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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-9-12, Page 2MISS RIVERS'S REVENG CHAPTER IT. Much as disltked that yeung num, I Wee 'bound to (meant that he )(token provonipg. hendeome as he stood bareheaded in the moonlight wateleing the wreathe of smoke frem his cigar °tiding about in the still elm I could, now man him ctuite at my falain My courage lied returned, and I felt myself insured against discovery. My only dread was that the SNSt men would begin to talk secrete, In such. a case, my keen 'sense of honour must, of course, make me reveal ray promisee. 1 made a nem resolution then I would Aot play at eavesdropping. Alas for or humanity 1 In a minute I was etrain- ing my ears to catch every word. Yet how • could I help it? Heritage Rivers was the alibied a their dimmers& "1 hope eon found your compenion at dinner a pleaeant one ?'' said Mr. Ramsay. " Oh yes; very pleaeant," replied Mr. Hope carelessly. " She's a Mae sort of a girl, I darenter. A nicer eat of a girl 1 The evrettheel man I hated him I "We thinn a great deal more of her than that," said that dear old Mr. RIMBeq. "Indeed," replied his companion, with- out evincing the slightest intermit in the matter. " Yea—indeed end indeed," echoed my old friend. "But, inking apart, did you not notice she bide fair to be a most beauti- ful woman ?" It would have needed little more to have brought me from my. lurkingplacm on pur- pose to kiss that good old man 1 Vincent Hope laughed quietly. "To tell you the truth," he said, I don't think I noticed her math. She seemed to me of the ordinary sehoongirl type. I don't care muck for sohool-girls." I dug my nails into my hands and ground my teeth. Handsome as the man looked in the moonlight, I could have killed him then and there. "Yet," said Mr. Rerarsay,, "I noticed she talked pretty freely to you." The shrug of Mr. Hope's shoulders almost maddened me. " Yes ; but sad nonsense," he said, " albhough was rather amusing at times. Of course, it's not fair td judge her now. She is very raw, and, I should say, rather awkward. If properly looked after, no doubt she will grow up to be a de- cent sort of a young woman." Raw and awkward I He spoke of me— me, whom many of my school -friends called Queen Heritage, from the stately and digni- • fied manner I was supposed to assume at times. A decent sort of a young woman 1 That I should hear a man, one, moreover, In his own opinion & judge on such matters, gravely set this up as the 'standar.' to whioh I might arrive—if pro- perly looked after. It was too much; the zall was too great. And as the horrible thought flashed across me that his descrip- tion might be true, Isis prediction correct, tears Of sheer mortification sprang into my ignen. Even Mr. Ramsay's almost testy re- minder gave me no comfort. " 0 nonsense, Hope I She will grow up a, beautiful, and. clever woman. You judge her wrongly. • Talk to her again in the drawing -room ; there, one will be more at home. "All right? I will," the wretch answered. But at present I want to talk to you about more important things than young ladies. I have to -day been offered the edi- torship of the Piccadilly Magazine.' Shall I take kr "1 congratulate von. But lb is too seri- •pus a matter to decide out here. We will talk it over by-and-by. We must join the ladies now. lee° every one else has gone ID.' "Then I support we must," said Mr. Hope rather rnefufly, and tossing his cigar away with a helf-sigh. I waited a minute ; then I peered out, and af last ventured to creep round the laurel • and reconnoitre. The broad beak of my candid critic was just disappearing through the dining.toona window. I shook my fist viciously at it. I watched Mr. Ramsay follow his guest, saw the window close and the blind fall ; then I flew at the top speed to the library, when.ce I had made my exit, entered noiselessly, and threw myself into a o 'lair, feeling that my life was blighted. The room was faintly lit up ; the door was closed; I was alone with my misery ; for misery it was; I use the word soberly and advisedly, without a, thought of jesting. Fortunately or unfortunately, I had heard myself apprised at my tree velum My merits had been judged and condemmed. was a failure. "Raw and awkward," " A decent eat of a young woman"—the words ate into my heart. NO expressions could • have been devised which would have wound- ed me more deeply. • He would give me another chance in the drawing -room. Would he 1 I think net, Mr. Vincent Hope. No power on earth shall take me there to -night. I turn the gas up, and look at myself in the mirror. My hair is dishevelled, my eyes are red, and I cannot • help fancying that my nose looks rather coarse. Yes; it must be true ; I am not even good-looking. Beneficial as it may be for one who is not without vanity to learn the truth, I hate with a deadly hatred the mem who has revealed it to me. Solemnly I declare, somehow, that some day I will have my Revenge. I am very young, which in an advantage to one who may have to went a long time for a cer- tain object. 