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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-2-24, Page 2XIITETI TILES 110W IT ENDED. CallAPTE ft V IL,- Coutinned. it is ail over, then -in feet gee/t- en at all ,everetts. Eyre, having bowed, !hermit out of bis bost's presence, after terahng elealleelf, as le duty bound, to make courteous acknowledgment of 4tosPitatite enelved, which aeknOWledg- anent has been as courteously recoeptedi has sent a message to the village foe a, trap to take inin anti his belioneings to tbe inn down there as soon es me!' be. He le raging with indignetionana (Usenet-• That old Gothl Fin will give tee deughter to a, men she hates just because in a foolish moraeut the poor eiel has been coerced into an engage - Menet wile Mat. Never had the spirit of Don Quixote been ao strongly rTh- produgeci as in Mr. Eyre's Motet nt tbis moment, ele wiel come to her aid, fath- er or eo Lather 1 WItat 1 would any man steed stial ad aee a girl wantonly, de- leberately same:Reed and. not put out a hand to helea-to save? If so, bis tepee is net Lucien Eyre! To see Duleilnes, is, however, news- tary, See Mist be mete cognizant of the plot lied ageenst her happiness. 1.7p Lo this, peer chile, she has regarded her • agement as a usual, thing, if hate- ful; butt stoe most or learn thee force will be employed le she refuses to go =Italy to the alter wiela that abomine time Sit elelph. •He hos just stepped lotto the eorrid- ea- when be comes face to face with leer. "Well, I've seen your father," says "Whale Oe, nal" saes she. "Yes. I have and a. bigger I • beg your pardon, But--" "lbe sass I must hold to my engage- ment "meth. Sir Ralph." ''He says that, end that only. If yoa were a sieve he could not have made it more distinct that youwie,re with- out power Ira the matter." eSurely"-growing very pale -"you. exaggerate a little. A slave! Whose aleiver • • "Sir Ralph's presently, it you don't take swift measures to free yourself. Delete, you trust me, don't you? Come agree with me. Come this evening. There is it trate at half -past six; meet me there. and,--" "And want ?" "I'll take you up to town to my sis- ter's and we an be married to -morrow inernitag." "Married teenorrow morning! And. -and her--," • "Ho!" meaning her father; she, how - tepee - had net meant her father; "why, he deserves all he will get -no more." "True, true!" says she.: at- if trying to work herself up to the necessary point of valor. "A. slave,. you. said. But "Dukenea,1 Duicialea.1" roes same one in the distance - it is the voiee of the "Goth." elle's calieng me; I must go!" says aloe. taking beat hand eway from Eyre en a little arigh,teened fasbion. "Remember," •whispers he. hotang her by her sleeve-"rememberethe tea to; the atation is °nag a, mile from this; 6.30 -keep iit in mind. I shall he there. Tt 181 tothialg of a. walk. and-" "'But -my oboe -As!" "Oh ooneense I My sister well— "Duleineal" • 71. is a. very aingry roar this time. Duleletiat with a, wistful, undecided glarice. at Eyre. rushes doter( the pas- sage that leads to 12er father's sanctum. sine dandy -ears. "You coated me, [ether ?" says she, inervousiet. "Called you! T. should think so? Half a "even times, at least. What were you doing? Philandering with that Crum:Jere:re idiot upstairs. eh shoule thitnk, considering his birth -and be comes of decent people enaugb. though they arts EngLish-that to make love to a girl an her father's heatie withou.t- 'her father's consent was a moat damnably low sort of thing to "You wrong Mr. Eyre when you talk of him btke that." eass Duleimea, loyal - 11. Eyre 'had. meant to befriend bee A roe of the fire that: blazes within her fa.ther's eyes seems in her own et this moment. "Leek here!" says The efeDermot, faelously; "you. the fancy yourself in love with whout you like. but you shell marry Anketell all the same. You've given year word to him, and see that you keep, it I" "I shall oot marry him unless 7eish le," says his daughter, with reiefinte le- ienie; wIrrellpOn The, ..;.....1)e,rmot breaks out im /et:et/We way, and says el) sorts neetieter, unpardonable things nett the girt, who is in a white heat. of rage in her envn way. fli•ngs wide the door and rushes into the garden. to fend rest and peace and room • foe ebouget. She fines, towever, only her conein. CII,APTER yin "Is it not time, thee, to be wise 1 - Or now, or never." Perhaps to bier it has Enema' that • "rest" end "peace" wee be (eerie in hem IP and hope! • "Ardy 1" cello she; "Andy 1" He is at the other eve of the gerdert, and at filet does not hoer leer, "Andy!" how- ever, let/bores him to a proper frame of Mind, "Hi 1" says he, from hbe alidale of a beet of cabbage, "Oollne herel tome at o'aCeT 71 18 Orolatetbleg very impertant." This brings hint tr her at the rate • of forty kriets an hour. "Well wint's the Mettor 11OW 1" says he, "Everything!" say s Mere Menet:mot with Cernmentlaible brevity, "Ithett genet:illy meaner bobbing with girt," saes her Mogen dententetto. "Hower, to do yoti juattee, roti • look elot bueinetie ebis finie Whet is It. r "If I coiled be su. yeS4 Angly* 'nye she, forlornly; "Met ;eon wial be t4S likely ae not to take els side." "Wbose sleet" "Well you aee Peebtesitethe Dead pause. "Oht go on, for goodness" sake. If yea beve enythieg on whet, you are pleaeed to call your inind, get it oil I YOU haole-with all the delightful sync.