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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1905)
j godnd by a Spell CHAPTKB Vt (Continued.) After t had nit thtu meditating for about Un minutes, I began my work. I wrote very Quickly, and In less than an hour I had finished my task. I opened mr door anil an quietly as I could, with out in appearance of stealth, descended the stairs, hoping to reach th kitchen unobserved. But my master was watrh Ing too vlgllantlyt ha came oat of the parlor ks I reached Uie landing place. "What do you want creeping; about the house at this time of night?" he asked. 'sharply, i "I Trao going dowp Into the kitchen t. get a Rises of water," I answered, "t here flnUhed mr work." "Yon can't go Into the kitchen: Mar tha has gone to bed. Yon can go into my room and get witter, and then so to bed." Without answering him. T remounted the stairs and heard him following me. I went into his room and drank a class of water, for t was really parched with thirst. While I was there I heard him ascend the second flight of stairs and no Into my mom. As t reached the door I met him coming out, with the envel ope In his hand. I wished him Rood tiljtht. tint he did not answer roe. I wstrhed him over the bannisters, heard Mm pass along the passage, lock the street, door, take oat the key, and then re enter the parlor. "I am n prisoner," I thought: "and he will take good care that I have no com munlration with Martha." Suddenly I remembered the way I got out of the house on thst memorable October night. As soon as all were abed, I would creep up to the boys' room they might all be asleep, and not hear me; and It they uould, l aia not be lieve that they would betray me; I had always been as kind to them as I hid dared, shielded them from punishment when I was able, awl I believed mat they liked me. I felt renewed confidence after this thought. "I had better lock my door," I thought, "In case he should com op, and find me not In bed." The key was not In the lock! It must have been takeu ont while I was getting that glass of water. This last incident shook my courage severely. "Perhaps they want to enter my room, and smoth er me In my sleep!" was my first thought. Then I remembered that I had heard my master say that he should' not resolve upon any course of action until he had satisfied himself of what I knew. While I was thus revolving in my mind every Imsginable horror, I heard footsteps ascending the stairs. I put out my light, and tore off my boots and cost, and then jumped Into bed. The foot steps stopped outside my door, psused for several seconds, theu I heard the handle cautiously turned, and a light began to creep through the slowly open ing door. The agony I endured at that moment I shall never forget I could not move nor speak, but lay watching the stream of light gradually broaden, until It was darkened by the figure of Mr. Forter standing upon the threshold. The rays of the candle fell npon his face; Its blotches were Inflamed with drink, but otherwise It was very pale, and there was a haggard look upon It As he caught the expression of my tsce, he started back. I am certain It must have been very ghastly. As he stood thus. I fsncled I saw a black shadow flit sud denly behind him. "Ain't you asleep?" he said, In a thick voice. "No, sir. Oh, how you frightened me!" t cried. I could not help it "Thst shows you have a sinful con science; the righteous are never fright ened. I am never frightened. Trey pray, and then go to sleep." He was more intoxicated than I had ever seen him before. He cloned the door; then I hesnl him put the key in the lock; then, clickl The key was turned! My last hope was gone. I was power less, helpless; a prisoner, utterly at the mercy of this man. I sprang out of bed; I searched for a match there was not one In thu room. I drew up my blind, but the night was moonless and cloudy. I opened my window, and look ed out All was deathly still; not a leaf rustled; not a ray of light any where: nanght but black shadows. I was looking down npon a gulf to which there seemed no bottom. Once, In my desperation, I half resolv ed to cast myself out bnt the depths looked too awful. I closed the window again, lest the temptation should be too powerful to resist. Bathed In perspira tion, yet shivering with cold, utterly prostrated by the brooding horror thst was npon me. I threw myself upon the bed, and waited my fate. CHAPTER VII. How or when I fell asleep I eonld never remember. But I did fall asleep. Neither can I remember how long I slept From the time that I threw my self despairingly npon my bed, all Is haiy. I can never precisely separate the vision from the reality. First, the dream. I was living back In the past It was the very October night that I have so minutely described. I was standing at the window of the boys' bedroom; I was surrounded by the old faces that had departed long ago; the moon was shining brightly, ss It did on that night I thought that I had Just shaken hands all round, and was looking below, half