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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-12-6, Page 6-^ A LOVE C RIME. TreetiSLATAD Y110)1 'XIX& Foonen, nv G. inotes,) MAKER 111.--(Coneninso " Lawrenee, heve yytl, rfilMted I. Tide intalltiOn of yours is ereel, thee two ehildeen teamed SA home with see, iz YOA fatter. in me a mother, They have never deseamed that the (My could eones when, they weal lose ell at one etrokee We have, brought them im hz circomstaucee of ease, en we lereright up our Bo4S And Weed heire binArglIt up elm deughters. To beads& them now, tem rinnt Peel WOUld be to COAdomo them to outlining. What will they doe I ask yon ? Where will they go? To Peels ? Impasedde, .11,10ne, Wan* reeenreee, ant aid. Every danger would threaten them, and milieu there would he eveu more terrible. Will they remain in the neigh- bourbood, enove eould they ex' t? Coold you have coinage to meet them in your walks and drives, daymg in woe tovern or waking a; doineetie ea-no:its in seine arm house t SO, PO, no, your heart would Jewett at that, would it not "Yo o are mietaken, Clotilde. Ogee let tlieee giria he out of Bargemoot and.' ehall knew them no mg, I shall uot pursue them witle my hatred, but 1 promise them iny indiffezereon, "Impoasthle, Ital. you. That would be eiroply hartaroue, it would be treaehery to a most eaezed duty. We 134Ve net brenglIt thee@ children up te think About the future, they hAve trusted to ois, they have feund innui IOW And 4eeurity we heNe no right to betrey their eseutiderice, It waanoe molutely necemeary ta adopt the twenty years; ago, but to drive them way now 'Would be A crime." "Well, I sii1 cenemitthe crime." "No, Lawrence, for you will refieet ur then Coneult your heart, veer experieuce, Your e040 denetice. Theme young girla love ye, epite 9f the coldneee yoo hove advert ahown them. They aro tivo sweet beloge, geutle tied terder, whom your >sever- ity would kW They are banocent. I alone ein at fault, It ie 1 ooly whom you ought to pusiith. Take your verigeauce ageanat nee, A very stern veregearace, and I shall net oomplain. Butthey—spare them, Lawrence, implene Too, I IINTO teld yo alreed , ny heere alum faded. Tlee maideze aat the wife heve been elway a worthy of teepee% woethy of you." "De it eye" eald be with bitter meekexy, "Sluee it waa your heart that we week, it Is hour heart also that I 'strike, You love times girls, Tett regrind them As your WI- deen, Weil 1 1putdell you by seperating them from you," "But it II I Wilern yui. ouglat to expel, it la they wisom you ought; to keep with you, their Roiliest will easeele you. Am for me, the eight of me will be unbearable. Drive your wife from your home. She will go wherever you will to deserve your for - deepens, to diluent your inexerable justice. Do not Allow your vengeance to blint iteelf as to the proper course." 44 Whet you ask ie impossible. I do not choseee to hove your diegrace noised abreact To expel yeti would to to publish your dia. honour to the World. Tho ecandel has been sieerete its punielimeut will be cere also. lsohel end. Nereus shall leave this house. eleoll expel them." Then suddenly bursting out in fury, he continued. "Oh 1 if I could ouly =eke A dein sweep of that accursed past, blot out the memory of that man who will weigh upon my We for all eternity, if 1 could drive from my memory ana banish from my home that James, iny own sou, whom no doubt you love better than the other, becanee he bears the name of "Leverence," said the unhappy woman, "" li it ItIerodeti laat letter that has given you Jamb inveterete ouspicion ? That letter in which a dying man uttered what he felt, when everything wee at an end for ham, when he was aust at the point of death, a letter in 'which he ecaninended hie daughtera e Illy ce in metuory of my son 3 Ho said tomb, " Think of Jame," so as to force my gratitude toremember that) he had saved the child at the coat of hie own life. For he died of diphtheria, caught from Semen" Ihirganone mede an hiapetient movement. "'Listen, Lawrence, I am superstitious, = certain that the good fortune of this man is wrapped up in those two girle. If ;von, send them away it will bring misfortune upon. us. It will surely come, I could swear it, 1 breve a presentiment, I almosti eine it', a catastrophe on us. Of what nature? I do not kaevia Are you not afraid of any- thing e" f nothing." -"And yet if I do not deceive myself there is undying remorse in store for you, for not having believed me," Be maintained an ironical silence. 44 So nothing will move you, nothing per- ftrestade you?" "Yon know what my- determination is, " "Is it really irrevocable 1" "Yes, do not hope to make me change." 