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~~-;,~ ~~1J:TM'llV..'Nl.'ll'M!!ll!IJ!!'.D!!'lllf.C!§)ml2lillli1.tllfflml'!!2:Jlt<lll ~~~; BYMYRAA,GOODWI\", A One watched the dawning' t the l ear U¥on her breast; life's soriows cllng o hearts left helpless in tJ,e r woe,' Another l~fted trustful e:yes. And smiled to see tile 1fa" n aoain ~~/g:~ ~sh~a~'!i~':!~;~~~~and~pai:; Her very restmg pia-ce is white, As her pure soll'l, but dearer grown W~~~ ~~1:t?!fl~cri~s~~11°~~ n~wg~t\, ' ~-:i~:~~~r~~~: ~11~n~~~La~e:~~0 ' And snow upon a. new mrvie gravt>. T~~l~~i[~J~~~e0 w Ts~ ~~1i\'i!1~ifow 1 1 .. 8 ...- - - fJUPID!Tf AND C.RJ~fE, ---···-4·~·~· 1 8 CHAPTER XI. ··"Where is Norn 1" It seemed to Cristine's excited fancy like a far-off echo of the question put to Cain ; and the answer of the first .nurderer fl.uttered to her lips, but found no utterance there. Useless indeed woultii it be to meet Arthur Beaupre's searching eyes, and try by excuses or evas10n to escape their merciless scrutiny. How much or l1ow little he knew of the terrible tragedy and its real ca1,1se the girl could not guess-enougli doubtless to condemn her and hold her responsible for much of the misery and madness it revealed. " Where is Nora 1" the man repeated firmly, coming a step or two nearer and speakrng in a low tone. "What sp~t of earth has she found refuge in to-day 1" " She 18 not here," Cristine cried faintly. " I have only just read the dreadful Captam Bruce is .swry m the paper. paralysed and dying ; my mother has broken down under the blow· I am quite alone. Oh, Arthur, pit.y ~nd forgive ! I am pumshed for my sm." " Pity you 1' 'he answered, with a laugh that made her shudder. "Pity you when I still see Nora's face as I saw it last rught-when I remember -the cruel itr~p inpo which you betrayed her 1 No, Miss Smgleton, I am not saint enough f~r 'that." "You saw her then 1" Cristine asked ·eagerly, forgetting even her own fears -oven the man's fierce auger, m her crav: mg to hear more. " Before or after 1" " I saw her ID the evenIDg. ObeyinD' your telegraphed instructions, I reached Stoke Vernon between six and -seven o'clock. I found Nora on the beach told her my story, and heard hers'. Your drama of revenge could have worked to no better derwuemen Miss Lord de Gretton foilud us Singleton. together, and took his wife away." He spoke with studied calmness, but Y 1 · . . 1 Cr1stme saw great drops aather thickly .s:e dank .lower still, and lud her face on his forehead ; and her o"'wn heart sank a e;pairmg cry, for m a fierce rewithin her. vu swlnf of disgust Arthur Beaupre shook "Oh, Arthur," she said, claspmg her tmse ree, and stood over her with a hands m pass10nate entreaty, " forget h of sc?rn upon hlB face and hot who I am ~nd how I have wronged her ! m ignatwn m his eyes. Tell me only this - did Nora do this . "Love-f~r ~:I;' sake !" he exclaimed, dreadful thing 1" with. a fierce mc1siv~ scorn that struck hke " If she did," Arthur answered sternly a knife-struck straight to the girrs sore " the SID lies less at her door than at "If I had not loathed and hated yours. You drove her mad among yeu · he11rt. you before, I should hate you now for and if, in her madness, she- - Oh' those words." Heaven, it is too ho:r1ble !" . ~he strong "_ That 1s enough." Cristine rose to Jnan broke-..qo.ivn with a wa1hµg itiful her feet, and spoke with a sullen comcry, and turned away his face. 14 My posure. "You shall not hear them aO'ain _poor Nora, my m1iocent lovmg darlmg Heaven has fo1saken you indeed 1" ' and I will keep you no longer. Only teli me tlus before youTgo. All that has pass"'The wages of sm is death !" Cristine ed smce you saw Nora last has made no had sinned cr~elly and selfishly, and her d11Terence m your feelmgs ; false as she wages were paid m full. The bitterness has been even to you, guilty though she of dea.th indeed was hers as she listened 1s, you love her still 1" to that angmshed heart-broken cry, and "With all. my heart," Arthur answered knew. that, though all the world might ~~rvently. without a second's hesitation. :llock m to comfort the stricken man she Wronged and wretched as she is, I Jove :alone, she, who in her way had loved' him her sttll I may never see her agam : but, well and tmly, 11he muist for shame's sako f?r her. sake, I shall love no other woman Le mute. ' till I die." Perhaps the sharpest sting of all the There was something of relief to hi.b ~any that pierced her aching heart lay ov~rwrought feelm.gs in the utterance of lll the thought that her sin had been so