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AIT Al NIECE: J
-OR,
The Mistress of
Hazelwood.
Dy CJUtAT D CARLTON.
(HARTER XXXI.
J WK.
».?; a , i . , .
, »r." t .hi,
pin waf,. - !..,i,daud kiso-rgit. “Oh! why
did we let y u get up? Do .eturn to you,
room, d a -u
' 1 ”‘ 11 top i;flr-, she **p >e<t.
I'. VTi , * i* 1,1 “ r «i-ciMtr, while Gruh.itx
•
‘ V *'’ ‘ ! 1 ."‘‘‘Rl'*' 1 tLe shawi
din,,,, , | , I°hav!l U-.ln
i am ill- hut beci iso
► t r ed l»v Horne;Bing J don’t be frightened d
„. w, „„
J. la s. d her for, head, and seatec
h ’r:,:: 1 tht':w^ r
J , ,V i uTi r , r f u ' i, , co ff ee- then nu. 1
< 1 evi, simi bom him Mrs Worth
inglon rind J uckley ' ' left the room end n
j , ,|, or
’1 In* laiter fm owed the housekeeper intc
t e kitchen, and, gla ring at his watch, saw
th it it wan u ne miimtt h to nino.
"Master Jo » s even worse than mistress,’
the woman observed.
“Non re liplit,” said Buckley; "he’s verv
1 ad, indeed. He i ad a fainting-fit just be¬
fore you entile in; bu' of course Ira didn’t
li.ve mi sen to know it. and lie told me (c
ask ymi to go for Ls favorite duoior at
one , and > ou’ie to take a cab.”
The kind-hearted housekeeper put on
lei Limit and shawl as quickly ns she
cou d.
Don’t let missus know of it,” said
Buckley, “and dou t forget tho address—
Dr. Brinsley, Ilipworth Terrace, Ken
eington Rond.”
Direct y Mir Woithington had left the
bqus*-, gil l In | uckb uiffi y, leaving tlie foolish errand
a p, li r head aud arms on tlie
Lt lie 11 - tab e, crept stea thily upstairs. He
pans* I when he touched tho <1 mng-roorn
vl<*<*r, and, putting Lhh ear to tho keyhole,
listened.
Adi was speak'tig speaking strangely;
it occur ed to Buckley, for the first tune,
how very d ssimilar Ada Graham had been
to Aili NVentwo th.
Since Ana hud been bro ight to London,
he bid never as ucuttd her in his m ud
with Hazelwood.
Her v ice now reminded him of it.
N\ as sue beg uning to strangle into the
light eloped from the durk deception which hud
en \ her?
tiliile 1 was dressing,” Buckley heard
her say, ‘ these si range d ubts caino over
mo Hidden y unuee mutably. 1 know 1
am wiong. I know you have told mo the
tiuffi that you will fu ti 1 your p oniis
m d eo n 0 tatdis.i it, slid, these doubt
have a aimed tne, '1 hey wi 1 puss away
Do on know. 1 should not Do s rj»ised io
find my conn eiiou w th you is simply part
ol n ib cum. Pm Laps { am s coping iu rnv
libiu y bed-i 0111 or on the sofa by the
wind w. I will tell you tsome hing elst
that will make yon smile. At mv d ai
Haze wood i used to k ow whit room Mr.
Miyfoit was in, or whether lm was in the
house 01 not, inst 11 tivc.v. Now 1 feel th
si.nra 1 fe 1 quit, indescr.bably that he is
near moat th s moment.”
th Buckley li waited to hear no more, but lefi
II and cr pt up stairs.
Jlo entered Adas hodioom quietly, and
wrote ‘1 on a slip of paper t 0 woida;
can’t mitnigo it by nino. Give me five
minutes mine bo.ore you whistle."
If.> opened tuo bedroom wind >w noise¬
lessly.
The fog was clearing, and a little to th
left ho saw two Jm 1 sum cubs. Will w.u
fil*o stun*ii*»Gf iu the foa l.
lm Buckley crumpled the pap rinto a littl
1, and threw it to him.
Try foil read it, and an instant afterward,
nodded liis head.
Then liuckloy closed the window, and set
<0 work til iug one pocket of his long, dingy
coat with sundry attkfles of jewelry lyura
1 -a Adi's dressing-table, her purse, and 11
small r ng-box.
Aft r this he wont to Graham’s room and
quickly idled another 1 o Net with all tln
smad nrtieh a of value he con'd find. Then
he too, Graham s hunch of keys, ami open¬
ed with one ot th m a cupboard, in which
was a-nn ill tin casa box, and secured f.ou
it some sovereigns and six hundred and
fifty (,M*s. ; W011 011 uds hi igton's in Bank share of ot England u >tes
will which lie the dispute.
pocket. 1 , put carefully in an insidi
Replacing the cash-box, and locking the
ciu b ard, lie returned to Ada's bedreom.
Jlo looked at his watch,
It lacked one minute and a half to nine.
The diuing-r. ow hell rung loudly at this
moment, and Buckley, taking a long, gray
waterproof cloak, with a hood of Adah
from a peg, went down stairs, throw the
cloak on tho hall table, and entered the
dining-room. Jack
Graham was very pale ,ami starinp
foolishly Bl'ghtly a the fire, llo roused hitnsell
when Buckley entered, and said, ir
a t hick v oioo.:
“Got some brandy. That eotfeo is beastly.
Dou t you think so. Marion?”
“No yon are not we l There is nothing
the matter with tho coffee, i think. '
Buckley brought a d canter of brandy
nml and p’aced ’
a g iras, them on tho ches S .
Uble. He elane d at the two coil'oe cups.
They wove both empty,
Tli ‘tine, matlrama i al brains would soon
pcbenm no more. They were, indeed, al¬
ready iucap .hlo of thin ins consecutively.
“Sha l 1 take tbe cups away, sir?”
Bnek'ey left the room with the two crips,
and descended to the ki eh; n. He touched
th*' s ecping errand-girl smart y on th *
•boulder As she star ed up half asleep, ho
dropped tho cup, yvliuffi sti 1 contained
some dregs of po soued cotl’eo, on the
fi., or.
