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BY minas J. snEnratta•TL.. •
It 'peered to me walant no use out ha 'the field
to -day;
somehownouldn't swingthe scythe nor toss the
.new -mown hay.
j
An' so I thought rd est sit here among the apple
To rest awhile beneath their shade, au' watch the
buzziti' bees.
Well, no Can't say I'm tired, bula somehow
wanted rest,
To be away from everything seemed sorter to be
best;
For every time I go aroundwhere there is human
1 kinder hunger after what I know I cawnat find.
It's singl'ar how.in natur' the sweet apple blos
.• '. some' fall, '
The breeze,4it 'pears to know and Pick the pia-
' tiest 'em all; •
It's only rugged ones, pothaps, can stand aginl•
The frail and delicate are made too beautiful to
Why, right here in the,orehard, among the oldest
there, ' • .
I had a nice young apple tree just startin' out to
An, when the ekinoetial storm come terin"eross
thefarm- • - '
It tore that up, while to the rest it didn't do no
harm •.
An' so you've been away a &poll? Well, how is
thingSdla_to_W„n_?„
Dare say it's gettin' close an' hot.. To tat; e t up
au' dowo
Hike the country best. I'm glad to See you're-
lookin' spry. •
'No! Things don't go just right with me; I
scarcely can say why. •
Oh, yes! The crop is • lookin' fair; I've no right
tb complain, •1 "
Afar coin runs well, an.'•I have -got 'a .purty stand
of grain
My laay is almost made, an' -Well, yes! 'Betsy?
She's so so -
She never is as hearty as she ought' to be, you
Th boys? They're in the med.der lot down by
• the old mill rade; •
As fine a piece of grass 'ground:as I've got upon
the place • ' • -
It's queer how,,when.11ie'grass grows up, an' gits
to lookin' best, " •
That thewith
.n's thetime to. cut it down. It's so wi'
all the rest l..
' -Of things in nattir, I suppose. The harvest
comes for all •• • •
• Some day, but I can't understand.ljest why the
best oneS fall ; • ' •
. The Lurd knows. best. He .fixes things to suit
• His own wise laws; •
.
Am' yet it's•curions.Oftentimes-to-figger-Out--the-
airandy? Yea, she's doin' well; she's helpin'
mother now --
• About the house. A likely gal to bake, or milk a
• AM -No! rnanot lasalf :the Man I were tea Year
•••
• But then the years will tell'UPon the hest of us,
you know:
Another? !Yes, our Lizzie .were'the best Of thein
Our baby, only sevehteen, so sweet; au' fair an
Jost like a lily; always geed; yot Cheerful, bright
We laid her in the churchyard, ever' yonder, yes-
.
•
That's why I felt I wa'aut no use in the field to -
1 someliew couldn't swing: the •scythe•nor toss
the nevi mown hay; • •
An' so I thought I'd jos sit here among the trees
---The_se_things_come harder when 'we're did; but
then the Lord•knows best. ., •
HUSBAND:S. AELIATiONS.; ,•
•. . ..
. . ...._• •
The People .Loved Her.Much.
CHAPT-ER L
. '1,iAVANDISI.I. SQUARE.
" To tell the truth, my father thinks
Robert has been very extravagant in estab-
lishing lainaself here, and leaying'such. a
• rpactice -as he had at Walton. , And you
know how' intolerant he, is to anything -like
axtravagance."- . •,.., ' ' ss ' , ' • . ' .
The speaker is.a good-looking girlof two -or •
______three-andstaienty, large. long, andiissom-
-limbedra Young lady -who does justice to
the close fitting.dresses of the day, and can
hold her on -.satisfactorily, on any lawn
tennis grodin'd.i'i:' .,...•.'. • ' ' . - . . • .
•' She is a -little affected in manner, or
rather it eh -mild .be.aairl that she lacke-the
-rthe
Of reality, an•she " tells the truth" in
• h'd
e worde' quoted above in tonee that:make
. . .. • ,
, one skeptical. .''!- ' ' ... '',' ' -
• " ff hard work andasiduous attention
. to his patients go- for anything Robert will
• command success. ;. and,ap.for the_house., it
is for yes he has taken .and'- furnished it,
you know, Marian! - Year father ought not
. to be too intolerant.", • * . '
It is the sister of the ' "'Robert" tinder
diseussion who says' this, and the One: to'.
whom she makes i reply. is Marian Lepel',
the bride-elect,of Robert Anneeley, a clever.
YOung-surgeos whithatiLi-ersently-given tap
his practice at iWaltori-on.-Thames, and
bought one iu the neighhothood of Caven
dish Square. ... , .. -
" Oh i I 'like:dia.-house .-well..--enoug.h-;„
don't take tip the idea that I ain•discons'
- tented with it . or With anything else that
Robert getsor.does .for'ine," Marian says,.
