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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-8-29, Page 2TINDER AN Antic SUN. BY GEORGE, MANVILLE. 'EN. CHAPTER VL Tens ItIghede eight bud 'douched, one as taeleo clung to hie left, ahe felt his nerves and musciee gaiver with rage. A curiente isensation of famtheee omit over her, and Ake etTriggled tOke Arm, as she teld herself that eaa might prevent some terrible en - mentor. Bat there watt nothing of the kind, ter Ramon came leeward eagerly. "Ah, them you ace la be exclaimed. "Had A peasant slay ?—Why Where are the others V* "Did you not hear theme!' said Digby amenhjy. "No,—Qh. yea; I hard &mar Reds grave gall. I mimed them u I name -through the trees. Whitt a tleirghttrd even - beg 1 I leased three years' In London, Digby ; but I never 44W AMIll An evening ea this." Ke abetted Away, as he stepped to the other aide Of the mule. keeping 04 with- out waiting for the otherai reply, "You have bed A splendid day, but Tay hot down by the town. YOU have felt it cold up the mountain, Mr. Dishy V' "Yea, very," mid Dtaby elr,oetlY ; ivied he felt; Helen pre** hie hand gently* ere et the ware imploring ban not to be emery. "BM you could not have had a clearer day for the vtew.--Did You feel the cold mach. Miza Relenr 4' life—nes" She said quietly. "I don' *ink it wee very cald " taGeueridlyise-el beg pardeo, Mr Digby I Haw it olgarl'' "11 I refuse It, he'll take it for re decier- talon of war, and/ don't Want to fight. WthY ebeeld I 2—Poor wretch r *There pm are, Said Ramon, oone eetind by the back of the mule with hie Catia OPOR* "The ameller are the best." "Thanks," said Digby, talfing PM. "Let to give you A light," nzatoh was e tr eh* and by its Ilgbt Maley ungint a glimpie of the Speulard'a him Which war aa oho and manlike/ as 40D1r1 Then they went on, and retook theirPtaelie on either side of the muee, "I've been very busy too," cenlinued Ramon. " Vega; but ware eterioue to hear how you had got ; arid yet half afraid that the eviler had given way and Iwo/lowed you all up." Diaby telt to/twee-tied ; bet Barn= Chat,. tied away, "1 wonder whether Senor Redgrave wW let me throw terielf -upon hitt hatepttelity tide groin? I oiled ea my way up, andleued that you bed oat returned. 11'040mo fruit; and there was a fregranoe front the kitcluee window that was Ineddettag to A buugry assua—Ah 3 here we are. For they had -IMMO up to Regrew* and Feuer, who were studios, beside ties freak. "You, Ramon!" aald Redgrave Tether irternly. °Yea, my dear sir. I -thought I would go and meet them ; but I Irriseedyou.--llly dear Seagrove, I want yen to give me *bit of dinner to-nighte" 4" Certaletly," replied Sedaravea-and he told g polite lie: "I shall be very !loopy."' For the teat of the wey Ramon did nutty AU the talking; and during the evening hie oonverse,tion wee fluent sza highly inter - citing se to engaged Fraser in conversation *bout the utiguitite ot the oleo° 'molting cigars mid rapping tie chocolate In the roost nexailled way. "You ere making quite a collection of our miner:der, I been"' he seta in the comae of the ieenvers ma ▪ 'Yoe, I have a good ma_ny,,o o Of course you examined the head of the bureau on the were: able of the mountain V' "No ; wo hue nor been there yet." "Noe been I 'Why, my deer air, thee is the MOO interesting plasm of the whole. Yea abould go therh—By the Ways. Red- grave, I suppose the neared way would be light across ray plantation 2'' "Decidedly " seed Itedgrave, Who seemed pouted by havisiter's urbanity. "Yen" said Itamort thoughtfully; "thee Is certainly the best way. There s 11411 binned- ing mummy eaVe there, too, about balawity along; but you will certainly he delighted with the head of the barranca—There ; I must say good -night. Going now, gentle. rnen7' "Yee," said Fraser, rifling. "It is tinie we were back." Digby rose reluctantly; but it was time they lefti ; ao the customary adios. were said, Ramon making a point of going first, so that Digby had an opportunity to raise Helenas trembling hand to his lip'. "Good- night—my darling." he whispered. "I than tell Mr. Redgrave all." e "Heaven protect him I" muttered the girt devoutly ; and the stood there at the door listening till her father returned; and then they lingered, each alightly uneasy, but ashamed to give their fears words, and being content to listen to the voices of the guests, as they 'came clearly up through the still night -air. P.edgrave felt diersed to speak to his child before retiring for the night, but remained silent. " Marriages are made in Heaven," he said to himself. ",/ feel helpless; andperhaps Nelly hereelf ratty find the way out of the difficulty, and, somehow, I begin 'to like young Digby." The three gueste of the villa went alowlY down the track toward the little town, with Ramon abetting pleasantly about the island. "1 daresay yore Englishmen are disappoint- ed at the absence of sport," he said. "Very different from Norfolk, where I went on a visit when I was in England. Here we have partridgesand rabbits—that is all." We find plenty to amuse us," said Fraser quietly. "Oh yea; I have seen that. Why, you will have a boat -load of specimens.