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Intending insurers have alio option of insuring on the Premium Note or cash System - During the past tenyears this company has issued 57,098 Policies, covering property to the amount of 540,872 038; and paid in losses alone $709,752 00• • Assets. 6176,100.00, consisting of Clash in Bank fiSolernmont Deposit and the unasses- sed Premium Notes en hand ancl in force J.W.W.stanus, M.D.. President; ea -M• Tsytott 8w:rotary ; J. 13. litanies, Inspector, CUAS BEMs Agent for Exeter and vicinity DORIS AND I. CHAPTER 11. ased not dwell ori that pertod, ; it Ilea in my memery more like a, hideous dream than so many weeks and months of actual life, and like a dream, there are only portions a it which stand out from the shadows—ad- ventures, incidents, scraps of scenery, seen in clearer moments. It is enough to say thatI canna around gradually, and. began to see things as they should be seen. But the hate was allgone, and love alone was left. Yes, love was left, though badly nour- ished, having no hopes to diet it; and I got seenstomed to think a Doris as one who was dead and yet living, and very lovable withal, even as Beatrice was to Dante. So a year passed on, and left me minus some thousands of dollars. I had foun,d my way into Colorado, and was it miner at one of the great joint-stock claims which have taken the place of the old-fashioned diggings. The rongh work suited- ray humour, and there was life and go in the town and much distraction in the game of Pharaoh, of which more in its place. Fer nine months I had eot heard from Canada, and bad ceased. to think of the place. My father had taken kindly to hie new life, which was all I needed to know. I wished to Le, and was, a solitary in the world, though I mixed much with men,. finding more isolation M crowd than in lonely places. But I was beginaMg to be restlesa again, and to wish for another change, when something happened which I Mid not looked for, but which makes me always thankfnl I played Pharaoh that night at Midas's. It was nothing more than a quarrel and a whipping out of revolvers,and then a sudden lene of rough figures looking on while the two fired from either end, I heard the low thiul of the bullet as it struck Black Jake, and I might him in my arms, ee he fell backwards withsucldenlirepriese and whiten- ing face. I had only seen him once before, and he had roused a vagae recolleetion which had made me look again at him, won- dering what it was about him that was eo familiar. Re had been at one of the far tables, or perhaps his speech would have given me the cue. Now, as he opeuecl his eyes and Stared up into mine, he turned his Ups from the flask and said: "God forgiv:. • us—it's Master Sedley 1" "That's so, Take a, pull at this, and tell • me who you are," said 1 surpriseat my own name, The liqueur was of little use; for his heart was slowing every moment ; but it brought a flicker to his face aud it word or two more to his lips, ` Gie nia yer ear— eleser," he whispered. " Bob Hilton-.-Bans- ton postman—ay, ye' know me now. They Want me—want me for robbing the bags. Tell 'eni death has gob me; an' tell young doctor chapas 1 hopes to ------He lamed me the beginnia'—he---Yore 'letters— Miss Doris's—I stopped ein --His money. Hope no harm done, sir--I-- Christ save"—Iiis eyes glazed, a tremble went through hire, and lie slipped off without another word, leaving me staring at. the dyed whisk- ers and diesipated features with ring- ing ears, and a thousand thoughts and feel- ings all set looae together, to the overwhelm- ing of my wits, vehieliseemed quite nn - Long after they had carried him away, and the noise and confusion were spent, I stood leaning on the bar counter, staring vacantly through the sinolte of the saloon, seeing and hearing nothing, but conscious of a growing fiend, within me, and a tighten- ing of my teeth as I reckoned things up and saw in all its clearness the perfidy that had coire between us. The letter—was not that it part of it? Could. Doris from her heart's heart have written such a letter at, all? It was a forgery, it trick., and I bad been a fool to be ofttped by it—nay, a villain in very truth; for 1 bad doubted Doris and given her pain and misery perhaps a thousavd times worse than my own. Yet the letter was clear enough, saki the ghost of Doubt ; it was in her own charac- teristic handwriting, said Memory; and there was no forging that, put in Doubt again. Then a resolution came to me, and I walked out into the open air, and breathed it in with a long inhalaton, as men do at sudden relief, or when stirred with new medley for the most part, and no better than other fantasies of the sort; but to this dayI remember it more as a real thing than it trick of the brain, if such it was. There in the darkness of the prairie was the deep red rose that Doris had given me, borne by an army of fireflies, in whose united radiance the flowers lay on a hanunoch of golden threads and flitted before me Mot:k- ingly while I stumbled in chase of it. Ay, it was the rose, and it blushed in the ern - brace of Doris's own hair. I had soon it shine so at sundown when the light got in it and made it luminous with it gold not in Uri Own, as the grass blades seem shafte of eniereld are when the glow-worms are among them. The