The Exeter Advocate, 1889-2-7, Page 7THE THREAD
OR
OF LIFE
SUNSHINE AND SHADE.
CHAPTER 1,,,--Tive Car MARTIN Camas-
TnOrnit.
As Warren ReIf paused there on the Om
of the carriage oneemond, before he jumped,
he was dimly aware of 4 cturiou4 feet thet
caught hie attention, gateway•
s even at that
special moment of doubt acid danger t many
other doom on the landward side of the
entie stood als9 open and other pauengers
beelde himself, with fear and eurprise de-
pleted visibly. on their .pale faces, were
stepping out, irresolute,. pet al be Waled:
had done, upon the narrow footboard.
Opal they have heard the struggle be
wondered vaguely to bineselt. Could they
have gained some hardy inkling of the
tragic event that had taken plaoe,
Wetly, all unknown as he supresed, in his
own compartment? /lea some oeighbonr-
ing traveller caught faintly the muffled
sounds: of a desperate fight! "Rad he sus
Vetted, an attack eiret some lueoceet Pie
senger 1 Had he signalled the guard to
;top. the train? for it was sleivieg 1;4,
*meg yet more sensibly and eertabely
each moment. More and, more pale face -4
now appeared Utile doors ; and at Frenzh-
men etanding on the footboard of the next
compartment, 4 burly person of mill,
tory appearance, with an enthoritAtive
air, cried aloud in a yoke of quick
command, "Saute; dono I Sent" l" At
the word, Warren leaped. be knew not why,
from the doomed carnage. The Erertaintan
leaped at the ifelf iteUte moment. AU dowo
the train, a dozen or two of pee:augers fol.
lowed nit as If by A concerted order, War,
ren bad PO him In his own mind what Was
really happening, but he knew the train had
elegise:led apeed immensely and that be
had hooded hi4 feet Mellen& On the
rubbly busk with ne more remit, at, rtiv es
he himself could *mime thee, than aaprain-
id
ankle And mine few bleeding wounds on
Lia knee* and elhowa.
Next bate= a. horrible crash reliounde4
through the air, and Wawa and echoed
with loud reverberation ism the rooky
walla of than :sheer preelpicete Tiled, thud
ebad followed elate on tbe crash, as cordage
iter carriage ahOcked fiercely *garnet the
*nem) mil the eompertmentm in front of it.
Then a terrible sight met lib eye'. The
train bed jtialt reanned the lodge of cliff bo-
ra, aed with a wild rotating disappeared
All at once over the steep side into the Sea
below. Nothimr in lira le more awful in
it* neexpeotoduess than A great rallwey
Moident. Before Warren had even time
to knew wbet Wee netting plus: by his
side, it was all oven The teeth had Wien
in one bugle Ma over the edge of the
uul Hugh Messinger, with hie eleven thono.
and pounde Wein his pocket, ions 'hurried
Away without wareing or reprieve into ten
lethoms deep of brealterreneon.
Everybody remembers the main features
of that terrific occident, remove in the his-
tory of French railway ditiostere ea the Cap
Martin ealieetrophe. Shortly after paean
Bequebruue station (wheee the through
tonna do not atop), one of the engine-wbeels
h0410110 lamented by a violent ohm* *plot
hadtplaid ialeaper* end, thuri acting as a
natural broke, brOught the train elmost
to a standettli for a few monde, just op -
paella the very dengercus ledge known
tautly as the Renege escarpment. The
eugine there left the rails with a eerie, and
rimy of the putiongerle Ming umething
tartan was likely to take place, seized the
opportunity, just before the crash, of open.
lug the doers on the landward side, and
leaping from the train while it had reathed
its aloweat rate of motion on the very eve
of ita final digester. Dneiinetant later,the
engine ornellated violently and stopped alto-
gether the other ,carriages telescoped
againsifie; and. the entire train, tbrown off
ite belante with a terrible wrench, toppled
over the sheer precipice at the aide into the
deep water that thirty the foot of the neigh.
boureg mountaine. Thatwas the whole fam-
iliar story as the public: At large came, bit by
bit, to learn it ifterwaras. But for the mo-
ment, the attained andhorritied pm:angora on
the bank of the torrentonlyknew that a fright -
fol accieent had taken place with incredible
rapidity, and tha a the train itself, with
many of their fellovatravellers seated with-
in, had bunk like lead In the twinkaMg of an
eye to the 'bottom of the bay, leaving the
few survivors; there on dry land aghast at
the inexpresisible suddenness and awfulness
of this appalling calamity.
As for Warren Bell, amid the horror of
his absorbing life -and -death struggle with
Hugh Messinger, and the abiding awe of its
terrible consummation, he bad never even
noticed the angry jerking of the loosened
whet% the whir that jarred through the
shaken carriages, the growing escillation
froni side to aide, the evident imminence of
some alarming accident. Sudden as the ca-
tastrophe was to all, to him it was more
sudden and unexpected than to any one.
Till the actual crash itself came, indeed, he
did not realize why the other passengers
were hangiag on so strangely to the marrow
footboard. The whole episode happened in
so short a space of time— thirty seconds
at beat—that he had no opportunity to
collect and recover his scattered senses. He
merely recognized at first in some stunned
and shattered fashion that he was well out
of the fatal train, and that a dozen sufferers
lay stretched in evident pain and danger on
,the IOW bank ot earth beside hint.