“You fool!’’ he sail, “you’ve broke that
cup. Never mud the t ieces. sleepy; lit
chuck \ m away. Y'ou must go for the d 0
tor, missus says, at coco—your master'
took bad and .Mrs. NYo tliingto./g got the
w r. g address l yiiu tiLe. 'Jnketh m tw.*
. ha f crowns, and g t a cab and go to Hep
worth 1 enace. c amberwdL Ask to see Dr.
tint Brinsicy at once, and when you see him say
Mr. r.mh.un’s dying, and bring him
back iu t iC cab v th you. Jinny up, now,
an l d u’t slam lira gate- nr ml!”
Whe the girt hud rone Buckley picked
up ti.e rokeu cun, and tinew lira pieces
Imo la* dust-hol
Again h looked at h s watch,
lt \\.v- four mm it s | ast nine.'
H''was b >u to leave lira ki.ehen whe’
the ■ i g-voom bell run* violently. U
Le r d Ad i s voi.-c crying from the halt;
”Nura W "ithi gt(>n! Bucx.cy, Uuick
Hei,* Mr. Graham s dyi t g.”
T rak v r -Ti d up stairs and found Ada
in ho i;There was a wi d ex rtssio
cu he; a ra, an I h r eTeeks were blanche.’
v <th 'e: r 1: for G almm nr the midst of h .:
corner anon had fallen suddenly from he
cLai: to ihe tieor.
“Oh, Mr. Buckley!” she cried, “mv hu*
land Mr. Graham see to him—he i
dying.” 1 dining-room
he door was open, but n>
pound came from ir. J u kiev closed u
on i. with h'N eyes fixed on litis, ha said, n
an “Graham! earnest whisper:
Husband! Dying! You’-r.
mad. Mrs. Tryfoil. \ o ve go on© of then
.
nottons in your head again, or else you liav t
been having nn ugly dream. Mr. tryfoil i,
your you.” husband, and he’s waiting outside ftr
As Buckley spoke Lie threw the long gr«'
waterproof 0 oak around her, sad open*?
the street door,
Ad*-*
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Tbe name came softly from Will, win
had * *"
opened the guo.
Utterly Bewildered, «h? passed out of th*.
Til a, and dt-fleended two ster«4 slow v and
hesitating y. Will held oat band towar j
her. ,
“A dream!” Bu Alev whisp red. simply
to quiet her and further hi- own escape;
" all a dream!”
“Yes, yes! Thank God! I’m at Hazel
wood."
With these words she ran to Will, whe
took her hand, pressed t, and kissed it.
"When shall I see auntv?'she uu sue asked, ssked al al
mod in indthlv. -
"Soon. Hay nothing. Try to keen from
th nking. Trust iu me—Will ’ h<* said
quietly. ’ *
*
Wnhout loss of time he led h'-r ti one of
the hansom mbs. which they entered. The
man knew a’ready where to go to, and tne
veb c e wns dr ven mi idlv froiu tiip sriot
-• —*
c ose on c ghf ?, hundred “o foreign nonu.Is ‘an 1 tn
morrow i n e otf p .rts How
about to-night? I k. ow; my pal, the for
tune-te ling quack, will give me a bed. ”
The ex-beggar, hiving thus expressed
bin,self, enteied the remaining cab.
“Camden Town. Hharp'" he said.
At Camden I own, near the spot where
Xhtt •- pois “' ^
The polico goarch £or the marderer of
Edward Reardon bad not been abaudoned
^ro’igh ° f the 1 lack ° 1C ° of ftt evidence, w Wlverha.nptou, bene, the and reserve the
^earance of the supposed l'erthard emis
sary at the London private inquiry office.
Sergeant Ellerton and a seody-Jooking
friend had h ard of l!n kley at Camden
I own. I bey had accordingly lingered in
' Wh?n’i'n«ti! 0<b
\\ h,-n Luck ey had h i walked ,, , about . fifty
yards from where he had alighted, a short, ,
stout, dark man touched him on the shoal
der, and a large, red-haired man, who was
very shabbily attired, seized his right
wr * sb
“L f -ave go! W r hat do you want?” cried
Buckley, struggling to free Linmelf,
“You! old friend,” answer-d Sergeant
Ellerto «, the short, stout, dark man. ’“It’s
quite There’s complete and r-gnlar quite’ now, old pal,
plaui.” no loophole—it’s nice and
“Leavo go! What do you mean?” he
cried again.
“It means this,” returned Sergeant Eller
Ion. “I arrest you. John Derwent alias
Buckley, for the murder of Edward Rear-'
don.”
CHATTER XXXII.
JACK GRAHAM’S LAST WORDS.
Toor Ada sal iu the cab, as it was being,
driven from Beresford Grove, half believ¬
ing that her connection with Graham was n
die'in from whicl^Wdl had just awakened
her, and vainly endeavoring to Trhscovei
where the dream h id begun and where it
had ended.
NVi 1 said little during the journey to
Walworth—for there he was taking her.
He answered the strange questions which
-iio put .to him as briefly as possib 0, and
each question asked was more w.ld and
senseless than the preceding one.
Arriving at. his lodgings at last, he dis¬
missed the cab.
In an almost perplexed state of mind ho
led Ada into Ls sitting-room. Closing the
door he sat down in front of her, and took
her col I little hands iu liis.
If she was stil amenable to the old influ¬
ence, he know tint he con’d calm her and
postpone all explanation until bo had con¬
sulted with Miss Bentley.
Ho took her cold hands in his then, and
said, kindly:
"I am Mr. Trvfoil, your drawing-master.
I want you <0 remember what I tell you,
Miss Wentworth, ana nothing else. You
hare bad a serious illness—you have been
delirious, and now that you are nea ly well
igain, your fool ftfi lit l - head m stakes voui
pastd ltrinm forrea'i y. Thera! That set¬
tles all you are wondering at, does it not?”
“I thought T xv.is married to Mr. Gra-.
ham,” she replied, simply.
NYifl srnih d sadly.
“Very likely,” lie answered, forcing a
Inuffi. “Once upon a time yon thought
you oaw ?oms iiuiculous face m the libia
.UoilSbahh.'ottl;.
know where you are now’”
“Flense”
“In mv sitting-room.”
