The Exeter Times, 1890-3-6, Page 7FALSE FRIEND.
A. STORY OF MODERN BABYLON.
CHAPTER V. rigne person. It will be such a chance for
Torn 1.--W1at do you think, Mr, Holmes:"
aeeovered from the first shock of that, " I certainly thmk," he onit
ewered, em -
wan% street -cry, Holmes made for a ing, "that if he has run down the right
rner news•agent's stall and. soaked for att ersou, it trill be en importamt inatter tor
„ening paper. The reau had not oue le ^ im. Ile will eet five thoueand pounds
he protested, sorrowfully, that he could Intee for one thine and >remotion as a tt • i "I th"° InlYthing °is° ?'"
sold "five thousarel" within, the last half- eentse.„ m I ma et a "Thaa have tahee poesession of every.
nour if he had luta them. The placards were Tlds poor woman, what with sickness and thing 1A his rooms to -day, and I don't anew
what they Amy hid there. But I fancy the
there—that was all, describing the great a limited income, had sorely felt the piuch ease doesn't want much mora.,,
amisatiort in various evell-chosen terms : of that poverty which is hardest bees.use it
"The Murder in Hyde Park"—"A Lord am is bravely kept out of public sight, and the "Don't you tidal>, Burton., you will have
restecl"--"An Earl's Sou r'—and so on. It to prove some accp-taintance between the goy -
tears which burst from her were only natur erness and tee prisoner 1„
was maddening to Frank Holmes. A cab. ajtihSheattought only of her husband and
whet do yo' thiek of it Mr If not, now we know our man, we can fon
"Yes; no doubt his papers will do that.
man crawling by was eagerly devouriag a
paper on Ids perch. Holmes hailed him : sli '4 °nu 'mine -
"Sell me your paper? Here's a Slatting for , , ' ' low his history back until we find where the
't •" Holmes? You enow so mucle—as much, 1 -
Tom alwems says, as all Scotland Yard put re atiort wasbetween them. We. are aware
tleat be was expecting to marry a wealthy
together—that your opielort is worth every-
thing:" wife . if we eau ascertain duet he was the
husle'vel of the mur
"I have hardly an opiraiou at all a$ yet, deredwoman, the ease
Mrs, Holmes, I know nothing except what mill be sretty complete. There isn't the
in in the „claw,e papers and that is i(ery smellest ount on my mina, Mr. Holmes
,
Rale ,, er s that he killed the adr1 to be free to marry the
, oth••••
"Oh, but Tom lees been telling me all e
"If you een prove that, Burton, your case
about it, "she said eagerly, "just as be
e win be a, strong one indeed," ols,served
would tell aourself, sir, if he was down -stairs, "But I have
"I know he would tell email about it, elm Bohnes, speaking slowly,
known the prisoner sieee we were at school
Burton, or of course I would not listen to
on. 1 moo to ask, him. Now, aeta tad togethermed it does seem iocomprehensible
to me that, if he had been married, I should
te come to ren down Mr. Fennel" e
lairs. Burton was silenta minute, colieeting ha" suspected nothing (if it."
" You aud be. Mrklolmes, are different
her thoughts. Then alto started front the
beginning : "You remember that Stature
to London, getting out at St Paul's Statism.
I found him in bed in a lodging -house at
the docks this more. —What did he
lean by all this ?'' . •
"Well, when you arrested him 1" inquired
Holmes, unable to auswer the question.
"Oh, he jomped like a man shot, at arst,
and ternea white. When I told hie] the
charge, he lay down. again for a minute with
his face on the pillow—I hada sharp eye on
his leands—and then merely said: "AU eight,
officer." That was 411. He has been etoiid-
ly silent ever since,"
The villain x'
ing on. Holmi
jumped into th,
head, and -was mom
ot to be balked. Ile
b. "Strand I" he shouted.
"Lend me the paper while you drive.:
"For a bob, sir 1 "
"Confound you, yes t"
Thn cabutanpas.sed the sheet downthrough
the roof of the cab and -wheeled his horse.
He might have turned into the adjacent
equere and walked his horse round that small
enclosure for all Frank Holmes would have
heel) ememioes, rat the utINV'S was dis.
' appointingly meagre. It merely chronicled
that the Honourable Claude relate reeld-
ing in lodgings in Mount Street, havitm die.
--appeared the day after the murder, and the
mike having gathered certain inforrnetion
poi 'ting totem as the lamb:dale perpetreter
of the atrocious deed, hall been taunted., and.
N., arrested in his bed that morning inaloagieg.
house near Victoria Docks.
4The eireumetances in themtelves ntaggered
Frank Wilma, and it was aignificant that
the man who had "spotted" Venue, aud
eveutually, after follewing him up, effected
bis arrest, was detective (deer Burtou, who,
it will be remembered, witnessed the meeting
between Holmes and Faune at ,Albert Gate
on the night of the murder.
Without leaving the eale he drove to
Marlborough Street Police Court, but was
late; the prisoner had alrembe been form-
ally remandedtill next day. ife then ealled
at the police station and. SW the iespector.
