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TIM, Sec et or On OM s Lite,
The last temente a the dinner end been
reinaved feom the table ; the eurteine were
draws ;woes the windows ; „the oil lamp
was Owed between ; the tare reared nn.
the chimney ; we Awed. cub, other ite two
arlHO
, that Frenehluen• no longer believe in such to nitereet him, But it wae Wearying work
the eneiversery of hie birthday, end I, hie
I atared at the epeaker, • for nie stttiug there with that greve old nutu,
grandson., the only reletiee be had left in '4°1° as these ?'.'
and the volume fell from iuy hand es be dressed in Ma solemn black, the diamond
the world, had spout the day at his fireside,
red hie insidious worde into uly ears. , buokles upon his shece aloise relieving the
more in PUY for bis lonelinees than for Any P°11
Then, for very shame, I quitted the build- t &Otiose ot his attire, and knowing that
love a kinship. They sel.d I should inherit
hig and retired to my own rooms. I ?name : Marie, 99 full of life end pieteresqueuess
the lerge fortune he had aeguired, none ed to myself the old home with the village ' and ecnor, was scampering across the great
knew how; but the life of flue strenge old ?Much, where purity and belief went band perk with the doge., or kneeliog at her de-
mon had ever been ten enigma to the few
in namd, end I shuddered lest a rumor of votions in the chapel a very type of girl -
who were intimate with him, and none Could
foresee from day to (ley in which direction that whisk I hed heard should ever enter hood and purity and love. Yet those hours
I spreed so rtiviali ever the political mid exieting; eeurte,otes to a degree, dreeeed with
• • , • tl • 1 ' storm & reserved rummer, and Apperently devoid
did uot eseepe me. One nay Di etudent, who of effeetion or of sympathetic feelin% 1.10
hanced to tole with me in the librer of the where Ite bad collected many valuable tree -
University. I was hamilieg eons° old felloa sures of literature and a ,,)„rt ; and as he was
of the Vathere end noting the opinions of very anxious to learn eoutething aboet the
the great French theoloaical thinkers whet) men and mealier* of that prodactive set of
,
v WWI Ul HES o you BOt lulOW the eltibe of London, 'managed in a, measure
had frequently 11)Ade OVertureS Of bielldShip, received me for some tune m lus rary,
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pulling uy tee arm, no meet 19, friend, scholars and writera who had lately adorned
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heus,
my erandfather and. I It was
the next seemIng freak of his folly would
he.
So I was dining with him on the nine.
that quiet communityBut, thealk God,my of heavy explanetione of the peculiarities of
own life was never tai.
nted with their words; Johnson, the foibles of Boswell, the failings
my ears refneeti to moire them moekery, of. o sant 1, were alike forgobben whene
'Oath anniversery of his birthday • and when , ... e s.imea. w...o .w., so advised me utes be entranced vvitit the soft; beauty obyFraternity
the repast was finished, we hate dia,wn 11P i. ' 'Ph t'l i 11 1'1 her foe, with the sweet gentleness of per " Grandson, I lied,—lied in iny heart,
the great armchairs, and in silence I watch- came to my rooms one evening with an in- with my taupe. I spoke rather in the name
ed the deep glow of the firelight Play upon vitation to hie club to hear a great speaker. " v
" ' Ali,' ou ask, 'whyhas y life been a of pride, of anger, of a thirst for revenge.
that i mystery r 7 Th k thiseIn. i Intl t h I d 't • 1 li i
The key to mystery s le our es loyec my app nesefor
his haggard face, as he seemed to search tee Thourth I was no friend of the boy, my curi-
inmost depth of the blaze with hie piercing osity lea Illci to accompany him,
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and their blasphemy dinner I faced her, and wild for 301115 min
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PleY hed erstwhile applauded, eheered
nonorect. Awae 0, a
home, where the' PnetrishbaePnedliebtulilltti,with E
wife, loving "plaits for the little °eve asleep
above; Obildre4 kiseiug their father as lie
retuned from, Ins labor, men 'tweeting at
the feet of elle -women they hoped to spend
their lives with everywhere effection, homo.
life, brightness, godlinese. And these men
were to die ore the sun had twice -set
Bet to resume As man after man rose
to sieummee his vietitn, it eapponed that
the timers approached reyeelf eo much So
that the very member at my side began to
speak. What evil stpirit spoke to me them
I know not ; °lily this, that a great wave of
irrepressible anger rushed woes my mind,
destroying every impulse of good, and left
me for the filament its one of the wretches
' that fiat by inc. When my neighbot hitei
) finished speaking, I stood and in t loud
voice denounced 1Viowiie11r leBaron Jenclavi.
Who speaks ?' said the President.
