The Exeter Times, 1886-7-1, Page 6Retribution At Last!
CHAPTER I,
Through the. olden window of the little
!pitting room in Alin, Perm the Netting sen
ehoue with wattle''arid yellow lustre, the
eunllgbt lying across the somewhat faded
uarpet in broad streaks, lighting up wall
and polling, and glorifying a large bunch of
pink hawthorn that adorned a iglare table
in the centre of the room, whereon was
spread Cecil Grahams modest supper.
In the stogie holland-covered maw -chair
the apartment boasted, drawn oloso to the
window, reclined Ceoll Graham, revelling
in the delicious lilao•eeented air and In the
last rioh apleudcura of the sunmhiue. In
the garden outside wag an abundance of
graee, tall and daiey•dappled, whinh grew
clow to the rough stone walls of the house
there were also Rhos, purple and white,
blossoming apple -trees, and laburnum with
its golden meters, and a wilderness of
flowers blooming under their shelter. In-
numerable beea kept up a low steady
hum-
ming over their hives, wblob were placed on
a benoh beneath a mass of honey -suckle ; a
wood -pigeon or two cooed in the dusky
grove of firs and beeches which almost sur-
rounded the garden. No other sound, save
the occasional faint rustling of the wind
among the leaves, disturbed the sweet still-
ness of the vesper hour.
Cecil Graham lay back in his chair, enjoy -
Ing the silence and the beauty of the evening
to the full, Poet in heart and soul, bards•
ter by profession, the idolized eonof wealthy
parents, Ms life thee far had been one of
almost unexatnpled'proaperity and happl•
noes. At the Bar he was neither anxious
nor likely to astonish the world by his legal
eminence and plauslble eloquence ; but hie
first volume of poems, lately published,
had been kindly reviewed, if anything, In.
deed, overpraised, and a third edition had
already been called for. In eooiety he was
courted, flattered, and admired, and even
genuinely beloved, hie handsome person,
hie winning smile, and polished address•
:.gaining him friends without an effort on his
(part, There were some, it is true, who
thought that both the man and his poetry
might be the better ter a little less sunehlne,
• and a little more shadow in his life ; but
theme were not his personal friends, who
would have been sorry to miss the heart -
'whole brightness of Me mile and the j eyoua
=ring of his volae.
Ever the creature of impulse, hia last
'awlaim had been to retire, in the very dawn
Elf the London season, into the bowery re-
m:neea of the wildest and loveliest part of
Blankshlre, to read in charmed solitude
the hidden thoughts of Nature, to study
her secret lore, to get by heart the passion
el her summer days and the mystery ef her
shadowy nights. Drinking at her count-
less wells of inapiration thus, he meant to
hive the whole eweetnesa in the crystal of
such a poem as would make hia name Im-
mortal, while it elevated and purified the
world.
He had found in a steep ferny dell, open-
ing on one aide to the west, this rustic farm,
which was a very gem of beauty and lone-
liness. Its rough walls clothed with jessa-
mine, rose, and wistaria to the law over-
hanging roof ; its diamend-paned windows
looking towards the west ; its wide, cool
hall, and its tiny lavender-ecented rooms,
spotlessly clean, pleased his fancy at once,
and Mere Farm became his temporary home
forthwith.
Almoet close to the back of the honeethe
rooky sides of the dell rose to the height of
a Hundred feet or mere, a mase of gene,
wild hyacinths, and ferns. Slender, grace-
ful birches, emerald -foliaged oaks, and
mountain ashes oast their shadows here and
there. Towards the "sunset land" wound a
narrow river through meadows ripening for
hay harveat ; then mere woods, more rooks,
wore hills, till in the distance the blue line
of the sea seemed to wed earth and sky.
• 0 Beautiful as the wreck of Paradise 1' ^
murmured Cecil, as he watched the sun dis-
appear beyond the fair landscape.
Softly the twilight shadows deepened,
the wonderful rese and purple lights died
away, and the nightingale began to sing,
flooding the groves with melody. Lost in
poetic dreams, beautiful and evanescent as
the sunset clouds, Cecil sat till a gentle
knack at the door startled him from his rev-
erie, and his landlady, a stout comely ma-
tren of sixty, with rosy oheeks, stood oour-
tesying on the threshold.
" Please, Mr. Graham, sir, would you be
a -wanting aught ? It's main late, sir, and
me and my master's'going to bed, air ; and
—but dear mel you'll excuse me being eo
bold—you've not touched your supper, sir ;
and that milk's as oold as hice, and'll nit as
seavy ; I couldn't abide you to drink it now.
