BF. SCHWEIER, TEE OOiaTlTUTlOI-THE UIIOI-AI) TEE QTOXOEXHT OP THE LATS, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XL. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 24, 1886. NO. 13. Little Feet. feet so soft that both may nes- J!ier(et ron the untried bonier rfjnd soft audriuk as peach-tree blossoms tSSTSkSli the briery tan- jjjsj the world's rough wayT jjj lhit rose feet along the doubtful West bear a woman s load, prince woman has the heaviest bar- den , ind walks the hardest road. ! for a while will make the path be fore theia it: daintv, smooth and f.ur Vm cutaway the bramble, letting only BXrosra ki- w when the mother's watchful eyes are jhiouded Amr from the sight of men, Jjtbese dear feet are left withonther ruiilin?. , fflSshaiiOirect them then? they Co stnnihliui blindly in the darkn' Of jorrow's tearfnl shades. Or ud the urward sl0pes of peace and beauty. Whose sunlight never fades. &, shall it be with her. the tender stranizer, Fair lace and pentle-eyed, jore hoe unstained feet the world a rnde highway Stretches so ttrauze and widu. ih! who may read the future! For our darlinfi ?Te crave ali Messings sweet, And pray that He who feeds the crying rau-n Win guiJe tie baby's feet. COUSIN LUCY. "Xow then, Darcy," said I to my comianion, as we sat together m our rooms, overlooking the grounds of old Trinity itself, "make up your mind at ocee, iaan. The Kst won't wait for as, and I must let them have 'yes' or bo' ia this letter, Say 'yes.' " "I'm afraid I can't, Fitz," replied Ducy thoughtfully "You see there's that examination coming on so soon; and, if I go down to Llsnaree, it'll throw me back a fortnight," "Ob, bother the examination!" I tried pettishly. " 1 on re quite safe lor ttat, 1 tell you. Why, man alive, a little fresh air will make your head ctearer an J help your chancel You've got as much stuffed into that cranium of yours ss you can well get into It for awtile. You must give it rest if yon oean the seed to take root." "There's something in Uiat, Fitz jerald," replied Darcy, as he plucktd donbtingly on the few hairs that had pilred on his chin. "But you see " ' I see that if you don't come this time 11! never ask yeu again. Besides I've promised Lucy I will bring you." "Well, as vou've promised, and as it nisiitbe a disappointment te your - eoosin, whv X"A go. Bat you mo-t not keep me over the fortnight, old fellow." "All right," I rep!ied,as I wound ur my note to uncle with the news that Dircy of whom "I had often talked Iras coming with me to Llsnaree at last. "lie's a capital fellow," I added by way of remark, "and I'm sure Lucy will like him." When the letter was finished, Darcy d 1 strolled out toward Sackville street to post it, and on the way I de rribed to him, as well as I could, the kind of a place he would find Lisnaree. "It is the quietest little spot you ever set foot in, old man," said I. "The village contains about twenty bouses, stretched along the shore of a small bay closed iu by cliffs as high as any in ail Mayo. About a mile from the village, looking down over a smaller bay, lies Lisnaree House t he happiest little place in the world." "Well, that will be something to see," replied Darcy, with just a tinge of bitterness in his tone. "Happy booses are lew and far between." "I don't know that," I rejoined. "At any rate, you'll find one at Lisna ree. And wait till Lucy begins to teas you! She'll soon rouse you out of your ftisanthropy, I can tell you I" "You musn't call truth misanthropy, old fellow," he replied, with a quiet mile. "But here we are at tire post cm. Toss in your letter, and come along and help me to buy a few of those tuings no young gentleman should be without gloves and neckties. I do believe I haven't a tie iu all the world, except the one I'm wearing; and, as for ijloves, the only pair I possess have lain lore in my tail pocket that I must have grown out of them." "Well, I believe, if you bought as fcw books as you do ties, you'd be able to save half yaur allowance," I replied, with a laugh, a; I tossed my letter into the box and turned with him to pro cure the articles he required. Two days later Darcy and I had left Dublin far behind, and were rolling away to the west, through the rich Pastures and fat lands that bound the neater part of the way until long after joe Shannon is passed. When Castle J was reached, we had a hurried luncteon, and then, too Impatient to wait till the morrow, we hired a car M started off for Lisnaree. It was lor.g after midnight when we "ached Lisnaree, to find the whole Je ia darkness. Soon however we wond the one public-house ia the place, "a roused its inmates. When we bad refreshed ourselves we determined to f there for the night aud walk over wtiie house in the morning. To this at first the landlord objected J"t, when he learned that I was the "master's" nephew, he was willing to all the beds in the house at my service. "AIi, sure then an' it's meself that'd seethe very clothes off me back to Jn of the FitzgeraHs!" he exclaimed. teed an' every bed in the house is at ,0" sice. " Then, raising his voice J". BdJy, llary, get up an' stir your- j";68- Here's a nephew of the mas- jw come to stay with us to-night. h!g bed in the front room ready 41 was" Alter breakfast, in which a fish just ""gsed from the sea before the door Played uos i with the landlord and set out to to the house. jAt a poiut half-way between the vil e and the house, and where both re visible at once, we paused a mo- or two. Look here, old fellow," said Darcy. whii PP3 my hand tightly with bis "aue his face shone with pleasure "I tasif icoujjflyj rii never forjret "orning's walk as lomj as I live." Vai yes, ytfu wilil" I replied laugh v -. UU1U1UUL UUlb Dai U WB BUUU& ing. "Waft till you see Lucy, and you'll lurget, an aoout it." "Why. this Cousin Lucv of voura t. most frightens tnel" be replied gravely as he dropped my hand. "I feel half inclined to turn