For all the paesengers had Lot fared eo
wellan their escape as he hbruelf hoed done.
Many of them had suffered serious hurt in
their mad jump from the open doorway,
alighting on jagged points of broken stone,
or rolling down the sides of the steep ravine
into the dry bed of the winter torrent ,The
least injured turned with one accord to help
and tend their wounded companions. But as
dbr the train itself, it had simply dissappeared.
It watt as though ithadnever been. Scarcely a
sign of itshowedon theunruffied weter. Fall• -
ing sheer la om the edge of thatpreeipitous
crag into tha deep bay, it had sunk like a
• stone at once to the very bottom. 0 aly a
few fragments of broken wreckage appear-
ed here and there floating loose upon the
eurface., Hardly a token remained beside
to show the outer world where -thee whole
long line of hiden caeriegeri had toppled over
bodily into' the profound green depths that
still smiled so sweetly between ,Roquebrune
and ivrentone.
For, a while, distracted by this fresh hor-
ror, Warren could onlrthink ,of the dead
and wounded. Hie own torn and, blood-
stained condition excited no mitre atten-
tion or curiosity now on the part of by-
standera than that of many others
among hiS less fortunate fellow.pasio
engers. Nor did he even reflect with any
serious realisation that Elsie was saved and
his own character practically -vindicated.
The new shook had deadened the sense' and
vividness of the old one. In the face of
so awful and general a calamity as this, his
own private tears and doubts and anxieties
seemed to thank for the moment into abeo.
brie insignificance.
In time, however, it began slowly to
dawn upon ins bewildered mbei that other
trains' might come up item MooaQ0 Or Men.
tone and dash madly among the hreltea
debria of the shattered carriagen Whet -
ever caused their own aecident might cause
accidents also to approaching engines.
Moreover, the woundea tay scattered Omit
on all slave upon the track, some Of 'there In
a condition in which it might indeed be dif4,
cult orevendaneroustoremove them. Some.
body most certainly go forwardtoNfentoneto
ware the chef <1.e gOre aud to fetch up assist -
since. Alter a hurried emestatation with his
near et neighbours Warren took upon him-
selt the task of mesoonger. Ile started off at
01100 04 this needful errant), and plunged
with a heart: now etrangely aroweel into the
deep darkness of the last remaining tunnel.
Ilk /Trained ankle caused him terrible
pain at every step ; but the prig itse14, join-
ed with the Oenselotomese 0'e/effort:mg an
imperative duty, kept his mind from 410'41 -
log too mech for the .moment an bia own
altered yet pallotte ettnetiora As he drag -
god 0110 bat wearily after the other through
tliat long tunnel* his thoughts concentrated
themselves for the thee beingon but one oh
ject,--te xmh Menten and prevent any fur-
ther 44410414 accident.
When he had Arrived At the etetio% bow
mere and despatched help along the line to
the other *offerers from the terrible disaster,
he had time to reflect in poem for a while
upon the oudden phone this great piddle
colemIty bad wrought 44 his own private
The danger of rnieappreherinion
had been removed by the moident as if ICY
magic. Unles, be himself ehose to reveal
the fade, no soul on eorth Aged ever knew a
word of that deepsirsite @tropic with toed
Bush hiessleger in the wrecked railway
oarrlege. Even atippoang the balite were
ultimately dredged up or recovered by oliso
ere, no suspicion could now poleably attach
to his ;Wu conduct, The wound on Bugle's
head would doubtless be attributed to the fall
alone; though the charm of the body being
eecognisable At all After go horrible
oetaatrope would indeed be alight,
oonaldering the way the carriages hsd
doubled up like so much tveotle-work upon
one mother before Soally rellitig. Elide 'W64
sued; that Mach at heat wee now eeured.
She neecl know nothlog. Union he Itlinielf
were over tempted to toll her tbe sheetly
truth, tbit terrible opleade of the death -
:draggle in the doomed tilde :night remain
for ever * mered book to the woman for
whooe sake it had *Blom emoted
Worrell** mind, therefore, was mode up
At once. All things considered, it had be,
come 4 sacred duty for him now to hold ble
tongue for ever and ever about the entire
incidout. No men is bound to ed.:elute
himeelf ; above all, no man is bound to ex,
pose Menet when, innoceat to en unjust.
yet overwhelming ouspicum of murder.
But that was not all. Eleici'e happiness
depended entirely upon hie vigorous
silence. To tell the wheie truth, even
to her, would be to expose her shrink.
ing slut delicate nature to a painful ihieck,
as profound as it was teeneccesary, and as
lestang as it was cruel. The more he
thought upon it, the more plain and °leer
did his duty ;shine forth before him. Chance
had aupplied him with a strange inestut of
honoureate escape from what had seemed
at firet sight an healable dilemma. It
would he folly and worse, undo; his present
conditions, for him to refuse to profit by Its
unoonscious auggeetion.