0 yes; I can wait—whether ten, fifteen, or twenty years, I can veait ; but I will have revenge, full revenge. So I raved on and on, growing more tragical every • moment, until I broke dawn, and began to ory again, • I had barely dried my °yea, when Clara • entered the room. "What, Heritage 1" the cried ; "you here! I have hunted high and low for you, but never thotight of looking here. Come Into the drawing -room; we must sing our duet." (pleaded a splitting headaohe ; I cOuld not bear the hot room. I should ft0 to bed at once ; and in spite of Claran entreatien to bed I went, and had the pleasure of dream, ing that I was etieking agleam and scissors Into Mt. Vincent Hope., This was so own- • fating, that I was quite sorry when more- ing came and I found it was but a dream, "Weren't he delightful ?" was Clare's firet question when we met, 4‘Wateell who delightful?" "Mr, Hope, of course. The other men , were fogies," •"Now, Clara, look here. Once for all, I • tell you I found that young men detestable • --simply detestable 1 I hate him. I never Met any one I took such a dislike to." Clara's blue eyes opened in amazemeen "I thonght you got on re: together,' she eaid. He asked for you in the drawing - roan, and maned quite berry to hoer you were ill. We all lilted him immensely," He faked aka me 1 A piece of imperti. nenoe—a gratuitous intuit—a pieett of super- fine= hypocrisy, which, were it possible, made my wish for reverie° atrongee, • "Well, loathe him," I staid, therein eat end of it, won't even talk Abut him." • 7 Wee at good as my word ; and Clare, n't liature. hoped and beltoved I should sue.. Heed. Although my neselution read badly, , and sounds even worse, I comforted myself 1 by thinking that as I meant to ranee what I load tnyeelf out to wip, no one would da.re thorn the want of a listener, weal obliged to to eepeure me or aeouse mo of very unbersomi desist from ringing the changes in prase of Inn hbuddiar And now What nre an' vfearina ir Bop, • 'with winch to conquer ! I left Twickenham two a three dam, after I look at myself in the glees. It meet reen thin AS L drove to the attrition, Mr. Hope lilt°tanillan„but I feel thn) iold Mr. Rcru emy's —mott likely on his way to the Inemseye' Predietion fairly verified. Altholigh I house—nestied the cerriege. Clara was Wall ae 1 aPPraise Jarrell, I know 1 em no With me, so the young man hewed to us con longer the slim echoolegirl--that I aril some- leotivelv. 1 reed° no eign of recognition, thing not, perhaps, far off a beeuniul women. "Heritage," road Clara, nthet nee me. I am tall. My ngure is certainly good. My Hope. Didn't you see him ?" "Was it?" I replied. "I had quite for- gotten what be was linear For a beginner, this was a pretty good fib, After telling it so calmly, I telt I was get - did not forget, either the mores or the spent. to vralk graocrfully [Wren the room, and er. When I deolere for revenge, I mean in 1 • 0 • complexion will bear any test; end something tolls me I could, if I wished, mane my eyes dangerous. So much for nature, AS for art; I have olicreen the prettiest of many pretty gowns, and my gowns now have a knafek of ting on. "Raw and awkward 1 0 no I slitting well upon me; ee eel not ashamed Five years passed by. • I was twenty-two. I had seen many people and many things. Either for better or worse, I had changeatin much, but still retained my knack of never forgetting a foe or a friend. Incredible as It seems, my anger miming •Mr. Hope was keen AB ever—my wish for revenge as strong. The injury he had unwittingly done me had courterrying to myeelf in the glass, say ap. provingly to my double: "Yes, Heritage Rivers, you have grown into a very decent sort of a woman—a very decent sort I" Having refreshed my memory by the repeti- tion of that peculiarly galling phrase, I gather up my skirts and sally forbh to vio. tory: Fortune favoured me, As the greateab stranger and last arrival, it would have been in Vincent Hope's province to bake our host.' been greater than. even in MY first burst of ass into the dinuntroom, had we not been the intervitl kept recurring to ray mind, and hindered the growth of proper confidence and selnesteem. A long series of please= little social triumphs alone permitted ma to say at hub that his prophecy had not been fulfilled. But now, after five years, the raore I thought of the annoyance, even an- guish, hie words had caused me, the more vicious I felt towards him; •the more resolved to comprise revenge when the opportunity occurred. 