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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-3-14, Page 7-"'.a....OPTF.P.NNIPOS.msessiesseee-ee A WOMAN'S CRIME BY AN EX-DETEOTIVE, `Published by permission of the Owners of the Copyright. (00NoLtoiD.) unAPren LIV,-AT LAST, When the chase is over, the temps Spassed, the billows tranquil, the ship i 'safe harbor, and the sails furled, we de •sert the sleakt to rest and, make ready fo a new voyage. Our story is done ; we have brought tela ,actors in our drama to safe ports -i there be a safe port on this side the view less line that bounds eternity. There i nothing left unsaid that the reader ca .not guess as well. We might tell how, one day, tw 'months after the glad, tidings that hi heiress was found crossed the ocean to S Hillary Messinger, a tall, spare form ap- peared at the door of the Ruthvens an demanded his grandchild, Lady Leila Messinger; and how Francis Ferran still confined to an irivalid's couch, aeted -es mediator between the haughty bu penitent old man and the still mor haughty yoking lady, who would only "b 311.aesinger on her own terms." W • ht tell how Lenore, in spite of he stubborn will, learned first to pity and then to love this old man, who8e prid had wrecked, first his son's life and. the his own ; and how, again and again, he ',republican sentiments and republic,a friendships shocked the old nobleman until his love for her, mad her arguments that were a shrewd mingling of bravely spoken common sense and pretty, wheed- ling nonsense'gained the day, and he ex- tended the hs,n.d of friendship, not o •patronage, to all who had been tela friends of Lady Lenore in her time o -need. Like many an imperious and strong• willed one, Sir Hillary had ourneyed 'through life, bending and swaying and ruling all about hicu, until, at last, he had encountered a pride as obstinate an. a will (albeit, it was the will of a young .girl) stronger than his own. What he could not master he submitted to, and, a Bob Jocelyn expressed it, "put his blue 'blood in his pocket." Bob had delayed his journey as much as he could, because of the uncertainty o life or death, that for a little time hung over Francis Ferrara. Bat justice mast have her dues, and the oapturcd murder ess was an uncomfortable prisoner t have on hand, so at last he sailed away declaring publicly, that is, to Neil, Le- nore and the others, that he went reluc Antly, because of "poor Ferran"; an whispering privately in the oar of Kate Seaton another reason why he was loath to leave Anieriea-a reason that brought blushes to Kate's fair cheek and a glad light to her eyes. At last he sailed., tak- ing the soft -voiced, fair -faced, tigress hearted Elise Schwartz back to England, sand to the doom that awaited. her there. Those were dangerous days that were passed by Neil and Lenore beside th •-eouch of Francis Ferran, dangerous to their peace of mind, and Kate Seaton, looking on, rejoiced, and secretly inform- ed Mrs. Ruthven that another triumph -was in store for republicanism, and an - tether downfall -for Sir Hillary. Mr. Durand, after all, had little room for gloomy refleetions. His wife return- ed to him restored to health, and to find, installed as guests in her house, Neil Bathurst, whom she admired exceeding- ly, and Francis Ferrars, who proved a .gcalsend to her, giving her the opportun- ity that her soul loved, of fussing about a sick room, and of preparing more dainties and delicacies to tempt the ap- petite, than would have sufficed for a dozen sick men. When Sir Riflery <Arne, he, too, after a week's sojourn at ' a hotel, became the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Durand, and Le- nore and Kate were almost constant .guests at their dinner table. ° Mrs. Arteveldt was finally convinced, very much, against her will, that she had 010 just cause to harbor enmity against Lenore. It was a terrible shock to her to learn that Aura, who had been her pet and favorite, in private and public, was an adventuress and doubly -dyed murder- ess; but having convinced her of this -at the expense of a terri.fic strain upon his -own equanimity -Mr. Hale found it com- paratively