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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1898-3-10, Page 2ette 'L EB. B1131911B, TIMES IIOW IT EN rv9.600....,..1•••••••• "I am .4.frald you are unhappy aboat metting," eitye he, unreleatingly, frowniag. Fretting for that derailed fellow, he tells latinself, and the 'thought doeenot throw oil %loll tae watere, Fe eems to pause for e reply J hat aerie eoneing he • goes on: "To fret earout enythieg is folly." eaye be, Izerdly, 'There is a way out of most difficulties. I dare say you will 'find me met of yours)" Tads lost !oven el* s erying for - this lover Wet by her own fear of saerificing too mu& tor laira-may be regained. No doubt, enebedueta by her lovely face, be will be glad to be re- called. Siae can write to him. and he will resporui, warmly. And he is a• man of means. Owe The Mellerraot has been told that be (Anketell) declines to carry eat the engagement with his laughter. the old men 'will be pleased enough to give her to Eyre -Eyre, who has undeniably good prospects. As for Dulcinea, her sobs have now ceased entirely. Anketell's last words have strteek a chill to her heart. He is iaot in touch with ber. Be feels nothing for :her. Mar distress causes him no pain. It is impossible he should know of her unfortunate affair, and yet once agate her heart dies within her. That terrible doubt returns. It was scotch- ed -not Jellied. Her teexs dry upon her hot cheeles. This is no time for tears. if -if he wee at the station when she arrived. and had seen her meeting with etgre-witRatotat Andy 1 Oh no, nal Anything but that 1 --- CHAPTER XH. "Fortune's twinge are made of Time's feathers, Which stag not whilet one may mea- sure them." The consmoesness oflieingloved soft., • ens the keenest pang" It has come to an end at last -this interminable drivel He has driven her up to the back gate, has lifted her care- fully doe n, has bidden her a most distant good -night. Miserable-fright- emed-leaviag hope behind her, and ex- pecting a storm before her. she runs down the short road, through the farm- yard and into the house. Her father! what alit he say: She salvers in every limb as she dwells upon his wrath. It would be serious enough if it had only to do with her beteg out of the house at this hour. But when he hears of the sequenee-the breaking off of her engagement with Anketell-how will Lt be then Racing uestaire at the top- of ber speed, she rushes into her own room, and into the arzns of Mrs. Driscoll. The old women, worn out with fear for the fate of her darling, has spent the Lest two hours wandering from. room to room and praying loudly to all her saints. Prayers unheard ex- cept in heaven, as the gaunt old house is virtually empty. Now, seeing her nursling return to the nest, she for- gets all the distress, the absolute tor- ture she has been enduring, and, be- ing Irish, lets the past go in the joy of the glad present. All is forgotten same that her child has returnee to her. "Oh, Bridget!" says Dulcinea cling- ing to her-" oh, Bridget I" " There now I There, me daxlint ! Take yer breath now. 'Tie home ye are, ansafe wid yer ould Biddy. Hush now, alanna 1" squeezing her to her ample bosom. " Arrah 1 who'd be able to harm ye .wid me at hand? But," anx- • iously, "where were ye at all, at all ?" "Oh, Bridget, how 1 love you 1" cries the poor child., gratefully-, clinging to her with all her might. "I thought you, too, would be against mel" " Is it me, aethore ?-me who nus - sed ye?" " Well, he said you had it ' in for me,' or something like that." Who darlin'? Tell me the name o' the scamp who'd say such words o' ' me 1" "It was Andy." " Maseher Andy 1 You've seen bian, then ?" says the old woman, eagerly, He was wid ye, Miss Buick," drawing her to the fire. "Sit down here, a,gra • an' tell me all about it." • She leads the girl •to the roaring wood fbe that is blazing up the chim- ney -a firese carefully tended in hopes of her darling's return, that it is now indeed a noble spectacle -and pushes apprehension ; what does she mean ber into a, big armchair. And Dulcie, worn out with conflicting paselens- doubts that have grown to certainties, and certainties that have once again resolved themselves into doubts -sinks into the welcome chair and drawing down the old nurse to the. beartbrug beside her, pours into her ears the tale of the evening. With many sighs, and. many seam, she makes her humiliating confession, but in spite of Andy's dire threat, the faithful old nurse refrains from ,censure of any kind. It is all over now, honey -all at an! end "-soothing her. " There -there- : fie now, to spoil yer purty eyes! Sure, • what were ye, but a bit mistaken ! Bad t Wren to Meaner Andy for frightenin' , ye like this! 