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/’ .oAteo fan , and the g. 1-! 4: by which the ear- pet: were cquure-i naked in through lice cloth and p is met Lia feet. I y" l 1' L" a- nus-ally: ‘ g! .. j ~v~< mm , more All moments. "'1'; ‘ . W ‘ “pr _ fourrldeaviio saber ~'.. ny- vim culminate the ’41 't-ctlialb-er ‘. t.‘ if!) .. J‘- l. by u .1: l-t airy,- rs. lle'hei {uni-.32: m, .t at». in r in lie “at, sure; can. . .pyr . [la in: ever. in la't A paper which Mr. John Aitken recently read before the lioysl Society of Edinburgh is a nmar'ssb‘c contribution to the subject , of the origin of fog, mists, and clouds. Ac. cording to Mr. Aitken, who has made al great many experiments with moist air at various temperatures to determine the con. . dltiona which produce condensation in the at- mosphere on some colid nucleus. He further! concludes that dust particles in the air form; the nuclri on which the vapor condenses ;’ that, if there can no dust, there would be no fogs, .no raiits, no clouds, and probably no rain; that the supersaturated air can- verts every object on the surface of the h into a condenser, on which it would posit as dew; and, finally, that our breath, when it becomes viiible on a frosty moming..ami ever pad of steam as it es- capes into the air mm on engine, show the impure and duity like of tee atmosphere. These results hive been verified by Mr. Aitken at temperatures» low as 14 ‘7 Fahr. A party of nine soldiers left Fort Assisi- hoinc last month to look for some 4,000 pounds of game which a fellow nanie Riggs said he had collected at Cow Creek, about a hundred miles away. For some unexplained reason, Biggie was merely hosxing them. He locum rarer them for a time, and then clippexaawsy, leaving them without a ide. Tao mercury, meantime, sunk to 40 ° low aero. "It took them six days to make the hundred mileato Cow Creek, and then, being theft of food. they had to cont hunting sand the extremest cold. I hile thus en- gaged, one of the party, a youn soldier Who was a great favourite with is com- rades, became separated from the rest, and two days later his body was found in the snow, frozm hsnl. llis cartridge belt was empty, and the shells scattered along his trail showed that he had tried to signal the others. After much suffering, and with the aidof two hunters whom they met, the party sugcecded in gettin back to Assiniboine, hc’aring the body 'of t eir dead comrade. It is believed that a man named Bi gs will do well to than the region of Assini ine. “ Murder," according to the San Ber- nardino Times, “still stalks red-handed through the Pacific coast." The record of violent dcsths for a single week is given as a sample; At Cucamonga “a man under- took to shoot another ; his hand was struck up, the pistol discharged, on] a young man entirely innocent of the row now lies at the int of death; at ‘l bionic, Hunt, who is news to have murdered one or more men in Utah and others in Arizona, and was allowed to elude the law, butchered one of the best citizens of Lis Auulcs, and came within a hair's breadth of killing a citizen of the Monte at the same time ; in Reno, on the 17th, a mm shot another over a game'sif cards ; at Bodic the people arose in their in- dignation and lynched a murderer who had been arrested and allowed to escape ; at San Diego, a day or two since, a saloon keeper shot two men in self-defence, and they are now in a dying condition." The Times says this'rccord is repeated week after w'cok, and thinks it about time that jurors should beam to convict murderers, and that a severe penalty should be; imposed upon carrying a deadly Wenan of any kind. w -....'«â€"‘..._.-._-o.â€"..__ AGED 100 YEARS OR MORE. Mus. Ssuarr Jouxs‘ros died on Tuesday at Piqua, Ohio, aged 102 years. She retain- ed all her faculties up to within a few months of her disease. Mus. Smox llsiss died at Ssncon, North- ampton County, l’u., on Monday, aged. 105 can, and Daniel O'Brien at Scranton poor- ouae, used 118 years. Asrorsu LAMATl‘lu-Z died Jan. ‘26 at Love- ' land, Ohio, just as he was nearing his 100th birthday. \thu a boy he fought under the great Napoleon, and loved the service. Annex McKassv of SJCO made his will just as he closed a century of life, and ex- ecuted a codicil at a later date. llo dicd reccutl at the age of 102 years, and now his will is cing contrstcd. Anniusr L. Dicksrsis of Heringcn, Limberg, Germany, is a pedagcguc who is still teaching school at [04 years of age, at asalsry of 830 or annum, and he has rc~ ceivchno more than that sum for over sixty years. ' Willi: Thomas L. Corona-presented Mrs. Black Bear, an Indian woman living among the settlements on the Missouri, with a pair of spectacles, she was deli bted, as it enabl- ed her to see once more. .‘hc is suppcsed to be 1l5 years old. - Juus Wilson, a coloured woman, has been sent to tho Chester County (Pennsyl- vania) almshouse, after she has aupported herself 105 years. She is blind and dscrc id, and when found recently she was wit 3' out fire. being unable to keep it up, and ‘1!!th soon have perished. ' Ax old Kentucky slave; named Sirah Clark, died Jan. 10, after living to be, it is believed, 19,6 years of age. She remember- ed the breaking out-Vol the Revolutionary war, and said she was the mother of two children at that time. She nursed the dfsther of Gen. Clark, Congressmaa,and afterward an officer in the war of 1812. Joacurs Msufiunc run:d his wife .of lelboa-J ,‘B .area res tivey ‘ 97. hey-Itinan ate cc ebratiug the v ‘ tieth‘ptmvcnery 0 their wrdding soon. O the twisty-three children born to this .god pair, fourteen still survive. One bun- dnd and twenty-six grandchildren and ninety-sev - at-gnudchildren will attend the wedding’aaniversary. Barbour Mentor, born in Ireland. died mostly at Buffalo. aged lOI ears. When "Ines obi} during the re ion of 1798, a“ win as: seven miles by her uncle to hides large sum of mono . in s bog bole. She was met by British sol rers on the way, “was abehad nothing of value, my let her pass. The money was receveh we“, yfisp later. She came to Buffalo in 1744. She leaves seven children, the old- “: of whom is over 70. She has sixteen t-grandchildrul this city, and prob. . [y a nlmlflt‘jfl Ireland. if; ' _. mow. Abuse Our Home gk , __ i u '9 ca that’cf all brute animals none is ‘figgé'i-aln e tonisa than the horse. and a,“ u“ ogl of any mesas which may ‘ far. and efficiency is a blun- E ‘ inhable Yipes crime, ‘ ~. be c wi uttering m IAll?” urge that this value is not thfivawd be. and that this negv nudmablyocmmou. we may still be “ting breath on statements “may, ,_‘ would think of «ma into ggm‘ ‘ry one, “may be a, u Mam t'tbe management of horses ' ‘0! these who have charge "is any wpatoucrueltv, 3 a? .