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Lips that Kissed 3Ie, Long- Ao.
lpa ihatlssed ru5, long Ego,
Ye were fair, and ye were sweet!
Tender lips, I loved ye bo; .
Mine ye cflen used to meet.
Tli en love -sans its gladdest song;
Then Hope wore its blithest a mile ;
Forj-onrliisoes, ripe and long,
Thrilled ray being all the while !
Then the days were yonng and fair.
Golden with a glory bright;
Life was llke'an answered prayer.
Holding In it rare delight.
Never came a cloud above,
Never waned the golden glow,
Never ceased the song of Love
Lips that kissed me long ago 1
Never came ? nay.1 forget ;
Every glad thing perisheth;
Cheeks that smile will soon be wet.
Blossoms sweetest fade In death.
All Tie golden glory fled ;
Love a sadong chanted low;
And a long ad lea we said
Xlps that kissed me, long ago!
Ah, ye tender, loving lips!
What is gay without tho snn?
"When unending Its eclipse, (
Has not then the rghLuegnc T
In the'darkness still I wait.
Looking backward to the light,
Through tho years all desolate.
Seeing where I entered night.
Could I 'feel your kisses sweet
Once'again upon my own.
Love Its 'glud song would repeat.
Only gladder, sweeter grown ;
Hopeagafn Its smile would wear;
Ail the brightness I should know ;
Lite would be my answered prayer
Lips that kissed 'm. loiSg ago 1
THE
or.
"VTlio Will Save Her?
CHAPTER lV.-Continned.)
j Both started and drew apart, un
i pleasantly conaefdae of the presence
Jof strangera.
Everard made a clutch P-X his port
manteau. Gertrude lowered hastily
the veil that was twisted round her
hat.
The in traders, if they could he
called such, consisted or three per
sons, evidently iuet arrived by the
Vnlle-
railway. xwoot uieui ivcic r
nen, juaging uy areas ana appear
ance, who had halted a few yarda
from the spot where the lovers were
standing. The third was a Eort of
body-servant or groom; who stood!
jiazily balancing upon his shouldera a
huge leathern trunk, with an much
ease as if it had been a feather.
There was some confusion 'for a mo
ment upon the part of, our young
friends, which was dispelled by one
; of the gentlemen advancing, and lift
ing his hat.
'Miss Wentworth!
This is an un-
1 t
! expected pleasure. I must presume
' that Sir H'ign is Seller, finding you
bo far away from home."
So far! It was but a few hundred
yards at the most. Everaid's cheek
flushed, and his hand tightened itself
about his stick, as he detected the
snper.
"Oh, how do you do, Mr. Rock
wood?" said Gertrude, innocently
enough, her whole thoughts now re
turning to her father. "T am so glad
to see you!" Then, dropping her
voice into a whisper, and glancing at
the other gentleman, who stood a llt-
j tie apart, "Has the London physician
come?"
Rockwodd, without delgbing a bbc
cad glauce one was generally enough
with him at young Everard Corbett,
who stood fretting and fuming at the
gate, beckoned to his friend to ad-
1 vance.
"Permit me. Miss Gertrude, to in
troduce to you Doctor Malyon. Had
I known a clevsrer man, he would
have been here in Doctor Malyou's
place."
Suddenly, and while Malyon, an
altogether different man from the
Malyon of The Warren, was address
ing Miss Wentworth, the lawj'er
wheeled found, and in his heurtiest
of tones appeared to recognize, for the
first time, Everard Corbett.
"Mr. Corbett! Upon my word, you
must excuse my rudeness! J owe
you a thousand apologies, but you
were the last b'eridn. I expected to Bee
here. I thought you were in Bom
bay." "I am going there," was the reply,
given sharply enough, for the high
eouled lad hated with an instinctive
antipathy the rhean-souled lawyer;
"but not to remain for long, I hope.
All I care for is left behind me in
England !"
"Indeed! in-deed!" and Mr.
Eookwood'8 brilliant eyes glittered
over his young "friend, ' as a snake's
would over a mouse or a rabbit.
"And your future steps?"
"Will be directed by my father!"
Still smarting under Rockwood's
manner, and burning to resent it, he
turned to Gertrude.
