Clay, an English ortolan,
after a good record of fourteen years, has
just been sent to prison for stealing two
oranges, worth one penny, from some goods
he . wits carting for a large firm of ism
makers 'The Court solemnly announced
that the gravity of the offence did not 110 in
the value of the goods but in the breiti•li of
trust toward an employer. The English
'Home Nike has reduced his senteneo by
one.half.
English rose growers tire using blood.
Illainire for their vines with much sueeess,
it is said. They take sixteen pounds of
blood, and as soon as it begins to petrify
pour into it four ounces of muriatic acid and
,four ounces cif proto-sulphate of previ-
ously mixed, whioll turns the blood into a
dark,, dry powder that will keep for any
length of Onto. A half pound of this is
mixed with the soil over the roots of each
roso bush.
The ladles of Calcutta are ill despair over
an outbreak of small:pox just at the height
of the social season in the part of the city
inhabited by the Dorsi caste, who do all the
tailor work for the English residents.
Every person in the costume of that caste
who ventures out of his own section of the
city 18 tamed book at once by the police,
and the ladies can neither get their gowns
that are being maile nor send new ones to be
made. Tailot•-made gowns are 01 the rage,
1, 0.
It is said that the English Government
will, at the beginning of the next finamial
year, enter two thensitiel boys ns appren lice8
in the MtVy, and it is suggested that five
hundred id these be set to work in the stoke
Mile, engineers in the navy now complainieg
that it is almost impossible to get nood
firemen ou nian of war. In the Iti7lian
navy is steamer is kept constantly in corn -
mission for the sole purpose of training
stokers before they are put upon the regular
vessels of the navy.
Al the Dublin C'ity Sessions recently a
rinse called its a juror presented what he said
WaS a doctor's certificate of his inability to
nerve. The court read the certilicide ulotul
as follows ; " This man hits been asking for
a certificate that he is Unable to serve as a
juror. I don't know whether he is it knave
or 0 fool, but he Inas very little brains and
reeks of porter," 'The juror, upon declaring
that ho had no idea what was in the certili-
oath when Ite handed it in, wits relieved from
nail:lige of contempt of court.
The question of whether or not it is cruel
to dishorn cows is now before the Sleotell
courts, the defence being that it is necessary
to cut off the horns of Irish and Canadian
cattle to keep them fi•ont goring each other
in the feeding courts used in Scotland during
the winter. Ono witness tostitied that ex-
perience host converted him to favor die -
horning, and that he now practises it with
minds Guernsey cows, who seem to suffer
little pain from the operation and the quality
of whose milk is not affeeted by it. The
English courts have held that the practice
was a cruel one.
Tho groat Alsopp brewing establishment
in England was two or three yerors ago turn-
ed ,into a stock company and capitalised
for 515,000,000, that sum being paid to the
Alsopp family for the property, the books
of the concern showing a twelve per cent.
profit on that sent Now the dividends
have fallen to flyover cent. and threaten to
go lower, and 11 (8 intimateA that the Alsopp
family were disingenuous with the stock-
holders. The only explanation yet made by
the representatives of the Inanity lap the
blame for the falling off of the m•ofits upon
O had consignment of barley, which turned
out unsound beer, and entailed a loss of
$200,000.
New Zealand three years ago intssed it las&
under which first offenders might be released
upon probation instead of being imprionned.
The official returnsfor thetimt year show that
out of 121 persons so released 58 hail so well
conducted themselves as to be relieved from
farther supervision', 53 were still undergoing
supervision, nine had failed to satisfy the
conditions and were imprisoned, anti one
only had escaped from the knowledge of the
authorities. The expenses of the systhm, so
for as these offendei.s was concerned, was
oniy one-tenth that of keeping them in
prison, Queensland has already passed a
aet, and New South Wales and Vie.
toria are expected to do so.
At 00 Woking (England) oretnntoi7, the
number of erenlatiell8 18 Steadily increasing.
In three yeses, from 1884 to 1887, the osmual
IlVerage Wall eight, In 1888 there were 26.
