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b e ee i down u on the
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bleak northern i e a and through all
that time the wind and the sea had
churning he tea back
been towing add c , g tthat
Wiling tbAnbo a fa so
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burbnient that, no ship. built by mortal
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hands, :oris ever have pasted bila da ger
and cached the stn
our shoals andapnrs r y
harbour which was the only safe haven
for a hundred miles, ''
e fearful da and
Through all thea y
igghts . anent fishermen kept con-
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rltant watch for whoever and whatever
might be driven shoreward from some
Wrecked or dismantled ship.
kept heir leasee bent
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seaward Ln every direction, and by night
es burning all aloe the
they had great fir b g g
rough and Draggy coast,
But the sea seemed forsaken and never
onus did they see a sail or hear a signal
Of ftedidresp,
After nightfall, on the third and lasttreating:
day of the great storm, old Menlo, by
manyears the oldest fisherman for scores
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of miles along the coast, stood sadly by
himself near the water's edge. .
Suddenly there was a flash of lightning
so bright and vivid that !t revealed to'
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Menlo a email white object, rounder,
abapelier than any of the frothy masses
of foam, ridingtoward him swiftly upon
one of he narest waves. Before the
sharp peal of aoeompanying thunder came
the sea had deposited its freight at the
old man's feet.
He stooped and pinked up a naked
old,slab
female ands, scarcely a happily
smiled and cooed as ha H as if it layMaidenly
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The old men's eyes, dryfor ears be-
cause of a grief that had oens itself, shed
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tears anew ; and, praying in his heart
that the little one might stay with him
and eolaoe him for a sweet prattling
babe whom death bad snatched from hie
sheltering arms before time had atolen
the color of youth from his hair and
cheek's, he turned his back on the sea
and walked away, all heedieas of the
rrain. g wind and the biasing blinding
He was still walking heedlessly when
some of the other fishermen, who were
coming down to the omit, met the two,
and paused to oak questions about the
strange child. Bat even the darkness
failed to hide from their curious eyes the
powerful emotion which moved their old
friend, so they stood back and watched
him in silence as he went slowly on.
Occasional flashes of lightning disclosed
the tenderness thatglowed upon old
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face which, for so long had been stern and
hard, andpatnty baby fingers, which
now olutohed the snowy beard and now
toyed with the wrinkled, storm -beaten
face, and the rain of kisses which the
little fingers met whenever they came
near the old but smiling mouth.
Tears and kisaes from one who for
two score years had neither shed the one
nor given nor taken the other. It 'seemed
so strange and yet so natural and so
beautiful, even to the rude fishermen,
that they walked quietly away and never
spoke to ea h other about it for hours.
The old iii n, still shelteringthe naked
babe upon -breast and protecting her
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from the Bterm with his rough stained
and smeared coat, went slowly on toward
hispoor little cabin where It stood
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hoisted and alone, in a hollow which the
great forma that shaped the world had
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scooped out of the solid rock.
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"It is tittle Rita," he kept saying to
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himself ; " it Is my own little Rita.
Death took her from me so very long ago
bull now the sea has snatched her from
her grave and has given her back to me."
There was no ship wrecked on the
coast that night, and at daylight when
the atorm had ceased there was no sign
of any on the sea.
Whence the child came puzzled every-
one but Menlo, and that she could have
come eafely shoreward over the shoals
and crags through such a sea seemed
still more mysterious.
The fiehermen, awed and fearful, said
that she was no human child, but a
wraith—or the offspring of some wanton
sea-n m h—east forth from the caverns
sea-nymph—east
of the ocean to brie sorrow into the
homes of men. Ib was thus that the y
reasoned among themselves 'when the
morningcame and the seagave them no
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clew as to the coining of the child..
So, full of terror and superstitious
dread, they went down Into the lonely
little hollow to the cabin of old Manlo, to
demand that the child whom the sea had
given forth should be cast back into the
sea.
