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talk o' -Beced.: • .
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htet ni the heed'. ' • •
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. Not faith with -igid eyes, .
Not wealth ie naotintaine
, Not power eith gracious smile.
Not e'en the-notent-pen-
Wanted, MOD!.
Wanted, deeds,
Net word. of winning note,
Not thought's from life remote.:
. Not fond religions e.ire, •
' Not s •-eetly laeguid•prayers,
Not softly "scented creeds-
. , Wanted, deeds!'
Merl anti deeds
They that clan dere and do,
. Not longing of the new,
Not plating of the old;
Goodin"' aud actions bold,
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LINDA:A: BEAUTY
'
"A. very interesting country this, sir,"
ObserVes the liclyilpeking sourly at Roger's
handeome face -oh, Miss Burke, you who
fifteen NAM ago, could look at no man
vitiation al meltiog smile t But suoh-,are
-•• 'the results.of earnestness.. "Interesting, I
moon to.those who vieit it with a purpose."
•'"1"es,'I am told you get 'very fair snipe,
shooting here in, winter," answers Raga',
who does not understand the argot of Miss
• ,Burke's sect.. .
"1 (meek of the inhabitants Bunk • new
in sur.erstitien. but the.remnants of a noble
grow, "dem in. the. lien, ,phy. ,dewnMg:,, =OW nitee 4.0.0Xtrenteildrbrightneee aisoy • Is it yotirstep-inamme / Wonder
,womanlinetet, of the " Legrunas of last
Med
"But melt your ohoioe, of remaining, lie
between the two, my deer Belinda?" Roger
iteks, in that quiet tone of hie, which at
once Kittens and .exasperates her. "Are
bluennd rouge the 'only two colors in the
world 7" ,
"Certainly they are not, Captain TernPle.
Theta is eun-tan for instance, Van Dyck
town; the fine natural color cif ganains,
beasts, ,fiVides, and all the Vest unwsehed
of nature. My color." .
Unwashed 1 "rtni, quite ?sift Me with
these expressions, Belinda, fetid. Rose.,
"But you' must try not to despair 'about
your eomplexion, dear. Spencer ahall make.
you some of her milkof roe* She got
the reeeiet freen,•liedy Harriet, and they
say the effect is extraordinary; that sun-
tan, and even freckle% can be cured by it.
For my part," encouragingly. "I have ho
great faitkin coemetios. You are -fair or
you are Swarthy by constitution." .
It is long before the visit dram; to an
end; and Captain Temple, doubly gnarded
by Rook! and Miss Berke,. (1008, not ex-
change' another syllable with Belinda. At
leak in the middle of one of Mies Burke's.-'
finest perorations on WOreant8 'destiny; the
girl brusquely takes her departure from the
room ;.(ind aecompanying her to the top of
the hotel etaies,,Roger gets a word or two
with her alone. '
"You are not going to 'play paume to.
day ?" For she has a racket ball and
sohisteta, as usual, in her land. "Under
this broiling sun! Belinda, I will not allow
"Will you not, indeed, Captain Temple?
Why not;pray-?",- • - : '
" I do not °hobs'. to (moil /Our complexion,
for one thing." '
"My unwashed complexion that is to be
improved by Lady Harriet's milk of roses 1
Dial it fine to hear Rosie and Miss Burke
talk! What advantages I have had, sir;
in beiomulded by those two exttemee of
feminine in011igenoe." •
"Promise me you will :not play panine,
Belinda, to -day, or any other day." .
--' She heeitates and looks, down;, .a, 'quiver
on her limo tell-tale blush alibiing beneath
the clear olive of her cheek. •
"Leedom's!" he whispers softly. "Will
you promise
And then she raises her eyes. They prom'
iso-unconecionely they promise a world
too much to Roger Temple.
. CHAPTER -XL
TBANSFORMAION 809,18..
