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The Brussels Post, 1890-8-15, Page 6GA.MMIDGES GHOST. CHAPTER e.. roof were toet in the mighty Meekness, °vet.- s , heed, greet aides stretehed away into dent - The housekeeper led the way up a long 'lees en every skin, lint ill the channel there flight of stein?, down two or three great eine g1.1011Unered in the misty light a few tap' lth, risen, all eounding empty and hollow, to and right in the middle a 1.11001l•eed tIILp deer whieb, leihg (Telma, dteclobed a bright fh•e in a pretty room. .A bedroom opened oftthrough another door. "Does any one sleep neer this room ?" I asked as Mrs. Johnson turned to go. I was :somehow struek with maudlin sense of lone. /Mess, "Well, not very near," she began. "Oh, it doesn't matter at MI, It looks very comfortable, and rill not 11e1WOUS, 81./ 1 shall be all right." "These are Capteen Penrose's rooms I put you in them, thinking you would be comfortable." "Very good of you Mrs. Johnson, Ob, I shall be all right." •"I don't know whether you smoke, sir," she said ; "but if you do, there are some cigars of the captain's in that little cupboard by the fire width I am sure will be good. And so lel ray goodmight ; and if you should happen to waut anything, you'll please to ring," "Yes ; thank you. I shall not want any- eh:Mg—Good-night, Mrs. Johnson." .As soon as I heard. her last navy foot- step die away at the end of the long corridor, I looked the door; then I took one of the candles and went into the bedroom, which, as I bave said, opened into the sitting -room I now found that it also had a door opening into the corridor, so I locked that, andthen had a look round. The bedroom, like the sitting.room, was old-fashioned as regards furniture and appearance. The walls were hung with some sort of tapestry stuff of peculiar pattern. I swung this aside here swung to mid fro, as though with eddying. gusto of wind. 1100115(1 against a pillarand gazed. As I beano anustonied to the strange light, I saw that here end there were placed enormous tombe—tembs of cru - enders in their armour, knights kneeliug in prayer, tine ladies with 0114 111011f ruffs, and children ie ourious formablooking dresses. While 1 gazed, I saw another Frier, habited like the one who had conducted me, enter from the door We had opened. As he came in he threw baek his hood fvom his face and head and bowed profoundly towards the ehancel. Others followed in rapid awns - gen, till at length the clumcel W1IO fell of durk-robed Friars. Presently they began to sing, One of them hail is magnitieent tenor VOiee, and as it went vibrating into the vaulted roof above, with the voiees of the others answering it, the effect Male really delightful. The singing wus a some that lengthy perfornance. One psalm succeeded another, till, despite the charm of the yokes I got tired. I looked round Inc for a seat, A stone bench was placed a little distanee away, and towards this I moved, I eat (*to)0n, anti—" Well, I Wee conscious nf falling clown, down, down through apparently limitless Sparc. I yelled out something in my hor- ror, ancl suddenly awoke. The Friar, after all, was only a dream—or rather o night- mare 1 But the strange thing Wee that I felt cold, us if I had been out oi bed. I got up, lighted my candle, and looked round. I confess that the dream had left such an impression on my mind that I ex - and there, and found the walls to .be endued the wainscoting rather narrowly for pencilled in very black oak, the panelhug traces of the staircase. I found none; so I reaching up to the ceiling. The bed, a huge turned iu once more, and was soon again fourposter affair, was also tapestried, and looked solemn enough to lay e, king out in. I went back to the sitting -room and examin- ed that. It was hardly so funereal as the bedroom : there was no tapestry ; but it, too, was panelled in dark oak. There were no pictures, two or three books of somewhat heavy material, no newspapers ; nothing to while an hour away before retiring. "The Captain doesn't have very lively quarters d011'11 here," I said to myself, " However, 111 see if I can't Med his cigars." I looked for the cupboard which Mrs John- son had smitten of, and found it at last in the oak panelling by the side of the fireplace. Inside reposed two or three boxes of cigars, Athich melt particularly fine ; and above the boxes lay a couple of novels, whin I seized on eagerly. I looked at all threeboxes before choosing a cigar. Yon see, I didn't often smoke cigars in those days, and one gains a lot of pleasure in dallying with 01110delights. I looked. at them all, and smelt them with the air of a judge, and filially I lighted one, and made myself comfortable in an easy-ehair with one of the novels in my hand. You may guess I felt quite luxtue ions, awl Mensal the chance which had brought me to such grand quarters. If only Alicia had been nearer, I should of them. lave ' • le been perfectly happy. Mrs. Johnson looked at me suspiciously. So an hour passed away. The cigar Wee "Now, you're joking," she began with some - splendid., the novel but so so. I have not thing of a reproaeh110 her „wee. yo„ say read