Durham Chronicle (1867), 24 Jun 1897, p. 2

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nurse familiarity of their neighbors. A lack 0! sufficient food and An entire [wk 11 comforts were the least of their troubla. Every refine-nun. in their datum m jurod upon and violated thou- untinctiu. delicacy of mind and half was bruised and wounded inocu- m y ; month“. not distasteful they find to «In-com to. Mr. Luv-tom's wand old apirlt (row not. and more gin-bod; tho Iqlnlgt. not... and dim!“ 0! lm lit. m Why to lung. Wht any 3". to u do". "(mod llttlo o v 'w-‘ vv .v- JV“. (I will do my heat; to get you another piece. Ym are a good lrl. end. a (zipital parlor meld; hutâ€" utâ€"if high heels or raisi your hair would do any goal I would eep you; but you have heel:- so high now that they sponl your walk. end ydu must wear your hair es Claim had to co. end every one was sorry. Mr. Lawrence liked the good-tempered. cheermrl little maid. who woe no attentive and obliging {so different (ran the unpercilioue. unin- taunted maids his wife generally had about. He me her a £5 note when she left, nag told her he was sorry to late her; 9 e wept bitterly again at th'lemrk of favour. Her mistress ehe utnnrod. her master she worshiped. So L'lera went. and a week later the great- time; the dinner pertiee ceased. and soon ell exchange of cl'vilities ceased. A luhtle leter eceroely e soul in that ‘oab set” remembered that they had ever know. the Lawrence. After tint their existence became more and mom hogan; they had no servant. . 'en. ; soon they had not even a thenâ€"count; conversation. evil-smell- tq atroote. clone rooms. evorflhmfl‘ about them from. dirty. shabbl° coerle. common ( badly cooked and nerved; and‘oltnoet iyorse than all. the M-“ ‘4 ' it w barely a glance that she gave ind the shade that gamed over her face was no more than a passing shade. Hut presently her eyes fell on the girl again. and then the momentary wrink- 1: mg of her forehead showed the: annoy- uw-e she felt. L‘lmra walted most per- b .artly. tut she certainly was much The next day Mm. Lawrence inter- waived the delinquent. Clam, who was :nteneely anxious to keep the situation had recaurse to tears. "I am short. uu‘am. I know. but my ‘character' says i ran wait. table perfect'.‘ "Ah. yes. I dare 3a said Mrs. Law- rence. with a quick ittle shake of her head and a deprecatory movement of her hands. ”but you sponl the effect in a mom. I really could not have so ill« matched a set. 'I‘ he argument did not console Clara. nr dry heu- tears. She we on. Mrs. Lawrence who could not r to see my one miserable. was touched. and «tread to consider the matter. Clara staid fit a month. but at the end of in. mouth Mm. Lawrence dismissed war. "I Carnot he no jarred upon at ever meal." she said. plaintively. “I am tea - ly very my. ‘to part with you. and .....'II .I... ____â€" mm. intensely proud with the pride m '3 good in a mi). thoughtful and tether reserved. Mrs. Lawrence W” mall. vivaciam. brilliant. with mar- velous black hair. gray eyes and charm ‘1 manner. "When she was 35 and her ”bad 45â€"With the exception of the Wk‘k march of timeâ€"life seemed to hold nothing for them but pleasure and hppineee. A. year later the climax of their popularity and fame and the be- littling of their downfall were reach- ed in the me week. They entertained 5 royal duke at lunch one day. and heard the next 01 the [one of a large Ilioe of their income. Their lose of team made little apparent difference. The dinner parties continued. though fewer in lumber. and mallet. and it anythifl. more select. Mrs. Law- rence's dreae was just as perfect. though la costly and mried. The lootmen dleappeared. tut their places were fill- all by Neatly-matched. trim maids. the matching of whom was a source of . pride and amusement: to Mrs. Law- mace. A bad match jarred on her nerves unbearably. Ather this, smart maid-eermuta became the fashion. It wudurinca temporary disarrange» mall! in the household that Clam-a Lang was engaged; in fact. the house-keeper. after much tribulation of spirit. caused by the lowneae of the girl's stature. en- med her while Mu. Lawrence was in town for a few days. There was a dinner party caning off in the even- Ins. and they wane (me maid short. ' Better an inch a two less than none at all" said the worried woman; so L'lwra was engaged. and was not even seen by her new mistreu until she was waiting at table in the evening. Soon their they were all