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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-9-24, Page 6By the Gate. JAY88 BURY 881isith *WA ever my shoulder 1saw the moon, Th a thin half-oirole was tinting there Like a golden. etrand ot my thrill:tee hair In the rose scented, star-111160ot we ; And, gulag upward, I breathed a prayer. " Fold her about with happineee, Lord - bright -haired, brown -eyed, beautitul maid; And -84U me more meet for her love," I pri9 ed, While the moonlike ablt otgoldea cord There in the beaveus above me stayed. And that little per of my heart- Ale, me 1 think God heard it and gave her the beet, The happinees wrapt h inin.ortal met; She obeys ID hor beauty so quietly With pnd pidass clasped ember oniselesa breast. Now as I stand here and look at the sky A. lone birdchispa ia the tree by t•e gate, While 1 in my eolitude pray and wait; And the nicht-wied passes me gently by Ari the full moon =Isom round and late. 0.0., wind of tba WOO. auto *howl who weep! Beer them. I pray you. the message 1 send ; $02;stliat the sorrow -touched. heart et a friend sp u he stands where the shadows are deep Nem by thegatewhere ths tree.branches band. 0118 by one Ude out the lightsin the town As we have seen lichte in our Ikea grow dim ; Soft on the *dr Amite the sound ed hYrno, And the snowball dowers drop theirpetals down, And the dew dripo over the brim, Then I thrn away from the gate once more, And west theallence thatetande Wawa hallo. A taint farewell. when 1 open the door From the bird that hides in the tree and calls Away from the brook as it ito%s and falls, A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. r th4 Author ,,Tusflown* Gime" .41140vBer lever Lesineeser," &e., Ate PTER II,-(Coeetweere) .+ Thou teee ueore Iodate then I thought)" the old. women se Ifiya1°W1Y• 1 .hoalI speak to the 4+. out Tom eagerly • le ee. Yee+ Yee " bunt e ,ou about. ethat's wheel. oorao to be . + .5 shoulduepoil ; ameach a blundering 1044, "' everything ; and she'dnever fore ee doubted her; end, theAele she efoefet t lovo me," the poor lad went on, uueouseloue Pee he wee hotreying hie own meret. " the would hate me then; and I couldn't bear ' that But it broke my heart to hen Meg •euelte,e other gide tallung of her aft they 40 •-.seed, oh, Airs. lane, the likes you -Dolly, mean- -ad 1 know, if you'd give her a of advice; deed listee, to mem ; the one to tell her or to wern her Al frightened about old .A.dam. If thould get to hen Anything, there would rder and no mistake, for be worehipit Ily ; and if he thought any harm had come t her through the Captiere he'd os sloth shoot him ea look at him." 4* Well." said the widow, with a slight shiver, CaRlea y Tom's energetic speech, "111 make a litre excuse and COMO up to " orge tbi evening ; end then, If I can oily by berate', put her an her 44 Arid you'll be very careful what you y 1' urge:d Tom. "Daly is to proud, ri[kg-. and --with a gulp-- 4 1 dare my she bit fond of the Captain-lesstwe.ye, bee '7 me enough and mart spaken enough * lassies head.' ,,. e me to go my' own gait, Ude" the omen answered, noddiug weedy. es leering thus far thoompliehed his uecteefutiy, was fain, with many tom of gratitude, to fake his love. old cluck in bt. Judea tower was tng six ,is widow Lease put up the shot. of her front peeler, called by courtesy r+ with unusual punctuality ; and then, equipping herself in her bonnet and wl, ane turned the key in the greet -door, net set her faoe towards Adam Jarvies arse. In her hand she carried a lock latch needed some repairing, and which uld verve as a prate= for her visit to the ksmith's. Fortune however favoured her in an un- pected manner, for half way down the traggling street she saw, tripping along °eerie her, pretty Dolly Jarvis hereelf. She wore a crimson kilted skirt, and in - a of the rusty velveteen bodice, she had black tome with a woven border of gold one& on her boaom, with one end thrown Pquettiahly over her left shoulder, while, li place of the old straw hat, her head was peered with a closely-fittbag hood -to match the skirt -and from which the wavy cheatnut hair peeped out, forraing little ten - rile on her smooth fair brow. A very eceful quaint title figure she looked, mak- a strange contrast to the other village le with their unkempt tresses, slovenly see, and generally dirty and untidy sp. arence. It was hardly to be wondered If other young roen besides,the rustics *ins were not indifferent to pretty Dolly's a, the widow thought maim stopped *peak to the girl. iIts a nice evening for a walk," she said ently, "and, if you're not bowie on any Hauler errand, it'd with you. I'd like to just as far as Oliver's Mount to see the set." Dolly had not jest then been thinking something else, sue would have laughed kedly at the idea of the boxom widow's dden tarn for sentimentality, and have eased it was a viel to hide her real reason wishing for her company. ' Oh, no, I was only going for a stroll self 1' she answered, so readily however t the old woman, who bad surmised -a her " smart " appearance that she was ID mischief, so to speak, decided that r suspicions were unfounded. So the two turned together -a queerly as - ted couple -and began slowly to ascend winding path leading th the acclivity ed ediver's Mount. 