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The Exeter Times, 1888-9-6, Page 2[NoW Flan PuBLISHED.1 [Anti RIaRTS REsERvED.) LIKE AND UNIA By M. E. BRADDON. AETHoR O "LADY .A.unewles:Secete'r, Wverakan's WEIRD, ETO,,ETO. 0114,PIER XXX)7e—Ceeassee° Sena -Nee He would h eve oarried out one of these TaMos, plane, perhaes, since he loathed the dull colonel Deverin,e briei visit being encieci,quiet et hie present existence, but for one life at the Abbey resumed its old course, reetraining influence. He dared not go far eacle of the brothers folloWing his 0 WII Par- from the spot where his secret lay hidden. He dared not leave the neighborhood of that denier. bent ; the eld.er oeoluded with his Piano 1 the younger books, his ergan and. Went pool under the ruetes, where his mute deed wife was lying. He had an idea that devoted to sport, and living for the most were he to leaveahe Abbey, the body would part out of 490re. It seemed mornethnes to be discovered the next day. During the Leder 33eldeld as if Valentine's married Hie brief interval after the murder, in which he had been an evil dream which had vanished had• been absent from the Abbey, he had with the morning light: as if all things were suffered. a perpetual agony of apprehension. again as they had been before the Deverills came to Moroomb. Yet this was bub a T(illeeahvaedthreassspeocitaitahgehnldaswheotumareemde s aoole ttmegs; momentary feeling, for although all the a dozen times, sometimes drifting slowly by details of her daily life wibh her two sons in his boat, sometimes passing it on foot by were almost exactly as they had been, the oeuseway. The plaoe looked just the there was a oheonse ht the spirit of her life, a cha.nge which Involved all the differenoe same as of old, excepe that no woman's figure appeared at the door. There was no smoke between happiness and unhappiness. The from the chimney, no sign of life. Old John brothers were not the same as they had been in their mutual relation's. There was some- was tramping wearily about with hie basket's, , no doubt. ''' thing wanting, as if some subtle mystic link had snapped and left them wide asunder. Having passed so often and Roane change in the aspect of the place, Valentine got out They never quarellecl. There was no sign of the way of looking at it as he rowed by, of angry feeling between them ; yet to Lady and forgot his old interest in the poor, Belfield it seemed that brotherly, love was tumble.down cottage; but one November dead. Adrian was especially forbearing to afternoon, rowing slowly by, with his head Valentine; never did anything to provoke bent, one of the spaniels gave a short; sharp him, or resented any rudeness of his bark, and„ an instant after he heard the brother's ; but there were no signs of that shutting of a door. affection and close sympathy wh'cli had " There's smeone there," he thought, once been so sweet to the mother's eyes. She "old John, neost likely. 1 may hear some - never saw her sons linked together arm in thing of that Jezebel." -arm, strolling up and down the lawn in front He moved his boat to the causeway, et her windows. She never saw Valentine lolling in at the library window to talk to sprang on shore and, went to the cottage. He opened the door, and found himself face Adrian, trying to tempt hita away -from his to face with the Jezebel herself. books, as she had been used to see him al - Altered since he had last seen her : altered most daily in the time that was past. There for the worse or the better? He could scarce was a change in the spirit of both brothers, decide which, as he looked at her with keen as if both were haunted by the memory ot and rapid scrutiny. an unspeakable misery. A woman had come into their lives and poisoned all things for She looked considerably older than when them. A woman's fickle love had blighted he had seen her last' in her housemaid's them both. livery, the coquettishmob.cap, red gown Never since that first evening of his return and muslin. apron. She wore a cap to -day, had Valentine spoken of his wife. For the but a cap of a peculiar pattern, pinched and first few weeks he had. put on a spuriousplain, made of lawn, Quakerish, Puritani- gaiety, had. tried to convince everybodycal.She wore ablack gown, with a long that he was in excellent spirits, and no way straight skirt. It was a uniform of some affected in his loss. The men who met him kind; he knew, a nursing sister's uniform. out hunting—men who had' known him from "So you have come back, Mistress bis boyhood-- found these forced spirits Madge," he said. "Are you living here ?" painfully oppressive. Then there came a "No, Mr. Belfield. I am only here for gradual change, The forced hilarity died two or three days to look after my old away, and was.followecl by a settled gloom. grandfather." He hunted three. timea a week, and shot "You are a very nice person. I am M- over the Abbey preserves ; but he went no- debted to you for some of the happiness— where, and refused all invitations from old