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The Exeter Times, 1887-1-6, Page 7FT AND AND SPRAY LOVE AND VENGEANCE AMONG THE SMUGGLERS. And now he believe that he had seen owed their fate to him,wink amid the waste of watera to rise no more; but nothing had seemed to touch him so much as the OR, heartlesa abandonment of that young girl in the cebin of the Cowiette. her, DOW he fully believed that she had sented herself to him for the purpose of Tau MOST FASCINATING 00EAN ROMANCE SINCE THE DAYS 02? driving him to inadness ; and, with the sup- Cooexa AND Miamian, erstition which hi so frequently the concom- itant of such mind e as his, he looked upon clupTER xvin. tioxx of the cliff, when upheevings anti slips the appearance as u warning—a warning of of the coast were probably frequent, almost death 1 Almon A M.unaTY ettossia TIM SW:X(4"R8. the whole of that tall cliff was honey comb. Then all the bum of a life of sin—all the Already are our re,aders familiar a ith ed into numerous caverns, one of which was iniquities of a life of crime rose up before that little bay and its far -stretching prom- the large one that we have introduced the him; and, as he gazed about him in the sea- ontories—land-locked almost as it was— bounded southward, by the heaving seas of the English Channel—northward, by the tall beetling cliff—one that resembled that celebrity, whose high and bending head Looks real fay in the =fined deep." reader to, where hung the lamp. A very rigged kind of flight of steps— bread and steep—for they had been only roughly cut down the steep declivity of a natural passage—led fame this huge cavern to the level of the sea in the bay, but still I within the cliff ; and there wise a black look- , By the side of that cliff is a narrow cutting in 001 of sea water—a subterranean lakel or gorge, which, with many interruptions of about three hundred yards across—and from fallen porta:m.4'0f its chalky sides and which only slightly heaved to and fro on its , tangled massesef wild prickly vegetation, •surface, as it eympataized with the well of leads to the uppeta land. At about a quarter the water in the bay, with whieh it had! of a issile distant fstom the tallest portion of communication. the cliff there had been one of those laud - B lip BO coaunon round the coast of Eng- land; and, amid the fallen mass which had, in picturesque confusion, made a varied scene of hill and dale, there nestled, looking en to the beach, some half dozen fishermen's eotta.ges. One of these cottages belonssed to Dolen, the master and owner of the Rift. There, over the surface of this , inland piece of ostensibly, he carried on the trade of a fish- water, and new and, then there was a hoarse erman, and there was rather an ostentatious cry from some "Inman voice, as an order was display of black -looking nets hanging over given or responded to, the echoes of which the fence of the neglected garden. A cola would die away in strange gibbering noisee ple Of well -formed and perfectly seaworthy boats, though, were drewn up on to the beach in front ofthe cottage. It was not often that smoke curled up from the rude chimney of Dolen's supposed home, and it was not often that the door swung freely on its hinges. "Not at home," would have been the general answer of the very old. woman, who was usually nearly bent double with decrepitude, crawling about the place. But there were times when Dolan found it politic and necessary to affect to sit down by his own hearth, and. then that woman, whom we have already seen and heard en- deavoring to exercise a control. over Grace, would be there, and there weeild be the af- fected bustle of a little household. . The other cottages—hovels they might be ealled—were oecasionally in the occupation of various members of Dolan' s' gang of des- peradoes. In fact, this pretended little Torches stuck in different parts of the cliff armind this sea -lake gave a sort of twi- light appearance to the place, and showed a roof about a hundred feet in height from its surface. On this leke, with an idle' motion, stem and stern, rested the Rift. Dark looking, boats were silently rowed through the old cavern. But it is in regarcl to how the Rift got into this place that we have tow to do, and we Will no longer conceal that from the reader. • ' At one portion, of this lake—that towerds the smith—it seemed tole lost in the gloom of a narrow channel, ,whieh, althought its ceiling was as high as the rest of the place, or neerly so, •was very much contracted at its sides, This narrow channel led directly to one of those creviees or openings in the cliff which we have mentioned and which led out to the open. bay. 