BIWUIHIlWlllWWIiai 4attUiU41kMUJM II.'' mmmm TEE OOISTHUTIOI-THB TJHOI-AXD THI EXFOECEMEIT 01 THE LATS. Editor and Proprietor. i . . . j Vol.. WMa. MII FLIMOWX. JUNIATA COUNT V. I'ENNA.. AVEDXBSDAY. .IUXK 24, 1SS:. no.;: r ieiiiid A nil : . . . . . . ..-'.".! !!..-rn, . . i. . : .-r. , . . t - I -!, r . 't. ?. ' I I'V'lr- -:r Ir, . s ..!:., Ile ptl-w of :. -::.; .'.earl. i . . 1 : I in p.tr. 1 -.-iii- .4 e.it lv i:m, r. . '..t- tlu :oi.". jtw they "': . . . ,! II. v '.if- let. : -a. A l- a.! w-rM'y 'ssiiowr. . .1, a ii Tin- I'.irvy .vru, r- -t .ile !.li-! ! morn, t- -l.ir !ii In iv u'a :.ure blue, .r-N .ii i J.i-1 a Irn-uti prut J. V. .... 1, A' !' AM'-" Art '.fJf- i hi: i i, oi.n stoky. I a. but a lonely life that he led j .rt; to whoui all looked up, t0 li.i!u all fame for eouncsl, lor ad vrt.'and lor svuipathy. He was ever ;bJ. courteous, and tender to those wi-o'setiitl.t liiiu gentle and sympa iMie r" wUl' f'l'5!' a"d weak. People wondered w!iy Doctor Avrell diJ not marry. Many a woman even .me belonging t th upper ranks of jietv would. have lieeu only too w;I- ng tii come to his dearth and home; tut he &;ae uo sign that he wanted a .fe. o.,f J:i.-ky summer eveniug lie was ;:t:i.j i" his library, a large gloomy i.vtii. lined from ilimr to ceiling with Ae.l-rMed K'-'kcases. lu tiii twilight, hour, when there oS uo one to see liiiu, he Uiade no at-tt-ii-i't to i k'i teu the sombre shadow on tii brow and in his ee.s deep dark pratliat u ie very steadfast and teu dir. A If '.! sullenly clanged throufrh the jreat s.'.es.t l.one, laisiug a hundred echo. that st eint-d this evening to beat ou Li. 1 cart; and a servant entered. A woman: sir, who says you Ktde brr emit--.!.: evening " jiiow lit r in here, Kliot, ple.ise" Jlis voii'e w as sweet, cleae and lirui, it is . ii!e rv'ht." K!:ot 1 cl.tel the candles and retired uslierius; in in a few moments a woman vi t!:e launl'le chiss. She dropped a low courte.-v. and wiped her eyes with the ecl of her sl.awL "How Is your husliaud now, Mrs. tiv.-':" aked the physician. 11 voice set her tears flowing, and s!.t- poured out a long tale of sorrow, to wi.kh he listened w ith penile patience. Thi-iv was another rinir at. the I ell, a:,.! l'octor Avrell sat down aud wrote i p;ei riition, which he gave to the win "You had lietter," he said moving to ards the dor, "yet this made up at (.Ike; and r-meniler to attend to ad the direct ion: I gave you esteiday. I will set- what 1 can do for your I my. I shall but forget.'' "Tlia! I'm sure you won't, sir Thank vim kindly Y ou're always so good. iOl evening, sir." n.e woii an coU!'tseel ht-iself out, aud 1'hilip Avred turnea back ltn a La!f-si.h. It was a young girl this time. .She eiiteieil with a languid aud half-tiuiid step. She had a pretty lace, with Urge eves aud a sensitive mouth, and was evidently a lady, although her dress be tokened straightened means. "1 was told. lr. Avrell," she said flushing painfully, and speaking a little confusedly, -'that you Would see that jou made -" "You did quite right to come," in terrupted Itocior Avrell, putting her into a chair. '-Give me ycur hand. What do you doV" he said, when he had asked several questions, resting his forehead on one hand, as was habitual with him, and keenly scanning the face of the person to w hom he spoke. " I am a clerk in a city office,' an swered the rid, with a half-smile." "Acleik!" aud Dr. Avrell smiled too. "Thai is a very good occupatiou. 1 suppose your hours are long?" "Nine to seven the usual hoMrs in a house like ours." "Ijing hours," said the physician "too im:g for a yoiiBg thing like you sedentary woi k too." '"I can't help it, Ioctor Avrell; I lini.-t wmk. There are ieople depen dent on me." Her voice became hu.-ky, aud she .-tupjied suddeulv. "Poor child:" said 1'hilip Avrell, with gentle pity pity that never galled the pi wildest. "1 know it is of no use to ?u;e.-t shorter hours to yfu. It is imthinu hut over-work from which you are .-iilTenng. Y'ou want strengthen ing. 1 will i;ive vou something that will do you gN,d." "TLnk you, you are very kiud," said the j;irl earnestly. While he wrote he asked her many questions about her life, and finally told her to come and see him in three das. "Hut, iioctor Avrell," she began, not quite knowing how to say that that would not be his free evening. He !inied, and shook hands, say ing iJon't you know. Miss Iaureuce. that 1 am very autocratic with my pa tient? I set? ihem when I like, aud thty always do as 1 tell them." Tl.en he turned away, and more patient-; came; and for each he had a kind wor.l.as well as couusel aud sympathy. A richly-furnished chamber, soft car les, silken curtains, a snowy bed, on winch lies tossing a liitle child with a delicate face and one burning spot on each cheek, its golden curls lying on the pillott, and Its blue eyes roniing restlessly about the room. Beside the fluid a nurse stands. She looks down aiixiiiiik, and then glances toward the clock on the mantle piece. "I w !-h my lady would come," she holding the little feverish hand in heis. -Mie would never have gone if !e had thought Miss Kaisy would take 6'ich ;i turn." "Where's mother? Oh, I want moth- -" moaned the child. "Why doesn't sl:e couie?" These is a rustle of silk outside; the uoor is pushed open, and Lady Gwen dolen! ran furd enters. She is a tall, s eiidt r stately woman, looking scarcely fwre than live-and-twenty, though she 18 seven or eight years older than that lovely in form, w ith a fair, delicate skin, larne violet eyes, and hair of rich Rold, hut with a sad weary look on her She comes to the bedside in her rich hile silk and crimson scarf, and bends over the child, who turns to her with outstretched arms and clings to ber murujurri,! "Mother, motherl" In rapture sue clasps the little form closely , ,er- aiill breaths passionately a praver j "darling, the one treasure of her lonely life. "Sheia very m," she aay quite ca'iij'v to '.! - i. in.