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The Exeter Times, 1885-11-5, Page 2Influences. Who hesnot telt, when twilight Bank in cloud. And winch at autumn past his home gave plaint, The poverty, the exclusion, the rvatrafnt !au et experience learned or life alrimedf ]n *nunlike these, whet rpitithas not hawed Before despondence as before a faint That zealots worship and enthu'1asta paint, Till hope was raimentedwith death's awn ahrand= find yet no more of splendor than some star's May pierce the gloom and show beyond its rent The eternities and calms in night'e control. When lo l whet httrr,;ing forth from ptison bare, What restitution, what antrenchiaereent, What sovereign re•enthronemetstfor the soul. l Uncle Tracy's W3 , "A. telegram, sir, 50 cents," prornptly spoke a dusty measenger boy, as Parillp Devlin appeared at the door in response to a rap, one warm (lapin June. Philip was a young farmer who lived a sot distance from the town of Gres- ham He took the yellow envelope in hie hand, and fumbled it over and over with- out opening it, jest as many a person has done before. "The 00 cents is for delivering the meueage," ventured the boy. "We get thab much when we conte so far," "Oh, yea," responded Philip ; and he called leis wife to bring the money. "What can it be, Phil l" who &ked, as alto real:zed that acme direful news must c retained in that fateful telegram. Philip opened it and read : Your Uncle Reuel died tilts morning„ E'uateral Thereby. .dfVee.,r A atfiad sob rose in Lulu's throat.. "At lash," she *aid. "'He la now at reab,think God.r" Fier the knew toowell how be had +suf- fered. The mouth before eh° lead been with hlixr a few dsyr, and then he had fondly renewed hie ovexflawing affection for her, and wished her life-long happiness with. her devoted ltuaband, "There is no reply." Philip said to the raeaeenger, who had thankfully tak- en a glass of cool milk which the hired girl had brought him. And the sturdy little fellowtradged eft', reheat -led and madded, hie fingers el es, big on the bright half -dollar with cheer, bg eaaiisfaetion that it had been well earned and would be well anent. Philip and Lulu took the next morn- ing train for Toronto, arriving there dur- ing the afternoon. It was 1'4 edneeday. All preperattona had been made for the fnnere1 to take pace the nett day. Alice, the elder niece of the deoeased, sand Lulu's couein, wee the only other fe- male relative present. Her father and two brotbera were there, having come from. Montreal. Some of the societies to which Mr. Tracy belonged attended the funeral, and alter all was over the relatives assembled to hear the will read. The lawyer who bald it wae a eller, little man with. gold spectacles. He coughed nervonely, and seemed to be considerably agitated wheu he role. "Ladies and gentlemen," he began, crit la with mach embarraeanent that I appear p ttom I had ho ou on this enlezan recce. aed,beforee the death of my devoted friend, whom we have to -day followed to his long home, to have closed up* matter which has bean a mince of much trouble and considerable arxlety to me. But as you are all aware, the de- ceaeed'a taking c if was audden, after all. Re had been munch better until the morn- ing of his death, and on the very day he died 1 was to have met him and ar- ranged hie worldly matters- more perfect- ly to his +satisfaction. Teat meeting nev- er occurred. Cone( quently we have to take reoord of hie wiehee as we find them lase expressed. They are contained in this paper." The old lawyer carefully opened the sealed will of the deceased and began reading. By ib the bulk of the property was Left to Alice and her brothers and a com- paratively small legacy fell to Lulu. Every one prevent war Surprised and their glances and wh#epere revealed their astonishment. For it had been a well - nettled opinic n, almost amounting to c °- tug knowledge, that Lulu was to be the befreae, and that the others were to be left but little, if anything. The old lawyer resumed: "The document I have just read is the last will of the deceased, so far as I am informed and believe. It was signed nearly a year ago. There le no other pa. per anywhere to be found, and this wan deposited with me by the deceased him- aelf at the time it; was made. I willow, however, that it deer+ not dispose cf the effects in the manner I have, by recent remarks of the deceased, been led to be- lieve he intended they should be." The unexpected disposition of Reuel Tracy's property was a theme of public comment for many days. The heirs, Alice and her brothers, were so elated at their good fortune that they affected not to see any reason why people should nob give Uncle Reuel an oppor- tunity to change his mind, if he felt so diepoeed. Philip and Luiu returned to the farm. They talked but little concern- ing the property. They felt that it