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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-4-18, Page 2I"I ani eUre that, your choke call hene — a ano n A P ed eweet s. yeet, QUAINT .A.USTRAITAN LIFE. LOV E CRIM intelligent, geed hearted, ghee' f Ile n no e b t an a000rn lish ssahe wits educated, by you, neother, axed anewsnenitie Ontoe nem Faitasow, ev Ietores.) so poseessea all thee qualitien" "What 1 is it oust of my daughtere? She would get to her then, though only all uneeeseionsly.to torture her still nor e by 4 recital of her lora aeci the pieture of her InsPPiaess. e "Isaiah' sae weald aay, 4'1 am so ha-ppy, gra (tidy htiove ; bappier than yea have eny idea of., Jetnee to me an now we ne logger have eny eeereta faun one another - Whet delightful walka we haVe, what deem a joy we have, 'low owoot it is to leve. 011, I could almiset wiah to etiebeeenee it le im- possible thet 1 eau ever be happier thau eed the Attire can have no inaerepezfgct felicity Legere foe ewes " Die you think of dying when yen are ao beppyr at is because 1 eer some °hetet will ceme between me and my laappinem.' Wbat Call you be be doubt Aimee 1" "Tow do I know V' "ns James loves you, for Ton see aura he levee your" she added, trembling, end kiesieg Martha, tn the eyee. "1 ane quiee eursi Of "Re tela you media he noti" 44 Re *leo beeter time thet, he proves it be hie gentleaese, tie teUderneina his Fro- ree-peet, the tetteatieoe he shows we' "Re tqla Ica eo, he? m4416314 with harsh persiaterey, " het eteed to tell ent, wheel I tell it to him all day lame, wea he =aware me by itiosiorte Pay hareas, ssed cleenitra snes in hie erten ° "Ale 1 be eleeeit yee Ide einne deed* be? lbat cerreiely is an avowal." "HOW Cala dnabt it What are you thinkieg el, Isebel 2 Yoe are pale, ytureayea are tired, )(ea are b1J0 entething ergot isee." 44 No nethieg, I flaked yoe hem= I wen yen to 'be eompletely hwy. mei weuld like to below all the detail* of your hater - entree. Mutest mother, inY Saying this she urried away r w Merthe or Isabel?' young men, motionlese in the ma*, a the "Martha," petit, murmured to 'oilmen. natou love her, the yowls, "What heve I seid—a faleelmod 1 Whet ' "1 eek youdear mother, to allow me to marry her." lave I elmos 2—a bad :totem 1 .t least slie will not doubt, and, it 1 arc unhappy, I will tat least have the poor consoletIon of seeing her butPpY." Martha entered the castle mai found her sister he the (hawing-mno oShe OaTOO and sat down neer her. aer tape was ee animated that Isabel very ainick- 13? Saw that something had happeaed, 004 Martha had a happy anel triemphant air that need° Isabel feel siek at heart. " It is horrible," murnaurea be poor "oath of her happy moneente te a nova wound to me. And, willed It. It is my evna fault. eau arecutte eebecly else, aud incoming almost to bete ray sister," Martha, mailingsaid, to her, "1 saw dames a little while ago, and I questioned bine," " And what 414 yoa auk 191Wir "Whether he 'bed only a, brotherly aloe - dm for met or otherwise," "Alta what did he gay a," "That be loved me with tendereet effee• deo." " Yea, and then 2" "Theo he said to meMartha 1 1ve you 14 113 es "lie ;mid ethat way, did he 2" 51 yoo "4e you Cita ItQW 1 PO YOU feel nee eny lemert" No.k Aefl you. will be happy 2" 44 Qh I very. veV67heppy, Martha." She allowed her work to fall, her heu tried to Taaall her eyes, bathed riot strevg Am I not your enough. She lieu :elated, U4 Wee it opt I who watehed over amor hati/F frIghteue44 Inwh3g mave youthful eefferings ? For yea love nee a little 41°4 her thnl way 1;4;44°' nnd 2ne4 every" aa yeu would% mother, -don't You, AlarthAl' *Peeretit eleters, after Jarati41 We only you hi the: world. Yon tee how 1 love lahee1 Well, if 1 he'tocligaVe between yea end bit; I think, la opleteof ray Imes, it yea sebeee I woold -Qh9eitta" IOU lieerieg these iiweet word, felt re- teeroo for her leeletivae Bet she felt beta aelf beeeming whited, wed le vitt* of the aefftriag cf ter beert.91110.C:"PPOZInell, eking Abeam, Alt leugth • she reeregee roan() bet to cPlladelle404. Ieebel doge trenebling, remembers whet the..bati heard, .aati whee anawe abehp4 mede. Ste is censeletia of persietent weakness, end -efreld et betreying bored!, eo her drat ItlaVerneht la to slaw Martha inte .her artna, Zawttuki, how I. .ronet beve frigliteued Meads% zepalssea her geatilys 004sage ; What calmed you to fame! What bed gairg.arOOS, Itearal Wigers, Snaltes and Iltras. • One of the moat ietereating objects for study by tbe leisurely teurista through the eentinent of Australia and itet adjamet ia- 14IundaspiesatkhiengStorfanthgee. r 8 he c pes of eo#8.4th' b . Au s4d sad 'newt life which apPear be them, tralasian Wine I cannot do better than be. OI 1 you kuow well enough that 1 01141 gin with the