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Fenelon Falls Gazette, 20 Jun 1885, p. 1

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A New Hampshire woman who died leaving as good properzy directed by will that it would an be expanded lu adorning 5mg lullausmcu the dark and actuators hcr burial lot, and so a costly marble flfflfm‘ whiff-burnt);tgatheina; wait: m mun-em ma - same breath: mm My 2:2: :‘tfi‘ifrtfzh .‘tt‘r'éfréfbi‘t’ 1’."- will tchlllifl a little country grave) are. intact the man who never advertu it. According to the American Naturalist, ' a hybrid has been furmed between the sommon and the " Dlrwin" potato, from: the southern part of South America. 12' is believtd that the new potau will not be subject to the rot or other attests of r “0 3”" h m dw \ my, 0 d d . 1.. p . 'a . . ran esigns parasitic fungi. l v. rm; us.ch ntut ITI’ICJfltCB and refining, . l i there Kiuld snow winrows,elegantly dressed. A Ru"”n mu'tnted paper “prawn” . anon .ovmy cicrks cashiers. and all tho rest, a number of young women seated ‘3'. s l Iris-(h: but «u show him now the pub.lc sized, table, each txamining meat for trichinw. ' “1" Eli-0 9‘ mm “L0 3"“ “W'mkl‘ IE 13 ‘5qu ‘11“ WWW-’3 Dusk" “maul: 9 lie wait d and all wai’ed : clerks. cochlea. microscoplsts. Last year they thus ex- j salesmen, ramswqfinn. such delightful (head's. v s - . f impel. Elsi. Wullela lHLU BUIDUIC I re I‘m-“ed durum arm The de‘c‘zedl it uh p uncus little for the .5on to tithe. ' meat is a: once destroyed. A California physician claims, Indian Medical Journal that the bruised pulp of eucalyptus leaves, which he had been in the habit of applying to his very _ bald head for the cure of headache, had i brought out a new and abundant crop of of hair. Mrs. Ohm, who professes to cast out devils and perform other feats commonly regardtd as superhuman, resides near,I :‘Eng of his slaf', his great emb'tinn’s scope inc unifal thi: guru him cause to the. ll.» uecit iclgvi, ir lull and ample stock. “In ha i: account as Poll“ as e. rock. Who he. e: LchiI.et-.l, but sLnipiy “tiled. I inuâ€" iinsinc. s was dull. but snluriéi andrculz Went on u 1 cash and cred t both were spent: [afoul the shellll'clctcd the whole car cerc. .\ .m, at a plt.a..cu lull‘Ch his soul despises, no Wu: its for one n no ai 1! eye advertises. o-â€"< 0.... AVENGED ; â€"...... CHAPIER Vâ€"(Coxrra’vsn) “ And you really must go, Isidore? ’ by persons who believe themselves under the influence if a realign spirit. She has been enabled to amass a snug fortune. They are about to rival America in Lin- don in the number and variety of their “ [absolutely must, petiteâ€"my drinks. The list for Lcndvn salmon in- wills it; and l mu of-suns themost obe cludes corpse revivers, Ilth Lf lightning, diam, 35 than knomgt,” al-a-ba-gnun, flip-flap, gin and tansy, block and sherry blush. any words could do. Urleans discovered a man from Arkansas 1 whittling a handsome mahogany cabinet- “ 10 see what the wccd was like." An other, who had fitud up a room with the finest specimens if his art, to find an old lady eating her luncheon of fried chicken seated in one of his satin upholstered chairs. good for if it ain't to set down in?” she face- remarktd. brig double wedding in the suburban church, Awakeinlue feet 10118 “‘1 “bu”; "VH1 since the ()sbornes and Miss Smerdon “101105 1" diameter 3“ me “Mk9” Pa”: sailed for the antlpodea, since Cresslda ‘7“ found 0” 3 ‘5’“) 39“ sm'l'l‘m 5”" gave her life into laidore St. Just's keep- ‘ithm‘ 0011017; PM lhll week helpl?“ lug. Such a long, long year it seems to "an 80'8"“! 3 Wang limb» and '3‘! klu' Cressidsâ€"slio is too loyal, cvcninher own ed with n lencc stake. The reptile is de- ,hougmfl' to add “sum 3 and and dreary ““bm “.5 bums 5 Recall“ “in be“! With one i" But she think: that if all the days ‘ an“ “I 5‘10“ him. 1"“ “Wild tho of life lengthen on: so lutelcrably asthesc '1 Le than wi. ": iii‘v. has last an fortune's pill-:3; The public saw-ans: fact there's no denyingâ€" _ In the but put: sod the store Without a thought of buy- l TM: a li)‘ merchant hoped hiiiuck would turn, father The tone of the question and answer I’J'lllea locomotive, haw 0‘ comfort, gill tells the story of Monsieur and. Madame fizz, rattlesnake, lsdies' blush, stone fence, Sn, Juat’a married lite an alcquenuy as Natural as Cres- A Cincinnati furniture exhibitor at New 31d“ 3 FPP'fll 10 her young husband is, she min i: llmldly, and With a frightened look In her large lustrous eyes, while he answers witha gay carelessness that is 'almost insulting in its indifference, and . - . one on cheerfully sipping his coffee and w“ honlfitd gesdinghis letters, while she bends her bf. head over the breakfast-tray, to “What/I the chem. hide the painful ilush that rises to her Just one your had passed since the FENELON FALLS, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1885 The Elan Who Never Advertisers. hurried, “Have i done anything wrong? 