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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-9-13, Page 6`H1tEAD OF LI OR, BIhNS 3INE AND SHADE. CII PIER ,- Rha yrs " [enelz, , of action. It was vile, it was loathsome, it ""Papa is atilt in sr Winifred wan mean,t•t wan horribic in its ghastly ohar- errat to u " la n • uel,ltouae faleenees and foalaeaa; and. Hage es H glf, s yiug ma.. y grouse, and 1 - tl If he fielded IIreammaand /11476 the place] all to hereelves a to netngas know it werfeo y. y naw so, we're: scall havio a lovely tithe he rets last and lowest to henceforth w Stefan, net lying our holiday int/ a ay (though might wrlk gtbon4 henoeiorth with his .ower not here), taking down overythin , outer man a whited, sepulchre, but within g he would be full of dead men ab bones and Axid washing and polishing, and a with ngt he vile ima inin s of impossible ,evil., ritingaagaiu, and playing bavoo with fire q g wh'eh thin a definitely las him bounehetd god* generally. We expect papa uh eking i g , laa,k ora J?rida , iiia birds bays too ricer $elf, in his own tormented and horrified btual t do ht pe* he rel etnbereeP Pto ,send whit be --eat doyen and wrote "'ells" feirgsd Hou a braes or two. I gave hien your letter,. 'mite attdrese ledere be Ufa,wits e. It eras a as hasty note, written if in the Msec{al dirt -miens to lot yen have some; hurry and beetle of departure, me the 'fern but, ; ou know, mea always forget every- eve of a long j annoy, and it told Winifred, g , to rapist general teretes, thee Elsie was just thin' As aeon as he comes o F lams Ike tX t brake us take our alterations a!1 down as her way eta the Cabftfn ., err rezte for agate, %high will be a horrid. nuisance, �,i.i4. her ea matter awmen nes waded ter she draw's:le *oath eines look ae per."eos- lrtn her sed na (es line mentioned) under £k lovely, Wta've done it up exa3t1y as ata assumed name, peahapa t Nailess, per - volt recr tsa,t, dad tt he a e perhaps arnliai. 'Herb pea Naples, , ok- en , w ie the s_ g r 4 to dream of - fia at Brindisi. Ureters r m . track hap/ laSeaelt for the cold rrtant,el piece, and a rad ing or identifying her. She eras going .away elapaneal3 retie in the dark CO;rnerand I meanly rhiek. now I see the streert year tweeted simply exquisite, Bop then, leu 440w, weal oit:e can goer expect from a tlfat,taerateeed peel : You alwaya do every, 'thing be entifully—and I think yo.,'re t a datltnag ' At any ether time this naive eirlisb ap• to eelation of bis decorative talents would nave lrleemel mid flattered Hugh's auseeli- 'able .real ,; for, being a reran; he wadof from Eoglaed -Tar erer and euar—Ibis wee underlined ice feu:iaiee fashieu—and it wen d be quite hopeless far Winifred to ,sberieh the vain idea of Feeing her again in this world of miffortuttee. $,.ne day, per- haps,her conduct would be exp1dre1 and vindicated; for tee present, it must alffl:e -that letters sent to her at the aldre e, ae be fore -the porter a -of the Cheyne Hew Club, though Hugh did not specifically mention cc as mai an v a thatfact--•would finally reach. her by pen to H r d hes loved petty girls veto arrangements, Would Winifred accept *Pnrsrbetiou dearly. J3ut just at that mc- " the accotnliatl lag ring, and wear It olivems Meat he bad net stomach for praise, even . eu her own finger rte a parting gift frost ti+ougb it carne front Sir Hobert Stanley; her at%eticnate ana raisueder'atood friend, and whatever faint elutes finch ef pleasure Benin? be might possibly have felt at hie little The ringwas one from the little 'ewel- lianeee'a ecatatlo admiration was all crash- i ease he bd *talon that fatal night hent s:1 dein again into the gall of bitterueue by Elsie'' bearvom. Profonndl as lie bated :tee eteUeriknd refrain of her repeated post• and loathed himself for hie deco `on .. e m r t ,t , Ptt , h . i c . . ew.'. further n.. sye; from or t pcouldn't 1 kn a t P uI. a .Jho at p a w through I o elf to p °Asir.