many novels in my life, and when I do read, then I like them strong, that m to say, Y7,..0.11::: him 1" I can't come to any other emelu- sensational. This novel Wee not very sen- 81011' asleep. When I woke it was morning, and the sun was shining brightly through the Win- dOW. I sprang oub of bed and began to dress, at the same time thinking about my nightmare or vision of the previous mid- night. " Hillo," I said to myself, " where's my slippy ?" For of the slippers that I had bit standing by my bedside the night be- fore, there was only one left. I hunted round the room for the other with 00 1(14(111 ; and then I suddenly remembered that had slipped them me with admirable foresight, when I had followed the Friar. I laughed 110 (111011 of it ; but, laugher not, that slipper WaS 00 1111010 in the room " Yrs. Johnson," I said, three-quarters of an lionr later, " that ghost of youra is no imaginary personage." Mrs. Johnson stared at me, and a faint flush rose to her already rosy cheek. " Indeed 1" the answered. " You don't mean that --that"— " That I've seen ?—Yes ; I do. I saw him last night," " The Black Friar ?" " Not only one, but two, three, ten, per- haps twenty Black Friars—a 11I1010 MMUS. tery of them. Fine voices they had, too, all sationel, and at the end of an hour it ceased to chain my attention ; as I lieeMted. another cigar and began to think of Alicia. What was she doing? Asleep, probably. Then, was she dreaming of nee 1 Was ehe dream- ing of that little house which we were to take at -Clapham when I had saved some money end she WaS twenty-one, and where we were to be as happy as the day is long? Dear Alicia 1 Wing an angel she WEIS, and how—When I had got as far as that, a great clock somewhere about the Abbey be- etle ee e_teilte the beer of twelve, I didn't believe in ghosts ; but Alicia's mamma did, and I had heard so manyspirit- stories from her in intervals when Alicia was making herself tidy or putting on her hat andshawl, that I had come to look upon them as being something familiar. "You see," I eontimied, "the Friar not only appeared to me, but he proved himself a burglar into the bargain ; he prigged one, of my slippers, "Now," Said the hone :keeper indignantly "you are making fun 1 Who ever heard of a ghost stealing shppers 1" 4*Neiv I have said already that I 11111 11011 "Stop, stop 1" .1 cried. "Let me tell you nervous. I was not nervous then, but that all about it, Mrs. Johnson. You mustn't clock made me jtunp. It had a deep se ulchral sound which reminded you of hobgoblins and ghosts and all manner of unpleasant things.. I confess that at its first stroke I dropped my cigar and started up from my chair 'D— well, m something like a fright. When it died away, the silence was really awful. "Pll go to bed," I said. "There is some- thing decidedly queer about the place." I went into the bedroom and. looked the door. In five minutes I was between the the sheets, -with the candles ont and the moonbeams struggling in at the diamond - paned windows. I suppose I must have been tired, for I Wee soon 801121(1 asleep and ob- livious of anything hi the nutterial world. How long I slept I don't know: but what I do know is that m the course of the night I found myself sitting up hi bed, looking at eomething which stood at the bed -foot look, at me! I felt a cold perspiration steal over me and perhaps my hair grew erect. The moon was laid behind a cloud when I woke, and I could only see the outline of the thing that was in my MOM. Seddellly the moonlight flashed in a :tin with redbubled radiance, and I saw otanslisg at the foot of my heti a tall figure ono?"' sled in sable robes whose eyes shone " My late mistress knew thorn all," she replied, " and I know that she used to Wan. der about 11)001 0100' and then." "Ten to one, she's hidden that confounded will in some of them 1" I said. "We may hunt f.or a month or a year and never find it," " Mies Penrose used to spend a deal there, I rubbed my eyes, and semi him of time in the Captain's rooms when he was mare clearly, He had on king sable robes abeent," remarked the housekeeper, after a condemn me unheard. Sol told her all I could remember—and there Nvas precious little that I couldn't—of my nocturnal visitor. I never eaw 0 wo- man so oompletely flabberganed in my life as when I mune to the slipper business. "Naw, ma'am," I said in conclusion, "I'm a plain sensible young Mall; I'm engaged to as nice a girl as ever you saw, and if I can find that will, it will be probably be a long step towards our marriage. I don't believe in ghosts, whatever you do. But I'll tell you what; I do believe I got sleep -walking last night, and left my slipper behind in, some cold passage. The question is, clo you know of any nerd passage leading from that room where I slepe?" Mrs Johnston considered. "Well," she said at length, "1 can't deny that there are secret passages in the place. There exe in all these old houses. At Lord Plantagenet's place in Devonshire there were several. I had my first situation thcre, you know, sir, and"— . " Yes, yes," I said; "1 know. But this brightly from under a heavy mewl. It was the Black Friar 1 What happened