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Les Causeries D'UNE VIEIILE MARMITE.

11 PREMIERE CAUSEBIE

Glou glou ! glou glou ! fit la murmite en s'ag'tant sur

les cendres et en se remuant

de droite à gauche, comme jamais marmite ne l'avait fait

elle, à moins d'être seconée

arles mains d’une ménagère, Dsl de voir l'heure du diner s'avancer à grands as. —Glou glou, glou glou ! P erre avait les yeux fixés

sur elle, et était un peu en- gourdi par le sommeil qui le

gagnait. Pourtant cesmouve- ments inusités le surprenaient moins qu'ils ne l'eusssent fait quelques heures auparavant, L'homme est ainsi fait, jeune où vieux, lorsqu'il s’attache aux objets inanimes, il en fait ses confidents, et leur donne, pour ainsi dire, une partie de ee souffle qui le fait vivre ; il leur communique un peu de sou ame, il leur parle comme à des amis vivants , Aussi, le demi-sommeil aidant, Pierre ne fut-il qu’à moitié surpris,

et il y avaità ce moment de

quoi l'être tout à fait. Jugez- en plutôt vous-même.

Tout en glougloussant de plus belle, la marmite s'était , * . . développée agrandie, grossie, élevée,t; Son couvercle sou-

levé, avait laissé passer une |

tête sur laquelle il reposait en ce moment, affectant la forme d‘un les pieds avaient grossi, s'é- taient allongés en forme de

jambes ; un d'eux e‘était effilé |

et formait un baton, sur ce

baton s'appuyait un être, qui avait, avec la marmite, un tel

air de famille, qu‘on ne pou- vait s'y tromper.

Ce singulier personnage était gros et court : il avait, comme la confidente de Jac-

ues, le ventre rebondi : vêtu

‘un large habit noir, ses jambes courtes et rondes, en- fermées dans une culotte de mème couleur et dans des bas chinés, la tête coïffée de son couvercle, je veux dire ce

son chapeau rond, il conser- |

vait cet air hollandais qu‘- avait la marmite, et il sem- blait être nn de ces bons bourgeois d'Amsterdam, dont les peintres de Hollande nous ont laissé de vivantes images.

Sa bouche souriait, ses pe- tits yeux, à demi-cachés par la graisse, pétillaient de ma-

lice ; il se redressa, puis, re-

culant de quelques pas s’as- sit sur le bane placé au fond de l'atre, et tirant de sa poche

un grand foulard, il épousseta |

soigneusement la cendre qui couvrait ses souliers à boncles

—Ouf fit-il.

—Hein ? fit Pierre à son tour.

Cette fois, il était véritable- ment surpris. Le sommeil l'avait gagné peu à peu et l’exclamation du petit homme venait de l’éveiller.

—Hein ? fit-il, qui êtes- vous ? d‘ou venez-vous ?

—Qui je suis ? tu vas le savoir ; d‘ou je viens ? de là, répondit le petit homme, en montrant

étaient encore marqués ses

trois pieds, les trois pieds de |

la marmite. Pierre regarda.

rand chapeau : |

du bout de 5a | canne le tas de cendres ou

| homme

L'IMPARTIAL

—Voilà, fit le nouveau venu, en se frappant le ventre: et au lieu de pro- duire par le choc le bruit sourd qu‘eut produit en pareil cas tout bon bourgeois d'Amsterdam ou de La Haye

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dit un son métallique comme lent fait la marmite elle- même,

—Quoi! c'est vous! dit ‘Pierre, avec étonnement, vous, c‘est impossible !

—Ne m'as-tu pas appelé ? Ne wi‘as-tu pas demande? | Moi, l‘ami, le confident de Jacques, ai-je du refuser de venir voir son fils adoptif, | comme je venais le voir fui- même. O petit Pierre, mon

ces causcries le petit Jacques et moi !. — C'était donc à vous qu‘il parlait sans cesse, à vous qu'il confiait ses pensées ? —Qui, Picrre, c'était à | moi, et jéai pu, Dieu aidant, lui donner de bons consiels. Hé l'héf je ne vis pas comme une bonne et vieille marmite, depuis trois cents ans, parmi les hommes, sans les fr°- quenter un peu, et à force de ‘voir force faire le mul, j'ai appris à aimer le bien; aussi est-ce avec joie que je vais à ceux qui m'appellent, car le père Pfanne posséde la paix et il la donne à ceux qui la cher- chent avec lui —Ainsi vous vous nommez Pfanne, et c'est vons qui aviez fait du petit Jacques ce bon et

| chérissaient ? c’est vous qui | lai disiez:ily a là du bien à | faire, vas-y.

| C'est moi.

| Ainsi, quand en rentrant il | se frottait les mains et disant ; le vieux avait raison, c'était de | vos qu'il parlait ?

| C'était de moi.

