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The Exeter Times, 1887-9-29, Page 2LOVE'S TR I t: MPH. "1 deelino to disc my looks with you, Meese take me baok." He took no notice a her request, but smiled in her face, and replied almost with nisolence, for he was not ORO to spare either By the Author of "KTe M4SS1Y'S FALSialgon," " Bv4Tniou's Animatin" "4 Foo men or woman wheu he had them at his Lovn ea K1NDRiD ?" "A. GoLoL'Ig DuE.alu," &o„ &o, morerr-- " You think I an impudent, familiar- — wen, Gerret, I am going away, and— — But it's 0 no use warning you agaiuet that girl, of course "—the last words sotto voce. " Oh,1 kuow what you think about, girls too well for that ! And Pm not surprised at your going ; I only wonder you stood it so tong. Such a lite for you Soldiering was bad. enough I" " Well, as to that, I was mostly in the stables ; I saw my master very seldom. But look here—I AM going to say something to you; and you must forgot it the not moment, for 1 ought to keep it to myself, but 1 cannot—I meet tell you, because I feel it will, nelp,me to brood less over it when I am alone, ' He paused, sighed heavily, and fixed his eyes on the ground at their feet as they strolled along a winding path among the tees. Garret, too bewildered to utter a word, put his erm about his companion's neck, and se walked beside him as he used to do when, they were schoolboys together. 431ynnas gloomy face brightened a little but he took no notice of the action beyeedglano iug at his friend. "1 am cooing away," he said again.—"part ly because I ought never to have melee here nut ohiefly because I have been robbed." "Robbed ejeculated Garret. ' Yes—not of money or of money. -value but of something that it was silly to rob nee of, for I can easily get the same again. I is the motive for the deed that outs me to the heart, the sordid fear and suepioion of me ; still---" His face grew pale as he spoke, aud his voice was hoarse and low. "The in ? But can you fix on. the person who robbed you?" asked Garret, be- wildered by these half -confidences. " can.How it was done puzzles me; that in all probability, I shall never know —indeed. 1 hardly care to know; the fact remains the same. So I shall leave this place to -night." a Questions „rose to Garret's lips as to the robber and what bed been stolen, but he kept them back, and only asked— For where! Is it New York at last ?" "Yes, I sappose so—London first, though." "You will not forget your promise— you will write to me, Glynn?" "Of course ! and I shall want to know how your love -making is progressing ; and I believe my master"—with a grimace—"is going in for my cousin, the heiress. I should like to hear how he fares at her hands." "Oh, she will refuse him, of course—a little more contemptuously perhaps than usual, as he ought to know! Better men then Cyril Haughton have had No' from her proud lips. I don't think she would, or will take the golden circle unless a prince offers it; and even ninety thousand,pounds will hardly buy a prince nowadays.' The ex -trooper listened to these observa- tions with what seemed to his friend an ex- pression of relief, and then stOpped and held out his band, saying— "Well, good-bye then, dear old friend, and be sure to write to me. There's a short nut down this path to the stables; and you know"—with a smile—" I must leave every thing in order before I go." They shook hands as men do who know not whether they may ever meet again. Then Glynn—a tall and athletic figure with the unmistakable air of a gentleman show- ing through his groom sdress--turned away among the trees, and Garret Croft, his blue eyes susptcmusly moist, went back to his golden-heired enchantress to excuse hum -'self for his long absence. The might a was absurd enough. to faint was it not? Yes, it ia cooler out there, I dare eay, and I am threatened with a heed - ache," she answered; and petting the tips of her fingers on Captain I-laughter:in arm, she walked slowly into the loieo, low ceilecl drawing -room, where it number of non - dancers of both sexes were talking mild scandal or indulging in it little flaitetion, She took it long white °loan trimmed with a mass of Italian embroidery •in envoi,' aud gold thread which lay ou a °ouch near her, and, throwthe, it roencl her sheuldere, passed out of the open window et Ilaughtoon side. "1 wonder whetaer Ilauenton bas any real chance ?" said old Colonel Blair, geeing after Hya.ciath and her cavalier as they walked down the lamp -lit terrace. "The fellow is head over ears in debt-- fast, you know—bowaing caodle at both cede and a little in the middle—horses, dogs, cards, drink—ay, and pink bonnets, as we used to call them long agn ; and she knows that, of course. Women—for all their innocent looks—are generally up to the ways of men. won11n't m, anentay. I don't eee - I b k hi what tremp he holds, except that he belongs lips in sncli an agony of fear, ehamis, and en- - to a good family; he °Inn offer her what treaty that Haughton, hardened and pre , she has been offered before, if all tales are pared to gloat over her utter discomfiture true. "Perhaps he puts Ws trust in downright form of words that he lied been for two , impudence and effrontery ; women are days rehearsing in his mind. But he had sometimes won by brass'and nothing but not miscelculated the effect of his kuow- t brass," remarked old Lady Conyers, who ledge of her past, of the one black secret in had been an heiress an a besaity in her , her life which he, with the assistause of the time, had survived three huslaands, and invaluable !Tim had obtained. She was at therefore might be presumed to knew &little his feet, no longer haughty, scornful, and of the subject she was talking about. I iesolute, but a timid, crouching, abject " Of course he'll be refused. What ex- I oreature.