“Iu London? But why__”
He stopped her. .
he “ said; Yon must “if you positively do I shall ask not no take questions,’ to j !
Hazelwood to-morrow." you
Sh ■ closed her eyes when he said “Hazel
w °p d *
_ 1 ,
i»m i must not go to ilazeiwood, sue
!!!Zot Jnl u', V '!'r l, ) in '‘hf y °'i
--tokissli'r B < s'l , lioVarms ,. . ”' 1011101 ’
Will to op-u
fe t most keenly the difficu’ty ol
managing by Ada, which ignorant as he was of the
means she li ul been decoyed front
Bor home, aud of the circumsta ces of hei
life since then.
“My dear little pupil,” he said, “if you
are calm and quiet you shall go to Hazel
wood to-morrow. Happiness to your aunt
l inS r° n J lt V 1 ' 1,1e ,Ie 0 r, ° ‘
tu avms-shTl , n i •
vom auut’s return toHazoL ‘
wood never to leave it!”
She clapped her Lauds and smiled !
•■Oh. pray heaven. I rnav find it all a
dream!” IVill placed s'-e murmnred. writing materials before j
some ;
her.
”1 want you to write a telegram for me,' j
he said, with a smile.
“To my aunt?”
“To your aunt.” #
The d.m, dreamlike past was already
growing more dim aud dreamlike to hei)
uml r Tryfoil’s influen e. “Is aunty’s love
for him a part of the dream as well?” she
thou ;ht. "Am 1 really not standing in iht
igdit of tlrair happiness? NYii re did my
delusion commence? NYhere did it end?”
She took tho pen in her hand, and he dic¬
tated the following words:
‘ From Ada, London, to Miss Bentley,
IT rthard: My own dear aunty, 1 am quite
well. To-morrow I shall bo quite happy.
Mr. Tryfoil is going to you then by the "first
train. ”
Mill dispatched his landlady with the
telegram to iho nearest teleg-aph office. On
A’ about eleven o’clock the girl retired to
rest under t ie landlady s care, slit wonder
r “ ;i bsr i
Shortly after Ada had retired, the fool
ffi e ru d g rl from Bere-ford Grove
nocked at the street door of Mi l’s lodg
gra
Dr. Brinsley had sent her with a note, J
vbich ran as follows: ■
“MxDrAuB.tr: If von are in town come
» Graham’s house in bu John s Wood, iu- i
tauti*. Yours, 1 !e:xsl y.” j
The note puz led Will greiUy. He inter- ,
-gated the errand-girl; but her excitenranl |
uhred he-sobbed statements incoharen.
d u ineligible.
"Mcea wih this night end?’ he ask-“d of
r.msclr, as h > entered another cab. “If not
mou ULa Ubtnk with pom-Ada that it is
AiffiU t r-r sfnrirmv. , .
o ked V th - .lorn* of \ >. 5. Mr, Worth
mgton, who was.crving. opened it. and
ffiowed him into the dining room, where
Vffi. a short time before, had been so near
Be rhen s ,u d to Will to close the'do r , and
he had don - so, shook his hand
aeaiuly, but in silence.
“Will, my boy,” he said, “where is the
( vonng lady whom you have been seeking
:ur eo many ween*- Bo y-m know?” ! ;
-Yes. bfie is at my p.ace m Walworth,
Doetor.
^ Ul I roiector, Miss B-utley. I defy Gra
bam to-”
"Hush'” Brins’ev infennpled, solemnly.
Graham is dead."
is ver v dreadtnl to loam suddenly
-
Amt . the one against whom your soul is in
t iger is no more. W li felt it so. He sank
into a chair horrified by I»r nslev’s stir ling
ne ws, an i repeated in a whisper, the Doc
tor's last word—dead!
No one t:.en or afterwird suspected
■ Buckley of bavffig murdered Graham. The
impression on th - minds of Mrs. Worthing
Ion and the errand-girl was that Bucklev
u , d -advantage of his master's help
es ’ 6 condition bv stripping the house of all
cou:d |a J his hands on, a d tlrau leav
in »h m to die; and that—and n ither Will
Dor Brinsley caed to undeceive them —Ada,
? ever acconntab! • for her actions, finding
hera« ]f alon • with her dyi ghusband, and,
^ With t*»r 2, iiud rto^u for nssist
» f, "“ d - be M - L ™ : ™
>ne under which the wretched man himself
and di d -
“Will,” he smd, “come and t ke a last
look at the man we used to call friend. It
3 ri « bt Giat you should know in what
^ J0 c“ !r ^e by bis ceath. You and I
done must know tha* secret. There has
been oul plotting against your poor fu nd
wonder to g.ow out of it. *
“No, Doctor; God forbid! Whatever bad
ie Las done let it be bur.od. I can t forget
*bose brother he was.”
“Nor J, Wnl. Bad as he was we must try
md cleanse his memory; if not for his sake,
for his '
poor mother’s and for hers. ”
With those words Dr. Br nsley led Will
into the room that he d what had once been
'°ud, vu gar, blustering Jack Giaham.
Emily's Standing by the disfigured remains of
brother, Dr. B mslev told Will in
i whisper the words which the dead man
had convulsively utteied during the last
few min tes of iris life.
“It was a dreadful death,”the Doclorwhis
pered, with a shudder—“dreadful, because
sm uggled so bar I against it. T h id in
* ur ed her life for thousands,’ lie gasped,
‘anti poison cl her diiak to-night. From
f ,J c first 1 thought I should make a mull of
lt ’’ said > and i have. 1 got hold of the
poisoned cup by mistake. I don’t know
^ ow 1 did ll —'cursed, terrifying nervous
ucss, 1 suppose. ’ ”
* ou Srtk l Tryfoil; “go on.”
’
" J{l « last words wire sincere, Will,”
l5rmsU ‘,- v whispered, “and we must try and
lemember them when we think of his black
cn and ne. he A moment robbed before lock-jaw set in,
was of speech forever, he
seized my hand, and gasped, with li s last
breath; ‘Brinsley, I'm glad my sin has
turned upon me. I'm glad I’m dying in¬
stead of her. 1 am, so help me God.’ ”
The approach of death had sobered Jack
Graham at tast. His manly, honest feel
mgs returned to him with the death-grip.
