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1 woins no. to send down somebody who will
t'llAP'Tlell 1. " And so has Pee entry there. Ile
seas tWenty.two, and Alicia was nine. ; filo h, win yon go. ;anon him( 1"
Taman 1- bon, and we Were devoted to each I o (Lniainly, sir. I'll .10 ley hest tolled it.
„,s -niters 1 but inturLige seemed a long, long . But would not yone brother," ehlressing
,a4Ete My salary Was a relliarliably 4110.11 Cartill Penrose, " et:listen to give up env
and 0101.110e verione other .
; sildre 011 hearing :111103 Stanley 's teeti•
N'Imhapene.tble things al....0....,1 every pettn
, meny alsmt the nety Will ?
1 ' MN- le:other," sNitt the C.trialit, " ie not Plen-' dieuWa'1'1.1""t: 4'4.'1" 1111"sys 0
.1.11 It. i had no money ef ley owe, and .
.1.li-, ,..„,„ 44,,,n1,1 olds hate forty 'annuls a year , luy fririel, Ite is acquainted with the fact masonry were piled here and there abollt
the gtotnelst awl these, covered with ivy
n-itc:1 she vane.: of age. Th"01414 there "'a' I that a new will Was 11110.10 l but he laughs at
Neel Inuolt prospeet of 0111. marriage, yet We ; 11,„ 4,1,„.•• ' 01111 1)1110r ereepilli; plants, leolted exceeding:
staef;:eleti I waycly with hirtune. Etna •vowed 1 • Thenill go ; and if that will is in Penrose lv pictut.eeque. The elituteel of the Abbey
,,:tre,sch ether tliat love in a cottage "'ILI • Abbey, I'll Mel it.l. .'" chervil was in very good. preservation, and
, he preferable to single hleseethmss. I dare, you eonld see eheily where the aline and the
"111 be 1)4,111111 yen will," held old Process. scats for the cheir had been. Altogether,
se,to. that folks W. talk like that itt twee ty.t wo
.:ssof aineteen 1 but ae ten yearM 11144-0 gone "Yee, if it im there, you rev trust t;ammidge it Was 01,41111..03 romantic a piney as I had
. 44./.: einee :theta 111111 1 indulged 111 such con. to discover it, ("amain inetrose."
"I shall be ewfully obliged if you will,"
sail's -Aden, I have lived. to see the folly of
its said the Captain, looking at 1110 ; "'and, by
A:a twenty two I was only a elerk at Lead- -JoVe '. I trust you'll 011ew me to—to 'el., oft.
or yoe some 'tn."—
esr. zt. Process's, and my l'screw" leas a beg.
;Amt.- thirty shillings a week. At thirty. "01 yes," sadd Process . "you shall pay
. him handsomely enough 1%41011 he's found it,
ease --this present time of writing—I am see
got it proved and matle right."
ter partner in the firm of lianunidge & Wel. and We'Ve
ker„ ere tloing very well indeed. Leader So then Ca nain Penrose and Miss Stati-
onal Process are both dead, and \Volker and
myself took up the Mildness. Walker'e
tensi.ien aunt, found him the money ; I had
rukee. already. Thai is seven years ago, and
a srm then 1 wctity-tive. We peel twe thou:
SS:IT.A. polintle apieee for the good -will of the
trazwern, and it was worth it, for few firms
.:Itti 171Naneery Line had. half as inueli to do as
Lemke & Proeees had.
Mew came I, who had thirty shillings a
-meek_ at twenty:two, to have two thousand
Isis:n.10 att tweuty-five ? Somebody died
steak ieft it to me ? No ; I hadn't a relation
-who: -was Nvorth a penny, unlees- it Wits
.1.7ttole Thomas flannnitige, and he never
ltirglave me for choosing the law as a pro.
'fee -Sion I had expected- him to find all the
THE BRUSSELS POST: AVG' 8, 1890.
She led 1110 n goo Mal of
ceremony to 11 81111411 • 1'00111 the in•
terior ef the building, where a etapital cold
luta:keen Nem eet nut. I did instlee to this
after I had washed the dust of my journey
away, awl then went ma into 4110 grounds
014,1 lighted my pipe.
It eeemet1 almoet sainelege t -e smoke
amongst studi greed ohl renew The Alde'y
as eertalnly It Very 11110 ;Old rollialltio
pl,we, Italf ihe heuse ht pm] repait
and .thitost modern, bet the rest wae ewes
ever 40011.
I thoroughly eXantilitsl tin 1:1 Levier of the
place 'hat afterneon, and got into converea.
Lion with 010 beiliff, a inertly old York.
shireman, Wirn looked pityingly at me when
I told him that I came trine Lonclom . I
drew hint on towards the ghost business :
hut as soon as 1 put a leading question, he
assumed a very solemn expression of count -
ley shook hadis with tilt' Process and wont enance fuel centered away en lus peny..
away, while I retuned. to Jones end Welke'. hogan to eee there were °thee PeoPle than
and congaed With them as to trains anil the late Aliss Penrose -who believed in the
times. I went ittray early that day, Abbey ghost.
after old Process had given me some adviim 1 dined that evening in solitude, and
and a few tive-pound tunes ; and wheu I had wondered. what Alieht 11118 110111g, and how
had tny dinner and put on my beet coat, long it 10001.1 be before I should see her.
rode down to Claplunn C'terunon and called Then I contraSted the eplendour of my meal
on Alicia, 'whose manuna conducted a smell with the frugality of my usual tea in
esteblishinent for young ladies, throwing in 1'0111011N -ilia Road. I eat thinking and
deportment and the use of the globes for half ing my wine for an hour or two, and then I
a guinea a quarter. went out for another stroll and Et filial pipe
"What UR the matter ?" said Alicia., run: in the grounds.