"Is Burton anywhere about!" lie asked
the officer.
"No, Mr. Holmes," replied the inspector,
• who knew liiin well; "be bas gone lime for
a rest after his run. It was a goad one,
wasn't itr
Holmes was silent a minute. 44 Do yet
belleveyou• have got your man 1" he theu
asked.
"There isn't a doubt about it," was the
answer delivered with A profeesioual emphas-
is whieb Startled Frank Robnem "Von will
beef the flame opinion whets Fen hear the
evidence tomorrow. It will he a feather in
Burton's cap."
i " 3latueson " said Holmee, "1 inn" not
\
waking to you now as a llews.paper man. Blorali. ts said the letter, "tor you must i 0
outdo% ilo newspaper work on cafe eaFe ;
••hot, if you like, ykkki may mut mama, " I'd be doubly awry, Mr. Holmes, t
'hat is the evillence agebee Mr. kernel!" i 1111•39 seeing you, WAS the reply. He took a
i;'-tougli to haug him, ate, weemea ;kg mot i eeat, and rested hie elbows on his kneve,
a, i,10.1.,, is Tan Jameson. / iun afraid looklag earneetly luta) the young meets fare.
at " It is, as you have just remarkea, Mr.
tell y, at it iatenot that I rails -
Holmes, an improtant pnint. lint do you
au ; hut . Imo orders, you know."
day night, Mr. Holmes ? Well, Tom WO.43 at
Albert, Gate, and you know •what wituesm
ea, Ile told me abont it that night when
he came home, and said—But that has no.
think to do with
" Vliat nia he say, though?"
"Oh, simply that he would like to get st.
&ewe of having satisfaction out of the
gentlemaxt—on your account, of 00111'Se. Mr.
Hohnes—and 1 will not deny," she added,
blushing, "that I shared the wish myself.
It was only witural."
She paused at this point • but as Hohnes
offered uo remark, she went on ; "Men,
this dreadful murder was done. Though
Toni never said a word to inc about it
then, be says that Mr. Verne eetne to his
whet the minute he heard of it. Ile kept
his thoughts to himself, and went onquietly
making enquires. It was the hour that
struck him first lir Faune passed through
Albert Gate Ant a quarter to nine. Ile
had to go by the fountaiu to get out of
the Park by the 'Itimmt Street gate ; and
Tom says it was 'between quarter past
nine and ten otelock that the murder Was
done."
"1 &zee see that that is proved yet,
Mrs. Burton it will be an important
point to ;wove." At the moment, lairtou
himself, half dressed, was seen standing at
the door of the room, 'having doiddleas
heard Holmes eoming in.
" 'in sorry if_1 have disturbed you,
na too melt interested in it in other waye. 11 °Ye' nut."
I
to so," aaid Holmes. " All the
euppose, will know to-a:yarrow. lint
inereaulotts ; 1 cannot think
possible. - Has anything been distovered
/et concerning Mies Nolen hueband a'
7 "Is it impossible." aelzell the officer with
a smile, "that Mr OJule &mew is the hus-
band?"
The suggestion
munstances gave II
prived him for the tame being of the power
of thinking—he shrank from thinkieg of it.
It was too terrible; yet, was it not an obvi-
ous suggestion ti Or had the police really the
proof that Fauna was the murclesed W01111111'S
husbaud ? In that ease, whatever other
evidence they might have, it would go hard
with Claude Fauna.
Ile went away from the station without
another word and walked to tbe Park. For
Italian holm Holmes set on one i)f the seats
by the fountain, thoughtfully observing the
spot where the murder was committed,
afften his eyes travelled in one direction
, long the road going to Albert Gate, and on
he other to Mount Street. The way from.
Illrert Gate to Mount Street leads—as .every
me acquainted with it knows—by the
mmtain where the governess was raw-
lered. If FILMIC that Saturday night did not
aimself commit thetriurder, hemust have pass-
edclose to the spotvery soonbefore—orafter
—the act was committed. Had he taken the
direct path through the hollow where the
fountain stands, descending the steps on one
side and ascending the other, he must have
met Miss Neale waiting there if living, or
discovered her if dead. But, as had been said,
few people would do otherwise after dark
than follow the wide walk round the top of
, the basin.
we' Could Faune be the husband of the dead
ovomatt? It was not by any mewls impossible,
'and the proof whieh Holmes had had of the
man's baseness did not stand. against the
pposition. And then—if the police were
/ilea> prove this relationship—whata dread-
ed result it would bo? There would be no
itant of motive; Faune's intended marriage
eith Miss Clayton made the removal of the
teserted and living wife a vital. necessity.
Knowing nothing as yet of the evidence in
essession of the police, beyond the fact that
eaverful motive musthave causecl Patine to.
iaPpear as he had done, and thenreturn to
• ling in a lowandremote quarter of London,
lines was anxiously sensible of the clanger
thich tins,vton stood ofbeing brought
:the ct resolved that this must be
nieg sueh
eir-
III'S a shoat which de-
,
'anted it 3. hazards,
itarted to go to Cadogan Place, but
j.A his purpose on the way. "It will
vime enough,' he thought, "when I
_low that there tis a danger ;" and so, in-
• a of proceeding to Cadogan Place, he
nted westward to Kensington, and knock -
t the -door of a small. house a few doors
gigh Street.
e delicate woneara whose tece lit up with
;Imre on seeing him, opened the door.
td how is Nellie, Mrs Burton ?" he ask -
she showed him into her pretty' par-
• \ be little girl enswerea in person., run -
anti kissing Frank Holmes, •
Nellie hasn't seen you for so long, Mr.
