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OLIVIA;
OB,- I
TEE DOCTOR’S TWO L 0 YE 3 . i
BY THE AUTHOR OP
Second Mr*. TilloUion," * Never
“Ae
Forgotten ,” Etc., Etc.
CilAl’Tklt XXXV.
A IU8CON ill.ATr WltJOWErt.
Mv seiisofi i'turned painfully, with a dull
and blunted perception (hit some great ca
lami tv had overtaken me. I was in my
mother's dr using-room. and -Julia was
bolding to toy nostrils some sharp essence,
which had po-elratod to the brain and
brought back consciousness. Mv father
And was sitting by the empty grab-, door sobbing
weeping v# hmn ully Tho into
tny raothei s bedroom wa- cloned. I knew
Instantly what w,« going on there.
1 suppose no man ever fainted without
being asiiim d of it. INen m tho agony
of my awakening eons .ousn-ss 1 felt the
tnevitahle hting of rlmnc .'it, mv vc.ikneBS
and woman alines*. 1 pushed away Julia's
band-md ia,s d myself I got up on my
feet, and walked unsteadily, blindly toward
the shut door.
“Martin." said Julia, “you must not go
back (hero. It is all over."
I heard my father calling me in a broken
voice, and I turned to lnm 11 is frame was
shaken by the violence of his sobs, and he
could not lift up Ins head from his hand.,
There was no effort at se f-control about
him. At liju *k Ins cm loud enough
to he beard nil over the house.
“Oh, my h on!" he nufi!, vv<* uhill never
nee any one like your poor mother again!
jShe was the best wifo any man over had.
(Oil, wh it a loss she is to mu!”
J could not speak of her just the a, nor
could I wty a word to comfort him. She
hud hiddi*M me Im patient with him, but
elre.idy I fo ind the * almost beyond
fm'. I (old Julia I was going up to my own
room for tho rest of the night, if there was
•nothing for me to do. .She put her arms
rreond my neck, and kissed mo as if sho
'had been my sister, tolling me J could leave
Everything to her. Then ! went away into
ithe volitude that lmd indeed br guu to close
jaronnd rue.
When tho heart of ^ man is solitary,
iorowil (there is no society for him oven among a
of frionds. AH deep love and close
Stifts. companionship seemed stricken out of my
We laid her in the cemetery, in a grave
where tho wide-apreading branchen of Muno
'beech troca threw a pleasant shadow over
fit 41m> during could the day. Im hcar.1 At times tho moan of
Tol'i-d sea strongly there, when tho Hurt
ill upon the shore of Coho
lBny. Tim while crest of the waves could
*io i-oen from it, tossing over tho sunken
(reefs at soa; yet it lay in the heart of <>nr ■
island Him bad chosen the spot for her
*o)f, not very long ngo. when wo had been
ith- re togetlinr. Now I went alone.
I counted my fathor and his loud grief
as nothing. There was neither sympathy
inor coni] iiiiionship between us. Ho wan
(very vchoincut in hie lamenlationH, repeat
ing to every one who came to condole with i
Oithnt there had never lived such a wife, i
l| his ions the greatest that '
nn was man
could bear. His loss was nothing to mino. !
Yet I did draw a little nearer to him in
tho first few weeks of our bereavement.
Almost inseusiblv 1 fell into our old plan
of sharing the , c vtice, for ho was often
tionse JMU 0. g.. out ft,*-•, r.m our patients. The
was very desolate now, and soon lost
tkoje little delicate traces of feminine oc
onpaney which constitute the charm of a
x nVllfl „ %wl 7,?i;^ u n 5 A !n n „n
posHdrTCoi Cl own h^uHolmld hJ eve heClace h Cm
our'desertod dwelhC return 'Le to tiowe^Ced ir
and died unchanged in the vases, and
there was no dainty woman s work lying
about that. litter of white and .colored
shreds of silk and muslin which give to a
room an inhabited appearance. I liese :
wove so familiar to me that tho total ah
S;SutZ,'t ° f "
My father did not fee, this as I did for
ho was not often at home after the Hint !
violence of his grief had spent itself, j
Julia's house was open to him in a nionnei
it could not lie open to me. 1 was made
wreleomo there, it is true; but Julia was not
nil embarrassed and at homo with me. i lie
liidf engagement renewed between us ren
thT Minnie '!J a-..... ot" 'frtm, Mi o andnda'
... ir ; ..... «„
«o-Mps toagu H going again on thc subject
of my elniiHcs of my marm.ig my ramsi,,.
