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The liloater of the Ciouae.
(Washington l'os,)
io caanot walk, las cannot speak.
Nothing he InADWO of booke or woo;
lEle is the weakest of tho mem,
And not strength to hold a PM
De has uo pocket and no purse,
No ever yet has owned a Penny)
But has more riches than his WIrSO,
Because he wants not any.
rulee his parents by a cry,
And holds them captive by a suthe
A despot strong through infancy,
A king from lack ot guile.
He nos upon his back and crows,
Or looks with gave eyes no his mother,
What can he mean? l3ut I suppose
They understand each other,
In -doors and out, early and late—
There is no limit to his sway;
For, wrapt in baby robes of state,
co governs night and clay.
Kisses he takes as rightful due,
And Turk-litte has his save a to dress him
is subjects bend before him, too,
I'm one of them. God bless him.
The Little &lento.
Oh, pull the little plenic out
And wave its little fiag,
Its knees aro neither strong nor stout,
But do not let them sag !
It meaneth pretty girls in white,
11 mes.noth musio sweet by night,
It meaneth balm and sof t moonlight,
bo pull the picnic out.
Oh, pull the little picnic out
And place it in the sum
To make it strong. -to make it stout
For the labor to be done!
It meanetla evening in thepark,
it meaneth hours oa drifting bark,
11 meaneth kisses in the dark,
So pull tho picnic out.
awe Kean.
THE DOCTOR.
---nn----
" Yoaire almost as fond as master," said
she. " It Was only lest night that he laid
his arms about its neok, as it stood with
its paws on his chest, and I do believe there
was more than one tear on its coat when
he put it fronahim."
"Why, what was dope doing to be so
ranch noticed 2 ". asked Letty, ns she led
the way into the parlor, the dog following
dose behind, whiniag and sniffing at
every step he went, as thoagh seeking some-
thing.
n *6 Oh ! nothing in parameter, Mies," re-
plied Judith, "only I suppose mater felt
sad at parting ; ho was always main fond
ollJepp—always."
A sudden f !datum come over Letty,
and she turned the handle of the door
several times before she imuld manage to
open it.
n At porting, Juaith 1" she Boni. "Did
Dr. Leonard leave Fenraore last night? "
'Yee, Miss Letty, and I'd made euro
you knew," replied Judith. "He went late
in the eventng, and he woald not as maoh.
as let John delve him to the station •, he
welked off by himself in the dusk, with his
portmanteau in his hand, just as any poor
lone man might have done,"
Doing her best to appear calm, Letty sat
down to the table, and poured, out a aup of
coffee, and while that was being drunk by
the tined woman, for Judith had walked a
long a istanae that morning, she went back
to the window and knelt there, with one
hand resting 00 Tepp's glossy neck.
"And didn't the doctor call here, Miss
Laity ? " asked Judith.
"No," replied. Letty, " and he has not
been here since Monday lask, and he did
not stey then, for my father was out."
"Well, now, I wonder at that," said
Jadith ; "but I suppose he is too ill to
mina."
"Ill 1" cried nit—terror- hi- ter low, (Siena
immeen" Wee Dr. Lennard ill when he
went away front home last night? "
" Indeed ha was, Miss," replied Judith—
" motewere and ill than ever 1 thought to
Se3 hint—unit a fine man as he was, and
hie father before him—a fine a man as you
could gee in a long day's ride. And he's a
young men, Mise Letty—he's quite a young
man ei1i, though he's aged and grave for
his years mitylaap, but he's had sore
trouble to make him."
"Yee, yes ; I know he has," said Letty.
"Bus I wonder he should go away and be
ill."
" Well, Miss," spoke up the good woman,
boldly, her honest, motherly facie all aglow,
and one brown, einewly hand smoothing
her lap vigorously, " I think, if I may make
so bred es to jadge, that it is not his body
eo rouch es his mind that is ill and ailing.
Last night when I eaw theit he was going
off like that, onerying his own bag, which
wasn't right, and refusing in his quiet,
mournful way, all help from John and me,
as though he couldn't bear to trouble us,
my very heart felt fit to break; and I put
on my bonnet and cloak, and followed him
right off to the station. I dared not let
butt ED much as catch a flying peep of me,
for you know what a gentleman master is to
be obeyed, and he had said positive as none
of no was to go with him; but I think if
he had gone away like as he wanted, with
no one to wish him a Godspeed,' it would
have laid heavy on my mind to my dying
day. So I just waited about till I saw him
get into the train, and settle himself by the
window with his paper to read; but little,
I think, he was heeding the printed worde,
for his eyes kept wandering up and down,
as it he was seeking for someone, till I
fairly trembled lest they should fall on
me. Bat for all he looked so, I don't think
he saw much as was going on; for once, as
I went nearer to the edge of the platform,
a porter cs,me along, pushing a heavy
trunk before him, and to get out of his
way I had to pass right before the window
of mentor's carriage; but blees yon, bliss
Letty, he never so ram& as saw me."