So, good-bye, once and again. Miss
Wentworth. That whistle announces
my train." He sliouldered his valise
as he spoke. "I shall send you news
through our dear friend, the rector;
and for old acquaintance, sake, you
will Seep me always through the
rector, who fres a mania for letter
writing well posted" up with all that
is going on here. Dripsey Bridge to
me means 'home;' aud, however far
away, even the re-painting of the
Pound will have an interest to me.1'
Again the shrill whistle of the rail
way warns against delay.
There is a general exchange of com
pliments and good wishes ; then Mr.
iRockwood, the lawyer, opens the
IBmNBTf
BIEHT;
whtee gate for Dr. Malyon, the physi
cian, and Miss Wentworth to pass
through, while behind them sham-
I bles the man in groom's undress.with
nothing remarkable about him but a
scaT and tinge of blue upon his face.
"As the light, diaphanous, figure of
'the beautiful girl he loves so much
rgHdes fram his view, blotted out, as it
"Beema to him, by the dark shadows
which the men throw around her, a
feeling of foreboding, almost of abso
lute terror, takes possession of Ever
ard Corbett, the'wliy or wherefore it
would be difficult to explain.
A convulsive sob rose up Into his
throat ond almost choked him, while
a gush of warm tears bedewed his
cheeks.
'God bless her! It's been asad'phrt
ing very sad !" he "murmured ; "but
I shall soon be back !" here he
picked up his vilise, and moved slow
ly down the road towards the railway
station "back with my kind father's
consent. Oh, I know I shall have it!
To claim Gertrude's promise, and take
her for ever from that house" he
made a gesture towards the Abbey as
he spoke "where everj'thing is
gloom and naj'atery, and "niy angel
has nornofe her proper place than a
dove in a nest of hawks. Ah ! what
a happy fellow I should bo if Bombay
were onlv in Fleet Street!"
When the station whistle again
blew, poor Everard, alone in a first
class carriage, was giving free vent to
hl3 grief, and the, shadows were fall-
I Incr fnltmr- nror Vinf hnrth A hhnr
as the train Eped fast away.
CHAPTER V.
A YOUNG MAN OF THE PERIOD.
"And so, madam, I'm to be made
a tool of I'm to burn my paws
in plucking Mr. Itock wood's chest
nuts from the fire! Not if I know it!
I wasn't riorn yesterday, and rather
flatter myself I know something of
the world. People love to be fast
now-a-days, aud like to go the pace.
The pace I:ve gone has been a killing
one, but I can puli up upon occasions
and bring my favourite horse, "Go
ahead,' to as'tandstill !"
"I'm glad to hear It. I didn't
think you had so much resolution."
The speakers were two in number.
'I hey were aione, aud the scene of
the discussion evirlentlj' a warm one
a drawing room in Mathew Rock
wood's house, Bedford Row. .
The first speaker was a tall, over
dressed young man, dark and sallow,
but somewhat inane of visage. A
narrow, retreating brow, over which
the well-oiled hair, carefully divided
flown 'th'e "nfitTdle,' "lay "straiglit, till
finished off by several flat little curls,
artistically arranged about tli'e fore
head and temples. Eyes small, deep
6pt, and cunning; a nose exquisitely
Grecian ; a large, drooping mous
tache ; a full-lipped mouth ; and a
slightly retreating chin. Put them
together, then place them above a
spare, narrow-chested bodj', resting
upou a pair of long, reedy legs, nnd
you have the portrait of Mr. Philip
Wentworth.
The second speaker was, MrB. Rock
wood. She was half reclining on a
sofa, her face shielded by a large In
dian fan from the heat of a fire, whose
ruddy light danced among the silken
folds of her dress, aud blazed among
her bracelets and rings. She had a
taste for jewelry, had Mrs. Rock
wood, a taste evidentlj' shared by Mr.
Philip Wentworth, who absolutely
glittered with showy baubles.
"You ask me to join in n plot
against my owu Eelf ; that's what you
do, neither more nor, less. To sign
myself over, body nut! soul, to Mat,
the money-spinner money-making
Mat!" it was thus Mr. Philip usual
ly spoke of his friend, Mr. Rock wood
"and for what? To help me to es
tates which are my own will be my
owu. by Jove! in less than a few
days, if all's true that these telegrams
say."
