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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-1-31, Page 6A LOVE :-TeLA ED Yuma 'ewe Feteercete an G. lereirow) CHAPTER VILL—(Coeerreuemi '1' And then," seid Marbootixt, fiutiehing his recital "I thought you would give them. 'eek metil they hue seMe place to retire to. They arty they aro good et needlework awl embroidery. Yoo mei give them eorriething ; to no ewe you t Oae could not leaveehetal ie the etete they were, redeteed eo be along the roAd, And It takescouroge o begi—eick, their feet bleediog /rem the cold and the lortow—lereeow it makes me ehiver Oar* of it" "Yoa didriglatly," triad bas vvife r,we are not rich, but fortuttatelv I have a geed dei more worle juse ilow time I cell do myself." ti You aee," s :id the eyedvieker, gayly, "I told you an" " You will May with n then, until some. thing better turns up. Good eemnstressea are rare fa the couutr,y, and if you eau ao as well as you, sey1 prorate) yau teat wark wilt mit ee ec).rce and thiee yeu will Stien he able to live at your ease." Atel we the evto girls regarded her wtrii eea nUo.oma eeeelea incredulotte, ehe said nemin, "Ys, eae i say, at your ea5e„ You can make two or three franes a day, and that in glory for two children like ,you, alpa yoq wt,tt be ezemornical." And thee the kind Wean tee% theta lure a very pot on fureleirea with a b, el, a eine':o drewere Ana laMe eihiirS. Oa the cheet oi drawers under, glala glehe wet a wreath of orange blow atone See breuebe thew a plteher, e,baein, water teed towele. "There " the mid, " everythieft you weut 1,1; do wo if yoe feel the "ineliuttioe. At not= I will wekeet you wad you will have nap with ea,' 44 ITOW geed yoo ere, madame," they criml, end threw therneelvee weeplueirato her AZInn. " Yoe help Us Withent kuowitig ma awl treat ue ret it WO were your own d4Ughterti." So, tame bevirig walked without atoppieg for a wizole dsy, ithen they thought they had. got fer rongemont, they found thereeelves ouI te few miles evney. They bad loot their wey wed retracea eheir etepe without etiowing it. Certainly ithey woelel we ewes'. They would not remeni et Giroui- m 43trieemene wee toe neer. Plat they !di itiey C4VOR time At kwt uae bo Ole to stert nein with tome Mow/. Ara we they etenael ou, him:lame Meth ,utiu eet them at onee to work. elnil ot a few days she oeuld, not do with -nit there, but neverthelete :atm prudently weenie ee the teterehielleee toae queiat her with wt had happened. Tile hIetchiertem replied 11.1a leng mid artieet letter, full of mare tondernete. Thee reeesereti, hierboutin geve her het free Vey. Oa the h of Notarnber abont, four tecIeek le tee atteream, she saii to laahel, "Will you take come work to the Votogue Chateen, which iau't Much over a mileaway ? YOU kltrAv hAVe a great pre:alio of worn. for this eveuine. 1 ean't go myeeli and my limehaua went away an hour ago. I will finieh tee work on hand n ith Marthe's help, You will have to gealone, Yemare uot afreri ere you?" roi"O ltet Gince it iii ea near,' dlimed pot have the reed elt the way, except for two or three lumared yards. "All right, 1 will go when ever you like." "Well at onee then, and Toe ean get back in time for tea. I will go and make up the parcel." A quarter of an hour after Isebel wen on the way. Madatne Marboutiu had given her full explanatious. The Way was easy. It impeisible to go wrong. She walkid mate *Melee She was not tired aud tbeze was pleuty of time. She wan thinking over all the atrange eventof the past weeks. Her deperture from the chateau, the hunger ad fatigue, and the refuge at Madame Mare h Duties. "And I ought to be happy," ehe was thinking, for who knows what ;night have happened if we had not met these honest people." The evening, we have said, was peaceful. Suddenly, in A few eeconds, there wood be- fore her eyes a spectate she never forgot. She heard a greet cry of terror, then a r ciattering of feet, the noise of a strugele' , b etiflea cries of "help; help; then nothing ' more. Instinct overcomes her. She is ner t von. She ia a woman. She ia afraid. See r hurries into the wood, takes a few eteps and 1 8 stops. She Mops because what she sees tent- in flea her, Two men have rolled from the road - Bide into the ditch and from the ditchinarnong S the brush wood. Tney are locked in iceman- 8 literate the speetaele which she -Cannot for- get. At lest sleefiecla herself before Mavbetitio'a house. The oight had long duo falleu. Poe houses of ehe velage hail the groend flora lit up, and the light Watling threuflh the outteine twat outside an imlistioct and melaneholy Oren -ter, . Tee peasente are all there, tired after the heed cold day, and are warming thernselvee in the roomy chimney pieces, Peace reigee "A boar /to been killed II() Ci011i)t." fax' it. She did not tremble. She bad emaddering mad hearstily. They .went