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uy x‘n- @ccupy Twe Full Hourstâ€"A e@nchanced By the Harmoni~ .(.‘n“onol theCostumes and Uni; forms, mss ‘The drawingâ€"rooms held on Saturday even : t ing by m-lu.lkay Lord Aberdeen and 8. c m«. black ostrich festhers w veil. ‘They stood on the daie, & number of ladies belonging to the vm.l household and set supported her. all had court dreases wi;fi white feather headdresses and veils. \/ _ _ _‘ INOnbEE 0F PRECEDENO®, .:.h:&?hhno‘:i their ':'d- wo?stlu - then ges . of Su reme Curm wenstora ..j the oommog:' ers and thea the officials and the public, accompanied by their wives and danghters. After the ministers and their wives had been presented , they took up stations near the dats, or as it is called in Parliament and court circles, the throne. Quite a numâ€" ber of the ladies presented wore court Aresses and made the rfiuhflon bow‘curtâ€" sey followed atâ€" Her Majesty‘s drawingâ€" ‘The court curtsey was the feature of â€" the evening, so to speak, sid had evidently "%en studied with care by those ompl.nyinf ». \ The ladies and ‘gentlemen. presented _zalked between a row of officers until they seached the dais; then theiÂ¥ ~names were called, vhunkton flu{lbowod to His Exâ€" cellency and then to Her Excellency, reâ€" ceiving bows in return, and so. on along a line that teok over two hours to pass, After the reception Lord and Lady Aborâ€" deen left the dais to call on the Speaker pf the Senate and the Speaker of the Comâ€" mons, both of whomdispensed refreshments iberally. t As Lady Aberdeen descended from the dais her train was born by two pages, her son and nephew, 9 or 10.years old, who wore handsome court dressas, knee breeches and little swords, with beaver . bats and ostrich plumes. . _ Cb ostrich Jlllnfll. 4 * The Ministers all wore Windsor uniform. What with the official uniform of the Ministers and the official dress of the judfnn and others, these state affairs are becoming quite imposing functions in this Democratic country. v f ce A mounted bodyguard accompanied the Governorâ€"General and staft and one of the regimental bands played in the corridors. Percy Sherwood, chiet of Dominion police, had cbarge of the arrangements for reg»> lating the ceremony. i Bome of the young ladies made th? drawâ€" ifimn the occasion of their comirlg out, and it‘ likely that &mfiu resort will be had heréafter to similar functions for a like fr:rpm. Said one Democratic ~member m f.hoflm,..h\l.lhifll_&;, _t‘If this goes on we‘ll soon have. all our daughters going to Ottawa to make their bow to polite soâ€" ciety.‘" The M. P.‘s and their wives turned out in force at ths coremony. A Wholesale Grocery Store in Montrea! | ; Dumyalé. * o of the biggest fires that have taken f ! e in treal {;rddm time lwi hes 1 morning in the whalx ‘e ut‘&m.hlgpom, % Martin & Co., on the corner »of Seigneurs| } and Notre Dame streets. The fire started | in the lower portion ofâ€" the building, and the flames spread rapidly, their â€" progress? t being aided naturally by the qunm{’ of | 3 Hquors and other inflammable: material in | l gtock. . The entire brigade was called out, | < and scon fifteon streams fromâ€" fire engines | were playing on the fire from different| points. ‘The waterâ€"tower was also set to | 1 work, but it was impossible to prevent the g;ltmouon of Messrs, _hroru & Martin‘s 1 ilding, and the efforts of the firemen were | d mainly to preserving the adjoinâ€" | l:m-.nd stores. In this they sucâ€"|1 zo well that the damage to these | places moonptn!lvd{ slight. The J grocery store, however, is entirely destroyâ€" | ! e4, the wall -lonbah‘ hflmdh& ; Messrs. L-g:’rh. Martin & Co. had bu this store about three {un ago, and had | not quite comx;euc'i‘:“l '.hol;'_';:md' are| r te. ox ive telephone system ,m«: building_had nufl( beeh comâ€" | pleted. The night watchman left the place at about half an hour after fizfdnl&i: This was the usual practice when winter was over, at it was not thought necessary that w man should remain on the premises all night after the furnaces had ceased to be _used. The total damage to Messrs. Laporte, Martin & Co.