-- -u. , . ! .J ' 1 CM) svm.i Waynj'j i acli 1 1 near j, niornif lot ar " were i' t lilt t.f ,i Currr' ' A. H. i ' i hi : Knit L Kva V In , J. I. ' V. M.',: W. I) Amir ' , w. I ft s r ! mo lb low Vole . I.tcl ' Vine Ky:i Hllll I'h.j null l'm Tt , III! . rail! Hie Jl l.r i " Ida rritr fin llirt r of I wrt ft rew wo lm li i I Of I ;p rd A Tl I'l 11 -, lb. lb: ani ctxi Kir rii fe- C 'A THE M1DDLEBURQII POST. T. . HaRTIR, Xorr.a - PiVt. MIPIr.K.m f.:U. IW. NOV. i 1)C. Chtireh pastorates are still sold to the hijzhesl bid ler in Borne parts of England. ' According to the in-.nrance table expectation o( Ufa at ten year of age ia greatest iu Kut(lud, 41.2. Tt ia estimated that the chinch bilir. ITessian fly. army worm and cotton wortv bare cot thn Uuited States tuort than 1 1 C'it i I War. The New York Press feels it it rathet disconraaiiiK to lie toll by Mrs. l!mtu Ewinij, who is au authority, that vhih Improvements Imvu been mala in all tber direction., practical rooking stands where it 'li I one hundred year g. A Brxnivilln (Mo ) man baa estab lished a rhiuch bug atation aimilar to tbat of I'rofossor Hnow, of Iiawrenee, Kao. "In another year," predict th Chicago Herald. 'Mi"oiiri'a name will In put in th ' bright lexicon of bug les StaN's." Professor Virchow. the great Oer man scientist, reaffirm hit belief that no trace of "the mniing link" between man and the lower annual has been discovered, either in the human skulls which are believe. 1 to be most ancient, or in the physical structure of modern lavages. Aluminum is t be used wherever practicable iu the accoutrements, arms and equipments of the (ierman army. 11 it use the weight curried by in fantry aoldier will bit a tritlu over Afty-seveu puiindH, where now it is lightly more Hutu sixty-. iht and one half pounds. The people of arlehead, Muss., Lave hung up in their town hall Na tional colors, which they have bought (or the new war cruiser, which has been named after their famous town. Rut Marblehead will not end her gift to the warship with this one. Now it craiaer perhaps ia proposed to pla:'e iu the something more auhntautial, a silver vase; and it is tr.ggexted that a fuud be atarted to be called the "oitiien'a (rift," to pay lor' The worst feature of flood is the fact that the river ia apt to leave a de posit of aand, varying iu thickness from una inch to teu feet, over a largo stent of land thit was formerly fer tile. In the llood of ISIS a great many farmers iu the American bottom in Missouri ou goiu buck to their premises aftor the aubsideuce of the wators found their property covered with river sand iu beds no thick that two or three years elapsed before good crops could bu raUed. In Kllglatid the "college by pest" system Iris enrolled about 4'JOit itndouts and over -' teachers. In this orgaui.atioti, explains the New York Hun, women of leisure volunteer to teach girlti who have uot tho men us or time to attend school. It is all dona irrutuitouslv aud bv mail. (iirU wiping jiiilriiittions iu any special branch write to the head of the system aud are asiiued to some volunteer teacher iu that br.iucli. In this coun try the same work is carried ou by th Kicg's ltM litem, uuuur Miis Kate Bond. Truth thiuks it "odd that I'miu Hey should be so little of a hero in the eyes of the general publio. Mo was a man who stood be I aud shoulder above tuauy of th men who have wou undy ing renown iu Africa, iu courage, eiecutive abibty and a geuius for or gaui.ation aud (loverumeut. His physique was by no lueaus robust; he had the stoop of a student, aud the tra ditional spectacled face of (iermau physician. Yet he was iu reality a inau of heroic coui sgo and unquestionable force of character. He did not start cross the continent of Africa with brass horns, reporters, and hired mer cenaries, but recruited his soldiers from the savages themselves. He taught the barbariaus to build mills and factories, and held the Arabs at bay, even wheu so great a soldier as Gordon failed. It seems to me in credible that this marvelous pioneer should have buou killed, but the evi dence, i.eeuis overwholiuiug. He had reason to complain bitterly of his treat ment iu Africa, and he ha I not eveu the, solace of fame, which has come to many of the other men who ventured into the wild of that still unliscov- erod country- Hut iu the future it i tertaiu that t'liiiu Hey will stand near the head of th j list of heroes who have given up their lives to civilize the HBTROSPECT. na rosa vrs not Just a wt, ferhapi, As wa t bod Klit they would auraly be, Anl the hlnssom were not ao pearly white A ft yore, on the oreharj tree t Cut thn summer his stone, for all of that, An l with s.vl reluctant heart We statul a' rich autumn's open dour Ami Wfit'.