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Ortfafffifileell Pet.
I've a honey wee amine, she's no very e.uld,
Jist like a sweet bud that begins to unfauld:
There aro tuortydarliree that's use doubt thought
nue,
)3itt its seldom ye 000 a wee darlialiko mine.
flha's no in her teem; yot and quite a yoUng Unita
An' fresh as a primrose ye see in the spring;
To compare her to dowers is quite out 0' place,
040010 thoht a' wr her sweet senate face.
She's a bonny weeaud dear loving init,
Her winsome bit manner yo Coma, forget;
Whiles when I toszo her she feigus 1110. plieht,
-But kisses and sweeties soon Puts box' a' riebt4---e
soun's weel to alma 0' the angels °been,
.But bettor on earth to hexane o' yer ;
Its this keeps me happy wherever I he,
My bonny we darlia's an angel to me.
She's uoo sae engagin', I deem /ler a queen
Rer pure soul it peeks through her Lumuy blue
eon;
The breath free her lips as it passes, ye powers!
Resembles the simmer wind kissing the flowers.
My bonny woo darlin', while hope links the
chain,
I've this fervent wish -yo wad aye bo niy ain;
But ane made for lovin . its easy to see,
She'll soon Imo around her mare lovers -than mo.
-Sim apes my bit oddities; that 1 forgive
And pray -most sincerely that long she mayfly°.
r .@..he'eleenbiltaeSinnner-lnYbeart'S on hor sot
moY beaven protect her ave-granfaither's pea
LOVEltS 71X711%
(By the author of "madoiine's Lover.")
• -
"I am not eloquent," said lionald-" I
have no great gift of speech ; `but Miss
• Charteris, I should like to find some Wards
that would reach your heart and dwell there•
For Seine ,days past 1 have been longing to
speak to you, nowarty •eciarage almost fails.
• me, Miss Charteris, say something,that
will give me confidence,"
She looked. up at him, and anyotheamau.
-would have read the lase in her face.
"The gimplest words. you pen nee will
always interest me," she saidgently:
His:face cleared, and he began; " You,
are kind and . •
Then °erne an interruption -.-Sir Harry
,Laurence, with a lady, entered the con-
" This is refreshing," he paid, to Ronald.
"1 have been ten minutes -trying to get
here, the rooms Ore solidi." • •
Miss Charteris Broiled' in reply, wislaieg
Sir Harry had waited ten minutes longert!
"Prounii'e me," „said Ronald,detaining
her, as Sir Harry paneled on," that you will
• give mg oue. half-hour to -morrow."-
" I will do so," she replied, • .
"And you will listen ..to me, Miss
Charteris?" he continued. You will heat
all I nave to say ?" • •
...Valentine' Made. Ina re.ply several-nther-
people emote, some to admire the alcove -filled
with ferns whioli drooped from the wall by
which slultanding, • others;a•olireatit
the fragrant air,,. She could not 'speak
. without. being. Overheard; but, with •a
- charming smile, she took a beautiful lily.
from her bouquet "dad held it out to him:
They then went -back to the ball-rbont.
"lie loves me," thought Naleiatioe ; and
• as far as her calm, serene nature was • nap -
able of passionate delIght•slie. felt it.,
. She will befriend na-o," thought Ronald;.
"but why did she give . me this flower ? "
• The most relhote suspiaienthat Valentine
• had mistakea him -that T'sha• loved- hires•-•
•' •never crossed the, Mind of Roticild Earle..
He was singularly free from vanity. Per,
• haps',. if he had had a little mere' confide:lee.
hair°been, different. . •• . •
Lady Charteris ldoked at het datiglitek's
•• calm; proud -face. She had notteed the
• little 'interview inthe conserVatory,. :and
. drew her :WM conalueione • from it. : Val-.
entities 'face cc:tainted themthere was a.
delioate flush upon it, and a new light shone •
in her lustrous eyes. ' !•
• "You like Earleseourt ?'"•
Charteris to; her danghterkthat „aliening, as
they set.iii her dtesoiag-rooin alone. '
"Yes, materna-I like it very much," said.
Valentine. ' •• .
"And, from 'what I seer dontittued the
elder. lady„.. -"Tr think it islikely.to.be_yotik
home." • • ••
"Yes, 1 believe so," said Valentino,
• bending over her 'neither, and:kissing her.
"Ronald has -asked ' me to give hini eine
•• half-hour to -morrow and I ani.verylutpily;
mamma." • • •..: . •• • ,.• .
. .
•
. •
For otte.ao palm and'stately, t was ad-:
mission enang4. Iladi
Lady Chatteris knew,
from the tone of her daughter's voice, that
shelovedRonaldEarle. • • .
• Ronald slept. calmly" halt•hoping •thitt
• the end of his 'troubles was drawing nigh,
• Valentine, whom his inothar loved so well,
. would intercede for Dora; Lord Earle evould:
be sure to rerent; „then he could • bring
Dora, hoine, and all wouldbe well: If ever.
and anon a cold fearcrept into his heart'
that simple, pretty .Dore wotild:be sadly
out of place in that magnifieenthotneo he
daalibtlit freon • •
Miss Charteris plept calitaIY.to.o, but bor
• dreams weredifferent from Romeld's. • She
thonglit of . the time when she wOuld bo
• inistreps f that fait &Mani, and the wire
of its brave young rod. 'She loved him
well. • No onetad ei.er pleased her as he
had -no one would ever charm her again..
