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The New Era, 1884-09-05, Page 2September 5 18E44 To -morrow. You'll cometo-morrow, then ;" light verde lightly said. !Gayly she waved le r little hand, gayly he bared his head. " You'll coma to -morrow, then," and the man on his errand went, With a.tender prayer on bead and lip, yet on his work intent. The woman a moment lingered; " would he turn tor a parting look?" Than with had a araile and half a sigh, her honselield burden took. " You'll come td -morrow, then;" and when the morrow broke, Pale lips in the crowded eity, of 'the " railivE4 accident" spoke; A strong man in a stranger's home, in death's dread quieqlay And a woman s bbed, a full heart out in a cot- tage a mile away. Ho lightly our thoughts leap onward, so lightly we hope and pan, WhUe Fate waits grimly by and smiles, to watch her plaything -man - Discounting the dim, strange future, while ills blind eyes cannot see, What a single flying hour brings; where the next step may be: And love floats laughing onward, and. at his side glides eorrow, While men and women between them walk, and say, We'll meat to -morrow 1" ' PHYLLIS. ne Tog' DOOMS. &tailor of "Molly sawn; "The Baby," "airy Fairy eto., eta. . "1 do not believe one word of all your vile story," I declare, doggedly,Iniewing I am lying as I speak; "it tlavorit too much of the melodtarea to be real. You are an impostor ; butaou calculate foolishly when you think to gain money from me by yoor false tale. You have been seen more than once about then grounds before now--" " Ay" -interrupting me with a rapid shrug of her finely formed shoulders-" I pined, I hungered for a sight of your Eng- lish baby fate -I the mistress of it all - skulked about thew walla, and was hunted through your shrubberies like a common thief. Twice was I near detection; twice through my native rotating I evaded your stupid bulldogs of men. And milli= I hugged myself to think I had the revenge here," laying both hands lightly on her bosom where the fatal paper onee More lies. "I do not believe you," I reiterate stupidly; "it re nothing but •a wioked invention of your 'own. I sm.-silly to feel even annoyance. My husband will soon be in ; then we shall hear the truth." • " We shill -the whole truth. , His foe will betrs,y it. Then you•shall hear of the appy evenings w . ent Florenee, beneath the eternal ' blue of the sky, when Carlotta Vesobi lay with her dark •head reolined upon her English lover's breast; when words of love fell hotly upon, the twilight air; when vows were interchanged ; .when Ms lips were pressed. Weamly, tenderly, to Mien " I or session paler, the eVi, moo eyes. She raises one finger slowly, tragically, and mints it at him. • "1 lisive found you," she seye. " My- , husband 1" No reply. Both his *shaking bandage up to hide hie face. I run to him , and fling My arms around his neck. " Marmaduke, speak 1" I (sty. Tell her she lies. 'Duke, 'Duke, raise your. head and send her from this place. Why are you silent? Why will you nob look at me It is only 1 -your own Phyllis. Oh,llar- maduke, I am horribly frightened..Why don't you tell her to begone ?" " Bemuse he dare not," says my visitor, slowly. "Well, Marmadukt, have you no welcome for your wife 2" He puts me roughly from him, and, going over to her, seizes her by the wrists and drags her into the full light of the window. "You fiend 1" he hisses, beneath his breath. "It was all false then the news of your death? Yoteare alive? You are still left to contaminate the ' earth? Who wrote the tidings that set me, as I believed, free?" "1 did," replies the woman, quietly. "1 was tired of. you. Your-milk-tood- 'watery affection, even. at the very first, sickened me. I wished to ewe you no more. I had begun to hate , you, and so took that means of ridding myself of you forever. But when I heard of the rich uncle's death -of the mony, the grandeur, all that had o one to you -I rearebted my folly, and started to claim my righte.' I am here; repudiate me if you can. .• I have crept oloser ; I am staring at Marmaduke2 I cannot, I will nob etill believe. "Marmaduke, say she. is tot your wife," I demand, imperiously. "Ay, Bay it," says the woman, with a I go nearer, .and attempt to take his hand. "Duke, say it, say it 1" 1 ory, feverishly. "Do not touch me!" exclaims he, hoaisely, shrinking masay from me. I feel aimed to storie-not faint or seek ; only numbed, and unable to reason. The Italian burstinto a ringing laugh. " What a situation 1" ono she. " What a Roane! It is a tragedy, and the peasatit is the heroine. I -Carlotta -am the wife, while the white, delicate, proud miladi is only the mist--" Before the vile word on leave her lips, Marmaduke's hand is on her throat, is face is distorted with passion sod mad. nese • there is -upon it a settled expreesion of determination that terrifies me more than all that has gone before. Hie thin nostrils are dilated with rep. Ilia very lips are gray. Already the woman'e fee - tures are growing discolored. "Marmaduke 1" I