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The Brussels Post, 1889-7-12, Page 22 'THE ONLY.GIRL AT OVERLOOK BY FRANKLIN FIFE, IN N. Y. HERALD, CHAPIER 1 otherwise obsoured a garb 0f the view, Heap MARY WARW.:MX. peered to feel that if he was not the painter Two names were used for the rutty girl ab of this ibis° nrolMOW; intreebeof a e e,sat least, had ad Overlook, In addreesingher the men of the tb eapp proprietary y inter a0G of 0110 air of an art place always paid "Miss Warriner." In mentioning her they oftensaid ""leleryhilte." collector proudly extolling The reason for this distinctive difference was aovealed by the eight of Mies Mary Marti. ner hei[s]t es she sat on a high stool behind a rude desk, under a roughly boarded [Melt .or, and with rapid fillers clicked the key of a telegraphio instrumento. There was a perfect poise of quiet self•poseession which would have been very impressive dignity in an elder and bigger person, and whioh, although here limited by eighteen years and one hundred pounds, still made a demand for respectful breabment, Thetofore tho men when in her presence never felt like palling her anything else than " Mise Werra ner." If she had been lase tike a stately damsel in miniature and more like snoh a child ae she was in e' zs only ; if her employ, meat had been something net so near to solaria') as that of telegraphy and not so far off from j avenile simplicity ; if her brown hair had been loosely curled leabeed of close ly coiled, and if her skirts had stopped at her ankles instead of reaching to her feet, then she might have been nicknamed Mary Mite" within her own hearing, as she was beyond it by those who described her small. Hees in a sobriquet, There may have been a variance of opinion among those dwellers at Overlook who hod node any estimate of her composure, but if there was one who believed tont she merely mourned a reserve of manner beoauee she was among two hun- dred men he had not yet tried his chances of exceptional acquaintance. Overlook ryas crude and temporary. The inhabitants were making a roadbed for a ROW railway, at a spot where the job was extraordinary, requiring an uncommonly large proportion of brain the brawn in the work. Those who were mental laborers in the remarkable feat of engineering, or were at least bosses of bhe physical toil, were the ones who had errands at the telegraphic shed and for whom Mary sent and received meaeagee over the wires. The isolated colony of workers woe a hundred milee deep in a wilderness of mountain and forest, but not as many seconds c istant, measured by the time necessary for electrical communi- cation from the construction oompany'e ,headquarters in a great city. "Must you wait for an answer?' Mary said as she olicked the last word of a mee. sage. " It's an hour since your first telegram went, and they seem in no hurry to reply." Polite irdiffe:ence, and nothing else, was in her clear, gentle voice. There was neither boldness nor shyness in the oyes that opened -wide and blue as ehe lifted them from the paper to the man whom ebe questioned. There was no more of a smile than of a pout on the mouth that worded the inquiry. She did not iodioate the faintest interest as to whether he went or stayed, although she did suggest that be might as well go. ""I'd rather lounge here, if you dent mind," was Gerald Heath's answer. Here the alertness of the placid girl was faintly shown by a quick glamor', but it was so furtive that the subject of her wariness did not know his face was bring scrutinized, convinced that she ems e was nick] c and w an quickly not the cause of hie remaining, for he said, "I'll tell you I'm anxious about the telegram and in a hurry to of it," Gerald Heath had been lazily leaning against the makeshift desk of the telegraph. er as he waited, and for pastime had whltbl- ed the smooth birch sapling that formed ite outer edge. He had chipped and shaved after the manner of those to whom a sharp •pocketkra'e and a piece of wood provide a solace. There hed been no conversation •oxeepb a few words concerting the menage. But now he heightened himself to six feet by standing erect, and took on the outlines of a magnificent phyreque, His proportions had not been realized before by the girl at the other side of the counter. She oompre. 