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furniture! m thu w,,;t 111111 tnr+anejuy, Portia. ,ut o1 i , i, i ..._.
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ut`e Your i I tl \l0* It 1111 Junes \lure 1„l Le,., of (1) 1* 1x wife, and live seutneu arrived in liouo111
The ntuntent tl:o u=nal civilities were oho ilia in t 1 were; ,.tw ,u
Ovet, Hastins;a caught night of me, iota / 111 a S. I mean I never mitt a p 11111 •.tor y
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1ttraight with enr,1110* onistreeltod liana ; story cera person'e tremble:, and n ,r ries 1001
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thou atnpped short when shunt to shake, • fc+era produce ,just that (:ie• of eflret be.
v • 1 1 11 tl• •It "re xeeiug
these of tt ! )1411, they'll Ila•k in droves, urtca or only a tau a eat 1 par 11 t 8 froth Mewl'''s "Iiallir \Vert; fuel 'British' eamo in an open boat only eighteen f.>et
these rich Londoners : they'll light far that value," --gill, century,
atueli ! 1'nt a made neat, 1'nl a ",lade Ulan
forever, and 1'll never forgot yuu us long alt
anti stud with tut embarrassed look r i fora, . n l Ent ar tar a 1 lit a !'
"1 begvats pardon, sir, I thought I she could be so cheerful when there wast, t In less than tw'ntyFout• hates London
1 anythhlg to be cheerful about; for I might was abuzz ! I hadn't anything to do, da
80011 need that kind of Will, you know, the titter day, but sit at home, and say to all
way things looked. OPcont:xe I told her We comas :
ahouhl have a wait a couple of sus, till I "Yes ; Ttold him to refer to me. I
could catch up on my salary : but site did know the men, and I know the mine. His
n't mind that, only she hoped I would be as character is above reproach, and the mind
enraful ax possible urthumattor of uxpousys is wort)t leo
more than he asks for it,”
and not let Ghent run the least risk of tren0lt 11 onetime I spent all my ovoniugs at the
nluistera with Portia, I didn't say a
word to her about the ",tine : I saved it for
a surprise, \\ 0 talked eatery ; never any
thing but salary and love ; sometioea love,
annlettn1118 salary, sometimes love and salary
together. Anil ley 1 the interest the
miutstee's wife and daughter took in our
little affair, and the endless ingenuitios they
invented to save us front interruption, and
to keep the minister in the dark anti un8tta-
picious—well, it was just lovely of them 1
When the month was up, at hist, I hail a
mtilion dollars to my credit in the Landon
and County Batik, and Hastings was fixed
in the stone way. Dressed at my level best,
I drove by the house in Portland Placa,
judged by the look of things that my birds
were home again, went on toward the
minister's and gut my precious, and we
ousted back, talking salary with all our
might. She was so excited and anxious
that it made her just intolerably beautiful.
1 said :
"])carie, the way you're looking it's a
crime to strike fur a calory a single penny
under three thousand a year."
knew you.
" Why, you do know me, old fellow.'
"'No 1 Are you tile—the--"
i1 Vost.pocket monster ? I am, indeed,
Don't be afraid to call me by my nickname;
I'm used to it,"
r' Well, well, well, this as a surprise.
Once or twine I've seen your name coupled ing on our third year's pay. '1'heu she
with the nickname, but it never occurred to 8 y ` .
me that you could. be the Henry Adapts re- began to get a little worried, and woad -
,
to, Why, it isn't six months sine* owed if we wore raking any meta se,
you were clerking away for Blake Hopkins and starting the salary on a higher
in Frisco on a eatery, anti sitting up nights tigut'm for the first year than I would
got.
ouan extra allowance, helping Inc arrange This was good sense, and x nm
de el
and verify the Gould and Curry Extension a little less confident than I told been feel•
aper' and statistics. The idea of your ing before ; lint agave me a good idea, and
I brought it frankly out.
" Portia, dear, would you mind going
with me that clay, when 1 eoufroat those old
gentlemen ?"
She shrank a little, but said :
"Neo ; if my being with you would help
hearten you. But—would it hr quite prop-
er, do you tide 1"
"No, l don't know that it would : in feet
Put afraid it would n't : but yott see, there's
so much dependent upon it that—"
1" Then I'll gu anyway, proper or improp-
er," she said, with a beautiful and
eonerons enthusiasm. " Oh,
those Extension papers, and I tried to per. happy to thunk 1 m helping."
suede you to come to London with mo, Helping, dear? Why, you'll be doing
and offered to get leave of absence for you it tell. You're so beautiful and so lovely and
and pay all your expenses, and give you so winning, that with you there I eau pile
something over if 1 auereerled in making our salary' up till I break those good old
the sale ; and you would not listen to me, fellows, and they'll never have the heart to
said I wouldn't succeed, and on could tit struggle,'
afford to lose the run of buenass and be no Slto ! you should have seen the rich blood
end of time getting the hand of things again mount, and her happy eyes Shine !