But, alas! too late. The drunkards yoke
md his life terminated together. The
brandy bottle was the mil stone round his
n ek. He had been sipping poison all his
ii e, and when the avengmg angel came, il
was appropriate he shou.d treat him to his
as on id,
1 had always hopes that Graham
reform, said Dr. Brinsley, in a sad, reg etfu;
lone. “The first even ngi made his acquaint
{inco lie vvus drinking heavily, and i tool
1dm to my rooms, gave him an hvpnotic
draught and kept him all light. 'laths'
morning ho was lull of remorse at his own
fo 1$. and seemed resolved to turn overs
new leaf. He sat down at my desk, and
seemed to v. rite aimlessly for a few min
ines—I thought he m ght be dr aw ug up
Bomo good resolutions, or a pledge for me
!o witness. Presently I looked over h;s
ffiou der and read the following:
“Oh! the we: lit of drunken sadness 1
Ob! the yearning, gnawm,{ madness 1
Oh ! tho enrol, racking badness
Of it brain besteepad in drink.
Ob! the thoughts that make me sleeiriess 1
Oh! tho horrors strike mo Bpo-.chless,
Leave my sou! in dismal bleakness
Cm tue fnture's awful brink.
“Here he had stopped, seemingly unable
to go - further. Poor fellow, he has now
crossed ihe‘brink.’” And tne kind-heaited
l»h.ysieian_turned away to lime ius emotion,
to UK CON'S tM’ F.n.
4 Georgia HoraemlaVUlriag Leap.'
_
T P was • the sixties. Mitchell’s
bridge across Mulberry Creek was the
tallest in Harris county. A swell in tho
creek had misplaced an ar h and a doz
en men had assembled to repair the
damage. had bc-en The flooring for twelve feet
removed. It was twenty-five
feet to the water beneath.
Suddenly the hammers ceased, and
tbe iaon listened intently to the up
-proaching clutter of horse’s hoofs.
“it’s Jess, by granny,” said one.
“He’s splittiu’ the wind, too,” said
another.
“That little _ fidy knows how to pick
up her feet, and she don't s udy about
it neither,” said number three.
“Dang my buttons.”
This was said just as the rider ftppear
eil m sight, presenting a picture of ro
manhood, guuhng wttli mierring
hand the fleouest little mare xn W-estevn
cl Georgia. ^b He was clad in a fine broad
suit, hxs feet m a pair of the best
ca “ skin boots, and they armed and or
lamented with neat, small spurs.
On he came.
1 he men were lost in _ aamiration , . . and
stood with moutn and eyes wide open,
transfixed to the spot.
He neared tne bridge. '
As if by magic the crowd were awak- i
?ned to ho horrible death that awaited
the man should lie attempt to pass over
the bridge.
‘■top. stop, . slioutc the
i iii' n.
“j_ he floors up!
“You can’t cross!
The horse s liois struck the image.
“Head him off:’..
“He il be kilieo!
“.-top his horse.
And tli- y all rushed to the middle of
tbe b F ld o : ''
“Clear ,. the track! whooped the iru
petuous rider, and the way was cu ared.
Btoo d breathiess/^The *ri ler planted
himself firmly on tho saddle, ctbe gathering
n l .»i ? .}fihi 7> » ? i ru S1
^.“ d ku<M ” leIy bejuuJ tho n ' iM
With unslackened clattering pace and without a
eoimd BaTe the of the horse’s
hoofs, both steel and riler JjurrJ. disappeared
over the hil l-ilam liun
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. AK “'V 0 ”*
Junior T . (who his been dividing his at
ten mn between h^ g-ammar and sights
OUr ° ld kor * e lS 8
EOun - lsU t he.
His mother—“Yes, my dear.”
Junior—“And the filly is a pronoun?”
Jlother— “.-o, indeed.”
Jun o—“Well, the grammar isn’t u-eS
i/place right. It says a pronoun is wh t is
of a noun. You say the horse
CuW J h “ ar W 1 hl!n wh fe ,“W, “ tbe stab!e ®°- v tuat
, to the fi ly th after
ce was ooing use s
Boon Xagazu*. m place of the horse.”-—FntVi
_
under discussion ?^onm\ attenti -Teacher, -a to the Subject
must always love you 6.,y we
our enemies. Now,
s’pose two fellers love the same girl, an’
one gets her an’the other don’t. Do von
the one that gets left is gain’ to
love the one who gets the girl i
Teacher lost in mediwtiou,-V«^,
THE 1ER-DE-LANCE.
A TERRIBLE REPTILE WHICH
REIGNS iX MARTINIQUE
The Venomous Serpent Which is
Monarch of the Forest by
Day, and the Terror of
Roads by Night.
. ^ x - . ure “ . dangerous ■, here, , writes
t a eimo llearn m Harpers. Mtgasint
about the island of Martinique. The
powers that bu Id here are also the pow
ers that putrefy; here life and death are
perpetually ceasing interchanging o.tice of in the
never transtormat on forces,
rue tin 0 down and resh&niucr livincr Aiih
s,« e
ter rt de 1 er-de Ian e, deadliest of occi
Cental thanatophidia.
'l here are e ght varieties of him, the
with most black, common being the gray sj>eckied
ables the precisely the color that eu
' monster to hide k ruself among
the roots of the trees by s:mply coiling
about them and concealing & his triangular ‘?V
nrr " e isa “T
! Yellow, then he may never be distiu
f UuheJ lr ° m th ? C ? ° f br | g \ lt
! btt “ :iuas among which • he hangs coded ;
? r h « ma y be !l d;irk > ellow or a yellow
J , h brown, or the color of wine lees
'
I 6 P e kltd w .dh pmk and black, or a p»r
feet ash tint, or black with a yellow
belly, or black with a rose belty—all
hues of tropical mold, of old bark, ot
petrefying trees, of forest detritus. The
ir s 0 f tne eve is orange tike with Tncandes red
fia hes jwi,*! • a t ni<rht it e-lows g k lucanae:j '
cent cuarcoar.