'handed, too, that if his somewhat unkempt condition were changed to one whioh in• oluded a face cleaned of stubble beard, a suit of modish clothes to replace the half worn corduroys, and the shine of a silk hat and polished boots at his now dusty ex eternities he would become a young gentle• man whose disregard might bo an appreoi. able slight. That was the conclusion whioh she reach- ed without any visible sign that her careless eyes were conveying any sort of impression to her mind. As it was, he looked an un. usually burly epeoimen of the men to whom isolation from oity life had imparted an as, peat of barbarians. Before he had uttered another word she realized that he was wholly engrossed in the matter of his telegrams and had no thought of the individuality of the listener. Nob only was ohe not the thins that made him wait, but ehe might as well have been old, ugly or a man, if only ehe had ears to hear, In was a eummer afternoon, and the clear, balmy weather was oeasoneble. The remov' al of protective canvas bad left the etruat- ure an open shed, over the front of which hung the bnughe of the two trees against wnore massive trunks it leaned. Gerald Heath reached up with both hands and held the ielloge aside. ""Do you get an unobstructed view 7" he said. "NoW, I've helped ley out railroads through many a place where it was a shame to lab trains go faster than a mile a day.' I've surveyed routes that oughb to provide special trains for passengers with eyes in their heads —trains with speed graduated between sixty miles an hour arod sixty hours a mile, Ib is an outrage on nature and art that travellee ehould ever be whisked past Overlook 'without a good chance to the what we're 'looking eb, That's why I wrote to the pre. .eidcub of the company a month ago tolling pini how a alight deviation from the survey- ed urvey ed line would enable passengers to get what's in our view now. Be asked how much the line would be lengthened by my plan. A hundred yards! I answered. And submitted a map, allowing how the breoka, after Doming out from the tunnel, might snake a email detour to tette vary epot, an stead of going behind a mass of rooks that will comletely hide this—" and a oompre• •hansie a gesture of one arm folloWedhie sweep of vision. Planes that get their eam0e on impulse are apt to have appropriate ones. Camps of railway makers in a hitherto unbroken country are nob often miscalled. An °netting town on the came site may be uamoaningly teamed as apermanenoy, but the inspiratione ,that afford transient nomenolature are neurally deaoriptive, I1 was eo in the oath of Overlook, The railway tunnelled through the m0unbafn and emerged ab a height of a thousand feet above a wide valley, Mary had daily, and all day longs sat overlooking the prospect. b had aetenithed and enohanted hot ab that, but fanniiiarlty had blunted the keen, nese of her appeoiation, As shown to her anew it Wan like a finch disoldeure, Gerald Heath stood holdfhgethe bought Aside whioh in hie ohoioeab pos. eoesion that he turned his eyes from it to Vary Warriner. The txpeesion of admire tion on ter face, although quiet and delioote, was quite satisfactory, for a moment only ; and then the delight passed out of leer visage as though expelled by some pbyeioal pang. It was the suddenness of the change, for it wee of 'teat very slight, that made it per- ceptible. Gerald instinctively turned ,to look for the oauep. Into the picture had come a human figure. A few yards in front of the but stood °. man. In relation to the landscape far beyond he was glganbio, and the shade of the trees made him devilishly black by contract with the sunlight of beaven that illumined the rept. He was thus for en instant in eilhou• este, and it chanced that his sharp outlines inoludad a facial profile, with the pointe of a moustache and beard, giving satanic sug- gestion to an accidental attitude of maliolout intrusion. The illusion was almost startling, but it was momentary, and then the form became the commonplace one of Tonio Revell', who walked under the sheiter. "Da—a I eentrude 7" be asked, with an Italian aocenb and an Italian bearing, " I suppooa no—eh? Theca eee a plana bees. nese?" Mary's email departure from a business• like, perfunctory manner ended at once. Sha took the eorap of paper which Ravalli laid on her deek, and withoub a word trans- lated its writing into telegraphio clicks. Ravalli was a sub•oontraotor, and this was one of hie frequent communications with afS ials at the company's oily efface. The response was likely to bo Immediate, and he waited for it. " To get the full value of this view," Gerald Heath resumed, and now he ad• dressed himself to Mary directly, ae though with almoab a purpose of ignoring Ravelli, to whose greeting he had barely responded, "you need to come upon it suddenly—as I once did, We had been for menthe blasting and digging, through the mountain. Every day's duty in that hole was like a spell of imprisonment in a dark, damp dungeon. And your men, R.velll, looked like a chain gang of convicts. ' THE BRUSSELS POST. encu. That angered hits more them the in his every atop and gesture. He plunked saverese rejoinder would have done, "011, 1 am sure a z w he ens one suitor." She gave way at length to hie provooation, std yet without any violent words, for she