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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-11-15, Page 6THE '11READ R r7f0 F LIFE SIM -SEINE AND SHADE. )EATER XXVIIL—(Coannuste.) "Bad me Cfam6ala," Winifred said with quiet imperiensamea "DI see if I like that any better tha U thie foolish emendating Philesephy." Hugh turned over hie papem for the piece by request," and after ;eau* zearcbing wring quire" and sheetre came at IBS won clem-writtea Popy of hie immortal thready. He began evading out the la- gubrieue lines in 4 sU ;Imlay grandlom and sepulchral 'mice. Winifred lietened with eatolees ettention, as to a Matter little wezilly her ealinte conaideratioin Hugh MB throat And tmag oet Magitite. silently "She tilts °nee more mama leer aucient throne The fair republic of our steadfaet vows - A Phrygian helmet Weide her queenly brows; Athwart her neck her kaetted heiris blown, A hundred ;Wee neetle in her lap, Girt round their stetely lochs with mural crowns The folde of her imperial retie tamale thomend leseer towne," "Mural iirowne le goad: Wheiired num- mewed XattricAlly it reenhode oae sa vividay of the stone stereeefi the Place de le Cen. made." TOO took ate notice of her luteriadary erithasaa10 went. me with tau or twelve etereee mere ef the 14UM hembeatie, wenthe elahlimo eleiracter, mad weund up *t lege thutelstrom *mum with it pretilletie on. bunt aa to the imagined delver Of Mime fature Gembette—blakelf powithly lifeetill then gaide ne tawerel thietent meg ; Calnl with Interring tot our week *balm ell ow Tenth IA vaill of Lamely 114315Vg kait our sires la nuitY of malt Till buretiug_kott bere mid getee ef brim. Om!. own It' epublie etretch be an agale re rake the weeping daughter* a Alsace, And tad thee home, letttain. "Weil, whet do oott thia al that, Win - life Vhoe:keel at halt triumplmetly, with the ,air of 4 Man who bee trotted out his heed wer-bome for publie InSpegtiOn, Andhes ale fear of the effect he ie prodeeleg, "Meier Whufeed eauletered, "Wbte I think, Hugh, %het if Swirshume lead MOTU' Written hil Ode to Vigor linge• Utt wean never have whtm. thet rumen! Meech for Tour precious Gembette." Hugla bit his lip to hitter tillenee. The coitielice wee =ay limos Werle then tiara; it was true- awl he kuew it. But a touth. ful ctitio faith* met gelling of all thine. "Well, merely, illihelfred," he cried et het After a long 'Imam, "yon think those other Hum good, don't yen:— And when like eetne fierce whirlerted through the land. Te wrathful Teuton swept, be only dared To hope and act wheu *vele heart and Jana, Eut bi, stout, der:peke& My deer Hugh," Winifred answered eaudidly, doe% you see in your own heart tin* all thie eort of thing mey be very well • ita own way, but it inn origine1-11 leu't impitatice ; it beet the true sacred fire : Wit only an echo. Falwell do ealrukably for the youag beginner ; but la 4 men of your age—fer you ere gettiug out:ow—we expect something netive and idosyncratim—I think 3dr. Es:the:ley celled it tdioeyncratic,—You knew Mr. liatberley said to me omit you Would never be sepoet. You heve too good • memory. " Whenever ittaseinger she down at his desk to write about anythiog," lie sell in his quiet way, "he ronenabers meoh a perfeot flood of exceileat things other peemle Mime written about the same aubjeet, thith heti itheolutely incapable of °min- ality." haul tbe more I see of your poetry, dear, the more do I see that tar Hatherley was right—right beyond mention. 'Italica clover enough), but yon know you're not orluinel," Hugh enswerea her mover s single word. To such a knook-down blow as that, any answer at all is clearly•irnpossible. He only muttered something very low to himself *bent casting one's pearls before some crea- ture inaudible. Presently, Winifred spoke again. "Leda go out," she said, rising from the sofa, "an sit by the ma on the roots of the poplar." At the word, Hugh flung down the menu - /script in sheep on the ground with a strong- er expression then Winifred had ever before eard fall frorn hie lips. "1 hate the 1" he said angrily; "I detest the ar 1 I won't have the poplar 1 Nothing earth will induce me to tit by the pola- r' w wit a fro "P my hem date I 11 go* myse on are 1" Winifred cried You jump at me as if you'd ff And all just because 1 rses.—Very well then; alone.—I can amuse , without your help. I've ey's clever article in this porary. mg, hey sat together silently g Winifred engaged lathe toftmetingadmiring glen r o ails, and Hugh poring over a e-lookin book, '.ifeed glanced over s . .1y with a and murmured If a u . " After ally I don't think e t." ch ot w Hug ked, still ng over t he was a usly con. alglie lc) "Why, at go brought home g. %id ep from tow terdak • eie Mre. ago oom ; and i time r gel Baia t yse exquisit If hada'.