—H•as abe written to yea 1 I shall admire hie awn Pdeviltry of Q.overtime in tee simply /magic if 1 dons here from her sending that ring beek naw to weeifred, aeon, She .can 'never mean to leave ue all i Nothing could be eo calculated to disarm. t tjQttbt like this. I'm going to advertise suspicion. Who could doubt that Eleie wee tedooreow in the Landon papaya, If only indeed alive, when Elate not only wrote 'also knew the state of mind she was plung. lettera to her friends, but sent with them. tug mo into, I'm euro ishe'd write and re- the very jewelry from her own fingers as a neve nhy suspense, which is jest aaonietnn- visible pled8e and token of her identity 1- -A. kite from your little one ; ne the corner Besides, he really wanted Winifred to wear µera. 44 sore you leis$ it where I've prat it ; he wished me her to have soothing that t` di cress, txaod•night; 4141418$ugh,-- ansa w Eisie'e, Be would like the Votive ever, Winifred,'' acoivatt he wee now deeeivies to be Iinked Melt finug the letter down on the by sabre visible bond of memory to the Boer of his chambers in au agotsg of nor - woman he had deceived and lured to her swore Wax his crime to pursue hint thus destruction. theme& a whole, lifetime? Was he al- He kneed the ring, a hot burning kiss 'WANE to bear atxmlae', cfujeoturea, :moue d wrapped it reverently and tenderly in ',anions, doubts as to what on earth had Cotten wool. That done, gummed and 1-meeaue d Elide? Wen he never to be free stamped the letter with a resoluta air, ter a eirglo aecaud from the shadow of that embed bba hat firmlydown on bis head, awful laureation episode 1 Was 'Winifred, nd strode out with everishly long striated :I evl.en Rite bseame his wedded wife, to tor- from bierooms to Jermyn Street to the doubt• retro 4114 rack him for,years together with ful hoapitatityof the CaeyaoRow. tieaeatfnue and hesitations about the poor Would Warren Rolf bethere a ain,hewon- 'Read ah:ld Vibe lay, as he firmly and mire. dared. Was that man to poi'oa half London ;mealy believed, in her =elite grave by for him in future l—Why en earth knowing tine lfghtheuse at Crfordneee 1 : There was the whole truth about I:'aie--knowingg tha rainy one "possible way out of it -a way that Lleie was dead and buried at Orfordneee—' Hugh shrank from almost as much es he did the follow mean to bold his vile tongue �einrauk from the terror and ahanie of ex- red allow him„ Hugh mooainger, to pat Immo, It was ghastly; it was gruesome; abeut the elaborate fiction uuobeckod, ot 9c was past endurance ; but it was the one her sudden and eauselese disappearance solitary way of safety. Ile must write a Inexplicable quite 1 The thing was a nye. Fetter from time to time, in likie'n bund- tery; and Hugh efatsinger hated myeteriea. writing, edam seed to Winifred,giving a He could never know now at what unoxpect• zi' .:titious account of Ehnen doings in an un- ed moment Warren Rolf ;night swoop down teennery home, away over aomewbero in upon him from behind with a dash and a America or the antipodes. Ho moat invent crash and an expaoeive exposure.—He 1Yas to new li e and anew life hiatory, under the , Southern. Cross, for peer dead Elsie : he working Slto the dark, likenay vies ino ae day 1 trent keep her alive like a charaeter in a —Surely the crash must comp same day 1 novel, and anise her fresh surroundings from The roof must collapse and crush him utter - novel, rain own brain, in acme little known and ly. It was ghastly to wait in long blind expectation of it. inaccessible quarter of the universe. , But then, what a ela�ery, what a drud- The forged letter atilt remained in his n,cry, what a perpetual torture 1 Hie out pocket nes, d, ffo passed a couple of shrank front the -hideous continued deceit. drop pillar -boxes, but could not nerve himself to `.l o havoperpetrated that one old fatal for. drop iglu. Somertgrain to grace within him He :eery, in the first fresh hush of terror and was nfib;hfromting for the masteryof hie sent, lemorao, was not pernapa quite so wicked, shrank angle committing himself irrevocablyirin- quite ao .Horrible, quite ani soul destroying by a Bingle not to that despicable life of in• n, this new departure. He had then at grained deception. begat the poor lame excuse of a pressing In the smoking room at the club he found and it was once only, But to nobody, for it was obit early. He took up emergency y, the "Times," which he had not yet had time line a life of consistent lying—to go on to consult that morning. In the Agony atheriog a perennial frond—to forge pro- Column a familiar conjunction of names at- tended letters from mail to mail --to invent treated his eye as it moved down the outer n long time of successful falsehoods—and sheet. They were the two names never out that about a 'matter that lay nearest and of his thoughts for a moment for the last dearest to his own wounded and remorseful fortnight. "ELor the advertisement ran heart—all this was utterly and wholly re- „ pup:eat to Hugh 111asainger's underlying in clear black type, Do write tome. Icon leather. Set aside the wickedness and base- stand this fearful suspense ao longer. Only limas of it all, the poet was a proud and ern- a few linea to may you are well. am so Sitive man; and lying on