when you got back home. And yet here " You wicked flatterer There is n't a
' you are, How odd it all is ! How slid you word of truth in what you say, but still 1'11
happen to come, and whatever did give you go with you. 110)110 it will teach you not
this incredible start ?' o el pect other people to look with your
Oh, just an accident. It's a long YeeWere my doubts dissipated? Was my
telryo a l omau it a body may sty. Ill confidence restorerl ? You may judge by
tell you n nh0ut it: but not new."
"When ?" this fact ; privately 1 raised my salary to
"The end of this month." 1welvc hundred the first year on the spot.
"That's more than a fortnight yet. It's Put didn't tell her ; I saved it for a dm.
too much of a attain on a person's curiosity, prase,
Make it a week," All the wiry home I was in the clouds.
"I can't. You '11 know why, by and by. Hastings talking, I not hearing a word,
But how's the trade getting along ?" 11 tion he and I entered my parlor, he
His cheerfulness vanished like a breath, t r1 nfht me to myself with my fervent ape
and he said with a sigh ; predations of my manifold comforts and
" You were a true prophet, Hal, a true lttxurina,
prophet. I wish I had n't cone. I don't "Let me just stand here a little and look
want to talk about it." my fill • Dour me it '8 a palace ; it 's just a
"But you mist. You must eomeand atop
with me to -night, when we leave here, and
toll me all about it."
" Oh, may I? Are you in earnest t" and
the water showed in his eyes,
" Yes ; I want to hear the whole story,
every word.''
I'm so grateful ! Just to find a human
interest once more, in sone eye, Ia me and
affairs of mine, after what I 've been
through here—lord ! I could go down on my
knees for it 1"
He gripped my hand hard, and braced
up, and wag all right and lively after that
for the dinner—which didn't cone off. No ;
the usual thing happened, the thing that is
alwo.ys happening under that violists and ag.
graveling English system—the :natter of
precedence couldn't be settled, aatl so there
was no dinner. Englishmen always est din•
ner before they go out to dinner, because
they know the risks they are running ; but
nobody ever warns the stranger, and so he
walks placidly into idle trap. Of course
nobody was hurt- this time, because eve
had all been to dinner, none of us being
novices except Hastings, and he hawing been
informed by the minister at the time Olathe
invited him that in deference to the English
aa8tom he had not provided any dinner.
Everybody took a lady and processioned
down to the dining room, because it is usual
to go through the motions; but there the
• dispute began, The Duke of Shoreditch
wanted to take precedence, and sit at the
}lead of the table, holding that Its outrank-
ed a minister who represented merely a
nation and not a monarch ; but I stood for
my rights, and refused to yield. In the
gossip column I ranked all dukes not royal,
and said so, and claimed precedence of this
one. 1t couldn't be settled, of course,
struggle as we might end did, he finally
pad injudiciously) trying to play birth and
antiquity, and I "seeing" bis Conqueror
ani "raising" him with Adam, whose
direct posterity I was, as shown by my
name, white he was of a collateral branch,
as shown by his, and by his recent Norman
origin; so we all proeessioued back to the
drawing -room seats and had a perpendic-
ular lunoh—plate of sardines and a straw.
berry, and you group yourself and stand
up and eat it. Here the religion of prece• So then he came with a rush, and we
deuce is not so strenuous ; the two persons shook, and shook, and shook till our hands
of highest rant chuck up ashilling, the one ached ; u1d he didn't blimo me for not
that wins has first go at his strawberry, and having heard a word of a story which had
the loser gets the shilling, The next two lasted while we walked three miles. Ile
chuck up, then the next two, and so on, just sat down then, like the patient, good
After refreshment, tables were brought, and follow he was, and told it all over quirt.
we all played cribbage, sixpence a game. Synopsized, it amounted to this : He had
The English never play any gaute for amuse- come to England with whathe thought was
",tent. If they can't make something or lone a grand nppnrtuuity : he had an 1' option"
something—they don't care which,—they to sell the Gould and Curry Extension for
Neon•t play. the " locators" of it, and keep all he cotnd
\Ve had a lavely time ; certainly two of get over a million dollars. He had worked
ns bad, Miss l.angham and I. I was so be. hard, had pulled every wire he knew of.
