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:'ii 'i' but to hear th name of r Tilly. :Bet then I rue, fend love, I will be proud and glad of
, there was a r ewe, Ite Annie Veinly per. hint, fer he is good, Kate. And maybe some
fine eYes inbued her wit thew plea:tautness, Amil Kate ensWered eimply by appearing
wrred her in her gentiegiess navl truth. lit Lellytnere with an misty of trunks fled
(.1H.,-,PTER V.
- volved -more wiel more \dainty w en Harry's time I shall grow like him."
Annie was inieeed that winter from the An 'eate's name would , pass his lips like a I Il 111', whieh :bespoke a prolonged s>.
eirele of Critigie gaietv. The state ed hur earelees note uf niusic--aSsweet note enough, ',Mune
health se tle the OStellSke reason-- the real 'wit t11 0I;elt seams` consciously. Mistily G I It was a very happy seaRon to Kate,
one too, dawned mem .1imie, that Ilerey aught . KAU 11',0, in Iter eler , dangling :al Craigie
It Must hove been o tereible gefef wfileit possibly like her. for E at e'a sake et:et:duly. 1 with the rielnwss ::f hers litek, as
satin, a»,I>1»,I>1enlarging
1 :.modeety
:reamed that vitro, vl,oroun constitution. 1 1,11.3 alMr
eo her men. everywhere In .dunie
keeletg, 00 teem in lee fa,reeeee, of rise eela ! It came v:try strangely on her, this 8101- 1%41a bave fie:le:den, had the fortme, lee%
generoee health, to the pale
nese. eoopiesntem
1 11011 >1(1 /11111e 011,1 a.re'10 -01heri1v1e1100W 10V0 10'..11' 11'0 , isho• ipa
eiaoet.e• ely •v•isitsn0 evLery
that 110W >311(01 11 h 01 111 Toktide, "lw dlewholly gn an11.11e1O1 11:lilt 111 1>»,, u., Anme
titne;ie1!v•nisly htve iop 'o• h
enhn.ty 111 t,
hityIt is a p
her wsting health gave vely little ued-
lias! olf
o:
our tthht"gItsd' andfI1 gealbtressell pleaure chaiwefl hloibteelrtuY
She was ton pure -inn d el, too re-
t
gardful f ti; ommands of tio 1 and the
feelings of .1: whm ole loved, aetuadly wealth *he mld never return,
s 10,0111101,
to 1.03 1310 Iand werate whatseenteil After thatHarycame often0111 dainie11m111ired M'ilyInl yilly arreetedpe fairehst fwKngawhat is 03>310il 11) U31% of tile
daily drawing Beare:: to her. She hail kept her mem no more. Not that she was I"' Tell me about Anie ightyIlint as soonae the long flght of 11)ilogie,t1at"ereryMan is seen w
ityh :om'
u.
been flunilar ion ehildhotal with the Press 8111 00 Wiell eaa from the bowelof the 1,,)els,,1yiio.
At prsent, 1110101. the bright W11111 Jue
weather of 1850, within a stne's throw of
then faded bit yet tenacious nemoriee, the
visitor can look upon a sight almost as curi
0110 and strange as that offered by the quaint
old prne of the past eentury, For the last
three smoke a clash of drumsand cmbals,
the pmeeing of four fiery steeds hanessed
with bells and plumes, the roll of
IN THE GABDBN OP BNGLAND,
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Tunbridge 'Wells ails It , .1310(000 Meth
-I Charming rinee 31101111' on Its
Common- Aegean nod Ails Doings.
.A. :short, (plot run from Londin,. many
tunnel, adark, 11111,113, dreary 53113(00 8111111
between high stouteased botto made
hideoue by (11>1>11(1, and tint diellguing ,>,l'vet GsemetI that (3,11 vulgarity and not
impart light or colour an ((1,1>011(311nouncement from the grds who sonen
to the Asembly Itoom1 another fihectiPt
Lion of :0 rown by gentlemen to the
Coffee 1!rn, entitlng them the
31.0 of wriiinq material:4 ; another to the
booksellers or elevulaing library, itlf a
galnea to tile lunsicane, awl varying sums
to the olergyman, and many more beeldee.
'The morals were very 111(101' and milady, if
we judge from the old enmedies f MOO,
whe;t. they ma often referred o, In one we
the follwing lines spien by leadng
et:" Don't mentien (1010103(10101031(413 at
Tunbridge 11 ; it is as 1110011 laughed n
other. And it 1438 a touch f Narrowed w , bn "a'e en uso1dsmose ,fer
gent 11'1111'$ te tir mamma. t,,wado liarry onow: ...mln del Annie 116(04'l 1111 1113 1s 1s 11>1111111,1 01111 ltug and Ithen we happen to seeamarried tempe
Faulds, the 11>11>00(4111 he W,18 giving 1,> her a excusing he rsli ; and 011 tililt 001081011, "it 101101111e t1111/1)111,111 111011 al, havig been danglt °gether like a knife and fork, they
0113 1(1
E, 1 .
