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The Exeter Times, 1889-4-11, Page 6TH E nYNOPS1S OF P nnhe story open count of a vino tege of St. CI of entiebec.In he' atemblen to be ea deserted fa it was hie eriquiri aumlooted place, priest of the villag herein. ennanat nitA. century ago Ida wife had come and being of teethe earclinery run of im dustrious and bane oonsideriehle weal and beloved by 'They had one son, parents' hearts, li mei them one in withholding How ever, by the who left, without little daughter, 12h num tm fill this the little Lo eke, they became engag trent the time fine who was impatien w. trip to Nova absent about) fou bring Ma wedding enter:tat 'CHAP TER II. weans "Years passed tuatters progresoecl way; bat no.hing Inenx Detjerniers there were already the terrible revolu he wrongs of ages down in irs ruthies neat and the gent "In the year 17 then cure of St. Os visa Parte to rece 'he Arnm by some dis he had scarcely ev 'self a native of C his Zee been a hu his restive village. 'When M. Lig nor Inaebec, there moor AL Dui annie Ms son would o 'would net hearke that the young m must be (lead, be 1seek out Felix, if nG return home t with. "Poor man! at leaving lived in a r and so many long Claude, he faracie a matter to seek o !France, as it was lilted province of M. Liony hac h naive the poor, lo not oonscientiousl promind to do hia ale son was still find him, toy t to St. Claude. "M. Ligny had His business was neither seen nor Desjarniers. The return to Ms pee his inexperienced preaching cotsflict eculd the people we who had the grea ;remained apatheti on office to secure vend the.) was to Morrie de. Grace f usual throng of Italions attracted 'tanking inquiry, h was to be that d 'Tuileries. "The people of their antagonistic idolized monarchy were still ettraote tnised them a free the only antusern *mild afford theme nein who had neve in his life, though 'quitted Paris for 01 no see the gay equip haps even to get a It would be somet with when he retu mashed forward wit been for some bent gates of the Taileri equipages, as the enclosure, and mar gorgeous dresees ce.rriager, and lie preened murmurs the more turbulen -when a tall, ragge 'rudely past him, ustearer to the gatee. "He had °might 'features at he push the forest of hair w oovered, he was al cognised the ouce Telex Datjarniers. his attire -once al end sunken and diz destteres, there was man. Though son2 e. position iti whi visible ; and mare' could have Inoug With his eduoatio he could not f earn at least a if he did nob c oingle line sent to (Mee immediately r ettrove to push Ms • geeolved, if he (soul to address the you •and redeetn the pr the brokenhearted • exerttone, howevet apptoach only wit noton which Felix oortterth ttatil, by ao could draw near en *being overheard by Suddenly there the crowd; and equipage was wen *ten with difficulty the donee thong. " Whencarrot " Ligny of a bysto,rid " Vett mita be • 2other, tot t� know nocant no Levigny ?' "The 'htiscoutit AL Ligny to Mane cognieing the Mete 4' Pray, my filtedn thia gentlethatt ?" , DE. S.ERTED FARM) . waited patieatly for it, wilpta4u3,---dig-VIIZarf, -t-ile.a wee ter When the how armed, It has come et leen You are my arab vietkn. 13et if it vent be any on. Selation to you, now that there ara tlaree nthero up. whom 1 iutehd to wreak ray vengance. Madame Leviguy, and her two children win asome fellow efou --dying the nine swift death. Now I have done with e And with these Met words, he 'need en ie'e me fetal knife fell and, ia view of •- -1 . - - e- h , . a yen the el the g6r4g er6whe w ° 6°-°- Levi en "etuas 18eitahtlael iCtooloenteeirnVit4°.°°11t. 44° 2 Y - - 4 . V " Within a few. weeks of ber unba py husband's time awl, Madame de LoviPgny and her two children' were, arrested at the instigation of Frances's /Kaunas, and canna - d. in the Conoie gerie in different apart 6 a - r * manta • the unhappy mother having been • . l' fothidaert to have any commenioation with • , • • herennument t ff ipring. Months elapsed, with purposed and orttel delay ere the ' 1 si b . ht tot • 1 • ' 'el then the peer A y was rot% "e"I i t her enargese that preferredwereto:4f114: 18 e nt sound Ithe mockery our ears a e pr se claY• "The Viecountee Levigny Mr&B oherged not only with having aided' and abetted .her husband in conspiring against the libeatiesn of the new born republic, but oleo with tramline -up her children to work future ev to the reptiblio under the guise of :childish innocence and lemma°, • • ' . *The unitsppy lady, and her dangbter Louise . were condemned to death,. and thetztA.on ace,oupt; of his extreme.. Oath the Wei the little by, named Feltx--aft4 , hiEi tuotherti never forgotten, although ,for. saken lover-waa spared, it had. perhaps , been attester mercy to the poor child had he teerished on the scaffold with his. parents and thsten, . • : 6,1. Althou h d d eV the • ' it . con ems to le, e execin tion of the unfortunitteViscountese and her. daughter wail delayed for a few days. en the instigation of Francois Moulineewhorie