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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-8-5, Page 6O1d4FTEIi YIt —(Coiner, Mini. "Rime it, Madge," wale all Ceoli maid, Madge waw horrorstricken, The room seemed to Swim rotated ; yet she aompreheedi ed all e, a glance, and wasted no words,, Eine moment she petaled to Steady her solos ; then rhe " X'82, you most go. Shall I go with you, dear t I can be ready in a moment, Blew you, Madge !" replied the strick- en man brokenly, " Aud yet it will hardly be the place for you." "We cannot thick of Haat now, Cecil ; beak:lea, It eave a =tunei for mother the lace (with Pandor ers, and write afterwards," * * * „ Lewis Deane, hie face lacerated and, Boar. red and as haggard ae if he had endured years of suffering, with hie right arm in a slag, was dragging himself painfully and resthe the deseted hall of hotelto which s, fewtof the rsuffa era in the terrible railway aooideat had been m- ined, as Cecil and Madge Graham entered. evening.that mune Cecil's fieroe died on hielipa aswreathed man name for ward; and the husband followed mutely When he who had tempted hie unloved wife frem her allegiance led the way, with a pl- iant gesture, into au empty sitting -room close by, It was Madge who first found voice, and she spoke in a breathless whisper. "Nelle—hew le she 2" "She died an hour ago, eafd Lewis Deane harshly through hfa set teeth, turn- ing from the pale girl, wheee eyes he could not meet, and confronting Coelia " She is dead, and we have killed her between ue. There'll be a blaok account written up against us for this ; and you are worse than I, villain though I am !"—and he apoke faat and huskily. "If you had shown her one spark of love or one atom of kindness, you would have bound her to you forever. No- thing could have tempted her to forsake ,you. But you made her mad with wound - ,ed love and pride and jealousy, and I took advantage of her madness. 1 would have giver. life to have headded, his voice,aved hers faint ust no growingand ' hoarse. ()eon etrnok to the heart, made no gn- awer ; and Madge, her face buried in her handy, sobbed audibly, while Lewis Deane wrawled out of the room and out of the house. He wae, indeed reaping the bitter ftarvsat of remorse and shame. * * * * * The disfigured body of the unfortunate young wife -the end gay and innocent Nel- lie Mill—was brought home, and burled with all the pomp and circumstance of death, Although there wae much surmising, while hints at some great scandal and faux pea were net wanting, yet ae nothing wae certainly known, the bereaved husband and hie family appearing in deep mourning, and with countenances decorously nada the nine - days' weeder was aeon forgotten. Cedilla an interesting young widower— " So romantic, you know, my dear ; they had only been married a month or two, and ehe wae such a pretty little creature, whom he married out of pure love 1"-wae more a rage than ever. He had published a new volume of poems, whioh the critter had al. meat unanimously praised ; but it was not the one in which Argent Veriston was im- mortalised. The alight melancholy depres- sion which hung ever Cecil increased the in- terest felt in the charming peet by some young ladies, who thought it was "so Byronic." The idea of some cruel dieap- peintment, some tragedy in hie life, of a painful surmised, added theelcr wingafascinatgn of myetery to the fame of the literary lion. It is not to be wondered at that, petted by society, and his eonsolenoe thus gently reeked to sleep, Cecil should begin to look tepee himself as an Mused individual, to whom fate had bean exceptionally cruel; that he should begin to pity himself as de- oeived rather than as deceiver, and as nn. fortunate rather than ae reprehensible; that he should imagine a bright untroubled future ought new, in common justice, to be his awn; a future, he even told himself, earned by the disappointment, grief, and cearaa of the past. that was the nolnalen atwhich hey arrived within nix menthe of his wife's untimely end. Call -TER VIII. ," I think I shall go over to Veristen this aft erneon," said, Cell Graham carelessly to his landlady, Mrs. Mill, ae she brought him a letter. Ay, de, air I" she replied, bleeming and neat as ever, etIll wearing black for her niecebelieved, ofgher aristocloved and ratic lamented g©r, enashe r connection with whom she never dreamed of presumiand she wiped her eyesrwith a ou acornera tef hsir er apron. "Don't yen be in no 'tarry to get book, Fir. If so happen as we've gone to r bed, you've only to walk in ; and I'II leave you hout a bit of something