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The Exeter Times, 1885-10-1, Page 6"Pr Thy Duty. net MI the good thou doomto men a gist be, not a debt ; Anti he win more remember thee The more thou dost helot. Do it se one who know', it not, But rather bee a eine. Thet soar by year brings forth it grgpee. .end. carenot for the wipe: A horse when he be run hie race, A deg. alma traekecIthe geme. A bee when it hee heney made— Do ma it deeds proclaim. Be silent then, me like the Mile, iering forth what is in the; This thy duty to be goon one Maas to boner the. A. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY, .By the Author of "TILE Feowen Gun.," "LiMiLY LADY I.X.NILUE;" &e, Sm. CHAPTER III.—(Ceeelsorm ) _ It was not a very ardent wooing, but to the girl wile loved bim no seseleiou as to the re,OtiVO which prompted the proposal ever urre to her, no doubt as to the genuinenesa is Attachment shook her faith in him ; 0 end loyal herself, she mistook the feed ring of the haw metal for pure gold, She aiditot see the erpremi ion n leis eyes, for her own were downcaan and a warmer tint Wee tumid had hpreael over her clear alive oheeirm It was plat the bit of coloring need- ed, sold Captain Braithwaite thought that he itied never seen his cousea look so nearly bosntiful; and with the thought came a Orange feeleg of emnpunction. Doily Jar - vie was not the wily one to whem be was eetehig unfairly. Ilia nett worde however, rive no ilign ot wavering ill Ide purpose. i "You well not keep me in ausomme, Ger. Idiom" be urged eegerly, tie she did not "you will give me my answer now ,1 ' ea the dark luminous eyes were rabsed. , and in their clear depths he reed all billed come before she uttered. the o s "You must here Imovvo Harry, that— t I heve elwaya cared for you, over since a were children together," die mid, in a ow voice. ".Au el you will give youreelf to me?" h ed. the answered Way. He hid come Moe to her; and, leanino rwida now, he stretched out his hand rued !took be whieh held her bridle, giving it el, gentle preseure. lila head was beat, wed le Another moment hia lips would heivetouelo, 'sad the trembling kora, but in thet beetent his hone swerved* and he bed sem cliill. eulty In preserving hie met 1 Imokies maul to aseertein the miwie of Firefly's -clumsiest manifeetation of temper, hie perceived, with a guilty dart, alittle rig- swe elad in a erimson skirt and clomp -fitting ,lhood, from beneath which a pair of wild. king eye* :Imbed surprise arid pain. It only a fleeting glance he ought, for ly, wbo had just emerged from the rith dowla Oliver'e Mount, croaied the a was immediately boat te view in the jerk depths of the pine wmal. Ceptale Braithwelte, rem no rearou but thet of an &accusing censeletee trueted that the gide brief preaeoce hdoot been remarkee by Ida comp mien ; but be eves net left lotg in 'loan on the eubject. , "What a lovely We, Mary and what a paint little figure! Who is she I ' 1;eralfl. e cried quite. enthusiasticelly, "1 don't o dint hosing ever seen her before r "Nor Harry &wavered melody. "She Ii not beinlooktng tor a rustle, le the 1" "She Le bes&utiful—siumly lovely !" re. Eot2totted Usraldine, who might leave wonder. perhaps at her cousin's manner, hie as ea indiaerenee. was go tranopment, heel ber own happiness rendered her °Mid• of it. "And you do not know her name ?" , 44.1 may have beard it," Harry returned etvadvely ; "but one doesn't keep a note of , the mimes and addressee" of ell the village - Isle e, so a rule." It."Of course not!" laughed Geraldiee. dernly this one is so unusually goodlooking indeed, to remarkable altogether—that it ould only b a natural to indulge one's curi- osity coneerning her." "You forget that is a trait peculiar to your .own sex," Captain Braithwaite aaid, with a lahrug ; and then, anxious to change the sub ! jean he adfled—"You will let me tell my cd news at home without delay; and, Ger. • Mine, you will not keep me long without y wife? ' He spoke with feverish impatience that ight have blinded a more worldly woman an the girl by his side. Again the swift osenint dyed her cheeks. "Yes, you may tell my uncle and aunt; t these are early days so think of—of arriage." "I know what you mean," Captain Braith- ite rejoined, "and I respeat your scruples ut, Geraldine, forgive me—you knew so Itle of your father that your marriage fol- • owing so soon on his death could not be onsidered any dierespect to his memory. I hall be joining my regiment soon and the hances are that we may be ordered on °reign service, and then—" "On, Harry, I hope not ! You mutt leave he army at °roe," his couein broke in im- tuously. "My dear Geraldine, I think you know- -I have made no eecrot of my affairs—I am a poor man, and 1 cannot afford to live in idle- ness for an indefinite period." "But I am rich," cried the girl impuleive. ly. "And there will be no need for you to remain in the army, or, in fact, to do any. that you do not like, when we are mirried." • "But until then," Captain