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The Exeter Times, 1887-1-20, Page 6,UTELLIOTT; OR, A 1 RO A TALE OF SOCIAL LIFE IN OANADA. PART III,--(CaNxiNoi p,) Discouraged and bear t•brokenwith trouble and grief she returned home, tend that night beganto gather together a few articles of clothing, that she thought would be rin wir- ed; and hurriedly packing a valise, she re- tired after having given a few hasty instruc- tions to her servitude, and telling them she was about going on a journey for i few days. She retired early to get, if possible, some rest before starting on the early morning train ; for she had resolved to seek her brother's interference on behalf of her worthless husband, if possible ible isscot e his release. Such is woman's love. She could endure the misery of a drunken husband, but she could not bear the mortification ADA bun iliatioa of the thought, that her husband, the father of her child, should be branded as a common felon; and the only hope she saw to save him was to enlist her brother Percy's co-operation. She did not intend to be long away if her efforts were apeot of delay ; if her errand was to be of sucoessfnl, but if not she would much rather any use it ;rust be done quickly ; it would never see Montreal again• not brook delay. With such feelings as these she arose early, after a sleepless eight, and taking a light breakfast and wrapping baby care- fully in travelling attire, she started for the station, accompanied by a maidservant, " Gone home," she sighed, with a groan, "Yes, enol he lives more than three miles from here," said the wan, 'way out on Dwell' port Road," " Davenport Road ?" she repeated, " and where is that, may I ask ?" " Oh, I perceive you're a stranger here. Well, ma'am, it'a a long way out, and it's snowing too bard now ; it's too stormy for you to find it to -night, Yon take Youge Street cars and then you get off and follow the road into the country. There are many fine houses along that road, and I can't di- rect you, but if you make inquiries you'll '1 Duda now, e 11not be here til M find it.He'll y to=morrow, Saturday, is Christmas, you know, and I'm shutting up to go home now till Monday. We won't be open till then." " Oh I must Nee him at onee, to -night. I must see him," she said, as the snow blew in her face, almost blinding her. ` "God help me," she said, as her heart sank at the pro. Wild grew the tempest, as it howled among the tall warehouses, and it was grow. ing dark early. • She pushed on, but,lost her way and went several blocks too far ;$rally, through the kindness of a pity wetchman, who carried her valise, all the while wonder- who accompanied her to within sight of the ing what freak this was her mistress, always' .hotel, .].elle:.:get beak and sank exhausted on so sensible and nice, had taken. Always the lounge in her bedroom. thoughtful for her mistress' and baby's wel- "Did you find him ?" enquired the kind. fare, she had fixed up a nice lunch, which hearted landlady, as she entered. she stowed away in a basket with a nice " Find him, no ; but I heard of him and - <: beetle of fresh milk, and seeing her mistress he's a long way out of the city. Oh, I must oncthe 7.30 train she wended her weary see him to -night, I must see him to -night," ., steps back to the house, wondering in her she exclaimed. The landlady, now thoroughly interested in her, tried to soothe and comfort her, and encouraged her by saying that after she had got some warm supper she, might go out and she would care for baby. heart what new trouble this could be, or whether, in desperation, she had finally - concluded to escape from her misery by .deserting her home, and her miserable hus- band. Of course she was not yet aware that he had been arrested. With a few cups of good warm tea her It was a cold, stormy night when Ruth heart seemed to gain strength and with it reached Toronto ; and being weary, she new resolve. She would undertake the sought shelter in a quiet looking hotel near journey, she didn't know the house, but she the station, where she was directed by the would take the street cars, and she could en - kind -hearted watchman, whose stentorian quire. But here a new difficulty arose. He voice diet waked the echoes in the vaulted lived with some friend ; he was not monied, ,d'°°1 elf the Won Station for so many years. had no house of his own. What was the P"jjv tleorge," he mused to himself, that's name of the people with whom he lived? the most beautiful face I ever saw, be she She could only hope by enquiries to succeed. flesh, or spirit, or both, it's all the same ; Wrapped in a heavy winter shawl kindly she's • a beauty and no mistake. It's too lent her, off she started, and taking the bad to see her in such trouble, poor lady ; first car at the corner, forgot to ask where she looks as if she was after loosing every it went to until, on Sherbourne Street, well friend she ever had in the world. Perhaps up, she asked where Yonne Street was, and she's