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The Brussels Post, 1892-2-26, Page 6TRZ BELUsSEjiS POST. FAIL 2G, 189'x'. SENTE'OED TO DEATH. 1, It was late at night, The walls of the room of ILockiugtou Lodge were panelled with shaded terra-cotta colour, lined with auagnitieent mirrors, and thrown apart he- - 'between them hong pink (irapnriee of em. broideted muslin, The furniture was milt wad elegant, whilst upon the tehle stood a nowise lamp, on which bung a Jepenese zed -coloured shade, whiult cast he eoft mel- low light through the epeeioas apartment. The circuit judge tont just entered, and -*was seated in a oi'tineon, higl .l ached ciente, 'whose cushions closed aranmd hint with a ^soft and tnesslike clasp, Hie hands were folded before hive, and los eyelids pressed closely together. The motion of his lips, and Lite fitful contrnetnon of his brow, show - 'ed that the spirit was busy within. " Thank (leaven, I have done for to•day,'' lie muttered. •' Poor fellow, poor fellow,. 19int afraid it will go hard with lam Here the judge paused, and again sank into utrain of deep thoogln, and anhis eyes rest- ed upon the tire, their changing expression was that of pity, mingled now and then with t sterner Bath, as if he were etriving to master the gentle emotion that crowded upon hint. At length he started upright to his °hair, when the door -bell rang with a violence that made hint start to Inc feet, "Nonsenve f it wasan accident. Smnehedy Inas touched the bell ; no one eau be coming here at this hour of night !" be muttered, sinking back in the cushions ; but another peel from the bell, hasty and sharp, :is if some agitatotl lmnd had pulled it with un- eonscious violence, deprived him of all doubt on the subject. He pushed back his chair, and, taking a light from the mantelpiece, event out ; but though he walked fast, another loud peal from the bell hastened his footsteps. A gust of wind blew out the taper as ire opened the door, but there was enough light to reveal the form of a poorly -clad toms e who stood on the doorstep. Without speaking a word, the woman entered the hall and walked for- ward, for the door of the magnificent room was open, end she lad nearly reached it be- fore the judge mind close tho hall door • -against the storm, which wasbeating full in Lie face. Are you alone—quite alone?" said the strange visitor, as he overtook her ; the voice seemed unnaturally calm. The judge was overwhelmed with astonish- ment, but he answered that be was quite alone, and entered the room with his singu- lar guest. She lifted her large eyes towards Lim—who had not pet shook off his astonish- ment—and gazed fixedly in his face till his eyes sank under the wild and intense look. "You seem calm," ahesaid, atlast. "Can you sit on the bench all day watching the law -hounds hunt a human being to the gal. lows, and at night sink into that chair quite comfortable and at ease as if nothing had happened ?" A tinge of red shot over theledge's temple. "I am not without feeling,' he said ; it would be better for me if I were. The judge who condemns is sometimes as much to be pitied as the victim." " You did efeel for him, then 1'' exclaimed the girl, while a gleam of light shot to her eye. "Cold and calm as you seemed, there was a throb of human pity under it all," "Heaven only knows how deeply I felt for that strange, unhappy man ! His crime is terrible, but he does not seem born for Evil I" "Born for evil !" exclaimed the girl, eagerly ; " he !—oh no ; he's noble, good, generous!" She broke off suddenly, dropped her clasped hones, and drawing close' to the judge, said to him, lin a changed and low voice : "They will not find him guilty. You do not think they will !" The judge shook his head and replied : "The evidence is strong—terribly strong." " I know --I know," said the strange girl, with a voice of breathless eagerness. " But there is nothing positive ; ,you censure him —you will save I Did you not say Met now , that he was not born for evil': Stop, stop— I du not speak yet. I hare something to say ;1 any heart hes been so frill that I must speak, or it will break." "Poor girl, what is this wretched man to you ?'' said the judge, deeply moved. "What is he to me? True, true, every- body will ask that gnestion ; you are the first, and I am here only to answer it. Lis- ten, sir, listen—I will tell you what I dare tell, if you believe that I speak. the truth. Five years ago, sir, I was happy, I was young—not twenty. There was a bright, manly youth, the son of a yr mlthy man, and I --I, sir, fell in love with that man, and it wasreeiprocated. His father soon discover- ed our secrev, and forbade him ever to cross his threshold again. Need I say, sir, we met clandestinely, and were married ; wo fled, and took up our abode in the pity. Aly husband could not obtain employment foe a livelihood, and now he is awaitmg that momentary verdict for the crime he has committed for money, and I leftalone among strangers, I wrote to my parents, asking their forgiveuess and helping hand ; but my latter Wail returned unopened, lily little means are nearly exhausted, and now I shall starve, or go to the workhouse, or worse." The stranger Bank to a ohairas she ceased speaking, covered her face and shuddered. " What can I do for you ?