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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-10-23, Page 2The Ease, Deceitful Man, Despatck : hhe leaned from the easement in watchful mood, "Per the hour uras dark and late, And listened to catch her kitialmud's voice la a he harzed by the garden gate. he leaned and listened and craned her nook 3in a way that wee quite absurd, • bis tones stole up on the silent air -- And this is what ene head: " Xes, Irish Kate is a daisy, Fred, And I'm wild s,13out Nellie Gray, But 1 saw the Barmaid last night, and, wan I he would take your breath away " Such elegant form I But she's full of tricks; heard from my friend O'Brien, She wet him a hundred in April last end the Lord knows what for wine. "Still she'll scoop me, sure!" Oh, the voice that rang , 11'43.ke the cry of a startled hird1— tir I bear you, you base deceitful manl rn!elisteniug to every wordl "io these are the business cares that fret And worry your brain I Indeed! • d this is the lodge where you talk reform k And the club where you meet to readl "But I'll drag the wretches before the 'court! eni hold you up to disgrace! " Ho quietly answered "Oh, go to bed'''. " We're talking about a race." WON BY AN ENGLISHMAN : A LOVE STORY. " Why, countess," I said, laughing, "we talked of nothing but the weather." "1 never knew the weather to being such color, such changes, suoh mirth, such happiness to two people in a dose, stuffy &lung. room beeore. ' cc Surely yon cannot blame AB for having preoerved so correct an attitude? " "Correct attitude!" shrieked the fairy in Iece. "Raynaond," she said, "why did knelt never speak to me about blue skies, Meander storm, and lightning -conductors when we were engaged 2 " " Because," said Raymond, smiling, " we had no British weather in our neighbor - Ilene " Is that the way you make love in Engtend ?" asked the countess. " Indere answering that," I said, " I oreglet to admit that we were making love to on another." " YJ a oennot blind me to the truth," she esee. ; "it was very evident, but it was orlgieel, and I congratulate you. How- ever, tell me how is it that you have be - wheeled that girl ?" 4' She has bewitched me," I replied. There is no doubt about that," cut in Raymond. "Nor is it to be wondered at," I replied. h those eyes, that heir—above all, that ,nouth, and its divine smile." "Listen to him 1" said the countess ; " wey, am I of no account, and did you not oorne to entertain me 2 " No," remarked Raymond, slyly •, "he creme to make the aoqueintancre of M. de Brea unite." 4, Who," continued the countess, "is to receive him officially to -morrow." " It is a bold step," observed the count. " unusual one," added his wife. "A necessary one," 1 seid, "because I wild: to settle matters before this engage- meni becomes known." " Al Paris knows it already," remarked Roos m mad. " Pnen," 1 said, "we shall have to nude- s:rex , ell Paris." D i you hear what Richard esid about his . ughter always living with him 2 " h a, I did; and as life would not be life w tare she is not, I care not where she liven provided I am at her side." ,1 A 4 earnest as that 2 " "Ye I, and more." 4. 'Co what extent " " rest of asking you in the name of friend ehip, which is eternal, to exert your- selves on behalf of our love, which, if but A paeeing happiness, is too beautiful even in tbai transitory character not to deserve your powerful aid in bringing about the ooncurnmation which our hearts yearn for, and are set upon obtaining. Remember, countess, those pretty lines, "Comme la rose la plus belle, L'amour n'a qu'une florasion ; Mats l'amitie east l'iramortelle. Qui fieurit en toute sasion." • mey be quite true that onr love is young, foolish, unreasonable—that we have neither of as studied each other enough— that we know nothing of the world's troubles and anxieties—that we care less for its judgment; it may be equally true that our chee,racters are unsuited—that I am weak and she is strong—that I am worldly and dee is pure and artless—that we must look at things from different points of view, Owing to the different nationalities—that we may possess, though I do not think an, all the elements which go to form an ill- assorted marriage; but we have this in common—we love one another; and if that Love, deep, true, and pure, is like unto the rose that lives but one season of bloom, is it not a worthy teak on the part °Mien& ship to help the rose to its blossom, and give it a short season of blies, which can- not pais away without gratefully present- ing ita beautiful scent to the soentless, everlasting flower of friendship 2" el am a convert," said the countess. "Rely on our support," said the comet. "Come and see nee after your visit to the Bretenilles," added the countess. "1 will, indeed, and thank you." I left the room too excited to saymore, and hurried to my lodgings, flying through the streets impelled by my own thoughts, lint in a decidedly better frame of mind than I had experienced throughout this eventful day. CHAPTER V. In reviewing the events of the last thirty- eex hours, which I minutely went through before sleep ever courted my tired eyes and exhausted frame. I was