' coldly, for it is not _according,to her notion_
of the fitness of things that any one,Shoulci
- • correct her; as to any, opinions she may
• ehodee to hold about Robert, her. own, peous-
liar 'property ; i''.but:you Can ,hardlY wonder
at my not . being elated at' the prospect 'of
leaving Walton. I looked forward to -living,
• there for yeare to come, having maniple,
and the gide close by; near enough' for us.
to be together every day would laahe been'
fio p1etteants7nowt :here -1 ithall be qUite
alone." ' • . ' .' , ..„,::as : ,
,
Miss Annesley 'f -6Th 'that a faint color
naounts to her browsits_ber futureeister-In-
slaw saye this, for it is in :the projected
order of things that she '(Dolly) is to eon-
tinue to live with 'her brother, and ilOW his
wife that is to be appears. to be 'ignoring
this arrangement. ,• : ., , • ' . • ,
, "Worse than alone, in fact," Matian
goes on, .in her low,. „sweet,. unenaphatio„
tonee, " for Pdhert is sureitdgefiiit-erit'oir;
cle of stiff professionals; and I shall haVe
the trouble of entertaining „them at dull
dinner-partiee . without any, help • from
mamma and the girls.'" , ' - , •' • s.
"Perhaps I shall be able t� help you,"
Dolly says reassuringly; and then ,some-
thing like, a feeling. of contempt. for. the.
Wellinannered pnerile grumbler seizes her,
• and she adds- • . .
«& At any rate, I can't regard yourigrieV-
ance ae a Serioue 'one. • If you preferred
your. mother and . the 'girls to Robert
you needn't, have taken' him; now that
you have taken him yon ought to think
more of his interests and Its of leaving'
Walton," • . • , .
"Ab ! yessot course, yon'Would be ready
, id,go into heroics' and the wilderness with
the man of your heart," Marian sole, with'
. a slight sneering smile ;." ,there's 'none Of
• that sort '61 ' Wherever-thOthart-would-
iy(
seein-Frin-toznaV ,sentinaent- about me.
. Mamma Biqa I all, .find. this .pluSh furni-
,ture will wear vilely ; I almost Wish I had
persuaded Robert against it." • •
"Coma and' see -the othet rooma„nows
they're finished,. they look 'so different to
what 'they did the other day,", Dolly cries,
jumping up, heartily,glad of the ,change of
• topic, and eager to lead the future naietress
of it 'over the perfectly, appointed house.
But -Mies' Lepell, has no fancy for making
an informal ptogrees over her new demesne.
"Where is Robert?" I will *mit for
him to take 'me over the house, I think;
as I *rote to tell him I should come up to
lunch with You to -day he might have been
at home to see me." • .
I thought I told you he had been called
to a donsultation,2".
"So you did; but that doesn't Ittet ail
day, I suppoee ; it's half -past three now; I
can't wait about for him all day. Tell him
I think the bons° and furniture wouldte
perfect if they Were down at Walton or
I'Veybridge ; being in Cavendish. Square I
shall'never take any interest in either."
"I wouldn't give him such a dishearten-
ing message for: the world," Dolly cries
indignantly: '"Poor, dear, kind- Robert
You'll surely iadver throw cold water on
his'enterperise in such a way, Marian?"
Fortunately for -him I shall frequently,"
Miss Lepell says, quietly. His enterprises
are. apt' to end expensively, and I shouldn't
have -a' -pleasant time of it with my own
people if I were it poor, haraSeed,
ill -
dressed, ,careworn wife and mother, and
wanted.help from them; 1 niean to make
Robert•a careful man, Dolly!' He'll get no
sympathyfor any of his rash enterprises
from , -- --
"Tell Robert -I hdpe he'll njoyThinsiseif with
his fine friends to -night and tell him' aleo
that Lord .Killeen is the type of man, above
,asli others of Whom_ nay _father disapproves
-an absenteeIrishlandlord,throWitig
away the money in London 'that he grinds
out of his poo t wretched tenants. Robert
will never do any good in his profession it
he gets intimate with such a
She goes after having euneiated this son-
tineent,- and,. with .a cry and it .bound of
joyous -relief, Dolly gets herself into her
own room', where large basins, full'of perfect'
roses; crimson and ereatn, in full • bloom
and -in bud, are waiting for -her to sew
them in bands . and clusters on the bodice
-and skirt of the ivory. satin whiChis to be
meulded on to her splendid -pliant yOung'
feriae at it later period of the day. .
