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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-10-17, Page 6STOLEN IDENTITY, CHAPTER. I Arlon Simmer lame eeatecl MIAs breakfes table, etwerinel hi meditettion, The :mile teamed unheeded in hie cum and the tea etooci zegiecred in the racer, buy he pai iittle ettentioo to either. Tbe room w hilent, save fox tha low murmur of th Thamea, os it flawed eaeng in the qua Maine of a anininer's morning at the foot t 'the pleat:ant little garden that sloped imper- ceptibly down towards its bank. It WAS a comfortable 'room, with easy, lowbuilt lounges, one or two well arranged book - caeca, and few etchinge of great value, f :tamed simply in oak, and diseloaiug vistas ef the type of lantiamme so often found in Noefolk azul Lineohashire fens -long reaohee of still water, with beds et silent rushes standing solemnly in their lonely wattoh, while here and there a waterfowl sails Wow- ly across cloudy any. There were two photographs of rare excelleecet, represent. 'ug facea of a dreamy °Mental type of fern. inine bereuty, while the rest of the room was Ellecl artiatioally with fans, platem and embroidered hangings, 'helmet had evidently been the choice of a connoiseeur. But somehow eke more, even on this bright summer meanly, gave a somewhat sombre impression, There was but little colour in it, and that little wee of A Allbdlied and nett. tral t1nt. There seemed. to be an indefinable feeling of underlying meanies displayed in the choice a the decorations, harmonising an a subtle way with the expression upon the face of its occupant. Yet nothing in particular could be pointed to as the cause of thie generally sombre effect Only all the ornaments seemed to have been chosen by one who unconecionsly WAS pozr8eased of a quiet melancholy that affected, unnoticed, all his eurroundings. Arlon S assert eighed almost imperceptibly, and glanced through the window at the shimmer of the river sparkled silently before him. Then looked again at an open hitter that lay beside his plate, and read for the hundredth thne the casual remark of the friend who had 'written to him: "By the way, do you remember the girl that came up to (Word last summer term with the Kingaforde ? She Is goieg to be married to our friend Ringo ford nett month; he has just come back from South Africa, and they are going to nettle down in London -somewhere in Ken- aihgton, I think." 3Xid ke remember What: a mockery the question was! He smiled in a grirn way to himself, as he thought of the unconscious irony of his friend Dundee's remark. Did he remember the girl who came with the Kingsfords? His thoughts wandered back to the bright summer days a year ago, the long afternoons on the river with her, while their boat elepb peacefully under the shade of the willows, and the warm wind played a moment with her hair ; the soft, cool summer eveninge in swum old college garden with her, 'while the coloredlenteres cast fairy shadows from the trees, and snatches of undo came floating toward them from the grey and crumbling hall; the dreamy delight of a valve and the stroll threugh the cloisters after- wards, with the young moon eendirg strange ehafts of light through the carved windows and sculptured pinnacles above them. Did he remeraber 2 He had known a year before that she was going to become Kbagsford's wife. Had she not told him so herself, in her quiet, calm way, that summer afternoon when he asked, and lost, all that seemed. worth having in the world ? He spelled bitterly to hirneelf as he thought eif that day; of hia passionate pleading for her love, and her look of pity- ing sorrow when elle told him ahe wee be- trothed already -that, indeed, she would be married aa swan as her lover ozone back to Ragland. t not absurd, he asked him- ffielf, that a men ehould he dying of a brokee. reneme in the /hetes:tie century? Surely -we "mei got over all tbio sort of thing in the ;genet age. It was almost ridie melons I , But the remarkable fact remained, never. theleas, that Arlon &assert, a young men , of good prospects and intelligence, expecting ,shortly to be called to the Ha, seemed likely torcome to an untimely end owing to :inieplotend effmtion, His friends bad reason. *Zenith hint, entioishilated with him, sou 'ht to dietract him by various amusements', but to no avail. Hie soul refund to be comfort- ed, and he had sunk into a solitary existence in &little cottage on the Thames, where he etill pretended to be reading law, and only rarely appeared in society of any kind. And here was another remarkable face: Gladys Meeedythe and Stanton Kingsford In ere actually marrying siraply and solely Lor love. Both were openly and oonfeseedly in love one with the other. Now this in the present age, was really a remtallable coincidence, sod yet, nevertheless, WAS an undoubted faet. And it helped to increase the already acute anguleh felt by the unfree. Minato Arlon Steuart. ilia thoughts were becoming almost too painful for him to bear, and he determined to weir some distraction. Ib was a bright eurnmer's day; the river was cool and enticing. He looked at bis watch ; it wee atill