shriek, tearing at the bona that poofons her te the Bhutto, "Ilfsrmatitikei 'for ray sake -remember - have pity. Oh* what is it you would do?" By a euperhuroan effort my weak fingers tamed in dragging his hand away. EN ehivers, and falls back a step or two, while the Italian elewly moven. "Would you murder me 2" she gasps. "Ab 1 wretch -dog -beast 1 But X have a revenge 1" . She ;stalks toward the door as ahe Utters this, threat, and quiokly vanishes. I tuna to my -to Marmaduke. "16 is true 2" I ask. • • "11 is true," he replica', rood as he speaks I Can warmly believe the Man who stands before me, oohed and aged and heart. broken, is the same gay, handsome young Man who entered the room all miles a feve minutes ago, "If She is TM wife, what am 11" 1 ash, with. unnatural OalUMOos. Phytliel Phyllie 1 my life 1 forgive me !" he oriels in an anguished tone.; and then the room grows suddenly dark.; I fall heavily forward into the bite:donna, and all is forgotten. When I reooiser consoieuenese, I find myself in my own room, lying upon a bed. The blinds are all drawn down, to wise a soothing darkness. There is a general feeling of dampness about my Oak and forehead ; somebody is bending anxiously over me. Raising my eyes in languid scrutiny, I die - cover it is my mother. • "Is that you, Mamma 2" "Yee, my darling." "I did not know you were oomiug to -day. How is it you are here just now? and why Am I lying On my pod?" I uplift niyeelf on key elbow; and peer 84 her curiously.. Her eyelids are orimeon ; her vole° ie full of phe thick and husky sound that comes of nom% weeping. What has happened? Why am Ibere 7" I repeat. "You were net well, dOareet. A mere faint -nothing more ; but we thought you Would feed better if kept quite quiet. 1 WO driving over to see you to da, and very fortunatelyarrived just as I was wanted. Lie down again, end try to sleep." "No, I °moot. What has Vexed you Mother ? s'You.have been crying," ' :• "Ob, no, darling," in trembling tones; ." you only imagine it. Perhaps it ist the uncertain light." "Nonsense," I insist angrily; "you know you have. I con see ib in your eye, I oan hear it in :your voice. Why do you try to deceive me? Somethiugliea happenedeet feel it -and you ' are keeping it frOM me. Let me think-" With a nervous gesture mother raises oup from a table near, bad puts it to my lips. - "Drink this ret, and think afterwards," shes aye; it will do you geed." "No, I•shall think fleet. There is some- thing weighing on my brain, and -on my heart. Why don't you heirme to rethem. her?" • . ; I put My hands, to my head in tleep per- plexity. Slowly, slowly the truth conies back to me; slowly all the past ,horrible somie revives itself. a • " Ali!" / gasp efiright I remem- ber 1 I know it, 'all no*. 1 can see her again! She er:Ae--But," seizing mother's wrists fieroely, "It is nos true, Mother 1 Oh mother a say it is not true! Oh 1 mother ! 'mother I" " PhYllze; • my child -my. lamb Whit WW1 I say to comfort you?" • "Deny it 1" X .ory, passionately .flinging My arms around her waist, and throwing back my -head that I may: watch heifete. Poor face 1 eo filled yatil the bitterest of all griefs., the want' of • power'. to .eolitia those we love. "Why doyou ory 2 Why don't you Bay at ono it was a lie You are as bad as MaimadtikeT he . Stood there too, deaf as a stick or a stone to my entreaties. Oh, will no one .help me? ' Oh; it is tree. then 1 -it is true!" . tired," says mothee, meekly, and preceede to ehake out and comb with WOO touch the heavymasses of hale that Oti!Y Yeeter• deal gloried in. Even this morning, when it lay all about my tatouldere, how happy I was! "Bo you Ispow, mother," I say, drearily, "t seems et) one now as though betweeP me and this morning a whole century had rolled 2" "Phyllis," slays mamma, earneetla, "I don't like your manner. I don't like the way you are taking all thie. A little while ago your grief was vehement, but natural; now there fa an indifferent% about you that frightens me. You will be ill, darling if you don't give way a little." "Ill? with•a chance of dying you wean? Why, that would be Weems 1 But don't fear, mother; no such good fortune ie in store for me. I than probably outlive every one of you." 1 laugh a little. "How nwely you use the brush 1 you do not drag a single hair, And it 18 nearly seven menthe now since last you brusliect my hair; and I unsympathetio, cold, almost dead." Moll as I have tried during the past few home, I cannot quite ration - tale myself to the idea that it is 1-I myself -who am principally concerned in all this horror that has takers place. I argue in my own mind, I represen6 the ease as for a third person. I cannot realize that the One moot to be pitied 18 LEVU'S-. EV111B what. I have at length consented to eee Marto& duke, and am lying upon a sofa in a hope. twig dishevelled state, aa he enters. I have not shed a single tear; yet the blaok hollows beneath myeyes might have eon3e from oeaselese Weeping. • • I half rise as comes scion the room, yet' cannot raises my head to meet his gaze. I dread the havoo despair and eelf-torture will have wrought in his face. He Moves slowly, lingeringly, until he reaches the hearthrug, and there stands and regards me imploringly. This I feel and know, though through south other Ono beside sight. "Will you not even look at me 7" he says, presently in a ()hanged, almost agon- ized, tone. • • I;foroe rey eyes to meet his, but drop them again alreest immediately. * • • " Is forgiveneo quite out of _the ques- tion?' • ••• ' - • * ." No," .