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it 'iirt 111 lavm 41 it ClIAI'TEK VI. (Continue.!.) All the next day my meals were brought to me ty a servant I uM not know; and so on the day following. At last, on the morning of the sixth day, the door of my prison opened, and Esperanee came ill with red eyes, but the suspicion of a Biuile hovering on her lips. "Come here. Miss Olga. dear." she said. In gentle tones. "I am to teil you some news which should make you very, very thankful." It was Sunday morning. As she spoke th: bells from the little church in the valley began to chime. Their sound was wafted in through the open window like a. jubilant strain of applause after long. lung pain. "Esperance, tell me." "Thty are quite certain now that the squire will live." "Will live! He is not dead!" I whis pered between white lips. "No: he was terribly weak. For three days and nights his life hung in the bal ance: but he is given back to us." The room seemed to swim. The clash ing bells rushed in on the August breeze. J tried to speak, to laugh, to' move, then tame blackness, dense and sodilen, ami I lay in an inanimate weight ou Esper snee's arm. When I recovered con sciousness I lay ou my own little bed. The room was eool and sweet with aro matic vinegar. A bandage of iced water was a my forehead, and Esperauee Stood o ; me. "M,v ",';"'r- deal' little chilil," she spoke, nursing me lender!-; "they Madame a:id Monsieur Remy do not know yon as I do. They believe you cruel and malicious; they have not seen as I have the misery if yourpoor little heart. But I must teii you the decision they have come to. Madame says you must go home at once, j Monsieur Kemy vows that had he known I how dangerous you were he would never I have spoken to you or noticed yen at , all; so you would not b happy here. : Well! I supiHjse it is for the best; but, i oh, uiv dear little love, I would give ten years of my life that this had never hap pened," "I don't know I seem not to mind anything, now he is better. I am not a murderess," I repeated, softly, to myself, "And so I am to go away to-morrow, Esperauee?" She assented, and then added: "Oh. I am forgetting, there is one spe cial thing you are to promise a rather kard promise; but, I think, a very wise oue. Your mother knows nothing of this, and she is never to know it. Do you think you can live without telling her':" I felt that I could but promise. vt was hard, very hard, to leave Bnrn ::'; it was still harder to have alienated UtT darling Uncle Re; but it was all miti gated by the blessed knowledge that I said. "You need companionship. Olga. Your little mini! has grown narrow an 1 morbid; you are quite unlike a child. Yon must go and mix with other children of your own age. I exact from you one promise as a punishment; and if you give me that pr emise I a:n certain it will be kept. I require you to promise solemu'y in-cr to mention to one single soul any particular relating to this sad mistake of yours. Let it be dead and buried tweeu yon and me. Shall it lie so, eh?" "I promise you faithfully," I sobbed "Xo one shall ever hear a word from me.'' "I am satNti-d," he answered. "Yon will not break your word, though you can have no idea how much of your fu- ture lite depends on your keeping thai promise. Now. good-hy, (Uga. my child; may every blessing be yours." "Ob. how gucid ymi are! I havp never been anything but rude and naught to you!" I seized his hand and laid my cheek on it. "Kiss me, then." he answered, smiling, "to show that we are quite friends now." I held up my mouth to his. lie took my face between his two hands, and gazed at me long and steadily. He was aboii to say something, but stopped suddenly hissed tue gravely on tlie forehead sin lips and released me. Without a wor r . . , . ... i siippen my uowers into Ins hand am neu rrom tue room, halt-Uiinded by my tears. "I am a w;, P'diU'iiiie lit u answer. "I nearest cutta,:,. of spruce tir. "JpM one to be ts'Linu ; ou are i through," I e tu tell you that the it just behind 'hat clutu.i You can't ee it be chum CHAPTER VII. it is n warm October day. 1 have open for a long walk, and am returning !.v way of Hanhy covers. I am a good walker, and delight in rapid motion, so I tnitik nothing of the eight miles I have ir;i versed. However, tile a'ltumn biiii- sh;t;e is hot. and 1 am hut mortal af'er .ill: so, in I Je.