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Te"E• PAINTER OF PARVA;
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THE MAGIC OF A MASTERPIEGE.
CWAPTER 1,In form and feature, all that he could
Ih a spaelour; marble building over- � desire for his most ¢malted conception
crooking t1,e grandpiazza of Parma, its of the person and character of the
walla somewhat discolored by thelsaint—w••heu that is said, surely we
touch of time, was the studio of a pain- need say no more. 'Her garb, as well
ter. His rooms were on the seconds as her tone and bearing, plainly Sigui-
v floor, the 44ac&nvs in front command- I tied that she Wlouged to the patri-
Ing a view that might. have in.,i,ired clan clays.
any one whose soul was susceptible tol And so she did. She vVm the Ptin-
the inflesuces of the grand and the cess Isabel di Varona, an orphan, and
bi&Utiful. a relative and ward of the Duke of
\1 ithi;,t a stone's throw was the ata- Parma. She had fast her parents
tua of Corleeggio, whose ma-storwoces when quite young, her father having
adorn the City and constitute one of been killed on tile battle
-field, Ler
Liv ref attraotiona; furlhPr away thi+ nlah�a h dying shortly thereafter.
been
,� cathedral, with its linvosing b 'rinse di aroma had
its huge red marble lions,
arches axle only (.cousin, twice removed, of the
from the chisel of Buna, da Bisune. elite ori the micternside, they had
Still further, and to the right, Lin ex been mated tuge'Ll►er in youth, and had
tensive garden, full of bloom and frag- one another deeply and truly to
rance; and Iayoazd all this, visible the ead; hence, the mother when dy-
through a vista afforded by the Aemel- ing called ut.on the dear friend of ber
}an Way, were to he seen lite green husband to be a father to her child.
forest of the Taro and the lowering RIOLad premised, and must faithfully
peak of the distant Apennines, had his promise been kept. The or -
Our p&inter occupied two apartments phan girl, inheriting the title with the
both of goodly size, well lighted and large estate, had come to him a weal -
handsome and artistically furnish- thy ward' her possessions, in fact,
ed. That in the rear, the windows of ri-ling his own Ili value. And this
which overlooked a small garden be- wealth Ile had cared for with a faith
longing to the estate, was used as a that knew no swerving. He could not
reception and waiting -room, the oth- guarded his life with a more
er, in front, being the artist's stn- scrupulous fidelity,
die proper—his sanctum aanctorum. !f ),on ask Low the nous as Chanced
It was late in the afternoon of a to he here, serving GCnuui iia a model,
. pleasant day of June. In the rear Wetwitanswer: The k Cecilia was being
apartment of the painter's quarters sat painted far the duke. The subject had
originated
a woman, advanced in years— three with him. He gild read
score at least—wearing a garb as rich the touching story of the young and
In material as any lad in the land beautiful Roman wife, who laid of-
rould have desired, yet she had noth- feted her life upon the altar of her
tag of the patrician in her appear- religion—preferring death to a re-
t
lag beim at the contrary, really nuticiation of her blessed faith in her
ance,kan. the viiia, in truth, but a Lord and Saviours Jesus Christ—he hurl
read, and it became with him a sort of
duenna, in attendance upon It mist-
ress who occasionally tried her pat -I rnfaluaaon that re f he lainoultl not only
tienoe, air it was certainly being tried possess tiful wad the saint, but that
hes beautiful weird should sit for the
now, - I portrait, that he might thus possess
She had waited tit that room, ,coli-, a memento that vcauld be doubt re
tary and adoue, she could not tell how i cioas to him. y p
long, but it seemed to her an age. Ead' No fear of scandal had entered the
¢rhe been fond of pictures; had she lov- dulce's thoughts. 'Lanqui w•as noted for
ed the beautiful in art of nature; had his stern and unswerving virtue,- for
she been able to trace out thought and his high estimate of women, and for
feeling and grand conception in the the scrupulous attention to strict pro -
bold strokes and more gentle passeslpriety and decorum in his intercourse
''Oom"-- --of that sculptor's chisel upon the in -I with those who had occasion to sit in
animate marble—could she have dune, his at actio.
this she might have spent, hours in J Once, when the Count Gulseppe Den-
thatplatre and never thought, of lone-, a.,6 an only sou of one of the wealth-
somontess or faatigue, for it was, are -i [est, oldest, and most noble families
pository of rare paintings and choice in•the duchy, who had sought Tsabel's
bits of statuary and bas-relief, gath- hand in marriage—w•h,en he, with sad-
ered through years of earnest search, ly drawn and lugubrious visage, of -
with discriminating taste anti judg- fared objectkons to the arrangement,
ment, from many lands, the duke had laughed at hint outright:
Occasionally the duennit would go to "I'n mercy's name, of what are you,
oni, of the two windows—perhaps step I afraid?* the latter exelailned, '•Ian
out upon the balcony, and gaze down l .you fancy the l,upulacret would dare to
upon the garden underneat h, or away illi breathe the breath of scandal against
upon other windows, with it natural that vure Leine?• Surely, you coin ,lot
curiosity to see, if possible, vchat.the doubt, that her dignity and wIf-respect
neighbors were doing. When she re -1 Will I ear her sa.ely through the ordeal.
turned to the room and resumod her A'nd, troy boy, you can not know- Juan
seat, she fixed hor eyes ulion the lofty Zauoni if you fetes on his account."
arab withinwhich was tile Jtw
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ing into the sanctum sttnctut•um he- tai- met, in that, direction—"
gond, and once or twice, prubably ill It Before the young roan could .speak
I. fit of forget fw!nesR, while pretend- further the duke started under the
Ing to pass to and fro, she stepped touch of a quick, deep anger.