‘i illiii E a iiézé f. l g is 2: i . s i 7! mp‘ v: WWWW VOL. VIII. FENELON FALLS, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1881. O. 51. - ifi“ Go 810w, i “No, sir; I like the discipline of the ser- he had thought it best for them, Colonel sured meâ€"I do not say wronglyâ€"only one Cooking With Stegfiut MAW! ILLICIT. \Vhen you a pair of bright eyes meet, That make your heart in rapture beat ; When one voice seems to you more sweet Than any other voice you know, Go slow, my friend, go slow; For brightest eyes have oft betrayed, And sweetest voice of youth and. mid The very fslseet thing have said, And thereby wrought s deal of woe: Go slow. my friend, go slow. When ou're convinced you are a poet, And wishing all the world to know it, Call on some editor to show it, Your verses full of glow and blow, Co slow, my friend, go slow ; For many a one has done the same, And thought to grasp the hand of Fame, And yet has never seen his name In print. And whyâ€"waste baskets know; Go slow, my friend, go slow. When you to greed for money yield, And lon the might poy'r to wield That's ways fnun in golden field, With senseless pomp and pride and show, Go slow, my friend, go slow ; For thousands, tern ted by the glare 0f wealth, have fa en in the snare Set for the thief. And now despair, Regret. and shame have brought them low : 00 slow, my friend, go slow; The good old earth is never wrong ; Each of her works takes just so long ; Months pass before a happy throng 0f daisies in the meadows grow : Go slow, my friend, go slow. And spring gives life to summer's flow'rs, And summer's sun and summer’s show'rs Prepare the fruit for autumn bow’rs, And autumn frost brings Winter snow ; Go slow, my friend, go slow. HIS VICTORIA (moss By (lie Author of “A Srasxos Wsnnrxo- Eve," “Cqu Srsuuors's Dumosns,” 6w. CHAPTER IIIâ€"common». “ Gherutpoor was a small fortified town that commanded the road to Kotul, and, as you know, it had an English Resident and a small garrison, but not enough to offer much rasistancc. But then Gherutpoor had im- mense natural advantages, and a very small force was sufficient to keep in check a good many Sepoys. It was imnreguableâ€"or was thought to be so till McLeod was found to have evacuated it withouta blow, and fallen back on Kctul. It was the maddest thing to do, because Gherutpoor was, so to s eak, the key to that district, and, for sug t he know, reinforcements were miles away. However, he yielded up that fortress with- out trying to keep it, and retreated towards Kotul, as I told you. Of course he was pursuedâ€"thousands to his hundredsâ€"sud no one between Kotul, with its slender gar- rison and its women and children, but that little band of men. “ I think, if I'd been McLeod, I must have gone mad. However, when it was too late, he made a stand; but, by Jove, you might as well have tried to stem a tide with a pocket-handkerchief l It was just a massa- cre; they fought like lions, he and his men. They told me he seemed like a man inspired and seemingly invulncrablo, but it was of no use; every man of them would have been cut to pieces but just then up came rein- forcements from Barret's column, expecting to relieve McLeod at thrutpoor.’ The tables were turned then, I can tell you ; the villanous Sspoys were routed, and McLeod and about half a dozen men rescued. "I was with the reinforcements, you know, and so was Verner, the father of these girls at Ridinghurst; be rushed forward just as sfcllow was cing to cut down McLeod, and slashed his and off as neatly as I could smputate a lo . But I'llncvcr forget Mc- Leod's look or is words," said the Surgeon gravely and sadly; “there was a kind of fierce despair in his face as be turned to Verner. “ ‘ Why didn't he said. Bubâ€"' For son filled and emptied a glass of wine cforc he went on. "Of course there was a rowâ€"a regular flare-up from one end of India to the other. All sorts of yarns were afloat, all sorts of charges made. There wasa court-martial; and all McLeod said before it was that be than lit the lace untenable, and did the best e could or his men; beyond that he made no defence. The only witnesses he called were the men saved with him, to speak to his courage, and to testify that he did not shirk gorn into action. He had given proof before 0 splendid valoui'. Well, the decision Wal not made known, but he was sent to England under arrest to have the sentence confirmed at the Horse Guards. He was a Queen's officer. I ought to tell you. The upshot of the affair was that the original sentence was qua-bed. There was no evidence, the authorities said, of want of courage, although there had been a grave error of judgment. I forget the exact de- tails ; he was censured, but retained his po- sition in his regiment. Whether interest had anything to do with it I don't know, but his father was a big-wig. Still his career was blighted: almost to a man the Army condemned him, and the Horse Guards have quietly shelved him.cver since. He has ap- lied, I know, in every war since to be al- owed to volunteer in any positionâ€"but, no, they