'In effeet, thee, this lake of dark sea.water, in which lay Rift so securely, was but artextensive &Vern, 'into which rushed the waters of the bay and in which the level rose Or fell, according as the state of the tide without, • ' The only 'different* was in the extent of the cavern and in. the fact that the opening group of fishermen's dwe finga was beta from the face of the °tiff into it was not visa blind, to be used occasionally by Dolan Bald ble from the bay. some of his crew, to account for their being And yet that °penile, directly faced the in or about that spot at all. south, and, had it been visible, would have A narrow road led from this cluster of presented a jagged apetture of about fifty cottages into a high road that went direct feet in width and the stone inheight tothe town. And now for the simple means. by which At the top of this narrow road was a lita tie, low, whitewashed dwelling, in which resided a man with a wooden leg, who pre- tended to live by making nets, and those lumpy combinations of rope and oakum by which partial collisions between the fishing cutters were staved. off and rendered innocu- Ons. 1 . This old man, tlioschssriad. hanging in his ed the canvas; sea -water and seaweed had hut every curious •ald . horn, with many stained it with colo a resembling the cliff, twists and convolutions, such as one sees against the sides of which it flattened itself, occasionally in. some old French Fitt of and, unless actually suspected and looked sportsmen, in some of the ancient forests of for, it might well baffle the closest observer. tat land of political mutations and when Many an eye—many a telescope had run over ; ittisztatioddilehzpeeyd, whecirilndtehrebeee etbooststatiwleh to dbedwowenultdowmaerwd ptheiuseceaneres ncovtbereinigae; ebeuft awchiaiirt wasthere g. : (3, bsetreaenbgepfaosottsbteiep eweetntedgeer,e !chilli sAn:eardelaTugibWilitsech4imibdghjitiligta.% ,teh that ficloseness be and landslip. something unusual. And the way was so rough and rugged, Novesselwith more draught of water the holes and pits so numerous, and the than lo the lightest ever came into the bay black mud so tenacious, that no one, unless at all, and there was no temptation to go persevering to an uncommon degree, ever close to the cliff, which had a reputation for went very far in thallkeetion. now and then sliding down a ton or two of But it is not withthe cluster of chance chalk into the bay. fishermen's cottages that we have now to do . At half-tide, then, or beyond it, the Rift —nor with the old man at the top of the could be sailed into the opening, and safely lone road, with his curious convoluted moored in the lake in the cavern; and in French horn—nor. with the beetling cliff, so five minutes, or less, ,the canvas covering far as its outside conformation is concerned; could be strewn over the aperture in the but it is away from ths light of day—away cliff and gradually, as the tide receded, it from the daucinae, sunlight,the seuddin g could be lowered to meet the level of the clouds, and the deep green sea, that we sea. would conduct our readers. And what, with the shadows from pro - Dimly lighted by a huge old lamp, sus- jeetions, and all the artifices that Dolan and pended by a heavy chain, from a hook bur- his crew used to give the canvas a natural ied deeply in the chalk ceiling, there is a color, you might have rowed to within a huge, irregularly shaped cavern. Take it hundred feet of the artifice, and not observe altogether, its superfieial area must have it. been some thousands of feet, although the Hence was it, then, that the Rift escaped many irregularities of its shape and the deep the Spray; hence was it that the Rift, when iudentations that made up its full dimen- apparently close on to the clift fired those sions, presented the effect of the huge actual guns, in order that, sheltered by their smoke size being appreciated.(which could not escape except by slowly The walls were green and. moss grown in rolling up the face of the cliff), she might some cases—that first kind of vegetation., have the opening in the face of the rock which is rather a stain than any that cleared for her and sail in, and so disappear, can actually be defined by the eyes. Flint- as she had, from before the astonished eyes stones and fossils of many different varieties of those on board the Spray, projected from the chalky rock, and the With her cargo of smuggled goods the ceiling, which was an irregular dome over- Rift would thus make a good port; and head, presented many jagged masses, which then, at night, boat load after boat load seeined ready at any moment to fall upon would iSSUO out of the cavern and make for the floor below, or upon the head of any one the land -slip, where there would be plenty who might be in the cavern. of assistance to carry them off to a market Blackened was that ceiling by smoke, and, somewhere inland. in some cases, where a fire of logs had been And now we resume the thread of our kindled against the wall of the