next 1 don't quite re- member ; but I know that I got out of had and went mike the Friar, who receded to - ' wards the tapes tried well, beckoning me to follow, There was no (MOM about his being and sandals ; a large cowl Ind his face ; but I could catch glimpses now and then of his bright oyes. He went with a strange glid- pause, "Did ha? Then perhaps she met the will somewhere there." ing motion towards the wall and 11rulied "You see, said Mrs, Johnson confiden• the hangings reside ; then he pined his hand tinily, "when my poor 11)10110000 )005 dying, .on the panelling, and, to my astonishment she tried hard to tell us where she had put innd surprise, I saw a door open 01111 11104050 the will that you speak of. At least to we a flight of stake which led. dawn into dark- thonght—Mise Stanley and myself. It was nem The Friar turned, beekoned, and 'begat slowly to descend the staireaem Somehow, though I struggled against giv- ing way, I had to follow him. I was in scanty attire, and the nights were chilly, and I remember how I- shivered *teeny bare foot towhee the firet of the worn stone stops. They were so learn that they dipped in the middle. The Friar went down, down, and I followed. Very soon tie moonlightkom the window above coned to give any light, and lam were en darkness. Trit even then 10011111 see the dark fignre before me in 080111 of luminous laze, Every now and then he turned and beckoned with a whi la hand that looked just as transparent es a ehost's hand should be. Well, we reached the bottom of the stair - e00. It was a very long one ; there must live been nearly a hunclred steps in it. Wo went along te paved passage, the walls and roof of which. I touched with my hands as Ve travereed ite the Friar still going before, eteracted by 8011)0 511(01150 magnetism, allowing (tali idly behind, Suddenly a oor opened in front and a half light all Mist, broke upon us. The Friar need Oran le and 1 followed and looked bout meWo were m n, vast c lush, light. A 1)71 knee not whet strange 11100110, bolt 01101115e0, "ane vse must nna vjjli neither windows nor annlighte that 1 "Hurray 1" I said there's somothieg here, oet, Tee gene pillar% fitipporeing the Weems Come Mid 000i", mentioned afterwards, and um were inghed at—by the other side," "The long and short of ib is, ma'am," I said rising from the breakfast table, "I'm going to look for my slipper and Miss Pen - rose's will." "I hope you may find them," said the housekeeper, I hoped so myself ; and it Wee becalm: I was so very much in earnest that I deter mined to make the search a theisingl, one, I put my line of attack on a good bash', To begin with, / had gone to 'deep on the ,previone night 10 bedohamber supposed, in common with the rest of the house to be hanted. I was not in a very particularly nervous stet° of mind, nor had 1 drunk too ninch wino or smoked too many of the Captain's cigars, X lute dreamed dreams, or seen visions, or had nightmere. I had wandered in my drea1210 through underground passages ; and when I dresseden the Morning, ono of my dippers 100.5 gone. Ergo, somewhere in my (Nam the bounds of the unseen world had been broken in upon by the rude foot of reality, caned 1110 scarlet slipper, "There is 5, secret pamugo In this morn, I said to Mrs, (1011(1500, 88 wa stood in my bed p :11111. J eh Mee vamp tow side and teeped the 101111ti1Ig. " 11 •ertitinly does wand 1(111,1,, ''1 0110 anid. 44 7011 tele there's 00 Muth, or ally indication er 0 littelt in• eny thing, 801 don't 10 how (15 (11,11 551 111. " There's nu inilieetien of a door (01 1111, foe the matter of that. 111)1 (10 long as tide (11 hellow, I'm goime to Hee What Ilea behind, 13Vell Ill have to fetch a cmpenter." It 11 ould be a pity to spoil the panel- ling," ,she said, ‘. If there is a lineage, there is come to be a door and a spring to open it." " Thee we must find it," I add, beginning to feel amongst the curious knobs itiel pro- jeotions of the mewing for anything which wcnild prove an open sesame, eVe, worked on for quite 011 hour, examin- ing every little augel's wing, every little tleinon's body, screwing, or trying to screw them about to eee if they concealed springs or door handles; but all with success, At last tired with the unwonted labour, I leaned against the panel- ling and fairly groaned. "It's no good, len afraid. We'll lave to try somewhere else, nuteun. This— Hillo There was a faint behind me, and the wall seemed yield - .015 to the weight of my back. I uttered a en), of joy as I saw It goodly portion of the wainscoting turn slowly inwards, revealing a dark cavernous recess. Mrs, Johnson utter- ed a little scream. 'Here's something, at anyrate,' I amid triumphantly. " Quick, ma'am — those candies ! Hold 0115111." 