Yet more be iunat decide at once without
delay upon his line of action. News of the
oats:atropin would be telegraphed, of coterie,
immediately to Eoglalid. Male would most
likely lean the ehole awful episode thet
vary evening at her hotel in London
be could hear the very erica of the
street bops ringing in his ears:
"Speatul Edition. Appalling Railway
Accident on the Rivisyer 1 Great Loss of
Life 1 A Train Precipitated into the Medi-
terranean 1If not, ate woeld, at anyrate
read the alarming news in an t golay of terror
In the morning papers. She :knew Warren
birneelf was returning to San Remo by thee
very train. She did not know that Hugh
was likely to be one of his fellow -passengers.
She must not hear of the accident for the
first Ulna from the columns of the 2anzes or
the Pall Man Gazette. He must telegraph
over at erica and relieve beforehand her na-
tural anxietyfor her future husbanan safety,
But Hugh's name and fate need not be men-
tioned, at !antler the present; he could re-
serve that revelition for a more convenient
season. To publish it, indeed, would be in
part to incriminate himself, or at least to
armee turjust suspicion.
He drove to thetelegraph office, worn out
as he was with pain and excitement, and
despatched a hasty message that moment to
Elate: "There has been a terrible accident
to the train near Mentone, but I am not
hurt, at least to speak of—only a few slight
sprains and braises. Particulars in papers
Afeeationately, WATISEN." And then he
drove back to the scene of the catastrophe,
tt was a week before all the bodies .were
dredged up by relays of divers from the
wreck of that illefated and submerged train.
laugh Massinger's was otte of the last to, be
recovered. It was found, minus a large pert
of the clothing, which the sea had
torn off. The eleven thousand pounds in
French banknotes never turned" up
at all again. His money indeed hedper.
idle(' with him. •
They buried all that remained of that
volcanic life on the sweet and -laughing hill-
side at Mentone. A'plain marble • cross
marks the spot where he ,rests. On the
plinth estand graven those prophetic lions
froirathe plaintive poem to A Lzfe's Phil
osophy:
Here, by the heaven with the hoary trees, '
• 0 lurid -poet's heart, lie still :
No longer strive amid tempestuous seas
To curb wild *eters to thy wayward will.
Above thy grave •
Wan olives wave,
And oleanders oourt deep-ladon bees.
That nought of fulfilmene might be want -
int; to his prayer, Warren Relf with his own
hand planted a blushing oleander above the
mound where that fiery poet's heart: lay still
for ever. He had nothing but pity in his
soul for Hugh's wasted powers. A splendid
life, marred in the making by its ,own' fed -
strong folly. And Winifred, who loved Mae
and whose heart he broke, lay silent in the
self -same grave beside him.
CHAPTER LI, --Neae or Km WANTED.
• The recovery of Hugh's body from the
shattered train gave Warren Rolf one need-
ful grain of internal comtort. He identified
that pale and wounded corpse with rev-
erent care, and waited in solemn suspense
and unspoken anxiety for the result of the
customary post-mortem examination. The
doctors' report reassured his soul.' Death
had resulted, se the medical evidence eon- a
elusively proved, pot from the violent ine
juries observed on the skull, and apperently
produced, they said, by a blow spinet
the carriage door, but, from uplayxiatiola
due to drowning. Hugh west *till alive,
UW44 when the train, went over 1 Ilk heart
:4111 beat and his breath still mime au cl went
feebly till tbe actual Moment: of tbe Onel
cataatrophe. le was the acoident, not War-
ren's bane, that: killed him. Innocent as
• Warren knew himself to bahewee geed to
leern from this authoritative soorse that
even uninteetionally he had not made him,
selffiugh Maesinger accidental execution -
Bat in any ome they must break the news
gently to Elsie, Worrerali Preeeoce we
pealed, in the eolith tor the time being, to
400 •after Winifrecin f meant and other
necessary domestie arrangements, So Edit:
word ever to England on the very first
day after the feet of Rugli's distaPPean
ane in the missing train had become gener-
ally known to the little woeld of Sao, Remo,
to gotten the shock fer her evith eisterly
tendernese. By a plee,e et rare geed fortune,
innunlerable grounds of action for impowible
claimants on either side of the two
But unhappily for the exercise of legal
Acumen, the case as it 'stood was all most
horribly Ptak selling., Mesh MassInger,
Ellisgiclueciree4headvinwifginhe. eisitaintedrellert4gregeinfrIme
drat place to Eugh ela,seinger himulf, in
taPegredered. inAutedottellairasaiumustgegraldiums/lie nheaxvt.,
place to flagh, Matednger'e nearest repro-
aentative. Wrote, there URI rem/bawl ttie
leaerkble and exciting ruearch for the
uiliti7tlihrrhieliatt-wle;WbUtot Sheag v ue ani nut °Pehunt-
ingtb
Io
Reesman is as nothing in the eyea ot a keen