startled by the rapidity with which events had asserted their influence on the coarse of my life, and That of the girl with whom I felt thet life must hereafter be irrevocably linked and ageocested. This was a case of love at first eight with a vengeance; for all in the brief space of a f ew hours / had eeen and had been oon- tattered, while the irresistible paeaion so sraddenly fanned into a flame within me had, by meaner of e distasteful marriage arrangement equally suddenly launched at the head of a noble.spirited and affection. ate girl, converted that girl's trust in no as her friend in need into a retarn of love—fed nquelly by the knowledge that she had inspired me with love for bereelf, and that effie owed her loyalty and her heart to the man whom she found so ready to befriend her. As 1 meditated on this point, I never once gave Diene credit for loving me on other grounds, but veer' every moment more convinced that that which she do girliehly and impaleively beetowed had foundation's too deep and solid not to grow with each ohateole as it arose, and that it Would pro- bah's, develop into that love for my own Calf which would be productive of the Wimpy existence 1 dreamed of spending in her eWeet company. I therefore canto baok upon the resole - UMW I heel previously formed of facing mattershastily, and determined when I ea* Diane' a father on the morrow to lay valetas truthfully before him—to beg that her present engagement might be broken clit On ttetloune of he disteste to M. de Mattpert, rind to leek upon MO as a SUitOr to lea hand, And heart, ehould it prove that elle were willing to bestow them of her Own BCCOrd upon myself, Comforted by these resolves, whioh I took to be honest and proper, I fell into a re. fresleing shuaber, from wbiole I ewoke some hours later, beth etrengthened and happy in the conteropletion of the task which lay before me for that day. As if to give me greater courage, the sun shone brightly outside. No clones obscured a lovely azure sky; and Diane's words, " provided the azure keep its color," re. mined to my mind as proof that the favor I treaeured was still a love -token. Presently the post, to which I looked forward with some impatience, arrived, and brought half a dozen letters, two of which only had an interest for me. One was from Bob and the other from Diane. Bob wrote: "You know beat wleat your interests are. I think you have already injured them by not coming over at once, but am convinced you will lose a good post by dela tug another hour. Thevacancy was not known generally this af. ernoon ; it will be common property to-morow, and many a better man than you win be a candidate. Mach depends upon being first in the field, and still more, old fellow, in not being in love at awkward momente—whioh I Elt18. peot you are, from your wish to delay what at other times you veculd have precipit. ated." Things must take their course, was my only oomment on this missive, Then tak- ing up the letter, whioh I recognized at once to be in the same hand as that which Mademoiselle Garoux had brought me the day before, 1 fervently kissed it before opening it, and read as follows: " Tuesday night. "MY GALLANT KNIGIIT,—I have read raany English novels; and if I had seen recorded in any one of them the events whioh have sumeeded eaoh other so rapidly as to take, my breath sway, I would have had no words strong enough to condemn the Beam- ingly frivolous and unbecoming oonduot of the heroine throughout their course. "But I feel certain that you will not condemn me; for indeed I could not con- ceive it possible that your sympathy on my behalf would have matured so quickly into a deeper and dearer sentiment, nor did I ever think that that sympathy to which I had appealed with stole guileless confid- ence and simplicity would have awakened in myself a feeling which I need not say may be oalled by even a higher and better name than devoted friendship. " I shall not write to you again, as it is contrary to our French notions of pro- priety ; but as I have myselt asked you to be champion, it is right that I should let yon know how much I appreciate your gallant efforts on my behalf—how truly I mark the spirit of, devotion to my insigni- ficant self which animates yon; how cord. ially I hail the prospect of your visit to my father; how earnestly I pray we may be successful; and how deeply I would grieve for having brought all this trouble upon you, were it not that I cannot help rejoin. ing over the delightful discoveries it has been the means of bringing about. "1 oan be staunch, and shall be so. "Your happiest of friends, Deem." This was a letter worth having. It was food, drink, life to me. I must have read it over a dozen times, and whole time with greater delight. The letter was so honest and trne, and it was evident that Made- moiselle Gerona had conveyed my message, and that it had been understood. I was now sure of Diane as I was of myself, and thought only of the difficulties which the French law might place in the way of our marriage. I still trusted that the father of Diene would give way; and if he did not, I would wait till she was of age, when the usual three "respectful summonsee " would have to be addressed to him, and we could marry without his consent. I impatiently waited for 2 o'clock, when by appointment I called on Diane's mother. "Madame la Marquise has been obliged to leave home," said the concierge of the fine hotel which I now first saw as the home of the girl I loved, "and has re- quested me to express her regrets to monsieur that she could not see This was a serious blow, for of course it pat an end to any chance of seeing Diane. " Has Mademoiselle Diesne gone out with her mother "1 asked. " Yes, sir," 44 But have you no message for me?" "Not any but the one I have delivered." " I thought there might be a letter," I carelessly remarked. " Wait," said the concierge ; " I will ask Madame Bontout, my wife. I say, Madame Bontont," called the concierge, "has Madame la Marquise left any written note for Monsieur—Monsieur—" looking at me. " Vere," I said. "Ver 1" he bawled out. 44 Ah yes," she said, coming out of the lodge' "there is & osrd with some roses, whichMademoiselle gave me to send to monsieur; but if monsieur prefers it he can take them with him." "There is nothing else? " I said, in an off -hand -manner, concealing my pleasure. "Nothing, monsiner." "It is singular," I observed, "for Madame la Mari:raise appointed this hour. "But Monsieur la Marquis is in," said the concierge, "if monsieur wishes to ;see him." Certainly," I replied. Whereupon he touched an electric bell, and walking acmes the court -yard I arrived at the house, where a pair of lackeys ushered me into the hall, and & minute later into the presence of Diane's father. /t my not seem extraordinary if I acknowledge to have felt nervous, and any- thing but the preux chevalier Diane had called me in the morning. I felt impressed by the presence in his own house of the men who last night, in that of another, I had thought weak and traotable. I also experienced some discomfort from the knowledge that, though I intended to be perfectly fair and straightforward with the marquis, there were some little points which must remain a seoret from him, as I had no power or authority to disclose them. But all ray calculations were upset by the margaie taking matters in hand at once, and showing hitneelf a MEAD, a father, and a gentleman With's', while I felt, it I did not look, somewhat young and foolish. "Mon atni," said the waterier eater re. queoting me to be seated, "and you will let me call a friend of my daughter's by that name, I am aware Of the object of year visit ; I am further acquainted with the feelings which my daughter entertains for yon; I am aware that she did el very unbe- coming thing in 'taking you to dance that cotillion with her the night before larst t know that she sent her governeso to apprise yen of the choice I had Wade) yesterday morning of M. de Newport as a husband for her; 1 am Oren informed of the very indleoreet visit that gentleman paid you, and I know that Diane wrote to you hat evening.' was thunderstruck, but not angry. "You gee, I know everything; and there is no rkeYeteret between you and my daughter which she ha a not dieolosed to me, as she was bound. Still, it behooyee me, on the other hand, to be fele to her in return, and to interne yott that, reprehensible as 1 Oen. eider her oondulee to have been, and unlike that of a young lady. of her rank and poeition, I em not goeng to *Mow it to weigh in the least *gayest her in my mind, while I cordially aoquit you of any share I may consider you have ho in remouraging so young a person to do that which was wrong," I was aeoat to make some remark, but the marquis stopped me. "1 have but a few words to add," he said, "and I shall then be happy to listen to you." "1 trust to your honor not to let this affair be bruited about. I rely on your very devotion to my daughter not to encourage a beautiful and ardent nature in rebellion against the will of her parents, who can have nothing but her interest and happiness at heart ; and I only regret seeing, how well you and Diane appear to agree, that I should not have had the pleasure of your acquaintance before. A good deal of annoyance to many weerthy people would thereby have been avoided.' I was not so much surprised at the marquis knowing all that had passed be- tween us, feeling, as I did, that Diane was the mai of honor and righteousness, as at the courage ehown by the girl in peeing with all the mystery which went so far in one of her age to compensete for all the woes that had befallen her, in order that, when the question of our marriage succeeded the one of ending her present engagement, she might stand before her parents and before me as truthful as she was constant, as good as else was beautiful. I waited a minute or two before replying, when I requested the marquis to bear with me it I addreesed him at some length. "Monsieur be Marquis," I aaid, "& men in love has a power of words at his com- mand when speaking of his love; bat I will not abuse that gift, and will at once allow that ranch of what you have said has aur - prised me. Confident that I had been so fortunate as to gain your charming daughters regard, I was not aware that I had gone so far as to give her the courage