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down, mad picnic at thelighthouee- ant
OR, we get a men to row us across the river et
the back to Orford Ca.stle—there'e a did, view from Orford Castle—and altogether
it makoa a delightful excursion, of its kind,
•CRAFTER XXV.—CnOnns me True Elora- therefore I do not paean you to know. Ask for Suffolk. We ought to do something to
SUNSHINE AND SHADE,
nee no muestione. This incident ie now (dosed. commemorate the deme—If we weren't in such
Say nothing more about it," And he turned deepmourning stilt '.--and Mrs elemom gismo
-
The Xassiugers pitched their tent at on hie heel, and left hermit:Pedaled- ea downwith a conventional aigh ae her crape
Whitestrand again for August- Hugh did Time was all. Winifred cried the night exereseences—" we ask a few friends in to
is best indeed to put off tee evil (lay, but through, hut Ito& remained still absolate diener, but I'm afraid it's a littlo too soon
fyou sell your soul for gold, you must take aaatnant, Next mornine she altered her for that. Stith at anyrate, there could ke
lhe gold with all its encumbrances and tactics completely, sanfielrylog her eye e Ato harin—aot the slightest harm—
Winifred's will was a small encumbrance once for all, said never auother word on in just running down to Orferdneas
that Hugh had never for one moment the subject. She even prettuded to be for 0, family picnic It precisely the Berne
reckoned upon in his ante -nuptial cal- oteeerful and. cereleee. When a won= pre- as lunching at home here tegether.
culationa of advantaees e.ad drawbacks. He tends t) cheerful aud °lifeless after a do- hDayou remember, Hugh," Winirred went
took it for ifented 11w marrying a mere mgat/q gong* rho woktono mon whom. nesupy mmtooyt pottiegtonemmee,h htw. tet
girl, whom e could mould and
fashion to she holds in the hollow of her hand eriay wa*Iltegi owe that morning, a year ogo, he the
his own whim and fumy. That simple, well tremble, especially if there le something water -side ; and how you picked a lite of for.
childish, blushing little thing had a will of he wants to conceal from her She means get ae-not and meedowsw el from, the
her OW111 however—ay, more, plenty of it to ego it all out, and egged out it will all bank andge.vait me ; and what pretty verses
When Hugh proposed with au insinnating be, as certainly as the sun will rise to mor about undying love you repeatel as you
emits that they snould run down for the ante row. It may take a lance time, but it Win gave it ? —Ana in the evening, mamma,
imer to ltarmoutla or Aberyetwith—be loved come for all that A woman on the track 1 had to go out to diener, U 410114
with you and poor dear papa, to Soade
vicarage I recollect bow angry and
annoyed I wait because I had to go out and
leave Hugh that particular evening mad
neemee ro worn that same dinner divas at
Soule vicarage three pertheirunning 1"
"Yes," Mrs. Meysey coati:et:ea, with
another deep drawn sigh ; " and what a
night that was to he inere I Ss fall of sur-
prises 1 It was the night, you know, wheo
poor Elsie Challoner ran, away from lw
ou get engaged to Hugh in the morning,
and in the evening Elsie diaeppeared as it
by magic Such a coincidence 1 Poor dear
Elsie ! Nat a year ago I A year ago to.
ruerree?
"No, mother dear. That was the eight.
oeuth. I was engaged on the WednetdaY,
you recollect, and it was the Thereby
when we found out Elide lied gone away
from 110."
" Thureday the eighteenth when we found
North Wales—Wiutfred replied. with quiet of a secret, pretending carelessness, 18 a
dignity: "Wales is etuffy. There's uotning dangerous animal. She will go f. Hanc
eo bracing as the east coast. After TX Len -
don seaeon, one needs bracing.. I feel pulled
down. We'll, go and atop wttla Marron% at
WhitestrAml.' And she abut her little
mouth upon it with %map like a rat -trap.