.u,•ar the closed passage and bent. her "Count Denaro! Dare you hint at
car as one does 'who listl•t►s. such a t.hinn By -'an Marco! the man
Anon she tapped the rich mosaic who has not, confidence in the imLna-
the floor with her toot, -•inked u culate purity Of --
blinked her sharp gray eyes, pursed "Oh, sir! sir 1' the count had Implor-
her thin lips, and nodded mysteriously, ed, gr.•l.sping lire duke's lati.nd as he
Madelon Sandoz was of a verdty be- woke. "How could you give such
coming ,weary and impatient ; but it turn to m'y speer•!►? Good heavens! t.
was not the first time she had Ilius would cut, ulv- tongue out at its 40018
suffered; nor did she expect it to be if 1 thought it; could frame utterunce
the cast. Nevertheless, even it duan- in that direction. No, 110; I meant
na's patience hits its limit, and, if her nothing like that."
looks do not belle her, she will ere "What then, GuLaeppe: You must
long make herself officious, have laid a meaning?"
The apartment beyond the arch—the "Dear muster, ' the. youth had re -
studio profierr— wa-s a. different. place plied, with deepest. feeling, "you will
from the waiting -room, and differently pardon me for whatt. I am about to
. occu•,ded. .On the walls were paintings„ say. True, Isabel has not yet given
Sketches and etchings' of various , de- assent to my earnest still; nor yet
g$rees of excellence; several Studies by Mass she promised me her hand; still
Correggin,two pictures by Murillo, I' tum sure she iikes rat+, and t had hop -
which theJ`aa<rt�• L had brought from ed thatsite might. ere long, speak the
Spain basidea works from the peri its Word Ihat would make me the bappiest
of other masters, whose namn.s had lie- of men. And now-, my dear duke, I
coma imperishable. Th,re were vh(Iie will loll you the thought that has giv,
l:feces of sculpture, too, bestowed in on me trouble, and 1 shame not to
various nooks and corners, together confess it." He paused here ,it few
with chret•e and valuable bricra-brae, momei►ts, with his head bent and his
-which we need not particularize, hand l)ressed om his brow. Presently
A peculiar charm of softness — of he resumed:
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and restfulness—was cast uPun "Sire, the painter 'lanoni is, with,
Uh„ room and upon all it contained by out' exception, the handsomest man I
the richly stained glass of the Windows oversaw; and in his heauty there is a
and the judicious arrangement of de- weird, spiritual quality—a quality f
licat:e•ly tinted screens and curtains, have at times thought not of earth
Near —which the center of the studio stood ,gives it a depth and power to
-an ensel, vwpporting a canvas, on which charm' which no one can escape who
was tieing created a life-size picture of is b"OU,ght 'within its influence. Tben
St. Cecilia, the young incl beautiful again, I never• met anoither so hril-
Christiau5 ;martyr of Rom,% The body lianl and entertaining in conversation,
Of the pirtilre was well on the way to- in short, his very presence has; in it
ward eompletion. The figure wasre- a (,harm u,bleh is utterly irresistible,
i Nmv, sir, I knolls that the princess is
presented. as leaning on a harp; the,
mood rine of swblime Contemplation, young and impressible, with a. deep
Thr, harp was finished, sieveonly a touch of romaine in her thoughts and
touch here and 1 gore in Shadingl the feelings. (.'&n you not see Whitt f
backgrounds was well-nigh complete, dread 8"
and the drapery required but little I''or the space of perhaps three sec -
more work.. The fats was scarcely more ends the duke had regarded the young
than cullined, but sufficient had been reran i;ericnrsly, and they lie burst in-
doa+ to reveal the, surpassing I0 a in laugh, and laughed heart-
! g Posen iLy. v
• bilitic•s of the ruracep,t[un, Oh, Wy, boy, 1 Whatr it bugbear you
By the side of hi,s vturk stood the have conjtrrecl up in that lioor fellow's
.graintee, Juan Z$Lnvni. He was of me- sludioI You must be crazy. The Prin-
diutlr height, and size, possessing a ceps di Varona failing
in love, like a
well -knit, mm{vular frame, the thews
and sin milktrit,id, with a plebeian picture-rnak-
d
eiterl and strengthened
which had been tough- er I Zounds t Don't. let her mistrust that
tinwxl manly and alhelet long
exercise, ngl hence eong eon- you think so lightly of her I Hush I Say
f.no alar¢. I fur ive
The Wauty or his fare wits startling, g You, (I boy, but
9'h•: skin in it's 1 urity and whiteness L alkiuk,t mach if she would should she
1 as !ike unspotted marble. Thereicolue to know it. And, now, Guiseplw,
via -t a Flow of Iierfect: health without)
as an end to this matter 1 will say this;
A You clan only look at one side of 7,a -
re ticfr of il flush, though there noni's character. I adimit all that you
dent times anti luOOcct ion 1% when stheI have said concerning him—every word;
din and strong emotion would sisal the but 1 wish to add—he is wedded to his
rich -4 carmine t0"rheek and brow. but
I h, foaturev warn of the piure I art' Since, he has been in Permit, little
Iiali:cn type,thi+ eyes, large, dreamy' � � (htn five ye,us, he Lea piainfwd
an,l ot.trous, were of at golden grown portraits of the most beautiful
in Color, though the bair Oust_ ;maidens the hits¢ among us. At least
�err,ng aboitt the magnificent head I a score 0f younig and, lovely damsels,
in hilken curls, was almost, blank, , marrkageahle, yet unmarried—[ may
"" there were certain lights, him•_ ; sayof themThat they were the love -
ever, In which IN. brownish tinge was ; liest' of our lovely women—have sat to
preceptible. His age—sines we know him, have spent hours with him alone,
it we may as well be. exaoL—was nine while h7 rauehl. their features and
and trient.y. One month previouslq transferred them to Canvas.
