HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1887-9-1, Page 6LOVE'S TRIUMPH,
By the Author of "(ATE AlAS-9EY's, F.aLsEltOOD," " BEATE;OE's AaterrieN,'FOR
•L9YE OE KINDRED "4. GOLDEN DRE4N," ezc,
CHAPrEli, 11L—CelinNuED•
Hyacinth did not however remain prone
and crushed for long. The sun had. dipped
into the SQ4,s Hall/lag diso, whea she
fell, and it lied, not diseppeared when she
rareed heraelf, al and weak and trembling,
and looked faintly about her, her mind so
utterly:weary that for a moment it refused
to recall the cause of her agony and despair.
But her eyes fell upon the letter that lay
beside her on the grass, and she remembered
at once, and pressed her hauda to her Moe,
and rooked herself to and fro, then caught
at the gold elrele which, with its diamond
guard, she wore on a ribben about her neck,
as if about to fliug away forever from eight
and touch this bar between her and wealth,
But her habitual proud self-control soon
reasserted itself; her fury and agony passed
away, and left her straining all the powere
of her mind to and eeme way of securing
this wealth whieh her own hand had pre-
vented her from receiving.
She rose te her feet, leaned, her trembling
body and white face against the tree, and
thoughttdesperately, intensely.
"Ninety thousand pounds !"
What power of worldly station, what
stately pleasure, what almost regal life, lay
n thews three words! She repeated them
many times, she pielted up her hat, and,
staggering as she walked, groped her way
out of the weed, and turned back toward
the village.
-`It is only a ohatice,” she muttered—"only
a °hence ; but he is a fool, a rash, hot-head-
ed fool, and I on but try— Oh, I can but
try! I will not give up without a strug-
gle !"
CHAPTER IV.
Versohoyle Castle, on the banks of the
Nore, had never looked more melancholy
than it did on the wet June evening when
its master lay dead within its walls. A
mist hung over the river, and the murmur
of the water as it beat against the salmon -
weir below, and the slow unceasing tolling
of a church bell some way down the stream,
were the only sounds that disturbed the
almost unnatural silence. The whole place
appeared to recognize the presence of death
in that chamber where lay the body of Mark
Tersahoyle.
In the servants' hall there were signs of
subdued merriment and secret and ghastly
feasting, while the late master's failings and
shortcomings were discussed in quiet whis-
perings. There were no tears shed when
the village church bell announced that
Verscho5 le of Verschoyle had departed this
life; even his nephew and presumed heir
exhibited. only a quite sorrow. The old man
had not been loved.
The scene outside the Castle, viewed from
the mist -wreathed paths by the cliff above
the river, was a melancholy one indeed; and
so Glynn Neville seemed to think as he
paced up and down, the tall gray wall of
the Castle on one side, aliedge of dew -filled
roses upon the other. The young man's
face wore a sorrowful look as he walked and
pondered, for, honest and generous -hearted
though he was, even he could not give up
great wealth and high social position with-
out a pang.
• Hyacinth however was first in his heart.
The thought of her even subdued. the intense
and passionate love that an Irishman bears
for the home of his race, while it pleased a
certain romantic, =practical side of the
young man's character to be disinherited for
her sake. And yet he seemed very much
distressed as he paced slowly backwards and
forwards along the river walk.
"Would I undo what I have done even if
I could? Do I regret it for a single instant ?"
he asked himself, looking down upon the
fiovving water. "No—a thousand times no
—my proud, beautiful darling! If it were
not done, and I knew all, I would. set my-
self to win and wed her, and would Five up
of my own free will what I must now give
up of necessity. Yes : better our little home
and our love for each other than thie stately
Castle and those rich lands with a broken
heart, a dreary and desolate hearth. I am
happier than ever money could make me;
she is more than all the gold, in the world
to me."
The last words fell slewlyand hesitatingly
from his lips, and the sorrowful aspect of
his countenance deepened just as the gray
mist changed to rain and the evening dark-
ened into night. He paused in his restless
varalk,and heedless of the falling rain, began
plucking at the wet roses, while his thoughts
again took shape.
"It is for her I tremble, not mysel I
can resign all this almost without a regret,
because I love her with all my heart and
soul. But her love for me is not like mine
for her as yet, and Ifear that the loss of her
share of my uncle's wealth through our mar-
riage will harden her heart against me, will
make her compare the splendour she has
lost with the simple home I nave to offer her.
She might have given me one word of affec-
tion, of eneouragement, in the telegram elle
sent me a few minutes:tem. My heart sinks
when I think of it. Oh, if it is so, if she
would have chosen the moneyand dismissed
me,what shall I do ?"