Have you watched an almond, tree flow-
er? Bare, shivering boughs .to -day, to-
morrow, under the Bret warm kiss of April,
it cloud of odorous blossom.• Such cilesnge,
en& sadden miracle of growth is wrought
diming the next four slaya in Belinda. Her
cheek gains oolbt, her figure tonndness;.
her hair no longer disfigored by the villain,
oils plate, .hangs round her neck in waves
Of glossy Phestnut. Her .movements lose
their maeouline roughness, her dress grows
race. Yor are, perhaps, not aware that the neat; Girlish grace,gitlish softness, modiesty
•-.--Biseqiinhasoutlivedlivejlistin-cit, peoples- &l1 have come to her.-Whb-iilitill-fthriddte-
' the ,Oarthagini on, Celts, Romans. Goths:
• end Satracems ? ' . • •
"Murray," seye Belinda 'in it . Stage
• whisper. " Introduetwy R:mnerks on the
Pyrenees,' page ' two 'hundred and forty -
Roger strokes his imoustaohe and tries. to
look edified. "Tho Benne must certainly
be very old." he begins, foolishly. i.
• "But the work I, am engaged on at
Braaten, the work that indreed. flla every
moment of my time, is the search of
illustration.• You have, perliape, hoard
through Mien O'Shea that I am writing
"book? No:1 might have guessed an much.
Mies O'filhea's interests do not lie in the.
atrootion of my own. A book entitled The
Wonsan Of the Future." I am a laborer;
• sir; though a humble ono, inthe greenest
reformation of our day, the'emik of restor-
ing WOMEM to the pedestal from Whence the
blinded ,prejudices of centuries have de-
' throned ker." .
" Belinda' is not : going to be So un-
fortunately plain, I do believe," Rem will
reins& complacently to her lover. "She
has quite made up her mind to marry Mr.'
Jones -quite; and y on Bee how she brightens
up at the prospect of riches.- I am afraid
1.was tight about that poor thing from the
first. Roger. Belinda has no heart." '
Mies Burke aecounte for theiritneforma-
tion otherwise. "A nature like Belinda's,"
says Miss Burke, "can only "develop from
one frivolity to another. Her childish:love
of Play outgrown, and Belinda takes to -
whin? Earnest ' work, higher.- culture,
cognition of the world's Wants and misev
hie? , No! TO unieline, ribbons, and laces;
the livery, the badge of woman's degrada-
tion in the sdoial elude."
So think these ladies. What sloes. Roger
Temple think? • • • • •
Roger Temple is in the-- frame Of mind,
reader, when all.uf up are aptto shun deli-
, • .4h, yes," Flays' Roger, in . no- very en- communion, to keep the eyes of • the spirit
timaiastintonei-and-glaneingns--he---- spooks- 'ehtit;,---By.---naturn.--the--"imer.-ohicalet-eigly-
at,the:patohes where darmought to be m
Belinda is stoosing(u "For my part," he
• adds. gallantly, "1 cannot 'see that any re-
formation is needed. It seeing to me that
women are excieedingly charming as they
are."
loyal of mon, Roger is drifting, daily, hourly
drifting, into disloyalty.He is more Mien-
tive, more devoted than ever to Rosie during
the hours that'he is at her feet -poor, un-
conscious Rosie, perpetually devising toilets
for Colonel Drewe, who as yet domes' not!
" As the Turk, as the debased Asiatic But there are a. good many hour(' of the
thielneef-hisoleven?" ..day,whenimaknot.at..,Resie's-feet.....Tho,
hotly. "Do you, an 'Englishman, actually
advance the preposition that to be charming
le a fit motive for an immortal being's ex-
istence?" •
"Tho most oliartning women appear to
• me to bo' so without any motive at ell,"
- oays Roger, mentally . measuring the -,dis-
' Jane°between hie adversary and the door.
"But / am really the worst fellow living at
an argument." ,
"Oh, that is a very easy way of escape.
. It is perfectly evident to ,What cynical
',school you:. baking sodium light in
Nem& you regard our sex! Can you solemnly
sir,.1 ask it with the earnestnees the
. [subject requires, that you do not leek upon
me as toys?" .