simply paid :—"Yen reintuitin we ho de le at ]oast reasonably polite—when mo at all, tshiolt isn't often. Nota often? But some what closely he heed.t,you. See zat." With an open palm he etruak the plane on the eapliug where Gerald had whittled, The snob wee on the outer edge, where Mary could not eee it from her seat, She went round to the front of the primitively oon- etraoted desk or high counter to gratify her curiosity. There the saw that Gerald had oarved a hand, her own hand, as she instant• ly perceived. The small and shapely mem- ber was reproduced in the fresh pale wood with ram fidelity. She had unooneotously posed it while working the key of the tele• graphio instrument under the jack knife oculptor'e eyes, and there had been ample time for him to whittle a fan simile into the birch. He is almost ae impertanenb as you are," she said, and turned to see how Ravalli took the comment. lint Ravalli had disappeared. Then, being alone, she laid a hand of her own ocquettiehly alongside its wooden oounterparb, and critically admired the like. nese. " It; was an unwarranted liberby,•' she said bo herself, " bub he did ib very well," Tho delicate fibre of the wood had favored the carver's purpose. The imitation hand bore a shade of flattery in the barley tinted birchen white and in the fire grained satin smoothness that the hien blade had wrought, but ti's was net too much for more than a reasonable oomplimenb. As to the model- ling, that was sincerely accurate, and the fingers rested on the key precisely as Mary had seen them during many hours of many days. It ie an excessively vain girl who admires herself ae actually as she does a portrait and the telegrapher really saw more beauty in the birchen band than ebe had ever observed in the live one. As she con- templated it Ravelli returned noiselessly behind her, "I -a wish to say something, MoeeWarriner, twice et the oaavae as though to pull it down, Then he ekurried around to the angle win dew of Mary's apartment, wheel only door opened into the shed, anti pounded with his ktluckloe on the ill fitted sash, [Waking it Matter loudly, Selene° within followed tide noise without. "Hello 1 Wako up 1" he oiled, " Don't fool for a minute, Wake up 1•' "Tnere was no response, and he elcipped to and fro in hie impatience. He was an ordinary shoveller and pounder, with notla ing to dietinguieh him from the maga of manual laborers at Overlook, but unlike the usual man with en errand at the telegraph station, fiauriehed a scrap of paper. "1 want to telegraph 1" he rboutod, and etruak the window again. "(ret up, quiok 1 It's life and death 1" Mary Warriner was convinced that her Beryline wore urgently and properly requir- ed, See peeped warily out to inspect the man, estimated him to be merely a mee• Banger, and then opened wide the each, which swung laterally on hinges. Her delicate floe note the same sorb of calm that oharootorizid it during business hours, bub the moon shone on ib now, the hair had got loose from the bondage of knot and pin, and for an outer garment she was oarelesaly en wrapped in a white, fieecy blanket. The man did nut give her time to inquire what was wanted. You're the telegraph girl, ain't you he exclaimed. "Well, here's somebhing to telegraph. Ib'a in a hurry, hurry, hurry. Don't less a minute." "I oouldn'o send it to•night," Mary said. "You must.' "It isn't possible. There is nobody ab the other end of the line to receive it. The wire is private—belonvs to the railroad oompany—isn't operated except in the day time, You'll have to wait until to mom roes." "To morrow 111 be hundred years old or else dead," the man almost wailed in dee. pair' What?" "I was only ten years old yesterday. To night I'm sixty, Tomorrow i1 be too "Boye will be boys" is an unworthy elan - late, Here—here send it to.night, Mies.' y d ; y Boys will b3 men 1 The spirit of Philip iu young Alexander, Kindled again 1 As the years of our youth fly swiftly away, As brightens about u0 the light of life's day, Aa the glory of manhood dawns on u•, we any :We will be men I "Bays will be boys I" Yes i if boys may be pure, "You woolda no dare say so mooch to theira fa•oes," Revell' retorted, with hn in - solemn that was unmistakably intentional. " 011, I didn't mean a reflection on them," said timid, disregarding the other's guar relsome aggressiveness. "We all look reseal- ly in bhe mud, drip and grime of tunnel work. And your gang of swarthy Italians are bound to have a demoniac' aspect under ground." It was more carelessly than intentionally that Gerald thus provoked Ravelli. There had been dislike bebween them, growing out of friction between their respective duties as a civil engineer and a sub eontraobrr, for the farmer was necessarily a critic of thelatter's work. Bub they had never quarrelled ; and Gerald