-i ve ;, ! im'iet nt) the s' ' "tile and nt me down there on. ! am iiiniKiiig ot nonung m par- ti-i'lar .i" J take i my hat and shak ba: k my hair only of the joy and sweet iiess i-f nvitirr on s;icn h day as !:iis; Tut somotiong tinngs stindenlv hack to mv mind -. mi vividness the events ol cvi-ti years ago. It is never out of my thoughts irmny days togeth.-r. but it s 'Mom for returns with such force ns it does to-lay It is the dark background to my other wise happy, uneventful life this secret which lies betwci n mother ami me, and of which sweet mother does not even sus pect the existence. My school life was a happy one. When I had been there a few weeks I began to understand what my grandmother ni-ant about my morbid tendencies I was cer tainly different from other girls. At. first my efforts at self-conquest were all made with one object that of showing myself improved to Mr. Rimiside when I next saw him. I could not realize th.-.i my sentence of exile was final that I ted not the life of a fellow-creature on ; was never to see ?ny of my relation 1J S'J'il. ! again; bnt as time rolled on I began to On the morning of my departure I was know that this was the case. Twice a flowed to go out round the garden. I yea.-my grandmother wrote to mother, in roamed around, bidding a tearful fare- closing a check for my school expenses; well to all my favorite spots; and return- frequently this letter.came from abtoa-i.' 'd with my hands laden with tl owcrs. j .r. Biirnside's health, she wrote, had Esperance entered the room at that miu- j been greatly impaired; and in couae- ttte, a strange expression on tier nur. ouence they wintered in France o. the Riviera. Ah! I knew what had caued that ill-health. One day about three years aftn my unlucky visit to the South. 1 saw the fol lowing announcement in the paper: "On the loth instant, at St. Michael's, BtiriiHide. by the Reverend Join. Smith, M. A., vu-ar. Sir (Jenrae Lascelles Her vey, Bart., of 0 lombe Hervey. to Alicia, only daughter of .1. Lyndon. Esq., of the Hrooklands, Burn side." So Miss Lyndon was married! And not to I ncle Remv! I recalled mv feel. "Miss Olga. she said, taking my face between her hands, "Mr. Burnside wants to say good-by to you." The starlet spnang to ray cheeks, the tears to my eyes. "Esperance, I will go," I whispered. She took my hand, and we went noise lessly down the corridor. How still the bouse wi's! We stood before that door at length. Esperance aoftly pushed it open. I was aione, to face the man whose life I hail attempted. The white bed-curtains hid the head of the bed. I uttly saw oue hand laid over the counter- j h,KS at t!ll. ;jmmy ,,-.,.; (lf Misg pune. l remained rooteu to tue spot id fcar and t vmbling. "I-i that little Olga':" said a wotider fully gentle voice. "Yes," I answered, In low, smothered tones. "Come here then; don't be afraid." Koeouraged by his words I slowly ad raneed. with head held dow-D, still hold ing my flowers in my hand. He put back to curtain as I approached, and gradual ly I lifted my tearful eyes to his face. I was so startled that I gave a little cry. The squire I had known was no, longer there. The formidable beard had van ished., I saw an almost boyish face, Angularly fair and colorless; deep, cav ruoas blue eyes, and golden hair cropped closely to the bead. He smiled. "Am I changed? he asked, softly. 'V.''. little Olga, I had not for gotten your aversion to my shaggy beard. I made Evans take it all off this morn ing, that it might not scare you. But ' does the half-light deceive me, or am I right in thinking you are looking very SO. my child?" I burst into tears the first I had shed since thnt awful night. Hitherto the fountains of my tears had seemed to be sealed, now they flowed freely. It was so like, yet so unlike, what I had pictured. Yt the vision of the silent, atern face, bashed in death, had not been able to tore uie aa did this pale, pathetic, living tce, which still seemed hovering so peril aiy near the edge of the grave. "I want I wish " I gasped, inar