‘s bmldhzf and stock is estimated at $150,000. The stock cons iâ€" od of a large quantity of sugar, besides ! brandy, wine, gin, and other merchanâ€" dise. ‘There is a branch of the Merchant‘s Bank of Halifax in the building, as well as a branch of the postoffice. ‘The valuâ€" wbles deposited in these places were stored im fireproof iron vaults, and have.practically not suffered> . The firemen kept several streams playing on the ruing all morning. _ At eleven o‘clock the eastern srall fell with a great crash, partly into the ruins and pnr'.fy into Seigneurs street. The telephone wires were carried away, but nobody was hurt, although some of the fire: men had a very narrow escape. . Four ladâ€" ders, with twentyâ€"five misn were‘ast work on the front of the building.â€" When -hrr stone fell from the fromt wall among the the men, the Chief ordered the Iadders and en aW8y,~ and the last ladder had just heen removed when the whole front wall gollapsed, It was a narrow escape for the firemen, as many of the stones weighed . several hundred pounds. iÂ¥ alosa was for the destruction 0f JM7MCNE) &m «plendid vistory | at Leactra(in 371 m): ndhsmwhunhdm()m'a.m the supremacy was ended by the desth of Epaminondas at Mantines (B,C. 362). Demâ€" cathenes, by h: nloq‘m'.)‘i'nlt:a:l!m Theâ€" batis to unite ilip of Macedon but the battle oi Chevenes (338 B.G. orashed the liberties of Greeoms _ _ _ . _ _ After Philip‘s sdesth the Thebans en« desvored to regain their freedom, but the i on in sol jhto siavery (B.0. 336). Tt was rebuilt in 316 into slave (8.0.300), 16 was reDiNIt AR CC Wt Gattcndyr: wnss _ the valie indb him were traced in TSSS by E. Tabrtstun. â€"Dem: TWO HOURS OF CONSTANT BOWING tHE HISTORIC CITY OF THEBES THE FIREâ€"_FIEND. tSE Bovlzm Park was also in the : West o England, though it was a long way removed from Appledore. It was a . lovely rhm near the river Severn. Its lftilo arm‘ atretched far and wide, its richly wooded k was varied by uplands and well stock: srvl:nur. Ab'.' intervals between the tall forest treea |ll::r¢ of the Welsh hills, and on the other side the green, smooth shaped Wrekinâ€"at midday a solid protuâ€" berance, without any -pood elaim to admirâ€" ation, but in the evening light hazy and vistonâ€"like, seeming as if it would fade out of ken of the gazer. ‘The house, however, at Bevington was far more remarkable than the r’rk. It was an old, gabled dwelling, in which it was said thet &nn Elizabeth had once slept. On one side of it an anâ€" cient walnutâ€"tree stretch its branches to such a circumference that they had to be w:porhd by stout fir poles, while on ‘the other side the lawn was shadowed by cedar trees. A border gay with spring Alowers was filled at the back. with rose trees. . P en tw A figure came softly into the window and looked at him through thesmall lozengeâ€" lhlrd panes, the figure of a tall woman with a small, pale {leo. Mrs. Bevington was paler than her son, but he was singuâ€" larly like her. There was the same pinched expression in the thin‘lips ; the eyes, too, were alike in form and color, though Mrs. Bevington‘s bad rather a furtive than a mi.cl:f-voul expression. Both nose and chin show a determination that was wanting in the young man‘s face. He &nd the window again, and saw hig mof r standâ€" ingâ€"there. He frowned.‘ and muttered impatiently : _ n esrer + t EoBP LC m â€" * Why can she not leave me alone ? said I must not be pressed ;" he saw / latticeopened,and he paused before it. * you want me, m.gtlur!" he said. E Flsbulba ue odnanics duat/v ectiinlpiieirnls sutaad ® «* Well, yes, if you can spare me a fow minutes."" The young fellow sighed with vexation but he went indoors, He found his mother seated beside the fire in a large room with oakâ€"panelled walls. The haadsome plaster ceiling was of the same date as the rest of the house, The hearth was opéH,‘&nd above it blj\e riczx-. ht indiuicmurase ie ds t" d in d ut " : ly carved oak chimneyâ€"pieceâ€"reached to the ceiling. â€"About the room, in striking conâ€" trast with the gloom of the dark walls, were a great many quaint, spindleâ€"legged tables ; and upon almost all of these stood groups of earefully arranged potâ€"flowersand delicate ferns. There were lng:r tables covered with books and photographs ; among these were alender vases filled with cut flowers, These last seemed to be less in harmony with the oldâ€"world plsce than was the tall, proug figure and the pale, passionless face of the lady beside the hearth, â€" " ** 1 want to order the carriage, dear," khe said in a soft, pmm.tmu that soothed her son‘s im&.tiont mooc. “rou will drive with me to Castle Stretton ?" _ Reginald Boviniwn stood looking into the fire, softly stroking his silky mustache with the forefinger of his left hand. < He knew very well the meaning of his mother‘s question, and he‘also understood the import ance attached to his answer. He had trayâ€" eled