-b Its !'jrtn depart. The slsles wera not just o llu, prhap, As we hope I they wmiM nurely lie, An l the waters it roiiifh that washed our I'OSt. Tnstead of the old ealm sea : T5ut the summer hns gone, for all of th.it. An I the golden-rod is here s We em see the iflevn of Its golden s(ieea Iu the hand of tli aging year. The rest was not quite so rel. p-r'ispi. As we hoped It nilirht prove to I)-, For lnti'i I of leisure came work sometimes, And t!i day dr.igg I wesrllv , But th" summer has g'Hie, for all of tu.tt, The holiday time U o'er. And busy linn Is In the harret1nt I Have garnrei th"ir got len st re. The summer wjs nit su.li a dresm. perhips, Of bliss a we thought 'twould l And th" heniiilfiil tiling we plnun I to d Weut a-uiss, for you and me : Yet still it his gone, for all of thn. And we lift our wistful eye To the Un I where beyond the winter snowi Another summer lis. Kath! -u It. Wlienler, In t.ipptaeott. AN ARTISTS ROMANCE FIKST came here," said DeuisO'Harn, "in one of those tits of enthusiasm at which yon all laugh. I had de termined to tin a great work, and J foiiud everything here 1 wanted light, views, e 1 i in h t e and models. Our friend Trenoweth introduced me to the place, gave me ineat iiuablc hints, and (no use shaking your head, J aaper ; ou shall not always hide your light under bushel) iu every way made me at home and comfortable. We were much to gether, for he was, or aaid he was, in terested in my work, and approved of my Hiibjoct. iSometimes I painted out of doors, favored by tlia soft, gray light and equable climate for which this place ih famous. Sometimes I would nork iu the studio, and often, taking pity on my loneliness, Treno weth would drop iu here iu the even ings, and we would talk as he alone ran make any one t'i!k. Altogether it was very pleasant, and I am not eure that I felt pleased when one evening he strolled down here to show me a letter he hail received from one of our f- j-iity asking to hire a studio for lj'. jiiouths iu order to complete a -was J)ohlJUd4 .clear ; the signature at tin the end of the simple, concise words only, '.M. Debt porte.' We discoursed and epecnlated about M. Dulaporte. We wondered if he was old or young, agreeable or the reverse; if he would le a lxire, or a nuisance iu fact, we talked a great deal about him during the week that intervened between his letter aud his arrival. Trenoweth saw to the arrangements of the studio. It was No. 'A iiu hail agreed to let, Hud gave directions as to trains, etc., uud thou left me to welcome the newcomer, who was to arrive by the evening train. 1 bad been out all day, and when I came home, tired, cold and hungry, I saw lights iu No. 'J, aud thought to my self, 'My fellow artist has arrived. then.' Thinking it would bo only civil to go aud give him welcome, walked up to the. door and knocked. A voice called out, 't'ome iu !' and, turning the handle, I fouud myself in the presence of a woman! Fur moment I was too surprised to speak. She was mounted ou a short step- ladder, arraugiug some velvet draperies, and at my eutrance she turned, aud, with the rich-hued st nil's forming a background for the pose of the most beautiful figure woman could boast of, faced me with as much ease and composure as - well, a I lacked. " 'Mr. Trenoweth?' tha asked in quiringly. "Her voice was one of those low. rich contralto voices, so rare aud so beautii'nl. '"I'm not Mr. Trenoweth,' I said ; 'I'm ouly au artist living iu the next studio. I I eaae to see if Mr. l)ela porto had arrived ; I beg your pardon for intruding.' " 'Do not apologize, 'she said, frank ly. Thi studio is let to uxu uud you are very welcome.' " 'To you?' I said, somewhat fool ishly. 