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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-5-6, Page 6FREA{ CHAPTER III, upraxwindow to look out uporc the night; they checked Oeurthope's devenward rush, at his It weer nuo't this fantastio oouple tbat Courtlecipe opened the, shutters were leteevY wooden slautters obaspea but abolge's voice. with an Iron clasp, A. French window "'Keep atilt I" she cried, in short, b e could also operto outside that a tera- etrong accents of command. Ellie, becoming aware of his move- porary double window N,Vi..s fixed in the ment, sltrieked a,gain. catement with light books et be fourlsta Courtbope. now defiaat and angrYe , 'corners. The wind wee still blustering vtturin rtottvzadrs ala%str.,Ii..,Bui.,..vdetetteenalt.y, about the lonely hQiSa, and, e,fter ea- reflected. that her interest could not aminiog the twilight of the snow-olad suffer much by delay, for the thief, if he ;mow wa,s still falling. He thought be teat escaped, could melee but small speechitie tbe drifting swam over roads wch 'night attentively. he perceived could almost see the drifts rising bigh-er liendg.to nnear place of escape or hid - o C 1 lideerleid taelleeteosssauroyb, manzedicie Tvaas he sntcoal; orxwardly rether thaa a valiant sone Oceirthope, when hat ftrst eagerness to ------------ seek ?eased off, was comforted by re. - behind her husband with the courage of fleetingcold that, had. he himself been free. . it whave bone futile tor him t o at - against the outbuildings. lt Was the judge's daughter whieh Two large barns. etoed behind the Courthope now mar in Madge—the de- thsire te estbmate dence, house; from ese he juevithe fearless deed tbat the • ludgmient. fields around Were farmed. "'We took you in. last night, a It was ectosidero.ttoos concernitig the stranger; and now we have been Pit of leis journey the next daY robbed, which never happened before 'which /ooth him look out, mutate.° in all our lives My sister says it was met t you she saw io 'our room. Ae soon as I a reetless curimity regarding every de- could get the ca.ndle lit I found you tail of also menage whom young rale- lielereatnd jrques Mori mys tthhart you n tress was at ooze so childlike and. so wo"ueld tiaaeicaley?,Oiresweal,xlee Dalt :nom, a Witat queenlike. Wane lookine otet be had ietbe use of saying that you are not a arbat seemed a curious hellucieation of robber ?" a dara figure etaading for a lemmata on etaliele made another defiant etatement the top of tbe deep .snow. As he looked Tblelg9iNsrinhavrtrgstvoenn osni miter sintolnry. and in more steadily the figure disappeared. French to, Morin; to Courthope 'be All the tlnes t he lod chaotic to the sight, because of the sPeke agein he heeler senteacee, reiter- `ouiawhale oleewere anatnnert' nijlei. Inegelbe'91raasviai.lcrlearfigen'Tlin darkaess and. the drifting snow and the had not the same straightforward air of ligat, whiell was behind hiriethimmer- emtanand. He beamn to hope that he might persuade her, and then, dis- ing upon the pane. If half -a -dozen covered suddenly that she lied been apparitions had. passed in the dine and. d 1 e iberately rtveting his attent len while wairling atmospbere of the yards, he the commaiad which he had not under - would have supposed that they were stood wasthbeing obeyed. A noose of shadows formed by the beams of his rolte was. rown round bis elms and instontly tightened; with a nneiblene,ss lamp. belay interrupted Were and there evbich be Ited ne• exneeted Muria by the eddyiug SAWN' where the wind knotted it fast. Courthope turned atirled it matt (lamely. He did not NivirrelY; for a moment he struggled dose his shutters, be even left his inner mr(f,rtiinalflrehis iftionrcegi.enbtaerrLigigtrn. solltral window partially open. becauee, unac- they both staggered and reeled to the coetopted to a Move, be felt oppressed foot of thestair. At leis violence the by ite beat, •wboa he tamer harateit yokes of the Morin wcenen, eoined by teat of Eliz, were lifted in such wild down. b.lept deeply, as men sleep L terror that a fen- moments weresurra after days among stew -fields, when a cleat to beam Courthop* to reason. He sense of entire security is the lethargic. %lake to Madge with haughty coup. - amuse. brain's lullaby. "Tell him to untie this rope at once. He was +eonscious first of a dream in Tbere is some villain about the house which the slaters experienced some wbo may do you the greatest injury; S°IvIrerarf %c14 eff take rpm me the iraminent danger, ; he heard shrieks pa piercing the niglit. ale woke to feel Madame, Moerinng, seeing the prisoner snow and wind driving upon his face eecurect hastened with her lamp toleis to realize a halfavalciag impression. hadrom- Madge, feeling herself serer now, that ta xna.n had passed through bis came a little way down the etaix with -----lataxa, to know that the screams of a her candle. "How can we tell what you woman's voice were a reality. as he would do next?" she asked. "And I have the bousehold to protect; it isnot sprang for his olothes lee saw that the for myself that I an afraid." window was wide open, the whole The anger that he had felt toward her frame of the outer double glass having died out nuddenly. been removed, but the screams of terror It was not for herself that shelves be beard were within the house. Open- afraid! She stoat a few steps above ing the door tootbe Mrk hall he ran. ,guided by the sound, to the foot of the staire,ase which the girls