They went to the cabin silently and In
it body, and silently and !n a body they
came away.
When Manlo's door was opened by his
unseen and unsummoned visltora, that
which mob their eyes turned them from
their purpose instantly, without thes ex-
change of a word ora glance,
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The, w, "whom they sought were sleep-
!n the ria ern on the elder's breast,
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one of herF little hands was in his and the
other was'about hie neck. His strong
but withered right arm held her closely,
so that she could nob fall. Theft faces
were together, :hers being partly veiled
byhis long white beard
As they slept; they ended. " So the
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an els smile, thought one of the fisher
g in to hid cpm antonp,
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demand Unspoken. oken.
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and went, and the child
Years came1.,.,,
still fives with the old man who rescued
her frokn the storm.
He and all hie brother fishermen were
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but the c held was unlike diem, the rich
seer in her fade, her dark ey eee and hair
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and her round limbs and irnpetaens tem
k the Latin rases of the warm
perp besjao a
south. The fishermen still ahook choir
heads and believed that some day the
evil people of the sea who had sant her
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to them would reclaim her. They say
that theglitter in her eyes when she was
angry Wap each as they saw on the tresis
of the waves on Amery nights.
Then, too; She was always by herself,
nn.i` ',:true;! Aha diva hwi Lir than anvthinu
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else, save Old Menlo,hose solo ha
ueia rho wase." $ rice he took her out of
the sea A et range forgetfulness had Dome
over him, and he teemed to live only in
bile Past, which was all unknown to. hie
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folk w fisherunent He never tlrgd,of say-
i " . t o ld w Rib hle dead'
,ng:tbat 1}e hi ae a,
grattddaaghber, soma back to -life again,
and the never gneattoned the relation.
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From her bab hood her ha teat days
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were those s �nt bythe sea, where she
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could watch the nndtllabtng Eaters and
hoar thou aplaehing ugon the sattd and
rooks A dream look would
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alwa s Dome tubo her eget and a ben�3er
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rails ppon her lips.
Others heard but the low wash of over-
la in waves, their gurgling when they
lappingtalk
broke upon the beach, and the murmur-
ins and sighing of the winds, Bnb she,
bendingher beautiful dark head and
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breathing tightly, hoard faint, sweet
sounds too delicate and indiebinot for
leer sensible ears.
She heard voices from over the peas
and from the mystical, unknown islands
which no mortal has seen, The voice
sangof eternal summer, of endless days
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along leafy 'shores, of unbroken ,It
green,esker,
peace, and of deathless love. Day after
dayshe heard them,above the fiernatclosed
storm ae plainly as when the winds and
seas were calm.
Though she loved old Menlo dear!The
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she often mused and wondered whether
the faraway, mnaeea singers would not
come some day and bear her off to the
el elan isles and bowers whose bliaaes
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filled all their music.
In eofteat whisper she asked the
question, and In still softer songthe
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voices answered her. They said that gee
should be with them when first her
heart had known the pulses of love and
tin and hatred, and the quiet of repent-
anceand peace. .•
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shame first banned in her
cheeks and after it came the allor of
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fere ani dread. Bat hope soon bright -
fear
ened her eyes and sent the pain curves
from the corners of her mouth. A faint
moan parted her Lipa, which ended in a
sigh.
"Now all the course of my life is known
to me," she murmured ; " and I muah
strengthen myself to meet it as et comes.
Better it would have been for me to
have met it blindly and without pea-
bions,
For a time even old Menlo s kindneseas
almost fulled to win smiles from her,
and regret and discontent rankled in her
heart. The voices vainly sang of the
joyous days beyond the brief, bridge of
pain, but she ltetened bo them eulienly
and so each day they became fainter until •
they ceased. Then blustering winter
came, and for all her sorrow and dawn-
solate woe she heard no sound from the
sea but the waves and the storms.