Against that solid rock of sheer resolution,
Hugh shattered himself to no pin -pose in
showery serve of rhetoric; and reaeoninge
Gibraltar is not mere disdainful of the feam
that dashes upon its eterued cliffs year after
year than 'Winifred was to her leuribend'a
running firo of argument and expoettilation.
She never deigned to argue in return; she
merely repeated with naked, iteration ten
thousand times over tho categorical formula,
Well go to Whiteetraud.
And to Whiteetraud they want in due
time. The plastio mole character can no
mole resist the ceaseless preeenre cf famine
hoe persistence than clay can, resist the
Inutile of the potter, or wood the warping
effect of heat and dryness. Hugh took his
way to dull flee Suffolk when August eAme,
and relinquished with a sigh his dreams of
delicious picnics by the Dolgelly vrater-
falls, awl his mental picture of those pima
omenally big trout—three pomade apiece,
fielierrean's vreighte-that lurk uncaught in
the deep green peels 0111014 tile rocks and
eticklea of the rlaahing Wizen. The Bard
bed sold himself for prompt earth to the Bret
bidder ; he found wheni' WAO tO0 late be
hadtold himself unknown into a mitigated
tu, Romans, covelo‘
On the seventeenth, Winifred formed a
little pima of her own, which she sentilatea
withchil ?deb effusion lestch-time. " Hugh,
dear," she said in her most winning voice,
"do you happen to remember—if you've
time for such teiflee—that to morrow's a very
special eamivereery
Ilugla'a Cheek blanched as if by magi°.
What deviltry wan this? What deliberate
enmity ? For the moment his meal courage
and proeence of Mimi forsook him. Had
Wittifred, than, found out everything ?—
A apeoial enuirerisary, indeed, As if he
could forget it I—And that she, for whose
oho—with the manor ef Whiteetrend
thrown in—he had done it all and merle
hiteeen next door to a murderer --
that she, of all people in the world,
should east it in his teeth, and make
bitter game of him. about Melee death!
"Well. Winifred," he answered Ina atrange
low voice, looking hard at her eyes: "I
suppose I'm not likely to forget it, am IV
Winifred noted the tone, eilent/y. Aloud,
she mew no token in any way of having
observed his angular romenen—"It's a year
to -morrow alum Hugh ,propeeted to me,
you knave, mamma deer, she went on, in
her quietest and most cutting voice, turn-
ing round to her mother, "and he does me
the honour to sat politely be isn't likely to
morning. And yet the denouement would
have been, so strictly dramatis that • he
almost regretted a shower of rain should
intervene to spoil it
At ten o'clock he turfed out alone ire
the blinding downpour and took the train as
OA' as Aldeburgh. Theooe he followed the
shingle beach to Orfordneste plodding on,
as he had done a year before, over the loose
atones, but through drenching rein, in -
All
NOTES BY TUE, WAY.
The Tariff bill prepared by the Repub.
Beans in the United States Senate abolishes
the tax on. tobecco. This will reduce the re -
V41120 about thirty milliens. Tele tax en
sugar has been cue down fifty per Gent.,
which will decrease the revenue by twenty-
five milliontemore. Ten millions additional
aro to be saved from the tax en alcohol used
stead of under hot and blazing sun- in the aris, and five tailbone from various
light. 'hen he reached the lighthouee, articlea placed, on the free list
he sat himself down in pilgrim guise
3undeY ohserved after the American
beside Elidets grave in tho steady drip,
and did penance once mere by that unknown PI4u Batish Columbia, though Victoria,
tomb in solemn eilence. Not even the the ehettst. IS in other resPeets exceedingly
lighthouse man mime out this time to gaze at Reglisn. The ex,hon for the uell•ebactvaceP
him wonder, it /muted too berg and too of the dey of rest is the eireacosteuee fleet
persistently fointhet. Hemet Thera alone for there ie no other occasion in the week for
ntlattf tlebdrneilint gotubhrte: btmya wcEralysi Ivey, ler,hht cline ‘;f, frreetruhtal ehteayul br lour ehaot oi ant: y ot om thrt there:a. TStte6t unrLa
ery pepors advocate the reform, but they do not
sponar,pietswe.oatalkiettelpe ,ronotitayttipraeorlienapoue,ofezotoemtfhoor Propose to drop their Sunday editions.