a good deal after he left Appledoreâ€" had lsenuovonl weeksin Parisand in Vienna he had been very extravagant, When [o o{g\e home he learned that his godfather, an old man whom he had mppmfi unlikely to live mug months â€"longr, had suddenly recovered his health. He now wrote to announce his marriage with a comparativeâ€" ly young woman, his vicar‘s daughter, who h-x been, he wrote, ‘‘a ministering angel to him during his long jlluess," : This was startling news, gmhlly- his mother assured Reginald vh.?:.l that hisâ€"godfather was not much over sixty, and, if he really had regained his health, might be xrgud' to live for some years, ... _ . & lotig as there had been no doubt of his mwfirgodhfi«’thmm was a large one, his father had. been very indulgentin regard to his son‘s whims, and also to his apparent inability to keep withâ€" in his income ;. but this news caused a comâ€" pl?o revolution in the ideas of both father and mother \mpootinfi him.â€" They were not a united couple; rs. Bevington had bedn an Heiress, who had been married for thesake of her money rather than for any personal charm she possessed ; but on this pointâ€"that Reginald must really settle and make a rich marriageâ€"they were as unitedas they hall been in removing him trom Appleéâ€" es dn SE :: Ne cciue 1 dore, from the dangerous fascination of Rutly Bryant. His father and mother | had fiot spoken to him about Ruth. When he asine home zh-fih.dh.rno his discontent and illâ€"humor in silence; and when at the end of the London season he proposed to %o abroad, they were extremely. kind and lib; eral in forwlrdini his plans, _ Now everyâ€" thing had chm)r .+ As Reginald . was an (inocret in They fea foed verr shownly vided for, very showily pâ€"â€"?ndnd, quite up to &lr income. . The past season had been unuull{ expensive ; and although Mrs. Bevington had n{:.md in her son‘s prolonged stay in Vienna, and had told her husband that the surert way‘ of blotting out his. fancy for the farmer‘s daughterâ€"would be found in aforeignliaison, which wassurenot to last, she looked sharply after money,and considâ€" ered it wasted when it did not serve any practical purpose. .She intended her on to stand for the county at the next election ; this _ would roanir- a larger outla and she had little hope that Reginald would give up his extravagant habits. He must marry money.. At Castle Stretton, only eight miles unly, there was the very girl to inqt him ; a girl who had cared for him ever since she .nn:‘ul;';idm, sn::?‘vhon Mrs, Bevington h as ture hâ€" tor.. | Miss Stretton was m!| 0:2-3- short, and she had delionte th ; she was also a year or so. oldér. than Reggy was ; but she had plenty of money ; and Mrs. Bevington argned a marriage was seldom a fit in every wayâ€"a large fortune and a good had said, 3 § p f He knew that ‘she had given him was -d: :“"‘M ; ,“ had always been better | marry Clars Stretton, and yet he turned from the YOL IV.:®." ;.;Tii’n'ii'ii‘n'i‘-i-muahmm;na she kissed his cheek, -"%thh: .*,n-fi'-n tell you how oo e in ‘ himself quickty away, The motto gagement last «* long a*â€"he A Pes tow is mm mt polng to We _ himaslf ap with aâ€"wite andâ€"family,â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"__â€"â€" _ ** Yes, mother," ho said ; "I am willing UIRCB hi cia Puaruathias idea of her as if he were still a child and Aomnde--hutyrylu. And then hd:‘flh::'blâ€"d drift. He could not be forsed an t M.'m;'-d-v-l!hcadulll-.m ton to marty him, he could muke the on APPLEDORE FARM, Ub C a, Bevington rose. She was almost a CHAPTER X. t 99 the llm he had once or twice noticed that, in spite of her qutward fastidiousness, and the reâ€" dnwm she exacted from others, she could be unflinchingly plainâ€"spokenâ€"almost what "1I haveâ€"to see the housekeeper,‘ she said.. * I will say three for the carriage. You will have time to look through these Your father is greatly llEm.uled as to what an be done about them. â€" The lass audit in another person he would have called soarseâ€"in her way of stating facts, His mother‘s mental sight seldom erred repecting him. She now went to here writingâ€"table, and opening a locked drawer she took out several papers tied together ind put them into her son‘s hand ... . _ was so bad, you see, thiat we have had to be very careful, Ithink we must stay here a month later than usual, . As iw Enow. I usually go down to town before aster. Reginald Bevington knew yery well what the papers were, and as he closed the door on his mother he could ‘hardly keep back the