Her first 'thought 'is. that if she goes to
Ireland. to -night she will miss meeting
Ronald Mackiver, and how dear h.:meeting
is to unacknowledged lovers no lovers who'
are h unacknowledged" need be told. Her
seCondsie that if_Robartwants her she
mustiO wide Min, and the roe si mtist•fade
&worn upon that perfect dress. • It.is a
little hard, but- there is no sign of feeling
-triehardehip ef it in- the tone in Which she
says-- •r. . • .
".Offered yeti .Darragh 1, To lend, 11 10
. .
you, do yOu mean?", •
"NC, 'to sell it to We: 111 tell yeti
airabout it' by _and by; but 'get teady' to
start by six o'clock like a good girl. I 'want
you to see the place, and then you'll under-
stand -what a..magnificent investment it is..
Shah 'a chance cornea' but once in it life-,
Must we- go to -night?'. Lady-
ditnes. Have you forgotten -it?" .
' "My dear Dolly, you're going tribe frivo:
bus for 'the first vitae i -n your life; and
want to give. up, . tangible. good .for a
dance! . Yea. yes! I see! ..tlat'e dress., is
charming:. , Bu.t , we rauen,;_k atity,satalking
about it now • I want' your sagacious little'
head . over there, my dear sister, and
'naustleave here by six o'clock."-
11-egges-run7ITie-wayhtuczytintly,-and-Dolly:
:orders a tfew neeeseaties into. a small
travelling -trunk,. .and sleek the )flower.
wreathed- dreessiaid'aside:with it gallantly
'suppressed Eigh. She -.does ond..believe
that_lier _brother is at all _t_man
-for Galway .anymore the:xi...that She
.is the giri . for at.' Still she has nothing
tangible to urge . against the fiChtlEGA,
and the thought of . the Lepells' wrath ,
when they come fo hear ef the traneaction
hoes notslill her with. dismay: •
. " Theylove to think that Marian 18 opin-
ing down -from her. throne in marrying
Robert, but they're goodihe-afted-rieople for,
all that, and it's. only their love -for - her
that makes them talk as if no,- one were
good .enough for her."' Dolly: thinks; and
then she dismissee'Marian from her Mind,
and gives it few Moments' coneideration-to'
what 'might haveheen" at Lady Killeen's
.dance to -night.- ,When her. brother corime
down to Swoop. her off to the •statiOnlis.
finde her writing ..these few• lineiato,Ronald
" DEAR V0NALD,,--I3usitaess takes Reber t"
W Ireland to -night, and. -Robert takes LIB.;
Dn't Wait for me, therefore,. but .Waltz
with the nicest girl. in the: room. , .You
shall hear directly I come back. .
Yours always,,
Denny ANNESLEY.”
You're' not telling ..BIttekiver 'anything
about, Darra.gh, are you?".Mr. Annesley
• asks, as he glanCes . at the .,address on the
enyelcipea, • '. • -.• •
'.." No.; .why not, though ?"
. "I prefer, telling_people that I'VA done a
_thing to 'saying that I am going. to do it.
Now, dear we're off.", , , .•
They oaten; the train, iind are speeding,
away.. through the (eumWer. night air,
Quaint, pieturesrpie. :ClanEiter ie passed,,
,stlao.„vallay 'cf•the Dee ia rushed through,
and Holyhead is,gained'before some of the
t-uests reach-. Lady; Killen'e • house in
, Charles Street.. Anioug these late arrivals
is a man Who • ha e run up from Aldershot,
ktYliolears. that :. his -detention' by duty"
way cauee him to appear a laggard in loye
in the. eyee.Of Dolly Annesley.
Ris.quiok, eearching 'glance flies round
the ball-rocina and conservatory, and fails
to find her. ,,Dieappointed, but still, after,
the manner of inen; disposed to make the
„best it,hhe ,looks' about 'him' critically.
:Dolly.'e note has not reached:shim, fat the
simple,reason that he WO not been ,to the
botel itt whichshe has addressed him ;' but
unconsciouely. he 'follows:bet advice; and
seeke . to -solace, hinneelfswith the " nicest
girl" in her abeente.• .
CHAPTER - II.
- A , GALWAY DEMESNE.
The.morning'breaks blue, beaming, and
'bright, as the steamer iii"which they have'
aardes.ed-dischargeeLher-paSSOilgisre at Kinge-,
-town. The sea ,has been .smooth, and the
aunshine on the. distant hills seems to hold
out ,a ; golden- promise- from 'the, land to
whiali the Anneeleys are cowing for the
first time.. What, wonder that in view' Of
this goodly harbor' and these, green, and
gold -tipped ' lauds all prudent dread: nf
" what the •Lapell'e Will think of Robert's
plan" should fade from Dolly's mind ? '
In half an. libur We shall:he toning the
capabilitiee of the Slielbourne,''the hotels
that Killeen 'declares to be the bestin the .