to eat, as a empty etomach'1I do nobody no good." . "I suppose there are no changes at the hones 2' asked Cecil, smiling, "Nomfr; which there are none yet." I It s almost a wonder Min Veriston is not mauled, Mrs. Mill, She was a very wily girl." "Wel, air, folks 'as their different /melee arae, and I don't nay but what she ain't nd way with,and pretty 'ace for light but talk o' married—well,, sir, they do mien won't be long first." bat do you mean? Is she going to *fed i" eafd Cecil, bringing the words an effort, oil, Mr. Graham, sir, perhaps you saw Mr. Stone, as is the pareen at St, 'a at E+.athore? He's eery'igh church; }ks did say ae 'ow he thought marrying downright wicked, and he's nearly Be Sao Miss, Veriston a father. Howsumd- r,there's ne'counting for tastes, and he's teInd, good aonl, be he what he may; and, favours of him, `why ne one else need er theireelvea. That's what I say 1" the geed woman palmed for breath. r. Stone?'' repeated Cecil. "Yee, 1 et him °once or twice' at Verieton ; ever thought --I cannot think there truth In this report 1" bees not, sir, maybeea,not 1 Oaly aeon down to Eeathore do nay ehe 'em together constant, ,only that's ere nor there Be it true, or be it, 'II land it out soon enough, rir, if ding teethe Mere House.' a gray afternoon in March, and deoape looked bare and deal). Cecil walked down the welI;re- path, through the , flowerings and by the river flowing so benetth,the lowering sky, relieve, fancy ef his own he went first to where he used to sit of old with et the glorious summertime which song ago, $e could hardly 'ma - be the same place. The gloomy herd, stripped of their bravery of And leaves, the melanoboly level e bare trees, their branches wav- +wtilra weanwindin, gliilrocxi anOdeoinU toowith shillv and laden diMpt!(gt; �d lost to him that sindeedhe true se area is gent Was p h 13n oyez now the plighted bride of Another, that wither had lovete rete the hand ehe had with- drown from hie, And that another might kiss the lips denied to him 1 The thought stung Cecil to madness, No, h could not, it should not be 1 She was his, and ne mere power on Mill Should take her from him now, Hia brow grew dark and his lace stern as bo hurried on, away frons, the memory,hennted mere, throagh the sodden grade, the gloomy dells and shrub, berlea of the perk to the hence, How familiar, yet how strange it all was 1 and There et, now a damp, dtonma89 wildeerrn sag, There were the creeper-oavered wan of the old mansion, darkened by the early twin light ofa dull Maroh day, Was the past a dream, or wae the aredent a dream 2 Ceofl could hardly tell, All was so strange and so unnatural. Oeoe within, however, the sense of un- reality passed away end the aetaal present returned. A bright wood fire glowed on. the big hearth in the hall, and threw its fantaetio radiance on the -stained windows, the grim armour, and the ancestral por- traits. " di4` Master's busy in the llber'y, sire not on no ,: and sturbed,"bordhe ep otfully exclaimed be ey-haired domestic; but Mien Voris- Ae It summoned by the mention of her name, the drewing•room door opened, and, closing it eeftly behind her, Mtn Verieton advanced towards the fire. did.Ale ndAnd h her thrilledaCecil esona heart painfully, Then ehe started, as she per- ceived a gentleman with the servant. man witthe h defer ntialisereadinees And thea ehe left the hall. They were moon talking, apparently en eaav friendly terms, ever the glowing em. berm. Then Mr. Yerlaton appeared, and the trio partook of tea in the email cosy room. As of old, Cecil eat oppeaite to the young Mate/eine, letting his eyes dwell upon her ripe beauty, taking the cup ahe filled for him from her hands with, trembling fingers, Ilatening eagerly to every word ahs spoke, enthe pale geld ofg gher silken treaded and the shadows that lurked in the folds of he black velvet dresa, a dress more than sae other calculated to set off her fair, delicate- ly tinted beauty. " We never thought we should see yen again, did we, Argent 1" the old man asked once of his daughter ; and, oh, joy and wonder ! her burning glance, eyes and drooped iceafalter fore Cecil'sas she anawered in low tones— " Yee, father ; I—I thought he would come 1" Wee he dreaming er awake! the yonag poet demanded of himself, Had this giri really rejected hie love, or had he dreamt that the had ? Of one thing only was he sure, that he would not leave her again wiwht tomight,hear his ut asking would her the nnsentence frem those sweet lips that very night ! Fortune favoured hie resolve ; for, after tea, Mr. Vernon, failing in hi attempts to dioubeguile