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The Exeter Advocate, 1889-1-3, Page 2'BREAD OF LHE OR, SUNSHINE AND SH.A.te 'CHAPTER Xlew-Ao Roan a LAM Winifred fell back ou the pillow e weartly. love him" the whispezed one more, deXie tatee me, Vie; bat in eiette of alit 1 levee him, I Uwe- him." yeers the heel koked up that morel; la her oievee that. She bad toldit to DOenv, 4lot2h ef all to her betalimad. But, ceefiteed to tho Yarrow -4pece ed her poor emelt hetet, anad tattlieg thee with her ocatempt ead ureter it had elowly eaten her very1La outt lifer keit, waa. erowing very pale ,After ell tha exeltementt a1e ueeded met The mevitable reactioo weit tegterieh to. wet, ie. She ft -trebled with her 'fiegetia oz tha helelothea pervowdy ; her tee% twitched with a partial twitching. The teempttore alarmed ad frightened Vele; elm °pelmd. the door ef the little melon aud *netted to the Eteglith deter to rem to the te4reete. Ife earce in tied CM e,ETA &ewe OM OM ted. Ebie Icoked up at bim impeinew etyma Thedeetor eedded wramely teed drew his keg beerel thrt yeti bit elemd, bend, "A gzeze ell:notion, of leure;' betwiethavred in her ter, "It may he de lemeel ; it tatty eria.Agea OW time. Slade ova:Memel Imo toeub yari. fellowel eroperrieemte preetretien. Hr teart WAy fell irrezet =emelt to remeente" Wame's hez lowland!" gt5ike cried ha fever .tf tibmay. kkAt him eff ;about Ida tueleeth far • Lc 1,101 Otra," if4o decter erettereel with prermsieeel calriment " Shea *vide:ate' ta *highly bysterieal ecreditimo, and thetttg,' • NV1 .oply tecreate her. exeitenterila Ited c45e; blIt a pein.fully eereMen Que. hiletexel's preteese feeireu the very wet .4birtte tot earth for 4 gaZiOut me effected. 44ughtt woultille ber .fer more geed • have you algee with bee—you're Orme! e gentle atal se timed leg, Min Chtellener," blitie glaze -ad beck at Min with 4Wit1441. VIC& " But el:ma:ore she were to die whi aelegoter" She nturrieered tow with preloete -haadttaat Thtt deetor pureed up hie lip philceophic- ally.. "It cau't Ie helped,te auewered weth. fact drum "ThAt'a j iattam% lutopen, rim very much el:relit. We van o uly do the teat -We en, Ibia etitie bee videutly teen tee et:acre/Pr herd' eatt !to ellPe't NYell4f5td tigYiettre i!holle the ratierect% antteltag fiteet &1heekened Rate le, bevel down cleeer te her. " Vete,* elle W. dr he IOW. LOAM 'wives "td eat .gh. X wt htut eow.-4 etatild like. him befit:rot die. I :ilia 1zu.geleg. .eit lerwer." =led ,cut to Warren ha the wate• ° the cried eagerlye tbreughtter • " go toad •Qmit Rugh. to- W414.3 to Wee Mee be- ck ler hint through all the nil Irina wed email hurt home. erelwe lane" wend her echer e tingle word,, equiteceece, rutted dome by eeplattade API the ehere m were no louger the game ; all were unlike, and the diffezerwe wa to their ditad. vantage. The man had not only growe *tenter awl harder ; he waa coarser and comutouer mad lee* etriking then formerly. Hie very etyle had Buffered viable degeperation. No more of the jareaty old poetical atr turnip& Amd footeutd- mouth disease the arrears, of rent and the etraggle against reduetton, the thifting ads aucl the NSeight of the riparian pre- prieterel euestioe, had ell left their mark etazaped deep in ugly lineeupenhia face ead figure. He wee handiromeetill, but in a leas refined and delicate type of manly beauty. -The /erg smeaddering war between himeii • and Wieilred had cheuged his expression to a dogged Otbumour. His eyee hied grown dull and etedid aucl selfish, Ins lips had twittered a eullea Pots sad a ragged beard with unkempt enda had diefigured • thet cleencut and dainty eain that rem ouce eo elorpient et poetry ard culture. Alto- gether, it wee but a pet° aud fieleby version ' et the old, old, liegh—a replica from whom heed the Itelo had faded. Eitio !coked dewn op hire from her height el Yeatage with it thrill of atter teed Itepelere deedflumeu- Wearinese and remorse kept him wide awake, worn out aa he was, testing and turniug throngh the long elow helms in etlent aaoltra &wage to thyr the ;tense of freedom WAS the atroogeat of all the feellugs that crowded In upon Irina. Now that Wini. fr d wee dea& he eaultt do as he these with hie owe. Re wee no longer tied to her will and her oritams. Wheu got beck to Eugland—mi he would get hack, of COAnes the moment he heel deceetly buried Wind --he meant to pet up a fittueg greweetope at Orfordnosae if he sold the wretched renaaiuder of Whitestrand to do it. A greeite °rose should mak that secret opot, Dead Melee grave should no longer be namelees. So much, at least, ha immune could effeet for hint, For Winifred was dead, and Whiteetreud was b14 own. At the price of that miserable ma= of blimp fiend he had /told bie own emit euil Elele'e ; and now he would gledly get rid of it ell, If only he could raise out of ie ebranken relies a. monument at Orferdnees to Vele. For