'It's many years since I dragged my old nes up here," declared the widow, as she • opped panting on to a bench placed bai- ley ap Inc steep ascent for the accommoda- on of wayfarers; "but, when I was a girl, used often to climb this path, for it was r Jim' e favourite walk, and few were the enings we didn't watch the atusset in me, my courting days." "You've lived in the lrillage nearly ail our life, then ?" Dolly sad, a little absent - y, for she was wondering whether a group f equestrains she saw in the distance be - ow was the party from the Hall. " Ay, ay -1 was born here. There've een Langtona-that was my maiden name here, year in, year out, since Cromwell's hne. They served the Braithwaites in hose days even as they do now, though I've thee made, to long ais they amused them- selves. There wasn't a girl in the country- side, gentle or temple, who hadn't. cause to rue the day she ntade the acquaintance of a Breethwaite, There was one Sir Henry Braithwaite, who actually ran away with his ueiglabouth wife, and another who stave ed his own wife to death becaese he fell in love with and wanted to marry another lady; and they thought nothing of robbing area hitting any one who tried to preveut that' wrong -doing." The widow wee drawing putty freely upon her imagination, noticing all the Milletwith tenet satiefaction, that Dolly was lustering with wide-open eyes expres- dee of eurpriee and incredulity. 'They couldn't ell have been so bad,' she said eddy, when heeeompaniou paused, more for want of breath then become ehe had exhausted her category a the sine of the l'raithwaitee. "There's Sir Ralph now; I never heard that lee robbed any I y "Don't try me too much, father. I one, or, in fact, did any harm flail, aud emu cemented to make the bargain you da tiro. Yon pay my debt* and I marry my cousin; there the matter ends," "Not gitite," Sir Ralph retuned, atill geochimmourtelly. " Whilst we are about at, we may as well fix the wedding -der." "Oh, heug it all, leave that to you V" the Captain cried, dismayed at the other's promptitude, and chaftpg to end the inter- view. " This la August," annouuced Sir Ralph calmly; " auppme we fie the first of Febrile ary for your marriage -that is, if Geraldine nothing plainly. Captain Braithwaite hi a ic soon after my brother indawS death?' now ; he supposed he must marry Gerald- ine, time hie people would have it so, and Dolly would wed one in her own teatime of life- Joe Smith perhaps. It would be beat so, an g say aelutiort of all his difficulties ; and yet, with arrange ineoneisteucy, he bb • his lip at the thouaht, " Wall° quertect Sir Ralph, whe bad been patiently watehing hie son at he went throuteh his mental !struggle, knowing full weli how it would end, how it mud end. "L euPtoee I'm no ettoice in the matter, sir," the Vaptairmaid, a little sulkily, "I in glad you've auffident seem to see it ID time light," Sir Ralph rejoined, taking care tra aupprees all signs of the eatisfactiou he felt at his son's decider*, whieffi he knew would. only gen the yourig man. " Gerald- ine it warm-hearted and true to the back- bone, and, with her money, she might do better then wed a vracelem nekrele-well." 44 Thant rat r Harry cried, *lug hasti. sure Captain Braithwaite is— But here Dolly paused, coloring deeply as she met 'Airs. Lthe's scrutinise:1g gaze. 01a, Sir Relph has grown ethady with age!" thesaid, finding that Dolly mode no attempt to finish the sentence. "I dare nay he was wild enough in his youth; and, as for the Captain, whaths bred in the bone b sure th come out in the flesh, and the less said about Wm the better." " tell you whet it is Dolly cried, with sudden peenonete ludignation. I hate people who are no enysterioue, and hint is agreeable and g oes not comader xt too at all kinds of horrid thutga, but vrill say Harry groaned, but made no Audible reply. gentleman at least. and I for one don't heed" It le Nettled then," his father went on the villege-goseep." v "Yea had better !speak to " Empty-W:04y ; but you ueede't be eel Q(4°131444l• " hito or hie. ray eat le ow widow rejoined i As Captalu Breithwaite left hie fatiterie fiery about biro ite eou know about Y°141. wulu at "Qa'n encountered the eubjeett of drily. " Though, now I e0Ble ID think of it, PT"en"' he their late convert:diens, reedy equipped for I may be wrong, for l've beard that, like the rest of hie kind, he *modules puma an ."""se Uhl " excleimed the girl, with a idle hour with you. Take care, Polly - re. member, 'tia hard to play with fire without getting burned." " 0h. I see 3 So that is why you weave to me the Daunt from 011ver's Mount -to heve a chalice of giving Inc a lecture," the girl leughed bitterly. The widows worts had wounded her cruelly, perhape ae! ehe more beethse of a vague doubt and unreal. UM bad begun to harrow her own soul, "I tinppose you are like