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The Brussels Post, 1892-7-22, Page 26 eaesetieseweeseaeleoeseenaiesespelemeeneselessetwacen S:LoIN UTTETITON'S NEMESIS, Selwyn Utterton s wife lay dying, aturse satby her e1do hetSelwye Uttertt himself was out visiting las patients, I had a pasaion for his profeseion, hail eelwt LH:teethe, So totylal a circumstance as tl Mere fact thet his wife ley dying at home it was a perfeetly llamal. case of tubers, losis of the lungs—would never for a 111 meitt hove kept back that devoted man science from watching with interest, tho beautiful complieatiens of typhoid and theria that were now strangely psevalent i the baok slums of Westbury. Marion pro Ted. high on hoe pillows, and gaspiug 1 breath, wondered once or twice to hero 'whether she would live out the day till I came hack again to say good-bye to her. " Nuree," she murmured feebly at las rousing herself beyond her strength in Anal effort, "1 can't die till I've written line that's haunting me. Lift me high° ' just a minute, please ; give me a pencil an Paper !" An envelope, nurse, sae said agieu half inarticulately, as she finished th writing and the nurse handed hcr 011 from the drawer in solemn silence. The poor pale irl —for she was barely 2 THE BRUSSELS POST. .11.71,Y 2.), 1892. i W011)41 Iler feet 1,uv It/ low 114u: as teal, to hie grew ? ll•or feel—those whi feet, thew ?ale, thin feeta-woold t•hey dog 111211 g llf 'Ou the third night Selwyn 'etterton s al up late by lienseit in the thrgery, over t" • enweldering fire, Ile wee afraid to go m boa iu the 11.0ii1 row» to Mariam, white Ma 10 am.* body yet lay there eolil and unatten — pit elattion's feet, aloe had said, emelt' fo ". low him to the wave Those small AVIii u" feet Thosepale thin feet 1 He hate of them, Ho drendedthem. He woohl be eve ate with her yet; as he Mel been even with b over the note or zolomotorm. " He moved 1400090 to the cabinet in the . corner and opened the dour of it With some ar feint hesitation. Then he seemed to make If bis mind up and selected ftom his instrue mint ease, -0, sergical knife and saw. For te moment he paused agaio ; then he move•1 ta to tho door. He opened it aoftly • and lis• tithed once more in the ball. All, all was O silent With a eataike tread he began 1' mounting the stall% a nandle in one hand 10 aloteion hail beeu ai g00,1 {Li IV 22001 ehe was dogging him new, and would elweys dog lam. Alter e night vent NW in sleep, half in et gazing between whiles et those pellid a complaining feet, Utterton rose and dressed to himself and wont down to brealefest. The r, feet followed him downstairs— pitterpatter, piteer•petter—with a. ghostly tread, but ho 1. alone seemed to hear them Or 800 them, er te notice them in any way, While he break - d fasted they sat at the easy chair by the n fire, warmiug themselves alternately, with er outstretched solos held up to the grate, for it was a very oold morning. When he fini ed they rose and eltifted all noiselessly the opposite chair. Ire took the paper ia hand and pretended to read, but out of corners of his eyes, he felt Imre all the ti the feet were still keeping cloth watch fr their place upon him. The feet follow him to the door and out into the street. waa a muddy morning and Selwytt ton, looking close at the pavement, that the feet as they passed, left no ma upon the gray slush that flooded the fl stones, hoe Borer could venture to wear that coot. if Is she never eould creep into thet cold bed Nein. He meth sit tip all might ; 111121 11 was chilly weather, With his eyes 110111011 on the foot he sat there motionithe One o'elook strnok, then two o'colook, three oteock. About half - pest three the feet grew alowly dim. Ile was 00110010110 of a cold chill diet ren feint do en his spine, he wits emoseiouits of 11111110. leth implacable terror, 'Tie eyes started from hie head, his brain swam vagooly, The feet and the world seemed to fade before him. eh- Next morning when the servants Icnock. to ed at the door they received no &newer, hie The housemaid tnrned the handle and gave the a loud screw of alarm. Sol wye Utterton me eat bolt upright i» chair by the bedside, 001geeing with fixed eyes at a point in the ed wevlding ooat, 01111 0,8 etill He , It was nark and stiff. The rival doctor be. er- Bowed he had died some hours ago, aw Always a dabbler in the occult, the evi- rk deuce before the coroner's inquest said. And aga he died of terIOr lil aad the instruments in the other, For ten minutes or more he wee gone. le At the end of that time the door opened ° 01100 more, and Selwyn Utterton stole back a again, solemn, groin and cynical. Under hes arm he carried email white paper per. 4 —directed 1( 111 the same spasmodic, deep. Aigging way, and then passed it across with a long breath to the nurse at the bedside, "Ninth," she said solemnly, looking deep into the woman's eyes, "promise me one 'thing before I die. Keep tbat note while I live, and give it up to no one ; but ae Boon as dead, put a