hail ascended, then up its long straight ascent. He took its first steps in a bound, but, as his brain became more perfectly awake, confusion of thought, wonder, a. cer- tain timidity becauae now the scream- ing had. ceased, caused him, to slacken Ins pace. He was thus hesitating in the clarkness when he found himself con- fronted by Madge King. She stood majestic In grey -woollen gown, candle in hand, and her dark eye blazed upon him in terror, wrath and indignation. It seemed for a moment that she could not speak; some movement pass- ed over the vette sweep of her throat and the full dimpling lips, and then,— "Go down!" She would have spoken to a dog with the saa:ae authority, but never with such contemptuous wrath. "Go down at once.' How dare you?" Abashed knowing not what he ralaht have done to offend, Courthope fell back a !deo against the wall of the staircase. From within the room Eaz eried. "Is be. there? Come in and look the door, Madge, Or hell kill you 1" The voice ebarp, high with terror. rose at the end, end burst into one of those piercing shrieks whkh seemed to fill the night, as thtx voices of some sma.11 insects have the power to make the welkin ring in response. Before Courthope could find a word to utter another light was thrawa up- on him from a lamp at the foot of the stair. It was hold by Jack Moria, grey- haired., stooping, dogged. The Morin family—man, wife. and daughter—were huddling close together. They, too were all looking at lam not with the wrath and contempt to which Madge had risen, but with cunning desire for revenge, mingled with the cringing of fear. There was a minute's hush, too srtone- for expression, itt which each experienced more intensely the shook ot the mysterious alarm. It was Madge who broke the silence, Her voice rang clear, although vibrat- ing. STaeques Morin, he came into our room to rob!" She pointed at Court - hope. The thin yoke a Elk' came in pierc- ing parenthesis: "I saw himin the closet, and when I screamed he ran." Madge began again. aTacque.s Marin, what pert of the Muse is open? Ifeel the wind." All the time Madge kept her eyes upon Courthope, as upori some wild animal whose spring she hoped to keep at bay. That she should appeal to this dull, dogged French servant for protection against him, who only desired to risk hie lifeto serve her, was knowledge of such intense vexation that C!ourthope could atilt field 310 word, and her fixed look of wrath did actually keephian at bay. It took from him, by some sheer physical power which hie did net under- stood, the courage with vebleh he would have faced a bundred Morins. Wbein jananes Morin begari to speak, hiswife and daughter took courage and spoke also; a babel of French, words, angry, terrified, arose from the group, whom grey night-clothes shaken by their gesticulations, gave there a half - frenzied o.ppearence. In the midst of their talking Court - hope epoke to Madge at last. •lren up to protect you when I heard screams; I did not wake till you screamed- Some one bas entered the house. He has en- tered by a window in my room; I found it epee." With his own words the sieuation be - mem clear to him. Ile saw that, he must hunt for the. housebreaker, He began to dcqcsad the taita Tlee IVIorin girl screamed and ranhie sides. It was a girl's device; he Merin, producing it gun from behind bis made no complaint, lock, pointed it at Courthope, and Itseemed that 'Morita had DO thought madame, holding the lamp squared up of following the thief ; hc fettlifelness tempt .suoli a quest while darkness lay over the land in which he was a (stranger. He was allowed to rt on the settle tbe large inner kitchen, seourelY locked in, and so near Marin's room that hie movements could be overheard. There, still la bonds, he spent the rest of the elight, CHARTER IV. When the Maxch morning shone clear mad white through the still fall- in,g snow, and the Morins began to bostle about their work for the day, the mental atramphere in the kitchen seemed to have lost something, of the excited alarm, that had prevailed to the night. Courthope arose; the gar- ments watch be had donned io the night with frantic speed clothed but did not adorn him; he knew that he Two women stood on the deck of a must presente. wild liappearance, and. great ooean liner and were plainly ale the domestic clothes -me bound round and round his arras, prevented him sorbed in the emotions of a first part - from so much as pushing baca the dog. One of them was gray-haired and lookes of hair wbith straggledepon bis highbred, and the girl whe stood by brow. He woo rendered upon the whale. her was her daughter beyond a doubt. helpless; however murderous might be hie heart, a tolerably safe owl:ea/lion. There seemed no difference between He interested himself by considering them beyond the twenty-five years that how Samson -like he could be in break- separated them. in age. Both were beg the cords,. or, even tied, how vig- il be crying quietly. The girl held a bunch orously he could kick Morin, were not a girl's prisoner, He re- of flowers in one band. From a dist-. fleeted with no smn,11 admiration upon enee a party of their friends watohed the quiok resource end decision that them for a moment:, and then turning ale had displayed; how, in spite of her almost callalike fres:lawns, she had be- away pointedly ignored the scene which* guiled bun into turning his Jamie to it seemed a violation of confidence to the noose when a supposed necessityanterrunt, The mother, oceup r'talkingbow pressed her. He meditated for a falv ;tones had been ohleiedn in minutes upon other girls for whom he fl bad experienced a, more or less par- giving the girl advice as to her con- tieular admiration, and it seemed to duct an the trip andher duties to the him that the characters of these dam- - friends who were to chaperon her. It eels became wan and insipid by com- parison. He began to he. have a, prescenwas a first parting between mother ment tbat Love was now about to and daughter. Tbe girl had to observe 'strike in earnest upon the harp of his a great many rules, which would nev- life. hut he could not think thatthe er have troubled ane not of the rioli circumstances of this Present attrac- tion were propitious. 