, 10 11 11111101' 1110 preteneo that it is aro o. jest to the wietle svallt." Thie rteetlie
byterian Cateehisen, auil never questioned
the requirernente of the sixth comnutud-
lima therein expressod ; and (40 8110 took
uninurnatringly the remedies preseribed ;
folded, round her with religious van.: her
double flannel wrappers; never drew a breath
of the keeh, time froety air, or raised her
window, to look at thu stave at night. Annie
observea to the utmost all required by the
sixth comm want att. Hail not her con.
science so urgel, her mother's desolate grief
whenever she coaglied or looked weary,
disloyal to Mr. ; that the withdrawal
of her 10>1' frotn him was on utterly inipoS-
Sible thing. And still sae namea him soft-
ly in her prayers, • ;Id would kiss the few
relies of his attaehment which remained in
her posseseion.
Bat when love must be fanned thus, it is
already Mo low for hope. Annie could not
help that she Was young, that there were
strongdeep well -springs of jDy even in her
life. She could not help Haery'scyes beam.
ing down their strong generous affection ;
not that she ever found in these the peece
would have been motive enough. and glory of her first love, the supreme
Yet her slow, drooping health coda not beatitude whieh had been beesin theroseate
dawn of those (lays. But Harry Feuds
wits so oo:ef ; she could be 50 proud of Mtn.
And Harry loved her so much, as Annie
teamed so,m,
It W113 m May evening, and there were
raindrops on the leaves. A heavy shower had
fallen, but the clouds had scattered glorious-
ly; every raindrop wits a ilia:mond retw, flash.
trig batik the 1315(1,0 of the >3310.1farry had come to Lolly -mere, rain eat -
withstanding, and he hal followed Annie to
the garden, When She Wont out, as she said,
to see if it seat fair. It was fair, very fair
indeed, with the fairness that follows clouds;
and they went down together between drip.
ping laurels naul syringes.
But the rain:Imps wend drip aid spatter,
and the walk was very narrow, and Harry
drew Annie elneer, lest the damp from the
box•wood tiles shouhl cling about her al'OSS
foul perhaps chill Annie herself, who still
was paler than her wont. Annie felt how
gently he had pat his arm round her shoul-
der, and how, although he said "Excuse
me," he did not take it away. And she
was trembling a little, for she thought of
Mr. Tilly, of the sunshine on the "gowlin
braes." And she knew then, better than
ever, that site dol not love Harry Faulds as
she had loved Mr. Tilly in the days of her
first passion. They came to a little gate that
opened out to the fields, and there at the
gate they stopped, as indeed was a simple
necessity. Through the low rustle of the
leaves, Annie heard the beating of her heart,
but she could not turn to go, because of the
veil that Wits On her.
"I know all ahem it, Miss Gregory."
It was very quietly spoken ; and Annie,
lookiug up through a sudden gathering mist,
met Harry's truthful eyes. She did 1101 >3811
what he meent ; his thought had interpreted
hers ; in the land that is not of 111$1011, their
spirits had greeted each other. There
was very little explattation either required
make her sorry, 11031 t1101 every warOl of
her life was utterly swept WWiLy. She conld
hardly emteeal her pleasure wham she read
in the a ,utor's face that he thought her
worse or weaker A little hour of serenity
would fall softly as sleep upon her heart ;
and then, la remorse awl penitence for this
most unwitting crime, all the gloom of life
would eume suddenly back upon her.
And 80 111,111(11 passed upon month, and
Aunie still kept her room. AM. Tilly's name
was never mentioned in it. Annie had said
to her mother on the day she get his last
letter : "It's all over, mother ; We'll be uo
tnere friends."
She had said it so gnietly that her mother
aisbelieved her, and answered : "Nonsense,
laseie :11 1101116,1 love's a warm one, as say
more folks than me. And love's but kept
the lealer by 0. 930111111' breath, lass ; ye'll
ilk be wad of the other yet, or I have tint
3113' skiU."
! But the " wed "mess never came.
' Gregory in diemay saw the silence and the
pallor that were :settling down on Annie ;
and then she spoke out anxiously : '.411n111.
tell 01e all your mind. Your father's a
bailie of Crnagie, and will see ne daughter
01 1113 wronged 010 11(4>113011 by,"
And Annie, slipping 16 her knees, said
"Mother, I implore you, say nulling of this
to my father, nor ever again to me. Say.
naught, against Mr. Tilly; I can bear any-
thiug but that, mother ; I praY you never
say ill 01 11101."
Aud Mrs Gregory discreetly resolved she
11101.3111 >10 as Annie said : for sleeping love
ronsed to defend iteell tnight 1,11 .1 hard, thing
to meet. And so all the weary months his
name remained unspoken, except. when Annie
111 selitnde would whisper 11, 318 elle often did,
tenderly to herself.
But the spring came in at last with its
birds and its Ionia of flowers: its cool large -
lemma anemones Women:: en shady places ; Its
110118 >11 delicate wood-serrel shewing under or given.
the wayside trees, and its sweet common "11111(01' all about it, Mies Gregory -about
daisy. whose home et everywhere, wall
its nretaste of summer glitaness, its betted-
ful hymn 11,1 110110. It 31:011(1. be untrue to f,Ely
that Meet N0'01.1 110tilillg tIl Aitnie. It was a
wild actual joy when elle heard the first song
of citable& bird ; forgeetful if the Cateehism,
she tin ea" wide open her whitlow, flung all
her wrappings front her. and inhaled the de-
lights of spring.