•, yottr bit Ao d be rawi wi wi •Jiugh hesitated, 'mid *maned, belt in Oiled for 4 moment to Ant the hook with 4 bang .44d. hide 0:Way trent her. Theo he made up his taiad with etre* remiere to.. brazen MO, 0014Q0kEicctrieitte esti Afeatteifente) .he aleewereahtaietlyi eaweabeshed. ea peetible, bolding the volume a:Of-closed with We fere. fieger at the 'peem behad hew beatea up tntereeted at preSentto SOPA -SM tent in the enhiect of ty. Fni thigh - tog of gettleg Le up a . 'Whilfred Wick tate hook from his bead, wondering, with 4 neeeterfel air of perfect ituthority, He yielded like *koala Oo. im- xneterialepeatias it 'wee hiepolieit eat to re lath her. She turned to the pegewherehisfieger had rested and ran it downlightly with her quiet' 'eye. The IMO -words... showed in some ,Oegree at what it we; driving " Frantlitek Experiment—" Niesne of . Colleetion••7 Taeory of. Lightnieg.. Rode"—" Rehm- korths Cotle".-0 Dravelog demi Etectrie DiteltergeefrOm the Clonde,"—Whye what was all thie 't • She aerated rotted imeetritmly. Hash eimillicel joITMIIA000y way in nie chew« Te husband who mbuillee betreyea WOMAN Wg4.M4144 t 40 up eouduetoaa Winelet" be .0414 heettettagly, with a hoe WA* " t44,0r9- !,tok. thowe new gableA a the east wing„ 1..dierigerom to leave the hem en exposed. erder them-dowie freen 1411494 Pawner- " diadem 1 Fiddletitiche 1" Wiutfred d. in '4 breath,with wifely. proinp. " haling •reever hurt the hmeeeyev, and It* 001 "geleg to hegia burtirig it pew, jest betake an htu. mortal Pope' with a fad for -eleetrielty hew Certe to Itve and COPpeie at Wiitteetread. If eeythireg, it might: to go the ether way. Bardei you know, ere exenipa foam thuader. Mate .yoe. reed Me. the NAM your. self, "Owcik lialitediege spared, they -field, Alwe the Wfre Imirelo ened it,' or SoMethlug to .thet effectt acikl.rigthae7, tn,yetti no, Poetri ,cou never t Ur. Efetherley said to me owe yon wonitt never be e pe,'" Hugh repeated with smile, exactly mimicking: Wiaifre4h gaimelom little V0440 and Meneter. "s my owe: Wife tioseidt easider me.* poet, Wipe, ked, Isbell venture te do as I like myself abut rey Rive* property,* Winifred took owe bedreere ceodie mad liebted it gelidly Witlatut A Weird. Theu she went 'Op to muse in her Own bedroom ewer ter new gourd Med other elitilliathonentudie, As. men as elle was gum, Raab rine from hie chair .seed walked *lowly *to hie owe etaity, Gm:dont; " Electrietti " wart dill in his bend, raid hie tioaer pointed to that in. erheleatIng peussee lie sat dowu at the ;loping cheek mid 'wrote a there zeta to 4 weihketima firm of acieatifie inetrument inekers whom a.ddreeehe had opted 4 week. Wore from the atIvertisement sheet of Nature." W1rasen44-9 ILLLL, AnateMli4X, EirTV041C. GeNTLESintr— Please forward me to the alieve addreee, at year earifeet convenience, pear moat powerful form of Euhmicorli Leduetien Goa, with lecondery wires attach. ed, for which cheque will be sent in full on receipt of involve or retail prioe list—Faith. fully yours, Iterate Meseixeithe As he rose from tlie deek, he glanced half involuntarily out of the study window. It poluttd south. The moon was shining full on *a water. That hateful poplar stared lure et -might in the face, at tall end gaunt and immovable as ever. On its rOOttli, a ero. num ite a 'white dreier Was *banding, looking out over the anmy see, as Elsie hail stood, for the twinkling of au eye, on that terrible everting when, he loot her for ever. Ono se. cond, the eight sent a shiver through his frame, then he laughed to himself, the text, for his grow:diem terror. How childish 1 How infantile 1 It was the ;miner's wife, ia her light print fro*, looking cue to sea for her beet: striaok, overdue, no doubt—for Charlie was a fishernesta—But it was into'. ereble tbat he, the Squire of Whitestrand, rshould be subjected tom& horrible turns as theee.—He shook his flat angrily etthe offend- ing tree. "You shall pay tor it, um friend," he muttered low but beanie between his clenched teeth. You shan't have many more chances of frightening me 1" CHAPTER XXI X.—A ciettamos Wreea Her- ame. Daring the whole of the next week, the Squire and a stamp artisan, whom be had apecially imported by rail from London, went much about together by day and night through the grounds at Whiteetrand. A. certain air of mystery hung over their joint proceedings. The strange artisan was a allied workman in the engineering line, he told the people at the Fisherman's Rest, where be had taken a bed for his stay in the village : and indeed sundry books in hie kit bore ous the atatement—weird books of a scientific and diagremmatio character, chokefaI of formula in Greek lettering; which seemed not unlikely to be connected with hydrostatics, dynamics, trigonometry, and mechanics, or any other equally abstruse and uncanny subject, not wholly alien to necromancy and witchcrafo. It was held at Whitestrand by those best able to form an opinion in such dark Illuestions, that the new importation was " summat in the eleo trio way ;" and it was certainly matter of plain fact, patent to all dbeervers