The faithful servant's eyes were brim-
ming with tern's, and Letty, her face
pressed close against the ease, looked out on
the linden sky and the leaded sea in silence.
The last glicapee I had of his face se
the train was tearing past, I shall never
forget, Miss Letty—never, were 1 to live a
hundred years; a faoe, so white, and
pinohed, and sorrowful, I hope never to
see again."
A step Bounded in the hall, and a soft
voice giving soros direotiona to a servant,
and Judith got tap, and rubbing the '
corner of her shawl briskly across her eyea,
prepared to deport, for the voice WW1 that
of Mr. Athertont who had never looked
with a friendly eye npori Judith.
44 I will go now, Aliso tatty," said the old
woman; and Inn euro I thank you kindly
for the cup at coffee, and I hope the next
time I see you, you'll be looking more like
youreelf."
"Thin* you, Judith. Good morning,"
replied Letty, absentedly, to this little
speech, and, kiseieg japp once more, she
left hint free to go after her.
On the threshold ;Judith !met Mrs.
Atherton face to face. She did not step,
but with a deep courtesy, which met with
a very slight recognition, she went on her
way, cut into the lane, and toward her
home, Jepp following her. "
" Zdy dear," naked Ittra. Atherton,
blandly, as site entered the parlor, 66 what
broaght that woman here tine morning e
Jadith was paeeing, and I called her
wee the reply,
"Ob, indeed I' said Mee. Athezton.
That wee all, but it moan* a great deal,
and Letty kaew it aid but ehe would not
appear te Mina it.
11Irt. Atherton rang the looll aherply, and
when the servant canoe, bode her to re.
move the breakfast things, her tone imply.
ing that they elmuld have been taken away
long since.
"You had better write to Minas Poya.
ton," she said to Letty, as she was going
Out of the room. " I think it quits time
you totd them whether you are going or
not."
"1 will writs this monolog, It will do
in an hour or so," said Dotty, glancing at
her oostlY little watch, one of the troaeurea
of her brief heireag-thip.
She went uponairs to her own room au
she spoke, and once there, looked herself
in.
The room Was as small au it was the first
night Letty ley down to :deep in it,
long before wealth had anowered upon
her. It looked out on the earn° little strip
of garden and lonely stretth of yellow
sand, with the great sea boundary line;
and there the line ended. In those days
the small tvtiite bed was draped with the
eimpleet white draperiee, and on the tiny
painted eteaeing table stood a tiny painted
glass thot awung between thin poles de.
void of ornament, and the white boards
were sparely covered with strips of druggot.
Now the mall couch was a tiny nest of
snowy lace and linen, and on the well.
furnished dressieg room table is glass,
almost too large for the room, swung
between DTP MASSiVO oarved pillars. There
was a thick, rich carpet on the floor, all
a.bloom with lilies and rues ott a delicate
gray ground, and on the walls hung some
extiellent, well-chosen water.color aketchee.
Altogether, for its size, there was not a
prettier, oozier room in the kiugdom ; even
the pale November light, coming through
the sweepiteg curtains of pink and white
that fell over the old•faehioned, deep.
seated window, seemed to shiae clearer in
that roont than ha any other in the house.
Letty had grown sconstomed to all this
luxury, even aa she had been amentoraed
to the scanty furniture in the days gone
by; and it made no intpreesion on her.
She went and flung herself down on the
broad, low, window -seat, and drew the
delicate lace curtains round her as este.
ladyas she would have drawn the simple
muslin ones that used to hang there. She
gathered herself up in a heap, so to speak,
and olasped her arms round her knees, and
rested her face on them, and sat there
perfectly still for is little time.
There was a greet yearning of pity in
her heart as Letty thought of that lonely
man, sitting with his white, sorrowful face,
!milting out on Fenmore, in the chill dusk
of a November evening, gray, murky and
miserable. She saw, in imagination, that
pale, sorrowful fame, ati plainly as if she
and not Judith, had stood on the platform,
and watched it flying past. She felt with
a shrinking pain, that the settled look of
sorrow on that weary face had its origin in
something connected with herself. Sue
loved him too well not to know that his
heart was not cold to her, and again and
again ehe wished that this ill-fated money
had never coma to her—that she Was till
plein, poor Letty.
"1 should know then," she said, "ib he
Loved. He would be free to omen and tell
me so, if he did; but, as it is, hie pride
draws hira baok, and we may die, loving
each other, and never telling our love."
And then thie picture ehe had drawn
seemed so pitiful to her, that she buried
her face in her olaeped hannle, and burst
into passionate sobbing.