—But don't forget the head of the barrancas beyond my place. It will repay a visit ;and if I can assist you with &Tides or men, pray command me.—Good-night." "Well, Tom," said Fraser, in a and T0100 as soon as they were alone, "what elute" • "1 dein't know, did fellow, and don't want to know," replied Digby in a tone of voice which contrasted strangely with the.mourn- ful speech of his friend. "Yon do not know?" "1 only know that I am eurprieingly haPPY." ^ • "Yee. You must have seen. Horace'old fellow, can.speak Mame as I would to.a brother. I love Helen Redgrave with all my heart." rhey walked on in silence for some time, and then Fraser said sadly "A boyish fancy.—Come, be a man. This must go no further, Tom.. Let no pack up and go away." Digby shook hies head. "1 am sure it would be better for all." Digby drew a long breath, full of exults - tion, for the preseure of Helen's little 'fingers seemed to cling to his hand. "Do you not see," continued leaser, "that you are intervening between two la people whom Fate, ham evidently marked out for heehaw], ma-Wife:14 "Fate be hanged I What has Fete goeto act withit V' "Do you not ea° that you are making a powerful enemy of Ramon, who hes, the father at his mercy V' "I'll pitch Remon down one of the aert ranges, if he doesn't mind what he le about," °tied Digby warmly, .4* ltlind he does net pitch you down, Tata, aeleA Beagra4e 1" "Well, whet about her ? I know what my dear old moralist la About to say ; Marri- age is serious thing—I have. my friends etu5IY—I ought not to tat re3h--1 ought tei g " "Y -a; I should. have Said SolnethinE of the kited, and alee Warned you to flee from danger eaend, temptation." "Than here we are at the rout, and I AM log to let on my perch at once, my dear 9 mode of wiedcm ; but before I do zo, twee are my =mere to your warnings: I am "Well 9g; I AM my own master ; and I hew* nelther father nor mother to coneult. Greeted and most cogent sewer ot ell Helen," Ralf an hour after, Wang at defiant:re the lineal plagues at the rantrau, TOD. Digby wee sleeping peacefully and &meanie of his aweet rating Arletralea %elle Futter Wee Mated to hie own roma, with, hle anus folded atiu out thr th owindow, 'with the darlineltie Visittle and motel Ahead, "Reline* her, wedwe Yes,'*he adaea, after 4 palatal Ogle, "whet wonder, poor bey —ho levee blat return. Oh I rorzet ewe been teach—I nreetbe etede—And that rue Hazen? Yea; he Smiled and ihowed hia wbite teeth. / would not trot his:tie/re moment. The mitre wee too Nee And tivitcherteen If I could eely get the poor boy away "Too bad of Roracte" he grumbled to him- as when it had cooled down after some erne>. ME a; he eat Off up the mcuntain track to time hundrede of years before, he found that where it diverged, and the path led to It tautest to curve over like a dome above Ramona( plaetations, with the house away hitt head; awe though he followed it for seine to the lett he a beautittel nook which con- dietence he could. find no plaee where *hove Mended A VieW Of the dietant islands. aa the faintest possibility of his climbing Jae alwal4 Want elaWn to Ramon' for a chat ' For moment he heeltated ea to whether up to ha:7e lavayraz. erlFrazer ho owntca aloud before starling ; and he heeltated again and then paused agiuten for hie voice eeemecl after goieg few yarde ; but finally.' he to pees echoing hollowly away, giving him stepped out boldly with the hot son pouring an tdea Of the Vaateeee of the place in which down: and as be went on, a urewern face he Wat confined, waa elowly raised frein out of e clump of And now fig few momenta hie former send -tropical foliage, and Fraser stood wen eensation of horror attacked aim, as he felt coneealed, watching him till he passed that he miglit poesibly never be able to out of sight. Then, after a cautious extricate hinuelf from the trap into which leek round ire 'lank Ina him his he had fallen, and that he might go ria pia of concealment, and the birds wandering amongst the horror', by which he that had flitted away returned, the stAgness WAS surrounded until he died et exhauetIon around beteg unbroken, save when the law —med. deep murram of the rine arose from far be- Again he mairtered his wandering Mind* and spoke aloud in 4 reaesurirg tone. "I am net IIIIITeniaded by borers," he mid That "ditch la here might to elute no Man oi well-balanced intellece. It le kuown that have come this way, by the people at the inn—. : I did nob tell them, Bub Fraser knew I was comieg, and he will search for me. Hereon knew I was coming here and I have nothing to do but mit and wait I hear VQ/062( ; and then a Shout will do the rest. Horace mime be long." "Good home= I" he ejaculated after A panee., auptasee the poor fellow Amid tread engin the broken place ani fall !