Braithwaite • egan, touched, in spite of himself, by G-er- leline's generosity and unbounded confi- dence in bimself. "Until then," declared his lady-lovebright- ly, "you must remain at the Hall, and go , on living as you are doing now.' The Captain save then that his game was won. "On the condition," he answered, "that you fix our wedding -day early in the ensu- ing year. And, after a little festher argument, this was agreed to. When, half an hour later, Harry assisted his cousin to alight, he bent his handsome head and sealed their compact with a kiss— the first and—how little the guessed 1—the last she should ever receive from the lips of her betrothed. With a light heart, and in a flutter of ex- citement and happiness, Geraldine passed through the hall and up the grand oak stair- case to her own room, where she indulged in , self-congratulation over her good -fortune; and it was not until afterwards, in the midst 1 of those dark days that followed, that she remembered that throughout the memorable ride, though Captain Braithwaite had asked her, and she had consented to be his wife, he had never once told her that he loved hen CHAPTER IV, ,"Well, and how goes it with you, Joe? Ns long since I saw youe lad. What's been doing these days past ?" The question was put by Adam Jarvis the blacksmith, as he took from the hands ot theyonng gardener an implement upon which his skill was required, and examined it crit- ically. "Oh, I Ara getting on all right, gov'nor May be you've heard I've hot a place at under gartiner at the Hall." "No, 1 hada% heard; but I'm none the lens giati Low. You're a steady lad—thst'a what 1 sheep sae, to my Dolly. goees a steady lad, none o'your akullsere or hangera ott at the Gray Parrot, and, mark my words, he'll succeed ia life " "I'm sure its eery kind of yon to speak up for me in that way," Joe saki, rather shernefeeedly ; then, after a pause—"And how is Deny ?" "Rigid as a trivet—grows prettier every day 1" declared the blacksmith, with paren- tal pride. "But why don't yon come in of an. eve niog something to bee for yourself? Deily a be giad to see you, I know," be ad- ded, with a knewing wink. "Do yeu think sor' Joe queried eigerly ; then he went on in a dogged tone—"No, its no wie ; ehe's flyiug at higher game, and 'ud only turn up her pretty nose at me." "Noosensel Dolly knows better than toturn ttp her nose at old friende ; and, as for Igh. game, I don't know what you memo" "Joe stared at the blacksmith open-mouth- ed. Was it possible that he did not know what was the common village gossip, that Doily Jarvis spent nearly all her eyed:lege itt the e.ompany of voting Breithwaltel "It's a pity, and I think nape Dolly's a fool for ber pains," the young gardener cola- tinued, as if speaking to himself. "For of course the fellow never marry her, and 1,1 0Zoundir, What d'yo mean, talking of my gal like that, eirreh ' cried Adam, in midden wrath. "Fel ba,ve you know that my Dolly doeth t ueel to go down oie her kneea to get a busbeud, Who'll never mar- ry her I d like to know what you mean by your nfounded impudence. Not marry her iedeed ! I'd like to see the num who'd make a fool of my lases:" "Ws 11, you've oo cell to turn, up eh rough r terted Joe aulkily, "Ites ev ryhody'a nth, and it a what they all eay—be a only pley'ng feet wed lome with hi r—dee whelea thia abut the grand weeding there'a to be at the Hall In the spring "Growl wedding Hell 1" repeated Mean takingc F his red. cap anti running his halal threegh hit iron -gray lo lie in a perplex, d manner. "Are you deft lad? What are you talking about' "Oh you haven't, maylee,fieard that either?" the younger Man reieined "No ozone told you. that Ceptaiu Braithwaite Is to be married to hie combe in a few montbs 1" "Oh, yea, to be aerie!" Adam, said quietly recovering. "Rh an oln Whir, lau't it? Nothiog surprigiug in that 1 I mind how they used to frell them the little sweethearte when they were children." "Oh, yott do ! Then, after all, even you caon think Enoch of Daily* chancee." Delleass ehanceal What was he drivieg at! Even yet Adam did not teke in elm other'. meaning. tell you what It is, tenor," cried Joe, praJenee te the email, .'it's a ery- izg that I've Nen treated as I have been. No ooe Can deny but that Deily was sweet on me one. And I—well, loved her —madly. You lieow youseemel to encour- age me too, aud I took it for graded all wee fair and square between us. Oh, Ill make a dome breast of it!' he wont on excitedly, "Ann then one day, I—I wanted to kiss her, • she—she just up with her hand and—and boxed my eau." Joe rubbed those organs ruefully as if he could still feel the smart of her Little fingers. "'And,' says she, as cool - like as we'd been the greeted etrangere, 1711 thank you, Joe Smith, to conduct your- self properly when you're with me;' and then de flounced off. I was mend vexed, you may be eure ; and, when I came to re- tied on the matter, I decided there must be some one else," "Some one else 1' repeated Adam