,
" A boa shoutecrthe crowd—` a strang-
, • / ant a stranger, eitizene,' I replied,
but I speak in the name of Liberty," Equal -
and. outstanding eyes. His life had been a
mystery to those who had. known hizn ; for
years he had lived. in that little house with
but one servant; and it was only on anni-
versaries of his birthday thet I dined at his
table. It was on studs cmeasions as these
that I had leamed enough of the old man's
life to know that some heavy secret lay on
his =bad, that some one rect hi bbs lou" span
of existence had merred and seared the re-
maining years. The fevered mutterings, the
staring eyes, the long fits of ebstraction, fol-
lowed ley hoarse pleading, as if for pity, bad
told their tale. Occasional mention too, of
early days in Paris—of spectacles there that
had dulled the courage of stoutest hearts,
of women end men dying at the hands of
fanatic Republieaus, of little children falling
in the widespread sacrifice—all these led me
to believe that it was in Paris that my
grandfather had. spent his early years, with
Paris and with the past that his secret lay.
Mora I knew not; more I dared not ask,
for I was always ill at ease i113 the company
of this strange old man, whose very eccen-
tricities repelled the least advance.
Would he ever tell me more? was the tion. But a glance at the mass of upturned
question I asked myself that night ; ana a tand repulsive faces showed the danger of
trifling with people who regarded no sa,cri-
watched the quivering lip and. the trembling
yes, and heard from time to time the
mat_ fice of human life too great for the accom:
e
tered prayer, I felt that his secret would Pliehment of their purpose.
perish with him. But I was mistaken, for "11 was shortly after such an event that,
suddenly he turned his chair from the ire, walking with a fellow -student near the
and clutching these= of it as if with de- palace of Versailles, a carriage passed us on
termined purpose,he began to speak in a its way to Paris. Thevehicle was occupied by
low and solemn voice. In a minute I learn- an aged man ands girl, who must have been
ed that the time bads come; the mystery but twenty years old. It was in the spring -
would be hidden no longer. I time, and the woods were white with blos-
soms, and the cottages filled with the scent
"Grandson " he sold, "it conaes to every
of the May &veers ; and as the carriage
man at a. certain season to know that the
came slowly along the hard road from a
end of his life is not far distant, that the
day is approaching whehe must face his chateau that stood upon a neighboring hill,
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Maker. When such a season is come to
I felt that one occupant of it at least was
a
worthy of the glorious picture that nature
man, it behooves him to think of those who
will inherit his possessions when he is gone. unfolded around us. Ah, Marie 1 how can
I have thought over this difficult question, ; I find words to speak of you? Grandson,
and I have made my decision. You are my it is enough to say that eines that hour her
face has been before me day and night, sleep.
only relative ; you will inherit such property
as 1 possess; but more than this, you will ing and. waking, in prosperity or misfortune.
Everywhere I look I see those eyes of hers
learn from me that which no doubt has often
speaking to me, those hands lifted in plead -
troubled you, the secret of an old man's life.
ing,
It 131313 not escaped you, this weight that lies her lips moving as she bids me to her
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upon my soul and threatens to crush it. side, and I cannot stir 1"
Others have often questioned me ; an idle The voice of the old man sank low, the
curiosity tempted them to do so ; you have -veins on his forehead swelled, he stretched
shown your sense andheld your peace. Your out his arms, then for a moment or two he
discretion has not escaped me; it shall be was silent, and his heavy breathing and
rewarded by a gratification of your suppres- stifled sobs alone were heard in the room,
sed curiosity; painful though it may be for After a time, becoming somewhat more calm
me to give it. You have learned from the he continued:
words that have escaped me that images of , "My companion, in answer to my quos -
the past rise ever before me, images that tions, told me that the old man was the
never leave me day or night, that carry me Baron Jendavi, and that the girl was Marie,
back again to Paris and to my crime.
I his daughter. Hollowed the carriage with
The old man paused a moment here, for my eyes until a cloud of dust alone marked
emotion was working strong within him; its progress along the road ; then, with little
then recovering himself, he went on hur-
ceremony to my friend, I turned back and
Healy :
walked straight to Paris.
"My father, himself a, man of letters, de- 1 "It was only when was alone in my rooms
eided to educate reefer a literary profession. that I asked. myself what prompted this
With sense and discrimination he planned strange action. I had seen but for a few
for me a scheme of education which em- moments a face by the roadside, yet I be.
bodied a wide range of reading and of travel. lieved that not one atom of the beauty of it
I was to work ray way at Eton, to study had escaped me. In that short walk I had
for a time at Cambridge, then to seek the created to myself an ideal in a world of
great centres of learning upon the continent fancy, which ere this, my imagination had
and to finish in the richly stored lilseraries never penetrated. Before,1 was the scholar;
of the East. It was a grand idea, worthy life was for me in the mass of volumes that
of a noble and generous man. .Alas that his lined the walls of my rooms and of the
generosity was so thrown away libraries, among the thoughts and the re -
"1 went to Eton, and passed through the searches of those who had left to their fel-
. school, making friends here, gaining honors lowinen an imperishable record of the labor
there, learning something of the classics, for the good and the elevation of mankind.
and of those difficulties and. disappointments If I had looked into the future, it was with
that face us all when we start on the battle- the hope that I should then find myself
filed of life. At Cambridge I was a scholar striving to follow the example of these
and took honors. I remember now the great meu, perhaps winning some of the
gladness of my poor father when the news rewards that fall to the successful in a
came to him that I bad mounted one rung career of letters. But such matters as home
of the ladder before me. I hear again his life or wife or children bad never caused me
hearty words of =gratulation, feel again
the warm pressure of his hand, undergo
once more the welcome labor of writing to
my mother. It was a happy time, for I was
full of hope and confidence in my own pow -
Tal and around me were those whose every
thought breathed a prayer for my welfare
and happiness.
