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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-3-10, Page 37T' • A • ND.:....; •S• ..• 0 Be LOVE AND VENGEANCE AMONG THE SMUGGLER THE MOST FASOINATING OCEAN ROMANCE SINCE THE DAYS OP COOPEli AND NIARYAM CHAPTER XXX.— Tem Powmanewastm REOSIVSS PRISONMS AND VISITORS. It was oonsiderably in advenoe of the little party, width comprised his detighter, Grace, in its members, that Ceptain Mor- ton ,arri ved at the house of Adiniaal Sii Thomas Clifford, with Mrs. Wagner, Sir Thomal Was, in fact, 1)00c:tering over the letter he had reeeivea fecen Delon, and wondered what he , had .betteei amain the matter—for he feated it wee a there pato- gether—when Ceptain Morton was announco ed to him. , The1elcome of , Sir Thomas Clifford was ruptly, Pe said : (' warm 4Cfriendly, and in reply to Morton's apple expressions for leaving him so ab- " My dear Meisel, say not a word about it, You were quite yight -and quite justifted„ and I am in hope that you have something of a satisfactory nature to toll me." " But little. I am as one iu possession of a sealed book, within whieh limy be all the information he seeke, but which he bolts the means of opening.' " Row so, Captain ?" said the admiral. Thereupon, Captain Morton told Sir T.hcanas Clifford all that had passecl since ha had seen him and of the capture and pres- ence of Mrs. Wagner. The admiral listened with the greatest interest and then he said : " It was through the information, Cap- tain Morton, you have brought me, and wkich you had got from that dying man, Hutchins, that we have been enabled to do what WO have done against this Dolan and his gang. • Read this letter and it will let you into another phase of this trensaction, and one which may possibly be productive of iraportant results." Captain Morton read. the letter with the most absorbing interest, and then he said: "This is from Dolan?" " Doubtless, although it is anonymous. There is abundance of evidence ou that . head. What do you thiek of it ?' "That the rascal intends to make his escape, and leave all his companions to the law.' "Yes, and the probability is, that he is off already." "It is more than likely. But now, ad- miral, I am a father—my heart is riven with distress. 1 have suffered so many shocks of late, that I am getting weak -hearted. I implore you to assist me in the recovery of my child, at once. I think this woman, Wagner, knows where she is. Will you procure her safety and indemnity, if she discloses the secret to me ?" "1 will do my utmost; for, as I have be- fore told you, I, too, am a bereaved father." "You have hinted as much." " Yes, my boy—my poor boy I Stolen from me, years and years ago, by whom I know ngt--hardly in fact know how, so con- fused andlaeernstricken am I at times about it. Believe me, Captain Morton, although I have long since given up all hope of ever seeing my own child, I will use every possi- ble energy and power I possess to restore you yours." Captain Morton thanked the admiral by a pressure of the hand, which said much more than. words could do ; and thenthe admiral reng the bell, and the sailorniervant made Ms appearance. "Where have the police placed the pri- soner they brought with them?" "North by east." " Oh ! th red room, you meant" "Ay, a , She came in under con- voy, sir, and now that Mr. Tickley has come into port."e "What, Mr. Tickley, the magistrate ?" "Yes, admiral, you see sir, the master- atarms." 1 "Therewoman, you hear Ca i'ptain Mee - S ton knows nothing about it—Ctain apMor- ton it gentleman of extensive means knowe " 1 know nothing about it Oir "saki Cap- tain Morten. , . , you, sir, as a man eeidently with means) if this is to be borne ?" nothing about it." " This is al) irrelevant," said the Admiral. "Conte in," A tap bad come to the door of the yearn. The sergeant of Police appeared with a slip of paper in his hands. " I3eg, pardon, gentlemen, bet this is the list of prisoners Lieutenant Andersen has brought in, and he is in the dining-rooin be- low.' "Are the prisoners there ?" "Yes, sir." "Ask Lieutenant Anderson to do me the favor of stepping this way. Let me seethe list; 'Y "Yes, Admiral." • said Captain Morton, " that I told her I Would give her a theueendpeunds if she brought me my daughter, of whose place of retreat or ceecealment I believe her to be awere." a Give me my money 1" eried Mrs. Wag. nen "iny thousaud pounde. Calve me my money and let me go." Silence, wom m," said the admiral, sternly. " What you are brought here for is to be committed to prison by myself and Dbrco:ne.:: rnagisti ate her, for Your 4scortainel complieity in the smuggling transactions of " Dolan ? Dolan ? Who said Dolan ?" " 1 did, But if