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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1902)
Eugene Weekly Guard. — ♦ (AMI'BKLI- BttO»., I’roprUtur». ---------- »----- EUGENE ......................... OREGON. They are now «peaking of Mareonl- grams received from «lili» at sea. At 30 a man la auxiotis tor fame; it fio he la willing to accept money an a subs titule. The Congn-sslonal package of gar den aeeda heal» many a poatoftice dla appointment As an effectual wrecker of banks the the borrowing bank officer remain» a class by himself. Many a woman who knows how to dress herself knows very little about dressing a turkey. President Harper wants E20,000.000. There is a brotherly feellug for Dr. Harper everywhere. Job had bls patience aorely tried, but lie never lost bls collar button ut an Inopportune moment. The man who wants to prove every thing lie says advertises the fact that bls word Isn’t to be credited. This Is the apt definition of the St. Ixmla Globe Democrat: "A boodler la a thief who preys on the public.” Some men have the faculty of seis ing common occasion» and converting them lulo extraordinary opportunities. The num who ottered blluself for vivisection has arous'd so much bos tile comment by bls action that be feels all cut up ubout It. A Kentucky man has l>e<-u sent to Jail for having thirteen wive*, lie should have remembered that 13 Is unlucky and stopped with a dozen. China bus bail Io stand a great deal of rousting ou account of tlie foot bind Ing habit. And still Chius Ims never been addicted to the corset habit. Wilhelmina s Prince Henry seems to lie really trying now to live a blame less life, A testimonial of some kind ought to Is- forwarded to encourage him. How d's-s It buppeil Hint women do not have appendicitis? I» It |sisslhle that men liuve secured a monopoly of this trouble? Equal suffrage leader* should look Into this. It Is said that the new British post age stumps are to be called In and de stroyed becuuae Hie engraver made the king face the wrong wuy. But, dear »likes, the king can do no wrong Htudents nt a college hazed a uew mini the other night by gagging ami blinding him aud then dropping him twenty feet down n coni hole. Yet the Victim fulled to see the Joke. Home people lire so obtuse. The gravestone of an English mis sionary, slain by the natives, ban been used as a foundation atone for the eu thedral In Uganda. The saying, "The bliasl of the martyrs la the seed of the church,” la thus written once more In enduring characters for hint who hue u mind to discern spiritual cer tainties. ladder, he ban a right to be proud and to feel that tlc-re is amm-thlng In bls make-up that makes him superior to bls fellow men. A few weeks ago Mar quis Ito was being dined and feted In England. Dukea «nd Lords did him honor, lie was made the guest of the greatest city in the world. Great Brit ain was at the feet of the man who Las been four times Prime Minister of Japan. It wasn't Ito'» tirst visit to England. Ou bls first visit bauds did not play, there was no bowing or bat waving. In 1803 the English sailing ship Pegasus arrived In London from the far East. Ou board with the crew was a Jap youth who had worked bis passage before the mast. He was as |Mior as poverty. He bad eaten "salt horse” and taken bis share of abuse from the ship's officers. He was so absolutely friendless that when the crew rushed ashore lie remained in the forecastle, forgotten, and went to his bunk supiierleas. That was Mar quis Ito's start, and It is uo wonder that lie swelled up a bit when lie con trasted 18)13 and 1902. *To-day be is a power lu a great nation. He may be uo happier than the humblest citi zen of bls home country. But he bus done much good. His country Is a world power, ami a man who bad no money, little lutiuem-e and u great deal of ability bus again provisl that there 1s no position worth having that cau not be secured by intelligent effort. "He died learning" was the epitaph desired by J. It. Green, the English bls torlan Aristotle has given us what Matthew Arnold culls "this immortal sentence: 'All men naturally desire knowledge.'” Bas this noble passion ever more active than now? Did It ever stir so powerfully the minds of oil sorts and conditions of men? And were there ever before such adequate provisions for Its grutltlcutiou? The rich abundunce of instruction, the ex pansion ot cheap printing aud the mul tiplication of libraries have