In 1889 the number increased to 46, the total
number at the ond of the year having been
exactly 100, This year there have been
several every week. In France, at the now
crematory in Paris, thot•e wore 35 ordinary
cremations in 1889, but Oto nuinber of still-
born ohildeen and the bodies from the hospi-
tals and anatomical schools is so largo that
incineration is continually going on both
light and clay. The Journal (V.Ilvoiessisays
that the total numbers were 111) 1,11886, 155
in 1888, and 202 in 1888, At .Milau and
other Italian twits the numbers aro Mamas -
Mg, as also in Germany,
nelignain motest, hitil made him rt•alize how
bitterly ernel he bail boon I how, if lw had
deliberately sct himself to Make the herror
of her life greater he could not have done it
more effeetually. Of eourse she would inn,
t rust him any more ; Ile conlil not blame her ;
IUD! so 101 1)111110Se hellest and 11111/11y
pUrpose now- -to help lwr you'll do no good.
For a lung mitile he stood in silence, looking
away from her out over the plain, chewing
the end of most bitter thoughts.
At last Mary spoke : " John, tell nie
that yoU didn't Mean it. Fin 5015 011 didn't,
P111 so very. very unhappy, John. And un-
less you lap me I don't see any hope at all.
Tell me that you didu't Mean it, John,"
There was an infinite pathos in her wands ;
a des/01.111g pathos -for that:she still should
limiest to him for help show:snow 4lesperato
her plight must be. But for him there was
comfort in this appeal, since it made clear the
way for his atonement. " I can tell you from
the very :rose of 015 heart that I don't Mean it
now, .Mary," he said, "Please Clod, I really
will be an honest friend to you now, ond
m•ill get you out of this honestly, and home
sufely th the :States. I guess I must have
been erazy, .Mary ; but l'm not crazy any
longer, and you can trust Inc right straight
through."
Mary looked up at him gladly. "Those
are the best words I've heard in three years,"
she said. "Olt, John, you nearly killed me
a little while ago ; but you must have been
crazy, just as you said ; and now Amu are
giving me hope that is svorth living for.
Somehow, almw as I've been, I haven't had
the strength to try to break away and get
home. I've been afraid. I guess I haven't
nitwit of what they call backbone. But I
have your strength now, john, and things
will all come right, I'm sure. You'll get 7110
hunic safe, won t you, John '1"
She came close to him, eagerly, and took
his hand. As a father might have done, Ito
put his arm around her and drew her head
upon his breast.
'But you must be very careful, John,'
she went on, "Will is such a masterful sort
of a man I If he finds out anything I know
that he'll kill us"
Hardy smiled confidently. "I guess if
there's any killing going around I won't get
left," he said. "I don't stunt to kill your
husband, of course, but if it's got to be done
I'll do it all the same."
"But maybe not while he'sgot the drop on
you!"
Hardy turned quickly. Barwood was
standing in the path not ten feet away,
holding aside the mesquite branches with
Itis left hand, while in his right hand, lev-
eled at Hardy's head was it cocked revol
ver.
"It may be yous• ante; out I've got the
cards " he said. coolly.
ilah Hardy been a tenderfoot ho would
havemaile an effort to draw his pistol -and
would have been shot instantly. Having
hail the benefit of three years' experience of
Southwestern monsters and customs, lie stood
perfectly still and awaited clevelopments,
Mary had screamed when she heard her
husband's voice aud SELW him standing before
her, grimly threatening ; and then she had
sunk cowering down, with her face bent close
to her knees, and her hands pressed tightly
to her ears to deaden the sound of the pistol.
shot. To her surprise, this sound 101 not
come, Slosely she raised her head.
"Now,. Mr. Hardy," Harwood said, “if
you'll give me your word of honor that
you'll bo on the square, as I prondse 3,00 I'll
be with you, we svon't have any shootin'
just at present. Is it a go ?"
"Yes," Hardy answered.
"No monkey tricks, on your word of
honor ?" Harwood said, letting his revolver
fall slowly.
'On my word of honor. '
"All right, then. Maybe oneMf us'll have'
t' be used. as th' liegiunin' of an American
graveyard in these parts before wo get
through with each other, lnittld permission
needn't start just yet. Here, you fool Mary,
go back t' house."
Hardy quivered as this ordtr was given,
but Mary-- used to orders thus tersely word-
ed -rose quietly to obey it. She stood for a
moment looking at the two men as they
confronted each other.
"Oh, m•Itat have I dono, ulna have I
done," she moaned, "that I should be the
cantle of such dreadful things?"
'•What have you done •:" Ilmwood answer-
ed, " \Veil, T'll tell you what you've done.
