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Exeter Times, 1899-6-15, Page 7THE EXETER TINES NA4,7*tatezE42-4-4**--z,z9):zb:tb)5.034)903e di Is Love and War e*E7effi ito A STORY OF SLAVERY DAYS. Ely MARY J. tioLmEs. .01 zeEec.ieis*****--knaa-ai?,,aa-aaaaida4*0 CHAPTER XXX.V. • Of all Paul Haveri11's comrortable • buildings, amuse, stables, barn and negro quarters, there was left him °nit one cabin which the fire had not consumed. That stood a littte distant froze the rest, and lead been occupied by Lois before her husband died. It • evas superior to tee other cabins then; it was neat and tidy now, and there they laid the dead lieutenant, in his ,grey uniform, with a little flag of stars and bars across his breast. This was Charlie's thought, and it was very mete that he who to the last had. • believed in the eighteousness of the 'Confederacy should have her sign • above him. There was no other spot except the cabin where Maude could stay, and the entire day and night she • eat by her dead 'Arthur, whom, now tat he was dead, she eherishal in her heart as a martyr and a hero, ques- tioning even the ground on which. she .had hitherto stood so firmly, and ask- ing herself, if, atter all, the South was so very far out of the way, or if the Union were worth the fearfal price the Souteera people were pay- ing for it, Maude. did, not know her- self in this mood. It was so unlike all her former theories, and more than once she pressed, her hot hands to tier still hotter heed, and asked if .slut wasa • / II I bin . ng so kno so t bri laian bro shivered V= him no reply. She had not loved him so eery much, but hie violent death and all the hor- rors attending it had shaken her ter- ribly, and could he have come back to life she would. have tried to love him, and with her iron will would have crushed that other love, the very kaowledge of whiat had made her heart throb with so meal joy. But the dead come not to life again, and the next morning they buried Ar- thur Tunbridge in the grassy enclo- sure -where Paul Haveriirs wife was sleeping with the infant son who, had he lived, would leave,been just Arthur's age, The blue coated soldiery, who had been his deadly foes, paid him every railita.ry honor possible within their means, even marching to his grave behind the scars and bars which lay upon his coffin; but when they ,caine back from the burial, they bore the national flag, whose folds that peaceful summer night floated in the breeze frog:a the top. of Lois's ea bin. Very kind, and. gentle, and pitiful was Tom's demeanor toward. Maude. During the day and the night, when she had sat by Arthur in Lois's cabin, lie had not been near her; but, after all, was over, he went to her, and, with the authority of a friend and brother, insisted that she should take the rest she needed so much. I And Maude gave way at the, sound of his soothing, quieting voice, and, with a flood of tears, did what he bade her do. And than Tom sat by her, and bathed. her • throbbing head, and smoothed her beatitifill hair, and. paid back in part the services she had rendered him when he lay sick in Squire Tun- bridge'e house. Maude was not ill—only exhausted— both physically and mentally, the ex- haustion showing itself in the quiet, listless state into whiele she lapsed, paying but little attexition to what e was passing around her, and offering no suggestion or re'monstrance when told of her uncle's plan to accompany Captain Simms and his men to Knox- ville. ed to mike ais wife, This time the letter went safely, and Rose replied at once, urging Tom to come, and insiet- ing that Mr. laaverili, Maude and Charlie should accompany him. "They saved Willes life as well es youre," aose wrote, "I have a right to them all, acid especially to the noble lVfaude. Being her to me, Tom, • and let me ooax back the color to her dear fame tied the brightness to her eyes, I shall come myself and get her if she refuses." Maude had aever known the cowman- ionehip of a sister—had never had a single intimate giri frieba •except Nettie Tunbridge, who die& Inde- pendent, strong willed and self-reli- ant, she had oared but little for any society except that which she found with nature in the wild mountains of Tennessee ; but now, broken and shook - ed, and shorn of some of Ler strength, she longed for sympathy, and compan- ionship, and something in Rose Math - ex's sprightly leteer made her heart yeam toward the little lady who had vvritten it, and the pleasant home which Rose desoribed as beautiful with the summer bloom, "1 will think about it by ana by," she said to her unole; "but for the present it is nice to rest here in Nash- ville." So for a time loner, they lingered nessee, while Rose waited im- ly for them and fretted at the Over Paul' Haverill, too, a change bad passed; The attack u.pon him by his old friends and neighbors, though • long expected, had been sudden and • terrible when it came, and as he wa.tched the burning of the house ' which had