1 “ r " was some tedious legal business to
go'through, for my mothers sn.ai! prop.
erl\, bringing m a liuudred a y ear, eanio to
“VI" ' could not alienate 1 ,
but 1 wished ll, Ju in to revive the income
Go,! Km notTlenUsueffira
poval, and she showed me that she had a
shrewd notion of tho true state of our
finances. They wi re m such a state that
if I letUiuer N..y with my little income
my father would^ positively find some the d.ffl
culty in malum; hot.i ends meet, fav more
so as I was hecmirg deculedly the or
hiii/'sl'nh"lmd tip'for 1,1 ! 1 1 Lo* iu°nnv *,M .Un-tor "direo- " No
path opened me other b-'bound
turn. it appeared ns if I were to
to the place which wus no h.ugor a home
tome.
1 wrota to this effect to Jack Senior, who '
was urging my return to England.
1 lusdei nomu in.|iinu'« at tho 1 P '
bou‘ o in Vnuvort bond, ami leamei m
the person who had been m search of O ma
had left (,ucr asev about the umo *.i.
wss so ful y C'i TO Kcd with mv mother as j
to have but Uttle thought tor any one else,
t)f Olivia there vme neither trace nor till*
usgH. Taitlif came np to see mo whenever
he crossed over from Sark, but Uo had no
Information to me. The chances were i
that she was in Loudon; but she was as
much lost to me as if she had been lying
beside mv mother under the green turf of
JToulua Cemetery.
v it VITEK XXXVI.
THU W1!V1*WKU COM 1OUTKTV.
In this manner three months passed
slow y uwuv after my mother's death. Doc¬
tor ilobreo, who was utterly inconsolable
thc first few w - h*. fell iuio all his old
maundering, phi'nudciiig way* again,
*1 vending hours noon lus toilet, and paying
flevotow attentions to > very passable vvouiu..
who came aer' -s Ills path. My temper ,
grv w like touchvv ood; the least >;atak woulc suet
t it in a blaze 1 could not take
Jungs in good part.
We liad been at daggers drawn for a day
or two, be and 1. when one morning I was
astonished by the appearance of J nlia in
our consnlting-room, soon after my father,
having dressed himself elaborately, had
quitted thc house. Julia’s face was omin¬
ous, the up|H*r lip very straight, and a
frown upou her brow. ,
"Martiu, she began, in shrilluess‘if a low key, but
one that might run up to ad
visable Clis "1 aua come to tell you something .
that me with shame and anger. I do
not know how to contain mysjlf. I C9ftl4
uevo'r have b*M J th..l I ■ ■ n’.J have been
10 blind nud foolish. lint it seems as if I
were doomed to be deceive ! and disap
pointed on every hand—I who w u d not
deceive or disappoint anybody in the world,
1 declare it makes me quite ill to think of
Just look at my hinds, how they trem
ble. ” 8y,temiSOUt0f rder . ’” 1 _
re;^d *’it nerT0Uf ' ° '
is the world that is out of order,” she j
said, petulantly: “I am well enough. Oh.
I do not know however I am to tell yon.
There are some lb ngs it is a shame to
speak of " speak of them?” I asked.
■•.Must you
” Yes; you must know, you will have to
know a 1 sooner or later. If there was any
kopo of it coming to nothing, I should try
to spare you this, ,, • but t-.ey are „,. a both i.r.iv, so t ,,
bent upon disgracing erase , ■
to reason. Jf m; 1 - ‘ l ‘ j
it she couM mrt r. st in her gruve^ Mart
raunot you „ n -
that they cannot ; s-e what isgolng on inner
tin or own eyes.