It was late afternoon ; clear, and fair, and
sharp, as is wont in that early season, every
feature of the landscape showed its own de-
fined beatiful form. There was nothing left
for fancy, nothing given to dream or mist. -
a wholesome gladsome evening, with a pure
uncharged atmosphere, worth all the floode
of sunshine that ever were shed on canvas by
old or modern art. Annie felt, as she look-
ed across the fields which were all storied
for her, that life might indeed be endured,
11 11111 for its beautiful setting ;and as she
looked and smiled, she saw Harry Fanlds'
figure coming down through the little side.
path which led among the young green
corn.
He must ba coming here,' mused Annie,
31(1>1 (1031 thought ..ent straigtway to Kate.
I suppose he aye likes to hear about her ;
and yet tie' 13. fool thing, I think, to keep
the old love warnt this late."
For Kate, in more letters titen one, luta
inquired about Harry Faith's, and celled him
"my old love " openly, Which had tr gilded
Anme even through her own grief. She had
never answered such quenes, but instead,
had given to Kate suell general eistarly ad-
vice as might be undersh ad by whom it was
intended fer, without awaking in Mr. Tyne
any suepielon of its cause.
And watching Harry Faulds on the field -
path, she thought of her own lot awl Kate's,
and how each bore her :woes, and must bear
it till death, perhaps ; how gladly, 11 31
might be, each would have laid it down -
Kato wedded Herry Feet's, and she been
Mr. Tilley's leede. She thought between
Harry and Kate whet a deep steing attmc!
tion must exist, and what a mystery it watt
311)3t:11 thwarted their deathly. And then
she closed the window, and went back to
her eaay-ehair, with something sweet, like
puttee in the thought of Coa'e reliug power.
Mrs Gregory entered the room before elle
was well ensconced. " Annie," she said
with a smile of suppressed pride and plea.
sure, " lir, Harry 3,Amide is here."
" I 8(111' him 110(1103 1(1," sal:IA.111de. "What
has brought him? He ne'er 11105 here be,
fore,"
"just to ask for you."
Annie laughe>1 a little (131101 10.31(411, " Ile
Iikee to hear about, Kate," she thought,
">331,1 he comes to ask for me. Poor Harry !
Poor Kate I" This winter luta made her
very tender of all the trials of love,
But She only said aloud: "It is very kind
01 11(03, mother."
"Ay, kind it is; and ye must come down
and see him, Annie. Ye never looked 11 n.
nier Rum with the dress ye have on. And
ye need riot mind for the ehtev1; it looks (Inc
about your ale al lore; just put your brotch
to keep (t.-n,y, that way.' And Mrs Greg.
ory adjusted her daughter's dress, and drew
her hand over her hair,
But Annie 1)1>010516>3 0131.1105113'. "3,1101131010,
how can 1 go
"But ye shall, Annie, X will not have
ye cooped up longer here. And it's no roach
small a complimeut that Mr Harry Faulds
eland(' vieit us. Ye 8113111 (101 say another
word., but do your duty like a good elaufehter,
tool COMO clown-etairs at my bidding,'
And so Anoie rose, and followed her
mother perforce.
What Harry s and she found it eon-
Voniont to disenfts on that spring afternoon,
WILS 0 matter importing little. They talk.
11(1 (11 Kate, to he sure. Rate was the aoln0
monground, on whieli they met at ease.
Annie Indeed perplexed herself to knov how
Harry Vaal& could talk about her with
moth good.loonottred indifference, Annie
would have flushed up, hot anti trembled,
Tilly. I mean.
"Yes," said. Annie in a tone that was
quieter still, and only the faintest flush
mantling her cheeks-ne more.
To be sure he knew, as all Craigie did ;
but the frankness that owned it, had ,lis.
menet' the hist remnant of her pride. It
broke the fetters foin her heart, as from
many another it has clone, for it is the
best thing 111 (110 world this frankness, next
to godliness and truth. It had never been
given to Annie. She 00311d1e11:3 , and trust,
and revere ; but her life was too reflex a
thing to (men its gates at a bound. And
he prize d to an exaggeroted degree, as all
generous natures do'the one delicious qual-
ity, which hoe 03111 temperament made im-
possible.
"Yes," said Annie -nothing more.
"And could you give me, Annie, the hive
you 01100 gave him?"
no, :elr. Harry ; I was always a
leal-hearted maiden, if I was little else."
"Then be heal to me, Annie 13,10033 oWe him
nothing now 31(31(1 I will give you morelove,
I think, 111 a single hour than he could ern:
have given , 0 he loveti yon for a lifetime.
Annie, Annie 1 let the past be past ; promise
yon will be 03)0 111110, and make me happy
now."
"Mylove would be little worth having
an I could change it like the ribbon in my
hair."
Annie etooped as she spoke to gather a
handful of lilies, ana hide her face among
them. There was positive pain in this; it
was like treason to the (lead, for how could
she deny to herself that Harry's love was
grateful
"It is worth to 010, Annie -worth every-
thing else in the world,"
" Sir, ehe ts very well and happy, and
abont to be married as 1 prestune ye know,
for all Craigie does to Mr Harry Faulde."