the others,. you. thiule. that Captain Braithwaite b aim ply araming himself with me." As She spoke ehe drew herself up with ell the dignity of a queen her tweet:lathing and her bowel heasleg with emotion. Tisewid- ow regsxcled her uow with =biped our - prim. " Whet eke should he be doing, chide," lobe asked a little impatteritly. Then, more gently, meths aaw the tears stindleg in the l's bright oyes, and laylog her hand on ber arm•-." My dear, I knew your mother -she is gone now- let me "peak to you in her Mead. I don't ;ay you've nteent to do wrong; but, my girl, can't you me that you're putting our mune in every entee mouth leen aeon about with Captain Braithwaite? It s not only that he bas a eputatiOrt for being fest, Out he'. a man 1ncttc, here brown eyes large and piercing, who is on the paint of being married—" yet she lust fell short of being a beauty. I4 false I" interrupted the girl raising Mr. eltunwaring had been an American her head, which had been drooping, s.ne financier, and had weeded pretty fragile stamping one little foot paseionately ou tho Grace Braithwmte, Sir Bel only eister, little pout of tie ripe red lips. "I've been weitiug for you at lead Eve minute*" "Wbat a ad trial of petieuce, ma routine "" he rejelned Since it lied tn be done, he would put hie fate th the test, wi bout farther delay, he decided, as he swaps Geraldine into the awhile, and then himself mounted the chest. nut mei the groom was holding for him. Not that he hod much doubt an to what Miss Mainwaring's answer would be when he put the momentous queetion to her, he • thought, a little ruefully. Her preference for him lied been auffinently Junked, and until lately Harry had proved himself one the moat devoted of the haireee's woe. • ehipers, fo; although he did not actually lave he; the bed been as needy hie ideal as any one he had hitherto nub, and he had been content to hover around her, to pay her • those little Aarneleta :attentions to natural ID a men of fielder:, to whtsper soft little Ilentonees which might mom so little or to much.. And, truth to tell, there was great deal that was lovable and worthy of esteem in Gereldine elainwering, Her features wore regale; her heir dark as the reverie wips, her complexion that of A bra. ground. "No; it is true," the widow rejoined firmly. "1 thought you knew what everyone else in the village knows. Ceptein Braith. waite 1. 10 be marrie4 to his cousin, Midi Gersldine Mainwarlog, in the spring. If you don't believe it, sak him yourself, next time you meet him, and. +tee if he will dare ID contradict it." "ID is Ube 1' ropeeted poor Dolly, damp- ing her hands together; but her tone was leas assured, and ahe was beginning to trem- ble violently. "My dear child!" cried the widow pity- ingly and in genuine,alann. She stood up, and would have drawn the girl -who had risen alto and was oonfront- ing her with, oh, suoh misery in her bright blue eyes, such a pained look on her white mewed face 1 -towards her; but Dolly, with a low cry, eluded her graap, and without casting so much at a glance behind her, turned and fled down the narrow pathway which they had ascended so short a time be- fore, leaving the worthy dame literally dumbfounded at the result of her well-in- tentioned "warning." CHAPTER III. "There must be no more trifling, Harry; either yon make up your mind to marry Geraldine at an early date, or 1 wash my hands of you and your debts. The estate is heavily burdened enough already -it will bear no more. Besides, ib is not fair th Percy." Sir Ralph Braithwaite spoke without temper • perhaps he remembered hie own youthful peccadilloes too well to visit the sins of his younger and beet -loved son too heavily upon him. "Oh, Percy knows how to take care of himself 1" the young man said, with an im- patient shrug of hk shoulders. "And I mnst eay itis a little hard on me, at my age, to expect me to settle down into a ben - edict. One naturally desires to see a little of life while one is blessed with youth and freedom." "1 think you have seen a little of life, as you call it," the old baronet replied, laying his hand significantly on a pie of unpaid bills that lay on the escritoire beeide him. "Well, one can't live on the air I" Harry declared irritably, following his father's glance. "And it costs something to keep up the family dignity if one is in a crack regiment and belongs to an sucked family like ours." This was a sop in the pan, for Captain Braithwaite knew his father's pride of race was a weak point with him; but the old gentleman was not to be thus molified. "Ah, um 3 What is this 1" he question- ed, turning up a blue document from amid the heap beside him; then, after reading aloud a list of expensive wines that had been supplied to his son, he added drily. That does not look much like living on the air, does it ? You want me to settle with your creditors. I tell you I oannot af- ford th do so; but I will stretch a point to oblige yon -conditionally. It is a simple question for you to decide." Harry fidgeted uneasily. In his mind's eye at that moment was