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The Exeter Times, 1889-3-28, Page 2THE EXETER TIMES. Is publisne a every Thursday in ;TIMES STEAM PR NUNS HOUSE Main-streelanearly opposite Fietonei Xewelere Store, Exeter, Q.by JohaWhite& Sous,Pro- p rotors naTss AnvnaTrexo ; Piro ins e rtiott, p er.........................1Q °elite, Seth sub se queet tiusertion , per line 8 omits. To insure insertion, eaverteseineedis sheald De sent in not later than nieduesday morning OurJOB PRINTING- DEP AailtttlINT is one 1 the )gest a ea best equipped in the County I Reran All wora entrusted to us will render ur protupt attention: Decisions Rearding W S- PaperS. Ana person whotakes a paperregularlyfrom he •Post -office, whether aireetecl in his name or another's. or whetleer he haft subscribed or ziet is responsible for payment, 2 If a person order e hie paper discontinued 320 MUSt pay all aerears or the publisher may oontinue to send it antil the -payment is made, and the collect the whole amount, whether the paper is taken from the office or not. s I auits for subscriptions, the suit may be lastitated intim place where the paper is nub- ished, althoueb the subsoriber may reside hundreds of ranee away. The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers or peeiodioals from the post. •office, or remoeing and leaving them uncalled or is prima facie evidence of intention alfraull COMMENT ON MEN'S WEAR. Very pale tints will run this Spring. The twice -round has nob made a Mt. A stylish bar coat is of white duck clotted with frogs. Retailers report a boom in pearly grey evening dress gloves. Novelties in cameo stone for umbrella handles are worth looking up. Nature has to pave the way for the man who would look well in knee breeches. Velvet collars on dress suits, a London fad in a small way, has not emelt on here. Fur collars and ouffs fcr overcoats are sold by New York outfitters at from $5 up per set. Toilet riquisities—dressing-cases and the like—are gaining more and more space in the outfibtera' stock. Some of the new scarfs make a fellow as conspicuous as a highly polished name.plate on a shabby front door. The clothiers all over the country report a decided increase in the demand for ready- made swallow -tail coats. The ear muff business among the retailers in this part of the country has not been a howling success thia Winter. White effecte in full-dress jewelry continue in great demand, though the plain gold is by no means losing its popularity. Detachable cape overcoats made up in Sootch and English tweed have the patterns just bold enough to distinguish the wearer in a crowd. MaDV a mozher has learned for the first time that her eldest born has ideas of his own when he turned up his nose at the trousers she had made for him. Match boxes, cigar ceses, gentlemen's toilet sets and other knic-knace, left over from the holiday trade, are being offered at about one.third of their original coat, by a well known New York retailer as "oobillion favors." Sailor knots of moderate size are worn by many cf the most fastidious dressers in pre- ference to all other ideas in neck -wear forms. Thee represent the class of Merl who are slow to take to novelties and follow the same rut season after season. A National Danger. An engineer, on being asked how he ac- counted for the great frequency and height of floods for a few years baok as compared with the pastreplied that ib was due to the removal of the forests from the country. We may, therefore, look for an increase of the evil from year to year. This has been the experience of all countries whose early condition was that of forest. Not only do annual floods carry destruction and ensuing disease to the cities and farmsteads along the river banks till i either the river water s fenced out by dykes or the people are driven from the shores. That is perhaps the least: part of the evil. The land that has been de - eluded of trees becomes denuded also incourse of time of soil, the rush of waters after heavy rains carrying off those qualities of the soil which fit it for the food of vegetable life, and hills that at one time furnished sustenance for nappy villages become a poor home for economical sheep and goats. The surplus of population becomes a problem which can only be settled by emigration. In countries not epecultarly favored, as Great Britain is, with near surroundings of cloudy seas, the evils of the dreughb are greater than' evils of the Rood. In the absence of forests which are the great reservoirs of moisture, retainieg it in the day of plenty and giving ie forth gently in the time of need, countries with large land areas experience long droughts. Canada has just begun to know what drougnts mean. She need not imagine that these are merely occasional visitations against which no provision is to be made. We have been for &century making prepar a - tions to welcome the droughta of Asia and when they. come they come to stay. Then for the watering of our now heavenamoietened soil we shall, unless we are wise in thriet be reduced like the fellahs of Egypt to