cavern, the narrative. flames and the smoke had gone right up to Pale and trembling Dolan stood on the the ceiling, creckling, charring and blacken- deck of the Rift and the faint light from the ing the chalk in a singular fashion.torches of the sea cavern fell upon his rest. There were leading to and from this huge less eyes. There was a wildness of expres- cavern many cuttings or openings—jagged sion about the face of Dolan that he had and uneven—some tall and narrow—others never worn before and had his crew been of a nearly circular shape, which it would adepts in physiognomy they mightwell have require some stooping and some skill to pass expected that the events of this last voyage through; and, throughout the whole, there of the Rift had gone far to unsettle the brain was at times a rushing, moaning sound, 0,51 of their bold and unscrupulous commander. the wind from the bay forced its war There was a quiver of the muscles about through the masses and hollows of the cliff. the mouth; an uneasy, restless searching This cavern, then, occupied a good portion here and there about the eyes; and, now of the centre of the huge cliff we have spoken' and then, a short, sharp, sudden turn of the all observation of this opening was baffled. A couple of old mainsails achieved every- thing. ,By a clever system of cordage, man- aged. by half a score of pulleys from within, these two old mainsails could be stretched over the outer face of the cliff, completely hiding the opening from view. They were daubed with chalk. The weather had stain- of. head, as though he expected something By narrow torNtjtot us passages, which re- that it would be terrible to see was close asc quired care 'to end them, other minor ;i; and with more than mortal rapidity caverns could be reached, as well as various likely to glide behind his back on his at - lookout places on small plateaux in the face tempt to see it. of the cliff, where a human being would have 'Truly, the imagination of Dolan was in looked, from seaward, like a piece of flutter- anything but a healthful state. ing weed, or some bird prowling about the It was the vision in the eabin of the Rift face of the cliff, that had been. the proximate cause of this This, then, was the real home of 'Dolan, mental condition on the part of the smug; the smugglers, and of his lawless crew. It gler and pirate. was reached in two ways—there was a 500 et It frequently happens that men like Do - passage to it from thQ gorge in the cliff, lan will, so far as conscience and.remorse there was another passage to it from the bay, Looking from the seit foivard this portion of the cliff -hound coast of England, numer- ous black, irregular rocks could he seen about the base of the chalky promontories ; and these indicated' washings away of por- tions of the eliff, into which the sea, on oc- casions of unusual storm and commotion in the Channel, hadruslxcd, enlarging by de- grees the hollow, until it becomes a veri- table cavern of, in Some caees, thirty Or forty feet in depth. There is nothing curious or peCitliar in these cliff caverns. Res\ into rine at half tide, .and you find it gloo y, and with a de- cided odor of sea Weed. A freak of nature, however, had made one Of these opehinga in the cliff serviceable to eavern, the translation of his expression might have bean: "1 am. going from life, and then how will it fare with me?" 13ut it was net likely that such a man as Dolan would wholly succumb to feelings such as those without some struggle. He roused himself to action, and although there was craven fear at his heart, he strove to speak in his usual tone. "Now, my men," he shouted, "look alive. The Rif b has beaten, off the Spray, and in our old home on the cliff wo may yet defy all the power that can be brought againit us. Bustle now, my men. We have a full cargo, and the night will be just the one for us. No moon, I take it, Martin? "None till the twenty-fifth," said Martin, shortly, and, as Dolan thought, with an ex- pression very different from that in which e usually spoke. Dolan would fain have asked what change had come over him, but he dreaded now to do so, lest the reply should be one that would. increase his fear. Then, from the 'various deep indentations of the sea. cavern, issued boats, and they , surrounded the Rift. It was into these borate , that the cargo was to be stowed, and then, I in some secure hour of the night, they were to be rowed out of the bay, and round the promontory, to the group of cottages in the I supposed occupation of fishermen, but the real tenancy of Dolan and his crew. When there, they would be met by an agent, who would buy all the goods and take all further risks attendant upon them. This agent, though, knew nothing of the secret caverns in the cliff. cement to one thing I will leave the cavern yat:u°'11:1:hvia'tli:eletnhiant 