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E k LXI GIVE A KIND DO you know There are many such ab01 It may be that one is n Loo}: around you. If ya Speak the word that’s 1 And your own heart may By the help 111:»: you 'I It may be that some one On the hrink of sin an And a word from you mi Help to make the ten): LOOk about you, O my b “(113.1: a sin is yours an If we see that help is me , t, . 1 ,__.., Never think kim Bread on wate And it may be “ Coming backt Coming back Wh In the time of SO. my friend, 3" Gi‘t and giver e three palm trees,” said the major, a. grey-headed “ranker,” who supported his wife and a famlly of six in W'est Kvnsington, out of his pay. He and the best part of his regiment under his command were winding their way across the desert, through thick thorny scrub, between treacherous looking low parallel ranges. “ I can’t make out those palm trees,” said the major ; “ Lieut. Lovett, shoot the guide at the first sign of his playing false.” “ Lieut. Lovett’s gone with tWo file “ I can’t see thos L “ Lieut. Lov ett’ s gone of men and the guide to 1 ridge to reconnoitre, sir.” L1 ridge to reconnoitre, su'." Lieut. Lovett and the men never 33.1116 back, ah said no more, for a. voll< ridge stretched him lifeless 4.1:“... an, Officer after ofliecr sergeant fell, marked forms as distinctly as branded. The Ara‘t some renegade among English unitorms. “2 Still the .column doggedly. At last commissioned or m ficer lefc~-â€"a smoo from school, just ru: may be that some one falters 0n the trink of sin and wrong, 1d a word from you might save h1m Help to make the tempted strong. )0]: about you, O my brother. What a. sin is yuurs and mine we see that help is needed And we give no friendly sign. hurst'. But still the ma held the men together. too, was picked oif by tk and if he had been a. C the effect could not h instantaneous. The 1] half of them little bett commenced a “ sauve man rushing for the n 5h ‘fnbush to shelter . 2., , mmute “3m the m 4 bullets Which pours». The Arabs had been like vultures waiting and sprang Out of the and knife to make sh: Next mom file sprang f0 boy lay, 3"":‘1‘ boy lay, swam 111 11:1 colors which he had 5 sergeant '1111.Quic1 caught 901d Of 1:110 S‘ It in the 2111' ,t‘xmnde mand, "'1 orm compa men, when 3116}; .1121] 113.1 W11, 111131111211 sprang into their accord. They were and nota 1101-1: 93 911 herd. They had :1. s a. fine man enough 1 once, but his wine [1d Knllf} LU LULLL); ”u“? Next 1110131113 one of the rank and war 1e sprang: rd to where the dead up‘ toy lay, n:- rd in hand, clutching the 1 eil'e olors \viiic.i in: had seized as the color-‘ sav erge-int tell. Quick as lightning he her sword, and waving: En alight iloitl 1;}: :lzi: tin the air, thundered out the com- dis nand, “ihrui :“m'npany square.” The gm '1 v Licrird the familiar 513- of ‘ 51‘ «n-. l' .'. (l nen, wh~ the. 13.1 angled.» ~.4,..:"‘;x tr word of command, of sprang into then: places with one Grr tai accord. 'ihey mere again a regiment ' - - ._ ‘: I~llL§C}) without a shep- I Le and no: a herd. Iii-:5 in»: ., strange commander; l 101 a tine man enough he must have been LC once, but his ruined complexion and 0f blood-shat. . y ;3, ‘~.':.l1 their-look of devil- St} may-care, told the tale of dissipated W‘ yeals. Still the nwn felt that they had th a master among: them once more, and de neither bullet nm' blade could make any impl';:$<iorl on their firmness, though in their numb-er diminished wofully fast, 01 and,owing to :lgelr commander beino' in one of the ianl: and iile like themselves: the sharpshooters could not pick hini out. Their ammunition was failing, and they knew aha: in a. few minutes a death must await them as surely as it t did an hour ago, when each was cower- ll mg to save himself, when suddenly h f they heard the noise of a machine gun and saw the swarthv hordes of Arabs a ”We heart of every one 5 mOWD. dOVID. .Luv but the man with the bloodshot eyes t beat high, He did not value his life. ‘ In another moment he was dead, pierced to the heart with a shot fired 1 by an Arab in his flightâ€"at random. l A moment after the general dashed up at the head of his cavalry, and the main force appeared at the top of the ridges. The Arabs were in full flight, and the hussars were ordered to comrlete the rout. It appeared there had been double treachery. The regiment’s guide was one of the enemy, who had led them into a trap, and with the enemy was an Arab in the service of the English, who had slipped away at the earliest oppor- tunity and taken the alarm to the general, who had hastened to the rescue ‘ ‘ his whole force. The general oldiers crowded round a found the s fallen comrade, a man in a private’s uniform, with the regimental colors in one hand and an officer’s sword in the other. He leaped from his horse, and. while the saved men told the story of the man whose presence of mind had saved them, a. heart that hungers . of love and cheer ’Q .ny such about. us; chat one is near. you. If you find it. word that’s needed m I) heart may be stren; in Mm; "nu bestow. ‘ I‘ll.