I could ha' warmed it up only the fire's gone
eat ; deary, deary me 1"
With a countenance expressive of dire
dismay, Mrs. Mill surveyed Brat the basin
of cold bread -and -milk, then the amused
face of the young man,
" Never mind, Mra. Mill 1 Yon can't ex-
pect people to eat on an exquisite evening
like this. With each a view before them
tee 1"
" Well, sir, it is bonnie weather, and a
deal o' folks admires the view ; but I don't
think yen'd like it very often instead of
your dinner, eh 1"-
" No, perhaps not," said Cecil, laughing
blithely ; " the flesh Is weak, or rather, I
should say, strong, and dinner is a neces-
sity of our sublunary existence,"
•" Ye -es, sir," enervated the old woman,
considerably mystified,
" If you don't obj act, Mrs. Mill," maid
Cecil, laughing again, " I will go for a
stroll by the river to smoke my pipe. You
may trunt me to fasten the big front
door' safely on my return."
" Ay, do, sir 1 A walk'll de yon good,
As for locking of the deer, why we never
does that once in twelve years—bleu you 1
Who's to harm no here 7"
" Who indeed 1" echoed the young man,;
as, in t'he balmy etillnees of the long twee
fight, he went down the wonted garden,
and along the dewy meadow path to the
river. " Who indeed in anon ' a haunt of
ancient peace' as this ? Oh, how happy I
shall be here -no dinners, no theatres, no
bores, and no women 1 Nothing to disturb
the eye, to break the thread ef thought, or
to frighten the shy nurse. A eeoond Adam
In a second Paradise, without an Eve 1"
Here followed a silence ; and a sigh
smothered by a laugh,
" After all, Adam couldn't get on long
without an Eve ; though she brought him
nothing but trouble when he got her. I
wonder if I shall fare better 1 Doubtless,
yes, having had a surfeit of the fair fickle
sex already ? But oh, ye gode of sleep and
silence, what a glorious night 1"
At his feet as he paused, the limpid water
of the stream, level with the grainy turf,
inurmured drowsily. The whole landscape
lay hushed In tender repose, while in the
weet, still bright with memories of day,
one large star glittered like a jewel. Afar,
embowered in darkness, the nightingale
• sang, and now and then a wakeful thrush
sent its clear whistle arrest the meadows,
Truly It was a glorione night 1 The yet'ng
poet's Sensitive epirit acknowledged its holy
Influence, growing hushed and calm beneath
it, Cull Graham felt like,a child kneeling
at he motbern knee when evening has
oome, and this, hie mother Nature, seemed
to look tenderly intohis face with her
starry eyes, murrnurieg, '" Pray i'' 7dot to
pray was one ori the few thine ghat Goon
Graham bad never learned, and only in sore
strait and sorrow, whfoh was the very Vali
ley of the Shadow of Death, did the know-
ledge oome to him,
Beautiful was, the,heu Cecil
�morning w
Graham sauntered out to find some quiet
nook wherein, free from fear of letruelon, he
mfght revel in " the light that never was on
sea or shore "—a nook wherein the hoaveu-
born muse might choose to fold her wings,
and cit by hie aide through the long sweet
hours,
Attired in a Bolt of gray tweed, with a
wide-awake on his olosolm oropped head, the
young man strolled down the gravelled path
between the laburnums, to the meadow be-
yond. Hie brow—such of it as could be
eeeu beneath the large hat,—was equate; his
month, a trifle too thin-llppod, was'shaded
by a alight moustache; els nose was large
and aquiline ; and bio eyes rather deeply
y
set, were singularly dark and
introns, fel
of changing restless light, expressive of
every emotion of his mind, They were
beautiful bat never yet had they been soft-
ened by the pathos ef leas, sorrow or love.
For, though his foelirgewere easily excited,
and all his emotions near tae surfaoe, hie
heart was exceedingly difficult to reach, So
at least decided many a lovely maiden, as
she gazed at her face in her mirror, wonder-
ing how he could remain blind to a face
like here—how one de susceptible to the in-
fluence ef female beauty, so quiok to admire,
and so enthusiastic in its description, should
be so loath to love.
M•:anwhile Cecil wandered along by the
river, now sparkling in the sunshine, until
its level banks rose shelving and rooky tea
ooneilerahle height, crowned by a belt of
pines. In every crevice of the rooks, long
thick mosses, ferns, and wild flowers grew
untouohed,and
" You scarce could sea the grass for flowers."
over whose petals butterfilee fluttered. The
stream here widened and foamed over vari-
coloured granite blocks tumultuously,
"' Not a alga of man's ezletsno3.
Not a glimpse of man's abode ;
But the ohuroh-spire in the dietance
Linke the eolitude with Clod; "
quoted Coil,. " Ah, this is the plane for
me 1"
In en ecetaey of enjoyment he thre v him-
eelf full length upon the grams, and, lying
with his arms folded above hie head, he
gazed up through emerald leaves at the ex -
gelette sapphire of the eky, whence came
the liquid notes of the lark, though the
songster was inviable, drowned In light,
From the deep slnmberoua reverie into
which he had fallen the poet was roused by
the shrill notes of a voice 'ringing—
" 'Twee near that atreamlet'e murmur
I passed my bappy youth,"
Looking up with a quick movement of
annoyance, he beheld coming round a corner
of the rocke a small girlish figure in a bel -
lent dross and bright scarlet petticoat, The
girl did not eee him, so he surveyed her
leisurely, his annoyance giving way to
amusement and admiration.