- pathy that, as a rule, dietenguishes the male members of one's feranly-"Iiiite a siok chicken, -Anything fresh? or is it the sante okl. ,gaene?-our well -be- loved uncleon the rampage again?" "Yes! Ane this tian•e with a, venge- ance le says lattlei•nea wrathfully. "He -melees on my keeping my eegage- meet with Sir Maple in. Spite of the fact thet I-ate:line to go on with it 1" "You!" Andy paus,es and twiste her round so as to get a good view of her. "What's up nowl" says he. "You. de- clihe to go en with your engagement I Why? What's the wetter with Sir Ralph?" "Th,at Isn't the questioa I" saes :she vehemently. "T refuse to discuss Sir etalpi1 wet yoLi or enyhody. What has to be considered. is, whether I am to be sold -yes. sold -against my will to anybody 1" "Keep yottr bar on," says her cous- in blandly. "There's something- be- hind this slavie inaeltet irtusiness. isn't there ? I never beard. a. word of it un- til that young friend of yours fell in- to the bog ana was dragged eue by some itiConsiderate person by tee hair of his head, and brought home to be nursed by you." "I don't know of any one who fell fete a bog. and was pulled out by his hale," says she„ "Leek her .., Duleie,"puttin•g her down on a moldering rustic seat, let's Flee 8. name to at. Eyre is the bogged o,ne's name. •And I expert be has been male - I log love to you -h" ' "At all eveoits, he isn't like some peo- ple!" exclaims she, with a little frown. HP doesn't lecture and scolil and trample on me expel morning till night 1" "We shall 'aces- prooeed to gime a. name to the traaipler.," says letr. MeDermot. Anketell 1 And so, you want to throw arer Anketell and marry Eyret tls that yeat it tomes to?" "N -o. Not exactly." . "Then you want to throw over Anke- ` belt and. not marry Eyre. Is that it?" 1 "No -not quite." - 1 "Them my good earl, yvhet is it? If you could throw just one ray of livet uaion the mystery. T ranet be able to see you home." s this, thee!" says she, meth • sueeen touch of passe:in. "T wo'n't sellout to be ordered to marry ainy one, end eertainly not a tyrant like Sir Raliphl Why. if you could have beard him yesterday 1 But never mind that. The fact is Andy, that Mr. Eyre -asked me to merry eon; and -T didn't say yes -because-- Well-tever mind thee either. But be went to father, end fa- ther, it appeared, was aistinetly rude, and told hira-- Well" -sighing -"nev- er meld that. e'ither." "Is there" aeks 3�r. MeDertnet, mild- le- "errythieig I may mind?" ' "Yes -this." sass she, her anger grow - "&e then sent fox me." 'He? Eyre? Just hike his impudence." ! "He is not iongmetent. area it was fath- er who sent for me," "To give you a, good Radiate I 1 "If you tope thet"-trying to rise - "there is our use in my going on with this explaaration." "Yes, there is -every use. I'm sure to collie 1n handy sooner or later and therefore it is necessery the pet should .be lakI !nee to 'Me. Come. go- on, do! We etre bete oirr little war later. Weal did the governor say to yea?" "Tent I Mimed rnarry Siv .11elph whe- ther T tiked it or net-tbat nothing shoed prevent rny keeping my en- gagement with, him,. Ffe"-eaeing- .. ni. to ujndersta.ncithat if Titratia- 'ed Sir Ralph. I should still marry him." 1 "But you don't loathe him." 1 "1 en not sure., 1"-p ass',onatte ry-"I am actnally certain teat he has backed :up father in ibis matter, and if only eto' punish me for *being a little -you i now -a. little--" "Yes -T know"--nteldieg. -Well, to punieli nie for that he, too, Is in the plot to tonyel rae to marry ' "What rot!" says her cousin, fore- itoly, if ieeleg.intly. "Thee, Isn't ahit like Anketell! Ion must be out nt your mend to talk ef him like teat i" ' "'You don't know ben as T do. 'nu think he is Anti of me. Now, ("--rais- tine her head anad geeing at her cousin with glowing eyes -"I know that he detests ane!" "Come itn ancl have your head shov- ed! Come quickly. Typhoid. I should sale to look at you - "Netreense 1 There -don't go on like • Itinatiel 7 moan every word I say. Tho very last interview 7 had with eine he was rude end cutting. and indif- ferent, and. cruel, entl---" "He must beve forgotten to Pee a compliment or two," says her entisin, thoogh Orley. i "You cati jeetif yeti Illete. keys' Die - dame rieirig now with determinaeion. "I did think, Andy." casting a re- proachful glance at hem. "that I might, have hoped for sympathY and help from, you!" "I dent think T. uneerstend it." says Andy, carefuley, 'Neu went to ,marry Eyre., and. ;Ton don't went to marry Anketele is that it ?"