easy to persuade her that it were best to let Elsie Schwartz go, to be punished in England, and to let the memory of Clarence Arceveldt rest, and not drag to light all his faults and i oibles, that might by unprejudiced ones be call- ed by harsher names still. The reward 'offered for the finding of the murderess was promptly paid.; but Mra. Arteveldt -never renewed the subject of making Neil Bathurst her sole heir. However, her at- tachment to Kate Seaton survived her ;chargin eA losing her, and when, not long after the arrest of Elise Schwartz, she summoned Mr. Hale to draw up her will, :in which she bequeathed the larger por- tion of her wealth to divers charities, she reserved -a handsome sum to be given Kate as a marriage portion, and another handsome sum to revert to this same young lady at her death. Doctor Austin was the most jovial of men in these days; he never tired of tell- ing how he bad rushed in hot haste to Doctor Barten's private asylum to find Lenore gone ; and when, one fine spring day, Lenore, Kath, Neil and Doctor Aus- tin drove out to Dr. Burton's to dine with him, that worthy custodian of the mental- ly afflicted exclaimed in high glee: "Bless my soul! but this is the'jolliest day I have ever experienced. To think that Miss Lee is a lady of rank, and that • she was not insane at all! Bless-my- aoull" To which Doctor Austin responded: "And to think that this young dog," meaning Neil, "tried to clain relation- tltip, and studied my musty old books for three months. And he warned, me to 'beware of detectives, or any other sort of -confidence men; ha ! ha 1 ha !" George Fordham recovered from his 'pistol wound, and together with his gen- tlemanly gang, went to learn some use- ful. and legitimate trade, in safe seclusion. Nina Anmn shared their fate ; but doubtless she will be at large in a few years, at the moat, for she is a handsome woman, and believed to have been led into dark ways through her love for Fordham, For it is only known to Fer- ran and Batharst that she is Mts. Pome- roy, the wife and accomplice of a noto- rious English burglar and Counterfeiter, who was shot while resisting the officers of the lava and that she, heraelf, amend- ed two officers, in making her escape at the time of her husband's death. The opals, and the diamond ring, given her by Aura, or Elise, and. which wet a part of the booty brought by Elise from the old Jew's coffers she retarned to the 1 , which" 'co '. li ectton Reit, took with him to Eug- 11,141. and reetored to the crown. Ilifis. Richards never resumed her old life; after a time, :she confided her story, a sad, but very common one, to Mrs. Durand ; and that good woman, who had Oven a daughter's place to a far greater sinner, bade her remain, acting as house- keeper, as before, and, so, surrounded by DeaafteguiTsitlehmtasn.dRIceirlyardgsraretenfhialiiiths, ilti.,1 theted, and happy. , Down at the mores, the day aft r the stabbing of Franc's Perms, a ta 1, i darkfaced forni lay stretched out; the * head was disfigured and blood-stained, L' and the faee scarce recognizable. No one came to claim it, and it was s • , given a pauper burial; yet this man ' had • d aspire to be a peer of Eng- ' land. So ended, and justly, too, the 3 ' career of the villain Jason Bradwardine. i Mrs. Harris would not have been Mrs. Harris, had she not contrived to discover the whereabouts of Lenore, and to present, herself as an object for favorable con- sideration forthwith. But, not feeling especially indebted to the lady, and not considering, her a desirable acmaintance, ' Lenore speedily settled her claims, l' y be- stowing upon her a generous gift of I. monoy, aad then assuring her that hence- t forth they were strangers. 