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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1885-10-23, Page 7Life's Chivalry. BY ARTHUR L, SALMON, Where, In the buoy city's care and strife, Its thirst for riches, and Its toil for b:ead, Is found that soul of chivalry in lite, Whish come are mourning for as truly dead ? Shall we seek tit it in the forest vlade ; In hoary dim cathedral gray with age, In chancel where the mailed knights are laid With rusted lance, no further war to wage ; In mouid'ring castle, or in ivied tower, Where pomp and pageantry wore wont to be ? Ah, no 1 But yet the ancient epi 1t's power Ie with us, and los form, It we would Bee, To labor oheertully trona hour to hour, To do goon greeioule, is chivalry, A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY By the Author of "THE FLOWER GIRL," "LOVELY LADY LYNIIIIRST," Sec,, &o. CHAPTER VIIL-(CONTINIIED.) They had reached the old churchyard now, and leaning on the low white gate, G raldine pointed to the further side, to here a granite pillar stood Out conspicously from among the other surrounding t:mbe. At its • belie figure crouched, and it was this whish had attracted Miss Mainwaring'* attention. " Percy" she said slowly, " it ism murder- ess drawn towards the spot which conceals her victim. Percy, I must go 1 Heaven • has directed my footsteps here to -day. ' Nay" -as he made a stop forward by her side-" stay here I I would go alone. What I have to say] must be said to her alone." Mr. Braithwaite regarded hie cousin with some degree of apprehension. She was strangely excited, and he saw that it would be useless to attempt to thwart her ; so he wisely agreed to let her have her own way. " Very well," he said celmly, " I will re- main here, as you wish it ; only make your interview as short as possible,•' He pulled out to cigar and prcceeded leisurely to 1 ght it, whilst his cousin went swiftly forward, her footatepi making no sound on the short velvety grass, her skirts trailing behind her noiselessly. Within a few feet of the enenument erect- ed to the loving memory of Harry Clifford Braithwaite she paused undecidedly. The kneeling figure had not moved. So quiet was it that tor one terrible moment Geral- dine fancied it was lifeless. The head was bent forward and rested onthe cold granite, so that no glimpse of the features Was ob- tainable. "She is guilty, or why does she come here ? It is remorse which brings her," Geraldine said to herself, and hadened her heart against the sinner. " I know you, Dolly Jarvis," she said aloud, in clear firm tones. "What are you doing here at his grave ?" Then the bowed head was raised, and a face so boeutiful in all its deathly pallor was disoloeed that Mise Mainwaring could not repress an exclamation of surprise. Yes, the sweet sensitive drooping lips, the beautiful eyes, the pure oomplexitn the perfect features were the same as of yore ; but, instead of the sunny smile, iinetead of the eyes brimming over with mischief and mirth, they were filled with a great and mute despair. A despair so profound, an agony so intense was written in every linea- ment of that lovely face that Geraldine was smitten dumb for the moment. Slow- ly the pained far-off look faded, and was re- placed by one of recognition, as Dolly began to comprehend in whose presence she stood. Then the faintest rose -flush dyed her wan cheeks, and her lips parted, but no words cam -. But Mies Mainwaring had by this time iu some degree recovered herself. "I am G raldine Mainwaring," she said, " once the betrothed of my cousin, who lies buried there," And it seemed that some inner force compelled her to speak almost against her will, " And you -you are his murderess1' Thu beet word was hissed into the kneel- ing girl's ease as she clutched her arm. Never would Gerald.ne forget the look which Dolly Jarvis cant upon her, so full of horror, amazement, arta terror was it. Slowly she rose to her feet, and, stretching out her arms as if to ward off some cruel - blow, wi• h faltering steps and with her eyes still fixed on her accuser, she moved slowly away, without uttering one word of exculpa- tionorof oonfeseion. And,strangely enough, Geraldine Mainwaring m ide no attempt to retain or follow her, or to wring the truth from her. Nay, as the small litho figure disappeared in the opposite direction to