you at once state where Captain Mortoine daughter is to be found I will not make out the order of your coinmit- al, and if she be restored to the captain in safety through your information 1 will let you go free. Eh, Mr. Tickley ?" " Hem! A, yes !" "And my thousand pounds ?" said Mrs. Wth,guer. Yonshell have them 1" said Captain Morton, "Nay, nay !" cried the admiral. That is too bad !" " Punta me," added Captain Marton. "Permit me. I have said that I would give this woman a thousand pounds upon the re- storation of my child through her means. Aaid rny worc.l having been given aho will have, the money." " My dear sir," said Mr. Tickley, "will you allow me to shako hands with you? I will, honor you my dear sir—ahem 1 for you must be very well off, indeed." Mrs. Wagner looked eagerly from one to the other of the party, and then she said : "Let me fetch the child. I will bring her here in two hours. Let me go for her ?" " The captain will be content if you tell him where to go for her," said the ad- miral. " es," cried Captain Morton. "No," said Mrs. 'Wagner, "you would not get her—you could not get her. I only can get her." There was a pause of doubt. "You failed before," said Captain Mor- ton. "Dolan stopped me; he overheard me promise yon and he stopped me. That was how it was. And oven now—oh, if you could but catch him 1 Then all would be well. Let me go, though, and I will bring you the gir/." " Where is she ?" ' Mts. Wagner was silent for a moment. "You said the cavern in the cliff ?" "No. Well, if I did, and if you think there is a cavern in the cliff go and try and get into it." "She is there—my child is there." "She is. Promise me the thousand pounde and I will tell you all. Shall I have the money ?" "My daughter ?" "1 will tell all and I will restore the child, too. Dolan has a thousand pounds of powder in the caverns. No one knows where it is but me. If he should find him- self in danger all will perish. Yonr daughter, sir, is in the caverns. I will find her and bring her to yotrif you will let me go, for the more I Cele* the more I feel sure that he will rather kill her than let you take her from him by forceale But I will tell you all. I will explain it all to you and then you will give me the money if I go and'fetch the girl. Her name is Grace. She used to think herself the daughter of Dolan, but his ill - usage of her—" "Good God!" cried Captain Morton, as he sprang to his feet. "Has the villain dared to lay a hand on my child ?" "1 have seen him strike her against the ock." , " No—no 1 Oh, spare me! Do not tell me—yon will kill me! Do not tell me that --eh, that I could meet him face to face, the villain—the more than villain !" Listen, 'said Mrs. Wagner, in a solemn tone of voice; "Listen and I will tell you all. There is a sea -cave in the cliff, where now the cutter Rift rides at anchor. The whole cliff is full of caverns and passages the chalk, and there is but one entrance from the sea; and another, a small hole? among the weeds and shrubs, in the narrow road that leads fronethe beach to the top of the cliff. There are holes in the face of the cliff high up, which they use is lookout sta. ' tions; but those can't be got at in any vea except from within the cliff." • "But you Speak nonsense," said the ad- mire'. "How can the cutter lie in a sea- /9 cave and we not know it ?" "Over the entrance to the cave there is drawn a, niaSS of Old sails, all soaked in chalk, and discolored with sea -weed and sea. ?ter. You might sad past them in a boat Alms fifty feet and not know the differ- nce between them and the rock itself," "Can this be possible ?" "It is so. You may know the place, for is exactly under the old flag.staff on the iff-top." "The old staff that has stood so long, be. use nobody will risk their lives by going take it down—the portion of cliff on hieh it stands is so undercut ?" "Yes, that is it. Immediately beneath at, springing from the water's edge, is the vered entrance to the sea -cave where Do- n and the Rift and all his drew are now, d where she took refuge from the Spray." "It must be so." "It is so, sin" "And that," added the admiral, " then once accounts for the disappearance of the tter amid the smoke of her own guns and ose of the Spray. Well, it is not alto. ther so very absurd of Captain Gray to ink he has sunk her—she slipped into her ),-cave." "The who ?" "Lord, don't mind me! . Whenever I sees a policeman, I think o' the master-at-arms; cos you see, admiral, that's the sort of police- man on board ship; and commonly speaking, a more sneaking, shore -going lubberly res- eal there isn't between the planks than that same master-at-arnss. Lord love you, gen- tlemen, there was afellow—who was mast- er-at-arms