phantasm. rose and fell in the blackness. while the hundreds et little light points made a shifting circle round. On, on they flitted, ever eluding me as I stumbled along till there was it midden clash of bells, when the little vision dissolved into a kind of crimson and golden atmosphere, in which I laved viyaelf with b eating hands, while it widened more mid more, lighting all things round, till I saw that I stood in a crowded churchyard inall the soft sheen of a summer's morning. I rubbed my eyes as the people moved about, some towards the wooden porela some taking places on the path, till there was an avenue of smilieg faces and one slim figure, fol- lowed by her maids, weeding slowly through all. It was Doris, all white and beautiful in bridal vestments; bat her golden head was bent, and there was heaviness in her step. As if the were entering some prison.haase, never to know liberty again, she paused at the porch, and looked long and, wistfully back into the sunshine. And I could see the thin face and the pain deep down in her eyes, knowing all the meaning of her long look, but unable to move, as she passed in and out of my sight. Then the clanging of the bells died away into a Melody of old time, which they quaintly ehimed, while the people thronged into the char* leer- ing me alone among the heed:At:me.% The agony was too mole I wrenched free my voice and shrieked her name—and awoke, still hearing the chiming, but realizing gradually that it came from the cathedral tower, which I could see in the morning AIM over the housetops, and its clock point- ed to three minutes peat nine. Now 1 never believe in dreams ; but I sat down to my breakfast uneasy and with- out appetite, looking iu at that despairing white face, with a growing sense of ita omi- nousness, and chafing mightily that there irouaarzo train to take rue an for another two "Papdr, sir ?" I heard the waiter say as I tiled with the toast, I dropped my eyes mechanically on the folded sheet ; but only looked vacantly at it, or rather a headline, which standing out from the rest, took iny eyes'being definite, as the fire in the darkness, or it candle flame, which we gaze at without noting. There was the name of my own village staring me in the face, and for a full minute I never saw it— Renato:I-in-the-Vale. It was all a flash, as was ms, eagerness as I snatched up the pa. per and read the local items " Bellringers' Dinner—Fin at the Hall—The Approach- ing Marriage of Dr. Robson." PURE POWDERED PI:L.12E8T, STRONCEST, BEST. Bendy ier use m anquantli y. For Making Soap, get teni/W Water. Dia feotInis,,and a hundred Other *sea. A an equals 20 pounds eal Soda. by All O.:meets and Ihneglets. sa.-27,1.710.1nrgp. .1".mwmatatceif I remember the sense of paralysis, the rnsh of darkness to the eyes, and then the sudden return of light as I pulped to my feet and stood tt moment irresolute, with my watch in my hand. Quarter past ten— the eerercony was at eleven—three parts of an hour to do fifteen miles. A. WriVe of help- lessness swept over me, and thea of hot strength—nothing leas than the strength of despair, and, thank God, it carried me through. I shall never forget that ride, The horse was fresh—the nick of the best pasting stables in Worcester—and I had much to do to keep it in while we breasted Redhill to the level of the London Road. Then I gave it its head. and a tip from the heels, and away we shot like two mad things. Seeing nothing but the yellow road before ins, I counted every spring of the animal as he skins:fled along, scarcely seeming to touch the ground with his light hoofs, and flying faster and faster as he warmed to it and hoard my cries of encouragement. For half an hour I let him go, till we came to it stiff hill not three miles from Ranston. Here I pulled him up and made him walk before the final rush in. Be was impatient to get on, so was I, for from the top of the hill I knew I could see the c]murch, and maybe some of the gathering people' but I held him in and took out my watchMy heart sank it was two minutes to eleven. I eased the reins with a shout, and in three bounds we were at the hill -top and away again. I could see the church now across the valley, and the flag at its tower, and the pigmy forma moving about the yard. But there was still hope, still a chance to snatch Doris back from her peril --for such was my purpose, and my dream had made me des- perate. I set my teeth and let the good horse go. It was all over in ten minutes, and it was Doris's doing as much as mine. She could not keep it, maybe, and it was rather sud- den to jilt a man just as the vicar was ask- ing whether she would have him or not. But so it was; and. I had no sooner shown myself at the vestry door by whish 1 had entered then she saw me, and with a Jack, Jack !" at ambled towards me and fell limp in my arms, and lay there like a cut lily and as speechless. I had carried her into the vestry, and was bathing her temples with the parson's drinking water before the wedding party could realise what had come to them. He was the first to rush in, as was natural perhaps. purpose. There were evil things in my heart; but there was one little corner where hope stir- red, as if after a long sleep. I could feel it as I looked up to the heavens, where the stars were twinkling down at me, as