early. "1 will run into town and fetch that funty little japaneaa fellow, Kotaro, for a day on the river with me,' he remarked ti bitta self. "He is sure to be interestitag, and will not, estleast, be ars commonplace as the average Britieb yonth." The "little J arsenate fellow," be it known, was one Kotaro, whom he had known at Oxford, and who was now, like himeelf, reading for the Bar, but, unlike Sbaseartei inhabited chambers in the Middle! Temple, and did some work. Steuart rang Ms bell, and a page boy, with a face like a cherub from a raedieeval pieture, eame to the door, "Raphael," mid his master, "get the dog- cart ready in five minutes. I am going into town." In five minutes the boy with a face like a cherub reappeared, and announced that the cart wag reedy. Stastiert drove rapidly into London: found Kotaret poring over Roman law, and carried him off, not by any means against lila will, to Reehraortd. There he direeted Raphael to take ,the horn and cart back home, and to have dinner ready at eight o'clock. "By the weer, Kotaro, of course you will - atay the nistlat with me?"he said. " have epare room always ready, you know." "I shall he delegheed," said the Japanese. " Very well. Raphael, you Will see to it, Yon may go now. New, Kotaro, let's field am boat, and we'll have a good row up the , he river." Staseart kept a pretty little diem at Richmond; it was pushed out from the boat -house, and the two young mon Mopped Ib, &assert taking the oar; While Kotaro setbled himeelf, in an attitude of rerotte, amid the ettehione in the keen. Ketone was aware of his friend's un- happy attachment, and had often itied to cheer Mind by °dental re:fleabite upon fetal/tibia beeutea the folly of ceefiebag one's attentions to ono girl eel) of tie maim thou. sande, go the general lesighlfloanze of alt Woenankind, Put Staseatt tefueed to he deniforted tfloughte like these, entel Neter°, in his indolent Eastern Way, wa e. slightly troubled in his mind. To -da 1 t: how:ver, he Was Peueumied with 8' gr" tde d " My friend Stassart," he remarked as during the afternoon, While they were lyin e leeily on the book under a shady tree . havieg tied up the boat jest in front o of them, "I know a doctor of my own countr whoolootivleltoure You of Your melancholy an your ' Steseart looked up with a mournful but half -amused smile. He liked /Lauf), ohiefl, heozone of his habh of prolonged si- lence which, in tbis diatance had only been broken after an hour of appar- ently deep reflection, and also becaose of his quiet certainty upon various disputed points. "Supposing he could, which I doubt, I hardly feel inMfoed to go to Japan upon an errand of that kind," he answered. 'You need not go to Japan," sale Kotaro "Where, then, is this orondefol (loot&; reeked Stewart. "In rolodex)," replied the Japanese, "not very far from our own house. You shall see him this evening." "Bet X don't mutt to me him," saki Stasi sarte "He could not do me any good. The only preen who could oure me," here:nark. ed, with a sigh, "is Glaeys Meredythe.h 1 TheY WellEed an le eileece till the dector's °IT yeY ilitseutrceeUge • power, then, do you Owe Mem of Ma hoeltah, began to Mugh. smoking, and, deliberately laying clown t leegee wee reeehed. It was an olci,faettioned 000g, that you are thus able to control the " What are you leughlag at, Kotaro 0 It was rather irregularlY bailta auO1 h long " I will explein to yogi" mastered the aeawered Kotero, compomedly. I building. of the Piz ibothan type, hot not emits of men ? ' aeked Stnewarte M an awe asked Staseett: rather aegrilY• remarkable in any way in OS eppearauCth strock tone. "Year Western alinplinty of ideas y wing oo the weab side wined 50 'it it had eapeneee demur ; "but do not Mani; theb it "Of course Kingsford would net ()omen e been oonstruotee more recently than the is anything very extraordinary. I eenfess I Bub I thiek the doebor saki consent was n other portion. The whole hmute w" Q,°4' bAVA gone i step further than mine of my umemerei, if only be had the oPPettuni , mated from prying eyes by a high Pahnei predeeemors ; but thee is all. I am not vino of controlling his patient's will, while t g inei cl e which the thickly planted trees aud to oir,ftn for myeself any inegieel powers', patient was not actively opposing his exe shrubs formed a protecting screen of no smell What r have done•aad whet I have discov- ciee of volition." . t size. The doetor touched an eleetric knob erect it only a little more then some of your "11 you will bring Mr. Kingsford her o outeicie the house, and the door irnmediotelY own inquirers Lite oecult 531en0e have euo. the doctor ronarked, as if he were talkie a ff., opeu, and the three men walker/ in. No oeeded ire producing. You have heard about some interceding scientific attempt, servant was to be seen and the door Oita already," he ciontiuued, smiling a little at "I will mute hie soul to barn les body, and again of its own aoodd. They Preoesdr the wondering look upon the young roan'a obazego its earthly habitation with yours," up ,cul old otit staircase under the nom 0 a tame 44-ef the apparently mysterious remits Oace