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OUR PARIS LETTER.
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OUR PARIS LETTER. PARIS, MAECH 20. -1 Two SUCCESSES. s fcarisians are happy because they have Bcored two successes-the arrest of the gang of dynamitards and a merry mid-Lent holi- day. 1 he first IS an event which will create general If the perpTtrators the abominable explosion outrages remained bSlderanT misdeeis wou!d become their rn ^°re *r^uent> while encouraging slon wa CV elsewhere. The apprehen- on wa, commencing to gain ground that it outran/' tl7 a who executed the several and dynamite in the capital, vesti(vl! 19a a maxim in P°l'ce in- iti08t di(!->nu^ the hermit criminal is the matftri a) °i! 0 ear'i'1» It is not very roation i°Wu the P°lice oam« by the infor- laotnr which led to the discovery of the Btolpn^ri ere- bombs were made, the matters ?tored> and the detonating rru_ machinery combined for action. Sconrw?01^ °^- ^ac': 's ^bat clandestine sCoundrelism is certain in the end to be dis- thi + • no °tber nieans than the Polir.1^ Pleces silver. The Prefect of to or that he was not in a position to ,grapple with all the phases of Paris crime Was in In8Qffic'ency of money grants. He 'tur* an% accorded a free hand in expendi- for ;'<■ "i eb°ld the value society has had or lts largesses! HERE THE ANARCHISTS WERE T ARRESTED. aide at Denis>the largest suburb out- that thdriS' with a population of 60,000, blown AP0llc,e.put their hand on sixteen fuJl- ^Ucharn^Ut^Cl1's^s, ^eir chief, named and an instinot of coming danger oarriA CT?e •' "^e Passed under an assumed tonrfl'ar u1S wanted" by the police for a Drnwir.™ u comm'tted last year in the for his nfA 6n *"Ned a farmer, aged 84, too clearlJ1^' a criminal's description is too clearly bued and cried that he can long ignored hia aiitw T' f "*he Anarchists, who his political orimees6ndr *^1? r,eady to laurel robbery and assassination. Thus, he need not oount upon shelter. Besides, those who would harbour him or hold back timely information can be tranøDorted for Cain on' h- x aving the marJj of Wmifi "ti °W' he has several hands R°\ 6C?t3r. on hls face and the shprl ac^av°' bad the entrance to and rtk Wj*ef? compounded his simples the tpivn i empty meat cans, kc., with tornedn1 6 exP'0SIVesi so proteoted with a torpedo arrangement that a push given to the the .J/ won'd bave blown up not only "drep' k JPart °*" town- 'i hough a anifa trade, Rach&vol is said to possess 0 a gemus for meohanioal inventions. THE LAUNDRESSES' HOLIDAY. More pleasing is the duty to record the "lumph all along the line of the washtub and "oning interests on Thursday last. Mid-Lent w the historical annual holiday of the laun- dresses. They devote it to cavaloading and processioning along the Boulevards, winding up with collective dinners and mammoth balls. Each quartier of Paris has its syndicate of lanndrymaids, and bachelors. Eacb Lent the officers of the guild are elected and their chairwomen are styled queen s. The latter unite and select from their midst the Queen of Queens," and her enthronement on Mid-Lent Day is the clou of the expiring carnival. The 11 Queen of Queens''was this year a very pretty blonde, aged 16, and a model" that painters and sculptors might well go miles to seek. Her ame is Mdlle. Delabarre. She resides at Belle- parent 1SuchdaUghter,°f P°°r Luthone18,t not escape +L ?yal P61"80"^6 could paper sent its v!ewer- A leading call OQ H bland Torquernada prised by hi* VT'6-* sbe was sur- to the drawj K an<* ^nv^ted *be journalist ^as arrant*; n^"j>ed*r°om, where her mother ffown wi-o J r°bes of state—white satin wantlfl in i1 with flower8» and the court dresser w Velvet» ermine, and gold. A hair- sister a aS arrang'n8' ber coiffure, and her fol at Was admini3tering, by a spoon- lme> to the queen her morning meal vnolf 3^e SOQP—wbile the crowd outside was har era^lng for the <lueen, and the horses of °r carriage were neighing to start. THE REPORTER AND THE "QUEEN." On. f reporter next drov'e to the Temple lonal Gr' W^'°b elects the principal of the local queens. He waved his hat and f"eet of paper to the orowd, opened to allow him to pass. He rived j ust as the Queen was ooming down- atairs. He met her at the street door, Whispered some words gravely into her ear While giving her his hand to oondnot her to oarriage, and, having settled her comfort- ably in the landau, took a seat beside her, While the poor King shared the box seat With the driver. En route to the rendezvous the Queen was cheered. She bowed, while the interviewer, with hat in hand, saluted also the cheering multitude. It was rumoured that he was M. Uarnot's private secretary. On arriving, instead of nanding the Queen out of the car- nage, he suddenly disappeared. A howling search was made for him, as he was de- nounced to be a detective, a Prussian spy, and other avocations that produce a gunpowder «eot always on the populaoe. CARNOT GREETED WITH SMILES. The corteges, having been united in the »a- mP8 ElysSes, defiled with all their re- n_ e^s> wbo were attractively dressed in the costumes of the reigns of Henri III, fam*i °U^8 before M. Carnot and his wbo were on the balcony of the oftn+e-L.8 Palace. The President, who had th« n ed 1)000 franos for the coronation of Som S>een—Pro°^ that the insinuations of Wij,e ^epublioans that he is secretly flirting sali + a i.