and most of the misery of any life," said friends or acquaintances in the county. He Valentine, flinging himself upon the bench refused an invitation to spend a week at beside the door, the bench upon which he Wilmington where pheasants were. more sat years ago, when he was in love with abundant than anywhere else within a hun. this girl. "Your anonymous letter brought dred miles. things to a crisis." The Miss Toffstaffs were indignant at such "I am sorry I wrote it," said Madge, with folly. a proud carelessness. "I was tired of "Why doesn't he divorce his runaway seeing your underhand conduct. I wanted and have done with it ?" exclaimedDorothy. Sir Adrian to know what his sweetheart " It is absurd that he should make so much and his brother were worth." more fuss than other men. And his brother "You mean that you were consumed by is just a ; bad. Mother has asked him .to jealous malignity, and you wanted to do dine and sleep three times since last Christ- all the harm you could," retorted .Valentine. mas, and he has made an excuse for reins- "You may say that of me, if you like. Ing each time. They are a couple of unman- I shall not try to convince you different- nerly savages." ly." "Sir Adrian has been nowhere since his "Oh, you are monstrous proud and prim. eister.in-law's escapade," said her sister. "1 You have turned hypocrite, and. are full of suppose he never got over his attachment to pious cant, I have no doubt. You belong to her, though she jilted him so shamefully." some sisterhood, I suppose." Everybody in the neighborhood was out- "More than that, I have founded a sister - raged at Sir Adria,n s secluded life. Since hood." that awful night he had isolittedihimself, so "Indeed." far as it was possible from his fellow men. "Yes. I and a handful of women like He would hold no converse with men whose myself—there are just twenty-two of us now consciences were clear of all guilty secrets. —have established ourselves as nursing It seemed to him that this knowledge of sisters among the fallen and the unhappy— crime—his guilty reticence—made him a among broken-hearted women. We seek creature apart, stamped him with the brand out these cases .of abject misery which of infamy. He would not mix iti society seem to lie outside the limit of ordinary under false pretences. He would not, give help." hie friends the power to say by and by— ." What do you call yourselves ?" shouldthis dark aeoret be brought to light, Sisters of the Forlorn Hope. We have "Re had no right to come among us—to a small house in a poor neighbourhood which touch our hand and sib beside our hearths— is called the Forlorn Hope,, and which we knowing what he knew." • use as a refuge for those of our patients who Again, he would not make the distinction have no other shelter. It is very small, between his brother and himself more mark- but we hope to make ib larger." ed than it need be. Valentine held himself "01 course, and you spend your lives sleet from everyone, and darkened no man's in begging for funds, I suppos‘ threshold. Valentine's brother. accepted "We are not ashamed to 1154 ; and we the same isolation, with a single exception, find that people are very kind to us. Hen and that was in favour of Mr. Rockstone. our funds have been gathered' among work. The vicar was his chosen friend. He ing people who can ill afford the pence they never shrank from crossing the Vicar's give us, but the good has been done all . the threshold, knowing that in that home'had. same." he dared to unbosom himselfhe wouldhave " A.Iri your fallen women ?" asked Valen- found sympathy and promise of pardon. tine, 14,. ith his oynieel air. "Are they pleas - He had often longed to unburden himself ant patients ?" . of that dreadful secret, to confess all, know- "Not always; but they are rarely un- ing that his secret would be safe in priestly grateful." keeping, but albeit there would have been "And when they are well—they go out infinite comfort in such confidence,he felt into the world and forget all you have done that his duty towards Valentine involved for them, I suppose ?" inexorable silence. It was not of himself, "Not.always. There are some who re. or of his own feelings that he had to think, member us, and who help us, with their but of the criminal who had put himself in small means and large hearts." peril of the law's worst sentence. "And you really believe you have made Seeing her two sons bent on isolation, conversions—that some of your fallen wo- Lady Belfield withdrew from society as men have walked straight, after your ad. much as she could without giving offense to ministrations ?" her neighbours. " /ea, we know of some who have tried to She still kept up her °Id intimacy with lead better lives; but most of those for Mrs. Freemantle and worked with her whom we have cared were marked for among the poor of Chadford Parish, which death before we found them. We have was a large one. She received all callers been able to smooth their last hours. That with her accustomed cordiality, and