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The East Huron Gazette, 1892-03-31, Page 6r; a eP URGENT PRIVATE AFFAI RS,jest now, with the regiment on the way, and after being so icng at home too. But surely these are urgent private affairs, if ever there were urgent private affairs. I never saw Mrs. Bathurst until to -day, and never saw Mr. Bathurst until just now. What an extraordinary -looking pair they are ! Do you know them very well?" " I do not know them at all. I never was in Garwood House till to -day, or spr•ke to either of them until this afternoon. Indeed, I never spoke to them at all. You saw our only meeting." " And your family are not friendly with them ?" "No one in our house ever spoke to either mother or son." "I wasn't favoraoly impressed with Mrs Bathurst ; and the son is positively revolt- ing. I do not care much about leaving our girl in that woman's charge. Had I seen them, I would never have consented to the arrangement. You see, my niece was to stay with them only a short time, only un- til her father came home, and now the poor fellow is gone. I don't like leaving our girl in that house." " I'd rather leave her in her grave." " Would you? By George, that's strong. But I think you're right. No ; I will not leave her with them. They would be the death of her." "Or they would drive her mad," said young Chaytor ; and then he told Colonel Pickering all about the son's nickname, his strange paroxysms of midnight laughter, and the chill mystery and seclusion in which that house lay. "I am very glad to hear all this from you," said the Colonel as they entered the door of the Osiers ; ' and you are quite right in saying it would be better to leave the girl in her grave than in Garwood." George introduced the Colonel to his mother who led him to the room where Nellie lay. On the way upstairs he resolved to say nothing about the death of Christo- pher Morton just now. When Nellie saw him she uttered a cry of relief and joy, and stretched out her hands to him, crying, as they were left alone "Oh uncle, uncle, this is too good to be true ! Now I feel safe once more. You will not leave me 1 You will not ask me to go tack to that awful house --to those aw- ful people ! I do not care what becomes of me, so that you need not ask me to go back there. 1 would rather go into the river. I did think of doing that, but I fell in by accident. You will not dear, uncle, let me go back again !" - "kjever ! Not for the crown jewels pf England, my dearest child, would I let you enter that place again. I'll. telegraph for your aunt to come back to town from Ports- mouth, and I'll apply for leave on urgent private affairs." " But you don't know all. It would be un- reasonable of me to object so much for mere whim or disliking ; but that monster is a villian, a thief, I think. Oh, my dear uncle, you do not know what dreadtal peo- ple they are. The girl sat up in the bed, pale and tremb- ling, and recounted the scene n the dining - room. As Colonel Pickering listened to the girl's story of that afternoon, he first grew crim- son with rage, then pale with .resentment, and when she finished, he walked dumbly up and down the room. At last he spoke in collected and firm tones : " This is the most atrocious conspiracy that ever came close to me in all my life ; and if there is justice to be got in England I'll have it against that infamous pair." "Oh uncle, don't do anything against them, but keep me away from them ! Do not let them come near me. I never was afraid in all my life before ; but now I am terrified." CHAPTFR IV.—Rescue)). 1 stately and gracious lady of middle age. To When Nellie Morton left her room and em George briefly explained what had oe- cnrred. The girl was carried up -stairs ; and when she was safe m a room, with all four women busy around her, George stole out into the grounds for a walk and a smoke, to quiet him, and for solitude, in which to build a romance all to himself around his beautiful neighbour and his two adventures with her that day—the very first day of her sojourn at Garwood Clouse. It was plain to George that these two ad- ventures could not be mere accident. Fate must mean something by them. What did fate mean? Well, let time tell, and for the present let him dwell in memory on the girl's enchanting beauty. He had been close to the wall on their side when he heard her scream and saw her fall into the river. He had caught a glimpse of her face as she fell and he was certain she had fainted before she touched the water. What a lucky fellow he was to have been on the spot ! What a lucky fellow he was to have her head lying on his shoulder as he carried her up to the house ! He must go back to the house now, to see how she was getting on, and he must then run round to Gar- wood to tell them she was safe. • Miss Morton had recovered consciousness and was doing well. Mary, his eldest sis- ter, gave him the news; and he said he should call at Garwood to tell them of the accident, and that the girl was safe. "It was at the sight of your wretched Jacko that made the poor girl stumble