- "Itle"-s herr tl y. "I don't wi.ni to marry either of them." "Not Eyre." doubtful•ly, "Certainly not, AD 7 want is -to be free. To let Sir -1.o let feller see that I, ant not to he commanded to marry any one. Andy," coexingly, "help Me. Speak to--father--do 1 Help me to break off 1:1110 odious eng,ageareent," "And se Tet you free to .inarry thet • whipper-stapper upstairs, wit') his block, Meek eye! No, 7 won't!" says Andy, with decision; "Sir Ralph is worth a dozen of bine Do you think don't see threuge: you? You breve fallen in love with taxa Italian, stem looks quote aereurd without the monkey and the organ., and yott want to pra- t -eta that WI you destre le freedain." "You refuee, to be1e. orte then?" asks Dutch:ewe looking sadde,nly very fail tind ver' white, tied Very earrerse mito yetue let -yes" "Very wrIi, them Sim* you lave all forsaken ene T ebell aet, for myself, I ;Shall lee you end fateer and Sir Tialpb bee whet T can ao-euteltided," telei tarria and Welke down the path 'keeled the gate. tA • "Look beret Onatee, bateal )(We talk It oven" stets bin burryang after herr, ampressee le spite ef himself by her elenceeet But she wevee elan to one 'ride with en iineerimer gesture, mad is soon lost to sight. "It's 4,oliog to be, 44 fine evening fee' fireworks," saes Nr. Iteeleeeratet, 00nr. templetiog the 'sky Mete a thought- fal air "Great clispley 1 unlimited -rare ety 1 magnificent effect!. And smoke! snaokel" OH.A.PTER IK, "Thou didst deliget my eyes, Yet who am I? Nor first, Kor Met, nor best, that durst Orace dream of 'thee for prize, Nor this the only time, 'Phou shalt set love • to rhyme." llow dark it is walking along this sil- ent road I Dark, though only six o'olock. How quickly the day dies when it. is December !beeh a moon as this is hard- ly worth talking about ; and yet with. out it, obseured as it is, how much • More dismal would. the meet be 1 Was there ever before so silent a night? Are all the dogs in the feemhouses dead ? There Is no sound at all any- where, save the stir of sea, in the stag - light, tar, far below, clown there, where all things seen' to sink int o 005. 13r1dget 1 -what is Bridget thinking now e Has she found out, she is gone? NO; not yet. It is early really, though it looks se late. °Met' enough, it is to the servant the teirrs mind first turns, 9.4 In her mita angry belle she runs along the road, that leads to the i little teaysiele station of which Eyre had spoken to her. Hes hint to Andy that she would let lover and father and Cousin see what she could -do is now in process of full tompletion. When Eyre had suggested to laer to run away with him and be married. by special Boerne, she Lad certainly at the mo- ment, though seeming to daily with the idea,- no real intention of follow- ing it up. But Sir Ralph's unfortun- ate coldness of the day liefore, her fate - ern stern command, and finally her cousin's mocking. tleternunaton not to help her to her folly, haci been all too Much for her childiah pride. She had it.hevemoltiee, ones for all; she would show Byre's last words about tbe 6,30 train his earnest, really honest expression as he spoke, had lingered in her memory and waiting, ;locked up in her own room, she had, when night grew, dress- • ed hereeLf in her warmest clothing, a.nd slipping out et the side door, began her journey to Denygra station. Was there ever so long a mile ? or a road. so deserteal At first she had prayed that no one, might see or meet her on bee way to the station; but now she would hates given a good deal to hear the sound. of cartwheels, or the jogtrot of a farmer's horse. But there is no fair anywhere to -day in the neighborhood, and so the road re- marns empty and quiet. The enema, cembag out ateast from behind a hank of dark gray clouds, serves only to heighten rather than to lessen her sense of loneliness. Now each hUlock and tree and, bench of furze takes, shwas and action, and , threaten to attack her on e.veter side. 1 The terrors of the night. are great. to !those who know nothing of it, safe within carefully -closed. doors of house or carriage, To Dulcinea, running !along through the dull darkness, sense of despair utiegled with active fear is uppermost! "Silence how dead. I and darkness how profound! -Nor eye, nor Usti/ling ear, an ob- ject finds." In vain she tel/s herself that it is not really night, that it is only six oelook ; tlaat a few months ago, this very bour antthne and. (heedful dark- ness would still be called day. It is with tgeige that grows into u sob of• panionate relief, that at last she. sees the lamps shining in the little she hen before her, with, over there a quarter of a mile to. the left, the glim- mering lights -of the small town that bas given Its name to the station. Hurriedly she enters it, and, reach- ing the di.ta paatform, that seems en- veloped. In 5 cloudy mist, stands Ir- resolute. Only for • a moment: how- ever, Eyre has come. to her, has seized her hand, is drawing her into the full- er lights beyond "Let us stay here," says see, ina reeking tone. "No one can see us here. And -oh!" a little wildly, " it was a. long walk. How fer-how far unitfrom. home!" . " You are nervous," *rays be, sensie- ly-too sensibly; and it is my, fault, I forgot, when 1 suggested to you that the walk bare was, only a mile, that it, would be undertaken in midwinter. 