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Wednesday, lIfarchl Gth, IS h9
SALT AS MANURE,
PAPER READ BEFORE A MEETING OF
BRUCE FARMERS.
The following paper waa road ba.
fore Division Grange No. 32, of
Bruce County, at a recent meeting
by Mr. James, McBeath, of Eden
Grove :
Itis now the second time I have
come before you on this question of
salt for .artificial manuring. 'Teo
first time I laid my .experience be-
fore you, you were in doubts if salt
would pay as a manure. I hope by
this time you have got over all your
doubts and are using salt freely. I
have been using salt now over
twenty-five years and with good suc-
cess. I commenced in early days
with a few pailfuls, and from one
hundred to seven hundred and fifty
pounds per acres I ate using now
on virgin roil. Two and three hun-
dred pounds per acre is good salt
ung. When I began to work up
the soil and plough deep I had near-
ly lost faith in the two and three
hundred pounds per acre, and I
commenced to add hundred by hun-
dred to the acro. till I reached seven
hundred and fifty pounds per acre,
with good results. On new laud
two and three hundred pounds per
acre is sufficient, but old land re
quires nearly three times that
amount. There is not a farmer in
the County of Bruce nor it1 the
Province that holds one hundred
acres of land but requires one car
load of salt, and it would pay hire
well. I prefer clean salt. When
it is clear of dirt it does not bind in
lumps and you do not cheat the
land and there is not much hard
work in sowing it. Get five or six
bags in the waggon at a time, and a
proper box in the back of, the rig
and a chair for :yourself to sit on
and a boy driving the rig, and com-
mence with the two hands throw-
ing hand over hand and you can
sow thirty acres in a day. Salt suits
all soils. I have had experience
with loans, sandy soil and still clay.
If you want to make sure of a good
catch of grasss, on with your waggon
and sow seven hundred and fifty
pounds per acre of salt and I assure
you that you will not gruinhle about
a bad catch. Sow when the grain
is up three or four inches,but du not
sow when grain is wet or the dew on,
fur the salt will stick ou the leaf of
the grain and yellow it. By ustng
the amount of salt named per acre
and lots of clover we will not hear
so much about run -out farms. I
used to keep one or two acros of
clover and thresh it and sow in this
chaff, and sow it any time ; load the
sleigh with chaff and sow on the
snow. Seed down everything and
you have good after.graas in the fall
for cattle and n good coat of manure
to plough under, wish a fine arable
soil to plough in. If you want to
renew an old pasture or orchard,
give a large manuring on top in the
fall and on with the salt in the
epilog, and when you coni to cut
your hay you will imagine you have
got anoth farm. I am in favor of
top -dressing, oven though the
manure is long.
I ex n 1 you will he saying that
I have got salt on the brain. Salt
will cure the wire worm. el liuve
eeeu the effect of it. A.noighbor of
mine came nue day to ask me what he
would do with his fall wheat. In
the fall the wire worm had com-
menced in the middle of the field
and had eaten a large circle in it.
I tuld him to go and get a few barrels
of salt and sow it heavy, and make
the ground white. There was no
more worm there. It will prevent
rust on auy grain. I find that a
great many of our farmers say they
do not find much good in salt.
When asked how much they put on
per acre, they say about a barrel.
"•Why don't you put ou three bar-
rels?" "Oh," they replied, "I would
ruiu my land.", When I tell thein
I sow nothing less now than 750 lbs
per acre, they begin to wonder. 1
would not sow less than the amount
named above, for I consider I would
be losing my time andtalt with any
less.
A CANADIAN ROMANCE.
