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The Exeter Times, 1887-9-15, Page 6T} lib ioe is troword pei}erous,ithat is put up where -1 f+Aa you, 'Please, eo that it ie effective Captain Haughton," the Author of "Hewn Masser% )+al.sxxo > 'f- ra 9s Y UD, 13xaTxlar� s Anlnle'ION, FUrt GonienN Daxael," arc,, &c, Lova Oh KINDRED ?" " CHAPTER VII, The August sue had set ; the hill moo was rising over a' fiat and wooded country with here and there fields of wheat waitin to be cut and, oroliards full of the sweet faint emelt of ripening fruit. 1 he thick woeds of oak and beech that surr•oundel3 Haughton Abbey looked. densely black,witl glittering points of silver here and herein th pale clear light.. The• Abbey itself—an. ancient ivy -colored building, little altered since the time, o Charles IL—did not stand, as do most mod ern rural seats, on a piece of rising ground with eloping lawns and gardens about it but in a dip of the country, close to a sinal deep lake. In spite of its age and solidity the Abbey, shrouded b r uded fro sun , m and air,and d lapped by the water of the lake, was ve unhealthy. Many a bright -faced healthy Cheshir lass, " taken" at the Abbey by old Mrs Hobbs, the housekeeper, left, after a year pale and languid, with coneumnption looking out of her glittering eyes and painted on her fevered checks.. The'Earl knew that i was Haughton -its low situation, its woods and lake -that had killed his delicate young wife thirty years before, and while he dwelt in it only a month or so every year himself, he paid high wages to retain his servants, and smiled grimly to see how eager they were to risk health and life for gold, An un wholesome place it was most certainly; the numerous blazing fires, the hot-water pipes beneath every floor, could not overcome the dampness of the air ; the rooms wore hot and moist by day, chill and dank by night. It was a place that any one who valued hu- man life before soft sylvan scenery, and com- fort and health before a curious specimen of sixteenth -century architecture, would have razed to the ground and rebuilt on some of the wooded slopes about it. So perhaps thought a lady, slight and tall, and of noble and stately carriage, who had just stepped through a window that opened on to a; narrowterrace of redandstone which kept the water from the actual wall of the Abbey; and who was slowly sauntering to and fro, an expression of weariness and silent discontent so stamped upon her pale features that one could see at once that it was their habitual cast when the smooth mask worn .for others was removed. She walked leisurely up and down the 'terrace in the moonlight, the violet lire of amethysts glimmering among the abundant plaits of her flaxen hair, her pliant graceful figure shown to advantage in a perfectly - made silk dress of so pale a blue as to be almost white, a scarf of costly and delicate lace wrapped. about her shoulders, hor long rounded arms clasped with bracelets of ame- thysts and gold. Presently she paused in her walk, and leaning her white arm on the balustrade of the terrace, turned her proud unhappy eyes on the dark water. Hyacinth Verschoyle was not a woman to be envied, even by the plainest and most impecunious of the well- bred, well-conducted, marriageable maidens lounging about the large, low, lamplit draw- ing -room within, waiting for the welcome appearance of the gentlemen after dinner. The light pouring from the open window, and shining on the black water, the low mur- mur of voices, the sound of a swaying waltz tune which some one was playing softly and- _. dreamily upon the piano, seemed to irritate eyriciuth. She looked impatiently behind her, and then walked rapidly down the ter- race to where a broad flight of steps led to a narrow path lapped by the water. She descended these and sat upon the lowest one, letting the edge of her costly silk•robe trail over the wet path, just as she would have clone with a cheap and common dress in the old make -shift, out -at -elbow time, when she soiled and tore her few gowns and was far shabbier than she need have been. Some memory of the kind seem- ed to touch her heart now ; for she smiled half regretfully as she saw how the delicate silk was ruined. Then, but wearily and half scornfully, she fellto admiring the faint re- flection of her lace -draped shoulders and pale face below her. "Yes," her thoughts ran, addressing the flickering ghost of herself looking up at her through the dark water, "you are a rich, handsome, healthy woman, Hyacinth—you can tear or soil a sixty -guinea gown with im- punity—you can give lavishly where money is really needed—you can see your father and mother enjcying comfort in a good house, withproper surroundings—you can send your brothers to college and, start them well in the professions they have chosen—you can bring your beautiful sister out with all the pres- tige that wealth and position can give— more than you dreamed of in the old days of dirt and poverty has fallen to