all he needed. At the end of the half hour British Columbia is not entirely oblivious
he rose once more, plodded back again over frmr to the balm tying eest of en The
to ilea big business it can do in supplying
rtheaco usehainvgvitleiteinstiree.:41ruisptpilangticraloozhtoend:: wie.teelia di7)10elett's 'h advice.% from, Chthillit-
catching the lest train home to.Alinundhatn,
for dinner. ageism tura part t e provioce, say a
week, whieli is situated in a very fertile
Winifred waif waiting for him at the front l'oi4diebouoTE liedetb°thziet4,3g:Ltraubdal;:tb;eenaralarpepallleYs
deor, white with emotion—not 40 much att. wo;tt o Japan poncho% acid rave,
ger a,s elighted affectiou. " WlleretaTe you onri fruit °foal kinds gm raged in great Amnia
ribe:acinla"t°t11:01.0kercah',Inaa e°4114p,e/rinalgee,24mrahg:wer: raze, ant prove a sure of more than (wa-
ry pC,0 t to romem
wearied pedestrian, in a soaking snit of last
yeerhi
tweed 4 Kinaeton glen -Immo explained on Sun.
" Didn't I say well 1 was boned to report dot/ tr, viagrviOtturtt134, 124 SV,,Itteillg
WOW to my eommetrling efgeer Hyatt waeneer OM) eget pee is IMMO Ott TOO
answered tanatiugly, "All right, then collection plate 14 monied that tik peraen
proceed at one to report myself. I may from (Wavle has been chureh. This la
as well tell you as leave yen to worry. I've Mellow, bseelause everybody knows that RA-
iveu orforatms—aieue—trimpea tarso people place five cents pieces on the
"To Orfordneas hie wife telieed in pro- Plate, largoitt bee,ku-0,! there is ea 641aller
found astonishment. "You didn't went to silver C714. ,Pato ,PktstS Aside, it is remark -
go with tie there if it was flue, Why,what 4014 what a Argo assortment of emelt change
on eeth, Hugh, +Rayon ever go there In this gale Way tete the ehtneh treasury, The
peltitig rain for?" phizionsenou perhaps he attributed
"Yeur smother reooromemdoa it,n Hugh to the etneog deeire to Imitate the example
ana;eiaUllehly, $4 At A VISO of arnsite thoididhe Who her goikt
it 00t, dear," Wag 144Y4051 repeated is a tnent. She said it was altogether a raOAt There appears very good remora to heliehei
deeiaive Voles (the maternal mend ia strong delightful excureloo. Site praised the sande that the late Profeaeor r teeter fell a victim
on dates); "bat) Wedneeday the seventeezth, ea Arta and romantic,- So 1 thonght I'd try to the nurnauly fright of the New York
late in the evening, of course, when elle' it on her recemmendetion. I found it clunp, Thera r f Health. The doetera who per.
went away from us.—Por dear Siete 1 I! deoidedly damp.— Send use my aboes, formed the autopsy state that they are
wander what's became of her 1 It's curious please 1" And that was all ttlo explanation nrieble to and any treeea of yellow fever,
she doean't writs to you oftener, Winifred," 1 he ever voucheafed her. As the Professor was retneved by fOree frusni
Were theyworking upon Ids foliage, 0 (r0 PE OP.) his hotel te an hospital in the deed of night
inelile prepense ? Were they trying to during a violent ethrin, and. while he wan in
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'spike him blurt out the truth ? he trondeted, a 4400 of VAtArS4?* OM issference le that he
form of mat ltd oinvery. The purebaser forget the occasion,—For a whole year, he e
made her own Urine Hugh was compelled actually remembered it. But t seems to
meokiy to accept tam make hint terrible grutapy.—Never mind,
Hugh; let you off. r in a sweet little
'Two strong wille were cleating together.