44 Well, may God preserve us from the future which I dread." She went trembling and sobbing to the door. "At least," said she "ire me rionee days' grace. I cannot tell them such news sud- denly, without some preparation. They would be made ill, Martha especially, who is so delicate. " As you please; but this condition of things runs the riak of prolonging itself in- definitely, and therefore 1 wanb the girls+ to be gone within eight clays." "What am I to gay to them." "That's for you to decide." "They will wish to apeak to you, to en- treat." "Give them to understand that that is useless, and that it will be ranch better if they spare themselves and me the fatigue of such a scene." . "And so,Lawrence, you have not one word of pity?" "She bowed 4er had in hopeless discour- agement. She could no longer beseech, and rso left him. CHAPTER IV. As she was on the point of entering her own room, she heard the voices of Isabel and Martha, in their apartment. Isabel, while quite a child, had been determined to learn the harp, and had acquired a remark- able talent at it without bothering herself about fashion, and simply following her in. satinets in everything. She often aecom- periled Martha, 'who had er sweet voice. And just then they were singing together some lively old couplet, well known on the frontier. This gaity was illeuitecl to talo - tilde's present mood. She supported het - self against the wail, weak and pale. "Dear children I Never, never an I have the courage to tell them. What shall 1 do r She entered. Martha and Isabel atopped and ran to embrace be. They alwaye called, her mother, as he had wished them to do. They sew at once from her face that some - ;thing eerioue had happened. eon in her arms hi a motherly embeace of pity/ugly told hina everything? She wen infinete tenderness, he toeked at him fixed- elacklY reassured, for Jellies threw him. ler, silently, from his frank eyes awl feeterea, self into her arms, 'tatting his tears flow with - reeding the cleepeat secret_ of hie heart, out any sense of almine, without any. effort to He suetainal her look, smiling all the time, hide WA weakness. " Infliaiblei thgexible ithough looking a little coutused, He WM And Creel; and aliment ars joyful at the cruel. his mother's eyes soften. ty he had prepared as one is of a good "Be loves." She said to herself, " What action, or a good thought." o egoeheeee moo babel, ,, you, are eaa, is to be the melt of all this t' ., . 'ult1,,, you. I forwarnea you how it And soddenly she tremblee, 7 em.. we allerdln4g4abroeryho4hallaegt ?;:bout her neck, theme_ be.hertraeethet9prhedeirctihownhsehhed.hied"nladreeirterthner paHtieeumsea,de a gesture of nerirottes angry int` faces near her lips, they questioned her! hrea.tens us," Can it be that the misfortune "There is eessething kept frOrn Me, With AnXiene eyes r Martha saying in awill spring from this love? Here was a while to know your secret, mother, Father ow T°tees "other s one wouLl say you strange thing 1 She laves both Osten( with lite rut Ins bsok thattoYeu: Now te,11 rose." . ha(ii,e eeuxewizZ:PcItuhe'r is' elf, sod tried to smile, does not even think of questioning her BOA 44 Wi "hesti:tehlZieteliinntohw° un:ttrulnh!l-I's 117 e. love so perfece and 40 'impartial that she To tell them the fatal newe suddenly 1 No, further, and asking him, on which one his ye% ? Ie it father? Aild why? I have A elle emlicl not (le it She wont and Sat dowo heart is fixed, Little matter to her whether right to kuows surely. Who Is at fault? netw,saingwf,ntr chaugh,eo to please me, 1 it he 188b01 or Martha. Beth are worthy of Wh° is guittY ? Is it OAT, or ruY father, or have a alight headacnee eur gaiety will hinlernir'iwedittoh whit! jay would elle "8 el.°1er you sc il ; is V' she eaid, with her voice broken dispel it " " You undersand, do yoo not V' said the with emotion. They obeyed, and Clotilde bowed her 14804 "why 1 emeteong,ann how 1 raeaa He tried Tee read her eyee, but she kept heed la deep thought. After tboY bad Sang to.plead their canse ? I don't want he wait A her head bowed. She wae aehamed, and a verse, the tWO eistene atopped awl turned minute. I shall hurry to see fethern alai' beImv her °WIZ son. their eyea towarde Clotilde. The poor wo. she was agaio seized with dread, "You guilty," he Bahl with, A burst of ung;eleiyluhellaerra deethem.. pItTeharetywewareechtineng,agehlhal 1 iemolotwisbiosmowell,"etts,James, He will not yield, tenderness, " Deana and most saintly of women? And of what error? will you tell Atter a few lines more they stopped agate, "Why, mother, one would think you were me 2" euddenly, in great alarm. Clotilde could no afraid he would yield." longer restrain her tears. She bad burst out ' W hat an idol V 7,1113:e:us% the came does not exist, yen solebing. The contrast between the we- "Coe would say that you have some dread teelite Yourself WAntOrdY in Order to turn suspecting happiness of her adopted dents.