Ling into their hest parlout. with her face It WaS moonlight that eVening, How*
full of surprise and Ine. mouth full of pod- gland the ruins did look I I wished over
ding, for it Wile their dinner -time. "Here end over again that Alicia and her -me, not
her mother, though the ohl lady was a good.
old soul—that Alicia and her pretty face
were there. It •would. 11000 been very
pleasaet to stroll rotted the massive but-
tresses and throngh the silent cloisters with
Alicia. I went hack dolefally to the house.
Standing at the steps was Mrs. Johnson,
She seemed to be looking out for um, so I
advaneed to het and observed that it teas a
yery fino evening.
"Yes, sir; a beautiful evening."
"1110 ruins look very fine in the 1110011 -
light."
"They do indeed," she answered with 0111 -
you been made a. partner, or has the firm
.i ...expenses, for one naturally looks to one 0 failed, or what is it ?" .
lea:nuts in matters of that :fort 1 but lie "Alieht, I am going out of town on im-
• NyeeMn't stump up a penny ; mit in the end porton-. business. I may 1Ne EtWay a, week ;
,e4,4 Precess, who was a decent fellow or," I vontinued.gloomity, "it may be for
nIto,gether, did it for me. No ; nobody ever ever.—No ; I mean a month."
_tele one any money except Leittler, who be- Then I tom her all about it ; and pre.
- cps -soiled Mueteen gtuneas to buy a ring sently we went to Airs. Lovejoy—AIL:la's
Nees, How, then, did I come by that two surname was Lovejoy—and told lao. sal
Iffleausand pounds? Did I make it on the about it. Anti Nve all three agreed that
eatz..3. or the Stock Exchange, or by speculat:
Mies Penrose was an old ass, and the Cap:
esssg- well and wisely? None of these. As
Min and his sweetheart—over whom Alicia
:Is the turf, I don't know ono horse from was 'ust a little bit jealous—a, very ill-nsed
v-zetnither-; I hate the Stook Exchange ; end otip 0.
,Erlion't even care for speculation at cards. "And Nebo knows," said Mrs. Lovejoy, plias& "My late mistrees, poor Aliss I en -
'Su 0 I got my two thousand, whichpurehas:
when I went away that evening, havine rose, Wee very fend of them, sir. She would
eel si..8 a half-share in a, great business, en- „. conducted Alicia through thiE walk amongst them for hours in the moon-
ajtiaNii erte to merry Alicia, and thus to be Pun 10081Y.
classic groves of Wandsworth awl Lavender light."
happy for ever after, from a Ghost I Hill, by way of a constitutional—"who "Oh, then, she was not afraid of the
If: .vres this way.' One summer morning I
, knows what may not turn out from it ? gheet 14''
"illtuoltriting MY WW1 over a 11°rrible P1003 o' Saraliel may find the will ; and the Captain The honaekeeper gave a little start and
draft paper m the dingy room at Leader& .,,,,, bg so v.,
i lewd that he may Mier to shave looked variously at me. We 'eve standing
Process's, When the bell -rang iii ohl Process's " "I in the full glare of the moonlight, and 1
it with him, or 103 may get lnin a baronetcy
stace, I had. jest come in from the court, or a commission in the -line or something. noticed that a frightened expression came
mad IT 100Ited at Jones, Who was the only
But at anyrate it will be a good UM% if the into her face.
egIlter fellow in the room. Jones kept his
will is found, and the peer young people ,, ",Afroid of the ghost?" she repeated.
keaddown and peetemled not to hear. are nt in poesession of their very own." W hat ghost 1"
"71. -here's Process ringing," I said. "Go
t3.11,...ienes.-
.'irlto in yourself ; he always wants you."
'ff,-; I went in, kuticking slightly at the
sitinew,. as was my wont. I believe I started.
ertzse Igen inside, and then blushed like it , to It me . •
-sit-1 You see, I did not ItneW who was - When I get to King's C'ross Stalion at
popular enperstition down there in favor of
utt haul Mae true, and that there Was
NaLt...*:. old. Proeess, and it rather took me by . nine o'clock the tuna morning, whom ehould
a ghost, se I pet e. leading question : "Then
cv., -
I see strolling up and down theplatform but
stsepelee to see a tall, Aim, exceediegly pret ty it isn't true ahem the Illaelt Flier ?"