'I thought you were a mau.' "She laughed. ' '1 have uot that privilege,' she said. 'But I ant au artist, and art takes no count of sex. I hope w shall bo frieuda as well us neighbors.' "I echoed that wish heartily euough. Who wonld not iu that place aud with ao charming a companion? There and theu I set to work to help her arrauge her studio aud fix her easel. The pic ture seemed very large, to judge from the canvas, but she would not let me ee it theu. J forgot fatigue, hunger, everything. I thought 1 had never met a woman with so perfect a charm of inaouer. The ease and grace aud diguity of perfect breeding, yet withal a frank and gruoioua cordiality that was as wiuning au it waa resistless. But, there what use to say all this! Ouly when I onco begiu to talk about Wusotto Dolsoorte I feel 1 could go ou forovor. "That was a memorable eveniug. When the studio was arranged to her satisfaction, aha made me some tea with a little spirit-lamp arrangement he had, and theu we locked up the room, and I took her through the lit- U Tilhme to try aad find lodjiiiUM. Of cortr.se, .Tasper and I, Latla; decidod that M. Delaporte was a man, had ex pected him to rough it like the rest of us. I ronld not let her stay in Tre newlyn itself, bnt took her up the bill side to a farm Louse, where I felt cer tain they would accommodate hr. She was in raptures with thn place, and I agreed with her that it was a paradise, as, indeed, it seemed to me on that August night. I remember the moon shining over the bay, the fleet of boats ttanding out to sa, the lights from the towns aud villages scat tered along the coast or amid the sloping hills, t did not wonder she was charmed ; we all have felt that charm here, and it doesn't lessen with time; we all have acknowledged that also. Bnt f must hurry on. When Trenoweth heard of the new artist's sex he was rather put out. I could not see why myself, and I agreed that the mistake was my own. M might stand for Mary, or Magdalen, or Marietta, just as well as for Maurice or Malcolm or Mortimer. However, when he came down nnd saw M. Delaporte here, I beard no more about the disadvantages of sex. She was essentially a woman for companionship, cultured, brilliant, nrtist to her fluger-tips, yet with all her beauty nnd fascination holding a certain proud reserve between herself nnd ourselves, marking aline we dared not overstep. At the end of a month we knew little more about her than we did on the first evening. I opined that she was a widow, but no hint, however skilful, no trap, however baited, could force ber into confi dence or self-betrayal. W called her Mrs. Delaporte. Her name was Musette, she told me. Her mother had been a Frenchwoman ; of her father she never spoke. She worked very hard, ofteu putting ine to shame, but still she would not let me see the picture, always skilfully turning the eusel so that the canvas was hidden whenever Jasper or tuyself entered the studio. We were never permitted to do so in working hours, lint when the daylight faded and the well known little tea table was set out, we often dropped iu for n cup of tea and a cimt. It was nil ao pleasant, so homelike. The studio with its drap eries and its bowls of flowers, its plauts nnd books and femiuine trifles. I wonder how it is that some women seeut to lend individuality to their sur roundings. The studio has never looked the same since she left." He pnusd slid laid down the sketch. The usual gayety and brightness of his face wss subdued aud shadowed. "I well, it's no good to dwell ou it all now," he said abruptly. "Of course I fell madly iu love with her. Who could help it? I bet any of yon fel lows here would nave ilone tue same. I neglected work. I could ouly moou and dream and follow her about, wheu alio let me, which I am bouud to say was not very often. I'm sure I used to bore Trenoweth considerably at that time, though he was patient. And sh was just '", all, ;. l-n. friendly", gracious, a'osorfjd in her work, and to all appearaiioes