He pointed to some papers on the
table, the Wentworth telegrams, re
ceived from Darkuoll.
"Mind you, I don't deny but what
Mat ha3 been a devilish good fellow,
and has iiUvaj's kept the wheels well
greased when the Governor stopped
the supplies, as he was pretty often
doing. But for that, I should never
have kept up the credit of the fami
ly." "You think so?" Baid the lady, with
bitter emphasis.
"Think so! I'm sure of It. I'm
one of those fellows who like to give
everybody their due, and Mat has
stuck to me like a trump. By Jove!"
and here lie fatuously. stroked the
silken hairs of his moustache, "but
for Mat I should have been quodded
long ago, or had to make a bolt of it,
exchanging the land of fogs for the
land of frogs!"
"Aud have you ever thought what
he did all this for?"
"It requires precious little thought
to come at that. He did it for three
hundred per cent. in prospect. Mat
never made a secret of the matter.
Why should he? He's a man of the
world, is Mat. So am I both men of
the world. He knew I should be
right for any amount whenever it
pleased the governor to walk' the
plank, and I bloomed upon society as
Sir Philip." f
It was of his father this elegant
young man was speaking when he
made the above delicate allusion to
tho "governor" end walking the
plank ; but what are such small
things as family ties to your modern
Timon of two-and-twenty 3'our
drawling, cold-hearted, fashionable
"swell," who has "outlived all that
I kind of pentiment, by Jove!"
Cynics of any sort are not pleasant
people to meet with ; butsnrely worst
of all the tribe are these used-up lan
guid creations of the present day
these Sheering philosophers, who pro
fess to 'despise the life they daily mis
use; Who show themselves in the
parks as a duty, yet under protest;
who patronize the dancing-rooms, the
music-halls, and the theatres, yawn
ing everywhere, except, perhaps, in
those gilded jsalom where golden
haired goddesses hold sway, in the
region of St. 'John's Wood and wes
tern Brompton. t
One of these hollow-hearted men
was Mr. Philip Wentworth, a combi
nation of fool and knave, priding
himself In his all-engrossing selfish
ness, upon having outlived every
thing that better men deemed life
alone worth living for. "You can't
astonisn roc.
" be would
say, in bis
isn't to be
supercillious drawl
it
done. A man who has gone the pace
I've gone is long past that kind of
thine. Know the world? I should
think I did. rather; know it inside
and out, upside and down, round and
square every twist and turn in it!
Look here! I'm a light-weight, I
am ; but the man who wants to floor
Phil Wentworth tnustaYtupall night
or get up very early in the morning,
by Jove!"
"You know Sir Hugh's danger?"
said Mrs. Rock wood, after a pause.
Philip yawned.
"A fellow can't well be jaff know
ing it. I'm very sorry for It, of
course, but what's to be done? Of
late, whenever the governor sees me,
he cuts up rough ; aud besides, if
there's one thing I hate more than
another, it's a sick-room. Your in
valids are so confoundedly selfish
think of nobody but themselves. I
would take an even bet Sir Hugh
doesn't want to see me. He's got
Gertrude to nurse him, hasn't he?"
"Yes ; Bhe is constantly at his side,
night and day."
"Of course. That's justas itshould
be," assented this amiable young
man. "Girls and women like that
sort of thing; I don't."
"You see what my father sayB?"
and the lady, with an angry move
ment of her fan, indicating the papers
lying bo fore them upon the table.
"Those telegratnB ? oh, yes. How
I hate telegrams ! the post is bad
enough, but it takes some time, at
least, coming ; but these cursed
things," taking up one of the papers
as he spoke, "are down upon you at
all times, and everi'where. I wonder
who the teuow was who invented
them-; "an'enemyJto 'his-spoeleKfJItnarSfl
sure couldu't haveb'ad oiany nerves.
If people want to be unpleasant, oh !
can't they do it in a telegram ! Short
and sour, that's the correct thing, and
that's Old Benjy's way."
He read over again the paper he
held, then tcssed it back carelessly 011
the table.
"What a queer old buffer he Is! I
sometimes think he's a little off his
head, don't you?"
"Of whom are you speaking?"
"Of Daddy Darkuoll, to be sure
who else ?"