Aud the F’er de-lance reigns absolute
kiug over the raouuta ns and the rav¬
ines; he is lord of the forests aud the
solitud s by day, and by night he ex¬
tend' his dominion over the p..bl c roads,
the familiar paths, the paims, the pleas¬
ure resorts, i eople must remain at
home after dark unless they dwell in the
city itse f. Even in the brightest noon
you cannot venture to enter the woods
unescorted; you c nnot trust to voui
eyes to detect danger; at any moment
a seeming brai.cn, a knot of linias, a
pink or gray root, a dump of pendant
yellow fruit, may suddenly take life,
writhe, swell, stretch, spring, strike.
Then you will need aid indeed, and most
quickly, for within tbe space of a few
heart teat- the stricken flesh chills,
tumefies, softens, changes color spots
. xiolaceously, and an :cy - coldness crawiS
through . . all ., the . . blood. , , If the , physician ,
or p’au-eur anives in time, and no artery
or vein lias been directly pierced, there
is hope; but the danger is not passed
when the life has been saved. Youmoul
der as tIre trees moulder; you crumble
and d ss dve as dissolves the substance
of the b.daias and the palms and the
accomats- ’ the the Death eatn ul the tlie Woods Woods has has
set cd , upon you. ,
ijach female produces viviparous y
from fort y to sixt y y«« a g at » birth,
The haunts of the creature are in many
tiplii ca es in accessible, is prodig inexplorable; jts mul
ation ous; it is only the
surplus of its swarming that overpours
j n t 0 the caue fields and makes the h ch¬
roads perilous after sunset. The intro
auctum ,°* o f the man maimouste 0 ouste may, miv it it is is
, b,, l )eii , d .° uulch , toward protecting the
’
workers in the cane fields and on the
cocoa and cotlee plantations; but the
m mgouste s powers are 1 mited, and the
ocean of death is illimitable.
'1 he experience of fear has enabled
domestic animals to discern the presence
ot the enemy while invisible to man.
Y’our horse rears and plunges in the
darkness, trembles and sweats; do net
try to ride on until you are assured that
the way is clear—your animal has per
cc.ved far ahead two scin.idatiag points,
dog may cmne rushing “Eh- back, 9 ',!?” whin
in Ki shivering; accept this warning,
The amma s kept about country resi
dences have learned to light for their
lives; the hen battles hopelessly for her
chickens, the bull tries to gore his supple
enemy, the p g gives more successful
comoat; but the creature who fears the
monster L ast is the brave cat. Seeing
a snake, she at once carries her kittens
to a place of safety,then boldly advances
‘
to the encounter. : he will walk to the
very limit of the serpent’s striking
range and begin to fe.nt, teasing hun
startling him, trying to draw his blow,
How the emerald and tho topazine eyes
glow then—they are flames. A moment
more and the triangular head, hissing
from the coil, flashes swift as if moved
by wings. JBut swifter still the strong
stroke of the armed paw that smites the
horror aside, flinging it, mangled aud
gasping, in the dust. Ne.enheless,
pussy does not yet dare to spring; the
enemy, still active, has almost instantly
reformed his coil: but she is again in
front of him, watching—vertical pupil
against vert.cal pupd. Again the lash
ing stroke; again the beautiful counter
ing; the liv.ng death is buried aside,
the scaled skin is deeply torn, one eye
socket has cea-ed to flame. Once more
the stroke of the serpent; once mote the
li-ht, ouick. cutting bow. But now
the trigonocephal.is is Mind, is stupe
i fed; beiore he can attempt to coil pus-sy
has leaped upon hun, nailing the horri*
Hat head fast to the ground with hei
two sinewy paws. Now let him lash,
writhe, twine, strive to tangle her!—ir
vain! he will never lift his head; ai
instant more and he lies still; the fine
wh te teeth have severed the vertebra
just behind the triangular skull.
—------—
Duel Between Horse and Snake.
Hiram j lakc ,’ a wea lthv farnfer i esid
; no . ; thir p t f . f
° ba “’ e ^- l he between a s P i !’ it ’
S j P u ? r ?' , fi ^ h " Se ratue , ' n f c ‘
r ^ patches of
- :a?s a ’ ibe h ” 1Se was feed ^ oc
tdis B ra t s \ aad ^ tt,c S Eear a \ h ? K
cm;n H ot budies ' vas s£ f, Uck about .
nose by an immense rattlesnake Tne
horse threw his head up and wheeled
suddenly around. The fangs of the
snake were so firmly imbedded in toe
animal’s flesh that several vigorous
&h ^ red to thr ” w
The snake fe;l in an open spa e, and
the how-e, instead of running away,
plunged at the Failing wr. thing striae rept.ie the with his
forefeet. to snake
the tiist time the brave horse was in'the aga.n
bitten on the piecing leg i nei^that earmg high
air with a Vtb..obS» sounded
a *'»?•«b and T again at the striking ; n»t p l, ng ^
gam his iron-shod hoof moo
ater until crushed
its head.
An examination of the horse disclosed •
time rtk «. bo,«« of
w hi sky. died in a few hours from the
ejects of the deadly hues. The rattler
w ^s of the diamond back species ana
the largest ever seen in that section. It
measured nine feet in length and had
nineteen rattles. Mr. Blake is going to
*end its skia to the Smithsonion Insti
E^uirtr. -
curious facts.
The coroner in Ireland is apnointed.
The longest session of Congress was
302 days.
three A man in Galveston,Texas,ate twenty
eggs at one meal.
It was never known how many lives
we e lost in the Ch cago fire.
The United Sta’es have never sur¬
rendered the right of privateering.
I h i lobsters recently planted on the
California coast ate said to be thriving
finely.
A spring has been discovered iu Iowa
who>e water will prevent hair from fall¬
ing out,
A sheep breeder up in Manitoba re¬
ports a ewe wh ch never has less than
three lambs at a time.
The tallest woman in the country and
the shortest woman have died recently
with n a few days of each other.