after. is at least something." noon tea in the Abbey drawing.room ter in "May I ask what it was that inspired the Abbey grounds was as pleasant as of old, you with the idea of this mission ?" asked 13 ut there were no more dinner parties, and Valentine, looking at her wonderingly. Lady 13elfie1d declined all invitations. She was so completely in earnest, she "I am getting an old woman," she told had that grandly resolute air which he re - het friends in confidence. "This sad trouble mei:soberer:I' of old, an air that made him of my eon's has aged me by ten years, I be- feel an insignificant trifler in her presence. Neve; and I feel that the firgleide is the best "I was with my mother all through her place for me now." last long ifinees, and with her till her At which a chorus of matrots and maid. death," she said. "When ehe was gone, ens protested, "Dear Lady Belfield, how made up my mind to devote myself to—such can you say such a thing ?" deathbeds, for love of her." It was the 'season of snipe and waterfowl "he had not been such a verygood once again, a wintry season a time of grey, moll'er that you should devote your life t� rainy days, varied by lighefroote, and Val. her emery, ' eneered Valentine. entitle Belfield was :spending a good many "h c loved me very dearly—at the last," hours of hio Iife upon the elver or on the replied Madge, sorrowfully, marshee, with his gun and a °couple of She stood leaning againet the doorpost, in spaniele, The low le -e1 marshland and the her straight black gewn end Puritan eap, grey autumnal mist suited his humotir better while he sat on the bench and lighted his than a fairer landscape or a summer's sky. cigar, jutt as in the old days when' he Was He puehed Ilia boat along the :dream, or her lover. But there was no talk of love be - waded across the marsh, in a dull veeuity tvveeu them now. A shadow Of seriousness of mind, thinking of nothing, eating for rested upon both. In her it was deep taothing, except just to keep moving about thatightfelnese itt him it was an impasse - in the open air. All keen delight lb sport treble gloom, . had departed from him. He only pinned "The Forlorn Hope," he said. ‘' A queer it becattse it was necessary to him to be up name for a house. I ther like it, though, and doing. Re was sorry that he waO not becauto: it le queer. Was the name your a soldier, obliged to obey orders, to make fatiocr forced in arehes under a tropical sky. Some. " es." timeN he even thought d running away taitt "And you take in fallen Women, and enlisting ih a regiment that Wet under nurse them in their last illnesses, and make orders for active service. SoMetimeo he believe that they are not altogether worth. thought of !big out to Anetralia ahd dig- les?" g for gol4 to the Capo to dig for "They are not worthless. -they are those iitmendit, There would be excitement in ever whom the angels rejoice—they are thoth suet. a life aft that, he thought ; excitement who have been log Ana are tonna 7" Which Would help a mall to forget. all that, You believe in repentance pod brought her out of a burning fiery furnace, the washing away of eine. 'Though your and oared for her and worked for her, and sine age' an scarlet they hall be white att; Pureecl her to the end, and buried her—all wool,' I remember hearing that sentence ;with the price of her own labor. She work - read in church when I was a child. I ed like a galley -slave, did that girl 0 mine. think the idea of vivid colour in it must ' And he did what she wanted to do, and have caught my fancy—though they are as 1 what she thought her duty: whioh is 'a scarlet—tharlet—the colour of blood—e,uel of good deal more than most of us do," stn—they shall be white—white—White— "Ile's Your daughter been deed long 2 The words dr9PPed alowlY from his lips, " Nearly two Yearla She was in e, de - with a pause after inch, dyiug iuto silence, cline when Madge found her, She'd lived as he sat with his head bent, and his eyes like a lady, and ave her oven carnage. 1 upon the grqund. mid the old man, with a touoh of pride, "The Forlorn Hope," he repeated by -and- "tho' ohe'd had her ups and downs." by, still looking at the ground. "1 like' "1 saw her in London four or five years the uaine. Whew is your house ?" . ago," seed Valentine, "the remaine of a "In Lima grove. 