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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-4-14, Page 7R the Spray, but they cettld net M the fitee 9f low potonl gun on beard the Spray. Xtiey his neeeenee 49 ego eince then he wee e prey lied net Olearly seen, in oonsegnenee of the , to the common dengers emoke that enveloped thein, what was going The yelle,, shentes cries end fmnreeatione , en in the sea.cave, Captain Moeton dashed that filled the cavern trenscended anything ' himself bedily Against the helm of hie little that could be imeginen, and the scene Of yacht, end she mum; into the course of the eoefueien that enseed baillee au deecriptive ehote which tore throunh Ir slender sides, and left her almost a wreck, at the entrance Soine of the orew were for et once bring- of the seoecene. ' °wren, enna tylartneene ing the guns of the eater on the openiug in " Firer shouted Dolan—" 6re 1" h li s I i +h 1 0= a rfired f h (RTAPTER XXXVIL—GnItAnte Tenn and you shall stay away as yourself and tee 0 a and ° de end Pg ‘—e E -ace 1,4 A colTbz) itio e guns wee from t 0 fort against the force, be it w at it might Rift. They passed ever the Nautilus and . Luang pY His Pinson, make one maim 1 Ali I" that was without, while they had a shot strack the Spray, on board of whieh a drum Grace was 4tILL7 Ware of the grounds on . _ e n1 ri•lirouelt all this confusionGerald guessed left to hurl defiance with. wee heard to beet to cease firing ; for Lieu - which Geron wee committed, with martin that Monstelir lkioequet Proposed A obazIgo Others sought at once eafety, in flight to- tenant Green had just seen the critical situ - and Joseph, to prison, end well she know of clothing, ann that he, Gerald, ehould. , ward the small' openieg in the ravine, which etion of the Nantilus. that the man Thomas Wright had been rem make his eseape in his, the French captain s they bad a hope, although but a faint one, Then, as the smoke began to curl away, horned by Dolan, to give that false witneee apparel. Gerald, caught the idea with de- , , 1 might be unguarded ; but from where they Captain Morton in a loud voice—but one , against Gerald which inight prove his des- lightewere soon repulsed by finding the whole the tones of which eufficiently portrayed truction, "Yes—yes," he sent, " we are both of a ravine filled by Lieutenant Anderson's men the agony of his soul—called out : Never until then had she truly felt how height You are verY'r(11 h n It 1, Monsieur Moo - A third party were for surrendering,. but cc Monster ! Unheardeof villain I give e en ideeenpringing out of the exigency and and it was rather quet. I thank youiwa t a my hearb, win surely etecceet —only I am. so much ) end amid the panic the loud voice of Bow- fight as man should fight, ancl not with the dear Gerald was to her, . these were overruled by the other sections, me my daughter! Fight, if you will ; 13Ut 0E0i er110Ot of her mind than one sanctioner; darker than you are, line rose high : That is a pays" i by h r reason that induced her to determine " Voila 1" said M. onsier Mocquet, as he at 1 44 Life and death!" he shouted. "You " Ha, he e, blood of children 1 Give me my child 1" to e te the oeveme , t y d ties ro iieh once lifted from his head a wig diet he were I t r an • u s . r will all swing, ni mates if you are taken n What is it you' ask? Oh, speak! Say 01 LOVE AND VENGEANCE ArtiQNG, TAN OIVIUGGLEES, TH4, MOST FASOMATMG 00tAN RaMalloi Smog TIM PARS testimony in Gerald's favor as should have an w d h' 1 Gerald never looked at him sun 1 Fight the PhistiYnes !" h t '11 tl f the effect of releasing him at once on the Mealy to detect. morrow, It was just before the occupation of that ravine by Lieutnuant Anderson and his party thet Grace reached the narrow en- traeoe, the position of which she knew, but which sheshad only 'once been through. Here it was that in the darkness she got so tangled and torn with the bramble,: that choked. up the ravine and almost covered with an impenetrable barrier the narrow oleft in the chalk, which, by a circuitous passage, led to the sea cave, • One of the smugglers was'on duty in this narrow passage and he challenged Grace so soon as he heard that some one was making a way through the brambles. "It is I," said Grace. "Do you not know me?" • "Yes. Why, this ain't the right sort of way for you miss, to some into the old place. You should always take a boat." "Yea, I know. Let me pass," "Oh, yea; all right. Why, how flurried she does look, to be sure. What's amiss now, 1 wonder ?". ' The man replaced the lighted lantern, with its face to the wall of the narrow pas- sage and resumed his solitary watch. How Grace sped with the pirate crew, and with Dolan, we are already aware. And now once more we shift the scone and take the reader to the prison in which