'Twill be all over in no, time. Sorra one will know of it--" " He knows of it -part of it -he--" " Misther Eyre? He's a gintlexnan," ! says 'Mrs. Driscoll, who has in ber pock- ; et at this moment the very handsome douceur he had bestowed on her at parting.. " Mr. Eyre 1 I'm thinking not of • e Of who, Ulna darlin'?" "Sir Ralph," faintly. " Arrah, nonsense! Sure you know he'll tniver hear of it 1" says nurse, who, after all, in spite of her many 'good qualities, is frail. •'11' will know. He shall know!" says her young mietress, springing to her feet. 4` Eh ?" Mrs. Driscoll regards bee' with now? "Sit down-ye're tired, Miss Dui- • tile, <leek," says she, with all tbe air of One trying to cejole an angry child. " t shall tell bier: 1" says Duleie, with &term' t'on "Valle you won't 1" says Mrs, Dris- coll, '''' read ye are just now; but whin the Inorialat moos, an' I've a talk at ye aeliel, yehd know wbere yer right road. lies." -0111 t•o-Inorrove'a eaye Delete, with 5, groan. "Do ,you know he is cone - Rag to dinner to -morrow 1 Father ask- ed. him and --e• But perhaps be will get 91 4.)1. !.t nOw. ho,rearne: I know that• : I ve reaeone for knowing it." " Raysaus1 There isn't a rayson in ye," says Mrs. DriScoll, with ouprento oceatempt. "As ii Italy one, with an eye that wasn't yours couldn't see that • he just delights in the sight of ye. What 'twee. onlyyeetherday 1 overheard yer father sayen,—." "Oh! father," 1ml/eta:ally. "Father 'wants to think as you do. By the by, Briaget,, turning a frightened faee to her nurse, " what of father Where is he? 'What did be say? Was be asking for infi t Is he very angry r° " Wisha, me dear. be knows within' of it" " xothingr= " Ne'er a he'perth. By all the luck 0' the world, Micky Flynn took to fight - in' again this evenin" shortly anther you-wint for yer walk -and the div - d% own thrade he made of it, it ap- pears lie and Danner Murphy wit at it tooth an' nail down in the -village be- low, all about inothiad but that ould aaacieut goose as :Canny sound to Mrs. • Flynn for a shilline an' faix, between ourselves, miss, it Netts -damn ould, an' Micky let into his skin like man, an' Danny is now lyin` kilt below in his maim, wid the wife screechin' over hire like a burned cat." "Not dead?" horror-stricken. "Ob, no, me dear 1 just. a rib or two, but 'twee a meet merciful occurre.nce. You see, they slut for the masther at once, an' down he wint to Dan's house, an' niver a word has he beard of your lain' in or but," "Oh 1" says Duleitnea, with al long sigh of intense relief. So much will 1* spare•il her at all events. "I've had a gradge agate Flynn for ten yeare." says Mrs. Driscoll. "Re once p•romised to marry me sister's cou- sin's nephew by marriage, an' he nivel' got as far as the althea, but I forgive him now. He's done a good job for ye thie night. And now, da,r1hae won't ye let me undhress ye. an' put ye to bed? Ye're worn out. I can see it; an' a poached egg an' a cup ce' ta,y, that'll be the revivin' of ye. I'll bring at up to ye,when yer undhressed. Ye'll sleep aisy afther it." CTCAPTER XIII. ' Is there .no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ?" • • "My life's a load 1" But in site of the poached egg, and the tea, Dulcinea hardly slept at all. There was half an hour here and there of broken slumber, in which uncom- fortable dreams held full sway, to the greater destroying ot her peace when waking from them; but beyond that ,she lay all might with open eyes, think - mg unhappy things, and crying inward- ly with great longing for the day. And at last it comes, reluctantly, as all winter mornings come, having no light of life to vtatena them. The sun for them lies dead. He may be there, somewhere; but his .glory is denied them. A dull, cloudy, gray, taciturn day makes clear the window panes to Dulciatea-so silent, so devoid of sound is it, indeed, that one might almost think of nature as lying in her shroud. A shroud typical! outside, all the world is aswathed in a white sheet - the garb of death. During the night the soft flakes had fallen, silently, steadily; an1 now branch and leaf are laden with them. There has been snow before, but noth- ing like this. And still it falls. "Through the. hushed air the wlaiten- ing shower descends, • At first thin, wavering, till at last the flakes Fall broad and wide and fast, dimming the day, 'With a, continual flow." Dulelnea's first thought on seeing the day is that probably A.nketell will not be able to come over to definer. This should have caused her relief, but to her surprise, it causes her only a deep- ening of the depression that is weigh- ing her down. Oh, he must comet He must! How can she live with this bur- den on her mind? She -will confess all to him; will te.11 him eiverything; will open to him the way to rid himself honorably of her -to put an end to his hated. engagement. All day she \venders aimlessly from room te roam, longing for, while dread- ing, the hour that shall tellher if he is, or is not coming. Toward five o'clock she finds berself in the schoolroom once again, and sinking into a chair rests her elbows on her knees and lets her lovely, disconsolate face fall into her little chilly palms,. Five! If earning, he will be