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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-11-7, Page 6,00,010 A STOLEN we ,sr He uever heard from Amide Seamen from Sieseart, end did nob care to awe then -tan= I ne 1 one or liWO fruitlese attempts, Whew ;met day he went to cell on te adya, she clasped him tn her arms, ma kneed him premien. este 1 pasio tne astwalthed nevent at the etely. CPIAPTER V.-- (Co:taints-and a raiz madly to Kengsford's roma My ar lug, she orient, I have pearly cl "Oh I a very fear investment on the Itemeolie, and had broten down altogether, dAY before etre wedding s Jimaneee mate wholia" he replied, '' though of course X t ad becomes, some old Idiot of h TOMO° had breUghtGtaelYe aneXCidettielY wroughbjewel- es,,,,t teen, under go or tc_nero plump, laud not betray any aeorets." _ chosen then doff to sali and se the Men oreia containing. a wealth of diamonds and 'mildly built, fell•besonted erebthrtulf and "01 course none Ain, egormate atm ; who, imepe he morn Tee lack was all i Pearia, utterlY heY00 e g. ' t there were ato leaet hell a (keen in the grown ndoutlote relight tell me who are the diTOeb. aganst hine, After taro he had Mee onoloc. ideae of mat nifigence, They Were truly befall) PP who aliellt feirly be torn -led geed' Sbassarb wee quite at a lose. Y door, an 1. " 41 We% What do you thinn of it ?" sett in Ronne T rue ite haat qaoarelled with ' loet er len)rt e bueluesnlike tone Gladys suede If mean Appear perfeob Stemmer hoed written explpieing all, The DVQ,LI43, ,rwirimizoovg,, The Ratans of unnttlea—Irlhe Deetur or Their Old I ironic. The populetion of Sorepit: turned out to :see us. The women were a straage con. trivet to the men in eppeatance. While the latter were ee lean es whipping posts, ond uglier than mead monteys, the foriner---oab Oriental iu t eir Pnlendoltro 111? Muir ore. „et Intehaati May know pone of thorn" 1 never wore them. And 130MO people teener - ad thet she was very euperetitious alaout f I reall wrget their name tiono now, 0 ose " )3ut the oldet Inembeas of the community, the wonen es i 11 st s I$ To IIBLEDIA'8 44EGszkips Tele, About the 11 stand tenon: franeete Oreatest Sovereign was a retriever, When dont neon de :Nova Castelle about tho negioning of the sixteenth century start- ed out from Portugal in his tob Of a ship to go prowlieg about the weed, seeking When lie Might dieoeyea, no doubt he bed his need full ol dreams of gluey. cielumbus had done 1 well, bet who cretin( tell what temnnieti it(' pincl the v'p.st continent which Colernbus had Qglifir Whtl (101114 MI but when tnere might he hal( e qgirm Mere Oentilientri On the Other Bide oi the Merle, t`ttntlarg4 vfOl'oPY op9.21, Which the land of Columbee wes h mere awe honiewetd voyage, not for the outward. boend ships, tor mole ie the bittlAtIOU 01 tho islaud elle ocean, mat are the peouliaritite et there ie. wind a in that Part of the world, theto o oiling vend to reach the Wend tandeve :not: earosboitn;letitflitorzitowlIthcleitwdeestnettheaeinneaagtaniin to tbe tenth. It wail tide peculiarltee and Itritber cabled to (Moose the rook h Teem for Napoleon', for not only would a hoetliel Knead/mu be greatly delayed, but the Rem ledia oompeny hen strongly fortified the lelaud and held it With It oeneiderable garri- Trhe natural featnree of Sr. Helena ere nen POMP tar en When old num entered his crew ounthroate nest Devil'It 1T - In JOY tan bypnotet ulattebnbcieshi.t•avilicheittwfteore ;ILA? 130,i,Wors sef desPser9iplisY4 to alguiva ender.hiBiZe and ilneortallee. So away went Juan VO harbor, but every spot ie ItelfeWed by trio Will eitod you e. prospectus, if yoa like." 8 they i 1 *end tannin eceeny eummee teem and hie herdY orew of Portuguese dare- memory of Napoleon. Up to quite recently Tlatialte," said the lady, " I should be He arrived at Kingeferan lodgings. and i" " devils, eager to discover a new world and Were were living a few old %%tide who glad if you would ;" but to herself ehe re' ' hastened hurriedly to his room, lettering n 4 [WTI }MD' AP as "baked monkey ;" but a riatetkeY remember the lively exliternent t Wan eked that he oeetetwo wag a most n vae et tit titeleen ae ne Auto the I would at least have had a ()roaring of hair, tweeted on the ielend when a Brithih enrol whereas these dreadful persone had nothin/ it' al I ise Vet aggar BO ITI CHAPTER VI. Cnristattrize or out the throats of Its inhetti. tants. _ Where they wept and what they found when they went there he not of muoh onset queoce at present, since the most notable Incident of tbeir voyafte rook plaoe on Ste Helena's day, May 22, 1502, when they eighted it tonnage land and at once turned In tts Motion. ft was rooky, mountainous 01 no great eize, being only ten miles long by seven In width, on every side pre- senting precipitous shores, barren °lifts, from 60D to 1,500 int high, etanding out of the aea, pierced here and there by a narrow oleft, through which a tiny stream had forced ite way, But Jaen was not to be deterred by batten cliffe, knowing well thot appearentese are Often demean°, so he skirl:en his way woefully PAPA Vitt