The Exeter Advocate, 1888-6-7, Page 2THE THREAD Ot Lit E;
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OR'APTER Ass.
For minute t two, it d breath.-
1~ m n a ha w la gree in
g
n3 ttln
n Warren Rl
lase 5 pn he � .ten a Cu .. p
.. pe 4e t .. a ff $
in behind with the yawl, dung out a coil
of rope ee a ring towards Hugh: with true
seaming dezttexity av that • it arrack the
water streigtit in frout of Wive, flet like
A gnofc, enavltng him to grasp it and haul
hiumelf in without: the slightest difficulty,
The help mime he the nick et time, yet most
inoppo:tuptely. Hugh would have given
omelets;uet then to ire able to disregard his
p' ofi°e ped a d, end to swiurashore by the tree
,u.lwrdly inuepeadenee without extraneous
a9ststence. It ie groreegtie to throw your-
self wildly iv, nitehe hero ora Leander, and
then have to Ce mately pelted out again by
another fellow. Bat he reccgraieed the fact
that: the struggle was ail in vain, and that
the interests of .Eneliah literature and of a
well know:; las=sies pace, Eu which he held
a amen life polfop, imperatively denuauded
acqufes en o me hie part in the friendly res
cue. He grasped the rope with a very bad
grace Weed, and permitted Bell to bai=l
hi=p, head over Iiautie to the side ef the dila-
Twee,
es well as he stood once,, more ou the
yawl's deck, dripping said ezpicteresque in
his clinging clothes, haat with honour safe,
owl the last hat row clasped tight: in hia
tribes.gMesar right bend, iG begat. to O;;.ue to
Mini *bat, titter all, the little adventure Iiad
tented out iai its way quite es ruiznantie, net
to nay et%etnve, as could Have beta remora•
ably expected. He feroeve amen kit wet'
age uateconeh re Mare, ashehandedthe bet,
with sa graeefol a bow as eircumstanreeper-
rnined,fromtheyaawVesideto tl inifr'ed Noy.
asey^, whit ateetctaod out her bands, MI Minima
aha thenki and epologetie regrete, front the
roots of the 1}opaler by the ed,;o, to receive
it
" And new, Edge," Huh cried, with
m=elt virile clreesfuluvie las u Mau eau amuse*
it he wtaatd* ehirerfug in wet Clotho before a
Been ease winch, * perbape we'd better make
our way at once up to Whitettraud without
further delay to change our gartr•ents.--Afire
Meeeey, I'm afraid your bast's spoiled.—rat
ber abort now, 1 1i. Let e run tip quick.
1don't mita haw iaaasa I get to S'1i hitest, *sad: "
Warren RReif headed the yawl rimed witk
the wind. and they rai• Merrily before the
sitars bra,.* ii etrea".c townrde the village..
the big houses along the. Rest Coast
axe always planned rather ego*: and dat,
to escape the -wind, whish runs riot
here in. the .winter. The old .geutle-
me 'a co`aneeted • with the bankers in
the St-reed—mem, Sort of it coualn or other,
more or less distantly removed, i fanoy.'
"And the atom" Hugh asked with evi-
dent interest, tracking the but jeer to itssolid
Fennel.
The sous ..-?
Time are none: They had
one once, I believe -•:a dragoorx or bnaaar-.•-
but he wan aaot, out soldiering u Zululand
or motnewhere; and hia daughter$ avow the
sole living represeutative of the entire fani-
itee"
"Soahe'a en heiress e" Hugh iquired, get-
tieigwarwer et last, as children say at hide •
and Seel;."
" Ye.o. Ia her way—no desist, au leir-
ese—k\ot a very big one I eappoee, but still
what one might fairly cell an heiress. Shell
have whatevere left to inherit. -'-You eeesn
very anxieties. hi 'know all about her."
"Oh, one naturally, Mee *a knew where
One etands' before coiunitttttg oueeself to
anything foolish,_' Hugh eenreanred placidly.
" 2,nd iii this wicked werld of oars, where
heiresses are ecarce...atad antique for breach
el promise painfully eauunan—one never
known beforehand where e. mingle false *tap
may happen to teed net Iva made irde-
takee before nww iit my life; I dee't mean
to teeke nether QUO through ivau#141e stat
kuowled;ge, if 1 eaia help it,"
lie took up a pen that ley befwre
him upon the table et the little sit-
tiug•reor and been drawing idly
with le roue eurioue eitereetere on the
the bash of an envelope he pulled from Ins
po.l;et. Reif sant ung wattchedidee its alienee,
Presently, 3tiiaarabnger beau natl.