1 What thing 7" Obey me cheerfully and promptly, as the habit of doing; for I work for the good of all." " Yes, yes, cried all present, that will "NOW to work." (To als CONTINDED,) Advice to Lovers. The young man, when be goes to pall Q4 his lady -love, puts on his beet duds and makes his mother or sisters fly around and . . help lam get himself up in the best form puesible. He jaws them, gets mad, slams things around regardless of consequences, kicks the wall because his Ehoe pinches, and finally rushes out, looking as MSS as a teased terrier. He forgoee a drink cm a cigar for fear of their spoiling his breath, and loads his head - kerchief with the perfume best calculated to disguise or smother the taint of eigerette smoke. The young lady is expecting him, of course; has had her hair an in papers all: day; the afternoon has been spent In get- ting ready to. receive him, and when the parlor lights are burning she looks a very angel. Had he seen her in the morn- . . . . mg with a ian ere ie le moue ter head, heard her complaints of indigestion. and nervous headaches, seen her slovenly, morning wrappings, and caught a few of her tartly -expressed views on the conduct of her mother and the family in general, he would have been in a ,quandary as to which region the angel belonged. In the parlor all is smiles, tenderly -lisped phrases, melting glances, and protestations against all that is rude or disagreeable, and in favor of that which is gentle and long- suffering. They deceive themselves as well as each other. Probably they do not mean it, but they do it. Of course, the ardent youth who reads this will say it is not for hina. Those who have had their wings singed in the delusive blaze are the ones who will read it with deepest interest and ap- preciate it most. They. can only sigh and wonder why someone did not say as mach to them ; yet there is much satisfaction even In that sigh. If they are sufficiently phil- osophical to make the best of it, to keep the bright side out, and to persistently refuse to go behind the scenes, they may get along; , but if they give way to regrets, take to drink or lending fault with their mothers-in- law, their days of happiness are done. Persons of ardent dispositions, especially young persons, should be very carefulnot to allow th.emselves to be carried too fast or too far by what they consider true love. It may pan out nothing more enduring than infatu- ation. The sensations are so similar at first that an expert might be bothered for a while to determine which is which, but tune will tell the tale. Love remains bright alike through sunshine and storm, and even times corroding breath does not dim its lustre. ,On the other hand, infatuation flashes and burns with an intense brilliant glare, dim- ming every other light, and paling the glories that have always been regarded as resplen- dent. As months. pass, however, the glare becomes less and less intense, and finally the place where the fire was is marked only by smouldering embers or unhappy lives. There are times in the life of every young man when he thinks his whole happiness, usefulness, ,and existence itself depends on marrying a particular lady. He is m earnest about it, although he may be ashamed of , himself a few years later. How fortunate if something happens to prevent his giving way to his matrimonial impulses, because ho is just as sure to be ashamed of his ness married as single. If you can induce married folks to tell you the trtitil• truth, and nothing but the truth young days and their early love will all, with rare exceptions, ts hearts whom they regarded as h and that no amount of reasoning -e vela have convinced them that they could lave without their constant company. First love is all right if the lovers are properly mated. The mere fondness for each other and the love -sickness which is usually developed in such cases are not a sure sign of fitness for marriage. There are scores of bachelors and maids who are such from disappointment in their first love. It affected them so that they have been unable to banish that "fairest face and divinest form" from their hearts. There is always a vacant chair beside them and an invisible guest at their feasts. These are compara- tively rare instances, yet enough to make a respectable exception to the general rule. It is not best to make an engagement until both parties have arrived at an age when they are able to be trusted with the trans- action of business. They should have a clear apprehension of the responsibilities they are assuming, have a well-defined course mark- ed out through life, and a definite under- standing with each other as to how they are to live. By following such a course there is not much danger of making a mistake. are, concerned, clamber over the wiekedness of life; and then does wine one circumstancc. that