of telling you at this stage of affairs all that has passed between us. But her courage gives me courage; for I now know from your own month that I possess her esteem and her girlish affection, and Ism the more proud of this that you have accompanied the announcement by an expression of regret that we should not have met before." "Monsieur be Marquis, neither you or I can commend the instincts which the Almighty has planted within us, to be re- vealed in the time of His choice, and to bring about these ends where and when He has been plowed to deoree their einem- pliahment. ' "11 you had asked rae two days ago whether I had any thought of marriage, I would have laughed the idea to scorn. If you had told me that there existed in the heart of the noble girl who has the privilege of being your daughter the puerity of thought, the warmth of affection, and'the steadiness of purpose which I have found in her during the briefest of acquaintances, I would have believed in it as I do in miracles—that is, I would not have denied the possibility, but strongly doubted the worthiness of morality to embody so much excellence all at once. "The miracle has been wrought notwith- standing, and in my favor. I believe in it BO fully so ardently, and so determinedly, that I am bound to speak to you with the frankness your kind reception of me demands and with the honesty you have a right to demands, to; and Diane has set me an example to copy. You may trust my resolve rather than my honor that the detaile of this affair will not spread. "No one possesses them except yourself and myself; and for Diane's sake, if not for any one else's, I am not likely to give publicity to incidents dear to me and to her, but which cannot, mast not, be made the enbjeot of idle curiosity. "]?hat is my answer to your first request. Aa to the second, I confess that before hearing you I would not have been dis- posed to commit myself to the sacrifice you ask of me; but, since listening to you, I have resolved that I shall do nothing hende- forward to encourage your daughter to die - obey your will; and, in proof of it, I will start for England this evening." The marquis, whose face beamed with satiefaction, was about to make a remark when I stopped him. "Pardon me," I said, "I have more to add. I request permission to answer Msdemoiselle Diane's letter, and therein to inform her of my conversation with you. I propose sending you that better; and as Diane trusted you, so shall I rely on your fairness, your justice, and your honor to remit it into her hands." " Monaieur," said the poor marquis, with tears in his eyes, "1 cannot but be touched by your generosity, your oorreot judgment of my daughter's oharaoter, and your love for her. Poor boy I am truly grieved for you, but the world is large; and though, as a week, foolish, and loving father, I am dispoeed to think like you that Diane has not her equal, still I know the feeling to be aelfieh and conceited, and I am sure so high-minded a young man will find his reward, as his great merits deserve." "Do not, for God's seke, mietake me, Monsieur le Marquis. I am not giving up the thought of marrying Mademoiselle Diane—I am not likely to think of any one else as long as I live; but I shall not en. courage her to disobey your wishes, bee cause I now have no doubt whateoever that I occupy in her loyal soul the plaoe she has conquered in one brief second in mine, and that when the hour COMOS when I oen ap- proach you again to beg that you will give us your consent to our union, you may have no canes to reproach me with ungentlemaealike conduct in the past. Here the marquis shook my hand vice Iently and said, "When some day you are a father, and have an only daughter whom you love as much as ib is possible to love a being in this world—when, to keep her from harm's way, from the ionise of a century too fall of temptetion for human strength to resist them all, you find an honorable man of rank, of station, and of fortune, who will make her loved, respected, and prosperous, maybe you will remember what it costs me to see that all my plena for her happihess are set at naught—that all the nights I have spent waking, think- ing of her good only, are so many wasted hours—and Met suddenly, when all was settled and arranged, you came like a wild element to disturb what it had taken so many anxious hours to arrange," "Monsieur le Marquis, it will ever be so in Peewee as long as the Are of youth is ignored, or the wisdom of age endeavorrs to extingnish its flame. 