been his so long, he felt that every tie which bound him to the 'old place was severed. Then came swiftly the fearful tragedy. of the • enounteins, when Arthur was brought ,to hien dead. Stunned and bewildered by the startling events evbich had fol- ' lowed each other so rapidly, Paul was . hardly able to counsel for bimself, and assented readily to the plan which had really originated with Captain Carle- ton, who had another scheme under- lying that, but who suggested both so skillfully that Paul Ha verill fancied they were his own ideas, and gave '•them as such to Maude. They would go to .Knoxvilee with the soldiers, he said; thence to Nashville. They had some eetatives tbere, and, after resting for a lathe they would con- tialue their journeyings North, going, perhaps, as „far as New York. "I always wanted to travel North," he said, "but my . affairs kept me at sacenee Now I have no affairs My titiglibers have relieved me of such ocinmodities, and I want to gel; away • from a. spot where I have witnessed slich dreadful things. We all need chaege, You, Maude more than and • Charlie more than either, I don't know what has come over the boy. That • horritile night and morning were too mueli for him." Maude knew teat so far as Charlie was concerned, her uncle had spoken truly. Charlie was greatly changed, • and his eyes had in them a scared look, as if every detail of the borrors of the fight on the mountain hid etartmed it- self indelibly upon his mind, a nd was' never for an instant forgotten, He needed a change of place and scone;• and as she could not return to Arthur's' desolate home, whither the sad news had been. sent at mace, IVIitude • assented to the Nashville errangemett, and in three weeks was, ecarafortably • eettled at a Nashville hotel, with LOIS aa tier attendant, Her uncle, Cearlie, tied Captain .0arleton were with her, the Litter constantly putting off his !journey to Rookland, evbere tbay were 50 areicioasly waiting for bine had written to Vase iteneedietely niter bis arrival.at Nesliville, telling her of all that had transpired, and speaking of Maude De Vere as One whom he hop - --- CHAPTER XXXVI. seems to be one of the worst we have had. I doubt if his vill survive the horrors he has d, even if his body does. Poor his mother would. not recog- nize iro. now." This was what the physician at An- napolis said to Mrs. Simms of a miser- able, emaciated skeleton, which had come up from Andersonville with the last arrival of prisoners. • While we in the mountains of Ten- nessee were tracing the wanderings of Will. Mather and Captain Carleton, 'Mrs. Simms and Aznie had stood un- tiringly at their posts beside the sick and dying soldiers who haa learned to bless and watch for the stern widow and to love and worship the beautiful Annie Graham. And welt had she earned such appreciation, for she had been most faithful to the wretched ones committed to leer caree-faithful both to body and soul, and in the bet- ter world she knew there was waiting to welcome her, more than one, whose darkened naind she had led to the fountain of all light. And Annie had made a vow to atay, Lilt from that foul Southern prison, where 28,000 men had died, there came to her the one for whom she always looked so anxiously when new arrivals came, her blue eyes running rapidly over each wasted form and then fining with tears when the scrutiny was found to be in vain. James Carleton had never been heard from since that letter sent to her so long ago, and hope had died out- of Annie's heart, when at last, with Widow Simms, she stood by the cot where lay the insensible form of which the physician had spoken so dis- couragingly. It was the figure of a young man, who must once have been finely form- ed, with handsom.e facie and hair and eyes. The latter were closed now, and only the lids moved with a eon- vulsive motion, as Annie bent over him. The dark hair, matted. and coarse and filthy, had curled in rings about, the bony forehead, but had been cut away when the bath was given, and the closely shorn head was like many other heads which Annie Gra- haim's hands had touched, gently, ten- derly, as they now moved over this one, -trying to infuse some life into the breathing skeleton. He was to be her charge,—he was in her division and Mrs. Simms' keen, grey eyes scanned Annie curiously as she bent over the poor fellow. Re was helpless as an Infant, and Annie nursed him much as she would have. nursed a baby whose life hung on a thread. He had been there four days, and only a faint, moaning sound had given token of life or conscious- ness. But at the close of the [fourth day, as Annie sat chafing the pulse- less fingers where the grey skin hung so loosely, the eyes opened for a mom- ent and were fixed upon her face, There was no consciousness in them— no recognition of her presence, nothing but the strained, hungry, despairing look Annie had seen in the eyes 'of so many of our prisoners, and which to a greater or less degree was