• He heed not fear his creditors q ' • lace she possesses . won es she new, or cringe to his relatives, or he awake does notlook happier when she wears it; 1 cat night calculating his bets and "squaring" should," nummured a pretty faded tv,oznan his book so as not to risk too much ; he who managed to keep her head: above water need not avoid any of the fellows to whom on a very amen income indeed. I he owed money; the world would wear a Meanwlaile Hyacinth, sauntering slowly changed aspect for him now that this rich along at the Honourable Cyril's side, troubled woman's secret was his. t very little aboue what was said or thought 1 These reasons for rejoicing however were of lier. Froin her firet appearance in society 'poor indeed compared with the savage under the wing of an impecunious Irish I pleasure of makiim this proud beautiful countess until now there had never been. , woman whom he teeth loved and hated his the faintest shadow on her name. Men 'slave, the tremblingeireature of his smile complained that they could not get on with or frown. . , I her --that, although she would talk readily "How easily she is cowed ei he thought, and even cleverly on any topic of the day, looking at her shrinking, bowed figure. she would not meet them half way in that , 'What abject cowards women are, after light badinage, hell -raillery, half -flirtation, i all ! I thought she had more pluck. Now that makes up such a large portion of the for the next enove;" and. he prepared to conversation between young Teeple. They ispeak again, looking -at her with an insolent *laid 'he was a stick, a prude, as cold as ice smile. , and as proud as Lucifer; they said she had I But Cyril Houghton was mistaken for an extravagant idea of her own importance . once in his life. Only for a few moments, and wealth; but they never said that she ;while the first shock of astonishment, fear, deliberately led a man on to propose to her and shame unnerved her, clid she tremble in order to turn upon hun and insult him ; and shrink before him ; then she roused they never said that she used her beauty herself and faced this sudden awful danger. and. her grace to dazzle the eyes of some She sat uprigla, pushed the glittering head - young husband or break a betrothed maid. gear a lietle farther back, so that the pearls en's heart Stories however were told of and rare blue flowers in her hair glimmered the proud, cold, unsympathetic woman faintly in the lamplight, and, looking at which were sometimes believed and some 'him with eyes as unflinching as a tiger's, times not, according to the mood or charac- told— , ter of the hearers—stories of charity both! "Well, go on, sir; I 'am waiting. - You large and judicious, not advertised in a sub- know my secret—you know that I am both scription-liat that all the world might read, !rich and independent; state your price, ' but done secretly and modestly, and with a please, and, if I consider it just, I will pay thoughtful regard for the recipients' feelings. you to keep silent. How you discovered But such rumors as these were con.fined to a my secret, I will not ask -1 do not wish to very few, and had not so extensive a eircu- ;know." The clear, cold, incisive tones lotion. as a racy piece of scandal command- 'ceased ; she shrouded herself again in her, ed.' white -and -gold mantle, and looked silently Captain. Houghton, now noting with ap- down at the water. I preciative eyes the perfect slope of her He accepted the gage of battle eagerly ; shoulders, the noble carriage of her head, he had, in the midst of his exultation, been half draped with the glittering Indian almost disappointed at -what he considered . mantle, had never heard such tales, and an easy victory; he would have preferredto i would have disbelieved them if he had. No, see her struggle and dash herself this way ' I this proud rich woman vralking at his side and that in a vain attempt to burst through - was not, in his judgment, one of those who +the toils before she crouched at her master's . "do good by stealth." feet. But although he saw her and marked all "Miss Versohoyle," he answered, bracing her "points," the unconscious homage that himself for the encounter, and feeling strong a man pays to beauty was not in his eyes, in the knowledge that he had played only or even the simulated adoration et an tame one of the cards la his hand, and that not ested wooer, but rather a look of insolent the strongest, "you are not doing yourself