lost her money; I guess that's it. Well, was told she must alight and walk across to an' faith, if that's so, I'll be true to my it; So Carlton Street led her to Yonge, country's good name, for I'ni not an and there, bewildered by the crowd of faces, Irish gintleman if I don't go over to old not one of which she recognized, she, after Stubbs who keeps the ' St. James' and making enquiries for Davenport Road, start - volunteer to pay for the night's lodging for ecl on foot, no car as usual being in sight. herself and her baby ; she hadn't much On, on she sped through the blinding snow. luggage, nayther ; only a valise. Sure Finally she reached the little chapel ; this that thing don't look just right ; there's was Davenport road. .And then for the ex - something wrong. Maybe she's been turned periment of finding a man in a multitude out of house and horse by some drunken without any direction. blackguard or another." There was no time to lose; the storm eon - And so off started rio. X to make things tinued with unabated vigor ; the snow was smooth for the distressed lady. blinding if one faced it ; it was dismal, but "Fair, Mr. Stubbs, and I sent you a very her's was a heroic spirit ; for love's sweet dacent lady in distress over from the station. sake, and because she pitied and forgive one She arrived by No. 4 from the East. Now who had grievously wronged her, she would treat her well, andif she hasn't any money to persevere. If God's own Son could expose pay with call on me. Now, d'ye mind. Don't himself to the miseries and infelicities of distress her any more, poor thing, she's lost this sad, sinful world to save sinners, why a friend or home, or maybe she's only a shouldn't she, although she were an angel little gone in the head- Heaven knows, from heaven in purity, do her endeavour to but whatever happens her I hope she'll not save the man she had sworn to love from the fall into the hands of the ghouls of the city ignominy and disgrace he had recklessly and lose her character." brought upon himself and all who bore his At the thought of the possibility he turned name, back to say to the landlord that if she seem- As she hurried along, despite the blinding ed impecunious he had better let him know i snow, remembering the directions of the wo- at once, and he would make it his business , man of the inn that the road was a winding to acquaint the charitable ladies of the city one and no gentlemen's residences existed of the case, so that she might be assisted if along the first half mile or so, she felt that necessary. I either the weather was growing colder or All this was going on in the mind and she was losing strength, heart of the old watchman, whose quick eye i Would baby be all right with the woman had taken a tree measure of the lady in clis- at the inn. What would Percy say when tress ; and who, timidly strange, in a strange she found him. Would he, could he, refuse city, was all too innocent and two intent ' to help her. No, surely not. Percy had upon the errand she had come about, to be ` always loved her, and through all the happy in any danger of running in harm's way.' days of childhood and youth, as they grew All honour, all the same, to the good Irish up together, had he not called her his dear heart of the watchman ; may he always be' little 'golden hair" until, growing tired of as true to his own kindly instincts, and as it, she had insisted on being called by her faithful in his duty to the stranger and ' proper name, "Ruth ;" and then Percy did wanderer, and some day he'll hear a Voice , not know anything, or, at least, very little shouting All -aboard for heaven,"and, as of her sad experience ; it had been kept the angel chariot pulls up at its destination, from him at her own urgent request. " Well done, good and faithful servant, en- Ah ! she thought, here they are, at last, ter thou into the joy of thy Lord." "Inas- those wealthy residences. She entered the much as ye have done it unto the least of,first open gate ; she rang the bell. A color - these ye have done it unto me." ed servant answered the door. The landlord's heart was touched- He " Does Percy Elliott live here ?" she asked. spoke to his wife. She spoke kindly to' "No main, dere's no sick name on dis Rath, interested Herself in her, had a nice' street, as I knows on." cup of tea made for her and something nice She turned away sorrowful. A bad be- got for her to eat ; fresh milk also for i ginning, she thought, but she remembered baby, making an excuse of her interest in those sweet lines : babies to relieve the poor, weary mother of ", Lead kindly light, amid the circling gloom, her charge and attend to its wants, getting; Lead thou me on ; it to feed well and to drink heartily of 1 4 The night is dark, and I am far from home, warm milk, Lead thou me on Supper over she showed her ..to a cosy, Ili Keep thou my feet, I do not ask to see warm room, and bade her try and rest, as The distant scene, one step enough for me." she feared