peculiar to them all. Annie saw this look, and then underneath it all she saw some- thing more, — what it was she eould not tell, but it brought back to her those moonlight nights.upon the beach at New London, and that other night of more recent date, when she sat with Jimmie Carleton beneath the Rockland sky and heard his passionate words of love, and saw his soft, black eyes kindle ,with earnestness and, then grow sad and sorrowful with disap- pointment. There was no kindling in them now,—no ardent ,passion or heat of love,—but a certain sof tness and brightness, and even sauciness, linger- ed still and told Annie at last who it was. "Oh, merciful Pa Uteri it is ,Timmiel" she said, and unmndful of any Who might be looking on, she bent down arid kissed the sunken cheeks from which the flesh was gone, • She had expected him so long, and grown so weary and hopeless with ex- peaciliohs unfulfilled, that she could scarcely believe i1 now, or realize that the halt dead wretch before her was mice the lively, humorous, teasing jimmie Carleton. Row she pitied him, and how her heart throbbed as she thought of the suffering he must have endured ere he reached Lille state of apparent imbecility. Then, . as shc remembered what the physioiaa said about his mind, she dropped upon her knees, ansi clasping her hands over hee fase, prateed earnestly' that God evoula rem Yfre ths darkneee and wholly reetore the man whom she loved so -dearly, "Do you think he will die?" abe ask- ed Mrs, Simms who had bohle tor a mement to bee side. "You know Jdxi tben. I was won- dering that an old women like me should see elearer than you. I, rale - trusted from the first," airs. Simms answered, and then to Anntee eager questioning he replied, "It will - almost a rairaole if we do get any sense into that brain, or flese upon these bones, but we'll do the best we cane" Her words were not very eneourag- jug, and Aneae's tears fell like rain upon the feta) of the man who 'gave no sign that he knew where.' he was, or who was bending over him. Ohl how he had longed for the • air of the North, as his face grew thinner, grey- er, and More corpse -like, weile his flesh seemed shrivelling and drying on his bones. Bill Baker had done what he could, to ameliorate his condi- tion„—done too much in fact, and as the result he auddenly found himself shorn of his larivileges, and an inmate again of the dreadful prison. tl3vn then he- °lung to and cared for Jim- mie, entil the pangs of starvation and the pains of sickness made him forget ful of all but himself. And there they pined and wept and waited until the day of their release, when Bill was too ill to be removed, and was' left in charge of a hunaane family, who kind- ly promised to care for him until he was better. From a Rockland sol- dier who had. been taken prisoner at tne battle of the Wilderness, Jimmie had heard that Mrs. Graham: was at Annapolis, and thent oh, how he long- ed for the time when it might be bis fate to be tended and nursed by bee. She would do it so gently, and so kindly and in his dreams. ttte walls of his pestilential prison stretched a,vvay- to the green fields of the North,evhere he walked again with Annie, and felt the clasp of her little hand, and. the light of her blue eyes. She was al- ways present with him,— she or the little Lulu, of Pequot memory. Some- how these two were strangely mixed, and when his Jellied began to totter as the physical strain on it became too great, the two faces were united in one body, and both bent lovingly over him, just as Annie Graham was doing now when he was past knowing or car- ing who ministered to him. A vague suspicion he had at intervals that in some respects there was a change, teat his bed was not the filthy sand bank, noT his covering the pitiless sky. Gradually, too, there came a different look upon his face; the color was ehanging from the dingy gray, to a more life -like hue; flesh was showing a ittle beneath the skin, and the dark hair began to grow, and Annie water- ed the tiny curls with bitter tears, for, as proof of the terriale life whose %or - ors will never 'halfbe written, the no black hair was coming out streak - d with grey. They knew in Rook - and that he was at Annapolis, but Annie had perem'ptorily forbidden ither Mrs. Carleton or Rose to come. 'They could do no good," she wrote. 'jinn:ale would not know them; and. hey -might be in the way." Tlaey were constantly expecting Tom rom Tennestee, with Maude De Vere nd her friends, and so they remained t home the more willingly, enjoining upon'Annie to write them evereada ust a line to tell how jimmie was. The summer rain was falling soft' pole the streets of Annapolis, and th ool evening air came stealing int he room, where Annie Graham sat b er patient. There were not Boman ow in her ward, and she had beer line for Jimmie, by whose bedsid very leisure moment was passed. Sh as sitting by him now, watching hi s he slept, and listening breathless' his low murmurings as he seeme be talking of her and the dreadtu rison-life. Then he slept mor undly, and she arranged the ligh that ib left his face in shadow, bu 11 full upon her own. Half an hour passed in this way, an nnia's head was beginning to droop om langour and drowsiness, when a dden exclamation startled her, and e looked up to see her patient's eyes -zed upon her, while with his finger pointed to the window opposite, and hispered. 