up
he had entered on bis thirtieth Guiseppe, most, of those ,young' lar
year. Se he was in the full bloom and dies I have conversed with nn the, Ruh-
porfeclaws cif bis manhood. feet of Che-ir experience in the artist's
110 tears clad in a light, blouse -like - studio' and T hive found theme unani.
frock or doublet of rich green velvet, Inous in one direction of disnppoint-
With a "Ost of ami:er-colored satin rnent and, 1 think I. may aqy, disgust.
beneath. the close fitting small-rinthes N(A' nil the l.entt T thly were able to
and velvetl ho:e revealing the muscular reveal, no possitiln c -harm they could
fullness and satuesque symmetry of bring to bear, no smites, not, admiring
.his louver limbs, There was no con- lcxiks, not even (heir witching flattery,
finement, Of linen gear about the neck. could draw from hien one warm or gid -
The collar of his shirt was turned over lant glance, Had !bey been mo many
' Ill�hn collar of his blouse and simply cOn- 'toothless old bags it would have been
s
by a t[ghtsilken-scarf, so !nose- i tiro' snfrtt', so fax as lti9 trPatmorit of
ly knoife,4 that, the white throat was , 1hPmRelVPs was roncorned. Be sure,
V tell free card Open. 1 lay boy, i knew what f was doing
Near l,y, reclining upon a luxurious t When I suffered the dear girl to go
velvet -covered ottoman, wits the paint- ; there, And you will remember old Ma-
or'male! for his saint. If she had diplon always a.ecompanied her. No I i
n01. I.e.Pn beautiful eche would not have wouldn't forego the. pleasure I antici-
been there. !Neither would she havepated in the I)ORseRRion of that pipture
been there had her beauty leen of the I for my ducal crown, Volt you know
vOlttptuous cast, or even verging up- ! i would give my life sooner than harm
on I1. HOM was most emphatically , Rhmrl,t comic 10 1811 N.I. But lhnt, can
lie -sof v Of purityrind tt•uth—a hAri.uty not be. Agit i i must try and see if T
0f 80111 ANA iniAllect. She was twenty I can fancy Zanonl in lava• with mortal
years Of age, with a figure of sur. woman. There away you go. Don't let
pan°sing gm -6 and loveliness, and— But any more+ such goblins arise In fright-
--"hen we Poo that the artistBought en you."
00 (4110" Iryarttiir-. 110 she afforded him, I The, young count had it on his tongue
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wlfen tate duke spoke of Mhdelon, to tell
hint that the g�oud old woman was never
Buffer -ad to art In the studio while the
artist was painting ;. but perhaps him
grace alriewdly knew it and had ready
exouse for it. At all events he had.
at that dfsmiasal, turned away with-
out sa3•tug more.
This has been a digression, but it
will the better enable us to under-
stuud the situation about to transpire.
(To be Continued.)
MAGNANIMITY IN WAR.
An Incident or the Itattle on the Pinhut of
Abrahuglt.
An elderly lady, now living in the
vtCinity of Boston, relates what she
heard from her grandfather, who was
a soldier in the English army which
cal,tured Quebec in 1769. The hostile
armies were drawn up in battle order
on the plains of Abraham, before the
city.
lu the open space between them, and
in full view of both rants, the oppos-
ing generals, ivulfe and Jlontculm,
rode toteard each other, saltaed by
raising their huts, draw alongside, and
silently clasped hands like friends and
brothers; then wheeled, rode back to
the head of their respective forces and
gave orders to open fire. A few hour:
rateir, both lay morLally wounded,
.The men were loyal to their cover•
eign.s and acting under orders. They
followed the miliLary profession as gal•
lant and chivairuus gentlemen. To-
ward each other they were incapable
of ill will, and at heart they were not
enemies but comrades, It, may seem
alwust shocking to add that in creed
and profession both were Christians.
Are not international courLosy and
n►agnton pity possible, even in time of
w'ar't Su long as nations, for any rea•
son or for lack of reasuu, will atilt
resort to arras for the settlement of
dist:urea, may not the dreadful duel gc
Oil without setting on fire the ugly
passions of hatred, cruelty and re•
ve mgt,- 8
")n the midst of arms, the laws are
silent•" says the old Roman maxim
But are the luws of God ever silent'
Is the gospel of His love ever -suspend
e(y'f If fight w'e lAust, let us fighl
only for justice, freedom, human wet
fare and lasting teace, With then(
motives dominant, thOuigh we strike Ili
human forms, 'we shall aim our blows
umly at real wrongs; we shall pity
those whom we slay, and shall regret
the injuries We are obliged to in
ftICt as well as those we are obliged,tc
suffer.
CAMP COFFEE.
Tile Lu1t1►s Thoroeghly I rttler.tund 1/4re t(
Make tine BeveraaLe.