“ .7 Waters cast_ are they. "(luv-â€" 7 7 , be we shall find them wk to us some day, : when sorely needed, L8 of sharp distress, Ld, let‘s give them freely; river Crud will bleSS. kind words bed him lifeless. Eter ofiiecr, sergeant after ‘11, marked out by their uni- stiuctly as if they had been The Arabs evidently had ado among them W811 up in l been a Crimean veteran, le not have been more s rThe men, who were 3. 1.. little better than recruits, L “same qui peut,” each for the nearest boulder or > shelter himself for one u the murderous hail of g, poured from the ridges. lad been waiting for this, L waiving fcr a lion to die, m: of the scrub with spear make shambles. sent one of the rank and orward to Where the dead lumn fought its way on , last; there was only one or non-commissioned of- smooth-faced boy, fresh lSt rushed through Sand- ill the magic of discipline together. And then, he, ;i oii‘ by the sharpshooters; ii A HISTORY. are wasted. 1,133 two file of ahd the major volley from the. led most, strengthened __..-â€"’_â€"aâ€". . he unbuttoned the dead man’s tunic, and shirt, for he had caught a glimpse of a slender gold chain round the swarthy neck. The chain was attached to a leather'wallet, brown with sweat and wet with the blood from his death wound. It hung next his skin. The general opened it reverently, and as he , examined it the rough soldiers standing round him were moved, for tears rolled down his cheeks. The wallet contained only a tress of hair, fair and silky, the miniature of a beautiful young girl with a delicate, highbred face, and a letter, worn by being carried about in the pocket, addressed : “ Captain the Hon- orable Charles Le Grey, VVhite’s.” The paper inside was :oroneted and splashed with tears, the note was very brief : ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ " A135,“. 161 Q . “My first and last darling: After this terrible morning I can never, never marry youâ€"I can never see you again. But, by my hope of heaven, I am yours and yours only till I die. She whose fondest wish on earth was to be your G. C.” wife. “G. 0., Gwendolin Carbis,” said the general in a husky voice, and he kissed ‘ the letter and miniature fondly, and returning them to their wallet, put them in his pocket. “ Bring the body to my tent,” he commanded, and they hastily knocked up a. stretcher, and on it they laid the body 0t Pte. Harris, with the boy officer’s sword in his hand, and the tattered colors of the regiment ,laid over h's body as if he had been by commission as well as by fact their commander. a more delicate matter. She might not think so well of a roue and debauche. Making her acquaintance was not dif- ficult; he had only to learn from mutual friends what houses she went to, and as a member of the same set there were ‘ sure to be some where he would have the entree. So it proved, and Lady Gwen. proved an easy victim. She heard so much of his exploits from her brother, and she, too, had the wild blood running strongly in her veins. The pure young girl gave her whole heart to her blase hero, whose exploits, It must be admitted, had many of them been on the battle field. Not so Lord Morvah. Capt. LeGrey might be good enough to be his friend, but he was not good enough to be his sister’s friend, much less her lover. Lady Gwen’s spirit was equal to her brother‘s, she was her own mistress, ane marry Charles LeGrey she would. Lord Morvab forbade him the house. CHAPTER III. On the highest point of ground of the St. Ives peninsula in Lord Mor- vah’s park stood a. disused engines house, such as one sees dotted all over Cornwall, like castles battered in the civil war. One of the earls hadhad the resemblance heightened hy adding battlements and putting in windows. It did for luncheon at shooting parties CHAPTER II. THE WATCHMAN, for it saved going to the castle and back, and the telescope at the top swept land and sea for miles and miles. : Out side this tower one autumn morning, while the mist was still thick enough to hide everything a few miles away, stOcd Capt. Chas. LeGrey. He was kept some time waiting, and oc- cupied the timeâ€"for his breakfast had been of the very scantiestâ€"in picking the glorious blackberries that grew a:ross the mouth of the disused and unprotected shaft. As it is usual in breakneck places, they grew to pet‘- fection, but he had to use the greatest 1-,:4. @JLUDD vuv my“--- - unprotected shaft. As it is usual in breakneck places, they grew to per- fection, but he had to use the greateSt precaution in gathering them, for it was hard to make out where was term firma and where only matted vegeta- tion veilcd the black abyss below. At length from out the mist emerged a beautifui young girl, having the line nostrils and short upper lip, and the slender, well-pmsed figure and feet which we associate with high breeding as well as the sky-colored eyes and sun- colored hair which have been goodly in the eyes of men since Helen of Troy made them the fashion. She flung herself into