^ 1 ” 'l answered. " “Sitllown
arj(1 yonrs-df. Shall I give you a
■ e > •
„ „ inp
' j .vitli restore cf im
• v *• h l0 a
patjence !i, ’ “How Ion - is it s?nce mv poor,
, y‘ r ,n it died - j
■■ p lg w ,.j| j do " j repii-d
' lU r)()W , a .
wo „d,-ring thatslie should touch the wound
< ho roughly- “Three months next Sunday.
-\ n ,l Imetor Dobrce ” she said iu a bit
| ter accent-then li, stopped, in-aru looking me rail fuh
; . ; oi nw.-r her nercau my mv
f ‘D'« Doclor Dobreo ,n my life. . She was
- my fond of him, and attracted by him as
i attra led >y mm " Ble ’p"A ! \,-n now, with all the;
ddleren <• in out age. tho advantage being
on rnv side, it was s ldom i succeeded in
P leftRl,, « l,s m a ? ‘‘. e .‘ Ud j 1 « 1ll bn f
in uinaneinent at Julias .lark . and moody t
What , now/ . I i turned. , What , has ,
mv
unlucky fatimi been doing now?”
while "Why,” tlielilm,' she ,-ve iiiunt.ed stampingh**r to lu-i tor had foot,
Doctor ! mbn-e m n, hasle to take n second
H" m ho 1, my poor Martin. He
w, -lies to be muiTied .mine,., d-.y to that
V1 ‘ ; in,„o“d,h‘ inpo.-ubl. ; ” ! 1 lVried cried, slnno slung fh« ,U-quit k
by those words. I remembered moth- ^
my
m-’s mil I, instinct vo dislike to Kate Dal
hid,-. not go No. over to II her She side s.l her Go loot over into to Hus her j
house ns my mother s suceo.sor, 1 w..u d
us myfatbermmh- h'r his w!ro! I would <’nt j
mys.-H adrift from them both. But lie |
know that, he would never venture to out
rage my mothers memory or my feelings
m„ ?»“ h “ “»«““«(•
It is possible, foi it i' true, „ sa'd-una. , , ,.
low urL’TA, and^Xw d's-JSknMrivNo a
whisper a. she glanced round at the'door.
1 hev 1,av " a , '. uIcrstoi,d , . , 1 othcl , 1*1 thesi8
four „ weeks. Yon may call it an engage
ment, for it is one; and I. never suspected i
them, not for a moment. He earn - down !
to , mv house , 11 to bo comforted, <?iii he said • 1 , lus •
house was so dreary now. And 1 was ns
blind as a mole. 1 shall in ver forgive my¬
self. dear Martin. 1 know ho was given lo
all that kind of thing, but then lie seemed
to mourn heart-broken. for inv poor aunt He made so deeply, times and
was so ten
more show of it than you did. I have
, heard , I*® 0 !’ , 1 ? Ha ? v ; ,m . bo «V‘ very well and
•
were quiet, but I knew hotter. Everybody
®»'d he cou d never get over it. Couldnt
y? n tote °ut a commission of lunacy against
“ l " 1? He must be mad to think of such a
.ng- ,
“H°w did you find itoul? I inquired, ,
Oh I was so ashamed she said. You
B0 «: 1 hnd n< ?‘ t ho tal 7i, ost s httd “ w “ f “.?«•*
I ,lclon ‘ T ' bad 1 . left them in . the dmwing
room tn go up-stairs, and I thought ot
something i wanted, and went back sud- [
donlv, ana the?re they were^—his arm around '
waist, and hor hend on his shoulder—
1,0 " itb his 8^ bllirB ’ 1001 Hho B,l >' s Bb «
is tbo 8ll,ne a ^\ nH lne - but sbe I s »*
Lit Cw^laio saCor'h.lwtTook , 1 1 co“ld
get out of the room again as if I had
not been seen, for I cried *Ohi’ at tho first
gj h( of Tbon 1 stood staring at
(hem: but I think tluy ‘ felt as uncomfort
B |, le ng j did.” sternlv. j
u bllt , nd they say?” 1 asked, 1
^y xvr*’ ZilSo" Sy« earrv'it^off I I
ooUng grand ami he vms I
C „ 1V stir'a b .., H i „,i,i u.i me lo her
Lid! t r would not sten ’Mv love he
’I am about to steal your friend from
you 'she is no friend of miuo ’ 1 said ‘if
H ho is going to be what all this intimates, I
8U ag'jn. p,, 08 „. I will never speak to her hoL- or you
Doctor Dobroe.' ai.A I’pon that
van to weep, and protest, declaim, while
fcsar-jssusa.*.ss , to be married/'1 asked, for
( um wettn
hi , t of hjs illt Iition to mftUa
ht , r his wifo . What is tho good of wait
; y . „ e it.’ *My home is miserable ‘if with
uo woman in T’ncle,’ I said, vou
w jjj | 'd )ro „d«,. mo to give up the idea of a
goeou lllllrrill g,., which is m iculous at your
T’ 1 * iU T‘ ba ‘’ k »' N-"«> of all
K " d V/rtii/^r/r b mv’’m fs’" 1 k^wTll I ! !
