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Tims.—A. hitter January night in the year of Grace too.
Scene. Sunderidge castie—The great hall—A monstrous are burning In the hie' fireplace—Nurse Crumpet
discovered seated on a settie—at her elher lune lean the little Lady Dorot14 and her brethu, the young
Burl of Sunderidge, Lord Humphrey Lennox,
I had gone some six hundrea pitees wl
at a sudden turning, I earn° upon
where he held a little urchin a.-straddl
her big deer -hound Courage. The c
gave chuckles o' delight aa he slipped f
side to side, and the sun through the be
leaves made their heads as like as two er
pieces. Even as I was about to lift up
voice to hello° unto her, lo ! my hard d
part the thick branches, and Mops fort
little behind her, and stands watching I
And as he did stand there, behold, a I
came o'er his faxe, that was stranger t
any look I had e'er seen on th' face of i
or of woman, and his eye$ were zeo m
right and eager, but deep and soft. TI
aile turned and m'ent direct toward him
knowing.
When she was beside him, still laughing
and half out o' breath with balancing o'
th' heavy boy, be saith these two words,
"My lady," and methought there was a
whole year's love -making o' ordinary men
crammed into them, Qvuith I to myself:
"Ah, my little lord, so thou hest that trick
with thee? God keep my little ladies 1 for
if the tongue be a fire, how must it burn
when such a wit doth wag it 1" And I de-
termined in my heart that by some means I
would warn my little lady of his sweet
speecheries. Yet was I tender toward h in
for the sake o' by -gone days. Mayhap,
inoreover, his comely face had something
to do with it, for, ilecke, ne'er saw 1 a
goodlier countenance on Roundhead or
Cavalier.
Now when my lady heard his voice at
her ear, first gives she such a start as doth
a mettlesome filly when a hare jumps out
before it, then stoclastill stands she and
her face whiter than a wind -flower, a
her lips a -tremble as if to speak, but
word comes from them. .
He saith again, " My lady."
I saw by the movingof her lips that s
,
fashioned the words ' My God 1" but st
she spoke not. And the child began
whimper and clutch to hei kirtle, for s
had loosened her hold of him, and he fear
falling off of the big dog. So she put o
arm about him to hold him, but her ey
were 'et upon his lordship.
Then he came and lifted her hand to I
breast, and it lay upon his dark gre
doublet, as a white flower -leaf cloth Op
iff
lee, And as I live, the child stinted, and
her, waxed as solemn as an owl ? Not another
e of tear did he shed, My lord saith
hild " Now thou ait a good lad, therefore thou
roin shalt have my sword to play with." And
ech he unbinds it from his side, scabbard and
own all, and holds it while the urehin gets
my astride o't and, pretends to ride. When my
oth lerd is tired o' stooping, he lifts the child
h a again to his shoulder, and so do they °on-
ion duct him back to his mother, the gardner's
(mit wife. From thence they return to the cas-
han 'tle, and are met by my lord and lady and
nun all the servants, while I haste me in by a
ore side door to get on my Sunday ltirtle and
ien appear with th' rest,
un- As time wore on, the three were as much
together an when he was a little lad and
they lassies, and sometimes from a window
and sometimes from a quiet coigne in the
great hall (this very hall, ye mind, dears), I
would sit with my stiteliery and mark them
at their bright chatter,
But often Mistress Mariam would come
and Mt against my knee, even as thou art
sitting now, sweetheart, and ask me to
stroke her hair, and when she would coax
Lord Ernle's big blood -hound " Valor" to
come and lie beside her, she would sit
more quiet, almost as though she were
asleep. And she would ask 1318 ever and
again, "Nurse, wherefore are women at
any dine born with dark hair, to mar ev'n
such sinall comeliness as they might other-
wise have ?"
And always I would answer: "Tut 1
thou knowest not of what thou speakest,
my honey; in the sight o' some, dark hair
is more comely than fair hair." And alwa s
her bridesmaid. Surely if the good Qod
e'er sent happinese on earth, 11 e did eend it
to my little lady and ti his lordehip, 'Twee
at this time that Sir Rowland Asked Mita
trefie Matian to be his spouse, And 'twas
even i' th' pante spot where Lord Eirnle had
discovered his lease for my little lady, that
he asked her,
Again it was as though eome ene had
smitten her—her face deadly white and
the red line acroes her brow. She put out
one hand to keep him from her, and let 11
rest on his shoulder, and the said, " Row-
land, I love thee well, but no man will ever
oall nie wife."
He said " Is this the end ?"
She wild, "Though we should both live
to see the last day, it is the end."
Then he went, with his head bowed down.
Ad when he was gone, for the first time in
all her life the wept aloud.