He asked the question aloud, in a tone of
intense doubt that Was alirloat like a cry
of despair, EN he took a telegram from his
breast-poCket and began turning it about
with his fingers rather than reading it --for
indeed he could have repeated the words of
it. It ran—
"Keep silent until. I see you. Come here
at once."
That was all; and he was still looking at
it and trying vainly to gather from its few
words the/need in which it was forwarded,
when another step sounded on the walk,
and a young manly voice—unmistakable the
voice of a gentleman—called out —
"Are you there, Glynn? Why, man, you
are not beginning to mope and listen to the
river already, are you ?''
"No, time enough for that these thirty
years, although I. can hear it very plainly t
to night. I came out, to think -1 have a
great deal to think of just now, Garret," s
answered Glynn soberly.
"Yes," agreed Garret Croft, a tall, well.
made young fellow, turning a pair of merry
blue eyes upon Glynn, "I should say you i
had. Fifteen thousand a year must iequire• o
seine thinking about to realize it, I suppose, 1
I should be half out of my head, I tell you
frankly, if it were my case, especially as
even an imitation of grief is barely due to I
He stopped said pointed towarda a 1y
lighted window high up in a gray tower, 1 b
Which could just be seen in the darkness. 's
"Well," he continued, as the other made no k
reply, "I really couldn't take it so dolefully
as you do—[ eouldn't command couttenance. h
I hope, Glynn, you are not thinking of the
bot form of words in which to give my t
father th 4 seek ? VVeare beeri agents to
Verschoyle and Shangannon for three gen-
erations now, and I hope to inherit the post if
and the chani shirt? just as he did.
He pauSed, expeeting as 4 matter of course
an inskart disclaimer from his friend? but, to
hi snrpriee, Glynn hesitated, reddened
and, without answering, looked across the,
hedge of roses down tewarde the river. In
?Nelda', he was in obedience to the telegram
In is pee et, atifiling an ardent desire to
tell his friend the truth and cease to mas-
querade in false colours.
"Why," exclaimed Garret, watching him,
and seareely knowing whether to be offend.
ed or not, "you surely don't mean----" He
stopped suddenly, bewildered.
"NO no, Garret, of course; DO matter
who gets the estate, the Crofts manage it •
but you know, until the will la
lie stammered and checked himself abruptly
on the very verge of a downright lie,
"Oh the will is all right, man 1 Yon may
Make yourself easy un that head; my father
has it safe and sound. You get the estates,
the eastle, the person '
personalities et-cutera and
Peter Verschoyle's eldest daughter takes
the nice little sum of ninety thousand
pounds. By Jove, tvhat a aatah 1 And a
beauty you may be sure; the Verschoyles
are a good-looking family, and I have heard
that her mother was something wonclerful."
said Garret cheerfully.
Glynn fumed inwardly at this light and
careless praise of the ladywhom he so loved
and honoured, and again he was on the
point of confiding in his friend, when again
the telegram stopped him.
"Yes," Garret went on, unconscious
of his friend'a irritation, and I've an idea
that your uncles quarreled about the same
beauty ; through her the yeunger in some
way thrust the elder out of the property on
her amount."
"Garret," interrupted Glynn suddenly,
I wish you would not talk about these things
now; I cannot explain why, but I am really
taking an unfair advantage of you if I allow
you-- Well, I suppose your father has
settled about the funeral?'
"Yes," said the other slowly, trying not
to feel °fended at this sudden reserve on the
part of his friend, from whom he had never
kept a secret since they were children to-
gether—"Saturday I believe."
"Saturday? Well, that will do. I can go
to Liverpool and baok before "then.
Come in—I want my great-ooat. eohp
to Dublin to -night and cross by the morning
boat."
Garret stoned, stared at his friend for a
moment, wheeled round in front of him.
and tapped him with an admonishing finger
on the breast.
"May I ask you one question," he said,
with mock solemnity" without taking an
unfair advantage of myself—yes myself 1 and
his blue eyes twinkled.
"Well, ask it then," said Glynn, with
some impatience, for he was not in the mood
for chaff.
"Do you know on what terms this is left
to you? Because I do."
''Yes,—substa,ntially."
"Then, Glynn, don t rush back to Herby,
where you have been so long. I know what
you are going for, of course. The beautiful
cousin of whom you have spoken in your
letters so often has fascinated you; you are
going to tell her the great news, bid her an
eternal farewell, and stay and. marry her,
ruining both. Oh, I know you, Glynn 1"
"Stop, Garret --stop, for Heaven's sake 1
Did I not ask you to refrain from talking
of these things now. Of course you don't
understand, and I dare say you think
me very strange and odd; but you will
know all soon, and then you will see that,
had I allowed you to go on chattering like
this, I thould have been a downright cad—
indeed feel like one at present !" said
Glynn.