on board of our ship, once, and a more murdering rogue couldn't be." "Well, well, that will do. Say to Mr. Tickley that I should be glad to see hin here." "Ay, ay, sir."' In it few moments a little sharp visaged man was shown into the room ; and having a peculiarity of bowing sideways, it imparted an oddity to his atithess that very muck en- gaged the attention of strangers. "Glad to 'see you, admiral. Your ser- vant, sir. In the commission of peace, sir, eh ?" "No, Mr. Tickley. Tbis is an American gentleman. Mr. Tickley—Captain Morton." "Glad to see you, sir; very glad to see , w you, sir, indeed. Well, admiral, the ser- .w geant sent for me; 1 suppose, to make a ' 0 court with you on some matters?" "Yes—no doubt. As we are both magis- trates, we.can het together. There is a wo- it ' man in ctistody charged with complicity in a cl ease of smuggling. She is in possession of , inforsfiation that this gentleman wants, and ea I want, as the price of that information, to to let her go." w ''Hem !" , "' You know, Mr. Tickley, we always' th have, whore women and mon were jointly co concerned in sinuggleng -affairs, let the wo- la men go," ' s an "Yes, but—ahem ! This woman is alone-" A rap came at the door of the room. "Come In. Tli6\ergeant of police approached and at , saluted he Ale admiral. cu " More rnisoners, sir, senttin by Lieuten. th ant Andersom who took them in a boat in go the bay last night. The lieutenant will be th here, sir, in about half an hour." set CHAPTER XXXI.--Gence Mowroer FINDS RER FATHER. Admiral Sir Thomas Clifloyd took the list in his hand, and as he did, so a etiange faint flutter—he knew not why—came over the heart of Captain Morton, "You don't leek well, sir," said Mr. Tick. ley ; you, sir, a man of means, Really, often think, do you know, sir, that men of means ought never to be ill—never? Com- mon people, sir—low people witho,ut mea,u se " One anoment, if you please, ' said th admiral. Captain Morton sat down end placed Id hand upon his heart he know not why. The echidna commenced readier., : Nominal list of persons arreeted in a boa on tne high seas by Lieutenant eknderson R. If., and commanding the C. G. at Fel mouth station. SIMON Menem, seaman. RATLTN, seaman. CIIARIES OLYMPUS DEERAIN StIrFLES, attorney-at-law. Carnexer EDQUARDE DE MOCQUET, Fr011011 merchant service. Gnuare (this person refuses to give his surname, on the plea that he does not know it.) He is believed to be a son of Captain Dolan (so-called), the smuggler. The admiral looked up. "That, Captain Morton, is the young ruffian who isafoken of in Dolan's letter, and agar it appears he likewise repudiates him as a son." "Yes, admiral." Captain Morton epoke faintly and looked very pale: PREHISTORIC AFRICA, Remarkable Ruins round Among Welds e Mete Or SIIVRgeS• A The reader of Mr. Ilaggard'e new etory "She," Will remember that when, his little Fleeter of adventerers passed in their boat from the sea into an East African river, they foued on the blink a wall of stone taat had evideutly been a solidly construdted wharf in some emote period, In a foot DOtO he justifies this conceit by alluding to the ruins of a very ancient city on the 000.0t of Kilwa, sotitle of Zanzibar. It happens that 500 nuke nearer the region in whieh he hen placetl. hie story their are evideuces of a past ctliivainlizttoisoenlitehantierattrieonie4.a"iPav4blY greater Some way south of the Zambesi river there is a large region extending from the sea nearly 400 miles inleed, and 800 to 400 miles toward the south, in which ruins are constantly being discovered, proving that ia prehistorie times the couetry was inhabited by a civilized people. To -day only the rud- est black tribes inhabit this land, save in a fow places where the Portuguese have es- tabliehed statious. The little beehive lints of the natives are seen among znassive ruins betokeaing a degree of architectural skill which rivals that of the ancient Aztecs. Our knowledge of these ruins is still far from perfect. Our earliest reeords ef travel and trade on the E'ast African coast, extending , back to tne beginning of the Christian era, do not mention them. Only in root years 0! have the travels of Selma, Erskine, la !mob Baines, Mohr and O'Neil revealed to us the $ monumental evidence this country contains. The coast town Soleil is shown on all maps of East Africa, Near. that town Carl M:anch found extensive rOWS, reAlarkable , for their endurable nature and strange • shapes, There are partly ruined walls, still 30 feet high and 12 feet wide at the base built of small hewn blocks of granite, In these walls, sometimes 15 to 20 feet from the ground, are embedded one end of blocks of stone 18 to 20 feet long, which were evi- dently