equally, that he did in very truth fix up an elaborate lightning -conductor of the latest pattern to the newly thrown -out gable -end at what bad once been Elsie s window. It was Elsie's window dill to Hugh: let him twist it and turn it and alter it as he would, he feared it would never, never cease te be Elide's window. But in the domain at large, the intee igent artisan with the engineering air, who was nrmised to be " surnmat in the electric ay," carefully examined, under Hugh' actions, many parte of the grounds o W itestrand. Squire was going to lay oat the garden and terrace afresh, the servants jectnreel in their own society : one or two hem, exceedingly modern m their views, opinecl in an offhand fashion that he tittelient on layiegelectrio lights on. Con - in most things to the backbone, the emiante bestowed the meed of their hearty oval on the electric light it saves so bring and Gleaning. Lamps are the • . country houses: electricity, nd, needs no tending. It eider that Squire was going &thin as they call the ar- %'Oer-day jargon; and he e it, rumour remarked, by all What a tidal outfall might i6 ould k in ligktimg the Hall, ; b. . e intelligent artisan word . .p casually in the course station; a d the Issherman's Rea ed them up at onoe, and retailed them erreaty:'' with profound gusto to all after -loom - yr the ct of th y 1-44. d t ef at a sh. 4 in nd str I or brought i with e ee thought hung if . then b the alt IlaOr tt JO • . ' g .g. 1 I 2 t on othereigive s iTo es over eahlt cloesn . Wal . After all, 't kno t . t I'm wo uoh - •.ier, no got it, nan I rObefore't.., go my own at all to look at.' " Ir ugh groaned. The uncons wa ar too GMT' its . . li sink o the very s o turned b k to his boo ly to think shadow of a life—not to epea By -and Wi • m 1. r what a fee e, uneeti 01 rd he ha sacrifice of Winifrecl's ed rose aii • th you sited, 'tit atitleg hisete room. intentl am at •• o 47% 0 1(-) 0 407, Still, ft was a eerie:ea feet in its own way thet the instailatioa appeared toprogress most easily when nobody happenedto be looleingon, and that the skillea workman in the en- gineering line generally stoodwith Mahan& in his Pockets, surveying his handicraft witk languid intereat, whenever anybody from tbe village or the Hall lounged up by his aide to inspect or wonder at More cadent. OM was another small fact known, to nobody but tho eltillea workman hropria persona, that four email casks of petroleum from a Lona= store were stowed away, by Hugh Ittaminger's orders, under the very roots of the big poplar t. and that by their slide lay a queer apparatus, con - meted appareatly in some remote way with electrie The Squire himeelf, however, made no secret of hie own Personal arta private intentions to the London, work,. elan. He pad the man vrell, and he exacted silence. That was all. But he explained precisely in plain terms whet it was that he wateted done. The tree was an eye,sere to him, be said, withhia usualfrank- ness—Hugh was always frank wbenever pcssible—but his wife, for mutimental rea• sons, had a special faeey for it. He wanted to get rid of it, therefere, in the least ob. trasive way he could godly manage. This was the least obtrasive way. So tate was what he required doge with it. The London workmannodded hie head, pocketed his pay, looked numecerned, aud held his tongue with trained *lefty. It WSW none of his basinem to pry into any employer's motives. Enceigh for him to take bia enders and to awry. them out faithfally to the very letter. The eett wee oda aa odd job is alwaye in - waning, He leaped the experiment might prove eucceeefole The Whitestread laboorere, who peesed by the poplar mad Ole London woramen, time and nein, with a jerky nod aud their tepee turned downward, never noticed e,ertain slender unobtruelve copper wire whieh the strange ertieen fatiteue4 one evening, in the gray dusk, right up tho teem end bole' of the big tree to a round kneb on the very hamenia The wire, how. ever, as ha fixer knew, san d9Wn to abest: deal ben well buried in the ground, which bore ontoilde a green Iabel " B•uhrokorff Leduc:tic:a Coll, le' tiott'e Patent.' The wire mad con termineted la a pile awe to the four full petroleum barrels, When the London woreman had securely laid the entire apparatue, undisturbed by loungere,. he reported adveraely, with great solemalt9i on the tidal oettall and electric light atheme to Hugh tlaeainger. No rifdeient Power for the purpose existed in the river. Thiel adverse repeat was arltUY delivered In the front vestibule el Wbiteetweed ; and it was alto delivered with seal:Ilona we —au per ordere received—in Meathiamiugerti own preeence. When the London werkuuaa. went eue again after reeking his cerefally worded etatement, be went out cainkine a coin or tbe realm or two in his traueers' peeket, and with bis tongue stuck, ;some. what nabecomiagly, in his right Cheek, as who should pride hinteelf on the enoceasful