Some time passed and matters waxed
ever hotter am! hotter 'twixt Cavaliers and
RoundheadEi, till one eight there rode up a
man to the castle gate with papers for
Lord Ernie, and the lone and the ehort o't
was this ; His lordship was ordered to ride
forth to wax, and my little lady only three
months hie wife. Now when this blow
fell upon them they were all at meat in
this very hall, for of ttimes in cold weather
they dined here, even as thy father and
mother do now, on account o' the greater
warmth.
And when my lord had glimpsed at the
papers he did start to his feet saying
" Whore is the male who brought those
papers ?" A spray of water was kept going night and
day, the gas burned near eech face, and I
"reek amlweted him; " lete is gone, my looked into the Morgue about once in two
hours, or wits expected to. Some days there
were no visitors ; at other times the place
was full all day. When there was a rush of
r this sort I had an assistent Over and over
again I have seen every slab occupied and
more bodies waiting for the hard bed; but it
eometimes occurred that we didn't have a
body for three or four weeks at a time.
The greatest scare I ever had occurrei
one night in midsummer. The "bed-
room," as the men used to term it, had been
empty for fifteen days, when, at about four
o'clock one July afternoon, a "subject "was
brought in. He was clearly a foreigner--
probably a Swede. He had been shot in a
WHO TRIED THE DOOR?
AL 46 ()reeve," Story by a Morgue keeper.
In former years the Morgue in every city
was in the basement of a police station, or
et least under the charge of the police,
Most public) Morgues are to -day under the
care of the Police Department, but plenty
ofthem are located away from the statione.
I was for feur years in charge of the Morgue
at Toronto, having been detailed to the
place while I held the rank of Sergeant, It
was in the basement of a tailor shop next
door to our station house, and we lied to go
deem by way of the alley. It was a very
plain affair—just half a dozen stone slabs
for the bodies, fiet at an angle for the water
to run off, and email water pipes fixed to
spray the bodies and retard decomposition,
Above each slab was also a gas jet.
Some people feel a chill at the eriention
of the word, but 1 did not find it such a
terrible place. I had a room just back of
the dead roonr, and a passageway ran along
one side so that the dead room could be
reached without going through mine. For
the first few weeks I felt a little timid, but
that feeling gradually wore away, and I sel-
dom gave a thought of what was beyond
me. My duties were no great burden.
Only stranger dead were brought there, you
understand. When a body was received I
had to assist to diarobe it mad place it on
one of the slabs, Then it was in my charge
until identified or until the Coroner felt
that
IT WAS A HOPELESS 0ASIS,4
lord,"
Then snatching up a flagon of wine tha
was near at hand, he drank more than hal
that was in it. And again he turned eve
the papers in his hand. But all they, my
little lady, and Mistress Marian, and your
grandfather and grandmother, seemed turn
ed to stone. All at once my little lady start-
ed up as from a spell, and went and got her
arms about him, as in years gone by when
he had hurt him with his own mock sword,
rid she cried out, " What is it ? what is
t? Anon came Mistress Marian to his
ther side, and looked over his shoulder,
while he stood between them like one be -
a
she would shake her head, and smile th'
nd fashion o' one who knows better than another. 0
no But she was a wonclrous fair woman in spite
o' her own thinking, and shaped like the
, brown metal wench over yonder with the
he bow and airows. Diana, say ye? Why, o
ill even so ; so it was that his lordship called a
to her when he did not call her " comrade." s
he
ed Now young Sir Rowland Nasmyth (him
who was father to that Sir Rowland who f
ne
wedded your sister the Lady Anne last r
es Michaelmas, ye mind, dears), he would be a
often over for a day, or maybe several days„
"a at the castle; and all four would ride a -
en hawking,
on or ramble together, two by two s
witched, and whiter than a man jutdead.
Vhen Mistress Marian noted the contents
' th' papers, up went her hand tb her heart
s on that day under the beech -tree, and
he caught at his arm to stay herself -
He turned from his wife to her as though
or help, saying, " Tell her, tell her, corn-
ade." And he sank into a chair near by,
nd dropped down his head into his hand.
Lord Lord! that was a fearful night 1
Vhen they made my little lady to under -
tend, she set up one cry after another,
e
u
a
o
but the King !"
And when Mistress Marian sought to
reason with her, twas even the same.
Naught could she do but sit and hold her,
and comfort her with soft words and noises
such as mothers make o'er their young
babes. By.and-by she was calmer, and
asked to see her lord. So Mistress Marian
went out, but I remained on a low stool at
the bed's foot. Lord Ernie entered, and
she crept into his arms like a fawn into the
hollow of a rock when the hail is falling.
And they clung to each other in silence.
Presently he saith, "Darling, darling, that
I should have brought thee to grief 1"
She answeeed, " N • If .
grass, and he saith to her, " Sweethear
dost thou not know me ?"