and overbearing triumph, the ontward and any good by speaking so; and contempt and visible• f cl. th had p scorn are out of lace on the lips of one hirn now for two days, dming which he had who, if her tree story were but disclosed to vainly endeavored to manage a te-te a tete the world, would soon stand. in the felon's with her—a look that only her supreme and dock to answer for comtnon swindlin —ob- unaffected indifference to him prevented taining money by false pretences. have her from noticing. She had accepted an read a' copy of your uncle's will. escort merely because he had been dancing (ro sen coNaneuzie) with her and she did not wish to go out alone—it would not be "good form"—and his talk about soldiering in Egypt bored her less, she found, than the conversation with unduly so, --and must be put down, Mtes Verschoyle ?" She made a slight gesture with her hand, and looked at him with steady eommanding eyes. " Take ;no back I" she repeated. "1)o you think ate mad or cheek ? Your 1E08 BOOMS to Say so." She did not answer him, but turned her eyes towerde the ten eon " So you will not deigu to tell me ? thou, I shall tell you. L am neither drunk nor mad, madam; but 1 °am it men who never forgives a deliberate and unwarranted insult, such as emu, chose to offer Inc a few days ego on the terrace yonder ;" and he seized both paddles with his left hand nnd stretehed out his right, trembling with pas- sion, "1 vowed then that, if I waited ten years, you should repent bitterly your io- soleut warning. "1 have waited two days; and ,now, 1 say, I have found you out I know your secret as well as if I saw the Npleaviniligeoll,d, ring on your finger, Hyacinth She shrank back in her seat as if he had etruelt her, and th b b 1 h as he wa,s, could. scarcely keep no the exact CHAPTAR IX. One warm moonless August night Haugh, ton Abbey was 1 all of guests. The strains en music floated out through the open win- dows—a blaze of light shone from behind half -drawn silken curtains and through .screens of skillfully -arranged ferns and trop- ical plants. The annual "breaking -up" ball was goin forward merrily; the light rhythmical sound of dancing feet, the soft "swish -swish" „of drapery, and the hum of many voices poured out of the windowsand wide-open doors. The Earl of Redshire felt that an- other week at the Abbey would be likely to injure his health, and so he was bidding adieu to the county, as he generally did, with a dinner and a dance. The stately and rather dull dinner was over, the Abbey 1 k 'had just rung out twelve, and some thirty couples were swing- ing round and round on the polished floor of the large hall to the music of the "Sil- ver Shield." Lily Verschoyle, the undisputed belle of the night in a dress of some airy white stuff gleatnieg with silver thread, her only touch of colour it trailing garland of rose - leaves and roses, beginning at her left shoul- der in a few sob velvety bands and ending above her right ankle in great heavy over- blown blossoms, was dancing with all the spirit and fresh enjoyment of a school -girl, -forgetting that she was one -and -twenty, forgetting that she had been out three years, nd had. swimg :slowly round and round in fty ban -rooms to this same " Silver Shield" waltz, forgetting even to try to disguise the happiness shining in her blue eyes; she only knew that she was clasped by Garret Croft's arm—her hero, as she called him in er heart—that twice already she had etopped him from saying words that she longed to hear, and that perhaps she wouid not be able a third time to stop him from saying. Miss Verschoyle was also dancing—danc- ing with her usual easy, graceful motion ncl air of cold, proud discontent. She ooked taller, and, if possible, more deli- cately fair than ever; her abundant flaxen resew, were coiled on the top of her head ci owned with pearls and a chaplet of lue Atntralian Mies that matched the olour (if her ball -dress, which was draped 'th Venetiau point -lace and contrasted ndectly with the whiteress of her skin, at there was no sign of enjoyment to be ii11 she was dancing with Captain Haught- Captain Haughton kept silence also, , she was most expensively and beauti- watching her, waiting for her to speak, fool- ing that at list the fates had given him a chance, that this proud, cold woman would soon be plettilieg for mercy at his feet. "1 am, afraid you are thinking me a rather dull companion, Captain Haughton," she said, suddenly looking up and finding his eyes fixed upon her; but indeed I am enjoying the rest from the crowd and noise 51) much that I feel disinclined to disturb She quietness." " Enjoying r' replied increclolointly, leaning forward a little, "Ah, pardon me —no one who looks at Miss Verschoyle's face can say truly that she is enjoyieg her- self !" She dropped the hand with whieh she bad been supporting her cheek, and with a, look of cold and hatighty surprise both at the werds and the tone of mock respect in Which they were uttered, said— Defective Speech. Gatlin; subject we give the leading -points , which other men endeavored to entertain of a clinical lecture reported in the London