in serious matters neither would yield. angeli and rill nut going to be angry witlt
Each must dint abetter the other. ray great bear: so there, Ur Coustellation,
They did not occupy Elsie's room this you aee r ve forgiven you. --Now, what I
time, Hugh had stipulated with all his was going to say'a3init tide. As to -morrow e
might for that concession beforehand, Ho A spectra anniversary n our Ivo I propoec
would never pees a night in that roam again, 'we should celebrate it wilt becoming
he said; the paint or the woodwork or the dignity."
chairs or something made him honelessly "Whioh =ulna aupposo, the ordinary
eleeplese. In these old houses, sanitary ar- Britieh symbol of merry -making, a plum
rangements were always bad. Winifred pudding for dinner," Hugh interposed bit -
darted a piercing look at hint as he sbuilled terly. He saw hie mistake with ported
uneasily over that lame excuse. Already a cloarneas now, but he hadn't the tact or tho
vague idea was framing itself piecemeal in grace to conceal it, with a woman's clever -
her woman% mind—e. very natural idea, nese under a show of good -humour.
when she aaw him so inoody and preoccupied " A plum -pudding is banaL" Winifred
and splenetic—that Hugh 114140 really in enswered with a smile —"dietinctly banal.
love with Elsie'and was in love with Bide I'm eur:rised a member of the Cheyne Row
atilt, even now that Elsie was away in ACM set should even dream of auggesting it,
tralia—elso why this uncenquerable and ab What would Mr. Hatherloy Ham if he heard
surd objection to age's room ? Did he the Immortal Ono make such a proposition?
think he had deceived and ill-treated Elsie ? detect in it the strong savour of Phil -
A woman'S mind goes straight to .0:etudes. istist ; h declare you'd jostled the hosts of
eye. No nee protencing b mislead her with Gone-do—No. It isn't a plum -pudding.
aide -imams; she flings them aside with a con- My idea's this. Why shouldn't we go for a
temptuous smile and proceeds at once to family picnic, just our three selven in honor
worm her way athe kernel ef the matter, of the occasion 1"
August wore away, and September came A picnic 1' Hugh cried, aghast—"
in; and Hugh continued to mope and to bore pionie to -morrow 1—On the seventeenth 1"
himself to bis heart's content at that detest- —Then recollecting himself once more, he
able Whitestand. To distract his soul, he added heartily " In this unsettled weather !
worked hard at his "Ode to Itlanetho " but The sanclhitla are soaked. There isn't a
even Nfanetho, audacious theme, gave him place on the whole estate ono could rrange
acanty consolation. Nay, his quaint "Ballade to teat one's soli down on comfortat f."
of Fee-Faiv-Fum" that witty apologuo, with "I hadn't thought of tho sa' blithe"
its grimly humorous catalogue of all possible Winifred anaweted with tract ignity.
nightly fears, supplied him with facia but for "1 thought it'd be awfully nice if w all be -
one solitary morning's meditation. You epoke a dry seat in Mr. Relfh yawl —
can't oast out your blue-devilby poking " Relf's yewl1" Hugh cried aloud. with
fun at them ; those cerulean demons will increasing excitement, " 'You don't menu to
not bo laughed down or rudely exorcised say that creature's here again f'
by such temple means. They recur in "That creaturerm in a position to state
spite of yon wish profound regular- withoutreserve," Winifred answeredchillily,
ity. The fonse origo mai was still preeent. "ran np the river to the Fisherman's Rest
That hateful poplar still fronted his eyes late last night, as lively as ever.
wherever he moved : that window with the t saw the Mud. Tortle come in my -
wistaria stilt haunted his sight whenever he self, before a chipping breeze 1 And
tried to lounge et his ease on the lawn or in Mra. Stannaway told me this morning Mr.
the garden. The river, the sandhills, the Reif was a -lying off the hard, just opposite
meadows, the walks, all, all were poisoned Sta,nne.way'm So I thought it'd be a capital
to him : all spoke of Elsie. Was ever plan in memory of old times, if we got Mr.