Martine Joseph and Gerald were confined until the morrow. The prison was one only used for persons who were committed for re-examination and the principles on which it was conducted were anything but strict. It was a small, dilapidated building, on the outskirts of "Capital 1" said Gerald ; "that will do. Oh 1 my poor Grace 1 Why did you venture again into. the power of that dreadful man? I must, and will, try to save yen. Try— try, do I say? No—no. It is no trial ; I " Ay, ay 1 Fight ! fight 1" was the relation- 1 heart's treasure, and it is yours ! Spare sive cry., her—spare her?" "One good cheer, then, to let them see sve are alive. • Hurrah 1 hurrah 1" "You would have spared me ?" " Father—father!" " Hurealnl" , evens with a wild and echo- , • "I am here—I am here? 1 come 1" ing cadence—the cheer of the ruffian crew "One step nearer toward Dolan, and I will save you, or perish with you I" within the -cavern;: and then another round • 9- shot ca,ine"from the Spray, dashing into the dash her to death upon the full head of the The 'change of clothes with Captain Mo • ' 1 1 ff t d d 1 cutter. She is at my mercy 1" "Your mercy ? Have you mercy ?" " No ; but I will make terms : net me go free—free from the cavern and I will not q y , opening and tearing along the deck of the transferred, to the head of Gerald, together Rift. with the rather eccentric cap that the Shrieks and groans testified to its destrue- French captain wore over it. Then Gerald shook hands with Mocquet and thanked him twenty times and knocked loudly on the panel of the door. "Speak," he said, "Captain Mocquet— when the man comes speak and say you wish to go." Gerald blew out the light just as the jailer opened the door of the room. "Well, Nyhat now ?" "1 shall walk himself out," said Mocqtet. "Ah, rubbish! Walk himself • out, in- deed 1 Como along, do Nol-son 1 What a go, Nol.son 1 Ah, youlicliot I Come on— come on, do. There, be off!" The outer gate was opened and the jailer pushed Gerald very unceremoniously out into the street. In another moment some one clasped him in their arms and the voice of -Marie sounded in his ears, saying some- thng in French, in which he heard his own name. There was a little miserable street lamp close at hand, and Gerald turned his q face toward it; and then Marie knew him. She had mistaken him for her father, for whom she had been waiting. " Gerald 1 Gerald 1" Gerald pointed to his clothes arid the wig, and then to the prison. Marie understood the town, and was very inefficiently taken him In a moment. charge of. It was toward the dusk of the " Bon 1 bon 1" evening that a loud knocking at the door of She slid her arm in fleet of Gerald and this jail aroused its keeper from a nap he' looked compassionately and gently up into was enjoying, after a glass of something and his face. Then before they could either of water—the something never having paid its them say another word, or move from the duty to the excise, notwithstanding the spot, a heavy hand was laid upon the majority of persons consigned to that little shoulder of Gerald, and a voice said : miserable prison were sent there for smug- "What cheer, young sir? How's this? gling, orWin licity in smugand surly gling. " Wha ow ?" was the gruff Ain't you in limbo? Why, Miss Clifford sent me here to this stone jug, with some, demand of the prison keeper at the little thing of all sorts in the eating and drinking wicket. line, for you and your messmates, and here "Yu shall order me, in," said a voiee, I find you outside with this little pinnance which the man aalongside of you."t once decided, in his own mind, belonged to a citizen of the grande " Ah 1 I recollect you," said Gerald, "I nation, so thoroughly French was it in tone saw you " at the Admiral's. You are in his service ? tire powers, and then Bowline, cried out i "Down with the sails. Down with the ' harm a hair of her head. Let me go free, covering of the cavern I They know it ' taking with me who I like and what I I like 1"f now and it is only in our way 1" "All—all," cried the crew, who surmised He made a rusn nunself and the pulleys ! the fatal shots from the Spray. "Save and cords creaked and the sails that blocked allI" the crevice '•in the clifr were moved aside ' "And the Rift ?" cried Bowline. just as another bright flash and then a roar- I "Find a hostage for yourselves 1" said Do- ing sound proclaimed another gun from the Spray. "Down all 1" The crew of the Rift flung themselves an. A yell of rage arose from the crew, and Dolan saw his new danger; for they advanc- ed along the deck of the Rift toward him prostrate, and the missile flew harmlessly over them, striking the chalk at the further with threatening gestures. He hastily eor- end of the cavern, from whence it fell into reoted the damaging impression by calling the water. " Now give it them !" cried Bowline. "One shot for the honor of the Rift." By dint of great personal exertion, he and some of the crew stewed round the guns of the Rift, and brought them to bare upon the bay. The Spray was pretty distinctly seen the by flesh ef her guns. "Fire ! 