'The star, it's risen again, when I ought it had set forever. I take it a good om'en,, Bill. I shall see her ce again." Did he think himself in prison still, th that star shining over him, and d he take her for 13111 Baker? The ought was not a very complimentary e, but Annie forgot everything in r joy, at this evidence of returning ason. eTimraie " she said softly, and she at her ?ace so close to his, that her s touched his forehead, "Jimmie, ft you know that you are in An - polis, with me, with Annie Graham. ur remember Annie?" he had many a time said. these very rds in his ears hoping somehow to press them upon him, and now she d succeeded, for he repeated them er her slowly and with long pauses. e a school -boy trying to say a half- rned lesson. Jlearnie—don't.you — know — that — are here—Ln Annapolis --with —with — Annie—Graham — You re- mber—Annie?" eid as he said them consciousness an to struggle back—the black s fastened themselves upon Annie h a wistful look; then they took in dre,ss, her hands folded in her lap, decent covering on the bed, the niture of the room, and then owing up his arme he felt of Ms h, and examined, his linen, and ted the pillow, while still the look yonder and perplexity deepened on face. Suddenly he let his arms p helplessly, then stretched them ir towards Annie, a•nd while both and lip quivered touclaingly, and tears streamed from his eyes, he vexed, lean face, clean handfs, soft p11 - and bed, with the hunger, and st, and honas-sickness gone, This yes, this must be God's land, and is there with me." he National Lifeboat Institutiou has 'd over 45.000 lives since its estab- raent in 1824. To be Co/Ali:med, 1 1 a 0 lm a to to so so fe A fr su sh fL he th as fa wi di th on he re be lip do na Yo wo um ha aft lik lea you. me me beg eye wit her the fur thr fles pat of his dro feeb chin the whi low thir is— she T save lish DOMINION What the Legislators Of the COlentref are Doing at OttaWa. DRUG STANDARD. The House wextE iuto committee on the bill to maul the Adulteration Act, a Governmeat ane,usure. Sir Hemet jay said the bill bad beep, drafted by mance' members of the House, Be asked Dr. Roddick to ex- plain the provisions. Dr. Roddick, Con., 81. Antoine, Mont- real, said the object of the bill was to establish a uniform standard for the Preparation a drugs, Great confusion existed among the medial' profession and druggists owing to the use of different pharmacopoeia in different portions of the country. For instance, in the British pharmacopoeia the strength of tincture of accnite was 5 per cent., in the United States phar- macopoeia 35 per pent., or Maven times greaten To guard against danger the medical profession asked that some standard be established. The time was opportune for this law, because a new edition of the British Pharmacopoeia was just out, and under the bill it could be made the etaetdaed for Can- ada. . The bill was given a third reading. The Act respecting the. Canadian Power Co., and to change its =nee to the Dominion Power Co., of Niagara Falls, received it third. reading. PROFITS OF THE SHARKS. At a ,meeting cif the Senate Commit- tee on Banking and Commeroe on Tuesday, the Canada Life Assurance bill was passed without any amend- ments. , - An act inatrporating the Imperial Loan and. Investment Co., was also adopted, as was also an act respect- ing the Home Life Association of Canada. An interesting discussion took place on Senator Dandurand's bill respect- ing usury. Mr. Dandurand gave neon instances where as bigh as 5 per cent. per day was eharged and there were numerous instances of 60 pee per annum. In some cases men had their wages garnisheed for two years for small loans of ale, and 010 was still owing at the end of two years. Sir Mackenzie Bowell gave similar instances of how the usurer operat- ed. There was a strong feeling at the carnmettee in favor of the bill, the only difference ofopinion being that the bill did. not go far enough. It was referred to a sub-conamittee tO make it more stringent. . T1fl LASH FOR, BURGLARS. Y The bill introduced by Mr. Mills in the Senate to amend the Criminal Code Y provides a large number of charges, e principally on mutters which have been e brought to the attention of the Gov - Y arnment from time to time by woman's Y associations and labour organizations. e Soma of the changes which were .0 e posed in 1897 by Sir Oliver Mowat e when Minister of Justice valte rejea- • ed by the Senate. • It is intended, for instance, to amend d the law in the case of the seduction of 1 a girl under 16 