0 yea; I was a good hater—not a doubt of it. I could carry my stone seven years in my pocket, then turn it and carry it seven years more, or twice seven years, never for a moment forgetting its ultimate destine, tient Bub when should I have the chance of hurling it, and how should 1 ea when the 011&1108 came? Except in the street, casually, I had never since met the man. Vincent Hope visited no friends ot mine save the Remsays, They left Twickenham shortly after roy visit, and now lived a hundred miles from town. I had stayed with them several times, butt my foe had never ap. peered. Of =terse I had heard a great deal about him. He was now quite a famous man. To keep myeelf posted up in the light •literature of the day, I was compelled. to read his books, and in honesty I am bound to say I admired them, although I detested the author of them. Surely we muse meet some day. I we= out a great deal, and I heard he was much sought after. But our paths as yet had nob crossed. , It) was winter. I was spending some weeks with new friends, who had taken a great fancy to me— kind hospitable people, who liked to have a constant stream of vis- itors passing, but very slowly, through their house. The Lightens were a wealthy, county family, noted for their openhanded hospi- tality.• never stayed at a gayer or pleasanter place than Blaize House. It was not very large; but from the way it seemed to extend itself to acoornmodatethenumerous guests, my belief is it must have been built' on the plan of an accordion. I oan only ao- want for its capabilities by this theory. Except from the tiny -village which gave or took its name, Blaize House was mike away from everywhere; but iterate:aces, SO far as amusement went, made it immaterial in what pert of bhe vrond it stood. The family consisted of Mr. Lighton--oalled by every one, even his greets, the Squire; his. wife, a fitting companion to him, who shared his pursuits, and heartily seconded the wen oome he gave to every one; and two deugh- tern, about my own age. These may be termed the nucleus, the standing congre- gation of the establishment. In addition, there were sons who turned up unexpectedly and at intervals; and two or three musing were invariably sojourning there. Add to theee, again, the floatingpopulatien in the shape of visitcos who oatne and went, and you will realize that it was a merry houee. Breakfast was just over; we had been longer about it than usual,,the weather be- ing too damp and drizzly to tempt us out of doors. Letters were being. read with the last cup of tea. The Stowe oeleoted one from his pile, and tossed it over to his wife, remarking that she would be glad to hear the good news ib contained. Then it went from hand to hand until I had the pleasure of reading,— rage I had imegined. His words durbtg favoured that day1y the presence of re county magnate, whose claim to preoedenoe could not be lightly overlooked. It seemed but natural and pert: of the plot that the Squire should present Mr. Vincent Hope to Mine Rivers, and for the seoond time in their lives these two should be seated side by aide sip- ping their soup in unison—but this time, if wounded vanity was to be the remit of the contiguity, Miss Rivers would not be the victim. So I began: "You have come straight from town, Mr.—Vincent -- I fancied the Squire said? We all call him Squire, you know." " 0 yes. He is an old friend of mine. But he called inc Vincent Hope, I suspect." This gave me what I wanted, an mama for looking him full in the face—an not whioh besides being a fitting tribute to his fame, enabled me to observe how time had treated him. So I lifted my lashes and looked straight at him. If Time had nob been quite idle with hire, it had treated him kindly. He was handsome as ever. The hair near his temples being just fleck. ed with gray, did not detract from his good look's. I thought hie features looked more marked, and the whole expression of his face more confident and powerful eV011 than of old. He had won MOMS and, no doubt, fully realized and enjoyed 'the fact. "Vincent Hope 1" • I echoed, "Not the Vincent Hope 2" I guessed instinctively that flattery was not a bad gun with which to open fire. By this time his name woe so well known that It would have been affectation to appear to misunderstand me. • He bowed and smiled. "How delightful 1. I exclaimed ; my look, I am ashamed to say, confirming my words. "Now, tell me how I should talk to you, Ought I to give you my opinion about all the characters in your books; or ought I to sit silent and awed, treaanring up every word of wit and wisdom you may let fall ?" e "Neither, I MUSA beg. I have just thrown off the harness, and come down to enjoy the Squire's clover. I am trying to forget there Is such a thing as work in the world." "Very well. I shall take you at your word ; after, as in duty bound, saying, I have read all you have written, so far as I know." • His svisle to avoid the topic of his own achievements may have been a genuine one, but nevertheless be seemed pleased evith my remark, and looking at me with a smile, said " Enhange is but fair. I scarcely heard what the Squire called you." "Rivers—Heritage Rivers." "Heritage Rivers," he echoed inuaingly. " It is anunoornmon name; but I fancy I have heardit before," "Oh, please, don't say so, Mr. Hope. did think I had one original thing to board of—my name. How would you like, after