wax a forbidden subject. Yet each wondered why it could pos- sibly have happened that Uncle Reuel should have so misled them, and all the rest as well. Never, by the slightest token had he displayed any other than the kindest and most heartfelt wishes for their welfare. And many a little remark like, ' I haven't forgotten you, Lulu," "You will be remembered," had during the year past confirmed their belief in his deter- mination to make Lulu his heiress. "It is all for the beat, Phil," Lulu' had said. "Dear uncle muab have, after all, disapproved of our marriage, and changed :his mind after I had gone away. But no matter, we can be happy without the .money, dear, can we not 9" And. Philip, brave fellow, lovingly res. wended: "We shall forget all about •it." Poor meal He tried to forget, but it was hard to do so. He had counted on Uncle Reuel's mon- ey for many improveneente on the farm; and they were badly needed. The old place had ran down gradually until, to put it in good order, it would' requiie reeve dollars than ib was possible for him to acquire in many years, Autumn came. Harveatieg war, done. The proceeds of the farm bad sold for seemi more oa ase y re th8 n enough money to take them over the winter by the practloe of great economy. " 1 4a1I be busy at the clearing till late," said. Philip onedey, ache shouldered hie axe and started cif, While busily engaged in felling a tall poplar tree he did not notice the approech ofatramp The latter had Dome up lazily and now sat watching the youngferirler as he wielded the axe and speedily oat through the tree.trunk. As Philip dealt the last blow and dodged aside to be free from: danger from the falling tree his eye caught eight :,f the tramp. The unthinking fellow bad seated himself on, the lower end of a log which extended over a wood -pile, die upper end reaoheu far enough beyond the edge of the woodpile to be in the way of the fall of the poplar tree, which was already swaying, Philip saw the man's dangerous posi- tion and shouted ; "Look out, there! Jump t Quick :' But the tramp paid no heed to the warn- inI.natantly the tramp as lifted in tbe air fifty feet or more, and when he etreck the earth all that waa left of him was a mangled oorpee. Philip Devlin was horror-stricken. He hastened to the prostrate man, but wee seem Calivinebd that the miserable fellow was past helix. Hee eununoned ilia Menet neighbors. The newts of the accident spread aiaickly, Before the day was ended the coroner had summoned a jury, and they had brought in their verdict of "accidentally killed," Nothing was found upon the dead man by which he could be identified, but in one of hie pockete the Dor per discovered A large, dirty -edged envelope eontaiiliugg a document, Ile opened it and read aloud : " Liget will and testament of Reuel Tracy," Philip listened, thunderstruck, He gazed tr'et at the paper, then at the our - one*,• "61ey 10, 18$3," resumed the coroner, Ptutip reached forward, " Let me eee that paper," said be. The ooroeer heeitated air ina'ant, as if in deep thought, then a broad snide In radiated hie bread fem. He banded the document to Philip. "It cascara you, my dear friend," be, said, ' 1 can trust you with it until 1 need it again." Philip Davila broke away from the assembled group and ran to the hosts°. He arrived there alczoeb breathleee. "Lula 1 Lulu l I have found it i" he exclaimed, like a boy would ebaut in glee And aaeceeding investigation proved that he had, indeed, found the nusaing with, which made Lulu heiress to the Tracy estates instead of Alice and her brothers'.. Tho old lawyer was telegraphed. He Dame from Toronto, opened the will, and declared it to be the one he had believed tit be in existence. The mystery was easily explained shortly afterwatde. Just after Lulu's haat visit to her uncle he hadsecretly made thte x ill and placed it in a sealed erevelopeon hie table. A few nights later the house had been entered by burglars, and several valuable articles had been taken from the lower rooter. But nothing lied been disturbed In the invalid's room, and he had not been informed of the barelary. The thieves had been mitred away be- fore assuring many article', hue it was evident that one cf them, moread- veaturune than the rest had, ascended to Mr. Tracy's room and snatcbtd the will from the table without disturbing the invalid. Whether it was the tram p, whose body reposed in the Greabam graveyard, was never known. Alice and others remembered having aeon the envelope lying on Uncle Reuel's table, but as nothing else had been dis- turbed in the room its loss had not occur- red to them. Before winter set in Uncle Reuel's property was distributed according to the terms of his last will, and Philip and Lala were confidently planning the im- provements to be made intoe spring. The Tracy's were disappointed, but re- lirqulshed their