I Captain Penrose. Ile wee evidently on the
young leily seated in the avetchair which
Wit winch fervent Nvish, Lind a good many ., 113, c,' los , 3, cc
farwell ltiSses and. injuections to write often "011, ' elle said, looking, I fancied, a good
deal relieved, "I thought yon meant --No,
from Alicia, I went home to my lodgings in
she was not afraid of any ghost ; oh no I"
Pentonville Road, resolving to . t up early 8ir ;
.40
• . „ • I spay well enough that what the Captain
lookout for me, for the Met ant he recognised The woman did start then, awl snm that
.stnkla by Pr,i...ess's desk. We aian.4 .dten
plemant.iwki„g 1,0„pi„ at Leader me he came tteross to were WaS standing 1:110 WaS illetreSeed. "Oh dear me \Vito.
ki Process's as this young lady. she was mid shook 1101111S. " flood-mornieg, Mr. eVer has been putthig that into your head,
thumnidge," he said pleteemtly. 1' 1. called sir? The servants have no business to talk
ee pretty as Alicia, of course ; but I
":24:1-filt Alicia was the only other girl in the at Mr. Process's Mike yesterday afternoon about such things."
yeti OAS, blIt yott had gone away. "Don't alartnyeeirself. rill not frightened
who was any prettier. She hail a pair 'to ''ive
taf asIdne eyes as I ever saw—Ahem 0 eyee are
lenesn—and her hair was really golden, Tiot
pale and fluffy, like a wig inn berber's
iftver, but just the tint of leaves in antumn.
semeg man was sitting near her, and he
geodd,oking fellow tee, tall, broad-
-44Esteldered. .eething like a military man, note to the housekeeper, Airs. Johnson, tell-
sysinflee 1 1 .: Those two made every ing her to make you conitortable and to
nice , ..(0 nice as Alicia and my- give you access to all parts of the Abbey."
self- ”le the Abbey an old place ?" aSked,
I 4•";.• 1 :ng, sir ?" I said to Process, be- more fpr the sake of saying somethingthan
itercling paiMully conscious that the young from curiosity regarding a place which I
tasty WAS looking Mule, and that I had mY should be able to examine far myself in an
eott1—a particularly disreputable one hour or two.
"Very 01(1, Some parts of it must be—
"Yes," said Process, "yes.—Sit down, hff me see, oh, quite eight hundred years of
Geintnidee. We—Captain Penrose and Miss age."
Stanley," lie went on, nodding in the (Ural- 1 "Indeed ! I suppose they are in ruins?"
(ton of the two young people, "anal myself "Yes," he answered ; tor the n1ost part her, poor lady.
escape to have It little talk with yen." they tire in ruins. But the ruins are well ! " And is tnere auy legend connected with
the ghost, Mrs, Johuson ?"
'Yes, sir," I said, bowing 110 politely RS kept. Aly aunt WM, very fond of them.
pos./BM to Captain Penrose and Mies She used to roam about in them, talking of 1 " There is Et story about it. It is said to
the ghost of Bertrand PellrOSe, Win»rus
Eel:sanity, and seating myself and wondering ' the oM monks, for hours at a time.—And, ho
',pm, Prior or ,Abbot of the monastery here six
•eshat WILS coming. 1 by- the -bye, Gantinidge,"he continued.,
, hundred years ago. He wee a bad man
" You remendier Aliss Penrose, Gant- mustn't pas any attention to any old wives' I 1 -11 I • 1 11 •
"THE (TAWS 01' DDATIL"
ala.Salallk4401,11,1441V
let the morning it oeetire 801110 0110 rA.G.RIOULNURAL
salek of wood might probably talse the
lieeatilinentlationfi to Cheese -Makers,
Prom (he repirt to the ENeetai‘e !inninit-
tee of the West ten Dairymen's ,1880.1.ttion,
by Al r. J. Willinins, of On tare:, tele of
the elliejent inspectors of eheeeedaetories in
tine pre N Mee, Ni extraet the following:
"1 ain the opieion !hat all Milk -14111111M
,o4 ered and boarded lip 011 the
11) prote01 the fr11111 the
rain and the hot rays the summer sun.
This is p .i.tierdarly the ease 011 rOliteS Where
the Illilli Es allowed to yenntin 011 the stand
till eine or tell O'olorit ill Ow day,
et If the faetories 1 lind there
Ile mid a cousin who had aseended Mom ror the attempt, which deferred until the ist,r1..1.j,s;.:..-enteen having a teed and plentiful
daylieht comes 04411,111 Tho • t :1 t IN of pure water ; there iwe twelve
prepared o meet them, with his long unshorn ..70. coevettient fer the use of the fautory, ttml
ecareo and in-
.. , 1, tizanne ses leiving very good Ismer bat
Blanc, ;mother ho had been tiger Muffin
in the tulle jungles, and 011111:ugh he Was 11 dine 11111 11. an Sw '81 /am
,etrls, a wealth of sombrero and all tho 1 00111 111 1101 11.11XiollS 1) eh. 11 filetUre of elteese in any way whatever,
two have water not tit (411 fit for the 1111411-
1.111ellillo, °atilt of ate cowboy:his (muscle/ice Now 1110 lleW8 has gone abroad, and all and scarce at that. pleutiful supply of
told hun that there was mil Meg in him, the world is told by wire and type of the good, pure water is en newel necessity' in
11101'0 1111A been too many of Ms sort. There perilous. position of these two, lehe morn. Ail factoriee as it should. come in contact
hail been no butialo, and the Indians r,•oro Mg trams bring crew& of visitors. The with the milk, cheese and everything in the
lather truckling than hostile. Altogether shores ara ally" factory, and if not pure, the quality or
11 had been simPly the life of a herdsman.