again Stat.:wart hesiteted Wae A huge Chit:erre lantern 'that cast A crimson produced lay what is called eamenerhan, not, after all, rather an underhand piece of glow over their facee, and after Passion hypnotistn, thought -reading, thought-trana• worn, this oontempletedcharige of indenbity? through a corridor came Apparently to a forme°, telepathy -call it by what nettle What would Kingsford's feelings be when he blank wall. The doctor premed hie finger you will, the underlying, principle is in all discovered the transformation t But; as to against some epob which Staesart could not oases the same ; that is to say, these that, whet wore his own feelinge now? quite see and, as before, a door flew open, efisette are produeeti by a knowledge of What bed he not suffered during the past admitted' them, and then shut firmly of Re the power of pewolticel over physioal brows. year for his love of Gladys ? Now, at last, owe &mord. Stassart now tound himself in The laws which, govern their action :me es, waa an opportunity to Win and enjoy .her a lofty room, the ceiling and walla of which yet imlperfeetlY understood, although some loire-the love he had so long and so vainly were decorated in Oriental arabeequee, and of your eavants oan even now produce desired. What if he had gained it by aesutro whloh WAS lighted by lamps of carved imam- marvellous effeete ; but what is quite certain tug & false identity? She would think he work of greet rarity: Along the Walla were is that the soul and thebedy, tae psychical WAS 'Mugge:hi, and would not discover that hung some Japanese paper pictures insorib- and the phrioal sides of men ee closely another mit inhabited her lover's form And ed with mystic ohaeaeteee,., and apparent- Interwoven in mosb eonditions of our deity Kiumford ?-well, why should not he, Arlon ist representimg passages in the life of life, can under teirteba eircumetanceo be Steuart, have itappinees as Well as her Buddeee mee heavy aim dimly embroidered parbly, or even Wally, dissociated, and OLOA favoured lover? His paseion urged him on; hangtogs and the eoft matting that lay be made to AOt separately, You know thee: some lingering mime of honor held him back, et their feet prevented any sound from the body of a moteraerio patient is eto dia- kin was yet undecided, when once Again twiugheard either inaideor ontiide the room. sedated from his actual self that you can Kotaro broke the silence: Bot there was nothing specially remarkable beat ib, stab it, aneksubject it to DUNA acute "Love in theee Western lads," he re- in the room lteelf. It was fitted up in HUI). pia, without the "self" of the patient marked to Araida Senna, with the air of ern style, and that' was all, There was only perceiving or feeling ib in the haat And one who was Mating an extremely interest. one thing thab struck Stassart as noticeable, why ? Becalms the soul of the patient is ing, though sennewhat obvious, LIM of and that was the intense heat, which at first under the complete control of the operator, philosophic investigation, "he greatly af. &limed prevent him from breathing, but who clan give to it any personality he feoted key tee coolnees end moisture of the afterwards steamed to fill him with extraom wishes. He oen turn a devotee into climate, There ie• a leak of concenttested diaary vitelity and exhilaration, ao that his a reveller, or a criminal into a saint peseion alaent it that renders it 'occasionally senses felb keener, anti his Witele Witie deem- and the body will not be awere of any ail- insipid. Now, Mies Meredythe-.-et ed to participate more eagerly in the enjoy. forenee. Well, now, if tide oen be carried Rare Stassarb broke in, exolaimieg, meat of enietenet Amide Sams pointed to a further, why cah Ven hots° totelly dissooiete 14 Doobor you ehall make the experiment, divain and begged Sbassarb and Kotaro to be body and eoul that a man's selt--hir ego, 1 will brum Stanton Iningeford to your Imam IA seated. "I hope," he remarked to Stassaet, his esychical side -man be made gelte free, before the week le over.' "that you do not fihd the room too hot ?" while his body liee like a useless min that a Atnida Senna answered, with a mild air of "Not now," said Stumm ; ohub at gut I butterfly has oast off as it emerges front the lost:iguana approval, "That is very good. It confess I thought it stifling. Bob why do chrysalis? Some men have been able to do will be a most interesting experiment'. you keep up this temperature ?" this in their own ease: they have so worn " / et it will,' remarked Stumm% 14 out and euppressed the body by continual " d—d interesting ;" and after a little faetiegs, penance!, and contemplations thab while went home thoughtfully, with Kotare at length their spirit has departed from it for smoking quietly by his side. a time, and has seen unutterable thinge. Think you that all the stories of the trances are false and empty fabrications? ' They may not in everoemse be true, but they point to the one great central fam-the dia. socie,tion of themoul and body." 