tlus fervent confession of faith. Some of vain. She had parted Arthur and Nora. the old brightness woke m the deep blue for ever indeed, but qmte as effectually eyes, the rigid Imes around the lips relaxhad she parted Arthur and herself. Never ed, the w~ole face seemed to soften in a would the blue eyes that onoe had looked transfig_urmg glow. ~m her so kindly hold anything but loathAnd GJ propo;t1on to the softening of mg for her now. Never till her life's end he: ?o~pamon s was the hardening of would Arthur B eaupre forgive her. \;lnstme s fac~. The look of penitential Crushed, humiliated, suffermg as she pleadmg vamsl~ed. with the t ears she had not thought it m her nature to suffer brushed away mdignantly. Sho drew 1he stood m dazed silence waiting for hi~ hers~lf defi:i:ntly erect _; the bright eyes to speak ; and at last, with an effort1 he r~gamed t heir steady glitter, though the mastered the anguish that possessed him hda wer e still reddened and the lashes :and raised his haggard face. were wet. In .th:it de~1sive m?ment the "This house will be watched of course " chambers of Cri~tme Smgleton s soul .had lie said ; and Christine shuddered ~ tl~e been t?rown widely open ; Fate might desperate calmness of the words and all have willed that it should receive angelic they unplied. " As she has not come be- V!Sltants ; but Arthur Beaupre was pitifore, she will never r each it now. And less, and there entered sev.en demons yet, poor maddened child, what other re- worse than those that dwelt with her befuge can she find 1 fore-den:ons that filled her with l:ntter"l thought"- Cristine's voice trembled n ess and Jealousy and eager longrng for nervously over the suggestion- " that revenge. perhaps in her misery she had come to "You love her still," ~he echoed, with you." slow and cruel emphasis ; "then I still "Heaven forbid 1" he cried quickly hate her- remember that, Arthur Beau"That would be madness and wo1s~ pre, and rememl;>~r that it is your work. th~ madness, indeed, It ~ould give a An hour ago I pitied her, I loathed mymotive for- -" self; now- -" . Once agam he broke down in a spasm ~he paused with a strange sneering of fierce pain. StrOllO' as he was he sh.1il.1ef tlbt ~lled the listening man with could not force his tongue to utte; the c " or odings. words that lmked Nora's name with the You have done yo'!~ wornt- you canlast and worst of crimes. But this time not harm her . more ! h e cried hotly, the pause was for a moment only ; h e tho~gh all the time h e felt miserably inwent on, with a look of qmck reliefere ulous of his own words. " But she has no clue to my where"Wait 1" 'Vith cruel force Cristine abouts ; she cannot even find me even if struck h er slender hand upon the she would." ' table. ; but .she went on, as pitiless of the " And what shall-you do now1" physical pam she gave herself of the "Go back to Sroka V ernon at once " mental anguish she dealt out 118 t him. he replied. " The inquest will take " Can ~<;>ra afford .another enemy 07 She place t o-morrow, and I must be ther e. I is a fugitive from JUstwe, the police ar e ca'?7e to se.e Captain Bruce now, but- -" on her track. Yes "- as she noted the Captam Bruce may not live through ashen hue of the bronzed face the quiver the night." of t~e firm lips- " she has a w~rld m arms His lips twitched a little ; but the news agamst her already. An hour aao as was no n ews to him ; h e simply bent his h ead, and brought his brows together m Heaven is my witness, I would hav: helpeel and ~hielded her by every means 111 m~~e concentrated thought. And Mrs. Bruce 1s ill, you say. And my power ; now I would stir neither hand or foot to save h er from t heVance i Where is your brother 1" scaffold 1" With a little weary gesture Cristine As th e last hideous word fell on his ear pushed back her fair hair an d stared half stupidly, as though the quest10ns bewild- an irrepressible cry brok e from Arthu~ B eaupre's hps. It was echoed by a shrill ered her. laugh from Cristine. At last sh e h ad "Vance 1 I do not where Vap,ce is. st ruck h ome. Nora kn ows." ." Cannot you bear t h e t hought 1 ·w ell, .Row unconsciously the familiar wor<l.s :.slipped from h er lips ! With what a t hmgs as hard as that have been borne etrange new significance they fell on her before now. Faces fair as Nora's have ears and those of the listemng man. The shone from the fel on 's dock, necks as ~ora of whom sh e h ad been meanly delicate h~ve .felt the hangman's hand. 1ealous, to whom she had grudO"ed her Of course it will be a dreadful disgrace t o brother's careless confidence and affection us, but- - " Arthur h eard no more. W had changed so strangely now, it seemed oman as ~m you~ iY br.:,~·,, wi~ day fashion. But the words filled Arthur's mmd with otl;~r thoughts. Ho has not been here 1 She may have g<~ne to lum 1" ~ristme shook. her head decidedly. 