years. A age by strik- ing out "of previous chaste chevio- t ter." It will not be necessary to prove t this to obtain conviction. , Ita is also proposal to add the words d "shop girls and domestic servants" to those of factories and workshops, mak- ing it an indictable offence for any forexnan or employer seducing any one of these in his eraploy, • This was re- jected by the Senate in 1897. The subject' of lotteries is also dealt with; and where sueh are permissible for the eiecourage,neent of works of art: the pictures rust be delivered, and the option that a money prize may be taken instead is done away with. Section 520 in regard to combina- tions is charged so that it will not ap- ply to workman who combine for their own protection• . Burglary is m:ade an offence which may be punishable by the lash. In respect to selling obscene pictures the word "publicly" is omitted, so that those who make or sell, whether privately and publicly, can be punished. There are a number of other im- portant changes. THE ELECTIONS ACT. At the opening Mr, Ingram., East Elgin, introduced a bill to amend the Election not, which was designed to meet, he suggested, the advanced meth- ods of conducting elections, more par- ticularly in Ontario. Among its main features are provisions to prevent the importation of expert deputy returning officers from outside constituencies by ruling that deputy returning officers shall be residents of the county in which the election is being held; to strike out the clause that calls of a $200 deposit by parties nominated as oandidates in Dominion elections; to increase the penalties for personation, ballot stuffing, stealing ballots, etc.; to require returning officers to furn- ish to the candidateathe names of de- puties and the polls at which they are to set; to require deputy returning of- ficers to show ballots to agents When counting up the poll; to stipulate that where polls are distant; not more than twelve miles ballot boxee shall be in the hands of the returning officer vvithin five hours after the close of, the poll hied to specify that where ballots have beeh spoiled the depety returning officers shall furnish new papers. JAPANESE -EXCLUSION DISALLOW- ANCE. The First Minister, in reply it) a question by Mr, McInnes, Vancouver Island, confirmed the statement ape peering in the press as to the disal- lowance of the legislation passed by the late governmeht of British Colum- bia in 1898, oncoming the exclusiou of jepaatese labor. The papers will shortly be laid on the table. COMIVIITTE.ES TOO LARGE. In the eezirse of a discussion eoridern- law the committees of the House Sir Richard Certwright expressea the opin- ion that parliament had made the mis- take of having too thany members on the committee, NO ORGANIC DISEASE, Mrs. Gruinpps—Well, these 'ere doc- tors don't know mueh, that's a fact. You know what a time Pve had with little johnny's mouth lately ? Caller—Yes, you told me. Mrs. Grumpps—Well, at last 1 took him to a doetor. The (loafer looked hinnover, and, said Johnny hadn't no organic, disease, And yet there ,rohriny sat right ill plain sight with his lips all Sore from playin' the mo u az-organ. POST TO YUKON, Kr. George Taylor, eead a, letter Seeking infermation as to the panne" post to the Yekon: The writer had sent three regit,tered parcels to his eon in Daweon a few weeks since but had teem returned froin Viotoria, The leoetneaster-General explained that there had beep no service for this cease of matter during' the winter owe jug to the cliffieulty of getting la and aut. The service would begin when it is possible to get in and out freely bY water. He did not. think it would. be- gin before June FRUIT STANDARD. Mr. x. C. !Ford, of Oaleville„, Ont., and 1\2r, 0. W. Hunt, of Ottawa, actor°, peeled by aresere Henderson, Pettet, and °later Members of Parliament, bed an interview ewith Sir Henri on Thursday afternoon regarding Mr. Penny's bell to define the size of small fruit: packagea. rile bill proposes that the standard of measure for buying and selling strawlaerries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, and other small fruits shall be the quart, whieh shall contain, when even ful1,47 cubic inch- es. The inside imeasueeracint of the standard qaart basket shall be , 5 1-4 inches on each side. at the top and 4 3-8 inches on each side at the bot- tom, an.d it shall be e 7-8 inches deep, Similiarly the eizes 'of the pint and half-pint baskets are defined by the hill. Te deputation pointed out that the institution of such a standard, which was neither imperial nor wine mea- sure, would be meat disastrous to the fruit. trade by greatly disturbing the conditions of the market. IL would ne- cessitate the construction of a differ- ent size crate, and. would be a great hardship to fruit -growers, because their waggons to -day were so con- structed orates, ruorcatedsas to carry a certain! number The Minister was evidently impress- ed with tee force a the arguments, and