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Tangled and. torn, thinwhito sea laces Border the breast of the Indian Deep: Lifted aloft the strong screw races Wo slacken, aa a strata in the waves which leap The great, sails eevell ; the broad bows ;shiver And green arel silver the pimple sea, ; To dowzt from the suet a dancing 'r Ivor Flow, broken gold, where tbe ship goes tree. To free! too fast! with memories laden, liettee to. the northward. where Ilea Japan; Oh. fair and pleasant, and soft-vOieed maiden, You ate there—too distant—Oh, Yoshi San! You aro under those elouds by the stOrm-wind shaken. A, thousand. ri as the sea -gall flies. .As lost as if deathsnot time, had taken My eyes away from your beautiful eyes. Yet, if it were death, of friends, mY fairest; Ile could not rend. our spirits in twain. They came too near to beleas than 'merest In the world where lrue hearts mingle again. But sad is the hour we sigh farewell in, And, for me, whenever they name Japan. All grace, all charm, of the land you dwell in Is spoken in saying "Oh, Yoshi Saar SIR EDWIN ARNOLD. THE BELLS OF LINLAVEN. BY JOIIN ansseme CHAPTER IIL—Coeresta SeraDows. Brathriglieck falls into Brathrig Mere; and there, under the shelter of the broad brown Fell lies the little village of LinlaveU, with the ehurcli-tower standing forth above the trees, and the blue lake stretehing out be yond, filling every creek and betne of the shore with its brimming waters. The place is lovely in its solitude, with the great hills girdling it round and shut ting 18 111. It might be the Happy Valley of Rasselas: for the chimer and tumult of life reach it not, It is warmed by the sanshine, and beaten epee by storms; but the wind of the great world beyond comes not neigh. Yet, Bina: though these guardian hills may beat beck and keep afar off the roaring tide of life as it surges through the streets of great cities and around the high places of mankind, they cannot wholly ehut it out. Its ebb ane flow make themselves felt here, even in this the shallowest backwater of the ocean ef humanity. lts pulsations come and go amid these solitudes with rhythm- ic a beat as in the lanes of London City. And how ? Because the human heart is here. Which is as much as to say, that love is here, and hate ; that joy is here, and grief; that here are pein and paesion arid despair, sin and dea,th and the grave. And that old man, weary and worn and fever-strieken : what would he hear amid these solitudes in the wild October storm of yestereven? Thought be that Nemesis, awfuldaughter of Night, knew pot her way hither Saw he not the church -tower of Liala.ven liable' there amid the trees 3—At its feet is the green churchyard, full of the graves of men. The storm of yesternight had died away upon the hills, but it had left mournful traces of its fury behind. High up on the broad Fell, many a tall pine has been shat- tered and riven, lying now with upturned roots in the wan morning light, Tho old elm thnt yestermorn shook its withered boughs, rustling dim deed leaves in the rising sun, has fallen iterOSS the village street, and the children stare with mend eyes of wonder at its hollow bole, knowing not that corruption and decay bad been eating into its heart for years. The great willow that hung over the deep still pool where Bretbrig Beck falls into Brathrig Mere, is also stricken down ; nor shall it ever again fan the eir with gray leaves, and whisper dark secrets to the summer moon, of fair pale faces and floating hair, and mid- night shrieks along the mere. A very little thing moves the half -stag- nant waters of life in a village community. Had the storm of last night been the only troubler of the waters, it would doubtless this morning have been the talk and wonder of every Otto; the old folks counting bow fat back it was able() they had had such another storm, and how much let rse that was than this ono; and the young folks wondering how it was that people- could remember things so far back : they could brad ly remember yestei day's lessons. But now, the finding of the stranger upon the moor far outdid all other subjects of human interest. Rafe the pedlar, who had discovered him with that inquisitive lantern of his—which was always glaring about with its one eye to see if it couldn't pick up a. bargain—Rafe was quite a hero to -day. He had to tell the story a dozen times in the course of the forenoon; but he managed to make rather a profitable business out of ie. The old women he found was not very com- municative upon the subject until they had sampled and paid for a few of his wares, and then it was amazing what he could tell. The wild wind, the swaying and. meaning of the trees by the Dead Water, the awful terror