A traveller in ,Lapland gives the re
rifle for making coffee among the
Lapps, when they are so fortunate at
to have it tit all, Dinner was eaten taut
of -doors, and tlrr one dish of the mea
Consisted n slid of roast ]euimiugs, littl
creatures something bctvteen a guin
ea -pig and a rat, and as the w-ritei
confesses, "exquisitely nasty" as to
their flavor. He says:
We squat;etl in a ring round the fire
watching tho, roasts, all except ,
wrinkled old w•urrian, who good soul
was int,•nt uilpon a more tedious core
many. Out Of a skin knapsack Slit
had taken a small skin bag. Fran
this she extracted some twelve greer
coffee beans, which she proceeded to
ruast, one by one, in a small iron
spoon, to the acc•annpuniment of vas
carr and .solicitude.
N1'hi'n they were cooked to her taste
she bruised them to coarse fragmenti
between stones, and put. the result
with water, into a copper kettle
vcbich had ani• liil in the wrual place
and another on the end of the spout
to keep out smoke and feathery wood
ash. Th,•n the whole mixture Wai
bulled u'p together into a i,ubblinF
broth of coffee fragments and coffer
extract,
She cleared it by an ole
trick N%fiich is known to campers al
the world' over. This was to throw in
to the kettle a small splash of col(
water, when the coffee grounds Wert
promptly prcwipitated to the bottom
'Then she poured the clear, bru:vn
steaming liquid into a blackener
bowl of birch -root, and handed it to
the good -man, her husband.
After lie had taken the lovvl in hit
Lingers, the woman hunted in a leather
knapsack, and produe.od a lump of heel
sugar wrapped in a careful fold a
skill. The host bit. a fragment from
it, and dodged it in his teeth; then ht
lifted the bowl to his lips and drink
in a more civilized man thin wntild
of course, have hePn rudeness; in r
savage it was asimple ant or courtesy
It was a plain assurance that. Ch1
bowl contalned no poison. 'Then be
handed it on for as to drink in our
turn, and I do not, know that I ever
tasted more perfect coffee,
PAGE OF HISTORY.
CbrlMlina Tried to Sell 1'nba allot Ch1
PhlOppllien For !1{4,111'01101,
,Manila was built in 1581, and hats
fort over three centuries, been the seal
orf Spanish government. But tenaci-
ons as hor hold upon the Lrhilippinee
and Cuba has been. last relics, almIxst,
of her once world -empire, Spain conte
near parting with bath the se possess-
] inti during 1 his very century. Queen
Maria Christina—not Cho present w•id-
I ow of Alfonso XII., but ,the wife of
Ferdinand VII., was noted for het
I greed. On her successicm to alie
! throne she found. I lie Spanish t reasu ry
so depleted that she schemed to sell
both the Pbilippines and Cuba t.c
France. 4he forced Senor C!ampnzanc
to undertaNke a mission that vias ex-
tremely distasteful to bis Spanish
pride. When he opened Christina's
proposition to Louis Philippe, the, proud
don struck the table a heavy blow and
muttered a curse. The Queen pro-
posed to hand over to Clic French King
the Island of Cuba for 30,000,000 reals,
about $3,000,000, and the Philippines
and Puer(o, Rico for 10,000,000 reals,
about $1,000,000, or some $4,000,001) in
all, Louis Philippe was willing
enough to pay the price for Cuba, but
object.od to the sum asked for the
Philippines. "Several millions of reals
Is my offer," he remarked, "or else the
contract must be thrown into the fire."
Tallyrand, who was present, was about
W remonstralte; but as he stretched
forth his hand to take the Queen's pa-
per, Campoaano leaped to his feet,
seized the contract, crumpled, it In bls
hands, and exclaimed: "Your Majesty
is right, The contract Is worthless,
only fitto ire thrown Into the fire."
And with these words he flung the
paper donvm upon the fire And meat
the flaming document with the tongs
tato blackened fra4M,onts.
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The Three Correspondents'
Lt was him first experience of a trot-
ing can►el, and a;t first the trwtiun, al-
though irregular and abrupt wus out
unpleasant. Hiaving no stirrup Lir fix-
ed Point of any kind, he could not, rise
Cu it, but he gripped as tightly as he
could with his knelp and he tried to
sway baukw arch and forwards us he
hail seen the Arabs do. it was a large,
very concave Makluofa cuddle, and he
was conscious that he vvits bouncing
about on it with as little power uf•ad-
hesi0u as a billiard ball upon a tea
tray. He kripl.itid the two sides with
his hal►ds to h_,ld hamself steady. The
creature had got into its long, swing -
Ing, stealthy trot, its sponge -like feet
making Liu sound upon the hard sand.
Anerley leaned back with his two hands
grigrl,ing hard behind him, and he
whooped the creature on.
The suit had already sunk Behind the
line of black volcanic peaks, which look
Us huge, siag-header at the mouth of
a urine. The western sky had taken that
lovely light -green and pale -pink tint
which makes evening beautiful upon
the Nile, and the old brown river itself,
Swirling down anlougst the black rocks,
caught some Shimmer of the colors
atiovo. The glare, the heat and the
Piping of the inseci.s had all ceased
together.. Th spite of his aching head
Anerley could have. cried out fur pure
physical joy as the swift creature be-
neath him flew alung with him through
that cool invigorating air, with the vir-
ile north w•iud soothing his pringling
face. •
Ilia had looked at his watch, and now
he made a swift calculation of limes
and distances, it was past six when
he had Left tha cant!,. Over broken
ground it was impossible that he could
hope to do) mono than seven miles tin
hour—less on had parts, more on the
smooth, Elie recollection of the track
way that there were few smwath and
many bail, He would be lucky then
if he reached Sarras anywbere from
if
to one, Then the messages took
a good two hours to go through, fr
they had to Las transe,ribed at Cairo.