it is generally believed that he will not permit the hill to pass the, House in its present shape. SHOT THE I[ANEATER DEAD AN EXCITING LION HUNT IN AN AFRICAN JUNGLE. A roura teen•YearetnBoy Stolen In Night and the Experiences of the Fre Explorer Foa lat Trallia,g the Anti an d5 Killing Shot well rite The French explorer, M. Edoua Foe, the author of the volume "Fr the Cape to Lake Nyassa," is nowpti lishing cia account of his exploits as lion and elephant hunter, which French papers are printing conspic ously. The follo-wing is his story of lion chase in Tchirom'o: "Two natives came to me, sent the thief of a neighboring villa They told me that a lion had. carri away an old woman and that he w still prowling around the neighbo hood. We set out immediately a after a march of four hours we arr ed at the village. Night was comin on and it was impossible to do an thing in the darkness. The be plan was to wait for daylight. A,li tle distance from this habitation the was another village, where the n tives were dancing to the music tam -tams. At half -past 4 in the mor ing I heard shrieks and! cries in th little village, and just as I got ou with my gun in hand, followed by 332 men, a Weeping woman threw herse at my feet wringing her hands an explaining that a lion ha.d carrie away her son. "By torchlights we found our wa to the other village, and, on inquir ing, we learned that the lion ha carried away- the boy just as he open ed the door of the hut to fetch som firewood that was at the threshold The cries uttered by the people in the village frightened the lion away find any trace of him ith its torch laingd,moreover,hts. it was impossible to ev DAYLIGHT SOON APPEARED. I told the natives not tocome in any great crowd. So ten men only accom- panied 'me in silence, according to orders. As soon as there was suffi- cient light to follow the trail we went to the hut from which the child had been carried away. "We found the trail behind the house, which proved that the brute had gone around it. With the trail there were footmarks of the child, ,Evident- ly he had been. seized lay the !upper part of the body. Then we found a few drops of Mood.. The animal pass- ed through one of the streets—if we raay call 'them streets—oL the village, leading toward the river, going along with his burden in front of more than twenty huts. The inhabitants had not been aroused by the woman's cries un- til' after the beast had passed. Still following the track, we reached. the stream, where the animal, halted and left his prey beside him. This was proved by the presence of a little pool of blood. Then he crossed the river, which was only one foot deep, passing obliquely, almost descending the cur- rent, for four er five meters, then com- ing out and entering the reeds which line the stream. "Before following the trail. any further I sent Tapabarika to wateli the outer edge of the thiek bashes and to fincl re if thewere any traces of the animal having passed through. A well-khown whistle team him notified us that sueb was the case, so I took to the clearing in oiler to get to him as quickly as possible. After running for a short distanee through the tall grass we came upon a new pool of blood. which showed where the beaSt had stopped again. Then we found ourselves in a little open plain still on the trail of the nocturnal maneater. After that we entered a wood, where we discovered Oats of blond and the belt ot pearls (hat the little fellow had worn atound his lo'ns. After IMIwe found part of his Searity elothing, Whieh Was torn Off by the bushes, A POOL Oh' BLOOD indicated where the brute began to tear up hie victim. thee uch tai rd oni b - the 51- aby ge, ed as r- nd iv- Y- st 1- re a - of n - if "Malty, un the oppoeite edge ef the wood we passe4 into the lege grass, liseLed eau t ehall. g ohwe L r owuog hit inetuetdo, We knew that the anigtel was there; but was be going to charge? We heard nothing more, I cooked my Om exact kept within reach of zny' band ray lax eharges of buckshot cartridges, When aU 11Ning oViea:51:111:aealadn3d. ale antinil:e:td.rtiolgnrstet:re,e sUgJit est sound, Tee mares before us we heard the rustliug of the long grass end WO saw the heads of it waving, but nothing more. We continued to advance slowly. To the right there was a tree, a made a sign to Kara- bomben who climbed it like a monkey in a few jumps. Soon he' was in tthe trees fork and on the watch. 'The child is here,' he said., 'but there is no lion.' Then turning to the right he shouted: "Here he isl Cane this wayle "Guided by his gesture I ran to the right. Then 1 signalled to the na- tneiveeest 10 0f fmolylowarmuss tinnfladwe itthheroa LIT liveee" stand that they were to watch the grass to the left. 1 sent Rocizani to tell them to make a noise so as to frighten the lion toward me. Then I placed. myself in a little opening and remained motionless, watching the bunch- of husbes fram which I ex- pected every moment to see the brute emerge. Ka.mbombe in the tree whispered: 'He's going away. No, he is corning back now. Re stops and lookin the directioa 02 the men, Now he's coming your way in a walk. Here he comes! Here he comes! Step back a little!' "One may imagine the anxiety with which I listened to these words. Tak- ing his .a,dvice I stepped back two paces. My men were behind me with their arms ready. 