Janet Russell was the belle of
a Canadian village on the Maitland,
and was admired by all the swains
who dwelt in those parts, but her
"steady company" Was a handsome
young fellow—John Miller—son of
the village Postmaster, who also
kept a g -neral store. John and
Janet' went together to a rustic
frolic one night, and when on the
toad John asked the old question,
which question was anserwed irf the
affirmative. 'filings went nicely,
hat at last, Janet dancing twice iu
succession with a yoking fellow
whom he had looked upuu es a
rival, John felt bad, and on the
way home sharp words passed
between them. The girl told him
she wished it had • been Charley
Hall (the rival) who had asked the
question before mentioned, whereat
John said he would give her a day
to take that'back, and if not—why,
all was over between them. Janet
relented wliun she bad time to
think about it, and the next morn-
ing wrote a note to John, and
dropped it into the letter -box at
-old Mr. Miller's store. Time passed
on. A year or so after thatCharley
Hall and Janet Russell were mar-
ried, and John Miller was wedded
to another girl. Some five years
passed and old Mr. Miller died,
leaving his property and his store
to his son, who at once set about
making improvements. And it so
happened that the day the old
letter -box was broken up Mrs. Hall,
aceo►npan ied by her eldest daughter,
four years old, was in the store. A
letter dropped to tte floor ; a work-
man picked it up, and with the
remark, "Here's an old letter
addressed to you,. Mt'. Mille,r,"
,passed it to John. At the moment
he was talking to his old sweet-
heart. He took the letter and
turned it over and over in his hand
As Janet's eyes fell on it she blush-
ed. John opened the note and
read it, then he handed it to Janet
with a bow and the words :—"That
has been in the box ever since the
slay after we went to the dance at
Turner's, Ah, Janey, if I'd only
known 1" Mrs. Hall took her child
by the hand and went •horne with=
out a word. Janet's ' poor little
note hod been caught and concealed
for nearly six years, had changed
the current of two lives, but for
better or worse who can tell 1
WHAT ARE WE COMING TO.
DR. COURTNEY'S FIRST DECISION AS
' BISAOP OF NOVA SCOTIA.
Dr. Frederick Courtney has
rendered his first episcopal decision
as . Bishop of Nova Scotia. The
following is from the Charlottetown
n
(P. E. I.); Exa'niner':—
• HALIFAX, 1888.
To the Lord Bishop r f Nova Scotia :
Ma LORD.—At the exeoutiott of
William Millman, in the Charlotte-
town gaol, on tho 10th inst., I said
the following committal
"The glorious cross and passion
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the
mighty intercessions of the Mother
of God and ell the Saints, be he-
tween thee and thy ghostly enemies
at this thy hour of thy departure,
and the blessing of God," etc.
In consequence of this I have
been charged 'with invoking the
Virgin Mary, and making requests
to her, thereby sating disloyally to
the Church of England. I beg,
therefore, to lay the matter before
your Lordship, requesting that I
`may he ail,,w•'d to puhliah this
letter end your reply.
Believe me, your Lordship's
obedient servant,
JAMES SIMPSON.
HALIFAX, 1888.
MY DEAR SiR,—The words
which you quato in your note of
the 27th inat. are.not'an invocation
of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and,
therefore, in using thetti you have
not laid yourself, open to the charge
which you say has been brought
against you, of acting disloyally to
the Church of Englati fr'1 The
Church has not, so far as I and a aro;
assorted or taught that 1110 children
of God in the invisible world cease
to prhy for thoae on earth, or that
such prayers are less efficacious
than those which we offer for ono
another t arid, ill refore, the pious
desires and aeatione that the
whole of stall prayers rnight bo an
aid to a criminal at the point of
death for the defeating of his spirit-,
u,al foes is not other than right and
fitting. The one thing which, in
my judgment, is liable to miscon•
caption on the part of hasty and
ignorant persons is the special men-
tion of the "intercessions of the
Mother of God," which to such
peoplo might seem to imply an
assumption of the Madiatorship of
our'Blessed Lord and an infriugo-
went of His right, "who ever
liveth to tnake intercessions for us."
