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atainiee PELlaedV.
' •rite it' Yrati 'Of derigetotta 'pod te &est* a
. younglierttemmt of twenty, or ao."
"Well, Totilieg, for one thing it couldn't
be helped," replied Fergue,n, "because the
..number of . officers had been thinned very
. When you a pale of bright eyes meet, muth, and he was pent for the very reaeou .
That make your heart ia rapture beat ; : tog that be.. was suth a dare-devil.I was
When, one voice seems to you more diet • . . never more adoouded, in. toy,life than When '
Than tory other voice yoti-know, .. .: I f dual 1$1elseoci hat retreated on Kffiul.
Oci eletvO:nly Moog to elow; . ' „ General Daveuayysonliot belieye•it at first. •
For brightest eyes have Oft betrayed, • 1 Verner) you 'Ithow, used to vdtir that. there
And sweetest *dee of youth and Maid - . had. been some foal play, •aud, he told. me
The ver faleeet thing have 0444... . ' that he almost went down -upon hie knees to .
And thereby wrought a .401.ot Woe; ,' McLeod to get at. the truth. ; but 411 Me.
Go.slow, my friend„ guidon', Leod mid wee •that he had given the only
When you're coevinced you are a poet,
And wishing ell the overei to know it,
CalI en some editor to show it,
Your verees full of glow and ,blow,
Go slow, my frieud, go slow ;
Formany a one has done the same, •
And thought to grasp the hand of Fame,
he bad for heron infinitely tender Vever.
once.
A month had passed away since the two
girls had come to live at Ridinghurst, Rod
they were pow aa thoroughly at home as
though they had lived there ell their, Byte..
A, lady of 'middle age, 4 kinse omen of the
Colanel, bed takenlup her teeideuce with..
thern, and she soon became a great favedrite
with her young °bargee. Masters came
down from Lon'doiV for then; Officatel )Ylos
Leod himself went to London , to cheese
horses for them to ride, mid for the pretty
little victoria which he chose to think ne-
cessary ta their happiness ; and, in, short,
expYouttion before the ccurt•martial he could Albert Verner'a daughters were in
as
•give." though they had. been. McLeod's ; teething
"1 suppose," mid. the Major drily, "there short of thaS would, have suited Loris Mo..
was no truth to be got at, save what the .
Coionel said."
You're disperately. hard, Major," oh,
served the Doctor, shaking his head,
"Nos eir ; I Pe the discipline of t e '
And yet bee never peen his name vice to be upheld, that all, reto
In print, And why -waste baskets know;
Go slow, my friend, go slow, kuow Verner ueed to think," remark.
When you to greed for money yield.
ed Terfuson, 4" there was jealousy among
And long the mighty pow'r to wield think that WAS borne out by Mots." , .•
That'a always found in golden field, "No, that's true epough,' said Kennedy,
With senseless pottip'ond pride and ;hew, , ofrankly.. 44 X• don't blame the authorities at
Go slow, my friend, go slow; the time ;• wWarne hat I do ae is the hostility
For thousands, tem' tea by the glare that pursues hint ;still. He was kept up at
Of wealth, have fal ext in the snare that. wretched little station in the bills there
Set for the thief. And now despair; for yt ads ; then after that tribe affair' .he
Regret, and shame have brohght than low: Came home mid has been here ever since.
Go slow, my friend, go slow; They ought to have sent hien out to Ashan-
"some o the fellows of McLeod ;" hut I don't
The good &A earth is never wrong;
Eaoh of her works takes just eo long; •
Menthe; pass before a happy throng
Of daisies in the meadows grow:
Go slow, my friend, go slow.
And spring gives life to summer's flow'es,
And summer's sun and summer's ehow'rs
Prepare the fruit for autorcin bow're,
And autumn frost brings wioter snow;
Go slow, my friend, go slow. o
• tee."
• "Well, there's troul le looming in South
Africa," said Fail ltigh. • °4 Perhaps he'll get
a chance.