'The doctor paused a 'moment, as if to see ernether Stewart was following his remarks, and, seeing that he was listening with the utmost attention, proceeded: "1 soon. became able in my own case to dissociate my goal from its corporeal envel- ope, though it caused me many a hest and vigil, many a aura and bitter penance. I got myself into the Mate of the takirs, the yonghis, the devotees of Buddha, who sit for years irk one fixed constrained position, with hardly enough to keep themselves alive, while their aoul wanders through the track- less paths of infinity in be awful contemplm tionietet Bub fine toilsome method did nob satisfy me, and I sought scare other way of breaking the linke that bound my spirit to my liesio And I found the solution' of my diffioulty im the exercise of the will in its fullest sense. I put my body into an hypnotic, lethal'g). by the mechanical means adopted by the ordinary professors of the mesmeric' art, but by the, supreme effort of the will retained my mental faouitiee unaffected. I felt as men feel some times do in dreams; their body is asleep, while their mind is active in a world of its own creating. Then by se final exercise of volition my 'spirit mined for a time from ib' earthly prison :1 lived, meted and felt, unfettered by the clogging • amide - Mona of my fiesht After a time I foetid I Geoid in this was quib and re enter e y body at will, and my pleasuree were en harmed a thousandfold. Only one thizag I noticed; and that was that it wea necessary for the succeeded perform/am of my expert meant that the temperature of the air at the thee I left or re-entered my body should be at least ae high as the internal hea6 of the body itself; otherwise the mental facnities beeorne dull and inevt, and my aelfe or ego, seemed to lose a portion of its exuberant vitallimeNow you,will see," concluded the doctor, "how easy his for me to perform the same experiment upon another man, provided only that: hie will is weaker than mine, or that he is taken, as it were, una- wares, and before he hes time to exercise it. I have only to put his body into an hypnotic lethargy, and then by my own power of will make his soul leave its physie cal habitation, Elm a short time I can con- trol Ma actions, but of course it is impossittle for me to keep my will fixed ha the !WOOS eery intensity for more than a comparatively ehorb space of time. That was why I con trolled your spirit in its journey joist now, and recalled it before the control was ex. hansted." The doctor Mopped speaking, and pro. oeeded to smoke quietly from a mamma hookah. Arlon Stamarb remained silent. He was amazed and awastruck before this example of scientifict dewing, this illustration of the immense power of vole tion. He saw in this simple discovery tree mendons possibllitiesi of good or evil to them around him and felt almost dismayed at the contemplation of the cool manage displayed by thie quiet Japanese savant, who multi take a man's soul ont ot his body, and re place it, as if he were merely performing a surgical operation. For some tints he was absorbed in his thoughbs ; but at length, turning to Andel% Soma, he maid t "What you have told tie, Doctor, is ex- tremidy wonderful; the more So, l' think, because of its simplicity, and from the fact that it is, after all,. the logical °Monne of recent researches into psychological phe nomena so little underebood among us. I am almost afraid," he continue:1, with a laugh, "to remain in this room. But tell me, Amide Sams, how do you propose to win Gladye Meredythe for me by the aid M this discovery 7' "Ah I there comes a Might diffiaulty," answered the dootor, "What I propose is simple enough in itself, if only the re - (visite preliminaries tor the experiment eon be arranged. I prepense to trans. fer you:" soul -your elf-toethe body of her ifonce-by the way, you have not yet told me hie tame -while lais soul will iithab. it your body. You will thus be free to ap- proach your beloved so if you were he betrothed, and enjoy all the happy inter- ootteee of lovers, Of °aurae your teeth:me, after you have once been transferred to the body of her Meer, must lie entirely in your own hands, and that I must leave to you," Stewart had alreade .by bble time become eh under the fascination of the dootor'S SO llitt teteobing,:xed dleclosuree that this astonish - ng peOpoeition did not, et the tithe, Welke hies as Very extraoreinary. The only thieg that made him heatatO WAS the difficulty of effecting the Menefee:nation batmen himself and Kingsford, Be began to my no t 'Ll3at how are we bo geb Kingsford -for that ie her lover's naene-to ceneeet to title Propoes.1 2" attired he, , OH A P'liE 11 celled lt befere you, wore out oi the sphere Whereupon the silent Kotaro stoped Whereupon the Japanese student smiled in a dreamy way, and mid the remarkable words: "If that is so, she herself shall cure you. The Mysterious Seeret can cause even thab to happen." lf that is so," answered Stassarbi incredulously, "the Mysterious Secret, as yon call your doctor, will overcome the impoasible." He earl overcome lb," said Kolar°, with much certainty. "You shall see hin bo. night. I will Bend him a message." "11 you like," replied Stassart carelessly, thinking that