fearful of the peril ous descent I was about to make. Stand ing out clearly In the broad light, with her face upturned towards mine, was the child of the Norman gate, her face color less and statuesque, ber hair glistening In the moon's rays. Just as I bad seen It once before. She was waiting for me. We were going to fly together, whither I know pot I had begun my descent, and was rapidly Bearing the bottom, when my steps were stlddenly arrested. Just on a level with my head, writhing and twisting Its colls round one of the pro tuberant branches of-tbe pear tree, was a red snake; but although Its body was a mass of moving colls, its head was perfectly motionless; and out of It glared a pair of cold, stony eyes that held mine with a horrible fascination. I tried to take away my gaze from them, but they held me with a resistless power. All strength deserted me: my hnnds relaxed their grasp of the boughs, my feet slid powerlcssly from their hold, and I fell The reality. I awoke not with a start, but I slowly rose up Into a sit ting posture, n though nn Iron leier. worked by some hlddenu power, bad pleased me upwards. I could feel that my eyes were wide open and staring my whole body locked and rigid. Upon the desk at the foot of the bed stood a lamp, the light of which was strongly Intensified by a reflector. Its glare fall full upon a woman's face. In an Instant I recognized Judith Pnrter. Bhe was attired lu a dress of black vel vet, made high np to her throat: draped behind her head was a curtain of black velvet, npon which was, as It were, thrown In .powerful relief her pale coun tenance and red hair. Her eyes were unnaturally dilated and died. They seemed drawing my soul ont of my body, and absorbtug It In themselves. My next sensation was that I was speaking answering questions, of what nature I could not tell, for the answers were made without any volition on my part; they seemed drawn by come occult Influence from the most secret recesses of my memory, Br and by all consciousness deserted me. end I became motionless. When I awoke I was lying Just as I had thrown myself, half dressed, upon the bed. The dull light of a lowering sky, ont of which the rain was descending In torrents, wss upon ine. My visitant had left no trace behind her: every article waa preclely In the same condition, as far as l could rtmtmber. as when I retired to rest. I got off the bed and bathed my head and face with cold water. This revived me: bnt there was a dullness about the brain that I coukl not clear away. As my fsculties resumed their functions, I brcamo conscious of sensations yet more strange. There was a feeling of vold- ncse, as though some vital principle had been drawn from me; but. alwvo all, there was an intense' longing to be again within the Influence of those eyes yet I shuddered at the thought There was a spell upon me a spell that drew me Irresistibly towards Judith Porter. Mr. Porters threat was no Idle one. Body and soul was. through his daugh ter, utterly subdued to his will. Out of her presence, I felt that I could not exist I followed her about like a spaniel dog. I was ever trying to catch her case: a few seconds beneath Its In fluence reduced me to a trance-like state. In which my soul seemed to pass from my keeping Into hers. My sleep when I could sleep, which was seldom wss hrnnted by the wildest fantasies. My health soon began to suffer: my cheeks became hollow, my looks emaciated. It was as though a vampire was preying upon my life. It was not love that she Insptred me with, but a fearfnl fasci nation: while I lay at her feet- passion ately Imploring her to take pity npon me. to rive me her love, to become my wife, 1 would have given the world to have possessed the power to fly from her to the furthermost extremity of the earth. I waa her alave bound to her by chains stronger than were ever forged by hu man hands. And she was merciless In her power. She hsted me, losthed me, despised me! She did not tell me so. but my instincts, now preternsturally sensitive, ueeded no words to divine her thoughts. While a free agent I hsd refused, shrank from an alliance with her, and she was now enjoying her vengeance. "You shonld have taken me when I was offered to you." she said, mocking ly, "now it Is too later I knew 'she did not mean the latter part of her sentence. I knew thst after she hsd glutted herself with my torture, she wonld become my wife. I could read It aa plainly aa though her mind had been a printed book open before me. 1 still went through the form of super Intending the boys, but I was very little use In this pitiable condition, and Mr. Porter himself was oftener in the school room thsn I bad ever known him before. He treated me the same as usual, but he never regarded me without a cunning leer of triumph. Except during the school hours I was never suffered to enter the kitchen, or to exchsngn a word with Martha. I afterwards learn ed that she msde several attempts to get to me, bnt all these efforts were balked by the vigilance of her master or mis tress. As