Stopping (ii Ole Clifton, he listened to ac-
counts of the many desperate adventures for from the onlookers. At length the boat of ripened to add the rennet I found ono of the
which Niagara is noted, 1 -ie resolved to rescue is launched, quite empty, as you may great drawbacks with many of the workers,
rival all these, if not in skill, at least in sUppose, for there Nvere none -willing to risk in these easee recominentled a rennet test,
daring. And so he beetune one of the heroes the paseage even though tied to the sit,re as the easiest and must reliable method. By
of the most awful and thrilling catastrophe with a stout cable. Faithful to the current, it the age of the mak ean be eseertained to
which has ever happened at that some of it speeds toward the rock. They aro proper- nieety and always the same.
ell which bizarre and. Miotically reckless, iug to leap into it when, with the tightening " many factories I found them stirring
There remained one thing, Nobody had IMWSer, the craft dashes madly against the the milk very is:uglily Foul the curds thti
ever gone front shore to ellore in the rapele rock and breaks into fragments, 1 same, not only in the vat, but in the sink as
above. Once au Indian Mel lost his life in l\ lore food is sent out and a note which I Well, eraShing it till the Very life will loam
the attempt, 'left it. 1111 fact the only things about a fee -
Alonzo Gardner, a young man of St, Cattle 11 will eend the hawser with a stick of tory that:need anything but gentle handling
sty.s 1,0
erines, ouly that Summer merried vete: timber. Cling to that, one at a time, aml 'are dirt, rats, lime, and a rough, untidy
pretty French Canadian girl, with eyes like '0 will Vtl-e 'ell oil' " 'cheese:maker.
sloes and hair blaek as night. He had
taken Suzanne with hint to Niagara, where
she hail Wade hint inexpressibly happy,
while he earned their joint maintenance (40
guide anti general tout,
Alas, tile sca0011 WaS over, 011t1 they must tightens, the men are ii0011 10 elleke I relVely feel they should lime berm° se tnig
look forwent to a i'anadian Winter with a cheer of encouragement goes out from the to give the rieli cheese flavor. I have
scant provision for its discomforts, It Ivas shore Midleigh jumps into the water and met makers who hail no idea of the flavor
Gardner whom Alidleigh secured. as guide.
Together they surveyed the repels above,
What I that impassable ? He hod held his
r11 with a punt in a tide running twice
that strong I
-41 I but this has never been done I No
one dare attempt it !
Alidleigh, like most young Engliehmen,
was proud of his skill with the oars, and he
then and there made the statement : "If 1
eau Mid a fellow with a decent amount of
skill at rowing, I am going to cross 4"
.No one ever seeks to dissuade anybody
'stlintt c.atroc that the I smt follOWed. t",o,
A qug Siory 01 the Great .
j TWO lo a Mont. voril, a Ville b011ril
11 Wile the 1111.1 of Septemboe in the scar lattilulted front the upper pond (if ale island,
De40. The season ut incera wae ever. An Iteil it faithfullY nuesuAl the treicherous
we:1,4one 1 ntrist meandered the banks path anti landed. et the roeli. The .worn
1,11;11;111,1,4 had re. men showed by their gestures that they
where the vast summer
oently t redden. The many wandering welcomed it as a lites,enger 4if hope,
merchants of beadwork tuel knickknaelfs The heard, drawn eker from the reek by
had folded thole tem. and tibetppeared. [the cord, swung to the shore of the island
ArtlitIr Midleigh, a young Englishman, 'ow) ,,g„in „,111 „11 1, thin thto, 1„,at.ittg
who had been for the better part of a year nt,„to fo(„1 „„d t„, lotto, of 11,81
ranching in Wyoming, tvas now ,.11 his way' I
to Europe and determined, after the manner of geed cheer ‘Ve will bring a, boat
of hie reckless kind, to ;10 lo011e liareoloril 'ore!' altd 14131;311 it to a 11101'Ser."
devil at Niagara, that he might earry with eo the day paseed hile they were
hint te his lenglish home it bit of notoriety. .Eett in.. tide in readinews 1 Min too dark
Meru food is sent. out, tho poor, famished
cecaturee ere seen to oat, and shouts go np
them. will be Injured.
" To kitow when the milk 18 sufficiently
They told me what tune yeu proposed at the Inveet an test g lost t tat es et \No
leavingthis morning, SO 1 canto to meet you," ed. It was'Captain Penrose who tohlme 01;0114
He held out a note as he spoke, end I took it."
it and put it 111 my pocket, thanking him at "'Well, it's a good thing'you are not easily
the same time for his trouble. afraid.'"
"Ne trouble a all," he Said. "It iS jUst a "Then You believe in the Meek Friar ?"
"Why,'' she said, "one must believe
when there's good grounds. My poor dear
mistress believed firmly in the Black Friar,
as you call him ; though whether he be black
or green I don't know, for I never &INV' him?"
"Did 'Miss Penrose think she SOW ."
"Many and many a Hine, sir. I was once
with her when she saw him, and it was
rather strenge, too. I did :tee something
like a monk black dress, but that was all.