ltenn arefltl nretInCei till he ,carne to an inlet guarded by two Mee memoeleig of ittanofcmo ere outlines mountainous promontorlee, one of the orags Rafe are the Briars, the 'first home ot projecting to such shape as to rentable a Nepoleon on the Island, where he resided lough nose, whereas the navigatete were not until the boon prepared for him by the a little diaturbed in their minds, since it British Goverement was completed. Theo ' was well known that the devil had a person- Wand le full of storiee of his captivity. interest in all heathen countries, pardon- How he played with the ohIldren and ran hut their very nanny clothing to cornea came Into tbe harbor, and it wag announned any part of the leathery Integument that to the oetoniebed population that a niarnote W58 so tightly shtunken over their akeleton war Was on the way thither with Napoleon bodice, and looked so hail ana dry that you on board as a priestlier. The inheantante expected to hear them omelet° when they maittaed yotteg man. Not ittioW the banes --Y1 his direotore, in lead I Certainly Yea forgetful of him. However, dm said no -mere, and, luckily f tr the representative ot Kingeford, the rest a the conversation dur- ing the meal did not touch upon aubj Ids with whioh he was unfamiliar, and he con- gratuleted himself that, after all, he was etting on pretty well, When Gladys and he were left alone togs - tier after lunoh. S!'essart hoped that there own Self was rising atoned him, ready to this, however, for lb bears emphatic) witness, would by a temporary mention at least stein him down in the midst of his mortifi. to the determination of the Italian govern - from. his perPlenitles. But fate did not geen2 e cation and failure. He IIIVO1I1hthTRY made meat and people to pnge thquueint on the at all propitious to him to -day. Almost a movement of solidefence as Kingeferd the first remark thee Glade's made wits : strode savagely towards him side a the wildest freedom In sPeoulationt 1 and thus to place their whole collie Won nOlo. !Stanton, what time ought 1 to be "You villein 1 exclaimed 5 anton, breath. under the auspices and guidance of the needy ?" 11132a With rage) ''s° you have °ma° bleh et modern apiria It ie satisfactory that, amid "To be ready, darling?" answered nteesart, i lest. By heaVenei Yon 4hall not returP not a few partial signs of reaction we have -"Ready what for?" f aline. Xis 1 X 01°410 Y9tt IrtAtld QOPle' tittle greet end formal vindioatien Of theprin. 1 ntYeet don't Intin to say 'yen hate feted- i You bine not dideneded in your trick—I doe ot intellectual liberty on tem ptrt of one tet again? ' asked Gladys, with a tone of t On See that by your face. And It Is as well of the leading wows et tihe world. When some vexation. "You promised. to take me you did not," he went on, with terrible we read of the thousancle of telegrams of to call on your friend Mrs. Audrey. You i earnestness," "or, by God 1 I would have Bympathy sant to the Pope in connection know you said. you would like us so much to shot you like a dog, even 0 yott had been with this event, we emmot help wandering Anew each other," With her,' Re pointed a revolver at his how the sympetine era, who, it may be pre- Stassart was hopelessly in a fix. He din rival as he epoke. "Look here, 5 -tessera" 44nloa, all enjoy a fair Meet/ere Of idyll not know who Mrs. Audrey was, nor where he continued, "I know the trick you played liberty in tho counter a theoughord which ohs lived. He must make some exonse. "Don't let us go to -day, Gladys," he answered; "ib 's so hot and dusty. We'll stay here instead, dear; or go for a walk again, if you like.' "Oh I but, Stanton, 11 .1 don't go to -day," she said, "I don't see how I can go at ell, for I'm so busy now, you know. And be- sides," she added, in a plaintive tone, "I've kepthis afternoon on purpose, and put off Eva, who wanted to come and see me very partioularly." "Well, I aon't want to go, Gladys," said. ler supposed lover. "Mrs. Audrey can wait. I don's care so much about her as all that." Gladys was becoming not only :surprised, true vexed. "Think, Stanton," she remeaked, "you are very inconeiderate. You told me only two days ago how much you wanted tie to meet each other, and said so much about: her that I felt quite anxious to call, and kept this very sfternoon free for that reason. And now eon reboot to take me, jut because you are too lazy to go out." "Ib isn'e that, Gladys," said Stained, vhose own temper was by this time a little tried; "only I don't care nitwit about it to. w my. " I don't think you care much about me either to day," answered his ladeelove, with some asperity. "You have forgotten every- thing, and seem so strange and---" ; "Gladys, dear, you know I care for you," said Sbasseart, hoping to soothe her. "You know I do, darling," he repeated, comity closer to her and placing his arm round her. Be pressed her closely to him and once Again imprinted a burning kiss on her lips while his eyes looked wioh fierce passion into hers. Gladys felt frightened. This was not at all like Stanton's ordinary naanner or look. She tried to