"Humph; I've no faithin the sagacity of
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HIS VICTORIA MOSS
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By the Author of "A ,Soteat Womonco•
EVE," "0.1.Anu,,STaxlitilres
Dinitottn4"
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CHAPTER III-cOsancuon.
" Gherutpoor was a small fortified thorn.
that commanded tho road to Kotul, and, as
you ltuow,ib had an English Resident and le
small garrison, but not enough to offer Much:
resistance. But then Gherutpoor had tin-
mense natural advantages, and a very 1397.141
force was sufficient to keep in check a good
many Sepoys. It was .impregnablee-oe was
thought to be so till McLeod was found to
have evacuated it withoot a blowoancl
back on Kotul. It Wets the. Maddest thing
to do, becadse Gherutpoor was, eosto speak;
the key th Wet district and, for .aught he
. knew, reinforcemen
ts.: :were-, miles away.
liewever,Out-yieldoilsuriothat fortoths veith—
Out trying to keep its end retreeted too.ande
Kotul; as I told :you. ,Of ccuree •he Was
pursued -thousands: to,. his hundreds -and
no one between Kotul, with itsslender gar-
rison and its wornen ana7children, brit that
little•band of men. • s. • • , •
"1 think, if I'd been McLeod, mud.
haVe gone read. However; when it Teat too
late, ho made a -stand • but by Jove, you
might as well have tried te. stem A tide with
a pooket.hendkerchief 'I It was jest a masa-
cre ; they fought like liens, he and his men.
They told me he. seemed like tnaninthired
and seemingly invulnerable, but itwas OT no
use; every man of them 'would have boo
cut to pieces. but plat then upaeme. toino
fOreemente from Barret's coliinui,' expecting
• to relieve McL'eod Ghertitpcior. .The
tables wore turhedthen, cati tell.you ; the,
villanous Sepoys were;routed, and IdeLeod,
and about dozen than rescued. " •
"1 was with the reinforcemt
ene, you
know, and so 'was 'Vernerothe father of these
girls at Itidingburst ; ho fortieth just
as a fellow was•geing. to. cut'down MeLto'd;
and alailled his head off as rieetly•as.I could
amputate a leg. Bat Ili:never:fOr„aet,Me-
Leocrs look or his words,".said the Surgeon
gravely and sadly e. "there was a kind of
tierce despair in his fee!) as he tprzied to
Verner. ,
" Why :didn't yeti :let me. die?' Was all
he said, But--" .. •'Ferguson filled and emptied a glue of
wine before he went on.. , .
'01 course. there -Was a tow -b, theater
flare-up from one end of India, to'the other.
All dots .of yarns were afloat) Sorts of
charges made. There was a Court:martial •
and all McLeod said before it was that he
thought the place inatenahled and did the
best he could for his men;. beyond that hto
made no defence. The only witnesses. he
called were the men Saved with him, to
speak to his courage, and to testify that he
did not shirk going into aetion. He had
given proof before of splendid yalour. Well,
the decisjon was not mede known, hut he
was sent to England Unclorarrest to have
the sentence confirmed at the Horse Guards.
He svas a Queeri's officer, I ought to -tell
eou. The upshot of the affaii was that the
orighial ,sentence was gnashed. There was
no evidence, the authorities' said, Of want of
courage, although thehad loeen a grave
error of judgment. I forget, the exacts di.
tails ; be was censured, but retained his poo.
eaten in his oegireent. Whether, interest
had anything to. do with it 1 don't koew,
but his father yea a. bigwig. Still hie 'career
was te m
e , a os o a man the rmy
condemned. him, and, the Horse Guards have
quietly shelvecl him ever since. 1e has ap-
plied, I knew, in every. war since to be al-
lowed to volunteer in any.poeitiorf-but, no;
they Won't give him es ghat*. . •
"His father wotildn't see him agtfinper
that; had had:such:high hopes of :hurios,
though they say the Old Man loved .beitt a
vs
younger brother to las een ca some
time, I fandy. It's a Wonder to me how
McLeod cOuld eland the Army after it all,
so proud as ho is too; Rot X suppose he is
always hoping tioretrieve charitaterothd,
may be, he thinks it would be deserting,' as
it were, to cut the .Army."
