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EUGENE CITY GUARD.
L U CAMPBELL. . . Preprint'.
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
6CIENCE AND INDUSTRY. "
A method of soldering tin cans bf
electricity hat recently boon devised,
and It bids fair to be quite gouerully
used.
It is a relief to know, upon so good
an authority as Professor Charcot, of
Franco, that only ono portion In 100,009
Is subject to the hypnotic Influonoe.
A very ingenious lnHtrumont has
lately appeared for showing tho Telocity
and pressure of the wind. The efToc.t
Is produced by the rising or falling la
lovel of mercury in a trough.
A now electrlo lantern has boen de
signed In Vienna for the use of lecturers
and medical claused. I!y a combination
of lenses the magnified image of an ob
ject is projected on a white screen in its
natural color.
Artificial musk Is a new product of
the cbomlsts. It is an oily liquid1 of a
brown color, and smells so much Ilka
aiusk that perfumers are able to use it
as a substitute for that article.
A new Industry is proposed for Flor
ida, tho cultivation of tho camphor tree.
There has been an lnorease in the price
of tho gum of late, and a largo demand
is anticipated in tho future for the man
fsoture of smokeless gunpowdor, of
which camphor Is a nocossary Ingredlont
It will not be long bofore all the
waste water-power In the land will be
converted Into electrical energy, and
conveyed anywhere to a point of from
ten to ono hundred miles on a small
copper wire, In armaments of from ten
to five hundred horso-power. The cost
of construction per mile would not ex
coed 4,000. Long distance distribution
has already boon practically successful
In the Westorn Status, but more par
ticularly In Switzerland. Inventive
Ago.
According to prosont appearances
electricity may be superceded for rapid
suburban transit purposes, under oortaln
peculiar conditions, by tho sliding rail
way, to experiment further on which an
overboad lino is to be constructed in
Paris, betweon the Mace Cllnchy and
La VUletto, capablo of carrying 13,000
passengers an hour each way. The dis
tance (about four miles), inoludlng stop
page at throe intermediate stations, ll
intended to be traversed In soven min
utes. The experimental line exhibited
rocontly in Paris Is to bo ro-erocted at
the Edinburgh exhibition.
To tho condemnation of tight lacing
Trofussor Vlrchow added his strong
word in a recent leoturo, at Itorlin, on
diseases of the liver. Ho pointed out
that "the outward pressure of tight lac
ing so surely a (Too ted the intornal or
gans that from the shape of a liver one
could determine to what period of fash
Ion the possessor belonged. Excessive
lacing can sod whole portions of the
liver to disappear. Others grew ab
normally, causing cbangos of the most
vital Importuneo to tho patient"
Mr. Nayeraura Sakusaburo, a drug
fist of Hikone, in Oml, Japan, has suc
ceeded In converting wild hemp (yacb
jo) Into a substance possessing all the
essential qualities of silk. Nothing tl
said about tho process, but It is asserted
that trial of tho thread has been made
at the first silk-weaving establishment
in Kioto and at other factories, with ex
cellent results In evory case. The plant
in question grows on moors and hill
sides. Its fiber is said to be atrong and
glossy, in no wlso Inferior to silk when
properly prepared. Cultivation on an
extended scale would present no dllH
oultles. Scientific American.
TOMMY'S FIRST VOYAGE.
Bow II Tormented Ills Ma Until II lis.
an la reel "Kinder yueer."
"Toll me, ma, who's that big man up
there?"
"That's tha captain, Tommy."
"What's he up there for?"
"That Is his place, up on the bridge?"
"What do thoy call It bridge for?"
"Uecause it goes over the duck."
"What dock?"
"Why, Tommy, the deck we are stand
ing on. Don't be so silly."
"Can't he evor ooino down?'
"Who, Tommy?"
"Why, that big oaptaln,"
"Certainly be can, whoncvor bellkes."
"Hut you say it was his plaoo."
"Well, so It is, when he is on duty."
"What duty?"
"Why, on watch; taking care of tba
hip."
"Is it his ship?"
"No, dear, it belongs to a company."
"Company of real soldiors?"
- "No; certainly not; how absurd von
are. A company of business uiou."
"Can they sail for nothing?"
"I don't know; I suppose so."
"We can't, can
"No, doar."
"Why notr
"Uecause your father does not Telor
to the oompany. Now be ijulot O, look
at that ship."
"Whore?"
"Why, right there."
"Where Is it going?"
"I don't know. Do ba still. I've got
a headache."
"Is there a oaptaln on that ship?"
"Yes."
"Big as ours?"
"I don't know. Now stop talking,"
"Ma."
"Well, what Is it now?"
"I feel queer kinder slok."
"Meroy takes. Tommy! Why didn't
you tay so before? Come, hurry and let
ptm vit vno ft rv-
A New Way mt llfximlug.
Many unique devices have been re
torted to for booming embryo towns,
but that employed by tha real estate
pushers of a fledgling ou Puget sound
take .the lead. Two professional
wrestlers were matched and the result
of the contest telegraphed throughout
tha coast It was not stated whether
the contest was held under a big fir
tree or on tha tide flats. Exchange.
lb fuleut -Lugalnc I'lut"
A phut called tha "laughing plant,"
ar, in acientiilo parlance, "Cannabalis
Sativa," lias boen discovered, and it is
alleged that when it is eaten in its green
state or taken as a tincture made either
from the green or tha dried leaf, as a
powder of tha dried leaf or smoked as
toutvrco, ii im poicus iu pruuucuig ex
altation, laughter and cLeering ideas,
Is'ew York Sun.