Tae girl wore a large straw hat adorned
with poppies, and coquettishly turned up
at one aide, which partly shaded the rich
pomegranate hues of cheek and lips, the
arched dark brows, the hazel eyes, and the
short boyish curls olueteringronnd her head.
In one hand she swung a basket half full of
ferne, and, as she came along, her round
dimpled face well up, she lilted out at the
top of her not very musical voice the old
ballad. She would have stepped e' Ceoil'e
recumbent form bad he net jumped up. He
raised hie hat and courteously expressed
his regret for being in the way. The girl
started aside with a snpprcrosed scream,
deep binebes suffering her face at this meet
anexpeoted encounter ; and she looked at
Ceoll with frightened eyes.
"I fear I have alarmed you," he Bald,
smiling reaeanringly, " I ought to have
moved before, but I did not apprehend any
danger until you came eo near.'
Recovering her composure she Iaughed
j eyously.
" Danger 1" she echoed, with the merest
soupcon of Blankehire accent, and in a shrill
childish voice, " But only think how I
ehonld have felt if I had really trodden on
you 1" And she laughed again, Ceotl join-
ing in heartily.
" And only think how I should have felt
too 1 You must always look where you are
going, you know"—with a paternal air ;
" butyou were se engrossed by your
song,s She blushed again at the recollection of
her singing.
" May I net hear the end of it ?" said
Cecil. " I waa listening with great plea-
sure, I assure you."
" No, no 1" she murmured, greatly con-
fused. " And indeed I must go now,
Good morning."
" If you must," returned Cecil languid-
ly, again raising hie hat, " then good morn-
ing."
He threw himself down again upon the
graee.
" Same sort of an Eve in my Paradiee,"
he mused. " But nota dangerous ono—oh,
no 1 A pretty child though ; innocent as a
daisy and aa fresh. I wonder who she is,
and how she has found out theme outlandish
parte. Surely my peaoe is not going to be
disturbed by that awful phantom, the
British tourist, in any form or shape 1 Bat
begone dull care 1
snob dread. This girl is like a fairy or a'
butterfly t the tinware seem to mise her now
she's goxe, I'll hove her bank ; ehe doesn't
disturb, me at ail. Nov I net Mrs, MIII,"
aN his lendleder enterer to remove the tea
ecfn',poge "why breve you. been turning that
young lady out ot thegarden, eh ?'
The suddenuets of this attack (mite gave
Mrs, Mill " a turn," to use her own exproe•
eu
" Well, Mr_ Graham, slr,1--I thought as
you'd maybe be ee aing out presently, and I
—I thought Nellie'd better not be to the
way ; there'll plenty o' biome at the baok
o the house if she must needa be allays a -
gathering on
" Well, when you sent her away, you de-
prived me of a pleasure, Mrs, Mill, I beg
you will allow her to be AS much in the gar-
den es she likes, or she will regard me in
the light of a regular ogre 1"
Mrs. Mill always confessed that she waa
unable to toll what Mr. Graham was driv
log at, and never half understood him ; but
she replied with dignity—
" I'm much obliged, I'm sure, sir ; but
young galla Iike her le better out o' young
gentleman's ways momotlmea.
,r
r, Upon my word, Mrs Dlll,„
laughed
Ceotl, "if I am an ogre, you aro a dragon
and he began to sing —
” • & lake and a fairy boat,
To eall in the moonlight clear ;
And merrily we would tint
From the dragons abet guard us here.' "
He laughed again at the end so heartily
that Moe, Mill was fain to nein in with the
laugh.
" You must let her come when I am out
then," he said : "that will suit all parties.
Be -the,bye, might I ask is she your dangh
ter ?"
" N alt, she's my nleoe—my huebaud'a
brother'a only daughter. She's an orphan,
and is like our o an, seeing we've neither
chick nor child beside. Shreve been well
brought up," said Mrs, Mill, with pardon-
able pride, " An'good girl in the main,
but my ideas, a trifle fl'ghty, according to
you know, elm"
Cecil did net know that the goo' woman's
ideas of correct girlish behavior consisted in
sitting upright, never speaking exoept when
epaken to, dresaing with quakerieh simpli-
city, and doing medal work all hours of
the day, Still he guessed they would be
different enough from modern ones, and he
laughed lightly.
" Youth cannot pones the wisdom of
age," he said. " However, I am sure you
will make the very best of duennae 1"
Gravely wondering what a " daenna "
could be, the landlady retired to her own
apartments, where she warned the blushing
Nellie solemnly against the folly and vanity
and beauty of youth ; and dwelt upon the
awful impropriety of speaking to, er attract-
ing the attention of, young men in general,
and her lodger in particular ; until, in the
eyes of the young girl, Ur. Graham's roo n
possessed all the oharm and fascination of a
Slnebeard'e chamber, and a degree of inter-
est in him was excited in her simple soul
which nothing could ever have convinced
Mra Mill was the ramie of her own injadi-
oiens remarks. -
'• ` He Is but a landscape painter,
And a village maiden oho.'
