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EARTH TORPEDO:&:!!, but' stopped better than the last," said Louise, and thon could have bitten her tongue out for the i11. A Terrible Weapon :a.bout to Revolntton· ·'Tell you what !" voluntary admission, · tze tho Art ofWa.r. "It is not a fair qul!stion ; you needn't "She cared then," catching at the straw Some particulars concernin~ .the earth tor· answer it, unless you choose ; b~t Laura., if eagerly ; " does she care still ?" he were to; com<' back to you, oould you "How can I tell ?" she replied ; "Laura'e :pedoes which were lately tested at Thun have been published by the Geneva papers trust yourself-with all your real belief confidences are not given lightly." th'at things are best as they are:-could you "You would_ say I should ask only of,her, Tile result of the experiments .w as considerad trust yourself to say him nay?" and you are right. ·would she see me- so sat·sfactory that the Swiss military auth· Then another silence fell upon the two. would there be any chance for private con· orities have ad vised the Federal Council to "No," answered Laura, at last, "and. so · versation, if I ~re to go up to the college purchase the right of making the torpedoes and the secret of their construction from the I pray we may never meet. I :.hall devote and send in my card ?" -Punch.' myself to my profession, and I . know it is Louise pondered the question a moment1 inventor, Lieutenant Feodor von Zubowitz, better so, or it would not be. It was a very then temporized. "Why do you wfah to of the Austrian army. The Zubowitz tor. pedo, according to several high military .And now the merchant wary brief madness, and like all love, perfectly see her?" she asked. Will deem it necessary . "Good heavtns l can you ask Sllch a ques· authorities, is destined to effect a partial re· irrational. We are not at all suited to one 'l'o have an advertisemeut we! displayed, volution in the art of war, especially of deanother. I ne~·er should make him happy, tion ?'! he "xclaimed. "I wish to see her played, played, for he is as conventional as I am erratic. becauHe, I love her better and better every ~ensive war. It renders possible the layi~~. Within his local paper; For that's the proper cape1· And for myself," she hesitated a. m')ment. day I live; because ·I believe I can make ma very short time and by common work· :13Y which to catch the coming autumn trade, "I shall be happier, too, by and by." her happy-if not in my way in her own. men, r,f a series of powerful mines, any one trade, trade. "I wonder it it · r eally is better so," She shall study any profession she pleases, of which can be made, as circumstances may M acon ::reie.qra,Ph and Jl.fessenger. thought Louise, lying with wide-open eyes · if she will orly give me the right to love and require. either harmless or arranged in such a manner as to be exploded by a shock, a long aftt-r the drowsy god ehould have care for her wh;le she is doing it," train of gunpowder, or an electric wire. In claimed her for his own. "So many women "You shall see her," said Miss Lennox, fifteen minutes sixty men cm furnish with are unhappily married; and Laura might quietly. "Go into the parlor and wait." these t;irpedoes a line 1, 000 yards long. The miss 'tbe aimple obvious human bliss' more ::She arose from the table as she spoke, and i;µoreover, offers great advantages BY DOROTHY HOLROYD. hopelessly as a wife than if she carried out waved him toward the door of that sacred· system, for strengthening the outworks of perma· It was Senior vacation at Vassar. her own plan, and forgettin!{ herself, learn ly-guarded apartment. The little bay win· nent or temporary forti fic:i.tionq, barring, "v\' ell," exclaimed Louise Lennox, as she to live even mo1·e wholly for others. .And dow in the dining-room overlooked the col· defile~, protecting an exposed flank, rein· and her friend Laura Page wended their way yet, and yet- I am a woman myself, 11nd I lege grounds, and from the shadow of the forcing a barricade, covering a weak detach· down the length of t he corridor, "if you ex- know how lonely a woman's life may,be. "\Yell, great hedge that forms the boundary she ment or defending a line 0£ retreat. The per· pect me to look upon you as 'grave and Goel knows best-it is in His hands, not caught a glimpse of Laura·s d&rk blue fection of this engine of destruc tion occupied reverend Seniors' you tall; my imagination mine," and with that comfort, she