looking upon all your plots as original, to find them but plagiarisms ?" He laughed. a'Many are, I fear. But you are trespassing on forbidden ground. Let ne seek fresh pastures." We did BO. We talked all dinner -time. I think we talked about everything unner the aun—talked, moreover, almost like old friends. When he differed from my opinions, he told me in well-chosen words why he differed. And as he spoke'I whis- pered ever and anon to myself: "Raw and awkward—a decent sort of a woman." Yet, now, Mr. Hope was condescending enough not only to listen attentively to my words but to reply to them as if they bad weight, wibh him. All this was very delightful. The first steps to revenge were smooth and pleasant ones; for there is no need to say that I hated him as much and felt as vindic- tive as ever. MY 'DEAR SQUIRE—I have juin written the delightful word Finis at the bottom of a page, which is the last of my last immortal (1) production. I will do no more work for weeks, but will take the train to -morrow and cense to Blaize House, in time, I hope, for clinnentreI ndoenot apoloeiss for deb shut notionnknowing there is even more joy within your genes over the uninvite& than rhe invited guest. --Yours alwaya, VitmEam Ham. Vincent Hope I Ib must be my enemy The allusion to laie literary pursuits put that beyond a doubt. My time had 00/31e 1 I could nob have selected a fairer field on which to mete out the vengeance I had stored up. As I reed that letter, I poaitive- ly blushed with pleasure, so vividly that I feared people might jurap at entirely Wrong conclusions. I thought of nothing all day but the way in which my enemy Was deny. ered intro my hands. The delight of having at leat the chance of paying out the critic for his criticism produced a frank of mind whkh seemed. to urge rae to go into quiet corners and laugh at my own thoughts. I had plenty of time to mature my plans and draw soothing pictures of the effeas of my revenge. I resolved to risk no thence meet ing with the foe; and feeling that a good beginning would be half the battle, before six o'clock I went to my room to arm for the fray, Remember, I am aonfeseing, not jesting, sent for my maid, and bade her take down my hair and brut& it. If, NO her deft fingers braided my looks to my satisfaction, I had thought the girl would have oomprehended me, I might have quoted certain lines of Mra. Brown/trent which kept sliming through ray head : " Comb it smooth, and crown it fair; I would look in purple pen, from the leak° down tho wall, And throw seat on one thete there." Attyvtray, Ars crowned it fair enough, and by my express der3ire, oled inc in my most be- emnieg gear. Them, a few minutee before the boll rang, I 'lent her away, and tithed alone before the theval glares sarveyieg my. gelf with a contented singe. For my plau Of revenge had at least the merit, of eira plicity; it wee to Win that mann; admiration —"if porosible his love." Upon the don+ whett he offered me the latter, and / coldly and ecanfully tejeoted Ib, I ellaould feel that I had 'neared all aceonnts between Ala in a manner highly erttlekotory to myeelf, lloW cia notnen Win ineti'd love 1 1 did not quite know ; bee 1 fanoien, if conducted •properly, the operatleti ware not of a difficult He was walking straighe to his fate. I felt it when, just before Mrs. Lighten gave the signal for departure, he dropped his yoke almost to a whisper, and was good enough to say that, to him, the peculiar charm of this yeatioular dinner was that such an agreeable interchange of ideas would not be ended with the night, but might be re• sinned to -morrow. Coming as it did from mole a famous person, I could only glance my thanks, blush, and look pleased at the compliment. When, with the rest of my sex, I rose and walked to the door, I knew that his eyes were following me; and I knew &leo that, although clever, captious, critical those eyes might be, they could find little fault with my bearlog or general demeanour. At 131eine House it was understood that the gentlemen, eepeoially the younger ones, were nob allowed tolinger long over the wine. When they entered the drawing. romn, I was sitting, alroosti hidden from eight, ha a recess near the window. I notice ed, as he came tbrough the door, that Mr, Hope looked round, rie if in seerch of some one, and as, when at last he discovered my retreat, his ninth seemed at an end, I could only think its object was myeelf. However, We had little neer° to say to each other this evening. Ali the children of the house were his friends, and had meny questions to ask him, We had mut= wed singing as tang ; bat` I inado some conventional excuse, and did nob take my thane in them. Before ate garbed for the night, Vincent Hope wane to my bide, "Surely you sing, Mine Rivers?" he raid. 