- about lay going to entreat him, mother, &dile my rancour, because you knew well terse their preeent calre and light-hearted mother,you heves a secret. You know why that I could, uever, in spite of everythloh, haPPthesa and the trials of the life that father is expelling theee pea children." /tar youeIs 18 true? Ea"' 44derSte441' ' awaited. there. had, broken down her aelf 04 I swear to you, jaraea, that 1 am raga hedh genteel. Vainly, en' order not to betray her- ante James walked abut' thereon; in a reverie, self, had she bitten her lips until the blood "Ah, well, 1 shau find out foe myseloo stoppmg thmetune,s in deep thought. He C5118. ore excuses himself and the ehespe her diet not know which. Ride to take, liki heart The team had memo, and then the leyeterie heude heepeirjogly, was tortered. He niermored, "I Ilene cal sobbing, end Merthas awl Isabel on their si 0, ,u5„; hooes ebe prays, Pi /44140 law. one my heat to find, same way, but am /mete, and holding her betide In a eight renes bey° pity upon me, that be Nem 44y powerleseay fetherti wi, 1 lerethlute, My embrace, besought her to trek. nothing to dames that will mum me to lose mother herselfyielde to him. Auything "Mother what iii it, a misfortune 1" the love of my am and the reepeet that be like revolt would be wieleas, lege tee well, ii Yee, my ellildree a misfortune, and a owea meet nied heineese she could not stay alto that they will have to go." very Imre one, I must tell you."„, alone, lieving 4 graving for [moods About Vie evening Paeeed In a mournful way."Tell it eptickly, then, mother, and I will her, in her nedeever to tome toe eufferbeg of Bergernotet aveided seeing Jalnee argAIM cenatert you. " her'heart, she celled the girle and esenuned 1110 0'1'4 far as they were from guessing "No it la toe late.” 4 sonilieg face, the serious things that were in store fen They both embreeed her and dried with "Now, go oe with your song," ehe eein, thenn understood, however, that something their fresih chthi lips 'We mere ou Iler thee, Inalpl took Im tor beep aeam and morale Ont of the common wangoieg on. JAMea And tears which broke out tgleW as moon as they a& Ana vole Eh. 'Claud uhe eheo clot -Wei toed hem erying, that waa plain, _K._h_ . e W8 re aeaueged. Silence. Roew into revery, following her eon, tryst% Beth oen and neither had a loot; of deep At thie moment they heard the sound of ro gum whemee taking pnee„ eaduess whenever their eyea rested on the We don't believer in the old tillage the, a berth in the courtyard. Ail three at owe shinee had kneedted at his father's door, girlswhile speeele is Over sileuee iegoldon. We raised their beads, and the girls rising, threw Toe valet tem biro where the marquis was. When. he wee about to return to the fart, don't believe that the hermits in the middle aside tue ortabes that kept out the sun and ote had, and he was going to thaueheese, a Alartha intercepted Wm. "James," the ages who took the vow of perpetual elleoce, looked over the grating, farm nomolittle elfetaece off, games, on. eel& "why do yen Feere so pre.oceupied ?" were either holier or heppter thatothe friers "18 is jamea," sold Mettlia, io a strange patient to hewn the truth, feeling eneme to "I AM nOt et 411," said he, trylog to mile, who went about preeching, We (4)4'0 be, deep tone that made the mewed:mum teem. welt Inger., rot out to moot hew. Twenty ""'on'e you trelt Me the emote of your "love that the beee and most uaeful people IAN and went Oat* nr8e4 by the niorthfleethig minute* etterwards, at a tend in the loran troultler motloot of her heart to ran and meet the of road he meet teal to :ACC with the Maxspiiii„%imA.4"Ure,zo,u, Martha." 40er- lea-he:is more self-Polisesseds waited Jeasee was se =MU Mored that far amouluut , '„' 4;nere wlll 'De two of nes then* to hare In OM drawing room. She appeeeed out. he could met apto4k. Bergemoot no &alp 0,-- wp,rdly hadiffereon but U Clotilde had understood, even before he opeued Ida Re bent hie head, gave her a friendly =trained her with eleidi attention sho mouth, whet he wanted to say, for him twee farewell and went all. would have seen that the elder dater was sot and ids eyes bard, Noe aue be But he hail nextby gone A few steps when had become slightly Pales and had and. effer to shake halide, gibe man behind h19, seizing Ida baud and daily exuabed her hand; whiele bad beeerrie "Sir," old gore" and Bagement earn log i; to her lips. It aeeraeel to leave owlet, one ameinat the other, James soon oreinbtee, for 10 was the first time the young ..an erapreeelas of burning tin leis lingers. lie came in and 'tined hie mother. man had eeueo bier, that,- wg gene!, borne to AAA not recovered from Ida alarm and aur - Madame Bergemene, after the tiret ere find my tired. be left alum veith her son, and 80 re, icertio,can$ sytlior,nnyhntooatoltnatthieneutbejaerest., "alld 1 Wiell t° prise when ell(en:esat: and Martha. Toey knew