ions, went tinto off toohie het favourite and Cecil and Argent were left alone, At first a constrained aienoe fell upon them. Then Cecil began abruptly, his voice sounding unnatural in his own ears— Mias Par et you 1Aro you glad to see t me� new 1 have Dome 2" e answered, in heof r o d bhriefmanner, but blushing hasgshe had never been wont to do. " When I left you," he went on, growing bolder—" yen remember, Argent, when yen crushed me with the oold cruel wards you spoke, I never meant, never thought of much a thing as returning or seeing your face again. My one idea was to forget you, and to pluck yen from my heart I" He paused; but the girl male no reply, no movement even, "But I could not do It ; I could not forget, Argent 1 I cannot live without you, I must have year love !" Then, seeing that she did net speak, he added, " What made yen think that, in spite of your rejection, I ehoul1 seek you again 2" By his time kea be- foe Arge ent elow Cecil chair. nHee hadne seized the two oeld hands, totally oblivious of the Reverend Mr. Stone's supposed claims, and, scarcely conscious of what he did, he l Argent's ringse them in his own outinto the tender flesh ti ngsCaoii was looking up with intense passionate yearn- ing into her blue witching eyes ; for Ar - gent's verdict meant life or death to him. " Why did you think I should seek you again ?" he demanded almost fiercely in his agony of suspense, " Tamest nigh in audibly oy fromave ' s thet well sweet lips which had grown pale while be spoke, " because— because I loved you, Cecil, all the time ;" and the blushing girl hid her face on his shoulder. afterIn o re- call theecstatio thrill which ran through him, almost agonising in its ecstasy, at this confession, Little by confeaalonof how hisCecil fwords,and hie �face, with its paealon of eve, haunted her. Everywhere she heard his voice, every- where she saw hie face ; and, in his absence, in the alienate which aeemed se new to her, she had learned to lova and long for his presence, She had not been nnheppy, she said ; she had felt certain that he would return, that her love, by countless subtle fnfiaenees, would draw him back to her, " And you see, it Lae done so l"—smil- ing up at him as they sat together her head en his bread, too happy to give a thought to anything but their own ex. perienoes, " Say rather it was my love for yon," he answered, "whip would not let ms rest without you. Oh, nay darling "—and he strained her to his breast wit a oon vulsive movement -"nothing can separate us now, nothing on come between us any more 1 1 meet have you all my own soon— at once ;'" and he raised the bluthingface and kissed the deft lips, " When will you give ioureelf wholly to my' keeping, clear- ed 7" 4' It shall be when you will, Cid'," was the answer, in ea low a tone that he could scarcely hear it. CHAPTER IX, It was morni —a glorious 0oglewingil a windlessm s lmorning in July; for, en aecoantof Mr, Veristen's ill= nese, a tedious attack of gout, the wedding had been pat oil mere than once. Thle had caused good ominously and ph predict evil things t Mill ao shake her head gonelpe. however all had gene well ; and g eLure uz ttkaa;''r>thbr w0 clretr to dram. p ;sarury �e .... �. the fateful dory bad arrived. The wedding Wan to b A quiet affair. There were to be ne guo tyand teen breakfaefr; the bappq pp;ir were merely going to walk down, to Etat,. bore Murals, where the ceremony wae tebe quietly performed by the Reverend idearieo Saone. Nit even Madge Graham wan to by present; for Coll had determined, to keep ole marriage secret . until, it really wae over, although .bio engagement was of. family as ons. po before, betdto In very different oiroumetanues, by the, sight of his bride, ae refieolbd with happy pride on the soma - tion her anperlative loveliness would pro. dace and the love she would be certain to Inspire. Once more Oeoii was light•hearted, games, and intensely, perfeotly happy ; no shadow from the evil past darkened the radiant laid to resof t; notne reproace present. All hful spirit were Curbed hie alumbere In the client night, and not one remereefal memory haunted hie droatne, which were all of love, of joy, and of Argent I And she 2 Day by day her soul and her intellect expanded in the sunshine which filled her innocent life, It seemed to the lovers as If everyone, even Nature herself, rejoiced in their love. Never had there been so fresh and exqulelto a eprieg, never so royally beautiful a eummer; and now it wae their wedding morning 1 Argent wee awake before the Inn rhea. Net feeling the slightest inolinetton to sleep, ehe