three long yeara, that ntended grave bed ,eilently accused the zemnents of his couecience : he detew milted it should acottee he geld no longer. The big eleek on the laziellug ticked mon- otometely. Eeett Pawing of the pendulum tortured him efreela ; for it called aloud to bia hetinmeasured theta It cried ae plain ae words coald thy : 44 Enie, Vole, ',Eielez Vele 1" I Ala, yes! He was yeeog enough to begin la lie. Tim pee et eleue—the oreeene was atue, hilele wee here, toolarre at Son Remo I He betted Ida facet in his handa and wept —wept as he never had wept for Winifred —wept as he lower bed wept in ills lite be- fore—wept with frandie gladatete for Elsie recovered. Slowlythis conoeptioes fremed themselves anew, Ude railed weld, only take it all in plethateel. Bit by bit he Kee himself to tbetaele—no lees s task than to reeoestruct the eniversem-Winifred read havekeotre Elsie awnade bhoereha. a Iseeetrua2;:ltaredealryr.oll that Winifred Fresh theme/the poured in upon hlat ha a bewildering flood. He WAS (keeled, dazed, duutfouuded with their number. Elide was alive, and he lied eornething lee) there. fere, to llve for. Yeaterdey ntozsung that knowledge woeld lame been teait than noth- ing worth to him while Winifred lived. To- day, thank heoven—for Winfred was dead —it unmet inore to him than all the wealth ot Oradea How opporhmely Winifred had disap- peered from the eeene I Iie the nick of ttoie —on the very atroke and criels of his fate : At the tura of the tide that leads on to for. tette 1 tlx opporeuraitare mortie, leileed I He bed no reeree, no remorse pow, for poor betrayed aed martyred Winifred. Winifred I Whet was Wielfred to hint. or he to Wieifred, in a world teat etlil held hie PAD beloved Elsie? AIN weli tito,t sea well, The Winifred episode had ceme and gone. at Elsie re - meat. Then the turned what a pang of life eireoh, if that were AIL To begin ew maned as permanent beekgroand. ay h, reznerse to Warren. Wats it realty lamellate? ever agin eis lesa than nothipg to a brave And how trengelWinifred erselfan Was theta oath a ti=e Alen APP thaFght MM. But for whom or rer teher t woesejer med. dmirm. aert ceetributed to ttle very M. ter heart: that !elf -centred, hard-heerted, ff, he will, Riggh amtmeger creletee steed' denotienter:t of hie trout/ea 44 1 ehall go th coldefeetured creeture more theta a niatC4 un MA faCO the Iterrid Wee of begiunicg San Remo, if I go at All, wed to uowhere ler 414:11 a men ee Weeten ? hirteht her eleetelt ttpme. He meet have olee 411 the whelle Riviera,. I prefer to time "St:e is deed," the do or answered with ilialre one to leVe,, or go muter for PVCr. the wore. ,t thark yen I" The word; ileehed orefemieeal reehect. tt She died hall an And mill the cloelt tieked and ticked en,' bt teeltwitu irt't!l nthallIctl en hig caul. I1;alte acme ogee iteite hoppy. Her cue reatet ad edit it criod in, the eilence of the night ; aatat,t " et4 he whole heart ad San Amu)* be :wetted to he fax year ateerice, $114) Vape'"U:AO, &We* Mete, Elsie I"' himself tvould inver ham thought of going ' trig expictieg yeu to Ce1-40 tnk. 444 ete at h a I e to to there. .4k.od thee he would Peter hove a ewn ittetut Mole Fa i brae, 144140Y n't711711: ;AtUre' 441.ede laelnt5;r4tIt ht.,U {4. *4'4 e"tt he ' alluth wiltdow. Tee room Wae bere—ei 411w thrtn.?„,"%utte"eree"'ene „„„ ere itervant's attic. Hugh ley atilt east didthir, dtdd 0-d" """ "d" 4 t imiet Clit-the* dito ree141 tlw he ifid ouly et:metre-it I thought oor etaild." But the very way he *MLI it— halfeumotwerned teue, the lack of tat tiehtle ef tLrlini4Pp pay, even 4.Tf lhe dm ut preteree el teare, rhoeherl Ned eppelled ele beyead S et et. BIS true emeat was &tater:teat note In the) he ginadily peitited Itellete eellittee All Rletter— Elettae letter—to Worrell Helfer. eight ththogle he hod fervently legave mem egige the firet change to m and tiros b4gecl i" Warren Warrede mom ad vent epee mere ri. Itoll, hie deereet enemy meaanne he rushed evey a . l'eer trailed manly, how t.e ached far hire 1 At tuch moutet, middle -1p phyirg him ? 'L' he co fog ? Wtted raked from the ece ly. " Tti yet, dertiver" Vole mamma in 4 %61;0 "hut Warreue rpm out to try' mei nd biro. He'll he here velem Lie dill end wait for hirn." Winifred lay quiet Mill for some rainutee mere, breetifieg hard end htud en the bed here they had /aid her. he Int me rto ap. emit to muted thamtelven weer houra. Eut ;oHugh came. At lent the bechomel leie Imams agaire with a frail baud that muted ainmet to have lest all aower ef modem. Elsie leant over her with 1.f.r e laid dem to Winifred's lips. The rear girth veice Bounded very went end all but in ontlible mow, "I can't last till he tercet, Melee' aho murmured low. "But tell him I forgave him. Tell him 1 tailed him to forgive me in turn. Tell him I wanted to kith him good-bye. But even that last wish v as denied mo. And Sitio" her