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which the old bridge covers. How 1
will laugh and scoff and miser at them
as they look blankly into each other's
face as 1 order them away from the
home that they believed would be
theirs. It was their turn before; it will
be my turn next."
At that moment the sound of footsteps
fell upon her sharpened ears. Thrusting
the sheet of paper into her bosom she
quickly resumed her seat, and the calm
exprtpion of her face gave no sign of
the Gwent of emotion that was sweep-
ing through her heart.
She had picked up a book that lay on
the chair and appeared to be pursuing
it as the steps drew near.
'I'ht y paused directly before her, and
then she glnnced up with the careless
expression habitual with her.
A stranger, who was looking won-
deringly at her, stood before her. Ile
touched his hat gravely, asking for
Lawyer Barlow.
"lie is ill, confined to his room, and
cnn see no one," ans‘vered Estelle, ad-
ding: "Will you kindly slate your !nisi.
ness to me; 1 will take any message to
him and bring you his reply."
"Pardon me, madam, but my business
Is with him personally, and Is of vital
1mnestance," replied the stranger, court-
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SUPERSTITIONS OF SAILORS.
Some Uncanny Phenomena That Assail
the Seafaring Man.
All sailors are superstitious, and the
legends of the sea are legion, ranging
from phantom ships to spectral lights
• suddenly gleaming from yardarms and
mastheads. That many of these leg-
ends are very ancient may be proved
by the fact that sea harpies are describ-
ed by Homer and Ilesiod, while accord -
Ing to Virgil they plundered .tineas dur-
ing his voyage to Italy. The beautiful
sirens, too, are of classic origin, says
the London Illustrated \lagnzine.
Weird, indeed, aro the tales of haunt-
ing spectres, fit to send one's nerves a -
shivering after a hearty supper, well
suited for Christmas time ghost stories.
There are the four Goblins of Dunter:s
Ness, not ghosts, but evil water spir-
its, who appear twice a year, only in
midwinter, hut bring bad luck in a very
short time to the shi. f ••
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A POLICEMAN'S EXPERIENCE.
British Constable Actor in a Comedy of
Errors.
A constable of the K Division of Me
London Metropolitan Police, who was
very tired, was deputed to conduct a
prisoner to Palistow. The two took is
train from the city. The constable was
not very young and the cushioned seats
were comfortable. Besides, the prison-
er was musical, and whistled a seduc-
tive waltz. So the constable fell into
a gentle sleep.
At Barking Mr. A. E. Wood, urban
councillor of Milton, Sittingbourne, en-
tered the carriage. His advent did not
disturb the dreaming member of K di-
vision, whose snores now drowned the
soft notes of "Dream Faces," which
came from the prisoner's lips.
Tho whistling ceased at Palistow,
but the snores continued. The prisoner
looked at Mr. \Vood, then, leaning
across the carriage, touched his guardi-
an on the knee. "We get out here," he
said in an apologetic voice.
The constable continued to sleep. Ile
looked so gentle, so beautiful almost
in his dreams, that the prisoner had
not the heart to be rough with hire, and
softly opening the door he left Inc train.
Ile has not yet been found.
The slam of the closing door awoke
the constable. "Palistow'" he cried.
"Come on!" and, seizing Mr. \Vood, he
tried to force him out of the carriage.
Mr. Wood resisted. and he wss still
resistin and per testing when the train
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IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND
NEWS IW MAIL ABOUT IOIIN BUIL
AND HIS PEOPLE.
Occurrences In the Land That Helens
Supreme in the Commercial
World. •
Fred Porch, an able-bodied pauper,
who was ordered fourteen days' hard
labor at Marylebone Police Court, for
idleness, refused a pair of trousers be-
cause he would have had to sew but-
tons on them.
The Exeter Watch Committee Intro-
duced a by-law forbidding policemen
to marry without tine consent of the
chief constable. It was stated that
young policemen were inveigled into
matrimony by cooks.
Mr. George Meredith is progressing
favorably towards the complete recov-
ery of his health and strength. It will
bo remembered that some months ago
the great writer suffered the fracture of
hoth legs.
Six constables were employed in
overpowering Jules Buchi, who carne
from Dublin. Ile suddenly went mad at
Crewe railway station and commenced
running about the platform with pas-
sengers' luggage.