-. "",iu should have s-ut f.i lue. Ii it a mere chance 1 did not tf.it th- iu, :.es.s's Im'.I." "1 d.d not know, my lady. ML-s 1.us h.. ii..t U-ru so bad till jusl late ly. Ma) 1 iii.ihe U.iJ t0 sui;est, my holy, Ui M-tid f..i thedoi-loi?" "I)H-tor Taikiidire is doing her uo g.Hl," iis Lady (.wendi.leu i'raufurd in 'I e firm, calm, almost cold way that is habitual with her. "I have no faith in hmi. 1 have leturced so recently to Kug'.and that 1 know Intl. 'IKH tor Axiel!, my lady, is the first physician in London in London," fn t' i poses the nurse. "All the quality has him." Lady (.iwendolcu has beeu bending over her child. Xow she raises herself, and says almost sharply 'Whom did you say?" "lHictor Avrell, my lady. Shall I send for him!"' "Seud for him at once. Doctor l'hil lip Avrell?" "Y'es, my lady; you must have heard of him. Ilebrouiht Lord Gaudy through when all the others had given hini up." "Go quickly then and the nurse van ishes. , Iidy Gwendolen presses one jeweled hand to her forehead, aud so ittauds. "1'hilip Avrell, 1'hilip Avrelll" she murmurs. "Heaven help inel Is it my fault?" Once more l'h dip Aviell sat alone. The last patient had lieeu gone nouie time, and he had tried to turn to his writing again. The door-bell laug loudly; but this time he did not heed it, aud he staiUsl when Eliot entered. ' A man, sir, who comes from Mr. t'raufurd's, wishes to see you. He seems in a great hurry." Doctor Avrell stepped out into the had. "His son has perhaps had a re lapse," he thought, with some anxiety. "Lady Gwendolen's compliments, iKictor Avrell," said the man, "and could you come at once? Miss Crau furd is very ill." Doctor Avrrll fell back a step from the glare of the lamp, and a sudden flush rose to his face, which however soon died away, leaving it even paler than usual. "Y'ou do not come then from Gros venor street?" he said. "Xo, sir, from berkely Square Lady Gwendolen Craufurd's house. Miss Daisy has fever, I think sir. Can you come, sir?" "1 will come round in a quarter of an hour," answered the doctor; and the man thanked him and went out. "Gwendolen Craufurd!" murmured 1'hilip Avrell, looking upwards, "Was it then a subtle instinct telling me she was near that led me back again to the old days? Aud she Is in trouble! His child!" He paused and drew a deep breath, then he whispered very Soflly, "Her child; let me thluk or that," The little child lay tossing aud moan ing, and the mother sat in tearless agony, uerving herself for the moment she dreaded so terribly the moment which she had dreaded these fifteen vea.s ;tst. And now it barf dime U last, and she w as to meet him once more at the bedsideof her child Claude Craufurd's child. He was noble and gentle; he will not remember it," she murmured over and over again. "He will not reproach me now nor here. Ah!" She raised her head, aud the beautiful eyes were fixed upon the door. That voice, that haun ting voice, so sweet, so lowl "In here?" were all the words that struck on her listening ear; and then he entered. He came round to her side of the bed She had steeled herself then to calmness even to coldness; but she dared not of fer her baud she only let it lie passive ly for a second in li s. Was she not Gwendolen I'raufurd? Then she stood back and watched him as he bent over her child. ' How long has she been so?" asked the physician, turning to her at length. "She was so when 1 came in from a concert?" answed Gwendolen and her voice was quite steady. ''She was only a little fevei ish when I left the house; but she has lueu ailing for some days," "Have you hail advice for her?" "Doctor 1'arkri.lge nas beeu attend ing her: but I have no faith in him." "She is very ill." "Dutyoucan save her?" came with such intense appeal from the mother's pale lips, "Y'ou will save her you w ill not let her d:e? She is all all I have." He caught the last wo: da, although her voice had sunk to a w hisper, and they pierced him to the heart. Too well he read her story in the despairing utterance, "she is all 1 have." "If I can save her, I will. Lady Gwendolen," he said gently; "but she Is very ill. She has been allowed to get too weak, and the oppression on the chest is very great." A strange, almot a fier.-e gleam into Gwendolen's eyes, and her slender fin gers were tightly locked together. "I do not say there is no hope," said Philip Avrell "on the contrary I think there is room for hope; but she will want the very greatest care, nursing more than anything Shall I send you a nurse?" "I will nurse her myself," answered Gwendolen, with a quiet steadfast de termination in her low tones. "Y'ou?" The physician looked doubt ful' "Y'ou do not look very strong." "I am strong. I can do anything; I can endure to the last," she answered in the same tone. "Y'ou need not fear for her, that I shall fail just when I am most wanted. I must nurse her my self." She raised her lustrous eyes to hiif.ice Tor the first time. "Wont you trust me?'" she said half timidly. "Y'ou must say 'Y'es.' I have" she paused, and then, her eyes drooping, j seemeJ to go on without difficulty "1 1 have a motive strong enough to make me dare anything." He glanced keenly at her, and an icy chill struck his heart. "Y'ou shall nurse her," he said quiet ly. "It will be better for her to have some one she knows about her, Xow atteud to me." She listened while he gave his direc tionsshe was the nurse, he the phy- S'tiiln- l u t "I will stay for the present," he said, "and give her something which 1 hope will induce sleep." "Y'ou are kiud. Doctor Avrell. It is late; we must not keep you, Mary is a good girl; she is in the next room." "Mv personal comfort is nothing," said the physician, "when 1 am on duty. Y'ou had better rest a little bit down." . . ... She sat down, obeying him instinc tively, and watched the child, who was beginning to be restless attain ; yet all the while was it his fancy? she seem ed to be listening, and listening tn dread. j "Mother, motherl moaned the ; child. j I'dilip Avrell bent over her aud plac ; ed his cool hand upou