"Then it came that I should set out for
Paris. It was with reluctance that they let
might assure myself that the pretended agt-
tatioe was but the work of a. few fanatics,
I entered the hall, It was crowded with
buried in those days, when no world athmed ever -
so fair as France, no woman ao beautiful as "As I heard the cries of applause, saw
Marie. I loved her as I believe no man the name of the Baron inscribed upon the
ever better loved a woman ; and she, too, I sheet, the mom swam before my eyes.
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HOUSHOLD.
Rmergenoy 13ag. and Iledloine ())4.est.
Every hoeeekeeper shouls1 powers an
",ernergeney beg" mid a methane chest, and
both may be °roan enti as the pleases
without in any way detraeting' from their
usefelness. The former it will be well to
Make of eome gay, eonspiettous meterial,
svuiewil ,°'EliayTtiterktelYiesi• heedu' steekebeepseures? suspended
de
eo that every member of tne household will
know where to find it in time of neod, The
bag ahould be large enough to hold several
wide and narrow bandages neatly rolled
and ready for use, the former for cuts or
hurts on the body or limbs, and the latter
for wOunded hands or fiugers. There
olundel also be in this bag a packet of court -
piaster, e roll of diaehylon or adhesive
plaster, pieces of old linen, lint, surgeons
cotton wool, a small bottle of collodion for
91.1tS, old muslin for mustard plasters, pins,
sciesera, and settle of the other necessaries,
TA ATE DOMINIOI
.TENV$.•
Feria in ;desist te exverienee roarri4ge
epidemic.
A yeeeg 1.44 at '113.4044 heti been fined .00
mid costs for cilAtarblog the $elvation AMY'
Service. ,
The Si111900 County Connell hes refeied te
reconunend• the introduction of the Toerene
syetena of land transfer.
An old men named Seramlin, 95 yea,re
age fell at St, Thomas the ther d d
, 9 ey an
beoke hie left hip joint
__Mr, Gee Band. of Stanley township,
Itureu county, has entered on the 27th year
of teeehires in the seine eehool
• River daring one week two men
in five days made the extraordinary number
of seven hundred and ten logs, averaging 13
niches.
At Medicine Hat reeently the Indians
drove a baud of antelope into a coulee, and
slaughtered thirty ot thern before they
could escope.
known to good hotteekeepers. The three young women arreete -1 at Chet -
the " Emergency bag" a home medicine
There should be on baed to :supplement hnaeui 013 seep.thion of having be.. 71-, . histrtk.
s utal so °name the death of a, •hild have
chest or ease • these are now mule very e • • - .
, .. been discharged.
prettily to appear line locked wall -cabinets.
A Sluice° constable is very anxiods thet
A handy person can get up one of domestic
a man whom he handcuffed at Lorette the
manufaeture out of ordinary pine wood,
other day and has not seen since should re -
stabiles/ it to resemble feherry, and furnish,
turn the handcuffs.
ing its doors With handsome mediteval hinges
and eacutcheons of brass, which may be In township 24, range 3, Elbow Riverlg. W. T., on Friday Jan. 21st, the wife of
,
some hundreds of students and, workers and brass supplies.
purchased at moderate rates at depots for
returned illY affections -snot with a careless Tottering, half -swooning, I reached the
rascals the last apparently drawn from the James Young, late of Oxford County, gave
worst slums of Paris. A num upon the plat- word, not with a half -promise made but to street ; but the Nye* I had spoken yet This chest, whether plain or ornamental, meth to a aou, the first white child born hi
form, withfervid oration advised the exterm- be broken, but with the whole out -pouring rang hi. my ears ; the very sky seemed red will be invaluable to the housewife if on its
of her afeectionete nature, with a love that with the blood of the coming, sacrifice, As the township.
ina,tion of King and nobles. His words were shelvee and in its drawers may be -found the
was stroll —because it was a love 1 I I paced my own chamber a deadly spirit of following simple remedies; namely ; essence One morning recently a little girl named
at times drowned by the storm of applause Mary tialdrus, svhile crossing the mill dam
they occasioned, I learned afterwards that
the men who spoke was Jean Paul Marat,
and that there were many such clubs as the
one I had that night attended. The fana-
tics then were many ; in a short time w
were able to say that they were a majority
' the 't
" It was but in thattered memento that I exultation .orept over me ; the whispers of of pepperinint, jail -mica giuge.r, spirits rtf at Orono, on her way to school broke
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falter. se I silenced, as I murmured : -,
could speak to her, yet we found them all..'Marie camphor, -camphorated oil, armee, itroMatio through the ice and before assistance could
ever. But as her fao.e
reach her she was drowned.