into the river," said Mary indignantly. " I always knew that 'creature would do some dreadful mischief." " Ah," said George, " I thought 1 heard a second splash. He didn't hurt her?" " No; but we cannot thank you for that. I am delighted the abominable reptile is drowned." "Some kinds of crocodiles take a lot of drowning. I'm off to see the one next door. AU the water in the ocean wouldn't drown him, if the hangman is to have his due." Young Chaytor reached Garwood House just as the Colonel, impetuous with appre- hension, entered the drawing -room holding Nellie's hat in his hand. Young Chaytor said to the servant, whom he met at the back_ door, a few yards from the window -door through which Colonel Pickering had just passed into the drawing - room : " I want to see Mrs. Bathurst at once, please, about Miss Morton." They had no callers at Garwood House ; forced into a marriage with that fearfuland the servant was quite unprepared for man. Those who thought she, Ellen Morton, - the apparition of a young man in dripping could be bullied or cajoled into doing any- flannels boldly demanding to see the- lady thing against her will, did not know any- ' of the house. She was a little thrown off her thing at all of her, Ellen Morton. But her _ balance by the unexpected derriand of this uncle and aunt were gone out of England ; young man. As, however, he was a next - her father was not coming home until thedoor neighbor—seemed to - have something autumn ; and between this time and autumn, ' important to say—and mentioned Miss Mor - matters would be very disagreeable for her • ton's name, she thought she might safely if she continued a guest at Garwood House. take in his message, in spite of general And if she did not Continue a guest there, ! orders against communications being whither should she go? I brought into that house from the outside Here, against the wall, under this tree, - world. She had no notion there was - any stood a dilapidated rustic seat. She would reason to be uneasy abcut Nellie, for she sit and look deliberately at the case—the had not heard the Colonels words at the very hard and trying case in which she founddrawing room door, upon reaching the draw - herself. s ing room she spoke her message so that At her back rose the end of the wall over , Mrs. Bathurst, William Bathurst,and the which young Chaytor had climbed ; on her . Colonel could hear. left, just at the end of the seat, ran the 1 " A - gentleman about Miss Morton !" river, silent and deep and dark in the shadow cried the Colonel. " Show him in at once." of beeches and willows ; on her right lay a In his excitement, he forgot he was not the tangled wildness of neglected undergrowth ; person to whom the message was addressed in front of her stretched the dusty dry path- i or the one to give orders in the house. The way, from which all verdure had been burn- + servant retired. ed by a hot and droughty month. I Mrs. Bathurst was seated on the couch. Here, in the shade, the air was cooler and She had not recovered from the emotions fresher than even on the unsheltered path- ! which had just stormed through her nature way by the river. She took off her hat, to and broken out into a wild, abject revela- let the breeze touch more freely her fore- - tion of her blind love for her unhandsome head and neck and hair. Her mind, instead son. She could not trust herself to speak. of taking up the consideration of the future, She had not strength enough to move. She ran back upon the past. She thought of leant against the back of the sofa. Her the happy time spent with the bluff, kind- eyes were half closed and lack -lustre, as if hearted, simple-minded Colonel and his af- " she dozed. She had a terrible feeling that fectionate, soft -mannered wife. She review- she was losing correct appreciation of her ed the peaceful days with thein, and the surroundings. frank modest gaieties of Deighton, where • William Bathurst had taken a chair close she had emerged from school into life and to the sofa, and sat with head dropped on the world. 1 breast and mouth open, breathing heavily, What an overwhelming contrast between like one who has climbed a steep quickly. that stirring garrison town and the lethargic The Colonel, who had taken a few quick stagnation of this Garwood House ! And to ' paces up and down the room, turned round think that only a week ago—nay, but yes- and faced the door, holding the girl's hat terday—she had been there with her sweet- still in his hand as young Chaytor entered. minded aunt and bluff uncle ; and here she was i "I am Miss Morton's uncle," said the to -day mewed inside these repellent walls, Colonel, without giving time for any one with this chilling mysterious woman, and else to speak. " Where is she, and what this man, more fearful and odious than any has happened to her?" He held out the human being she had ever seen, than any torn hat, to give emphasis and point to the nightmaee which had ever made the silent question. - chambers of darkness hideous ! "Miss Morton fell into the river accident - She shuddered at the