Mais alors, le jour ou il est | venu au presbytére, le jour ou il m'a fait fui-même un lit dans ce petit cabinet; quand il a dit; le vieux sera content...

I] parlait de moi, ami Pierre, de moi qui lui avais dit la nuit précédente : Jacques, la Michu est morte et petit Pierre est orphelin, hé! hé! un en- fant c’est un oiseau ne trouves- tu pas que le chant d’un oiseau égaieralt ta vieille cabane, il me semble que j'en bouilleirais mieux en l’entendant ? Et le matin Jacques t’alla chercher.

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tenant, causons.

Causons, répondit Pierre.

Et d’abord, Pierre, que comptes-tu faire ? Tu as vingt | et un ans, si je ne me trompe,

| et à cet àge, on n’est plus un enfant, il s‘en faut. Le petit

| Je le veux bien, mais que | faire ?

| Je vais te le dire, tu sais lire, | écrire, et bien d‘autres choses | encore. que pas un ne sait Ici. Le petit Jacques a fait de toiun instruit, il avait son idée, et son idée la voici: je la

| le ventre du bonhomme ren-.

garçon, eh avohsnous eu de

…s

Jacques. lui dis-je un soir, qu'il était rentré tous triste au logis, Jacques, qu'as-tu donc ?

a continuer

To The Farmers.

I have all you desire in'the sh2n- ‘ot Farming Implements. PLOWS HAÆROWS, SCUFFLERS ec,

My prices arefright.

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N'ce clean Tinware make the, kite en ok bright. Call ar d ‘es: my lsteck, conssingo Plin and j'pau- Led tinwar: Granite ware, etc

My pedler carries a geñaral Assor: .mép Oo the ahove gnods also GROCERIES, Gv+ him a g od

"œ.ti n EGGS paid the h gnes: market price,

À. J. Bernard,

, Tignish, Juneiz2 ,93 'f

HAVING & HARVESTING

machinery.

O

charitable vicillard, qne tous :

AÏ in need of Haying and Harvesting machinery will

save money by buying the Massey-Harris

goods. The quality of these

goods are beyond question.

We are bound not to be undersold.

Warehouses at TICNISEL ALBERTON Our popular agent M. M. Christopher the Tignish warehouse, and will promptly attend to the wants of the Public. Binder Twine at cheapest rates. BUGGIES & ROAD CARTS always on hand.

Best Goods and Best Bargains to be had from Be” New Williams sewingm chines always on hand. James P. Cunningham. tf 15 jl 03

AVIN AVIS.

Je me suis décidé desfaire ‘un changement daus mon commerce. À l'avenir, je ne vends plus à credit; mais Je | vendrai beaucoup à meilleur marché. Je prends en échan-

ge tout ce, qui peut s'oftrir sur les marchés. J'invite aus- |si toutes les personnes qui me doivent de venir régler leur compte d'ici au premier de novembre. Tout compte non réglé à cette date portera in- téret.

A. J. BERNARD.

FRANK GALLANT | Dealer in

Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots & Shoes, Stationeries, Books,

Religious objects, etc.

| All the popular patent medicines of the day,

Country produce bought and

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—Et la marmite, s’écria-il, | connais d'autant mieux qne ! sold.

la vieille amie de Jacques ? } nous l'avons murie ensemble: |

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WHERE WOMEN REIGN,

AN ADAMLESS EDEN NEAR THE GATES OF THE WORLD'S FAIR,

Amber Pays a Fiyving Visit to the Wn. man's Dormitory änd Finds it Pleasante ly Different From Hotels Frequented by the Masvuline &ender-—No Profanity —No Cuspidores.

It was tiearly sun down when I ‘‘drew up.” s0 to speak. at the storv-and-a-half larracks, over the doorway of which was inscribed in zood Saxon text tha two words that had proved the miraga of a long ufirnoon's search, Tha building covers an entire block and furnishes “ceomimodations for 1000 wo- men, Not a man is allowed to fliit his coat-tails within the dourways, unless under convuy of 1emale relatives, who spurn him from te place at the witch- ing hour of bedtime, What the en- thanted kingdum of Ternyson’s Princess was, without a man to cast x blight up- pnits beauiv, is the dormitory as it stands, Eutering the plage by way of a little perch, wher: some women in rock- ing chairs were enjoying the sweet evene ing air, 1 found myself in an hotel oflice where women poiters aud women clerks tuled the day, Au indescrivable chatter lilled the air, Jt wus uuiike the bustle pt any other hote. lobby in the world, There was a rustle rather than à roat end a chirp rather than a confusion, If vou can imavine Niagara Falls keyeéd to the carol of à canary you ean have an idea of the noise made by over a hun- dred women all talking together,