a graceful little fig- ure in a orimeon kilted petticoat, with soft cately hint to the blackemithea daughter npon what footing they must meet ut the future. So he had planned the interview ID the pine -wood now more than a week ago; and, :n a moment of weakness, he had, ineteaci of loosening bis deaths*, but riveted them more tightly. Since then he hati bitterly regretted hie conduct, for he had coma to the 00nel:teem that, though Geraldine was not quite the style of girl he would have °lumen, she would make him a most desirable wife. And, on thin day, as they cantered down the avenue of cheetnute, be determined to put all thought of Dolly Jarvis out ot hie mind. She would probably hear of hie en- gagement to Ida cousin 88011 enough; and vixen, if he °Winced to see her, he could, ex- plain all to her. She would be a little sorry at first, of course; but then she would me thinga from hie polut of view and be reason- able. In bit own heart however hegees- tioned Dolly'a 44 reasonableness," having an. uncomfortable recollect:ea of the zone in the pinceweed. Geraldine Maiawaring noticed her cousin's abstraction, and regarded him a little curi- ously from time to time, though 511611ml° no effort to break the silence into winch they bad fallen. But presently, when they pull- ed up after a brisk canter deng !). with*. spreading conimon, Captain Braithwaite vette. Geraldine," he said suddenly, without any preamble, "do you think yon could ever =re for MO enough, to be my wife 1 I know I am a poor match, for you ; but we have in a manner grown up together, ma- nna if yea will entrust youraelf to me no effort dell be wanting on my part to zke You huPPY. iTO BR COM:WIWI psoulaa TILLNOS. Number Thirty-xdue. Tbe main point in Russia's judicial pro- ceedings is frequently not to weigh a prisoner a guile, and fix upon the consequent penalty, but merely to keep hint in durame •vile, If he is safely in embody, the law shows no further interest as to hie case. It can wait, and he, unfortunately„ must. The case of "Thirty-nine," a woman who had fallen under the anapictou of the Govern. meet, is cited in "Russet Uuder the Tzars," ID inuetration of this Mete of affairs She was accueed of being hi communicatIon with conspirators, and of having been, a member of a secret society hostile, to the exieting Government. These charges she at thee denied. She was the accused of otiaer offences, and many !earthing questione were put touching her supposed Connection with the revolutionary movement. All were an- swered ID the negattve, "Very well," said the procuretor, at length, "you will have to reflect, Take number Thirty -Nine hack to her colt warder." She went beck to her cell, rejoicing at having came so well out of the ordeal, and that elle police had so little against her. She wee full of laope as to the future. She was then allowed to reflect at her ease ; she could not complain that the even tenor of her thoughts was diaturbed by too rathy dietraction* A whole week paesed ; a second end third. An entire month °lewd, and still nothing was said about another examination. The month multi TEN THOUSAND MITES LOST. Disasi roue Floods Rear Canton Mina - Details of the destruction in Canton, China, and vicinity bythe recent great rain- storm there have been received. The flood was the most serious wheel has visited Can ton in thirty years. More than ten thousand, and persons loge their livea and a far great. er number are left ha a nerving condition. Eutire villages vet re engulfed end the rice and oink mope in the vicinity almost ruined. The price of doe advanced 18 per cent, in ethaegnence. Rath fell the latter part of June, filling and overflowing the rivers, end many of the streets of Cauten were flooded for over a week. At Si Ni the water broke through the city wall, and itis reported that several thomend people were drowned there. Embankments of rivers werobroken in num- eroue places and tlae water swept acme the surrounding „country, carrying everything before it. A foreigner. who was an eyewit- ness of the seen, a of deviation, reports that one night the boat he occupied. anchor- ed near a bamboo grove. By the morning the wider had limn to the tops of the brim - boo, while at the other point* it rose as high as forty feet duripg the night. The iambi. tante tied from the villages and camped on the hillsides. At Kun In, a market place near an embankment of 0110 of the streams conneoted with the riverwhich brings water from the North and Wed fiver* the major- ity of the inhabiante were drowned by the water breakiug throegh the embankmenI, p lied by three, by four, by aix. Some escaped to a piece of rising ground m Finally when, at the end. of the seventh ithe neighborhood, but the watex• continued month. she had almost abandoned hope, she we* called before theprecerator W undergo dill another questioning. The eXerilinatiene waa sharp and brief. "Rave you reflected!" "Yee, I have reflected." "Have you anything to add th your pre- vious depoeitions 1" Dr. J. 13. Lewes thinks that planta"pro- f eetothetee, batty derive the whole of their organic aub "1114064 1 Go bade to your call, then," dance from the air -90 per oent. te 93 per cent, of dry meter. M. Henri Viverey states in COMM that he finch; in dictum bronze an electric oon- ductebility equal to that of copper and A mechanical reelatanoe greeter than that of kon. Lie emolument!