nearer, when Eye.Winker traced a line of concludt for heraelf. As she appeared ettmefied, Madame Marboutin "By Heavens—look there. That is the urged her. "They heve found the basket boar,' and he pointed with hs finger among and the napkin five or six step four the the holies. There lay the eorpeet with fire, place where the murdered mut Wail lying. gers twisted end 'babe contorted ea the lest What is the reason you were so much eunretrie effoett to rise anti defend himself, frightened yesterday evening ?" tee clothes soaked with snow and bleed, um Isabel shook her head. bottonedi plundered. A hideous spectacle toIolto:Giekh4towatwn4yothylonug,s"pesiihke,toliamide. of crime. Come, now, that ien't poesible." of a murder and dead, body, for I Paw uothing oi them," $.1 assure you that fit the case." " Well, you mob expeet to be orese- exentinecl." Will 140 labour wasted." Qaite ainoncerted, MarboutIn and hie wife aaid no more. Isabel went back to the room and began work again. "After ell," said Eye.Winker, "it ie geitel believePQ88ibl Hie wife dia Dot answer. She 01 not Mauborgue's dead body had been takeu to the Rouge Gazon. The first enquiries over, the magistrate did not wish -Opole the teemed further but preferred to weiefor the cowmen That gentlemen arrived in the evening. Mrs de MarIlVeS WAS quite a little rout thin, nervous reetless and aprightly. Alwaye in a good 'humour pop% did not rake him very. sere:maim He learned all that the rnaguarete bad to tell him and as ib was too late to go that evening to the sone of the inerder, he oecupied the rot of the day with exemining the pepere which Nati, hargile had tett at the btu, tfe found nothing whiele gave him any light He called the landlord and put mow (peados to him. "Ilea Meuborgue beee long with you?" "Five dare 4kad if I had know," "What were hie hehiter "jot those ot everybody. Re rote later theo we do, bet he was fora Perla, Ah 1 if 13"alidetzly*owunn'aticeel anything extreordinery about him ?" °Nothing at Did he receive any vieltri ? Was he a tourist come to visit the Voagesi er waa he here on wine partieular businesel Try and remember I" Hum, I Burn 1" rased Bucaille, with his hands crossed upoe his huge stomathe" You ask so many things at once, " 'Visas?' I remember oudy Mae" thin, His p.chein are turned inside "Who was thetr cat.' "The Marquis de BargeMouti "No not eyerythiue nia the other oh "Long ago?" dier. bete eornethieg Which might "Noe jot yesterday. An hour two have need. hi$ lifie if he had had Itme to before Mx. MAulsorgue get out far the Cha. =he tree of it," and be drew out an ivory team" handled revolver, with ite cliambere "What Chateau?" atilt loaded. "Bove:none, the Stone Gitaitt" hlaultorgue, for it wes he, bed tried "With the elarquie?" drew it, but he naa been held by a hand "No, alone, Wait, I will explain, The that was etrouger Man his own. Margels came a tittle after miehday. Mau. The pelice magistrete examieed the body, borgue was expeeting him, Ire toiled three deep wounde, every They did not remain long thgether. About one of thorn mortal. Tile first had an hour afterwarde a boy came with a letter beep gtven in the beck. for Mr. Mauborgue," Memborgue meet have been taken by our. "From whom was the letter 7" priee and weakeued by loin of blood had been "1 don't know ?" uneble to resith his aesassin. The two other Do you know the boy's onie ?" wounds were neer the bore Tnev were Re is from the neighborhood, Felix frightfully wide and clop, lelanhorg,u;'s °yet Laugevin. Mauborgue.at once asked me tor e horse to go to 13areemont where the letter probably summoned him. I could not get hirn one, ad.visea him to welk it. Ali if I heel kuowe 1 Atel that is all, When I SSW him again the poor fell= Was a corpte," The two men, thunclerstrecle, remained admit for A Metnertt or two, and. a little pale. Then they leaped the ditele and Jeroeste shook the body.. It remained quite motion - lees. All the couvuleed members indicated death. There cold be no doubt ef it. Re has been hMed. with a knife," mur- mured Jarousee. .,Efe was murdered mid ail around, robbed. Do you know this poor devil, Kye- And Isaltel, smitten by the eentreati Wiltenber ' rhinos again shuaderingiy of that forest tra• he is "tranfler th5s quarter gedy, the brutal etro,ggle and the dead face turned up to the indifferent tnia of the sleeping trees. She stops, uueaser, irresolute, before the windows of the little house where she had received hospitality. By a very singutar fear which she doe uot seek to explein, ieseema to her ae if, leaven been a spectator of that onus, the leas stalest been perticipaet in it, mut, that she in matry, yes guilty. Sa when ehe enters the house the is her ribly pale, so pele and changed 50 unrecegei- zeble time Martha and Meolame hlarbomm hurry to meet her end support her in their erne, " Wlotti the teetter Iaelsell What has