• Thns put, as, it were, upon oath. Boger
Sidereal of mature beauty are generally de-
barred from adoration during the forenoon,
that sacred; mysterious time for, Women to
Whom Heaven hath one.face and who
manufacture to themselves another. Till
'eleven &Ole& every morning Roger ie free,
and Belinda also. After the Canino ball at
night he is free, again; and then, in the
starlight, " Legrinme ", steels out upon the
balcony (do fatally nest his own) of the
Mahlon Lobobiague • :
Miss Burke; absorbed thp„" Women of
the Future," sees nothing; Rosie onwrapped
in lavender ribbone, Spenieh' combs; and
agitated euspetee about that elegant
°restive Stanley, suipecte nothing.. And
then, undet the eolithern sky. in this do-
nothing life, the path, no difficult one iii
'Temple, ooneidere• Mein Burke 0. .peteonal, any climate, that leads from flirtation to
,attraotions more Closely than he hail:, yet: friendship; from friendiship to 'a warmer
done; tho thin, cold features, the glistening feeling, iseo eaey., ' , , '
.eyes, the watch-spangly:2m. He feels that ,Four gipwing 1:sightless ileye pies by like
he doet not, that in' hie . wildest' mot:thin:0 ono; MisStarke .engeged, philosephiealiV,
he never 'could look upon her in the 'Ob. Rose making futile millinery pteparatione
mixionss light ,she deprecates; and with a for Colonel Drewe, Roger Temple and Be-
, perfeotly clear oinemence enewers, "No."
"Then may I aek what do you look upon
no as?" Caws Barka, pitilessly.
Roger net only Measures the distance be-
linda falling about as desperately,in 'eve
with each other as ever two people fell on
thimontradiotOry earth. For the fifth, ay
Rose has planned an eight home' exam. ion
tween himself and the door;, he wee to his into Spain's Hend4e, Forstarabia, lome
' feet., He has been held a• bravo eoldiet in through the mountain pass of Behobie by
action -ft hardy aporteman in the field; but' moonlight. Mr. Jones is to return eerly in
he is horribly afraid of Miss Lydia ' Burke.
48 I -I really be pardon -but I have usually
.looked upon women as wonien," he answer's,
humbly.
Miss Burke turns her head' away in con-
tempt. • • .
"It teeny is moat wonderful," sighs Rose.
the morning from his tour, and as'a twitter
of course will aceompany them, "Two
pairs of lovers -I never heard of anything
so ridiculone," says Rosie; With this Miss
Burke, note -book in hand, as ,thientut \sir
fifth wheel of the coach.
Augustus arrives panctually by the early
•
shining from eve* feature of her faoe-- at ' or Captain Temple who is acting as your
this wheeler mompnt, say, the sudden. adviser? Not your step -mamma, surely ?
apparition of fiognetne, more blistered, 1 4 the insolence .0f his tone, his look,
than ever After joarney,more Mosquito. ;Belinda'e 'self-posseasion returns to her.
bitten/ more emetIve• riontea upon Beltada. My own heart is my advieer. sir," she
with all the cold. ohill of an unexpected °ties. ".,My own heart tells Me I could
• f it
Ems o nne. She °henget; ccilor' Patnfolly, ; never endure to live a day with YOU as your
does notToffer to take'hie outetretchedhand, Wife, let Alone a lifetime I" '
"And have you made up your mind -
'although, you do treat me so cruelly I ituipt
always. take the, warmeet interest in your
welfare-rhave you made up .your rebid,
Belinda, to live under Captain Temple's
roof for the future ?."
" shall do. whatever he , thinks best for
me, sir. The wet& etahlier, but she
utters them with a kind of despairing
resoltdion. It t :would be inlpOSSible for
me to live under the tool of any. one I like
and honor more than 100 Roger Temple."