With the aprtng sunahihe peace came
back to her heart, and she no longer
rebelled against the itis of welch the
sea voices sang to her in the warm days
of the summer that was past. Atter that
ahe could hear the voices again, but she
could not diatingulah the words they
sang.
" That," she said to herself, " is my
punishment for discontent.''
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Early in the summer some nobles came
to the roast from the emperor's court,his
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and with them was a young prince of
Rita's age.
At the first glance they exchanged the
two seemed fasdnated with each other,for
and Rita no lop er listened for the sea
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voices. She found sweeter solace andThe
pleasanter music in' the words which
fell from the prince's li a. All through
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each day they were inseparable compan-
Ione, but the nobles who dame with the
rinse and old Menlo and his fisher friends
thought them too youngfor love, or harm
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to come of their being so =oh together.
" Children never love but a day," said
one after another, with careless laughter
and so Rita and the prince epenteach day
of their 17th summer alone *themselves
One day, when they were walking to-
gather along the coast, they found a rare,
delicate, and curious shell, such as
neither had ever seen before.
"You are like this shell," said the
prince as he kissed her. "It will never
be the lob of anyman to find another
like either."
She thought of the voices and sighed.
" Yes," ahe said, " I am bat an empty
shell, tossed up by the sea, borrowing
melodies from the winds and the waves
and givingthem back again after a fash•
ion all thir own." g
,Puzzled and surprised, he asked what
she meant,but she did not answer Mee.
Long before the summer had gone the
prince's love became so much to Rita
that she feared to have Manlo's eyes rest
upon her face, lest in her own eyes he
should read the secret elle knew not how
to hide.
When the summer ended the prince
went away with the noble's, but he swore
to Rita that be would return to her be-
fore the snow came again and make her
his wife.
Eagerly she watched for him, but the
snow Dame and went with no sign of his
handsome, ambling fade. Each day, after
the coming of the anow, her bitterness
and an Hieb increased and just before
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the midwinter she became amother.
When her babe was a month old it died '
and that night she tossed its little lifeless
body into the cold winter sea and fled,
alone and in the darkness, from the place
where ehe had known" all her happiness
and all her shame.
Old •Manf o but half understood it, and
each day hisfpebleness grew upon him.
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Years and years ago, he said, we'
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buried her. But she was not dead, and
after a time the sea' gave her back to me.
That was because I never believed, liketf
the others, that she was dead. She
staid with us for a while, and would be
with me now, tab sometlmos trod sleeps,
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and once while he slept the devil came
and stole her away from me,”
Spring and summer brorght us no
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nervy of Rita, so the, fisher thought
that she lutist have destroyed herself in
the sea. They were saying this over to
themselves for the hundredth ; time when
old Menlo appeared among thein with his
white head uncovered and a SIAM n,
childish glee and happinesb on his face.
" I am going to Rita at last," he said •;
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for I know now where the be It: war
sof the sea" who brought her to
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us. all safe. and unharmed, through that
awful etarxn, It wap tbo$r Malt hand*
that, kept the lunge water from dashing
her anon the arae and shoal.. They
raved her beoeuee they loved her, and
th only let her come to me because 1
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wss et? lonely. Ido not think any more
a m own it,lta ria dear randohild,
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for T hay® been to b@r grave, and she
still Hee there in the poor little box 1
made for her ep !prig, eo'very long; ago. 'Dame
After rhe Bled I only bad the sea to •love
so the tea bronahb me this little one
from Lorne; far away pears, to Politest, ray
hard old heart, But the sea .people
were alwa a calling her bank to them,
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and ahoofben bold me what the voices
raid to her. Last night they were ball-
Ing me, and her volae win platneet of.
them all, So now I am going to then! i
and to her•
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Ever dine the unknown child, w
he had called Rlta came to him oat of
the sea, old Menlo had always been atter-
Ing strange fanoiee one moment only to
forget them in the next, for the 6ehe;men
onlylistened to him aadl and did not
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think of following him as he walked_ away
seaward.
