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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,