"1 shall never see him again!" she
wailed. " Oh I be might have come and
said good -by.' If only for one little minute,
he might have cor."
lorTkitehtlietrifi'i away from lee fiew and
stood for a few seconds geeing dreamily at
her own dark reflaotion itt thit mirror.
"1* is veryplain," she said, astily, humbly
almost, as though in being so shewaskullty
of some wrong—" so very pique Was no
wonder he cares little for leaving -me." ,
But her letter roust be written iitnetaneta
at all; and Latty sat down th'hittatlittle
table to write it.
The Misses Poynton were new-rahatt
friende, but to all appearances they Were,
very tree ones; and they had Bent ihik
kindest ef lettere ema three weeks before,
inviting Latty to their lionse—a pleasant
enongh mansion, by all accounts, standing
in the midst of its own grounds on the out-
skirts 01 a breezy Yorkshire moor. She
had not cared to go then—she did not care
to go now, but for a very different reason;
still, any piece wound be better than Fen.
more, she thought, for the time being; stud
this letter was to tell them when they might
expect her. It was not in time for the early
post. When Mrs. Atherton osme knocking
for it, the had to go away again empty-
handed.
"11 is not quite finished," Letty caned
out to her from within; but she did not
open the door lest her pale face and red
eyes should tell too plainly why the letter
was not finielaed.
"11 might have been written twice over,"
thought Mrs. Atherton, as she sailed
leisurely down. stairs, bat she said nothing.
When the letter wee finished, it was kola
a scrawl that Letty was ashamed to send
ao she tore it up and began to write
another. Her head was throbbing, her
hand burning end unsteady; writing at all
was positive pain to her; but she persevered,
and managed at length to write a letter that
was not all blots and scratches.
It was now noon, and the children were
trooping by to their dinners front out the
one school of Fenmore. The narrow lane
was eohoing again to their cells and cries ;
and as Letty stood quietly watching them
as they went tearing and hurryingpast, one
little fellow, looking up, saw her and smiled.
It was is cripple boy, the son of ono of the
fishermen, and once the plague and terror
of all the children round. He had been a
cripple from his birth, and the misfortune
bad Boated what would, perhaps, under no
circumstances, have been a very sound or
sweet temper.
This child, deformed, neglected, eavage,
utterly miserable, soon attracted Dr. Len.
nerd's notice—hie pity and help also, when
he saw the real condition of the boy. He
did what no one bad ever done before but
the dead mother, to whom this little weak-
ling had been far dearer than the other
eleven brown -legged, sturdy urchins all pat
together. He spoke hindly to him; he had
him up to his own home, and while he saw
that all euro for floe body was hopeleas, he
sot about saving the poor, wayward soul.
As a natural consequence, the lad poured
out nil the love of Ilia passionate heart on
the doctor. For the guerdon of a smile, he
made hiroso}f almost gentle; for a Wold of
praise, he gni:glued tte well es he could his
fierce, quarrelsome nature, and sat
patiently over hitt hooks in the village school.
room, withbut aeizingt as formerly, every
chance of initiating pain on his next-door
neighbor, Saab is change was too great not
to be marvelled at; and when the ohildren
fottnd that their fierce cOmpanion was al.
most tamed, they otowded about him and
made much of him, thinking more of is
soft answer from "Cron aohnny " than
they would have thought of a real sacrifice
from any other.
• Thiel, then, was the ohild who, looking
tip, smiled at Letty; and the sight of that
grave little face, with its Matfett eyes, onoe
do fierce in their light, glancing up softly at
her, brought Dr, Leonard and hie many
kindly generotte deeds PO tenthly before hor
that she looked down on the boy through is
blinding mist 01 team.
The troop poled by, the crippled lad the
lett to &Appear, and Letts, eat looking out
drearily, her heart end brain both numbed
with !sharp pain. She had no reaeon for
saying, eo ; she had never heard it even in
the idleet vilinge goesip, but the kept re.
pooting I; over end ever to herselt, holt
unthinkingly " shall never eee him agnin ;
he will not come beak to Fenimore." She
seemed as one who, atondiug out alone oa
some ragged headland, pointing into tne
"a, P&P/ on one eide heavy storramionde
drifting up lo overwhelm her, and on the
other side the °leer, light of noon; bat the
brightness Deemed going from her farther
away every inatent, and the dark c/ond
wrack drawing nearer, till she loot 311 hope
of ever emerging from out the shadow of
then heavy darkness.
She loved Dr. Lennard with all her heart,
end he Wra8 gone from her. He loved her,
oho hoped, the knew; still he wee gone.