1 eteuee suppose, you magnificent woman." know anything of the neighbourhood. „ 1 " She'd spout more money ix her time "Not muoh : but I have a vague idol?, lian many a lady born and bred," pursued its whereabouts. The Forlorn to , wley, waxing prouder, "and she died a Would you take a fallen man if he p'e itent woman, and heartily sorry for all you' marked for death? Or do y e 0 e'd done," he cancluded, with pious uno- only for your own sex ?" e on. "It is for our own sex we have pledg ourselves to work," anavvered Madg "Bub you would not shut you against a penitent sinner'?" "1 think not—if be were utterly less except for us, and we had any poor' to help him." "And your mission is to smooth the pillow of death, and to make the end easy for those who have lived hard and have rioted in sin. Well, 1 daresay it is a good mission. You are a strange girl, and seem capable of strange things. He looked at her thoughtfully, admiringly even, but with a grave and respectful admiration whisth was very different from the young man's sensuous worship of beauty. It was not a lover's gaze which rested on the pale Moe to.day, , She lead aged and altered from the glow- ing gipsy-like beauty grwhich he had wor- shipped in his bachelor days but she was handsome still,' and while her face had lost its richness of colouring, it had gained in distinction. The lines of the features were sharper and more delicate, the ivory tints of the ooraplexion had a more spiritual beauty than the warm carnations of her girlhood. She was thinner than she had been then, and looked taller. The Straight tall figure in the straight black gown, the noble head in the neat Quaker cap, had a grand simplioity which he admired with almost reverent admiration, he in whom reverence for anything was so rare a feel- ing. He sat silent, his cigar extinguished, his eyes brooding on the ground again, as he re- called a past which seemed ages away, and the day when he had fancied himself desper- ately in love with this woman. He had wooed her passionately, and had tried to win her, yet had wondered at her folly with a contemptuous wonder, when she told him she must be his wife or nothing. He had laughed within himself at the idea that he should be thought capable of marry. ing a basket -maker's granddaughter, a half - bred gipsy. ' He had chosen a mate of his own rank, thoroughbred like himeelf, penniless as the basket -maker's granddaughter, but a lady by birth and want of education. The girl taught in the National School could have beaten the Colonel's daughter upon any subject on which they could have been examined, from the multiplication table to natural science. And now he asked himself what his life might have been like had be flung conven- tionality to the winds made light of caste, and married Mrs. liandeville's daughter? Would things have gone as ba.dle, with him I Would hehave been as careless of her as he had been of Helen and would some other man have found out that she was fair, and tempted her away from him I Would any man have dared to tempt this woman? Would any fashionable sybarite have ventur- ed to approach this Egyptian sphinx, in silk en dalliance, with the light airy courtesiee which smooth the brimstone path of seduc- tion? Looking at that grand, calm face, those dark, deep eyes with their steady out- look, it seemed to him that this woman, 4` Is this the first time your gland - MISCELLANEOUS. Kngene Kelly, the Irish banker of New York, began life as a tramping peddler of needles, thread and button% Now he could draw his cheque for $10,C00,000. Corn is so tall in Kansas this year that etrangeee peeing through on night trains looking gut en the oornfielde by moonlight, talk Of the deuse oak and maple foreets they are passing through. We should never judge a man by his, clothes. A lavender Derby may sometimes cover brains, and a warm heart often beats benesth the haughty exterior of an old -gold vest with pink polka -dots. Farmers within a radius of three miles of Perham, Minn.' during fourteen dap re- cently ceught andkilled six thous% ad bush- els of grasshoppers, for which the county paid a bounty of $1 a bushel. daughter has been to see you. since she left A little 4 -year-old girl in Macon, Ga., has the Abbey ?" just got $600 for a father who is dead, and "No, she came once before. She oaine to has the assurance of 819,50 a month from tell me of her mother's death. 1 wantedber now until she is 16 yore old. e Uncle Sam to stop with an altogether then—or to go makes the payment under the Arrears of back to the Abbey, if her ladyship would Pension law. forgive her and take her back—but she had leers Newyork (travelling) --My husoand set her heart upon what she calls her mis- is a Wall streetbear. Mrs, Boston—Ate Bien, and she Would only tal/ a few darl^ indeed? Mine is a bear, too, but he is a She's a good girl to me, all the same. She plain, domestic bear. Volt ought to see him writes to me once a month, and she sends at breakfast some morning. . me a little money now and again. She's gone to see ,Mr. Rookstone this afternoon, A beetle can draw twenty times its own and she' going back to London to -morrow." weight, and in England there is a fragile little woman, weighing only 93 pounds, who , "How does she get money te carry on her London 2,, recently lifted a mortgage of 2,000 pounds work in Lo from her house. This beats the beetle. " ,All manner of ways. Sometimea by begging, sometimes by the sweat of her Boston School Teaoher—Now, children, brow. She goes out nursing now and again, oan you tell me the name of the English among people who elan, afford to pay her nobleman who did great services to human - handsomely for her services. She learnt ity and whom we all