'A little. But I'm not in the mood to sing to -night" He preesed me to make the attempt ; but I refused. inhinkieg I had done quite enough for the fiat evening, 1 kept my voice in theatre, Bub I talked to hint for it that time about =Mk, and faind him well veined hi the art, and, of course, an ttneparing aide. • He was very hard on the ordinary drawing -room playing and singing, and iv no meet= complimentary to the performere of the meting, I laughed, and told him how thankful 1 felt that rloalething had wafted mo ilot to show rey poor tkill to ouch an able but kovere Sage, My words led him to believe that my talent for ramie was it very tnirdnate one. Thie was oltuotly what I wished him to think, He was soon drawn away from my aide, ancl we spoke no more untik the general goon -night took place, and the men went off to the biilierdwoom, anti my down sex te their couches. Once more I ourterned tee Mies. Riven in See reheard glass, aud told her the bad surpassed my most sanguine expec- tations. Then in it very ' happy frame of mind I went to bed, '1/4To B coxxittuun) WONDERFUL ALITItiliN The Metal of Which Every hilaYbank as Mine. Aluminum, the metal of the future, of whioh so niaoh hes been said in the past few days, was diecovered by Prof. Wohler in 1828. While seeking to settle in hie own mind the question as to whet were the oom pone= parts of OOMMOLL clays,and while fusing a mass of the yellow md at a white heat under' the blow pipe, he moidentally obtained a single minute globule or bead of what was to him and the rest: of the scientific world at that time, a new mete', Subsequently, by various chemical tests, he proved the drop to be the precious ale nainum, He surely did nob consider hie discoverer of gave importance, otherwise he would have given it more attention than he dtd ; as it was, it appears that: he did not experiment with the aluminum idea in view again for eamething like eitihteen years, In 1846 he redinevered it in a 'mixture of chloride ef aluminum and common salt. Thiti time the metal was obtained in quantities sufficient Lor more extensive exemination. It was found to be it white metal between the color of zinc: and silver, but with, a more blueish tinge than that found in the lest named mete'. lts speolfic gravity is from 2,5 to 2 67 ace cording to purity, that of the average grane being about 2n times heavier than water. It is four times as light an silver ; in Other words, a ooin the eize cif a silver dollar made of aluminum would weigh about the same as a 20-oent piece in silver. It hes great rigidity and tenacity; is nearly as hard as ,iron, bat can be wrought into wire as fine as spider webs after being thoroughly annealed. By being eubjeoted to the goldbeatern art, a piece of aluminum the size of it dime may be beaten into a sheet several feet square, so great is its tenacity. Only two metals known can be lolled into a sheet as thin as it can, and they are gold and silver. When it does at last come into general use, and the advent of that era will not be re- tarded much by the man whose death fur- nishes the text for this article, it will be used for everything and put to every pur- pose to which iron, steel and wood are now pub. Its adaptability to • shipbuilding Is very apparent. Great steamships, the sine of the largest Cunard's with the same tonnage and the same number of exposed linear feet, if con- structed of aluminum from keel to the top of the meats, instead of drawing from 18 to 26 feet, wouln not draw more than four or five. In the days of the future aiuminitee deep water conventions will be uselese as- semblages. _ It holdit the polish the best of any metal known, there bemgbut few elements that will cause it to tarnish or turn black. •Rust, too, is a quality unknown to this wonderful •white metal. Boiling water will not affect its lusbre, which is retained for an indefinite period in any atmospbere. It will with- stand a far greater number of acide than gold or silver will. Strong nitric acid ravenously attacks silver, but has no effect whatever upon aluminum. Gold or plan inum will be ruined if plunged into a bath of sulphuret of potassium or melted nitre; aluminum comes out bright and shiny as if from a bath of pure cold water. The Quail. In those wonderful daya when the Spring is new, And the grass grows tender and sweet, When bright in the sunshine and bright in the dew Way= the delicate green of the wheat, When the blades of the corn ruala/e soft in • the breeze, Ere the Beat small ear is set, With an eye to the future, their needs the quail sees, And bravely he cells for more web, "lVIore wet !More wet 1 More wet 1" The wise quail calls, "More wet 1" When beautiful Summer in golden array Steals over the meadow and plain, Ansi turns green grasses to sere brown ud And gilds all the tall, bending grain, But touches vilth bronze just the tips of the corthAnsi e full ear does not forget, The quail aees the need of a harvest HOMO And calls to the farmer, " Mower whet I" "Mower, whet 1 Mower, whet I'Mower, whet!" The wire quail calls, "Mower, whet I" When glorious Autumn with Summer joins hand, • He finds the fair meadow all shorn, And of all the bright haat that once cramped on the lend, Stands