ven-natio • was nob yet satiated. nie wished to. embitter the few remaining hours of his un. happy and helpless victims, and to render more terrible the pangs of death. "The poor mother prayed and entreated that,during the few dans Of life. which yet remained to her, she might have the society of her innocent children, ger prayers and entreatiesewere not • listened to. She was told that her ohildren would accompany her to the so/OW-her daughter to leder with her -her little son m witness the death; but, until the day appointed for her exam- don, she Would not be permitted to see one or the other of her children. "The Viscountess was confined in a cell in the Conciergerie, in the compan ionship of a young - women of infer- ior rank, who bad fallen under the auspicion of the republic but when fate had not yet been decided. Francois Moulins had been appointed temporarily, and, as it is surmised, at his own request, one of the gaolers of on g n , the CI der e n, • and it was his greatest pleasure to listen at tee door of his poor Actin -es man and hear her complaints and iamentatiwde• the dilly re lo to " One day -only p v us that appointed for her executioa-Madame de Lovigny related the history of her early life to her unfortunate compenion, and bit- terly lamented her unfaithfulness to her be. trothed husband, and her ingratitude to her fostemparenta. To. her unfaithfrilness and trignatitinle she atttibuted all the evils that had come upon her, and her husband and children. '"'Tis the judgment of heaven upon my sins,' she said; 'and may heaven grant that they may thtui be expiated upon earth; and that I may find mercy and forgiveness in the • d ' . • - world to come. Ott, that I could but ask the forgiveness of y dear foster -parents if - ra- - ' they be still living I Oh, that I could for one brief moment see the fostenbrother- ebetrothedus and whom I deceived the fi b and betrayed, yet whom I have never °eased to love! Oh, that I could bear him express his forgiveness of his once happy. but now wretched and forsaken, Louise 1 Oh, Felix, Felix I would that I could summon thee to my presence 1 and kneeling ,at thy feet could ask the pardon whine at this awful moment, thou wouIdat surely grant 1" "Franoole Moulins had been lisstenieg outside, and had heard all that had Passed between the unhappy women. Be now and. denly threw open the door, and entered the cell. " ' Who calls open Felix Detjarniers r he cried in a voioe of thunder. • 13ehold him here! What wouldst thou have of him, base, deceitful woman? Thinkeat thou that ,I credit thy false assertions? 'Tie but the fear of death that is fast approseohing that haunts thy maven spirit, and causes thee to reflect upon the wrongs thou haat done to those whom thou west he duty bound to love.' "Terrified at the sudden appearance of a tall, rough.looking man, in the costume of a gaoler, and withhis feattirea almost wholly connaied beneath a forest of beard and whiskers, the two women had, with a loud shriek, retreated into a far corner of the cell. Madame de Lovigny hod not at first reaog- nizad FelikDeejarniers in•the rude, darn looking man who had thus intruded upon her miserable privacy. She had never known that her foster -brother had la n tla--tee his home; and believing hire but a few moments before, te be thousands of lanai distant from bar, there would have been little wonder had she failed immediately to • recognize Mm after so many years absence, even had he appeared in a less questionable garb. "Notwithstanding, however, the great changes that years of misery, and long cher. ished ideas of vengeance, had wrought in the unhappy Felix, there was still something in the tone of his 'voice, and in his general gaped, vvhich reminded her of her once handsome rend happy lover. The thought that ahe mieht yeb perhaps ave her i nmeent daughter's life fleshed upon her, and throw. ing herself upon her knee before the intrud- er, and clasping her hands, she said, 'Oh, if you be todeed Felix Desnerniers, though I am believed Felix to be far distant say t t II r ha v yen forgiu e your once beloved Louie, and 1 Will die content 1' ' " . • • A fresh thought suddenly entered her mind, As if by intuition, she seemed to feel that through the desireoof vengeance, oiler- iehed by her once betrothed husband, all her ead troublee had been wrought upon her. " 0 r 'El J " Y tt wear the geoler garb, she went on. 