outwittiag of an inuocent felloweareetere. lle had done the work he was Feld for, and he had done it well. But he thought to him - calf, as be went his way rejoicing, that the Squire of Whitestrand mud be very well held in band indeed by Mast email pale lady, if he had to take so matly cunning preeen. tionsitt meta beforehand when he wanted lc: get rid et a siugle tree theta offended his eye m his own gardens. The plot was all well laid now. Ifugh had nothing further left to do but Pi posses* his soul In patience against the next then derstorra. He had not very long to welt. Before the month was out, a thunderstorm did indeed burstin full form over Wilhite- Orand and its neighbourhood—one of those terrible and destructive eaet coast, electric displays which invariably leave their broad mark behind them. For along the low, flat, monotonous Eaet Anglian shore, where hilk are unknown and big tress rare, the light. sting ahead inevitably singles ottt for its oneleught some aspiring piece of man's handiwork—some church, ateepie, some eastle keep, the turrets on some tell and isolated manor -house, the vane above some ancient eastellateci gateway. The reason for this is not far to seek, In hilly countriee the hills and trees set as natural lightning. conductors, or rather as decoys to draw aside the fire from -heaven from the towns or farm -houses that nestle far below among the glens and valleys. But in wide level plains, where all alike is fiat and low-lying, Lumen architecture forms for the moat part the one salient point in the landscape for lightning to attack: every church or tower with its battlements and lanterns stands in the place of polished knobs on an electric machine, and drawl down up- on itself with unerring certainty the dere tmotrive bolt from the overmharged clouds. Owing to this cause the thinider•etorms of Etat Anglia are the most apalling and des- tructive in their concrete results of any in England. The laden cloud°, big with electric energy, hang low and dark above one's very head, and let loeie their accumulated store of vivid flashes in the exact midst of towns and villages. This particular thunderstorm, as chance would have it, came late at night, after three sultry days of close weather, when big black masses were just beginning to gather in vast battalions over the German Ocean: and let loop° at lase its fierce art- illery in terrible volleys right over the village and grounds of Whitestrand. Hugh Maesiuger was the first at the Hall to observe from afar the distant flash, before the thunder had made itself audible in their ears. A pale light to westward, ia the direction of Snade, attracted, as he read, his pausing attention. "By Jove 1" he cried, rising with a yawn from his chair, and laying down the manuscript of "A Life's Philosophy" which he was languidly correc- ting in its later stanzas, "that's something like lightning, Winifred 1 Over Snade way, apparently. I wonder if it's going to drift tower& us 7—Whew—what a clap! It's precious near. I expect we shall catch it ourselves shortly." The clonds rolled up with extraordinary rapidity, and the claps came fast and thick and nearer. Winifred cowered down on the fiefs in terror. She dreaded thunder; but she was too proud to confess what she would nevertheless have given worlds to do—hide her frightened little head with sobs and tears in its old lame upon Hugh's shoulder. "It's coming this way, " she cried nervously after a while, That last flash must have been awfully near us." Even as she spoke, a terrific volley seemed to burst all at once right oveatheir heads and shake the house with its irresistible majesty. Winifred buried her face deep in the oush- ions. "0 Hugh," she cried in a terrified tone, "this is awful—awful 1" Much as he longed to look out of the win. dow, Hugh could not realist that unspoken appeal He drew up the blind hardily to its full height, so that he might see out to watch the encomia of his deep -lead stratagem ; then he hurried over with real tenderness to Winifred's side. He drew his arm round her and seethed her with hishand, and laid her poor throbbing aching head with a lov- er's eareu upon his own broad bonne. •Winifred neatled elocie to him with a sigh of relief. The nearness of danger, real or lm - rouses all the most ingrained awl pr• ofound of our virile feelinge, The instinct of proteetion for the woman and, the Oda comes over even, bad men at sea moments of doubt with irresistible might and majesty. Small differencea or tiffe are forgotten and forgtven the women clings naturally be her feminine weakness to the etrweg man LA biA primary cope* as comforter awl proteetow Between Hugh and Winifred tbe estrangement as yet wa but Tagne and unacknowledged. Had i yawned far wider, had it eun k far deeper, the awe and terror of that supreme moment woeld amply have sufficed to bridge it over, at least waile the orgy of the thunderatorm ormat MOW? a eheet of