1 sat down for a moment and took if all in before I announced myself as on à étill-hunt fot facts, There was one lack that tilled me with a wild desire to arise und beat a drum or sound à tom-ton1— uay, I will say that there were three licks that filled my very soul with joy, The first was the lack of cuspilors or sny occasion for «hem, To stand inside tbe lobby of a cleun-smé:ling aad pros. pcrous American hotel and see neither an expectorator nor a euspidor made the soul within me cuper like 4 spring Jlamb, N:xt, Irejoiced ut the absence of pro- anity. ‘ne atmosphere i$ rare fo dind, indeed, where the sulphurie fumes of useless olaspheimy cast no bhight, ni these days of reckless spech and action, Aud à s:ly, I rejoiced ju the lack of loating. f was pleased with tue Lri-k management vf things atthe desk, Thierg was no magoiticentls hangbhty clerk to bewilder {he would-be guest wich autocratic ways Lod diamonds, The youug ladies who fealt out the roomx and attended to busi- uess were modestiy dressed and court. rous, They talked a great deal and icemed interested, but that is a delight- {ul change from 11e custom of the fresh foung man in Lae majority of our hotels, who bestows your key as a condescen- tion and make: vou fecl as thougr what üttle right von u4l heid heretofore to rumber the euith wa- withdrawn like au outlawed license or à iast months tuilroad ticket,

Everything in sight was clean and fra grant with fresh air and soap, The {loors were in a spotless condition and the windows brixrat and well curtained, À fireplace offered a meaus of warmth should the weataer be cool, and easy thairs drawn up to tables that were rovered with newspapers invited the tuests to rest and regreation:

After a while I stepped up to the desk and announced my business to à pretty woman ir a becoininz brown silk dress, whose snappiug blicx eyes denoted the ability to wield, as she does, the mane sagement of the concern,

‘I am s0 g'ad that you hare come," baid she, ‘‘Just wait à half minute until I smooth out a li.tle difij:ulty that has arisen and I will join you for a nice, good, cosy tali, ”

So I stepped out on the porch and watched the fadinz of the great red rose that sunset had set growing in the west, Against it the de: se foliage of the trees tippled in a thousand emerald waves, “4 | above it hung a silver star, like à l:ssening sail, bound for the viewless ihores of dawn. The air was cool and fragrant, and I said to myself, ‘ Why go lo the restless hurly-burly of x conglom- rate hotei, O, woinan visitor to the fair, when such 2 eloister as this awaits you ?”

“Well, how do you like it?" was the firet question [ asked, ‘‘Does your esti- tuate of the average women rise or fall under close contact with them?"

“There is a pretty steady tendeney to: ward the up side, she answered, but I will confess to you that sometimes I get 30 tired of women that I never want to ee another, Ilove my sex, and should be ashamed if 1 didn't, but they can bs pretty trying, -

‘Are your rooms full?” I asked,

‘Oh, no; we have only about sever hundred with us at present; and we can accommodate a thousand, easily.”

“What class of women are drawn to vou mostly? Teachers and working- women, 1 suppose, for whom the low rates prove à great attraction,”

“You would be surprised,” replied Mrs, Harrington, ‘to know how few of the women for whom the enterprise was designed come to us, Our roomers are largely made up of those who are in comfortable circumstanges, while we have several who could easily afford to put up at expensive hotels.”

“What are your rates?” I asked,

“The primal design of the dormitory was to make it a stock concern, pure and simple,” answered Mrs. H., ‘but we have many applications for transients, who pay 50 cents a day for a room, and take their meals at the restaurant attached to the building.”

‘“ Do you take in any woman that comes along, at whatever hour she wakes application ?” asked L

“ Yes, indeed,” was the reply, ‘‘and we have uever been deceived yet.”

‘ Gooû !” criedI, ‘that is the way it should be. The restriction that have been hérled at woman so long have made & coward of her. I “would no more dare to go to a Chicago hotel at 11 w'cloek at night and ask for a room,

without an aiuuvit in one hand and & prayer book in the other than I would ttep up to a cage and toy with a Royal Bengalese,”

‘#Wouki you like to lork about a Lttle?* asked Mrs, Harrington, £Eu we trolled throuzh the long corridor and Jooked into many of tue neatly kept looms, , We tound an ebundance of fresh Jinén, comfortabe beds : and lygienie appliance, Everrwhere there vus à sweët, heaithful sinell to the air, which comparet favourabiy wiih fa more preten'ious resorts. The only orawback that presented ftself to my 1 suerninyg eye, was Lie absence: of ireens to the win:ows, bat thou, Lousht IL ans clever woman coukt vuy i sard of mo-quito nettinz and whip it io tn sash herself iu half a minute, — iMUel à )

liexs—] guess Lin square with 1"Xx, 4 gave his boy a mouth oran last ni:ht.

