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JOURNAL AND MKSSUTsrftUR.
A b'l.lHI'S COSFESSIOX.
How many times engaged ? Why, Fred,
I was so y«"ng when X began,
I did not keep account; bnt then
From sighing Joe to laughing Dan,
Making a random estimate,
It was not more than six or eight.
Dear me, yon look so shocked 1 How can
A giddy-minded girl be euro
Of her own nenrt, unless she takes
A few on trial, as it were ?
Yon need not laugh and shake your bead,
It is a serious thing to wed..
Kot lot e but once ? Thai's very nice
To road in booke; but, Fred, you have
Such Grnndisonian ideas,
Quite obsolete, indeed. To save
Bach wealth of feeling for ono man ?
No, no, that’s not the modern plan.
So few nro worthy, sir, of all
Thu doting love a girl can give;
And Bert is quite content to be
The ninth. Would I from him receivo
So very small an offering ?
Ah, that Is quite another thing.
Repent ngain ? Oh no, I fear
’l wonld be a foslish thing to do—
I'm nearly twenty now, and soon
Will have to leave the field, for Lon
Is growing tall so very f*st—
And ono must settle down at last.
ON THE CLIFF.
An, Adventure at Barmouih.
From Tinsleys Magazine
Fifteen years ago Barmouth was a
quiet little village. The whistle of the
Iron horse was not to be heard within
many miles, and tho passage of the coach
between Dolgelly and Carnarvon was the
sole ovent of the. day. There was one
liotel and some half-dozen shops and oilier
houses where lodgings were to be obtained,
but slight as was the accommodation, it
fully equaled the demand.
“Just the placo for a lellow to be able
to sketch without people coming to look
over his shoulder,” was the comment of
Hugh Carson, a young artist, as he took
his first stroll upon the sands.
A tall, well-built young fellow, with
leg3 rather long for his body, aud a face
rathrr heavy lu repose, but bright aud
wicniug when he smiled. The tide was
out, a lew fishermen were mending their
nets and tarring their boats, and a lady
and child wero down upon the rocks near
the edge of the sea.
A bright bit of color upon those dark
rocks,” he said, “with the island on the
left and the sea beyond, and that abrupt
headland coming in—just the thing to l>3-
gln with.”
lie had his sketch-book under his arm
and bis color-box in his pocket, and, sit
ting down on the sand-hills, be set rapid
ly to work. For an hour and a half he
worked steadily, and then the bright bit
of color and the child moved off toward
the shore. Still he worked on at his
sketch, and was almost startled when a
shadow passed across his paper. He
glanced up, and saw a girl of some twenty
years old, with a young one seven or
eight. The child dropped the hand she
was holding, and came fearlessly up.
“Please may I look at your picture?”
lie nodded silently and went on with
his painting.
“O, cousin Amy, such a pretty picture;
and there are you and me out on the rocks.
Do look!”
The girl glanced at the artist, but neith
er l>y look nor motion did she second the
chilli's request, and with a little shrug ot
the shoulder she turnedjaway, and walked
ou slowly until overtaken by her cousin.
“What a bear I am!” the young man
said to himself. “I ought to ha7« got up
aud grinued and taken off my hat, I sup
pose, and asked her to look at it, bnt Its
no use, 1 can’t get on with women. I
never can think what to say to them. I
have no doubt she tlionght me a perfect
bear. And so I am. But I suppose its
my nature.” And he went on with his
painting. “Cue o’clock, it’s time to go in
to dinner. The tide is coining up and
covering the rocks, I will finish it lo-mor-
row morning.”
Tho text day he worked until dinner,
and was greatly contented with the result.
“It will make a capital thing,” he said.
“1 have been very lucky with the lights.
I do thinic it will be the best thing l have
done.”
His pleasure was a little marred by the
fact that the two girls^had again been out
on the rocks, and had on their return pass
ed close by him; but this tims the child
had kept close to her cousin.
“Offended evidently,” was his muttered
comment, “and no wonder. 1 wish 1 was
not such a bear.”
The following morning he was late in
starting for a stroll across the sands. The
tide had already turned, aud there wero
few places on the coast where it came in
more rapidly tbau on the Barmouth sands.
For a long time its approach is so gradual
that K can hardly be noticed, but when it
reaches a certain point It comes in with
startling speed.
“There are those girls on the rocks
again,” lie said, as he shaped his coarse
so ai to carry him to the right of them.
He had not gone fifty yards along tbs
edge of the sand when he heard a loud
cry behind him. He looked round aud
saw that the elder girl, who was reading,
had risen from a camp-stool, on one of
the rucks, already cut off by a rapidly in-
crossing stream of water. The cry of the
child ou discovering her situation was
echoed by her.eoinpanion, who was about
hi rash into the water when Hugh ran
up.
“All right, I'.tfle -one!” he shouted cheer
fully. “I'll fetch yon out.”
•*>> saying, lie waded into the water,
Which wa* already nearly up to his waist,
reaching the little girl, he took her in his
»rms aud carried her to the shore.
- JTi-re you ere, as right as possible,”
he said, as be put her down; “but you
blast inind, missy, for the tides ere very
r*P ; d here.”
‘•Thank yon so very much, sir,” the
elder gi r | said, “it Is most kind of you.”
Tlie artist looked into the flushed face
of the girl, aud the oyes in which the tears
Wen- standing, aud his habitnal shyness
i«H upon him. Muttering something about
iu b-ing no odds et all he raised bis hat
snd, turning upon his .heel, again pursued
his walk.
“He really is a bear,” Amy Herbert
s *u.', as slic hurried off with the child lo-
w*rd tlie sand-hills, pursued by the fast
n!il >2 tide, “and yet, by his voice, I am
>ure he could be very nice if he liked.”
Amy Herbert had no experiance wbat-
shy men. She was the only
-aaught'sr of a' wealthy ■Manchester colto~-
spuuier, and Manchester does not class
*hy juung men among Its productions,
sue was accustomed to bo admired, for
was ptetty and an heiress, and in both
Capacities made much of, but, though a
httle wayward and willful, from always
her own way, she was really un-
s Pmh tl, and was as bright and lovable a
f'rl as was to be found in the metropolis
of cotton.
for the next two days Hugh Carson
wissed the young lady and child from the
“ore, hut several times saw the flutter of
* I'ght-eolored dress high up in tho hills
kkinJ Barontti.