the gate by which Geraldine had entered, that young lady murmured in a softened voice- " Poor girl, she loved him too 1 I will try to remember that ; and, if -if she has sinn ed- ah me, her sufferings have been even greater than mine 1" If 1' It was singular that Geraldine should have admitted that " if"; and yet, in the face of the blank and hopeless despair written on Dolly Jarvis's countenance, in the face of her manuer, which had implied that she was guilty -or why should she not have refuted the charge brought against her ? -Miss Mainwaring felt lees assured of that fact than she had hit serto done. There was something pathetic in the sadness o that beautiful face, aomothing that told rather of sorrow than of guilt. With a thoughtful look, Geraldine, after adtab a few minutes spent by her lost lover's grave, slowly retraced her steps, her cousin's worda persistently recurring to her. "It was of no use to rake up a scandal that could re- flect little credit on any one concerned in it, and nothing could bring poor Harry back to life 1" Well, perh>tips, after all, he was right. Sho found Percy where she had left him, He hastened b open the gate for her as she approached ; and, as she passed through it, he glanced curiously et her ; but she was un- usually retioont. " Well?" he queried, finding that, woman though she 'Wes, he did not use her tongue for once. "Aro yotl`aatisfiod now, or—" cr Qaite satisfied. We will never speak on the aubj eat again, Percy." "Agreoa 1') the other said, gaito cheer- fully, for he had some hopes of winning. Geraldine himself in these days, and he had found a dead rival, in the shape of poor Karry, far moro difficult to overcome than a living one could have boon, CHAPTER IX, " Oh, father, I wish you'd bo persuaded by me to leave this place! Lot us go away somewhere where we aro not known. I am sure you would bo happier," Dolly's voice was tremulous ; but there treaty as she asked, in a half•frlghtened• dead man with a great and deep-seated p.m - was no mistaking the eagerness with which whisper cion, would never rest until she had disoov- ehe awaited the old man's ri ply, f' What is it i Hap he fainted ?" Is he ered the truth. So he had some to the oon- "Happier 9" he repeated, in a tone of ill ?' elusion that she would no longer fight against monkery. " As if that were possible 1 As " Hear her 1 Ah, Heaven save us all, fate. Dolly who had been an angel to him, if anything could make my life other than a but• she a of er guesses he le dead 1" ejaoul- who, while athorir,.g the sin, had yet loved hideous burden I But," he went on quickly, ated Susan, unconscious that she was epoak- and pitied the sinner so greatly, should as ho regarded hip daughter with keen ing aloud, have her innocence publioly declared. She scrutiny, "you have heard something ?" and 10 Dead 9" repeated Dolly, in a bewildered had b)gged him to go away -well, he would his face reflected some of the anxiety and tone. " Oh, no, not detd 1 We -he and go tomorrow ; he would give himself up to terror so plainly depicted on Dolly's wan 1 -arranged it all last night --to go away Justice, features. somewhere together. Yes, yes ; he will be It seemed strange that he should have "Yes," the girl answered slowly, "I better when we have left Midhurst, and we written this confession when about eo pro - have heard something." shall be happy once more -poor father and claim the truth in hie own person -perhaps " Ah 1" Adam s brow contrasted, and he I 1" he thought it was less painful to break his drew his breath heavily ;_then he asked, ' intelligence first in this for el, or maybe the still outwardly calm -" /That is it ?" In the poor little darkened room, with shadow of the dark messenger was already The girl' crossed the room with faltering a solitary tallow candle, Dolly Jarvis jeal. with him, Some instinct, sure, but unde- footsteps, and came and knelt beside Adam, ously kept watch beside her dead father, fined, may have warned him that, if atone - where he oat in an old arm -chair, his eyes, Three days had dome and gone since ment wore to be made, it must be done unseeing, gazing out into the narrow street hat terrible morning when she had quickly. where the twilight shadows were fast deep- come down only to find that she was an or- Ah, Heaven had dealt mercifully with *nine. phan, that Adam