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A Reckless Strain in Royal Blood.
LARD CH RIES BERESFORD.
HE IS ARISTOCRATIC AND POPULAR.
tepeated Acts of Gallantry—Baring Ex-
ploits in Egypt—Lord of tate Ad-
miracy.
He BEABS A CH..aMED LIFE.
The Beres -lank have always been an un-
common breed, and wherever any strain
et their blood exists certain qualities'
Df theirs are sure to display themselves.
Notwithstanding the high social position
they have held for centuries, there is some-
thing wild and gypsy -like about them,
whi h makes them quite different from the
ordinary type of British aristocracy. They
are not only courageous to the point of utter
recklessness, but, they actually love danger
more than any other form of excitement.
Wnen they can not find a legitimate outlet
for this adventurous impulse, they give vent
to it in some queer form of eccentricity.
Thus, the notorious but curiously popular
Marquis of Waterford, Lord Charles Beres -
ford's grandfather, earned the name of
f6 Spring -heeled Jack ," by his mad -cap ex-
ploits in some sort of disguise, in which he
used to terrify the country folks and carry
DI) all kinds of audacious love affairs. Ho
was supposed to wear springs on his feet, by
the aid of which he could jump clear from
the ground into a first -floor window or leap
over the highest wall ; and endless are the
;tones told of his performances. He was
Iso the originator of
THE MIDNIGHT STEEFLECHASE.
the most dangerous kind ot sport ever in-
vented; and himself was always the leader
of the wild riders in their red nightcaps and
white nightshirts. pulled on over their uni-
form er evening dress. When the women
of England erected the famous statue Duke
of Wellington, from the metal of guns cap-
tured by the duke in his wars against the
French, Punch had a witty cartoon by the
celebrated Richard Doyle, representing a
statue of Apollo erected by the demi-mon•
daises of London in honor of the Marquis
of Waterford, from the metal of door
knockers and bell handles wrenched off by
his lordship in his nocturnal frolics. In short
he was a thorough Mohawk and the great
est scapegrace in the three kingdoms. N. et,
with it all, he was an excellent landlord, a
high -brad gentleman and a popular favorite.
All his faults and vices were freely forgiven
him 4. the sake of his pluck, his open
band generosity, and his unmistakable
goodness of heart. He died a natural death.
That is to say, he broke his neck in the
hunting field—quite a natural death for
him.
His two grandsons, Lord William and
Lord Charles Beresford, are woaaerfully
like him in appearance and also in many of
the characteristic family qualities. They
would both have been
SPP,.INGHEFT.PD JACKS
and brazen Apollos if they had not found
the legitimate outlet for their wild blood,
ane in the army and the other 7,in the navy.
As for William, better known by his so-
briquet of " Fighting Bill," he is a pertect
lare-devil for desperate enterprises. More
cautious officers, or rather officers with
more regard for a whole skin, affect to sneer
at him as a °' medal -hunter;" and it is a
fact that whenever there is a medal or a
cross, or any sort of distinction to he earn-
ed by intrepid valor, Fignting Bill Beres-
ford is bound to have it. If he can not
get it in the ordinary course of service he
resigns his appointment and volunteers for
the post of danger. That is how he got the
Victoria cross in Zululand, and that is how
he has covered his breast with decorations,
each recording some deed of gallantry or
some day of glory. Those who are disposed
to sneer at his medal hunting can not deny,
however, that he shows quite as -much abil-
ity as courage. He seems to bear a oharm-
ed life, but in truth his judgment is excel-
lent, and many a performance of his which
looked like an act of foolhardiness, was prov-
ed by the result to have been a brilliant
piece of military wisdom. His realcapacityis now so fully recognized that he has been
appointed military secretary to three vice-
roys of India in succession and seems likely
to hold that important position permanent-
ly, except when he takes a holiday to go
medal hunting. He has got into a dozen
frightful -
SCRAPES ABOUT WOMEN',
or about money matters, for he spends
as much as two or three general offiders,-
but the viceroy and the government have to
take him for what he is, a Beresford of the
Beresfords, and they are ready to overlook
all his escapades rather than Iose ,his ser-
vices. -
Lord Charles is a better man and a more
lovable man than Lord William. A braver
man he could not be, but his bravery is of
better quality. It is invariably displayed
for the benefit of others ; while there is some
truth in the charge against fighting Bill
that he fights more for Bill than for any-
body else. Lord Charles, or Charley Beres-
ford as he is invariably called in the navy,
never seems to think of himself at all. He is
the true hero, ever ready to lay down his
life for his queen, his country, his comrade
er his fellowman. He entered .the navy at
the age of 12 and took to the sea as natur-
ally as a fish. Never was there a more typi-
eat sailor boy than this early -headed, blue-
eyed rosy-cheeked, mischievous, good natur-
ad powder monkey. The British midshipman
is sup osed to be the ne plus ultra of impu-
dence, and Charley Beresford was the ne
plus ultra of a British midshipman. He
went perfectly wild with delight at being in
the navy and on the sea, and no ship he ever
tiffs aboard of was half big enough to con-
k a the stock of high s'►..rits and animal
!r sgnetism that he brougit with him. Luck-
ly he had the faculty of ccrnmunieating
xis exuberant hilarity to all ranks of his
shipmates. Wherever he sailed he was a
tniversal favorite.