"Very well ; we will not quarrel over it,
replied the other soberly. "I suppose you
have some reason for all this mystery.
Come, and I will see you off—it is about
tinae."
UHAPTER V.
As Glynn stepped out of the train at the
railway -station, about had a mile from
Herby, and walked down the platform his
tired eyes, turned in the direction of the
dusty road beyond. caught a glimpse of a
tall slim girl, iihite-faced and flaxen -hat
and hi4 heart was filled with joy, and the
cloud of care almost disappeared from his
brow at the fact of his young wife walking
so far on the chance of his coming by that
train.
"My darling girl! Heaven zorgive me for
doubting her—for thinking all the love is
on' my eider' he said to himself as he hasten-
ed towards her.
• "So, dearest, you were expecting me 1'
he exclaimed, clasping the soft hand that
she held out to him, and looking ether with
loving eyes, adding, as she drew away her
hand "But you look ea if you had been ill
—so pale, so thin."
• "No, Glynn, not ' she answered, al-
lowing him to draw her hand within' his
arm but I have received a very great
shock. I have scarcely eaten anything—I
have not even tried to sleep—since--" She
stopped abruptly and turned away her face.
"My dearest," he cried, "did you dtaibt
me? Did yousthink that for one instant I
should regret spur Marriage? Oh, no, no, a
thousand dines 1 Of course I should like "to
own the old place, to see you there, a great
lady, in the home of our race. But, my
wife, all that is nothing to me; our love
for each other is everything. What are the
gray walls and the broad lands of Verschoyle
by the Nore compared to this Versohoyle
walking beside me, ray own --my own? Ah,
darling, I know what is in your thonghts !
you rvould have sacrificed yourself and. me,
and made us both mieerable, not for the sake
of the money—what true woman was ever
fond of money ?—but from some mistaken
notion of duty," and he looked down at her
eagerly, for, with her hand upon his arm,
her flaxen head so close to his shoulder, the
doubt against which he had been fighting all
he way from Verschoyle had vanished.
She did not speak or even smile. The
weet assurances that he longed to hear
hat his heart told him a woman vvho loved him
would have givenhirn, werenot forthcoming.
She walked at his side indeed, and leaned
lightly upon his arm, butshedid notgivehim
ne loving word or look. He noticed this,
and also a subtle indefinable change in her
manner, and cried out—
"But you, my derling—you ? Of course
take it for granted that you. love me, or
ou would not have given yourself to me ;
ut, oh, if your love is not strong enotigh to
hut out all regret, what am 1 to do?
new that you were only half won when we
were married ;" awl he clasped her hand in
is.
They had turned now into the lane by
he churchyard. She did not repulse him
—she allowed her hand to remain in his ;
but he caueht a glimpse of her half -averted
roe, and tte hopeless despair in eyes and
mouth frightened him.
" nye onth " he taid sharply," tell me
the truth I Have I the loae of tflia money to
fight ageinet as well as your indifference ?
"My indifference S" She stopped, leaned
against the etile leading into the chnaphyard
and uttered the words in slow'languid Se-
cants? adding efter a pause, "lleve I not
ruu§rkreeliledYAetleiu
GiYn4i1: cool, but there was a
bitter earnestness ie her voice and manner,
as if beneath her icy compoure there glow-
ed a very furnace of passion,
"Yea," he said, looking down upon her
cold clear -out face--" yes, Hyacinth, dear
wife, you married me beceuse yoe loved roe,
but, ola, your love is not like reinel It is in-
difference compared with what I feel for
you. Therefore am afraid that until this
Young heart" ---and be paeeed his arm about
her waist—" Mares to find all it wants M
me—learns to love me as I would be oved
—it will regret perhaps---" ,
At these words she made her first move
in the game that ehe had get herself GO play
in which, if she won, ninety thousand
pounds would be hers—if she lost, poverty
wretchedness, lifelong regret and despair.
With a low cry she pushed hire from her,
and then, laying her hands on the wall,
rested her head upon them in an attitude
expressive of hopelesness and misery.
"Hyacinth, 'cried her husband, "Ilya°.
inth 1 Why—"
"Oh don't speak to me! I know it's not
your fault any more than it is mine—and
y,ou are a man, and oan bear your torture
without shouting over it, poor wretch! And
after all, it is not so bad for you; you can
make yourself another fortune—you have
a thousand things to turn to if one fails.
But 1—but I—" And then she could keep
back the tears of bitter disappointment no
longer.
She was not acting—the ao'ony and des-
pair within her broke through her self-con-
trol for a moment—and yet no actress could
have been more alive to the impression she
was making on her audience then was this
girl alive to the fading colour in her hus
band's cheeks, to his look of surprise, in
credulity, and horror, succeeded by a suddenn»
stony calm that taxed all his strength of
nerve to maintain as he said—
"Ge
on—let me see in her true colours the
woman that I have married."