practically brought every branch of knowledge within the reach of any one w ho cure* enough nlMiiit It to pay the price of <1111 gent seeking. The desire for mental Improvement Is not confined to |<ost- graduate students; it 1» taking posses slim of those who ure called "the com mon iwople” because there are so many of them It is notably active among men and women whose early oppor tunities were uarrow, whose school room life was cut short, and whose dully toll 1» exacting us a means of livelihood. The demand for shorter work hours Is more urgent because multitudes are hungry for something better than dully bread. University ex tension work mid other |sipular lec turer come to meet this want; tbesebol arshlp of the land thus tends to diffuse Itself and to make learning common property. The Chautauqua courses of rending work In the same direction. In struction by "correspondence'' la said to reach a greater number than are en rolled In all the colleg««» and high sc I khi I s of the country. Indeed, “the higher education” must now be under stood ns a relative term; any round of the ladder In higher than tlie one next below. Ho the whole procession may an well be moving upward. Progress In Intelligence In tlie peculiar need of free Institutions, for na l.nboulaye says, "What kills republic» la Ignor ance." The warning against superfi ciality. conceit and big beadodnes*. an well as pig lieadevlnesa. Is always In order. But at every stage of attain ment. low or high, docility Is the true safeguard against shallow pedantry ami vulgar Inflation. Grant White puts It well: "A little learning la not a dangerous tiling, If we only know that It Is little.” The truth Is apparent enough that In politics, and even III the same political party, the old rule applies "In essen- NEW YORK SOCIETY QUEEN. tlals, unity; In noneesentiuls, liberty!" Times chungo ami Issues cliauge with Mrs. Charles Huns Gibson, the l.rmler of the Hniurt Het. them. The policy upon a given subject, If you don't know Mrs Charles Dana whether of tlnance, administration or what not. Hint seemed urgent mid e* Gibson, of New York, you aren't any- sentlal In n past campaign may be al hotly. That Is the dictum of smart together Impracticable mid Impolitic society In the me tropolis, for Mrs. to-day. Manifestly, It Is absurd to label Gibson Is Its un such expedients with the misleading crow lied queen. title of “eternal principles.” Not to lie able to A few years ago nil France and many quote Mm. Gib foreign societies celebrated the fiftieth son's latest witti anniversary of the public career of the cism, not to lie great chemist. Monsieur Berthelot Be acquainted with sldim creating a host of new drugs, her gowns, not to dyes and perfumes, and never taking have been Invited out a patent on discoveries which hate to her last tea — brought millions to others. Monsieur , nil these speak uà», unisex. Berthelot has served for fifty years as ’ badly for the professor, written countless pamphlet» woman who aspires to social distinc for the government. Is an "immortal,” tion. a life senator and au ex minister. With Mrs. Gibson, whose husband Is the I'asteur and \ trciiow he ranks as "per- well known artist and illustrator and haps of all men of Hie nineteenth cell the creator >f the "Gibson girl," Is tury most useful to bls fellow men.” credited with having one of Hie flnest ill view of such achievements, the med flgurea In Gotham She has n beauti al recently presented to him by I'real ful voice, Inferior only to that of Mel- dent laiubet. Inscribed "For Country Iva. and ¡aissesses a charming manner. and Truth," speaks no empty praise Like many other successful society women she s a Southerner and as The College Club of Boston, an as Irene lainghorue was a famous belle soclatlon of women graduates, recently ¡ In Richmond, Va. When she married, gave an arts and crafts exhibition for j her huabaud was a struggling artist, luemtiers only. It included Imoks and | and for a time In New York she de lHH>k bindings. paintings. photographs, «•lined many invitations on the ground sewing, embroidery, and all kinds of that she could not afford to accept fancy work, and many things good to ¡ them Hhe Is said to be the only worn eat. such as Jelly, cake and candy, ¡ an who ever refused au Invitation to The design of It all was to disprove ' dine at the Astor table.' Hut uow her Hie silly charge that the higher edit ; husband Is famous and growing