liquid lierne seemed to surround aria et:gulf the whole hoaqe et onee itt AA white ealkor&Ce. Th world became for the twinkling of e eye me surging flood of vividEre one roar an crash and sea of deafening 4mult, Whet fred buried her face deeper than ever o Iffugh's shoulder, and put up both her meal hands to her tingling ears, to crush if possibl the hideous roar out. But the light and soup seemed to penetrate everything: the wa.s aware of them keenly threugh her very bones and nerves and marrow; her entir being appeared as if pervaded and over- whelmed with the horrer of the lightning. last with the greatest and deepest wort of my lifetime," TWA same evening, at. it was growiw dusk, Warren Reif and Potts, navigatine the Mud Turtle areund 80* from Yar- mouth. Roadie put in for the night to the Ober at Whiteetrand. They meant Iie by ler a Sunday in the estuary, arid a walk acress the fielas, if the day prov- ed fine, *0 service at Snede„ As they approached the mouth they looked about lie vain for the familiar landmerlr. At s Reit they could hardly believe their eyes: a: men who knew the east comet well. the duiappeo.rr.nce of the Whitestrand PePlar froin the world seemed almost as in- credible as the sudden removal of tile Bow Reck or the Pillars of Hercules, Nobodt would ever dream of cutting clown theo glory of Suffolk, that time-honoured sea. mark, But as they strained their eye e through the eleepenine gloom, the stern logie nt of faces left: them et laat no fttrther room for d millogeethe reasoning or a eerie' ri scepticism, The Wintestrand poplar was really gone. e Not a stump even remained as its relic oe its monument, e All the way up to the "Fisherman's Beat" d be repeated againand again below his br oath : So InliCh the worse in the end for White - strand,' (To BE CONTISUBD.) In another moment all was over, and sh was copecious only ef an abiding awe, deep-seated afterglow of Alarm and terror. Bei Itugla had started up from tbe aofa now, bet/this !amide clasped hard in front of his breast, and was geeing wildly out of the big bow's iniow, reed lifting up his voice itt peeoxylin of excitement. " It'a hit the paler 1" he 4 awl, "It a hie the Ropier 1 t mu** be tc rraily near, Winnie 1 Ida hit the 'poplar I" Winifred opened leer eyes with an effort, end 44W him %%whim there, as if epeillmends by the window,. She dared not get up awl come any nearer the trout of the roam, but, raking her twee, elm saw from where elle mit, or rather ()remand, that the poplar stood coat, one living mate of rernpaut acme, A flaring beacon, from top to bottom. The pe troleern, ignited and reieeel to ilashing•peiut by the Are which tae indactiou coil had drawn down from heaven, veva off ita blazing vapour in huge rolling eheets and forked toegues of litme, which licked up the ciaokline branches of thedry old tree hem bate to summit like so much touchwood, The Poplar rose now one gelid COluMU of Crimson fire, The red glew deopeaea and. widened from moment to moment, Even tbe drenahing rate thee followed the thuncler.clap aceemea powerless t0 cheek that frentie onslaught. The Are leaped and daneed through the tell etraight boughs with Med exultatioa, Meant out ite defiance to the big roma drape whichburst og into tiny bails of Oman before they could reach the red hot kaiak end sue ping branchee, Even left to itself, the pop er, 01100 ignited, would have hunk to the ground with etertlingraphlity for he core was dry and 111114 a; tinder, its wood was eaten through by uummerabie worneholes, anti the hollow centre of mouldering dry.rote wheee ehildren bed ioved to play at Hide. and -geek, acted now like a roaring chimney Ino, with the fierce draught that carried u the oirelirtg eddies of ernoke and flame in ma career to the topmeat branchee. But the fumes of the petroleum, rendered inetautly gmeous by the electric heat, made the work of deetreotion etill more inetanteneoua, ter. rible, and complete than h would have prey. ed if left to unaided eater°, The very at• =sphere revolvect iteelf into one rolling pil. ler 01 11014 OUZO. The tree seemed envelop. ad in a shroud of fire. All human effort must, be powerless to reaist it. The poplar dissolved almost as If by magio with a wili rapidity into its pnima elernente. A man muet e a man come what may, Hugh leaped towards the window and flung it: open wildly. "1 must go 1" he cried. "Ring the bell for the servants." The savage glee in his voice was well repressed. Hie enemy was low, laid prone at his feet, but he would at least pretend to some spark of magrumbinity. "We must gee out the hose 1' he exclaimed. "We must try to save it 1" Winifred clung to his arm in horror. ".Let it bum down, Hugh 1" ahe cried. "'Who cares for the poplar? I'd tomer ten thousand poplers burned to the ground than that you should venture out on Buell an evening l'' • SULENTIFIO AND USEFUL. Her hand on hie arm, thrilled through him with horror. Her worde stun