'x It is a childish phrase; in nine things out of ten Creaslda is :\ child still, and it ab- solutely amuses Monsieur St. Just. lo’clock, thou hast done rightly and well ; 'l mu Lc.l Um so. u. to which the man was (“as Q and, since these were my explicit direc- l tions, I am sure thou hast forgotten none iof them i” l faint flush of pleasure rises in the sof hollow of her cheek. Praise from him has grown precious in proportion to its rarity, and he is surely praising her now i “ Yrs," she says, a little ring of triumph in her tone, “everything is quite ready 'a little nearer and looking keen dark face with misty l“I am a good wife, am I not ’3" his gay insouciant self again. “ Thou art an angel,” he says cheerlly, and the black moustache brushes the smooth golden hair in a careless kiss â€"â€"When will you be back ’i" good-bye." look and tone. 1 than his presence, of the world's waysâ€"so utterly alone, for, on this side of the world at least, she has not a single soul she can call friend. All this comes over the shrinking girl’s her young husband, and repeats a little I soul as she clings with tragic passion to wildlyâ€" “Isidore, tell me when I may expect on.” “ Until thou scout me," is the mocking answer : then the man goes on more gent- "Wrong l ' he repeats trarqxiziiy. No; :if thou hast packed my valise, and filled l the silver flask with brandy, and told l Matilda Jane to send the cab for twelve Cresslda nods her golden head, and a quite as you wished it, lsldore"â€"creeping up into the brown eyesâ€" Just for asecond the exquisite serenity of Monsieur St.) ust’s facets disturbed, the eyes turn restlesst from those that search and strive to chain them, the smooth brow ii shadowed and drawn; there is some- thing of regret and remorse in thelook that childish pleadings conjures up; but Laketou, Ind., and is regularly consulted l OR, CALM AFTER STORM. oali passes, quickly as breath passes from the p‘illfllieu. surface of a mirror, and he is “And new, man angs, it is time to say “But, Isidore, you have never told me There is something like terror In her ' It is not that she can spare him so illâ€"that his society is so necessary to her ; for a long time she has icknowledged to herself, with a deadly chill at her heart and a guilty conscious- ness, that she is happier in his absence But this journey of which she knows neither the end nor the purpose fills her with a vaguely terrible foreboding. She is so youngâ€"so ignorant: haughty stiffening swers. hurt short tempered, as all foreigners are ; falling out-that'salll" Young t fence. on business, that is all." 9 dissatisfied sort of fashion. lmpllcitly every word the girl tells her rather augmented than decreased. is terribly dull for you." “It is, rather," Crcsslda Bgre her gravity. to-morrow, and thenâ€"â€"” of her own thoughts. lugs of what the long to-morrow is to bel have a letter i" ' Monsieur St. day. comes into the room with a telegram. received, and the sight of the orange col- of the slender white ; sleur St. J ust throatâ€"Cresslda gives no other ; but Mira. I it." Clarke takes these for allsufh'cient an- “Ah, well, my dear, Idcn't mean to your feelings; but you are young, and he too, for that matter,, and a little And I thought perhaps you had had a as she is, Creselda has sense enough to know that the rough touch on her sorely wounded pride is kindly meant. So, though she does not answer without effort, she answers without a trace of of- “ We have had no quarrel, Mrs. Clarke. Monsieur St. Just has been filled away “ Business l" the landlady grunts In 3 She believes but her distrust of the absent Isidore is, (I I did not know he hadany business, ma’am," she finishes civilly, rising to take her do- parture now, for Cresslds does not seem inclined for further confidenoes. “I hope, for your sake, be will be back soon, for t es, with a smile that is rather more forlorn than " But Isha‘l hear from him The sentence ends in a weary little sigh for the door is closed, the good» natured woman gone, and the young wife thro wn back once more upon the dreary company It is along dreary day, but it wears away at last; and as she lays her tired head upon the pillow, she thinks, with heriast waking thought, that its succes- sor cauhardly equal if in length or dulness. Poor little Cresslds; even her dreams, though they are restless and feverish enough, bring to her no dim foreshadow~ “I cannot hear from Isidore to-mor- row," aha murmurs drowsily ; “but the next dayâ€"oh surely the next day I shall But, strange to say, she does hear from J use earlier than she expects, early indeed on the. following She is still seated at the breakfast- table, sipping her tea and reading the newspaper by way of lengthening out the solitary meal, which gives her at least the semblance of an occupation, when Susan It is the very first Cressida has ever “Pardon, Mademoiselle,” interjects the elder St. Just, with a bow of exquisite politeness," my son has no such dishon- He owns that. your character is above reproach ; he does not i deny that he has gone through the cere- mony of marriage with you, he merely curable thought. protests that the marriag e was illegal.” white face, set lips, and glitter room and burning ind! desperate need. though they two were alone in the room. idiot. the sanction of my only guardians and friends; I do not know much of legal matters truly, but it seems to me it would be hardtOfiud aflaw lnsuch amarrlage as that." ' “In England it would be impossible," the lawyer admits placidly ; “ but you overlook one important feature in the case. Monsieur St. J ustis a French citi- zen, and in an event like his marriage will abide by the regulations of the French law. Perhaps you are not acquainted with the difi‘ereuce In the code of the two countries.” P e pauses and waits the answer that comes slowly and with difficulty from the stiff white lips, though the proud an guished eyes ueverdroop or wander from his face. “ I am very ignorant, monsieur; I was a schoolgirl a year ago. I know only that as surely as I live and breathe, as surely as Heaven’s law and man's can make a marriage, I