he petted?" Isabel eiuks, half dead We te elmit Her ia beatin so loudly that otte may beer it axnid the eilego, But auddenly ehe thinka of whet the baW, She 13 betrayin herseli. tt oho (lino ho"ittototo deo eet 5. that down so fer that the gray eoloer at the ettrth that re certain.' An odd meeting this. It will delay our breakfast, Eye -- Maker, and this lane the kind of thing that gives a man a better appetite. Have you anything left in your flash ?" "Yes," said Marboutin, drink.," "la that the good stuff?" "The same, After yoei if yos leave any." " Weti, my boy. hum 1 It will be neces. eery. Now run to the village, while instal myself here and smoke my pipe, end bring back the pollee magistrate, the Mayor, soldiers and a litter." " right. I'll he back in an hour' In leo thau an hour a carriage brought the polio magistrate and two seicliere, All that =id be done eian to proceed to. collect the feete, mei make the moat minute inVea. tigetioa all rotted the sone of the crime. The ground thowea signs of a long and de• sperate atruggle, The areetv Nms trodden will need to epeek out, explain, to tell.laPP°3iTedein °°//Ie placee. A great rod petela No No I Sever that 1 They will tear her ".45 44 the rulthitit °E the r°%(I* "it foul teetee eat, tteetrey her iite, ehe my them led ro the *lath aud into the bath be. youth Oae of the soldiers rieerchea the melting. Awe SO ahe rieea pollee heck hIadame tbe 'irimuit but ilidtet 4uil- a Nerboutie wile is 141ting at her in a, dazed. Binglu PuP4.• vietYi poehRE bash Martha Mee Who heaherat " deean't matter, I recognize him. It in a paron has been at the Beep Orion Mit cryiem • She wto 10 mite, a aereami emelt, mom, for mine days. Mir. lingaille wili corroborate "It is riothing. ern foolish. .Ah 1 I we. He even told ai° Elts num Wait— It is nothin. / As. Lthorgut, I think. No—Mauborgue—thet's it. I have notioed him more than enee thouglit 1 was braver, sure you. Oelm yourselves. I fright - :Med while going throuele the foreet Alt 1 fore the guard- house with his big a tittle giel strange, They itave robbed him of every. fur cloak you will be aelaetne(1 of tne and treat me like WI' NQ" a aingle Paper ole him, that is " You were frlightened 1" eitia Mattba A* 1011 ? Of Whom r 44 Of nothieg, Frigieteael et the darkneee male,. At the twee o-bieli looked like gheate. You will ltugh at me I know but seethed to run thiehine that I was beteg pureeed by I know not whet." itOet 1 ell 1" said Madanie Marboutin, 'Yon are hold girl, energethe and ober. minded. I am very muell eurprised that you cauld allow younielf to be frightened by tile thadows of the trot," And gemming her Mealy, added, "It ia ut pyrite the truth you are telliug we is it Zi Oh yes I the abeolute truthelthe anewer- Fad tremblieg, "Ab well, don 1 let n5 speak of ileum more. It is my fault als0. You are youn, ittle accustoined to gain about alone espe °tally at night and 1 ought to have gone my. 7-trie at111,°Pea a2(1 kaPt a look al Hierli"4" aelf, Another time alten't Etna you so far," ii""4"u"t°r* "Lotus look and see if we cern find some "I -pray you, Madame Ilitrboutia, to for. get my folly." traces about," mad the megistrine. "The folly was mixt°, not yours, my child, And they all eopereted, and set to work Como, the soup is on the table. Cebbage searching among the buttes, end the brueh- soup with ham. You have told me eau like wood, and about the tree trunks* and entire that That will put yett ell right again. ellow. Jarmo tolloived therm but not far. Come, and sit down. All, by the way, was They heard a sudden ory of astonishineeltmi it on t he way bark that this adventure from him as ho bent down behind a holly happened 1 You had tione your blueness I busk that was still greeu and very thickly suppose, breathed, Ile roe again immediately having ' Certeiely.' a lareo basket in hie hand in which waS a "And did you bring back your basket ?" =Plan. "Vas, where is it V' "Here is a curious thing," he grad. one She looked everyWherie than, suddenly would say it was a basket for linen," trembled and pressed her hand againet her Everybody ran up to Were with Mar - heart. She had left the basket in the wood, boutin first. where I She did not know, no doubt at the The Police Megistre.te unfolded the nwe aphb where she had stopped, half dead with hint fright. "It is molted with two letters," he said, And the basket would betray her. They "an M. and a J. That will give on clue, would, be sure to find it. They would re Eye -Winker looked at the beaket and the ennizeitasbaloniug to Madame Marboutin. napkin road by turns at all who were pro. They would Hold an ingest, world they sent. question her ? tinning away. Da you wish me to go, ack and look for it ? "No, no," said Madam Marboutire "not his evening my child, it is too late. To•mor. ow will be time enough." And added tvitha bade of regreb in her