sportsman cemperea with the Homeric joy
of battle inVelYed tlee eat of setting the
repreeenteeivea of two rival and uncertain
claim to fight itout, teethe:ad nail together,
on the free and open arena of the 00ett
of Probote. It ism -with a /dab of regret,
therefore, that the family attorney, good
easy Ulan drew up the adVertiseMentt Which
closed for ever hi vela hope* of ti dieputed,
eroomelon between the moribund homes or
Haigh Messinger's name was not meotwoed Messinger and tdeyeey„and confined his
at all in the eaelier telegrams, even after „PoeuPYI,_ ltetlee of lucrative titled= to expleit,
was fairly well known at Alentone ana leg elle eueuee cf Messinger alone, for big OW11
8M4Pq°42:44° Csras1QtRtheavberyttlbwie 17'kglYinownirb iewr'iwtren4 134€74 enwaal°Y4Q4111;wane t4-474 weeke after
had perished in One of the 14 ewer:ages- .1„141,qh tragic death that Effie
TotettcleReopatuhtehaeaeountliteema4epokelinatevalygome tievreanot90! c'"aeiu`mumucT441, thctlo tm°01.4°b4etne.744 riainsoth: tfa.%
eel:lobed in the following Foam and
the Riviera, who had ell but succeeded, to
breaking the bank that day at Monte Cerlo, Paerfeal lalaganee
and was returning to San ROM, elated by "Hugh Messinger, Fequire, de:eased, tate
immeso, with eleven thousand pomade of of Whitestmetti Hall, in the county of
wieninga in hie pocket."._Jt was not in the Suffelk.-- Aity person or perasee lowing
leaet likely that Btagt would dreent ofreoeg, to repreeent the hobleat-low And mit
eisieg her zewly bereavedneueln louder thio of kin of the above -mond gentleman
highly improbable and generalized descrip, who died at Menton. itt VIA .1)4.,
k,104,Zew4r4841;1174Wdohwen:n1WoniPiwirelte:rthit yeoWtlemn. PaX*44Thenitsplbtlte: oAulPoe4raegbo4ratitttr day
of his cold And oteleela cruelty, At the Pennen of November lout nut) are hereby reqeegt,
at San Remo. Edie would be the Unit to edto apply irereedistelY to Alfred Bober -
hag her the eoeuge and terrible ewe of don, EtqWhiteetrand, Suffolk, eoliciterto
Degree oedden dcath, Warren himself the mid Bugle Monk:ger.°
stopped behind At leleotem, aa in duty Eille mentioned the matter At *nee to
bound, to identify the body for:redly At the Warren, whe hod male over from France
lopl toiletry. as *con m ne bed completed the execessiery
Ile had arkether reason, too, for wislibeg to eeztelle„woneule at 8.4$2 RVP40 und Mendeile*
brook the flows to mole throughBove mitten heard it alt with extreme
di-
inonth rather than personelly, For Edie He couldn't bout oreo ro
knew nothing, of course,of thedeadly O'ludo to the fact in epooking to Elsie.
tag-
o/a lo the, doomed too,* oi that beed,to, Directly or indireotly, he ;meld never la -
Nand battle for lite and Newer . and alto bezh t4e "tele el the man whose 104 be
uuum therefor* witk truth .ut;104 the had beeo zo'Nearly imtritmeetAl hi abortion,
whole story exact- es Warren wiolted ink • A1411 11'44 was 400n1 as he *Ted,
F.leie find to learo it. For her, there wax le' bee3me ,hbwtf, he would ut000terilt
nothing more to tell then, thAt Rue*, with .,,',"Pute 41 W44 tvvor bogAt ado nilStit
incredible imity and brotal wept or teethe from inheriting the zelleo of Ilegio
geir'a itiqAM Whitattrad property.
hod gone over to biotite Cexle to genibte
opeoly at the public: toblee, on the very.dAy P.04"" be sold, 4' Tho estate wall
while his pear young wife, killedinole by loch p tho price of blood. Be mended that
by bio eettleol neglect, lay dead in her lonely peer 1ktie woman for nothing else bet for
lodging At SAM Remo that he bad vaunted tiee *like of Webitcuttan. killed, fkae by
a couple of evening later with bis ill-gotten olow dogroui turougu bit no/Pout 4.12a 041.4446.
pine upon the fated train and that, foiling It be Wel: maned bee, be would never
over luto the mei with the cerriaree from have been muter of thAt wretched ;
which Waxen juot barely cocopird with deg if he hadn't morried her, he would have had
lieWas dreamed WWI plena in one of the nothieg of hie own to leave to Elsie. I
shattered and weaken complartnierate. That ohn't touch it, and I won't touch it. So
wee all : and that was euough in all con- the* fiet, Edie. Ifs the Ante° of blood.
40101100. What wad to burden BlitiO'4 gentle Let it, too, perish with hint."
seal any further with the more Moque con. "But oughtn't you at least to mention it
oomitente of that unspeakeldo imulleilY to Etelor Edie *liked with her plain
Biala btre the news with far greeter for. straightforward English. common 44440.
thud° than Edie inter moat sanguine mood "ltai her business more, than it'd yours, yen
abeio helm expected. wieirreete deem bed ktow, Warren. Onghttil you at leeet to
sunk an deep into the fibres of her .soul theh Dreher the optiou of accepting or refusing
Unita merited to elicit her far loss by Dom- Iter OWo property !—lta very kind of you,
Parbon. She had learnt to know him now of come, to decide beforehaud so rovalierly.