sufficient to build for ourselves hi future is muleseenune. for
i rose before me in my selfeereated visson, it spirits of ammonia, spirits of hartshorn,
with every stone a wealth of happiness. syrup of ipecac, sweet spirits of nitre and a
But at the very foundation of our hopes we • seemed that a great gulf lay between us; on small bottle of brandy atul a box of mustard The trustees of the school in section No,
met rebuff. One nieht, as sve returned from ' Brandy and aromatic spirits of ammonia 9, Township of Kitley, were summoned be.
her side the crystal streams, and the green
the little chapel., she confessed her fears to ' swards,, should be kept in every house where there fore A magistrate recently to answer :the
and the golden valleys? where 31.1 un -
h • blind ' • around ending bliss the good had gamed their re- aro aged persons as they are subject to sud- charge of refusing to fulfil the office of true -
• "From that date the tide of revolution ) • , 31 e. while. on mine, the bleak chasms den attacks of faintness, and both these tees, but the difficulty wee settled before
flowed fast. In the succeeding year the : him but his own interests, had, after the ' ward, ;
Bastille fell, and France, nay, Europe, re- . fashion of his own couutrymen, entered ' agents afford relief and help restore the cir- the magistrate arrived, to the satisfaction of
whole the cues of the wrong -doers echoed
from. rock to rock, and. where a spirit of
joiced as, from that relic of despotism and into negotiations for the barter of his
, evil descended upon all. I crushed the ciliation of the blood. Ipecac and mustard all parties.
darkuess, the prisoners were restored to the daughter with an old and affluent member are invaluable nauseants, the former in At Springhill, N. S., recently, shortly
of one of the noble houses of France. I said 1 N.19• 100., a.ud. all the next. day lay ,up alter work had. commenced in the mines a
light of day. I was before the gates as the on , nl-Y cases of croup, and the latter hi oases ef
mob of women and of men perpetrated that nothing, but leaving her, went home to i bed. awaiting the coining moi.n.. Tho night suspected, accidental, or other pOiSOIlimg, large piece of coal, about seven feet long'
think. As I passed through the village, seemed endless ; 1 wise afraid in the dark- It may: here be added that copious draughts and. three feet wide, fell upon•William
, wonderful and surprising ,deed, and never ness. The low roar from the city ceased; of tepid or vomiting ensues, and thereafter McDonald. The coal rolled over him, fear -
did I witness a multitude that displayed
such a vivid resolution and such united ac.
the peasants, many of them half -naked, all
of them wanting bread, were gathered
around a speaker who, in fiery terms, ex-
horted thein to break the chains of despot-
ism that bound them and to establish the
new order. They banned me as I passed
through their midst, for' was from the cha-
teau. In the words addressed to Louis the
King, it was no longer a revolt in France,
it was a revolution.' That night, when I
arrived at my lonely rooms and lay down
to rest, Louis XVI. had left Paris and was
on the road to St. Menehould. When he aYs
I opened m. y door and breathed the
was brought back, and the citizens received
fresh and morning air ; but I walked as one
him in silence, I foresaw that a crisis was
that guilty, and felt aabamed as I stood
rapidly approaching, and determined to
in this great purity of nature. By and by
make at least one effort to secure the hand
of the woman I loved. I would go boldly
to her father and state my wishes. He re-
ceived me with his usual courtesy, treated
my, request with the most business -like air,
refused me with a smile, regretted that
other arrangements had been made.
Parts was sleeping. At every sound I start-
ed, and from a fitful doze awoke, and
trembled as the white light from the moon
fell Upon my bed and cast heavy shadows
upon the panelled walls. I could sleep no
more, but watched the day breaking over
the spires and domes. Cold and gray, the
light struck the roofs ; workman passed
on his way to his daily labor, a few carts
rumbled on the pavement ; the sun rose, a
olden orb in a setting of mist. It was
"What could I do? Pleading with such
a man would not have recompensed the loss
of dignity entailed. I was dumb before
him; but my brain reeled under the blow;
and as I left the chateau and the great
gates closed behiud me it seemed that my
life had been left in the% mass of stone and.
brick that stood over the village. Along
the roadside, the ragged peasants gathered
the harvest. I envied them their lot; they
had their lives, perhaps the women they
loved. The gay clothing. of the fields,
laden with the golden gram, irritated me.
Why was all so fair, and I so sorrowful, so
devoid of hope, by which alone man lives?
Ali 1 the dream is ended, yet I would live
my life again for a repetition of those hours.