ticulately. "Ob, Mr. Burngiile, do say jm forgive me!" ' I do -fully and freely. Now I want jo to control your aoba and try to tell m, Lilly and freely, exactly how it came into your little head to do this dreadful ). How had I injured yon, little , 1 began. He lay and listened to me errr once moving his quick, clear glanc truoi my face, I must have infused into SAf talc some of the fire and pathos with which it was invested in my own mind, W be seemed to understand just exactly IsXt I felt. It seemed to me something XX making a solemn confession In I laid bare before my former ' all Hie recesses of my childish soul. I aseif scarcely kaew how I dared to a confided hah but those wonderful j ares si d to draw it all out of roe. "torn skSst k .vay, because because of the tres, bet i:' quite ne; ami I know Ihey wuoi-i let you dry your things.' "You're i;io: kind." he answers, ti s'aring at me with h:s hard, itray eye; "but that conf luieb-d mare has wrenched my ankle for i:.e, so I can't get there." "I'm very sorry," I ans.ver. "(' nildn'; you lean on me? I'm -I'm a good deal stronger than 1 look." "Thanks; but you don't know what it w j;d be to have sixteen stone hanging on you. Ail the mine, it was a kiul offer. Who are you':" "I am Olga Iamien. I live with my mother in the High ireet of Shiplev-U-M..r-h." Ho. answers, scanning me nar rowly. "Why, you must be old Carewe's granddaughter, then ':" "No. I a:n not," I answer, calmly. "Oh. you're not? I thought Mrs. Damien was the old man's daughter. "So i'e was: b it her father disowned her. Di) y.u tliiiii; I would own a man for a grandfather who disowned my Wot her?" "Highty-tighty! You're an independent young lady! S,, ,,ld Cartwi- has cast voa off. eh?" j "'!e? He has nothing to do with me, J I't.-i thankful to say." I au-wi r, negli gently. "Shu'l I ri.n to the cottage and ! see if they could send a carriage for ! you?" I "No. wait a minute confound this j pain, be answers, twinging. "I should imagine you think rather small beer of this grandfather of yours, eh?" "When I think about him at all." I re ply, "but I don't much. It is mother he has sinned against, not me." Here I come suddenly to an utter pause. 1 stand stock still and feel the blood mounting to my cheeks in waves. Something in the sib-nt, amused gaze of the strange gentleman has come upon me like a revel ation! 1 a:n the veriest blockhead in cre ation not to have seen it long ago! "You are my grandfath-r." 1 say, wit it angry pride. "You have tak'-n advantage of ice; but I have said nothing to be a.-hamed of." "Your remarks were, however, impoli tic, to say the least of it; there is one thing you hav to barn, Mis Olga Damien. and that is worldly wisdom," he tays, with a malicious grin. "And lu re comes my man to look for me. so I can dispense with your services. Permit me to offer you my sineerest thanks for your original and entertaining conversa tion." "1'frmit me also to offer you my sin cerest congratulations on your affection ate and chivalrous treatment of your granddaughter, I retorted, w i;h a low courtesy. As I turn to go I stop short. Yhaf have I done? For the second time in my life I have deliber ately flung away a chance. But one thing I determine. I will make a clean breast of it to mother. I will not have a second hateful secret between her and me. Whatever it coats me, I will tell her. though I know the result will be tears and lamenting. t..oe h'rfithi:-e.,.t md felt hat un- terid up to the n'tidow and s'epped iu. i 1 h- re ti a tableau- he (uiim f Xediy on r n an 1 I trying to reclite that fhi unut j Le u.y cousin. Rayvenham Carewe. j At this moment Aunt Rosalie suddenly I burst into the room with bauds out j stretel-ed in Weh-euie: and I ootid II t ; look into her face, tille.1 with em itioii, j without knowing somehow that mottle, aud I were co.ne to (Iray A slit cad iiev-r I to leave j? uain. As I so stood I heard the d r open once re.ro and feheld my grandfather, hale and sound, with a mix ture of sa:isf,'ici..n an, uiale-e in his keen eyes as he gszer) on me. "Oh. father, faihir!" sobbed mother, disengaging ln-re!f from Aunt R .salie and stretching uii I., r arm- to him. He took !