'cried Bowline ; and as he spoke, the Rift's guns opened a cannonade which at once created the affair into a battle. Spray now pulled up to the mouth of the Then it was that with a wild rush down the cavern. In one was Mr. Green in command slippery steps that led from. the upper cavern to the sea -cave, came Dolan. Clasped in OM arm he held Grace, and in the hand that was free he bore aloft a sword, the bright blade of which gleamed like a flame in the scintillating light of the torches in the vari- ous niches of the cavern. "The Rift and the black flag forever 1" he shouted, in a voice hoarse with rage. " Who fires on the Rift? Death—death to "Safety to all and to the Rift. Grant that and the girl is yours; or, otherwise, she dies 1" "Father; he will kill me!" "My child—rny Grace! Oh, this is ter- rible 1 All—all I grant 1 All—all you ask 1" "The boats 1" cried several of the crew of the Rift. A couple of well -armed boats from the and in the other Mr. Hoyle. "Board her 1" cried Lieutenant Green— "board her at once, my men, and she is yours 1" "No, no 1" shouted Captain Morton. "No—spare me—spare my daughter 1" "Your daughter, air? Good God 1" They all saw the perilous position of Grace, and firmly and rigidly—feeling no the Philistines—a boat—a boat here ! ii fatigue in the wild excitement of his rage will fight to the last. Ha! hal We shall and fear—Dolan still held her up in the bow see yet 1" , of the cutter. He sprang into a boat, and a couple of " I make my terms," he cried. "Do you the men in a few seconds placed him on agree ? Safety for me and /nine—for me, board the Rift, and then Grace, in scream- for my crew and for the Rift, or death to ing accents, called for help. the girl." Ather—fiither 1 Oh 1 father, save me I" "I dare not," said Lieutenant Green. d " Lights 1" roared Dolan. " Lights— "Hold, Dolan—for that, I suppose, is your " Order ;cm in? What do you mean? I " Rayther." Japan lights, here. Bengal lights. Quids, name—if you have any hope of mercyhere don't want to order in." “'And your name ?" two, three, more of them. 'We will see or hereafter you will surrender that girl to "One prisoner to see one order. Take "Call me Jack. It's a good purser's you what we are about, my men. Ah ! Well her father here, who made no war against him?" name, that." done that." you and is foreign to all these proceedings "Lord bless mei what idiots these here i "Then, Jack, I am sure you will not be. Bang, came another shot from the Spray, of ours. Be a man, if you be a smuggler foreigners a e, to go on speaking in the way tray me. The French captain, Mocquet, has and the mast of the cutter, which had been and a pirate." "Consent—consent to my terms or she What's than Oh I let's see ; an order to ,itt „ they do, wh u nlain English is so very easy. changed clothes with me so that I have es- before hit, at once went by the board and ceased from prison, and as I hear that Miss fell trailing with all its hamper over the side dies 1" admit—to ads. it Monse.er - no, Mounseer— Grace Morton has seeone back to the caverns of the Rift. " I consent—you know I consent." Mounseer Mocquet to see Gerald—Gerald in the cliff, which I suppose you know of by "The blue lights! Quick with them. 1 " Villain!" cried Captain, Morton "even Nobody. Oh 1 I recollect now. It's the this time, I want to go and petit& there with will save you all yet." now you dare not carry out your threat. The pirate -lad, that's going to be hanged. Well her or save her, "Help, father, Gerald I Save me ! He coward loolcs out at your eyes, and you mounseer, I see Mr. Tickley has signed the "That's right! And the little pinnanoe will kill me 1 111e has sworn it. Help! dread that I should tear your false heart order.here ?" oh ! help !' m froyour breast, if you so much as injured " Oui 1" "This is Captain Mocquet's daughter, "Fire 1" roared Bowline, and two more , a hair of my darling's head. Monstrous " There, now ; he says 'we.' Why can't Marie. She was waiting here for her guns of the Rift sent forth their flaming villain, have at you now. father." i voices to the night air. he say yes, like a Christian ! Oh 1 come in, The crippled Nautilus had drifted by the "Your sarvent, miss. Hark you, young- One of the shots hit the Nautilus, and tore tide so fax into the sea cave that it was coni - With a look of disgust on his face, at the ster, I don't like a many folks, but I do like a couple of her planks to pieces. The other ' paratively close to the bows of the Rift, and obstinacy of people who will not speak