such an extended frightened. Ever yours, WINTERED,'' conte was abhorrent to his soul from its He laid the paper down with a sudden Mere ignominy and teethed° repuleiveneas. resolve, and striding across the room lie liked the truth : he admired the open, gloomily to the letter -box on the mantle - Frank, straightforward way. Tortuous on piece, took the fateful envelope from thing and mean subterfuges roused his pro. his pocket at last, and held it dubious, keundest contempt and loathing—when he between finger and thumb, dangling naw them in others. Up till now, he bad en- loose over the alit in the lid. Heaven and toyed his own unquestioning self-respect, hell still battled fiercely for the upper hand Vain and shallow and unscrupulous as he wan, within him. Should he drop it in boldly, hehad hitherto baskedserenelyinthesunshine or should he not? To be or not to be—a liar of his own personal approbation He had for life ?—that was the question. The done nothing till lately that sinned against envelope trembled between hie finger -and his private and peculiar code of morals, thumb. The slit in the box yawned hungry each as it was. His proposal to Winifred below. His grasp was lax. The letter hung head, for the first time, opsned the sluices by a corner only. Nor was his impulse, of the great unknown within him, and even, so wholly bad : pity for Winifred fathomlesa depths of deceit and crime were urged him on; remorse and horror held him welling up now and crowding in upon him baok feebly. He knew not in his own soul to drown and obliterate whatever spark or how to ant ; he knew he was weak and ucintillation of conscience had ever been wicked only. hie. It was a hateful sight. He shrank As he paused and hesitated, unable to, from the effort to realise it. decide for good or evil—a noise at the And Warren Relf knew all l That in door made him start and waver. -Some - itself was bad enough. But if he also in- body coming Perhaps Warren Relf.— 'Vented a continuous lie to palm off upon That address on the envelope—" Miss Winifred and her unsuspecting people, then Meysey, the Hall, Whitestrand, Suf- Warren. Relf at leant would know it on- folk."—If Reif nawit, he would know it etantly for what it was, and despise him was—well—an imitation of Elsie's hand - tor iteven more profoundly than he despis- writing. She had sent a note to Relf on ed him at present. All that was horrible the morning of the Handbills picnic. If any horrible -horrible. Yet there was oneperson one else saw it, they would see at levee it. whose opinion mattered to him far more was a letter to his fiancee—and they would than even Warren Reli'e—one person chaff him accordingly with etaff that Who would . hate and despise with a he hated, or perhaps they would emits a deadly hatred and an utter scorn superior smile of fatuous recognition and, the horrid perfidy of his proposal lire of smirking amusement. He oould stand elenduct. That person was one with whom neither—above all, not Reif.—His fla- ke ate and drank familiarly every day, with gers relaxed upon the cover of the envoi - whom he conversed unreservedly night and ope.-Half unconscionsly, half un willingly, Morning, with whom he lived and moved he loosened his hold.—Plop 1 it fell through tend had his being. He could never escape that yawning abyss, three inches down, but ctx deceive or outwitHugh Messinger. Patrice as deep as perdition itself.—The die was . uis exrul ae quoque fugit? Hugh Maesin- oast! nar for a lifetime I War .would dog him, and follow his footsteps He turned round and Hatherley the 'wherever he went, with his unfeigned con- journalist stood smiling good -morning by tempt for so dirty and despicable a course the open doorway. Hugh Maasini er tried hie hardest to look se if nothing out of the oomnton had happened in any way. He nodded to Hatherley, end buried his faces ono more in the pages of the Times, "Tb. Drought in Wales" . " The Bulgarian oulty —" Painful Dieturbanoea on $he West Coast of Afrioa, —Pah 1 Whab. nonsense,1 What .cotnmonplecoe of opinion 1 Ib made his gorge rise with dieguab to look at them,' Wales and Bulgaria and the Went Coast of Africa, when. Elite was dead! dead and un noticed 1 A. boy in button broughtio a telegram— Central elegram Central News Agency—and fixed ib by thg corners with, braes headed pins in a. vacant space on the accustomed notice -board; Rath- erley, laying clown his dopy of "Penoh," strolled lcztty over to the board to examine it. "Meysey 1 leysey 1" he repeated mus• ingly,—" Mosaiager, that must lee one of your Whiteebrand efey, seya, Precdons. uneontmon