if they knew it thing or two, having seen Doris only a few hours agono. Next morning I started for New York, and tn four mare days was on the Atlantic, gazing at the last point of Sandy Hook as it sank lower and lower, till the horizon was an unbroken line and America nowhere. But as we sped eastward through the long days and nights, as I drew nearer to Doris and him and the truth, the fiends grew busier within me, and gave my little babe of Hope such a hustling that I well- nigh lost sight of ib in the tumult. I had been away eighteen months, and what might a man not do in that time with an impressionable young girl who had the best evidence that her lover was unfaiths ful? They were cousins, and had been to- gether in earlier years ; he was highly edu- cated, and, contrasted with me, a brilliant, perhaps a fascinating man. He had ecured his diploma; but the arduous study had broken him down, and to recruit himself, he had left his London home, to pass some weeks among the breezy hills of Worcester- shire, the guest of his father's sister, the daily companion, no doubt, of Doris. He had seen her beauty, her young suscepti• bility to the influences about her, and he had wormed his way into her heart and cankered it, as grubs do roses. So hatred totted it all up and made me feel as murderers do. God forgive toe 1 It is all passed now, and it was love's doing with all three of us. It was past midnight when I arrived after ten days at Worcester. The old. city was slumbering, and the great cathedral was watching over it, and telling out the hours te•dts deaf ears as the fly rumbled noiselessly to the hotel, where I had per- foree to stay till daylight enabled me to • continue my journey by the early train. I lay on the bed half-dressed, listening to the quarters as they chimed through the silence one after the other, and each time the, familiar . sounds crossed the current of my thoughts they swung me out of the mor- row to other days, which their ringing brought back irresistibly, till by-and-by I allowed memory to have its way entirely, and. I lived again in the halcyon sunniness of bygone years. I closed my eyes to look at it, all, and allowed it to float dreallilike and as it would, till paitlies ot grayness caine, and a fading of color and form awl 1 was fast asleep. But as I lay like any log, and the hours went on, till all in the city but inyseir tie eh hear the cathedral clock ring them on some part of my brain woke up, and finding reason still a sluggard, Started straight,. way a -dreaming. It was a queer you—what did you think when you opened • t ?" " When I was able to, I wrote you, ask- ing what it meant," she said simply. Aud I never answered ?" I gazed at her neerly choking. What had my suffering been to hers? ".And oh, I was so wretched, Jack," she went on ia her naive way; " and when lie came it third time, full of sympathy, and offering to relieve poor mether of the debts which had nearly brought the old home to the brink of breaking. I—I eald yes, feel- ing that I bad no will—that it was a duty thrust upon me,—But it is all past now, isn't itir Gladness made her sigh, and I could feel her eweet breath as she looked up at me. "Do you forgive him, then ? said I, looking away, and thinking of his abject figure as he writhed under my whip an hour ago. "?es, yes, Jack! and you must too. You have penished hint enough, and he has promised to go away. Let us forget him— let us look upon it as a bad dream. Oh, jack, my heart nearly runs over with its gladness—surely yours has nought else in it now." "God bless you 1" said I. "And, you, Jack !" said she. And then we joined hands and turned to the house, becoming one in love and charity, lIoris and L [VIE ES/0.1 Spurgen's $noo mon The qtaeation ot a seccessior to the late Charles aput gems, the great Baptist acher of England, is much discussed in religious circles all twee the world. Mr. Spurgeon will have no successor, says a correspondent, and the sooner the people of the Metropolitan Tabernaele clear- ly understand that the better will it be for them and for the great work that will sure- ly go on, Mr. Spurgeon did his work SD well that it will live independently of him, and that is the highest honor that can be made him. So far as the pastorate of the church at Newington Baths is concerned the question of Mr. James Archer Spurgeon the brother of the dead preacher, becoming pastor has never been very seriously con- sidered. Charles Haddon and James Archer were eons of the same household, but they served to illustrate the truth that the same family often presents the widest diversities of disposition and character. The very ele- ments of character that make Mr. dauaes A. Spurgeon so successful as the pastor of Croydon Church are the elements that would probably unfit him for the pastorate of the Tabernacle. Nothing will be better for the church ab the Tabernacle than it distinct and radical change. A feeble copy of the past would be sure to and in weakness and failure. Next to the church itself the Pastors' College may be regarded as the most importaut of all the institutions of the Ta,bernacle. During the IVIay meet- ings the annual conference of the Pastors' College has been held, and matters of the first importance have been earnestly discuss- ed and most happily settled. The