Kotaro was rather araneing with his air of quiet assurance. The afternoon wore on. until at length it was time to return. When the two men reached Arlon's house in time for dinner, and were seated at their meal, teeter° said to Raphael, who wee waiting on table: "Raphael, did not some one leave a message for your master this afternoon?" The cherub -faced boy, wiblend a blush, said "o sir ;" the fact being that a menage had been left, but he had forgotten to give it, and did not wish to betray himself. The Japanese lookt d a thepage, and said to him, • Raphael, you do not speak the truth. Tell your master who came this afternoon," The cherub looked unhappy ; then, bray - lug it out, answered "Please, sir, a foreigmlookini man come thie afternoon, and BLZ to me " Tell your master," he sez. "that Amide, Sama will come to hirn thie evening, and will cure bitn." And I see to him, "Go 'long," being as how I thought a' was rnakisd fun of you, sir. And I thought it was not worth while tellin' you, sir." "Yon yourg imp 1" said his master; "what business have you to think anything at all? I'll thrash emu myself one of them daya, if you are not more oaxeful. Bring in the coffee." When the boy had left the room, he asked Kotaro, "How was it the nmaterions dote tor happened to send that message this afternoon 2' "Because I sent Mm word this after- noon ;" was the answer. "But you did not telegraph or send a note, for you were with Inc all the time," said his host, with a look of surprise. "No, I did nob," said •Kotaro. "1 sent him a thought -message. It was more sim- ple." "Do you mean-- ?" began Steamed, in a surprised tone. "1 mean that, when two people know each other as well as the doctor and myself we can tommuhicate our thoughts by a mere effort of the will. Why, even your Weetern ilairkere" (this with deep sarcasm) "are beginning to comprehend the possibility of whet they call telegraphy. Have you not read "Phantoms of the living ?" "Yea," replied &mare ; "I think it is nonsense." "So it is," replied Kotaro. "At least mostly; for the inquirers know not the prinolpies and elements of the science they are trying to Imam Bat still they have begun to discover that mind ia not hounded by matter; that is something." At this moment Rephael announced that " Same one wiehed to me Mr. Steuart." The boy could not give his name, being no. able to pronounce it. "It is the doctor," said Kotaro. "Brieg hirn in here," eaid Stassarte "and fetel some more coffee and a bottle of Char- treuse." The doctor appeared. He was apparently a man of middle age, unobtrusively dressed in European garment; with nothing striking in his appearance except his eyes, which had a fixed watching look about them, as if they were always waiting for some vision. He said a few words in Japanese toKotaro, who then introduced hia: to Arlon Sbaseart as Arakla dames. After a few formal pro. liminery remarks, the doctor said to Stem eart : " Well, Kotaro t elle me you are not happy. Leb me see nitet is the matter with you. Let me examine you." Meohanically Arlon held out his hand for the doctor to feel his melee. Amide, Sema smiled, and washed it away, remarking, "As if I could not tell without that 1 All I waub you to do is to leek at me," Staegart did go, and their eyee met. The young man etuldenly felt conscious of a strange elensation. fie eeemed altogether oat of them and apace. He telt as if be were in a great void, with nothing near him except the presence of the Japanese doctor, whose eyes seamed calm and fixed, ao if in contemplation. Ho became °newtons- if one may use A paradox --that he was rapidly becoming uneonecioug, and Could make no effort roe recover hine- self. The veil was broken by the &setter eaming in his quiet voice It: is enough. I understand. You are in love, and yout cure San only be effetated by the woman you Stmearb laughed, saying, "If that is all you am do, doctor, I could have tapered you the trouble of coaling to me. What you say ie tree ; but: 11 she hat( refused to onto me, What oat you do ?" The doctor looked at Mtn gravely, "You do not know me yet,'" he said, "Gerrie to my house." Statteart hesitated at first; then decided te go. His curiosity Was teener), and he mated to see the abode of this doetor, with his Mange corfidende neauranee of Manner, lie celled Raphael, told him to shut up the house taaci go to bed ; then, taking his latell-key, he Went mit in the sinettner's evening with the two jepenetie by hia side. Became it is necessary for my expert - manta," answered the doctor, "and also be - cense it saimuleates the perceptions and in. creases the vitality of the mental faculties." Seeing that &assert looked at him beak- ingly, he went on : "Heat, you already know, lit the main principle of life, and is necessary to a high order of existence. The great diffiaulty is always to prooure heat, without at the same time causing ii to be oppressive. Here, in Ragland, you are not aocustomed to what may be called pure heat: it is always mixed with moisture, or is rendered sultry by clouds or the Wilms& of the air, Bub in this room the air is rarefied and heated at the same tine; for