ought to remember how to nurse consumptive patients in at. here in Boston? Children—Marquis ot tending upon her mother. She had a long Queensberry. ' lingering illness, had my girl—died by in- Married °hes, as the saying is—and Madge nursedWhat's that the lad C1 grocer —h V het through it all. There was a famous wants?i.. t . Clerk—She h e wants me to weigh doctor that had known something of my girl teller11°Iabt y the her "Ali right; but say, her youngster weighs about four when she was in her prime, and the tip-top of fashion—and he attended her In her Pl- poundsimore;than it does, or she'll swear the sea es are doctored." ziess, and . wa3 kind and generous to her, so , that she never wanted for anything. And A wonderful landsoape which is on ex - he took to Midge, and told her she had a hibition in Paris has been executed in Euro - genius for nursing —and it was he who re- peatt and foreign insects. The desired tones commended her afterwards to his rich for the foreground are supplied by 450,000 patients, and set her going as a sick nurse," coleoptera, and 4,000 varieties of other in. "And in her leisure hours she had found. sects make the rest of the picture. ed a sisterhood," interrogated Valentine. An Englishman has invented an electric of " Ves—and the other sisters are all ladies gun.the Therestook, f rrnhaurr isaota small isotoragoebattery on s tfirxed —ladies, born and bred. They're noneg 'em young—and there's been some kind of enough to explode the ceertridge is commun. blight upon 'em, one mid all—disappoint. icated. It is said that one charging of the ments in their love affairs—or the lose of a cell will explode -five thousand cartridges. relation—or a bad husband. They've all of • 'eel had their own sorrows before they began In Feria a man pioks hp a living by going to think of other people's troubles. Some of about the streets pi/eying on a clarionet 'em have a little bit of money—some haven't through a canul a placed in a hole in his throat a sixpence—but they all live alike, upon the after the,operationof tracheontomy. Whenhe poorest fare, and they all work alike, taking has finiehed a little tune he takes the inutile their turn to go out nursing among the rich, out and exhibits it teethe audience, to show and taking their turn to work at home for that there is no deception. the poor, and all the money they earn, ex- An English writer declares that the cue- cept just enqugh to clothe and feed them, tom of pairing off guests at dinner arose in and all the money they own ip the way of the middle ages, when there was only a income, goes to help the poor wretched crew. tures they take, siok or 'lying, off the cruel Angle plate and drinking cup for each couple, and that while the man out up the streets of London. It's a good bit of work, meat the woman put the pieces in his mouth Mr. Belfield, for a young woman like inv.:, and they both drank from the same cup. Madge to have done in less than two years. "Yea, it is a good work—and your grand- Workmen in a gravel bed on the Western daughter is a wonderful woman,' said Val- Railway of Alabama recently came upon entine, musingly. the skeletcn of what they think was an Heremernbered how lightlyhe had thought Indian princess. On it were found a silver of this girl three years ago, and with what coronet, silver bracelets, a necklace made of an insolent sense of his own superiority he silver buckles, tied together with a silk had approached her, deeming her his pre- ribbon, and a peculiar knife with a sabre destined prey. And now he. knew that she blade. ii was, and had always been, infintely his sup- A baker in Bloomsbury, England, sued a . erior : a noble unselfish woman, great in her man for $12.50 for bread furnished. The man tenacity of purpose and moral courage. i entered a counter claim for $45 for the He propitiated old John Dawley, with a velue of a dog. The evidence was that the gift of money for future tobacco, and a baker's boy leaving bread left the gate of the small supply of his own tobacco, for inuresi customer open, ,and the, nog ran out and was diate use; and then he took up his liat and 1 lost. , The Court held that if the man could prepared to go back to his boat and his 1 not take care of the dog himself he ought not once having taken upon herself the vows of does. 1 to expeot the baker's boy to do it, and judg- e, wife, would have kept them meal death. "Will you ask Madge to go and see my meat was for he baker. It seemed to him also that no man who was mother ?" he said. " think Lady Belfield her husband would have dared to trifle with would like to hear about her work at Lisson A, Wind guitar 'player ed 11/. anton, from Spain, is creating astir in the musical her happiness. Grove. Ask her to go to tea at the Abbey wdrld b'oad. He uses an inetrumenewith Miaa Oakley's IdaeYellons Perfermat100, Miss Annie Oalsley, the celebrated rifle' and wing ehet, eclipsed herself on July 00th, at the Wild West phew, Gloucester City, N. Y., and the ten tboueand Peeple present shewed