—No fear. Uwe* covered when I came along. It is ail °Plineule°anw.ed" ;vines the aide of the cue, sun ; W13110 A tont away on las left t.hete wee thmliteg of his nnefortue, and liatenmg for a proforma drop, reek again geIng per, step or VOICO TO break the tenth% Amu puellgeberly down, and in places the itself around hien ; but ell WU perfectly !till; and "Aug whicb oared quite overhung the %Wilk bow he would, he could mit keep verdene gorge, beck an *Queasiest shudder At the idea. of And leo continued for spite couple of Plalog a olghb where bo Nvek4 home, during which he went on elOng the , bo darker than dens" he field evleue abundant growth hid the danger with 4 mega to reeMre Me courage; and of the way; for it ere* only at times that leo thee he began think Aboret Wee eltright obtained 4 glimpse of the depth' below, lobleobe which looted biru for lu°1; °°?°libi *lime Immo eveleriche OtatArlea bad eTataled till the inexeating pan and etifintee down from above And swept the true Away. of hie 'eagles turned the current of " Ilea right it fe A gloriona sulk," cried theuglite to ble eiveli wed that; Dighy wathualastically ; 44 only, it nem& llka a flag% teoePiden eneeete to lame trtu Id to be enjoying it ell altine." What did Hareem, aey —Tho mere WAS Jo r mother beer went on, etia wonder. treecheroue And felee ; Greet heaven, breve Ing filet he bed Seen. no trA0011 left by hie 'fallen into trap?' friend, bull moon forgettleg thia 14 the froth He Whet to argue the thought away ; but glorlea of the overeltadowed path, and the the idea waa only otrooOtb000tl• Ramo lovely glints of ennebine be the zigzagging had been ea itexione for him to come there tunnel of ferns and creepers, which 'newly —for both of them. Thepath bad evideetly 'mama to flow down in caeoadee of growink been Altered, by Aceicleut or design. Wee tufa from the wall on ble right. it deeiegue and the eontriver's idea to rid " are must have ludo this pate," al) hireaelt et time reenhe detetted et One atr9k4 d id to hineiteli; " it mu (iota be itekleel ; the thought wee too horrible, and trod. loeseis to nowbere, of course, awl Ito would not borbtfor ft, Rillo I berethi the and," For. at A *Udder% WO effort ; it grew tbo otrutogor 3 and aa turn* After passing an itagie of the reek, he Me -time aped 914 end the hurt producred a ound himself feu to face with a huge mus toverloh nonagon of ,314143,ollrlaree nplghY stone, which bad esvidentlyietely slipped found Matadi 'Woo otooloo few feet above the tral*R and OeM- kad erintriVed pitfrell; test there wag I blocked the way. o escape ; and then frieed frora pounce awkward," he atid thoughtfully, the treachereue Spuderd would. renew h steep to get over,—ife 3 thet's it." Re '4"u". to Eulent smiled as be mew thee to thole!! of the largo The Agony increased, end with tbi mental' block the greea growth bed been eremplea offering eerne wild handier Lorre which down, the shelf beteg wide enough for an grew upon him till hie 'nein throbbed ;einem one to piss round, though the gorge seeme of oreituolon, which ire could not overman% there to be almost dark, so filled trp was it increased; and at lent—toes after he had With the top of the trees which bristled fallen—ha felt that he could beer no morre from, its hide. 1 "The old boy has been round here for TO DE CONTINUED, onp, this mow:deg. Fireh time I've 'wen Ms muke.—My word, be hu been °hippies away bore," he *sided, as he looked at the broken fragment.; of atone the newly pretty experiment to interest ths oh 1 rude curve of the path. bo make a little heminook from s. Floe° Without a moment's beiltetion be stopped of reuelbe Attach four threede to impend doweethen took mother atop, for the wey le by; oak for .while in very mit water And &needed apparently, to rise again beyond let it dry.; then place in it An OMIty eggshell the block. Men another step on to some and sob the hammock on five who 'twain fagoallire brushwood „amid emote to form a will he consumed, but the ethos left will be: level *ay; and al he did so, he uttereel a COMpOSeel of cryttnie of melt thee will bola wild cry, and snatohed at the rooky side to together andkeep thethell manila the d,ellicate Orre himself. Vein tart, for everythingframe-work, le la possible to have art entire hod given way beneath him, and be droppe egg instead of the ehell, but prudetioe would beediong, to fall, atter whet seemed to be e suggest? im being boiled bard in advanoe,as terrible dement, heavily far below, accidents are alwitya liable to 000ur. Heins oortsolons of an agonieing eensation silwaya meant% worth while to oconslons of pain, then of a stifling dust, of a alokening ally try various simple solentiflo experinients nate?: tying die -elects, and then oh wu dark- to give the little folks A gliMple Into the wondent of science and then let them reed up Row long he lay there stunned he could the wby and the wherefore the:natives. To not tell; but he seemed to struggle into illuetrette the difference of sound coming wekefulness out of a terrible feverish dream, through air or