^onar°hial party is not groundless— r_ ed ber Majesty as she passed, and she lo* j bim with her Bweetest smiles. The arid oarr'age w»8 of Joggernaut proportions, in a?°om,nodated all the lords and ladies- In.waiting, grand officers of State, &c. It a drawn by sir led horses, with out-riders ona. trun:ipeter8, equerries, &o., in Francois I. ami0?168' ^er Majesty looked superb on her ^'atory throne, the March sun only Sloping her charms. THE MASQUERADE. As the procession wended its way along the iL n'evards it was assailed with showers of «var*6W ooufetti, The crowd aoted, how- On«ir?'' device, '• Touch not the animation and*06"6 W&8 Ver^ W' ftt11 of imparted to Variet7 w,ls all in new costumes°M a-tho.masqueraders were very plentiful 'and^'dlsgul?.ed as.women humorous. There was ons» 8ntlos mti>y and np-that of Deibler, thl °(nginal ^et" did his limp and copied hia l .outlorJer> wbo perfection, while carrying »t0 guillotine on his back, and poIiteW^ t56 ing from time to time if any person accept his services, P U Wlshed to THE CLBRGY AND SOCIALISM. Bo long as the olergv met in » secular hall to discuss' Sooialism wit™^ latter's burning and shining lights there was no strong objection to be made to their con dact, but when they utilised their pulpita, and, for Lenten sermons attacked the Republic, the lessons of the Revolution, and opened up the relations between capital and labour, the matter assumes aLother light. This explains why the Church of St. Merri was filled with extreme politicians, who came to reply to the pulpit attacks on their ideas. Very irreli- gious scenes naturally ensued. The workmen seized the chairs—the only seats in French chapels, and sang" The Carmagnole," that anthem of the Anarchists, and also "The Marseillaise," while the organ, in order to drown the hubbub, replied by blowing its loudest pipes. No police were present, and it is a wonHer the sacred edifioe was not gutted. All parties to the scandal are to blame. THE SALARIES OF SURGEONS. Surgeons are not well paid in France; at least, when engaged on State business. If summoned to attend at a criminal trial, they are only allowed 8f., the scale fixed 80 yeara ago. For executing a post-mortem examina- tion the fee allowed is only 6f. to 8f., follow- ing the importance of the locality. FUNERAL MONOPOLY. The agitation is being renewed for the abolition of the funeral monopoly which the State or the municipalities or the clergy claim. It is proposed to allow each com- mune to fix the fees for the burial of its dead, and to distribute receipts to the clergy pro rata to services rendered. In Paris it is most gratifying to behold the respect with which the humblest individual is interred, with all the accompaniments of solemnity and respec- tability. They are the fees levied on the burial of the rich that seoures the gratuitous interment of the poor. The fees also contri- bute to the part income of the clergy, and also to the budget of local taxation. There is a falling off in the fees of the clergy, not only by the inorease of oivio interments, but by the great augmentation in the number of cremations. The latter amount to nearly 4,000 annually now in Paris; five years ago the yearly total was 82. The Catholio clergy do not assist at crematory funerals, though the departed be members of their own congrega- tion. This absence of all obituary ceremony is the sad drawback to cremation. Many hope that the Church will repeal its prohibi- tion against incineration of the dead instead of grave and vault burials. It did so in the matter of post-mortem examinations, THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE. The statistics on the operations of the I'asteur Institute during 1891 are most satis- factory. Of 225 patients treated for hydro- phobia not one died. In all France the deaths from mad-dog bitea was 0"94 per cent. during 1890, and but 0'19 in 1891. M. Pasteur is said to be closely occupied studying the role of feathered friends in the dissemination of infectious microbes. The deaths of some six persons from imported dying Brazilian parrots have, then, arrived quite apropos. THE AMERICAN MINISTER. The American