'Oh, ft through your instleatiot this' cruelty hass been wro9ht upon me and mine, only now exert your zufluenoe and save the life of my poor innocent child, and 1 wili Oleos you vlith my diying breath. I ask ao Meaty or tnyeelf , have brought, im my oWnetiedeecle, sorrove anclonieery upon the once happy home and the kied proteotors whom I Wat in duty bound to reVere and. to love. My sin has found me out and I deserve to suffer ; but oh, Velix, Once, :loVed end never fergobten, 1 conjure and Warmth •yoti, by the love you min tore . your unhappy Ionise,. save Ty child and take a dying matinee blessing• n . "Felix was uttintiVed Men by this earnest *peel, , "'Woman,' heeried,*veouldnou, even now, when death entree you at the feed, ese goer --.F.kA ....,ii-- in your teeny ,earned. prospeeity, ever • gaia a thought to the onceneeppy leomet that . you blagehted, or to thenewhime fehtianeetIons you epurned, when hearts you hem broke,' ? • 1 woold'hot believe you, thotlah-nla I What is this?' • • • "In her agony of feeling, 14onise had leant forward to elasp the knee S oi the man to whom she eo patently appealed, and who ehe appeared intuitively tO believe had even yet the power or influehoe to eave and • pro- teob her child , In this thoeitioe, a miniature, mitten u oti ivory: he.d fallen froaa her Phnom to the stone door. of the oell. "The noise 0 nestle in falling attraoted the attention ot Felix, ,.and oeusedtheeudd.en e.xoltenation which had eheeke.d hi a ,speeoll• Re etooped and, looked tt pp from the Slope, and rengisized a portrait of himaelf, as he , . d f ' h d. had. appeared • III his days o youth and happens; which be had given to Lou. in on her seventeenth birthday. • , "Por .• a few moments he seemed, as 'he ge , ,3,1 upon t!io . minimum, to .be ,enghtly Monad, and hiu features aesumed a leas stern expreseione as he muttered to himself,' ' So sadly, sadly thenged 1' " Seltinbent only on her one earnest per. pose, Louise sought to take advantage of thus -milder mood. " gieforen in its mercy has afforded prooi of m assertion that you have never, . never .y . been forgotten,' she o'riecl. WItellx, :till my betrothed hueband in the sight of heaven -- for my misdeeds could not never the sacred bond which united us -I call my Creator he witness that never for an hour together, by night or day, has than oherithed portrait quitted it resting place near zny heart. Is nob that proof that the sin committed in a .moment of infatuation has been bitterlY, re. 9 Is not that o i pentad.. proo! suffie eat that your memory was over fondly cheriehed ia myehearb? BeHe who gone before me to e . his. eternal rest-hewho WW1 ever a loving husband to me, and to whom I strove to do ' wife's dut though I never loved a loving . y,. . him as I had loved you -knew that 1 more s . . . • Your portrait in my bosom. Not even for him would 1 part with int "ib was ill done on the part of the un- • happy Louise to oall up 'thane moolleotions of her late unfortunate husband, in the presence of 'him who had been the muse of the Viscount's arrest and cruel. death. Felix had become in some degree softened. He. might have listened to the unhappy mother's prayer; but no sooner did she speak of the man Who had been the Prime cause 02 all his misery, than the momentary softness passed away, and his heart became as hard.as atone. The reoolleotions of his wrongs, and his long years of misery -of his embittered lite, flesh ed to his mind, and •raising his hand, and dashing the miniature to the finer, wherein lay broken to atoms, he shied, 'Traitress, do You think thus to PlaY upon my feelings, and baulk me of my long-oherished and most righteous vengeance ? Know that I oan prove your falsity. Doss recolleet some years emu when in all the ride of our rose , , 11 I' P parity, you went, with other minions of the Court, to pay homage to our ban miens, that a young man, urged by the love for you that still lingered in his eolith heart sprangm .f , upon the steps of your carriage, that he aupht once more gaze upon your features? "1 wen that young man. Worn by rah. ery and poverty, you might not have recog. Mewl me; bub had you but smiled at the innocent curiost.7 which led one of the ''' lespieedvopulace.to seek to •gaza upon the grace and beauty for which yon -the lovely Canadian -were famed., even amidst the proud damea of the anstooracy, my heart might have relented of its ferocity; and you, and poesibly your husband. might have been spared. . But no; your traitor husband k me a blow, whioh elled e seles ttrue w, f m sen s to the ground • and you.doubtless, looked • • - ' smilingly on, and thought that the wretched serf was rightly served. From that moment f vowed that I would have full and perfect vengeance for nay wrongs. Then I entered the hated King's wen*, and became the confidential servant -as he, dolt that he was, believed -of your husband. Thee was the first act of the plot, which I have 'eines ' perfectly matured. You . and your child mueb perish; and he, your infant boy, shall be taught to hate and jeer at his parents' memory' "The unhappy Louise recalled to mind the eircumrstanoe to which Felix had alluded. She recollected then she had shuddered at the blow her husband struck the poor young man, and, at the risk of offending him, had expressed her pity for the injared ono, and detestation of the Viscount's brutality. She sought to explain that such had been the ease ; but Felix had quitted the cell as he gave utterance to the last words, • and she felt that now, indeed, all hope bad fled. "She rose from her suppliant posture, Her companion would have gathered up the fragments of the miniature; but she bade her let them remain. te (lb cannot be Felix whom 1 have seen and spoken with,' the fund, calmly, 'but a fiend who ha o ashamed his form. 