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LOVED AND NOT LOVED.
CHAPTER III.
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"SUNDAY W01:81111,,"
It all arraeged Melt, for a weeder, onsily ;
enough, mid on Sunday morning May
and her felther might themeelves listeniug
more to the organ thee to the einging,
though the Wetedshot choir del Its best to
impress the new -comer. Matthew himself 1
sees eta of sight from lliee Jeanine( pew, ;
teoegh ho Wag full in view of elies Ball's, 1
w ho eyed bins throngli her glaes from titue
to time. The back of his head, which of ;
0011rge was all she colila see, Mlly bore out
her Ohurnborough friend's deeeription; it ;
WAS neaely set on hie elenthiers, and the hair
wee dark and thiok and emooth. " Nothing ;
-10421leaRantly foreign alma the young man,
at all events," thought Paul Ball, She re- ,
gretted the Lodge leint, lea ettligretelated ,
hereelf on her untliminiehtel portion of 641 ,
rabbit pie, and she had always little Egypt's
company.
It was a red-letter lay for Woodshot, use •
appreciative thomili its rustles Were.
atter, when Matthew de Nista/is Was a ram,
011113 composer, he could rem:Mire a :wile, 01
the stupidity of both choir and eougreeat ten,
which beat itself into that itnuaseive head
of ; his as he bowed it ever the ((eye --not. et,
much to heed his own music as to Iota the ,
Woodshot engine, ! And Woodshot eon-
gregation, for as part, retained a vague rt-
inembrance of having heard something very
fine mid unusual during that rimming an,
on the Sundays that followed.
May was not musical, but she hall played
the organ enough to know its capabilities,
and it was almost with feeling of amuse.
ment that she heard the difficulties she hall
never dared to tackle brought intn constant
play -such alternations of their, organ
end swell, saeh pedal paseages while the
hands held the chords. The Organ/PC
W81 masterful ; she began to wieh that
lite had seen hint before determining to iteit
him to luneheon-perhaps he might refuse
•
to come? But her father, who hail known ;
Mr. Passmore for malty years, had said that !
he would ask him, and she could 1101 1100' go
back from her request ; luncheon, too, had I
been altered t little. There teas a dish she
had helped the cook to make herself.
He did not refuse. W hen, at the end of
Ile service, lie looked up from the keys he
was hardly serpriseIl to see Mr. James
standing in the organ loft His playing
generally brought somebody there ; if he
had wondered at all, he woad only have
wendered that it wag 1101 (musically speak-
ing) somebody more intelligent than Mr.
James. But he did not wonder much when
he had been playing he was always then
built in by a sort of wall -part sound, part
strenuous endeavor -for many minutes.
Young Matthewl as he stared at Mr. James
with half -opened lips and widempened but
u nipeculative eyes, thee trim gentleman in
his Sunday suit, fresh from his Sunday
tonic, thought he looked rather wild
and silly, aud wondered if he ought
to speak to bim in Jerench or in
a chanting tone. But Mr. Jellies had set
himeelf ti. task, and whenever he hail net
himself a tisk he accomplished it (provided
it was nothing that troubled or hint hinr,
for the sake of his own rest at nights. He
accomplished Matthew's invitation tun
Matthew accepted it, as if he had never
had a choice abont 11, He would have
accepted an invitation from the squire
or the village grocer quite as read.
ily: he was really thinking that he a ould
se to stay in el oodshot for some hours of
the afternoon and get this fine orgue all to
himself in a church emptied of coughs and
pattering feet. He was aware of some vast
fabric in his brain he might upbuild ie
!eosin Be was still thinking this, so far aa
ie could be said to be thmlfing anything,
w hen lir. James presented hiin 10 1)18 dm:mil-
er May. He looked at her with ninon.
scions pleasnre, but his brown eyes, full of
dreams, heel not become expressive yet.
As they walked acrose the tiehls to the
Lodge, it was May whose gaze -under her
veil -was earnest, Somehow or other the
advent of this young man meant mueli for
her. Ho was older than sho had dared to
hope-tive.and-twenty at leaet-and his
gravity gave him more than hie years.
He was tall, too, end be hail a hand-
some face, pale, rather distinguished ; but
he was not to be judged by the lierk•
sbire Or Hampshire standard. Miss Paul
Ball would neither have suspeeted him of
" going to stand for the county," or have
dubbed him " Aldershot," as she dubbed
-rightly for the most part -the few well-
set-im, soldierly -looking men that had been
known to find their way to Voodshot
Church on Sundays, and that she had seen
at the afternoon service in Farnborough
Mansoleum. In all depended, thoeght May
quietly, what was there behind this impas-
sive face ? What were the inau's brains
worth ?
But she could not repress a touch of con-
tempt at his seeming so benighted after
playing the church organ for n few uncon-
trolled moments after service. .Cf it was
not weakness which he showed, perhaps it
was elfectetion,which was worse. Meantime,
though silenter than he, she began to feel
like a wave against a rock as the tide rises.
When she went upstairs to take off her
hat, she looked at herself oneefully in the
glass ; she wished to be approved, she WM
oonsoious of an effort for some eoncession,
the desire to win.
