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stretched out l The“ htol' WM ho'lhOd: loomY oonoton- tnp‘door. no ‘ of interference of any in bed ready fora spring. I , A MARVEL s 1 .3 v A anees outgonce appeared, an?! a kind of tur- kind. Henceliiegr'hwas no trickery, or cun- my lefi hand and pushed aside the curtain Dun LIV align rive inquiring glance was cast from one to ningly deviled means of frightening me out over the frame for the glass in the door vary the other. Not one of them attempted to of my wits 8-8 vellas out of bed. I was puz- quietly and cautiously, sprang out of bed, . . move, except the maid. I may here say that sled and beaten 1 Again I went ed“ to bed, and in less than half a second my head was Bum“ I “u my “WY! " "m b‘ ‘7'“ f0” the boys' ages ranged from about 10 to 14 after turning down the lamp, and again, no through the opening for one of the panes, m °° ““k" it “mm”? m" m“ l” i“ " “Come. boy- !" I repeated. “come along: sooner was my head on the pillow thanâ€" and I was gazing at the place whence the Mac“? "11° °h°- A‘ ‘M’ “d n " 7°“8 it’s time for going to rest now ; why do you Scratch, scratch, scratch, bang,baug, clat- sound came, and narrowly searching for mm' with" “hm” m" th‘ id“ °f Shflt' wait i” for. Chum“, hug ! It went again. something, though what I did not know. A New Railway that is Cheap": t and Beyond Comparison. A press view took place recently, says a Paris letter, of the so called “ Cnemln do For Glissant," or “ Slide Railway." on the Esplanade des Invalides, within the exhibition "" "Mbled m°' I th “rm” “Mi” Still there was no answer. “That‘s right 1 Go it i" I cried as Iagaiu But quick as I had been, it or they had been - - 0‘ them. told With on the “Via deeel'lPth’h “Are you not tired 2" I inquired. sprang out of bed. ’ as quick, for no sooner was my head through foiirffgofxf 33:15an 3:352??? 2:1?an 'hleh W°hld "304 to m hive“ eleeP eweyâ€" Then one vouchsafed an answer. “ It’s getting tiresome, though, “ I said the opening than the noise ceased. There mum of water Power at a “and him’arg “Id! t“! “he” “1° ‘71” w“ 1”qu °“t' “Please, sir, we are afraidto go i" be said to my wife; "I can’t make it out i But if I was no wire or string to be seen, no trap- “dreamed of. Arriviég than without my side, the rain pattering against the windows, and the only light visible that which found its way through the chinks in the shutters to the “pitch-dark" outsideâ€"told when everybody was ready for bed. But they in a trembling voice. can only get hold of the evil-door, he shall door of any kind ; a mouse could not hare “Afraid, my boy i" I exclaimed in Int. feel this,’ for I felt angry at the continued got away ; all was silent. prise; “afraid of what! There is nothing disturbance, and seizing a huge stick with “ I can not understand it," I said to my and nobody here to harm you ; what are you one hand, and the lamp with the other, out wife. “ But I shall get up now and go for afraid of 2" I went again. But the noise had stopped as your early ccfi‘ce." intimation as to what a sliding railway might be, I at first mistook it for an over- grown switchback with the humps smoothed away. The train consisted of four carriages, af- “l’” datum“ my “mum”. I c°nld “They are afraid sir i" chimed in the quicklyasbefore and again all was quiet I partially dressed put on my dress- . - :1 11"“ to en? homhel‘ Of them e” “5' “me: maid. ’ Again I examined every window and doorâ€" lug-gown, threw operl the windows, and Egrggezoggfgg :moe:§alo:efn:8::g;:%egig end they PW“: bed “7 93°“ °“ “’9' In “Afraid of what 2" I again demanded. a1 were safely fastened! was going out to the kitchen to get tha oomenb blocks of'iron to, a a,“ some. hot» I duhelleved them thoroughly, and "Have you seen any thieves about?" It then struck me that perhaps, as the the usual morning coffee for my wife, whut lug“ m abrick which rested upon though I could not doubt the veracity of the narrator I always regarded them as the out- come of a strong imagination, or the result of too heavy and too late dinners. A white tombstone in a churchyard did not frighten me on a very dark night, nor did the mys- terious movements of a donkey which had broken into it cause me to start, as he moved in the darkness in and out among the graves, so that I was thoroughly unprepared for anything like a personal experience, and considered myself one of the last persons likely to be affected by anything like a ghostly manifestation. But now to my story, which I shall tell simply as the affair took place, leaving it