“That rising tide has given her a fright,”
be said u> himself, “and they’ve taken to
•b® hills. Rather a nnlsence, becausa I
bare done with these flats, and shall be
doing the hills myself. However, they
are extensive enough without onrrunning
each other, as we always seem to
0® doing here.”
In fact, as Hugh and his acquaintances
took their meals a; about the same hour,
and both came in al the very last moment
before them, it is not singular that each
day they bad, either, morning, afternoon,
or evening, met at least once in the quiet
little street, and each time Hugh raised
his hat, Miss Herbert bowed frigidly, and
her little cousin nodded brightly. Once
when he passed the door of their lodgings,
just as they wero going in, the child ran
across the road as her cousin entered, aud
put her baud into his, and talked to him
for two or three minutes, and conveyed
to him the thanks of her mamma, who
was not strong, and did not go out much,
for having carried her across the tide. For
the next three days Hugh Carson was en
gaged in painting a picturesque old farm
house lying far on the bill. The subject
was a good one, and he set to produce a
finished picture on the spot, aud worked
at it from early morning, as long as the
light lasted, making his breakiast and
lunch off milk and bread ami cheese ob
tained at the farm house. Upon the third
evening lie was returning from his work
walking along the edge of the hill, look
ing down upon the sea, when he came
npon the little girl lying on the ground
crying bitterly.
“Why, little one, what is the matter?”
The child, who had not heard him ap
proaching, leaped to her feet, aud, udoii
seeing who it was, a look of pleasure
flashed across her Uar-stained face.
“Oh, please, sir, do help me! Cousin
Amy has tumbled down the hill!”
“Good gracious, child, where has she
fallen?” Hugh said in horror, for the
spot where they stood was about ono of
the steepest slopes between Barmouth aud
Harlech.
“Down tltere, sir, she. was picking a
flower when she slipped, and I can’t get
at her, but I cm sea ber.”
And the child led the young artist to a
joint futher on, where the plateau pro
jected, and the face of the hill where
Amy had fallen was visible.
The slope where she had slipped was
very steep, but became even steeper lower
down. Then a rocky ledge projected, and
below it an abrupt precipice some fifty
feet high. Amy Herbert lay on the ledge.
She had roiled down on to it, and had
evidently struck her head, for site was in
sensible. Tnis ledge was some three feet
wide, aud, from the position in which the
girl lay, it was probable that, at the first
movement made as she came to, sho-would
roll over the edge.
“All right, little one; don’t cry, I will
get to cousin Amy. She has hurt herself,
but I dare say she will be all right wiuu I
get to her.”
Hugh spoke cheerfully, but he was by
no means sure that the girl was not killed.
He looked closely at the grassy slope. It
was easy enough to slide down; but once
down there was no getting up agaiu. He
was fully a mile and a half from the
town, but he dared not run for aid, for if
the girl partially recovered she might he
dashed to pieces before his return. It was
evident that lie most slide down to her.
But the child puzzled blm. He was afraid
to send ber to the village by herself,
alraid to leave her on top; besides, if they
were to stop on the ledge till help came,
it would be much more pleasant with the
child there, both for Amy and himself.
“Look here, Fussy,” he said, after a
minute’s thought, “will youjbe a good,
quiet little girl if I take you down with
me to Cousin Amy.
The child nodded seriously.
“Here goes, then,” he said; “now you
take hold of my baud very tight, and we
will go down as far as we can, then we’ll
lie down on the grass, you put your arms
round my neck, and we will slide down.”
So it was done, not without danger, but
Hugh was strong and steady, lying on his
face, with one arin round the child, he
held on to the tufts of grass and let him
self slide as gently as he could. Still his
heart beat last for an iustant when, on
reaching the steepest point of the slope,
they slipped down with a rush the last
fifteen feet to the ledge where Amy lay,
half over the brink of tlie sheer fall below.
“How Pussy, you sit down quite quiet
while I see to cousin Amy.”
Very anxious the young aitist lifted the
girl’s head from the grass. There was a
little pool of brood below it, which flowed
from a wound just above the car. He put
bis fingers to her wrist, aud, after a min
ute of auxious suspense, he iclt a very
faint, flickering pulse.
“Thank Cod!” he exclaimed dovoutly.
Then he took out a whisky-flask and
poured a few drops bctwecn.the clinched
teeth. Again and again he did this, the
child all tlie time sitting perfectly quiet,
and watching witli quiet frightened eyes.
Presently the girl sighed faintly.
“Take bold of cousin Amy’s hand,”
Hugh said, “and when you see her open
her eyes speak to her gently. Tell her to
lin still, put your face to hers, so that she
may see you when she opens her eyes.”
Hugh was sitting on the ground sup
porting the gill, whose head rested on his
shoulder. Presently there was- a move
ment of the eye-lids, and then slowly and
languidly the eyes opened.
“There, cousin Amy, you are better now.
Lie quite quiet. You have hurt your
self, aud must be very good.”
The eyes expressed recognition and a
faint wonder, and then closed again.
Hugh waited a little, and then poured a
few more drops of whisky between her
lips. Tills time the effect was more de
cided. She moved, shook her head, and
tried to avoid the mouth of the flask.
Tiien she looked up again.
“What is it?” she said faintly. “What
are you doing? Where atn I?”
“Yon must be quiet amt good/’ tlie
child said positively. “You must not
move, the gentleman says so."
This time the speech was vaguely un
derstood, for she looked beyond the child’s
face to that of Hugh; closed her eyes again,
ai if she doubted them, loosed again, and
then made an effort to raise her head.
Then Hugh spoke gently but decidedly:
“My dear young lady, you must be
quite qu’;et. You have fallen down and
hurt yourself, and you arc faint aud weak.
You are quite safe where yeu are, but yjn
cannot move, for we are on the side of the
hill, and must wait till help comes. Your
cousin is here with you. Kiss her, Pussy.”
Amy Herbert listened in sort of a con
fused wonder. Site did not understand in
the least, except that she was told to to
quiet in firm aullioritive tones, such as
had not been addressed to ber since she
was a child. The warm kiss of her little
cousin seemed to assure her that all was
safe and right, aud, with a little sigh, she
closed her cycs.again aud was soon breath
ing quietly. Then the child turned to
Hugh.
“Amy’s gone to sleep, My name isn’t
Pnssy, but Ida—Ida Herbert.
“All right, Ida. I’ll call yon so In fu
ture. Now, Ida, when you stand up can
yon see the road below there.”
“Just see it,” the child said, “but it is
people to look for you, and then we shall
hear them shout, aud wesliall shout back
again, and then they’ll come with some
ropes, and up we shall go to the top. Now,
shall I tell you a story?”
