Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-20

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"that they were experiencing great hard
ships and receiving very mesger allow
| snce from the commisssriat department.;
and it has come to our knowledge thzt
these poor fellows, some wounded and
others in the last stsge of dyseGteFy, are
put on board the river steamers without
proper attention, and, in fact, without
arrangements bsing made with the
steamers even for their messing. Men
who are mere living skeletons are to be
seen lying on the bare decks, and the diet
the medical authorities seem TO think
best for men wounded or suffering from
dysentery is that vile compound known
as Chicago beef, dry biscuits, and little
tea and sugar tied up in e piece Of dirty
gunny."
One steamer on the Irawaddy, the Sc
cundra, carried 800 men, though she had
only accommodation for 600. They were
"pacBed like ssrdines in box" wrote
one of the West Surrey regiment, without
sir to breathe, and several expired of heat
and epoplexy. Among them ore man
who had struggled so far as the COM
panion-ls to get little air and sleep
was thrown into the river.
So it is ever with J ohm Bull N sn7 war.
He has ever shown himself TO be the in
caTnation OF greed, mesnness and mis-
management, for though John likes glory
he is shabby enough TO like it cheap.
Lonsdale YVES great dreamer during
his protracted and intermittent illness st
Rsngoon-born Of what he had undergone
amid the dewy marshes. He had almost
began TO believe in mesmeriSm of q Ger
tain kind, and TO think-.O hope that
when ne dre&mt Of MelaBie she was also
dreaming of him. Il was slgiid lces. but
the outcome ofsll he had undergone mNde
him dTeamer by hight auG dsy, VINO
ever saW sweet face vita p&thellc eyes
raised 10 his, aud felt II bis g small
white hand, with the sound OF voice
ever haunting him, even as aa cd melody
fingers in the memory. But does not
Sir William Hamilton tell Us that, "EoW-
ever astonishing. is is now proved, be-
yOnd all rational doubt, that in certain
abnormal states of the nervous organism,
perceptions are possible through other
than ordinary channels"
Anon, change came over the dreams
OF Lonsdsle, born perhaps OF these very
perceptions, for when at last he slept-by
snstches-they were full Of hazy and
horrid visions of some great evil that
OVerhung him-somethiBg dim, dire, and
not to be encountered.
His good constitution prevailed over
his illness. He "pulled through" as the
phrase goes, in spite CT sll medical pre-
dictions to the contrary; end in few
weeks was able 70 ride about Riugoou on
a native pony, one Of those stout snd
sing ularly strong little animals that ere
nOG more, usually, than twelve hands
high, but Sre ever rou2h-cCated and un-
grOomed. Thus mounted, he daily
trayersed Merchant street, 8 broad and
spacious thorouahfar", hSyipg lines Of
trees and grass plots before the Coubl4
rows Of varied mansions, some q which
are OF European aspect, SO far IS cOrnices
and pilaster5 &c; others, native, built OF
wood end bam1oo, materials which DO
not iudlc:te poverty, but are useC, being
light SUD porteble.
Such edifices are sll built &C piles or
posts, ia consequence OF the occasional
mat roll beneath rhe first
floor, and many have noble galleries,
graceful verEndah3 with eIlipticaI arches,
ABOVE which ere broad projecting roofs,
6ll of Anglo-Burmese architecture, being
the residences chiefly OF Europeans, aud
over all towers the great Goiden Dsgon
Pagods, with lis new umbrella, erected
since the war of 1852.
As the Burmese women are not ehut up
fashion, but nix freely in
sill s0cisl gatherings, Lonsdale could see
them working OF their looms, with men
beside them, gossipipg ard firtina-a
true Burmese art-While their slender
WOve deity the stuffs OF brilliant
silk or cotton. Elsewhere were diminu-
tive dsmssls squstted in the lower Veran-
dehs, behind stalls CT fruit, betel nut,
cigsrs, with British sailor or Tommy
Atkins" lingering near and "airiag" his
f'pjgeon English"
One day-he was never to forget it
be came back from one CT these rices,
and with an emotion Of thAukfulness 10
his heart, felt stronger, and had many 8
hopeful thought Of home. Il soughg the
mess bungalow 20 get some iced drink,
when he found that the mail hsd come IN
from Europe, and the last London papers, |
tben several weeks old, were being
conned with avidity-sll looking first at
he latest news prior 10 fixing the rest st
eiSure.
He got one-the Times-and after run |
hing his eyes over the news vaguely for |
some time, he alighted upon one TRY |
paragraph that gave him a dreadful I
shock, and for g moment CT two the |!
power OF sight seemed to leave bin, ere !
le could read IL again and digentangle |
)ne lire from the other.
"The marriage of Sir Bfisco BRAY |
brooke, Bart Of Rsyeas6ourne Hall, !
Oxford, with Miss Melapie Talbot, only |
laughter of the late Captain Reginald |
Talbot of 81. M. Bengal Army, will take |
place tomorrow at StokeucrOss Caurch. !
The ceremony, We understand, will be !
by Bishop-a pesr relation |
# the bridegroom-ass sisted By the vicar,
1r. BFendon. Our correspondent adds,
hat after the ceremony the hsppy couple /
will leave for the Continent, but return /
o RavensbourDe Hall before the meeting |
# Parliament"
The paper dropped from his h:rd OF
he floor, and he never looked at it again.
There seemed no doubling it. The state
Den5 was 700 circumstsntjsl; and By that
me the whole dark ep;sode-dark to
lim-must have been over long SEQ:
The world-tte "peRGy lile1" world,
e knew, wss at times gwen to marrying
PEOPLE With Or without their consent.
Jut this notice was an important journal,
I'D would be no mere "scciety paper"
anard, aud With this conviction came The
bought that he WAS so far away and SO
.elple.s that he coald neither learn the
lest n2r worst.
II moment or two may seem TO be
ssembled the agony Of lifetime-the
eart TO receive its death wound, with the
that the weird will never, and
an never, be the same to rs again.
The best part OF his life had gone from