and ran. Has she got a nMeeutean. yes, JMlzgerald?" "Sweetheart, sweetheart? No!" replied, suddenly taken aback at the question, and scarcely knowing how to repiy. --.mat is, 1 Delieve not. Why i uon't Know only because the word came to the tip of my tongue, I suppose." lo this I made no reply. I felt as if a little cloud had suddenly arisen on our horiron. A somewhat similar feel ing must have come to Darcy. for he We had descended from tha nDland and had reached the front of the house before either of us spoke again, "Ah, see," I cried, as I caught sight or me u utter or a aress on tlio lawn. -uere comes i.ucy nerseiil I'll bet a sovereign some of the folks from the village have been here this morning aireaay ana told her or our arrival." "True for you, me boy!" said the voice of my uncle, as he turned a betid in the pat i and stood before us. "An' what in the world made ye put up at O'Kelly's, instead of comin' on here at oncer"' "It was too Me when we reached Lisnaree, untie. But allow me; this is my friend Mr. Darcy. Darcy, this is my uncle." "Delighted to meet you, me boyl" he cried, as he grasped Darcy 's hand and shook it warmly "One of the Darcys of Galway?" "The Galway Darcys are relatives of mine," replied my friend. I was born in Dublin, so cannot claim the City of tne inDes as my birthplace." "More's the pity!" said my uncle, with a laugh. "But Dublin's not at all a bad place to belong to. Next to Lis naree, I like it as well as any place I know." "How's cousin Lucy?" I asked sud denly interrupting him. "I thought I saw her on the lawn, coming this way, a minute ago." "An' so ye did, Garrett," ho replied "Look here she Is, to spake for her self " The next moment Lucy bounded for ward and caught my hand. "Oh, you bad boyl" she cried. "Why did you go and stay at that nasty pub lic house, instead of coming down here? I've half a mind to " "To shake hands with my friend Mr. Darcy here, eh? Darcy, this is cousin Lucy, who has frightened you away from Lisnaree for so long," As Lucy bowed, a slight blush cover ed her face; then she held out her hand with a smile to Darcy. "I dou't believe a woid that Garrett says," she said, as she glanced at me with mock sternness. "You are not so easily frightened, I am sure." "He he lias spoken half the truth, I confess, Miss Fitzgerald." Darcy muttered somewhat confusedly, while li s face flushed an instant, then grew suddenly pale. "But " "But you are not so nroch " frighten ed now you are?" she exclaimed, . with a laugh. ''Come now, Mr. Darcy, tell me how he described me so as to frigh ten you? Height, six feet, hair like a bunch of carrots, one eye squinting? Or was it as the lonely lady of the rock a combinn her yellow hair?" "More of the second than the first, I assure you," Darcy replied, his con fusion increasing at Lucy's bantering tone. ' But perhaps Mr. Fitzgerald will speak for himself?" 'Not I, I assure youl" I replied. "There is little use talking when cousin Lucy makes herself judge, jury, accu sor, and executioner all in one. You have only to stiffen your sinews and bear your punishment with as much , Spartan fortitude as you possess." "Come, boys, talkin's dry work," said my uncle. "An' if ye try to find an answer for everything Lucy says, it's yourselves that'll have your work cut out for you. Darcy, me boy, give your arm to Lucy. Garrett and me belf'll bring up the rear." Blushing at first, and then turning pale, as before, Darcy gave bis arm to Lucy and led her towards the front door; while Uncle Fitc put his arm in mine; and, laughing with as much de light as a boy let loose from school, "brought up the rear." "The fortnight that followed was one of mingled pleasure aud vague dis appointment. Lucy seemed to me lovelier and more lovable than ever, yet somehow not the Lucy of old. She kept me more at a distanco than she used to do, possibly Decause oitne pres ence of a stranger. Once too when I caught her alone she grew suddenly silent and constrained; and I could see that It was with the utmost pleasure she beheld Darcy walking towards us to put an end to the one-sided tcte a tete. "Oh, how vexed I am that I ever brought him here!" I muttered to my self. "But the fortnight will be up to morrow, and then things will be as of old." Looking at Darcy as he drew near, I saw that the visit to Lisnaree had worked a wonderful change in him. His figure seemed to have grown taller aud more erect, his face brighter and more joyous, his whole manner very different from that of the slow-going half-cynical misanthrope of Sackville St"By Jove," thought I, 'what a change! I used to think myself the better looking fellow of the two; but where am 1 now? Well" trying to deceive myself into being generous "well, I am glad the fresh air has done him so much good! He'll need it all whenhegoes back to to wn to-morrow. "Ah, Mr. Darcy," cned Lucy, as he joined, "surely it Isn't true what Gar rett has been telling me just now? He says you go up to town to-morrow." Lucy's speech was kind of a small thunderbolt to Darcy. His face grew pale as a sheet, and for a moment or two he could not speak a word. Then he glanced sharply almost fiercely at "I I had arranged at first to stay a fortnight," he muttered in a strange voice; "but " "You've changed your mind!" she cried, with a smile, while she laid one hand upon his arm. "I know you may stay for quite another rortnighs yet. Garrett is not going away till then.' "Darcy is preparing for an examina tion, which I am not, " said L 4 And I promised not to let him stay beyond the fortnight." , Yes yes. Garrett promised not to force me to star," put in Darcy. strong emphasis on the word force. "But it is lime I should go; and I have trespassed on your hospitality too '""Trespassed on fiddlesticks!" cned my uncle, drawing near." "It youcan stay till Garrett goes do so, like a good fellow." "What does Miss Fitzgerald say?" asked Darcy, glancing