"You will please to remember, sir,"
and the lady drew herself up with a
haughty air that sat very well upon
her, "that yod are also speaking of
my father, and when in niy presence
you will speak of him at least with
some outward show.of respect."
"To be sure, I will," said the un
moved Mr. Philip. "Outward and
inward. I've the greatest love"; and
all that sort of a thing, for Dadd'.
He would lay down his life for me,"
he added, with a laugh; "I've often
heard him swear.it."
"There is nothing he would npt do
to serve you nothing! He Is de
voted to your interests, and has ever
been so since you were a child.". ,
"I'm sure I'm awfully obliged to
bim but It's a bit of a bore to be told
It so often."
"He worships the ground you walk
on, does Eenjamin Darknoll."
"How queer !" was the grateful re
mark. "Poor old boy."
Mrs. Rockwood's black eyes for a
moment flashed fire. She controlled
herself, however, and said, with a
half-sigh, "You owe much, very much
more than you can ever repay, to my
father, Benjamin Darknoll."
Mr. Philip frowned, then twisted
his handsome face for to a casual ob
server, handsome it was into an ex
pression of intense greed and cun
ning. "Oh, come, I SHy, draw it mild!
Never repaj' ! That's a leetle too
strong even for this child's stomach.
I 6ee what you're all driving at, but,
as I have before taken occasion to re
mark, the date of my nativity goes
back befpre yesterday. 1 know pret
ty well how many beans' go to make
five, and-what some people are up to ;
but, without wishing to be rude to a
lady, when I am Sir Philip Went
worth, It is not ray intention to allow
myself to be pecked into small pieces
by any one, much less everybody."
Theungratelul cur! It was evident
that he was already thinking how it
would be easiest to throw over those
to whom he might feel himself per
haps unpleasantly indebted.
"The income's a tidy one, but it
isn't much when a fellow means to
come up to town to do the swell thing
and hold his own with the best,"
"You can do all that," said Mrs.
Rock wood, with a sigh."
"I mean to do ell that, and more!
I mean to get into Parliameht, too!
Oh, I can talk a bit when I choose,
and have taken In my usual 'stims'
(stimulants). Why, I know half s
dozen fellowJi wh.o write JM.P. after
,their names, that never made a speech
yet whicli wasn't a brandy and so
la
in
t There was a pause a long pause.
.Mrs. Eockwood lowers her face so As
,td let the red firelight play upon it.
Could. It be that the crimson blood
waa also there? Certain it i3 the
bosom quickly heaves.
A,t jast, .Mrs, Rock wood spoke.
"Sifc down, Philip," she said; In a
voice which had in It far more of sad
ness than unkindness, and at the
same time so arranged her seat as to
screen her face from the light. "I
have something to say to you."
"Of importance?" he yawned, with
an air of much vexation-, and medita
ting escape.
"Of great importance of the great
est importance."
He hesitated.
"But these telegrams ?"
"It Is concerning these telegrams I
am about to apeak. I have a 3tory to
tell you a story known only to Sir
Hugh, my father, Benjamin Dark
noll, Mathew pud myself."
"And a precious lot. too, If your
story contains a secret."
"It does--a terrible one !"
"Oh ! IFlt's anj'thing In the sensa
tional way, I go along with you. Not
that I am going to start, or shudder,
or do anything of that sort. I am a
fellow that has outlived his first set
of nerves, and got a set of steel bands
instead. May I smoke?
"Mrs. Rock wood, without looking
at him, nodded assent.
"Thanks; There's nothing like a
weed for keeping a fellow awake."
With this polite speech, the "unim
pressionable" as he termed himself
Philip lighted his cigar, and threw
himself into an easy chair, crossing
one leg over the other, and leaning so
very far back, that only his chin and
the tip of his nose were visible.
"Eire away, Mrs. R. ! Stop; does
It concern me?"
"It does it greatly concerns you."
"Then it's sure to be interesting.
I'm all attention."
And, in a low voice a low and
trembling voico at first Diana began
to relate the episode which had
smirched, with a broad, black stain,
the ancient' escutcheon of the Went
worths. CHAPTER VI.
MR. PHILIP IS ASTONISHED AT LAST.