kangaroo. He is one of tbe never refuse you, bat you must speak to best perseeeted of living things, is hunted your fethen eleeugh he will not refuse any with dogs, with the shotgun melde, Ema mere than I.' "rounded up: in great (Woes like those "po you, think father will censent?" by which war is waged. epee the jecle rabbtts " Yes, go end :seg., he has joet mite inea ef California- afo bide tnekee a beautiful - Jas weot and knocked at his fatheee. lv-ediable leather, which is used for boots, eer, awl went ia, leggins. And coundees other articlea ; his The Marquis WAS Writing. fieeh, too, le esteemed alike by " bleckfel- "Da I disturb you, father ?" le ea" and squatters, and the soups awl rag *i No, de rat wish to spealg to me V' onus thet are inane ittnAl his tail might/ wee - At &Wald, yaa hA p'eatell tit lin, me msr- v4r47 the ambrosial feasts of the gods. PnlY the Leland that Bguree in the and rugs. As if the duck-billed platyptia did net sufficiently eonfese matters by com- bining the forme and natures of mam- mal and bird, it has pleased him to aesume the habits of the, ash -1,,to extent of living in rivers end feedieg on wormer and •water insects. Ills likenese' to thefipny tribes hi further increas- ed by the feet thet the most approved way Of ceteleitog him le by mew of set Linea with baited, heoks that are arranged by night eeT0$0 the streame which he most frequents, and upon which he is found drowned in the morit fi eing. His habite being chg nocturn- al, and biS agility in the water so great that he will often dive at the Rath of a gua be- fore the shot can reach hirer make his capture by other methods the.n the &Mine somewhat uncertaio. Oee of the Most peoulier eiremnstaeces that confronts the neteralist in Auetralie is the occurrence of that neve nearly extinct animal, the rasmani.an tiger, whielt is found ried, father ?t Ilis pelts are a regular article of commerce, old geographies ete Van Dieman Lend. ft ;4 yeei if the gid ex worthy of you." are (jolted in the daily lovers at as fall is one ot the most extraordinary beasts upon " Yo4 know ber. 1 love Martha Mgr. length as the akiaa 01 aattle 004sheep, and the face of the glebe, like a tiger only in its ode." bring large revenue to the station ownera markinge, and resembling a veolf in shrspe, "Well, you sarprieeme," said theMarquia in the been cometry ; Altogether, he is the altheugh svith a head and large nuieh risieg, "YeA, you serprise me, and upon my honor, I can't anderstand it at ail. Duet yen remember then what yen said to ne 044 day! Come now, was it Martha then, or istebel 1 I have a geed memory, and it seem to ate very cleerly time then it was—'1 "1 love Martha, tether, and ea for lobs), he has never thought of me." "1,41 far as ehe is emmereed, that is posai- hie," muttered the Men:tufa to htmeolf, "bat AS for you, it ieeeuther matter,' elemil heliaitt, "Weil, yen ere free to do as yea 0b0086, Martha mid betel are both worthy." As he was leeviog hie father'. room he met Imbel in the ball. Ile Mopped her 4o4 Raid, "I h4Ve just told my father of my love Marthe, and my matter elm, They bode rove." "I aa very happy to ear it, 441,13w," was ell she old. CHAPTSIt. edding was Axed for the tail of the Maithorptee murder, Oliver's* death, et of the Maxquio were evente too meat to make them tbiele of insetvoing the egret:loony and ito the summer rued amid twit swum as we have jest deseribed, Lathel puthieg her aelf.meritiee to the 'pint oi heroieux ; bidieg her love frem all eyes, pretending to he evyfal wed eveu leugbiog. elalteogh her epirte Was OVetWbeltile41 and the wee tormeutea by the meet Whyte de- tre.. Aa'og of 414115,, FL11-4'44° 4, Sail to met CWiltiaB2 Was it be suite. It was lido inert solitude eapedally rootaauz 'on't *00 whAt xv Prow= MO I told yeti that dereee had =In 4 that she felt herd to bean yeur belie ntaa. Certeittly neither the Mar- There as tuthedy be wboult she could iteie uer tlesareme de Bereenieue would tinder year Anent ine," "Oh1 Issaistl, do you think label' ever be Mo we do you thiek that eeeld be paitible? It svill never happen.' " Whet 3 slime he levee yen, end yen love 1" "h well, I ask only to love him, wed 111eau elwaya do that I ehall be happy," 66114W he 'ever speltento yon of marrager told Isabel in a very low voiee, "No, 1,1hy ehoold he speak to me o that:" Imam' date4 not rah her questions any further. But the next day*, and. the deya that followed it was Martha who came to be. 44D yott know whet he said to me to- deyr9 "24.