him witn a sense of him Me0.11110813. Something very like a touch of remorse came over his spirit. He stooped down and kissed her tenderly. The next flash struck over towards the sandhills. The thunder was rolling frradn- ally seaward. Hugh slept but little that eventful night; his mind addressed itself with feverish eagerness to so many hard and doubtful ques- tions. He tossed and turned and asked him- self ten thousand times over—was the tree burnt through—burnt down to the ground Were the roots and the trunk consumed beyond hope—or rather beyond fear—of ul timate recovery? Was the hateful porde, realty done for? Would any trace remain the barrels that had held the tell -talc pet- roleum? any relic be left of the Ruhmkorff Induction Coil? What jot or tittle of the evidence of design would now survive to be. tray and convict him? What ground fer reasonable suspicion would Winifred me that the fire was not wholly the result of acci- dent ? 13ut when next morning's light dawned and the sun arose upon the scene of conflagration, Hugh saw at a glance that all his fears hai indeed been wholly and utterly groundless, The.poplar was as though it had never exist- ed. A bare black patch by the month of tilt Char, covered with ash and dust and cinder alone marked the spot where the famous tre had once stood. The very roots were burn ed deep into the grimed. The petroleun had done ita duty bravely. Not a trace of de- sign could beobaerved *nowhere. The Rubm- korff Induction Coil had melted into air. Nobody ever so mach as dreamed that human handicraft had art or part in the burning of the celebrated Whitestrand poplar. The "Times," gave it a line of pessing regret; and the Trinity House deleted it with paint*, as a lost landmark from their sailing direr:Mona. Hugh set his workmen instantly to 'stub up the roots. And Winifred, geeing mourn- fully next day ab the ,ruins, observed -with e sigh : "You never liked the dear old tree Hugh; and it seems as if fate had interpesei ill your favour to destroy it. Ian sorry iti gone; but rd sacrifice a hundred such me any day to have you as kind to me es yei were last evening." , The saying smote ifughti hears sore. He played nerveuely with the button of kis coat "1 wish you could have kept it Winnie," he said nob unkindly. , "But it's not my fault, —And I bear no malioe. I'll even forgive you for telling 2110 I'd never make a poet; theugh Oka, yoe'll admit, was a head saying. I think, my child, if you don't mind, 111 ask }lather- ly down next week to visit us.—There's nothing like adverse, OpilliG11 1;1 one's work. Hatherley's opinion is more than adverse. I'd like his criticism on el Life'e Philosophy Ware lama into print at • A*S P The following is a good recipe for fixing moil drawings First pas* the drawing through clear Water, go carefully over with :dammed milk, Mine' 4:;anaers hair pencil, dip III a weak S4intion 91 alune, and let it dry flat. Allow a thin solution of leinglem to run over the drawing on perfeetly level maim, A mimeed eppiicetion of electricity to iron ranaieg emetste in the crushing ef mag. ;mac iron are by crusher and rolls, Bad effect. 'Mg A separation of the pewee by means ef dynamos. An experimental pleat is to be ereoted at one of tee Marquette mime and nmelainery beet adapted for work QA large sole teeted. Of 1.50.000 =bona burned daily in the electric lighta need IA the United States, the cathous are made chiefly of the realdware of oil after it has been refined, and the deposit .bout natural gas wells ie atm corning into 'me. The material is ground to a powder, a little leeches added, and the substance is then placed in mottlde. Them are packed in boxes, and the hitter placed la a furnace, where they are eubjeet to the moat intense heat. The capeeity of an orate:tuft:realm Is 40.000 (maims, The feliewiag recipe la sidd to be a good otto for keeptua castdron frem =distr.-- Clean the coating and wash in dilute mid ; when dry, rub the surface with a file or metallic brush; then elm: it several mate of raw petroleum, emit beteg thoroughly dried before the next is applied. When the bet coat fa dry, rub well with a atiff hair" brush, and A beautiful dull polish Will be produced, that will realist a higb degree of heat, and will not be attacked by ruse The polish ufay be indefinitely preserved and im. proved by the occasional applioatien of a eingle coat of petroleum followed by the bruellicg. The latest echeme to render petroleum a eleanly, healthful, convenient, safe and cheap fuel la said to have been accomplished by eolidifyine petroleum. The proceas is eaid to be exceedingly cheap and simple, yielding a product absolutely non -explosive and, while burning, perfectly *aerie% and smokelese. Tide now prep:wed petroleum fuel when ready for ootieranption is not hard .or " briehy," but hae about the consistency of tallow, and it is of a grayish yellow hue. It lorelis none of its properties by age, does