18 n<Jt m Engl,1nd ; I am sure of " it.w ti e11 ' iere is no more to be said " Arthur moved toward the door fLS he spoke, possesse.d by a feverish longmg to be up and domg. He would w1llmgly h~ye gone without another word; but Cnstme s~ood, .not '.l'cc1clentally, but of s~t purpose, full m his pathway, and until she chose to move he could not reach the door. . . No impulse of pity had stayed tlie denunc1atory words upon his lips He felt nothing but the loathmg for the traitress at whose door he laid all the th t had come u on him. h f l lnsery a and f anxious only at all costs togesc' Cnstme Singleton's presence ape rom ' .Yet a harder-hearted man than he m!ght have . been moyed to pity the wild-eyed wh1te-foced girl whose machinati~ns had recoiled so terribly upon herserf ... She looked with a new-born pitii:ul h~mihty mto the worn haggard face; she ~ned to sp?ak, but the words died away man mart1cula.te mur~ur; and, actmg on su'l1en passionate impulse, she flung erse upon ,her caught the astomshed mans hand m her own, and clung to. it with a sor~ of desperate enorgy, while groat scorchmg tears, the first sho had shed that day, ramed down the white upturneJ. face, and wild reckless brokenly from her pale qmv"A £h' r t t f onl Ir ur, is en om~- or a moment yld Yhou do ~~t know all, or you wou per aps-"I d k ,, h . t d 1 " "a~d I~hw a11 ' e m errup~ . stern) · I k at 18 why I am pitiless to Ie~~~r th ~ow thattloud Nkept back my s, a you su ere ora to believe dead, you urged and drove her mto ar°~:~r1age that she. loathed, and that madd nnot speak of it ; my <;>wn !vords t me. Let rr;,e pass, Miss Srngleon, you are wise. He t:ied to shake off the ~linging clasp; but, without actual he could ~ot succeed .. Cr1stme s shm fingers onl:-tightened their grip as she cried, between the sobs. that sh~ok the s~ender prostrate figure with no fe~~ed gnefbu·· Yes; l 1t all. I have sinned; t Iknot pumshed now 1 Arthur, for f1ty s sa e do not look lik:e that ! le was or sake. I thmk Jealousy turned I loved you so truly, so dear- a~~ 0 ~~~~~~=1==:~~k~u~s~~~~l~:~:~:~:~=~f~TM~;~ o~=~:~=~n~d~:~a~:~~~l~m~s~=~Ll~1~~~e~:~n~:~w~n~o~d~·~~~ub~~t;~~~~~z~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~'~~~~~~·~~~·!'!*!*~'~TM~~~~~~~~~~~-~ ~~e heart-~ck eve~ ~o~ ta~n !rt~h:e!7s h kne~s, =r~~~alla:1°e ~e ~hat Jn ~rut~hty, adm1~ ~d~1 ~ngi:Y as longer in her presence· the wild loath- thitt, as t he JUrors passed out from the CHRISTMA.S IN HOLLA.ND. EATBN BY CANNIBALS. mg, the hot anger that 'rose witlun him dutith-charnber mto the long dming-room as she exulted m,1lignantly over the pie- in which their conference was t o be held :aow l> t. Nloholas's Day ts Celebrated Tile IIorrlb " Fa.to or a S.blpwrecked Crew ture of Nora's aO'ony and death would t]hlil- faces were very grave and stein. ' Amo11g the Dntch. -Tb.t1 Survivor's l:>tory. have driven lum 1~ a moment to forget her ·rhe first witness called was the manIn t he flat lands of Holland, the country Capt. Tuttle is now 71 years old, and sex and silence thh cruel lips. Without servant who had made the terrible dis- of wmdnulls and wooden shoes, Christmas his experrnnces have, drawmg it mildly a word or look, as pushed past her, and covcry ; and his nerves, not unnaturally is not celebrated on the twenty-fifth of been. somewhat varied. He was born went out. h a d b een 1w sh.iken that a more skilful ex' D ecemb er, b ut on the fifth day of the Ne\Y Y ork Boa "· t e, and worked on his The cool freshness of the mght-wmd ammer than Coroner Steyne would have month. The dn.y is a great one for the father's farm until he was eighteen years played upon his heated temples as he found It difficult to extract a coherent merry Dutchmen, and m many respects old. . He became infatuated wit h the wi~lked along, hardly knowwg wluther he story from his hps. resembles the holiday season of the Eng- glowrng tales told of a life at sea and-went m the v10lent agitation of his SI hsh and the Germans. It is St. N icholas's made up his mind to join a ship. did thoughts ; and gradually, he left the lorn of its irrelevancies and spasmo- Day. 