1 wish you good -by; but if I am a wild element suddenly introduced into your household to 0EACISO evil, follow your daughter's advice 'Ma night; be the lightning conductor whioh wares off the dorm" The marquis rang the hell and con- duoted me to the door. (To be Continned) Amye--/ luta° each a headache! What would do it good? Jesok—Try a ctm of green tem Amy—Ob, no, not for the world! Green doesn't snit my ooneplexion at ell. Dr. le, V. Pierce, the celebrated patent medicitie man and millionedee of Buffalo, hes been ened by Williem Eh Wyse, of Neve York, for slieneting the Offs:Aims of Mra, Wyee. ter00111 ENTERPRISES. New concerns Gazetted and *empowered to do Business. The following joint stook companies are Whetted -to -day : The Widdifield Eleotrig Brake Co., with Anson T. Button and W. P. Widdifield, of Uxbridge, S. S. Fuller, of Stratford, James Lockhart, S. P. Mo. Kinnon, T. R. Fuller and Hugh Blain, of Toronto, charter members ; capital etock 0300,000 end head effioe at Toronto, Niagara ter Queeneton Land Eleotrio Co., with. S. J. Demon, M. P., of Port Arthur, J. A. McCrea, of Niagara Falls, A. Larder Aabill, of Si. Settlers, Jersey, Eng., W. H. Dean end W. H. Langlois, of Toronto, as promoters ; 'oepital stook e900,000 and ohief office at Toronto. Kingsville Natural Gee dr Oil Co., with J. H. Sneerer 8. Wigle, James Brown, S. A. King, L. Malott, D. Conklin, Andrew Wigle, E. Soratoh, J. W. Bird, J. A. Fitch, all ot Kingsville, as pro- moters ; oepital etook of e43,740 and head office at Kingsville. Hendrie Co„ with Wm. Hendrie, J. S. Hendrie'J. W. Hen- drie, Wm. Hendrie, jun., of Hamilton, S. Hendrie, of Detroit, and G. M. Hendrie, of Detroit, as promoters; capital stook of $300,000 and head office at Hamilton. The Ammonia Co., of Toronto, have obtained an increase of e10,000 in their capital stook. It now stomas at $50,000. Opening of the Big Tunnel. We understand that the Tunnel Celebra- tion Committee, after several informal conferences, have agreed upon the ontlines of a programme for the auspicious occa- sion. It has been decided, we understand, to hold the grand banquet in the tunnel itself. The table is to be 1,000 feet long, and looated so as to be 500 feet on each side of the internationel boundary. The chair- man is to be seated exectly on the line. On the Canadian side of him will be the Presi- dent of the United States and on the Amerman side the Governor-General of Canada, while Ministers of State and other notables from both oonntries will be jade. °lonely disposed. The tunnel will be brilliantly lighted by eleotrioity, and the decorations will be entrusted to a corps of special artists. The expenses of the great demonstration are to be defrayed entirely by private 'subscription, the corporations of Sarnia and Port Huron not to be called upon for a dollar.—Sarnia uanadian. Temperance in the Army. The last annum' report of the Army Tem- perance Association, composed of members of the British army in India and Burmah, records some facts of deep medical hygienio interest. There has been an increase during the year of 1,346 abstainers. In seventy-two regimento and batteries, with a total complement of 40,034 men, there were 10,163 enrolled in, the temperance society, or 24.5 per cent. Of these latter none appeared before a general, two in 1,000 before a distriot, one in 1,000 before is regi- mental, couramartial ; 41 in 1,000 were treated in hospital; and the mortality was only three per 1,000. Snob returns afford strong testimony of the healthfulness of temperance in hot olimateo, and not seldom under unpropitious oironmetances. The actual money value of the increasing sobriety of our Indiensoldiers, in heighten- ing the efficiency of the force as a fighting power, is by no means inconsiderable.— British, Medical Journal. Jones Could Go Ahead. Boston Hearld : When Sam Jones was presohing in a western town some time ago. he was annoyed by es young ,man who was whispering to his girl, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. Finally the preacher could stand the interruption no longer, so he looked straight at the young man and eaid "1 will pause until the young man in the back of the room gets through talking." The silence was intense, and every eye was on the young man, who was still whispering to his girl. Me had been so busy that he had not caught the preacher's censure. Mr. Jones repeated his remark, and this time the young man heard him. Not an instant did he hesitate to square himself. While everyone was watching him, he looked squarely at the preacher and said: "Go right ahead, Mr. Jones, you are not bothering me." She Hnew. Indianapolis Journal: At the Table d'Hote.—Mr. Watts—What are you staring at that couple for? Mrs. Watts—I know it is none of my - business, but I was just wondering whether they are married or engaged. Mr. Watte—Which one is doing most of the sating? Mrs. Watts—He is. Mr. Watts—They're married. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Stage Manager—Mr. Heavy, you will take the part of Alonzo. Mr. Heavy—I have never seen this play. Do you think I can please the audience in that part? Stage Metnager--Immensely. You die in the first sot. , Angleworms Without Digging. It is aaid that a good way to secure angleworms for bait is to make a strong solution of salt water and aprinkle it over the ground thoroughly, where the worms are likely to be found, when they will speedily crawl out. This is a method that involves no labor and discounts the use of a spade on a warm day.