to the reader to draw his or herown conclusion. And to make it quite intelligible I must explain the plan of the house where it hap- pened. The house itself was a large one, built of brick, and was what is called a “fiat;" that is, it had no regular up-stairs rooms, though over the ceiling there was a great deal of room under the roof ; and the lower inside walls had bean carried up to the roof to support it, a doorway being made to “No, sir." she replied ; “but they are noise was so terrific and peculiar, pos- when, just as I got opposite the door lead- afrald to go :” and that was all I could get sibly my wife‘s maid had. heard it, or could ing to the spiral staircase, I met the boys out of her. account for it. I must confess I felt hope- coming down. I saw at once there was “Como 810118. boys l and don't be more louly puzzled, and, without being alarmed, something wrong. The poor boys' faces children," I said to encourage them: “the was certainly very uncomfortable. What were gloomy and of a pallid hueâ€"there was light is ready for you, and the house will be was the noise? Who or what made it? The not the usual cheery “ Good-morning, sir"â€" safely fastened up as usual," iron ring made that awful banging, but what and depression and even anxiety seemed to “True. sir,“ said one of them, John by caused the clatteriig sound and the furious be written on their countenaucos. name ; “but we are afraid. Last nightâ€"" scratching! So going into the dining-room I “ How have you slept, my boys?" I in- " What 2" I inquired in wonder. called to the maid by name, and said: quired of themâ€"and they knew absolutely "Last night, air," he went on to say, “ Are you awake 2" nothing of my night's experience. “ there were fearful noises lip-stairs where “Yes, air," was her reply ; and she raised “Slept, sir 2” they inquired in return. in we sleep. We heard men fighting. and We herself on her mattress and throw back the astonishment; “we have not slept. How trembledâ€"" . cloth in which she had envelo ed her head. could we?" "Nonsense l” I cried. “Cook, what did “Why are you awake 2" I nquired ; “ I “ Why?" I inquired. you give the boys for their supper last too can't sleep. Have you heard the rats “Tell him, J ohn," said one of them ; whilst night 2" racing about 2" the other broke in. “Although you com- ” Only beef and rice, sahib," he replied ; I shall not forget the look she gave me as mand us to sleep up there again, we can not. “ the same as they always have." I held the small lamp near her and its light We are killed with fri ht 1" “ And no more! nothing else i” lit up her dark face. But the eyes seemed “ What is it 2" I aga inquired. “ No, Sahib." to light up of themselves, and a look of dis- The: J ohu spoke. “ Then you boys were dreaming or heard gusted weariuess crept over her features. " It was awful, air, and we can not bear it. the rate. I heard nothing and saw nothing. “ Ratsl" she exclaimed. “That‘s not rate, It was this. What we heard the night before So, come along l" and I am afraid. I heard them 1" last we also heard last night, but is was far I went into the house and they followed “Heard what 2" I asked. “ If the sound worse. There were, as it seemed to us, two ' me. On reaching the door at the foot of the did not come from frolicsome rats, what men up stairs engaged in a fierce struggle. Sell from one Port to the ether- Ihe wane spiral staircase I gave them their lantern made it? There are no people in the house They seemed to be in the middle of the were thlol! and tho doore end Windewe Were (not an open candle, for fear of fire) and one except ourselves, and the boys are up-stairs house, under the roof, and they fought mode 0‘ he“? herd W°°d- There we“ no” 3 of them again exclaimed : asleep." desperately. We heard a kind of whisper- Pehe Of 813-33 lo the h°“5e: and h°th d°°re “ We are afraid, sir l we can not sleep up “ They are spirits 1" she exclaimed, " I lug, quarreling, as it were, but we heard no end Window-excel)“ W0 deem: 0‘ Whleh there.” heard them, and crew they have been mak- words. It seemed as if one was wearing more presentlyâ€"were fastened by.unnsually “ Nonsense, boys l” I replied, firmly ; log. I have been listening to themâ€"but I boots, and the other was not. Then the one Strong iron bOllie- My Wife end Iâ€"fm' my “ there is nothing there worse than your- kept my head covered for fear. I heard wearing boots ran, and the other ran after wife Was with mo and ehel‘ed 3“ my exPeP' selves! I am down below, and the maid sleeps them rushing with a kind of noiseless step him, backwards and forwards, backwards fencesâ€"always entered the heme hY, E‘he hlg in the dining room right under you ; there is to your door ; then scratching and rattling and forwards, all in the dark; down they doorway leading into the large eemmmlfl“ nothing to cause fear, so go along." it; then I heard them rush back to the door ran, down the stairs, and we heard them porch. Whore our Pelehqulhh were he?