here in three-quarters of an hour. The snow is still falling, heavily, stea•lily. It is almost impossible he should come. No one conad go out on such a night une less compelled, .and he -why, no doubt he will be glad of the excuse to keep away. Anii yet something within her whispers he will come. Three-quarters of an hour! It must be a, great deal less than that now. Raising her eyes to the Mock, she is astanishei to find it is only three min- utes less. What on earth is the mat- ter with that old cloek ? She taps it - listens ; no. it is going as inethodieally as ever, Will d quarter to eix ever come? He is sure to arrive then. The Merarmot dialing always at air sharp, ani being seriously annoyed if a guest is not on the spot some time before - haul. How often she and Ra -Sir Ralpb harl laughed over that little ec- centricity of his, 4. iscruag in the firelit room behind her makes her spring to her feet. Oh, not not yet. Not until she has grasp- ed the back of the chair, and has learn- ed that the ine,omer is Andy, dohs she know tint she is Lremliling from head to foot, end that her lips have grown so cold -am horribly cold. "My word] You're growing active in your old age, Says Mr. MrDermot., advaneing cheerfullte to the fire, and, poking it into a glorious blaze. "As a trevelbag aerobia you'd makeyour for- tune. .What makes you bounee out of your chair like that 1 Guilty commence, -ell ?" witb a grin. "Andl T say What a 4we1l you 'are) Put on allabat toggery to fivatuate Aultetell over again f 1 deelare. Dubin you're the itiggeat flirt 1 ever met. You are bard- ly oft 'with tbe new lover before you want to be On with the old." "I doxi't want to be on wireb aay- • body 1" sayss lauleiraet, orinesonina with shame and indignation. "It's a leered old gown, and yoa know it. You've seen it fifty tinatee, if once. If you've come here only to toratent me -only to -to-make a feel of yourself, I hope you'll go away again. ".1 merely," pealing up hie coat and Preparing ta war1n himself properly at the fire, " made tbe reinark that you were disttnetly good to look at. Now, any one who can maaage to loot: well a gown fifty times old, must be a lovely girl, larleed See f -it was a. corapliment my deax girl' Wily, there tbies ungrateful virulence f" "Stuff!" sty s bis masa:. -with in- creasing ingratitude. The fa,ot is she had something on her mind when dressing something, that led to a deeire -to look her best before Sir Ralph on this -last evening. Far tbat it would be his teat as her fiance seeras undoubted to her, It was an old gown she donned, a. shabby little black gown; but the square an front showed &love- ly neck that gleamed whiter and more lovely than the snow outside, and the soft bare arms that foil at her sales as she gazed at herself in the glass worked wonders with the ancient cos - Mr. MoDerinot, unmoved by her last remark, drops leisurely onto the fen- der. "I say, Dulcie, how did aou and he get on hist evening?" "About as 'nay as you, could ixnag: lac" " Imagixiation is not nay strong Weak" says Mr. MeDerznot modestly. speaking the truth for once in his life. "About aota badly mew ?" ' "Well, I have known him for twelve long months, and never, never, in all that tixae was he so-so abominable to me I" "Abominable 1" angrily. "If I thought--" "Oh, no 1" shaking her charnaing head, so that the firelight flickers from her loag lashes, to the little soft na- tural fluff of hair that blows across her forehead. "Not abominable in that way. He was quite polite -hatefully polite ; .never speaking a word -or smil- ing -or—" How the deuce could you know whether he was smiling or not 9-tbe Flo* it ended night was as black as soot!" ' At first! Not after! I saw well enough. And, besides, his voice would tell yeau he wasn't srailiag." "1 dare say it ape you who wasn't. smiling." "Oh ! of course you are sure to put me in tbe wrong, whether or no.' A 'very pretty quarrel is here spoiled by one of the corabatants giving in. "Nevar imitad that," says he. "Do you mean to tell me that he -was -well wasn't like what a fellow engaged to you should be ?" "Oh, no! indeed he wasn't!" empha- tically. "He was downright brusque. He -he guite ordered me to put my hands under the rug 1" "And you obeyed?" " Well-er-yes. .1" -shamefacedly - " He was no cross I thought per- haps I had better." " I can't understand it," says Andy, wrinkling up his brows, these axe so low that it doesn't take a second to do it. " Dulcie 1" turning to her in a rather tragic way, "do you think you were right after all -that he was there, I mean? That he saw you, and -and that other feelow1" "No," dejectedly. "Oh, no," hang - bag her pretty head so low that even • Parnellite might feel sorry for her. " Tthievhfaaettris, Andy, that he hates me." "He hates me 1" repeated she, with rising strength that is strong enough through its grief. "That's all." "And enough, too," says Mr. Mc - Dermot. "Only," drawing himself up, "I don't believe it." "It's true, for all