All at once, for what, God only knowet
she fell a -weeping, and he had her in b
arms. And being some two years a mothe
my care was all for the poor little rogue o
the deer -hound ; 'twas as much as I coul
do to hold back from running and snatchin
him in my arms to soothe his terror.
Howbeit, ere that I could commit th
madness, the frighted babe set up such
1 owl iestonly a man -child can utter, and rn
la lied to him in great haste, and m
lord also did set about comforting him
Then they walked slowly on, and my lor
held the little lad on one sirle, and my lady
coaxed him o' th' other. Ever and anon my
lord would look from the babe to my lady,
and then from my lady to the babe. And a
smile just lifted the corners o' his mouth,
as sometimes a wind will just s.tir the leaves
ere shaking them as with jollity. I followed
cautiously at some distance, and by-and-by
his lordship said : "How was it that thou
didst not know me, coz ? Faith thou art
shot up like a lily i' th' sun, but lilies are
aye , liesetand lea-ving thee a lily, I find
thee li 'still, though blooming on a taller
Stem. .
And she answered him "Yes, cousin,
and oaks are aye oaks, though first they
be saplings, then trees. And in truth I knew
thee by thy voice ere I looked at thee;
but 'twas all so sudden, that iafaith I was
frightened at thee."
And he said, "But thou art glad to see
me?"
And being busy with the child, she
answered him without lifting her head,
"Thou knowest that I am."
Then did he, laugh a little, and saith
"How should I know, coz ? Proof, proof,
pray thee. Wilt thou give me the kiss o'
welcome after all these years ?"
Now he had not offered to kiss Mistress
Marian. Therefore I waited right curiously
to see what my little lady would say unto
his offer, and Jock having dinned it into my
ears ever since our wedding day, that all
women were .by nature eavesdroppers, I
was of a mind to prove his theory for him;
so I not only listened with all my ears, but
I looked with all my eyes.
My lady waxed first uddy, then like to
milk, ethen ruddy again, and she reached out
her land to him across the hound. "In
truth I will, cousin," quoth she.
through the park; or• Lord Ernie and
t' Sir Rowland would play at rackets, and i'
fecks 'twas a sight to see 'em at it ! One
day my little lady and Sir Rowland (who
;',s, or
a fair stripling, with curls near the col -
r, o' Mistress Marian's, and eyes the tinting
o' the far see on ,a rainy day) did wander
off together, and Mistress Marian and my
lo
is
a
He did take the little hand in his, putting
down his other hand softly over it, as when
one holds a frighted bird, and he looked at
her as though he would pierce her lids with
his gaze, for her eyes were down, and he
saith : " Sweetheart, right gladly will I
give this pretty hand the kiss o' an eternal
welcome ; but methinks thou bast begged
the question. I pleaded to receive a kise
rather than to bestow one."
And her face was like a bencled rose.
Then did he step round quickly beside her,
and once more was the poor babe left in
dire terror o' his life, and he made up a
piteous face, but the dog standing still, he
fell to rattling its collar, and soon waxed
merry with the jingle o' th' silver. So I
looked again at my lady and Lord Rad-
nor.
He had taken her about her waist with
arm, and with the other hand he lifted
tly upward her fair face, as cloth a
A gardener a rain -beaten flower, while his
eyes looked down into hers. And slowly,
slowly, almost as rose leaves unfurl i' th'
sun, her white lids curled upward, and her
blue eyes peered softly from her fellow
locks like corn -flowers through ripe corn,
there being a tear in each, as when a rain.
bead cloth tremble th' real corn -flowers.
And, to be the more like nature, there ran
big waves throughout her locaened tresses,
like as when the wind doth steal iterose
field o' grain on summer noons.
Then he bended down his tall head, and
their lips met. God alone knows what
their first worth would 'a been'for ere the
kiss was well ended, down falls the poor lit-
tle rogue off of the hound'a back, and lifts
up hie voice loud ehow to be heard across
the sea by the red men i' the new conti-
nent. And my lady tuns and lifts him in
her arms. Lord! such an ado as they had
a -comforting him! First my lady, then
my lord, then my lady again—and at last
my lord tosses him to his shoulder, and
with he :
"Ho1 though little Jack Pudding 1 an
thou art not still o' th' instant, I'll swear
thou art a girl, an' thou shalt neer have
, „
rA. a Morn sue as Men have."
rd were left alone, seated on a rude bench
under one o' th' great beech -trees that flank
th hall door. Be leaned forward and rest-
ed an elbow on either knee, and did let his
racket swing back and forth between them,
and sat looking down on it. Mistress
Marian's gaze was upon him, but her 'big
hat made so deep a shadow o'er her eyes
withal that I could not note them clearly•
So staid they for some moments.