"There was a great Squire living
down in one of t!
western coun-
ties, , it waa'lUus Mrs.
Rockwopd
earn roeneoerstory;
'who bad a
son. an only son
"Is It a fairy tale?" asked Mr Phil
ip, without looking up, and blowing
a wreath of pearly smoke high In the
air.
"It Is not a fairy tale," was the
half-angry answer, "except that the
results may yet be the sain ; and
what is now shining gold may be
withered leaves ere morning. This
son I speak of," she went on, never
glancing at the recumbent Philip, hut
ever bhilding her face with her fan,
"feared his father greatly. The fath
er was a man of granite proud, stern,
and impossible to move. The son, on
the contrary," and as her voice rose,
there was in it a tone o con tempt,
"was a-creature of clay, soft and duc
tile, to be moulded, by clever hands,
into any shape. Greedy of flattery,
his. ears were ever opeu to the praises
of those beneath him ; and, failing to
find a congenial society iri the drawing-room,
he sought it in theser.vants'
offices, in .the racing paddock, and
the stable. ,:
"I don't blame him there,." put in
Mr. Philip, etilt without moving, and
smoking with much tranquil enjoy
ment; "a fellow picks up a lot of
things in a stablo, while, as toa drawing-room,
ypii may pass, a life there,
and not plok up an idea. I never
did."
"Possibly not! However, it was
among a far lower class than his own
that the stern old Marodet'tf son found
his associates. Fearing his father
with a fear so abject that it was akin
to terror, he by nature weak, became,
by force of circumstance, a hypocrite
and a coward. All with him was se
crecy, double-faced, till to deceive his
father grew to be the great effort of
his life; and, the known inheritor of
large estates, he had little difficulty
of finding agents tc his hand. A fa
vorite place of rendezvous' wjth his
associates grooms and gamekeeper's
mostly was the lodge-gate keeper's
house. This lodge-keeper had a
daughter a daughter fair to see, so
iro?sip said and the Baronet's son
fell in what is called love with her."
"It's like a ballad," murmured Mr.
Philip. "He married her, of course?"
The Japanese fan shook in Mrs.
Rockwood's hand,.an.d.ier voice was
harsh as she answered "The man
was too weak, too much in awe of his
gloomy father, to do anything that
was thoroughly manlike and honest ;
he did not marry her, but, for she was
then young and credulous persuaded
the girl, -under promise of marriage,
to kx&jsf her home with him."
There wa3 a short pause. Mr. Phil
ip yawned wearily ; Diana Koc'kwood
with a pained sigh, went on.
"Bdt the ledge-keeper, who was a
man not to be trifled with, pursued
them, and brought them back, deaf
to all vows and oaths, insisting upou
one thing, and one thing only mar
riage. But now the father had got
scent of the attachment, and he acted,
with decision. He accompanied bis
son himself abroad, and never lost
sight of him till he had seen him
wedded to a youn? heiress of English
parentage, but born In Parle."
'Bravo, papa! That was dowhy of
the old squire, that was," ejaculiit'et!
Mr. Fhilip, with au approving laugh.
"And when the young couple re
turned to England. I sunnose. the
lass of low .degree the lily of the
valley was found floating in some
silent pool, while her aged parent
drowned Ais sorrows after a drffereut
fashion at the 'Joily Waggoners,' or
br the 'Barley Mow ?' "
"He did nothing of thi kind," said
the woman, with a laugh so abrupt
and harsh, that it caused Mr. Philip
to lower his legs and assume a sitting
attitude. "They the girl and her
father rightly estimated the charac
ter of the man they had to deal with.
,The old squire died In the hunting
field, having broken his neck, refus
ing with his usual obstinacy to turn
from a fence which no other rider
would take .a fence which it was af
terwards discovered had been previ
ously wired by some one. With his
death came the triumph of the lodge
keeper and hi3 doug liter. The wife
the j'oung Squire had brought from
France was a pale flower a lilly of
the valley, if you will. She know
that her husband did not love her,
that another influenced him in all
things; as, indeed, the other had a
right to do, for it was at her feet that
his faith was first pledged, that his
vows were first, made."