thought of the man. !ally. She was got out, and is now in our Then she started, and looked around un- place next door quite safe. I assure you easily. Had that sudder shaken the leaves she is perfectly unhurt. Of course she got of the tree overhead ? Impossible. Yet wet." the leaves of the tree, or some other leaves 1 "And you, sir, are wet too. Perhaps I near, had rustled more than the faint breeze ' ought to have begun by thanking you for would warrant. It was more than a rustle her safety?" said the Colonel, advancing to —it was a sound of rustling to which was the young man and holding out his hand. added a sound of pushing among twigs. IChaytor took the outstretched hand and She looked around again. With a start, she bowed in admission and acknowledgment. sprang to her feet, pale, gasping, trembling. 1 "I happened to be near the bank on our Some living thing was moving in the break- side of the wall when the accident happen - n on the right. It could not be a large : en"_ animal, for nothing appeared above the 1«And you jumped in and saved her? I ferns. It was pushing towards the river • wish her aunt were here to thank you."- -towards her !—towards where she stood, "Miss Morton is at our place, the Osiers, shaking in every limb ! Then all of a sud- next door. Perhaps you, sir, would like to den a hideous lizard, huge, flat -backed, long- see her?" he said, laying a light but signifi- tailed, stole furtively into view and looking eant emphasis on the you. - - cunningly round out of one small evil eye, I°pray, .lead on, sir; and take my wagged his prodigious head and waddled word for it, that you never did a slowly toward the girl " 1 better day's work in your life than On the wild impulse of escape from the when you pulled our Nellie out of the river, loathsome reptile, she sprang, backward, and" you may count cis my gratitude stumbled over the bank, and, with, a scream in great or small things while I live.—I beg fell into the deep slow -flowing water of the your pardon," said he, suddenly turning, river. I becoming mindful of the presence of the The lizard waddled forward, snapped up mother and son. "I am afraid you must the fallen hat of the girl, dropped it, and , fancy me very rude. But I could only tumbled himself in the stream. I think of our dearirl. I will come back At the same instant the form ; to you when 1 see her." And following of a young man clad in flannels'- young Chaytor, he went out of the room, plunged into the river from the : the two leaving the house by the front opposite side of the division wall against ` door. which the girl had been sitting. He rose 1 As Chaytor and the Colonel went round and struck back through the sluggish water . to the Osiers, the elder man said : " Nothing to the bank with the head of the girl resting 1 could be much more unfortunate than the on hisshonlder. This time she was in no half- business on which I came out here. I have, conscious state ; this time every trace of been quartered in Deighton. My regiment consciousness had left her. The young man is on its way to India. I am due at Ports - gained the slip in his own grounds, and mouth to -night at the very latest, or rather carefuil Barrie her morning. 1 bade T slovr€lyand carefullycarried e up the bank. first thing to=morrow mo g Here he shifted his burden, to make it more good-bye to my neice at Bathurst's today, convenient. He did not call out for help. went to my club, and found a telegram from He never felt less need of help Brazil, forwarded from Deighton, saying in all his life. He never before feltsoproud the girl's father is dead. They didn't know of hie broad shoulders as when he rested her anything about it, the death, at Garwood head. on one of them. He never felt so until I told Mrs.- Bathurst—her son was proud of his strength as when he shook his not at home when I arrived. I am one of head, and stepped forward towards the the executors and trustees. Her father in- house; disdaining to own to himself that he tended coming back for good in the autumn bore any burden at all. - He could walk It is very sad, awfully sad, for the poor thus teethe -end of the world, the burden. child, I do wish I wasn't going awayjust tielpirag, not hindering now, and such a distance too 1 It really is When: he.ariived at the door, !lisped was most -unfortunate that I should be. I sup - cions and be called for assistance. Mary pose I could obtain ' permission to join -at and Kate and Lilian were instantly in at- Suez or under the distressing circum - ton! nc-e tint the inanimate girl ; and pre- stances, h might, get leave if I applied for NOWT hie widoweit mother appeared, a it. But of course I shouldn't like to apply wandered into the grounds for the second time that day, she was in a state of high and extremely unpleasant excitement. The thought of the river cooled and soothed her. Except an that side, the grounds of Garwood House were closed in, shut off from the free air of heaven by tall, stifling brick walls. On the Thames' side the grounds were open to the sweet broad flowing air of summer. A girl