groan which he indulgéd in as he 'Emd himself in her chair beside the hearth. _ He mechanically opened the parcel of Esfer-. He saw with annoyance that only alf the aecounts against him were paid ; the others were fastened together, and on them was a slip in his father‘s handwriting to the effect that Reginald must settle himself, Hiis father having done as much â€" as layâ€"in his power, The young fellow felt turious ; he was sure thathis mother have helped him if she hadâ€"chosen. ‘ He started up, and for some minutes he paced the room, almost beside himself with â€"â€" He had no intenticn of paying his own gi;b“l- tll: seemed '?:\\ln lt’:qt it 'l“l disâ€" ot e t of m parent to relieve & child c’)! any gnble or embarrassment, _ It was the first time he had been made~â€"to feel dependert on any one, and the sensation was new and embarrassing. . Crad It was all the fault of his {odhthlr, Confound him ! what right had he to let Reginald consider himself heir to a lu'fic pmport{, and then commit the selfâ€"indulâ€" gence of m-rwh:g a young "‘omngz. \â€"Am s vBetbvmnie l 130020000700 00â€" T All atonce he remembered Ruth Br?nt. What a lucky uet\s' he had had! If he had not been so suddenly summoned home it seemd to him, as he recalled his infatumâ€" tion â€"for her, that he might have found himself engaged to Ruth. ~Asit was she had set him free from “i engagement. He wished,. however, she had continued to write to him, though ; her letters were so bright and fresh, and it gave him, he knew, an exquisite pleasure to read in them the assurarce of her affection for him. â€"**She was basutifal, if you like I L can‘t fii" nlp such a charming girl," he said to imself, as he lmod)_lookmfi dully out on to the lawn.. ‘*I must see her again some day, whatever happens. â€" She is something like m 'iirl 1 with no thou%:n. of self aboat her. Thay last time inthe glen her eyes told me how she could love a ;fellow." He smiled atâ€"himself for his own reticence on that occasion.s He had grownâ€" so much older since thatâ€"meeti ng,‘gnd he told himâ€" self he knew so much more about women and their ways. He decided to write to. Ruth and aek her to give him a meeting At this point the butleréame into announce the catriagé, and when a few minutes later Mrs. Bcvhig:on appeared she was agreoâ€" wbly surprised to find her son in so n:.;nct‘ph:nt a mood. Sh:dh;d exâ€" that the message convey un« m‘l bills would have greatly dmnrboxhim. he made herself very agreeable during the on walue of the land attached to it, ...‘ _ * There is plenty of room on this land," she said, ‘"for 6;{ °l=. tos try agricultural experiments. ir: Stretton, as know, is @)mere bookâ€"worm ; and he .n{:'; the bo‘.mat:: take his own way, afid‘that of course~in the old humâ€"drum style of things®"" > "o0 5.. " 5d 00 00 s R:glnsld looked about him; it certainly did seem to be a fin:ipho'-not so picturesâ€" que, perhaps, as Bevington was, but larger and grander ; and he knew that the acreage wugu more considerable, | A. _ ** Your father tells me," his mother said, °* that the Strettons have a large property in Somérsetshire beside this one." â€" _ _ ‘Reginald looked at the park beyond his side of the avenue up which they were drive ing, and he smiled at his mother‘s apparent unconsciousness, . She meant it very well, no donbt, but she was a trifle too transparâ€" ent, he considered. * What do you lnl‘)gm the fair Clarx is likolty to have, altogether ?" he said abraptly «*T know she has five thousand a year of her own, left her by that. extraordinary Welsh Mnb«;nd of course at Mrs. Stretton‘s 3.""‘ Clara takes the rest of her gnndhzh ‘s fortune; I am told that it as been simply left to acoumulate. You see, the Strettons have been â€"rich . for generations, and they bave always had very small families. Clars cannot come into less than half a million when her father dies, and I understand he will make very handsome settlements .if she marries to please him." s Reginald smiled mockingly s#his mother. tC l;c may possibly be very hard to iptemeey!~. 1 oo . 