for me. I made no effort to see ber. neither had I any desire; I was alienaied from eery object In life ssve one. One night as I was going to bed, I found her standing close against the wall npon the first landing. She laid her baud upon my arm, and said. In a whisper, "What are they doing to you. Master Silas? What has so awfully changed yon You don't look like a creature of this world. Can I do anything for yon "Yon can't do anything for me, Mar tha. Thank yon for your offer," I said, pressing her hsnd. "Is It true thst you are going to mar ry Mis Judith ?" "1 hope so." I answered: and yet I shuddered as I spoke. "Poor boy! Whatever can it be that alls you I do believe that woman has bewitched your' Before I could answer, the sounl of footsteps In the passage warned ru that spies were at hand. I blew out my candle and crept upstairs; and Martha disappeared in another direction. One evening, several of the principal members of the congregation of Little Bethlehem were Invited to tea. I was present, and was seated next tn Judith, who was kind and almost affectionate in her demeanor towards me. When the meal was over, we went and sat together at the window, she drawing her chair close to mine, now and then laying her hand upon my shoul der, suffering her long hair to brush against my cheek as she pointed out some object In the garden, and now and again casting a furtive glance from be neath ber drooping lids that shot throngh me like a flash of Are. At the other side of the room Mr. Porter was talking to his friends In a subdued voice. I and Judith were the subjects of the conversation. A portion of It occasionally fell upon my ear. "He dotes on the ground she walks upon," I heard him say. "It is sinful to so lore a creature of dust: but she is a treasure more precious than gold." "Yes; she has always been a pious, modestly behaved young woman," an swered one of the tea drinkers, Mrs, Humphries, In a modifying tone: "bnt what has become of that Mr. Itodwell? I thought there was going to be a match there?" "Could I trust my precious lamb to that man of sin?" ejaculated the rever end hypocrite. In a voice of pious horror. "I had hoped to turn his heart from the ways of the wicked: but it was callous and unregenerate; and finding that, J bade him go his ways, .and told him my child was not for him." The party groaned an approval of this conduct. "This young man," be went on, evi dently referring to me, "has nothing neither money, nor birth, nor friends; but, thanks to me, he has a humble heart that reverences those who have been good to him. And Is not that tar above the riches of this world, which are but as dross?" "Yet a little worldly wealth Is neces sary to us while we are sojourners in this vale of tears," remarked Mrs. Humphries, By and by the party left and wo were alone. I and Judith sat still at the win dow, watching the angular, gloomy look ing figures go down th garden walk, preceded by their host. "Ah, If yon would always be to me as you have been this evening!" I said to her, gently laying my hand upon hers. "Poor Idiot!" she cried, with a niock Ing laugh; 'Mo you think dt was for your sake that t played the fool to-night It was only to throw dust lu the eyes of those hypocrites, and give a color tn what I have to do. You see, I have no secrets from my lover." she went on, with momentarily Increasing Irony. "You will not be able to accuse me hereafter of having deceived you. My candor relieves you, too, from the trouhltt of eavesdropping. You can learn nothing 'fresh from behind the rhododendron bush." "You know, then, that?" I began, faintly. "I do know that, and every secret thought of your soul," she Interrupted fiercely. "There ts nothing that you tan conceal from me, I have but to ask, and you must answer." I shuddered, but could not speak. "Now listen to me. Silas Csrston, or whatever your name may be. You have made me drink my degradation to Its bit terest drop t My father asked you to tuske me your wife; and you refused me you, a base-born, pitiful, mean hound like you, refused me you. whom I look upon aa dirt beneath iny feet! Had you spared me that degradation had you taken me then, I wonld have fought against the contempt I felt for you; I would have done all In my power to have done my duty. I would hae even been graterul to you. Now I hate )ou, I loathe you: and yet I will marry Jim, that I may degrade you. make )ot my tool, and your life a curse! I tell jou all this boldly and fearlessly, for you cannot shake off my power. You will be my slave, as much as ever, and crawl and fawn upon me and Implore my lore aa mucn as you did before. (To be continued.) HIS TITLE IS THE STAKE. French Count Wilt Ine Ills Bank Un- lew lie Weds Itlch Wife. Count Alphonse De Campau has come to America to get a wife. Tho brutal frankness with which he has announced the object of his visit is toniewbat humiliating to American, pride, but It la not altogether repre hensible. Count De Campau is willing to marry pretty much any girl who has fair hair, bine eyes, a graceful