1 Gentleman Jeff is a gambler still ; but ' he still numbers Lenore, Kate, the three ' detectives, Mr. Durand, Doctor Austin,aa, Mr. Hale, and even Sir Hillary, I his friends, and he still posse fees those ) qualities that are lacking in many men ' who boast of an honorable calling, chiv- ' alry, generosity, high courtesy, and a l profound respeet for all good women. t Mr. Durand is without an heir, bat, it 1 is whispered, that the quondam 'Charles ' Durand, the man who saved his wise from the poisoner, and drove the serpent from. his threshold, will one day inherit his - wealth. But Neil thinks not, cares not, -betterfor this. He is absorbed in a brighter, : dream. And so let 118 leave them. Let lig leave - Kate Seaton looking forward with joyful • anticipation to the return of her lovar, - the gallant Bob. ; Let us leave Francit Ferran coming • back to health and. strength, surronuded • by friends, and rejoicing in the regard of 1 Lenore awl. his brother detectives. l Let us leave Neil and Lenore absorbed 1 in their dream of happiness; a dream that we, knowing Lenore, feel well as - i mired, will not be shattered as was the love dream of her parents, by the hand of a Judas, or the pride of birth. ; The Spain wears on to Summer, the Summer of nature, and the summer of ' their lives, and, sometimes, in these days when Lenore hears, or reads, of the gal. _ lant deeds of brave detectives, she thinks, with a sigh and a smile, of the time when she was " Shadowed by Three." I.TRE END] NOTE. -Mr. Thomas Lynch, the author,•tashill" , ofthethe above story, is now tngaged on another, which, judging from the part written, will prove fully as interesting as this one. We will begin the publication . of his new story in a few weeks. COMIN' THHov THE RYE , ... __ ,.._ ..., ,.....r..., . y ___.; . . , pwzdk,j.fartroimp, whheezellthdotopit.i4lisohioiritee,sionutgetit a plseing squire to extrscate him, 'atty. no ! ' ersedthe'squire, dashiag his towels into the horse'sHides ' lie i ' a w yoa tts You won't be wanted ten till ex Sunday! Mr. Skipworth, who, in his travels across country, has explored every pond, ditch, and brook fortea' miles tound, uta ateorvsearnioexe•Ibl:Thio‘HisaLheao, flitakel"plti'iwekiliiticstt and -hardest riders of the country, eh .11 unkindly. 13Iessed huntiag th'at irwicne! ter takes aim, from the 1,1 a r ' ' us as a his family twice a aaiek • and oh! lo -t , , , ng _ars ryina fi st f Se 0- a re Ptember, when will you come andsr•his feea among the stubble? Westraysberries, whieh, to my afaz'eneysa, sating smell and look • . i.ofdeyeious ;Ilan too taste SAO mo.eh more 2ei t papa's thumb presently dismisses us with our mouths half-filled and we w la aI el past his chair, but °nee, oiLitt •d eelDmil Y a e the shut door, scamper awaylikeaml the wind to vent the' spirits thathayswhat aother heen sotightly bottled up for the last two We all go our different ways- asoillr4. • a ce and Milly to stroll about the gar -den Dolly ani Alan to some mysteriou.s haunt - known. only to themselves, Jack a an I to onr birds and. beasta They are a rascally.lot,..ohnitistMg of the lame, the halt, and blind, and in any eyes but V:gtr s wouldnot be worth a pineh of snuff. e have a dog without a tail, a canary without an eve, a raven without a leg, a crippled rabbit, and various other poor wretches who have been compelled' by the force of circumstances to part with another of their natural appendages. Papa is safe for another two hours. He and Skippy will tell tales.one against the other that would beat Munchausen into fits and make him green with envy; so we let out the rabbits, the parrot and the raven, and they follow behind as we takeknown. our way through the garden and paddock into the orchard. "Don't you. Mei rather patriarchal, Jack," I asked, looking over my shoulder to see that the rabbits are not nibbling at the raven, "like Noah ?" "No, I can.% say I do," says Jack. 'glow he would grin if he could hear you comparing our measley little menagerie to his. Why, he had thousands of 'em!" ' So he had," I say, considering ; "and how they all. managed in the ark 1 can't imagine They went in two -and -two, but, of course they all had families ,• andaif there was only just room at first, they must have found it a tight fit after a bit." "Very," says Jack, absently. "I say, Nell' will Yen get up early to-raorrow 'rimming ?" '1 don't know," I answer, cloubtfally. "Ye:tiiden't want me to go fi.shing, do Y°11 '' On.. saoh occasions I enjoy the proud distmetion of fixing wriggling worms on the hooks, while he has all the honor and glory of the undertaking, and eats