What probability was there that he would
ever mire to come back again? The hope
01 winuing his lova openly one day had
shone down upon her like the light of a
blessed noon, that hope was dying out, it
had died. The thought of spending a lite.
time at Fenmore witdont his lova was a
heavy blackness; and sitting there in he
own little room, looking out on the shifting
grey 000 and the palely shining yellow
sands, site felt that blsokness surge and
settle round her, never more to be lifted up'
Hearing the sound of wheels on the gravel,
and looking down, theteaw the trap sten&
ing before the door, evidently welting M
carry Mr. Leigh to the etation. She hae
forgotten all about the strange letter and
this hasty journey, and alas went heath
down now, to bid her father goodeby.
He stood in the hall, giving some parti
direction:3 to Mrs. Atherton, the well.pleas
smile still on hie facie, struggling through
thin veil of myeterioue importance. Be
was warmly muffled already, for theday
was chill, and the night would be chillier
mall, and it would be deep night before he
could reach London; but Letty, kissing
him, drew the high collar of his coat still
closer round his neok.
"Don't stay away longer then you ca
help, father. I wish you had not to go at
all," she staid, ;flinging to him.
"Do yoa indeed 2 " said he. " Then, like
many another, you wish a vary foolisb
thing. It it more for your sake than ray
I
own then I am going."
"Oh I father, if it is only on my aocount
you are going, do stay," oriecd Letty. " ;
wonIcl rather have you stay with me than
anything thia visit could rave me. Do stay,
father."
He put tor arm from aboat his neck,
little crossly.
"You know nothing of what you are
talking about," he said, getting into the
trap, and settling the rug across his knees.
1 "1 shell send the trap baok with Mrs.
' Haire boy. Good -morning, ladies."
He gave the horse is smart touch with
the whip os he :make, and dashed off for
the station.
Letty's talking had made it is hard met•
ter for Mr. Leigh to reach the station in
time for the up.treiti for London. If he
missed that he would have to wait till the
next day before he coald go. Seemingly he
had no intention of missing it, for he was
making the horse go almost at fall speed
between the high, narrow hedges.
Mrs. Atherton went indoors immediately.
Letty stood in the porch, gazing wiettally
after her father. Her lot in his appeared
very sad-oolored as she got a glimpse of it
then—always the same duties, the same
weary round; one day the sample of the'
tutsuy, xviah =to on° but her father 'to live
for, end he an old man.
"Will it never end 1" she thought, as
she stood there. "Any change mast be for
the better."
Presently she went in -doors, and down to
the kitchen, to see that Jane was getting
ready for the early dinner—for of late Mrs.
Atherton had left many of what some
people might think ought to be her own
duties, to Letty's °ere.
t
n CHAPTER V.
. .
"Won WOHAN HE um Mink I4'11S TO minim"
.,
•
"114y lehange must- ,the better,"
saidtafittenIter 7 at dull No-
la catty thee
ya
vernb mornin da "
has so thodghIUOE
at one time wasnlithe
sick of the not:Moto*
would Lave Intiledlan
Toiling along in Wel
looked ap toward i
peaks, towering so aw
so grand in their stren
paesionate, rebellious 6
thoge glowing summilat
smiles of the morningen
their graves with that 10h
others have reached di'
giant hills, and found, rh
if the first glory of the am
down upon them, the fleet ter
the primmer storm, the &et
of the winter hail descended
we are lowly, we would fain beh
high we look down longingly on
hambly plodding on in their safe,
track.
The fickle, human heart is ever
after change. Discontented with 6
tired of our present, how many of
out, like fretful children, for a new
be turned in the book of our life
dream of such noble characters to ,
printed thereon, such thrilling nod
truth and worth, and when the pa
turned, we too often find it stained,'
tears, and let us thank God if they are
only blots upon it.
"Any chimp must ba for the better,"
said Letty Leigh, and as ehe spokes change
was drawing near to her, though she did
not know it—is change so great that it
would make those few short months of
prosperity appear as the fevered vition of is
dream, her present pain a ohildigh petulance,
not to be counted among the real troubles
of lifd.
"1 am going to Ralston," she mid, wh' en
she mei Mrs. Atherton at 'inner, "and I
have written to Laura to say she may ex-
pect me on Saturday next."
"Very good, dear," said Mee. Atherton,
smiling," I think yon need the change."
world who,
e we not attt
tired an
a- &tat n
.ta nide
et we hati
mountain
beatify,:
gad,
timers among tut who are ever uppregent.
able—ie juet the time of all otherthat
some one pops in to eee 00.
Letty did not escape this fate—vvhy
should she ? Heiresses are only roortale,
and breaktaat wail scarcely over when,
chancing to look up, she was satoniebed,
startled almost, to see her father peen bts,.
fore the window, Ernest Devereux with
Alra. Atherton saw them, too, and
settled the ribbons of her cap complattently
—sloe was not in deshabille; but Letty rose
haetily, too diaturbed to remember her
fatigne ; ehe was is true women, and her
reaming dress was a fright. So with a few
rapist bounds the esooped up the stairoaes,
aa Mr. Leigh and his companion OtiMe into
the hall.