'l'he origm of the festival is found so, and smce that time, with the excephouse IJehmd, a.nd escaped from the ovei- die mterJectwns howover, J olm Hicks' m tho t ime.s when the Spamars- t10n of. the t wo years and six months he powermg horror of Cr1stme Singleton's tale commenced somewhat as follows, and reigned m tlns low and beautiful coun- ~as kmg of t he Canmbal Islands, and presence, ,his bram began to clear and lus !~~ti~~ors followed it with breathless at- try. smce 1881, he h as been at sea. fancies to assume something hke coher"I M St. N icholas was an old Catholic saint A Tribune reporter called on the old ency and shape. am r. Dalmayne's servant I wl10 d evoted his time to the relief of the ' " sh e11 back " th e ex-kmg last ' evening. L d d G H . never saw or e retton until yesOft . ffe r el t d hi t f ad he really harmed the girl whom he terday, but received Mr. Dalmayne'a m- pooi. en times the poor countryman a e s s ory o h ow he became w.ould-oh, how more than gladly-have structwns to wait upon him while he was found a goodly store of the necess1t1es of Canmbal Islands in a graphic died to serve and save 1 Should he for at Cliff Cottage. Lo~d de Grett on arrived hfe left on Ins doorstep, without a clew he: s'.1-ke have played the hypocnte with yesterday with her He was m t o t he sender. At other times, when alIn 1838 the "Essex," a ship on which Cnstme, have seemed . to pardon and very good Bpints at first; but the ser- most starvmg or freezmg, like a heaven- Capt. Tuttle was, was wrecked. The trust the fear-born pe~itence that made vauts thought her ladyship lookqd very sent angel one of t he good saint 's labor- crew took ti) the boats, and after drifting her humble herself at his feet 1 pale and sad for a bride, and there was ers wou!d appear to relrnve Jus wants. ~bout. for about twenty-five days the one He could not tell, It was even useless something wild about her eyes---" Never did St . Nicholas appear as the m wluch heanclsevenotherswere 'wascast to debate the question now. The die was Here Mr. Hicks was somewhat sharply don?r, and never did h e acknowledge on one of the Cannibal Islands. [mcast, and, whatever she might have been reminded that he was asked t o describe havrng sent them. His aim was only to medmtely the e nt1re boat's crew were Miss Smglet on was once agarn her step'. the circumstances attendmO" the discovery do good, and have his reward by seeing s~ized by the natives. They were all sister's vindictive enemy, would tell only of Lord de Gretwn's body,0 and not Lady others happy. So on that day, the Hol- killed except Capt. Tuttle. 'l'J,e reason too gladly all that she knew- and how de Gretton'saspect as a bride But the in- landers, when the sky is cloudy, thoj,r why hew.ts not killed with the oth ers terribly that all would tell ag:unsi the terruption so palpably bewildered lum low country damp and marshy, heaven was l. t·cause of his unusual height. A fugitive bride Arthur acknowledged with and scattered such few wits as he still and earth wet through, as it were, and few d ys afterward the ruling kmg "as a thrill of sharpest auony-and help as possessed that he was allowed to proceed the only good place is near the fireside de~ose~, and Capt . Tut tle was mauguratshe said, to tighten the rope around'the 111 his own fashion. t hey mutate the good saint, and try to ed m .llS stead. slender neck that only yesterday was "Soon after they came, his lordship re- lieve their fellow-countrymen. . 1' ~c reason Capt . Tuttle being saved by clasped by the delicate bridal pearls. ceivedsomelettersand telegrams thatseemFrom helping the poor, the spirit of ms unusual height (he lS six !eet tl1ree "Oh, Norc1., my lost darlmg, if they ed to disturb him; and shortly after that en1oymg the day themselves has come mches) wa~ a strange superstitious belief have not tracked you down already where he went down town, len.vmg h 'l d I and .now St. Nicholas's Day' IS one of of the nat ive.a. Several years previous are you hidden now 1 Oh, No;a, if I alone. Her ladyship's maid w:: .:e!s ~X merriment and surp1ise to the jolly Hol- one of the kmgs died. Before he died could stand by your coffin to-night, could I d1gnant at this, as she said it was nol the landers. We have no Christmas trees or he said he would return agam m another look upon the calm dead beauty of your wn.y to treat a bride; but her ladyship did evergreens; but, instl"a<l, we worry for form aud color. Up t o the tuue that Capt. face, and know you were ~fe from shame not seem to mind. She sat in the rose- weeks and days to devise a surprise for Tutt le appeared the natives loooked forand