you. Lord bless you, I took to you so soon flew past the schooner, and made the man! then Captain Morton made from the deck "plain English," the jailer opened the gate, as I saw you make sail into the hall and at its wheel feel faint from its proximity ot ! of his own little vessel one terrific leap and and our old friend, Captain Mocquet, alk - your fieure.head warms my heart to see it. his head. Then, those of the crew of the' half fell, half lit upon the bulwarks of the w ed into the prison, with his usual courteous Let's take this little pinnance to the admir- Rift who had heard Dolan's words distinct- : Rift. bow. al's house. Miss Clifford will see to her, ly, and had faith in his powers of mischief,' The pirates raised a wild cry and Captain "Mille mercis, monsieur 1" and then I'm with you, I'm under orders to and of means to save them, brought the ' Dolan, clasping one arm round the waist of "Oh 1 be quiet now, do. Don't be going hoist a signal -light on the flag -staff, then Bengal lights he called for and more than . Grace, sprang with her over the other side I'm with you. Come on, my hearty. We four or five soon blazed from different parts ' of the Rift into the sea. There was a rush on with French gibberish here—don't. Come this way." will show them yet what a mattonwar's-man of the smuggling cutter. 1 of pirates upon Captain Morton, and there Oui " can do. My service to you, miss. This Bang 1 I was a rush of the boats' crews from the " I "There he goes with his 'we' again." here's the way, and if so be as they hang Another shot from the Spray. I Spray to board the Rift, and a terrific yourhand- . father,. 1 11 be a father to you, miss, Dolan's face was covered with blood, for a ' to -hand conflict ensued The man led the way into a room which and if a British tar ain't a better prize than splinter from the side of the Rift had torn —but that its only furnittire consisted of a piece of plank, laid over two tressels, and a FrenchCaptain Dolan swam with his right arm Frenchman, I don't keow what is so. past his cheek, and inflicted an ugly gash. a Don't you be a open the scuttles of your The blue lights irradiated the whole cav- ' free and Grace held firmly in his left. Amid honseoloth for a covering to it—presented ern with their beautiful flame, and amid a! , the roar of the fight, the smoke from the pretty eyes, miss, and a crying. It will all none of the usual desagremens of a prison. vapor that came from them, and which . discharge of pistols, and in the dire con - "Ah ?" cried Captain come right." Mocquet, when he , looked like some softly tinted, purple cloud ' fusion of those few minutes of strife, he • Marie looked at Jack and at Gerald, quite saw this room, " e'est drole 1 I was took in reached the steps that led to the inner innocent of all that was said, but as Gerald at sunset, Dolan rushed to the bows of the here myself, when one vaissemi Francaise was took by one English fleet, commedietee gently led her along, she followed his tn. Rift and there, as the smoke from cavern, and made good his footing on them. the guns " I have her still," he gasped; "I have by Nelson 1' pulse, and they all reached the admiral's curled about him—there, as the blue lights her still. She will save me yet; let them " By who ?" roared the jailer. "Well, I house. Then Gerald pointed to the house placed him in strong relief against the sides all perish—I shall save myself yet as the never! He calls Nelson ‘ItTolson.' Get out! and to Jack and placed Marie's hand in of the cavern—there amid the shouts of the price of her safety, or I will kill her." 0 you idiot 1" Jack's, so that she understood she was to go living, the screams and cries of the wound - there. ed, and the groans of the dying, he held up He reached the top of the flight of steps ; Bang went the door of the room, and then he turned one moment to look at the wild Gerald, who was lying on the board on the And Marie shook Gerald by both hands Grace. fight below, and he raised a cry of triumph. trends, sprang up and was in a moment in and then pressed one of them for a moment He held her up with both his arms. It was his last. the arms of Ivlonsieur Mocquet. to her heart and went into the admiral's house He held her up to the height that those Grace. was torn from his arms and the "Mon cher Gerald, you shall listen. AS with Jack, who soon returned with a lam. arms could go, and hoarse, and yelling with pain and rage, he shouted: voice of Gerald was patent to his ears as he tern and some cordage in his hands. one proverb Anglaise shall say, a bad windcried: blow everybody to good. Bah 1 Marie did "Now for it—you come along Mr. Ger- " A figure -head for the old Rift—a new Ss." No—no, villain that you are 1 She is go—for invitation—at Grace. Maie, she old, and as we go I'll tell you all the plan