--;h her hand- no 1 said: "Hon do you dtp, my d. nr?" w ;h a quitt. sober manner, as if he hyl tra her la.-! week an. I all had 1 ,n rl.ot b.- tWp-Cl, l.'l MR,. -S.J Mi-. Ho., ,.,: yjt,,r all. codes ended t., bom r my hunibl roof with lor pr-xei, 1 would hav Un wciil for." tell oeijtls t.p .ave i..p;a.' S X .-,( til) that vii t)f si-ndm,- iTo hi- contiuuei.) Vi'li-ii e Ith ( nine. Ti.i- st:J 1- li i 1 .-i.::)ti fr.u;i poverty to ricin k ii J':.::t-::ily av.iti;p::i!if. ), soitntitees s:ai'i!;ng ami g-ti.-mlly nniieijtg tt;;'i i!t-.!,;oi,s. Sl-.t- oat of let:, wh.-ii rii.-y iiii.I ttie gaunt v.ei;!' :' hunger nlid ii;e;tiv.ni..i:i-i. forever bat: isi ed f.-.jio i heir dt-.r. first ihink ,f ih. Mylelii v.hicb tl,.-y slio-ibl live in order Till to the lii:igi.;iit-, :i-'e of the;; !.v :tcii;ivd foittmc, and they ;a rwitli in ;is costly a li'iusc at::l its they can nlfonl. gnin, take extreme d"ll.In in the tfuitsof their new in-ilij tho.-e of their neighbors whose to ci.ni si.oldei vest f- g't'oiiinls S..;,e. liaratili,;. Is j.ei; ,1.b. before opi. I. : Wen i li'nlien A ;; clerk. t U il:l 1 e the v.ibie of l.i rs, w hieii cna b a policy ,,;' rot i u chi-ri.-bis! in l,;s n His en, id Hi' limit,!. oir.-i. I re. It li4 1 . ny a ' lH.int is tb.-it of a t-r.vverV I whit a short time ago wa.; for- i etiuegl) to (0!!:e intt) property of ! T!.I thoinmis i-f -!;.. j 'led him to embark on j wim-li he bad long ' ;ii!:d. n 1 1 : ; 1 1 1 of obscure ori- ' gin nt.i! h been in til the ut most l.v. the eh- i.aying h!m hack it: his e '1 he (mp.,. muil.v cam. i.ymfon, my pity and sympathy for the two lovers. And now it had ail ended in this! The cause for which I bad struck that awful blow was frustrated by Miss Lyndon's own deliberate ar t. I began to realize for the hrst time the prartical signification of the old prov.ob, "Never do evil that good may come." x- .1 ow me secuiiu Toiume or my i::e is closed and done with. The next t'ep is to find work. My grandmother writes to say that she would ,nake m.- an al lowance every year, to enable me to live at home with mother; but both of us j mother and I agree that it ie b-tter I I should work. So I have written myself I to say that I intend to earn my own liv j in? to gef a situation as governess. I sit with my arm round the smooth bark of a birch tree, ray foot swinging, my hat off, my lap full of poppies. Sud denly a sound breaks on the stillness the exciting sound of a pack of hounds in full cry. (.'lose to me is a crooked little old crabtree; its branches fork delight fully. In an instant I am up in the fork, sitting supremely happy and secure. In a few minutes the whole hunt swoeps by through a gap. Some ladies are In the field; thm I watch with a special pang of envy. Over they go, how light, how graceful! Oa they sweep, away flown the fielil, the hounds still giving tongue. Here come one or two stragglers; they also leap and follow; one turns back; and here, riding In a great hurry, comes an old gentleman in pink, who takes the hedge at a dif ficult place. I feel sure the horse will never do it; I half rise in my seat as they take the leap. No! Thpre is a splash, a flounder, .and in another instant the horse is flying down the field, and his rider is struggling in the muddy water. 1 heartily pily him as I come scrambling down my crab-tree and advance toward him. He is sitting on the grass as I come up, a hale old man, with gray bair and a handsome face. "Hallo! Where do you come fror?" Is his greeting. "I come from the wood. I saw your horse come to grief, and thought I'd come and see If I eould help you." "Ob, did yon?" he returns, looking- me up and down. "Catch my horse for me, then." "UuJorkily. not beln a young lady In a norel, I can't," I rrply. I pon my word!" says the old aentlc- f3 JN bad (aaracva for oa here," be J man, "you're a nice young person." C'HAI'TKR VIII. I had anticipated many tears and sighs from mother, but the result outran my anticipations. When I mentioned whom I had met, her agitation was al most uncontrollable; and when I de tailed the unlucky issue of the meeting. her sorrow was beyond description. Morn ing brought no comfort. Mrs. Burnside had not replied to mother's letter. A grim feeling of disappointment stole over