He went straight down to the beach,
was ebb tido and'•wlth a vacant look
la his eyes he followed the slowly re-
sea. Finally, overcome by' a
sudden weakaese he fell, helplessly agora
the wet sand. Before the tide turned'
hip last breath was drawn, and long be-
fore morning the undertow swept his
dead body away.
Before the summer was gone a young
fisherman and his bride began their wed-
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ded life in old Manlo'a deserted cabin.
In a few sere the lonelyplace was
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merry with the noise and prattle of child-
ren, and the old man who had first made
!b h!s home was forgotten,
The years went slowly on, and the
perfect quiet of the villa$e was only
broken byan ocoaatonal birth death,or
swoman
marriage.
The emperor, full of years, was dying
!n his palace in the south, and ilia oldest
son,the same rine who had betrayed
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the old fisherman's adopted granddaugh•
ter, was about becoming emperor in his
father's stead.
It was at tilde time, when the royal
death was anticipated from day to day,
that a strange woman suddenly appeared
in the bleak northern fishing village.
she was very beautiful, and her beauty
was heightened byher black solemn
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monastic robes.
She wandered about the village and
along coast, and though her preference
was unnoticed she seemed to linger moat
fondly In the cottage that old Menlo had
built. She maid it reminded her of the
place where her childhood was spent,
and asked for its bietory.
are of the old fishermen told her the
story, and when he described old Manlo's
last days the woman burst into tears.
They all thought that she was touched
by the old man's rad life, and never once
•dreamed that for many years she had
been as the light of bis eyes.
Leaving the cabin and its memories,
she went out along the coast, and stood
on a high bluff overlooking the tea. -t
was high tide, and the frothy green water
was thundering and dashing against the
jagged rocket fifty feet below her.
" It was here," she murmured, "that
love was first spoken. Ib was here
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that I first realized how sweet his voice
was, and that I had a heart. He made
me suffer, and for time I hated him,
the shame his love brought upon me,
deprived me of the right to stay by dear
old Manlo's aide until his life was done.
Bub that is over now, and I forgive him,
Nay, I did that long ago. I loved him
if he did not love me, and my only earthly
wish ie to see his face and hear his voice
once more. It would- not matter even !f
he did not see me at all, and spoke to
someone else—perhaps to some other
woman l That—even that—would re-
compenae me of my shame, my Barrow,
and my devotion. The voices 1 The
dear tea voioea 1 Silent so long, I hear
them again 1"A
She put aside her somber monastic hood
and veil, and the wind loosened her hair
and sent it streaming down her back.
Her hands were stretched seaward, and
holy peace and joy shone upon her
face. In all her innocent girlhood ehe
had never been so beautiful. All her
life flashed before her like the vividly
outlined pictures of a dream, but there
was' that in her doral which made ter
glad of every part of her life. She had
known the joys of earth and also the
joys of heaven, and there was in it all
nothing that she would have changed
All that the voices had promised had
been given her—love, sin, hatred, re-
sentence, peace—all. Her heart swelled
with silent gratitude and sacred content,
for her life was full, ripe, and complete.
Either the voices, her thought', or
ucIaet of the sea kept from her earl
Mound of approaching footsteps, and
only knew that oho waa not alone when
urian knelt tit her feet and ki`aeed
oroae which hung from the chain on
neck.
Sb@ turned her head and looked down
ppon thePriaoe. Instantly her face
even more radiant than before,
she off„red him both her bands.; E�cb
read In the other's eyes the record of
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past, each knew that the Dies
null faithful to the old lova.
After a little time, he arose and enfolded
her in his arms, Their lint mob' in
fervent ktpa that sealed and o4nseorated
anew the one love of both their lives,
and then her head once more sought
old, familiar place on his shoulder,
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and be empress of me' people as
have always been of my heart.