And he drew forth his little M.S. book and
pencil and began to write, the silver-tongued
river setting hie words to sweetest mucic.
Great was Ceoll G:aham'e astonishment
when, oeated at hie early tea -table that af-
ternoon, he beheld flattering among the
flowers in the garden the fair heroine of his
morning's adventure.
" Some friend or relative perhaps of Mra.
Mill," he told himself. " What a pretty
pioture it le 1" And he panned in the act of
helping himself to a large plateful of cold
ham to contemplate it,
Robed in blue muslin, the hue of the eky,
the girl peened in and out among the treed,
plucking a blossom here and there, messing
with small fingers the golden clusters of the
laburnum, burying her round face in sweet -
briar, her long dress sweeping the butter -
cape in the green, and the light wind rung
her dark silken curia. There was a native.
child -like grace in every movement which
charmed the peet'e eye. Presently he saw
Mrs, Mill appear on the scene, in !tiff old-
fashioned gown and apotlese folded ker.
chtef, She said something to the girl in
low tones, He saw the girl give a quick
glance • towards his window, blush like a
rose, and diaappear from view with hie land-
lady. '
" Now I must ma out what that's all
about," pondered the young man. I believe
the old dame was bullying her, I won't
have the child turned out of the garden like
that ; it amuses me to see her, Saoh a
haunter of my solitude is very different'
from the fashionable lady er Inquisitive
CHAPTER Il.
For two or three days afterwards Cecil
Graham never saw the '" butterfly," as he
called Nellie, and she was gradually passing
from his memory, when an event marred
which brought about their meeting.
One unueually warm afternoon he walked
towards the ruins of an ancient abbey stand-
ing on the borders of a forest, about four,
tulles from Mill's Farm, and two miles fres
the scattered village of Eaathore—the tory
of those benighted regions—boaating
tiny Anglican ohuroh, its lawyer, its doote•,
and one et two mansion of arieteoratio pre.
tension, CeoIl did not notice; until the sun
had disappeared, that the sky had become
overcast with black donde, while the dead
silence reamed to portend some dread
event, However, being near the Abbey,
he preeeed ou—care of shelter there if the
storm should burst,
D.irkly defined against the forest the eld
walls stood revealed, severe a id beautiful,
as he appreaohed. Ling grasp waved over
a few forgotten graves and massive fallen
blocks. Dank mosses oeated the stones,
and amid the exquisite tracery of the east
window hung wreathe of ivy, while the wall-
flower opened its rich. sweet blossoms among
the cloister arches,
" Taere is ever something sad and weird
about a rule," thought Cecil. " Ghosts
of the pact seem to sit brooding in the roof -
lees aisles. Tne owl's cry from the empty
windows and dismantled turrets sound like
the lament of some unresting spirit hover-
ing over its tomb."
The eleotric state of the atmosphere had
also its effects upen his sensitive nerved ;
and he turned pale as lie heard a loud
scream quite near him. The next moment
he laughed at himself for his foolishness ;
and, hurrying to the spot whence the sound
proceeded, he found Mies Nellie Mill, who
had fallen back on a block of stone, appar-
ently half -fainting.
My dear child, what is the matter ?
Has any one frightened you ? Now, you're
net to faint ; for I shan't knew what on
do with you if you do 1' he quer
tioned and rebuked, touching the hand ly-
Ing on her knee.
A faint blaeh replaced the pallor of the
girl's face, and she smiled,
""Oh, don't 1 I am very silly but it
was a snake. " Oh"—shuddering irrepres-
sibly—" it did f righten me eo 1"
"A enake ?, Where is it ?"—with inter-
est, "I'11 do for it 1"
" It's gone—through the grass—It reared
itself up and hissed at me ! Oh, dear, I
thought it was going to sting me 1"
" 1 dare say it warms much frightened
as you were, and nearly as harmlees, re-
turned Mr, Graham reassuringly. " Bet
are you here alone ? It is a long walk for
you, is it net ?"
" Oh, no 1 I could walk ever eo much
farther, I often come hero ; I like to bring
a book and read," responded Nellie, quite
forgetting her annt'e lesson on propriety,
and smiling up into the yourig man's fade
in a way that would have horrified that
good lady,
" Ah, do yon ?"--looking at her curfone-
ly, " May I ask what books you read ?
Scientific works, no doubt,"
" Oh, no 1" she said, blushing with pret-
ty confusion. " I—I don't think I could
understand them."
Yon needn't with to ; you're too young
to bother your head with snob stuff. Poetry
then, eh 2".
" No' --looking more and more ashamed.
" Generally—that is often—a—a novel,
eir."
" A novel ? Well, well, so long as it le
a good one 1 But don't gall me ' air, my
dear."