8118 held the light up, and I went boldly in. I soon found that the place was a sort of closet, a few yards equare, and evidently intended as a hiding -place ixi the old times. My feet slipped oversrenething ; I stooped, and picked the object up, It Wri...S my red slipper 1 11 ell, to cut a long story short, I may as well say that in that little box of a place WO retina a small chest, in which the ancient Miss Penrose had deposited papers of immense value, not to speak of the ncissing will, The Captain got his rights, and he and Miss Stanley were soon afterwards married. I think it W014 on the morning of their wedding -day that I re- ceived an envelope containing a cheque for two thousand pounds. There Wee another wedding soon after, at which Alicia and I assisted, doing the prineipal parts. And Alieict's mamma insists to this day that the Black Friar influenced my- search for .Miss lfent050's Will. [VIE ESP.] THE EXILED GUARDS. Scenes and 111 ((1(101110 of Their Departure front London. The scenes connected at London with the exile of the second battalion of thetlrenadiers 10 110111)11,111 were both interest ing and at Hines touching, The men were paraded at day. break, and were marched Liking the Victoria embankment to the Victoria station. Early as was the hour the streets were crowded, and at least 20,000 people accompanied them, the men cheering, the women and children crying and sobbing. The arrest of the six Grenadiers and their trial by court- martial had tended to cast a gloom over the whole battalion. When sentences w000pro- 11001110011 at the parade recently somo painful scenes occurred. The oldest soldiers of the companies seem to have been selected for trial. By a strange misfortune a veteran named Perron was one of the unlucky prison. ors, An older man named Riggs, belonging to the same company, had been transfentd to the reserve the day before. Later in the day the priseners exchanged their regimental for prison garb. Theprecise hour of their re. moval to the 'Brixton military Imison wris 13. well -guarded secret, rehile their transfer to the ambulance waggon was so quietly effect. ed that only 1110101 soldier' PM? them. When the men emerged the se .tai 'el raised a loud shout They ware Lemiculle in pairs and escorted by von-commissioneil officers. They appeared 'dejected and haggard, One soldier in the regiment sheeted, "Pat your heart, comrades?' Several priseecrs burst out crying after the departure of the men. The, story of their farewell parting 001.th their wive) end children spread thrqugh tho barracks. Wives, children, sweet- hearts and oomrades crowded into the space ous yard, Painful meetings took place in the yard 1141(1 110 the canteen. Outside stood a greet crowd of sightseers, who gazed curi- ously and sympathetically between the rail- ings. The couples separated, the women harryine :may with their friends and child- ren, takum a farewell kiss from their father, While these pathetic seen were going on in the yard different ones were being enacted in the canteen. Young women evlio seemed to have plenty of money were there treating their lovers. The taps were continually run- nhig, and the flowing bowl apparently light- ened the burden of the men for the tnne. They fengot their misfortune and indulged in Jur dancing and diming. At the mend of the bugle women rushed outside. At 6 o'clock the men were drawn tip in double line, and fifteen minutes later the colonel gave the order bo march. The great gates at the Buckingham palace end of the yard were thi•own open, mut evhile the hand played the spiritestirring British Grenadiers the bat- talion marched nut and were greeted by the shouts 011,1 cheers 01 (111 enormous throng. A number of policemen were formed in these lines to open the way for the soldiers. After the police came sappers and miners, and be- hind them a band rsnd Col. Delon a the hottil of the regiment As tho battalion appeared in the road a mighty deafening cheer went up from the assembled thousands. The col- umn was repeatedly broken, caused by wo• men seeking their husbands with whom, 1011011 found, they 11111,10110(1 00158 time. Sever. al men kept pace with their sons. It is said that at the inspection yesterday by the Duke of Cambridge it wee noticed that the men shouldered their arms in a slovenly manner, there appearing to bo an inclination 011 1111010 part not to obey orders. Subsequent in- quiries have elicited the fact that an under- standing existed 111111 021 the order to shoulder arms being given they should remain motion- less Fortunately the men mitered their minds 011 1110 last moment on seeing thet some of their comrade?' were obeying the orders. A reporter interviewed rssoldier of 1110Grena, dins, who mays that his companions 1(00 010' tirelt 1,1 eympathy with the men of the mo- oed I. dtalion, and Oat there will certainly bo ti, 1111111 unless certain raiment are made. Resemblance from Companionship. The photographic amine' of Geneva has been testing the theovy that the long coin. panionship of man an11 wife tends to make them look more and more like each other, Photographs of seventy.eight old couples, and of an equal inunber of adult, 'mothers end sister's'showed that the married couples were morelike each other than the brothers and sisters of the same blood. Caught Napping, Mr, Wiggie (a(1miringly)—"Mrs, Hansom looks es pretty as 11 pieture this arteet10011." 