(4 1401 "He said, Marthe, when I am not near you, when 14o not ace yo; I am mid, and adroit' el the eolitude, but as aeon as you are ewer rae, ray spirit expends, you appeAr like a ray of eusalight and warm my heert again. I =unable for any work and tbe thought of you haunts me.'" And Ittabel obatinetely persist' in asking, "Ile told you this time, no doubt, that he loves you 1" Martba looked troubled, andlooked at her sister with curlew; intensity. Both -were silent for some momenta. "Do- you esk that beersuee you bee° some suspicion ?" Martha said at last. 11 $0.31 " And yet, it is the amend time you have alluded to that, Wool. And why can you not look me in tho fame 1 You are ember - reseed as if you bad been guilty of I know not what kind of a fault: "And wbet fault could I have commit- ted "Do you think that perhaps James does not love met" "1 have not said so." "No, but you have thought so." "Martha! Martha I you, are mistaken," said timbal, recovering herself. "It is be. cause I want you to be happy, and I—I Aral never be quite certain of it." Mertha remained silent, and, then aaid quite low, as if to herself, "that is perhaps is—but I am afraid I" Nothing more passed between them that day, bat when Martha left hersister she sought for James. The young rnanwaswalking toThiliob. She saw him in the path and joined him. James saw her coming and waited for her. "What is the matter Martha, you look tired." "Oh no, not at all." "Now, don't tell a story. I am certain you can't deceive me." "No, I assure you I em not tired. A little excited, perhaps. A storm is threaten- ing, you know what delicate nerves I have." They walked along side by side, when suddenly Martha stopped and said: "James I" "Well, Martha!" the was pale and trembling and her eyes remained bent down. "I want to ask von something," "Ask me something, Martha I" "Speak; what is the matter? Do you need me in any way ?" "I wish to ask you, James, she said in a grave voice, if you love me." "My chili—why should I not love you? What then should estrange me from you? are younot as lovely as you are intelligent and good. Have you not had my affection for a long time ?" "Your brotherly affection, I know—but your attentione have made me think there was xnore tenderness—" "And, indeed, Martha, I have more than a brother's tenderness for you." "Do you love me, James ?" He did not answer. What thought was it, what remorse, what regret that kept him from speaking. Mechanically his hands clasped Martha's. And she while ber sister's allusion kept recurring to her mind, these strangely re- peated questions she, full of anxiety, and feeling hereon like to die, said again. "Do you love me, James ?" It was a direct question and had to be answered. He closed his eyes. "Yes," he said. She shook her head. This was nob the anteater she wanted. "Martha," he saki " I.love you." She was seized with shivering, and her eyes lled with tears. "James, how good you are! how good you are 1" freak avowal of hie lore "Wove, Wo it nut your hempluees het ado avewsd coavecratesir Martha WM InhipleiSas and refleetel ceeildm :Unite* b ppbnvsa Wall her oalK comfort She eeerebeel her linemen'. She wished to *lighter that beppieem tortured ber, plems the little lucidente of the beet few And what was paseleg in the ailed o devswitli older °Pea but she oeneett dad James' uy. And Ioebel is smiling on her and Vteeetion and wager bad been his firat bolding her in her arras. *bought,. "Then yea are hoppy in my goad fort. uo bad at drat shown attention to -1Ierthe uo Slid Martha, lo order to excite loabel'a jeelousy, in "Happier," the replied, "dem if the good propertieu as the certainty grew in Ms nund Mee were my own." el at the letter did not love hire, the need of le starting, aud ea the besets go by the "Mae Jamei spoken to you of—our mar- love which was in hie beetle lea bin to eportsmenti covert with the speed. of light, lege ' rdo aud little ottentione which helped to their killing makes no plight dementia upon "Ne, but he will sem. No doubt heaviohea make hi* regreta less bitter, end though alertreoo and presence of mind. to *peak about it to hie parente hot'. Now, they diduat quite effaceIsabel'a image, yet, Keugaroo Miming by horses and doge is 4 don t leave me ignorant of of aeythIcg, dear between thee image aud his boort, threes a aPers 'which thrawa Eagliah fox hooting sister." veil which be forced himself to refrain from. No %what% since you. are so well lifting. plerweall with it. Merthet was a sweet girl, of valued dell - babel emiled. rtha could not guest/ eisey, such a nervous oreeture too, so tweet what cutting grief at, errible irony there slide to ell sentiment that little by little he weal itt thee trnile bet:tune attached to her. But the clam lister Wa.. Wing to path It was not love for love was aluntharing her selfameree to the vat etir ett She in his laeart. But he felt „able i9-40etrol met Jetnes that evening oa hiraself, be receguized leitneelf atreogth Formerly when elle !bun cartell thus enough to let no Lint appear, even to the suddenly alone with him, the would go