thetehe wished to The marquee made a goseuto of baushty t7nPini).'41renebd.i dearmeute were over, made a alga to Label e said, putting emphaele on the "What is this Martha Ulla me, dear word, "you will receive no explanation math" 1 You are lfl t'ublei ra we"P? beyond what the Marchionese herself has What Is the matter ? Has vliyer been green you. so lot he hieuhee the anmeettl writing something to you? Is there auything t" Ile passed Jamea end would have gone ou, I can tell you C: but the effacer took him by the arm, reepeet- otilde looked at him in aurpriee, " 01 hely but finely, ver," she amid " What about liim ? What h happened ? ' "Father, your deeidon ie Urjnets bo the 44 Don't you know anythitig ?" motives what they may that have induced then!" Everybody will blame you." " I noire you 1 do not, But what le it, you,"bother myself very little about the "Don't be alarmed, but Oliver has been world's apiniou.' fighting a duel, and haa been rather serialise "Father, have these children then been guilty of some grave limit Viet etelitihtfenon t h theey m asooeteer, hie a, punishment? What have "Mk your mother." "Mother is unwilling to tell me." Bergernont smiled bitterly. "Tee seoret ie not mine, Ask her. My decision is taken. Do not insist," "These girls shall not leave, lather." The Marquis paled and hie lips quivered with anger. "You threaten 1 think l'' "No, I beseech:I love Isabel, father, I love her with all my ]ieart. It is for myself, bat ralla tile Eventide. The Empress of Austria, Fast falls the eventide; 'tis go. In the days of her youth the itiperia The words were uttered soft and low. Elizthethwae4 very winniug and, eyinpathetio The pallid eheek, the furrowed brow, personage. The professor engaged to teach The lecke all white with winter's enow— her the Hungarian language hoe left on re. These, these, alas 1 they testify cord the imprcesion made upon bine by his The evening of my day Le by ! royal pupil; her gentleneen her gracious ways, her ardor and canecientioosziese in her etedies, and, also the devoted effectiou then subsisting between bersett and ber husband. She would, throw aside instantly her booke and exercises end hurry from the rooms wheo ever the Einperor was heard calling her by her pet name Rliae„ Thie pleasant' etate of mattera coejugal vas brought to a sudden termthetion several years ago. The Empress detected her 4130488 tn a 1.1418011 of peeuliar turpitude and bad teeth. Theie was more than the haughty Etmelieth, then being conscious of being one of the levelieete women in Europe, could petieotly endure, She ban never forgiven tier husbend, though unlike th?- Queen of Bervise ehe was toe vase to bring maters to an open rupture- From that period dates her partial withdrawal from court life exid her devotion te riding and. huntiug. Uuder the name of the Qoanteae of Robenerabe AO has [Mown af greet predileetion for foxhunting In Ireland) but that form of enjoyment has been in late years debarred to her by the Irish dis- turbancee. In the eerly days of her youth and triumphantlovelinesethe was the uneansolege cause 0 a very pathetie lLttIe rouianee. A young American ,gentlemennwhose deter had been educa'wel 10 Europe, cheneed to see in her photograph album on her return a POrtrari of the beantifel Elizabeth, He was, greatly struck by it, and on iirat beholding deeleted that he woold woo and Win the igieed at all hezerda, it the were atUl ounierried, When told that the portrait was that of the Empress of Austria he Add nothing more,but a few weeke later he i aunoeuced hie ntention of going to Europe, bie health Was very delicate hie parents euemeraged him in hie project, beeping theti the ettenge of air and, see might prevh benefieial to him, ILe went etraiglet te Visome and remethed there for nearly a year, fequenting assidnouely the opera, the drive on fashionable (lave on the prater and other pine* where ho might hove A ['hence of beholding the imperial beauty whole Immo bed. so captivated hien Late io the Winter he eentraeted a severe eOld whiele developed into rept(' consumption, 8814 10 only retoneed beTne to die. Auteeg bas papera was fated by hie eumivingfamily very beautiful miniature of the Emprein today Are the inni4tee Of our IleAl end chime which be ban eesused te be poetess, from a, whim, Men Were 171444 to talk, With phothgreph, idea a few fregnweite of the taupe they sere teoeh and wero end comfort eagh ether. With the tongue they an to expreee their mutual ayropethy as friende and mailbag of the brotherhood of humanity. With the tongue they are to AceeMIillehed Cats, preise God and to talk with each other About hie excellence and hie gomitient A ce pow of educated este brie beeo per- Melisehl says that the Lord himself is'n lee lately Parte, and it has become tenested la the eenvereetien of those who enable to go and see