" Why, who is come, Mrs. Atherton?"
was Mr. Leigh's salutation to that lady, au
she came grecoltilly iforwitrcl to wolootne
hism
"No one, my dear sir," Was the reply;
"but we are about to lose aome one instead.
Mise Lefty is going to -day on is vitat to
Hulaton."
Erneet stopped short in hie greeting to
glance aside et the piled -up boxes, and then
at Mn. 'Leigh's cloudy face.
" Confoundedly hard," he thought, "if I
have gone through all the bother of the
past few weelte, and come here only to find
my last chance slipping ont of any fingere ;
I may pock off back to °Aisle as soon as I
please, atter this."
" Jugt like her perversity, and the per-
versity of things altogelther," Mr. Leigh
was thinking; "bat Pli ems to it that those
boxes ore unpeoked before the bonen out,
or I'll know why."
The two gentlemen had walked from the
station ; they were dusty and tired, and
Mrs. Atherton's cup of good tea waa very
welcome to them.
After breohfaet Ernest Devereux went to
his room, the some he had ()coupled when
with Charles Temple on his former visit.
.Ele found a fire burning brightly on the
hearth, and everything looking homelike
end oomfortoble. But he did not look very
somiortable in mind, whenever he might he
in body, as he Rang himself into the low,
thintz.covered rocking -chair, and laying his
legs over the buffet, sat smoking moodily.
His face wee pale and set, his hard mouth
harder than usual, ocid there WAS a sullen
iight in his blue eyes that reminded one ir-
tesistibly of an animal that felt itself in the
:oils, and saw open to it but one doubtful
thence of escape. His one obance lay in a
speedy marriage with Elizobeth Leigh,
heiress in her own right. Letty Leigh he
liked very well; but Lathy the heireea he
vas not only wiliing, but eager to marry.
•His chance of over doing than seemedsmali
=ugh just at present. The respite he had
non, with infinite pain and endless prom -
nes, from the more pressing of his oreditore,
was but a short one; and if thin throw
Jailed, he had nothing to look forward to
tut an exile in France or elsewhere, until
moll time as his oreditors, weswied of
vatehing for hira, gave up all hope of ever
tettiug their dues.
He had lived is gay life; he hail frothed
mid floated among the creme de la creme, is
tennalegs heir of a good old name, with
tothing to keep it up on. He might have
bten eaid to have lived by his went for some
years, but that it is such is vulgar way of
apreseing it, and Ernest Devereux and hie
kind so shrink from vulgarity. He could
Lye so no longer and he knew ; not he.
ctuse his wits were growing less keen, but
tecause dearly -bought experience WKS
saarpening the wits of many round him.
nhe great shark had gobbled up all the
little fishes in ite neighborhood so long, gest
tte little fishes were growing cautious, end
the great shark found it necessary to move
ntti deeper water, or be gobbled up in turn.
a till things considered, 5 WAS not to be
ondered at that he should puff at hiecigar
et saoagely, nor that the down cushion of
Iiirooking.thair failed to give him eaee.
, "By Java!" he thought, as he sat there,
she goes today it's ail up, and I'm not
mite aura the old fellow Can stop her."
Meanwhile, Mrs. Atherton, commissioned
lot Mr. Leigh, had sought Lett), in her own
nom, whither she had fled on the unlooked-
.
fcr interruption. She had to tell her that
hr father did not wish her to go to Hulston,
a! she had promieed she would; nay, he
dished her not to go; and geeing that her
ttings were ell packed, and herself getting
reedy to start, it was not is vory pleasant
'Mission. But Mu. Atherton was equal to
de occasion, ars all great men or women
should be, and the laid the case down so
early, and showed so foroibly how very
a 41 would be for Letty, the real mistrees
le house, to go away and leave a guest to
7n resources, that Letty, though not
torinvtowied, began to feel very unaoraforteble.
'lint," she urged," I WEIS going before I
, this visit. He must sae that I was,
ereatre my boxes ready corded before
tee
etti to be sure," sesid Mrs. Atherton.
flows you were going to.dey es wen
tit he knows, too, that it would
ourteous of you to leave him,
for one moment expect that he
ould do it."
sorely pnzzled what to do.
get away from Fenmore,
r own heart, if it could ba;
d not, then as for from every-
' Id, jar on that sore heart as
enmore," she cried. "05,
I you oan't know how ranch
1#4,
That wag Tuesday, and by Saturday
morning at breakfast -time Letty had all
her preparations completed. Her boxes
were packed and corded, and her parade
were all piled together in the hall; and Lefty
herself, pide and tired -looking, eat at their
late breakfast, ber hair pushed into is ailk
not, her feet in slippers, and one of the
oldest and plaineet of her morning wrap-
pere round Ser.