Minister, M. Whitelaw- Reid, was entertained at a farewell dinner by the American Colony of Paris on the occa- sion of his resignation. He intends, hence- forth, to retire to his farm, Cincinnatus- lilre, but will, if elected vice-president, accept that office. He did not create a noise while in Paris. If he did nothing of remark- ably brilliant diplomacy—the Reciprocal Treaty is not a very great fact—he did nothing to let down his country or to reflect on his public career. He was a safe man an official guest at all official meets, but rarely encoun- tered elsewhere in publio. His private life was rather secluded. The parting guest was speeded as the coming one will be welcomed. AN IRRELIGIOUS LIFE. People are shocked at the confession of the young man David, not 22 years of age, just executed at Saint Nazaire for the murder and robbery of two old women. The deceased declared that till visited by the prison chaplain he never in his life heard of God." And yet he was a native of Bretagne, whose inhabitants are proverbially quoted for their simple and practical piety, A PRETTY SCAXDAL. A miser, aged 60, married a wife of 23 summers. She soon found a liaison to her taste with a waiter of her own years. The husband accepted the situation philosophi- cally, only he decided not to support his wife -her lover should do that. He consulted a lawyer as to obtaining a divorce on the cheap. Was told it might cost 1,800f. and last two years before coming for trial; but if the com- missary of the police caught the wife in flagrante delicto it would cost him nothing at all-she would be simply sentenced to prison. He adoptHl the nothing solution, and agreed by a treaty with his wife that she was to be caught by the police, and when tried the hus- band would plead for mercy for her. The conspiracy succeeded, only after the trial he upbraided his wife in court for not giving him 20f. to pay his railway fare from Le Mans to Paris to attend the court and sue for mercy. He opposed the latter now. The wife then produced the treaty of conniving- at adultery, The law had to impose the lowest penalty on the lovers --a fine of 16f. each, but it cost the husband not the less 20f. to get rid of his wife, and he bitterly complains of the outlay. It was dirt cheap. A NEW CHURCH. The Cathedral of the Saor6 Coeur, on Mont- matre, being so splendid, has drawn away the faithful from the lowly parish church. In order to keep his flock together, the cur6 has purchased a new site for half a million francs, and will erect thereon an iron church. He has called upon M. Eiffel to supply plans and design something original in the way of the spire. To meet the wants of the age, the cure intends erecting a discussion ball apart, where social and political questions can be freely debated. THE FOUNDER or FRENCH JOURNALISM. Dr. Theophraste RenaudoL-or "Theo- phraste" quite short-will have his monu- ment at last. It will be a conglomerate tribute to his worth he was the founder of Frenoh journalism, A.D. 1G31, of advertising, of pawnbroking, of letter-carrying and the parcels post, of the preparation of patent medicines, and of a relief system for the indi- gent. ANOTHER DYNAMITE OUTRAGE. Opinion was indulging j;, a Dieu merci over the arrests of a band of dynamite-bomb Anarchists at St. Denis when the fresh out- rage in the Rue de Berlin has really oreated a panic. A splendid modern mansion gutted from cellar to attic, and seventeen to twenty persons injured, of whom six severely. The female servant was positively torn up by frag- ments of window-glass and splinters from the ironwork of the staircase. The explosion ooourred at eight o'clock on Sunday morning, when the majority of Parisians remain longer in bed, One of the families was -apothecary; his wife had only been accouch6 half an hour previously, and five men had to convey her and the baby to the nearest shelter. It is needless to observe the high pitoh of indig- nation which reigns in the city. The inhabi- tants only see this far into the criminal epidemic, that the Anarchists wish to destroy thoso law officers, who, in the discharge of their duty to society, prosecuted and judged some arrested Anarohists. The outrage is their revenge- no matter at the massacre of innocents and the wholesale destruction of property. The, I uneasiness, the apprehension, the fear, spring from the demonstrated fact that the Anarchists have all the explosives-whether stolen or made by them-they require that there is no secret for them how to construct the deadly engines and to time their ignition. The citizens wait to extirpate that horrible organisation, the more frightful since its members have ceased to belong to pity, to humanity, to civilisation. It is Pandemonium in power,
IPORTRAIT GALLERY. I..