"I returned to the city, now dark and
overcast, as the whispers of the terrible
reality forced theinselves from the slums
and the low faubourgs into the great palace
and the houses of the rich. Many fled;
many hid themselves in fear; none knew
when the reaping would come in all its
hideous intensity. I rarely left my rooms,
yet I hated their loneliness. I could not
stir in the streets; the surface gayety,
never etilled during that period of blood-
shed and vice galled me th despair as my
heart went mit to the chateau, or rather to
the fair woman within its walls. I would
have studied—her face was on every page,
her eyes looked into mine from every paint-
ing ! Hope having gone, despair was fol-
lowed by a deadly hatred of the man who
had thus broken both our lives. In my rage
I heaped obloquy upen his aged head. I
have been punished ; may my punishment
atone 1 '
"1 waited my opportunity for revenge
for nearly a year. It came. visiting again man at her side. For the moment I coald
the Jacobin Club, where nearly two years not realize her presence; the cart passed
before I had heard Jean Paul Murat de- close to my side; she turned, and her eyes
nounce the monarchy 1 liatened to violent met mine. Then she stretched out those
a moment's thought. The change in me,
and unr.estrained demands for the irnmedi- a. rms to me; those lips moved as if in plead,
then, was sudden and startling. As the
ate sacrifice of the,leading nobility who had It was the tender, loving face of
scene that delights us oue moment is forget -
had. the courage to remain in their native Mame that looked on me, her great eyes
ten in the beauty of the one that replaces it
country. The scene was one I shall never that spoke, her arms that invited me May
so did my ambition fall as the face of Marie
forget; the clamor of the ruffian crew—their heaven forgive me—I had sacrificed the
rose up before me. A new realm of ideas
faces rendered more repulsive as the flicker- daughter with the father 1 She was to die.
was opened, but the new would not blend
mg oil -lamps shed their yellow rays upon Realizing the terrible crime, with an awful
with the old, for the one was absorbed in,
them—resounded through the vaulted charm cry I tried to force my way through the
the other.
en common sense had In a measure bers like the roar of distant thunder, Had crowd, to join her in life and death ; but the
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n e hearts of such men you
soldiers beat me back, the mob pressed upon
• h
me leave home, for at that date the first „returned to me, I began to remeraber that you pierced ito th
would have found no trace of affection, of me, the cart had stopped. The people and
murmurs of the mighty torrent of revonition my hopes and dreams rested but on a name—
od, of right knowledge, of any instinct buildings around grew faint and. confused
which swept over France were beginning to Marie Jende,vi, the daughter of the Baron go
humanity. They were like so many before my eyes, yet, as the deadly faintness
be heard, The writings of Voltaire and Jeudavi, of anunknowtt chateau on the road of
Rouseau were commencing to bear their to Versailles.' We were seemingly separat- wolves howling for their prey, and the came over me, I saw that face of anguish
sight of them would have chilled the still looking for me. Grandson, she be.
fruit. Agitators in the byways were de. ed by as great a gulf as divides the • Old
brevest heart 1 I watched the proceedings lieved that I could save her • she knows
efrom a bench in the rear of the room. At now that I bad brought her 10 her doom.
crying the King and demanding liberty ; as World from the New, Whom did I know
the low moaning of the wind before the in Paris, then, that I could go to and say, l
tength silence was somewhat restored, and a, I had killed Marie, my love 1"
storm, so were these the warnings of what have a fa,neer to be introduced to the
terrible proeess known as the 'naming' 00)11- The old man ceased speaking; he half
'was to conae. But had no fears then; daughter of the Baron Jendavi—will you do
menced. The President rose in his seat and rose from his chair, and the fire showed
rather I hoped to learn much from seeing a that service for me?' Such ai reflection dia.
addressed the turbulent crowd. 'It was that he was deadly pale. His mind was
country whose people had commenced to turbed me more than in those days I would
the intention,' he said; 'of the Clud to amain enacting that terrible scene. At
test the truths whieh the gfeat philosophers have been willing to have confessed. Agi-
hasten the cause of Liberty, Equality, and length he stretched out his arms, moaning
of th many years had preached in their bated with fear and hope, I paced the nar-
Fraternity, by removing those who so pro- "Marie, Marie 1" and fell back into hie
writings and in their teachinge. You must tow room where I lodged, until. I sank upon
remember, too, that none could then foresee my bed from weariness. Who would unlock
minently stood in the way of its advance- seat, His life's tale was told—my grand -
that undet the dealt of freedom men would the gate that shut me from the presence of me" Ah, Wants,' he went on, how father was dead.
loose their instincts of humanity, and would the woman I would have staked so much to great a lesson have we taught our oppressors
become as wild beasts ; that rapine and vice; have seen? 1 ill the past years ! The flag of progress is
utfurled) the fire of those who would en- I
would. prevail where virtue and goodneas "In•h d, I ch rid b
the streets fil ed ; tbe citizens, laughine and
wishing good -day,' were mostly walking
to one spot. An irresistable impulse drew
me thither. It was to the Champ -de -Mars,
where the guillotine stood. I can see it all
again, ay, so vividly, for the scene has never
left me day or night. It is my retribution.