While, therefore, I do not think
you justly open to blame for the -
use of such a phrase, I would, if I
were you, avoid it on any other
occasion, as being likely to cause
you to be misunderstood and wrong-
fully accused. I cannot close this
letter without expressing to you my
sincere sympathy with you in the
d?echargo of so painful a duty as
the attending upuu and ministering
to a man condemned to die, and.
my regret that anyone should have
felt called upon to accuse you, at
such a trying time, of disloyalty to
the Church of which you are a hard-
working and earnest servant.
I remain, yours very faithfully,
F.NovA. SOQTI.A.
Rev. James Simpson,
Charlottetoetn, P.'E. Island.
CHILDREN CREMATED.
About 4 o'clock last Tuesday
afternoon the log house of Ernest
Young, situated near Ransom sta-
tion, in the township of Penntield,
five miles north-east of Battle Creek,
Michigan, took fire, and was con-
sumed, together with two small
children, a boy and a girl, aged
respectively 4 and 6 years, who had
been loft alone by the mother. At
the time of the fatality Mr. Young
was in Battle Creek ou business, and
the 'mother, with the older child.,
had gone a half mile distant to her
mother's, Mrs. Johnson Holcomb, a
wollknown lady of Penntield. The
fire was discovered at 110011, some
little time after the mother had left,
and by the time help arrived noth-
ing could be done towards rescuing
the children. After the fire was
subdued the remains of the children
wore found close together in the
bedroom. The little girl's head was
partially burned orf; also one of her
legs to the .knee; the other being
consumed to the body. Of the'
little boy nothing could be found
except the trunk, his head and limbs
being a crisp. The mother arrived
while the fire was in progress, and
it was by main streugth that she
was, restrained from rushing into
the house in search of her babes.
Her wails were heart-rouding, and
she was forced awayfrom the. place
before the remains of the little ono
wore taken out of the burned build-
iug.
MR. BARCLAY'S MISTAKE.
All 'Washington is splitting its
sides over astory of social romance
and misadventure which has just
leaked out. Mr, George Barclay,
of the British Legation, has of late
been sufficiently epris of Miss Leiter,
the beautiful Western heiress, who
has turned all Washington heads
this winter. Mr. Barclay is the
attractive young gentleman who %von
fame and money, at the Kuicker-
bocker club by backing himself to
drive to the .Brunswick hotel, dress
for dinner and return inside of ten
minutes. He did actually accorn-
plieh this feat inside of seven
Minutes. Itis undoubtedly owing
to this nervous haste, abnormally
developed in an otherwise slow
nature, that Mr. Barclay has now
to accept his present mortification.
It seems that on Wednesday night
Me. Barclay felt the approach of the
cold wave and purchased some of
those waren Woollen garments which
sticks closer than a brother to a
cold man's legs. The stupe after-
noon he ordered a box of roses to
be sent to his lodgings. Late for
dinner as usual, he rushed home,
clashed off a pretty note to Miss
Leiter, saying, 'Wear these this
evening for ;w'y sake,' and 11,111(10(1
the note and the hoxcontaiuing t he
woollen goods to his servant; who
duly delivered them, while the box
of roses remained upon Mr. Barclay's
table. Although perhaps not quite
so grievous an international affront
as Lord Sackville put upon ue, the
views of the British 'Foreign Office
upon this latest misfit in diplomacy
are awaited with some amnsement,
and anxiety. As for Mr. Baicluy's
personal explanation, they aro, of
course, unmentionable.
The American Ss lt, canal has
cost the United States `3,087,500.
Laet year there passe 1 through it
5,494,640 terns of freight, a quaettty
nearly equal to that pas.inq throughthe Suez cauat. `1'114• freightt on this
mass of stuli•eante to $10,075,15:3
awl it ie estimated` that if the rail-
ways had the carriage of it they
would have cllarq'•41 $34.557,500 for
the service. 50 it laity t,e .af•iv
said that the Ss11It renal Iles 501:141
in one year about seem' tikes its
cost. Looking at. them•, filets,what
a magnificent prospect is ah••nd r f
the new Canadian 8aelt canal, ramie
especially as the shipping on the
upper lake cOntinueo to increase,
SHORT AND BNAPPV.