There Was nioment'a silettoe when the Sur-
geon had finished his recital ; a gleam
seemed to have knell upon every one.
Lord Kennedy roused himself With a thake,
"It WAS h wretched business from begin.nines to end," he attid, "Some People
thought he was made sort of ecape•goat
for those who put bitn there, • It Seems to,
the War Office growled' Ferguson.
",Oh, you're a' Highlander, Dikter 1" said
Kennedy, laughing. 'You all hang to.
gether like limpets to a rock, You're _
teaching treason to this youngster here,"
• "Pooh !" returned the Doctor. "The
youngest cadet in the eervice has his growl
at headoquarterso There's not much to
be taughe in that line.; is there Fair-
leigh
Fairleigh laughed and looked knowing,
but said to Lord ICeonedy as the party
broke up-*
"1 like the Chief itntnensely. He seems
to me just one of those fellows for -whom his
dud ia so I believe. You. know,
men would do anything."
PI
said Kennedy, with A frank laugh, ." that
.nearly half my znisgiviogs about the thing
are bthaitse McLeod is a man you can't help
liking. He's reierved and proud -cold,
seine say, but I don't kuow. f2here's
something about him that -draws men in
spite of themselves. 'His men like him -
they can't help it. And of course the young
Ones that come in have no particular preja-
.dice. The Mutiny is like the time beforo
the Flood to them." .
"It Would be odd if they didn't like him,"
•said Ferguson stoutly. " There hut a man.,.
in the arffiy who devotes himself to hiowork
aelVIcLeorl does. There's nothing tia won't
detessetemslootaityothemekethOsoldierts- •
'welfare, :Ah4 X know a Mw things about.
him:that 'kerne don't 1 It's he mainly who
keeps the hospital ;for the women and chil-
dren going. He started the reading -room
in the High Street; and tonk care that thij
.regulattpns were named on a sensible foune
dation.' • •
"The 'band's hid pet wriLltiress, though,."
said Kennedy; laughing. " What he
speods that -lime and money! Well,
it's the best in the edifice, I will say; and,
if eirer there was an enthusiast in music,,
Colonel Mel,eedis that man." • • ,
, 'Then the cOireereetien deifteT civilly from
the Colonel,: the : carcbtablea were get
out, and play- soon. absorbed the attention'
Leod'o notion' of friendship.
The girls were both happy, although in
differeot ways and for different41*680126°
CSOil could have beed happy anywhere and
anyhow with tha Colonel Alice ceulel have
been heppy in Ridingburet with or without
him. She was a year youeger than Cecil ;
but, while Cecil had not yet awakened to
the knowledge that she had a heart, Alice
had already set her's on lovere and admirers;
iffie longed to 40ceme out," to be the centre
of attraction to spurred and uniformed
heroes: If a lieutenant in his handsome on -
'form saluted Colonel McLeod in the street
and glanced towards her --although robably
it was Ceed on whom hts eyes really rested
,-the began straightway to Weave • a dream
therefrom osand she thoughtit a hardship
that none of the officers ever came to Riding -
horst:, except thee horrid Doctor Ferguson
and Lord .Kennedy, who, dropping in to
.1unciaeon once, talked te Cecil half the
time, and evidently looked upoo Alice as
child. .
It is pobable that, for his ward!: ?Ake, if
he had thought it best ifor them, Colonel
MoLecid worildhave even gotnpelled himself
to endure society, which could. only be a
continual tormentto him. But he was glad
that their youth precluded the neceseity.
of opening his door to a number of idle
young officers Who had nothing better to do
than lounge in ladies' drawing -rooms and
flirt with pretty girls. When the girls were
older, of mum he must do what was best
fox, them; but at present no one would expect
-to see them brought
•
• " Why don't to. weer 'see any one, "'Col-
onel McLeod 1" Tice had asked once, half
000xingly ; and he answered, smilioe, that
he was too buoy; and. that the sieters were
. too young,
"-And too busy," 'Cecil had e'dd idgrave.