pam to come, I would thank Heaven room for a little time anrl then walked our family or our friends. It is a busy ward t o the second commg of the dead as man su 1 tl k d H eaven d own by t h e private · ' d h king. When Cant. Tuttle landed he was re Y never ian e path to the sea-shore season, an eac one mmds hls own busi- m d cl h,,. before.!" . About half-past seven Lord de Gretto~ ness and the most mysterious of 'a ctions easureh' an e corresponded in every Agam and agam the po,ssionate wish came back, and was very angry to find her and the meat secret plans are gomcr on 0~ tay ;~~ t ~~e dead kmg. I t was became fiashmg through lus bram, cuttmg ladyship had gone out. He followed her devised. When the day comes"' reat ieve 1a ere could be no mistake in the thread of eve1y thought and negativ- and about half an hour later the cam~ boxes are sent round, and the app~a~ance ·tl~e man, and ~e was therefore made 0 inrr every wildly-imagmed plan with the back together · and " said Mr )r k of the streets looks as 1f the most gigantic kmg C anmbal He fought 1 suggestion of the only possible hope. Yes lookmg up with a sudden gleam 'of i~~ei'. busmess 18 being done or else ...h at some- severa att es with the islanders, and -m death only. could he see a champ10· hgence, "we soon made up our minds body is moving. La~ge:i>oxes or barrels ;vas VJCtor10us m all of them. He b~~t for Nora now-m the grave her one es- that there had been a terrible row be- find their way mto parlors and a merr a c~urch and preached to them m thell' cape from the doom that awaited her tween them." party watch their opening. ' y native language. Dy this t he natives behere. "'Yhy 1" As the Coroner put the curt Off comes the lid of the box and mam- came somewhat Civihz0id . 'l'wo years and One was certain quest10n a t lmll ran through the assem- ma hf cs up the paper to see 'what is in half aft erward Capt. Tuttle took lus a~1d decided amid the wild confusion of bly, and all m it bent forwaid eagerly to the box. More paper! Out comes a e~arture from the. islands. his thoughts. He must return to Scoke catch the answer. handful, and this is followed by anotlwr Uapt. Tuttle said that the islanders Vernon at once, must learn for himself "Because they showed 1t m thell' She gives up the task aft er several at~ were very fond of humall: flesh. The reaa~l that there was to learn, and even force looks. Lord de Gretton looked mo e tempts to find something besides pa er son why they have a likrng for this kmd himself to be present at the inquest. like a tiger that a man. Aud, when he Papa then trteh his hand. After of food was because of a existing Re had littlo hope of hearing anythina spoke to her ladyship there was a sort of vain endeavors to reach the bottom of the among them. One of their kmgs was that would clear Nora's radiant imag: snarl in his voice that mn.de one's blood great box, he at last finds another quarrelsome, and disputes 0 from the thick mists of horror and run cold. But she did not seem to mind Qmckly it 1s brought out and unwrapped. 0 ?iher tribes on the islands. He 18 suspicion that had gathered round it. it. She walked straight on beside him It may be of red leather or pa er but. le anders who wer e his subjects Seemg, as he did see with aching persist- as white as a corpse, and with a most alas! when opened, it only dis~lo~es ~ that they must eat whom they killed a.nd ency, Nora's face turned in that wild back- dreadful 10ok in her eyes. She passed us smaller receptable. This is forced 0 en to<;>k prisouer.s. He. wanted them to do ward glance, hearma, as he did hear the all without a word, and went moo her own to disclose a still smaller box. 1he l;bcause if he d.id 111 so t heir opponents constant echo of th':i cold cutting room, not leavmg it even to come down old"l)eople tire of the sport and the chil- ou e decreased numbers. He bethe sharp stingmg words with which th~ to dinner." dren contmue the search.' After man heved that if the dead and the prisoners doomed man expressed his sense of the " There was no further quarrel, then mor e openings a small jewel case contai!. they would not return m anwrong done him, and his determmatwn to that night 1 " ' ing jewellery,' or some other handsome .br orm to give them trouble.