towards her with what I could not help but see was a yearning look. "I say with uncle," replied Lucy. "And, if you go, I'll never forgive you." "I cannot risk- that," said Darcy, with a smile so unlike his usual one that It changed his face entirely; "I will stay." The last three words fell upon my heart like a lump of lead, and I actu ally felt myself pant for breath. "Bravo that's right!" cried my uncle. "Oh, I'm so pleased!" exclaimed Lucy. "Aren't you, Garrett?" "Yes, I'm glad he can stay, for it will do him good," I replied, in such a strange choking voice that Lucy stared at me wonderingly. "But I'm sorry I shan't have his company up to town to-morrow." "Eh, eh what?" exclaimed my uncie. "What did you say," cried Lucy -go up to town to-morrow." "Yes" still chokingly. " ny, i tnougnt you said lu your note to papa that you could stay a month?" "Yes I'm yes, but something has nappenea since winch makes it neces sary that I should go to-morrow." "But" rejoined Lucy, "you said just now that Mr. Darcy was preparing for an examination, while you were not. 1 inferred from that, of course, that you meant to stay," "The inference was wrong,"! said coldly, having regained my voice. "I did not wish to influence him until he had decided. But it is of no conse quence." "Eh, what? What the deuce does this mean, Garrett, me boy?" cried my uncle, after he had glanced at each of us in bewilderment. "Why, you don't look yourself this morning at alll" "I I never was better in my life, uncle," I replied with a hollow at tempt at a laugh. "The air of Llsnaree al ways sets me up." "And another fortnight of it would do you no harm. Come now you're only joking; you're going to stay the month out, after all.' n hat do you say?" I looked quietly at Darcy's face, and then at Lucy 'a. Both were pale and angry-look mg, and it seemed to me that there was a kind of an understand ing between them. "What," asked I, with a kind of a sneer in my tone, loe3 Miss Fitz gerald say?" "I ? Oh, I shouldn't attempt to in terfere with Master Garrett's decision! " replied Lucy bitterly. He will please himself, no doubt, as he always does." "Thank you, Lucy," I replied, bow ing low. "There goes the dinner-belll" cried my uncle. "Let us attend to that first we can talk this over afterwards. Come along, Garrett; Darcy will see after Lucy." liuima Uie dmuer 1. completely re covered myself so far as outward ap pearance was concerned. I was never much of a wit; but on this occasion I appeared in that character, with so much effect that my uncle laughed more than I had seen him do for a long time. Darcy and Lucv were more or less constrained all through the meal, and, while no doubt Uncle Fitzgerald thought I had given up all notion of going, they could see that I was more than ever determined. Presently, while my uncle was help ing himself to a glass of Jameson, over which he always took great pains, I rose to my feet, and asked to be ex cused for a few minutes. "Shall 1 mix you a class. Garrett?" he asked, as I was leaving the room. "Well yes," l replied, "I'll Have a glass. It looks as If it were going to be a dirty night" WLea. I gained my room, I hurriedly changed my clothes, then squeeaed, rather than packed, my belongings into my valise, and, without troubling any of the servants, placed it ia the hall. Then I re-entered the room and took my seat near my uncle, as before. "What?" said he, as he caught sigut of mv dress. "Where are you going?" "Off to catch the early morning train at Castlebar," I replied in as light a tone as I could assume. "Will you let Michael run me over there in the gig?" "Michael be hanged and you be hanged and Be hanged if I do!" replied my uncle, as he started to his feet, with more of anger ia his face than I believe I had ever seen in it be fore. "Now look here, Garrett you've taken this vagery into your head all at once owing to something Lucy has done. But I'm not going to let you insult my house by running away with out a minute's warning." "Oil, papa," cried Lucy, "I've done nothing and said nothing, s.- far as I know, to vex cousin Garrett!" "Well, then, he shall not go or, if he does " I must go, uncle; so don't be vexed with me." "If you go now, you shall never darken this door again!" replied my uncle fiercely. "I shall iro if the sky falls!" I replied hotly, my blood up and my good sense nowhere. 'Good-byel" I held out my hand to him; but he turned away angrily. Then I bowed low to Lncy and Darcy, who had risen to their feet, as though they would step between me and the door, and, turning quickly on my heel, gained the ball. The next'moment I had picked up my valise and umbrella, and was through the great door and speeding across the lawn. At the gate I glanced back, and saw both Lucy and my uncle standing in the light of the door and gazing after me m the darkness. Scarcely had I passed through the gate and gained the path that led over the cliffs to the village, when rain began to fall. I cared little however for rain or storm; afire burned within me that ex tinguished all else. Even the heavy valise seemed nothing to me, as I sped up the path by which Darcy and I had descended to the house a fortnight be- When I reached the top, I halted. "What a wretched fool I was to bring him herel" I ..cried, as I raised my hand to wipe away the tears that were fast shutting out my last view of the dearest place on earth. "But it's all over now. Good-bye, Lucy; good bye, uncle; good-bye, Llsnaree!" "Presently I heard the deep breath ing of some one panting up the path from the house towards me. "Michael come to say I can have the gig," I muttered bitterly. VBut I shall nt hare it now. A car from O'Kelly will serve me just as well. Is that you Michael?" I called out presently. "So: it's Bugn Darcy!" cried a voice, thick with running; and in a mo ment uarcy stood before me. "Well," I cried flercaly, all my 'rage returning upon me, "what do