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AT Al DIKU.NIi
x:r Arthur Sclwyn, lUrt., La.ly
Ma-iiMa "; ii, iforKliia Saville,
.'vi.;e Il.'iiif, Ilatuptou. Surtey,
Kutf ati'l. I'll in UJ tliree travelers
insir b.- thwiiM'lve.i on tlie register ol
U.-!rl i'..i"w toulier at AuJierae,
l i'.l.rr U'-y li.i't tven conveyeJ in kn
ai.t.ii'i.itt-J beiliu from luiuitier-Cov-n
l:u.
Vny r.istly .;i:i.-.iit'J were they, tbia
'i.iv.ni: ji.ui; ciaij.lr. who bad taken
t.i ttie continent imuietl lately
i.p..!-j i.'iium i.itioii of the nuptial
Lriie.ix'.iou, and tin.- gentle Ctrl, youn
s i;er of l.aily M.tlilda, who knew
inr.li:ug of life save through the pages
of tlit; romances of Itichardson and Miss
Burney. Wliile w.utiugdinner the new
couiws amused theinelvts by looking
out f tl.e win. lows of the dining room,
ami . re delighted with the gay as-j-ct
i'ie?eiiteil by the tlocks of the little
Uretoii village. It. waa at the cloae of
.n- teii.i ei : t; e cod ti-Uing otT the coast
of KeLn .l I .i i heen favorable, all the
;,l eiii,en were irtiirning to port, none
t.iv;i. i' s: the iuiiui-r of their niess,
tint cieat Hal. r.sH, Hie sea. Laving for
ome shown herself clement.
Wliiie the two ICngUali women prat
:1 m that ft accent which on femi
u:ue US translonus the. rude Suion
iU.oiii into bit'lilkn wartllng, a man
rnteieil at. 'I seated himself at the table.
Very strange m uptarance waa this
ler-Hii:.ie; ins uttire was negligent, bis
branl stragjiiug, his hairhuug down to
his sliioiI.U-i -i, his nose was iniuillne,
h'.i niontli iiisd.nnrul, his bis blue eyes
niriundio'y mid troubled at least so
tliiiiiht M--s .ivii;e. A few moments
later Ihehi'Si, of the hottt bustled In
au i haleiird to present the stranger.
'My guest, the physician of Au-da-ri.e,''
he Bind, with something ol
erui'li".-'
i.i.l as Sir Arthurlowed slighlly, he
milled: "a feilow countryman."
No uiatl.-r in what part of the world
(ouuil, lor a native born Briton the
title of "Englishman breaks the ice;
tlie larimet unbent and extended his
tai.d to the doctor, who appeared in
no seu.-e overpowertd by the conde
scension. "tril forgiv me," murmured Lady
Matilda, "but this village doctor seems
to cotiM'ler himself on a footing of
quality w'.tli a baronet. One must
euxe to France to sej anythiug so ex
traordinary." Whatever he might think or be, the
doctor expressed himself la choice
terms and the purest English. Ills
nuiewl,.it ferocious physioguomy light
ei.ed up as he talked. lie was enthu-.a?tu-u.
'y in love with 15rlttany, and
he i'r.i:.-.l her sceu'.c beauty with per
suasiveelinpieiiee. lie made interested
listeners of the little ilugllsU party,
limner was long over, but no one cared
tn leave the tab.e. Vk'rio, In the course
of a life, has not a remembrance of one
of these loin and seemingly endless
chats with a fellow countryman far
from home, who may hanpen to be the
improvised friend o au hour's ac
.lu.iiutance. As the clock struck 10 the doctor
ijuickly rose.
The pleasure of speaking my mother
tongue once more Las ruaiie me forget
the flight of t.me," he said, "ana I
must hid you good night. But do not
ht.l to visit, tefore you leave, the
famous caves of Douamenez."
'"That IS lllll ossilile " rnliil T.al
Matil.l.i. "We have ouly one day to
devote to this place, and to-morrow
there ii a Pardon at IVnmarch that has
rather excited our curiosity."
"Much obliged for vour Tardon,"
exclaimed her sister, who bore the pet
nameol (ir.gory; "but I would iruch
rather visit the caves."
' Nothing easier iu the world,' said
tfc doctor. "I am going to see a
patient at Trogtieur to-morrow and
ciin Lffer yon a seat iu my pony chaise.
e can readily push on to Douarne
Ilez., "I accept gladly," responded Gre
i"r, giving herself no uneasiness, not
it!.3taiiiiiuS the stormy glances shot
it !r by her sister.
"Very well, then; that is settled,"
pursued the doctor, "To-morrow at
t on " IC'i Slli1'' e a' our P08'"
Har lly had tiiey returned to their
'kt.i.g mom when Matilda broke forth
'a wrath.
'"ion naughty, rartlepated, ungov
r.iab.e girl, have you lost your senses?
'-'ve you become a fool, that you thus
"range to k- riding about the country
r';"-ureak with a complete stran-
should I refuse a proposition
.e with so much good grace?' re
wniM the yJlltl woman, -and one
snrTUnfJ by our EndHah usage? I'm
v,fi Arlhur "on't blame me for it.
ill you r"
ttn' ut " an'" spiled Sir Arthur. "I
confess that this melancholy look-
tte 7,ll''mlt, has made a conquest of
B- He has the style of a perfect jren-
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t!. , r. C,reRory to his care. It is a llt-
-;"r.u.ar, out t.lat man's
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...'"1.1"'.taiir' reason for belmr on one's
Sot i ,' . f"1'1 ''y lwyn- "One does
t.. h, , 1 al,i!"n Lome and friends
"Nr: niy Jeilr-" "a'J the baronet.
thing. lDeT arB eatable of any-
limit ,, , 13 c that passes the
hm.ir r Vtt m. conceals
TTr" 'or some rr.r. r.Uon. ..