me as I saw the postman pass our door without stopping. Mother was subdued and melancholv. I melancholy and sulsiued. It was not a cheerful position. At lunch hour mother could eat nothing, and shivered with cold. A sound of wheels stopping at the door drew her to the window. Good gracious, Olga! Here is the tjray Ashtead carriage!" t.l ll t. 4... A I, t' . .. jh u rtuiu juisane; i tell yon what, mother," I suddenly announced. rising from the hearth with flushed hecks and a forehead ornamented with streaks of soot "I tell you what, I don't mean to stand any impertinent messages from Mr. Carewc! I shall just snap my fingers there is no one in the carnage a all," broke in mother. "The groom is handing a letter. Oh. Olga! Olga!" At this juncture the errand bov from the shop knocked at our door with th note, i urougnt it to tnotner. It was from Aunt Rosalie, and simply contained these words: "Gray Ashtead, Wednesday. "Get into tlie carriage Hnd come here at once. Bring Olga with you. Bring night-clothes. I may not say more: but be sure Olga comes. Gome as quickly as you can, aud excuse the incoherency of this. In a tremendous hurry, yours as ever, RO.SK." Mother grew white to the lips. I snatched the letter from her hands an.) read it. "Olga. he is dying," she whispered. I felt it must be so. An fzcited desire to cry surged tip in my throat. I knew that it would be right to obey that sum mons, but I own 1 was rrighfened. "Oh, Olga, you will come with me I implore you, my own darling." "Of course we must both go, mother dear. Don't be anxious. I dare say he is not so ill as we fancy. Kit here and I will bring you your things." A minute later we were seated in my grandfather's carriage, and bound for Gray Ashtead. It was a very long drive, but I did not feel it so. I did not notice how the time passed, so absorbed was I in picturing to myself what our reception would be. Mother sank back in the car riage and began to shed tears copiously as the lodgekeeper's wife opened the gate, and we passed up a trimly-kept drive, shaded by lie trees. The house wat quite modern, but built In the Norman fashion of good gray stone. Almost at soon as the footman touched the bell the door was opened and we walked In. I turned to the solemn butler, who was preceding us down the tesselated hall, and asked, abruptly: "Is Mr. Garewe very ill?" The man seemed confused, and an swered, evasively, thnt Miss Garewe should be instantly inforned of our ar rival, upon which a cold fear shot through my heart, i'.j granoratber must be dead. We were nshered info a long drawing room, with four French windows opening on a garden. A minnfe ticked by. then I heard a fresh baritone ro'ce coming from somewhere ont In the garden. In voluntarily I shrank back a little as the voice approached and a young man in a vent of bis fullest ml excite the iift'ei'sivf.' manners, bad h-ibii of treating him wit it dis.lnin. st'.-'. not tmmitural k tiiM' .ied for a hance o! n f-oln. with the fid- t'.-e.-it riches, and In- took the .uttage of every occasion to envy of bis quimdrim em ployer, and to beliule him In the eyes of bis friends. He made a prnft ice of driving in f?ate past the lawyer's office two or three times a day, hhs "turn-oul" hi the morn ing lpoing a Kianrt and doKliing tandem, and iu the afternoon an elegant car riage uml pair. If the lawyer flttembi the theater or any public meeting his once (b-spiseil clerk wii some-times there iK-ctipyliig a better position than hiiiinelf. Finally, happening u hoar of a debt of $'2VX owing by the lawyer, be ttought It at a premium, hiiihI for ami recovered It, and administered the coup de grace by making his enemy a bankrupt. The flood ken l.