11. never occurred to me that six oelock would mean night at this time of year. 'You must try to forgive me that. What is that you have'? 'Your hag? Give it to me." - • The station is such a minor one that, at this hear, it• is given to absolute solitude -almost. In the far distance sturdy farmer is trudging to and aro, puffing and. blowing, and seek- ing by eager marchings from the gate to the station house, to keep seree warmth itt les bode, and juet here, whore Dull -Ines, stands, e, laborer goes by on his homeweed way, andthere-- ever there, where the gloom is thickest -stands, by all the worst: lurk in the world, Ttalpla ArtketelL He had been Innehing in this part of theeneighbourhood during the after- noon, anti expeoting a parcel by this train, had i'Lecierie to wait and take it home with him. Etle bed seen Eyre's arrival, and wondered at his minctu- reify, the train not being due for tt. quarter of an hour or so.; hail .felt a, ,Ofnatin of satisfaction In the thought that he was really lettering -a thought. justified by the "inerrant of luggage ly- ing on the platform; had designedly withdrawn ssi fax into the shade that he serial,/ be unseen by him, not, feeling equal to a tett'-a-tete with, the Man ho suspeete to be, his rival, ad had seen Dulelinetee nervous entrance and eavre's eager greeting of ‚ter. To for • ono instaat ittna.gine their 'meeting. Involuntary would. he to knove heneela a fool, end w.hein he sees Eyre peesees. bemself. ,of the email bog that Dieleleeti. terrine Isa. knows the truth as turret,ne thoitgh all the world were erydng ft within his oath. umbe d -S t upefte d-cle 11 ed to the heartee ewe he slanes eretehing the girl to whom he hag Oven • every thought tred destro of his life, wilfully making irnvoc of. them, "No:Toile?" says 'DeWitt% eageelee starieg at Eye), as ia hardly nedere Standing MM. • It bias 0000 henle to her tee" ceefeliele lee (tree not nederailled her, NerYOUS 1 Ist eat the word for thie awful poen thee is tugging at hex heart? Ole whet leafiness bad brought 'lel. 13:erste ct fear-diethnot, oloteeeieg, is elurainte her. It grows too dretel- ful to be borne. Eyre is talking to her. Sholeraiteteerous iscloonesuoftotehaletr1. batngoo ebaovoeicd,; eo 1.1441—that One thought, and that only,, is beetling like a hemmer in her braie, but behead it, and. throtree it, corona another -tee oddest one, surely -teat it she goes she will never see Anketeli, again I Presently the nests of tor Muth °leer ie little, end elle can wonder within her- eeif. Eyre is 'till talking -kindly, no flatlet, and soothingly; but it doesn't seem. oa axiy consequence at all what • he is sa.yfing. Ralph! What will he think? When he beers she is gone - gone; what vi,ll he think then ? Ste becomes for tee first eine conscioue that she is eolid-so cold.] It must be the night ale that is reeking her seiv- tee like thie. • tehe meat go beck. She will. Even( tbe dull lights in the station ere begin.- • niaig to edd to ‚ter terror. Surely - surely every one ia looking at her, wooderieg teboult tsr, gossaping about earl Yes the one persoxi who in retailer is lookling et her with an anguish un- speakable is the one person unsuspeet- y 'ter. 1 She sighs heavily as one might whose mind is made ap atter a long conflict :See throWs up bee heed. Eyre is still • speaking. We shall not liege long to wait, now," he is seeing; "the train is. just taluee'thCill(Aniwea'2" we bettermove a lit - "I can't 1" she peens and looks straight at her counpa,nioa, a terrible misery in ther eyes. It seems as if apeeph, has deserted her. "I won't go fatueyriy!arthee," sha gasps, at last paint "You. !mewl?" questions Eyre, as 17 not able to grasp the truth tint lies so plainly em her wbite face and gleana leg eyes. As he valises for no answer the shrill whestling of the approaching train cleaves the "Merle crispy air. "Forgive me P' says the girl, tremb- ling in every limb. " 7-1 thought. I could do it, but I can't. len frightened weww "I told you you, were nervous," says he. "Axid 7 know it is a wrench; but surely, darling, it is best for you; you hales so bften told me how unhappy you were---" el must have Ben to you," says she, solemnly. "Lied. Noe meaning it -riot intentionnaly ; but because I didn't know. I know now. I must go home; I must." "As you will, of course!" says Eyre, very stiffly. Has all his chivalry conae to this that she will none of eine of his aid, or sympathy, or affection. Surely he is as modern a Don Quixote aet one may hope to find! " You really wish to return?" "7 do -f. do, indeed!" says the poor child, clasping her bends imploringly. Mr. leyre makes but one answer to this inapessioned and distinctly unflat- tering appeal -he returns her her bag. To tee man in the dusk beyond, watoh- ing them with a livid face, this pet seems unprecedented. "leas it occurred to you bow you are to get eack ?" asks Eyre, in a tone calculated to freeze -a salamander. "I shell be able to manage that" -feverishly. "I shall indeed! Ah !