As she nestled closer to elm, the edge
of the ollff crumbled under their feet-
With her head still pillowed on
royal lover's breast, and the pea voices
still ringing in her ears Bita and
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prince fell down, down into the teeth-
nig, boiling mass of green water, and
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story of wooly anterterence with
li'.artnryarmee,
The follpwtag !r the mast extnaerdlnarjt
mortal et 'yriaat nrparts to be !eats that
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tae ever. engaged Lire pen of the present
a lite, Thgee persons who leek upon tike
regetattene and mantfeetatione of me0ere
Spirttuallem ae fraud and deception will see
nothing in Lbs narrative except so muah
pabulum for derision and oonternPG. Baty
those earnest believers wile are persuaded
our earth is PecPied be' vast myriads
ofv and red rf the deputed
of the spirits, evilg e , o P
and that they exert their Influence In armor,would
with their a oifi) natural an the
livin -on a1i of us,in foot --the ezperienoe
recorded herein; will be fraught with in-
etrnotion, warning, aetanishment,
nouttoti AND EVEN SOME EI\CODBAGEMENT,
The Morsore fasnit cepolstaof the father
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and mother, and a grown rip lieu and 'laugh'
ter, The father war beta in England fitly
one ears rine, Ste wife to ilve years
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younger. Jape, the daughter, le twenty*
seven and George, the son ie tweet three.
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The Mossereps came to thio reentry four
years since and'now reside in 9Yestohesrer
count . The father is a watchmaker b
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trade; the 800 le a eaddlor ams harmeae
The famll was rot erege and had
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no inducement to emigrate on account of
social surroundings er worldly oircnmotanoee
But when Miss Jsna Moesorep attained her
twee arat birthda Lily reps ltthe etre -
ping, 0ey-oueoked,y bgxnm lees began rid
pine and fade. A famous D2ancheater 1
a renowned London phi stoma were slnbati•
tuted far country doctors. The farmer's
diagnosis seated the complaint W the brain ;
the :atter located it in the spine and Ind-
°abed a>i application n of the moxa as a None
able alleviatiem, if net a perfect cure. Nene
e# the deniers andoeeded is doing Lilo yotme
lady the least appreciable good. She gra
ually bedame so weak that she kept her bed
and nothingbut death seemed In store far
her. The family physician, an old gentle-
man,had seen a few casae wherein them
toms were similar, He advised a total and
radical change of scene and country, Bug-
seating Australia or America far ohotoo,
They ete°ted to come to new York.
THE VOYAGE WROUGHT NO BENEFIT
en Miss Mosaorep. She had a"lover who
aooempanled her to Barre w-in•Furness,
where they embatkod, and she had bidden
him good -by with as much sang froid as if
he had been an ordinrry and recent acquain-
Lanae. ahe was able to walk abeam the
steamer, bntshe kept her berth till New
York was reached, when she again walked
ashere, entered a Dab and was driven to a
friend's house. When the family settled in
Westchester she teak to her bed as she had
done in England. Two years since George
Mosaorep attained hie majority. He redely-
ed the congratulations of his parents and he
said to his sister, "Jeanie, I'm twenty-one
to -day. Opening her pale lips, ahe said,
"I'm sorry. George; you'll be sick new."'
He felt no such depressing premonition. He
was in the full enjoyment of every faonity
and in perfect health. When night name
he went to spend the evening with a few
friends. It was midnight when he return-
ed to his home, and far the first time is his
life he was drunk. Beth parents expressed
surprise and dleapproval, His companions
had left bim between nine and ten and gone
to their homes sober, and he was thinking
of coming home at the same time when be
saw behind the bar as plain as could be
the figure of John Ontwater, an acgel/in-
tante of theirs and a disreputable fellow
had
DRANE HIMSELF TO DEATH
in Lancashire ten years before—and this
shade or spirit or aura seemed' to say, "How
d'ye do, George? You're twenty one to.
day. Aren't you going to treat 2" Some-
how he couldn't. withstand the shades
He drank lass after lass of
in he liquor referred byOutwater in
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"life, and the ghost seemed to enjoy the Ii-
nor and get gradually intoxicated by
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gorge s drinking. His parents naturally
regarded thio as the talk of a young man
deeply intoaioaied and uneconetomed to the
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et alcohol. But they were mistaken.