abstract. edly. "Yes, some other fellow ahe cared more about—cion't you do?' Joe explained, rather impatiently, "And so I ad myself to work to iind out wbo it oould be. At first I thought nwies Tom Larkins—oh, you needn't :Make your head so wisely 1—but I was wrong. She didn't care a hg for him, no more than for me ; but, me eye, I was sum primed when I found out t'was the Captain:" The ruddy hue on the blaoliemith's face had gradually °hanged to a sickly yellow, as seen by the fitful flare of the forge during Joe's recital. When the other paused, he was livid with rage. "The—Captain 1' was all he said; and from the quiet tone Joe never gummed. at the workings in the man's heart. "Yas," he repeated, "Captam Braithwaite —him as Is is going to marry hie cousin It is hardly likely, with all his courting on Deily, he'll throw the other over for her," he added vindictively. "Oh!' For Adain had taken a step forward, and hie brawny hand clutched the lad's throat aith a grip that threatened strangulation. "Liar," he shouted hoexsely—"bass-heart- ed Anima rve a good mind to choke all the breath out of your v le body," Already Joe was growing black in the face, when, with a final shake, the black- smith flung him from him. "I'll teach you to come here prating to me about my girl, because, forsooth, she showed her sense by not having anything to do with a skulking hound like you sudden fierce pain, breaking off in Ifis solilo, guy. "Of course it WAS a lie—I told him he was a liar!" The blacksmith passed hie hand over his brow and heaved a great sigh from his broad chest. In alibis dreams of the future he had pimured Dolly as a happy wife, but never neis—never that a breath even of acandal should sully her fair name—never that her beauty would prove a mare, or that she would be made the &mond an elle hour, the plaything of a man of fashion, "If 1 thought so, if any one deceived or wronged my Dolly, by— He did not Borah the sentence—there was no odd; the lowering brow, the Miele of the keen dark eyes, the uplifting of the clenched fist, all allowed that it would tare ill with the man who incurred Adana Jarvis's anger. lie went back to the forge preaently, but be did no more work; not that be doubted Dolly yet, bat his interview with Joe Smith had upset him altogether, for it had been one of his favorite theories that his daughter should wed the young gardener; not that the girl herself was anwre of her father'a project. So he put out the fire, closed the ponderous doom and went intothe house, It was early, (mite an hour before hie usual advent. Sue, the old woman wile had lived with him ever eiuce Dolly was born, and had acted as nurse first, and latterly as gen- eral servant and faeeotwn, was superintend - hag some culinary operation. She looked up, startled at the appearance of the black- smith, "Lawk-aonercy, hew ye made me jump What'a the matter, or is it hungry ye be al- rerto," Supper won't be ready for this hour o "It's rot supper I want," the biaelesmith answered dowdy, letting his eyea wander rowed the room as if in smirch of some ono; "1th Dolly—when-de the girl la' "Sure now she was hero a few minutes ago; but she jut atepped down to et Wow Lame," "%1 hat for e Why% die gone there Ad= questioned, so daintily that the old woman looked up quiolely. "It's uo berm duly ahe's doing. It'e a dull life for the bairn to leed, and she's gone for a bit of gossip, I take it, She'll be bock hi time for eupper, no fear." But Adam heeled not the last words nor Sue's wondering eeciamations as he "titiva- ted " himeelf up a biz end finally went out, eying— "If Dolly comes in, tell ter not to wait supper for me ; I am going on a matter o. bemuse, and at is uneartio whet time I'll be home," The blackemithea forge atood In the High Street Turning to the right as lee came out of Ida dweding, Adam went a abort Mamma to where the road dividee in. to two lanes, Mit were, the one diverging to the debt and the other to the left, There he paused for A racoud with some degree of hentation in his Jammer. Alined within sleet of him was widow Lute's shop, down what was still considered the mile street, Should be gamed adertabe if Dolly were really there, And, if so AC - company her home. But be (Bemired the idea an .iniekly as It occurred to bine Al. moat wind Ole will, a Illtle douht was rising m ell mita). Summer& abo should not be there? It might only have been an idle excuse she had made to old Sue, la order to be able to get awey whheut arousing awe picion. She znight have thought her father weuld not legume for her until the umea cuppeohour "Bah 1" cried Adam, pulling fiercely at his grizziy beard. "It's teed idiot Joe as hos put all this nonsense Into my silly nod. Aa if I couldn't truat my own child! 