tone, "the basket was evr and there was a fine napkin marked with my initials inside for covering the linen, amebody perhaps will bring it And she eemed to think no more of thematter. Isabel "Allow me," he said, "allow me, I wish to "I must have lost it," she said, " while see." "Certainly, Marboutin will enlighten as perhaps." He el:maned everything attentively and then in a changed voice aaid "Thio It sirtgular, I cannot explain it. But, however, they got here'I am strangely deceived if this basket and napkin do not belong to as. The napkin is marked with our initials and is used to cover the sewing work which my wife.sencia back to her cuatomers. At for the basket I 'recognize it well. I bought it carrel/ for my wife lot November at the Giromagny fair." The policemagistrate took notes. "Your wife perhaps was passing here at the moment of the crime, or one of your other's arms and are struggluag desperately, each trying to get uppermost andtoreach the other's throat. One of them is wounded. It is he who is ealling for help 'mouse he fob Ins strength giving way and that he is about to succumb. The close night vividly reveals this terrible atruggle for life or death. On her knees in the snow Isabel looks on half dead with fright. One of ehe two men falls. The other puts his knee on his breast, holds him, and then twice does his raised hand, .which bears a large knife, descend, and bury the weapon in the body of the wretch, who writhes in dreadful agony, and lets one last cry of mortal anguish escape hire, then there are some nervous quiverings and all is over. He lies stretched out on his aide his hands clutching at the SUOW, which all around him grew red. The knife has pierc- ed his heart and he is dead. The murderer, leaning over him has watched hts last strum gle, his last sigh. And then when there is only a corpse left he brutally turn a over the lifeless mass, unfastens the long cloak, tears open the coat, searehes the pockets'and takes possession of everything he finds there. He stops from time to time, listens if anyone is conaing to surprise him, and then completes his gloomy, criminal occupation At last he moves away, but suddenly returns, bends over the body, gets down close to it, and puts his ear over the heart. Re wishes to be perfectly certain that there is no spark of life left Then he gets up again, and goes his way, plunging deeper into the wood to escape his crime, to escape that corpse, to get to some place of shelter. Has he heard some sound, or is it only fear? Has he quiee finished his infamous spolia- tion, and presently, when he has gathered a little courage will he not return a aeoond tiro to the corpse, the convulsed face of which, so grim' and threatening, he has turned up to the aky ? And Imbel, excited, drunken, her hands covering her eyes, flies from the Scene ahrieking out "Great God, is it possible? did I see aright? 0 God, protect us .1" She re-enters the village still running, and avoiding all the peasants she meets on the way with a shuddering dread. Although ibis very cold and freezing, her forehead is bathed in sweat. She is certain- ly'out of her mind and repeats incessantly: "1 saw imperfectly. It ia a horrible night- mare. I saw badly. I had a moment's de- liriumi fever brought on by recent fatigue. I save tll I ow ill 1" And her hands pass nervously over her eyes, tie if to repel, to ob- vainly tried to eat, and Martha, seeing her deter pre -occupied and and, could not eat either. Madame Marboutin alone did justice to the soup. When they had gone to their own room Martha said, "there was something—speak —tell me all." Isabel burst out sobbing and threw herself into her sister's arms. Martha once more plied her with questions. Then Isabel, drying her teara, at length eaid : "2 es, you are right, there was something, something so extraordinary, so atrocious that you cannot imagine it, which surpasiese your wildest dreams, but promise me that you will question me no more, do you under- stand rue ? ' " Do nos hesitate. Promise, or as truly as I love you I shall leave the country, 1 shall escape from here, and you will never have any more news of me—promise." "Well, I promise. But whatever can i be? What great calamity 1" "You will never question me 1 never 1 never I" • "1 swear that I will not." Isabel embraced her. "Let us go to bed," she said, "1 need sleep" Bub for her there was no sleep. All night long before her terrified eyes, appeared the two men who were trying to strangle one an- other. All night long the dagger which glit- tered and hid itself. All night long the cryof agony. And the gray dawn of the morning, starting in through the window curtaine found her awake, whiter than the sheets, her eyes hollow and ringed with black, and her cheeks feverish. Martha, rosy and smiling, was asleep by her side. She kissed her on the forehead and got up. It was