It was not is very becoming toilet for it
young heroine, but then there was not a
particle 01 the heroine in Letty. She was
every bit at tired as she looked, and three
times ea miserable; all her best drama
were lying neatly folded in the hall ;her
hair would have to be plaited and twisted
tip artistically for the journey, or rather
for impaction at the end of it, and what
more reasonable than to let it be now, and
to take her breakfast in peace and .quiet,
undisturbed by thought!' of stray waiters
or shabby morning wrappora. Idut the very
time we Ate tho lest fit to be Often—that 5,
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band. His bow in eecog
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inclination which rigid mi
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will, for his lips almoet said
alert and lighted, his air
almost dare to Bey, geriial, en
of the Japanese Jove must be
loyalty with is micrometer.
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THE NANIPUR DISASTER.
Me. Grimwood's Story of the Houma Sho
?mond Through,
THE SIEGE, SLAUGHTER AND FLIGHT
(From Londe's Timm.)
We have been favored by Mies Grit:omen
with the following letter, received yester.
day morning from Icier sieter-in.law, Ales.
Grimwood, widow ot the late Alr. Frank St..
ClIttanirCer:rintwood, who was murdered et
jaira
LAKIIIPUR, CACUAR, April 2, 1891.
Long before thia vetches you you will
have heard from thia newspapers of all that
hos taken place in Manipur, med this is
oray to give you particulars. Frank must
have told you eboat tbe Chief corning with
450 Men of the 42ad Goorkhaa. They kept
us in the dark as to tbeir real reasons foe
coming antil they arrived on the 22nd of
Meech. The Chief then bad a con.
natation with Frank, and decided
to hold a author at once. Word
wee 'sent to the Maharajah to
tell him to come and bring all the Princes
with him, Frank bed meanwhile told me
whet WAS going to happen—viz.'that the
Government of India had cleoided that the
ex•Mithitrajeh was not to ba allowed to re.
tarn'but that also the Jubraj, the Prince
who turned hint out in September, was to
be banished for it tertu of years to India.
This decision was to be announced in the
durbar, and when the Prineea got up to go
the Jahrej was to bo errested then and
there, and conveyed out of the piacte Carat
day by some ot the 42nd. For thia par -
pose the steps to the house wore lined with
Sepoys, and
THE HOUSE GENERALLY SURROUNDED.
The Maher:teeth arrived with his followers
end only one of his brothers out of three,
with the excuse that the other t wo were ill,
and eo were unable to be present. As the
Jubraj was one ot these, the Ohief sail the
darber could not be held without him, and
that he must be pent for. They delayed
four or five hours, but he would nut come,
so there was no durbar, and the Maharajah
went awoy under the nuderstandinn thet
he was to come early on the morning of
the 23rd an bring the Jubraj. The
23rd ttrrived, but the Rejah didttcti turn np,
as he said the Jubraj was ill atilt, and could
not come. This went on the whole day, e,nii
in the evening the Chief decided that Frazalt
lad better go anti Bee the Jubraj, Kell hirn of
the deoLion of Government, and try and
pereuade him to listee quietly and eot itt
accordonce. So Frank went and stayed,
two or three hours telling him, aed trying
itt pereamie hint to go, but he said he would
not, and the Afeharajah refused to give him
up. Frauk then told him that the &moats
woold be sent to get hira. However, he
would not give in, so Frank returned about
7 in the evening and told the Chief, A
commit of war was then held, and the plan
ot rites& for the next doy was made. I
think we felt gloomy that night. We all
diued together, and tried to make things as
jolly IQ WO (meld, but did not auoceed very
well, and all went to bed early. At 3 o'clock
on the morning of the 2455 we all got up, I
gave them something to eat, and
TEEN THEY ALL LEFT.
Frank, the colonel commanding, and two
offioere went with the reserve. A young
tallow notated Brackenbury lad the aetack
an the palace of the Jubraj. Then the
fight began. I was in the telegroph office
sending it telegram, when is bullet came
through the window and :Attack the floor
about two inches from where I WAS Stand-
ing. 1 than rail out, and took up is position
with the Chief below the office, which WM
made of brick, and no was fairly ahot
proof. Bullete were raining over our
heade. I have kept several tittle 1 picked
Up. Meanwhile the fight in the palean
NVIAS going on. Poor Lieutenant Bracken.
bury went the wrong road, and the
fire was opened npon him from three
ahles. His fell in the first volley, shot
through the ankle. He lay where he
fell, exposed to the enemy's fire,
end they made the most of it, and fired
volleys into him. You can picture to
yourself what that moons. Once all that
morning I aaw Frank. He come to get onii
some more ammunition, oar Sepoys were
running short, and that wag about 11. At
12 or 1 o'clock some of the officers end
Frank come back for something to eat. I
was cutting sondwiches for the others who
could not leave tiaeir posts, when a ballet
crathecl through the window over my head.