'What could he and prominent. my to this go -1, so adorably strong- , TM mother had tenderly gone minded to coneinee her of his elaim a raan lend to • tlerougn it list of suggestions and the be again, treated as a brothers? Letters? He bed offered girl had asteped to them with her arm them to her last night, and she bad about her mother's neck. The first bel replied that any one could write let- sounded and warned the mother tbat ters. Should he ehow that helms not little time' was left, penniless? She might tell him in the "A.nd dearest Celia," she said as the same tone that a was wealth in -gotten, gin drew closer to her, "the. most It un- 'WtixS no doubt her very ignorance portent thing of aa I haven't tole you of tbe world tbat, when summon had yet. You are going to Europe for the once occurred, mede her reject as un- first time, and you won't have me near important these evidences of his re- You. 'There are ,ots of things that seectability, but be had no power to girl has to think about, ante I don't give her the ayes of experience. want you to forget this one. It shows These thoughts tormented him ashe more painly than anything else Iknow stoodlookinee out of the windowat the of the real traveller's spirit. To pm- ever-inereaang volume of the snow. sess it shows that you have not travel - How long would he be detained a pris- Led in vain, but have learned something ant,r in this house,and, when the roads or the broad views that travell1 brings. were free, hew oould he find for Madge You must never fail to find out in eacth any absolute, proof of his innooence? place what has been seen by the people The track of the midnight thief was you ma.y happen to meat—only the sort lent forever in the maw.; if he had of people yot would meet at home, my dear; remember that. If they have om- itted something that you have seen, don't fail to say that really, the town is scarcely woreh avisiting unless one seas that particular object. You. should say it, dearest, with some show of re- gret, such as "Now, that's too bad," or, "I'm really sorry that you, didn't .hap- pen to see it." But don't fail to be de- EXETER TIMBS Before he tom:lied it he Imard. Madge sob .9.ad ;whisper •ogain; "I was so happy, father; I thought it woe such tun, he had. mem. I like gentlemefl. and we never, ne-ver see any excspe the ones that come out of hooks." To Courthope it suddenly seemed that the whole universe must have ben ocoupied with purpose to bring him here ea order to put an end to her gloone and, flood heelife with sunshine; the universe could not be foiled in its attempt. Young loge ergue,s from efe feet to cause, an,d so limitless seemed tbe strength of his sentiment that the simplicity of her millet and the sus- ceptibility of her girlhood were to WM like, some epic poem which names mein to passion and strong deeds. Ig- nominiously !Aetna as he was, leis heart lightened; all daelet of his mis- sion to love her and its ultimate sue - ems passed. from bine. Be turned the hen:die and pushed the door half open. (To be Continued.) • THE GOLDEN RULE OF TRAVEL. hira, her IOUs candle flasbing as rays succeeded in, escaping as mysteriously itno the darkness of the upper and as he had come—bat here Courthope'si lower hellsznade walls end balustro.des relad refused again to enter upon the seem vast by its fackeriag impotence Problem ef the fiend -like enemy and to oust tee darks. Surely this girl the (impassable snowdelds which he towering ixt lacer sweeping robe and the hams of darkneas he had already queenly pose, woo made to be loied. of given up, perceiving the fertility of its men and gods! Hero, carrying her speoulation until further facts were vee a taper en the temple recesses, be- . fore ever Leender bad crossed the wave, acorthope strolled through the cided about it. If they're been to Pans could n,ot have had a larger or more roams, theedoors of which were now and omitted the catacombs, say that of noble form, a. more noble and lovely open. Morin permitted this sc,ant lib- ail the things in Paris the eatacombs face. erty chiefly, the prisoner thought, be- are quite the most interesting. If Well, if elle clime to tie his arms he came of a twholpeatue fear of being they've been ia Nuremberg and missed would have preferred to have them. tied, kicked. Ia the libraxy at the cind of the Rose Garden, toil them that there were it ma: for the maddening thought the drewbag-room be found amuse- is nothing eae in Nuremberg half so theta:Imrc miscreants than one might be meet in reading the Mks of the books interesting. When they have missed within reach of her, and that they dawn 0115 long shelf and up anotber. the green vaults in Dresden assure them hold an easy erey. access had. an, interest for him. Three Every book to which IVIadge had bad that of ail the city offers nothing else is 'half so beautiful. 