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The Brussels Post, 1893-2-10, Page 2IFYON7 RECALL CHAPTER \XXVIT, I retiree MAKS 0:T ?4Y wire.. lJy wife lime in a strange state of excite• went that mornixlg, I couldn't undesteud bor. It seemed to me that alto did not know what she was about. At breakfast she naked the to repeat the psragr eplt from the paper about Klt ; and as I went over it word for word as I had invented it the eight before, site listened with an inexplicable quivering in the cor- ners of her lips, as if the next moment she might burst out into wild laughter or tears. So you see," I said, "Kit's all right only he thinks it wise to keep out of sight fora time," " Yea, yes," she emitted, cheerfully. " I am acre he is safe now, and that all lle does is for the best." Whenever I glanced towards her 1 found her eyes upon ane ; end though the expres- sion x res•sion of tier face was at times pitiful, hap. pinees predominated. Was ft the news of Kit, the (lowers, or the British I;ncyclop.edia, or the combine, tion of all three that made this change in her? My muddy faculties failed to per. ceive. " Any way," thought 1, " she's got a better sense of gratitude than I gave her credit, for." In the morning, while I was at work be- hind the house, 1 heard liar call- " Kit ! Kit 1" Instinctively I stepped forward to see what she wanted -forgetting in my occupy tion that my name was Gregory now. I found her looking towards tine, and not at the pony she had celled, A little later an she chine to me in greet delight. "Oh, come here, I have something to show you 1" she said. 1 followed her, wondering what dscovery she had made, round to the rocks bdtiind the dairy, whore she stealthily pointed out the brown hen sitting 111 a mud mule. "'She has one egg ander her already," she said. "We will leave them, and then in time we shall hate a brood of young chickens." "I'll make a coop for thorn when they come," said I. "Oh, that will be faenons 101 d she, i.thoutquestioning, any more than I, what purpose a coop could serve. Her delight wax that of a young girl. When I was putting up the shatters at night she canto to my side, and looking over the moor, called my attention to the sheet of white mist that lay like a lake in the hollow, aud then to the purple tor her ; then what eonclusioe could ho draw frena her sudden disappeereues and 111y savage look incl brutal reception, but that 1 had compelled her to go out of eight 01101 tppo0e.l 1110 approa0h to a'voiddiscovery 1 theeo thoughts passed through my mind as I watched hien out of .141 3. " \Vlio was it?" asked my wife. still greatly agitated when 1 went back to her, " Only 0 fool who had lost its way, and it's htcky for hint he was nothing else," I said, with 0 menacing movement 01 the ham- mer in my hand, My mouser terrified her, " Surely," she said, " you wouldn't-" she could go no further, " Yee, 1 would -I would brain him. Ami you cat tell hot so if he coulee again." She looked at 1',e with indescribable pity, and went away without another word. 1 took it into my head to suspect her of treachery. Wiry had she been so soli- citous on my behalf? 1 netted myself -to obtain my sanction to her holding communi- cation with this man. Why had she been so mis,'1117 pleasant the lost two days? -to beguile me lute a sense of security. I even conceived it possible that some Under- standing already existed between then -that he had found means to Dan• municate with her in my absouce by slip. ping n letter funder tee door, \Veld an 1 inconsistent as these suppositions were they scented feasible enough to mc.. Twu 01' three tunes in the x00180 of the afternoon I went round to the front door of the lento to look over the moor. Hobe scan sed it ns eagerly Ds I. "I w11 watch carefully," she said. "Nothing shall escape ate," 1 re tto reel to rind al 01 menstruation to put en this pi'0mtae of devotion. See ended no mere that day. Her de- pree0lon I nitrib°ted to disctppointnneilt do the failure of the scheme. Twice; in the night 1 creptetealtltily down from the loft, under the conviction that I heard the look of the cottage door being picked, Before it was fairly ugh 1 wee on my put In there. Thou, on a stool a little way way to Tavistock, The lendlot11 of the inn from the fire, stands a big tub with to bag el where I usually baited the pony was a dog iris root at the bottom, and all the linen 01) fancier. top. From the bottom of the tab there's a " I want a dog," said I, " What is that pipe for the water to run olf from the tub one that I hear narking -is he for sale into the cauldron. When the water boils, " Olt, he's for sale, as (sr as that goes ; a woman scoops the water out with a ladle but he ain't what you would call a lady's and pours it out on top of the linen ; it runs dog," through mud hack into the 'cauldron. After I dun t want a lady s deg, this pr'oeess, the linen is taken down to the " And he ain't teach to look 1)t and he river, and rinsed in