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^ An Arab Saying.
! Remember, three things come not back:
i The arrow sent upon its track—
Sit will not swerve, it will not stay
L Its speed; it flies to wound or slay.
. The spoken word, so soon forgot
By thee; but it has perished not:
In other hearts ’ t is living still,
And doing work for good or ill.
And the lost opportunity.
That cometh back no more to thee.
In vain thou weepest. in vain dost yearn.
Those three will never more return.
— Constantino. E. Brooks, in the Century.
A TUftN OF THE KEY.
■ t Well! Good-by, Madge, and take
care of yourself; the gig is alongside,so
I suppose I must be tff; but I wish to
goodness you had let me chuck th
whole thing over when I spoke about
it this morning; I hate leaving you all
by yourself. Weil, at any rate, 1
shan’t be late.’’
So spoke Bertie Hepburn, the owner
of the yacht Cormorant, as smart a
schooner as ever flew the white ensign,
to his wife, who was standing rather
disconsolately at the door of the main
cabin, where her husband struggled into a
huge oil-skin overcoat, preparatory to
going ashore.
If was a wild night, dark as pitch,
the rain was falling in torrents, and an
icy wind, blowing straight from the
Apennines, did not make matters more
comfortable. Tne Cormorant liad been
weather-bound in the harbor of Port
Ercole, an unimportant town, about 80
miles north of Civita Yecchia, for nearly
a week; there was absolutely nothing
to be seen there; but tlio harbor was a
good one, and the weather outside was
decidedly “dirty.”
They had been cruising for about
three months in the Mediterranean, aud
meant to prolong the cruise till spring.
Bertie Hepburn was a man, who, happy
and contented everywhere, was nev-r
so happy as on board his own yacht,
and he was more fortunate than many
y-acht- owners in one respect, inasmuch
as his wife, pretty, charming Madge
Hepburn, was as devoted to a seafar¬
ing life as ho was himself.
She had not even grumbled over
their forced detention at Port Ercole,
as so many women w r ould have done,
and it was slie who had insisted on
Bertie keeping his engagement to dine
with the Vice-Consul. That in
fortunate gentleman, whose lile, passe!
—*>otjg a ppoplo with whom ho had
dull routine, was delighted to welcome
the owner of any stray yacht driven by
stress of weatber into the snug haven of
Port Ercole, and, on tho arrival of the
Cormorant, had come on board in state,
to bid them to a dinner at the shabby
house dignified by the namo of Viec
Consulate. Midge had sent an excuse,
a pcifcctly true one, that a had cold
pre vented her comiug ashore in such
weather; but she would not hear of her
husband also throwing over his engage
meut.
“I shall bo all right, Bertie,’’ she
said. “I have no end of letters to
write, and you won’t be lafe.’
There was an utter absence of j ivialty
about the meal, and she got through it
as quickly as possible, much to the
secret joy of the steward, who had his
own plans for his evening’s amusement
on hand.
“If you please,Mi’am,’’ said he, as he
cleared tho things away, “I should like
to go ashore this evening, if' you have
no objection.”
‘ Oli, no, certainly you are welcome
to go.”
“If you plca ; e, ma'am,” said her maid
five minutes afterward, “the captain
says there are great doings in the
cathedral tonight, aud he will take me
ashore to have a look at them, if you
don’t want me.”
“No, you can go by all means,
Dunne,’’ said her mistress; “hut I’m
afraid you’ll get very wet landing.”
Their departure in the dinghey five
minutes after seemed to leave the yacht
Wonderfully quiet. There was not a
sound to be beard but the drip of the
rain on deck and the moaning of the
wind in the rigging. The sailors were
all snug in the foc sle, but no sound of
Toices cime from thence, and the good
ship Cormorant might have been a
derelict as far as any life on board was
concerned.
Madge Hepburn, who was both iin
pressionable and imaginative, was im
pressed by tbe stillness in spite of her
self. “We must keep each other com
pany, Cheviot,” said ^ to the big
black and tan sheep-dl^j who lay asleep
on the cabin floor, but he refused ab
solutely to enter into conversation; Lis
manner showed decidedly that he did
not wish to be disturbed, and, as his
mistress would not desist, he got
up sulkily, stretched himself half a
dozen times, and slowly and heavily
lurched out of the cabin, and np the
Companion, while a thump overhead a
minute inter told Mn. Hapburn he pre
ferred the co’.d an d wet on deck to her
T Vn ***•
THE DEMOCRAT, CRAWFORDVTLLE. GEORGIA,
markable, now Cheviot had left her,
and she had not noticed beforo how
chilly the cabin had grown; had the
steward been on board she would have
had the stove relighted, but she did not
care to disturb the sailors; she could
settle to nothing.