unless she got a good night's rest And then she prayed that kind heaven she would be sick ; her cheeks looked so ! might guide her footsteps to the door of hollow and sunken, her eyes so suffused and her brothers habitation. And God's ever red with tears and fretting. f watchful angels carried that message to All night long her sobs and sighings could the skies. On she sped to another, and be heard in the adjoining room, as she still another, and another, with like re- tossed and turned, and reflected upon the suit. Oh 1 it was pitiful, to see that lonely I position of affairs with herself and her un- i woman, out in that blinding storm, seeking fortunate husband. I for succor at -the risk of her life for a wretch Next morning, after paying her bill (for who had cursed her very existence. Again she rip s the daor•bell of an fsolat- bu little money with her), which was liber grounds , and ane an a ' shewas not yet penniless, although she had g , g t 1't ed residence and beautiful this weed heard in Unit bright regtox'l where thereis missed from hone; "all sorts oaf iyi1d rumors no uii ht and storms mover coins,, and a swift were get eileet; as to the>%%tie ef, her flight Winged naossettger had been sent to mettle Reid whither; No sue knew, so secret had her to the very spot. • she kept her intention. The place wee ell ablaze with light, She Aiden• 13laeltstoue bad plenty of pima to. hesitated; she s)arunit^ from her task, • She get sober in his criminal cell, Whiskey is was out o£'hr4a'th,, She was all agitated. not a part of prison 'rations; but he grew She must, cithi `; Herself before she should quito'norvoue and restless ; this was; height. sitter. She loaned against a clump of ever. cued by the absoiloe of any news from' 'his mu trees beside the walk, and brushing wife. He ez pectetlelre week]. hleve frantic-. the snow frees the scut by its foot, sank ally flown to, ti;,elirison to see hum and to down upon it, seek his release, Re was zllore puzzled than "" Oh, God, that I knew where f should any one ; his oouseienee condemned Bien ; he And hie ! What if he is not here " grow moro wretched daily. The gaol doctor That moan saved her life fpr the sound was al plied to for something to quiet his of a human voice, disturbed the spaniel dog , nerves and give sleep, A sleeping draught Was. ordered—morphia, chloral and bromide which, bounding out from the porch, began of potassium,in p£u 1� doses,� Blao to bark furiously et somgililzug down the l Blackstone walk, of which he appeared to be afrntid, saw, as he thought, lots of company that. Feariug that there lutist be .same unusual night in his Dell. More than he . wished to cause for the dog's notion, as be rushed back see. Big devils and little ones, baboons, and forth between theporeh and the cluster monkeys, snakes, lizards and many -beaded of evergreen trees down the walk, Major mounters appeared before him; and amid. Dawson and Percy Elliott, who was enjoy-. the glome he thought he saw a skeleton ing a quiet game of chess, while the fancily pointing its; finger at him, and with its fiery wore preparing Christmas trees, decorating eye balls glowing at him., shout, "Yes, you the rest of the house, and preparing other are the man, you did it, you brougkt me pleasing aur p rises for the morrow, rushed here : and so you're here at last, are you ? All right, nowhere forit,let'swhich Alr h s see wi t h , a pp theclowng out,an following d w walk, l h d dog g came to the shivering shrinking form of a can torment the other most.' And. ikon female; wrapped loosely in a winter shawl, she would scream at the top of her voice un-. and crouching half hidden behind the trees, til all pandemonium seemed to ring with with the bench at the foot. As Percy, who the sound, "Yes, you did it, 'twos you." was in advance, approached, the woman His attendants failed to quiet him with looked' up, and with chattering teeth, and the dose of medicine ordered, and growing with tremulous voice said. desperate he seized the bottle and drank it "" Can you tell me where Per—Percy— off. The bottle contained several doses, Elliott -lives." He soon sank into a heavy stertorous sleep, " Yes, I'm Percy Elliott, what do you which seemed to grow more profound until want him for ?" the attendants, becoming alarmed, the doe- "" Oh, Perch, don't you know ;net Peroy?.'