All the theatres in Melbourne are eon*
ped with billial 41 -rooms.
A piano is being built at the Steinway
factory at Hamburg which is to cost $36,000.
The author of "Litesn to the Mocking
Bird" acknowledges that , he has made
£20,000 by it.
After the manner of all other exhibitions,
the Melbourne exhibition closes with a
deficit of a million dollars.
A portion of the Fourth division of the
Russian Cavalry recently rode sixty-five
miles in six hours and a quarter.
The attempt to break Weston's record
of 500 miles in 400 hours was begun on the
13th at Silhingbourne by Charles Greene.
Christmas Island, the last annexation of
Great Britain, is the highest coral island
known, rising three or four hundred feet
from the sea.
A scheme Is about tq be launched to build
a canal between the Bristol and the English
channels. It will be about forty.five miles
long.
Gray hair for woolen is becoming such a
rage in Paris that locks which until lately
would have been died a golden brown are
now bleached white.
The household of the Emperor of China is
to consist of 500 persons, including. 30 fan
bearers, 30 umbrella bearers, 30 physicians
and surgeons, 78 astrologers, 7 chief cooks
and sixty priests.
Says some one who is posted : " Jacob
Kilrain calls John L. Sullivan a baby ; John
L. Sullivan calla Jacob Kilrain a monkey ;
Charles Mitchell calla Jack Dempsey a rat ;
Jack Dempsey calls Charles Mitchell a duf.
fer ; Charles Mitchell calls John L. Sullivan
loafer.'- And they never fight! -
A census of the population at St. Peters-
burg has recently been taken, and it appears
that there has been a diminution of about
eighty thousand inhabitants eine 1881.
Aspiring Author—of course you are fond
of poetry are yen not, Miss Whipperly
Miss Whipperly—My maid is, 1 believe;
but let us talk of something serious. Tell
me all about the entries for the dog show.
" Our dear sister," said the Nebraska
pastor, "has gone to a better land—that is,
if there be any better land than can be found
here in the Missouri bottoms."
A. Plague of Tigers in Java.
According to the administration report of
Java recently laid before the Dutch Chambers
portions of that island are being depopu-
lated through tigers. In 1882 the popula-
tion of a village in the southwest of the
Bantam province was removed and trans-
ferred to an island off the coast in conse-
quence of the trouble caused to the people
by tigers. These animals have now become
an intolerable pest in parts of the same
province. The total population is about'
600,000, and in 1887 61 were killed by,
tigers, and in consequence of tho dread
existing among the people it has been pro-
posed to deport the inhabitants of the vil-
lages most threatened to other parts of the
country whore tigers are not so common,
and where they can pursue their agricultural
occupations with a greater degree of secur-
ity. At present they fear to go anywhere
near the borders of the forest. The people
present seem disinclined, or they lack the
means and courage, to attack and destroy
their enemy, although oonsiderable rewards
are offered by Government for the deatruc-•
tion of beasts of prey. In 1888 the reward
for killing a royal tiger was raised to 200
• florins. It appears also that the immunity
of the tiger is in part due to superstition,
for itis considered wrong to kill one unless
he attacks first or otherwiso does injury.
Moreover, guns were always very rare in
this particular district, and, since a rising a
LW years ago, have been taken away by the
authorities altogether.
Sons or Knox College.
Since the commencement of the oollege is
1844, the whole number of students who
completed their theological course, including
the tw�n�ty-six who completed their course
in the Institute of the United Presbyterian
Church, is 424. Besides these, about fifty
attended the theological classes for one or
two sessions, but did not oomplete their
course in Knox College. Nearly all its
graduates have been licensed as preachers
and ordained as ministers. Most of them
are labouring, or have been labouring, in
preaching the gospel in the difTereiit pro-
vinces of British North America. Some
have been settled in Great Britain and Ire-
land, and some have gone to heathen lands.