you want? Why nave you followed me? "I want you to come back to the house," he replied pantingly. "Let us both go together to-morrow, if yoa will go." "I shall never set foot in. Lisnaree House again!" I cried bitterly. "You have driven me from there! And re member, traitor, your path and mine are two in the future!" "Traitor!" echoed Darcy fiercely. "How am I a traitor, and to whom?' "You are a tcvitor to me!" I almost screamed. "You have robbed me of the heart dearest to me in all the world!" "Traitor in your teeth!" cried Darcy "You dragged me to Lisnaree, and here on this very spot you 'led me to think that Lucy Fitzgerald was free! What right had you to bring us to gether without telling me the truth?' he demanded. "I brought you here aa a friend not as an enemy as an honest man, not as a robber!" I exclaimed. "Why should 1 waru you against using what no honest man would do? Why should label Lucy Fitzgerald mine to prevent thieves from stealing her ' "Bahl" cried Darcy scornfully. "She never was yours, I believe." As he spoke, I sprang towards him fiercely. He bad passed me, and stood between me and tho village. "Out of my way!" 1 cried. "I will not fight with you for her false heart, Out of my way!" My words recalled bun to the errand on which he had followed me. Instead of growing more enraged, he suddenly grew calm. "Come, come, Garrettl" be said soft ly. "We will not fight, as you say. But you will come back with me. Lucy sent me for you. It is to please her that 1 am here." "Lucy sent youl" I echoed, "it is to please her that you are here! Go back and please her by saying that I shall never enter her father -s house again. Now out of my way, or I shall str ke youl" I sprang forward again but he still barred my path. I strove to pass him by taking the path just by the cliff edge, but there two he got before me and held out his hands to turn me back towards the house. "Come back, ceme back, for Heaven's sakel" be murmured. "I will leave not you. Why should I come between you? Come back, come back I" "There!" said I, losing all command of myself and striking him across the face. "Therel Will you move now?" For an instant Darcy staggered back his face pale as death, his eyes for the first moment more full of asto ish ment than rage. Then, with a low cry as of a wounded animal, be leaped up on me. At the first shock he almost hurled me to the ground. But I was too strong for him; and presently I sicken now as I tell it my heavy blows laid oren his face in several places. . UU he held on to me JIerc6.'xiarui at last, when t found that he must tire ms- out, I caught him by both arms, shook him a moment as a dog might shake a rat, and then flung bini from me with all my force. A wild cry of despair burst from bis throat and mine as he threw up his arms in the air and toppled over the cliff! For a moment I stood rooted to the spot in horrcr. Then, as footsteps hur rying up the path sounded suddenly close at hand, I started and sp?d towards the village with all my speed. Before long I stood before O'iveiiy, my head bare, my face white as death, my knees almost unable to support me. "Alas, O'Kelly," 1 cried in a hoarse voice, after a pause, "alas, I have murdered my friendl" Then I fell forward upon the floor in a faint, and knew no mora for a time. The footsteps which had frightened me from tho scene of my crime were as I learned afterwards, those of Michael whom I had expected at first. As he came up the path, he caught sight of the last struggle on the cliff, saw Darcy topple over the edge, and strove too late to stay me in my flight. When I awakened to consciousness again, he was standing over me wringing his hands. Oh. Master G irrett," he cried, "I was afeard it would come to this! Why did you bring him down to Lisnaree to put between you an' Jiiss mcyr uat what is to be done now?" "The first thing is for you to hold your tongue," replied O'Kelly. "It's a terrible accident, to be sure, but only an accident, you gomeril, you only an accident!" "Alas, no it was no accident!" I cried. "I flung him over the cliff, and I am a murderer oh, Heavea, a mur derer!" "Whist. Master Garrett, avic, you don't know what you're saying!" mur mured the publican earnestly. "An' you, Micuaei, on ana get a Doat out u search for the body. Mind you hold your tongue about what you saw." 1'erhaps lie may yet oe saveai" i cried starting to my feet. "Is the tide high?" "The tide is at the full," replied O'Kelly. "But, if he went over the cliff, no power on earth could save him." "Heaven might oh,IIeven might!" I replied. "Michael, come along and help me to find him." "Oh, if you go, I go too!" said O'Kel ly. "But mind you hold your tongue about the accident. Master Garrett." "I'll do anything you like. If you only help me to find him," I replied, as we hurried out of the house and down to the beach. There one of the strongest boats in the village was quickly launched, and, though the rain and darkness had in creased, a crew was soon found. A heap of bog fir splinters was thrown into the bottom of the boat, and, with a couple of these alight, we pushed off for the cliff. All that long night we rowed about the spot in vain. One moment I sank down upon the thwarts of the boat ut terly worn oat, the next I was all fiery energy as some new thought occurred to me, some new fancy as to Darcy's salvation, which I had only to test to find foolish as the rest. When morning came, we made one more despairing search backwards and forwards along the beach, then rowed slowly towards the village. As we neared the beach, I sat up on my seat, full of determination a de termination nearly shaken to its foun dation as I saw Lucy and my uncle standing there and straining flieir eyes to see if we had found what we sought. After a moment's pause however, I set my teeth hard. Then 1 sprang to my feet, and, leaping out upon the sand, stroueTiost them towards the centre