"Oh!What Very delightful sentiments,
what (*arming submission And: yon
were no desperately prejudieed, if yen re-
member. Only four _days, age you were
ready' to quarrel with' me for -asetuning the
possibility of nira.O'Shett's Marriege. '
I did not know; Roger I emple then."
says Belinda bravely and simply. V oan
excuse Rose now. • X think she or any. other.
tvoteen would be hon by beconsing
Roger. lemple's wife," •
And having got back to he familiar re-
gion of truth, the girl's dent spirit rallies.
No further blush of shame rises to her
cheek, no, further tremble' of the lip betrays
her.. Shame was for the first discovery of
her weakness. • For her, love itself,'Imie-
Placed, hopeleee though it may be, ehe can
feel none.
Mr. Jones makes his exit, not • again to
cross the stage of this -little drama; and
Belinda. stands blankly gazing at a world
from. whence all fair perspeotivee, nil
grioione harmonies of color, seem abruptly
blotted out. The cheerful' streets -1 --'tie a
high BaB4110 festival, and the town is
thronged with peasants from the neighbor-
ing villages -the balconies with their gayly-
-and can find no, utterance of weloome more
flatteting, more lever -like, than the mono.
"1"1.algblee,''''S‘nY;SUMrri:I. Onea'• n'egraininstieellY.
•
tender,. "1 have not kept you waiting I
hope? You have not been expeethig me
long?" •
don't know that expected you. at all,"
answered Belinda dryly.' "You have seen
No, Augnstue has not
octeraient Itihandet..th•sit
pleasure. He -found e note from Mrs.-
O'f3hen on his table; inviting himto accom-
pany them for the day into Spain and
then-" Then; o! course, I rushed off at
onoe to see you, lidinda;" he '" adds in
tenderer.aeoents than before. "Ras time
hung heavy on your hands 7" Mr Jones lute
an unhappy keaok of ocimpeeing sentenees
brimful. of neurdeted aspiratee 1. "Otto
year heat' told you that -that SOWS ono,
you cared fora little Was, away during the
lest four days!" , , • ' . •
"My time .has not • hung in the least
heavily on my hands," answered Belinda,
coldly, emphasizing every "h." ." But I
have been aware of your absence; if you
mean that:" •
"And what have you been doing with
yourself? No paiirne-playing,•L hope?"
"1 beve given up paume-playing forever,"
ihe-excla* • e, her cheekeelowingr a sudden
shame ing into her eyes as elle =tiles
the confession,
"My dear Belinda, this delightful com-
pliance with wilahes," begins Augustus.
" Yoor wiabes 1" • she interrupts him
quickly. "What do you mean by that,
sir? What do 'you ,arippose your wishes
have had to do in the matter?" painted awnings, the flush of purple hills
across the river, every familiar object upon
which ehe looks Keine .ohanged-vivid, in-
teneifiecl, as, external.objeote.„ hes:smite in
moments of ahem bodily pain, and pall
distorted to Belinda's nntuned, jarring
eenee. Her life is distorted. The gamin
life,, with ite.keril joy's' and tears, is over.
Over 1 why she feels/ old already; ~those
children playing yonder under ‘the trees
seem separate from her by a score of pain-
t* Yearn! The past has died by eudden
harshest blow, and she has no future. That
"A•good deal, I shookl hope,'ethisidering
how we stand to each other as -as engaged
people, and that." •Istys. young ,Creetitut,. pur,.
'13ellnda.: tarns from impetuotiely ;
she trifler" with the flower in her belt, she
etoopeend pate Costs, who 'with, an air of
,dignitledttiomph site in the sunshine ,,e1Yer'
ihg the: disoomfituM of his mien:it! iiikance.
", I did not think you Would begin any of
that xis/Outwit; nonsense again. 11r. Jones,"
she remarks after a minute's silence "Thi-
-ga-gek-wheit--.for-rptay?--.-•-kfacoatoons-at- liose•;--ifor,-all- happy woreen-.whose
Harranbenies We shall' have time enough love has been sought for and returned; And
to get scioseil.darnestr, berets We start, for . •
he Across-, the girl's . heart . sweep
.