Nemesis more hideous or more complete? Bali to take us down in the yawl to Orford -
Was ever punishment more omnipresent ? nese land us comfortably at the Low Light,
He had gained all he wished, and lost hit and let us picnic on the nice dry ridge of
own soul; at every turn of his own estate big shingle just above the graveyard where
some horrible memento of his shame and his they bury the wrecked sailors."
guilt rose up to confuse him. He wished he Hugh's whole soul was on fire within him ;
was dead every day ho lived: dead, and but his face was pale, and his hands deadly
asleep in his grave, beside Elsie. cold. Was this pure accident, mere coin -
As that dreaded anniversary, the seven- eidence, or was it designed and deliberate
teenth of September, slowly approached— torture on Winifred's part, he wondered ?
the anniversary, as ugh felt it, of Elaie's To picnic in sight of Elsie's nameless grave,
murder—his agitation and his gloom in- on the very anniversary of Elsie's death,
creased visibly. Winifred wondered silent- with every concomitant of pretended re-
ly to herself what on earth -ould ail him. joioing that could make that ghastly Oes
Daring the last few weeks, he seemed to more ghastly still than it would otherwise
have become another man. An atmosphere be in its own mere naked brutality 1 It was
of horror and doubt surrounded him. On too sickening to think upon. Bat did
the fifteenth, two days before the date of Winifred know? Could Winifred mean it
Elsie's disappearance, she went up hastily as a punishment for his silence ? Or had
to their common room. The door was half she merely blundered upon that horrible
locked, but not securely fastened : it proposition as a sheer coincidence out of
yielded to a sudden jerk of her wrist, and pure accident?
she entered abruptly—to find Hugh, with a 'As a matter of fact, the last solution was
guilty red Lace pushing away a small the true and simple one. The sand hills, or
bundle of letters and a trinket of some kind Orfordness, were the two recognised alter -
into a tiny cabinet which he always myster- native picnicking places where all. White-
iously carried about with him. She had strand invariably disported itself. If you
hardly time te catch them distinctly, but didn't go to the one, you want as a matter
the trinket looked like a watch or a locket. of course to the other There was no third
The letters, too, she managed to note, way open to the moat deliberate and states -
were tied together with an elastic band, and ma,nlikeof mortals. The Meyseyshas gone to
numbered in clear red ink on the envelopes. Orfordness for years. Why not go there on
More than that he had no chance to see. the anniversary of Winnie's engagement?
But her feminine curiosity was strongly ex- To Winifred, the proposal seemed simplicity
cited; the more so as Hugh banged down itself ; to Hugh, it seemed like a strangely
the lid on its spring -look with guilty haste, perverse and cunning piece of sheer feminine
and proceeded with hot and fiery fingers to cruelty.
turn the key upon the whole set in his own "There's nothing to see at Orfordness," he
portmanteau. a. said shortly—" nothing but a great bare bent-
" Hugh," she cried, standingstill to gaze of sand and shingle, and a couple of lighof
upon him, " What do you keep 111 that little houses, standing alone in a perfect desert of
cabinet ?" desolation.—Besides, the weather's just
Hugh turned upon her as she had never beastlye—Much better stop at home as usual
before seen him turn. No longer clay in by oureelves, and eat our dinner here in
the hands of the potter, he stood stiff and peace and quietness I This isn't the sort of
hard like adamant then. "11 I had meant season for picnicking."
you to know," he said coldly, " 1 would "Oh 1 but Hugh," Mrs. Meysey pu 11,
have told you long ago. I did not tell you with her maternal authority, "you know he
Hugh 1.144010g in Ws agony mild etwilb" Art Adventure« With a rallthers
no longer. Ile rote Irene the Wile and went
over to the window. There, the polder 1 A correapondent amide to fLU Wien paper
stared him straight itt the Awe. He turned an 44"etlet a en "Veettlre with a 10'3ther.'