seated Mrs. Law- rence's keen eye tell on the new maid; the most charming people imaginable. and their whole exidonco was existed to manipulative case. Mr. Lawrence W‘- o lino mu. handsomo in features. and Olmmt courtly in case. and grace of tend than pbaolutely pertact; and “the not“ being the very "but set" h tho town or country. was. of course. no a human; their house m moat. DO“ (43ch ”rm and managed: Mrs- Lun'enoo dressed with most perfect Me; in bet. they were in over! W" "'3 “Mrs Ferdinand Lawrence's m. little d1 nner parties we‘ro con- “ bribe set" privileged to at» tho Vac-o. fl w... ....... Jo “‘1le Lt” one instant staggered as though the gates had fallen against her. then. With a fearful effort, she drew herself to that. “We must not be In to for dinner. meat." she said, with a. little laugh. ghastly in its forced mirth; "you‘ know. ow nude we used to think our guests when they came late. Poor old boy, how angry you used to grow !" Ferdinand answered nothing. “I am atmid we shall not dine to- gether. Yours will beabachelor arty; mine. alas! a ‘hen panty." Ah! ow I hm such gatherings! But I deresey we shall see each other againâ€"soonâ€"and then you must tell me all you talked epout." Her face was turned away from high flhn. the might not nee the tears twirling down it. while 071;? no. “(1 will 3 little lamb mind with 1.... luvu- arrival there in any W3] COD' cealod. " No." she said, “ I will walk then. walk in as I need whien I went to sing to the poor old doors. I wonder if any one will come to sin to me I" As they passed In t rough the heavy man too Mr. Lawrence seemegi to shri and wince. even through but up- paroqt passive immIbility,_Adele for mfion room ditties and old ballads. she told him all the laughable stories she could thunk of. and laughed and joked about the handlelees cups and thenr one kmfe at bmakfaet the next morning“. though She knew it was the last they would ever take together; and the tears that forced t heir way out and trickled down hercbeeks she pretended were tears of lagfh‘ter. 1:. Lawrence smiled feebly. As long as hos Adele was happy he awed for withing else. He talked of old times and how pleasant it was to have a few dflYs to themselves and no social en- gagementa. "Qu'be like our honeymoon over again . ." he mid. steeping- and kiss- mg her on tbeforehead. be out of each others sight; the few moments she was away from him she spent in eagerly askin Ear informa- tion as to the life an treatment of the men in “the house;" for herself she did not seem to care." “:Shall Iâ€"have 'toâ€"to sleep in a wand with allâ€"theâ€"the others?" was the only question she asked with regard to’ her own future; and she shivered when they spoke of the 002mm. harsh clothing the women. ware. When she was witth her husband her sp-irits. apparently. never “38864.3 ”She sang to higher drawing: But he only heard the first words and the little 15mg!) at the and of them. Presentl lookmg up at bar sudden] be caug t' her spying; with yvidp._grie - Inl'A._ Aâ€"Aâ€" ‘ ‘ They were to in at 12 o'clock the next day. Mr. gw'renoe apparently did ant Dealize what was about to hap- pen; his wifle alone thought he felt meme than he showed any gn.of All ,thn’t day they_ could scamely endurq to "Iâ€"I thoughtâ€"I might have been apgped that." she said. “Well.yea ." he mm, "they haves For the first time she wept hard scaMing team that seemed to Dunn this; (mums on her cheeks. " It won't be qu- long," said thegr landlord. trying to comfort them; "this 18 only a tem'p'ry embarrassment. Im sure." "N0. “3 cannot be for long." said Mrs. Lawrence. quietly. Her womds and man- ner deceived the old man; he thought She expected help {from some one: “I'll be bound you’ll beout mm In a Week." he said cheerfully. She only smxled and said she hoped so; but pres- cant-Ly she looked up at him with asud- den horror in her eyes. ' " \Vxll ltheyâ€"will the separate us?’ she asked. scarcely abe to hear the “wvvv‘ v- â€"- .