of the'vulaze. When I had passed them a few steps, Lucy sprang " after me and laid her hand upon my arm. "Is he dead? Have yoa found hfnrf".she asked eagerly, "yet brokenly. "We have not found him andic is impossible he can live," I replied noarseiy. Her hand dropped off my arm and she uttered a low cry. I strode on quickly until I stood before the police station. Here I paused a moment, just to catch a glimpse of the sua lifting its head over the hills to the east, and lighting up the sails of bark a few miles away in the offing. "ow farewell hope and life and everything that makes life dear!' I ex claimed, as I turned quickly and en teral tne station. Then in a few words I told mv tale. and gave myself up as the murderer ol Hugh Darcy. Of Lucy, or the cause oi the ill-feeling between my victim and myself. I said nothing. My story seemed rather to bewilder the serjeant in charge; but presently he gent one of his men to ask Mr. Fitz gerald if he would be so good aa to call at toe barracks on a very important matter. "This is somewhat out of the usual course," he said to me, in explanation, "In the ordinary way I should take you across to the honse. But. as Mr. Fitzgerald is your uncle, aud the near est magistrate, and as you might not wish to ba paraded backwards and for wards before all the pcoplo, I thought he might come here." "Thank you for your attention," I replied in a resigned tone. "But would rather you parade me before all Ireland than before my uncle." "Oh, I should have to take you be fore him anyhow! The only question is whether here or at the house." "Oh, here here, by all means!" I answered. Then I laid my face on the table and shutout the light with my hands. Presently I heard the footsteps of my uncle in the passage outside, and the next moment he entered the room. I started to my feet aud stood before him. lie took no notice of me, but looked at the serjeant. "What is the the important matter you wished to see about, serjeant?" he asked nervously, while his face grew pale a3 death, "is it a charge of any kind? And could it not have been brought before me in the usual way? "It 13 a charge of murder, your wor ship," re pi id the sergeant. "And. as the prisoner" my uncle shivered at the word "is your nephew, I thought you would rrefer to take the charge here." "I I why should you thing so?" asked my uncle trying to loox stern, but failing in the attempt. "My own daughter is nothing to me iu the dis charge of my duty. But but what did you say ? A charge of of murder? Surely not a charge of murder?" "Yes, your worship; tho prisoner hiaiself confesses to it," answered the Be rr Tint, -i- ----- . - - 'Sood'HeaTenTcriedr'my'nncIeTaS he staggered across the floor and sank into a chair. There he sat for a few moments his bands covering bis face. Then he dis closed his while horrified face again. and, carefully avoiding a sight of me. turned to the serjeant. "Well, well," he said, in a broken voice that went to my heart, "go on. I am ready. Are there any witnesses" "les. one of your own servants. sir Michael Flanagan, who. the pris oner tells me, saw the deed." "One of my own servants!" ex claimed my uncle. "Saw the deed! W ell, well, bring him in," 'Here u is. sir," replied the ser jeant, as Michael entered and stood be fore my uncle, shaking m every nmo, as if about to be charged with the crime himself. 'Well, Michael," said my uncle slowly, "what is this you saw this " 'Accident, sir." replied Michael, as if about to faint "it was only an acci dent sir. You see, sir, the gras3 was wet an' slippy, sir, an' the poor young giutleman, sir, he slipped, sir, an' went over, sir. Into the say, you see." 'Oh, Michael, don't think of me speak the truth!" I cried. 'Uncle, swear him." Hold your tongue, Garrett Fits-' gerald!" cried my uncle, attempting, the tone or a juage aeanng wun a re factory prisoner. "So you say. Michael , It was an accident" les. sir jes, your nonor, an acci dent as true as truth." "That disposes of the charge of mur der, I think, serjeant." said my tincle. "But this is still a serious case, and there must be further inquiry, further strict inquiry." "Tho witness has not been sworiyet your worship," replied the sergeant gravely. ' Swear him, swear him!" cried my uncle desperately, while he looked round as if he were the prisoner and wished to escape. "Swear him, by all means! J iVit justitiiiliat justitia ruat Eh. eh, what's all that noise in the street? What's all that shouting about?" As if in answer to him, Lucy rushed into the room. "Oi, papa," she cried gaspingly, yet joyfully, "they've "they've found him! He's not dead! The barque in the bay a boat picked him up and here he comes!" The next moment a crushing, shout ing, cheering crowd surrounded the police-station; and presently, borne by four jeien, Hugh Darcy was carried intj the room. "Saved! Saved!" cried Lucy, as she sprang towards me and threw her arms about my heck. When I stopped to kiss her she had fainted. Half an hour later we were on our way to the house, Darcy borne on a litter, but suffering so little pain that he joked with us on the way. A month's good nursing, taken in turns by Lucy and myself, together with the pure air of Lisnaree soon made him himself again. A month later, "to prevent acci dents," as my uncle said, Lucy and I stood together at the alter of the little church in the village and swore to love each other evermore. By my side stood Hugh Darcy as "best man." and closa behind him was Michael, whose story of the "accident," is stdl the stock piece in the big kitchen of "fc.e house." Hugh Darcy has never married, and has never forgotten to visit us once a year at Lisnaree, He has made a nam a as a famous lawyer, and is po3se3so 1 of a fortune anything but comfortable. "And that fortune." says he, a he sits beside me while I write the 1 nt lines, "shall belong to ber son and yours, my godson, Hugh Darcy Tito genua, when