At the Lest he could only hope to have
told his story in Fleet Street at two or
three in tho morning, it wag possible
that be might manage it, but the
Chances seemed enormously against
him, About three the morning edition
would be mud,e up, a,nd his chance gone
forever. The one thing clear was that
only the first man at the wires would
have any chance ,it all, and Anerley
mednIt, t I: s '
o r first if hard riding could
do Lt. do by tappeA away; at the bird-
like neck, acct the creature's long, loose
limbs went faster and faster at every
tap. Where the roc lcy spurs ran down
to the river, hurses woultii have to go
round, while camels might get across
so that Anerley felt that he was always
gaining upon his companions.
But there was a Lric_s to be psi^.L fur
the feeling. He had heard, df men who
had burst when on cuLnel journeys, and
he knew- that th,i ¢blobs swathe their
bodies tightly in broad cloth buridagos
when tbey prepare for a lung march.
It had seemed unnecessary and ridieu-
lous when he first began to speed over
the level track, but ncnv, vvbell he got
on the rocky paths. ha underSLood what
it meant. Never for an instant was he
at the samre angle. Backwards, for-
wards he swung, with a tingling jar
at the end of each wiry, until he ached
fruan his neck to 11- knee, It caught
him across the shoulders, it caught hint
down the spine, it gripped him over the
loins, it marked thio low-ar line of .his
ribs with one heavy dull throb. lire
clutched here and there with his hand
to try and ease the strain upon his
muscles. Hie dfrew up his knees, alter-
ed his seat and set his teeth wiLh a
grim determination to go throughwith
it should it kill him. His heal was
splittiug, his flayed face smarting and
overy joint in his body aching Lis if
it were dislocated. But he forgot all
that. when, with the rising of the moon,
be heard the clinking of horses' boots
down upon the track by the river, and
knew th,tt, unseen by therm, he had. al-
readty gut well abreast of his compan-
ions. But he esus hard.l'y.half-way anti
the, time alreadly eleven.
All day long the needles had been
ticking away without intermission in
the little corrugated iron but which
served as a telegraph station at Surras•
With its bare WON and its parking -
case seats it was none, the less for. the
moment one of the vital spots upon the
earth's surface. and the crisp importu-
nate ticking might have come from the
world -old clock of destiny. Many au-
gust. people bad been tit the other enol
of those wires anti had eomuiuned with
the moist -faced military clerk. A
French premier had demanded a pledge
and stn English marquis had passed on
the recltiest. to the general in command,
with a question as t.o, how it. would. at -
feet the sittration. Ciph� r telegrams
hada nearly driven the clerk, out of his
wits, for 'of all ct•az,v occupations the
taking of a cipher message schen you
are without a ,key to then cipher is file
worst. Much high diplumary had been
going on all day in the innermost cham-
bers of European chancellories, and the
results of it had, IvA-n whiR(rered into
this little corrugated iron but.. About
two in the morning an enormous dis-
pau.It had ruyne A. last to an end, and
the wenry operator had ot'.ened the
door and w•us lighting his pipe in the
enol, fresh a,ir, whon ho raw a cannel,
plump Clown ku the dust, and n man,
who Seemed to lee in the last state of
drunkenness, come rolling toward him,
" Whnt'R the time?'* he cried In a.
Swire that appeared to be the only
sourer thing about him.
It Wits on the clerk's lips to say that.
it teas time that the questioner w•as in
! his bed, but it, is, not safe upon a ram -
I paign to Ire irtinicitl at the expense of
kharki-rind men. He contented him-
self therefore w•ilh the bald statement
t.but it, wits after two.
But. no retort (lint he, could have de-
vised could have bad amore crushing
effect. The voice turned drunken also,
and the man caught at the door post to
uphold him.
Two o'clock 1 I'm done after all l"
said be. His bend was tied tip In a
bloody bandkereh!let, and his taco was
crimsfon, and he stood with his legs
crooked as if the pith bad all gone out
of his hack. The ete'rtk began to real-
ize t.hnt something out of the ordinary
was in thio winA.
"How Jong does It take to get a
wire to London S" '
" About two hours,"
" And it's Lw onow. I could not get
it before four,"
" Wfore I bree,"
" Pour S"
11 No, three,"
" But you said two h'our's.''
Yes, but therA's more than an
tioar's difference in longitude,"
",By heavens, I'll deo It yit,t I" cTlorl
.
TUE C051ING NAVY.
Anerley, and staggering to a packing
ease he began the dictation of his fa-
mous dispatch.
tAnd so It ell►wi about that the Ga-
zette haat a lung column, with head-
lines like an spiluph. when the sheets
of the Intelligence and the Courier were
as blank ;is the fates of their editors.
And so, tun, it ha►ppene,i that wbea
two weary uteu, upon two foundered
hurses, arrived abutut four to the worn-
ing at the Sarras post office they look-
ed, at each other in'silence and depart-
ed noiselessly with the conviction that
there are some situations with which
Ila• English language is not capable of
dear I ing.
The End.
DETECTION OF ROGUES.
The Way It Is Uoue Irl single learn eau
e
Ibuntrlen.
The executors of the law in Europe
have been swift to seize upon discov-
eries in science to help them to mu
down criminals. The British Drug-
gist notes a curious use of the micro-
scope which was lately made in Prus-
sia. A barrel of specie sent from the
frontier to Berlin vvas robbed and fill-
ed with sand. This was supposed to
have been done on the -ray to Berlin.