water, ring the dinner -bell in. to find that ell was darknets ma mental con. A tub oftwater and see how it le altered from futon Whet it all meant eves & mystery ; its uvula tone. To show the power of air fill for hid head was thick and heavy, ane me- a tin can with water, tie morquito netting miry refined to give 'him back the recolleo. over the top, hold a piece of writing paper tion of his walk and sudden fell. on top with one hand and turn the can up. But be realised at lase that he was awake, side down; tat" hold it steadily anddrawand that he was lying upon what seemed to the paper slowly away; the water will not be fragments of sticks; and its he groped pour out unless there is a hole made in the about, he touched something which set hien bottom of the Call that is uncovered so the wonderieg for the moment, before he could air empties in from above. grasp what it wan he held. Then he uttered An itttractive and interesting article. of a cry of horror and recoiled, for his finger home decoration, which the children will be and thumb had passed into two bony orbits, pleaaed to see growing day by day, is =de and he knewthat the object he had grasped by simply placing a little common salts and was a human skull water in a glass. In a coulee of days a mist will be seen on the glass, and in a shore time the tumbler will be thickly ,covercd with beautiful sale medals. The orystale may be alteredincolor by adding to the salt water some red ink or. a spoonful of blueing,- which will tint the surface beautifully. If a par- ticularly pretty result is desired use a vase inatead of a plain tumbler. Place a dieh un- tdreorinbeziatehwass. the crystals will run over.—De- to owe "a_Tee be_de ef gild Horne," laid Dighy, aa he strode along, Out Ramona' plantattoes, till the wild country began ; and recognisiest various Vetoes he had pealed before, tire young explorer soon reached the epee where the track leading to the harraneo commermed a -a path growing fainter and fainter, and more obliterated by the abundant growths till it gradually became Mere shelf on the meuatatn side. The denim tangle at Aret eloped. down to hie lefts and on to his right', but grew Tore and Mere recipient% till there was AA almost perpendicular wall et voicaalc rock, out of which, the slarntehy growth and ferna spread out, and formed 4 shaaowy arch, which screened lam from the CHAPTER VIL week el unalloyed happtneete putted orbs which time every evemeg was spent at the villa, Digby grew more joyous ; the gadder:eel look wee Tepidly pestbg away from lielenhi fau, and thee el her father grow puzled, wbile Freier's eeemed more Sombre end "red. Ramon had tetched them to hitt placer agate, and again, aed had alio begged lam to moompiame them he two of their expel!. Von; fireeling beaus mad melee, and prove bimetal a polished and itgourable guide, taking them to vulva point*, whose mer - vela rude Fuse:forget lie CW414041* In the excitemeret of dimoverice deer to a Ateralintal heart; while, after them jonre nays, Raman niWaaa ineisted upon the temeatera eoecottes Ide bospitality. They bad just flubbed dinner end RAMen hail left them for & time, ono 01 Id. servants •having coaled biro away, a suenteene wbfah, after many apologies, he had obeyed, lemlog the friends Weather, wheo, pushing thedug of excellent Feench claret towards hie cena pulite, Dishy, who was slightly Beetled, exclaimed t "Taste that, my boy, and cora fele that 991' host he. charmlbg follow 'tad It polished gentlemen. "Yes, 1 %tam to thole," mid Fraser grovelY ; and puit then llaraOrt reappeared at the door, beating a fresh box of olgart, which he headed to Vs guests and roamed hie aesa. "One of the mita el poeticising iambi, tient," be uta. "Your men are always QCzn. leg with the news of tome disaster." "Rattans **dowel hope 2" said, Digby. "No no—s mere nothing— kinder blight eppeeriag.—But, by the'ay, yore two hue never vhited the bead of that earranco yet. Don't forget IL When will you got" "When Fraser's ready.—What do yoe say to toenorrow t' This wee agreed to, and Digby rose se if toleava. "There" said Ramon; "I will not keep you fidgeting to go; only love friend Fuserto smoke another °igen" "Really, ndon't think" ---began Digby, rather petulantly. "Do not be angry, dear frtend," mad Renton kindly. r xneitt no harm. Apolo- gise for me to my dear friend Redgrave.