'Don't fire except in case of necessity,' said I. 'Don't ae in a hurry,' said Tarabaroka. The tall grass moved forward, like a wave and the lion came out at about eight me- tres from me, walking slowly and oc- casionally looking behind him. At last he saw me. He stopped, showed his teeth growled and advanced with- out changing his course. At the same moment he lashed his tail, low- ered his ears and seemed aboutto charge. Having foleowed him with my gun, I aimed at the nape of his neck and pulled the trigger. His legs bent as if they were rubber, and! he ROLLED OVER DEAD AS A LOG. • "He was an old fellow of ordinary size and extremely thin. The child that he intended to devour was about 14 years old and must have been 'kill- ed the very moment he was seizedobe- cause these felines never carry off struggling prey unless they are obliged to do so by a surprise. We Carried back on an improvised litter the bodies of the two actors in this nocturnal drams. That of the child showed deep Wound,s which had torn the nick and the right shoulder, and on one of his thighs the bone was laid bare. As for the body of the lion, when it was brought to the village, carried by eight men, the whole popu- lation attempted to rush upon it with old guns, bows and spears. I shouted that the first one to touch theacarcass before it was skinned would make the acquaintance of my cane. All the populatiort sat down in a circle, wait- ing patiently until aChigalle, aided. by Rodzati and Msiambiri, finished. their work. Then they rushed upon the body, filled it with projectiles, per- forated it with spear thrusts and.drag- ged the remains through all the neigla- boring villages. Without feet and without a head it looked like an ox prepared by the butchers. Later, lathe midst of the lamentations of the. wo- me.n, there was a funeral dance and more noise. The body of the lion was bu.rn:d upon an enorznous fire. When we were half way on. the road to our camp, we could hear their noise of the Lam -tains and see the red light of the fire, which proved to us teat the na- tives were making sure that expiation was eomplete." BLINDNESS IN SPAIN. Experts Declare et To Be hue Entirely To Each of ForcAg'zi. The large proportion of blind people in Spain has attracted attention since the beginning of the present century, The subject is again brought up by an article by Privy Councilor Hirschberg, in the Ger,nacin 1VIedica1 Weekly, giving the results of his recent observation in Spain, where he attended the Hygienic Congress. He says the streets of Madrid swarm with blind beggars; the further south he went the more blind he met. The propor- tion in Spain as given in the census of 1860 is 11 to 10,000, againet 8 to 9 in Gerxunny, France and England, but that figure is considered undoubtedly false by continental authorities. More recent figuresngive 14.8. The chief causes of blindness in Spain are in- flammation of the 'eyes of infants, granulation and smallpox. The wide- spread fatalistic attitude of the sick, the lack of ;Governmental oversight, and the magi atteni ion paid to di 'ease of tete eye, operate to increase the number of blind in Spain. There is not a single ratio eye hospital in Spain, according to Dr. Hirschberg, only wards in general hospitals and private inetitutions. • TRUTH ABOVE ALL THINGS. The person who gees againsb his own interests by the rigidness of his de- votion to truth sometintes finds that he has served his interest in that very way An English paper tells this story: boy oace applied at a store for work. We don't like lazy boys here said the manager.. Are you fehd of work ? No, sir, responded the boy, lookieg the other straight in the face. Oh, you're not, are you? Well, we wont a boy that is. There ain't any, said tbe boy decid- edly. Oh, yes, there are. We have had over half it dozeh of that kind here this mailbag to take the place we ve. How do you know they ate? aeked the boy. They told me SO. So 'could T, hut I'm not a liar. And the 1.cl slid it with such a eon- vincing energy that he Wae gaged IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND, DOINGS OP THE ENGLISH PEOPLE REPORTED Bla NAIL. 1. Record of the Events "Taking Pince In Ike tam, of ghc Rolie—Autorestiltw Oceor.