be experienced in passing the tree where the smugglers hauged the exciseman, and then, to crown all, the groans and strange sounds he heard when at last he reached the brow of the Fell, and sew the corpse- like thing lying before him Bat further than that he would not go. He might say more than his head was worth. Who knows who the old man might be? No, no; Lawr- ence and he had talked the matter over, and least said soonest mended. "But may- be, kimmers, when I come round next, the sough may bee blawn past, and wha kens what I may tell ye, ance I eau do A wi' safety, and just out o' pure friendship. Sae, good -day, ienoo." Upon the whole, the result was rather disappointing to the gossips; but Rafe knew he had. planted a little seed of curi- osity and expectancy in their minds that would keep them from forgetting him till be came back again. No preceptible change ocourred in the patient's condition. duriug that Or the fol- lowing day; in the early hours of the third meriting, while Lawrence and Mrs. Dale were sitting with him, some symptoms of a claange made themselves menifest. The struggliugs of the crazed brain within the man were subsiding; His voice had sunk almost into silence, though there Was still o cleeth-like pallor on his face. By-and-by he sank into what appeared to the sym- pathetic watchers to be a calm and peaceful elnrabete Was it, thought they, the blessed sleep that precedes a. healthful awakening, or was it the comatose languor that should end in death? It. was Sabbath. morning, and Clara visited the cettage on her way to church, The vil- lage was as calm and silent as the great brown hilts that looked down upon it on every side. No tinkle of hammer on anvil came from the village smithy; the six days' rumble and whirl of shaft and pinion in the old mill was at an end, and the big water- wheel stood up eaunt and idle, lazily stop ping in the morning sun. Brown leaves lay thick along the margin of the lake, on the smooth steely surface of which the church and churchtower were impictured as in a mirror. The little flower -plot in frout of the cottage wore a lifeless and de. jected look, as if easily conscious that its suminer glory was over and gone; and from the trailing roses and creepers that still clung to the cottage wall, the yellow leaves every now and again fell with a faiet shiver to the ground. Clem entered, eud was struck by the strange stillnees that filled the room, and the slumberoue quiet of the apparently dying man. The sunlight came slantingly in at door and window—not rich and mellow as in the golden glow of summer, . but with a cold and silvery splendor that gave lustre but little warmth to the chill Oetober air. The chirp and twitter of birds upon the housetops, or the slow heavy footetep of it passing villager, Was all that broke the silence; and there beneath the eyes of the silent watchers, the sick num calmly slumbered on, All at once the sound of the church bells broke upon the quiet air, entering with the sunlight the open door, and startling the sleeper where he lay. He moved at first un. easily, as id pain ; then lay like one who sleeps, yet seems to listen in hissicap. The hells rang on, their &wiper softened by distance; the rich melody liUiug the air and flooding the room as with the rush and rustle of angels' wings. No one spoke. The sleeper moved once more, and, looked up. The wild light had died out of his eyes, awl the harsh lines of his face were softened and subdued as if an angel's hand had touched them into peace. It was life—not death. The battle had been fought, the tribuletion bad been en- dured, and the heed of the Destroyer had been stayed—for a time. "Them beautiful bells !" It was the sick man who spoke, his feee for the moment lit up with a kind of sweet radiance. At length his eyes fell on Lawr- ence. "Where be I?" he asked; "and what beautiful bells be those?" "Thou be among friends," Lawre n cerc- plied ; "and the bells are the bells of Lin - "Ah," said the man, as if the words con- veyed no information to his mind. Tiiezt be lay quite still for it few minutes, arpar- wetly absorbed in his own thoughts; per- haps considering within himself the pessa bilities that might have occurred. And again be spoke. "Happen that some one ba' took me up, knowed I was out in the dark night, in the storm, well nigh a dyiue of Integer and weariness and pain—and then 1 feels my- self falling and knowed thee this were the end o' me at last. Then all of a sudden I was far away in the old church at bete; kneeling by mother's side, and the great bells in the tower were ring- ing out slowly and sweetly, and all the church was filled with sunshine and pleas- ant music, ea I ha' seen it many and ynaey's the