0 00. oc udn on t o T r‘lTY":m have no reason to think so,"â€"she looked at him so directly that his eyes Arooped, * He has told your father, and Mrs, Stretton has told â€"me, how much they like you, and how fitted they ?m‘:(llcr you to manage a large rmscr . ieve it has always been Mr. ct:{wn'l hobby to join these two estates; the rvpofly that lies between ~is so amail that it can be easily annexed when the presâ€" ut holder dies. . It is only leased, as you ‘ .. â€" Your a the owner, & mss ons ce * TY is fpohe K hovee voulse y over & some thirty yards in front, and hi# flmnldy.:x«!h.mnw lym':l‘d -‘-::vd.nflcihnull“l.: forward the graceful creature neok: suL'.uup,â€"n as she reoogâ€" mized the ccouipants of mru-' unm-ho blushed deeply; drew on one as if she hoped to escape notics. bowing to her, and in a nhmot-llhlt efi . Bovington said to herself, with a satisfied amile _ "IHI uw‘:mnfl'fl* greatest care not have happaned in a better or mora way." . ~ When the boas of Rissin orders a thing to be done the slave saye : . ** Yon, ount, and goes and does 1t." _\ ol (ro m®\coxtTNXUED) s. It is only leased, 88 YOU | rrsguchusetts n#X "{ather aays the cwner, & then ‘Oaiiformis, $2 : Regltald exsinimed, ©* here | $5897) 4 horse -":.n*." m‘ a horse lighty 9998 | consin lh nrt{'?rdl in front, and hi# | pay oo) ; New looked for an instant perfect | y y s‘ §1 978. unmoved, as she bent a little | ooo on ; Colorada, WESTON O The Poct i y Austria every week berogs wite f uces Of Military] bruiel. ity toward One that occurred at BYu. on Garda, two weeks ago, however, m &ruuhk for such excepâ€" tional brutality that it has more serious consequences. Carl Heige},the (erman post, was sittin g with a friend at a table in rpon concert. garden in Riva, Bis friend was 65 years old and louuwhat. decrepit, _ At the next table sat severalofficers of the Imperial Chasseurs, who ;r:d fi“ at Riva. Hdrll:lrirnd, who on wearied rather long walk, foll asloop, and lhb’o‘uu baln ‘ to poke fun at him, â€" They were so loud: that they woke the old : . When ho heard them oraki b se â€" he â€"re« mn&odt.o?‘ el. * 3:;»3,.:4;: ‘‘Persons who hardly be gentlen uniforms. " Heige! nodded ‘masght, | All the dfficers hurd‘:ho remark and sW the fi' ‘One of them sprang :n ced He order: ed him and the ian to leave the garâ€" den. Heige!‘s answeP Wa » wistunai hauid blow which + C ""if" icor back on the tables. (MERE ES uhoi Then followed a s tully familiae m Germany "or their swords and #f thrgugh the two un man fell g+. the first « his ground, dul'a until out down. three wounds in his wunconscions. â€". A h& sword blow at | Brunelli, who had h forni, caught the awe pushed t] men gathered in fro work of the officers in‘ cuse, ”V"’ r should be qtrT_ ~5:}_4«_"~ dads s garden, began jostling manded that shey be disoumedand punisicd then and there, police were 0 li‘nd to interfere to save the officars from violence, although ‘no policeman Jiad found time to interfere when, Heigel sud ‘his companion were beaten down. fude. : 2 4 Heige! has received ca t# daily in his sick room‘from all the most cyMpicuous persons in Riva, oxoopdngho! course the military. The city officials have call Amnum to apologize for the abtaek in . th gudm; Throughout ~the whole district _round: Rlvgt!nr- was a unaninigns demand for: the punishment of the offisers concerned in the _fight. A high railway (official who wasâ€"with them in the n {was dmbux ed. A Lieutenagyt:â€"Colomaly who . strucl down Heige!‘s companion;â€" called .a coward by a captain in his ¢ regiment.. In the duel which tollowsd both officers were wounded. The rest of t‘he officers will be tried by court martial, _ Heigel and his d recovering slowly. Akee s xsl 2i tamed by man nor sp & the earth like frogs, such as others of that sort . . . as to how they could find their dmy to t:a hln;llsl::m that» flood whi::\ estroyed every liv not preserved in. the ark. . . Somo.‘m‘d. might . be thought to reach islands by swimming in case these wereâ€"not very far, but some islâ€" ands are so remote fromâ€" continental lands that it does not seem possible that any creaâ€" ture could reach them by swimming. . It is not an incredible thing, either, that some animals may have been captured by men and taken with them to those lands which they intended to inhabit, in Grder that they might have the pleasure of hunting, and it :::nol. be d‘llli.: .;hnhm t”"hkr may hnz m accomplis throu e agency angels,â€"commanded or ‘&od '.:‘ perform this labor by God.* WEALTH OF THE UNITED STATES If Equally Divided Eack Person‘s Share Would be $1,039â€"New York the Richâ€" est State. 1f there was to be an equal division of property in the Uliht'M each man, woman and child would receive $1,039 as his or her share, acco! the valuation of the real estate and mef.t‘y im the consus returns. votal value of all In live stook, far inory, Iowa stand# New York third, ?m.. Ohio lfld wa n mines &n the list, with Colot nis third. in mmo New York somen 6 :M Kansas m Pon Aitth; Jowe sinth, 4 property in 1890 was $65,037,001,197, which was an increase of 49,02 per cent, over the returns of 1880. =»>~ . : _ In 1950 the total of Wy %ho country was a .I%\ “ono.