THE BLUE JACKETS ADORED RIM.
n their blunt way, and though he kept his
he
honld plarior y some cers oncrazy ins atriicd nkeethaates lwould
Set him into rouble, the more discern -
ng among them had no fear on his account
nut predicted that he would one day be a
rause of pride to the navy and the country.
Notwithstanding s.,}1 the influence that his
family migh.t have exercised, he grade his
way in the service by meritalone. He had
Deem ten years in the navy when begot his
lieutenant's eommissioan, and joined the
Galatea frigate, then commanded by the
Duke of Edinburg for a- cruise round the
world. ` A young officer of rank and wealth
Ind a rollicking disposition could not pos-
sibly been exposed to greater, temptation=
10 go weenie in every way, than Charley theatand, While the horses stoodpantmg, up
Beresford encountered at. one of " the to their girths in the sea.
This little of d
labelled ' B British h C 1 b' Toothpicks."
duke's gay boys on the Galatea." The' "'there,' he said, wish a beaming smile,_ -more popular:than ever ; _but a more serious These are the largest pieces ever shipped
MeV vem 3' der set • them the first s- "hold ou we could et here all safe
po y _ pt ly.' matter was ahead. In 1888 he took eaten& from the province.
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Bible example, except in the single respect
of strictly doing his duty as a navaloffcer ;
and wherever they went they were so petted back again?"
and pampered by the inhabitants, especially" Oh: they can't go back _by' the road, of
the woman folks,that theycoulhardlcourse," he explained, " but what does that
have been blamed if they lst their heads matter? All I bargained for was to drive
and went to the devil. Their whole cruise yon here safely."
was one Ione round of furious dissipation, The result was that they-- had a delightful
and Charley- Beresford was the gayest of picnic, but returned in the ship's boats` and
them all. He had never - such a chance to a launch had to be sent to bring the coach
let himself oat before, and he took his en- :and horses back to Auckland.
joyment in allopathetie doses. But there In those days Lord Charles was as good
was "a sweet little cherub perched up a j-.ckey as he was a whip, and nothing
aloft" that tookthe very best of care of him. 'pleased him better than riding to win at
With all his recklessness and any of the local race -meetings. -
But his play time was nearly over, and
the real work of his life lay close before
him. When the rebellion of Arabi Pasha
took place in 1852, Charley Beresford held
the rank of commander and had just been
appointed to the gunboat Condor, with the
fleet at Alexandria under Sir Beauchamp
Semour, now Lord Alcester. The bombard-
ment of Alexandria immediately followed,
and then the young commander got his op-
portunity. Eearly in the day the, line of
battle ship Temeraire grounded and was in
great danger ; but the Condor went to her
under a galling fire and got her safely off ;
with the result that the heavily armed Mara-
bout batteries were
" Yes," some one replied, "tint how- are which is most unusual in so'young a minist-
you ever going to get the coach and horses er. He required that financial provision
should immediately be ,nade for raising the
strength of the navy to that of any other
two naval nations combined. - The cabinet
were divided, but Lord Salisbury decided
against the proposal at that time, and Lord
Charles Beresford took the dignified course
of retiring from the ministry. -
He went to the ..lediterranean in com-
mand of ,. magnificent ship, the Undaunt-
ed, where he was probably much happier
than at Whitehall. But his . policy has
since been fnlly adopted by Lord Salisbury's
ministry, mainly through Mr. Goschen's in-
.fluenee ; and wherever a bold heart and a
good, clear bead in naval affairs are needed
in future, whether in council or in war, the
nation will not be at any loss to know
where to seek them. The curly -headed
powder -monkey is unquestionably the man
of the futrre in the British navy.
