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CfslAPTER VIII. I lug la its innoomit and g4ntle loveliness that
When all the tuesta at liaughton Abbey it outsheee all others. The proud, cola,
had retired for t e night, the lion. Cyril still extersor t t Hyacinth, showed to those
Rale 'Atoll sat in ail arinaehair in his own around her had. a charm for him apart from
roosts smoking and thinl.Ong i and the sub, all considerations of her wealth, and he gaze
jest of hie thoughts was Irliss Verschoyle's ed et her as if else lied cast a spell over him.
fainting fit on the bridge. The Hon, Blames°, however, cooceivieg
In spite of her contemptuous werniog that his reply coeeeived some remote allu.
and of tho strange feelings that it had. called sion to her age, excleineed, with a malicious
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to life within him, he was not clissatiseecl, gance-
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with his progress. She had deolioed to lis- " Tilting ? Oh, then you must know
test to anything approaching to loveonak- f Onething of English history 1 I thought
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in, but he had discovered that she , base a younger sons and detrimentaLs generally
seer et—a secret of such importance that a were too Inlay ruining themselees, and then
chance alhusiou to it could 4end the blood retrieving themselves by marrysug inoneY,
rom her cheeks and. alrnoat deprive her a to reed 3 ny thing but sporting papers and
her :senses. Upon thie knowledge he resolv- wills aud bequeatn
ed to rebuild his ruiued fortunes and greet- The Hon, Blanehe ought to have had tile
fy the consuming desire to break.. her cold discretion not to gond the Captain into a
proud spirit aud have her at his mercy. He war of words, for she knew him well enough
had won high stakes at whist and ecarte in to expect scant mercy at his hands when he
the smoking -room, and, with all a gambler's was roused ; and yet his indifference to her,
belief in luck, he told himself that the tide his wardering attention, filled her with an
was at last turning, that Lord Arenbeg's J. angry desire to interest him somehow, even
0. U. and Colonel Ponsonby's sovereigns by quarrelling with. Ho realised this,
were only the beginning of better things, awoke from a dreamy contemplation of
that now, at last, he was getting his Hyacinth's profile, and answered, with
chance. veiled insolence—
With such thoughts in his mind, he put "Pardon me—I did not quite follow you.
his arm behind his head, leaned back in hie tee were talking of marriage, were you
chair, and looked quite pleasantly at his not? Well, in these days when the mar -
servant Jim. riage-market is so frightfully overstocked,
"Where is Gannon now ?" a woman must have either beauty, money,
"'Sleep, sir, I should say, seeing as how or at least youth, to aspire to that happy
it's after one. state; don't you think so ?"—and he looked
Captain Haughton raised his eyes to a at her with a frark and brutal appreciation
black and gold clock on the mantel -piece of every line upon her faded cheeks which
which pointed to a quarter past one, nodded roused her temper.
;slightly, and said— Common sense warned her to say no more
e "Do you know anything about him, Jim and yet she would make another attempt
—I mean, before he got his discharge, or to defeat him.
even now ?" "I was not exaotly talking of mar-
" Well, sir, not to say much. He's a riage, but . of younger sons and their
silent sort of chap—sulky, I calls him, an' sometimes quite laugb,able efforts to marry
stand off—just does what he•s told, en' saya money. Poor fellows, they must not be
nothing. But in course I'd find out, sir. over -nice as regards beauty and youth ; or
sOne thing I do know—he was a swell, same
.as that other chap that's here with Lord
skrenbeg, an' that was his comrade out yon-
der"—pointing vaguely over his shoulder.
"I do assure you, sir, that when 1 sa.w
Garret Irish—as we called him—walk iuto
the dining -room in his black clothes' as
good as any, you could have knockedme
down with a feather—you could indeed 1"
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be WAS teen, she was
still, as ihneeeht, as shy, as gentle, Nri on Ow
nWrning of her presentation,
4 4. GQ fan," he eetreateci—" do 1, 1 wriut, th
Ionise year thoughts about love, abOve 41
things,"
"Ne"--- langhing an 1 Pulling her large
hat down over her eyes—"the 1 see Yoe are
amused at somethiug. Have I said isnythieg
ridiculous ?"
"1 was very much interested and—well,
yes—just a little amused at your giving um
to eederstand that yeur only knowledge of
love is derived from books,"
"I don't see how that sheuld amuse you,
seeing that it is true," she answered half
shyly, half stiffly, looking straight before
her down a lome avenue of elm -trees, and
feeling unoomfortebly nervous aud yet not
unhappy.
"Is it indeed true? Do tell me 1 Tell me
that much about yourself, Lily, A girl is
each ae enigma to a—a man that he may
know her for years, worship her all his life,
and be in utter ignorance of her real char-
acter, Lily—dear Lily 1"—aud he caueht
her soft hand and turned her gently towards
him.