name. There can't be many of thorn." Hugh rose and glanced at the new telegram mono molly. Ie eoaldn'b have much to de wibh himself 1 But its Orme brought the bleed with a hasty" tae}, int his pita oheak again ; "Serious Accident on the Sottish Moore., -Aberdeen, Thursday, Aa Sir W- enn Fargnharson'a party were shootigg over the floabeg estate yesterday, near Hiaeer- dine -t) Neil, a rifle held by Mr. Wyville \leysey buret anddenly, wounding the Un- fortunate gentleman in the neck, and lodging a splinter of lagged metal in his left temple. iia was conveyed at onee front the spat in ase inaenaible 'tote to Ievertanar Castle, where Ise now lies in a precarious condition.. dna wife a for,"daughter were immediatelytete' " INV EFiTAN ts.: 10.40 A aa, Mr. Wyville Upysey, a guest of Sir Malcolm baemehar- none at lnvertanar Caatie, wounded yeeter day by the bursting of hie rifle on the Grim*, berg moorsn, expired this morning very end. dewy at 9.20. The unfortunate gentleman did not recover oonac€oneness for Bingle moment after the fatal accident." A ehndder of horror ran through Hugh's frame as he realized the meaning of that curt announcement. Not for the mishap; not fore o • t. fori i Ides. 11i ya y , not W a feed : can dear ..no ; but for his own possible or probable dieeenihture,--ilia Sint thought was a eharaoterie'io one. Mr. Meysey hed died unexpeetedly. There might or there might not be a will forthcoming. Guardiana might or might not be appointed for his infant daughter. The estate might or might not go to Winifred. He might or he might net now be permitted to marry iter;—If she happened to be left a ward fu Cbaueery, for example, it would be a hopeless bueiueao; hie chance would be ruined, The e court would never cement to accept: him aa Wlaifred'a husbaud. And then—and then it would be all up with him, It was bad euough to bave Gold his own soul ter a mesa 0f gotta a—for a few hurt - died agree ef miserable salt marsh, en- croaehed upon by the sea with rapid gelded, and half covered with abffiing, drifting aandhille. It was bad enough to have sacrificed Elsie --dear, tender, delicate lovtng•heerted Elsie, his own b entire', seared, dead Elsie—to that wretched, sordid, ineffective avarice, that fractional worship of a ailver-gilt Mammon. He had regretted all that an sackcloth and ashes for ono whole endless bopelees fortnight or more,. already. -But to }nava sacrificed Elsie for the privelige of being rejected by Winifbore guardian --for the chance of being pnbliely and igaominiouely jilted by the (lours of Chancery --for the rpportuntty of becoming a common lauyhiug•atoek to the quid - mance of Cheyne row andthe five o'clock tea.tablea of half feminine London—that was indeed. 4 depth of poseiblo degradation from which his heart shrank with infinite throes of aelf•ctmmiaerating reluotaneo. He could sell his own lout for very little, and doepiso himself well for the squalid ignoble bargain; but to soli his own soul for absolutely nothing, with a dose of well•deservod ridicule thrown in gratia, and no Elsie to console him for hie bitter lose, was :more than even Hugh Dtassinger'd sense of mean aelf•abaegation could easily swallow. lie flung himself back unmanued, is the big leather -covered armohair, and let the.ab- ject misery of his own thoughts overcome him visibly in hie rueful countenance. "I never imagined," said Hetherly after- wards to his friends the Rolfe, " that Mes- singer could possibly have felt anything so much as ho seemed to feel the audden death of his prospective father-in-law, when he read that telegram. It really made me think batter of the fellow." (To DE C0:iTINED. The Conn° iliailway. The surveys for the Congo railroad past the 235 miles of cataracts are approaching completion, and there is little doubt that within the next three years the toilsome journey to Stanley Pool, nearly three weeks tong, that has sapped the energies of not a few travellers, may be comfortably made in a day. The time is coming when a trip to Central Africa will not involve a big caravan and thousands of dollars of expense. Any one who hankers after a taste of life in the central regions of the Dark Continent willhave only to pack his gripeack and buy his ticket, and steam will waft him to the once mysterious regions which the pioneers nearly perished to reach. Mr. Stanley once said that some 'men posed as African explorers who were merely travellers. However that may be, the travellers will follow the explorers in considerable num- bers as soon as long distances can be cover- ed in a few weeks without serious discom- forts. The Greenland