won't give him a chance. “Ilia father wouldn't see him again after that ; he had had such high hopes of him- though they say the ol man loved bests younger brother who has been dead acme time, I fancy. It's a wonder to me how McLeod could stud the Army after it all, so proud as he is too. But. I suppose he is alws 1 hoping to retrieve his character, and, may , he thinks it would he descrtiog, as it were, to cut the Army." There was moment‘s silence when the Sur- geon had finished his recital; a gloom seemed to have fallen in every one. Lord Kennedy roused him: I with s shake. “ It was a wretched business from begin~ ulna to end,“ he said. "Some people thought he was made alert cf scape-goat for those who put him there. Itseems to meitwssad pcsttc'vetca young lieutenant cl twenty, or no.5! I h"Wsll.yeusee.f;rone “ itconldat hel "re ' ergussn, ‘ e numfifemhsdbeen thinnedvery muchudhewsssentfortbc veryresson toothathewassuehadanâ€"devil. Iwas nevsrusonsstcundedinmy lifetbsnwlsen [found McLeod and retreated on lioiul. GsneralDawaaymldn'tbclieveitatfint. Yes-oer, you humour! to vow that‘there hadbeeaacmefculplsy,sndhetoldme thstheslmestwentdewu hiakneccto Helnedtogetsttbetrn :butallllco Iandsaidwuthsthehadgimtbeonly you let me dic ?' was all egplanstieubefuretbeosart-martialhecculd on" "lsappoae,'midtbe)ls' dril ,"tbsre was no truth to be ptag’iveibstthe Y ‘iu '- hard. Ha eb- 00 u ‘ 'i servedtbeDoetcr, ' kicked?I , lvice to be upheld, that's all," retorted the ‘Msjor. “ I know Verner used to think,” remark- ed Fer on, “ there was jealousy among some a the fellows of McLeod; but I don't think that was borne out by facts." “ No, that’s true enough," said Kennedy, frankly. “I don't blame the authorities at the time ; what I do blame is the hostility that pursues him still. He was kc t up at that wretched little station in the hi Is there for years; then after that tribe affair he came home and hasbeen here ever since. They ought to have sent him out to Ashan- tee." " Well, there's trouble looming in South Africa," said Fairleigh. “ Perhaps he’ll get a chance. “Humph, I've no faith in the sagacity of the W’s: 05cc," growled Fer son. “Oh, you’re a Highlander, color 1" said Kennedy, laughing. “ You all he}? to- gether like limpets to a rock. ou're teaching treason to this youngster here." “Pooh!” returned the Dealer. “The youngest cadet in the service has his growl at head-quarters. There's not much to be taught in that line ;, is there Fair- leighl” Fairleigh laughed and looked knowing, but said to Lord Kennedy in the party broke upâ€" “ 1 like the Chief immensely. He seems to me just one of those fellows for whom his men would do anything." . “ Yes, that is so, I believe. You know," said Kennedy, with a frank laugh, “that nearly half my misgivings about the thing are because McLeod is a. man you can't help liking. He’s reserved and proudâ€"cold, some say, but I don’t know. There’s a something about him that draws men in spite of themselves. Hrs men like himâ€" tbey can't help it. And of course the young ones that come in have no particular preju- dice. Thc Mutiny is like the time Lefore the Flood to them.” " It wonld he odd if they didn’t like him," said Ferguson stoutly. “ There isn‘t a man in the army who devotes himself to his work as McLeod does. There's nothing he won't do to set on foot any scheme for the soldier’s welfare. Ah, I know a few things about him that some don’t 1 10’: be mainly who keeps the hospital for the women and chil- dren going. He started the reading-room in the High Street, and took care that the regulations were framed on a sensible foun. datiun.” “ The band’s his pet weakness, though," said Kennedy, laughing. “ “'liul: he spends on thatâ€"time and. money 1 Well, it’s the best in the service, I will say ; and, if ever there was an enthusiast in music, Colonel McLeod is that man.” Thou the conversation drifted away from the Colonel, the card-tables were set out, and play soon absorbed the attention of all. CHAPTER IV. Colonel McLeod had all the pride of his race, and he had the sensitiveness which be- long,to a fine and noble temperament. He could never have sued for a reversal of the tacit sentence passed upon him. He simply did his duty, Without looking for reward. When riding back coolly into the verymidst of the enemy’s ranks during the frontier in- surrection of which the Doctor had spoken, in order to save the life of one of his wound- ed men, no vision of that magic cross of gun-metal had floated before his eyes. That was not for him ; ho had saved the man,nnd the man had thanked him with tears in his eyes; and while he lived he had followed McLeod faithfullyâ€"that was the Colonel’s Victoria Cross. What he suffered lay be- tween Heaven and his own conscience. Colonel McLeod had begun life with brightest hopes. He was ambitious, and had glorious visions of future greatness. He had, young as he was, the confidence of his so eriors, and was trusted, any, loved, by but officers and men. Such was Loris McLeod at twenty. In the Loris McLeod of twenty years later the bright hopes and the soaring ambition lay shuttered. He was banished from his father's home; for the old man, stern and terribly proud, was cut to the heart by this stain on the old name, and as never saw his eldest-born again. He died while Loris was still in India. Some- times Loris marvelled how he had lived throough those twenty years; how it was that, as each year had passed away on lead- en wings, he had not ceased to cling desper- ately to the one thing left him, the profes- sion he loved. He could not yield up his profession. To him it \vouuld have seemed a mean and cowardly act, like a desertion of his colors; and he hoped too that one day England would need his word. The coming of the Verner girls seemed to have worked something like a revolution in the Colonel's solitary life, not only in habits, but in his own mental