But the girl, shrinking from the very
avowal which she most wished to hear,
hastily drew her hand away, saying—
"Look—there is some one coining!
think it is a groom."
Garret looked, with an unspoken wish
that the groom might break his neck, or at
least take himself then and there out of
sight; but, when he saw the tall figure of
his friend, he was ashamed of himself, and
said hastily—
"Excuse me, de—I mean Lily; he—I
think—that is, 1 know—he wants to speak
to me."
' "Certainly, of course—I shall turn back,"
she replied, vexed that he should leave her
euch a momeut, and to speak to a servant.
He saw that she was offended, that this
golden opportunity would be lost, that she
might not allow him another during his
stay at Haughton Abbey. But he did not
hesitate; love for once had to give place to
friendship.
"1 shall not be long," he said—" pray
wait for me I Pray do not go back with-
out me l"—and he looked so distressed that
perhaps they look for them in other quart- she iorgave him at once, and sat down on
er.s" ' the root of ono of the trees to await his re
I turn.
Captain Haughton glanced again at Hya-
cinth, and smiled; he was not sufficiently " I hope I have not disturbed you," said
Glynn. ".I have something I must say to
interested to be angry—in fact, he was bor.
you; • and I declare I feel as if 1 had no
ed, and had business on his hands that right
to take you by the hand. I never
would not be forwarded by bickering with really lost nry identity until I got the
this ill-tempered little vixen—as he some- Haughthn crest on my buttons. A man can
feel a gentleman in a Hussar jacket; but
this 1"—and he looked at himself in utter
disgust.
"Thea why in the name of all that's
sensible do you wear it ?" exclaimed Garret.
"Would not America be better ?"
"Yes," replied the other slowly. "1
ought never to have come here—never; and
I am going away now, having been treated,
by one to whom. I have given proofs of my
honor and truthfulness, with black ingrati-
tude and suspicion. There—it's a matter
I cannot speak of as I would ;" and, turn-
ing, he strode a pace or two away; then,
coming back, he said, "1 saw you talking to
that young beauty yonder—are you in love
with, her, Garret ? '
"Yes," answered the young man steadi-
ly, and yet bashfully, "1 ; and she—
that is—I haven't asked hewese, you see;
but—" And he stopped. es
"Is she not the heiress's sister le .
"Yes—Miss Verschoyle. She 'Is your
sin." ,
She has iah'in'oney, I believe ?" •
Mete, aniglad to say. I don't want
nee,. I can offer her comfort, even lux'-
, Otter a triederate fashion."
e "And she, brought up by her sister, and
veith her great beanty—do you imagine she
will be content with that ?"
"1 do,_Gleen ; I can hardly say what
grounds I have for it, but I do hope so."
Neville, Whose sojourn at Haughton Ab-
bey had not improved his general health
or good looks stood silent for a moment,
and then said:—
(ro BE CONTINUED.)
The Loneliness of Age.
The loneliness of age! How few think of
this and treat with due tenderness and con-
Iteleration those who have out -lived their
generation, and whose early companions
ancl friends have been taken from them 1 Un-
able to engage in the activities of life, they
what disrespectfully termed the Hon.
Captain Haughton nodded again, and, Blanche—and he gazed round quite despair -
still gazing at the fire, murmured—
" Ah—comrades—chums, as you would ingly for some means of deliverance from
h r elutches.
say ?" i It was a Mir and animated scene that he
Jim Kelly saw at once that his master ,
looked upon, this old bowliug-green of
had a purpose in pumping him about
Haughton Abbey, with its high brick wall
Gerret Croft and his own underling,
on one side, and the beginnirg of Haughton
Gannon, and he knew that the active
Chase, with its ranks of oak and elm, on the
forwarding of his xnaster's purposes
other. The fiat green stretch of sward where
generally resulted in sovereigns; therefore,
Earls of Redshirehad played matches with
with an expression of profound respect on
their friends aud guests for generations, and
his tanned and wrinkled face, he went on
which was now turned into a tennis -court,
talking, quite sure that, the more ;soluble he
was all alive with damsels in broad hats,
wason the subject of Croft aed Gannon,
short skirts, and blouses, and men in flannel
the better it would be for himself hereafter.
costumes; while the hum of voices and the
"Yes, sir, just as you say—chums.
pleasant sound of leughter mingled with the
When I see these two swells—for Gannon is P
every inch a swell, perhaps more that than strains of a regimental. band from Chester
the other—keeping to themselves as much "1 bee• your pardon—I have a message
as possible, an' hunting in couples as a mau for Miss Verschoyle," muttered the How
might say, why, I watched 'ene—end so I , Cyril at last, seeing "no other means of es -
does Gannon now, he being, in a way, under , cape.
my eye, an' the other, in a way, not." ; ' Oh, do not let me detain you 1 Of course
"Captain lia,u,ghton, who had lapsed into it is part of a younger's son's mission in aoe
a state of boredom during this speech, now ciety to carry messages to rich women," res
yawned, and interrupted sleepily-- plied Blanche sweetly; endear; helastened
"Well, and what did or do you observe? away, she flattered herself , that the victory
Get on, I im —get on 1" I was hers.