Then all in a breath did Lord Ernie start
erect and push back his heavy locks and
speak. "Comrade," saith he, "wilt thou
call me an ass for my pains, I wonder, an I
tell thee o' something that is troubling me
sorel
She, having in no wise moved from he
first position, and her eyes still in shadow
saith, "1 pray thee say on, Ernle, for such
words as thou bast just spoken to me are
.And he leaned forward and took one
of her long brown hands in his, but 'twas
different from the way in which he had
taaen my little lady's hand at their
yfirst meeting, and he saith "Comrade, for
thou bait e'er been my true and loyal com-
rade, Marian—sweet comrade -cousin --this
is the matter that cloth eat my heart.
Dost think there is aught between Patience
and thatyoung coxcomb ?"
There came a red mark all across her
brow, as though he had smitten her, for
with her sudden movement her hat had
fallen upon the ground at her feet. And
she put her hand to her side as if in pain,
but snatched it back quickly. And forone
heart-beat she shut ber eye. My lord, .
who had stooped forward to lift her hat,
saw none o' this, and when th' hat was '
again upon her brow and its shadow over!
her face,sheseemed the same as ever. But .
I knew the shaft Was in her heart, and my
heart seemed to feel it, for I loved her, dear-
ly. When he could wait no longer, he said, 1
" Well, comrade ?"
ach loud enough to pierce the very floor of
eaven. Ne'er siuce have I heard 'a woman
tter such aries as those. And no one but
listress Marian could in any wise appease
er, for she woulct not have my lord come
nto her, but drove him away with waving
f her hands, saying, "Thou dost not love
te, but the King 1 thou dost not love me,
r 0 love, dost truly thinii that God is aye a
good God?
' Anff he hushed and soothecl her even
more tenderly than did Mistress Marian:
(TO RR goicTiNurn.)
The French Republic.
The things which the French Republic e
specially need are time and peace. Every
year of quiet progress and comparative pros- t
perity leads away the thoughts of the t
masses from any thought of dyna.sties whether
dance house, the ball entering his brea
and had died in the house. Neither mon
nor papers were found ou him, and, accor
ing to rule, he was brought to the more
to be exposed for identification. It w
just a chance that any one would reeogn
him, and the matter was of little interest
me. He was a stalwart, tough-looki
fellow, and his body had many scars
prove that he was a turbulent spirit.
lef t him on the slab in proper shape, a
did not look 10 on him again until just
dusk. I went to bed early, but awoke
12, as was my habit, and looked in aga
All the next day passed without a sin
caller at the morgue, and I entered t
room to look at the man probably fi
times. This, as 1 told you, was partly fro
habit and partly because of the regulation
I don't know thet the Police C'omrnjssj"
had an idea that a man who bad been
SHOT OR STABBED TO DEATH
would come to life after being laid out on
the slabs, but I waa expected to know it if
he did.
I went to bed at nine and slept until mid-
night.' Then I mot up and looked into the
morgue. One glance showed ine that ever
thine was all right, and back I went to m
room and to bed. I expected to drop off
sleep again in two minutes, and was, ther
fore, greatly surprised to find myself evi
awake at the end of ten, and to realize th
I was a bit nervous. It was a new feeli
for me. I had slept like a brick with s
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as
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to
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at
fi
,at tion or of saying that all the insanities of re
te,' that five and twenty years of blood were T
gael justifiable. There is not a man out of bed- of
be , lain who even pretends to say that the
ve Crimean War was anything but a huge
m blunder. And so one might go through the jg
B' entire dead role of miserable violence and in-
sane oppression. It surely is about time that
the people who have to bear the blows and _1
pay the piper should have something to say g`"
on the subject, and should begin to insist a
upon a more rational way of settling inter-
ce
national disputes. Perhaps there is no use
of s eakin of th Ch i ti f
were clean beat, and it was put down se an
original me. It Ore me a scare I did not
.get over for monthe, and I don't mind tell-
ing you that I never stayed alone in the
IVIergue an hour after that,
The PeaCe Seeiety..
The Petioe Society of the [Tufted States
held Its annual meeting in Toronto in the
Horticultural Gardens' Pavilion, on Sunday,
the 11thint. The meeting wee mall, the
place WAS Cal and uncomfortable, and the
epeaking anything but attractive or tellieg.