- -Vwâ€"J v Their next move had to be to the workho'use. There was no help for It. The guardians waxed indignant when the case came before the board. and no outdoor relief could be wrung from them. So the Lawu'enoes had an order flat the " house " given them. 1": _. - - - A- ‘1 LL-:_ choort‘ul Mrs. Lawrence appeared; He} The women wore sheepskin coats just like the men's. and. then 0111 oth- er garment was of linen. with em roid- ered edges. and reaching to half-way between the ankle and knee. The legs were here. and on the feet were heavy rawha'd shoes. Their headdress was of white linen, somewhat similar .to kuI-u'. The men were their hair long. and clipped across the forehead in an old- fashioned "bang." They wore tight- fitting trousers oi coarse white home- 11 linen. tucked into rawh‘ide boots. t e tops of which were turned down. and heavily embroidered. They wore shirts of the same mater- ia'l. and a. sheepskin coat. Gr “shuhe.” with the hair inside. and laced in front} with rawhide thongs. The hat was a. wide-brimmed straw affair. with a bunch of cook's feathers stuck in the left side. Each man wore a wide belt of leather. embroidered in geometrical dee us. from which hung three or four1 pone s of gntanned_leather. contain-l |nrp (“All L- None could speak English, but the leader of the party. Constantine Coe- ovan. 00qu speak a little German. and through an mte reter. he said that the members of is party were FARMERS AND GOAT HERDERS. and that they came from the neighbor- hood of Câ€"zernowiitz. the capital of Buikowina. They were induced to em:- 81‘306 by an agent of the British Goy- ernment, who held out golden promis- es to them of wealth amd freedom from bagetion in Canada. avin. Tfié" lung-Elbe““o‘fmaiemfigoglgui‘; a Slav dialect. which is almost identical with. little Russian. Their religion is a form of Roman (hffhnliniam- A party 0f Russnink peasants, the first, as far as is known, that; ever came to this continent, passed through New York on Saturday, on their way to W'i’nnipeg', Mat'litoha. Canada. Where the BrLtish Government has granted them an extensive travt of land, says the New York Herald. They were. dressed in their national costume. The Ru=sin- aks, or Ruthenitlns, as they are also called. are the inhabitants of the. semi- inde )endent dmhy of Bukowina. of Wh’bii the Emmrnr of Austria iq thn To Settle In Dlaultoba~flrsl Party Arrived In New York on Saturday~filgamflc Men and women. wh'inh the Empero} of Austria is the hereditary Archduke. The du'i'hy 1103 on the extreme south-eastern corner of the Austraim Empire, bordering on meg‘Roqmania, Galicia, and Mold- whll be little trouble or expense. I must go in now. Good-by, my darling," she said turning to hm husband .“OLara will see you. home. I am going in here toâ€"to sing to my oldâ€"paupers”; and before the weeping Clara could stop her she had turned and walked swiftly to the door of the workhouse. “He will not miss me now," she cried, while 1he teams again poured quickly down her poor worn cheeks: he wifll be happy; only laugh and talk cheerfully to him. 0, my God, and m, too, is tak- en from IQ?!_L€d hign away. Clara; he | Adele took in all the poor soul's good- [ness, and for one moment white Clara. spoke her eyes gleamed, her whole face brightened with relief and hope, but only for a moment; in that tune her lreeolution was made up. ' . g “There is no ‘m-til.’ Clara," she said, sadly, “except the end." The tears still gaimtered on her shabby oloalk, their course still gleaned on her cheeks; she had been afraid to wipe them away, lest he should see the action. “My dear, good Ciam. it is too muchâ€"it is too good and mbLe of you; one of us would be too greatabvurdern. We may live for years and we ave past doingâ€"much work. But -but, 0, 0.11m, taike humpâ€"take him away from this! The horror iof it has killed him. to all intents and purposes. 0, my love! my love!” She burned to ham. and clesping her hands on his shmiider bow-ed her head on her hands. Ferdinand stood beside her motionless end impassive; for the first time her en(lepments (tailed forth no response. About it ail, and I w'as' afraid I was too late. I want you to come home with me, ma'am, it you won't. be offended at my asking. I've got a best bed-room anda parlor that is spoiling for the want of using andmxeand father iscomfortably. I mean ma'am, we should be proud if you and master would come and stay with us untiiLâ€"untilâ€"” “u LV‘ DILVLL “3 J Inn-‘- J vâ€"vv-vv masterâ€"0. how could they let h1m go there! and you both so good! Q mas- her. master! and missus, too! She burned to Adeio lest she mlgbt feel silighted. Come away. ma'am, do, please, before anybody sees you. I've got some- th' . to say. I've only jush heard about. 4% it all, and I was afraul I was too Chara was breathless, heated, tearful. ‘Mmsus, missus, stop! Oh. don't go no further! 