. iv' was summoned. she said, es she made an effort to rise, "I'nn, Seeing that it was a case of narcotism, he almost perished hunting you in the storm, used every means to arouse the patient from and cold. Oh, Percy, I've e come to ask you his stupor and to counteract the effect of to help me to—" and she choked for utter- the drug he had taken. It was no use, the ante, as she hung upon his breast; and he, breathing became slower and deeper, the in dumb amazemaut, stood like one who pulse grew weak, flickered, life trembled in had lost his senses. the balance. At last he found utterance, and exclaimed. "No constitution ; prostrated from. drink," " Who are you, what brings you here, exclaimed the doctors, for by this time more and so cold and wet? Why, what can this had been summoued. • The pulse grew faint mean? Tell nae, what do you want me to er, the breathing weaker and slower, until help you to do? For God's sake explain." about four in the morning it ceases. alto- " Don't you know me, Percy ? I want gether- And he was gone—dead ! the bril- you to to hold me up, I am so tired and liant student ; the fascinating lawyer ; the weak. I have been looking for you all the dissipated husband ; the forger against his day long and all the evening until now. wife—gone, dead ! in a felon's cell1—no Oh :(shuddering), Percy, I am so cold, friend or companion near—Oh ! the desola- Hold me up ; I feel like fainting." tion of that hone,. "" Come into the house out of this storm Next morning the obituary notice in the and wind. Come, let me help you." He paper read : "" Died, on Christmas night, in tried to move her, !but her head fell back a felon's cell, ARTHuuBLAC1<ST6NE, the once and sank like one lifeless at his feet. brilliant lawyer. Young men, take warn- "" She faints !" ing. A promising youth died in a drunk - Her cheeks are cold, and the lust leaden sleep ard's and felon's cell. This is drink's doings. Hangs heavy on her lips. God bless the Scott Act or any other act Major Dawson, who stood by all the while, that would keep men sober." offered his assistance to carry her into the The day after Christmas, being Saturday, house, where they laid her on a couch. She Percy Elliott arranged for apartments on lay there, pale, cold, and unconscious, like the Pullman for himself and sister to Mon - one that death was just about to claim for treal. Reaching there on Sunday morning, his own. But good, kind-hearted Mrs, they were shocked to find crape on the door Dawson rallied her daughters to her assist- of the Blackstone mansion ; the blinds ance ; and by dint of hard rubbing, ammon- down, and the whole place wearing a funer- ia to noetrils, hot bottles to the feet, etc., cal look. Oh, 'tis a ruse against something, etc., in a short time she was restored to they thought ; but on entering and enquir- consciousness, and looked around in strange ing what was the matter, imagine their sur - bewilderment. fleeing Percy near, she prise on being told that Arthur Blackstone, held out her jewelled hand, on which she whom they had come to secure the release wore her mother's ring, to him, saying of from prison, had already been released by Percy, "" Don't you know me, now, I'm death, the work of his own hand, accident - Ruth !" and burst into a flow of tears, which ally swallowing an over dose of medicine. brought tears to the eyes of all present. This was a new grief for poor Ruth, but Percy now recognized her, and ex- her tears refused to flow, her eyes were as claimed : dry as the hearth stone in front of the grate "" Why, yes, it is Ruth, nay sister, what, there. in heaven's name, has brought her here ?" "" Poor fellow," she exclaimed, "" if he At Mrs. Dawson's suggestion a cupof hot had onlyknowu what I was doing for him tea was drank gradually : and she was car- I would have been satisfied," she said. ried and put Inn a warm bath, the coli]., wet "" He will now think he was deserted by all, clothes replaced with dry warm things, fur- even by me. Oh, my God, my burden is nished by one of the young ladies. Percy greater than I can bear. Lord help me to was as much amazed and dumb -founded as cherish his good deeds, forgetting the evil, if one long dead had arisen, but was for- and so fulfil the law of kindness. ' bidden to trouble her just then with ques- The funeral took place next day. All tions, and kept still. present seemed struck with dumbness, gloom In a little awhile, with the warm bottles of being over all the scene. hot water, etc., etc., natural heat seemed to Were we not in a reflective mood, and a return, and exhausted nature sank into a believer in Providence, we might not have deep sleep. indulged in such thoughts as "What a hap - Still Percy watched by her side, and after py deliverance," "" What a special provi- sleeping about forty-five minutes, she be- ence," "" How strangely evils work their came restless ; and muttering, called for own cure, sometimes. ' her child, which woke her. Percy asked It was a gloomy Christmas at the Elliott her if she recognized him, and if she felt mansion, and yet it had ended in a feeling better. of intense relief. No one conjectured where "Oh, yes, Percy. I'll be all right again. Ruth had fled to or what had been the ob- The way was so long, and it was so cold and ject of her sudden journey; but it had ter - stormy. I was only exhausted. I'll soon minuted better than they had dared to hope, be all right now. I am not sick. But, my and she had brought back Percy with her. child," sine exclaimed so earnestly as to Blackstone was buried and, let us hope, all startle Percy," my poor baby, where is my the sorrows of which he