Aly mistress, however, used to persist that
she saw him often ; end I never contradicted
The sihmal is given that these inatructions " Just When tO apply the salt appears te
will be obeyed, and the day WearS 011 kle pre. 1 bo elle of the great tlitlieulties with begin:
parations for this attempt are completed. !nem as well ae a few of the older makers.
The Umber, fastened to the shore with the 1They do not ;Ippon. to be able to distinguish
selfsame line, is etarted, again the hawser just whet) the curds have that Me, 811153",
.snidge 1" said old Process.
:New Miss Penrose was an old party with
',Amu we had 0 good deal of business in one
-441,,y or another. I remembred her very
:welt, because she WAS always so confounded-
ly enappish when she came to the office.
•"" Yes, sir."
`-" She is dead," said old Process,
"01, indeed, sir.
that sort of thing, dont' you know ?
" Yes," he continued, " and nobody can
"Oh, is that all ! not Etfraid. of ghosts,
.thia. her will." Captain Penrose.—Is the Abbey said to be
Pia we draw it Up, sir?" I asked.
haunted, then ?"
the old — Miss Penrose made it
herself." "Well," he began, "yes, it is, Galnntidge.
I knew he WaS going to say "Me old Can't deny myself that there are some funny
fool," and so did the other two, for they things happen there 110tV and then, though
Teeth ensiled. . I don't believe in ghosts at all, -Aly aunt,
" She made it herself," said Process ; "and now, believed in the Penrose Abbey ghost
she's hidden it somewhere where nobody can very firmly."
-1.ind it." I "Oh, is there a special ghost 1" •
Had she much to leave, sill" 1 "Yes ; it% Et Black Friar who hannts the
'Much? About half a inilli011, I should place—at least so they shy, Of course it's
'think 1 And the worst of it is this : Miss nonsense ; but those old women will
Penrose always promised to leaye her numey talk, and I thought I had better warn you,
Ian equal entree to her two nephews, John hl eafie you should. feel nervous."
, and Reginald Penrose. Reginald, however, I "I'm very much qbliged, sir ; but I'mnot
nervous at ; I see a ghost of a
,offencled. iter—"
" I arri Reginald," said the young fellow black friar or a, White one; ru serve him
the window with Et emile, with a notice to quit."
"And so," continued. Mr. Process, "Miss ' And then it nes time for my train
:Penrose made aeother will, ',ma left all she start ; so I shook hands again with Captain
had. to John, Now she's dead, and flat Penrose, and haying promised to write if I
swill is in existence and John Penrose's discovered the will or any true of it, I took
lawyers have it. 13,ut Miss Stanley here, my seat, and WaS whirled away feom Lon.
whe resided with Miss Penrose during the don and from Alicia.
lest two years of her life, says Chat the old 1 Penrose Abbey ie five miles from Defrost:
lady made a new will a week before her or in a north-westerly direction. It W11.9
:Meth, leaving the money in equal shares, ' half -past twelve, o'clock when I reached
as in the old will. The new will, however, Doncaster ; and I stood holding my bag for
a while, undecided as to whether I should
:non% be found."
"Who made the new ?" I asked, hire a, cab and go to tny destination at once,
looking at Miss Stanley. 1 or hese a look round tho fainoni Yorkshire
"Miss Penrose, wrote it out herself," she raeingdown. Aly indecision WaS cut short
csaid ; "and I was one witness, arid Mrs. by a initlillaettged nian in livery approachieg
Johnson, the housekeeper, the other." 1 me and. inquiring.if I WM foe Penrose Abbey.
"Yoe were not interested. in it, Miss On my replying in the affirmative be eon -
1 dilated me to tt solemn:looking lirotighean
Stanley?" sadd Prneess.
"No.—Miss Penrose staidshe would leeve outside the station, in which I bestowed
lee nOthing because Wag engaged to be myself and my traps, and WW1 carried sway,
married to Reginald, and so we should ehare 1 In passing along the country roads, which
I abont there are Very good and well kept, I
what she left him."
" And now you can't get married neless noticed that the neighbourhood WAS 801110.
ftl10 found ?" said old Process, who WaS What flat and monototious, and I woudere I
;always very blunt,. ." Hin—the old lady's what I WAS to do with myself during iny
-repentanee seems tolutve been somewhat pe. hours of reereittion ; for I knew quite well
tobusfeess, Gammiclge—Miss that if IWa0 10 overhaul the Abbey thorough.
Stanley is certain that the new will is in ex. ly should beam to remain there some time.
istence, hidden away in Penrose Abbey I wass reminds:6 the groat door of the Abbey
zoinewhore, Captain Penrose heirs the by Mrs Johnson, a fat, motherly old person
1 of sixty or so, robed in rustling black
Abbey under am old will"—
" Witlinothing to keep it up on I" groomed silk and displaying a grand gold chain,
and oye-glasSes eapttotous front.
Ole Captain.
tales you may hear down there. 1 ,
that his penance is to hand the place and
I looked at hint ,in surprise, He turned 1
make what atonement he sm."
his fatesaway from me, and I thought there
"How does he atone 1"
was an uneasy look about 1b11.
"How do you. mean, sir?" . " Weil, if there's avail:1g important to
okt the family about to taste place, he appears."
"You know what old women are.