'You cant easily would, if skilled, find. the whole house - Madame Marin came back from. the cases were filled witb books of la -w learn from these few exemples just how roora with the open window, making and history: there vras but one from to act about every p.ace. I3ut, my proolematidal 111 the n1Crit eXcited et -birth the books bad of late been. free dear, remember this, say it to them as French. gamely taken. It was filled with ro- qulekly as you possibly can. hope of of Madge. =nee and poetry, nothing so la.te as e ntentury, I wouldn't stand tbat with you far c wise they'll say it to you, and, my child, thmiddle ot the peese "What do they say?" asked Court - The Morin girl was following close to nothing that had not some claim upon educated readers. and Yet it was5. away from me in Europe. You'll re - her mother, and Jacques Merin was • member, now, darling, what Pve told eagerly discussing their information. Madge passed Courthope in silence. They all went to the window to see; Courthope, fallowing in the most ab- sent helplessness, trailing the end of his binding -cord behind him, brought Lt) the rear of the tittle procession. Madge walked straight on into his room, where Maclaine Morin was again • tin st rest. opeamg the window -shutters. seemed, other companionehip had not „ • . To ilnok of Celia going away like been provided. "They say," said Madge to Courthope that " said the weeping raother to her At length Courthope wealized that . • ,,, that he is gone again ; they saw his ' one book which he =emit,. ausband. I don't me how we ever that you have had an aceomplice, and. ahem waa Morin. deuglaer was dustaig in the could bave corals -Med to it. But I gave her ea the good advioe she needed. snow -shoe tracks." desired to take fram. the sbelf: The He. begged her to make sure thatthe room, man was gone. to let him took at th,e andeewith soine blandishments, sides Celia is a sensible girl, and I he sueceeded in persuadin.g her .to lay think she'll do what I told her tracks himself a,nd then to searehlhe house thoroughly. Outside the window it open upon the table where he could, perose it To his great amusement he the Yonne chaotio sweep and whirl of the atmosphere prevailed. It was dif- observed that she was very •careful not Li tho came within. a yard or two of him, y co ec ion, Upon e r you? Good -by. of the upper shelf some one, perhaps I the dead father in, his invalid days, For a moment the mother and child , were wrapped in a close embrace; then motto that is aim that of the British the ' the gang sent the visitors huirrying had carved a matto with a knife. down the gangp:ank. The ship moved arms. It might have been. done out of slowly out into the middle of the stream, meae patriotism; it might have bad and as it turned to . go down the bay reaerenee to this legacy of books left .. t the had 'd f h a the parties on the pier walked toward cult, even holding a. lantern ootside, darting hack when he approached, eel - to see, but they did see that a. track d had come up to the window and again ently thinking that the opening of turned from it. After that they all the book might be arose to attack her searched the house, Oourthope allow- by a sudden. spring. At first the curl- ed to be thus of the company, appar- ous consciousness gi. mimed by this ettaly because he could thus be watched. damsel's awk ward gambols of fear so absorbed him that he cauld not fix The thief of the night had come and . his attention upon the book; flashes of ree , some ea ver ansi jewellery mr le amusement and of grave annoyance had been stored in a oloset aloining chased themselves throegh his mind the bedroom of the sisters taken. been like sunshine end shadow over xaoun- tains on a showery day; he knew not Courthope.understood very little of which was the more rational mood. the talk that went on. At length, to his great relief Madge gave her full attentioai to him in parley. "Won't you believe. that I know nothing whatever of the doings of this sneak -thief?" Same of her intense emiteraent had passed away, succeeded by distress, dis- couragement, and perthaps perplexity, but that last she did not 121C014389 to him. She leaned against the wall as she lis- tened to him with her white fame. "We never took in any one we didn't know- anything about before, and we never were robbed before." She added, "We treated you kindly; how could you bave clone it? If you did it"—his heart leaped. at the "if" as at a beam of suashineon a rainy day --"you must bave knoWn all about us, al- though I can't flank blow; you must have kaovvn where we kept things, and that ma.mxaa had taken our other man- servant away. You must have brought your accomplice to hide tn the barn and do the work while you played the gee:tam-mut That is w -hat JacqueelVlor- is says; he says no one but a child would have taken you In as I did, and that you might have murdered us all. They are very angry with me." There wa.s amnia iin her manner; a fewwercls would be ealdlauglatily, as tcy some one not worthy of her notice, and then again a few worde as to a friend. He saw tbat this conflict of her mind was increasing as she stood face to face with him., eine with that contala- tion, he submitted at her request, to be mere securely bound—the rope twisted round and round, binding blearms to Then., etteraptine