—Prof. Gregg in the Canada Educational
Monthly.
Effects of Close Shaving.
Do you know what close shaving means?
I never did until`I looked at a face the
other day, through a Microscope, which had
been treated to this luxurious process.
Why,•the entire skin resembles a piece of
raw beef. To make the face perfectly
smooth requires nut nilly the removal of the
hair, but also a portion of the cuticula, and
- a close shaye means the removal of a layer
of skin all around. The blood vessels thus
exposed are not visible to the eye, but under
the microscope each little quivering mouth
holding a minute blood drop protests against
such cruel treatment. The nerve tips aro
also uncovered and the pores are left unpro.
tected, which makes the skin tender and
unhealthy. This sullen exposure of the in-
ner layer of the skin renders a person liable
to have colds, hoarsencss,'and sure throat.
—San Francisco' Echoes:
lie stint Earned a Little Credit.
A small boy entered a Fourteenth -ave.
grocery the other day and asked the pro-
prietor to trust him to 2 cents' worth of
candy.
" I. don't know you," was the reply.
"But I live just two blocks down."
" But what made you suppose 1'd trust
your
" I supposed so because you'veof two
barrels of Kerosene out doors and I could
have bored gimlet Boles in both of them last
night without anybody,knowing
The grocer compromised by trusting the
boy to a cent's worth of candy and rolling
the'marl-els into 1.is shed.
A Mad R'oman's Terrible Linn.
On Friday night a number of men were in
McPJiee's hotel in Anprior waiting for the
night train. Suddenly they heard a terrific
scream outside and rushing out saw a wo-
man absolutely midc, who instantly on sight
of them, wheeled and flew away. They
gave chase and for two miles into the coun-
try she led them on that bitter wintry
night, until exhausted, benumbed, and
bleeding, her body could obey her spirit no
more. They bore hor to a farmer's and had
Ler clothed, and on the next day, she was
despatched to Kingston, a raving maniac.
She is married, and this is her second col-
lapse.—Carleton Canadian.
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January at Regina,
The we %or here is still the most de-
lightful in t world. Wo are writing with
windows slidepen—n pleasant breeze play-
ing,
layin;r. and the sun beating down hot enough
FOR OWR 'STORY-RFAQER8.
I3URGLARIOUSLY AND
FELONIOUSLY.
We had just 'poked up the safe,
and I had put the key in jny pocket
—I are the accountanW the Nu •th
and South of England- Bank at its
Padsay Branch, W. R. Yorks.—I
had got my hat ou, and had taken
up ray umbrella, when a man came
rnuniug in to the bank with a bag
of money in his hank.
Am I in times' he cried. `1
shook my head.
'Deuce take it 1' he said; ' and
I'u► off to Liverpool by the next
train, and then to America.'
Sony for it,' I said ; ' but we
can't take the money.'
\Vell, then, what is to be dung 1
Here's twenty two thousand pounds
in this bag, and those drafts of mine
come due in a couple of days. Well,
you'll have to take 'oto up ' he said ;
I cau't unless you take the money
• in to -night.'
I knew that those drafts were com-
ing due, and that our manager was
a little anxious about them, for they
were rather heavy, and the other
names on them were not very good.
Black, too,—that was the man with
_tee ntoney-bat—Black was a capital
customer ; and not only a good aus•
tomer himself, but he brought gooil
accounts with him, and we were a
young branch on our mottle.
Well, here was the money to
meet the drafts, anyhow, and I
should have been a great fool to
send it away just because it was
after-hours. So I counted it all
over: there was' about nineteen
thousand in cheques and notes, and
three thousand in gold.