am the wife of Isidore Si. J ust.” ' There is a slight movement in the shadowed corner where the two St. J nets stand. Cresslda does not look around, she will not, and she dare not ; but some instinct tells her that her husband has made a swift movement towards the door, that only his father's grasp restrains him. Monsieur Bertrand shrugs his should- were base enough to deny Cresslda never turns her head or an- swers his address, never once turns her eyes to that remoter corner, where, with 1113 even. her traitor-husband stands. Did she once meet his gaze, she knows that the fierce gnation she holds so hardly in check would overwhelm and master her, sweeping away all the coolness and courage of which she stands in such So she stares at Monsieur Bertrandls lmpassive face, and speaks to him, as “I am very young, monsieur,” she goes on In the same tone of forced monotonous calm ; “ but I am neither a child nor an I was married in church after due publication of the banns, in presence of any number of pmduciblc witnesses, with A LONG DRIFT. Floating Scorn l‘rcm the Java lirnpuol. The following interesting account of ashes and pumice from the volcanic erup- tion on the island of Java in 1883, found afloat at sea in January last, is furnished of the Antelope of Boston: From the 14th to the 15th of January, egress south, and longitudes 83 degrees and 84 degrees east, we passed through quantities pumice-atone and ashes. At times the sea appeared to be literally covered by it. The large pieces were heavily weighted ' pieces from the log betwen latitudes 1 degree and4 d of with marine growths, and many appeared to be on the point of sinking. We picked upa smallquautity of it, and among is found a small and very peculiar a turbot. We may mention that a large number of e caught and s fish resembling an alew. v'e, also lots of small crabs, were among the pumice, and they all appeared to be busily engaged swimming from piece to piece eating barn- shapcd fish, somewhat resembling fish similar to the one acles, etc. The pumice is, no doubt, ticular of time. About the 28th of September last the sea beach of Natal, south west Africa, wascovered by pumice, cast ashore by the sea. Thepumicemust have began its jour- neyaibcut the 28th of August, 1883, and in 397 days it had driftedâ€"taking Java as its point of departureâ€"sdistancc of 4,400 miles, or 11 geographical miles per day. This is certainly a most instructive il- lustrationof the westerlycurrcntwe always expect when crossing the Indian ocean toward the Cape of Good Hope. ties. northwest, toward Madagascar. the writers on mean currents. last August and September, and passed part of that thrown up by the terrible eruption which occurred in Java Aug. 25 to 28,1883, and, therefore, has been afloat some 500 days. We were surprised to find it in this par- pcsition, and more surprised to find any of it afloat at all after such a lapse But how did the pumice reach the posi- tion in which we found it in such quanti- We can only form conjectures as to the probable course it; took. The equatorial current, which originally started this large quantity of pumice and ashes and landed part of it on the African coast, runs from Javain onelarge body,to about latitude 18 degrees south longitude 70 do grees east; here itdivides into two branches oncflowfug southwest,audthe other west- So say Ships which arrived at Bombay during sores and Incidents tiss- use has. The New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island volunteers who were ullsd out for active service, have been notified of their not being n quircd. Msje'rs Buchanan and Bsswell. of the 90th \Vinnl g battalion, reported by Gen. Midd etou, are appliunta for the positions of commandant and captain of the school of infantry tobe eatabiiahediu “ inuipeg. The government, it is mid, contemplate Col. Taylor, of Halifax, as commandant. There was an immense attendance at the funeral, in Toronto, of Private Moor, of the Royal Grenadiers, killed atBatoche. The city corporation, and local corps were in the procession, aswell as representa~ tives of the various trades. Thousands lined the mute, and at the semen. ry there were about 5,000 people, The deceased was 18 years of age last May. At the session of the Methodist con- ference in Kingston, a motion was passed expressing thankfulness to God for the cessation of the rebellion, great admira- tion for the devotion and courage manl- fested by the young men who went to the front, and the deepest sympathy with those who mourn the loss of beloved ones on the field of battle. The Carleton Place Herald charges that “some of the C. P. R. cars in which vol- unteers were taken to Lake Superior were terribly mutilated and defaced on the interior. 