The Children Wo Keep.
The children kept coming, ono by one.
Till tho boys were live and tho girls wore
three,
And the big brown house was alive with run
From the basement floor to tho old root
tree.
Liko gsiden flowers the littlo ouos grew,
Nurtured and trained with the tenderust
cam;
Warmed by lovo'a sunshine, I sit hod in its
dew,
They bloomed into bounty, liko roses ruro.
But ono of tho lioys grow weary ono day,
And, loaning his head on his mother's
breast,
lie said, "1 am tired and rannot play;
l.ot mo sit awhile on your kneo and rest."
Pho cradled him close in hor fonil embrace,
tihe huhod him to sloop with her sweetest
song,
And rapturous love still llghte<Phis face,
When his spirit hud joined the heavenly
throng.
Then the eldest girl, with her thoughtful eye',
Who stood where "tho brook and tho river
meet,"
Btole softly away into Paradise
Ere "tho liver" hail reached her slender j
feet,
While the father's oyee on tho grave un
bent,
The mother looked upward beyond tho -
skies;
"Our treasures," sho whispered, "woro onlv
lent,"
Our dailings wore angels in earth's dis
guise."
The years flow by an ! the children tiegan
With longing to think of tho world out
side ; •
And na each, in his turn, became a man,
The lx>ys proudly went from tho father's
side.
The girls wero women so gentle and fair
That lovers wero speedy to woo and to
win;
And with orange blossoms in braidist hair,
lhe old home was lull, new homo to
begin.
!k>, one by one, tho rliil Iron have gone—
Tho boys wore five, and tho girls wire
three;
And the tug brown house is gloomy and
lone;
With but two old triks for its company.
They talk to each otber at-ait the past,
As they sit together in eventide.
And say, "all tho children wo kept at last,
Arc the boy and the girl tin In childhood
dial."
Out of the Poor-House.
"I'm sure I don't know what tod->
aln-ut it," said Mr. Griggs, liojK-lestsiv,
scratching his ear with the feather-end
of his quill jn n.
It was a glorious August day at Ilil
berry Four Corners. The mullein
studded pastures were l iked with
heat; the closed cups i>f the morning
glories hung disconsolately among the
wilting leaves, while the cattle st">d
knee-deep in the Bilberry River. where
pollard willows made a friendly
•hade.
At the Town House, however, there
was no such luxury as trees. Trees
shaded the cabbage Held; their roots
drew all the strength out of the gar
den soil, where onions, j tat' i-s and
sugar-lusts were to be grown, and
their leafage made a green mold on
th> roofs. The Town House was
meant for use, not show; and the
selectmen had no nonsensical scruples
on the subject of Imatity; and so the
sun came in. like the breath of a
fiery dragon, through the uncurtained
casement, and smote Mr. Griggs. the
•up*rintendent, on the very crest of his
bald head.
"I'ull down the window-shade,
somebody!" said Mr. flriggs, writhing
uneasily in his chair. "Oh. dear! oh,
dear! I wish Mrs. Bibb was here. She
knows!"
"What is the man calling about?"
vaid Mrs. Griggs, bustling in from an
adjoining room. "!>on't you know
that Mr. i tern as Dodd is waiting?"
"Take the books for yourself," said
the superintendent, pushing a huge
pile of folios toward ids better half.
"What is one to do? There was two
of 'em left on tho doorstep the same
night. We called one Ruth, and the
other Naoinl; and we surnarned her
Snow, because it was an awful stormy
night. The equinoctial, don't you
rememWr? /nd here's Demas l)odd
says one of 'em is his darter, and he
wants her; and Mrs. Bibb is gone to
bury her second son. And how in
the nnme of all creation be I to tell
which was which?"
"Let him pick and choose for him
self." said Mrs. Griggs, impatiently.
"Tell him jest how it was."
"No," sxid Mr. Griggs, authoritative
ly. "That would derogate from the
dignity of the town superintendent.
I ain't to he took unawares like that
It ain't to be supposed that the Town
Honsc authorities can lxi mistook."
"Stuff and nonsense!" said Mrs.
Griggs. "We're all human, ain't we?
But if you feci liko that, why, flip up a
penny. If It cotnes up heads, say
Naomi; if it's tails, say Ituth."
And sho produced a copper cent on
the spot, twirling it nimbly on tho
table.
For a second or two it spun around
—then fell heavily on its side, revealing
tho expressive lineaments of the God
dess of Liberty.