subtle intelligence of a wife, of real state away, on the first excuse that resented it- of bia heart and he felt auffieiently iure ad!, This evening, however, e remained. that he had affeetion enough for Martha, to But they were both constrained and hadn't make her happy. And yet ho had hesitated and, atratrge CanitEriaiatiOn Of the tart, the XOEEMN .141OTES. The Zouave uniform is te be abandoned in the French army, It is alleged that it takes $5000 distant, ed as tips in the Police Department to get a permit to open a new club in Paris. A silver bell bee been hung in a tower ia the village of Bork", where tile railroad emelt, dent to the Czer's train . happened, and it will be tolled every day at the hour of the aosident, The Paris Expoeition will open ou May 5. A etwies of greed fetes has been arrauged to last all through, the meaner. The Expel - time will end in September with the award of prizes. One -thirtieth of the whole populeden of fceland emigrated lest year, moved. Ws said, by the unpopularity of the Dinh& government and the blaudisbments of Cana. .diaet emigration agents. mesetiline beauty how is being arrang- e. at Venetia, of which women will be the judges, and prizea will be awarded to the handsomese male, the roan with the finest mereetteche, the elan with the biggest nose teeSt irepertaut object offesee natesee so the stronger and more feromene thee, are seen ee and the Mati with the ler est bald ghead. eoleniee and abundantly deservee the prom- that alumel, It's hair, alto, Is sborter ao4 its a inent place he occupies upon the Australian hide smoother than those of the woif, and it cardinal Reyaald, the Hungarian prelate, coat ef arms, wbete, opposed to the emu, he appears as ValriPlinatati cross ef the feline /V" leaving hit hotel to WO t4 his carriage, a holds the peeition given, to tbet Ilea in wed canine races„ With. indeeeribable few days age. Whelk 4 Child begged him for atgaralatinia. with the unieoru in the heraldic) crest of Realised. The kangaroo is a joke, however you look at biro, He has four legs, but ueee only two in travelling, and be employe his tan, Pat, aa is generally eoppotted, as A eort of sepplemeatary log upon whiele alight alter No long jumps, but 1,90140What Bleu 418 utillen hie balemelog pole in Itie peelloua prementdea Oft the tiglet-repe. The movement of the kangaroo ea aceora- pliebeel with bis body bent well forward, faralVga Carla4 up, awl Ma tell projeet- -ng greceful curve astern. At a eiogle mead he will cover a distenee of .30 felt, oear ever bRallttS 10 feet high he the et et it AB lightly As bird. Itia pawer- ful legs aaatfk thada opringe, which are compressed by hio weight when he otrikett the. groaucl, 4111 itaiMedietely ra. leased to give memeettem for IlOW flight ; hie progress is without appuent break, and resembles that of highly elastie robber ball that ta thrown along a atneeth peverneut. Be will outrua fleeteet home, and poly the beat kaogaroo dog (a epodes of grey /lewd espeeielly bred for the putrem) nan tire arid overtake The favorite way to *hoot bine le to lie la wait Peer hie Innutte, end wad he beetem and doge to EWA Oita 11. V ba comes sprieging over tin* buthes, you ohmmeter of its awn. Its legs are short, 14 betty long and eleadert and its litheneea mid suppleness give it an air that is fairly diabolical, It te of a tawny yellow color, and the Wipes on its head end sides, which give it the name alina, Ha felt in all hie pooketa without dediog cein,ead, seeing righlY sireesed woman. passing, beckoned to ber, asked for her puree, and taking from it liberal sum, bestowed it open the child. Then he thank- ed the woman gravely, awl, entering the of "Over," are thort and uodeolded mid earriage, WAS (InVett Away. 'WM as though a tow Inc" generations Qa the day after tho deeth of the Crown would cense theta to dleappear eltogether. Feuice of Ausitrla a Vielme undertaker was The Tatnianien tiger is eviaeutly the feding catered te hoot eek (rah "a4y for uae type of An earned that mud once have hen I et the pelts's° thet Berne dey. Ile staked for a terrible, power, At preeent hie eharaeter more time, bat was told that it Meet be 18 seStettse elS4 onenking, 144 he has degon- there before eight. 