draw quietly out of his embrace, but neassart would not let* her go. His clasp grew tighter and his kisses more eager. Gladys felt now thoroughly angry. " Leb me. go, Stanton 1" she cried. "1 don't want to kissed ; and you are very tin - kind to -day, and I don't like it. And—and I wish I had asked Eva to come now, instead of putting her off like that," and she ponted vvith vexation. "Well. you MI if you like," said Stassart, sulkily ; "I'm nob going to Mrs. Audrey' anyway.' "You are very horrid, Stanton " answer. ed the girl; "and I think we hadbetter go up stairs and talk to auntie instead of quar- relling here." "If you like," replied he,. coldly, and followed her up to the drawing -room. A3 they went in, Mrs. Branxton, soniug Gladys' vexed look, asked with a smile, " Whab liave yon two been quarrelling about? That will never do—' Bat sire was inter- rupted by the servant opening the door, and announcing "A gentleman to see Mr. Ki ngsford, please." , A cheery old gentleman of some sixw years of age, with a pleasant open face, walked in and went up to &assert, shaking hands with him in a most hearty manner. "Very glad to see you again, my boy," said the old gentleman, who was in reality the uncle who had eent the deem° that morning, "1 called in to see you at your rdoms, but they told me you had come here for lunch, and as 1 am only •in town for a day, I thought I might venture to call tom" face and disordered teething jettmen up frorn a chair new the wiudow. Was the BrnnO'S tile itt /tome - real Kingsford, who had been waling for The creation at Rome of a statue to Gi. his rival. ordano Bruno, who on the 1701 of FebruAry Stained gave an involuntary start of In she yesr 1600 was pubuoy busifed In horror and surprise as he attW hp/ own that city for the heresiee alleged to be con. form, with a desperate resolve written in tained lila planaaaphiaai writings, Is a his face and a blent ei deedlY anger noble aet of justice to the memotY tof a great his enes entteene t° meet him* Hie and much injured man. It Is more than me, It was eleven I admit—so clever thnb they are scattered, would themselves like to no :one but ourselves 08,11 see through 0• be in the hands of a power that could bring But'I warn. you of dais, you don't go out of them to the stake if their opinions were not this room again alive unites yea monde t° of the pattena which that power ohne to my terms. I ern desperate, and I would approve. From tlae modern point of view die willingly now if I could only kill you the exeoution of Bruno was amply cold. blooded murder by ignorant fanatics of a firat" Stassart looked ab his riven and saw that man immeasurably their superior in know. he meant what he said, and that he was ledge end intellectual power ; and who, by mad with rage. He thought it beet to keep hie refnaal, in the hoe of death, to recant cool. and not provoke hie' fernier. nit, opinions, preyed himself pommeled. also "Pat down that revolver first," he said, of bbo highest degree of moral heroism, Re "anti then I will talk to you.' was accused of atheism in his day, but his "Teak to me 1" shouted Kingsford. "You eystem of thought was pantheistic rather will do as I tell you, &assert, ur else, es I than atheetio. 31e believed that the universe am a living man, I'll shoot you on the had an animating soul, which was diffused spot." through every form of naaterial existence, "I should not ode much if you did," giving to each the powers and properties it answered the othsr glooinily, kuowing his was found to possess. He was a warm up - cause was loath 'It's all up with me, any- holder of the Copernican system of phile- how. I will do aa you like. Sib down, and I will explain to you." He poured out a glass of wine from e decanter that happened to be on the table, and, drinking it hastily, went on: "I have played you a mean brick, Kings. ford • I own ib. I am a traitor; you need not "Certainly, sir ; delighted to see you," answered the bewildered Steuart, won- dering who on earth it was. He stopped short, quite embarrassed, well aware time he oughb to introduce him to the ladies, and not knowing in the least who he was. He felt the Iodide were looking at him. Gladyse, who had turned away to a side table as she came into the room, looked round again, and stared in wonder at the awkward pause which fol- lowed. The elicitation was becoming too etdlotelous, nbassert felt he must do some- "AUSn' me to introduce my uncle James, Mrs. Brenxton," he began, nervously, The old gentleman started in unmet/tent " Your uncle James, sir 1" he almost talented. "You mean to flay you don't, know me from that idiot Juan, air 1 What smarm thinking of, Steelton ?" "1 am very wren tuacle—sunetroke," he began, apologetkally. Sunstroke, sir la cried the old gentle- men, wee, thougb cheery, was choleric. " Sunstroke be hanged 1 You've never had teunrstroke, You won't know year own fether next. Introduce me ett once, sir, and &rant stand gaping there." Steeled felt it wee' 8 orisiet. He looked at the three hake, Who had risen from their :lairs, and were attiring in amEement at Shia extraordinary conductoh the part of She supposeaKingsford. Gladys,recomielog the oaten ats Kingsford's uncle Jonathan, Was dumb with surprise at her levee's eppatent rentenees. Het would.be loVer saw it Was hopeless. 