AN UNPUBLISHED Score, The following lament for Glengarry was written by dir Walter Scott, and has never been published until its appear ance in the current Black wood’s, having remained ix the possession of the family ever since it was composed. Under date of Mavis Bank, Rothesay, April 17, o's Miss Macdonell writes: POEM BY “My [ther dind in January, 182% m thor came to Merchiston burgh, where she lived Dom May, i830, It was th re 1 ‘Desth Bong " and was told Sir Walter Scott had wo itten it and sent at to her. I belivve she got it soon a ter we came routh in May, 1828, and it bas always been in what.v.r we lived since,” and my Castle, Edin Mav, 182% to first honses ever GLENGARRY'S DEATH SONG Land of ihe Gael. thy glory has flown! Por the sar from the pdor.hh from throwa; Dark, dark is thy sorrow, sad pain, no star &'r its orbit is For sh Il beam with eV Is gone evarmore, Glengarry we'll ever deplore. te | of tha w.orrior who ney tell of who shiol 1, think of the patr of, most Then = gh for Glengairy in joined. r did yield, the chief was falchion and ardent and whom all kind; were The chieftains the combatants call, champion is WAS Wii; bright eye flame, But who ns fame? may gather ae ~that champion The of and valor may yw shall to and hogor See the light bark ho on the weve! soe daunt ess Glopgarry grave! See his cap 80 aim And thy heart fur him HH Arise thon vou Ohsenrity {) hoar t e ls “Be all to thy Why sounds the loud ri'noch, death bell why Why crowd our clansmen to Garry's green val Bi ure for y have, tell that a hero i OU! heard vo that anthem, sic hi h! The shades of the va EK, And the throng, ant are com Gouii of Gaeldoch are first of their eoris © list 10 the theme It's “walcome Glengarry fri BY GRA¢ You never saw such s iow-haired, dainty featured Maude Maonering, the s graduate and medical student, When she came forward ment, in a little Greenaway gown of white muslin, peppered over vith tiny dots, with the very smile of childhood in her wide blue eyes, and ber ourly hair clustering round her brows —the iearned doctors, imported to "Mdorn the commencement blinked their eyes and and hesitated, even then, to accep as an established faet. When she} to receive her , they each listened to hear the “Now [| lay me —u" little rosebud mouth A degree for that child? Impossible! She had come to say her prayers, and be kissed and put to bed. T'hat she could be the medieal student, that she could enter a dissecting room, carve up a subject, wateh a mortal sickness, stand by a aving bed—prepos- terous! it might not be. And vet, it all, and much more, had Maude Mannering was an enthusiast on matters sargical, and had cleverly sewn up the ingeed throat of a would-be suicide softly eating him, as she did so, for not having a neat the very day when she knelt demurely before the Chaocellor's degree The learned doctors stared, with their unbelieving eyes, and the Chancellor smiled as they turned to one another, agape, and shook their while Maude ripped smilingly back to her seat, and the students shirieked and sang to her glory. : - » - - “ » “Shall 1 go?” were the words which would have issued from her pretty lips, one day, a week later (had she been in the habit of talking to herself’, as she finished reading a long and chatty letter invitiag her to ‘‘come away North, and spend the holidays” and concluding with these words: “We are fifty miles from everywhere, and our roads are splendid, so you had Detter bring your bicycle, or velocipede, or whatever it is vou ride to the horror and comfusion of Auntie.” Maude turned the letter thoughtfully over, skimming from page to page. There was a post- script, of course, simply four words, “Carr is with ve.” girl read, she saw only those four words, and it was on their scoount that she asked herself, “Shall 1 go?’ Curr was ber correspondent’'s brother, her escort nt the wedding of that Iady, and subse. iwccessful gir girs il commence 1 bos Foal i SiH delig a EXOT ises, looked tai decree childish from jEsue been. made Cute—on footstool to receive her hes i a fust year, ago, to be sure, and Carr had not moped over things: Maude was not vain, she concluded to go. The station, away up North, was reached by Maude on a sweet June even. ing, shout sunset. Never did a daintier little figure descend from a palace car, stand forlornly beside a couple of trunks and a bicycle, watching the less. ening train as it melted into the distance fn the red sunset. Half 8 dozen houses dotted the prairie; a store, a driving shed, a small inn and the combined post- office and station clustered close together in the vast emptiness, Within half a mile stood the last grove of trees, mark- ing the western limit of the timber country. It required some womanhood to accept things, for the first view of the apparently boundless plain was try. ing to a mortal bred in forested Onta- rio. Maude turned with a gasp, and found herself confronted by Carr, who raised his straw hat silently, She held out her hand impulsively, too glad to sec a