her. Lancet. They walked along the terrace in absolute A child with a cleft palate uses his tongue e silence, the light from the colored lanterns and the muscles of the esalatein an unnatural 1 sparkling on her glittering mantle, until way. Hence, after the closure of the cieft they came to the broad flight of steps lead. by an operation, an impediment remains, ing down to the water. Then Captain because the patient is still controlled by his Haughton looked at a varnished, gilded, previous habits. He will need, therefore, and water -tight box Tether, than boat, gaily systematic training for months or years, lighted up and luxuriously cushioned, which 1 to acquire right habits in the case. One was moored to the steps, and said— i prime requisite is that he fix his entire at. Let me advise you to come out on the : tention on his teacher, and slowly imitate lake for a little' while. Your face tells me ri him, as the latter strongly pronounces the that you are more than- threatened with a difficult words, making every movement of his headache. You will be quite out of the lips and tongue as plain as possible. i noise there." 1 The palate may be so highly arched that Hyacinth. looked at the black, calm) silent the child's speech is not mach better than water for a rnoinent ; it would be a change ; that of the former case. But the soft part from the waltzing and. flirting inside. . of the palate can be lowered by an operation, "Yes," she said. "1 have not a head- ' and the speech greatly improved by train- acheI exactly ; but it looks quiet out there. inge Bring me back, please, when you hear "Lit. There may be extreme backwardness in tle Sailors' -1. have Lord AV011MOre down , speaking, though there is no organic defect. for th' at ;" and she stepped into the boat 'Here a practised eye will see that there is With an eagerness that he could hardly kmental feebleness. Speeoh 'training will be disguise, Cyril Haughton followed her, cast I a. part of the necessary -training of the in- eir the rope, and, taking up the two yarn- i tehectual powers. ishecl unshapely paddles, sent the gaudy ! In other cases, the mental pewers general - unwieldy craft as far out into the lake as 3' may e gr ' an e ehild e in ea JAPANESE PRISON% A riettve, 'talto ilas Been In Them Inestorteme their Terrors. tul Baba, is Japanese now visiting this eountry, writes to the Washington Star the fobtoWingaccount of his recent oxperi- WACO tE E Tokio prieoa ere "1 Ives put in the J wialieee prison at the end of December, 1883, and tont there un- der the suspicion of it political otrenee for six mouths without any public trial. When a public trial none the public pro- secutor could produce nothing worthy of notice and I was set free. My arrest came about in the following way :-- " At the time 1 inteeded to come to this country, and went to Yokohama, where the Pacific mail steamships start from San Francisco, to make ermeity about the voyage. mede several purchases as part of the preparations for my journey. I was with another young Japanese gentleman. We passed by it shop kept by an Eiaglish, inan for the sale of dynamite. We on - eluded to go in and see dynamite, shnply to satisfy our curiosity. We went in and stated that we wanted to see the dynamite. We were told that the man had no dyna- mite in the shop, as it was kept in a ware. house, and that copsequently he could not show a to us, So we left the shop. But the Government spies lurking about there gave information to the Japanese Govern- ment to the effect that I bad need° a contract for the purchase of dynamite. The Japan- ese Government, always suspicious of thoee who criticise their policy, immediately ar- rested me and my friend without any further inves notion. "At first I was brought before Kelbu, or three constables, and asked several useless questions, each ' Who are your friends?' 'Whom do you know?' etc. I was kept ha a temporary prison for ten days, and then sent to the main pis= in Kajibashi. "The prison is situated in. a central place of the capital, Tokio, and is under the di- reot control of the minister of the Inter- ior. The building is two storeys high, and made in the' shape of a arose.,- In each storey there are forty cages, making eighty cages in all. Each cage is nine feet square. The Japanese Govenment manages to keep many prisoners in this prison for two or three years WITHOUT ANY PUBLIC TRIAL. Each cage generally contains ten or eleven prisoners, who eat and sleep in this small box. Or, perhaps it is better to say the prisoners try to deep, heaped up one over the other. There are always from 800 to 900 prisoners kept in this way. Many be- come sick and soon die. "The outside of each cage is protected by a strong wooden frame. The frame itself becomes a door to let the prisoners in and out. rhe side facing the yard has a large window, protected with an iron frame, of whiCh the door must not be closed. without .ssior of the the even itt the , severest winter night Thus its a common found:enee that prisouera are over with snow. The most of the prisoners have no means of communicating with their friends. When they are arrested the