the fish afterward. "Noayou little silly, I do not! It's something much better. Can you keep a serf; ?" (holding my arm tight). Of course I can !" I saY, indignantly; and, extra.ordinagy as such an assertion may appear from a female, I can. c; Well," says Jack, deiberately, "if you're not nervims, you know, or squeam- ish, like other girls, I'll take you with me ; but you must not call out or scream or anything of that kind, or we shall be caught, and there will be a shine in the tents of Shem." , "I won't scream," I saia, eagerly ; "and you. know I'm not a bit like a real girl. You always say. that I'M more than a a go h Pia am boy." says Jack, eying me closely, "to see a pig killed." "A pig ?-0 Back -you don't mean it ! They squeak so dreadfully. I'm sure it must hurt them very much !"and !" says Jack, philosophical- 13*• "They are noisy brutes, and always make a fearful row over everything; be- sides, it's a very good thing they do for, if you happened to be fright- ened and. called out, you know -for you ' • ' ' , ' , s ' a a a • • a• .. ' a '.. ..........................-,....., - . . , . .. • , , , 0. • . sap . '.';' t re A 001 - Cei, Y', , - BY TIMEX. afashinattaa What is . , (00trautnitna ) Once in every three months the kip- :worths aro invited to dinner, and there our entertainments end, for no Other Strangers eat of our salt from Jen:waxy to Nee ,b x. How it is that papa has not succeeded in quarreling with the reverend gentleman I cannot imagine, for goodness knows he has tried hard enough. Mr. Skipwokth, however. is one of those dear, affectionate souls who find it absolutely' impassable to quarrel with any one who , has in his . t • it powertobestow eer ath, sub- stantial gifts; and when the is slaps him on. the one cheek, he is Christ- ian enough to Offer him the other, and, is more, look as if he liked it. He is talking to mother now; a stout, sleek, pear-shaped man, whose legs al slays seem to me to have been swallowed up his body, as the lesser rods were by Aaron's. He has a smile that would butter the wh sle neighborhood; a• smile that Jack and I hate, and would wipe off his face with a duster if we• could. Papa is talking with Mrs. Skip- worth. How the broad Sane sun is flood- Uig her purple gown and purpler face! 11.0a hot and kind and uneasy she looks, for her dress is stretched across her tight as a drum! Poor soul, she squints; not harmlessly, wonderingly, inoffensively, but diabolioally ; while one eye appears to be surveying the person she addresses, the other is firmly fixed on some one the other side of the room. Jack and I have worn ourselves out in. speculations as to whether she is literally able to keep her eye on two people at once, or whether she makes up her mind which eye she means to look out of, and. drops that one and takes ap the other at a moment's notice ; in short, shifts the seeing power at will ; whether -but our marvelinas ars not worth the writing do ivn• 'Plain as she is, there is yet s •mething, very unique and interesting about her -she has no children! And she is probably the only paraouts wife on. record who has n Jt half a cloaen, she deserves to be chronicled as an amazing and historical fact. Greatness has its drawbacks, how- ever, and sh i is not satisfied with her childless h.ome ; her husband. does not like it either, and I have seen him glance at our overflowing' numbers with a scarcely concealed bitter envy that sends a pang, 1 am sure, to the womanly heart beating so warmly under the gorgeous satin. yon ler, that would never be on her back . fret were gathered. about her, little voices clamoring for milk and bread and butter. And. now we are walking in to dinner, and Jack taking an unfair advantage of nay proximity to him., trips rae up in such a wise that I take a header into my pastor'a ainple back, and am only saved from igominious disgrace by the fact that the governor is too far ahead to notice the slight scuffle. I wonder why people always feel so much more hungry on Sundays than. any other day'? Is it the sermon, or is it be- cause we have kept our mouths shut so long that we have not taken in 'enough air? Anyvray, we settle to our dinner