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PORTRAIT GALLERY. THI1 LATE MR. OLIVER HETWOOD. Mr. Oliver Heywood, the Manchester phiian- (hro-MSf, was the second son of Sir Bsrii imin Uev- wood, M.P., of Manchester. He was born in 1825, and educated at Eton, aftfir which he travelled abroad, and then entered his father's bank. He after- wards became bead of the nrm, and continued to occupy a seat on the di rectorate after IIev wood Urothe^s and Company had amalgamated with the Manchester and Salford Bank. When Mr. Heywood retired he devoted himself (says the Daily Graphic) to public and philanthropic work, especially in his own neighbourhood. So wide- spread, in(*teed, was his benevolence tnac an enu- meration of the institutions in which Mr. Hey- wood interested himself would include all in Manchester, not to count others all over England. Mr. Heywood received the special honour of being appointed the first honorary fieaiuau of the City of Manchester. :Y DR. VAUOHAN. Here is a portrait of Dr. Vnughan (for which we I are indebted to the Pall Mali Gazetu), who fiftY now, that paper supposes, be regarded as the new Archbishop of Westminster. Notwithstanding his re- quest to the Pope to be allowed to retain his present see of Salford, it is believed in Vatican circles that the nomination will be maintained and will be officially announced as so3n as the Papal Brief has been drawn up and des- patched. According to custom, the Pope will pro, conize Dr. Vaughan at the first Consistory held after Easter. Dr. Vaughan is the eldest son of the late Lieutenant-colonel Vaughan, of Courlfield, Here- fordshire. He was born at Gloucester ou the 15th of April, 1832, received his edu- cation at Stonyhurst College. Lancashire, on the continent, and in Romp. He founded, and is still president general of, St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary College, Mill-lane, Middlesex, and to- wards the close of the year 1871 aceO mpanied tr) Maryland the first detachment of priests who were sent from that institution on a special imission to the coloured population of the United Siates. On the death of Bishop Turner he WttS elected Bishop of Salford, and consecrated in his cathedral by the late Archbishop of Westminster October 29, 1872. Since that time he has published a series of pastoral letters. Bishop Viiughan, who has acquired a considerable reputation as a preacher, his published several pamphlets, and is tho pro- prietor of the Tablet newspaper and of the Dublin Review. THE LATK RORD HAMPDKN, The hte Lord Hampden, who was S 3 famous aft Mr, Brand, the Speaker of the House of Cotnmonp, was nn almost ideal Speaker. He was gifted with superb health, and his cheeks looked as rosy and his eyes as bright after a Parlia- menttry sitting prolonged to twenty hours as if he had just got up after a re- freshing sisep. He never (says Hearth and Home) got excited and always kept his temper. In bis retire- ment he devoted himself heart and soul to his farm and his carte, adorned with his name and title in full, might often be seen in the streets of Brighton taking milk and butter to the retail dealers of that town. lie will be deeply regretted by troops of friends. MISS NELLY GtNTHOyT. Although Miss Nellie Ganthony cannot take credit for being the originator of the humorous musical sketch form of entertainment which (a. writer in Hearth and Home believes) was first intro- duced by the late John Parry, and which was fur- ther elaborated by George Grossmith and Corney Grain, yet she can justly lay claim to being the on ly ladv who has ventured to take up this particular line of art, Terhaps no greater compliment to her talents could have been paid her than her engage- ment by Corney Grain to take his place at the piano at St. George's Hull during his recent illness. But the unique position which she (I'rom a photo by (B is ano.) holds was not gained without varied study. A course af musical training under Randegger at the Royal Academy of Music, the fulfilment of minor parts in the "Sultan of Mocha,Warranted Burglar Proof," It Mignonette," &c., the engagement as understudy to the second chief character in Dorothy," ana the acceptance of the contralto parts in Gilbert and Sullivan's operas with the Cleary Company in South America, have enabled Miss Ganthony to step upon the platform with that knowledge of her art the aim of which is to conceal its own existence. Wonderfully imitative, intensely observant, keenly sensitive to humour, with natural instincts of a lady yet with the aplomb of the exp rienced actrcss, Miss Ganthony's clever sketch, entitled "In Search of an Engage- ment, is immensely amusing, and there is never a dull moment in it from beginning to end.