" very moil shocked et my send*.
meats, I can see," hal waald quietly, am he
glanced with approval at - .late eurelees
hieroglyphics,
"Notdrew his hand over hia beard twice.
an inch *ho. eked aa grieved, ethnic,
he replied after a =toiled°* pewee.
"" 1'pby grieved r"
"T1s ell, because, Meestnger, it wee he.
possible for any one who ow her this morn.
ting to doubt thee Minae Challoner ie, teeny in
lave with yea."
Rush went nu dddliiug with the pea aud
"" O Ram, cried 11 Wired, "" rt t: r &aa .link owl the envelope basis sly. "" Fon
game 1 S ATh't it int aria uid:�ent of kilnsthink as 2" he 440, with *:erste erager nets
to jtsuip in like teat alter my pear old t; iu his ware, after nether abort geese
grew? 1 never ;aw unytialug en lovely 1411" Yoe think tbo roily like* me 9°'
my life. Erectly like the tor; ef *letup comae " I dou'txnerely this* so," Reif alone real
rank aline in neves r !len ceniideaec; "Tina eb:oirateay eeriakief it
Elba axia.ical a more ember ;voile of =nater• I —au huro as Lever was of r.aythiug, Rowe.
er a ceeleticn. " ItUt3h1S elweyu ea," ebe ber, I'ma painteroendiiteveequi:keye. She
imewereei, with laraeietary pride re. her ; wan deeply 8uuved when the OW you sesame.
traauly had bandernne and eaitvalroua cootie. le =leans a great deal to her.- .1 ehoulal he
The nen WOO their way up strai=t to
Whitee:rand, and lauded At laaat, with an
easy run, Weide the little hithe 3t the
Ohne lain -the PRP rrann e Aid, , by W.
Stun:aaway.--Ilugh yraasio;;er, nn epitd of
his disreputable dampacsu, eon obtained
comfortable heard and fedgiegs, on Warren
Reif a re oturnendation. holt wee in the
hUbit of eotuieg to 1Vititestraud frequently,
and wag *" well be.ktriwn," as the Iundiord
remarked, to the eutira rlliago, children
included, eo that any of his friends were bre
mediately welcome at tho quwhet old public.
home by the waters edge.
" ']i change my clothes in a jiffy," the
poet said to his farad as be leapt cohere,
"" and be beck with you at eine, a now area.
tare."
Its ten minutes he emerged again, es he bad
predicted, in the front room, another man
an avatar of glory --resplendent in a light -
brown re veteen coat and Rembrandt cap,
that nerved still more o vlously than aver to
emphasise the full nature and extent of hit
poetical pretensions. It was a coot that
Aureate might have envied and dreamt'
about. The man who could -carry such a
coat as that could surely have written the
whole of the ZDirinz Ginn nisi before bresk•
fast, and tossed offs book or two of Paradise
Lose is a brief interval of morning leisure.
*" Awfully pretty girl, that," he acid as
he entered, and drummed on the table with
impatient ior"fin er for the expected *teak
'4 the little oue, t mean, of conrae—not my
cousin. Fair, too. In somo ways I prefer
them fair. Though dark girls have more go
in them, after all, I fancy ; for dark and true
and tender is the North, according to Ten.
nylon, Bat fair or dark, North or South,
like Horniman's teas, they're "" all good
alike," if you take them as assorted. And
she's charmingly fresh and youthful and
naive."
',She's pretty, certainly," Warren Relf
replied with a certain amount of unusual
atiffneas apparent in hie manner; but not
anything like so pretty, to my mind, or so
graceful either, as your cousin, Misa Chat -
loner."
"r Ob, Efaie'e well enough in her own way,
no doubt," Hugh went on with a smile of
expansiveadmiration. "" I like them all in
their own way. Pm nothing, indeed, if not
catholicand eclectic. On the whole, one
girl's much the same as another, if only she
gives you the true poetic thrill. But the
other—Miss Meysey, now—who's she, I
wonder ?—Good name, *leysey. It sounds
like money, and it euggests daisy. There
was a Meysey a banker in the strand, you
know—not very daisy -like, that, is it 2—and
another who did something big in the legal
way—a judge, I fancy. He doubtless sat
on the royal bench of British Themis with
immense applonse (which was instantly
suppressed), and left his family a pot of
money. Meysey—lazy—crazy—hazy. None
of them'Il do, you see, for a sonnet but
daisy.—flow many more Miss Meyseys are
there, if :any ? I wonder. And if not, has
she got a brother? So pretty a girl deserves
to have tin. If I were a childless, rick old
man, I think I'd incontinently establish and
endow her, just to improve the beauty and
the future of the race, on the strictest evolu-
tionary and Darwinian principles."