in earnest, and. there is a long, satisfied silence. I come to the surface first and glance around me, thinking how very lake animals we all look, though we do use knives and forks and stterteralapasas. Mrs. Skipworth looks uneasy; her dress certainly is tighter than it was in.!al the drawing -room. Surely there will be an explosion soon. There is! She lays down her knife and fork, gives a mighty snooze -a loud crack., as of hooks and eyes being divorced, is heard, then she settles herself in her chair and looks re- lieved. It is very strange, but there is no gaping fissure visible in front, therefore there must surely be one behind; yet James,. who is at her back, has no specu- Iation on his eye, and he d.oes not offer to fetch a shawl to hide her ruins, so it can't be there. It is certainly very inys- terious. How delightful it is to sit still and to know that we shall not be called upon to pro -vide conversation ; for, d all the hard tasks the governor sets us, that is the hardest. When we were small children we were ordered to be silent, and bade never to open our lips in his pres- meal. WeI never went to him in any of our childish joys or troubles, he took no interest in us ; and we, who would have loved him if he hat let us c t , isme a have no feeling for him save that of fear. Now, that we are growing up, we are notA afraid of him; but the old restraint lies heavy about us, and upon his bidding us talk, lo ! we find that the fountain is dry, and the harder we pump the less we bring up, and it is the daily puzzle of our lives to find "something to say," or to hit upon some safe subject concerning which we may furnish up a few remarks. We are not afraid. of him; but, nevertheless, it is a degrading and mortifying fact that, whereas, beaind his back, we are bold as lions, before his face we are meek as lambs, while our voices remain obstina- tely in our boots. If our lives depended on it we could not give one sueh whoop in his presence as we utter a. hundred times a day when he is out of ear -shot. The batter and footman hurry hither and thither, executing impromptu slides in their flights across country, that move us to admiration ; but woe betide them if, in their slavish haste, they click one plate against another, or fail to appear at papa's elbow, -vegetable or sauce laden, the very moment he Le ready for a fresh supply 1 -while, as to dishes, if, as soon as one disappears, aattber does not tn. staiatly take its place, his face becomes such a study of scorn and disgust as any living actor might seek in vain to imitate. We all sit round and watch him with a never-ending amazement not uniningled with admiration, and wonder how onADVOCATE earth he does it. His fame seems to be made of India -rubber, end takes every inflection and shade of ill -temper and uncharitableness. I believe if we watch- ed him until doomsday we should see some fresh contortion every day. Ile does not confine himself to hooka, though -he acts. A dish -cover in his hand be - comes a shuttlecock that the. battledore of his wrath may send into the grate, or out of the window, or after James' rapid- ly-van'shing calves; it is impossible to tell where, we can only watch his eye and speculate as to the probable direation it will take. To -day, however, there are no sueh conipliraents flying; and, if Mr. Skips worth do • h • d' es now and t 'en intereept a bolical look intended for Simpkins, what then ? He is used to the go -mantas little ways. And now dessert IS on the table, and papa is telling the reverend gentle - man (who occasionally huxits up a -cob as fat as hints elf) a, pleasing little anendote about a pawn, who same to grief last a . winter in --shire. Taking an awk- sssa"\\at \,\V - ' . . , ,%\ \\,,V,',\.•\;'•k..\.Nt‘%.".1‘ Castoria Children. Narcotic for :Paregoric, It is Pleasant. Millions feverishness. cares Diarrhma teething Castoria and. home% Ionia is , ' Castoria. ‘74:‘ "1/4 \ * \ \ ,`&k-NtsW‘‘.''s ' '* . - •':':;,„' a - '''' ''''''a '• '1 C' 'f''''.' ''' ''''\•••••'''• Y"' ; ' :•*'* 24 - ' : , . . . ,.. . . 'cq‘,". 444. l'•!\':'''L.. 4. .\' . ''',',&:§,;,..