Matthew tle Biomes exelained hlinself
little at luncheon ; that is to say, he an
swered all her father's questions, which bo
mine gradually more deferential. It was
curious to hear the change in Mr. James's
tone when the curt " Ara yon going to be
long at Passmore's ?" was respouded to by a
languid "No," and she could gradually
glean that Matthew wait only at Chum.
borough for a few weeks, on a sort of inde-
pendent visit to his English friends, and in
no sense a pupil.
"How do you amuse yourself there 2"
wets the next question, which was certainly
the very last Mr. James would have asked
one of Passmore's boys, He was a clis.
oiplinarian.
".1 like the English ootietry," said Mat-
thew; " I have a cart and a, pony, besides
my piano -a very tolerable Pleyol. What
pianos do you me for, Rise James?"
It Wile the first question he had pub to
her, and she felt he did so bemuse she had
been watohing him Intently. The minks -
tion of this made her fair, honeet faco flush
as elle maimed, " Oh 11 know very little
about pianos ; carts and ponies are niore in
my line" -a reply whioh made her father
sigh audibly, though he would never have
lot her practise if she had been tho greatest
0111Sigla enthusiast in the kingdom, and had
rather °meanies(' her fancy for 8,pony-eart,
because It took her out of his way and kopt
the house quiet. " Shoes off at last," he
Would say, and then, probably, go out liiin.
• self.
In her simple fashion May wont on tautly-
ing Matthew as the 111011 progressed ; sho
rather disliked him, ho offended her in many
infinitesimal ways -bo dhl not eat enough,
he did not care, apperenely, for what lo did
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eete end not notne it, awl onee-it WaS
d mum t 111'. 1' she had helped to were -
timing himeelf elewer 11161 hor halite had
hem, put• down his indfo mud fork ale
seutly mei let his pho he taken from 10n,
W just aft er this, lei vestmented upon
the note to hied wee singing outside, with it
monteutary Smile Whiei, lighted up Ids hand.
some ftwo, she felt ehe :meld have boxed his
ears. 31oo/1 81111 fooM\,'101S
d ; ay far too
healthy ew te like good fowl herself eer-
taiely thee' talked about it too much et
18 oleli't. lier father euspeeted every
dainty she contrived 1 her intimates -like
!Aim Paul Bell • beseught reeeipts, appeals.
ed, enjoyed, It no all in extreme, but
Nurely (hero was a Ini/hllo way between
their analyse: and this complete dieregard.
.1.1 least, if he was sane and well, he might
have eaten his luncheon film 0 man ; elm '
had uot tried 1,, poisim him. She liked 1
hen 6 thought better when he seemed to I
,miey his etidee and eigarette in the gar. ;
den ; the le eau to feel motherly towards
Min, as ifshe (1)111,1 hove said, '' There you
yen ale all rn
;ght. ow I You dida
wnt
your 111101111, atter all" -not undeistand•
lion ever, that it 1660 1111 calming 1)1 1115
0111 ves hy feed alter the musie's exeitation
wa,i making him more adaptable,
thet he 16a1, 111 Met, temporarily assimilat-
ed to lior own stupitiity-fer the moment
w,,! thy than 1,1111st'll,
111- uas Li' 8 ..,ry iirst artistic nature
itl, whieh she had been brought into con-
tact dut•ing all her Slw could not but
p/ToviVo how keen his seuses were, how
easily his nerves were soothed and jarred.
11 hen he said to her that the garden smelt
of all sorts of :tweet things, she said "Yes,"
and took it fer a generalivation ; but when
he trent on to say -and this while he was
sitting with his back to the orehnrd-" I
can smell heliotrope, honeysuckle, and ripe
apples," she felt that she 600111 no longer
attribute hie enreleesuele at lueeheon to a
want of discriminating taste.
" It is really like a beautiful chard of
musie," he added, turning to her -only be-
muse she was a woman, and women gen-
erally underetood those things quicker
than men-" the honeysuckle sharpness,
the heliotrope eweetness, and the apple
warmth.
She envied him for perceiving all tine,
but jumped off at a tangent and said:-
" 011 I can smell nothing but coffee "-
-and this did int sown to shock him as elle
had ball nieful1 and half retired that it should.
Because he had no effeetation, because he
was simph.-mot less simple than May wns,
but mon. highly strung -it struek him as
naturel that if she smolt coffee a bovo the
tlowev seen: she should say so, Why should
she pose to be refined when hie rehnement
had been purely natural?
"1 161 11)38 smell the water that vegetables
have been boiled hi, After luncheon here,"
said Mr, dames, not to be outdone 101 deli.
cacy of perm/diem
" Anything else ?" said May sharply with
an acerbity she rarely used to her father.
"Does any one smell drainage or bad fish ?"
Then Matthew laughed -laughed heart.
ily, so that May laughed Imo ; laughed good.
naturally, so that even her father smiled,
thong,h Ins smile was more hke a grimace.
" Ali, yes, it's all very well to laugh,"
said Mr. domes, " but me, health makes me
sensitive, lean hear a pig being killed three
mike off soinetimes.