familiar face to resent a lack of wel come in it. “My trunks and my wheel, [nm the only passenger who got off here,” she faltered. Carr took her shawl-strap, the boys stowed away the boxes in the station house, Maude walked behind pushing her wheel, to where a pair of horses and a light farm wagon stood waiting. As turned to help Carr with the wheel, which | well, their eyes mer Unflinching and reproachful was the | look from the cold and distant cavalier, wisely to come: Carr Carr had not for not done bad not forgotten; A grove of half stunted trees partially | a low, sonug-looking farm house, wheat farms which are the backbone and sinew of Northern | prosperity. ‘he warm, sweet welcome of the mistress of the farm was a blessed | relief, after the unsociable evening's ride, | hots: while Carr, with a curious glance at the recumbent bicvele, of mingled t and interest, lifted it from the under the shelter of the wide veranda “And have you friends?” said Carr's fectionately surveyed traveler, ‘‘We have ridden fifty miles in armed neutrality,” said Maude, incisively, Oh Lizzie, it was perfectly awfuil Carr hates the sight how could vou send him after me?’ Lizzie Dunle p “He's you as ever, innocent!” she whis pered, and while Mande raised a protest. hand added coaxingly: '*Say, Maudie dear, won't you ever come to care for him!" “Lizzie.” cried the girl, in dismay, I'd thought you were going to talk to me like this, I'd never have come!” Lizzie Dunlop patted the small Indy’s “‘“There, there, said, it all buried! It's forgotten. You shall never be worried about it again. You are here to enjoy every moment of your holiday, and to tell me the news of civ. ; take ides across the blessing have a the velocipede—I beg You must have that scary machine; and-—oh! Maude! How ean you want to be a surgeon? 1 should die if | saw! a man cut up and mangled; but you are made she af little and Carr sister, os the fair ol me; and then ust as much in love with laughed, You ing she i shoulder soothingly. little iceberg,” she ‘let be ihization, and to prairie. What decent road for pardon bm bicye je! of grit to mount a we § ols ¥ * » * Nor farm Wfe was some lonely, after crowded Uni the city b istle, and the which had fow vacant corners The what thwesl the SILLY CIASS- TOONS, odds and ends of amusement been tucked into the of Maude the 1 of those odds and ends, ance had Mannering's busy life daring Carr had been Their acquaint begun at sa water-par y, fi ished, like « at a carpet dance, and the fruit of an Im passione 1 declaration after the wedding of Carr's sister, at which Maude and her suitor had maid of and omsman., It hud died a sudden death Maude's pretty lips formed the disas “Nol!” as the two ng-cake for the dd ceived his left last three vears one Jonah's gourd, borne been honor gr when trous monosviiable tied up boxes of we id bridal guests Carr ha refusal silently, and immediately the town. His precipitate wooing had made little impression upon his sister's student friend, for when that sister had asked Maude to come and visit *‘the happiest couple in America,” that post script of four works, added in an after thought of honesty, had of trivial importance jut now, Carr was behaving atrociously. When Lizzie and her husband present, was geniality personified, his brown eyes and his laugh rang clear; Lizzie, with transparent diplo pleaded delicate health, and retired ently, or with pretty wifely de. mands drew her hushand aside, and left the young people en tefe-a-tete, Carr knitted his brows in an ugly frown, and sunt, stood, or strolled in gloomy silence, Maude began to feel a sense of guilt and responsibility looming over her, She longed to do something to quit her. solf of the reproaches of her discarded aver, When Bertram rode far afleld, and when the reapers came, and the harvest | was gathered in its fair abundance, | Maude went beside the farmer for) miles along the beaten wagon track | on the dainty little hieycle which Carr | disapproved of. She could not say | how this disapproval became known | to her, but she felt it and resented it in | silence, : Meantime, holidays were waning, the August moon, called by the Indians, red seemed were he twinkled, when macy, land was reaped snd cleared, the endless | stretches of prairie spread on every side tc the horizon, and the meagre foliage brown as autumn came on apace, One | balmy afternoon, Bertram drove away | two.score miles distant, to see about | busing some stock. Lizzie was deep in | he South for the winter, sat knitting on the ve. randa, Maude was oiling her wheel, and only stopping to whisper to Auntie, “Don't frighten, Lizzie. I'll see what's the matter!” The matter was serious enough. Carr Iny on the barn floor, beside a broken Indder, and itdid not require the eye of a surgeon to discover that the limb which was doubled under him was frac: tured. “Oh dear, oh dear.” said the young lady, ‘you've gone and broken a bone! It's a thing that 1 know how te set it. I wonder could we carry you in? | don't believe we ever conld, Now, San- lady to come to the kitchen door, don't sny anything but that. mind, nnd don’t goggle in that idiotie manner. Poor Curr, I am so sorry! Don't try to move till Sandy comes back. Halle, Auntie! here's Carr with a sprained ankle; (that's for Lizzie's benefit!) teil Lizzie to give Sandy the mattress from his bed, and one of the factory sheets, and a pillow. 