** its use in telegraphy. M. Wit; who has for s considerable time been making thaervatithe on atmospheric ozone, mem that the proportion of ozone in the air of earie lest year was th the inverse ratio of the mortality from cholera. The notion that doge are mom liable to go mad in hot weather than at other them is fallacioue, says a wont authority. Genuine rabbit ID exceedlogly rare but veterinary atatiatioa show' that it preval's at all sweats, It is very doubtfal whether the weather has anything to do with the disease. whim quite a girl. She had died when Ger. Wino was fifteen. Since then Geraldirte had boon at a Coreluental boardingeohool. Mr. Idialuwartng had been killed Int rail. wayaocident a few months before, and then Geraldine had found herself thrown upon the world, an orphan and the possemor of a large fortune. If Harry Braithwaite entertained no warmer feeling for her theneousinlystegard, It was different with the girl. Even in three early days when her father was either too grossly aborted in his speoffiations, or he iound the journey across the Atlantic too long to spare the time to visit his daughter, and she had been accustom! d to apene hey. holidays at Braithwaite Hall, Harry had been the object of her passionate attachment, With her elder cousin Percy she was shy and reserved, which might perhaps be acocamted for Inethe fact of bis being sever- al years her senior. liarrya regiment had been quartered in Ireland for some time, so It happened that the coueins had not met for several year., Geraldine having been on a vide to some of her fatherkrelativea when Harry had been on furlough. earcl my father say there had been Braith- luatrous eyes that sought his own in perfect aitee at the Hall long even before that, trust. For a minute hie good angel predom- d a scapegrace vn d set they were, though enerous and open-handed, to give 'em here due." "What did they do to get such a bad erne ?" Dolly questioned interestedly. "Well, you see, they were what they tilled Royalists -they took the side of the leg when the man Cromwell waisted to et the crown from him; and no wonder, or he was not of much account, I've heard ell -and they drank and fought and gam. lecl and cheated and made love to all the retty girls they oame across'they. didn't. are whether they broke theirhearts or not, r what lies they told, or what promises Experiment" reported by M. Guignet to the French Amelemy of Scienoes oonfirra the views of M. Frebny that the behavior of chlorophyl, or the coloring matter of leaves, ID mutely like that of an acid. ldr. Guignet has obtained chlorophyllate of soda, and from it by double dmompoeition, salts of lime, baryta and lead. A proems has recently emu patentee for manufacturing e gum from the Eucalyptus glebultm, which has the afloat of thoroughly removing the melee which form on steam en- gine boilers, and preventing runt and grit- ting The use of this preparation, it is ex- pected, will extend tho period of usefulnest of the bolters 100 per cent. to 1e0 per cent, losidoe insuring a tensiderable saving of fuel, as scale 185 non oanductor of heat, Many of the haliebitants of the Congo basin cherish the singular belief that the white people live et the bottom of the sea In proof of this theory they adduce the fact that when O foreign vessel apposes off the coast the top of her MAIM firat appear, then her mils and finally her hull. When she mile away the same phenomenon occurs, only in the re. verae manner. Plainly, therefore, European dips oome up from the bottom of the lea, find it that be the cam it follows that their crewa and passengers must do the same, It was awing the long summer that Cap- tain Braithwaite, deprived of his cousin's presence, and finding the time hang heavily on his hands at the Hall, had made the aoquaintance of pretty Dolly Jarvis. Ac- customed as he was to the society of fashion- able belles, he had all the more readily fallen a victim to the bow and spear of the unsophisticated rustic beauty, with her childish simplicity, quaint artistic tastes, and native manner. He had not dreamed that she would attach any serious importance to the honeyedppeeches which fell to natural- ly from hie lips when he was talking to a pretty girl. He had forgotten that what was merely a pastime to him might be at- tended with !Unger to Dolly -still less did any thought of Geraldine ever arise to make him deabt from his harmless flirtation, as he called it in hie own mind., lusted, for a minute he bitterly regretted his selfish conduct, and would fain have undone the work of the last few week* It had been the maddest folly, and he bad never intended to seriously engage the girl's affections -as for marriage, such an idea as that between himself and Dolly Jarvis