From first t' last 01 WI you've had t' say or
10 with me an' Hardy here, you've made
aol everlitstin' infernal fool of yourself an'
of lie 00. Fled of 01, you said you'd
marry me ; ttn' I weift off in good faith
t' make it comfortable home for you, An'
then what did you do? Why, you coax-
ed liardy along into m love with
you 1 An' then, instead of shaltin' me
and mareyin' him -width would 'a' been
tough on me but at least would 'a' had
sense in th' fool that you are you
shook him an' married. ins! An' then,
when you'd made my life so 1- - a mean 1'
me Oust I took t' knockin' around with th'
boys, just t' try t' forget how inis'rable I
was, up you goes on your ear all' 81558 that.
I 'In a drunken brute, an' that •on Wall it -- .0 tits onstottt
inartye 1 An now, after you've .ieen rowin'
me off an' on for six months an' 111000)70011Se vary hot, A child, too cried violently, and
exclaiming that it was "bursa gurrams__ the garrison batteries about 1510. The
Army Service Crisps has 1 300 horses, in many Londoe parishes 101 1110 Poor Beards
ti --1" to povido able.bodied paupers with brooms
I've got it Mexican lady friend who's not all ,told his mamma that tile "glass had burnt his
lingers Royal Engineers 400, and the infantry bat.
t r -0 nnt assign them to sweep certain csossings,
making them suppsrt themselves from what
It Was not a little surprising, an several in India absorb 4300 of the 11,800, and of
occasions, to see t.11(1 ice broug,ht to the table the remainder all are iii the British Islands they can get in tins way, and thus reducing
the workhouse expenses proportionately,
goonopitontake"ynottina°44;1?"13-onlvtli;otal e 1,1-
. stand that 51000 you -that I must in:Nom?
Don't you-. -"
. She broke away from Min and sprang to
her feet. She was Inc from being it majestic
Svcenon under ordinary eiretimstanees, but
there cortaiely was an air of Majesty about
her now. Hardy stood up, facing Tier.
"How dare you?" she panted. "Be.'
muse my husband ls-beeauso my husband,
has hurt n10 so, is that any reason why you
should hurt me still more? You aro as bed
*a he 1e. Yon. are Worse than he is, isn't
mony of the second day. huge inass of lava which has probably
" Long before sunrise the eager partici. been eddying around ill this strange
pants in the next great stop were preparing whirlpool for centuries, The Mexican
thetuseh•es for the ordeal ; and a quarter Of soon returned to the mouth of the cave, tmd,
an hour before the sun rose above the broken lowering lariats, by the aid of their horses
hills of white clay a long line cif naked young pulled the imprisoned explorers out of their
warriors, in gorgeous waispoint and feathers, lmndage and to the surfave once more. An.
with rifles, bows and arrows, ;Ind war -lances other party is being organized „and will
in hand, faced the cast and the sumpolo visit the crater,
which was from live to six Mulched yards
away. Ordinarily this group cif warriors
Wreckers of Belle Isle.
numbers from fifty to possibly two hundred
men. An interpreter near me estimated the , admit nomeommissioned officers in uniform
The report of the minister ot marine and to those parte a the house where full dress
line I behold as from a thous:mil to twelve
fisheries, which was laid before Parliament is required,
hundred groins Not far away, On a high
at Ottawa on the 2210 inst., contains NM ex-
traordinary story, which indicates that the An enormous growth of ivy has partially,
hill overlooking the barbarie scene, was WI
wrecker still exists and plies. his canto destroyed the wall of Christ Church, Water.
old svai•rior, a medicine -man 0 the tril e, I
think, whose solemn duty it was to announce g loo and a few dnys ago brou :Id it section of
According to it high authority in the
English navy, the decision has been made
that masts and spars are hereafter to be
banished from au lighting vessels.