" And do not call me ' my dear ;' "—and
the spoke with spirit,
" I beg your pardon, Mien Mill," he said,
rataing his hat, " You see you are so very
young,"
am not so very young 1" she inter-
rupted indignantly.�" I am eighteen ;
that is, I Shall be soon.
' "I am putting my foot In it again," said
Cecil, smiling, "Jaet like me."
1 �!
The words had hardly hit bin lips when a
vivid fi.ieh of lightning darted from the
oleude.overhead, followed almost immedi-
ately by an ear•epiitting crash of thunder,
while, like a cataract, down came the rain.
White with terror, and trembling in every
Nellie Mill clang to her Companion's
arm.
" Don't be frightened 1 Wo eau take.
aholter here," he said soothingly, drawing
her into the eloidten! near, and putting hie
inn eoend her wito an inatinot of protec-
tion; for she was eo small and child -like,
and her dimpled fa9e was pale with fear,
C'oae to the inner wall he espied the frag-
ment of a boncb. Placing her gently en it,
he remained standing beside her, It grew
darker every moment. The sky was now
blank with angry -looking olouds, which
were rent from ttmetotime by the lightning
the blue Seabee of which lighted up the
landeoapo with a ghastly glare. The battle
of the elements raged furiously ; but pres-
ently the rain ceased, and, a silence more ap
palling than the thunder followed every long
reverberating roll.
Never had Cecil Graham witnessed a scene
n
the
•and,absorbed1
•1 1 rand
so b Imo
au 9 g
spectacle, he almost forgot his oompanion's
praeenoe, until one forked dart split up the
trunk of a tree jolt in front of the are:, be•
neath which they cowered, eoatteri ig leaves
and branches, and upheaviag the turf. It
was followed by a clap BO frightful that even
CAI was aghast, and Nellie, wildly shriek-
ing, started from her seat. But firmly, al -
bolt tenderly, se•put her back, while she,
scarcely knowing what she did, hid her fade
on hia breast as he knelt by her side. A
feeling of plty and tenderness stirred In Cie
oil's heart tor the weak creature looking to
him for protection. Her hat had' long Moe
fallen off, and he stroked her dark tossed
curie with womanly software Even In her
wild terror, and amid the unabated fury.of
the tempest, Nellie felt and owned the in-
flnenoe of the man's etronger nature, and
she beoame gradually, it not calm, at least
perfeotly quiet.
" At last! Look up, my child," he said
gently ; and, looking up—the tears she had
been shedding glistening on the long curled
lashes—Nellie saw a bright golden buret of
sunshine streaming down from the parting
clouds, bathing leaf and grass in its eplen-
dour, while every tiny blade glistened.
S riftly the lurid Mends fled from the fair
face ofheaven, and the earth seemed to gain
life and gladness every moment.- The awal-
lows darted gaily about the ruined walla,
shaking glistening rain drops from the ivy,
and thrashes and larks sang as if they had
never sung before,
" It is like Heaven," said the girl, speak-
ing in a hushed tone, as they emerged from
their retreat.
" Like Heaven after a horrible death,"
added Ceoii. " Bat, really, that lightning
was magnificent 1 What a split it has
made here "—moving towards the shattered
tree.
"0h, don't go near 1" cried Nellie, taking
his hand in her own small one, and holding
it fast.
"Why not ? Do yon thin le punned
by an evil spirit ?" he asked, laughing
heartily, Nevertheless he obeyed that soft
grasp ; and, taking the little hand, he drew
it within his arm.
Tae two found Mrs. Mill looking out for
them in the greatest anxiety.
" 0 i, Nellie, oh, my darling," ehe cried,
almost sobbing, " where have yen been
I have been terribly upset. I could not
think where you'd been and got to ; and
suoh a hawful storm as we've had ! And
Mr. Graham—ay, but I'm right glad to see
you safe, air, And not wet, child ? Whore
have you beeen ?"
" Sheltering at Eaathore Abbey,': laugh
ed Cecil ; " and a sad fright your niece has
had. I am afraid that she too is' terribly
upset.""
Nellie did not speak ; but her glowing
face, radiant with smiles, belted this oon-
jeatare,
(TO BB CONTINUED.)
Teaohing Deaf -Mutes to Read.
Instruction to conveyed to deaf mutee in
most instances by the nee of sign language,
or the manual alphabet. The foundation
maxim of the methods need is " first ideas,
then words." The mind must be aroneed to
activity, and, as the foundations of know-
ledge whfoh other children acquire by the
aid of hearing are here wanting, progress is,
of oonree, very slow at first. Mildly, in-
struction le begun by the word method,
words being connected with the objects they
represent. For instance, the child is shown
some common obj lot, er a pioture ef an ani-
mal, and the printed name of the object
or animal le shown him at the same time,
Ho is three taught to connect names with
their objects and to recognize printed words.