Professor Robertson, a well-known
dairy authority, savs it pays to give from I
two to three pounds of bran to eacli cow
daily, even where pasture is abundant.
The lt way of giving bran in the sum
mer is in the hae of drink. Place it
ina bucket of water and atir well. If,
given a haif hour l-f.ire iiii'kir, a a marked
im-reio of tuilk Till I olerved. j
fllrdt of III Omen.
An old Scotch saying hot it that
"Whlstliti' maidens an" crawlng hens
are nno lucky about ony ninn's toun."
Tims the ordinary barn yard fowl may
le a feathered forerunner of evil. Birds,
from perhaps antediluvian eriods, have
been looked upon as feathered fortune
tellers. Tho swarthy Italians, who, with
their cages of trained birds, stand at the
strwt corners In our Inrge cities and ask
passers by to allow the little feathered
ones to read their fortune, are the Strug
Kling remnants of a whole army of su
iierstitious souls. In some parts of Eng
land even In our day the note of the
swallow means the reception of some
evil tilling; but to kill that bird is a cer
tain wny of bringing down unlimited
evil on the destroyer. The white owl In
France is universally held as a foreteller
of death, and lu "screech" is not much
liked by English peasants. Dut in
America, among the negro population,
the brown owl, if uttering Its hoot on the
right, foretells good luck, but the oppo
site if on the left. In France and Bel
glum tho cry of the white owl is sup-
Ced to foretell oil sorts of misfortunes,
owever, tho counU'sucting remedy is
not far to seek it limply consists in
throwing a pinch of salt into the fire
when the sound is heard.
Twocrows, in some parts of Scotland,
are considered very ominous of ill. The
cuckoo's note Is everywhere held as a
sign of duplex meaning, the explanation
whereof lies, not with the bird's note but
with the auditor's pocket. If the cuckoo
be heard when the pockets nre empty a
very impecunious year and (specially)
the need of borrowing from friends (or
trying so to do) is Implied. Dut if, on
the other hand, the cuckoo's note be
beard for the first time- when the pocket
contains cash, a prosjierous and moneyed
year is foretold. Another sigh of good
fortune is found In the robin perching on
the roof and singing. Curiously enough
the smallest of popular birds, the golden
crested wren, was, till the end of the last
century, and in some parts during the
first qunrter of the present one, despite
the nursery rhyme associating it with
the robin, held as a foe, and cruelly
stoned on certain days, much after the
fushlon in which the Shrovetide cock was
tortured to death. Home Journal.
Immense Gains In Force.
What science and invention is doing
for the human race was tersely and
plainly presented. Note the following
illustration:
Comoro a galley, a vessel propelled by
oars, with the modern Atlantic liner, and
first let us assume that primo movers are
non-existent and that the vessel is to be
propelled galley fashion. Take her length
as some 000 feet, and assume that placo
be found for as ninny as 400 oars on each
side, each oar worked by three men, or
8,400 men; and allow that six men under
theso conditions could develop work equal
tooneliorte power; wo should have 400
horso power. Double the number of men
and we should have 800 horse power, with
4,800 men at work, and at least the
tutno numlier in reserve, if the journey is
to be carried on continously. Contrast
the puny result thus obtained with the
10,800 horse power given forth by a
large prime mover of tho present day,
such a power requiring, on the above
modo of calculation, 117,000 men at
work and 117,000 men in reserve; and
theso to be curriod in a vessel less than
000 feet in length. Even if it were pos
sible to carry this numlier of men in such
a vessel, by no conceivable means could
their power bo utilized so as to impart to
it a ajiced pf twenty knots an hour,
weighing as it would some 10,000 tons
gross.
Primo motors can do what human
tuusclocan never accomplish. Take a
railway locomotive 000 horso power de
veloped in a wagon which does not oc
cupy fifty square yards of space, and
that (lies at tho ruto of sixty miles an
hour with its heavy train, liow weak
and puny human musrlo toward attain
ing such results. Sir Prod Uruuibull to
tho UritUh association.
The Mrfhixllcal Astor Family.
Plainness mid solidity mark whutover
belongs to the family. Tho houses, nt
the corners of Thirty-third und Thirty
fourth streets and Fifth avenue, in which
John Jucob and William Astor have lived
for years, are simple to baldness, are In
deed ugly without, though very comfort
able internally. Dut nowhere is there
any sign of ornament for the sake of
ornament. Richness is blended with
something of severity. The contoniH
raneous asioii for the uwtlietio and
decorative is not visible.
The Astors give elalxrato entertain
ments, mainly dinner parties, but give
them sjiuringly, and ulwuys see that they
are fully und correctly advertised in the
social columns of tho iitwsuX'rs, ' Even
festivity is a business with the family,
who are methodical and considerate of
cost in everything. They ore trained to
be so from their infancy. Hence, im
pulse, sensibility, romance, s,vmwthy,
whatever belongs to the emotional or
ideal, In, if it appear, sedulously repressed.
Mrs. John Jucob Astor, who recently
died, was devoted to the oor, attend
ing to their wants personally; but she
used in charity, I am told, only the in
come from her marriage portion. Her
memorv is widely and tenderly mourned
by tho lowliest and neediest of the town,
to whom she was a constant help. Paul
R. Cleveland in Tho Cosmopolitan.
A HI tuple, Kfflclenl Kilter.