One of the queer practices of French
laundrymen is the use of boiled potatoes
iustead of soap in cleaning clothes.
recoid Tl\e best halt mile run in England on
is that of L E. Meyers, at Bir¬
mingham. July 7, 1884. Time, 1.55 2-5,
Iu the case of the death of a nominee
for the Presidency, the national com¬
mittee would decide upon a candidate.
The caliper compass, whereby the bore
of cannon, sma 1 arms, etc. , is meas¬
ured. is said to have been invented by
an artificer of Nuremberg in 1510.
The largest tree in America is said to
be one at tbe headwaters of the Kaweah
River, in Tulare County, C’al. It
measures 17(5 feet iu circumference.
Bird fanciers say that the voices of
American-bred canaries become harsher
iu each generation. German birds must
be constantly imported to preserve a
melloxv note.
Brussels, ,, , once capital ol Austrian founded Bra
bant now of belg urn, was by
8t. Gery of Cambray m the seventh
centuty. It was ju.tde capital of the
law countries in mb,.
There are very fewr blinders used on
horses in Switzerland, very few o er
tight check re ns aud very few docked
tails. The val ey of Delemont is a very
paradise for man and b ast.
A single shad produces 100.no') eggs,
and only about •NO J > are hatched natu
ra ly. By the artificial meth >d AS,00 0
aresuccessfully hatched. No wonder
this flue fish gets cheaper every year.
The mosquitoes have been so trouble
some th in Hennepin County, Minn., lately,
t farmers have been compelled to
wear rubber co its while at work in the
fields to protect themselves ag.iiust tho
ferocious insects.
A Texas paper mentions a wedding in
which a romantic young man named
Lightfoot was married to a young woman
in the muide of Bed Liver, the preacher
and even body else having waded out
from shore.
The bold motto of the Thirteen Club,
of Chicago, is “Death, We baluto Th e.”
It is the only club of the le nd outside of
'ew York, and is in a flourishing con
di ion, occupying handsome rooms iu
the Oriental Building on La fialle street,
WongChee, a 8an Francisco China
man, purchased a drawing room ticket
to Chicago a few weeks ago. He is the
first one of his natio ality who ever
committed such an extravagance. Tne
privilege of riding in a drawing room
car from 8an Francisco to t hicago cost
him $52 extra. His countrymen in Cali
fornia consider him daft.
Death of a Fortune-Telling Bird.
The p fcsengers were crowding up the
tnaiti steatnooat landing in Kockavay,
sa_is the New i ork leleqram, whciit
block occurred in the middle of tilt
body bT* - else, while those in the centre
jmshed buck again and cried, “Let the
little chap have some air!” “Oh, he’s
dead!” “Poor little thing!” were among
the other expressions floating around. A
pissing T ley ram reporter elbowed ha
way through the jam to learn the cause
of the excitement.
An Italian pedler with a cage xvas
wiping liis eyes with a two year-old
bandanna. lie had ceased implor.no of
the passing public to have iis fortune
told, and a disconsolate half do-en of
little green and red love b ids were look
ing all broke up about something “ or
other.
Pressing in further one could see that
one of the eight little birds whose duty
it was to extract slips of paper with for
nickel nines printed on them at the rate of a
a piece- was dead. He was very
dead, and lay down in front of the cage
with his little eyes shut and his little
toe* pointingawr.y up at heaven. Beside
the inanimate corp-e stood the amazed
but in nirning widow, .she would peek
at her dead mate’s body every now and
then, and anon she would rub her cheek
against his and try to coo him into wak
ing again. But he was dead—very dead.
The other biids seemed too ups t to
work, and the Ital an proprietor seemed
the most put out of them all. After a
while he tried to resume business.
“Walk* upa Hava fortuna tolda by
birds: Wulka upi!” v
ze
The corpse of the dead bird lay in
front of the row of paper fortunes. The
mourning mate was endeavoring to less
it into life, aud the other birds were
*her. kissing each other and refused to disturb
Once or twice he atiemoted to make
them move, but they wouldn’t. So
wrapping the corpse in the dirty ban
danna aforementioned, the exile swun r <
the cage on his shoulder and went ol
into the rea ons of the unknown
B ° k ‘ a * D | ’“ ai8 Propagators.
A g‘! od deal ° f discussion having ^
. . .
vestigat.on of this quest.on conducted.
A »^ber of much used volumes from
the town horary were taken for the pur
P ose ’ 1 h? dust from the leav «* a id
. nutrient f . f media and
covers was -own m
cultures reared, the result being that
no mitrobes be onging to infectious dis
ea<es were found—the du-t being, in
fat, nothing but ordinary dust of a
leaves m ^ the ‘ ract books ^. Again we e rubbed the dirtiest first
with the dry firg.-r and then with the
wet ringer. Iu i he first case sea-cely any
microbes were found on the finger: in
the second case plenty were found, but
all character. appeared to be of a non-infectious
Especially is it noted that
t»,l y .
nooks were soaked for two days m spir.t
conta a ng ti n per cent, of carbolic acid.
This treatment destroyed all the bacilli,
and proved harmless to the volume i.
infeuon U h«, bata reiomm i
datum is given to dust books well before
reading them, and never to wet the
fing-r m the mouth for the purpose of
turning over the leaves.—W- York Post,
Apple* —7——--- of the value of *760,000 will
City be shipped from Canada to New York
this year, mostly for export. -
SMUGGLING IN ENGLAND.
INGENIOUS SCHEMES FOR EVAD
ING CUSTOMS LAWS
Antiquity of the Practice—Female
Contrabaiidsista—Modes of Con
cealinsr Tobacco and Spirits.
Since the days of Ethelred, when cus
tom' duties were first levied, practiced every con- in
ce vable device has been
order to avoid payment of tho'e duties,
and undoubtedly so long as duties are
imposed attempts will be made to de¬
fraud the revenue. Toward the close of
las: ceutury smuggling was very r fe,aud
many a valuable cargo of contraband
goods was successfully “run’’and cl ;s
posed of, realizing a handsome profit lor
the contrabandist. At that time, how
eve.‘, a iar larger number of articles were
taxed than at'the present day ipu fact, a
hundred years ago no fewer than 42o
; articles were liable to duty), and this, of
course, greatly increased the temptation
to smuggle. Nowadays smuggling small is
almost e,c usive y confined to
quantities concealed on board our steam
,hip S , but even m effect ug these eoa
cealments the smuggler exercises great
cunning, aud does his utmost to outwit
the customs' “rummager.”