" Never, never ! 111>111>1 see Aunie,"
" Sir, and that shall ye not, Yo shall not
disturb the peaee of a whole house; ye have
already eausea more than enough >313'
111111(4111."
And Kate stood in Mr Tilly's path like
the warden 01 3101' sister's destiny, Hie face
and whole mien were troubled enough to
have one: con:passion hien (my more forgiv.
ing heart.
"I have been sorely misguided," he said.
Eruly, doubtlese," answered Kate,
throwing back her svornful heaa.
" I must see Annie."
" That shall ye not, as I said. before :Ir.
.And if yo will persist in going to Lolly:mere contraettng quamtly with the modem)
I also will turn back with you, '11111 lake ! aspect of Tunbridge Wells, and still more
means to thwart you, for ye shall not see ! 011.111 its traditions. In its length, whiCh 113
earth to the eurfaue is ascended, e, etetetion
begins. The upper taxed is broad, sunny,
bright, lined on one Bide with wide flag-
stones and what seem elegant shops ; on the
other, sweeping beyond the railway (111111185,
Dow lost to sight, an undulating distance
spreads afar, with blue hills half veiled in
haze, trees suelt as eve ouly 1013031 111 Eng-
land, grass like green enamel, and an at.
mosphere se clear, fresh, and pure that it
seems that of the sem which the horizon re-
sembles.
The name of that first street ascending
toward other equally cletiening :tree -planted
thoroughfares is Mount Pleasant, and a lit-
tle familiarity with the pretty town reveals
the existence of other appellations of Puritan
()right, such as Mount Stott, Mount Ephraim,
Annie !
Kate was a wilful woman, mat she had
her way ; but Mr Tilly also had hie, as hap.
petted in a week, or lese; for Kate and Annie
had gene together to visit his sister. " It
will epit e her," said Kate to herself. " It
"Ali am sorry," said Annie with a faint,
sea smile ; "for love iss dead in my heart ; the
ghost of it may sometimes haunt it, the love
1; deed-deadfl" And she threw all the lilies
from her hand, with a sudden ineentrolable
bnpulse-and the tearsgothered 10 1100 eyes
-
tears she could not restralm
"Y, u tom trust me, Annie?"
"171 0, Mr, Harry -better than my 111(1heart."
"Then let me live M hopo. I ask 1030 pro-
mise from you, but I promise you solemnly
1011e -will never change. I do not wish
to bind you, or ask anything distasteful to
your feelings, but 11)1(1,1 myself as solemnly
as if you had given all I hoped, Only lot me
(tome to see.,
, you, and (1111111(1111111of me as kindly
(38 3700 eau.-
'How could I ever think of you anyway
but kindly, but"- And then Annie
paused, for she was thinking of Kate.
"But what?"
"Pc were bold to me, Mr. Harry, and I
must e'en be the same ; tell me truly, did ye
ever love my sister?"
Harry laughed at 1116 (1)10011011, but Annie
waited his answer with a -wistful gravity
which would. net, be denied,
"I think (lid, Annie ; but I never loved
her like you."
There came a little breath of wind, and
fanned Annie's hot flushed brow, and with
it came the faintest oftenest of her eld happy
love. And what more was said before the
light 111111 faded, WAS or little account to any
one except Harry 37>1.01110 >1811 43,1111(0."Till death I" whiepered Annie -that WaS
when they parted 011 (10 in the peaoeful der.
light but (1310 little hours later. And long
after solemn midnight, with a beautiful re; t.
ful chime, the werde reng MI ill her heart; t
"Till death -till death I" No funeral dirge
were they, but the poen 11370158 c11 her life.
Annie did »01 know how rosily life was
bursting on hor then. "Till death I" -in
faithfulness and peace -the best love, if ,also
the latest found -the love that WaS to
blossom into richest, fullest beaetty, embrace
her whole native) under its goodly eluelow.
Annie wrote to Kate " still whiles We nos et to ee vest it dogma of 11.
think of Mr, Tilley, but Harry Faulds is to 1)11(4801105 in divulging what is really 011(01.10 my husband, end I shall love him with f1 nal, as what is merely 111(11101100113.
great front the valley to the extreme summit
of Rs northern hill ;in its breadth, which is
not large, and. 1,011(1110(1 on either side by
the
VIOTVRESQUE PLAINS,
will please her," she 23jd. to Annie, the eity offers the sante blendinee of new and
And so they- sat in Miss Tilly's parlour, i old. The hotels are excellent, -the cooking
Kate haughty and important, Al31110 half- ! Weal, shops and books are AS abundant as in
disconcerted, Miss Tilly obsequionely graci- London ; the private houses are placed in
teas, as in policy bound. ; for Mrs. Hurry lovely matured. gardens ; the re(Ms, paths,
Faulds would be a, person more uonskierable and sidewalks smooth 115 billiard tables,
ha it simple Allele Gregory had been. The whether they plunge into picturesque little
111811 13(10 not a, long 000 ; all its entls 310110 valleys and ravines, skirt the reeks, dip into
speedily served ; hut as they movea to. the woods, or intersect the common -the
wards the door, Mr. Tilly himself greetel glorions, breezy common of many limulrcd
them. He spoke no more than a word, and acres, the pride of the place ; yet, every now
then SObtillg Annie's hand, drew her back to and then some 0111 World reminiscence -a
moue, a building., a paved court, or myelin°
the room they had left.