• Valentine _hadinade, the grand Mistako. of
her life. ,. : • •
• • The morrow so -eagerly ',looked, foro, wits'a
fair,bright day. The sun shone warm and
bright, the air was soft lend fragrant; the,
, sky . blue and. eloudlesa:. •Lady Charteris •
• did not leave her room for 'breakfast, and
Valentine remained with hor mother.: . • .
When breakfast .was ended, ' Ronald
' lingered about, hoping to .see 'Valentine.
He had not waited long before he so* the
glimmer of her White dress an.d blue ribbons. •
Ho =Ahoy in the hall., . • '
"'Will you: come out into the gardens
• Miss Charteris?" he asked, eagetiy. •
" Thai'
ingInifig is so beautiful, and you premised
mirtne half-hour.• Do not take that book
with you. I shallwant all your attention,
forI have a story to tell you,"
Ile walked-by-hor side:through the plea-
sure -gardens, wheto the lake gleamed in the
81.1i1Efilit19, tlib water.liuios sleeping' on its
• quiet bosom; through the fragrant frowett.
• beds, whore the bees hummed and the
butterflies made love to. .the • fairefib
blown:as'. . •
" Let us go on te the park," said Valea-.
'tine; "tho sun is to warm hero."
• "1. know h little Spot just fitted for a
fairy's bower,'said Ronald, " Lot me show
it to you. 1 cart tell my story botter
there," • '
They went through the broad gates of
-
tho park, acroes which the checkered ',sun, -
beams fell, where the deer browsed, and
king -clips and toll lox -gloves grew -on to
• the brook -side, where Dora had rested 'Oct
sIort a time Since to think of her now.
• found happinesa.
"11 is a pretty spot," said Miss Charteris.
Tho green grasa Seemed to 'duo° in the
breeze,.aud Ronald made soinethiag like
a throne amidst it, • '
" You shell, tie Queen, and I your sup.
pliant," Ito said. YoU promised to Hato;
I will tell you my story."
° They sat a feta Minutes in deep ilenee,
broken Mily by the singing brook and the
tousle Of the birds; a teleran huh seemed
to have fallen on them, While the leaves
triaged in the wind. •
"I told you, liaise Charterielket Cl/ening,
that I was .:not eltiqUitrit,". hogati Ronald.
• "When anything lis deep in nry heart,
find great difficulty in telling it in words."
"AU saered and deep feeling in Viet,"
aaid Valentine; "a torteut of words dots
not always show ah earneat nature. I
have many thoughts that I could never
express."
"If I could only be sure that yon would
• understand me, Kiss Charteris," said,
Ronald-" that you would see and compre-
hend mativeo that r can hardly explain
nayself Sitting here in the summer sun-
shine, I can scarcely realize hew dark the
RITA is that hangs over me. You are so
kinkand patient, 1 will tell yo ti my story
in nay Own Way'."
She gathered a rich cluater of blue -bells,
and bent over them, pulling the pretty
flowers into pieces, and throwing leaf after
leaf into the stream,
"Three months since," continuedBonald.
"1 came home to Earlescourt. 'Lord and.
Lady Earle were both at Oreenoke ; I, tired
and not quite myself, preferred remaining
here alone and quiet. One morning -I went
out into the garden, listless for want of
-something to do, I Saw there -ah now I
want words, Miss Charteris I -the faireot
girl the sun over shone upon."
He saw the flowers fall from Valentine's
grasp; she put her baud to her brow, as
though to shield her foe°.
"Does the light annoy, yoU?" he asked,
' "IsTo " she.'said, steadily ; "go on with
your story."
." A. clever man," said Ronald, "night
paint for you the pretty face; all smiles and
cliMples, the dark shining' rings of hair
that fell upon a white brow; the sweet shy
eyes fringed by long lashes, seldom .raised,
but full of wonderful light when once you
coulcllook iuto their depths. 1 oan ouly
tell ydu how in a few days I grew to love,
the fair young face, and how Dora 'Thorne
•-'that was her name, Mimi Charteris -
loved me." -
• Valentine never moved hair spoke ; Ronald
could not see the blight flash die away,
and the proud lips quiver..
"1 must tell yon all quickly," said Ronald,
"She is not what people call a lady, this
beautiful wild flower' of mine. Her father,
lives at the lodge; -he is Lord Earle's
lodge-keeiperond she knows nothing ofthe
'‘ViOild or its ways. * She has uciver been.
taught or trained., thongli hor voice is like
sweet music, and hor laugh like the china°
of silyer bells. She is like a bright April
day, smiles and•tears, sunshine and ram-,
so near fogether that I never know whether
I love her best weeping or laughieg.'.'
He paused, but•Valentine did not speak;
her hand still shaded her face:
"1• love her very 'much," said Ronald,
"and I told her so: I asked her to be lay
wife :and she prordised: 'When ,mi father
carne home. from Gteenoke I asked his con-
setrtrand-he• laughed-nt•mer -11-crwonitInM
believe nurseripus. "' eedai.o.t.tell'yen;tha,
-Theywa-ii tiny pretty Dote away,
and 'some one wile: loved waated
to Make her his Wife -game; and quarrelled
with me. ile-tny riyal-swoto that Dora
should be Mts. In his passion he betrayed
-
the secret se well kept from mo. told
trie 3rliere she was, :and I wept .to see her."
• . There was no .inovmopt iu the quiet
figure no words passed the wilitelipa.
1.2ivent to see her,". he bontinued ;
ij
"ho Was so unhappy.; so pretty • in her
sorrow and love; se tunocent, so fond of;MES,.
that I forgot alt.I should have reinerabered
•and Mania. her.1 •
Valentine Started:, thea,' -and .Uttered
low ory. •• .