ly.. "11 We went out Ailie, we ehould
haveno time to practice .and' read and
•itudy." • . • . • '• • . ,
"Study 1 Yen talk as if we were going
. to be governesses' ;" and Alice pouted.,
• Cecil flashed and looked demo ; her, sensi-
.tive spirit was wounded, mid a grave shade
had. conic over the Colonel's brow. ,1Ele said
nothing; but, in passing Pooh, he.paused to
lay his hand on her .shoulder and ask her
same simple "qtreetion about her. musiO,
Alice's remark nowever had givers shape
vague berdeo whieh had weighedonCeeil's
heart •
Ooloncl-Itcliencriat almie"in big -library
• .one evening; that was'ong Of the habits he
had net, given ' up.' ,Tho girls were .irt the
dreiring,rooin with Mrs. Aunandale. Cecil
:used soinetimee to, svisli that the, Colonel
:Would Come t�; but Colonel • '111cLeod.'
thought that they must like to he alone no*
oind theu, and thagiltie`prorteriee Would; loe
,thetrahiton them. 'Neverthelese the library
Seemed very timely to the. Colonel, oven -
though olcbColin, who lay stretched on the
..tiger-aliinolooked'Ilp fondly every time his
..iintster 'Came heir' hirit in hisewalk up and
••clevin., er lei his 'hook drOP. on his knee,. to .
- ' relit his heed oh'. hie •hand 'end stroke • his
moustache. thoughttullY. ;
• ..
Presently the Colonel heard ,a. gentle tap
at the door,. and' he said "Come . rather.
dreamily ; but he rose quickly as he saw a
tall lithe. blaok-robed figure dams the floor in
the red .glow' of Aredight-e-there was ne.
' other light in the zoom. . • •
. "Am 'disturbing you, Weikel MeLeod?"
milted:Cecil, pausing jrist -on the tug. Miry
epealc to you for o moment?" •
"An -hour if you, wish it, iny.elithl,".,hC
.aiaswered;half-stniling.. How strangeitVail,
;Jhere Weeonly the rethfire, glow, yd the ,old
library seemed ±o1 be brightnow with light,.
• "1 am idling here, and at your setvioe.
Sit here"cleawing. forward the .reading -
chair, . • ,
-She sat down, crocesing.her Slender hthclet
onher knee.' It seemed a little difficult ler
her to begin ; but,, after. -a :few moments'
pauee, she said, looking Mkt the blaze-
' • ." I wanted *Very much; Colonil McLeod,
to: speak to yeti about. my ; it has,
,troubled: ine forieme•time." . . . • I-
.
.He. raised his hand to shade, his eyes,.rest4
ing his arm on the •matitelpiece, and said
quietly,- , . ' • • • .
"In whoi way,. Ce E it? • Whit do. yeti
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111,91111131". r1).1.1 e'laelPher. what' . Ali.qe said the
other deo; about ' 'being , gels( roe se?" sa'd
Cecil: "That made me think a great deal e:
it., brought.; definitely before me that I at
least 'Ought .to7-that we heye-- ' Mean
we haveno right to be .staying here aowe
are, with the idea that we shall never have
tu earn our oivn livirg.". ' •
She finished bravely ; :betosbe had found
it very hard to speak, and...harder because
the Colonel was sited, and she ,could not sen
his. 'face.: Was he angry? hc wondered:
She rese quickly and:earn° ahd laidoher hand
on his arm half entreatingly. "
. ,;" Please do not be vexed with ine;" she'
'said tremttlously ; "but I know that •zny
father .left•thareely renything for ns, and yet
you make no :difference; and 1 wanted so.
to tell. you...that 1 had no idett of alWays
• being* burden on Yourkiiidnese.." , • ..