2'o; I'll not be a apy an her nothing, though member the girl's not been so well looked after as ehe ought to have been. She's young and there's not another as can hold a candle to her for good looke in the village; and sa—well I'm going now to do what perhaps Id better have donebofore, though I couldn't a -bear to put anybody in poor Molly's place, and it's only for the sake of Molly's child that I'm a -going to do it now—leristwaya, if she'll have me, and there's not muoh doubt about then rm thinking 1" "Ile ended with a little chuckle of self- congratulation, big brow clearing for the firat time that evening. Sr' the blacksmith went on without any itirther wavering, and finally pulled up before a red-briek house of some protenmons, standing back from the road, with a garden in front fenced by a thiok laurel -hedge. Over the white 'gate swung a red lamp, and that alone, without the brass plate, would have indicated it as being the residence of the village doctor. But the worthy blacksmith needed none of his nos- trums, and, passing the surgery door, pro- ceeded to the back of the house. The neat maid who opened. the door in an- swer to Adam's knock did not appear sur- prised to see a visitor, and, without being questioned, announced with a giggle that Mrs. Maine—who, by the way, was neither a married woman nor a widow, and only re- joiced in the honorable prefix by courtesy— would see him 'in a minute, and invited him to step in. "Whatever passed between Adam Jarvis nd the good-tempered woman who enjoyed Dr. Stymotir's confidence, it must have been satisfactory, to judge from Adam's counten- ance when, half an hour later, he emerged from the lector's house; for he had not tar- ried m his wooing. He had told Mae. Maine he must get home to supper and to Dolly, to whom he was anxious to tell the news, and had successfully parried all the good woman's eudeavors to persuade him to take "a bit and sup" in her company. But now, having finished the business which had brought him rom home'he felt in no particular hurry to return. It was a bright moonlight night, the air a little keen, but none the less pleas- ant for that—just the night for a brisk walk. Adam never could account for the impulse which led him'instead of taking the direct way back to the forge, to make a circuit skirting Oliver's Mount and through the pine wood. On the summit of a hill where the trees grew thickest some boulders jutted out, form- ing below a rugged precipice, the sides of which were overgrown with bracken and furze As he approached this spot, the blacksmith's thoughts, which had been oc- cupied not unpleasantly with the future proepect in store for him, were suddenly re- called to the present. All around was unusually calm and peace- ful—nature was at rest, Hardly a breath of wind stirred the leaves; the birds had ceased to twitter, not an insect buzzed in the air; only Anam's heavy tread made a regular thud as he strode along; and then suddenly there fell distinctly upon his ear a man's voice low and tender and pleading, answered by a woman's passionate eobs. A dark cloud had passed over the moon, for a moment rendering all objeds indistinct; but, even before she was sailing again in a sea of azure, the blacksmith instinctively knew that the man and woman were none other than Captain Breithwaite and his daughter Dolly. Joe, who had come in contact with the opposite wall, and had fallen prone upon the earth, raised himself with some little difficulty, so bruised and sore was he. With- out uttering a word, he reached the door; but, when within a safe diatance of the in- furiated old man'he turned round to say— "Liar am I? Web, we'll see! I've taken your thrashing, it's true; but 111 have my revenge when I see all decent folks (muting you and that fine lass of yours. She's--" But there he retreated hastily, leaving the sentence incomplete, for Adam, in the door- way, cast upon him so threatening a look that he deemed discretion the better part of valor, and took a hurried departure. Long after Joe had disappeared from view, the blacksmith stood there, his sturdy figure thrown boldly into relief in the gather- ing gloom by the forge fire, which flickerel and flared behind. He had been in hie day as handsome a specimen of our sons of toil as could have been met with in old England, and even now his maseive figure was unbent, and his brawny arm retained much of its strength, of which he had just given good proof. He might have passed for a son of Vulcan, with his bronze face and dark frizzly hair and beard. A hard man some deemed him, and his general demeanor certainly showed no signi of weakness, Only to Dolly did he unbend—Dolly, his one ewe lamb, his dar- ling, whom he had denied nothing, whom he literally worshipped—Dolly, the light of his old eyes, the legacy left to him by her young mother, and which he had cherished all these years, Dolly, who was to bring shame—ah, no 1 Joe Smith was a jealous fool; his Dolly could do no harm; she would have told her old father if— "Am I going mad ?" Adam cried with Dr. himself threw open the door, he noticed that the girl was elaiverbag from head to foot as if with ague. "Dolly Jarmo V" he exclaimed, as the light flashed upon her face'and he recognis- ed, with some