' • ".:74).1,Onte:altealcedLataid ald,; but ,
-OliT,•Miss*Cherteris, think of her So young
and gentle 1 They,wonld have. fenced her
to Marry thefartneattnd iho di:dikes him:
What else Could Ido to save:her
Even then, in the midst ;of that: sharp..
sorrow, 'Valentine could net help admiring
'Ronald's,brave- eimpripity;his chivalry, his
. • •• .
" Innartied her'," he said; " a,nd 1 mean"
to be true to her: I 'thought ney• father
would relent aud forgive' us, bilt I fear •I
was too amiguine: - Since my marriage ray
father has told Me thatif 'Lilo not .give .up
Dora he will never see •me agaiu. Every
day I resolve to tell hini what.1 have, done,
but something interferes to prevent .it,
have. never aeon my wife sines out weddiqg
„day,' She is etill.p,t Eastham: New, M
Charteris, ba nay friend, and help Me."
• Erayely enongli Valentiiie put awaY her
sorrow-nuother dine She would look it. in
the-fiteel all her thoughts moat now be for
• "I will do anything ,to serve yen," she
said gently:': ".What ean.I de?" •
MY mother loVes you Very 'Much," said
Ronald;' " she will listen to you. •When I
-haveteld.lier, will .you, in your sweet, Per-
suasive way, •interfore for Dor*? LiLdy
Earle 'Will b influeueed by What you say."
• A quiver ef paiii passed oyer tlio: proud,
calm face of Valentino. Charteris.
•• "If you think it Wise, for a stranger to
• interfere hi se:delicate. a:Mitter, I will de
so oheerfully,' oho said •;. let me
counselone thing. Tell Lord mad' Lady
Earle at once. Do not delay; every: hour
is of conaequence. Tell your father at ouce
she continued. "You can never retrace the
atep yon have taken,. You may neverwish to
.de no, but .you can and ' must retrievethe
error of duplicity, and Concealment"
"You Will try to ma,ke'rely mother love
Dora?" said Reniald. ' . . •
• "'That I will,'" replied Valentine.. " Yon
sketched her portrait welt. .I can almost
Bee her. 1 wilt' ape:* Of her beauty; her
grace, her tenderness," •• "
We shall still be friends, .Mins Char -
feria 2" he said,- pleadingly. ." Whatever
ecimes you not give. me up'?"
•!" I will Ito:your friend while flaid
Valentine, holding out her white hand and
hervoiee never faltered. '• "„You have
trusted titer shall never forget that..
'am your friend; and Dora's also." •
'Thon he told Valentine of Dora's pretty,
artless • ways, 'of, her, love fer thiags
beautiful in nature., always returning to
ono therneher great' love for bina. '
littie dreamed that the cairn, Mately boanty
'likened ea one on the rack -that while he
was, talking of Dora she was 'trying to.
realize tlie eold, dreary blank that had
suddaoly fidlen over her lifo, tryingte Think
What ilie future would ha, passed .without
hint ; 1:owning to herself that, for this rash,
chivalrous marriage, for his aenerotis loyot
silo admired him mote than over. • ,
• The hand that played 'Carelessly itinongst
the wild floWerS had oearied to tremble., the
proud lips' had. regained ;their oolort an
then Valentino arose, saying it was time
for the to return, as slut was going out,
\vial Lady Earle after lunch,. :
A fooling of something like blank despair
seized Valentino wheu she thought of what
sho must say to her mother, As she re -
Membered their few words the previo,us
evening, het foe° flushed hotly.
ean never thank you enough for your
kind pationee," said Itonaldras they walk.
ed back through the 'Shady park and tho
bright flower -gardens.
Valentine smiled, and raised her face to
the quidt summer RIO', thinking of tho hope
that had bean hots a flt/a short hears
before ••. •
"YOU will go at once and See yotifathero
will you not?" she Old to nomad as they
parted..
"1 ann ping now,", he replied; but at
that very Moment Late Earle °MOO tip to
"Ronald,'"She said, "006 into tny
doir. our father Is there -he wants to
500 31011 before he goes tollolthaixt.
Salentine went straight to her raother'S
AVM Lady Charter's sat waiting for lier,
basi3Veilrindgautghhetteirineenwaie4a.book. She smid
le
"I hope yea have had a pleasant walk,"
oho said; but both smile axid,- words died
away as she saw tlae expreesion of her
daughtete face, as he bent over her
• mother.
'Mamma," said Valentine, gently, "all
• Iasi& to you last night about Earleocourt
was a great mistake -it will never be nay
home, My vanity misled me."
"Rave you quarrelled with 'Mr. Earle 7"
asked Lady. Charteris, quickly. . •
"No," was.the calm reply, . We are
excellent friends ; but, InaMMAI I was min.
taken. He did want to tell' die semething,
but it was his love for Some one else -not
for me,"
"Then be has behaved shamefully to
you?!' 'cried Lady Charterie.
• "Meth, Mamma 1 " said Valentine,
"'You forget how such words humiliate me.
I have refused men far bettor than Ronald
• Earle. Never let it be imagined that I
have mistaken his intentions."
• "01 course not," said, her mother. " I
only say itlta yoursolf,Valentine ;he seemed
unable to live out of your sight -morning,
• noon, and night'he was 'always by your
side."
" He only wanted me to be his friand,
saLdAViia, h
Ienestiine.semsh,
like all the num!"
said Lady Charteris. "With whom has
• he fallen in love,. my clear?"