44 lain very gortyn-I detail knove the gentle. nab," he began despetately. Then, lode his temper At tillS Unfortunate rementre,be burst oat"And. I wish I hed newer come hoe e eat by the narrow door thug dieclosed. —and I'm not myself toatty, I am imitate son Inawfora would f ain have gentionecl him, I can't*" And without feather eeplainieg er. the man pointed to Wettest and extraorninKings- thiwildln out of the roma. Seitieg ids nat, he inn,6 wont o9± into tee ntght, re dy utterance, ho rushed !add rernemboted he was numb. The young sophy ; for adherence to which Gellneo also mitered at a later date. He believed that tl universe was of infiaite extent and ernbracea. an endless mulitude of worlds. In a word, ne had broken the fetters of ecclesiastical logrene and had entered on a career of origi. nal speculation and research. No wonder had heard of Leipelg and Etba, but so slew moved. Their faces eeemed to consist solely was %Iowa in those days their the return of skin drawn over a ekull without a particle from Eta, the Hundred days, the hurrieel of linen and lulled pronsely tie 0 tiente met prepaeattons for war, the rush to area all ban tried to make a Mask out el old ieather, over Europe, the campaign of Waterloo, and and, failing, had thrown it down in dievnet the B000nd abdioation were to them nn and stamped on it Yet they seemed neither known, But they ell underatood that deorepie nor Idiotic. The men cartied their thenceforth their island wee to be famonee complement of flame ; ono old fellow had one of the noted ?taco of the earth, a place girded on the longest and orookedest sword to whioh pilgrimages weal be made, whonso there. Re looked like Death vilth ills memery would live in story and song se long scythe. A. women, wile reeembled one of 0.8 theye at of the most extraordinary man the a the dried rountaniee of blacks found in North Queer:eland, reenimated, wee pounding paddy In a wooden Mortar, so I concluded that appearance:I were deceptive, and that they were not nearly Eh old as they looked, indeed, the Malayan run are not long lived, and really old people are very aurora snob an instance as the late Sultan of Semen W119 lived to nearly 100 lasing almost tell me that. Bat I was mad when I did it he was considered a dangerous man, and --mad with love for your bride. You don't that first the prison, and fiaealy the stake, know, perhaps, about my love for her. I were hie portion. Times, however, have loved her when I met her at Oxford more than Treaty changed ; and he who was led as a O gear ago. I told her then of my paesion. i.. -Amine' WI death for having dared to think It was useless, for she loved you too well. 1 ar himself and uttered his thought, is now I left her, and for a whole year have done I :laced en high on the honorwoll of the fore. nothing but think of her and brood over mY . rnnners of modern liberty and olvilizetion, waated hopes." Even while he Wale he 1 end is gratefully remerabered by thousande could not hap thinking bow curiously this , If intelligent men end women the world confession was made. He was speaking to 1 ever. —1Popular Science Monthly. his own Self, whowas doting opposite to him, e haggard, desperate, with a florae light of righteous indignation in his eyes. It was like talking to a viable accusing conscience. A Kenna City, Mo., despatch of Odober The thought made him speak more mire- 12, says: "The wonderful trotting red servedly. He went en: " Tnen I was lrish setter Dm, owned by Willie Ketchum, tempted by that d—d little Japanese fellow. I of Brighton, Oat., gave an exhibition at the Kotaro, with his cold-blooded suggestion of a 'Exposition Driving Park mediae today, sotentlio experiment. I honestly think I me and made e half -mile in 1 49e. A pony not realise the baseness of my action till I WWI used to urge him, but the pony became hedbegun. Andthentwas toomuch afraid of soared at his strange competitor and proved what my two accomplices would think to of little help to him. The first heat was made in 1 52. In the next heat Dm trotted possibilities of changed personality, and I a perfect half mile in 1.491." allowed him to praotise his arts upr,n yen. A railroad concluder wanting to teach Well, it was of no use. Gladys seemeel to anew brakeman his duties bold him to go to suspect me from the first. She would hard- the other end of the car and when he, the ly les me oozne near her." . a t conductor, called out the names of the sta. A grim smile passed over Kingsfora s race teems along the route that he should say the at this, and Stammer saw his 0011edel2Ce in same at that end of the oar. When they mocking. him as it sat visibly opposite came to the first station the conductor call. ed out "Mo wash in -e to l'' which Is a small that chair. "People asked me questions I knew noth- i town bebvveen Indianapolie and E'khart, ing about; and, to crown all, some old i Ind. and the brakeman