“ Without another word they took the lan- at the foot of the stairs and rattle, rattle rattling the latch as if they wanted to get Passing 0n we come to the Pheehge- G°1h8 tern, and filed 06 up stairs. When the last away at the latch ; then back to yonr room out. Back then they would come, and rush along thll we come file“ 0‘ e“ W the door had gone I carefully latched the door, saw again, backward and forward, backward past us, and as they passed the air was icy on our left hand. oPehlhg lht° thedlhihg the maid into her sleeping quarters under and forward. They have been making a cold! Then they would fight and struggle room. On our right. dll‘ootly °PP°eWe thle the dining-room table, examined all the bolts row. They are spirits, and I wish they again, and we heard the whispering sound; dining room door, Wee ehelfher do": all the as usual and went ofi‘ to bed. would rest, for I want to sleep i" then again they would run ; the one wearing too: of a circular staircase. m the thick wall I told my wife what had happened, and “ So do I," I replied. sun her words boots ran first, then the other after him. leading up to the‘empty 5P3°ee under the she put it down to nightmare on the boys’ rather staggered me. Yet account for these Down they would run, down the stairs roof- Straight in from 0f he W“ the d0" part. However, it passed out of our heads. noises on any other hypothesis 1 could not. again, rattle the latch, and I was terribly leading into the real! oohhl‘hl reoePthh mom We always kept a light burning in our room But spirits l and in my own house, and close frightened," the poor boy added, almost cry- which containe no furniture exeePt eh at nightâ€"a small hand parafiiue lamp. This to the head of my bed 1 Strange ; but what ing “ for once as they were going down one armoire, a table and 3 low ehoh'e- There W" was kept on the chest of drawers against the was it? I was as wide awake as possible. of them seized my leg and dragged me half a large front door to this room, but it W3“ wall opposite the foot of the bed. In course Every faculty was in ood working order, way down. His hands were like ice," he Boldom open. and We “rely heed its 0‘1" View of time I turned it down very low, and got and now the utter dis ellef of years gone said, drawing his shoulders together, and on; coming mostly through the porch and into bed, With my head as usual quite close by was to be rudelyâ€"and I thought it very shivering at the remembrance, “ but he let ' assage. Going further on we 031119 to 9‘“ to the door. It was a small room, rather, rude of them so to intrude on my rest and go and I crawled back to my place again, ed room,whioh contained only our bed. 8- and the bed came almost up to the frame of peace of mindâ€"shattered. trembling. This went on for a long time. traveling chest of drowol‘lv Whleh eerved “3 the door. Meantime, I had, of course, pull- The maid threw her cloth over her head Then they fought again, and at last the one I droning liable. 8- Weehehehd hhd ehe 01' “‘70 ed the door to, as far as it would go, but again and retired under the table ; but her without boots threw down the one with chairs. Leading out from thle Wee “other could not actually close it. so it hung ajar at room, too, was innocent of any thing cap- boots; he then danced about, then fell him~ room which we did not hoe: imply heeehee the place where it caught the sill. The able of being turned to account for causing self. Then all was quiet.” we did not need it. . framework for the glass we had covered with the noise. It was strange, and I was silent. What And DOWI moot 0311 Your attehhwn to 0m“ a curtain. Again I returned to my room, but would to think I knew not, nor do I to this day. bed-room door. It W33 mode 05 woed: I was tired and glad to get some rest and not tell my wife what the maid said. Quite The other boys confirmed J ohu’s statement, the lower half being panelled, but the sleep, more particularly as I was just re- enough for me to have my own thoughts on and stood looking frightened and sorely puz- hPPor hell W38 fihted With: homework ‘30 coverin from a very sharp attack of a weak the matter