only the rusty, brown corn; But he hears the birds tell of some wonder- ful deede, • And of, oh, such it bountiful treat I For the wise old quail kept watch of their nroatde Anlled them to gather more wheat 1 "More wheat I More wheat I More wheat!" The wise quail called, "More wheat 1" No streerRgearmyrneeislielel°eth-reni°eathoee of the Dundee whalers are built ; they are from four hundred to one thousand tons displace- ment, have powerful, wellaeoured engines to resist the shook of ramming or stoppage of the propeller by ice, and are bailt with an eye to the ezey rind rapid replacement of rudder, propeller, and propellerahafb if damaged, therm parte being oarriedin duplicate. Above all other oonsiderations, they poetess strength for ramming as Well as resistance to lateral preseure when nipped. Another very impart:on feature le thet the bow shall have considerable inclination, which nertaite the vessel, when rimming very heavy ke, to lift 'slightly and elide on it, thus arising the sheen and aesisting the cutting motion of the bow with the down- ward crushing weight of the Bina, In this way in is possible for theme eteamers at full opeed to ram 1= over twenty feet thich, sad receive no immediate inortpaokating clettiaget. If the ice is not too heavy, the shear -like rise and fall of the bow 15 repeated several timet as the veseel steam powerfully ahead until her headway is checked. The diffi• oulty then le to extract the 'hip from the dock she hair net in, her advattee : the floes preaa on tee rinee oak': of ke and sluah fill ber wake, nen nano it nothing bet the km hampered praanfier with which to overcome her inertia and drew beck out of the nip Frequently this le insuf6cient, and the ship may be crushed,—f Popular Solenoe Monthly THE ET.EBNAL OITY. , einetlern, emetrovemente Obliter011111 lIltiny Clutractortsfic neaturee- Since 1870 the aspen of Rome hes cousin, erably changen. The old, narrow winding Streets me a thipg of the pest, end are replaced by larger Wide thoroughfares. Blocks of the old house have been knooked down and large modern palairet have eprung up in their Moan The narrow Corso of old times will soon be no more, as it ia gradually being widened by halt again its original wintle. The oharminn Vilia ladovisi, with ha beautiful treen shady walke, and oparkling fountains, hag been tutned into a new quarter, with wide streete end large houses. The gate of Porta Pia, where the breach was made ia 1870, and outside of which there was nothiag but vine- yarda and field°, will soon, instead of being the Huth of the town,be in the centenbmetuse houses are springing up now tea good two miles outeide that gate, The must° ground end fields all round nt. John I.atern are no more, it new suburb having sprang up bhere. The Tiber also is being widened and an em- bankment is being bulk on eaoh side, and headset= new bridges cross the river at diffierenb points. The widening of the Tiber is neossiteting it engin: change in one or two of the old monuments, such as the Bridge of St, Angelo, to which will have to be added another arch; and the Temple of Vesta rune some risks of being tampered with ; but it is =pad that, as just at that point the river curves, by doing so makes it sufficiently easy for the width to' be effected on the op- posite side, that advantage will be taken, What Thum Have Ye That Wake? What thing have ye then wake for us that dream? What hour that ie more fair than hours that seem? What pleasure that shall veniah not in pain ? What blies to come that shall not pass again? In dreamland ways lie all things fain and fair; There music; lulls the sorrowing heart of care; There she whom love may name not, silent simian With eyes unwoErdering and imploring hands. The touch of lipa that here shall never meet; The strange, fair blossoms flowering at our feet; „ Voices, well loved, that stir the heart to tears With thought: of old and =returning years. There, song so sad in triumph that we weep That its whole joy shall pass ; there, perfect sheep, Long rest laid heavily on aching eyes, That weary of the sunset and sunrise. What thing have ye that wake for us that dreem ? Long life and Uhler laughter. Ye that deem The crown of life sad wisdom and despair. We know this only, that our dreams are fair. HERBERT BATES. Bhp Meant the Other Mr. Jones. He had never seen a telephone—you can see bow old the story is. He had never seen a. telephone and his friend was showing him how it waled. It was in hls office. He called up his house and hie wife came to the telephone. "My dear, Mr. Jones is here, and I have asked him to come up to dinner." Then he turned to Mr. Jones and said Put your ear to that and you'll hear her answer." He did, and this was the answer :— "Now, John, I told you 1 woula never have that disagreeable wretch in my house again." "What was that ?" spoke out Mr. Jones. Women are quick. A man would have simply backed away from the telephone, and said no more. She took in the situation In a second when she heard the strange voice nd quick as a flesh came back the sweeten kind ofa voice "Why, Mr. Jones, how do you do? I thought my husband meant another Mr. Jones. Do come up to dinner. • I shall be so glad to a= you,"—" San Manage° Chron- iole. Germany and Austria. Germany and: Austria are drawing obreer together. If the report be true that the re- preaentatives of the two countries have agreed boa modification of the AustroGer. man treaty, which providers that joint ac- tion shall be taken when the vital intereas of either nation are threatened, there is not much left for the separate Governments to do except for each Government to take charge of local interests. 