Matthew, however, was not ateending
nnw, he was looking at May (who was 18
trifle ashame1 of her temper), and thinking
that obs WaS very quick and bright. She
had, in fact, realized 10 001)10 the impatience
which lir. James had made him feel. Tho
pair unconsciously were acting on each
other, for May had merest:eel herself more
sharply than usual, having felt tho ugliness
of her father's remark, not as it struck her
but 0011 m igh t trent e :Mat thew. Them:1\81as
O sort of sadden little link lit tween them,
which made it vitsu.r 1,,r her te say, " lam
sure Mr. ds, Nimes will net nthel your go-
ing to 110 (1)11611, papa, as you dinit vent:are
pm coffee."
Matthew bowed and rose from his garden
" I 011(111 10 take my leave," he
" Please don't, eidd May, " 1 always
sit here all the aiterimen : I ant too in.
competent to teach in tlte Sunday school ;
11,611101 the boys to learn their texts with
apples 1 they learned them so well 1 but
When I was fovbidden to bribe them, I
found I had no didactic gift whatever, so
I stay at home." And Mr. James, too,
pressed the young matt to stay, more be-
cause he was sleepy than bemuse he
wished to see him again. He did not like
to mink that his going away to rest a bit
should lring the visit to a close. That would
make him look selfish, and eln James
disliked to look selfish ; he humored his
conscience 110 much as his digestion, and
both required flettery.
And eo Matthew stayed. It is not con.
ceivehle that there is any reel difference in
the qualities of Sunday afternoon and week-
days, but people like May and Matthew,
who have borne the experiences of Sunday
morning, :nay be excused for thinkim so,
They wore both in an unusual frame of Mind.
May WaS at rest untired and after the en.
limed stillness of chiral ; Matthew Wag at
rest itiso, but quite wore 0111 881011 his long
walk and the long morning service. And to
both of them it was now to be lefb alone
with another just at the moment when
common -place topics were exhausted, and
they ware thrown upon their own resouroes.
It Wag true that Matthew had nitwit to
tell that Wall now to liey, bub he did not
trouble to tell it, and to what he did say
the did not listen as attentively as she had
done when her father was by, The need
of softening down possible jars seemed to
have been removed with the interrupter,
Now she let herself study :Matthew as sho
had never studied any mem before. Her
still gaze magnetized him ; he did not at-
tempt to go --and they both put down her
inattention auti his neaten to Sunday
afternoon 1 eleanthne her thoughts wont
raeing through her brain ; how evoald it
be 11 11. was like this etwityt ? If this was
normel-not abnormal -Sunday afternoon 2
If Matthew was installed at Woodshot, and
had brought his Merit piano over from
Churnborough for a permanence ? If she was
My de Nimes/ ? If he woe going lobo there
n,t dinner 08 Well as at luncheon 1 and at
breakfast the mitt clay? Not amiss 1 she
liked his unobtrusive manner ; he would
not bore her ; on the contrary, there wee
hint of reserved force about, him thee inter-
ested her, May's long and independent girl-
hood had made her in some ways unwoman.
ly ; she was like a youeg num 01 wanting
very much to be allowed to find things
ont for herself, in disliking to be
taught or tom. The curiosity that he omit.
ed, tho want of interest, he ehowed-theso
wore elements of his charm for her,
Ho sat still, mid sho had leieure to no.
Deo him ; 11. 1,661(100 as much as oho could
do not to ask him Whether there ,,as 11
portrait 111 that loultot on hie chain, and
who bad given him the rim; he wore on
ids left band. If ho had been a: doll, a
/Anything, ein would have looked mot'
nearly at the lockot and the rine, ; and, in-
deed, he \vas little Moro to her ati yin ;
11110,1 it 'Owe niy,n 1 11,, lawn, elm lilted him
to be there ; alter a while, no doubt, 0111'would pet 111111 by, ON she hail /Mlle her mum:
tor, and ferget him.
l'he ehureb eloels, chiming his half holm
11011000 the lre•olow, 1111100/1 holre he
moved to go, mid thon 1 Maid mew wit
from the ,1 1
ramene•roons Wi0,1111V ()CH: i1 'ow
should bring Fettle 011, into the genien. May
whi4
went. to evening Hendee emnetinies, had
when she did se altered the hour of her
afteenoon tea,
" le it really tea time ?" mei Matthew
then, end 11)111101 )08 to ge, May did not
rise ; slut sta looking a; lore, and was eon-
scious of a wioh that he 0,01111 relax it little ;
Mu wanted. ti, 1/11 suro that the doll could
tipeak semething tom than stereotyped
wordie
" filmy 1" elm said 1 " lee tini0 is Roy
tinie here ; we eau have ton before you go,
und then yen can have ole hour's practice
you ‚18101) 110' Itefore eveuing service:, if really
yeti aro kind enmesh to phi.). Ode arming
too,"
" I 10 111 meta:oily play," he answered ;
" there is 0 sdt of eupper ou Sundays at
311', Passraore's ; I eau get back to Churn.
borough in time for that 1 I am never tired
of playing the organ, and I will play that
Reverie' of Wyly's after the serviee, that
you say you like se melt ; but I will not
stay ler tea ; I do not like tea, Anti you
will have all otalshet onumg here, 1
kin w."