Guy ernment spy or police tell them that they need not bring any money with them, as they will be sent back to their homes in a few minutes. When they go to the prison they are kept there six months at least. During this time, if they have any money to pay postage they are permitted to send their letter s ;but if they haven° money no let- ter can be sent by public expense. They are never permitted to see their friends until the judge of a secret examination makes' up his mind to send a prisoner to the court of pub- lic trial. THE SECRET EXAMINATION lasts one year, and sometimes three yearn Even when the judge of a secret examination decides to send the case to a public trial the prisoner cannot write to his friends unless he has money. Bo, in many cases, he can- not obtain the help of a lawyer. Thus, it is a farce to say that the Japanese Govern- ment gives a fair chance to prisoners to de- fend themselves before the court of justice. The prisoners are deprived of means of ob- taining legal advice. When they are per- mitted to see their lawyers they have to see them in the presence of two,officials, sitting between them. The prisoner is not permitted to speak to his lawyer in a confidential man- ner. As to the clothing of the prisoners, the regulations are most cruel. Even m severe -winter the prisoners are notpermitted to wear draw: rs andsocks, and arecompelled to walk in nalted feet, with thin straw san- dais. There being no heating arrangements, the prison is simply freezing. The poor ' prisoners are m a most miserable condition 1 during the winter. No writing material is allowed in a cage. If a piece of pencil is I ound on the person of a prisoner he is severe- , y punished. Whenever permission to write a letter is given a prisoner, he is taken out of his cage to a room, where he is (+Mewed the use of paper and ink. Books used to be , supplied but, they areno longer allowed. 1 Some try to make network from the paper allowed" g letters, but as soon as they are found out the paper is taken away and the prisoners are punished. THE PUNISHMENT ere- It takes one or two weeks for it letter to go from a prisouer toe friendan a prisoner living at mi diStane0 of 4 few Initiates Walk from the pileon. The letter must be exam- inecl by the governer of the prisms the chief keepere, the judee of the secret court, the public pros( outer, and others before it is fleet out of prieoln The, preeent Japanese Cabinet hope to obtain the confidence of the Europe= powere by inteoduoing European dancing, ehanging woments dress, and in other superficial way aping the ReroPeall civilization. So long, bowever, as such a disgrace as the present prison system tenets in Japan no exyllizen Government ought to have Rey confidence in the sincerity of Japauose reforms. The Queen st Perth. Laboucbere, of Londoa Totten, has au especial controversy with the Queen and all the members of the Royal Family. " Labby very likely hats not been " cultivated's bun &neatly, and therefore may be venting his personal pique in words of patriotic denunci- ation, Still there must be more or less ground for some of his bitter remarks, for he could scarcely fabricate alleged facts in or- der to have some excuse for his offeusive fling. For instance there can be doubt about the fact that the Queen lately passed through Perth on her way to Balmoral and that she staid" there for an houe or ao. ,And this is the way that Labby puts it :— The Queen's marked and persistent un- granieueness tower& the inhebitants of Perth has producedits natural reeul t, and last Thursday not a single cheer was heard from the crowd on the platform of the station either when the royal train arrived or when it left. Another proof was afforded on this occasion of the boundleee imbecility of the court functiooaries, as a meesagn ha,d been sent desiring that the public might be ex - eluded from the station while the Queen, was at Perth, although her Majesty was to stop there for nearly an hour at the busiest time the morning, this being the very height, of the tourist season. It wan found impossible to comply with this ridiculous order, but ropes wore, drawn across the platform so that the public might be kept at one end. Considerable inconvenience was of course occasioned to travellers by this arrangemeut, more especially as it hap- pened to be the Perth autumn holiday, and great crowds of the inhabitants were at the station for the purpose of leaving by numer- ous ordinary and specie). trains which were despatched between 9 a.nd 11 o'clock. The Queen's morbid desire for privacy on these journeys is beginning to savour of something more than mere whim and fancy: Of course it maybe said "who cares ?" but that is nonsense. A great number do care, though the ni4irbid exclusiveness affected will gradually lead to the result that no- body will care except for the annoyance and delay in this way caused to a great number of bustling, energetic people whose business is as important to them and delays as vexatious as they eau be to either Queen or potentate of any grade or age whatever., Slavery t e Southeen States. It has long been more or less