in itself will seem of less value than many which have included it will, like a spark rushing through a train of powder, awaken all dormant fears and dormant con- sciousness of guilt and shatter all the con- fidence or indifference of the perpetrator. it was thus with Dolan H . e thought that he had seen, in his cabin it vision ; the vision—delicate, gentle, and beautiful—of that youngand innocent girl whom he had left to perish on board the Coquette ; the vision of that child -like crea- ture, whose sweet smile and gentle eye had rested upon him for a moment, when he was plundering the lockers of her father's cabin. Many a strong man had fallen before the Dolan. By some subsidence of the chalk, or vengeful arm of .Dolan. He had heard the by some "fault" in the original construe- death-shrick, as drowning wretches, who "Look sharp !" said Dolan, with a.0 af- fectation of firmness, although his voice =eked as he spoke, and several of the crew started, fqr they could scarcely, at the mo- ment, recognize it, "look sharp, for all must be done to -night, and there is no time to lose. "Ay, ay, Eir," growled one. "1 don't think there is, now, as we have fired on a king's ship." "Who is that?" "Me.—Job Lines. Here I am." "What no you mean?" "Just what I said, Captain Dolan, which was that there was no time to lose. Hoy 1 shipmates—hoy ! No time to lose 1" At these words from this man a ringing ishout rang through the cavern and the work of unloading the Rift was at once suspended as by a common agreement among the men, which, those words were the signal. " W'ha, is this?" shouted Dolan. "Oh, there will be no harm, captain." " Mutiny!" "We don't know the word here. There is no time to lose, mates, is there ?" "None 1" shouted the crew. "'What is it? What is it? Are you all mad?" "No)' said one, standing up, in one of the boats "but we should be if we went on in this kind. of way any longer. It was all very well before a king's ship was in com- mission against us and before we fired on her. We were smugglers, so far as they knew, and if caught, why the worst that would have befallen us would have been that we should have been clapped on board a ma -of -war; but now—now, my mates— "It's the yard -arm 1" cried half a dozen voices. "Aye, rt is.- " What do you mean ? What do you want ?" said Dolan. "I do not understand you. I share with you all perils—perhaps more than any or you know of. What do you want then of me ? What can I do ?" "'Share and share alike and let this be the last venture!" " Ah 1" "Yes, the last; no more of it 1 Let each go on his own cruise and there's an end." "1 think I understand you." "Of course you do," laughed one, and then the laugh became general; and Dolan felt that his authority was gone and that hes career as captain of the Rift was over. "1 do understand you," he said. "Silence, lore and aft, for the skipper !" cried one. "He's going to tip us a yarn now, mates." " Nurra.h 1" • "Silence all shouted Dolan in a voice that awakened . every echo in the cavern, for his passion was now roused. "Silence all and hear me, or by the heavens above us finish the cruise by sending to his re- ward a couple of you 1" From the capstan top, close to where he stood, he lifted a heavy pair of the ship's pistols and held theinthreateningly. There was a prOfound stillness among the crew. "If;" he added, "it is your wish that the °raises of the Rift should end, be it so. I keep no ship's company together against their will. I tnay, or I may not, try to get together another crew. I don't say now one way or the other; but the share of the plunder of our cruises, to which yea are ali entitled, you shall have freely and honestly; and for your satisfaction, I can tell you that, by tlse care I have taken, each share will be much snore than any of you antici- pate." A loud shout arose from the crew, and one-half of the popularity of Dolan bad come back to him. I say to you all," he added, "that you will be surprised at what you will get." Dolan was turning sarcastic. • "And feel convinced that it -will be sufficient to settle you all for life."' "Hurrah 1" And, now, I have only in thefirst place to recommend to you all, if you doe't want to bring suspicion and the Philistines upon you, .to make less noise." " Ay, ay, captain." All were hushed. " And, in the second place, let us get rid of this cargo, which is the cheapest we ever had, since we did 210t pay Captain Mocquet anything for it, and the money it will pro - dime will add to the general stock largely." "Ay, ay, sir. That's good—oh, that's 'all right—fair play all the world over I" Such were the various expressions elicited by the speech of Dolan, who bent his malig- nant eyes from one to the other of the crew, while a sneering stnile curled the corners of his mouth. Then all's well," he said. "Ay, ay, captain, all's well." " But