was the author, baby," and recovering her thoughts again with him. Let as hope, also, that his ciis- she said, "" Oh, any baby, Percy-" I must estrous career, and unhappy end., may have go back to the hotel to my baby. Let me a lesson in it for those who think they can get up. Do, Percy,please. I mustgo succeed in life, with ability or brilliant ta- ack toobaby." y lents, without good moral habits. "What hotel is baby at ?" he asked. As for Ruth, some sympathized, some "I will go and bring it. You cannot leave blamed, but those who knew her best, ad- here to -night." "" At the St. James, near the station," she replied, "" and my valise is with it." He hastily drew on his great -coat and leaving his sister to the tender care of Mrs. Dawson and her daughters, accompanied by the Major, who volunteered to go with hits, they sallied forth. It was a wild night. The wind howled fiercely from the north the snow which kept falling fast was driven in all directions by the wind. They made their way down the road to Yonge street and succeeded in catching the last car. How Percy shuddered at the thought of his poor sister being exposed on such a night. He could not divine the cause ; it was a mystery to him yet. They arrived at the hotel and enquiring for a baby left by a lady who had been seeking him, Percy Elliott, the anxious hotel people were much relieved to heat that she had found him out after all. They had tried in vain to dissuade her from attempting it on such a. night, but she was desperate, and , then theytrembled lest she might have lost " His purposes will ripen fast, g Unfolding every hear, her -way, arid perished from cold and ex- The bud may have a bitter taste posers: 13ub sweet will be the flower-" The good landlady wrapped baby care- Ruth, too, seemed to have changed great - fully up. Percy took it in his arms, Major ly in a short time. She had grown. mors mired her heroism. and self sacrificing de- votion to a worthless man. As for her mother she had prayed and waited for the deliverance which had cone at last. And. now Cowper's beautiful hymn ornProvidence haunted her like an inspiration, and she wondered why she had never before seen so much beauty in it, and so she kept singing over, and over again : ""God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform, He plants Hs footsteps on the sea, And rides upon the storm. "" Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up His bright designs . And works His sovereign will. "" Yefearful saints fresh courage take; The clouds you so much dread Are big With mercy and will break In blessings on your head. "Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, net trust Him fol' Itis grace ; Behind a frowning providence He bides a smiling face. ally discounted by the generous landlord, t• ld so vent woman, answering the Dawson carried the valise, and calling a self-reliant and hopeful ; and her strength " she sot ant to find her brother, leaving her 1 door, was at once interested in the weary -sleigh, they were not long in reaching home and health seemed to be returning, When . sweet little babe in the care of her new . looking stranger and besought her to come withtheir precious burden, Mrs. Dawson' oho did allow herself to reflect upon the sad found friend, the landlady. 1 i out of the storm. She would enter the took charge of baby. If an angel had ar-' career of her late unfortunate husband, she She searched the City Directory in vain I porch only. Well, thought the old servant, rived in that household it could not have hod but one reret he bemoaned the action for his address ; she had forgotten to ask for it, or indeed hardly dared to, lest her in- tention and destination should be suspected ; she wished neither. All she knew was, that he was engaged in a branch house of a large Montreal firm. All day long she searched through the busi- ness portion of the city and visited every branch of a Montreal .house that she was directed to without result. At last weary and disheartened she turned her fade home- ward to the hotel and baby, and was hurry- ing along rapidly, when in passing along Front iStreeta nam caught her eye, "Percy Elliott, agent for M,essr. s: Lyman, Derry and Evans, Montreal, Dealers in Drugs, Chad - cols, Dye -stuffs, Druggists, Sundries, Surgi.; say Inetrutnonts, &c." An exclamation of delight escaped her, which attracted the attention of the man at the door. ""IS Mr. Elliott in?" she said. "" l o,", was the reply, "he'd gone home more than an hour agog" I have heard that name often, "Percy El- , received a warmer welcome than slid that Nott," why, that gentleman was here only little one. The whole household vied with last night, and I think he lives in a large each other in attention to both child andi house u the road about half a mile ; there mother. is a white picket fence in front of the Next day was Christmas. All Percy's grounds, evergreen trees stretch theirbraneh- l engagements were cancelled, and the Daw- es over the walk; it