the book again, and ternirg each leaf with a gagd deal of contortion and ellent, he became ab- sorbed. re was the "Letters of a Por- tuguese Nun," caul in the astonishment of its perusal he forgot the misfortun.e, that had befallen the household, 9,nd his awn discomfort and. ignominy. The Moria girl had left him in the room, shutting the door. ,Azt hoer paseed—it might have been abou•t nine of the clock—when Court - hope began to be raised from his ab- sorption in the book by a sound in the next room. It was a low, uncertain sound, but evidetala that of sobbing and tears. Pe slopped, listened; his he,art was wrong with pity. It was not the sheep little Eliz whocried like thet 1 He knie•w- such sobs did not come from the stormy ena uncontrolled. bosoms of the Female servants. Ha was convinced that it was Madge who was weeping, that she was he the long drawing -room, within which he had heard ho footfhll that morniog. Hie went nearer the door. His ex-. cited desire was to offer her some sym- pathy, to comfort, or if possibla to help, became intolerable. So con - selves was he of a 'common, interest between theta that uot for a moment did the cense of prying enter his mind. He heard then a few whispered words: "Father, ob, father, we were so happy with heat it is almost the Daly time that we have been quite happy since you went away." The, sense of the broken whispers came, taxday to Vourthope's under- stan,ding throagh the smothering door. The haitelle at the door was on a level with the ha,nels that ware bound to his sides; lie turned himself ,in ceder to bring his fingers near it. COMBAT WITH A TIGER A of a ry on the l'art ofan::hdlan Soldier. Russian limiters are said to look upon a combat single handed with a bear as only an cyrdinary experience. It is doubtful, horwever, if nain,y in- stances of a man attacking a tiger, armed with a sword only, can be SOME NOVEL INVENTIONS, RECENTPATENTS ON FREAK CLOCKS AND WATCHES. Most Striking Novelties Turned Out by In. vontors of Thnepteces--They ere Made TO Do Everything But Use the Englisb Language. WO friults of modern invention gen- are more fascinating titan hundreds of (watches arid clocks recently pa- teated. Jodging from the claims of inventors, timepieces may now ke charged with %efficient potential ener- gy to give them almost perpetual life. fn. tale strictly modern clock the coil spring is replaced. ,by an electric, hy- draulic, or pn,eurnatie motor, One of the latest ideas pateated the other daY by a Siwiss inventor is a,n electric watch which may be made lam- imuas at night. The weerm carries a convenient portable battery in his waistcoat picket, 011 one side. while the watch occupies the carresponding oppo- site poriket. Imbedded the connect- ing gold, ehabe is an insulated wire welch coaducte the clement. Tbe ar- ena1 is made oamplete when. an attach- ment in a loaleet is compressed. Be- hind the translucent dial is it minute incandescent lamp, wbicle shines bright- ly anA shows the, relative position of the hands and graduations on the face. An. Englishman lately patented a clock which may be Ea attached to the arm of a gas beackee as to have its 'lace and hands visible at all hours of the night to any one lying in bed. The case containing the works fits in the bracket and. Jae dial is raised above the case so as to stand unobstructed be - observer. A similar attachment is tween, the flame, and. the eye of tbe acompoeite globe aadclook which con- veniently fag Over the gas jet. The works rotate on. a ring which grasps the globe, graduated with the hours of the day and fraction thereof. A sta- astimatherYgilloabendtporaivnetlas complete revolution. every twelve hou.rs. taoboueatc,ragarkiactungatoionne A similar larap attaohment. may be fitted to the btub of the hour bend of an ordinary clock, extended for the purpose. When. used with the lamp at- tachment the clock is turned. on its back. Several recent potents are for clocks vrhich may be fitted to the gas brac- ket and. which will Turor THO GAS ON a.n.d light it by ethane speaks or per- coasioa cap, or extinguish it, at any desired hour. Thus Mrs. Jones ratty re- aulate this convenience so that the gas will learn until, say, midnight. It Mr. Tones COnleS in later he will not be blamed for itioreasing the gas bill. In The popiLs in. Mexioan schools who saucepan of water to bod. altered a hthise nibraotrianhabgy ltalriciaJdonamiozarawalcamendedfinfasor. have been. perfece in their lessons are the gas haroing to light him out OP The, Maraiiee of mate antracl. to smoke cigarettes efter the aaa, in the good-sized cabbage, and set it in the boiling evta,ter to blan.eh. for five rain- ta,chments espeoially adaptable to in the wolead, is twenty miles in diem- a half of boating water, one pint of it to the saucepan with one pint and utes. Strain the cabbage, and return bad. Other gas-biurner at- Sandwich Ishends, the largest volcano eter. Sometimes the strea,m of lava, milk, it eliallot choope.d small, cun.d 1 found. Colonel Seaton, the elephant hunter, however, tells this story of bravery "Ona morning, juet as we were leav- tog the parade ground, a man alma ruehing up breathless. "Get your • men," he -exclaimed; 'there es a tiger in the hollow by the hut, and no one dares go by r In all haste we got out guns and two elephants and hurried te the spot, where in truth a terrible scene presents itself. The tiger, bleeding, from a out in the head, was oa the edge of the hollow, growling