clear, running water, ain't e?porting deg, and he ain't much of a 101)1011 that's how it's done." breed neither: in fact, it's easier to tell you A nlee, old-faaluoued, bearbarone waste what that 11g ain't than what he is, But °f time and labor." standing op in savage majesty against the I will ea this for'im he 5 of mere bark In "But it makes the linen beautifully pale light du the hest. y uwhite and the iris gives it a sweet smell. "I never knew the moor was so grand Ida' 11'11" half a 11070" ^rdlnary doge, anti "Oh I don't dobt that; but the same and beautiful," she said in a low trine of tile's 1 hlaa to keept temper an emeu it strangers to could be got without any trouble at all," awe. byhimself, and 1) if on want p walolg do " Do you thir11 you could invent a Well,' thought 1, es I lay down that y g rnacIlille 1' She hada 08, 0018 awe and dif- night, "I slid well to humor her. We small for m farmyard-" fideuee with regard to maohiner 00111 111011 jog along comfortably now, It's ten times This wee exactly the dog - I wanted, I g y t° meet women, buta prufond belief in my better to see her cheerful then with a face bought him, w'th the necessary appoint• as long us a fiddle. Now I can get on with nlent of a muzzle, a massive collar, and a ability. 1• " he.,vy °heirs. He was a formidable animal, think Why. I exclaimed ; I'm attire. with a most forbiddingaspect-bandy, blear eeto look here -tiara's the capper," eyed, and unrlerhung, In his most p8000' sketching the copper that stood by the ful moments bo seemed to be meditatingan Oven, "18 eve yo0rle our trials those ashes asaanit, out of the oven -and your iris in, and half fill it with water. Now, here' your wash• ing tub with a lot of holes in the bottom to drain through, and 0 piece of five.eighth tubing going through the middle, You stick the tube at top of the copper on a bed of rags to keep it fairly steam tight, like a 1 The tube goes down nearly to the bot- tom of the copper, end up just above the level of the linen packed in the tub rouud it. The top of the pipe is stopped with a cork, and half a dozen holes pierced in the circumference of the tube just underneath. Now lyou light your tire, and what hap. pens?' " I don't know, Gregory" (in m tone ex- pressing dread of it general blow up). " Why, when the hater boils, the steam, having practically no vent, would press on the aterface of the water and force it up the pipe. sending it in a spray over the linen in the tub ; it would percolate through the linen and escape back Mtn the copper through the holes in the bottom of the tub, and then, as aeon as it boiled again, the same process would be repeated. '.Chas you wonid do automatically exactly what it: done by your old women with their ladles." " That seems very wonderful," said Hebe, still faintly hoping. " Wonderful 1 It's as simple no A B 0. Anti then when the linen is sufficiently oleaned, it can be taken down to the brook and laid among the rooks till it's rinsed and ready to lay on tho heather to dry," " lint wouldn't the steam get away through the holes in the bottom of the tub?" she asked, studying my sketch intently. " That's what 1 call intelligeu t ovi deism," said 1, highly delighted to be faced with stn objection that I could over 00)110. "On the farm of it would seem so. But you will find that the soaked linen opposes a greater resistance to the steam than the water that is free to flow up the pipe," "If you are not afraid of spoiling the bob, might we not try it?" We will try it. I'll go and get a length of tubing -inch will be better than five- eighths -tomorrow night, You're out of paraffin," " Oh, there's enough to last until the end of the week," she said, with sudden anxiety, "May as well fetch 11 to -morrow ae'thoe, Besides I want some half-inch brads. I was about to crunch up my sketch, lint Hebe rescued it ; and some time afterwards I saw it neatly folded in the box with her batter money, I made the washing apparatue, and spent the whole of one morning watching it at work, Hebe as delighted as I whenever the water came spluttering out from the top of the pipe over the bubful of linen. Thab was o great success, To be sure I wedded my hand badly, but that was through my otvo carelessness ; my flannel shirts, too, were so ehrnnkc by the promise that !could not again wear them ; that Hobe declared was her fault ; she ought to have known that flannel must not bo boiled. The linen, how. ever, when it has been rinsed and dried in thoonn, was beautifully white, and 1. for- go). all about rey maid and the spoilt shirt In my triumph. Aa for my w'ife, I verily believe she tv00 as proud of my tlahievemont as I was. Ono morning 1 spied her going clown to the brook with a ran. "'ThaVs my work," said I, overtaking her before she reached the water. "I dict not like to take you from your work, and 1 am so strong now." " Never mind that, You tell me if I for- get itttgain,' Her face flushed with pleasure, 1 Wouldn't it be 0 good thiegif we coed hove a pipe lad from the stream to tho house, Gregory?" She asked me We were re- tmnin ; sigh by side. ' Water wont rise above its own level, I said 001110mptn0u0ly. But 01,15 set mo thinking; and I hod en 0 box f made for her ; and the box atom,) pumps on tho brain for the rose of rho on the table at which she worked with aglass 1 meriting and afternoon, T,IBE BRUSSELS POST: of tluwors to suggest pleasant ideas when she sat alone. 