"Do not nek me," replied Valentino.
"He is in a terrible dilefnina. Do not talk
to me about it, Maniona. 1 nmdo a foolish
mistake, and do not wish to be reminded
of it." ,
Lady Charteris detested the suppressed
pain in the tone of her' °Wide voice, and
Instantly formed hor plans. ••
"1 ,think of returning to -morrow," she
said. - Your father is gettinginpatient to
have us with nim. Ile comsat come to
Earlesoourt hiroself. You say Mr. Earle
is in a terrible dilemma, Valentine. 1 hope
there will be, 110 SORID1D10115 e,xpose while
we are here. I detest fanaitz scones."
"Lord Earle hi -fEC tab ofidTth- WV.'
thing of that kind," said •Valentino. "11
there should be any unpleasantness, it will
• not appear on the surface, Mamma, yoa
will not mention this to nut again?" •
Valentine throw off her lace shawl and
pretty hat; sho then took up the book her
mother hadlaid down:
• "My walk has tired me," she said;
sun is very warm". '
She lay dowu upon the sofa' and turned
her face to the window, where the roses
came nodding •in . .
:-..,÷"Tetisrlrert? and rest," said Lady Char-
Wi&li delicate taet....." I am. goiug.,to.,
write my letters."
' 'Valentino lay still, looking at tho summer
beauty outside. NO one knew, of the tears
• that gathered slowly in those ,proud ayes;
no one kneW'a the passiOnate weepingthat
could not be stilled.
When Lady Charteris returned in two
hours,. Valentine had regained her calm,
and there was no trace of tears iu the
smiles which welcomed her. • Proudly and,
• calmly she bore the great, disappointment
of her life. .,She was no tragedy queen ;**e
' never' said 'to that hor • life was
blighted or wielese, or. burdensome. Bid
she did Say -that Oho newer marry
-until she found some one- with Ronald's
, simple ohivalry, his loyal tfue nature, and
tho weakness whibb had °atm&
and would cause so intioh suffering. ,
CHAPTER VIII.
• • ••
' Lady. 'Earle's, boudoir: was alwityO.
eou-
idered one, of the prettiest teems at Earles.
Court, Few; but rani, pictures' adopted its
• Walls. The tong. French windows °petted.
on to the • prettiest •part• Of • the.. gardens,.
whete a• large fountain tippled merrily ,
Gro,npo of •Ilowerti in rare
eesily vases. perfumed -the room. .
Lard Earle had clyman a .pretty lounging-.
„chair to the Window, and sat there, 'looking
happier than he looked for menthe. Lady
•Earle wont on With 'her task of :arranging
some delicate lea,vell and blossomsrowdy.
ler sketching. s."- .
:•"Benald," said his. lather, "T .haye
been Waiting lore *serge time. Ralf°
you been out?". . • • •
'"1 bay°, been iii the ..park with Mise
Charteris," replied Ronald. '• •
Lord Earle sitalled.again,„ evidently well
.pleMied to hear that intelligence:• •••
•:" A • present and *aeasible .method: of
*snending 'your time,", he continued ;"and,
ptrange to say, -itis on that. very pubjeet
wish to,speak to you.. •Your .attentions to
Bliss :Charteriff---;": • . •
" attentions 1 " tried Ronald... "You
are mistaken. I have ye-ter...paid 'any." • •
." You neod havenafear this time," said.
Lord Earle: • "Yell* mother tells mo of the
numerous comments made last evening on.
,yeur long.tete-a-tetaiii the conservatory. • I
knoWnome of your Oedretk There oan bo
no doubt that Mist': Charteris Imo it great
regard for you. I sent for you to say that,:
ar. front my.again offernig...anY opposition•
to your marriage, the deareat 'wish "of my
heart will -be gratified when I can gall Val-
entine Charteris my daughter," • :
'•11e pansed'for A • reply, hut »One' Came.
Ronald's fade had grown strangely :Pile:.
" Wo'never named our wish to yon," eon-
' tinued Lend Earle, "but years ago your
Mother:Ind I hoped you. loyould,.:iomn day
love Miss Charterie.. She is very beauti.
ful ; she itithe truest, thonoblest, the best
woman.' know, .1 amPrciud of yourchoice,
Routildmore proud than worcla • Can ex-
press." " .
Still Ronald made no reply, and Lady
Earle looked up at hint quickly. • .
" Ydu need not fear for Valentine," •she
said: "1 must not betray any eel:nets she
likes you, Ronald; 1 will 'say no.more. • If
you'aiiirlicr to be. your -wife; 1 do not think
you will ask in vain," • • .
There is some 'great taistaker said
Ronald, hie pale :Lim. qUivering. "Mies
Chatteria has no thought for inc." . •
" 81101MO 210, thought for •any one else,"
rejoined' Lady Earle, .quickly.
"And I," oontinned Ronald, never
'dreamed of Making her my wife. I de not
.love her, 1 can noVer 'marry Valentine.
Charterier • • . ' • ,
The ainifes died % from Lord Earl's
face, and his wife dropped the pretty
blossoms sho was arranging. .
"Then why hi:vett:you ' paid the, girl HO
11111011 attention?" asked his hall:aril gravely.
"Every one him reniarked your inantier:;
you never seabed happy away from -her."
"1 wished to make her my Mead," said
'Ronald; • "1 never thought of anything
oleo."
Ito. stood. ,aghatit when ho retnemboted
why he had tried so hard to will hot ftiond.
ship. What 'if Valeatino had misunder.
Stood hire.