witched with her that I couldn't count my had left no honest e-.pedient untried, had
bends if they went above a double sequence; spent nearly all the money he had in the
be- geta solitary
and when 1 struck ham* 1 never discovered world, had not been able tc
it, and started up the outside row again, capitalist to' listen to him, and his option
anti would have lost the game every time, would run out at the end of the month. In
only the girl did the same, she being in just a word, he was ruined. Then he jumped
my condition, you see ; and consequently up and cried out :
neither of us ever got out, or cared to won• ' Henry, yuu can save me ! You can
der why we didn't wish to know anything save me, and you're the only man in the
else, and didn't want to be interrupted. universe that esn. Will you do it 'f Won't
And I told her ---I did indeed—told her I you do it ?"
loved her, and she—well, she blushed till " Tell me how. Speak out, my boy."
her heir turned red, but she liked it ; she " Give mea million and my passage home
said she did. Olt, there was never such an for my 'option ' 1 Don't, dont refuse 1"
evening! Every time I pegged I put on e. I was in a !rind of agony. I was right on
postsorfpt ; every time she pegged she as the point of coming out with the words,
knowledged receipt of it, couutfng the "Lloyd, I'm a pauper myself—absolutely
hands the same. Why, 1 couldn't even say penniless, and in debt !' But with a white.
"Two for his heels" without adding, "My, hot idea came flaming through my head,
how sweet you do look 1" and she would say an•1 I gripped my jaws together, and ealmed
"Fifteen two, fifteen four, fifteen six, and myself down till I was as cold as a capita.
a pair are eight, and eight are stxteen—do list. Then I said, in a commercial and self.
you think so?" -•-peeping out aslant from poese88ed way :
under her lashes, you know, so sweet and 11 I widlsave you, Lloyd—"
cunning. Oh, it was just 100.100 ! " Then I'm already saved ! God be mar.
Well, I was perfectly honest and square oiful to you forever l If ever I• -"
tvithher ; told her Ilxadn'tacontintheworld '' Let mefinish, Lloyd. twill save you,
but just the million•pound note he 'd [stud but not to that way ; for that would not be
so much talk about, and it did n't belong to fair to you, after your hard work, and the
Elie ; and that started. her curiosity, and then Hefts you've run. I don`t need to buy mines;
I talked low, and told her the whole history I can keep my capital moving, in a cont.
eight from the start, and it nearly killed mereial center like London without that ;
her, laughing. 0,Vhat in the nation oho it's wluot I'm at, all the time ; but hero is
could find to laugh about, I could n't see, what 1 ll do. I know all abort that mine,
bob there ft wast etery hall minute mems of comae ; I know its immense value, and
new detail want, fetch her, and I would can swear to it if anybody wishes it, Yon
laevo to stop se much as a minute and a shall sell nut inside of the fortnight for
half to give her a Owe to s,st',le down three millions cavh, using riry nerve freely,
again. Why, sir 11,,;r: ed herself lame, and we 11 clivido, share and shore alike."
iaetng in London. and a vastmillionatre, and
a colossal celebrity 1 Why, it's the Arabian
Nights come again, Stan, I can't take it 10
at all ; can't realize it ; give me thte to
settle the whirl in my head."
" The fact is, Lloyd, yon are no worse off
than I am. I can't realize it myself."
" Dear me, it is stunning, now is n't it ?
Why, it's just three months today since
eve went to the Miners' restaurant—"
" No ; the What Cheer,"
" }tight, it was the What Cheer ; went
there at two in the morning, and had a chop I shall he so
and coffee after a lard six hours' grind over
"Henry, Henry, you'll ruin us 1"
"Don't you be afraid, Just keep up
these locks and trust to me. It'll all come
rant right,"
So as it turned out, I had to keep bolster-
ing up her courage all the way. She kept
pleading with me, and saying!
"Oh, please remember that 1f we ask for
too much we may get no salary at all ; and
then w•Itat will become of us, with no way
in the world to earn our living 1"
We were ushered in by that same
servant, and there they were, the two old
gentlemen. Of course they were surprised
to see that wonderful creature with me, but
I said :
"It's all right gentlemen; she ie my
future stay and helpmate."
And I introduced them to her, and called
them byname, It didn't surprise them ; they
knew I would know enott;lt to consult the
directory. They seated us, and were very
palace 1 And in it everything a body corn( polite to rte, and very solicitous to relieve
5 er from embarrassment, and put her as
desire, including easy coal fire and supper much at her ease as they could. Then I
standing ready. Henry, it doesn't mere- said :
ly' make me realize how rioh you are ; it 1 "Gentlemen, I am ready to report."
slakes lee realize, to the bone, to the mar- '",Ve are glad to hear it," said my man,
row, how poor I ant—how poor I am, and "for now we can decide the bet which my
how miserable, how defeated, routed, aunt brother Abel and I made. If you have won
hilated !" for me, you shall have any situation in my
Plague take it ! this language gave me gift. Have you the million -pound note?"