fiercely, with a man mangled and apparently dead lying beneath his peeve. The unfortunate man was a fine swordsmen and Drat -rate wrestler —one of the cbierapione of hts regi- ment, Some people who went to draw weber at the well had disturbed, the tiger, an,d,on hes rieing they fled in terror. The brave but lath soldier, who hap- pened 10 be neer at the moment, on learning the cause of the manmetion, immediately advainsoed to attaelc .the tiger, and with his sword gave him e tremendous cut over the head which, however, dici not materially injure the powerful brute. The tiger rushed at the man, stripped the arm down to the elbow, and clashing him to the ground held himbeneath his paws. When we came up, we were at first at a lass how to act, for the men was m much exposed to our fire as the tiger. However, it woo oot a time for lengthened coneideration—we fired, and a lucky sbot finished tbe a ni ma 1." A TRAIT OF THE PROFEOSIONI. Way a Sleekly eavaes talking abbe(' woilic and neer dant e•tter? He's a praotical ,politictan which one reaulator clone in a buildino 'of a comtnelunetyr winds and oorreets all of the °there on its oiaguit (lane by p. momeattery contact. A Boston. getnilus lately .patented an alarm clock enlace. he claupe to be of OKADA. value to cooks or laboratotry workers. Tim set is graduated to fine poiats, sia that the alaxra will ring ex- actly at the desired moment. The alarm eap. be. made to sound at the end of a, very brief period. It is reoome mended to carotid and scientific, cooks as especially valuable in broiling meats, boiling eggs, etc. ' Those addicted to the often disastrous secon.d. nap habit might find salvation in, a. novel alarm. clock which repeats its clamor several times at given, in- tervals, Another elm= clock cote. tinaes ringing for ate Moe or more, unless the sleeper Daises end turns it off. .Alarm attachments are devised for watches. Any one may. taus emery a reminder within his waistcoat pocket, THE STRIKING WATCH seems also to have caused great activity in the fe,rtile i•nventive brain. Per- haps the- best idea is a posh -button. at- tachment. When this its pressed the we.toh strikes the exact hair in a key of one tone, end tile minutes, count - beg, lby five, in another key. Many similar striking mechanisms have been devised for Weeks. Some inventors would have the time announced almost every minute of the day and night. Others are satisfied with five, ten, and afteen.-rainote intervals betvreen the ehnolanemnents, The single stroke at the half holutr has also goren. the in- veintive mind great annoyance. One ine ventor's plain is to have the chimes aJIj the half hear strike the hour pre- violuely passed. but in, a different tone. Another would have tbe clock =flounce every five =lades the full home and, after a "brief space, strike one, two, three, etc., to indicate five ten or fa- , , tem, rainntes after. wat,ch for the blind has a portion of its dial exposed to the toaoh. Ribs, or radii, like the spokes of a wheel, are raised from the surface and ex - teed from the centre to the boor marks on. tile circereference. The bands are tipped with knobs which protrude througb two concentric circular slots, ono fo(r the minute a.nd the other for the hour hand.. By running leis fine gars over this dial a blin,d man. it is claixned, May teadity ascertain, the time. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Wow Items Whieli May Prove Worth Iteadior.. Ite the East Indies are some spiders so large that they devour sniall birds. ,A.bout four-fifths of all the mis,sione &ries who go abroad. take bicycles with them. Oranges recently mid. in Circle City, Alaska, at one bluadred and fifty dol- lars a box, or one, dollar each • tiovsetiolf.D... 1 KY OLD PIANO COVER. When ney oad mare piano cover atatt taken away to make room for the neivr, upright, I retained. the faded garnet cover, thinking it might be useful for mats or possibly underskixte. alblefa,11 I needed a portiere for My :sitting room, as en order to make roint for a new piece of furniture the door had to be taken, away. I felt that a new, one- would be out of the question, a.t least until "after election," 80 I one thought way not have a home-made - I procunel two pack,ages of reliable dyes, six yards of satiate, and six skeins of Asiatic rope silk costing in all $1.25 e and went to work. The oover took a boodsolnee dark garnet and I outlined upon it at regular inatervais an arabeee told gold and old resdh,lksthieu quaint book cover, using for quo desigln that I °opted froent a znuch used in. Oriental embroidery. The delegloerb31u30e, effect was very Pleasiag, and, when the old gold linlog W0.5 fastened to it the portiere wigs a genutne success, The length Wttri sufficient to allow 9, twenty -inch lambrequin et the top, If .your old cover bate a worked border ilea best to reneo‘ve it as tbe oak takes a different ohm's when dyed, even them it will be wide enough for the ourpose. Do not uee it up, itn rugs. Mrs, J. W. DOMIRSTIO RECIPES, Cream Puffs.