Hoadeforth two or three times a week
George was In the habit of getting drank in
the same ghostly society, as he alleged.
He would get into a car and go off to some
remote liquor Baleen under the ghostly
promptings and drink glass after glass of
gin, the spirit of Jack Outwater standing
via -a -via across the bar grinning and laugh-
ing and getting drank
AT SECOND HAND, AS IT WERE.
Matters were at this pass during last April,
eae Saturday night another mysterfens vie -
station overtook this family. George had
been out, preenmably drinking. Jane had
been weaker than usual in the evening and
the mother had sorrowfully whispered to
the father : "�We shall net have her with ne
much longer. The father' had gone up-
stairs to bed. It was eleven o oleok and
InMge. Mosaorep lay rn the parlor sofa await-
ins her son's return. He tarried longer
than usual with his imagirary companion
and the father upstairs prayed with extra-
ordinary fervor for his refermatien and res-
toratlon to reason. Suddenly while he
prayed a light shone round about him and
when he looked up,
BEHoLD HIS LONG DEAD II^.THEB
sat on the chair by his side. She spoke in
the soft len+ tones that had been hers in the
and told him not to be alarmed. She
said she had tried over and ever again to
manifest herself to him, but she had net
been able to de so because of his disbelief to
spiritual life, She told bit that hie sen
George was under the guidance and direst.
tion of an evil spirit that would never leave
him till hejoined the shadowyranks of the
evil -world malevolents, less ho took
moans to have him exorcised, The shade
furthermore told him that his daughter
was under the influence of another Andre-
tive spirit and that the cause or motive of
such affliction lay back in this world's his-
tory in a bitter family feud wherein because
of some property a Bieter had wrongfully
g juryBleep
succeeded in pOavinoln the nr that her'
brother was a forger and had him scut to
Van DSeman's Land. The incident had me
',erred in the 1VIossorep' family, but Is toe
long for rehearsal hors, Before the spirit
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of his mother faded gently not of hie visual
hadindicated the steps requisite to
ken she P q
be pursued inordor to remove both the mal-
! ninfluences under which the• Tamil su#-
gy
fared, She intimated, moreover, hew that
it had been her spiritual promptings --her
action en his mind—that had danced him to
elect America as hie abode, heoanse in this
country
LIVED TIM ONLY PERSON
who could rff got the spiritual emauolpatloa,
Tho individual is a parson in humbly life,
WHO WOrka at his business and lives In a
quiet, nnaantntng house sn Paterson, N. J.
The writer made baraf al notes of Mossorop's
vlsitto this gentlemam, and they era hereby
p;'du'ed as neatly as may be told :
Ah set on on the ninth of April for Pater,
son and it was a real lino day. The raan I
,
it, t'oekln was g9dd en0etnf to tiny, 0
liven in a satin looking brick house in , a
y R
back. street ; ah .knocked. at 'door wt me
.--.—
oiler ad a woman cm ,gat, Xaa, ate ,
her men wee et beeasn and ith was to quina
In. Ife ie er dstkieh leoktn' ht le chap, with
a deal o' hair about hie face. Ne sated me
to sit dowry s .rid then hp brews a chair and
sot biers!' down beside ruse he then, he
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aide tt, ;011,6460001,310,= lwhisper, New,
T tako.tt t a u er art
h PP ,li
of New ark alt Of morn to. rune It
Y �. le n
me aibeut thateon Geolr of • urs and sur
�o yp Y r
daughter Jane," When he wtald that
IT GATE ME A SWAM
and he nstioed it. 01, deal 6e alarmed,
he sa s " know' al uteri it '• oar.dsi h�
6 Y , I w l t ,. y ng
tars been troubled with a' lit or ea
spirit, . they
have said in Bible times, vexed
With a devil' slime ehe came of yearn; and
Your eon George le under the bad influence
Pi a man who need to be a drunkard in hie
life." He raid thexa were many snob. This
fairly
y took my wind away, especially
when be told me exactly the same thin s as
m ,n h / 6
y et ec a ghost had pinyon told me,
well, he said I must leave ou #ora 'few
house and pend old t m y ifs a home
w o my wife o
that I was golmg to stay to P t argon all.