The cause, however, is not to be judgea by
the mere incidentals of a particular assem-
bly: Nothing could appear more absurd to
a Visitor from another world than the way
in which the nations on this earth have
been in the habit of settling their various
disputes and differences. Iedeed the dis-
putes could scarcely be said to have been
those of the nations at all, The people as
a whole have had little or nothing to do with
them. Some poor fool has been insulted, or
has thought that he was, and presto!
have set themselves with great eagerness to
the apparently congenial work of cutting
each otherai throats, burning each other's
houses, and in a general way engaging ie al'
manner of deviltry and outrage. Or some
miserable crank called a king or a chancellor
dreams his dream of ambition and tries to have
it realized. Forthwith the same flood of evil
passions is let loose, and men go to work
like perfect demon e to turn the earth into a
desert or a butchers abattoir. This is call-
ed war, and idiots in the shape of poets or
preachers go into hysterics over its noble-
men, and swell thernselves out to their larg-
est in order to fitly record every incident in
the beastly and degrading sorim mage. ,In
the meantime, what quarrel with each other
had those who get all the cuts and all the
misery? None whatever. They could have
delved and ploughed, bought and sold to
the end of the chapter to the mutual advan-
tage of all concerned, and never discovered
that they or their countries had either been
wronged. or injured in any way, which a
few frank words of explanation and apology
could not have abundantly remedied. Let
any one go over the wars in which Britain,
for instance, has been engaged, say for the
last eight hundred years, and could any
more miserable record be imagined of per-
sonal spite and ambition of crazy unreason-
ableness and of downright overbearing un -
righteousness and oppression on one or
other side, or both. Nobody now denies
that the American War of 1776 was a miser-
able fraud and a piece of monstrous injus-
tice, principally caused hy the wrong -head
ed obstinacy of a crazy king and an obsti-
nate ignorant and overbearing monster.
Nobody now thinks of defending Britain in
her interference with the French Revolu-
GENERAL NEWS.
It costs a railroad eompany $040 more to •
put up 1,000 BignS reading Look out for.
the loctnnOtive than the sante nainher
reading "Danger.' AO the latter are the
11108t effective, tom,
During the recent dry weather in Mt,
Pleaeant, the hub of a heavy wagon struele
a gate poet, and the friction Was 80 great
that it set fire to the post. The gate war
burned up, aed also the grass for aeveral.
yards in the locality.
An intelligent farmer veho thought that
the banke were eot safe lives in Elba, Minn.
He sold a farm for $2 000and hid the money
in his house; and in a few days, while hie
wife wee at the spring getting a pail of
water, the money was stolen, and the house
Set on fire and burned to the ground.
Honey will be very high this year. The
three leading honey producing States,
Wiseonsin, find Michigan, have absol-
utely no honey at all, and in many parts of
these Stetes the bees are being fed on sugar
to keep them from starvieg. Last year
California sent honey to the East by the
car load; this year they have scarcely
enough for home consumption.
In Palestine, Tex., last Wednesday night
Mr. John Rampy and a neighbor climbed a,
big tree to watch for wolves. About mid-
night the wolvee appeared. The neighbor
blazed away at them, and turned just in
time to see Mr, Rampy drop to the ground.
a dying man. It is supposed that the trig-
ger of his shotgun must have caught on a
twig. .Any way he had shothimself fatally.
Jonathan Bell of Oglethorpe county, Ga.,
had his coffin made a niunber years ago.
He told his friends a few days ago that he
would soon die and to send for Ms coffin.
He then ordered it made waterproof, and.
he had the makers fill it full of water, screw
the lid on, and turn it over and over. They
did so in his presence, and he was satisfied -
He died the next day and was laid away to
reet
Golden trout are only found in the brooks
of Mount Whitney, up near the banks of
perpetual snow. They have a golden stripe
down each side, and are the most beautiful,
fish that swim. It is said that those who
saw the first specimens of these trout that
were brought down from the head of Whitt
nee- Creek thought they were made up fore
the show, and that stripes of gold leaf ha&
been glued to their sides.
Death Valley, Nev., is to be turned into..
an ostrich ranch. A Mexican has fourteen
well grown chicks that he hatched out there
at hie little ranch from eggs brought from
the neighborhood of Los Angeles. The eggs
were buried in the hot sand, and of nightie
le ground was covered with blankets to ,
tain the heat it absorbed during the day.
he ranch is about 220 feet below the level,,
Forty-five yeats ago there wasn't a post:
ge stamp in the United States says the
uffalo Courier ; but in the last twelve
ont s the people of this country have in-
vidually and severally put their tongues
it 1,968,341,000 times to moisten the pos-
ge stamps for the billions of letters and
illions ot newspapers, periodicals, and par -
Is that are carried and delivered by the
overnment
P g e r s an view o the
matter, or of judging the thing by the sten- The family of John G. Russell of Bruns-
Y-
dard of the Sermon on the Mount, for pro-
fessed Christians are frequently the loudest
to and the readiest in calling out for war, and
e_ ' the Sermon on the Mount has in these days
de to a great extent gone dumb. With
at preachers of the Gospel shouting out their
eg trivial platitudes to uniformed and bewea-
poned youngsters who have been marched
bodies on the slabs. Yes I was certain
ed an admiring mob of boys, servant girls and
hoodlums, it may be of little uee to talk of
nervous. I had the door of my room lock
and a lamp burning and a loaded revolv
hung at my head. There was notlun
iy I to church to the sound of martial music and
I the teachin s f th fP .
some are even yet thinking of whatHe said.