your lot ; yet have you found happiness ? You shake your head, No ? Ah, you are right ! My heart says ' No' also, Did I not overhear the Earl say of me only yesterday, ' She has an unhappy face ; some deep and abiding sor- row always looks out of her eyes, mask it by pride as much as she will' ? and he spoke truly." She pulled off one long glove, and held out her white arm to let the jewels upon it scintillate in the light; but her thoughts re- fused to change. "Should I have been happy if I had taken the other life offered to me—if I had chosen a good man's love—a love that in those few minutes, when I understood what he was to sacrifice for mo, I knew was worth ten times more then all the gold in the world ? If he had waited a little longer—if he had uttered another word of pleading—if he had kissed me and clasped me in his arms—if he had held me fast against that noble heart that was breaking for me then -I should not have let him go—my whole life would have been changed. But would that have ruade me happy—happier than I have been caring' for th,- welfare of my people and doing good quietly; so that no man knows? I wonder if any one could answer that question ; I cannot, e.ithough it has been in my heart ever since he took me at my word, passed out of my life and left me rich and free. She leaned her pale oval cheek on her hand, and looked again into the water,. her thoughts turning to another subject. " I am growing old—I am almost twenty- six. Lily will go' from me some day. I wonder she has not gone already to a home of her own. My mother and father love me brit their love is not everything. The boys care for ms; but their hopes, ambitions, plans are not mine. I am alone -I have wealth and position, and—unhappiness, Her quick ear caught the sound of foot- steps on the terrace, and she bent her head, a little lower on her hand, hoping to' escape observation ; but they came steadily toward her and in a few minutes a man's voice ex- claimed—" Soyou are here, Mise Verschoyle. I had almost given you up when I did not see you on the terrace," said Captain Haugh- ton. ' "From which you wish me to infer that you have been searching for me, I suppose V' replied 1Iyaointh, risiug with a Mian graeef ul movement and leaning against th carved stone, pillar at the foot of th steps. S Well, 1 have been "'--.not at all abaslie , by the languid contempt of her'meaner You were not in the drawing -room so think ing the moonlight might have tempted. yo forth I—er—carne too." p e "And you expect }lie to feel honours accordingly," McNay --f hoped that you would honou f ane bytaking a stroll through th gardens o o g 'T'he j aemine was never so sweet as it is to night, and even 1 were am, so very uupoet ice! felt my soul stirred by the seeut o l those sheet wild orange.bushes across th bridge. Do even c a p come e n t from escape thoughts that Icannot but see ar sad." "I will go across the bridge if you wish,' e she answered, taking a fold of her dress in • her hand, and walking along the narrow ' path , but I think my face belies me - 1 have really no cause to be sad." t "Less cause than most women I should say," he remarked g " 1 m r)�ed followin her, for you Yr , are rich and --pardon me so fair that ou must know that you are sought for yourself and not for your riches. Now I have offend- ed f end -ed you, I see !"—for she had made a slight haughty gesture with her hand, and raised her small head. " No ; I am offended with myself, 'for I invited d the -eine Pray remark. Ph n r } cago the sub- ject." "Certainly, if you wish it; but how can it be au offence to toll you with all respect, all humility, what your mirror tells you every time you look into it—what people's faces tell you every time you enter a theatre or a ball -room ?"—and, coming beside her as the path widened a little, he lowered his blond head as near to hers as he thought he dared, and tried to look into her eyes. She neither shrank from nor responded in the least -to those advances. She quietly ignored them, anislowly walking on answer- ed him in her usual half -weary, half -scorn- ful way. " Well, if you will keep to the subject, you must not blame me for saying something that I did not think I should have to say to you, Captain Houghton." He gzaed at her so lost in conjectures as to what she was " up to now" that he could not speak. "Do you know the name I am called by among your friends?" she asked. "Yes, you do—I see it in your face 1" —turning her bright cold eyes full upon him. "Oh—er—bliss Verschoyle !" murmured the Captain feeling confused, and again wondering what she was " up to." " You need not be in the least alarmed ; I know it and prize it—it is a very nice name, I think, and shows that I am not only a richwoman, but a very sensible one." He knew by something in her manner and the tone of her voice that she was about to say something peculiarly insolent.; but relying on his studies of feminine character and his utter contempt for all women, he thought that for