could not escape over these high brick walls, old and sodden, and smelling. dank in the sun. But one could escape by the river. Yes, one might be taken off by a passing boat, One might wander for months close to those greasy walls without seeing a living soul—such a thing as a meet- ing with young Chavtor That day might not occur again in a lifetime,—but on the river, people would often be in view, passing by now and then. Even supposing no boat came to take one away, still there was a Doorway of Escape on the riverside. It was the Doorway through which only the desperate went ; but one did not know when one might be- comedesperate- Here was the river, and how much cooler to walk up and down by the stream than to breathe the choking atmosphere indoors. No boats were in sight just now, but no need for any existed at present. If desper- ate need of escape arose while no boats were at hand, there lay the Door for the desper- ate—the Water. That doorway could never be closed up. As long as Garwood House stood„It would remain free and open. White she paced up and down, the vio- lence of her perturbation subsided. She was able to survey more calmly the events of the last few hours. She no longer doubt- ed that the scene after luncheon had oc• curred as it appeared to her. The dwarf, William Bathurst, had bounded into the room shouting with frenzied laughter, had told his mother he was bankrupt, had been seized by a fit; and on recovering, Mrs Bath- urst had Indicated to him that his only means of deliverance from ruin was by a marriage with herself, and so getting the money her father had laid by. If it ever came abattthat she was forced to select be- tween the fate foredoomed for her by the old woman and the river, she would not hesitate a moment. What should she do? Could she do anything? Of course, she could not be " I must leave you in Mrs. Chaytor's charge, while I run back to town to see what can be done and how I am to manage all. Do not be in the least uneasy, my dear child. You will be as safe here as you would be in the tower.” This was not the time to tell the poor girl of her father's death. She was at once too excited and too prostrated for more news of a distressing character. She had beenlook- ing forward to her father's return with great happiness. Of late years she had seen so little of him that his person could be to her little more than a vague mernory. But the desolation of her present state of mind would be injuriously increased if she heard just now that she must relinquish all hope of ever seeing that shadowy, far -away father again. Nellie in her distress had not asked him why he had come back after leave-tak- ing. No doubt she thought accident or some trivial` manner had brought him. When he was gone to town there would be talk at the Osiers of his visit. That would be the time to tell her of her loss. Before setting out for town he confided to Mrs. Chaytor the object of his second visit that day,- and asked the widow to bide her opportunity for telling the sad news to Nellie. - - "Just think," said the Colonel to him- self as he found himself in the train for London, " of the villiany of those peo- ple in Garwood planning the robbery and marriage of the dearest girl in the world over her father's open grave ! Hanging would be too good for the hideous monster and the old witch." - When we reached London, it was too late that day to make sure of the leave ; but from what he was told, he felt there woul I be no doubt about his getting it to -morrow before the ship sailed, as the case was a most peculiar and important one, the cir- cumstances admitting of no delay. So off he went to Portsmouth that night, having telegraphed Nellie that he hoped to be back at the Osiers next day. And next day he was back with two months' leave. One of the first things he did was to go to his own solicitor and tell him all he knew ; whereupon that solicitor wrote a brief note to William Bathurst, Esq., of Garwood House. From that day to this Colonel Pickering's solicitor has never got a reply to the note ; and he says when talking of the affair, that no doubt in the hurry of Mr. Rathurst's sudden journey from England to Mexico with his mother, he quite forgot to reply. But as Bathurst had borrowed the money that fatal Monday on forged signatures, Nellie did not lose the fortune laid by for her. As the time approached for the Colonel's departure for India, the question once more presented itself as -how he was to provide for the charge of his niece daring his absence. daypromptly settled one t was thisP Y by But P Ger!icge telling the Colonelthat, there being no objection from him as her guardian, Nellie had promised to be his wife. The Colonel told the young man that, having saved the girl's life directly and her fortune indirectly, no one else could have so good a claim on her ; and as he, George was a decent fellow, and there appeared to be nothing unsuitable in the match, hs didn't know why Nellie's aunt should not see her niece married before leaving home. So the young people were married the day the