Expedition. Word comes of the successful progrese of the Greenland exploring party led by Dr. Nansen, whose plan it was to cross on snow- shoes the great " Sahara of the North." The seven men landed on the eastern coast on July 18, in latitude 85 deg. 30 min. That is far lower than the point chosen by Nor- denskjold for his attempt. Indeed, it is only about the latitude of central Iceland. At that point Greenland is only about 300 miles wide; not an inordinate Journey for stalwart men used to Norwegian mountain - climbing. If the observations of former ex- plorers may be taken as a basis for judg, men', they will probably find the interior an almost unbroken and level snow -field, across which they should make. 'their way with slight difficulty. They have now plunged. into theheart of the frozen tenthtent. The next tidings of , them will probably be of their emergence on the wed coast, near'God- haab, or even as far niajrth a,0 Diaoo Bay. S gairrtelin The true squirrel to arboreal. Hie home is in the trace, and their fruits and bode are bis legitmm@e fwd. Be seldom gore oa, the ground and then only in search of food ; from this be raturne to his airy dwelling - place, Here In summer he builds him a neat of branches and leaves, taken from the tree, and in a hole in the same tree, or in one that he can attain by springing from branch tobrancle ithout going the ground, In this meet secure retreat, he can retire during bad weather, or eacape the attacks o£ ; an enemy, cull he the 'evert can, be reared in safety. As a general rule, equirrele penises a light and gracetul forth but aro very mueoular, With their long toes, and strong sharp nails, they are euable e.I to climb trees and take long leap' Among the baanohee with wonderful ease, Their large and busby fella aid them in these trips, aa they terve ea rudders to steer by. When .gating, they stand upon their hind feet, n eiT their f.orgfeet as and' x hito eat., lag. Whet on the ground they either run er move by springs made mainly by the hind legs. Unlike mesa in this lade;, they keep in their totems as eight and move about by day, They tea,eraily retire to their retreat is. few heure in bee heat of the day. Squirrels have been known to eat in mete, :although their food es properly vege- table. They also exhibits, by aalights depsr- tare from their natural food, a fondness for cern, and rarely for wheat and otber grains wbioh is highly prejudicial to their good standing in a community of farmers, in feet morein nr . is done by these animals than is generally known, Whole fields ot corn have been destroyed by these in cer- tain diatriete. It is a very common thing among the farmers to find considerable treat) lying near the woods nob worth harveatan , because of theit depredetione. In seine Staten, in blame for inetanoe, large partiett for grand hunts were occasion- ally organized i t aututnn, two companlee being formed by he buutexe, enoh of which endeavors to outdo the other in killing egnirrele, and the losing party brie -lie the expense of an evening eatortainneeut and u a e e pper. Tineas hunt were generally kept up from one to three or four days, and with- out oetimetfng those Iturohased for the 00- aselon by eager but nufair n)embera of the companies, the quantities of squirrels some- times shot would stern incredible tta persons not living in looalitiee where they abound: There is a moat aliened and foolish preju- dtce existing among many against eating them, but, nevertheless, equirrela at tithes form a valuable addition to our food. Young squrrele, w'b..eri properly cooked, make a deltolous morsel, and old ones are not far f con palatable when hot. Their fired is certainty more delicate and healthful than that of so unclnan an sentinel ae the hog, which. Is nevertheless frequently preferred, The elt3te cef our American apeeiea aro of no value in commerce, aa their- fur being 3litle eaateetned, is seldom sold. !elan alis their worst enemas, as they suffer but little from the attacks ot wild animals, each as wild cote, martini and acme of the larger hawks. Squirrels are easily domeeticated, making pleaolug and intelligent pete, They exhibit their nanal activity In confinement, and will. aometimee, if nob permitted exercise, pine away and die. Taerefore cages must be provided with revolving wheels, in which the captives soon learn to turn, and derive a great decal of enjoyinent.