without disturbing her peace of sled. I am perfectly certain that I was not rooeivo thee 01 glheeo Whleh hed hell Yell ening il ness. My wife very soon went ofi' mind. mistaken ; the maid had heard the extraor- been inserted. The door hod neither 10°h to sleep, soundly, and I quickly followed her. “ However," I thought to myself, " if dinary sounds, the movements of “spirits” nor bolt. There W88 only on iron ring. The house was perfectly quiet, and I was I can put a stop to this I will. If I can downstairs, andzthe rattling of the latch; hanging loosely, by which the door could be fast; asleep, when! only get this door over the bad. place and now confirmation comes from the boys pulled to. Butlt ooold he” he eloeed- for “ Scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, rattle. at the bottom, whoever or whatever they of something uncanny. In the full flood- “ the bottom. oloae to the eldeon Which the rattle, bang, bang. rattle, rattle, bang, may be won't be able to make it light of day Iexamined every inch of wall hlhKoB worked. it cough” “Selheh the em. scratch l" and up I jumped, upright in bed, shake again, and we shall be saved all the and floor near that door, but their was which had not been sufficiently Phil“ed my wife jumping up at the same moment. clatter. So withagreat effort Ilifted the neither mark on it, nor place for string, 8-way to allow the door to Shut P10 8115’: In an instant all the blood in my body seem. door so as to bring it over the uneven place, wire, or trap door near it. All was perfect. IndIso it won always ole-Ts end Goal very ed to curdle, my face grew pale and cold, and then with a strong pull I closed it tight I mentioned this extraordinary affair to a eeehy he ehoheh hhehwud “‘1 forward: and we instantly asked each of the other in at last. doctor living near, and he and his wife ar~ o! ltworhed on tho Plhoe Where ll: oehghhi a whisper: “Now shake it if you can!" I thought, ranged to sleep in the house with us the and in shaking, the iron ring. to Wthh I “What's that?" and, turning down the lamp once more, next night. We spent the evening at his have referred: elhttel‘ed 3831113” the doors Scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, rattle, went off to bed. house, and we all went to our own about 9 making a great nolfio in 8- more or lose rattle, bang, bang“, bang, rattle, scratch, Vain hope of peace! The enemy. whoever p. m. Sitting outside, round the door of the empty largo house. scratch, scratch, at the door;close to my head or whatever the enemy was, seemed to be porch, I found my servant, together with The 0an romork I hove to make-Shout the as if a thousand cats were scratching and simply infuriated with my attempt to balk the son of the landlord, to whom I had sent Other door loading up lnto the ePh‘el hie-ll“ tearing away furiously at one of the lower him, for no sooner was my head on my word of the affair. one. is that it lopenml outwarde. and We! panels, and the vibration of the door caused pillow again then the scratching was renew- “Well, lads,” I said, as we approached simply fastened by on 01133351“? door 15t0h- the loosely hanging iron ring to make a fear- ed with tenfold vigor, as if the very door them, “ have you seen or heard anything?" The affair 0i which I em writth tOOh ful diuasit was brought in contact with the would be torn to pieces. It was simply The landlord's son answered: Pleeelh 3 large lelehd in the E3“ h“ “we? wood. awful, and I seemed to expect to hear “ We have not seen anything, but whilst from Canadaâ€"in 3 (loom?)i In“ 0f Rheele We listenedâ€"breathless l A pause i Only shrieks of anger added to the frightful we have been sitting here we heard a sound, stories,and equally loll Of 3 hellenh all for two seconds, however, and then it set off scratching. I sat up in bed and looked as of some one having hurled abig stone hlhde 0f Shoehlymehlfeethfiehe- Ihed heefd» again. Scratch, scratch, rattle, bang, bang l at the door. It could not, and did not, against your bedroom door." . but had taken no notice Of them- The “ What is it 2" I inquired of my wife, move, and the iron ring hung motionless; " Was any one in the housef' natIVe town t7 Which We hod one in eohTOh “ I don’t know,” she repliedâ€"she was all but down in that far corner tha: poor “ No, air,” they all answered. Of hoolth contained W31”? few erelghel‘e and of a tremor : but “This won’t do," thought panel seemed to be the point of attack of We wens in and examined everything, but fewer acquaintances; oonee‘lhehtly We hoe I, and outI sprang from bed, the noises a thousand fiends. Suddenly I cried out found neither stone nor mark. to “ shift lor ourselves." and “7th the 301‘“ meanwhile continuing with unabated fury, in the native tongue: The doctor and I turned down on a couple ommount 0i lugga e we took With “3 found and I rushed to the lamp and turned it up. “Be quite, and listen. 