the cold shudders, It scared me broad "Here it is, sir," and I handed it to
awake, and made Inc comprehend that I him,
was standing on a 1,1if-heal crust, with a "I've won 1" he shouted, and slapped
crater underneath. I didn't know I had Abel on the back. "Now what do youtsay,
been dreaming—that is, I hadn't been al- brother?"
loving myself to know it for a while back ; "I say he did survive, and I've lost
but Want—oh, dear ! Deep fn debt, rata twenty thousand pounds, 1 never world
cent in the world, a lovely girl's happiness
have believed it.
or woe in my hands, and nothing in front " I've a further report to make," I said,
of me but asalary which might never—oh, "and apretty long one. I want you to let
would never—materialize 1 Oh, all, oh, I me corse soon, and detail my whole month's
am ruined past hope : nothing can says me t (misery ; and I promise you it's worth
"Henry', the mere unconsidered drippings hearing. Meantime, take a look at that,"
of your daily income would—" " What, men ! certificate of deposit for
"011, my daily income 1 Here, down with 1.100,000 ? Is it yours ?" p
this hot Scotch, s and oheer up your soul. „ \f I 1 't 1 thirty lays
Here's with you . Or, no— you re htulgry
sit clown und-
11Not a bite for me ; 1'111 past it. I can't
eat, those days ; but 1'11 drink with you till
I drop. Come:"
"Barrel for barrel, I's, with you! heady?
Here we go 1 New, then, Lloyd, unreel
your story while I brew,"
"Unreel it? What, again 1"
"Again'! What Ido 30*. clean by that?"
"Why, 1 mean do yon want to hear 1t
over again?"
"Do I watt to hear it over again'.' This
is a puzcler, Wait ; doa't take any more
of that liquid. Yon, don't need it."
"Look here, Henry, you alarm me. Did
n't 1 tell you the whole story on the way
here?"
"You t"
"Yes, I."
"I'11 be hanged if I heard a word of it"
"Henry, this is a serious thing. It
troubles me, Whet did you take up yonder
et the minister's?"
Then it flashed de axe, and I owned up,
like a man.
"I took the learest girl in this world—
prisoner 1"
PEB00ITY OF ARAB DERVISHES.
Hew see •0 Behave Then,x't yes in ant ite—
A1ce1u1el,y O'st!tlite 0r rear.
I think it was at the battle of 111 T'b I
first made the acquaiut0nee of the maltdist
dervishes, Bays a voerespondent of the Lon.
don Telegraph, The Fuzzy \Muzzy Haden•
Etowah tribesman is the bravest of the brave,
but the dovetail is heroism run crazy. These
so•callstl " holy beggars," self•ewortt to
devote themselves to the prophet's cause,
came at Oen. Graham's atluere of marines,
Highlandinau, and atoit linesmen a8 if we
had been children to be frightened by a ory.
Clad in their patchwork rags, with ahnved
baro heads, many farmed with no better
weapon than sticks, they charged fait in
front of the fire•walled square, Down they
wont by scores and hundreds, but others
quickly took nn the running toward us. I
saw them that-day—more than one of them
—pierced through and through with Mart -
Mai -Toney bullet wounds, conte fiercely on,
reeling like drunken mon, their teeth gleam-
ing and eyes Mime with hatred. Happy
were they 1f Lltey could but cross we0pous
with our bayonets. When exhausted nature
failed thein their list aur was generally to
hurl the weapon they carried, stick, lance,
or sword, toward our ranks, and shout
an Arab imprecation against rte, "Nos.
rani 1" (Nazarene). An old, grayhaired
sheik actually charged the square reading
the koran aloud, which he held in hie hands.
Later on, when Sir Herbert (then Col.),
Stewart, charged the worsted Arab foot•
mon with his two wagltnents of cavalry, their
mounted (lavishes faced his whole force and
boldly charged them in return. Again, in
Tamai, when the Arabs broke into Gen. Da-
vis' square where I was, anti temporarily
vaplured our six machine guns, on whfeh
they danced in fiendish glee, the dervishes
were in the forefront of the attack.
A big marine who had bayoneted one of
thont found his rifle caught and clutched by
the fanatics savage, yello strove to reach his
foeman with his sword. It was at the mo -
,tent we were driven back, and while the
marine tugged and swore to get his weapon
free the reeling dervish essayed with his
partingstrength to slay or wound our Tom•
my Atkins. In the desperate battle of Abu
Idea similar scenes occurred, 1 state it as
a fact that during the melee in which Col.
Barnaby fell a dervish who had struck that
office' and was promptly bayoneted through
the back twisted about while the steel was
protruding and tried to thrust his lance
into the soldier. Even the crippled and
wounded dervishes on the field of battle lay
in wait to stab the chance passing enemy.