' " Huth, child -oh, Cecil, hush 1" ' •
*. It Was as • though. she'l had ,. wounded • him
deeply, Ris er,otee was .foll of unutterable
pain; riot voludarily hadothe .appeol broken
from him, hot for worlde woOlo he have her
knew how she had pained hint, Did she not•
give tenfold, he thought, for alt the ready.
ed.? , Hieltinchietal 'It *warned their mock.
ery to talk to hid Of " kindness " t� these
helpless [children -kindness to Cecil, toe Al.
-bert Verner's "dear lassiee.". • The girl kith -
ed startled and wistful; but the Nerds had
scarcely pasted his lips ere he had dintroled
hithitelf, and he maid, tookin.g 'down' into the
eleateeyes raised to his -
"Is the obligation a 'bitedett to heavy for
you to bear, My child? What put midi ideas
into your head ?" •
"I have thought of it for; a long time, .
Colonel diced. 1 know 1 could do nab.*
Ing ,tiow, 1100111th I don't know how;
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„„' •. CHAPTER IV, •
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Cologel McLeed had all the pride -of his
rime, andldehad the sensitiveness which bee'
longito I fine mid liable temperament.. ;He
geoid never have stied for a reversal of the
tadesentence paseed•upon hint. Ho siMply
..did his'duty, without..klonking-for reward.
WhenSeiding back Coolly into the.very midse
of the enemy's ranks during the frontier. hi- •
.thrrectien of which the Doctor had aleolcono
in order to Save the life of one a his wood&
ed men, no vision of that •magio does' of
guionetal had floated before his eyes That
was not for hint ; he had eavedthe =mend
the inan had thanked him with therein his
eyes.; and while he lived.he lad 'followed
McLeod faithfully -that was the °dinners
Victezda Credo iVhat. he suffered lay be-
tween Heaven inid his own conscience
. Colonel Mollad-d- had begun life with
brightest 'hopes. He w as ambitious, and
had .gleriouso oisierne.Of future, greatness.
He had, young as he was, the confidence .of
‘his importers; and was trueted, nay, loved;
by both.officers'and men. Bach was Loris
McLeod:at twenty:. In the Loris McLeod
of twenty years litter the blight hopes and
the eoming ambition lay.shattereil. . He was
banished from . his father's ',home.; for the
old man, stern and terribly, proud, was cut
to the heart by thie stain on the old name,
-And ne never Saw his .eldest -horn again. He
died while Loris was still iu India. .Some
times Loris marvelled how he had lived
throough those twenty, years; -hew it was
that, as each year had pashed away on lead.
en wings, lie had not ceased. o• cling duper. .
ately to the one thing left,hini, the profes-
..stOix he.loged. He cotild ot yield up his
• • profession. To hire ib would have seemed
a inotut and cowardly act, like a desertioft
of his ceders.; and he hoped too that
day -England would need his word. '
. rho conning of the Verner girls seemed to •
. have worked soinething like a revolution in
the Colonel's; solitary life; not only in
habito but in his Own.mental ponecioushess.
It 'compelled. him to take ao interest in
things'of *Bich he had' graven weary;i,t,
forced him away from the constant- preseheo
of that dull brooding pain that had neer
left him for twenty long years ;' it brought
to him, despite his certainty that nO giri
could care for him, 4 homp, interest, home
responsibility ;theta Wittsonteheitly to Whom.
he thuld give pleasure, and Cecil's bright,.
fresh young Spirittwes like the Mountain=
.to a inekinan,.. Her, entlinsiciern; hernaive
ideas, yet her tinehaken feith in. goodness
andpurity; all fell "like dew" on the spirit
of the man Who had learned to "take the
world as he found it," The girl filled a glip
,3n the Colonel's 'life) although he scarcely
knew himeelf yet ho what way, TO him at
preseht she Was half child, half woman, and
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butiros year perlaips "voila& teeoh--." '
"Would you like to leave Riclieg-
haret•?" • s 4
"Rut we cannot do alweys ibe we like,"
answered thesirlo, without directly replying
to tho queetioo.
The Colonel smiled a little bittorly and
buried owaYentoonsg* few:pal:14RA ; Wens
retmning, he laid his hands on Cecil shod.
dere.