" Her father's the Squire here," Warren
Relf replied, with a somewhat uneasy glance
at Hugh, shot sideways. "He lords the
manor and a great deal of the parish. Wy-
ville Meysey's his full name. He's. rich,
they say, tolerably rich still ; though a big
slice of the estate south of the river bas been.
swallowed upby the sea, or buried in the
the sand, or otherwise disposed of. But
north of the river they say he's all right.
That's his place, the house in the fields, just
up beyond the poplar. I daresay you didn't
notice it as we passed, for it's built low
Elizabethan, half -hidden in the trees. AU
ry to thiol: you would liay fart £tnd loom
with nay girl's nB'etioea,"
" It'a not the girl'* nffcetions I play feet
1Qcee with, Maeeiugerretorted lesily.
I deeply regret to sway itti very much more
my own 1 trade with. rAr not a fool; but
my nue weak point ie a leo auacep".ibla tUt.
position. I can't bolo falling lalove-really
lit love—not merely Alrting with any ince
girl I happen to be thrown= with. 1 write
her a groat many .pretty venues; I send her
a great many cbarmi0g notes ; I say a great
many foolish things to her ; aud at the limo
I really mean them all. My heart is just
et that preales moment the theatre of a most
agreeable and unaffected flutter. I think to
myself, " This time, it's actions. ' I look
at the moon,, and feel sentimental. I apo-
strophise the fountains, meadows, valleys,
hills, and groves to forebode not any
severing of our loves. And then I
go away and csllect calmly, la the
aulitude of my own chamber, what a
proclaim fool I've been—for, of enuree, the
kr* alwaye n pereallesa one—I've never
ad the luck or the art yot to captivate an
heiress ; and when it comes to breaking It
all od
I enure you
it costa m0 a severe
wrench, a wrench that I wish 1 was sensible
enough to foresee or adequately to guard
against, en the prevention•better-than-ouro
principle."
" And the girl 2" Bclfaelted, with as grow-
ing aenao of profound discomfort, for Lisle's
face and manner had instantly touched him.
*" The girl," Mntsingor replied, putting a
finishing stroke or two to the queer formless
sketch he had mewled uponthe envelope,
and fixing it up in the frame of acheap litho-
graph that bung from a nail upon the wall
opposite : " well, the girl probably regrets
it also, though not, I sincerely trust, so
profoundly as I do. In this ease, however,
it'a a comfort to think Elsie's only a cousin.
Between cousins there can be no harm, you.
will readily admit, in a little innocent flirta-
tion."
" It's more than a flirtation to her, rm
sure," Relf answered, with a dubiona shake
of his bead. ., She takes it all au grana
serieux.—I hope you don't mean to give her
one of these horrid wrenches you talk so.
lightly about ?—Why, Messinger, what on
earth is this? I I didn't know you could
do this sort of thing 1
He had walked across carelessly, ashe
paced the room, to the lithograph in whose
frame the poet had slipped the back of his
envelope, and he was regarding the little ad-
dition now with eyes .of profound astonish-
ment and wonder. The picture was a
coarsely executed portrait of a distingushed
statesman, reduced to his shirtsleeves, and
caught in the very act of felling a tree ; and
on the sorap of envelope, inexact imitation
of the right honourable gentleman's own
familiar signature, Hugh had written in
bold free. letters the striking inscription,
" W. E. Gladstone."
The poet laughed. " Yes, it's not so bad,"
he said, regarding it from one side with
parental fondness. " can imitate any-
body's
nybody's hand at sight.—Look here, for ex-
ample; here's your own." And taking an-
other scrap of paper from a bundle in his
pocket, he wrote, with rapid and practised
mastery, " Warren H. Ralf " on a corner of
the sheet in the precise likeness of the
printer's own large and flowing handwriting.
Reif gazed over his shoulder in some
snrprise, not wholly unmingled with a faint
touch of alarm. " I'm an artist,Massinger,"
he said slowly, as he scanned it clove ; "but
I oouldn't;do that, no, not if you were to
pay me for it, in heaven above, or earth
beneath, or the waters that are under the
earth:; but I couldn't make a decent fac-
simile of another man's autograph. -And,
do you know, on the whole I'm awfully glad
that 1 could never possibly Iearn to do it."