, ’“lYhe , marriL'e , wit'll
Lonlan b'.itertlian his S
drmT vou ihink ’'
A hundred t mes" better, I said, warm
|y . ■■ it was very good of vou, Julia. But
" that,'would
fa 0 W0B)d mH nRreo to ne?”
"He wouldn't hear of it. He swore that
Kate was as dear to him ns ever my poor
L'lhou/her Dor ana and' her' litra . vnni.iniou-hi'p oinp.iniou-iup xto He
ma.nta.ned that his age did not make ,t
ruiiculi us. Kate hid her brazen lace in her
. ...,, Vu/rt/him tin ,, ,
'
time worse an idiot.
He knelt down before her, and implore#
her to look at him. 1 remiuded h m how all
the is| . ul( , wonld nso aRa ( nst him-worsn
than it did against von. Martin—aud he de
did not CRro ft tia for , he is i and!
tllllic lest themab of them, and he snapped be h,s
4n f’7 - ob - be mu '‘ S 0,n «
I shook my head. Knowing him av thor¬
oughly as a long and close study could help
me to know any man. I was less surprised
than Julia, who had only seen him from a
woman's point of view, and had always
been lenient to his faults. Unfortunately I
knew my father too well.
“Then 1 talked to him about tho resumed, duty he
owed to our family name,” remind she him of
"and I went so far as to i
what 1 had done to shield him and it from
disgrace, and he mo kt\l at it—positively of
mocked at it 1 lie-aid there was uo sort
parallel, l! would be no dishonor if to our
house to receive Kate into it, even tliev
were married at once. What did it sig¬
nify to tli ■ world that only throe months
had elapsed/ Besides, he did not nieau to
marry her for a mouth fo come, as tfia
house would need beautifying for her—
beautifying for her! Neither had he spo¬
ken of it to you; but he bad no doubt you
would be willing to go on as you have doue. ”
"Never!” 1 said
' i was sure not.” cout uned Julia "I
■ told him I was couviuced you would leave
Guernsey again, ... but he pooh-poohed that, .
I asked him how he was to live without any
practice, and he said his old patients might
turn him off for awhile, but they would ba
glad to send for him again. I never saw a ,
m^n soojin.’nalety MBtupou oi.owni„,„,
Julia, 1 aatcl, 1 shill leave Guernsey
IWore this marriage can come off. I would
rather break rones on the highway than
"tay to see that woman in my mother's
My mother d.s.iked her from the
oim.
“1 know it, she replied, with tears in her
P$id£” d It was^y' But I fanTbriS fi
to Guernsey. could not bear the
idea of her coming as mi-tress be e. I
sa d so distinctly. Boeder Dobree,’ I said,
‘you must let me remind you that the house
i» mine, though you have paid me ro rent
for years, if you ever tike Kate Daltrey
into it, I s? ill put my affairs into a notary s
hands. ^ will, upon my word, and Julia
Dobree never broke her word yet.’ That
brought him turned to his se ises better than any
tLi H e very pale, and -at down
be-ide Then she Kate, hardly She knowing what to say.
la gan. said if I wascrael,
„ h6 would b a cruel, too. Whatever grieved
you, Martin, would grieve me, and she
WOII (1 let her brother, Richard Foster
know where Olivia was.”