1t is said that cushions were completely out from their frames. Sumo seats were completely destroyed Windows were broken, and our walls were wilfully and wantonly defaced." This is a charge the public will be loath to believe unless strongly sustained by evidence. The Philadelphia News states the alt- uation fairly when it says : “The attempt toget ups sentiment in favor of Riel’ because he is said to be an Americair citizen ought to fall. He has offended the laws of Canada on the soil of the Do~ minion and has been caught rod-handed. There is no law nor reason why this should exempt him from trial in Canada so longer there is any chance for him to have a fair trial, such as it is to be pre~ aumcd he will get." The banner made by the ladies' of Montreal and presented to the 65th Bst- ' talion, was blessed by Bishop Fabrc in the Jesuit Church in Montreal. The core- monies were most impressive. This ban- ‘ nor, which is of white silk richly cui- ' broldcred with gold, bears the motto in , French, “Dicu ct I’ufrie, " God and Country, and on the reverse side is a sa- cred heart and the inscription, “ Adverti- at rsgmmi timm." Thy Kingdom come. In the sermon by the Rev. Father llamun, thc reverend gentleman impressed his bearers with the fact that the true Catho- lic soldier never separates religion from country, and, in giving his blood for his native land, he also gives it in support of the Catholic faith, which has withstood the assault of time and ofniany enemies. DOMESTIC CURIOSI'I‘IES. M----_.._ A rum-drinker who is able to dress as “Wk, brown in 00k”. Will! band“ 0f “3‘1 latter days have done, the Psalmist surely “b0!” "-3 bOdY “untanfil‘i 053 few luchw- erred when he termed man's span of life a short one. ly. “But, Cresside, there must be no fretting; my business is of the most im- portance, or I would not go. \Vhsb then? cured envelope fills her with a vague im- measurable dread. Isidore must be dead or dying. cash of Madagascar, report large fields of pumice off of this island ; this comprises osepart of our conjecture. The current era and surveys the pale young face through his green glasses with profs ssion- n1 contempt, yet a faint far-ch gleam of well, feed his family as well, or llvo in the A colored clergyman who had been put. style of the man of whom he buys. on trial before a jury in Darien, 6a., for some offence, was brought in not guilty, I the other day. The defendant said : y .“l‘ that-agniud' J‘Npt guilty," was turgid. '3 \Y'izha‘spring ho bounded‘viu-z to g air: giving vent to religious ejacu- latibns.“ ‘l‘mi‘cciurcd "women, who crowd- ed the couzt room, set up a hailelujahi chorus, in wliicli‘tlie prescner joined, and the .Idagdto sit still and let them have Womb,“ " ‘ It heighteony'strs since Nilssnn has i been heard on the boards of a French! opera house. , Managers there will not pay 3 the prices which the stars of opera. can gm: 1 in New York and London. They sctthcir faces against the system, and strive more for good average execution than for the glittery-ad. glamorv of one part opera. l'attLMgOt-s. elsewhere, and gets in one week half as much as she c Lind car in the Paris opera in a whole twelve- month. A law proposed in Illinois, and favored by the Trades and Labor Assembly, deals with‘the problem of convict labor. Its object isto devise means by which con- Vlcts can be kept employed without un- tier-selling the products of free labor, and so reducing the wages of the free laborer. The bill onsets that the products of prison labor shall not besold at less than market rates ; that not over ten per cent. of the convicts shall be employed on any par- ticular lndustry,-_anil_ that a certain por- centsge of the revenue shall be set aside for the support; cf the ccnvict's family. The London Times recently spoke of the black houses of the natives on the Scotch islands of Skye end the . Western Islands as confined, dark, and unhealthy. A Highlander in answer writes to that journal that'hc ed his early years in one of these primitive dwellings or huts, and that theirventilatiou,althoughdrauhly is good, aud'the inhalation of the peas smoke, with which the atmosphere it charged, protects theluugs from corisuxnp tion and other tic germ diseases. In procbe ted" this s tomcat of .Dr. Marx-tsp “cheater tthesc High- landm'ohjiiyfi singular immunity from hthls .unichlatcbo Inscribed. chiefly, In tneli‘fihslatibn‘tfthe peat smoke, and the anltaeplio ingredients contained there- in-the tar, thecrcosobe, and the tauuiu, together with various volatile oils and resins, black unctcus post being rich in these substances.” Div-Morgan further remarks that any “eruption from attacks of consumptan which these Highlanders enjoy is only so long as they reside in their .31. ' . $321.... The Revised Bible. Among the odds and ends relating to the now a wing will heiutareat "’ which ithas bsen rint i manta aetured at the Oxford lug: ‘ulversity‘s paper mills at Wolvereotc, near Oxford, when) 375 tons of rags have ' been worked up into 250 tons of paper. This wouldcovk 21 metre mils; in a strip chi: not» wide it would go round the world, or ifthe pages were laid open one after another it would also be will dent wondrous the globe'sclrcumferencs. The sheets p'led on reams as they leave the m fructose-siesta ten times the sagas, axmgmm folded into books ' ore Indwg,acolumnahuudrcd. times the height of that cathedral. The! eupiu which are being prepared by the? xfo ' Puss W'wcuid, if 2m pee War, (can a col~ umn more the li miles high. or, if placed 5 and on end, would make acolcnin 71 miles; high. Suns libel the number of gut; and sheep skins which have been required ; for W the copies may be gathered; from the act that 1560 goshkun have‘ been used in binding the copies which will be presented among Cummings of Revision bathe-091st u.‘ tllxis’ mouth. A specul Act of agrees ui been pend so admit these backs into! the United States duty free. A charityquth generally a' “poor” show. a The year that had placed a. broad im- pzism'ole rier beiwrcn her and t'te old school days has hardly used her fairly. Her bounty has not. r‘pcned and perfect- ed; lIB rare promise is, as yet at least, for rum bel: g fulfilled. And Isidore has more than once told her, with jetting frankness, that tho school-girl Cressida was far premier their is {viadamc SLJunt in her eighteenth your. lie himself hm: grown noticeably hand- sl-inc in 1h.