notorious that a modified system of slavery was being introduced into some of the Southern States under forms of law, but forms too transpar- ently false to merit even serious discussion. Coloured persons are systematically sen- tenced to long terms of imprisonment for crimes which in a white man are punished with only a coinparatively light fine. Those thus sentenced. are leased out as chain gangs and are forced under the lash to work far beyond what is reasonable or what their strength will permit. They are liable to be brought up for other pretended offences and their sentences lengthened out. The consequence is that they are praotical- ly slaves for life under the most brutal and merciless of madders, who are not called to aacount except in rare cases, even th9ugh they disable or even destroy their victims. This scandal has become so great and so widespread that Governor Gordon, of Georgia, has been obliged for very decency's sake to order an investigation which is now going on. Two coloured convicts have testi- fied that they were whipped so severely that the blood ran down their legs. In the court these men still bore the marks of their punishment from the "whipping boss" ,The penetentiary physician testified to the truth of tho various reports which be had made to the Governor 'during the last four years, showing the brutal treatment and persistent determination of the lessees to thwart all efforts for the amelioration of the prisoners' condition. All this is just what might pee expected end quite on the line of the moveznent to 'crush out the very pos- sibility of the white and colored races being educated together. It is long ,before the blighting influences of slavery are removed from either the subject or ruling race. The colored races are increasing fax more rapid- ly in the South than are the whites and if either the one or the other has to go to the wall, the whites may eventually discover that they have been as short-sighted as they undoubtedly have been cruel. hecould. specially bright, but, for some cerebral , Hyacinth, not noticing this display of enetgy, leaned. her cheek on her hand, and, pushing back the glittering drapery about her head, looked 'with an expression of lan- guid Boom at the lighted windows openin, on to the terrace, the gay and brillian, figures passing thene, and then turned her hazel eyes from them to gaze into the black en on her haughty, weary, unhappy face. water reason, he lisps badly, or finds it difficult 50 pronounce the lettei'ss or , or h,e speaks in a babyish way. Fleets patients will gener- ally overceme the difficulty itt time. znometimea the voice is "stuffy," espeon ally in endeavoring to utter 1(0, /z, ng. The Hy dressed, she was an honoured guest in intrl's mansion, and he evair the most portant woman there—an object of ttery, envy, and rmbiCon. For this she ruined her hueband's life and breken heart, only to find however, that the hes she had graved so eagerly were a 04 Sea apples to her lips, and brought r nothing but intense unhappiness. " There,' she said, bringing her partner a halt before the presto was reached--" I not care for the end -1 dislike exOr- It 1"--atid she smiled, tie Lily's shining irt touched her, the young beauty look, g beck over her partner's shoulder, "Very well—anything yet wish. Would u like to walk on the terrace and admire urself in the water, as I found 'You doing few nights back ?" asked her partner a ale audaciously. s what is ealled sholcubatsu, or the punish- ment of food. The food of prisoners is gen- erally reduced to one-third, and the term of punishment lasts from one to two weeks. 1 Food is giyen in small quantity ordinarily% but when a man is subjected to this punish:: mendat is simply starvation. If it la,sts three days the prisoner can scarcely walk. Thus, when a prisoner is to be puzushed for more than a week it is impessible to carry oht the sentence without starving him to death. So, in case of one week's punishment the ordin- ary quantity of food is given one day during the week, and the punishment is carried out in eight clays. This punishment is inflicted for light offences, I knew cam case of a young man or boy 01 18 years who was kept in the prison two yeers. Thinking to metal himself of his time to learn arithmetic, he made a calculating instrument out of paper mid rice which he saved from his scanty ood. But one day he was found out by the nson kee ere and punished with shoku- " The prison hospital is no better than the ordinary cages, end is frequently worse, for many sick persons are crowded into a small SpaeO. Some dying prieonere groan through- out the whole night. "The Japa,nose authorities do not undet- stand the distinction between political of- fenders and common offenders, Political offendere aro kept in the same cage with thieves and murderers. 