In ell hie beeenese, It WAS the recognition —Perhape, you see when she learns she's MI
of the mane own inneut where that bad lteieroeesio,nenkolahermay c
ayle talked to trimester her
mat her demote "Let WI never speak of him airtt
again, dear Woven," she wrote to her be- Wrung...mile& Thet was a point of
toothed, a few days later. Let airn be to view that belt never occurred to him. Tour
no as though be had never *Ate& Lot his mete lover makes so ware of hiaprey ; he
1110740 be not ao much as mentioned between hardly Allows la ids Own roind the possibility
toe It palm and grieves me ten thousand of rejection. Butetill ho prvaricated. "1
times more, Warren, to think that for :mon wouldn't utilizer about emit yet at least,"
meede seke rie he was, I ehould tea long be anewered hasitatiegly. "We don't knoW,
have refused to accept the love of anch after all, that Eista's really the heir-aalaw
a man AS I knew you to be.'" 'at all, if It comes to that. Let's wait and
Those are the hardest words a woman oan see. Perhapa 10M0 other claimant may turn
utter. To unsay their levels to women un. up for the property."
endurable. But Elsie 110 longer ehrauk frompereapae Eoti.h
eie reeng. her
unsaying ih Shame and retnoree for her oracular Brevity " And perheps not.
stattered ideal posseesed her aoul. She knew Thereat nothing • on earth more elastic:
ahe had dorm tize true num wrong by so long in its own way than a good perhaps
rejecting him for the sake of the false one. Indieeruliber bandit are jut mere child";
At sual-girt Whiteatrand, meanwhile, all play to ite—Suppose •then we pin it do
was turmoil and confusion. The awe of the ee •nroduoinaib of 1.1
young wn
Squire's. •tragic death,followhar so close a ea ' ee a " eX*
hot y where we stan , and say that if the
at the heel of his frail little wifeneepread
egate um' 1 otherwise claimed within six
horror and eurprise through the whole cam- weeks: we'll break it to Elsie, and allow he
munitye The vioer's wife was all agog with to de
excitement. The reticule tretablect on her goide far Bernell in the matter 1" r
peatitating wrist aa she went the round of her -Bat how shall we know whether it's
neighbours with the surprising jaw/agorae. clamed or not?" Warren asked dubiouely.
Nobody knew what might happen next, now "My dear, there exiata in this realm of
the last; of the Mee/seem wasdead and gone, England a useful in.stituti'on known to
mile to seaward, and the very river was turn.
halt a science aa a Plana post, by means of which
a letter may be safely anainexpensivela can
while the sandbanks were spreading
ed from its course by encreaohinghummooks
veyed even to so remote and undiatinematled
intoanew-outchannel. Themortgagees, tote a personage ad Alfred Hebendan, Esquire,
sure, were safe with their money. Not eolleitor to the deceased, Whitestrand, Srd-
only WM the property now worth on a folk.—I propose, in fact, to write and ask
computation almost as much as it had ever
been, but 'Winifred's life had been heavily Warren groaned. It was an awkward fix.
insured, and the late Mr. Massinger's estate, He whiledhe otand shirk the whole horrid
the family attorney remarked with it 'cheer business. To be saddled against your will
ful smile, was far more than solvent—in fact with it landed estate that you don't want is a
it would prove a capital inheritance for Predicament that seldom disturbs a modes
some person or persons unknown, to the eentlerarads peace of mind anywhere. Bit
heirreablaw and nexteakin of the pone:eon he saw no possible way oue of the odd
But good business lay in store, no doubt, for dilemma. Edie was right, after all, no doubt.
the 'profession still. Deceased had pro Ably As yet, at least, he had no authority to an -
died intestate. Endless questions would swer in any way for Elsie's wishea. If she
thus be opened out in delicious vistas, be. wanted ,Whitestrand, it was hers to take or
fore the entranced legal vision. The mar. reject us she wished, and hers only. Still,
riage being subeeciaent to the late Mar- he salved his conscience with the consolatory
ried Woman's Property Act, Mrs Mais. idea that it was not actually compulsory
;singer's, will, if any, must be found upon him to show Elsie any legal silver -
and proved. The next of kin and tisement, inquiry, or suggestion which
heireetlaw must be -hunted up. • Pro. might happen to emanate from the Utica
traoted ligitation • would, probatly ensue; tors to, the estate of the late Hugh Mas -
rewards would be offered for certificates of singer. So. far se he had any official. cog -
birth ; .r. cords of impossible marriages nieance of the facts, indeed, the heirs, ex -
would be freely advertised for, with tempt. touters, and assigns of the deceased had
ing suggestions of pecuniary recompense to nothing on earth to do in any way with
the tacky discoverer. Researoh would be EISiO,Challoner, of San Remo, Italy. Second
stimulated in parish clerks ; ofaievits would chusinhood is at best a very vague and un-
besworn te with charming rookies:mess; rival certain form of relationship. ' He decided,
,claimants would commit unblushing alter; therefore, not without some internal qualms,
native perjuries on their own account, with, to accept...Micas suggested compromise for
frank disregard of common probability. it the present, and to wait: patiently for the.
would rain fees. The estate would' dissolve matter in hand to settle itself by spootaneous
itself bodily by slow degreosan a ctuagridre arrangement.