Colonel and his wife sailed, that there might be only one parting. " And the two women wept as only women can when there is at onoea wedding and a long separation at handl and .the two men shook hands distressingly often to keep themselves fr om —well, to keep themselves employed. " I never thought," said the Colonel, by way of good-bye and benison, " that there could be such a happy ending to my leave when I applied for it that Monday on urgent private affairs." [TEM END.) Sacred Animals. In Egypt cats were sacred. A inEgypt a nQ who o killed a cat in Alexandria, P formed part of the Roman empire, was him- self killed by an indignant snob, for Roman law refused to recognize the sacred charac- ter of cats, says London Truth. With us, partridges and pheasants are sacred. They can only be slain in a particular way, and during a particular time of the year. Land- owners keep in their pay a number of peo- ple whose business it is tc see that these fcwl are not interfered with by the profane or vulgar, so that they may be strong and numerous when the time comes for slaying them in the manner prescribed by the law. The slayers are called sportsmen, and the slaying is called sport. This glorious occu- pation is reserved for the owners of the land on which the birds are found, and for the friends of the owners. It is usually a massacre, and there is great emulation be- tween land owners as to the number that can bd killed in a given time. A man called Charles Waters lived and worked on a farm belonging to Lord de Ramsay. Some par- tridges rose near where Waters was plough- ing, and a gamekeeper of Lord de Ramsay says that he saw Waters throw a stone at these partridges. The stone does not seem to have injured them. But such im- proper conduct could not be allowed. Wa- ters, therefore, was dismissed by his em ployer, in whose service_he had been for six years ; he received notice to quit his cot- tage, and a very extraordinary notice was served on him by Lord de Ramsay. It for- bade him at any future time to come upon any of the inclosures, fields, woods, groves, plantations, coppices, lands, -grounds and hereditaments in the use, occupation or German Superstitions. - The following superstitions are found in an old German work on astrology, embody - ng popular notions and receipts, printed in Leipzic in 1695. Some of them are current among people in the United States at the present day : " To step over a child will stop it from growing unless the same person stept back the same way." " If any one meetsa hare or a rabbit when on a journey it is better to turn back unless the person turns around three times." " Any one going to bed without moving the chair they sat in last will be subject to the nightmare." " If your ears ars singing it means some one is talking about you. If the right ear, it is something in your favor ; if the left ear, it is something against you." " Anyone that has an empty purse should be careful the new moon does not shine in it, or else that purse will not have anything in it as long as that moon doth last. '` A spider on your clothes in the morn- ing is not good luck, but in the afternoon or evening all is well. " When a cat washes itself and puts his hind leg straight up behind its ears, there will be rain. " Anyone hearing dogs howl shall stop their ears, for it is a sign of bad luck. " Put your right foot out of bed first and into your shoe and you will have good luck that day." The Hurtfulness of Flattery. One of the greatest causes in the world of discontent and unhappiness with women is the fact that as a rule they have been brought up on compliments and flattery. It is an insult to a girl in society not to tell her that she or her gown is angelic. Such flattery is begun in childhood and continu- ed in society, and when she reaches the stern arena of life it has become a part of her nature. If when she enters the marriage relation and assumes the duties of the house- hold or engages in social or church work she possession of this nobleman, situate, lying is ever in any way subjected to criticism, as and being in any of certain parishes in the will surely be the case, it is an experience county of Norfolk, or in any town, parish or , with which she is totally unfamiliar. If her place of them, or any of them adjoining or husband and others with whom she is asso- near, or in any part thereof, on any account or pretence whatsoever. Sorrow Allied to Joy. AAnd the victory that day turned to mourning unto all the people, for the people heard say that day how the king was griev- ed for his son."—I. Sam., xix., 2. 