- "Jh, Bay ngU out that be has com
mitted a crime and have done with It,"
cried the impetuous Gregory. "Good
night, I'm going to bed now. so that
I may be up by sunrise to-morrow."
. .
Long before the appointed hour the
little Englishwoman was watching at
her window. The doctor was punctual
to the moment. Gregory stole away
softly, trembling lest his sister should
venture to assert her authority. But
Lady Matilda slept peacefully beside
her lord, and no one hindered the girl
from mounting the doctor's pony chaise
which set off at a smart gallop. The
doctor no longer wore the attractive
air that had marked him during the
conversation of the previous night; his
face was sorrowful as ir painful
thoughts had haunted him all through
the hours of darkness. Georglna re
mained silent and just a little fright
ened, gazing at the landscape which
liradualiy revealed itself with the rising
of the morning mist; the sterile moor
and the stretches of heath reaching far
beyond the line of sight. Hardly a
dozen words had been exchanged be
tween the yald when Trogueur was
reached and the doctor drew rein to
call on his patient.
While the young lady waited for him
glancing at a volume of Tennyson that
he bad brought with her with a view
to killing time, two washerwoman were
hard at work in a neighboring pond,
beating their linen with wooden bats to
get out the dirt.
"Say, Jeanne," said one, "who's
going to pay the fees of this tine gent
that's doctoring Magloire? The poor
coot hasn't got a ceut."
"Fees for the doctor of Audiernel"
ejaculated the other. "That shows,
my dear, that you haven't been very
long in this part of the country. Why,
girl, his science, his remedies and
everything else he gives for nothing;
night and day bis little trap Is rolling
along the roads; be is at l'eumarch, at
1'logofX, at Douamenez no matter
where, so long as there is some unfor
tunate to be helped. Seems to me that
our good God sent him here to be a
blessing in our villages where life is
so hard and wretched.
Georgy allowed her book to fall
from her hand and became an eager
listener.
What! This man wai rich! He
might live in luxurious ease, and yet
he bail thrown himself into this barren
country as one enters La Trappe or La
Grand Chartreuse. What could have
led his steps thither? Charity, despair
or remorse? Here was a mystery that
the romantic maiden would gladly t
enlightened upon, but the sphinx
seemed Indisposed to part with her
secrets.
The sick call ended. The doctor re
sumed the reins of the light vehicle
and in half an hour they stopped at
the Hotel deXorvege. Gregory hurried
down her breakfast to that she might
rush to the beach.
The gray mists bad disappeared, a
radiant sun illuminated the bay in all
its ity-four kilometres of circumfer
ence. The Uu Ilia-' uplifM-d their
iu.itrr.ts within easy reach like so many
era ban It-r! fortresses, while at ttie verge
of the horizon the Daretx hilht sank
away into the waves like the foothills
of 1'ausillipus in the bay of Ba;:e. Tne
wives of the fishermen were squatted
out on the strand mending nets; chil
dren played around in hosts like kit
tens sunning themselves, and the sea
faring men, justly luxuriating in their
rest after hard labor, consumed tobacco
with much and becoming gravity.
a .
Georgina w as delighted. She entered
each of the caves opening along the
coast, eager to see, collect and carry
away ail of ocean's treasurers that
were udfolded before her gaz;; the soli
tary crabs in their grotesque shells, the
sea anemones in their yellow glitter
and all the host of marine worthies bad
an uudescribable charm for her. Mie
laughed merrily, when her feet, slipping
on the treachesous moss, splashed the
water that was hidden in the rocky
rifts; she shrieked with tear when long-legged'ctaw-tish
or lobsters in the throes
of digesting heavy meals came within
her purview, wrapped up like monks in
long, brown cowls. The doctor,
following slowly after her and smiling
at the childish delight of the girl, ex
amined his watch at length and said:
"We had better hurry. We have
been amusing ourselves too long. You
must know that this is no longer pleas
autery with us. The tide lills these
caves completely when it rises to the
full "
And when the girl insisted upon
gathering a fresh collection of sea
shells, he cried.
"For the love or heaven, no more
imprudence! Here we are at the ex
tremity of the shore and iu order to
return to Douamenez we musi aouoie
Point de la Chevre. Half an hour lon
ger and it will be impossible,"
Both quickenea tueir steps uuu iuo
wind drove the waves along with un
common force. In vain they sought
refuge on the narrow path that skirts
the caves; whirlwinds of sand and
drifts of sand blinded them and clogged
their pace. Skudderingly, In spite or
herself. Georsrina recalled the beautiful
scene in "The Antiquary," which a
short time before she nail reaa in me
terrace of Savllle park to the piacia
murmurings of the Thames.
Suddenly she observed her compan
ion grow pale. J hey nau rracueu
spot where the beach, making a sudden
turn, formed a point iu the sea. There,
an hour previously women were singing
iunn r and children were playing iu
the sund; nothing now was visible but
a vast stretch of troubled ocean.
Toor child," cried the doctor. In
distress, "what a sin of me to have
v.i-.-.tirht. rnn intii this terrible danger.
But all is not lost. We can call for
a : b.1 tkA ka,n-i1
neip, anu possiuiy j uaj
An.i with his Hturdv voice he sought
to dominate the tempest. Her feeble
treble was joined to his shout, but none
heard their call. They ran from edge
to edge of the narrow spot of beach
which was left to them, but which was
hinir constantly encroached on by the
tide. The waves became mountainous
n.i fairlv rushed upon them. Five
minutes more and they would be en
gulfed. . .