- there is your train!" as that snorting machine dashes into the station. "Go 1 - go!" "7 shall ' go ' certainly, sooner or later," says he, sullenly. "Though con- siderably later than will please you, to judge hy your manner. But before I oblige you, I shall see you safe into your 'home." you do you writ miss your train Do -do think of that!" says she, in a 'small agony,. "See -they are shutting the doors, and-- Oh breaking off with a little gasp of hope that ends almost in a cry, "there is Andy! An- dy !" calling out Mud. "-Thee! Don't you see him'? Just running- into the station! I'd know his legs anywhere! 4nd'l Andy.'" Ta Be Continued. SPIRITUAL SPEAR POINTS. Every dog is a lion somewhere. Whe,reever love is there God. is. God will leave n,thing half -done. The more you love, the more you live. Patriotism keeps up with natienal duty. • Centent ie not Neaten -le without Oro reregiving. ; be eat- is es strong fur the poor, ae it is for the rith. Under the pulpit is the, best pews for tbe eburch stove. When doubt its in the pulpit eits in tire pew. patched. -up friendship is apt to break in a new place. We eling to our beliefs chiefly be- cause they tiling to us. Love of the brethren is our title - deed to beetle sensitize The devil fears the m.ayer that ie learned at a mother% knee. God gives no intecien where He ha.s not first given strength to beer it, • Love is the epee. Huteility the • foundation of the, Cetiet-like life. However high n, man may climb, he meet elways start from the ground. 'there is no pew in ane charchthat the devil has not some times oceueied. If you. have neither money, frienda nor ebaracter, thank God you are out of jail. A reform mearrare measures lame Loyalty to principle is the measuring rod of patriotism. C the world le governed by, fate let M grin one, bear it; it be lever let us believe and 'settee it. HER, IDEA OIP TEMPERANCE. A. sohool girl la the rural die - trete of Georgia, was told to write a compolsition op. "Temperance," She turned out the followinItt g; "Temperance is more better than. whielty, 1Veleky is tee cents it drink, and lots of it. My pa drinks Whielty. He. 1148 been full lia tiatee, Orie night, he came hoMe 1,0,ers and, me went out end. out wee hickories. siva ,,vailotio<1 him good, Thee abia eutektSe his head is a. tub of seep. sada and looked him tip in the been. And tee etratt inereing my pe, geed be eteltemeti beel. dertrear Ofti FIGIITING UOW DRIFTS, RATTLING witH THE BEAUTIFUL IN THE NORTHWEST. ItailkWays Vote% Blockaded 10. sweeping evioatiebtes-An Ariny 02' nen nequIr. oil to clear the Traclo. North America is tee battle ground of the bigeeet snow fights oi2 earth. There are thousande of men in the northwest wbote °illy occupation dur- ing tile winter uaorites is to Belt snow. It is exciting work, too, a life that involves the greatest berdships and continent risks. One might search the world over for a inere desperate and dangerous employment." It was a Canadian Pacific engineer who spoke, We were travelling over the Rocky mountains at midniget. Through the glass -paneled door at the tail. of the, train, one couldsee the lee crests of the motietaine in elle pale moonliget. In tee wake ;if the summer fires the trees stood. up thin antl /elk. • iele like the, masts of ehips. Elsewbere they were shroadedf with drooping branches ad spattered stems, in the eniversal snow, The snow gave an im- pressivs sense of peacefulness to the • impenetrable silence of the mountains I lookecl out upon the, solemn stillness, the broad stretches of motionless white the deep passages of avalanches carved along the mountain sides, with a feel - file of awe. for tbe emnensity of the power that had so changed the face of nature. Bat the railroad man had no illus- ions. To elm the snow was a foe, a foe to bre feared, a foe against whom men and engines had often measured their strength in vain. THE GREAT SNOW SHEDS. Every new and thee the scenery was blotted out; the glass panels suddenly showed us' nothing but the reflection of the ear and bobbing light of the ov- erhead lamp. They were snow sheds through which the train was passing. Tee reilroaa, cut like a single step in the side of the mountait ebasm, was roofed in as snugly as a house. Above, for all we knew, the snow might he tumbling headlong over the slippery ledge lee tempest of paeeion,hut for all its malevolence, impotent to inflict an injury to the poor snake of a trate hiding beneath its shelter. These snow sheds have been exerted among the mountains at