titne long ago. Mother took my heed in hers as I 'knelt beside her, and I could seo the old look of love deep down in her oyes. " Giles, my lad, say " Our Father." And I seid it with lier 1,111 we came to "Forgivens our sins"—whou it all changed, quick and sudden -like, into darkness. I could not lift my eyes, and a great pain was at my heart, and all around was nothing but darkness—darkness ! Then my eyes were opened, and I saw thee be- side me here—and them beautiful bells, they still rang on. What iney it all mean ?" " It means," said Lawrence, " that thou ha' been very ill, and ha' had a sore wrestle tor thy life. But ask no more at present, ; thou will hear all,when thou be stronger." Clara all this while had stood a little apart, strangely moved by what she saw and heard, comparing her former impres- sions with her present. Then she moved quietly out of the house, and took her way Co the church, " Lawrence," said Mrs. Dale to her hus- band a part; "I ha' been thinkin' o' that thou told me as to what the poor old man said upon the Fell, and I can't believe it. It were main bad of us to think ill o' That airet the face of a bad man' whatever is. The autumn had passed into winter and winter into spring, and the old man whom Rafe the pecilsr had found on Brathrig Fell on that stormy night last October was still in Linlaven. He did not die. His recovery was slow,but, thanks greatly to the patient nursing of Mrs. Dale, he did recover. "Uncle Giles." That was the name he was known by. He had never offered to give hisfull name to any one, and no one among those about him quite cared to ask hiin for it. Ile was excessively fond of children, and they. of him and one day a little girl,with that mnocent temerity- which sits so well on childhood, asked him what his name was. The man looked taken aback for a minute then he replied, that the little children he had known in other places alweys called him Uncle Giles, And so he came to be called in Linlaven, not by the children only but by every one. All the same it was a little strange, this reticence and this desire for obscurity. As you may be sure, it did not escape the at- tention of the villagers. It was indeed much talked of—in his absence. There must be some ' reason for .it. Was he ." wanted?" What would it be? Theft? No, he did not look like a mart who would steal, Murder ? Never; he was too gentle and mild even to have given deadly injury to any one. Smug- gling? Ala that might be it. For it was observed that he was not what is called poor. After his recovery, he had himself paid the doctor's bill, and ever since he had been in- debted to no one for the simple necessities of his life. That must .be it: smuggling, And once the villagers -arrived at this con- clusion, it was rather an element in his favour than otherwise. In the course of the forenoon the Doctor arrived at the vicarage. The patient had in the meantime, by the Vicar's orders, been removed to a room in a cottage near the mill, where Lawrence Dale a,nd his wife had promised to see to his wants ; and thither the Viear and the Doctor bent their steps. Clara, in whose mind a strange cariosity had been stirred as to the old man, accom- panied them, and looked anxiously at the Doctor's proceedings. The patient was in much the same condition as she had last seen him; and the Doctor pronounced -him to be suffering from what appeared to be brain -fever, due, in view of the circum- stances under which he had been found, to fatigue and exposure, and possibly priva- Before she lef6 the room, Clara whispered to the Vicar . "Grandpa, go forward and look at the poor man ; do you think you could ever have seen him before ?" The Vicar did so, looking long and anxiously at the man's face, " No," he said, as he returned to her side. "1 am certain I never saw bine before, nor am I able to gee anything in his features that re- eernbles any one I ha ve ever ',mown." Clara did not reply ; but her mind was not quite at rest. She did not, however, say anything about what she had seen and heard in the early morning ; and they left the house together. But this suspicion wag not all;_for Mrs. Dale thought she saw more. She had satis- fied herself that, immediately after his re- dovery he desired nothingmore than to get away from Linla,ven as quickly as possible. He was restless, and anxious, and evi- • (leerily bent upeti taking his departere. And in all probability ,he would have been g,otte loug ere now, but for the fact that the winter bad -been a singu- larly severe one. It was quite a month after his being carried into Liniaven before he was able to leave his bed, and yet an. other month 'before be Was ia a fit state to travel; by which'sitne the winter had set