PRISON BILL OF FARE,
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PRISON BILL OF FARE, It is customary on the reception of prisoners in England and Wales to supply them with a special diet by way of leading them up to the ordinary prison dietary. Mr. Matthews has just revised the bill of fare, issuing instructions whereby prisoners on the first day of their incarceration shall have for breakfast eight ounces of bre--id and a pint of cocoa for dinner twelve ounces of bread with four ounces of American beef or mutton and for supper eight ounces of bread and a pint of porridge. This diet is served out to prisonera on the first day whether they be on remand, awaiting trial, or upon conviction.
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LAST SurmAT WEEK at the Church of the Liver- pool Blind Institute there was a very largo congre- gation, and, of course, much coughing. Imme- diately the minister had announced his text there was a perfect volley of coughs. As soon as it had ceased the reverend gentleman commenced,as was thought, his discourse, but, to the astonishment of all, said After all, the old-fashioned remedies nre the best, and HEATING'S LOZENGES are an ex- cellent thing for coughs. If next Sunday you will all bring KEArING's LOZENGES with you to church we shall not have the annoyance of these coughs, and the sufferers themselves will derive great comfort." This practical sermon appears to have been appreciated, as there was "quite a run" upon "Kcating'a Lozenges," no doubt to the complete satisfaction of the reverend gentleman. A CLERGYMAN writes ns follows" I have seen Mr. Purrett's (of Worle) Magic Cough Mixture doing a great deal of good. It tikes immediate effect, and cures coughs of the most distressing character. In a CMe of consumphon I have known It to give very great relief.—Yours faithfully, Key. D. Samuel, Monistou, swalls, a. KERNICK'S VEGETABLE PILLS Cleanse the Blood nnd Strengthens the System.—7id., I3 £ d., pad Is. 9d. Boxes.
The Captain's Error.
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The Captain's Error. Love is a strange thing, and its various phases are ever curious and incomprehen- sible; and in no person, perhaps, was love ever manifested more curiously and incom- prehensibly than in Cap'n Nathan Bounce, of Paradise, N.D. Cap'n Nathan Bounce was a retired old sea dog; he often declared he was a reformed pirate, and he had come to Dakota to live beoause, to use his own words- Well, blow me if I could ever stay within smellin' distance of salt water without goin' afloat, so what does I do to resist the tempta- tion ? Why, I tucks myself away in this corner of No Man's Land, my boy. I builds me a shack shaped something like the for'ard part of a boat, an' I paints her name—the Polly Q., ye mind-cn the side; I has my lookers an' what I calls my fo'castle, an' a cannon as I fires at sun-up and suudown, an' a union jack as I runs up a peak every day of my life, I do, an-an'not a word, boy I'll have a Mrs. Cap'n Bounce in that 'ere old hulk of a sback one o' these days—ha, ha, ha— now, you see." Cap'n Bounce drew half pay from the Government because of a long and honourable career in the war of the rebellion, to the putting down of which rebellion he had (to use his own words again) "lent a willin' hand. In other terms his hand had been lent" so thoroughly that it now lay in the Mississippi, somewhere below Natchez, and an iron hook adorned the stump of his right arm. There were two things indispensable to the well being and juvial contentment of Capt'n Bounce. One of these things was his pipe the other was his thermometer. The former Jim Littel onoe declared he could smell as far off as he could hear the cap'n's cannon, and the latter, a great brass affair notched with immense figures, was the pride of the old sailor's heart. Whenever he lacked for occu- pation he filled his pipe with the strongest kind of "jolly tar" and polished his thermo- meter. » Beside this thermometer, in unmistakable characters, was a printed table to this effect: At 60 degrees, everything lovely at 70 I degrees, open starboard window; at 80 degrees, open larboard window; at 90 degrees, take off p&a jacket; at 100 degrees, sleep on the upper deck. There was also a graduated scale of doings to be done at various matches below 60 degrees. Captain Bounce conducted him- self in accordance with this table, and Buster Bluenose tells how, one winter afternoon, he found the captain outdoors in his shirt sleeves nearly