had indeed made his Adam JarvIe, after all 1 The contemplation "What is it?' Adam repeated, as Dolly prep rations, and had left the scene of so of that "giving himself up" had been too twined her arms a"gone his knees, and laid much happiness and, alas, misery also, for much for him. He had away in the her soft cheek egaiust the toil hardened ever 1 During this spice of time the girl dark solemn night; but Death had been his hand, had never broken her f • et ; old Susan's tear- companion. "Miss Mainwaiing is staying at the ful entreaties and Tom Larkina had boon The verdiot that he had died of disease Hall," Dolly paid, in a low voice. "I mot alike unavailing. Her beauty had alw..o y of the heart was true enough, for his heart her this afternoon, and -and she spoke to been of the fragile order, now it was almost had been slowly but surely bre iking ever me," ethereal, eince that terrible moment when he had " Well?" There was no sign of feelingin So at Ieaet thought a visitor who entered realised that his hand had destroyed a fel- the carelessly -spoken mon oeyilatle;no ono unannounced and stood in the chamber of low being. save Dolly perhaps could have guessed what; deatb, silently and sorowfully contemplat- (TO BE CONTINUED,) it cost him to utter it, ing the ravages which grief had made in the young girl. Involuntarily she drew the comparison between this scene and et simi- lar one in which she had herself figared five years ago. Then it had been a young man whose 1,fe had been out off in the prime, mourned by the girl who should have b ten his wife. All the surroundings had spoken of wealth -the many waxen lights, the costly flowers, the rich perfumes, the polished oak ooffrn, with its brass plate and inscription. row it was a prematurely aged man whose only child refused to be comforted because he was no more. Here, if there was no actu 1 dieplay of poverty, there was none of the tr.ppings which take away at least some of the horrors which must always attend death. A few half -blown monthly roses lay on the c-ffin-lid, which was of plain deal covered with oloth i the air was close and stifling, the solitary candle emitted a sickly light. Geraldine Mainwaring shuddered; then she went unhesitatingly forward. "Dolly," she whispered softly, placing her cool hand on the girl's hot feverish ones, whish lay tightly clasped in her lap- " Do ly," she repeated, " I have come to ask you in the presence of him -can you forgive me ?" Then, as once before, the girl raised her drooping head and gazed straight into Ger- aldlne's eyes. Forgive 1" she echoed, in a dazed tone. "Yes, I am sure he was forgiven at last; he suffered so -ah, how much ! Poor fath er 1 And -and it was an accident. I can always say that truthfully -he never meant to do it." The sweet piteous pleading in look and tone touched Geraldine greatly ; her own eyes filled with tears. " I kno a -we all kno :v -now how it hap. pened," she said soothingly, "and we do not blame the dead." " Deed ! Yes, they cannot harm him no rv, can they ?" Deily queetioned fever- ishly, "He said he would go away ; I had begged him to do so. I had told him I had seen you, but not what you said -oh, no, I would not hurt hintby repeating that 1 But he kept his word, you see, and he has gone away. By -and by I shall be glad per- haps ; batt not now -not now 1" And then relief came in a buret of hysteri- cal tears, which may b. aavad. poor Dolly's reason. There had been an inquest the day before -in this as in that other oats, five years ago -and it was then that Adam Jervis's con- fession had been read -a statement which he had written during those silent hours when the angel with the sickle was already, unseen and unknown, hovering near him. Briefly explained, it amounted to this. On that eventful evening, when Captain Braithwaite had lost his fife, Adam had been returning from his wooing through the pine -wood, when he had recognised his daughter and the young officer talking to- gether. A few words which he over -heard and misconstrued, had led him to believe that the Captain had acted even a baser part than he had really dons ; and, without preface or warning, the blacksmith had raised his mighty fiet, and with ono tremen- dous blow, had struck the betrayer of Dolly's affections. Attacked thus suddenly and unawares, Captain Braithwaite made but a