when,' said one, " will the division of the spoil take place and where ?" "To -morrow night and here 1" prozeptly cried Captain Dolan. " That will do." •" But, until then, my men, unless you Time for Self -Culture. No one can ever plead that he has no time for self -culture, for in his busiest hours he may find abundant means to elevate and energetically ; he. must strive for excellence in his department; he must learn to take i pleasure n the good he is bestowing as well as in that he is receiviug. Toil is the school for high principles. The most fruitful sources of truth and wisdom are experience and observation, and these belong to all conditions. Almost all labour demands in- tellectual activity, and is best carried, on by those who invigorate their minds so that the two interests, toil and seltoulttue are Mends to each other. • The Star, Christmas Eve—and the mellow light Of the Star in the East was aglow O'er the Magi, hastening through the night, In the desert, long ago. Christmas Eve, and the gentle light Of the Star in the East was aglow O'er the latribs, asleep with their shepherds by night, On the hillside, long ago. Christmas Eve—and the golden light Of the Star in the East was aglow o'er a Baby's brow, in the holy night, In a manger, long ago. ChrIstmos Eve—and the blessed light of the Star in the East is aglOW, As it shone of old, through the Sweet, still night, O'er Bethlehem, long ago, NEW YEALWB FUN. A, swell affair—The big-head. Fine language—Ten dollars and cost. Thep is very little eatisfactiou In light- niag, kissing. The tender passion—Theantipathyagainst tough steak. A girl may wear the hat of a man, audit' bobtail goat herself array, But can mow lie mistaken for a man, Beuause she ain't built that way. Sick wife—" If I die, John, you will never marry again, will you ?" John- (with un- necessary earnestness)—" No, indeed 1" Well, but if you're a Dublin man how came you to be born in Cork?" "Shure, it was just this : I was staying there at the toime." If there is anything that makes a man long for solitude it is to stand and talk to a man who is breathing the aroma of several brands of poor whisky into his face. Modesty is a beautiful garb for maidens. —exchange. Of course, the weather being— cold, they will want something war—but then, a sealskin saeque doesn't destroy the effect of modesty at all. A child walking with his father ono (ley, saw a hen feather lying m the street. He stopped abruptly, and stood gazing at it for some minates, then pointing towards it in- quired, nats — ca turkey I've just found out why lightning never strikes twice in the mune place," said Farm- er Furrow to the deacon, as they stood under a twain a thunderstorm. "Why is it ?" said tkli deacon. "Because, sir, the same place is never there after the lightning once hits it." It has already been so cold inDakota that a man couldn't go buggy riding with a widow and keep his arm around her fifteen minutes without getting his fingers frost- bitten. Eight months of the year is dead against Dakota women, and that is why so many single females return East. " Well, doctor, is there any improvement in my condition this morning ?" Hardly, ray Christian friend ; I am afraid you'll have to be thinking 9f the great change. You do, of course, sometianes consider the certainty of death." "Oh, yes, doctor; that thought strikes me every time you en- ter the room." It was at the police court and it was an assault case. The witness testified that the assault occurred on Sunday. "How do you know it was on a Sunday ?" asked the lawyer on the other side. "Because that day I had to go to the back door of the saloon to get my whiskey instead of the front door." Some strolling Thespians were once play- ing "Macbeth" in a county town. Their properties were not kept in very systematic order, for when the hero of Shakespeare's drama exclahned "Is that a dagger that I see before me ?" a shrill voice responded from the " flies" : "No, sir ; it's the putty knife. The dagger's lost." Tony McOwen remarked to Captain Nor- ris that he sat down to his breakfast every morning at half -past eight. Norris said it seemed odd that he could sit down to his breakfast at half -past eight, for when he got through it was "ate" Whereupon Mc - Owen drew a revolver and shotNorns dead. The jury said justifiable homicide. "You are a respectable looking man,' said the judge; "how did you happen to get drunk yesterday and make suet' a rum- p.. ess sue ofAr....60 tlaab it took four men to conduct you to ll you, -- Country Vei'SlIS City. Country Uncle—" NextSmnmer, Fannie, you must come orit and spend a month with us on the farm, and see us every morning go out into the field with our hoes on our shoulders." Irannie--" Humph, that's the last place in the world I'd think of wearing my hose." see A teacher, recently much impressed