i cue." "May that day, be a distant onef old fellow!" I cry. as ' I trraso his hand: while Lucy enters the room and stands before us, the very picture of a true wire and faithful friend. EIGHT Y-FOCR MILES AX HOCR. The Severest Wind-Storm Experien ced in this Vicinity for Years. i The late storm in this vicinity will be 'signalized in the history of the Signal Service station as the wind at one time during the day reached a velocity oi eighty-four miles an hour, the highest Ithat the officers of the department have been called upon to record, and for the lirst time in this city the storm nags and (cautionary signals had to be lowered. iThe roof of the Equitable Building, on 'which all the instruments for guaglng the wind are located, presented a wea ther-beaten appearance. Every door and blind was bolted down, and the combined heat of three steam radiators and a stove failed to keep the tempera ture of the observer's apartments com fortable. The hurricane signals were set upon the flagstaffs at sunrise and flapped in the wind with a noise like reports of pis. tol-shols. A few minutes after 1C o'clock the wind had increased to fifty five miles an hour, and the stout poles were bent like saplings. The wind con tinued to increase until, at 2 o'clock, it was blowing seventy miles an hour and the flagstaff- were showing signs of giving way. To lower the signal flags it required the combined strength oi four men. naif an hour later an ob servation was taken, and it was fonnd that the wind was blowing eighty-four. The gusts bowled about the windows of the cilice and no one attempted to cross theroor of the building. At the time of the highest squalls the pressure of the wind was thirty-six pounds to the square foot. The temperature fell per ceptibly during the day. At 3 A. M. the thermometer registered 32 degrees 6 A. M., 29; 9 A. M., 24; noon 19; 3:30 P. M., 17; C P. M., 15; 9 P. M. 14; and at midnight, U. The storm vhich will be the subject of special stvdyand investigation by the Signal Service Department, began with a rain-fall Wednesday forenoon and kept Increasing in force during th it night and the next day. Early yester day morning the wind-storm began and a little snow fell. The storm started in the Mississippi Valley and was tht re sult of the junction of a storm mo- ng northwest up the Mississippi rivet and a gale descending from the lake region, The combined force of the two currents took a southeasterly direction and began to travel rapidly towards the coast The storm-center passed over ew lork shortly after 2 P. M. From the Battery to High Bridge th9 hurricane was felt in varying strength, according as the locality was exposed to the sweep of the wind. The dust wa driven in clouds through the side street! and along the avenues forcing its way beneath the windows of the houses and Ilio the reomsi ' At Generat "GranT! tomb it seemed as if the gale would sweep the temporary barracks of tha soldiers over the bluff into the Hudson river. The large flag which usual lj floats over the vault was lowered earl; In the morning and a smaller one sub stituted. Before noon, however, thi sentinel on duty reported that the flag pole was tottering and the flig wai hauled down. The high trestle oa thi Sixth avenue elevated road at Ont Hundred and Tenth street shook an1 trembled with the fury the blast. The wind at this point came m guiU and could be distinctly felt against tlx sides of the cars as they moved at Mom speed across the open space. The wires in a directions were cross ed, and in the line of the gale the tele graph poles were blown down for miles. The results of the various observation! ail over the United States, which am usually received at this station by 4:3i, had arrived only in part at S o'clock last evening. Telephones in this city were almost useless during the day, the wires being crossed and interwoven in such a manner as to break the circuits constantly. The only storm which ap proached this hurricane upon the re cords of the Weather Bureau wa3 the memorable gale of March 2j, IS id, when the wind reached a velocity of seventy-two miles an hour. Honduras. This State is situated in the central portion of Central America. It con tains in round numbers 50,000 square miles of territory, at least one-half of which js composed of mountain ranges and tall foot hill ridges. It is washed, on the western coast, by the long rolling billows of the Pacific Ocean, and on the eastern and northern side by the placid waters of the Caribbean Sea. The entire republic is reticulated by hundreds of perennial streams of water, which, though serving for irrigating purposes and for watering stock, are with but few exceptions navigable. It is probable, however, that the Patook, theUlva, thePlancoand theChemili con might, with but little expense, bs made navigable for many miles into th3 interior. On either coast, for a distance of per haps forty miles into the Interior, a mild type of intermittent fever prevails during the rainy season. This fever is easily broken by treatment, and seldom attacks those who use ordinary precau tions more than once. At a distance of, say, forty miles from the coast the land suddenly attains an altitude of about 2500 feet above the level of the sea. At this altitude mala rial fevers, bronchitis, consumption, diptheria. etc., are unknown, while in valids suffering from any of these com plaints readily achieve a euro in the semi-tropical climate that prevails du ring the entire year. "How long does this train stop for refreshments?" asked a traveller, as he entered a railroad-rest urant In Georgia, "It depends on how hungry de conduc tor am," said the waiter. ' "Where's Johnny?" Inquired Mrs. Blueskin, as she was walking along with ber husband and family. "Oh, he's right behind!" responded the fond father, looking back at his lagging off spring. "Is he? I thought he might be left behind," said Mrs. B., without