" Wily, .1r, not so much, after all, except; A gentle muamur of applause, :a ' slight
that they write to one another, an' that clapping of gloved hands, and beauefful Lily
Gannon seems uncommonly shy of the Verfehoyle ffung down her racket,,and, with
ladies." cheeks faintly scarlet and blue eYes;spark-
" Of the ladies ?" Captain Haughton Was ling with triumph, pulled off her broad -
awake now, and listening in good earnest. 2 brimmed hat and began fanning herself with
"Yes, sir. The other day he an' I wee w
in the stables bandaging the King's leg— i "Let ,me do that; and. come into the
you took it out of him 'Pretty well, sir, ae, shade—do 1" said her partner, Garret Croft,
bringing of him home from Wallasey,an' earnestly. "The sun will ruin your com-
some of 'em—" , .. • s •
plexione and he took the hat from her, and
"Miss Verschoyle—was Miss TerelloYle held it over her head.
there?" , She laughed, blushed, and looked up at
"Yes, sir; au' her sister, an some more . '
his bronzed face as she answered-
-brought to look at the horses; an', my
" Oh, I don't get freckled I I turn a sort
eyes, if you were to see how Gannon bolt !
of golden brown In the sun—at least I used;
ed !"—and with a salute Jim stopped.
of course I have to be more careful now."
His mastei reflectedor a moment,
I "And may I ask, Miss Lily, do you pre -
then said --Fe no longer brought into contact and
fer this sort of lift, or do you sigh for that
" You Say lie and Croft write to each
other; did -Gannon ever show you any of unsophisticated period when you were al-
sympathy with those around them, and no
those letters ?" i lowed to get sunburnt ?" he asked, with an tie of common interest and mutual depend-
" He ? No, sir, no—he's too stand offish. amused look.
1 ence binds them together. Their views and
tastes have naturally grown apart. They
That's what nuide me think him a swell at She took her hat from his hand and walk-
share but little in common with others.
ed slowly towards the belt of trees as she
terst--for he's good at everything, an doesn't
answered — The future of this life has nothing to in -
inspire their ambition or excite their hopes.
What calls forth the energies of others has
no inspiration for them. They necessarily,
to a great extent, live in a world of their
own, with which those around them are
shirk his work. "Well, I suppose the proper thing would
The"ewell" questioning him smiletlfaMtly I
be to say 'Yes,' and regret my torn gowns,
at this left-handed complimentto his order,
broken boots, and general poverty; but you
and, turning so as to look into lus valet s
see I don't. I like living in a nice house
aoe, asked—
"When Gannon receives those letters, ' suchas the Grange Is now, I like haviug
not famthar: The communings of their
ponies to drive, and pretty clothes to wear
what does he do, with them? Burn them? hearts are with the senses of the past and
1 without having to mind much ff I tear them.
Lock them up ?" / have a the coerpanions of other years, that have
happy knack of tearing my long since passed away. Lover and friend
"Both, sir—carries 'em about with him
dresses, as you may perceive. Other girls
in a pneket-book with a lock to it, an' after tennis:1. look 1 theyhave been taken from them, and their ac-
in
while burns 'em. I've seen him."
play
"Then there might be a letter—or more were just turned out of a band -
than" one—there at any time—now for in-
box but 1—And she exposed a three
I
stance?" cornered rent in her thick blue -and -white
Captain Haughton, gazing steadily at his 1 "Yes, you are different from other girls—
servant, said—
very different," he said, looking at her with
"Jim, could you get hold of—in plain eyes more eloquent than his tongue,
English steel ---that pocket -book ?" "And Hyacinth is so good," she continued
es 'Yes, sir, I think I could, sir," said Jim, completely ignoringhis observation as they
with perfect composure, as if roi
bing from walked farther and farther in among the
the person was among the most ordinary trees. "She just acts as it the money be -
duties of a,gentleman's valet. longed to us am. She sent all the boys to
"Well "—with an anmeed look—" clo so, Trinity, and gave each one a. profession.
and as soon as possible. If you can get the She has turned the Grange into the most
key, so much the better, for then it can go beautiful place you ever saw—spent thou -
back intact." sands of poueds upon it; and mamma and
"Yea, sir. That's all, sir ?" papa and I are just rolling in wealth, which
"Except—yes---that's all. You quite is pleasant after our long poverty, Mr.
understand, Jim ?" Croft."