-Denver avenge it, he could not and did not doubt . "I should think not, sir. His lordilhip present is found. The sender's name is r i une. that he had left a mad woman with a hard ~med alone. and spent the evening writ- not known, but it is certain he or she has ----~-----and cruel taskmaster, and that driven to mg letters. I saw no more of him until worked hard ~o pack so small a tlnng m The Grand Trunk and 'l'emperance.. actual frenzy, Nora had struck the fatal the mornmg, when I went to open the so many covermgs. Two weeks ago we took occasion to blow. shutters m the little library and then- " I remember well a big barrel a friend refer to the dangers rail way travellers a.re She was mad- that explained all that The man paused with a strong shudder of mme received on St Nieholas's Day. exposed to because of the fact that some was the sole satisfactory key to the' em"- at the ghastly recollection his wor ds He sat in his study, wondering if his of the employees may n ot be at their ma; even the man who loved her best a~- evoked, and then went. on_ rllcther mor friends would forget him, when a sen·ant be~t ~vh1le _on duty because of their cepted it, t oo hopeless to find another hurriedly. "His lordship was lying -opened the door, and in walked a porter dnnkmg or smoking habits. It is glad even when, hke angels pleadmg for th~ across the white rug, at the foot of the carrying a large barrel. to know that Mr. Spicer, the General ui;happy girl fr<;>m whom eveii love shrank chair in which he had been sttting. He "Ah,. ah !" said ,,my friend, "I have Supermtendent of the Road 1s doing all with ,horro~-stncken eyes, memories vf was stabbed rn the back, but Ins face, some.tlung anyhow. he can tc promote temperance among N o:r;a s unfa1lmg gentleness and unselfish with all the sun on it, stared up at me. With the aid of a hatchet he opened those under his control. In 1883 he inpat10nce under mJnstlce and oppi:esswn His eyes were wide open but he was the head of the barrel to find 1t full of augurated t his movement by first sigtlil{g came thronging into his mmd biddmg him quite stiff and cold, and ~11 the carpet what he at first thought was butt er. H e a total-abstmPnce pledge himself and r eficd how p1t1ful was her h~art, Ji ow soft round him was soaked with his blood." was wondering whe:q he would bo able t o then 1sswng a circnlar mviting all dthers ~nd w~manly her nature, and asking with (To BE CONTINUED.) e~t it all,. and started to taste it , and to eng,tgcd l>y the Grand Trunk to do so. 1mplormg passion, was thts the girl to lus surP.r1se he found 1t to be starch, col. ln conB equence of these efforts hunstam hei: hands ~nth blood, to fall at once Truth about Tobaooo ored w.1th. saffron. H e knew t here was dreds ha' P; tak en th e plerlge, and the from childlike mnocence to the worst 1 · somethmgm t he barrel besides t he att1rch wh0le st ... D >K Jlloh,ibly u o" 1 nuch moie depths of crime 1 Even when these Ii;i a report of the Medico-Chirurgical so . he ordered a nuuber of buck ets and .,,ober a rhl '-'"teful u 1 cuHseqQence. ge.ntle comforters pressed upon the Socrnty of L1e~e, by Dr. Lebon, the fol- pails, and began to empty out t he yellowThe followmg circular was issued by nuseraJ:>le man he thrust them harsltly lowmg conclus1ons are presented : colored substance. Down, down, through the General ::>uperintendent at the com1 from him, and put them to silence with lat. For every 100 grains of tobacco the barr~l he went, sift mg every hand- mencem ent of the New Year:the one convmcing sentence that held u.sed, at least one-tenth of a grain of nico- ful, until he nearly reached the bot t om, l would ask you to consider very seriously more than the bitterness of death to l:im tme 1s absorbed. when he struck upon a litt le box. H e the adv1sa1:nllty of jomm11: our temperance -she was mad. 2nd. The diurnal quantity of tobacco opened thts, and beheld a pretty pock et movement ro1 t h e new year 1884. In my circul9r, Decemb· 1 , 1880, I said " there were a good ·'.And even "-;--so the divine faith with- consumed by a.n ordinary smoker is about match -safe, the gr't of a friend. many 1ea10""·PCC1a1ly applicable to rl1llway !n htm argued still- " even suppesing the 300 grams. The. trou.ble that some people go t o, empio~ ee~ for absta1mng from the use or i ndi m k "?' You have the lives of the sweet nature warped and the clear brain 3rd. The effects of tobacco smoke are ?an J;ie 1111agmed, and the fun and pleasure to:ocatmg ~u bhc all(l. tho safety of per sons and property unstrung, Nora was N ora still. Suppos- the ~ame as_ tho.s e followmg the adminis- it gives, can al.so . be surmised. The e 111 rn ~ Lu.t f O ; om care, requirmg at all times mg patience, faith m Heaven's mercy, trat10n of rucot~ne. Dut ch ar e p~cuhar m ma~y thmgs, and