" Nobody but Peel Ball." said May, with
O little suede, forgetting, thae he
did. not [mow all the nielinantes ot the par.
lob ; forgetting. Indere that ho was a
stranger, awl only cowmen's that she wish•
ed him to remain. The lines of hie deem,
the fact of his presence, were delightful to
her. Why should he bother about thee
stupid organ ?"
" 11 u perhaps you would as Ilef bo going
because of 'het 2" oho added. "Paul Ball
always comes to tea on Sundays." 1
" And will liee, no doubt, to find you,
as name alone,' said Matthew, polite but
ignorant.
May never thowdit it worth while to dis-
cuss what Paul Ball lik,•,1 or did not like.
" Von will be hero next Sunday," she said,
" and I hope you will lunch with us again.
You must not look upoo it ne an invitation
to be specially accepted ; only come if you
can, and if you aro not lunching else
whero."
She felt that she might say as much as
this; the young man was no Hort of trouble
to her, and her fat her did not put himself
out for him -1 hat was elear. But Such an
invitation was not customary from Wood -
shot Lodge, and she expected it to be rte.
motet' with some show of pleaetire, if not
with the ellusim that lliss Ball ;would have
shown-effitsion, which in her case, would
have been accentuated surprise. indeed,
she recellected ofterivards that she had not
been able to keep her voice wholly without
Malo of patronage.
"Thank you," lie ,a1,1 naturally, in just
the 56031 10110 she ; I effected; "if no ono
else invites me, 1 %yin certainly trespass
here; you have made me so \volcanic, and
made mg feel so muth at home. leave
my yard in the hall tor Mr. James, who
hardly knows my mom tts yet, in cam you
wish 1,1 1101 me oft "
elay did net answer; sho began to feel re -
heinous, she wanted him to ask her to go
with him to the church, sho wanted him to
do lin sorts of things which it was most no.
probable that he would dream of doing.
And she disliked the oonseiousness that she
evanuel to impress him.
He made n little bow, half shy, half
grat.eful, and hold out his hand; she looked
at it for a fraction of a second, still sitting
there, and viciously longed to slap it -this,
also, she recotleeted afterwards. Then her
ni.limers game imiukly back to her; she stood
up in a pretty, girlish way, and shook Imelda
with him kindly.
''181)011 1,0 in church this evening," she
said, "st it is not good-bye." She lingered
over this leave-taking; she could not have
said quite why; elm aid ma want to be
alone.
"Au revoir, then!" said Matthew, and in
that instant went.
Ile had to go through the drawing -room
to get his hat, Whiell Was in the hall, After
a minute, and wi theist Ewe, provioue inten-
t ;on of going, May followed him slowly.
'11 1111 die passed from the drawing -room into
the hall; be was gone: his cord was on the
hall table-"Vinnute 7111011m do Nismesee
She leaned both hands on the table and
stood over the card, )(inking down at it,
deep in thought. After a few minutes she
heard Paid Ball's bell,
iTO 01: CIONTENUEM,
Aeronaut's Fatal Desoent,
Details have mine to hand of the fatal ite-
oideut that befthl Mise \,aes Tassel, aeron-
aut, at Deceit, are particularly sad, Though
but a girl of 111, • ee unfortunate young lady
appears 10 11190 possessed halt the skill and
judgment nocuseary for Room/dishing her
daring parachute descent, nor did her self -
command forsake her, The vast crowd as-
sembled on the oceeteien on the fetes given
by the Nawalm of Dacca watehed the perm
chute as it detached Itself from the balloon
tet &peal: height, and it was observed 111101 111
opened out mid began 0, descend as evenly
uma gently 180 could be WiSiled, bet, unfor.
tunately, when appreitehing the ground, the
merhine caught in the bows of a casuarina
bree, EVell then MiSS 1711, TaS$01 retained
her presence ef mind, and gently disentan-
gling herself from the cords and trapeze,
secured a fine hold of the tree at a height
01 18110111 2011, Here some spectators has -
toiled to her assistanoe, tienl tried to help her
down with the aid of bamboo rods lashed to-
gether, It was while endeavoring to slide
down these thin the frail bamboos unfor-
tuntaely broke, precipitating the unfortun.
ate young lady to the ground, and evening
shook to the spine producing paralysis,
from which ebe died on the following day,
Spring Lambs.
When DOW born lambs are not owned by
their mothers, as is frequeribly done, they
oan be raised on maid and witter (if milk is
not n10111,110 with tho housekeeper). I know
from oxpeelence, for 0110 spring a poor for -
lore lietle lamb was brought from the field
nAmost frozen where its mother had deserted
it, Milk was not sufficiently plentiful to
give it as 01101 110 necessary, So, in a week
after using milk diluted with watee (using It
robber nipple and bottle as for bebiose
thougla / would try nsipg warm teeter with
cornmeal stirred in to thicken it somewhat :
had to enlarge the holes in the nipple. I
found the lamb 011,1e.,1 it as greedily as tho
milk, After finding 11 111619011 on this diet,
I continued for sonto weeks using tho bottle,
and then I tried to teach it to cat the meal
and water fon of 5 pan 111111. more meal in
tho water and inserted oue (dray fingers
in the mixture leaning the end ont for the
limb to suck the mad off it by (legroom,
drawing i),: mouth to the meal and water
and in a le 0, da31.:1 tht, lionh would eta with.