Dr. F. A. Castle, of New York, thus
describes, in a letter to The New York
Medical Journal, a simple, and, as he
claims, efficient filter: "For a long time
I have used in my butler's pantry a sim
ple contrivance for filtering water used
on tho table, which has been so service
able, and nt the same time so incxpen
alvo, that I venture to recommend it, I
took an ordinary glass pharmaceutical
percolator, and packed the outlet with
absorbent cotton so tightly that the water
could only flow in drops. Dy meant of
piece of copper wire for a bale, it was
suspended from a hook on the lower side
of one or tho pantry shelves, over the
shelf of tho sink. As ofu-n as necessary,
water is oured into the percolutor. and
tho water pitcher is placed under the out
let. Whenever tha cotton shows much
discoloration a thing whk-u is easily ob
served, owing to the percolator being of
gloss the maid replaces it with fresh ab
sorbent cotton. It is in all resjiects tha
most practical and cheapest filter I know
of, and hot no machinery to get out of
order, no patent right to carry, and the
advantage over most niters that the tilter-
big medium is always under observation,
' no that there is Utile risk of contamina
tion of tha water by accumulations of
filth. ' 'Science. .
All visitors to IWton have greatest In
terest in the old buildings of the city. It
is rather a disappointment to them that
the whole city does not present its former
Puritan aspect, and the people from tba
newest western cities are tl most
arrogant in their demands for antiquiti,
BobUxi Journal
WEN WHO 6UCCEE0.
Whs Is Man's "Luck?"-Had Utgle The
Kearebliif Eye.
IIow do some men get on in the world!
How do they get ahead? You see some
men promoted and others not. Dy what
process of selection are the successful
men picked out from the ranks? Take
mercantile life, for Instance. Is there
any definite system of promotion there?
Is there a searching eye that is always on
the lookout for those who promise to be
capable men? Or is it luck and chance
that cause some men to succeed and
other men to fail or to remain where
they are?
Men rail against "fate." There nre
always some thousands, if not some
millions, of our fellow creatures who are
doing this, and who blame everything,
from the stars to tho weather, for the ill
success in the midst of which they find
themselves, sooner or later. Hut were
they not themselves largely to blume for
not getting onf If n teulous and Impar
tial critic were to examine tho records of
their lives from day to day, would he
not find a very good reason, or plenty of
reasons, perhns, why fortuno had not
smiled on the complainants? One often
hoars that So-and-so is "down on his
luck." Tom is now in the samo humble
position that ho held ten years ago, while
Dick is happy In the favors or tne coy
jado fortune, and Harry, as if to explain
matters, says: "It's just Tom's luck!"
Dut was it, or is it? What Is man's
"luckf" Is rational man going to be
lieve that every individual has bis own
particular moon which rules the tides of
bis life irrespective of his own volition?
Tom's "bad luck," and Dick's "good
luck," and Harry's "medium luck" may
prove to be, if you examine closely, only
the result of the exertion or tho lack of
exertion made by Tom, Dick or Harry in
their course through life. Ono hears a
great deal of talk about "self made
men," and, on the other hand, one often
hears it said that there is not the chance
for men to make good fortunes for them
selves that there was a generation back.
Competition, you aro assured, is "the
life of trade," but also the death of indi
viduality. Says tha young fellow of today: "The
self mado man about whom wo hear so
much promoted themselves. They had
the advantage, of living in a time when
they could take nllairs into their own
hands, and they did not have to depend
as we do uton tho good graces of others.
Look at Horace Greeley as a cose in
point Greeley was his own editor,
irinter and compositor, and ho pub
ished his pajter in meager, inconvenient
quarters. Look at Thurlow Weed, Blurt
big a country weekly whilo his family
were compelled to live for days without
tea, sugar or meat on bread and butter
only, with cold water I You couldn't
sturt in tho newspaper business in that
fashion today; there . is too much
competition; conditions have changed;
capital is required. And so it is
through the various lines of business.
You don't find men running small shops
nowadays that is, you find but few of
them, and the number is growing grad
ually less. This is the day of big capital,
big enterprises, big everything, and men
cannot start in for themselves as they
could twenty years ago, with anything
like tho same chances of success."
On the fuce of it there seems to be a
good deal of logic in such a presentation
of tho case. Dut it were idle to let mat
ters rest here. If it is true that times
and conditions havo changed, then men
must change with them and adapt them
selves to circumstances. A man must
bear himself well beforo that searching
eye. After all it is just as truo ns ever
it was, despite this talk of "luck," that
a man is the architect of his own fort
une. Men aro rising today, although
competition is keener than ever it was;
they are making their individuality felt
as their fathers did in tho days gono by.
A good deal is said about oportunities
and taking advantage of them; about
opportunities coming to eotuo men and
none to others. Dut, after all, is it not
the most successful man who practically
creates his opportunity by keeping out of
tho ruts, and by handling affairs differ
ently from the methods employed by
Other men?
It is quite, truo that a .Young man de
siring to bo a money ling, after the
fashion of Mr. Jay Gould, might find it
impracticable to attain his end by begin
ning in tho busiuhss of cddling mouse
traps around tho state of New lork.
The embryo Astor of today will doubt
less find the fur trado monopolized, and
the young Yundcrbilt will discover that
steam ferry bouts, owned and managed
by municipal corjKiniuons, are quite
likely to shut nwny from his modest dory
any possiblo profits arising from trans
portation. When n westerner got into
New York and made the 'jounudistio
spark fly, he had to take advantago of
every "modem improvement" in the
world of newspaperdom in order to carry
bit point. Ho could not, like Greeley or
Thurlow Weed, go into a cellar or un
attio and pull bis own papers otf n press
run bv man power, unless ho was delib
erately searching for bankruptcy. He
liad served his apprenticeship in tho
humbler walks of nowspnxrdom ; ho
had boen a reporter and had driven tho
pencil at high speed over ninny reams of
dismal "copy." The searching eye is on
tho lookout for just such a man, a man
who had the pluck to do tilings in his
own way and to crvuto opportunities
wherever it is possible to do so. Boston
Herald.
ileal In the Comstoek Mines.