their appreciation of her wonderful skill by loud and centinued applause as she brought down her birds, some of whioh were rapid flyers and would have been hard to hit even by the be,st nude crack !lots - The Herlingham rules geverned the shoOt- ing and fifty birds had been seleoted to try and fly away from, " Little Sure Shot, but ail the sem will show, only her tlairty.second bird was declared out of bountle, and that one died but three feet outside the boundary. The iive traps were placed in position by genial Frank Betler, the well.known creek shot, who manages Miss Oakley's interests. Frank Kleintz, the champion wing shot a Pennsylvania, was referee and oMiles L, Johnson who has never been beaten on Jersey soil, pulled the traps. Miss Oakley, by her skill, won hundreds. of dollars for her friends, and netted a SRO° purse for killing forty five out of fifty birds The little lady used a 20 gauge gun charg- ed with a oz. shot, and shot at 20, yardi', rise. She used the second barrel ten times, as 'the 'score herewith given will show, four times being unneoeasary, In Tens First 11 1 1 2 1 2 1 1-10 Second 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1-10 Third .. . .. . . . . , 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1-20 Fourth 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1— 9 Fifth ....... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-10 ........ ....... . .... 49 to -morrow. I'll tell my mother to expect CHAPTER XXXVL her." "WOULD SHE HAVE TOUcHEDam HAND 11' "You are very good, air; but I believe ^ Valentine Belfield went back to the marsh Madge has made up her mind to 'go ' back to next day with his gun and his doge, shot a London by nearly train toenorrow." daay inid won't make much difference. way t° Ask her to put brace of birds, and :then made his off her journey for a day or, the basket.maker's cottage. He was drawn there irresistibly.He wanted to see that two. I know my mother would like to see earnest face again, to hear those low and her." steady accents, which fell upon the ear and It was his own idea and he had hardly brain with a soothing inf3.aence, like organ thought of his mother's mind in the matter. He was feverishly eager that Madge should music stealing along a vaulted roof to the wander lingering by a cathedral door. be encouraged and:helped in her work. It There had been more comfort to him in was as if philanthropy were his last passion. yesterday's conversation with Madge than in He rowed slowly homeward along the anything that had happened to him since broad river, keeping close in to the shore. the doing of that dead which separated him About half a mile from Dawley's cottage, forever from his fellow -men. He found he saw the woman whose image filled his himself wondering what would happen if he mind—a tall figure. in a, straight black gown, uworelihIlrtdoetneliihs eorv steady pace along- the eerflhoieedeedrimbree—aeift he twhiserewtoe- moving with swiib tow -path. He pullet into the bank, ground - man whom he had once loved with a selfish ea his boat, and stepped on shore. sensual love, but whom he now reverenced ' "1 have just left your grandfather, as. a creature of superior mould. He knew Madge," he said, "he has told me all about not how the change had come about. It you." And. then he urgecrher to go to his might be the coneciousness of his own guilt, mother on the following afternoon. which intensified his sense of her own super- "She will be interested in your work and iority. Three years ago he had treated her she will give you some Money," he said, and with undisguised arrogance; he had laughed then he turned out one of his pockets and at her preteationli to equality as woman gave her a little heap of gold and silver, against man: and now he felt that it would amounting to between six and seven pounds. ID an unspeakable relief to grovel in the dust "11 is nob mewl," he said, "but it is all at her feet: to hide his weary head in her I have left of this year's income. No; lap, and to pour out the dark story of his dont refuse it," as she made a gesture of crime. He wanted her compassion, her repudiation, "1 have no need for money in help against the evil spirit that was manna this place. Don't refuse ib unless you want him. ''' to wound me." "11 it is her mission to rescue the fallen, "Why should I want to wound you 2" ' she ought to care for me," he thought. "Ah, why indeed? I once behaved like None ever fell lower—none was ever a cad to you: but I am not the same man as deeper dyed with the stains of sin 1" I was then. I may be a worse man per - The door of oldDawley's cottage was haps—but anyhow, I am different. man, shut, and it was the old basket -maker never insult you again, Madge." himself who appeared at Valentine's knock. "1 am sure you will not," she said, look - "How d'ye do, Dawley ?" said Valentine, ing at him earnestly, with a reed compassion- " I have been shooting about here, and I ate gaze ' thought I'd look in upon you. The Amman. She had heard. the