“Does she know where she is?” I asked,
5agi-rl>, in a tumult of surpiise and hope.
W hy, in Sark, of course, she replied.
. left S: "* \ U n ' j £ or >ou ® «y nev< motner r know s i death? ^ at ,^ 1 ,; vi 5 I
said, , wnh a ehill , of disappointment. Did
£ never t 11 you she was gone, nobody
knows where?”
0,1 ,lVC De ' Ck 0 ... in lay
, hearing, except , recollect when,
once you
Martin? b “ ve supposed she was still
, . Jardlf8 house. Then there is
nothing to prevent me from carrying out
mv threat. Kate Daltrey shall never enter
this house as mistress. ” J ’
“Would you have given it up for Olivia’s
8a ke?” 1 usked.marte ing at her generosity.
“I should have done it for your sake,”
answered, frankly. ‘
,he
’ But,” 1 said, reverting to our origiiW
toi ,i c , “if my father has se’ his mind upon
mam ing Kate Daltrey, he will brave any.
-jL’, is a do’ard ” replied l Julin “lie
p0Bit , v ,. ly in;lk ,. s follies , llf , d ad growing guEy rid.
Who knows what one may be
of in 0 ,l ilge ! I never felt afraid of it U
f( , re Kllto , ;;iVS (wo hundred a
y( , u . ot h er own, and they will go and live
111 th:lt in ’D’^ey. if Guernsey becomes
'_ , oasau t to them. Martin, she is »
vi ,^h friend'of Bho ifi , nd ,.,-d And I have made
s a l.er! Now I sha'l have no
rsabsfL.Lvith A-hannaTs my “ ‘
she staved au hour longer, 111 turning o+er
this unwelcome subject wo had th»r
decisively*upon fat£?
briefly but short and sharp the same topic,
After a very very conversa
u , be re remained no alternative forme
but to make up my mind to try my fortune
onee ni „ re out of Guernsey. 1 wrote by
tl,B “ e f t Dlllil Jack Sen ior ; tell j n « lim
tuL'oFpostTrec 0 , Ul >J *°’
Hov: ^hy aWedUiis shoulrln’t repl’y;
Ukaii nut you cone,
and uo halves with me? Bad saya so. lip Is j
uivin ^ un hIiod. hniJ iroinp-tn liv^in thprnnu
'ey «t ■ House and practice are mile.
too biir lor me. “Senior Uotirec, or *tDo- I
& g u „j 0ri ” whichever you please. If
von come I can pay dutiful attention to Dad !
without lo'iin : my customers. That la his
chief reason. Mine is that I only feel lalf j
myse.l without you at hand. Don’t think of
huyinjr no. |
I TO TlfO COVTIVURD.
Told the Truth.
A man who walked with a crutch and
was badly crippled generally was in front
of a house a few miles from Lsteline.
when another man approached and said:
‘ ‘Hollo, Brown. Is that bay horse of
yours out there in the pasture for sale ?*
“Yes." ~
“I want a horse that -won't kick—I’m
afraid of a kicking horse.” then,
“That’s just the hoss you want
gov’nur. j never see him kick.”
“You're sure of this, are you
“You bet I am—never see that hoss
rais ° his foot to kick ”
“^ oll > ,f tbat ’ s the rase > rn take
bl . . ® ’
He lmd not been long when . he
gone
returned afoot, looking as if he had been
run through a cyclone, and said:
“Say, that infernal horse began to kick
T" W ° T* *7™ h ° ^
^ ran
on ff acioss the o prairie I
“Is that so <
“ v 'cs, that’s so, and your neighbors tell
mo that the reason you are so badly enp
pled is that he kicked you.’’
“Well, that's about the size of it”
“You’ll own up to it now will you!