was too ridiculous to be entertained 1 Yet those hours passed in the company of the village belle had not been without their charm. Was it his fault, if, carded away by the ex- citement of the moment, he had spoken words which should never have passed hie lips, if his manner to her had been such as to misleed her? Well, well, it was over And then one day there had come the un- welcome knowledge that his difficultim were becoming so great that he must do something to extricate himself, that he must rouse himself from the easy doles jar niente state of existence into which he had been drift- ing, if he would avoid ruin and disgrace; and with that knowledge came another. Dolly Jarvis loved him with all the intens- ity of her simple childish heart, loved him with all the purity and depth of a first love, whist he -well, he loved her after his own careless selfish hellion.. To his mother, ins, sadden fit of confidence one day, Captain Braithwaite bemoaned the tangled mesh in which his affairs were in- volved, and received from her the warmest sympathy; but she could only declare her to.help him except by giving him the same advice that he received later from his father. • "Why don't you marry, my boy," she had mid-" some one with money, ot coarse? That would be the Gamiest and most libelant way out of your difficielties. You can hard. ly expect your father to do any more for you. He has paid your debts to often that really I don't see how it is to end, unless you will follow my counsel. There is Ger- aldine coming on a visit next week. You wee to be very fond of each other, and she has a nice little fortune -enough for you both to live on comfortably; at any rate, it ID worth thinking about." And, being an astute woman, LadyBraith- waite said no more, certain that her words would be more likely to bring forth fruit if they were left to take root of their own ac- cord. And Captain Braithwaite did think of it; and, not being quite heartless, and experience having taught him the advisabil- ity of being off with the old love before he waa on with the new, he thought he would break off his acquaintanceship with Dolly Jarvis before the arrival of his cousin, to avoid any complication that might other- wise arise; or, at any rate, he would deli - This time alio does not return to her cell With a light heart mad beaming countenauce She theta created and oonfused, weighed down by aimed agonizieg mum of apprebeedou and deepair, A reaniaoin uumb Thirty.eight is kuooking furiously at the well. "Wretched trainees that you have been to denounce me. Here IDe. MAU with a sack of rats that he its bringing th devour me, Coward, coward that you are I" The poor lunetic iet one of her par - °eyelet* A horrible feu takes posseasion of the prisoner', min& "Dreadful 1 dreadful te" slet ode* Shall one day bootee like her 1" The menthe mune and go ; they multiply themselves into years. The captive ID undergoiog a terrible exiles, iler yearning for airmovenz=t, liberty,. haa grown in - Lena* becoming alined mune. She bee en. treated the officials to send her to exile, to Siberian mime, to aentence her tet pena the servitude. The procurator has several times visited her cell. Have you anything to add to your Mopes. Mont" !tea lew n his Invariable questiou. "Very well; 1 meat Mill leave youth you reflections." In the mientime the bloom of health has quite vanished from the prieoner's cheeks. lice complexion has detutned that yellow. gran tint peculiar to the young who linger long in captivity. Her movements are alovr, hadolent Automatic, She can remain half an hour in the same position with her eyes flexed on tha SAMS Objed, OA if she were buried in deep thought. Her brain has become torpid ; she penes the greeter part of her time in heavy droweleeee, mental and physical. Whet will become of poor Thirtynine ? There are many alternatives for her. by sonic shook, her vital energy should be aevekened, she may strangle herself with a pocketlandkerchief, or poison herself. She may go mad, or die of phthisis oont treated in prison, If, however, by mann of abnormal etrength of character, and vigor of constitu- tion, she strive until the day of trial, her judges, out of consideration for her tender age and long imprisonment, may let her end her days in Siberia, A German teohnioaljournal tellehow wol- ens may be prevented from shrinking and their color from changing. The fabric); it says, are first soaked for several hours in a warm, moderately concentrated solution of soda, th which about a half tumber of am- monia water haa been added, more or less, according to the quantity of material treat- ed. At this stage the fabric are washed out, after the addition of some warm water, then rinsed in fresh water. The same result may be reached by adding a tumbler of am - MOMS to a 8mall tub of water, soaking the stuffs for a half hour in this, finally rinsing them in pure water. On July 10 at about noon, a wonderfu mirage was seen on Lake Wetter, in Swed- en, by a number of people between the vil- lages of Fogelsta and Vett:stem A small island in the lake appeared as if covered with the twat gorgeous flora and tall, gigantic trees, forming great groves, between which builinge having the appearance of the most splendid palaces were seen. The Sande, another little bland, seemed to rise out of the sea, many times its actual height, its sandy shores 1 eking like lofty, castellated walls. It had the exact appearance of a mediteval fortress enclosed by four walls. Two other little islands, Aholmen and Risen appeared also as lofty towers above the wa- ter. 