'Come and have a glass of beer
with me,'•gaid Black, ' on the wiry
to the station;
' I put the bag of money in my
desk, and locked it up. I would
conic back presently, and have, it
placed in the safe. I walked to tha
station with Black ; we bad some
beer together, and then he went off
Americawards, and I on the way to
Nernophillar Villas. You see, I
was rather in the habit of calling
for a glass of beer as I went home,
and then ggigg on; and, consequent-
ly, from tho force of habit, I'd al-
most got home before I remembered
the bag of money. It was vexing,
too, because we had a tea-party that
night., the first since our marriage,
•aud.itbegan at six o'clock, and,I'd
promised to be home an hour earlier,
to draw the corks and help to get
things ready. ,And here it was six
o'clock, and I had to go all the way
back to the bank.
All the way back I went as hard
as I could pelt. However, the
money was all right in .my desk,
and now I'd put -it in the Safe. 'Tell
M'r. Cousins'—our manager, you
know—I said to 111e servant who'd
let me in, ' that I want the key of
the safe.' But you had it in your
pocket., say, you: which shows that
you are not acquainted with the
rules and regulations of the North
and South of England Bank, which
say that the accountant or chief -
cashier shall be responsible for the
due custody of the cash whilst it i8
in his possession in the day time;
and that at night all money and
securities shall be carefully secured
within the office safe, which shall
be secured by two keys, one of
which shall be in the custody of the
manager, and the second in that of
the accountant or cashier. But, you
say again, as long as you had one
key, what did you want with two 7
There, I own, the regulations are
obscure. They were drawn up' by
somebody without auy literary skill;
if they'd consulted me about 'ern, I
could have suggested a good many
improvements. What they went to
say was, that the safe was to be se-
cured by two locl•o, and that a key
of each, not interchangeable the
one with the other, was to he in
the custody, &c. Now you under-
stand why I wanted Mr. Cousins'
key:
' Eh, my 1' said the servant, open-
ing her mouth wide, ' and what
rnight you want Mr. Cousins' key
for 1'
Just as stupid as you, you see. I
was mad with the girl. ' I owe I
always get out of temper with those
Yorkshire people. It' you ask 'ern
the simplest question. first they
open their mouths and gape at you.
When you've repeated the question
twice, they shut their mouths and
think for a bit. Then the idea
seems to reach the thing that does
ditty with 'nm for brains, and ex-
cites a sort of reflex action, for, by
jingo 1 instead of answering your
question, they go ani ask you ono.
And that makes me so mad. Oh,
they're ,a very dense race, those
Yorkshire people.
'Why, to open the safe, you
stupid,' said I. 'Where is he 1,
Don't ye know!' says she.
' Know 1' I cridd in a rage.
' What should I ash you for, if I did
know 1'
Didn't thou know he were at
that honso 1'
Ah I so he was, I'd nearly for-
gotten that he was one of the guests
at nay wife's' party. Clearly, I
couldn't get the safe open, and I
didn't like to leave the money in
it to Cousins with ray koy, to Ful
it in thq safe when bo returned.
A nice mess I got into when. X
reached borne; for you see it bad
beeu arranged that I was to go up-
stairs and dress heforo anybgdy.
cab►e; :ind thatthen our ro0n1 Was:
to be made ready for the ladies 39
take their bonnets oft- for they
were not all carriage-pooplo. Well,
you never saw such a thing 1 When
I gut home and crept up -stairs to
dross --.the people had all come, so
the servant said—thele were six
muffs, and four bonnets, and five
pork -pie hats, and half -a -dozen
shawls on the bed ; and u-ne lady
had left her everyday curls hanging
over the looking -glass 1 Upon my
word, I really didn't like to per-
form my toilet among all these
feminine gear ; and there was no
look to the door ; and my dress
clothes were all smothered up
,t►uonget these mud's and thinge.
But I gut through pretty well, and
had just gut one of my lege into my
trousers, when bang-atrop-dols-dog 1
such a rattle at t.ho kuockor, and I
heard my wile scuttling away into
the hall. a They wore the Markbys,
our trump -cards, who krpt their
own carriage, and everything grand.