claims without trouble. Philip shudders when be recalls the terrible feeliog he experienced while the tree was falling, and sometimea feels un- easy about what he deems his remote res- ponsibility for the tramp's death. "Ib was providential," assures Lulu, when he mentions it. "It could not have been otherwise." Eastern religions papers observe that reading hymns from the pulpit is rapidly going out of style. A comparison of records decides that a trained walker can dietetics the best horse after twenteefuur hours. A new steamer costing some $30,000 has just been constructed by the church missionary society for the uee of its mis- sions on the river Niger. A negro in Jackson county, Georgia, is reported to have butted a steer to death, the owner having promised him the carcass on that condition. William Van Tassel of Tarrytown, N. Y., wasehot In thearmiaetfallandmortifi- cation setting in, thedactcra gavehim up, as he was too weak bo submit to amputa- tion. His arm came off, however, with.. out saw or knife, and the stump healed and he is as well as ever. This it consid- ered one of the most remarkable casae on record. In Uruguay mares are never used for anybhing but breeding purposes and are allowed bo ran wild from oats. When they become aged they aredrlven in herds like cattle to Saladeros and slaughtered for their hides, hair, and bones. There are several establishments for rendering animal oil, which is shipped to France to be used in the manufacture of soap, per- fumery, and otheraarticlet. This oil le the most-profitab:e product from the .slaughterof mares, but it requires greab care to make it. Mares are worth from $3 to $5 a head for breeding,and notmore thrhYi $2 or $8 for slaughtering, YOUNG FOLKS. L S. My Ships. When my good ahipe come sailing In With carioca Creat ane rare 1 Mall in truth be rioh indeed, Aad have enough to spare. Pli aft me down and study up, What 1 had better do Will all my treasure on its way Across the briny Bea A farm i'il buy cf goodie size, And have the soil well tilled, That when the rutmto folly cornea My barna abatl ell be Mtn. A thousand sheep shall wander forth, Along the verdant bilis, Wallet cows and horses feed boeide The u,ea4ows"luugid ruts. rli build a "home" for o ogles old, Where they can lire togesher, And pair the trmnaut of teen days Through bright and stormy weather. But ere my plans are all prepared 111 trait to bee illy t+Ails& Far our the sdegr might come true Which tells of pupa t Mixt ours and lips. Tlow Boy Blue Mended the Warld, Boy Blue ens lietening while greed pe and another old gentleman talked. I don't irnow why they called him Boy Bine, un- less it was because he bad aueh blue eyta, for he would have been the v. ry haat boy to go fiat asleep under the haystack while the cove were getting into the corn. Not be, indeed; thou, bright eyes cf hie would have +spiedthent before they got within smelting dettanee of the corn, and he would have been on bend with hie big dog to make thein scamper the other way in a hurry. If you relied that dog's name Boy Blue would auewer, ""ataesa;" and thou, after yon had gueaeed hover, and Doh, and Fido, and Carlo, and all the other doge' narnea yea ever heard of, and got tired of it and asked, "Well, what is hie Haul,, then?" Soy Mae would still answer, "Guerra," with hie eyes just brimful and running over with Sun,. Aod then If you began again, and guessed all the dogs' natuoa you never did hear of, and got quite out of patienoe tele time, axeti dc.'arert you would not geese any more and he meet tell you, Bay Blue would laugh so hard that he would tumble down and roll around the ground, shouting, " Guess, lluese 1' for that wee the doe x nrnre. Well, as I ease, Boy Blue and Geese were listening to grandpa and another old gentleman talking. Boy Blue was wry much intereetod in teaming, far they were tsllieg about aumething which he thcught t.eeded to be attended to right away. They wart saying that the world needed u;end- ing, that it was in a very bad way and get- ting worrier all the time; that thinge were not at all as they need to be, and nobo y could tell where It would all end. "Grandpa," said Soy Blue, " is it really true that the world r•eede u;endingi' "Yee, indeed, child, trimly enough," sighed the old man, ,baking his head but Bev r looking down et Boy Blue's Battiest face. "Bot, where, grandpa ? where does it need mending 1" •" lcverew it re abild, You cruet take is atop, right or left, without seeing it." Boy Blue hotrod around. Sure enough, there was a big hole in the middle of the road, It had been there ever se long, Bad borax; bad stumbled into it, and wagons had jounced off part of their loads by run•' zing a wheel into it, and the drivers bad scolded and grumblol, but nobody bed ever tried to mend it. Boy Bine &toed atilt and thought about it. The world was getting worn