stamp on it ane post it 1" "Yes, dear," the nurse answered low, holding the white hands in hers, and steels. ing her hair tenderly. "I'll do as you say. Poor child; God bless you I" There was a minute's pause ; then ..a man's light foot echoed faintly on the stall A gentle, soft foot as becomes a doctor, The door opened voieelessly without motion of the air, and Selwyn Utterto entered. A handsome naan, with a beauti- ful face—cold, clear•out, intellectual. He moved 000r by the bedside dth a soft, velvety tread, and took her hand in his n, but it WaS to feel her pulse. "Too high, too high 1" 118 00)11, shaking his head and frosioung. "She'd better be alone for while with me. You talk to her, nurse and disturb her. You may go down for the presen t." As soon as she was gone Selwyn Uttertmii yawned, stirred the fire into is blaze with meditative pokes, regarded the thermome- ter with medical care, and then stood with bis back to the hearth and hei hands cross ed behind him. His wife turned her eyes to him, but said not a word. Selwyn Utter. ton regarded her with a stony stare, yawn. ed a second time, pursed his lips and his brows, and took up the sheet of white paper that lay upon the table. It was the under sheet of the quire on which Marion had written. Be took it up mechanically and quite at random, but its appearance surprieed him, " Hello 1" he °Heel, with a start, looking close at the furrows pressed deep onto its =rime. "Why, how's this, Marion ? I say, you've been writing 1" The dying woman's face flushed fiery red, and then, in a moment, grew pale as death. "Give me that paper Selwyn," she ex claim. ad, half raising herself ou the pillow with a convulsive effort ! "Give me that paper 1 I want it." "No, I won't," her husband answered, regarding it stall harder, in an attentive -way. " ely need is greeter. This is odd —precious odd. I can't make it out, But you've been writing, it seems to me . . • . to Elsie elaturin. Marion fell back upon the pillow and gasped. "012, Selwyn," she cried, clasping her hands, "Pro dying I'm dyine I Have you no pity? Give it to me 1" The young ntan 1215116 110 answer hut etrolled over slowly to his medicine thest, end selecting e bottle and brush with seem- ing carelessness, smeared thmething dark in broad washes across the face of the paper. It was iodine liniment. The furrowin the paper caught the coloring mattering at once and Ile could read the letter almost as easily as if it were written in Mk. "This is odd," he repeated. "Very odd. You dug your pencil too deep ; the page tette tales. I wonder you could write so, Marion, about your 02011 husband. You're a wonderful thought reader 1 How on earth did you know I cared for that girl ? 'For your own sake, Miss alaturin, not for mine, I write from my dying bed to put you on your guard against Selwyn Utterton, He has helped to kill MO slowly by long negleet, partly because he's tired of me, but partly also because he wants to marry you. Oh, trust me and refuse him, He never loved me—he married me for 1127 0101207, and then he tried to kill met Theta not true, you know, Marion, the phthisical tendency's hereditary in your family. 'He loves you now, and he'll love you for twelve months and then he'll tire of you. For hea,ven's sake take my advice and have nothing to do with him a Well, anyhow, you've put it plain enough, I must say 1 Has thia letter been posted?" "Ito," the dying woman answered with a groan, " But it will be—it will be." Selwyti crumpled up the copy carelesely it his hand and flung it into the fire without the faintest show of ill -temper. " It won't be," he said, slowly. "Nurse has it, I'm euro. And she shan't go out of this house alive till sheet given it upto me." With a sudden burst, his wife sat bolt up. tight in the bed andglared at him fiercely. " Selwyn Utterton,, ' she cried, in a, very terrible voice, "11 you dare to do bloat my feet will follow you to your grave. They'll dog you day and night. They'll never for one momeet leave you or deeert you." She fell bath upon the pillow with a fall like lead. Selwyn Ut tenon stepped throes and gazed at her eellenly. Her lips were black ; her eyes were vacant. He tang the bell for the nurse. "Sloe's dead," he said, quietly, " She's been over -exerting herself again, 11022d this is the consequence, Inter. nal hemorrhage, of couree—due to your carelessness. Give me that letter she wrote, You've got it 10 7000 pooket" " I won't," the nurse said, trembling, but faeing him like a man. "Ib wee her very last wish, You've killed her yourself, But yon ehan't have her letter," Selwyn LItterton stetrea sternly at her for latlf a minute, He never opened his lips, but, taking two steps forward, he caught both the rairee'a hands in one of his own, and twisted them painfully, With his other hand he made a sudden dive into her pocket unawares for the letter. " Oh I I won't Wob't I?" he cried,. holding it. aloft above hie bead for a second In triumph. "There are two opinione hout that 1" Then he