“Ob, yes, please,” Ida Jtaid, delighted.
“Will you sit quiet by me, then? And
when you leel sleepy just lay your head
down and go to sleep. I will go on with
my story till you're asleep, but we mnst
talk very low, else we tball wake Cousin
Amy.”
For an hour he told stories ol fairies and
enchanters, and then the liltl* head lean
ed gradually against hi* waistcoat, and in
five minutes he stopped iu the middle of
bis narrative. Then Amy Herbert spoke:
“I am not asleep, I have been awake
for some time, and have been thinking.
You arc the gentleman who rescued Ida
off the rocks, are you not?”
“Yes,” Hugh said.
“I thought so. Now, please, how came
yon and Ida here, and where are we, and
why don’t we go home?”
“You rolled down a steep grassy slope
on to a ledge. You struck your head In
falling, and were insensible for a time. I
came up, and should have run off for as
sistance, but I feared if you moved before
I came back you would fall over auother
fifty feet, so I took Ida and slipped down
to you."
“Can’t I move?” the girl asked, pres
ently.
“Are you uncomfortable?”
“No,” she said shyly.
“Then you bad better lie still,” Hugh
said decisively. “The ledge is very nar
row and you are very weak, and, I dare
say, giddy, for yon lost a great deal of
blood. So you might really fall over if
you sat up. With my am round you you
are quite safe.”
And Hugh emphasized the tact by draw
ing her still more closely to him. Her
slight figure yielded to the pressure, and
with a little movement, which was very
like the nestle with which Ida had pre
faced her subsidence to sleep, Amy Her
bert lay quiet, and in a very few minutes
Hugh was sure, from her regular breath
ing, that she too was asleep.
“It must be nearly 10 o’clock,” Hugh
said to binHelf. “I should think we ought
very soon get out of this. The old lady
will be fidget by lialf-past seven, alarmed
by half-past eight, and by half-past nine
she ought to have all Barmouth out witli
torches. But women are so long before
they set about a thing in earnest. They
begin to fidget long before a man does, but
they don’t set to work to take decided
steps. Still, searchers ought to be out by
this tune. I am beginning to feel horribly
cramped. I suppose some fellows would
like tnis sort ot thing, but I don’t see any
point in it whatever."
In another quarter of an hour Hugh
saw several lights coming along the road
below, and could hear faint shouts, which
seemed to be echoed by a party proceed
ing along the “hill. They were moving
but slowly, for there were lights half way
up the face, and they were evidently
searching very carefullv. Tlu»
rrom mem, and it was useless for Hugh to
try and return their shouts. Gradually
they got nearer, and he determined to
make an effort, but to do so it was neces
sary to stand up. He moved slightly, aud
tue elder girl moved also.
“Wake up, please,” he said, “help is at
hand.”
She raised herselt at once.
“I do think I have been asleep. I feel
ever so much better.”
“I will stand up and shout,” Hugh said.
“Will you lean back against the hill? I
will lay your cousin down with her head
in your lap. She is sound asleep,as a top.
Now for it!” and standing up, Hugh gave
a shout with all the power ot his lungs.
There was a pause in the movement of
the lanterns, and then a shout.
“Halio-a-a!” Hugh shouted again; “this
way!”
Rapidly the lanterns catne flittering
along the road till they were down iu
front of them.
“Here we are! here are tlie ladies!”
Hugh shouted.
“Any one hurt?”
“Not much, but wo can’t get either up
or down. You must let a rope down to
m from above. Here wo are,” and Hugh
struck a match and lighted a large pieco
of paper. “Have tho party above got
ropes?" , ,
There was shouting backward and for
ward, but the party above bad not got
ropes.
“Send back for them at once,” Hugh
shouted, "and be snre and tell tho lady
that no damage Is done here..”
“How do you feel now?—I was going
to say Cousin Amy,” he laughed, “but I
really haven’t the pleasure ol knowing
your name.’’
“Amy Herbert.”
“IIow do you feel now, Miss Herbert?”
“I feel weak aud ratiier headachy,” she
said, “but there is nothing really the
matter with me. What an escape 1 have
had!”
“Yes, you had a natrow squeak of it,”
Hugh said frankly, “just another pound
or two of impetus and you would have
gone over the ledge.”
She was silent,'and he went on:
“Do you object to smoke? Because if
you don’t I should really like to light my
pipe.”
“Not at all.” Amy said.
“There’sjsoinetliing comfortable about a
pipe,” Hugh said, when it was fairly
alight: “somehow one can talk when ono
gets a pij e alight.”
“1 think men can talk at all times,’
Amy said, with a flash of her usual spirits,
“Sonic ir.cn can," Hugli said. “I can
talk with men, but, do you know, some
how I can’t talk with women. I can talk
with you now because I don’t see you,
and because I am smoking, but I should
feel horribly uncomfortable if I met you
iu the morning.”
“I did not know any men were sby
with women, nowadays,” Amy said.
“Sby?” Hugh repeated. “Well, yes,
I suppose it is a sort ot shyness with me.
I never had any sisters, and so, yon see,
I never got in the way of talking to girls.
It is very annoying sometimes, and makes
people think me a bear. I suppose you
thought so. You must have done so.”
“Yes,” Amy said. “I did think you
rather a bear. I am not accustomed to
shy young incn r and I simply fancied you
did not want to speak to strangers. Aud
now, pleas tell mu exactly what happen
ed, because I shall have to tell aunt, and I
only a confused idea of what has taken
place.”
Again Hugh told ber the facts.
“Then I owe my life to you,” the girl
said, when lie had finished.
“I really don’t think yon do,” Hugh
said, in a matter-of-fact way. “I question
very much if yon would have come round
out of your faint before I could have
brougbt lieip from Barmontli. However,
of course, I acted for the best, and it
avoided all risk. There was no danger
in getting d wn to you, and the little one
getting dark. When are wegoinghome?” and I slippsd down as easily as possible.
“I am afraid we are nut going home to
night, Ida. Certainlynotunlessjsome’one
comes along that road, and there Is ‘not
much chanco of that.”
Where are we going to sleep?” Ida
asked in surprise.
“We must sleep Just where wo are.
Cousin Amy will sleep here, and you
shall curl up close to me and lay your
head against me on the other side, and 1
don’t think you’ll be cold.”
“But 1 want supper before I goto bed.”