by the good behavior of one of her pupils, com- plimented him by remarking: You are a good boy. Your mother must take pains in raising you." " Yes," said he ; " it is painful. She raises a blister every time she raises me." este in - ..m went out and got — escape the piano .recital ?" I did, your Honor; I confess it." "The 'ag- gravation was overpowering," said the judge, " and I discharge you. 1 havebeen there myself." The Czar's Protege. Nicholas Dalian, titular priuce of Ming - retie, son of the late prince regnant, David Dadian, and of the Princess Catherine Tchavtchavadze, was born on Jan. 4, 1847, and is consequently well advanced in Isis fortieth year. When he was 6 years old his father died, broken-hearted, -It is said, at the domestic troubles -of bis realm and the failure of his own plans for increasing its importance and prosperity. On Prince David's death his widow assumed the reins of government, and reigned over Mingrelia for three years with singular energy and sagacity. Unfortunately she was on un- friendly, terms with her brother-indsev. Prince Gregory Dadian, who deemed him- self the proper person to fill the office of re- gent- during his nephew's minority, and in the year 1856—shortly after the accession of Alexander Nicolaievich to the throne of all the Itussias—an insurrection broke out in the principality,. The Princess Catherine stood high in the -favor of the late Czar, hav- ing stanchly adhered to the Russian cause throughout the Crimean war, and even led her partisans in person against the forces of Omar Pasha. Being unable to restore order to Mingrelia unaided, she solicited the as- sistance of Russia. In compliance with her request, Mingrelia was occupied by imperial troops, dispatched thither with the profes- sed object of keeping peace until the youth- ful prince should attain his majority. Short- ly afterward, howrver, an imperial proclam- ation issuedantroducing Russian adminstre- tion into Mingrelia, and ,Nicholas 'Mien became a mediatized prince: The czar hav- ing expressed a wish personally to superin- tend his education, he was conveyed. to St. Petersburg by his mother and there enrolled in the corps of pages, from which in due time he was transferred to the cavlary guard school for young noblemen. As soon as his military studies were completed he received a commission in the Gerdes du Corps regi- ment, in which he rapidly rose to the rank of captain, and was appointed aide-de-camp to the late emperor. In the spring of 1873 he espoused a daughter of Count Asilerberg, at that time the all-powerful fevorite of Alexander Nicolaievioh, and subsequently, through his 'father-in-law's influence, recov- ered a considerable part of the territorial possessions formerly belonging to the princes of Mingrelia, his ancestors. The fruits of this Marriage were a son and a daughter, Nicholas and Salome, respeetively 10 and 8 years old at the present tune. The prince of Mingrelia is an honorary colonel in the Russian army, but relinquished the active duties of his profession some years .ago. His only sister, tlie Princess Salome, mar- ried Prince Achille Murat in 1858, and at once took a leading position in Parisian so- ciety. Prince Nicholas himself has been a resident in Paris, where his amiability and polished manners made an agreeable impres- sion upon all those with whom he was brought Into contact The Babies, DoOnitions relating to tho human apeeiat continue to flow in upon us. The treatment of babyhood (of whieh the following are ex. emplee) appears to have received—no doubt, naturally—even nore general and thorough consideration then that accorded to the "grown-ups." The result has been an unusual variety in the views of intestine existence taken by young and old; in fact we do not recellect an instance in which, out of several hulls are& of answers, ther e have been so few re- petitions of the same. DEFINITIONS ON A BABY. The " iniekle" which " makea muckle." Last come—first served. As yon were.!" Home-made pickle. Master of the Household Troops. lrishttbe)dagiteion Little Folks." eS pworetiiinpugltte(itick." A Author's copy. Cupid's Telephone. Early edition of Smiles. The Prince of Wails A little fret work. A young recruit of Ma's (Mars). Fresh hew (air). "Creepy-crawly 1" First Prize in tile school of life. A lap -lander. " Automat of the break -fest table. A whaler (wailer) often in a squall. Short and sweet. A perfect coo-er (cure 1). Programme for a promenade concert. A happy compound of the sebline awl the ridieulous. Humanized April. A duck, bet no peas (peace). A bud of hiunan nature, unstained by vice, uugoverned by virtue. A breaker of the h'ifth Commandment -- constantly in arms against its mother. "One of. the Light Brigade." Petroleum. Recent developments in the great petro- leum district on the Caspian Sea attracts attention. The