- szuuo space of time. The idle and luxurious life lie has led has evident- ly fig:th with him; ho looks as though he had not a care or trouble in the world, with the bright, audachus, defiant selfish- ness of one who knows himself its master. Does he love Cresslda still? Is the marri- age a happy one? No one puts the ques- tion to him, and he is not given to intro- spective ret'erle. But in her long empty days and dull companionless eveningsâ€" for, afterthe ficst few weeks, Mons.eur St. Just batowed but a small proportion of his time upon his wifeâ€"Cressida re- volves the subject in a long monotony of pain. That the marriage is in some degree a failure she admits ; there is no possibility of denying so patent is fact. That they have no single thought, aspiration, or sentiment in common is her fault, no doubt; she never thinks of blaming him. If conversation between them flzgs by degrees till it dies away to a mere neces- sary interchange of orders and promises to obey, it is doubtless because she is too stupid to understand or interest him long. The thought pi: zzles her a little, for she hasuot been wont to think herself a duuce; she was certainly cleveror than the other girls at the Mistes Smerdcn's school. But then Isldoro '53 man, and a man’s stand- ard is so different, so hopelessly high, pocr Crctsida concludes with a ugh.- True, he sought her out. wooed her passionately, seemed to love her well, when she, in her childish shyness, rather shrank from, and certainly made no such weak efforts to please him as she had seen fail pitlnbly of late. But what of that! [for empire was built upon sand, as she should have known from the first. She was a pretty child, and she amused himâ€"«that was alil She is not even pretty now. And in truth, musing and mopng thus, Crossida loses the more brilliant lines that first dazzled the Frenchman's beaury- ic‘ving eye. The slender figure grows painfully angular and thin, the sweet brown eyes are dim and misty with shed and unshsd rears, the soft curved lips grow pinched and pale, the young face is sorrowful alwaysâ€"saddest perhaps when it forces a timid propitiatory smileâ€"and suggesti':ely tragic at times. Something of this is passing through Cressida's mind now, as she gulps down a little lump that rises in her throat, and cuts hcr dry toast iuto elabaratc diamonds and triangles, which, after all her pains, are destined never to be eaten; and, though the husband and wife are not much given to think in common, laldore ‘ oogiutiug the same sutj.ct fromadif- event point of view. “Bibl' he says to himself, with a little shrug of unail’:ctsd disgust. plain she grows, with her huts air of martyr, her red eyelids, and her thin checks 1 And they say these Ergigh keep their beauty 3 Itwill be no bud- shipâ€"no, no ; the sacrifice would be the otherway-for herâ€"ofcoutso.” Monsieur raises his fine brows, and smiles lord'sth across the table, as though Cresaida’s wel- fare were a: bcu'guant mind. "wanna, lu'lorel‘ she asks. sink a sudden mistrust born cf that brl llant smile ; the has known that dazzling show the Amulcm cf milk.me teeth and fisahing am eon' to be the forerunner ofa marital storml before nowâ€"a storm in which the cruellcst taunts have ban uttered in silvervst e trampled upon. So the “\Vha: is ill" is attend in s little (up and quickly followed by a " Howl Paris is not the North Pole or the Antip- odes; and thou will: hear from me soon- er than thou expectest.” Audithcn he goes, with a light cold kiss . and an odd look at the slender girl-figure bathed in the morning sunshine, and round the prcttlly furnished room, as I- though he were mentally photographing ~botlr frame and pictureâ€"goes with a ismile in his dark eyesâ€"goes whistling . a few bars from it popular operaâ€"bars i that haunt and torture Cressida’c memory for many a day to come. As the cab rattles down the street, , Cressida comes slowly upstairs and drops laud stores that world boldly in the face heavily {mo the nearest chair, with a dazed unreasonable feeling that she has passed through some crisis or her fate. She sits there with cold locked hands and wide pathetic eyes, so motionless and miserable-looking that the brisk little maid who, all unnoticed, has removed the breakfast-service and performed one or two duties with unnecessary noise and clatter that is powerless to stir the statue- like figure in the window, grows alarmed at last, and informs her mistress, with very round eyes and forcible emphasis, that she is sure there is something wrong gith the poor young lady on the first out. . This sends Mrs. Clarke up-stsirs as fast as an obese form and asthmatic breath will permit. The visit is prompted partly by curiosity and partly by prudential motives; for, though the St. Justs have hitherto been model lodgers in the' matter of prompt payment, the landlady knows by painful experience that the ledger you trust is the lodger who deceives you ; and in Monsieur St. Just's departure itself there is something rather suspicious, As she stands in the doorway, however, looking with shrewd experience-sharpened eyes at the slender figure in the great arm-chair, her heartsuddenlv softens and her suspicions die away. The landlady retiree into the background and the true woman comes to the front. There is none of the passionate grief that suggests a woman's tragedy here. This is not a wronged woman, a deserted wife. but a dared terror-stricken