"Alas!" moaned Gregory, benumbed
with terror, "what an awful fate, to
die thus, a girl of 16 and only at the
threshold of life. Save me, doctor, for
the love of God I"
Without answering, the doctor drag
ged the girl to one ot the adjacent
caves. Imminent danger inspired him
with a desperate resolution. He deter
mined to climb to the utmost height of
the natural arch and there fight to the
last the incoming of the waters. The
horrified girl found her strength fauln
her; ten times she essayed to scale the
lagged point of granite and as often
she fell back with lacerated and bleed
ing hands. At length by a marvelous
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exertion of strength and address, the
doctor managed to raise himself to the
summit of a rock, which commanded
the whole sweep of the cavern, and
drew Miss Saville up aft him to a
point of precarious safetr. w.en a sin
gle false movement might pruclpitate
them into space or dash them against
the rocky sides or the recess. Already
the sea began to wa.-h the base of the
cliff. Stopped .r an instant by the
narrow opening, tiey returned the next
moment with monotonous and terrible
regularity. The flood gradually gained
the victory, the hollows and channels
of the sod were first filled, then the
rocks were swiftly gained on by the
advancing sea and in turn disappeared.
Molluscs, crabs, lobsters and shell fish
of all sorts recovered trom their torpor
and began a busy quest for food, a
whole submarine world sprang into
activity and a crystalline light like that
of an aquarium filled the cave. An
enormous breaker struck the rock on
which the doctor and bis trembling
companion had taken refuge; a second
would Inevitable topple it over. Greg
ory closed her eyes that she might not
see the approach of death.
Several moments ot unutterable an
guish were spent when the doctor said:
"Be brave, child; we are now safe.
The tide will rise no higher to-day.
It will remain at flood tor an hour,
then it will begin to fall, and tn two
hours we will be able to walk hence
dry shod, while in three hours Point de
la Cherve will be released from Its
watery embrace."
Yes, but how are they to live during
that time, bent double and cramped up
on their risky perch, suffocated by the
heavy, foul air, their position growing
momentarily more difficult. The act
ive vigilance of the doctor never de
serted him. Carefully he drew from
bis pocket a phial of cordial and forced
a few drops between Gregory's clenched
teeth, and at the same time briskly
rubbed the stiffening arms of the sense
less girl who was, despite herself, rap
idly falling Into lifelessness.
How slowly and painfully the hours
dragged along. As soon as the tide
permitted, bruised and stiff with their
double imprisonment, they descended
from their sore but saving perch,
crawling along the wall like lizards,
Gregory too feeble to walk and her
guide no longer able to carry her.
Happily their absence had awakened
general uneasiness, and search expedi
tious were organized on their behalf.
They were soon discovered and taken
to the Hotel de Xorvege, where they
dried their dripping garments before a
roaring wood lire. Miss Savllle insist
ing upon starting back to Audierne
without losing an instant, for she knew
that her brother-in-law, Sir Arthur,
and her sister would be In a state of
normal terror because of her protracted
absence.
Night had fallen. The pony chaise
rolied along the silent country road.
The villages were wrapped in slum
ber. How good it lelt to live after
having sat face to face with death,
saved by him, and to be alone with him
In this starry night following a day of
tempestl They approached Audierne;
at the end of the road the steeple of the
village church uplifted its gray pro
file.
"I shall never forget this day."
whisiered Gregory she did not dare
say "I shall never forget you."
'And I," returned the doctor, "shall
never recall it without emotion. In
five minutes we shall separate; perhaps
to say good-bye forever, but in my exile
I shall often invoke the image of my
charming companion of a dangerous
day."
.Never to meet more! Gregory felt
her heart turn to ice; she completely
lost her head anil seuse ot propriety.
"Why should we ever part?" she
asked in a choking voice, "One word
and my hand is yours,'
ot joy but a sal astonisnment was
it thai transtigured the features of the
physician.
"You dear innocent child," he an
swered softly, "look at me, 1 am more
than double your age. Can you not
see that wrinkles are already creeping
into my face? My heart is still more
seared with scars. My life Is Mulshed;
yours is only about commencing. For
get me, or rather, if you sometimes do
me the grace to think of me, let it be
in your prayers."
"But what matter the years which
you so cruelly oppose to me," she cried,
"when I love your"
"You are imprudent," he replied,
with emotion. "Do you know the man
whom you think you love? Do you
know that lie hides in his exile a past
that nothing can efface? He is as dead
to all of his blood as though he were
already deioited in the tombs of his
ancestors. Shudder, well you may; for
the man beside you has blood on his
hands!"
It was too much, the day had been
too full of emotion, and the over exci
ted girl swooned. When she returned
to her senses she was on her couch and
Lady Matilda w as seated by her side.
As she seemed to interrogate her with
a glance. Gregory, glad of a chance of
easing her aching heart, poured out the
whole history of her day's adventure.
Hardly bad she concluded when Lady
Selwyn cried:
"Now I remember all! The doctor
of Audierne is none other than Lord
Henry Fltzroy, whose adventure caused
such a terrible scandal in Loudon so
ciety. I had good reason to dread this
man. He had been fatal to all with
whom he has come in contact. Lady
Otney, one of the most beautiful and
virtuous women of the court was his
latest victim. She eloped with him
from her ancient spouse and they fled
to a feudal manor in Scotland which
the Fizroys have possessed for centu
ries. One evening, while walking on a
terrace at whose foot flows the Clyde,
the dishonored husband suddenly
sprang upon them with a drawn pistol,
which he fired at the lady. In frenzied
rage Lord Fiteroy seized Lord Otney
and flung him into the Clyde, an im
petuous river that never gives up its
prey. Lady Otney lost her reason and
? . . ... ,.. TSM.nAA
her oeirayer iooa m ugc iu a iuwii
where he puts to good use a science
that be had studied for occupation in
his leisure, but the good that be does
to-day can never blot outtbe evil of his
past. At your age, my sweet sister,
one becomes easily consoled; before
long, I trust, you will have forgotten
this unhappy hero of romance."