" Yr' sir --all on the quiet sir." 1 "And you are never disturbed by the
"i1 utly ; and, if this turns up trumps, ' thought that scene day, when your beautiful
your tortune's mete as well as mine. Now sister marries"—with a slight grimace, for
yon may ge," there was a curious unexpressed antipathy
* * * * between Garret and Miss Verschoyle—" all
"1 wonder how we girls managed to wee ' this will cease, Miss Lily."
before tennis was invented; do youknow, 1 "1 don't think Hyacinth will ever marry,
Captain Haeghtou ?"—and the Hon. Blanche Mr. Croft," said the girl soberly.
Doughty turned a somewhet faded face to Oh, all ladies say that suntil the man—
that individual. the one mail or them—appears 1"
"0h, there was always something going "Bub suppose the one man bars appeared
on—there was tilting you keow 1" answer and—and disappeared long ago ?"
ed the Captain, not in the lease meanieg to " Indeed 1' exclaimed the , young man,
etre offenee, but just to fill the paese20 curious to hear more W
for he 'as secretly
that perpetual streare of small -talk vehicle convinced that the heiress had had a great
seciety hes decreed must be gracefully kepe cleat to do with Glynn Neville's ehatige of
up between its members. Ile was more irolie
teeetsted in watching_I-Iyiseinter's pale face, ' But Lily was not going to talk, exeept in
Which -was holf hidden by the large brim of the most general terms, of her sister's
he hat , , affairs,
Miss Verachoyle wag not playing, brit 3 "Yes" she said slowly, "1 tun sure—
stendiog a, little apart frorn the rest of the (vette sure—Eryacitith will never marry.
people grouped bout the tennieground. You know --at least books say—that 0 WO,
It Was not her beauty, fair as it wae, that men can really heve orily ate love in het
itt spite of himself drew Houghton's eyes to. life and then she stopped ; for Owlet
ards her • for there Was one thi
ere n all WAS lookieg et her with ouch adoring eyes,
"1 should say so, sir." 1 embroidered skirt for his inspection.
quaintance laid in darkness. The forms
they admired and loved are gone, the eyes
that looked into theirs with the tenderest
affection are sightless, and the voices that
cheered and stirred their souls have long
been silent. Their early world of hope
and joy has become a desolation, and they
sit in silence, contemplating the ruin that
has been wrought, They have but little to
interest them in this world, and are
Only waiting till the shadows
Aro a little longer grown."
Who would not do what he can to cheer the
loneliness of age, to smooth their pathway
and to comfort them in their declining years
The Great Pub/io School.
The world is e great public &shoal, and it
soon teaches a new pupil bis proper place.
If he has the attributes that belong to a
leader, he will be installed in the position
of a lender; if not, whatever his own opinion
of hie abilities may be, he will be compelled
to fall in with the rank and file. If not
destined to greatness, the next best thing to
which he can aspire is respectability; but
no 1000 can either be truly great or truly
respectable who is vain, pompous and over-
bearing. By the time the novice has found
his legitimate social position, be the same
high eir low the probability is that the dis-
agreeable traits of his character will be
softened down or worn away. 11/1ost likely
the prooese of abrasion will be rough—pets
haps very rough ; but, when it is all over,
and he begins to see himself as others see
him, and tot as refleeted in the mirror of
fielf-comeeit, he will be thatikful that he has
ran the gauntlet and arrived—thoegh by a
rough read—at self,knowledge. Upon the
Whole, Whatever loving mothers may think
to the contrary, it is a, good thing for youths
neeleteoknocite,d &bout in the world—itmakes
itheni
the fresh perfection of youth, with eyes like and listening with such an eppearenee of Birds of sombre plumage build epee waste
the blue of slienteer skiefa, her golden hair intense interest, that she could not help the the beilliattly-coloured Ones either have
glittering in the sure with a feee 10 lascinat- colour rising to her cheek& Icor, although covered nests or built in holes in trees.
BArrftsa WitEION grafi.
Anbies are now PrAheed chemically in
(geese peefectioo,
Duelling among women is beeoming fash-
ioaable he Frame.
All the ordeellese in Alsace-Lorraine now
use bicycles or trieyelea.
The eceneq for Beery Irvingai Modem;
tour will 611 sixty freight vans.
An enormeue oil field has been discovered
lo Venezuele neer leke Maracaibo.
Mr Andrew Carnegie will probably soon
pay g1.1.5,000 for Aboyee Castle.
The electric light is now being used in
the Scotch fisheries with great success,
The Meyer of St. Die iu the Vosges, has
forbiddeu the pale of den. Boulanger's por-
trait,
A Parisian doetor has seezi the Pope late-
ly, and says he is certainly good for ten
years more,
At balls et Hamburg evening dress is not
demanded, Dark clothes and a black tie
are permitted.