his arms passionately. “My darling, my darling, they shan’t r separate us.” Then recovering herself t quickly, she held up the key of the c tower and entreated him to release her ( and open it. “The mist will be off soon i and my brother may discover my alo- ‘ sence. From the windows of the tower 1 we could mark his movements.” . “Stay,” cried a voice, furious with passion; “your brother has discovered your absence.” And Lord Morvah ap- peared carrying a horse-whip, attended by two or three of his servants with ? cudgeld. Capt. LeGrey was unarmed, ' except for the walking-stick he had used ‘ in climbing the hill. Lord Morvah ‘ made a dash at him to horse-whip him. 1 The captain eluded the blow and the 3 peer fell forward. There was a crash ‘ of breaking brambles, then a horrible 3 silence, and thenâ€"it seemed an age 1 afterwardsâ€"a yet more horrible splash. ‘3 The Earldom of Morvah was extinct. e The servants struck at LeGrey with e n their cudgels, but Lady Gwen stepped between, white as a sheet, though too F: thunderstruck to weep. “Lord Morvah ’3 is killed; you are my servants; leave this d ‘ gentleman alone and go to the nearest g a mine for a relief party. Cant. LeGrey â€"â€"Charlieâ€"â€"go with Lhem, I entreat you } to return to town, I cannot see you 1 now; I will write to you at your club.” ( She never saw him again. He received 1 the note found upon him when he died 1 his hero death in Africa. He was too proud, or knew Lady Gwen too well, to attempt to alter her decision, and as without her property his affairs were desperate, he resigned his commission land enlisted in the ranks of another regiment as Private Harris. A plucky miner was let down the shaft in a bucket, and brought up the body of the earl, stone dead, but hardly bruised, for he had fallen into deep water; only, whether it was due to the passion in which he died or to his fall through so many feet of air, the expres- sion of his face was ghastly beyond description. Those who saw the last Earl of Morvah, lying on a tavern table awaiting the coroner’s inquest, were ' haunted by the scene till they died. ' The Castle of Doom was suffered to 5 fall into decay. It seemed to have ful- ' filled its bode when its last owner followed the tradition of his family. 1 The remainder of the history is con- tained in two letters : I. From Major Gen. Hon. J 07m Lemmy, commanding H er Alajesty’s forces at the battle of W ady 13367; to fhe Right Hon. Lord Her,- ham. H eacham Priors, N orthumberland, ham, He Englanii. JJ'Iuyuwuv. MY DEAR Bixorni«:R,â€"-Our favorite, but too Wild brother Charles, has finished the ‘ stormy career which opened so brightly. I arrived just tee late to save him at the battle of Wady Issek, where he had saved the regiment in whose ranks he was serv- ing by his gallantry and presence of mind in assuming the command, which as a former captain, of course, he was qualified to do, and when it was routed by all its officers being cut down. (Here followed a description of the battle.) I sent you a lock of his hair, which I cut off before we buried him, and the privateis uniform in which he met his death so heroicaliy. He was buried in a spare uniform of the cap- tain of his company, killed in the same, action. Our dear old brother made up for his life with his death. I can assure you I wept like a child when I found him only just dead, after having been lost to us for so many years. > I have kept the sword he died with. I feel so thankful that I ar- , rived in time to give him a last kiss and ' follow him to his grave. I have much to write but my heart is too full. I am, My dear Hexham, Your affectionate brother, JOHN LE GREY, Major-General. II. From Major-General the Hon. John Le Grey, commmultnq Her M ajesty’s forces at the battle of Wady Issek to Sister Gwendoltn, at the convent of the Watchers, Rome. MADAME.â€"-Herewith I beg to return to you the miniature of yourself which you gave to my late lamented brether, Captain ‘ Charles Le Grey, together with the letter written by you to him. The stains on the letter and picture are blood, for he was carrying them next his body when he fell ‘ fighting gloriously in the service of his country, at the battle of Wady Issek. (Here, as in the last letter, followed a description of the battle)» Madam, you must excuse a stranger. Venturing to ad- dress you thus, but I felt that you would like to hear of the noble ending of one who had such a. tragic influence life. Madam, excuse a bad, unt from a. sorrowinghrother, and b yours faithfully, ' r ..... TnC The poor sinful body of Charles Le Grey does not lie in the sands of the desert, but in the great cathedral, whose golden cross shines over the last beds of Nelson and Wellington, whither it was transported at the cost of the last house of Morvah. A memorial brass, inconspicuous, but with an exquisite relief or the battle, showing him in private’s uniform, holding up the sword to give the signal for forming the square, Irecords that it was erected by Sister ‘Gwendoline, in affectionate memory