ia'fieree and keen. Great falls of snow he'd taken place, and the hitls lay etretehed motionless under their white shrouds like so many deed smuts. The roads for weeks were blocked, and it was not possible to cross the wild Fells in any direction. Win- ter baci in fact besieged Linlaven, shutting it up as closely as was ever beleageered city in time of war. This old man, therefore, who °allele him. sell Giles, was to Lawrence Dale and Ids wife, as also to the Vicar and Clara, not enly the object of much kindly attention but also of some degree of interest. At first they had eimply pitied and cherished him as a poor child of misfortune and distress, driven by the vicissitudes of fate within the scope of their sympathies ; but as they knew him better, they began at once to like and to respect him. He was a man of few words, mauffeesing his sense of gratitude itt his looks and manner rather than by any set form of speech. , But there was one that got nearer to the old man's heart than all the rest,. This was Lucy Norham, Clarees child. A merry prattling thing, with all the winning way of a little sylph of five years, she came to know and to understand him a$ if be intui- tion, and to love him also RS the very young are often seen to love the very old. She it was Who had had the hardihood to look up into the old man's face and to ask hios his rime. She vvould transport into his cottage the little playthiugs that were dearest to her for the time, end spend hours at the old men's feet until her nurse appeared to feteh her home. Sometimes, Rfi she set on his knee, her fair hair falling over her shoulders,. he woeld s.troke with gentle 'bend the shining locks, and, gaze into the deep blue of her yomig oyes, as though he were about to recall in her face some vanished image of the past. And when, in the course of that fierce mid -winter -- when fog and frost and snow lay everywhere 0.niedr icieles hung from windows and door, Ways—disease laid its hand on the little maid, not one of all the villagers wailed for news of her recovery with a deeper Snxiety than did this ancient castaway who loved Moreover, as the spring returned, and the soft weet winds were once more rippling the lake, life seemed to have grown brighter for the old man. It was found Mutt he pos- sessed no slight mechanical skill in various ways; and in order to encourage him to set- tle in the village, Lawrence Dale had the top -storey of the Old Grange fitted up with a carpenter's bench and other requisites, and Uncle Giles soon found his Lands filled with such work as the united wants of the little community provided for him. Here, therefore, the old man beatowed himself in his svorking hours, auci here, when the spring sun shone soft on the vicarage garden, scarce a day would pass in which he was not aware of a pair oflittle feet climbing the tall tairs, and a. little voice shouting out for "Uncle Giles." Then would. he leave his tools, and go halfway doun the stain to iiit the little Lucy in his arms, and carry her up beside hitn, to watch him at his work, and to cheer um by her happy innocence and childish prattle. With 'this improvement in the old man's physical surroundings bad come also it cor- responding improvement in his health and appearance. As strength returned to Ids tall arid naturally athletic frame, :Ind his step bectune firmer, and his face less pale and emeadated, the neighbours were fain to ad- mit that he did not look quite so old as they at first had thought him. It was true Ids hair was gray—even white ; but We know that time alone is not the producer of gray hears. Tbere are other snows than those of age; other frosts that whiten men's heads— ay, and bleach men's hearts too—than those that fall from the chill breath of passing years. The sprieg had grown into summer, and now June was almost treading on the skirts of 'May. Tint leaf bad return- ed to the tree, and the meadows were green with the springing grass. Down the lanes the hawthorn was white with flowers, and the scent of blossoming orelearis was sweet on the air. Amid all this, the old man, with his recovered health and strength might have been as happy and contented as most of his neighbours deemed him but he was not. This discontent, or rather restlessness, was not apparent to outsiders; bat there was one whose keen yet kindly eye did not fail to discern it, and that was Lawrence Dale's wife, Milly. With a woman's fine instinct, she saw that he was urged by the old mysterious impulse to arise and depart from among them. When these fits were on him, he would wander for hours about the distant margin of the lake, and through sequestered lanes, shunning, and evidently desirous of shunning the presence of his neighbors. Re had come back one evening from one of those solitary wanderings, and was seated on the bench outside his cottage door, looking across the shining mere to where the great UM was glowing in the western sky. A thrush, on the topmost twig of the leafy elm that overhung the cottage roof,was mak- ing all the air musical with its rich mellow notes, only keeping silence a tintervals for the reply which came back to it from that other in the clump of leafy beeches below. But the old man heeded not their music. His facie wore a look of deep sadness, as he sat there, gazing at the lake with its wavy flow of golden -crested ripples: Was he thinking of the future ?