She ebeyed him ; she wanted no second
bidding; itavas such an exquisite relief to
her to give voice to the desperation in her
heart that she felt happy—with a wild and
stormy happiness—as she spoke.
"Go on 1 Oh, do you not know already
every word I have to say, every pang I have
endured since I read that letter and fell
down in an agony compared to which the
bitterness of death can be as nothing? Have
you not felt it also; and will you not feel it
more and more sharply every day when
your passion tor me has gone and you are
haunted. by the ever-present thought of
what you paid for me? I suppose I ought
not to say all this—I ought to accept my
fate in silence. But I cannotgentlewoman
as I am, I cannot! I must speak this once,
for I am only a girl, and there is something
fiendish about my being defeated by the
very consummation of my plans! Oh, why
did not instinct warn me against you—me,
who had nothing —nothing but my fair face
and my good birth to lift me into my right
position? Oh, what am I to do now ?" and
she pressed her head between her hands and
wept convulsively.
He looked at her, the red light of the set-
ting sun falling upon her trembling form,
upon her flushed, tear -stained, degraded
face; and, if her tears had been drops of
molten lead falling upon him, they could not
have pained him more. Still maintaining
a resolute self-oontrol, he said—
VARIOUS TOBIOS.
It is estimated that the amount of coined
treld in the world is $3,300,000,000, and of
silver $2 800 000 000
Paper for 'stinting purposea is now manu
factured in India, but not a sheet of writing
paper has yet been produced.
To polish blaok marble, use oxide of tin,
It does not stain Woollen clatla or felt
—say, an old felt hat—is most suitable as
rubber.
The Maltese is a most peculiar language.
It is of Oriental origin, Arabi e in its chief
oheraeterieties, but sprinkled all through
with Italian ineorporations. It has no
giazumar, is Prtnetvtiealondideasit
looE
mtiiuo. ter was
blown against the head of John Sims at
Servia, Ind., and he hag lost the power of
epoch in consequence. His other ta.oulties,
it is said, are not in the least impaired.
A. substitute for the hard boxweod which
ba S been heretofore used for loomshuttles
is sought by oompreesing cheaper weeds,
especially teak, In a Powerful hydraulic
press. A force of feurteen tons per square
inch, hi applied. ,
Leaves are bleached with a solution of
chloride of litne and water, about one table.
Spoonful to a quart of water. Add a few
drops of vinegar, soak tor from ten to
twenty minutes, then rinse in clear water,
and dry between blottingpa,per.
A one. legged beggar of St. Louis became
so urgent in his request for aid that he was
arrested the other day, When the police
searched him they found fifteert tobacco
-hags in,his pockets awl Mewed to his ragged
clothes and each bagoontained some money,
The total amount was $71.41. '
The St. John, N.B., cotton mills now ern.
mitythsovebreh4iTd nwaintclhtheirai and
are yet
I
t fitives
. said that no one who really ,vants to work
. need be idle a day in $t. John. A mechanic
hail had to postpone a large job because he
could not get enough skilled labor in the
oity.
A Utica man was walking home the other
night when he heard a splash in the Erie
Canal and a struggle in the water. He at
once plunged in to rescue the drowning
person, but found that it was a dog.
Not to be deprived of the pleasure of res.
cuingsomething, he rescued the dog, and took
it home with him.
Most sponges have a canal system, an
there is a continnal current of sea-wate
passing through it, always flowing in th
tiara° direction. The water is made to flu
in that way by a series of peculiar cells th
like of which has not been found in any o
the higher animals. The 13ponges depen
entirely for their life on this water current
Good razor -paste : Lexigated oxide of ti
(prepared putty powder) one ounce, pow
dered oxalic acid quarter of an ounce, pow
dered gum twenty grains ; make into a sti
paste with water, and evenly and thinl
spread it over the strop. With very littl
friction this paste .gives a fine edge to th
razor, and its !fficaency is still further in
creased by moistening it.
L. B. Goldsmith, one of the oldest captain
on the great lakes, was in the pilot hous
he other day when his boat the Progress,
stopped at Oakland, » Mich. As she wa
making the dock the crew noticed tha
something was wrong with the Captain's
signals, and one of them went up and found
the old man lying dead with the bell rope
in his hand. He was 76 years old.
"Yes, for once speak exactly as you feel,
Hyacinth. Heaven only knows how we are
to live our lives together but, my wife, I
trust—I hope that these feelings will leave
you that your young heart will turn to its
true happiness, that you will be ashamed
and sorry for every word you are speaking
now!"