fell draperies. Lieutenant ZubQwitz seven years, and it is She went to the door herself, that no Mrs said now to have all the properties ·which }leavily." asleep. · "No; lie still !" Louise. started up, Adams need appear in answer to the ring. La.ura laughed. "You ought to have such an invention ought to possess- certain· come before, my . dear. I smile whenever I hardly realiziQg that it coul1l be morning. "Did I not get back in good time?" asked ly of effect, cheapness, simplicity of con· think how you hesitated to come during my "Wha.t a sleepy-head!" laughei Laura, Laura, gayly. "I am ·almost breathles·, I struction, and ease of ma.nipnla.tion. After ·overcrowded last days before Commence· "but you need not disarrange yourself, as walked so fast." · a series of searching experiments it was "You d·icl come quickly," replied Louise, warmly recommended by the en~ineer sec;ment !' We have absolutely nothing to do our French friends would say. I must get excEpt our rehearsals with the elocution back to t.he college in time for breakfast, trembling with an excitement she could not tion of the Austrian Military Commission, teacher. But you must not think we are but Mrs. .Adams will serve yours whenever control. "So quickfy that I ha.ve not yet and was used with success during the late quite so lawless as this all the time." you are ready." · finished my breakfast. \Vill you wait in insurrection in the south of Dalmatia. On "Laura !" A tall, dark girl with dis· Louise yawned sleepily, and regarded with the parlor? I suppose youiwnuldrather not one occasion ten men completely barred, in bevelled bangs rushed np to them. "I have lazy a:lmiration the energetic movement of come out to the dining-room." seventeen piinutes, the pass of Han with fif. sold your shades for a dollar." her friend, "Good!" answered Laura with such "Do you feel rested?" asked Laura bend-. The door closed upon the unconscious teen torpedoes, '?HE TORPEDO, "ss her. L'lura, and hearty emphasis that her friend stared at her l·ng to ki 1 d b Louise kf went M back .Ad to the b scarce In appearance the tori'1edo . is. a sortO:of in open-eyed wonder. "I'll tell you by and by; I haven't found y·hste rea ast. rs. ams ustled in . , with hot coffee, and looked her surprise at square stirapnel. The charge is explosiVe ··Oh, my .dear! if your purse was as out yet." seeing the -empty place. . Trautzel ~elatine, and, by means of a simple empty as mine, you would hail Senior Auo" .Farew~ 11, then," said Laura, "lie still . " .Mr. Kirkland was called out suddenly," interior mechanism, can be burst either tion as a.II the rest of us do. This is the till vou do. I'll come back for you just as explained Miss Lennox. "No more coffee, above ground, under a layer of earth, or most delightful place to be poor in, for every- soon as I can; but if you j;(et tired of wo.iting, thank you ; I have finished my breakfast." under wat<r. The torpedoes are ma.de body else is in the same state by this time in you are at liberty to walk up to the col· Mrs. Adams rer.arded the table with a in series correspondiug with their the year, and I assure you it is quite a mat- lege and find me." b d 100k · f "d h · charges, which range from four pounds to . t t "d f "Thanks ,· but I thrn" k I'll stay t1·11 you trou le · " m a ra.i t e eggs wasn t t er for congrat ulation ge n o your come," . cooked right." she observed at last. one hundred pounds, and are classed respec· useless furnishings and not have to pay some " 0, yes, everything was verr nice," tively accordrng to the use which they are one to carry them away." Half an lKiur later, Mrs. Adams rapped:at Louise smiled faintly; "onlv that am not destined, as torpedoes of observation, of con· "Live and learu," remarked Miss Lennox. th~'d!ofoyro.u please Mi"ss Lennox," sai"d she, hungry this morning. I think I haven't tact, and of percussion. The two last named "My ideas on the subject of the higher l d · · " sorts are meant to be exploded by the en· . are b ecommg · en · 1arge d and amend · putt1"ng her head· ;n ly reste · srnce my Journey· e ducat ion · at the doorway, "w1"ll rea She left the ta.ble and entered her own emy- involuntarily, of course. The contact ed." . you be ready for an eight o'clock break· room. The parlor doors being closed, it was torpedo may be put in any place where its "That's what Vassa.r is good for. But fast?" come." - She led the way towards the end "Yes, indeed," answered th.i.t young lady hardly likely that busy