that," forlornly. " Pee known it for a long time. Af- ter all," meditating-" why, shouldn't he?" " Why should he?" says Andy, vig- orously. "Why, look here; you're as .nice a girl as I know, anyway! Ob, go to the deuce!" says Mr. McDermot, as if addressing some imaginary person at the end. of the room. " D'ye think I can't see? I tell you this, Dulcie, he'll find it hard to get as good as you." "Oh, Andy, what a dear you are I" says his cousin, a.ntl suddenly bursts out crying. "But I tell you it is true, for all that," says she sobbing. "hie hates me -he does really, and when he comes tonight I shall tell him all about it and set him free." '''Y'rmreoel' " is engagement with me. You can't see as clearly as I do, Andy, and I know he will be delighted to get a (glance of saying. good -by -to me for- ever." "You mean to say you are going to tell him V Mr. 1V1cDermot is gazing at her with distended eyes. "Yes, just that. I can't live with this secret on my mind. And it is dishon- orable. too, Andy ; you must see that. If he knew tb at I -that I-once'even thought of — Oh la -miserably -"it is very hard to say it. But you know, don't you?" • "Yes, I know." "Never mind," frowning painfully, "I will say it. It is a good punishment for me. If he knew 1 had even thouglat of running away with Mr. Eyre do you think be would still be anxious to mar- ry me, him.self "He might," says her cousin!, "Oh, Andy 1" says Dulcinea, with keen. reproach. "Well," resignedly, "it doesn't matter, T. shall tell him the truth, whatever it costs me.". But look here--" "1 shall tell bine the truth," repeats Dulciaea, sadly. "Why should T leave himla ig.norance? I shall tell him everything. It is only honorable to do sot" "You are looking after your own honor most carefully," says Andy, with a very unpleasant smile. "Of course," slowly, "it has never occurred to you to look after mine?' to consider that you are rather giving rae away t" "Year (tumor 1" "Ye,s, in:Line-that I have sacrineed to your welfare," says Mr. MoDermot, wita considerable indignation and a prolonged shake of the head, ' "Mat are you talking about, Andy?" "About yea and your ridieuleue plans. You evill run away with an organ grinaer and you won't 1 And, in he meantime you let your good, Wilda devoted. occoeta ia for—" "What fa "Unlimited lie*, if it eefeee to the Neat" imp Mr. MoDermot, stoking in- to his chair ogee more, with very die. timet rage written in his ordinarily beaming Sao. "Liael" "Well, d'ye think be won't regard them as lies when you tell bira wleat you believe to be the truth f And 1 anal Joe the teller of therm 1 obeli be the Haw" "But what have you. ad% Male 1" "Didn't I tell him you had walked to the station with meg that It was Witte& col:Iota:ewe yourmeeting Eyre there f that I hoped he would take you haraasafelY, and let enta in at the back door without the governor's knowing anathema of your escapade. 1 didn't call it that to him because if he found you were aut. be would lay the blame out me, Who had induced you to go for a. walk so late at night. You. can do as you like, Dulcie ; but 1 wish you had told me beforehand you meant to make a confesaion to him. I Mould, not feel so poor a fellow now as I do." "12, by speaking to Sir Ralpb, you think 1 shall betray you, Andy, you, who have been so good to .me," says Duleinea, with a pale face, "I certainly shall not speak. I shall simply tell him I wish to put an end to our engage- ment, and. alien decline to say why." She looks up at him with a pale, steady expression, "It is beyond doubt that he would re - x s a liar of the first water," says Mr. MoDermot, "and yet— If it Can, belp you any, Dulcie, to let hira know the truth -why -generously - "let him know it." "1 could leave you out of the con- fession," says Dulcinea. "I could let him think -that -that you knew no- thing about it. That you -thought, too -I---- Ca, am 1" miserably, "that wouldn't do; you told him we bad walked. tram home to the station." "Just theta -grimly. "Never mind, Dulciel I've been thinking, and I've really come to the conclusion that to tell hire everything will be the best plan, after all. And as for my share in it -why -why -it comes to this, that I'll be glad when he knowa the truth of tray lying, tool" "Oh, Andy! but to betray you!" "Betray me by all means! I'll live through it. And -I dare say he will u.nderstand I did it for you; that'll set me straight with him.'