tig ure and $50,000 a year. In exchange be will bestow upon ber his title and a certain dominion over bis family es tates at Toulouse. In explanation ho says: "If I do not get $50,000 a year the estates pass away. If the estates pass away, there Is no need of per petuating my family. Therefore 1 have no need of a wife. It I have a wife I must keep the estates. It will tnko at least $30,000 a year to maintain them. Therefore, If I have a wife, I must have $50,000 a year; do you sec?" Of course we see. The whole thing Is as plain as the nose on Count Da Campau's face. We would not see quite so clearly, perhaps, bad not the same thing been done so often before, but in the circumstances there Is noth ing for It bnt for the American people to see In exactly what estimation their young; women are held by any and every titled foreigner who Is willing: to bargain for one of them. Any girl who has money enough can have a more or less noble husband for the ask. ing, and there does not seem to be any so Ignoble foreigner who may not pro- Tide himself with a rich American wife If he Is tn the matrimonial mar ket. See? Why, how could anyone help seeing, with the landscape from Bos ton to San Francisco Uttered up with modest maidens who are perpetually hawking their charms, plus a pecuni ary bonus, about this and other coun tries. We have no doubt in tho world that Count De Campau will bare little or no trouble In obtaining the wife ho is looking for. If he were a Turk Instead of a Frenchman, he might have a score of them. He has a commodity to sell that commands Its own price and of which the supply never seems to equal the demand. The American who was ass or Tulgarlan enough to make such an exhibition of himself might be treated with derision and contempt by the rich young women of the country, but Count De Campau will not be thus despltefully used. Were he without bis title, the proposi tion which be has to make to tho fair balred, blue-eyed, graceful, flfty-mll-llon-dollared ' young femininity of America might seem Insulting, but us It Is not one In thousands of them will take it that way. The transaction which Is proposed Is legal. It has the sanction of society, and It I not even popularly reckoned to be iinvlrtuous. Far from It We have no doubt that quite a number of beautiful and charming young ladles, through their duly accredited paternal or maternal matrimonial agents, will hasten to en ter Into negotiations with Count Do Campau. In fact, we would not be surprised to see quite a bargain day rush to marry blm If he should con sent to mark himself down to $10,000 on Mondays and Fridays. Charleston News and Courier. Has Ho Ileen Around? One man with horticultural accom plishments Is turning his knowledge to account these days In a novel way. He poses as a flower doctor. Patients are secured by scouring the streets where bouse plants ore displayed In the windows and offering to treat thoso that present a faded appearance. "I gee," he says to the woman who comes to the door, "that your plants are not up to the mark. Most house plants have a ragged look In tho spring. These are very flue plants, and It would bo u shame to lose them. With n little attention given them bo fore they are too for gone they tan be braced up and made as vigorous as ever." Nine times out of ten the man gains permission to examine the plants. No body knows Just what he does to them. To all appearances he doesn't do much of anything. Ho picks off a yellow leaf here, punches a twig there, and pokes the earth some place else, and thus ends the treatment For each professional call the man gets 10 or 15 cents, according to the generosity of the householder. Some times bo heals as many as twenty lots of flowers a day, which at least Insures him a lodging and. something to cat' Opinions of Tho Dandier U Bound AWIM.IXO Is one of the TT I women that fall. Thero JRflf I hours In tho day, and It Is .. ... .... .. tlelng It. The dawdler commence fore he gets up. His alarm clock rings nt 11 o'clock, and that Is the hour at which Hut he Ilea abed, stealing catnaps, for hour, and then Jumps out In a hurry and It was Just as hard to leave tho bed six as It would have been at six, and loitering baa been tho loss of fifteen minutes out of the day. ltemembertng that ho Is late, the first garments In a great hurry, but ens. He yawns and stretches himself three-quarters of an hour In his ablutions, shaving and attiring. At breakfast he reads the paper leisurely, ami the meal takes up Knottier halt hour. Then he loaves tho house to go to his office, where ho arrive thirty minutes later than ho ought. Although late, ho does not plunge briskly Into his work. There are several other palters to glance through, and over these he waste the major portion of an hour. And when, at length, he lays aside tho papers and turns to his dultes, ho does not keep nt them assiduously. Thrirt is not nn Egyptian mystery known only to a few favored Initiates. Everybody sees In what thrift con sists, but not everybody having the knowledge puis It