consciousness. It compelled him to take an interest in things of which he had grown weary; it forced him away from the constant presence of that dull brooding pain that had never left him for twenty long years; it brought to him, despite his certainty that no girl could care for him, a home interest, home responsibility ; there was somebody to whom he could give pleasure, and Cecil’s bright, fresh young spirit was like the mounntin air to a sick man. Her enthusiasm, her naive ideas, yet hernnshsken faith in goodness and purity, all fell "like dew" on the spirit of the man who had learnedto “take the world as he found it." The girl filled agap in the Colonel's life, although he scarcely knew himself yet in what we . To him at present she was half child, h f woman, and be had for her an infinitely tender reVer- once. A month had passed away since the two girls had come to live at Ridiughurst, and they were now as thoroughly at home as though they had lived there all their lives. A lady of middle age, a kinswoman of the Colonel, had taken up her residence with them, and she soon became a rest favourite with her young charges. fasten came down from London for them; Colonel Mc- Leod himself went to London to choose horses for them to ride, and for the pretty little victoria which he chose to think no- to their happiness; and, in short, Albert Verner’s daughters were treated as though they had been McLeod's;nothing short of that would have suited Loris Me. Leod's notions of friendship. The girls were both happy, although in didarmt ways and for ereat reasons. Cecil could have been hpp‘ylmywberc and anyhow with the Colonel ; ice could have been happy in Ridiughurst with or without him. She was a year younger than Cecil; but, while Cecil had not yet awakened to the knowledge that the had a heart, Alice had already set her's on lovers and admirer-s: she longed to “come out." to be the centre of attraction to spurred and uniformed heroes. .lf alientenant in his handsome un- iform saluted Colonel McLeod in the street sndglsnosdtowardshevâ€"although l ithecilouwhoiuhis eye-m -ebe began straightway towesve a dream therefrom; and she thoughtit a hardship thatnonedmfieenmrcametfiming- except horrid' Doctor crgumn aridflIord Kennedy, who, drop ' in to luncheon once, ked to ' bslftbe time, and evidently looked upon Alicesas McLeod would have even compelled himself to endure society, which could only be a continual tomcat to him. But he was glad that their youth precluded the necessity of op‘ing his door to a number of idle young oficers who had nothing better to do than loungcin lsdies' drawing-rooms and flirt with pretty girls. \Vhen the girls were older, of course he must do what was best for them; but at present no one would expect to see them brought out. “Why don’t you ever see any one, Col- onel McLeod 1" Alice had asked once, half coaxingly; and he answered, smiling, that he was too busy, and that the sisters were too young. “ And too busy," Cecil had added ve- ly. “If we went out Ailie, we is cold have no time to practice and read and study." s “Study! You talk as if we were going to be governesses ;" and Alice posted. Cecil flushed and looked down ; her sensi- tive spirit was wounded, and a. grave shade had come over the Colonel's brow. He said nothing; but, in casing Cecil, be ansedto lay his hand on or shoulder an ask her some simple question about her music. Alice’s remark however had given shape to 2 vague burden which had weighed on Cecil’s eart. . Colonel McLeod sat alone in his library one evening; that was one of the habits he had not given up. The girls were in the drawing-room with Mrs. Annandale. Cecil used sometimes to wish that the Colonel would come . to ; but Colonel McLeod thought that they must like to be alone now and then, and that his presence would be a restraint on them. Nevertheless the library seemed very lonely to the Colonel, even though old Colin, who lay stretched on the tiger-skin, looked up fondly every time his master came near him in his walk up and down, or let his backdrop on his knee, to rest his head on his hand and stroke his moustache thoughtfully. Presently the Colonel heard a gentle tap at the door, and he said “Come in ” rather dreamin ; but he rose quickly as he saw a tall lithe bluek-robed figure cross the floor in the red glow of fire-lightâ€"thcrc was no other light in the room. "Am I disturbing you, Colonel McLeod?" asked Cecil, pausing just on the rug. "May I speak to you for a. moment '2" "An hour if you wishit,'my child,"he answered, half~smiliug. How strange it was! There was only the red-fire glow, yet the old library seemed to be bright now with light. “ I am idling here, and at your service. Sit here”â€"â€"drawing forward the reading- chair. She sat down, crossing her slender hands on her knee. It seemed a little difficult for her to begin; but, after a few moments’ pause, she said, looking into the blazeâ€" ”I wanted very much, Colonel McLeod, to speak to you about my future; it has troubled ms for some time.” He raised his hand to shadehis eyesfrest- ing his arm on the mantclpiecc, and said quietlyâ€"â€" “ In what way, Cecil? mean I" “Do you remember what Alice said the other day about being governess?” said Cecil. “ That made me think a great deal ; it brought definitely before me that I at least ought toâ€"that we haveâ€"â€" I mean we have no right to be staying here as we are, with the idea. that we shall never have to earn our own living." She finished bravely; but she had found it very hard. to speak, and harder because the Colonel was silent, and she could not see his face. Was be angry? she wondered. She rose quickly and came and laid horhnnd on his arm half entrentingly. “Please do not be vexed with me," she said tremulously; “but I know that my father left scarcely anything for us, and yet you make no difference; and I wanted so to tell you that I had