gelled with all the relative ot yours came in, and I didn't know e might his lungs would sunlit him: "The who he was. I was in such an infernal fix same at this end." that I bolted. And I don't care how soon I'm out of it." It afforded Kingsford sortie tatisfaction to know this, even in the midst of his misery. Aurae 73:roans and Sound. "You had better unheard of. And here the appropriate plan to speak of the strange and unnatural practice, un- iversally asoribed to the lletales, and con- firmed by Dutch travellers, thought I do not understand that may Fate:mean has ace Welly witnessed the ceremony. When the elder members of a family have reaohed the stage of decrepitude and uselestneses (and what their appearance must be one shudders to oontemplatena general meeting of relations is held, and the senile one is invited to as. trend a navel tree, which the affectionate relatives then shake with all their might, chanting 9, song expressive of hunger the while. If he oan succeed in holding on nntil the shakers are tired out, he Is reprieved but, if, as is most likely, he tumbles off, he is promptly despatched. A anent author, Junghuhns, I think, :grimly remarks that this ceremony usually taken plaoe at the time of year when limes are ripe, this fruit being very plentiful, and forming a large ingredient in the cuisine of both Malays and Betake. But if bhe natives of the interior resemble those whom I am describing, the meal must be a mere form. 1 had forgotten to state that the Betake file or grind all their incisor teeth down to the level of the gums, and only the elms of a hyena could have disposee of one ot the elders of Serapit As to their cannibalism there can be no doubt. draw back. Amide Same told me of the ail 7" I The published obsetvAtions open the can, then," he seigdetgrolumtlotrf.it " zmn &MOT% borealis matte by Mr. Tromholb in "With pkasure," said. Stained, almost 1882.3 touch upon many of the curioue and eagerly; "only we wired go to Amide, Seam inexplicable phenomena of that subject in weer to be restored agein to our proper Among these is the traditional aocompeni and respective identity. Let us 2 a go mend of sound. Upen this pellet the scientist onoe." sari : "Yee," answered Riegford, putting away his revolver. " You had better lose no time.' The two young men went out together. The afternoon was far advanced, and duak was coming on. Kingsford, still in Staseart's form, impatiently hailed the first cab he saw and told the driver to drive to the Japanese dodoes house. Fortunately he was at home, and took the two rivals to his inner room without delay, "I know what you have come for, my friends," he said, witla his Evilest gaze. "The eiperiment Is too successful, is it not ?" "ft depends upon how you look at it," answered Studer a gloomily. "Too d ----d successful for me, sir," said Kingsford. "You nearly ruined my hap pinion by your cursed expeelmenb. And the only amends you oan make is to undo it agein as cedokly as may be." "Yea" said the doctor, " mud acknow- ledge that your position was uncomfortable. I conferee I had nob paid sufficient attention to your probable feelings before begot:rang the change. I will make all the amend in my power." With hie usual entrance:1 of demeanour he looked at Kir:mike:A, who gave himself up to his geze unreservedly. The magic deep fell upon him. When Amnia Same batten- ed to Staudt, who gloomily submitted to the same operation, The doctor looked at the two 7011I g men lying before him in a sleep as of dew h. "A delicate experiment," he seid aloud; "'bis a pity it could not be completed. But Weetere nada are very advanced as yet ; " and he sighed 'pityingly. A dead :silence fell upon the room. , 0 0 • 4 Si:enter:I Kingsford arose, and looked roand hion. Ite was in hirs own body once more, But the redo wee empty, end be save no way outRe freeitated for a moment, them rang itiiVer bell tied retood on a table near at hand, An Oriental servant appeared, sm- Intently through the wall, end boeted bioa There is no point relating to the aurora borealis which is more disputed than th sound which some puede say accompanies the phenomena—at all events at certain times. It is described as of various natures, v z. : cracking, whizzing and hissing, from mealy every part of the world where the aurora is visible, and the faith in the "sound' Is as orthodox among the Eikimo of Green- land and the Lapps of Finmerken as the people of Siberia. Eren Ceptain Dewson and his party, the English Circumpolar Expedition to Fort Ras (1882), assert that they distinctly hoard the sound one night wlaen passing up the Great Slave Lake; and in latitudee muoh fartleter south, too, potpie aver having heard the noise. tarty in Wanes, and generally ataked his olaim" by totting up a eign by impressing hie face on the rook or car4ing it into the shape of one of kis Janda or fed. So Jaen and hie crew knew as eroon as they came in sight of the crag that Saban had been there, but trusted to look that he might have gone man, again, or, If not, might be driven away by tbe powers of the holy em- blems, relies they hed thoughtfully