6° Verily, verily, I say unto you that ye duties of life. Society, which only says shall weep and lament, but the world shall i pleasant things, is largely responsible for rejoice, and ye shall be sorrowful, but your l; y „ this. Everywhere there should be frankness, and girls shcuid be brought up in an atmos- phere of facts not of fancies, and they will become happier and more useful women. mated do not continue constantly to feed her on flattery, if they intimate for a mo- ment that in any of the affairs of life she is not seraphic, or that it is possible for her in any respect to be less than perfect, she is at once made miserable and life becomes to her a burden. To ordinary family and social training of a woman is a poor prepar- ation for her as candidate for the sterner sorrow shall be turned into joy. --John, xvi., 20. Here is a story of great David, the great- est of all Israel's kings, breaking his heart, because with that wonderful victory in the woods of Ephraim, that had saved the country and spared the throne, there has come also that, which turns this whole day into darkness, and the shouts of victory die away in the agonies of despair, for Absalom has -been slain. And here, from great David's "greater son," there comes after the lapse of a thousand years, these words of comfort and strength. Here your lot is one of trouble and care ; it can not be other- wise. But be of good cheer ; yet a little while and the glorious transmutation shall come. Your dross shall be changed to gold,, your tears to laughter. " Your sorrow shall be turned into joy." It is well and wise to find such texts as these together. They help us to realize that this life is and must be a life of trial, a school where hard lessons are set for the learning, a testing time in which the soul must be fitted for the larger life that lies beyond the bound- aries of time. Such texts do not bid us as- sume the dignity of the stoic and bow to the inevitable ; they the rather invite us to en - robe ourselves in the patience of the saint, . the patience that holds on, and trusts that frontier with the greatest pleasure." "Somehow, good Will be the final goal of ill," that midnight will turn to morning, that sorrow will be turned to joy. What a day that was that saw the death of the rebellion and the death of Absalom. When we can Has an Ominous Appearance. The London, Eng., Standard's corres- pondent at St. Petersburg, Russia, says that a gentleman who was present at the Bran- denburg banquet when Emperor William made his memorable speech, remarked to the Emperor : " Your majesty should not forget Russia." To this remark Emperor William is said to have retorted. "I will pulverize Russia." The correspondent adds that when Gen. Count von Schouvaloff, the Russian minister at Berlin, was apprised of this remarkable utterance, and upon in- vestigation found that what he had heard was true, he immediately acquainted M. de fliers, the Russian Minister of Foreign Af- fairs, with the facts in the case, who repeat- ed the ramarks of Emperor William to the Czar. The Czar then summoned to his pre- sence Gen. von Schwernitz, the German ambassador at St. Petersburg, and, after recounting to him the statement made by M. de Giers, said : " Tell your Emperor that when he wants to begin pulverizing I will throw half a million men across the England's Moneys Guarded.. The Bank of England's doors are now so nely balanced that the clerk, by pressing knob under his desk, can close the outer fully sound the fathomless depths of David's doors instantly, and they cannot be opened pathetic lament for his wayward son, then, again except by special process. This is and not till then, can we fully realize that in this sad changing world a victory may be a thousand times worse than a defeat. It has passed into a proverb that nothing is truly certain in this life except its uncer- tainties. The day that opens brightest may done to prevent the daring and ingenious unemployed of the great metropolis from obbing the famous institution. The bul- lion department of this and other great En- lish banking establishments are nightly submerged in several feet of water by the be clouded over before the dews have left action of the machinery. In some of the the flowers, and before noon the wildest storm may fill the heavens. He who builds his hope on anything of the earth—its London banks the bullion departments are connected with the manager's sleeping rooms and entrance cannot be effected with - wealth on its fame—builds on a feeble ' hea,d. If a dishonest official (luring the day out setting off an alarm near the person s foundation, for earth is only earth, and earth at best is but a poor foundation. "He builds too low, Who builds beneath the stars." It is often said that we know but little of the life beyond. That for the most part it is all guesswork. We know enough to be sure that that life will more than repay us for all the sull'ering and indurance of this life. Why should we trouble ourselves about modes and conditions when we are assured that "we shall be changed?" Changed so that our " seeing through a glass darkly ' will end in seeing eye to eye and knowing as we are known. The distance that stands between the mortal and the immortal mind will all be gon when mortality is swallow- ed up of life. Here our eyes seem to be made as surely for weeping as for seeing. There eves are all seeing. Heaven is the tearless land. Sorrow turned to joy. Sowing tear- fully in the night of time, reaping joyfully in the eternal morning. Earths fairest morning may