no idea of always bein a. burden on your kindness." “ ush, childâ€"oh, Cecil, hush f" It was as though she had wounded him deeply. His voice was full of unuttcrable ain ; not voluntarily had the appeal broken rom him, not for worlds would he have her know how she had pained him. Did she not give tenfold, he thought, for all she receiv- ed? His kindness] It seemed such mock- ery to talk to him of “ kindness " to these helpless childrenâ€"kindness to Cecil, to Al- bert Verner’s "dear lassies." The girl look- ed startled and wistful ; but the words had scarcely passed his lips ere he had controled himself, and he said, locking down into the clear eyes raised to hisâ€" “ Is the obligation a burden to heavy for you to hear, my child? What put such ideas into your head 2" “ 1 have thought of it for u long time, Colonel McLeod. I know I could do noth- ing now, because I don’t know how; but in a year perhaps I could teachâ€"" “Would you like to leave Riding- hurst f" “ But we cannot do always as we like," answered the girl, without directly replying to the uestion. ' The clonel smiled a little bitterly and turned away, moving a few paces off ; then, Seturnrng, he laid his hands on Cecil's shoul- ers. _ “ What shall I do, Cecil, to clear your simple heart of the idea that all the gratitude is from_you to me i" he said softly. "Do you think you are very much in my way i" “ Oh, no 1 But we are not of your kith," answered the girl, with down-cast eyes. We cannot always look to you for so port. It is not pride, indeed, Colonel Mo ." She spoke eagerly now, " You wi.l under- stand that, won’t you 1" f‘ I think I understand you fully, my child," and McLeod gravely, but wrth in- finite tenderness. " You are a dear child to think of what you have told me. But you are troublingI your mind with thoughts and misgivings t at need never exist. There is no question of burden, obligation, or grati- tude. that should overwhelm you. You are only a little over seventeen now ; but, if influence can do anything, you should never have my cement to leave this house, except â€"except for a home of your own. You know nothing of the world, now, my child" â€"ball sadlyâ€"“it is a cruel world even to the strong: and youâ€"a brave spirit alone Will not hear you scathleas through the battle." The girl's e3: filled with tears; the words she uttered pped from her lips almost unconsciously. “ The wor.d has beenerncl to you, Colonel McLeod 2“ Ho dropped her hands abruptly and turn- ed away, gmwxog pale. Yet the question did not wound him, coming from her. Cecil remembered instantly that she had no right to ask that question, and impulsively she sprsn to his side. “ orgive meâ€"I did not mean to say that," she said, insuch an earnest beseech- ing tone that it almost made him smile. “I am so the htlees." "Dear ' you have not wounded me; that is not possible," he answered gently- "Iwill tell you something,Cec~il; itinay at your heart at rest. long ago, when I would have rushed recklessly on death, it was your father's band that snatched me back. Idid notthaukhimforthe boon. I counted it none then; "afterwards"â€" droppedhhvdeqsnd set his teeth fora though it cost him much to What do you . muss Ithpmhhbthsgforhiswsrds’ssh,“ speakâ€""afterwards,wa all others oeu- e stood by me, unshaken in‘faith. and that man was your father. Hsve I not said enough to show you how impossible it is for me ever to cancel my obligation to him and his? Something of this I said to you the first day you came; but not so much. So let that rest, if you can be content here." He paused; the doubt was of himself, not her. “Content! Oh, Colonel McLeod," cried Cecil, almost passionately, “could I be otherwise than happy here? \Vho could be unhappy when you are so kind, so noble 2" “It takes very little to make you happy, Cecil," returned the Colonel, smiling; but her words had sent a wild thrill of joy thit-longhfiis heart. ” A great deal of music u _’ “ And you, Colonel McLeod," said Cecil. "Don’t put yourself in the background." She looked up smiling now, though tears still rested on the long lashes. “I won't pain you again; but, indeed, I could not rest until I had spoken to you ; and I did not know what you told me this evening, else I had never spoken." [m as cosmona] -.-.-«>â€"â€" Four Mountain Lions CAPTURED ALIVE BY TWO PLUCKY HUNTERS 0? THE BLACK HILLS. (From the Black Hills Journal.) Throu h the kindness and courtesy of George Trowbridge of Sprin are enabled to give our readers t a particu- lars of the capture of four mountain lions by two brothers named James and Richard King. The capture was effected on the divided be- tween Spring Valley and Box Elder, in which vicrnity the boys had. noticed “signs " for some time past. Traps were set in a place frequean by the animals, and the brothers caught two on the first night. The lions made a wicked fight, but were finally captured, tied strongly with ropes, and packed securely on a harm, by which means they were taken alive to King’s ranch in Spring Valley. Confident, from the numer‘ 0113 tracks in the vicinity, that they had not secured the whole family, the brothers again set their traps, and on repairin to the spot alone on the following night, ichard found the old dam securely caught. He had with him a sma. l burro, but no one to assist him in binding the lioness, and a man with less nerve would have undoubtedly killed her in the trap. Our hunter, however, had deter- mined to take her alive, and set to work with s will to accomplish the task. Having plenty of rope with him, he at- tempted to tie her in such a manner that she could do him no injury, but the wonderful strength and agility of the creature and the easewitli which she cut the re whenever she could reach it with her feet for a long time baffled his efforts. A tussle such as few men would voluntarily engaged in took place there after night with no other human sing