provided themselves ere leaving Portugal. So they came to anchor in the bay at a safe distance from the ill-favored peomontoiy, whioh they dubbed the Devil's Nose, and set a man to watch, so that his Setanic insjesty might nob take them unawares, and went to sleep. tiow the man watched till he be- came nervous, how he jumped every time he heard a splash of water, how he saw strange sighte on the beach, how he stared ab the nose till he saw it move to and fro as though in derision, while -a pair of eyes glared from behind it. would all make in- teresting reading had Juan or anybody else preserved the atory for us. Bat they did not, and all we know is that they landed on the beach and set up a cross to scare away the devil, who fled so preeipitately that he forgot to take his 11088,8o left 15, and lt re- mains on the rook to this blessed day, So they took the island, and in memory of the day on which they discovered it, and in gratitude to the saint, veho no doubt had aided them against the evil one, they celled lt St. Helena. At present tlae only relic of the Poi tugnese occupation. ia connected with a curious natural monunaent in a valley of the island nown as the Friar's dell. A large, isolated stone stands near the middle of the glen, and as it bears some resentiblance to a gowned and oowled monk the Portuguese straight- way fitted it out with a legend on this wise: Ages and ages before they found the island it was inhabited by a solitary monk, who was greatly bothered by the temptations to whioh he was constantly subjected by the demons who reseeded his intrusion. For e. lung thne he successfully resisted their temp- tations and the importunity with whioh they besought him to leave the Island, until they were at their wits' ends how to get rid of him. Finally, one day wandering in the glen gear by, he was no little surprised to see flitting before him the figure of 6 beautiful girl. Never before having nen any girls on the island, his curiosity was excited and he sought a nearer view. Bet the girl was as scary as a crow, and do what he could, It was a long time before he could catch more than a glimpse of her drapery as she vaniehed round the corner of a rook. But he learned to watch for her, and after a • time to think about her, even when. at his prayers. At last he was permitted by the coy maiden to exchange a word with her, bud only a word, for, like a fitsh, she was off whenever he attempted an approach, 01 course he was p'qued, and equally, of course he fell in love vvith the girl and begottgiht her to marry him. After long !Ousel she finally consented, when he led her to the chapel he had conetruoted in the valley, intending there to espouse her leonine the altar, when, fn an Instant, an earthquake shook the island, the chapel, the crosses, the alter disappeared, the bewatiful maiden changed to a mocking demon, and there etood the deceived hear, a pillar cf stone, perpetual reminder of the Jaeger of filet - ng with unknown girls. The negroes of, dee Island, brought there during the Daboh and early English occupation, have learned the legend and regard the stone friar and his vicinity with holy horror, never, save under compulsion, vialting the glen. When The Institute Pasteur. Many years of labor proved to Pasteur that by inoculatiotthe could give the disease, or cure it. in a dog; but it was nob until July, 1885, that the experiment was tried On O human being. The first patient, a small lad, having been treverely bitten in some deem places on the hands, arms, and legs, hie mother, a simple peasant, brought him from Aleace end aeked M. Pasteur to do the same to her son she heard he " did to dogs to peevent their gating hydrophobia." Pee dour hesitated ; bat having procured medical advice, all of which conourred as to the im- possibility of the child's recovery, he (nob being himself doctor) leb his surgeons inoculate the bay, which operation was re- peated fourteen times—on two occasions twice in twenty-four hours to accomplish the task as quickly as poseible. The child has not only never showed symptoms of hydrophobia, though it is now over four years since he was treated, but is fad grow. ing to manhood. Daring the four years that beam elaped I lace M. Pesteur inoculated his first p Went no fewer than 7,000 persons have been treated in the Perils institution alone, of whom 73 have died --that is to say about 1 per cent, —while before be commenced his inocularion treatment from 15 to 20 per cent, invariably succumbed. Pasteur has now muleithe interesting discovery that the near- er the parb bitten is to the brain the short- er Is the period of incubation 8.nd the more virulent use attack of the disease produced. While the ordinary mortality in such onses is 80 per cent., M.Pesteur by his treat- ment has reduced it to 4 p oeut Surely these faces speak for themselves. I will now give a short deecription of the modus operandi of the inoculation itself as I saw is. The large outer hall of the legato tion by 11 o'olook contained eightyaine persons, composed of all classes, all national- ities, and ear ages, who had come