—Albany Express. AL Hard Life. Benevolent Lady (to tramp)—Here, my poor man, is all we have left this morning. I, suppose you he,ve a hard time of it? Tramp—Yee, mum. It's awful hard, mum, to leave a nice soft hay -move so early in the mornine or else gib around ioo late fer breektese —New York Freckly. "El-"oquent Verse. Windsor Record : There is an old infantry colonel, Whose language is simply infolonel ; His language is ouch— Though he swears most in Dutch— That 'twill not do to print in this jolonel. Mn HisixoN, M. P. for Clanterbury, Eng- land, who has spent a month or two in America, studying the postal system, with a view to inducing ahe Governments inter- eatecl to introduce a penny postage ocean services, has sailed for home, fully satisfied of the feasibility of the scheme. Although five cent postage is charged by the Govern- ment for is letter from New York to Queenstown or Liverpool, the steamships carrying the mails only tecseive one cent for each letter, Mr. Heaton points to the amazing growth of correspondence between the United States and the British Idea, In 1879, 8,400,000 letters were sent from the former country and in 1889, 24,606,000, the member having neatly trebled in ten • years. With penny postage Mr. Heaton believes this correspondence will be Mare velonaly inoteased. Two °ante will oetreY an Amerioan letter to British Columbia, Alaska and Mexico, and yet the IMMO earn will not take it to Great Britain, He agrees with Sir Rowland Hill, who deolared that is farthing would oompeneete ehipowneret beersuse the inOrban0 of lettere would repay them. NO OVERHEAD WIRES ereiNeeN, A. Model EleenitAluiegLigaruht:zir. ngvSystem In Bir - At Birmingham, 'England, a Plant is udder coestruotion for the electric light- ing of is large area of the city, including all , the public buildings, the principal conameroial houses and hotels. The low tellBiOla system will be used and the cur- rent will average less than 150 volts. The generating phut is laid out with is view to future extensions, and the present buildings will cover a quarter cf an acre. The dynamos will each drive 3,000 Moan - dement -lights, but the first arrangeraent will provide for an aggregate of only 5,000 sixteen candle.power lamps. The current will be oonveyed underground in feeding mains with which small distributing mains will be connected. The feeding mains ooneist of copper strips resting on glass insulators fixed it concrete culverts under the foot. ways, with manholes at frequent intervals. The distributing mains are insulated cables of copper wire, laid in ortaniron troughs and surrounded with bitumen. These troughs are laid in the ground a little below the 'surface, and at intervals of twenty or thirty yards there are connecting boxes from which the current is conveyed to consaniers' promisee through copper bare. The unit of °barge for electric light in Birmingham will be the supply required to run seventeeen lamps of eighteen candle- power for one hour. For this service the oompeny is authorized to charge 20 cents, but it is intended that the price at the start will be fixed at 16 cents. Reducing this to the basis of the sixteen candle- power lamp, which is most generally used in this country, 16 cents would pay for nineteen sixteen candle-power lamps for one hour. This is a little over 8 10 of a cent per hour. What it reels Like to be Drowned. A yachtsman, who fell into the water and was only rescued al ter he had lost all consciousness, them describes his esperi- once : The sensation of drowning is the strangest in the world. Being so unlike anything I am acquainted with in my daily life I am at is loaa for a compterison. I went down, of course. three times, the way all (?) drowning people do. The first time I had no thought of death, simply of life, for which I straggled with all my strergth. But no help came, and LAS I sew the shore fade from my view as the waters closed over my head is sadden transition in thought and feeling came over me. In a flash I real- ized that I was doomed, that my hour had come, and that a wide and illimitable future would momentarily be revealed to me. Then again the straggle of mind and body against the elements. I must live ; I must not die. I was not ready to die. My life has been so short, and so much remained unfulfilled. In one great and overpowering flool of feel- ing there suddenly embed over me all my dee& of other days, all the wrong I bad ever done, all the evil of my life, all the short- comings, failings and weakness of my past oareer. A frenzy of terror possessed me. Then came a sudden transition from the horrible to the ecstatic. The waves be. came soft as downy pillows; the noisea in my ears were ohanged to a delicious, sleep. inspiring harmonies, while my thoughts themselves became sweet and soothicg as in eome vague,' enchanting dream. The numbness that stole over ray senses was the dull, cold touch of death; but to meit was also the fullness and the ecstasy of life. When I was finally resnecitated they told me I had been down seven minutes, and that even the bravest among them had given up hope. BasebalL STANDING AT THE CLOSE. The National and Playera' Leagues closed a disastrous season on Saturday. Brook. lyn wins the National League champion- ship and Boston the Players' League. The American Association has not yet com- pleted the season. The standing of the other big leagues is: NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Played. Percent 86 431119 '6 Brooklyn 136 Chicago 83 53 .610 131 Philadelphia 78 53 *595 130 Cincinnati 77 55 .583 139 Boston ' ‘ 75 57 .568 New York 131 63 68 .481 132 Cleveland 44 88 .333 Pittsburg 2 135 3 112 .170 PLATErts' LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Played. Per cent Boston 81 48 129 .628 New York 75 56 131 .578 Brooklyn 76 57 138 .571 Chicago - —... 