The e•nritient chemist, Professor Ehr-
enbergh, obtained samples of all the
sand near the stations through which
the barrel passed, Lind by means of
the blowpipe and microscope, found
sward of the station at which it had
been emptied and filled, The thief
Was afterward discovered and arrest-
ed.
in fiance noted rogues are not only
photographed, bwt weighed and meas-
ured Carefully, and forced to speak
tinct sing into a phonographru instru-
ntetit before their discharge from
prisotn• that they may be identified
afterward in any attempted crime,
It has also been noted for the identi-
fication of criminate that the one part
of the hautan body which is never dup-
licatted in man o,r woman L, the mark-
ings oar the skin of -the thumb. The
fame and figure may be altered at w ill;
Wt the lines on the thumb—neverl
Far the detection of cri,miriais, an im-
pre:tsioln of the thumb is stamped up-
on gaper.
rt story is told of the Princess of
Wales. She was once shown through
thle museum at .deoitiand Yard, ('On-
tainin7 the plidtographs of countless
rogues, and also some of the methods,
scientific and legal, for tracing crime
and for punishing it.
It is all very clever," said the kind-
ly princess, with a sigh, "butt if the,
world were as anxiou,4 to discover and
reward the good men, ar.s it is the bad,
what a pleasant place 'it would be F
AUSTRALIAN HORSES.
So I'leutifal 1n That Country That a iter,
gar 31ay Itide.
The land of the. kangaroo and the
w'ernl,at, where the mammal wits no-
thing less marsupial, till the European
arrived ori the scene, .may now- be call-
ed the' land of horses. In New South
Wales the sight Of a beggar on horse-
ba'ek excites no surprise. The poorest
settler has 'a nag or two of his own,
and his children 'may be seen riding
to school like little lords. A ane-
hprse township would be incunceiveahle
I'll a. country where, each village, Ili -
most, has its race meeting. With a
population scarcely over 1,:.'50,000, the
Colony ot%ns more than 500,000 horses.
And tithe novv.exports horses on a rap-
idly increasing scale, [a 1895 the col-
ony exported 10fr3 horses, of the esti-
mated value of £12,745; in 1896 the
number was 8198, value £L3,50t1; and
last year there was a further increase
India being the leading customer. Aus-
tralian horses being found admirably
adapter! for military purposes in that
part of the British Empire. Horses
are exported also from. New South
Wales to Victorbi. ties• Zealand, 'Wes-
tern AwAtralia, Fiji, the Straits Set-
tlemeuLs, Java and the Philippine Is-
laads.
T,IiR,O(JGH RATE; WARS.
Patron, in a Western railroad sta-
ti,on—Girunt , a.tirket to Gulc.htown•
Ticket; Clerk—Yessir. Seven an' a
half,
Pal ron—Seven dollers and a half to
G .IcIttow•n'd Why. tbat's only it few
stations from here.
Ticket, Clerk, sharply — Sevenahalf,
Lively novo.
Patron—Don't want it. Give me a
ticket for China -by Way Of Gtllch-
town.
Ticket. Clerk, hriskly -Ile re you are,
"ir. Five dollars.
A LUCKY ,MAN
Patrick ---014 jtublier•s, Oi win -z buorn
Ittoky. .480 afl,hor lavin' Ill' Imuse
thin marnin' Ob wor knocked down hoi
it cab ; .can block heyanl that Oi stere
eaughG in, a pavement, explosion, it
block lwyant agin Of were mistook fdr
a thafe an' rinulted bei it polacernon ;
an' phin Oi got to w•oeruk, 1 it big
sthone from ill' buildin' fell an'vrack-
ed me -110111der.
lly`windery-NVIleret dive's the luck
oume in 'd
Patrick - --Faith! Ain't, Oi alokeyft4
A i41Y:STE,RIOUS VISI -TOR.
New Servaul—Plealse, mum, there's a
strange Indy down stairs and she
didn't have not, card. She took off her
things as if she intended to stay, and
she looked around the room with her
nose in the air, as if things wasn't good
enough for her, and she rubbed the
wimder to see if it was clean, an' she
peeked in the dark corners, an' then
looked. silt the droit on her fingers, an'
sniffed.
Mistress—I can't imagine who the
creature Dan he, My husband's mo-
ther and sisters are in Purape.
RA BBIT;F,
All attempts to induce the poor of
Great. Britain to buy rabbits, on the
groi nd'thM, they are cbeap and whole-
some, have failed. Australia could sup-
ply tine poor of London, and then have
pl.emtty of rabbits to spare; trut the poor
despise the rabbit. Aft the same time
Ile jA welcnlmed to the table of the
tveatlth and is esteemed as a tooth-
some tltoordeL
OUI� CHA,1U GAS OF DELTA.
MATTERS ON WHICH THEY DEPEND
REVEALED IN A BLUE BOOK.
14ole Leading Cannes of Death In England
The Pet1111htr AdVantarge- and Perlis of
UiII'etrut Put•-alts-Puzrllug k4words or
hulelde,t •Alroholhm's ylany victims.
Cleveland Moffett has Well studying'
a British blue hook which presents sta-
tistics of death in F:ugbtnd is the
years 1890, 1891 and 18921. In this book
he says, the dead are clussified accord-
ing to ages, ocvu,paitious, disease, dis-
tricts, etc., until -there is not the poor-
est chimney -sweep Lir loftiest cabinet
minister who may not find, if he looks
Carefully, some precise Statement its to
how and why and when he is alit to
die, And it is easy to see that these
death discoveries made in Loudon and
England must al)ply in the main to
other •cal)itals and other countries
where similar conditions exist. All
concluskons in this blue book are bas.
ed ud.ua the deaths of men, for it ap-
pears that women make trouble even
in the mortality ,statistics.