gloom and cloud and end in darkness. Not so the radiant Sabbath of Amity. The Lord God and the Lamb are the light thereof, and there there is no sor- row, no sighing, nor any such thing. Wild Dogs in the North. In the Lake of the Woods country, which may be described as a wilderness of forest, rock, and brushwood, a race of wild dogs have established themselves and are inereas- ing in numbers ro rapidly that fears are en- tertained that the animals will yet become troublesome. When the Canadian Pacific Railway was under construction the camps petitions should be granted. of the workmen had of course, to be fre. quently moved, and dogs were often left liie Wouldn't Take Hints. or night should take even as much as one from a pile of 1,000 sovereigns the whole pile world immediately sink and a pool of water take its place besides letting every person in the establishment know of the theft. Un derground Lake. An underground lake has been discovered three miles from Genesee, Idaho. It was found by a well digc_er. At a depth of six- teen feet clear pure lake water ran out -over the surface for a time, then settled back to the earth's level. The most curious part of it is that fish were brought to the surface by the overflow. They have a peculiar appear- ance and are sightless, indicating that they are underground fish. The spring has at- tracted much attention, and many farmers in the vicinity fear that their farms will drop into the lake. Sunday and th3 Chictgo Fair . OTTAWA, March 2l -"—Since the beginning of the session a constant tide of petitions in favour of the closing on Sundays of the Canadian section of the World's Fair at Chicago next year has been pouring in upon Parliament. In order that Parliament may have an opportunity of declaring its opinion on the prayer of these petitions, Mr. Charl- ton intends moving a resolution declaring that in the interests of tnorality, good government, and religion it is of importance to the civilized world, and of -special impor• tance to Canada, that the prayer of these behind, and eventually, like wolves and foxes, found means of sustaining themselves The animals are large, lean, short -haired -hai re d and generally red or red and white in color. They are exceedingly wild and fly on the first approach of man. In winter they live by catching rabbits that abound in the wild- erness of brushwood ; in summer the wild dogs catch fish that crowd the smaller streams that connect inland lakes. The Indians detest the wild dogs, as they pur- sue game and take the bait from traps, and are a general nuisance. Sometimes a wild clog is taken in a trap that has been set for other animals, but the beasts are exceeding- ly cunning, swift,•and watchful . - A race of wild dogs is said to exist in Newfoundland, keeping near the coast and subsisting on what the sea casts to the shore. She—" Just see those two people in the conservatory. Ho w spoon they are. Don't you think they are silly . ?" He=" Yes, aren't they She—" It seems impossible that any sen- sible people could act so soft, doesn't it ?" He—" Yes, it really does." She (intently)—" I—I don't suppose you could ever act so silly, could you ?" He (firmly)—" No, indeed. She (very much disappointed)—" Just what I thought. Please get ire my wraps.' " Yon make me tired," as the wheel said to the wagon maker. The married man who interrupts while his wife is giving him a certain lecture only delays the time of his going to sleep. This Should Be So, for It Is frog 3_ ligious Paper. - It is well known that rhen cucumb are first cut from the vine there is a jail which exudes or bleeds from tnestem. One` of our prominent northern truck growers in Griffin, Ga., Jared Benson, cut his hand a year or two ago and this juice got into the cut. His hand began to inflame egad an er- uption similar to erysipelas made its ap- pearance on his hand and extended up his arm, and finally spread over his whole body. Strange to say, there was no pain attending these eruptions of erysipelas, and he con- tinued to gather and pack his cucumbers and prepare them for shipment. To the great surprise of everybody these little ery- sipelas pimples assumed the appearance and form of small cucumbers and continued to grow. Although Benson kept well and hearty, he was compelled to strip himself and take to his bed. Of course, the news of this strange phenomenon spread far and wide, and the doctors and scientific mem visited him from various sections of the country, one prescribing one thing, and one another. One wished to bleed him ; one wished to cut the cucumbers off ; another said not to let him have any water and they would dry up ; another said stick a hole in each cucumber and they would die and a new skin form ; another wished to wrap him up in a mamtnoth poultice of barnyard man- ure and draw them all to one head ; another said they ought to be scattered. Each had a different remedy but all dis- agreed. So that there was some hope that the patient would get well. But the small cucumbers grew into big ones, and his whole body was completely covered with them