flung it into the fire and watchea it burn Mewls', Selwyn Maarten, though eahnly callems tor a cultivated man, was is profound believ- er in the supernatural in every day life, So Ideals/nes laet words canoed him for the moment seine little ineonvenionce, For the next, two nights, in !Titer 01 1110 Outer calmness, Selwyn Utteeton lay awake Many hours on his bed, tortured by strange doubts. Could Marion ho standing as she threatened, cold and White, by his bedside . He stirred up the embers and poked the fire into a blue. Then he put on fresh coal, heaping it, higher and higher. Bit by bit Ile built up a great bank of fuel, rising high into the chimney, red hut in the centre. Meanwhile, tbe paper parcel lay nnheeded on the rug. He MEI stoking with all his soul putting his very heart into it. By-and-by he rose again, undid the par - eel, placed the 'contents gingerly on a surg- ical board, took some phials from the cab- inet, and poured two or three liquids, one after another, on the mysterious bundle, Some of them smelt strong, and some loissed faintly. After that he broke down the bank of red hot coatspread it abroad in the grate with the poker, and laid the bundle softly in the midst of he scorching fuel. With a hasty hand he piled more hot embers on top, and arranged fresh lumps from the ecuttle over all in a glowing pyramid. Then Ise sat in his areechair and watched it burn slowly away—watched it burn away, bit by bieto indistinguishable ashes. aelne n 131. torten never wtht to bed at all that night He sat up in his chair by the fire till morn- ing, and when the servanta came dawn ea seven o'clook to °leen up the room they found him sitting there still, nodding and dozing dreamily. That day Marion's corpse was safely bur- ied, and Selwyn Utterton breathed agein. She could never follow him to hie grave now —that lame and halting ghost. She could linc hobble around the work!, and he was free to make love to Elsie Maturin. In the evening he sat by the surgery fire once more a, bachelor at large, relieved from all fears of Marion's rengeance. Just to while Davey the time, however, he took down from the shelf a medical book, and skimmed heath interest for half an hour, for he loved his profession. His eye fell casu- ally on e spiritualist treatise, it wasa t'i11 but leaned book by a half-arazy Frenchman. The pnge he hit upon contained a vivid so - count of the change of opinion Which came over the ideas of early :nen with the progress from burying the dead to burning them Only by burning them, the author said, with dogmatic conviction, could the inmost and most genuine gbost of things be finally set free from the material body, It had been notteed in countries where burning still pre- vailed that if any portions of a man's body remained unconsumed by the funeral fire his ghost was apt to reappear to survivors lacking a hand or an arm, as the case might be, and to beg piteously for the liberation of the missing member. Thus, at lazuli- patam in 1873—but Selwyn Utterton read no further. Instead of that he flung down the book by lois side with & ory of horror. And well he might, incleed—for there on the hearth before hion a hideous sight stood re• vealed to him as clear as daylight. Two severed feet stood close together on the tiles of the grate, inside the fender, as thongh they had stepped Ghat minute out of the glowing fire -place and supported an invisible body above them. They were just two feet—no more—sawn deftly acrose by surgical skill through flesh and bone and a little above the ankle. Two small white feet, Two pale Wm feet. Distinct and clear, yet transparent and in- tangible. They stood there and mocked him. It was she who had outwitted him. Selwyn Utterton sat and gazed at them in horror. As he looked the feet rose slow- ly, first oue and then the other, and etepped across the fender and moved toward the other arm.ohair by the fire. One of them planted itself firmly on the ground, and the other hung in mid air ieclinecl at an angle, as if the leg to whioh it belonged was moose - ed over its fellow. Some mystereetur ma- ture seemed to be seated in the chair enseen, and only the feet appeared to have made themselvee definitely vlsible, In an agony of einem Selwyn T_Ttterton sat there, horror struck till nearly eleven. He dared not move from the spot. He dared not speak or ory. Those spectral feet kept him riveted to his place. He just sat and gazed blankly at them. But the feet sat on, and took no notice of him in any way. Now and again they un - °reseed themselvere or changed their posi- tion for greater ease or comfort. But for the most part, they eimply eat and glowed and glared at him, as it were, from their rawout edges. At 11 o'clock he could stand it no longer. He rose and moved in a maze to the door. The feet rose at the same moment abd stepped across the room, foot by foot beside him. He turned out the gas and made hast- ily for the passage. If possible he would dodge them and shut them in behind him. But the feet were too quick for him—those gender, agile feet. They glided out as he passed, and waited in the hall to see where he was next going. He turned to the stairs. The feet trampled after him, one step aa, 0. time, following close to his heels-ejust as Marion had Promised. He bolted into hie bedrooin. The feet rivaled in behind him. He flung himself on the bed, clothes and all, and coverecl hie fete in wild awe with the eheet and counterpane, But he could not rest so. After a few brief minntes of this unmanly panto he opened his eyes andlook• ocl again. 