Begirt clutched her filend's corneal- eIvely—" tell him, all along I've elevate toyed him. I keel him from the very depths of my mut. 1 tamer toyed any one aa I loved that man. When 1 bated hilt 3:1303t, I kvcd him dearly. It was my very love that made me ao hate him He atraved stay heart; and now it's broken." Elsie stooped. down and kiased her fore- head. A amLe played lambent over %VW- fred's face az the gentle kiss. The doc- tor lifted hie open hand in warnirm Vele bent over her with gathered brews and atrained her eyes for a aign of breath for a moment. Gone 7" ahe asked at last 'with mute lips of the doctor. °Gone," the calmer observer answered with it grave inclination of his head toward Fate. Rapid collapse. A singular case. She suffered no pain at the last, poor lady." Elsie flung heraelf wildly into an easy - their and burst into tears more burning than ever. A touch on her shoulder. She looked up with a start. Could this be Hugh? Thank _heaven no I It was Warren wire touched her theulder lightly. Half an hour had pan- ed and he had now come back again. But, alas, too late. "No need to stop here any longer," he said reverently. "Hugh's down- stairs, and they're breaking the news to him. He doesn't know yet you're here at all. I didn't speak to him. I thought some other person would move him more. I saw him on the quay, and I tient an Ita- lian I met on the beach to tell him he was wanted, and hie wife was dying— Come up to my room on the floor above. Hugh needn't know even now, per- haps, that you're here at San Remo." Too full to speak, Elsie followed him blindly from the chamber of death, and stumbled somehovo up the broad flight of eters to Warren's apartments on the next etory. As she reached the top of the open flight, she heard a volee—a familiar voice, that would once have thrilled her to the very heart—on the landing below, by Winifred's bedroom. Shame and fascination drew her different ways. Fascination won. She couldn't resist the dangerous, temptation to look over the edge of the loanieter for a sec - mad. Hugh had just mounted the stairs from the big entrance hall, and was talking by the door in measured tones with the Eng- liah doctor. "Very well," he said in his cold, stern voice, the voice he had always used to • Winifred—a little lowered by conventional respect, indeed, but scarcely so siabdued as the doctor's own. "I'm prepared for the Worst. If she's dead say so. , ou needn't be afraid of shocking my feelings; I ex- pected it shortly." She could see Ids face distinctly from the spot where she stood) and she shrank back aghast at once from the sight with surprise and horror. It was Hugh to be sure, but oh, what a Hugh How changed and al- tercd from that light and bright young dil- ettante poet she had loved and worshipped in the old days Whitethrand I His very earn and features, and limbs and figure, I ? Wae the morning, and thought when irt enle be • r idront '4 emnitan. Tdo.,Peaingter 1,4, ihl himself. Now it had really come he lay bis hand geatin 'ha her btautt4424 "urt ' 'd 'there unmoved, tee tired aud, too feeble to Werzen;" eh e cried, lookrug up et him belt twee ce ehrtteht doubtful, " it reeked me atiameel "—et, Arid zeemtieweightehe eie.,.....eceee„ Ro elm% checked kereelf amide -Wye Mott dezed out of pure weerbwea Warren Reif At the penefon, then? Red In Another flatele el all cape imek ea litne the two acenee a the Cheyne Row Olub— Werrenti convereariou with his Mesta Potte ,the mietelese teed etrerie cf Ids betty pre. "4111'61"4 Qi WItt IlcsrZen 4*e4 ber 84'6`eulYt he "I"' 1"1" 4 'Pia' *t3'r' A dc4faulecbilltulZree'r blleduweeQ14viettlruer 0,17 teduiteleltrobncl°Avli leat b°e4L tt343 65". t.".'4Uuiid$444°. Sou-, his liewe et the ease 1 felt sure ziew, In the %%VT of her tiV4rwriossilb feellega, ethy mem Newt& a riNEO#ge4 appsrentiy. hotha he .thtt wohreth bhd nhQued he thug bereelf pauleuetely lute hie gird- le e, ; t g h ee re re , y AA 0 it -g Armif. *4 ,05.51tmed tQ thtuU, tt;/) to4. Rittli,ith th .041.4 1,4 bia bha Rahn, 44 wtmt, L. ie—* aueeh, the caret:trooper. in his mieerable rauchboat Anil yet—if Warren d with A eob of dietrees, " that I QUO0 blea :" A bey'e liend thrust A letter sidewitya Rhtlitibtdb°?-1/dmie 421' teber3r w°11tebl be n° through the narrow opeuleag. It it for a._ for "15' 6v "Ye 4"‘ 'Me Xee°gn ICe" tee int and he beted him for it. Teat be CIIP1Ea Weatm.weree e) you, aigeor /'* be asked, oceriew with blink tettee _ vnt • . 014 OWO Z44110 la iAAID PUr* that aer• eyee threugh the Mak et the bleelishmen, , gh ext t h et tvenine, that czeweled mien Hugh glauced at the letter in probatedtdr," * 8 ak'lle hiL atioffY rooms with 14 este:ailment, 0 Ittavera, whet was this rod'b'"4b /lute 1 Why, aee at° ; ed Winitred. Moue with bieweary, dree Hem mormmemmeem ;epitome/au wee ,..2mt, da--.,.