"The Comstock mine in Nevada is a
wonderful work," said Mr, Cecil Morgan,
of Aspen. "It is 2,300 feet in a vertical
lino to the bottom of the shaft, and one
can mako tho descent in three or four
minutes in the cage which is used to haul
ore to tho surface This cage will lift
about 0,000 pounds, or three cur loads of
8.000 pounds each. Work on the Coin
stock is now confined to the upper levels,
tho workmen having been driven from
tho deptlia by the steam generated
through the nction of the air on the sul
phurous rock penetrated by the different
lewis. Tha temperature averages about
120 dogs, down there, and it is simply
Impossible for tha miners to work under
rich condition, Whether science will
aver be able to overcome the difficulties
met iu theme lower levels remains to bo
seen, I think, however, it will not, for
the reason that such intense beat denotes
the near presence of mbtermuiean bout. "
Kansas City Times.
Ileecher Sol Heavy Ester.
Contrary to oft expressed criticism,
Mr. Beechcr was not a heavy cater. This
was particularly true of the bl years of
his life. When be first come to Brook
lyn be enjoyed very heartily late sup
pers, nnd it was his custom to have after
preaching, either in his own home or in
tlie bouse of some one of bit mora inti
mate friends, quite an elaborate spread,
at which there would be oysters, cold
roast beef, broad and butter, tea or
coffee, pie, and sometimes delicacies re
quiring mora careful preparation. Joe
Howard in Ouce a Week.
The lUllsn Colony of London.
The recent investigations, and tha
fads brought to light concerning Italian
immigration, suggest to me now cum
I parulively little that race have colonised
j here in proportion to some of the greater
Euroxan cities, nnd particularly Lon
1 don, where, In certain quarters, they
I have successfully besieged and ousted its
I former inhabitants, and taken possession
I of their tenement with slow though cer
' tain acquisition. The settlement in Lon-
don is bounded on one tide by Saffron
Hill, nnd on the other by a street that
is familiar to the Londoner who takes an
I occasional prowl about out of the way
I places, us Leather Lnno, Dluck Hill,
Summer street, and Eyre street hill (for
you see I have a memory), are all in
i .,i.,.i...i in itu nr.winrtu mid are all Over
all. ... '' I" "
crowded with swurthy faced organ
grinders, ice cream venders, ragpickers,
nicturesmie olive skinned women nnd
dirty faced children. Wrinkled old
crones In gay attire exchango salutations
I through the windows of the dilapidated
nnd filthy houses that line these narrow
tlioroughfures. Nor docs tho masculine
1 clement lounging about the doorways en
tirely discard its native drew as it does
i here. The men cling to their poniards,
to rudely embroidered cloaks and waist
coats and wear folt hats tuieu to one
side and adorned now nnd then with a
faded feather. The younger blades
amuso themselves with all manner of
curious games, though 1 have never ob
served among them tho mania for toss
ing eiinies, for which sjiort our little
bare headed lazzarono bootblacks seem
to have such n passion.
The slios of this odd Italian colony of
London, too, aro as much in keeping
with tho race as nro those of the Chinese
quarter iu New York. The funcy stores
display various objects of native manu
facture, earrings, beads, images of devo
tion, cheap looking trinkets and silken
kerchiefs of brilliant hue. The grocer
exposes for sale yards of dusty macaroni,
lengths of crusty bread, and red, yellow
and green liquids in clumsy bottles sealed
with wax. As a rule-, be it said to their
credit, these fellows of the London Ital
ian quarter nro much more peaceable
thnn those hero. They mind their own
business, and the we:iions so conspicu
ously displayed in their belts nre never
made use of; certainly not to tho extent
that they nre in New York, at all events.
John Preston Dcecher in New York
News. ,
Tho Largest Tree In America.
Mr. Warren, who bus seen thd bis
trees of Mariosa, those of the Dig Tree
Grove in Calaveras county, and ull tho
big trees of the const range, says there is
in no place in California a tree that ap
proaches in size that on tho Kaweah.
Tho men had with them no rule, tape
line or measure of any kind, but Mr.
Warren measured tho treo with his rille,
which is four feet in length. Ho found
it to bo forty-four lengths of his gun in
circumference nt a point as high ubovo
tho ground as ho could reach. The top
of the treo has been broken off, but it is
still of iiiimcnso height.
This monster tree stands in a small
basin near the Kaweah, and is surrounded
on nil sides by a wall of huge rugged
rocks. There is so much brush in tho
vicinity that tho little valley in which the
big tree stands is almost inaccessible. A
landmark, und a notable feature of tho
landscai)C, is an immense rock known as
Homer's Nose. This rock stands on a
mountain that has an elevation of from
8,000 to 0,000 feet above the level of (he
son. Tho rock itself is alioiit five hun
dred feet in height. It is visible above
tho pino forests from Tulare valley. The
small valley iu which the big tree stands
is a mile or two east of Homer's Nose.
About it nre many giant trees, several
larger than the big trees of Mariposa.
Lower down the Kaweah is what is
called tho Giant Forest. At this placo a
colony of Socialists have taken up ten
square miles of timber land. On their
land nro many trees that ore from twelve
to eighteen feet in diameter. Tho moun
tain men say tho big trees (tho sequoia)
nro across between tho red wood and the
lir. Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.
Sens de Sights.
Bandy stretches, turirlnn suit, salty smells,
Btietvlns; shore, scorching sun, shining shells,
tiprlnkliug spray, sparkling surface, stormy iky,
Stuffed staKea, sprightly spinsters, suiters shy. -Btylish
suits, soaked Mock-infra, splashed skirt,
Bly sparking, tott speeches, summer shirts.