"What ehall I do, Cecil, to clear your
Movie heart of the idea that all the gratitude
is from you to ma?' he add softly, "Do
you think you aro very numb in my
waY ?"
"Oh, no 'Out We are not of your kith,"
answered the girl, :sidth, down -oast eyes;
We oaenot alwayslook to you for support.
It is not pride, indeed, Colonel moLena."
She epoke eagerly, now, "You yvi I under.
dand that, won't you?"
"I think 1 understand you fully, my
child," said McLeod' gravely, lout vvirh in-
finite tenderness, "You are p, dear child to
thiuk of what you have told me. Bat you
are troubling your mind with ti ouehts end
misgivings tbtO need never exiet, There is
n� question of burden, ebligation, er grati-
tude, that should overwhelm you. Yeo are
Only a little over seventeeu now; liut, if
influence can do anything, you should never
have my consent to leave this house, except
-except toe a borne of your own. You,
knoW nothing of the world, now, my child"
-half sadly- it is'a cruel world even to
the drone ; end you -a brave spirit alone
will not bear you scathless through the
The girl's eyeEr filled with tears; the words.
she uttered dropped from her lips almost
nnoOnsoiquidy,
"The werol has been cruel to yoto-Colonel
McLeod?" • .
He dropped her hands abruptly and tura-
ad: away, groiting pale. Yet thequestion
did not weund him, coming.from her. Cecil
°remembered instantly' that she had no right
to ask that quest*, and impuleively she
sprang to hiS bide.
Forgive me, -I did not mean to say
that," she said in shoh an earnest beseech-
ing tone that it _almost nuffie him smile, "I
am an thoughtless.'t
"Dear child, you have not wounded tne ;
that is not possible," he answeted gently.
" 'will tell you something, Cecil; it may
set your heart at rest. Long ago, when I
would have rushed recklessly on death, it
was your father's hand that . snatched ,me
back. I did not thank him for the boon.. I
counted it none then; "afterwards "-he
dropped his voice, 'and set his teeth for a
moment, as though it cost him much to
speak-" afterwards, while: all other's con;
sured irteI do net' say wrongly -only one
stood by me, unshaken' ig faith, and that
man was your father. Have 1 not said'
enough -to show youhow impossible it is for.
in ever to cancel my obligation to hien and •
his? Somethingnf this I said to you the
:first day 'you game.; 'but not Feb much.
So let that rest, if you cau be centent here."
Ile ponied ;• tho doubt was of himself; not
her. • . . 0.
• • ontentsto Ohr.Colonel-MoLoodott envie"
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Cecil, alinoat passionately, 44 1101114 1 VA
OtheTWiSS than happy here? , Who could
be • unhappy ' you are di kiktd, eo
"It takes very :little to make you happy,
returhed. . the Colonel,
bt her ords had, setia• thf:•ill. of. joy,
thieugh-:hislieed. "PA great deal of music
.„
- " And you, Colonel nocLeed▪ ," kalif:Coca
."Doht !.put yeurself in the background."
, She looked' op smiling now,, though tears
still rested en the long lashes. "1 'won't
.pain Yon again but,indeed, I imuld.not
reit. until I hicr siickert to .yon ; and 1 ,did
not know What you told me this eveiting,'
. else I had never eptheo," ' •
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[TO BE coNTIErna, ]
Four Mountain Lions.
CATTEBEB ABivE DY' euro PLUCKY irt.rETERS,
OF -TEE,BLICK 1111.T.e.,
QUZER IMPPENINOR.
• ; •
14A wait 'bit ef*teen parttime in a village
near Napree; nine. of Whom ffied of hydro,
PhroBo
die, die, recently, a Mexican played, hie
wife off 'at a gaMe of poker, and she
cheerfully went with the winner.,
A ovnte.e;beaver was recentiy captured by
an old hooter mooned Adams on the Skoo.
kumohirek River, Washington Territory.
Tem fall from a tree by an inmate of the
I 'Oregon Insane Aaylurn metered hi a speich.
Ror twenty years DO word had passed his
Ups.