saw nothing on this occasion, as Ravelli seemed to, for any outbreak of tem. per. uBettare be civ• it with your tongue," " Ravelli sneered. "Well, I think so too, as we are with a lady." it een whya I inseast you breath me as one gentleman." So it seemed that he was espeoially regard- ful of how he figured in the presence of Mary Warrinale "Like oneentleman? Oh, I will treat yen like two gentlemen—so politely," and Gar- ald began to again nonchalantly whittle the birchen pole. "I was going to tell how, when at last we broke through the roar at this end of the tunnel, I happened to be riphb there. A blast tore out an aperture several feet wide. We saw daylight through the smoke. We rushed pell-mell over the broken stone, and etrugglod with one another to get through first. It was— why It NYRE you, Ravelli, wasn't it?—whom I tussled with. Yes, we got into the breaoh together. You tried to push me back. You couldn't—of course yon couldn't," and the netrator's reference to his own superior strength was exasperatingly a000mpanied by a glance nob free from con- tempt. " Eeb was -a all een fun," Ravelli smiling- ly explained to Mary, and then his eyes turned clerkly upon Gerald. " Beef set hada been one ear -nest fight--." The different result was vaguely indicted by a hard oliach of fiats and a vicious crunch of Beeth. It was beyond a doubt that Ravelli could not bear to be belittled to Mary, bub she and Gerald were alike inattentive to his exhibition of wrath, "No prisoner was ever more exultant to escape," Heath went on, " than I woe to geb out of that dark, noisome hole into olean sunlight. I ran to this very spot, and—well, the landaoape Was on view, suet as it is now, Ib was like getting from gloom into glory," The young man's exuberant words were not spoken with muoh enthusiasm, and yet they had suifisienb earnestneee to prove their sincerity. He had stopped whittling, and his knife lay on the desk as ho turned his book against the sapling and rested both elbows on H. " So I've been writing to the preeidenb of the company, urging him to deflect the route a trifle so that passengers migh b come out of the tunnel bo see a landscape worth a thou- sand miles of special travel, and to be had by going lees than as many feet. This le the very latest day for changing the survey. Tomorrow will be too late. That is why I'm telegraphing so urgenbly." Cliok, °IIok, clink I Mary went to the telegraphio instrument, She delivered the message by word of mouth, instead of tak- ing it down in the natal manner with a pen. "Gerald Heath, Overlook," she translated from the metallic language of the inatru- menb ; " your idea is foolieh. %1 e cannot entertain it. Henry Deckorman, press. dent," Gerald looked like a man reoeiving a jury's verdict involving greet peouniary lose, 11 not one df personal condemnation, as he listened bo the telegram, at eee what° I thoenk," remarked Ravelli, with insolent elation; " you ar•re- one• - fool ; ae zo president he say.' "He is a ono berg bully," said Revelli, with forced composure, "Eef a lady hada not been here —' "You tormented him," the girl interrupt. ed. "I once saw the best natured mastiff in the world loso his temper and turn on a " She stopped before saying "our," and added, ineteed :—"If he was foolbeh you were not very wise to tease him." "ditto le -a whet t0 you, eat you take a hos Part 7" She bit her lips in esentmenb, but made no reply. "Pere.heps he ire one•a lover oaf you 7" Still she would nob reply to Mie impertin• The Italian accent of Ravelli grated wibh unnatural harshness on Mary's oars, and if he had been an intruder upon ber privacy Instead of a man in a really publio plane she would not have bean surprised into a deep flash. She snatched ber hand away from its wooden counterpart and clasped it with its mate behind her ae she leaned her shoulder gafneb the carving to hide it. " if you have a message to send," the said, " I ean'b geb it on the wire too soon. It's within five minutes of the time to shut off." She started to go behind the desk. He Mopped her with a touch upon her shoulder and she shrank away reprovingly, although it was solely the man's earnestness that had made him do it. No, no. Ib res nub words fora ze wire zit 1 have a for you," he said. " I wish•a to tell to yourself something. Will you neaten 7' " Yee, if it is something that I oughb to hear." " Thera emu ib. I am a -more than I seem here—deaf-e rent—so deet -e rent you would hardly know -a me. In els place I am on-ly a oontraator for ze laborer. I alma as mom - MDR as my gang in -a clothes—in-a manner too eh? eh? But een one hour—ern one minute —I • oonveenoa you t 1 am a some- thing finer." Mary did not snow in her perfectly re- gained composure that she was [o mach pozzled by the man's enigmatic teak. She said : —" 1 don't