When a few words have been learned, on -
tenors are framed, and the ohild is taught to
reoognize these as unite embodying a com-
plete idea. The printed and the sign alpha -
bete are taught together and, when theme
are mastered, inetruotion in spelling is not
difficult. After names of objeota, their ob-
vious p-opertiee, with numerals and verbs
of action, are next taught. 'Vhe adjectives
firet brought forward are those of size and
color, then prepcaitlone of locality. The
elmple tenaoe are exemplified by calling at-
tentten to a series of aotione. Mach nee to
made of contrast of ideas. A. child of 10 or
12 years of age, if poeseesed of ordinary ia-
telllgenoe, can usually, at the end of a year,
oonetruot for hlmeelf simple sentences about
every -day affaire. Daring the first two or
three years text -books prepared especially
for deaf-mutes are used, after that any text-
books will serve.
A Tragedy of the Far West.
' 'A dispute arose in an Indian camp near
Stookton Hill, Arizona, recently, and before
it ended a book named Paz it. with his
Winchesterrlfle shot and killed Ab Qatnthe
and his squaw, a daughter of Chief Leve -
Love, mortally wounded another bunk and
another daughter of the chief, and slightly
wounded two other Indiana. Then the
murderer fled, pnrened by invented braves,
Head Chief Sarum arrived at the camp
moon after, and hie first order was to kill
all the relatives- of the murderer. The
squaws and pappooses hurried to the miners'
Damp near by, and begged hiding plaoee in
their cabins, and tide aroused the minors,
who told the chief that he could not carry
out his bloody plan, and that he must coun-
termand his order. He reluctantly com-
plied, but ironed fresh orders' to bring Piz•
zur in at any Dost.
In the mean time the avengers were rid
Ing fast after the fleeing murderer, and fol-
lowed hie trail into the Wailapal Valley
until darkneee put an end to the pursuit,
Early next morning they took up the trail,
and, after riding twelve miles, they came
upon the dead bailee of the murderer and
his horse. It was apparent that after rid-
ing his horse until he gave out the Indian
killed him, and then, putting the muzzle of
hie Winohester to hia right eye, palled the
trigger, and cheated hie penman of their
antlolpatod vengeance.'
OVBR T iR OCEAN.
In the pariah of St Peter, Cornhlll (says
the City Press), where the rector receives
£2,300 a year, there is only one bona fide
readout ratepayer, and he is not a member
of the Churoh of England,
The Cvnrletian boys of our S anday school
will have to look to their laurels, A Chloeao
boy in a Ceristfan mission school ot Pekin
recently repeated the entire New Testa-
ment without missing a word or making a
mistake,
The Dross is said to be a pre Chrletian
sacred symbol, In the British Museum e
colonial tablet from Nimroud displays a
orosa hanging from the breast of Tiglath
Pdeeer. Ds. Sahlieman found this figure on
terra cotta duke at Troy, dating. as he sup.
pone, from a period of about 2,500 years
before C ariet,
" Eplsoopal duty in some parte of Aae-
tralta has its humorous side," says the
Ballarat Courier. "One prelate on his first
journey round waa flung into deep mud from
his horee, Rising ruefully, with hie chap
lain's help, and surveying the place, the
:
ereflection
with the
o
bicho consoled hie -coif
' I have left a deep impression in that part
of the diocese as any rate,'"
The Rev, Arthur Gray -Hone, of Tankee-
ton Lowers, Kent, England, who recently
died, has left his two eons the comfortable
sum of £4,000,000. This is a good deal of
wealth for a clergyman to pewee, and some
of the brethren on We lido of the water
would doubtless like to know how he saved
it out of his salary. The cable does not say
anything about It, but it is pretty certain
that he never allowed his pariehionere to
give him a donation party.
The little prayer book which Mary of
Scotland used on the eoaffold was Bold at
auction, in London the ether day. The
prayers are the handiwork of some rare fif-
teenth century ecribe ; they are written in
Latin on vellum, The pages of the missal
are exquisitely illuminated with elegant
borders of fruit, fiawere and birds; they are
aleo decorated with 35 minlateree by a
Flemish artist, pieoee of elaborate workman-
ship. The little book still rests in the orlg-
anal oak board, covered with silk, now
much worn, in which it was originally
bound,
A rival to the Rev. Mr. J leper, the Rich-
mond negro who maintained, in spite of all
argument to the contrary, that " the eun do
move," has been found in Kentucky, where
Bishop Turner, of the African Methodiet
C aural, has j sat been preaching that the
terrible tornadoes that have devastated
Western States of late are oaused by the
white man's impious uses of electricity, He
predicts that, if the eame rate of progress is
maintained for the next five years, whole
cities will be blown away, and that floods
will Dover the land as it never has been
covered since the Noaohian period.
The organ blower in a Landon ohuroh
recently fell asleep during the service, of
which fact the audience coon became .con-
solons by the vigorous blowing of his own
organ. The Rev. Arthur Hall, the preach•
er, after bearing it for awhile, stopped and
remarked : " I do not object to a quiet nap
on a hot day, and am flattered at being able
to contribute to any body's repose. But
while proud at being able to give the be-
loved Bleep, I wish it to be distinctly under-
stood that I draw the line at enoree. There
is a man snoring in the congregation, and I
shall be obliged if somebody will waken
him." The offender was quickly roused.