once she would find herself matched, and said quietly— " The Refuser." "Exactly. Is it not a charming nl'ckname ? But, believe me, having received it, I do not want any more justifications for the be. stowal of it,—at least while I am at the Abbey. It would make my stay here so unpleasant, you perceive, captain Haugh- ton;" and pointing the words with a glance? that said as plainly as if she had spoken, " Apply that to yourself," she began neg- ligently to rearrange the lace scarf about her shoulders. He checked the retort upon his lips, and clenched his right hand until the glove union it was split. It roused every evil passion in him to be so cooly warned off and told that she was not for him„ that she knew why he endured her contempt and sought her always—to be told compassionately that he was not to hope. He had been endeavoring by every means in his power to gain this rich woman's heart, and during the last few days hadlalmost dreamed of success,;for, hap- pening to speak of some of his experiences in Upper Egypt, he found that she would lis- ten eagerly with bright questioning eyes and changing colour, not so much to tales of battles and skirmishes as to the minutest particulars concerning the rules and regula- tions of camp life. IL was a strange taste, which he blessed his stars he had had the good luck to discover, for he flattered him- self that through it he was gaining ground. It was indeed most essential that Captain the Hon. Cyril Haughton should gain ground with some one able and willing to support him and pay his debts. He was thirty, a younger son with a scanty income and had been in difficulties of all kinds ever since he was twenty-one. Now, on his re- turn from Egypt, ruin stared him in the face, and, to use his own words, he found himself with three courses before him—to "milk" his relatives, to marry well or—to shoot himself. He had tried the first, but even his ex- ploits in the Soudan, and the fact of his having returned alive, did not move them as he had hoped it would. They had re- sponded reluctantly and inadequately to his wants. With a few thousands from a wealthy aunt, a few hundreds from his father and a curt refusal from his brother, Captain Haughton turned his thoughts entirety to the second item in his proeramme—to marry well. It behoved him to look out for a girl with money, and quickly too; and at Haughton Abbey he had met the very per- son of all others who, in his own language, would suit him " down to the ground" if she could only be got to see it. But to get Miss Verschoyle to see it was extremely difficult ; and, after some time spent in trying to make these cold eyes grow tender, those pale cheeks flush, he saw that that he was only undoing whatever impres• sion his " soldier -talk" had made upon her ; so he wisely gave up the attempt, and told himself that hie only h ince lay in propos- ing to her first, taking his rejection with hu- mility, and then making love to her in such a miserable, down -hearted, slavish way that if she had a heart it must surely touch it. This programme, decided upon after long and anxious thought, he was now endeavor- ing to carry out ; and the sharp and totally unexpected rebuff elle gave him at the very outset roused his evil and vicious temper to such a pitch that he could almost have struck her ; but he restrained himself, and so per - feebly that she never knew how her warning stabbed him, nor how the sudden fit of rage, all the more violent for being denied expres- sion, turned to a Clark vindictive craving in this man which was neither hate nor love, but a curious combination of both—a pas- sionate desire both to possess and destroy this stately, scornfulwoman who had had the in- solenee to refuse him before he had offered himself to her. "I thankou "hesaidquickly. " peso I must take thas warning that PI forbidden ground—take ani too near o it like 'And yet there is .a fascination in danger and in breaking the iota Mise Verseheyle," "If you, do break it, you will find only the coldest of cold water -underneath,", "Perhaps 1 t so, and yet -.•Well, you have e forbidden ins to speak ; but may I ask ou tc remember that I would have spoken as I e have never: epokeu to one of your sex in all 1 my life, and to be kind to me in your d thoughts ?" They ace, w cur , '. I no come to the rustic bridge that orosses the stream flowingottt of the u lake ou the lower aide, She ruted herarm d 1 open the wooden rail and looked eilently down into the hurrying waters. She would r not recognize his claim upon her thoughts, no ratter how humbly it might be urged. He paused a moment, looking at her, ex- - pelting her to speak ; then, with a sigh,con- tinued— f I "I dare say you think ane verypertina- cious, cious, Miss Verschoyle ; but suh strap e g things happen—net e now and then, but every day—that 1 don t, I cannot quite despair. , For example, look what has happened to - ight ?""What has happened ?" she asked, with neof her rare smiles, as if to show him that he