Chadford people talk of tiera is better, I hope." his wife's elopement; and she had been told "Well, no, sir ; that complaint ain't like that Valentine Belfield was a broken man) good wine. It don't improve with age," 80 altemd that his intimate Mende of the answere& the old mats, not altogether an. past felt as if he were a stranger among =vicious. ti bid her ladyship mud ,aay them, She was Berry for him, and felt her - message for me or my daughter ?" . self in some measure responeible for his my mother did nob know that 1 misery, Since It Ivas her ammYramis warn" was coming this way, I was surpriaed to Mg which had precipitated Inc marriage oee your daughter here yesterday: she left with Helen Devetill. a ' the .Abbey very Abruptly three years ago " I have been with Mr. Beekstone this and I don't think any of our people had afternoon," elle sag, " he has gblen' me heard of her ohm." seventeen pounds. Ten pounds are his "1 beg your pardon, sir, I emelt Dare. own gift and the rest he has collected , Mareable had. 1 believe my girl wrote to among his friends. I must hurry back to her --after her poor mother's death," an- grandfather now, sir," she eoncluded. "1 owered Dawley, placing a chair for his yid. have so little time to spend with him, Good. ter, and resuthing his own seat beside the bye." , ,, „ Are. "1 know she mud have seemed tin- ' .,,,,' ueoe,a.ort, l'eaufle.- „ , grateful for cutting MT from Finch a good He iteld out Ille hand, and gm took it in place, and a place in Which she has been so frank„ inendllne”. Hie elabp wee strong kindly teeated, without giving ptoper warn. and fervent, and he sighed as he released ing. 13tit she'e a strange girl, avrr, Belfield, her hand, and then Walked ori in silence. is iny grahd.daughter, and she thought she " Wonld the have touched my hatad if had ti iniesion in life, and that that Mission she knew all f" he al'Imel himself) as ho wimb WM to look after her poor sinful mother . hack to hio bot, (To nit cOliTINgEn), Et Ah," he aaid, listlessly, " yott 1,elieV6 hi 1 and Ieok atter her Mother aliei did, an eleeTlvde. This stfinga.It was seventy years ago tthatail0 hcir Spaniard named Lor created eemed likely to be driven out of the aa sensation witlihis guitar and made a per- fect craze for the instrument, so that the piano s advertisement recently appeared in an Ithaca newspaper: "Base. Ball and Baptism.—A game of ball will be played at Cayuga Lake Park next Saturday afternoon between the Y. M. C. A. nine of Ithaca and the Mynderse Academy nine of Seneca Falls. At the conclusion of the game will occur the baptising in the lake of converts of the colored camp meeting." A womanin North Gainsville, Fla, saw a littlesbird' flying in and out of a: back window of her house. She watched it, and saw it pass through several rooms to the front parlor, and disappeared on a "what. not" in the corner. There the housewife found a nest with four eggs in it. They were not disturbed, and at last accounts the bird was trying to hatch the little eggs. The roaring gas well back of Canonsburg, Pa, is said to have 'the greatest registered pressure of any in the world. The gas looks Hee a solid piece of blue steel for some distance after it comes out of the pipe. Solid masonry twelve feet thick surrounds the well to hold the cep on. When in drill- ingthe gas was struck, tools and rope weighing 5,000 pounds were thrown out as though they were feathees. It will take 5,760 books of gold leaf to gild the dome of the Boston State House. Each book cot- taine twenty Sheets of gold leaf, each sheet containipg a little over 91, square inches, The sheets are so thin that 1,000 of them laid one on the other make but an inch in thickness. The gold is with- in a caratof puts and weigha 3i pounds Troy. Each book is worth seventy cents, to that the gold leaf alone coots $4,032, It will take fifteen skilled workmen six weeks to do the job. The seventeen -months -old daughter of Timothy Hartnett of MeIrop, Mao., was cross'being much troubled in getting her teeth, and Timothy scnight to alleviate her pain by feeding her raw whiskey, When the physician got there the baby was inoots. vulsiona, and Timothy was arrested. The report says that "owing to the prisoner's haVing a wife and three Small, children, the judge sentenced him only to the House et Correction for thtee menthe," The child recovered, A deicription of the interior Of the "City of New York 's includes, of couroe, the lib- .. . rary, wmch is in tne shape of an hour geese, being narrowest in the middle line of the vesoel and widest at the gide. In this way, the greatest amount of light it neared or a given apace. There are 800 volumes m the library, 250 by Ameriodr, authors, art every department of literatin is yogi:teen ed by standard works. All the leading meg.