tuto practice. By dawdling two hours a day, one wastes a twelfth of his entire life. One month out of the year, one year out of twelve, goes for nothing. This waste, remember. Is tn addition to all holidays and vacations. What man, having bis way to make lu tho world, can afford to drop a month out of his year What man can afford, at the end of every eleven years, to cease all work for a twelve month Dawdling wastes times In small portions, but the total loss Is enormous and costly. San Francisco Bulletin. Navies of Today and of HEN one comes to think of It, nothing so elo quently emphasizes the meaning of evolution to a greater extent than the marked changes In the complexion of the world to-day with that existent a century ago. Naval warfare and naval construction has undergone a most com plete change. From sails to steam, from wood w en hulls to steel, from two, four and elght-poundcrs, mere popguns, to the terribly destructive twelve and thirteen Inch rifles, whose projectiles, weighing nearly 1)00 pounds, nothing can resist, save the great and massive belts of steel, toughened by selcntiflc process, which line the vitals of the big warships of to-day. So destructive, indeed, have the big rifle guns of to-day been brought that a single cruiser of moderate tonnage and of the latest model could have, under steam, manouvered about the fleet of the great British admiral. Nelson, and destroyed every unit of It, without ever coming Into striking distance of Its guns. That tells the whole story of the revolution In constructing. propelling and arming warships. Let us compare the nnvy of England ment of the nineteenth century with that of Great Britain to-day. In 1803 England possessed 450 ships, with a ton nage of 401,000; guns, SLSOO; men, 180,000, and cost 12,037.- 000 pounds sterling. In 1004 Great Britain has 472 ships, of a total tonnage of 1,8(17,250, armed with 1,800 guns. manned by 131,000 men, and the cost of the vessels footed up to the big total of 30,883,000 pounds. The most remark able difference here. It will be noticed, ts tn the number of guns, and the cost of the vessels. Tho average number of guns to each vessel has dropped from fifty-five In 1803 to fifteen In 1003, which goes to prove and accentuato the enormous Increase In the destructive power and range of the modern gun. Comparing Nclsou's flagship. Victory, Any one who has seen vt thorn on a stalk knows that plants aro urmed against their enemies, which they have in common with all other living things. But plants are not content with de fending themselves with spikes nml thorns; they have other weapons of defense. Moreover, says John J. Ward in Harper's Magazine, many plants have weapons of attack. Some plants, like the poison oak or Ivy, have poisonous acids, which are a warning to animals to keep their dis tance. Others, like some species of cactus, have disagreeable smells, that punish the Intruder for bruising them. Not only do growing things shield their lives with suits .of mall, but they form alliances and protect each other. The gorse, or furze, which Is well armed, selects the most exposed situa tion It can And, open heaths and stony wastes, where It fearlessly holds up Us yellow blossoms for the bees to fer tilize. Straightway less protected plants seek Its shelter, nnd so a mutu ally protective plant army arises. Self-defense Is abundantly exhibited in vegetable life. Sometimes, although less often, plants actually attack ani mals; A very pretty, simple example of attack is found In tho English sun dew. This insectivorous plant grows lu bogs and on wet ground. The leaves are covered with glandular hairs, which secret a sticky fluid to entrap various small, flying Insects, which, on alighting, get entangled In tho gummy slime. The hairs then bend over and pour out still further quantities of this digestive liquid, which dissolves out ull the nitrogenous matter from tho In sect to serve as food for the plant Nitrogenous matter is bard to get In boggy places, and so tho plant is equip ped with this mechanical means of obtaining It The pitcher-plant attracts animal life by a sweet liquid. Tho Insect crawls down the pitcher, but cannot return, for the passage Is barred .by recurved hooks. As wonderful as any Is tho American Venus' lly-trup." The leaves aro hinged nt the center and close rap idly enough to entrap un Insect. They remain closed whllo tho Insect strug gles, but when It becomes exhausted they open to catch other unwary prey. Occasionally plants innlto allies of their enemies, A troplcnl acacia, known as tho "bull's-horn thorn," ac commodates and provides for ait army of ants, to check the depredations of ferocious, leaf-cutting ants, Tho branches bear hollow thorns, whero the ant garrison lives and rears Its young. Tho plant supplies not only lodgings, but board as well, In tho form of a special honey, which makes tho garrison a good breakfast, and, mora wonderful still, solid food In the form of Uttle, yellow, frultllke bodies, which Great Papers on Important Subjects. to rail. chief