used to support galleries. Here and there, built ha the walls or standing by themselves, are round stone toweas which evidently rose to heights of 30 to 50 feet. Similar masses of masonry are found as far as 350 miles inland and a little north near the coast. It is not positively known yet who bid these anklet structures. NO trained archre ologist has visited them and no search ha yet been made for inscriptions, thong O'Neil says he has no doubt from what h has reeently heard that there are numerou inscriptions on the ruins about Manica. A the ruins are surrounded by surface gal mines. It is belie.ved that all this eountr was occupied some time before the Christie, era by a great Colony, probably of Paceni clan origin, and that its chief occupatio was gold. mining. Mr. O'Neil says that these numerous ruin are nearly as well preserved as those of an dent Egypt, and better than those of As syria. Some day, no doubt, they Neill b systematically studied. Their existenc shows conclusively that a large region in inner Africa, now given up to savage me and wild beasts, was subject many centurie ago to the control of a people who were con siderably advanced in the art of civilization "You are not well, my dear friend." "I don't know how it is, but the air feels thick about me and. there is a strange sensation about my heart, as though some- thing were about to happen in which I should be so largely interested, that it would almost suffice to stop the current of my blood. Only once before I felt like this." "Once before?" "Yes and by the most careful calcula- tions wail inquiries loan make, it must have been as nearly as possible about the precise time when the vessel was wrecked that had my daughter on board." "That is very singular.," said the admiral as he placed the "nominal list of names" on the table, but kept hi hand upon it care- lessly. " Very," said Mr. Tickley—" very; and • for a inais of means, too, to feel so queer, it is really—really a—quite a—Inman, it don't seem h "Go on," said Ce.ptain Morton. "Stop," said Mrs. Wagner. " What would you say?" ,-- " That bo, Gerald ; he is a bad bay ; oh! a most wicked boy; and if any one ought to be sent to prison he ought. He is the worst of the lot." "Everybody seems to concur in that," said the admiral. " You ina.y depend upon it, justice shall be done. I think Mr. Tickley, we had bettergo clown and sit magis- terially upon all this. 0, Mr. Anderson, how are you ?" "1 hope you are quite well, admiral, said room. "I never in all my experience made Lieutenant Anderi3on, as he entered the ! so strange a capture as that of lastinght; and, I think we have got held. of a worse MIDI than any smuggler." "Yes, the receiver of the smuggled goods, " Indeed ?" Mr. Suffies, a respectable(?) attorney of the tosvn. Upon my word, it's past all belief, 1 almost, and we should not now have had' him, but for his own imprudence." "I wish' to heaven," said the admiral, rising, "that this was a free port. I do detest the constant trouble that these smug - g mg cases give us. s duty, you know, admiral." "So do I, sir, but what would you? Duty 1 "0 yes, Mr. Anderson, you are right. hink, Mr. Tickley, our shortest way will e to commit them all to the assizes." "Very good, admiral, and those who t have done worse titan smuggle—" "Lord bless you. yes.. They have fired on h "Are there any 9" he Spray—a king's ship. That's piracy." "It is. Well, we shall see." "I think, though, admiral," said the lieutenant, " with deference to you, sir, " Men? Mon among them ?" "Yes, admiral." Ca "'Very good. That will do. Mr. Tickley, th that disposes of your little objection." The admiral placed a stress on the word "lidle," for which Captain Morton 'thanked him by a look, are " Well, well, admiral, I .have no partieu- th lar objection—none in the world—only one str don't like dangerous precedents, but I'm on , THE LIME -KILN CLUB, J TJie Greville NeMOire. liev pitiehue Mesh," said Brother Gardner 40 the meeting opened, " froth thin. oull'd peeple of Niles, axin' dis 'Arne^ tin Club to use all its influence to secure de reetorashun 91 capital punishment in Mi- chigan. Long ago dis club announced ite stand on dat queshun, an' it has throwa its inflooeuce in favor of a law, but it ens plain enough dat the present Legislachur' (loan' intend to make any radical move. We shall, darfore, pay no feeder attenshun to pitish- ees. It am evident dat we at' too good an' nice an' oft -hearted in dis Stait. " We call it barbarious t9 hang a murder- er. He am a hero who should be presented wid bouquets and poetry. If he haPpeus be poo' we should chip in to furnish him a lawyer. All his acquaintances should try hard to remember dat be has alwaye acted