night. I was to go back to .bim at et ht
o'oleok, and when 1 went he said that be
bad gent ilia own wife down to Newark in
accordance with special; inetrnottene item
the spirits who were at present directing
ilia. He said it was the Slat 'time ae a
m, slum he!lad ever been creed upon to rot
in the capacity in welch he was new matrnot-
ed to aot, but he had no alternative, He
was net known among Tuan au a medium,
but hie father had been a medium Itke elm•
Intl, though never parading the fact, and
only
DOING GOOD IN EE0aET
Wile was doing now, He said his present
action in connection with the two afflicted
members of my family world relegate tilt
malign spirits to great de radationand agent
g P g g g l
in the spirit world, " But," he oats,' ethy
rot will restore George and Jane to healti
and strength and you will therefore remab
with me the whole of this night ; but yon
must firettake a solemn oath on the Bibi
that You will •never divulge to anybody, mai
er child anything: whatever the
at
' Is
yon may see or heardur'mthis long nig
watch, Ah felt rather harfish about i
but,however, I thought, why, I had cpm
g ' y'
here for the purpose of helping George as
Jane and why shouldn't I take the oath ani
kis, the big Bible,
Well, It was such a solemn going en as
never saw before nor am likely to see agai
And I've kept my oath an' I mean to gee
it till mi dying day, so you needn't axe
what I saw an' heard, for ah'll never tel
I stopped at the house till daylight, an
when I was Derma' away he said, aez be
" Now you'll find Jane ever se' much be
when yen get home ; she'll be alttin' up
bed and makin' a hearty breakfast off boil
eggs and tea." "Nay, nay," I says, '+that
impaeaible. Her recovery will have to
m ere gradual than that if rhe recovers
all." " You'll eee 1" he sold, " and mar
ye, neighbor Moseorop, George will trent
yen
No MORE WITH HIS one DRINRIN' 1"
Sure enough, when 1 got back from Pater
son, there was Jane attire rip in bed ea
eggs broken in a sup and suppin' tea an
my old •woman oapertn' •an' pranoin' ate
the fluor like a young lase, and she oried
I went In, " Daddy, Jane's better ! ani
Geerge's been and signed the pledge thl
morula' 1" My wife told me that the pe
lase had been desperate bad .during th
night and teased and tumbled about at end
a rate that her mether thought oho w
going to die. But towards the mernin
sleep came, and when she woke it was to
o'oleck, and there was a new look thate Po
of life and hope in her eyes. "' Mother,
she says, "I feel better and I think I at
going to mend right away."
IT ONLY REMAINS TO BE ADDED
that Jane is now a healthy, plump lass wits
a flee figure and shapely arme, and that he
g Pe Y
lover has been written to and is expected I
the coarse of the current month whit
George is working down town in a saddler
and harness establishment and never dream
of touching strong drink, nor has he agai
seen the modking face of hie ghostly adver
ear Jack Ontwater.
y'
�_..ee j�`M!�
Famous
longevity of famous
loneP
markable. Imagine
Ing vigorously as Prime
land when ever eighty,
British Empire with steady
rug speeches three hours
of Commons and ricin
man of forty ! Think
Gaizot the F.enoh statesman
age of eighty -severe
gdg
tortes, presiding over
and carrying on lively
French Academy.