“Thank goodness, ” said she, “there
goes four bells; there is no good sitting
in this cold, gloomy cabin any longer.
1 shad be off to bed.’’
Her cabin was, indeed, a pretty nest
for such a pretty bird; on its fluted
hangings, twined roses and for-get-me
nots, while laughing cupids peeped
from among the flowers; all was dainty
and del icate, but somehow tonight it
did not seem cheerful; the lamp was
uot burning so dirightly as usual, and,
once safe in her pretty berth, Madge
could not see to read as she had in¬
tended.
She tries to sleep, but never felt more
wide awake, and now six bells are
struck, and she reflects with joy that in
an hour at latest her husband will he
hick. All is wrapped in stillness. No
sound falls on her ear but the “wash of
the wave’’ on the yacht’s side at her
head, and tho drip, drip, of the rain on
deck. But stay 1 that surely is a louder
sound than tire water that ripples so
close to her. It is too mufll :d to bo
oars; all the sarai there is a distinct
splash, and a sort of jar on the ship’s
side. Madge sits up to listen, and her
sense of hearing seems to become pre
ternaturally sharpened; she hears a
footstep, soft as velvet, on the deck,
right overhead. That is not the way
Ilertia would coine on board, let alone
the parly who, headed by the captain,
had gone ashore.
Now she hears more footsteps, an l
then—oh! what is it that is going on?
—there conies a low, deep growl from
Cheviot,—a growl that ends in an odd
kind of gurgle, aud a noise of some¬
thing heavy falling.
Light steps seem to cross the dock
and come down the companion, and
through the keyhole of her door shinei
the faintest glimmer of light; in one
she is out of her berth and at
her door—alas! it has no key, aud
those in the yacht, whoever they are,
have got her at their mercy.
For a few minutes the poor child
feels utterly confused, and then all of
a sudden her senses return to her; she
rolls herself in a long, dark boat-cloak
that is hanging on a hook, puts out her
light, and cautiously—for her life de
s '-m U-—ifad. do|I;s
ou*.
There is a little bit of pasiago be¬
tween her and the main cabin, from
which comes a dim light; a faint clash
of metal can be heard, but neither
voice nor sound.
The companion-ladder is between the
two cabins and tho passage is nearly
pitcli dark, while there is always the
friendly shelter of one or two unused
cabin doors.
Shull she wait in her cabin, perhaps
to he caught like a rat in a trap; or
shall she crawl along tho pa-sage,
make a dash for the companion, aud
-g:t on deck somehow to give the alarm
to the sailors? She elects to attempt
the latter.
Three steps and she is crouching a‘
the foot of the stai-, and can see into
the saloon. On the floor, with his back
to the door, one man kneels, and she
sees him filling an empty bag with all
the yacht’s silver. Tae door of Bertie's
(lie sing room is open, aud^ another
bee le-browed and brawny Italian ruf.
fian l:as his han Is on a heap of sover
eign 13 , the broken cash-box being o i
the floor at his feet. A third man is
in the main cabin. He is standing be- j
side an open drawer, li;s head partly
turned away froua the door, but Madge
feels he is the greatest danger, and that
at an y moment he may look round.
As she stands there her eye f ills on
the strong kez that is in the lock of the
main cabin door. She can almost touch
it. I- she did but just reach it, could
she lock them in would before they the could key turn! stop j
her? Above all,
S'.ie knows nothing about its locking
powers, and it might easily be rusty.
But Madge Hepburn is no coward and
the fighting blood of a wild border ^
,
strain runs hotly in her veins. As she ,
run Ie up her mind, she acted.
Concealment was now of no uie; she
praDg a* the door, and as she did so
the thir d man turned and saw her. I wo
steps and ho was across tho room, but
one second had sufficed for Madge.
The door banged to; tbe key was Etiff
indeed, but terror gave her fingers a
strength she did not know they pcs
sessed, and bsfose the burglar actuady
touched tho door handle the bolt shot
home. A volume of Italian oaths, and
a blow which all but knocked a pane!
out of the door followed, but 3Iadge
seemed as if she had wingi
to her feet. She flew on deck, and
cow? What ia that wh ch falls
0 n her cars but tne F* «ei sound of
oar^? But a'.as! Whs*. ;s that black
form that at the same moment she os
frfr r'^ tV deck End what is the
dark stream that stains its surface? She
does not know. II -r eyes are dim; her
senses fail her; and when Bertie Hep¬
burn jumps on board tho first thing he
secs is his pretty Madge in a deal faint
at his feet lying across the lifeless body
of poor C.ieviot.