betraying the slightest emotion. Magistrate "What, prlsonerl Do you mean to say that the witness has perjured himself?" Prisoner "What can he know about me? I don't know him never saw him in my life." Mag istrate "Never saw him..' Why, be was one 'of your associates!" Prisone-J "He wasn't! I don't even know IrJ name. Ask me it, and see if I do." I HOW GLYCERIXE IS MADE, And the Largo Xnmbe-r of Vscs Whicu It Can Be Put, to "Th9 consumption of glycerine for medicinal purposes, arts and manufac tures has grvf .ly increased in the pabt lew years," said a merchant recently "As you are probably aware," he con tinued, "crude glycerine is the by-pro duct of the manufacture of candles. Tallow or other animal or vegetable fats are saponified, with the addition of water, under heat and high steam pres sure, in closed tanks. Tlid neutral fats separate into fatty acids and glycerine, which latter remains dissolved in the water. The solution of glycerine thus formed is concen' rated and sold to re finers. Some of the latter in order to chesi'n the process of refining, bleach their half-retined product by means t,f vegetable or animal charcoal. I his al sorbs the color and also some of the acids still in the glycerine, rendering it for short time inodorous and almost color less ; but the seeds of f urtht-r decompo sition arc not removed, and iu time the acids still contained in the glycerine oxydize and the glvcerine becomes 'off- color.' It should properly be distilled until the last trace of impurities is re moved, when the glycerine liecoines chemically pure, inodorous and color less." "How many manufacturers of glycer ine are there in the country ' "I know of but live three in Cincin nati, one in New York and one in Phil adelphia. Competition has sharpened the wits of our manufacturers and re sulted in many improvements in appa ratus and manipulation so many, m fact, that you would hardly recognize as glycerine the lirst article of that name produced in the country. There arc also numerous foreign glycerines, principally German, in the market. I will tell vou an interesting fact in regard to glycerine. t hen concentrated glycerine is ai- plied undiluted to a chapped or ulcer- ateu uriace it produces a burning sen sation, which to some lx-rsons is almost unbearable. The reason is glycerine has a strong nihility for moisture; it takv-s it from the skin and thus gives rise to the burning sensation. If a small quantity of water is added to the glvcerine Ix-foif it is applied this unple.xsant effect will be observed but little, if at all." " What are the principal uesof g'y- cenne-' "It is used iu the manufacture of ce ment, soap, blacking aud many other ar ticles, and in the improvement of wines. According to the investigations of l'as- teur, Messier and l ohl, it is a compo nent part of wine It docs not ferment or take part in the process of fermenta tion, actively or pasoiv;ly. these valu able properties have given it a linn hold in the improvement of wines. As soon as wine has passed tho fermentation the valuable functions if glvcerine com mence, for bv its aid anv desirable de gree of sweetness can be imparted to the wine without the risk ot spoiling it or producing further changes. Glvceriua is also largely used in preparing leather. and by tobacco manufacturers to keep tobacco from getting dry. These are but a few of the almost countless uses try fcTrreuTt is fxttr. Temptation. 'That's the tenth one this forenoon," said a Woodward-avenue, Detroit, floor walker the other day, as a woman hur riedly passed out. ' hat tenth woman?'' "No; tenth portemonnaie.' '-XV hat do you mean""' "Well, this house bought a job lot of porteinonnaies last spring, and we got 'em so cheap that we could almot give them away. A few days ago I took it into my head to see how many of our customers were honest, and I stuffed a portemonnaie with paper and left it on the ilk counter. It was shyly pocketed lv the verv lirst ladv who discovered it and she is tiie wife of a man worth $"', uu. "And the next?" "Well, we lose an average of tweuty porteinonnaies a day. That means we have twenty women come in here who ire thieves, for it is theft to gobble up lost or mislaid property without saying anything about it." "It must lie interesting to watch em "It is. Now and then a woman will observe the article and hand it over to the clerk, but that is an exception. I liave seen a woman work for half an hour to get the portemonnaie into hn Iocket or shopping bag. But that isn't where the fun comes m." "Where is It?"' "Whv, on a slip of paper stuffed into the little wallet I write- stolen from tho counter of & Co. At least one-half the wallets are returned. There comes a lady now." ;he wasa well-dressed and respectable looking lady. She hail a portemonnaie m her hand and a smue on her face, and as she came near she sweetly said: "Beg pardon, but m trading here this morning I accidentally picked up this purse in some way. I presume it con tains money. I have not even opened it. Please tell the loser that it was alia inis- ke, and I am sorry if I have put her to any trouble." " ery well, ma am. ' "That was well done," said the re porter. 