* ka4w when, dettieet X Mel, face conies him myself, perbepe. Bet r'i thoughiei aild eorlota ind mormart the room swam wildly Around lure; not thee. Aad that may he never.° TWQWICInell baa 10„1',d, he berdly knew how to believe hie eye. Theft may be never I 0 preelone woede I he31:114:11C340131Y2111Elbbietiratit1441NeYs innnifar 143°. brt wbia'111"45 tWhiaufsglattitl3avtQ:cefitniralgteenceornalobicrwe ”litlyercomenenta eel Sbc SY43 the door half °pun then, betegul tag/ft—hateful cud gbaelly for iu Immehe ehemet react; othty wht for her poet Baer Hie heart leaped up ot thethought. New vletas—old abate long einee ckeed— opeaed out caveat. lu 'mug perepective be- fore bine. Ay, with tined) a fonut of inspir- ellen as that, to what heighte of poetry might he not yet mteln 1 'Inlet peelts of Pernarows might he not yet male I On what pinnitelea of glory might he nob get poise hire:eel:I Staler Stele, Elide I That was it talisman to oruela all oppealtion, an " Open Sesame" to prim, all doora. With Eldora love, whet would be imposeible to hint? Life fleeted In now colours before hie eager eyes. He dreamed dreams And OW vlelonte at; he lay on his bed in those golden mo. niente. Etrth wan dearer, fairer, that% he ever deemed it. Tito fervor of love and ambition and hate waa upon hint now ha full force. Ile reelect and revelled in the plenit tude of hio own wild and bootie illumination. He could do anything, everything, any- thing. He could move mountains in his fervent accees of faith; he could win worlds in his mad delight; be could fight wild beasts in hie audden glory of heroic( temper And all the while, poor dead 'Whtifred lay cola and white in the bedroom below. Aud Elide was off—off to England—with Warren Relf—that wretch that serpent I —by the 9 40. (TO OeNTINIIED,) the hodreent at the aide the atteedaute of ee going r.,4d, hr wax tom chewy tryhth deeth.deepetelitel by by the (looter, were at. to mime arm mamma rem 110,4 eeme realm butte at thcir gramma° work, perferm• wretch Neu dabbliug in hideous to -series 1 Ing it'cl 'telt &Alto for or martyred Witli For the envelope wee addrested-0 horror or horrors 1--io dead Elsle's bud; and It bore in those welbknown arepdar character the aimple ineoription, 44 WarrenRolf,'Eme Villa della Fontana (Piano 3°),hAvenue VittorimEmmanuele, Sao Remo.' Be 1:cogni7ed this voice from the grave at once. Deed Elate I To Warren Rolf 1 His fingers clutched it with a fierce mad grip. Ho could tamer give it up. To Warren Rolf I And from dead Bide I "Is it for you aignor 7' the boy aeked once more, as ho let it ge with reluctanee from his olive -brown fiagers. re, lie bad Gamed ber up on the altar of hfe Pettish re caterea and regret for poor martyred MOW. The last victim bad l'allen on the grave of the first. She, too, wail death And OtOW his haute wao faced left unto him de- zolete. Senn hew, as he tat thereewith whirlieg brain. and heated brow, etre fire la stout, he aought ef Bede tar mere than et What're& The Lew tertevemeet, such AS it was, ocereed ta quicker, eard itecentuate the eense d the OM W. MA it that Winifred's wild heart in her receguitien of Elsie that day in the sheet bed routed once Inoto the hluthihihot enthiy, "Por me "t—Yesta Hugh anavrered atilt *lure of his lett Iowan face a.ud form so "For me 1—Who seals It !' vividly la Ilia mind I' Or wee it that the girl whore Wielfred pointed out to him did 44 The 14/amine at the Villa Roma— really to some Might extent resemble Elsie/ Signorina Cludeuer," the boy replied, gettirtg as tear as his Delimit lila eoula manage to and EO recall her mere definitely before hint? He berilly hnew ; but of ono thing he wee the hound of Challoner. "She told ree mos% atriughntly to deliver it up to Yourself, sig. certain—Vale that night monopolleed hia conatiousnese. His throe -year-old grief wen nor, into your proper Rogers, and on no etillfreah and green. lio therght numb. of acooant to let Wall into the hands of the Eleie, and little d Winifred. English gentleman on the second story." " Gooch" Hugh answered, closing the ate at tight the wellativoured landlady door eoftly. "That's quite right. Tell her cam up, courteous and Italian, all repeat- yea gave it me," Then he added. in English fril sympathy, in a black gown and a mournmem a coy of triumph 1 "Good morning, ing head dress, hastily donned, as becomes tammeapee 1" After which he flung himself those who pay visits of condolence in what- down on the bed once more in a perfeob ever Capacity to the recently bereaved. As frezzy of indecision and astonishment. for Hugh hireteelf, he wore still his rough For two taint:des he couldn't make up his travelling snit of gray homespun, and the mind to 'break open that mysterious missive dupt of hia journey lay thick upon him from the world of the dead, go strangely de - But he rowed hbauself listlessly at the laud- livered by an unknown hand at his own door lady's approach. She was blend, but gym on