Philip looked up with a puzzled air,
but the face of the speaker was com
pletely hidden from his view. She
continued speakings without. appear
ing to have heeded his change of po
sition. "The Squire neglected his wife ut
terly neglected her:, not that she
murmured at such treatment a wo
man without force of character of any
kind, a whining puling, helpless
child, she deserved ho better fate!"
Was this Mrs. Rockwood?
Aasliredly, yes ; and a Mrs. Rock
wood few would bare to trifle with.
The words, us she uttered them,
came hot and fast; while at times, as
if moved beyond self-control, she
struck the table violently with her
fan.
"In a great, lonely, dull, deserted
London house this woman's first child
W03 born. With the exception of her
husband, the doctor,, dud a. poor blind
old nurse, sho was utterly alone.
Well, her son was born dead, or died
soon aftsr his birth, and without the
knowledge of the mother. About
this time it had pleased Fate, For
tune, or Providence call it what you
will that the other the low-born,
jilted, and deeply-injured woman
yiiould"ai5u,"haveB,,nsonWNowTtbe-.
wife was pining and weakly,. and the
man her husband was ambitious,
nhnvonll nrrior f It i riiro fn lioro on hair i
1.1. ,.. hm i.'i ...- .. J
iu uia csiaic?. iiic uni iisto nus itui
then entirel3' lost, and,. as I have said,
he was one whom a stronger mind
couldtmouId into any form it pleased.
The opportunity and the stronger
mind were there; anil, directed by
others the father with his own
hands placed the son of the lodge- J
, 't s J
hccirci a uuuLiiin in iuc uiuu-s uuui
per s uaugn
which his then dead son had been
removed. It was an oct of charity,
after all, for to have kuown of the
loss of her baby would, weak and suf
fering as she was, have cost her
her life; 8.0 it was with a smiling
thankfulness she, all unknowingly,
took the child of another, and laid it
on her breast. Ah ! in that great
house no one gave a, thought to the
real mother; nor, had they done so,
could they have realized her bitter
deprivation, the lonely heart's agony
of the solitary woman content to suf
fer all to give a name and fortune to
her boy."
Philip Weritwcrtb, no longer indif
ferent, but on the contrarj', most
strongly moved, had risen to his feet.
He had approached the (ender, and
now, with his back to ths fire, stood
leaning against the chimney-piece,
with cii ugly expression in his face as
he scowled down upon the all but un
heeding .woman.
"You were good enough just now
tosaj' that this story Interested me.
May I ask you how?"
She made, without looking at him
an imploring gesture of the hand.
"Ask nothing, say nothing, till I
have told you my, story out. Well,
some years passed, and the foreign
woman the woman who had naver
won his heart gave birth to another
child a girl. :She had scarcely look
ed upon ils face before she, alwajs
weekly herself a child, in fact died.
With her death came a change in the
husband, which no one had expected
to see. Would it be believed," she
continued, speaking more to herself
than Philip, who, now red, now pale
by turn?, stood roosting, with one
restless foot upbn the fender, his
hands deep sunk in his pockets, bis
back, so to speak, was "humped up,"
scowling down upon her "would it
be believed," she went on, "that,
from the moment of the wife's death
from the time the poor, meek, spir
itless creature had parsed away, her
husband turned upon those who had
best befriended him, and who iu re
turn, he had so often sworn to aid?
Yet so it was; and, with the basest
ingratitude, he sternly refused to see
the woman who had loved him so de
votedly, and who had sacrificed so
much for him. 'He would provide
for her,' he said with all the cold ef
frontery of his class 'amply provide
for her ;' but, while never eeasing to
recognize his son, he knew also what
was due to his daughter. I consent,'
he said, 'that my son sha'Il Inherit my
name and estates, on condition that
. . . .. . '- .
Lh'e rests ignorant of his unfortnnate
parentage and that his mother shall
see him no more.' "
A tremendous noise, as of tumbling
fire-Irons, and a fender upset a noise
that Is followed by a whirl-wind of
passionate expletives, causes Mre.
Rockwood to look up.
Has Mr. Philip, ordinarily so lan
guid and cool, gode out of his mind ?
It wodld seem so; for, suddenly
seizing the Japanese fan from the
lady's hand he threw It oh the floor,
and stamped it to pieces under his
feet.