Johnson is sixty, if a day, Mid all the wo- " And gives warning 1"
men -servants are old. I thought they might "Something of that sort. Aly mistress
perhaps till your head full of ghost -tales and said she saw him the morning of her death ;
and she said she knew she should die that
day, And although Miss Stanley and my-
self tried to persutele her out of it, she did
clutches the salt, His impetus has turned at all,
it over, It swings back to place, but where I "Too often cheese that are fairly well
is he 3 Imade 11,113 injured if not ruined through M-
A head raised one brief instant from. the attentien. The temperature becoming too
rapids farther dolell tellS of his fate. A groan ' high, green cheese will ripen too quieltly ;
goes up. (lordlier is seen on his knees with, leelly mired cheesehecomes porous and. all
hands uplifted in player. Stout hearts pray are sent off flavor. On the 00.0t: hand two
Mud with hirn atel.poor, worn out Susumu 1 loNv temperature retards the curing and in.
So the third. night sets lu and Alonzo Lure. Too much 11110111ton cannot be given
is taken away a. 1110111„1, maniae. jures the quality, as will an -uneven tempera,
Gauthier is solitary m1 the rock. 1 to the curing room ; too many cheestionaltere
And now the notes gots out of the awful 1 neutralize their skill in the making room,
death of the first one, and the morning Blaine and their profits ae well,"
—
from any attempt whatever at Niagara. 14 are analile t" accommodate the vast eeowde
is in the air, The natives expeet it and it who sone to witness Alonzo's impending
has a value in their business. fate.
lf yen ivere to prepere a dynamite gun Extras and excursion trains aro the order,
with the intention of shooting yourself from and by 111 o'cloek full twenty thottsand
sh 41,0 1,4 ;there, the magaraos r4.,111,1 simply ieople iettet their gaze upon the poor, ex-
Adrertiee the ULLA and plaehlly 801 you totten
yourself MI.
lint Alonzo 40110 somewhat more hutuane,
and he meffeeted vehemently. Of no avail!
The town heard of the proposed excursion
and rapidly warmed up. The wiree flashed
he news to the neighborhontl. All this
naturally egged hint on, and he asked
Alonzo if he was game to join him.
What 1Vith the thought of that beauti-
ful young wife take such a risk of death";
Not Ile : So Alidleigh offered fifty pounds
for any 0110 capable of aidieg in rowing who
WoUld accompany him.
A. man willing to take tiny mortal chanee
Will Sot111 find company, and he found :sev-
eral volnnt ours.
"Now," mid Alidleigh, " (-Earthier, you
need the money. I'd vastly rather have
you, and I'll make it to you, mind you, a
liundveil pounds if you'll sty the word,"
ThiS WaS terribly tempting, and Alonzo
mok the &fee into consideration and cottn:
seled with the pretty Suzanne. Poor
Suzanne knew nothing of the risk, Every -
hotly talked of it, They didn't think he
would sueeced. It Mel never been done.
But 110 one. said : "It is the jaws of death I"
Five hundred Cetnadian dollars 1 They
multi furnish such a happy little home Ett
St. Catherittes with MM.; and so, with many
Mises, Stizanue lade hint do as he thought
tit.
The eyentful day has arrived. They have
selected a point on the southern side, about
three furlongs ai1000 Coat Island, from
which to start. Alidleigh calculated that
they would los(11 at the most, a quarter of a
idle in Me crossing, That would give them
clear forty rods abeve the fall on the
l'anuda side hi which to land.
A large group are there to see them start.
Suzanne 10 there trend:line, yet smiling en-
eouragement throngit her tears,
One last kiss 1 Que le bon Dieu to pro:
top 1"
Beady hands shove the frail craft into the
seething Niagara. Whenever any`foolhartly
nrand is undertaken it is usually. accom-
panied by flags, and at the bow of the little
skiff is the English ensign, and et. the stern
"9 eq True.
As a, result of what is accomplished by
"fostering" au industry, thu cheese making
of the Province of Ontario is a etteking
vainly up and down for his Suzanne. i extunple. Canada last year seld cheese to
en5, This is more
muster.' IN -retell, whose sleeplees eyes seta
More food and 41101.11er note; the amount of i,',19,s7 4,
4.3ve shall send first a rope harness with e thEm twee: the value .4 our entire export of
11001: for you to fasten you reelf to the raft.' "
11,f asi1111.11.0fi,1 e tatinr,eisi, 11 11I'lletisl (glut:1011a). i t,1,1t1 riehaese I, 1!.11,1atulci et
understood. 80 the belts and trappings .h,a0°,..1.),40eltlhign'T,1;y1ol.'yt 4a1:1,etiabtiotlig hgy"repri.tri:11,t,
"Yew! father and neither are here." 11..n.1 diet rilnpning their reperts, and by thrt
instruction .dven at their nuelel Mien, and
of ono of the hotel tire eseapes were floated i" ""
out, 31' ith another note :
The hands of a thousand people who know amtait'e"111.,,l'hearN8-... 111:esettill",t414:1'80, ttt,lintil'11.t.:thliewt111elin11.1111Elms
,1 the news ealitailled ill this pointed ont
the spot, and there A11,117.0 11118 ahle to die. thwt 1111010. Alid yet. tre have those among
of their markets in the quality of the pro-
tingoish his aged parents. He waved hie
hands in the air. The mother dropped to 111 41117 a 11 3 4,1.111,0100,. _Mca,,, 1.1,0,,,',..