uucon scions of what mischief her presence had wrought. As the third month drew near to its end I grew desperate. I thought she avoided ine ; sho never let me into tho studio now, and I must confess I had great curiosity to see the picture. But sin laughingly evaded all my bints, and would ouly receive me at the farmhouse. I believe Trenoweth was equally unsuccessful. At last I could stand it no longer. I spoke out and told her the whole truth. Of course," uud he laughed Homewlu.i: bitterly, "it was uo use. If bhe had been my mother or my sister she could not have been more serenely gracions, more pititul or more sur prised. 1 I bad made a fool of my self, as we men call it, aud all to uo purpose, ll was maddeuing, but I knew it was hopeless. I had al most know it it before juy desperate confession. I couldn't bear to see her again. I felt I hated the place, it was so full of memories. Ho, sud denly without a word to Treuoweth or herself, I packed up my traps nnd started offou a sketching lour through Cornwall. When I came back the studio was closed, aud Trenoweth had gone away. Thu mau left in charge, aud who made the arrangements for letting them, told mo that a new rule had been made by the laudlord. They were never to be let to women artists. That is all my part of the story. This this sketch is ouly the figure I re member. Hhe was staudiug ouce just like that, lookiug at the wall of the studio, as if to ber it was peopled with life, and form aud color. 'I I was fancying myself at the Academy,' she said to me, as 1 asked her at what she was gazing, 'at the Academy, aud my picture on the line.' I do uot know if she ever attained her ambition." he udded. "Ibaveuwver sceu or heard of her siuce." He glanced at Jasper Trenoweth, who sileutly held out his baud for the sketch. For a moment aileuce reigned throughout the room. The eyes of all were ou the bent head aud sad, grave face of the man who sat there them, his thoughts apparently far i - At. -4 I.. - ...I away, so mr viibv lin nreuieii to uio forgotteu his promise to tiuish the story which Deuis OTIara had beguu. At last he roused himself. "There is not much more to add," he said slowly, "All that Dennis has said of Musette Delaporte is true, aud more than true. Hhe was one of those women who are bound to leave their mark ou a man's life ai'd momory. . After Denis left so abruptly I saw very little of her. Hhe seemed restless, troubled and dis turbed. Her mind was absorbed in the completion of her picture. That unrest and dissatisfaction which isever the peualty of enthusiasm had now takeu the place of previous hopeful ness. 'If it should fail,' abe sa:d to me. 'Oh, yon don't kuow what that would rueau. You dou't kuow what 1 hart staked oa it.' 'Still she never offered io ahow il to me, aud I wonld not presume to ask. I kept away for several days, thinkiug she was best undisturbed. All artists have gone through that phasn of ex perience which she was underOinr. It is scarcely po.vtible to avoid it, if, indeed, one has anv appreciation for or love of art in one's nature. At last ou day I walked down t tin s'.ndio. I knocked at the door. There was n answer. I turned the handle and entered. In the full light of the sunset as it streamed through the window, stood the easel, covered no longer, and. facing me, as I paused on t he threshold, was the picture. I stood there ton amazed to speak or move. It was iiiaguincent. If I had not known that only a womau's baud had con verted that csuvss iuto a living, breathing history I could not have be lieved it. There was nothiug crude, or weak or feminiue about it. The power and force of genius spoke out like a living voice, and seemed to de mand the homage it ao grandly chal lenged. Huddenly I became aware of a sound in th? stillness the low, sti fled sobbing in' a woman. I saw her then, throwti face downward ou the couch at the furthest eud of the room, her face buried in the cnliious, her whole frame trembling and convulsed with a passion of grief. 