her forehead. She looked up w ith a troubled yet fixed ! " Who are you?" she said. ! "1 aiu a doctor, my child, come to make you well," answered Avrell geu : tly. j "To make me w ell!" she echoed w ith : the dehber ite utterance of a wandering j mind. "Can t you make mother happy j too?" ill the foot of the lied shiver aud drop; uui ins tuice was ua aceuuy t& evei. "She will be happy my child when you are well." "Will she? Are you sure?" said the child wistfully. "Mother isu t happy I know she isu t." His heart bled for the woman whom he loved still with a deathless love. He saw her rise aud glide out of the room he knew she must have broken down if she had stayed and Mary the nurse came in to take her pi ice. Outside Gwendolen stopped aud wrung her hands in mute nnsery. A step was heard on the stairs a servant came up. Gwendolen was calm, erect, herself again to all outward seeming. "Mr. Craufurd's compliments, my lady, aud he would like to see you for a few moments," "1 will come. She eutered the dining room. A tall fair, aristocratic-looking man, who was lounging lu au easy-chair, glanced up as she came in, but did not rise. "Who told you to send for Avrell?" he said, lu an imperious tone. She flushed a little and answered "1 sent for him because he is the first physician in London; and Daisy is in danger." "Doctor I'arkridge will do for her." "He will not; he is not clever, and I have no faith in bis treatment." "There'll be a confoundedly heavy bill to pay!" said Craufurd, setting up impatiently. "I know what these fashionable fellows are run you up a hundred or two in no time." "As you will not be required to spare so large a sum fro.-u your 'debts of honor,' " returned Gwendolen coldly. you may safely leave the choice of a physician to me," "I tell you I wont leave him in the house!" exclaimed Claude Craufurd savagely, stamping his foot. "D'you think I do not know why you had him, and why he comes?" She stood absolutely rigid for a mo ment ci two, her hands pressed heavi ly on the back of a chair, her eyes flash ing. Such taunts were not new to her but this had au additional sting. "I can answer your words," she said "I sent for Doctor Avrell because I wish my child to recover. I nurse her myself liecause I wish her to recover. ""Don't talk heroics, Gwen," he said avoiding her eyes. " What is the mean ing of all this nonsense? Y'ou're not to nurse her. I wont have you sitting up and losing ail your good looks." "1 shall do precisely as I think fit. have you anything more to say?" Then moving away "Daisy will want rue." "Go and " He stopped short aud bit bis lip, looking after the tall grace ful form of his wife as she went out of the room. "I say, Gwen," as she paus ed, "you haven't a cheque about you? I'm awfully short of cash." bhe came back an expression cf con tempt ussiug over her beautiful fea tures. Unlocking a desk on a side-table she took out a cheque, which she filled out and laid on the table, then locked the desk again, and left the room with out saying a word, "My punishment, my punishment, was her inward cry: "What bitter humiliation! oh heaven, it is terribly bitter. Was my sin so great that it must beatoned for by such suffering?'' "And I must be in her presence aud speak to her daily a stranger, an ac quaintance, her physician must see her suffering, aud nay not speak one word to lighten the load. I had thought this buried, past for ever: my love is deathless; and she is the same Gwen dolen the same girl who whispered she would never forsake me. Sixteen long weary years, aud 1 cannot tear this love from me!" And now she was an unloved wife, a miserable woman, with all her glorious beauty undimned, still, as ever, a queen of society, sought ou flattered by the world, but not the loved queen of her own home, her husband being a roue and gambler. Day and night she watched her child taking little rest and little food, and that only when Doctor Avrell, with gentl imperiousness, bade her take it. "Y'ou will be ill," he said; aud Daisy wants you." That was enough. Society missed her presence at ball aud garden party in those days of sus pense. Her husband told her impa tiently aud angrily that she would lose her place in the world of fashion, and taunted her anew with the novel at traction she had found at home. But his taunts fell on unheeding ears; she seemed indeed scarcely to hear them, and had not the remotest thought of at tending to them. Her every thought was for her child. All this time Claude Craufurd never encountered the man he had so bitterly wronged. Craufurd shrank instinc tively from meeting the physician, and kept away as much as possible. There came a day at last when Doc tor Avrell said "Y'our daughter has passed the crisis Lady Gwendolen; she is out of danger Her constitution Is good; I think she will rally." Then he turned away he could not meet unmoved the look on her face, the gratitude that spoke m her eyes. "It is not my doing; it is Heaven's will," he said briefly, almost abruptly; and she shrank back. So the day came when Daisy was strong enough to be moved from one room to another, and thento go out of doors; and then she was almost herself again, the bright child spirit of the houe, who could bring a smile to her mother's lips. At last came the day that Lady Gwendolen dreaded, when Philip Avrell said there was no further need for his services. But Daisy must go away for a change of air to some warm seaside place, for she was delicate, and would require the greatest possible care for some years to come. "Good-bye,"said Philip Avrell quick ly; and he held out his band. She stood up and put hers into it.and he held it for a second; then, dropping it he turned away. Suddenly she sank down, and, laying her head uon the table, sobbed bitter ly. Bitterly did those sobs torture the heart of the man who heard them. He stopped and his white lips moved. "Poor child!" was all he said. He knew she w is weak now.uustrung through watching and sorrow; he un derstood ber