alna of men and nro only twenty-four possible to dawdle ...hit.. i.n.iiH . pounds. Taking Into In the morning be ho ought to rise. a quarter of an pounds, while tho proceeds to drest, ammunition, iti.it at a quarter past the result of tho Thus, It we have dawdler pulls on his bis pace soon slack and spends halt or tho Past. derers. Washington there has been a at the commence Immigration to serve It Is said that Buffalo Express. nrc developed on the leaflets nnd do for dinner. When nn enemy approaches the hired mercenaries drive It nway. Thus the plant hires and supports un army. HOD CARRIERS JOIN THE DODO. Wheel Ilrlcks to Blevatore Instead of Cltmbtni; Ladders with Load, If the hodcarrlcr who remarked that he bad nothing to do but carry bricks up a fourteen-story building and watch n man up there do the work was satis fied with conditions that existed In his line when that Joko was sprung several years ago, the hodcarrlcr of to day must be convinced that life with him Is one long drawn Cut dream of uninterrupted bliss. For nt the present time the hodcarrlcr doesn't even hnvo to carry tip the brick. Ho, In the spirit of the Joker's argument, he has nothing at all to do. There are In Chicago at the present time about 4,000 men who make a busi ness of carrying tho hod. That Is, they are styled liodcarrlers. and lu a gen eral way tho classification Is correct, but In n great number of Instances the hod Is n wheelbarrow. .Modern Inven tion has done uwny to n largo extent with tho old time, trough-shaped bur den loaded with bricks, which In days gone by, and even now on smaller buildings, wus carted up and down lad ders. Instead of this slow process of lifting building material above the street level steam lifters aro used. Thcso have been common In work on tall structures for a long time, nnd are now being used on smaller buildings. Tho contrivance consists ot two lifts, operated on tho same principle, as nn elevator, and this Invention perforins tho heavy work which formerly was Imposed upon tho hndcurrlcr. One mnn below carts tho material to tho lift In a wheelbarrow, whllo another removes It when It has been raised to tho floor on which tho work Is being done. One lift is going up whllo tho other Is coin lug down, nml the system Is much faster and much lighter on workmen1 then the old plan of carrying tho hod up nnd down it ladder. Thus It Is that the old relic of early building days, with Its long handle and padded shoulder piece, has become practically oxtlnct urouud tali struc tures (ina has been relegated to smaller buildings In residence districts. Tho hodcarrlcr has lost nothing, however, through this revolution In his lino of business, Hundreds of them continue, to carry tho hod nnd will as long as contractors build flat buildings and structures of tho sort where height docs not require speed and distances do not provont a laborer from bearing his burden with satisfactory results, Many laborers who formerly carried tho hod now nro employed as helpers on big contracts, receiving from 25 to 35 cents an hour. Chicago Tribune. Time goes twlco as fust when you are frittering It away, ( with Uio newest ltUXKMon battleship ot tho King Edward VII. class, It will bo found that while tho Victory's heaviest shot was sixty-eight pounds, the twelve-Inch guns of tho King Edward VII. will lire a projectile weighing 850 consideration another and decidedly Im portnut element of comparison, the relative, cost of ancient uud modern vessels. It will be found that a 100-gun wnrshlp of Nelson's time cost (excluding armament), but '.17,000 King Edward VII., without guns and the great sum of 1.3dH,MU pounds (over $0,000,000), or twenty times its much ns Nelson's Victory, gained greater speed, projectile power and resisting strength, we certainly have paid a largely lucreatcd price for It. Brooklyn. Timet. Tho llcorllctsnest of,n Etg City. HEUH recently appeared In a New York news naiier the account of it man having committed i I suicide In that city because he couldn't succeed I l,i ,r,ltlii9 fttmilnvimiitt Wn ili iif iti,,,.,! I..,, the hardship. There can be no more miserable plight than that of n man, able and willing to work for Ms livelihood, friendless, adrift In a great, noisy city; knowing nut where to turn for shelter, food, or kindness. Indeed, It Is quite msslli, tn under stand the ultimate surrender to diwlr under olreuni stances ho Intolerable. What we do not and cannot under stand, however, Is the persistent refusal of these unhappy waits to leave the overcrowded town ami look for oppor tunity in the rural districts. No one capable of perform ing useful service, even of the humblest kind, need ever starve tn any agricultural region, It Is safu to say. Indeed, that no one willing to work, though temporarily unfit, would be left to perish like a dog by tho wnysldo In such a community. There Is nothing s callous and cruel as tho multitude of a metropolis. Humanity prevails In wider spaces and among less concentrated populations. A starv ing wretch would bo overlooked on