0 ye, whoever of mattresses in the reception room on the our home in thin urge houees “711th we Instantly the noise ceased lI scarcely seem- and whatever ye are,” and, strange to say, floor, opposite the front door. His wife rentml fromanatlve- Wollhed itihhe Bll‘ ed to think what to be aboutâ€"if burglars no sooner did I begin to speak than slept with mine; and the boys had again was ll‘esh. very Pl‘l'o hhd hl'eelhgi medloel were in the house I was powerless against perfect silenceâ€"dead silence â€"reigned. gone upstairs with the men-servants and the help was at hand. and With our Geek end themâ€"if the noises were of supernatural Listen, 0 ye, whoever and whatever andlord's son, feeling safe in theircompany. servants and my pupil! W6 Bottled lh- The origin, what then 2â€"if the result of some ye are," I continued, “ for I don’t The doctor soon fellasleep,butlkept awake. house was surrounded by it! own grounder cleverly designed plan to frighten us, it know; only yourselves know. Ye are At about 11 p. m. I hearda steady march and the kitchen a! “Shell Booed eWeY hY must be exposed. These thoughts seemed free to come to my house and visit me dur- over me of oneâ€"only oneâ€"marching back- itself. to flash through my mind, and, quick as ing the daytime, but now it is night. I am wards and forwards. This was kept on at a We Were simply on 3- Vlfilt 3 we did ho“ thou ht, I slipped on my dressing-gown, tired and want to sleep, so get ye to your steady pace till 12. Then there wasafurious burden ourselves With “11080085317 fowl seize the lamp. and made for the door. It housesl If ye be friends, speakl if yo be bang at the front door as of a huge stone lure. but were content Wlhh hoylhll Who” was as I had left it exactly! I pushed it not, depart; or if ye will not depart, be having been hurleda ainst it. There was low thin we needed. and howeth and open, and went out into the big central quite and enjoy yourselves in peace, for I then a howlin of age and then all was pupils di not add much to our burden. for recepeion room, which the small lamp am tired and want to sleep. So good quiet. I hear nothing more, neither did during the day they were all engaged in scarcely lit up. I looked behind the door night 1” those up-stairs, but that was the last ni ht one Way or another. and. Pl'ov'lded they held where the sounds came from, and there was Alas‘l my little address had no effect. I slept in that house. Others tried to i vs a fairly comfortable that or mehtreee 0'1 nothing! Next I went carefully to every Quite the contrary! At it they went again, there afterward, but had to leave. What which to lie. did not one Very much door and window, looked into every corner, and I pitied the poor door. If they scratch- was it? when, they slept, Cook, aswarthy son of Now for a bit of history by way of ex- examined the armoire, everything was fas- ed furiously beforennow the seemed to ' i “ Madras. guarded hlo hlloheh end eoohlhli toned, the house was perfectly silentâ€"there tear away at it mercilessly. ow they did planatlon, if it can be explained. Tue lung utensils at night; my pupils curled up on was nothingl peg away at it! and the noise was almost of the country had a few years before been their mattresses np‘3tuir8l lo the " room" I went back to my mom. deafening. However, there seemed to be assassinatedâ€"strangled. He was surprised at the top Of the Wind “eh'eeee under the "Have you seen anything 2" my wife ask nothing more to be done. I had been out in his palace, and in full dress as be was, 1‘00“ one my Wile" me” “lel’c under the ed me. and examined everything. All Was safe. I chased from room to room by the assassin, dining room table on her mottreho, Which “No,” I replied : “everything is fasten- bed used plain words and words of persua. putil at length he tried to find safety in bid- was removed every morning the first thing ed, and jugp 3,. we left it, In 1. “my.” sion, and they had no effect. So i gave up log among the rafters, Just under the roof. lull brought ln tho lo“ thing eh high“. I I turned down the lamp again, and got in simple despair, and left the “spirits” to From his hiding place he was dragged and always 3“? them on “my in the home» into