grWf, her loneliness, her remorse. But he could not comfort her. He Blight nt piss his hand over the golden sheen of her hair; be might not tell her that there was one who thought of her and prayed for her wherever she was; he never for an in stant forgot that she was Claude Crau furd's wife. But there came a revelation to her as she grew calmer under the light pressure of his hand. She had betray ed her misery and her secret, and with that thought she shrank from him; and he reading her hart, drew back. "Forgive me?" she said brokenly. "Oh, if I thought you could forgive the past!" He folded his arms across his breast, and answered unhesitatingly "1 have no memory of the . past no bard thought of you. Heaven knows I have never dreamed of judging you." "Xo hard thought of me not even now 1" she said. "Then I will bear a little longer till she is grown up aud does not want me." He could not trust himself to spek just yet, but stood motionless. Pres ently be stepped forward to her side and laid his hand upou her golden bead. "Good-bye again Gwendolen; good bye!" "Come to me. Y'ou are the only friend I have." They lay before him, the brief words; and Philip Avrell never paused for au Instant nor hesitated to answer the summons. G weudolen was In trouble that was enough; but there was a deadly sinking of heart as he strove to picture what the trouble was. Was she ill dying? She had gone abroad with her child, and had been all the summer in Switzerland; and this tele gram was from Paris. Was Daisy ill again, or was it her husband? In twelve hours he was in Paris, at the door of the splendid hotel where Lady Gwendolen and her husband and child were stopping Doctor Avrell asked uo questions of the servant. He only bade him tell his mistress that he was tbeie;aud he wait ed, walking restlessly up and down. But he was the calm physician the mo ment he heard the handle of the door turn; and then she entered, white and quiet; but he could see that there was a terrible strain on every nerve. "Y'ou are well," he said taking her hand for a second "and Daisy?" "Y'es," she answered ; "it is it is Claude. He is ill very ill. They say he cannot live." She faltered a mo ment, and then went ou hii'ried'.y. "I know he has done you great wrong ah you do not know great and how bitter! but I ventured to ask you to come. Y'ou could do something perhaps to to Cive him time to lessen his suffering Y'ou are not angry with me?" "Hush, child!" He uttered the words quickly; and then he added in his usual gentle way, "Why should I be angry? This is, I think, no ordi nary illness, I.ady Gwendolen?" ' "He is shot!" she whispered, turning away. "It was a duel. Spare me in pity spare me!" He knew the whole story then with out her telliug bim, and asked no more; but his brow grew very dark, and the sweet firm mouth very stern. "H ill you come to him now" said Gwendolen, after a few moments. Aud he bent his head and followed her. So the two men the wronger and wronged met again. Philip Avrell stood beside the bed of him who had taken away the jewel of his life, and looked down upon the wreck the mere wreck of manhood that lay tbwre; the fair aristocratic looking face was drawn and pallid with (aiu, lines of dissipation graven on the brow, the eyes wandering wildly from one object to another. There had been times when in Phil ip's heart had burnt a fierce passionate hatred of the man who had taken his treasure only to despise it; but any such feeling could not live in nresence of the awful retribution before him. He stood by the unfortunate man. and his glance said, "There is nothing to be done here;" yet he laid his fingers on the quivering pulse; and Claude seemed then, for the first time, aware of the proximity of a stranger. "Who are you?" he said almost fiercely, staring at the pitying face that was bent over bim. "I am 1'hilip Avrell. I have come to see if I can do anything for you." "She has sent for you!" he cried, "My death is all she wants! Well, I won't say that she has been happy with me. "Have yon, Gwen?" "Xever mind that now Claude," an swered hts wife quietly, laying her hand upon his. "If you talk so you will suffer more." "Poor GwenI" he said, in ahalf reck less, half-sorrowful tone that made her shiver and look back to the days of their opening life, when he had been kind in his way, and before she knew of his treachery. "I did care for her once, you know Avrell. And then I told her like a fool, and she hated me. If it hadn't been for you," he said with a sudden fierceness, "she might have liked me. I wont have you here she and you! Go go?" "Claude, Claude! Hush!" "Well, well, I wont then;" and he sank back, his eyes wandering aimless ly about. "Give me your hand, Gwen, there's a good girl. So you cant cure me eh, Avrell, "I cannot" Claude lay silent for a time, Gwen dolen kneeling at his side, Philip Avrell standing erect and attentive, "Why did you come?" said Claude Craufurd at last, in the same reckless yet regretful tone. "I did you an aw f ul wrong, old fellow hasn't she told you?-s wore that you were dead, and that you married before you died. She was a confoundedly haughty girl. She couldn't stand that! But the old man wouldn't give me the money till she died, and now I'm going before her eh, Avrell? I've been a scamp to her." "Hush, Claude!" cried the miserable wife, in a very passion of entreaty; but he laughed, and turned to Avrell say ing "Look here I'll tell you now." 