'So long as an open attack upon one was the only couree for joint action, either Government might res fuse to move until the territory of the other was invaded. But " vital interests" may be threatened from it distance and in it hundred ways. The concentration of troops by Ruseia in any pertionlar locality might be held to be a threat upon this vital iinterest of the nation more directly exposed.. leis. marok is oerbainly leaving nothing undone the doing of which will make the German Empire mouth. The danger is that Europe will be divided off into two camps—Germen and anti -German, with a show of strength so nearly equal that battle will be the only beet of 'superiority. But with England and Italy acting with Austria and Germany It would go hard with that: Strange Ooznbina- tion of autocracy mod demooracy—the Russo -French alliance. • A. New Political Catechism, Teacher —"We will now hear the firet classitt p.olitios. What are politics ?" Pupil —"Pontos is the science of seeming to help another to get there, and getting there your. aelf," "What is an office ?" "The one thing needful." intIcew can an aft= be secured ?" "By putting youreelf in the hands of your friends," "What do you understand thie to mean 7" "Make the (Ace your friend, and kap your hand on the cffiae." "Should a man seek officer?" "Net if he doesn't want •"Wbat in a legielature ?" "A place where the corporations purohath their privi- leges." "Is this the only business trainmen ed by a legislature 2' no; the warn. bas go there to got re.eleoted." "Explain the protective tariff?' "It ia it compact under whith the people agree toeterve rather than eat the fruit then hangs over the wall between therm:deem atid their neighboarn garden, in order than Farmer Jones down at the Cornets may gob a big prioe for his apples." "What LS 'patronage?" 'The corner, do= of government, It ie the done tinet is giVen to thoSe who ask for bread." "What is an election ?" It is the people's namennto the prayer formulated by the bathe. ''— B name Treamoript. Boston to the luseiguartera of the boot and shoe induatry of Ainerioa, the oontre fro In which the marketable produce) of the groat meennefereinteing theme theteabout is distribute een The panned= of these tames in chiefly made up of workers id the lerge rhinos evhion thin tint foot -gear kt the rate of nearly 100,000-000 pairs every year. THE 13LITE-(1,CiABS EXUTTEMEHT. Itrowanamenardis Elixir Recalls etre of eite Funniest of Meowed Crazes, Tbe Ste Innis "Globe Democrat " recalls One of the funniest medical crazes of the century. In 1870 Qiee, Pioneer:1ton !published a work fully expleiuing hie theory as to the infallibility of bine glees for invigorating and retaining or restoring turbine. In a aubee. quart edition he added a list of testimonials from grateful patients were profaned to have derived immense benefie nem the treatment, and also the full text oe the specifioetion kr his patients. Hie book we entitled " Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Color of the Sky ia Developing Animal and Veget- able Life, in Arresting Disease, toed in Re. storing Health in Acute and Chronic inseam es of Human and Domeetio Anienale," T s general adorned the frontispiece with rather nnfortunatequotation ; If thistheery be true ib upseteall ether theories." The converse seems to have been very satisfactori- ly established. .A full record of the gener- al's military experience is also given, appar- ently as somewhat of it guaranty of good 6irite author's first experiments were on grape vines, In his greenhouse he substi- tuted blue for white, glass in every eighth row and euoceeded in produoing grapes so fine that all others were rendered inalignid. cant beside them. In 1869 he *Med Some hop to a !tinnier dose and some little pigs, grew arid thrived ao well thin: it reyal road to a fortune in hog -raising seemed to have been found. Next he t ied the effect of blue glass on an Alderney bull calf, wlelole grew Mx inches almost as by a miraole and be- came a veritable Saul among the litele calves on the estate, From hognand cattle the de- scent to poultry was short and eager, and it chiokenhouee Was fitted with just the right proportion of bine glees. The result was as foreordained. The young chicks were ready for the broiler almost as soon as bhey emerged from thenthell, and