'they have scarce. ly ony exercise. They are, at rare intervals, allowed to walk about in the narrow yard for ten or fifteen minutes. From time to time they are taken from their mimes to be examined in the secret court. when whe ever they are taken from there their hands are put in irons and tied with ti etrong rope, the end of which is held by prison servants. No exception is made even in the case of a little boy or a feeble old man. The pris, oners are eubjected to many brutalities and annoyances. The authorities place every obstacle in the way of justice to the prison. f word onorntng sounds „like Lordly. This is doe to growths in the hose, or back mouth. On the removal of these, by a sunned operation, the voice recovers its normal eharactera Eulaxged tonsils sometimes cause a somewhat similar difficulty. Another defect is stammering. Usually the p rson has a nervous constitution, and has been subjected th some nervous strain, generally at school. In such cages, all dis- turbing ...eande should be removed, end the nervous system be invigorated AS far as pos- sible, But the stammerer must be taught to speak with delaberete enunciation, imitating the teacher ha the utterance Of all difficult words, and especially filling the lungs well at every stop. Where They All Go. Dealer (to customer)—What do you do with all the lead pencils you buy, Mr. Smith? You are in here every day for one. Customer -1 know it. I Iced them id my wife, ' The Rattlesnake's Awfol Eve. Anne days ago a farmer friend of mine liv- ing four miles south of Abilene, told me what he had latelyevanessed. He was riding along on a prairie, and saw 9, prairie dog within a few feet of him, which refused to scamper to his hole, as prairie dogs usual- ly do when approachei by man; on the con- trary, he sat as if transfixed to the spot, though making a constant nervous, shudder- ing motion, as if anxious to get away. My e friend thought this was strange, and while considering the spectacle, he presently saw a large, rattlesnake coiled up under some le bushes, his head uplifted, about six or seven feet from the dog, which still heeded him not, but looked steadily apon the snake. a He dismounted, took the dog by the head and thrust him off, when the snake, which had up to that mome,nt remained quiet, im- inediately swelled with rage, and began : sounding his rattles. The prairie dog for a some time seemedbenumbed hardly ca able OPIUM SMOKING. The Largest Wen in the Wore The Nan.gindsin is the greateet opium den in Chien It is eituateil in the French conoessioe in Shanghai, within a 8tone's throw of the wall of the native city, vvithiu which no opium shops ere supposed to exist. The througe visiting it represeot all stations of life, from the coolie th the venially mer- chant or the small mendarin. It is With difficulty that one gets ineide througti the crowds of people hanging round the door. Those who have. not tile requisite munber of nipper cash to procure the baneful pipe watch with herrible istfulness each of the more iialuent pass in with it nervous, hurried step, or totter out wearing that peculiar &eon expression which comes after the emoker's craving has Ineen satisfied and his transient pleasure has passed away. One requires a etrong stoinach to stand the sick- ening fumes with which the air inside is thickened, The clouds of smoke, the dim light from the numerous conned lamps, the numbers of reclining forms with distorted - faces bent over the small flames at which the pipes are lighted,' (muse the novice a sickening eensa,tion. But as soon as the eye becomes accustom- ed to the scene it ie noticed that the place is got up on, an expensive scale, In the centre of the lower room bangs one of the finest of Chinese lamps, the oeiling is of richly carved wood, while the peinted wells are thiokly inlaid with a peculiarly marked mar- ble, whieh gives the idea of unfinished land- scape sketches: Numeraus doors' on all sides lead to the smokers' apartments. In the outer portion of the building stands a counter covered with little boxes of the drug ready for smoking, which it dozen aosistants are kept busy handing out to the servants who wait upon the habitues of the places. The average daily receipts are said tb be about a1200. The smoking apartmenta ere divided into four °lessee. In the cheapest are coolies, who pay about fourpence for their smoke. In the detwest the smoke casts about sevenpence. The drug supplied in each' class is omen the same both in quality and quantity; it is the difference in the pipes that regulates the price. The best kinds are made of ivory, the stem being often in- laid with stones and rendered more costly by . reason of elaborate carving ; the cheapest kinds are made sinrply of hard wood. The rooms also are furnished according to class. In the most expensive the loaege upon which th•s smoker reclines is of fine velvet, with pillows of the same material the frames of each couch are inlaid with mother-of-pearl and jade, and the whole air of these rooms is one of sensuous luxury. There is also a number of private rooms. In the poorer section will be seen many wearers of the tattered yellow end gray robes of Buddhist and Tavist priests. Wo- men form a fear proportion of the smokers. The common belief is that the opium sleep is attended by a mild, pleasurable delirium, with brief glances of Elysium; but this is the exception, not the rule. People smoke to satisfy the craving begotten of