see how it could be worth while, ,lir. Ravelli." " Oh, yes. I beg -a pardon for ze room tradiot-tion—yes, 10 ees worth a while. Away from -a here, Mary, I would a be so deef•c.rent zit you °•love me." "Stop, Mr. Ravelli—atop 1" The command was positive, but it was not obeyed. "I love a you—" He naught her by one wrist as he began, She was utterly unresistanb. If she had struggled or cried out, he would have gone on with his voluble, exalted declaration, bub her placidity was incomprehensible to him. "Mr. Ravelli," she began after a moment, " you understand English?" " Perfectly, alma Warriner." " Well, here is plain English for you. I would use Italian if I could, so that yon mightn't mistake me. You aro to let go of me, band." He did it. "You are to go ow^y instantly and never come here again, except on business. Go ab once." That he did net do. "For whata did you Dome here, into one oamp oof men, def--" "If I didn't expect to be unsafe? I'll tell you. Ib was a mistake. Operator number Nine was ordered to elate post. Number Nine had been a man, who had within a week been dieoharged,'and his number given to me. By an oversight no alteration was made in the record to show the sex of the new Number Nine. I couldn't afford to lose the work. B1oidee—" " Well, a—besides—" • "Besides, I reasoned that every man at Overlook would protect me against all the obher men, if—" " Yee, eef--" "Yes, if I oared absolutely nothing for any single our of them. Therefore 1 am not afraid. Bub you must nob annoy me," Fury fiathed into the men's eyes, into hie reddened fele, into the sudden tension of his nipped hands. The girl's contemptuous indifference maddened him, S110 eaw this and was at once alarmed, for she realized that here was a reckless lover—ono who heabed dangerously where another would have Allied under disdain ; but ebe main• Mined an unshaken voice as she said :—"'You may as well know, however, that 'I am amply protected. The night watchman is ordered to inolude this combined office and residence"of mine in every round be makes ; so I sleep quite unoonoernedly. In the day- time, too, 1 shall have defence, if it becomes nooeeeary. " Oh, have no alarm, Meeh Warriner," and the man's Iaoial eXproesion softened angularly ae he gazed wistfully ab the girl, " I hat said I love -a you." Then, with a startling, quick transition, ho glared menace ingly t ff in the direction thab Gerald Heath had gone. Ib seemed curious to Mary, too, thab in his raga his English Was clearer than usual, as he growled, " Ib is your lover that should be afraid of mo." He flung out one Gob in a fierce menace, and added in Italian, " Yet eindioarvi bitopna cls (.f/ii mi ren(ie la ova vita." JULY 1;2, 180, nmernanalialeallanallagnaliessialielereelleteralifennaalatelOalanalleinaliesieleaneaaallierineneenirietinale YOUNG• FOLKS. A Garden Jtoglo, Three little poaa, Three little peas, Three little pane in a pod. The pod It was green, And fair to be Been, Bub they wanted to go abroad, And "Oh 1" paid they, 'To be far away, Out in the world so green 1 To flatter and fly Like bhe birds that go by 1 Wo would envy nor king,gor queen," Three little pees, Three litho peas, Three little peas lot a pod. My Harry he took them, And rattled and shook them, And fired them ell abroad. The first one tell Right into the well, And learned how to float and swim. The Beyond did Ila Into Rederiak'e eye, And sorely disgusted him. Bub the third little pea, Right venturasemely, Sbraigl]t up in the air it flew. And it started in eurprleo with both of its ayes, To find that the air was blue. —(Youths' Companion. avoid carrying blackened finger nails. Be neat in all Otago, Don't say' awfully good," "awfully nine;' awful wee never iutondod fir any euoh use. Say " very good," " very nice,' Dm't fail to return a borrowed book or a borrowed aoyeding, promptly. Batter not borrow at all, but perhaps] books are excus- able, Don't smoke oigarettee, boys, They will ruin your health, or at dealt got you into o habit tint you will alterwardo regret, Dan'b stare at people or laugh at any peon. parity of dice] or manner. Dont fail to apologize if you stumble against any one or iaoonvenlenoe one in any way, Don't ask questions of otrangere, On the train ask the oanduobor ; on the street wait until you see a policeman. Young girls par. tiqularly run risks in approaching unknown persona with questions. Don't speak ungraminatioally. Study Woke of grammar and the works of the boat authors. Da„"b pronounce incorrectly. Llaten care- fully to the conversation of cultivated people and consult the diotionariee. Don't um profane or unclean language, boys. It to not only sinful, bub extremely vulgar, Don't walk with a elouoaing, slovenly gait ; hold yourself firm and crept, "Boys Will be Boys," "Boys will be boys." Wo resent the old