irriga- tion, a process which the prices we get for our products will not cover. We have laid bare much land which lb will never pay to culti- vate, but which will bear trees as well as any. Such land should all be returned to forest. In some places it is sufficient to let it alone, simply protecting it from all des- tructive influences and thinning the wooct as it grows. Le other places it will pay to plant. Though the crop iS not soon reaped, yet it adds to the money value of the land, and in toy case it is a debt due to the country and to posterity. Men may indeed hope them- selves to profit; by the good to which they centribute. In some of the western regiona where forests were wanting: the land Qom- paratively barren and the rivers nearly emp. ty or twenty yeare which has even made the rivers tavie,alale. We need only say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and far cheaper. Oab of 419 Swords recently tested in England only 363 ponied the standard ; twenty-five were broken in the staking teat. The Atnericert boodlera now resident in Canuale, are reported to be getting up a purse to defeat lldr. Weldon' s iiixtradition Bill, The efteob of this report will pro. bably be to insure the passage of the bill by exeiting the alarm and indignatiot of incm- leers who mighe otherwise be honestly op- t poeed to it. The American gentlemen will spiend their mohey tnore wisely hi compro. a ameba with their vietint while there is yet , time, s THE IJESER'Itilli FA A TRAGIC STORY'. INTRODUCTION. It was my regular habit, while I resided, Itt lYlontreal, Canada Bast, to spend six or aiglit weeks of every en alum ida travelling in Canada, or in the Uaited Statea. bad ig tbie way, vieited tbe greater portion el the Upper Province, Niagara Falls, Sara. toga Springs, the City of New York, Pnila. delpnia, and the capital of Waehington ; and, no one occasion, had penetrated into the Far West, until I reached Kansas, One summer I renolved to ohange my rout, and instead of going westward I de. termined to make a tour through the eastern districts of Lower Canada, where the French Canadian inhabitants still retain the peculiar oharacteristios of their Non:oaths ancestors. With this object- in view, I travelled along the southern shore of the St. Lawrence until I reached the little village of St. Cllaude, where at I resolved to sojourn for hree or four weeks. St. Claude amends of one long street of wooden cottages. There is the usual wheel- wright's a blacksmith's, andoarpenter's shop, and a general store. A short dietanoe from the main street stands the little toylike, whitewashed, red.roofed Roman Catholic ohurch, neer whioh is the residence a mon. deur le Cure—the largest and neatest cob- tage in the village. The residents of St. Claude (like those of Lower Canada generally) are certainly a primitive people. With the exception of M. le Cure, scarcely a dozen among them— and they number some four hundred—have ever journeyed fifty miles from their homes. The villagers all dress alike in the anoient cesium of Normandy. The young evoinen and girls, however, displayed their abund- ant ebony tresses, uncovered by cap or bon. net; and being very neatly arranged, chey present a very attractive appearanoe. As a rule, these people are in a state of perfect ignorance, not one in fifty being able to read or write, or caring to acquire the knowledge. They are, in fact, well satisfied to follow in the footsteps of their forefathers --chiefly to make their own gar- ments, to cultivate their email tenures in the old.fashioned style, and to live and die in their native village. I did not find it an easy matter to procure lodgings in Se. Claude; there is no hotel, and most of the cottages contain but two rooms. llowever, after much difficulty, I obtained apartments at a farnahouse of the superior class, occupied by one Pierre Junot, his wife, and family. On the fourth day of my sojourn at the farm -house, I strolled away towards Cape Stu Anne; and having clambered to the summit of the lofty cliff whioh overhangs the river, stood a long while gazing around me at the fine and majestic scenery I was enabled to sureey from the eminence I had gained. Long I stood watching the effects of light and shadow upon the water, where not a ves- sel could be seen, save, pernhance, some ice- bound wreak upon the rooky shore, and where the country in the rear, now green and fertile, and rejoicing in the beauty of Bummer, would be shrouded beneath a pall of glittering snow, from amidst which the trees, denuded of their now brilliant foliage, would rise like so many 'spectral objects scattered over ehe drear landscape. At length, I turned aside, when my atten- tion was arrested by what appeared to me to be a ruined and deserted farm -house of a de- scription very far superior to any at present existiug in this part of the province. Ib stood in a deep valley, a mile or more distant. Several outhouses were seemingly attached to it, and it was surrounded by large Beide and pastureegrounds ; but, so far as I could perceive, the place presented a singular