"Heads!" said Mrs. Griggs. "Send
Naouii down to him. And I ain't
sorry, for Nnouii always was a careless,
Mighty tiling, and Ruth is dreadful
handy with tho house linen and men's
wiish."
"But a man ought to have his own
daughter," feebly remonstrated Mr-
Griggs.
"We can't do no better by him," said
Mrs. Griggs. "And if ho hadn't no
more naterai affection than to leave
his own daughti-r on the door-step such
an awful stormy night its that
was—"
"It wasn't him; it was old Miss
Dudgick, Ids wife's aunt," explained
the Superintendent of tho Town 1 '(Mir. J
"You sec ho was awful down in the
world, and he had gone to tho Azores
to gather yarbs to make a cough curi
as should knock everybody's colds into
the middle of next year. An' when he
heard the child was dead tie hadn't 1
no heart to come hack. And lie never |
know'd she wits livin' until old Miss i
iHulgick made an afferdavy on her
death-hed, and it w ;ts sent to him by
the lawyers. And here ho is now."
"And here's a grown-up darter for
him," said Mrs. Griggs, curtly. "And
he'll la- suited, and we're suited, and I
dare say Niiomi'll he suited into the
bargain, and nobody need never he no
wiser."
With which astounding succession
of double negatives the matter termi
nated.
Naomi was a pretty, blue-eyed girl
of seventeen, who was to have been
"bound out" the very next week to
the clergyman's family.
Iluth was a dimpled, smiling hru- i
nette, whom ail tho little childn n
instinctively sought in times of trou- I
hie, and who was Mr- Griggs' right
hand woman. And the two solitary
young things hud always loved each
other like twin sisters. '
"I wish papa could take us both"' j
sot. IN d Xa<>mi, with her arms around
Ruth's neck.
"I'on't hint at such a thing," said
Mrs. Griggs, indignantly.
"And after all," said Iluth, who al
ways -aw the consoling side of things,
"we can see each other often. And
isn't it exactly like a novel, that your
father should come to claim you aft r ,
all these years?"
v • Naomi went to the pretty old
t rii k house which (tenuis J'odd, who j
had contrived to make a fortune out of
his "Oriental Cough Cure," htul pur- ,
ch.i-ist a picturesque old place, all j
mantled with ivy, where there was an
am ient garden, full of swot Williams
and lilac hush*"*, and wandering ten
drils of clematis; where monster jar
trees thing tle-.r pennons of shade
in ro-- tlie I • x-lMirdered paths.
What a change it was after the i< a |
and drudgery of the Town Poor
House, this life of easy cum fort, with
the -oftly-carpcted ih- rs, th> curtains;
of snowy muslin looped with ril.l-.ii_ ,
the l-Miks, the Mowi rs, the atmosple re '
of repose!
Naomi's young life -eemed to expand i
within it, like a daffodil in the sun
shine. And li mas Itodd, himself j
scarcely forty, was so gentle, so rcllm-d,
so companionable.
"l'apa," cried Naomi, who was an
impetuous little creature, anil always'
spoke out her thoughts and fellings, |
"you are so nice' I don't think I cvei i
loved any one as much as I love I
you."
And yet there was a certain shadow
of awe in the girl's manner toward
him.
" What is it ?" Naotnl asked herself.
"I am riot afraid of him. Ho all girls
feel so toward their father? But then
I haven't known pnpa all my life, (if
course that accounts for it. It's sim
ple enough when one comes to think
of it."
Demas I)odd's daughter had scarcely
dwelt in her new home a month when
a greasy, ill-spelled note arrived from
Mr. Grigg, the superintendent of the
I'oor House.
"He wants me to come down there,"
said Mr. Dodd. "I wonder what
for ?"
"l'apa, can't I go, loo?" asked
Naomi.
"Not this time," Mr. Dodd responded
gently, "but perhaps 1 will bring Ruth
back with me to Spend the day—if Mrs.
Griggs can spare her."
The superintendent was sitting up
in state lwfore his ledgers and account
books, when Mr. Dodd was shown into
the reception-room.
"Mrs. Bibb has come home," said
the superintendent. " Mrs. Bibb is
j our matron."
"Has she?" said Mr. Dodd. "But I
atn at a loss to know how that fact
can possibly affect na"
"She has opened our eyes," said Mr.
Griggs, with a flourish of his left
hand.
"Oh!" said Mr. Dodd.
"Prepare yourself," said the super-'
intendent "We've been mistook. Na
omi's the wrong one. Ruth was your
darter oil along. Mrs. Illbb known.
.She brung *em up both, by band.