• rolices, There are 3,000,000 total abetai.nera in the United. Kingdom, Over twenty boys ueceer 18 years of age have won the Vitoria °roes - The Barenees Burd.ett-Couttels said, to, be wortli about £800,000, and lier bl- oom:La is set dowo as being close upon 4100 a day, IVI'ajor-General Sir W. Gatacre, 41 B., who coanmanded the British diva. aeon in tee Soudan, in replybeg to the Charge of inhuenanity towards the wounded and defeated dervishes, gives au abso/ute contradiction to such ao- ousations on behalf of those with whom he wee connected. It is announced, that the ist cola - stream Guards will go from Chelsea to Gibraltar, and the 1st Soots Guerda tWtwohaieltilhetm:nndivtoColalefrd'rso.ieramthraeekfTIZonlwaenGrdrtaoveeCh:leeneld-saelt'adc; Colcletreams from Wellington Barracks Tile ileath took place on the 27th ult. at Leamington of Mr. Crichton Kin - mond of Card.ney. Mr. Kinmoud, who has been. in bad, health ecar some time, was well knoWn as the inventor of many of the. mains now used in the pgarrepdaeIls rati:coeyttieoanl.. eat for the market, anwas the owner of extensive tea Dickens' cigar box, which ,since his death has been in pos,session of E. B. Halsworth, publisher of All the Year Round, is any offered for. sale by a Landon dealer, at $100. It is of solid oak, the sides, top and. end s having ornamental gilt scroll work; the feet arreporoeusetniula t tohoofsjid,and Dickens' initials The Hunters' Improvement Society of Great Britain announce that at this year's Horse Show all yearlings must be undoeked. Next year the rule will be applied to yearlings and two -year- olds, the next year it will be extended to three -year-olds, and so on, until all horses exhibited are provided with natural caudal appendages. Henry M. Stanley attxibutes the pre- sent trouble in the Congo Free State to the incapacity of Belgian officers in managing the natives. Mr. Stanley says central Africci will become civil- ized within the next twenty years. The natives are easily managed where kindness is combined with firmness. When educated they grow into peace- ful and industrial citizens. The wife of Dr. Parker, of the Citer Temple, London, who died -the other day, had the following memorandum attached. to her particularly request and direct that at my death these who love me will put on no sign whatever of mourning, but that they will think of rae as promoted to a high- er school, where I shall meet my Lord, and know even as z am known." Among the most remarkable women is Mrs. Finn, whose late husband was English Consul at Jerusalem for six- teen years. Mrs. Finn is a daughter of the R,ev. Dr. McCaul, the great He- brew scholar of his time, and can her- self speak French, German, Spanish, Italian, Persian, Greek, Hebrew and. Arabic. She is a writer, painter and. lecturer, but takes greatest pleasure in running a soap factory which she established in Jerusalem and has car- ried an successfully for years. It is said. that Dinah Mulock Craik, the famous authoress of "John Halifax, Gentleman," made a habit a leaving at her bank the manuscript of each a her stories as soon as it eves com- pleted. It would remain there perhaps six months, and then she would call for it and. see how the story affected her after that lapse of time. If it pleased her the manuscript was sent to the publishers, otherwise it was re -Written or thrown away. Ail oak tree of perhaps two hundred years' growth, was being felled. at Bradenham Wood, Eng., when the woodman called attention to some- thing' peculiar on the tap -root. On clearing this lef soil it was founa that the object was a aerse shoe of ancient make. Obviously in the beginning an acorn must have fallen into the hollow of this cast shoe, and as it grew through the slow generations, the root filled up the circle, carrying it down into the earth in the protess of its increese, till at length the wood and iron were thus strangely wedded. That tap -root is now usect as a paper weight in the vestibule at Bradenham Soms ;ears ago, when the Queen vis- itesi is certain sisterhood, she desired the superior to show her tbe place just as ail ordinary visitor, and not to tre,at her as Queen. The superior agreed, and. proceeded to eonduct her Majesty all ova the building. The Queen was much interested, but observed with vexation tbat wherever they went the sisters eurtised. At last she remark- ed to her guide—"I thought I made you to understand that I wished to be treated, as aa ordinary visitor? Why, then, is- every one curtsying ?" "Par. don me, madam," replied the mother, "you have been obeyed, The reverenee shown by the sisters wesnot intended for the Queen, bet for me, their se- lietrtler. isproposed to endow a scholarship at the Gordoe College in memory of Colonel Hamill Stewart, arid to raise is subscriptioe for that object, Colonel Stewart was the heroic companion of Gordon oh hie mission to Khartoum, and Was treachierously murdered near Berber in Septexaber, 1884. It was he who, tis Deeember, 1882, arrived in the Soudan to report on the gtowth and power of Maladism, arta from there sent down wanting after warning to the Egyptian Government, Thirteen mouths later he was directed at a mementee notei atoompany. Gordon clone on the long journey to Miar. toutn. Afterveard he was sent dOWn the Nile ha melte a report to the ail- thoritio,s and was murdered on the way.