What made you tell me vou never saw
I told jou so coa it was ™ the lh , truth, , rali
pa dner I troth. always I make a practice o
tailin’the never see that boss
k««’k. I've lmd him ’bout a week and
the other day I was out'n’ the barn when
1 guess hesort o’ got a noshin’ o’ kickin’,
leastways bar,/and the nir was filled with pieces
of straps of harnesses and oats
l>»y al >d mangled remains of a man
bout my size,but it came you’d so quick that I
didn’t see none of it. If only been
1 een standin”round and told me he was
goin' to begin, I should o’ been very
happy to climb up in the grand stand
and take it all in, but you wasn’t, so all I
knew 'bout it was what they told me
after I come to. I told you the truth
an l you d better go ’long now and catch
yer boss . | hiun’t got no time to stand
: lnd fool wit h vou any longer. Good
H&jl"—EtUlline ( Dakota ) BM.
A Sure Proof,
r heard a story last week about the
twin steepled Stc. Anne's Church. An
officer oi the — th regiment, many a vear
cup , hit cheered and inebriated got in
its work. It was a fine moonlight night
when he turned his wavering steps to
the oil American, where the Biddle now
stands, and in passing Ste. Anne’s church
he was appall' d to notice that it had two
steeples exactly alike. He could not be
lieve that he was drunk as all that, but
there were the two steeples before him.
t\ hen he got to his rooms he said to his
comrade:
“Jack, me boy (hic\ I’m afraid I’m
(hicidiunk. ... Coming ,, „ long the other
street I passed a (hid church, and do
you know, 1 a!m st thought it had two
i Inc i steeple s.”
“Well,” said the other, it has two
steeples. officer “That's Ste. Anne's Church.”
The pondered a few moments on
th-s information, and remembering how
it had been impossible for him to tell
whether the church had or had not the
two steeph s as he stood by it, he replied,
mournfully: “l>y George. Jack (hie),
I a n drunk, sure enough.’’— Detroit Free
Prett.
- „• drinking becau- a
Is intemperance _ m
thc amount, the strength, or the effect
of the goods taken?
DOWN A FLUME.
, I
1 A Swift Journey Down a
Nevada Mountain.
^^Through Space at the Rate of
j Two M ies a Minute.
!
-
A Chicago newspaper * 1 man tells in the
Merabi „ of that city an experience . he , once
had riding in a Nevada lumber flume
dumber flumes in the Sierra Nevadas, n
he said, “are all the way from five to
forty miles long. They are built on »
regular engineer’s grade. The bed of
the flume is made of two-inch plank in
the form of a V, the sides of thc V being
from eighteen to twenty six inches high.
They are built on a grade of about six
tecn feet drop to the thousand. 1 hey
carry ---- j eight ~- a — inches of water in the acute
an^le, angle, and and discharge discharge it it at at thc the rate rate of of 400 400
miner’s inches a minute. In other words,
tumm turn . your your water water , at at , the tho , head , T head . 1 ol o , f tne .,
in
flume, and it will carry a log weighing
nounds P ounas with a velocity J greater *» than
the fastest engine that was ever made.
xhc , , g displacement just about fills
the V, . without ... any more friction . ■ .- than „
necessary to keep it in place.
About y_ „ r t was ' U n P at
r>
Lake Tahoe with E. W. Smalley and .
jj p a tton of l the Mackey * * & Fair Lumber
Company. Patton was showing . _ inv us u., the the
i sights. We had come up from Carson
City, miles, , by stage, and , it -. was
sixteen
a hot and tedious nde. About sundown
Pattonsaid: ‘Bovs, we’ll go home by
the flume ttnfl and ttiere t h ere a a little
>
quicker, I think.’
“He directed a man to bring out the
: yacht., ,, as , he called „ it. Th This - was a „ v V
shaped canoe about fourteen feet long,
I ^ and shailow, about and fill made it with to the fit the displace- flume
just
ment of COO pounds. The yacht had a
^ke-two rubber pads on either side,
worked with a lever, and so applied
against the sides of the Y flume that on
“
P re ®> ure „ 5f U wou ? liff !lft fh thc . varhf yacM S „N raduaU dllaUv y
and allow the lightning , current to pass
under her. She also had two small rub
ber wheels, one on either bow, to keep
lier nose from grinding the sides of the
flume as she went by curves.