'You had better go," whispered Av rell quickly across to Gwendolen; "this will not be no fit sight for you." She rose; but Claude quickly cried out "What are you going, Gwen? Dont leave me; put your hand round mine so that s lu" "I am his wife," said Gwendolen; and she knelt down and prayed. Three years, three long wear years, go by, and people In society wonder when Ijtqy Gwendolen Craufurd is coming to take her pla -e lu the world again. "She could not have cared for that bus' land of hers," they say. They say also that Doctor Philip Avrell is certainly over-worked; he has hardly any rest, he looks worn, aud bis hair is tinged with gray. "Travel for three mouths at least," says a friend, an eminent fellow prae tioner. "Make over your patients to roe and Crofton we'll manage them and don't let uj see you in Loudon for the next three months." Avrell smiles aud promises; though he does not think there will be auy im provement, unless his heart-huuger is stayed. So he says goo J-bye to all his patients shuts up his empty house, aud wanders over the Continent, seeking rest. He has strayed Ui the Lake of Cotno, aud oue evening, while wandering by the shore; he stops aud looks dreamily across the blue lake, watchiug the pur ple shade of the mountains and the play of light on their snow-capped sum nuts, and listening to the great-bells tingling In the distance, the musical voices of children at play, the lowing of cattle. It is all very dreamy, very peaceful; but his heart is empty still and throbs with pain. - Suddenly he hears the clear musical voice of a child who is ringing blithly; and he seesagleem of golden hair as a liitle young girl springs from point to point, now diving among the rushes to gather flowers, now lost to view behind some tall shrub. She comes quite near and Pliilp Avrell staggers back, but in stantly recovers himself as the child, a elini cirl of thirteen, looks up with a hair bewildered air. then hurries for ward, clasping her hands in rapture, crying out "D.ictor Avrell my dear, dear Doc tor Avrell!" He clasps the slender bauds in his, and kisses her forehead tenderly, smil ing at her joy. "Mother is at home. You must come and see her. Doctor Avrell," cries Daisy. "She will be so glad please come. It isn't far. Who would think of you being here?" "Who indeed, Daisy? But doctors, you know, like other people, want rest." "Y'es; but you must come to mother and tell ber." Up the road and through a garden "weet with perfume she leads him, chat ting all the time leads him across a smooth lawn and under a verandah, right into a drawing room, where Gwen dolenlooking more beautiful because of the added sorrow in her face sits, Uer chin resting on one white hand, the other lying before her listlessly. She talses her eyes at the sound of footsteps without, and suddenly springs to her feet with a suppressed cry "Good Heaven, Philip Avrell!" Her hands are quickly in hts, and ihen she is calm again, speaking the words of conventional welcome. "I am chid to see you Doctor Avrell. Whre did you meet him, Daisy?" But Daisy has rushed out into the wen to impart her joy to the dogs and Iroiic w ith them. "I was wandering by the lake," he says, with an effort. He sees her before him in more than her girlish beauty; he sees the sorrow ful eyes that are so wistful, the pained mouth that is so sad and sweet. She is his own. What is there to stand be tween them? Her fault? He turns and sinks upon a chair and the cry goes out "Come to me, Gw'endoleu! My heart is empty, hungryiug for you!" She stands lik a statue of marble, her hands locked, her lips parted. Has she heard the words, or is it her fancy? She has often draemt that he would come to her with some such words as those. Philip!" she says wistfully, timidly, but does not move. "Gwendolen, coma come to me!" he cries again, with passionate appeal. She draws near aud kneels beside him. touching his bands half fearfully. He tries to clasp her closely to him; but she lays her hands upon his, and some thing in her face awes him. "Philip," she says steadily and soft ly, "do you remember the past that I broke my faith? Hear me yet. Do you love me still, Philip?" He cannot look into the clear eyes, he cannot answer her. He only presses the weary golden head to his breast. So phe finds rest after all the weary years. Her punishment is over, her atonement made. "May I tell you, Philip," she whis pers preseutly "tell you of the, that you may know all?" "Not now, my darling, nor ever.' I have forgotten it all, Gwendolen. I have no memory of the past, let it rest." Later, standing by the window and locking out over the lake, ber hand clinging to his, as if even now she fears to wake from a dream, she says "Is this real, Philip? I used always to dream of your coming to me; but I chi 1 myself for the fancy." Daisy, sporting among the flowers, glances up and pauses. "Daisy I" Philip's clear voice reaches her, and she comes hurrying in, looking from one to the other. Philip Avrell draws her within the shelter of his arm. "Do you remember, Daisy," he says softly, "when you were ill, praying me to make your mother look happy?" Daisy, glancing up into his face, says half archly "Ah, you have made her happy, Doc tor Avrell! I knew you could do any thing!" A you.no woman in South Illinois has jnst died from having her ears pierced. Cut this out, yonng man, and show it to the girl who expects yon to give her a pair of diamond earrings. A littlb boy esme to his mother re cently and said: "Mamma, I should think that if I was made of dnst, I would get muddy inside when I drink," First Bostos Gibl "Going to vocal practice. Minerva?" Second Boston Girl "Xo, my dear Calliope, I have bad cold and am quite hoarse?" "Ah. been exposing yourself to the weather?" "Yes, I went out yesterday and forgot to pnt on my spectacles. " A good old deacon in Connecticut was very pious and very fond of clams. When once npon a time he attended a Rhode Island clambake, he overtaxed his capacity and was sorely distressed. Bat his faith in prayer was unabated. Leaving the party, and going down on his knee behind a tree he was heard to supplicate: "Forgive me, O Lord, this great sin of gluttony. Restore my health, and I will never eat any more clams." Then after a judicious pause. "Very few, if any. Amen." AuAtraliitu WouJtra. There are two luaxuitk-eut sources of wealth in Australia, one of which has been imperfectly exploited, while the other is almost untapped. The first consists of the subterranean channels of ancient rivers, which have