A committee of clergymen, represent -
Ing the \lilkinen's Sunday Best Society,
is canvassing the householders of Horn-
sey to tenni whether they will consent
to a trial of one delivery of Milk on
Sundays.
General Sir Henry Landor Thuillier,
who died at Richmond in his 93rd year,
entered the Bengal Artillery in 1832,
and was appointed to the survey In
1836. Ile was the godson and brother-
in-law of Walter Savage Landor.
Daisy, the giraffe, with the longest
neck ever known, has ,just died at the
Zoo from consumption. She was cap-
tured on the Sabi River when three
years old, bought' for the Zoo for £600
and kept for eleven years at a cost of
£400.
Sir William Dunn, Bart., has given
£30,000 to the Presbyterian church of
Engla nd.
Northampton licensing magistrates
abolished 12 licenses and grnnted com-
pensation amounting to £4,858.
At a Norwich funeral, while the sex-
ton waited at the graveside, his four
sons bore the coffin, and his wife tolled
the bell.
At Ilayward's-heath the diamond
wedding was celebrated of old George
Willett, a Crimean veteran, aged 88, and
his wife, who is 84.
The body of 'Phomas 11. Chalton,
secretary to the London Lightermen and
Waternien's Association, was found
hanging from a gaspipe at East Ham
station.
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SUPERSTITIOUS SOUNDS
HAVE GIVEN RISE TO MANY
S'hf tM K IiU.li:h5.
Celtic Poetry Is Full of 'I hem, but Tbelt
Folklore Is Not Limit.~ so
Celtic Lauds.
in the stillest nights there are son*
tuners sounds that are literally audlbiN
ICI' which we cannot account. Froin ter
curliest times superstition his madJ
such sounds her own, Buyshe Landon
Globe. She has dealt ser lsly with
them, and trained mythologies from
their mystery. Sometimes lhy sounds
are simply Isolated cries ofGird
shrillness, and fancy has Netts/th•
spirts of the dead 'passing on the
lonely wind ; shepherds watching IA
solitude at night and sailors on th•
wide sea well know such cries.
At other times the cries are thicker
and sharper, sounds as of shouting,
ciping, barking, with a wild rush and
hurry ; listeners have pictured a phan-
tom huntsman passing with punUnQ
hounds and horses. Other records tell
of sounds like the clash of armies
meeting in the air, and the phenomenon
has always been taken us significant oi
coming war.
Teutonic folklore is full of myths
founded upon mysterious voices. In
the Martz district there is the demon
huntsman ; we read of him In Burger's
ballad. Every glade of German wood"
lands has its spirit, such as the Erb
king and his luring daughter, who be-
guiles the very chid from his father's
arms. There was also the
STRANGE PIPER OF IIAMELIN,
a tale that belongs not only to poetry,
but to actual chronicle; what was the
pipe that so tragically drew first the
ruts and then the children?
There is a kindred legend of a stran-
ger who came into the Ilartz district,
bearing a bagpipe. For every tune
that he played a maiden died. Death
has continually been associated with
the crying of the wind, or the solitary
voice of birds, or with a strange mys-
terious music that trembling listeners
have not been able to identify. Even
extreme forams of orthodox faith have
adopted the sante popular fancies, con-
verting the sounds into voices of an-
gels. Andersen's "Dying Child" and
Tennysois "May Queen" hear this
celestial music, and understand Sts
summons.
Mr. Baring -Gould tells of a Yorkshire
fanner who spoke of hearing angel
voices calling a dying girl, "when
t'aingels gang that road they're bound
to talc' bairns' souls wi' 'em." Some-
times the voice has not come to draw
the child to Paradise but to allure into
an under world of fairies, such as that
reached by "bonny Kiltnenny." Ger-
man peasants used to caution their
little ones not to listen to the voices
they might hear, or they would be car-
ried off by forest spirits.
At times there have ,been strange
voices heard at a ford—tlie'cry of dead
souls of those who have been drowned
there, or it may be that the ferryman
has been roused at night by a sum-
moning call, and has been compelled to
row an invisible company across the
stream; his boat sinking low and his
arms straining, yet seeing no man. In,
like manner the keepers of toll gates.
have been aroused at nights,
AND CALLED Tv OPEN.
Every lonely road, Indeed, has its
cries, especially such a road as, once
busy, Is now deserted; the echoing•foot-
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