very near the hour when Jarousse She did not aserivver but rising, partially and the Eye -winker having finished their opened a door which led into a room furnish duty, were returinng home, gun ou back and ed only with large table and which wah pipe in mouth. They were following the used as a work room. It was there that road and walking rapidly as =oh for the Martha and Isabel were at work. sake of keeping warm as for getting home "Isabel, I wish to speak with you." more quickly where fire and good soup were The young girl laid down ler work and awaiting them. A few hundred yards from obeyed. Her face was still pale and her the chateau of Vologne, Jerome suddenly lips were white. • stopped. He bent hia head and looked fix- Madame Marborctin carefully closed the edly at one side of the path, before them. door. "Eye -Winker, were they hunting near "Von must tell us my child in order that here yesterday ?" e we may direct your conduct, "I don't know. I didn't hear the dogs, "What ought I to tell you, dear Ma- nor the rifle shots. Why ?' dame ?" "Don't you see --down there—look 1" "You were witnese of a murder ?" "Why to be Imre, a clot of blood 1" She was expecting ib and was prepared (To Mt CONTMURD ) SACK THE ItIPP.ER- Me is murdering 'Women in Jamaica. Nnw romt, Jan. 2g.—The crews of the yawns eteemers plynag between this city and Einstein Jae aica, are tolling fearful atories ot critter committed in Spaurehown, a village uear Kent/ton. The fiat of a series of diabolical and mysterious murders took place, no the tailora taw Nov. 28, ISSS, in Sr, Cethatinti's parish, a few dm - tent from Spaelehtown. The victim was it tiegrous of the lowest and most vicious clues, ivhote name hat never been dinoveree, Sne was found early in the morning lying in a fence corner by tlatt o ' utside her throat out from ear to ear, her °hacks, LtOke and forehead slashed in a meaner that would indicete it to be the work of r. skilful butoher. Er clothing had, ea in the case of nearly all the Whiteechimel murders, been thrown over her head, and the little crowd which had gathered there upon the diezovery of the body were horrified to see that it had been mutilated exactly as hod been done in the London cases. If anything further had been needed to make the , horrormtricken crowd attribute the crime to tho hite- chapel fiend, it was found in a card pinned to the unfortunate woman's body by the blade of a smell penknife. The card bore workwomen. this inscription : It la possible, but you understand what "Jeck tne Ripper. Fourteen more, then goad reason I have for uneasiness. Sorne misfortune may have happened 81 107 house. I ask permision to retire. You have no far- ther need of me, have you?" " Nor of me either," said Jarousse. "In giving you notice we have done our duty, but police affairs don't interest custom house officers" Mar -brindle entered his home in great] trou- ble of mind, and at ouce said. "Well wife, anything new with you ?" "No. And your watch has passed quietly has it ?" "Not altogether. But tell me, have rah, missed anything here?" "No. What ?" "Haven't you missed a basket and a napkin ?" Why, to be sure. You have found them have you ?" " Yes. You left them there did you ?" "11 was Isabel comingback fromVologne." 'And why ? ' She was afraid." "Ab 1 she saw the crime perhaps? Did she hear any cries 1" "What cries'? What crime &rayon speak- ing about ?" You don't really know? We have just found a man murdered in the wood", Madame Marboutin had put down her work. "Ah 1" she murmured "1 know right well, I know right well 1" "Ha 1 You know something I" rqui " 01 course a diligent search was made for the murderer, but he was not found. On the morning of Dec. 13, in a field, ly- ing and partly concealed under an old shed, wes found a second body. In this case the woman was a notorious creature of the low- esr class, a unrest; called "Mag." Her wounds were of the same nature as those in. filmed upon the other. The authorities made a, hurried investigation, and buried the body as speedily as possible, giving no one an opportunity to examine it. No mention of the crimes was made in the newapapers at the time, the officials en- deavoring by every means in their .power to hush the matter up and have ID talked about as little as possible. No trace was ever found of the murderer, and it was for- gotten save by a few of tee wretched wornen who belong to that class among whom the unfortunetet moved. The third body was found on the Friday before New Year's Day, This -time the newspapers were compelled to notice the dianevery. The scene of thie third murder was abou t midway between the places vrhere the former diseoveries had been made, and the sailors insist that the crime was in every way analogous to the others. There are comparatively few women of this clasp about Kingston or Spanishtown, but those wlao do live there are in a state of abject terror. The murderer has eluded the authorities and the sailors expect to learn of further atrocities on their return. She Rad Dreamed It. He (about to ask for a kiss) .