'The foot sat patiently on the floor by a chair at the bedside, They would sit there e11 night be fait certain in his own soul. Selwyn 'Maiden wax zoo coward, in spite Lod his love for °omit saloon, He btaccil imsolf up, and regarded them fixedly. If the things meant to stop there loo might as well, first ab last, got thoustorned to facing them, He roso with his eyes still firmly fixed on those ghastly phantoma, and un - dragged slowly, And still they haunted He turned out the gas and stepped into bed, For a mireate or two ho lope his eyns tight glut no before. Then curiosity overcame him, He opened them once tnore. The room Willi clatk, but through the slit in the blind a little moonlight penetrated into it. By Goat uncertain gloom he .e,ii eee them etfil, sittingtirthiently ty 111(1 ., sleek, in the tlatitalde of eete W110 WOK WOW/1111g 111.1r1 He stepped into the carroage ; the feet mounted behind loim, one after another on the step of the broughe 51 ; muddy es it was, they remained pure and white and deadly pale 11.5 evera All that day, as he went on his roun the feat, unabashed, still followed h everywhere. As he stopped at each hot th gtd • 1 b 112 slow delibereteness, and stood waiting 0)20 the door while he kuockea, and troop alter him up the stairs, and sat expecte by a chair at the patient's bedside. Fro house to house they took to the brougha again, a id settled themselves down as they belonged to a person sitting on t opposite seat with her back to the horse But all the time they remained cold a white itaid rigid as over—a pair of nth bloodless little feet, corpse•like in the pallor, and cut visibly oft' juat above t ankle. Day by day this went on, and Selw Uttertou at last grew almost accustomed it. Hard, stern man Goat he WAS, he pe sisted in his own way ; Ile wouldn't alto those epeetral fees to turn him for o moment from his fixed purpose. Mont rolled by and the period of decent menu ing began to go pest, ane Utterten paid h court notwithstanding the feet, to Els Melanin. She was a tebder, beautifu simple -hearted girl, little Elsie, who ha known hardly anythieg of Mrs. Utterto while she lived, and who was as innocent all blame as Marion herself could hat been. One summer evening he met Elsie on th path aoross the fields after his work w done and walked home by her side, thrillin inwardly with pleasure. Ifteie walked b side him, all tremulous, mutth wonderin What he could mean. She knew he love her ; the knew he wished to marry her whet on earth, then, made him heaitat when he must see sloe loved him ? At lost by the liti le footbridge over th stream Utterton paused for a moment an pineked up heart of grace, without on word of warning to take her small hand i hie and say abruptly with the directness o simple herat-felt passion, "Oh, Mine, why sle•tild we two fence and parry any longer? I lore yon 1 Yon love me I My Elsie, will you marry me S" And Elsie holding his hand oll trembling i» hers, anawered in quivering accents, with a rose -red face, "11110 Utterton, you know I love you well. Yon know my answer. What ueed for me to tell you ?" In a 01101011 of delight Selwyn Utterton stooped down and kissed her dainty, smal halm with eager haste. They two wer quite alone. He glanced up and down th path. There was nobody near. Her blush W00 so temptieg. Her lips were so red Dere he, oh, dare Ile ? "Just this once Elsie," he murmured, " to seal our oem pace 1' And as he bent his head to kiss her he saw close by upon the ground two pale, white feet, standing tip -toe, all intent, as o one who liatened and strained every nerve to hear what they two were saying together. Day by day, hour by hour, through that still uourtship, those two white feet till pursued Selwyn Utterton, relentlessly, remorselessly. Time after time he sat with Elsie alone in the dusk of blind man's holi- day holding her wee hand like a lover in his lend whispering in her ear those fervent nothings that all lovers on earth for a thou. sand centuries have whispered in vain—and amll the while that pair of silent ghostly 'etchers stood by or leaned forward and checked every word he spoke with aardonie pproval. Sometimes Gov took up the at. ntittide of one who laughs a bitter laugh ; somethnes of one who smiles cynical inore• dulity sometimes of one who looks on ata poor girl's ruin with pitying sympathy. When they turned towarde Utterton they turned with defiant boldress : when they turned towards Elsie they