of figure -head I Behold her—Grace Morton! saved from you even now—may Heaven be the affair. Lord love you, the pirates are Fire, fire I Hit her in the eyes you love, and scatter to the damp air of these caverns thanked 1 one letter—Mademoiselle Grace was leave , (pie eein„ going. to be cut out to -night. It will be a one letter, He was open—mais Dolan uttered a cry of rage and made a volts 1 Bah 1" blue jacket affair altogether. Come on." the blood and brains of the girl you seek! Jack lit the signal lantern and then he Ha, 1 ha! Fire now! Fire yet again 1 Be- rush upon Gerald; but there was the flash "What do you mean, Captain Mocquet ? hold the Rift—behold her sea cavern, ia of the steel blade of a cutlass and Jack, who ,, and Gerald. went down to the beach, where was close to Gerald, said quietly : )Heaven's sake, tell me—what of Grace ? which h '' Marie t theadmiral now to see the cottages were. They had had a verydefied thebattle, d h ' "Avast, there you lubber. What's in Grace and. oll was confused. She bring long "confabulation," as Jack termed it, storm—behold her new figure -head of life, I the wind now that you want to steer foul of away to me One billet, He is here—I bring and had resolved upon a course of action, of blood, and dainty flesh, and sleek young other folks ? There you go. It's a good him to yen. Bah I" which, in its results, brought them both brows, and now, fire if you will I Fire ! . . i thing, Master Gerald, you know the way in very critical circumstances into the fire 1 ' t th* reduced a The blue lights reached their full radiance into this caboose of a place by the plateau, and it was an awful sight to see Dolan ' as you cell it." standing on the very edge of the forward The blade struck Dian in the centre of bulwarks of the Rift, holding that young small, open note; and Ter the light of a mis- P q thickest of the affray in the pirates cavern. erable candle that the jailor had left with them, he read the following words: CHAPTER XXXVIII. —TRUE LOVE Rn - WARDED. "If I do not return soon, seek for me at girl aloft in his arms, with her fair face the cavern in the cliff. My errand there is, By a combination of circumstances which turned seaward, and her long hair floatin.g to try to save Gerald, who is innocent". he had battled against in every possible way down over her neck and shoulders—over his "The cavern 1" cried Gerald. "Grace hut over which he lied at last evidehtly had hands and arms—over his face, and smear - back to the cavern—my Grace? Oh,, Clod I no control, Dolan found himself at bay and ing itself in the blood that came from the lie will kill—madness, madness 1 Oh I My in that very cavern of the cliff from which gash he had received from the splinter. Grace—my poor Grace; she is lost—lost I he had so fully expected to escape, leaving She might have been $leen a mile off—so And I here—I not able to fly to her rosette 1 nee crew of the Rift to encounter all the closely was she defined and relieved by the Open—open ? Let me out -1 will some bade dangers of discovery. ' now brilliant andrbeautiful lights in the my - The notion of the villain had orientally ern. been to lewd the cavern himself, and then She screamed aloud ; and then there was to prooloim its existence to the authoritiee an answerieg ory, ,and the Nautilus dashed sc that the Itift and its crew might be all forward, as if itistmet with life, to the en - there caught together, 1 trance of the cavern. But he had seen cause, or fancied that he , "1 am here—here to save—here to saw cause, to modify that artangernent. ' avenge! God bless me now I" . "Let mo out! I pray you to let me oat— It was that modification that was the real It was the veto of Captain Morton who 1 will come back again. Indeed I will," destruotion of Dolan, and involved hitt in was horrified and amazed to find the dangh, " That's col' said the man, as he slam- the common fate of his associates. ter whom he believed to be in safety at the reed the door shut VV hen the lirstroutul shot from the Spray house of Admiral Clifford there in that " Stop( hold I I—what you Flay, Monte dashed, into the sea cave, the smegglera felt cavern, in the EMS ttad in the power of the ieur Gerald? Ah 1 I have him 1" that their mord was known aid that it villain Dolan. ) " What—what ?" Would be it fight for life or for death with "Father—father !" than put on your clothes . and my clothes lIad Wan not been thee end there in the " Ita 111 limiglied Dols% et it. is my turn shall be my dallies end Your elotnee @hell be 4eavexte they would at once have jumped to now." s , , 4 . , I . mmet 0 ly else, and 1 than ge eta as myself the eotielusion that he had betrayed there to There was one more flash from the twenty again—let me out 1 As there is a God in heaVen, will come baeli again 1" Gerald hammered