INSATLABLE APPETITE FOR FUN,
the young fellow had a simple Minded
honesty and a natural goodness of heart
that always kept him- perfectly safe. Not
one of the duke's companions went the pace
more gorgeously than he did. Yet not one
of them left so fair a record, or such warm
and lasting regard as he did in every place
they visited. The Duke of Edinburgh, who
knows a good fellow when he meets one, as
well as anybody living, took cordially to
his junior lieutenant and formed for him
one of those immovable friendships for
which he is noted. This, in spite of the
fact that Charley Beresford was the plague
of bis life. Whenever a scampish antic was
played on the Galatea it was quite unneces-
sary to inquire who was the culprit. Charley
was pretty sure to be at the bottom of it,
and if he wasn't he was always ready to
take the blame. Once, and .nce only, he
came very near making the duke very angry
indeed. The Duke of Edinburgh is an en-
thusiastic musician, and his cabin on the
Galatea was furnished with severalsuperb
instruments, among them a particularly fine
harmonium, at which he spent almost all
his leisure time when on board his ship.
One Sunday in port, when he was supposed
to be on a visit to the Governor, he unex-
pectedly returned and went straight down
to his cabin. There he saw a scene which
might have led to the supposition that a
torpedo had exploded in the interior of his
harmonium. The precious instrument was
all to pieces, and the pieces were scattered
in hopeless confusion all. over the cabin floor.
1'o increase the -Duke's bewilderment
Charley Beresford, with his coat and waist
coat of% and bis
SHIRT SLEEVES TUCKED IIP,
was on his knees in the midst of the wreck
working away at the keyboard or some
other vital part, with an enormous screw-
driver, while the. ship's carpenter was la-
borously manipulating another fragment.
"What the blankety blank are you do ng
here, you young son of a sea cook," shouted
the Duke, "and who the blazes has been
smashing my harmonium ?"
" Oh, is that you, sir ?" said Charley
Beresford, as cheery as a lark, jumping up
from his knees and saluting. "You said
she hadn't been steering as well as she
ought lately, so I got hold of Chips and
we've been unshipping her gear to see
wether we couldn't make her go right. If
you hadn't come off till to -night, we'd have
had her refitted, and you'd never have
known, except for her going so well after-
ward." The evident sincerity of the con-
fession, and the comical figure of the lieut-
enant, with his red face and his " shes " and
"hers " were too much for the Duke's anger.
He burst out laughing, and with his really
skilled assistance, Charley and Chips man-
aged to put the disintegrated instrument to-
gether without damaging "her" to any
serious extent. At the same time the Duke
warned his young friend that if ever he
touched any of his musical belongings again
he would assuredly throw him overboard,
and he might think himself lucky if he
didn't keelhaul him.
Suoh a threat as that, however, even if
it had been serious, would have had little
terror for Lord Charles Beresford. He
never yet has been made to understand that
there can be any danger in salt water—for
him. No one is more keenly alive to the
fact that other people are liable to be drown -
e 1; but for himself, it never strikes him in
that way. Three times he has
JUMPED OVERBOARD
and saved a life at the imminent risk of his
own. On one of those occasions he did a
thing which, but for its success, would just
ly have been called culpably and absurdly
rash. The ship was at Port Stanley, in the
Falkland Islands, a very stormy place, and
Lord Charles was just ready to go ashore
on a shooting expedition. He was dressed
in a thick suit of clothes and long, heavy
boots, and he bad enough cartridges about
him to weigh down a diver. At this mom-
ent a marine lost his footing in the gangway
fell over -board, and, not being able to swim
was rapidly carrioel away by the tide. The
moment the alarm was given Charlie Bere-
ford leaped over the side, clothes, boots,
cartridges, and all. Down he went, but up
he came again, and struck out lustily for
LITERALLY POUNDED TO PIECES.
by the shells from the two ships. The
Temeraire was too big to close in, and would
have been too much exposed to the Egyp-
tian guns to make gond shooting at short
range. But Charley Beresford ran his lit-
tle boat right in under the batteries and
poured his fire into them till the astonished
gunners bolted for their lives. The whole
fleet saw it and sent up round after round
of cheers, and Admiral Seymour, -a grim
old sea -dog who never wasted a bit of senti-
ment on anybody, could not refrain from
running up asignal, " Well done, Condor."
Later in the day, the Condor was ordered
in • shore to defend the palace from Arabi's
victorious troops, and Lord Charles per-
formed this duty so well that he not only
rescued the Khedive from certain death,
but saved the city of Alexandria from total
destruction. For that day's work, -Admiral
Seymour got the thanks of Parliament, a
peerage, and £25,000 ; whil-Charley Beres-
ford, who certainly did the best of the work,
was proud and glad to get a silver medal
and a post -captain's commission.