Mrs, H.cks—bDui ÿoure not squars wishane, Mrs. Lix sent him over here fyspend the days

PLAIN WORDS WELL HANDLED. The Secret of the Greatest Successes {n Literature.

Nothing is more astonishinig ‘in litera- ture than the meager variety of words to Le found in the production of great writ- rrs, The same wotds recur time and again in Shakespeare. His noblest flights ut fancy and his finest outbreaks GÊ pas- pion are expressed in simple: terms tuat ure daily in use in every intelligent Ameriean household, Addi<on, a priuce vf writers Of graceful prose English, em- ploys few words that the average séhool cinid does not understand atid cannos define, The simplicity of the language in the *‘Pilgrim’s Progress” is proverbial, vetitis sufficient to portray emotions runging from the azonies of remorse tu tie raptures of tie redeemed. Tue phraseoiogy of Swift and Goldsmith, ex- cept when tcnical subjects are under discussion, is almost as linited. The Bibie is largely a repetition of x few jinple words,

Masters of Janzuage consists in the proper arra'isetn nt of words rather than du a muidiplichy «it words, The use vf +imple terms is ev.dence of the highest urt. itis the sole way, in.leed, as a ruie, ja which the tirimvest and widest impres- sions ein be made, To attain such 4 command of speech depends in largu measure Upon tie possession Of imugiu- utive facuties, Metiphor is frequeutiy a subsutute, pot only for Jlarye words, but for many words, 1t suggests rather than depicis, and from its peculiar mens- ure make, peces:a”y the employment of terms that are readily understood. 1& pavuld not be for:otton, also, that there ire few pursuit. that demand a varel vocabularv, Many of the technical terms u.ed by à iawyer ure of littig practical worth to 8& physician, ur à merchant and ice versa, Jt is qu'stiouavle also if the ine English Janguage is not worse for the m'vitude of unnecessary adjectives that have crept into it from one source nd another, ?Juuius” jouked upon udjeetives as if tuey were personal vnemies, Macay:ay used them under rotest, There is a peculiar force in the pur observation of Tomas Hobhes “Words are wise men’s Counters—they do but reckon by them—but they are thq money of fouls.’

PARADOX OF THE NORTH POLE,

Atthe North Pole ft is Impossible to Move in Any Diregtion but South,

At the North Pole there is only ong

direction-south, One could go south in

as many ways as there are points on thu

compass card, but every one of these

ways is south, eust and west have van ,

ished, The hour of the day is à para- doxical conception, for that point is the meeting plage of every meridian, and tue time of all hokis god, so that it is always any hour one £cares to, mention, Unpuncetüality is hence immpossible—buc the question grows complex, and it practical solution concerns few,

No one needs 106 yo to the pole to dis= cover all that makes that point different from any other point of the surface; But the whole polur regions are full of unknown things, which every Arctic explorer of the right stamp Jooks torward to finding, And the reward he looks forward tu most is the approval of the few who understand anu love knowledge for its own sake, rather than the noisy ap-

Jause of the crowd who would cheer

im, after all, much as they cheer 4 winning prizefigater, or racehorse, or

litical candidate.

The difticulties that make the quest of the pole so arduous have been discovered by slow degrees. It is marvellous how soon nearly the full Jimits of morthward attainment were reached, In 1596 Bareuts discovered Spitzbergen in about 78° north; in 510 Hudson reached 80°; in 1827 Parry, by sledging on the ice when his ship became fast, succeeded in touching 82° 45. Since then all tha enormous resou ces of modern science— steam, electricity, preserved foods and the experience of centuries—bhuve only enabled forty miles of additional pole- ward advance to be made.--McClure's Magazine. ‘

People Who Fall Sufely,

A fall, as a rule, injures a drunkeg man much less than x sober one, be cause, the controlling power of the mind being rendered nil through intoxication, the body falls as an inert mass, and thus the chances of injury are lessened, for, strange though it may appear, it is no Jess a fact that the most numerous cases of injury arising from a fall are caused by y effort, voluntary or otherwise, to aver

the muscles and tendons. Very rarely

are injurious effects from a fallknowng

in à Junatie asvlum, for the same simple reason-—-the mind has no influence over the action of the body. And it ‘is à re- markable and well-known fact to those who have to deal with such cases, adds the Boston Herald, that whatever injurs les are 50 caused heal much more rapid» ly than in the case of sane people, the mind having more to do with retarding or assisting nature’s efforts than is genere ally known or realized, cé

e consequences, thus strainings

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