Without answering word, Jones shift thopg ts" that are intoxication, memories
his position froni one leg to the other, the of .wordespoken by Roger .Temple to "Lit -
stands critically gazing into , the tran grimes" When there watt. Only the • night
pateitt.gitlish face before .'him.• WOunde • and solitude to heerworde carrying with
vanity m flooding • Mt.' jOnest, intelligence, then( the tint of, truth,- of earneetnese; all
with •ft anthills amount of light at this unlike the tawdry •OOMPlitheitte lavishes
moment. : ..• ' • on Rose. Ah, if he care for . her 'ever eo
"X don't know how it is, but it :Seethe to elightly, and elte may 'Bee hint sometimes,
mo that you -have /littered a ,goad deal since feel the &more. of his hand, the kind -
1 went a*ay, mg nese. of eyee, can ehe not be contented?
word you leek three, four, any number of
years Older." , , • ' '
"That is not a othop.lintentary speech to
Mike to a yonng. lady, le ?" oriel Belinda,
but in.'s fiuttering; ill -assured voice, with
the traitor . blood dill 'deepening in her
cheeks. ' • •
• "And your dress:L.411 those refined fen:isle
elegenaes With whioh.I have saoftenWiehed
to 808 you invested," eaye Attgueths, pom-
pously. "But I Suppose,. ite you expected
me to -day, I may without Vitoity attribute
a little of that to.-" • .
Pray don't heisitete." .
. "To the veerlaudable • desire Of giging
'pleiftettre,'my dearest Belinda,"
Upon this lifts ,Ifer: oyes, and returns -I
his gaze unflinchingly. " have :taken' to
" refined °leeriness " as I), hive 'given, oti
panme•playing, to mit my own • taste. I.
never thought for one %Moment. •of giving
.ypu or any one. else, Pleasure, never."
The natural expression, by no insane in
engeli0 ono,:otMr. Jones' face, replaces in'
-tCeeiiiiinit-till:tliebilrteliderii.W*hislai, kin
editor, he had thought it Wiee :of ' late to.
dissemble: Truth, hefeelecis going to be
told between hen and this keeroongued
little Vixen at last, and he is de-
termined•to model' truth unpalatable • to
her as may, be. "Well, Mimi O'Shea," look;
ing at hiewatch as he speaks,'" yon arena
complimentary mood this
leg, it seems; ep the. sooner we wish ,each
other. good-bye, the better. :' As regards
your patty into Spain, you Willinention to•
Mrs. O'Shea, perhaps, that airotimetanoes.
do not &nevi of my. accompanying you."
, "I Will deliver any message you 'like tO
send me, Mr. Jones." ' ..•
"I have received it • letter that calla, Me
beck at once to Loodon and shall .leave'
this optima bale with onlytoo Mitch. pleasure,
by the twelve O'clock train. lioweVer,. I
have no doubt yOu.:will find Captain Tem,
ple it ,very willing substitute 1'. Before we
part there is ene , question that I should
like; jam for curiosity, to ask you. What chief in silence. "Tho duty Olt, lies
teas your object in swing. me :the, answer,. beret° me is a most cruet Mie,' she Bighorn
you did four e,venings ago; herein your own last, looking.up with soft, remorseful eyes
lodgings'?" • , it the. ", /tope, qa have
naficetaetdi con -
know
"Tho answer'!" eteinmers: • "1 don't 112,rrY P°°r Roger,' I
kilo* what aniiteer. you mesh. oh; Kr; I hope it; and I, Missile it.
Janes, do fergivo me a I have :Offended mY reteetion Of him would have .cut.'Roget,
ycin 10 . , , • ' • Temple adrift from hie twit. motal, stay •in
"What was your Object, ask?" he per- life. But I cannot ' forget that there are
it may be prior olairnS You telkfof
sista savagely. "bitso rrfeetly impossible' other,
for you to speak' the tiff • &Ws jestingly, Belinda! You little' know
"1 answered you more ' jot than /loci necessary it is for the to see 'Colonel
eariaeitt." You: know it. I said that we. Drew.9 without delay, and alone.' For
of women: .displaying ,diecretion."
might try being' engaged. We have tried 'want
it, and4he thing is impossible. Forgive .aaYa It°s°, 8°Iem°137, 8°°°°: zeenia "yea
have leen 'sacrificed in positions. Hee this."
me, Mt. Jones. I have Sated very fooliehly,
" CII&PTER XII •
TELE td:3310111E, OF A HISS.