than, The fear him that he Batelle Aud hes whet they eritie of the cronrrial, dc$ DebaM, Rey recorded in a book of renterobreuce. Jules Itret vuuserateu" Ankle tO MA we are not endowed with the gift of the feline aerohete, pcoch In order that we may chatter like Ile dee:levee that the eats aro "dimply do- agples and repeat words regarilleee of lit:Ions." They not merely walk on the tops heir meaning like parrots, nor that we may f a row of elender bottles, and go in and try to tell tehat eve don't knew, or whet we out of the bar end ernis of n row of chairs, don't believe, We have no right to talk bet they do thenothluga with 411 wiee and for the sake of talking. Wo are reepoosible grace whieh other performers never dis. for the wise and concelentloue me of Wu ploy. noble faulty. Hence the Bible tette us to 1"hey o:irub a main vei high thet top is be swift to bear and ohne to apeek." It whew; the of the etallos and Walk. a cord etratelted to another meet, which they deuced liko so many little men. They aro brave, elem. Awl hum through hoops of fire.; nor less Amiable since they pose by beater- ful rate, fat anti large, without offerbeg tee moleat them, Their "Professor" even ' pieces a film rot upon the neck of one of therm and she carries lb gracefully along. These learned cat* hew) the thoroughbred air in perfection. There is nothing orthing or servile in their obedience, and if they feel that their Profeasor is working them too hard, they will take a reels. One of their aota ie to spring from little platforma placed two yards apart, each plat- form being about as large se a dinner -plate. The cats leap from these with airy grace anal without the least sign of getting out of breath, but, now and then, one of them will trike seat upon a platform, lick her paws and waah her face with the greatest deliberation. They show not the lomat fuer of their Proforisor, unlike the learned doge and the trained steed; of the circus. Other learned animels show themselvee capable of what the French call cabotina.ge, that is, strutting and posing like a strolling player, too conscious of the speotators. A harnessed horse is notinsensible to the beauty of his equipage, and some showmen think that a performing horse is gratified by the applause he receives. .At least, he looks as if he were. The peacook, the turkey, the goose, the dog, seem capable of ecstatic van- ity. These learned arts areentirey ineapableof such weakness, They go through their per- formance regardless of the spectator, doing everything with apparent willingness, and even with joyful alacrity. did not think at dawniog day So wife the more would fly away ; Nee did. dream at regal noon That eventide geoid eotne 80011; I did not ever think to he So old ad lett:dews as yen tiee. It seemed moro 40 very far Ere I should reach the evening tat;s At noon I atilt felt yoong and strong, All full tif hope, All full of wenn; And age ;seemed ever far away Until I felt the withering sway, 1, I ind small specs between The morojog with its thine and thews, And. evetung with its gloomy shade, With 41114 loael el hopes decayed. Ah, heart, the truth eannot hide: Around me falls the eventide 1 I've almost reached. the river's brink— The gold, dark stream from which ahrink. Hope promised much, but little gave; My forward look la death—the grave - Bet there'll a promile IbArre heard That my ue4g1 (loth aid afford — A rieher promise I cap say Than any of ray early day. 18 sootheet my heart like heeling beim; It fille my sail ; it makes! Me eAlte ; allrengthen4 All In feiliog eight; "At eventide it Rho, be light' Not like the radiant lioht of maw, When day and hope are gaily bona Thet fedee an quickly from the eldeeg We weep le sorrow And surprise lint tide will light my pethwey eierovglt Till I lemin Wets day MeV, Chrietitm at Work, ly wounded. But roman yonrself, I repeat, ell danger is over, and be is convalescent. The doctor has ordered him to spend a few days near us in order to recuperate fully, and I got A letter from him this naorning oskiug me to tell you, father and you, all that had happened, in order to calm your appreheusiona." "Will you swear to me that you aro con- cealing nothing 2" "-Yea, I swear it. But since you bad not heard of tho duel, that hint the cause of those recent tears, Your eye% are red, mother, why have you been weeping ? Why do 1 find you so pale and depressed, and your /ace so haggard that one would say you were very ill." She eank nito the arms of her beat be. loved son and broke out e, fresh fit of bb* g. "Come mother, acme mother," said he embracing her tenderly, "tell me all." Tell hihn all? never, that could not be dreamed of. Speak of Merode to him? She remained silent., while he persisted. She continued weeping. It was necessary to end it, to invent so to story er uther, "This," said she, " s all I ean tell you