• es," said the pleased mother.
have been busy ; but I will come
now.--Sonie day soon,. Nellie, we
'ave another ride on the top of an
sahosa...\—this time to Hendon and back—I
'mese Burton, is as usual ?"
'He only came home two hours ago, Mr.
olmes, after being away best part of a
eek; but Ial soon call him up."
"No, ; please, don't. I will look in
main, perhaps, later on. He has done what
eppears a good stroke of business, hasn't
"Olt, I dO hope, Mr. Relines," said Mrs,
I urton, drawing her chair a little nearer,
1MtL speaking purely with a wife's anxiety
or leer husband's prospects, "that it's the
think there is any aoubtabout it 1
" I don't kierw about doubts, Burble ;
only, it is alwaye hest to be prepared to
prove everything."
"Just so, sir. We can prove that Nor-
garet Neale 'went into the Park by the
Mount Street gate at a (pewter past einem-
the constable on. duty in Park Lane mar
her."
"Or some person very like lien Let es
take that for grained. The murder, then,
Was committed after that hour. lint suppose
it should happeu that she 11118 Been by some.
body after tee o'cloelt—how woulti that
affect your case 1"
" It would knook it: into the middle' of
TOLD BY A WOMAN T3RPER.
Th ransastnateession. netted by 414'40
in idobstoti.
The difficulties in the way of the seelzer
after information at Mololtei are utunerous
and greet, but I finally rem:raged to over-
come them, and induced a number of the
trbith lepers to talk about themselves.
One of these is 41, \mime nearly 50 yeare
old. Though she has been at the aettle-
meta a number of years, she is almost en-
tirely free front au' visible taint of the
dread disease. Her face is without blemish:
and she would be even haudsome if one
could forget while one looks meson her that
sae is a leper, Moreover, she is a, higbi •
intelligent women, and it must be believe
from laer own story tbat she was not many
years ago a society lady of influence and
popularity in a city riot a great distauee
front San Francisco.
"You must not mention xny name," said
she, when she finally yielded to persuasion
and, consented to tell her story," for, though
have a huslaand and several children, to
say nothing of a large circle of friends, in
the Ihlited States, there is only one person,
if, indeed, she be still alive, who knows
anything ofmy condition or whereabouts,
propose to talk to you frankly," con-
tinued the unfortunate woman. "I have sin-
ned—sinned grievously, and sometimes I
think: this is my punistuneut. Be that as it
may, lam hero and must remeitt for life. I
care not how soon the end comes ; the sooner
the better—but to my etory.
"My father was a Methodist minister ht
a Connecticut town. I was educated at an
sortsT11 11, Eastern college, When 1eves nearly 20 I am
The remark was pregnant and well to the comp:mica ray parents one visit to Washing.
point, and Frank Holmes could make no ton, D. ta It was there 1 met my husband,
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reply to it. He rose to go; and :mid good
evening to Burton awl his wife ; he was too
ill at ease to accept- Mrs Burton's invitation
to a cup of tea. He had learned more than
he desired to lean ; for be saw now that, if
they discovered Faune to be the huebaud of
• the murdered womau, itwould be im-
possible to keep Mary Claytou's name
out of the ease; it would • be Wipes -
able to shield the girl whom he loved
with all bis soul from the unmerited but
inevitable counscioueness of having been the
THE BOY PRETENDER
Whet WM France do Math Ow 'attest
Clatrueot or the Throne.
It is said that President Carnot and his
Cabinet have been worried by the question
what to do with the young Duke of Or-
leaus. Should they carry ant the /sentence
of imprisonnwist imposed upon the boy pre-
tender for the violation of thelaw forliading
hint to enter France ? Or &odd tItTy St13-
petul the sentenee, and, sending - him quietly
A MOTHER'S LONG SE#A.R01{.
wweuty veitee of -Fruitless.. Wanaleatug ISO
rind a Lest 4.11.44, • •
About twenty years ago, says a Martina,
viile (Ind.) dispatele a Inotheenamed roll_
Batiett resided with two daughters., in the:
awanipy district of •Greene County. The:
mother worked hard to olarde a living for
lietself and two sleem,htere, Maim Aim end
.aylvane. , After awhile hIery A1111: grew up- ,
and engaged as bleed •atirl for magidens.
to• the froxitien lad bint go laele to, eehool She son teIl in with a..yoaseg man rad teib.
and profit Ly the outaattanumty of srepula
lies ? According to report the latter course
is favored by the .President, while we may
a.t.altkeernfootrivegrtitsntoetotehaatteathbey •tmno.st roingsothroIez:
the Minister of the Interior, who believes
'in adhering 'to the Jacobin traditions of
They who rementher the abortive attempts
of Louis- NapWecn. at Boulogne and Stras-
burg to make good his pretensions to rule
°e'er France, will notice a marked ditlerence
between tbose demonstration§ and the act
.which sithjected the Peke of Orleaus to ar-
rest in Paris. The avowedpurpose of the
Bonapartist pretender was to overthrow the
Goveiennent of Louis Philipp.e whereas
'the letter's emeat-graudson had oslensibly no
•motive in visiting Paris except to obey the
or, to be more accurate, the gentleman who
was to be ma husband: et 'IOW TROnthii later.