1.h11. Wiggs—"Thitt coottme is very be- coming, She has e husband ‚(0100 111158 to see a woman decently dressed, and isn't too 010501 110 rovy tor it," ":" elt le se 1. • YOUNG FOLKS. A STORY WITH A 14.011.AL, There was once a very elegant silver tea- pot, beautifully ornamented, and of mane 1111 shape and design ; it stood on a table near an open window ; beside it stood two manumit earthenware cups, Those who lived in the Ilene went out to a hotel near by for their lneale, so the teepee not being eeedeil lor tee, had been filled with water for people to drink. This tho teapot did 1101 11101. e. It had 11111011 to say about being used for such a 00111(11011' p)1100 thieg as water. "I was nut intended for the sort of work that the commonest tin pail can do," she said to the cups ; "I W08 11111112 to hold choice was from foreign lands ; it is disgraceful to (tele:410" ein Ode Ivey. len not 501115 to en - ".As to that," would the cups reply, "we supposed you were made 10 110 whatever' your owner lei:died." " No, I was noe" the teapot would snap. pishly answer ; "1 Wall made to hold tea." After much grumbling, sometimes to the cups and sometimes to herself, the silver teapot declared ono morning that the end had 110101 come ; she should certainly not stand there meekly and pour out water for anybody who happened to ‚(('0111 11 drink ; no, not for another hour. "I'm brimful of water," she mid, "and I mean to stay so. Water is pleasant enough in itself, if people will let it alone. I like the Meting of it better than ton. It is cool and refreshing ; I shall just keep it for my. self. The idea of my being carried to the spring every few hours as though I were 11 tin bucket or dipper It is simply 'idiom Ins. I wonder that I have endured it so long. Atter this you will see thee 110 0111 short of a king, or at least a prince, will get a drink of water from 1110." " I de not feel so at all," said one of the cups. " I liko to be used. There is nothiug that gives me greater plenum° than to be filled fresh and have a chance to sparkle for a few moments before the water is swalluw• ed." " I think 111 01007 likely'," said the teapot, with a complacent smile. " The truth is, you are made of clay, and of course it if honor enough for such as you to serve every. body, even with water. Ilut for me it is an- other matter ; not another erop,will I gi vo." The oups looked troubled. But we get our supplies from pm," one of them said "How are eve to furnish water if you do not filLus ?" "That is 311211 01011 lookout," answered the teapot, flneffing proudly in a sunbeam which just then .struck her. "Somebody will carry you to the spring, perhaps. I'll have nothing to do with it—I know that." She was true to her resolves. Half an hour afterwards a pretty girl tripped out 011 the piazza end attempted to pour some water. She tipped the teapot told]. It almost lost its balance, but not a drop came. " How 510000!" she said. " Are yen empty ?" and she lifted the lid and looked. "Why, no, you are full to the brine Why don't you give me some water 1" She tried again, to no pm•pose. "Mean old thing 1" she said at last, and seizing one of the clips ran to the spring, drank all she wished, then filled it again, and set it on the table. That is for the next thirsty one' " she said, laughing, The '110111"t" proved to be some lovely Ulnae, ‚(('11060)0 down from the trees near the window and dipped their bills into the full cup, then looked up to heaven, as though thanking God for water. "Even the miserable birds come chirping around to be waited on by us," said the tea. pot sherply ; " they will get nothing from me from this time forth." "1 enjoy it," said the cup briskly. • It was surprising how many people were thirsty that day. Men, women and chil. droll stopped at the table to be refreshed, Each of them trying the teapot in vain, 021' 01011110(1 over scolded it a little, then corned the cup to the spring and filled it. , At night the teepot congratulated itself and snarled at its neighbors "I've had One do('y of rest, at least, and haven't been bumped and bruised at the spring, either. I have every drop of -water left, and have felt cool and comforteblo all clay." The cups laughed gleohilly. "We've had good dew," they said ; " we have given to every one who came, aud we have aS much ns when We began the day ; the world is richer because of tis, and we aro no poorer. We like our way the best:" The days passed smoothly after this, the teapot maintaining its dignity ancl refusing bo gives drop of water, until finally the p00' l5 ceased trying to get any from it. They said its mouth WILS stopped up in some Ivey, or its valve Wile out of order, and the cups were always so ready, and the spring 50 11001' at hand it was just as well to have the water fresh. So the teapot rested and sulked, and was more crisp than ever. .A.t last one day came o determined person who said, "How strange it is that the eager does not pour from this nozzle 1 What can be the matter 1" and she lifte11 the lid to exainine. "Faugh 1" she said, "I don't Imow who would want it to. pour. How horridly it smells ; wily, this ie a disgrace I We cannot haVe such 0 smell [is this here, the water has spoiled, Who would Suppose that spring water would got so horrid just by standing 011, used a little while. 