surprise, the blecksinith's daughter. "Come in. Whatis it my dean?' Per the girl raise d piteous eyes to his, though it seemed for the moment as if she had lost all power of utterance. "Is anything wrong at home? Your father—" Aud then he paused, for hie keen eyes ram that the right sleeve of Dolly's dress was stained with something dark and red, Could it be blood? Of course! She herself had re. caved some injury; but, before he could question her, Doily, witose Orme° bad fol- lowed his, divined hie thoughts and broke in tremulously— no ; there is nothing the matter with me. It is the Captain—Captain Braithwaite Oh, Dieter "—springing up from the chair into which the old gentlemen had. gently puthed iter—"he is dying—may be dead even while we are wasting them!' Dr. Seymour regarded the agonized face of the girl curiously; he, in common with the rest of the good folk at Midhuret, had heard rumors of the gay young officer's at- tentions to the village belle. "Ah," he gaid quietly, "but you Inns tell me what him happened if I am to be of iiny use:" "It—it was an accident," stammered poor Dolly, coloring deeply beneath the l)rder's close scrutiny. "He fell over the edge of the precipice in the pioe.wood. You itoow the place r interrogatively. "Nat verywell, And you think Captain i Braithwaite s badly injured by the fall?" "Yea, ihere vas a great gash en his forehead, and—oh, it was horrible i" Dolly eneed muldenly, covering her lime with both fiends. "Well, well, Ave must are whet can be done. You must accompany me to the spot; I might not find my way ea.eily. In the meautime, drink thia." lie had, whilst be had been speaking, poured out a gime of port whieh he now pre. tented to the agitated girl; thou he hardily cemmemed putting a few deluge together— lid, baudagen photon and so forth ; and, by the time Dolly hod drunk her whim he leas buttoning up hie coat. "I would, have the trap out," be add; but if my recollection serves me rightly, the high -road does not run my where near the rime," "No," Dolly answered briefly; "there Is only a footpath aeross the Mount and through the pine -wood." "Then we will atart at once." Aa he spoke, the doctor opened a door that 'ea into the hawse ; and Dolly, like one in A dream, baud him giving booty ditee. tiona in case there oilfield be any calla on hie serviees duringhis Absence. The next min- nte he reappeared, and he seed leis compan- lan paused eilently ant into thenow.deserted roadway, for Midhurat wile a primitive place. and ita inhabitaute kept early hours, as a rule, Not a word WAS exchenged aa the two walked awiftly an, though the Doctor now eald again gave A keen aide,glance at the lit- tle figure by his aide. The strange, dazed expreesion on her countenance puzzled him. It was not griet nor terror, but an expectant look, az though she were on the alert against any atirpriee ; and. she dated normously at the Alighted sound, What did alt fear to see? Why_ dia. she shrink away from every moving omelet as if it were a ghoet? the Doctor said to himeelf wonderingly, though he refraluest front intik. log any renualt. At length that seamanly interminable walk was nearly ended, an they hod reached the hollow—Dolly had led the doctor by a elm -Nous route to the foot of the recite— and, as they turned a corner, they came within sight of a recumbent figore, over which another form wae bending. "I see some ono is there already," observ- ed Dr. Seymour, CHAPTER V. The clock in St. Jude s tower was boom- ing out nine strokes when a little figure stopped before Dr, Seymour s surgery, and, withunsteady fingers, pulled the bell -handle. It was a mild warm night, and yet, as the "It is only Joe Smith 1" exclaimed Dolly. "He promised to stay with him. whilat Iran for you." The Doctor's face cleared. It was not so bad. as he thought; he had been misjudging Dolly all this time, and he hastened to make amends, "Ah, 1 underatand 1 Then you were not alone with the Captain when the accident happened. I am glad to hear that." 'Alone 1' Dolly repeated, turning it star- tled and ghastly -looking face towards him ; then she added quickly—"It was lucky Joe Smith was there, for I could not have left him by himself, could 1?" She asked the question in such an innocent childish fashion that the Doctor's first sus- picions were instantly allayed; afterwards he remembered that quick exclamation and the look that had accompanied it. A few words of greeting, and then Joe stood aside to enable Doctor Seymour to ex- amine his patient's injuries. (To BE COIITDATED.) A Man Without a Country. A curious cad has been for some time on trial before the French courts, and has excit- ed much discussion and many smiles. It is that of an eccentric Frenchman, who, at the early age of 33 or 34, was deprived of his liberty of action by a fatally ceuncil; or, in other words, was prevented from ruining himself financially by having administrators appointed over him. This so enraged him that he conceived a violent prejudice against his fellow -countrymen. Daring the remain- der of his life he seems to have passed his time in inventing measures for annoying his relatives; and in his will he expressly stip- ulated that a soon as he was supposed to be dead big administrator should pierce his heart with a bodkin in order to make sure that he should not be buried alive; after which he should convey the body to within one mile of the English coast, and there have it cast into the sea. "I decline to have my remains repose," said this energetic French- man, "in thorniest of ray fellow -countrymen, who have acted in an imbecile and idiotic manner in taking away my liberty of action when I was in the prime of life." The ad. ministrator-guardia,n expressed a profound willingness to carry out the instructions in the will, and was even having a small boat constructed for the purpose of performing the funeral rites on the water, when the other members of the family interfered and brought the Matter into court. Before the tribunal the executor again declared that he was ready to carry out the will or to have the body of his deoeased relative plaoed he a vault in London as a kind of compromise. The matter has not yet been settled and is likely to become legendary. .Perhaps it may lead toesome reform of the castiron reg- ulations as to the disposal of fortunes, reg. ulations which may have been very proper in the epoch of the first Napoleon, but which are rather antiquated and too tyrannical to suit the temper of the present generation. Baroness Rothschild gave a ball in London recently, at which the ladies wore gowns of either gray, black or white material, the court being now in mourning. The effect, though somber, was peculiar and not with- out richness. A, PRISON ROMANOR n Innocent Couple Who Were Ileld for WS. Application is aboot ti be made for the release of Freeman P. Cargan, who is now serving a life sentence in the prison of Jack- son, having been convicted on narjored testimony of one of the most brutal "murders in the history of Michigan. Charles Smith was a well-to-do fanner, living in Chesaniog toweship, Saginaw county. His wife and a young farm hand named Morris Alexauder made up the regular membere of the house- hold. alre. Smith's sister was invited from New York to visit at Chesaning. She came, Ihber.briitogin gher husband, Freeman P. Odgers, v On the night of September 12, 1876, soon after the arrival of the Cargans, the Smith barn was burned to the ground Little woo thought of that fact, but by a singular coat- cidence Charles Smith disappeared on the same night, and no Mace of his whereabouts could be mad, Suspicion was eroded, and a oarefal search of the charred ruins of the barn was made. Half buried under a quantity of burned beams was the skeleton of a mau. Ouly the boners remained, and these were partially incinerated, A post- mortem examination was made of the re- mains, when it was discovered that the body had been hammered ahnost to a jelly before being burned. Most of the bones were splintered into fragments by blows from a blunt instrument, The remains were identified as those of tb,e missing Charles SmAiltillihe inmates of the Smith house were arrested, ou a charge of murder. Suspicion centered upon young Alexander and Mrs. Smith, It was generally known that the frindlimity between the two had excited Smith's dleapprohation, Freeman P. Car. gan was the drat to he tried before the Sag- inaw Circuit Court. During the imprison - meat of Alexander and hire, Smith they bad frequent consultations with the pro,secut. ing offivere, wifich reaulten in several alleg. eft emanate= that freed the two empected pante!' and fixed the murder en the two Pargans. On the trial, wilieh wise attended with great popular excitement, Mrs, ahnith aware that elm and Alexander bed long con- templated the murder ef her huaband, but -neither of them had the courage to do the deed, She had, therefore, written to her Meter. Mrs. Cergau, in New York, offering $500 if the latter's husband would come on and do the work, Cargan and his wife had mune to Chesaning for the perpose of mur- der, atul deliberetely accomplished the ob. jolt by firat clubbing the old mem to death and then burying bit body. Alexander cer- roborated Mre, Smith's story, Theta con- feeelora were to conclusive that Cargan and his wife were both convicted mid sentenced for life, he to the State prima end abe to the Detroit House of Correction. For having turned State's evidence and omelet. ing the Campine, aire. Smith and Alexander wore rewarded with light sentences, the former behag sent to the Detroit Homo of Correction lots ten yea.re, Daring hire. Smith's imprifentrnert Su. Perinternimet Nicholson nOtieNt that she vim burdened with some secret mantel atiliction, A. cancer of the etorneolt reduced her phyaleally, She sent for the superin- tendent, and, mid she had a deathbed con. reader& to make to him. Her death was to Dear that restoratives hair to be administer- ed to preserve the flickering sparks of