* "But-but, indeed, Andy, I couldn't be such a sneak as that. You told a lie for me, and do you think I don't value that ? No— Ohl" stopping shert, "what's that?" "That," is a thundering knock at the hall door 1 "He's coming 1" says Dulcinea, faint- ly. "Andy," picking up her skirts and preparing to run, "receive him.. Go into the drawing -room. Say anything -that I've a toothache-anrything at all." "But you'll come to dinner V" in dis- may. "Yes -oh, yes1-1suppose I must." "Why, I thought you were mad to tell hira all about it -to confess, as you said." "So I will -so I will ; but not just now," breathlessly. "atm" with a last backward glance, "just - not now. Andy I" To Be Continued. Ikre POVERTY -BEAUTY -ROYALTY. Beauty es oda skiin deeae, to be sure; nevertheless it is a cleaver to be priz- ed and frequently proves a means of advaorsment. During the reign of Charles I. a beautiful country girl event to London in se.a..rob of a. place as a ser- va,gt. Not succeeding she hired herself to carry beer frame a. brewery and was called. a "tub woman." The brewer, no- titainIg her beauty took 'her into his house en a servant and after a short Vane married. her. lie died while she was yet a young veomtua, leaving her the bulk ot his property. ;The attrac- tive yoinne v i.low engaged a skilful :lawyer naimedElyde to take ob.arge of ber affars. (Elyde, who afterwards be- came the greet Earl of Clarendon, • anarriled. his fair client. From. this marriage, there was a daughter who became the wife of James U. and. the mother of Anne and Maury, queens of England. wromg-s. FROM SUNFLOWERS. A Long Island farmer. who had roore &and than he lonew what to do with has put 40 aexes letoesuerlower cultivate tion. A fine table all is made from the sunfilonwr seeds, which, yield. two and a. halt gallons of oid to the bushel. The estimated yield of 100 bushels of seed to the acre should gime a handsome profit on the oint. The cake left after the oh has been pressed is one of the best forms of poultry food.. and the sun- flower is to be run in conjunction with a, poultry yard of about 3,000 chickens. The sunflower stalks will 1* made into a fine fiare, for -which there is a great demand in the ma.nutantiere of a cer- tain denoery, the texture of which cloatly resembles silk. The new indus- try is said to promise, weld. THE OLDEST THRONE CHAIR. The oldest throne or state chair in existence is that which belonged to Queen Hatshepsa, who lived. ebout 1600 years B. C„ This throne is now in the British museum. It is made of hard wood and highly ornamented, the carv- ing being very eurious throughout. Round the legs there is a quantity of gold filigree work, and from these epring out, as it were, two cobras modeled in silver. The termination of the throne legs are well designed hoofs. The back is inlaid with silver and there are other cobras enlacing the exras, which are highly gilded. MAKING A sALp. MisfLt Deelet-Meirt frent, I zell yox dot coat strap. Dot coat vas made vor de Prime of Wales." Customer -The back o' me hand t' ye, ye sphalphane. itrye think I'd wear a mat made far tee Princy Wales? Dealer, seeing his anistaket-Mine frient, 1 vocal. not insult you ply offer- ing you a coat) vat de Prince of Wales woutd Year. De peke* he infuses dot coat. He say it lit hint, bat he hate aot coat, and nod buy it. Customer -ale hates this coat ? Be - gory, thin oina haw it, ate' wear It, phwether it fit tine or Mat. PIRATES' HEADS LOPPED OPP. about Stia area:au test Their acey /tiler a Desperete POW. • inn Tali is dead. The fathoms Chinese pirate is 110 More, 'Por inore than thirty-five years he bait been sought for by the European malt guards,. at first eagerly, and later hopelessly,ant has at last been brought to judgment by a shot from the rifle of rt. German marine in the harbor of Kitto Chou The seaman &hued bigher than he sus- pected. Seeing a Chinaman sneaking along the deck of a German nacto-of- war toward a sailor peeing the deck, he caught the gleam of a knife, and. without awattin.g developments, op- ened fire dropping the would-be as- sassin in bis tracrks. Wben the hody was examined it was treeognized as that of the worst desperado. and pir- ate that the Eastern seas have ever known, a man whose bloody deeds out- number the moat raurderous, a fiend incarnate, Tbe story of his ravages is ••an old one. It has often been told by seamen, bat the tale of the first capture of the gang, a gang without a leader, for Lun Tat had fled, is w -ell worth re- eiting. One of lam atti's bold. raids tad led to a combination between the English war vessels and. the Chinese regular soldiers for united action ag- ainet the pirates. `Efforts were made to capture Lun Tat, for he was known to be the bead, foot, and brains of the gang. After the famous engagement a the pirates' stronghold, the dead were all carefully examined, hut Lun Tal had received warning from some ot the very Chinese that the British .had sent forward as spies. Capt. Sarau.el Jackson, of Sen Fran- cisco, was an officer in the British Navy at the time, and took part in the raid. He tells the story of that three days' stubborn fig.ht with the corner. - ed. pirates, of their DESPERATE STRUGGLES. To escape when hemmed in, and of the execution of about 450 survivors by the authorities, as follows: "I was an officer on her Majesty's steamship Pearl, which happened to be ordered guaxdship at Hong Kong. Without any loss of life on our side we relieved the monotony there by cap- turing the pirates' junks that would creep into the entrance of Hong