-"I have an important question to ask you." See (playfully)—" I know what it is, Chat lie. You want me to be your wife ; I dreatated it. Well, take me," He (rather" taken aback)—" You dreamed She—" Yes. I dreamed it tate night, and answered you as I am answering you now, and you took me in your arms and Untied What could Charlie do ? it BEAR'S outuogITY. A Good -Natured Brute WIMP Poked. Ills No lute Everybody's Business. Talk Omit Mame! aulinalso sma are drew McKenna, an old woodeman, I think the worst orittar I ever krieW ler prying in- to the affairs of folks around here Was 'a big black bear that tune] up for the first time early lot Fall. The beast had more curios- ity then any old woman that ever Set foot be the peighbothoad and he mewed more talk. As I read before, the .animal turned uw early lastVall down et Dane Sinea farm aboat Shc, miles from here. Deve was out hia ockwa one evening and was just coining out of the barn door With a pail of milk in hie hand, when what should he see •Quut tzhoeteivgbiggarettivibldat tbbe:rtwheutiZralaiti eyes "The sight of the animal oared Dave pretty bad, but he didn't drop the pail. He took oue look at the bear and thee began to yelt at the women folks to bring him las gine and he says at the first whoop the bear reared up on Iris haunches and looked right at him for much aa five minutes with the funniest expression he ever sew. He dicin't took a bit ugly, but kinder curious like, as if he wanted to Owl eat what all the row was aahmotitth,e hAosustehetbibirrwomwaseubtoetesin4 not bbraz Brea hie gun, When they found out what was up they jot got into the hOUSS as quIck en they could and faatened. the doom, After the hear had gazed at Deo in hie inquiring way for Aimee tee minutes he dropped, down on all pewa agabe mei ahambled off iote the "The itexe time this bear Aimed 'himself was about two week a later, when he Almelo. ed to Will SUlliVall and tila as We were go- ing eat to tiardsville with a team and hirither Wagon. I say it Was the Bente hear, for may emit bear the whole North Woode could he 80 impudent aud ourioue, We ran aeon the brute about five miles from the plum, and what do you thin% he did whew he saw ue? Of course you would any that he gat ont of the road en quick aa 10 could and made off hate the brash—bull he did nothing of the sort. He juat sat up in the middle of OM Mad and looked at ne in a quizzical wao, juat as though he was Surprised 10 Bee Us and Was wandering what we were doing there at that time of the day. Well, neither of US hail any firearms on us thet trip arid neither of tie cared to tackle the animal with a jolt keife, WO were obliged to etaud aud await his Poore, Oar borate snorted and prauccel With fright, and &tally got turned around and beaded the other way. All of this seemed to amuse the bear greatly, for he sat atilt and ktApt looking at us. Well, wheu we found our tom headed the other Way We concluded that we would ace what efreet atones would heve on that bear, because we were sure he would not Ncent to chase our wagon back to Sayville. I held the berme while Sullivan hove the nolo at him. The first two or three MOWS did nob conto very Pear the nitwit. The bear put out his pews al they went by, as though tryleg to emelt them It was an inmreating game of ball until Sullivan got in a hit an the hoer; atomach ; then the brute was ready to quit, Pato any other ballplayer would have been under the circumstances. Ile dropped out of the game end got out of the ma, without try mg to lick the pie:tiler or umpire We turui ed our team around and went leavine him to Miro his sore ribs as hest he could. "The next place that bear gtarzad up bo nate a mall was at Berry MulleiVe twerp, on Round Pond, along iu Oatober. Old garry has been re the Vo40(t3 nearly he] life and hao kilted a great mauy bears, bu se with me, drew up leis rifle ana let drive. The bear gave a big jump and looked awfully wirprieed• The bullet tickled hirn, bub it clidtnt do mob damage. Be lothed around for a seemed or two and then seemed curious to know why Sem Oki in for he started after him with a vengeance, then put he a shot which game him aomethine else to look after. Sam wasn't alow ingettnig ID another cartridge arid firing a shot ehat Was effective, We had him down in about no time, and the glory was all our own. The critter was dead before The other telletwe caught up with us. After we had settled the animel, I felt a desire to know About him, and followed hi a tracka until I came to O piece where he had lain under a Millen tree. et Was about thirty reds from where we met arta. killed lam and hie bed was yet warm. The curiosity which / believe