-t I nt him I, mm. While business depression or revival Is a matter (if the utmost Inter st to all business people of all classes, the Mlle Ject of good roads, which Involves the getting to ami from business. Is some thing thnt Is of great impoit:illf to every man. woman or child who trav els, whether on foot, wheel or by Ve hicle ou uny jiurt of the public high way. Bad ii m ils. mud, ruts and Irri gul.iri ties ate expensive things. All obi farmer ne.l to s.iy thnt nits ami freez ing uml 1 1. a w ing cost him a new w agon every live en i s. Very few pei jde e;il h'.e wluiv roii'-h roads cost them. Of misc. I; i nidy :i bui to .lay. a tire to morn i ve, a w'ii-d .xprnng next week. or n ;ilo warped ont of . In-ipe ut some other time; but these things cinii', s'-inetinii -s ei eil.Hiing like shingles on a roof. Tiny are put dnwii to wear ami tear, and in a war accepteil as the inev i!;i ble. simply because roads have always 1 ecu bad uml one scarcely Inns a right to expect anything else. But. the difference in the lusting i'mlities of a wagui! mi a thoroughly good road and an extremely bad one would sur prise the owner of Midi a vehicle, were he able tu keep trai l; of the exact fig ures in the t w o comlit ions. The Guild Roads l 'iiinmissiiiti will make u gailant effort during the com ing spring ami summer to interest the people In the go.nl work. It would ii-,'ii- I ly take but liiile to put the mads ii; j good condition if every man would giv speei.-.l attention to thnt portion of it j Immediately .nij:eent to his own dwel- ling. Of course, he must do this timle the superintendence of proper authoi- ' i!y. but If be would donate time or money, a little of either would go a : great way. j Cycle paths are being built In tunny parts f the country, ami the hopeful - j wheelman looks forward to the time j when be cm ride entirely across the ; country on a well built road, controlled I pml kept in order by the I tiite.! States i lovernment. It is hot ton much to expect this, he j cause there is mulling in which the ; government, the State and the Indi vidual have such a general and especial right and Inton-st as the thoroughfare that connect one part of the country with another. The king's highway Ih-. longs to everybody, and when it in . well planned ami well cansl for, if is a pleasure to all who pass over it; hut j bad roaibs are a handicap to pleasure, I a positive hindrance to bnslnes, and it j is scarcely too much to ny are h diis ' grace to any community in which they are found. New iork Ledger. ft th' I'l iicd HlHte g.i-ili.gii al and jtur teylng i.Militiinl In til' Indian Terri tory. "I r w me time we had Iweri without water ai.il were siilTerin greatly. Among our iiuiiiImt wan an old trapper, who was as keen on the scent for water as Is a hound on the trail of a deer. Finally, In' paused at a l ice and wtopjpcd. " i think there's water here-, If wo could Iig n w ell,' be observed. " "But w e can't,' I replied. " 'No, hut we tan do soiiielliing else,' 111" Sll'll. "With that be cut a reed, tying some moss to the end of it. Then he dug into tin- earth, placed bis reed In the holn ami parked the earth around the reed. He waited for a few moments. " 'Ho you mean to say that you can suck water out of that thing? I asked. " 'Yes, there's w ater near the sur face.' "He drew at it with much satisfac tion. " -Good,' be remarked; 'would you try it?' "Willi l'ttle confidence in the result I sio keil ut the reed, w ith the surprising; result of getting plenty of dear, pure ater. To my parched tongue it seemed the very nectar of the gods. " 'It's as dear as the water of a spring.' I s-iid. "'Yes, the moss is our filter, be re plied. "We pursued our Journey much re freshed, and I never forgot the old trapper's device." Hetroit Five 1'ivsb. I'iK't's Sympathy. The following amusing anecdotes an? tobl of Vhi:t:er the poet. A little girl, who was staying at the same house with him, and of whuin he was very fond, aski-d h'm to commemorate in vi re tiie deiitii of her favorite kitten, Raihsht-h.i by name. Without a moment's hesitation tin; poet recited solemnly: "Bailishehn, to whom none ever said 'Scat !' - No worthier cut liver sat on a ma; Or might a rat. Reijnie-jcai!" The s.i.i:.. l'.!,'. girl ii id a pony who broke Ids leg. ami ngiin the poet was ciille. upon to comfort tlie child with some ; luetic seiiiimelll. "1 have written some lines myself," she said, ' bin 1 can't think h iw to fin ish the verse." "Icebergs Ahead:" The most formidable things that wean pilots have to deal with are the IcelxTgH coming down from Greenland and Polar regions. The approach of a sailing vessel U heralded by the tooting of the foghortm, the steamer by the blowing of her whistles. But the lceUrg cohim with out foghorn or whistle. It i jillent as death, and as colorli'.