cmeerly, an' dat he must hey bin insmie when he committed de deed. If be am acci- dentially .fu' guilty his lawyer mus' move fur a new trial no new evidence, an' de hole fur him to crawl out of mus' be made larger. In case he goes to prison he inconnuged to look fur a mu -don an' advised to consider himeelf a sort of lion. " If you eome to my hog pen in the after- noon an' steal my two hoge kin peonene you five y'ars ia State Pilsen. If you come The last part of Greville's Journal of the reign of Queen Victoria, enibracing the per- iod from 1852 to 1800, bas very recently ap. peered. This completes a very ourious and upon the whole most readable production. It is uncommonly frank and outspoken in its revelations, and certainly does not tend to exalt in the estimation of the public the most of those who figure in its pages, the welter himself ineluded, 1,7pon the whole, with of course considerable exceptions they must have been a mean, ignoble, immoral, self-seeking lot of people, intensely earthly, malty of them ostentatiously vicious, srith very little neble about even the noblest, aud very little caleulated to make even the • greatest snob worship before +such shtines, Leymen and clerics among them were evi- dently slot much to boat of. Still, they ate a peat improvement on. the evretches that flourish in the early volumes of Greville, when George the Fourth was Regent and King. Greville Was in these latter years not So Well aocpi tinted with what was going on. Indeed ho ielt this, so much that he thought of clroppine his diary altogether. There is a eh. trcwteiistio item in connection with Glacist,,ne. The date of the entry le De - into my cabin at night an' kill my "Twenty ruffians at' the Carlton Club cember, 1852. Mr. Greville says :--- away in de chin, teapot in de pantry, your cgd-, attill,eaefaa they chhile'ertelenekts'on eayin3culte'letvisiefEt• deeu. pl a atA:tfottnieleer woman an' steal de $27 I her got hidden clmner toom, chances of reineinha at liberty et° ass, good as Your goin' to prison fut• life. Nine -tenths alone. Some of theta proposed to throw of de public sentiment iu dis Stait ant in Gl.tdstone through the window, but dare favor of hangin' fur murder, but ele not do it, and so contented thernsels es with ashun of cle liter are allus cheekenated in cle giving smue in'uiting message or order i° the Legislachile by a dozen. pussens so entirely Waster. , too good fur dis world dat de eooner de.y Here is what is said of the visit of Vieth r ibtrewakilifth•eewfudle diceeraLt' goift cdioropnnehidueechl.de better Emmanuel to London :— " The Queen was wonderfully cordial and wid. II.t,ke a slip -noose in one, ena an' soap and" lbiney" twwellnatcyefaeaelt1 al iYmopuegtoo tt(liedeugpra"ecorwY taottealleteiYheim; hcleepgaoitti..113 laltisf oNuIrailielstthye sneleonrinsixtlgo be frightful in person, but a great strong, le'',•herisylrilaomoeleerisii„ lc! pe ropeaanail i lci iaiti di te kwillit kitchen, lszelinp, af Ine.' edl ye . fesilt41.1"ilihitt ubnurrel3f=i,naetdhilleitiileisin:onn,vberrussagtiuoeui: yon tunable outer bed at de cry of ' inur er, his conduct, a,nd very eccentric in his habits. take your cow rope along wid you. If de Wheu Ise was at Paris his talk in. society murderer has bin caught dam eater be a lamp amused or terriffecl everybody, but here he post near by. It not, try a shade tree. roammtaint; ItIoal'eseheeelygee rgeulia;idoeuds* soIctielliaess Howeven, you should fest ascertain if de murderer s victim ane a member of de Legia tohasteningtaiiyforgwetittliingthtehirat ahdedreissstehse rntoostbidme., lachur. If not, bang do murderer. If so, te let de IT =deafer go tree an' chip in a purse i benched and dissolute fellow in the world; .. eto help him reach Canada. We will now , but the feet of his being excommunicated by 8 ' attend to de abnormal business which has I the Pope, and his waging war with the h t brought us together. joeocycleerssiaetitc;Istnpowagearinisnt iiihoisraioiwtyn, acnoduhnteryis, e OUR COAST DEFENSES. 1 se Third Assistant Secretary of War inquired s A commimicatioa from the office of the a great hero with the Low Church people 4 and Exeter Hall. My brother-in-law said. &what sum the Lime -Kiln Club was willing that he looked at Windsor more like a v to donate to help put our coasts in a state of , chief of the Herten or Longobardi than a defense against a foreign enemy. Brother • modern Italian prince, and the Duchess of . 