of Private, the Honorable Charles LeGrey, of the Queen’s Own, late Captain in Her Majesty’s Rifle Brigade, who fell in the. moment of victory while gallanâ€"tly commanding his regiment after it had been denuded of its officers at the battle of Wady Issek. A Story of Prince George. Mr. C. B. Metcalfe, one of the loca1 sentatives of a British bank, tells to Prince George : “ was at repre this story relative “A chum of mine,” he said, one time first officer on one of the Pen- insular and Oriental line steamships. A few days out from London his ship fell in with the British man-of-war “ Bacchante” from Colombe; As is customary in such cases the Peninsular ship stopped to take such mail as the officers and sailors on the man-of war might have ready to post. A small lmat nut out from the “Bacchante” boat put out from the “Daccnauw with the mails in charge of a midship- man. That midshipman was Prince George, who was serving his first term, so to speak, as an officer in her Ma- jesty’s navy. He came on board, delivered his mail, and was about to the “ Bacchante ” when my friend, who was in charge of the ship at the time, invited him below to have refresh- ments. The midshipman accepted gracefully, and ate a biscuit with brandy and soda accompanient with such evident appreciation of the court- esy that the first officer was led to enter into conversation. He began with a dreadful break. ‘ By the way,’ he re- marked, ‘ you’ve got Prince George on board. haven’t you? What a bore that must be. I should hate to serve Ullww u-ww- vvv on a slnp with7 him. I suppose he’s nasty particular, isn’t he, and makes the men stand round '3’ The midship- bllu unx... -vv“-_ _ man laughed quietly. ‘\Vell, I think‘ not,’ he replied, ‘ I’m not certain, don’t you know? I’m Prince George.’ The first officer had the sense neither to hem and haw nor apologise. After a. startled instant he said, ‘Weli, let’s have'another,’ and the Prince proved to he a first-rate fellow by accepting and turning the first officer’s embarass- ment into laughter.” The Reception of the Hawaiin Commit- tee on Their Visit to Molokai. SAN FltASt‘ISCO, August 13. â€"â€"â€"Advices from Honolulu say that on their biennial visit to the Island of Molokai the Hawai- ian Legislative Committee were greeted by 12300 lepers on horsebabk. The stem- mer arrived early in the morning on July ‘27 at the anchorage off Molokai. The Legislative Committee was composed of over twenty members, mostly natives. A number ot Honolulu physicians accom- panied the party. Two surgeons from "Charleston” and one from the British ship “Acorn” also went, Saddle horses the property of the lepers, were in waiting and were used by the visitors in their tour of inspection. They visited the boy’s school and the girl’s school at opposite ends of the settlement, went through the ‘ hospitals for those who can no longer walk, and visited other points. One Legislator struggled manfully to keep back the tears as he unexpectedly met and shook the hand of an old friend, long since supposed to have been dead. Some lepers were physically examined at their own request and found to be lepers still. One man, 80 years old, has been a leper fifty‘years. He may yet die ,ML... -_A_. 1-,_-_-__ 1.1-- It is said that there are really thirty or} forty nonâ€"leprous children who still need‘ the care of their mothers in the settlement Opportunities were given to the lepers to tell their grievances. Each has regular rations of food and $519 annually for clothes, but they are like a lot of spoiled children. Some want more poi, the native food made from taro root, some more meat or more clothes. The Legis- lative has just appropriated $234,000 for the support of the lepers for the next two qu11 IV ‘Vllv- V of old age. As the party was leevivg the resident priest turned over to them two well-grown non-leprous children, hence- forth to be seperated from their poor mother, who remains behind. years. We can if we will make an interest in life for ourselves, supposing that none ex- ists in our original circumstances. We can study for the improvement of our minds and the enrichment of our hnow- ledge, or we can do good to those Who need helpâ€"good to the poor Or to the sick to the lonely or to the sorrowful. What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, in order to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting here on earth. LEPERS 0N HORSEBACK. JOHN LE GREY. Maj or-General. uence On your a untidy letter and beheve me 21,1890 Oil Cloths, Linoleums, House F nishings, 8m. Cheap Carpets Church, Odd-Fellows’ Mason-14 Carpets at great reduction. There is a BIG:- SALE 01 general DRY GOODS emf CLOTHING going on fibert this month. As this estate must be wound up Within a few months, Cash Buyers can now secure great bargains. A large and ch01ce assort- ment of Axminster, Wilton, Brus- sels and Tapestry Carpets, Chenille, Madras, Swiss and Lace Curtains in great variety. ABPETS,| lien “W V; ‘ . 0W {1‘ ‘ vii ..... 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