.•, . • . . . •
On rettahing the Hotel Isabella, Belinda
finds her step -mother alone, dressed in the
sprightliest, ,most juvenile white Muslin.
Wrapper, and wearing on the .suninnit of,
her blonde looks what the Parisian Ma-
iners neatly termi "a ravishing futility,"
in the Way of a cap or badge of widowhood.-
" Belinda I and not Mr. Jones? ' Well, it
is poeititiely reprieve -I am too upset,
tee miserable to bear the presence of a
man. Oh, my dear girl, think what tor-
titree of suspense I am going through 1
Colonel Drewe has arrived -le staying ,in
this very hotel." .
There is not one of her little , poses in
which/toots is more successful than that of
bashful girlish perturbation. . in her
youthful white dress, and holding e, Micro.
ecopio patoh cambric and valenciennee
to her lips, she really at this 'mon:sent does
not look a day over two-and4wentyi in a
half-light, of-couisicand-7vieteed;iia" -OW"
seat of genniee art deserves to be viewed,
from the proper feces. ' •
It appears he (mune by a. late train
yeeterday, but I knew nothing about his
arrival till this morning. The poor feiloW
picked, iv- Spencer's acquaintance in the
courtyard, and .questioned her, and oh,
Belinda I feat things are . worse than
'hiiteripitirdr-Sfsenoer sirs th-is-fierylook
that came into his ,eyes when the told him
Captain Temple was here was, something
fearful." • " •
"Lucky that you Can keep out of his way
for the day, Rem: There was a beautiful
'Spanish duchess in this hotel last summer,
and six duele werelought &bent her before
the season was Covet. We must hope. Col-
onel Drewe will hive had time to get his
fierY feelings nadir control by the time you
come beck to.night."
Mrs: O'Shea for • a minute or more
examines tliepatteth of her laced h ndker.
very badly, I knovi, but I ;askyo to for-
give me: I am wiser now."
"No doubt Of it,", seem' Augaetue, with
one of hie odious smilte.; It would be
impertinent, I suppose, in inquire under
whosn'influence y,por wisdom has been
gained ?
She stands for several seconde dnmb, as
thoogli she bed not understood the question ;
• "But where is bean this time,' Ross: -
where is thie fiery -eyed Colonel Drewe? 11
you Mean tosee him before we start you
must meke he.ste about it." ,,
"Ah, my dear child, there .is the
culty. Is it my duty to start .at all?"
And then, beckoning 13eliods, to her side,
and speaking in Whispers,, Rose, unfolds a
setiei of little Machiavellian plans, by.
Who hes caught the last words or two of morning train from Bayonne; and with then ; from throat to temple, the poor little means of which she hope's to mystify every.