at present, Some dee you will know all. Your father ha e net r much affection for Isabel and Martin never so much as I have had, for example. It was beeause of his love and regard for me that he consent- ed to take charge of them, to protect and educate them, but his indifference, his almost repugnance for tbem has been shown on many occasions. I don't know whether or not you have noticed it" "1 thought he was merely indifferent." "This estrangement from them has been increasing of late, I don't know why, and your father quite suddrinIy, only a few min- utea ago indeed—" She stopped, choked with her emotion. Ames clasped her more lovingly in his arms. "Courage, dear mother," he said. "Your father has told me that he doesn't vvish to see them again and that they must leave the house." "Leave the house 1 Isabel 1 Martha 1" "He expels them, as one would expel a drunken or thievish servant ? Mother, you must have misunderstood him, it isn't possi- ble, my father is incapable of such cruelty. Some very grave reasons, which cannot exist, would be necessary for there" "Neither was I willing to believe it. It was forced upon me." "And is itreally the ease then? He is ac- tually sending them away ?" "They must leave within eight days," "Do they know it ?" "No, I have not had courage bo tell them." "And.you are right. Say nothing to them for it, would be useless to sadden them. I promise you they will remain." "What are you going to do ?" "1 shall find father and ask him the rearion of his acting so?" ee She trembled. If Bargeniont spoke, what diegrace there would be. "You have no right to do that. He would not answer you. He is your father, and the master la ere." "1 Shad not forget the respect owe, but no more shall r forget that 1 have been lorought up to consider Martha and Isabel as my sisters. „There is one right, if 1104 no other to sustain me, if it is necessary to con- ten"dvirwhiteht d� you mean 27, He smiled, embraced his mother, and whispered in. her ear. "Later, mother, you will know alL" But there was no need to saywnere. Clo. tilde understood the hint, And, folding her SMAII IndOstrien, The Sheffield cotlery—one of the glorlea o England—la not made by machinery ; 18 18 elliifiy suede by hand. There are at Shef- field o few AMM Whiell manufacture cutlery right through front the making of steel to the finiehing of took, and employ wage work. ere, and yet even dim firms—I am told by my friend E. Carpenter, who kindlygrither- ed for me information about the Sheffield trade—let out thine part of the work to the "small masters," But by far the greeted number of the cutlers work in their IMMO, with their relatives, or in smell workshops supplied with wheel and power, which they rent for a few thillings a week, Imenenee yards are covered with buildings, whittle are subdivided into aeries of amen workehopte Some of them cover only a few tquare yards, and there I ow smithe hammering all the day tong, blades of knivea on a small anvil, oloae by the blue of tilde Occasion. ally the smith may. have one help or two, In the upper stories sores of smell work- shops aro supplied with wheel and power, and in each of them three, four, or five work- ers and a "master" fabricate, with the occasional aid of a few plain marlines, every then, that I implore you. It is you touch seeking to strike her. I have long loved her." The Marquis heard this avoWal with a surprise he made no effort to conceal. His anger increased. He bit his lip and his oyes became intensely black. "You mock nee," he said in a dull voice, "It is possible that having been brought up with these little girls you have an affection for them, but what 1 do not admit is that you could love one of them with a Iove. "Why? They are both worthy of being loved, are they not? Are they not good, intelligent and lovely ?" "This is folly, absurdity. Let us say no more." "Father, do rot drive me to despair, do net cause me, by thus obstinately persisting in your incomprebeesible decision, the first great sorrow of my life." "I was ignorant of this love. It has de- clared itself very suddenly." "That is because I am not certain of Isa- bel's heart," "She does not love you. So much the better. The evil is less serious. When she is far away you will forget her, Yon will then see that the feelings you have for her, have nothing in common with love.' "Father, you are breaking my heart." " Do' you count on me to encourage this besotted affection? Make up your mind to say nothing more to me on the subject, and keep to yourself your contrite mien, sir melaneholie ofiloer. Don't behave like a fif- teen year old schoolboy.' "Father you are wrong in treating me as a child., I have that on my arms that one does not acquire on the benches at college, and on my breast a cross that is not given to schoolboys. I beg you to remember this, and will be