bed,wondering all the time what it their own sweet pleasure. slain. and go each to his or her own a tment, Was and what it meant, and little incllncd It was now long past midnight. and quite The actual regicide died in the hours before retiring mysell. one me o it in? for sleep. tired and worn out I dropped off to sleep to where Illvsd, on a bedstead close to the a double line of iron girders. In the middle of the line at regular intervals jutted out ir- regularly shaped pillars, thc use of which was not yet apparent. Having taken our seats and the signal being given we glided along very gently for a space of a few yards, when SUDDENLY WE uATlIi-ZRED SPEED. Two or three tugs were felt and we were fly- ing on the pace of an ordinary train, but as smoothly as a boat on a river. There was a clicking noise on the rails, but this, I was assured, was due to a defect in the construc- tion of the slides and would be remedied. The absence of any vibration, shaking, or “ tail motion" was wonderful. A slight jerk there was at regular intervals, but then, again, I was told that it was due merely to the shortness of the course and the inability to get up a proper pace. In a hydraulic train traveling at full speed, that is to say, at the rate of 140 to 200 kilometers or 87 to 124 miles an hour, there would be almost no consciousness of motion. The journey down the esplanade only occupied a few seconds. i Upon our safe return Mr. Plltor, chairman ~ of the company which owns the invention, gavea full account of it. The sliding rail- way was invented in 1868. by an engineer named Glrard, who was killed in the Franco- Gsrman war, and it has been improved to its present state by one of his assistant engineers, M. Barre. As has already been mentioned, the hy- draulic carriages have no wheels, these being replaced by hollow slides fitting upon a flat and wide rail,and grooved on the inner surface. theu it is desired to set the earrings in motion water is forced into the slide or skate of the carriage from a re- servoir by com ressed air and seeking to escape, it sprcu s over the under surface of the slide, which it raises for about a nail's thickness above the rail. The slides thus resting, not on the rails, but on a film of water, are in a perfectly mobile con- dition. in fact, the pressure of the forefinger is sufficient to displace a carriage thus supported. rho propelling force is supplied by the pillars which stand at regular in- tervals on the line between the rails. Running underneath every carriage is an iron rack, about six inches wide, fitted with paddles. Now as the foremost carriage passes in front of the pillar a tap on the latter is opened automatically and a stream of water at high pressure is directed on the paddles. That drives the train on and by the time the last carriage has gone past the tap (which then closes) the foremost one is in front of the next tap, the water's action thus being con- tinuous. The force developed is almost incredible. There is some splashing on the rails at the start, but this diminishes as the train goes. To stop the train the small stream of water that feeds the slides is turned off, and the latter coming in contact with the rails. the resulting friction stops the carriage almost instantaneously. A water train running at over 100 miles an hour could, I was told, be pulled up within thirty yards, could climb up grad- iiuts of sixteen inches in the yard, descend in em - sew-am axe-U .. s s ! \\'ITIi EQUAL SAFETY, and run on curves of forty-four yards radius. This system would seem peculiarly adapted for elevated railways in cities, being light, noiseless, smooth, without smoke, fast, and thoroughly under command. The dang~ er of running off the rails is reduced to a minimum, the centre of gravity of the car- riages being scarcely more than a couple of feet from the rails. The cost of a met- ropolitan system would only be a third of one on the old plan, but in the open count- ry its cost would be somewhat higher than the ordinary railway ; but M. harrc tells me the expense would be in France an aver- age of £8,000 a mile. Where no natural water supply is available a propelling ma- chine every twelve miles or so would be will sieut to keep trains going at full speed. The consumption of coal per passenger would be one-tenth only of the usu sl quan- tit . The importance of this may be realized by considering the statement that the Paris- Lyous company alone has an annual coal bill of £2,000,000. Nevertheless, it would be rash to predict the general introduction- of the water system on railways. 