—haw can I help you?" said the judge deeply moved by her agon "Tell me," she said, "was he not insane?" Her lips partly opened, and her breath was held back with intense anxiety for hie answer. The judge hesitated. He could not bear to crush tho last hope whish rho wretched girl was clinging. " Speak," she said ; "tell me, I beoeeh you I" The judge was deeply embarrassed, and it was with difficulty that he found words to undeceive her. "1 cannot as an honest man, I dere not as a sworn judge, make s charge on any evi-. dance not brought forward at the trial," lee said firmly, bat with deep commiseration. " 0 heaven, groat heaven I Yon cannot deny me this --and so much depends on it. if you could but say that there wasanythin in the evidence to prove bine insane, it would save him, A human life 1 —think how sweet a thing le tenet he to save a manlike that from death—and such a death 1 The jury will be guided by your charge, I have stnded their faces ever since the trial cam mewled, Yon will—yon will—for do you 1 not admit only for 0 moment that he Must have been Memo? Only say that tomorrow .I ask nothing more 1" The cam esthete( with w nth hioh the peer girl pleaded was agonising her eyes grew mist her hands were convulsively sl taped, and in' the energy of her appeal she sat it unmet - scions)/ to her knees, and clinging to hie dressing•gowu with both hands wildly urged her snit, The judge raised her, and even in hor die - tet. Ss e sl fele khat hie fiends trembled hi I perforating the allies. "Be comforted, my poor young woman--•' be more eontp'sed ; tine le very dietressiug to Inc, I assure yen," he said, while teat's actually stood in Itis eyes, The wretched girl (leveled her face with bath ltauds, and for the first time daring the interview burst into teat's, After weeping with unrestrained violence for a few lini- ments she utteovered her fare with a mad sruile, and suddenly takingthe judge's anal i between both hers, kissed t, and loft the moo: nubbin; bitterly. Before the lodge could overtake her site had opened the hall door end hurried oat into the dark night. 'l.'he next Clay when the judge took hie place on tiil:en:IL the spectators remarked that lila eyes were more heavy than usual, and that his face was 131110 tthnost as that of the pi ironer. lis cast e searching look ever anon towards a group of female Wit. ueexce that sat near. The trial went on, turd deep as his tutcrest hal always been in the tate of the, prisoner, ho now listened with keener interest to the proceedings, Towards the close, when the evidence grey more and more decided against the prisoner', the judge becaee painfully restless; the culaurcnnte uad went in his cheek, and there was an exprrssiet in his tine eyee that uo matt re- membered to have seen there before. The prisoner. too seemed lees collected and indifferent than he Matt hitherto been during the trial. instead of keeping his dark eyes fixed with a sort of mournful earnestness on the jury, es he had dune the day' before, he cast wistful glances towards the group of females. Ills eyes grew troubled and bril- liant, while now and then, as his hand was raised to wipe the drops from his forehead, those who looked closely' sato that it trem- bled. Once or twice he turned and east a search- ing look over the multitude of human faces with which the room was Crowded. The last time some one seemed to rivet his at- tention. ]'ire flashed to his aye, and his cheeks were blood•red. .He half -started to inns feet, dropped again as if a bullet had cleft his heart, and after one brief shudder, sat motionless as before, gazing, pale and marble -like, on his own clasped hands. Among the sea of human faces a woman, muffled in a cloak, pressed eagerly onward. Though the crowd was so dense that it seemed Impossible for anyone to advance n single step, the woman forced her way till she reached those who stood nearest to the prisoner, and throwing her cloak from her, stood, within a few paces of the heart. stricken nun. At length the judge stood up to deliver his charge ; he was paler than usual, sorrow lay tipoo his features, and gave depth and solemn pathos to his voice, The prisoner never lilted his face, but the woman behind stood immovable, with her eyes riveted upon the judge. As the sum- ming up went more and more against the prisoner, the woman began to waver. She reached forth one hand, and grasping the arm of a stranger that stood next, thus pre- vented herself from falling to the floor. In the midst of an opinion bearing decided- ly against the prisoner, the judge caught the glance fixed on him by this one woman. The blood rushed to his cheek—he stammered— put his hand to his forehead and went ou ; but Inc voice was more subdued. Night came on—the jury had been out three hours, and all that time the crowd remained immovable, and in the front, with her eyes bent on the stooping head of the prisoner, was that pale and trembling woman• They came at last; those twelve pallid mon, with the unspoken destiny of a human being imprinted on their mournful faces. The woman looked upon them as they ranged themselves in the jury -box; from one to the other her shrinking eyes were turned,and then, with one wiled struggle,she forced a passage into the crowd. "Gentlemen of the jury," said the judge in a hoarse tone. " What is you verdict?" "Gramm-!" replied tiro foreman. That fearful word sealed the death of a Monett being. 