The late Lard Lyndhurst
epeeohea in the Henn
Passed his nineteenth
time rival Lord Brougham,
biography, in three
he had nearly reaohed
The
The Matgnis of Lansdowne,
Henry Petty, was
of the " All the Talents
Charles James Fax was
was still an active member
Lords nearly sixty years
riled in that year at
The Dake of Wellington
public affairs until his
eighty-third year,
In former generations
men of advanoed years
scattered through
There was the old Marquis
who could remember
York sovereign, in 1843,
died In 16,72, at the age
holding office under
Referring to the
country, it is a familiar
Adams and Thomas
and third Presidents,
of Jnly, 1826 just half
day en which both
of Independence, Adams
and Jcfferaon eighty-three.
drew Jaekeon lived to
Quincy Adams to be
eighty-five.
-�
Old
Lord
governing
next
gday
was
tellgiono
of Lotda
year
g
goodly
ninety
a
"
the age
death
the
Edward
of
Queen
statement
Jrffersen,
beth
a
signed
be
eighty-ene,
OF
Men,
atateemen ie
Palmerston
Minister et Es
the
hand, and mak-
long in the House
fresh
of the venerable
who,at
still writing
conventions,
disowe:lone in
made
when he
; and his long-
wrote his auto-
volumes, when
years,
whe,
leading member
Cabinet of which
the chief, In 1806,
of the House
later, in 1863,
of eighty-three.
took part
in 1852, in
energetto states-
are found thickly
pages of history,
of Winchester,
IV., the
and who, when
ninety-seven,
Elizabeth.
of sur
faot that
the second
died en the
century frem
the Declaration
being ninety-one,
President
eighty-two,
Madison
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DIAMONDS
THOUGHT.
with the course
lived.
to the
and breath,
in many a heart
would
is the wealth
is the fruit
frem a mush-
profits
P the earth
we leek up to
,
will do more
Not to oversee
purse open.
bind one end
lege of a people,
around his
woman whe is
bettor=-
fashionable—than
Whim one lives entirely
nature, every day is fully
There are three little wicks
of a man's life, brait,bleed
Thera is frozen music
that the beams of encouragement
melt into glorious ofs song.
wealth the world
civilization and civilization
'
Ghrietlanity,
As reasonably expect oaks
room bed as great and durable
small and hasty efforts.
When we look dawn upon
think of the past ; when
sky, we think of the future.
The eye of the master
than both of hie hands,
workmen ie to leave your
tyrant cannot well
chain around the arms er
without finding the other
neck,
A snob is that man er
ways pretending to something
especially rioher er mere
they are.
ODE TO LAKE ONTARIO.
--'
BY JOHN mere, Toaoxro.
—"
Th on Wland stetersea,_OntarIe t
Te glide upon thy bdeom le sublime;
There feel thy peaceful, steady, enwar
flew.
Ueaseleee and constant as the course E
time !
Thy waters seem the same,—yotever new -
Fed by a thousand 'streams en either stilt
The same clear sky—the same thy depths
lae—
blue—
Free as the nations bordering on thy List
•
Vast upper -lakes feed thee with liber
hand,
From higher lands as new as thine ha
g
been,
Where still the Indian and his wigwa
stand,
He half amazed with what his eyes ha
assn 1
Te thy embrace, tike;gailant levpr;beld,
Niagara rushes in his mad career,
Till tiredaand 'pent, past whirling eddi
cold
He calmly sinks to. teat when then a
near t
Lest of the Inland seas l—yet nearest hems
Thy waters seen shall swell the mist
deep,
And mingle with the eoean'a briny foam,
There shalt then rest—and there for ev
i? 1
1' t Have Home Coiuforts,
Stranger : I see ye advertise beard
home comforts 2
Landlord :Yes, sir.
Stranger : Any ekmesga 'bout the place
L�adlerd d Not a mesquite within
males.
Stranger : Well, I'm sorry. I've lived
Muskoka, an' the ham of a skeeter is
to me. I'm looking ter board, stranger,
I'm an old man, an I oan't git along 'thent
home comforts- Geed day
.
Mev
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