111 must be thrown away, and I don't know but the teapot will have to be also; there is a dread. fill slimy mold formed all around the inside. Thu afraid 111 18 spoiled." Imagine what the teapot must have felt to hear sach WOrde aS thelie 1 A.t just this moment came rt noble strang- er. At least the teapot did not recognize him, but the cups did ; they knew that he was the real owner of the house and all its belongings, and of themselves as well, They know he was a great and glorious person, and they felt mean and small in his presence. If only they were made ef silver instead of common clay, what a joy it wonld be 11010 to gene him, But; the limpet, 'silver though it was, and of rare workmanship, was not ready th serve him. It had disabled itself by hoarding its treasure. The prince wive not 0 second glance at it. He lifted a cup to his lips and drank freely then said to the 'tidy standing by : "711011(1, I want to Melte these cups with me. I will have others placed here to do tho samo work these have done, but these I will over with gold and set With diamonds, and give them a Moho in my palace, because they have done their work ‚((‚((11 1,3111 in this humble place. As for tide silver dishomy remove it out of sight ; it ie not te fit object for passers•by to loalc tg." You think thine never was such a tea. pot and such cups 011.1 / know it, but what 11 110050 WeVe— no, that isn't it—what if there wore people who acted just its we have pretended these senseless things did Aro you and 1 quite sure that WO 'neve 110'er soon of hoard of any 011011 AtTa. 1.6, 1890, Homes of' the Lepers. MOON-FAGBD PIAATBS CAUGHT, In 8audw1011 1slan.10, .Niada: .110,1y 11.0119,8 gasear, Japan, China, and India, leper hos., vitals are served men and women who belong to iinnuin intindin orders. Father Denjoy, of the ,100111 ts, has weitten an interesting Recount of him charge ill Minintlittiene. Thie 1183411111 Wee moved to Amballivotakit from Aniboulatara, and (0210 1)10 firet of the kind in the fertile Afrivan island, It Is situated on a bland open plateau, with a '(1 0(1' 111118 111 110 diStItnee, 1(11,110 near a, saceed wood that Wee once the shrine of a 011110110 1(101 alld thu resort of many pilgrims. Now a boll ringo from ts greceful Roman toli•er transported ft•om afar to 1110 plateau of Illumine to 041 these alllicteil children to the ehrine of the Chrietians' God, telte great pleasure in singing to tt flute - harmonica that ale° has found its way there. On the right of the ehurch 111(11," row 0) 1011' buildings, consisting of a number of cells, are the honies of the lepers who seem to enjoy sitting on their own door -sills in the sun. Those ‚((‚110 1100 able to work, cultivate fields of manioc, the produce of whieh is, of course, devote(1 to their own subsistence, ft is estimated that thirty francs apiece will suffice, but as the refuge can only do justice to fine lIlInlbroll pensiners, end lifty more have thrown themselves 'epee its charity, aeditional funile are gently needed. To refuse hoepitality is to condemn 01e111 to starvation, for the morbid herrn of the islanders is scarcely exceeded by that of the natives of Sierra Leone, who will not even mention the lem•osy, His Well Runs Gold And Silver. There is a wonderful well down neer Del Norte. It is an artesian well with an abundant flow of pure water, sufficient to irrigate a considerable ailment of land. That 1005111 be enough for any one but Sall Luis man. But this is mineral water, It is effervescent, very pal:amble, and ex - gamely healthfol, Nor is this ell ; the force of the water brings up from the depths me occasional lump of native silver or a gold nugget. The frogrd farmer has placed a sack of wire netting over the mouth of the well to ceeeh the metal and prevent it from ehokimg the cows. Local scientists claim that at a greet depth and under enormous presmire, the water is washing away it ledge at rock, whose softer parts go into solution, and give the water its mineral qualities, but whose gold and silver, not being dissolved, are brought to the surface in a Metallic state Cattle Shipments to Great Britain, OvrAw.,k, Aug, 1(1. --Mx Plimsoll's crusade against certain United States cattle export- ers for the cruelty which ho alleges they practice in loading cattle on vessels has its phases of interest to Canadians. English advices show than all effort is being made to bring Canadians within the ecope of Mr. Plimsoll's charges. The evidence in the possession of the department thews, 11011'. 