the very morrow of Winifred's sudden pathetic. Where would Monsieur sleep! death, and addressed ht buried Elale's hand, the amiable proprietrere irquired in lisping sa clear as of old, to hie dearest enemy. What French. Hugh started Lathe inquiry. He a horrible cencatenation of significant oir- had never thought Mailed that. Anywhere, eumstanoes. He turned le over and over he anawered, in a careless voice • it was all again unopened, in hia awe ; and &lithe time the same to him ; sous les folts, iinecessary. that morose cloak outside still ticked in his Tbe landlady bowed a respectful depreoa- ear, lora loudly than before: "Elsie, Elsie, tion. She could offer him a email room, a Elale, mer Elsie I" most diminutive roero, unfit for Monsieur, At last, making up his mind with a start, in his present condition, but still a chambre he opened ie, half overcome with a per - de maitre, just above Madame. She regrett- vading sense of mystery. And this was ed she was unable to afford a better; bet what he read in it, beyond shadow of the house was full, or, in a mord, crowded. doubt, in dead Elsie's ,very own hand - The world, you ase, was beginning to arrive writing • at San Remo for the season. Proprietors Vnme. Bosse., Thursday, 7.30, morning. in a health resort naturally resent a death DEABIST WARBEN-1 will be ready, as on tha premises, especially at the very mityou suggest, by the 9 40. But you mustn't set of the winter; they regard it as it slight go with me farther than Paris. That will on the sanitary reputation of the place, and allow you to get back to Edie and the incline to be rude to the deceased and his Motherkin by the 6.39 on Saturday even - family. Yet nothine could be mor e ing.—I wish I could have waited here in charming than the landlady's manner • she San Remo till after dear Winifred's funeral swallowed her natural internal chagrin at was over; but I quite see with you so untoward an event in her ewn house and how dangerous such a course might at such an untimely crisis, with commend- prove. Every moment I stop ex. abbe politeness. One would have said tha h potee me to the chance of an lin- ed eath rather advertised the condition of expected meeting. You must call on the house than otherwise. Hugh nodded his Hugh when you get back from Paris, and head in blind acquiescence. " Ou vous give him poor Winifred's last forgiving voulez,' Madame," he answered wearily. menage. Some day—you know when, dear - "Up -stairs, if you wish. ni go now—I'm est -1 may face seemg him myself, perhaps; sorry to have caused you so muoh ince:even- and then I can fulfil my, promise to her in knee ; but we never know when these an. person. But not till then. And that may fortunate affairs are likely to happen." be never. I hardly know what I'm writing, The landlady considered in her own mind I feel so dazed; bat ru meet you at the that the gerteleman's tone was of the most station et the hour you mention.—No time distinguished. Seek, sweet manners 1 So for more. In great haste—my hand shakes thougatful—mo considerate—so kindly res. with the ehoce still.—Yours, ever lovIngly peotftzl for the house's injured feelings I She and devotedly, ' &sm. was conscious that his courtesy called for The revulsion was awful. For it minute some slight return. "You have eaten or two'Hugh felled to takeet all in. You nothing, Monsieur," she went on, congas cannotunthink past years at a jump. The sionately. "In effect, our sorrow makes us belief thee Elsie was dead aid buried at forget these dears of everyadaylife. You Orfordness had grown EIO ingrained in the do not derange us at all; but you must let me fabric of his brain that at first he suspected send you up some littIe refreshment." Hugh nodded again. g... deliberate treachery. Such tillage have been. He had forged himtelf : might: not She sent hen up some oakeffind red wine of the country by the Serb* waiter,' and Warren Relf, that incarnate fiend, be turn - Hugh ate it mechanically, for he WW1 not in g his own weapon-dmeanly—against him? ' But as he gazed and gazed addead Elsie's hungry. Excitement and fatigue had worn hand— dead Elsie's own hand—•umnisbakably him out. His game was played. H6 here—no Komar on earth (not even himself) tollowed the waiter up to the floor above, was ever. Jaalf so clever—the truth -grew and was shown—into the next room to graduallytholoarer eard clearer. Dead Elsie Warrenhe 1, was Elsie dead no longer'. she had escaped He undressed in it stupid, half dead -alive on that awful evening at initeatrand. It way, and lay down on the bed with his wasn't Bide at all that was buried in the candle still burning. But he didn't Weep. nameless grave at Oefordness. The past was Gen, Grant en Gum& It was a drizzly day, only it short time be- fore Gen. Grant drove the enemy from Petersburg and moved toward. Five Forks and Appomattox. A chill noztheast gale made overcoats