'equity des -eloped the AermetoendgitubtoeseallertIce4rileaearooteur deefwmetle4elp4folit; 4faiwo4tahAtto ebeiwiaio ay. oariatoamina the hTeh ,ab 4557 b z4haao the oweere of etteep etetione give tom net, g 113 /oda tbo boy of the crown ellopleorde luinse for every QUO they kill, prinoe 14y wee pee thet beee mot t8i0ucle ttr aandrfa4 1%11" a'rbeew%"°tigle°aulotwtatIlmy9t4ete grailotte9anra'd WthlgetcleetIghfor°L °a:04ln: The loughioff j mimeo le a Vole,* of ever since. The new Caan ie new wait - geode itiogtieber; width, having beertplaced by one of nature'S freaks ie a country where there it oimett iht water and very few aeb. In 18S0 lipMe Thirty young cg Tanen la Bore °artier], the jeke a degree further on hie own Ittnetarted au Old bl0000tast :Iv with a pro- cetchierg a snekee. The bird derivee me one whounmerrtid,i The o wee at great aceotiot and turned bin attention to the "mon for a tine et 1' iclrb° nPnn every name from hie note, whieb la cempeund. of 54Qqa131 .11t 4u eIn, etsis the a hee-liew " a jeokase and the !emelt riAgeBet,10, aua At tift_aP___011_94 mooting tbie et A hopslegt 1114111K, with a few inteijmted trta,e,lfin.tmfeeweAase"te,.""euee at!: gurgles like the SOUZKIS mole by 00150 while ,"0",t‘,4„ 4""'";!! "_;-'19_"*Llt etrangling and the groena of A peraon ;SALA- ';'"'"" elSt4"s *ueltc'eu"".4'4""4 c w removal. peid by the former memeere. ant* tome drive at bira with/410ms loesled with The bird etniuda of AA Auatrellan, T the "vlee °1 °I.° ex•mt3tAbe", ". a 0 stral kettet, and If you are good at "rocketing" mantels, or New Z mimed remelt are very colded tbet hail the Sam aimed to A termite, or (betas tie they spring from the peculiar. There 18 very little soug, properly hmildtal4 and that the SalitstY ° you env bring him dawn. The excite so palled, but many melodious notes, and 4 should have the relit for herself. tbia epart li great ant peculiar, and =ebb:seams of diveree tones which produce The lateet rornauce abaut Alex late the ellootieg of 'ergo game with au effect of Bulgaria, be tbet %Odle he Was being' kla ratiosmud uneerteluzy of sbootieg Titer is neaten AND AOMINATILX. there he was always atteuded by a tall an On haudsonte jeger, who never left hire for a 5T8 TUE liCra-TEU's NIMVE, Oao bird bat A note like the tolling of a deep rnomeet and who an eeveral oceeeloila inter - The noise made by A herd of elegbtaned bell for away in the depths of the forma ; posed between him and danger at great per, auother a " glug, ging, glug, ' which sounde sena risk. At night the jager slept in the kaustaroos tearing through the underbruth Lille liquor running out of a bottle; a third autumn es tee royal chamber, and at seeet game a eherp, outting melee preeleely like ono plot to assassinate the prince ie said to the creek ot a bullet* driver's whip; ono heve been thus frustrated. After the PrInee sighs, another whistlee, e third Ales a eaw, left Bulgaria. the jiger disappeered, aud it and others go "'WWII stiPPitts wlIsleitYr" hes since been dtimovered that the .person "eraik, oreik, craik," "morn pork., more WAR a woman, wile woe desperately in love with the Pelmet and bed sworn to protect Mat, a word to say to one another. It WAS Isabel who bad moat courage. before *eying to her that he loved ber. nor that was really a feleehood, But at least it "James, you love Martha—" was not an evil action, and be was going to "It matters little to yen, he replied." merry Mertha, though hie Insert looked iu "It matters to me very mull. She Is my abater, almott my daughter. Since you love her, I think you ahould not delay mentioning' it to your parents. You must underatand that," "To -morrow, to morrowl" "That le right," she said, and could not help adding, "You are making Martha very happy, James, and the affection I have for you is in. creased by the thought of all the geed you are doing to her." She would have left him, but he cringht her by the arra, and said, "Is that all you have to say to me ?" "That is all. What more could I have to eay ? Remember the confession I made to you one day at your housein Giromagny. I told you it woe not Martha I loved, that it "33e quiet," she saki, trembling, "be quiet." "Isabel, I am mad, just one word, I im- plore you." "Good bye I" "Isabel, not even one word I re it true that you do not love me ? Is it trite that for one hour, one minute, one second you loved my brother ?'' "Answer that yourself. D3 you believe it ?" "I do believe it, he said, I must believe it. You confessed it to me 1" " Then why question me ?" Tsabel. "Because your behaviour remains in- And Isabel every time would answer, explicable. You did not wish to give Oli "Your husband. will like you betterin this. ver up to justice- Was it to save him Choose this shape, which agrees better with or to save the honor of the Bargemonts ? Your complexion, and your hair, and matches You went to give him the interview he the color of your eyes. ' asked. Was it out of love, or because in And so it was with everything. At last him you saw a member of our family? And the marriage day arrived. if you loved him, why did you try to save It was in November. me also, though believing me guilty of my November is a blustering month. Snow brother's murder, by accusing yourself of had not yet fallen in the valleys, but only on his murder, and publicly announcing your. the tops of the highest mountains. North- selt