oat, it was plain. " It'll have to be mended, that's alt about it," said he to himself. "I should think; Grandpa and Mr. Peter would g.o right to work at it naw. I know that I can mend that hole in the road, anyhow, and that'll be ea much done. Come along, Guest." Guess came along, and did not hang back even when he saw the little Dart pulled out, which he was not at alt food of drawing. He bad learned by melancholy experience that if Boy Blue made up his mind to have a thing done it had to be dorm sooner or later, and be might ae well be good-natured about it. t o back and forth be trotted, dogfnlly doing his part to mend the world, It took a good deal of hard work to get big atoms and little atones and gravel enough to fill that hole. but Bay Blue and Guess kept at It, and when the last 'artful of gravel wee finally stamped down hard you would hardly have known there h4 ever been a hole there. All that time Grandpa and Mr. Peters stood and talked and shock their heads, but Boy Blue did not mind them any more. He had found ont what needed to be done, and he meant to do his part of it anyway. When the hole was filled up he looked around for something else to mend, and saw a hen hopping through a gap in the fence, where two pickets were off. Up jumped Boy Blue, as eager as ever, and trudged off for hammer and Haile, and was soon pound- ing away at the pickets as if his life de- pended on getting them in place. He re. membered now how many times mother had run out yesterday to scare the hens away. People get worn out, too, some- times, and had to be mended, he reflected. Well, this should be one more thing mended. When he got the pickets on be meant to go and nail down the loose board on the back doorsteps. Mother had said that morning that she believed she should break her leg on that board. It would be easier to mend the board than the leg, and would n rt take so long, either. When the fence and the steps were in good condition again, Boy Blue stood still a few minutes, not immediate'y seeing any more work to do. Presently he caught sight of•a broken place in one of the square, hollow pillars of the porch. Joe had staved it in ens day with the handle of his rake, and Boy Blue remem- bered that Grandpa said that it meat be pretty rotten, or it would not have broken so easily. lie looked at the hole and poked his finger into it ; then he pulled out his knife and proceeded to investigate further. Then he went and examined the other pil- lar, and as the result of that examination he dodged outside the porch and shouted "Grandpa 1" at the top of his lungs. .Grandpa, who had finished his talk with Mr. Peters, and was taken a quiet doze on the sitting -room lounge, sprang up and rushed out on the porob, expeoting at least to Bee Boy Blue lying on the ground under the big apple tree with hie leg broken. But Boy Blue's legs appeared to be perfectly sound, and he remarked, calmly, ' "I wouldn't stand ander that porch roof if I. were you, Grandpa, 'cause the pillars are so rotten is might come' down almost any time." "Pillartrotten l" said Grandpa. "Oh, nonsense 1 Is that all you're screaming about 1" "Come out here and give me leave to give 'em one good hit ?"waked Boy Blue, eagerly, longing for a bit of fun after all his hard work. But Grandpa thought it prudent to examine before giving his permission, and the result of his, examination was that he immediadely went to work to prop up the porch roof with stout poles, , "May I now • 4«« asked Boy Blue, "Weil, yes," responded Graodpe ; "if they'll come down with one hit, they can't be of much use." Boy Blue rushed off fir a club, and aimed a valiantblow et one of the pillars Cr--- raok and with a eplinteting and crumbling melte the decayed wood fell into so many phew' there wan hardly one large enough to tack up.. The other pillar met with a like fate, "Nly patience 1." exclaimed Grandpa, sur- veying the ruins, that thing might have come down ea our heads any evening when we were Bitting out here, and broke all aur skulle for ue. How did you comp to :dead out 'twee so rotten, sonny?' "Why, I was looking for something to mend, and I thought 1'd mend that hole Joe pouched itt the pillar, and the I found it was so rotten I was afreid it would come down on my head ; 80 I hollered et you.' "What did you want something to amend for ?" asked the old man in surprise, "Because I heard yon and Mr. Patera say- ing the worldneeded mending, and 1 tbought I'd da my share ; and I mended the bol, in the road while you stood there talking, and then I fixed the fence and the doorstep--" "Mended the hole in the road 1' internist - ed Grandpa, greatly astonished ; and down he went to the gate to see far himself ; the dreaded hole was sctnally filled up and smoothed ovi•r sae if it bad never beep. ""And et while we stood groaning river the he world.did treaded