comfortable even there, and more men who could wore them than left them off. • A sentinel down toward . the river, near some storehoilee, shivered as be strode to and fro on his post, his gunlock under hie arm to keep off the wet. He was a raw re- cruit from Down East," sent out to help kill the ranks of a regiment which had lost one-half of its men eine% the campaign be- ganl He saw it man in it regulation overcoat and with a slouch hat, but with the steady carriage of a veteran, passing along a few rods away, and he called out to him:— "Say, friend, have you any terbacker in yer clothes ?" The passerby was smoking a cigar. "No," he replied. "1 can give you a cigar, but I don't] chew." "And I don't smoke, but I'm starving for a claw," replied the sentinel, as he looked over to the other wistfully. "An' I thaw, and dean% smoke on poet. Say, couldn't you stand post a minnte till I run over tit the seller's yonder ?" "I could,'- said the other, with it grim smile on his face, and then ke added : 41 will. Give me your gun and orders." "There isn't no order, only to hall any- body going anigh them stores, and to stop 'em as has no business there." So the sentinel, relieved of his post, hur- ried to the eutlerts for the desired tobacco. Returnipg promptly he took his gun and quietly said :— "If 1 get a thence I'll do as much for you, friend. What regiment be you in?" "Not any. I belong to headquarters." "What, to the General's guard What's your name ?" The quiet -looking man puffed out a cloud of smoke and said, My name is Grant." "Great Jerusalem lt gasped the sentinel. "1 have been relieved by General Grant himself and didn't now him." How could he, when not a mark of the General's rank was in sighte and the poor fellow was yet too green in service to know whet a fault, he had committed in yieldieg post and gun to any but his regular relief? A laundry in Cambridgeporie a suburb of Boston, is the largeth in the world, and proudly claims to keep 50,000 dudes in clean shirts. " The 'Milted States has 150,600 miles of railroads—half the mileage of the world. A Brinee's Wee -Hunting. " tigembuntieg fun?" "Yes, it's fun when you hunt the tiger, but it isn't fun when tbe tiger hunts you." This answer: meets by au old hunter to a boy's %entry, might be made by the Duke of azimut, member of the once royal family of Franco: and his gaups main, Prince Henry of Or- leans, who, in the course of A tour arouud the world, lately went on a tiger -hunting ex- pedition in Northern. halite Mounted epor, elephants, the Duke of Orl-ana and young Prince Henry were ;a the teed of the heat, when it tigrem which had been fired upon Attacked the duke's eleph- ant, and, kapieg upon its aide, rating to Quo of the ateme of the howdah, or elephent sad- dle, in which the clakewaa From this point the animal begauto aud tor one terribte moment it seemed as if alte would leap into the howdah and seize the duke. The rider tried in vain to fire at the tiger.; the elephant bounded and plunged so vio- lently elute it was impomible to get a shot. All at onee the elephant ran uuder a tree, the duke's gun was caught in the branches, and broken in, two. It was it terrible moment. Priam xrenrYs from hies elephant, tried to get A idiot at the tiger, but the anineel was now ea uear the duke that he did not dare to Ere for fear of killing his coueim Just at this moment the atep of the how- dah broke tinder the weight at the tiger, which fell to the grouud and then quickly ok to Right. She was followed awl hilted. Priuce Bismarck, .1). D. Ptiuce Bismarck, 1). B., was tk phew In when he etteuded the Orem Cieleter ha Ber lin, and was confirmed by the celebrated Dr. Sehleiennectear. That was before he went to Goetringen to tight 20 =leeway duele or mired to Sehoeithamiell to live like it roiateriug couetry equire, and to break hie beer -mug PA the ekull of an rodent revoIutioniat who a as disrespectfal iu Ida telk about the royal fomily it was not uutil he WAe a Minister of Stele Ilea be emettiered tG peeereety to relete lue relteletit eaperiencee end to apoloothe for Mich indlecretiene as havIng his pbotogreph taker, in company with 4 chern-nrg opera tamer. Bat madcap we Blemerch am 14 hie youth, and coutempttemit of public option as be was oven ta the prime ot men - heed, bio letters and *public epecchea Imee dieclemed deep religieue conviction and fervent faith. Att Ina Emperor, the grist William, nal A contelentloue Bible•reader, Ile, while uot meth of a death -goer, has beet during the greeter .part of Ha career 4 metre believer tn evapgelecel faith, .it Terrible Bxplosive. Experitneute have recently been meat: at Chalons, Frouee, with the% mow melinite then which prove it to be the meet terrifie ittatrument of rodent werfere. The gnu* are built ou the Barge emoted& of breech. loadere, end beve it three or about 600 yarde. Tavy are mounteel so as to