A great crowd had assembled there—a sea
of faces, diabolical, fierce, making merry
with death. From their midst, on a plat-
form, rose a tall, dark object, that chilled
me as I saw it—it was the guillotine.
"Then, and not till then, did I realize my
crime, and with returning reason I would
willingly have given my life to have saved
the man I had destroyed. But it was too
late. Already from the distance the roar of
the crowd was borne on the wind. Those
around, as the shouts of A bas les aristo-
crates 1' became more distant, elbowed me
th the front. There, surrounded by groan-
ing and shooting men, whose horrid. cries
of execration rage in my ears, I could see,
yet some way off, the waggon that bore the
victims to their doom. .As it drew nearer,
so did the fury of the mob increase; had
they been able, they would have torn the
condemned limb from limb. In an agony
of fear, I turned my head away, for remorse
terrible, overwhelming remorse, came upon
me, as the horrible deed of revenge was
about to be acted. But that strange fasci-
again prevailed, and I was compelled to
take one look at the death -cart. It was full
of men and women. Men, the lights of in-
tellectual strength and culture, now re-
warded for their labors by the curses of
those for whom they had labored; women,
the fairest and most innocent in France,
who clung, trembling and weeping, to
brothers, or fathers, or lovers, so powerless
to help them. A spell held my eyes.
" I looked for the Baron. He stood with
his back to me, his head bowed down, bur-
ied in his hands; but clinging to his arm
was it girl, with her hair streaming over her
shoulders, her hands upon the neck of the
reapeatedly until the poison is supposed to be
thrown off, is a good remedy to use until
the help of a physician can be procured.
If pains are felt in the bowels, give copious
injections of tepid water also, and rid the
system in both ways of the poison.
How to Have Good Steak.
We like good steak, and I will tell you
how to manage to get it in about twenty
minutes after the fire is lighted on ae cold
winter's morning.
We burn wood. If we didn't we would
burn enough th have steak. The fire is
lighted in the cook stove, and as 8000 138 the
first few sticks of wood burn well down and
the kettle is simmering, two or three shovel-
fuls of charcoal are thrown in, and in five
minutes we have the nicest bed of live coals
one could wish for. The steak "is thrown di-
rectly on the coals and is turned rapidly
with a couple of long toasting forks till done
to suit. It is very little cost and less trouble.
Charcoal costs only fifteen to twenty-five
cents per bushel, and a bushel lasts a long
time for this purpose.
One who has always eaten steak fried in
lard in a, skillet has yet to learn what really
good beef is. The average boarding house
cook has e, peculiar rule for cooking steak.
When she gets up in the morning she puts a
" lump of lard the size of a walnut in a cold
skillet, puts the steak in' on top of that and
another lump on the steak, puts the skillet
on the stove, and then lights the fire."
If the fire were lighted first it would break
the charm. If you would cook steak in a
skillet have it (the skillet) smoking hot, put
in the steak without any grease, turn it five
times the first ten seconds, and after that
turn it often, and you will have a good, fair
steak; but not as good as broiled on the
coals.
What Girls Should Know.
two._ ela,ve us is enkindled; we ellen soon sift the Should girls know the facte nthessary for Bake in layers, and put the following icing
had been ; that women and. children Would my letters of introduetion. In. my
'
be sacrificed to ambition and to fear; that gence and desire for solitude, I had made use ashes and sweep them away ; but we must self-preservation? Some people thitik that between ; Whites of six eggs, two pounds
rk ; our courage) must they must be reared in blissful Terence of sugar end ono grated cocoanut.
the lend would die under the" curse of mis- of the one to the head of the University be unceasing in our wo
Tested Receipts.
BACHELOR 9 PUBBING.—Four ounces of
bread -crumbs, two ounces of currants, four
ounces of chopped apples, two ounces of
sugar, two eggs; boil three holm. Sifted
sugar to be strewn over.
Bum:am:feta Cum.—Set a batter the
night before according to the size of the
fully mangling the lower portion of the body
aucl thighs. He lived four hours in great
agony.
The other das, Miles Dempsey, living near
Demorestville, Prince Edward County, was
instantly killed by the kick of a colt. The
unfortunate man was breaking in the ani-
mal when it kicked, one foot striking him in
the chiu and the other in the chest. When
picked up he was quite dead. The deceased
with a brother, was working the farm on
shares, near Demorestville. He formerly
lived at Rossmore. He Was about 35 years
of age and married.
At Port Hawkesbury N. S., recently, a
man by the name of 13oudrot fell in the
channel at Lennox Passage and was three-
quarters of an hour in the water. About
twenty persons observed him, but none
ventured to the rescue until a young man
named Joseph Catherine got a piece of rope
and an axe aud crept on the 1.99. -until he eot
where the man was (the lei -lending under
him all the time) and tied the rope round
the waist of the drowning man and then
hauled him out.