Two years later he was in the thick of
the fighting of the Soudan, where he com-
manded the naval brigade, and where he
had an almost unique experience. At the
terrific conflict of Abu Klea,where Sir Her-
bert Stewart's force encountered an ever -
whelming host of Arabs, Lord Charles and
his men had charge of the machine gun
which mowed down the enemy in heaps,and
did a great deal to save the whole force from
annihilation. When: the battle was ever
and the appalling "butcher's bill" was taken
-count of, it was found that every man in
charge of the Peachipe gun had been killed
except. Lord Charles ergsford. ,There were ;. BY MAURICE E. M'LAUGHLIN. _
no wounded. The fighting had been too
close for that.
ALL WERE DEAD EXCEPT THE CAPTAIN,
The Last Man.
The probably fate of the last man is a
subject that has often been discussed ; of
about a dozeu solutions of the question,
seven of the best are summarized below :-
1. The surface of the earth is steadily di-
minishing ; all the landed portion will at
last be submerged and the last man will be
drowned.
2. The ice is gradually accumulating at
the North Pole and slowly melting at the
South ; eventually the earth's centre of grav-
ity will change and the last man will be kil-
led by the rush of movables when the catas-
trophe finally comes.
3. There is a retarding medium in space,
causing a gradual loss of velocity in all the
planes. The earth. obeying this law of
gravitation, will be drawn nearer and near-
er the sun, until at last humanity will be
roasted from the face of the globe.
4. The amount of water on the earth's
surface is slowly drying up. Finally the
earth will be an arid waste, like the moon,
and the last man will die pleading for a
drop of moisture with .which to wet his ton-
gue.
5. A gigantic planet is lik ely to tumble
into the sun at any time. In that event our
great luminary would blaze up and burn the
earth and the other planets in its train to
cinders.
6. With the beginning of the year 3000
A. D. the human family will commence to
retrot►rade and within 1,000,000 years from
that date man will not be higher in the scale
of nature than the plant louse of to -day. In
this case there will be no " last man."
7. The sun's fires will gradually burn out,
and the temperature will cool in conse-
quence. The earth's glacial zone will` en-
large, driving shivering humanity towards
the equator. At last the habitable space
will lesson to nothing and overcrowded
humanity will be frozen in a heap.
The Conductors Story.
who stood among the piled up corpses, still
ready to work his gun or do any—other
duty that lay to his hand. He was not
even touched,, and it was no wonder that
his men believed him invulnerable. When
the remnant of the little army marched for-
ward to Gubat, thepost of honor, that is to
say, of danger, namely , the command of the
7fereba, or desert fort, in which the wound-
ed and disabled soldiers and all the muni-
tions of war were left, was intrusted to Lord
Ch irles Beresford, . who bravely and cheer-
fully held it until relief arrived.
His greatest .xploit of all remains to be
recounted. Sailorlike,.he firmly believed
that the way to take Khartoum and rescue
General Gordon was not by land, but by
water ; and having helped to get the boats
up the Nile, he took a little unar por-
ed steamer, fitted with a couple of ma-
chine gens, and boldly made for the forts
of Khartoum. There he found another
al earner which had gone up before him. and
most foolishly returned, wrecked, in the
river and in a most perilious condition. He
rescued all of her people, and, as his boilers
were by this time shot through, he coolly
anchored` under the forts for a day and a
night, keeping them under control with his
machine guns, while his Scotch engroeer
patched the boilers. Such another piece of
work has never been done under such cir-
cumstances in any part of the world, and it
was nothing short of a marvel that a soul
survived to tell the tale. To his infinite dis-
gust his gallantry was thrown away, except
for the example it gave to others. He was
ordered to retire and the
SEIGE OF KHARTOUM WAS
abandoned ; whereas, if Lord Charles Beres-
ford had been allowed his way, there is no
the struggling marine, "Hold on Joey !'� doubt;•the Mandi would have been driven out
he shouted, I'll soon be along -side of you." of Khartoum, Gordon would have been saved
"Joey" managed to splutter and kick for and the course of history in upper Egypt
a minute so, without actually going under, would have been changed:
and by the end of tbat time Lord Charles Lord Charles had been a member of Par
had a strong grip of his collar and was liament .for: six years before this, but had
swimming against the tide with him like a been too much on active service to take any
Newfoundland dog with a lobster in its part in politica. On his return from the
mouth. Both were as nearly as possible Soudan, however, he was elected by a me -
drowned before they were picked up, and tropolitau constituency, and aroused =-
drowned
could have saved the marine if mense interest by his appearance in the
there had not been a brave and a powerful House of Commons, with his honors fresh
hand to hold his head above water during upon him. The idea of Charley Beresford
that terrible interval. Lord Charles has being a serious politician had never entered
took the
gained enough medas for killing people to Housedbysstorm by the ablbut he est speech on the
satisfy even Fighting Bill since then ; but naval estimates that had ever been made.