An engineering feat of more than ordin•
ary importance ie the completion of the
railroad tunnel under the river Severn, that
considerably lessens the dfstanoe between
the South Wales coal fields and those porta
and markets where a large amount of Welch
coal is required. This new tunnel is four
ranee and a half long, and being ventilated
on the fan system, the air is Buffiolently
clear to admit of daylight being seen for a
distance of two miles from either entrance.
The tunnel ie not yet quite ocmpleted, as the
necessary ventilation will require a larger
fan than the one now in nee, and the pump-
ing machinery ie net yet in thorough work.
ing order, while a good deal of work en the
new sidings and approaches Ie necessary for
the full development of the traffic.
The Comoro Isles, which have just been
formally ceded to France, will strengthen
her hold in Madagascar waters, as they Ile
between the great island and Africa, in
Mozambique Channel, Those of impor-
tance are four In number, and contain
perhaps 70,000 people, with some manufac-
tures, and a very conaiderable cultivation
of eager, now an export. French bit Ienoe
has long been dominant in the group, the
island of Mayotte having been ceded to
France more that forty years age, under an
agreement reaffirmed in 1845. Johanna, on
the island of the same name, where the
new treaty has jest been signed, has long
been a port call, at which ships obtain pre-
visions ; and to some extent the other two
lelande—Angaziya or Great Comoro and
Mohilia—have also furnlehed enppltee.
The soil is fertile, and no doubt they will do
quite as well under formal annexation as
hitherto.
On the West Coast of Africa.
My voyage along the coast and visite to
all the principal places have astonished mo
profoundly. 1 looked forward with pleasure
to a study of the influence which a century
of contact with civilisation has effected in
the barbarous trlbee of the seaboard. The
result has been unspeakably disappointing.
Leaving out of consideration the towns of
Sierra Leone and Lagos, where the condi-
tions have been abnormal, the tendency has
been everywhere in the line of deterioration.
There is absolu`ely not a single place, where
the natives are left to their own free will,
in which there is the slightest evidence of
a desire for better things. The worst vices
and diseases of Europe have found a congen-
lal soil, and the taate for spirits has risen out
of all proportion to their desire for clothes
—the criterion with many of growth in
grape, In these villages men, wo-
men, and children, with scarcely a rag upen
their persons, follow you about boeeeohing
fare, little gin or tobacco. Eternally gin,
tobba000, or gunpowder 1 These are the
sole wants aroused by a century of trade
and of contact with Europeans 1 And yet
how is this region represented in England?
Why, as a field "white unto harvest," The
African is described as looking -to our Gov-
ernment for a mere settled rule; as crying
to the Churches, " Come over and help us ;"
to our merchants, " We have oil, and rubbed,
and ivory; give no in exchange your cloth
and your outiery," " Ye pee us naked, and
ye clothe us not;" to the philanthroplat,
"We are able and willing to work, only
Deme and show ns the way." Pray banleh
all such rubbish from your minds, It (e
simply myth, -Joseph Thomson, F..R. 6. S.
Angustae Fulton, the only colored s.u-
dent ever dent from the United Stated to
the Propaganda hi Rome, has been ordained,
and will return to American to take
charge of a colored Catholic Church in ow
Orleans,
WOg4 i SDE' ' AG8.
AY A. R GARMIAN, A. A.
There Ie ono_ pbase c # thio woman suffrag
question that 1 have hitherto deemed Mr
worthy of notice), but it crops up so penis`
tautly and conatttutes the etook•in•trado of
eo many petty supporters of this movement,
that I must crave apace toexpose its net-
work of fallacy. It is the hackneyed but
ever confident assertion that if a woman
pays taxes, she certainly has a right to arty
how they should be expended. This is
gratuitously joggled into a reason why tax.
paying women should vote on all questions,
utterly regardless of the fact that our legla-
lators aro supposedly elected for many other
purposes than the disposal of the revenue.
(Let a developments at Ottawa, however,
might neem an excuse for this mistake,)
This reasoning would show that ouch women
have a right to vote only on purely fluenoial
questions, but if the advooatee of woman
suffrage are pleased with snob arguments
they need not atop for want of them. They
are plentiful, as for instance :—If a woman
must obey laws, surely ehe hat right to say
how these laws shall be made; rif a wo-
man i affected bythe of nor mus
ti
m t
Y
,
v laws of okn
beaubser fent to the 1 ass
and
health, it Is outrageous to hinder her from
having a voice in deciding when " old Sol"
ohall 6bice, or as to what will be the effects
of tete hours and bad air and eo on,ad infer.
ituni Hence It is evident that it does not
always follow that became% person is affect•
ed, finenclatly or otherwise, by certain !awe
that they oan frightfully claim a !land in the
framing of those lawn,
Again, this argument rests on the eeppo-
sitiou that the property quahftoation is en
amentia! element of the franohiee; awhile it
is freely conceded by all the ripe' thinkers
of the age that it is merely aooldentel, a
means to reach an end. If the poseesalon of
property or the reception of income Were the
sine qua non of voting, a certain amount of
property, (or inoome,) would be made the
unit of the franchise. That is, a man re-
presenting, say, 200 gored of land would
have one vote, while he, who held the deed
for 400 acres, could oast two votes; the pro•
perty (or income) possessing the vote, the
man being amply a highly oomplioated
automatic machine foedepooiting the ballot.