frozen, because of an acoident having happened to his thermometer, which had lodged a particle of mercury at 90 degrees. All good men have grievances, I presume, and the cap'n's special weakness was a fond- ness for the society of the softer sex. He had, as he himself boasted, popped the question to twenty-three leddys, widders, young maids an' old maids, an', Lord love em, nary a one would take him for love or money; but they wanted to look out, they did, 'cause a stern ohase is a long chase, and he'd foller 'em like a man-o'-war after a slave dhow; see if he didn't, my boy." It was rumoured in Paradise that Polly Q, whose first name and last initial were blazoned on the cap'n's shack, was the cap'n's last love, but the story was never vouched for by the oap'n himself. It came to pass that Simon Yarrup, a Michigan farmer, immigrated to Dakota and took up" a claim in the vicinity of Paradise. If this immigration had consisted of old Simon alone, it is dollars to cents the name of Yarrup would never have figured in this tale; but old Simon was accompanied by his wife, a lady of comfortable proportions with an uncomfortable habit of wearing the Yarrup inexplicables. Belindy Yarrup was tall; and Belindy Yarrup had hair that was the oolour of faded oakum; and Belindy Yarrup had eyes that tried to be blue and red at the same time and compromised on a mucky gray; and Belindy Yarrup was seen, oh fate! by Cap'n Nathan Bounce as she drove by the Polly Q. one afternoon in a democrat wagon that bad passed its best days in Wolverine roads, The cap'n's thermometer at this moment was standing at 90 degrees, consequently the cap'n was outdoors minus his peajacket, 'Ihe oap'n watched Belindy and took in at one comprehensive glance the whole of her engaging make-up. Belindy also took in the or.p n's, and, would you believe it, she actually smiled. Then the gay old sea dog hooked his handkerchief out of his pocket and waved it, and Belindy Yarrup rattled a tin pail at him coquettishly and drove slowly out of sight, watohed by the enraptured but reformed pirate. "Wait till she comes haok," muttered the oap'n, diving below and lighting his pipe. "I'll show her a thing or two," he added, and puffed mysteriously. For two hours Cap'n Bounce watched the road leading from Paradise, and when he finally glimpsed a sorrel horse and democrat wagon jogging leisurely in his direction, he made ready for a little surprise. Waiting until the fair Belindy was directly opposite the Polly Q. the cap'n cleared his decks, dipped the Union Jack and fired his cannon, full two hours before sunset, as a delicate attention and salute to the passing maiden. When the smoke had oleared away there was discovered a terrible oalamity. The sorrel horse had taken fright at the oap'n's cannon and was yanking the democrat wagon madly along the prairie road at the top of his speed, while the fair Belindy olung with both hands to the wagon seat, and her sunbonnet, held to her chin by two long strings, floated out behind like a commodore's pennant in an East Indian hurricane. Tho oap'n, after first "shivering his timbers" and blasting his dead eyes," ran below and hurried after the runaway. It was easy to trace the direotion of Belindy's forced flight by the various merchandise scattered along the road. Suddenly the old sailor came upon the very pail that the fair girl had shaken at him as she drove past and he stood on the deck of the Polly Q. What emotions rent the cap'n's soul as he looked at that pail. It was half full of prunes, and he ate one or two in the bitterness of his spirit, and rolled dejectedly on, expecting every moment to find the evidenoe of some terrible catastrophe. At last whom should he see sitting beside the road on the seat of the democrat wagon ? Belindy herself When the cap'n came up he hooked off his hat, pulled his forelock, and shoved his right foot back along the grass. II I begs your pardon, mum, for the cannon's goin' off, an' I hopes no bones is broken an that I sees you well ?" I'm all right," says the fair Belindy, looking up with a forgiving smile. "The seat jounced out'n the wagon, an' of course I jounced out with it. The horse was to blame." After the cap'n had vented his spleen, in a nautical way, upon all horses in general, and the sorrel in particular, he exchanged names with Belindy, and they talked and talked until Simon Yarrup drove old sorrel back with the idea of picking up the remains of his daughter. Belindy," he said, in open-mouthed wonder at