is a pleasant, cheerful son's, out of sympathy, spent a quiet day at looking house, with a large poreh. YOtt Home, Percy spent all clay listening to his will know it by an immense drooping elm + sister's story of grief and suffering. He was tree that stands nearly opposite ; and It is : touched by her pleadings in favor of the called by some The film, although the man who had so cruelly wronged her, It gentleman who owns the grounds calls it; was a woman's love—so-tender, so forgiving. Pleasant Cottage, or Chatean-gay. 1 She had expposed: her life to the wildest of Thanking the kind old servant, she hasty- storms, and a long and anxious journey, to ly renewed her journey, this time inspired ask his aid in behalf of her worthless by renewed hope and energy. But she was husband: He must yield ; he could not growing ;chilly, and felt her strength would refuse her ; but he was careful to let her give way if she did not succeed soon. The know that it was for her sake and not his; storm continued with unabated -severity. 9 ""Foamy dear baby's sake, then," she She reaches the elm tree, and the white said ; he nodded assent. picket fence. She entered the gate. Ah 1 ""And now," said ho, "as soon as you how nice --just like Percy to choose snob ti are able we will start. place for a home: Her petition' diad been ! Meantime when Mrs. Blackstone was g, s of her friends that had thrown him into a felon's cell for her protection --rather all had gone than that should have occurred. "1 should have thanked God," she would ' sometimes say, "had his good name been restored before he died. I slid all I could, but I was too late and but for a merciful providence would have perished in the at- tempt. Hadhe but known I was workidg for his freedom I should be better satisfied." Thus mourned a faithful wife for dissolute 1 husband and father, fib ns C3xtnrloitti.) Wa BrilliantPoa acts P p . Worthless father—" What's the matter, Tommy ?" Tommy -"I havn't had anything to eat for two clays, and I'tn so hungry." Worthless Vather—" Never mind, Tom- my ; if I get time Pll whittle you out a bow and arrcr for n New r'ear's gift," YOUNG FOLKS. Double Boys. I do not moan twin boys, two little brothers so nearly alike that friends can hardly tell thein irpare, but two very differ - met boys in one little body. You never heard of sunk a thing and do not see how that can be: Let fee see, If I wore to take a handful of almond nuts and sit down to erac& them, with you all standing about tee, by-and-by you would see two little kernels tying in. one. nut -shell, When I. was; a little girl I used to call such nuts philopenas, Do you? Well, just as those two little kernels lie snugly together in one nut, whioh looks ex- actly the same as 'other nuts on the outside, se do two little spirits lie inside of your little bodies, making you double boys. Now if you look at some of the •philopena mute you will see that the two kernels are pressed and crowded out of shape; one will often be much larger than the other, hat neither will bet of the smooth, oval shape that belongs to almond nuts. This is be We are one in God, A rn.wurisT, God is a 4pirit Avery where, In Barth, in Air,. On Laud, on Sea, Where axed stars be, Or planets shine ; Wide as Ills own eternity, Ile reigns whom saints adore, internal Pod for evesusoro, he Pure, the Holy, the Divine. The Spheres, that In their course Obedient to His will 11o11 on for-evel'niore ; The Mighty'Laws of force, That Magnify His skill ; Bach in their Treasure -store,' [lath God within • Ile reigns Where harmony o'btelus. The obildree of Itis grace, Who icy to do Hie will; Who, everywhere can trace lits handy.work and Skill ; In Hlnr, where'er they dwell, Find fellowship complete, In unison, their praises swell, Thies Heavenly pulses beat 1•-• -► A Ourions Phenomenon. cause they are crowded two en one shell The following account of a recent strange was published a da occurrencew h a in A that wbon o eP aeu e tgo secant o fory ben.. tothehome e, the m e can. T e correc ness of Am r•e t o nut. The shell isonly'est large en enough g J are vin ohed for a - for one, and if there aro two, you see they the statementsu f by Mr, W r must push and press and crowd each other. ner Cowgill, American Consul at Maracaibo, So each little boy wee meant for ono dear Venezuela, He says War - little boy, and if two boys try to live in it, During the night of the 24th ofOctober don't you see they crowd and press each last, which was rainy and mpes ous, a other so that neither ie of a right and per family of nine persons, sleeping in a hut a feet shape 2 few leagues from Maracaibo, were awakened Sisal]. T tell you of some of these double by a loud humming noise and a vivid, dac- boys among you? Here is Harry. He has ging light, which brilliantly illuminated a very sunny, happy boy living m him with the interior of the horse. such a Dross fretful double. Some days the The occupants, completely terror stricken, happyboy looks out through his