Asked ter "surrender" and put down their
swords and spears, the invariable answer of
the sorely stricken dervish was " Christian
[or infidel] dogs, never 1" When I saw
them last in the louden, a fess years ago,
there was no abatement in their blood-
thirsty ferocity, nor show of hesitation,
whether they numbered few or many, of a
longing to get to close quarters with their
ene,ny,
A Remarkable Confederacy of Savages.
The Iroquois, as they were named by the
French, or the Five Nations, as they. called
themselves, hung like a cloud over the
whole great continent. Their confederation
was a natural one, for they were of the same
stook and spoke the same language, and all
attempts to separate thein had been in vain.
Mohawks, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas,
and Senecas were each proud- of their own
Mine. earner , y try c totems and their own chiefs, but in war
judicious use of that little loan you 1.et me they were Iroquois, and the enemy of one
have, And the only use I•made of it was was the enemy of all. Their numbers were
to buy trifles and offer the bill in *barge." I small, for they were never able to put two
" Come, this 18 astonishing ! It's Inured'. thousand worriers in the field, and their
ble, man !"
"Never mind, 1'11 prove it• Don't take
my word unsupported.".
But now Portia's turn was cone to bo fine- I were desperately brave, and they were
Prised . Her eyes were eptead wide, and frereely aggressive and energetic. Hold-
ing a central position, they etruck
out upon each side in turn, never
content with simply deseating an ad-
versary, but absolutely annihilating and
destroying hint,while holding all the others
in check by their diplomacy. War was
their business, and cruelty their 001080-
mcnt. One by one they had turned their
arms against the various nations, Instil for
a space of over a thousand square utiles
none existed save by su(]'erance. They had
swept away Herons and Huron missions in
one fearful massacre. They had destroyed
the tribes of the Northwest, until even the
Sacs and Foga(' trembled at their name.
They had scoured the whole country to
westward, until their scalping parties had
come into touch with their kinstnen the
Sioux, who wore lords of the great plains,
even as they were of the great forests,
The new England Indians in the east, and
the Shawnees and .Delawares further south,
paid tribute to them, and the terror of
their arms had extended over the borders
of Maryland and Virginia. Never perhaps
in the world's history bas so small a body of
wen dominated so large a district and forso
long a time.
Foe half a century those tribes had nursed
a grudge towards the French, since Cham•
plain and some of his followers had taken
part with their enemies against them. Dun
ing alt these year' they had brooded in
their forest villages, flashing out now and
again in some border outrage, but waiting
for the most part until their chance should
comp. And now it seemed to then that it
had conte. They had destroyed all the
tribes who might have allied themselves
with the white teen. They had isolated
them. They had supplied themselves with
good guns and plenty of ammunition from
the Dutch and English of Now York, The
long thin Etna of French settlements lav
naked before them. They were gathered
in the woods litre hounds in leash,
waiting for the orders of their chiefs whioh
should precipitate them with torch and
with tomahawk upon the belt of villages.—
[From A, Conan Doyle's Historical Romance,
"The Refugees, in Harpers Magazine for
April.
Settlers In South Aldo." and '1'hounson's I inn,, and reported unit they Led l,eett
"(bmpreheusive History of England,''
which deeeribe the spot rand tell the awry
of the disaster. Bowler says:
"Cape Point the dreadful 'Cape of
Storms,' is a scene of wild and desolate
grandeur. The African continent property
terminates in. a low, sandy beach known as
tlhe'Cape Flats,' which have during long
ages been thrown up by the two contrary
prevailing winds and tides, and stretch out
into the sea, connecting what was evident•
ly once an island with the mainland. '111110
island is nothing more than a long, narrow
strip of mountainous const, stretching right
across and beyond the Flats, Inform not
unlike a huge pickaxe, the one arm of
which consisting of the Devil's Peale, Table
Mountain, and the Lion's Rump, Meioses
Table Bay, while the other arm, stretching
far out into the 800 and ternliustiug its the
bold, precipitous promontory of Cap Point,
forms the one side of the wide inviting, but
dangerous!1'also Bay, Cape Point though not
the most southerly is generally regarded as
the extreme end of the continent. On the
enutmit of the outermost crag, overhanging
the sea, a very fine lighthouse, with very
powerful revolving reflectors, has been
erected,
'1 Leaning oat of one of the windows of
the lantern, the awed spectator gazes
straight down into an abyss of dark make
and tumbling waters, aux sees the hash of
the wings and hears Ole screens of the sea
fowl, wheeling in the horrid gloom it thoh•
sand feet below. During a strong south•
country was limited, for their villages were
scattered over the track which lies between
Lake Champlain and Lake Ontario, , But
they wee° united, they were cunning, they
she said :
' Henry, is that really your money ?