world,' Mr. AnnesleY -says as he Seats
hitnself by his sister in the railway car-,
riage. "1 say,..Dollyt these Irish- appreciate
:their own Darragh'e'. the loveliest
soothe creation,' Killeen etlye." . •
" These Irish are rather 'ready to leave
-the haveliest spots in creation. Do,you think
there can be any reason for it, R,oherb
Dolly aske: '
• " Oh f of course., I know what you mean
-spiouldering sedition,' anarchy,
noes, disorder and' all the rest of it are,
reigning, or are about to regns in the land ;'
and that's why Killeen is willing to part
with,Darragh. My dear Dolly, dismiss all
that noneense freirh yohr mind, and look:
plain facts Sin 'the face ; the. crops were
good .last -,year, and 'promise to be even
bater-thie ; the country is quiet and pros-
perous, and not at' all diaaffected. They're
. •
purely private coneiderations that Make
litlleen want to stell Darragh. The People
are just exactly what the landlords make
thepii. Treat them well and liberally, let
them live like -men and women, and not
like pigs, out of the land they labor on,
and their worst acits of tete:Alien will
be to sing, 'Let grin remember the days
of old,' and Wearin' of the Green.'"
"I'm prepared to be delighted with Dar-
ragh and to be devoted to the people; but
-Several of our friends have failed to find
perfect felicity on their Irish estates, ald I
don't think that they were much less
deserving than vie ard,!_'s the, girl laughs as
the. train. runs into the station -a fortu-
iteue circubastance, which enables her
*brother to evade answering her in a conve-
nient and creditable manner.
Ito, is a -busy day in Dublin, and the
Shelbourne" is Wide awake by the time
they reach it-wideawake, but in deshabille
Sti11-, al is, evidenced by the crurnminess of
tlits table cloths and the duetinese of the
'furniture of .the spaeious saloon into' which
they are ushered for breakfast. But there
is suoh warmth and radiance in the atmos-
phere, and such a beautiful southern air Of
do,nothing and care -for -nothing about' the
Waiters, that Polly feels' that words of
reprobation as to the staleness of the soles
and the greasiness of the ;chops will be
worse tharridle and vain. • •
. Meantime, Robert Annesley, who has all
his life been Wont to act on inipulse, and
-r-eperit ante -at hie leieure7 is
occupied in reading up all the information
he can glean from an ant's letter and
sundry guide -books about Darragh and- its
,neighborhood.
All thathe learn? from the guide=books
is Intensely satisfactory. " Dthrrag,hlies
between Oranmere and Galway City,'and
from its well -wooded groniads beautiful
views of the islands of Arran and Galway
Ray aro, to be ,had. These grounds are
wildly and romantically beautiful in some
parts, and in others highly cultivated,
richly planted, and intersected with walks
that are bordered by magnificent shrubs
and grand old trees. The house is a hand.
some .gra' stone structure with a 'square
tower at one end and a turret- at the other,
and of sufficient size and importance to
justify itsowners in Calling it a castle if
,they pleased. B'ut hitherto its ownerS have
rightlybeen contented to call it simply
Darragh. It is said that lead has been
found in large qidantities on the demesne,
but mining operations have never been
carried out, and, therefore, we can hardly
give credence to this rumor." .
" Dolly, I believe I'm in for a big.tortune
ihbuying this -property,' Robert says, call-
ing his SiSter'S , attention to this pasetige,
and she, being quite as desirous for. his
welfare as he is himself, reads, with
avidity and replies with sympathy':
"It seems to lee -all that you could -wish,
Robert.; Marian can't help liking such a
-place. 'see maidenhair ,ferias are found
,cloWn among the fissures. of tbe rookFi on
the coast side ofthe grounds. How loVely I"
" A.linost as•good as the lead, eh, Dolly'?"
he -says; witlase, good tempered, superior,.
patronizing air. He almost feels as if he
were the lord of Darragh already, and
though he will soon. haye to -crave e great
facor from his sister, he cannot help
deportinghipaself as such to her already.
if: olithP±elt-iTn b -e1-11 -
hair ferns growing wild, roses and myrtles
blooming and livitirm . the oPen air all the
year round, just'as they do in Cornwall and
the Scilly Isles,. and -a soft humidity in the
atmormbere_frena the influeace 'of the Gulf
'Stream, which is
resh and 'fair the notoriously beautiful
bloom of Irish. girls. 'Robert, if 'you strike
'lead, and Marian finds the air agree with'
her complexion, you'll be a, happy man."
P
CHATER III.
. , .
WHAT DARRAGH MEANS.