11y journeys from the oottage were full of dread to her now, believing as 0110 slid Oust 1 stood in danger of recapture, No Molter how into 1 returned, I was aura to find her sitting in the living room. She eoonoteized the fuel to put oft' the day when 1 moat hire n cart to bring a freest supply, aud herself ingested that 18)10a1d not get it again at Newton for fear of oreatltg sue - melon. It was a rod -letter day for her when I finished my room ; anothsr when the !frown hen brought out eleven chicks ; a third when the beaus hope to show tln'uugh the brown earth. She seemed to derive a real pleas- ure from these trifles, Her affection for all the living 010attu'e0 about her struck the as beug ridiculous, until I awoke to a perception 01 its pathos; these m•eatnre0 to ber stood in the place of her lost children. 13utif she fount( pleasure in her awn pursuits, she wets not less interested in all that concerned me, Site did not wait to bo asked for ad nlir10tlon of my achievements ; she watched their pro rase, and hied to outer into all the details that occupied my thoughts, only too delighted 0 she found herself able to (sloth to make my plan on the table, t1(1d help me by a suggestion, stood behind me, her held on the back 0f One wet Sunday, when 1 wee brooding my elude, looking over my shoulder na I over my everlasting lencyoloptedia, Hobe drew, came timidly to my side, and amid- "There, they are three cylinders," I said. " Will you tall me what yon aro thinking "Sort of tin canisters," she ventured. about, Gregory ?" " That's it. Air tight. The first and " 1Vashiug." second !hold, say, a couple of gallons ; the " Washing ! I must think elite, t. that too. We can't alwayo he using new things." " No, that's what I thought. I'm finding stands underneath No. 2, and a lamp stands out which is the best way. Here's an ac- under that. A tube connects the little oylin- oount of how the Egyptians did it -a whole der with No. 2, and a syphon connects No. history of washing; but the continental 2 with No. 1. A tube from the brook enters system ee0111s to mu most re0souable in prim- at the bottom of No. 1, the entrance closes eiple." with a valve ; another tube front the bottom "I know aonething about that,"said she, of No, 1, serves a ae reservoir out hero, and drawing a chair close to mine, and seating also clone with a valve. Do you under - herself. "I have watched the women stand?" 10000v10nt in Normandy." Hebe looked attentively at thorough plan, "Tell me howthey do it, for I don't quite and said-" Yes, I think I see that. follow this description," " NEM', suppose that No. 1 is filled with "'They hang a great oiuldron over the Neuter, the little cylinder is also filled with fire filled with water, and the lessive-that's water, and No. 12 contains air. In that eon - the ashes fr lm wood fire -tied in a bag, is 811ti0,1 the water could not run out of No. 1 if the vessels wereah• tight ; out if you lit the lamp under the little cylinder the steam and beat generated in No. 2 would allow Cho hater to run out of No. 1 into the reser- voir marked 13. 1)o you see thee ?" " I think so." IA ell, if you turned nut your lunp when the reservoir wee full, the steam in No. 2 nomeed it when large fires have been raging would coudense, and run book in the form I in the hoods. There wits a smell of eui- of water into the little 0ylinde1•, at the same tine that the vacuum formed in No. 1 would cause the water to run up from the }stream through the valve A, until the former con. dition of thing8 was renewed." When I went in to tea 10001' one of the ve1u1nee with a hi80e of paper =etch% a pluoe, Opening 1t I (0,10d the al't1010 mark. ed was " Water," null on the paper ten, teen not00•--e A, powerful refraotorof light" -" An in13orl'uu0 oond1otor of heat and electrioitY -and tale like, ehowwbng that eh° had been trying to acquaint ltereelf w1)1 11 subjeot that Interested mo. She saw that I teas pleased. "I have not mime to the part about its not tieing above its own leve'," she said. "Perhaps .1 had better see' IIydrostat)cs."' "Yoe 11 find it there, I've been turning your ides over in my head, and 11)111111 I'll lay on the water as you suggested. It's horrid gong down there after the rein," "Yes, that's worse ; and it would be en immense saving of labor." "But if it won't rise above its own level, Gregory?" The Great Dark Day. " Why, then 1'U make It," said I thump. "Grandpa, what do they mean by the ing the tablo, dark day?' and half 0 tloeehl rosy-cheeked bhe regandod me its silent admiration. 