He was a, hew Yorker, hut had been to
California, where he then hall valuable rrsiu< •
ing and Limiest. interests. Withia year from
the time we met we were man and wife, and
settled fieW11 111 oee 01 1140 cosiestlittle homes.
in all the West. The neve in which we liv-
ed grow rapidly into a city of importance.
My husband beeame a very wealthy man.
*Tour SODS and two. daughters were born
to us, and we were the happiest family in
inuocent cause of poor Margaret Neale's the world. I went a great deal into sewiety.
tragic death. He would have given his life My husbana hated the sevial world, but that
spare her name from the notoriety *high did not deter me. I went juet the ewe:and
now threatened it I ruled the higheet
"1 feel tom -limed. Torn, that Mr. Holmes "It had twee fifteen yealre sinee a lady, a
friend of mine, induced, me to aecompetw
her on a visit to some of her acquauttaucee
at Honolulu. At that time a trip across
the ocean was not vrhet it is flots., but
nothing flaunted, we started on the journey
end in the eotune of time reached our
destination. At Honolulu I 'met a man and
I sinned, as I have said. It was the first
crime of my life, The shame of it, the
horror of it seleed upon me, and forcing my
friend to cut short her visit, we hurried
thinks you. have succeeded, ' stud Mrs
Burton, after their visitor was gOlAe. "He
didn't like to say 50—the man laaving mace
been his friend, and having:acted as he did --
but it was plain to be seen."
"Mr Holmes is a man in a, hundred
thousand, Kate. I believe alter all, he
would be glad to see Faune get off."
"What he :Miss did •it?"
"Well, as to that," remarked her iota.
baud doubtfully, " I won't be too sure.
Whet I mean is, that be would tather See altaatatletoss the rea again.
him Proved innocentibeet guilty." • . . •-• me, hueband and children met me with
. "tiut he will be found gouty:, mill Nrg apen arms and loving kieses. But • I
Burton firmly. They both gave a few skulked. among there, a. wreteheilaraitorees
utinu•tee' sileut thnught to the question., and ; to every trust, My load of Alamo heave en
it WW1 the.Wire Wilf4 broke the mitmee with a °IV heart, 1 slimmed -soeietS aud held loY
hmgelt.a.," sigh too mo ejaculation, *4 oh paittli SW aleof from all my friends:. nly
Tom !" • 3 ..
1 80 was a prolonged misery, aud I longed
fee death. I don't know why- I didn't in
::...1\'‘...)eltill'alibteeel;diffa:rent it will be with us .11a - sore teisd ent she thread of life and set
t t
then ! Five-atleauseml—peunds 1 And Ma f we my eitaladened soul.
Holmes eaye you are certain of . ptotuotion " Throughout all this I never blamed any
liesides.h ' • • - one but myself—never until years after nay
"Kate," eonfesees1 her husleoul, "I won't retiun home, . when. I mule a ' diseoverte
deny that my Met feeling in pursuing name (di, that was worse than the bitterest
sprang . from gratitude to :Nita Heimea on misery ; it was utter damnation : I fled from.
aeemiut of all the little things be dia for home in a 'frenzy of exeitement and rage
us when Nellie—and youreelf, for that \villa, WitS utterly new to me. The friend
anattt•r—wae ailing. Flume had treatea him whom 1 had accompanied across the sta
ladle., ilea I felt a pleasure in helping to 'Yetha before now bore me company across
pay him off It was gratitude, Kate, in the the same watery waste. But it was not a
time instauee—and nothing proves better trip for *maim this time. A thirst for
that it's gratitude as pays, no matter how vengeance filled My heart. It was a mis-
sion of murder.
you go About it,"
'Without casting doubt on this excellent " Myaeal object wits not confides' to my
cloetriue, the •a-ife regarded her husband compamon nail We were Inc out at Sea. 1
with open surprise, 'Do you mean, Tom, then told her all. At first she sought to dis-
Med at the first you actually had no suspie. >no from my purpose, failing in this
ion of Mr, Panne— that you only mama to she soon fell in with me design (or seemed
next week," the detective answered, looking eest suspicion on him, in order to—have-to, at least. Sometimes I think she de -
dismayed, "because he returned to Ins satisfaction on account of Mr. Holmes?" calved ale,/
" 'I'1.+ • 't Kate There was a lad "On the dey, nay the hour, of our •arrivel
mimed to his 11.1dan'ini 41E:siros. She was:
then werkixot for a inutile in _Newberry, 04
er near the bank of White Rater. Theh• eta
was rapidly approaching the point of public
exposure, wnee the young v.-oman suddenly
disappeared, and has never since beau eeen.
by her friends..