importance of our export trade in oil may not be fully; realized by everybody. Petroleum is the fourth of our exports as regards value, being surpassed only by cotton, wheat and meat The value of our foreign trade in oil last year was more than $50,000,000. From a recent review of the subject in the New -York Times we glean Borne interesting facts. In the Caspian Sea district, a well owned by Tagieff & Co. is discharging no less than 2,750,000 gallons of oil daily. The fountain is 224 feet high. This seems incredible, but in 1883 the great Droojba well discharged for 43 days a daily average of 850,000 gallons and in 115 days yielded more than 55 000 000 gallons. The greaterrart of the oil from the Tagieff well will be lost in the sands; the market price received for it would scarcely pay for storage, for it is said that tens of millions of gallons of re- fined oil can be brought at Baku for a penny a gallon. Notwithstanding the growing im- portance of the Russian trade, our export trade is not falling off. The quantity of illuminating oil exported from the United States has increased. from 204,000,000 gallons in 1876 to 458,000,000 gallons in 1885, and in 1888 the sales in the Old World havebeen 09,000,000 gallons. The exports of crude oil also advanced -- 000,000 gallons in ""-- 1RS2P, Frieze plush panels and elaitt borders to match are seen on many imported French and .Etiglish frocks, .There are many signai• failures when the weather bureau ilage are hoiSted, oroutuleis have suffered in. aaapention by reason of the inferior quality of their product, and lack of cheap transportation. At last accounts four aareat firms—including the Rothschilds of Paris—were bidding for the contract to build a pipe line from Baku to Batoum- which will cost $10,000,000 and be '560 miles long, with a capacity to carry 160,000, 000 gallons a year, at a tariff of about one cent a. gallon. Thus it will be seen that nothing but the superior quality of Ameri- can oil will cause it to hold its place in Europe, after this line shall have been fin- ished. Theprice of refined oil at American ports is now 6 cents.—Country Gentleman rrr.r. ...1.•••••••••••••• ••.••••• AHeart Broken -Monkey. . In the monkey's cage at one of the public resorts in Chicago is a very large and some- what prehensile monkey. Some time ago he contracted a skin disease,the ravages of which have sadly disfigures" his countenance. As it caused him little or no pain, he paid. little attention to it The younger monkeys in the cage have guyed him occasionally, but he was in blissful ignorance of the cause of their jibes. For the last few days there have beeu several broken bits of looking. glass in the cage, with which the younger monkeys have been amusing themselves. The old monkey at last had his curiosity aroused, and he slipped down, took a piece of the glass away from a _ smaller monkey, and then climbed onto a perch in order to investigate with becoming dign ty. First he critically examined the back o the glass with a very knowing look on his disfigured face. Then he turned it over. The moment he saw the reflection of his own countenance he cense near falling off backward from the perch, while an expression of horror over- spread hie face. For &moment he was stunn- ed. Then he pulled his chin whiskers medi- tatively and finally screwed up enough cour- age to look in the glass again. It confirmed all his worst suspicions. With a howl, he threw the glass from him and went raving about the cage. All the little monkeys were horror-stricken an 1- el:A out of the old man's way. After awhile m s -t anoher piece of glass, inspected his distigise 1 countenance, and vainly tried to rub away at whit espots. Failing in this, he gave up in dsepeir and again took to raving. He has efused to eat since hemade the discovery, and will allow no one to look him in the face. His heart seems broken. The New Housekeeper. "What is the matter with my little wife?' Her dainty head falls on his shoulder, and betwecn the sobs that shake her slight frame, she says : "Wi-Will, I fe-feel so b.a-acl. I wanted to make some bababistuit this noon'a-a-and got the wa-wa-water and s -a -a -l -t and ye -ye - yeast, but there's something mi-mi-inissing, and I can't think whit -whit -what itis." Mr. Youngman smiled quietly, and clasp- ing his young wife to his watch pocket be placed his lips to her ear and whispered, .a " Flour." One may titillae old. matting which‘Qm longer fresh enough to look well, by putanirs it under carpets. It atm be eleened perfect- ly by washing it on both sides with hot water and salt; hang it on a line out -doors to dry. A young lady of beautiful features May, it is said, be 'seen deity in the streetof it Berlin driving a luxurious; vehicle. he charges however throe times the ordin Ty fare for the immense privilege of beisW, shiven by hex self,