"That will never be," cried the un
haopy girt, whose cheeks were already
glowing with incipient fever. "At the
very threshold of lire my heart is mur
.Wa.. mr first affection disdained. I
feel deadly ill, but dont try to have me
cured. Why should I live any longer?
Of what good am I In this world?"
. - ui with riAltnnm AnrV for
six weeks she lay a sufferer from fcAkia
O0IBTITUTI0I TKB HTI01 AID
JUNIATA COUNTY.
fever. The doctor of Audierne fre
quently called to enquire about her; it
will readily be understood that she was
not under his care.
As soon as she became convalescent
Miss Saville returned with her family
to England. Never was the subject of
the strange attachment that sprang up
in the caves of Douamenez mentioned
by the two sisters. Gregory had de
clared her intention of leading a s ngle
life and resolutely declined many offers
of marriage.
Six years later, on Christmas eve,
Gregory beheld her sister. Lady Sel
wyn, mortally prostrated under an
attack ot congestion of the lungs.
"Dear sister," whispered the dying
woman, "had you died at Audierne,
who now would there be to care for my
two little girls?"
Miss Saville understood from that
moment that she had no longer any
right to dispose of her destiny, and she
solemnly promised her sister to be a
mother to her orphan children.
She kept her word. Her romantic
visions gave place to inflexible reality.
The fond dreams of the past she re
tained, but as a soft and melancholy
memory. Many years after she learned
that the doctor of Audierne had died
on the field of honor attending the
victims of a fell epidemic, and the lips
of the old maid murmured a prayer for
the soul of the guilty one who had so
nobly expiated bis sin.
A SL'UOKOVS L.IFK.
A Pivgo From Hie KajMrrience or tho
Fat tier of Surgery in Ilia Day.
I have always maiuuuued that it Is
impossible tor any man to be a great
surgeon if he Is destitute, even in a
considerable degree, of the finer feelings
ot oar nature. I have often lain awake
for hours the night before an important
operation, and suffered great mental
distress for days after it was over,
until I was certain that my patient was
out of danger. I do not think that it
is possible for a criminal to feel much
worse the night before his execution
than a surgeon when he knows " that
upon bis skill and attention must de
pend the fate of a valuable citizen,
husband, father, mother or child. Sur
gery under such circumstances is a ter
rible taskmaster, feeding like a vulture
upon a man's vitals. It Is surprising
that any surgeon in large practice
should ever attain a respectable old
age, so great are the wear and tear of
mind aud body.
The world has seen many a sad pic
ture. I will draw one of the surgeon.
It is mid-day; the sun is bright and
beautiful; all nature is redolent of joy;
men aud women crowd the streets, ar
rayed in their best, aud all. apparently,
is peace and happiness within and
without. In a large house, almost
overhanging this street so full of life
and gayety, lies upon a couch an ema
ciated figure; once one of the sweetest
and loveliest ot her sex, a confiding and
affectionate wife and the adored
mother of numerous children, the sub
ject of a frightful disease of one of her
limba, or, it may be of her jaw, if not a
still more important part of her body.
in an adjoining room is the surgeon,
with his assistants, spreading out his
instruments and getting things in
readiness for the impending operation.
He assigns to each his appropriate
place. One administers chloroform,
another takes charge of the limb; one
screws down the tourniquet upon the
principal artery, and another holds
himself in readiness to follow the knife
with his sponge. Tha flaps are soon
formed, the bone severed, the vessels
tied, and the huge wound approxima
ted. 1 he woman Is pale and ghastly,
the pulse hardly perceptible, the skin
wet with clammy perspiration, the
voice husky, the sight indistinct. Some
one whispers into the ear of the busy
surgeon: "The patient, I fear is dy
ing." Restoratives are administered,
the pulse gradually rises, and after a
few hours of hard work and terrible
anxiety reaction occurs. The poor
woman was only faint from the joint
induence of the antithetic, shock, and
loss of blood. An assistant, a kind of
sentinel, is placed as a guard over her,
with instructions to watch her with the
closest care, and to send word the mo
ment the slightest change for the worse
Is seen.
The surgeon goes about his business,
visits other patients on the way, and at
length, long after the usual hour, he
sits down, worried aud exhausted, to
his cold and comfortless meal, with a
moulh almost as dry and a voice as
husky as his patient's. He eats mechan
ically, exchanges hardly a word with
any member of his family, aud sud
denly retires to his study to prescribe
for his patients never, during all this
time, forgetting the poor, mutilated
object he left a few hours ago. He Is
able to lie down to get a moment's re
pose after the severe toll of the day,
suddenly he hears a loud ring of the
bell, and a servant, breathless with ex
citement, begs his immediate presence
at the sick chamber with the exclama
tion, "They think Mrs. is dying."
He hurries to the scene with rapid pace
and anxious feeling. The stump is of
crimson color, and the patient lies in a
profound swoon. An artery has sud
denly given way, the exhaustion is ex
treme; cordials and stimulants are at
once brought Into requisition, the
dressings are removed, and the recu
sant vessel is secured.
The vital current ebbs and flows, re
action is still more tardy than before,
and It is not until a late hour of the
night that the surgeon, literally worn
out in mind and body, retires to bis
home in search of repose. Does he
sleep? He tries, but he cannot close
his eyes. His mind Is with his patient,
he hears every footstep upon the pave
ment under his window, aud is in
momentary expectation of the ringing
of the night bell. He is disturbed by
the wildest fancies, he sees the most
terrific objects, and, as be rises early in
the morning to hasten to bis patient's
chamber, he feels that lie has been
cheated out of the rest of which he
stood so much in need, is this picture
overdrawn? I have sat for it a thou
sand times, and there is not an educa
ted, conscientious surgeon that will
not testify to its accuracy.
Japanese l-'avshiuus.