accepted tiie warning and put love making out of his head, she was quite ready or any reasonable amount of conversation. Haughton noticed the change in her man er, but answered smoothly "Well, you know dinner was delayed half an hour for that Irish follow, Lord Arenbeg, nd a friend whom he was to bring with im—friend unknown," "Yes ; and they did not arrive. I thought he Earl seemed a little upset about it:" "Naturally. Bat, after the ladies had left he dining -room, they did turn up ; and I was never' more astonished in all my life." He paused to give due effects to his words. "At their being late, or coming at all?"" he murmured, so faintlyinterested that her voice died away, and she turned her head towards the wood where a nightingale was inging. "It is so seldom one hears the ightiugale in August. What were you go- ng to tell me ?" she said. "About Lord Arenbeg's friend. He was eceived as a lion by every one, his offence n keeping dinner waiting quite overlooked, for he had, it seemed, fought through two campaigns as a horse-soldier—a common trooper, Mies Verschoyle!" The languid attitude in which she leaned against the rail of the bridge had not changed, the very carriage of her head and turn of her neck were the same ; but a sharp cry broke from her lips—her face became as pale as death, "I begyour parden," she said slowly ; and, taking her lace handkerchief,she wrapped A lisping, bashful sort of a genius went it about her bare hand. I ave hurt pm th see his sweetheart one night, and being self with a splinter of this wooden rail, I rather hard run for matter of conversation think." said to her, after a long pause: " Thall, He knew that she was lying—that, if her did you ever see an owl? What outhed big hand had touched a bar of red hot iron, it eyes theys got, ha'nt they, Thall 1" would scarcely hvaebrought sucha cry to her, lips, such an expression to her face ; and he a connected in his own mind her eagerness to hear about the daily lives of his fellow -sol- diers with the intense nervous shock that ,11EN .'A4QUS TN X0144. Chance James 1'ox was in Parliament nineteen. Thweereat Cromwell left the University of, Cainbridge et eighteen. John ,� h l31•ig,ht payer was at any echopl a day after he was fifteen years old. Gladstone was 'n Parliament at twenty. i w nay two, and at twouty-four was Lord of the T'reeeury, Lord 13aeon graduated at Cambridge when sixteen, and was called to the,bar et twenty. four. Peel was in Parliament at twenty-one, and leatnerston was Lord of thel Admiralty at twenty-three. Henry Clay was in the Senate of the United States at twenty-nine, contrary to the Constitution. John Hampton, after graduatingat Ox- ford, was a student at law in te, Inner Temple at nineteen. Gustavus Adolphus ascended the throne at sixteen ; before , f re he was thirty-four he was one of the great rulers of Europe. Martin Luther had become largely die- tinguished at twenty-four ,and at fifty-sixhad reached the topmost round of his world=wide fame. Conde conducted a nieiiiorable campaigned seventeen, and at twenty-two he and Tu- renne also were of the most illustrioue, men of their time. Webster was in college at fifteen, gave earnest of his great future before he was twenty-five, and at thirty was the peer of the ablest man in Congress. Washington was a distinguished Colonel in the army at twenty-two, early in public affairs, commander of the forces at forty- three, and President at fifty-seven. Maurice of Saxony died at thirty-two, con- ceded to have been one of the profoundest statesmen and one of the ablest generals which Christendom had seen. Napoleon at twenty-five commanded the army of Italy. At thirty he was not only ono of the most illustrious generals of all time, but one of the great law -givers of the world. At forty-six he saw Waterloo. The great Leo X. was Pope at thirty. eight ; having finished his academic training he took the office of Cardinal at eighteen— only twelve months younger then was Chnrles James Fox when he entered Parlia- ment. " Vat you makes dare ?" hastily inquired a Dutchman of his daughter, who was being kissed by her sweetheart very clamorously. •' Oh, not much ; just courting a little— that's all." " Oho, dot's all, eh ? i tought you vas fighting." A Fish Dinner. Travellers in Alaska have told us that the seals of the Pacific coast waters rapture she had just received. But he spoke as if he the codfish and eat all but the head, which did not doubt her. is hard and boney. An English gentleman "Yes ; and a puncture that one is not pre- was shown a similar sight at the mouth of pared for does startle. I hope your hand the River Moy iu Ireland: is not painful now ?"