Have you been fibbing to me 1"
" I have indeed, dearle, But you'll for.
give me, I know."
She put up an arch pout, anal said :
1t Don't you be so sure. You are a
naua_l,ty thing to deceive me so 1'
" O'ilh, you'll net over it, sweetheart,
you'll get over it ; it was only fun, you
know. Come, let's be going."
" But wait, wait 1 Ite situation, you
know. I want to give you the situation,"
said my man.
1 Well," I said, "I'nt just as grateful as
1 can be. but really I don't want one."
" But you can have the very choicest one
in my gift."
"Thanks again, with all my heart ; but
I don't even %rant that one."
" Henry, I'In ashamed of you. Yon don't
half thank the good gentleman. May I do
it for you 1"
" Indeed you shall, dear, if you can int•
prove it. Let us see you try."
She walked to my ratan, got up in his lap,
put her arm around his neck, and kissodbire
tight on tlm mouth. Then the two old gen-
tlemen shouted with laughter, but I was
einmfounde'l, ,jest petrified, as you may say,
Portia said :
Papa, he has said you haven't a situation
In your gift that he'd take ; and I feel just
us hurt as--"
"My darling 1—ds that your papa?"
"Yea ; he's my steppapa, and the dearest
one that ever wan You understand now,
don't you, why I was able to laugh when
you told use at the minister's, not itnowing
my relationships, what trouble and worry
papa'sand Uncle Abel's scheme was giving
you ?"
Of course I spoke right up, new, without
any fooling, and went straight to the point.
"Oh, my dearest dear sir, 1 want to take
back what I said. You have got a situation
open that I want,"
"Name 1t."
" Son•iu•law,"
"Well, well, well l But you know, if yon
haven't ever served in that capacity, you of
coursecan't furnish recommendations of a
sort to satisfy the conditions of the contract
and so—"
"Try me—oh, Flo, I beg of you 1 Only
just try me thirty or forty years, and it—"
"Oh, well, all right; it's but a little
tiring to ask. Take her along,"
Happy, we too? There 're not words
enough in the unabridged to describe it.
And when London got the whole history, a
day or two later, of my month's adventures,
with that banknote, and how they ended,
did London talk, said have a good tithe?
Yea
bly Portia'e papa took that friendly and
hospitable hill hack to the Bank of England
and washed it ; then the flank oancoled it
and made him a present of it, and he gal•o
it to ua at our wedding, anti it has always
hung to its frame iu the sacredesl place in
Scottie's Pride.
Mobbing galls the natural pride of a true -
clue Scot mote than to have Scotland over-
looked. A striking instance of this feeling
oeourred at the battle of Trafalgar, Two
Scotohmon, meesmates and bosom cronies,
happened to be stationed near each other
ween the celebrated signal was given frau
Admiral Nelson's shop—" England expecte
every man to do his duty,"
" Not a word about poorSootland," dole•
fully remarked Donald,
I•Ila friend cocked his syc, turning to his
companion, amid
11 Man Donald, Scotland kens weal
month that 11100 8011 uoeds (0 be fen to due
his duty, That's jiit a hint to the Meg.
Italhers."
twettyeight days tossing atom en the Peer
tie. While the occupies,' of the frail ',raft
were not entirely without provisions during
their long battle with the demesne, the eft,
feels of short commons and lacic of sleep
and shelter were palpably apparent, blrs
Peterson, who was clad in a thin black
gown, was worn nearly to u shadow, and
her strength failed her completely as site
was lifted lr0m the boat and taken to au
hotel.
The men were eunburned, leaden eyed,
e 1
and listless, 'Their heeds drooped, and it
was with difficulty that they would be got
to speak, but Cupt, Peterson told in a few
words that the Lady Lampson had been
wreeked at night on a reef near Taimyr),
island when fortyfomrdaysout from Sy'd.
nay, anil the crew were comp elle, to take
to the boats, He was very weak, and
spoke in ti whisper, at the same time beg-
ging that his wife be taken where aha
could get nourishment and a little rest.
The l(analtas lent willing hands to help
the waifs of the ocean ince hacks and cmc
riages,and 111oy were quickly driven to where
they could command attention. Tho little
boat in which they hail journeyed over
1,000 utiles became an object of interest far
hundreds of people. It was partly decked
with cauvas,and strips of the sante material
had been stretched above the gunwale on
either aide to prevent her lei ng swamped.
In the boat were a couple of nearly empty
water kegs and a small quantity of biscuit
gaols,
easter the surf breaks and bolls and roars "I haven't had my Clothes oil" for twenty-
for
wentyfor a mile nut to sea, as it clashes with mud eipllt days," said Capt. Peterson when sea
fury over the Bellows and other remarkable at the hotel. He was hollow-cheeked and
rocks.