rose, threw the window wide open, and eat by it to watoh heaven and earth "partake the soorornent of morning,' A few early eongaters were already on the fields and groves, to aohA lightbreezether rom dim the pink rose leaves that framed the ease• meat and dashed the girl's fair hair with dew as she leaned out among them. A large whits star, " the planet of love," shone In the east. A -gent watched it fade en " a bed ef daffodil sky," that grew brighter every moment. A few roay clouds hung in the zenith ; gradually theme be. came yellow too, then whito and luetrone. Presently ehesun, appeared above the die. tauten, Red nese grandly and [silently in. to the; heavetta,' Anotherday was born. Joyous songe buret forth from the birds to hail its birth, the dew drops flashed in the sunlight, and the dancing waves sparkled. A fair new day ' wart born—Argent's wed• Qing•day I Suddviait.all eher old nly an impulse once amore, to oveheto farewell toggthe dear bowers . of her ohild- hood and with her a speofallmemory ofthe and to beabeautear y. The oeremony wasto take place at nine °relook, She would go now, and dress after break- fast. The white silk dress she waa to wear hung in her wardrobe. She glanced at it lovingly, stroking id glitoning folds with caressing fingers, Taere were her little tenderly her v onegloves—she and her thm all. heo ehe pat the blue morning dreas she had worn the day before, took her large eunehade and stole from the room, She went along the corridors and down the silent atafroaee; for no one but hereolf was stirring yet. She which the ligealed ht l of t from heh the etaiaod glass on the rfeil in rloh; tints. Seftly she opened and closed the heavy door and stood outside "" The birthday of my Lite Ie come ; my love is come to me,'" Bang Argent, as ehe paeaed through the garden with its dewy leaves and awakening flowers, domed amtArgent andtseljoyoe a us. lad Her heart bound- ed with gladneaa, and her feet were ae light as her heart ; the could not help sing- ing, emulating the lark which revelled brief visits Crossing he pfathe oea she ark and making , she reached at length the dearest place of all—the mere, It Iay before her in still radiant beauty, with here and there patches of dark leaven, snow-white lily cups rocking in delicious coolness en azure beam, Lest in happ reverie, gentsteed on he flowery brrnk among the harebells and irises, gazing over the serene expanse. How solitary, hew empty, save for Nature's loveliness, her life had once been I How full of pleasure and love it was now I " Thank Heaven 1" said the girl rever- ently from the depths ef her grateful heart, raising her eyes to the untroubled sky. A moment longer she stood ; then her eyes rested on her beat.' Ye _ would " Wish zne joy, elm, Mill," said Cecil Graham, who, having j let dermatahed his breakfast, stood before tne little square mfr. ror that adorned hie chimney -piece, faeten- ing white rose -bud In his coat. He had had a retitled night, dieturbed by /Wearable dream% The face—not of his fair young bride, but of hie injured and guilty wife—bad haunted him through the houre of darkness, gornetimen melting and childish. by gay, sometimes paha and wild as when she ,left him on the balcony the hat time he maw her ia life, sometimee • dead ani odd with a deep gash tiered its gray pallor, Thus it haunted him, and her voice—merry, re- proachful, revengeful by turas—rang in hie affrighted ears, Altogether he had been treated by imagination, and he had awaken- ed with throbbing head and weary eyes, strangely &premed and inelencholy. How- ever, a oeld bathi the lovely morning, and more pleasant waking thoughttehad brought him bath to hie normal state of health and spirits, and no dark memory et the mid, night's trouble dimmed the brightnees of eyea and smile as he bade his landlady wish him ley. " That I dime, sir," teaponded Mrs, Mill, v?ho had replaced her black dross by the old festive flowered oilk—for after all no !sorrow could bring baelathe dead to lite ; and Mies Verieten ehe thought, was a more euitabie bride, for'the well-bred young poet than elm - pie countrified Nellie, " 'Appy is the bride ail the inn iihinea on, and Nero enough the tau% shine en yo Nth thlo day, As my Wiliam says ony this minute, IV@ a good !le- lum, thoagh bed one to speak," 0. Weil, I hope he'e right Elate time," said Erne pueos 1 "I'll take a turn er two in *he garden by way ol keeping up my spirits, Yea knew,t, ii Mrs, Mill Ailed la his laugh, but finally turned eway with et sigh from the contem• plation of lila tall figure al he etrolled along, whittling blithely. " How goon