"Don't de.ert me, Annie," he entreated ; of beeches -carries you back to the time
'ask your own heart if you do not love me wheu the ehalybeate springs of the Wells ;
best.' broughtsll the celebrity and fashion to Tun -
"Mr. Tilly, this is cruel," said Annie. "1 bridge. The water still bubbles up at the
thought all your love WAS g011 1 11031 at same place 31110(0 31118 and beaux drank it.
least ye must never name it, for Mr. Harry The walk is still called " Ye Pantiles ;" 11
Faulde has always acted honourably to me, has its raised promenade, its seats, its
and I shall act honourably to him." Anil quaint -walled houses, market place, curious
she extricated her hand front his, aad flew clock, and original conformation, exactly as
back to her sister's side. it stood in 741), when its popularity was at
That WM their last interview, and its Rs height with a dead and bygone genera,
shadow 11>1(4011011 13111>311 Annie till her Mal, ton. it was Visited then bsgalre. Elizabeth
I -lege morning came. It broke very soft and Carter, " who eeuld talk Greek faster tban
fair, a lay In ripe September, and she stood any woman in England ." by Richardson,
in her pure white dimity, With the bridal the novelist ; Colley eibber '• the beautiful
flowers -Mout her. Miss 01111,1.161(41>, afterwattls Duchess of
" We might have," said Miss Grizzy Kingston ; by Garrick aml Chatham, Mrs.
Burridge, "that ilk was meant for ilk ; for Threle, and Chestertiela, " who never
I ne'erlitive seen two faces that matched so chenged the shape of his hat in twenty
winsomely." years," says Thackeray ; by Johnson, " the
But when the e rem my was over, and dictionary maker ;" by George the Fourth,
Harry Entails and Eat 1 ,graeted as brother when his MRS Prince of Wales, and, last not
and sister, Annie Nolj hed them anxiously. least, by Ileau Nash.
Kate left her husband's side'and came to The Duchess of Kent and Princess 17111-
Harry Faulds. Site held out her hand to- totem passed two seasons at the Wells, one
wards him, and offered her cheek for a hies. in the old Lashington House, now the Cal -
And Harry, bending over her with his verley Hotel, and one -in 1835 -at Boyne
brotherly salatation, said : "'Twas you I House. The
wanted first, Mrs. Tyne ; but when FUTURE' MIEN OV
Tyne anticipated me, I could certainly do was very fond of the pretty town, not near -
no better than win your sister Annie.' by so large and important as it is now, and
And Kate, with mock simplicity, held up after her coronation more than once regret -
both her pretty hands, exclaiming, " What ted the happy days she spent there. In 1871
a pity ! But it's no lost 111111 0. friend gets." Princess Louise and the ielltrquis of Lorne
Craigie has risen to eminence since those visited it, Charles II, once otempied
old quiet days. A dense, industrial popu- raim House, an11 the iniamousJudge Jetirey
lotion, with a ragged school in its heart, hns lived at Chancellor House. After the French
supplanted the fragrant garden, and the old, Revolution many refugees settled there,
cool,. shady house where Harry Faulds, and which, perhaps, accounts for a certain
.1111)110 spent their wedded life. Not Wholly half on-]luglish flavor pervading the
& prosperous life, for Miss Btu•ridge's pro- place. Nor was that the only time
pheoy mune true ; 3>(ari.7 had not the genius that the victims of adverse polities
either to win or keep. And the old mer- availed themselves 03 1110 hospitality of Tun -
chant -house camedown, ancitherewerestrng• bridge Wells, for after his last and sudden
gles and cares, such as never were known to exile the Comte de Paris, family, and suite
Annie till she married Harry Faulds. But in stayed three months at the Calverley Hotel.
Harry's love she was happy,with a perfect Not its least charm is its facility of access,
quiet peace ; and the ten bright sons and Forty to fifty trains pass through cluring
daughters who grew under the shade of the day. London is reached in an hour by
their roof -tree made tenfold amends for the the express trains, and a, four -horse coach,
gaiety front which they WM forced to revived with more than the old elegance,
withdraw. Thole children were handsome comfort, aud speed, leaves the White Horse
and strong, with Harry's benignant oyes Cellars in Piccadilly every civet 10 o'clock,
and Annie's sweet mobile lips running down and performs the journey in four hours.