the u tmu' t 11u8~1blo caution and vui:1lanoe m per1 orn1ai.ce of your duty. Aga m, railand hope of earthly happmess, all had 4t h. The resmous liquid which con:len- not very quick 11: adoptmg new ideas, lne w ay ... n, ploy<:<' from their llab1hty to night left h er, she would have killed herself, ses m a p~pe 1s almost as p oisonous as but when they decide to do so, t hey mean wo1k, n1egu'1.. hours, exposure t o all kinda of "" Ml·ei . '11,d fro m the rool!sh and expenand not her cruellest foe." pure mcotme, and destroys t he hves of it. S lY·~ cuctom u l · treat mg." are exposed to But h e only answered, with a do<>O"ed animals rapidly. nouch ddll>:lfl .md many temptatwns, Even 00 Land· Birds in Mid-Ocean. J:>U1~ A:.m gt: 1 u vlj Kon e so far as to offer a n d i n sev;torturmg pe.rsistency5th. The liquid condensed from the fHct, u1 ge. c ntluctors and brakesmen when We cannot Judge h er- she was mad.' 1 smoke .in the mouth and lungs, contains The app ear~nce of some of the smaller on duty, to take drmks. and have been the ammoma, nicotine fats resins and col variet ies of the migratory birds, such as cau.e or tr..11.men'· dlsmissal from the service. l a m sor1 y to ~"l that I have had to deal aumCHAPTER XII. ormg matters. O~e dr~p of this spe~dil; sparrows, swallows, doves, etc., several man ly w1tb s t" h cases as have come to my I only wish I could deal as pr oduces paralysis in youn" animals hundred miles away from the near est knowledge , ly wilh Lhe perhaps good·natured but Never in t he course of its uneventful 6th. In mon, small dos~s of tobacco land is by no means an unusual occurr- sev(lr< Jn<,,l. t I 11u u,...l t. 3 und incon siderate p a.i:»aen existen ce had Sooke V ernon been so smoke excite the intellectual faculties · ence on t h e ocean. , About t hese litt le g.,, <- M t>u subJ0otec1 to su c h temptations a t hour, at t ""le only as total abstumers proydly co~sciou~ of occupying a pre- repeated doses produce palpitations' erratic vlS1t ors there are some curion$ !'"Y l ue .. one gl., s· m oie" often has the e:tiect of ~mment position m the eyes of Europe as disordered vision, and decrease of men'. '.1-nd mterestmg facts. Their appearance lll akmg a mun O'.\!Ol ess, sleepy, and md,fferent is almost always on e at a time though I tu danger, i f 11ot worse at a time when he 1t was vn the day followmg Lord de Gret - ory. ne< els TO hav< ,.il hrs senses clear, 11.ncl wideIon's murder. From the Coroner a fussy To this may be appended the follow- hrtve known a considerable n~mber, r e UWake l ot llto ,, " n and others' safety ' '1 'ha.ve presentmg, perhaps, as many differ ent only to re·e1 ) vu to the Offence Cu cnlars to ~uddled septuagenarian local law'yer who ing . ~at1 sfy you th ~r I am epeakmg in the best Jogged along m a humdrum manner "Dr. Willard Parker1 jr No 41 E t varieties t o accumulate m t he course of a mterests <·f <very employee of every g racie, through the ordinarv busmess of his 'fwelfth street, New York,"~ent ·a certifi.. day. It 1s usually, though not always, 111 and .m .the JJ" "rest of the company and the ylA total absta inpub I JC, m ur1:rn~ ; ou to beco1 office, pr onouncing tha t drowned sailors cate to t he Bureau of Vifa.l Statistics stormy or unset tled 1 ·rnat h er. for the new eia had been drowned and scalded cluldren stating that James J. Sullivan had died The fi.Ist curious fact about these birds 0 1 ln toudent. year 1881.- W. J. SFIOEB' Suphad meet with death by misadventure in at No. 110 Honry Street from 'poison- is, t hat they n ever appear to be tired out ---.-....a...._~~··----a fashion that sat isfied everybody, but m g of the sys.tern by tobacco.' Sullivan whereas bir ds are often met with n ear th e Nu Dud Ha liit Broken To·mo1Tow. who felt now that a mor e difficult task was only twenty-six years old. He had lan d with t h eir strength quite exhaust ed. had suddenly been thrown u pon him been employed as·a bookkeeper, and he The second curious fact about them is Why should men delay to break any and must be performed under strange and had used tobacco so constantly that his ~here prete111at mal tameness whe1e t here bad habit 1 J!;verybody knows th at it keenly critical eyes- from Cor oner Steyne system had become impregnated with is no cat or dog on board, and the crew gr ows stioug.