An Englishman has invented a desk for
the use of persons travelling, tho table of'
which is fixed in such a way that it remains
steady in. spite of the swaying of the boat or
train. -
The 1?aiglish army is in a state of disenn-
tent because some London theatres refuse to
by a shout that could be heard by every one
In the fall of last year the steamship Mon-
atoitg 110 51101',, 01 lit8 311t0 01 00, ,
of the expectant throng the exact moment
timid went ashore on the desolate rocks of
when the tip of the morning sun appeared
Belle Isle. H. M. 8. Emerahl come along,
above the eastern hills. Perfect quiet rest- and the reply of the master in the Montreal
ed upon the lino of rotulg warriors and urn
led the captain of the Emerald to believe
the great throng ot savage spectathrs t at
blacked the green hills overlooking the „.,th„a,tt,oheicsi saewr,‘,,.y".'" "'I' not- required, and 110
This is what happened atm
arena. Suddenly the Wil warrior,. who had `'''''`
been kneeling en one knee, with Ms extend- he went away, and led to the master of the
Montreal complaining of the desertion,
ed palm shading his scraggy eyehrsws, The following; day some wreckers boarded
arose to his full height, and ni a slow, &iglu -
the vessel and plundered her. Later en they
tied manner waved his ldauketed arm above
,, came into the cove with their schooners and
Itis head. The few mrartiors who wore stdi
anchored, thon mado their boat fast along-
immountednew jumped hurriedly upon their
side of the steamet• and swarmed on board in
ponies ; the brehen, Wavermg lino rapidly
large numbers. They inthnidated the crew,
took on it more regular appearance ; "nd
stole the deck fittings, sails, and gear, and,
then the old man, who had, gathered bum
strait hatchets and crowbars destroyed a large
self for the great effort, hurled forth a. ysll
portion of the clacks in their endeavor to get
that could be heard to the -uttermost hunts
of th r • t tl • : T1 , . ” i i at the cattle and sheep. Ropes were put down
tho opening and \Films .nrtieles of the eargo
sent its asuman& to its warrior:on meth the number of pictures hung to 'AM Instead
it tumbling to the ground, 'I he church had
been built fifty years.
An English naval. officer has invented it
pneumatic lino -throwing gun, very light and
portable, which fires a hollow shell, bearing
the cord to the wrecked vessel, or into lalril-
ing buildings on dry land.
11 18 hinted that the Duke of Portland
will have a new responsibility added to his
burden Mahout three months. 11 is almost
a century shim a direct heir WitS born to
succeed a Duke id Portland.
The dividends of the English street car
COmpanieS l.aried last year from 1:1- per cent.
to 9S., but only five companies went above 6
per cent, nearly all showed an in.
crease over the previous year.
The Royal Scottish Academy sought this
year to raise the standard of art by limiting
11) Is •
"The shout from the hill was re-echoed by the steamer, no cattle and sheep which
had previously been landed were hunted
the thousand men iu the valley ; ft was
caught up by the spectators on the hills about the island, caught and killed, the car -
:Asses dragged down the cliffs, where boats
the long line of warriors hurled themselves were in readiness to receive them. Similar
forward towards the min -pole, the objective
scenes have occurred whenever vessels have
point of every armed and naked savage in been bit in the straits of 13ellc Isle, either
the yelling lin a As they converged towards
it the slower ponies dropped out, and the n ion the Labrador or Newfoundland (masts,
weaker ones were crushed to the rear. Near- 1tti oommissioner svho investigatedthe mat.
tor statessthat it is very difficult to discover
or and nearer they came, the long lino be- and punilth these pirates, but some attempts
canning massed until it seas but a surging
crowd of plunging horses and yelling, gesti- to do .so will bo made,
enlisting riders. When leading warriors had
reached a point within hundred yards of
the sun -pole, a sharp report of rifles sounded
along the line, and it moment later the rush. Universities et the World.
ing mass was a sheet of flame, and the rattle
of rifle shots was like the rapid beat of a Norway has 1 tmiversity, 46 'professors
drum resounding among the hills. Every and 880 students,
were secured and Immediately removed from of the usual 1,000. They have raised instead
a terrible howl among the artisth.
A Parliamentary investigation tato the
running of trains on raihmilds entering Lon-
don from the south shows that umm an at,
erage only about 60 per cent. of all passen-
ger trains enter the city on time.
A .raid is being made upon Liverpool olubs
that are reported to be the centres of bet-
ting. Eleven hundred and eighty-four sum-
monses are being issued against the directors
ind frequenters of twentysfive clubs.
• An English travelling harpist has been
discovered: cheating the railroads by carrying
his little girl done up in the green bag with
his lump. He had travelled so all about
England, and had paid no fare for the ohild.
In Kent, England, a farm of 500 asses
that has been lot for $6,000 per year has just
been re -let to the same tenant for 52,500.
This is said to be a fair illustration of the
decline of farm values in. England of late
Yeall-pox has bruken out in an English
settlement known as lint" Peculiar People,"
whose doctrines inoludo a disbelief in the
efficacy of doctors or modieine. The most
that the health authorities have been able to
do has been to enforce the isolation of the
patients.
It came out in ail English court a few days
ago that 100 wornout horses had just been
shipped from that country to Germany and
Belgium to bo used up in the manufacture of
sausage and that such shipment; were a
regular 'thing.
The Duke of Westminster has decided to
abandon for this year his coursing meeting.s,
which have been tunong tho most notable in
England, on account of the disease among
the hares threatening to make them scarce
unless they ore given a rest.