'Gardner was scratching his head 113 a re. I Sutherland declared that, of all the knights a flective way when the Rev. Penstock arose lloonf etlwiehGoaxseteemr selide as saailf seen, he hotedsdvashatvhee only ; and inquired : s ' "I presume (let de Cher grasps de sub- i the best of it with the Dragon." . jiek ?" Lord Melbourn the Prime Minister and .1 "De Cher does, sah 1" was the prompt trusted friend of 'the young Queen, has his e reply, "an' de Cha'r recommends dat you. special peculiarity hinted at as a mere mat- e sot down before you am fined $13,000 fur 1 ter of course in the following way :—" He disruptin' de meet'." was always much addicted to gallantry, a ' "1-1 didn't know but de Cha'r might b and had endless liaisons with women, most e 8 a leetle mixed on coast matters," observed : of whom continued to be his friends long af- . Penstock as he fell back. ' 1 ter they had ceased to be his mistresses, "No, sah ! No, sah. Dis Cha r was read. , much to the credit of cal parties." in' in it paper only two days ago dat dis i The more that is told of the Queen and kentry had 2,000 miles of coast which an her family life, the more she is found to be inemy could jump on wid boaf feet any day ' worthy of all the respect and affection of in de week, but 'dis club hain't gwine to which she has been so long the object. For goes an' sasses anybody an' gits herself into I Lady Lyttleton gave Mr. Greville, in 1853, suberibe a cent fur all dat. If de kentry ; instance :-- a we she must take de consequences. I some interesting details of the private life of hain't got no fence aroun' my cabin an' no ' the Queen. Her Majesty 11'119 very fond of clubs an' stones laid up in de woodshed to : her children, but severe in her manner, and do battle wid, but am rafeared my naybur a strict dishtplinarian hi her .fatnallay. a Lady -..., - means to aKeek'me i' Do I go arodral Wfd ,"LytufelOn-deeceilshe-EqiCe of Wales a'S brass knuokles in my pockets bekase some i extremely shy and timid, with very good one may knock my hat off or spit on my 1 principles, and particularly "an exact ob- butes ? We am towley a ,peaceful nashun. 1 server of truth." Mie Greville writes this Let de kentry git a lot of big guns an' forts; "because it will hereafter be curious to see an' ships, an' she'll want to sass somebody ' how the boy grows up, and what sort of per -a an' git a chance to thow off. Dm club won't formanee follows this promise." 41. The Prussians, English and Russians, The whole character of the Prussian is above all governmental. In this lies our strength—as well as the reason that we Prussians and the North Germans generally, who are influenced by us, are rarely attrac- tive to others. In the English and in the Russian this governmental stamp is less predominant. The English are, austwith standing their peculiar manners and customs, the freest nation in all the civilized world. Their social laws tend to lay down firm but convenient laws for human intercourse. A man's position in society depends upon the judgment of society only, not on the judg- ment of the government, and the idea of a gentleman" Is the measure by which the English measure a man. It is otherwise with the Russian. I1e has no idea of gentle - manliness. But there is smallpart of Russian society which is as free from the in- fluence of the overnment as the English themselves, an where the social laws are also self imposed. Of Russian society in general it must be said that it bears neither the governmnntal stamp of Prussia nor hard- ly a trace of the order of English society; it is a loose, shapeless mass, whichghow. ever, by individual amiability, is astonish. i 1 attractive.. g which . is pecnliar to us Prussians—namely, the governmental character of society—can be found neither among the English nor the Russians . e any ling ni society we must he soldiers or officials, otherwise we are nothing. --German sY ems- pamer. Ontario who has not heard of honest, caimy a Engineer Bob Pearson. The following from the New York Star is O wortlay tribute to the merit of a well known Canadian railway man :—There is rdly an intellieent naan in the Province of 0 Bob Pearson, the veteran engineer .of the Northern and North-Western Railroad. - that the two girls zeight be let go. "Two girls?" 3 3 "Yes sir, and the Frenchman. He seems a harmlees man enough, and was in port a prisoner of the smugglers." "What two girls?" On the boat, sir." "Oh! I overlooked them. Let me see. Oh yes. Dear nie, I omitted their names. Ah—hem. Marie Moccinet, daughter of Captain Mocquet." " A mere girl, sir." "Oh!very well. Let her go." "Yes, sir. And the other?" " Grose likewise refusing, her turnaineon Every engineer from Halifax to El Paso knows hirn by reputation. He has been in the brotherhood for 25 years, and was its second grand engineer for six years. He conies from Division 70•of Toronto, of which he has al -ways been an esteemed officer. A locomotive to Bob Pearson is one of the most absorbing things on earth, and he guards and cares for the engine he drives as a mother looks after her child. And he has good rem t 1 th engine, f • ils travelling record with Pearson at the lever is unprecented. In the five years since it was built at the Brooks Locomotive Works, Dunkirk, New York, it has run 190,554 the same plea as the youth, Gerald, but be- 0 Roved to be the ;daughter of Dolan the numgler." With a cry that drew unusual attention b to iiles without a repair of any kind. Not von a pin, a brass or a fine haS been taken ut during the mileage. 