The dress of Japanese women and
children is uniformly of bright-hued
calicoes, fresh and clean, their bead
covering a gayly lacquerred bamboo hat
of native manufacture. Every woman
must have elaborate inlaid silver breast
pins with which to fasten her loose
upper robes. Some bamboo hats are
exquisite specimens ot plating; the fin
est qualities are made ot carefully pre
pared strips ot bamboo, costing In Ban
tam but a mere trifle, while in Paris
they are retailed at a profit of nearly
1,000 per cent, as true Panama baM.
TXZ EROSOEICZXT OF TUB LATB.
PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOHEU 12. ISS7.
THE POTENT STEAM WHISTLE.
Stanley and Other Explorers Scaring
the Natives Oat of Their Wit.
When a traveler takes a steamboat
for the first time upon an unexplored
river he usually finds that the whistle
is as potent as a howitzer would be in
keeping unfriendly natives at a re
spectable distance. The cable informed
us recently that when Stanley reached
the big town of Yambunga, on the
Aruwiml River, the village was de
populated In a twinkling by a blast
from one ot his steamboat whistles.
When they found that nothing had
hart them, however, they came back.
The scare they got may have accounted
for the friendly reception they gave
Stanley. When he visited this town
several years ago the people would not
sell him a particle of food. They had
abundauce. as be was able to ascertain,
though they pleaded that they were In
a stuxving condition. This time, however,
they sold him plenty of eatables, and
did what they could to speed him on his
way.
Nothing impresses a savage more
than a big noise, and nothing inspires
him with greater terror than a noise he
does not understand. Baron Von
Schwerin says that firearms are chiefly
useful to the Congo natives for the
noise they can make with them. He
thipks the native with a gun in his
hand is not half so much to be feared
as when he is armed with his lance.
Flintlock muskets and gunpowder are
two leading articles of import into the
Congo region, but as yet the natives
use them merely to contribute a regu
lar Fourt of July racket to all festive
occasions. Y hole kegs of gunpowder
are sometimes burned to celebrate a
victory in war or the advent of a new
chief. Sometimes the wretched guns
burst, to the great personal injury of
the men who handle them, but these
tragic incidents do not shake the native
faith in the white man's shooting Iron
as, on the whole, a very innocent and
most enjoyable plaything.
But these puffing steamboats that are
evidently things of life are great
sources of terror on first acquaintance,
an ! when the strange swimming mon
sters emit an earthly shriek everybody
within hearing feels that it is high time
to take to the woods. Grt nfeli. Wolf,
and other Congo explorers, triumph
antly proved the elHcacy of the steam
whistle on occasions when the natives
were determined to be hostile at short
range; and when Capt. Everill ascended
the Fly River in New Guinea two
yevs ago. meeting many unfriendly
tribes, a blast from his steam whistle
was usually enough to cause a let up in
the showers of arrows that everywhere
greeted him.
Ljovc at lait.
- Out of a small brown house on the
outskirts of White Plains a young girl
stepped one evening in June. She was
dressed with one white cap and apron
of a lady's maid, and looked cautiously
her as she walked stealthily
along the lane. She had not proceeded
very far before a man stepped from be
hind one of the trees that stood on
either side of the road and confronted
her.
"Dolly," he said. In a trembling
voice, "what does this mean? 1 saw
you coming out of that house where
they ten me ouly an old woman lives.
I heard a man's voice and saw his
shadow. Tell me what this means? I
demand it!"
"Can you not trust me, Edward?"
the girl stammered, trembliug; "1 can
not. dare not, conQde in you!"
He stood silent looking at her for
some minutes, then turned sadly away,
never looking back, and was swallowed
up in the night. The next morning
Mr. and Mrs. Perkins were discussing
a late breakfast in the back parlor.
Mr. Perkins exclaimed suddenly in
looking over his mail: "Why do you
know that fellow you made me work
to get clear from the charge of house
breaking proves to be a son of old
Murderer Lark Ins, who escaped from
justice ten years ago, and for whose
recapture there has beeu ever since a
reward of $5,000 offered."
".Nonsense." cried Mrs. Perkins,
conclusively. "Why, you forget my
man is Dolly's father!"
"As if that hindered it!" impatiently
ejaculated Mr. Perkins rising. "I tell
you my lawyer has evidence that your
man is a house-breaker, and the son of
a murderer, and you've made me make
a fool of myself, and it ain't the first
time."
"But do consider, dear," replied the
wife in a mollifying and convincing
tone. "I've had Dolly years, and she'd
be as afraid of a house-breaker or a
murderer as I would myself."
Mrs. Perkins here evinced some In
dications of bursting into tears. Mr.
rerkins, knowing his own weak point,
hastened to avert such a painful climax.
"After all," he said, concillatingly,
"It is likely to end in the security of
both men. A detective is"
At this moment the conjugal confi
dence was interrupted. Dolly herself
stood before them.
She looked excited, and asked ir
mission to "go out for an hour's air
ing." When she was gone, the master of
the house said severely.
"The girl must be watched. Let
this be the last time she goes out
alone."
Mi s. Perkins perceived a certain look
In her husband's eyes that caused her
to meekly respond:
"Yes, dear."
"How rldiculods men are!" she pet
ulantly exclaimed to herself, when
alone. "As if I would keep poor
Dolly In to prevent her from such ab
surdity as seeing murderers!"
Meanwhile Dolly, by a circuitous
route, but with great speed, hastened
again to old Mrs. Prim.
She entered unbidden at the rear of
the cottage, where no opening was
visible to the uninitiated.
Within, an old man crouched In the
most obscure corner ol a aaritenea
room.
In a plaintive minor key, he cried:
"You can't come in, whoever you
are you'v no business here. Keep
away! Mary, Mary! come and send
them off.'
The poor wretch shook like a palsy,
and was only induced by the presence
and urgency of old Miss Prim to re
move his skinny hands from his hag
gard face.