of expenses. And alefor the benefit of the But Alfred eleberden, Esquire, solicitor
good attorneys! The family lawyer, in the to the deceased, acted otherwise. He had
obarauter of atnae—for this occasion oily, failed to draw any satisfactory communion. -
and without prejudice—would hold out his tions in answer to his advertisement save
hands to catch the golden shewer. A! one from a bogus firm of so called Property
learned profession would no doubt profit in Agents, and one from a third-rate pawn -
the end to a distinct amount by ilia late' broker in the Borough Read whose wife's
Mr. Maesinger's touching diereeard of testa.' aunt had once married a broken-down 'rail-
meatary, provision for his unknown , re• way porter of the name of Messenger from
latons.Weem inShropshire'and who considered
• Alail for the prospeete of the learned himself,' accordingly, the obviou repreeenta-
gehtleinen !, The question. of inheritance Give and heir-at-law of the late Hugh Mass -
proved itself in the end far easier and ' less eager of the Titter Bar, and of Whiteside Hall,.
complex than the .family attorney in his in Snftolk, Esquire, deceaged evithotte issue.
professional zeal bad at first anticipated. Neither of these applications, howevet, prey -
Everything unravelled itself with disgust- hag of ,suffieientimportance to engage the, at-
ing siniplicity. The estate might 'almost as tentionof Mr. Alfred Huberden's legal mind,
well have been unuerimbered. The late that estate gentleman proceeded on his
Mrs.- Messinger • had left no will, and n the own account to investigate the genealogy and
property had therefore devolvecl direct by other antecedents of Hugh llaseinger, with a
common law upon. her surviving 'husband: single eye to the dieovery of the missing in -
This was tiw,kward. If. only now, any grain heater of the estate, envisaged as & person
ot doubt had existed in any way as to the ftonawhom natural gratitudewould probably
fact that the late Mrs. Messinger had pre- wring it substautitil eolatieno to the good
deceased her unfortunate husband, legal attorney who had aroved his title. And the
eumen might- doubtless have suggested result of his iefonriee into the Messinger
PggliPee took twill* above at but, *Week n4f3ONA1jE,
cie two latter, in woad telyertisement of a
mere exact sort. which Edie Reit, that dile.
gent and earefulstudentof the wend column,
the M081; interesting portion of tee whole
oewapaper to Eve's likeminded 44t let
IsenVered enel Pondered over One foggy
morning in the bliseful repose of 128 Bleb,
chingley Bled, South Eenaington-
'Ceeteretaralee: Heir-at-law and Next of
Kin Wanted. Eetote of Hugh Meatinger,
Eiquire, deoesieed, inteatate.ealf this should
Meet the eye of E'sie, daughter of the late,
Rev. IL Challoner, and Eleanor dene his
wife, formerly Eleanor Jane Mustager, of
Chudleigh, Devonthire, she is requested to
Pitt hereelf Int° comMunmation with Alfred
Heberden, Eq, Whitestrand, autfolk,
when she may hear of something greatly to
her advantage.'
Edie took thepaper up at melee Warren
'For " mey ' read she said point-
edly. 'Lawyere don't eaavertise unless they
know. I alway undenitooe Mr. Measinger
had no living relations exoept Elsio. Thai
Vestion has reached boiling -point now.
You'll have to epeok to her after that about
the matter."
(To Be wormier:0
11100704 or laugo.
.0T -S.01
The tete Emperor William 18 credited with
having; saved $12,00,000 out of his public
Allowance.
Switzerland geta along plemaetly with 4
prooldent who irt m400 with the modest
Wary of ;SAO a year.
Omer IL or Sweden and NOrWay rube
along comfortably on fo575,023 thet hie eub.
jecto graeolifily pay him,
The emit of Rum% orediteri with emote-
ing $12,200,000 arid upward from hie do,
mem ; but upward le art uoliroitod farm.
Ttie eovere4n of the dusky sons of Indy
sunuaity takes 0.070.000 !Mt Of the peeitete
of bits impoverished oubjeota for the rude
ticheot of hiemelf and kio.
The king of Pilled (orolicror efe‘ernmuy)
is net bealy " fixed." The kiregdona of
Paleele peye him,.a1,235,000, and bookies
this be lam greet private donamee.
The rater 01 Bavaria ta Allowed only
$1.397,040 a year, and Otit of this sum he
bee to PuT tor clothes mad provisione for hb
lewdly and to keep them in pocket raintey.
klog of Sortie, ball bud a pretby
tough time in goventing bit petty kingdom
of lose than 2_900,000. He and lala kW out
the little lhpited monmeby ;240,000.
The Utoperor Fonda JoReplx of Merle
mey be a wise eud relueble 'kipper to Iowa
on board tile raelp of Cato, but with 075,-
000 year be is adequately recompented.
The king of the Belgian* tem juot about as
much AA he (au do to keep hiniselt mipplied
with pie 444 omelet:Bowery on the $060.000
year that Ida grateful eubjecta turn over
to bine.