life. In dieconneeted but perfently coherent am - toned she stated that her entire teatimony against Cargan and bis wife was perjure.l. She and Alexander had been promised a light nentence if they would giVO evidence spinet the Cergans With the hope of geeing her children again she determined to swear falsely, and invented the story which had sent the Caimans to prison for life, Helpfai. A oorreaporident of the Pall. Vali Clazet'e tells the story of a plump, pretry little or. phan of seven, who was one of the steerage passengers in a steamer heavily laden with emigrants for New York. She had not a relative or friend on board, bat was sent from some remote dietrict in Sweden to Chicago. poor Tbaby male her journey of four thousand miles smiling, happy, finding a friend's face in every one that looked at her. The emigrant women on board oared for her as though each were her mother. Every morning she came on deck freshly bathed and dressed, hf r pretty hair braided under her puckered hood. The English- man who observed the universal kindness to the child says, " In all my life I never aaw to fine a thing." A story which is told of some German emigrants might parallel this : Two broth ars, one an abled bodied meohanic,the otlor a slight lad of eighteen, were steerage pas- sengers in one of the large American steam- ers several years ago. The elder, ventur- ing into some dangerous quarter of the vessel, during a storm, was washed overboard and drowned. He kad on his person the little store of money and the tickets belonging to both. The lad, Gottfried, was leftabsolute- penniless and friendless in the world. The other emigrants contributed of their poor little savings enough to pay his way and support him until he reached 9. colony in Da- kota, to whicb most of them are bound. He is now one of the most industrious, energe- tic men in it. Sanely a ship -load of emigrants comes across the sea in which there is not shown the same mutual kindness and help. There It sometimes ia the act of cutting loose from his old home, and all past associations, which makes it men cling more closely to other men as neighbors and brothers ; giving and asking help as never before. It is the bestpreparationf orlda life 'lathe new country here he will stand on an equality for mu- ual help and support with men of every na- tion under heaven. Yet after all, areewe not all emigrants crossing a wider sea to an unknown country, which we all—the millionaire and pauper, the white and the black, the gentleman and the slave—shall enter together, children of one Father? Shall we not, too,..try to help eaoh other on this our one short voyage? Announcement is made of the death at the age of 95 years of Gabriel Emery of Lens, Switzerland. He fought a Borodino so.w Moscow burned, was at the passage o ;the Beresina, survived the terrible retreat, fought at Lutzen and Bautzen, and was taken prisoner at Leipsic. It is estimated that 150,000,000 tons :of matter in solution are annually poured by the Mississippi in the G-ulf of Mexico, This In 4,000 years would remove over the whole basin one foot of land. Continents thus wear away by the great riven, and new ones are formed. Abram es mason, a negro boy of Inwrence, Km can pick up a piece of clay and model it in a few minutes to almost any form that suggests itself to his mind, with a life -like- ness truly astounding. From the common clay there found in abundance, without tools of any kind, without models or designs, he forms men and beasts with a wonderful re- ality and no inconsiderable artistic talent. STATISTIOS. It has been celoulated that the free luin ches ineNew York saloons cost $11,890,000 annually. The children of Queen Victoria now take £600,000 it year from the puree of the Brit. ieh people, Thirty-two thousend humming birds, killed to beautify the bonnets of the fair, were received m it single coneignment in London not long ago, Notwithstanding free 'schools and laws for compulsory education the startling face remains that there are 2,800,000 voters in the United States who minuet read their own ballots. It ia common to auppod that a ship loaded with wood cannot sine. Yet according to the latest return of the British Board. of Trade it appeara thet during the past three years no fewer than 149 ships laden with tiinber were totally loan with 457 lives. The most profitable newepaper in the world, the London 2'irnes, is valued at $25,000,000, and the moat profitable in France, Fait elournai, mem $600,000 it year net, Although a dozen years ago It was insolvent. The London Standard is valued at $10,0e0,000, the Daii?,/ Xiws at $000,000 and $5,000,000 would not buy the Telegragh. In Ireland, according to lately publiaheel statistics, the birth rate in 1et34 was 24 per 1000 and the death rate was 17.5. Both are below the average for the preceding ten yeare. Zyrnotio demand calmed 7221 deaths, only one of which was due to mall pox. There were 16 deaths from the hitter in 18S3, while during the previous ten yeara the aunual number avenged 335, A remerkable story of loogevity In no two brothera, jenathan and Nelijernieh Allen, moved from Sunbury to Bare' The former died at the age of 92i ^ hid Wila at S7. Their sie ehildren who livedteyondlufancy died. at 07, 72, 77, e6, 871 and hamah over- age of over e0. Nehemiah Allem the other brother, died at b7; hie wife at 07. They had four sons and tax daughters, who lived to the following ages:. 