Shrieking whinners, shupcly shoulders, tick
swains,
Bktmiv thins, lunshades, stretching telnet.
Bcudding schooners, screw steamers, sloops, tails,
8mall smacks, strong sailors, silvery scales,
Having stations, signals, streamers, ilu-ouds,spara,
Skillful skipper steering shlis, seats, start.
Bavage sharks, tea serpents, skates, toll's,
biitpe, snappers, shrimp, scolloM, sunken shoals,
Hea spider, swarming 'skeeter, seagulls,
Hilly singers, soulful strollers, swift sculls.
8oliolcep, startling scores, saline sniffs,
8trapMHl stranger. Kent sires, )iallii. skiffs.
BplurgmgKtrlpliugt, sappy suolis, tudden npiallt,
Bedgy swamps, scarfs, satins, silks, shawls,
Sabbath sinner, social scandal, sinkers, tnelU,
ochrmiug scamps. Simple Simons, sMrt ing swells
-II. C Podge, lu New York World
A Fortunate Oecurrrucs.
Patron Waiter, how"t this!
"Hows what r
"I found thit cigar holder in the soup."
"Well, welll I'm glad of that I've been
hunting for the huiu;cd thing au hour." De
troit Free Prist. ,
A riessant Dinner Companion.
Miss Etbel Who was tb old genthmsm
who took you to dinner, Clara f
alias Clara An old bachelor friend of
j psf a Ho was delightful.
I Miss Ethel I tuoulJu't think you would
i find a bald beaded old bachelor a very de-
lieMful companion at dinner.
I Mist Clara Oh, but bo was; be attracted
! all tba fliet.-New York Sutu
Extra TsjTHH-e.
Sir. Cawdell, at wa may call bim arrrot
on the second syllable, of course had been
abusing hit wife for buying soma dry goods
which be did not repard as necessary.
''Look here," said Mr. Cawdell, "I pars
you Ii30 yesterday, and you went and t;icnt
it right off, at you know, for a lot of calico
and needles sad thread and that sort of liiiu;.
Dlutyour
Ve-es,taid Mrs. Cawdell. timidly.
"Aud I rebuked you fur it lost nihtr
"Vet. jroudul:"
"Eh I Well, I hope you heartily repented
your extra vafanceP
"Yes, indeed, Mr. Cawdelll I cried to last
nigh that I -I soaked three hand kerchief
"Soaked three, handkerchief a! Tuavjuw
go again running up a washins bill ia thai
pertsctly rvcUeat wayP Youths Coupaa-
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Bf H. EIDEEHAGGAED
A few minute later tba train Mopped at a
station, but nobody ft In, nud presently It
moved on afaiu. "Any passenger! for
EffrjT tliouted the porter, and there bad
been no response. If they did not ttop at
Effry there would be no halt for forty min
utes. Now wot bit time. He waited a little
till thoy got up the tjwed. The line here ran
throush miles and mllctof fun country, more
or less drained by diket and rivers, but ttlll
wild and desolat enough. Over thit great
flat tho ttorm wot tweeping furiously-even
drowning in its turmoil the noise of the trav
eling train.
Very quietly be rote and climbed over tha
low partition wblcb separated bit compart-
t 1 '.V
' wv.
Very quietly hi rose and climbed ottr.
mcnt from that in which the woman was.
She was tented in tho corner, ber head back,
so that the feeble liKlit from the lamp fell on
it, and her eyes were closed.
Ho slid himself along the scat till bo was
opposite ber, and then ho paused and looked
at the fierce, wicked face on which drink aud
paint aud years of evil thinking and living
bad left their marks, looked at the talon like
bands, tho long, yellowish teeth, and the half
dyed hair hanging in tags beneath the gaudy
bonnet of peacock feathers, and looking,
shuddered. There was his bad genius, there
was tba creature who had driven him from
evil to evil, und finally destroyed him. Hud
it not been for her lie might have been a good
aud rerpected man, aud not what he was
now. a fraudulent, ruined outcast. All hit
life seemed to flash before bis inner eye in
these tew teconili of contemplation, all bit
lon weary year of struggle, and crime, and
deceit And this was the end of It, and there
nat the cause of it. Well, the abould not es
cape bim. be would be revenged upon ber at
lost, There was nothing but deatb before
bim. the should die too.
He set bit teeth, drew the loaded pistol
from hit pocket, cocked it, and lifted it to
ber breast.
What was the matter with the thing He
bad never knowu tbejiull of a pistol to be to
heavy before.
No, it wot not that. He could not do it
He could not shoot a tleeping woman, devil
though the was, be could not kill ber in ber
sleep. His nature rose against it
He placed the pistol on bis knee, and as be
did to she opened ber eyes. He taw the look
of wouder gather in them and grow to a
tture of agonized terror Her face became
rigid like a dead person's, and her lips opened
to scream, but uo sound came. She could
only point to the pistol.
"Kake a sound and you are dead," be said
fiercely. "Not that it matters, though," he
added, as be remembered that the scream
must l loud which could be beard iu that
raging gala,
" W hat are you going to dor the gasped at
last "What are you going to do with that
pistol! And where do vou come iromf"
"1 come out of the night," be answered,
raising the neawn: "out of tba night iuto
which you are going."