out my finger bemg pieced in the mix tore at
all, and it thrived and was unusually healthy
and strong
TEEBISLAIID 0,2 MYSTERY. 'soli a distance+, 'File eenstruet ion of these ANEki 1 UIVIBAIILLAS,
pyramids extended tiver 1 perhel of 1(1.0)
years. 'Vile). are uvergrewn by donee lovelies
Mra 11140 Spot In ravine Sett, i banyan and other tepee. Tile Tnielongite
Whir linet 011)03'e been regarded en an were heretlitavy Weil privet% Ae//or/1 1.)
island of illygtory and wololor has hooll re- law they could only marry the daughter., of
explored. 1.3 1111 expedi tem of the the teem, 'Moir goliti became prieete, while
Smith:to:Mut Inetit talon, with the rogue of their daughters were brought up to the
101088 01 Veal 111 Virgins, 'Phis latter 1)165 011
in the temples, and wore not permitted to
marry, lit 1 81111 the last of the Tul•Tongee
died. The arehiteetural ruins of Java /MU
pass those 01. Omit 1 al Aim:vire At Cliewli•
Sowit ttro 9a1,e1 the reinaine of ti hat, Was
mum all as80111 1:11Me 12011 tolm?100, err:weed
ill lire parallolograing, inie 1111Mio of 0e
t•Imee. 11i the cen t re of all is it 'erg,: temple
in the shape of a cross °errant:tied by forty
flights of eters, viehly ortutinented with
sou ip tures, and tendai i ng many apart men ts.
Eighty 111110e te east:met:1 is the temple of
lioroboils, cote:timing of a ceneral dome 50
feet in diameter, around whieh is a eirele of
72 towers, the whole building being 0211 feet
minor° anti 1110 feet high, en the walls 18111
11181108 vontaintug 400 cross-legged figures
larger them life. The amount id human
latent!. and 811111 expanded upon the pyramids
of Egypt sink into insignificanee when 00111.
pared Mill that whielt wits required to me-
• 1:teme11te 1 11/001 01 1:1411.1 11p011 1 10 history awl
1 Itooi•igin of the inarvele of Minute handl.
men•lt foetid there. Title fared:mot in 111,
midtit the vast leteilie eons far to realize
ill sober mot ter of fttet the lerieription given
hy 11 ider 111(1(11111 of the imagine ey kingdom
limy, once the residence of a numerous
popeltrion owl afterwarao to: immense
cemetery, its theusands of reeky caverns
filled with the boiles of moulderieg dead,
Such, in truth, is the famous Easter island,
whieh has so loug beer, a puzzle to ethnolo-
gists mid students of till tiquity. Tablets of
wood have liven discoveved, hearing 111'
0104(11108an ancient language, whieh 1 11
many snrprising things, and these, together
With 111111ierfing enriositieg the National
Museum and a great amount of infornettion
hero been brought away. Although bet a
rock of lava thrown up from the depths or
the soil and laving an area of only thin 31 -
two squere miles, Easter Island possessed
n, population of more than 20,0110. It plete this sculptured temple 10 1/10 111tOrlor
is actually honeyeombed with caves of ;lava. Forty miles soutit.west of Sania•
formed by bubbles of expending gases rang, on the stme nitwit, Is an exteneive
InMIN11 A/VMN, plateau covered with the ruins of temples,
to 6e0011 widell foul. stem: stairways were eon -
and these were used for dwelling places by
etructed, eine.anitaining more than a thou -
the people while aliee, their bones reposing
• , 10 • • sand steps. '116011) of 11)111131 400 tomploi
ere loand there, all of hem decorated with
rich and deli -ate sculptures. In Eastern
Java the ruin,: of forts, palaces, baths, tem-
ples, and ittpuitlitets are to lie seen every-
where. Likewise all through Polynesia aro
stupendous ruins, illustrating the science
and 1 tote of past ages and vanished rams
•
ono necropolis. Net merely are the eaverns
crowded %%lilt slcelotons, but everywhere
are scattered the ruins of etionnom tombs
and catavombe. The huge quantities of hu-
man iminains found, not less than the gigan-
tic character of the ruined works, prove the
occupancy of a large population for 1. period
coveriug many hundreds of years. The must
remarkable of the tombs aro immense per-
forms built of rough and hewn stones, ;which
wore formerly surmounted by colossal *ta-
ttles. Inside of a huge extinct, crater ir dis-
covered one of these stetue factories, where
the effigies may bo seen in all stages of in-
completion, from the rude outline drawing
on the rook to the finished work of art,
ready 10 1)0 eta loose and taken away. She New 13runswicker greatly moved his coin-
bigeest of them is seventy foot in height, 'anions -in -arms, by whom he Wag bold in
the head alone measuring twonty-eight feet
and 11 10 in as perfect condition as when first
completed. There 160 03 such statues with-
in the crater, of vitrious 91800, and 4.0 of them
a.re finished and ready to lie transported to
theburial platforms which they were doeign-
ed to adorn. ()treble of tIte crater, on the
west side of the mountain, is a bigger work- tained for him well.merited recognition by
shop, wheve 0110 hall/1110a and fifty.five the authorities. His nein of service was
statues are to be soon, including those which printically over, end he was under orders
sten(' at the to return home, with particularly bright
prospects, when he met his death. His
FOOT 0117116 0,4, 'A NO,
brother officers had !,r him the greatest ad -
ready for removal to the pletforms. To nitration bemuse of his ability, untiring
form an estimate of the magnitude of the energy, and devotion to duty, and one
labour performed by the imagemaeors, the of Nein hal tersely said. " By his death
expedition counted ell the effigies on the we have loot a bravo and trnste 1 von -trade
1011)04, 01)1,111 were found to number live . . . The corps has lost a nem. promise
hundred and fifty-five. It used to be sup0 ing and valued member and will 'feel proud