The eitizeos instituted a search, for it was
thought for a time that she had been put one
of the way by her betrayer. On the sar4
bar near by there were itidiaations of a scut,
fle, and a uumber of tracks were plainly
visible leadieg to the water's edge. Finally
the search was abandoned and the mystery
of the unfortunate ,girl's disappear:wee re.
mained unsolved. The news fa with crush-
ing tome on the roother,und she Oceania so
diatracted with grief as to become demented
law requiring every Frenchman ea ;tame,- g She, Feat- out from her home with leer re -
the age cif twenty-one to preseut Weise' for teaunnee daughter in semreh of Meri• Ann,
lodgings at five minutes to ten."
may made a suggestion, Burton; no
auch evidence is likely to turn menow,
fear. Assuming your theory as to the time
of the murder—between a quarter past nine
and. five minutes to ten—what then?
"Ah 1" saia Burton, feeling strong now,
"He had to pass there, in the usual way, to
get to Mount Street. Now, let me tell you
two paints, Mr. Hoboes, and ask you what
you think of them. Ile was in the habit of
passing that way almost .every night; but
.neither myself, who saw him going home
often,nor the men on duty on the other side
—'who knew him by appearance equally well
—ever sea? hint go home so early before. It
was often past eleven and always past ten.
The other point is this," sanitise detective,
emphasising it by dropping his voice end
'tapping the pain of one hand with the fore
finger:of the other, "Mr. Faune did not pass
ont of the Park through the Mount Street
gate that night 1"
Holmes eves fairly startled. Before
speaking, however -,be took the locality
well info his mind. The road from Albert
Gate led in almost a straight line to the
email gate at the top of Mount Street,
pading by the fountain. About half -way
across the Park one could kayo "borne'
to the right, and got into Park Lane about
two hundred rwasto the south side of Mount
Street, through a similar small gate. Or,
bearing to the left from the fountain, one
could follow the main road and gone through
Grosvenor Gate, still further to the north
of Mount Street. A person making for this
point mighteonceivablyhavetakentheformer
course, which would not have been much
out of his way; but certainly not the road
through GroevenorGate, which would have
necessitated traversing a considerable way
back in order th reach the destination in
question.
Now, this latter, Burton informecl Frank
Holmes, was what' Claude Paiute had done
on the night of the murder. Why should
he have gone round by Grosvenor Gate,
while the gate at the top of Mount Street
was still open, as it always was up to ten
o'clock?
"'You must bear in mind, Burton"
remarked Holmes, when he had turned the
matter over in his mien, "that Mr Feline,
habitually returning: after ten o'clock, was
accustomed to leaving the Park by the
Grosvenor Gate. There would be nothing
extraordinary in his .cloing so, absent-
mindedly, smoking and thinking. From the
time which it took him to reach his lodgings,
he probably walked on past the Grosvenor
Gate, and then returned that way:"
• I3urton listened io silence, and slowly
moved his head from side to side in mild
but decided dissent. "11 won't not& water,
Mr Holmes. The constable On duty at
Grosvenor Gate saw him approach at a
quick pace from the direction, of the foun-
tain, pass through the gate, aucl turn back
th Mount Street. He.slept there that night;
next evening, be diaappeared, I started as
Soon as I. learned he had gone. I traced him
as 'far .aS Dover; after' ?ieatiu3 about there
in it—Mr. Helms knew her before Fauna at Honolulu, I veiled my face, caught up a
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did—and it wouldn't have served Filene's pistol, hailed a passing hackman, and was
prospects to be pulled up on suspicionit
4. riven straight to the business house of the
of being the murderer—even if he was din- man who had etweeked my life and wilfully
charged next day. That was it, Kate, al &mined me to a. living, loathsome death. I
iii•st ,l.,,4. :we what it has led to :I say, it's 'fairly gloatea over the prospect of a, quick
$ervice in the men •. As this law is (et nes. rheY became wanderers and entarm nal a•-
ly deelartel to be biwiiug -cm all Freee. eet •
aeus,azid as the merabers of the Orleseas
famlly, although forbidden to resale in
F'auce, ileac net beeu deprived of citizen.'
ship, it may be plausibly esentended tlmt the
young Prime del but de hie duty in trying
to enlist 118 a COMM= Soldier.