Stett- ed him out to field what the tense wont when we fired the gun, brought death at our bandit. In all my experience with wild game it was the sweetest thing I ever saw," fy Eedgemer. There is one word full of meaning, from which we colleet the truth cif amimethy. It is that little word of appreprietiolis "my Redman:ten Power is sleown by Godhi Attention to the vast, eyropetby by his con. descention to the smell. It is not the thaetight et heevenia sympethy by which We are impressed when we gezt Through the teleeeepe on the ;nighty World of SP4re, and gein en Wee of what is meant by Infinite. Majesty and power are there, but the very vs.stness excludes the thought of eonmethy. It is Winne we leen Into the world ef int eignifieaece whith the tnicroecope reveela, and arid thet God hee gergeotialy peiuted the atoms of ereetion sant exquisitely fur. Dished forth all that beloege nuituteat life, that we feel that God syrimethizee and ludividuelizes. When We are teld that God is the deeraer of the world, we know that IOW dwells in the bosom of the Moat High ; but / if we want to kuove thet God feels for us individually and separately', we mast learn by heart this syllable of endearment, "My Redeeiner." Child of God, if you wenid have your thought of God eometlaing be. youcl CCII4 feelieg of hie preeeuce, let faith aPrrepriete °briar. Yen are as muck the object of God's `solicitude es if hone Urea hilt youreelf, He hua coueted the haire ef your head, In Ohl Teetemeut language.. bas put your tears into his brittle," Ile has numbered your eighe and your ilea. He has loterpreted the desiree far which you have not found a mune nor SA utterance youreelf. If you have not learned to oy, "My Redeemer," thee jest so for as there anything teder or atreelionate In your diapositiou, you will tread the peth of your pilgriniage with a dart -mewl and a lonely heart ; and when the day of trouble comee there will be ;non of that I riempliane cloacae/ estioh enabled Job to looknowienit from rock, upon the aurgea welch were curling their costa of fury at Ilia ftet, but could only reach hie boom with their alma sittaYt emetintitemmeinemeetetatinteweemitasset had when I eaw hine before. Th, other twe hcwa hadedt some hp yet, bet we cinteliteed we could kill Qua bear without their help, so we went at it, Sam Cheney, who was this one got the last of him. Ms camp is about ton rods from the water's edge, in a nine grove of minute and hemlock theca, and on tho domain ef the (=IOUS bear's vinit it was open for the reception of A huntine party tint woo expectea the CAM, day. Harry had gone out on the wind to each it mess of fifth for supper, leamog everytin but his fishing taokle' in caznp. Bo had neither nun, pistol nor hunting -knife with him, When he mum back and found the bear felting an inventory of his heeding awn fit he felt that it would not be beet to inter. Fere, Aecording to the old man's story' the bear walked around the ahanty two or three three end examined its conetruotion with a eritical eye. Then he went inaide and look, ed over tho cooking utensils, tasted of the uncooked provender and tripped over the hark table. When 'Berry made his presence known Bruin looked at him as though he expected an explansition of the eurroundings. He didn't act; a bit ugly, bat had the air of a Custom House inepectior going through aman's trunk. As hisevactie.. tem of the premises couldriet beforcoe Harry watched lam until curioaity hiid been gretie fied. on both skies mid the bear had token himself off into the woods mean. "Well, old /ferry eome out of the woods the week after he had this viait and told us about it. After that we heard nothing more from. the curious bear until the week niter election, when the beep pen on Joe Rey. noldies farm, down on the Otevegatchie, vine visited one night and five of bis bot sheep killed. There was a little snow on the grouud then and the animal could be tracked, so a hunt was organized to soure hie ecalp. I was in the party, and before starting /took O look at the sheep -pen. Now, there was a very curious thing about the killing of those sheep. It would naturally be supposed that a part ef at least one of them would Mote gone to satisfy the slayer's tippetite.. But -not so. The bear had nob eaten a mouthful of mutton. I matte up my mind that the curious bear had done the job, for no other bear woula hive live sheep just for fun without eating part of one. I told tho we had all been talking about for three boys that we were goitig after the very bear months, and that we would be sure to get him, because he wouldn't try to get away. I knew that if atly of the party cams across thet hear he would he so curious to know what they wanted that he would atop and look at them until they had filled his carcass full of lead. The thin CLIME out about as I expected. We followed the animal's track