"That zny heart will turn to its true hap-
pinese ? she echoed, raising her face and
pushing back the long flaxen tresses that
had fallen across her eyes. suppose you
mean that, in selfish passion for you—a man
whom I bad not seen three months ago—I
shall for et all that might have been if '
chance or fate had not sent you here? All
that might have been—the wealth 1 sold
myself for, which would have been mine
without having to obey a master for it, by
which my beautiful sister, my wild untanght
brothers, my father and mother, whom I
love, would have been lifted out of this de.
gradation, this ragged poverty 1 Oh, the
thought of it burns my brain! Turn to my
true happiness—be sorry for all I am saying
now ! No, poor wretch, that I shall not—
never 1"
"Do not pity me because I have lost a
fortune," he said—" pity me for being the
victim of a heartless andmercenary woman."
"But I 4�—I do 1 Di all my own misery
I have so flinch feeling for you Glynn,, that
I pity yon with all my heart. I am not
romantic and sentimental as you are, and I
can look at things just as they are. You
do not want my pity now, you say; and
from your letter and your manner towards
me I almost believe you. You do not feel
yet what is filling my heart with bitterness
—you love me. And this curious passion
—as strong as it is fleeting—makes you pre. f 1
fer a face that pleases you to an inheritance
of honour and riches; ti„ut, when you find
that the woman who his this face cannot
look upon you With any other feeling than t
that of hatred, that in addition to ruining
you she is a, helpless burden upon you, un- ,
able to preform the simple household duties p
that fall to the lot of poor men's wives, that
discontent and unavailing regret are robbing's
her of the fair face you married her for— t
when you wake to all this—as wake you will n
and in a short time too, when you turn from p
me a poor peevish, faded slattern, with e
loathing—and the agony of thinking of o
what might have been almost kills yon—
then—then I may pity you almost as much
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Children cry from two causes—either
from temper or from illness. It is the duty
of every mother to ascertain whether the
latter cause induces the fretfulness in her
child, and, if so to take means at once
to remove this cause if possible. But, if
no symptom of suffering be discovered, the
case immediately demands other treat-
ment, and the passionateness or obstinacy
must be overcome by moral force.
A curious old anchor, very probably lost
by the early French miesionaries, was found
at the head of Green Bay. It appears to
have been constructed from a young maPle
tree having three branches from the root.
Another bar was fastened on. Thus far it is
like a round topped stoolwith four legs. On
the bottom of these legs are fastened, with
mortise and tenon the flukes which were
bars of oak crossing each other.
Jaborandi is said by the medical journals
to have the property of increasing the
growth of the hair, and of darkening its
shade at the same time. Several instances
of increased growth of hair, after the use
ja orandi have been, adduced in confirma-
tion of this statement. The active ingred-
ient in jaborandi infusion is an alkaloid
called pilocarpine. Jaherandi is a shrub
imported from Brazil, and has not long been
known in British medicine.
The country -folk in Oldenburg consider
the magpie to be so imbued With Satanic
principles that, if a cross be cut OR the tree
in which the bird MN built, shewill forsake
her nest at Once. There are several rea-
sons for this bird's bad reputation in the
North of England. One of them is "
cause she was the only bird that would not
go into the ark with Noah and his folk. Sh
iked better to perch on the roof and jabb
over the drowning world."
•Slake half a bushel of lime, strain, and
mai peek of salt dissolved in warm water,
hree pounds of ground rice Put in boiling
water and boiled to a thin paste, half a
pound of pawdered Spanislawhiting, and a
ound of dear blue dissolved in warm water.
Mix these well together, and let the mixture
tand for several days. Keep the wash
bus prepared in a kettle or portable fur -
ace, and, when used, put it on as hot as
ossible with painters' or whitewash brush.
s. Colour to suit by adding sparingly of
f dry pigment.
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The gavotte is much more modern than
he minuet, and belongs to the last days of
he French Monarchy."' It is usually sup-
osed to derive its name from the town of
ap, whose inhabitants are called gavote
lid gavottes. It is not improbable that it
as an old country -dance of this region.
ueen Marie -Antoinette introduced it as a
enclant to the minuet, other steps being
ubsequently added, so as to form what was
nown as a minuet de la our. There is also
solitary gavotte, which however can be
anced only by professionals. „
Art Albany newspaper says that there
re families in that town who have got the
rt of keeping up appearances reduced to a
cienee. When they want to make their
eighbors think that they have gene into the
ountry they are not content with the old
Ian of shutting the front blinds and living
n the back of the house. They leave their
ewspapers on the front piazza, apparently
elected ; but they take them in at night
nd read them, at the same time supplying
he piazza with old papers for the next day's
aSquerade.