Naomi belongs to tho old brick maker,
who fell into tho kiln and broke his
nock, aixtoen year ago. Truth la
truth! And I ain't tho man willingly
to deceive my fellow creetera, not if it
was law to. Nuomi'a the wrong one,
and Itutli ia your darter, Mr. Dodd."
Mrs. JJibb, an elderly female, with a
bottle-nose, ami a succession of double
chins, was called to give her testimony,
and it was incontrovertible.
"1 am sorry for thia," said Mr.
Dodd, gravely; "I have grown very
fond of Naomi."
"Kuth'a a deal hnndier aliout tho
house," interposed Mrs. Griggs. "Na
omi always was a feathcr-head-d croc
tur. She's got a pretty face, and that's
all."
Little Kuth came in, trembling ami
pale. Was the fairy story aliout to l
revived? Was she the disguised prin
cess, after all ?
She would rather have drudged on
at the poor house all her days, than
that Mrs. liihh should have divulged
Naomi's identity thus.
Hut, as Mr. Griggs deelansl, "truth
was truth." Naomi returned to tho
poor house, and Kuth took possession
"f the pretty old rcsl brick house,
where the China rosea smelled so
sweetly, and the canaries sang in the
hay window.
"My dear," said Mr. Dodd, stroking
the pretty head, "I hope you will l
very happy here."
"I'apa," said Kuth, plucking up cou
rage. "1 can t lie happy without Na
I omi."
Mr. Dodd smiled. A tendersoftnc-si
■ ati.e into his eyes.
"That's what I was thinking my
self. Kuth," said he, "Mb all Igo after
, horV"
"Dh. papa!" cried the girl, ccstuti*
| eally. "if \ m only would!"
Toward evening Item as J.1<1 came
back to the old r<-d brick house with
Naomi sitting )-. side him in the jwny
phaeton.
Kuth ran to meet her. and in half a
: minute the girls were clasjx-d in each
other's arms.
"<h, Naomi my Naomi!" cried
Kuth. "I have 1 . n building such a
I castle in the air."
"Have you?" said Naomi. "What
is it ?"
"You are to stay here forever," said
Kuth. '•lb-cause you know, dear, wo
j can't IM- separated from each other
i'apa will fall in*love with you. He
can't help it. And he w ill ask you to
j l>e his wife, and "
"fi. Ruth! Kuth!" erb-d Naoinl,
clasping her hand oti the other's mouth,
"You are a veritable fortune-teller,
j We were marrie 1 tins rmirning."
Kuth utter- 1 a little outcry of joy,
and shower- 1 kisses on Naomi's fore
head. li; s arid throkl.
"Oh I am so glad'" she exclaimed—
"l am S" glad'"
An-l it is re t probable that a step
mother ever received a warmer wel
come than Kuth accordM to her that
day.
The troublous question was settled
satisfactorily at last. Kuth and Na
omi were happy, and so was Mr
Demas Dodd.
And the whole thing went to prove
that romances may lo evolved, even
fr>m the st. ir walls of a town |>oor
house. Stit'ii'luy Sight.
Trick* In the Markets,
Cut this out and run it over prepar
atory to marketing:
< >ranges are occasionally boiled to
make them larg) r.
Dried peas are soaked to imitate the
fresh, green article.
Samples of nuts or fruit cracked or
cirt and exposed are not at all truthful-
The l*"-t or biggest fruit is always
on the top of the liox or basket.
< dwerve if your butcher allows
your meat to remain on the spring bal
ance scales until the scales have ceas
ed to quiver and the index is station
ary.
The markets are full of these little
tricks of the trade. They come of
generations of study and practice,
and as a rule in buying any kind of ar
ticle. if you find the dealer putting up
a package out of sight look out for
some kind of shave. .
In the pyramids and regular em
bankments of oranges the ls-st are al
ways in front, while the dealer fills
your paper bag with the poorer ones
concealed in the rear.
Keep your eye on the dealer when
he fills your banana paper bag, for if
your glance wanders a moment he
deftly casts in from a poorer lot closo
at hand.
Look at the nice, flat hunches of cel
ery and you find the greener and
tougher stalka In Its roar.
The steamer Durham City passed
' through several large Icebergs on her
voyage, one of which was two miles
long and three hundred feet high.
SCIENTIFIC NC It A I'M.
It Is now thoroughly believed by as
tronomical arid other scientific persons
that tho cyclone epidemic is caused by
spots on tho sun.