the dead are out o' mind I" she mused, with half eigh, as she wont to eee after her baking, 0` Poor Nellie l'' Twilight solemn and serente--wann, balm- ly sumnaar twilight, adorned with a crescent moon and " one star its chrysOite," with in- numerable soft myeterione agenda announc- ing the advent of night, The goldeu hours of the day had pawed one by one, the birds' falling, and Electing bee set her dusky Beal ulopoogneoweeorue:urashhae:In,,sthweeldidllisetigo-Ideasye,d, the dew Traeci ell and beautiful as ever, the mere lay beneath the p arple sky, one thin line of diver wavering over it oast by the sinking moon. B0811t1f111 02 ever the flavver-wreath- ed walla of the Mere House rose ameng the trees, a faint cloud of blue seethe rising front ono of the chimneys, liglats glimmering here and there through the mullioned panes —a fair picture indeed of houto and peace I The bed -room belonging to Argent was a email pretty room facing the east. The wails wore delleately dratted, and the hang- ings all of white and silver, A box of ether nonnette en the sill sweated the whole apart- ment, and climbing roses borded the win- dovv. few photographs and steauettes were the ornaments of this maiden bower— s, room, as her adoring lover would have said, quite tharacteriatio of its occupant-- " white, pure and ohm." tie bed, with ite snowy draperiea, Argent lay asleep. 0 ver the aliken coverlet her hair, smooth and shining, trailed ita amber curia, A faint sweet smile was on the mouth, eo softly closed, and the eyelids rest- ed on the pie cheeks. Ah, very fast asleep she wee I Far even Ceoil could not wake her though but an hour since he had milled —drat, in love's 02711 persuadve amend, nothenanoi.a agony that waa almost frenzy—her " Argent, Argent Oh, love, love, speak to me onoe more --only once more—me word to keep my heart from breaking 1" Bat atill ehe slept unmoved—elept and smiled 1 Caen is alone with hie bride. Worn et with his wild grief, worn out with the lo wlaose depths he has not even begun fathom, he kneels by the motionless! form hie loat love, His eyea red on one of h oold hands, hidden in the white fella of th robe she wears. Hie breast hones with painful effort, and now and then a cleave sive shudder shakes him from head to fee The bitternesa of death, like a tide, I doing ever higher and higher round h ehrinking eairit. Truly his sin has fouls him out ! Truly Nellie la amply avenged Leaning over for the lilies, the poor gir mad have capsized the frail boat, and with none to hear her despeiring odd, non to aid, the had sunk beneath the laughing waters like fair.haired mad Ophelia—to II mu -Ay death." A lily, with its long dem and large dark leaves, was found tightly clutched in one of her hands—the worthlesa flower for whit& ehe had given her glad young life 1 Instead ef the love- ly living bride who wars to have met him at the altar, tido dead, drowned form was put into the bridegroom's arms—unloving and unresponsive, whose gentle soul hed paned beyond his mortal reaoh for ever. • Cecil has leokei upon his pest life with eyes from which the dais have fallen. At one atroke all has been torn fret:a him -- hope, love, and j ; and, smitten to the heart, all his " refuge of lies " in ruing around him, in the presence of Death, with bitter groans and scalding tears, he hoe ace knowledged In the furnace which yet shall purify his erring soul that hia unutter- able woe which has overteken him is indeed a righteous retribution. at ve to of er Is What Ailed the Baby. Since the installation of the nurse, rather peculiar symptom of eome disorder had been noticed in the three -month-old boy— the first baby in the family. Oae day, when these symptoms appeared rather mere alarming than usual, I was °ailed upon for advice. I had dabbled a little in medicine, and the mother thought me symptom-wid. I went to the nursery un- announced and caught the nurse in the aot of taking a etrong pull at a big bettle, which she hastily oonoealad j let al the young mother entered the room. There was no need of an analysis to prove that the bottle contained whiekey of rather rank crudity, The nurse was hill of it. The boy betrayed on a professional gravity and informed the anxious mother that her darling was suffer- ing from "acute aldholisna"—in a word, he had taken an overdose of milk punch. The faultily phydolan was called in and confirm- ed my diageods. The nurse was, of course, drunkard before he had completed his first year's pilgrimage re this wic'ted world, In his case infant " eerie/ea " and 0' comfort) " were responsible. The ease nett I have cited ahowg