"'Others thotight.for you" aM Lord
Earle, dryly, Of Course, if fam mistaken,
there is no more to he add ; I inerely
intended to say how happy Bath a- marriage
Weald naake inc. If you de not love tho
"young lady the matter ends, / stippose."
"Gan you oetloVo hero • Itenald'?" asked
• his Mother gently. "She is so fair and
geed, no well fitted to be tho future Mistress
of Eatiegeourt. Call you not love hor ?"
• " Nothing Was farther from my thotighte,"••
he replied, •
,.0
,
"Surely," interrupted LadaEarle," You
have forgotten the idle,boyish folly that
angered your father Bowe time since -that
cannot he your reason?"'
"Hush, mother," said: Ronald, standing
ereot and dauntless; was coming to
tell you my secret when you met me.
Father, I deceived and disobeyed you. I
followed Dora Thorne to Eaothaln, and
married her there."
A. low ory came from Lady garle's lips.
Ronald saw his father's face grow white-
• livid -with anger ;but no Word broke the
awful eilence that fell upon there, Hoare
teemed to pass in the space of a few
minute. •
" 'You married her," said Lord Earle,
in a low, hoarse voice, " remembering
had said ?"
1.1 married her,"repliedRonald,'' hoping
yea would retract hard, cruel w ords that
you never meant. I could not help it,
father; she has no one but mo; they would
have forced her to marry some one she did
not like."
"Enough," interrupted Lord Earle;
"tell ma when and where, Lot me under-
stand whether the deed is irrevocable or
uot,"
Calmly, but with -trembling lips, Ronald
gave him every. particular.
• "Yes, the marriage is legal enough,"
said the master of•Earlescourt. " You. hrcl
to phoose between), duty, honor, home, posi-
tion -and Dora Thorne. You preferred
PPM; you must leave the rest."
• " Father, you will forgive me," cried
Ronald, I am your only son."
"Yes," said Lord Earle, drearily, " You
are my only son,- heaven grant no other
child may pierce his father's heart as you
have done inioe . 'Years ago,Ronald, iny
life was blighted -,-my hopes' wishes anabf.
tions, and plans all meltedr they lived
again in you. ° I longed with wicked
impatience for the time when you should
.carry out my dreams, and add fresh luster
• to a grand old name, have lived in your
lif'
e • and now, for the sake of a simple,
protty, foolish girl, you have forsaken rne,
--you have deliberately trampled upon
every hopel had:" •'
"Let me atone for it," cried Ronald. "
never thought of these things."
-; "You Cannot'. -atone," said Lord Earle,
gravely. "1 eau never trust you again.
Froro this time fcirth Zhavo no' son. My
heir you must bo when the life yon' have
darkened ends. My son is dead to mo."
• There Wall 110 angea in the stern grave
face turned toward the unhappy young
man. :
7`!' I never broke niy word," hecontinued;
"and never shall. You have chosen your
own path ; take it. You preferred this
Doriate me ; go to her. I told you if you
persisted in yoar, folly I , would never look
upon your face again; and I 'never will."
-... Ort,-„Itapert,"!, criecl--Eady-11 wrier • "bir
merciful; he is my only. child.: I shall die
if you Bowl him from Ine;" ,
• " Ile preferred this Dere to you orto me,"
said Lord Earle. a! I am. sorry.; for you,
Helena -Heaven knows it rings my heart
-7-but I shall not break My Word 1 1 will
not. reproach you," he toutinned, turning
to hio -son ; "it weuld be a waste of
time and of words you kuow the enema.:
tive, and are doubtless prePared for it." •
• "/ must bear it, father; the 'deed was
• my own," said Ronald.
• . • - Tq coptiiMed;
• •
'Il1'alkitft1/114;08.
A l'oroOte Volaug MM. lil A110.!Ini-,-The
• Plocannentary of titC
' .11.ircrtt of . Gnboon Surprist
. •
A letter that came to a. 49iiilethap of this
city a short thine ago contains :the account
of a marriage of a rather roll:male turn'.
About a year itgo Rev. A. W. Marling, a•
Young !lean well knowa in Toronto, wont
as a, missionary to the Gabon missioa, on,
the weet coast' of Afrie For a year or
two previous to setting o, or this distant
coat Mr.:Marling had stud • theology at
Princeton, where he met • a janet 73.
Cameron, his future wife and li: :mate.
Tinder the auspices of the. Aniertean res-
byteria.0 mission, -Mt. Darling stud- s
• affianced set out for Africa. Sometime
afthr their arrival they were • about
to celebrate their marriage, when it,
Was discovered that in Oration; which is
under theTrelich taw, no marriage is valid
unlese sametionea by the documentary
consent of the parents of the contracting
parties. When thefour de rode was get for
a particular day in the .iminediate 'future,
how were the partioS to writd, the one to
Toronto, the Other to Princeton', to obtain
,,their parents' Consent? Such Spreceeding
would have delayed the marriage fothalf a
•year. . The dile.nania, was got over in the.
following way : 'A. steamer conveyed the.