within a distance of miles. Perseverâ€" ance, agility, strength, and, above all, wonderful nerve, won the contest, and King fi- ally had the satisfaction of seeing his feline antagonis lyin it his feet securely bound. He then sat down and rested from his exertions, and after a short time loaded his prise upon the burro,-and arrived at the ranch none the worse for the battle. Afourth was taken by the two brothers together, near the some lace, on the oven- ing following, and it is elicvcd but one of the family remains at large in the neighbor- hood. All showed wicked fight, but all were brought in alive. The largest weighs exactly 110 pounds. They are all now con- fined together, and keep up a continual growling, hissing, and snarling whenever a human being approaches them. They are remarkably strong and active, the muscles standing out on their legs like knotted cords. QUEER HAPPENINGS. A WOLF bit sixteen persons in avillagc near Naples, nine of whom died of hydro- phobia. A'r Bodie, recently, a Mexican played his wife off at a game of poker, and she cheerfully went with the winner. A wm‘rn beaver was recently captured by an. old hunter named Adams on the Skoo- kumchuck River, Washington Territory. Tm: fall from a tree by an inmate of the Oregon Insane Asylum restored his speech. For twenty years no word had passed his lips. Joni. Suner of Kennett, Chester County, Pa., lost his life by poison from in- haling the dust from some old sleigh bells ho was cleaning. UNDEB thawing of a chicken found frozen to death in a hen house in Richmond, Va... a rat had nestled for warmth, but was also dead. ' Humans from Pleusantco, Texas, found two bucks with their horns securely looked. One of them was dead, and the hunters killed the other and brought away the horns still locked. James E. Bsown of Kittaning, Pn., who died Dec. 5, bequeaths $25 to every widow in the town, $25 to every wife who shall be- come a widow, and the same amount to all the girls now living who shall become wives. A Gnaxn Ruins, Micb., woman took strychninc, and her pet poodle dog was so alarmed at her convulsive movements that he join (1 into her lap, and licked cnou h poison ruin her lips to kill him, while s is recovered. JUST as D. Iveson of Connellsvillc, l’a., entered a court in Scotland to claim an estate, a witness for the Government was ’ving positive testimony that Ivcson was gland. He got $100,000,,and saw the per- jureis sentenced to prison. A may belonging to a gentleman of Rale- igh, N. C., was misled many days ago, and when she made her reappearance it was with twelve little tempins. It was found that a tempin had laid the c gs, deserted them, and the {owl converted t em to her own use and sat on them. A warm flat iron was ordered for Mrs. August Lefiler's chest, as she was suffering from pneumonia. Her husband was too drunk to appreciate the situation, and,usrng a ten-pound iron, it burned its way into the cavity of the chest, causing death, They lived at Foo Du Lac, Wis. Ax island thirty miles away was beauti- fully brought‘to view to theg ple of Acco- macCouut , " ‘nia, recen y,ssarnirs e. The sun roze begin! a Diiclt f bank whigch soon grew thinner, and sudden y Chincotea- quc Island appeared with its tall, white tower. its dwellings, its trees and shrub- bery. A little boy was seen driving a flock of sheep along the shore, and even a little 'rl in the door of the lighthouse keeper's Esme fondlings doll. It lasted but a mo- ment. A party of scholastic exiles from Ger. many have to Texas, with a view of huyinglsudiuthemthwesternpartof the State, and founding a community of a co- opentive or communal character. They are accompanied their familiu. and it willbe" othersthth Valley we P Steam has never been looked upon with special favour in the kitchen, and its use for cookin purposes has heretofore been rather limit . The-prejudice against its .usc is doubtless duo in great measure to the bun- gling devices employed in applying it, which generally resulted in producing sod- dsn food, devoid of flavour. A new con- trivancc, the work of Mr. John Ashcroft, was successfully tested in the restaurant of Messrs. Nash & Crook recently, when an entire dinner cooked with steam was served toasclect company of the patrons of the establishment and a number of newspaper men. Soups, fish, roasts of beef and mutton and canvas-hack duck, uddings, and other edible: Were all cooked y the new process, and those who partook of the viands ro- nounced them excellently well cooked. The new process does away entirely with the use of stoves and ranues exec t for broiling purposes, and oven broilr'ng, it is believed, will be done much better by thestcam oven than by an open fire. A device for so cin- ploying it has been put to some severe tests, and thus far has worked well, althongh it has not yet been put in general use. The steam ovens consist of vessels with double shells, one inside the other. The steam coming from a boiler is introduced by pi as into the space between the two shells. ls- diation of the heat to the outside is prevent- ed by a jacket of asbestus. A thing to be baked is put in the vessel, where it is acted upon by the heat derived from the steam, though the vapour nowhere touches the food. The quantity of the steam and the rcssnrc are regulated by means of little wheels. There is no burning by the pro~ cess, meats are not charred, their flavour does not pass off, the juices are preserved, and the kitchen is free from the usual dis- agreeable odours. Milk csn be boiled with- out burning, and soups of delicate flavour can he prepared and kept better than with a stove or range. A great advantage of the new process is that no fires have to be kept lit as in a range, there is no dust or ashes flying about the kitchen, and the heat can be applied more speedily and with less trou- ble than is the case with a range. The steam can be shut off or turned