posed that those stone pants were gods, to record and hand down his brilliant ex -
but it ie now knowtt that they represent ample of soldierly courage ard gellautry
persons of distinction, and wee) set up as under the adverse circumstances in which
monutnents to perpetuate their memory. he mot his untimely death." What is per -
The smallest of them that has boon found laps a more interesting tribute te Captain
measures three feet in height. They are all Robinson's charttoter is a statement of the
V01' y much alike, each being the upper half feelings of hie men when word reached them
of a Inman figure eut off at the hips. The thee he 1Vag killed. Expressions of grief
faces are of an unvarying type, with heavy were general and some of them burst into
brows, long nose and short upper lip. In tears at t•he announcement. Apparently the
every case the head is out fiet on top so as expedition sent against the natives WaS not
to hold the crown. The image -makers wore strong enough for the work which 11 had to
a privileged class, end their profession de. do, and aftev the death of Captain Rubins° a
soended frent father to son. For some retie and the failure to enter the fort the expedi-
son, which in all probability will forevor tion returned. Subsequent telegraph advioes
remain amystery, then work was suddenly report that a larger force was sent out with
discoutinned, never to be resumed, 'The bettor reenits. In St, John expe6t:400e of
statues in all stages of completion at the regret et Captain Robinson's (knelt are very
workshop awl those abandoned on the genernl. His old friends and associates, and
roads to the coast indicate that the labour many who became acquainted with him for
was mildenly arrested, presumably by soon ths first time on his visit there last year,
extraordinary calamity, but tradition 111 feel thee by his death a brave and an honor -
silent as to the reason why. Extraordinary able life has ended while there was openiim
tales were told by early explorers of Easter before it a most brilliant career, and sym•
Island and its inhebitants. Behrens who pathy With the family is deep and general,
retina the pace in 172(1, wrote that The following letter, written by the officer
it lima tame oil' to the ship, steered by• a ennunandieg the expedition, gives details
giant 12 feet high. ''50,96(100 ere all respecting the sad oacurrence
of inot•e then gigantic size," he aays, ''the Krba'N.1., lllth March, 1802.
men everaging 12 feet, in height, aud broad It is with deepest regret that I write to
in proportion. The lancet men tell. you of the great lOgs We haVe SUStaill-
ed in the death of poor Robinson. He had
ON MUDD 'mu VaSsEL
been so harbworking all tho way up that
could pess between the logs of these child. everyone Woo Mil of admiration for his
von of Ciolieth without bending their beads, sohlienlike qualities, but oin• jest appreeia.
The women cannot compare in stature with tion of him was heightened, if possible,
tho men as they ttre not commonly above when eve met his magnilicent coed:let under
10 feet liigh." The lottecuracy of his story fire. Ho '16118 180 cool 115 0)) .parade, flred his
is sidliciontly proved by the facb that the rockets, and wale:lied them effect with in -
remains of the islanders obtained from the tercet, end when at last he Was asked to
tombs show them to have been of only med. blow in tho gate agreed at onee.
imn Wee, the biggest skeletons measuring He ntn beck a good distance for his ex -
less than six feet. They were brutally plosives and then wah an " All rhglbt ; ma -
treated by the whites who lirst visited them, jor, I'll be bock in a minute,' was through
being shot down mercilessly fev no worse the fleet fence and up to the gate. The man
offence than indulging 1 weakness for patty carrying the gun cotton did not follow him
thieving. These natives attach no moral past the fence ; so Robinson returned and
delinquency to the crime of stealing. They himself carried up and fixed the charge, It
had a god of thieving, and successful thefts wail a beautiful thing to see him calmly
wave believed to be ,oeoomplishod under his lying down atnidst the rettle of firearms at
patvonage, those who committed such the gate and fixing the dotonetor 810 if he
offenees being oely detected when their acts were at, praotice in the school.
were not mentioned by tho divinity. The Ho came back sefely, and his, Lundy,
thief who was caught did 1101 lose the re- Cockburn and their men charged bwiae for
spool; of his friends, but was subjecb to re- the gate, but failed to effeot entranne,
taliation in a peouliar form. In eine of Robinson, ‚19110 110(1 been in each time with
detection he Ants obliged to subtnit to being hie mon, wits at the end of tho second
beaten and otherwise abused by the injured charge, shut streight through the heart and
party, and was not permitted to offer any hugs and fell dead,
resistance, though he might be 11)6 01.1011(156. I ran to him at onee, but as I lifted him
Thusretaliationcoultlbeenforeedbytheweak to bear him off I saw that he was deel
and feeble against the stroog and powerful, My God 1 ely heart was sad ' • suelt a good
end any objections mado to 11 would sum. fellow, such a soldier, and justshtin at the
mon the aid of the entire commtuAty. An. moment when we were all full of admiration
dent oustom permitted the husband to leitse for him • at the moinent when he had so
hie wife to another man for a stated term. disbing;ished himself and gained without
Both men aud women, pertioularly the lat• doubt stioh a recognition as &soldier covets.
ter, were tattooed I would he had lived to wear it.