•,\,, \`'%, . \\A \\V\\. it Dr., Samuel It substance. Drops, Its of Mothers. Castoria troubles, assimilates giving the Children's . Pitcher's contains neither Soothing guarantee Castoria prevents and Wind. cures constipation the food,. healthy Panacea . for ail- told me of its C. 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Or 'refund all money pat id. 04 $1,000 paid tor any case we take and cannot " , r, I 7 el • -a , t . ;, . "als t ti . ft.a. , Is , aster Varicocele, oture, Unnatural Medd :it- Diseases Years In You have 104 the symptoms .31entolly. practices Are you nervons kiclueys irritab/e; weakeued me.nhood; expression; ambition. yon and life will without written FROM 15 I learned a bad nerve tonics been cured did so., and in married ausi . . tee result eyes sunicem.baeliful "Goldeu Alonetor" cured mo in. blood disease two years, but in the mouth had been cured They,curecl me in aiz YsIkra*" Rev. W. 11. Sparks, mind, body and instfel habit to Method Veatment know nothing tie which had my own eyes yon been guilty? to be a Man? mire you. bus treated Free. -"The cents. Sealed. used without. 0: D. No L Koitmn9 ''' •• Songs We All Know. "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" was an inspiration which came to Mrs. Emma 'Willard, a New York teacher, during her return voyage from Europe. The music was composed by Joseph Philip Knight, the teacher of music in her academy. "The Last Rose of Summer," one of Patti's favorite • songs, was the work of Thomas Moore. The melody is a very ancient Irish tune, formerly known as "The Groves of Blarney." This tune has been found in collections of Irish music at least 200 years old. "The Blue Bells of Scotland" was the work of Annie McVicar, afterwards Mrs."Nonsense Grant, the daughter of a Scottish officer in the British army. The melody was long believed to be Scottish,. but is now being an known to to be of English origin,sqeak, English folk song. "Kathleen Mavourneen" was written by Mrs. Crawford, an Irish lady, whose songs ninety years ago were in high re- pute. The music was by Crouch, an ee_ centric genius, who in his old age and poverty begged his way into a concert given by Titiens, that he might hear his own composition fitly sung. "Old Dog Tray" was in its time one of Foster's most popular songi, 120,900 copies being sold na eighteen months. It was written in. the back room of a com- blued grocery and grog shop in New York, and was immediately sold by the author to a firm of publishers that made o fortune fromsits sale. "Old Folks at Home," eq.ually .well- known as "The Suwanee River," was the most popular song ever known. in America. Over 400,000 - copies were sold during the first five years after its ap- pearance. E. P. Christy, of the o ' • as. Christy's Minstrels, paid $400 for the privilege of having his name printed on the title page of one edition as the author and composer. "Auld Lang Syne" is of uncertain or- igin, there being, several versions of this deservedly popular song. One of the best is byBurns, but only the second and third stanzas are by this poet, the remainder being from the pen of Ramsay. The ERMA is of uncertain antiquity a one version is dated 1716, another is said to date from the sixteenth century. "Massa's an the Cold, Cold. Ground" was considered by Stephen Poster to be the best of all his compositions. He got the idea from a slave of Covington, Ky., whom he heard bewailing the fact that his good old master was dead and that he and several other slaves who had become old and worn out would nowpass into the hands of less kindly master. . "Home, Sweet Home," Payne's song, was originally a number in the opera "Clara the Maid of Milan," a produetiou brought out in 1823. The opera was a failure, and nothing is now known of it save the one song, which became instant- ly popular. Over 100,000 copies were sold in the first year of its .publication, and the sale in one form or another has been constant ever since the first appearance of this beautiful theme. The Melody is a Sicilian. folk -song and was adapted to the words by Paynehimself. . "The Old Oaken Bucket" was written by Woodworth, a printer, of New York and of alniost every other American city. Not far from