'The mirage lasted for nearly a half hour, when it disappeared somewaht rapid- ly. Never Too Late To Learn. SOORATBS. at an ext-eme old age, learned to play on musical instrumento. Cato at eighteeyears of age, leamed t. "peak ate Greek language. .Plutarch, when between. seventy and .eighty, commented the study of Latin. Doctor Johnson applied himself to tbe Dutch language but a few years before his death. Ludovico Moenaldsoo, at the groat age of one hundred and fifteen, wrote the memoirs of his own times. Ogilby, the translator of Homer and Vir- gil, was unacquainted with Latin and Greek until he was past fifty. Sir Henry Spelman neglected the sciences in hie youth, but commenced the study of them when he was between fifty and sixty years of age, Afterthla he became a learned antiquarian and lawyer. Franklin did not fully commence his ethilo- sophioal pursuits till he had reached his fif- tieth year. Dryden, in hit sixby-eighth year, commenced the translation of the Iliad, his most pleasing production. . Boomed° was thirty-five years of age when he commenced his studies in light literature yet he becameone of the grandest mestere Of the Turoan dialect, Dante end Petrarch being the other two. We could go en and cite thousands of ex- amples of men who commenced a new study, either for livelihood or 'amusement, at an ,aovanced age, But every one familiar with the biography of dietieguished men will reo. ollect individual cases enough to convince them that none but the sick and indolent will ever say," I am too old to learn." to rise and graduelly overtopped the chive. tion, drowning those who stood upon it, &vote= Chinese graduates in Canton, hearing at the distresa and suftsrink preva- lent in their native villagea, took poskiage 00 a beat with a view to prooeeding home to render what aselatance they could. On the way the boat was capsized and all who were in it were drowned. In some places parenta tied their children an high branches of trees whilat they instituted measure' for tbse general aafety. The treea were welshed up by the roote, and the heartrending mice of children were silettoed in the eurgeng wa- ter*. The body of a bride droned hi her bridal =bee was found floating in the river at Canton, .& large tub wee alto seen; 11 waa picked up and found th oontain a boy aud ; WW2 them wee a paper Mating their name* the day and the hour of their birth. The parents bed instituted this mean; to save the lives of their offspring. The writer of the letter from which the above /*taken says : "The suffering that Do being endured by thousends in thin pro. vim) is ;imply heartrending. Children aro calling to their pezento that they are hungry, end their parents oan only reply, with their epee blinded, with tens, thatthey have nothing W give them. Them floods willed °aurae bring on other eslamitles ; the aub. aiding water" will Imes an alluvien deposit whieh will burden the atmoaphere with mat. arid poison. People are obliged to me the filthiest and dirtiest water, which meet give them all "orb of dimmer." .01*1•11.11••• A Story. The Inhabitants of Seymour and victuity are add to be muck exercised ia mind over the miaow° in that town of a veritable heented house, and those who have oceesion ID peas the place after night -fall do so with quickened pulses and a fear that they may eee something that would cause fright at lean. It is believed thee in the little brown house where John Stillwell and his wife were found dead last winter, after having been undiscovered for at least 36 hours, there is some strange and terrible seeret,and that inatead of ite bethg, as some supposed, is =so of double suicide, perhaps betth Salle 'au and hie wife were murderedin oold blood, For some time peat timid people have hinted that all is not rightita the Ione. ly littlepleoe. Two or three families have occupied the place sinoe the tragedy, and. they at moo move out and away, and are reticent as th the mums, only wing that they do not oare to live there. Finally it transpired that the first family were annoy- ed by strange noises. The aeoondileartily heard all sorts of supernatural sounds, and ao did the thiri family, and it would be ex- tremely difficult now for the owner to get a tenant. Very recently a young Mall was riding along in company with a young lady, when she nuddenly gave a shriek of terror and convulsively seized him by the arra He hastily asked her what she meant, and as soon as she coulcl regain her composure she she said she saw the form of a woman on the roof wildly waving its hands. Her compan- ion