Messinger smiled a languid smile. "In
the hands of the foelisb," he eafd,iddreea-.
Lug hia peal to the beefate k which had at
last arrived, " no doubt such abilities are
liable to serious abuse,"
too Bial cmernetett,),
Is IRassia AboOt to Strike?
Theywho take optimistieviewso€
the Euro
peen situation, may perhaps find some
conatort in the aaaarthon of an anonymous
writer that Prince Bismarck recently as.
sureil ¥r Carl Schutz that the peace of
uld not be disturbed by Russia,
Bu# ea could assume that the Chan-
cellor has ' :,. n such a nediem for a poac-
hes/Atka ur a. et orbic, he ham never,. we
should motives; pretended to be a prophet,
but has, on the centra ry, ackuowledge that
the war of 187.1 was a surprise to him. To
our minds the alleged revelation* of eom-
&Hog a ateameu are lois truetworthy 'ndt-
cations of what this summer has a store
than the actual incidents taking place in
Russia and southeastern. Burop%
In order to gauge the significance of the
asoendaucy suddenly regained by Stave-
phiila in Moscow, and of the oortnotfona
which have simultjnequsly broken our in the
Danubian States, it ea wellto recall theevents
curiously ansfogoue which preceded the last
war between Rriseia and Turkey. It hs well
knower that the lite Czar, Alexander ti.,
was extremely reluetant, to engage iu
that contest and that for two yeare,
notwithetwoling the 1r4sare of the pat-
riotic psr.y, he could not be prevailed upon
to take any decialveatep. The Herzegov-
Ina iesurreetion of 1875 and Servia'a
aggressive movement egai et the Sal-
ters in the following year were, no doubt
isistleeted by Stavgped eonnsitteee ; but
the Raisin=, trievereiueut longrefn*ed to lift
as hand to sato ite euppaued protegee from
Ottoman reprie ale, AS late as February,
1877, the Qoeen'u Speech exxpreaiued rhe con-
vietien new imputed to Bismarck that the
peace of Europe was amused. Within a
fortnight afterward S'avophil anemia and
statemen had-berotae don;tient in theroun.
fug of St. Petereburg, aud iu the 'beginning
of March +Gen, i geetieif wan allowed to
undertake a private mission to central and
western Europe, profe.sedly for the purpusue
of consulting ail oculist. ilv an odd coin.
ctdepee, en March 3 the Czir ordered the
niabilizethon of eight array corps. What
speeialiets Ignatieff eoneulted is Berli tt and
Vienna can oalybe oonjectured; but what we
know is thaw hia =few weeks after he obtained
the Emperor's full confidence, 1 lexender If,
ordered hie troops to luvede 1?ruaaala, and
on June xI.1877, the Raeslanti crowned the
Data ke. Ttau:ifavorno axe aspperetitioua ;
they may tides year o waiting for the Saar ne
darn ef departure, In order that the next•
expedition, like the bete rriay helmeted Ne-
wer(' within slighted the tower* of St Sop -
The Czer'enroette are newiu astata of far
greaters realiineee thea they were eleven
e care naw, rand a week at the outside would
en lite to transport an army from lleeear,a.
hia =wrote the bauabe. All the information
obtaluable caenna the belief that three.
feurthe of his active forces have *ince the
beginning of the year been cos;eeatratcd in
the zenth.eestern comer of his empire. It
seems an unre aonable h5 potheeIa that a0
tremendous a diepiay of strength le intended
merely to suuoreedo trance Ferdinand of
Coburg by another ruler on the insignificant
tbrono of .u1 er
P ia. 7a it not moreo
that Slavophiilat who remember howatSan
Stefano the prize ley, ta43heir feet, amen.
vermeil that tt,o hour haeoamo to lay inside
eubterfuge aud make elute aud to strike bold•
ly at t.onstantiuoplo e If they did not
*oppose the tour ripe for putting oft the
mask, why should uueb men as tgnatieff
Tehernai, it and Bogdes+tavich al at once
emerge from theirretirement and re.
repeat, poiut by paints the demoastrntions
and mauceuvres whish precehed the last
Turkish war? Rare is the Slav Asaoeietion,
of which we used to hear so much eleven
ya tee go, all atonce reau saitatedwithTchor
naietl et its. head ; here It the co-oporetive
agency, the Slav Committee of Charity,
starting into fresh activity under the Pro.
aidency of Igoe: tell; here is Gen. Bogdan.
viola an avor;ed believer in Boulanger, ab-
ruptly reinstated in the terviae, end et the
same timemitts a r'
p r d, or privately ordered,,
to visit Femme. Finally, that nothiog
be wanting to perfect the parallel between
the present situation and that presented in
the spring of 1871, hero is an opportuue ria
lug in Macedonia and a Aliniaterial crisis at
Belgrade and Bucharest directed against the
anti -Russian party.