SUARELESS Of 'Kennett, Chester
County, Pa., lost his life by poison Irene in-
haling the dust from some old sleigh bells
bewora4ee tl
clee aug
llnwing of a chicken found frozen
to death in a hen hoed: in Richmond, VII,
a rat had nestled for warmth, but was also
dead.
Huommts from Pleasanton, Texas, found
tWerbucks with their horns tiegurely looked.
One of them was dead, and the hunters
killed the other and brought away the
horns still looked.
dootos E. Meow; of. Kittaning, Pa, who
died Dee. 5, bequeaths $25 to every widow
in the town, $25 to every wife who shell be.
come a widow, 'and the dime amount to all
the, girls now living who 3111111 become wives.
A GRAND RAPIDS, MiCh., women tome
strychnine, and her pet poodle dog was so
alarmedonfro
atmliheerreom
nvulsive _moveents that
he jumped into her lap, and licked en .t
poi
lips to kill him, wild
recovered. ,
. Jun as D. Iveson of Connellsville,
entered A court in Scotland to claim an
estate, a witness for the Government was
giving positive testimony that Iveson was
dead. He got $100,000, and saw the per-
jurers sentenced to prison.
A men belonging to a gentlethan of Rale-
igh, N, C, WAS misled many days aoo, and
when she made her reappearance it was with
twelve little terrapins. It was found that
O terrapin had laid the eggs, deserted Ulm,
and the fowl converted them to hen own use
and sat on them;
A westei flat iron wan ordered for 'Vire.
August Leffter's chest, as she was suffering
from pheumonia„ Her •husband was too
drunk to appreciate the tituation, and,using
O ten.pound iron, it burned itis way into the
cavity a the chest, causing death, They
lived at Fon Du Lao, Wis.
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Are Wand thirty miles away was beautio
.fully brought to view to the people of ACCO.
". 'MAO 0oupty, Virginia, recently, as a Mirage.
The sun rose behind p. thick fog bank which
soon -grew thinner, and siffidenly Chineotea-
Igee: Island appeared with its tall, white
tower, its dwellings, its trees and. -shrub-
bery. • A little bey was s•een driving a flock
'of sheep along the .shore, and even a lititibe
girl in the door of the lighthouse' keeper's -
horne. fondling a cion. It lasted -but -4 ono- "
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- Tobacco vs. Chloroforni.
'(Froin the Blanchester (1,;.,}1.) Armen)
•it you, can't g any of your chloroform
into me." The, speaker Was one who had
• put•in four years' hard service, and had. been
; a target for eundry bills and 'piedis of shell
intro than once, "" I remember," he On..
tinted, •"when I got that ball into nie that'
IVIejer Fowler •epake 'about,. and -how 'he
:Probed and lieked trying -to find it, but fails
ed: 'At rest one day I was sure I'bOuld feel
it, arid sent Mr theMajor. 'Be probed once
more, 'and, sure enough, found it. "Well;
Nat, said hei just gite you a little
chloroform, and haul that fellow out.' 'No
you don't,' said 1, luistfll my old pipe, and
I'll inmate while you. dig.' 'All right,.' said
he, can stand it if you cam' He got in- •
struments and Went at it, and I' tell you
what; isle, the way 1 pulled at that old pipe
was a eoutioe.. A locomotive on a frosty
day was the Emily thing t,o compere with:to
for the Oolmhe of stoke, and the Major :all .
the time digging and bOrieg like a Men pec,•••
speoting fer od; He had to change team.-
ments onoe or twice,and flnally, When
had: given up hopes, he got hold of it, and
how it aid hurt when he began 'to Pull ! It
is rather ,hard to have a tooth pulled,. but
this Was worse than having A jaw: toin at,
bet by erickse I never yipped,. although :1,.
bit the old pipe stern ihtwo. He gotit mit
all right, andf seen felt 100 'per gent. better,
but none ef that chloroform for Me ;ander
•auy cireumstinces. Give me my oldierpe
. and tiiey can eut end hack all they want." '•
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What Resulpeci frOni a clean Shae.-
Orem the MaCk 01115 Journal.)