About a century ago it was no uncom¬
mon thing to find a ve-sel fitted with
false bows or stern, a hollow keel, or
with tne spare nuv-ts, spars and oars
which she carded made of tin, but
painted to resemble wood, the cavities
b ing utilized for the concealment of
dutiable articles.’ Logs of timber were
also hollowed out and employed u>r a
similar purpose. IN any a cask of spirits
^ ia ' been towed under the bottom of a
ves * e E a fear existing that a revenue
cruisir might board th ■ smuggler and
discover the casks were they ca ned in
the hold. When it was necessary to get
them ashore they were weighted and kept
Ullder watcr a { nnrk being set as to their
thereabouts go that thev could betaken
away at a favorab e opportunity. An
other ingenious artifice, practiced on the
east with coast, kind was of to cover and casks attach of spirits
a cement, s ane
seaweed thereto, which gave Then them the
appearance of rocks, and cast them
on ihe boa deis ashore,from whence they
were ultimately removed. Filips’ car
penters have been kuowu to smuggle
spirits aud tobccco iu what passed or
p us of pitch, and a presumably studi
ous iudiv,dual, who frequently left his
vessel with a book under his arm, car
Hod m it a tin ca e contain.ng sp.ritsiu
ortler ,0 avokl payment of duty,
Tobacco appears to generally have’
been the favorne object of thesmugg er,
and he still devotes his close attention
quently importation. It has been fre¬
made up in ships’ fenders or into
cordage of all shapes and sizes, and
brought ashore as such, while the wheets
of some of the blocks in the running
gear have been found to be made of
cavendish tobacco instead of iron. It
ha3 been introduced .Into casks of pitch
aud casks of various kinds of seed*
False bottoms have been added to etc.” do*
kennels, hencoops, drawers, chests,
jn order to make these innocent looking
articles the receptac es of contraband
goods Tin ca es, containing tobacco
aud cigars, have often been
in the water tanks and in casks of spirits
and oil carried by vessels. Wooden
fenders bang ng over a ship’s side ha e
been hollowed out and the cavity filled
with obacco. Bladders containing spirits
have been secreted about tiie body, and
tobacco and cigars ha c been brought
ashore in like manner.
Female sm .ggiers had petticoats spe
ciallv _ prepared tor (he ntroduction of
fob cco, cigars and spirits, the former
being concea ed in small pockets adapted
to the purpose. When duties were levied
on silks aud laces, large quantities of
these goods were imported without the
cogm ance of the customs, authorities.
lluse were the favorite articles of the
em lie contrabandists; and b 3 r them
many a pacaage of cost,} sira and lace
lia^ D'en brought into the country. ~
■ cssels iiom France ha e been found
attempting the to shap import l ice made up m
oxe.-j ni .- of apples and so
panned as to pass tor fruit. Silks and
lace were also frequently found in loaves
of bread,and tobacco,on-rnany occasions,
has found its way into the same place of
concealment, in fact, a large quantity so
concealed was recently seized at Hull,
When foreign watches were subjected to
duty many a gentleman’s groat coat lias
bad for once a “diver lining,” the
smuggler to e,ude attempting, vigilance by its assistance.
tne of the
odicials. Snuff has been made into
cakes and imported as oilcake, a co
S1,]e,-al)le quantity being landed before
theBrand was discovered
On the abolition of the duties _ on coals
many of the colliers on tire coast
engaged operandi in the illicit trade. The modus
ot these vessels was to obtain a
P art cargo at one of the co.il port -, aud
6,1 soqueutly, at a point previously
agreed upon, load a quantity of tobacco
01 spirits Dim a smuggler. Dome of
these ves e!s succeeded in making very
pro'Haule voyages in this manner.
An mgo.i ous mode ot cone raiment
was disclosed in istn and a laige seizure
°, f contraband goods was the result.
brom “information received” the cus
authorities sent a detective to Rot
tcidam, and he there discovered that
boilers,. aa,i ev.dontJy unfit lor made anything for the else, purpo-e
were
Ipeing made the means of importing large
quantities ot tobacco into thin country.
Some time after arriving iu England the
boners and smugglers were seized, and
tbe toba(; co found on this occasion
™ . ghed five tons,
Iu many cases, too, accomplices have
maHongenerally ^roved^inaccurate? t°he
ob je *•.<«.-4 t being to get the o ; cere out the
charged on the introduct on of certain
anima , s into Paris, b it one ingenious
inclividual sought exemption from this
impost th J hea by ,f presenting L ° the animals minus '„
& bn!i detd the t rae XriaT, infnrmi g
cu t m, tW it'was
the charge was only on the " head - d it was
not leviable in his case
Tlip * i-iwt »nd * 8nmli smuJler iv
ha nv J huntin around of the Nq'
inln „ 0 ne davs their nroximitv favorihle filfi-l
c<mt his” : n*nt makinr/ them Vhen a thotnMi "'i
for oiK-rations Vm' w'rifp L*
smiirwl rMst^nr’l n» tlu> f.n-k ’ SD< ^
InJ
SS,C.X“S fights werf the Sit „T. The h e n,^K 2 ?^
e < %
order to Dufc a bton to srmi „,, lin n ^
wa3 formerly a common sove£d thimr fnr
smimwler j^ to be sentenced to
serv io the navy as a punishment for
pat X,iutie<d aa end Magadne. to the illicit practice?. - I I
______
A Scotchwoman fiftv’yeara seventy veara ronntr^’ of aw ;
who has lived in this bit
took out Qualify’ her naturalization nar-m-s
»S)ol week to coiwlittS, herselves to vote f fm ° r
SELECT SIFTINGS.
New York received 717,390,540 eggs
last year.
said . to
A Nottingham bass stinger is go
down to B fiat.
A French physician reports an attack
1 of gout in a ooy of fifteen,
\ mocking bird in Albany, N. Y.^
thistles “Boulanger’s March.”