- °0, or $308 was m.(m.mox m .g‘ In 1870 it was M,m per capita, and in 1880 it was $43,500,000,000, _ _New York is the M-ugn- with $8,â€" :‘(I)%Oa(lfl,) g-"l“ nwnd“, uwiwlh P 4 ; lllinois with $3, s* $or00) c Onh nexe whinigh.ostrdho. 000 : or $870 per capita. ibution of animals. .. .. Even in the first days of the Church this NOAH‘S ANIMAL FREIGHT. MILITARY BRUTALITY. and an Old Man Cut DBowa b'..-u- Ofcers. " ; o. hib ) ld p 4 o n of an old man can n ven it they do. wear t €4 * | ~actont, / the Officers k ang g nod, ‘ .‘ One um > , and order: old (man to leave .flu gar YORK HERALD. AY. MAY feature painâ€" have_ uyfi‘i.nf ‘officers . drew irward to run .* The old. : Heige stoad ight '“‘t left ‘Hewing from d he lay ‘half enant aimed & ts and mach* wois . secon d, irth, Kansas fvems um d and _ Califorâ€" â€"andâ€"mills , $1,179,« 1@ ppir s ... Satiors mlh-lyâ€"nluil the Coffin m uâ€"Then it Comes to the Surface. **I was nearly scared out of my senses Bute," remarked an officer of the navy; Tt happened on the .s;l ship Powhatan, he said, ‘‘several y ago, and we. were anchored off a West India port, ~One day a young sailor, a general favorite with officers and ‘crew, fell from a mast and broke his up, and we at once propared the hody. fof | guir burial, the ship‘s.carpentér ; ‘a wood~ fi en coffin, ‘which" we nailed ither) : as |â€" n onl nocntn ies mane (ast e to. y but the authorities refused mrnl-éhm fi we . were forced to a see. burial, had| beo placed a conple of s?:‘umdo as| I tu the foor to sink it. ‘body Iny Â¥A" atate | 1 w on deck that night, and the next day ail| COd hfi;dl were. called q:‘:eundhch fu;nul. -'E m readi the burial : gerâ€" vice ::p‘“nmy and :’th much feeling, kho for all O{N telt the loas of the young fellow | 1M t ; k::“nly. He read (.b‘rl'on(h, i'h.- all no?:; f b dame & fearful,‘ rasping, screech 9 [nundlrou&toofin.u?tho" :? and lashed â€"with ropes, ‘and. ISING OME GRUESOME EVEN facing the crew, and um had not taken a dozen strokes until I noticed something was wrong. ‘Their faces began to take on the color of ashes and in a minuta the bow oarsâ€" man stopped. * $ he said, in« toue that made ail _ my Fulood go clean down to the soles of my feet. I cast a quick glance backward. Right on our heels apparently, and end on jumping out of the water in weird, fantastic leaps, came the coffin in our wake. ‘Then. it was in my nervousness, I wanted to scream, or faint or do somathing ;â€" and for an . instant it would have been a positive relief for me to do all three in rapid succession, and wound it up by plnng&g into the sea, but the eyes of the men were on me, and â€" they: were worse scared than I was,and Icouldn‘t do ttat, To put back was all there was to do, and at the command the ‘boat went back, but I can assure you none of us wanted to go back with it. However, necessity compelled it,and in a few strokes we were alongside the coffin and had made it fast with aâ€"rope. _ Then . we discovered fl;:t‘flu ;h' in it ;u:rorhd it, the shot :.t the foot keeping it almost perpendicular the sea, and the dancing waves did the rest. In a minute we had knocked one end‘ of it in ; a minute later it had gunk of sight The Government. Still Sendfng Succor to p Thousands of Families. A recent despatch from Athens says :â€" The latest reports show ‘that 252 persons were killed and 150 wereâ€"severely injured during the recent earthquakes, : The Govâ€" ernment is still sending bread, tents, and blankets to the thousands of families which have been rendered homeless. Many docâ€" torsand nurses have gone to the vill which suffered most keenly . . They are m. plied with medicines b{ the Government, and receive their traveling expenses from the Government and railways. . Some 200,â€" 000 drachmas have* been appropriated From the royal treasury for the relief of the distressed. The King and his two sons, the Duke of Sparta and Prince Nicholas, have two days in the ruined villages cont the homeless and distributing money among the needy. °_ _ _ _ »l.u-h absolutely free _ Btight shooks of earthd s of uake continne in various parts of the kingdom, but no addiâ€" tional damage is reported. In Chalcis, on the Island ‘of Eabses, where 200 houses were destroyed, mu{ ot the buildings left standing are so badly wreoked that the will have to be pulled down. . The e‘fln‘y- ral, which was recently finished at that place, is so much shaken that it will be necâ€" essary to rebuild a large part 6f it. Just when the mutilation of the dead b f.ou-h‘:bd skin from the hndhpnwi‘l never be known, for the origin is lost in Pe Rrrep en ond even * man‘s :Lm lnthm‘nlof::efi-nu recorded that at the termination of one of the battles of which that bloody history is so :-ll o?