turned with in. finite sadness and commiseration. Never for one moment did they leave him alone with his love in quiet. At every turn, ae Marion had p.romised, they dogged him and outwit- ted him. Bilb Selwyn Utterton was inade of sterner stuff than could be turned away frorri his purpose by any ghostly phantom. Feet or no feet, Ile meant to marry Elsie. Let them dog him to his grave, he said to himself more than once, he would go on none the less, as though he never perceived them. So at last the day of his wedding Wits S)Ced and Elsie's dress WaS made and the gueste were bidden, and all terangements were complete. That evening Selwyn Utterton sat up late by the firteside. lie sat quite alone. Strauge to say, for once, the feet load deserted him, He sat and told himself day dreams like any other lover. About 12 o'clock he went up to his bed, room and turned on the gas and began to undress himself. A. new frock coat had come home for hint to be married in—e, wedding garment of the most correct des rription, The housemaid, not to crumple t, had laid it upon the bed. Selwyn Utter. ton glenced at It, and was just going to hang ib up on a peg behind the door. As he did so a terrible eight, met his eyes indeed. 'For the first time in their acquaintance the feet had burned aggressive. They were toasted firmly—nay, doggedly, resolutely—on the COILt, AO that he ouldn't remove it without touching and displthing them, But they wouldn't be disposseesed, 110 UV in a moment from the clog 0(111004 of theft attitaide what the feet were riving at, Somebody had planted hereelf all enseen on the bed, with her arms clasped around her noes, and her teeth c enched, though, at real, »othing but the foet was visible. He &red not disturb them he wies cowed and terrified, Thole feet oneant misehief. They never would budge titan the post they had taken. Slowly and mechanienlly he drew up is chair end sat opposite tho feet, still sawing at theta blankly. The foot gtood 8011, and stared beak hun defiance, His blooa rau cold, lie &area, aud. elated, and gave& and shivered. Vague terrines filled hie EMI, This Was Nomosie, Neinthie 1 Ile 1 o strange ideas and beliefs. Ho had seen a ghost, folks guessed. But anyhow, it, was certainly fear that killed bine And the doctor who concluded the post- mortem observed, with intereet, that two disea,sed spots were noticeable on either re' a tina, spots with such a distribution that they must certainly have shifted from point "" to point as he altered the focus of his oyes, laa and he would no doubt rodeo during life • the distinct illusion o some vague white as' body or bodies in the foreground, perhaps e" with a faint halo or rosepink extension.— nt (Grant Allen, 51 111 if he MYSTERY OP THE SACK, n Hidden Critue. The police at Madrid have just aneceeded O in unrevelling a peculiarly horrible murder e mystery which has for some weeks past 011 - gaged their attention. On 25th April last some boys who were et play in a little ire- quented street in the outskirts of the city - noticed resting against a wall of a laundry , a sack of the kind generally used by Madrid' washerwomen to carry linen to and from the houses of their customers. Its presence did not excite any suspicion till one of the lads happening to lean against it, was struck by the fact that its contents appeeered to be of 'O mneh more solid character than any goods usually conveyed in a laundry sack. 111 the outlying quarters of Madrid a good deal of smuggling goes on, and some women whose attention the boys directed to the matter Iconcluded that a quantity of contraband merchandise SUDDENLY ABANDONED 1 for some reason or other, load been accident. ally discovered. The police were commnni. cated with, and on arming npon 1118 500118 proceeded to open the mysterious sack, Up. tying it at the mouth they extracted a quantity of femele clothing torn to shreds, and there then appeared the head of a dead woman. Finding themselves confronted by what was evidently a shocking crime, the police laid the sack on the ground and ripped. it open. The nude body of an elderly wo- man, winch had been toghtly packed in a t bag, her clothing, being used as padding, !e was disclosed to view. The nose of demos.' ed was bruised as if by a bloty or fall, and s tied firmly over the month was a ca/too ker-; chief of the kind ordinarily worn by Spanish !t women of the poorer classes. The kerchief was so twisted and tied ea to term, together r With 15 quantity of black wool -which had 11 been stuffed into the mouth an effectual ). gag. The face was so disfigured theca was e impossible to identify the features of the de. b e ceased. By means of the clothing, however, 0 ' VIE 311.11113011,01/ W031AN , was recognized me Ramona Tomas, who , lived in a topmost storey hovel by,along with P . ber grandson, a boy of 12, who secves as a 11 chorister at the Church of San Sebastian. r A motive for the crime was suggested by le the fact that old Ramona was believed to g have saved& good deal of