Mrs. Ada.ms would .existence is not hkely to be suspected-in prove a disturbing element ; so Louise an abandoneq carria.ge, placed across a road, of the c.orridor when a crowd was gather- promptly. settled herself to wait with what patience behind a door or a gate which has to , be ing, "the auction is beginning, and Miss "And," continued Mrs. Adams, "there she could muster. opened, the mere removal of the obstacle Barn/rd is auctioneer ; I want. you to see the is young gentleman staying here now, and being sufficient to cause tho explosion, Tife . h"l · " wi"ll you take breakfast when he does, Two plougaed fields, and a long stretch of I th f VI h o e o is i arious spree. · dusty road, up which came the jangle of percussion1 torpedo is hidden .a few inches "Young ladies r· A pretty girl, who was or would you hke me to give you yours pri· tuneless bells, and the red car made its way beneath the soil or in a drain, and explodes out to the college. JllOunted on a table, held up a stump of a vate ?" readily under the wei,ght of a uumber of pencil. "Which ever is most convenient to you," . men or tne pressu~e of a vehicle, or the "I Had she done right? Was it best, after tramp ""\Vho bids?" she asked, "who bids for responded Miss Lennox, politely. a horse. The four pound torpedoes the pencil with which the documents to the think if the young gentleman can stand it, I all? How' had she dared to make a special are for of instant use, and, being easy of trans· faculty were written? This pencil," turning can. · providtince of herself? These were the queeit round and round, "is one that will be "Well, you see," said Mrs. Adams, with tious that tortured her bra.in with ceaseless port, may be taken almost wherever troops can march. Twenty.five of them can be famous in the annals of the college forever; a confidential accent, "I ain't used to tak· iterMion. T'.1e moment's dra.!{ged so slowly. packed one one bat mule. Ten cents, did you say? Twelve, fifteeen, ing anybutthe students'youngla.dyfriends, She heard the· clock count out nine slow FOllCE OJ!' THE WEAPON. ~wenty, thirty, ·thirty-five, half a dollar. but ha wanted to come here so particular; strokes, and then ten, belore Laura ap· A sin11;le torpedo of this calibre will break Going, going, gone to Misa Curtiss for fifty that l had to give in. It's my belief," her peared. oents." · voice dropping almost to a whisper, "that . Laura.! Was it indeed she? This bright· up any ordi1?ary road to its full wid.th, and three or four t orpedoes &long a road are "What nonsense !" laughed Miss Lennox, he's in love with one of them, up there, he faced girl with the light of a new happiness sufficient to render it impassa.bl.,, They !'fter they had watched a tin reflector, a acts kind o' like it. Well, he's a real gentle· shinin,11 through her eyes and fairly trans· pulverise everything within a diameter of drinking mug, and an outrageous chromo man, anyhow, an' one can't say more than fi~uring her! and break everything within a. dia.· pass into the.hands of three eager "preps." that." "Louise I" she cried, " Louise !" making seven "One i8 tempted to inquire w!iat madness The door closed, and Miss Lennox devot· a sudden descent upon that young lady, and meter of thirteen metres from the centre of ha.th seized them?" ed herself to the task of her toilet-not ari hiding the happy face on her fri·md's shoul· explosion. They may be buried under four or five centimetres of earth without detri· "Well, the mug belonged to Mis Carter, unplel).sant one, either,. it must be confessed. der, ' 'Oh, Louise!'! ment to their destructive effect. It is only a Senior for whom the little prep. who Besides, the little stimulus of "a real It was intelligible, though not very in· the larger engin"es that cau be buried deeper bought it has a far·off admiration. She gentleman" gave an added zest to her la· telligei:t, behaviour, in a young woman who than this without impairing their efficiency, was a firm believer in broad culture and the Up to would have paid twice the amount rather bors. a distance of three kilometre& explo· than let any oue else get. Are you tired of . The curling, ·c hesnut "bang" which higher education. She .was only a girl, a.fter sion can be produced mechanically without all the noise and confusion? Shall we seek a shaded her forehead with such studied care· all, though she was about to graduate from the aid of electricity, either by design on quieter phce ?" lessness, was even more