"You are not going to kill mer tha
moaned, turning up ber gflastly face. "1
can't die. I'm afraid to dis It will hurt,
and I've been wicked. Oh, you are not going
to kill me, are your"
"Yet, I am going to kill you," he an
swered. "I told you months ago that I
would kill you if you molested me. You
have ruined me uow, there It nothing but
death left for me, and you thali die, too, you
fiend I"
"Oh, nol nol nol anything but that I was
drunk when I did it, that man brought me
there, and they had taken all my things, and
1 was starving," and tha glanced wildly
round the empty carriage to see if help could
be found, but there was nous, She was alone
with ber fate.
She tlipishl down upon the floor of the car
riage aud clasped bis knees. U'rithiug in
her terror there upon the ground, in hoarse
accents the begged and prayed for mercy.
"You used to kiss me," the said; "you can
not kill a woman you used to kist years ago
Oh, tpare mel spare mel"
lie set hit lips and placed the muzzle of the
pistol against her bead, and at the contact
she shivered and her teeth began to clutter.
Ho could not do it He must let ber go,
and leave ber to ber fate. After all the
could hurt bim no more, Tor before another
tun bad set bo would be beyond ber reach.
Hit pistol banc fell against bit tide, and be
looked don u with loathing not unmixed with
pity at the abject human snake who was
writhing at hit feet
She caught his eye, and her faculties, sharp
ened by the imminent peril, read relentment
there. For the moment at any rate be was
softened. If the could matter him now while
be wat off bit guard be was not a very
strong man. But the pistol-
Slowly, nil) groaning out tupplicatlons,
the rose to her feet
"Yet," he said, "be quiet while I think If 1
tan tpare you," and he half turned bit head
away from her, and for a moment nothing
wot heard but the rush of the gale and the
roil of the whee't running over the bridges.
Thit wat ber opportunity. All her natural
ferocity arose within her, intensified a hun
dred limes hy tiie instinct of self protection.
With a tudden blow the struck the pistol
from hit band, aud it fell upon the floor of
the carriage, and then, with a frightful yell,
the sprung like a wildcat straight at hit
throat So tudden wat the attack that the
long, lean hands were pipping hit wind
pipe before he knew that it had been made.
Back the bora bim, though he seized her
round the waist tshe was ths heavier of the
two, and back they went crash! against tba
carriage door.
It gave. Oh, God, the worn catch gavel
Out together, out with a yell of despair into
thj night and the raging gale, down to
gc.er throavb tixtyfeetof ttce Into the
black river beneath I Down together, deep
into tb wstry depth down into the abyss
of Death! ,
The train rubed on, tba wild windt blew,
and ths night was si tha night had been!
But there in the black water, though there
wat never a Mar to tea them, there, looted
together in death, as they bad been locked to
gether in life, the Berce glare of bats snJ
terror yet ttariug from tbetr glased eyes, two
bodies robed over and over at they ipej
ideotiy toward the tea!
CHAPTER XIXYL
aisrta sokes.
Ten dayt had passed. The traced T 0f
. . r n - . -i uu ecnoeu
: through all lbs land. Numbcrlen articles
ttfwl rwnmnh. h.l
. .. , " -iittoi iu Dumner
I!, and numberless theories bad
tCSi
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been built upon them. But the echoes were
already commencing to die away. Both
actors In tha dim event were dead, and there
wat no pending trial to keep tba public iu
terost alive.
i The two bodies, ttlll linked In tbat fierce,
dying grip, had been picked up upon a mud
bank. An Inquest had been held, at which
an open verdict wot returned, and they bad
been burled. Other trngediet bad occurred,
the pa part were filled with the reports of a
noted aud remarkably full flavored divorce
cute, and tho affair of the country lawyer
who committed bigamy aud together with
hit lawful wife ciitne to a tragic and mytte
riout end began to be forgotten.
In Bolsinghnm and Its nelgbliorhood much
lympathy was thown with Bello, whom peo
ple ttlll called Mrs. Quest, though the hud
no title to that name, but the received it
coldly and kept herself tecluded.
r At toon at lur nippoted husband's death
was proved beyond a doubt, Hells bad
; opened bit tafe, for he bad loft bis keys on his
dressing table, and found inereinuii win ami
other papen, Including tho mortgoge dced3,
to which, at Mr. Quests memorandum nd
Sited her, the bod no claim. Nor, indeed,
bad ber right to them been good In law,
would the have retained them, teeing that
they were a price Trung from ber late lover
under throat of an action that could not be
brought.
So the niedo them Into a parcel and tent
them to Edward Cossey, together with a
formal noto of explanation, greatly wonder
ing in her heart what course he would take
with reference to them. She was not left
long iu doubt The receipt of the deeds was
tcknowledged, and three days afterward the
beard that a notice calling in the borrowed
money bad been served Uxm Mr. de la Molle
3U bohalf of Edward Cossey.
So be had ovldcutly mude up his mind not
to forego this now advantage which chance
threw in bis wny. Pressure and pressure
ilone could enuble bim to attuin bis end. and
be wat applying it unmercifully. Well, she
had doue with him uow, it did uot matter to
ber, but she could not help faintly wondoring
tube extraordinary tenacity and hardnest
of purxse which hit action showed. Then v
ihe turued ber mind to the consideration of
mother matter, In connection with which
ber plant were approaching maturity.
It wot tome days after this, exactly a fort
night from the date of Mr Quest'tdeath, that
Edward Cossey wat sitting one afternoon
j brooding over the fire in bit roomt. He had
much business waiting his attention In Lon
I don, but be would not go to l-omlon. He
, could not tear himself away from Boising-
bam, and such of the matters as could not be
ittended to there were left without attention.