}Lippman and Chants/ter.
It a
is commonly eupposed that it is a com- p
paratively easy and joyous thing to minister s
to any one's happiness, while it is a grave, 1 k
difficult, and unwelcome task to try to itn- a
prove his character. The truth is they are a
indissolubly connected, and each is depend-
ent on the other for its perfect development. '
No happiness worthy the name can exist ,
while the character ia impure and the life 1 a
unworthy. The gratifications of such a ohe s
will roe not only of a very low order, but ' no
also essentially temporary in their nature. I
As the character deteriorates., all enjoyment r
diminiehes'until the very capacity for it is , n
germ, On the other hand, no Amadei. can , n
be steadily improving no life can be growinsia
in value, avithotit infusing a happiness of the t
purest and most ennobling kind. livery time „,„
then that we influence another forgood, every , —
time We help him te become more faithful
and honourable, more iticlustrieue and ener- fo
getic, more patient and self-controlled, more st
jest and generous, We also sow within him so
the seeds of a gelid and permaneht happiness o
which no circumstances can take away. I T
The Guide Seientikile describes the q
Bowing method of making artifieial whet- a
°nee. Gelatine of good quality' ie
lved iri its own weight of water, the o
peration being conducted in a dark room. h
o the eolution one and a half per cent, of i
biekrOrinite of Potaeh is added, whieh lute RIDING ,DOWN A LOG SHOOT.
previously been dieeolved in a little water.
A. guentity of very fine emery, egeal to nine
times the weight of the gelatine, la 'Oita^
atOly Mixed With th Q gelatine solution—
pulverised flint rney be eubstituted for
emery. The mass is moulded into any
desired shape, and ie then. conselidated by
heavy pressure, It is dried by exposure
to shone sunlight. .
" man's funnily but his own " happens
generally to, be the enemy of everybody
with whoin heds in relation. The leading
qnality that goes to make his °barite -
ter is a" recklees improvidence and a
aelfith pursuit of selfish enjoyments,
independent of conaequences, "No man's
enemy but his own ' runs rapidly through
his means ; calls, in a friendly way, on
his friends for assistance ; leaves his wife
a beggar, and quarters Orphans upon the
public ; entails a life of dependence on his
progeny, end lies in the odour of that 111.
understood reputation of harmless folly
wish* is more .injurioue to society than
many positive prunes,
A statement prepared for the annual re-
port of the Fish Cornmiseion thews by river
basins the following distribiltion ofhad the
last season : Peuobscot river, 100,000 ;
Kennebec river, 800,000 ,— tributaries of
Narragansett Bay, 1,125,000; Hudson
river and estuaries, 1,079,,000; tributaries
of Delaware Bay, 5,00,000 ; tributaries of
Chesapeake Bay, 68,149,000 ; tributaries of
Albemarle Sound, 5,322,C00 ; tributaries of
South Atlantic coast, 3,560,000 • tributaries
of Gulf of Mexico, 7,048,000 ; inland
waters, 1,014,050; natal, 92,421,000. This
number is greatly in excess of the output of
any previoes year, and the production has
'been attended by no inorease of expendi-
tur;ithin the last few years the researches
of Dr. John Evans have established the fact
that for a full century prior to Caesar's in-
vasion gold coins were rninted by British
kings, such as Timm-mai/is and Verica, of
Whose existence we possess no other record.
The Britons not only employed this gold
coinage, but had a smaller currency of the
metal which gave the island its early com-
mercial importance. These tin coins were
cast in wooden moulds, as is shown by the
impression of the grain of the wood, w, ich
is visible upon them, while the route fol-
lowed by the British tin -trade is indicated
by the curious fact that they are rude imi-
tations of the coins of the Phocean colony
of Marseilles, where money was minted as
early as the fifth century B. C. These coins
of course bear no dates.
To Introduce Eye-Hrops into The Eye.—
Take a quill lien and 'round off the point;
dip it into the bottle containing the lotion.
of which it will take up one or two drops.
Then draw down the lower lid and touch Even had they not, jumping off .would
the inner red surface of the lid with the tip have been out of the question. I have never
of the.quill ; the drops will at once flow been on a toboggan, but I think that people
who have will understand why I bent all
my energies to holding on. I did not faint
and did not get dieey ; there was a hideous
A Minor and WS Pouy Moe down 901111.
tail/ tor Two Miles 88 55 Terrine firmed.
"1 have made 0: minute on horse-
back in the saddle."