Baying, Current with men; Lab it be heard, in exouse for our straying, Never again. Ours is a hope that is higher and dearer, Ours is a purpose far brighter and dearer, Ours le a name that should silence the jeerer; We will be men 1 Please send it to•nighb. The mystified girl mechanioally took the plea of paper which he thrueb into ber hands, but her oyes did not drop before they discovered the insanity in his face, and when they did rest upon the paper they saw a ecrawl of hierdgtyphioe. It was plain that this midnight visitor was a maniac. Against Overlook's alvil and sane men Mary had entrenched herself confidently behind her apathy, but with the round of the °look she had been a ba et by agreeable sentiment by Models for men ; violent passion and now by irrational If their thoughts may be trubhfufnees ewe, Say it again I delusion. She eoreamed for help, A watchman responded almost instantly bo her call. He was a stalwart fellow, em - p loyed to guard the oompany'[ tools and ma- chinery against mischief at night and Mae The Methodist Missionaries at the Derby. At Epsom, which on Darby Day is said to bo one vast temple of the evil one, it is just the opposite, for right in the centre of the crowd, among bookmakers, pugilists, and aorobats, and all the noisy rout, a tent has been erected in which and from out of which a small army of energetic Methodists are carrying the war everywhere into the enemy's crowded Damp. As early as 10 an immense and ever.growing multitude assembled ; the giant "fancy fair' was in full awing, and busiest among the busy were, once again, the faithful hundred, all of whom had volunteered their help, and many of whom gave up four precious days of their annual holiday to be present at Epsom. Their plan of campaign was to go out in groups, plant their harmonium, and behind ib their violinists and trumpeters, in the centre of a vowel, and there to sing, to play, to pray, and to praise. It was a curious eight yesterday to see the groups of workers among thearowde of idlers. There was nothing whatever of the average street preacher about them ; black coats and low bleak felt hat were banished, but Mr. Nix appeared'in the regulation gray aporting overcoat and tall, light gray hat; others were modest, their more "'sporting" still, with "button holey" of geraniums and ferns and field grape slung over the shoulder. Loose lighteummersuite, dainty light neckties, and ornamental pine, gray felt or tall black silk hats, together with a matter of fact and bueineeo.liko air, made them look very much in the right place And there they steed, elbowed by pugilists, occasionally jeered at by a rowdy ruffian, but always sarrounded by a crowd. The elothodiete bavo nob wibhoub cause gained their name of being good musicians ; and here they sang with throng and well trained voices, that sounded far and wile, tuneful lively hymns, the violins and the harmonium joining. Every now and again one of bhe oingere jumped lightly on a stool and thenoe gave a two or three minutes' sermon—earn- eat, simple, and very cheerful withal. Then 'a in and 00. more nee stn there singing, os] 8 g upon the oaeionullytha sun looked down p email band of men kneeling on the grass wibh bare heads and faces turned to the earth, calling upon their God to look upon bhe multitude and to guide them to His peace—a strange eight indeed on the race oourae on Derby Day. When the "carriage folk" were all assembled at noon they, too, wore attacked as they eat on high consuming 'abater salad and champagne. One the iron spike of a long cane the pink and blue and yellow leaflets were politely handed to them, and a dainty gold -rimmed "" racing card," which was placed uppermost on the spike, proved RR irresistible attraction, even among the moat hardened scoffers. Then, again, while outside the excitement became quite boundless, while the duet and the hot sun blinded everybody, and while the first bell was slowly tolled which announced that the moment had arrived, while everybody out- eide strained every muscle to catch a eight of the course, in the pool and shady Metho- dist tent a meeting was held of song and. prayer, and so on all through the long day and deep into the night. Whether the world has grown -better, or only more polite and tolerant, it is dimoulb to pay, but bhe fact is that the religious bodies on the race oourae met hardly any open insult or even Acorn, and the worst case of which I heard yesterday wap this dialogue between a gentleman who wee dis- tributing papers and Dards and a young ruffian : "" Da you practice what y ou preach ?" asked the latter. "Yee," was the oheerful reply, "I do." "Then lend us a shilling." .. "" 1 don't preach lending shillinge on ream courses."' If boys will be boyo such as boyo oughb to patrol, since Mary inhabited the cabin