1'Itere was a momentary silence; every face was upon the prisoner, who, in a broken tone, that rang with a death -like sound, uttered just one word: ither!' As We Build. Tine masons were bonding the granite wall 'Round of the boitttl tel church on thogteet They hammered and chiseled the stones inch by bleb, And laid them with mortar between. They nolo the foundations both strong and U314, And leveled with plummet audible; And carefully wrought that no flaw might pent To rally the perfect design. And when the last beautiful, crowning stones Were laid. and the work was done, Comp:tau and strong and porfaot it stood, A lesson Cor every ono. A l0sson of daily human life; \1`c build though we may not see, For tlmc and ttemslty, day by dei', 'l'hc character that shall be. Bach little word, or thought, or deed, Is clipped by the chisel we wield; Each loving pian for another's good Is wrotghtin the lifewo build. If honor and truth are the tendrils which hold The purpose when lire is now ; Andcoascionce and faith an the granite have sat Tltelr souls of a life pure and true; Then the Sears, as they roll with their changes will bring A mntnhood oth fearless and strong; The power and the will to stand fust fort tho right, And. irntly to stand against wrong, And thasere reward of a faithful life, The great ,Maxtor -1311 f ider whit awn, When, our teaks "well donne," to us shall be given The victor'sfadotoes erewn, Attempt to Aesaesinate a Russian Gower nor. The St, Petersburg correspondent of the Tines says,—On Sunday morning an at- tempt was made et Basan upon the life of the Governor. A young man named fiots- ehurikhin bought an occasion to present a petition, and while handing over the paper to the Governor drew a revolver and fired three shots at him. Fortunately nothing resulted more serious than a slight wound in the Governor's )land. It seems strange b that the effect of throe revolver' shots, fired, n as they must ltav0 been, point blank at the Governor, while Oho latter was taking a o paper from the would-be murderer, should n only be to graze the hand, but such is the 1 amount Ghat comes to ea from Kasen, Later 1 newe states that the Governer is slightly wounded in the shoulder. Isis assailant is 211 yen's of age, and was sometime ago ex- a pelted from a school for army surgeons for insulting one of the teachers, It is also stated that fn the petition whish he was handing over be particularly declares That he only wished to excite general intention, and not to kill the Governor. Whether wo have here another vintltn of petty persecute ion and oppression, lrivet to desperation in order to bring his caro forward, or a lunatic' or sono other kind of holly king, is it tptee. lion that e..au only be Ansa "rod wren it p mem the itnxsittus in let ns have mete lm Wei atioin film the spot. Three xeraples melts et dtaelun, but tenet of the boys lake the deem liret and lot the couples cousin at the seeen:1, 1 -: .. -�:z. ••_....:::_nlnwgwXa�.u„m,.w=nw.,xw,nv,.nm„s,..�P,.+mf+agr. f THE GREAT DEAD PEEAOHER, full said disclose teeth not fair to look upon. PIPER'S BATTLI'1 WITH WOLVES, v' LATE CABLE.SEWS His noso le thick and not, well propor- .1• liar* to the Lase eharuw tis, sperrpleeit'e tioued, Hie oyes mem smell as they look Teheran:le, out from under his 'malty eyebrows t but the By ros'rtcaur:ts'as, forehead to broad and u'tmtt udiug, Itis The following slcetchwatt written not long shoulders are rotted, and he Lae un imam before the deaths of England's most wonder- ally of girth Glint, if it does out toll of geed ful preaohe'—It was may enough to gain living, tolls of insulliniont exercise, His ant entrance if the gaiter had taken the precaution to ask, a day or two in advance, tar tickets of admission, I had done this and had found no dillicelty in passing in 00 a side door, Seen through American eyes for the first time the interior of Spurgeon's church is hardly what one would euppose it to be, Ib is not attractive in any way. The window pates are not over clean, the walls are grimy, the seats are narrow and the backs straight and stilt In &stns of the hews there are cushions, but in the majority just a plain board seat. There ie a slight incline to the floor, so that worshipers may get a fairly good view of what is goingon in the immediate front of the house. The aisles are narrow and arranged with patent seats. so that every available inch of room on the ground lloor is nceupied. A gallery rims around the church, except in the direct rear of the pulpit. At a rough guess it would be sane to say that 7,11110 persons could be accommodated. You look in vain for an organ 00 for a choir loft for singers, But there is a big clock that nuke in a tired sort of a way in the gallery, It was ,just live minutes to eleven o'clock. A few of the regular pew holders •ire in their scats. There is a loud ringing of the church bolls anis a dozen men throw open the gates and all the doors leading to the tabernacle. In less then five minutes every seat aunt every Melt of standing room is taken. The