Dr. Whayman, veterinary surgeon, of
Port Stanley, while giving a pill to a stal-
lion owned by Mr. Mitchell, of Brantford,
at Ordish's stable, had his right hand badly 's -
bitten. The doctor took hold of the animal's
tongue with his left hand and stuck his
right hand and arm in its mouth and shot
the pill down its throat. The horse closed
itsjaws firmly, so firmly that it almost bit
Its tongue in two, and a crolwbar had th be
used to open its month. 'he hand was
badly bitten.
A correspondent, writing from Donald,
B. C., says :—The weather is mild and
pleasant, the thertnometer seldom register-
ing below 25* at the summit of the Selkirks.
The fall of snow for the season is 19 feet,
1 or 5 feet more than at this date last year.
We certainly have snow and ice in abun-
dance along the line, but at the same „time
we have men who fight successfully with
these elements for the right of way, and
the track is kept clear, so that on the Moun-
tain division the trains are not delayed.
A reporter was recently perinitted to visit
the eel] in the Brantford County gaol oe-
cupied by Llewellyn E. Evans, the young
family. 'Use one-half :Ake compressed yeast man who went crazy a short time ago. all
and one tablespoonful niolasses and one tea- for love. Evans is in a most pitiable condi-
spoonful salt. Set them in an earthen dish. tion, and tore every shred of clothing off
Leave a little batter every time, and that himself, until it was necessary to bind his
will be sufficient th rise them with one-half arms behind him. Evans recognises promi-
teaspoonful soda in the batter every morn- nent citizens readily, and wanted the re-
ing just as you are going to fry them. porter to give him his necktie for a keep -
LAMB RAGOM.—Chop cold mutton or veal sake. The gaol authorities are exceedingly
very fine, season with pepper, salt and half anxious that Evans should be removed to an
cupful milk. Chop an onion also very fine, asylum, as he is a most difficult patient to
brown with a spoonful lard and. stir into the deal with.
mince. Boil potatoes in proportion to the Messrs. Lamal Jarmin, of Chapeau, and
quantity of meat you have; mash them John Tucker'of Pembroke, who are in the
smooth and season with butter'atoes, pepper and employ of J. R. 13ooth, Black River, while
salt. Line your dish withpotput in
i portaging from the depot to the shanty dis-
the mince and cover with potatoes except a covered a moose behind one Of the sheds,
place in the middle as large as a saucer.1 They had. not the least implement which
Beat the yelk of au egg and pour over the they could use to kill him, but they had
potatoes. Bake for half an hour. 1 enough presence of mind to use their only
BEEP LOAP.—Chop very' fine or ii.'. t means to obtain the prize. Theytook the
your butcher !Once two pounds of coarse, i rope off the sleigh and succeeded in lassoing
lean beef. Season spicily with pepper,•salt, I him, vrhen a battle ensued, but finally they
nutmeg, summer savory or sweet marjoram, i got him behind the load and he was led with
and a cautious sprinkling of minced onion. 1 very little trouble to the shanty, about ono
Beat tveo eggs light and work up with the one mile. The moose is a fine one and said
mass. Press hard into a bowl, fit the saucer i to be at least two yeara old.
a, dripping pan of boiling water to cook of Arnprlor, who is now attending a medi-
Mr. George McDonald, student dentist
or plate (inverted) upon the meat and set I
slowly for an hour and a quarter. Lay a cal 'soilage in Toronto, has inherited a hand -
d his graud-aunt, who died a short
before turning out. seine leeway, amounting to $21,600, by the
let it get perfectly col
weight on the surface when it is done and
Cut in perpendicular slices. i will of °
eight eggs, one cup of butter, two cupfuls lady's estate have for some ti past been
The executore of the 5leceased
RIBBON CARE.—White part : Whites of 1 time ago.
aged in winding up the pro
sugar four cupfuls flour, one cupful sweet enldons of the
milk, one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls McDonald
, and the barrister hr s es ritten th Mr,
cream tartar. Dark part : McDonald ennouncing the amount of the
eggs, two cupfuls sugar, three Ycuepikfu8ls fleiogulr', fortune whieb. has fallen th him. The d. e-
ons armful sweet milk, two teasp000fu; ceased, whose maiden .nanie was Catharine
soda, fottr teaspoonfuls cream tartar, hell McDonald, was the widow of Colonel .Don -
teaspoonful each of dolma, nutmeg and ctn. pia 'White, of St. John, N. B. vthe, during
manors one pound citron, one pound raisins. the war of 1812, commended the 104th re-
giment.
Importance of Reading.