mending," mutter. d Grandpa, under hie "rreath ; "'and its been therefor months, and neither of us ever thought of touching it. SR'h little bands too 1 1 hope the next generaticle will be Dee Boy Blue. '--.Hearer's TWO ; f .Feop?e, The Lannoh of Fugland'a Creek Cruiser A large gathering of spectators a .eaembled in the dockyard at Chatham to witucee the launch of her Majesty a abip Severn. Thin, venal., when completed, will be cue of the most important acdtttona which liave been made to the rayal navy. The Severn it au unarmorea feet stec1 cruiser, belc'rgieg to the cit a of the twin screw pre t orad or vette, which inolutits tate Tbamre and the Mersey, She is a more powerful veered than the emniaere of the Leander type, and pease" see greater Mesta power. The principle fol- lowed in her construction has been that of the watertight hull, and tee untie olject which the deeignera hate had in view ix to guard aa ,ouch as possible the boilers, en- gine, and ruagazivaa trout danger. The Severn has been atout two yearn in the comae et oaustruction, and it eatimated to coat about 4160,0(0. If the auttcipatwna of her deeig;aera are realizes, It is tesieved she will turn out to be ane e f the feulteat araisare in the aervioe, }ler pri..cilaai Mentions are as follows : Lengtu bet vena the perpendiculars, 300 feet; extreme breadth, 40 feet; mean draught of water, 1 7 feet 9 lychee; load d'tpleoement, 3 000 ions, Her arneenenr will corselet of two g inth. breech -loading guns, ten li-inch breech•l0ad- ing Runs, one 9 pounder neat ana field gun, ante 7-pottader bum and field gun, atx leach iordenfolt guile, and two-forty•iueh tiara - nor gum. She will carry Whitehead tor- pedoes, and discharge them abovesud bs;ow water on each broadside. Although the hull is mannered, the vessel is provided with it nine -inch tarok armor Oriel faced oouning tower, steel protective borisortsl deck plating two iuchea thick, and three inobeu of the Beare on slopes, She will be fitted: with horizontal compound engints of 6,000 indicated horse power, made by Memory. Humphry, Tennant & Co,, of Dept- ford Thera ate two propellers, and she vetael is estimated to attain a speed of 17 t knots per hour. The authorized compie went of her aoal bunkers is 500 tena and a000mmodation is provided for 300 tftioera and men.. Three oblook was the hour appointed fa the proceedings to begin. As the hour ap- proached e. 1arg'ataft of workmen ma• e ail preparations fur the ohriateniag ceremony, which was performed by Mita Daisy We son, daughter of Admiral Watson, C. B , Admiral Superintendent of the dockyard. Prayer's having been read by the Rev. Mr. Bearden, a signal was given by the ohief oonatruator, in n sponse to which Mise Wat- ton proved the lever holding the ropes. At the haat support wase knocked away a pause of a minute or two occurred, during where the vessel remained fast on the stocks There was amomentary bustle and a flicker of excitement ; but presently the vessel, obeying the alight preteens which had been applied to it, began to move from the lam- ming" which had retained it so long, and amid a storm of enthusiastic cheers alid swiftly into the Medway. As the Severn got fairly out of the slap the cheers ware again renewed ; the royal standard, the union jack, and the Admiralty flag were hoisted on board the cruiser, and the band of the Royal Marines brought the proceed- ings to a close ley playing "Rule, Britannia." It is expected that the Severn will be ready for her first commieske in a few months. SCIENT]TIC SPARKS. It has taken thirty trial, to cast a Tense for the Lick telescope in San Francisco, but one has been obtained which is without a flaw. Round chimneys are best for workshops, factories, eto. They deliver the smoke more easily and are less exposed to the wind. They are not, however, so easy to build. Two microscopists, Dr. Nuseabaurn and Dr. Gruber, have artificially multiplied in- usoria by tatting them in halves, each half becoming a perfectly developed animal. Rings, or concentric ligneous layers, would seem to be a very uocertain indica- tion of the age of trees. In Mexico some trees known to be but 22 years old were found with 230 rings. A paper is manufactured from seaweed in Japan that bas the traneparenoy of glees —not exactly clear flir t glass, but a good sort of stained glass—al d cin be used satis- factorily in windows. Ifigniting by detonation or concussion can be prevented, ohemiats assert that shells eau be charged with an explosive so potent that one of them, bursting alongside an iron. clad, would shatter the strongest armcr afloat. The French government has had con- structed a machine which, with the engine operating it, weighs some thirtyfive tons, which will cut steel plates an inch in thick- ness. It is used in cutting plates for swift oruisers. The American Indiana are found by, Matthewa to have a knowledge of animals and plants incomparably superior to that of the average white man, or of the white man who has not made zoology or botany a subject of study. i iTale ore is being discovered in large quail - ties near 'Red' Cliff, 'Col., principaliy in c abet. The ore is light and fluffy and gives no indications of ,mineral value, yet bas, yielded seven ounces of gold and sixty-three ounces of silver to the. ton, AN AWFUL MOMENT. ins. 