rule of first come Met sowed is observed. The old women who open the doors of the pews and who seat visitors are very busy. There is very little noise with it all and a quick glance in rho people shows that it is, perhaps, the most miscellaneous congregation in the world. There are flashes of diamonds, marvelous gowns the brightest of bonnets, and there are the plainest of women with nothing but old shawls about then, wearing frayed dresses and looking almost out of of place opposite their wealthy gators. It is not herd to see thea the thick set, well dossed, mutton -chop -whiskered banker of London is at ]tome lore side by aide with his clerk or the workman in his Sunday clothes. There are a plenty of youngsters from tho Sunday school and a score or more of babes in arms, The first thing that strikes the American visitor as strange is that there are two plat- forms at the extreme end of the church. That on the ground floor is occupied by the orphans from the Stockwell orphanage. The other, directly above it, but back a few feet, is for the preacher. It contains a table ott which there isapitclterof water, a big bunch of homely English roses, a bible and a hymn book. There is au old fashioned may °hair near it and a lounge. All eyes aro turned to this platform, for at this moment there emerges fmm the room just back of it a short, thickset bearded Englishman, who is the reverse of brainy looking and far from taudsotne. His grayish hair is combed loosely !ruin itis forehead. Alis beard is tinged with gray. His frock coat is a good leu! tenger and looser than the fashionable tailors of Loudon would recommend, and it flaps about his legs. The sloeves are long and entirely hide his cuffs. He wears a turnover collar and an old fashioned black necktie. Ho would never be suspected of being a great man. He is followed from rho ante room by half a dozen gentlemen, who compose the official board of theTabernaole. 'hey take their seats just back of the plat- form. Every eye is on the preacher, The meet€anous pulpit ore for in the word stands at the side of his table for a moment, then glances carelessly c.round his church. Ile sees that every scat is occupied. He knows that there are 2,000 men, women and child- ren in the street waiting for admission, He advances a stop or two to the railing of the platform, raises his right-hand and cells upon he inhere to admit all who can be acoon- uodated int the seats of pewholders who have not yet arrived. " We cannot keep not those who want to come m," he says. "Open the doors. Pew - holders who are late cannot expect to find their seats here. Crowd close together. brethren and sisters. Blake room for every. body. Itis a glorious Sunday morning. Lot us have a day that will be memorable to us es long as wo live. I want the ushers to open all the windows. Let in the sunlight and the fresh air." At that moment the crying of a child at. tracts attention. There is a craning of necks and a twisting around to see in what direction the noise oomes from. "Neve' mind the noise," eays the preaoh• er, " It's only a child. Lot it ory, if it wants to; it won't disturb Inc and lamsttre it ought not to disturb you." The preacher takes his seat in the easy chair, puts on a pair of steal rimmed epeota- ales, opens his bible, finds his place, rises, roans the vo•ses or chapter over and then falls on his knees in prayer. idle he is praying a score of cleanly dressed, well be- haved boys from the orphanage takes their places on the platform below him. They aro rosy -checked little follows, bright of eye and strong of limb, not dressed alike, but all wearing big white sailor collars. They bow their heads reverently in prayer, and Hien turn their backs to the audience and their fame so that they can see the preacher. By this time every seat in the church le taken. Even the lobbies and the aislee ere crowded. Wherever there is sufficient room to put a oamp chair this is clone. I notice in one corner of the gallery, so One Domestic Sovereign That Was Over` near to the 'preacher that they are almost thrown. within touching distance, a snore of old wo- men plainly dressed, but cleat and intelli- Natives may well call the ,monkey sire gent looking, who aro holding trumpets to Maharaja, for ho is the very type and in - their ears to enable then to catch every carnation of savage and sensual despotism, word that falls from the preacher's lips. They are right, too, in making their Han - They are the unfortunate deaf ones of the uman red, for the old male's face is of the perish, and rho seats they 000upy are set dusky rod you see in some elderly, over - aside for them regularly by the trustees, fed human faces. Like human maharajas, who aro thoughtful enough to Iznow that they have their tragedies, and mayhap their these old people appreeiato a good sermon. romances. One morning there came a mon- As the proaohee races from his knees the key chieftain, weak and limping, having ell of the church tolls throe times, the sig• evidently been worsted in a severs fight al that service i$ begun and also that there with another of his own kind. One hand are no vacant scats, The church doors are hang powerless, his fate and eyes bone torri- losed. An usher stands guard at