They were attacking no, and were all round
the loonee, so that the root= were unsafe.
The odds against us were enormous; Frank
nut their numbers down as olose upon
8,000; we had 450 all told. We managed
to drive them off the house, and divided our
forces, half for the Residency, while half
remained to continue
THE ATTACK ON VIE PALACE.
Meanwhile all the officers went back to
their poste and Fronk. The ammunition
meanwhile wns getting to an and, and it
was found that all our forces would be
needed oio the Reeidenoy, so word was sent
to call them in. The Manipurie got posses.
sion of the wall in front of the house, and
brought out there four big guns, and com-
menoed shelling the house. I think the
horror 01 those hours will last to the end of
my life. Shells bursting in the rooms
overhead, for by this time we were all in
the aellars—that is, Frank, myaelf, the
Chief, the colonel, and two civilians on the
Chief's ataff. The rest ware trying to
recover the woundeol from all direotione.
Heavy fire went on for four hours, and at
7 o'olock the colonel and the Chief
decided that terma must be made to
save HS at all, as we had hardly any am-
munition left. The buglers were sent to
sound the "001000 fire," but for some Cum
the firing continued. It stopped at last,
and the Chief mit one of the damn mat
with a letter asking for terms. The Jubraj
sent back to say thnt if the Chief would
come ortt to the gate that lie would come,
too, and see what could be done. So the
Chief, the Colonel, Frank, the Seoretary
a,nd Assistant•Commiesioner and one
officer all went out. This waa about 8,30
in the evening, and we had enten nothing
all day. The wounded were then all
brought to the Reaidertay, and one of the
cellars turned into it hospital. I pray that
I may never see enoh is eight again. There
were crowds of them; EOM° dying. Poor
Mr. Draokenbury WM the first, that all
over, both legs broken, both arms, bullets
in him all over the place; and yet, poor lad,
Se was
AL/VE AND PERFECTLY CONSCIOUS
the whole time, and in maul agony, I did
what I could to heip; but it seemed olmost
impossible to do anything. In one corner
wee a poor fellow with big brain shot out
on the top of his head, and yet alive. An-
other with his forehead gone, and many
others worse. Luckily, I Am rather
strong.mihded, and tio I WAS able to help
in bathing eome of the wounds and
bandaging them up. Alter this I wont to
got every one something to eat, eind we
had a sort of scratch dinner. Then I
went round the honse. I ocet't tell you
what I felt. All our pretty %hinge broken,
the roofs and wells riddled with ballets,
and Owns burst in all of them. It MAO
dreadful sight to me, and I left 1 and re-
turned to the hospital. Meanwhile, ;about
two hours had gone, and 1 was getting
axietus about Frank, so Wont eta in the
gronecie to try and sae if 001Ild Oee RUY
shing of them. 1 didn'a 008 them, go 1
went, back to the veranda end asked ono
01 the officers to go outside the gate and
look 1 or him, and I sat down, utterlY
wearied out, and was dozing off in is chair
on the' vettanda vithen sudden/ye to nay
horror, the fining began again. At drab
thought they Witt killed Frank and thn
others, but it bugler came rushing in and
told Ile they had taken them prisonere, isa
they would not listen to the ethamefult
tame proposed—which were that we were
to give up our arms. I fled down to tha
miller again were the wounded were. The
firing was something awful, and the ahells
bureting in every direction. I got, hurt in
my arm ; it bled a lot, but wasn't aerioun.
Atter another two hours we
DECIDED WE MUST RETREAT,
as the home Was in danger Of Ofifithing fine.
The wounded were got out au cmickly tea
posaible ; three had died meetawhile. Pow
Mr. Drookeithury was dying, but we hod to:
move hire, and the moving killed him.
They brought him back and pat him in. the
cellar again, but it made otteee heart aloha.
I covered hina up and then left himt, and
joined the othera outside. We then moved
off, 1 dodaed two shells by running behind
a tree. We wont out at the back of the
hone°, and hod to OrOSS first a hedge of
thorns, and a high muct wan, then is rise;
betore we could reach the road, 1 hadn't
even
it hot, and only very thin hottee
shoes on. One of these droppedi
off in the river, where / ale° got
wet up to my ehoulders. We were fired at
all floe way. I lay down in it ditch shout
twenty times that night while they Were
Brim: to try and escape huiletia, We left
the Residency at 2 a. m., and :marched all
the next day and the next night. We had
to go through the jangles, as they were
lying in wait for us all over the place, and
morohed at leaat 30 miles with no food ;
that was the 2515. On the morning of the
2651 we struck the Cachet road, hoping to
meet 200 men who we knew were otz
their way up to relieve the guard.