Broadway, Uo would attract Immediate attention In a country road. Men die In cities and their fellow-creatures neither know nor rare. Groaning under a hedgerow twenty mllca-awny they would nt once command the sympathy and ministration of every passerby, Wc have never been able to understand tho fascination of the big, careless, thronging city for the neglected castaway. Sometimes we are moved to think that such poor creatures must be mad as well as friendless. But sulcldo It an tinusnl remedy for these miseries. Tho conditions geenrally breed thieves and tramps and mur Post. Canadian Immigration. t" Lr s!"T A-AIA bM UN'" "eeklng settlers from this I ff I side of the line for a number of years, but has I I drawn most of these Immigrants from the I I v.,,.. m rs,.iin,. ....... ...i i... i , ,-.. m M,M(,,M I u. 1111, naiUIII-r HUB l!tC stationed In Boston, to entry on nn emigration campaign among tho farmers of New England. The site Is well chosen, since for many years westward movement from New England. The settlers rounded up by this commissioner will do something to offset the movement ot French-Canadians Into New England. But what a testimony to tho friendly relations existing between the two countries Is to be found In this open appointment of a Canadian commissioner of In Bostonl within the last fifteen months, 50,000 peo ple from this side of the line have moved to the Dominion. Canada Is to be congratulated upon the character ot this element of Its Immigrants, It draws from nowhere else a class so well iltted to derelep the Canadian public lands. But It would be Interesting to know how many Canadians, tn tho same time, have come to this country to live. There Is a continual movement to and fro across the border and there has been a Canadian loss as well as Canadian gain. A Omnia KiwicU. Those who nre In the habit of ar riving home In the early hours and finding their doors and windows lock ed nnd their "folks" asleep beyond the power of the door-hell to awaken them, will 11ml comfort In n new recipe for their relief offered by the New York Evening Pint. A man who had banged tho front door and rattled tho knob for nearly nn hour appealed to a policeman to help him break a pane of glass or open a window. "it Isn't necessary," said the police man. "I'll wake up your family." He walked up tho street to a pile of building material and brought back a piece of board about five feet long. This he slammed llat-slded against the side of tho house with a tremendous whang. "I guess that'll rouse 'em," he said, "You see, that sort of a blow sets the whole-house to vibrating, and makes tho folks Inslilo dream of dynamite explosions." He had hardly uttenil the words when n front window opened nnd a head appeared. "O olllcer," gasped n wninnn's voice, "what In goodness name was that aw ful noise?" I.nw on Hating, On Nov. 1330, n law came Into force In Knglnud for the regulation of meals and continued to have n placo on the stntuto book until 1857. It was designed to check the evils re sulting from niPexcesslve use of cost ly meats and enacted Hint no ono should partake at any place or tlino (except on specified festivals and holi days to tho number of sixteen days n year) of more than two courses, each not consisting of more than two sorts of victuals, either flesh or llsh, with the common sorts of pottage, and Inex pensive sauce. On nam oil feast days three courses wero allowed. This law was nn extension of nn or dinance Issued by Edward II. In 1315 regulating the mm Is of his nobles, tho greater of whom were allowed In ad dition to two courses of two kinds of meat n side dish of one sort. All net of 13113 enacts that ncrVmits, artisans nnd laborers "shall he served to eat nml drink ouco n day of llesli or lls.li and remnant of other victuals, nit of butter, milk and cheese, accord ing to their station in life." London Tclegrnpln Unsafe Depository, "It's odd In what peculiar places people put their money and then lose It." "Yes, Vnrp put snmo of initio on a horse," Cleveland Plain Dealer. How tha world runs off and leaves a mnn who does not caro for Christ masl Too woman who marries for money gets all sho deserves. QUEER TAOTEQJN POOD. Knalla Now Eaten In London - Hear 1'itvorrd In tlerinuiiy. The popular prejudice ngnlnst mills Is Incomprehensible when tho fnof nt oysters, periwinkles, mussels ami cockles Is considered. In many London restaurants, particularly In Holm, says tho London Globe, snails now llgure on the dally menu, This Is nil Imported taste from France, but In the west country niiiiIIs nre highly esteemed by thu luwer classes. A year or two ngo it clergyman cited as nn Illustration of poverty lu Bristol that ho had seen working girls pick snails ulT it wall ii nd cut them, As it matter of fact, the minll It ex tensively eaten lit Somerset nnd (Hoil eestershlre, both as it dainty nud it medicine. Thero nro men who tuakii it living by collecting snails nud sell lug them under tho name ot "wall Hull. Dolled in their shells they nro picked out mid euton with bread nnd