infinitely obliged if you will not lightly treat matters that lie near to my heart and of which I speak to you seriously. This stung the marquis like the stroke of a whip. " And I, sir," he said coldly, "have no time to listen. to idle talk. What I re- solved on' will be done and nothing in the world will prevent it. You were tak- ing a walk, I presume, when you met me. Continue your walk, I beseech you, and do not feel yourself obliged to keep me corn - parry." He saluted James with an ironical move ment of the head, and went away. The young man, greedy chagrined, re- mained motionless on the path. His father would not bend, that was certain. But why this hareh resolution or which there was no explanation? What secret were they hiding from him? He gazed mechanically after hi fathenwho was walking with a elew but de cided step, He followed him, not venturing to rejoin him however. Sad and disoouraged he returned 'to the house. Clotilde for all her anxiety, did not dare [meek to him. She had watehed for his rethro with positive terror. When she fitaW.hith WailcwWith down- cast head, pale and sad, her heart grew sick. Did he know th past ? Had Bengemont tui. description of tools—files, saws, blades of knives, razors and 50 on. Grinding and glazing are done in other workshops, and even steel is oast iu a small foundry the working staff of which consists only of five or six men. When walking through these workshops 1 easily imagined myself boa Russian cutlery village, like Pavlov° or Vorsina. The Sheffield cutlery has thus maintained its olden organization, and the fact is the more remarkable as the earnings of the cutlera are very low as a rule; but, even when reduced to a taw shillings a week, the cutler prefers to vegetate on his small earnings than to go as a waged laborer in a "house." The spirit of the °Id trade organ- izations, which were so mud' spoken of five and -twenty years ago, is thus still alive.— Religion in Old Age and Adversity. When the pulse beats high, and we are flushed with youth, and health and vigor; when all goes on prosperously, and success seems almost to antimpate our wisnes, then we feel not the want of the consolations of religion; but when fortune frowns or friends forsake us --when sorrow, or sickness, or old age comes upon us—then it ie that the superiority of the pleaeures of religion ie estahlshed once thede of dissipetiou and vanity which are ever apt to fly from us when we are most in want of their aid. There is scarcely a more melancholy sight to a considerate mind, than that of an old man who is a stranger to those only true sources of satisfaction. How affecting, and at the same time how disgusting, is it to see such a one awkwardly catch- ing at the pleasures of his younger years, which are now beyond his reach; or feebly attempting to retain them, while they moce his endeavors, and elude his grasp 1 To such a one, gloomily indeed, does the evening of lifenet in 1 All is sour and cheer- less. rHe can neither look backward with complacency, nor forward with hope ; while the aged Christian relying on the sure mercy of his Redeemer, can calmly reflect that his dismiesion is at hand, that his redemption draweth nigh. While his strength deolines and bis facultieh deoay, he can quietly repose himself on the fidelity of God; and at the very entranoe of the valley of the shadow o death, he oan lift up an eye, dim, perhaps, and feeble, yet occasionally sparkling with hope, and confidently looking for ward to the near possession of his heavenly inheritance, "to those joys which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither bath it entered into the heart of man to oonceive." the impeartieued verse telliug of a love en deep and einnere as 18 104 been hepeleee and unovowed. wawa to "avoid foolteli talking." David odes in the 39th palm, "I will take heed to my ways their sin not with my tongue. I will keep my mouth evith bridle while the wicked is before me." And Iselall *aye of Christ, "Aa ',heap before her shearera IS dumb so he opened not his mouth." Ho had taught and preech- od all over Galilee and Judea, lie was doily Answering the (mations 01 3118 diciple and *there ; but when he stood before Pilate he answered him nothing, so thet the goo. enter nuerveled. Many besides Pada have marveled at the silence of Christ, They have wandered that be did not tell us n greet many things thet we would like to know. 11 110 came from God as he field, he was femiliar with the glories of the meterial universe, and with the life of anglea and of disembodied apirits. Why did he not explain to his dieciples the true system of astronomy? How easy to have told them that the earth goee around the aun, and not the sun around the earth. Why did he not tell thorniest where the soul. will dwell when separated from the body, and what will be Re employ- ments