Mrs. Rockwood's swarthy cheeks
reddened, her thick brows knitted
themselves Into one hard line, and
her breath came in hot gasps from
between her parted lips.
.Was it anger that moved her?
Only such anger ds a tigress might
feel for some unruly cub she loves,
and yet whom she Intends to lick in-
J to shape.
"What do you mean by telling this
tome?" Philip said: end, with all
the violence of a weak nature aroused
to rage, he hurled far from him a light
gilt chair, that came in his way as he
strode backwards and forwards Iu the
room. "Are you laughing at me, or
do you want to drive me mad ?"
Mrs. Rockwood laughed, but the
laughter cost her an effort.
"Foolish boj'!" she said. Please to
remember that the furniture you are
destroying belongs to Mathew Rock
wood ; and his charge, you know, is
three hundred per cent!"
Philip paused in his walk, and turn
ed to ward her.
"Answer me one question. Of what
family have you been speaking?"
A pause and then the answer.
"The Wentworth !"
TO BE CONTINUED.
... 1
The Tiger aha the Child.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial writing from Bolivia,
South America, says: "As I came
from Trinidad to this place, the boat
stopped near a deserted Indian hut,
and as the night was rainy, the crew
slept in this hut; I slept on the beat.
We had been joined by a Mojos In-
( dlan and his wife, and four or five
children, who also slept in the hut.
The youngest child was about one
year old. During the night a tiger
entered the hut, which had no door,
and seized the infant and carried it
off. The child was nearly .the furth
est from the doorway of anyone in the
hut, and. to. reach it the tiger must
have passed close to several of the
men jSo one saw.or heard it until
the child "screamed, and then those
who woke up only suw it bound away
with the child in its mouth. It was
probably n female
with young ones,
and for Unit reason was so bold.
Nothing could be found of the child
in the morning, but ac the hut was in
the midst of a dense thicket of tall
reeds and rushes, it was impossible to
search much, and we had no dog. A
ficrpr hnrrlltr pvpr irillci nnvfhtn thnf.
-i
, .tl ...
he can carry away with ease, like
,
a cut does a mouse. He does not want
to eat it when he catches it. The
above event happened on the banks
of the Marmore River, nearTrinidad.
The next night all the Indians joined
in a prayer to God for the soul of the
lost infant.
Sis Objection to a Juror.
"Are you satisfied with the jury,
gentlemen?" said Judge Noonau this
morning, after the jury had been im
pannelled. "We are," said the lawyers in a
chorus.
A tall, gaunt figur9 solemnly arose
in th jury box and said Impressively,
"But I am not."
"What's your objection, Mr. Peter
Snooks?" inquired his Honor, bland
ly. "This young man on my right,
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)uur jhuuui, uua ueeu euimg uuiuuti. j
"Objections overruled ; go on with
the case."
Speaking for the Church of Eng
land Temperance Societ3, the Rev.
Basil Wilberforce, (son of the late
Bishop) said that two clergj"men had
come to his door reduced to beggary
b3 drunkenness, and he knew of oth
ers who had been sent by bishops to
inebriate establishments. He com
plained of ladies .drinking too much,
and said he knew of aoung lad3 who
takes her seventeen glas3es of port
dail3'.
The styles for the present seaori in
hats and bonnets are as, varied, as
jaunt as picturesque, S3 distinctive
as ever; but they all the more require
careful selection to make them suita
ble to different persons and circum
stances. Hats are uo larger than last
Beason. but have much higher crowns.
The brims are sometimes narrow and
sit quite close to the head a favorite
style with 'oung women.
. pi
Scientists claim that fish can not
hear, but old fisherman dier with
them. If any scientific gentleman
doesn't believe this, let him go jo yell
ing around where one o these old
fisherman is dropping a line and see
what will happen.
11 T 1 list
Hate is an active, envy a pcsslvg,
displeasure; it need not surprise us,
therefore, to see how quickly envy
passes into hate.
"I never did like mutton with
perV Brown said, as he brushed
ca-
his
clothes after an attack" from a ram.
ITEWS ITEXS.
The Boston '& Colorado Smeitribg
Company, Colorado, shipped during
the month of October, a total value of
$226,000'; silver, $113,000; gold, $101
000 ; copper, $12,000.