0, that place, that awful place! and for such as you, too! Aqd‘my dear RUSSNIAK PEASANTS. “mm a we remxles and the fly'n' bugs and all the kinds of crayp'n' thing: that God iver made." And so making its ppinful way back WIS over . Then came the fri httul revolt of the B9." al army in 1 7 1:53:64; "task-again” and the bugs and all the kinds of crayp'n‘ “ And {hiâ€"datheme's tie Eyamz’s in the hill country. Thére’s the bastes for ye. Th9 hay wan thg gpay wan cries. In 1854 the war with Russia broke out. and a year later Donovan's regiment got their rout for the Crimea. so they marched from their station in Upper India to the coast {or embarkstion. sleeping by day. marching by night. fol- lowing the narrow post-road along the waterways. where the camel riders. carrying the mails. passed swiftly up and down. “ \Vild beasts did ye say 7" as s Lar- ry. "Didn't we have to light .ires to â€"-v â€" vâ€"uv-\ was a lot of the bye goin’. ye mind. There was about sixty or seventy of us around KilkennÂ¥ that enlisted. " I remember wel that march, 1.846 miles from Calcutta. It took us six months to get there and when we arriv- ed the war was over. do ye mind. The Sighs were all quiet." 41‘.- Larry was at Ferozepore when the mutiny broke out. Ferozepore. almost the first of the cantonmenta in which the rebellion showed itself. was at that time one of the largest arsenals in Up- r India. and. as Larry puts it. " T1116 ay at Punjab." Larry had enlisted eight years before in Kilkenny. where he was born. " There was quite a bow-wow out in India at that time." says Larry. “ The Sikhs bro‘ke out‘in the Punjab and there A RUGGED VETERAN. You must think of Larry as an old man now, sixty-seven years old next. December. with iron-grey hair and big. loose-jointed hands. and a face rather severe for an Irishmanâ€"a face still rug- ged and healthyâ€"and a memory that pictures Cawnpore and Meerut as viv- idly as though it were but yesterday iimt Delhi fell instead of forty years Larry gained a medal at Delhi. He gained another in Abyssinia, and an- other in China. When he left the army in 1870 at Halifax. after twenty-one years of matches and battles. they gave him a medal for long service and good conduct. One listens and dreams and at length. somehow. out of these tales of fabulous adventure there is conjured up in one's mind a vision of that indomitable Eng- lish army, surmounting discourage- ment, defeat and death. triumphing over every obstacle and gaining victory at last by sheer force of its uncenquer- able courage. ing white in the midst of the jungle and their ruined palaces inhabited only by wild beasts; the perils and hardships of camp lite and the desperate chances of battleâ€"all this and much more make “1) the chapters of Larry Donovan's story. .V011. too. will forget the heat of the afternoonâ€"forget everything. in fact. but Larry' s delitious Irish brogue and the story. THE ROMIANCE OF INDIA. And what a stary it is! The myster- ious terrors of the jungle; the 10118 marches by night and the fevered sleep by day; the piquant glimpses into the quaint life of the Indian village; the marches past deserted oi ties.their crum- bling granite and marble still gleam- If you are walking along West Sand- wich street, Windsor. some sunny after- noon. you are more than likely to see the veteran of the Sepoy rebellion. eit- ting in the spring sunshine on the front StOOp of his little cottage. puffing his little “dudeen” and gazing out 900' sively egress the wide and placid ex- panse of the river in the direction of the big, smoky city. More than likely. too. he is seated bare-headed quite nin- mindful of the heat. After one has tramped for ten years, through junslo and city. under India's broiling sun. he doesn't notice a little mild north- ern sunshine. If you step inside the yard and sit down beside Larry and get him started upon that fascinating story of his days in India, with its endless adventure and its picturesque gleams of oriental life. A HERD OF THE MUTINY. Of all the brave lads that marched in '49 from Callubta to Simla and the Punjabâ€"1.800 miles through the jun- gleâ€"there is hardly half-a-dozen now living. and Larry Donovan is one of them, says the Detroit News. lle Was One of Those Who scaled the Walls of Delhi-Graphic Picture of the ne‘eâ€" mllug the Palace-This Brave Soldier Wu Also M ”3031:. Larry Donovan ‘us something of a. name in Canada. There Is not 3. her- racks in the Dominion where they don't know himâ€"Larry Donovan of the Sixty- tirst foot. ' vo-v- "NW" mpflod the queen