• parties to a point moro, than three miles
from toe coast, whero they•were out of the
dominion of the French law and its: dom.
nientary requirements: There on the high
seas Rev. W. Walker, senior of the Ameri,
can Btesbyterian Mission, performed the
'marriage ceremony. It is said the ring
was the workmanship of a black African,
made from natiVe gold. molted • in a
Liberian crucible. The young missionary
is a sou of one of the high sehool•inspectors,
and is a graduate of Toronto T.IniversitY.-
The Englitill illiatircit nod the ,tVow Wcotar
. .„
•
The revised New- Testament Was laid
before the Upper House of the Convocatien
of Canterbury, and duty, reeeiv.ed, the•vory,
day .that, a copy was ,.,paserited to the‘
Queen., The Bishop. of Gloucester and
Bristol made a statement regarding the
work .of the reviewers,. and the }loupe
unanimously thanked. His Lordship and
his doll ea,gues for their labors. In the Lower
House a motion to thankthe revisers was
contested with some bitterness, Archdeacon •
Denison characterized the coMpositiola of -
the committee as " au abomination in the
sight of God." Since its appointment•he had
always revolted against this conamittoo,
and be, was not going to perjure " hie
soul by according a single werd .of thanks
CO its riaerribere. The Arohdeacon Of Bed:
ford was equally strongin expreakOn,
galling, hp :held, was more dangerous than
for the Church authorities to throw iri
their lot with heresy,sollism and infidelity.
The vote of thanks was carried by 76 to 8
votes, but the minority have not yet uttered
their last word on tlie subjeet. Tho secret
of the trouble 18, 01 course, the presence of
Nonconformists on the committee. • Tho
new translation, it id now thought, pill be
repudiated by many:of the clorgyirien of
the Established Church hocatise it embodies
tho soholarship of all Protestantism, '
Lord Dufferin hale -quad° all preparationa
to leave for Cotistantinciple. Tho difficul-
ties of the past, greal mum& before, have
boon much hicreaned, not only by the
Vreneh invasion of Tunis and the impend-
ing Italian coanter movement against
Tripoli, but by the alarm and anxiety for
hio persOnal safety into which the Sultan
has been thrown by the recent discovery of
plots against hie life, eencectad within the
very walls of the /mperial residence
An attempt is being made to introduce
English pheasants among the Rooky Moan,
tallut and Lord Morley has lately deo.
patched a number of fine healthy birds
to a friend who is Mottled in that quarter,
•
4CIVIPENT*14 ,KILLINGO*
now Cureless:5f °slag OUP ,14FO Tretettetd
iu Noglann,
A. recent trial of three young men in
Pligland for manslaughter !Atoms a ten-
dency to hold " aoeidental " offenders to a
much stricter accountability than prevails
in Canada or the United States. The
three young fellowe visited a vacant field
for amateur rifle Shooting, They placed a
bit of board'in the branches of a tree for a
mark, and eemmenced 'firing, without any
special precautions as to who or what
might ho in the distance beyond. They
fired in tutin but before they had gone twiee
monad. people came running from the rear
of the target to tell them that they had
killed a little boy. And so it was. The rifles
were able to carry a bullet nearly a mile.
Ia a garden, far beyond the target, two
children were at play. The little boy
climbed into n IOW apple tree. AIM tUqn,
these belle came whistling by, and he fell
from the tree, dead, at his eister'a foot.
The three young mon were tried. 'for man -
:daughter. Now, it was not 'possible to
aocertain with certainty whose bullet did
the mischief. But the Judges said that all.
three must be punished alike. It was not
necessary to detect the individual. Rifle.
shooting under such arrangements, mid
with rn precautions to avid doing rine-
chief, was a dangerous and unlawful praotige.
The killing of the little child was man-
slaughter, and as all three of the youngmon
had participated in the shooting, they were
O
*ds. IMINAPYPN 1.161.1.11‘111r4P DEA11,111.
all liable to the pun_iiihment.
After haring Ills Neat and Bock Broken,
Ho is Strormieti by the Mope ott which
•He was Practising,
A Leamington (Elgiu C.o.) correspoodant
sends particulars of a tragic event which
occurred' iu that village last week., On
Monday a 14 -year-old son of Molt. Sel-
kirk, was found.clead ip Ins father's harn.
At first it was supposed he had cOmmitted
auicide by hungiug, but further immeation
showed that such could hardly have been
the ease, inasmuch as; although the noose
• of a rope suspended from it heara was
around the ,boy's neck, ono of his ankles
.was dislocated, and his book and neck were
broken'. The boy was charmed, with gym-
nastic exercises, and in.view of the iujurios
mentioned, it is thought that he had been
prantising and fall from the beam to the
barofloor, and was too badly hurt to
remove the rope .• from : his nook, The
noose was largo enough to have dropped
down, over his body had ho stood:erect, and
his knees were nearly to the floor., The
rope had been some weeks ago attached to
tlie beam for the purpose of raising a sick
Mpsv-SelltirlegvhirwaranWell at th
tiinci of the discovery of tho melanoholy
endof her son, has Si.1100, become so elan;
gerously 11 that her lifo is despairod.of.
Scottish New's,
, .
Thi • livo stookof it Ross -shire .crofter.
trebled itself:the other woek. He owaa a
cow, 0. nnite and ewo 414..0404 bor0
cottplots,. •
4 verysucsoessful trial trip Of it torpedo,
boat, built at Paisley, to the ordorof the'
Greek Government, was Made' it few days
•ago. The 'epeed ,attamod was Closoon 17
knotsan hour. ,
AgriciultUral 'prospects itt *Scotland are
net very:atop:Ifni, and rain is Much wanted.
The sheepareiirsomewliat better -condition, ,
but considerable ioss,osin lanaba.havo
dis-
'oouraged iarpaets: • * • • •-• . •
Mr. Parnell, M.P.,: aud4.3.11r..- O'Obnitor,
• M.P., addressed a meeting of ,several t4ou-
sae& perBon s. in Glaskiivlately .botligen tie- •
men toceived a Meet enthusiastic woloome::
Resolutions wore • passed' Condemning. the
arrest of Mr: Devitt 'mid the threatened
evictions Hightail/18.°f Scotland.