that a nurse who is fond of her " cathode " may harbor as much danger ea any " soothing eyrap " in the market. Stewed Dog as an Advertisement, Indian show, now exhibiting in the vicinity of New York, heves devited an ingenious method of utilizing the common our of low degree with newt profit to themselves, They cause the dogs to ba elate, stewed and eaten by the Indians, giving out to the press that the oavageg are oelebrating their rogu- ler annual traditional steered weird and mye. Heal dog feast. The wide awake editora detail their reportere to writhed the dog iciest and write up vivid reporta of It ; and the readers have a column sr two of stewed dog served up to them at breakfast or dinner. At firse the 'whams refused to eat any other than the traditional snow white dog, and the regular annual feted wag not celebrated oftener than once raonth, but now a dog of any color tvill do, and the annual feast le a weekly institution. The Indiana are not squeamish, but there are signs that Who newspaper reading nubile is becoming sati- ated and the thew managers will semi be obliged to devise other aeheacce of advortin- In these timers of "money lying idle" we heard of %man in New York who, when he attends church, mouples a pew the furthest from the pulpit to save the tutored on his Money while the collectors are passing the plate for contributions, fug fifteen plead, Pelted Albert has* COnaet band nu AniPriOr stem oleos at six (Meek. 13attleford Frethetellaine have dead build a new ohurobe Frosts beve injured the potato and orope OAP Breton, and a dog were killed by lightning. deem. a covet a Cato fifteen sheep, a h dog was trotting along under a wagon Brampton bee a dog that hag howled larly every night for twelve menthe, the °fleet on the dog has been to redu powerful baritone voice to a hoarse Mr. George Park, a leading farme Eget Gerafraire was found need In a fie few days ago. 'Heart disease is Rupp to have been the oared of death. He oommunity which he wee :anomie widow and family are well provided for Tee first of a groat drive of loge ster through the drive at EgatwIlle a few d ago. ,At the time of starting the tell of drive was in Golden Lake, and it ohought that when the tail would re Eganville the head would be at the mo The Sabbath &hod stetiotios of the No Suede Methodiat Co (cranium) thew Can av age attendances of 1,000 in exams of I year. The number of oonveraions report wag 631, end the number of children pled profanity, 9,187, an inoreed of 1,599 ov the previous year. Mr. .W Heath, of Peterborough, pr poses that hie childreu !tall ;Atha witho drowning Het hies oonstruoted a box thie feet long by LI ea foe wile, and four f e deep, and has moored it to a large boom the river, near the shore. It le so arrang th at the bather° may rtIse or lower the b to suit their requirements, With a prude engineer the contrivaame should effectual! answer the purpoae in view. Israel MoLeughlin, who attempted a arseault on Miss Stewart, of Hampton N B,, has been sentenced to imprieonment f life. 'lie is a notorione tharaoter, and ha been guilty of the same offence in Truro Chatlema Newcastle, and Wondatook, Pre He is a tredve of St, John, and was a soldie in the Union army during the America Craney, M. P., was In Vanoonverduring th firet conflagration. He had a narrow ea - cape with bio lite, and, as it was, lost all hie clothe.. except therm in which he steod. MoOraney having fin - 'shed a heavy centred on the Vanoonver Lewd Beltway, reoently purchased an interest in a eawmill In VAZIOCIOVEIT lefty. He waa one of the few fortunde own whom premises were not burned out, Aldred from St. Oathertnes report an epidemic of bleak eyes. The trouble bevel with two wring men oonneoted with the retail coel and wood businees. The firat round resulted in nothing merlons, and was followed by an honee adjournment. The sewed round was partioneeted in by half -a - dozen of the friends of the principals, and all succeeded in having themselves finished Every human male rnan, who possesses eg to anon a lingering tailat a temper, should ether holt re eunPw4 yra::$11: itaWwo eht md Arawlwmaoxaohodt otinpe roi leees:ne do rawwehowre iileorboe aothing In thia vain old world that will read orilat more wilted collar, and a truer eons, h 1V -ea ling with a full flavored are, He can woe it SO fieteely on the wood. All the fury of Mae hie nature, all tlae hate be feel" for hie en- 4nu my, he can infuse into that axe handle, 00, a and how the ohipe will fly, Net very ertie- ymP• probably, but they will fiet And that he M feeling more calm. Evidently he Y do* provently it