not liquify by he own heat when burring, although its flame is fierce, uniform and in- tensely hot The residuum is smell, perfect- ly dean, and itself has domestic value. Saved By a Cat. There Ate so many stories of dogs who have saved human lives, and so few aneo. 40101 01 pussy's helpfulnese in times of em. agency,that we gladly publish the story of a cat's intelligent devotion During the Crimean War, a little cat followed a young French soldier when be left hie native vil. lags. The lad's heart clung to this dumb creature, and he gave her a seat on his knap. saok by aay on the march, and a corner o f his conch at night. When the regiment was first ordered into action, he left her in charge of a eta com- rade. Be had marched about a mile when he saw puss running beside him. Hie lifted her up on her usual seat, and soon the en- gagement began. Twice the soldier fell, but the cab clung fast hold. At last, a Revere wound stretched him bleeding on the field. Wo sooner did pussy math sight of the blood, than she seated herself upon his body, and. began to lick his wound in tbe most assiduous manner, Thus she remained for some hours, till the surgeon. carried the lad off to the tent for the wound- ed. When he recovered consciousness, his first question was " Shall I live ?" "Yes, my good fellow," was the surgeon's %newer, "thanks to your little mt. If she had. not used her tongue so intelligently, you would have died from loss of blood." Contrary to all regulations, pussy was al- lowed to accompany the young soldier to the hospital, where she was regaled with the choicest morsels from his plate, and became a very distinguished character.— [Illustrated Christian Weekly. The Sea Serpent Again. The regular annual sea serpent has made his appearance again. He is a little out of his latitude this time, having been seen in a place where heretofore he has never been known to roam. There is no doubt as to the identity of the creature, as it is vouched for by several parties who are known as strictly temperate mem whose eyes have not been accustomed to seeing every variety of snakes floating in the air and in every conceivable Position. Capt. Edger Avery of the bark Estrella, while coming from Tit - coma to San Francisco with cool, descried the monster when the bark was passing the Umpqaa River. The serpent, for such the Qaptam solemnly declares it to be, was swimming on the surface of the water in a southerly direction. The bark at the time was headed southeoutheciet, and when the Captain float noticed the reptile it was about 200 yards off, and was apparently not the least disconcerted by the peoxlmity of the vesiel. As it was 10 oolock m the morning, and the sun was shining brightly, the startled ptain had a good view of the serpent. When he was satisfied that he beheld a real live serpent, and not a creation of his imagination, the Captain sprang below and got his rifle, calling to his wife and crew to come on deck and view the wonder. The eoe ao several of the crew came on deck and plainly saw the monster swimming by. He appeared to be about 80 feet long and as big round as a barrel. Ire rode over the '",,144444V,171414 waves with bis bead and. about 10 fee his body elevated above water, every no and then dipping his immense heed into the water, the body making gigantic convulsiona while gliding caterpillarlike over tlis waves. The head was liat. or " <tithed," as the Captain described it, and the body appeared to be overed with scales. About 10 feet of what might properly • ..se rellea the ilea, was covered with COMO h air, resembling a mane. After viewing the monster for a time, the Captain rimed his rifle and fired several shots at lt, but the bullets fell short. The sea serpent seemingly paid no ettention to the shooting, but kept on his way. The exotted smatters kept it in view for fully a half hour, when, without any apparent flurry, le Aank out of sight in the sea, and was not seen after. ralee Contentment. With all that is juetly said about the vir. Ina of contentment, there ie one speciee of it that lies like a worm at the core of ell hu. man program. It is that which renders a man satisfied with his own achivements, content to remain where he is in the differ. e ne spheres of activity or thought or useful. nees, Instead of ascending into others which are open to him, and for which he may be fitted. Some men, it is true, are too eager te prees on beyond their powers, and become victims of "vaultinv ambition which o'erleape itself," but *there, for various reasorae. :shrink frame new tasks, new duties, and new responsibilities, and thus greatly retard their *WA development and lessen their value to humanity. There is certainly a great temptation to a oortain class of minds to thie holding back, be the feet that in every forward stop, though it reel seta be made, there le aliveye an apparent lose. In the school each, pro, motion into a higher clam bringe