“Ab, you can’t have supper to-night,
Ida, but it will be great fun, you know,
sleeping out here for a bit, and I expect
that presently your mamma will send out hi;.
If I thought you were very grateful, or
anything of that sort, I give yoa my honor
I should go right away by the coach to
Comarvon.”
The girl felt by the tone of Hugh’s voice
that there was no affectation about him,
that be really meant what be said.
“I may just say ‘thaDk you,’ now?” she
asked quietly.
“Yes, Just ’thank you,’ ” be said lightly.
“If I were a man yon would shake
hands over It?” the girl asked.
“Yes,” Hugh said.
“Please give me your hand.
He stooped down and put her band into
“Thank you,” in a deep, quiet, earnest
voice.
Then, as he rose again, she went on, in
a changed voice:
“Now mind, it is a bargain. We have
shakeh hands on it. I am nut to he grate
ful, and you are not to be afraid of me,
but are just to be as natural with me as
with Ida.”
“That is a bargain,” Hugh said with a
laugh. “I don’t think I shall feol shy
with you in the future. I never talked
so much with a woman in my life. I sup
pose it is because I can’t see your face.”
“I don’t know whether to take that for
a compliment or the reverse,” Amy laugh
ed.
“Tlie revet so, of course," Hugh said,
laughing, too, “compliments are not in
my line. Ah, here they are with tho
ropes. They have been precious quick
about it.,’ And Amy Herbert felt that
there was a real compliment in tbo tones
in which be spoke. “Now youhnust wake
Ida. How soundly she sleeps! Now let
mo help you to your feet.”
Even with the aid of toe lope it was a
work of considerable difficulty to get Amy
Herbert up to tlie top of tlie slope, for she
was weafi and shaken, and unable to do
much to help herself At last it was mar.*
aged, aud then she was helped down a
steep path close by th» road below, where
a carriage from the hotel was waiting for
them.
“Will you come up and see my aunt?’’
—*®y Mked, as they stopped at the door.
“Not to-nigiit, thank you. I will come
in the morning to see hotv you are after
the shake, and, please,” he said, “tell
your uunt of our bargain, it would bo
awiul to cotre np to be thanked.”
“Good-night,” the girl said. “I won’t
forget. Como early. Now, Ida, come
along, you will soon be in bed.”
Two months later Mr. Herbert was
walking up aud down his breakfast-room
in a towering passion. Amy was sitting
iu a great arm-chair.
“It is monstrous, it is incredible,” Mr.
Herbert exclaimed.. “Here you, tor whom
I have looked for a capital match, who
refused three of the very best men in tho
district last year, are away for two and a
half months at this beggarly Welsh village,
and you come back and deliberately tell
me tiiat you have engaged yourself to an
artist, a fellow I never heard of.”
“Dear old daddy,” Amy said quietly,
“don’t get angry about it. Come aud sit
down and talk It over reasonably, as you
always do things with me.”
“No, no, Amy. I know wliat your
reasonable talking means. I am not to
be coaxed or wheedled or made a fool of.
It’s all very well when you want a pair
of now ponies or anythiug of that kind
you have set your mind on, but there is a
limit to everything.”
“Well, but wo must talk tho question
over, daddy.”
“Not at all, not at all; no talk is neces
sary. You tell me you want to marry
this fortune bunting artist. I say at once
JSgWHfcfUF tSTl&rti sfngie
word about such a ridiculous affair.”
“Now, why should you call him a for
tune hunter ?” Amy said, seizing at once
upon the weak point. “He has not an
idea that there is any fortune in tho case.
He saw me staying In poky lodgings at
Barmouth, and beyond the fact, that 1 live
at Manchester, ho knows nothing. He
tells me that he has cuough for us to live
on very quietly, in addition to his profes
sion. So, you see, he can’t be called a
fortune hunter.”
“Well, well, it makes no matter. The
thins is monstrous. aud I will not hear of
it.”
•Well, daddy, I will do just as you like,
and I won’t say any more about it now;
but, of course, to-morrow I must talk
about it, because it is out of the question
that I should break my word which I have
given, and should mako him unhappy,
and bo awfully unhappy myself. So I
shall have to talk about him, aud you
will have to listeu”—tlie father had sat
down now—“because though, as my papa,
you have a perfect right to say, ‘I will not
consent to your marrying this man,’ still
you kuow, I must talk about a thing
which is making me very unhappy. And
it will be so much better aud nicer, dad
dy,” and she went over to liim now and
sal herself down on his knee, witli her
arm around liis neck, “if you givo in at
once. Because, yon know, you can’t
Keep In a naughty temper with mo long;
and besides, you would be very unhappy
if I was uubappy; and at last, you kuow
very well, you will have to give up being
cruel and cross, aud will tell me to be
happy my own way.”
“Amy," her father said, trying to look
very stern, “I have spoiled you. I have
allowed you to tyrannize oyer me.”
“No, daddy, I can’t allow that—cer
tainly not tyraunize. I have led you lor
your own good, and Jon have been as
happy as tho day Is long—”
“And now,” ho continued, ignoring the
protest, “I am to reap the reward of my
folly. Tiiat you should have married Ja
man of high rauk 1 expected; had you
married a firslrate mau ot busiiiessjl
should have been contented. But an
artist!”
“Well, daddy, we won’t talk any more
about it to-day. Now I’ll just smooth
those naughty cross wrinkles, aud I’ll
kiss you on each cheek aud the middle of
your nose. There, now it looks like itself.
There! 10 o’clock striking, and yon not
off! Mind, I shall expect you up to
luncheon.”
So Mr. Herbert went off shaking his
head, and although still determined, yet
at heart, very doubtful of bis power of re
sistance. Amy went to her special sanc
tum and wrote her first letter to Hugh.
The following sentences show that she
bad no doubt whatever on the subject:
“Daddy docs not take quite kindly to
the notion yet. He doesn’t know you,
yon see, aud it has of course come upon
him a Httle suddenly; but be is the very
best and kindest of all daddies in tho
world, and in a very few days he will sen
it hi quite the right light. It is of no use
your writing or 'coming to ine here till he
he is quite reasonable; but I expect by
this day week to have everything arrang
ed. I will let you know what train to
come by, and will meet you at the sta
tion."
It is to be presumed that Amy thor-
ouebly understood her father; but at any
rate, it was exactly that day week that
Hugh Carson, having obeyed instructions,
got out at the station directed, five miles
From Manchester, was a little surprised
and much disappointed at not seeing her
upon the platform.