011111/5/, gathered around Grandfather For 1101' there was nothing contemptible or Evans, its he sat in his big armchair on the ridiculous in my m10ater011 epirit. porch 01)0 sunny April afternoon. "I moo how it's to be dole, and I'll do it." " Why, Guy, they mean the very dark She came to my side as I turned rip the nineteenth of May in 1760. It was long before I was born, but I have hoard father toll about. it many times, The day seemed turned bo night it was so very darn." "Olt, how singular 1 Plelsd tell the all about it. Do, Grandpa," "It happened just 0 hundred and tivelvo year8 ago. Your great. rondiather was then about forty years old, I -Ie ii"ed in third a pint. The two big ones stand on a New Havel„Conneotiout, and was a Mein - shelf -we'll make 'em 1 and 2 ; the little one I her of the State Legislature for that year. I remember hearing him tell how cold and severe the preceding winter was. Long Island Sound was frozen so that heavy artillery crossed it on the ice. Skating parties went from Providence to Newport, and from Newport to Fall Rivee, without a risk. During the last of the winter (loop drifts of enols lay on the ground, and in February there was a snowstorm that las ed over a week, and almost buried the houses, "'file spring was very long and very cold. The snow did not leave until about the twentyfitth of April. The nights were very bright. Nunnerons end startling aur- oral exhibitions frightened the people. The midnight heavens were brilliant with red and silver corruscations ; falling stars, you call them; and many of the good people thought the old of the world woe approach- Mg. pproach- hn ' For several days before the nineteenth a etraoge vapor Riled the air, just as you have YOUNG FOLKS. An Iatirrupted Quarrel, Irh'sl 111chy Buntingq trachea CIO 80nw' brbtvtan her Ilnl,'1'rx small. A15.1 amllo,l tome time it had grown a largo, white, relied snowball. 'Thal 'Pommy Tupper rolled 11 on, mod 15110 or 111)1at0, A snowy to war, higher than his iitto early head, 'filen tuner 000kett reached to it, just Mond ing o11 her toes, And changed it to a great snow mat with ogex and mouth and 11080, And then cried out those eldldren three, "No 500 w•hn1 1 b aro (101101 " "1t's mine1 'snid'20m. ' No, 110, It's ntlno 'Phe 0111inflbright unlookadlaughingout, itt auThh piny, And while they quarrelled for the dull, mclt0a It over, Fn. 10, 1803 01,101' folks all sat up to watch for the llgnt, "And morning dawned fele a1111 bright). Never did the x1)11 01111)8 11101'0 ploasanty. 10,111 never perhaps, 51,x811 greeted more ghadly. .111 the gloom hell disappeared. Pito birds sling joyooel,y, and the children rose happy and emiliig, 'PlteMirk day was 01,01'A,,,, "nd Was it dark all over tho world just as 1t was here, grandpa 1" asked thoughtful L'raik. 1 " No, and that was this queerest parb of it relied' randfather /evens, " Tho w darknemail e9s extended tended south from t „ I tit, Lawrence to Long Island Sound, nod as vest and west from Maine to menial New rte In fork, And within this area, the degree of dolmen diflersd, Connection!: wail wholly 1(0 under the cloud. I aNow Hampshire the dusk lightened 0110118 boforenighe, but about hong Island Sound rho cloud did not lift as ail through the day. "'fhe et088 of tld0 singular darkness has enver been explained. It Nae 1101 pl'odne. ed by an eclipse. Nor could any files have been e81101ent to spread 80 dens° IL cloud over all New England and a portion of the MIiddle States. It reamin8 to•doy a wonder- ful phenomenon, interesting but inexplica- ble."-jOhristian Intelligen'1°. •1)y work comfortably. eeo need to bother my hems about her for awhile." And probably I should not have bothered my heal auy more,if things had gone on in the same mixt day somethinghappenedto reourse. But new enew very nganxiety. "It does not matter a bit about being While I was on a ladder knocking out n) ugly " my wife said, when I Showed my new stone for my joist, Hebe came and called, m 1 purchase. " If he answers our purpose and gives tie a feeling of security, that i0 every, thio¢." One would have thought I had bought the brute to please her. CHAPTER XXXVIII. whispering alarm- " Gregory 1" "Well, what is it now?" I asked, still chipping at the stone. "Mind you don't get hit with a chip." " There's a mac ooming towards the house. " A plan 1" I echoed, descending the lad- der, cold chisel in ono hand, Hammer in the other. In another moment 1 sbonld have strode into sight, but that she threw herself before me. He is quite close -he will see you 1" she whispered in terror, I looked ea ber in stupid perplexity, wondering what there was to fear. " It, may he a detective -an oflioer• iu die - guise -come to take you away," she ex- plained. I had forgotten my role of an o0o0ped convict. "Hide yourself -anywhere. Oh, don't waste a moment," s110 continued " I will see him, and find something to say," I hesitated. I had no fear of apprehen- sion, but I did fee• that this