none of them do gold medals of the him more good than ' the HiS broad -shouldered oratory and his nauti-
cal phrases delighted his hearers, while his
ROYAL HIIMANE SOCIETY. deep • earnestness and complete, mastery of
and the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane the subject commanded their respect. He
Society, respectively, which are only given rose at once to the position of an authority,
for saving life at sea at the actual risk of and the next year he was taken into Lord
one's own. Salisbury's ministry as junior lord of the
One other anecdote of his merry youth adntiralty. Everybody begun to realize by
may be mentioned here. Unlike most sail- this time that "Charley "Beresford was not
ors, but just like all Beresfords, he is an ex- by any means the thoughtless flibberty-gib-
cellent hand with horses, and rides and bet that he seemed to be. Yet at this most
drives just as well as he sails a striper hand- responsible period of his life he did a thing
les a grin. His favorite team is four-in-hand ; which was quite in his own style. He had
and when the Galatea was at anekland he married some years before a dear; good,
undertook to drive a party of brother officers' Pretty girl whom he was just as much in
and ladies to a picnic in one of the numer- love with as.ever ; and being one clay on
ons bays in which that beautiful harbor board the Queen's yacht at Portsmouth, in
abounds. All who knew anything of the 'his official capacity, with the Queen, he saw
locality assured him it was not practicable another yacht go past, on board of which he
to, get anywhere near it with a four in -hand knew his wife was. Never thinking of
drag, because it was nothing bat a secluded what he was doing he ran up a private
beach at the foot of a steep cliff with no signal
road in either,direction. Lord Charles in- CONVEYING A MESSAGE TO HIs WIFE
sided, however, that he had taken an ob- ja he had been cn his own quarter -
servation of it with his glass from the fri
gate, and that it was perfectly feasible to deck on the_Condor. What the signal was
drive there. The whole party agreed to has never been made. public, but those who
flak it,smid peals of laughter ; for, some -
asking
say it -consisted of certain code words
how, everybody had a sort of blind faith in asking Lady Charles to keep two dances for
his - luck. The event showed that it him at the ball to be given at'Portsmouth
wasified after a fashion. He that night. The next thing he knew he was
sasTprtzrD ids FREEST S. under arrest for violating the regulation
which forbids any-: private signal to' be made
nearlyout. of their lives by driving them from a royal acht. He immediately laced
down azigzzaagg track-, through`a thicket of the resignationof his ministerial office and
trees on the edge of a sheer precipice, and his naval rank in the queen's hands, only to
landing them with -a tremendous bump on receive them back next day with a gracious
rebuke for his faux pas.
is tt a bit human nature made him
°`- When a man has been railroadin' twents, long
years
He gits kinder hardened an' tough
An' scenes of affliction don't trouble him much,
Causo his natur' is coarse -like an' roue h.
But a scene that took place in my train one cold
night -
Would a' melted the heart of a stone,
An' among the adventures which I have been
through
That night jist stands out all alone.
"'Twas a bitter cold night an' the train was
jam full,
Every berth in the sleeper was taken ;
The people had jist turned in for the night
An' the train for New York was aenakin',
When, jist as the people to snore had begun
An' I with a satisfied sigh
Had sat down in a chair for a short rest. I
heard
The sound of a young baby's cry.
" It was one o' those load, aggravatin'-like yells
0' the pattern that makes you jist itch
For a gnu or an axe an' excites up your mind
With wild thoughts o' murder an.sich.
It went through that car an' I needn't remark
That the snorin' stopped right there an' then
An' that sleeper was filled with a billin' hot
crowd
0' mad women and wild, swearin' men.
The curtains ji=t then that concealed berth 16
Were opened an' out came a man,
As fine a young fellow as ever I seen,
But his face was all white -like an' wan.
Ho carried the kid that was raisin' the row,
An' commenced welkin' down through the
aisle
A-tryin' to stop its loud screechin'—but pshaw!
It seemed to get wuss every mile.
"An idea seemed to strike one old feller jist
then,
An' he said to the pale -faced young man,
' It seems to me, stranger, that kid could be
stilled
By a, simple an' feasible plan ;
The noise tbat it's makin' betrays what it
needs—
The child wants its mother, that's plain ;
An' why don't you call her? Ten chances to
one,
She's s:eepin' somewhere on the train.'