— ou will stay, will you nob, Fraser 2" "No ; I will go with him,' amid the latter hastily. Then, in a hurried contented man- ner, an if he were mastering himself, "No," he added, "I will stay, and have a quiet amoke and ohat with you about the head of the barranco and what we are likely to find." "Poor boy I" eaid Ramon, with a gentle emile when Digby had gone. "Well, he haa won a tharming girl. You and I, Mr. Fraser, are getting old enough to pub these thingSbehind." "Yes," said Fraser gravely; and he at talking to his host till quite late. '. According to what had grown into a =dem, Digby found Helen and her father by the gate which commanded the 'Weep track, and another delightful evening, all too short, was spent. Music, talk of England, the life there, all had their turn, and then came the time to go, Helen walkin beneath the great mellow stars down wit her visitor to the gate, for the last good- night—that farewell which take e so many times to say, and was here prolonged till Redgraven voice was heard. "Coming, papa," cried the girl, as she clung to Digby's hand. "Then you go," she whispered, "to the barrow° to -morrow 2" "Yes; in good time," "I shall see, you atalaht 2" "Of course. " "And you will take eare. I have heard that some of these please are very danger- ous." "Take care Yes; fax your sake," he whispered. "Once more, good -night." , He ran off, to master the longing to stay; and with an uneasy feeling at her heart, Helen returned slowly to the house, wishing that he had not oome alone, so as to have a companion back along the dark path, where it would be so easy for pa enemy to do him harm. nog THre EAGLETO. ITEN THOUSAND YEARS. Great Increase in the Salmon Our fill TbattbeWreaSmtkoeusAgnerAeagsor TerdeenYoirroortat.04 Baitish Columbia to.leairdet.e, totaling 376 000 a reputation 'newly lateawa) is remark, thiVaitTortiloAfgBg4Aedug•th2:--ealThmeen,"Cp*aenkbet'i eeeWdbi"kg,atuhaalat olltubletYpYirvaandi Ind? oPf rEQgybapbitY, and able, saye the Deadest Glebe, how little notice has been taken of the death of the colossal dragon tree of Orotava. Thies gigantic, hoary -headed vegetable veteran died aimose ateddenly fewayeare ago, and may be 'aid, like the deacon's' old znaaterpiece, Lai have gone " to plecee all at once—alt et once, and nothing first—awe bubblea when they buret." After a babyhood of centuries, de- cades" of maturity, and a decadence agea, it due mum pitiable that the departure of this wander of the world ehould have cook- ed or no °eminent, la accordance with the new theory that *ants fee/ and have 4 hereafter, it may be that the old dragon tree relswrearaceiviioeirgadaraelfde rit4praeacetedd ouff per.eine and eages, beteg 127,000 oasee above the largeet paok of any previous year, 01 lisle *Mint the northern eanneriee oontribnta 100,009 omen, the rensalader being from Wreeier river The fiebt ere still earning freely an the letter and 130n20 canneries will peek fall .aelmoo. It le estimated that the yearar pack will reach 42000 Retee. This bail all been sold etdrom $5,50 to 86.50, and oalontating at $6 per CAS; makes 4 tOtal value of over tee 500,000. The Fraser °amulet, have from ten to thirty thousand Cam sub, Work and Play, Not one hard -worked fellow ira ten thou - eland keowe ilOW to play when he yete it Chance. The drat thing be to stop work. Buy enough, if you had the privilege 2 Noe by any mew. The habit of plennlog aad think. ing is atilt on you. Yon cannot Ib go your dudes of yeeterday. You two worried aboue how your aubititute 1. golageto menege the Job you lore ilis bemire Yon fear tie will Double be end hoti love your work, Yon are env) he will make you more trouble in the wed then yen can, repair in a month when you get back. You have a, suspiefou thee he May trYto aupplant you, and you may retern to find Win a favorite with yrnIr eMpleyerls) or thee he hee Oaten away your beet manure If you are 4 proleigional 11144 ye; begin to plan lete of thine for width, for menthe huh you have beea wonting it leisure day. Von lead yourseli up with 4 masa Of odds awl ends not at ell in your ; tabigs or wife wants demi, Or your sonhi errand'', er the minerual laske of some goer/ friend, alt f whieh fret you, beCanee yen are nob uaed to them, vaetly -Mere there your legh mete (halite would. Stop work, mother et the chlidree, 11 you get away fora Week. Leave the fall sewing till yea get to It. Do nob take any couitio'a errande. Why elmuld you borrow your eldeet daughterat baby when you go bete the country 2 Let Aelea, boy stay with Jame, Yta2 Vrat4t seat Stop your contriving ae to the Autments echoollus, Go, you greydieed, with your goad zreen—eif on it geriume, olds fathioned ecnrting dere eXenrelOn. Sit under the trees at the fratoseide, And dream the trienutains, Try to bike An Uttered eau. Be eutetteined with your bus Ws gelatin aerie/ mat his trout, hear tell hie tale of inatte traoke that he cod upon the numutsine. Zak men about the borne thew your bullhead , about tho championship at 14.W4. s, WhiCh the young :cake aro so excited von Sit you, my queen, the mother of us 1, on the seat under the big Duple, while et and tuerde Jerry Vey the antique wait—they Aro me AM fey tenele—arel give your whole Elul to the shot. they make, to the dieputoe u to wickets pearled, end be as completely occupied with it ea If it wore the Reeved bulletin of life, I %quiet to my rudest' if mother's umpirlog of a game is not the greateet Addition, in the world. Alec, that ao rany of our dear yawn and mothers No iced theinielvee up with work, on metiers, that they get no adventaget froni it, end, trier then elute they mike us Ail Ural Play It. play. Take