laegina to dawn upon the man r of is experienobag a change of heara He does Id 6 not hetet Ws enemy so bitterly., after all. oiled The axe weighs about eighty-one pounds on wa41 the up stroke, 113 (1080 not hate hie enemy the at all, He changes hie stroke and begin. to 1110 chop on the !western of Italian penmanahip, t the umetrokee heavy and the down ones ted light, He rather loves hie ene y new. At ilea hip, and book again, andthe axe drops from iw), aye lad he puts all his failing stream • into one the terrifia blow, He misses his tip with the was axe and stnitei the chopping bloc with the eat handle, A tingle at though hotbed swab uth lowed an alarm oiock goes from elbow to hie powerless hania, and a weak, limp, va nerveless, perspiring, trembling, moping ir- thing, he daggers tato the bond ilea down est on the fi rat thing that looke like w lounge ed and 18 ready to die. There isn't a fear or a g. fault in his heart. Death has no terrors and nil life hem no temptations for him. He has or (shopped out all hie bailer nature and la just as ethereal and spiritual as he can be no; mbeedejoin tnhei.e side of the Jordan. It ia great ty People with whom I have been quarrelling et all Spring would be amazed to ace me now, in' I foolishly contracted, two weeks ago, to ad keep a camp fire going. I didn't know then ex that it took all the foreateinthe Adirondaok nt epars to keep up one little camp fire, I 6e1 y not a large, broad, tali, sinewy man, and the axe they gave me might have beaten down the brazen gatee of what you naay call n, it that what's -hie -name beselged, if ever he or did beelege it. I have fallen trees with that 8 axe that would have made Mr. Gladstone ahudder. They tell me I must say felled, i not fallen, but I know better, because I a only out down fallen trees. My wride are . larger then my kneels, which goes to thew r tied I don't pray as hard as I ohop, but I ii haven't !strength enough to hate anybody ; I am toe limp to commit the lightest sin, so I haven't much need ef prayer. I didn't h write laat week beoauee I couldn't close my ringers over anything smeller than an axe helve. We tried tying the penholder to my elbows but they wouldn't bend with that . kind dart implorer:mt. My hands are a lit- tle better this week, but I am as badly aze- ridden as ever, I hear voted calling even new for " More wood," though I immure you At least, I think I have. Ferewell. I will go out and ahop until the axe files off the handle, whioh is every five minutes, and then I am going to heap high the faggot', and crawl into the campfire and ahow the old martyrs how sweetly and joyoueiy an men men roaat himself rather than out pee NORTE-WEST NOTES. in more or less attractive colon. The police were at lunth. An ex -student of the Agricultural College, new employed near Eden Mille, merle lend prefeselons of hie abilities as a fisherman. Some per/ions, however, had so little faith in his attainments in this line that they made a wager Mast a young lady of the neighborhood could outfiah him, he, how- ever, to °doh six to her one. The result was that the young woman caught nine fish, one of which was a trout weighing a penud h and a half, while the ex-atudent caught six t It was 104 in the ahade at Regina en Jane 23rd. Twenty-five Mlles ef the Regina and Long Lake Rellway have been opened for traffi Three daughtere of Mr. WIlliem Mould- ing, of Broadview, were drowned at that place, recently, by the capeizing ha boat, The war waged ageinst foxes and haWire as been anspendede settlers oenoonter4tVg heir exterminating energies againstli this °pliers and squirrels, Mrs. Bryant, of Birtle, was killed by ightning reoeatly while entering her Sad. Mr. Bryant, who was near by, was tanned by the shook but recovered. Small pox Is reported on the Dakota Nide f the boundary line, near Manitou, Men. r. Pennefather has been rant to take all eateseary precautions. The ideated part - e make use of S arewfleke Peat Office on is aide, and get their wool and water en e Canadian side. It is estimated that five miles of aliedding Ill have to be built on the Cenedian eau° Rellivay in the Selkirk& that the st will be about$1,200,0[10, and that the eds will be completed by the firat of D3 - mbar. A great number of men are now ployed in taking out Naar° timber, iviug piles, and running the lumber lia rough Winnipeg en route for India eta the median Paoifia tranacontinental line, will pees through the Reeky Mountains conetruation trains, and take ship at noouver for hie far eastern home. So as known he ia tha firet of the countless mbers who will In the fature travel from