child. "Mrs. S:. Justi" Cresaida starts and raises her head at the sound. “Did you want anything, Mrs. Clarkel' “No, my dear, not exactly"â€"the good woman pauses, a little embarrassed by the slip that Cressida has not noticod. “I beg your pardon, ms'am; but you do look so young and lonely that it slipped out answerer!" "You are very kind," Creasida says gratefully, yet allttlo abstractedly too. Her mind is in so dreamy and chaotic a state that she only vaguely knows what is passing round her. "Kind 1" the landlady repeats, with a short laugh. “Well, excuse me the dis- respect; but I wonder who wouldn't be kind when they see a pretty young thing like you fretting her bright eyes out all for nothing at all? Itell you what it is, Mrs 8:. Just, you're too lonesome likel" Tears rise quickly in the girl's eyes; but they are not painful tears now. Cresslda is so lonely indeed that the words of rough and homely kindness fall like mu- sic on her cars. "You, it is," she says apologetioally. , “ But, won't you sit down, Mrs. Clarke 7" I â€"â€"wbecling Isidore's own cushioned chair ' forward as she speaks. l “ Well, thank:you kindly, ma'am, ’ will ; for what with my legs and my l breath, them stairs is a re lar Mon: lBlauk toms; and I have 2 {two to say before 1 go. You‘ll l :ha; mum“; occupying his net to be (Handed with me, won t you'l '} “lam sure you mean to be kind l" "Creulda says, staring with wood ,syes into the plain face, but feeling a issues if safety and protection in the 'homely presence. “That I do!" the woman answers lwarmly. “Then just you tellme what 'made you look soweebsgonsaud wreath-l . itch“, m‘mch h“ hm h” m waned that Susan sent me up to see what;aisur,"shesays with simple dignity and: [and her iaiied you. Was it anything about your ’ husband 3“ l Aswift iluah,a startled look, a little 1 her indignant pride. masters its contents. These are not by any means what she expects ; they bring a quick bright colour to her cheeks, and light half glad, half tearful to her soft brown eyes. “Come to Paris at once,” Isidore tele- graphs ; “ my father wishes to see you." “There is nothing wrong with the gentlemen, I hope?" says Susan, who has waited while Cressida read the telegram. “Nothing wrongâ€"no," Cressida says, dropping suddenly from the cloudland in which she had been wandering. I am to join Monsieur St. Just in Paris, that is all.” The news is so startling that Suans hastens to impart it to her mistress, who, deeply interested, soon makes her appear- ance on the scene. There is no obstacle to an immediate departure, for Crussida’s bills are all paid, and she has a few pounds, it little more than suffices to defray the expenses of her journey, in hand; and, with these two willing helpers, her small preparations are soon made. In less than a couple of hours after the receipt of her husband's telegram, she is ready to start. ” Good-bye, my dear young lady,” Mrs. Clarkesays, regarding the pretty flushed face and feverishly bright eyes of her young ledger with vague uneasiness. “ You will let me have a line to say you reached Paris safely and found all well, won’t you? You are such ayouug thing to travel about alone." - Crcssida gives the required promise with a nervous laugh and a grateful squeeze of the work-hardened hand, then leaps lightly into the cab, and is off upon the first stage of her fateful journey, CHAPTER VI. “ The windowâ€"quickly 1 Give her air, Isidore ! Do you not see that niadem- clselle is fainting?" “ Mademoiseiie's" face is indeed ghast- ly in its sharpened pain and gray pallor, as it rests t the darkly-panelled wall. But the words act like an electric shock ; her eyes open in a burning flash of indig- nation, and she stands erect before the men who are judging and condemning her â€"â€"very white still, but a frightened child no more; an outraged woman stronglu The men she faces are three in number, Isidore St. Just, his father, and the lawyer, to whose cifice they had brought her immediawa on her arrival in Paris, the man from whose in- flexible lips has fallen the sentence, which at first seemed an empty sound, that bore to her dazzledl ,nscs ' ‘crally no meaning, that slowly but surely or. its wa into heart. and brain and setting b0 atlsme. “ You are not. and, by the French law gen never have been, the wife of Isidore t. Just." The three men watched her keenly in the silent pause that follows the bomb- shell speech. The lawyer, a ferret-faced yellowskinned man, with a calm pro- ' fesaional interest ; Isidore, with affect- ed indiEereuce, and real anxiety, not as to the result of the scene, but as to the She tears the fatal mlssive open and pity too. How stupidly she takes the blowâ€"how absurd these English are i No French girl could get into such a fix, but, being in, she would surely try to ex- tricate herself with grace; and yet she is so youngâ€"so pretty ; it is hard, no doubt “Pray be seated, madame”â€"pushing forward a chair, and according her the title of honour he had hitherto scrupuc lously denied. “I have a painfulâ€"a very painful duty to perform in the Interest of my clients. the Mcssieurs St. Just, father and son. Believe me, I sympathise deep- ly with your unfortunate position. Will you feel for mine, and lighter its difficul- ties by according me a patient hearing '1" Cressida bows her head gravely. She does not accept the chair he ofi'ers ; but she rests her small tightly-locked hands upon its tail carved back. She will stand to her doom, as the prisoner stands to re- ceive the death-sentence. (so an