He was a vivid illustration that the
wages ot sin are something more than
physical death.
"Oh. grandmother." cried Doily. "I
did not mean to frighten him, but
there is need for haste, Indeed indeed
there is!"
"There la none," responded the old
woman, heroically. "Do you suppose
I am not ready for this? Do you think
I have bid and guarded him these ten
years to let him outwit me now?"
Looking about, Dolly then for the
first time perceived evidence of prepar
ation for flight.
The old woman went up to the
trembling wretch and slid, comfort
ingly, -Don't be afraid. I saw a man
around here last nuht, but he shan't
lay a hand on you.'
With the confidence of a sleep
walker or a monomaniac, the old woman
'ed her charge forth toward a wood at
the rear of the cottage.
She appeared to have utterly for
gotten Dolly, who was left sitting there
blankly, entirely alone.
Some words of the old woman still
rung in her ears.
Was Edward there, her Edward, the
representative of a law ani justice that
would destroy all of hers?
Dolly was no sophist to question the
rectitude of her position. If her
hands fell listlessly in her lap. if her
blue eyes filled with tears, it was be
cause she had lost her lover, not be
cause she had helped to evade justice.
"In this dejected attitude she sut,
too much engrossed iu mourning after
her lover to see him enter.
"Dear, faithful, true girl, I have
found you out at last," said a voice
that electrified her.
Dolly, the whilom, proud, piquant
Dolly, thrw herself in au attitude ot
supplication at the feet of her lover.
"Do not ob, do not!" she cried,
"hunt him down. If you could see
him, if you knew of his repentance,
his misery oh, spare him."
"Why, bless your dear heart," an
swered the detective, raising Dolly in
his arms. "I wouldn't touch him it
he'd eaten my grandmother. How
could I know? 1 wa3 in hot pursuit
of the five thousand dollars reward to
set my little wife up in housekeeping
in a style worthy of her. Now she
will have to be content with something
plainer. But no! you are my prisoner.
I can lock you up in jail if I will. Now
beg me not to!"
"Can you tolerate me, knowing all?
Can you overlook my being"
"If you will ask with your arms
around my neck, I think I can bear
it," answered the detective. "In fact,
I don't think I could tolerate your
being the least bit in the world differ
ent from what you are!"
Two hours later they appeared before
Mrs. Perkins. Dolly beaming, Ed
ward looking like a shorn Samson, and
asked her consent to a speedy mar
riage. That evening Mrs. Perkins triumph
antly explained to her husband that he
was altogether mistaken about Dol.y
having anything to do with the mur
derers. "How do you know, dear?" he asked.
"Why, she is actually to le married
in a week to the detective who is here
hunting them."
This was conclusive, and Hon. Mr.
Perkins ejaculated "Ohl"
A OamMinsr 1 " f Two lKtliarx I'ilyb
Twenty Thousand.
T was talking with a gentleman from
Nebraska recently, aud he was telling
me of the wonderful jump real estate
has taken in some parts of that State,
but one incident he quoted was par
ticularly interesting. He said that
about two years ago a former regular
army officer, an acquaintance of his.
called ou him with the deeds of some
property in his city aud asked him
where the property was located. It
was in the evening and the gentleman
told the officer to stop with linn all
night and they would look up the proi-
erty in the morn in j. Tiiey had a pleas
ant evening, going over old army life
aud swapping stories of life on the
frontier when tiiey were both young
and lively aud were liable to bet a
month's salary on a poker hand.
In the morning they looked up the
property, which happened to consist of
five acres of good laud within the limits
of the city.
"What do you think it is worth?"
asked the officer.
"About twenty thousand dollars,"
was the answer.
"I've beeu offered ten tnousand dol
lars for it," said the officer, "and I'm
glad 1 met you. Now do you know how
I got that property?"
"I haven't the slightest idea, unless
you bought it," answered the gentle
man. 'Well, I took it for a two dollar
poker debt when I was on the frontier
years ago."
Great Scott! A twenty thousand dol
lar property for two dollars. Join the
array aud go West aud play poller.
Honor Anions OvtK.ie.
It may be strange information for
those who regard gypsies as outlaws
that no people living are more regard
ful than they of the law aud the rights
of others. But that is true. Go where
you will along the quiet countrysides
of our land, where, as the sunny days
of the year return, they bring these
welcomed cavalcades among the farm
and village folk foi tha annual dlcker
ings and duckerings, and you will find
that no gypsy family or band pitches its
tents, builds its fires and puts its beasts
together without an actual legal bar
gained right to do so. Sometimes the
price Is paid in money, sometimes iu
tinkering, sometimes in dicker or horse
or mule, and sometimes even in free
fortune telling for the farmer's family.
But it is always paid. From the
Pemaquan of Maine across the conti
nent to Los Angeles, and every w here
north and south where farm homes are
in ail that mighty distauce, the gypsy
camp fires are annually relighted above
the ashes of the last year's cheer ou
this clean cut, canny plan.
A Dummy AVayinjr a Handkerchief.
It is a custom among railroad men
whose homes are situated within view
of their passing trams to be always on
the platform of the cars and to salute
their wives or other members of the
family, who are generally at the win
dow at the time wbeu the trains pass.
The conductors and brakemen have
come to regard it as a duty on the part
of their families to be at the window.
A certain conductor on the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad,
whose home is near Orange, N. J., is
very particular to have this custom ob
served and only discovered recently
that his wife, for an Indefinite period,
has been circumventing him by having
a dummy dressed in ber clothes near the
window With a flutteilng handkerchief
that gave ber husband the idea she was
there waiting to salute him.
L.CTIES LOVER.
Th Story of a Scarlet Shawl.