Pastors' College was very dear to the heart of its founder. With rare sagacity and equal un- selfishness he had the trust deeds drawn so that, the whole Baptist deaomination should, have the honor and responsibility of its futTle rle. church at the tabernacle, the men who have been educated there, and the whole Baptist denomination are in honor bound to seep this institutionin good work- ing order, and they will do it, '.12ho tradi- tions and the inspirations will always be linked with its founder's name, and is will be for many years a 1 ving monument to his memory. It was a toregone conclusion that Rev. James A. Spurgeon should be elected president of an institution of which he has been vice president so long. No more fitting man could be found for the post and with the enthusiastic support of students and constituents Mr.' Spurgeon may well look forward to a career of erow- ing usefainess and honor. Already 863 students have passed through this college, of which number 627 are engaged in ,the active ministry. Seventy-four young inen are now preparing for service at home and in the mission fields abroad. The income for the year reached the handsome sum of $42,495. The presidency of the Pastors' College is settled, but the pastorate of the Tabernacle is somewhat deeply involved. For a year past Dr. Pierson, of Philadelphia, has °cou- pled the pulpit of the Tabernacle to the 1 great delight of all concerned, and there e.an be little doubt that, all things being in order, Dr. Pierson would have a unanimous and enthusiastic call. But Dr. Pierson is not it Baptist. To be baptized now in order to put himself in a position in which he would be eligible to become pastor of the Tabernacle is, of course, wholly out of the question. As a m tter of fact, as the trust deed now stands Dr. Pierson could not be a member of the church, much less its pastor. The practice of the Tabernacle is that which is known as " open communion." But only believers who have been immersed as a pro- fession of their faith in Christ can be mem- bers of the church. " It seems, therefore, that much as many would desire, Dr. Pier- son cannot be the pastor of the Tabernacle," says the Chicago Post. Both the sons of the late Mr. Spurgeon, Charles and Thomas.—who are twins—are preachers. Charles is pastor of a ehurch in Greenwich, and a few years ago paid a visit to America, and was heard with great ap- preciation in Chicago. Thomas has been for the last six or seven years preaching in Australia. Mr. Thomas Spurgeon is now on the way home, and will occupy the Taber- nacle for three months; but not with any thought of the pastorate. Now I would not have harmed him just then, for all his wordy spleen'if he had not laid rough bands on me as he tried to force me from my place. But when the shock of his touch went through me, I laid Doris's head down for one moment while I sprang to my feet, and, catching him by the collar and the small of the back, pitched him out of the opeu door with such good -will that he fell on the grass a dozen yards away and lay there, a huddled heap of blackness on the green. When I turned routd, Doris was opening her eyes and looking up at her mother, ask- ing where she was. I knelt and looked down at her; she stared while you might count three ; and then her arms were round my neck, and I raised her in mine. "He declared his love here at this wicket, as you had, dear, before him." "But the letter?" I said. "Oh how could you believe it, Jack ? The letter was my second refusal, sent it week after he had taken to 'his practice. He must ha.ve forwarded. it to you in the caver of one of nmine. How cruel and wicked of him ! And you" ---She looked up, and there was such reproach in ler eyes that I turned mine away, not daring to meet "Jealousy made a fool of me, .Doris. How can I tell it you? You see the letter was so worded, thatcoming after your silence and on tep of my knowledge that he was still at Ranston, 1" -- "Who told you he was still here? I avoided the subject for your sake," "111 news travels fast ; but don't let us LATE BRITISH NEWS. Small electrie wagons, for the delivery o grloaceeariisees, e aaanrdoetvheelrtielsieLondon. ightar i c l es of mer- aiLord Bradford backed his horse, Sir Hugo, two years ago to win the Derby at 13100 against X10,000. He won in all about 24,000. In England there are 30,000 miles • of telegraph lines. The number of messages received in London last year was 60,000,- 000, Live fish have been safely sent in the mails from India. to the British Museum. Neyyear,arlyo2v0e,r000liors es are imported into England Nearly is rly50inapaerd per of the property of migl only h are in England with c Me. W. Brown, a Manchester manufac- turer, has purchased 100,000 acres of land in Mexico for fruit farms. Siam has just sent over to England twenty-seven youths, all belonging to the Saiavmon.ese. aristocracy, te complete their edia e The heat prevailing at Bombay is abnor- mal, and the death -rate has risen to over 40 per 1,900 per annum, being the highest fig- ure attained within twelve years. • Litere.ry latliee in England have achieved it great step in progress. They dined last year together as the "Literary Ladies." This year they have modified their title to that of "Literary Women." The Governor of St, Helene reports af- fairs