might be some agent of the major's in pursuit of Liebe. " You can trust me. You (10 not think I would betray you ? " she asked, Her look, her words recalled the past, and for a moment stirred up the embers of passion into a flame. " It wouldn't be the first time you hove betrayed a man,' I said, 10rehiy. " I will trust myself rather than you. Stay here." I shook her hand from my arm, and marched off to the front of the house. The At night Iput the dog in the living room; as soon as I began to move In the morning, he gave tongue, and never stopped until I opened the door when he would have torn me to pieces if I hell notprudenly left him muzzled. leering the day he was chained up in the stable. His ears twitchers in his sleep. When he awoke he scented the air, and whined unhappily on finding nothing to bark at. And now, feeling safe, my fears and suspicions faded away, and by the end of Lite week we bad resumed our form- er tranquillity and good understandiue, thanks to the equable temper of my wife and her unceasing efforts to make the beet of things. If anything troubled her, she did her ut- most to mimed it ; if anything pleased her, she was eager to make me participate in her pleasure. She found 8011)0ms for oonver00,. tion, appealed to my judgment, acted blindly on my advice when frequently she would have done better to dieregmrd it ; told me of her plans for the future ; anci. kept nothing secret from me but her fears. By her ad- mirable tact she thus drew m° out and humanised ale, The process was slow, in- deed, but her patience was invincible, her courage indomitable, I have seen a rugged stone in ltaly that stranger was not twenty yards off. He was I is worn quite smooth on one aide with the dressed in a fishing costume, and carried a kieses of passinnote pilgrims. I, too, must rod on his shoulder ; that did not satisfy have become leas harsh under the tenderness me that he was not a detective. He nodded lavished upon me. The very preemie() of and came on, eyeing me curiously. grace Itnd relinement correcbs rudeness and I did not present a very inviting figure, coarse habits. She could tot have centime. standing there armed with my chisel and ed hopeful unless she had been encouraged hammer, my face whitened With the dusb by somosigns of improvementin my nature, from the stone and mortar I had been chip- The change in her attitude from passive ping out. resignation to hopeful activity dated, as "Canyon lab mehave some refreshment?" I have shown, from the day I first felt said he, coming to a stand in front of me. a dread of losing her and slowed her kind- " I'm dead beat -lost my way." nese, The change wee so astonishingthat "I've got nothing to give you," it might shave rented a suspicion of tilde- " I don't want you to give. I'll pay what verity in a more generous hind than mine you like," But the alteration in her physical condition " I've nothing to sell." was scarcely loss marked, and there was 110 " Have you any objection to my sitting ascribing that to subtle design. The dark down 1" lines in the orbit of hoe eyes gave place to a " You can cit down where you like out healthier tint; her face grew fuller and there.' changed the expression of resigned en' Well; seed he, after looking me up and durum) it had hitherto borne to cheerful down ; " you're a neoe, hospitable sort of a expectancy. Often I found her beentifnl fellow, I must say. Do you mind telling me eyes and mouth animated with m anile of the way to Newton?" satisfaction. "How did you find yottr way here?" "Oh, it is good to feel well 1" she ex - Why, I spotted your oottage from the claimed, one day, impulsively; she told me distance." mho Iced not felt so strong for years -oh 1 "You've got a pretty long sight -there's for many, many years 1 ' It must bo the not a trout stream for live miles," simple diet, the pure Or, the occupation of I tell you I loot my way. Is Newton our quiet life," she added. And .I had north, eouth, ea0t,or wast; that's all I want counted upon this quletlifo wearying her to to know." despair; upon tho daily drudgery and de. Ile must have ltnown that was a lie, for basing as:vadat:on With myeolt' degrading eater measuring me again from tip to toe In her to my level, Degrading her 1 I inis- contempt, he sold took which of us two was the weaker 1 un. "I've a good mind to give yeti a lesson in consciously she was devalue 100 to her ova civility, you confounded boor." degree. I laughed in his face, and efinkod my She wets proud of her broad, which Im. hammer with the chisel, significantly, proved with ovary baking, and the exoel. He stopped anothermhluto, regarding me fence of her butter. . in ailenoe, es though he would fix my fee. " Dou'b you think wo ought to find some tures definitely in his memory, and then meows of soiling our butte', Gregory 1"the stalked off in the dirootion of Newton. asked one day, " Wo have more than If he know Newton lay out there, why enough for our owe use, and we must think