Dr. Hrown-Kequard has discovered a
1 now anesthetic which destroys sons
! ibllity, but not consciousness or phys
! leal activity, for an entire day or more
It is found by the survey of tho
Croat Lakes that there is a slight tide
I In them but riot of sulllcient extent to
1 be noticeable without special care, the
amount of rise and fall not exceeding
j two inches
It is denied by Schmidt Muhlheiiu
that the formation of part of the milk
obtained from a cow begins with the
process of milking, and that the udder
I is too small to give room for all the
fluid to Is; obtained at one milking.
On the contrary, the most thorough
effort will leave some milk In the
ducts, whence It is driven Into tin
milk reservoirs by the newly formed
secretion pushing from behind, and
which may be obtained after the lapse
of an hour from the time the milking
began.
The heat from an are electric lamp
of I'HI < aridle power is from . r .7 to I.'-
heat-uuits, that of the incandescent
lamp of equal brilliancy from t<>
-VIO. The argand gas-burner Is the
next best light ill point of coolness,
but this is represented by f.Hi'si heat
units. a eol/.a oil lamp by •► •. fiat
wick petroleum lamp by a paraf
fine c andle by . and a tallow can
dle by '.1.71H(. Light for light, there
fore, the beat of an electric are lamp
under the most favorable circumstan- :
ces is to the heat of tallow candles as
1 to 170.
A new explosive has Iss-n Invented
by M. Turpin, a Parisian chemist. It
is said t<> 1M- very jiowcrfui, and, un"
like- nitro-glycerine,dynamite and gun- :
cotton, it has the highly important -
property of not Is-ing affected by con
clusion. It is made by the conbina
th-n of two liquids, which < an IM- trans
port- I like ordinary cbemioUa, and Dead I
only be mixed when tie- explosive i*
aD-utto IM- us.-d. It can IM- employ. 1 J
in its liquid form, or when alisorbed by j
siliriotu earth. Frost .1-M-S not aff. t
it. At '"berlsiurg experiments have
lss-n made with this aulsdance tip- n
slaty rocks containing quart?, and al* - !
ujM.n old rerm-nt-w. rk, and the r.-j- rt
of the engineers praises it very much.
An Kncllsh Picture.
The fish markets at Shrewsbury and
the other cities were full of fine fish
fresh from these rivers. Tho rea--n
is that there* is a -Irict system of pr<-*-
vrvation. Th-re are time-- when net- ,
ting is allowc-d. and rod-fishing in tie
season is |M-rmitted on application; but
the Aineri> an uietho l of sc -oping out
the contents of a riser in one year,
and of imlfs. rimlnat- antl improvident
consumption, is n--t tolerated. At all
t!i' railroad stations in this vicinity
you set- fishermen with rod and reel,
and, of course, water-proof overcoats,
on their way to or from the river.
With all the abundance-, however, the
salmon is not so very cheap. It brings
a shilling, or twenty-five cents a
|M.und. in th<- markets, and 1 regret t--
say they do not se-ni at the hotels to
know* how to cook it. As a rule, they
fry it. When they undertake to I>i 1
it, they stop 1-efnre it is half clone, and
thus save coal, and fish also, for that
; matter. This, though, is the only
hasty act 1 have yet discovered. Asa
! rule, as much time as possible is con
j sunml at whatever is done. Kcir in
stance. they pronounce Hereford in
three syllables, instead of two, which
ran lie aecountcsl for on no other
ground than to use up time.
The place itself, however you pro
nounce it, is one to IM- heartily enjoy
| ed. Here, for the first time, we put
I up at a real Knglish Inn—the Green
Dragon. It was neat a* wax. and save
for the boot-black and JM.rter, offlcercsl
throughout by women. The clerk was
a young woman; the bar was tended
by two neat and tidy maids with
pretty white rajvs. and the bar-room
was as quiet and orderly as a parlor.
It is possible thus to pass judgment
upon it without tasting the liquors,
because with its flowers, its easy
chairs, Its big, open chimney, and its
opportunity to smoke there, it was the
cosiest room in the house. It certain
ly offered a most suggestive contrast
to the bar of an American saloon.
Here there w as no vulgar talk, no spit
ting on the floor, no profanity or filth-
One man after another, and one group
after another, would drop in and order
their drink, oftener whisky than any
other, and would drink it, chat a bit,
and, with a pleasant good-night, go
out. At home such a room is a scene
of riot, confusion and profanity, noisy,
and indecent Perhaps it ia better
that it should he so, hut I am only
drawing a contrast and not a moral.—
Eneli*h Cor. Hartford, CL, Courant.