the discussion. "meet extraordinary how lover -like ardor 'makes his way ,at once girl turns white. Her secret -e secret body throughout the remainder of the day,
gentlemen. d'ii dislike bitelleet in Os t rani- :under the broiling sun to the Attaisen Loho: hitherto to her own inmost consoienee-..:- 1 RO/Pri in the first place, in to be told that
etre, for myself, I 'envy soperior, women, biaguer Where Belinda, already equipped is bared before her, like re committed: sin; she itt suffering from headtsche„ and the
*and I have always wished and vviehed to be for the day's excursion, ' meets him just i in this moment's - piercing light. she, party ma_enel /hems' is to be admitted*notst etert for SOSin without her,
bine; haven't you, Belinda?" : outeidethe Weise. Forgotten Jones chiringl changes from pale to rect'and then to pale , Then Col
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" irt , / like my natural him well enough, his .absence, she hare not; not her own f• again.. Her Whole childish ' fade works at first admitted; the Wily tipeneer meet
piteeneix. "1-1 atm wiser now," is all Rho, hold him at arm's length with 'teatime I
4 E pertly. it min; if quasi encouregenient of hie unit,. having in '
' believe .1 Would, deed been • pointedly reminded pf both ,can isPpeet ; eh, with whet trembling lips
ethei °airs. I 11150tit aiZ iiMe8 dating 'eaoli twenty,fottr , with * robing, irrepree 'We share° i her Mistreee's suffering pondition until his
fedliept be euffidiently worked teen. "And
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, 'creme niore .metnent, dressed, poorlittle girl, in a a ubt, y are," Auguhttle, ww:trddhirinil bitbseY6.bdneattYreoi,ifoll'ipeneceskrytlhi itnagic4,b0f6o4rreel hi°rnti
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Wear rouge `boon" by Rose. But, just 'et-thie present ' " t ni e sen o
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' elfishly' mer frook and het that Spender has co.. her with ntemptoons cooleeee, '.41 There in a ligbt as little' wounding. to his own
.1 eav- 1 dericemlingly Made rip'for her; 6 flower iii may be t o opinion(' perhapsas to the vent y a poet hie My engagement, for.
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ling liter • waist -belt', the eubshine that human. worldly w' dom of these ' little
. . . changes of Ittitiately, lies never been eetually given eat,6 Poem that 1210 80a writ, an' he 'says helj
.. . .. - ' have satiate:ellen or go 'to a,hbeepliel, • •
and/. know, when Thaw ilIone, eitir
say many things that -will, Borten the hyper
to. him. Poor. poor Stanley I .S.h.of I
Could only petsuade hitt" to return quietly
to England by this evening's express!
Roger 'need never know More, about the'
visit than I Omen to let him know, and-"'
(To be OcanInued).
A OFIGHT To. Tam DEATH.
Desperate **mounter Between Maddened.
on the Edge: of st Precipice,
•Thcimas Moore a well-known and
substautial ,oitiZen of 'Garrard county, Moe,
tells a graphic) story of a desperate 'meow],
ter' that smarted on the crest of a, knob in
hie neighborhood several days ago between
couple of enraged balls in whieh both
were killed'. The animal(' had swandered
to these heights, and, upon sighting eacb.
other, at once. engaged In a duel to the. -
death'. Those imacqueinted. ' with the in,
_etinote of such oresituree cannot easily
imagine what extreme ferocity they some-
times display. In epeaking of the incident
Mr. Moore said; • • • ' '
"Being interested 'in the study of goo, _A'
logy, I happened to he' an the knob at the
time , and. was startled about' .4. o'clock
the atfternoonly a fearful bellowing. Leek -
lug some distance ahead, I saw the animal.,
advent:slog towards each °flier with their
nom on.the ground, finning this way and
that, and casting duet into the air with ,
their forefeet. When only it few yards
apart, they suddenly leaped. to the attaek •
with a frightful noise and began to gore
each other With frightful energy. Aline°
the fierce and noisy trainpling, could be
heard_ tho. grinding of their interlocked, •
horns and the violent snorting of -brutal
rage. The breeze blew asideLthe..duet, and '
revealed the tigerish cheraoter of the.onset, ,
as with wide -set limbs and tails curling in
the air, they charged again, stebbiug with
their pointed horns. Tiny stream's sif
blood shot down their necks • and sides,
while their' 'distended notals emitted it
reddish foam. • The predigtous strength of
these mignific,ent 'tunnels thus brought •
into activity: afforded • it 'spectacle bosh
tumultuoud' and thrilling.. The iexertion of '
the encounter, ' added to the„ pain of each
newly inflicted wound, inflamed their cons-
batiye spirit to the pitch of tempestuous
fury. ' One of. the bulls billowing up it • •
temporary advantage, bulls,
his herna
into, the cheat. of his antagonist, and, With
a quick upward jerk of the 'head; tipped
open .the flesh to a depth of 'Several inane's,
while from this gaping wound jets of arte-
rial blood began 19 spurt. tsi a towering
pesision and with gleaming eyeballs, oharg.