US Who call eye 110 eall for aid to agriculture
her knees, exclaiming: ___
" 011, my son, my son !" Groans of Rept-
and tears spread. to the right and to the left Top Worked Apple Trees.
ish burst from the venerable fat her, and sobs
among the multitude. , 11. Hathaway, LittlePrairie Ronde, writes :
But see ! He is putting on his harness .
n11. ', Some time since Dr, D. 11I. Peek said tn your
" lle must be faint ; see he is stagger- paper that he sea "210 reiteon why' grafting a
tender sort on an iron -clad shotild make the
and again shouts of eneouragement go up.
ing 1"
" Aly Clod, the man hosn't had a wink of top less liable to Winter -kill." Hero, in South -
sleep in three days 1" western Michigan, itis a demonstrated fact
Perpetual vigilance with that yawning that tender varieties of the apple, grafted on
hardy stocks, do stand our test winters when
Once more thepieceof timbre. issped on its the same varieties, grown on their own roots,
kill out root and branch. I have hail forty
gave ever at hand.
errand. Gardeuer is seen to be making his years' experience in nursery and orchard,and
arrangements with great care. 1.'ho multi- from this experienceI can say, and that most
tude draws near to the very think of the emphatically, that such varieties as the Bald -
nighty river, He holds the hook Nvith Ida win; Red Canada aud I.:111g, if growil on
right hand, sustains 111018811 with his left as hardy rooks, Etre not merely more eerlain to
hoot:ouches prepared to spring. stand our test winters, but uniformly 1nore
Heave boy 1 He is going to lot 010 timber Productive, come into bearing at an eaelier
pass him and throw the hook over the rope l'!ge' and prove' hi every respeot mere Batis-
ta itS head. 1Vitie thought 4 , rectory, than when grown es root -grafts, in
But now the hawser tightens; the meal' the usuel Way. III my ohl orchard, planted
waters force the restrained timber to cavort in 1 840, not a root -graft 13.11.1wh1 but WM
dead twenty yeare ago ; while the same sert,
like a dolphin. Ion hardy stocks, Etre still in fairly good
Now 1 Now I No, the raft has gone too far' bearing state. I could say the Nape of the
beyontl him. Fifty willing hands grasp the. most of the leading popular sorts.
tackle rope, and the strong hawser pulls the
timber a foot or two up the streem.
But, heavens, it Mos about as a thing be.
witched, lashing now the water, comptved 'with the many who
rock ; it knock's unh now the Few people,
appy Alonzo from his ore celery overs, really enjoy celery direct
perch as a pin before a eltillful bowler. 1 from their 0 W1.1 garden. This is because many
A howl of anguish arises. Women faint fail to treat it rightly during summer, while
on every side. On, down the road to death' others do not know how to take care of it
he goes, the head 110W above, 110W under the' during winter.
A, tiny ;stars and Sitripes. . water, arrived at the very brink of the Ily ground is a, sandy soil, and in quite a
A brave hurrah welcomes their Itunichtug, chasm. The half of Ms body arises and, dry location: Last year I grew a crop of
which Is eehoed further down, mul. front the
. . spins for ono instant like a tocitottim, his' garden peas on the land, then had it, thor.
other slur 0 as the gliding flags come in t len. two arms uplifted, his eyes 300111 to take in oughly forked OVer prepavatory for planting
die, met as she saul. , .,' „ Stoutly they bend to the oars, thcY am all the vast ululated° on the shorcs, and so hi July
" Aliss Stanley's tt nice yOung mak,- I. reaching the middle of the southern rapid. he •porishos.
. • '1. 1 1 f n* a' ti AP 'n t' )71cont loss of distance thus far. Twe (lays later both the bodies are recov.
Dia what is this ? The °orient increases ered reany miles below, ,
in intensity ? No tido ever equaled. this 1
' ' Suzanne has twio° escaped from hor asp
Celery Culture.
"I suppose sTie and Captain Penr'ose
be married seine day ?" • .
"They. would be married 110W, if' the will
mild be limed. Rut Master Reginald is
very poor, and MISS vti. haS vete! little
1110118V."
"Vi*Vit, E'er. I That'S Miss Stanley's name,
is it ? very pretty.; bid I like Alicia
better."
"I beg your perdue," slid Airs. Johnson,
"Nothing," I answered in 00111110ton. I
said I'd go to bed, and get up early to begin
my search.
"Yes ; [Mow yen to your rdines, sir."
CONTINTAM.
The Poition Did Not Work,
TOTIONTO, July 31 e—On Saturdaymorning
Mrs. Bloom a laundress, ereeted sensation
at No, 111 Richmond street west, where she
boards, by declaring that oho had teken
poison. Dr, Calle WaS Called 111 and said
that the 100111(111 110.11 swallowed small
quantity of strychnine. '1'llo end:Mance de:
parttnent, WaS then notified, but on tlio ar-
meal of the eons:eye-nee Mrs, Mete denied
that she hall attempted to poison herself,
She was, howevec, removed to tho hospital,
but on arriving there seemed to be all right,
rs. Mono's husband is a Ideal:mil th. A few
tlays Ago lie went to board at400 X.ing strecii
oast to honest' his work, with the under.