feeble re- sistance to his assaihnent, and in the strug- gle stumbled, and slipped over the precipice, while Adam, beedless of Dolly's wild cries, had stridden off, reckless of any injuries he might have inflicted on the young officer, but hardly dreaming of the consequences whioh had really attended what he tereeeei the "drubbing he had given theac. He had grown un ansy as the times P , byi and Dolly did not Drake her appearance ; but, when she at levgth returned, and in a few heart -broken words made her confession from beginning ao end, he was horror-strlck- en. A fearless mass, posaeseed of great strength, he becaxiu a coward at the vision of the hangman, and, in a moment of weak• o out his suggestionn nage, coy which wasrthat the bl n8etshould be pormitt,ad to fall up on her. No one but heraolf knew of Adam's presence at tae in- terview which had taken place between Dilly and her lover. The pito-wood was' quite out of the blacksmith's way in going to and from D ,nor Saymour's ; so euepicton was hardly likely to fail upon him. "Having made our plane, 1 was conmpol- led to stand by them," Adam wrote "though many a time and oft, I felt I must confess the truth when I time how my pretty lass was shunned and suspected. I had made up my mind that, if things wont seriously against Dolly at the irlquett, I would have cleared her and given myself up, and oven that open verdict, which seemed to cast a doubt on my poor lase, nearly merle mo do it; but I thought of the hangman, and remained silent." Then he went on to sty that life booamo a living death to him, that Ito shunned his " Father, I am afraid -indeed I am al- most sure she suspects." "Ah 1" This time it sounded almost like a sob; then, recovering himeolf instantly, he added-'• Tell me whatehe said." "Oh, no, no, I cannot 1" the girl wailed passion etely. " Only let us go away from this hateful place, Oh, father, it is killing us both 1" The hand which had been paseing back- wards and forwards over the soft chesnut hair ceased its caressing motion, and Adani, lifting the fair face which the girl had hid- den en his knees, gazed at it long and earnestly, • Yee," ho said, at length, " you are right -it ie killing us both. I have been eelfieh, Heaven forgive me -and cruel. That I should suffer is but juat ; but that you— " Nay, nay, do not reproach yourself. You were mad, and yes, I was mad too." " You are an angel 1" cried the old man fervently. " Oh, my child if aught could atone; but it cannot, it cannot I There is only one way open to me." "• You mean that we must leave here ?' Dolly cried eagerly. "Yes, I must leave here." And, in her joy and gratitude, the girl never noticed the personal pronoun ho employed. So they sat on in the gloaming, father and deugeter, with the knowledge of a terrible secret between them, which yet could not destroy their love for one another. When St. Jude's presently struck nine, Adam started from the reverie into which he had fallen. "Go -leave me now, child; I have some preparations to make for the change we contemplate. It is gettinglate, and Sou muet be tired. Light the lamp, end then I would be alone." Dolly obeyed his wishos, and then Dame to his side. " Good night, father," she said, stooping to kiss him, as was her wont. He drew her down until her head ley on his breast. " Good night, my child ; may Heaven bless you 1 And remember, whatever hap- pens, I have done it for the beet." And with those words still echoing in her ears, Dally Jarvis fell asleep that night. In the early dawn of the summer's morn, old Sue,• ehtering the little parlour, was startled to see the blacksmith sitting in hie favourite arm -chair beside the table. His head had fallen forward upon his breast, his hand still grasped the pen with which he had signed his name for the last time. With en exclamation of surprise, which was quickly turned in horror, Susan hasten- ed forward, One touch of the cold nerve- less hand, one glance into the wide staring eyes, revealed too plainly the fact -Adam Jarvis was dead 1 For the life of her the old woman could not suppress the cry of mingled horror and grief which escaped her as the dreadful truth dawn.d upon her, " Now Heaven have mercy on me 1" she sobbed. "Alas that I should have lived to see this day I and my bonnie bairn left fatherless as well as motherlees ! It will kill her, too, poor