aspect of gloom. Not a human being, nor even a solitary animal of any de- ecriptien, was bo be discerned from the emi- nence upon which I stood, and which com- manded a perfect view of the entire estate. Altogether, the place presented a strange and startling contrast to the generally bright and smiling summer landscape. Such a sight would have been remarkable in any part of the world, but it was especially sin* guiar in a coraparatively new country, in which ruins do not forra one of the attrac- tions in the eyes of travellers and strangers, and in which, as yet, nothing has been left to decay. I looked at.my watch. It was yet early in the day, and I resolved to descend into the valley, and discover whether the farm was, in reality, the desolate spot it appear- ed to be viewed from a distance. As I drew near the house, the absence of any trodden pathway seemed to confirm the opinion I had formed while' gazing upon the spot from the summit of the cliff. Evident- ly there had once existed a tolerably broad road, leading, apparently, from the valley to the village, and several wide footpaths crossed and recrossed each other; but all had been long disused. I turned the angle of a copse, the trees of which were surrounded with undergrowth, and entwined by parasites, and eanie into full view of the house. was a large, roomy structure, which might have served, in the earlier days of the province, for the country seat of a nobleman. Vestige's of carving and other ornamentation were still visible over the door and window.% The palings sur- rounding the garden had rusted and fallen ; the paths and, flower.beds were overgrown with grass and weeds; the roof of the house and the chimneys had fallen in ; the win- dow frames and glass were shivered to atoms, not a single entire pane of glen re. maining ; the whole front of the house was blackened by age, and overrun with fungi, and every surrounding object presented a sad aspect of ruin and desolation. The out - homes) barns, &o.,vvere in a similar State of dilapidation ; the large leitchen.garden and orchard in the rear of the dwelling, and the large fields and pasture. grounds, had evidently been uncultivated for many years, and had become a mazy. wilderness; even the neighbouring Words appeared as though they had long been left to solitude, shunued both by man and beast. My outictiny induced me to enter the aarden—the gate of which lay deeply em- bedded in the soil—and peer into the house through the windowe or the doorway, the door iteelt hanging half open on ono rusty bingo. 1 would indeed have entered the house, but tae passage was strewn with the debris that had fallen from the ceiling, and had blocleed up the patlour doore on either eide, and I saw that the staircase Was broken, and the stairs were in each a rotten condi- tion that they were unsafe,if not impassable. The walls, like the outside of the house, were over -grown with fungi, and pools of Water) which had dripped from the broken oof, were visible on the floor. A sickly, mouldy, deathelike smell prevailed the place, nd wag glad to tarn away and breathe he fresh mit, after having stood in the pa - age for half a Minute, AO I posed the open apertures what'll had once been win - awn, 1 looked in through One of them, and saw that the room was largo, and that the wane end ceilings were in a similar condition tr0 thee° of the passage. What, however, struck Me with arnaztheent, wile the discov. ery that the abundant, and apparently mace handsome and coetly, furniture of the apart- ment still remained within ib; the chairs and tables, the large mirror over the mantel- piece, the sideboardloaded with china orna- ments, and the picturesin gilded frames on the wall—rare things to be met with, even, at the present day,. in this remote portion of the Praninae—remamed as they had been placed when the house was tenanted; but were cov- ered with dust and dirt, and blackened by damp and age. On my return through the front garden, I remarked, with surprise, a large, almose circular spot in the centre, which was per - feebly denuded of grass, or vegetation 'of any description; the soil having, apparently, been calcined by the action of fire, and which Vie anted a strange and startling contrast to the Luxuriant, though rank, vegetaticriaby which It was'surrounded. On again consulting my watoh, I found that I ehould barely have time to retrace my my steps to my lodgings before the dinner hour; and, to tell the truth, I was not Sorry to get away from the singular spot into whioh I had penetrated. I hastened, therefore, to climb the steep hill which led to the sum. mit of the cliff and the road to St, Claude. As I passed through the valley on my re- turn, I could not help remarking the strange absence of aninicil lite. Not a hare, rabbit, squirrel, or weasel--theugh these creatures abounded in the neighborhood—notified my path. I did not hear the song or chirrup of a bird, nob even the buzz of an insect. The only audible sound was the whispering of the lofty pines and cedars; and to my excited fancy, there was something unearthly