In an inquiry before the British Railway
Commissioners it has just come out that two
men in the employ of a, certain seaway win-
pany as locomotive engineers were compel-
led to work for forty-eight hours on it stretch.
The mon seemed to take it as a matter of
course, too.
The English army and navy is being ont-
raged by the sight of men in the uniform of
shot, every arrOw, and every lance was di.- France has 1 university, 180 professors and'
rected the pole, and, bark mid chips were 9300 students,
flying from its sideslike shavings from the ro- Belgium has 4 universities, 88 professors
tory bit of it planer. When every bullet had 2400 students.
been discharged, and every arrow and lance '
had boon hurled, the riders orowded arouncl anild o111600cuicsltluicasien4tsxiniversities, 80 professors
the pole and shouted as only excited savages
can shout. Portugal has 1 university,' 40 professors
"Had it fallen in this onslaught, another • and 1300 students,
pole would have been chosen and another Italy has 17 universities, 600 . professors
morning devoted to this performance. and 11,142 students.
Though this seldom happens, it was Sweden has 2 tudversities, 173 professors
thought that the munerous assailants of this
polo might bring it to the ground. They and 1010 students,
did not, however, although it looked like a Switzerland has 3 universities, 90 profess -
ragged searecrow, with chips and bark hang. ors and 2.000 students.
ing front its mutilated sides. I Russia has 8 universities, 582 professors
" That such a vast, ttunultuons throng and 6900 staclents,
could escape accident In all that Wild charg-
ing, firing of shots, hurling of lances and Denmark has 1 university, 40 professors
and 1400 students.
arrows and great excitement would be.
Austria has 10 universities, 1810 profess -
bordering on a ini dude, and to miracle hap -
ors and 13,600 students.
poised. One of the great Warriors 'VMS -
trampled upon in the charge and died late Spain has 0 universities, 380 professors
that evening, and another Indian WaS shot." and 10,200 stnclents.
Thc bruises, sprains, and outs that might Germany has 21 tmiversities, 1020 profes
have been spoken of in lesser affairs wore sors and 25,084 students,
here unnoticed, and nothing was heard of Great Britain has 11 universities; 334 pro:
them."
essors and 13,400:students.
First Appearance of Ioe in India,
When one of the first importations of ice Horses in the British Army,
from America arrived in India it was most
amusing to see the anxiety with which it Tho official returns of tho number of horses the highest officers parading about the
was sought after. The deposits trove only and mules used in the British military see- streets of Loudon at tho head of processions
crowds of coolies were in attendance to carry
when vice show that there are now actually 24,400 of sandsvich men !advertising soap, and it is
animals at work for riding or draught pus- found, that there is no law So prevent any
open for a, short time befose sunrise,
off the portionis required by their employers ; poses exclusive of those belonging to offf • one from wearing any uniform except that of
these, portions were immediately enveloped, cots 'the total being about 1200 below the 0 polieenwat
hi thick blankets, which seem carried off munber voted for in the twiny estimates. • Of The crowd at a recent Football League
with 01 epeed 1 hut a very considerable the 24,400, 14,000 are borne ttpon the British match at Burney became exasperated at the
(motility invariable dissolved before they establishment and 14,000 upon the Indian, referee, and attempted to mob him after the
could reach their destinations. The 31 cavalry regiments take the largest game. He was sheltered in the club house
Too or three natives erowding round a share of the animals, their total bomg until extra police could bo simunonecl, and
basket which had just itrsived Were eager to 11,800 horses, Tho Royal Horse Arbil- was then taken away in n cob, followed by it
touch the novelty ; but immediately on lery has 2700, the field batteries 7400, howling, StellethrOWing 111.0b.
feeling its extreme colchleS8 they ran away,tho mountain batteries 220 mules, and •tsst 00l15 0011 • •
mom s an stuels-upness, an who's got 0 heart
in her body, 1 can't go my work an' come
back agen without findin' you au' another
num in th' thick of a litiggin' match'. There's
no consistency anywheros about you. There's
nothin' about you, good or bad, tor a nt,ttt'
tidos hold of an' tie to. You're just a fool -
it ferlorn, useless fool !"
Harwood delivered this extendecl opinion
in a tone of sincere convietion and utter con-
tempt, lie WM so deeply moved that he
oven forgot to interpolate into his disoom$e
as the greatest possible luxury, and handed with the exception of 350 with the Innis!