A THIEF'S CUBE.
Thtt Vnfort iinal* Maula from Whlrh a
• on*lil wm Hfllrtcii l,y > Hum.on.
Said Governor Dluckbuni, of Ken
tucky;
"I know a young man of excellent
family who had the misfortune to l*j
wounded in the heart with a pistol-hull. 1
Shortly after he had ap|>urently recov
ered he rob lied a store of a lot of stuff
that was of no earthly value to him.
He then stolen buggy, loaded the other
stolen property Into the vehicle and
hauled the entire bu*(n<-Hs Into a piece ]
of woods, where he concealed the
buggy and content*. The young man
wan arrested, the property he took was
recovered, and he was sent to the
Frankfort penitentiary. He served
(■is time out, and, going back home,
burglari/cd the name store, taking the
same class of goods, which he loaded
into the buggy hi: bad run off with be
fore, and he concealed the things in
the same place he had hidden them on
i the occasion of hiH iirst offense.
"Once more the youth was sent to
the penitentiary and had nearly com
pleted his second term when I got a
friend of mine, whom I knew to be an
intelligent gentleman, to act as physi
cian to the prisoners. The ease I
speak of was brought to his attention
because it was one of unusual inter
est. The doctor gave it as Ids opinion
that the bullet which bad struck Un
voting man's head had indented the
'skull suflich-ntly to cause it to j res*
on the man's brain, and that this was
the reason lie committed the burglarb j
i that couldn't possibly )•!,<•) t him, bu
; were sure to send him to prison. The
; doctor aid that lie believed tin- young
man cotil 1 Ist enrol by trepanning the
skull, but as bis time was alsmt to ex
pire, he w uldn't take the responsibil
ity of perfonning the ojieration. So
tin- prisoner was shortly after ward
sent home. He 10-t no time in heeling
Up the old buggy again with the same
class i f gosls that he had obtained
on two previous occasions when ho
burglarized the same store that he en
't' n*l for the third time. Of course,
immediately after the things and the
buggy were missed, the owners knew
w here to lind them, and in no time at
all my \ ung friend was back at the
prison.
"The doctor then said that he was
going ttrepan that fellow's head if it
wa- the last act of his < ilicial life, the
death i i the pr.- tar. and he did. Not
only that, hut he did it successfully,
and I j anion cd the young man. He
went home and 1-ehavid himself like a
perfect gentleman, -ir. and never male
the slight- -t attempt ' i steal fien a
pin. I firmly Wlieve tliat if that man
had m-t lssn oj>erated upon he would
have repeated the offense f.( burglar
izing that store and biding that old
buggy in tin- woods till doomsday,
could he live o h>ng. There is n th
ing like having intelligent officers
al<out a prison, sir. They save life and
reput.iti n, ir, and property." '.'in
• intuiti .Verm.
The French President at Home.
Making .am is one of the favorite
i holiday reenath>na <-f I'rc-ldent (>re
vy, according to the Paris Figaro.
which tells us that the head of the re
public mas frequently l<e seen in his
kitchen at M- nt-s us Vaudrey, envel
oped in a largt blue apron, and skim
ming preserves over the fire. Every
thing in the president's country home
is of the plainest description. S|rt
ing trophies ornament the dining
room, the drawing-room is scantily
furnished in red damask, and even the
j boudoir of the president's daughter,
Madaiu' Wilson, contains no pretty
feminine nick-nacks, but is full of fire
arms, and collections of coins and in
sects. M. Grevy's study is hung with
an ugly gm-n paper, and the w alls arc
covered with l*oks; while the bust of
Voltaire surmounts the clock. When
not engaged in his favorite pastime of
shooting, M. Grevy strolls alwut the
neighborhood in nn old blue cotton
coat and big straw hat, talks to every
js-asant be meets—can-fully eschewing
jiolitics, however—and delights to take
children on his knee to recite to them
one of La Fontaine's fables.
Swimming in lllgh Altitudes.
Tenderfeet should know, and all
others should not forget, that it is j
more difficult to keep atloat in a high
altitude than in a lower altitude. That
accounts for the numerous cases of
drowning even in comparatively small
streams. Young men who could
swim with great facility in the east
have found out to their sorrow, and
too late, that they could not do the
srme In Colorado. The light atmoa.
phere considerably reduces the buoyant
power of water. This is the caae to a
remarkable degree on Lake Tahoe, the
highest Imriy of water on the conti
nent. In this water even pine wood
sinks, and when a man is drowned his
body never rises.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
There are more than 9,000 brass ,
hands In the United States.