`So kind of you, dear!, said my
wife, kisaing Mrs, Markby most
affectionately ;.-I-could .hoar the re-
ports where I stood.
' So delighted 1 Really, how nice-
ly, how beautifully you arrange
everything ! I can't have things so
nice, with my servants and' --
Run up -stairs, dear, do 1' said
my wife; ' you know the roonl—
my room, right-hand at the top of•
the stairs.'
I hoar}] a flutter of female wings
on the stairs. What was I to do 1
If I could have .lnanaeed the other
leg, I wouldu't have Pidded, but I
atuldn't. I hadn't worn those dress -
things for a good while, anti I don't
get any thinner as I gro older.
No, for the life of me, I couldn't
dispose of that other leg at such
short notice. What could I do 1 I
could only rush to the door, and set
buy back against it. Did 1 tell you
this was our house warming party 1
I think not. Did I tell you our
landlord had altered the house for
us, making our bedroom larger by
adding a slip that had formed a
separate room 1 I think not. And
yet I ought to have told you all
these circumstances, to enable you
to understand the castastrophe that
followed. In a word, the door,
opened outwards. 1'd forgotten
that peculiarity—never having had
a room so constituted before—and
never will again. The door went
open with a crash, and I bounded
backwards into Mrs. Markby's arms.
Smelling -salts and sal volatiles was
there ever such an untoward affair !
Itam•tid-itiwity-tum-de-de ! • The
Music struck up for the dances as I,
hopped back into my room. ' I hid
my head among : the bolsters and
muffs, and almost cried; for I'm
such a delicatemiuded ratan. Yea,
it hurt mea good deal more than it
did Mrs. Markby, for, would you
believe it 1—she told the story
down below to the whole company,
with pantomimic action—and when
I skewed myself at the door of the
drawing -room, I was received with
shouts of inextinguishable laugh-
ter
I think I called the Yorkshire
people dense just now, didn't I i
Well I'll add another epithet=
coarse—dense and coarse. I told
'em so; but they only laughed the
m,
The guests wore gone, the lights
were
oreout, slumber had just visited
my eyes, when right into my brain,
starting me up as if I'd been shot,
came a noise, a sort of dull bursting
noise. I wasn't really certain at
first whether I had heard a noise
or only dreamed of it. I sat up in
bed and listened intently. Was it
only my pulse thumping in my
ears, or were those regr,ler beats,
the tramp of somebody's muffled
feeti Then I heard an unmistak-
ahle sound—croak, creak, creak—a
door being opened slowly and cauti-
ously. All in a moment the idea
flashed into my head—Twenty two
thousand pounds. You see, all this
dancing ,end junketing,. and laugh-
ing and and chaffing, had complete-
ly driven out of my mind all thought
of the large sum i had in my pos-
session. I had leli it in my great-
coat pocket, which was hanging up
in the hall, down -stairs.
Puff ! a gust of wind came through
the house, rattling the doors and
windows ; and then I heard a doo
slain, and a footstep outside of some
0130 stealing cautiously away.
Away down -stairs I went like a
mad•n►an, my one thought to put
my hand on that greatcoat. It was
a brown greatcoat with long tails,
and two pockets behind, and a little
cash -pocket on the loft -hand aide
in front, and the breast -pocket in
which I had put the bag of money.
This pocket wasn't, as is usual, on
the left-hand side, but on the right.
There was no other coat hanging
on those rails, only my wife's water-
proof. Vt1hat a swoop I made to
got hold of that coat 1 Great heavens!
it was gone 1
I had carefully burred and chain-
ed the front door before I went to
bed, --now it was unfastened: I
G, tne;t the snow.—Regi,:f Leader. my desk, so I pat it, in my pocket, pan out into the street, and looked
and took it home, thinking I'd give up and down, hopeless and bowild-
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