lon. since ceased to flow and have beeu buried for aires lieneath the suer-in-cumbeut strata through which the en terprising miner now sinks his shaft. Each of these must have been a verit able Pactoius, and their golden sands have yielded a rich return to many an adventurous company. The second source of wealth is also subterranean and will probably lie far more precious than the first. We refer to the under ground rivers which have their origin in the great central depression of the Australian continent, where some superficial streams aud the heavy trop ical rains disappear, percolating through the penetrable soil and form ing reservoirs, from whence at least two great bodies of water issue south ward and find an out-let in the sea. Ever and anon one of these channels is pierced by the well sinker, and there rises to the surface a pereuuial spring of the precious element, in the midst of a region that Is liable to be parched with drought. Su;h a diseov r has lately beeu male at Mote-, in the electoral district of Gwydir, about 3'JU miles north of Syd ney. Water was struck atadopth ot 130 feet and it rose 4J feet in three hours. "The value of the discovery," we are told, cannot be over estimated. as the country m the vicinity ha Siith ert ) suffered terribly in dry seasons." The question rises whether, inas much as the countrv is beginning to be dotted with various points at which similar discover es have lieen made, it would not be possibly by systematic investigations to determine approxim ately the course of one, at least, of the subterranean rivers that winch is be lieved to have its outfall near Portland so that boring operations might le conducted for the time to come in those r laces only where there is reasonable prospect of success. Oue discovery made the long-deserted coal tar a desirable product of the gas retorts, but it held still greater surpris es. From the light oil of the tar a val uable naptha solvent for india-rublier was obtained, and then the invaluable discovery of carbolic acid was uiade. How many people in ordinary life know that this great disinfectant is one of the products of common gas tar? After these properties were extracted from the tar there were left heavy oils and resi duum for which chemistry was puzzled to find a practical use. It was not until ISii'i that any satisfactory result was obtained by experimenting with this re fuse, and then the great discovery of alizarine wa. made. I his product was first obtained by the German chemists Graebe and Liebermann, but Prof. Perkins, who had developed the aniline colors from tar, was the first to give ap plication to the German work. Tue iui- portauce of this discovery may be un deis ood when it is known that in the first ten years following the introduc tion of the artificial alizarine in the dye stuffs trade, it exceeded the total amount of natural alizarine, or madder root, that had Iteen handled in the trade previous to its introduction. It was, if anything, superior to madder, and so much cheajier that the saving by its use up to 1SS0 had amounted to over 20, 000,000. The discovery of alizarine In coal tar converted 400,000 acres of land that had beeu used for growing mad der, root into fertile fields of corn ami other cereals. With vegetable madder it required nine weeks to perfect the dy eing of a material Turkey real. The artificial madder accomplished the de sired result in as many hours. Three years ago the chemist produced an arti- ncial indigo from the residuum of gas tar, and in counection with the aniline dyes and alizarine of the same base, it is rapidly taking the place ot indigo. Later, the napthaliue yellows aud reds, with which entirely new effects in color were made possible, were derived from coal-tar residuum. Chemists are still experimenting with the tar products, and other important developments will no doubt be made. A Mexican Tale. A wild story comes from Periban, Michoacan. Three well mounted and well armed men stopped at an inn to pass the night. The woman who kept the place advised the authorities that three suspicious men had called at her house. The President of the City Council and the Judge, with a few citi zens, went to the house to see the sus picious characters. But the three men locked themselves in their room and refused to be interviewed. A crowd of citizens was collected, but when they appeared they were greeted with a vol ley from the three men. An as sault was then made on the room and the three prisoners, breaking out of the door, fought their way through the crowd, using their revolvers and dag gers. The crowd followed closely af ter the fugitives and many shots were exchanged. Finally, one of the fellows dropped. Even while dying he turned over and fired on his puisuers. A sec ond fell a few steps further on, fighting hard. The third, sheltering himseir behind a rock, made it warm for his pursuers, and though often wounded, fought on with scarcely enough strength to draw his rifle to his shoulder. Called on to surrender he only replied with a bullet which relieved the president of his hat. The crowd closed in around him as the death mist was passing over his eye?. Still he tried to pull tne trigger of his rifle for a parting shot, but life and strength failed him. The corpses were buried in Peri ban. They were supposed tone a pari oi .rciai Brave's bandit troop during the fight the citizens had fired 200 shots and of these nearly twenty had taken effect on tue oanoiis. wno were lorn 10 pieces by the terrible storm of lead. Several of the citizens were wounded. The bandits died like legendary heroes. a TiRviirr.vv clertrvman says that liqnora may soon be sold in skating rinks and then "the result will be dis ..inn " Wi linn hi hit so. It if hard enought for a sober man to stand up. ir.TTi.tKtn Jenlons Wife "Bnt. mv lamb, that was only a yonng ladysecro. tary thst I nave lo aiciaie w iraw l.mb "WelL von mav dictate to her. bnt neyer to met She most gol" Aaclaot Egypt. Tin gre