be fired front any aught from SO deerece below to SO degrees :both the liorawn. The prereetilee AVO Ot two hates .Au or - (limey elm% weighing Aboue tida) peAndo, and orreries it percuttion few, art the meliniee Isbell. Tim latter le about three feet in height, is ateel plated, cm - Mine 60 Retinae of =Unite end when loa4ed weighe about 230 pounda. The charge le ebout fifteen pounde of powder, The tfitela produced by thie nnelinite :Melt are wonder. MI, In an eacepocueut wall et tingle ithell opened it breach 9 by IS feet. A shell ex- ploding open n eaSertlent left it bolo 9 feet deep ani IS felt In diameter:, and atone vaults were cruthed cempletelyt His 'ma Grandfather. It is strange how a luau ern beceme hie own grezulfether. A man once said : married itNvielow w ho lied a daughter. My father vielted our house frequently, tell in love with and married my ateptdaughter. Thue my father became my sonendaw and my step daughter my mother, became the was my father's wife. hly step delight= had also a aon ; he was of coulee my brother and at the same time ray grandchild, fox he was the eon of my daughter. My wife was my grandmother buena° ahe was me, mot; ter's mother. I was mywife's husband and grandchild et the same time, and as the husband of it person's grandmother is his grandfather, I was my own grandfather; and until you each become your own grand- father it will be very profittble for you to have L. D. TAIT, 660 yonge se. grocer and fiour dealer, furnish you everything in his line at the lowest cash prices. telephone 3133. A Bogus Inspiration. James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, has learned that it is not ethessary for him to leave Indianapolis to get inspiration for a poem upon the grandeur of the ma. At Nor- folk, Va., Mr. etiley's sleep was disturbed by tbe break of the waves on the beach near his hotel, and he wrote it poem then and there on the grandeur and the constaney of old ocean. The next morning he discovered that the music of the waves came from the steam radiator in his room. Mr. Riley has made many discoveries but none that will be of more value to the 'Indiana sohool of poets than this experience in old Virginia. Happiness. Desiring happiness is inseparable from human nature—as human nature is. But seeking happiness as an aim in life is unwor- thy of it true and a noble soul. Happiness ame, result otright living is de:likable ; but living with the purpose of having happi- nesstis inconsistent with rightness of being The aim of one's life should be to be right and to do right—happiness or no happiness. To aim at being happy, whether one is right or is wrong, is to fail both of happi- ness and of right. Limited Powers. A mother tees correcting her little boy the other day and appealing to him, 'salted how he would feel if he had a son who didn't do the) and didn't do that and so on. When she had resealed the end of the inquiry he answered " Well, mamma, if I had a little boy eight years old, I don't I'd expect the earth of laTm."'' All for the Best: Madame's entail boy has broken out in a new place. Be had been visiting one of hie schoolmates, ;tad he C0M0 ba.ok.witla a seri- ous face. "Mamma," he said, "1 guess his &II right with that piece of poetry you told me about. " He death all things well.'" "Oh, indeed,' said Madame, "and why 2" "Well, I think he did just the square thing in giving me to you instead of to Mrs. Dan- nep. For I've been over there three hours, and I know I could never stand that wo- man 1"I In Bight 0' Land. Above the heedful summer tea The skies are clear, the winds are bland; And the ship rides on full merrily, In eight o' land. Glad, songs of home Beat en the air From them upon the deolt who stand; And eyes grow dim and wistful there -- IA sight o' laud. Am hour—and friend with friend will meet, Lip cling to lip, and hand chop hand; Oh, how the heart throbs sorely sweet In eight o' land. But la I athwart tbe radiant heavens— (Aka for hopes by mortal planned) The thick clouds of atorm are driven, In sight o' land, Oureed by emblem clerk,. t/aough Gad had awhile melee:tea command, The furious waves cheat too and fro, In eight o' land. Azad that proud ship, which oft bad °reseed The obaugeful sea from strand to strand, With every rout on board, is lint In sight o' land. The morning evince, with joyouo breath— But cold eud llent on the Rand Lie eome whoaw the few of. death. In eight o' land, • A Furious Bloodhound. Two Yout•g women have bad it terrible enr coueter wielt a bloodhouud et Wm-et:ley,, Baltimore County, Marylend. The maimed was owned by Charles Seulebury, and wee quite it pet in teo houscbeld. It had bee, with oue or two exetptioew gentle mut ethity eontrolled. The exceesive heat of the Ian few doe had made it fretful atel ugly. About II o'clock At night, Mire AinoUa Soultbury, aged 18 pent e daughter of the owner of the dog, tittered