as having been abandoned by him ? east winds blew bitterly. For long days Who will tell the truth? Was it throughout the sun remained without showing himself, respect for the family to which you had hidden behind clouds of a soiled yellow belonged that dictated your actions? Did hue• you really love my brother, or did you love As the anemone drew nearer which was enother direction, suite as-astrange retorts at similar events—his mother had married Lewrenee de Berme:neat, while loving Maeda. The days which intervened between the tinio when the marriage waa determined and the ceremony itself were a succession of cruel womb to Isabere heart. She was Martha's natural confidante. To whom if not to Isabel could Martha repeat the thougand teneerneeses which Jaines lavished upon her, his loving foresight, his delicete surprises? With her, laartha lived over again the time past she had passed near James, and with her also she lived in the future. She saw herself a married woman, atten- tive to the wishes of her husband. She saw herself completely happy. She saw jatnes happy also, and in order to be aro nger against the anxieties which are alwaye pos. able, she asked Isabel 13 advice. And it was Isabel who reassured her, who gave her some of her own precious serious- ness, her great-hearted and generous intel- ligence. And these counsels had not merely to do with the future. No, they extended to the smallest details of the marriage. Martha wanted her sister's opinion on the dreae stuff samples which the Marchioness broughe her, and which were to serve for her wedding dress, and the dresses for the street, for visitine and for the house. And about her bonnets also she questioned to male separation irrevocable, Isabel felt She was weak before this outflow of words. her courage grow weaker. For a long time She was sorry that she had come, that she she had lived merely by the exertion of had nob at once retired as she usually did. nerve force. Was her strength going to "James," she said, "to all you say to me I cm only answer, you do rightly to marry Martha, She will make you happy • And as for me, I shadl be happy in seeing the happiness of you both." He made au angry gesture and said. "Ali well, yes, I do love her. Yes she will be my wife, anal if, some day misfortune touches us, may that misfortune touch you also who will be the primary cause of it." She bent her head. It was he who re- tired. "Mother," said James to Clotilde, when he entered the castle, "will you kindly give me a few minutes." "All my time, as all my heart, is yours," she answered smiling. "I wish to marry. " "Well, I approve your decision, "Have you chosen?" leave her just when the hour was coming in which she would need it most? The poor girl was very much changed. She was thin. Her hollow cheeks, her fev- erish eyes and her leaden complexion, all betrayed !the inward suffering which was prsying on her. These signs had not escaped the notice of the Marchioness, who conceived a vague suspicion that the young girl had some hid- den secret. She questioned her but without result. (TO BE CONTINUED.) An examination in the Public Sohools Professor to pupil: "In which of his heatless was Gustavus Adolphus killed?" Pupil, after reflection: "I think it was in his last bat- tle.' sud ladulge in other (arena crlea into the tangle, stud ia attended with as Por.![•" frequent tumbles and brat= banes as the which make ono think the whole boat has moot ardeat votary of hunting mild deaire. Tindd, ineffeneive, and fugitive no the kangaroo is When permed, he is a bald and daugerous beetle when wounded and brought to hay. Nature, width leaves no animal entirely defonselese, hes equipped him with a weapon ninth is the dread or New -Zealand furnisbea the greatest number of these, the bird. celled the "hula' by the doge and men alike, His powerful hind natives affordiug one of the most retnark lege terminate in feet winch aro eat with three strong black claw", of which the eon. able. This is a bird of Iridescent black g plumage and yellow beak, which foods upon tral ono is long and sharp with the wattle mutate of a Wad or gouge, grubs that aro dug out of trees, both green Woe be to the aauguine bound who, ;toeing and dead. Tao extraordinary eironmetence about an old num" kangaroo, winded or wound - these fowls is that it requires two of them to ed, backed agamat a tree and unable to neoure a dinner, a male and a fent de. The go further, rushes in to catch. him by tho throat and finish biml The hitherto male is furaished with a thick, stout, chisel useleas like beak, with whieh he chops into tho forelegs catch and hold him, and the terrible wood, end exposes the hole in which the hind feet, playing up and down like the walking berm ot a steamboat, tear him op on grub burrows. The