'ammeter, wardeduring.the few hours that reinain to me, I will *num. to banish all worldly feel.' inge from my . heart, and to direct ray thoughts and prayers to heaven.' "tinoon on the following day, Madaane delavigny, the ill-fated Louise Legris was removed. from her wretched Mill to' the tumbril which bore her and some fifty 'other victims of the tyranny of the populace to the fatal Plan de Greve. In the tumbril, • Madame de Lavigny onoe more Met with her innocent and youthful daughter, from vr.horn she had been cruelly separated time the date of her arrest, several months be- fore, The mother and daughter sat together. looked ie a .fitm embrace, until they arrived at the iamb on which stood the terrible guillotine, heed.1565 Of all that was pausing atound them-oareleas alike of the suppreen ed naurmurs of pity, and the loud jeers and ribald epithete whieh.saluted the ears of the unhappy victims of what haw been truly termed the Reign of Terror. Their thoughte and aspirations eeerned to be wholly directed to heaven. They were among the first that (suffered on that day, st in • • 0 he (Auld firet-the child first 1 shout. ed the circle of cruel women who were seat; m ed, badly occupied in knitbleg, in front of - the metrumerst of deeth, when Madame. de Lesigny and her little daughter were gun. pelted front the tumbril to the soaffold, and, willing to gratify their winless, the caeca- donor placed the bound child first beneath the fatal knife, "'Be-. • e firtn, nay darling, . In another min tint thou and thy mailer will meet thy father iu heaven, ' whispered Madame de Levigny irt hcr little, . daughter's ear; amd the Metty, tale:haired Child gave her mother one last earthly embrace, and, without a murmur, B bautted heraelf to the exeou. tioner. Thus initialled the little Louise ' do Lavigny-one of the ill•fated bend of iono- cent juvenilewho, during theb frightful epoch, fell vionine to the cruel frenzy of a artaddetted and brutalized populan, "A -shudder and a Murmur of pity pan- eel through even the Wittman multitude, When the eevered head of the inneoent child fell into the hookt h eeneitith the nontoln ; but tble feeling lingered but for a moment, And then arose a elamour for fresh victims. Madanie de idoigny's turn came next. , " 'Cite bad incruent,'.ehe &dd. ' ti YOU he ba iirMieiitzl-let me ',miasma Men My bey? h , "Tneredenet it' enin amid the. eroyr4,. and the hehittOomeht roue lanjenneee lame the child alofb in. hm arms. • 4' 4.htlinnils., mamma !-my dear, dear, Inenuner 1' leaped the little. fellow as hs ebretohed 'forth his arms, and stutgled to noape from Felitc, eini to rush into the moisten ot his mother. • "Away with the young aristoorat P shouted the crowd in front of the eoaffeld; and the netcb moment the child disappeared, and Inladanie de Lavigny had ceased to note • tom o . our, as appeere from a n F th t h • it d. f hi diary," aid hi• le Cute, "nehmen Nemo to ne have. BON Ail opon the.' wretched Felix, and made hiztl its victim 'MAIO hie olfsomed I.tatn. e of ,Franems IVI.Onlitis, he became rioter- lout for hie hittality towerde the anthempy, orea ures tv 0in o 18 hands. Re was t h ' fell " t h• never for a moment at rest, night or day.. Ho Wandered ton etreeto as if he • were pon amen. with ,an. evil spirit, or was ever haunt.' ed with the ghosts of hie viottme; muttering to himself, and terrifyieg all vrith whom he °eine in witted. At lesigth, by soneetimanii, he, in his' tarn, became an object of autpiolon ilannels of the republic • and he only to the ts r . evaded arrest he' making hie escape ' from Feria to .Brest, evilehoe he emiciarked for Canada, and arrived safein at St, Cloude. after an absence of fifteen years, to find both Ilk g arente dead* and himeheillthe' • sole Inheritor of the large property s father a lefb behind lhim. . tTo net 00NTINTIED.) • TEL EH &FRIO TICKS; Many Nihilists have been arrested al , , ViInt, Beata. - The late Mr. nriget wee an expert. 4 stamen amino. , • Ge B ul g r 1 ' slid to In hid' f ne 6, o an f.a a s . a . , tug re . the Fr6u°11:4°646r1.6166• ' A neld•bliZeerd visited Dtkone ' the other day, doing . considerable damage., Further chasten to ehipping are reported from the South .Paciflo Ocoee, owing to the late hurricane. m r 0 -2 ' .1. . . n L 0, aim • hondon •otenenrie says V012165 •Dle. muck has deolerennis interview .with Bans. bury to have resulted in a oomplete under - ata.,1141°..g between G,g145n! aid England. . North nydney, nape proton, is haying rough times owtog to attemphs to enforce tte Soon Act, Beaune= and theendiarlem a • rdmidellit 2 The &Bleb. fleet .will• remain en Tanglet until the Suttee of Aloroon peye 4 permonal indemnity for the Pepe debytad. tetr' . • Rev. A. .11, Beldwin, of .1 All Saints' church, Toronto. has 'leech asked to succeed Rev. Hartley Cermithael. in the Churoh of the Aricenstion, Hamilton • ' • • ' • ' • • • . Dela. Milinianatiesietant superintendent of Rsinkwood• Atylum, bas leagued, and in tencle removing to Toronto, waere he will practice Ms profosaion. . • . Any. Mr. '.Blancl; Of St. Citherines, has been offered the'reatorship of Cadet Church cethedral in Hamilton. • • The corner's jury in the Harvey case al Guelph' hroaghts in a verdict of wilful mur• der againat Wm. H. Harvey. -.