the printing office where he was employed there was a dram shop which he frequented, and one hot summer Afternoon he strolled in there and -called for brandy. It was poured Out and as he 1 _ held up the glass he remarked to a brother printer, "Thele's nothings like that," “Yes there• 'I' es ruled tNe other. "A , ma. r po drink d 6001 well water from the old oak- en bucket that hangs ix my father's well." Woodworth went bask to the printing °Mee, Sat down at a desk and began to Write, and. in the course of the' afternoon finished the song, The' binge is by Kiallinark, rita the trielody is that Written for "Araby' Daughter." .1 WWI Before Treatment. Emissions, Cleat, Str • Urine. Impotency, and 16 Young or Middle Aged Man. down your system sho-uld be. 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I can heartily ali- cared. them when all else failed.' . science so efficient for the cure of SyeAche and Itethed Treatment of Dre. Kennedy chKergan * nv scores of physicians were cured in a few wee e. I know it to be a fact." 1.10. ALLISON, M. D. your Blood been diseased? Are you weak? Do you. contemplating marriage? Our New Mellott Treat. or No Pay. Consultation Free. for an honest opinion free of charge. charges Monitor" (illustrated). on Diseases of Ken, En - Written Consent. Private, No Medicine On Boxes or Envelopes. Everything List for Home Treatment and Treatment. Free. (1.1, f48 , heihy Street Detroit Mich . • ...; 1 1 ' StattaltaiatelrEWSMaigekl are only a girl -the men would think it was thl pig, not you." "Oh ." 1. say, dubiously, for the idea, that my voice cannot be mistaken from theta:of an expiring pig, has not before occurred to me. _. 1 "The fact is, Nell," says Jack, glace bag sharply at my face, "you're afraid, and I didn't thiek it of you -no, I didn't. However, I'll let you have till to -morrow to think it over; and, if, when I throw a han.dful of gravel up at your window, at five o clock, you are not dressed and ready, I shall know you are a coward." „No. you won't," I say, rebelling against this injustice; "if I don't go it won't be because I am afraid, but because I don't want to see the -the -mess." 'Make up your mind one war or the other," says Jack, carelessly.; ‘if you don't come, I shen't say anything to you asa about it, but I shall know." sa.asas sits We fall into a silence, and sit down under a tree, and t the parrot, who has been gravely walking behind with the rest of the riffraffs hops on to Jack's shoulder and swears fluently. His name is Paul. Pry, and he is a sharp and un- godly bird, who has picked up many wicked sayings but never a good one. Jack brought- him from school, and we __m ____ _or _ear __e are obliged to keep iii dark f f tla governor should overhear his talk, and make his head pay the penalty of his manners. Ile gets very drunk when, he has a chance, and reels about in his cage like a very disreputable, tipsy old man, muttering, "Polly very drunk," in a boosy voice. He is smart, but he never said any - thing hall as clever as that parrot of whieh Jack told me, who attended a show of his brethren, held for the purpose of giving a prize to the owner of the °lever* est bird present He arrived last of all, looked ruund at the collection of feather - ed bipeds, cocked his eye at the company, and ejaculated, "What a d—d lot of parrots !" Alas! for morality, he won the prize, or so says Jack. ' ' (To 1310 CONTINUED.) . In . all Its i - • EXETER -Branches JoB JOB ORK , Executed at PR1NTINC oFFICE 3 ONT. . Tile /'''ee'et V" t, "Ma," said a newspaper man's son, "1 know why editors call themselves we." a a "Why ? "So's the man that doesn't like the art - fele will think that there aro too many people for him to tackle." , RENEW YOUR ' R1 B c p . . . • , , . ' . 0 , on NMI • N. 0 w . 'When Baby was Mole, we gave her Oaetoria, When she 'Wade Child, she tried for Deetoria, syns - gas be 0 et esclung . goest. . .21 "In 1 ' alur' e,ts ,ee. et6a- , ,.„,.,, , When '''e """-'"Kurent 'ielowe -me """sessas 13ertrand-I wonder how I can make is)1 - ' ' th tit t • 1.1 h t ? imprasaion oh. a . os on gir. s hearix? Glaude-Prot nay eXperienco, I advise you to 1195 a stone erusher.