There is no doubt that the course taken
by the boy pretender platied the existing hehtelt from day to day and them yaw warmer
theversamenthuntawkwardpreshesiuteut. Hee, mail her, de.aguter, young when, they started!:
his offer to serve itt the ranks lava21apte1, ont, hir, the 4illte31'44nee .011-raing we,t1 up in°
be .would probably have acquired atisaig yt'ars and wears aearer,-ornaral hag:4i
hold upon the good will and confidence of 1,11,7 have trf'AaPed Over hnere. Oweue
the mass:es of the people. Should he, set tile -:'flttlatotisTallittilasyite0t°,1e1:,tisi:V.4;12tiet Pleortitl:
other hand, be herehly punishea for wishing
to Share the lterdshinn af the elnunion soh f:uratillelemy tilo,os.s,etairet:nuktu. (.1TN)vt,11,euihrstateildttreesrtoatreseipoi
ltie treetment might provoke an. out -
of winter moth their ragged eh:thing wet,
burst of popular .sympatity, The Govern.
ment 1445 e.retely euelnated the Duke of If.hirersg.1.1 Ttesiietslteue.k„lindi,reenr.al vtittitnelrilenig tsrimtlirt
Anomie from the operation of the law exilina
ry mare/ice 011tfilay last when
his family front France, on 11140 1110814(1 that
he had rouoiacently .eontributed to the .en•the 114,11.01',*Hest, fawn exlmenne in her
comagenteut of Fronelt literature bv .. 3
Int,7 pft a U(4 year, in we ems* mart of Owen musty -
of the palate and domain of Chantilly te the ri,f:41aughtT, y1rnmle,. will wow reuteire
French Academy. Could. it afford tont less "':411 griend% aen home Qad c.tase
generously toward his great•nephew, who'r,ber wunierhy,
had refused to exempt himself filen the eon. I saitt narlAnteas :t nhet• la' aided th'et onte
ficription which presses heavily me the setioleiNtt.,aillialnt,•,•ahgt-itirti.• 8211,113,:etiti,laltvtertn 0";
hotly. tlw French nation 1
Then, again, the outcome of last Sunday's' '1' (101.118 death ih"1 tatoal"' ;.•-eath fawn 1having
eleCtions renders it questionable whether the killed tia; 41cargliter On the hat& 44 the river.
present Ministers are awing enough to rink and in have secaettai her belly in the quick.
-
exciting popular diemprovel hy nalietina 'lauds. • .a
imprisoranent on a young man whose aolia
ostensible otfeuee is a Will ingsfess to serve hie.
eountry in the ranke. -Tile leprous mad Yin.'
gratitucleespays ; alevssen fix ehat in Nellie's' revenge.
lifelong eearelt for the lost Due. .it first
she would go fosse house te Immo hquirium
for heriost daughter, and she would vieit
furniture 4 toms luta underteking establiela
ments and request to he allowed to look,
into the coffins, in order to satisfy bereelt•
that her daughter was not bid aeay .111 Onc,
ni the caskets. Thus did they vent/um:the'
mind." " I sprang from the cal) at the door, and,
(TO BB CONTINVBD.) hurrying into the house, milled, aloud for my
victim, The place was changed. The faces
were new. Liman came running after me,
asking who I wanted.. I breathed the eurs-
ed name. At its mention the man seemed.
thunderstruck. Him r he cried; why he
fled the country long ago, to escape Molokai.
He was hist heard of in Italy."
"They told llie that night at the hotel
that I had swooned and remained unconsci-
ous for hours. .411 the next day I lady in bed,
half oblivious of all about me. When eight
came my scattered senses returned, and,
taking advantage of a short absence of my
friend., I hastily dressed myself and hurried
from the hotel. I left a note for my friend,
saying:
To -morrow I shall be at Molokai. Fate
has damned inc and there is BO escape from
the harsh decree. I must suffer for my sin.
Invent anfstory which seems plausible. Say
that I have gone to Japan—anywhere, but
let no living soul know what has been the
fate of yours trustingly, —.11
"Ansi so," concluded the poor woman,
"1 suppose I am the only inmate of this
terrible place who diclnot have to be dragged
here by the authorities. I came of my own.
will. Have I regretted. it ? Look around you
and you have my answer."
Freemasonry at a Drug Store.
Scene: Chemist's shop in a temperance
town out West, where, among other good
things, "soda water" is retailed, 111 pretty
considerable quantities. Enter young man,
who inquires if there is a vacancy for an as-
sistant.
"Have you the requisite knowledge and
experience ?" was the proprietor's first ques-
tion as he drew the applicant aside.
"I think .1 may safely say I have,» the
young man answered in an undertone.
"Been long in the business ?"
"Three years."
" Where ?"
" In Milwaukee."
"Humph ;what would you do if a custom-
er gave a nod of the head as he Went up to
the soda fountain'2"
"Let him have good old corn -brandy and
soda."
A couple of short nods and alclack of
the fatigue?"
. "Fill the glass half full of Jamaica rum."
" Suppose somebody asks for banana syrup
with his fore -finger and thumb stuck in his
left waistcoat pocket ? '
"He means cognac wIth ginger.
"Three nods while pointing with his
thumb over the left shoulder? '
"01(1 Holland gin., and the same for his
friends behind hint."
" If somebody says •'Hudson,' and expecto-
rates to the left ? ' •
" Old corn, with peppermint and worm-
wood." • .• ,
"Removes the quid from his mouth with
his left hand ?" • , • •
"Hand -made sour mash." •
" Very good; , that will. do. You can
start to -morrow. If anything out of the
common is wanted—you'll find all - these
things in our cellar. You see, we have to
be very careful to making up our prescrip-
tions, as people's lives are at stalte.
Wanted an Old Man.