—Place a saucepa,a withl • ter, over the fire. As soon as it boils ter, over tbe 'fire. As soon as it bole add four ounees Deer; stir until the oontents home fortmed into a eraooth eteete. Then reanteve end wain). nearly whites of three eggs. Pet this pre - until smooth ; than add the beaten whites of titre eeggs. Put this pre- paration to a pastry bag and press out upon a buttered baking pan smell pore acme the size of an egg. Brush over with beaten egg and bake in, a, medium hot oven. When done and cold, cue them open on one side and fill them with vanilla cream. Thies cream may be made as follows: Place a sauce- pan, with one pint railk, over the fire. Add two tablespoonfuls flour, the yolks' of four eggs. one tablespoonful but - (ter, three tablespaonfuls sugar, one teaspoonful vanilla extract and a sprinkling a Bala Stir this until it • comes to a. boil. Whoa cold mix creara with the yolk of one egg and a little les 00. tre cc •1 WO, ia tel 01 e thee ate • e HE ' Gre Ler Rev ay ame roue WI the eyed sing the of t bean hous, Oa Ofte Carri that nam, lath Him peop quir u pat 07 GI putt Firs bei s Its hie its of •Htett mow alto bit hro of t tb 088 am eweet cream. Tarragen Vinegar.—To.rragon vine- gar is made by placing a large band- ful of fresb, tarragon in a quart, glass ' jar, covering with strong vinegar and caused the toes of over eleven. raillion would. Delvise you to buy the vinegar lives. of the Yellow River, ia Chine, love pour off the vittega,r and bottle it. 1 Daring the present century the floods letting it stand four weeks. Them resEta,vernryamptlubIlvich ready made. One battle of tarragon for them ously served. to pupils too poor to pay salads a small quantity at a time. esereilmmlealas aParerisgrhatausaa.- Vinagar Ut5ta a Ic"Ig tliale. as it IS A Ve•getable Soup.—Put on a large a used meetly in seasoning sauces and street lamps. Another freak timepiece is it memo- randeun clock, for the benefit of the abselt-minded element ef smiety. Sup- posing that a habieual forgetter who has availed himself of One of these valu- able devices wishes to remind himself of an engagement fox a certogn hour. The rnakea a neemorandium upon an opacpue cellulotcl card, slips it in, a slot in, the clock on his office desk, sets an alarm attaelonenit and continues his work. At the a,ppoLated moment the clock sets up a lend ring and drops the memorandum out before his eyes. Al similar invention is a timepiece whose dial is surrounded with a metallio ring. At each graduation is a cohtact finger which may be folded over to engage the hourha.nd as the latter turns about. When a finger is so set a tag bearing a tneenorandeme is plac.ad upon it by mea•rts of a clamp. When the hour hared reaches the desired time an alarni rings and a hand naives to the memo- ranidluen.. This is said to be especialle useful in livery stables and suchi places where engagements and orders most be filled at appointed hours and frac, them thereof. A. rather 'unique clook has no mato spring. Its pendulum. beating one was eneounters a spring which sends it back until an arrangement at the top touches against the diaphragm whose elasticity allows it to stretch as the attaelitmon.t presses against it. As the pendulum moves over a. valve is closed inflating the diaphragixt and pushing the pendialum. baok against the spring. This peooess is continued. as long as there is a mpply of compres.secl air, Similar contrivances are made for it liquid supply. An ingenious inven- tion is a, pioduro,a,tic system of clocks, to be placed. en, a large building, such as a, college, factory, Mo. All the clocks are acaaated by AIR PRESSURE. The air passes through a large chron,o- meter Orr master clook before reaching the series ansi is given uniform im- pulsee, which keep the minor clocks Licking in, uniform time. The truth of the old sew, "Lazy peo- ple take the most paints," is no better e,xematelified• than; by a number, of pat- ents for winding cloaks. One inventor believes his scheme for harnessing the rehe for this porpose to be so valuable to imankindas to reaOire' insurance egainet infringement. The rain col- lected on the, roof flows into a tank and gradually expels itself through el tube containing a water wheel ate teethed to the win/cling mechanism of the clock. A few weeks ego another patent was issued for a clock which 18 wieund 'by changes of atmospheric( temperatiuxe. , A bulb anti column of mercury do the work. When the (atmosphere grows wanner an.d the neeroury rises the lat- ter meshes a fleet before it in the tube. This action, by a complicated arrange- ment ot cogwheels, raises the weights of the clock. Another lazy me,n would. have the oubtic patronize his scheme for keeping the clock woo -a by means of small vvintioulls amartged on his roof. Equally remarkable is an, at- tachment whereby a wind Ls commune. cafe:a to the mairesprine of a (clock wheuever the key of a neighboring gas jet is loaned. A more praceic,a1 seheme however, is an, eleotint eyatem by flowing from. it is fifty miles leng. txiblespooxttUl o 1 miuicv (A. law just emoted in Sweden pro- ouoce of butter, pepper and milt to hibits the erectioo. of a dwellint , more tha,n five stories in beig th.cirehe taste. Bring ail to a boa, and cook( for it quarter of enhour,' shake in the the widthceed. of the street by more utee. lake a sake of toast, cut it intn, tehleavnattiiovnie foefett.he bundling must not ex- aniseed tapioca and bail for ten mine dice, out into the tureen, and pour Some, luxuzies are quite cheap In(Ibe botling. London. An kAnnen ukmedpidreevvinn, lbRabRa dl theebabtiltreSatekinweeiroGemontarwon, r8eterbeit; dTakraw! flan he had enjoyed. wash. and Wipe them dry; carefully otherwise al:peel; and -the aggressor was fined only t trty shillings tar tb.e. over remove the gall from the liver. Cut Shute ell cif Mohave' eaoh rabbit tato eight pieces; season County; Ariz., is appropriately named, them