each. The hie traoos of battle and ho hirplod slowly rowel in the street turns away sadly. There along with a pathotlo Mr of suffering, eup- s an air of eager expectation on the faces of porting himself on the shoulder of a female, t hose within, s. to wife, the only member of his ohm who heal The preacher opens his hymn book, turns remained faithful to hits atter his defeat, to Psalm toxin, and in a marvelously clear We throw then bread and ;steins, and the ncl molodiotte voioo begins : wounded warrior carefully stowed the great- er did m heart robe= o to hoar m friendser part away, in his cheek pouch, The fan Lei level:My say: to t of c S fol wife, seeing her opportunity, spmang on in Zion le, us appear and keep the solemn him, holding fast Ma ono sound hand, and day. opening his mouth she dofelyeanoped out His voice is hoard in every oorner of the the store of raisins, Then she sat end ate big ohereh, and I know at once the secret— them calmly at a safe dietanee, while to or armor the soct'ete—of his groat popularity moved and chattered inimmpotent rage. ilo The old worsen in the little gallery loan for. knew that wntltont her help he could not ward with their trumpet in then' oars, The remit Immo, tool way lain 00 wait with eongregatton listens attentively, std the whin patience be might till the raisins were rosy chcokod boys from the orphanage open finished, I1 tvas a sal s1gh t, but line more their hymn books and follow the great end sights, touched with the light of come - preacher as he utters every word. 1 itow rly. This was probably her first chance of nota hotter look at this mervelloite titan. 1lcdbedlccoo,,rofsalf•assertion ht her whole Me facto le 'Meg nod far from prepnsseesing. life, and I au afraid slur thoroughly on,jgy- Itis chit is''very.prnmineut and hardly cay. (id it. Then ole led him itway.--- Pall .Mall (red by his iron -grey whiskers, His lips are Budget. clothing is ill fitting, hilt when ho epce.ks all these defects disappear. Itis voice ie me- lodious, It is we swoon at tho babbling of a brook is Jane. It Mow and falls to perfect rhythm. It is it voice that ceptivatoe and holds the (tearer spellbound, There is not u trtoee of Iittglish accent in it, although its owner is en Englishman, an wore Itis father and grandfathers befot•u him. As ho finishes reading the last line of the hymn be eel emcee a step or two, and, in a tluiet, familiar way, tolls his audience that he wishes everybody to sing ; that there are no strangers in Cod ]rouse, and that, while souse of those present may not be Nilsson& or Mtunes, yet nil their fluty to praise (hod, At this moment a gray 'haired man of fifty atope utmbly forward opposite tie preach- er, Ifo takes an old-fashioned taming forte from his pocket, taps it 10 his ear 'until he gets the [proper note, and then in a crooked and flu' from pleasant voice loads the vast oongregatien in lengtng. This is, perhaps, the most novel feature of the great ehuroh. Tho orphan boys on the platform below ably sustained the proeentor, Their sweet uhildieh and ntusival voices very quickly drown the leader's harsh notes, and in an instant the thousands in the congregation tithe u}}p, the hymn and sing it with a will, until the very rafters shape anti through the open whtilowe the song may bo heard blocks away. Mr. Spurgeon leans on the rail of the plat- form familidrly. He looks lovingly at the boys beneath him, smiles fondly at those whom he recognizes in the congregation, and then sings to line or two as we can easily tell by tho movements of his lips. The singing ceases. Tito last notes have died away. The great preacher bows his head to pray and almost the entire auclt- enco follows hint. Ho gives the prayer in a clear, distinct voice. It is a simple plan for mercy. There is nothing theatrical in his manner or his method. His language is so plain that even the tiniest of the orphan boys understand him and his voice is ma•- volously sweet. The Tittle fellows listen attentively to every word. There aro fervid amens from every corner. Thegreatpreath- 01' remains in the same position, with his arms extended until ho comes to the last sentence, " May nothing disturb the child- like simplicity of our faith that makes us looter up heavenward and trustingly, ' Onr Father.'" I see that his eyes are rooting lovingly on the little waifs beneath him. There is another hymn, and the old fellow with the tuning fork leads in the singing as before. Then Nfr. Spurgeon steps forward and reads the morning notices. After this he reads his text in a clear, ringing voice and begins his sermon. The text is from Joshua, and the sermon describes the march of the children of Israel over Jordan. The great orator describes, in a glowing we'd picture, the travels of the chosen ones of the Lord; het it is all so simple and plain that the most uneducated in the audience can follow him. Ile occupies 35 minutes in his discourse, talking about one hundred and fifty words per minute, and is listened to with marked attention. The sermon is interspersed with bits of doscriptiveincident and anecdote. It Mall told in snob aphtha, fatherly and simple weer that it carries conviction to the heart, andit is easy enough to see that one source of the great preacher's success