~ i by each r epitition. Noto the village constable, every one felt nicotine." show no d1spos1tion t o moltist them as thing 1s mo1e foolish t han to say "I vaguely uneasy and important. The reWe expect that many will sneer at exhibited by their apparent ly seeklno know I ought to stop, and I will next New sponsibility was honorable, but 1 t was th~se facts, and light a fresh cigar, to rather thMI avoiding t h e presence of Year's day. " The man who cannot stop very great. Stoke Vernon was oppressed q~iet ~he touch of nervousness, wh10h man. to-day cann0t to-morrow. The drunkard Anot her curious fact about them 1s n ever reform11 to-morrow ; the spendby the load. will mvoluntarily come to them while The village itself boasted but one inn. for a moment they fear that " there 1s the r ecovery of all t heir nat ive wildness thrift n ever saves to-morrow. The That filled at once, as did every local somethmg m 1t." It is mdeed a sad fact and their instinctive avoidan ce of man's boaster who ·ays, " I can if I will, " if! tl.e lodgmg ; and then the crowd of stmng- that this growIDg evil must straw its prescence on approaclu ng t h e land. ouP- w h o 11.mm·t will, and t herefor e never ers more or less connected with or mter- p~thway with physical death before men fhe first time I noticed this fact was d11..-~ Tilu1e ig .but one r emedy for a bad ested in the case overflowed these narrow will heed the facts, and science and the with a pair of olive-colored rmg-doves h.·b1t, and th.it is t o srop t he nhing now. which, from their remarkable taroenes~ H e wh o says, " I will not do it for three hmits and descended upon the adjacent pleadings of reform. ' and fam1 1Iar1ty. I was led to believe had rn rmths," is not gra.pplmg th e habit a.t all. town. The r egatta week, t h e an nual Enough t.o Scare Them. been l!lred . in a domestic state and per- R e only fights the battle who says harvest of these quiet West -country Not long ago an officer in the army haps on slupboarcl. I kept t hem in tJic " N e~er more ; the t hing is wrong. " Th~ folk, was as nothrng now ; the visitois from London would pay thrice, four who, havmg lost his upper t eeth wore a skyligh t in t he cabm, where th ey seemed only mfalhble cure for an absorbing bad times as much as thell' 1J,ccustomed lod()'- false set, was engaged in serious' conver- to be qtute contented ; but on approachmg habit 1s to put an absorbincr good one ill ers. A nd naturally ; for what was "a sation with some Indians. His plate land they became the wildest of t h e wild. its place. A love of bad co~pany is n ot mer e summer ~10lida)'., a simple trial of t r oublmg him, h e t ook it out and wiped One of t hem escaped and flew away. I cured by n o company, but by good com· str ength and skill, besides the grim tragic it with his handkerchief. The Indians succeeded m taking the other into. port , p:.iny ; bad readmg gives way not to no N ow, I a m reading, but to good r eading. Dissipated drama on which these strangers came to wat.ched the pr ocess with unfeigned as- wher e I gave it its liberty. tomshment. When the cap tain putting certmn that t h ese birds could not have men must become earnest Christians, n ot gaze 1 A thousn.nd wild tales and confiictin" t he plai;e in his mouth, wen t on 'with the been appr1socl of tho appron.ch of land mere professors, to make their reforma· · rumors spread from mouth to mouth conversation, t hey sprang to their feet through the rnedmm of any of then ordi- ban sure. ----·~ ..~""~.... >t . -. - - while Coroner S teyne an d the twelve and left the r 0om and p ost m all haste nary senses. This curious circumstance A J apanese student at the University good m en and true who wer e sworn to and with every symptom of ex~reme ter'. led me to n otice more particularly the conduct of other varities of these little of Berlm has been appointed assi~nt to assist him in the inquiry climbed the r or. wanderers ' upon the ocean from t heir ~he Professor of Anatomy, and the Mingreen sl ope that lead to cliff Cottage and Baroness Burdet -Coutts is the owner native habitat, and I find that they n ear- ister of P ublic Worship has approved t h e looked with awe-strick en eyes upon the of t he smallest pony in t he world ly all exhibit to a greater or less extent appo;nt men t , No h onor equivalen t t o face of t h e murderad dead. t h e same curious characteristic.- Popular tlus is said yet to have fallen on a ChinaYes, Alberic Grant, seventh E arl de H e is five years of age and st ands · Gr att on, had been foully murdered ; on mches high. man in any European mst1tution. Scierwe Monthl;y. l~ as H~ l~dyship. ~:;n:..the re~ ~ t~e Island~. t~mg al~ne a~solutely d sev~rai :\~ !f b~lief. ~requently ~ad t~nes onl~ ~is wt~e ~aten P, l i ,., lS I