The head of the Sultan's harem is now a
Christian woman, beautiful, cultivated, and
a Spaniard. els
The Bulgarian Government have this year
given orders for 124,000 medals for the army
for bravery." 41.
The pilgrims from ladies to Mecca will
henceforth make the pilgrimage to the sa-
cred ehrine on Cook's tickets.
Fraseuelo, the bull fighter, has been offer-
ed $50,000 for four pertormauces in the city
of Mexico, and he eas accepted.
The Glauco Boat club of Triesite has been
diseelved by the Austrian Goveenment be-
cause it took part in the regattas of Venice.
Black rot has attacked the is
in sev-
eral parts of France, and it s thouget the
losses will be immense.
The " Melograph " has been invented, by
which a person can improvise on a piano
aud have the music recorded.
Cricket has been introduced into Holland.
The Dutch are said to be light and active,
and to make good cricketers.
One hundred aud fifty-five thousand brioka
made on Mr. Gladstone's estate have been
shipped to Boston for a new court house.
Five thousand Protestants recently cele-
brated the edict of toleration of Louis XVI.
upon a peak of the Cev, nes Mountains.
Sir John Lubbock says that among a cer-
tain hill tribe of India it is a mark of re-
spect and gratitude to put the thumb to the
nose.
A check for a million and three-quarters
sterling was paid to the Bridgewater Nav-
igation Company lately for its work on the
Manehester ship canal.
To the Boulanger hat, the Boulanger
pipe, and the Boulanger bitters, the French
have now added the Boulanger soap, with
which the barbers can shave their German
customers.
The news that Mme. Etelka Gerster has
contracted with Abbey and Grau for a con-
cert tour in America will be welcome to a
great many lovers of music, aLe it probes
that whatever truth there may be in the
stories of her having lost her voice, her
health, &c., she halo at least recovered.
She telegraphs the news of her reappear
-
nice on the sta,ge from her home in central
Italy.
Etsglishegirlis are coming out as grand
swimmer. 'Five little maids swam a race
of eighty yards at Portsmouth last week
and made wonderful time. Miss Dempsey,
who won, went through all that water in
1 minute 25 seconds, and Miss Couzens,
second came in only three yards behind)
Miss Johnson'daughter of the former
ceampion of England started from the
scratch in a mile race in Sweden, and beat
both male aud female swimmers, some
with a hundred yards' start.
Bicyclists are going mad just now on re-
cord breaking. Dubois, the Frenchman,
has this week beaten every Previous record
between two miles and twenty-one miles,
the latter distance having been accomplish-
ed in 59 minutes 15 seconds. Dubois beat
the two-mile record by eight seconds, and
hOhas made twenty five miles in 1 hour 10
minutes 34 seconds. Merry Hampton
keeps well and maintains his place at the
heal of the candidates for the Leger. Car-
rasco aed Kilwarlin are also doing work,
but Eirnispord is it anything a little fine;
Dr. Lysaght of the Bristol, England
Royal Infirmary, sacrificed his life in an
effort to save a patient. About a fortnight
age a man was admitted to the infirmary suf-
fering from an affection of the throat, sup-
posed to be diphtheria. The operation of
tracheotomy was performed by DeLysaght,
but the tube becoming choked, the last
chance of saving the man's life was for some
one to apply his lips to the tube and suck the
moisture. This Dr. Lyseght did, but without
avail for shortly afterward the patient
died of suppressed scarlatina. Dr. Lysaght
caught the disease in its worse form and
died. A window is to be erected in the in
firmaly to his memory.
rJie Storm Olota tii tite 404
There liVaS a time when AbdeerahMati., Wise
by the seldiere and treaeltres of the Fouglish
was mule Amer of Cabill in lien Of Yeeuh
1‹,han, deposed, was knoWn as 1* the eterre
bird of Afghanustale", T/Ut Ablahrrlibuiem
roperted, on trnstworthy authority tole bed-
ridden, if eoe moribund, and he'will cos,
sequently be no longer regarde es a fib leader
eveby hie fellow tribesineeesehe leettanie,
to sees nothing of the Ghilzeis, who of late
'ewe tried to reimport the aseendaurY
whieh they meietained in the last century.