bewitchingly ar· Vassar. .Her Comtnencement Day essay the part 9f the operator or involuntarily by "It's too ba.d to have to carry you so far ranged than usual; her quiet, and "cor- would demonstrate her powers over the Eng· to find a place to sleep, but the coJlege reet" travelling dress was quite as becom· lish language to the dullest listener; but some act of the enemy. As touching the required to place these torpedoes 1,tnder regulations forbid us to entertain guests in ing a garb as she could desire ; and when there was a ~PPV lack of rhetoric io the time layer of earth of five centimetres thick, pur rooms, and wear~ only allowed to have she' clasped the little golden arrow, with its short and confused sentences which met the a it has been found by actual e.x:periment that a visitor for one· mea.1 a day. lsu't it rid- diamond head, that confined her unobstru· ears of Miss Lennox. fifteen minutes sixty men may·sow in this iculous ?" sive linen collar, she surveved herself with · "He is waiting to see you," she said in 120 engines in three or four lines over "Rather," aesented Miss Lennox. The serene sa.tisfaction; and, feeling well armed "Did you think we had" quite forgotten way one square kilometre of ground, thereby rentwo girle had left the college gate behind for the fray, she entered the· .dining-room you? Ah ! you wouldn't if you had heard 1" dering it absolutely impassable· . A regiment them, and were walking rapidly toward the just as the clock struck eight. As they entered tho parlor together, Wal· that would attempt to march over it would !arm-house where Laura. Page had engaged "Let me introduce Mr. Kirkland, Mis~ ter Kirkbnd met them with outstri:itched be simply pulveri:,:ed. board for her friend who had come from the Lennox," said Mrs. Adams, setting down a hands. "She has told you," he said, clasp· South in fulfillmeat of an old promise to platter of beefsteak as she spoke, and ing both of Louise's hands in hid, while he A WIFE'S RO:tl&NCE. 11pend Commencement week at Vassar. going back to the kitchen for coffee and caijt a loving glance upon Laura. She had arrived only a few hours before, rolls, . "I suppose so," replied Miss Lennox. A BurllDgton Lady Elopes J'rom Ber and after the fatigue of the long journey, Louise gave an involuntary start, and for " It was rather incoherent, but I believe I Bual»and Expecting a Jolly Ttme. the babel of tongues, the rapid introduc· a. ·moment the pa.use threa.tened to become understand." The Davenport (Iowa) De.mocr:at thus tells tions, and the general effervescence which awkward ; and ~hen he came forward, holdHe laughed- a happy, ringing laugh- of the escapade of a young married lady of 11eemed to pervade the Senior corridor were ing out his hand with the frank belief that andC!rew.Lanrato his side with an air of own· Burlington, in that city, and. no dou~. rather overpowering. It was a relief to w1:loome was his due. ' . ership that made Louise elevate her eyebrows from a perusal of the article many will be :find herself all alone with Laura in Mrs. "This is an unex pecte<J, pleasure, Miso slightly. "'This is where she belongs now," able to determine her identity : ·oom ;" tliere was Lennox." . he added, wish a view to further explaining .Adams' prim little ." best 1 There is one youn11; woman in Iowa who Miss Lennox wa.s not altogether sure of the siutation. so much of personal interest to hear and to has been cured of romancing the past week. relate, and sbe felt as if sh-e had been on that faot, b\lt she greeted him with lady-like Laura accepted it so meekly that the im· It was on W edneada.y last the wife of a a parade until now. comooeure. nevertheless. puhe to tease was irreetible. prominent physician engaged the services "ls it wdl with the child?" She turned Mrs. Ada.ms had set breakfast upon the "And your profession?" queried Miss of a young woman who was quite agreeable and placed both hands on Laura's shoulders, table, and had departed, and th..se two were Lennox, with the air ol one who seeks infor. in appearance, and who was sent to her from looking into the clear brown eyes with left to an uninterrupted tete·~·tete. mation, an intelligence office, for housework. She It was embarrassing, to ~ay the least, and "She has concluded that she is content gave tlie girl, who appeared to be about anxious tenderness. "You look tired out, dear," This was the apparent result of he1· "Oh l" thought Louise, " what · ii he ·and to be my wife," answered :Mr. Kirkla.nd ; twenty years of age, general directions as to c:lose inspection. Laura bad known that they had slept under "though .I kept my word, I assure yon, the work to be done and · when the girl told "Not more than is to be expected, · con- the same roof last night?" · ·Her usual self· }'Iiss Lennox." her that she could cook, the lady told her and the .!..au~a cast ~ reproachful glance at her ,what to get for .supper. aidering all things." answered Miss Page, posses.aion seemed ·to desert h ·, llfhtly. "Look at those great circles UD· ordinary breakfasUable amenities were gone friend, ~d colored painfully. The doctor oame home for his tea, and the d~r your eyes, beloved of my heart." thro1>rch with stiffly enough. · "Yes,"' she said.at last, "I confess that I wife went into the kitchen to. see how. pre· "Don't talk to me in such a tone as that," "Miss Leiinox," Mr. Kirkland spoke was wrong-not in what I sai'd 'to you last ;pa.rations for the evening meal were, proi-eturncd Miss Lennox, with significant abruptly, "you are S\lrprised to find me night, Louise; 'I meant. every word of it :gresaing. There ea.~ the · new girl wi~h a emphasis. "I am physically tired, of co.urs!J, here, and J should probably have avoided then ; l>ut· in the days when I thought it pan of apples in her lap, but there was no but I haven't any such look as you have. the meeting had I foreseen it. My very possible to reconcile both duties. Ther11 are :fire, no aign that preparations for supper had Laura, my darlinl{. you are not the same presence hero tells its own tale, and you, other girh- girls in my own class-who will :been commenced, even. And the lady was who love Laura, . wm not be altogether dis· he far more of a credit to·the profession than :was struck by the sad countenance of the girl. 0 h ! how I hate that man !" · "Stop!" said Laura, quickly, "you don't posed to do me injustice, '1 think." I should ever have. been: but I cannot hold girl. She asked the s.t ranger the canse of understand." "Surely not." Louise looked up with my1 sphere of usefulness as any the less the delay in arrangements for supper, a.nd why she'looked so do,wncast. . The eyes of " Yes, I do." Louise drew the izirl down an impulse as. frank as his own speeeh had worthy because it is narrower." beside her on the bed, and <Jlasped two lov· been: "Laura's happiness is very dear to ' Louise beqt to kiss the flushed face. the girl filled with tears. ing arms around her. "1 do understand me," she said simply. . "1\fy dear little girl," she, ~·have l not "Oh, madam," she· ex~laimed, "I am in that all this college life, all your honors, all "And her. happiness is mine," he return· hoped for this, and this alone ?" such trouble ! I can't tell YoU how wretch· your pla.ns for future work, aren't helping ed quiokly; !' ·if you believe that, you will Then, turning to meet Walter Kirkbnd's ed I am!" yon one bit, for you love him still." be my friend.'" clear gray eyes, "Tak'e care of her," she The lady convinced :":the girl that she There was silence for a moment, Louise, " I do believe it," she replied. She said, with an almost imperceptible quiver in could confide ia her-and out came the brief for all the tender and loving intimacy that could not but trust those steady gray eyes h· e r voice, " take care of 'her ; she is very story. ' e:dsted between herself and Laura., felt that met her own so fearlessly. woman, since she is l ost to the profession." " 9b, madam, I have a. husband in Bur~ half·frightened that she had dared to say so "Thank you," said he, gratefully. ;-Demorest's Monthly. lington-as good a husband as any young wife ever had-and I have run away and inuch. "Hut I dDn't understand "-Miss Lennox ........ ~~ left him!" "I don't-know." Laura's face was hid- broke off in some confusion. den . and the words came 1lowly. ·'Louise, "Why I am here now?" said he, finishing A physician named Rubini has tr.eatedthe " But why did you do so?" 1 liope I shall never see him again. I am her question. "It does seem like a foolish cholera in three different epidemics with "I don't know hardly- we had a little sure it is better so. I don't believ~ I was bit of ·secrecy-though, after all, my name warm wraps and five drops ot ci~mphor dis· · misunderstanding, and I became very angry, born to make any man's home happy." ·and movements. are open to the knowledge solved in rectified spirits of wine. Ollt of and thought I would punish him by leaving "And yet," retorted Louise, " in spite of of the world." three hundred and ninety-one patients him, thinking he would hunt for me and beg everything, your brain is planning, you " But why do you wait?" persisted 011e yE>.ar he did not lose <>ne. He me to return. I took the ca.rs and came to know- in your heart of hearts- that you Louise. "·He either fears his fate too considers that five drops of this camphor Davenport, determined to earn my own livwant some one to take care of you, and love much-'" solution on a lump of sugar, taken three ing ; but 1 want to .g o back so much. I can't work, can't do anything, but I want t o ;i.