around and looked herd at Winifred. Her, It oppeare that the lubalsitante of Paizpre,
emmeogemeee bine eyes -mere plauid ito woo. 1 a village situated "bent a mile from the for.
anon, Hie, guy she oo,id, In oulmoipie eat bungalow at Keleitar, heal been much
volee„ "we'll ask Mr. Rolf 0 giro no „, lift troubled by a large penther which periedieel-
down to (Mori/nese to =mow, 0 the Nucl." 13r killed their "rtie la* E. A. E4Irn* of
Tnrae.' i the Forest Depertment, was leaked by a vile
tone." No 1" Ilueli thundered in an num ; lager to sheet the panther over a COW Whie0
it ilowever you go, Ralf 81=4 take : had been killed, ile went, but the Animal
you. I don't want to See any mere 0 Ralf. g got wind and Would, not approach the kill.
I dioliko ROf ; I object to Rolf. He's a' Ho again tried nett day. OA Approaching
moan car ! I won't go auywhere with Rolf at half -put six o'clock in the evening he mat
in future." i the brute in the open. It mede off, arid the
"But, children, you should never let your spertstrian then took a position close to the
angry passion's rim, Winifred murmured kW, aliortly after which. OOITP9 cattle came
out of the foreet, on the rear one of which
To taw eech other'a men I was busily engaged Mr. Down knocked 10
provokingly,
Your little heeds were never MC2110 tho panther *rang and killed it. While he
If ho dee'u't want to go in Mr. VAN Iota, over, but it got away badly bit under cover.
ho eitan't bo made to, then, poor little fel. Some villagers and ono of the forest guar.%
low. Ho ahall do exactly as ho likes Wm..: then eatno up and made a east round for tho
aelf, Re shah have another boat all of hie weather. This is what trariepired : "Ono
own. I'll order one thio evening far him at of the men suddenly pulled up ehort, point.
Martin% or at 4 tannewayht." i ing to tho beast lying within a caliph) of
"If it's fine," Mrs. Meysey interposed yard e of me. Wo all thought him dead.
parenthoticelly. I However, not is:insure, I ordered the men
"11 it's fine, of course," Winifred answer- I back. Having got to a cafe distance, as 1
ed rising. " We don't want to pleuie in a thought, 1 threw a atone into thebash, uhen
torrent of rain.—Whatever else wo may be, i I wee promptly charged. I rectomed the
we're rationed anhnols.—Bat how do you, bruto at clew quarters, hitting ]dm in tho
know, Hugh, whet Orfordnese is Bice ? You: cheat; ho reared up on hi a hind lege and
can't tell. You've never been there." I knocked me down, truing me in the right
"I went thoro once last year," Hugh 1 thigh, lacerating the big muscle and tearing
answered sulkily ; "and I eaw enough of ' it from the bone. I also received ex claw
tho beastly hole thou to know very well I wounds in the lends. Tho villagera hal
don't desire its further acquaintance," fortunately nil cleared cut; but the forest
"But you never told me you'd been over guard was leas lueitY, although he tried te
there," I get away. The panther dropped me and
Hugh managed to summon up a eerdonic I made for the retreating guard; ho brushed
smile. "I wasn't monied to you then, Win- past mo; then I gave him the remainiug
nis " he anewered, with a savage snarl, that berrel, °etching hun in tho etome,oli and
sho'sved his projecting amities with most ma. blowing a hole as big as my head on the op -
pleasant dietiuctneas, "Aly goinge- out and posito matt I had hope 1 to stop him with
my comings in -were not yet a matter of this; but he seizid the guard who celled to
at 1 ir ul 1 relazil
daily domestic. intmisition. 1 hadn't to re. me for assisteuee. As; aeon
pat myself every time I came or went, like I went to the poor fellow, whom .1 found on
a roldier in barracks to his commanding of-
fimr.—I went to Orfordnees one day for a
welle—by myaeli—unbidden—for my own
amusement."