" Through the kmdness and, courtesy of
George E. Trowbridge .of Spring -.Valley we
. are enabled to girt our readers theparticu-
lars of the capture of four molintein lions by.
two brothere named ,Tan -ads and Richatd King.
The.capture waseffected on the divided, be-
tween .Spring 'Valley and Box Bidet, in
which vicinity the boys lied notieed "sins".
for some time past. Trellis Were set m
placa frequented.' by: the animals, and the
brothers caught two on the first night, The
lions Made a Wicked fight, but 'were finally:.
captured, tied Strongly 'with ropes, tffid
packed securely on a burro, by Which means::
they were taken alive • to King's moth in
Spring Valley. .Confident,. from, the numer.
ous tracks in the. vicinity, that they had not
,seenred, the:Whole (wilily, thobrothets again
set their traps, and on repairing. to the spot
alone on the followingmghts Richard found
the odd dem securely.caoght. He had :With
hint a smeOhburre, but no one to assist hini
in binding the lioness, and a Man with less
nerve would have tindoubtedly killed her in
the traP. Our -hunter; however, had' deter -
Mined to take her alive, and set to work with
will to accomplish the task. . .
Haying plenty of, rope with him, he, at-
tempted to tie 'mein such a Manner that sho
4oil1a do him no injury, but the wonderful
strength and agility of the creature and the
ease withwhit& she the the rope' whenever.
she could reach it 'with her teeth for a long'
time baffled his efforts, A tussle suet' as few
'man 'Would.. voluntarily 'erigaged in took
place,there After ;right Withsno other hum=
being within a dietence of iniles. Persevere -
emu, agility, strength; .an, above, all,
Wonderful nerve, Won the contest, and King
finally had the satiefaction of teeing his.
feline_ outogoois lying it his feet seourely,
„bound, He then sat down and rested from
;his exertions, and after a .short time loadect.
hit peize upon the burro, and arrived at tho •
ranch none the Worse for the battle.
'A. fourth Was taken by the two brothers
together, near the same place, on the even-.
izig 'following, and it is believed but one of
the faintly remains at large in the. neighbot-
hood.. All showed wicked fight, but all
were brought in alive; The largest weighs
eitactly 110 poutids. They are all now eon -
fined together, and keep olpoa continual
growling, hissing) and Shading whenever a
human being approaches there. They are
remarkably strong and active,: the niutfeles
standing out ontheir begs like kttotted 'cords.
(apeetal Translations.)
Oa the othasion of Qaeen ViotOria's visit
to France in 1860, the prefeet of the Seine
charged a celebrated 'architect' with the
task of tergatrizing a fete. which he desired
glye in her honour. . ,
The erehitect aeeumed •the work, and de -
mewled to be presented to the queen as a
reeom pens°.
• • "looking like a billy -goat ne you ao,,,
exclairhed the prefect. ". Cut. off your ,
beard and I will. present you." ,
"Tut off my heard ? lieger 1"
heir several . days the unhappy architect '
vaeillated between his love Mr his beard end .
his desire to see the English.speethign. •
, The latter feeling, however, proved the
droned., ad at the last onotneot he shaved
Ills Moo clean, mid preeented himself et the
thi Vale, where he never loft tho tido
a the prefect: •
The presentations tbak•place, but la spite
:of his efrorts to attract the Attention. of ;the ,
prefect, the architect waii never presented.
When the omen' had departed he turned
indignautly apon the f 'said.
"Why didn't, you present me t"
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"Present yen 1 On whet pretext?"
, " .As the originatine of the fete; ,as yeur
arthited." ' • •
0.41onDieti,"eiolaimed the prefect. "1
didn't know you with your beard off."
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jritie Witootio coloured woman, has
been sent .to the ChesterCounty (Penosyl.
venial atnteliouse, ofter. she has supported'
herself 105 yeers. She is blind and deoren.
id, arid When found recently she *AB with-
ont fire, being unable to keep it up, and
must goon have perished.
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