<i i Mow, boys,’ said Mr. Patton, <but
ton up your coats, tie down your hats,
a “ d , , hold , - on. Don n t get scared. rj- Trust
your lives to mo for the next half hour,
Jl<n . Q this yacbt bcfore; an(i i
know she’s staunch.’
“There were three scats. Patton took
the front one, to handle the brake.
Smalley took the next one, and I took
the* rear and worked the tiller, That
was rl . SS cd 3 ust lbo a s U P 3 rud ( ^ ’
n rubber wheel to ease oil her stern against
yhe side of the flume if she got to yawing.
tUTVnis tree. L0*put*wa two rrlEn
cs mor ” of . water , < and , thon > Wlth „ a waTe „„„
of his hat, we weighed anchor. Great
Scott! how that thing jumped! Smalley
got seasick. I jammed my helm hard
down, but Patton yelled through the air,
‘Let her go; I’ve got her!’ And with
one hand on his brake, liis hat crushed
down on his head, and his teeth set, he
looked the incarnation of courage. We
plunged down the mountain with a speed
^ “° ^ ^ TrCCS by
like spectres. Looking ahead down thc
narrow thread-like flume it seemed like
» P lun g« to destruction, . Several times
the flume carried us over a high trestle,
It seemed like leaping over a precipice,
a Smalley ,, held -l ,j hi, lus breath breath but but the the little little
jumped it through the air appar
r^TT? themselves ahead, The rudder wheel
would squeak on either side, and the
good ship would round the curve like a
flash. Sometimes an unevenness in the
flume would occur, and then, as the craft
sped over it, the spray would rise fifty
feet in the air.
“ ‘Keep on your hats!’ shouted Patton;
then, as we struck a straight five-mile
stretch, ‘Now hold on to your teeth.’
“I don’t exactly know what the next
sensation was, but I tried to peep out
from under the rim af my hat, and, my
it was all a blur—trees, rocks, land
sca p e were all mingled in an indistin
guishable , , mass. It vzas as if one was
blown through the air from a catapult.
“Well, from the time w s weighed an
chor un at Lake Tahoe un/il Patton put
on hi, brake, just outside the lumber field
at Carson City it seemed like a minute or
two -\y e all looked at cur watches
minutes and forty seconds. I never in
all my life had such an illustration of the
force of water.”
——
Agreeably Disappointed.
“And are you glad to see me, Bobby?’’
asked the bishop, on his semi-annual visit
to the parish.
“Oh, yes,” said Bobby, “be
cause we always have a good dinner
when you come, Put I didn’t expect
you.”
“No.”
“No. I thought you'd go somewhere
else, ’cause ma said yesterday that it was
about time some other member of the
oiiurch offered to entertain you."— N. Y.
Sun.
The city of Mexico has fifty bakeries
nnd 1.59S places for the sale of intoxi
tants, including 817 shops where the
popular pulque is sold, This beverage
has about the same potency as lager beer,
and is regarde-1 as a tonic and bioou
mu «er.
Agriculture in Mexico.
Although the main business of the
country is agriculture, this branch of in
dustry is carried on under exceptionally
disadvantageous c ircumstances. One of
its <Teatcst drawbacks is that the whole
couatry ia divided up into emmeose ha
cicada*, or landed estates; small farms
bein" rarely known; and out of a popu a
tion .; rn Z,r of ten ten milhoa million or oi more more, the rue title .mi to
t j le 80 q j g ga sd to vest in not more than
: thousand persons. Some of these es
tates comprise square leagues instead of 1 ;
g f j„ arc acres in extent, and are said to 1
have irrigating ditches f om forty to fifty ;
, n ii cs ; n length. Most of the land of
es tates are uncultivated, and the
water is waisted upon tho remainder in
the most reckless manner. The titles by !
w hich such properties are held are ex
cce ding]y varied, and probably to a con*
O s .uv.«o.v i,lc r able o«v—......... extent uncertain. Some came j
f f rom rom the the old old Spanish Spanish Government,
through ° its viccrovs; * some from Mexico, !
thr^u^h its "overnors cr political ... chiefs; , . ,
whi e over a not inconsiderable part of
all the good laud of the country, the ti
ties of the CLurch, although not recog
nized by the Government, are still, to a
certa extent, respected. , Added .... to all
11 I
this, there . marked indisposition . . .