with his fists, against the door of the room and the jailer roughly opehed it and put in his head, "What's the row, now? Can't you mid the Frenchman agree for five minutes ?" " shall take off my clothes and nett them tow. "I am here, Grace—my Grace. Mercy I" up inv. boek "MAO would you with Me 9" Gerald is 'year long-leet Sou Thu mkt Dolan Was by yen, Captured neerly twenty years ago, and on your teatimony transpert. ed. He ceme back, and turned what he is, and stole your infant boy. gio Object has been to melee him a pirate, and for you to jtulge him to, death. YOU Win find the olethee 4r4 the °worn. gpitrzue 1 Oh Heaven 3 I am dyineet Pardon—pardon —par— The gullty opiot nod ; and then, with a cry a ouch heart joy as he never in this world expected to hear uttered, Admiral Clifford einbraeed Gerald, his long-loat, inuoh.mourned boy. Our tale is ended. Before leaving the cavern in the eliff the admiral and Captain Morton, with tears of joy, placed the hands ef their children one in the other, The few pirates who survived were sent to the penal settlement. Captain Mocquet and Marie went to France with the best wiahes of their friends. Martin and Jones were liberated on Gerald's evidence in their favor. Captain Morton took into ,his own yacht the boy Charles whom he had en- countered on the beach and made a man of him. In two years from these events a still very youthful pair were mated atthe (Introit the ilramounct, astonished the natives by of the Holy Trinity at Falmouth, before a " large assemblage of British and American doin§" the Suez °meal he the unprecedent- edly 's ort time of thirteen hours and fifty - officers, and then set sail for New York. two minutes, Being a yacht, she was exempt The names of the bride and bridegxoom were Grace Morton and Gerald Clj'oi'd 1 Were they not happy, and did they not, in many a year after, reveal to eaoh other and to their children the story of "The Rift and the Spray ?" [THE laN 4N»WONSN, queen. Victoria is having_eleotric lighee introdnced nto all parts of Windsor Castle, Mr, CS, M.,Fullinan, oi palace-0er fame and fo' rtune is twee Sir George, in the Xtlight hood ofItaly.' Lord Randolph Churchill's mothee (Jaime to have been eured of parelyeie by thefrighn attending an earthquake shook, Zeobehr l'aeha, the king W ,ef the ert slave -hunters, has been a pusoner f some time at Gilarelter. He is A shrewn dealer in African 'legman but has never opectilated in. baseball players. Colonel Fred Grant's physical resemblance to his father increases with his years, and is especially noticea,ble by those who look at his prole. The Colonel resemblea hie father also in his fondness for smoking. Count Vot Moltke is a good claess-player, but not nearly as good. as Price Bismarck, who has often beaten hint at the game. President Grevy, M. de Freyeinet and M. Leon Say are the best three players in onetime. All this is according to Rosenthal the expert Mr. Jeines Gordon Bennett's etearoeya oht JUBILEE NOTES. Hamilton's Philharmonic Society will cel- ebrate the Jubilee by producing with a large chorus, Hadyn's "Creation." Tne Ottawa Free Press suggests as a simple, permanent, and inexpensive way of celebrating the Queen's Jubilee that one of the streets of the Capital shotild be re- named Jubilee street. Tuesday, June 21st, has been fixed as the official date for celebrating the Queen's Ju- bilee in the Dominion. All muncipalities and corporations are, however, at liberty to choose any other date if they prefer it. Mr. Wiznaie says a large and influential committee are at work and an excellent pro- gramme is in progress. Liberal subscrip- tions are coming in and the celebration to be held in New York promises to be quite equal to any to be held in any British city. Referring to the general desire not to let the Jubilee year pass without settling the Irish question, a cablegram says an admir- able scheme ha a been submitted to the Gov- enimeut by three politicians, and will be re- ferred to the Queen, who is bringing about a pour parkr. Evidently the Jubilee year is making the Queen democratic and again accessible. Al- ready tradesmen, miliners, pastry cooks and artisans feel that a new impulse has been given te business by her drawing -rooms and re-entrance into society. The smiles of royalty seem to stimulate the business of London. It has been found difficult to develop en- thusiasm for the proposed bridge across the St. Lawrence at Quebec, so a local promoter has suggested thas the bridge be made "a memorial of Her Majesty's Jubilee." In other words Canada is invited to push the undertaking • or to confess indisposition to honour the Queen. It might be as well to make all the proposed eigantic enterprises Jubilee affairs. There is the Prince Edward Island subway, and the Ottawa ship canal, the Huron and Ontario ship canal and the Toronto and James Bay railway. The idea of forcing upon the people a public work for which they do not crave in the guise of a memorial to the Queen is a form of loyalty which, happily, is not prevalent, He Did ]tnow. Paterfamilias (who has invited his daugh- ter's beau to have a little refreshment)— "What'll you have, John ? A little ham, cold roast beef, cold chicken, or—" John (a true Bostonian)—" Ain't those baked beans in that little dish ?" P.