• I return; "01 .eourse I forgive 'you. It Was not your fault. There is nothing to. forgive: But in the first inetanee you. deceived ma; that I feel the hardest."' • Even, ta•myeelt my voice. sounds gold and strange. .• - • • "1 acknowledge. it. . But;how was It tell this would be the end Of . it It appeared impossible youshould ever know the truth. It was only known, to myselt and one other—" • "And that was—" ' • .• "Mark Gore. The woman, as I believed, was dead, and who could betray the secret 2 The whole miserable story was se hateful to me that to repeat it to you -whom I so devotedly loved -was more than I had cour- ego for.. How tiould.Ltell; you such atiolt, ening bale? Ecow bould. I • Watch the. ohangeaa*-the .dislike, it might be -that wouldolOod your . face as 1 related it a • By • your.own oonfeesion, I • knewyou bore me none of that love that would !lave helped me wifely through even awciree revelation, and I dreaded lest the bare 'liking you otertained,for-nie--should-haVe_tin...end,.. aocrthat you, a young girl, woald shrink' from a widower, and the hero of Hsieh a story."' •" Still, it would. have been better if you had 'spoken.; I on forgive anything hut deceit.' ' „ • • : • . " Onge or twice I tried to telt you the only secret I had kept from you; but you would not listen„ or else at the moment gpoke each words as made me* doubt the expedi- deoyee ever mentioning the:affair at all. Bat 'new thst -it is. -toe • littelI *rot .my duplicata, or obwartlioe, or whatever it•was I push her from trie, and, burying my . that swayed me.. • , head on my arms. rook myself to shod fro, • "Too late, irideed.1". I repeat meohani in a 'silent agony of despair. Not a sound °ally. ' • breaks the stillness, brio mother's low solo After, a minuteor two, he say, in a low pressed 'sobbing ;it maddens me. ' Wee :/1 ' •' • • • • "What are * you. crying for ?" • I ask, ,• '1 Heave you too interest,•no curiosity, that roughly, raieing my tearless • face; "my you de not ask ?, Will you let ,me tell you eyes are dry. -It is my sorrow, net youri3 • now: all :the real • oirounistances. of the not . any one's. *What' do you mean, by case 2" . making moan 2" • . . ;: • 'What 'need?". I answer wearily.-.-01- She makes noanswer, And my head drops 'course Ms the ' old sib:my. I seem to have once more upon' my arms. I continue my* heard it saagodrea tirdes.. Yeti were & boy; •oeasetese, miserable reeking.. Again there she was a designing woman „she entrapped is silenee....• • . ' • . ' you; it is the whole thing." • A:door bangs somewhere inahe distanee. "I, wits. no boy; Iwo an over-hointrable. "1 Wilinot see hien 1"' I ory starting up. • man: She wasan•Italiazi woman, with wildly:. "Nothing *on. earth. shall indeed some littlelearning, cif rather ropeotafile • Ina,. • I cannot, mother. • 'Tell hiin.he mast parentage, and who • (e: • wonderful thittg not 'collie in here." • * . ' among her class) mold epeak a good deal "Dealing, he is' not cueing; Hut even if of English. She was 'handsome; and fee he were, Phyllis, Surely You would be kind. the. time I fancied I loved' her. No thought to him... If You could only see his despair! Of eviltowards her &toad niyheart ; I ' was quite innocent of -it. Phyllis, I asked ber tonoarry me and the oeremciny implore you, do not foster ..bitterthoughtswas performed, peivately but surely, in the in your heart towards alarmaduke." : • little ithappel near, her home, her brother "It is not that. • Yen mistake me. 'Only being • the prinoipel .witness. Hardly se- -it is all so horrible -I fear to eee biw month'had passed before I -fully understood • Yeeterday • be,wasi my husband i-ne, no the horrible mistake I had made -before I -I meat I thought he was my buebang ' learned, how detestable was the woman to -day. what is he?"" . • . With whom I,: had linked my fate., Her .coarse,..harsh manner, her vile, insolent tongue, her . habits of drunkenness,' nay,, more, her evident 'prefersincle for a lciw, illiterate cousin, were all too apparent.. I left her; she deoleting herselfes glad to see the last of me as I was to be rid of. her. Does .