through them all, in pleasant repetition and The presiding genius, almost the founder
variety, with also (ho want of will lurking of the Wells, NMI; Bettu Naeh-Richard
in them unsteadily, which made Annie Nitsii, the adventurer -who for mere than
sometimes fear what the sealed future might fifty years governed the pleasures of the
polite kingdom. He spent his eerly acquit. -
But 11110 10V0d, WEI 1104 faith. "P11 ed wealth recklessly, his equipages were
death I" she had whispered 110 that sweet, sumptuous, (10>1 (10 habitually 111,1110(011 (1038-11'
far -away hour when she first knew that to the Wells in a post chariot drawn by six
}leery loved her- " till death I" It Game. greys, with eatrulers, gergeoue footmen,
And in the flush of his strength, with no lorench horns, and much ostentetious dis-
premonition of illness, but his hand holding p'tty, Gambling was the Chief attraction, as
>1101105 eoftly, Harry died., tt has beea Since at tlionitea and the German
There was great mourning then. Annie waterieg places ; the favorite games were
WOO comforted, for Harry WWI Still hers. ,faisrhante, phoNaoli or faro, and the ace of
But Kate, yet a frivolous matron, with hearts, Such exorbitant sums changed
married daughters of her own, wept abet hands ever the green cloth that public
his coffin ae if her heart would. break. And gambling was put down by statute, but
the voice of Craggie, the rich and poor various devices Were resorted to in order to
who had loved lum, spoke from depthe elude the law. A second and more string -
tartly stirred, when it said that a good man ent prohibition was iseued, followed by &eels
had died, evasion, and the genies 131 rolly.polly, Marl.
[>01011un,1 1/05011$11 battles, but 0>3(1>3171111)0 of E. 0.,
The Llg'ht We LiVe were inAituted and 1)00000(1(41(1 by the very
noblemen who had given them voieee to the
It is estimated that perms walking on suppression of the gaming table, Nash him -
the sunny side of the street are in light more self had (1 10.1330 stipulated share in the pro.
than five thousand titnes stronger than tire fits. In 1735 he was the " king " of Tan -
the ocenpolts of an ordinary darkened roc= bridge Wells, the hero of Ye Pantiles. He
ef a town house, while strollers on the see, ulado 110050308 and thaY were obeyed. Ono
shore in sunny weather enjoy the influence of the principal 31108 1(13313
of 181000 times 138 1)10011 of the stone health
giving agent. Those feats are revealed by 113.1I11Y VISITOR
the action of the dillbeent degrees of light on
photographic: plates.'a lens and plate of oer. should live in public, lodging:houses, being
tain Speed taking a bright seaside view with only used for eating ; the inter.
MI exposure of anode:nth of 0 second., an niediate time Wae :Tett on the walk in the
third of a second, a fairly lighted interior in Every hour 110(1 its allotted occupation, al -
1,3110
Pump Room or at chapel.
ripen 13311180313>0 away front the sea in one- AssnillblY
two and one-half minutoe, and a badly light. ways a gregarious enc. Nash, partly fro111
ed interior -such as many ladies prefer, es- fvocultit Ped'tlY, frtnn 00111180h an", but'
ipneioultattlleys.111 eummer-in not less than thirty chiefly through impudence and assumption,
banished many trammels and conventionall.
ties; he suppressed 1111(11(4 1>6018 and esvords,
He Was in No Doubt. discouraged private gaming tables, ind
siste
upon eally hours, and, with all his Insolence
Poots, looking oat of the window 01 1(15 and foppishness, was occasionally capable of
sitthig-rootn, saw a intim ascend the steps of 3300(3100118 and Charitable actions.
his residee co whom he didn't wish to receive, When the journey by post or stage ea -
Te be candid, he was a bill collector. can. eepied fieVen hours from London, the pas -
leg flu, sereees, ho 1100 elm bit tho ,1,1811 :tenger0 by the letter were only allowed
"Dia you toll him I wait ollt 5" said Poote, f1011(10011s Niles of luggage ; toe tern Met
as half way, 801(03111131that he (Poots), wee not at home,
the bell. took the waters at the woll several
patronage for the dttterent trades. They
when the :meant returned from answering
""/Ndoit da, s
ir,"
(30106(167'l'l lngLW:irlri°)03
"IAdheappearh be n doubtaboutMt" 10r1'111g1ass-eustetlit1 11802111:
t all, sir ; he said it was a lie," "dipper, :
OA silo is called, who receives the
tte money, being 0 W0111011 appointed to the
dentine:3 by the lord of the manor. But
tide "welcome penny" was only the least of
the compulenry expenses nf the vieitors,
crown a -head had (0 1)0 paid for admission
A I.:Min.:0 OlIARInT
bearing a, band, a man who is their leader,
mill two subordinates, announces that
"Sequab." is repairing to the common, there
to carry on his marvellous cures twice a :lay
for two hours. Who is this modern Duke;
nutra, whose reptttation is nude in many
counties of England, and who attracte armee]
hint an ever•inereaeing crowd of spectatore
andpataisans? lie calls himself au American
and an Indian ; he and his followers wear
buckskin jackete, high boots, gaudy shirts,
larem flapping ..:Musocan hats ; his hands
sparkle with rings ; his hair is curled and
oily ; his hem clean ehaven, sunburnt, mol
handsome ; he might be American, but he
drops his It's like a cockney and uses very
English colloquialism. His attendants are
in military uniform ; he is reported to make
as muelt as forty pounds 0 day, late a stud o
six horses, and heals gratuitously. Cripples,
=timed, and helpless men are lifted itrto his
chariot, a beerier of rugs is upheld between
him, his patient, his assistant, and the
audience, and the manipuletion ef the infirm
limbs begins, the spectators (nay seeing
Sequah's head and shoulders in motion.