78, 80, blif 84, 02/92 05, 0,5, 00, and 06—en average, eouutieg the fractioee of yearn of lane. Moat of them lived in or near Barre, and were farm. ere. Belgium affords the worst example In Eu- rope of the barm from over-bolulgence io alcoholic atimulanta. The sale of liver hes been more than trebled in the beet hfty years. While the population has edvanoni only from 3,500,000 to 5,500,000, the con. aumption of Write, wine and beer fn 18e1 amounted io value to 476.000,000f. Al though the couotry Is so small, it centained in I1e0 no fewer than 123,000 places (levet. ed to the sate of hatoxicating liquora. There waait publie.howse on the average for every twelve or thirteen grown tap males. The euicidee rod from fifty-four per million in- habitants in 184S to eighty in ISA The emetic -a advanced frem 7.e0 per million in- imbitante in, 1845 to 1.170 in 1h$1. souxuna AND USEFUL. Electricity has heen tried succerefully in Frauce, both to remove and prevent tee in. cruetation of boilers. It is stated that the proportion of ozone in the atmosphere of Pans last yam^ was in in- verse ratio to the mortality from elielerie The Atlantic tides in the liebridee rid Abnormally high far about eight hours or led before the approaoh of a cyclone or se- vere storm. They must thue be made to serve es weather prophets. The Mexican Indians make shields of their blenkete. They are hand.woven, fulled thick, and water.prod. They even turn asideebullete by causbeg them to lance or by swaying to the blow. The glass ingulatora so commonly used to hold lightning rods in place are quite ueelees and an unneceseaty expense, but are not a source of danger. A plain iron or wooden supporter is equally efective. Coal beds have been found in Africa, south of the river Itovuma, by theinhortu. guess& explorer Senor Pinto, TheoPetre on the old caravan track from Cape Delgado to Lake Nyassa, and aro claimed by the Port. ugese Government. A vineyard near Malaga, apparently ruin- ed by phylloxera, came out with fresh vigor after the recent earthquake in Spain, It ia supposea that liberated gases destroyed the insects up n the vines. It is a remedy that will not become popular. Ithas beennotioed that during the pres- ent year in the District of Columbia the characteristic noise of the cicada has been scarcely heard. It is supposed to be due to the inroads of the English sparrow, which has decimated the cicada and prevented the full maturity of the males. Readers in the country may be glad to know that rhus too, a homeopathic _prepar- ation, is a remedy for poisoning by ivy, If taken upon the first appearance of the blis- ters it will generally ailed a cure in three or four days. It is said that bryonia, taken for a week or two, is a preventive. Senor Ugas, in the Gronica Medica, Lima, calls attention to the vesicating property of the inner bark of the walnut tree. He soaks the bark in vinegar for about fifteen minutes and applies it to the part on which a blister is required. In applying this re- medy in cases of lupus he dusted the blister with calomel. Crucibles of nickel have lately been adopted in some chemical laboratories in the place of the silver ones generally' used for melting caustic alkalies. They have the advantage not only of being cheaper, but of being capable of resisting a higher tempera- ture than the latter, anu the result is said to be abilte has been brought to the aid Ef evootrr; io of the sportsman by the use of a small lamp for the front sight of a rifle, to rendet it visible in the dusk, or when from an cause whatever there is insufficient light. The minute electric lamp is fixed near the muz- zle of the gun and shielded by a metallic screen, The current is supplied by a small battery in the stock. The Detroit Lancet describes the four plans for reducing obesity: The eating of nothing containing starch, sugar or fat, call- ed the Banting system; the eating of fat, but not sugar or starch, called the German Berating; the wearing of wool and sleeping in flannel blankets, instead of sheets, of the Munich system; not eating and drinking itt the same time, or rather the allowing of it couple of hours to intervene between eating and drinking, the Schweninger system. The greatest roam maneof them all—The tramp. A story is told of a woman who was ask- ed to add her name to a subscription list -for a charitable purpose. "1 cannot," was the reply; "I did all I coul& afford to do for charity during the winter. I went to the charity ball, the kinness, and attended it number of private theatrical entertainments given for benevolence."