IN ELABORATE PATTERNS We brought the body, back and buried
with sharp -pointed fish bones fastened to a
him yesterday at nine o (stook, beside the
stiok, the logs of the females being so coy- tram of the frontier policeman who was
illed the last time I wee at this ill-fated
ored with dosigne in fine lace work as to
spot. Everybody wee pvesent exoept Major
make them look OA if they had on silk tights. Browne, who was badly wounded, and
Tho tn013 threw stones with marvellous ao-
Capt. Doyle, who was sick. We fired three
ouracy from the hand, and their 0(10010 890110 times, blow a flourish and came away with
pointed 3vith nothing more formidable than
very heavy hearts.
sharpened sections of celebash until they I have sent in to -day poor Robinson's boy,
found that flakes of volcanic glass inflicted George, who was faithful and good0. and
more severe wounds. Ile front of eaolt manliest with his master's body even when
dwelling was a mnall excevatimi lined witl
we were herrassed by the enemy in rear
Mono slabs, in which a fire was built. When and encompassed with blazing bush, lit to
the stones wevo suilloieutly heated the 110'o
was removed and the food to bo cooked was cut off our retreat.
Yours very sincerely,
put into this primitive oven and covered
A', L, MeDueencre, Moons,
over with damp myth to retain the warmth. 1110301' Conimaeding Expetlibion.
Wonderful monuments of antiquity are
scattered all throngh Polynesia, and Liter°
is hardly & group of islands on which the
explorer cannot find groat works, oxalate°.
Lurid and otherwise, of peoples which pass-
ed away ages ago. In tho Friendly islands
aro the graves of the Tui.Po1igas-10
truncated pyramids, each 100 feet square
at the base, and rising to elle height, of 25
foot. The donee of which tiny aro com-
posed are huge blocks of eoral coneroto,
meaty of them eighteen feet long and weigh.
hog twenty fats. They were out three
15891131, and
IT IS a glYSTIMY
how they could have been ememported for
Brave Young aanaclian,
Leiters and :papers received at St. John
N. II. last week from Africa give particulars
respecting the death of Captain Robinson,
of tho Royal Engineers, who was kilted in
action In ito exnedition against tho natives
in Itlareh lest. The death of this brave young
ugh esteem, and the exproseto»s concerning
him which have found their way into print
ere as unaffected as they are sincere, Cap.
lain Robinson Mel served flee seasous on
the Stems. Leone station, and his sondem
Nvere or such a character that he won not
only a name for himself, but they had oh -
Time Wanted.
Landlord (to 1/116)11) "Good morning,
sir ; fine day, sir. Juet mAled round to see
if it would bo convenient to settle your
quarter's rent ?"
" Do you know, landlord," said the 1010-
0,1(1 "111011 none of the doors in this bourn
will shut Y"
"Now house, sir," replied the landlord t
f, now house, you know, taken time to sot,
the,
"Ah, tben therein:4)1dr of us 1 Ien a now
tentita ; it takes timo for mo to sotele too.
Good morning. Cali again,"
.1rticie or UMW' Universe! ill IN
eineetni,
There lute long been it nuspielon that the
leading 11111)1 1,11 ntionifueturere have tam-
pered ei 1, t lie 11110 her Butetitu, aml have
fetid (tome of 111, Signal 8141000 employes
lutudimine salary te pred let rain. '1 he largo
number of pivtlietions of wet end ehowery
weather, 01)4111 have never been verified,
lends ,e,lee to the belief thee Many of the
inetecirologleal stiXatis of the elovernment
arc in the pay of the umbrella mitnufite-
LitAR1re8Ignal predietion of " fair with oeca-
sumal light showers," will vanee the Belo of
hundred:, of (nicest of umbrellaii to the
trade, elide a good, strong prediction of
northeasterly welds, with heavy mine,
gives a sudden beom to the umbeella indus-
try even when it is in the dry and yellow
loaf, The annual consumption of enthrones
in the United. Suttee is estimated at 13,000,•
on 1. Tile a rt itti,())118111tiruoulrytaisnei
ts-
wined ve wea tiler
this number very greatly,
l'he umbrellit is the most widespread
article in the world. It is found in every
clime, in every degree of latitude, and in
every degree of lifo, filie James D. Blaine
cluTies an mulaedla in te aellington. Ihe
: King of Dettonitty ramjets an lunhrolla 8t1lion
lie walks abroad in his capital. Mr. Cileel.