-w as the .now!. phere. To guard against them all ..cmu stenmsiiijis now go with a scan-hUgh: in their Isiws. At night it is shining brilliantly ami i maimed tiy the sharp est lisik-oiit of the crew: and iu foggy days It is Just as carefully attended. It is only in the very clenpest hours nt nKiii-i)iiy, when the day Is warmest, that the Kcarchlight is put out for a time. The approach of n lwrjr it; said to he unheralded, but to those w ho know the ocean there Is a premonition of it. If the air lM-cotm nipping, ami the ther mometer falls phenomenally low, then all know that it Is very di,,' and watch for H. The searchlight gets In Its fine work now. With men carefully wwrcLIng iu rays It Illumines tlie ocean, sometime for mile Hlx-flij, and always far enou-i. in t'osvls ond Markets, A highly important feature of the highways iuetlou Is the effect good or bad roads have upon the local markets and their sources of supply. In all the cities and large towns of I he State ( there is n ileimiml for farm product; i and for the bulkier ami heavier prod ucts such a .s hay ami straw ami grain. In many rase mp Hiirrounding coun try is ijuitt' capable of supplying. Unit demand; In all cases it should do so as far aa possible; iu moM cases it does not. Instead, mippiios are brought In by rail or canal from fur away, per hnjw from other .States; while at the same time, within a few miles of the market thus supplied, are farms that have been abandoned as not worth working, and others w hose owners are rn chronic discontent and despair at the fl pa rent impossibility of getting proflt- anie prices tor their crops. The big fnriliM of the West, they say, monopol Ize the markets, and so farming here no longer pays. Now. me prime secret of the trouble lies In the had roads, which keep the producer and the consumer apart, by making It difficult. If not impos-dhlo. for tlie farmers to gel their produce to market. The farmer a thousand mlh's away can get bis crops to market by rail or canal more easily and more cheaply thai) tiie farmer only ten miles away can haul his In over roads that did you writ asked Mr. the to the right, lie stable post bo bis leg short d Mr. Whlltier. "he "What W'hittier. "My pony kick, kicked Id the b-ft struck it. He br off- " "Ami then." add kicked the bucket." Iiirlug the war a Quaker friend, who was a shipbuilder, asked Whlttler' ad vice as to building warships. At first Whlttler did mt commit h'm self; but as the shipbuilder was leav ing, he remarked: "Thomas, If thee. builds shijis. I advise thee to use rim bet timlier, and build them strong." the distance to permit the ship to are so billy am rough and miry that turu and avoid a cming berg mere Is not one jdissenger In a thou sand croissihg the ocean who knows that there Is a searchlight In the lsws always alert for the moving ghosts. The gleam ! for ships, they think, and they little imagine that it is for the fatal berg. Forests. Large tracts of dense forests In Aus tralia are practically shadeless. Many kinds of tree In tlWf strange country turn the edges Instead of the flat sur faces of the leaves to the mm, and than ''"'"idf. Good roads would mean good one may stand under a free of etmr- tari"- K,M,d markets, good prices and niotm size, and sometime lw ns fully '"" "'"es for nil concenieil. excised t0 the sun as (hough he wen- To ""' lu,mU' of the .State pr's- mur a ton is a heavy load for a c,rM. to draw at a slow footpace. It is not that farms in the Fast are no longer productive, nor that the Kastern mar ket no longer offers fair prjecs. It is that the roads U'tween the farms and the markets are so bad as to make shipment unprofitable. Good roads throughout tlm farming region inlja cent to the cities and towns would do more than anything else to restore prosperity to the farmers, enabling them to get their goods to tiie best pos sible market easily, nroiimtlv mot In the open plain. Travel through these rorests is said to be exceedingly ardu ous work, as the trees, w1)lle they do not cut off the sun, prevent the breeze from reaching the ground, and thus th traveler experiences a stilling