00100, that so far as Dominion cattle export- ers are concerned there is little groune for complaint. The Department of Agriculture long ago issued regulations on this subject and inspectors appointed by 1110 0500111100111 are on hand at Montreal to see that the re- gulations are carried out end the animals properly cared for. Dr. McEachern, chief veterinary inspector, in his last report to the department states that owing to the superior advantages of the St. Lawrence route for shipment and the excellence of the steamers and carefulness of ship -owners and agents to carry out any suggestion made by the Goverionent inspectors with reference to space end ventilation, the mortality of Canadian cattle et sea continues to be very light and as a rule the condition in which the animals land lu Great Britain is very satisfactory, He suggests, however, that In effort should be made by both shippers and ship agents to provide bogey attendants to feed and age for the cattle. • By this means the shipments of live stook are to than the Brilieh markets in the best; pos. eible condition, A False Step in the Dark. Tionoxxo, Aug. 12,—Frank Gray, a young man who lived at 83 Agnes street until last Saturday night, met with a painful accident at the oloee of the week and is now in the hospital. On Saturcley evening he hired u, horse and buggy from Derrick's livery stable, 214 Vietoria street, He returned with the buggy towards eleven o'clock. He stayed to talk with the men at the livery stable, and went upstairs, where they were at Work. When he was leaving he forgot for the moment that he was upstairs, and thought himself on the ground floor. Mis- taking a door used getting hay for an ordin- ary, common door, made for the uses and P0070800 of everyday doors, throngh which people make their exists and entrances in this comedy of human life, 141 which all are esters, he stepped through it, and fell to the ground. He was severely injured. His chin was split open, and he was so hurt in. ternally that his removal to the hospital Was necessary.' Gross Exaggerations. 00100104, Aug. 12—A sensational inter- view with It Mrs. Higbee who claims to be tho hninigrant girls friend, is telegraphed here from New ork. The attention of Mr,' Lowe, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, W118 toeley called th the despatoh. ' "I am satiii- fled," said he, "111011 Mrs. Rigby's state monk are gross exaggerations. The allege - tions in tlue article are mere generalization and they do not contain a single epocifica- gem on which an enquiry or test could be mule. The statement that; the church of England clergymen 000 11050011 with benevo- lent societies to send out immoral girls is a libel and is not sustained by one specific fact." He would not sey but that girl whose character was not as perfect as eoulcl be wished might have come to this country, but lie know of none who were sent from any criminal ieshitution or who were in. °execrated after coming here As tchowing the extent to whielt technical education in this 00111111,9 10 being Unproved, the work of the boys et the Iichrew Tealini• ti al Inaba° in this city is worthy of notice, Among the various branches taught in thee intention, both theoretically and mane. amity, is eleetrieity, it dynamo machine lights the building, end 0 small okeerie le, limitary equipped elle necessary 1415111. 1501115 gives the boys whoth 10500 001150 froin 12 to 16, an opportunity of becoming 0011. ('01811111 with the pummel applications of eleutricity. An examination which has just been hold by a woll-keown elogrielan showed that the boys were well ?pounded in both elle theory and predict, of electricity, one of the boys 'laving designed complete dynamo macIline, ?mangle his own drawiegs and ealeffiations throughout. The mind profits by The wreck of eve7 passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone, The Vienny of Canton reports the oil). tore of a large emnber of piristes, end eoll- eits rewards for the odieers who speeially distinguiseed themselves in effeeting thew apprehension, The unctet of the t ton prminee 111114, 11 (0 elated, been infested for 1111111y yearn mu& by banes of phstee, who have formed themeelvee into powerful organizations 'nut nesse the cuuntry far and wide. Thu 011151 of all these senictiee, eumbei• is considerably over a hun- dred, wits a timeline pingo called 'Psengdlu- yuachuan, whose depredations 114,1 long been the terror of the roast. Last .year his principal confederate, Tseng-Yinhiell, fell into the iambi of the authorities where- upon he oiganized another bend and eon. Unmet as active in crime as before. After capturing twelve pirates the im- perial troops moue in sight of two pirate vessels, one of \thin carried the Chief Tseng-In-ymelman himself, A brisk fire WaS at once opeuml on both sides, and the pirate chief, -being wounded and (dimly pressed, was obliged to take to the water and swirn fm his life. P11111105 0501075 hope- less lie stabbed hinmelf, and 1V11.8 arrested in a dying condition, The vessels having been boarded, seventeen foreign guns and t wenty- three 'Marts containing the pirated' plans of campaign were among the plunder, Tseng'a evidence was to the etfeet thee as a boy lie had joined the rebels in the Canton province, and had subsequently taken up piracy as profession. For near- ly a quarter of a century he claimed to have been the undisputed leader of all the pirates in the Canton waters, end his yearly in- come, which, exclusive of disbursements, he estimated at several tens of thousends of taels, was shared in by the other members of the confederacy. He died before he conld be sent to Canton, 1011 his head was exposed to the public gaze, as were also those of twelve of his followers litho shared his fate. Two other parties of troops which were sent by Admirni Fang to scour the neighborhood succeeded in capteu•ing 0111'ty- e11e pirates and three vessele Several of the prisoners Fovea to be heads of pirate organizetions whieb have been preyiug on the country for years Altogether over forty pirates were 101.0051111 10 justice. A Horrible Death. elorravai, Are, 7.