out all money value. No man le so big & fool as he who propues to melee a dollar while at pixy. Playalay is the time to spenda dollar, not to save le ; eurely nab to revere it. Thebesehall " play- er" ort a profenelonal nine is nob playing, he is working ; to watolz the game le play to the rest of us, but to him it h simply toll; he may eojoy 10, A% any man ought to enjoy his work; but the feet teat he le tuning hie money by it deitroye its character for recreation, to him. A merchant who takes along a trunk of temples on it pleasure trip just spoils it, Ho wIll be ell the time think- ing about the oustoznere in the village whom he le going to steal time to Week, He will disturb **whole party by bending the trip to meet hie beelines plane. He will put eyerybody out of patience by his Yankee thrift, thee mush make a dollar wbile others are spending their dollars. Hie " playfel- lows" in will begin to accuse themselves as lazy, taught by his iodustrione example, for they at least are not snaking anything. Ob, thou unmitigated nuisence a companion of a vacate:41).day trying to " realm expense. 1" I would not go a mile from town with you. You are too anew to live. Yon worehip money like an idol. Yon are nothing bub mold slave, and you know it. Stick to your ahop and die. Ali all 'events, do nob ask any mortal man to go with you on a play -day. A play -day should amuse. Do not make hard work of your play. Do not half kill yourself with your first day's horseback riding, or painting the ball, or trying the gymnastics of aome game that uses you all up for the remnant of the two weeke. Do not expose youreelf to which you are en- eirely unaconetemed. Look out for beat apoplexy, otherwise called sun -stroke. Stop when you have had enough. A great dunce is he who .eays, " 1 awl not have another chance for a twelve-month," and so goes on with some game. some mountain climb- ing, when it no longer amuses him, but is actually downright hard work. Fun, in- nocent, harmlees, pure fun—that is the thing for vacation, To make work of it is abomin- able. ' What le play to one is work to another. I will not be drawn into something that I doniot like, simply to amine the other fellow who does like it. If he Wants to leave the hotel and camp oat on the mountains, I have no objeotion. I will go. Let him not urge me, If he were at work I might un- selfishly help him if I deoline to assist his amusement by what to me is no amusement. I do nob like to eat with my fingers, tear my good clothes, or fight musguitoes in the wociels. I prefer to sit on the veranda, boots polished and linen unruffled, while I smoke it cigar and read it good story, or the papers. Let every man play his play. I wish you all the privileges of it day of delight. It he well to remember that one is never so happy as when he is making others happy. To contribute to the laughter of pretty ohildren ; to rest the weary heart and hands of a good wife and mother; to bring smile into the wan face of the invalid, or to comfort an unhappy soul.; these are the nobleet joy, if one be only hinieelf noble enough to enjoy such high things. At least, let ne harm none.—(New I ork Weekly. Satellite for Oluldreu, CHAPTER IX, As Digby oast down the grisly relics of mortality, he clapped hie hands to his throbbing brow, and shrank farther away, feeling as if his reason- was tottering, and dor a time the mastery of his sensation pass- ed away quickly as it had come, and he etamped one of his feet with rage. He shrank away, for his Rot had raised it cloud of pungent cholzing dust, which hor- rified him again. But this only served to make 'him recover his mental balance; and as he stood there in the -utter darkness, he seemed to see once more the side of that other ravine they had skirted weeks back, when he had drawn Fraser's attention to the climbing figure which they had after- wards encountered au he crept up with his basket. "1 twist have fallen, then, into one of the ancient mummy caves," he said, trying to speak aloud and coolly, though his wade C.31210 for the Moment hurriedly and sounded excited and strange. He paused again, and wiped the dank perspiration from his brow. " There," he said; "I'm better now; so — What's thie 9 She oast away the foolieh dread directly, and with good cause, for Digby reached the yenta about the same time as Framer return- ed from his late Stay with Ramon; and after a short chat over their morrow's plans, they both went to bed. The sun was streaming into Digby's room when he awoke the next morning with the wineation upon him their it was very bate.; and on springing out of bed ib was to find a piece of notepaper lying on hie dressing. table, on which was written: "Yon were eleeping so Roundly I would not disturb you. I have gone on. Ea6 your breakfast, and follow at your leleure." Digby drained under a feeling of annoy- anoe at his friend's deeertion. He did not particularly want to join 'in the trip, for he had men enough of the island, and would fax tether