Lutle, my sister, worked in a fash
ionable millinery store, and I made a
few dollars every week on fancy bask
ets and picture frames, which I sold in
the city. It was an awful come-down
for me, who had known what the com
forts of an elegant home were, but
there was no help for it, since papa
died and left us'almost without a dol
lar. Lutie came home one night in the
rain from her work in a very excited
condition. She looked flushed and her
eyes were full of a strange fire. I did
not ask her what the matter was be
cause I thought she would tell me If
she wanted me to know. At supier
time a boy brought a note for her. She
turned very pale as she said:
"Take this back: where you receive!
it, and tell the writer never to send
another."
I was at a booth, some months later,
looking after my little stock, when 1
saw a tall, liue looking man approach
me and examine the baskets eagerly. I
was surprised at the interest be took.
'Would you mind tell.nj me who
made these baskets?" he asked.
"My sister and I made them," I
answered, curtly.
"And this lining is so queer. Is your
sister Lutie Ludlow?"
"Yes," I stammered.
"1 thought so," his face flushing.
"When 1 have an upport unity. Miss
Ludlow, I will explain this," and he
disapiieared In the crowd.
I felt that there was some trouble
brooding, so I ran home to tell Lutie.
She listened to my story with a pale
face.
"I love him, Bess," she sobbed.
"He is the sou, the only sou of a lady
for whom my old employer worked. I
met him at first when I took home
bonnets to his mother. Then after
wards he got to joiuing me in the
street. 1 was foolish, mad, blind,
Bess at least for a while. He wooed
me aud won lue agaiust my will. I
couldn't help it, Bess. But very soon
1 saw how wrong it was to meet bim
clandestinely"
"Well, dear," I said pityingly.
"Ah, Bess, well may you pity me!
For then be offeied to marry me at
once. He wanted me to elope that
very night. But I told him 1 would
enter no family agaiust the wish of its
head, and his mother would never con
sent. And theu 1 broke away from
him.
"The very next day I was sent to h'u
mother's to fetch a bonnet she w ished
altered. He must have told her of his
offer to me, aud the bonnet was only a
trick to get to see me. She sent for
me into the parlor, a look of mocking
pity on her proud face.
'I'll try to repeat what .she said;
I'll make it as short as I cau, Bess. It
was her duty to warn me of the dajger
I was in, she said. Her sou had no
right to trifle with nie, as he had li u
doing He he already had a wile of
his own.
"True, Bess! Why, b.i3 own mother
told me so."
Nevertheless, it may be a falsehood.
I saw the man to-night, and his facb
isn't the face of a villain. If he comes,
Lulie, you had better see him"
"1 can't," she interrupted. "Oh, I
can't! The shame would kill me. I
must go away."
But she had no time to go. Ha
was there, the next day, when we came
home from church. Lutie found him
in the sitting-room awaiting her. I had
passed on into the dining-room which
was next to it, w hen the sound of his
voice startled me.
'Lutie, Lutie, have 1 found you at
last?"
Leave this house, sir! Tins lutru
Dion Is unpardonable," cried Liitie.
But his ea.er tones drowned her in
dignant words. Hu came up close to
the table, behind which hUe had en
trenched herself, and rested his hand
on it.
"1 cannot I will not," he answered
masterfully; "not till you bear me,
Lutie. You need not explain. 1 know
what sent you fluttering out into tho
world, my precious, little dove. See
ing that siie bad spoiled all my life for
me, my poor mother confessed I he
wrong she had done me. i'.ir mouths
1 have been tryiLg to trace you. You
saw my mother. Her desire for my
worldly welfare, her anxie.y to see me
marry a fortune, caused her to seek to
separate us. 1 have no wife, Lutie,
aud I shall never have one unless 1 cau
get you."
Only Lutie's sobs answered him.
"My mother," he went ou, "waits to
receive you, with ojien arms. Come
back to me, Lutie, poor, tired, storm
worn little dove, come back to your
shelter. Precious, pretty, labor-woru
little hands," and I knew he was kiss
ing them,"your toil is all ended, Lutie,
Lutie, have you no word of welcome
lor me? Look up, dear. Ol;! I have
searched for you every wlu-ie, and at
last, the dear old shawl, that 1 used Ut
like so to see you wear, was my clear to
your hiding-place. 1 knew the queer
ftpots aud the brilliant colors the instant
1 caught sight of those baskets. 1 was
sure; an odd sort of feeling convinced
me that 1 wasn't mistaken. And it
was so. I have found you ut last.
Lutie look up and S-eak to me. Tell
me that you have cared for me just a
little through all the dreary mouths of
our separation."
"I have cared for you always," an
swered Lutie, softly, and at that mo
ment I realized what a shocking" thing
1 was doing in listening.
Turning Itags Into Ituus
I was waiting for a train at lied
Bauk recently when there came trudg
ing along a descendant of the law
giver with a heavy bag ou his back. It
was full of something knobby, and as
he Btcpped to rest I asked him if he had
been raiding a muskmeloii patch. He
grinned and ofieued his bag ami
showed me that it was full of balls of
carpet rags. He had been gathering
them up from the farmhouses, giving
cheap trinkets, ribbons and other fa
vorite feminine gear in exchange.
When be took them home to Esssex
street bis sous would weave them Into
rugs and sell them. There was money
in it, he said. There was a profit on
the trade and a profit on the sale of
the rugs. And having rested, he went
plodding off through the red dust, a
type of the patient persistency cf his
race. He proposed to walk as far as
Perth Am boy and fill another sack if
possible before he wasted any monoy
on a railway ride. "A man, ' said he,
"has to be his own Anti-Poverty Soci
ety in these hard time," and I guess Le
carries his ideas out.
Editor and Troprietor.
NO. 42.
XEWS IN BRIEF.
There is a rich man in the Black
Hills, who dates the beginning of hli
fortune from the day when he sold his
wife for 54,000.