“vlmk-dl:nmm the skin rom heads vanquishing foes. hhmuhnfln-and sealpâ€"taking was one fndulgences ‘cnnd“"hd'h-wmo_ [qowd im the Bible.." . .cc 00. s .00 mementos of hair from their fallon enemâ€" les, is something time alone can develop. I-M-h‘zy.uhnhcilh\dlh- dian tribes, to a certain extent, sonlp their ewemies who have fallen in battle. Some writers on the sobject of Indian habits and mmmlmnw wibe in tely free from the taint of The Originof Indian Sca lping. Wls 894 GREECE‘S CALAMITY, â€"‘Tm‘s araHR US, SUR," LiD] BEGAX To RISE even yet, I SERVICE, king abo can make myself fed in dismay, 1, : the other Ofâ€" I. grabbed the N. Burmah With the MKborite« SEEMED AN. ETERNITY OF HORROR, f"-li in the town of Akysb, which it a wfifid English port in Barmeh, and .-fi other men there; 1 ie' and had iness with a nativeâ€"born Christian man named Mordai, One day be came to. me and ;k.:.dm to go over to sqme propert on & w boring island, K!hwbu.hvh(\& about boundarigs and wanted me hfi'& him an u.bhn?.oplnh-. We started in a sailboat about 12 o‘clock.and got to his place about 4. Kcnndw out of the boat and went up to a bungalow he had built there, We were sitting on the verands, the roof ‘-!.. our heads. ~ Mordel was talking to me khorite, equally deadly and more numerous ia!:hnp:'t.mw'm’ymnldfl. ‘I stood perfectly m for I knew that the -{k;. Mfim now, would strike: if he folt the: movement, Cold. atood out on my fore, Is :.t‘h: :o.,-sh’kuw&dtbn deliverance , ot sharp,. stinging punctures in my nedk, or head, and thenâ€"â€" ‘‘ From the hosror in his voice I know as wellâ€"as it I could see it that a cobra or & Toh n vnord) and 1 knew viay be mean dah (a sword), and I knew thay he meant t:moku\ the smake down with one strong 8 €. He crept up close beside me and raised the sword, tronb.ly in every limb. His face was ghufl* hi:zn_mlud glazed with horror. ‘The sw trembled for m moment in his nerveless hand and then with a hoarse whh&er of * My God, I can‘t.do it," he let it fall from his hand and totterâ€" ed to a chair. . He was an old man and his nerve had given way.â€" He dared not risk the result of. his blow should he fail to cut down the t. : â€"When the sword fell I ufld(odmivm-p&m aud I closed my eyes, um feel the. a'lll pat and ~;up thrust of 'um’;ni_nmr. hes s __I do not know how. long it was, but it seemed an eternity of time that I stood thus. At last the swinging l::gndi-" offlaobuhunrry!:, the stuff broke on my ears like aâ€"song of deliverance. Dull and monotonous it had seemed to me often enough, but now it sounded like the sweetâ€" eat music ever caroled. Their singingseemed tonduv-. Mordai lro:. his tn-uo-ukm and, staggering out, he grasped my servant, limirâ€"Alli, by the shoulder and with his lean, bony fii pointed toward me,. No need of oxmlhn for Emirâ€" Alli. My heart gave a great throb of joy when I saw his supple, cateless form straighten up and his black oyulmn with th.l:shtl had seen inâ€"them before in time of deadly peril. Twice before had we fronted death together‘ and his _nerves had besn steel and his heart bad not faltered. Even now I see him as he stood just outâ€" side the veramdah, one of the few natives a white man had trusted and met trust for trust and loyalty ever. s :nn IK: canre. Discarding his gaudy jacket and gatherâ€" lng up his dote tight about his hips, so that his sinewy limbs gleamed like thore of a statue, he set his square‘ white teeth and hissed shr::ghd::cma: invocation to Aliah. Grazping the dah in his powertul hand he stole as silently and as swiftly toward me as the venomous creature on my back might have done had he been makirig the attaok.. Poised aloft was the .llfi.rlT steel, for well he knew the snake would keep his eye on the gleaming blade, and there would beâ€" no movement to disturb him till the downâ€" ward rush, and thenâ€"â€"ah‘! who could say ? Allah wald-u-thbhndnldfim the edge of the and ~kismet would For a second he stood close beside me, I might have touched him. His fieree black cyn'?lnnoduflnlukc. I knew he was drawing the snake‘s attention from the aword to himself. 