A look then carne over that young father's
face,
A look full of anguish an' pain;
A'.00a that will haunt me as long as I live,
As long as I work on a train ;
An' he answered that man in a hoarse, stifled
voice
That sounded as though from afar—
"Her mother is sleeping aboard of this train
In a box in the baggage car."'
Mosses From an Old Manse.
BY GEO. THOS. DOWLING, D. D.
The Minister's wife had just finished her
chores,
By calling on, all the church people ;
And some she'd found open as both the church
doors,
And some she's found stiff as the steeple.
For while all the deacons had slept on the
wall,
A committee had come like a lion ;
And by giving her husband a generous call,
Had shaken the bulwarks of Zion.
For years they had paid him who taught them
the Word,
About six hundred dollars' or seven;
For they felt that a preacher should " trust in
the Lord,"
And grow fat on the "manna from Heaven."
And so the cash question had come to an-
noy
with so many ministers rankles ;
For the Lord had sent children ; three girls and
a boy,
And the boy—hollow down to the ankles.
Sister Blodgett, the wife of "a pillar," had
cried.
(They supported a carriage and horses).
"Beware! lest you sin against God," she had,
sighed ;
"A ronin stone gathers no mosses."
The preacher looked up from the book which
he read,
And his merry eyes twinkled with laughter.
" Why didn't you tell sister Blodgett," he
said,
- " That moss isn't what we are after ?" .
=[PTewYork Independent.
British Oolnmbia 'Toothpicks.
The British Columbia Mill, Timber and
Trading Company shipped last week some
large spruce timber for dredges for the Mon-
treal Harbor Commissioners. One piece is
36 inches square-, 63 feet long; three pieces
36 inches square, :68 feet Tong ; five pieces
14 by 16 Inches, 80 feet long; twelve other
pieces over 60 feet long. - Three care are
required for the longest pieces, which are
ritis ' o um is
OOMPAEAIIVE VITALITY.
ThE Great and mysterious problem Wby
Some Live Longer than Others.
There are families, beyond doubt, as w
as individuals, over whom disease seems t
no power who are either exempt from -ill
ness or survive it as if it were but an amo
tion, who, apart from accident, always fol
fil the years of the Psalmist, and usual!
die only because the still unbroken machin
has exhausted its stock of motile power
Doctors, when called in to such persons, ar cheerful, assure the friends th
there will be a rally soon, and would-iike, i
they dared for the credit of their craft, to
administer as little medicine as possible
They have not an idea as to the reason. un
less it be ° • hereditary predisposition," or
in a few eases, a cheerful temperament : bu
they know quite well that in such patient
there is " recuperative power," and as the
like cures, partly out of kindness and part
from self-interest, they are well conteII
And there are also families as well as indivi
duals, in whom the life lies low,about whose
" attacks," however slight they may appear
the doctors always shake their heads, and
of whom when among themselves, they will
remark : "The Blanks have a constitutions
habit of dying."
Such people rarely live to be more than
middle-aged ; they never attain old age; and
when they die they the unexpectedly, most
frequently in the first stage of convalescence,
from what is called a "relapse." Some-
thing is wanting in them which furnishes
their rivals with staying power ; but then,
what is the something? It certainly is
not size, for giants die rather rapidly, and
the men who are dear to insurance societies
are usually of the medium build, or even a
little under it, their weight in particular
being for the most part -slightly below aver-
age. Fatness is weakness more or less.
And it is certainly also not identical with
physical strength, for athletes are scarcely
ever hong-lived ; women have, on the
whole, if we deduct their mortality from
child-bearing, more vitality than men, and
very feeble men, in the athletic sense, con-
stantly attend the funerals of far stronger
juniors. Nor does the vitality arise from
any superior strength of brain.
The able often live long and often die
young. The great lawyers and theologians,
men of abnormal acuteness, often reach a
vast age ; as do gamekeepers and country
clergymen, with neither of whom is the
brain very active or often fatigued. The
greatest living poet is as old and as healthy
as Mr. Gladstone, and the last centenarian
recorded, or last but one,. was ,a sort of res-
pectable female tramp. Sir Moses Monte-
fiore, who died at 101, was a most acute -
minded man, and so was Henry Martyn, the
senior Wrangler who turned missionary,
and after a life of travel not unlike that of
Sir Moses died of exhaustion just 70 years
younger.
There is a fancy abroad among the cultiv-
ated that very stupid men do not reach great
age, but if they ask a few masters of work-
houses and the managers of the great char-
ities, they would find that is an error. Nor
can the quality be accurately traced to any
conditions or method of life. The very old
are often intensely vivacious, but they are
often also very dull, occcasionally almost
imbecile. The rich, according to modern
theories, ought to possess the highest vital-
ity; but as a matter of fact it belongs, tak-
ing all the world, to negroes who were slaves
in the West India Islands, and in England
to gamekeepers and excessively poor wo-
men.