“Your luggage, sir! Are yon tho gen
tleman from the Hawthorns? - ’ Very well,
sir, I will send up the portmanteau. Miss
Herbert is in the pony-carriage."
KJless me, Amy,” Hugh said, after tbe
first greeting, as they drove off, “yon
used to talk about your pony-trap, but this
turnout is pretty enough to attract
aatention iu tbe park Amy,”
and he looked at her with a puz
zled glance; “you’re no*. a swell, are
you?—because that would be dreadful.”
“Well, Hugh, if being a swell means
having lots cf money, I suppose I am one,
for daddy has lots upon lots. He’s got
cotton mills, you know. Bnt there’s
nothing dreadfti! in that.”
“You ought to have told me, Amy,"
Hugh said, a little gravely.
“Pas sibele," the girl said. “In the
first place, it was nice to know that you
fell m love with me without knowing
whether I had a halfpenny; m the second
place, you would very likely have run
away if you bad thought I was rich; and
to tell you the truth,
WO idea of letting you run away. There,
Hugh, there’s the house; isn’t it prettv ?”
“It’s almost a palace,” Hugh said in dis
may.
“Yes; and there’s papa at tho door
waiting to greet you. Now, look quite
pleasant aud bright, Hugh, for of course
I want him to like you almost as well as
I do.”
v- Darla-Johnston.
Ail fair-thinking men must deprecate
the intention of President Davis and Gen
eral Jehus ton to have their quarrels out
through the intervention of the partisan
rangers cf the Northern press. It was a
distressful day when these two leaders
drew offfor a personal tilt while the guns
of the enemy shook the capital of the young
Confederacy. Tlie controversy thus be
gun lasted throughout the war, and will
stand in history as one of ltd most remark
able episodes. Two men, parted by hun
dreds of miles, both busy with the onerous
duties of their respective positions, con
ducted a correspondence by courier, cy
pher telegrams and wretched mail fa:il-
ities iu which not a superfluous word on
either side may be found, and in which
the cold trad eaiilluus language
conceals tliB linger of tho
contestants. It is like tho stage
play of two masters of fence, tho fitrul
flashes of whoso blades in thrust aud par
ry give tho only gleam of the band-to-
baud contest. During all this time the
Confederacy was bleeding In the sight of
both. And now that peace and advanced
years liavo come not only to tho great
leaders, but their followers, it is pitiful
that they should seek each to besmirch
the fair fame of tbe other. Mr. Davis
cannot destroy tlie reputation of General
Johnston as a soldier any more than Gen.
Johnston can establish tho inunendo that
Mr. Daris appropriated the public funds
to liis private use. But iu more than
one Southern community there liavo
been whispers of scandal in
connection with tho gold, .silver
and bulliun which went out of Richmond
and never returned. Some of it has been
traced to the United States Treasury De
partment, but there ii still a large sum
unaccounted for. This controversy, now
that it is on, may bring out the truth in
all ot its details. If so it will do some
thing towards satisfying public curiosity
and softening tbe asperities of a newspa
per brawl. One of General Johnston’s
charges rests upon the soinewl>«» >——-
j _ —.ions of, General
Beauregard and a Confederate officer of
lower grade. He assumes tbo sole re
sponsibility for tlie other, to the effect that
the merchants of Richmond gave Mr.
Davis $300,000 for the defense of that city,
which remains unaccounted for. Mr.
Davis may properly ignore ilio first, but
bo should be heatd from promptly in re
ply to the last.
AH tho histories of the late war are fail
ures as histories, aud necessarily so. The
piques, the passions and prejudices of the
strife live in the memories of men, though
nature has kindly hidden with flowers
and grasses the horriblo gashes on her fair
bosom. The timo is not yet to settle the
events of the great struggle or to correctly
measure the men who initiated and con
ducted it. To the historian of the future
mnst bo left tho name and fame of the
Federal and Confederate soldier.
THU OVEKVOAT HE HOT.
How They do Tliliiffi In Detroit as
Well as In Same Oilier Places.
Detroit Fret Prest.
Yesterday morning a tall young man of
twenty landed at the union depot with a
bundle under his arm, and after three or
four minutes spent in getting his bearings
he walked up Jefferson avenue and turned
into a clothing store.
“Vo you wish to try on some coats and
vests for a dollar?” asked tbe proprietor,
as be rushed from behind tbe counter.
“No, I guess not. Do yoa deal on the
square?”
“My frent, dot is exactly vliat I does. I
vas so square dot I lose $3,000 last ytar.
Can I sell yon an overcoat for $10?”
“No, 1 guess not. Here is an overcoat
that I bought of you four weeks ago.”
“Bought of me?”
“Yes, I think yon are tho man. When
I got it home we found that it was moth
eaten. I can pick it to pieces in a dozen
places.”
“Is dot possible! Unt how much you
pay?"
“Eight dollars ”
“My shtars! And vliat yon vant now?”
“I waut my money back.”
“Vhell—vhell. My frent, I am sorry
for you. Yon seem like an honest poy,
" * it vlias too bad 1”
""“YeSi It WAS A Iffindie, and I want
money back.*’
“Dear me, but I visti you vas here Sea
tefday. Lot me explain to you. You
bought dot coat four weeks ago!"
“Yes, four weeks to-day.”
“Vhell, I had sold oudt to my couslu
Philip sbust one day before. Philip is
not a square man.”
“What have I to do with Philip?”
“Let me explain. In dree days Philip
makes assignment to my bradder Louis.
Dot Louis is a leedlo off. He would
cheat your oye teeth away from you.”
“Yes, but I haven’t anything to do with
Louis.”
“Let me explain. Louis kept der place
a week, und ho gif a shattel mortgage
to my fadder-in-law, and vlias bounced
out.”
“I don’t know anything about that.”
“Let me explain. Ay fadder-in-law was
took mit a fit and died, and he leaf dis
biace to iny wife. My wife was gone to
Europe for two years, and she leaf mo as
agent. Now you see how it was. I
ganuot tell you who sold dot coat- May
bo it was Philip, may be Louis, may be
my fadder-in-law.JU couldn’t haf been me
for I was in SUicago. If yon leaf me dot
coat I will write to my wife. She is
square sbust liks me, and may be writes
back dot you can take a linen duster and
two white vests and call it straight.”
“Say, this is a sneaking swindle,” ex
claimed the young man:
“May bo it was. Philip was u great
liar.” b
“Pll go to. the Sflliqg^”
uia.no uur ponce
vhill help me catch Louis. I shust found
out last night dot he cut all der hind but
tons off all der coats in der store before
he left.”