an enormous cost. They are of massive. timber work -heavy beams of squared timber, dove- tailed and bolted together, and back- ed with rook. They are fitted. into the mountain so that they become, as it were, a part ef the mountain side, so as to, hid defiant* to the most terrific avelanebe, Anything may precipitate an aval- anche down the eteep declivitieS of those piied-up precipices, among whine the single-track railway looks like 'a pin's scratch would on the hand of a man. It need be no more than a loos- ened scrap of rock that has started rolling downwerds with no forethought, of the immeasurable catheltem that its passage will create. • To aefew yards it has become im- bedded in a mighty mass of moving snow, a wool -white torrent licking up the leviathan trees as it passed like straws swept up in a storm of autumn 'leaves, growing more venenaces, more powerful, more ireesiseiele, until the rush of the wincl befors it clears a passage through the forest anticipating its ravages, removing all obstacles as the outriders to a royal equipage make way through a mese of human beings. It is truly a royal foe that the rail- road m.en of the northwes15 have to en- counter among the mountains. An on-. rushing, terrific; force, something whieh cannot be eheckedeelt is neces- sary to resort to subterfuge to ()heat it, to eide from. it, or to make good by artificial means the path thee; the rail- way bas_struck out fax itself, A SPLEN DID SIGIIT. •ernorrg the Cas(,ade mounta1li5 may be seen Seven and eight engines linked together charging impotently againet bbs snowbenk.s, and at night, time there is no more wonderful sight than this, eaeh hissing engine tbrowin,g its sheath of fire -light on the, tender, with their heevy loads of wood fuel, On the gleam.- ing snowbanks, on the great trees seeming to press round to mock by their stillness all this useless fury encl fus,s, this powerless raging, Me re- sultless distort -ewe of their peace. tinder favozable eircumstances, tee snow parts readily under the on- slaught of the plow. At times, howev- er, under tire lia.tter,y, to vihleh it is subjected, it only betimes more rividlyt compressed, more solid, more iinpene. treble ateach renewed charge, asolia, anbudging block ofiee. The engine may go back a mile, the tbrottle may he thrown open, Lti may Trish upon the 1 ter- rier at a speed. of 40 or 511 elates an hour, but metre the snow dust has cleared eufficiently for the engineers to see roam]. thern„ it may be that they have only malt:witted a. yard, pessibly tbe engines fires have been extinguished., not improhably the engiee may have been thrown off the line. The one recourse yvhittir then re - meths 18 to rail in the assistance of a ernaleartny oC mea, that a way may be forced through the snow wee reek and shovel, and, weile these operations are progressing, the passenger train has to be ke 15 constantl 00 ti , lett in e few hoers it bertome ineare able of movement at all. et such a time it is no unueuel thing to See several hundred men at work OA a (tingle drift, Perhaps eight or a dezeri platforms are etre in the enow, tbes what is removed from tbe line is paseed upward front 'taro to stage., olimbing the steep walls tiny shov- elfuls, until It finally leaches the op- en waiste, thirty or forty feet above the heads of the workere on the ground level, . The men are brought to the spot in epeeia.1 trains and fea and housed es best the,y can be. Thee work day and night, aometirmee eliovehing foe Harty - THE HOTA.HY PLOW. Tee tiring that has simpliflod the table of meow .fitting more thou anytbine else, especially in Ore prairie country, eitshdcLill;r orit:attiti, 0,7a (Pialson:I:tn,l'i shelf ealmal aridaa,af lily:I:le:a 10(1: - nothing so much as the aceew propel: - ler of a steamship, 715 18 a huge roeette of flangee, about twelve feet in die - melee, that bores its way iXttco sneer - 'reeks, etea.rieg 4u,st, enough apace to enable tee waiting train to eau atiniorT1- 1:4'ishiliilAed5/itighebel;i.aunit(Aithigtrol:esr tomn'llot.tbhe sides, until we have the porpendieular embankment through weith tee train oftee passes for mires without a break. eAsts tbha6ckwhIleit.oruzeviaolvthese: tihn6t ()Teo:1'e (11• 11)14s- teveen the strove's, fall into a •large sized fan elevator, and ere Miele' forth on this side or teat eide of the line ac- cording to the quertee from weieb the oefinsailyiesrlildouzwitn, et.