atest edUn-e which Amenem ha HI. built was the Labyrinth, con sisting of a numtier of small chambers Communicating with oue another, and of which this monarch appears to ha' e built the greater portion during ris reign, leaving to his successor the com pletion of the ediiiee. The object of this singular edifice was stated to be for the reception of the pnucess and other dignitaries of the country It pre- V r . ' , "" .""" i'i uuun.1113 ill v icLr, in vviiivii Minos kept the monster called the Mi notaur, half man half bull. ThisCretau work consisted of a serie of meauder ing passages, in which the intruder who bad not the requisite clew lost himself and fell a victim to the monster who dwelt within. Probably some reason of suspicion aud security caused the construction of this singular building, i which, with the pyramids and obelisks, ; was another marvel of old Egypt. In j Egyptian the Labvrinth was called ! .Moens, and nad tne same name as tne j a ,lei ,or travelers in the Y'osemite lake. The same word was also applie 1 j valley. to the streets, which probably in Egypt i'be most valuable metal known is originally did not run in straight lines veuadiuui, which is worth J by I'd per as at present, but followed a tortuous I pimd or meandering course The Pyramids, I A U(.?cei,dant of seven llussian tot there were two on the borders of the counts" has been naturalized in Mil lake, are supposed to have bad colo&sal ; ,,1 siaiues oi ine Kings ai men ruihuius. In the time of Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the reu n of Darius', or about B. C. 4jj, the Lake Moeris, in pyra mids aud its labyrinth were still exist-; imr, although ti ey are now au almost indistinguishable mass of rums. The Labyrinth greatly astonished this an- : cient Greek traveler It had, aocor bng to his description, twelve courts, all j county, Ga roofed with stone, which w as unusual in ' The value of the shipbuilding ln Egyptian buildings, most of whicti had ! dustryof New England for 1-1 reached no ceilings and were open to the sky, or 1 $r, 000,000. hypaethral, as the Greeks called tiiem. It had twelve courts with gates exact ly opposite one another, six fac'ng the j north and the same number facing the south, and a great number of chambers according to Herodotus l,-"00- -auiKC and below. The subterranean chandlers or crypts Herodotus did not see, but lie heard that they comprised the tombs of the kings who built the Labyrinth and tho-e of the sacred crocodiles which were at tached to the temple of Sebak, the cro codile god of Crocodilopolis, or Croco dile town. These great reptiles were exceedingly tame and woreearrings.and the J-abyrinth seems to have beeu their sepulcher, although the principal pits in which the mummies of the crocodil es are found are at Maufalut. The courts of the Labyrinth had colonnades and entrances into the various cham bers. The whole was surrounded by an outer wall and the walls covereJ with hieroglyphics; but little is known of the purport of the inscriptions and the mere fragments which have been found con tain the titles only of two kings. At one of the corners or the Labyrinth stood a pyramid, 41 fathoms, or 2M feet high, which was entered by a subter ranean passage. Two other pyramids stood in the cen ter of the lake, 300 feet high above the surface of the water, winch was of the same depth at this spot. Ja tue apex of each of these pyramids was a seated colossal figure. Ihese tiiree pyramids were the sepulcher of the kings. The Greek account gives different names to the King of the Labyrinth; but the fragments or it which have been found near the walls of the crypts or subter ranean chambers show that it was Ameueinha IV. and his sister, whose mummies were perhaps bured in the pyramids placed in the middle of the lake. The arrival of Jiiseph In Egypt has been placed by some in the reign of Aepi II., and some considerations are very favorable to that conjecture. The name Potiphar, from its composition, is evidently Ueliopohtan rather than Thebau. Joseph married the daughter of the high priest of Heliopolis, occupied by the shepherds during their occupation of the country. Xo mention is made in the narrative of Memphis or Thebes. The 430 years of the bondage of Israel in Egypt correspond with t ie monumen tal date of 4W years from the Shepherd ruler Set of Saites to Barneses II., and the opinion generally entertained by Egyptologists is that the Exodus took place in the reign of Meneptah, son and successor of Barneses II. The elevation of a foreigner to the high of fice held by Joseph is also more conso nant with Egypt being at the time in the hands of the Hyk shos, while the Pharos of Heliopolis must have known the patriarch, whose eventful story- Would have been unknown to the native dynasty, which expelled from the soil of Egypt the hated Hyk-shos, their tradi tions and anteceden s. Alter Hurled Treasure Credulity, a belief in somnambulists. and so on, are to be met with not among the uneducated classes alone, as is proved by a case connected with th authenticity of an alleged historical document, wh ch latterly engaged the attention of the Pans Tribunal of C01- Tpctional Police. Thn romnlaiuant. who described herself as a descendant ' of a Governor of India under Louis XViPia'ded tins year in the lower part or hal in her possession a document show ing that in 1737 her ancestor had deo sited a treasure of 40,000.000f. in his castle of Vilcoq. She took a certain M. Robert into her confidence, and. neither of them having means of their 1 own to carry on researches, two per- j sons were persuaded to advance money on common of receiving a portion of : the treasure when recovered. Mr. Ro bert set to work, found the precise sxt where the Chateau de Vilcoq had form erly stood, and ob'ained the consent of the Marquise de Ctvrie, to whom the estate now belongs, to dig the ground, it being understood that she was also to receive a portion of the property sup posed to be hidden there. The digging