“If you’ll gtep out doors I’ll mash
you.” |
“Vhell, I like to oblige you, but yon see
probably introduced by emigrants. Dr.
E. L. Griffin, presideut of rhe Wisconsin
State Board of Health, and proprietor of
the vaccine farm at Fond du Lac, the
product of which is sent all over the
world, was In Chicago recently for the
purpose of purchasing heifers for use iu
the production ot vacciue points. The
demand is great, Dr. Griffin having dis
posed of 70,000 points recently within the
space of three days. Sometimes but fifty
vaccine points can be obtained from one
animal, and in other cases over -1,000.
Young milch cows are tho most suscepti
ble and productive—those of light red
color the best, and black the most objec
tionable.
SI AX VS. BEAK.
Artrur proceeds slowly bnt surely to
make his cabinet stalwart and his admin
istration partisan. Grant has been grati
fied and lias had his say in tho appoint
ment of Timothy Howe as Postmastei-
eneral. The country does not coutain a
man more unfitted for tbe successful and
satisfactory administration of that depart
ment than Mr. Howe, who will bring to
the discharge of his responsible duties
profound stupidity and the most rancorous
partisanship. But Howo is the “beloved
of Grant,aud Howe in turn worships
and serves Grant with a slavish devotion
that is sickening and despicable. Mr.
James had raised the hopes of
the country for increased and enlarged
mail facilities, and perhaps the
populous centres of tho North may yet
compel these privileges and benefits. But
here in the South tbe great patronage of
the department will be used to buy and
corrupt tho people who are not strong
enough to resist tho temptation of tho
spoils of office. If anything is likely to in
duce the people to entertain the novel and
startling proposition of 31 r. Voorhces to
have ail the postmasters elected by voters
of the various States, it will be a four
years term of Timothy Howo as Postmas
ter General.
I vlias only agent lor my wife.”
“Well, you’ll hear from mo again, and
don’t you forget it I” said tho victim as
went out.
“I hope so—I hope so. I like to make
it right. I vlias only agent for my wife,
but I feels so square dot I take dot coat
back tor $3 if you whant to trade it out
in paper collars.”
DEATH A OF LEPER.
Tub only augres which havo touched
water at tho Atlanta Exposition were
handled by Georgia men. When Tom
Hardeman married the North and South
Col. W. H. Sparks wept audibly, and
when Col. Black, of Augusta, described
tbe neb cream and ripe whisky of the
blue grass region the great form of Jake
Rice, of tho Kentucky Legislature, shook
with sobs, and his too solid flesh melted
away into briny tears.
Assistant Postmaster-General
Hatton is not a bad man by any means.
He will slash Southern postmasters with
bis stalwart sclmetar, but in his milder
moods be delights to dally with an old
Confederate who has pluck and buttons
enough to slay late in a jack pot.
Keifer, it is said, has appointed Tom
my Reed, ol Maine, chairman of the ju
diciary committee. Tommy looks like a
Japanese with tho dropsy, and some ot
bis party organs continually refer to him
as the “cheerful idiot.”
Agricultural Commissioner Lor-
nro reports that he can’t do much with
Lo Due’s tea patch, but he has pnt the
cotton worm on the run and is about to
tree the Rocky Mountain locust.
Wren Tim Howe was in tbe Senate, a
speech from him was equal to a hypo
dermic Injection of morphine.
It is reported that the Hon. Cope
Winslow, of Houston, has bought an in-
History ol a Case Karel jr Encountered
In this Country.
A lrper died at tho charity hospital on
Blackwell’s Island yesterday who for the
past seven years had been afflicted with
this much dreaded disease. To those
■who were about, with aud near the un
fortunate man, there was not that loathing
of him which history records as existing
in those who came in contact with tho
lepers of ancient times. He was cot
isolated, & were the poor afflicted
Hebrews, who wero driven from so
ciety to Luddle among themselves, and
who, until the influeece of Christianity
brought about the change, were compelled;
far from their people, to urag out, siiuuneu
aud despised, a miserable existence.
Christianity cared for these poor unfortu
nates, and the church established orders
whose spJClal cars was to attend to and
supply tho wants Of these poor people.
The Knights Hrspitalers ol Bt. LaSarH*
bad such cbaiilv for them that he uiiial 1)1}
a recovered leper who was eligible to be
come grand master of their qjder.
Under the care ot these orders, and
with the advance of civilization, tho con
dition of the poorer classes became bet
ter, aud leprosy died out, until now, ex
cept in Norway and a few places in south
ern Europe, it is unknown. Its appear
ance, therefore, in one of the city institu
tions, made known by tbo death of tbe af
flicted, created, if not an alarm, at least
hh interest which rarely attends tbe death
ot an inmate of tbe charitable institutions
of Hie city.
Ill the year 1876 Charles Ilenkle was
admitted to tbo hospital afflicted with lep
rosy. He was then seventy-one year
old, a German by blrtli. In tbe yea
1803 he arrived in this city from Texas
and 3Iexico, where he had been living for
years as a cattle herder. Nine years after
bis arrival iu the city, in tho year 1874,
eruptions broke out'on his hands, head
and feet. Spots of various sizes and
colors showed themselves over bis
body. Under the treatment he received
the sores disappeared. For two and a
half years he bad suflered. After his tem
porary euro, which lasted but a year, tbe
eruptions reappeared,tubercular swellings
showing themselves on the forehead, tlie
eyebrows dropped off, the skin became
thick aud formed in ridges.
On his admittance to the hospital these
tubercular swellings had covered bis chin
and neck and the upper part of his back;
bis bosom, however, was freo from them.
There also appeared what are called
meinotic stains on the arms, and confluent
sores which readied down to ilio wrists.
The head was covered with tubercles,
which might, the same as those on the
other parts of tbe body, be pierced
with a pin without causing any sensation.
The inner sides of tho legs were covered
with small spots scattered all about and
hardened patches or skin covered the low
er half of the limbs. Tho knees were
covered with thickened skin. The feet
became purple and swollen and had no
feeling in them.
Dr. W. L. Hamilton, who treated the
disease, gate a medicine called schaul-
moogray three times a day and applied
to the body an ointment made of the
same substance. This dose after a little
was increased. It then produced diar
rhoea and was discontinued. Last May
tbe Chinese medicine or drug, hoang-
nan, was prescribed, and tbe results
were very marked. The skin began to
loaerits thickness, the tubercles peel off
and feeling returned to the parts where
numbness bad before existed. Tbe pati
ent, as far as the leproiy was concerned,
was getting along finely under tbe treat
ment, when he sank, worn out with old
age and exhaustion—New York Star,
December 1.