1 could feel the »alight vibration in and I.knew that the snake was to strike. & And nMdIl.bhi’ went the blade past iâ€"a hissed ‘"Allah" driven teath penetrated my hi ofled senses, ... Cld ”'x‘:::‘. rush of n'mvthin. mn:&m been otut in two or missed I tottered toward w. Ih‘m{qhfinh'fi "m-n:’.nfis-a‘hnm still vicions uflfinhmhly,u khorite about three a half feet a He nad fallen on my back from the where he had been after rats. One of the new ornisers will beâ€"named hanar of the city of Chat tawadgn; ~~~> man out of each 203 attains a height THE DEADLY KRORITR, i that : tha Zealand has sufered little E:’:lfif-’ ::;1: strike: if oe!:::..uuhummwi movement, badly .u'ipg.‘ the -d‘hhc:g Australian iration atood out on my fore, |colotiies. ‘ Her affairs were. fl‘“ " teeth hard and weited., d-!lfifl, and M.n: mfl “? wâ€"sither deliveranoe | year show a net us dflu“ Mz aefans e sharp, stinging | after £250,000 out revenns Jh"wm o Tsd th © Pmdwh.iby-r. & my nedk, or head, and thenâ€" | public 6t & NO 40 "Man . of much worn at Par lmtuhllu“ Tt is said that t f ixty small fine cigurettes, as well as A few vary wroeg eifart emg Res duily allowanceâ€"her teeth have remained |exâ€" quisitely white. y t The Prussian â€"income enables / the Rutfisumites they hare in TiE conatly, hh onaires they have in 2 lhtPrhrlSfl::tlhmthtd in Prussin an income $2,600,000,. He lives in Dartmund, but his. name tas not been made public, in Preliminary figuresof Russia‘s finances fo" last yuuho'al‘r%lfloflum in ordinary and of $1,000,000 roubles in ex*, traordinary revenue. This large surplus is expected to be increased when the final asâ€" counts are made up, t‘ P auck lakses / . ustral oo * bickens, ‘duokt, wild ‘ durlews have made a sucsess, ‘and theze is promise of the development of @00 e« London a year.or more ago, which has ind eC § \ able ‘The statistion of desertions from . the Te must rap bopant thin auaee not very 1 l not growing in favor. mm for rewards br(tb:rnnolh* the estimates for year is a large inâ€" crease over last yeare . ..( . 98.\ 085\ / mm‘f&:.‘:muu &-'hi#u our g:nl.mm to be especially so, reâ€" turns for last year show the number of en~ rollm:iuhw have lpelifl-i. t:‘-hq year, with one ex on, since the . ization of the foro‘:“l‘hm wore 227741 caroifinenits, of which 210,111 are returned as efficients. This number of eficients has .. only been exceeded three times. e h 0 t number . of 'mfi. s '4:_,4',«.7 "*_hj record the service is better than .. © . ; + â€" T l e pale t ::.mwn\m-m & ; w scheme ©.. >\ . a canal Forth and the «. ...\ SivRee mt o creine manting imelgatime. ~taug Torth memt Al mmb;"su:uuh y t o near Alloa, i to Loch Lomond, and thence from Tarbert to Arrochar ; route, 54 1â€"4 miles ; estimated ; cost, £8,000,000 ; estimated revenue, £713,â€" * 000 ; maintenance and management, £60,â€" 000 per annum. _ By this route there would + ' be two locks. The other route passes from Grangemouth somewhat â€"along the line. of 5 the present canal to the valley of the Kelvin, down which it passes to 5:0 Clyde: < .. The estimated cost is £7,000,000; estimated ‘ revenue, £600,000 ; length , 29 miles..The > cunal has to rise to a height of 95 feek, and 12 look»s have to be encountered. â€"'i':i-l‘k',‘ lâ€"_mâ€"i:_::::“a'fi_.t:fitfi’ d ox fo tie shooes. ‘The &wblnq-,m skin, and grey hair, in her pocket was m The Body of an Elderly Woman Taken From the Ningara Rapids Yesterday Another unfortunate pulled out . the waters of the A-gthfl-hd d The body was that of an elderly woman, wmfid in appearance, {ashionably ‘ , rather fleshy, aged about 60 years, and attired in a brown corded gown, with T ‘bv},“\l Saso wan 17 ikee td in the snn r oies a cash fare rdlra-dtn;:‘hn the New York Central, cut from Tonawanda to Niagara Falls, The woman had fallen into the water or jumped in above the rapids, and, in being whirled down, the elothing caught on a piece of cribâ€"work, and was discovered a man gouel Task " Saciey ons inoodk daide, own. , _ $ _guid climbed out on. the crib and -agt' remains. From their limp condition and natural look, they had been in the water but a short time. ‘The body has been‘ identified as that of Mrs. Prosser, of Bufâ€" falo, and it is evidently a oase of suicide. "That Tired Feeling, Constipation f and Pain in the Back Appetite and Mealth Restored by Hood‘s Sarsaparilia. "C. L. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.t * "Por a number of years I have heen troubled Broken in Health ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE. ‘organized by the Corporation of ... for, + L 4t