--or of the past? Thinking, it may be—who knows 1—of both: of the time, perhaps, when under the black sails of some withering sorrow or deed of sin, he had secured the seas in seareh of that dragon which he was never to slay, and in the hope of returning under the white sails of that victory which had never been hie. A.t that moment a little hand was laid on his, causing him to start suddenly, like a man in fear. It was only the little maid Lucy. "1 have come to bid. you good •night, Uncle Giles; and Dolly have come too. You must kiss Dolly first, cause she's the pin- cirpal baby." And she held a very muck battered little image of it doll up to him. "Oh, Uncle Giles," she went on, "Dolly and I have been looking for you for hours—and hours—and hours!" And she gazed up into his lace with wistful eyes. The old man only said, "Ah, my little Lucy 1" and gathered her up into his long aems, and set her on his knee. As he kies• ed her a hot drop fell upon her cheek. Just then, he looked up and saw Milly watching him from her cottage door ; so, kissing the child once more, he set her down, and went hurriedly into his own house. His confused and agitated demeanour had not escaped Milly's eye; hence, as soon as she had taken Lucy up to the vicarage'and returned, she vvalked straight towards his house, and entered. It was as she hs.d half expected. The worn brown valise Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoriat • stood packed on the ta,ble:15.0 if its Miler were meditating an early deperthee. Surely, Uncle Giles," ISlitlysaid,point- ing to the velise, "thou be not going to leave ns.? Happen I may, misses," he answered, as he lifted the tell-tale bundle and put it away. Re went on " Ishouldn'e oughtn't to he,' been here so long. Only one thing ha' kept me, or I ain't nowise sure if 1 hasi been wi' thee till new." What is that, Giles ?" " Well, missus, it be that bairn o' Mrs. Norharn's--little Lucy. There's a summat that binds that lass, to me as I can't explain nohow, not even to mysen. " " Then why &mold thou go ? Ain't thou well here, and well liked ?" Happen as that be so, " he replied. 'I weren't conapla.inin' o' no one, But mine lia' been a wannerin' life ' and though I be well pleased to stay witclin sound o' Lin- laven bells, yet happen sometime I may stay a day too long. I ain't a-wishin' to go ; but maybe, lass, there's a summa.t as shall make me. ' (TO no CONTINUED.) CONSUMPTION CURED. An old physician retired -from practice, hav ing had placed in his hands by an F,ast ndia, missionary the formula oe a, simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and periniinent cure for Consumption - Bronchitis, Catarrh...Asthrria and all throat and lung affections, also 0 positive and radical cure for nervous debility and all nervous complaints, after having tested its wouderful curative powers in thousands of eases. has felt, it his ditty to make it known to his suffering fellows, Actuated by this motive and it desire to relieve, human suffering. I will send free of charge, to all who desire itthe recipe in Gorman, Frenell or English with fat directions for preparing and lasing. Sent by mail by addrcseing with stamp, naming this paper, W. A. NOYES, 820 Power's 'Sleek a:Mester, N, Y. The gold plating ou a wire does not make it 0413i stronger, The wise prove and 'the foolish confess, by their conduit, that a life of employment is the only life worth leading.—[f y. When Babying sick, we nave her Castello., 'When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung n Castozila; When she hail Children, shesavethem Cost.orla On the 1st of January, 1800, there were in England and Wales 80,000 biliaties "un- der official cognizance." It is estimated that there are about 12, 000 other lunatics in their own home; eo that the total num- ber of insane people in England and Wales was seweneare People Wondef WHEN' they find bow rapidly bealtl. V Y is restored by taking Ayer's Sar. saparitla. The reason is that this s preparation contains only the purest and .most powerful alteratives and. tonics, To thousands yearly it proves a veritable elixir of life. Mrs, Jos, Lake, Brockway Centre, Mich, write"Liver complaint and indigestion neade my life IL btu'den and came near ending ray existenCe. For snore than four yeaas I suffered. 