&ending that in a short thee his Nviieshould
jilt) him, After ho left, it is said, the we.
man drank a little more thou was good for
her, and on Friday did not go LO WOrk
Young Wilt —" Do you lova me as much
as ever -V' Young It nsliaml—" I reckon so,"
Y.W.—"Will 'always be tho clearest thing
the world to you 10 Y.H.—"I reckon sio
unless the landlord raises am rent"
I then had a trench dug 14 inches deep
and 18 inches widest the bottomsI then filled
the treneh for about five inehes with dressing
from 1113/ horse and e0n1 stable. Then put on
le " him and has each tame been found standing the dressing 141)0111 three .incluie thielt of soil,
their heads They. tu trying to make the
llower Rock, gazing wistfully at therein. being careful not to pack down the soil. Then
Ametiettu s tote again . bow in the mist below.
Nu! it is apparent Alidleigh has deter:
mined to proceed. Whet suicidal folly I
"Make for float Island 1" tile people A Lively Horse,
Mein, " °oat Island !" is eehood from , rapid growth, but as the weather ',vas very
grollp tO group." .Arthnr Simmons has a Texas pony. on Ms dry I was obliged to -water the plants freely.
Yes, it is appereut they have had enough farm at Chokee whose ability as a jumper' 'my neighbor's celery nt this time was pont.
of it. tlardner is indicating the point at caimot he surpesseci. Ho is a diminutiVe mincing to rust, while mine was continually
width to land. Midleigh is heeding and tlio specimen of that bread 'of horseflesh, mid a growing. In October 1 banked the celery,
boat mentle to the tipper point, Another day or two ag0 \MS put into a big box or , leaving only the tips of the leaves mat, In
shout welcomes their „turning sucl apparent evate for shipment- to Americus, there being November 1 bacl stakes driven into the
safety. . I no stook car convenient at the time. The ground. onhoth sides of tho trench, slanting
Poor Suzanne has fainted, Kind hands . pony and box 10000 placed upon a flat ear inward anti meeting at the top, and fastened
minister to her. . and the train pulled out.. The little sample near the top by a light piece nailed across.
' Choy are safe I of texas cyclone soon got tired of los close The frame work was then ooverod with
"Mon bon Dieu, que je wets remereie ?" quarters, and while the train ,Nr110 running boards, and further proteeted with several
Safe ? This is what the people on the at s, speed of thirty miles an hour, kicked °art loads of leaves
opposite shore have seen, , ' the box into n, cocked hat; and illadc a 'cal, All winter I could take out Inv celery for
When the boat turned the point it swirled for liberty. He struck term firma right the fable, No trouble to get it ; no frost to
at ono int : the overpowering current of Idle side up With care, and when the train men hurt it, and of line flavor, tender and as
Canadian fall. The tired men were power- oamo book to viow his cold remaine, the said crisp, as you ever find it any season.
loss to guide 11 or to resist its fate, ' remains were qnietly nibbling at a keg of I see no meson why I can't have celery
stdmilly on toward the vortex ii. surges, iron :mikes on the side of the road, and it through till epring in this Wtify every year.
when, 10 f it strikes 8, plotroding rock, teok four tnen mid a boy an hour to run The thilery in the markets is often a.good
careens, and 00 mall leap to the saving down and capture him. At least that is deal rusty and generally poor, while mine is
stone. The skiff, partly filled Wi tit Water, what the concluetoe said, strictly A No, 1. People who have even a
rights itself, totters on to the brink and over small garden can enjoy their early peas and
the abyss, its two flags flying,
2
I put in tt double row, plants being set; four
4101180in the rOW and the VOWS (0111' inches
apart, in diamond form,
By Angnst 1st the plants were making a
lettuce, and then find. n, spaoe to plant a fine
It is some thno before the people on the row of celery 11 treated in the way I have
American shore learn of this, Now there is Wiggins—" Who aro those ladies In that described.
running hither and thither, end. it is found left:handed box ?" Muggins—"Oh, that is
that the two adventurers ere etranded on 0 a oonstollation of society shwa" Wiggins—
rook twenty rods above the brink of the fall "Any particular constellation ?" Muggins—
mid sixty feet in the etream from Goat, o wen, judging from thek &condo ees.
Island. tames, I should say tho Urent 13are."
People shout instructions to them, but
with the awful. roar of the catered; their ' Ciunso-1 think 1'11 got a tandem tricycle
words aro inaudible, Aid seems impossible, for you and me to ride on,
and so night wines on, lights are brought, a Mrs. Cuniso—Indeed, I -won't ride 011 such
watch Is sot, and poor 811101ine remains glued a thing I
to tho nearest spot, her oohing eyes bent mil "Dirt they nost $275."
the two prostrate forms on the dark rook I "Is that se ? Well,you can getono, and I'll
midstream the long, long night. leo how I liko
Discrimination.
Mrs. flossip—"Anything to.day 4"
Mrs, Knowall—"Yes, thoy say Mr, 131)0140
killed hi0 wife."
"Shouldn't wonder, It just bet he did,
too.
"And they say Mr. Plinks has given a
largo stun of inoney to an orphan asylum,"
"Hunt —I atm% believe it,"
11111!