'iata`d thought, .ossibly the` ` moti, .ad been repeated, as imagined, the se •ed time; but leas of reason sogrime. lyf la aupbedervenedlostmy tbatoseit nise,s nothowever, at alt certain,Mattie, e 1y fortunately for me, had retained, here. bey Dries had startled but had not unnerved her, ' end it appears, though 1 beard Dat, she had tta answered nra, With wonderful presence of" wore—a picntebeing the We' object in view Too Agonizing Horror or hiding lo' peat Uver a rreeilijce. On as beautiful a 5eptembar morn as o0 could with, the hour of eight fouod a mer.r party gathered at the railway station whence they were aeon whirled A" ay to ti village chosen .aethe scene of the day's ple . mind she had despatched her cousin for beep while she, adz ng my teethe, held me back, tt never relaxing her held even when the move. went of my Brine loosened a large piece of rock front ria earthy bed. Luckily assistance arrived before more of the 'differ edge broke away" How was it 'that I so quickly and coras- pietely lost my premiere of mind and tea- ' son? Well, the doctors account for that on the -� • supposition teat the sou --for the day had beep very bot, and when a bay of fifteen 1 had hada ennetrok e—had affected my brain t and tben, too, the position 1 was in caused an accumulation of blood in my head. Egan now the sun effeate roe greatly. ,• There is no need for me to describe toe do loge of the day, nor what happy combleatio ox circumetances brought about, a itis the approach of trwUight, the isolation of a trio composed of Mise Gewalt, her couein Mat We and myeelf on the ascent to the brow r the famous cliff. Mattie, much as 1, as w all, liked her company as a general rele, mew, and 1 think ahe fait eo herself, de trop Not that I was "in love" with her hat couein or tyoung lady herself with me, yet an der the circumstance the old adage as to the limited number reauieito to inane com- pany had full force, But pay approach to sentimentality with Mattie axone of the par- ty was out of the qui strop, to oonveraieg upon the moat matter of fact tepees, we wandeted on from beneath the trove to the open ground at the brow of the clif'and pre- se ntly turned toward the extreme edge, h en a one could look down upon the high road winding along a couple of hundred feet below in a narrow pass between two we 1a of rock rising sanest perpendicularly, Within. a yard or so of the top, the tido on which we stood projected out in the form of a natural cornice, and overhung, the point at which the rocky ground terminated be- ing concealed by a growth of mora and Iow ebrube with long wiry recite stretohingaway back be perth the tura It was not together p'aaaanb though to look down over the brink whore it waaaafo to venture eelliolentty close to do ao,the pros- pect brought too vividly to one's memory tales of dertth of which the treroberoue cliff bad been the cause; but eta when Mottle ex- pressed a with far it piece of the delicate maidenhair fare, scarce and costly in tine city, .e cluster of'which was to be seen amid the wild growth, about an srm'a•length be- low the mho of a projecting point to eve ride of where we had now arated our&slve&, and eapeoially wbee Alcides gauain joined in the longing, there seemed bat Intel danger in loaning over far enough to reach it for h -r; sea, carefully, far the ground Melted downward" somewhat, and ite limit was as I bare said uueertaie, I crawled to the edge, and laying down at full iergth, stretched' over first cue arm and then the ether. The Iwo air's et distance of three or four verde back stood up and erected my movements, uttering++orda of citation, se, in my . ndeav- ors to reit b neater corer. a anew and earth were looregod Bad fell with it acarcety audi- ble coned lute the depth below. 