had he asked me? How hurl he strayed so about 007111g money for the future when far across the most dcsolato port of the nine f8 all gone." m00r, where the likelihood offs»cling a rend 1 took some to Tevinlodt to please her, or a'lhabitation Was practically ottt of the and gave her the tummy it realized to take question? It was a thousand termer more caro of, 1 believe she rego.rdod time few probable that me had come by design rather .billings as a hotline, for silo hod no known. titan by accident, and in that rase he must edge of the vein° of money. She kept, them be a spy -0 detective employers byy the major to find Mho. Without odoubt ho1)04aeon " So that by just lighting the lamp you could bring two gallons of water from the stream right up to the hoose?" "That's it ; and as often as you choose," " That mama more wonderful than any- plinr, and the w'indi was in the south-east, and the w'oethor ookel lowerinv. The morning of the nineteenth oldie: moth. ing remarkable except a thick e,nolty at- mosphere, Dud at pale glimmering in the eastern sky. " Your great grandfather was in Hart- ford, where the court was in session, and be got up about seven o'clock that morning. At eight he we"tont upon the street, but thus you hove tweeted yet' awhile, Greg- was driven in by a heavy shower of rain, cry, ' she said, wooh fresh admdration. accompanied by thunder and lightning. Its curious," Iadmitted, with a fatuous pretence of carelessness, though the blood ,vas tingling in my veins with an excitement only known perhaps to inventors. "But if it's so simple, Why hasn't, it been done before?" site asked, selll marvelling over the plan, I had to admit that perhaps it had been done before ; but to this day I am ignoran' aofpplied, the eimple contrivance being practically You must snake that, Gregory," my wife said, tenderly. " Not only will it he useful 10 08, but because it will give us fresh interest in life." This gratified my pride ; it ought to have teethed my heart. " I've never tried my hand at practical meohanics," I said, forgetting my assertion that I had been a watchmaker. Bat she marked the contradiction. I utisunderatood the look of triumph in her eyes at the time; I understand it now. " I might be able to do it," said I, turn- ing again to my drawing. ' Oh, I know you could 1" she exclaimed; I em sure you could do anything 1" " I should have to set up a bench. There's room for 11 in the shed." " Why not in hero 1. It will he cold out there in the winter." " The Me will make a horrid grating anise," What of that 1' It will give me pleasure to hear it. I shall like to watch the work growing into shape under your hand." I promieed her I world think about it. And f did ; nor was 1 quite forgetful of her. She was certainly gping on very nicely, I admitted. But 107 soul was un - warmed with any feeling of love for her. i regarded her simply ate a pleasant and useful companion, while admit00g that life under her influence was growing every day more agreeable. The fact is, I bad no love in my heart - nothing but vanity and selfishness. Even Howler, the dog, recognized this. The great ugly brute had fallen in love with my wife ; he hated me. Every night he slept on the little Ianding at the top of the steps to be as near my wife as poseible ; every morning he came scuttling down the steps With every hair on his back bristling, his teeth bare to week stiffly round and round my legs, growling all the while. He knew there Wax no tenderness in my heart ; but my wife would believe nothiee of the kind. (T0 BE 001MINOEn,) The Earth's Population. The human family living on earth to -day consists of about 1,450,000,000 souls, not less, probably more. Those are distributed literally all over the earth's surface, there being no 000sidorable spot on the globe where man has not found a foothold. In Asia, the so-called " cradle of the human race," there aro now about 800,000,000 people, densely crowded, on an average about 120 to every square mile. In Europe there ere 320,000,• 000, averaging 100 to the square mile, not so crowded as Asia, but everywhere dense and in many places overpopulated. In Afri80 there are, approximately, '210,000,• 000, and in the Americas, North, South and Central, 111,000,600, these latter, of course, relotivoly thinly soattored over broad axone On the islands, large and small, there are probably 10,000,000 more, The extremes of the blacks and the whites areae 5 to 3 ; the retraining 700,100,000 intermediate brown, yellow end towny in dolor. Of the 01)111 o taut 5110,000,000 ere well clothed -that is, tiny wear garments of ammo kind that will cover nakedness ; 250,000,000 habfbually.go naked, and 700,000,000 only cover the med. dlo pares of the body ; 500,000,000 livo In houses; 700,000,000 in hut's and eav00, the reinaining 250,0011,000 virtually having no plea° to lay their Ileacs, '1110,0 aro no flies on the Georgia editor who 00neenees Limb he will take groceries, clothing, jewelry, and reel