discovering her alive and in the company of Cap'n Bounce, what s the matter? Answer your paw "Thank hAllven 1" put in Cap'n Bounce, devoutly, "your child is safe, an' finds her- self, I begs to report, as hearty an' ship-shapa as a jolly afere breakfast." Paw," said Belindy, with a blush, Cap'n Bounce; Cap'n Bounce, paw." This formality over with, mutual explana- tions were made and a vow never again to fire his cannon under any pretence whatever was given by the cap'n and solemnly reoorded. After collecting the scattered merchandise the the Cap'n was invited to call on the Yarrups, the Yarrups were invited to call on the Cap'n, and they parted. Belindy cast down her murky gray eye and the Cap'n emitted a sigh that cost him a suspender button and consi- derable feeling. Gone," he murmured, looking after the democrat wagon. Gone, an' my heart has gone with her." The cap'n thereupon went in and set him- self to polishing up his thermometer, which, in mockery of his wrought-up feeling, stood at 60 deg. (everything lovely). In this romantic manner began a courtship truly Arcadian, The cap'n painted out the mysterious Polly Q. and rechristenod his shack the Belindy Y. For some months everything went on swimmingly, and then, when the cap'n had finally screwed up his courage sufficiently to ask Miss Yarrow to be- come the mate of the Belindy Y., a distress- ing mistake materialised that was far-reach- ing, indeed, in its consequences. Dragging from a sacred locker a blue cap with a gold band that only saw the light on state occasions, a faultless double-breasted jaoket, and a pair of wide blue trousers, the old sailor arrayed himself, and, just as the evening shadows fell, started fof the home of his inamorata. He bad wrought himself up for the momentous oocasion-he would pro- pose to Miss Yarrup. Just as he came within signalling distanoe of the Yarrup demesne, however, he saw a light gleaming from the windows of the best" room, and he fell to wondering what this could mean. Mrs. Yarrup's best" room was only used on Sundays and on the occa- sions when the cap'n called to see Belindy; so, as this was Tuesday, and the cap'n not ex- peoted, what meant that light ? The cap'n decided to reconnoitre before going in. Creeping stealthily to the window he saw—oh, horror of horrors!—Belindy Yarrup seated on a sofa with her hand in the hand of a long-visaged individual, who wore a light moustache and a yawning smile. Great heavens! The twenty-fourth leddy bad proven faithless. The cap'n lingered until he saw the man with the long face embrace Belindy and then he rushed off into the darkness. After pondering over his sorrows a brief space in one of old Simon's straw stacks he rose, brushed his clothes and drove home. One thing was certain. The future of Cap'n Nathan Bounce was destine to be a miserable apology for an existenca. That night the cap'n wrote a letter BKLINOY I have discovered you to be falce to me, but I do not repronch nor condemn you. When you receive this I shall be far away, my intention being tospund my remaining days in the Hotientot country or on the Mosquito coast— auywheru, but not here. I could bear up under twenty-three like afflictions, but this, the twenty-fourth, has heaped my cup of unhnppiness, and I now leave you for ever. Farewell. CAP'N BOUNCE. But Cap'n Bounce got no nearer Hotentot country than Bismarck. There he tarried, and one day Jim Littel, of Paradise, ran across him moping along the Missouri River. It was then that the cap'n learned how old Simon Yarrup's son, whom they supposed to be dead, had come back to them. As the description of this son given by Jim Littel coinoided with that of the old sailor's sup- posed rival the oap'n discovered his sad error and hurried back to Paradise, but no expla- nation would avail with the faa- Belindy. Old Simon's son had come back rich, and be was going to be the making of his folks. They were going East to live, and Belindy would henceforth be Belinda, and set her cap for something higher than a reformed pirate who was left-handed and had only his half-pay to live on. This was rough on the cap'n, but he bad had his fingers burnt before, and why did he persist in playing with fire ? The oap'n has again painted out his name on the side of the shaok. He now calls it the Polly Q. as formerly, and the oannon is fired regularly morning and evening, just as though Belindy Yarrup had never altered the custom. rankee Blade-
WELSH PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS.