from head to foot, and they continued to ripen and turn yellow and hang down, and the man assumed the appearance of a huge bunch of bananas. When they got ripe they began to shrivel and dry up and so did the man. His sap was all gone and he died. The doctors procured the consent of the family to permit an autopsy to be made for the benefit of science, and they cut into him with their knives, and to their amazement found no flesh, no blood, no bones, no muscles, no sinews, no veins, no arteries, but found only one solid mass of cucumber seeds. It was so remarkable that it would be useless to have the remains in- terred, and foolishness to have them cre- mated, and the widow concluded that she would keep them in the house. She had the corpse hung up by the hair of the head in the barn. The next Spring some of the children picked up some of the seeds which had dropped on the floor and planted them. They grew rapidly and matured, and in- stead of being like the parent stock of cu- cumbers they were pure pickles and needed no vinegar, no pepper, no salt—nothing but simply packing into barrels and shipping to markets and selling. Of course news of the discovery spread rapidly, and multitudes of applications for seed flowed in like the coming tide and thus enabled the disconso- late widow and children to turn the cause of maintenance and support. The wind of affliction was thus tempered to these shorn lambs. They sold small packets of seeds for big prices and could not supply the de- mand. The vine grown from the new seed is a perennial evergreen and can be propa- gated from cuttings, and blooms in the Spring and bears in the Summar a bountiful crop of perfect pickles. The widow sells the seed for one dollara paper.—{Recorders TAE EARLIEST TRADERS. Encouraging the Mining industry. The earliest evidence of peaceful trade and employment is to be found in the in- scriptions of Wady el Magharah (" valley ofethe cave ") is the Sinaitic desert. The mines in this country, from which the Egyptians obtained mafek or turquois— whence the region was called Mafka—were worked in the time of Senoferu, ninth king of the third dynasty, whose tablets still re- main carved on the rocks, and copper is also believed to have been thence obtained. The date of this monarch is very uncertain. It has been placed as early as 36)0 B. C., but the method by which scholars endeavored to ascertain such dates is open to criticism, since it supposes an average reign of thirty years for each king, which seems much too long a period if we compare the average in later tines, when the regnal years are ex - ac ly recorded. Senoferu, however can not have lived much later than 2500 B. C. About the same time the great Akkadian conqueror, whose name is usually read as Gueda, had established his capital on the Lower Tigris, and had conquered Northern Syria, whence he took cedar wood for the buildingof his temples. He states, in an inscription recently discovered at Tell Loh, that the diorite in which his statues were hewn came from Ma-gan na, " the land of the wall," and the evidence of other texts shows clearly that the country so called was Sinai. The terns answers to the Hebrew Shur, " the wail," and in addition to this statement geologists assure us that the ma- terial used for the statues is the same dint ite found in the Sinaitic peninsula. At this very early period, therefore, the Egyptian and the Mongol Akkadian appear to have met, in the Sinaitic region, in times of peace, and the stone from the quarries was transpo; ted over the distance of 1,200 miles eastward to the Tigris.—[The Scottish Re. view. Didn't Foot Up Right.. "Now, Mary hang out the clot hes so that the neighbors will see the best of ti, ' said Mrs. S --; "we're new people here, and must put the best foot foremost." "All richt, mum," said Mary, " I'll put all the ruffled things on theoutside to make a show, an' I'm thiukin' if ye want to be puttin' the best foot foremost, I won't hang out a stockin' at all, seeing some are faded like, an' some are holey." " That's a good girl," said Mrs; S—approvingly ; " there's noth- ing like making a good impression at first. It'll work like a charm." It did. The neighbors studied the clothes -line, and dis- covered early a peculiarity in the genealogi- cal tree of the new family. " Would you be- lieve it?" they cried holding up their hands in holy horror, " they had three washings out since they came there, all frills and fur- belows, and not a pair of socks or stockings to their name, not one. • Prompt Promotion. Head of the Firm—" How long have you been with us now, James ?" Assistant Bookkeeper—" Six years, sir." H. 0. F.—" And what salary are you getting?" A. B.—" Nine dollars a week, sir." H. 0. F.—" Ah ! Nine dollars ! Well, James, you have proved yourself a moat trustworthy fellow, and as showing nay ap- preciation of your honesty I have decided to year.' you sign for the registered letters this What is meant by virgin soil?" inquired the examiner of an Irishmen. " Virgin soil, is it? 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