had be— brought him very frequently past the plane. Boys full of eweet•mioded, light hearted He chanced to have come almost there when glee- he heard the outcry.Upon seeing the cause Let boyo be boys, brave, loving and free, p g Till bboy are men 1 of the girl's fright he dropped all perburba. bion of his own and treated the iooidenb as a matter of course, The lunatic wobbled like a drunken man about to collapse as be mumlled his request over and over again. "Here now, Epb," the watchman said, with as much of cajolery as oommaud, "you mustn't bother the young lady. Ain't you which oinured in Bengal jungle. As he was ashamed to soarajher this way ? Get right walking through the jungle, he failed to out of this." keep up wibh the other members of the shin, 6 and party. out of ¢ y etched them P Mary w while she was doing so Gerald Heath a Suddenly Iheard a rustlein thoundorwood, preached from the contrary direction. He and almost at the acme momentan enormous had heard the girl's scream. Wby he was tiger presented himself, and prepared to within earshot he migbt not have been able spring upon me. Used never seen a more to explain eatiefactorily, for it was nob his magnificent beast, and I could nob help ad - habit to take midnight walks, even when the miring him, notwithstanding the danger of air was so brightly moonlit and so tempora- my position. But there was no time to be rily fine ; but if arose questioned he would lost. I immediately presented my rifle and doubtless have maintained that ha bad fired. sought only to escape from the darkness and I As Muck would have it, neither shot oloseneso of hie chanty quarters. Besides, i struck, and in another second the tiger was where would he so likely wander in quest , 011 nee, and had thrown me down, his olawo of good sighb end breath as to the spot buried in my left shoelder. I had no partiou• whence he oould view the scenery which he tar sensation of fear, and I remember think• in vain exhibit to their dthe .passengers, ayAeohe turnedto ' tigetleite hob breath cominas I g againon the st omy' the face, the corner of the abin he saw Eph end the "It's all up with me now. In a Tiger's Olaws- It is the unexpeotodadventurewhich lends the thrilling element to the sportsman's life. An Englishman relates a stirring incident watchman departing, and oomprehended the disturbance. "Eph has been frightening you, Mise Warriner," he said. Mary eoreamed again, but this time it was a low, musical little outory of modestly. She had nob observed Gerald's approach. She clutched the blanket closely around ber white throat, which had been almost ae much expend as by an ordinary out of (rook, and drew under oover the gleaming wrists whioh pace whioh the other oould nob keep up with. had all day been bared to a reater extent In fact, it was almost comical to sap how the great creature bounded about in Its mama chase after the dog. But I knew that the tiger, disappointed of seizing Mungo, would Poon be back again to attoak his master, so I reloaded my gun add stood awaiting his return. In a short, time be was before me nate more, and again 1: levelled my gun as well as I oould, oon• sidering the pain in my left shoulder. The fireb shot missed, but the second trunk the tiger in the shoulder, crippled him, and made him roll about in agony. Reloading as rapidly as poesible, I went nearer to him, aimed very deliberately, and this tame gave him his victim. Scarcely had I done eo before Mungo came bounding up to me, looking into my face and whining as if with joy at seeing me safe,— [Chambera's Journal. • But at that moment my faithful Mango name to the rescue ; be bit the tiger's tail Bo severely thab the beast immediately released hie hold, and turned round bo seize his new adversary. But Mungo, ae sharp end wary as he was pluoky, was off in the ball grass in an instant. The tiger followed, but the dog had the advantage over him, ae he oould run bhrough the grasa and under the brushwood at a 1 by sleeves of bandy working lengtb. Then ahe reached out one taper arm and swung bhe earn around on its hinges, me its inner oovering of mualin made a screen between her and the visitor. He did nob apologize for his intrusion, and aha pouted a little, on her safe side of the math, at his failure to do 50. "I see it was BA that alarmed you," he said." " What did he do 7' Sho told him and then °eked " Who is he, and what ails him 7" "He is a nommen laborer with an unaom. mon offiiotion;" was the reply. " One day an excavation caved in and for an hour he was burled. Some timbers made a Male apace around his: head, but the rest of him; was pecked in earbh. Ho had breathed the incloeed air two or throe times over and wan almost suffooated when we got him out. He was ineeneible. He never Dame back to his senses. He believes he is living