Kong under cover of darkness and spy out the rich sailing vessels. Once these vessels ventured outside, the pirates would swoop amen and loot therm "Our ship, Pearl, was of too heavy draught to use against the pirates' junks, which could. wallow into very shallow water, but lying alongside of tashafiner.the harbor were three gunboats -the Firm, the Hau.ghty, and the Cock - "The Pearl, commanding the squad-, ron, with the three gunboats along- side, sailed up 'to Swatow. Tas Tai, the Mayor, would furnish men to halp us. He sent out spies, who returned with n description of the pirates' strong- hold, which was twenty-five miles to the northwest of Swatow. It consisted of several fortifications, rau.d forts, and. breastworks, with odds and ends of cannon, bought, stolen or looted. "I know now that one of these spies sent out by Tas Tai warned that old fox, Lun Tea of the trap we were pre- paring for him. But we never knew it then, and. we set about drawing the net so as to capture every one of these 1,500 pirates. The forces on the gunboats numbered. about 500 men all told. "The hour the land. forces set out to blockade the hills back of the pirate nest We sailed up the coast to blockade the entrance of the bay and keep in -the junks. "The pirates were ready for us. About thirty junks of all sizes flying. innum- erable flags set up a deafening ring- ing of gongs. They clanged them at a tremendous rate, for this it was be- lieved would insure them success. "We were prepared for their first as- sault with the . • DEADLY STINKPOTS. A pirate at the junk's maethead lift- ed one, but before it could be thrown we were at them with a streamof boiling water. Again- and. again they attempted to hurl them, a'aays to be met by the hot water, which pat oat the fuse and male the stinkpot harm- s:eh:sem.. At length they saw the fruit- lessness of it, and, yelling en.1 cursing fire on us from the earthworks on the rise demons, they poured a sat age ea.unanksd showered the gingals from "It was now a hand-to-hand fight. When absolute disregard of death could not, keep them they began to give way in bunches, and, well nigh exhausted ourselves, we drove them from their stockade and up the hills. That was shoving them out of the frying pan into the fire, for on the brow or the hill the Chinese regulars were drawn up, waiting for them. 'But our own work was not over. Our wounded had to be carried to the gun- twats, and then every vestiee of the ctronghold of the pirates had • to be destroyed. We took all the flags and gongs in sight and then sank all the junks. s We got back to the harbor of Swat, tow in time to see the capturecl pir- ates marehed in, all dragging heavy chains. They were battered, ragged, and covered with blood. They looked tbe fighting devils they were, 'Tas Tat, the Mayor, summoned all the inhabitants of his distrint on the plain before the toan, and all the cap- tured pirates -about 450 -were behead- ed as a warning to al) sea robbers. "r never expeet to see such a scene again. "Men ohosen far the purpose .gath- -erect np the severed heads of the pirates and pawed them at equal distances aroand the walls of Swatow, where they hung for three days. It was hor- rible, but frora thattime pirates ceas- ed their depredations in that locality." NOT IVII/Cht OECOSCE. 12 don't know which; is worse, matter- ed yenung .Blund.erlieels at the swell reception, retreating to a corner and wiping his perepiring brow, but et believe Iwould rather be run over by ie train than to step on one 1 ' THE EFFEUT8 OF UUOAINE ILLUSTRATED BY THE CASE OF DR. DE VELI AND HIS WIFE. Pis Uedy VVas Literally rerferated 11./ Sreltage - One woman Took Islaouals of the Palma* to MR a Iitunolisni People, Dr. .Tokn R. De Vell, ?th'e Ky., cenerne fiend who' died in that city last•Sarelay is a, man od MhetataYt He was bre:tett to a sanitarium for treatment just a week before lela death, and death resulted froni blood poisoning reaulting froim, 150 aleseesses on 'hits body inflicted with, the bypoderanic syringe. His body was a solid mass of sores. His datighter, Miss Cora, will, is 20 years of age is also addicted to the use of the drug and is undergoing treatment at the sanitarium. She has been almost as fox advanced in the vice as ,her fa- ther, and when brought to the eani- tariUm there were 110 • ABSCESSES ON HER. BODY. She wee ba the prinle of life, however, tend poesessed of great vitality and is now on the roa,d to recoverw, Many stories have been told concerning Dr. De Vali, It has been said that he was a political exile from Italy, tint he killed a erean in that country in his youth, and fled. to America, and vartous oth- er t,h,eories of his early life halve beee advanced,. AN of which are =ere mat- ters of conjeeture, us the doetora were tightly sealed regarding his early life. For mama years, !however, Dr. De Veil lived in :magnificent style in Louis- ville. He enjoyed a lucrative praetice end was regarded as one of th,e lead- ing physicians