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WELSH PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS. Exhibits at the Royal Academy and the Artists' Exhibition. Probably the chief exponents of the natural beauties of Wales in the forthcoming exhibition of the Royal Academy will be Mr. B. W. Leader, A.R.A., and Mr. John Brett, A.R.A. Mr. Leader whose Welsh landscapes in the past have been amongst his most successful works, will send a view of Conway Bay and the Carnarvonshire coast, with Penmaen-Mawr and Snowdon in the distance. Mr. Brett is one of the few artists who has discovered and perpetuated on canvas the charms of the Gower coast, which is almost a terra incognita to his brothers of the brush. Three or four years ago Mr. Brett exhibited in his studio a collection of paintings which consisted entioely of Gower scenes. To this year's Academy he is sending a few studies of another part of the Welsh coast. Skomor and Skothan" shows two islands at the mouth of Milford Biiven, Wind and tide together cause a superb swell on the sea, while a green isle and a headland in the distance are flooded by sunlight. Welsh Barley is a barley-field on a cliff, the corn being studded with flowers; and "Cardigan Bay'' is a brilliant rendering of waves and clouds; Welsh scenes are more numerous than usual at the British Artists' Exhibition, which opened on Monday at the Suffolk-street Galleries. Most of the artists, as a matter of course, have sought and found their subjects in the northern part of the Principality. Mr. Anderson Hayne's U Hayfield on the Conwny" (160) and Mi-. G. S. Walter's "Walsh Woodlands (425) are excellent examples of these well-known artist*, and Mr. S. H. Baker's "Above LJanbedr" (577) and Mr. Isaac Cocke's The Pass of Aberglnsiyn in autumn (446) should by no nieans be missed. Mr. H. R Canty sends a couple of interesting seascapes from the Gower coast—"The Spar Reef, Mewslada Hay" (407), and "Mewslade Bay" (469). Mr. Charles Jones, R.C.A., has one of those pictures of ?heep — the fleecy tenants of the glebe," as they are called in another entry in the catalogtie- in which lie is unsurpassed. It is called, On the Alert" (438). Among other Welsh pictures may be noted, "A Mountain Pass, North Wales (36), John Abom; Snow on Tal-y-Fan," sketch, (186). F. H. A. Parker; Autumn Afternoon on a Welsh Llyn (211). Louis B. Hurt; U Moei Stabod, on the Lledr" (233), and On the Usk, near Brecon (239), J. Peel; "Llyn Idwal, North Wales" (300), Caroline Fox and A Gale, Baruaouth Estuary (406), C. S. Mottram.
THE WELSH TWENTY CLUB.
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THE WELSH TWENTY CLUB. The second annual dinner in connection with the local centre of the Welsh Twenty Club, whose headquarters are at Llanaiiv, was held on Siltur- day evening at rIle Bee Hotel, Clayton-street, Liverpool, under the presidency of Lieutenant Lloyd, superintendent ot the district. There was • large comp*nV Pre^"t, including Surgeon R. G. Roberts, M.B., l*'t V.B. King's Regiment; Lieu- tenant Luther Watts, oih V.B. King's Regiment; Lieutenant R. M. William*, 6th L A.V.; Lieutenant T. E. Jone-s 6th L.A.V. Messrs. W. R. Jones (who occupied the vice-chair), J. P. Williams, Aubrey Pugh, J. A. Jones, George Jones, and J. Parry Jones. There were also present a large muster of prominent members of the local volunteer bat- talions. The proceedings were brought to a. close by the singing of Hen WIad fy Nbadau and the National Anthem.