those that es- caped the usual and proper spring.ohioken route to obliviongrew into smenditity devel- oped and plumaged birds. .11) needed not implicit: belief in Darwin- • ianism to induce the general to apply his experiments to men and wemen. Architeors would be required to SO arrange buildings as to insure ohe introduction of the elixir - like rays SO that the ownera and occupiers might enjoy the marvelous advantages, and "mankind will then not only be able to live fast, but oan live long and also live well," • Judged by the fact that the blue. glass craze, general as it; was during the years 1876 and part of 1877, died out quiet. ly and 1:101a long since neen decently interred, some Of the testimonial5 as to its efficaoy form very fanny reading, They show thee if all the writers meant what they wrote Gen. Pleasanton invented an elixir to cure not only every ailment, but to supersede surgery and obsterios. In fact it must have, been omnipotent. A man with varicoaeh vane was able to throw away his silk stock- ings after sleeping in a room a few nights with blue glees in the windows. Typnoid patients, atter a. day or two, arose like giants refrethed and disrainsed their physicians. A bald-headed ladywas delighted to dis- cover an embryo crop of hair after seven days' treatment, while another grateful re- cipient enlarged on the Marvelous effects of blue glees on his ancient mule. This once )„ gay and festive quadruped had been deaf for ten years, its limbs were stiff and it was in a very bad way; but after blue glass was inserted in the stelae window Jack braced up, could liear thetfrord "oats" if only whis- pered, could. kick its owner across the yard, and generally mob like a vivacious 3 -year oelledixcitement ran high and the craze tray - north, soneh, east, and west. The wild- est stories of cures were oirouiated. Men heard of ebjeete of public sympathy getting oared almost without money and without price and entirely vrithountrouble, for never was there so passive a treatment recommend - ad, nor one less heanpered with directions as to what should and should not be eaten and what habits or vices must be abandoned. The demand for blue gleam was such as the most ardent enthusiast never anticipated. It gradually and finally dawned upon the °red. ulons public that they bad made themselves ridiculous, blue glass been= a drug on the market, and people who were sick or who wanted to grow young again looked else. where for remedies and elixirs. Without Price. In villages among the mountains cf Vir- ginia ancl Pennayltramien where habits of life and thought have remained ahaost unalter- ed, for two centuries, an odd °Intern still prevails which may be new to our readers. Peeseriptions for the cure of different all. eyes, scrofula,consumption, : cancer and hydrophobia—have been handed down in the same family from one generation to another. , These prescriptions are never known to more than one person st a time, and it be - cornea hie duty to make the:remedy and give it away. • According to popttlar euperstition, if he horiarts the =twat or takes money or any recompense for the medicine, its virtue is gone, Many of these lotions and cordials possess undoubted efficacy, having been originally distilled from simplea and earths by men who were forced to go to Nature for cure, and vrho came to understand some of her resouroes better than we do. A similar superstition exit= among the Hungarian peasants, with regard to the amulets which they wear to protect them from lightning, poison, or midden death. Phe amulet: must be given; as soon as bit is sold it beoomes worthless. The SaMO idea formed the battle of the custom DmOng the ancient Irish of baking a cake at every meal for the ,possible guest Who might chance to come In. When the meal was finiehed, too, it few orumbs were thrown oub of -doors and on the hearth for any invitible creature, whether good or evil spirit, who mipht be hungry. These superstitions them ridioulous to oter shrewd modern ranee; but the truth under. lying them is as old as humanity and will live as long. • It in simply, that we owe a part of out talents, our wealth, our strength, in thorn of every wood tiling (4od has given us, to our rother and that as goon as vve begin to barter it for our own advantage the virtue Pen out of It. The solfieh chili or man, no nutter how rich he may be in gotten knowledge or money, will find lift grow poorer and barer every year. tee has not peid the tithes to his brother, A apeoiel bloc:nag follotes even the earthly fortunes of the man who is gersetalet in heart "411411 as thahith int debedPity upon the poor lencleth to the Lord," and the 'Lord repeye all eueli debts with a great intermit. "l'atriOli, you Were on a batt opee yekiter, day." lide, Ellin 1 was, Meta Me, it Orerezi`ti: e,lyini itt lohg gutter *id it. pig. Pother Ryon Oenie along, leaked tit., Me ent eaye, ettyS he, 'One ie itrinten by the company he Ittapes.' " "And did yen get Up, Pattioh l'! t4ice, but the