for about three miles through the woods, and finally broiight up on the bank of Jenny Creek without finding him. It was plain enough that the bear had got into the stream, and it was alto plain enough that he had not gob out on the other side, for we could see diree ttniwoo,ons, i .v vganesu flea anygdf doer: iwfdo:radtbyrtraodradisvaiinandee ai ttuhhroer other two up until we Mem& the trail again. It 10 curious, but this curious bear had got in. to that stream and stayecl in, following it down few at least half a mile, and finally coming out of the water on the same Bide that he went in. When we found his track again' -we fired a gun to let our companions know, so what they could follow us. Do you Itilow the firing of thet gun brought the bear out to meet US ? We found him in lets than ten minutes after then following his own track back towarde tis, and we con- cluded that was what breathe him. When the bear saw US he stoppiid and sat up to take a good look. I NW St; once that he was the same bear that I had met on the road to Harrisville. Be had the same look that he mx-a- -,41111.1 Laws efgarriage aml Dworee. The hole/lenient :ction of the various Stan Alla Ter hosed Lee e era n ihrbwu the inerriarte end divoree Wire of the United Siena into an rtistird jumble. The New York lit raid hair recently de. voted conehlemble uptetti to thin etilijece, wad bee clearly tb retniatratt ttu eisimbility of VSCITrover ;.9u, divorm 1,W.I for the Wheiti U,niteatinetew Stal there aro so many opiaione about the eubjeet that it might be LI difficult matter to persuade the majorityof perphi eech Stete to coni vent to any reportent change in their laws. To make a unitorm majolica law, Hoz amendment to the Censtitution of the United, Sten s would he nectroary, requir- ieg the etneent of two thirds of the States. Centiderable growth or public opinion would bo rtquired to induce so ninny 8feet:a to give up their peniler laws in the hope of secur- ing something better. Tne marriage and divoree laws of Illinois are fratned CL the theory that litaireiity ID these meow preventa immoral prectioe. In New York, however, ilivorees ere only granted for ono cauro, and the person from whoa& the divorce is ebtaiced, is not permit. ted O marry again durirg the lifetime of the divorced mate. Still the atoned New Yorker titho is roe permitted to matey again in his own State can go to New Jeriwy and be inareied lewdly. in South Cerelina di- vorces aro no grentee et all. In North Ceroliva the ere tering judge can grant a divorce for tiny tewen loch appears auffi. chine to him. In ;nany it IS legal far O white 17111U 10 1114117 a mu' It he is afterwarde di teettfi,t3 with mato he can, go to Alabame eriti be :owl ream his mar- riage bonds without the eligetest trouble. Thee are only a free of ttot many important differences iu the lawo o anterent Sates. Human Sympathy. Da not keep the alebister boxes of your love and ten -narrows mated up until your friends aro deed Fill their lives with sweetneue. Speak approving cheerful words, while their ore con hem- them, arid while their hearts can be thrilled tied made hap- pier by them; ehe kind ihinea you mean to say -when they are gone, my before they go. Tee flowers you mean to. sena for their coffins, semi to brightea sent sweeten their homes before they leave them. If my Moodslsve Malt:tater boxes lied away, full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and olfac- tion, which they intend to break over my dead body, I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours and open them, that I rely be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them. a would rather have a plain coffin, without a flower, a funeral without; a culogy, than I life without the swaetneas of love and sym- pathy. Let ue learn to annoint our friends beforehand far the burial. Post mortem kindncsi does not cheer the burdened spirit. Flowers on the coffin cast no fragrance back- ward on the way. What tirade ECer So Happy, 011, Mildred 1" "What is it, Edith ?" " run so happy this morning." " What has given you such great joy, Edith? DM the Browning symposium ahow great results, with a loge margin credited to the side of soul development nd "— "No, darling, it evas nothing of that sort. It was not meta -physical and general, but was merely phymcal and special to myself. James Quincy Crownishield lase night, in set and stately terms, asked me to be his wife." "How exquisite 1" "Yes, dear 1 My heart thrilled passion- ately for moment after moment during the bliseful recital, and you an imagine how I followed every utterance and weighed every' word in sanguine hope and yet in for lest he should etarnmer and atumble or say some- thing ungrammatical to grate on my Back Bay sensibilities. But he acequitted him- self like a Tennysonian lyric, and we are to 10 married wiaen the roses bloom in Juno."