have gone up to . Redgrave's, but Fraser's start alone made him immediately i feel an intense longing to be off t and .00n- . g y e quito epee tra Spanish land- dy by hie hurried and scazitynieal. Religions Celebration. The people of Lachine have just observed by a religious celebration the two hundredth annivereary of the most frightful massacre in Indian annals. In the year 1689 the French under Denonville were at war with the powerful Iroquois bribes; but advances had been made with a view to peace. The Hurons, who were the Mende of the Frenoh and the enemies of the Iroquois, heard of the projeoted peace with gloomy anticipa- tions. Their Chief ",The Rat" getout for Fort Frontenao to learn the paitionlare. On arriving he professed pleasure at the coming cessation of hostilities, and at once left for the place at which the Irequors minima:adore or negotiators would land. Placing himself Yes, ib must be : I'm bleeding," He felt in ambush he fell upon the Iroquois and the back of his head, and winced, for it was killed a number of them. To those who were out bacUys and a tiny warm stream was left he deolared that he had been sent to do tricklisig down his neck. this deadly work by the French. There- . "That's soon dootored," he muttered as upon the remnant returned to plan tango - he folded and Sound a handkerchief about lune. A large party of Iroquois] warriors his brow. "Now then : hove fax have I was despatched with orders to fitly retaliate. fallen, and how am Ito get out 2" On the night of August 4, in the dense drak- e He began to look about cautiously, look- nese accompanying a storm,. the Indians ing up the while in search of the opening swept down upon the village of Lachine and through which he had come ; but for some killed all but about it hundred of the in- minuterehe looked in vain. At last, though, habitants. Those who did not emiape they he saw adim lathe far above him, not the took across the river and eubmitted to the sky or the opening through whioh he had most terrible tortures. Meanwhile the fallen, but a faintly refieoted gleera, which. French on the Lachine shore could, diners feebly showed something black above his the fires which were burning their own - head ; and at hot he reached the conausion patriots and coed hear the screams of the that the opening down which he had drop- victims. History presents no more horrible ped was not straight, but eloped to and fro massacre than that of Lachine, in rough zigzag. "How. horrible 1" he muttered. "Yet what a blessing 1" he added. "If the fall had been eheer, must have been killed." A National Bird Wanted. It has been suggested that when a nation - By can tiouriprogression he at lastfound the a1 dower has been selected we ought to have diretctiolese which seemed to lead him farther side, but not until he had gone in two other na .onteews en:ill:ply& la buirndiZdeosatustriees tbhierde.,ag, limpet nto the isoieele of the mountain. are not away up in ornithology, but if the This dideovelvdid tot seem to help him, tmosgueigtroeies waneshAmoeuriidlike to eancitieen pouf :held/noel- for, as ,he passieWhis hands over the rough iaid vesicular lava, which was in placers as sharp nomination.—[ Washington Poet. • Really Dimas ting. ,Mta. Menage (laying down morning paper ii disgust): "This catering to servants is going too hr.'. Mr. M. ; "What now 2" Mrs. M. : "All the papers are full of advertieements of Cook's exoursione. It's ridiculous putting such ideas in their heads at a time when they can least be spared 1" A late fancy among volts is to, wear in enniaeled soarfpins the colors of a favorite horse or stable in pennant fashion. Though called a tree, in truth the reliever'. ed curiosity of Orotava was nothing of the sora It WAS a kind of gigantia bloated %immures and a near blood relation to the fragile, donut° lilies of our gardens. But even Solomon at his hetet glerimut epoch would rawer have been jealous of this phee nommen, for the dragon tree is at every pedal of 1M strange growth 4 Mrsriltrotte, IMOonth thing—a creepy, evil -suggesting, out -of -all-time creature, fie convene= of ungainly ptercelactyle anagigande emirates, witb some of which the aresieat epachneu of Grote -ire may have been pereenellY acquaint- ed be lia younger dap. With ite bloothred tap exuding freely, though with curdling Ilatratate, at every wound, its etTange crown of stiff, titung, ewordathe leaves at the end of °veva centime like arm, atlfl ite eeale.0104 trnnk, It is not diffloulli to tree') the erigin of its natna The tee which beam the en Apples is indigenous to the Centedes, arta little fogy wee merited with an imaginative people to awn this monetrotie vegetable grovetlx into the guardian dragon. Did lb not bleed thick reel bleed? did it not bristle with eworde, and was not he abode t on the isleir of the bleat fax beyond the gates of Gado, in rim veritable garden of the Ifeeperides ? The ancients &lama *poke of one dragon guarding the goldete fruit because the enemata of Orotava