Ssiall-Pox.—Besides scattering along
the Pacific roads, small-pox seems to have
spread o— ‘ “ —
An Exciting Flic tit which Ended In
tbo Beast’* Discomfiture.
From the Buffalo (S. F ) Aries.
An exciting and prolonged fight between
& bear and a man took place in this city
yesterday afternoon, creating a great deal
of excitement. On Saturday afternoon,
Hellriege! Brothers, the butchers, of 11
East Seneca street, received by express
from Michigan a large specimen of the
black bear family, weighing at tho lowest
calculation 200 pounds. The bear made
the journey from the West in tbe interior
of a largo hollow log, and when it rc»oij.
ea iu aciunsuon problem of getting
tbe bear out of iia natural caco seemed
Incapable oi being solved. Yesterday
Afternoon bruin wa? taken to ilefsrs,
Hellriegel’s slttfo And then the difilcully
seemed to be greater than ever. A crowd
gathered around the store, and great in
terest was manifested in the solution of
tbe trouble. Some one said that Jack
Smith, who works as a teamster fur
Schaffer Brothers, in Lloyd street, could
do the business. A messenger was dis
patched for Smith, who speedily appeared
on the scene of action. He is about five
feet in height, and liis manner shows that
he was once a sailor. Smith is stout,
chunky and retucular, and wears an ex
pression which is a happy combination of
the thoroughly determined and devil-may-
care sort.
Smith, in an offhand way, said he
would “fix the bear for them any way
they wanted it.” When told that tlie
great desideratum was to get tlie bear
alive out of the log and chain him, the
ex sailo.* rcinareed that he would do it.
“Won’t you get hurt ?" some one
asked.
“That’s none of your business if I do,”
was Smith’s rejoinder.
After some parley it was decided that
the bear had best be dumped into an Ice
cellar under the store. This cellar is
10x12 feet and Sfeet high. Itcontaius ho
windows nor outlets except a 2x4 aper
ture at the top, which is covered by an
iron grating.
Tlie bear was shot down into this den
£(5tfk l-- 5lf~air lift ’tfrocfies except liis pan
taloons amt looked very ranch like a
prite-figbter as he stood alongside the bole
through which he would enter the bear’s
den. A candle was given him to aid in
materializing tbe bear, which could not
be seen in the Egyptian darkness which
filled the cellar. Jack, with the lighted
lantern between his teeth, swuDg lightly to
the floor of tbe den. Tho intruder at
once attracted the attention of the hear,
which, however, did not at once begin to
make any demonstrations. Jack made a
poke at the bear, aud with a growl the
animal got up on its hind legs and assum
ed a pugilistic attitude. The fight be
tween tbem began, and it was a hot and
furious one. The bear fougbt aud spar
red in a manner which would have pnt
to the blush many would-be ex
erts. His long claws were thrice
Suited iu tlie back of impatient
and hardy Jack, who, though the
pain was great, never relaxed the hold he
uad just acquired on the bear's throttle
valve. This was at the expiration of
neatly an hour, and tbe sturdy member
of the genus homo was rapidly getting tbe
better of his brute antagonist. At this
juncture, with a mighty effort, which
caused the animal’s body to quiver all
over, tbe brute threw off the sailor.
As Jack made a thrust at bruin’s throat
with his right hand, the maddened crea
ture clutched it and bailed his teeth in
in the flesh, The sailor rallied, and
in a moment 1:1“ CJ’md duldi tie
cannibalistic cavern, but a big piece of
flesh was misslug from between tlie thumb
and the first finger.
Smith in his turn grew angry, and dur
ing the remaining half hour which tbe
strange contest lasted lie strained every
muscle and mustered every uetvii to assl?’.
A CUHIOliS CASE OF FEIGXED
JtXtiAXITY.
How “FSc;
perla-’ We-e Pussicd by a
Colored Prisoner. *
_. Washington Star.
I ho theory of some people that Gnlteau
is feigning insanity recalls the case of one
Howard, a colored prisoner in the District
jail a few yeara ago, who for a long time
baffled the doctors and others. He was
rrrested here in tbe winter of’TD-’SO for
burglary and was indicted in seven cases.
Had he been convicted on all he would
have been sentenced to the penitentiary
for about sixty years, and probably have
ended his days there. The fact that he
Uad been thus indicted was published
and made known to him, and, in
his cell (one not far from that in which
Guiteau was first confined) he was one
morning found hanging by tho neck. He
had tied liimselt in such a manner as to
make it look impossible for him to have
done the Hying himself. He was at once
cut down and it wai found that he had
apparently lost his rcasou, is also tlie use
of his legs, and the jail officials, not then
dreaming that he was feigning, removed
him to a larger cell, where he could have
another prisoner to keep him company
and wait on him. Here Howard would
he day and all night, apparently unable
to move, Ije ato nothing so far as couiij.
bo observed. Never spoke to anyOndT
and apparently was a wreck monlallv.
Drs. Youug a ud McWilliams
were at first of tbe opinion that the
cam was a genuine one, and
so Genera! Crocker and most of
the jail officers. He was watched with,
more care than any other prisoner In the
jail. The case became one of study, and
some outside physicians were given an
opportunity to examine It. It was not
until Howaid bad spent several months
in this condition that the officials became
satisfied that ho was feigning imbecility
as well as sickness. Experiment after ex
periment was made with him. Inthe
summertime flies were - attracted to his
cell in large numbers. While he was ly
ing on his conch perfectly motionless they
entered his ears aud nostrils,and seemed to
bother him so little that the most careful
observer could not see a muscle move.
Dr. \oung, after a .careful exami
nation. could find no cause for the condi
tion of Howard, and with General Crock
er finally became suspicious that he was
playing “posium,” but they could not
bring their minds to the belief that this
man had sufficient will power to act the
role he had essayed continuously. How
ard’s attendant one night discovered sumo
or the food which the prisoner had hid
away, and about the same time the colony
of flies in the cell having become rein
forced a closer watch was kept on him.