. „
AEGOilgthetle .themes Dolly's tongue ran
on in Sheer gladness' of heart. She has
quite • got over her chagrin at •having. Veen.
kept ,away: from Lady. Killeen's -ball and
nuesing,Ronald ,Mackiver, and all her cur-
.rentIntereet is given to Darragh and her
brother,. He catuabt help. wishing, at she
gees on talking of the fragile.ferns, and the'
blooming flowers; arid' the gigantic lobsters
with which this land is blessed; that Miss
Lepell' "ivould speak, and' think; and feel;'
and look a little more like Dolly.". Not
bat' what he is:very fond Of his grandly pro.'
portioned love, and more than very.proud of^'
her; but futile 'thinks about. her ttiis evening
in the streets. of Galway, where everything
is entirely unlike all the towns Of his expe-
rience, he cannot help feeling that Marian
is meant for -the well-established. Walkli.Df.,
life, and that, she 'will fail to find any.
poetry in the Claddagla.. • . . •
•• Late into the night Robert Annesley and
his sister -saunter , 'about through the
streets of' the 'Old town,. where -the wide.
gateways, broad stairs, 'and a 'variety of -
fantastic architectural ornatnentatien.ca,r-
riee-them in imagination to: the -Granada
and Cadiz of which they have 'read.
vious of the human Want and penury Which
is crouching just out of sight around them,
they see nothing but beauty in the.soften-
ing moonlight, and feel no warning in the
--breath-ofliberty whiah blows in freely from,
the .bay. . •
"You go- with me heart and soul ,in
wish -fog t� make a home. here, don't you, -
Dolly ?" Mr., Annesley says, as theystand
ittone of the windows of the dining -hall at
Darragh the next day, andlook.out threugh
:much 'dust and' a few rose -branches, upon
a'superh, uneultured 'scene.' .
"Heart and sbuhRobert.,De take sonie of
my money to helpto. prit the plaCe in
order." . •
"My dear girl, that's the -very -thing I
find I must say to you," he :says eagerly;
"your money mast come into tile busineas
-that is, if you will trust Me, Dolly.
Killeen didn't say , that he wanted the pur-
chaseononey down, 'but I find frotn. the
agent's 'letter :that if I want -Darragh I
must be prepared to .pay ten- thousand
pounds at once." ,
" Why, that's just my' fortune; how
' lucky! Take what you want, R.obert, and
I'll coin° and help you t� look for the lead
•inine and -to keep the people happy mad
,eontented, and make them good epecitnens
of, the finest peasantry in the world," • '
• " Yee," he. says,' meditatively, we'll.
tihow What 'a good, straightforward, Manly,
liberal line of conduct can 'do. I wish
with all nay 'heart that. Young Thynne.
Wasn't coming hereto upset us iill with his*
nonsensical notion." •
" Yohhave-alWays said ,..the Home -
Rulers had 'a ot .of .right on' their side
Robert'?" , , '
'"'Yes, but I don't want the right on their
side to be ranged against me now I'M a •
landownor-or nearly one ; he has his hand
in half a dozersof the best London journale,
too, and can say what he wants through
tlae press touch too Powerfully for him to
be an agreeable opponent."
`,‘ Why s should you dread him?'. He'll
never ,oppose you,sor be anythirig but a
firm ally, to such a liberal employer and
good landlord as you will be,". she says,
with an air of half -questioning astonieh-
meat •that makes him retort, impatiently-
" You know nothing about it, dear.; if
people get' stirred up against law and order
they don't care whether the law is lenient
to them and 'the order agreeable or not;
they'll rebel against it, and try to make it
hot for those who enforce it ; that% what
Killeen found here, and I believe that's the
roeaettp,,
son.he:,
fi letting me have this Pius so
h
Ddn't come here if you're not coming
with your -Whole heart," Dolly ories' in a
prophetic epirit,, and then shewishes she
had bitten her tongue before she had spoken
thus, when her brother replies:
" Are you afraid that I shall eink your
money and never -be able to repay you? My
dear child, you're all safe; even if Darragh
turns out to be -a worse investment than I
think it now, you shall not be a loser by it."
"Don't fear for me," she says smiling
encouragingly -trying to win,him from the
sombre mood into which he has fallen for
O few moments. "Don't fear for me!
Darragh! I feel that I shall love' the place
the name delights me .already. Does Dar-
ragh' mean anything, Robert ?" .*
"It's a -corraption of '.Deargh,'" which*
means' red' in ,Irish -Gaelic, and'Ag' is
a 'field,' I believe; I stiPpose one of their
gory battles was fought here ages ago, and
it's called red field' in consequence4'...,...
"Darragh! Darragh! I think the name
will haunt me all my life; it seems to make
the 'place much nearer and- dearer, and
more like a living perscinal friend to me
than if it were called the Castle or the
Hall," she says softly, and then. he ban-
ishes poesy end coined back to•plain, practi-
cal Prose. -7
• "There's a lot to be done in the house
before you can dare to bring Marian here;
the whole place Wants polishing up all the
furniture that isn't torn'. and tattered is
tawdry."