1 es, fairly well, but its the story they all tell. She opened the portemon naie, saw the put up job and tries to play off innocence in retuming .it. We lire all honest, you know, but neverthe less a lost wallet will tempt human na- ure sooner than anv otner bait I know of," How Hattenburs Will Kill Time. Princess Beatrice ana her husband will possibly soon pay a three days' visit to the prince and princess of Wales at Sandrlngham, I hear that the queen requested that they might be invited, but at the same time stipulated that a full list of the proposed party should ba submitted for her approbation. Prin cess Beatrice has never yet been allow ed to visit at any house except when she accompanied the qneen to Broxtnouth or Dunkeld. Prince Henry kills time by shooting every day for several hours. He will be at a loss how to get through his days when the season U over. There will le plenty of occupation, however, for the prince during the next month, as the Osborne estate affords the best cover shooting In the Isle of Wight, and it has always been sedulously preserve!, about 1,000 pheasants usually being kill ed during the month's residence of the court. These covers were formerly given over to John Brown, and nobody else ever fired a gun in them They will be at the disposal of the Duke of Connaught and of Prince Henry. : Tne London TeUgrapH Is printed on paper made of yucca from the Mojava Desert in California. Red remains the dominant color oi the season. Mexican feather work is used on dinner cards. It costs about SI a ton to make artificial Ice. Georgia has a colored Moody In the religious field. Old-fashioned sprigged muslins are in style again. Quarantine on Montreal people has been removed. There areSO.OCJ Postmasters in the German Empire. Fulton, N. Y., is shipping maple logs to England. The word Shenandoah means "the daughter of the stars." The greatest depth ef the ocean is said to be 7.70C fathoms. The Jews expelled by Bismarck are flocking to London. English Methodists give Jl.OOO, 000 a year to home missions. The railroads in the United States give work to G30.000 people. Twenty thousand pounds of salmon are sold every day in London. Pbotogriphs are now taken in one hundredth of a second in Paris. An expert telegraph operator of Erath Co., Tex., is a six-year-old girl. Atlanta is going to have a real estate and stock and bond exchange. A four-inch dead smooth file has -04 teeth to the race or 210 to the inch. Ileal estate in the City of Mexico has trebled m value within the last year. New Orleans was founded by a company of French adventurers in 1741. Canvas worked with gold or silver is used for vests and sashes with black dresses. Boston's most novel notion Is the application of steam power to boot polishing. A page from the Journal of the present Ohio Senate: "Met. Prayed. Adjourned." For the first time in its history the Dutchess county (N. Y.) jail has not a prisoner in it. The Jewish population of Jeru salem is constantly increasing, and now numbers 13,0"O. Quebec will this year send a band of pilgrims to the Holy Land, led by Abbe Provouche. There is one family in Durango, Col., boasting the proud population "f fourteen children. Forty thousand eels have been caught in a single night in the river Shannon, Ireland. The Paris Municipal Council has expelled all foreign children from the communal schools. A Westiield whip drummer re cently traveled 15,000 miles on a West ern business trip. Buckles or brass of the modern form are found buried in the prehls t wis mounds of England. The Vermont Marble Com Dan v has received an order for 100 finished monuments from Australia. It Is proposed in France to tax all foreign residents in that republic eighteen francs per annum. Ihe towns in Colorado are adopting laws prohibiting the transaction of busi ness of any kind on Sunday. The spring sunshine of the holi days started the sap, and in Vermont they are making maple sugar. The Mexican government sunnorts 10,000 public schools, with facilities equal to many of our colleges. Le33 than one-third of the earth and debris that covers the ruins of Pompeii has as yet been removed. The Pillsbury Conring mills at Minneapolis divided f.'J5,0u0 surplus proiita among 1,100 employes last year. One field of ice that passed down the Penobscot lliver recently Is declared to have contained upwards of IjO acres. The colored employes of a Georgia railroad struck last week because of the Appointment of one of their own race as foreman. It is in contemplation to divide I.ondon into ten municipalities, each to enjoy homo rule and au independent civil identity. King Theebaw of Burmah ia having a twenty-ton brass Idol cast for a new pagoda palace which he is con structing. The St. Louis Century Club, the leading literary society of the city, has six men and three women on its Board of Directors, Of the 122 young men in the graduating class in Yale College only fourteen are looking to the ministry as their life work. A pea-sheliing machine has been invented, which can do as much work as several hundred women In the same length of time. Idaho Springs. Co!., offers prizes amounting to $500. and Greeley to the amount or 150 for firemen's tourna ments on the Fourth. The nerlln police authorities have forbidden all public performances in theaters and circuses with trained Hons and other wild animals. California has on hand a surplus of 60,000,000 bushels of wheat. An isthmian railroad would add millions to the value of this stock. The oldest and largest tree in the world is a chestnut near the foot of Mount Etna. The circumference of the main trunk is 212 feet. An original but sensible bill has been introduced into the Iowa Senate. It enables husbands or wives of In curably insane persons to marry again. Middleton, N. H., has no doctor. lawyer nor clergyman. The last physi cian lived there in 1S55 and the last clergyman moved away ten years ago. The Church of England has nine preaching stations along tae line of the Panama Canal. There are a large number of Englishmen among the workmen. In Paris it costs 3 to cremate a body, and this includes coal and labor with an urn tlirown In. In Milan the cost is only 51.40, but they give no um or chroma. In St, Petersburg there are 70 miles of street railway, on which there are 395 cars, propelled by 2,000 horses and 9 locomotives. Fifty-one million of passengers are carried yearly. The dies from which the first United States cents, those coined In New Haven and called the Franklin, were cast are now usexi as paper weights in a counting-room at New Haven. i 9 r 1 - -- ' 1 rfir ?ffr'ifflH
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