He was still at determined as ever to marry
Ida, more determined if possible, for from
constant brooding on the matter be had ar
rived ata condition approaching monomania
He bad been quick to tee the advantage re
sulting to bim from Mr Quest's tragic death
and the return of the deeds, and though he
knew that Ida would hate bim the more for
doing it, be instructed bit lawyers to call in
the mouey, aud make use of every possible
legal meuns to harass and put pressure upon
Mr. de la Molle. At the tame time he bad
written privately to the squire, calling bit
attention to the fact that matters were now
once more as they bad been at the beginning,
but that he was as before willing to carry out
the arrangements which he had already
specified, provided that Ida could be per
suaded to consent to marry biia To this Mr.
de la Molle, notwithstanding bis grief and
irritation at the course bis would be son-in-law
bad taken about the mortgages on the
death of Mr. Quest, and the suspicion that be
now bad as to the original cause of their
transfer to the lawyer, had answered courte
ously enough, saying what be had said be
fore, that be could not force bis daughter
iuto a marriage with bim, but that if the
chose to agree to it ho should offer no objec
tion. Aud there the matter stood. Once or
twice he had met Ida walking or driving.
She had bowed to bim coldly, and that was
all Indeed, be had only one crumb of com
fort in his daily bread of disappointment,
and that hope deferred whicb, where a lady
is concerned, makes the heart more than nor
mally sick, and thut was, be knew bit bated
rival, CoL Quuritcb, bad been forbidden tho
castle, aud thut intercourse between bim and
Ida was practically at an end.
But he was a dogged and persevering man,
and he knew the power of money, aud the
shifts to whicb people can be driven who are
made desperate by the want of it He knew,
too, that it it no unusual thing for women
who are attached to ono man to tell them
selves to another of their owu free will, real
izing that love mny pass, but wealth, if the
settlements are properly drawn, does not
Therefore, he still hoped tbat with so many
circumstances bringing an ever increasing
pressure upon ber Ida's spirit would in time
be broken, ber resistance would collapse, aud
be would have his wilL Nor, as the sequel
will tbow, wat that hope a baselest one.
At for bit infatuation mere was literally
no limit to it It broke out in all torts of
ways, aud was for miles around a ' matter of
public notoriety and gossip. Over the mantel
piece iu his sitting room was a fresh example
of it Ho had, by one means and another,
obtained several photographs of Ida, notably
one of her in a court dress, whicb the hod
worn two or three years before, when her
brother James hod insisted upon ber being
presented. These photographs he bad caused
to be enlarged, and bad then commissioned a
well known artist to paint from them a full
length life tize portrait of Ida in ber court
dress, at a cost of "00. Thit order had been
executed, and tho portrait which, although,
as might be expected, the coloring was not
entirely satisfactory, was still an effective
likeness, and a tine piece of work now hung
in a splendid frame over his mantelpiece.
There, on the afternoon in question, be was
sitting beforo the Are, bis eyes Uxed upon the
portrait, of which tho outline was begiiining
to grow dim in the waning Decemtier light,
when a servant girl came in and announced
that a lady wanted to speak to him. He
asked what her name wot, and the girl said
that she did not know, because the had her
veU down and was wrapped up in a big cloak.
In due course the lady wat thown up. He
had relased into bit reverie, for uothing
seemed to interest him much now unless it
had to do with Ida-and be knew that the
lady was not Ida, because the girl said that
the wat short As it happened, he wat sitting
with bit right ear, in which he wat stone
deaf, to the door, so that between hit in
firmity and his dreams be never beard Belle
for it wat the enter the room.
For a minute or more she stood lookin? at
him at be tat with hit eyes fixed upon the 1
picture, and at the looked an expression of 1
pity stole acrost ber sweet, pale face.
"1 wonder what curse there is laid upon us
that we should be always doomed to seek for i
what we canuot And," the said, aloud. j
He heard her now, and looking up taw her i
standing ia the glow and flicker of the fire '
light, which played upon her white face and
black draped form. Ho started violently, !
and at be did to the loosed the heavy cloak
and hood that the wore, and it fell behind her. j
But where was the lovely rounded form, and
where the clustering, golden curls! Gone, I
and in their piace a coarse robe of bine serge,
on whicb hung a crucifix and tha white hood
oi toe nun.
He tprung from hit chair with an excla
mation, not knowing if be dreamed or if be
really taw the womsn who Rood there like a
ghost in the firelight
"Forgive me, Edward," she laid presentlv,
in her tweet, low voice, "I dare tav thLt
thit all kxki theatrical enough, but I have I
put on thit dress for two reasons; firstly, be
cause I have to leave this town in an hours
tune, and wish to do so unknown, and tec- j
oodly, to show yon tbat yon need not fear I
inai i nave conie to ha importonate. WiU
you bght tha candles!"
He did so mechanically and then pulled
down the blinds. Meanwhile Bells had seat
td herself near the table, ber face buried in
ber hands
"What ia tha meaning of all this, Belief"
be aaid.
. " "Sister A joes,' yoq most call me now,"
the said, taking Le'r hands from her face.
"The meaning of it is that I have left ti
world and entered a sisterhood, which works
among the poor in lindou, aud that 1 bav
come to bid you farewell, a last farewell."
He stored at her In amazement He did not
Bad it easy to connect the Idea of this beauti
ful, passionate, liuinun, loving creature wu0
tho cold sanctuary of a sisterhood He did not
know that it it nuturet like thit, whose very
greutiicss and lutcnt.ty it often the causa of
their destruction, when they come In adverts
contact with laws which are fltted to the av.
erage of their race, that are most enpuLI.
of these ttrungo developments. The mini or
woman who can really love and endure and
thoy are rare can also, when their passion
bat utterly broken t lu-tii. turn to climli the
stony pulht that lend to love l aiitixxivs.