•
be afraid of, and I had been tried often
nough to know that I was no coward. I
umbled around on the bed, shut my eyes
n-
to In these days of scepticism nothing is
ight, turned over, counted up to five hu
dred, and yet the harder I tried to go
leep the snore nervous I got. All of a su
len there came a sound which brought m
ipon end in a second. Some one had trie
he door:of my room.
On several occasiona the men up stairs ha
attempted to play off practical jokes on m
and after a moment's reflection I conclude
that one of them had crept down in hopes
find my door open and play some tric
Quite a little
EFFORT WAS MADE TO OPEN THE DOOR,
nd then I heard some one pass along th
allwity and go out of the open alley door.
ought to have been able to sleep then, but
uch was not the case, and in my despera-
ion I got up and lighted my pipe, and
urned up the lamp. I smoked for a quart
-
r of an hour, and then, feeling calmer, and
rom mere force of habit, I opened the door
o look into the dead room. It was empty!
stood there and stared at the vacant slabs
wick, Me., was considerably surprised the
other evening when, from an open flue in
the chimney, a stream of swallows poured:
until the house was actually full of them,
They perched on the pictures and the furni-
ture, and many of them clung with their
claws to the clothing of the members of the
family. They seemed to be quite tame
and were with difficulty driven out. .
A saloon keeper named Keeley, who ha
been unable to make a living in San Fran
d
- •
cisco, lately went to live on a farm owned
by his wife in El Dorado county, where her
mother, Mrs. Dart, died a few years ago.
The Chinese Wall. The old lady was supposed to be rich, but
d_ safe. The most cherished traditions are
e • ruthlessly torn to pieces and even what have
d for ages been looked upon as feats. are now
most disrespectfully handed over to the re-
d gious of myths and dreamland. Even the
e great Chinese wall has been assailed, and
d the effort has been made to show that it has
to no existence whatever and never had any.
a. Think of that 1 This denial of such a thing ,
as the Chinese Wall, that every child of any ;
Napoleonic or Orleanist, and settles the Re
public on a firmer basis. An overthrow in Wit
with all the miseries and disgrace , whic
that implies, might very likele lead to a poli
tical change not in the mamigemen t, but in th
very character of the management of publi
affairs. It might disgust with Republic
anism, just as the overthrow whic
culminated at Sedan 'gave its mitthnu
to Napoleon and his ideas. It is ver
natural that the French should feel sor
over the thrashing they got from the Ger
miens, But let them never forget that that
mt
isfortune was in one respect a mighty e
blessing when it relieved them of all th
niserable corruption of the Second Em
lie
c
ha
y I
e s
t
e f
t
"'-e. Let France go on and prosper, and I
And she spoke, for from the hair tha
crowned her to the feet that carried her she
was as brave as any cavalier that ever
swung sword for the king, and she said
" Well indeed, cousin,for thee."
He said, " How dost thou mean for
me ?"
Then stooped she and gathered a hand-
ful of grass and held it aloft and opened
her hand, palm downward, that the falling
blades were blown this way and that by the
wind.
"1 mean," quoth she, "that Rowland
Nasmyth is no more to Patience than—I am
to thee." And she laughed a little.
He came closer to her, and laid his arm
about her shoulders, drawing her to him,
and he said, "Nay, thou knowest how dear
thou art to me, comrade; but thou meanest
in different wise—is't so 7"
She said : " Yes ; but call me Marian to-
day. It is to my whim."
He answered, 'Dear Marian," and would
have kissed her cheat:, but she started up
with a little cry, saying, " 13y'r lay'kin 1
there was ()phoney -bee tangled in my locks."
And when he had sought for the bee to
kill it with his hat, but could not find it,
they did seat themselves again, he laugh -
mg and eaying that "the bee was a bee
o' much discretion and wondrous good
taste"
The t night when I crept to my little
ladies to see that all was quiet, I, pausing
in the doorway, did note them as they lay
—my little lady with her head on Mistress
Marian' tt breast, and a iirnile on her lips,
and Mistress Marian with her arms wrap --
pea close about her and her dark hair ,
swept out over the pillow, and thence to I
the door like a stream o' water that re- I
fleets a black cloud, bitt her eyes wide open, I
looking straight forward, as though at a
ghost. And 1 stole off and sobbed myself to
sleep, but not before I had awakened Jock,
who did grunt, after the uncourthoue,
pig -
like manner of a suddenly wakened man, be -
thump his pillow as though't had been en
anvil, and in turning over, twist the bed.
clothes half off of me, so that with the cold
(it Ming then the fall o' th' year), and what
with my distress, / slept but, uneasily.