1 don’t want Ler; Sandy and | I ean fix him all comfey, and she ean | come out afterward, We'll just make | him a bed here until Bertram® comes | home.” i Then Maude turn to Carr, with a very i professional air, as she turned back the | raffles from her wrists. I am going to | set your leg,” she said, “‘and I'm think | ing what 1 can get for splints, 1 hope | bandages. Now, Sandy, boy, put vour | here, and you must take Mr, Carr by the shoulders and help him on to it, while I hold his poor leg so it won't hurt more than can be helped. | Good thing we are strong, Sandy!" She worked in silence with a steady | was rigidly bound she gave a sigh of “It's a funny job, but it'll do,” she said: ‘funny looking splints, aren't | thev?" “You're a brick.” said Carr, heartily. a fellow!” i gave him her hand, it, even when he gently kissed it. “How can we get the Doctor to-night.” she mused, *‘it won't to leave it like that,” Carr pro tested, ** You've done it up finely,” but Maude shook her head ; she was calcula ting “Fifty miles there, five hours, fifty thought, then suddenly “Look here, Carr, She laughed and do miles back,” she she said will vou promise me something “Anyihing,” cried Carr, with a ant . “Well, 1don't about your br ak: is here, with Sandy, for the pight? 1'H tell Auntie and we'll send out your tea and pipe, and when Bertram comes home to-morrow, carry indoors Will you just lie here and be good, and let Sandy take care of yout” So, with a smile and a hand clasp, him lying on the mattress in sweet-smelling bay barn, and closeted for five minutes with Auntie, The result of this confab Auntie told two deliberate fibs, one to lizzie. and one to Carr, and Lizzie laughed happily and said, ‘*Auntie, Jet her stay with him; *‘It's all coming round right!” while Carr smiled be nignly and remarked “t's ail righ Auntie, go on in. Tell radi smile want Lizzie to kn will you stay quie wa'll YOu } she 1 ; +} aft the was hat hat was t Dr. Maude to have a good nip of whiskey before she goes to bed, and let her have a good rest, She'll dream of broken legs if she doesn’t.” And poor Auntie, with two fibs and a care on her mind, tucked Liz into her bed, and sat up and watched front gate until morming - - . ® doing a good hard black r Ww bie ©, Down the SK be light sn hour in the gathering slindes of even ing. Ma ides fen miles eves gleasmed like stars sat (Ince ve though cen and her thoughts, revolved round onc terical laugh, rather chaotic, tral ide 5 The doctor lived in the the station The sroper splints snd bandages must be had without fail. the doctor! and her cled with her flying pedals, as the trusty whee! skimmed along the road, and the long twilight of the North crept softly soft yo Seven took small jan at doctor had The doctor "he doctor, railway uy thoughts cir ver the wide prairies o'clock, eight bar of chocolate from her coat T ate birds whirled past her. the tuneful meadow lark of the West flutea a song of good night, many little chirrupings and faint rostlings sounded either side of the road, which stretched like a dark ribbon across the plain to the half. WRY She reached the turn the door of that rude hostelry, and sped past it, looking only straight shead to the fading crimson of the Wet Here toe a faint thread of smoke from a small dell, where were camping a party of Indisnes, whose mongrel dogs ran yap ping after her flying wheal. An owl brushed past her, and sailed heavily away to a clump of scrub; nine o'clock, snd she flashed past a “slough.” o'cl wk n t and nibbled as she rode MOCK € on house to faint quackiog of the wild ducks fell How the shad. But the distance was no longer a terror, for she was as good as | ot her goal. Ten o'clock, and she) wheeled breathlessly past the outlying houses, and stepped wear'ly off on the threshold of the little inn, where the dootor lived. It was such a parody on a | hotel- - just two square rooms and a lean. to below, and three tiny bedrooms above, with their sashless windows, eovered | with mosquito netting, looking blank | and deserted, But Maude knew the doctor was there, splints and bandages were there, snd a sudden gleam of light from the furthest window marked the ‘izhting of the doctor's retiring candle. She called his name softly, and he came i i 3 i" “Great Soott!” he stammered, ‘what's | the matter! Surely ‘tisn’t Mrs. Duan. | lop?” and he gasped at the dusty | little lady, who sat on the doorstep, and the wheel which lay on the romd- WAY. “I'm choking with thirst,” said Maude, “Get me a drink of water, and I'll tell you,” and the doctor bounced in fora dipper, and out to the pump for the re. wired beverage, “Pont