'Edward," the went on, "you know ia
what relation wo liavo stood to each other
and all thut that relationship meant to
(volutin. You know thut v I have loved you
with all my heart, and all my ttreugtn, and
all my Hiul.thut your voice hiu beeu musie
to me, and your kindness heaven." Here ,u
trembled aud broke down.
"You know, too," she continued presently,
"what hot been tho end of ull thit, the
hameful end. I am not come to blame
you. 1 do not blumu you, for ths
fault wua miito, und if 1 have any
thing to forgive I forgivo it freely, and whut.
ever memories may still live iu my heart I
iweur I put away ull bitterness, and that my
matt earnest wisb It that you may be happy
as happincn It to you. Tbe mistake wnt
tuino. that it, it would have been mine were
we free agent, which, xrbai, we aro ant
I should have loved my husband, or rather
the man whom I thought my husband, fur
with all bit fuults he was of a different clay
to you, Edward."
He looked up, but said nothing.
"1 know," the went on, pointing to tli? pic.
turnover tho mantelpiece, "that your mini)
it ttill tet upon her, aud that I am nothing,
and less tbun nothing, to you. When Inn
gono you will scarcely give me a thought
1 do not know if you will succeed iu your
end, and I think that the methods you art
adopting are wicked and thameful. But
whether you succeed or uot, your fato also
will be what my fato is to love a persoa
who is not only indifferent to you, but wuo
positively dislikes you, and reserves all Iit
secret heart for another man, aud I know no
greater penalty l ban it to be found lutlut
daily misery."
"You aro very consoling. he laid, sulkily
"1 only tell you the truth," the answered.
"What sort of life do you suppose minehu
been when 1 am so utterly broken, to eutirely
robbed of hope that I have determined to
leave the world and hide myself and mi
misery in a sisterhood! And now, Edward,"
alio went on after a pause, "I have something
to tell you, for I will not goaway, if, indeed,
you allow me to go away at all after jou
have beard it, until 1 have confessed" and
she leaned forward and looked bim full id
the face "I shot you on purpose, Edward."
"What I" he said, springing trom bitciiair,
"you tried to murder mef"
"Yes, yes. but don't think too hardly of
me. I am only Uesb and blood, and ynu
drove me mad with jealousy you taunted
mo with having been your mistress, ami stid
1 was not lit to ussociute with the lady wliuiu
you were going to marry. It made nte mad,
and tho opjiortunity olfered tho gun wat
there, aud I shot you. Ood forgive me. 1
think that 1 have suffered more than you
did. Oh I when day after day I saw you
lying there und did not know If you woul l
Livo or die, I thought I should have goue aud
with rcmorso aud agouvl"
Ho listened so fur, and then tudilenlr
walked across the room towurd the belt Blit
placed herself between bim aud it
"What are you going to dof"
"Going to dot 1 uni going to send for s
policeman and give you iuto custody for at
tempted murder, that is all."
She caught his arm and looked him in tbe
face. In another second she had loosed it
"Of course," she said, "you have a righi to
do that King and send for the policeman,
only remember that the whole truth will
come out at the trial."
This chucked bim, and he stood thinking.
"Well," she suid, "why don't you ring!''
"I do not ring," ho answered, "because, ou
the whole, I think I had better let you gn I
do not wish to be mixed up with you an;
more. You have done me mischief euongii,
you have finished by attempting to murder
me. (Jo, I think thut tbe convent is the best
place for you; you are too bad and too
ilungerdus to bo left at largo."
"Obi," she said, like one in f)ain. "Obi unl
you are tho man for whom I have come to
thisl Oh, Ood! it is a cruel world." And
she pressed ber hands to her heart ami
stumbled rather than walked to the door
Reaching it, she turned, and her bands still
pressing the coarse bluo gown against ber
heart, tho leaned her back against the door.
"Edward," sho said, in a strained whisper,
for her breath cume thick, "Edward-l a n
going forever have you no kind word tesay
to moi"
He looked at her, a scowl upon his band
tomo face, and then by way of answer bt
turned upon his heel.
yMMl i i
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4nd then ty uay ofaiisutrhe tunud vpo
A,! heeL
And so, still holding her bandt against b
pool broken heart, she went out of the boas.
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out of Boisingham, and of touch and knowl
edge of the world. These two were, thou;"
sbo knew it not, once and once only, fa'1 w
meet again, in after years, and under citcuid
stances sufficiently tragic, but the story
that meeting does not lie within the tceuew
thit history. To the world Belle was dead,
but there It another world of tickness. and
sorrow, and sordid unchanging misery and
shame, where the lovely face of Sister A?1
moves to and fro like a, ray of Ixod'to
light aud there those who would know w
must go to seek her.
Poor Belle! Poor, thamed. deserted
man) She was an evil doer, and the fatality
love aud the rusb of her quick blood, and tw
unbalanced vigorof ber mind, which miSl
had tbe been more happily placed, hive lj
ber to all things that are pure, and true, "
of good report, bad combined to drag o
into tbanie and miry. But the evil
she did has been paid back to ber in 'uli
measure, pressed down aud running tf
Few of ut need to wait for a place of pon1"
ment to get tbe due of our follies and o''
Here w expiate tbem. They are
day and night, about our path aud about
bed, scourg.ng us with tbe wbi:of 0W!JW
mocking us with empty longing, and
boflessiKss of despair. Who can ex-J
consequence of tin, or even of the nii-f ,rIB'
which led to tin! Certainly OeU iA"Z
nor did Mr. Quest, uor even that rr
hearted harpy who haunted biat w
grave. ,
And to good by to Bella May ib
peace iu its easou.
TO I COXTLWK0.1