gland ta ladle by wa,y of the Canadian Mr. Asa Fillmore, of Albert county, N. B„ about three years ago ohanged what waa , appazently a fifty -dollar bill for a stranger ie The bill peeved, however to be only worth, " $5, a cypher having been'ingenionely pasted a treacle the figure 5, Tim firet person sue - party waa arrested, tried, and aocinitted, D and nothing calculated to throw light on the n mystery trenapired until a few days ago, ie when Mr. Fillmore was approaohed by one th of his neighbora who acknowledged that he th bed the bogus bill changedW asked to be forgiven, and restored, the money witb in- terest. A singular ease was reported from Bristol, P Qae , re oently. Mid Minnie Baird, aged op about 22 years, daughter of Mr. John B °a is jest recovering from an 'lineal of three °° months, and for four weeks and four days °,m of that time she took no neuriehment but a ar, little lemon water. Sho became greatly mi emulated, being reduced to a mere akeleten, and grave fears were entertained that she th would not recover. Phyeicians were oalled Ci in, but the case was beyond their power— Ho they did not understand her ease, and oonld en do nothing to benefit her. A ohort time Vet ago her appetite returned and developed to far anoh an extent that she has a continual nu °raving for food, Her complete recovery En deed angered. Pao Mr, N, C. Blair, a lenlecapo painter of Montreal, ie aupposed to have been drown- ed while sketohing on the Upper Ottawa, near the outlet of the Ctaalk River. The el guide who aocompanied him dye that about bee ten days ago he took hie pencils and pert- a p folio and started up the Chalk Iltiver in a aee os,noe, presumably for the purpose of pur- he h ening hie daily work. Ha bag not been a w den ainoe. Hie °moo was found bottom gam up in the river, and the hat he wore when leaving camp wan discovered floating with aati ulat the current. The river, at the point viler° e hi he is supposed to have been lost, 18 neither Deo. wide or wild, Te suspect him of arziolde is Pah t out of the question, and there seems to be tie, rermon to apprehend foul play. Mr, E aces Alexander and Mr. F. Botsterd, of Mont- have reel, have started for the camp with the am hope of finding BOMA trace of the miseing teat niManiss Style (to coachman) —" Jittneg done Dictates of Fashion. tetbrhareoramn your whiekera are not in harmony wax (1°41 Fide's. It mortifies me dreadfully when I go on the boulevard& I wish you to take Ftdo with you to the barber's and have your whigkers trimmed to math his," WI .1-0,thes—." Mightn't I have the dog's hair a farm ant tonmsttoybiomiraetonirnali;)11?:: How eon you etixnpgiobd think of it Fide iu putt in style." et well, pop," said Jimmy Tuffboy, " be Phillip a gain' ter the circus in the afternoon or her ar evening," "James," said his mother, " I had be, hardly think your &thee intends to taiM you had be at all." " Not take me I Then the circus a elm might as well not show." " Yon oan go night. tlxis evening, my son," beterjeded hie father. remelt If' Beetling I I WAS in hOpeli you'd take me Mae P this afternoon, Woe Undo Ben's proraieed to living o take me in the moaning.'" Phillip What England Has Done for India, Remenyl, the celebrated violiniate has n travelling in India, playing the part ,of entice' oboerver, as well as musiolan, he sumo up hie neauotions from what ae seen as follows in the Medras : agliabraen ought to be more proud of g been able to govern India's vast pep ion than of anything else, No other on on earth could have undertaken such eat task with such giorioua results. misunderstand me, I do not mean to hat England's rule in India le pada& —far from it ; but it la the best poesible r the millien of difficulties whith must obstructed the path of the English; repeat it again, and with emplanes, Engliehmen ought to congratulete solves on the happy remit of their goy- ent for glorious, grand old India, for, gh her oolonizing genius, England has teem geed to humanity than thottatinde luxury utopians and politioasters," rutting a Bomb in the' Stove. tie Mrs. Sarah Phillips, who lives on 18 zelles from Huron, Deka was get- reakfast the other morning, the stove ed, berating into fragments and med- iate piddle every dint:Mon, Mrs, war strock in about forty different and the flesh from the under aide of ma was torn off, It is thought a bemb en pladdin tho stove. Mrs, Phillips en to Huron the day before tO attend a and did not return until late at 'The general opinion le that It is the of Ern old feud between the families of hillips and Susan Hendee, the latter n the olahn, end trying to oust Mrs.