'The ordinary lo: career in the ceb, has travelled morel emotive without general repairs, will aver. IN tl • 50,000i . , g Ian a million miles without an accident. was born in Edinburgh, and came to - iis country in 1851, In that year.he work- in 'she machine shop of the Cincinnati, t Y. , , r • s and since then has driven an ogine bout eausimc the sliohtest injury to any nan being. 'During the troubles on the ereolonial Railroad of Canatle, a few re ago, Chief Arthur deal ciliated Pearson to represent at Ottawa, In ten minutes eater Pearson met Sir Charles Tupper, mip- ister of railways, the differencee hetwden the company and ite eznployees were ed. juste_a_. Balser .giest be a Hard Drinker. A new baby had arrived at little Johneg's rosiclonee,. and the youngster was admitted to take his lint look as the little stranger. He surveyed it Calmly for a moment, end then, looking tip, excleimed eetheeiastic- ally : "}Iis face is just the color of Uncle Geoege's. Gosh, but he must be is hard drinker I" bs him, Ca,ptitin Morton sprang from lus lair, and a bright flush spread itself over He eis face, ae he said, m a voice that was mus- tl "Ag,ain, again 1 or clo I dream? That H name and deseription again, admiral ?" er, peaks to me—my child—my ,own.—my " Enough Oh ! now and ever --my heart !wit beautiful 1 It was the voice of Nature that, Lit poke to ,rne in the air she breathed. 11 yea mere felt as if her little hand rested on iny a,rt. She 18 here—my own little one --my ild--long lost—Oh, God, how lone loet ? w long mourned, Geaco, Grace Your ther—your own father calls youe-my child my dear one I Oh, heaven, have mercy on me, and eaVe Me from the cold chill of pe deferred, now Grace—Grace, my child nalryt 1,0,11ild, To your own fond father's (To tm coNmtsviM.) 'The yolk of one egg, three drams of gly- cerine and fifteen gene of carbolic acid ekes an excellent mixture for softening el "She did. She lies there nOW ; and there 1 'ma and rich with feeling : ed ptain Morton, is your child Grace. And 1 ere, too—ha 1" Mrs. Wagner smiled. "What would you say ?" " We shall see—one at a time. There other fish in tho sea besides one worth a s onsancl pounds. It's well to have two ins to one's bow, and to,hide the second 8 1 ha 1 I feel quite eafe now I think I . . sure to oblige this gentleman (here Mr. Tick - ley made one of hie odd side bows,) I would do much—rouch. Simpose you see her here, admiral, and she may WIT at once what this gentleman (here cense another of the oblique bows) regedres." The admiral and Captain 11forton both willingly at:coaled to this seggestion, and Mrs, Wagner, between tWo or the police, was tishered into the room. The Molhent the saw Captain mOrton site called. out " My thousand potincle--gime me my thousand pounds, sir—I want my thousand p000ds " What does she mean 1" said Mr. Tick - ley, o . ' he Conseg come woman," said Mr. Tickley; ch " No levity here, if you please." I ho "You hold your tongue, sir," said fa Wagner—who appeared to feelherself mis. -- tress of the sittuttion—" your hold your ttp tortglic, sir, end go and cheat the poor men ho in your chalk -pits, by making them take — bad soap and bad flour—mouldy, she -and he bad candles and bad clumee, as a, good pert, of their wages. Go along, do." "Good gracious 1" (mead Mr. Tickley, What do I hear? Hem ? 0 Lord 1 I lip, peel to you, Captain—a—a—Horton---" "Morton." "I beg your pardon. Mottori I appeel to th 111 chip in.a' RESTORED. Do You? Sir Isaac Weapole secured the floor to make a few remarks on behalf of Samuel 1 Miss Chillingly : So, Mr. Robinson, you Shin, who spit on the new stove at the last kept a diary for four whole years and then meeting and was fined $7,500 end costs, gave it up I making e regarding the Mr. Featherstone Robinson: Ya -as., And expectoration as a purely accidental matter. t it's weally quite interwesting to look it ovah Samuel had been chewing a new rnake of tar and see what a fool I was then. . . . um warranted to • . th g e 's a pity you gave it lieve backache, and accidentally swallowed , up. Onlerthink ! In ten years you might it. Iti his surprise and confusion, and the read it over and see what a fool