0.10 obs jectlon, for instance, that occurs to me is in. apparent unsuitablllty for good trailic. Mr Persil, the n anager of the "Chemlns de Fey Glissants," believes it will all but do swat with the locomotive engine. With respec- to England he believes that the disadvant- aves of the slow method of crossing the channel will become so apparent that all op- position to the tunnel will vanish. “I am ready,” he said with enthusiasm, “ to wager any sum that when the tunnel is made and our system has a trial people will go from London to Paris in two hours." ____-_â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-- A Summer Arrangement. Husbandâ€"What a pity that Emma had to go and throw Mr. Coldsnap overboard, nightly ractice to see that all tho door! No sooner was my head on the pillow the music of the scratching and tearing close door whence all the noises proceededâ€"he for 1 bguahb our cog; {tom him 1“, Mum. and win own were securely boltedâ€"for we than. to my head. Uneasy sleep it was, and in died there about three months before I took Now nu, win“, 1'11 mm, to p,y the 1,,“ did not cure to lose the few things we had Scratch, scratch, scratch, bang, hung, the very early morning I wake to. the sweet the house, within three yards of where my pflom With he. Whleh in 'heh e l“ mete“ Pleee clatter, clatter, bang l began again. music of the scratching which ltlli continu- pillow wasl Of this fact I was not then Wifeâ€"cum young”, hubmd; aha h aware. I can only ask, How isit to be exp‘ained 2 and add that this story is absolutely true in every respect. could not easily be replaced. The few days we had passed in the house had passed pleasantly and the nights undis- turbed, save by the bowling of dogs outside, when one night our pupils was later than nsualin comins in to retire for the night. I went out to look after them, and found going to renew the engagement in the fall. You see, she broke it in order to become engaged Mr. to Uooler,the man we buy our ice from. “ May heaven's richest blessing rest upon that daughter." I flew out of bed, hurried into my dress- ed l t " ing gown, turned up the lamp, again sallled “ I must find out what it is, if I can i I fort , and with the same result. Instantly thou ht. Just then I heard the door in the the noise stoppedl All was quiet ; every orc at the other end of the house open, so door and window was safely boltedâ€"all rs I knew some one was going ouyt. Is the left iti Bat, thinking that, pen-ha the mystery about to he'solvedi lac, for the natives mi ht be playing tricks on us, ex‘ llcratchlnoY still continued with unabated them and the mold ell Rothered feud the amined e no hberhood of the door, fur l There was the attack on the panel brl ht fire in the kitchen. bury lo hmoolns whence the noun a came, very, very care. a going on as hard as ever. But the open anti interesting conversation. Their eyes fully. Therewas no string, no wire either door allowed a certain amount of light to were glisteningin the drought, and their at top or bottom, or nail to which it could get throu h to our door, will thought I laugh was very haul-Y. be attached. The wall, every inch of which I would ava l myself of it. “Come, boys" I said “ it is time for you examined, was solid as bricks could make it. “ I'll catch you this time i" I thought. to be going to not now- And You." Do the The door! I examined that, too. It was a “ If there be springs or trap door, was or tmld. " brief: lo Your Mitre“: {or ill ll beautiful floor, inlaid with dlfi'ersnt kinds of string I'll see what they are." of ht." wood, forming an artistic pattern. Every So whilst the noise was still progressing I immediately there W" o deed Illeooo- bit of wood was in its placeâ€"there was no very quietly and noiselessly drew myself up . A Cannonlax. A Logical Illustration. A layman in Providence who occasionally exhorted at evening meetings thus recently expressed his belief in the existence of Deity; A ,°°“Pl° 0’ 3tr°°i"3w°°i’°" “P 10"“ were “ Brethren, I am just ascoufident that there ovefnufd Wt 10'18 “in” dl‘Pullh “9°11 We is a Supreme Bsin as I am that there is flour fab)“: 0‘ ‘heh' "PM?!" ‘1‘“ “lee-“0M in New York, an that I know for certain. ' I u he" V“ Vb“ ‘1': “id "he ” "1 Plelho as I yesterday received from there a lot of “migh‘h’w‘rd “Mk Y“ “n 8“ “0118 three hundred barrels fresh, superfine, which 9°19“le We": h“ When You °°me he {on work such as sweeping round a cart wh £022.30“ 3. 10" u my Other pawn in you c’an't hold a candle to me l" . Professional Jealousy.