I require the air to be pnre in order that the disembodied soul may live, and not stiffer from ban dissociated from the body. For ib is on this subject that I am now making experiments." "What do you mean?" exclaimed Stem sari, wonderingly, while even Kotaro ex- pressed some surprise. "1 mean this,' answered Amide, Sams quietly: "that I have discovered a means of completely dissociating the soul from the body, so that ib rnay be entirely unfettered by the bonds of the fle:3h." "But that is impossible I" said Stassarb. "That can only occur at death." The dootor smiled. "If you will trust me entirely," he said -"mind, I say entirely said unreservedly -I think I can prove it to you in your own case." Sbaseart's curiosity was thoroughly roused by the doctor's mermen Besides, the doctor had given no explanation of his method, aud spoke about ib as if he were communicating the loom ordinary experiment in physical science. All this helpedeto impress the young man. 33ub still he hesitated. "Bub, Dactor, I do not know—" he be- gan. " As yet, no,' was the answer ; "nor can I tell you till lava seen first tee nature of your soul. For with some, experiment is easy and safe -t commands; withey respond readily to my h difficultyand da others I can act only with nger. But tell me," he said, as if changing the subiset, "would you like to see the one you love ?" • "Yee," answered the young man, eagerly, "lb is my dearest wish. Bat I do not even know whether :the bi in London or in the country. " That matte/snot " replied Amide, SAMS.. "Look at 'me,' and think only of her." .Stustert leaned beck on the divan, and gazed fixedly into the doctor's eyeee Al. most immediately he felt the strange sensa- tion be had experienced when they firsb met. Again he seemed to be in a great empty space, with only those calm eyes gazing into his. He became for e moment unconscious and then -- Then his heart gave a groat leap of joy. as he eaw Gleam; Meredythe. For he WAS looking into a room in an old country holm, where the open windows, twined with +reel- ing ivy, looked out on to a garden sleeping in the silence of a summer night. At one of the windows that opened out into the 2arden stood a young girl with her face upturned watching the Mats. A smite of sweet contentment was on her lips as she murmured eoftly the refrain of a love eong : True love from o'er the ma, Come back to me, come back to me ! True love:from o'er the ma, Come back, and make this loving hemp thy home. Then olemping her hands with a quick motion of plemure, ebe exclaimed " Oely a week to day and 1 :Mall see him 1" &assert felt as he looked ab her a keen sensation of jealottem. Re sew the expression of Mee on her feeto, and knew it was not for him. He almost wished the Japanese dootor had not' been he means of recalling to Ms mind all his love and all his hopelesenese. Then he felt his whole being domittated by the one Mac: "If only the were mine !mine alone, with no one else to claim her 1' Then again he seemed to become unoonscious, For the fresotion of a mooed he thought he eaw the Japaneee doctor Wetchitig ce Bleeping figure, while Kotaro looked on with awe struck interest. Bat he Was sob oure that it was not some passing fancy. When he came to himself he was lyieg 00 the divan, still gezteg into the eyes of Amida Serene end Kotaro was smoking a curiouslyewrought hookah, whose ferns opread a nubble Bestern perfume through the pure air. "Ahl,' exclaimed Amide SAMS, careleiely, as if Stageart had jdet quitted the room, "you have come back, then?' "Well, Rotator,' answered the young man, Vette* eurprised, "I did not know I had been atom. Heave 1 bee:edema:tog ?" "Ne, you heele not been away; bret your Pont for a few ft:temente left your body. DM I not tell you that I had ditooveted the renew wherby thie vette rendered pos. Bible ? Yee Were sospeicai, and I took A simple rneens of proving to you the truth of my amettion. Only Iobnfats to you than „t did hot leave your eoutentieely free, boll re - _ (TO BE COZTTIISTIED ) Twilight or Sunset De. Robson Roose'in a recent number ot the 'Fortnightly Review," has a moat valuable paper on `The Art of Prolonging Life," in which he says "The whole term of life may be divided into the three reek: periods of growth and development, of maturity, and of decline. No hard and fast lines can be drawn between these two latter plasses of existence; the OAS ;should pass graduelly into the other until the whole picture is changed." The word picture is happily used, for ib suggests beauty, and each phase of life has its own beauty, if lived naturally. Tilt old phrase, "Whom the gode love die young" tnight be added to : "Whom the5r wish to honor live to old age.' De. lixiss aays that oecupation is au &boo - lute neceesity to the prolonging life ; that frequently mantel power grows stronger as the bodily power decreases, and for this reason he urges that the mental powers be exereised during theperiod of maturity. Per- in middle lifet he soma, ahould seek and find pleasure an defiaite ends. He points out the faot that life at the present Dune offers many more allurementa to t'ne mind than in the