—The great towers of Notre lame were the scene the other day of a terrible accident, by which josephiLegace, a young lerench-C!anadian, met with a fright- ful death by falling 130 feet from one of the towers into the priest's garden, breaking his neck and back. It appears that the ile,•eased, with 11 comriele, hail gone ;up to " line" the walls on one of the small towers on the south side of the church, overlooking 010 garden. After they had placed the neces- sary scaffold, attached to permanent iron. brackets, Legrice told hiecompanion to hold on to the ropes as he was going to lower the platform. He took hold of the rope and went on with his work, when he Wali siert- led with a terrible sermon, and glancing backward San, Legaee in midair, having slipped in some ‚(('03 (11' the fealIo1dill'2. The next instant he heard a thud, He theii made haste to the garden below, but when he got there leather Moulin, had already raised the expiring man on his knee and was adminis- tering the litet rites 114 11(0 Church. Legace died immediately after. The cleceased had been in the employ of the Frellell Church for oeer ten years, and wits invelualcle to them for his general handiness. Especially WI10 he daring in sealing high places, He would never use 0 rope around hie body, and would walk all over the roof of the church in his bare feet without any support. Time and again he had been reproved by the priests for his carelessness, 01111 0(119 last week Father Sentenne told blin that 501110 day he u•ould fall iflie did not use more care. To this admonition Logace replied, "Oh, I have now been doing tlds work for ten yeers for noth- ing, and there is 110 danger of Illy falling, for lainon sure-footed as a eat." The young wife of tho donned became 1115011011118 10111011 oho heard the news, A Railroad Under the Channel, Sir Edward Reed, the distinguished English engineer, has devised a plan for running 0 relined under the English chan- nel which he believes has all of the merits of the tunnel without its defects. What he proposes is to lay on the 800 bed on proper supports two parallel tubes, similar in con- struction to the double bottom of a large ship, the span between each of the double eoverings to be hlled in for the most part solid with Portland cement, wbich preserves Iran and steel for along period. These tubes are to be sunk in sections of about 600 feet, and to have strength to withstand the tidal action. 'rho bed of the channel is said to be sufficiently einooth to admit of this construc- tion'which would require in the opinion of Sir Edward, a period of 'five yeas time, end involve an expenditure of about SM. 000,000, The merit from a nation,' point of 11101? that the tube has over the tunnel is that, in case of war, a dynamite torpedo could be let doivn 14:010 those tuns and en- tirely destroy them, so thee there would be no (11(11500 01' their 000 113' an invading tunny, while in the opinion of their proposer the submarine tuba would have all the merits 'in carrying two lines of railway *mak that would be possessed by a tunnel. There is a possible defect, however, whin does not seem to have suggested itself to those in England who have • been corn- menting upon this plan, and this is the possibility that the .inibe might be broken in the ease of a railroad accident. 11 11110 train, through some defeet in machin- ery, the breaking of no wheel or axle, ehould run off the traok 111 a tunnel, the pendent might.result in some damage to the passen- gers of a train, as 0 similar accident under ordinary conditions, though, in all probable, ity, of a less serious ohmmeter. I3ut it is to he feared that all accident of this kind tak- ing place in one of these proposed tubes would lead to the ruptureof the enclosing covering, its prompt filling with water, and the immediate death, not only of those who hemponed to be on the wreaked train, but those on any other trek which Wen at that time going In the same direation between England and Franco, The S000nd Sault Sits, Marie Canal. WASIIISMON, Ang. 7.—In a long debate in the Senitte over a resoligion offered by Senator Devi°, of el i»nosetre calling on the Seeretery of 'War for information on the nubject, of the remelt maiden to the lock of 11110 8011111 Ste. Marie canal, several Sen- ators indulged bIt some pointed and acre. mnion remark0 relative to tho failure - of the Honso of RepresentatiVes to net on a hill which had already passed the Senate, providing for, a second and larger look, rho point of the delay on the part of the House lies in the fact that a Canadian, engineer boos discovered during a (000111 0111" vey that the boundary line as at present laid out is not wired, and that all the movements made by our Government are On Cennelian soil, Mould this prove to he oor.. red, there (0 1111013' to arise some difficulty in straightening matters nut,