frankly. ' son is apt Mama. but ha“ '0: 1 Andhe' . mmmmmdoduh Inna “ibodhlhwhhhb' “Mllytmnhdounam' _ P°t‘°’b°°â€"\Vh8t on earth bu Smithorton nah a b' I doesn’t ride... ficyglofcyc o fwd Qâ€"_LL _ Sm L? hue; but' ho' had to b. for his family to ride. I attribute it to miatiun. dies bicycle tires exclusively. Robly “ways. strikes me as an inflat- ed. creature thh a very elastic cor science. Franoe home how to protect the rights of her geople. Anybody who doubts the genuineness of an article of food that he has purchased from :1 Par- isian tradesmen may take it. "ln (he municipel laborutory for analysis. It will cost him nailing to have it um- 1)’ zed and the fact determined whether it is unadulterated. or adulteraled, and if the latter the law deals with the u!â€" . p ‘ sacks. The lad that stood guard over I 'em used to make holes in the ground and put a brass vhutty. something like ’ a s ittoon, full of charcoal. under‘them. ‘ an with the charcoal they'd very soon burn holes in the necks and the gold would run out. " They found the largest amount of treasure in the Selimgarh behind the palace. It was a scavenger showed them where it was buried. and afur shawls and the diamonds! “ \Vhy. there’s a diamond in the tow- er at London. now. which belongs to the Queen. which it would take the wealth of a Rothschild to buy. 0! course we got our prize money. £8 123 first. £4 43 uext. and £2 23 last. " I mind the day that Hodson and his Goorkhas brought the old king in {mm where he had been hiding in the tnmbs in Old Delhiâ€"en old man in his dooly, with a long white heard. “'6 locked the old Mogul up in his own «102 kenneL" “No." “They pizened the breed." said Lar- ry. " they pizened the bread and the flour. and they threw bottles of rum full of pizen into the streets. But we cut. our way through the houses with our bayonets. makin' direct for the pa?- ace. cent. Two peacocks of solid gold. mind ye. on each side of the throne. Diamonds and jewels everywhere. You could go into the tr‘efuu'gy and help yourself. " When' 'Efié 'éépa'é‘ (7553’? 111275“: to gather around th_e kinglhey brought .1! AL- L__ it had been o‘ntside. for Engiish sol- diers have no taste for street fighting, and the house: were filled with See-non ready to fire from roofs and window: upon the men in the street. \Vhat was worse. the Sepoye. knowing: the sol- diers weakness for liquor. filled the streets with bottles. across my for'ed and a bullet. in my shoulder. But Andy Baker climbed up on the wall and run up the Union Jack and it was all over in half an hour." Inside the city. however. the condi- tioe ojf Ebb English wag no, better than ‘v- -‘ V.‘ Larry was Chinâ€"be}; of the'uaimc-h. ing party. F IGHT ON THE WALL. “ The Fifty-second was sent out to cover us." 331d Larry. La‘rry said "aim," ‘. D..‘ “Aâ€" â€"â€"â€"â€"~L * “ But they went under cover. and when we ran forward with the little bamboo ladders they were so thick on the walls that we brushed them of! with the butts of our guns, and the of- ficers cry'n: “Save your powder and give them the steel.’ There were three men killed below me on my ladder. and I got that long snore out yon see there nAâ€"‘A_ ymorni when we m ‘ hIn’A than mninf - Rama Jpn-31.1% éd there. But I. Sepoy druxfifie; " 3: t. Jones of the Sxxty-firat. mm di not 0 to church thet Sunday, “It romaine and guarded the magagt“. STORMlNG OF DELHI. That is Larry's vivid. but. In, my story 9f the beglnnlng of the Bren mutiny thCb resulted .In the mom d“ rate war that e clvulzed nation We, ought. In the terrible drama mum gun the slaughter of Cawnpore. th. siege of Lucknow: and the sun-min of Delhi were the chief moments. m. S'I‘RJ NGEN T FmD UK W8 TREASURES OF INDIA Mafia of _ luly consider. HY ASSIMI LA'I‘ION. W . ASON ENOUGH. Ev. ham civil 7? o jw LO [till W 1;”8'0' to make $39M“ will be hunt-E IIIIIIII L “lli w gun's? " j" . ' ”d hqq (3360118 “I.“ “ give me a gramme M the urban and w hand me the. 03 And H the eleclru‘ 0\‘ Just turn it “D M“ n...- I want. to 113"“ part is gathered. on Mandi». :ur in: m (mmhm, i-- amenâ€"d rluus :u Hughuntluu ”bpiu‘aktun vi 1U ’ 7 --â€".l nomEWIFERY I‘ THE H To hr'w- how to kl‘ very dull: [ins of dc to the cm and as 1‘9 “penny: < French 13 (ion pus-stifle. \V wash them, fill 3 mm water“ in_W EIVB wash tbomflill 3 warm water in WI bu been dissolve put the. arm-[us u “and five. minute tilclcan. Rinse I tho w: inner. F “arc-bemmnkea! 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