: At a, recent :meeting 'Of a • lOcal e'Ourt. in
Inverness, an applieation for. a theatrical.
licentie Was:OPposed by the Rate,. John Mac- •
tayish, who. mid that Shaliepearee ' playa
wore' objectionableen account of their pro..
.fanity Ho added, "I erirnostlY praythat;
.looking at the 'matter in . the light of
btcnity,the justices will attribute to the
glor 'God by 'refusing the: application."
TlyS license was' granted by 19 votee to $: :
. . .
•
At' Glas'gOw last week two. warders'wete
charged with the murder of npaiient Who
,was wader their charge'
.3yaEi .proved that • the. : deceased hall -bad
tivolye ribs broken and that *violenbe hall
been :used to.the..oliest and abdotnen, ' 'The
:jury entertained a'. difficulty In finding:the
prisoners guilty .of murder andliought in.
oue of assault. Ou this Utter eharge the
•:prisoners Veto sentenced to threo months'
.inaprisoninent each. , , •
.. While a ceacininuf 'named Nicol. wail sit -7
ing With hia. wile io the 'kitchen 'of ' their
'housd•at Lassodie, near Danformlifie, 'the'
other 'night, they were.startled by a loud
noise 'and shock.. On search being 'made' it
'appeared an explosion ho.d.occurred in the
-garden,' whore the 'debris was scattered.
*about and :the renaains of s, tin Canister,
charged with dyndmite or gunpowder, wore
Idund,• to whibli• a luso had bowl attached:
• It was Mident an attempt:bad been Made,
to throw •the can into the house, but :it
struck,the window fritine and rebounded.
Revenge for • evidence had'y given in, a
'criminal case is.the esuppoSedinotlye.
• - • , •
•
Stealing the seriontres..
_. •
• .Sabh wea tho eagerness tOeoclop "Alm
Other folio* :that ono western neweitiaper
Bent a man across the A.tlantic to steal an
•advartele copy pfthe new .New.-Tostament.
After havmg.tried inVain at the pOblish.•
ing houses he turned to a guileless country
parson who had been engaged ••in • the
revision, sit*. in his study a eopy of the'
book,leolc its direensione, noted its bind-
ing and lettering and Wentatway toba,v0
volume mitinitaettired Whieh ehould be its:
precise duplicate in appearance.. Ile tried
:during another interview to • exchange, .the
apurionabook for the genuine, .,but failed •
at last. Boasting; on his homeward.
voyage, of his .plan, one Of the party
remarked that it was a pity lne had not
scoured .a, copy in order that he might
discover' that an ancient legond, Thou
shalt not steal,' had not hoeit revised out •
•
of it." . -
• Tint JAMMU' Attn Timm Fem.-Miss'
Bird, the atithores0 of the interesting now
, book', " Unbeaten Tracks in Japan,' re-
toarks-" The fad is that' unleits one *eon
'live on. rico, Ma aricteggs, food mast be
taken', afi the fishy and vegetable abomina.;
tins known Japanese Food' can only
be •swallowed,and digested by a few, and
that after tong practice. After several
months' travellinyn setae of the 'roughed
parts in tho interior I ahoiald advisor): per.
son in average.bealth-and Maul other°
Ohould travel in japattitot to oneamhet
himself with tinned moats, flours, 'claret, of
any eatables or drinkables .except Liebige
Extraot of lIdeat."•,.,411feraitio feat;
A. envious bet illustrating the gloriouS
uncertainty of whist was made at the
Whist Club in London recently, according
to the London Vorki. A player on taking
his seat bet an adversary, who had been in
very bad luck lately, £200 tb Cl that he
would not win six rubbers in succession.
This, however,' he suecooded itt doittgattud
netted altogether 27Q..•
TEA ITAELE GOSSIP*
-The noisiest 000ke do not always give
the beet dinnerp.
(NAira,) eate are etutroo
'at 01.25 per bushel.
-Is a six -buttoned kld anV relative of a
sick huttin' goat?
-It is said that a good English colonist
never knows what it is to bo beaten.
• -The mau who says, "Take the world
am you find it," usually wants to find it for
you.
-Wateroresses, before breakfast, have
boon prescribed for bilious people.
'---The slowest of people usnally manage
to intrude into the buomet of places.
-Only a spring chicken 004 crow four
years ahead Of a boarding house landlord,
-Thelloston Triinseript says that parents
punish their childreff for being ao much
like themeelyee.
-Dr. Buisson, of Paris, cured himself
of hydrophobia by trying to suffocate him,
self in a vapor bath.
-It is expected that abotit 2,700 men
wthiis1 yineumart.er at the awing. camp at Niagara
-At Nanairao (B4O.) the Chinese. Pres -
masons have opened a lodge mil initiated
seventeen of their countrymen.
--It is estimated that 250,000 persons
witnessed '! Hazel Eirke " during its run
in Now York,
-The day wore on. Well, what did it
wear 2-.Exchunge. Wore the close of the
day, of course. '
-'A medical journal has said that "more •
deaths and illness occur along the lines of
the groat flowers than elsewhere,!'
• -A subscriber asks if we eau r000mmenti
' a ($1104 Ana popuia.r watering place. Ger-
tainly ; .the town
• -Slang intrudes even into . love affair.