—and he paused, know- My guide and I were watching the crea- ing that she would go back to the subject of tures at play among the rocks. Lord Arenbeg's friend. " Thcm's bi ; bastes, anywise," said "Oh, it's nothing—the tiniest of scratches ; Terry, but we women are such cowards, after all ! "Sure, they're waiting to come up after Now go on with your story, please ;" and the salmon when the tide turns," said Mick. she smiled her usual proud weary smile,: ='f "I'll engage there'll be a great run of sal - He could see that only by exercising the mon this tide." greatest control over herself could she main- tain her usual coolness—that in some mys- terious way his recentr statement had strangely moved her ; and he told himself that something might be made of it. "My story is told," he replied eaeily,but his arm ? watching her closely. "As I said, this " Ah, nat at all," said Terry. " Sure, I quixotic fellow was received as a lion by meant a ,sale 'ating a salmon and holding every one—" hire under his arm. Sure, 1'vesay'd him do " fell me what he was like—describe him it more than once." to me. I—I always like to make a—a kind " Well," said I, " Terry, I've heard that of picture in my own mind of people whom Irishmen can sometimes tell a lie, if requir- I am told about," she interrupted, with a ed, but 1 never heard of anyone telling so pause between her words which might have big a one as you can " been taken for lack of interest in the subject, " Sure, it's truth I'm tilling, yer anner," so slowly and languidly did she speak ; but said Terry. " Sure, its no lie at all, at Haughton knew that it was because her all." heart was beating too fast. All of a sudden there was a most excited He paused for a few moments, and then shout from Terry. a continued, deliberately disregarding her re- " Ah the sale ! Say the sale 1 Say the sale quest, and bein rewarded for his rudeness ating the salmon 1' And positively—believe it who can that has not seen it - there was a seal who seem- ed to be almost standing up in the water, with a grilse of six or eight pounds grasped under his flipper, and putting down his head and eating it. " Did yer anner iver say the like of that now ?" " Sure, I was thinking we'd nive say him getting his dinner at all this day Yer anner will belave that story, anyway Sure your anner say'd it yersel. Terry' not the boy that iver told his anner a lie. " Sure, Mick," says Terry," " you'll mind the salmon 'ating the sale and holding him under his arm ?" " What do you mean, Terry," said I, by a salmon eating a seal and holding him under by seeing how she bit her lip and impatient- ly tapped the bridge with the pointed toe of ' her pretty shoe. "1 waited my turn to be introduced to him, a little contemptuous, I must admit, of fame acquired in such a fashion, and was really disinclined, I do assure you, MissVerschoyle, to shake hands with a man who had been for five years on an equality with the rank and file of a horse regiment, when to my great astonishment I saw one of my own troopers before me—a man called—Ah, there he is?" —and Captain Haughton checked himself and pointed to the open window of the drawing -room looking upon the terrace. Hyacinth turned slowly, bracing every nerve, controlling her face until it was as rigid as a mask. She saw three or four young girls grouped about a tall fair-haired young man, who seemed to be tempting them from the pinkshadedlamplight within to the mopnlieht without. It was not her husband! The relief and the disappointment were too much for her ; she sobbed convulsively, caught at the wooden rail, and fell in a dead faint at Captain Haughton's feet. 1T0 BE OONTINIIED. ] A Word to the Wedded. Happiness and selfishness can z ever flour- ish in the same stem; one kills the other. To be weddrd happily the promoters are oongenialily and unselfishness. A, good woman will endure much for her husband, the man for his wife. A true woman will smile, cheer and help her husband should clouds come. •Then is the time to test her character, solve the problem, the object of her matrimony. Men,look for woman with a heart, a soul ; do not let their facial beauty be their sole attraction; rather let it be their beauty of soul and character that in- spires your love for them. For with these there wille1be no autumn, no fading: their leaves will be fresh and beautiful forever, A Consulting Room .Echo. " Your wife is in a very critical condition and I think some specialist should be called in for consultation in the case," "There now, doctor, I was right again, I told my wife long ago she ought to have proper medical treatment, but she thought you plight be offended." It has been noticed that a girl who has graduated from college and had $25,000 spent on her education will, after marriage, hold clothes -pins in her mouth and gossip over the back fence while hanging out the washing, just like other women, You can't change a woman's nature. RECKLESSNESS ON`DIZZY IlEzgh 'S..