·ou, and compass . you about 'with sweet "Or his desert is small,'" interrupted Mr, times a day, will prevent the infection. . Kirkland. "that is the reason- in part :you ScoTLAND's ARMY.- A Parliar~entary re- go back." observances.' You can't deo7 it." · . The wretched young wife sobbed like a " I mean to be a doctor,' said Laura, know," speak ing · more gravely, "the cause turn, moved by Mr. Montague Scott, has steadily;" the fact that I havcfelt this want of the trouble between us." · been issued, and shows the number of con· child, and besought her new employer t o will bring me nearer to sufferin~ bodies and · "No," she confessed. victions between .Michaelmas, 1876, and the asei~t her in returnin~ to Burlington. She souls. Don't worry about me, Louise, I am "~t. was becaus?; Laura. wished to stuuy same date of 18i2, of all persons arrested thought such a.n adventure would be roman· convinced that is the work I have to do in medicme, an~ I obJected. . It seemed to me_ for drunkenness on Sunday in Scotland. tio, and it would b'e nice to have her hus· 'ould find her ; the world, and no one is unhappy who has tha~ as my wife she w?ul~ have -ample sco}ie The total for the six years was 13,'ill, o band hunting for her urltil he c a helpful and satisfyiog work to do:" for,mtelle?t ~nd energ1e~; . . . which 12,027 were in burghs and 1,639 in but now she said she believed she was the "That is so, I grant you. A few hun · That 1~ like a man I exclaimed Louise, county districts. The highest ·number in most foolish.and miserable woman alive. The sympathy of the physician and his dred years ago, you would have gone into a nvolunta.r1ly, any one year was 2 530 in 1882 18i8 comc.mvent; in the nineteenth century, a life "~f she _ loved me, it would have been," ing n 11xt with 2;391, lSSO closely '>llowiag wife went out for the wretched creature, a.nd dedicated to God is spent in trying to ma.ke fiushmg slightly ill his attempt to justify with 2 338 whilst there were 2 181 in 1877 she remained in the house until morning, many people better, rather than one alone. himself, · and o~ly i 886 in 1879. ' ' when the doctor placed her aboard of the south-western train for Burlington, and also My deal' little girl," Louise's voice was "Ver;i. true," said Louise, "and being a ' very low and tender, "I shall pray 'God loving woman she woul!i very. .800'.11 have An outburst of a lan:i spring occurred re· wrote a letter to her husband, ia which he ·blese your work,' but oh, I did want you. to four.d it out if you had not irritated her by. cently on the Monmouth side of the tunnel stated the circumstances in which the wife be happy !" opposition." nnder the river Severn, causing the work· ca'lle to his house, and of his belief i~ her ··How could I tell that !" he retorted; men to flee to the Gloucester side. The bitter repentance of her folly. S he lef! her · "And I shall be," answered Laura, lookhome full of glee over her prospects of a $ay ing up ~ith a. smile that was so unconscious· " she was restless and unsatislied as long as ,pumps failed to check the rising waters. ly brave and patient that Louise felt like our engagement lasted." Deafness has long been assailing the Prin· lark-and left for home with broken spirits, crying over her. "Yet was the first state of thia woman ces1 of Wa.les, and is now becoming serious, and in fear and ue·bling. Be 'Vas a Fool, For the sake of recreation, Once I asked an explanation. · From a young man (no relation), What was meant by ··osculation," While I shifted my location To invite the sweet sensation. Well, imagine my vexation When he gave me the translation And its Latin derivation, And a lot of information, Like a pedagogue's oration, Just as if he were at school!Wasn't he an awful tool i abrupt~y. "Ten me !" she ,began, ' IT IS A FACT! -T::e::E- . 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