Mg furiously Open, his , adversary, : the .
'wonnded bull drove his horns' into its ali•
domen, making a horribleopening, through
which the entrails gaehed.,' The' ' impetu-
ous and stormy nature of the contest had
Carried the combatants to the verge of the
cliff, but, blind with deadly fury, they eaw
no danger. Each mortally wounded and
weakening thomentarily from profuse
lose of . 'blood,. waged .' the . battle .
-with-.7-that---fiendieh----deeperetion.--shotim
'only in. Wounded' aniteals it wen
evident, however,- that a aisle was neer
at hand. , The situation had resolved itself
into the grim condition of the death etrug-
gle. • With lowered. heads they backed
away e. few yards, defiant, implacable and
again collided with a force thet seemed to.
split their very skulls. ' This terrific shook
staggered the bull with the cbest wound
and foroed his eyeballs from their' lockets:
He suddenly plunged forward to hits knees,- .
Oa the brink of the preciipiee, and . remain-
ing in a quivering stupor, ,with his open
month burrowing in the dust. The other, ,
tottering andooveted with blood, but still
terrible in his weakness, Charged heavily
upon his kneeling and eenselese fee . struck
him in the flank with the force of '• it pon-
derous' projectile and hutted him. headlong
Over the precipice. The body executed
somersault in midair, iell with it noisy
crash through the treetops upon the rooks
below, where it was Subsequently preyed
upon- by. vulture's. .The rereansing bull
isetiniedter
ger to which he himself was expoee.d. He
drew beak from the brink over which his
hideous muzzle had been momentarily
thrtiet, and with his entrails trailingou the
ground, staggered a little distance, off, fell
prone to the ground, rolled ever on his hide,
shivered a moment and then laystillin the
(=trace of death. ;The battle bated nearly
*icrlintirs-Sigd ikpnint of-trangninarydagils
and tragic horror has no 'parallel within
the limits of my reepllection."
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• 'Diphtheria carried by it Turkey.
A fowl with diphtheria was brought to
the house of a veterinary Ourgeoe on April'
24th and died on the' 29th. The feeding
and nursing of thebird devolved, on e lad
aged 14, who was assisted by his brother,
aged 5. On the .evening of May llth the ,
writer was Called to see the little,loY of 4.
Who had been poorly for it (ley or two. Ha
hid enlarged cervical glands on the left
side, which had come on rapidly. tie Wen ,
a deliciate little fellow, with fair hair and
aninnie aspect. The fencee were more or
lees covered with diphtheria membrane, -
the left tanell more especially. 'tinder, the :
adminietkation of biniodide Of meroilryncid • ,
iron the throat eynipteine cleared up and
the child Made a good recovery. , On . the
day after this Cade Was first sen the boy
who fed the fowl .was feverieh and had
"similar patches over his fences; bot not to ' •
the same extent as his brothel': A sister,
aged 9, had also a similar teTlosiOnon the
fences.. On. the .18th the mother, Who
nursed them,, was attacked, :and was492if
larly treated. They werdall kept web f Op' ,
witn beef tea, and etimulants-,Brifish •
Medical Journal.
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t'he New 'President itnd Ms Wife.
Notwithstanding the result of the, eleii-
Hoe tare. CleVeland'A photographs; sell he
well as ever, Mrs..11artision cleeess't .like to
have her ,picturee pleeed on sale, and none
are to be had
Preaident-eleet • Harass* WW1' walking
down to his office One afternoon of last'week
just as the Public Sohoobs Were dismissed, •
when an enthusiastic) boy daished up to him
and exclaimed, "O), Ge.netal; itin't you 77
glad 1" • '
° Rev, W. T. Timer, Methonist pastor it
Harrow, Ont., died suddenly the other day.
(Mike boy (to editor)--There'e it mad old
gent outside, air, what wants ,to „gee on,
Editor --,,Did le say what he wanted ?
(Mee boy Yessir ; he skid that yen printed