A return has just boon issned showing
somul to persons is; mix with thoh• seine ; killen Dragoons in the Natal and 500 with
that 412,340 English ladies are entitled to
which, although cooled. with sidt.potro and the Seventieth Hussars in Egypt and Sonth
glautior milts, had not attained a much losver Africa,. Thoproforonoo bo alWay, g [von to vote in County Council contests, this 1111111.
temperature than that of new her including 65,161 women voters in Lon -
English horses when they fulfil 'the require.
ogioorm. don alone, In municipal elections the total
The ice in question WaS taken ont to India, ments of the equine recruiting
40 11 nrans of porserving it large quantity of The small number of mules in the army inullber dinettes entitled to a vote in the
boroughs of England and Wales is 243,448,
American apples in good condition for the somewhat notioes.blo, considering liow sup.
Calcutta 'mar sets when the ise tilleXPootecily orior, fro many points of view, these ani. '1'110 cavalry quartermasters in tho lish
ns 011131,011110'Y larding of heavy,w, proved it morm
e oreusp
ve ades of morohno. inm
als are bot' soe branches of the service. army havopat b0011 11'0111 tho uty
ing oathH
s. ardy listened with a hite disc than the fruit. - ,af wearing a cocked hat, and are to be per.
Into Sahara's Dosort. mitted to use the head dress of the sogimont
Chanoe fora Bargtdn. to which they may lie attached. itis hinted
small boy (e„shiog oh, „mom, 1/ Undaunted by the fide of Camillo Donis, that the conked hat will also be abolished in
know where 50(011 buy (0(1010110 ripper sled the yottng explorer who was murdered in tho the uniforms of the higher officers of the
awful cheap. Won't you give mo some Sahara about a year ago, a M. Fernand Fon. 511515,
money?" resat has nowphinged boldly into the country A boat has boon invented in England for
Mamma (doubtfully) -4f How cheap?" of the Toe:stop, Ho was dissuaded front the use of duck hunters, in which the oas is
" \Voll, I don't knew- 1 haven',1i itskeit but his ontenmise by his friends and the Govern- thrust through the miciclle and bottom in
I guess I 001 1301 it for 'most nothing ; 'ensme nient of Algeritt, lett all (.0 110 P11111080. Tho contriyasioe not milike a centreboard, Tho
Mrs, Nelda; hasn't any use for 11 (0115 more," Geographical Society, as well as the GOVeril. leverage obtained hi enormous, and the in-
" Mt% Nobbs 3" inent gives him nothing but sympathy, and voider claims that it small boy, through the
" Yes. Johnny Nobbs had it, you know," no ono believes that he will come alive out uso of his device, onn beats, professional
"lInt whore is Johnny ?" of the mysterious desert where several of his oarsman in a shell.
" Why, in ridin' on it, lust now, intrepid follow-tountry mon have already A. man at Wimborno, England, 66 years
liO Strucli a pod an' killed hirosel0 perished. old, married his tvrenty-flYe-year.old servant
boo; and he was the more stirred, perhaps,
by an uneasy consciousness that Harwood was
cutting terribly close to the truth, Mary
searcery grasped the 501180 of 11. single word.
She was too stunned and shaken to under-
stand anythinciust theft. She waited, with
the stolid `hearing beneath abuse that had
baconte habitual svith her, until her husband
had finished ; and them walking in it dazed,
uncertain way that made Hardy long to go
to her support, she wont slowly along the
'path,
As the mosquito bushes closed behind her,
13arwood sahl briskly :
" Now, E.ardy, you an' in9"1,1 Palk pts
The divinings•od as a moitns of findinga
geod supply of water stood a suceessful trial
recently at Oundle, Not•thomptonshire, W.
Todd, a landowner, requiring a well ou
poetion cif his property, sent for a ',diviner"
named Pearson, There lutd been eonsichsr.
able -difficulty in obtaining a simply of
water 111 the town, and the Ottudlo Com.
inissioners had spent $400 in trial borings,
conciliated by a professional most, whioh
proved futile. In the present:ea a number
of spectators, POILV8011, With 00 11811111V.
shaped hazel twig, walked over the e t
8 11, 0.
In several places the twig was visibly
agitated, but tho "divines" kept, on until
the twig almost bent itself doeible in his
hands. At this spot a well Was 811111, With
the result that at seventeen feet water was
found in sash abundance that it timidly
rose to Within throe foot of the surface, at
which height it hat since remained, During
the making of tint well the water p•ocolitted
into it en rapidly that at frequent Intervale
operationbad to bit suspended to ptunp
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