- &sines and periodicals, will be on file in thie grandeot and most unienie of all Abating WA:arise( in the World. . Chinese Art and Landscape Gardening. • There are said to be something likefifty thousand characters in the Writtea longteage of the Chinese. I am eine it'osld take them all to felly describe the queer sights and strange customs we witnessed in pftking during the few days we rested there, at the cheerful United States Legation' before mak- ing our final start for the GreatWall. I had, never known before that the twisted trees, contorted. objects and. queer ambito°. tura painted on. Chinese punoh-bowls and platters are not droll caricatures but the Chinese representations of Chinese art ideas ID the actual everyday scenes of Chinese life. The grotesque donee which they paint on fans, °rescreens, are all well known histori- cal characters, heroes of fiction' or deified saints and philosophers, and eachone carries to the Chinese mind its peculiar tradition or romantic association. There is very little picturesque 'scenery in China, and the few hills, streams and val- leys which lovers of natural beauty have dis- covered, have done duty in decoration for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. But these outlines, made familiar' by repetition, have a different meaning when the fact is explained that the skill:Id Chineeneendscape gardeners have made innumerable Miniature copies of these few bits of aceneety in the court yards which are e,eclosed by the inner walls of the houses of the better sort. These courts, a feet in extent, oblong or square, are laid out in little mountain ranges, sh,ow- ing caverns and lakes, trails and ravines on every side. Training the Color Sense. Jean Ingelow describes, in the odd. dialect of the North of England, the process of teaching boys and girls to instil colors. It appears that about four per cent. of the children were unable to distinguish colors, even the most unlike. • tie see There was a class -room in whioh was a table covered with skeins of German wool, bits ot stained glass and silks of all colors. The master said, "Now, bairns, back end a'la,st week I tell'd ye rd gie ye an ould farrant lesson to -day. Yon, Josey, ye see this ?" holding up a red rose. Jowly. a small child of six years, "Ay, master.' "What be it, barin ?" " Why, a rose, m g ter, for share." " Ay, but what kin' o' rose ?" " A red un, air" "Well, now you go into the class -room, and fetoh me out a,skein o' wool the nighest like this rose ever ye can." 4osey takethe rose, and fetches back the skein Of just the same hue. After this about twenty of the children were sent on the errand, and, matched the color perfect- ly. At last, a little white-faced fellow went into the olass•room, stayed some time, and finally came out with two skeins in his hand. Shouts of surprise and derision filled the room. "Surely, what be ye thinking on ?" "One on 'era's ae green as grass, an' t'other as gray as a ratten [ret). The little boy looks frightened. " Thou's done as well as thou knew how," says the master, rather gently. "Don't thou be soared; thou's nobbut tried once. Here, take and match me this." He gives him the glossy leaf of a laurel. The child goes out again, and, with a much more cheerful and confident air, comes tack and puts into hie hand a skein cf the brightest scarlet. The other ohildred, too surprised to laugh, whisper together, " Hat beant a fondy, neither." Fond here has the old sense of foolish. Didn't Want to See the Rest. According to Texas Siftssags, an old gamb- ler who was reduced to povertyby a rather protracted run of bad luck, obtained the posi- tion of a street car driver, Re had been so aceustomed to playing cards that he could never divot himself of the idea that he was not plying his old trade at all hour's Of the day. A large, stout lady entering his oar not long since forgot to deposit her 'fare. After waiting a readonethle time the driver stopped his oar, awl said respectfully: "1 want to see your ante," , There was a pause of about three 'seconds, and then the cyclone struck. With one stalwart wipe of her , parasol she caved the gentleman's hat down over his ears„ Ana in a kind of backward thrust pearly dug out the eye of a school ouperintextdont just behind her. The passengers made a break for the rearldoor, andithe oar -driver stumbled off the steps: The stout wontan .0,Ets monarch of all ohs surveyed. With blazing eyes and' arm waving like a Windmill, she shouted " Want to see my auntie, do emu ?" "No,by thunder, clon't 1° yelled the d:,tivt,:the siiperintend• ve,,r,lilocipkingatanhym erb from the sidewalk, ayloku vile scoundrel? , Where's e Where he had ignontinionely fled, tooo "No, I don't want to Aee another darned one of them.' "I've a notion to coree there and flush the gutter with you, you villain, bat 1 must be getting along home," and picking up the Itheo she drove about four blocks, and dis- mounted from her triumphal chariot. The croevd yelled and the driver limped up the Street and again boarded his car. Hereafter , he willimake an earnest eff9rt to abet= from the Use Of teehnidal terms an the discharge of his duties at A homemade pound :lake will freentently give a mai a nightmare that weigha five tone.