—" They are. Have some ?" Daughter's little brother (who has been permitted to sit up a little while longer than usual)—" Ha, Jennie, I've caught you. I thought you were telling me a lie at the time." Jennie—" What do you mean, Johnnie ?" Johnnie—" He picked 'em out in a jiffy." Jennie—" Picked out vshat ? Who ?" Johnnie—" Your beau. He picked out the beans himself, and you told me he didn't know beans—" Paterfamilias (in a voice of thunder)— " Johnnie, you go to bed 1" Johnnie (bursting into tears)—" She did, pa, she did. She said he didn't know beans, or he wonld have proposed long ago." She Could Tell a Lie. Mrs. Jollyboy—" Where on earth have you been I" Mr. J. (time, 3a. m.)—"I cannot tell a lie; I've been at m' offish." Mrs. J.—" That's where we differ. I can tell a lie—when I hear one." Cruel silence, during which something is heard to drop. Method of system is not given to all men to possess. Some men have no system; they are always in a muddle. At times they get hopelessly blocked, and others often have to put them straight. • Method implies foresight and a logical min& A man should think of his work and arrange it be- bands, have to row the canoes to a spot forehand. where it good deal of seaweed has been At the end of 1885 there were 395,000 massed together, in order to moor the canoes thereon; after which operation they licensed establishments for the sale of drink are compelled to swim back. So, also, when in France, besides 26,000 in Paris. The proportion to the number of inhabitants the canoe is wanted, the woman has to swim the forehead and he fell backward headlong averaged about one to 95; but in the de- out for it and row back for her husband. down the steps into the sea. partment of the Nord there was a drink. no. The cries and shouts ceased en board the shop for every 46 inhabitants, which repre- A man who is riding itt Saban's chariot, s Rift and. the pirates were beaten. .A. ew sents ono toll adult nien. The number has purple, will not easily and arrayed in Satan' d' t d increased by 40,000 since 1880, when the believe in Satan's meanness. from the rule limiting the speed to sixteen kilometres an hour. A dramatis) conception of the attack of the British troops on the fortifications of Tel-el- Kebir, in Egypt, under General Wolseley, has been planed on exhibition at the galler- ies of M. Knoedler & Co. It is a large oil - painting by the lamented De Neuville, him- self a brave soldier in the Franco-German war. That obstreperous rascal, the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, has established a headquar- ters in Chandernagore, near Calcutta, which is a French possession, and is issuing thence incendiary proclamations to, the Sikhs, de- claring that he has repudiated the Treaty of Annexation of the Punjaub, and is now an enemy to Great Britain and a claimant to the throne of his ancestors. Mr. George H. Corliss, the great engine - builder, was at thirty-five years old proprie- tor of a general "store" in a New York town - His first attempt at invention was made at that time, with a view to constructing a ma- chine for sewing shoes. He was not success- ful with it, but began to study mechanics• and drawing in a systematic manner. He soon decided to give up business and accept- ed a position as draughtsman for a firm of machinists in Providence. There he develop- ed his talent, made some profitable inven- tions, and in a few years established the ims rnense works which in his hale oh' age be still directs and provides with its beat and, most practical designs. His Majesty, the King of the Netherlands., is a martyr to gout and rheumatism, and his temper is not'sweet. But the Princess Roy- al is an angelic child, and almost too good and intelligent for this world. She has wonderful grace and charm, though giving no promise cf beauty, and being deficient in healthy color. The child is almost as fair and flaxen•haired as the late Prince Alex- ander, who was nearly an albino. But n. lovely spirit brightens up the pale face and beams out in her blue eyes. The King of the Belgians wants to secure her for his nephew, but the Dutch Etre not likely to suf- fer an engagement which would bring the Court of The Hague in intimate relations with that of Brussels. What Women Didn't Know - 1 thought women knew everything about everything. But they don't. I don't like