• the • *whele thing disgust • you, Phyllis 7"• " •.' . • He pauses, and draws .lois hand wearily aorose his forehead. • , • •• ; • . I shake my . bead, but. Make no further reply ;..and.presently he goes On again in a low. tone ; .. • • • "1 .yra.s, eoroparatively .speaking, • poor ' then; yet, out or the allowance My unele had made me, I sent her regularly, as. muoh, indeed, more, then 1 ould afford; but dread .01 discovery forced me to be generous. Then one .day came the tidings of her death: Etart now; . now, when . I • am utterly. crushed • and heart-brokena-I oan feel • again the wild • reship Of delight that overcame me as I , pictured thyself once miens free. Again X mixed with 'the world 1 had for some time • aVoided, and was recelvediwith open arms, my uncle's death *having. made` ma a Mob man; and . then -then 1 Met you, Oh., Phyllis, surely my. story • hi, a sod (me; and deserving of some pity,' • It .is sad," I say, monotonously, "but not so sad as mine.' . Coming oVer, hp -kneels -down -beside -my. Oda, and gently, shoot fearfully, he bakes one of my hands in.both his. • a Oh- not so sad as youre, my poor load, my owe darling," be murmurs painfully, Wit still unhappy enough. To think that who Would willingly have thielded you with my life, ahead be the one to bring inieety upon you!" . hiderhia ace upon the far edge of the siuehion on whit% My aching head hi reclining. I can no longer eee him, but on feel his whole frame trembling with sup- ptestied. emotion. 'With some far.off, indistinet seneation Of pity, I press the hand that still holds mine. Presently:I Ouse Myatt and, rising to a sitting poeture, 1 firray dull eyes upon the opposite wall,. and Speak. "1 suppose it le to my Old horde I valet go." • As though the words stung him Mame. duke gets up impetnewily, and walks back tb his forMer position upon the laearthrugi I netioed that his face was groWn, if poem- . • "Oh, darling 1 try to be calm." ":1• am calm. See, my hand does not even tremble," holding it up before her. Oh; what have I done; that this should happen tome? What odious ohne heats I committed, that I should be so punished Only Mx months 'married --married, . did I say 2-1 must learn to .foigetthat word' • "Oh, Phyllis, hush 1 If you would but trY to sleep; my poo t love!" • Shall a ever sleep again, r wonder, with that soeiae before:me always? It has withered :ree. Her eyes how they burned into mine! Her *sky touch had enom in it 1 And yet why should'I be so hard ember, poor oreaa ture? • Was she net in the right? He is 'her husband; riot mine. She had the pejo olsaam She is the deflated • wife, ;while • are only--" " Phyllis! Phyllis 1" • • "And all my life before Mel" I ory, with 'a 'passionate self-pity, clasping' my hands. "How shall I bear it? What are those. words, ndetter 2 • Db you teoollect? Smith thing begioning- • . . So younie so young,• • I am not used to tears to -night, Instead'of slamber; nor to prayer ' With sobbing breath, and hands ont-Wrung. • " Phyllis, do you want to kill me?", says rtiother, her sobs breaking forth afresh. "Poor mother, do I Make you sed Da your tears' relieve pm? 1 suppose so, Mel have none.) I thiek my sorrow is too great ,for that. 11 was like a dream, 'the whole thing. X could not realize it then. It is onlynow fully understand hot, stlone I i am n the world." " My own girl, you still have me." "And so 1 havo, dear, dearest mother; but X. Will live alone, for all that. Disgrace his fallen open me, but / will not ask' Others to bear my burden. Was it not well Dora'a marriage took place last month My peeition cannot affect her's new." Oh PhilIi8I do hot talk of disgrace. What disgrace can attach to you, my poor ihnoticiat Ohild ?"' •\ "1 cannot lie here any longer" I say, abruptly, getting off the bed; " ishall go mad, if I stay still and think. . And-lny hair." fretfully-" it has all liCiMe down; it Must be settled again. Oh, no; 1 minuet have Martha; she would look lolefal and sympathetio, as if she knew everything, atulI should feel inclined to Rill her." "Let ine do it, dealing. • Year Wee are ble, v. shade paler thefi before, sudden look of fearr, has overspread it, "Ye, yes; of „oeuree you ehall go home fora little time. if you wadi it," he eari nervouely. "Net for a little time.; forever," I return, A horrible pain is tugging at my heart. "1 Phyllie," cries be almost fiercely, "what are you saying? You onnot mon it. Forever? De you know whet that meane ? 11 you otui live witlIOut me I tea you plainly 1 would rather ten thoueand times be dead than exist without you. Are you, utterly beartless, that you can torture me like thig ? ,Never to see you 'Rein ; is that what you would say ?" Owningnearer, so close that lie touchea me, while hie eyes, seek and read with desperate eagerness my' face, "Speak, speak, and tell me you were trying to frighten me." "1 cannot. I Meant just what I Bald," I gasp, ecinstuned by a Sudden dread of I eciarcely know What, "Why de you diebe: Hovel What otherouree re open to me 2" Listen" -trying, to speak calmly, and eeizing bold of my hands again; "-why should you make this wretohed etory pub - As yet, no one ie the wiser; you and I alone hold the secret. We woman, this • fiend, will go anywhere, will do anything, for sufficient, money, and, I can make it worth her while to be forever silent, Wben ehe returns to Italy:, who then will know the truth 2" "The truth-abl yes--" Are you nob my wife? Has not