past Science hare become an open gateway to the most elementary seeker; the difficalty in literature is to keep to one line where there are so many pathways offering both pleasures and ti -do - Wye Hobbies, he tells us, are a good poo session, keeping the mind freah when the maples have !tab power. The secret of a working old age, after all, lies in the power to adjust lite to the changing conditions. Rome says that: when a Man ends that severe meotal ef- fort is necessary to accomplish that whlob was previously accomplished with ease, he mush yield to the power that controls hie faculties, and adjust effort to that power. Tbe same tule should govern physical effort. Exercise is a necessity, hmetivity a cause of phyeioal degenera- tion ; but the exercise must never be ex, hemming ; as that which depletes physical power robs the mind. No law or rule oan to made by vvhieh the machinery of life can be perfectly balanced. Rush man must learn from experience how much exereide he is capable of, and then wisely refuse to e xceed that limit. Dr. Boom says: "Above all things'sudden and rapid exertion should be eornpulotiely avoided by Persons of advanced age." Many times a man that might have lived to aocomplish his share of life's work for years longer has perished because of midden exercise that used all reserved force. Old age cannot store up a fend of strength that OM be need at once. Food has an important piece in the preservation of old age. Tee in= who has violseed the lawn of digestion during a pesiod of thirty years or more cannot hope to redeem the error by a, milieu revolution in his habits, any more them the spendthrift can accumulate a fortune by economy when Ile has loot his eternity power. Sleep is an important hector in the pre. servation of powers, and for many old people an afternoon nap is a tonio, C awful bathing, D. Roose inelats, is another preservation and should be a part of the daily routine ; warm wetter is bettor than cold, and brisk rubbing very easel/dal. Then the secret of an old age is a wisely lived life began in the cradle. Habits ot temperance in food, in exereise, in meet. pation: the cultivation of a philosophy or creed that distioguishes between essettials and nenwesentime, a,nd gives to every event, every incident, its proper place; the wisdoth to keep a perepective an life, not bringing every possiblity into the immediately fare. ground-thet is the secret of an old age of usefutnest. Happy silo tnal and Women who °en say, with Rawdon Brown, who, in old age, commenting on the death of e friend wrote: "11 seertze to me to bode my owe speedy departure hence, and always with grabbed° to the Almighty for having been allowed to, path so great a portion of my life here,' Ile found his work and Itis place, and life was, from beginning to end, one great opportunity.- ECerbetian Union. , A Simple Test for Fresh Eggs. This method is beesed upon the denim° in the density of eggs as they grove old. Dis- eolve two ounces of kitchen ealt, gays the account, in a pine of water. When & fresh laid egg it placed in ilia solution it will domed to the hottoin Of the vessel, while one that has been laid on the dim /melees will not quite teach the bottom. If the egg be three days old it will meim in the liquid; if le Is more than three daye old 15 Will fleet ea the surface, and project above the latter more and more as they are older. Firet bull "Hee conme a man. 'What shall We do f" Seeend tOee up, miacELLIINEOU Mr Cameo • "Yes Rooks WAS a man of greet will power." Makittg love ley teleereph is described as an element epatir, , Mee, Cemeo : "1 nee that Mr, Roche' will diapoees of $10,00,000 wotth of property." The proeecution of the Bishop of Lincoln will crest El0,000, of which £7000 has al. ready bete reseed It is reported that a German scientist has invented an iecandereent hemp errange- ment by winch the interior ef a boiler may be impected while Mill under steam. Chemical analysis shows Asierns' Tutti entet tt Gum to be pure mad healthine--The An:era:ea Analyare Sold by all clkuggists and confectioner; 5 °eras. One of the Atlantic steamers which left New York recently carried 700 oases of se. !acted turkeys for the London market. It is expected 1114t many similar shipments will be made during the winter months. The phonograph has been turned to a new me to reoord the souude given by the heart and lunge under 1.uacultar1on. This :Mould be inveleable ita coneeltetlon, ae a true am munt of'a pellsnes oor anion, can be sent to a doctor at is e'letence. It in stated theta 55 elergymen are share - holden, in the Gleegow Tramway Company, and only eleven out of that number, it is Alleged, voted in favor of the motion, at the recent annual meeting, to diecontieue run - :Mug the °ere on eland 1. The Rev, George Washington, who styled himself "Eldest Representative of the Dur. ham Branah Eaglaud," writes to a London j iermal, urging Eeglith collectorof docu- ments illuetrating tho career of Gen. Wash- ington to organize themselves into anode - Mona to preserve the papers collected and meet from time to time to compare exper- ience:a and exchange views. It ia taund