' The Birkenhead, freighted with 500
soldiers on their way to the Kaffir war,
unshaven and looked indeed a.eif he had
suffered both mentally and physically.
"The Lady Lampoon," ]he said, " was from
steamed past Cape Point in a few hours be- Sydney, and we were bound to this port
fore she struck on Point Danger, Thentem- with 000 tons of coal for \Vilder t Uo. 'Vo
ory of the fearful shipwreck, on the 3Gtb left y dney s Y
of February, 1852,is still fresh in the minds
of all who treasure deeds of daring, coin,
age, and devotion. It is a fitting tribute to
the gallantry of the British Army to pilture
here the scene of a brave a battle as was
ever fought, against a worse enemy than
man."
Thomson says : " This vessel was convey.•
ing detachments from several of our regi-
ments to the seat of war under Lieut. Col,
Alexander Seton, Seventy-fourth High. know I w.^s to the east of the island, and
handers, (who had succeeded to the eon• that there was a sunken reef somewhere
mond on the death of Col. Fordyce), and around. I was on deck myself, and had
had proceeded on her voyage from Simon's
Bay, when she suddenly struck upon a
sunken rock near the shore, oh' Point Oa,.
ger. The shoat was se tremendous that with all sail set.
the iron plates of the ship's bottom gave " Five minutes after she struck site be -
way, the cabin was quickly filled wtth gan to breakup,and I ordered the boataout
water, and it was evident that in a few \Ve lowered the two boats. I took charge.
minutes more the ship would be engulfed
among the brokers,
" It was yet only 2 o'clock in the morn
ing, with no liglit but that of the stars ; but
in an instant the deck Was crowded with
the alarmed passengers, and while death
was imminent, only two of the ship's boats
were available for service. To rush into
the boats, at the risk of swamping them,
would have been the impulse of the selfish ;
to fling themselves into the sea in the hope
of reaching the shore, but only to sink each
other by their overcrowding and perish in
the breakers and by the sharks that were on
the alert, would have been the headlong at.
tempt even of the bravest.
1' 13nt nothing of the kind in either way
was done, and never was the power of milt•
tary disipli00, or the worth of fearless, um
flinching nonrage, or the moral grandeur of
S • last November and were fort
four days out when the vessel struck. \Va
had had bad weather near Fijl, having
been in a lmrricene for twenty •lour hours.
but after that we had fine north-east winds
until we got near Paloyra 1810,111, when
the weather became dirty. It was 5:3)
o'clock on the morning of Jan, 111 when we
struck, I had not had an observation for
two days. The night had been dark and
stormy, bet the water was smooth than. I
two men on the lookout Aloft. There as a
strong westerly current there, and I gum
we were going about five knots an hour
of one and First Mete Hairy Miller took
the other. In my boat there were, bosiden
my wife and myself, Second Mate C. Browu
and Seaman W. Cartoon (both Swedea),
Cabin Boy W. Hayden of Liverpool, F.
Yeller the took, who is a German, and E.
Everson, a Norwegian sailor. The mate's
boat container) a German sailor named Sny-
der, Oscar Magnerssn, a Swede :.I, ,lorgen-
sea, a German, and a seaman named Mar-
tin,
' We started from Palmyra Island in com-
pany about 7 in the morning, having only
live gallons of water for the two boats. The
island is only forty miles from the reef, but
the current anti tide were so ettong that we
were trying, for nine days to make headway
against them, but couldn't. We drifted to
the westward, so I resolved to put back to
the bark, We suffered greatly throu,h
se1beaerthcing devotedness more cenap!ett- want of Water, and we lied barelyenat:;lt
o0aly displayed then in the moment of ter• to moisten our tongues, which were swollen
rible 1010.1. and dry.
" At the word of C'ol. Seton the soldiers " IVe found the bark settling down and
drew upnponthe reelhngandlooeeningdeck, the water washing es er her, so we trot
as if they had been on parade ; they obeyed (hoard quickly and put son:' canned good*,
his orders no if they hall been executing the hisetn t, and water into the boats. \Ve rick
usual movements of the drill. The brave, gad the boats with canons end then started
humane heart of tine Colonel was hest direct.
ell to the safety of those who could least
help themselves—and whose fate would
otherwise have been certain—to the women,
the children, and the sick on board, and
they were carefully conveyed into the beats,
whioh, in the first instance, were given up
for their special benefit : and by this are
rangement all the helpless were saved with-
out a single exception. And now• only were
the strong and vigorous to look to their own
safety, after they had so nobly discharger)
their duty to others, and while several be-
took themselves to swimming, or commit-
ted themselves to a piece of floating timber,
the vessel parted amidships and went down
with the greater part of the officers and
soldiers, with whom self-preservation had
been only the latest subject of anxiety.