with one thibilegtoonful of salt; as she is a dead shose u. eve y split Vitlerifle, at place in a covered. dish, add two sliced two hfundred paces, she has often con- . t. ka placed edge outward on a target. tablespoonful whole peppers and ten In Ellis, Ken., dwells a pious gentle_ whole allspice. Cover with vinegar and men. known to his neighbors as •'Pray- rat it for three days in a cool place. te if onions, six cloves, two bey' leaves, half ing joint." It is his invariable custam Them place the rabbits, with the oerteitt spct on the open prairie, ai, I, VD11%0X. SIA100 anti mama, in a sauce- et e - in allsorts of wea.ther, to kneel at a ' tunxise a.na sunset, and devtoffice of a°0°k %lowly until done outly pray. pan oven the fire, add hell pint water There is ttroable in, the ; town. clerk in Wille,tts. Kan. A goat. fully remove the rabbit piec'es, lay '. Teen care- , . entered the: affiee and managed to eat them ea a 'warm ,alisia Melt tavrt, was discovered. Sorrad suspicious citi- ounces butter in a eaucepen. add one about oneehalf of a ledger before be zens think tint the goat - and the ace etir three minutes. Strain tbe rabbit heapitorg tablespoonful flour, cook and. k five rat/lutes and pour it over colintant were confederates. broth, a. . , A powerful anaesthetic, which vola- tilizes on. exposure to the air, has been . the rabbit pieces. At the same tune in,vented by a Polish cheenist. It is .Peel and wash one quart email po- belie.ved that bombs. filled with this tatoes, place them in a saucepan, cover chemical, arid thrown into the ranks with, MIS quart cold. water, add one of an opposing army, will in a few tablespoonful salt, boil until half done, monae,nts maket the the utterly helpless. :lhcet drain off the water. Place a An inventive gene= in McPherson, ' frying pan with two ounces of batter Kan., put a couple of pound s of pew_ • over the fire. When hot, put in ae der itt the lower part of his chiratiey, 111°M' of the pototoe.s as will conven- t°, blow' out the soot. The concussion ie•ntly go into tbe pan without crowd - Plow, three feet of the to of the chime i ing ,fry to a Olden color. B,emoie to nay to pieces, and so sta,•rtled: the man's a hot dish. Fry the remainder the seme, way. Serve tble em with the ra bits.• Potato clumeliage may be serv- ed place of potatoes. FOR THE SAKE OF ECONOMY'. father, a sufferer from chrome rheuma- tism, that he leaped, out of bed, .anel forgot his ailmentt. HEROIC GIRL. She Takes a Trbs Down a Well and Saves Iler tittle Brol her. Ram's a heroin.e, Mamie tokey, who lives at Morristown, NJ: She is only 10 years of age. She bas a brother Bar- tholomew, 4 years of age. The two chil- dea were playing in th.e egad of their home the other raorntng. • Bartholomew climbed. on. the' turb of the mall and looked. 'down -in the shining water BO feet below. lie last his balance, and, uttering lene terrifying shriek, Plung- ed. headforerriost. Mamie saw his dein' ger, but was to late to seize him. As he disappeared. she yelled, "Mamma, Bexty's fell into the well 1" ' The child did not hesitate an instant. She sprang upon the well _curb and seizea the rope. Her weight was en- ough; down she went, belr feet in tae bucket, the bundle of the drum whiz- zing arena, at the well's mouth, When. alamie Mama the water down she event. But she held on to the rope. Millen she got her heati above water she seized. little Batholomew by the hair. She maenad to get her brother's feet tato the bucket, and told him to had on to the rope tight, tooller voice mounded faintly to her mother, far above: " Pull us up, mamma; we're all right." Her- child -teen's weight was too much for Mrs. Hickey to 'Mite. Bul. neighbors 1 •1 ril her scre.aras re] M'amie end Bee theleranv were Seou in their mother's arms, -dripping, but safe .and. sound. Don't allow pickles to become spoiled by the leaking out or the evaporationi of the vinegar. Don't leave cream to spoil in the pantry, nor Inuetard to spoil in the cruet. Itleat. use saver knives for scraping kettles nee silver spoons about the cooking, Don't threw away thc water in winch fat meats bave been °poked without Urtt removing the grease, Don't tbeow away the bone' of meat and the °arenas of turkey or chicken that could be used ia 'making ;coup. Dena burn more cant than 'is mimes - may by 'neglecting la arrange the dampers when the fire ke not in use. THE 1)E111PEST Oh' WELLS. Men of science are interested be all very deep borings in the earth on ac- oeaurt of the opportunity which they offer for eXPerinlentrO on the internal temperature of the globe. Gm and oil wells sometimes attain a great depth, and, eater they have cea,sed to be use- ful La other way's are tuenemi to scien- tific accouat, ' The vers- deepest hole that man has yet succeeded la making La the earth is said to be near Rylmik en Silesia, where tbe boring through etrata of coal and rook lia,s reached a depth of about, 6,770 feet. The'deepest boring on thie continent, is believed ley be an oil -well at Pittsburg, Penne which has reached a clopth of 5,740 feet, but is to be bored much •••'' ta'aJer the sake of the informaa \ -- aisle to scienee, ,eof t lfilee tne Ley the de hoe a, Caw • the no a pre ter et wait et to at bet "site sto th pl guI ten or mci 3'y area lin SO@ see bat thiA is tali mc °al bee ma 4:61'at,; ,all WO Wa •ito our bal ly by wl ire ta in) co, sk ttei 01 dc ca t , ai ,b1 ec , n,Nerieti i n itt co st in hi A ,59: cl a$ ti 11 . two:et-tee c..;.e•