ab the rate of more than a year every hour, That is why he was in ouch a hurry with his Imagin• ary meeopge." "Poor fellow 1'' Dame from the obverse ssdo of the sash. CHAPTER II. Tit11 mons Attu MARY WAalttbil4Rr Ib Was midnight when a man shot into bhe open space °rennet the Cabin like a manila, He ran fib to the front et the etruoturo, Where a tarpaulin °attained the ?Med for the night, and gazed for a moment blankly at this indication that the hour wan not ono of The game of life, trumps for business. Tremendous haste was denetel labeurers 1 Spadee. " Yee, poor fellow," the narrator anent. ed. " I understood his hallucination at ono. When a man Is suddenly placed in mortal peril hie pasb lite dashes before him. Half drowned mon afterward tell of review, ing in a minute the evonte of years, Ib is a curious mental phenomenon. Well, this poor ohap had that familiar experience, but with a singular sequence, The impreseion that all bis lifetime before the ambient hap- pened in a brief time has remained in his dieordered mind. He belfovee that hie whole earthly existence is condensed—that future years ae well as hip past ono are compressed into days and his days into minutes. Nothing can disabuse ham of bole idea, Everything is to him ephemeral. That's why I named him Eph—shorb for ephemeral, you nee. Ho doeen b remember his real name, and on the roll he had only a number, He has done his work well enough mobil within a few days, bub now hie malady thorns to have burned to the worst. He bas talked Wildly of getting some physicians to °hook the spend of time with nim, and it may have been bhab he wished to telegraph to this fancied export," "Ibis singular,' Mary said, " and very sad." (To 011 bovalnuan.) unemployed Dull Times, A boy's pocket Mae many uses. Ab a pinch, ibhas been found to answer very well in plate of a intender. Gyrus, said a woman to her husband, Est bedtime, " what day is Chit 7" " Wednesday," answers Cyrus. The wife holde up a small pair of trousers ab arms' length. "' I'm afraid Johnny isn't well. At this time In the week he generally Mae a pound or two more of marbles in his pockets than he has tonight." A Pew Don'ts For Little Fo'ko. Don't is a 'certain little word whioh boys and girls geb very tried hearing, and we don't blame them for it. Nob that ib oughb not to be spoken a good many times, bub some leoturere of young people let it drop off the ends of their teepee constantly. After What we have just laid you'll bhink ib strange, perhaps, that we are going to nee 10 oureolvee in talking bo you, but wait until we have finished and the if we do nob use it well t no lecturing, no preaching, just a little good advice, A WILD DASH IN AN ENGINE, • An Engineer's Watts tint ]icicle Attempt to Save Many• Lives. . Ib was in Scotland that this memorable aohiovement took plans. A drunken engi- neer started his engine on the wrong track, and exposed hundreds of people to a hor- rible death. Another engineer, Campbell, boarded a locomotive on the parallel track, and set off in pursuit, Both throttles were wide open, the fated rain flew to disaster at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The pursuing engine followed fast behind. Fifteen miles down the road it caught up with the first ane. Heedless men were sitting in their carriages reeding their paper as the engine slowly stole peat them. T when the two l000motivee were abreast, Campbell leaped from hie own to the other, staggered, held on,rovereed the machinery, flung the drowsy drunkard to the track, and then the express coming the other way struck the engine, and nearly 300 lives were saorifiood. The drunken engineer was nob killed. Campbell was smashed to a jelly in the performance of one of the moat axbraord• inary forte in history 0, lactose Doh'b fail to consider the feelings of othee ander all oiraumabanoes—that is the first) principle of good behavior. Don't speak In a loud tone of volae In publio or anywhere, unleeo the house is afire, A quiet, modest manner is very becoming to is boy or a girl, say' yes mother,' et "yes mamma, our motherYee eir' will' de in evoking to father, but "Vie, papa" ar "yea, father" io bettor. Don't neglect your hand, and above all Sjttixlg Buil no Hero, A lob of buncombe bas boon written about the Sioux Indian, Sitting Bull, who is sup- posed to be fatally ill, Several romantic and eathueiaotio writers have deoeribed him as the Napoleon of the Indian rade, As a mete ter of fact he was nothing but a lazy, nun. ming old troublemaker, who, wielded sulll• dent l Influence over an norant tribe persona them be oommib oriphan and depredations that their own oaturee unman• trolled would have revolted against. Ho does nab denorvo to be platted in the Dame oleos with Much warriors as Teoumeoh, Birds, hawk, and Osceola,—[Buffalo Expreab.