The Asters:
The Now 'kork aorreeponcient of 4 Phila.
cielpttlie peper gives the following Account of
two yonug Atonic= 014414008 A. day or
two ago 1 was in Delmoniefo'a when the
youngest of the Aston: entered and took
hie luneheou. Ele solerrinity and Bodeen of
mien was atriltiog. Hokept his eyes fixeit
religiouely on the ground as he wilked
across the onto, selected a distant end se-
cluded table, turned his beck upon the
poonle and eta with in air of gentle and
mournful solf-abuogation. Be is the heir of
e hundred or two of milliona.and 18 probably
the most cicairable parti in New York. No
nue seemed to know him, rind the waiter
who attended Mills matte was quite core -
less and ipdifferent. Had he known that it
was the heir of the Astons that he was WPit•
Ing upon he would probably bevel- jumped
five fent in the air with eternity. • Beton"
this particular Astor had finiehed hia huach.
eon his cousin, 'William Waldorf Astor, also
drifted in and sat clown near the dooi. His
face had the same preternaturally arrive and
solemn look, I do not suppose that the Ex -
Minister of Italy la more than thirty five or
thirty-six yeera of ago, and he hes a mag.
nificent physique, but the general effect
drew a hasty look at his 'face is that of it
man who hu bed a stormy life and is nean
ing his forty-eighth or forty-ninth year. He,
too, was exceedingly airople in the matter of
fare. He drank a cup pf tea with bis
laneheen, and wben be had finished, he took
in old book from.the pocket of his maw coat
and sat reading it quietly for half an hour.
Than he paid hie till, got tip and 'drifted
out. Neither of the two Asters knew of the
other's presence. Probably the two man
tegether will eventually represent 8200.000,-
000. I followed Mr. Astor out of the place,
and as we atopped at the corner to allow a
cer to pass, he stepped hastily past me and
made a profound bovr to a man apneas Abe
street. The inan notified in retutn. It was
a greeting between father and son, but it
might have been the salutation of one Am-
bassadNr to another. The portly form of
the elder Astor was clad in black. His face
was as heavily seamed as that of a tragedian,
and he walked with a slow and ponderous
tread. There was a heavy band'of °rape on
his hat. He passed mournfully along the
street and strode alowly up towards his
house at Fifth avenue and Thirty-third
street. There are very few families in the
world whose wealth is more substantial,
solid and areple than that of the Asters and
yet I do not think thet I have ever seen
tbree men who looked more hopelessly and
utterly unhappy than the trio of millionaires
that day. It seemed to show with a good
deal of force that wealth does not always
carry happiness with it. '
A aertain learned Judge, when attempt-
ing to be olear, is at timesrather perplexing.
"My good woman," he is reported to have
said to a witness," you must give an answer
in the fewest possible words of which you
are capable, to the plain and simple question
whether, when you were maiming the street,
with the baby on ymir arm,and the omnibus
was coming down on the right: side and the
cab on the left side, and the brougham was
trying to pass the oinnibue, •you sew the
plaintiff between the brougham and the cab,
or between the omnibus and the cab, • 'or
whether and when you saw him at all, and
whether ernotmear the brougham, cab, and
omnibus, or either, or any am°, and which
of them respectively—or how was it 1"
Street Oars in Damascus.
An Imperiala Arian had, 18 18 reported, been
granted for the construction of a line of tram-
ways Damascus. Nor is this oonbession
to Westernbivilization the only sign that the
far-femed city of Damascus is on the high
road to becoming modernized. Gas also is
to be intiodued inth the city, , and the in-
habitants are eageily awaiting the promised
innovations, which will, they believe, not
only add to their own comfort, lnit will
materially increase the value of property
within the city boundaries. The latest esti-
Mate of the populations of Datnasene places
it at 150,000. --(London Time '
Clara Decker Young, one, of the zumerous
widows of the tits Brigham Young, died At
Salt Like City eome ten days aro. She wee
sealed to the late Ptophet in 184$ at Nieuwe,
111., geed W413 0120 of the three pioaeer wornme
of the Colt Pilgrimages She OM 844r Slat
L*4 V4ASY 04 July 240 1847.
"We arepleased tonere'," says the "Chimp
Mail,". "that the Ewl of Oeslow hae feet
the job of governor of New Zealand. The
nobte lord is chiefly remembered in this men -
try by the fact thee _while in Chicago witia
the Villord party he bee& & snit of under-
clothing and had them caved. te Henry
Villard.
Harry McCarthy, the gather of the" Bon -
ale Bate Floe one of the rroae Popubir
Amelia southern war sone& died reeently
California, The *`'BgnPiek Bloe Fier was
the oecasime during General Beepooln
Butler's rule in New • Oelernie of lefacting
piiniahlnertt On a good many of the dame,
of the 9reSeut City.
Senator Blair, of New Ilampekke, Wale
ought without an umbrella by a ;everts rain -
!tom in Washington the other daye Kb
took refuge from the; eliower in the reieresit
friendly decewey; People paaalng were
aroused. to ehlerVe thee the "Prohibition or
death" Senator was Oek114g AtlaterfrOM one
of the meet notorious rum shops be the Cap,
ital.
Pierre Lorillard, tam Wealthy New York
tobacco king, has inaetetel a Rutin easible,
which is new following his yoeht throtigle
likorthera wetera. A mach eed meek berm
beside; horse* for ertee-muntry riding and *
peck of bound,are amoommodated On thla
TAN and whenthe owner phi tired of soil-
ing he Anchors his ;tette, MOMAM his horse
Auti *way be pee.