—[Transeript. War with Bulgaria. Can it be that the dark war.eloudh which have been so long lowering over Serowe are about to lift and scatter without bringing deluge? So Lord Salisbury, at least, aeema to think, and few men are better qualified to judge. Ho lute declared, fn a recent speech, that all the rulers of the world are now seeking peace. Whether the British Premier speaks with somewhat more than conjeatnrat Knowledge of the tenor of the interviews which have taken place between the mightiest potentates of Europe, can, of course, be only guessed. Elie words, if cor- rectly reported by cable, are, to say the least, not inconsistent with the supposition that he has had a glimpse behind the roes es The principal atatesmen of Europe aro, be says, beginning to think that the best thing to do with Bulgaria is to leave her alone. To the uninitiated this aeema not only a Wine conclusion, but one so exceedingly wimple that the wonder is it should have taken wise men ao long to remit, it. Unfor- tunately, Lord Salsabury does not seem to say with absolute certainty that those upon whose action most depends have even now reached it. roe England he can vouch ; but no one, we fancy, ever suspected Eng- land of any design upon Bulgarian auto- nomy. For Germany and Austria, too, he ventures to speak, though in a tone of Lodi. fled confidence ; but neither of these nations has shown any special anxiety to interfere with Bulgaria, save by way of counter•cheok to Russia, And in regard to Russia's readi- ness to accept the let -alone policy, Lerd Salisbury only " hopes," though lovers of peace will be tempted to suspect that the hope may have a more direct and reliable source than even the recent declaration of M. de Giers, that Russia bad washed her hands of Bulgaria. She Was Going to Do as Others Did. The other day I met a little nurse girl in the hall—a girl of about thirteen—who had been flirting with a young man from one of the windows overlooking the veranda of a Long Branch cottage. I felt it my duty to observe' : "My dear child, don't you know that's very indiscreet ?" " Why is it'?" she asked. "Because they are all strangers to you.' "Well, Mrs. --, a widow, has come down here and got a feller, and her three daughters have got fellers, and if they think I'm coming down here for a dollar a week and no feller they're much mistaken. I'm going to be engaged before Saturday night, and don't you forget it." The New Pain King. Poison's Nerviline cures flatulence, chills, spasms, and cramps. Nerviline cures promptly the worst cases of neuralgia, toothache, lumbago, and sci- atica. Nerviline is death to all pain, whether ex- ternal, internal, or local. Nerviline maybe tested at the small cost of 10 cents. Buy at once a 10 oeut bottle of. Nerviline, the' great pain remedy. Sold by druggists and oeuntry dealers], Advertising Runaway Wives in Chiuna. Thio 'matingg" adverbieoment frtah the " North Chian Herald" is a specimen .of a Blass of advertisements quite common in Olneseee newspapers, Advertising must be very cheap there, judging trent their length. ' 1married mywife in1878,with much foots ing, and respectful obedteaos to parents. She is twenty-sevenyeara oldtbisyear. Ifollowed he July, 1883, the Kg gang [oourteouaand. tranquil] Battalion, under the ever -valorous. Viceroy, Tecetsung-tsaeg. Aa my son was alae on his duty, my wife and I removed out residence to Shanghai. In the fifth moon of this present year again we removed to the Hai -fang Loa, where my wife, lc,,o-ai.oh'ing, [the affectionate cableige1 went frequently to drink roach tea at .di -i -Lou, of whieh I knew not. Later en, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, a Ha chow man, whose nam, a and surname, and whose grandfather's name and surname I know not, went with my wife to burntemperaand !noose to the temple. Ile badthe sa tritegiona effrontery to wear the little bite bneton and the medezl- lion and beads of a great oft eial. This went en until eight o'clock on the seventeenth day of theninth moon, when my wife indiscreetly and secretly vanished from my hours, carry. ing a bundle, but leaving a one -year-old little daughter, who, without nearing, weeps and wails from sunrise to sunset and from sunset to sunrise, I canoe, therefore, cons trot my wrath and bitterness. How, Iwo - der, could this ever-to-be•exeorated tailor's biock without a name beguile Ku-ai-ch'ipg from her husband, who mists this ink with, salt tears/ Surely he has no law or justice before bis eyes or on hie forehead. Should any kind-hearted ono give me information by letter,1 wilt reward him with twenty dollars ; dhoti() he bring her back, I will gratefully give him forty dollars, and for a myriad of generatione, to all eternity, theo Orlon aon et my euoaseoorsshallburn iitoanso for ltim, Should