- . hord Bon o ph Churchill has declined la • • • • • e become a eandi ate for the. vaeant Perlis. aleatory seat inBirmingbalth '. Wm. P: Beale. barrieter and Home Ruler, will run for the•Bnininghten seat made Ye- cant by the death of Mr. Bright. . . le ex -Queen Natalie Will promise to leave polibica alone during her son's minority, she will be allo wed to live isiBernia. . - A, TRAGIC STORY OF imp vilmitut . . . . nwienseG =AFTER, tnrisieee • with a genbleinazin ao. , paid by. him to the oil- ,uscie ne .the Province one of •his Walks ,erose whit appeared me -house and farm, and, as to the history of the :tech aliened from the s the narrative eoutaitien • D et ern• a 6utoine e , tern an ai that place ;ram Frame . . • B4Periciredu"t1" to 6.141 nigraats, sun withal in relent, they soon aetained h and were reverences' their poorer neighbore. Felix, the pride of his luta Providence had de- 1 their dearesb wishes horn them a daughter. death of a neighltour,evil home or fris nds a sweet 7 were enaboad in a men. . ant by the adoption of Vhen the children grew up adtancl abo it five months l for the nuptials Felix, • for the happy event t ek lootia on busmen to be r month. That woald day close at hand on his '"The heughtleat ateorrat in Parsh • was the reply, 'Ont do not think thet the people care to an Mira No, no tt je manerne they wigh to g, e , epeel,--Dfadamk the Viectumeess, the moat beautiful woman in Parts ; and ehe is as good and omieble as she is lovely, 'Tia a thousand ratios ,sho, har$ Mt a husband more worthy of her." 4* By this time, M. Ligny had retiolleoted , the nerne.lis bunite,he had hot time to OM' further quenelle before the owiriage was lose to 'him neonsartiv proceeding at a ° . 1 ' -. e ,_ aumf's pace; greatly, as ies appeareu, to toe ' I- f ' t tl. annoyance o one o Its ocoupen e -a gen e' man attired, in a gorgeous' military uniform, who, at this moment, then; his head out of the window, and cried, in a voice of thunder, to ins coachman "Why do you not drive faster! *attenged-so Drive over the wretches, if they don't ger out of the way!" only" A low g 0 1 from the crowd was the. •,r 6rd the drivenatill did his •paCe• 5 lsls tr,O8Ppprucleedanat a more rapid A the mini e tweed ouward AL In ny was • 6g P . , , ' , gh enabled to perceive NUS tne only ot er ,Q0 *meant of the vehicle was a lady magnin. - • gently attired, but he could not dunoern her features. ate, • . "The carriage we close to the gate, and e 6. e eh" the A L tii. boons to enter IMO court -yore, when -6,e - - man te dv o It fIA Mt 0 whom caring believed meal); Fse°lix-Desia'rniers, Bud- degrinleY; sprang upon the door steps, and gazed boldlyi -window. nto the open " A tremendous blow, hit full in his face by:the Viscount, immediately atruok him down, aenseleaa and bleeding among the crowd. a qv rve on r Phouted the enraged noble- - . ,geanoe men to his coaahmam. You are as great a bore as any among the rabble, One !MUD' drel has got his den ta Pit tha I - - r • y t cannot serve all the same way I' '"Ah,Charlesa exclaimed theVisoountess, in a low • voice, yet 40 sweet and clear that was distinctly %edible above the murmurs of the crows) *I fear meyouhavehurt that Poor man. a Wee cruel to strike so hard a blow. Poor fellow I it was likely were curiositywhich induced him to look in at the window.' "The Viscount's answer was inaudible, and presently the carriage entered the court yard, and the gates were closed behind it. "M. Ligny now sought to approach the stricken man to render such service as he WaS capable Of ; bUt Felix -if, indeed it was he -had been borne away by some of the bystanders, and the crowd WOO too dense to allow the good father to follow them. "M. Ligny extricated himself as soon as possible from the throe? The sp emana ,,,e, longer afforded him any pleasure, and during the remainder of that day, sua during several days afterwards-postponieg his departure from Paris for an entire week -he sought -by making inquiries ab the hospitals, and by every means that occurred to him -to discover the whereabouts of the poor irjured man; bub no one knew the name oz Felix Desjanders, and all his en- deavours proved fruitlese. At nengthnitee was obliged to take his departure from Paris without having succeeded in gaining the object which had caused his delay in the capital. Be sailed from Havre, and en due time arrived in safety at his quiet peace- ful home. nwe, had- _ not the heart to acquaint M. De tarni a with the In ' t• a. er- - 6 a ie° condition 'I' which he believed he had met withM F r . • e zI, and the poor old Man was at I th 'I h eng-- adri°6- induced to a quies * c ce in the opiniona of his friends, ane to believe that his beloved