And the next thihg I knew 0' th' matter,
there Was a wedding and my little lad
Wedded to Lord Ernie, and Mistress Marian
intelligence or of no Intelligence has most
religiously believed in, has been too much
e for at least one man who claims to know all
keep peaceful, and she will be respected f
a,nd feared as much as she ought to be,
or
as she ever was. Evidently the Countof
Paris counts upon war, and consequent
diaster as that which will lead to the
reatonttion of royalty, with himself as king.
It is this hope which has led to the issue of
his late proclamation with all its promises
or a full minute before I could realizeth
about it and to have seen the Wall in all i
grandeur, if not its original glory. Th
Abbe Larriew's denial he treats with co
tempt. He says :
That there should be any serious doubt
no money could be found at the tune ofeher
death. In order to make the house habi-
table the Keeleys had to pull down the
chimney, and therm embedded in the
masonry, was found it box containing $28,-
000 in gold coin.
Some months ago Cot Joseph S. Baughrm
an Oglethorpe, Ga., bachelor, advertised for
a wile, and received from all over the.
United. States more letters than he could,
onveniently answer. Being a kind-heart-
ed man, he distributed several of these let--
ters among his bachelor friend, who opened.
correspondence with the writers. At least
ts three weddings will be the result of this
e correspondence, one being that of a hand -
ea some young merchant of Lexington, who,
opened correspondence with a South Caro -
of liva belle,
the existence of this Wall, or of its va
bulk, solidity, age or length, is simply ab
surd. Lord Macartney, when he visited. i
estimated that the cubic yards of materia
at Twenty-five years ago John Grundy, kof
- Philadelphia, was one of the most expere
t, and prosperous of the marble cutters of that
Is city. Then he went into polities, was suc-
cessful, and was elected Alderman for sev-
t eral terms. Then he took to drinking, lose
k his office and his employment and became a.
d rag picker, and his wife was a rag -sorter
e, until she became blind and went to the.
-1 poorhouse. Th,e other day he staggered.
el into his arret with ,,,1,t..i.,... b 1
e used 10 't
fact. Yes, sir, the naked body of the Swede
shot dead in the dance house was gone, and
the water sprays were falling dead upon the
flat stone. I ran for my light and examined,
the floor of the hallway. There were wes
foot tracks leading to the alley door, and in
of my door was a large damp spot, as
the wet feet had stood there for some time.
o joker would dare go th the extremity of
moving a body from the Morgue. The
of good behaviour on the soyereign's if
part, and all possible liberty._ He X
knows that the great mass of French re
men are forgetting their Royal and Imperial m
pretenders, and if let alone will soon forget ti
them altogether. The Republicans, if wise, go
will take a hint from this. Don't let them 11
think of " bleeding Germany white," or of
eiving Bismarck the chance of doing the
same hard work for France. Better let
them be good neighbors with each other and
trade and talk in a friendly ,way. It will be
pleasantemand, uponthe whole, more honor-
able as well.
edical students of the Queen City at"that
me would take almost any risk to secure a
od specimen, but they hadn't the hardi-
ood to come down into my lonely quarters.
tell you 1 was badly upset, and it wa
ree or four minutes before I could decid
hat to do. Then I ran out and up an
wn the alley, and, failing to find any sign
my subject, I entered the station and
ve the' alarm. Three officers were sen
t with me, and
Ke Was Ready to Own Up Under the
Circumstances,
heard a Story told the other day, writes
a friend and correspondent, which amused
me. An old lady said:
When my father moved into the new
country, one of us children told a lie. My
mother could not ascertain the culprit, but
a lie ley between us.
" Well," eaid she, "you will escape now,
but you may be sure I will know at some
day which of you has told the lie."
Weeks passed on and nothing more was
said on the subject. My father lived in a
log house, which contaifted one room below
and one above. The children slept in the
chamber. (inc night a tremendous wind
arose and at midnight blew off the entire
roof of the house. My mother, alarmed at
the era Oa, ran up the ladder, and putting
her head into the roofless chamber cried:
"Children, are you all there?"