tender heart 1 How shall I break it to her ? Ah me, I cannot toll her 1 She must not know -not yet. I 11 juat sand for the doc- tor when t'forge is opened ; he's a kind- hearted man, and 'li know what to say better'n a poor creature like mysol', And- yee,of course ; I wonderI didn't think of that first -Tom Larkins -he'll do it best of of all. He'll be 't work soonand I'll keep quiet till then, and maybe tho child will not be roused afore." But, oven as she thus soliloquised, there was a fluttering of light feet down the stairs, and Susan had barely time to make her exit from the room and shut the door behind her, keeping one hand on the handle, before she found herself standing face to face with Dolly -Dolly looking so ghastly and weird in the pale dawn that old Sue, whose nerves had received a great shook, had much ado to keephereolf from crying out again. ",Lor', mise," she managed to gasp, " what a turn you've give me 1 What is 't that has brought you down so early, and - and not dressed too ?" -for Dolly had only a loose wrapper thrown over her night-dress. "You 11 witch your death of cold, child, standing there with flotilla' on. Tyke my advice and go back to bed at once before you get a chill," But Dolly took no heed of this warning. On the contrary, she came a step nearer and lair) her hand impressively on Sue's brown, bony, bare arm. " You are trying to deceive me," she said calmly ; " but it is useless. Whore ie my father -end what -has --happened ?" Tho words dropped out singly, and, boforo Swean could recover her scattered wits sufficien ly to answer, Do]ly had gently pushed her on ono side and entered the neighbors, because he feared they would room behind her. Then indeed the old wo- read his secret in hie guilty looks, and yet man sprang forward, but too late. Already still more terrible was solitude ; whilst oven Do'ly had raised the bowed head and pil• Dolly s presence, once so dear to him, seem - lowed it on her arm. Not a tsar did she ed to be an evorl tsting reproach. But it shed, not a dry did she utter ; only the was Mies Mainwaring ho feared most. In• beautiful eyes were filled with piteous en- stint told him that sho who had loved the Newseapers in Bohools. A writer in the Current, after deploring the lamentable ignorance of public affairs and transpiring events displayed by the average scholar of the schools of the coun- try, thus argues for the introduction of news- papers into the public sohools :-"Remove the old-fashioned reading -books from the schools, and replace them with the better newspapers of the country. Of course, this is not meant to apply to the primary read- ing -books -the primer, first and secondread- ars. Because the child, until it has advanced beyond these branches, has not attained that degree of intelligence which would enable it to grasp the meaning or retain inits mem- ory the facts contained in a newspaper ar- ticle. But this objection does not a apply to the child who has reached the age of twelve or fourteen years.' At that age the average American youth is fully capable of understanding and remembering what he reads. It may be objected that the aver - ale newspaper contains a good -deal of so. called news that would be injurious, rather th beneficial, to the youthful reader ; and that the style of language used by many newspaper writers is not of a sufficiently classic character to be utilized for the culti- vation of the youthful mind. To the first of these objections it may be answered that, while it is true th>t much that would be at least worthless in the education of youth is published in all newspapers, yet the judg- ment and discretion of the int lligent teach- er may be safely relied upon to select only that for perusal which will be both bene- ficial and instructive. As to the second ob- jection, it may be said that while it holds good in many -alas 1 far too many -cases, yet there are plenty of newspapers in the coun- try that can be relied upon as not only hon- est exponents of current events and public opinion thereon, but a so equally as fair re- presentatives of the purity of the English language as are the school readers. Of course, in the selection of newspapers for schools the judgment and intelligence of the school boards and teachers must be trusted, not only to make the discriminations al- ready cited, but