"In this fatal catastrophe 357 officers
and soldiers and 00 seamen perished, while
neatly 200 lives were saved, and this, too,
in a crisis where,but for these arrangements
and the fidelity with wlitt'.It°they were eke -
ceded, nearly alt ,night have been lost.
These soldiers also, be it observed, were
not veterans, but for the most part young
recrolts who had never been under fire, and
yet they ()mainly stood in a breach more
dismaying than Badajoz or San Sebastian
and saw the boats, their tasthope of safety,
depart from them without a murmur."
A moral tablet was erected by Govern•
mint at Chelsea Hospital bearing the fol-
lowing inscription : " This monument is
erected by command of her Majesty Queen
Victoria to record the heroic constancy and
unbroken discipline shown by Lieut. Col.
Seton, Seventy-fourth Highlanders, and
the troops embarked under his command on
board the Birkenhead, when that vessel
was wreolced off the Cape of Good Hope on
the 36th February, 1802, and to preserve
the memory of the officers, notacommission•
ed officers, and men who perished on that
oecasi0n.11
Bridget's Rebuff.
A lady had been ill and under medical
treatment for a long time. As she grew no
better all the while, she became distrustful
of her physician's skill and did not wish to
see him, and yet was not bold enough to tell
hhn so, She communicated her state of
mind to her mead.
1, Lave am to me, Inum, lave'lin to tn0?"
said the girl.
By and by the doctor came to the door
and Bridget opened it about an inch,
11 Sorry, sir,' amid she, " but ye 041'1
00me in the day, doothor 1"
"Can't come in? How's that?"
" The misthress tlo be too ill for to see
ye the day, sir 1"
Envy Rebuked:
Wayside Bill—"Some folks that's as good
as the hest of 'ens I notice is always' hard
up, Things ain't divided a0 they ort to be
in this world,
Rusty Rufus--" Wot'e eat(",' yon pard?
141 everybody woo rich how could overseers
of the pole ma!m a livia', 1'd like to
know ?'
again for Palmyra lelau . 111 tried for
two days to make headway, but the heavy
swell and wind belied us. Thinking 1
would lose sight of the mate's boat, I told
hit", to steer tor Honolulu, and 1 steered for
here myself. We lost sight of the other
boat and have had heavy gales ever since.
I have only had an hour's sleep ata time
during the day, and have never lain down.
At night the spray came over, wetting un
ail to the skltt, and in the day we dried our
clothes in the sun, if there was luny, The
men have been quiet and uncomplaining,
even though on short allowance of food and
water, and thank goodnesswe lost nobody
from our boat. It wile a terrible experi-
ence. though, the worst I have met with
daring fourteen years of ser,faring.
After we painted the island of Maui we
struck a storax and the boat half filled with
water. We thought then it was all over
after passing throttgh so many other deo-
gars, but we managed to bail her out and
keep her right, The first vessel we saw
since we struck, twenty-eight days ago, was
a steam schooner off Diamond Head thio
morning. I hope the mate's boat is 50,18,
and if he steered to the eastward I think
they are all right."
NEARLY 800 PERISHED.
linooelaaa toes viola enc the way to Sflevin
atverlekel 1y a en0wstern1.
Detaile have been received at St. Peters.
burg of a sad loss of life among a band of
convicts bound for the prisons of Siberia,.
The bend numbered in all three hundred.
and seventy-four persons, including a large
number of persons sentenced to exile for
polttical crimes. In accordance with the
0118tom the convicts were *Hatching to their
various destinations. They had spent the
night in Tontak, Western Siberia, and con-
tinued their journey early in the morning.
A snowstorm was prevailing, and when sax
hours' march from Tomsk the storm had
become eo severe that all the roads were
obliterated. Chained toget her, the convicts
struggled on until gradually the weaker ones
fell hi the deep 800w, dragging thesbrongee
ones down with them. Despite the efforts
of the Ceeseek guards the exhausted people
could mane no attempt to save themaelvee
and they were abandoned to'freeze to death,
whsle the others were driven forward, those
in eharge of them hoping toee them in
shelter. The atom continued to 103000so
in violence, and the travelling became worse
and worse. Now and then prisoners would
drop by the wayside, where they would
soon he covered by the rapidly falling and
drifting snow. When the guards managed
to get what few rem'in'd of their ohatgeo
to a place of safety they found that of the
374 persons they lied started with only 01
survived. Sixty two of those who had per.
iehed were political prisoners. Among those
lobe wore Madame Laearov, six other woo -
en, and four children.
Ashestee is found in 'France, Italy, Cor-
sica, Cortkwel!, and Scotland.