1 13 a 1 on
the part 1 of the large ° owners of real estate
in Mexico to divest tlujmselves of such
property; and this for various reasons.
Thus, in the heretofore almost perma¬
nently revolutionary condition of the
country, the tenure of movable or personal
property was the subject to embarrass¬
ments from which real estate, or immova¬
ble property, was exempt. Under the
system of taxation which has long pre¬
vailed in Mexico, land also is very light- -
ly burdened. And, finally, from what is j
probably an inherited tradition from Old
Spain, the wealthy Mexican seems to be
prejudiced against investing in co-opera¬
tive (stock) or financial enterprises—the
railways, banks, and mines, in both Old
Spain / and Mexico, ’ for example, 1 ’ being f to
day mainly . , owned and . controlled , , by
English or other foreign capitalists.— I
Popular Science Monthly.
Teaching Deaf Mutes to Road.
Instruction is conveyed to deaf mutes
in most instances lay the use of sign lan
guage, or the manual alphabet. The
foundation maxim of the methods used
is “first ideas, then words.” The mind
must bo roused to activity, and, as the
foundation of knowledge which other
children acquire by the aid of hearing
are hero wanting, progress is, of course,
very slow at first. Usually, instruction
is begun by the word method, words be¬
ing connected with the object they rep¬
resent. For instance, the child is shown
some common object, or a picture of an
animal, and the printed name of the ob
j-nt-or animal is shown him at the same
time. He is thus taught to conuect
names with their objects and to recog¬
nize printed words. When a few words
have been learned, sentences are framed,
and the child is taught to recognize
these as units embodying a complete
idea. The printed and the sign alpha¬
bets are taught together, and, when
those are mastered, instruction in spell
ing is not difficult. After names of ob
jects, their obvious properties, with nu¬
merals aud verbs of action, are next
taught. The adjectives first brought
forward are those of size and color, tlieu
prepositions of locality. The simple
tenses are exemplified by calling atten¬
tion to a series of actions. Much use is
made of contrast of ideas. A child of
10 or 12 years of age, if possessed of or¬
dinary intelligence, can usually, at the
end of a year, construct for himself sim¬
ple sentences about every-day affairs.
During the first two or three years text
books prepared especially for deaf-mutes
are used, after that any text-books will
serve.— Liter Ocean.
Place to Pray.
The sudden disposition to stoop low
while seeking to avoid a shower of bul
lets is well understood by those who
have experienced the sensation. A West
ern Colonel, whose regiment at the time
mentioned was well to the front acting
as reserve and support to the picket line,
found one evening upon returning to his
tent his new Chaplain, just come down
from the , -... North. ,. T It i i being • night, . , , and -
no
other place at hand, the Colonel offered
his guest such liosp.t urtles as liis limited
quarters afforded, at the same time in
without danger. The Chaplain accepted,
At early dawn the picket line was driven
m with a ru-h, the first notice being a
tornado of bullets crashing through and
splintering up things generally in the
tent. The Colonel involuntarily crawled
out, and as lie did so shouted back to his
reverend officer. “Get down on your
knees, Chaplain!” That gentleman, not
unders t an( Jing the protection intended
by this suggestion, answered, “My God,
Colonel, you don’t expect me to pray
here, do you?”
Innocent CMIiihriil.
“Tain’t so,” triumphantly exclaimed
Bobbie from liis perch on top of a chair,
gazing down on Algernon’s bead,
“What is not true," doubtfully asked
hissister Mau L
Why, you said Algy was so creen that
grass was growing from the top of his
head, and (determinedly) there ain’t any
there.”
llov Maud explained thc situation :'s
unknown.— Detroit Free Pm.<.
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