• l ' LATE' FOREIGN NEWS, 11r91(lug Carers Over the Niagara Whirl. Poole "They are all used to that kind of work," said Field, s l General, l lI ld the , o f t e Unialr Bridge emnpauy, pointing to some men who were working; on a. new bridge in the west, !Vaud have. ilo fear whatever. When we were building the cantilever over the Whirlpool Rapids of Niagara, 240 feet above the rush - lug waters; they were just as daringai they are here. I: remember when we had the job about completed I was up there one day The cantilever arms were then within fifty feet of each other, end it was decided to couneot therm temporarily with a plank. This plank was fifty-five feet in lougth, about two and a half feet of each end rest- ing on the cantilever arms,, The foreman bad issued a strict order prohibition any one of the tnou from crossing the plank un- til it was firmly fastened at each end, the penalty being irnrnediate~disrnissal. There had been a great deal of telkamong the inen aswho to would be the firet one to cross, I was standing on the American side, look- ing at the structure when 1. saw one of the leen walk out on the plank look at it a min uta, THEN LOOM' Dowa INTO TUE : WHIRLPOOL I felt that he was goingto cross the plank, but I was to far from him to make him hear. He waited a second or two, and thea deli- berately walked out on the plank, and when he reached the middle of it he stooped over : seizing the edges of the plank with both hands and throwing his feet up, he stood on his head and kicked his heels and shout- ed to the terrified lookers on, He must have been a minute doing it, but I felt as though it was half an hour. After satis- fying himself that he had kicked enough he regained his equilibrium and then trotted along the plank to the opposite side from whore he started, seized hold of one of the iron braces of the cantilever and went down it head first, hand over hand, to the bot. toin. I never saw anything like it before. Of course the foreman discharged him, and he was laid off two or three days, when I sent for him. He was one of the best men on the job, and I talked to him like a Dutch uncle and put him to work again. These men have no fear ; they are brought tip to the business, and feel just as safe 150 feet in the air as they do on the ground. Of course I can see how the people wonder at such things but we have got used to it. The beat tune to see thein travel is at the dinner hour, or when the day's work is com- pleted." Germans in Russia. 13y recent decree of the Russian Czar, all foreigners in Western Russia are for- bidden to purchase or to hold land. It is also declared that those foreigners who lease or rent Russian land shall be subject- ed to a heavy special tax. There is no doubt that this severe decree is aimed especially at the multitudes of Germans who have settled in these parts of Russia which border on their own Father- land and especially in that part of it known as the Baltic Provinces. The relations between the two great Em- 1 pires of Central and Eastern Europe are peculiar, and in view of probable future events are very interesting. For a long period a close alliance and friendship have existed between the reigning houses of the two States. This has been the result part- , ly of near ties of kinship, and partly of the necessity that, for public reasons, the two 1 empires should be friendly to each other. The present German Emperor is great uncle to the present Czar of Russia, and the Czar's mother was a German princess, so that not a little intimacy has been ,1 kept up for a long time between the two 1 ruling families. On the other handprobably no two neigh -1 f boring people in Europe are more hostile to each other than are the Germans and the Russians. Their mutual dislike shows its- self in a hundred ways. The one people is Protestant, the other belongs to the I Greek Church. The Germans are thrifty, hard-working and sober ; the Russians are shiftless, indolent, and intemperate. Each nation, moreover, distrusts and i t fears the other. They stand side by side, I a both armed to the teeth. Each wishes to , a be the superior power in Europe, and each ; a looks forward to a war in which they will 1 be arrayed upon opposite sides. The h u asstt d' a en mg the Newoaatlo Ex- hibition may be gathered from the foot that, aver one million persons have; now visited it and the average attendanceis daily inertias inThhe k3ritish Mint authorities have decided not to issue .any more of the new Jubilee six- bpeeinncgessimiFTbre torethe nhaislfthavhign, caxnpeeasncileys bo made to pass for it by being gilded. Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught, will continue in his •present rank of Major. Geeral until hie turn conies in the ordinary course for proniotion to Lieutenant -General. He bas been a Major, General since May 29, 1880, and stands now eighth on the list. A labourer named Joseph Newbery 65 years old, was sent to fetch soinecows upto be milked on the farm of Mr. Paul. at 1)esford, near Leicester, and as he was gone a long time search was made for him, when his body was found iu a field. He had, been gored to death by a bull. The London and Horth -Western railr as has constructed a oo hespecially to r radogs. Each animal;is provided with separate and roomy compartment and this compartmentis largeend properly ventilated and provided with a :place to lie down in easily, convenience for water, etc. As a menagerie was passing throught the streets of Plymouth recently, a lad lifted the cover of one of the caravans and peeped in through the bars• In a moment the tiger within put out its paw, and struck its talons into the boy's face. Ile was immediately rescued, but he had sustained terrible injuries, and he recovers will be permanently die, figureifd. They have had the jubilee fever very strong in New Zealand. The Herald of that colony contains abundant evidence of the faot. Here is one advertisement ; " Wanted—Two jubilee ladies want two jubilee husbands. Apply 25 Queen street." dere is auother : " Wanted.