" lay furnishind.
• pipes on from Dub-
lin; that will seen be sot straight. You
write to Marian 8,nd' ask her what colors
she will have in the 'respective rooms ;
that's all she need bother herself about;
you and I can do the restwhile we're here."
"And yon won't bey extravagant ?" •
"No, no, I won't-:-there4 I promise you
I wien't," he' says testily, and she crirasona
with annoyance at the.thought that he may
fancy that shale asking him' to be cautious
because the money is hersrihat" he is going
‘! I'll never ask him to be prudent again;"
he resolves, vexedly ; "his Worst impru-
dences have eo much geod feeling in them
that they never lead to any harm. Dear
old' boy,, I wouldn't have him thitik me
grudging and cautioue about the money for
the world:" . - -
- She is so buoyant,. so blithely delighted
with Darragh and the prospect of life there.
•for a titne, that her brother, whose nature
it ia to look always- on the sunny side, sees
a vista of unlimited prosperity and happi-
ness stretching otit before him. They
penetrate into every nook and corner of the
rambling old house, which has been the
home of some of the mighty Lynches in
days of yore. -The "-trefoil and the lynx"'
are carved over many, of the mantlepieces,
and in one pa4nted-glass window'they find
not only the coat -of -arms but the motto
" Guarded by its own virtue," which the
• great Galway race had taken for its own.
On soiree ',of the tattered tapestry in the
state bedroom the trefoil still blooms ia
faded' silks, and the lynx still watches a$
keenly as when, generations ago, the dames
-turd-clamsels-of the bouseworked- it with --
their fair) and skilful fingers: There is a
buffet=fulI-of-grand old silver and some
oarveds.black bog oak that Seems to have
been toache,d by fairy fingers, and taught -
to blossom into flower and And
-standing-in--solitary-state-,---nhained=to the -
massive table on' which it stands, there is a
giant punch -bowl of Irish gold, over which
orgies, the remehrance of which., makes
madern blood run cold, have been held.
(Tobe continued.) '
' ' AEXP,CrAe.
'Four Officers sitting in • a, bungalow in:
india were deep in a gairre-o-f-whiTit7
SucldenITOne of them, tnrning-deadly-pale,-
made signs that no one should' speak. In
a, lin:shed voice he exclaimed, "-Keep still,
for God's 'sake 1 feel a cobra crawling
about my legs!" He knew, that timidity
was. one of, the ,.strongeet characteristics
of this snake, and that i bot disturbed
or alert:nett it would in due time depart
of its . own: accord. ' All present were.
accustom et1;to the stealthy intruder, and 'did
notshatipilyilosetheir presence of mind:,
TheY very noiselesely bent down So as to
take it survey'beneath the table, when, sure
Chetah, there Wae the anawelconled visitor,
.a. -'-full-sized cobra,' -twining and -gliding
aloarit the lege' Of their hapless friend 1
Literally deathwas at his feet. A move-
ment, a noise, even an agitated tremble,
might„have been fatal. Luckily one of the
-f ouriwarehiqualinte-d-With--the milk -loving
habit of the cobra, and rising 'from hie
Seat with quiet and cautious movements,
• not -daring to hasten; yet dreading- delay,
he inanaaed, to steal from the room
he signed the rest. to remain motionless.
-Quickly he crept hack with the saucer of
, milk 'in his hand, and still with holseless
inovernents set the saucer under the table
as close tO the terrible reptile as it was
safe to venture. That fearful strain, on
their nerves wasihappilij of not long
duration,lor presently they;.wero relieved:
by, -seeing the ere,ature gradually antwine
'itself and .to -the•- milk. NeVerabefore
did that officier leap from his seat ae he did
then, the mornent he felt -himself free front
tho coils of the cobra, and read in the face
of hie - comrades that he was -saved.'
Deirraninezi, to Get n Illusbond
Miss Keogh is the name of one of the
most advanced • heroines 'of 'the British
Broach of Promise Court,' SheIs a middle-
aged. Irish-sszoman-iith-' We -lave factalty
abundantly deuloped.• Bhesiiited het affec-
tionat first upon a gentleman of three
score years and ten. . She came Out of this
case richer by .B600. Her next victim was
O young man who, like his elderly predeces-
sor, proved faithless, and was fined therefor
:0100 by an Irish jury.- Miss Keogh the
offered the remnants of her bleeding heart
to a Mr. Taylor, who trifled with her, and
then cast her aside. I'or this trifling the
Irish darned claimed d2500 and got 410.
Miss Keogh. had refused a compromise of
4150.