One afternoon when there was considera
ble noise in tlie building, one of the
guards walked noiselessly to the cell
nu&irtlgine Tiles' away. As soon as tbe
sick and demented man saw that he was
discovered, he became helpless. The
physicians then determined to cure him,
aud giving him a shock of tbe galvanic
battery soon found that it was not impos
sible for him to use his legs. He, however,
became afterwards apparently as bad as
ever, and being brought into the rotunda
one day, having to be lifted, tbe batteiy
was applied, and It was with difficulty that
the strongest men could hold him, and he
soon found voice to yell out, “Areyou going
to kill me?” After this he was token to court,
tried, convicted and sentenced to the Al
bany penitentiary. Before going there he
needed several other applications of the
battery. On tbe journey ho pretended
that he was unable to walk, but the mere
mention by one of the guards that Ills
“comforter,” the battery, was at hand,
greatly improved his condition aud he
was safely landed in the penitentiary
walls. Tho last accounts from Albany
are to tbe effect that Howard is now one
of the most efficient workers, is m fine
health and as intelligent as any colored
prisoner they have.
EQV.IL tO THE LF.FKOV CASE.
Fall I’nrlicalars ol th« BSyrtertoas
murder at tbe Wimblelon sebool.
London, December 1$.—The Wimble
don mystery is the great social topic of
the day. Opinions are much divided.
Some thick Dr. Lareson is guilty of s
clumsy murderj hut others, including
many medical man, think the boy died in
consequence of morphia administered bv
the doctors. The case has excited is
much attention as that of Lefroy. The
police of London furnish these details of
the story: On Saturday evening, Decem
ber 3rd, about 7 o'clock, Mr. G. F. Lam-
for dear life, and would have burled his
molars in the man’s face but for the light
ed candle, which every now and then
came so close to bis nose that the smell
of burned hair arose to the nostrils of
those who were watching the fight from
the manhole which afforded an
trance to the cellar. Jack finally got his
fingers around the bear’s windpipe and
after a desperate and terrific contest
choked the bear into a state borderiog on
insensibility. Tbe victory was complete.
Smith put on the collar and chained
tlie bear iu the back part of the butcher
shop. He then put on his wearing appa
rel and walked off. This morning be
went to work as usual. He said to bis
boss, who commented on the injured
band:
“You see, I iought a b’ar yesterday, and
I beat it, too.”
Smith’s employer said to a News man
that they wero not astonished at his fight
with bruin.
Tbe bear was to-day on exhibition in
the lack part of Hellreigel’s store. It is
chained jnst as its captor left it. It will
be kept until Christmas, when il will be
shot and bear meat will be one of the at
tractionsiofthestore.
THE OULU ma ttuas oX.
Nearly sixteen roaa swred iu a Sla
de Uaak
Boston Herald
When the weight of tbe precions metals
is taken into consideration, the value, or
the convenience, of paper money be ornes
apparent. In gold, even, large sums of
money become very cumbersome and dif
ficult to manage. The average balauces
between tbe Boston banks each day, at
the clearing house, amount to
$1,500,000. Tiiis sum of money,
now almost wholly bandied in gold,
weighs about 3 3-10 tons. It is
chiefly handled in little cloth bags hold
ing, perhaps, three pints each, aud eich
bag carrying $5,000, weighing abouttwen-
ty-two pounds. These bags cf gold are
daily brought to the clearing-house in the
hands of bank messengers and in carts
and wagons, and daily token away in tbe
same manner. Very frequently quite a
little knot or crowd of bystanders nay be
noticed watching a covered wagon backed
up to the sidewalk in State street. Into
this wagon men are throwing little white
bags, which sti ike with a metallic crash
against each other and upon the floor of
tbe wagon. These bags each contain
$5,000 in com, aud the whole ot them
represent the daily balances between the
Boston banks. It is not infrequently tbe
case that a single wagon moves off to dis
tribute among tbe various banks $500,000.
Tbe bystanders look on with covetous
eyes, while the driver, bank messenger
and policemen - keep^guard.
A Txxas lumberman soya it will take
1,000,000,000 feet of lumber in ties alone to
in-law. Mr. Malcolm John was tho
sole surviving heir to considerable proper
ty, and it is not known how tong his
father and mother have been dead. He has
two sisters, one of whom is the wife of
Mr. Lareson, but none of tbem has
a settled residence in England. Mr. Lam-
son, when last beard of in this country,
was residing at Bournemouth, where he
practiced occasionally in bis profession.
When he called at the school on Saturday
evening lie saw his brother-in-law in com
pany with 3Ir. W. U. Bedbrock, tbe prin
cipal of the establishment. They were
having some sherry together, when Mr.
Lamson asked for some ground sugar, m
order, as he said, to take* away the alco
holic effect of what they were drinking.
The ground sugar having been brought,
Mr. Lamson produced some capsules,
and, addressing bis brother-in-law, said:
“Percy, this is the wty we used to take
it in America lo destroy the effects of
the alcohol;” then he put some of
the ground sugar into the empty cap
sule and handed it to Mr. Malcolm
John, who swallowed it. On a pre
vious occasion, about three or four months
ago, when Mr. Malcolm Jshn was at
Siianklin, in the Isle of Wight, he had, it
happens, received a quinine pill from Mr.
Lamson, from which he had suffered un
pleasant sensations, and in a joking >vay
he said on tbe occasion, “I don’t waut any
of your quinine pills, such as you gave me
at Shauklin. It nearly did forme tbere.”
Mr. Bedbrook was banded oue of tbe cap
sules before Mr. Malcolm John took his,
but did not experience any unpleasant ef
fect from taking it. The visit did not last
altogether twenty minutes, and soon after
Mr. Lamson left Mr. John began to feel
ill. He said at first tiiat ho suffered some
what in the way he did when he took
the quinine pUl in the Isle of Wight.
He gradually grew worse, and then
be commenced to vomit, complaining all
tbe time of a burning sensation at tbe
heart, while his lower limbs were para
lyzed. Medical aid was called at once.
Mr. Berry, surgeon, was at Blenheim
House School at tue time, and was called
up stairs as soon as tbe unfavorable symp
toms began to present themselves At
tbe same time Dr. Little was seut for, aud
both gertiemen remained with Mr. Mal
colm John until he died, in great agony,
at 11:30 o’clock the same night. Before
bis death be said; “That brother of mine
has done for me this time,” and made
other remarks to the same effect. The
medical gentlemen evidently had their
suspicious aroused from what they had
seen and beard, for up to that evening
Mr. John bad been in his usual good
health, and accordingly they directed that
a portion of the vomit should be preserved.
It is now in possession of the police. Be
fore leaving Blenheim House it was
noticed that Mr. Lsnsom talked la s|