on at will, and after serving its purpose may be con- veyed away for use in boating apartments. Wherever a steam boiler is used the ovens can be made available at a small expense. If the numerous steam-heating companies, which have obtained permission to rip up the streets, ever get at work and supply steam heat to houses, the Ashcroft ovens will very likely come into general use in pri- vate houses. Tobacco vs. Chloroform. (From the Manchostcer, 1!.) Mirror.) “You can’t get any of your chloroform into me.” The s caker was one who had put in four years' ard service, and had been a target for sundry balls and pieces of shell more than once. “I remember," be con- tinued, “ when I got that ball into me that Ma'or Fowler spoke about, and how be pro ed and poked trying to find it, but fail- ed. At last one day I was sure I could feel it, and sent for the Major. Ho probed once more, and, sure enough, found it. ‘IVcll, Nat, said be, 'I'll just give you a little chloroform, and haul that fellow out.’ ‘ No you don't,’ said I, ‘just fill my old pipe, and ’11 smoke while you dig.’ ‘ All right,'snid he, ‘I can stand it if you can.’ He at in- struments and want at it, and I tel you what is is, the way I pulled at that old pipo was a caution. A locomotive on a frosty day was the only thing to compare with it, for the volume of smoke, and the .Mujor all the time digging and boring like a man pro- specting for oil. He had to change instru- ments once or twice, and finally, when I had given up hopes, he of; hold of it, and how it did hurt when he cgan to pull 1 It is rather hard to haven tooth pulled, but this was worse than having a jaw torn out, but by cricky, I never yipped, although I bit the old pi e stem in two. He got it out all right, and soon felt 100 per cent. better, Snickers. flow to bring people over to your side-â€" have the mo .v ole-incl off your sidewalk. It is sad but 2 m.‘ hat a man vilio once beams.- ‘.:\f 525 um enjoys a happy bar after. The :- in: {it uh . - i. .les his discourse: into too many hi- uls m i find it d.fil;ult to .pmcure attentive ‘81”: for all c: that. “lie got his jus: deserts.” remarked . Bmwu. “And uiiuc. toa,"cjiculatcd Strong. gas be surveyed the table saw the afterâ€"din- : ner luxuries all gone. I " “’hen a man puts down a bad umbrella {and takes up a good one,"ssith Josh Bil- ' lings, “ he makes a ntstake; but when he lputs down a good one and takes upabsd one he makes a blunder." ‘ , Pupil : "' What is a hero, Mr. Bircheni! " Teacher (Mr. Birchem): “ A hero is a man who conquers himself." I‘uj-il : “Ah, I see; a man who can sit down on a tack and only feel sad about it." A photographer recently acted as master of ceremonies at a friend's funeral, and as he lifted the coffin lid for the mourners to look at the remains, whii red to the corpse, “ Now, look naturs ." Force of habit. Young Mr. Ecru has a very callotv coin- lexion. He says he isn't proud, and he ocsn't cars at all about his looks, but what bothers him is that his complexion is natu- rally so yellow that he can't tell when he is bilious. “ I say, Paddy, that is the worst looking horse that I have ever seen in harness; \Vhy don‘t Von fatten him up 2" “Fat him up, is it! ‘aix, the r haste can scarcely car-3 the little mate t at's on him now l" reph Paddy. A man found a rough-looking individual in his collar. “ Who are you i" he demand- ed. "The gas man, come to take the meter," was the re ly. “Great heavcul" cried the houschol or, “I hoped you were only a burglar." “ Yes," remarked a musical critic, " the fiddliu' was bully; but I tell you when that fat chap with the big mustache laid hold of the bass fiddle and went for them low notes in the violin~ccllsr, I just felt as if a buas‘ saw wus a playiu' Yankee Doodle on my backbone." Some arithmetical chsp has figured out that Vanderbilt's income would allow him to visit 8,000 circuses, out 10,000 pints of peanuts, and drink 5,000 glasses of lemon- ade every day in the year. But he doesn't do it. Thus it can be seen that wealth is given to those who don't. know how to enjoy it. A gentleman who is fond of horses attend- ed church recently where there is a some- what prolonged servicc before they come to the sermon. " How were you pleased with the services ‘2" asked a friend. ” 0h, very much; though it did strike me lhctthorc “Es a good deal of scoring before they got 0 _.. An army jokc: A mounted orderly, an Irishman, was raining up to deliver an offi- cial document at the officers' quarters at Aldcrshot, when his charger hacked and be found himself sitting on the pavement. “Bedad,” cried the hussar, "isn‘t that an intelligent buster Sure he know I wanted ’ to get down and he saves me the trouble. A tenant has been dancing all night over the head of his landlord. At six in tho morn- ing the latter comes upstairs and complains bitterly of the annoyance. ” What annoy- ance 2" asks the tenant. “Why, I haven't s'cpt a wink all night,” was the answer. "Neither have I." says the tenant; "and yet I don't make any fuss about it." Young Hopeful, age six, who is showing a visitor his lluolt containing an alleged repro- sontation of a “bird” and a “liorse,"na ind: outed in the wosz underneath the drawings “These are my worst drawings, Mr. Smith." Mr. Smith 2 “ Indeed, Tomm l and where are your other oncsf” Young opcful: "Oh. I haven't drswed them yet." A bravo boy who kept twenty Indians at bay, died of his woun s at Denver, 001., a few days ago. It never happens that way in a dime novel of Indian warfare. The brave be in the dime novcl, would have kept the Indians at bay until there was not an Indian left to bay at him, and then he would have rescued and married a beautiful, white captive, with long hair kisserth the sunlight, ripe red lips, eyes of diamonds, a marble brow, and a good-natured father worth $900,000. There is too much reality in the real. 4eâ€"-â€"4->â€"t’-â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"- The Embarrassed Passengem You may have been a passenger on a street car at a time when some one picked a half- dollar oil the cushions or a dollar bill from but none of that chloroform for me under the “WW and “Xiousb’lnqulud for mom“ any circumstances. Give me my old pipe and they can cut and back all they want." eâ€"<.