But this ie not the case. The unit
of the franohiee is the ei&i, and the
great Republic to the eolith freely
reoognieee' this principle in manhood euf-
frage. I do not intend to defend, nor
even to disown, this problem of manhood
suffrage ; it has its advantages and it has
its faults, and it fa solely to avoid one of
these faults that we tack the property
mialifioation as a test on to our system of
ttanchise, We wish to eeoape the "tramp
vote," as it Is called, an uninterested, ir're•
epeneible and purchasable element ; and
hence, while admitting the prinolple of MAN -
hood suffrage by making man the unit, we
effectively shut out tbis obnoxious Influence
by requiring a qualification that they do
not poeseee, Other means might have been
need. To demand a certain length of resi-
dence would have been equally effectual ;
making a certain status of eduostlon the
standard would have barred, not only this
vo e, but a propertied ignorant vote with
which we are note carted ;,and these pre -
relations to purify thetballot would not have
constituted the vital eeeeno� a of the Iran -
ebbe, but simply outelde helps'to render its
operations mere effaotive. And eo it is with
the qualification of property. It is the man
that votes ; and in so doing he exercises his
legitimate, God•given privilege.
Women, in some instanced, because, with-
out their natural protectorsmay poetess an
accidental, artificial qualification of the
franchise, but they took the essen-
tial element, the Divinely -ordained preroga-
tive of manhood. Ai well might a woman
claim the suffrage because, forsooth, she
is not insane nor an alien, or on the ground
that she escapee any of the barriers that
are raised to proteot the dieigMy or purity of
the franohiee,
I fanny that I have earned the right to
say a few words anent the noble work of
our women through the centuries without
exposing myself to a charge of flattery.
History ie replete with their achievements,
and when we look for their' lightest work it
is not to Semairamua and Joan of Aro but
rather to Either and Florence_ Nightingale ;
their duty lies nearer the hospital'; °than the
front of the charge, rather at the. hearth- .
stone than on the huatinga. From their
homea they nerved Roman valor and; defying
the barbarism of the middle ages, made a
beautiful chivalry possible. How many of
the foremost men ot our planet, when asked
the, secret of their euooese,have crystalized It
all in the word " mother ?' Ah 1
" The hand that rooks the cradle mores the world."
And if I were to write a panegyric
upon " woman, her work and her influence,"
1 should not seek my ideal on the lecture
platform or among tha corridors of the Cap-
itals, but in the humble homes of the people
where Martha Washington are rearing de-
Iiverers of the future, and Saeannah Wes -
lays are training minds to mould the massae.
Thera le true devotion, true `heroism, true
nobility, true woman.
In closing, I venture to state that women
are truer. to their sphere than many auppoae.
As a olass they do not desire the franchise,
and would repudiate it as a somi•ineult if
it were offered. They reoogniee that God
has given them a grand work to do, equal if
not superior to that allotted man ; and they
aro in no haste to barter their womanliness,
their sceptre of love, for a chance to jostle
with man as he sweats amid the duet of his
eordld struggle for pelf and position.
•.� +war
A Young Woman Dies of a Eattler's Bite.
About a month ago Mee Gertrude Martin,
a lovely and a000mplished society young
lady of Hort Henry, went on v eh to a
married sister in Tatnall county. Oee Tues-
day evening Miss Martin, aocSmpanled by
her enter and a young lady, went to a
blackberry patch about half a mile from the
house to pink blaokberrtes. About sundown,
put au the party was ready to return home,
Miss Martin cried out that ehe was bitten
by a snake. Her sister ran to her, and,
pulling off the shoe and atooking of the
wounded limb, saw only a slight scratch, as
if made by a pin. She at once applied her
mouth to the bite and tried to suck out the
pekoe, but the limb began swelling at a
rapid rate. She stopped sucking, and tak-
ing her handkerchief tied it around the leg,
jest below the knee. In the mean time the
young lady had gone to the house for as.
etetanoo. In about an hotir Miee Martin was
taken to the house, where all that was pose
able was done to relieve her. The swelling
oontinued until her entire body was swollen
out of all pioportion, and in five hours after
the snake had fastened its fang into her
Seth she was a corpse. Her death was a
horrible one, and yet ehe was oonsoiotis up
to the last moment,
"My question puzzler! yon ?" maid a pro -
baser to a pupil. �" Not at all," waa the
bright reply, "it re the antwor that fd a
atiokor."