money, and was in k the habit of lending it Orb in small sums to her poorer neighbors at a eery high rate of Interest. For a time the police were unable to obtain any clue to the peepetrators el at the murder. But at length auspieion was it directed against a man named Julian Pin. th tado, who lived neer the laundry where the P body was discovered, and whose wife had been teen in company with the decethed at a place outside tladrld. The couple, who were known to be in Ramonaas debt e•ere ac- cordingly placed under arrest, and severely cross eemnined. Important eircumstantial evidence was discovered at the house they IT WAS A ROYAL JUMP POR LIFE, ineldent In the Lire Or the 1:155500015 or tuqrla Many years ago 1 10118 an eyteivitheas to an incident Which befell the Empress of Austria, and WIliell NVAB BO toreible that her othape front death seems to be even uow 00 nth ache Elizabeth of Anstrie, as sloe liked to herself, woe at Guth time eot only the m derieg lout also the beet rider in the wet No men or woman ever know hotter h to take an obstacle than this most therm of all erowned women. Though her alaje teas then alreedy a grandmother, on hor back alio eould give odds to the best Il garian aud English ridere. The party of event of which I am writing oonsisted the Empreas end a large number of Austr and foreign gentlemen riders, who seem to have gathered together from all peas Europe. Most of them were known as pro Mont horsemen, This teas not surprism considering that the Empress would ne take the field the company of poor ride On this occasion the Empress rode a ye spirited .young horse, wheel she bad o tained Laneashire when on a visit England, and to the training of which a had personally attended for nearly a ye If I • 11 f 1 A 00SE BURIAL. --- A MoIlier's 111 Itullnlky over Her Male Deed lan by. Ono who aimed the Northwestern ter- ritory yes 08 ago toilette; the following pa- thetic stole, of the leuritel of a papoose, winch he hoppettecl upon by houring the mother's lament : Creeping nearer," lie said, " I saw tWO Oa AllWA 111 the doer of' the tepee cowering ed, over the embers of a dying Ore. •Both teem ow Waiting, keeping the svelte for the clead, ing end one held clatped to her breast a little sty stiffly bound beadle. Stertiug in a loiv so- gurgling sound, their wail rose louder and un- louder on 1110 still night until at last it the culminated in a prolonged ohriek. It came cf and went, and ottani and went again, thott lan lament for the dead over the little body ed incased in ithstiff wrappings that had been of tell the world to her. "Toanorrow would the it pass from her g, sight forever—tmnight it was cradled in ver her arms. After 12111110 tho passionate la- mentations subsided, and by and by the ra. ry mother began to croon to herself a lullaby, h- used by the women of the Flatheads for to hundreds of years, Roughly translated, it ,hre, ram thus : SW111F, SW ing, liter) one, lullaby, 011 Thou rt not 01050 10 woop ; am Mother earth eor YOU --F110 is nigh, CO Meth, my little, one, Mom he Gelftli, gently, 2050 000 swing 1 Gently. gently, while I sing. E -we weewa, whew. ad "In all my life, I have never heard any ter- thing so heartrending, Silently I stole ad away and left the mother rocking her dead hie baby in her arms. op' " Next morning when I resumed my journey I came across the two squaws, who 5, 'were arranging the grave for the dead baby. I/ ng Bending over the tightly swathed bundle, to they kissed it again and again, then sobbing, w began to throw in clods a earth until the e- grave was filled ; then leaving meat and to berries tor the child's nourishment, they go Mend the ground and slowly turned their it steps toward the darkened tepee never We agam to hoax the Fetter of the Mile rest - ng less feet, the baby voice, or feel the clasp of the tiny hand. The bieby tongue Wail stilled it, forever, and in that Indian mother's heart n- was an unutterable longing, a grief that he could never be healed. ve "The Indians always bury with their sh childeen the little playthings they have sh 102011 112 life. Among the Flatheads espeei- ot ally the toys and small belongings 01 1130 ed children are sure to be placed under the a little tent which is placed. over each dead body." or A Ring Seeking a Bride. ea Tablets found in Egypt at Tel.el-Amarna, a contain among other curious records the letters sent by a Bing of Egypt about 1500 d 1.1, C. to a Kong of Babylon denying that he ia heal treated one Baby Ion inn wife andasking re for another. The Pail Non Oazsits gives !the outline of scene of those letters, which ie by Dr. Bezold's careful and scholarly trave- ls hereon now all those who run may read. d , Take the tablet of Nile mud, for instance, de on which the scribe of Amenophis wrote d the letter that was never dispatched to . . a imma tin, King of karadunlyash, my O brother.' After a characteristically Eastern t and ponderous beginning, in which good health is wished to the King and the Ring's • wives, the government, homes