also to use due consideration in choosing between the pert'san and the non-partisan press. A good deal of thought and some little investigation of this subject have convinced me that the adoption of some such policy as is here suggeetes would be a long stride toward perfection of what is al- ready the best and greatest and grandest educational system in the world." A LIFE ROMANCE. A Couple Who Ware Married Atter For`y Year's Separation, Forty years ago the Rev. Thomas E. Myers, then a young men of 30 years, per- aieently courted Miss Elvins Cobb of Balt - more county. They afterwards had a mia- understaoding and parted, Although they had a deep affection for each other, they never made any attempt to become recon- ciled. Sime weeks ago the couple met at Emory Grove campmeetingfor the first time since their separation. Each had bean Tuna - twice married and had bnigaide d thtnd with t - neer, 1 heir hair Dhwine had dealt severe) the whilom low' y with his on- sturiy frame, The matron- ly widow r �5 saw before her a feeble wed bent foes, but it seemed none the lo -s capa- ble exciting a romantic interest. Mr. ,.yore, who was noted for his piety(and fine theological learning, seemed to regard the widow with great interest, and soon became her accepted esoort in walks around the camp, There were a few friends on the camp ground who had heard of the early romance, and the venerable lovers at once became the subject of tender interest. On the day before the camp broke up a young belle of 18 in passing rapidly along a favorite walk near the Damp turned a corner and suddenly saw the a ev. Mr. Myers iu the act of presenting a bouquet of wild flowers to the blushing widow, Tho gallant lover was making a graceful and courtly bow when the astonished beauty met his gaze. He blushed, trembled, and dropped the flowers, and seemed overwhelmed with con- fusion its the intruder turned away with a merry laugh. The episode seemed to convince Mr, Myers that ho should clear himeolf of the auspiciou of flirting, and ho forthwith proposed `to Mrs. Hall, who, after some persuaeion, agreed to change her name for the third time and become Mrs Myers. The engage- ment was at once announced. and Mr, Myers expressed his dosire to have the ceremony performed just forty years after the date of their separation. Oa the desir- ed anniversary, whish fell on a recent Tuesday, they were married, The Rev. Dr Thomas Poulson officiated, and the bride and groom stood under a hugs silver bell while tho knot was being tied. After the ceremony Mrs. Myers, whose friends had insisted on attiring her in full bridal array, not excepting the orange blossoms, was congratulated by hundreds of her friends and her husband's pariahonors. PEOPLE. Lord Randolph Churchill was almost se- riously ill some time ago, but hit* health ie, now restored. Kossuth, from feeble health, hu beet compelled to stop teaching F.eglish at Turin, and has gone to live in the alp) on sr - farm, where hie sone will hereafter support him.. Angeli of Vienna is the favorite portrait - painter of Queen Victoria, who has sent for - him to Dome to Windsor in November ex- pressly to paint pioturos of Beatrice an& Battonbtrg. The venerable Prof, Calvin E Stowe was:- famous for years as a wit, a scholar and sr.. fine public epeakor, but was suddenly andt completely relegated to dense obecurity by Harriet Bneoher Stowe, and the was hie eeu- ond wife at that Mr Stead, the editor of the Pall Mall Ga- zette, is described by e London correspondent as being the type of a fanatical reformer with, his hair standing is all dii ectione, hie light= blue eyes bloodshot, his fume red with ill- euppreseed excitement, and his slight frame, swaying to and fro, but looking like a brave, man. In oneof his most frequently quoted poems Alf.ed de Musset aekeu that a willow tree he planted above his grave. Yeere after his death the regneet was tardily granted, but the tree refuses to grow and remains to thie. day aetttnted skeleton And no one in alt France cares to replace it with a. living;, plant, Senor Campero, a m rcha't of Pueblo;,. Mexico, recently advorti.,ed that he would give a dollar to ovary needy man who ap- plied, actually doing so f r a week or more. lnclduutally, and in no connection with title charity, it is mentioned that Senor Camperca proposes to run es Mayor of Pueblo. Victor Hugo died worth about $1,000.