The role of peetender which heetised to plaY
Is pow to be assumed With getter energY
E fair prospect of suceeas by his coleins
Ayoub Khan, the brother of Newel) Rimini
and tleerefore, of course, a see cif the °polies -
doubtable Shore Ali. ,
The escape of Ayonb Khan from Persia
bodes evil to the Cabulese regime and ds
Anglo-Indian patron, not only on accouet of
his personal qualities and the intestine dis-
order of Afghanistan, but Dew beetiese it is
impossible not to detect the hand of Rorie
on the incident. The Shah would never have
risked, by any unintended remissness upon
Iii e pert, the large sudsidy, paid him by the
Calcutta Government for keepieg Ayeub in
captivity. He must have deliberatele con-
nived at his prisoner's escepe, and his con-
nivance can only have been purohard by
guarantees of equal or larger remuneration
from another quarter, Russia is plabilF the
only power interested in outbidding Eng-
land for the possession of a princewhose
importance consists in his ability to make
trouble in Afghanistan. It is true that re-
ports differ as to the directon taken by the
fugitive, but whether he went northward
straight into the Russian posselseious or east-
ward toward !Ararat, he is pretty certain soon
to be heard of in the Heratese region.
Ayoub Khan would hardly undertake to
assail Cabul from the north threugh Afghan
Turkestan, because that is precisely the dis-
trict in which the inherited influence of the
present Ameer is strongest. The new pre-
tender is, on the other hand, specially influ-
ential in 'Drat, of which, until he was beat-
en by Gen. Roberss, he was the ruler, and
nothing would be easier than a sudden swoop
upon the town from the Russian advanced
posts on the Murghab, or the Heri Rub.
Ostensibly, no doubt, his followers upon
such an incursion would be his own partisans,
recruited among Afghan refugees • but if
their numbers happened to be swelled by a
good many Turcomens from Mery and Geak
Tope, and even some Oriental officers in the
Russian service, like Alikanoff, it might cost
the British Foreign Office some time and
tronble to uncover the facts. No one im-
agines that Russia, just after the official
regulation of boundaries upon which Lord
Salisbury has plumed himself, would avow
designs upon Herat, but she has found the
needed cloak for them in Ayoub's pretension
to succeed if not supersede, his cousin, the
Ameer.
But may not the Czar, it may be asked,
again pull chestnuts from the fire for the
benefit of his Calcutta rival? He used to pay a
handsome stipend to Abdurrahrpan at Ta'ssh-
kend, and when he connived at the reenen
of his mominal prisoner to Afghanistan he
must have supposed that his protege
would recognize his obligations. Yet, on
the contrary, no sooner did the claim of Ab-
durrahman to the Ameership thretsten to be
successful, than the Anglo-Indian authorities
bought him over with a splendid subvention
of arms and money. That Ayoub, however,
wilh be able in his turn to sell out his- bene-
faleter theme improbable, becatnie the Rus-
sians, being now close to Herat, will have
their hands upon their protege.
The event of interest in France is the
mobilization of the Nineteenth Army Corps,
the quarters of which are at Toulouse.
The idea is to test the speed with which
enormous bodies of men can be got together
in perfect fighting condition on short no -
ice. The scene of the experiment has wisely,
been laid near the Spanish frontier as far
as possible from the great centre of inter-
national irritation in Europe—Alsace and
Lorraine. The result of the experiment
will be eagerly awaited, as evidence of the
progress whith the French have made. It
will nrobablv be cbffioult for the public
to form an opinion, however, for already t
the authorities are quarrelling as to whet
results are possible, and to obtain anything
like a general opinion from the wise men
when it is all over will, of course, be out
of the question.
Historical.
At a, recent examination of children un-
der 13 years of age attending the London
Board schools, the following replies were
given in answer to the questions asked :
"Write a short account of the Conquest
of Ireland." "The conquest of Ireland was
begtn in the year 1170, and is etill going
,i
"Name some of the leading events in the
life of Lord Nelson." One led began his
answer with these words :—"Mr. Nelson
wee a sailor; the Ring made hilt a lord,
which pleased Mrs. Nelthe very much."
"What es a, compound Sentence ?" "A
compound sentence is a senteece about
many things in generel, and about nothing
in particular."
"Why Was the ark of bulrushes, in whieh
Moses was pet, daubed with alines and with
pitch?" "nee make bier stick inside," was
the reply of a little boy,
Whet tlie last gambling hail is driven
from American and European civilisation,
the gamblers will go to 'L'orquin. ]four
hundred and twenty.three thousand francs
is Elie ;militia license fee froth the gambling
honses,
Ayoub Khan.
The British Government have good -rea-
son eo dread the appearance 01step9ub Khan
in Afghatuetan,e and it is not surprieing
that they 'ire making strenuous effogts to
prevent him from reaching that country.
England can ill-aftord to lose the services
of even so doubtful an ally as Abdurralime.n,
and there is good reason to suppose that the
Ghilzai cause would be immensely strength-
ened by the arrival of Ayoub, whose aim is
one withthat of the rebels, namely, restor-
ation ,Lif Shere Ali's dynasty.