The only facts we certainly know about
habits as conductive to vitality are that
freedom from anxiety is favorable to it, pro-
bably by conserving the pumping power of
the heart, and that it is in a rather singular
degree hereditary, the capacity of living
surviving in many families the most violent
changes in the habits of each generation,
even the most violent changes in residential
climates. `Those who cling to life intensely
often die early ; while the indifferent live
on till death seems to have finished that
furrow and yet passed them by.
No ; vitality is not synonymous with
strength of will, though it must be on the
evidence, a non -material quality. It is more
like a "gift" than anything else, like that
strangest of all capacities, the feeling.for
music, which must be in a measure spiritual
yet has absolutely no mental force, being as
often wanting in the ablest as in the stupi-
dest of mankind. What is the source of the
gift we none of us know, and probably
never shall, for we cannot hope to accumu-
late more experience than the great
physicians have done, and they frankly con-
fess that in every patient there is some
quality making for death or survival that
they can only recognize, without pretend-
ing to understand it.
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The Romanoff Family—The Influenza in
o London—The Popes HeaWh.
•
The deterioration in the Reinianoflis as `a-
family is again forced upon public notice by'.`
y the death .of the. Czar's_uncle, the Grand
e Duke Constantine, who was laid yesterday
• in the crowded interior of the fortress
atchurch of Saints Peter and Pani, where un -
f der huge marble coffins, covered with red
velvet palls, all theaeions of --his. race
• since Peter sleep. Constantine, like the
other . sons of Nicholas was much sue
t perior in intellect to the present gen-
s eration,' but, more than this, he had
i a finer mind than any off his brothers.- To
6. his inspiration was largely doe the liberal
- imrulses characterizing the earlier years of
his brother Alexander's reign. He accepted
the Governorship of Poland thirty year;
ago, with the loftiest agitations to do good
to that unhappy country. How his efforts
were neutralized by the ecoundrelfcm of his
-Russian assistants and the ia.t.fr'ection
provoked by the very agencies he relied on
for peace may be told some day, if his talene
ed second son and n+ntesake finds himself
free to do so.
The plague of influenza is not etsyed, but -
increases. In London the death rate has
risen to forty-six. Deaths from influenza
are twice as many as last week, not counting
those of which this malady is the indirect
cause. Alt ogether there were 3, 761 deaths
in London, which is 1,762 above the average
In other parts of England things are even
worse, though some provinces are almost
exempt, and in some great cities the death
rate is less than usual The Government is
stirring—if stirring be the word to apply to
a movement so deliberate. The President
of the Local Government Board is in com-
munication, whatever that may mean, with
the President of the Royal Colledge of Phy-
sicians. It is probable that some form of
inquiry will be agreed upon by the time the
epidemic has ran its course.
There is still grave uncertainty as to the
actual state of the Pope's health. Quite ex-
plicit denials that he is ill are being eiren-
lated, apparently upon the authority of the
Vatican official. On the other hand. Roman
Catholic prelates in this and other coun-
tries are getting reports which prepare them
for news of his death any day. When it ie
remembered how the last illness and death
of Popes has been historically a matter for
mystery, often reaching the point where
charges were made that the death was con-
cealed for days after occurred, it is not to be
wondered at that it is difficult now to get at
the entire facts.
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"Boots and Saddles!" -
WILL T. JAMES.
What trooper ever mustered on the field
Where battle wrests the trophies lost and
won,
Exposed to peril, with but Fate to shield—
A living target for the foeman's gun,
Has felt no thrill when, on a. darksome night,
When foretelt omens—why, he can't ac-
count—
Seemed unto him predicting afieree fight,
The starting trumpet sounds the call to
mount? -
It may be for some venturous raid or, worse,
The interception of a midnight march ;
He seldom knows the risk ; commands are
terse
No time has he to guess. The lantern torch
Illumes familiar things as be equips ;
His eyes rest tenderly on those from home.
Perchance he lifts a keepsake to his lips,
Remembering one he left, in youth, to roam.
White saddling for the expedition, he
Forgets he ever had a home ; but when
Tho ; 'n.zdron forward trots, and thought is
• fro..
To conjure up old memoriesagain,
He then bethinks him of the journey's end,
From which alive he never may return
To camp, to home, to mother or to friend,
Nor to that one for whom his heart doth.
yearn.
War's but a game of chance—the wager, life.