"Yes, mother I' piped a small terrified
yoice ; "yes, mother, we are all here, and
if the day of judgment has come, it was
me who teld thV
e lie '
To how " many children of larger evil
krowth" does a similar aopentance come ha
and from a smular cause —the still smell no
voiee amid the storm, a
th
clo
of
go.
ou
WE SEAROSPED UP AND DOWN
the contiguous streets and alleys for a full
hour before we gave it up. What had be-
come of the man? If the bodr had been
carried out of the morgue along the passage
it miistlave been by two men, and I should
certainly have heard them, for it must have
been while I was struggling with my ner-
vousnees that the deed was done. Who
had tried my door? Who had left the wet
tracks in the hall ? I felt my flesh creep as
I asked myself these questions.
Well, our hunt amounted to nothing.
When daylight came it was extended, but
we found no trace of the man. The affair
got into the papers, and such an excitement
you never saw before. The idea that a
dead man should have walked out of the
Morgue was enough to raise the hair on the
public scalp, and the hair stood up. How
do you suppose the ease came out ? Well,
sir, it's no use to cavil over it, for there's
the record. That man did get off the slab
and leave the Morgue. Moreover, be Went
out into the subtrbs and hid in e:barn and
died there and it was two days before his
body woe found, He bad armed himself
with a piece of gas pipe about four feet long,
ich he had found in the hallway, and,
a he been able to open my door, he Would
doubt have attacked Me. A carious
0 / should say it was. The doctors
8
all the materials of the buildings of Grea
Britain put together? The writer too
measurenrientli of the Wall, which average
twenty five feet high and fifteen thick, th
foundations being of cut stone laid in regu
lar courses with mortar. The sides of th
Wall, the 1 arapets and the towers are con
structed of burnt bricks. The inner portio
of the Wall is filled with earth and broke
stone well rammed and compacted whil
the top, between the parapets, is paved
with bricks and stone. About every thou
sand feet there is a tower, some thirty-fiv
feet high, forming a part of the Wall itself
but projecting beyond and overlooking the
face of the Wall on either side. These
towers evidently formed the guardrooms or
barracks for the soldiers and the stone
staircases which led from the top ot the
Wall to the ground on the southern side, as
well as the stone thresholds entering the
towers, were well worn by the feet of count-
less soldiers who for centuries passed to and
fro on guard.
Upon the whole, the world will not be in
clined to give up this great Chineee Wall
At least not yet.
• four days later Ms dedaand decompossol
n I body was found lying on the bed where hn
O had died.
The Rattlesnake's Bite.
e Few people understand the habits of
rattlesnakes, consequently there is a good
deal of unnecessary fear regarding them.
In the first place, a rattlesnake will not
chase you, and in the second place, it will
not attack you unless you come upon it in.
such a way that it cannot escape without
attacking. If a rattlesnake is disturbed it-,
usually sounds its rattle and makes off„but
if you come upon it suddenly and it has ta
fight, it will coil itself up, poise its head,
and strike at you downward.. The fang is
turned up under the upper jaw, and as it
trikes thie thrown„ out and cuts into the
flesh. It is as sharp as a razor, and goes
through a thin boot like a steel blade.
What is the best antidote? Whisky. The
man who is bitten by a rattlesnake should
have whisky poured into him until he is
too drunk to stand, and he should be kept
drunk for two or three days. The one poison
counteracts the other If he can't be made
drunk there is little hope for hint. I have
seen it stated that a bottle of torpentine
turned upon the bite will draw the poison
out ha the shape of a greenish cloud that will
float up into white finid, but have never
seen a teetrnade of that. Live flesh will also
draw out the poison, it is said, and I know
that in some places, when a person is bitten
by a rattlesnake, the first thing done i$ to
kill a chicken, cut it in half, ard while the
fiesh is still quivering put it wartn upon
the bite,
Why He Thanked His Stars.
"We have many things to be thankful
er, Misther Hoolahart, we hev, indeed."
" Yis, Misther Dimpsey, we hev. 01
often say to inesilf, Patrick, says 01, yer
naturally an unlucky thvil, as ye desairve
o be, but yer mighty 'pocky in wan thing,"
"An what's that, Misther floolahan 7"
"That Oi was born an Oiriehman instid
av a Russia ri or an Eyetalian."
" That's a very proper sintiment, and yer
a man fer duld Oirland to be proud ay."
"01 think Oi am, Misther Dirnpsey, Oi
think Oi am. But the principal consider-
ation Oi had in moind was that if 01 had
been born a Russian or an Eyetalian dago,
coulcl niver talk at all, at all, for they've
the tnischief's Own languages to learn,
whilst the brogue 0011108 to your tongue as
easy ae good liquor.
When a young man site in the parlor talk-
ing nonsense to hie best girI-4bat's capital.
But when he has to stay itiot evenings after
they're married that's labor,
Etta Luck.
Sally—Why don't you get married?
lIll
wirh.totem
W.(fie.shing)—I ant so ugly no one
Sally—Wouldn't some 0/30 as ugly as yen
are have you?