wit'i. it a certain, seine of inferiority. The boy who aim evem with or :super oi to his fellow PAW ands himself behlud. many of the • Ills work wee emy before, and be was co - sciene ot ,tiolAg it well ; now it ie difficult, awl he eturablee aed perhaps often fella So when he completes his coterie and cetera college or begme a latminess life, he who W80 a tho top, and looked down Amon others, le now at the bottom, and le looked down upon by °them. Imit year he mealy excelled and felt victorioue ; this year behalf everything to kern and feels inferior. Yet it hica been a long cam upwards, and, hay. ing taken it, he mufti not willingly go back. His present eturcibling efforts are better than hie paat triumphs. Life le fall of elicit chaneee. As faat se one eneceede in may enterpriva enother (menu up before him. He has grown aeoustemed to the first, and 10 eonecitotte of doliag well in ite The next is yet untried, and mvolvea not only frail exertion and energy, but a foe cerMiuty of teeny mistakes and failures. The foaling of power will be replaced by tie:electing of weaktuna, and the pleurae of SUWON WIll be exebanged for the dime). polutment of alaortoorain . Malay sheink from these painful some one, and rernam stitisfid with the peaceful and quiet die. - dune of duties to which they have become habituated, . . . Now, this kind of con- tentment is the oue that works harm to - stead of good. To be content with the con- dition of life hi which we are placed, and the oircumstaucea width auxround us, is a wholomme etat e of mind; but to be so con- tented with our achievements as to be un- willing to attempt others—to be eo satiefied with the height NVO have gained that we re. fuse to mead further, to be ao well pleased with our email sum:oases that we decline to riek our reputation in further endeavors—, this le an apathy which will emelt ell ode( Tenement, and prevent the healthy growth of human power. "Yankee Doodle" in Ghent. After the „American and Britieli plenipal. entiaries had signed the treaty of peace in 1814, tbe authorities of the oity of Ghent proposed to give a grand musical entertain- ment in honor of the event.. Of course they wisbed to have the national aka of the two countries performed by the bands. Accordingly, the bandamster called upon the American gentlemen to get our national air. The Envoys were divided between "Hall Columbia" and "Yankee Doodle," but a majority finally voted for the latter. Then the band -roaster, turning to john Quincy Adams, said: "Please give me the air." Mr. Adams looked at Mr. Clay, and said, "Please give it to him. I can't. I rover sung or whistled a tune in my life." "Neither did I," said Mr. Clay. Mr. Bayard and the other Envoys all an. swered in like manner. No one could sing nor whistl ,e and the situation became embarras- sing. Finally Mr. Clay said, "0I1 John"— his colored man. John came in, wondering what could be wanted. "John, whistle Yankee Doodle' for this gentleman." John was more musical, or less bashful than his white brethren, and at once struck up the tune. The musician took dowo the air, arranged the harmony, and on the next day ",Yan- kee Doodle" was .performed in great style as the national air of the United States.— [Youth's Companion. The Woman Stabber, The Whitechapel murders have turned the attention of journalists to the famous le case of "The Monster," Renwick Williams, ' who was tried on July 85h, 1790, at the Oli Bailey. He was arraigned upon seven in- dictments for cutting and maiming several women. On May 5th, 1789, he stabbed a woman in the hip, then he attacked a young lady coming from the play. On January 18th, 1790, he stabbed Miss Anne Porter as she was coming from the Queen's Palace. The whole of London was thrown into great excitement, and it was proposed that vigi- lance committees should he formed to appre- hend him. He was the son Zif an apothecary in Carnaby Market, and was by trade an artificial flower maker. He was about 35 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches in height; his very sharp features, carefully powdered hair, and well fitting clothes gave him a strong resemblance to the more famous sentimental blood -letter, Robespierre. At his trial he reed a singular declaration of his innocence, couched in the inflated lan- guage popular at the and of the 18th century. He declared that he was "the warm friend and admirer of that sex whose cause was new asserted," and expressed as exalted sentiment as Robespierre was wont to de- liver three years later. His mental con- dition wes not called into questionenor was there any evidenoe to prove that his crime were due to a morbid and perverted passion, or to sentimental hatred Of women following disappointment in. love. Renwick Williams was sentenced to six years' imprisonment, and bound over to find sureties. There are no great changes in jewelry tide year. The newest pins are the brooch Blume of our grandmothers.