shape of his beak, how- ever, eremite him from seizing the prey, nod matter his entrails over the ground. but the female ha a long, slender beak, The like fate has sometimes bappened to which she insinuates into the hole and draws bunters who have attaoked a wounded kan, garoo with a knife in order to save them out the wriggling morsel. Site then drops ammunition, and gruesome stories - it into the mouth of the mule, taking the taut in which some huge beast, are ex totting next grub herself, and in thie alternate test his enemy in his arms has sailed off bodily iihnias " flit blithesomely through the and mutual assistance the pair of with hint over brake and brier to put him to woods, and set an example, it may be ro. death with unknown torture in some se. eluded lair. These, however, are evidently marked, which all wedded pairs, with legends invented for the admiration of the feathers or without, would do well to emu - new chum" as the "tenderfoot" is lo- late. It is a signifiatint foot that in mote the cally male is shot the female makes off at once, ir secure in the conviction that she elan pickup any one desires to gain a sounding name a living of vagrant worms by herself or find among the eportsmen of the northern hemi. sphere on very easy terms, let him come to some other male which would be glad to join forces. If, however, the female ie shot the antipodes and hunt the Australian bear. The beast is numerous, sluggish of habit and the male remains and makes no attempt to escape, evidently knowing that without his position; he is formidable neither in respect movement, and of a placid and retiring dis- female assistant nis chances of securing a to Claws nor teeth, and the case of him is living are of the slenderest. &belie as dangerous as pigeon shooting. another remarkable bird is the "kea " or With average lack the hunter may capture flesh -eating parrot, a large green bird which a dozen in a day, which, with the toe is the especial terror of the sheep heraere. which gunners as well as fishermen are Until sheep raising was begun in New-Zsa. prone to pin upon the narrations of their land this bird was a fruit, nut, and exploits, would make a very pretty thing grain eater, but now has developed into a to tell of when the sportsman returns carnivorous biped of the most eavage charm°. to his Pall Mall, Fifth avenue, or Beacon -street ter. His practice now is to settle upon the back of a sheep or lamb, and, with hie sickle clulbh.e word "bear" is a fine one to conjure like beak, pick a hole in its sides over the kidneys and delve out and devour the rich with, and the listeners to the yarn of the fat surrounding these organs. This done returned traveler might naturally suppese the "Australian bear" to be endowed with they leave the sheep: which for a time wan all the ferocity of the innamon or grizzly. ders about in excruciating pain and ptesent- In point of fact, however, this animal is not ly dies miserably. at all, but a nandeseript beast Another peculiar parrot in this country a " bear" is the "kakapo" whose mottled green and peculiar to Australia, and in appearance a yellow plumage is admirably adapted to and. manner resembling a sloth. He has screen its wearer from observation while round, "chunky" head set with bead-like moving about among the underbrush, which funny eyes and °ornamented with prepos terous ears, which stand up in downy tufts is his chosen haunt. Although possessing and give him a comically surprised expres perfectly developed wings, the ecakapo' eion ; he has no tail and ie covered with t never uses them, and confines iteelf to craw thin gray wool, and in general looks like a ling about among the thickets which form fat poodlealmost impenetrable mass under the whe has had his caudle appendage an cut of and hi9 front legs abbreviated in New'Zmdand forest - order to lengthen those behind. He lives in The leading, representatives of the breed trees, and the female of his species is gen- of "aliteryx,' or birds without wings are erally accompanied by one or two copies of the Awls," who are sometimes kept in the houses of the Maoris to keep them free herself in little, which ride about on her back as Anehises perched upon the shoulders from rats, which they "nail" most accurate- ly with their longeaointed bills. They are qis to the preposterousness of her appearance. queer lumps ot birds, with plumage that Everybody who has read anything about Australia has formed the acquaintance of gone drunk or lame, and, if he be at all of burnoroue been team hire to laugh out- righb at the etrangejargon. The multftudoof colonial birds thew many extraordinery !reek'', quite in deo line of the othere which 1. helm already deseribed. of /Enema at the burning of Troy, and add THAT MOST ETXBAORDINARY OE ANIMALS, the