As some must lose and others win at dice.
So must some die and some survive the strife ;
The bullet finds its billet in a trice.
Among the dead and dying have been found
Both steed and rider that obeyed the call
Of " Boots and Saddles" near the marshalling
ground.
With corpse for comrade—darkness for a
pall.
Bnt there's exhilaration in its notes
For him who has to warfare been inured ;
The pulse of courage recklessness promotes,
Nor ,et hi'n flinch when hardship is endured.
Music hath more in it than soothing charms ;
It can arouse as well as lull to sleep ;
Its brazen tongue can trumpet war's alarms,
And eyes it oped to laughter cause to weep.
- Two Eye -Witnesses.
Policeman—Who bunged your eye in
way ?
Sufferer-Moike Flynn:
" Was there an eye -witness ?"
" Indade there was."
"Who was it ?" -
" Moike Flynn."
I mean, was there anybody else pre
sent V'
°° Indade there was."
" Who was it?" ' _
" Meself, bedad.
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A REMARKABLE CAREER.
An English Convict Marries An Heiress.
- •A long and interesting accout of the re-
markable career of Frederick George Bar-
ton, an expert criminal and a native of
Tunbridge Wells, is given in a Kept paper.
The quiet little town of Burgess Hill (says
the account) has recently been startled out
of the dull decorum of its existence by the
fact that a gentleman living- in one of its
most eligible villas, and who was recently
married to a young lady of fortune to whorrie=
he was introdueed in Canada, is none other
than a clever and dangerous convict who
had failed to report himself to the police,
and had been occupying his leisure by the
perpetration of wholesale burglaries of a
similar skilful and
DARING DESCRIPTION
to those for which he has already undergone
two terms of penal servitude. Barton was
born at Tunbridge in 1858 of respectable
working-class parents, and at 12 he was
committed for five years to Red Hill Re-
formatory for embezzlement. After staying
in (and robbing) a Boys' Refuge in London,
young Barton went to Tunbridge Wells,
and stole £17.000 worth of securities by a
burglary in the house of a clergyman who
had befriended him. He was taken and
sentenced in 1876 (aged 18) to ten years'
penal servitude. Four year later, in the
December of 1880, with 'six yeara of his
sentence unexpired, Barton was again in
Tunbridge Wella, much to the astonishment
of the police, who found him in possession
of a free pardon from the Home Secretary.
The manner in which this was obtained is
perhaps one of the most audacious to be
found recorded in the criminal calender. It
appears that Barton persuaded a fellow -con-
vict, whose term had nearly expired, that
he had come into large estates in India:
worth £20,000 per annum, in addition to
£175,000 hard cash ; and this convict, o:>
his release
STIMULATED BY THE PROMISE
of a liberal reward, signed a petition ot the
Home Secretary praying for the release of
Barton on this ground, and also on account
his extreme, youth. The petition was sent
in a letter, which, although posted in India,
was doubtless a forgery ; and although the
facts have never been traced, there is little
feason to doubt that Barton concocted the
letter, and, with the connivance of some
friend, had it posted. from Fort -George,
with the signature of a resident chaplain
there, which was also forged. The moat as-
tonishing fact remains. The Minister was
Sir William Harcourt. We next hear of him
STEALING VARIOUS ARTICLES.
By this time the family of the unfortunate
Mrs. Barton had been stripped of nearly
very penny by Barton, and left in an al-
most destitute condition plus the burden of
Barton's liabilities. It is understood that
n their return to Canada Mrs. Barton will
eek a divorce. Even after his marriage
Barton kept up a correspondence with lad-
es with a view to marriage, and paid per-
onal attention to others. He made the ac-
uaintance of a youfag lady, the daughter of
well-known clergyman, residing. near Lon -
on, who was staying in Brighton with her
mother and paid her marked attention.
Meeting her on the Brighton Front, Barton
invited her to accompany him in his dog-
cart when he drove to Burgess Hill; to see
bout his letters. Arriving at Cedar 1 odge
arton and the young lady were arrested a .
gether, and both taken to the police
Latton. The lady was looked upon as an
complice, and the police would not release
er from detention until her explanations
were verified and found to be correct. The
oung lady was released from her most un-
leasant predicament late in the evening, and
will not probably forget her drive with
on and its sensational ending. At the
ecent assizes at Lewes Barton was indicted
for burglary, and found guilty of receiving
oode well knowing them to have been stei-
n, and was sentenced to *tredve years' penal
ervitude. But as he is even now -only .
lrirty-two or thirty-three years of age, it is -
Site possible that this plausible criminal
11 be heard of again in the future.
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