a °a was indeed no more. „Th . us far,"scud the cure, "the story I have told you has been gleaned from the reports of M. .Ligny and others, who knew the Des;:arruers -these reports having been handed down from father tie son among, the inhabitants of St. Claude. That winch I have yet to relate -by far the most terrible portion of my story -has been gathered from a diary found after the •supposed de- cease of the unhappy Felix Destarmers, "Again two years nagged away, and then in 1789 came the sacking and destruotior, of the Beadle, which event may be said to have inaugurated, the Revolution, and the frightful events which followed in rapid snoceeeion. From the diary to Which I have alluded, disjointed as it is, and eve, dently %Maori by one whom misfortune, misery, and a savage desire for revenge had at least partianly deprived of his senses, I gather that Felix Desjarniers had, during the greater portion of those two years, serveclin the Freneh army, in the regiment commanded by Colonel.Visoount de Learigny, and had conducted himself so well that he had risen to the grade of sergeant, and had become the confidential seriant of the colon. el under the assumed name of Francois Mon. HRS. After the sacking of the Beadle, when the army _gradually became demoralized, he still rematnedin the service, --still seeming. ly attached to the Viscount, while, at the . . same time, he was secretly acting with, and was a trusted servant of, the chiefs of the naaloontents. "By then means he obtained a knowledge - of all the Colonel's private and family affsers, and also carefully noted down every express- ion that was made use of to the disparage. relent of the populace, all of which were un. mediately reported to the revolutionary tribunals. At length, though I have been unable to dirmover the exact period, the . n time arrived, athe opinion of the sae:railed Francois ltioulins, for motion. He threw off his disguise, though still reserving, tin a later period, the disclosure of his real name, and the Visoount was arrested in his bur- eau bya party of Republicans, headed by Francois Moulins himself, and charged with the ,heinous crime Of conspiring against the liberties of the people, Hifi OWO ezpresisione, Written down ab the time al which they Were uttered,' and corroborated by witnese. i is ad taken • the eo en whom i'nelme 4 - ., pr station to have always at hand, were triumphantly pointed out to him by his once trusted servant. He was humeri, to prison, tried, condemned, and brought to the scaffold within a few days, having been eternly and - `Belo 0 e savagely refused per= n to Bee r Yen to oetontelnioate 'with, hie wife and his children -e, .girl of eight, and 6 boy of four yearn of age. This vas the aWful moment (sheen by Prancole Mountie to disc_ose his real name to the COlonet, Ile &Arnaud permission to a encl 6 th seeffeld, and to alasitit , to bind the drat vfatim of hid fiendish demire for venge• anon Suet, at the last moment, when the eotailerened man Was abont Id be &aped on the tank, with hieneoir beneath the glitter: the: ,Pitc, he whiapered in his eat--. * 'Minna Leyigoy' (the tepuhlie had ah. OliGhed the noble prefix of De), -gene* you who I non? Yoe an not? 'you think MY horde is Frommis Moulins? Know, tyratit, about to meet thy 3tio deniett, that I ate Felix Denarniere. i nee her Whotti you to feakfully wromeed at _ 31,iiArian,- 44 Alp tli....A. . t .........A ..,..1 ..: A ... nip TO Tu NORTH. Why We should Sleep Wien Our Bodies ty- Ing Search andsouth. Soientifio investigation proves that there is the best poesible foundation for the belief h t . with • that we o ou d steep our bodieslying north and south,•says the St. Louis." Globe- Demoo t " hl le h t h ra • ea human eye met os,meg. poles one positive and one negative. - ' It is erne than some perecns have th.e, peal. tive pole in the head and the negative pole in the feet, and others the reverse. In eider th at the person alarming &honk} be in perfect harmony with the, magnetics phenomena of the earth, the head, if it possess the positive pole should lie to the south, or if tkte feet possess the positive pole the head should lie to the north. The positive pole should al ways lie opposite to the magnetic eguill- brim. The positive pole of the person draws :one way, but the magnetic pole of the earola draws the other way and forces the blood toward the foot, affects the iron in the eYB• tem, tones up the nerves and makes steep refreshing and invigorating. But if a per. son sleeps the wrong way and fans to he. come magnetically in sympathy with the earth, he will then probably be too msg. natio, and will have a fever resulting from the magnetic forces working too fast; or he will not be magnetic enough, and the great strain wild ause a, feeling of lassitude, aleep will not be refreehivg, and in the morning he will have no more energy than there is in a cake of soap. Some 'persona may sooff at these ideas, but the 'greatest seientifio men of the world have studied the subject. — endeaemotra LE CURE Rh- hs