eyes, talks and believing, as they relax, that the end in his voice, and sings in his laugh; then of the world had come, threw themheir knees and commenced to selves on whatever mamma antra hien to do or says he the r devotions were almost immediately'in- but may not do, there rings out the pleasantest terrupted byviolent vomitings, and eaen- b All rigahtte. Other think dayshat nothing the lispasive swellins commenced to appear in the right, but lessons, work, brothers, 1,1d;,*:upper ularlart of their bodies this noticeable abut the face and par- ticularly nuates, play, even dear mamma herself, are all wrong. That is because Master Fret is It is to be noted that the brilliant light the biggest and strongest boy on those days was not accompanied by a sensation of heat, and happy All Right is crowded close although there was a,emoky appearance and against the wall and the sunshine is all a Peculiar smell. squeezed out of him. 'Ile next morning the swellings had sub - Frank has two boys also. One is a loud sided, leaving upon the face and body large boythat stains and shouts, bangs and slams untillack heninth blotches. h No when l pain was felt P g until the ninth day, whoa the skin peeled in the house as *ell as out of doors. His off, and these blotches were transformed mate is a quiet little gentleman who rename into virulent raw sores. hers that too much noise disturbs the busy The hair of the head fell off upon the side or sick or nervous people in the house. which happened to be underneath when the One of Robbie's boys is deaf and doesn't phenomenon occurred, the same side of the hear well when he is called to lessons or body being, in all nine cases, the more seri- bidden to do some work or when Papa says, ously injured. No. The other of that double boy answers The remarkable part of the occurrence is so quickly, pleasantly, and politely when that the house was uninjured, all doors and he is spoken to that everybody likes to have windows being closed at the time. him around, No trace of lightning could afterward be In Ned's body lives the laziest fellow, observed in any part of the building, and who growls out, "`I can't," ""Too much all the sufferers unite fn saying that there trouble,"' "" I don't feel like it ;" then he was no detonation, but only the loud hum - yawls and stretches and says, "" I'm so ming already mentioned. tired." Along with him lives an active, Another curious attendant circumstance cheerful fellow who plays with all his might is that the trees around the house showed and main, and sometimes when it is study no signs of injury, until the ninth day, when time sets at lessons with a will and is such they suddenly withered; almost aimultane- a nice scholar. ously with the development of the sores Now is it not a pity to have two such upon the bodies of the occupants of the different boys in one little body ? Would house. it not be ever so much nicer to have only This is perhaps a mere oincidence, but it one, and that the better one, growing into is remarkable that the A me susceptibility the fairest and most perfect shape? I am to electrical effects, with the same lapse of sure you think it would, so I am going to time, should bo observed in both animal and toll you that each of you can help the boy vegetable organisms. you like best to grow so fast as to crowd I have visited the sufferers, who are now the bad ugly fellow into such close quarter, in one of the hospitals of this city ; and al - that he will shrink up and grow smaller and though their appearance is truly horrible, smaller till there is almost nothing left of yet it is hoped that in no case will the injtkr- him ies prove fatal." Don't you know sometimes you'll find in an almond shell a good, fair, whole nut and one tiny, little shrivelled up speck that hasn't had any chance to grow into a philo- As the train sped along in the night, with penal Now the nut -shell hasn't any power drowsy passengers outstretched upon the to control what is inside of it. God makes seats, the conductor was observed frequently to grow ion it what he likes, one or two ker- peering out of the h)ety window into the nels ; but God has made you different and darkness. The night was black, and leaves it to you to help the inside boy to I nothing could beseen but a sheetof snow over grow. By thinking and taking a little care the shadowy landscape, and yet the con - you can hush that loud boy's voice and step ductor shaded his eyes with his two hands so they will not annoy others and make you and held his face --a weary looking face it seem rude; you can cure that boy's deaf- was, too—close to the window -pane. ness so he will hear every time he's spoken "" Looking to see if your girl is awake to. The lazy boy will wake up and stir yet ? " inquired an inquisitive passenger, himself if he is only managed right ; and with a coarse laugh. the merry, happy boy can just swallow The conductor looked around and shudder - Master Fret if he is only given half a chance. ed, as