The old smiths had a tradition that ,
the b*t sword blade* should lie cool
ed in mountain streams.
International military race* are to m
lie held at Vienna next year for offl- i
ecru of all the standing armies In '
1 Euroj>e. i
Lieutenant Southerland, of the Brit
ish army, is eight feet four itches
high, and weigh* alxmt thr<-e hundred
and sixty-four iound*.
The costly pharmaceutical
preparation in tiie market is the Urea-
den ergotine, the active principle of
ergot of rye. The
price i* .50 a grain.
The dome of the new Pari* observa
tory will (>• floated in a trough filled
with an aqueous solution of chloride Of
magnesium, which will not freeze,
and will preserve the equilibrium of
the dome even if the building should
settle unequally.
It i--> esti mat--I that Pennsylvania i
lia.* eoal enough to upjly tin- demand 1
for three centuries. The total anthra
cite area before mining commenced
was li-l'M*") square mile-. Allowing (
1<*0 tons to the acre, a foot in depth
would gi\< t< >ns . Assum
ing that the depth average* thirty feet
it gives a grand tot a) f 9,•>>",<*' frit)
tons. At the present time the con
sumption averages about bM,0" , .',U00
tons a year.
London jewelers have l*-<-n making
a remarkable ring for the king of
Ham, which is to In used by his iiiaj
•~ty only once ay ar, and then as
held of the- Buddhists in La-tern
India. The central stone is one and
one-fourth Inch in diameter, and is en
circfixl by a ruby, an emerald a sap
phire, and five other stones. The
mounting is doscriljod as light and ele
gant, though strong. Emblems of the
Buddhist faith are displayed.
A Pugnacious Sailor.
1
Lord J'< re-ford is --mall in stature, a
car< l' -s. < asy-going follow , with a g<*id
taoe and bright eyes. He is a toother
of the marqu - of AA'aterford, and, be.
longs to a family of fighters. Villi am,
the son selected for the army service,
would soon'-r scuffle than eat. It is I
nothing 11 hear that one of the Here*,
fords has broken a 1-ne Charles
William de la I'oer li< r sford, the
naval captain, is a favorite of the
Prince <>f Vales, I* • :ius he is "one of
the L'VS." Alsiut ins fa e and head
he resembles Lord Byron, and has the
shoulders of an athlete. Several
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Bemford is said to like nothing letter
than to prowl alxmt of an evening
with some othsr military i. direr. put |
tlieir caps .in their pock<ts. turn up
their collars, enter a saloon, and engage,
unrocogrii7<sl, in a rough-and-tumble
fight with pri\ ate*.
A great vs ial and diplomatic s- an- |
dal has just transpired lr mi the actions
of "Lord ' barley." M. V .aldington, j
the French min -ter to London, was
given a -jc;al < ntertainnient and
dinner at the house < fa noble lady at
her summer retreat at Cowe*, on the
tsle of Wight The occasion was
graced by the ) t> - nre of the Prince
of Wales. The French minister was
accompanied by Admiral KeppeL I
Everything went well and merrily '
until after the ladles retired from the
table and the cigars and light wines
were brought in for the gentlemen. |
The conversation soon drifted to the i
i Chinese war and then a debate was
started by Lord Charles lteresford upon
the merits of the English and French
navies. The hero of Fort Merv grew |
warm with wine, and he gradually be
came very offensive In his remarks
The efforts of the l'rinoe of Vales and
' others to check him into decorum
served only to make him pugnacious.
He fell to ridiculing the entire French
fleet, and wound up with the itatoj
mcnt that he could take the Condor,
the little gunl*>*t with which he nosed
arnind Fort Merv during the hora
hardment of Alexandria, and chase
the whole French fleet in Chinese
wsters away from the Annan coast. (
M. Vaddington considered Lord Beres
ford's conduct so extremely insulting,
that he arose from the table, demanded i
his carriage, and actually left the
jiousc. The hostess followed him, and
by the most earnest solicitations, final
ly persuaded him to refrain from going
to a hotel and to reenter the house, j
In the meantime the British officers/
present comjielled Beresford to leave I
the place, and such was the noble lord's I
resistance of this treatment that hia I
ejectment practically amounted f to 1
being kicked out. Every effort was mada I
to bush up the matter but nothing I
could suppress M. Vaddington's Indlg- I
nant denunciations of the treatment to, I
which he bail been subjected, and the I
affair is the scandal of London. J