NARRATIVE, away. At St. Claude, . in the accustomed quiet had. been heard of or tram . In Prance, however, • f the outbreak ot signs o tion that was to revenge ,and that was to strike B progreas alike the bean Eld. Monsieur Ligny, the eude, was compelled to ve a legacy bequeathed sont relanve, whose name ar heard, for he was him- nade, and had never in ,dred miles distant from ay was about to embark n mile passage to France, ee who still believed thao ie day return and who n to those who believed an -so long unheard of- sought the good cure to possible, and covjure him his loviag father forth rays, even in his youth, emote provinoe of France, years a resident of Si. that it would be as easy it a person in Paris, or in n the then thinly popu tower 0 made 1 I not the heart to undo- aely old, man. He could y bid him hope; but he best to discover whether living, and, if he could a persuade him to return • . been six weeks in Paris. completed, •• and he had heard anything of Felix good cure was anxious to ;Mtn home; for, even, in eyes the signs of the ap• beteveen the aristocracy es patent, although those est . cause for dread still 1. dfo was on his way to his passage on board a e"ahen, ,_ e few etee wee, atoneeno, "eddeenedttlee'tuntth. leople in the Boulevard - es attention ; and upon a was inforcaed that there ya grand levee at the Paris, - notwithstanding W ! ings towards the once and revered mistooracy, 1 by anything that pro- apeotacle. Alas 1 ib was int that many of them sixes : and M. Ligny him. • seen anything of a Court that he, too, before he ter, would like, for once, ages of the land, and per. ;limpet at royalty Wenn ling to amuse his friende ned to his hoine, so he sh the crowd wile had -hour standing "near the M, watching the gorgeous r rolled past into the veiling at the etilt more d the occupants of the ening, too, to the sup- nd threats of many of b amongst the lookers-on ily-olothed mien brushed and took . his stand still a glimpse of the man's ad rudely by, and, amidst ith which the face was most certain thathe re-, handsome' featuree of Yes; squalid as web 'aye so neat and trim- t•begrimed as were the no =stoking the young s distance off,:he stood 3b his profile was clearly aping to himself what t Felix so low, when, a and natural 'abilties, en if he tried, to decent livelihood -or, ,ose to work, when a his father would have unaided to, -M. Limier ray through the crowd, 1 but get hear enough, 3g man at all hazards, maise he had made to tether. With all his ' the good priest „Dula tin several feet of the stood, and thete he was me fortunate chance,. he nigh to speak' without othere.1 as a great commotion in al elegantly appointed ,pproaohleg, the &eon foroing his way though ' ;(i iti that?" inquired I1I, m s atrehmer to Paris, need the Ikeilee Of the It18. le :14aVigny 1' muttered 4, tot immediately re. .thiniatalsorables With the title prefixed. ' •he andiniottet. enethe a; aseese. 16 A. Snowr .ffdrniUg. Cold through the snowy clouds appeared the day, &tonna red effulgence swept the gloom away : The broken canopy both gran and blue, Gleamed where tne sunshine found a passage through, Washing the ragged edges of each cloud In liquid silver, and each seemed a shroud Out shaken by 'the winds o'er Heaven's blue Sea As if to *hew the bright embroidery. ELII things seemed lovely for the mystic • night • Had decked each tree in tinsel, and the light e . Shone in the snowy branthes and then latl. 4:wired on the breezia and teasing like spray. Adrenching sleet came in an interval But Winter frcze the wet drops RP they fell, And so it was each tree. was clothed entire En silvery ice that shone like rippling fire, Often bychance within the tangled maze The shining Morning lost bar yellow rays, While the eusteriog sunbeams from the bright (inch cast Fenthrough the tingling boughs and were held Mat I heard the waters ripple,. saw the glow, And lovely efflorescence of the snow; Yet, ere the 40012 the feathery plumes were tossed • . - Dripping from their fair eminence and lost, As all else that is -beautiful, the flowers - ChM wither and those sweet memorial heart That die—last night I saw a lever rave ' 9.nd fall down mad upon a maiden's grave. A. S. CROSIBIE MeMoriee. In the silent midnight watches when the world is hushed in sleep, And the noisy busy oity rests in silence calm and deep,- There come back to me blest memories of the friends I used to know, And skein in dreams I visit many a scene of long ago. Has in days of childhood, ia the dear ae PPY village o Id home, Once again o'er hill and valley do my care: Less footsteps roam. And I hear again, In fancy, Sh011ta of meal' menb and glee, As my memory, in the Witness, brings the old days back to me. Once again I feel the. pressure of dear hands clasped close an mine And the arms that clung so fondly, round me man more teem to twine, Once again like sweetest music, sound the voices loved so sell, These come back to me at midnightbrought by memory's fairy spell. Hark 1 I bear it now th ' f th , e mum o a songs we