Miss Adah Parker is a girl of 185,.who
lives on a cotton plantation two miles from
li/fontoe' La. • For the last four years she
has hadexclusive charge of the place, upon
which her widowed Mother, sister and twO
younger brothers reside, surporting them
all by her industry.Several 'Chivalrous
young meniktve offered to marry her, -but
seeing that all that they wantis to get a
home with some one to make the living,ahe
has decided not to indulge in the luxury of
a hueband until she is a little more fore-
handed. •
'Father 'Riordan, of Chicago, wild has
been appointed a bishop and coadjutor of
the Archbishop of San Francisco, is only
38, and is thought to be the yourigeSt
Catholichishon in the world. He was
born in New Brunswick, lent was taken to
Chicago when quite young. •
A ship arrived' at Most -via -on -the -Dee'
with a case of supposed Asiatic cholera( on
board.The man died. The doctor who.
viewed the boclvagaye it as his belief that
death wae-caused• nenzouwaffection of
the heart," and tit, nroner'e jury returned
a verdict of " accidental death." ,
•
,CETIE"WAYO'S DEATH.
The Remarkable Career of the
Great Zulu Chief.
• Gateway° is undoubtedly dead. • His
massacre is ooninriined. by recent cable-
s .
grams.. He was the son i -of Panda,, and
the nephew of Chaim, thesZulti Napoleon,
who, in 1812, reorganized the Zulu nation.
As a boy, Chaka formed the purpoSe, of
creating a powerful army and, conquering
all South Africa. „Hie scheme. WaS Bl.100e138-
f ul, and sixty nations became his subjects.
In 1828 he was murdered. Panda, the
father of Cetewayo, who ruled from 1440
to 1872, was a man of much administrative'
ability, whoconsolidate the Zulu nation
and made friends of the Dutch and Eng-
lish. After Panda's death Cetewayo :was
formally crowned by Sir Thepphilus
Shepstone in the presence of 10,000 warriors.
He acted as regent during•the closing yCars
of 'his father's life. In October, 1876,
when theEnglish Governor of Natal' pent
Ceteviayo . a remonstrance agaiaet 1 the
execution of his subjectwho had re -rived
'thhbS'?'tlThinarriage laws, the Zulti
natinaroli returned a haughty reply. " Why "
Baia he, ." does the Governor of .NataI
speak to me about my laws ? Do I go to.
Natal and dictate td him about his?"
Finally he was driven into the war in
which his power was broken arid his throne
slost.-InrAugust,-.18,79s-Oetewayo-was-a;
fugitive in the wilds with a handful of
faithful followers, hotly, pursued by bodies
of English and colonial cavalry under Lord
'Gifford and Major 'll/arter. On the 2815
of that month he was captured, and on
Septenaber 15th he Was removed to Cape
Town; and remained in- captivity at Castle
Barracks for several years. On August -
1st, 1882, he arrived'aiin England. He Was.
a lion in England during his stay, ,and
was after a few months Bent , back to_h_is_
kingdom, where he wee' reinstated With
• great honor. •• ,
!Illhe Fest ...Vince Of Safety During,- n
A NGE1118 11.TN1 NCLi
Tinindeir-storni..
AS this is theseasort for the play of aerial
electricity, 'and as the human body , is a
good conduCter 'for the ' fluid, it becomes
everyone in,a heavy thundershower te seek
a place of safety,: A thunderbolts, .theiagh
Seenaingly at " the sport of circumstance,"
does wove really in obedience to most imr-
. feet law. In descending from a surcharged
Mond, it seeks the nearest -and best condue-
tor. It 'flakes a zigzag carmen:lent through
the air because this elemen.t. is a' bad con-
ducter . and does all it can -to resist the
intruder. The fire' of the bolt itself is but,
'the consequence,of its battle, withthe air
through -which it fights its way. Seine:,
times a. bolt :passes from one- olotid.to
anotber,:and then, :the thunder •peid
Ling -continued reverberation. But when a
bolt'strikes the earth; the .peal 18 staddeis,
solid, eonestimes 'deafening. '•
As ecitind. travels " ats,therate of 1,120
feet per second, and light with' such
velocity that vie' need -not here Consider it,
the distance between the observer and the'
spot struck by .the bolt :May be 'readily
estimated. ,It is- . done. by • counting • the
-secands: tervening-latween the flash and
the report:. 'Time, iflOaerionds elapeo; the
distance is, 11200 feet ;.,:if .80-rieadonds,
half a noinuth, 33,d00. In case of near and
heavy discharges of electricity, it is always
unsafe to stand beneath a tree, because it
1-cca-good.-con-d actor-'-nr n -ear- a- large rock
or blase of irati, 'or body of.water, for the
Unite, teasori. It is also nusafe to stand in
an open field at a tionsiderable distance
froth any pr.6minent object- which might
serve as a protector., -If alone- in such a'
plaria; it were well in an electric battle to
draw near, but not too near, to some rock;
OT flee, or- bed-i`eif -Wife •c?-a-rabe
-
;likely in .your stead .to take :the • bolt..