in the sound, heard amid the stremge solitude, as though evil apirits were whispering in the upper he utter loneliness in which I found my. self weighed upon my spirits, and it was with a feeling of positive relief that I was once more deer of the valley, and on the summit of the cape; then turning about, and gazing again for a minute at the deserted farm, I made the best of my way homewards. On my arrival there, I found that I was late, and that: old Janet, and his wife and elder children, were—with the French Can- adian politeness—waiting dinner ; although the younger children were already seated at their own little table, busily occupied in dimming their pottage. I apologized for my tardiness, and express- ed my regret that they had waited for me, and in five minutes we were all seated around the table, whioh was spread with an abundant and wholesome, though humble, meal. "M'sieur must be fatigued. He has walk- ed far ?" said the motherly Madame Janet. "Yes, madame," I replied. "I rambled a considerable distance beyond the Cape. Nevertheless, the day is fine, the walk was pleasant, and I am not at all fatigued." And then, being curious to learn the history cifthedeserted farm, I related my adventure. Had a bombshell fallen through the roof of the 'peaceful cottage, the listeners could Bearably have appeared more disconcerted. Pierre Junot and his wife dropped their 'knives and forks, and raised their eyes as if 'in appeal to %heaven. The, elder son and daughter almost started from their chairs, and even the younger children 'Poked. amaz- ed. At length madame found utterance. "You have truly, then, visited the sours. ed farm 2" she exclaimed. "Yet what mer - ay that you have returned safe. Never should I have pardoned myself had any evil ' befallen you. It would have been my fault. I should have warned you. I should have warned you. I should have told you to avoid the much dreaded spot. You are a stranger, and Providence has protected you; say, than, you will not go thither again." I nesitated to make any promise, howe (en and requested my worthy hostess to give me the history of the farm and its former inhabitants, and to explain to (me by what means it became forsaken, and reduced to its present ruinous and desolate condition. Pierre and his wife and his son and daughter, however, alike hesitated to grati- fy my curiosity. In facia to a certain de- gree, they professed ignorance. "There are many stories," said Madame. "Ws do not speak of it. it is regarded as unlucky to allude to the subject. We avoid the spot which has for many years been accursed. Yet stay," she added, ,'If M'sieur is really curious to learn the history of the odious place, the cure will no doubt be willing to gratify his desire. He is se- cure from the machinations of evil spirits." With this I was content, since a subsequ- ent endeavour to obtain the information I sought from the eldest son of my host and hostess proved to be a complete fail- ure. The young man evidently did not like to talk on the subject. My curiosity was all the more excited in consequence of this strange reticence on the part of my host and hie family, and 1 resolv- ed, if possible, to solve the mystery from the lips of the cure, whose acquaintance, how- ever, I had nob yet made. Monsieur Dubois, dure of the parish of St. Maude, was a short, stout, fresh -coloured man, of about sixty yearsof age. For twenty- five years he had officiated as cure of the parish. He was a cheerful, kind-hearted, :heritable man, indefatigable in the perform- ance ot what he considered to be hie duty, and beloved as wdl as revered by the simple- minded, honest lieople with whom his lot was oast, who looked up to him not only as their spiritual pastor, but also as their advis- er in all temporal difficulties. Hitherto I had merely bowed in return to M. Duleoie'S polite salutation' as he passed the house at whioh I lodgedone morning while I was sttolling in the garden. I puede up ray mind, hovaever, to attend mass at the little parieh church the next Sabbath, think. in that the most likely way to secure the ffiendehip of the good father, and perhaps procure an invitation to visit hie cottage, especially as I had been informed that he wad always glad to receive the visits of the few strangere who catne to St. Claude'and to hear the news from tho outer world,from whioh he, good man, had been al) long seolud. ed. The next, Sunday, accordingly, I made appearance in the ohurch, and Was politely accommodated with a seat near the altar, although the edifice wail thronged to such a degree that many, of the worshippers &mid not fled standing room, and were compelled to 'Wait outside the ehurch doors. After eervica, arid when the good priest had heaped blessings on the ohildten of hie parishioners, he perceived mei and dep. ping forward, cordially welcomed me to Ste Claude, "We it adorn see strangers," said he, "A strange ie a realty hi our emote village, siteraltivorsitlit and therefore we ought te welcome them all the more gladly when they do us the honour of videing us, Dies Monsieur imond