WE HAD EATEN NOTHING
since the morning ot the 2451, movie few
mouthfuls of somalled dinner, enatched as
Seat we could. We had to eat greee and
loaves; but I was too done up to awe ninth.
My feet were out to bits, and my mane
wonldn't stop bleeding, and I was periehed
with cold and having got so wet in mooing
Use river. We wont on down the road, end
came upon a stockade on the rood, whew
theee were crowds of the enenay. Vila we
had to rush, and I sprained my ankle said
gave myeelf up for loot; bat I got over
somehow, and than we saw some men run-
ning up the hill below In. Some mad they
were Manipuris and some said Gatooririts,
end for some time we did not know, but
for the first time fate favored no, They
turned out to be the men from Ceche; and
we were saved, but not one momeni too
soon. I think that wail the wont moment
of all, end I felt as thoneh I must retook
down utterly, bot food and sante brandy
brought me to my senses, and 1 was alt
right. We had still eight days' titer& be-
fore us to get to British territory, but
though we have been
FIRED ON ALL THE WAY
it has boon an easy time compered with tilt
we wont through before; and yesterday we
reached the Dritieh territory,end I took off
my clothes for the fires time for ten days
last night. I forgot to soy that before we
had been out of the Residency an hour we
looked back to gee it in flareeti, and / knew,
that everything we Ilan was lone, and nay
life was the only thing left. There ie tearful
excitement here over it. F'dopie say noth-
ing so awful hashappenedaincethe matiny.
Now it remaina to be see:a wlaat is to ba
done about getting back the prisortore, and,
my anxiety ort this account I con't expense..
People say they will be all elate, but until I
see F (snk again I shall not ha content. Of
course, all idea of going home ie done for.
I am going down to Celoutta to get some
clothes, as I atm literally destitute, and
then return either here or to Shillong to
wait for news of Frank; but it is simply
awful living in suspense like this, end 1
almost wiah I were a pxieoner too. I em
feeling terribly worn out and ill, but have
made an effort to write thig, and let you
have full pertioulara as I know how.
"Four years ago," writes Col. David
Wylie, Brookville, Ont., May 1888, "1 !Ito
a severe attsok of rheumatism, and could
not stand on my feet. The pain was ex-
cruciating. I was blistered and purged in
true orthodox style, but all to no parpote.
I was advised to try St. Jaciotda Oil, whiala
I did. I had my ankles well eribbed mod
then wrapped with flannel saturated with
the remedy. In the morning 1 coald walk
without pain."•
Order Your Cremation Urn.
The latest craze, acoording to the Jewel-
ers' Review, is to order one's cremation unix
and use it as an ornament till it ahould
hempen to be wanted. All the large china
shops confess to having had severest orders
lately, while silversmiths have been Equally
favored. An enthusinstio " cremationist
of my acqnreintance has a couple of delight-
ful little old silver urns which ornament
hie sideboard, and should any guest hap.
pen to admire he is told that thoae are for
the host's eshert, which are to be divided
and sent to two old, valued friends in them
fascinatitm little canes. Some are even
made in gold, while the more ordineirsr
urns, witioh, instead of adorning the dining -
room, are for the present used at pcdpottiri,
jars, are of Derby etoneware, the mune
material as oldfashioned " toby " jaga.
For Wide -Awake Housewives.
Beeewax and salt will =like rusty
flatirons emootio.
To keep snit dry for table use, MIK one
tettepoonful of corn starch with one cupful
of EttairtV
Vish the soleof your thee% and it
will render them impervious to dampnoso,
and will alto make them laat longer.
Excellent lamp wicks may be rnado oat
of the men's soft felt hats by letting the
slips soak in vinegar for is couple of hottra,
than drying them.
Turn lamp winks down below the top of
the *ribs when not lighted, sind you will not
Se troubled with the oil running over On
the outside of the lamps, -0 --Home Queers.
Flillanthropist of India.
The Times of India moonily conthined is
record of the generous gift of Hurkisondaa
Narotaradas, of Bombay, who has pieced
at the abloom' of the Government the
munificent aura of Rs. 100,000 for the
purpose of conatrnating is lunatics asylum
fnMfr°.°18le
IF(uEl;kieondes it one of the leading
citizens of Donalosy, is a Juatioe of the
Peace, ti fellow af the Bombay University,
and a Councilor of the Munktipal Cor-
poration. His name is generally egaocialed
with all public movements and charitable
inetitutione, and he is is rnembee of the
moat ancient Hindoo families.
Jean Bratiano, the distinguished Rout
noanian statoeman, hi dead.