To insist that the huge outlay made by
Russia en mobilization during the last four
months has narlarger purpose than a change
of prmeolinvs•at Sophia seems to us the acme
of absurdity. If Alexander III, we: a oap-
able of ao great a waste of his country'a re-
sonreea for an end so trivial, hewould richly
merit the execration of his subjects. If he ao-
cepts, on the other hand, the programme of
the Slavophils, there is no sacrifice that Rus-
sians will not cheerfully endure. Nor is it
likely to be forgotten by one who bas so long
been the target of assassination, that no Rus -
Bien hand would ever be raised against the
Czar who should rear the standard of Peter
the Great above Constantinople. Eventhe
Russian revolutionist is, first of all, a pat.
riot; and itis probable that Alexander II.
would be alive to -day had hie armies in the
last war ventured to pluck the fruits of ',rio-
t ry instead of saooumbiee to the bravado of
Lord Beaconsfield.—N. Y. Sura.
A Lively Pace.
The English locomotives are built in one
solid frame, and run over tracks compara-
tively level and straight. Some of the Eng-
lish trains, such as those between Glasgow
or Edinburgh and London, make very fast
time. The locomotive driving -wheels are
usually seven or eight feet in diameter,
sometimes, as in this case cited from an
English paper, more than that :
There is no proof that any Iocomotive has
exceeded eighty miles per hour. This speed
was actually reached by one of Mr. Pear -
son's broad guage thnk engines, with nine
feet driving -wheels, on the Bristol and
Exeter Rrailway. When running at this
rate the engine has to overcome a resistance
of air equal to the force exerted by a hurri-
cane. In fact, the storm that destroyed
the Tay Brtdge was blowing at less than
sixty miles an hour. The great obstacle to
a higher speed than eighty miles is the get-
ting rid of the steam. Lately an engine has
been constructed for a French company in-
tended to run regularly at one mile and a
third per minute. This is a higher velocity
than any regular engine performance in this
country, although more than a mile per
minute is performed over certain distances
regularly.
Engli*ah Finalttcee
The sabject of dranoo is usually a dry,
though often an instructive,one, :Sometimes,
however, great :financial operations are
mawhich are mst manr.
intederest, Tato suchalopoerationros haveticin recentheit-
ly taken piece is tile management of the
English national finances.
The drat of these operations was what was
", n -
milled the conversion of thenational debt",
the purpose of which is simply toreduoe the
interest pardon the huge debt which weighe.
upon the English Government. Of course,
hn order successfully to reduce the interest
on a national debt, the credit of the govern
meat must be very high, made general con.
ddenoe must be felt in the continued pro -
parity and power of the nation, and in the
Ability and beauty of its atpternanahip.
Rater more than two-thirde of the British
pub'io deli; consists of three Claes of ee.
rarities, on each of whish an interest of three
per coat. baa hitherto been paid. The total
value of these eeouritiee is fire bemired and.
fifty-eight miliion pounds, era in our memey
two billion seven hundred and ainetymitlion
dallara,
The Ohaucellor of the Exaheelner proposed
to redace the interest on this debt from
three per cent., fret to two and three•quar.
tern and ultimately to two and a halt per
out d,fter fifteen yearn all the debt will
pay interest at the rate of two and a half
per cent, a. year.
Without going into further partienlars as
to thin gigantic operation, it may be said
that nearly the whole nuwber of the holders
of the goveenu,entstock. have assented to
the reduction, on the psomiee that rafter the
tepee of fifteen years when the interest on
alt the securities shah We become two and
ra
belt per cent., no further realuotion et in -
tercet ehall be ..uade for twenty years.
By thio reduction of interest the govern-
ment will neatie an immediate ravines of Six
million dollar* a year, and after fourteen
yearn wilt make an annual saving of fear•
teen million denary.
So musk for uouutry which is sound,
rich, and hag faith, in itself. The achieve.
meet ie, to he aaure, not to be compared with
that of the United Stetee le the reduction of
it* deist and tnnftixadiug the tent et lower
rates; but the difficulties to he eneeuatereel
at the outset of the undertaki