my love bound you to me by etronger ties than anyehurch law's? Why should this termer deteeted bond ruin both our livens ?" "A little while ago you Spike of your.. sell as &n Eovee.honorahlel man, Is what you now propose honorable et right? Mar- maduke, 10 is impof3sible. As our lives heys..shaped: themselves, So must they be. cannot live with you." ' 4' Tierak-ol what the world • will say. Phyllis, oan you bear their cruelspeeohee ? It isnot altogether for my own sake I plead, though the very thought of losiog you le more than", oan bear. It is for you, your - elf,' I entreat. Remember what your &Bitten will be. Have pity upon yourself." "No, no 1 I will not listen to•yeu. 1 will not, Marmaduke." . He flings himself on his knees before me. • "Darling, darling, do net forsake me,"• he whiepere despairingly. . "Let nosi go," I cry *wildly.tleis your love for me? Oh; the eeifieliness of it. Would you MO° me live with you • "Be giant 1" exclaims he, in a terrible voices. •''A. pepsin Of pan] contracts his -face. Slowly he regaine his feet. . • • "You madden me," he gees on, in an altered tone. .a I forget that you, who have never loved,onnot feet ael de. Phyllis,' tell me the truth: have you no affection fpr me? Are you quite cold ?" ' sr I am not la I. ory, suddenly waking from My unnatural .aeoiethy,•atid bootleg: bate bitter tears, the first Ihave died to -day.. As theavitole horrible truth Cornea home tti me, I rise impulsively. 'mailing 'myself into my busloand'a arms -for my •husband be has .been for six long mouthe. "1 do Love • you, 'Duke-,abike ; but, bh-1 what can I 'do a What: Werde Cali I use to tell you all I feel? I arri.youtig, and silly, and ridiculous in many Ways, I know; but Yeathere is 'eomething . within nie.I dare net disobey-somethitig that • makes me haw the life yoiapropose would be a life of ein, one on Whioll n�biki0ibdtiLd fall. Help Me- therefore, to do the right, and do not make my despair greater than, it is." He is eilent, as.he holds me oloPed paso gionately t� his breast. ••' We Must. part," a g� on, mere eteadily... " "Must leave you; but, oh 1.Duke, donot send.me home. I could not go there:" • . I shudder ,aolently in his embrace at the bare thought of eueba.home-ooming.• HOW oauld I Summon onrage to aneet all the • whispers the euppreeeedalooks, the 'very., larideeesesi, that day by day I ehbuld see? • . " And here 1 'oauld .ti Ot• stay; either,":" sob, mciurnfully ; "memory .would kill mo. 'Duke, where then 1 go? . Send ineaaota- soinewhere." ' .• •. • • • . I waitfor his answer with my head pia lowed an his chest. : I „wait a long time. Whatever 'struggle is going on within him takes place silently. He makes no sign of agony;: hedoes not •, his very -heart, on Willett I leanrhis alniost °maid to beat. Alf length : he 'Speaks, and • as • the words • arose hie lips I • know' that • he has. eon- Aneredf'but at the expenseciaymith and piy. and hope. , • ** • : , • "There is Hazleton," he oat ; "it is a preltyaplace. at was my -.mothises, • Will yuh go. -there 1 And--" .; ' ' • • '4‘ Yee, 1 will; go . tbeth," 1 answer; brOlienly: . .• •, "What servants will you take.. with you?" he asks me, presently; in ti doll, aubdued way; ail impatience. and rittegion have died withinhinaa. • . "1 will take none," I•teply, "not ego from tint' plate. Yene imisitgo to Hazelton and get me a few from the neighborhood round it -lust three or four, who will know nothing of me, and seek to anew nothing.". • " Ohamy slatting; at least take your own maid. with . you, who . has known you ell your life. And Tynon, he ie an old and Valued eervant he will watch overyoti,.e,nd take care of YOU.". • .. • . "1 will not be watohed,"*..I say, pettiiihly; "and r detest' being taken care of. .1 am 'not ill. Even when, It heart is dick onto death; there is no cure for it. And 1 would. not haste Tynen on any .suicceint. ' Etre*Y time I Met his eyes'I Would know What he Was thinking about. k would,read pity in • every glance and:gesture, and Will nob be :Made more wretchedthan 1 ein by sym- pathy." - • • " Then take .Martba. • You knew how attached to-yoti ehe "No; I will havono one'to remind me of the old Rte..: Do net Urge Me, 'Duke. Clive: me my owe way in this. Believe me, it You do, I shall have a fat better "thanes of -peace." ' ' • I wish, for yeur'eakeil Was deatl," eaye 'Duke,,hoareela. • • • At this I begin to ory . again, weakly. 