to remain loug at Si. Claude "Throe or four weeks," I replied. Then" field he, we must become friends. I ehala he happy to 13130 you at my humble dwelling ; 'and as your time is limit, the sootier we, beootno friends the letter. Will you do me the honour ro dine with me toi Morrow ?'' This was just the sort of invitetion I had, hoped for, and, of Connie, I gladly noTonheI: ntpXpity, at four o'cloOk in the afber at the door of the oure's cot- . partae°"eIPttto4ellacifnree gaae rcedu tal ea en hof"")MuornBIntUrnlit CM," said 1; and yeah this we wished. each other good day. tage, and was admitted by his housekeeper, who conducted me to the dining -room. where I found the good father apparently anxiously awaiting my appearance. CHAPTER I. BETRoTECAL AND TILE ELOPEMENT. M. Dabois's household oonsiated of him- self, an aged female, leis housekeeper, and a little girl of ten years of age; the former the widow, and the latter the orphan daughter of a fisherman of the village, who had per-, ished in the exerciee of their perilous occu- pation to whom the good priest had given a comfortable and happy home. We sat down together to a plain but ap- petising repast, after whioh we adjourned to a little summer -house in the garden, whither the housekeeper brought a bottle of excellent will` e " Coma, fill your glass. You will fled the wine of the best quality, though I never in dulge in it save when 1 have visitors." After a brief conversation on various top- ics'I ventured to introduce the subject which chiefly occupied my thoughts. "Alt 1 the accursed fare& 1" exclaimed my host. "So, then, you have already visited the spot? You would learn its history? Ala my friend 1 'tie a sad and painful story. Still, if you oare to listen, I will relate it to you. Come, let us go in -doors. It is grow- ing dark and the air is always chilly after sunset, at Sb. Claude. We shall find a fire in my study. Gertrude will bring us another bottle of wine, and I will tell the story. In the course of a tew minutes we were seated by the fire in the good oure's cosy little study. We both replenished our glasses, and M. le Cure, having settled him. self comfortably in his easy chair, proceed- ed with the narrative of the "accursed farm." "Nearly a century has elapsed," com- menced M. le Cure, "though already the province has passed from the posaession of France to that of Great Britain, sinoe An. toine Desjarniers, and his wife? Lisette'im- migrated into Canada from their nativeNor- mancly. "Antoine Desjarniers was of a class super- ior to the ordinary emigrants from Franco. He was, in fact, a small landowner, and when he had sold his farm and stock; in Normandy, he found himself in possession of a considerable capital wherewith to °eminence operations in the new oountry of his adoption. " This gave him a vast advantage over his fellow immigrants. He not only purchased a much larger traot of land than they, with their more limited means, were able to secure to themselves; and supplied himeelf abun- dantly with catble and sheep, and every var- iety of necessary agricultural implements ; but he was likewise looked up to with respect, by his less loran:tate countrymen. And well, according to all accounts, was he worthy of the respect and -regard voluntarily accorded to him. He, and his fair young wife, to whom he had been wedded only a feweweeks before he quitted France, were kind and generous to the sick and aged ; were always ready to extend a helping hand to the poor and needy; and were prepared at all times to take the lead in every movement that seemed calculated to tend to tho welfare and happiness of the litble community. "They prospered, as the kind and good deserve to prosper; and within ten years from the date of hie:settlement at St.Claude, Antoine Desjarniers created a large and commodious dwelling, with barns and out- houses adjoining; and imported furniture, and plateau, and various costly ornaments from France, which caused his house to he regarded as the wonder ot the surrounding country, and as a fitting residence for the proudest and wealthiest seigneur in- the provinoe. "Alas 1 house and furniture, outhouses and farm, have been alike, for many, many years, neglected and deserted, and left to ruin and decay, "About twelve months after the arrival of Antonio and his wife in their adopted country, their mutual happiness was in- creased bylhe birth of a son and heir, who was named Felix, after his maternal grand- father. Felix grew up to become is fine, handsome boy, alike the delight and pride of doting parents, who now only craved for a daughter to crown their felicity. This craving, however, Providence, doubbless for wise reasons, saw fit not to gratify. At length they resolved, if possible, to adopt a little girl as their own; bub this they found no such easy matter as they had anticipated. Although the community consisted chiefly of poor farmers and fishermen, there was not one father or mother among them who was willing to 'Dart with any one of their own little daughters, even in favour of the Desjarniers, much as they were