One of the first tables shoves that
men vvhu have some regular occupa-
tion may face death more serenely than
those who halve none. This is especially
true between the ages of 20 and 35,
when the death rate for `tinocotiprod
males" is from three to six times great-
er than for those with occupations, six
times greater at 'L0, and thcoee ckmes
greater at 35. It crust' be borne in
mind, howelvert that among the no -
Occupied are included not only persons
retired from bmsiness or living on pri-
vate means, but
LUNATICS AND PRISONERS
The tables Show that this excessive
death rate among the unoccupied is
due mainly to diseases of; the nervous
system and to pht hiais, the death rate
from the former being seven times and
front the latrer nearly three times
higher than for wren with ooctipations.
'1ti' t c� living
e next see he a ivanta of It n
ge �
in agricultural districts away frow
large cities. Comparing the death
rate of "occupied males", (whom Mr,
J'Iuffett considers exclusively now) we
find that the mortality in London, tak-
ing the period in life from '-'.5 to 65,
is 20 ler cent. above the average,while
in the agricultural districts it is '28
i.er cent. below the average. And
still less favorable is the lot of those
Who live in the industrial regiona, the
great manufacturing centres like Shef-
field anti Birmingham since for them
the death rate rises to 31 per cent,
alcove the average. The chief causes of
Lhese higher death rates, both in Lou-
don and the industrial districts, are
. phthisis and diseases of the respint-
tory system. '
Statistics are given of twenly-futir
diseases or cttuses of death, an(( five.
of these, viz: phthisis, diseases of the
nerivous system, diseases of the circul-
atory system, bronchitis, and' lineu-
1 1 f the
oats cit 3 s more than half o
>v Causes
entire mortality. Cancer kills more
titan influenza, while suicide is directly
resilmnsible for more deaths than at -
robotism, 1t is, however, pointed cul.
expressly that alcoholism contributes
to many deatJ►s that aret pit down to
other causes. In certifyinif the cause
of death of inebriates it is tho habit
of some medical men to state only the
pathological conditfun of the organ or
organs chiefly affected. The experi.
once of the General Registry office
shows that
CIRRF30Siti OF THE, LIVER
for in -tante, (the liver is the organ
which, more than any other is affected
by intemperance), is frequently re-
turned as the sole cause of death in
such circtrnisiances, the fact that abuse
of alcohol hitt! induced the cirrhosis or
other morbid condition being omitted
from the Certificate. 'There is a spec-
ial table given for alcoholism, show ing
coulparative mortality figures, and
social philosophers will shake their
heads wisely when they see, at t he very
head of th•e list, the keepers of inns
and hotels, their servants, •Cud the
whole tribe of brewers and distiller's.
JTen of these classes, that is, the diS-
1-easers of alrohol, die of it -4 effects
anti three to fen times fluter than the
averagtP of. "occu,pied males," three
tines fast -r for the brewer, len !imus
i Servant.
factor for (he T,nnilon hole se v
On the clh^r hand, the mortality from
a:; uholisrn nn►ong agricultural labor-
ers, r'ailvvay men, iron and tin and
coal ruiners, clergymen, fishermen, :end
other, is rar helms the average, only
me -third or ono -fourth of it, w'bile in
the eamp of snail manufacturers, lead
workers, copper minerIt, and carpet
manufacturers, no deaths w hatever are
recorded from alcoholism. It would le
of interest to know if there is mine
a'ubtlo relmi,lon between Rnapmaking
and total alislinence.
Mr, dloffett found the Rtlicide sta-
tistics full of sitnilar unexplainable
cunritti+ions. W`by,, for inst.anS, -should
zinc workers be five tithes ay ready to
kill themselves as ordiitiry "oc•ettpied
males," whereas watchmakers are only
twice as ready, eorveI• workers only
one-third ase ready, while hotel ser-
vants in Cleo industrial districts, rOp-
i•er Inners and tin miners, apparenl•ly
never kill themselves at a.11I .
TFT,: Noiarx1, :1VIv,itA(7T;
requires that there be one suicide in
every too deaths. but innkeepers, tenvit-
erR, artists, ruussicinns, hair dressers,
and er,mmercial travellers kill them-
selves much oftetlPr than I)iiR, while
boilermakers, bricklayers, clergymen,
and coal miners, !reel) their self-de-
st.rurtion well below the average. Far -
mors, gardeners, etc., in the matter of
suicide are above the average, while
their servants are below It. Pbysici-
Ans kill themselves three times as oft-
en nA ordinnry men, •and in that d(ffi-
rult teriod of their lives between the
ages of 25 and 496 it.heir mortality from
.suicide is even greater, Publishers are
RinKitrlarly free from a, tendency to
suicide.
Coarsing to the table of phthisia, which
kills more people every year, than any
other disease, it is soen that the great-
est sufferers here, m was the case wit#
alcoholism, are thutro whu have to dil
with the running' of imam and hotelat
indeed, the presentment of dangeril
connected with these, two callings III
quite appalling. It is plain that neithq
er hotel keepers nor their ,servantl
hate anything to holes for frum mor.
tality statistics. Not only do they,
head the death rale lists in phthisis
and alcoilolLim, but they hold the same
unen%Wits position fOr• lot]uenza, gouty
rheumatic fever, vneumunia, diseases
of the liver, dise"es of the digestive
organa, and, finally, they show the
highest mortality figures for diseases
of all sorts. "The mortality among
I publicans, in London, remarks the
statistician, "is nearly doable that of
all occupied orales taken as a sttLnd-
ard. They die nearly 10' tkmes as fast
front alcoholism. 5 1-2 times as fast
from gout, 311-2 times as fust from
diabetes, 33-4 times as fast from dis-
eases of the liver, and twice as fast'
from 1)hthisis, rbeuwwtie fever and sui-
cide."