previous indulgence. There is accommoclaton for 150 smokers at a time, and there is seldom a va- cancy very long. The stream of smokers goes on from early morning till midnight, when the place closes; the clouds of smolne,..../ go up incessantly all day lone. Row to Keep Them The people of Illinois, or at least the authorities are trying to get back McGar- rigle from 'this country so that he may be punished as he deserves. It is right and proper that all such offenders should- find no rest for the sole nf their feet in foreigu lands, and assuredly the people of Canada would be glad to get quit of the whole herd of foreign boodlers who seek safety on this side. But the Extradition Treaty as it at present stands does not provide for such a surrender, and till it be amended the r cals of both countries will continue to find safety by stepping across the lines. Who is to blame for such a state of things ? Why is that treaty not amended se as to catch all classes of scamps that ought to be picking °anion at home instead of living like fight- ing cocks abroad? We at -e is qaite sure that all Canadians worth mentioning would welcoine the needed amenchnent How are the frequent defalcations in the accounts of officers in banks and other coorporations to be guarded against? How, in short, are clerks and Presideuts to be kept honest? A correspondent of the New York "Tribune" suggests the following plan :— Let every board of directors employ an expert, able to take the place of president, cashier, book-keeper and teller. Let him be empowered to say to president or cashier: I will go over your assets to -day,' or te teller : .4 will settle your cash to -night,' or you go off on a week's vacation. I will take your place,' or to a book-keeper: will write up your books and the customers' books for a week while yon.go fishing.' If they are honest they will be glad of a vaca- tion any time, and if di•ilionest they ought tp have gone long before. What employee would dare to steal the first dollar if he knew that his accounts might within one hour be examined ? Not one. It would not cost 6140,000, but would cost some moral courage on the part of the directors." Nobody becomes wicked all at mice endue one -thinks of beginning by ,stealing millions. Aa the correspondent says :— "Confidence grows slowly, and so does dishonesty. No man ever lived that cwild steal a million of dollars at his first theft. There are one, five, ten, hundred, and thousand dollar steps in steeling. Scott would not have stolen $140,000, had he not tolen dollars until they amounted to $10,- 000, and was compelled to do something. Directors are dummies and finger -heads, for ow can a dry -goods man or grocer 'go hrough' it bank if he had the time to do so? They don't know ' how to do it. They meet .nd look as wise as owls while a wile cash - bamboozles them. They draw their five dollais a sesicien, and go back to their dry goods and groderiee as complacent as eicer." Quite true., ,.'Tfic.dinost of bank direr:tors horeldzirthing else than dummies and figure- Ilanging a Hat .on a Man's Eye ball. A 13udclhist priest, of 25, atone blind, (and no wonder a was led on by two show- men, and the trio crouched in a row. A variety of objecte were grouped about them of varying sixe and weight. One borrowed my hat, a soft wideawake, attached to it by a hook a noosed string, and .held it in readiueee. The blind prieet sat for a time impassive, old men banging drums; then at a signal he gave a howl, forced with two thuMbe his right eye out of the eoeket, while the 'attendants hung my I at upon the ball I To ehow that it was unsupported except by the string, he held both hands aloft, then, allowing his eye to sink into its plaoo, re- lapsed Wit° Hatless lethargy. The trick was repeated again and agamt With other objects, the period of stapension being shortened according to intrease of weight; until at last there hung from his eye, which looked like an uncanny onion, a bell of sculptured bronze. With a groan of horror we turned, and fled, seckieg oblivion of the nightmare in the theatre devoted to f • P of motion, but grew better, and finally got into his hole. My friend then killed the I rattler. Now, was this 9, cam of charming? If not, what was it ? And to one who is familiar With the eyes of' rattleshaltes it does Dot seen uttreasonable that they should have such Newer. If you will examine the eye of one w en he is cold in death, you will perceive that it has an extremely malignant and ternble expression. When he is alive and excite411 know of no- thing in all nature of so dreaelful appearance as the eye of the rattleseeks. It is enough to strike not only birds and little animate butench with nightznare. I have on several ocoations examined them clobely with strong glasses, and feel with all tome what I striae, and I will tell you that there are few men on the face of the earth who can look upon an angered rattlesnake through a good glass —bringing him apparently within a toot or two of the eye—and stand it more than a moment. I 1 Polonaises with only a hint of looping will we worn over velvet and antique breche recede Pintas.