and carriages, a the Pharaoh trio te clear himself of the !charge brought against him that he has nolo " treated well one of his wives the sister of • liallimma Si». "From the time when my O father gave thea my sister to wife," the abylonian King had vvrttten, "1)0 11100 hath O peen her, and none knoweth sehether she be f aalive or dead." Now the Ring of Egypt 0, has asked in marriage Sukharti ("the Little I One"), Kallimma Sin's fair daughter. Renee d these reproofs. The Egyptian thereupon 1' challenged the Behylouian to send messen- d gees who might convince themselves of the woll•being of the wife whom "no man hath seen," The messengers come, but cannot, • among the galaxy of Queens of Amenophis, - odentafy the Babylonian Princess, and A menophis now writes in rich teens indigna- tion if] Lite letter under consideration. "Since thou seyest, My messengers can- not identify her,' I answer, Then who can identify her?' and I ask further, Why (lost thou not send a wise man who might. give thee a trustworthy account and de- sortbe to thee the comfort and the good - health of thy sister here?' Command, then, one of thy wise men to come and examine her household, and let him seu for himself e the honor in which she is held by the Kilita'r a great deal of haranguing, in which a he of Mesopotamia asserts that his daugh- ter Snkharti was "11012 beautiful," and after endless haggling over che loan of a quantity of gold, the maeriage settlements; are antis - 1 faotorily concluded, and Kallimma Sin writes to the King of Egypt : "11 thou wilt write unto me she shall be brought unto thTenen years after Amenophis III. had be. gun to reign, when, es it is stated on sever- al large steatite scarabs, he had slain 105 lions with his own heed, he added another wife to his harem, and Queen Thi, on whose torah we read that she was a" royal daugh- ter, royal sister, royal mother, royal wife, great lady, lady of the North and South,' became the acknowledged Queen of Amens/ - phis tend of Egypt. Again aucl again the name of fear -haired, blue.eyed Queen Thi is. mentioned in the Tel•eleAmarna tablete, and it also occurs frequently on the rings, vases, scarabs, and amulets of the reign of Amenophie 111, 200 01008011 a highway leading von' os Himgarian country town a short distren off. 112011118 painted milestone t Ibnpross' 1, d 11 la ing uncontrollable, it dashed down the ro in the direction of doe town. From appe thee it was evident that the animal lo succeeded in taking the bit between teeth, and that no earthly power could st it on its mad roma way. Although NVO all followed the Entpres pone 01 08 seemed to gain upon her. Flyi we passed through the little town, mnoh the amazement and the terror of the fe people in the streets. A short distance b yea. the tOW11 WAS reshipping canal, and, our horror, we SAW tilat the drawbral Spanning the canal was open, so as to perm the paseage of soine boat. In a 1110111011 realized that the Empress was ruani straight into the jaws of death. Faster and faster we went on in -purse lint faster and faster also seemed the Et press' horse to fly. NOW it 11311 reached t open bridge. Would it stop? Before N had time to think, we saw the animal da up the incline of the open bridge like a fla of lightning. For n moment we coald n but close our eyes, and a shudder 0011001s every 1111111 in the cavalcade. It wee terrible moment—it mornenc during Wilk fear and horror alternately kept, us meroiles ly in their pangs. When we opened ot eyee again, nil/ riding as fast as our hors mould go, the fair rider and her runavsay ht disappeared. We had no doubt that the inevitable ha happened, and that Elizabeth of Austr ,was drowned in the slow and turbid wate of the canal. The idea WAS a terrible one, My pen too weak to describe the confusion thiong aud the agony of suspense that followed,an seemed to make each rider quiver in his sit dle. Almost, unconsciously we had steppe our horses 'list before reaehil tl 1' o the open draw. As a matter of feet ou xeiternent was so great that we did no ven notice that one uf our ember, Coun zepany, if I remember well, was also miss ng. All oar faculties naturally had followe he Empress only. There we were, halting before that tei ibis bridge like a pack of cowards, wit' obody among us plucky enongh to rid t to death h E A few seconds later the inclines of th ridge were lowered again, but eobody o 11 oompany seemed to even attempt 500 1t, the pangs of fear and horror WO ha tweed into those of amazement. Severe, undred yards beyond the bridge tve behel icling toward us %Myth a foaming steed. I •as the Empress, and at her side the only talent man of the crowd, Count Szepany ler Majesty firmly set her horse, and ap peered as cool and collooted if nothing hied happened. Smilingly did she make fun of us and our lxiety. Her One eailery 2000 just as much tstifie I as it was inoffensive when sloe saw O pitiable figure we cut in her exalted resenee. The Empress horse was very lame, and oser examinatiou