For some years Ayoub Khan has been
waiting to take his revenue for the depose
tion of his brother and the destruction of
his ow n prospects of succession to the Afghan
throne. When, in 1868, Yakoub Khan de-
feated Afzul Khan, seized Kandahar, and
proclaimed Share Ali, his father, Ameer of
Afghanistan, it was naturally supposed that
he would next succeed to the throne of
Kabul. Shere Ali, however, marritel anew
wife, who bore him a son, Abdoola Jan,
and the latter became so much the favourite
of the Ameer that in 1873 he was proclaimed
his successor. This enraged Yakoub, the
first son, and Ayoub, the second, and the
former raised the standard of revolt, making
Herat his headquarters. In 1874 he was
enticed to Kabul by his father with promises
of reconciliation and was treacherously
thrown into prison, There he remained
until 1878, when he was released upon the
death of Abdoola in answer to the urgent
remonstrance of the Indian Government.
In the followsng year war broke out between
Afghanistan and India, and after a short
campaign Shere Ali, fled to Balkh, where he
died. Yakoub then succeeded him, and at
the same seine Ayoub was made Governor of
the district of Kandahar.
Shortly after followed the massacre of Sir
Louis Cavageari and his companions Yakoub
was deposed In consequence and carried to In-
dia as a political prisoner, and the present
Ameer was placed on the throne. AyoubKhan
had espoused his brother's cause. Starting
from Herat with a large army, he almost
annihilated General Burrows' forte of 3,000
men at Maewatd, near the Helmund leas( r,
July 27, 1880. Advancing still further he
besieged. Kandahar, and General Roberts
was barely able, by forced marehes from
Kabul, to relieve the city. Ayoub retreated
to Beret, where, on July 3 e 1881, he de -
foisted a large army under the Ameer, Ab-
durra.hman Khan. He was finally forced,
however, to flee into Persia, taking with him
• a large amount of treasure and a nurnber of
followers. For some years efter nothing
more was heard of him, until in 1885, when
; he made an effort to escape into Afghanistan,
it transpired that he had been living for
some time in Teheran in receipt of a pension
from the British Government. The result
, of his attempt to return to his native country
° was that he was insP'sisoned by the Shah of
Persia at the request of the British Minister,
Now that he has eseaped from this bondage
it is feared that he will make another effort
to secure tho threne. Ho is still considered
by many Afghan warriors as the greatest
general that ever held. a governorship in his
natiVe land, and the rebels wotild undoubt.
edly flock to his standardin gteater numbers
then evee before. His brother, Yaltoule
who IS still a State prisoner in India, has be,
come an itnbecilefrom excessive indulgence
in alcoholic liquors, and Ayoub therefore
claims the throne by rig', t of is!,t4,oe8sion„
England has good reason for anxiety as to
his movements.
Gladsteme has agreed ,to drive the
flrat pile of a Cheshire line's bridge across
the Dee.
SUN Ali—rirr lir,ROIC$ a'XQII:i.
* SabY'S reOterese belMer'e Denth? A finv.
Th9 dcatheriscrio'solito
, wroni.ix ..sxaith, which
toek p1e00 ifs New Yea:a feW weeks, age,
has brenglit to light a eery rernarkable HI,
,
Oidelit. Mi44 Bhett 31$ron, the PrilieiPal
ligere in the drama, le A Per,1911a1 friend of
yours^ oorreSPOndeat, and froln her the fel-
leering facto heve been ebte1ne(4 witeh Per"
mission for their publicetion- HaYne "17rexi,
the father et title yoeng ledy, was,e, planter
siSi 11:rtiSttL11:111.1141 1 e°dha °r11°I sliyei I:411.61P' co4aldil°81alhes °r otn: in
iv :i.‘‘adhs 4fP:ritttbeil:311'
Elayell, His femily consistee , of his Wife
and Ithett, who Was then a littleschild. At
the breaking out of the war, in the fall. of
1861, !Jayne Myron joined a volunteer
$outh Carolina regimeut. Before leayieeg
home he had a picture of his little girl
pairitnti in miniature, and enceeed its. he a
locket that he placed next to his heart,ix
01
months later, in a sleirmish, in Virgi ia,
Bayne Myron wes killed. in close oo at,
by a Federal officer. Ouly a few words
were sent to the old home to tell the sad
story.
During Gen. Sherman's invasion into
South Carolina, the Myron homestead wee
destroyed. The widow and daughter con-
tinued to live on the plantation in an out-
building, supported b,y the rents from the
lands. Two years ego efre. Myron died,
and through the influence of friends Miss
Myron obtained a position as governess in
the family of Col. W. R. Smith of New
York. She stated to me that her first meet-
ing with Col. Smith wee peculiar. That
when his wife introduced her to him, saying,
"This is our new governess from South
Carolina, Miss Rheto Myron," his face be-
came deathly white, and he gave a sudden
start. He was absent from home when Mrs.