I stone carries an ntnIn•alla. So does the
I elaharejah of Delhi, the Abler of Swat,
the Prince of eletin, the Mikado of Japan,
the (Irina Tycoon of China, the Shah of
Pereitt, the King ,,f the tineetwich islands,
the Amour of Afgheniatan, and Muley
leveryboily has heard of old umbrellas."
Perhaps few are aware how old umbrellas
eve, Platters of -umbrellas aro found on
wells of the ruins of Nineveh. Jonah may
lave borrowed en umbrella if it happened
to be showery weather when ho visited
:Nineveh. Three thousand years ago the
citizen of Nineveh Duty have )01811011 his um-
brella against (8 winged lion and may have
stopped to tell; tvith a eitie.en of Babylon
who carried his enthrone under his arm.
Cleopatra liad a g011,„:30/10 umbrella. Julius
Caesar perluip ,walked up the steps of the
Henna Senate with an umbrella over his
head, Foe aughl anybody knows to the con-
trary, Notth nuty have carried a family ent-
hrone aboard the ark,
In 00100 countries tho umbrella, like th
sword, is a mark of distinction. Kings en
joy L certain reflected glory from the mag-
nificence at their umbrellas. Noblemaa
carry gorgeous umbrellas, but not no gor-
gown as those of the king.
The anatomy of an unibrella has never
been deeply studied, but 11 10 1101 dissimilar
to that of a human being. Both have ribs.
An Ante riciol multrelle usually has eight
ribs, though some particillarly largo twa
hem thy umbrellas havo 0101 0111 ribs. Chin.
ese and Japanese umbrellas have a gener-
ous allotment of ribs, some of them possess-
ing as many as forty or fifty.
Teaohing Horses to Stand.
An old horsemangives the following as
his method of treening horses to stain with-
out being tied : After yOUng horgeS have
once become entirely briille•wise, 1 first en-
dettvor to teach then' the meaning of every
word I say to them. This is not a diflieult
matter, provided too many words ere nee
used 01 0)100. The first step is to adopt some
word et elle sound of which they aro to un-
derstand that they 111051M:op. Words that
are easy to speak'and which earl he nialle
emphatic, should be chosen, such its " ho,"
"whoa," ete., and every time the word is
used the horse to which 11 10 spoken should
be nettle to obey it fully. Carelessness in
roped to this :natter will do more to undo
whet has been taught than met thing else.
:When a herso fully understands the mean-
ing of the word whieh you use when you
wish him to stop and stand still, tho greater
partof the work is itecom pl ished. Ho then can
be erusted with safety while you leave him
short time. To take no Welt, and to melte
the well: more effective, it is a good plan
for two to get into the vehiele to which a
horse is hitched, and, having stopped after
O short clrive, one should get ont tuid leave
him for a short distance. Should the horse
then Mart, tho ono in the vehicle eau draw
the lines suddenly, and thus prevent his
getting [may. There will be no trouble in
teaching any horse with au ordinztry amount,
of good common sense to stand as long as
you desire without being hitched, if a little
judgment and patience are used hi attempt
ing it.
A BLOODY -COLLISION..
Between Poilcentettnft Striking Iron -
Workers at (1hicago.
A Chicago, despatch 063101-81 bloody
collision between the police foroo and 20)
striking ironworkers from the World's Fair
grounds, supported by orowds of syinpli-
thisers, occurred to -day ab Grand crossing.
A soore or two of settle wounds wore inflict-
ed by the policemen's clubs, and the °mite -
mein for a time teas intense. The riot wat
due to the importittion of mon from New
York, Pittsburg and Baltimore to take the
places of strikers who were employed on the
manufacturing building by the Edgemore
13uficling and Construction Company.
Used 1011.
A German paper contains a reply from
elerayman who was travelling, and who
stopped at an hotel much frequented: by
commercial travellers. The host, nob
having boon used to having clergy-
men at his tahle, looked at him with
surprise. The travellers used all their
arbillery of wit upon him, without Meiling
remaek lo self-defence, Tho worthy
clergyman ate his dinner guiebly, apparent-
ly. without observing the jibes and Sheen of
his neighbors. One of them at lasts, lie
despair of his forbearance, said to him,
"Well, I wonder at your patience. Have
you not hoard all that hee been said aboub
you "01,, yes, but 1 ani accustomed to
it, Do you know who I ate?" No, sir."
" Well, I will infortn you. I am chaplain
of a lumen asylum. Buell remarks have
no effect ttpon me,"
His Proper Sphere.
Author-" Miley, I have made a misteke
in my calling ; I am nob au traitor,
but a born chemist."
Author's Wife-" What makes you think
thee, Eforace
Author-" Well, every book / write be-
comes a drug ie the market."
Felipe Mims, the Anarchist nOW under
arrest) 10 Madird, has confeesed that et a
recent secret Anarchist ineebing lots Were
OSA to decide who should kill the boy King
11 (1005)11. make a lie any whiter 10 put
it on a tombstone,
11 10 reported that bhe prohibition of the
exportation of grein from Ramie will bo
withdraun this month.
We believe that to ask a man's aciviee Is
1101 stooping, but of mob benefit,