Twenty minutes later the man operated
upon, whose crutches have been broken as a
preliminary operation, Walks down thu
holder of the chariot, and, without eupport
is trotted round the circle at a brisk pace, to
the enthusiastic elieers of the bystanders.
Immediately afterward, Sequel' proceeds to
sell his bottles of "Prairie flower '1811>3 of oil
at two shillings each, and be cannot supply
his clients fast enough ; he also gives eavey
his nostrums to the poorer patients previa -
(i ..i., ,310:1;siat :hi ,I1.1altioizsil iii!olt,icios: 1ai e.,111110stop.reixnus31; inii. 1 esge1111.14.)t:elei tit, t itsil .t.
ii:
. . .
a quack who has made some real envie,
whether lasting 010 001, reinoins to 1 io proved ,
who eap.tivates the crowd, whose drugs are
at least innocuous, who 'ores away many a
-11,3 note, who refuses to Lye anything to do
with women, young or old, who has enough
impudence or self-confidence to remain on
the same stage for a 1000t11 at a time, who,
in spite of enlightenment, science, the edu0
cation of the masece, the advance of know.
ledge the uprooting of superstition, can
within thirty miles of the biggest capital of
Europe, in the nineteenth century, make 111,
many converts to his healing craft, or as
many dupes of his imptuienee as the bom-
bastic mock heroic doctor of the "Elixir of
Love."
Latest From Europe
The Afrioan Question -The Terrible llroa-
11(111 -The Nihilist Plot in
Paris,
The Nil ratifying !wetted format> I 'on-
vtettion teem fertnelly read for the first
and 5ee,U1,1 tinle, ana debate is on. IL
nol probe the Lil slat overt; Will 1331e08
for a but efibrts Will be Mode to Ob.
lain from Lord Salisbury 11 statement of (1>>
price he 1,1 prepared to pay I, ranee for her
naspaeseence in the Pa:Melt protectorate over
Zanzibar. Aeemsling to eurreut rumor
Vranee demands a very big prim: indeml, in.
eluding, emote; other trifles, the recognition
of her sovereignty over the vast region which
extends to the sollth of Algeria and 'Nulls
extending between ittul ineltuling the ('13>11
Niger ana Lake Tehad, and also the adene.
skin of exclusive French influence over the
centettl and northern Soudan. England. Is
also to relinquish her special treaty rights
in Tunis. The first demand affects Spain
through "Iforocco and will cause a, good deal
:if trouble, as the Spanish Government has
never abatulontal her claim to paramount in-
fluence at Tangiers. The new conservative
11111118110) 1010(11011. at 'Madrid the ot her u,fternoou
by Cattovas coutaius men pledged publicly to
maintain Spanish rights abroad at all hazards
00011 at the risk of war, and the right (tf pre-
emption to the Sultan of Morocco's king.
dein. The kingdom is the most dearly cher
billed of all.
A WAY TO BUBDUE DOGS,
Rendered narndess In the Presence of /I
Pungent Oder.
A gentleman who has had a good deal of
:Tenet= in the management of dogs says
t the most ri0i0116 brnto can be speedily
onquered by any powerful odor, especially
a, pungent odor like ammonia. He tells
how he onee won a wager on handling a dog
that 1031 3>01080115 could approach, 3>1 11>08 in
a little town in Ontario. The conversation
being on the subject of dogs, the proprietor
of the inn where he was stopping laid a
wager that his visitor could. not put his
hands 1(1)011 18 dog chained up in the back
yard.
".411 right said the visitor," but as a mat-
ter of precaution for the protection of Illy
hands I 11-111 (40 up stairs and put on a, paar
of gloves,"
"I pet on 13 pair of old buckskin gloves,"
says the gentleman, in tallhig the story,
"and saturated the 113311t11a1111 with ammonia,
We then went out to the dog, and et tny
approach he rushed from his kennel with
epee mouth, As soon as he got within
reach I thrust out my right hand. Instead
of biting 1( 310 turned tail and ran back into
his kennel. Then 1 went to the kennel,
and, patting .my hand inside, made him
come out again. The secret of the matter
is that a dog can't bite without drawing in
his breath, and, as ho does so, he inhales
tile tunmouia, which partially suffocates him
atol subdues for the time being his biting
Propensity. Some dogs may be subdued
with cologne."
He'd Bad. No Fihow.
Joe Beall ha11 sat upon a, keg
Dowu to the groery store eat' throw
One leg right over 'tether leg,
An' swear he'd neVer 31(1(1. 110 011031>,
" 011, no," sal ,Joe;
" Elmn't heel no show."
Then shift his quid to 'tether jaw,
An' chew, an' chew, 18(1'01)l3.0'> en' °haw.
He 501>1 110 got no start in life,
Didn't get no money from 1110 110>3 ;
The washin' took in by Ms wife
Earned all the funds he ever had,
"011, no," end doe ;
"Htun't 11011 no show,"
An' then he'd look Op at the clock,
An' talk, an' talk, an' talk, an' talk.