—Jubilee wives, husbands, housemaids, waitresses, house- keepers, barmaids, and general servants can be had for the asking. A. Mcleod, 25 Queen street. 1•knowa the children to im• a stop to pied, of to retains which recently silver at place of of Gen. d on the ed as t� tstothe at Gen. ith the ons, the Minta, ge .t ,�, Vith ern, te trBee ho was him •. The before died 10 B. D. Bumgartner: of Munfordsville, loved Mary Richardson, for whose father he worked, and she loved him; but when he asked Mary's father for Mary's hand the old gentleman drove him off the farm .nd ocked Mary up. Bumgartner was � as ong as he could stand it, and then, seeing no signs of yielding on the part of the cruel ether, went with eight lusty friends to the house of his sweetheart, beat in the door, and took the willing girl to Jeffersonville, where they were married. An old man of 70, named Eugene Denzoit, who occupied agarretat 10 Rue de Brosses, Paris, died suddenly recently. The police commissary who was called in was leaving he wretched room, after throwing a glance round, when he accidentally overturned n old table, the drawer of which fell out, nd with it a stream of napoleons, amouni- ng, when turned out, to 100,000 francs. A further and close search in the garret led to the discovery of notes and seeuritiea representing 900,000 francs more. The deceased was never known to receive any 'ono, and is supposed to leave no heir. According to Dr. Berillon, the wee French specialist, the practice of sucking thumb at night, to which so many are addicted, and of which it is next possible to break them, can be put by a single hypnotizetion, accompa course, with the requisite suggestion. The child never by any chance returns the habit again, though his memory no trace of the order or prohibition operates so powerfully on his svill. Ninety-four Paris po-lcemen handed to their superior officers watches, which each of them had found his home. These watches bore, in the number, the words, " Souvenir Boulanger, July 7 1887," engrave case. An inquiry has been Institut the origin of these gratuitous gif police. It is taken for granted th Boulanger lead nothing to do w' matter. At Stoke Grange, near Granth other day, a farmer named Frederick had seven horses attached to a lar which had been blown into the river With and was endeavoring to drag it away. some means the chains attached to became entangled round Minta, w thrown down, and the tree rolled over crushing him in a terrible manner. tree had to be hoisted with levers Minta could be released, and he minutes afterward.. The presence of so many Germans in Russia is a constant source of irritation. Many of the officials, high and low, in Russia are Germans. There are German officers in the military staff; German professors and teachers in the universities and gymnasia ; ' and shrewd, pushing German merchants in o r all the Russian cities. h The late Czar, Alexander II., was very s • fond of Germans, and had rather German s than Russian traits and tastes. His mother f was German; and hehimself received a large t part of his eiueation in Germany. It was o during his reign that the Germans went iu w such numbers into Russia, and took their e places in responsible positions in the army, i the civil service, and the schools. The present Czar and his advisers, how- u ever, do not like to have so many Germans — in Russia. They know that, in case of a war, the Germans who are now the leaders of the s e industry and commerce m Western Russia, d and their swarms of German workmen, will w er go batik to their own country, and enter the p German army. a If there should be war between Germany s ' and Russia, these men would return to the fr places where they are now peacefully work- w ing, to fight the Russians, and perhaps to conquer for their own their former residence. The decree which has been spoken of will doubtless have the effect of driving many, perhaps most, of the Germans from the soil of Western Russia. It will certainly have the further result of embittering still more the feeling of the two peoples against each other. Each sot of the four great locks of the Manchester, Eug. ship canal, now in process f construction, comprises a large lock, five undred and fifty feet by sixty feet: a mailer lock, three hundred feet by forty, for ordinary