this rascal without a Perna obatinately retain my wife, not nub' to all eternity shall he be intenee?, net catty 441 he be cut off the line of hie anoeators, and be titlearded by his grandparents, but eve three, f t be a r, son and little dau,gltter, will at all times risk our lives to enmesh him, I hope lie will think three times, and so avoid an after repentance. Letters obeli be res cowed forme at No. 4. Hui-faug'Iaou, or at the house of my wife's niece's husband, Hale - loo -can, Lon," da the eatxhtheaustedung reporter sometimes Aute ft, "Comment is ne.dlesa." Encounter Between a Spider and a Wasp* asp. .Many years ago (a correspondent of the "Field" says) the writer, wile was then re- siding at Durham, beard a remarkably loud buzzing in an out Immo .attached me his dwelling. On going to ascertain the Genrm. he naw a wasp attached by the foot of a hind -leg to a single thread, of a spiders web, whit& hung down considerably below the geometrical network. The buzzing waeoe casioned by the rapid nation of the insert's wing', in its effort to froo itoell' frontm the above ineumbrance, and it wan marvellous how anoh an a'tenuated thread could with- stand the strain of so comparatively heavy a weight, combined with the twisting to which it meet have been subjected by all these innumerable gyrations. Tao spider, quite a amall one, was patiently watching these atruggles from above, far out of reach, But presently, observing that the wasp was endeavouring with the fellow -leg of the op - pate side to free the one which was en- thralled, the cunning little rapider ran down ita rope, and ratpidly attaching a fresh noose to the foot of this leg else, coiled it clow to the other, and inauch a way tbat the lege were drawn together behind the weep's baok, the scales of whiclb, moving only on- wards and aide ways, prevented it .from; darting its sting in that direction,. Then the spider retreated again to<ita former se - mire position and watched the results of this laet manrxuvro. In vain did the wasp continue ire severe exertions till it became. exhausted and comparatively still, when the spider slipped down again upon. the body of .hid captive, and inserted into it some poison of hie own, at the name time neutral. zing any remaining force in the wings by swathing them with fresh threads close to the body. Tho poison seemed to sot rapid. ly ; the wasp Was soon bereft of all motion and life, and was with apparent ease dragged up by the victorious little apiitar to a con- venient spot for being feasted upon. Pansy. BY A. X. =Direr& Fair ae the flowers from which she Stole her name, Whorls purple tints seemed hidden in her eyes, She stood amid the lilies white and tall When evening beauties flushed the Summer skier, Watching the swallows wheel their airy flight, A pensive smile upon her face eo fair ; Her lips outvied the rose's ruby blush, Sunbeams seemed tangled in her waving Bair. Fit model for a sculptor a noblest dream Or some grand master's glorious painting rare - 31y heart went out to meet her ae she sttood, Among the fragrant lilies white and fair.. The lilies bloom no more, the roses weep No tears of pearly dew when daylight dies, No twitt'ring swallows wheel their airy flight, Nor gold and purple flush the evening skies. No white -robed maiden stands with pensive face Within the &lir old garden'e green retreat ; No gleam of starry eyes or waving hair, No pouting lips like dew-kiesed rosebuds 0 tent But where the sad -hued cypress bends and waves Her boughs within the silent churchyard's gloom, Where warblin; r.,bins 111t the charms of Spring, Violets breathe frarranoe o'er sweet Pansy's tomb. The Price of a Guess. How fortunes are made and Iost in specu- lation is illustrated by the operations of the member of the New York Produce Exchange whose suspension was announced the other day. He had accumulated a fortune esti- mated at a million and a quarter by his tremendous in the Exchange, and, not con- tent with this, he sought to add to it by some bold plunging. He. made up his mind tnat wheat was going down, and he sold 6,000,000 bushels, which he nidn't possess, for delivery in December. At the same time he concluded that corn was going up, and he bought 1,000,000 bushels of that staple. But intsead of a fall in the price of wheat, it steadily advanced, while the price of corn went down. ; 'Accordingly, this specu- lator was obliged' to announce his inability to fulfil his contracts: after his fortune had been' wiped out. The worst feature of such reckless operations as this is that his credit - ore must suffer as well as himself.