As a grizzled stranger with a quartzite
pin made this remark a silence fell upon
the little group of turfrnen who sat in the
corridor of the NI indsor Hotel, at Denver,
the other evening. The group drew oloaer,
and the stranger began. was riding a
tough little bronco on my way to Leadville
from a claim I owned on the other side of
the divide, on the slope of what is called
Gold M ountain. I pushed rapidly ahead
towards the pass. The road beyond the peas
lecl down a long, straight incline for about °
a quarter of a mile. This took it to the
fringes of timber pine and then it made a
detour of nearly two hides to get around a
spur of the range. Suddenly my horse
staggered, stumbled, Plunged a little, and
then came down with e crash, first on his
forelegs then flat on his belly, his he Isiown
hill I can't readily describe but h feklin
such a way that my right leg Intim being
crushed or even bruised was
%wimp IN TRH STIRRUP STRAP
a 11c1gt"Rightfithaetre let me atop to explain a cir-
cumstance that will enable you to under-
stand the situation. Down in the valley,
at the base of Gold Mountain, Was a saw-
mill, and extending up from its yard al-
most to timber line was .what is oalled a
log chute. This N simply a V-shaped
trough, large enough to hold a good-sized
pine trunk, and built solidly against the
Moe of the mountain. Of course, it has to
be straight, or nearly so, to permit the logs
to slide clown without obstruction, and Ilse
soon makes the inside as smooth as glass.
Such a contrivance saves a great deal of
hauling, for as the trees are out they are
dragged over and dumped into the trough,
and. go down to the yard like a streak of
lightning. It had not been used for about
a year, and rdneereedles, dead boughs, and
other rubbish had in places almost hidden
it from sight. I was well enough acquain-
ted with the mountainsto know, the instant
my bronco fell, that he had walked into the
old log chute.
"It takes a moment for the coolest head
to clear itself in times of unlimited for peril,
and long before that moment had elapsed
the bronco and I were on our way to the
valley, going faster at every breath, nothing
to stop us, death ahead, and the devil's
own railroad underneath. I was sitting
almost erect in the saddle. The leather
flaps had twisted around and kept my legs
from rubbing against the side of the trough,
but held me
LIHR BANDS OE IRON.
over the serface of the lid, which must
then be released. A camel's-hair brush
may be used in the same way. If there be
very much discharge, as in the inflamed roaring in my ears, furious wind seemed se
eyes of children, it is much better to lay all of a sudden tear up the mountain and
the child on its back with the head levee, suck the br/Eath out of my mouth, but
and pour plenty of the lotion into the in.levery thing was deadly olear and instinct.
ner corner of the closed lids ; then open I "I could see black specks grow (suddenly
both the upper and lower lids, and the into big pines and then shoot p•atax. 4. I
lotion will run over the eye, carrying all ' could even see the snow caught up lik their
discharge away with it, and escaping at the 1needles as they came whizzing up. Every
outer angle of the eye. 'instant, through some clearing, I could see
Boston has just received from Africa the ithe in.a flash, and over it all was a
largest gorilla ever landed in America. His Enckeihng.feeling, as though the mountain
was smiting away from, me and I was
narne is Jack, and he is 5 feet in height
when standing erect, and measures 7 feet plunging out into immeasurable space.
from one outstretched hand to the other So strong .was this that even now, standing
He weighs about 126 pounds, and exhibits on the solid marble floor, I can recall the
enormous strength, compared with which qualm and naubaa as all support seemed to
that of mans' seems like a child's. He ar- give way, .the earth tip up and let me fall,
tall, fall—it felt as if forever! A mass of
rived in a large box made of plaanking
rock as large as this hotel was beneath me.
inches thick, and when removed from the
ship he tore large splinters from the he'rd- A. s I looked it seemed to leap lbw he air
wood planks with as much ease as a child like a balloon. There was a b line of
forest below. I shot through itas .trough
would break a twig. The hair, svhich is very
a tunnel, and out into the light again. I
tried to shut my eyes. It was impossible.
is of a greenish -gray color, and on the back,
I tried to scream. The air had turned to
legs and arms incline to a blaok. His shoul-
ders are immense. The expression of the atone. a
"The trees and. rocks were indistinguish-
face, which is black, is scowling. The eyes
able, when all of a sudden a black mass flew
are sms,11, sunken ia the head, and th elips
up Into my face. I felt that I was being
beaten, bruised and hurled over, and then
EVERYTHING WAS STILL AGAIN.