.She askea, " Aral yout little. lamb ?" .and
he replied, "Well, you jnet gambol,"
-Mcithere say that cowe milk When, •
given . to :•baltiee should be. diluted with
water, and tnilkthen take us all for babies.
-11 we could only persuade some people
to like housework inatead of doting ou fancy
work our leonme would be happier.
--A Hamilton dentist had his (eelings
terribly harrowed up the other cla;y 'hon a
fatnier came in and asked for a drag tooth. ,
• ,--An experiment on the poseibility of
:
racist:17 sugar-cthis ,ane in is country is'
about to bo made in the vicinity of Moil-
•
• -Love is said to resamlele the butter on
bread. Without butter the bread is dry
and hatalto swallow. so it is with lovo and
• -..--When a thermornotee fails to • teach
ninety in weather as-sizzling,hot ea that of
yesterday afternoon it is useless for any
one to talk dbout figures not lyiug..
-A, young pootess.writes, "Two 'fairies
wore 'Balling far Over the sea." And we
believe that if the fairies oould not fly, and
really had to tako a vessel, they went on a
fairy beat.' .
: -The eatoollisen question, which three:t-
onal to split .the • Reformed Episcopal
Church in tbe States in two, has been sen-
sibly settled by allowing each party to adopt
its own.yersion, • • • •• „,..
• -T]he question is -asked whether it -is ;
worse • for the -Chinese to admire a
deformed foot than for the' French • and .
-English to 'admire a small, defetnied
• -4tev.1'rof. Shaw; of the Methodist Theo- ••
logigiit College, Nor:Weal, says. thatjtvill,.
'take...probably thirty yeartrfor the royisecl
'New Testament to displace the old. • • ,
' --" kiss?'" • he said 'pleadingly, 4'.no ,
kiss from. my darling tonight?" "No,"
she ,said emphatically,: "no kiss. i her '
that there is mumps in your funnily,"
-Takes life • Cany-7-the hartgrcian.-
.3:anicere Gazette. wo supiaose, the
fall season.-L-Philarletphia 19aa. lialikas to ,
• *have a good spring, forupon it depends the
Hue:doss orthe fall work: • ". •
"-The Edmouton (N. W. T.),Butletin, -of. I • 1„,..
Mareft 21st, says." .A-Mpallpoplartree-at- ----;„ , •
Mr?liendersone place, near the Little, •
Mpuntain, is in leaf, and in Me* aher
places the .poplar bads. are beginning to
horst."
• ,
1 1 •
- 'Yotieg Husband "-Houee 'cleaning
• . .
•
means for the women to tie towela. around
their heads and run the men intp the street
Without any breakfast every morn* fOr
week or so; while they break lamps and
spii whitoWaBli on the Malta.' • ..
Vat ups wore so near ••
• Thab—what else could I (10 ?
You'll 1,0 itugry, I fear,
liut bor 1h)8 wore so near-.
Well,,1 ono; make it oleo r,
Or explain •it to you,
• nut-hor liorwere fio near
• ' That—What else could 1 do!!
Zooncira. itt ,§erionerfor Joie.
,
- I cannot Bing theold songd," shrieked
a'n amateur Hot:ranothe other night, and
while. she took itt breath for the next line a
young man Who had looked for a moment
was heard to romatk; casuallybut emPhati..
belly, "you, • rust` hoeyou don't". It broke
tip the concert on 'the spot. • • '
• Why don't you grew a mus-
tache; Edwin? Yoh would look ao much
better.'! Ile-" but: 1 don't want
no.. I've got a• pair 01 cricketer's whis-
• kers," She=" Cricketer's whisker1:What
aro tin*?" Re-" Eleven fon each side,
• aettr.W" he. a we arii old midway, 10Ye,
yams, wm, .11111 erb AND DRAY.
N11011 we are Old and gray,
whorl at hod 'Lis tal.bver4
• The turtnbil of the day, •
'In tlxo soft still hours of oven,
lu our life's fair twilight time,
We'll leek upon the morn, love,
Upon our early prima,
• Thank fled for alt tho sweet days!
Well whisper while we may,
'When wo are old aild gray, love,
• 'Whoa we are old and gray, •
•'.--Any--one--w_ho_holdly_chaliongeo hum-
bug is deserving of praise, ' A mutual
admiration society, whoo long established,
and whcm it hassequitede, recognized offi-
cial standing', becomes, in the rninda of
many, a Sacred institution, with which it
ahndst profanity compete. . •
-Whittier wrote the following:
wlicohnolidi willooroWill;1;110,joet?°•tis
• 11 ibe hiWe shouhl,dread the desert behind Us
Worse them the dark before.
They are bettor than all the ballads
That evey wore sung °rola ; .
• For thoy aro living owing, .
Ana ail tho rost aro dead.
. -Ore of the churches. in Patchogue,
L. I., has made it novel addition to its
music: by introducing into the church two
dozen canary birds itt cages. They sing
.With the choir and also whou the choir is
net singing, and their music is not com-
plained of by either the minister or the
°91114rer./
gatiTnai
-D*os Moore, of Ironton, Ohio,
•
thinks ho has discovered et ,speoillo for
small -pox in lorpoa juice, whieli he used in
hi» own case with well results is to make
Lira say 1, ",So strongly arn 1 convinced of
the power of 10t11.011 jUl00 to abort any and
ivery case of sniall-poit that I look upon it
DJ! OpOOlfi0 of at; hutch certainty and
power m arnall-pox as quinine is in inter-
anittent fever, I therefore publish my
experiment, hoping that every physician
ha,V,ing it cone of amall,poX will give it a
fair trial and report the result to 3no.1