cosmuu. The Borrowed Horse. I will relate alittle circumstance that took place in Mexico a few years before I left there. One of my friends had a horse extremely gentle, and of such an easy, agreeable gait that he took the greatest care of him, and held him at a great price. A well-fed, big, and lusty frlar was a friend to our neighborâ€"one who liked the good things of this world as well as he liked to ride out to the small towns bordering upon the city of Mexico and takes dinner with the bonny Issues and countrymen in- habiting those villages. hie used to ask my friend to loan him his horse to take these excursions just around the capital, and, as his requests were granted with so good a grace, he, in a short time, went so far as to ask the loan of this favorite ani- mal to go to Cuaruavaca, a distance of eighteen leagues. As this happened pret- ty often, our friend complained to me one day of the indiscretion of the friar. I ask- ed him if he could procure me a friar's dress for a few days, and leave his horse with me for the same time. He did so. I dressed myself inthe friar's dress, and went in where the horse was. 1 took a good whip in my hand, and made him do pen- ance for no other sin but that of too much gentleness. Going out I took off my friar's dress, and went in again in my own dress, and handled him gently. I re sated the operation a few days, at the on of which I took the horse back to his master, and told him he might lend him to the friar whenever be pleased. A day or two after he came to my store. “ Your remedy," said he, “has had amarvellous effect. Our monk has just left my house, perfectly persuaded that my horse is possessed with the de vii. For when the borrower came up to take him by the bridle to get on him, he wssso frightened, and wheeled round so quick, and flew away from him with so much tenor, that one would have said that he took him forthe destroying angel." The friar crossed himself many times, hurried away in all haste to the convent tosprinkle himself with holy water, and never asked my friend for his horse again. In this case the horse remembered the dress, not “1th in 'thh ll” “"7 “"5 “Pm1 him 3 t the features of the individual who usedths and the elder St. Just, with just a uuzh of human feeling tempering his inflexible purpose and softening the hard black eyes I, that are a caricature copy of Isidore's . ma new baby was advised by brilliant and melting orbs. ' stagger back against the wall, the sudden drcop of the white lids that cannot shut loutan unutferable agou'y. He calls for ' water. and presses closely to the pale , girls aids ; but she draw back as though ‘ths contact hurt her; and, when she ,speaka,itla to the notary ahcsddrssses § herself. ' “ Ido not think you understand, mon- ‘fifalm distincznms that surprises her. “Their an be no question of the lwhip onhlm. I A well-known professional man who has friends proceeding to the northwest and reaching to the north point of Madagascar again divides itself, one branch entering the Mozambique channel and running to the southwest; the other, continuing its course to the northwest event- ually strikes the African shore to the northward of Zanzibar, and is turned off to the northward, and again, after having been whirled around, and held in bondage as it were, for atimeby conflicting currents and the changing monsoons, part of it is carried to the position in which we found it in such quantities by the easterly cur- rents which prevail about the cquatordur- ing the northwest monsoon; and hear it will again be held by changeable currents until eventually it becomes sufficiently weighted by marine growths and sinks to the bottom. Part of the large fieldof pumice, which originally started from Java, will no doubt be carried to the routhward of Agulhas bank, off the Cape of Good Hope where the currents are very strong, and turning sharply from the southwest to the south- ward and southeast, will reach the well know easterly drift, which flows all the year round, and is so favorable to ships bound to Australia when they are south of 40 degrees latitude, and eventually he landed on theooasts of Aus- tralia and New Zealand. Thus in theend many thousands of mileewlll separate what was once a portion of Java. 1 may mention that we passed small quantities of it in the South Atlantic. The last we saw of it was when we were about 500 miles to the northwestward of the Cape of Good Hope. A Captive King. The authorities of the Maritime Bos- ptal at Brest have, at the present mo- ment, under their guardianship a king, recently brought to France as a prisoner of war. ' His realms an situated near ’orto Novo, on the west coast of Africa; and while wandering about his dominions King Humbo, quite oblivious of his oath of fidelity, incited his subjects to rebel against the French, when their Marine Infantry were recently landed in Senegal. 