"When the moon was well up I came to
myselL I was lying iu a snowdrift, rubbing
coarse and from two to four inche.s in length,
large and thin
As a basis of work for those who love to
revel in amazing figures we may state that
statistics show that 53,000 wells have been
drilled in Pennsylvania and New York
since the discovery of petroleum, at a cost at my head and moaning. After a long
of $200,000,000. These welts have produc- liime I crawled a little way, and then fell
solde dlIal tO,t0h0e0 barrels 0! ()mix, ow. hiTchhiswraes. down and cried for my very helplessness.
presented a profit to the roducer of $300 - heaven knows how I foundmy way to Lacy's
'crells I must have been a little flighty, and
placed at 6,231,102,923 gallons. In the !somehow, and they carried me in and sent
000,000. The amount o oil exported is , mill, a quarter of a mile beyond, but I did
pool in Washington County alone $3,200,-
000 has been expended in machinery and !fallen. into deoay, and some distance above
I for help. You see, the old timber chute had
drilling.This does not • I d th y the yard was a broken place that saved my
millions that are represented there in the life. , When we reached it the dead bronco
natural gas industry. Independent of the
oil business there is about $50000,00ff in- !sailing and turning and cavorting over a
jumped the trough'and the two of us went
vested in natural gas plants in Pennsyl- 1 field of fresh snow until we stuck into a
vania. These are majestic figures,
serve to show the magnitude of the oil and
and I drift about five hundred yards away.
"The bronco had the worst of it even
gas business. . there, for he kept on going until he struck
1
, solid oath. I broke three ribs and this
One of the most prodigious engineering
projects now on the tapis is that for tunnel- arm in so many different places that the
'doctor wanted to.cut it off and be done with
ing the Rocky Mountains under ' Tray's
it. What, puzzled the mill men most was
Peak, which rises no less than 14,441 feet
above the level of the sea. It is stated that that my legs escaped, but the saddle flaps
at 4,441 feet below the peak by tunneling were worn to fringe and that explains it.
From the point where I,started to the break
from east to west for 25,000 feet direit,
communication could be opened between was over two miles, and the old hands .said
there logs used to make it in less than two
the volleys on the Atlantic slope and those
on the Pacific side. This would shorten minutes. I had no stop-vvatch, but I'll
the distance between Denver in Colorado
the trip."
back myself against any log that ever made
and Salt Lake City in Utah, and consequent-
ly the distance between the Missouri River,
say at St. Louis, and San Francisco, nearly
00 miles, and there would be little more re- Aiding Our Cruisers.
3
quired in the way of ascending or descend- The presence of an American warship
ing or tunneling mountithui. Part of the on Canadian waters so far from being a
work has already been accomplished. The hindrance to the enforcement of Canadian
country from the Missouri to the foot of the fishing laved and regulations is a help and a /
Rookies
R an elevationi a f
.rises Ilk ta I .3er :tile cf c't !ling prairie , very efficient help. Instead of throwingr
5,200 feet obstacles in the way of the Canadian an..
above the sea level. The Rockies them- ithorities and raising objectiolls to the course
selves rise at various places to a height ex- they are pursuing, Admiral Luoe has
ceeding 11,000 feet Of the twenty most 'gone to some trouble to impress upon Amer -
famous passes, only seven are below 10,000 Man fishermen that they must regard the
feet, while five are upward of 12,000, and treaty provisions and must obey Canadian
one is 13,000 feet. The point from which Customs laws and regulations. 'rhe poach
it is proposed to tunnel is sixty miles due ers, actual and intending, get no comfort
west from Denver, and, although one of the from him. He does not trg to make them
highest peaks, it Is by far the narrowest in believe that they are injured and persecuted
the great backbone of the Americaax conti- creatures, and that whether they do right
nent. •or wrong, respect the laws of Canada or
violate them, he will back them up. Being
no politician, and apparently not caring a
straw how they vote, he tells them the
Lord Tennyson is not gifted with a mem- truth in the plainest way. He shows them
ory of faces, It was told that he was enter that he is not there to aid and abet them
Mined one day at dinner by a Mr. Oscar- in any encroachment on the fishing rights
Browning, a wealthy gentle/nen vvell known of Comedians, but that he will, if necessary,
in London society and not at all related to asnist in their capture if they are found
Brolvning the poet. A few days atter Mr. fishing within the three-mile limit. It is
Browning met Lord renoysoh at a re- easy to see that the presence of Admiral
ception and Elltited him cordially, but the Luce on the fishing ground will prevent
oet looked at him vaguely and did not further complications and difficulties with
cognize him, "Do you no/ remember, regard to the protection. of the fisheries by
ord Tennymon ? 1 analerowning," said his Canadian authorities. He 13eCtg for him self
tiondarn host. "Oh, no, you aro not," that the Canadian Government has no dis-
newered Tennyson, plaeidly. "1 know position to worry or annoy American fish
obert Browning intimately, and you can- ermen hi. the logyful pursait of their avo
ot persuade me that you are he." So off cations, that all it wants is to have its
e went, leaving his unfortunate entertainer rights observed, and that it uses no =ne-
n a, decidedly unpleasant predicament. cessary harshness in enforcing those rights.
A Bad Memory.
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