"I've waited twenty rime -let's see-
Yos, twenty.four, an' never struck,
Altho' I've mot men' 1304011113',
The fast tarnashion streak er hick,
" 011, no," said Joe ;
" hod no show,"
Then stuck like mucilage to the spot,
An' sot, att' Set; ail' 80t, an' 001.
" I've coma down mem:Her (wee' day
For twenty years to Piper's store ;
I've sot here or a patient way,
Say, 315,1111 1„ Piper ?" Piper swore,
"I tell ye, Joe,
' Yerhain't ShoW
Yer too dern patient"-ther hull raft
Jostle:red, an' laffed, eat'laffed, a
There is little doubt now that the toecalled
Nihilist plot at Paris was the tvork of all
agent provocatottr Landesen, who
wits sent from 13310,1(181111' t110 03:10.0871 purpose
of compromising Russiadrefugees in Franee.
Landesen 311110 front the beginning the most
naive man in the plot. Ile furnished models
of bombs, helped 1110110 them, get the1,1
elvarged with dynamite, and carried them
about from the leinse of eue conspirator to
Hutt 01 0(30111031 Landesen wile admittedly
In Paris ripen the day tile arrests were inade
and for several (lays afterward, but tarange
to say he was not eaptured. His mthappy
dupes aro 110W 011 them trial in Paris and un-
less they can put Landesen in tho prisoner's
dock or on the witness stand they will prod;
ably be convicted. In any event the rade
eels mean to have the matter properly de-
b:tied in the Chamber of Deputies, although
Minister Robot has privately intimated that
such a course would be diplomatically em-
barrassing.
Though the gas stokers in South London
suffere(1 so severel' ill their struggle with
their employers their brethren in Leeds have
Won an unqualified victory for trades union-
ism. The gas works at Leeds belcmg to the
corporation aud Bumbled= declined in a
highly righteous tone to yield to the demand
put ferward by the Mon. Thereupen the
strike ensued and new hands were import.
ed. Free tights ensued. The authorities
00011,1 not protect the blacklegs who were
thrashed 50110101)0 >3(1>3 t ere upen ((0131 11 hasty
retreat from Leeds. The soldiers and pollee
kept up the fighting, Mit for three days the
town 11018 10 tlarknees 111)11 1111>31137 the corpora-
tion made 0.11 abject surrender, yielding every
one of the men's demands ana agreeing te
discluirge every blaeltleg who had not tied,
Tligborie-"Wentler what business 11,311 1008
is in. 11hey say he is perfectly deaf,"
Carpor•--"Ob, thett's Jack Robinson ; why,
110 00001110,1 compleints in 0 railway
He Took Her at Her Word.
She was so sweet I thought my heart
Would break, should I from her depart,
110111 her so : she simply smiled
And, with a glance that set me wild,
She tinklingly did thus respond
"Now, George !"
It was 0 11011it 01 1(01 own
Thus to reply in killing tone,
1)OW11 011 my knees I sank : cried I,
" If you reject me I shall die 1"
She only laughed 0i111111 my face 1
"Now, George I"
To lose herself would Inalte me sad,
To lose her pelf would drive me nuol,
" Oh, when, I asked, "star 01 1113' life,
Will you consent to be my wife !"
She innocently twittered out
"Now, George 1
Wheat Growine.in Bngle,nd•
lefr, Chaplin, the minister of agrieulture,
in replying recently to two questions in the
Imperial House of Commoes,sitill the agri-
cultural returns showed that the area of
wheat under cultivation in Great Brittiin
had largely diminished in recent years.
There had also been a:falling off in the num-
ber of sheep, but otherwise live stock had
increased. There :lid not appear to be any
corresponding falling off in the growth of
wheat on the Continent, As to the eause, of
the diminution, it was a matter of opinion.
There W01'0 001110 who thought it was etne to
exuessive foreign compotition-(Couservat(re
eletters)-and to the increased facilities af-
forded for the transport of grain. He was
not aware that his Department could do
anything to restore the oultivotion of wheat
in England. With regard to the available
supplies of wheat, the Government made no
provision for a reserve ill view of supplies
from abroad being stopped.
The Act of Two Pienclish Boys,
Tonosero, July 1.0 -On Sunday afternoon
while the six-year-old daughter of Mr,
George Itagin, who lives on Claremont
street, was playing with some companions,
two boys approached her,
one of 1111001 pour-
ed the contents of a bottle filled wi,th coal
oil en her, while the other applied a lighted
match to hey clothing, The oil at once took
fire, and the child rushed down the street
surreunded witill &Ones. Fortunately an
Italian laborer h&ppetied to be neat, her,
and taking off Ins coat ho succeeded in
smothering the flames. The little eidel was
rather severely burned about the legs auct
110 salmis reeults 010 expeeted, The pollee
meanwhile tire looking for the boys and
should they be found they will not likely
engage in such pastime for sevetal years to
come.
His Turn Will Oeine,
All wept at the wedding, both she mentor
folks,
As the' 'Were the crack of doom,
They wept as if their stul hearts would
break -
That is, allsoxcept tho groom,
'Moro 310 8100>1. like a pirate, 3311080 1101(1 hand,
held
Tito hrido in its fearful clutch -
tut won't ho troop Ow Is ho going froo-
Well, tho wisp in sno11 things say, not
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