take much,” he stammered in. coherently, “I've put a drop of whis- key in it. Now tell me, in the name of Heaven, what sent you riding across the country in this fashion?” Maude told him in a few words. “I made him as soug as I could, but you can't do much with a bit of moulding and a broomstick,” she said, wearily. “Oh, Doctor, 1 am so tired; but you'll go right away, wont you? Ard be sure and take everything your horse is good for it, isn't hei” The Doctor laughed. “T'll not try,” hie said ; “I'll get a fresh one at the half. way house.” He looked again at the tired gish, and into his face came an ex- pression which means a great deal. ‘Go the landlady to make you some tea, You are starving, No, not a word, You've done your day's work, little | woman, and earned a rest, You can you're rested.’ 80 he foraged, and bronght trium. of slices of melon sand some light bis cuits, with a generous noggin of milk to wash it all down. The landlady granted an inquiry, was informed of the | facts, and forbidden to disturb her- | sell, nor emerge from her bunk in the | lenn-to. Maude supped while the doctor got bis traps together and saddled his horse, and then Maude brought in her wheel and watched him ride off ia the dark with an much lightened heart. She wus weary and sleepy, and she bathed Two hours later she awoke. The light which streamed in through the un- ghized window and made the room ns She ached in every limb: dread seized her, she was home; yenrned for vine-hung farmhouse, the rustic She 80 she the small, forehead, she left the small camp-bed, walked stiffly and painfully to the window, The road stretched like a black ribbon to the east, she seemed to be drawn by it: half asleep, she fastened her little hat, drew on her light coat mud wearily crept down the unpainted stairs She would ride to the half-way house before sank: then, she would see! Fi there and fifty miles back—a miles—A century! Had in the South told her she had century f Ever since that dav i“ envy had been in her heart of that girl, sometimes wished 10 141 that she, too, might wear upon her cyveling that tiny bar of gold, with its figures, recording a ride of od miles, long on the moon fty miles hundred not some girl ridden a little : i Ef » 3 and she Vary \ y blogse sr ane hundr As she thought. she un dn She could not get away fast enough, once i the oor wide « off slong the wagon track, with its two wide « x track, into the radiance of night After a few ad 1 IeRYe bolted the door at islessly rolled out her wheel she was outside, but leaving pen wije sped > ruts and central the silver she wak- aches began to cleared moments ip completely, the her ¢ clouds irly along! ff and walked for to the muscles, th { tou i flew lock ot Two fiat arts ten isiening ts] ! "tev ny, enchanted, of rt Three cerned in the fading the hall-way house away from it & moonstruck prairie lark. ] i by she o'clock iutely to whisper of the th looked to see, only 1 fo stretohed whether laughed was only one way, one road vest fields was in the { , Tor began to doubt she v, then there ~~ track, She heard ve ¢ Auntie & she ipped bars and pedaled faster, she labored hard but could scarcely it was like she fell off, 00s Caiiing., Lizzie Youre, voice the hands move her wheel i: shook snddenly herself to. and her riging and LE gether and wakened u self a few yards up the small ascent that ended her midnight pilg and dreamily she pushed the wheel the road, sometimes standing for a mo ment with her left hand on the roagh fener, and her eses closed in involuntary slumber. The ing wakened, the air was full of larks. The sunlight touched her wan cheeks and glistened from the WOeAriness that gathered in her haggard eyes. Her pretty lips were drawn and pale, dust clung to her little hat, and lay thick on her golden euris When she reached the gate she have fallen, Lut that came ronning and arms. “‘I am tired,” fe'l sound asleep “And Care?” Oh his leg knitted finely, and the Doctor said that Maud a surgeon, and only her entreaties compelling him to meddle with her band aging. “And then?!” Well, in the fall “Who?”' Why, the Doctor, of eourse!-| Outing. up a hi she i, she { rimage. Nlowly Ht : rails of the early morn of the kong tears of would watching Auntie caught her in her she said softly, and was An Electric Fire Engine, F. H. Wheelock, a 8t. Paul engineer, has just completed a model of a new electric fire engine, a patent for which tined to work a revolution in fire ex- tinguishing appataies, It does away with the use of coal, aud ean be put in weighs but 4,500 pounds, and is of sev- enty-horse power, This makes the ma. chine weigh 9,000 to 10,000 pounds less than the apparatus now in use, while its efficiency is claimed to be much greater. «| Philadelphia Ledger. Stopping Rain by Explosions It is singular, in these days when explosions in air are thought to bring rain, that no one has spoken of a six- teenth century experiment to stop rain by the use of gunpowder. 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