Looking over other lista Mr, ,Moffett
finds that chimney sweeps have nearly
four times the tendency of ordinary,
men to contract. Cancer, that gener-
al laborers are the most fortunate in
escaping gout, lead workers and file
makers die about°three times often-
er than the ordinary citizen from
BRIGHT'S DISEASE,
Which is almost newer contracted by,
tallow soap mapudaicturers (here we iy
have the mystery of soa,p-making
again); thaldt coal miners ,and lace mak-
ers show only hhlf the general lia-
bility to liver diseases; tbirt seven or -
for.
dinar en die from accidents
Y m
evory schoolmaster win, so dies; that
paper manufacturers , are practically
free from rheumatic fever, although
bookbinders swffer from it Cruelly; that
coal heavers, porters and metal work-
ers seldom diff from diabetes, although
that disease carries off three Limes
as; many glass manuf,leturers and four
tinles as many lawyelh as. the aver'»','.+W1;,,
ate uai •i for. . s
The bits. book sta,ti,Btician has a poor '..4La;i.,"
idow of mrresic•ian`;, whom be finds "sad- � .
ly addicted to intemperance." They
die more than twice a.5 rapidly as or- ,; ;
dinars mei from alcoholism, nearly y; �
twice as rapidly from phthisis, and 1.
very' much more rapidly from nervous c° . 11
diseases, liver diseases and suioide.
Commercial travellers shun a high
mortaiity, considering the large am-
ount of time they spend in the open air.
Alcoholism and liver diseases are the
death
�a heightened de
w , is h h
chief ratt . if this e g
rata, which increases as they pass mid- ,
dle life. Ctommorcial travellers die
from dial:et.es almost as Past. again as
the average, and from cancer faster
than the average by 43 per cent.; they
also suffer exceptionally from Bright's
disease, Thein mortality from phl.hisis '
and from disemes of the respiratory .
sysik;m is, however*, below the aver -
,age. '
,Amontr many othter tables are two
imliurt.ant ones, showing the, effects in
mortality statistics of breathing foul
air and breathing dust -laden air, Ile
conclusions are that coat dust and t •a
dust of such woods as Are used by car-
trenters and joiners are mur.it less in-
jurious than the dust of metals and
stone, while flour (lust and the dust of
textile fabrics come between the two
in point of h'arinat ulltess. As to the
brieaithinr of foul air, it. is proved that
inn occultations vv.herer it is -inevitable,.
M.
in printing and shoemaking, title
uturtality figures from pulmonary dis-
eases are materially increased.
DEATH -DEALING. ;•g
w
Terriose bealrnetive Po.Ser.of Modern im-
proved 111111-4.
The war between the United States
and Spain provokes curiosity as to the
destructive effect Of modern rifles,
which will nosy be fully tested for the
first time on a large seals.
The Brag -Jorgensen rifle, with
which the United States soldiers are
armed, appears to be a remarkably de-
structive weapon. lta caliber is only
30, and the long, steel -cased bullet, of
the thickness of an ordinary pencil.,
will penetrate a man's skull at the
thickest part at a distance Of half. a
mile.
At a very short range it bores a
heals through the stoutest ,bone, as
clean cut as if it %-Pre drilled, bust be-
yond a range of too -yards it assumes
a lateral motion, which makes it as
terrible na if it were an explosive bul-
let.
A short tittle ago a ntan wits shot
With (me of these bwllets vvbile at-
tempting to escape from Ft, ;;herida,m.
'17re I,ullal, went. through the man's
head, shattering his skull into e0pieces,
glad, continuing its flight, bored its
,f EL
tree
wap through the; thick trunk
and finally emimdded itself some dis-
Ia'n"e atcav, two feet, in the ground.
it, is Pstimakecl that within a range
orf 6011 yard•( the small caliber rifte of
today tt ILl kill Its many men its it
wounds, and heyond that. range the
numhers woulded will exceed the num-
ber 'killed. With a killing range, of
three quarters of ar. mile, with Smoke-
less pmvder, and, firing 111 shots for
every shat, fired by the Old-time rifle,
the slaughter in modern warfare -will
lie infinitely greater thatn any ,vet re-
corded. Happily, surgery has also
mane ,great strides, and the skill that
heals can r(,ml;ete better than ever
with she skill that wounds.
AN AUTHORITY ;SPEAKS.
Citizen --Mc Grealmann, l heard a
curious debate the other evening. The_
Subject was; Can a ).olitieian be a •
Christ ia•ii ? Witia is your opindou 2
dlr. Greatman, local statesman—He
kin, bol he'll Of licked.
A �1 —kovi'ER,N "Llmm"
Disgusted Pas=senger—T thought
this was the limited express.
Conductor --That's what it's called,
sir.
'Ms.genger—Huh l What !s there lim-
ited about r't S ,
Conductor, after reflection—TheLirno
for meals.
A F`AbITLY iNTA'17CF3.
Proud Dialme-4 do mat see how you
could think of marrytaq Into such Lia
ocxmmomplaco family ars flat.
P,wri n t io syn u:ghi sp--Olt, i'r t not ITV •
Ing to ma,'rry Into bio ti•.mily; hp's gap,
Ing (a marry Into ow fttal.`v.
,