- 000, hie royalties am,.unting to $Z20.000+ yearly Jules Grevy, Leon Say and Leon Gambetta wore the executors named in hire. will. Death incapacitated the last, the first; refaaed to act, and the great financier, left. alone, found his other business to be toe. pressing; so ho has nominated M. G. Pal - lain to take his place and execute the poet'a. will. Billed by Bee Sting;. Thomas Fader of Gouldville keeps severe/. hives of bees in his garden. Tne other - forenoon he was at work among his bees. A man with whom he had soma buieness. dealings called at his house to see him,. Mrs. Fader went out to call nor .husband in- to the house. As she approached the bet hives a number of bees flew into het face, and she was stung several tim s. the of the beea stung her in one of her nostrils, and. another one s ung her on the upper lip, at: the base of the certilege dividiug the two nostrils. Mra. Feder s cries hr,ught her, husband to the spot. He extracted the. stingers and appliel wet earte to the- wounds. He went with hit wife back to - the home), and had no thought of any con- sequences resulting from the bee stings more serious than the swelling and pain. He left his wife in the kiteleen applying ammonia. to too wounds, and entered a front room, where his visitor wee. A few minutes later- ite atertee heard a heavy fall in the kitchen. He ran out, and found his wife Ding in convul- aione on the floor. Her uuctc,la were swole len shut, and her Iips were twice their nat- ural size, and had tarred Berk blue. She: breathed short and gaick through her. mouth. Her face was au stollen that its; iden•ity was entirely lost. Mr. Fadee, hurried his visitor after a doctor, but be- fore one arrived his wife died. in her bus - bend s arms. The doctor said that the. stinge in her lip and nostrils had sent a. shoca like electricity to her brain, ands from that to her lungs and heart, eo severer. that she wag unable to rally from it. Aire„ Fader eves 23 yens ole. It was but forty. - five minutes from the time that she wan stung until her death. Appetite of the Primitive Muco Paleolithic man u;eel to c..t hie brethren ea and so need bit compecativ,ly highly civi- lized suet se,r (we must not Bay descendant), of the new stone age In Italy, in the dried. up lakes (corm alerts), which contain re- mains or :he old stone age, one finds eluate bones not gn two i only. but broken for the - sake of the mown)* -treated jest like te-- beasts' bones um>ag which "e, a. Franco it it the sans • ee- as say✓ they can rat s o tell the .difforenc- oo Na eeu the marks of ,. tiger' ,;uot.1 and that of a meet, and no aniin -c baa aver go t so far es breaking the i, ...,e that it mumbles, In our British bar- roovs there is not the aligatest doubt, from the arrangemoat of the rem tins, that,whon a. chief was be. •lad. n it only were his slaves killed and burled with him, bat their bodies first farniehed out the funeral feast. The horrible old Hellenic my hs,such as Cantalus. 000kiog his sate Pelops al a meal for gods,, and Atreus dishing up hie brother Thyestes'.' children and asking him to dins off theme are survivals of a time when the aria Q.:eking: oven woo as much of an institution in Greece as it was the other Alain new Zealand or in Fiji. Dog does not eat dog ; very few ani- mals will devour t vex own kind, unless, like sews or rabbits, they d a it under the infl renco of terror ; but peen in t'fis, as in some otlt'r matters of conduct, seen git belrw the brutes, even if he was not a caanib it et the outset, ..�..e..r-...ate--- "The canny Scot" ought to go into the fruit.caening baldness. There is a man in G wham so round shouldered that he leas to atand on his head: to put his boots on, "A now policeman on the beat," remarks, an esteemed contemp.irary. Well, thatst too bad, The old poliemo to wee on the. beat, too, Times dant seam to ilny.rove any. A lady in Logan county, Ky.,sleeps two or three days and nights at a strot. h, and then remains awake for a like period, Sho would be a pleasant kind of a c'inpanion to sit up with, were it net theshe is SO years old. Customer (entering unexpectedly) --"So, sir, I•ve caught you putting water in the milk," Milkman-' Yes - er-no-• ,hat ire, sir, I'm only washing it. Yon don't ofpose I'm going to serve my customers With dirty milk, do you ?"