you are. stove being directly in front of him, he ex- ; now ! pectoratecl. It was no more than Julius ' Cxsar or Mark Antony would have done under the circumstances. Brother Shin ITsed Glasses Both Ways. went home from the meeting with financial "1 want to see one of the editors," said. is ruin staringhim in the face, and the vaunt 'ady, coming into the office specter of Vent had appeared to him every 1 "Which one ?" inquired the horse re. night in his dreams. He was a penitent porter. inan. After this he would spit out of the, "The one that wears glasses." :broken alley window—in Elder Toots' over- "On his nose or under his nose?" shoes—anywhere but on the stove, which!: "Both, I think," she replied hesitatingly, was now e sacred object in bis eyes. He ancl was at °Lee directed by the startled would ask the President to pardon Brother • horse reporter to the religious editor's Shin and remit the fine. rooi Brother Gardner reflected for a moment and then replied that the prayer of the peti- tioner woeld be grunted, although Brobher " Is it not a pity that Watson's arms are Shin must walk a chalk -line in the future. SOMEWHAT. I so short?" said Walker to his friend. "Be Pickles Smieh arose for information. He is so handsome, and well -formed in other had been asked many times if the Lime Kiln respects. Club and. the State Legislature officially re- , oes n y nee, r cognized each other and worked in harmony. turned • gtuirrInwedithhias yferri;nscilsencier waist, see ?" " he always chooses a He now dezired official information on subiject. Walker saw. De Cher am able th state," replied the President, "dat dis body an' de Legislachur' Pointers for Advertisers, am in most cases workins Jur de same objick —de publick good. We hey nott. yet offishu- ally recognized de Legislachur' in a formal Do You See Don't expect an advertisement to bear fruit in one night. You can't eat enough m a week to last you a year, and yell can't manner, but shall probably do so in a few advertise on that plan eithee. days, onless we hear some clerogotary re- People who advertise only once in three ports consarnin' its character as a body. months, forget that most folks can not re - We mus' go a leetle slow in recognizin da member anything longer then about seven publick body whiale .am charged wid e da s y regulashun of all tie railroads in de atait, an If you can arouse curiosity by an adver. yet trabble on dead head passes issued by tisement, it is a tweet point gained. The dese same. railroads." WILL RESIST fair sex don t hold all he clue ity in the world. The Secretary announced a communication from Mrs. Dina White, relict of Joe White, of Arkansas, who was drowned last fall. He wrote out an application to become a mem- " How did. it happen that you made seek ber of the Lime -Kiln Club and started off fine ,,,,usa.e.e yesterday ?" asked a customer 'soverstailui,ta'ybtaltiur thl'owned[. She fe'lt that ,1‘ 'Well:you see " explained the butcher, e crossing a ris er as of 110 butcher. he club engin, to pox her at least 8500(1 spotting mang'ave me a pointer. and -.2' "Say no more," said the customer, turn• ing pale and turning quickly to go home. Dr. Johnson once, speaking of a. quarrel- some fellow, said If he had two ideas ointheliri.s,,head they would fall out with each A. Pointer for Sausage, =Mon and Da ton Road at Cincinnati 1.8 years of age be was handling the lav- t At 1' Grace." e hands, damages. If he hadn't felt inepirea to join the dub he woeld novae have written out the application. If he had imi; written out the application he would have had rio call to mail a letter, and therefore would not beve been drowned, She wanted the money en $10 bills end by express, and on the heed. etone which she wonla erect at her husban We gt0.VO she Would speak a good word fOr the The fasting men are grumbling at the small amount of money their exhibition club. V tot, she would at once begin a gilt-edged and fur -trimmed law suit. brings them We shouldlike to know what The Secretary wee faseee,bea a, igana, they want with money. The whole esecince the commenication and steed oil the d den- of their buieness is to prove to us that we can live without it, elves and the meeting adjoitenea. SODA POUND CA1M --Three tuns of sugar, ono oup of butter, ono eup of sweet milk, four eggs, one teaspoon of cream tatter, one-half teaspoon of soda, throe and ono -half cups of flone, sift cement tartar and soda in the fie r A, holiday was once offered to the boys at Eton on condition that they could discorce an Englieh word containing all the VOWeiS in regular order. In is very little while one of them shouted out, " Abstemieusly, " and another, Facetioensly," amid the shouts of their companions,