110 was slightly wounded by the French soldiers, and being captured, was shipped off to France in very depressed spirits. Although treated with every consider- ation in the Brest Hospital, this sable~ skinned monarch declines, It is said, to take a cheerful view of life, and appears to be pining after freedom. He can con- verse with no one, there being nobody who understands his language, so he is obliged to make known his wants by signs. When requested, on his arrival the first night, to undress before going to bed, he very energetically refused todo so, and ever since he persists in keeping his clothes on night and day. King Bumbo seems to have conceived a strong attachment for the doctor of the ward in which he is placed; and, now that be Is becoming convalescent, he evinces his at- tachment by diligently brushing that gentleman's clothes whenever he gets an opportumty of making himself main] in this manner. It is not intended to do- tain the captive monarch in France. When quite recovered from his wound he will be restored to his faithful subjects. Jones is very green. He came to the its rub the little one with lard and cam- :ity recently, staying over Sunday. He it is who sees the gray shadow fall' phor, as it was troubled with some eom- When he returned home he was asked if lit with camphcr, rubbed it all over the baby's feet, face and neck. Next morn- , lug the mother found that the poor little lthtng wasoovsred with scant of cold ‘ mashed potatoes. She keeper: “Ari pcundofmmsmlJOl’ lb“ ":8"- m I? l' "I “no” 1' Whlcbpwili you have to-day, mom, black l “1”. gull-"h" n- _ Jmlgtfm “P7 For m!” Fgmflg; “Blah, plw;1u I‘m lhfl. Well, Mill's. Id look If. , org 1W," a dime a lon time before Id give it for 9 ., . . . , that thi than burn it right straight 1‘0- m’ '0“- VWW’ “"80 m ' u” up. If wsa gwine to he‘s fool I'd be a {fool in some other way.” I,lagality of my man-ago, oven Viiâ€"if Mou- father of the Hugo-nets, go . i r across the childlike face, and char: e “:5th that treatment was sure to cure. hswsnt to church while he was away. on . '22:,3; ‘ durum for over, who notes the gswlfti The father went down into the kitchen, "No," said he, “ I couldn't findlhs men's {got some lardoutcfs pan, and, mixingl meeting-house. I went into about a dozen churcha, but asth all appeared to be women's meetings, 0 course I went out immediately. I didn't wish to in- tmde upon thalrprlvacy, you know." “ You ain't a gwins to give ten cents ' cellulose fiber, One who is much interested in hunt» iug, fishing, in gaming in geriirai, devot- ing much time to recreations, who will succeed in any useful employment. A good man or woman who sees in the neighbors only evil, only a dispc-ltlon to defraud, to cheat and 0v xrrcacu in all transactions, and on“ persons to be des- pised and shunned A wis individual who is inclined to ma... -. unusual attainments, or one who is not more anxious to learn, from any and all sources, than the average of the ignorant in all communities. Small tables may be tastefully draped with billiard cloth, decorated with appli- ques of velvet enriched by cresccnts and spauglcs ; the valence is trimmed with wide cluuy lace of an ecru tint. A successful farmer who often attends political gatherings, monkey exhibitions, goes on pleasure excursions and the like, during the harvest time, or any time of special haste in his business on the farm. A schemcr, one who chooses to live by his wits, by his tricks, one who disdains labor, or a stock-broker, a money-lender â€"at exorbitant rates of interest -- who ever adds a dollar to the wealth of the nation. A good, industrious, obedient, trust- worthy boy, one who is kind to his moths er, temperate in all of his habits, who is not now needed in all communities, and who will not be in great demand in the future, as he enters upon more activelife. A miserâ€"not to be commended, on the wholeâ€"who is not. I. better man, practi- cally,more honest, s more useful member of society, who does not add more to the material wealth of the nation, than the prodigal, the spcndthrift. A rich man, or one in comfortable cir- cumtasuces, never unable to meet his bills, who has not been more economical, morn careful not to waste, who has not been more accustomed to “gather up the frag- ments that nothing he lost,” than the average of the poor, in or out of the aims- house. A rumsellor who cares anything about the wclfsro of society, who wishes for good order, who will not disregard all laws, so far as it is safe to do so, or one who will not sell intoxicaute to any one who will pay for them-â€"â€" aside from fear of punishmentâ€" though misery, poverty, crime, and every possible evil are sure to follow. .- - -a .... .. Liquid Gunpowder. One of the greawst difficulties encount- ered in the manufacture of gunpowder is the intimate admixture of the mustitueot parts, the combustion of which produces the cxplosion. Mr. Nordenfclt has ad- vanced a very ingenious and novel idea, for which he has applied for letters pa. tent. lls purpose-pinst of grinding together the primary substances, sulphur, charcoal and saltpeter, in their solid state, to employ the following process instead : Sulphur, in the proper proportion, is put in solution as sulphate of carbon; this is mixed with carbonaceous matter, which in this case is not share ail, but utton or ground to an im lpablo powder. Finally, a saturated so utlon of saltpeter is added tothis mixture in the required proportion. There remains now nothing to be done except to evaporate under disturbed crystallization, or, in up cua, to obtain a powder the elements of which, soordlng to the statements of the inventor, are thoroughly mixed, and therefore in condition to furnish the maximum useful effect. Almost allquid gunpowder is thus obtained. -..-o -..â€"_.___ Two rival country editors while at a political meeting were importuuing an old farms! to take their papers. “(Bentle- inan, I don't want both,” said be. “Well, take mine," replied one of the editors. “Mine has twice as much original matter as his." “ That so 1 Well, i believe l'll inks his. I always want the but.”

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