is the simplicity of his manner' of preaching. I have listened to many orator's on both sides of the Atlantic, have heard all the famous preachers, but I know of note who parallels this real bishop of London in his earnestness, his eloquence and his simplicity. If I were tusked to name a man who preaches to the next largest and etthesiastec audi- ences I would say that that mat is Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage. The service ends by the singing of an- other hymn and the benediction. The great audience passes out through rho various doors and the preacher retires to ono of rho ante rooms. As quickly as they can roach him a couple of hundred strangers and friends join him there. For an hour he is kept busy handshaking and giving words of encouragement and cheer to those who costo to hint for advice. Lor,don is dotted with chapels whose preachers got their inspiration from the earnest lecturer in the Pastor's college. In- deed, the college itself has been always man- l''li rlliititr 9tra;.;li far e,lfe mall a N"Vo 'Val' or liorape, lleujantfn Piper, au old pioneer of Hubble. ton, 1Y is„ heti m tkilling adventure with a tack of evolves that is highly iuternatiug. IL was one evening while he was making his way home from \Vateetown on foot, There was 3110W on the ground, nal it had hosted long onough to matte wolves unusually fierce and savage with hunger. 'O'iper had been warned by Mende in Watertown not to at- tempt the trip, but he tolyl them that belied not the slightest fears of danger, as he was e very courageous individual and feared nothing, and only laughed at his friends for intimating any danger, " Nary wild animal in Wisconsin cares to tackle, tae," was Piper's ejaculation, " and they couldn't gin away with a whole hide in their boots if they did," So piper started, and was soon trudging along the lonesome forest high- way, neither listening nor caring for the many Strange &mends that moat of persons would have noticed. Numerous large tint• bee nonce had been seen than fell raid whiter near these sante forests through wltich Piper had eo pees, but as they lead net yet ventured to attack any one, little attention hart been paid to their presence. Bal. now, in their dcsprrale elate of hunger and while lurking abort for something to mei upon, sumo ono or MOM of them had discovered l'ipor, and at once set up a howl for its enmpanione, But Piper was utterly indifferent to their howls, and walked boldly along, though not increasing his regular spend. lint suddenly, just as he turned u, sharp earner of the road way among the dense timber, a large gray wolf walked across the toad slowly and de. liborately about two reds ahead of him, and then turned and leisurely recrossed to the etde from whore it cans, swinging its tail aloft in a scornful manner and with tho hair has executed the four Anarchists who tried raised on Rs nook, indicating an air of atack to sack Xeres. The imaginative Dalziel to defense, as nceasion might offer. It also sent ns n „mei s,' story of struggles on howlet in a dismal manner, as if to hurry the scaffold, ono Anarchist at least lighting up its companions, and whose answers 1101e half an hour against the civil and militarybegan to come from many directions. Piper, forces of Sprain. Of this, as of numb other though he did not like the ettimal'e gostieula- similar informations, Dalziel hasa monopoly. ions, yet failed to reeliz0 that there was There have been threats of disturbance in any real clanger in the appearance) of the various parts of Spain, but no disturbance wolf, but marched straight ahead as if noth- worth mentioning. Tho Parisian Anarchists ing had happened, save that he pinned up a have indulged, as their habit is, in much good-sized club, intending to throw it at' call talk. rho animal should it approach him again. AI Not much more has been heard about moment later the some wolf trotted out negotiations between the Parnellites and from the brush much nearer to him than be-) Anti-Parnallites, unless it be that Mr. Red - fore, and Piper hurled the club at the animal mond has mads Mr. Healy's expulsion a with tremendous force. lent quickly "op.' condition of reunion. Meetings have bean ping to one side and dodging the weapon, ,Held alt round, as a result of which it is corn - the wolf planted itself in rho middle of the 'paned that there are at least five Irish roadway and was not disposed to move any parties. The:Anti-Parnelliths are divided further•, but showed its teeth savagely and into MoCartluyito, Dillionite, and Healyite uttered more howls for its companions.!seotione. The Healy enation consists of Piper now began to got frightened, yyet�eer. Healy. Mr, Dillon's friends tried to still he exhibited no signs of cowardice, Int elect trim chairman, but were beaten. Mr. gatheredsrieks and stones, andhnrled them ;Mc(tarehy again becom0eahnirrnan, `.Chat is rvn the wolf until'it Ivan glad to got out of his' ti c0lnpronise. Mr. Redmond loads his little way and let him proceed. But he knew, bend of Parnollites, who are not numerous from the sounds still coming behind Trim enough to afford the luxury of to quarrel or that a pack of the animals was on his trail split. The fifth party conaiets of Unionists, and he