All that afternoon and late into the oven-
ing, Hugh watched the clouds and the baro-
meter eagerly. His fate that day hung
upm a spider's web. If it rained tomorrow
allraight yet be well ; if not, he felt in bit
owe soul they stood within measurable
distance of a domestic cataclysm. He
would not go to Orfordness with Wini-
frel. That much was certain. He
could not pienic, on the anniversary of Elsie's
death, within sight of Elsie's nameless
grate, in company with those two strange
wonen—his wife and his mother-in-law.
Ugl 1 how he hated the bare idea 1 If it
came to the worst—if it was fine tomorrow
—hi must either break for ever with Wini-
for she would never give in—or else
ust fling himeelf off the roots of the
r, where Mile had flung herself off
day twelve months ago, and drown as
ad drowned among the angry break -
fre
he
pop
tha
she
ers.
T ere would be a certain dramatic cora-
i
plet was and roundness about that particu-
lar to which commended itself especially
to ' ugh. Massinger'e poetical nature. It
wou • read so like a Greek tragedy—a tale
of e and Hubris and Nemesis. Even from
the oint of view of the outer world, who,
kno out the huisk, it would seem romantic
eno h to drown one's self, disconsolate, on
the ery anniversary of one's first engage -
men to the young wife one meant to leave
an u timely widow. But to Hugh Messinger
him, lf, who knew the whole kernel and
core of the story, it would bo infinitely
mor romantic and cnarming in its way to
dro r, one's self off the self -same poplar on
the elf -same day that Elsie had drowned
hers d. No bard cou d wish for a gloomier
or re appropriate death. Would it rain
or s ne ? On that slender thread of doubt
his tole future now hung and tremble&
T morning of the seventeenth dawned
at 1' 0, and Hugh rose early, to draw aside
the droom blinds for a moment. A respite I
a res he ! It was pouring a regular English
dovr. our. There was no hope—or no
dang r, rather—of a picnic to -day. Thank
Hee. n for that, It put off his fate. It
save him the inconvenience and worry
of h 'ng to drown himself this particular
woe was killed by effiziel ignerance and 0.
capeeity. Th eyellowlevese care atematobave
terrified many people out of their seam. In
all Each ones the inherent atIddineas of
human nature comes to the aeurfaav, and
every caneideratien is miceideed to Gait of
*elf prevervatien,
The publicetion of the lateEmpetor rand.
erhek'n diary will centirat the ganeral be-
lie in his generosity, nieguenknity and
isigacity, the letter quality being espeelelly
evidenced by 1413 intention- to libereliee
German inatilutione and by his oppealtion
in 1870 to the scheme for Partitioning
Franco and placing the Belgian King on her
throne. To revelation that this projczt was
entcrtniued, end may be revived by another
fierman cenqueet, will of e011tra0 nerve
FEAMIO tO prelim.° most thoroughly for the
coming war, to fight it out even more doper -
ably than in 1S70, and to impose harab
terms on Germany he eeco of the net wholly
Snaprobetle French 1.M23e39. For theme ret -
mine, and beemee tho (Miry eumnee Pring
It'amarek as the prim mover in the mill.
Pepal crusade, the pablication of the diary
mey tvell give aesious annoyance to the Iron
Chaucellor and hie young mutter.
The Eiffel Tower.
The Mighest atrueturo in the world is now
being built at Pavia. Tho Washington Menu,
mut is 5a5 feet high, and haste rival at prem.
ent, but the Perieians aro priding themselves
on the fact that by the ht of January next
they will have standing on the Champ de
Mars a tower 1,000 feet high„built entirely
of iron girdere and pillere, in the simple con.
utruction of four greet thafte consisting of
four columns each, starting from the four
earners of the baste, and mergiog into the
single great ellei t whioli forma the main part
of the tower. Tho whole tower when cam -
elder/ will weigh about 7,560 tons, or
000pounds. The cost will be about $1,000, -
GOO, of which the French government pays
the ground with the panther lyieg on him. about $330,,000.