to be inoc ulated, (free of charge, )having previously had the misfortune to have been bitten by some rabidanimal. On right hand of the balI Is a regular offfle, in which every cage, with all particulars, is most carefully registered. After tee pedant hasfuraished every possible partiouler he dosses the passage to a email room on the left, where tne incesulatIon is pertormed. There sits the operator, who ia assfated by a doctor, a nurse, and a clerk furnished with full particulars, and the number of each case. The process le a remarkably simple ono. A small hypodermic syringe filled with the preparationisiejacted under the skin, the point of the bodement Well, the remarkable part of this cpiestion is that all other scientists who have esej °urn, ed for a length of time in northern regions have never heard the slightest sound which could, with any mould of certitinty, be an unmet to the aurora, borealis. Without nbeolutely refusing to believe in the possible existence of suce a sound, I farioy that there must be some acoustio de- °einem 01 Misunderstanding whieh has creat- ed this belief in an auroral sound. Daring my easy in Lapland, I was deny surrounded by people who believed as firmly in the sound ate in the Holy Goemel, Yea, at Boss. dem they even told me tint they did not blaiink there ware euy etude borealie at all until it whizzed, and yet I ntaintein that of all the intone° antores I have observed in vitriol's parts of the Aron° regions,and vthiah I am sure I have watched with more 6ttett, Mon than is generally bedewed on there, every one has boo perfectly silent. One Good Turn Deserves Another. away from the angry cow •, how he teed to friglaten one of Ins ohildIsh friends by brushitig up hts hair and giving a Cossack howl; how he helped the little gals in their French exeroises, correctin4 their idioms and spelling; how he would mpg, or attempt to do so, with his peculiar equaling voice; how he was fond of displaying his horseman- ship on the lawn ; how, with maps e.nd red and black pins, he fought his battles over again; how he helped rig out a negro slave as a ghost to frighten the family; how he, explored every nook sue corner in the island and tusked questions about everything you will read in the histories. Longwood, the emperor's permanent home on the island, isin the same condition aa when he left it, though now it is a museum of Nawleonic relics. 11:fore he endured a liv- ing death for over five years. Longwood is situated on the largest of the ealdris of St. Helena, in a ;singularly forbidding part of a singularly desolete leis said that the mighty heart of the emperor sank withigailln when, from the deok of the mated -wan no contempleted the island that had been Aelect- ed by the British government for his prison and even more cheerless then the view of the harbor is the prospeot from the windows. of Longwood. Not far away is a little rocket valley where the great soldier sometimes' walkel. It contains three conical moan thin known as -Lob and lis Daughtera. Fairy Iaind is the name of the glen, and on more than one odasionrunaway slava and ortint Inds have found temporary safety in the an o most inaccessible clefts of these column - like mountable. At the foot of one of these Napoleon often took his stand and watched tbe sea, perhaps looking for the deliverance that never came. During the , find two years of his captivity he con- t filet:neer expected to be by some mane , released, anticipating that European oom- plioations raight necessitate his repeal, but with failing health came the conviction that he was nob destined to leave the rook alive. Five years and a half after his arrival on the hems he died in a little dark room, very meently furnished, and his body was borne to the grave prepared not far away. Here he was buried. It was his desire that his remeine should rest in France, and if the English forbade, in COULON ` but many years paned before the English' government would allow the transfer of his body to Eu- rope. The Eaglieh feared even a dead Napoleon, and would sot give up the re- mains. At last, in 184e, the French goy. renamed of Englaad yielded, a French yawed. ron was sent, and, with all the honors that Were paid to the IIVircg Ma% the dead con- queror lef b his island and came back to the people who still worshipped his memory. A Legend of Ittaee's Bay. About a century ago a rakish -looking. schooner bore down to Alece'e Bay, which strikes in from the Bey of Fundy, on the New Brunswick coast. After emu mancein verity, she ran into the bay and came to anchor. boat was lowered, aud, with muf.