to tell this story. It is a kind of give away. They were three or four ladies enjoying that afternoon time when all the gossip is manu- factured and made up in packages to be de- livered around town. They were having a charming time when the Chinese boy walk- ed into their midst, holding in his hand a box of paste of some kind. He handed it to the lady of the house with the laconic re- mark: "Man down there sell 'em." They all grabbed for the box. "What was it ?" said one. "1 don't know,!' said the other, " but it's paste." "1 know," said the hostess; "it's that new complexion paste we were reading about; don't you remem- ber? It must be that." "1± must be good; let's try it." So one of them took a good big dab of it and put it on her cheek, ancl another put some on her chin, and another on her forehead. They all began to squirm. The first one's cheek was all drawn up, and she could only speak out of the side of her mouth ; the third one's eyelids were pulled up so that she coulcl not shut there. "Well, I never! We don't want any of that, any- way; John, take it away, take it away, quick; tell the man we don't want it." The Chinemap departed, and found the pod - eller sitting on the front steps. The peddler rose up. "Well," he said, "I'm glad you've come bask; I thought you were cleaning all the silverware in the house with Where Women Manage the Matrimonia Canoe. The Rev. Thomas Brydges, a missionary in Tierra del Fuego, in the large island of Onisin, among the Ona and the Yagbons, mentions a curious circuznstance with re- ference to the people, illustrating the influ- ence of environment on the acquirement of habits. Between men and women their is a fair subdivision of labour. Among other things, the men make and fit up the canoes, but the women are the rowers. The result is that the women are good swimmers, but the men tannot swim at all. The reason is that often on the coast there is not a single , tree to which to fasten the canoes. The women therefore, after landing their bus- hallg, ution the deck of the eutter. Then Captain , law which required authorisation to open a Morton, with frantic cries, called upou the , new wine -shop was abolished. lieutenant to aid him in searching for Grace, 1 There have been gratui doings in Berlin. and she heard the tones of that newly found , The sturdy old Emperor has been celebret- and so newly lost father, and from the pro- ing the ninetieth anniversary of his birth - tenting arms of Gerald she called out: I day, and all Gentility and Germans have "1 am here, father—I am here, and gide. been en fete. The eld man is evidently pop - Gerald has saved me I" liner among his people, for much as officials There was an iestant leap into a boat, and can do such demonstrations could not well °tee more father and daughter rushed to have bean got up to order. Curious to think each other's arms. The men of the Spray, ' of that one man's experience. Men have with torches, ran through the caverns, and died old who were born biter the battle Of WOE there was a loud shouting and they Waterloo was fought, and yet the German brought to the sea-cavewhat loolled like the Kaiser took part it that world -fan -mug strug- The Emperor William of Germany is the tallest monarch, being jnst six feet. The defunetining of Reverie was the "shortest," being in debt several million dollen. The total production of wheat in 1885 in the United States was 24,500,000 quart. ers, valued at the sum of £55,000,0010, as against 37,250,000 quarters in 1884, valued at the sum of £66,000,000. The average yield por acre in 1885 was not More than 6 bushels. A Texas fellow put a half barrel of corn and a quantity of opium to soak for two weeks. Then he scattered the corn in the deacl body of a woman; but lb was Mrs. gle as D. burly stripling of 18. But there edge of the grass -where wild geese fed. The Wagner, who still had some life in her. IS no use in repeating eliestnuts. Ile will opium put them to sleep, in which condi- Ann so soon as she came into the sphere of loon heve to go the way of all the earth, then he eatight and tied 7,000. The fat ones the torch -lights, she called out, in a raving and when he does liberty may have a better were slaughtered and the thin ones turned chances that it bus had under this tesoltite loose. The tioeount stood as follows ; Dr.— "IPT:he boy—the boy 1 Where is the boy old autocrat and his eoUnsellor of "blood Grain and opluin, $11 ; times, $0 ; inindrer Gerald Wheee is Admiral Clifford I and iron," "Ring out the old, ring in the expensee, $400 total, $420. Cr,e-Itanelved oantiot. die Vet. Ole, where is he?" hew," Yet none opal help admiritg so far for feathers, $,20; for fat goes°, $1,500 it I am here," said the admiral, standing this finely preserven specimen of other days. I total, $7,460. Net profit $3,300.