there as being in a wretched state. Work is scarce; revenue is short of expendi- ture; business is declining, and there is great poverty and suffering among OA in- habitants. A church in St. Ives has for 325 years kept up the custom of an annual raffle with dice for Bibles, D. Wilde left £50 as a fund for the purpose of buying eix Bibles annual- ly and paying the vicar a small sum for a special sermon. Since 1884 loans of more than £40,000 have been made out of the Sea and Coast Ir'sh Fishing Funds and the Inspectors re. port as follows: "It will be a satisfaction to your .Excllency to have brought thus before you the feet that the bad debts on these large transactions are so small. In ao far as they relate to loans made by us, they constitute, in our opinion, it remark- able evidence of the honesty of the Irish fisherfolk." There is it fasting alligator at the Crystal Palliee, London, which has not tasted food for more than eighteen months and is still fasting. Crocodiles and alligs:tors are apt at first to refuse food in captivity, and at mthe menageries by which they areintroduc- ed it is the habit to prise open their jaws with a handspike or iron bar, and ram home blocks of meat. This fasting is the result of sulkiness. A mass meeting of agricultural laborers in Yorkshire adopted these resolutions "That this meeting of agriculturallaborers deeply regrets the present degradation of their class, caused by low wages,and believes that the chief cause of their poverty is in- sufficient pay, unsanitary cottages, and inadequate opportunities of obtainingashare in the cultivation of the laud." A further resolution was adopted "That this: meeting believes that the -remedy for the condition of the farm laborers of the coun- try lies in their own hands—namely, by legitimate combination, by means of which they may secure by legislation or otherwise substantial improvement in condicion." A fashionable London clergyman thus addressed his congregation not long ago: " I hear that the incumbent of a certain very 'fashionable' churoh animadverted last Sunday in severe terms on the anbject of the offertories of his congregation, whose flea -skinning parsimony had excited the indignation of their pastor. I am often congratulated,' exclanted.this divine, 'upon having a rich congregation, and, looking to the general expenditure upon dresses and establishments, they should, indeed, be wealthy ; but looking to the amounts given by them in the church, they could. only be regarded as genteel paupers. There is a decene liberality which is midway between beggarly meanness and imprudent generos- ity.It may be hoped that the incumbent's forcible remarks will produce satisfactory financial results." A Budding Financier. Master Tommy, a boy of four, has devel- oped an early fondness of pennies and al- though he seldom asks directly, wherever he goes the air is full of hints. There is an old lady living near Tom's home who is very fond of him, but who is also extretnely careful of her small change, so that none of it ever finds its way into the pockets of the little • financier's trousers. Tom had nearly- exhausted ingenuity in hinting, and at last, by a fortunate hit, suc- ceeded. • He went over there the other morning in a penniless condition, and leaned affectionate- ly against, the knee of his old friend, who at Once possessed herself of one of his chubby hands and began to fondle it. I would. give,a hundred pounds to have such it niee little boy as' you for my own," she maid, petting him. "How much is a hundred pounds ?" asked Tommy, with wide-open eyes. "It's a great deal ;;; money," said the old lady, with a sigh. "Am I worth as much as that if paps, would sell me ?" inquired the yoeng specula- tor. "Yes, clear, and a gceat deal more," said his friend. 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Wonders in Photography. A maker of these "test plates" named Webb many years ago made for the Army MedicallVluseum at Washington a specimen of mioroscopic writing on glass. This writ- ing consists of the words of the Lord's Prayer, and occupies a rectangular space measuring 1-244 by 1-441 of an inch or an area of 1-129,654 of a square inch. The lines of this writing are about as broad as those of the test plates. which are 1-50,000 'of an inch apart. They are, therefore, about as wide as average light waves. Now, then, to get some idea of the magnitude or min- uteness of this writing. There are in the Lord's Prayer 227 letters, and if, as here, this number occupies the 1-229,654 of an inch, there would be room in an entire square inch for 29,431,458 inch letters simi- larly spaced. Now, the entire Bible, Old and New Testaments, contains but 3,566,480 letters, and there would, therefore, be room enough to write the entire Bible eight times over on one square inch of the glass, in the same manner as the words of the Lord's Prayer have been.written on this specimen. Such a statement, without doubt, staggers the imagination, but the figures are easily; verified and are certainly correct, and the whole statement at least serves to bring home to us the limited nature of our men- tal capacities as compared with the facts of the universe. It also furnishes an interest- ing suggestion in a very different subject. 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