tried to make her believe that there was nothing in it, but ehe insisted, and still in- sists, that she saw the startling spectre., He made up his mind that he would sift the mystery to the bottom and the next night, in company with three or font reliable friends, he visited the spot. While they saw nothing, they assert that they heard many noises that in their opinion mut be as- cribed to supernatural causes. Tuning Points in Life. Every now and then, in history, or in the history of literature and science, we find some striking instance of turning -points in life. On such ground we see how a scandal about a bracelet, or the prohibition of a ban- quet, wrought a revolution, and precipitated a dynasty. Look at literary or scientific biography. Think of Crabbees timourously calliog on Edmund Burke, and inducing him ID look at hie poetry. I have no doubt but Burke was very busy. But with lightning glance he looked over the lines and satkfied himself that real geld= was there. When Gribbe left the statesman he was a made man. Burke, ever generous and enlightened, had made up hie mind to take care of him. Or look at Faraday. He was only a poor bookeelleres poor boy, working hard and hon- estly, but disliking his employment, and in- spired with a pure thirst for koowledge. He had managed somehow or other to hear the great chemist, Humphry Davy, at the Royal Institution; and with trembling solicitude ID sends him a fair copy of the notes which he hes made of his leotures. The result is that Michael Faraday receives an appoint- ment at the Royal Institution, and lays the foundation of his splendid and beneficent career. Looking back to the past, that was agreat moment in the life of Columbus, when, resting on a sultry day beneath the fierce Spanish Bun, he asked for a drink of cold water at a convent door. The prior entered into conversation with him, and -struck by his appearance, and afterwards by the mag- nificent simplicity of his ideas -gave him the introduotions he so sorely n-eded ; and thus Columbus gave to Castile and Arragon a new world. • What It Would Cost. It is fearful to think what an enormous ex pews it wouldbe for Pattito bring up a child. She would have to sing it to sleep every night for about three years, and at the re. aular rates this would amount to £1,000,000. Then if she should have to sing one or two extra verses to it eaoh night, the amount would rise to £1,500,000, providing that the child was always ingood health. Allowing the usual third for sickness, she would have to sing to it all night for 365 days, say five hours at a time. £8C0 for a few minutes flinging is her usual price. One night of sickness would therefore coat £48,000. Stepniter, the Russian' revolutionist, who has lived in London for eighteen months and is very popular there, has acquired the Eng- lish language quite perfectly, and he also speake most of the Continental languages, which is not at all remarkable for a Rus- sian. When a very mad woman begins practicing with a revolver the wise man always dodges In emit of her Event Names for Children. A correspondent sends the following in- teresting clipping from an old country paper :- In the quarter following the battle of the "Alma," five hundred ane nineteen children, males as well as females received "Alma. as a Christian name. females, Inkermen and Sebastopol also speedily gave their * names to English infants, and one "Siege Sebastopol"was registered. The acquisition of the Island in the Mediterranean during the year 1878 was the Means of introducing Cyprus into English personal nomenolature; and to pass to a later date still, a laborer's boy, born at Sawstene, Cambridgeshire in September, 1882, was named " Political events as well as military. find their reflection in names. " Charter " is a record- ed appellation recalling the popular move- ment of 1848, and " Reform " ID also an ex- isting denomination. In a birth regist‘of 1882 appens as the personal designatio of O certain Mrs. Thorpe, who became a mot ele - at that time, thestartling name "Leviathan." The good lady, it is stated, was born or named at the time of the launching of Brun- ers monster steamship, which was at first so called, though it has since been known as the Great Eastern. A little girl, daughter of a hoop -maker, born early in the last nam- ed year at Rye, in Sussex, received the name , "Jumbo," presumably in commemoration of the regretted departure of the Zoological favorite from Regent Park to America. The correspondent adds: Whilst on the subject of names' what do you think of the following. whichI well remember appeared for a considerable time in the monthly Army list, some years since, "William Wellington Waterloo Humbly?" • e "I don't enjoy poetry, as a general thing," said an old lady who dropped in on us recent- ly, "but when I step out to feed the hogs and histe myself on the fence, and throw me, soul into a few lines of 'Captain Jenks,' it don't seem as if this airth was mad to live on, after all." Every succor in the land ought to be put through a "mune of sprouts. ,