'X ! • . aiti almost worn out. • "You will at leatit write to afe•now and then, Phyllis?" • ' • • • • • ' " "11 Will be betterldot." . • . " Why ? I have sWornnot to see you. again; hat . must and • will have .eome. means of knoWing 'Whether you are dead or aliVe. Promise me that' twice • a year, 'oboe isi every tie Menthe, yott wiul let Me have-if...letter.. Itis. only a little thing to WI, °tit of 'all the happy past." " premise But you -will you Stay 'Ara?" • '1 Here.?" .he eohoef), bitterly. "What do you take me for? In this house, where every room and boa and flower would remind roe of your Sweet 1resette9 ? • NO,. We will leaveit together; 1@hall look my Net on It with you. I will ridt day 10 see 16 desolate and gray and Old without ite Mistress. Yeir toot let me be your esoort to your neW home, that people may have. los to wonder at." "And Where will yoti go 2" • . : " Abroad -India, Australia, AMOrietia- anywhere ; what deee t MatterIt • travelled to the ends of the earth, 1 cotild • not fly My thoughts," , 4' And"-tinddly-4t what of her 1" . "Nothing," he answers, roughly; "1 • .will not talk Of herkgain te yeti." • • (ro be continued.) tight fitLthe jimlaros. lata *IL Iota Toole gratin aid the WayezeWhlett Tiger Are sienthere4-eam. lualtortant Arco'ck yolaahle liqndae"-Artificiall ieradoellon. Who pearl ze SO associated with the Orient thatit sound him 0 geographical blunder to read that toe Tay pearl fleberies have opened witu unusual prespeota of nueoess. Yet the ti,uixte 01 so pony poets and the obj4ot of much extraveganee bas, per. haps,, beau alroose as long sought for in the, Scottish rivers as in the renooter seas of tile east. Great, Britain was at one time oelebratea for its pearle, and we have the authority of Suetemuis for affirming that it was the reputation ot our Wands for the possession of these • treasures- that stiniu- late.d Cosier to undertake the rnost famous invasion of which hist 3ry bee preserved any record. We are told that otter he con, quered England he presented e3ci.a thank. Offering to Too. Genetrix a buckler cov. ered with pearls, which was hung up in her temple. Whether these were entually. obtained from Britain onnet now be deoicled ; but there is n° doubt thet, though Pliny refers in disparaging terms to 'the small size a,nd poor water of theenorthern " lliergarile," the pittrigian ladies' of Rome were glad .to barter the spoils of many a plundered kingdom for the ornaments which in. more modern time have fallen into such disrepute. At no time,. however, duringa.ataleautaaeighteeta_aandred years: have British pearls .altogether ceiteed to be among the commodities of 'commerce. Specimens are .said to •exist among the Scottish brown jewels * and one from the Conway, presented by Sir, Richard ;Wynn .to the queen of Obarles II., ranks as an orna:- went of the British. ()town. In Our day large auenbers have been purchased by the Queen and the Emprepeof the French, and the wealthier of the SOottiah ladies have alwaye Bet the fashion' of • encouraging the trade by.wearing bracelets, neelklafies, and rings eet with native pearls,.and- since the Lead hdle and the latrath of Eildonan 'still yield the preeiotis metelk-set in gold which has never othesed the sea - The pearrof the fresh -water 'omega, is found in almost every zieer where the =S- hoat in queetied oanprosper, though naturally sullen streams, with meny undis- turbed pools and muddy bottoms, are moat feverable to their growth.. -Hence we have, • wide from Noiway and .Sweden from the risers of Tyrone ddT• onegal, mid from many of the streams of the northwest bf England and Wales. Very fine Specimens also oome.ftoin Mold= :and Wotte,Wie, in Bohemia, and for ago a freeb-water pearl fishery has existed in the Iltz, in Bavaria, from which at tithes valuable specimens teat% the continental jewellere. It ie, bow - ever, niainly in 13ootland that the business is -followed with anything tike System. For ages the • Tay, Doon, Don, Teith, Forth, Than, Speyaftfaie and Earn have ,proved more or lees fruitful, the dull seasons We% oonspenseted for by those in ,which a gem of more then ordinary. value het been fished. -op. In all 'these rivers, and iA soine of smeller importance, a. few people -gene- rally old men, • women and • children -are ,engaged. ' during the Summer months • in searching for the mueeels, buoyed up. .by thehope of finding an one out Of .fifty -or eixty. the Object they are -eagerAd-ohtain.,-Iiideed,....aveiraisince Mr. Unger imparted a stinehlue to the business, tome of the 'Stealer' erroma have been en overfished as toaencler the labor of stearoh- ing the mud eoaroely onnirierative. In 'the river Earn', a tributary to the Tay, in . mime parte ot the Tay *OIL and in the .Doon, it ifs; however, stilt worth :fallowing, nonseeagathering 'being among certain, lamiltes .not only a trade, but their solo • moo of livelihO9d. A more agreeable aoureuit..of the mein'sl order eaniicarcely be imagined, eci long as the days are long, •and tho. aun iiewarno, and the' shady river logely With thealmhiagetnni foliage, of 'Mid- suremer and early autumn: Pearl -fishing in Scotland has, moreover, 'mach ; Of the gembling; ezeitenient :attendant on the •pearadiving of the east,Without the injury to. health and the imminent danger of sof- foOtion and theatre vthioh impart a par. bus emotop te that *fearfully suicidal as -pgactioad -off the COMO of Ceytoniin thea PersianPersianGnif, and in .the Bay of Pmuama. As 'followed' in. ' the,Earii or theltoon it is int:soma of fact as .pleasant . as. eroutalshing during a hot day, iiifinitelymere profitable in the. Worst • of tiriaes,and to the • hardy fOlke .6f: the teeth, acoustomearto rough weather; 'bare 'feet and mountain streams laving their legs, oath* O. risky to the oonstitution as lendieg is salmon is to the well -coddled citizen who is afraid of the windbloviing him for eleven month.s the year, and Teases the tivellth Wading in the 'thy rivets ..nota *of the .Tweed.. -•Pearailehing. moreover, a professtoriasniOh„requiree no apprenticeithips, • Lige. reading atd Writing. to,Dogberry, it "comes of nature" to the humble hunters after fortune who have 'Made Ifnio collecting their own. The art itself,* Elaborate apparattla is not demanded; elk the skill necessary may be acquired' in an hoot; and expera, • mee'avails little, Where there are no ruled and Scarcely any : &One to guide. the Manipulator, Ail that is. required Is to seareh .for the. moots • nestling in the mud •and sand, seize them by the bend if the water is not deep, o, it beyond reach,: insert, a longstick. between their'. gaping Valves, and theb when the. shell -Wooer Pit the ebstineite. mollusk to :the or- ate(' ; or, sometimes, should there be a.00nsiderable number oolleoted on one spot, by simply drawing a split elided pole among them and taking the °hence of one being wedged into this rudely -improvised temp. It is; beneever, tare to find many together. They =let be sought for in (Mee. and twos,,and then. timed ashore, until a heap woth opening is accumulated. There is, of ootirite, no ealoulating when a ratiesel will or wili. not contain to pearl; or when the pearl will be of taifficiient Value to tatUrn a fitir day's wages for what the getaaseeker• consider.), a faie day's ' work. .Abeizt one in fifty or eixty is.said-to-reward the toiler; but, as a rule, the pearleftre eniall, dark, and are only a aced. porta" which fetch a low price in the market; where they are bought chiefly fox' the pose of placing ,at the back or other On - waled ao are of Griot peerl ornaments. Some of the better epoch:nos will, however, brit* from 25 to 290 -the latter possess- ing a pleasing pink hue,* whieh is perma- nent, Neeklaaes cemporied of thie valued • Variety may noW and then be Oben in the jeweller& 8hos aa Edinburgh and „Glasgow, priced at from £300 to :0400.''Orie pearl in every foutteonth or fifteenth shell is eominonly said to Oita:tate profit, and it Is garbled that thesis from shingly bade, or from the vieinity of rods Where' the sand is 000tionally turbod by heated or eattle,h00fa, are !nod fruitful in .the excreseenoe for which the ratisieel le esteemed. -Wrinkled or deformed Which prom/molly have been die- turbed in arly liN are also cioneideredbY the. muesel 'gatherers, as more likely kt • contain pearls than those with a smooth exterior. This 'softly in aeoetd with What we knit* Of the mode in WhiCh path; are. • formed, 'Whe interior of many shelle, the felneue Orient pearl oysters and the fresh- Watet ntheera or Wild margariti fere in. • Olndea, is lined by a thiok layer Of the glistening substence known as .nacre, or noother.of-pearl. This calcareous matter ie identioal in (Impositiofl with pearl, and le deposited wherever any irritating sub* stanee, nice a grain of mid or a bit of foreign matter of any eort, finds an eo. trance its:0 the body of the mollusk and • cannot be extruded, Then, yearly, an the nacreous °Oat 18 deposited on the shell the irritating • partial° receivee its share, until it increases in size and boornee is pearl, the water and fehape of which depende entirely upon the accidental manner in whical the Ahoy layers have been superimr wed. So well ie this ratiOnale-Of pearl formation understood that the (linen have tor ages forced one voles a fresh.Water Milne* to prochme ,pearls by inserting between the shell and this mantle " of the mollusk either endall leaden shot or little spherical pieces of • mother-of-pearl, wheolo iu time receive a naoreOtis covering, and resemble thenatiole they are intended to simulate. Balall images of Buddha. covered with nacre are also another.outoome of this art. There is, therefore, no reason for supposing thatif the pearl oyster and the echo, speoiee of molluska.forming pearls were kept in an aquaria under fitting conditions, the cooly gem could not be proauotd artificially. , Indeed, Linens suggeeted to the Swedish Government' that hy inserting a " grain " of sand through a hole bored in the ellen of the river unio, so as 0 afford a nuoleus for the deposition of nacre, this end might be, gained. .The experiments made proved the practicability of the theory, and secured for the inventor a money reward and the rank of nobility, whieli hie fame US the "Luther of natural history " would never have obtained for hied trond the unappreciative Swedish =Mere. By-and-by, no doubt, some shrewd person will • put his or similar plan into operation, and when there is a chance of crystallizing carbon into diandonds,find his profit in the undertak- ing, so long as he keeps his' proceedings to himself ancl does tot overidood the market, with the proceeds of hia pearl farm-Londoe. Standard. ' • • I n 0417, criaGtir:inlisliEnfitairC4:811.ru:17,dac • A Hawley (Penia)'report says: Andrew Bello, a oar runnerr, on the P.enneylvania Coal Company's .gravity railroad, lives at PlaneNo. 