the garden ha front of the ileum, Aecompenied Ly Wee Jonule Broyan aged 22 yore. While went- iett towerde the helm, the booed roatted Out from the side yard, harking furiously. Mita Seulabury epoke to 1-iro, tab° Jumped, upon her, threw her to the ground, and next attacked her eempainon. TI4e feroolous bent tore the clothieg from thern, and lacerated their lees and arms fearfully. Mina Seuleburede brother, it lad of 14, came to their amliteuee, when the brute tuructl upon hint and pearly tore him into 'pima. A policemen 6stelle' killed the auk Young Seutiabury was !AMU in twenty-two dil (trent places, And QZCA hie arme and legs the fie% was tern to the ham Both of his arum and bugle and hie left thigh were ter- ribly mangled. The welled on hie thigh le particularly deegereue, Mies Simla - bury% right head and arm were horribly lecerated, and were immediately cauterised, Seven leeereted wouude were found to have been reetived by Miss Brown on the left heed and Arm, and it dame:ono weural made by the deede teeth on her left hip has Aimee paralyzed her. MED Saulebury waa bitten mom thee rgo by the tome dog on the right arm. It ia thought that the dog Was eflawted with hydreaboble, and leer la en- tertemed for the three wetime. The physi- cfaue my that the hound waa net mad, but only victoure The neighbor°, however, are of (pinion that it was A taco of natio, and that the Ω aro cercealleg the fact in tin ir effort to thee tbe young WOUlett and the boy Iron it horrible fate. To Start a Balky Horse. Mr. Ja9eph A. Tithe of Worchester, Masa, writes to Our Dumb An id-. as follows I have had to do with mazy balky homes and X have never known the followirg ample expedient to falls provided it was not it caeo where some other person had been tau:Tor- Ing with the will of the horse before I lied taken him in hand. It ia another method of "diverting the home's attention." Whenever it horse driven by myself hes Wised I have got out of my carriage and gore to hie fore foot, lifted it from the ground and struck the shoe a few blows with it atone or with a wrench (width I always carry in my carriage.) X have never failed to start it horse in that very simple way, and I have on amoral occasions had balky horses which have exhausted the patience of all former owners. I have undertaken to start balky Imams, being handled by others, after other methods of starting thezn had fulled. I requese the driver generally to move out of tbe way, that his voice or presence may not be re- cognized by the horse. I then first inform the animal, by patting him and talking to him, that there is a new man at the helm, thereby partly diverting hie attention. As soon as be begins to give me his attention I take up his foot and tap it it few times, and never failed except in one instance to start the horse. And that exceptional case was oee where the home was overloaded and knew it. The very worse method of attempting to start a balky horse, according to my experi- ence and observation, is that of pulling the head of the animal by the bit, and it Is a. method almost universally adapted by the inexperienced users of the horse. The stub- bornness of the horse is only increased by that method. I offer this suggestion in the interests of your oeuse. Dog arms, In Manchuria and Mongolia a young wo- man's wedding portion consists not always of er, many head of cattle,but frequently of so many dogs, which are to form the nucleus of a dog farm, these being reared for the sake of the thick fur with which the dogs in these bitterly cold regions are so excel- lently endowed, as indeed they would used to be seeing that in midwinter the ther- mometer (Fahrenheit) sometimes falls to 25 ° below zero, i. e., 57 ° of frost. This business is as systematically carried on as is that of sheep farming in Australasia the rate of reproduction being ethimated et 10 per annum 4 • so, reckoning the increase by geometricalratio, ib is evident that the bride who receives a dower of it dozen of these very large long-haired dogs is well started in life. But of course the majority of these fine animals are not destined to survive their first year, as they are full grown when about eight months old, and and their fur attains perfection in Winter, so that only those requirbd for oreeding are allowed to see the- Spring. All over the northern part of these vast Mongolian and Manchurian territories these dog farms are scattered, and there are thousands itt vvhioh a few hundred dogs are annually reared for the market, while others merely robe enough to supply robes and mats for home use. There are a good many cases in which one can scarcely affori to think of antece- dents, and certainlythis slaughter of per- haps the handsomest race of doge in the world for the sake of their coats ies peculiar- ly unpleasant. Two car loads of cotton were thipped last week from Kingston to China.