'Oh, Mau rice!' siie so'ibed, and then again only that name '.Maurice ! Maurice I Mau rice!' "I closed the door softly and went away. There seemed to be something sacred iu this grief. I I could not intrude ou it. Hho was no near to Fame. She held so great a gift, and yet she lay weeping her heart out yon der, like the weakest aud moat foolish of her sex, for well, what could I think, but that it was for some man's sake." He pansed, his voice seemed a little less steady, a little less cold. "On the morrow," he Raid abruptly, "she was gone, leaving a note of fare well, and and thanks for me. I felt a momentary disappointment. I should like to have said farewell to her, and it was strange, too, how much I missed her and Denis. The loneliness and quiet of my life grew more than lonely as the days went on, aud I at last made up my mind to go to Loudon. Whether by chance or purpose 1 found myself there ou the day the Academy opened. All who are artists know what that day means for them. I well. I was artist enough to feel the interest of art triumphs, and the sor row of its failures. I went where half London was thronging, and miugled with the crowd, artistic, critical and curious, who were gathered iu the Academy galleries. I passed iuto the first room. I noticed how the crowds surged aud pushed aud thronged round one picture there, and I heard murmurs of praise and wonder from scores of lips as I, too, tried to get sight of what seemed to them so marvelous and attractive. At last a break in the throng favored me. I looked over the heads of soma dozeu people iu front of the picture, and I saw the picture I had gazed at in such wonder aud delight in the studio of Musette Delaporte! Deservedly honored, it huug there on the liue, aud alreadv its praises wers sounding, and the severest critics as well as the most eager enthusiasts were giving it fame. "1 turned away at last. My steps were, however, arrested ou the out skirts of the crowd by sight of a woman whose figure seemed strangely Tamil iar. Her face was veiled and some what averted, but C knew well enough that pose of the beautiful head, that coil of gold brown hair, just lifted from the white neck. She she did uot sue me as for a moment I lingered there. Theu I noticed she was uot alone. Leauing ou her arm was mau, his fa e pale and worn, aa if byj long suffering, his frame bent ami crippled. Am his eyes caught the pic lure I saw the suddeu light sud won der that leaped into his face. I saw,1 too, the glory of love and tenderness in hers. I drew nearer; the man was speaking 'How could you do it?' he aid; 'iio w could you?' 'Oh, Murice, forgive me, 'said that low, remembered voice, 'Dearest; are we uot one m heart aud soul and name? I ouly fin- ished what you had so well begun.! You were so ill and helpless, aud wheu' you weut into the hospital, oh, the days were so long aud so empty, I meaut to tell you, but when it waa fin ished I had not the courage ; so I jnst seut il, sigucd, as usual, M. Delaporte. I I never dared to hope it would be accepted. After all, what did I do? The plan, tho thought, the detail all were yours; only ioj poor weak hand worked wheu yours was helpless.' "I was so close I heard every word, ao close that I saw him bend aud kiss with reverence the hand that she bail called poor and weak, ao close that I heard the low-breathed murmur from his lips, 'Ood bless aud reward you, my noble wife!' "And she was married all the time !" said Denis plaintively, "due might have told us !" Jasper Treuoweth was silent. The Strand, A Siamese Spectacle. The Kiug of Siam has a fine idea of the picturesque.. On the night of th righting at Bangkok he ordered out bis chair of state, and shielded by the gi gautic royal umbrella made a midnight inspection of the troopi, followed by his body g'jad and making au impos ing show. As they marched aloug bare footed we read in the letter of a cor respondent at Bangkok their footfalls scarce disturbed the quietness of night. One flaring pine torch cast its light upon the figure of the kiug and added to the solemnity of the sceue as its light faded into the distance, growing fainter and fainter as the troops, aileut as death, passed tu loug liuo , Lou dou Olobtt. 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