"I want to employ e man to eaw wood,"
said an old farmer at an employment agcncy.
"All right," responded an agent. 4 e
have an able-bodied young men who is loolt.
ing for just such a 'situation, and—"
"But, I don't want a young man," inter-
rupted the farmer. "I want a man about
ninety-seven years old. 1 have read in the
papers about these old fellows sawing a cord
of wood before breakfast, and it usually
takes a young num all day to perform the
job."
The undertaker's fevorite exercise is box -
foe a day 00 80, I found liod returned ing.
A White Colony in Afrioa.
Mr. Zachrissen, who is to lead the Swedish
expedition to Central Africa, ce-peets toreake
the Brat experiment in the way of planting a
white colony in the far interior of the Dark
°outbid. 113) is said to have contracts with
100 Swedish artisans who neve agreed to start
with him in Maynext for Victoria Nyanza.
A' few years ago such an expedition would
certainly have involved tragical conse-
quences. and its prospects to -day are by
no, means brilliant. The project, however,
is not quite so foolhardy as it would have
been before white men knew its muehas they
do BOW ebout the best means of keeping their
health. It would have boon regarded as
impossible a few years ago for Stanley to
safely leadfive white men clearacross Africa,
as he has just done, or for missionaries to be
thriving like Mackay, on Victoria Nyanza
after a dozen years' residence, But, after all,
these Swedish workmen would be better off
at home.
A Gentle Hint.
Book Agent—Here is that book, ataearn,
"How to Play the Piano." ,
Lady of the klouse—What book? I didn't
order any book.
" Notn, but the neighbors did., and they
told me to bring it to you."
Tomlet,--"I see that they ate making
cloth out of glass." Bowet—"For opera
dresses aucl the ballet, I imagine."
A 11,,TRETIQ ,9.51EL
diettve PolieY "f M. emstan9 bad l''''''" te"- The .Gtri. Into Wanted to are Her Meer
eently exemplified in the wilt deaale expulaion 1
of lioulaugist menden:: from their seats in Printed 'Vetere she Died.
the present 'Chamber of Deputies. The vela A rernantie little etory wee tarld a few
days ,,r.,, z•avs the Xew Ytlit 1:. .1.:,;, .,:un,,
lc. a, temeut..aree see: a.f t' 1;4"C. 3114 if"St.,
t " ' . *... . -.
ItilOWn ina-.4a-4.!ii, hi t tes f..,..1414.1. " A IIIVAS1.-
Ma ',A-CAWF. ii4...... 7.• •.'.'.'.1,1k. " ik:Shf.Tt stoey of
onaiisleroble neent irel been sulonitted to.,
41401 preneuucea 1111tematty by tht• people
W1.18 V.6441104' Of Ods high.
wied perfi 'Immo. Ail 1 ea salami t expell-
ed lionlangists were re-elected, and what Wki
repeeielly eapidasott, wen' matotatiealit
errondiroiementa lielongiag to the lattirt. the orteateint, by a t (Aug waman ao.•
inent 41f the :Mite wero somelly ioertaaatl. bumf: S' ns ar to fame. mei had 1-44% et,
With math l't lesson before the eyee of the , etif tad tool pa',I :4T. It WaS 11101 41\4a\ WW1
And e101ni`nt. (,:vme reeommended by Pres(. turn OiAtn,(N A 8)4111.thre 44:!1- 11801.x MAW ;A,.
dent Came Iasi better be subetituteal for letter mem tee amnia tem esaing nodes -ay
the .isicrabin treelition of pitiless severity, . lathe et, em might me 1,:e printed eees, but
Tide shrewd MONT 011 the part of the 3 e'ritee3n1 sie reesert fer the regimen Two
to the eladme of the old montarelay should be Oneness weet am anal then came a '(4111(1considered in counectien with hie fatle rtgletter written in the same hand, hut its
unetptivoeal adoption of the principle oflweaker ;ma iniutt•r ehareeters, ate if the
universal suffrage. The plebiseite is now a
fundamental feature of the Orleanist as well
as of the Bonapartist progranune. Evi-
dently the Count of Paris nas sense cantata
to see, and has taught his son to see, that the
day hes gone lm when monarchy could be
restored by violence in 1 mace.
If over 0, descendant of Louis Philippe is mad last piece. I have -eared so much for A
1
allowed to reign in Framer, it 111111)0 beceuse I that 1 think I could be happier in dying if I.
the French people are eonvineed that mon- might see it in print before I go.'
;trolly is not only compatible with liberty " The magaaine for the coining mooth was'
but, perhaps, ill the present complicated and hound,' so nothiug (multi be done with that.
Tirard (atbieet it would seem thet the )ni14.1 ot sweepted amnia. to le ttetel wlaen ita
hand that 1:41 the pen were eatreely able'
to gnats: it, Thai lour asktel again that
the maim might he Flutetl mei if peasilde.
My pleseician tells; nie,' it Paid, • that I eap
lfre but n fee, 1i0410141 at the farthest. I'
bud hoped to live to do a great &sal ot good.
work of this kind, but you Lave my first
threatening eondition of Europe, productive
of more security by assuring an increased
facility of forming useful and stable alliances
with foreign powers.