Engine No. 13 has been running
six weeks on the Staten Island Kapid
Transit road aud in that time has
killed five persons.
A thirty-two foot spruce log was
recently sawed into boards in a Puget
Sound mill, and made 6,400 feet ot
lumber without a knot.
The remarkable story comes from
Colorado that a tlock of suowed-uudei
sheep lived two weeks and grew fat
feeding ou each other's fleece.
A cycler iu Great, Falls, New
Hampshire, has on hand a suit for
$jOOO damages, brought against him by
the father of a child he ran into with
his wheel.
5an Diego, California, has one of
the wisest Chinamen in the world,
lie is a laundrymau, and he has kept
an advertisement runuiug in the local
laier for fifteen years.
Celery ville is one of the familiar
names for Kalamazoo, Michigan, where
there are two thousand acres of celery
under cultivation, with a stated aver
age prolit of J l jo au acre.
Several lnioks of county records
iu Iowa, which had long lieen missing,
were recently luiind in a Davenport
saloon, where they had lieen pawned
for liquor by a former official.
Iu boring a well near Pine Grove,
Esrneralda County, Nevada, steam of
a tC'ii)ieralure hot enoiic'li to cool pota
toes was struck at a depth of nearly
sixty feet below the surface.
The widows of seven clergymen
occupy a single k-w in a Detroit
church; but, it is explained, there are
only two of them, one the widow of
three, the other of four divines.
The Swedes In Orange, Massa
chusetts, where there are about two
hundred of them, have arranged for
evening school to study the Euglisli
language, which is sp iken by very few
of tbeui.
A great tree, that is said to have
stood for 1M years at the corner of
two streets in Concord, New Hamp
shire, has b.-eii cut dow n, as it ha-1 be
come so much decayed as to be dan
gerous. A Providence, Rhode Island, un
dertaker, whose wile died lately, em
balmed the body with fluid of his own
manufacture and fo successfully did it
work that he has placed the body ou
exhibition.
There is a negro man living near
Coleman, Georgia, who is the father of
thirty-four children. He is 84 years
old, has bij third wife with a babe ut
her breast, and is as active as most
men at 5 J.
A Canajoliarie editor lias an eye to
business. He offers his paper for a
year to "the farmer who will lay the
largest egg on bis editorial table,"
well knowing he would get moie than
enough eggs to pay for his paiier.
The bones of a mastodon were
found by workmen on the Minnesota
and Northwestern lltilroal, not far
from Galena, the other Uy. One)
tooth, weighing seven pounds, and a
huge tusk were a part of the find.
A soprano in Buffalo seems to have
a voice or power rather than of sweet
ness. To a newspaper that had pub
lished one complaint from him on the
subject a correspondent sends another,
saying, "Your lirst dose lias not
abated the noise; the lady up stairs
yells worse than ever. If you fall us
all hoj is gone."
At Scranton, recently, a baby car
riage which had ln-eii left standing ou
the sidewalk by Us juvenile attendant
while he gazed in a show w indow, was
started off by a gust of wind and rolled
beneath the feet of a horse. The ani
mal kicked the little vehicle to pieces,
but luckily didn't, injure the ch'' ' oc
cupant in the least.
In Germany aiia rswitz.-rland, it Is
state!, the principals of all schools are
required to dismiss their pupils at noon
everyday on which the the mometer
at 10 A. M. registers 77 -. If that plan
were introduced here and the thermom
eter placed within reach of the ingeni
ous boy or the period, there would be
frequent holiday s.
It is announced that Slate prison
convicts in Minnesota will soon start a
new weekly paper In the interest of the
prison library fund. It is ho lie called
The Prison Minor. One prisoner will
lie editor in chief and another Willi)
treasurer and business manager.
A cheerful view, if not a strictly
correct one. Is taken o!"i f-eeming mis
fortune by a Texas paer, which oil
serves: It isa good thing that the cattle
iu Texas are dying off, for when they
die off they deciea.se in iiuuilier; when
they decrease in manlier they become
more valuable; when they become more
valuable their owner becomes wealthier.
Therefore it Is a good thing for ti.o
cattle to die oIT.
Excitement has lieen caused lateiy
in one or two communes Iti Hanover,
and three or four In the Rhenish prov
inces, over the discovery of the Color
ado bug; also over the appearance of
phylloxera in a vineyard at. Uitierlch,
said to have been introduced In a lot
of viues, expressly imported by the
owner In order to guaid against the
scourge.
A I'arliamentiry committee (Brit
ish) has retiorted that pensions, allow
ances and payments ought not in fu
ture to lie granted ill lerietuity, on the
groundtlr.it all such grants shoul I be
limited to the pei-ons actually render
ing the services Intended to be rewaided
by fcuch grants, and thai such tew-trls
should be wholly or in mini pail de
frayed by the generation benelitel by
the bervices s rccogu.zed.
Bravery seems to be a wholesale
quality in the Bulgarian army. Lilly
this year the Vienna Mint leceiv.-d au
order for 0,00'J silver m-d ils, which,
together with a second lot of about
4'XHJ, were promptly despatched to
Sofia for distribution to the brave
army. Besides those, .'iJ.OOO, made ot
bronze, were delivered by au Austrian
foundry. Within a m.mtii an addi
tional order for '.' mji silver ones was
sent to Vienna, which the Mint is now
turning out as fast as it can.
Thomas McCormack. who was
foraierlv town c'.etk of Union Town
ship, New .Jersey, win burled recently.
His death resulted from the bi'e of
spider. McC.umack was w.i k.ug in
I a quarry, when be fe t a s'lugimt sen
sation iu bis left arm, and sa w a large
I black spider there, lie btuslied it
I away aud thought no more of the
' matter. Soon his arm began to sweit
and in a few hours it wai twico its
normal size. He was taken to a hos
pital, where Le del.
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