- tisffears, the men pulled for the shore. The moon peeped through the clouds aninoiently bright to throw light upon the whole proceed- ings. The men deg a hole and buried their treasurte. The bearings weretaken, and the boat again headed for the vessel, which was soon running out of the bay, with a stiff breeze after her, The men who were en- gaged in this buieneemhave all long since been placed under the ground, and the whereabouts of the treasure hoe been kept a. mord' until receeny the chart locating the, tree sere found its way into curious hands, Napoleon was on the island he offered one who determined to itivestigate The secret of them a large sum to go there at mid- was known to two only, who one year ago. night, but in vain. After exerniaing his conquest old Juan was disgusted enough to turn it over again to its original poesessor, for there was not a trace of gold or silver ; not a jewel was to be found in it from one end to ha other. So he left the °roes on the landing -piece to hide calm his ownership and to dismay Old Nick when he came back after his nose,and :Ailed being no bigger than a wool needle; the away in search of other worlds, little think- eperation is ag trifling ea Ibis painless, and Ing that the only thing he ever did that occupies about five seconds, It is repeated would be r'nnentbered in history was the din' an fourteen successive clays • the dose being °every of the bleak rock he left behind. Bob made elightly stronger eaclAnne. when he got bade to Europe he told about the island, and it was pat down In the maps and acknowledged to belong to Portugal be- cause nobody dee waisted it enough to try to take it, and oosasionally a Portuguese ehip Oonctt and Pirate, Pond Wife—"It's 06 kind of you, George, co go to the iotelligenoe office and get 1306k fOr tee, You know how 1 dread thet ordeal." Ttuenand (thinking ef buttoning elide and holey etookitigs)—"Well, my deart now how 010 700 going to pay me ?" "Lot me see, Oh 1 When you Mee a typewriter I'll tided one for yet:" on the Way home from the Indies vvorrld 0E411 L9btara from China give pattioulars of the there mot get water. dielodgmeet at Haiphong of a stroeg band 13y and by the Porteguen naval power of pirates who for live yenre past leave on began to &elite and tho Datoh von Tromp anted an island in the rivet froin whigh gave himself aira 1» various parts of the they eallied forth on passing tanks, and deo World, parading up and down the English levied black -mail on the neighbouring v etreamel with a Inoue, at his manhood, by lege. In the dislodgment by the Fteitelt way of a Mut that he meant to sweep the fetus thirty of the preens wore killed and English off the face of both earth and sea, gonwe teken, prieoneta. The remainder BUB. 1 aiid a Ditch metwonWer galled at StIteleeat weeded in et -doping to another bland, Where aed, without die formality of asking the they are tea to be still 800 deny: WOO entree:don of ther two or throe Portuguese Europeans wete with them tone of Whom at beelines tieing there, took the Oland in least was a Frenchman. !The letter drop, i(Shelve, built e Ilttlo fed, made a road up ped his fan in higi flight, and on it was the the hill, ever Once known as Ladder hill, name Ilene de Clarified°, and above a coat and told OW Portuguese if they wanted their of untie and a counns coronet, De Clautade bleed to cane On and take it. The had defeated from the Veen& atmy, and j goose did not Want it enough to fight fot ite had beer' ading as armourer to the piraten , S they t44 Let tile ieretin hetes went to the spot, dug up the longtadden box, and returned it to its hiding plan. They admit finding the treasure, in evidence on which it is said that one of the men has be- gun the erection of a due dwelling near 51/. Stephens. They refuse to divulge their' secret oranake any explanation. , An gasential of Bacons. At the present time, when the determine. tion to make money is uppermost in almosteveryman's ambition, it Is recognized, evein by those who profess to (Unpin advertisin9. of every kind, that publicity is essentialeme semen. In primitive times a greet antler dedineted his works to some pram of great, h fluence, and thereby enured a heating, A watchmaker would present a sample of his work to the king, and straightwey the royel san.otion procured him bitumen. But in this country, where the trade is continue ally °halving, nob only front one horde to enother, but from one And to another, where every one be on the lookout for bargainen "goods at wholesale," ana "geode at beige than dest " and "half price," ana where the desire to metre motley without herd labot is the nationel characteristic, and where the merchandle and treat beg spirit is the habit and alllbit1011 of all cheeses, a merchant must keep hie bete - nese before the punlio If he would have the best stincee.— [J. W. Thompson. .ais Iteason Why. , t . prepatleg the weapons for the eletighter of 1 66t1 duly tetoteed when* fifty yeats tenet it Friend -et" 1What on earth are yoa phoe hire aounttyneen. The pirates' left behind A peered Old tit the listecte Of the Detail inter tegesenner nee limbeilla for, dear boy P large quantity of tame andenamenition :Inthese of the EMI: India company e _ Arenteor Piro:weatheyou*" You seta you diddling many Winchester aid Gtas infidel, tte this geed Militate, and raneentile cot, 'wanted to buret* ft to go home with, end 010'6100 tele then an ileglishniati is ono of peration St Helena was a valtianie peon- I'm gettieg inittething to renteneter it by, the gang.—(San Frandiscio °all; Hien Ail a water onetime toe tilde enitte bo the that'll alb"