>-â€"-s What Resulted from a. Clean Shave. (Special Translations.) On the occasion of Queen Victoria’s visit to France in 1860, the prefect of the Seine charged a celebrated architect With the task of organizing a feta which he desired to give in her honour. The architect assumed the work, and de- manded to be presented to the queen as a recompense. ' "Looking like a billy-goat as you do," exclaimrd the prefect. “ Cut off your beard and I will present you." “Cut off my board? never 1" For several days the unhappy architect vacillated between his love for his beard and his desire to see the English sovereign. The latter feeling, however, proved the stronger, and at the last moment he shaved his face clean, and presented himself at the Hotel de Ville, where he never left the side of the prefect. The presentations took place, but in spite er. At such}; time every man fools in- stinctively in his pockets. Every man feels like saying he is the lucky party, but an inward voice restraint; him, and he re- mcmbcrs that General Washington could not tell a lie. The money is invariably pocketed by chc finder, and he is set down in the opinion of his feilow-pasengorsas cou- tcrnptiblo and mean. ()u a Woodward avenue cur yesterday a young man purposely dropped a greenback on the floor, and at a Jiropcr moment he picked it up and observe : “ Who lost this dollar 2" Every one looked at him, and every month watered. . "Did any one drop this bill?" continued the young man as held up a corner. There was another embarrassing pause. Then a man reached out for it with the remark: “ I dropped it, sir. man to return it." “ Are you sure you dropped it 2” “I am. I am not a liar. ' " Butâ€"you-sccâ€"youâ€", " stammerod the young man. "Give me my money or I’ll wring your You are an honest of his efforts to attract the attention of the neck g" interrupted the other, as he reached prefect, the architect was never presented. When the queen had departed he turned indignantly upon the prefect and said : ” IVhy didn‘t you present the l" “ Present you 2 On what pretext?" “As the originator of the fate; as your architect." " Hon Dieu," exclaimed the prefect. "I didn't know you with your heard off.” Animal Reasoning. A lady, I fsiend of mine, was at one time Matron of a hospital for poor women and children which was maintained by snbscrip» tion. One of the inmates was a blind girl who was not there an patient, but. tempor- arily,till a home could be found for her. She had learned to feed herself, and at meal times a tray containing her dinner tvas placed on her knees, as she sat in s comfor- table chair for her special convenience in feeding herself. One day while she was eating, the pet cat of the establishment laced herself before the girl and looked on}; and earnestly at her, so earnest! that the Matron, fearing the animal in itntcd some mischief to the girl, took her out of the room. in the next day, at the same hour, the cat entered the room, but this time walked quietly to the girl's side,rearv.d herself on her hlnd lags, and nuiselenly, stealthily reached out her paw to the late, selected and scised a mortal that passed her, and, silently as she came, dspsrted to enjoy her stolen meal. The girl never an ' her 113:, :25! when :3!dei1 it bylher coin g very as y. t rs evith the cat from observation had entirely satisfied herself that the girl ecmld not see, and by a process of reasouin decid- ed she could steal a good dinoer’by this practical use of her knowledge. The snowinthc Westhas been particular- ' g to the sh men. One firm whomwintering their och our Co per- lia, Montana, have lost nearly an. haveha ,butthesh- snyhumitduriagastormsnd ynow hs_f «low. out for his victim. " r. The young man gave it up. HUlDeked white ahd rod and green, and he felt so had over it that he soon dropped of the car and took to the icy sidewalk. An old Incident Repeated. A lady, well known in Beverly, while in a passenger railway car in Philadelphia one day last week, had her attention attracted toe very handsome diamond ring on the finger of n glgptlomsnly-looking passenger beside her. 0 lady left the car and pro- cceded to a store, where she made several purchases, but on putting her hand in her pocket for her purse loan it had dice pear- ed, and in its place found the dismon rin that had attracted her attention. Ajewe - ler pronounced it worth $500. It is sup- posed the setting of the ring caught in her pocket, and it was strip from the finger of the thief. The poc ct book contained about $10, and the lady is the richerby $490. ’l‘nis is no fairy story, and will be washed for by several persons. _._.._......._..‘ S‘runrss or Armour Corinnaâ€"Our secs cod day's match from Pan sol ended at sunset at the village of wsmakulnba. which, like )fadsngs, is situated in the heart of an impenetrable forest. In this place clothes are manifestly st sdiscount, I lupecially among the ladies, who have no- thing but a small piece of cloth hanging from their waists. This they never wash, nor do they ever sew rents. Hence their “dress ” is generally one of simple shreds and tatten, kept together no‘vne have how. They prefer moreover, the very thinnest of mstcri s. Eve-n gauze is not considered too airy a fabric. One young damsel sported as the soled-2pc for a garment the remnant of an 3 net, â€"-Gcocf Words. From 1848 to Jan. 1, l881, California turned out in gold and silver 82,139,253,. Itis a fixedfactthsttbcreiaapeatfu» tosce it. find it his to t their sheep to the ture for everybody wboeau live long enough I ,,__4