estate for sub! seriptions. Ile gravely aide t "Land Whore chills and fever prevail must be provided with a first-class pllymicIan, and an under- taker tv110 ltnows his business, The most singular thingabout the rain was, thin it was unlike any other rain since that width fell at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, sly father dipped some out of a tub that stood in the yard, and he seed it smelled like charcoal, and had a thick stun on it resembling burnt leaves. Other persons noticed the same substance on the surface of the brooks and rivers, "Atnineo'olock the Legislature stet, and your great-grandfather Event to the court house. On the way (1e observed that the aim had a brassy 0ppeaxance and gave little light, From the valley of the Connecticut he saw a dense vapor rise in the form of a column. It rose higher than the highest chills, and then spread into a largo white cloud. Several columns rose, and those in turn formed into clouds, but of a different hue. One was reddish in color, another wits yellow, and a third was blue as indigo. "As he walked up the steps of the State House, he observed a peculiarity abort his shadow. Shadows, you have observed, fall to the westward before noon, and the to eastward after noon, but his shadow fell to the southward. Others noticed that their shadows varied, sometimes falling iu one direction and again in another. It was something very remarkable, and it olarmed Oven the staid legislators. "But the Assembly was called to order, and the members proceeded to business. It began to grow dark, however, and as the assembled wise heads looked out of the windows, they could see dense, bleak clouds extending all over tho sky and settling clown over the eaet11. The darkness came on thicker and thicket. By ten o'clock it was so dusk, your greott-grandfalhor said, he couldn't see the figures 111 the face of tite great ,loch that stood in the corner of the court room. He could hear the fowls cackle- ing as they marched solemnly to their roosts, as if muttering their surprise at the early approach of night. Tho concert of the frogs 0lune lip from the Connecticut as if it were evening, and the whip -pour -will sang his song through the gloomy hours, " At eleven it was as dark as night itself, end the Ohan111ere of the State house were wropped in gloom. No one could see to read or write, even 0 110 stood at a window, 'filo unusual darkness filled the hearts of the assembled statesmen with fear. They thought the Day of Judgment was truly at hand, and e. mction was made to adjourn. Only onetnan protested. This was the elm centric Colonel Abrahan Davenport, who was State Conneillor that year. "Said he; ' Mr. Speaker, I am against the adjourninenb. Dither 1b is the Day of Judgment, or 11 is not. If it is not, there is no need of adjourning. If it is, I desire to be found doing my duty. I move that candles be brought and that we proceed to busitteare But no one seconded his motion and the house adjourned. "The darkness did nob decrease, but rather increased in the afternoon. Candles were lighted in all the honsoo, and the fires on the heartln•otone shone as Uri htly as on a 0100131090 winter night. All labor was suspended. Anxious women stopped 00 their preparatione for dinner, and the frightened children, tremblingly inquired, Whitt, is coming?' No one could answer thein, "Out of doors 10 ems so Clark that peopie who were obliged M bo owb tarried torches and lanterns, in order to see their way. The 8teg0 from Now Havap to Hartford belted ttvo hours ea noon, but started on again at two, the driver placing Ianterns on each side of his 0011011. "31auy of the people o•otvded to the 0hurehes, 011d the ul1nistere and church tnombere prayed long prayers. They refer. rod to many of the calamities of history, and begged thee God would not destroy then as he dostfoyoti Sodom 10nd the cities of the plain, but would spare etnl forgive then as he did Nineveh when eta inhabits ante repented. Ivory heart Was full of gloom and 0ppreh0n8ion, " The night wax as dark 0000r,lin gly a the day had been, There wane full moon and its hoar of rising'W00 at mine o'clock, hat 00 0110 Saw it thee, night, The st'ltining eve 00111d not 0110111140i511 between the earth end the gqsty, so thick was the pall of blackneoe, The ohildrou were sent to bed lato, but the Boys, Attention. Reading will be found one of the most important !mane of caltivetsug the mind, if a proper selection of reading matter is made, I hope that no boy will pretend that he eau find no time for the improve- ment of his mind in this way, since there is much time worse than egttaudored by many, if not most boys, There are those who spend more time in smoking elude filthy pipes and cigars, in lounging around grog -shops, theatres, gambling -houses, drinking saloons and similar places, in which the morals are sadly threaded, than would be required, by reading, to well store the mind with useful knowledge. By care aid attention