A earrospoudeet.ot the Booton Tramoript
aeYa theft O4re Tyler, rhe herobie of the
" Mary WI 4 little iamb ROOMic IF at pmeo
gut 11Vple 4 kw miles 04414A lia494 AA4 Is
ver vie ety yeara old. The versee were
written en Sterling, hime., by John Roul,
stoue, 4 yQUAg 4144 then prep niug for eel-
legeH chanced to tie vhdriog the ached
when the lamb episode incurred.
Priamea tioteue, third child of the Count
el Perla, is likely to be married. to Grana.
Duke Alexis, of Ruesia. She was bora in.
Englaod seireeteeu Team Agee and bee*
very street fern; and a lovely "
eereplexIoe. She le tall, beide bereelf well
and dream very simply, hut looks more
fike an uneflected school girl el fifteen than
a young woman eppreeeheog etaitteetr.
Teweic Puha. the Khedive of Egypt, pee.
seam matey admirable' qualitiete Re !tea
but one wife and no harem, suad bis sererity
ef life awl manners almost efeendalku bis
oourt, Towfik delights not in splendor and
kevageeme and his oetabliebroeut it upon
the most modest mein Ilie chief diversion
Li to pay privete VISit4 to Relwau and other
Owes le the nelabliorhoodef Cairo, and after
ahafferieg for spate time aver the price of a,
pig or a sheep, to astonish the traders; by
dlsoloeing to them tie rank.
An incident in the Woof 11. 0. Roaghton,
the well-known Beetoo publiebor, whou bee
was eerviogema appeeneiceship In 4 Burling.,
ton printing-lifice is worth relating. One
day a pale, *lire men, who wao °travelling
through the country trying to pereunde peo-
ple to adopta reforrri spelling, woe into tho
office. "My lad," he said to the young
ap retitle°, when you ruie these words
apelt them as hero; theater, oenter," etc.
It WM 4 little thing searoely thought of air
the time. But the vele man was NOaltt
Webster, and the youthfal apprentice was
to become the head of an utablIshment
which should print them:mule of tons of tho
meat " Websteres Ucebridgedaa
A Domeetic Homily.
In 1800 Either Lloyd, the daughter of a
wealthy lend -owner in the weatern pare of
Virginia, war sent North for le year or two
o14' finishing" at a fashionable retool. When
she returned alte amid play on the guitar
and sing belled° very sweetly ; could parse
In " Paradirse Lost," bound the chief coun-
tries of Europe, IIi1:00 the plinets, and she
was an expert in wax and fillagree work.
She married after three yearn, and her
know/edge of domestic affeirs was each that
she at once took charge of a large household
of white and black servants, whom she gov-
erned with skill and tact.
The establishment was almost complete
within itself. Weaving, srpinning, tailoring
the making up of every kind of garment,
the curing of meat, dairy work, the preser-
vation of every kind of food, were carried
on under her eye. She was an expere nurse,
and capable of prescribing for children and
slaves in simple ailments. Without "cul-
ture,"as it is known now, her manners were
fine, stately, yet gracious. They were those
natural to a woman of kindly feeling who
has long had the habit of authority.
Her granddaughter, another Esther, born
fifty years later, come home from college
famihat with countless facts and lines of
thought of which the first Esther never
heard. The younger woman was skilled in
the higher mathematics and in four lan-
guages. But her household, when she mar
-
toed, was left in the care of ill -trained, paid
servants. She did not know how the food
which they spoiled should be cooked. When
her child was 311, she could not spread a
plaeter or fasten a bandage, but was forced '
to leave him entirely to the care of a nurse.
Her clothing was •boughe ready-made ;-
nothing in her home bore evidence of her
skr11, taste or care. With all her clever.
nese and knowledge, shale:Jima some ability,
some skill, which gave to the older woman a
definite place and power in her generation.
In how matey farnilies would these true
pictures find a place In the days of our
grandmothers education for women was
limited. They found an outlet for their in-
telligence and energy in household affairs.
When the chances of education were given
to ehe women of the next generation, they
slighted the humble domestic arts as menial
•and unintellectual. ,
Within the last few years the most
thoughtful women are turning back to them
agam. They insist that the training of their
, daughters shall make them familiar with
the mak room as well as the laboratory, and
• teach them to use kitchen utensils at least
as skillfully as the brush and palette. In
thepublic schools of some of our largest
cities sewing and cooking are taught to the
girls, and in eeveral of the higher class of
private achools courses innursing are given.
We would not deter any young girl from
taking the highest course open to her in
-classical, scientific or artistic edocation she
may some time find use for such knowledge.
But every woman some time in her life re-
quires a knowledge of hente-keeping and
the dare of the sick. While She seeks the
kind of education open to both her and her
brother, let her not despise that necessary
to her as a woman only.
Last year the number of recruits raised
in Sootland for the BrhistaArmy was 3,049,
Az : Glenoorse, 786 Ayr, 125e Berwick,
124; Hamilton, 866; Perth 278 Fort
George, 102; Aberdeen, 319; Inverness, 83
Stirling, 234 ; and Edinbeegh, 132,