The sheets for the seemedmnth were print-
ed end. ready for binding, and the matter
Lor the third. magazine was well under way..
We
held a short teesultatiom the result of
Which was that the story was set up, anti
the sheets containing it sulstituted for eer-
Balloon Lxperiments in India. min sheets in the magazine for the second
The military authorities in India are month. It WAS 110818811 matter to make the
taking great interest in the series of explefrii,.-
tehheugleettseorla(tife inthaInhkesdawye, treneet
ments now in course of being made by
,
Percival Spencer in Central India. It has Young tdvls who died shortly afterward
hitherto been supposed that the Mont,golfier iiiore than paid us."'
A Modem Romance of the East.
A Greek merchant of Alexandria in Egypte
who made a great deal of money, unable ter
return persoeally to his eoantry, but infante
upon choosing a Grecian maiden fawfifeeseifer ,
writes to his correspondent in Coriath at the'
bottom of his usual buisness letter "Fineffy
I request yo -a to remit me, litt returning
steamer, a young lady who might feel in-
clined to 'become my wife. She needf not .
be in possession of any money, with wain
I am sufficiently blessed, but a good repast: -
tion, of the age of 24 or 25 e respectabIe '
family, good looks, health and temper, and.
middle-sized figure. If the lady will Tering
inc the enclosed note with your kina accept -
mice you rimy feel assured that Ishall honor
the same and make the bearer my wife.
Although somewhat astonished at tate she
gulat order of his Alexandria correspraiclhot.
the merchant of Corinth, as a good buisneaa;
man, thought best to fill it like any other -
receiver' from so reliable a customer, and to,
send the. merchandise demanded at a short
notice. Having found a lady possessing thn
required qualities, and to- transmit
with the accepted check of her unknown:
countryman her hand and heart, the Corin-
thian took her aboard the next steamer going:
time he notified his friend by telegraph of.
tthoithe country of the Pharaohs. At the same,
1SMS80e0in°11aSS a the l) bmoeantt nehore cl in the harbor
of Alexandria the matrinionious •Greek boards,
ed it to hear himself called by name aaul.see
a pretty young damsel Stepping up to him,,
saying: "I have a cheek smiled by you and
hope you will duly honor Ma" "ITever yet a,
note of mine hae gone to protest," replied.
the blushing groom, "ancl I shall not pennit
this to happen to the one you held. I shall be
happy if 111 compensation you will honor. me.
wirfyoctlilirighlintudl‘a.'t'er the note was redeemeir
and the payer a happy husband. •
or Ifot-Mo nalloon is impracticable for all
tropical climates, and if so, ballooning for
war purposes must necessarily be impossible
in places where coal- gas is 'unobtainable.
This theory was triumphantly dispelled 011
the 13th of the present month, when Mr.
Spencer made a successful ascent in his
patent asbestos balloon at Secunderabad in
presence of the erarrison and a large crowd
of European and native spectators. The in -
&Mon .was effected by burning methylated
spirit inside the balloon, which was held in
place by twenty-five soldiers of the Bedford
Regimeut until the word was given to "let
go." After rising to a considerable height,
the term:tut descended by means of his
parachute, aud was warmly congratulated
on the success of his venture, it being con-
sidered that its value was greatly enhanced.
by the fact that it was achieved in a sultry
climate and in a condition of great rarity of
the air, the spot of the ascent being over
2,000 feet above the bevel of the sea.
The Alligator's Nests.
Alligators' nests resemble haycocks more
than anything else to which they can be com-
pared. They average about four feet in
height, end about five feet in diameter, and
are constructed. of grasses amd herbage. First
the mother 'gator deposits one layer of eggs
011 a floor of mortar, and lievieg covered this
with a steattua of nitta aud herbage about
eight inches thick, lays another set of eggs
upon that, 611d SO 011 to the top, there being
commonly from 100 to 200 eggs in a nest.
With their tails they thee beat down the tall
grass and weeds, to prevent the approach of
unseen enemies. The female watches her
eggs until they are hatched by the heat of
the sun, and then takes her brood under her
own care, defending them and providieg for
their subsistence. De Lutzemburg, of New
Orleans, once packed one of these nests for
shipment to St Petersburg, but they hatched
out before they were started on the long
voyage, ansi were kept about the doctor's
premises'running all over the house, up and
down stairs, whinning like young poppies.
Mated. Minds
" I eau tell yo11 one thing," said Mr,
Fizzgig, with emphasis 'when 1 marry it
veout be any 'higher ednation' girl, My wife
won't knew Lean."
"No ," seta Edgerly, looking at him at-
tentively, "1101 beans."
Cautious.
" Parish is very much in love with tha-i,
girl."
"Why doesn't he inarior her ?"
" He bas his misgivings as to whether she
is able to support him."
An Opinion.
"Has Bronson.any head ?"
on his shoulders he calls a head. I gimes it'St
a g0"Well,od oiie_hehheahas
oa ;old° be: I:ye to- fs 11,11 aasisre t