used to sing, plear and sweet, the youthful voices with a happy, joyous ring, 'Rook Of Ages 1" do the angels hush their herpings est thy bend, b B tie" . t ' bl • th rea mg ou an evening nemg ste e words of praise amend? Blamed, saintly, hallowed memories of the sweet days long ago, Time is bearing farther from me, on its never -ceasing flow - Yet I know as days and hours on its stream Pats quickly by, '. A glad meeting with my loved ones "in the kingdom" draweth nigh ! W. 31017SE. An Insulted Bridegrcom. "Is this the editor ?" • "Yes, air. What oan I-" " klynarne,'sir, is Grumpy. I was mann- ed laat week." "Let me offer m con atul tions Mr Y gr e • • Grumpy. I am glad to see you. By the way, we published in this morning's paper quite ,IX full anount of your wedding."' " Yes sir. 1 eaw it '' , • . • ",You have come &haps to order some extra cop-.- , , P , "I have mime, sir, for personal satisfam f Your re orter aaked for hoto raphe don. . p p g of Mrs. Grumpy and myself to .use in writ- ing up the wedding, air." 1 Yes.. Didn't he-" "He nici he•would have engravings made from them and run them in with the article he wrote about the affair." "Yea. Was there aoy-e "And some lop-eared, woppernawed, bow-legged gourd -head of a printer in this dace mixed up the portraits, sir. You pub • dshed me this morning, skein your adver- tieing 'columns as a Tennessee barber who had suffered for fifteen years with a lam baok and a sore throat, and had been cured by twenty-seven bottles of Dr. Billjawe Compound of Hankus Mathes ; and nou run the portrait of that infernal Tennessee bar- bar in your amount of my wedditig, sir. You can stop . my paper, sir. And now, will you show me the typesetting department of this office? I am on the war- path this morning, sir, bigger than a grizzly hear, and r am going to find the man that mixed those outs and reorganize', him from the ground up l' ' In the excitement and confusion that fol lowed some one hastily tamed in a fire alarm, and ib took the entire department and a sciaad of police to quench the herr young man. ' HOW IT FEELS TO BE EATEN. ---- Tan, . e lontnent Men Have Asserted That it ' Is Not Painful. Sir Lyon Ple.yfair recently related that he knew three men who escaped with their lives after being partially devoured by wild beasts. • The first was Livingstone, the great African traveler, who was knocked on his back by a lion, whieh began to munch his arm, ne, asserted that he felt to tier or paha and that his only feeling waa one of intense ouriosity as to which parb of his body the lion would take next. Tbe next was Rustem Pasha, now Turkish Ambanadot in London. A bear atitathed him and tore off part of his hand and part of his arm and shoulder. He also said that he had neither a sense of pain nor of' fear, but that he felt excessively, angry because d • - the beat grunted with so much sattsfaotton in munthipg him. The third o one is that of Sir Edward Bradford, an Indian Officer, now 6604P17113g 4 hinh Wentzell m the Indian Office. He wee seized in a solitary pleas by s., tiger, which held him firmly ' behind his shouldet with one paw mad then deliberately devoured the whole of his arm, beginning at the end and ending at the Elhoulder. He Well - . . " ' - ' I n very poeitave that he had no sensat o of fear, and thinks that he telt a little pale when the fangs wounthrough hits heti& but is cettain that he felt none during the morselling of his arni. • ' 4 '-' —• Boadicea, ' Crowtted with nommen wreath grown old me woman with a hero's heart Stand pedestalled, a thing ape" Born in the mystic age of gold. - Iron wined sh fob lit 0 t th 1 t Fear urged her n the bloody. fight, .;.• i The time of war burned petits might 1 And then catne Death and all was paste . , The many field with Britons strewn, Tateght not the conquered Queen to weep, Buenos Hence threw het nnpitying Ping °lag) O'er the pale ground lit b yShe MOM The desperate Queen ealsed her white face Whimpered, and fill upoe her aword, .iler wild soul fled, the hot blood poured M Down her white eares with purple Wen, The ago drifted on, the isle Rose greenly front the briny tide Then groat Illizebeth netted Not Horne, but Spain, and rota the While.. ' Prottli Tele 1 beyond the ocean spay .. tehind thy ell& imptegoehle Rusisia, Mid &same min Nile min toll The Glory a thy Queen to day . Or has the thee gene by When One Taker, en the gala and au the glory 1 Then to the mant• unkkintbli ,in rif,0rtr 4 d i_ TI. Ty , ... z om. etnnereellee, popa.aa r . . "Look at that poet little creature," eeid a 008114 man who was lookieg at a mouse recently caught in a big, wire trap. "It mutt be agony to any living • armature to Walk unnisapeotingly nto captivity io then weer." ' "11 brief 5,SSUlf6 you," mid a friend who di was Stanng hy. "Yen talk like otie who spoke from ex. perience." "1 do; jest betide Molina it; the (store and take a torn with our new' gotta door, and C,7 TO PQUOVO ibat you, wiii nob parinit Ito to ern rade, a yott'lt seahow 15 is'toting Give prat:lee due to what they heat* doh.