butter, being accounted a great lux ury nml very nourishing. In pulmo nary discuses they popularly rank us a specllle. Frogs aro another dainty whlrh prejudice denies to the Englishman, though In the United Wales nud Can udit they nre esteemed us highly as In Frnneo. Spasmodically a sturgeon Is offered for salo lu Loudon mid the accident of Its capture affords it novel dish which should not be passed by, for It Is generally sold at 8 pence n pound. Cut mid cooked ns n cutlet It tastes rather like venl, without u sus picion of llsh nbout It. In Germany hour's llesli Is grenlly favored nnd smoked bear tongues, hums nnd sausage are both iippctU lug and expensive. Ever since Paris, In tho siege of 1S70-I, wus driven to eating up the animals at the sou earn el's flesh bus been demanded by French gourmets, Itemnrkiibly Ilka beef in appearance, It Is us tender ns veal nud thero aro Parlslaps who Im port It regularly from Algeria, On tho same testimony, Hon steaks nro re imrtcd to be only moderate eating, whllo tiger Is both lough nnd sinewy. Jaguar flesh, however, Is delightfully white nud toothsome nud alligators nnd crocodiles provide a meal of tho most delicate flavor midway betweou that ot venl and pork. Beef mid mutton, with pork, mi en tirely make up the menu Hint we nctu nlly regard Intuit nnd veal ns distinct dishes. Why should not goat flesh bn Introduced Into the bill of faro It Is good eating, us Itoblnson Crusoe mid Don Juan testify, In Franco It Is largely eaten, Parts alone requiring 100,000 goats annually for the table. Our neighbors nlso enjoy the donkey, whose flesh, when klllinl young, re sembles that of the turkey, though of much finer flavor. Though n hlpophnglc banquet ar ranged by tho late Kir Henry Thomp son was hehl In Iuidon some years ago, It Is still almost dangerous to sug gest horse flesh (o nn Englishman ns food. In reality It Is very excellent eating, and only prejudice can gainsay tun fact. Old nnd woruont horses cannot afford either nourishing or pal atable meat, but that of a horse reared like nn ox, for tho table, hns a finer fiber and flavor than beef, though darker lu color. It Is served In tho best French restaurants, as well as being largely eaten by the people. "It was In Paris," wrote Mr. Van- dam, tho author of "An Englishman In I'nrls," "that I learned how tho cat bad been misjudged. Call tho dog the friend ot man If you like, but don't eat him. Fry him, stew, boll or bakn hlui, do what you will, his flesh Is mid remains oily and llnbby, with a strong flavor of castor oil. But I 'declaro that stewed puss Is fur liner than slewed rabbit." Another neglected article of food la the guinea pig. Were the edlblo vir tues of tho hedge hog known It would rival ortolans In epicurean favor. As cooked lu rural England, It Is dell clous. The correct way Is to lucaso the hedgo hog, bristles and nil, with a tnick cont or soft clay nnd placo It In tho glowing embers of n fire to bake. The bristles and skin come off with tne Hardened clay, leaving tho tender est and most dellcato meat Imaginable, Afternoon Tea. The earliest mention of aftrmnnn too la by Curlylo of Invcresk, who, Writing of socletr at tin rpil if n tn In 17113, says, "Tho ladles gnvo afternoon tea and coffeo lu their turns." In 17IUI William Dutton wrnti. lmt,, from Eton College to his fnilmr i Sherborne, "I wish you would bo so kind ns to let mo have ten and sugar to drink In tho nftcrnoon, without which there Is no keeping company with other boys of my standing." Dr. somerrllle, minister ot Jed burgh, writing of social habits I land In his early life (1711), says, "Most families, both In tho hlL-her nml In tho mlddlo ranks, used tea nt break- rust, but among tho hitter It wus only recently Introduced In the iifti on tho occasion of receiving company," inncKcray, in j-tio .Neweomes" (1853). alludes to the llirht ri.fr,. halfwuy between lunch and dinner ns If It were already a fiishloiiablo Insti tution, "Dames Nowcomo comes overy day from the city, drops In nnd drinks leu nt o oeiocK." i.ouuon 1 1 lobe. Winning An Opponent. In the campaign of ID(X) Senator Cub lom was called on to face n large audi enco In his homo city of Hprlnglleld, Ho saw In tho audlenco n fellow townsman who had formerly been nn Influential llepubllrmi, but tvho hud Joined tho opposing party and display cd a dangerous activity In Its support. This man arose from his sent nnd ap parently wub ready to begin a series ot "catch questions." Beforo this lutoii tlou could bo put Into execution Sen ator Cullom paused lu his speech and In n conversational tone called out: "John Simpson, you'ro too old a man to stand up In any audience that I talk to. Just como tight up hero and hold down this chnlr next to nilno," Tho Invitation wan accepted mid at tho close of .no mass meeting tho man announced that ho was "bnck In tho fold," nnd had "como to stay." The Hangings. "Have the Nowlrrlches cot nultn (-. tied In their now mansion)" "Oh, yes. Thoy'vo got all their nn cestors hung except a few who wer hanged on earth," Town Topics,