76 60 136 .559 Philadelphia ..... 68 63 131 .519 Pittsburg • 59 69 128 .461 Cleveland ...... 55 76 191 .415 Buffalo 36 95 131 .269 Will Confess in Time Dundee Banner: The Hamilton Teems is not satiafied with Birchen's story that he had an accomplice. But surely this is doing pretty well. Give the man another week or two and he will probably tell the whole story. Efe has got halt way already. Tau people of New York State are getting ready for the November elections. The voting will be done under what is known as the Sexton ballot law, which appears from the following extract to be a most complicated measure: On receiving his ballots—whieh will probably consist of a set of five, republican, democratic, prohibition, labor and blank ballot—the voter shall retire alone to one of the booths and pre - pars his ballot. He has the privilege of writing or pasting upon bus ballot the name of any person for whom he desires to vote for any office, and can take with him a printed ballot of his own selectiop or preparation, to be known as a pastor ballot, containing the names of all the offices to be filled and of the candidates there- for for whom he desires to vote, which pastor ballot may be gummed on the back, and the voter may paste the whole of such pester on any of the official ballots below the stub. Any name so written or pasted upon the ballot shall be deemed the choice of the voter, not- withstanding the name of another candidate for the same office may be upon the original ballot without being erased, covered or concealed by the writing or pasting. He is also at liberty to use or copy any unofficial sample ballot to 119410t him in preparing the official ballot. All patitm's shall he of white paper and must be printed in type uniform with that required to be used upon the ballots, in plain black ink, A pester when attached to is ballot must be so arranged that when folded no portion of such paster shall be visible. Atter preparing his ballot, and before leaving the booth, the voter is to fold all ballots delivered to him intim middle, lengthwise and then crosswise, but in such is way that the con- tents of the ballot shall be concealed, and the stubs can be reineved without exposing any of the contents of the ballots. The voter is then ready to vote; but before his vote is to be re- ceived the number upon the Stubs of his ballots is to be called out to the poll clerks, who must see that the number upon the stubs corresponds with the nmnber noted against the voter s name on the poll list. The inspectors are di_ected to remove the stub train each ballot Voted, in pone view of the Voter, without unfolding or disclosing the contents of the ballot, before it IS deposited in the ballot box. The voter mast then surrender an billets not voted by him; the stub4 of these ballots linnet also be removed, end the unarmed ballots deposited in auother box, and after the votes east are an banyassed the ballots contained in the second box aro to be burned withoUt any examination of their °entente.. "You know, Fanny, 1 pinked out old elquaretoes as a Sete hueband for ray daughter, mad invited him to dinner almost daily for is month. Knowing that he was something of is gourmand I engaged en expensive cook—a real cordon bleu—and et I the end of the thirty &sere do you know what happened?" " No.," "Why' he married the cook." FOR THIS CHIME or alit:triune, strange peatti of au Innocent Man on tha Gallows. Om beers of the leveyere' dusty and ninety tomes," but as is matter of feat the records of the leter court make it librare as parlous end exciting enema as leen be found in the whole range of &aim. There is the Beeman °see in 1811, for inetenee : A respeatoble merchant named James /3axwell, born at London, had removed in early life to Gibraltar. For many years he carried on a successful traffic) in all Ma articles of British manufacture introduced, into Spain, and his name was one of credit in all the principal houses of exchauge in Europe. He had an only daughter, a beau- tiful ghee/ 17, who loved and wise loved in return by William Katt, is young English... man who had first seen Elezia at metes in the Catholic ohuroh. At last Kett presented himself to the merohant and said : " 1 am, like yourself, an Engliehnian. I am of respeatehle family and oharaoter, young and wealthy. Give me yonr daughter—we love each other." " Never,' answered Baxwell, neverf Yon belong io the denozninant religion oE England by vvhich my fathers suffered sae muoh and so long. You are a, Lutheran and my daughter is is Catholic. Such en anion could not be happy, nor will I ever give my consent to it. Elezia shell never be yours 1" The daughter, informed of this declara- tion, threw herself at the feet of her father, and endeavored to move him from his pur- pose. Her lover did the same. Bat the father remained obdurate, and a violent scene