a tow moments of time can be found for such reading in almost any shoo teen in life. Ae an illustration, the writer when on the farm and while an apprenttee was able to devote considerable time to 0 fel reading, taking his hook or a0nle, other reading matter with bin, as he drove the cows to the pasture, reading as ho walked or when lvatohieg the sheep, as a shepherd boy, or when shelling corn, the book being laid en the " shelling-board,"he soon learn- ing to do his work and read at the some Gino He also took his reading matter with him to bed, keeping the light burning fora com- eidorable time, which is not now 1ec0m- mended, slime reading In bed es well as in bile cars, is injurious to the sight. Tt was more proper to awake as soon ail ft was light, finding a short time, at least, before the broomstick was hoard just below, with, " Boys, get up." In a few years of boy- hood a great deal of useful knowledge tray bo obtained, employing all of the spare time, even a few moments at time. In reading the lives of gre0t and good men, it is possible to learn a great deal of their struggles in gaining their enlfaence, since muse of this class, were once poor boys, " paying their way" in their educa- tion. You may see much to admire, while to the extent that you follow their ex. ample you may become woeful, for which ,1,e were placed in this world. Most of these (tette important mistakes in early life, by which you may learn to avoid them. You may learn that men are not "ready made," but that they meat make theneelves, 10 a large degree boyhood being the time in w (doh the seeds of man- hood are to be planted, the young shoots of manhood to be carefully cultivated all of the time, There area great many books of history, vrey valuable, from which you may learn many eoientifno truths, useful in the every -day hatters of lire, in addition to the more hiatorio fools, whiei1 will give you an idea of the states of society in various parte of the world, their manner of Irving, which may make you more satisfied and grateful for the superior advantages afar dad in the country in which we live, in the land of !berry. Yon may learn how difficult it is for the common people, the great mass in some countries, to earn to decently comfortable living ; how hard it is for such to rise any higher in the world, and that those who are born poor must generally remain so, while the rich as naturally increase in wealth, giving them all opportunity to oppress the poor and ignorant. You may cona)udo that this difference depends on the ignorance of the masses, the education of the wealthy giving them the ability to oppress and cheat the poor about as much as they please. Yon may feel grateful that in our 00011tty the rich do the most toward the education of the young, while in those countries the rich 0d0cete themselves, letting the poo', those unable to educate bhennsehos, remain in ig- norance, You may easily learn a ggreab deal which may bo nee ul to you in elle every. day affairs of life. MISEJY OF A OAMEL RIDE. Sore (tones and. a 1')111 the Bate Which Uxnnily Befalls 0 Novice. There is something inoxpreseibly rotten- ing in the superoillinnl unite of a camel as he looks soorn(ully at you with his nose m the air. 13nt I overcame my repugnance and mounted one, after receiving careful inetru°bions how to rotain my seat while the brute was getting up. It was well enough while he walked, butwhen he began to trot at a brisk pace I devoutly wished myself astride on a humbler animal, But how was I to stop him 1 There was no bridle, only a rope attached to the left side of the brute's mouth, At that rope I tugged, with the effect merely of making my camel trot to the left. I had been told that if 1 wished to snake isim go to the right I must hit shim on the left side of the head with a very short stick, with Whioh I had been provided for the purpose. Bub that was more easily said than done. How Was I from my giddy perch, to reach the creature's .hoed across 1;1111V:tong 011000)0 of neck ? I tried it and nearly lost my balance for my pains --no joke at a hoighb of some ten foot above the pebbly sand. One of the ofticere, however, saw my plight, :tapped, uttered some gurgling sound, and then the camel, exposing its tenth and pro testing vigorously, knelt down, and I dis- mounted, vowing that never again would I choose that mod°ofiocomotfou. My deliver or, who exchanged his donkey for my 0x)10l. laughed heartily ab say di00onifiture, But I had my revenge speedily, for in the exuberance of hie gayety ho allowed the camel to rise unexpectedly and was pitched head over howls on the ground. Ho was not hurt and he joined do the ial,gls ngafnst himself as heartily as ho 1114 lanyhod at MO. Will Probablq Dig It Up. Rivers- "Somebody, I see, has boon clm faoinrg your front fence. " Bathe-. Where 1" " On the inside, just over that snowdrift," " Why, !livers, I out that 1ot011 myself, That's where I -or -threw my meerschaum pipe New Year's Day."