of the city,' as well as one of the MOST INTELLECTUAL CITIZENS. He was highly educated and accom- plished, arta spoke fluently a number of different languages. After a bril- liant career of a number a years in Louisville Dr. De Vett and, his fa,mily became addicted to t,he drug, whea they began a gradual slide down the scale of humanity, untie about three weeks ago the doctor and his daughter were Lound itu a hovel by Huaamae Officers and former friends who had lost trace of them for a, nom.ber of years, and had them placed in a. sanitarium. Mrs. De. Veil who eame of a. promin- ent and aristocratic Sonthern family died about two years ego from tahe use of the drug. "The drug habit is increasing an the country to an alarming extent," said Dr. Hollinger, who attended Dr. Vali, "Tann are now 3,500,000 users of the drug in the United States against 200,- 000 in 1876 and it is a•fact shown by statistics that 60 per cent. of the PHYSICIANS OF THE COITIOTRY ere more or less andieted. to the drag habit." As an instance of the wenderfalt am- ount of poison the human system can be trained. to xesist. Dr. Hollinger re- lated several 'Incidents that have come wider his notice during his practice, the eatost remarkable ot watch was that of a woman which is probably the most rema,rke.ble case +en recoxd. T,he wom- an ln question appeared at the sanitari- um for treatment over a. year ago, and ait that Orme she was using an ounce anorphine-480 grains -every 24 hours and took 60 :grains at a dose. The en- ormity of the axamin,t of. poison she could withstand will be realized when the fact is taken into consideration that two grains are considered fatal to an ordinary person. The -woman, at the time she began taking treatment, was nursing a, babe. 18 months old, and she began giving the child the drug when was may 6 days old, and by the time it was .18 months old it was taking six grains a day -two doses of three grains each. "No, we never deprive patients of the use of the drug," said Dr. Hollinger; 13 response to an enquiry frem t,he cor- respondent, "in many cases that W017141) PROVE PA.TAL. "We simply let them use it to their hearts' content, and oiercome the de- sire by the tre,attnent when they quit a thet' awn accord." • The paysircians think that the De Tells are among the pioneers of the cocaine habit. Cocaine first came into use en the United States about 10 years ago, sod it was at first supposed to be an antidote for the morphine .habit,, It was for t,he care of the mar- p.hise habit. the physicians say that Dr. De Veil first began the use of enaaine, width is doubly a deadlier poison than morphine, and takes a stronger hold on the systera. Dx De Veli. began using cocaine about seven years ago, and, while. the average life of the cocaine fle.nd is only five yeers, his system was so saturated with poison from. the use of morphine that, notwithstanding his old, age and shattered thealth; he sur- vived 10 years lonlger than the aver - ago person. At the time of has death he was using a sufficient amount of the drug every day to kill front. 40 to 50 ordinary persons. His case is without a parallel and will go down in the hist- ory of medical science as One of the wonders of the age, CONSCIENTIOUS PARSON, as kerns:el le Families. Accept a soapy from Ins Congregation. The minister of a. Noncomformist clomel bit t.he pleasant seaside town of naagnor, says the London Daily Tele, graph, Ilea struck agaitnat recelerieg a salary. For many years his congrega- tion paid aim a, stipend inu.tually agreed on, and hie was graterthl for it, but prayerful wrestling- with the sea,- ject has now convinoed Lha,t the aceeptance a money for preaching the Gospel is wrong, if tot aotuallY tin - Scriptural, and lue has therefore pub- lishecl a pamphlet renouneiaag his -sal- ary as a minister and giving his reas- ems for doing so. 33ut a Ulan cannot lave on air or sleep, in a puipit, end in ourder to gain an independent lavellhood he devoted his week days to business watle so ma,r1ced success tthet he is ahle to do wl,thout the money previonsi:y glean ham as pastor, Nay, More he is determined to pay back to the appo, the salaries of form- er years, and he hopes to be able to perform this feat at the rate of an2 a year. The experiment is a novel one and 15 haxdly to be extensively tried. TOLD BY THE OLD CIRCUS IYIAN. now 'racy Sometime,: !illatle Ilse et the nuo Gino as a Walking ringstait "Sometimes," said the old eircue weer, "we used. to haat a flag an the big giraffe and make a wallciag flagstaf 2Of him. We never did this unless there was a pretty fear breeze blowitnt and la the rigid; direetion, and never except ha street parades. Standing, as he did, eightecta feet ittgh, he made it Paetta' altituditious kind of it flagstaff, and it used to pleane the people migatily to see the flag flying from hira. And you %I• can set it. down with, entire safety that wwlie •Aa:^slele"dlirlialsletth•tlie2l em°stt:gle could 02. it "If the xnornling was