would need to Hake haste or they reckoned at about oto -third of the people of would soon overtake him. Ho was a strong Ireland, but eo scattered as to be unable eo titan very fleet of foot, but he had no ex- act together, or to do more than poll in most peotation of winning against a tot of wolves boroughs or county divisions anything but m a footrace, should they determine to'a hopeless minority. pursue him. So he concluded that he must . at once bring all his wits into play and, if possible, deceive them. Tho forest treesTHE FAMOUS DEATH VALLEY 01' around him were nether small to climb and OALIFORNIA, be sato among their branches, and he did not relish the idea of being kept up in a true all night in such sold weather, as he might A Reetnrn of the Great American Desert. freeze to death and thus fall a prey to the' The most fatally famous part of the (trent animals. The desperateness of Lhesituation American Desert is Deatit Valley, in Cali• called to his minda singular oave containing foroia, There is on all the globe no other two narrow oponinge, and he conotitded spot more forbidding, more desolate, more that it might shoed bun protection and deadly. It is aconcentration of the Mr - give hat a chance to defend himself. So re's of that whole hideous area, and it has away he hurried for the cave. It was now a bitter history. long aftertdes , but themoonshown bright- One of the most interesting and graphic y ye owing to he shadows of the trees stories I ever listened to was that related Prier oxpertenecd considerable difficulty in to me, several years ago, by ono of the sur - 'holing the entrance to the oavorn. Before ohms; of the inane& math Valley party of crawling into tit narrow passageway ho se- 154(1—the 'Rev. J. W. Brier, an aged cured a large, heavy club to use should the Alethodist clergyman now living in Cali - wolves attempt to follow hum into his re- forma. A party of fivo hundred emigrants treat, Ile was eoa'coly a half a dozen feet started on the lest day of September, 1 S49, inside ere he heard their horrible howls from the southern end of Utah so cross the near the entrance, and a moment hate' to desert of the then new, minds of California. saw their eyes lila balls of fire glaring on Tho•e were ono hundred and five canvas - him from the outside. topped wagons, drawn by sturdy oxen, be - At first they seemed disinclined to follow side which trudged the shaggy men, ride after him, apparently fearing a trap, but in hand, while ander the canvas awn - finally the boldest one started inside, and ing rude the women and children. In a then all squeeze(] themselves into the open• sttott time there was division of opin- ing until it Was jammed tight. ion as to the propos routs across that Ae the forward wolf came within hie pathless waste in front ; and next day five aged by this marvelous worker. Nor that reach, Piper pounded it with lits club until wagons and Gage people went oast to reach alone ;fat' he has been also manager of the it was utterly disabled, but the groat pros- Santa Tc (whenoo there were dim Mexican Stockwell orphanage, established m 11107 etre of those front behind constantly brought trails to Los Angelos), and the rest plunged with at endowment of ;020,000. Hee 50the heads of other's nearer and nearer, yet boldly into the desert. The party which orphans were taken the first your, and Coo Piper never stopped fighting. but whacked went by way of Santa Fe reached California ons ago the orphanage and beat incl gouged and disabled wolf after in December, after vast sufferings. The wolf as they cane within ranch, Bet at larger company traveled in comfort for a length the entrance became eoperfectlyfilled fotydays until they reaolued about where with wolves that they could neither get for- Pioche mw is. Then they entered the Land ward nor backward, while thole savage howls , of Thirst ' and for more than three months resounded in the narrow place with snob wandered lost in that realm of horror. It was almost Impossible to get wagoue through a country furrowed with 0ayone ; so they soon abandoned their vehicles, packing what they could upon the baoksof the oxen. They struggled on to littering latices, only to find thorn deadly poison, or but a mirage on bar- ren sands, Now and then a wee spring in the moon+ants gave them new life. One by one tete oxen dropped, clay by clay the scanty lour ran lower, Nina young men wht separated from Inc rest, being stalwart and unencumbered with families, reached Death Valley ahead of the others, and were lost. Their bones wore found many years later by Governor Blaisdell and his surveyors, who Lord Randolph and Els (Jonetituente--The Late Mn Spurgeon—•The Spanish Go'e- ernmont and the ABnrobists, .Lord llattdolptt Chnrehill'e rotenone with his eonetituonts of Paddington are, if not Ambled, unee•tain, They have put to hint s question width perhaps he might have resented had he chosen. They ask Info whether ho means to etaittl at the next oleo na tion as a Co:rvativo otandndats, and whether, if so, Ito will support the (''onsor- vative policy. But Lord Randolph, instead of taking offence, answers 000lly that he shall give the Tory party the same support which ho has given it since he came 1 Par ' Hameln in 1874 Some of his constituents have so little sense of humor that they are deliberating whether this will satisfy uncut °r not. 