with a husky voice he replied simply, Is it hard? Well, yes, of course ! But "" yes." hard things are what slake men of boys, and And then the inquisitive passenger be - you all want to be men, you know, Just as came garrulous and familiar. He sat down soon as ever you can. beside the conductor and poked him in the ribs as he lightly said : "Ah, I see. Going to get married and quit the road. Going to marry a farmer's daughter. Worth much ? " "" She's worth a million to me." A good story that has not yet been print- Further remarks i. a similar vain did the ed is told of Mark Twain by a friend. It passenger make, but the conductor deigned appears that last winter, having to fill a no more replies. Suddenly the whistle of lecturing engagement in a western city, the the locomotive gave a long, low moan, the humorist boarded a train that is noted for conductor stuck his eyes still closer to the its slowness and is always avoided by regu- window, seemed to fasten his gaze upon lar travelers. But the lecturing committee some object in the darkness, and then fell bad written to the humorist, agreeing to' back in his seat with a cry of despair upon meet hint at the depot upon the arrival of his lips. this train, and so he had no alternative. I The passengers gathered round to inquire Two hours traveling, however, served to put the nature of the trouble, when the brake Mark out of patience. Stopping the con- , man assisted his chief to rise and led him ductor as he Massed through the car, Mark into the baggage car. The conductor's fac- asked as civilly as he could : "" Why don't was as white as the snow -hanks which fringe you people run this train faster?" The' ed the iron roadway, and his eye was a look conductor, ignorant of who his questioner' of tearless grief, was, rejoined : " It runs fast enough to suit I " Poor Sam ! " said the brakeman, upon us. 11 you don't like the rate of speed why his return ; ""it's a bad night for him. Four don't you get out and walk ?" "" Well, I weeks his little girl had been i11. Night would," returned Mark, settling back in after night he was at her bed, but then she his seat, "but that some friends won't got better and he came back to his train. come to meet me until this train arrives, ' He arranged with his `wife that if all was and I don't want to be waiting around the well with the little one she'd display alight - depot for two or three hours." ed lamp right in the window of the sick- room. The boys all knew it, ' and every ) night we' looked for the light almost as eaA ilemarkably Sharp Witneas, of the tracas k baam ck aaelf. He 1ewm mileses the -night schSam ool or a feide w rweeks having believes attended th t he ltis there elwas no ea o Herald. m the window for Sam." the smartest nigger in Austin. He was a' witness in a bus -glary case, and created a ! sensation by his intelligence. "Do you think you would. rin:ognze the burglar if you wore to see frim again . "" Why, boss, of course I would." "You are sure you -would identify the thief if you were to see him again?" No Light in the Window. Mark Twain and the Conductor. " I fell you so ag'in. Pse not one of dese fool niggers what doesn't know nuifin,' I could 'deAtifv diet man eben 111 nebber seed him a�gg'in. I don't hob ter see him ag'in to 'denti£y him," , ....w..:n,4a.:A•�.;.w4,,.a MSM.-aAJJRn�wv�a...:ra Of Conroe, "If you had a note topay to -ds " he said ahe sat in an insurancfilet) looking straight at the agent, "and you had all the money but $5, would. on ak a friend to lend t to you, or would you let your note go to protest and .ruin your ore.dit ?" "Let the note go to protest, of eourso 1" was tltorom t reply.. Then the clock ticked and ticked and the noise of a hair fallingto the floor sounded Itikea crow-bar,and he elan with the note I ,said he guessed it was going to snow, and the entrance of a couple of visitors merciful- ! ly permitted hits to escape. A Colossal Liar. i think lying is older than gambling. The primordial protoplasmal globule lied, I be - I lieve. In old Olympus the gods lied like pirates, and if you read mythology you'll tied that Jupiter had to lie to Juno nearly every night. And she caught him out nearly every time. Juno was a rustler. I don't believe lying ever reached such abso- luteerfection as in n man who came on the overland with a friend of mine lately. He could not be beaten, on any proposition. They got talking about gold mines, and the Californian thought he knew 'a good deal about that subject The stranger was a mine owner. "You should see my Peruvian mines," said the traveler. " That's the place where they have geld. I've seen specimens— specimens that ran up into the hundreds of th ea rands." " Well," said the Californian, " I have myself a specimen of pure virgin gold." y" My dear ;boy, I've a hundred specimens that beat virgin gold." " Say l" said £bo Californian, " In your travels did you ever hear , of a man named Baron Munchausen ?" "Ohd." ,yes. He owns the next olefin tori►