Tho growth of Protestantism ih
Palestine is rapid. There are now 250
Protestant churches in the Holy
Land, and the schools there have 7,600
pupils.
The Illinois crop yield or the past
season falls 50,000,000 bushels short of
the estimate, making it about 112,000;
000 bushels.
The South Chicago Enterprise says,
"In Chicago can be found 18,000 meh
out of emploj-ment. They can get
from $12 to $35 per month and board
in tho Michigan pineries, but that la
too much like hard work these "hard
times."
The debt of New York city is $130.-
000,000. or over, $130 for every man.
women and child in tho city. Still
the people are not happy.
A citizen of Clark County, Ky., last
week killed a pig which bad no liver.
The animal was in good condition and
weighed 300 pounds.
The Burlington Cedar Rapids and
Northern railroad has just effected s
loan of $6,500,000 from a New Yor
corporation.
The Importation of tea Into the
United States for the season of 1S76
was 56,390,274 pounds, 2,693,173 less
than the previous season,
An expedition sailed from San
Francisco the other day to explore the
Pacific ocean for guano Islands, which
some parties believe to exist.
The English government has order
ed the strictest care upon all vessels
from this side of the water, when
spring opens, to prevent the introduct
ion of the potato bug.
JanesvIIle. Wis. has a shoe factory
which during this year, has manufac
tured $91,000 worth of goods.
On$ hundred and fifty vessels and
250 lives were lost iri the recent severe
gale on the England and Scotland
coasts.
A dispatch from Madrid announces
that the extradition treaty between
Spain and the United Stated has been
concluded. The treaty specifies 26
offences for which person accused may
be surrendered, and is the most com
prehensive which has yet been enter
ed into by the United States.
Railway passengerrates are gradual
ly going up to prices which prevailed
b?fs?.etb e Erieanjd Ne York JCen-
tral was. A Chicago telegram sa3'B
rates to S3'raeuse was made $17.00 ;
Rochester, $15.40 and Buffalo, $14.00.
It is anticipated that passenger rates
to New York will soon be advanced
to $22.
The fall of snow atNash ville, Tenn.,
on Friday was the heaviest experien
ced there in 40 years.
A Mrs. Field, of Rock Island, died
in a dentist's chair in that cUy a few
days 3go, from thb effects of chloro
form administered by her family
pbj-sician.
Throw away j-our feather beds. A
fire occurred from the Spontaneous
combustion of one of these articles
at Hamilton, Ga., the other day.
A Proposition will come before the
Indiana legislature at the approaching
session, to strike from the constitu
tion and laws all distinction of color.
In Snn Subs county, Texas, this
year, the acreage of cotton will be
doubled, while the amount of wheat
sown will be one-third less than last
season.
The Edgar Thompson steel works,
of Pittsburgh, are having a shear con
structed that will weigh 35 tons. It
is double acting ; one end is to cut hoi
steel ingots and the other to cut cold
steel rails.
The farmere of Pottawattamie coun
ty 111. continue to lo3e large numbers
of their cattle. The animals will be
standing, chewing their cud,
apparently all right, when suddenty
will drop dead && if striicfc by light
ning. The official compilation of therecord
of the admissions to tho Centennial
Exhibition show the number of cash
admissions from Ma3 10 to November
10 to have been 8.804,274; free ad
missions. 1,906.602; total i.Ha.SM;
total cash receipts, $313,724.
Some one says :" Put 2,000 men to
gether on an open prairie, and, if they
are panic-stricken they will trample
one another to death. The' will rush
like a herd of frightened buffaloes,
and you might a3 well think of read
ing the ten commandments to stop
them as to control their flight."
Taking a cigar out of his mouth,
the minister said to one of his parish
ioners, fend of sleeping In sermon
time : "There is no sleeping car on the
road to heaven." "And no smoking
car, either, I reckon," said the man,
in reply, sow wide awake.
"Deserted by all except his bobtafl
ed dog, his life wentslowty out as the
shadow of the setting sun crept over
the front stoop of Darling's groce"
isthe waythey express themselves ia
Georgia.
t The thermometer sill rnnB up to
the nineties In the middle of the, day
at Los higelos, CaL
Swallowing the bristle of a toot'b
brush bag been known to CHU?e.tJeElbi
j-