'They need not deliberate. Lord Randolph In tho future as in Ileo poet, will talks the liberty of thinking for himself. tipttrgecn'a people have hurled him with great eerentmty and sorrow, in which more than his people shared. The dead preacher lay in state to his Tabernacle Tuesday and 1\'ednesdtty, where 00,(100 persons came to say farewell to him, There wore four mem- orial services. There was a great procession to the cemetery. Thera wore immenseeu'owde In tho streets and at the grave. Per- haps the most notable event of all was the presence of the Bishop of Rochester at the funeral, which Inc brought to an end with a benediction, Ire felt, no doubt, that not to Nonoottformiate only is Spurgeon's death a calamity', but to the whole religious world. The Spanish Government has shown cour- age and firmness, and, in suite of threats, houses, shelterinconsisted of P3 500 children of broth sexes, front six to 14 years old. Stockwell Duce a suburb, is now a part of London. Conneoted with Mr. Spurgeor,'s ehuroh work aro a Colportage association, stinted in 1800, whose agents sell religious books in neglected villages, an Mrs. Spurgeon's book fund (1870), supplying freely the libraries ofpoor ministers. Mrs. Spurgeon, as time indicated, has been her lmsbaud'e constant helper, especially through his years of physical ill -health, that would long ago have paralyzed the energies of a lees zeal. °uely determined man. On amount of this ill -health his brother, Rev. Janos Arthur Spurgeon has been ecepastor since 1808. doafanmg elect that it made Piper tremble and become panicky, so that his sole thought was to got out and away front theta. Crop. ing around with hie hands he found some good-sized loose stones, with wltioh ho, hastily filled in the opening just in frontof the wolves as tightly as he could pack it and then, with club in hand, ho orawlod along rand sought exit et the opposite en- trance to el mwavorn. The dismal darlcneee prevented hint from seeing'anyOhing, and it The wolves did not know, or else had forgot- ten, this entrance, and Piper left theta still howling with fury, orowdod into the narrow mouth of the Dave at least six ty (001 yards gave Death Valley its nano. away from where Ito hademerged. He now The valley lies m Inyo County, and is trade his way to there road again, and two about one hundred and fifty miles long. In hours later had reached home, A foto days width it tapers from three miles at its later he visited the cavern, bob found nothing southern end to thirty ab the northern, It save a few bones, the dead and wounded is over two hundred feet below the level of wolves having been, as he sttppaoed, eaten the see, The main party crossed it at about up by their ravenous companions, the middle, where it is but afew miles wide, but suffered frightfully there, Day by day some of their number aankupon the burn- ing sands never t0 gee. The survivors were too weak to help the fallen. The strongest of the whole party was nervous, little Mrs. Brier, who had some to Colorado an invalid, and who shared with he' boys of four, seven, and nine Wears of age that indoearibable (mettle of nine hnn- dred :Mice. FOP the last three weeks alto had to lilt her athletic husband filen the ground every morning, and steady him a few moments before he could stand. She gave help to wasted gine tsany ono of whom, a few menthe before, could have lifted her with ono hated, At last the W survivors orossotl the range whialt shuts oil' that most dreadful of deserts from the garden of the world, and were tenderly nursed to health at Ohohnoienda, or ranch house, or a courtly' Spaniard, Me, Brie' hail lost ono hch nu'ed pounds in weight, an(lthe others worn titin in praportiote When I saw him last Ito was a Malo old titan of Reality -five, cheerful and active, lint with aerango furrows in his face to toll of those bygotto sullnrings, ]Tis berme little evifo was still living, tool the boys, who head such a hitter experience as perhaps no other boys over survived, are now etalvart ism--CSt. Nicholas, was some time before he fount rho way out. HYPNOTIZED EY :1I8 WIFE. An Extraordinary Case Which Ihts CONIC to tight In New York. N1ow Yotttt,] eb. 11 ---Jam es Barnes Tripp, who has a reputation as an inventor of vari- ous sewing machine attachments tend nnmor• ole outer ueofnl devices, during the last two weeks hasbeen in ten hypnotio condition at Oho botarding house of Mrs. Lodwick, No. 114 least Eleventh street, and physicians who have celled to, attend hits say they aro unable to do anything for him. His wife, who, it is said, is insane, is the ono who has hypnol Mod bin, and oho Inas snob an Mlle, eee00 over hint that she is ahlo to make him obey icor slightest wish, Tho authorities will be appealed to to -day to talcs char a of the woman, end edr, 'Tripp will bo removed to at hospital for trotttment, Mr, ']'rip ie 55 years old and Mrs. Tripp 10 a young wo- mall. She olefins to be esplrltmaltat, Mrs. James B. Tripp, who it to stated, has teeth her husband in an hypnotic oentlitien. for the last two weeelee, rues erresteel Ole :afternoon, She will be examined as Lc her sanity