went on for a long time, but nothing was found. Three somnambulists were then consulted, each of whom fixed on a different spot, and in each spot exca vations on a very extensive scale were made. Briefly, the search was carried on with such energy that the property of the marquise was completely devas tated, and that lady, quite disgusted, had to call the police to turn the explor ers out of her estate. Debts, however, had been incurred by M. Robert, who, beginning to doubt whether the alleged descendant of the "Governor of India under Louis XV" was not an impostor, refused to restore her the "historical do cument," had it examined by experts, and learned that it must have been drawn np within the last fifty years. The Tribunal awarded him fifty francs,but the marquise has obtained nothing for the damage done to her estate. , ,TT , ' " . ., . A good life does not sdence calumny, tint it oertalnly disarms it, NEWS IN BRIEF. An eighty ton guu Morphine parties :osts .C L'.V i7.jw are pnnuiux in Paris. Heliotrope is now the favorite per fume. Sweden, Me., has neither a physi cian or a law ver. White potatoes s-U for SJ a I ia portions of f lorida j FrallL.e ,,rts t.lup!;tea war bushel vessels costing over jJo.Iio,injo. The cultivation of cinchona is said to be projected in Florida. Brooklyn has three colored drug gists in gmKl circumstances. One of the New Y'ork papers has facilities for printing i copies per sec ond. A horse which was know n to lie .V) years old died recently on Staten Is land. The. California legisla'ure 'has pis sed a bill appropriating j Id.wUo build Cannes has beeu selected as a site for a monument to the late Duke of Albany. Italy h:is 4,il.0"0 lemou trees, which produce l.-'-i,0"',hhi lemous annually. A colored man, w hose age is set down as 10'J years, lives in Oconee Police, it is said, escort all visiting clubs to and from the bait grounds in Columbus, Go. NcW Vk mlve eu fitted up with . , ... ... ... . eit cii iv uguia. Mary Anderson is reported to Save more u'ouey in a month than most nitn make 111 a year. The Illinois Compulsory Education law provides no penalties, and is there fore inoperative. Schenectady has au Excise Board consisting ot a Ileiuocrat.a Republican and a Prohibitionist. A marked diminution in the num ber of tourists liound lor Europe this summer is reported. The Louisiana sugar crop is now exacted to fall short about a third f the or ginal estimates. A gold plate of false teeth lost in Sierra connty, CaL, thirty years ago, was found there recently. Grasshoppers' are causing serious J trouble on some of the railroads and iu ranches on the Pacific coast. Two wells are shortly to le suuk near Jamestown, X. Y'., in hopes of sinking either gas or oil. All of the public school buildings iu Xew Y'ork are t be connected with the city's fire alarm system. At a sale in Loudon, recently. Lord Wilt n's champagne realized 7j a doz en, and his claret ? to a dozen. There are 7.j,0"0 boy s and girls em ployed in mills.faclones and workshops located iu Xew Y'ork State. The license on roller skating rinks has been raised from j-" to JI.jO by the City Council of Oswego, X. 1". Twenty-two unmarried daughters of a Carroll county, Md., man are liv ing in the same house w ith him. A shell collection valued at tld.000 Is owned by Cornell University, and is claimed as the best in existence. A little girl arrived in Pittsburg recently, after having made safely the trip from the City of Mexico alone. Excitement prevails iu Mono, Cal ifornia, over what is believed to be the discovery of large deposits of tin ore. A scratch on his hand, developing into blood poisoning, h;is caused the death of a man at lK.-er Lodge, M. T. Scarlet fever is reported to be abat ing in various Massachusetts towns wiiere it has prevailed for some months. The rumor that Mr. Jay Gould's son, George, has a taste for the stage aud a desire to appear on it is denied. Frost laid out the cucumber crop in Wiscousin,aud fire destroyed a pickle factory lu Cincinnati on the same night. A plan to burn the city's garbage in furnaces heated by natural gas now allowed to escape is talked of in Pitts burg. The anti-treating law of Xevada, it is reported, is not only a dead letter al ready, but the universal subject of rid icule. A bail storm at Corsicaua, Texas, recently dropped hailstones that are de clared to have weighed nearly twelve ounces. Sixty-five cents a pound was real ized in Xew Y'ork recently by a citizen of Harunionton,X. J.,for a lot of spring chickens. In the neighborhood of four or five hundred new jieacii orcnards nave been Delaware. A 'pauper,' who died in the poor house at Bridgeport, Conn., left an es tate which has been officiality valued at over f 14-jO. St. Paul follows up the opening ot the Xortheru Pacific with smelting w-orks to reduce the ores of Montana and Idaho. On a farm on Little Lost River, Idaho, in one night recently four lions killed fifty and injured thirty valuable Angora goats. Somebody has made a count or an ' estimate of the one legged men in this country and finds that there are about 10,000 of them. There are 2 ',000 commercial trav- ' elers in the United States. They cost their employers, it is estimated, itWO,- 000,000 a year. The need of more facilities for ed ucation is becoming apparent in Dako ta, and preparations for the erection of new colleges there are being made. The professors of the University of Tokio have formed themselves into an association for promoting the introduc ductiou of Latin writing and type in place of the Chinese. The Church or the Holy Ghost at Heidelberg, Germany, is divided by a partition running lengthwise through it. On the one si le the service is Irotest ant and the other Roman Catholic. Japan has an army of 4',000 men. a reserve ot twice that nmnlier, and terntori;l- reserve of loO.OOO.all dressed a1(, e,iui,,,i j European fashion, car- rying Reiuingtou rules. Service Is ob- ; ,, Jgawiy.
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