•he Isnnoaweriseelefillinigalienh, to the air to a lieight of 60 or 70 feet, deacending. like a foyer lain over the half-butied posts of the. telegraph FrOin the smoke stack a volume of fire is rising. • lehere is an uproar like the sound of artillery galloping over a cobbled street. As a spectacular ef- fect the show plow is a greet success Some of the biggee plows weigh over 50 tons by themselves, and, yvith the ma- evi/eaingehrty isthoavterogroroattoosnst.hein the total The °atter, with its own erivate en- gine, as it wereeis glared. on a mas- sive track, which is inclosea like. the cab of a loccanotive and linked to a. heavy freight engine, the "llog." Fol- lowing' behind this travels another en- gine dravving its load of tools and its complement of workers. The men' who operate a snow plow draw legit wages, the expenses in this reepeet on one job amounting- to over '0150 a day. -A rolie.ry in goocl hands will clear a snow blockaded at the rate of from two to ttro-enlycief erdeotaer lawa ohneft;obnutintt enlonitsnamterse-. With;a rotary plowthe engineers do not ran -the same risk as they do on tbe plow of the old-fashioned typeevith wlich it is often necessary to charge the anoweank at top speed, not merely eutting through. but burrowing und- er the snow. But even the rotary plow is liable to be disabled by encountering the frozen carcass of a horse or a steer iu a snowba.nk, or the debris of fallen telegraph poles, or, 'among the mountains, the trunks of gigantic trees. It is nominally the diety of the section men to look out for ties, and, if 'possible, to warn the engine driv- er, and to telegraph for a gang of workmen with pick anti shore] to 'ileum the track in the old-fasbioned way. But it is needle,ss to say that the most vi- gilant; section men cannot always be relied upon in slice a matter as this. elFE GIVING ENGLISHMEN. Aevreeiatien ray emeriti -an ManuIltetnrer of nritainCs Poilry In China. Sir Ri•eiard Webster, ,after declaring that it would be better for Great Brit- ain to fight and loee now than to pee- . ish of slow starvation by the loss ot trade, went on to say that the United States was supporting England's 'pol- icy in the Chinese trouble with sur- prising unanimity. That is true, and it could barely be otherwise, becanse the interests of the two countries are identical, says the New York Even- ing Post. Both of thein desire that the trade of China shall. be open to fair competition. However,- numb we may insist Anion holding our own mark- - ets, for our own producers, we are • , emphatically opposed to theclosing. of neutral markets to our commerce by outeirle violence and, artnetesion. Dion • . . . . this point American peetectionists-and • free traders are, nt. one. 'Elie organ of • the elanufacturere Club at Philadel- phia has the strongest article on this • subjecit that we have seen in the Ameri- can press. Although Germany has in- • timated that she has no intention to put restrietioes .the commerce of •Kiao-Chan. hay and its tributary come try, the "Manutacturer" toinka that the young Kaiser will bear watehing. Of Germae policy in China," it 'rays, 'we know nothing. We do know tyrbat it has been in A.frica and in seine oth- er parts. of the world. where Germari colonies have been established, and the progress which hes' been made under German al:Isl.:ices has teen 80 small in comparison with that which is effected in the great dietricts which have been touched by the lif(egiving Englishman, that we must look upon guarantees from Berlin with some dis- trust." The life-giving Englishman comes very bandy just now, with his big fleet, end leis coaeng stations, of- fering- to do our fretting for as. in eastern A.sia, and we, are, glad to find a growing regara for him among the manufacturers of Pennsylvania,. Ile ought to have had a vote of Heinle% at thterecent rionvention. in this city. The lean u f a etu rer' urges on r govern/nen t to act prompt ly and intelligently at teiseuncture--not in the Way of send- ing warships across the Pacifie, hue by letting foreign nation e know that. our treaty rights cannot he curtailed. or set at naught by a re -arrangement of the, hounee,ries of the Chinese empire to which we are not, parties, If we want a epirited foreign policy, the place to allow it is a plater where we have rights of oar own to stand up for, not where we come ;as' an intruder, pretendieg to restore or defend those of other people. RIMIEST GOLD MINft. 'the rielieet gold mine in the world is loCated under the thriving teem of Ballarat, 'Victoria, Atetrelia. It yields ,b,u.t, en ounce of &awhile gold to the ton, end yet Hie T3and, Barton ILAl rairi4. has yielded mere than (1156,000,000 of gold eine it opened, 80 yeare • A SCIEeITIST'S Ol?INtON, Mr. 13illrins, looking from the paper, -Tee eminent, physician, Dv. Greateeee says there le no exereive so condueive to health in IVOlnall as Ordinary eowee work. • Mrs. 13111ene-Tlob 1 PH bet 110'18 leer. re e eotire at a etreteli • • HIE SIM 1g It [ITEMS OP INTEREST ABOUT TIM OPSY YANKEE. Neighborly fritoreat le tits Doinits-Mattelail oil Moment acid flirth authored from Ws Deily Record. A.Iletiersae Merely soeiety is to tie. bete the question ; "Is it cold or bot where Andre° is now ?" During December 6,423 ehildien age plied for lodging atil Mexico City's pub- lic (tort/Wore, or teat averag.e of more than 207 a day. There were 5,446 hors 811(1 1007 girls, all leas then 15 Yeariil Missourians tkre inclined to thine that William Goforth must originally , , , have tree geed, sin " euffieea IA) 1)1 S name, Ito was arrested.' last month in that altete, arid ie wanted In other towns bn fifty-two (Merges of °bean. 4te nepeee under telse pretences. fre is 60 years old. " The inclulgent nee wite white the Lord watches over tools," hi the word* of a Western writer, was ThieentlY tested in Vert Scott, Kan., when a for. fretful num built a fire in a sleeve on top of which be bad left ,Lcan of lie,ro- sene and. a packa,ge of powder, and mither exploded. The Centre .Presbyterlan Cherub of Baltimore for its last eommunion Ser- vice had to Secu.re a preacher Irene another city because tee Rey. Dr. :lose (me T, Smith. pitetor emeritus of the chureh, whe ie temporarily tbe pulpit, ae the pastorate is vacant., ab- solutely refuses to officiate or even. to assist at a communion service at whice unfermented wine is 'used. • When a Young hunter of C,umber. land; ale., failed to come home at night a searching party set oat and found. les body lying beside a big tree trunk that had fallen, it was supposed tba.t he had stumbled in clirabing over the, log acad. in sonae way caused the awe - dental discharge of his gran. His two • dogs stood beside the body. it- was their bowline, that guided' elm sea rebees to the spot. .A. oholera-proof hog of big -bone Berk- shire stock, whicb was brought to Ten- nessee from abroaa before tbe este, tiled near Faleon, iu that State, aged 33, - years, For twenty -fire years the hog ha.(1 not been sick, but latterly it had been toothless, aed its owner had the food. for it boiled. The profits of Its progeny ,had va.id for referee and its owner buried it on his place and set isp memorial stones to mark the grave - 'For the benefit of a conductor who had suffered an aecident welch endae- gered. his earning ability, the Consol-• elated .fillectrie Compeny a Santa Bare • barn Cal., gave the gross receipta of its lines for one day, while he WaS in hospital. • His case appealed to his fel- low workmen and the public, as he had been a faithful employee, emit with the sole support of his mother. The other employ-ees of the eorripany on the saint day ' gaee their day's earnings to him, and patrons of the road had. COntille- tiprs ring up sums ranging as high as e20.- The car receipts amounted te 4327.05. • After twenty years of legal fig.ht- , mg, mainly in the Federal courts, a Leavenworth, Kan, woman, who 'was bound to recover the insurance on he husband's life, got tbe State admin.- istration to back her in a suit in the Kansas State courts, arid at last es. cured. $22,10e, which included interest on the policiee ofeone eonq,any. 01 this sum the latteers got half, under the original contract made when the suit was first instituted. During the de- pendency of the. suit the woman mar- ried again. She says that the com- pany from- whice she recovered had been " sandbagged" by its own *Kan- sas attorneys. She expeets now that other eompitnies concerned will pay up. Mrs. Sarah Stanley Gray died at Law- rence, lean., last month, at the age of 95 years, after a somewhat remark- able life. •She rode on borsebeck iji 1829, with 'ter husband, from Hagers- town, Md., to we/tern Ohio, ane they. settled. in the wilds, where. they brought up five sees and 'four daugle. tors. Both of Mrs. (dray's grarelfath- ere end her father had fought in. the Revolutionary Aar. See had two ,rules of life, patrioesm and religion. When the wait of the rebellion began an 0$ her sons ant the husbands of thre.e of her deughters went to the front. (t is said that as long as she kept house, subsequent to 180, not as pound of butteer's meat was served at her table, the gen bringing down all the 'family wanted. An eloquent Methodist reViValist o Oskaloosa, Kan., produced a powerful ef.fect on numbers of young people, of tbe place, but they couldn't (mite bring •themselves to go to what the Salvation Army ea ls the pert te aorna, on the front hen.ahes, because they were loll young people and enjoyed fregneet dances. An Episcopal elergynian, see- ing a way to increase his eongregation pretrehed a, sermon in which he merle elear teat his Church did not regard. dancing( as a ein. When the news epreed the young people permitted themselves to be con.verted at the revival servicee, ited then joined the 'Episcopal Anvil. The. revivaliat thereupoe 0.0(t080i1 the Episcopel brother of uefairaiese. 'alum reel. iri a ne.wo.paper offiee and bail 5. warm tele but, as the local eclitor mile the r spirt tun I hod ies were, Iselin - ed. ;JOHNNY'S HANDS. Mothereelohney, you said you'd been to Sunday newel. Johnny, 'with a far -away ibek,-- Tes'in. Mother -HOW does it happen that your handS melt fishy Johnny -I -I carried home tb"Mon- da.y school paper, an' --an' tie outsicte page 18 ell. 0100 Cfonab th' whale, i.t'Et1i EXP It) 0:V1'Tel/el Re; POI/ Ai Ell, 'Thee you looker/ any of ;troth woe reeollttinriti yet? Yee.1 Alevines beat f.'aem ail the hest eerer-so es to bete 11 ?3157 Witt.