'rhea I lay for Airtime of p• shape three or four min- utes, striving in vain to touch the fern, con- aciout that any position wee by no means it dignified one ; and alto that uulean I project ed myself mot e then I oared to da, 1 could net possibly reach eutl :iently far. So in the hope that Mite Mettle and her cousin would not prem. their derive, I turned my brad•—alreed diz.y from the downward gaze—and called to them, reeking whether to Could be batter to wait, and Bee if by go- ing ou further we could not discover nonce ntarden'bair eiaier of amen. But no, Mat - rte "" mutt have that ; it was so scares you knew ; and besides it would Boo be too dark to distinguish it"— the sun wee then sinking to the Rant—so once more I turned my Ecce dawrtwar de into the now thickening and misty twilight, and tried spin, but still vainly, until angry at failure in what seem• ed to trivl r1 a matter, I exerted myself to the utmost and this time with moose, for within my pep was tbe prize. "I toile it i'' 1 shouted, and with the word I1tuggedviolently at the roots so that I might recurs the plant entire. The acti •n was—ea I might have known heft I tl•ought a m'+ment--supremely frol- lah,and in its results, an avalanche, ss it seemed, of atone and mirth loeeened from their bed, 1 realized art I had not done be- fore, the extreme peril in which I had plate ed myeelf, and there flashed mama my mind In as instant the story told us in the morn- ing by an old village dame, of the fate which a yesr before bad befallen a young bride, be. Heath whom, as the stood inoautroualy upon ir, the brick of the preotpice had given way carrying her booy, with that,of her newly - m oe 1 indeed, who in his distraction had leaped madly af'er his lost love, over and' almo.t striking a wagon load of rustics, on tt e read beneath, where a second later two mangled corpses lay. With the thought I instinctively tried to draw back from the edge. To my horror—and I felt the cold drupe rim upon my forehead --I found that not only was I utterly incapable of doieg so, but that the mavement of my lege seeming- ly caused me to elide forward an inch or two. The Wee was so horrible that I do not think I quite grasped It at first. I ceas, ed moving and lay absolutely still, and find- ieg that the eliding was not continued, I tried to behove that I had been mistaken, and again made an effort to draw myself backyard by means of my feet. A moment more, and I knew that it had been no delu- sion ; almost imperceptibly, fat my feet with the toes pointed downwards acted as brake, powerless to atop myself, with my arms a'ready hanging in mid air, my head and shoulders projecting beyond the brink, I was slowly eliding over the cliff into the vale, "the valley of the shadow of death ;" how real that valley seemed to me now 1 sometimes' it comes to me in my dreams with the same awful impenetrable darkness, and I cry aloud in my agony as I did then, " For God's sake hold me back 3" But 1 heard no reply. t was alone ; face to face with a horrible death, How long would it be be- fore the balance of weight instead of as now on the cliff, would be beyond ite brink forc- ing me downward into space ? Despairing, for I knew it to be uaelesa, I clutched at the little bushes growing out of crevices in the face of the rock, but they afforded me no hold. What I suffered in those moments I cannot even attempt to desoribe. I only pray than it may never be myjot to endure such torture again. A second. was a lifetime then ; my whole past was before me with all its misdeeds, a dark page which now could never be turned•down. But above all was the terrible sense of that gliding, for- ward motion. Faster and faster it seemed to grow ;; agonizing in its slowness at first, it bad increased now to lightning speed, Onward, ever onward, 'I.was drawn, drawn rather hurled along in apace, and ever be. fore was an indefinite object, what, I know not, which I longed to grasp yet could never reach. The speed slackened, as a ` glimpse of reason brought me back from the phan- tasy of delirium to the reality of my position. 'Twas an instant only, for I felt that my senses were again leaving me as the raptd movement recommenced, once more the same sensation—until the end game, and with a crash as it were of falling woride, ` I was dashed into apace.' Weeks afterward whet I woke again to the world, and, my recovery' from brain -fev- er was sufficiently advanced to render the telling safe, I heard the conclusion of my story.• I had, it seems, slipped forward a few -,91194141194,1494 Singular4Tale of the Sea. The Liverpool abip Lornty was. sunk hart Chrfatmas near New York by collision with the English eteamer Cornwall, The Lenity had on board a valuable cargo, and for some montbs divingoperations had been taking t', pace with a view of raving the geode. The } Merritt Wreckiu Company party baa had three workin Band, and the schooner Edwin Post has beenengaged with" the divas. On the night of the 17th ult. a steam tug, with several bargee in tow cams into collieion with the wreaking schooner, which heeled over, and In a few mtnnate oapeia�ed, quickly disappearing below the s ace of the Hater. 