4 on the line,of that road. ' One day last week e,:couple of email kittens , were missing from his how°, and he started •• out to look for them, as the' were great pets with his family.. As he was going • through his back yard he saw the mother of the kittens ideating along through the grass. Hellas stopped, and looking ahead of the cab, siew a large OHO snake Wog bo the grass, about six feet distant. There was no doubting the font that the oat was , stealing on the snake and it• was equally plain that the snake knew it and was ready teethe attack. • At first Belles thought he would kill the snake at once, but he changed his mind and watched to see what the result of the impendiog fight would be. The oat crept to within a foot of the snake,. which was ready to strike at the proper time. The ottt tb,pped, and raising ner left forepaw cautiously held 'it out to- ' ward the pilot. •• Like a flash the latter struck at the paw, but the oat wait quicker stillrand-13riuging:_her_right_paw-114.0..Plair dealt thesnake a, blow on. the ,side•:of the head that knee:Ikea it back a foot or more. • The reptile, evidently greatly surprised . and maddened bythe cat's attack, returned to the fight. Again the oat presented her left korepaw,and again the pilot struck *lonely at it, only -to again Miss and tq receive the violent right-hander alongside. the • head. : This was repeated Nur times, when the snake, weakened and thoroughly.dispirited„ turned, and trial° drag itself away. In- stantly the oat sprang alien the.aetreating• reptile and. with two or three strokes' of . bee sliarp 'Wawa bore it: to pieces. • She carried the remairie-of the dead snake to a • distant part of the • . yard, where ., she dug; a , hole and, buried it. Belles went on W fi rooky hill not far • away, thinking the kittens might be there. He saw a credo in the rooks which looked like a snug hiding'placie• for theta, and 'he thrust his hand lute% it.. Instantly he felt a sharp, stinging pain in his fingers, and it quickly. 'ghat 'up . his arm • to the Shoulder. A rattlesnake hid sunk ite fangs -into his fore finger, •and retained its hold with - math • tenatiity ' thee -Hellas • could sonsely shake it oft: He.killed the snake and hurried home. An old °woman named Bailey'sucked. the. wound i while Bellas drank 'plentifully of whiskey. After suck- ing the bite thoroughly Mrs. Bailey plied table salt to it. This and thewhiskey was kepatipaand after 24 hours Bellas, who • • had passed auto delirium, wae nattered to conamousnees. At the end of three days be was pronounced out of danger. The old cat has killed several snakes since aloe :die.; appearance of her kittens. • She' never hunted intakes before. From that oirciim- stance 1118 believed that her kittans were • eaten by snakes, and tha4 she knows itand . is avengieg their death by. killing snakes. Iffloade of Landlords. . The Houee of Lords is tiftm called the house of landlords, says ' a London letter, and not without reason, eines out of 509 privileged to legislate forth° country -or, as some say, themselves -no .less than 449 are landlords in the fullest sense of the,,, berm.; that is, they'derive the whole or the • greater part ef their revenues from land. Fifteen ionllion sores' of land, with an aggregate rent* roll of pearly t15,000,000, represent their property and income, while another 2750,000 in the shops of pensions, annuities and galleries also fall annually to the lob of thie privileged class. In addition to this, no one can yet properly calculate the sums which are drawn yearly by. their relatitma and hangertoon from the national . exoloequer, but it hes been reckoned that • within the last thirty years about A70.000aa 000 has been paid to sons, grandsons. . cousins, eto., of titled families for more or Jess -generally less-aotive services ren- dered to the State. Nearly half the mem. hers of the upper House 'hold or have held commissions in the army* and • navy, and: Seventy new peerages have been created within the paeften years. Whin cif Toby Clan." The New York Strophic &eye : • They say Shakepeare used slang, but they Will have a hardlime to make people believe he ever asked a man to "wipe off his chin." Well, if he didn't, he came mighty near it. In "As Yon Like It," 1; 2, helays : "Stroke. your chins." Again' in enry IV., i 3, there is the phrase " His ohin new reaped;" which showed that the young man had tust wiped off his chin with a razor. It is hardly safe to say that there is anything the muerte' Williarn did not write shalt. , . • A stowaway landed et Waterford frond the steamship Oranneore, from Divert:Heel for Raltindore. Het Was ill, the doothrs say, of Agitate cholera, Three other idea - sways landed Are hoer missing 1110 better 10 be a beggar than an ignorant person; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person %yenta '6 humanity.