No matter how obscure the position in life
of an individual, if he can read, he may, at '
1 should never have left the tomforteble lay as I had brought them from England. 1 it ia necessary for the saiety of the country, mothersiinatine
nb, 1; .. n 0 /I mg. a S0110118 iniee in 1 , e STI
that a finepure e. mind. won. ld ' tees two cupfuls white eager, beItten to a,
, ule. My father could not foresee this, or alone. The othere—and they were many-- e 1 Sieow Ceece —Three-fourths armful but- ld
dangers that Soon awaited me in Paris. sing, I opened my valise, and after a short mile- ' 1.ts .0. steatei, two cupfuls oe flour, two heaping has 'ever seen. He may
will put himself in the best society the wor
"The Pi esiclent finished, and produced a to postetity as well as to thenmeilives .
—for in
/ finer and baking powder together, add to heroes of the past; with all the
m converse -with the
wives and daughters, fathers and mothers be deprived ey studyiog in any form -he smi-
home in the midlands 8,nd have leered the With some anxiety leet they should. be mis- 1 cream ; one cupful of inilk, 0210 cupful corn- '
elm Melded to the care of inswerving pis tido of health. This is wren ,— Iris „ . c • greatest
and brightness lay hidden a great stratrun time popular Mayor of Paris ; and another to sheet of paper, A man rose ameng hie hear- their keeping is the health and amteee o the butter and Burr writers iti rose and poetry. He /nay learn
When I arrived in thet great capital, it was search, foiled them ietact. There wes one justice. They must die V un
hard to believe that beneath that gayety to Monsieur Beilly, the talented mad at that'should be teught that they owe someti g teaspoonfills beking powder ; mix cornstarch, b 1 • P 1 t • *
of discontent and poverty mid crime. It Medium de Steel ; alth to Lafayette, atthat girls are milk ; lestly add w eitee of seven eggs beeten d / f . d the errors of his
ere and denounced ' Bailly,' the scholarly the efttiee nation. Hundreds ofelternately with the ow to Ivo, low o ev
r Another rose an- 1 to do themselvee tyro Arabi red ecessore, and to secure blessings, present
o enp ti i; weer In one- se, cup ti water ft)ral future, to birnself. He may reside in a
the habitations of num;
. 0 11 11 • 1, , ,, , e
. eat ar away
1 ' 't1 ft t' it r interest where no
was yet herder to believe as one beard the time the Captain Of the Natienal Guard, and e°urtemie MaY° • owed .• 1 . 3 kir; etiff. F avor ith a hnond. Ling : . 101n
frenzied eriee of weleomejthat greeted King The others WOXS tO citizens of less position, other deathenarraut was signen, aye, as (because of their parents false doctrine) and . in molitude, wliere no human eye looks npon
and Queen, that the erica were a mockery, aed / did not attach aeuch importance to eurclY as if the victim thee stood upon the never know it until they become wives and
th 1. t whose names worn written: there though at acceptance of faellions whith displace theani lnviveliette ceheeleers, learn esitli 'the animating
eca o c. s u cent as saw the is mothers. .se lour o
ff 1 1 I h dl I l' 6 I t 1 8 rem ed os'itiot nntil it becomes a thick syrup; pour thie
e,
that the voiees were but empty sounds, the poseession of than for the 'purpose I had P, while hot oVer the whites of two eggs beet- , tones, if he has books to read, ho can never
Thal was the year 1788, and the BestilIe M view. 6 growing, growieg, and I knew that thoee during study, 'overexertion, and woret ot en stiff, beat together thiels and cold; 1) 1 a choose hie emptily, and
Ilea not yet fallen .Vitt himeelf ware° gave "T erresented rny lettere e ear les op- . , fevvor with varalle. Wet a breed knife in tioicasoonbeie' ot d'f onlon'vyer,atieol, and thus become
heed to the rumors. Why thee thould I, a portunity, wae cordially received, and, by the moment surrounded perhaps by wife bones and internal oigaus, unta they enen ,,,, ,
student, foresee beneath this wealth of the instrumentality of Lafayette, introduced and children, would in foresr.eigbt houre be not even he eared by the surgeon. Mr. "a!'" °Aid em°0t11 the ioing en cake.
loyelism a rising power that would crush into the family or the Baron Jendeve 1 gay numbered with the dead. I Haweise says, " these are some of the
and hill both the laudere and the lettded ? family ; but "should add that the Baron arid, 1 "Contreet tho picture, grandson :, a loW, 1 VilliOaS bp,bitS WiliCh are snaring the oom- The true giort,of a nation is in the living
ALthing few friends, retiring to my lonely having ost his wife tome thn years before I. asking for the life's! blood of many of those 1)11Yeioat we l'heing fo the 0.6.."'
"So begeri my studies at the itrriverisiy. daufhter elone were numbered iteitl he vaulted, etifling koom, 3000 men like fiendst ort is fen
' 1 d If 1 I "cl .' and 'It
Whipplt,
03 5011601 education,
contented and heppy iIlthlligeilt,wiee
good. Ite thus elevates his rank in the world,
and hecotrits independent, in the best sense,
of the first in importance, of the cleparttnent