0f the ten men as boa ,,jethe time, eight eucaoadod in making re their escape„ either by climbing on the tow rope or sun- taining themaeleea on floating wreckage until picked up, The remaining two, viz. '' C.sptufa 0 Smith and the cook, named Phiilfye, have been miming ever since. As soon ea the disaster became knot a the sobooner Jolla Haggerty, belonging to an• other wrecking company, was despatched to .' the aceie. .At two o'clock an the morning of the 17th a large chain was placed round the Edwin Post, and the was lifted until a portion of her bull was above water. About two hours afterwards a knocking sonnet was heard aa if preceeding from the oabin of the vessel. The knocking wee continued for some time, end the captain in charge et the party wee on the point of cutting a hole in the vessel's tide iu order to release any- body who 'might be imprbsoned inside. It was, however, feared that the escape of the eonflaaed einem likely to canoe the ship to founds r,'snd the cutting was not made. The knooking bcotme fainter Band fainter- until It died away. Moat of the crew were ca' Opinion that the knocking came ficin the cabin where the cook wa► probably oontioed. Tbecabin was a small ant, and it was sue. mired that the air beeamirg exhstetr'd tbo poor 000k iced been Pmc,tbered. 11ie r f1umts to raise the Fdwie i'uet r.trn Leel, t.Atin nod when the despatch was Bent, Doesn't Relieve in Cann► ,Meeting. The editor of the New York Chriettau Advocate, the leading " fficiai "' Meth- odiet newspaper, stye that he bee steed- faetly refused, for twenty years beat, to preach at or attend any comp -meeting, keeping its gates open on Sunday, and that camp meeting Sabbath-breakicg has been repeatedly rebuked by bebop and conferences. " In the early drys of Methodism," be adds, a"when churches wore few and the !k' ladscat- tered, widely they (the cam reaeeting Sunday services) were justifier'And now in mo- tene not supplied with oliuroher, where it is a choice between no aervioe at all, Sabbathe of idleness and dissipation, and camp meating,'wedonab dles pprova tl:ere ;. buts the thick`y-settled, obuxch.eopplied oonmuuities we believe those (*holler there are conversions br not) to he do- ing on the whole Satau'i1 and not Christ's work, we r--ars• To meet the requirements of a classic fig- ure a lady abould be 5 feet 41 incbee till, 32 inches bust measure, 24 inches waist, 9 inobea from ,armpit to waist, long arms and neck. A queenly women, however, should be 3 feet 5 inches tall, 31 inches about the bust, 261. about the waist, 35 over the hips, III, inohes around the ball of the arm and 61 inches around the wrist. Her hands and feetshould not le too an all. In Edinburga the other day, with impos- ing ceremonies, and in the presence of w Iar'ge crowd. two Royal proclamations were read by the, Scottish heralds atthe city -cross. The boralda were aecompaniedand order was preserved, by a military eaoort. One of the proclamations prorogued parliament to the 5th December, and the ascend authorised the disembodying of that portion of the militia of the United Kingdom recently called up. The Duke of Aberoorn, father of Lady Lansdowne, who celebrated not Tong ago his golden wedding, lives now almost entire- ly at home, Baronaoonrt, in the north of Ire- land, in a sort of patriarchal style. He has no neighbors, scarcely, as he owns every acre for miles around, but the immense man- sion is always full of his children, grand- obildren and great•grand-children, The Hamilton family are looked upon by the people as semi -royal, and are very popular by reason largely of gracious manners an& good books. The Queen has consented to celebrate the jubilee anniversary of her reign by a royal progress through London. Tide will be fol - Towed by a monster volunteer review is Hyde Park, and banquets and illuminations. of the moat elaborate description will suc- ceed the review, and fill oat the night with general rejoicings. The epeeist and grand obeervatioa of the jubilee not be con- fined to the metropolis, but a filar., means will be takers in all the largene ties to cele- brate her Majesty's ascent top the throne, and even in the smaller towns every avail- able means will be . utilized to render the affair a not ab'e' one. . The day will be a holi- day oli-day all over the country, and special exer- tions will be made to bring the people of the nation into harmonious action. It is related that the Earl of Shaftesbury lost his watch while walkkirg in the New Cut, a neighborhood infested with vile char- acters. He advertised his less. 'Within twenty four hours his household was aroused by a ring at the street door, and the wheels of a vehicle were heard rapidly departing. On openiog the front door, a sack wae found filled with something that moved. On in- vestigating, a boy of the Artful Dodger doss was found in it, bound hand and foot and gagged. Round his neck was the missing watch, and underneath was a pl+oard with the words "Look 'im up, Mi lord, he's a Disgrace to ourn Profession, he order rnown as how yer lordship was Free of the wed ; giv' 'im five Years card. Yer friends." 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