and enjoyments between death and the resurrection? We imagine that he might have brightend our mortal lives by unveiling more fully the future, and thus delivered his followers from the fear of death. But if we study the matter closely we shall bee in the silence of Christ one of the most convincing proofs of his divinity. He came toe this world. an a special minion— to seek and th save the lost. To that he de- voted himeelf with conscientious fidelity. All that he did and said had some special reference to the salvation of the souls of men. If he had turned aside to gratify curiosity, or to acquire popularity by elcqu- ent descriptions of invisible things, he would have convicted himself of such folly and selfishness as would shake our faith in his divinity. It ie his consecration to the one thing which he came to do that inspires Iring Milan's Future, A Vienna despatch to the London Times siva :—The opinion among diplomatists an d politicians appears to be that Ring IVIllan's future now depends on the use which he us with confidence, that compels us to feel makes of his present opportunities. During that he was true to the inmost core of his the last two years he has been nervousl y being. irritable, and often so despondent thet his sudden abdication has been feared. Allow - Passed off Quietly, awes are made for this by those who know The recent celebration in Chicago of the how terribly teased he was by his wife, for ' ib is only party prejudice thab can affect to first anniversary of the execution of the Anarchist murderers passed off quietly believe that all the wrongs in the matri; apeecilies delivered were menial quarrels were on his side. King enough, and the couched in a comparatively mild and ration- Milan is naturally an easy -tempered man, and he is too clever to have engaged in an open quarrel withathe Queen without provocation passing endurance. Bnt now that the ohief cause of his troubles has been removed, and that a new era is opening in his reign, people will watch anxiously for a display of the good qualities whim' his friends assert him to posseas. In Austria- Hungary especially, where there exists a general belief in his shrewdness, and where the loyalty of his policy to ward his Empire is appreciated, 113 will be hoped that he may so bear himself in future as to diminish the number of his enemies, and to, give the remnant of theni less justification in their endeavours to disturb Servia." al strain, The Americans show no signs of having repented of the punishment they inflicted upon Chicago dynarniters ; on the contrary, publio opinion, as expressed in the United States journals, endorses the exon - tions 88 emphatically as on the day whoa they were carried out, The lesson of the stern justice meted ont •th the condemned Anarchists has apparently not been lostupon the leaders of the party, but the police au- thorities of Chicago nevertheless believe that anarchy is neither dead nor sleeping, but is, on the contrary, more thoroughly or- ganized than even at the time of the Ray. marketriot. Police Inspector Bonfield says there are 5,000 Anarchists in Chicago wait- ing and ready for the appointed time of a general uprising, which has been fixed for the 100631 anniversary of the fall of the Bas- tille. , It is probable that the Inspector is taking an alarmist view of the situation, hue should there be a seoond uprising in is certain that the disaffection will be stamped out remorselessly and effectually by the Weernear IVireezneoese. authorities. Collections are being made in Chicago for the benefit of a large number of army vete. rens located in Dakota who are reduced to penury through the freezing of their' crops An old lady friend of ours hold litS reoe4tly that of all the medicines` she had ever tried she found none to equal Dr. Carson's Stom- ach Bitten, and said he, " / always have larit August and September. We ha,ve.not to go back to Dr. Caraon's Bitters, n.o matter heard anything from the CanadianhsTorth. what other medicine I am iieduced to try."' west leading to the belief that the suffering Dr. CartiOn'e Stomach Bitters for the Steno Senator Trudel, editor of L'Etenclaoyl, hae there is anything like as severe as it appears ach, Botvels„ Liver and Rhind, Large commenced an action for $50,000 for lite! to be in Dakota, bottler' 50 cents. against Le Monde. Cheap Gas. "Under the operation of a commendable law," observes the New York Times, "the price of gas in London has fallen steadily. Two weeks ago the directors of the Gaslight and Coke Company, by far the largest of the metropolitan companies, re- solved to reduce the price on January let to. 61 cents per thousand. At the same time this company is paying dividends of about 13 per cent. The law permits the componies to raise their dividends in return for a re- duction of the price to consumers."