loved and respected. There were none so poor as to find the cost of supporting a family a burden to them: On the contrary, in that young and thriving community, children were re- garded as a source of wealth, and the larger a man'e family, the greater he accounted his riches. The poor fishermen and farmers feared lest a daughter adopted by the weal- thy' Desiarniers should become proud, and forgetful, or neglectful, of the authors of her being.' ihere was one sweet little girl, who bade fair to grow up the belle of the village, upon whom, especially, Madame Desjarniers looked with a Meting of eavy thab she could not °learn the child as her own. This girl's name was Jambe Legris. She was the only ehild of a widower—Meru Legris, who was one of the poorest fidherrnen in St. Claude ; but not for ten times the wealth of the Des- jarniers, twice told, would he have parted with his little ewe -lamb, his only earthly treasure, for 'whose Sake he toiled night and day, and often went forth to see in times of stotm and danger that kept his brother fish- ermen at home in their suug cabins, that he might increase his there, and provide dowry for his darling Ageing the time When she would arrive at a marriageable age, "Alae ! poet Selene Legrie dared the ele- ments once too often. His little bark Vvv.8 catight id a heavy gale in the estuary of the St. Lawrence, ancl beither he nor his little veseel ivere seen Or heard of more. Poor little Louise was id e an orphan at nine years of age—an otplian, Without near re- latione, but not ftiendiese, few there was not ft family in the village or parish of St. ClautIO, that Would not liath gladly Sheltered the poor little child, and adopted her se One oi their Own, "Now, however, there was ao obstacle in the way of the gratification ot Madame I) es- jarniere' desire. Willing as they weo to adopt tile little orphan therneelvee, the fathom and mothers of -the viUag peroplved that they would be etending in the way ef the and ei belie interests ehould they put en claimin opposition to the wiehos of their wealthier and kind-hearted neighbor. Most oe them slreadk had daugh NM of their own; MadaMe Deejarniers had none; and, there, fore, with the general approbetien of the community, the little Louise Legrie bethine the adopted daughter of the wealthy farmer and his wife. "Felix Desjarniers had at this period just completed his twelfth year. j.re was a noble, manly boy, with dark eyes and hair, and a fine open expression of counteminge. The little Louise was ilia three years his junior goIdetahaired, blue-eyed child, with pretty, delicate features, is graceful form, and an expression of countenance tn which the arohnese of girlhood was mingled with a eiveet pensiveness rarely seth in one tio 3 buthful. "ho good, siinple 'villagers used to de- clare thee she was the very insage of the Madonna whioh stood in the niche about the church porch. "1 can' only say," said the worthy priest, in parenthesis, with a smile, "that the image of theMadorma whithithen adorned the ohutoh must have been very much handsomer than the present one, or the good folk must have sadly maligned the child. "It was, moreover, a common remark that no two children could have been found bottler suited to hold the relative positiona of brother and sister than were Felix and Louise, who 00011, citing t� love eaoh other as dearly as a real brother and sistee could have lotted. Happy'had it been had this brotherly and sisterly love never been disturbed by a love more passionate, and still more tender. Happy, perhaps, had it been if M. and Madame Desjarniers had remained content with the one ohild whom heaven had be- stowed opon, them, and not oraved so long- ingly after a daughter, whom Providence had seen fib to withhold from them. Often- times, alas 1 the boon which we poor, short- sighted mortals most earnestly crave, proves to be the fertile source of our future great- est affiiotion "To proceed, however, veith my story. "Years passed away, and Felix and Louise —who had assumed the surname of her foster -parents—were already on the verge of man and womanhood,—the one nineteen, the other sixteen, years of age, and were universally acknewledged to be the hand- somest youthful pair in the pariah of St. Claude. Both had been well educated for this position—Felix at the college az Quebec, and Louise at is sohool at Trois Rivieres ; and both had reburned homeifor good. About a twelvemonth after their return a great change had taken place in their feelings to- wards each other. They no longer appear- ed as brother and sister, but regarded each other iith a stronger and more tender affec- tion. In fact, they had secretly become be- trothed to each other,. and looked forward to the day when they should become matt and wife. Nor were Monsieur and Madame Desjarnieirs blind to the change that had taken plaoe itt their children s sentimente ; and though they were ignorant of the fact of their secret betrothal, they were far from being averse to their future union. The fair Louise had been to them all` that a daughter could possibly