It was mite dusk, and I had to get within Naturally enough, M. Eiffel, the eminent
about ten paces before I could sec well French engineer who is building the tower,
enough to make sure of my shot. I saw the is proud of hie tall enterprise. Ile same:
panther turn ia his direction, and Tinily ex- Consider its impel -tomb from a meteor°.
plated another charge; bat ho franked ane logical point of view. It is not every day
and tarned to make off, when I hit him in that meteorologists can get np a thousand
the shoulder and killed him. I picked uP feet above the soil. This tower will enable
the poor guard, who was badly mauled. No teem to study the decrease of temperature
bones were broken, so we managed to reach at different heights, to observe the varia-
the village." tions of the winds, find out the quantity of
__________________ rain that falls at different heights, and the
density of the clouds. Indeed, in all that
Yzaloo. relates to temperature, hygrometry, air
The volcano of Yzalco, in San Salvador, currents, and the composition of the air, the
is f sr many reasons the most wonderful tower will afford opportunities for study and
mountain upon the globe. It rises several research many of which have hitherto been
thousand feet high, almost directly from the imposeible. It will be equally useful to
sea, and is surmounted by an immense astronomers. Here experiments with the
column of smoke broken by masses of flames, spectroscope can be carried on with great
a thousand feet in height, and rising with facility ; the laws of refraotion and the phy-
such regularity that the mountain has been slope aspect of the moon, planets and nebula.
called "The light -house of San Salvador." studied m most favorable conditions. Then
Rumbling and explosions are constantly there is it utility from a military point of
going on within 'Yzalco, and are audible at view. In the event of another siege of Paris,
the distance of a hundred miles. Its his- see how important this tower wou'd be.
charges are very regular, but it is chiefly Communications could be kept up by means
remarkable as being the only volcano which of optic telegraphy for a great distance
is known to have originated in America around Paris ; for from the summit you have
since its discovery by Columbus. a magnificent panorama extending from 120.
In 1769, the region now occupied by it to 130 kilometres. Paris by night, decorat-
was a level plain, forming the coffee and .ed atid illuminated as it will be during the
indigo plantation of Senor Dan Balthazar exhibition, is a sight which before was only
Eveze. In December of that year, the gen- within the reach of mronauts. In fact, the
tleman was absent from home, and his see—tower will be the chief attraction of the ex -
venni became so alarmed by frequent earth-
quakes that they fled from the place. When
tney returned, a week or two later, it was
to find that large craters had been opened
hibition. In our construction of the tower
we have calculated on the force of the wind.
We have calculated that the tower will
normally withstand a wind pressure of 300
in the ground, giving vent to smoke and kilogrammes per square metre, which
flame. amounts to a total:pressure of 2,250,000'
On the twenty-third of February, 1770, a kilogrammes. We have made. this oalcula-
series of terrific explosions took place, the tion on the most favorable hypothesis peso
crust of the earth was lifted several hun- sible. We have reckoned the trellis work
dred feet, while flames and lava issued from as full walls and made other allowances.
the rent in its surface. An hour later there And, as the strongest tempests known in
was another convulsion, ,Which hurled into Paris have never been beyond a pressure of
the air rocks weighing thousands of tons, 150 kilos per square metre, the tower is per
and elevated the earth about three thousand featly secure. Should a wind bearing a
feet. force of 300 kilos arise little would be left
Discharges of lava and blistered stone con- standing in Paris except the tower.
tinued for several days,
and in less than two The tower will be fitted up on the inside
months, the level field bad beoome a moun- of the shafts with elevators. There will be
tain of a very considerable height. Constant six or more connecting the first two galleries
discharges from its crater have sine() raised with the ground, and probably two which
it over four thousand feet above the sea. will go to the top.
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