was even then moved from all its comrade* la Age, bulk, and gireatliaere. Tire old Geenehee venerate ed the monitor, though they were brought up =der Ito etwelow snd mute hue been well sccutorowl to ite peoulimitiee. Tbey reprdea itt as poseeteed of Auteuil life, auti eleided it, In Mt hollow -Week performing Druidical ritem, and they use its blood -red SIP (the dragoida Mood of commented fax embeirelog their dud. When Aloree de Lugo, the cocotte= of 'Teattelffe, eente to Orcienat in 1491 he speed the tem, but acandelirod et the preform enyeterlere which heel taken piece in its Interior, he converted its hollowneire Into a depot for holy mese. Humboldt, in 1799, gives ite height aa "Apt axing" about 50 or -60 feet, and it'd:anew forence at the roots m 45 feet, And the dianzctizr of the trunk at ten feet flora the ground le atilt 12 English feet," arra ho computed Ws ego et 10,000 pears. The opens ins was ao hog* that it treble was placed in lb round whlith fourteen persons meld meet themselves, awl s. anthem° in the interior conducted the visitor up to the height wbeecto the brushes sprang. Stow indeed must hue been its growth, far 400 year* after the vlett of the flub pears Lc Dru measured the tree meet oars - fully, proving thee during that !mg ported the increase had only.been ono foot at the boom, the other autumns being orientally identical. Slime Humboldt's ageount tire fetnons dragon tree of Orates% wits viaited by nearlyall the truelove, hietorleasseconks, peddlers, And soldiers who bed the mildest globettrattingpropeuraty. In1819 anarmwes wrenched off itt s, storm, and about some forty years ago some urearupulone persons out off is huge piece of the hollow trunk and preemie - ed it to the Kew natwoutn. Another storm in 1867 broke off the upper parb, leaving the trunk alone standing. A tremolo at that time says the -ground underneath was :revered with tapes of broken branoheir, some being eighteen feet in choumferentie. When the land where the tree was growing came into the palmation of the late Marquis del &m- ail be nursed the aged vegetable with loving care, filled up the gap in its trunk with me- soury, and did all that was possible to pro- long ite existence. Piaui Smyth, who saw it in 1858, measured the trunk, and found it 60 feet high above the ground and 48i feet In circumference at that level, and 24 feet in circumference at it height of 14a feet He says*: "Proudly it raises its antique arm above everythbig around. But how it is hampered 1 An indigenous wild laurel tree le absolutely in contact on one side and it Lombardy poplar is almost bulling on the other, while thereare such numerous peaoh treed, oleandere, and oranges between and all about that there is hardly a single pane from which we can get a fair view. The old tree, Moderately credited with 6,000 yearsof life, has gone the way of all trees, but most felicitously the Marquees del Sanwa has planted on its exact eite a seed* ling derived from its most ancient progen. itor, and this youngster is now a healthy plant some four feet high, looking—In shape only--exectly like a fine, long curet, lightly stuok in the ground by its taper and, and surmounted by a crown of sword -shaped leaves. The visitor to Orotava still climbs up the steep hill above Peter to visit the .beautiful garden of the Marquees del Seuzal and see the spot .where the historic tree formerly stood. Thialiaby dragon will pro- bably not flower for twenty or thirty years yet, and it will only branch after rib has blootomed. In a neighboring garden there is a dragon which has not yet blossomed, and yet it is more than forty years old. In botanical language the dragon tree is draccena dram, and is described as having a tree -like stem, which, when the tree it very old, beeomee much branded, eaoh branch being terminated by "a crowded head of lanceolate linear entire leaves of a glaucous - green oolor, which leaves embrace the stein by th,eir base, and on falling oft at maturity leave it ringlike cicatrix or soar." In old age curious warts appear'and one from tile eta Dreamt tree has been preserved, which is as large as* good-sized cocoanut, being like that fruit in shapes and its rough exterior. Though no partionlar oaro has hitherto been taken itt the Canaries to rear these curious trees, there are still a few fair- sixecl specimens' for visitors to see, one of the oldest extant being probably that at the gates of the cemetery se Iced. It is mention- ed in the ancient chronicles of the conquest of the island of Teneriffe, and, standing in solitary grandeur, it h the best specimen to study. There is one other good example at rood de los Plume which may be is even older. These dragon trees, however, are small atudabsurdly young when compared with the old veteran vrhioh until recently guarded, the golden ,apples in the Garden of the Hesperides. ' Dont's haven't gone out of fashion yet. They are an easy and et the same time em- phatic way ottellitig young ad old what is wrong for them to do.