have been; nor could they have loved a daughter of their own more dearly. They rejoiced,therefore, at the thought that Louise's marriage would not separate them, but that the youehial couple would still continue to live with them at the farm -house, until death should remove them to a happier world, where they would await an eternal reunion with their beloyed children. "Monsieur and Madame Desjarniers had continued to plover, and their wealth had increased to such a degree, that there.were few few hi bhe province who were possessed of greater riches; though M. Desjarniers assumed no upstart airs, but still continued Go live the simple, quiet life of a humble farmer. Nothing, meanwhile, had occurred to disturb the even tenor of their way.; and and it appeared as if heaven had exempted them from the ordinary sorrows and troubles which afflict poor mortals in almost every condition of life. It had been at length ar- ranged that the marriage of Felix and Louise should take place when the former had coin - plated his twenty.first year, and when Louise would, consequently, be eighteen yearn of age;. and Et public betrothal, followed by a grandjete given to all the villagers by M. Desjarniers, soon afterwards took place. Felix would. have been better pleased had the wedding -day 'been fixed at an earlier period; and perhaps Louise was secretly on her lover's side. Both however, were eon - tent to abide 'by the wishes of their parents. " Everything, in fact, seemed to go smooth. ly with the Desjarniers—aged and youthful; yet a terrible calamity was swiftly approach- ing, which would shatter all their dearest hopes, and blight their happiness for ever. But I must not anticipate my story. It lacked but five months to the day appointed for the wedding of the youthful couple when M. Desjarniers came back from Nov. Scotia, whither he had gone to peaches() cattle. He had made a large purchase ; and having arranged for the reception of the cat- tle on leis farm, he was about to return to Nova Scotia in order to bring them home, when Felix, who probably felt the time wearisome as the day of his marriage drew near, and withed the intervening space to pass over as speedily as possible, expressed his earnest deeire to proceed to Nova Scotia in his father's place. It was expected that it would occupy four monthito complete the journey to and fro, and that would bring his wedding day close at hand. (TO DE CONTINUED) Neverthelees, She Got Left. They manage these things better in Arkani sae. A member of the Legislature of that Stete recently had occasion to nominate a young lady for the offloe of enrolling clerk. He is reported as having inet the responsi- bility of his position in this superb manner: "1 shall not say that the one I name is a� beautiful es the angels are, for 1 have never seen an angel and know not how beautiful they are, hut I will say that • if angels look like the lovely maiden Whose name I put in nomination the angels are bee,utifulindeedi'' Veteranpelitioranewho have never missed at- tending apolitical convention for the hist quarber of aterentrY and more agree beat they never heard a candidate placed in nomination eo beautifully. Ana did the young lady get the place, the entire Legislature gallantly supporting her by acelametion ? Alas for man's inhumanity to woman, the got left, owing to the feet that another candidate received more votee. What a sad world it is in pieces.— [N. Y, Tribune. Tuning Off the Gas She (treittulously)i—ii George, papa threat - CDS to tithe oft the gas if you ,atay altor ten biotin* to -night." Efe (delightedly)" Let him, let hull. 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The blind person spreads ib out and impresses the letters required on white paper, under vehicle there is it colored pad which gives them a blue appearance and they are thus not only brought out in reliet for the touch of those deprived of sight, bub are abdo visible to the eyes of those who see. One of Mlle. IVfulote blind pupils has beeh able, by means of this Finite t, to take part in it earn - 'native examination for the diploma of ele- mentary teacher, and to "distance" some of the candidates who Were in poSeeNSion of their visual fsioulties. Sinks Aloolishea. Judae has been officially abolishefin the 'island of Madeira. It has beetractime- honoured mitten' of the actives to exhibit in one of their nutnerous religious proceernons an effigy of Judas, Upon Which the oppro- brium of the populace was duly heaped, and at tbe clots of the day Judas was burned with vociferous -expreseions of triumph and joy. Of late years it hae happened that the effigy of Judas has borne is striking rthemblanee to Some minion upon whom the general public has ceased to smile, and thug the governor of the inland, the mayor of Funchal, and is foreign consul have been caricatured 13 the proces- dons and burned in effigy. The powers that be have decided that the admixture of poli, tics and religion is not wholesome, and so the edict has gone forth that hereafter the people /Inlet get along Without jedete-- [Now 3tork Sun.