ornythorhynous, or duak.billed platypus. He varies in dee from the American musk- rat to the woodchuck, has a brown fur some- what like a moleeebut coarser, and bright, beady eyes, which are almost oompletely hidden in his diminutive head. Thus much beast, he has the bill of a duck, webbed feet, andjunless my recollectien is at fault) the female lays eggs and swedes her young. His fur is the most valuable of that of any of the animals of Australie,whioh, for the most part, have rather tbin coverings—and his race is rapidly becolning exterminated by hunters for manufactories of cloaks, caps, half hair, half feathers, lay eggs nearly as big as themselves, and have the merest rudimentary wings, which a few generations more will evidently see disappear altogether. They are the weirdest, eeriesnlooking fowls that earth produces, and look like queer brown grouses as they stalk gravely and undismayed by the presence of the stranger through the dim Owed aisles. About the, Way of It. Charming Wife—Charley, why do you bring home an sorts of political papers? Clever Husband--Beeause I want to know it all and so read both sides: Charming Wife—Well, I am sure when I read both sides 1 don't know anything. The Smith Sea 'filename who fled in 1118. may when they saw a white man take e fr ono of his legs could hardly be more astounded than the two Matabele chide if they await - owed all the yarns dust were told them dur- ing their moue vieit to London. They were assured, tor inetanoe, by their humor- ous guide when they witnessed the acrobatic) performances et one of the theatree, that suoh feats of strength and agility were re- q aired of all Englishmen before they could aspire to be wartime and thet the gentlemen in tights were mere's' undergoing the train- ing needed to fit them for the army. The audience had attained perfeetion in aerial mancoeuvres ana ground and lofty tumbling, and were merely applauding the aspirents who were striving for excellence. There is some reason to believe this whopper was taken with considerable salt, for one ot the chiefs remarked dryly, as he pointed to some remote gymnasts among the athletes: "1 did not know the English made soldiers of their women," English Orators Coming. It is stated that the British ossbineb has become alarmed at the eituation in Canada with reference to the relations of the Donna - ion. to the mother country, and our possible future absorption in the United States, which, according to official advioes, its rather miens. An eminent Canadian, a minister • ot state of many years' standing it is said, has written a letter to the secretary of the colonies lamenting the growing feeling among the younger generations with respect to the mother country. This feeling he at- tributes to ignorance—ignorance if the his- tory of England and ignorance of her pre- sent position. Canadians, he assuree the aolonial secretary, stand most in need of enlightenment in these matters, and he adds that a vast service to Canada and the em- pire would bs done if some Englishman whose position and oratorical powers would insure attention would devote some weeks or months to passing through the Dominion and delivering a series of addresses on a few of the greet episodes in the history of the British Empire. Lord Salisbury has con- ferred with several leading Conservative oracore with a view to making such a tour during the summer to carry out the sugges- tion of the Olnadian minister. Unless a dissolution takes place this spring, which would compel good speakers so remain ab home to take pert in a generel election c sm- paign, Canada will probably be visited by at least six representative Englishmen, who will give young Canadians some important hints respecting the greatness of the British E npire. A young girl is alweters self-centred, absorb- ed in her own affeirs, her own dresses, her parties; it is only grace and art that teaoh a woman to sink her own personality in the presence of the person with whom she is talking. Perhaps one of the chief claims of widows is their uederstanding of the fine art of sympathy. The sympathy of a young girl who has known nothing but joy is a crude and unsatisfying affair, the very husks on which no love could feed, but the sym- pathy of a widow, tenderly, daintily express- ed, with a gentle melancholy that shows that she, too, has suffered—it is like the soft shadows in a picture or the minor chord in a piece of music that este thepulses throbbing. Having mourned for a man, she knows how tnost effectively to mourn with one. Last year there was talk of forming rt banana trust, which would mean an ad- vance in price of this favourite healthy fruit. Comparing notes with last year we notice Simpson ie selling them cheaper than they were ever known before so early in the season.