11n. told agony. .1 was reduced almost to a skeleton, and hardly had strength to drag myself about. All, kinds of food distressed me, and only the inotst delle conld be digested at all. Within tl-is time mentioned several physicians ° eveated nee without giving relief. /*Toth- ing that I took seemed to do an per- saanent good -mtil I began th dse of ,Ayer's Sarsap -rine, which it pro- duced wonderfal results. Soo counneaoing ta :sake the $ars ("piaci ne a Imprarement iss my coudit;en, my appetite began to return anti with it came the ability to digest all the food taken', my strength improved each day, and after a Sava inoaths af faithful attention to your directions, I found myself a well woman, nhle to attend, to all household duthei. 1.'Ise =calcine has exte new lease ef lite; stud, 1 canna k yau too zunel,:„13 " We, the undersigned, Brockway Centre, Mieh., her* that, the above statement, Mrs, Lake, 5: tree in every pewee, and entitled to full credence."— 0. P. Chamberlain. G W. 'Tering, Wells, Druggist. 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Address MUNN .& P UBLISIIEBS, 381 Broadway, New York, 6111 HALF -YEARLY COMPETITION The most Interesting Contest ever offered * by The Canadian Agriculturist. One Thousand Dollars in Oath, a Pair of Ilendrow• Shetland Punier:, 001 11150 and Hat Imes, and (Ain le' thousand other valuableas erases for the Agrieultui ieto. brightest readers! Who will have them ? According tr the usual custom for sonic years past tl e pulditheis Tun A0311CULTrIDST 11(ny Oiler then Sixth Da11-3. 1011 Literary Competition, This grand competitionno doubt, be the most gigantic and tuceetetul 11111 ever lea seated to the people of the United tqates and Cu nu tia One Thousand Dollars in eaeh will be paid to the 1 er. 0011 sending in the largest list of English words et n gliutucticisdt.ftom letters in the words "The Canadiau AL,r1. Five 'Hundred Dollars in cash will be given Lo the second largest list. A handsome Pair of Slietlend Ponies, Carriage and Hermes, will be givi n for be third largtet list. Over one thousand additional pizes awarded in eriler of merit : One Grand Piano; 000 thren; WO Piano; Dinner Oslo; LadiesGold Wa Mhos% SillcDress Po tlerra ; Portiere Curtains, Silver Ten Services; Tennyson's PoentH, bound hi cloth:Dickens' in 12 volums, bound in 010111,r -qv, As there ale more than MOO prizes, any one who tah(T Oto trouble to prepare an ordinary'good list will not fai o receive a valuable prize. This is the biggest thing 11. :he competition line that we have ever placed before ill( public, and all who do not take part will miss au 03501tunity of is life time. 000us-1. A letter cannot be used of trier than it 'fulmars M the words 'Tho Canadian Agr:eulinriet.” ieor instance the word "egg' could not be used, as the: is but ono "g" in the three wercla 2. Words having more than one meaning Mit spelled the same eau be used lat once. & Names of places and persons barred. 4. Erre: will not invalidate a list -the wrongworde will simpl, not be counted. Each list =et contain one dollar to pay for six moni 1,'. subscription to TIM AGRIOULTUREST. ..31 two or II:01, tie, the largest list which bears the earliest postmark %el, take the first priz ,e and the others will receive 1111000 lo order of merit. lJnited States money and stamps tate L at por The, objpet in offering these, magnifiCent prizes is I., introduce onr popular magazine into new horses, in ever; ' part of the Amoricen continent Bvery competitor enclosing 30 cents in stamps extra, will receiee free, by mail, poetpaid, one to Trio Aun ice 21301010 Blef Ant Souvenir Spoons of Canada. Prises awarded taper:emv residing it the Unitad Sleviet will be shipped from oak New York olEce ,free of du:y All money letters shotild be registered. Ora FORMER 0ccurzsigr.01:-Wo bare elven away 925,000 in prizes daring the last two years, and havv thousands of letters from prizewinnere in every state in the union and every part of Canada and Newfoundland Lord Kileourste, to the Goretnor General of Canada, writee: "I shall repounnend my friends to enter your competitions," M. M. Branden; Vancouver, B. C., your $1000 ha gold" and we bold his receipt femme, A few cri the prize winners: AU= J. RObinson, Termite, 9151013..7. Brandon, Fend= Ont., 81100; Harriecin,' Syrantise, N. Y., 038; 11."Boaria,, St. Louis galmo., si Jim Bantle, West Dutiith, Minn., WO; Mies Georginahobertson, Oak St, Brooklyni, 91000; Fred H. 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