theft cocoanut oil lea not onM an exeellent Inbricent, but it is of great value for lighting purposes. A Frenchmen in Cabe Mae jest established a, factory for the menu.foture of thie oil. He ham imparted the most perfect machinery, in order that the oh prodeeed shall be as pure as possible. The oil is very fluid, oxidizes slowly, and is aaid to keep long without turning rancid. religions order pledged to poverty, chastity, aud obedience is proposed by Canon Ferrer as the means by whioh the Church of England oan reach the thousands of heathens in London. If the order should assume the name of one of tee communities Abolished odder .ffenry VIII. it should, provided pro- Jeauit oratory in this country is not astray, be able to claim reiteration for King Hal's onfiecati one . The impetus given to sculling - lley the Searle and O'Connor race and by'Thther matohes since arranged, has induced Mr, knnee, the well known writer on re:palms tinder the nom do plume of Pegasus, to offer a series of prizia for young scallere, with a view of ascertainime, whether there is any. thing sentiently promising in Eogland's rising talent to warrant supporting it for champion sculling honors. The various, autumn shows and o‘unty fain which have been held in air parts of tbe country during the Fall have af- forded to outoidera a good Mee of what; the country can do. They also give a good, idea of the people who tfil the g ound and reap the harvest, and bear out what Lord Stanley has been veying concerning the in- ducements which Canada offers to people on e the other aide of the Atlantic to make the - Dominion their home. Phere is point too in what Mr. Curran, M. P., mid to the re- presentative of the American press, namely, that it was something to see twelve thou- sand laborers turn one al well dreseed and with money in their pooketa to spend. A country which was nob making progress and prospering could not make such a good •showing as the °Mee of °made, make on all public! OqOASICOS when a collection pf her people is male. Evidence of comfort and contentment; are to be seen on every hand,' and while Canada has her drawbaoka, m ha i every ocaintzy in the world, Lord Stanley is not doing the sur- plus populations of the congested countries of the old land AU unkind tarn when he points them to the millions of land to be bad in the great North-West This country has not immense standing armies to support in idleness as has almost every country in the Old World and there is no vision why it should not pursue the even tenor of its way, enjoying a graceful civilization and making itself worthy of a place Among the nations. Why it hr. The statement that out of every hundred men engagml In business, but three are sucomeful, is a statistical chestnut which may be correct in the main, and if so, the pertinent inquiry, what is the matter with the other ninety-seven? is in order. This query, so tar as it relates to manufacturee using steam power, has a partial answer. A leading firm has recentlybeen pursuing a systematic Betio of investigatiors to deter- mine what per oentage of the power actually deveaeped was utilirid isa production and how mull was wasted. Careful tests in some of the 'most prominent manufacturing cone:erne in the country Five. °orioles results. In nearly every cam is was found that at least 5fty per cent. of the power was wasted. One large establishment wasted sixty-five per cent and another es venty-three pez cent., while in another, where the engine was de. veloping sixty indicated home power, eleven-. tavelths of -this amount was wasted in friction and other melees work, and only five home power was available for purple:we of manufacture, in moat manufacturing en' herpeises the coat of fuel is a very serious !berm and "The andienary Engineer" ,thinkseb would appear to be Well worth the 'time of the owners to Marta little investiga- tion as to, what becomes of the power they pay for. Economical production ,and jean Mous utilizetion of SWAZI aro the ;beginning and end of steam using, and the loonoern which pays no attention' to these palate need ammely hops to be one of Mte luoky three. Medical Edtioation for Vie young women of Belfast who have been eeeking a medical education et the eel- versity of their own city have been More enocessful than the going womenof Mon treed imve beet. Upon the a,ppliceation of 4 member of ladies, and, apparently withettb any urging on the pert of the publect, the medical faculty of Ceamaiss College,Belfaist,have decided, and, If the artiele In another column is oorrect, unailimeinlY decided in favor of their ad- mittance. They are apparently to enter the regular °imam Mad take the full course, there being, so far as etateri, no eiheation made about the propriety of their being preseht at all lootnree. The Medteee School of teethe:et College, like that of WOW College, is widely ane feeerebly known. It is to be hopea the 'nevem:lb to Declare Sci lacliee the advantages offered by MoG1II College will nob be allowed to drop, The public would like to knot what, if anything, is being done or attempted in the W'% m of reitieg bbs iloaeistsary bindle