Tho noise the three ruffians make in
the cabin so on gives him the clew to
what has happened and before poor
Madge has recovered her senses a free
fight has taken place, and if tho Italian
gentlemen were a good deal knocked
about by the sailors, they deserved
double as much as they got aud the
vice-consul made it his business to sco
they got it in the long run.
In some mysterious manner these sea
robbers had discovered that tho owner
and a good many of the crew of the
Cormorant had gone ashore, and they
thought they would have it all their
own way on board. The last thing
they' looked for was that a mere girl
should “up and bar the door” in tliei’
faces. — '1 he Queen.
Bravery of the Russian Soldier.
The Russian soldier, says a Russian
general in Harper's Ah a tzine, dies at
his post. I have seen him in winter on
sentry duty on tho heights of Shipka
die standing, surrounded by snow, and
transformed literally into a statue of
ice; I have seen him die on tho march,
striding over tho saidy desert, and
yielding up his last breath with his last
siep; I have seen him die of his wou .di
on the battle-field or in the hospital, at
a distance of three thousand miles from
his native village—and in those supreme
momenta I have always found tho Rus¬
sian soldier sublime.
Although a child of the plain, where
his eye rarely descries the most
modest hill, we see him boldly scale
the topmost summits of the Caucasus,
and climb the rocks and glacieri of the
Tuian-Slia i, fighting all tho time. lie
feels at home everywhere, whether in
the steppes of the father-land, in tho
tundra: of Siberia, or the mountains
and deserts of Ciutral Asia, lie has an
exceptional faculty of putting himself
at his case wherever he may ho, even in
places where others would die of hun¬
ger and thirst.
1 have seen tho Russian soldier at
home in time of peace, or during truces
in the enemy’s country, rocking tho
peasant’s child m the village where ha
was stationed; I havo seen him biv¬
ouacking in tho d • ert, with his tongue
i»‘i i. ■
of a quarter of a litre of salt-wau..; x
havo seen him in heat and in cold, in
hunger and in thirst, in peace and in
war—and I have always found in him
the same desire to oblige, the same ab¬
negation ( f self for the sake of tho
safety and the good of others. These
special characteristic! of the Russian
soldiei—his self-denial, his simple and
natural self-sacrifice—give him peculiar
powers as a warrior.
Climbing Stair; and Hills.
doctors tell m that a lrt i lorato
climbing of s*nirs and hills is benefit
cial. It stimulates the action of the
heart, and where this organ is sluggish
in its movement it is w ill to accelerate
it by walking slowly up any ordinary
ascent. It is, indeed, becoming a
noticeable habit to avoid everything in
the way of second or third stories, and
those conservative persons who cling to
their upper offices aud havo no eleva¬
tor are let alone by idle visitors at least,
and by nearly all wlio can satisfy their
demands as well in more easily arcos-
1,1 ■ places. Indolence, like appetite,
grows by indulgence, and it is only oc
C asionally that the well-protected gar
c ] en where our vanities and foibles are
cultivated is invaded by a disturbing
i jrC3Ze . When wo hear, for instance,
0 f the old women who act as general
servants in the apartment houses of
p ar j 3 an d with the case with which they
mourl t six or so via fi g'lti of stairs
mar ,y times daily, we are willing tocon
j css t0 a Rule of both companion aud
e.nvy.
But wc need mt go so far away from
Rome. O.0I7 last week a woman who
sat down breathlessly at the head of
two long fl gii s of stairs,an 1 summoned
[j Cr q r4 [ words to utter a complaint, re
ccived fr-wn the friend who offered her
sympathy tills unintentional reproof:
“Wc should ail here spend more lim:
; n giving uttera .<:e to vixed worii were
it not that Mr. Blank, who is 89 years
of age, comes here every day to attend
tn j liS business, and never says a word
a jjo U t the stairs, or seems to think of
fatigue.” Perhaps the elevator will be
notan undisgus.d blessing alter all.—
Herald.
After the Proposal.
“Before I go, ’ he said, in broker.
tones, “f have one last request to make
of y'.u.”
“Ye*, 3D. Sampson?'’ said .he.
“When you return my presents,
‘jlease prepay tbe express charges. I
cannot afford to pay any more on your
account?’’— Harper's Bizir.
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