right we used to put a leadetall on bien with a small block attaelied, end flag halliard 'roe through that and carried down and made fast arena one of his fore legs; it was something like the arrangement we, bad far basting his anedicine up suggested the idea of h'istiag the flag. otith alh: that time when. he had, a stiff neck ; fact, I think it inwas that that "We used to get the halliards alt. ready before we limed up in the street; but we. never bent on the flag till just 1.: before we were ready to start. The obiggeceirpartfoersion;t dtohmel aatiattha fthwagon= up pretty near the head, with just a few horsemen liaised of it, between it and the giraffe. A man would. a alk up to the giraffe and oast tbe halliarde loose fund bend on the flag, and yen can. bet Lt • was always a bright and handsome an. There used to be about a million, people standing ;coking on at this, and when everything. was all ready the old man would give the "The signal to h'ist was also the sig- nal for the. band to play. The bawler of the band was always standing up in ttthhhese faigblaagan,e. iddowewaaion ready.; The. minute and the basel3e'adroarneuraradtbteb:Ire,msadadeurriissmstlalartttiooeknd; with it, and every horn came ia Oil time. As the flag soared up the gi- raffe's neck to the head you. could hear the calliope coming in, down the line. The flag would always float out gayly, and that was inspiring; and then away. we'd go, with the flag a-flyina the band a-playin' and the calliope a-screechin' and all the. people on the sidewalk hol- leriaO like mad 1 "Dear me 1 I'd like to see the old times back again!" QUEER FAIYIILY PLOT. Strange . Cemetery lot at ftlaynettli, . Kentneity. It is doubtful whether there exists anywhere a. parallel to the strange cemetery lot at Mayfield, Ky., -yeti& has been for t:he last ten years the hobby of "Uncle- Henry" Woolrittege; as be, is known familiarly to his friends and neighbors. • Although born in 1822 a native. of Middle Tennessee,,. he is vig- orous in mind and has never used spectacles, but a physical iinfirmity, prevents his walking, so he is driven each day to the cemetery in hie buggy, and inspects the condition of his tole lection of monuments.' The terra, "collection" is exactly the roost fitting one to apply in this case. . Like Most true "collectors," he began im n smali way, with a very modest fa- n:Ply monument of Vermont marble, to mark the lot. But this seemed to Moe lacking in the persenal note, and he had a white marete abaft inserted in- to this monument, bea,riatia on its face ci bas reliisf. portrait of -himself on horse- II back. This was an improvement, but did not seementirely satisfactory, and he aecordingly ordered a, life size por- trait statue of himself in, vebite marble at a cost of $1,000. posthumous fame, hie took up next higi family, and ordered effigies of Inc mo- ther, his shiest brother, in Indianal, Iiimestone; at a, cost of 42,5o kir Wheal these were in place, & tiLVW L•4 • niece was comme.merated. by &het ..ei stone, figure„ and she was shortly ae- oompanied by a playmate, a little girl who had brought him flewers daring an • Seeing himself thus surrounden some of his hitimen asaie--0 - sir -e came to him for the companion -- ship of hie animal favorites, and he be- gan with has thoroughbred buntipg hoes:: .Fcip. In order,,th,at the represen- tation might be complete, be himselt occupied the saddle. Of course his nags as accessories to the .hunt came next an order. Tow Head a favorite. deer hound must needs have a cleer to precedehirn. Then it would not do to slight Bob, the fax hound, and. Bob is 'reproduced with his fox. Next in order was a receptacle for his owe body -s sarcophagus, with marble cover On which is carved. a re- preeentation of his trusty gun. Fiala -11Y to comalete the family group, were added memorials o•f his three lire. there -three figures just alike, wit] the stiff pose usually seen ia tailors.," . dummies. HIS MANNERS WERE TEST.10). Mary Russell Mitford used to declare that there was no place LO, England likeeleer "sunny Berkshire." As to the country people they wore unmatched for their suavity, courtesy .cinel respect" hal manners. One <ley Mies . Mitfordi was walking through a pasture with air a. imenaltelous London lady. There was ta bit drietes a cow and his manners were to be. tested, "New," said alis Mitfora,. "you will sine how gallant are our coun- try folk." There WO e. gate to be op - emu' and. the boy opened 11, and the ladies passea throng& The Larsdou lady put a question toll% hay; "You're tot Bericahiee, I'm sure," and this as the gentle boy's reply, Thee"rt aliax„ vor 1 be. 0 ----a DECREASL'D I,OSSh'S. The fire loss in Canaila and the Unit- ed States during ja,n,ua,ry, 1898, was e9,972,000, as compared with $12,019,t700 l•tiriog the same .period the precerlin,g year, 411,040,000 in 1896, Iola all,e95,- 600 in 1895. The toes last month wee 41,,042,000 bsLaw the evtonge of,. jean - ars, (hiring t'lle last towe yeara. •