vessels; and one lock one hundred eet by twenty, for coasters and barges of he smaller size; and all of these are capable f being worked together. Each set of locks ill be worked by hydraulic power, thus nabling, it is asserted, vessels to be passed n the brief period of fifteen minutes. It is a leo expected by the projectors of this great ndertaking that Irwell and Mersey Rivers which will be diverted into the upper reaches of the canal—will supply more than ufficient water for the locks, even in the riest season. According to the plans of orking at present contemplated, the ex- ectation is entertained that vessels will be bee to navigate the canal with safety at a peed of five miles an hour, and the journey om the entrance at Eastham to Manchester ill be accomplished in eight hours. The Uncertainties of a Conductor's Life. "Railroads do not often reinstate a man after he has been bounced," said a veteran of the rail to me, as we were thundering along his road, "A passenger conductor is generally one who has been promoted from the brakes. Sometimes an engineer ismade a conductor, but you will find these thing an exception. Companies like to keep good engineers at the throttle. , They had rathe them more pay than promote thein As a rule it is first a brakeman on a freight then to the same place on a passenger, then conductor on a freight and by and by to the passenger train by mighty slow coaches. Many a passenger conductor has to work as "an extra" for two years or more before he gets a train of his own. And then, when the coveted place is in sight, he has a wreck, and if he hasn't a mighty good case and occasionally influence he gets bounced. Then he has to go to some other road andd begin at the bottom. I know a manwho has worked up in this way for ten years. The very first run he had with his regular train there was a•smash•up and after the investi- gation he was fired. He had saved up about $1,500. He took this money and went on the Board of Trade and lost every dollar in less than a week. He went to railroading again, at the brakes on afreight, for another company, and has just been put on as eon- ductor of a freight on a Western road that kills about six conductors every year, Barring the dangers of engineer, his place is thebest on the road. It ismighty seldom that an engineer, if he escapes, is held to account for an accident, The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is one of the strong- est and staunchest organizations on the face of the earth, and is the only ono that a rail- road directory is afraid of. But the place of conductor, especially passenger conductor, is the most ungrateful and uncertain that a man can hold." A paper says :-" We have adopted the eight -hoer system in this office p r Y e coin• inenee at eight o'clock in the morning, and close at eight in the evening." The Last Question on Examination Day. We were ranged on the floor in front of the visitors on examination day to be looked at, andanswer such questions as they or the teachers saw fit to ask. " Where was John Rogers burnt to death ?" said the teacher to me in a com- manding voice. I couldn't tell. "The next." "Joshua knows," said a little girl at the foot of the class. "Well," said the teacher, "If Joshua knows, he may tell," "In the fire 1" said Joshua, looking v_ry' solemn and wise. This was the last question. We had liberty to make all the novo we pleased for five sriinuteit, and then go home. A young pian named Darling lives in Toronto, and when any one calls to him, in the street every young lady near blushes and looks around, gently saying,'iSh, sh 1" Tho story of a strange bequest comes from Paris. M. Bareiller, ex -Mayor of Boissise-le-Roi, a country town situated in the Seine•et-Marne, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment in 1886 for having fired at and wounded a workman who pressed him for a debt of 10 shillings. M. Barelller was driven mad with anger by this sentence, and during his detention this sense of bitter- ness grew deeper. His constitution became shattered, and the disappointment of not receiving a pardon on July 14 wrought an alarming change in his condition. From that day ho could eat no food, and on the 20th inst. he died at the Melan Hospital. This ill-fated man was a landowner of good means, being worth about £24,000 Latterly he conceived an abhorrence of his country oh account of his countrymen, and he de- represented clared that he would spare no !importunity of revenging himself for all the infamy cast upon him by the French Judges. He drew sip two wills at different periods, by which he left his property of Boissise to Germany, represented by the Crown Prince, with the' object of establishing there a settlement of young Germans; s- e� ii She Would C Nadel ompla z}r,- ,. " Jennie," said a young lady.,'tu ing away from the mirror and. addresig a Gem pardon, " what would you do if you had a moustache on your lip ?" " If I liked him Y would keep quiet," was the demure reply.