took place. The blood of the fiery South coursed in the daughter's veins. and she declared that she would marry the object of her choice, despite all oppa- si tien. Baxwell, on the other hand, declared that he would sooner kill her with his OWIE hands than permit tbe union. Katt, who was present at the scene, kept silence. Two days efterward an alarming mesa was heard by the neighbors to issue from a cave immediately adjoining the merohant's house, and used by him for domestio pur- poses. The noise consisted itt first of load. cries whioh gradually Whine fainter and fainter, and at length died away altogether. Those who heard it looked at eaoh other wish amazement, and many were their. conjectures. A solution of the mystery was not long in suggesting itself, for Elezie had disap- peared, and, after many low murmurs had, circulated, the father was interrogated re- specting his daughter. He said that sher was missing, certainly but whither she had gone he knew not. This explanation was not satisfactory. The whisper wenn abroad that Baxwell had eseasainated his daughter. to prevent he, marriage with Katt, and after a few days he was &needed:. The dwelling of the merohent was examined, but nothing criminatory Waft found. "The cave! the cave is the piece t" oried some of the crowd. The magistrates then descended into thee °eve, and there, on litting some loose atones, they found a portion of Elezie's drew sprinkled all over with blood. They elect discovered is email quantity of heir, clotted with gore, and that heir was recognized by many as having been taken from the head of Elezia. Baxwell protested his inno- cence. Bet the evidence seemed strong against him, and he was convicted and condemned to death. When he was led out to the soaffold, he saw among others Katt, who, as it should have been said be- fore, was the most important witneele against him at the trial, having repeated . to the court the threat of assassination which Baxwell had uttered against Elazig, in his presence. When the doomed man. saw Katt, he exclaimed; "My friend, in one minute I shall be in eternity. I wish to die in peace with all men. Give me your hand—I pardon you freely for the hz- jury your evidence has done to me." Baxwell rand this with some composure, but the effect of his word° upon Katt was very striking. The latter became pale ea death, and could not conceal the depth of. his agitation. Baxwell mounted the steps of the gallows slowly, and gave himself up, to the hands1 the executioner, to undergo death by the rope. The black cap was drawn over his heed, and the last fatal step in the process was about to be taken, when suddenly a loud cry shrieked up from the aide of the soaffold " It is I who am guilty—I. alone ?" The ory came from Wm. Ke,tt. The magistrates in attendance instently had him brought forward, and he then avowed that he had carried off Elezia, with her consent, to be his wife, and that she was now residing not far off, in conceal- ment. He stated further that he had never oommunioated to her the other measures he. had taken, chiefly to revenge himself for the scorn of her father. He hed contrived to out off a portion of he hair while she slept. He had clotted it with the blood of e. lamb, and had also sprinkled in the same way a part of Elezia's drew, which he had purloined. These artioles he. had plaoed in the cave, and there also he had himself emitted the cries which at the trial had borne so heavily against the merchant. The generous pardon which the merchant had bestowed on him at the scaffold had awakened remorse in his breset, and compelled him to avow the truth. This confession was made partly lee the scaffold and partly afterward. When Katt cried out his guilt, the exe- cutioner turned to Baxwell to take from him the insignia of death. The un- fortunate man he,d sunk down into a, posture. The black oap WAS drawn off by the executioner. But Baxwell was dead t No exertiona had the slightest effect in awakening in him the epark of life. Katt was 'mulched by imprigonraent, and Elezia retired to a aonvent. A Money Lender. I recall the money lender of our town—a olosedisted, overbearing fellow—who was one of the most enthusiastio &teeth mem. bars in the place. On one °cession he is said to have prayed in meeting for more interest in heaven. The profeneet man in town ovetheard him and offered up his prayer. It was : Don't give him more interest in heaven, 0 Lord, for he's getting 5 per cent A month here." As I reinetnber it the popular feeling was with the profane mane—Exchange. :Not in Love IN ith, Chicago. , "So you are going to live,. in Clhicagnee mid one lady to another in a New Yorkoare "Id/Vele you have my syinpathy." " Why, isn't Chicago a Moe place to live "I've lived there two years," VMS the "and I tell you that I would rather be is lemp.post in Neve York than Mayor of Chicago." John G. Millais, son of Sir John Millaisevvho is now with his regiment at Port George, is gathering materials for a, book tipen grouse in the Highlands. Mr. , Nineties is devoted to the study of !littoral history, and during hie stay in the Nor* is likely to Make 'mate interesting edditions to his Meted), large oolleeelon.