Smith engaged her. He mechanically shook
hands with her and tried to speak, but hia
lips seemed sealed. But later his manner
changed to kindness and cordiality, and she
was treated more as an honored guest than
a salaried teacher. He insisted on paying
her four times the amount she charged for
her services, and made her duties light.
One evening she was bitting in the family
circle, telling of her past life down in South
Carolina, of the spacious house with its
twenty columns, of the dusky slaves, who
used to sit her on their shoulders, calling
her their "little queen" as they carried her
through the cotton fields that looked like
seas of snow foam. For the first time she,
spoke of her father, how handsome and sad
he looked as he went away on that dreadful
last day; how he took her picture with him,
and told all he said. She states that she
was forced to stop in the midst of her words,
for Col. Smith turned ghastly pale and left
the room. Miss Myron continued to live
with Col. Smith's frimily for two years.
"It was a haven and home to me," she
said. "I had so long toiled and worked on
our plantation, isolated from society and all
advantages, it was like a fairy life had
openecl to me of ease and luxury, but my
hear e was almost breaking, as I remember-
ed all that I had lost in those sad, sweet
days."
Six weeks ago Col. Smith was e sud-
denly ill, ancl when he realized th t death
was inevitable he expressed a desire to see
Miss Myron alone: She states that as she
neared the bed of thewlying man, she saw
laim holding something convulsively in one
hand, as he extended the other to her and
exclaimed : • 4
" Rhett Myron forgive me before I die;
without your pardon I cannot die; come
close and listen to ethat I have to tell you.
It was I who made you an orphan ; my
hands are red with your father's. blood.
Take this," he said, hendine me the pack-
age; "1 found it on his dying. breast. It
is your face ; your name and s' erne are
upon.it. Take it, and forgive o1ipho has
tried to expatiate the wrongs done you.
Oh ! can you forgive a dying man ?" and
the voice became faint and low.
" Oh ! sir, yon both were soldiers; I free.
fllyoofr.orgive," and the poor girl could say no
more, as she fell unconscious upon the
"Thank God," he murmured, and all
was over.
When Rhett Myron recovered, the man
who had killed her father, and who was
later the best friend she ever knew, was
dead. In his will, he bequeathed to her
the generous sum of $15,000. He also left
a letter giving all the particulars of her
father's death. • Only a few days ago I saw
the picture—a sweet child face in an azure
cloud, and on the little plush case were
marks of blood.
A Poser From Paterfamilias.
FATHER—"Now, children, why is the
Chicora at her wharf like a pillow ?"
CHILDREN (with one voice) — "Don't
know."
FATHER.—"Becanse it's in a slip."
A GENEROVS CONSTANY.—A beautiful pre-
sent will be given by the Breadma,kers'
Yeast Company, of Toronto, to nearly every
one, as long as they last—first come first
served. The most accompliplishecl woman
has still something worthy to be added to
her list if she hes never yet made a good
sweet white loaf of bread. To encourage
the art of Home Bread -making this Com-
pany have secured ten thousand presents,
which will be sent to all who comply witk
their terms. 'Utley wait all who are old
enough either to follow Directions or work
under instructions, to learn how to make
bread. They will take your word for it
when you hese succeeded to your own
satisfaction in using their Hop Yeast, and
write them to say so, enclosing a wrapper of
O five cent package of THE BREADMAHEie
YEAST, when they will send in retlerti
lovely gift. This offer is open to any ung
lady, girl, single or married woman, Mat-
ron or housekeeper who has never before
made a loaf of bread. Any person having
domestic charge of a household who is
not now baking for the family, and who will
commence by using their yeast, and who will
send to them the wrapper of a package
and write to that effect, will receive a still
better class of gift than that above offered.
Better yet; any one at present making their
own bread,using their own or other yeast,
but who will buy a five cent package of the
13reacimakerte Yeast from any grocer Or
storekeeper, and, after using, will write to
say that their Yeast is Superior, they will
believe her also, and will itetonish that lady
by return mail with, a lovely gift. Yoe
Must get the yeast from your . own grocer.
Dolftsend money te the Cempeey direct.
Fifteen of the Protestant churches hi
Philadelphie have been closed during this
month. A 'religion Which can't stand a
month of hot weather is not eoneidered by
the Qtrakers juse the thing to tie to.
The Sporting Reeordo
In Hoek Perin, eonttlias a Coh.ect record tho rAST-
800 TIME ate hest porformancesin parAltntaNtS
or SCOUT,. Antiatic and Athletic performances,
ttowg axe Trotting records, llasebalT, Crickets,.
Liierasse, ate erica La 8tamp5 taken, Address air,
°rata to TIM ItigO0it1), GO Front a, East, Toronto,
Canada, goon Islo. 16,