Refuge in a barn, ,espeCia:lly, 'when filled
.with 'hay and ,grain 'and cattle, should
always' be avoided. '
.If in a, house in a heavytloindersterna,
the doors and windows should be. (dosed,
. for; lightning •tends to follow an atnaos-:
pheric current, and hence so many persons
are,ltilled while standing in a .doorWay, or
while sitting at aa open window. :When,
' ightning, strikes 'a• house,
,usually goes dovynthe Chimney, Or a'eoiher
of the .bluiding, runs ',along Ale walls,:
:'takin'g bell wires 'booking ,glasses,latrine
,, 9
.and other "Metallid articles in its, Course.
Bence it as " always. dangerous, when'the
.storni is near;, to. remain in -the corner of
a room, or to rest against the walla, or
near a stoye,.or lamp,. or looking glass, or,
indeed, any good Conductor of electricit3 . A
tall tree standing Mose by a dwelling hbuse.
serves as aItind of lightning rode yet,'some-
times, 'the" fluid leaves the trewas it does a
•rodaand-eritersathe • building, silence rooms'
thus' expesed • should be. vacated till the
danger ceases. Perhaps the ;safest -place
in a terrific thunclerktertri hi o0. a hair or
feather bed in the, Centre of a• room well
closed, and without it fireplace or. much
metallic furniture, ,in• the' lowest chvisiou
of the Inane._ But if ihriroom be carpeted,
a` abut' in- a similar 'sithatiou. affords.com-
paratiYe safety. .••
. The'Greeks ROinans believed that
-ITulcan..forgedlhe',thundcrbolts
Who hurled them against 'theheada•of those
.he •hated; the Turk believes that wheel/et'
is' to be struck' by the. lightning' Will he
struck by lightraing t btu We' believe in
.• th'e means: of grace -that it is just 'as
W160 .to use our reason to prevent, being
killedby the red,hot Aolt from heaven. as
-to use, itto save ourifelVee 'froth the deed,
or fever', and that
laere indicated be observed, the lives of
. .' 'ach, , precaution , a8
:
'many be saved
'Latest from Ireland.
A house at Taughmaconnell, near Bal.
linasloe, was maliciously burned yesterday.'
There are in Ireland 155,675 mud cabins;
not one of which contains more than one
apartment. These cabins are occupied by
227,397 families. -
James Dagg,---farmer, Santry, County
Dublin, has been' sent to jail for one nionth
by the .Drumcondra magistrates for pre-
aenting,a pistol at a baliff.
- Three detectives' proceeded last week to
O spot two , mire§ outsidoof Cork and' dug
up a box ccntaining between 500 and 600
cartridges of 'dynamite. • '
The four young men who attotupte4 to
blow up with dynamite the houlie of a al,
waY land agent have been sentenced to
fourteen, twelve, eight and two years' im-
prisonment respectively.
The 'now peaceful state of Dublin is
shown by the cirmirristance that all the
'marines who have been doing private police
duty in that city for some time past have
left fOr England. . None now remain, .
Mr, Michael Keaveney. died recently at
his reside/1(18;S tonepark, Glennamaddy,
his 70th year. He was for many years a
guardian of. the Glennamaddy IJnion, and
ratieh res'pected by a large circle.
Ai Von are Isnined
O lmalth from any cause, especiallylroin the us
of any on he thoilsand nostrums that proniise
so largely with long fictitious testimonials, lailve
no fear. Resort to Bop Bitters at Once, and in
short time you will have ,the moSt robust and
bloonling healt ••
Iloine items.
-"All your own fault
If yon remain sick when you eau
Get hop bitters'that never -Fail,
-The weakest woman Smallest child, awl
sickest invalid can use hop bitters with safety
and -great good. • !
-Old men tottering arounil fremIthountatisia
kidney trouble or any weakness will be almost
new by using hop bitter „
, -My wife and daughter were made healthy
by the use of hop bitters and frecommend them
tu my people -methodist Clergyman.
Ask any good. • tor if hop
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--Malarial fever, 'Ague and Biliousness, wilt
leave every neighborhood as soon as hop bitters
arrive.
--" My mother clrove the paralysis and nen-
'ralgia all out of her system with hop bitters." -
Ed. Oswego Sun: - °
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and you need not fear sickness.
-Ice water is rendered harmless and more
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draught. e.p-.-T
-The vigor of youth for the aged and infirni
pa hop bitters.
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' • ' [From the Boston GroDe.l.
Messrs.' Editors
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ba truthfully called the "Dear Friend of Wornan,'•
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11 coStS,cnly61.Per bottle or she ft:: $5., and is sold by
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