Bald-headed Indians are becoming and
numurous since the adoption of hats
ca p S by the race.
In Maryland no man can become Gov
ernor until he has been a resident of the
State for ten years.
Birds’ nests of the edible sort bring
their weight . . in sin er , 01 the tables of
rich Chinese mandarins,
The railroad bridges of th s country
jf placed continuous y would reach from
New York to Liverpool,
rp^, ] a t es t English word in Paris is
•« s tru* strode T gfo r lifer, ’’ "meaning one who has
to " for a living.
} WflS ngland? plavin „ G n the beach
11 Liverpool, ‘ i was engulfed
M-lsmothwed , . , . ; hole , of ha o»n u.-j. dig
in a
ging. light the
The most northern electric in
world is at Hernosand, Sweden, on the
Gulf of Bothn a, about the ..d degree of
latitude. Light is needed there at 2.30
r. m.
Excavations made in Tzint/wntzan, in
Yacatas, Mexico, in search of treasure,
are said to have revealed a magnifii ological ent
palace which is an arch .
wonder.
j u England it has become quite cotn
mon to eat pepper on strawberries.
gome think that it improve! the r flavor
aiu ) others believe it renders them more
healthful.
Candidate Harrison has been presented which
with a piece of the curtain under
C hristopher Columbus wa ked when ho
called on i erd nand and Isabella, after
discovering America.
As a test of his memory a gentleman
of Athens, Ga.. re id tlnough an article a
column and a half in length in a news
paper he had not previously seen, and
then repeated it without an error,
Photography on a small scale and with
amateur equipments is now a favorite
pastime w.th Englishmen of lei-ure.
1 von the Peers have taken up the craze
and cany their cameras xvitli them.
Colonel Fremantle, of England, kept a
regi . ent of volunteers man euvnngfor
two hours in a drenching rain, and
linslly the s'gns of mutiny became so
maui e-st that the inspection was brought
to a c'O'C.
Jac^c. NVilliams, a N’altese sailor, ha«»
been Leaking all records on tlie Missis¬
sippi Liver by swimming twenty-tivo
and miles with his arms strapped by his side
his legs bound together. It took
him eight hours to do it.
Kentucky .. , claims , . to , have . the ... largest
man in the woild, one Hansen Craig,
who weighs 7i<2 pounds, lie is an ab
normal expansion of avordupois. His
m tiihci °thor weighed but 122 pounds and his
but I !• . Stiange to say lor a
•scntucky man, he “no er tcuclies a
dl °d‘
la China, a tendency to go straight
to the highest authority is corrected
b y the bamboo. A law prescribes that
if a complaint is made to a superior
official which should have been original
ly addressed to an interior one, the coin
plainant shall receive fifty blows with
the bamboo.
A barber fa London recently made a
wager that he could sha\e Sixty men in
sixty minute?. lathered, The Let aud was the accepted,
the men were razors
stropped end and opened, ready for use. At
the of the lifty-nimh minute tho
sixty men had all been shaved, and tho
barber was comp'acen ly counting his
gold. This, it is sad, breaks the record,
The Queen of Englau 1 never sends her
personal correspondence through tho
re gular mail as her subjects do. Every
tr;vial communication, whether of a
!, p ersona ] or private nature !g deliveied
t it8 destitution by a lueen’s messen
C) ._ ; g (lie only European sovereign
who do es this. '1 he other potentates
are democratic enough to use the mad.
WISE WORDS.
Know thyself.
One feast, one hoirae. one happiness.
Pra se underserved is satire in tlis
gui-e
Wit is folly, unless a wise man has
the keeping of it.
The reward of one duty is the power
to pHSlitv fulfill another,
in trifles b: tho ladde-- which
i ea< j g tf) 2rC:lt ,_ e I 3 _
( ( , .o.-bcarance till ... your heart .
' ,. a tne crop o it.
: we still love those we lo«e, can we
altogctlier lose t hose we love?
There is no con age but in innocence
constancy but. in honest *
no a i cause.
Time is never more, missivot tfian
while we disclaim a-'-> °"‘ i f the w int of it
*
, ... n . , v mirsual.ng . of , the
' g
conac ( cnce OI f „ a n »H°n r to mold its laws,
Tien love to hear of their power, but
fl - n extreme d sielish to to be told of
their duty.
Of great riche; there is no real use, ex
eept it be in the distribution; the restis
but conceit.
We are never made so ridiculous by
the qualities we have, U3 by those we
affect to have
force Knowledge without without discreti m is like
but by direction—never useful
accident.
T oing is the great thing. Jtor, if res¬
olutely, people do what is right, in time
they come to like do ng it.
Reason requires culture to ext and. It
resembles the tire conceded in the flint
which only showes itself when struck
w.tn the steel.
Y» here Wolves are Worked v! ?• with f "
youm/woVves In Arctic ‘ B.ska „ ?I eS k fP al1
them* 9 doU that L fi ctttch and t am
“ as ao - s !8r teams. Dogs aud
° lv63 , &re rea ; ed to g«-'‘hor. The dogs
charact^ , ^ If ar}d have
W ° '
characteristics W of those animals. They
are with mt ahection, but obey their
t^makesTm ^ am makes hm-olf master t ° De and ^ overseer, in each
15 K he Dy cannot ao ^- ah,rks get at be him will whe punish him.
D esa be will forget i in har
> not to give him chas
tisement . wheu
released at endifrance n ght Thev 7
of enormous Uk <0
T lve8 » and can fast and work
eS
Graftino. ----
r < J!! tken SklU Lancer,
r, 7 Chambers 0,1 a
Sdcken rr and grafted 8 B
/ ecent! ^
was°covcrcd ^ ^ h ln C ‘t ?-S in da Rth. It
2 ® d enu ’ ely w,th . lhe ohicken’s
■
raon wn ca was taken from beneath the
t°wi awing. The operation is said
“ wlt nout pain to
an< ? ther e to the patient phyl
were strong hopes by tho tswfll
! J thatmost if not all uotwith?taucUn the
take root m five days,
ihe man 1# . eighty-six years old. 9