showed that, it had gis meted its right hind fetlock. In jurnmeg le open draw between the wings of th idgs the hind feet of the Empress' hors ad caught one of the iron rails at the edge d torn 011 0018 el' 115 Mnd shoth. Themes tra.ordinary feature of the accident wa w the belle ever could have gone down e incline without breaking its DIVO and e rider's neck. The only (*.planation for is small miracle, however, might, be tome the fent that the Empress never lost her esence of mind for 01011111125 when on horse. els, and dont, though the animal was en. ntrollable, she must have sat it to with - on, With reaped to Count Szepany, he as unable to give any account of his a- pe. Mureover, he did not even remora r whether his horse made the jump be. re or after the Empress', He simply said at during the jump he closed his eyes for second, and that be then experienced a !mein tliough the water were babbling er his head, el lo tl br all occupied, including a sack resernbling that ex in which the body had been packed, and a ho quantity of black wool similar to that with th which the victim wasgagged. the most, th valuable clue was a child pinafore, winch th had been stuffed hit° the mouth of the sack, in The accused had a daughtena child of three, pr and on theing this article she immediately ba exclaimed " Thab's my pinafore." tr, more. co over, corresponded with a similar garment ti which was found at the house of the ao• w °used, Finding it useless to continue ea his protestations of innocence, the male be prisoner, Jnlian Plntado, fe Maim A PULL ooteensetoet th it se ov He acknowledged that, being out of work and unable to obtain any further loans from tbe old usurer, he arranged with a °mean. ion, named Morallon, alias Carabanchel, plot to decoy her to his house; and having got her there, with Ottrabanehers , aid, gagged and strangled hen His wife Josefa meanwhile waited outside with the child in order that the latter might not witness the rnurder. The woman Penedo persisted for some time in denying all knowledge of the crime, but she also has now confessed, and her statement beats out that of her husband. She declares that the murder WW1 proposed by Carabenchel, and that after ite accom- plishment she helped to plane the body of the murdered woman in the sack, ethical Oarabanehel deposited where found, Oar . bane/fel, who Is also In custody, continues to deny tha,t he is implicated in the murder, and is trying to prove an alibi. The three pruioners have, however, been otemnitted for briel, Mail carriers in Morocco are said to avoid the riek of losing their places' lay over. sleeping by trying a string to one foot and setting the end of it on fire before going to sleep. The string, they know from experi. oboe, will beim ao long, and when the fire reecho thew foot it is tame for them to got Advioea frorn Japans data that a terrible tragedy was theeted in the house of a ca0. panter named. Easahar Kelm), in the Shiva distorts!, of Tohio, on the 1st, inst, A mom knocked at the door, and on Its being open- ed by the maid, he ensiled at her with a mord and oet her bead off. Keizeies wife 0,0,4 son were next attneked—the latter, it is feared, fatally. Tho motive of the crime was a querrel regarding amoetgage ob prop - may. Kein WaA thsent from his lithe° when the outrage Was coMmitted, The murderer's nanie 4nno 100111 10, formerly head priest at the Buddhist Temphe The Neat, Surgeon Df the Lubon Medical Company is now at Woronto, Canada, and may 130 consulted either in person or by letter on all chronie dithathe peculiar to man. 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The statue of Liberty in New York harbor s to have an eleotrie torch of 100,000.0p., the illumination heretofote having been de- rived from a 54,000-0p, group of arc light& A boating accident, with loss of three lives, is reported from Grand Basso, on the west eoast, of Africa, where two Englisher en and two Germans, rowed by two Pewees across tho river Edina, tvere upset hi the water. The black men, aocuatomed to touch incidents, reached the ehore in eafety, together with one 01 1115 Germans, but the other three of the party were lost to sight. Not long after a humeri leg was picked up near the spot, and the fate of the missing peesone Wali then conjectured—they had been drawn under the water and devoured by shark& Tise Birml»glooton police have arreated a Freechman named Plainer and a young Woman, representing herself as his wife, on 0 charge of obtaining money by fraudulent advertisements. The advertisements were insetted in French and Italian newspapers, In the ease inviting remittanoes for silver St'atehee, and in the other announcing v0. emcees in on Italian commercial establiehs ment in London, and requiring appliemate to 00101050 five francs for expellees. Cants plaints of frauds of this hind have been made by the Italian Government, and 110 15 believed the Itemised are responeible for a very extemeivo and proometous system both 101 Birininghem and Lemke!