he,,t. Astronomy. Ap observatory has Is-en successfullv completed on the aumrnlt of Mont Hlanc, at the height of l.j,7S0 feet. In- dead of Mug movable like an ordinary teuweupe, tbe telescope OT, jjont Wane la fixed In the dlrwtlon of the Polar mar. moveable mirror Is made to reflect any object desired down the tub lo tiie eye p!ee for the mudy of the ob server. -S ons at work building such ronds would he a particularly appropriate proceed ing. The criminal la nu enemy ,f if,e community and of the general wel fare, and he would thti' be made to minister to one of the chtcf m-cils of tim romini. -fid to promote lip; gctiei.il wilfare iu the tin s', effect u.tl manner. He nould la getting the tijuition ho needs for his own health, h.; would he rotich more than paying th cot of lib tr'sl and confinement, nud )(. wonM bo ctn'crrlnga permnnent vid inculcHl.i. My great bcn"fif upon nil cbn m honest people In the Htate.-New York Tribune. Queer Things Down Hast. The Nantucket jail stories which have been current court room topics for the last ceutury have beeu entirely eclipsed by recent stories concerning tlie convicts of the Itarnstalde Jail. Mr. K. G. Knapp, who Is supposed to he serving a five years' sentence for steal lug national bank funds, was recently seen in tlie streets Iu prison garb.glvjng the wife of tlie Jailer, Mrs. G. II. Gush, bicycle lessons. Mrs. Cash Is :t.H years old. and has a daughter aged l.H ami tlie convict Is said to occupy a place of congenial companionship Iu tlie Jailer's family. Another convh-t name I Lewis Rogers was recently allowed to take a cow to Yarmouth and hack while tlie sun was bright nm! the air invigorating for a pleasant walk. There Is another prisoner, a Portuguese, named Joe," who is there ou h complaint of a l'ortu guese girl named Rosa, and her story is that .lot- promised to marry her wblb be was serving out a previous sentence iu tlie Jail, and that she often met .foe outside the Jail. It Is a pitiful story, ls-civ.se when Joe got out of Jnii be married another girl, after borrowing f'M) from Rosa. And all this In Rarn stnhle town, where the Jail Is. Tint stories of Nantucket's easy-going Jail pule Into insignificance In comparison with out continental neighbor.- Nan tucket Inquirer ami Mirror. Water from a Planted Heed. "When ja-ople are suffering from We wlah there waa tome way of ao- iMnt w"l sort to all kinds of qtilrlnfr more aenae, as there la of ac- Ret water," remarked a k'ii quliing more property, tlomaa w ho. o at oue time a member Ilglit in the Ocean Highways. The best lighted bit of k-chi) high way is thai known as "Tin- Downs," win re lights are much m-eded in warn ships away from the Goodwin sntuN, which stretch from Do ei to Rain .gate, at a distance of about live miles from the mainland. Tltcre are four light ships for the protection and lighting of that hboi-t bit of ocean highway. The Htn-z canal has now been so bril liantly Illuminated tit night by electric lights that the time required for pass ing through It has consequently been reduced from forty-eight hours' In the year 1WI to twenty-seven hours by the year and since them to twenty- four hours. Then- are lighthouses In the proportion of one o fourteen miles in England, one to thirty-four In Ire land, and one u, t iiirt -nine in Scot land. Tliroi;g(;i;( tie world there are nliout u.iHiii; England living M7. tlm Fulled 1st. -lies M'.'J. Canada mid New- toiimlliiinl, I'.H: France, -IH; nmmnl the European coart th: n- tire .''..177. A Cut In Sport. Iu "Famous Uritsh Warships." Wal ter Wood fells a story of Admiral CimI rlugton, who commanded the Ilritlsli fleet iu the action of Navarlim, In bSL'7, when the Turkish fleet was destroyed by the allied kiwi rs. "When the 'Ad miral returned from the Mediterranean be met in town n country acqujilntineo id Ilic class whose souls are wrapped tifi 111 their binds and turnips. "Hullo. Godrlnglou,' he exclaimed. In blind Ignorance of nil contemporary history, i haven't seen yon for some time. Hnd any good shooting lately ? '"Why, yes,' replied the Admiral, 'I've had some remarkable ahootlng.1 'And with this hs went bla wo." 1 X Ye '. ' - . 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