cation unfits women for "practical ‘ wealthy and she has made her way to work." for housewifery, or even for the top of the social ladder. Mr«. Gib the manufacture of dainty and orna son Is related to many of the wealthy mental trilles, of course the plan was families of New York Justified by results The exhibition I ncomtortable Chair*. was a complete «ucees» Ho la the At a dinner given in her honor a lady college woman, as a rule. Just one danger threatens from her special of small stature suddenly fainted. It training, and this exhitktiou was one was tbrti found she had n<vt been able of many proofs that she perceives It : to touch either her feet to the floor vr and I» or. her guard against It What her back to the chair; and the restricted It is was oace suggested In a sentence circulation and prolonged discomfort by a woman w ho was long a power at I had Anally overi ome her An antiquar \ assar College ”1 do not see any Ian traces the present mania for high room In your life for a blue checked ; seats to the fact that at the ol<| French apron." said this lemons teacher to an ' courts set« of handsome furniture were ambitious girl who had been express I ranged along the walls for effect, but Ing at length her plans for work and , never occupied. The chair* aud sofas hopes for fame It was a quaint re actually used were much lower Fur minder that, although housekeeping Is nilure makers of today copy the more not woman's only province, every showy pl eve*, aud further enhance woman should cherish the spirit of the I their inutility by spring «nshlous. The home maker The blue checked apron dictum of a famous cabinet maker is la not necessarily a shroud for any that In cbuoalng < hair* the knee of a lawful ambition; but there la no worn fversvvn should come clear al*ove the seat an so gifted that she need hesitate to he Intends to occupy. More even than acknowledge that she knows bow to home*, churches and assembly rooms ' the great railway statlona. In spue of put it ou. their sumptuousnesa. offend against th«; When a man Lan triumphed over comfort of nine tenths of their sevs obstacles, has forvvd his way up the ! panto. . ATROCITIES IM NEW GUINEA. FEMININE FRENCH IMMORTALS. Forty Roysl Women, A*thor*S*S* Ar- tiata «nd Actrea«*a. rence, relates ttat the yacht Salvantl, with the mission on board, bad author ed off the const of New Guinea, aud that several of the explorers lauded. "After an apparently friendly reception from the natives the latter treacherous ly attacked them during the night mur dering tblrty-two of the party, Includ ing Baron Villars, Couut de Saint Rvtuy and MM. Hageubeck and Vries, and wounding thirty-three, including M Houyer, the chief of the mission, aud another Frenchman named Reimer. SI. Itouyer writes: "We were all sleeping peacefully wheu there was a great uproar and we were attacked by hundreds of natives carrying torcbea. Several of us were felled to the ground with clubs, hatch ets and spear». Others were overpower ed. carried away and bound to trees. 1 was among this number. I received a blow on the head from a club and fainted. When 1 recovered conscious ness at 5 o'clock In the morning I found myself tied hand and foot and sur rounded by savages, who, believing me to l>e dead, were keeping me for them selves I saw the body of Baron Villars near me. bouud to a tree. His body was naked, his head had been split open, and his eyes had been gouged out. The Count <le Saint Remy had been de capitated ami hla head stuck on the end of a spear as a trophy. M. Hagen- Tita serve or uobhoes . beck was spitted on a bamboo and was being roasted over a tire. “I waited my fate. 1 was afraid to move. My bead hurt me dreadfully. All around me the ground was strewn with corjvwes. Suddenly a great clamor arose, followed by a fusillade. 1 opened my eyes and saw Dr. Fortier and the re mainder of the mission from the yacht firing on the cannibals. I shouted and the -eseners ran to me and cut the bonds which bound me to the tree. Th canniabls fled, leaving many dead. The clothes of M. Vries were found, but his body was missing He had evi dently l>een devoured by the savages during the night." TIMECHECKON POSTAL CLERKS. | “Ah! That reminds me." said the elder of the two, “of the old John Every Employe In the Postoffice Must liardsley house and the story of bow Contribute to Hi» Own Record. "Remember the Bundy” is the watch the sparrow came to Germantown." Walking up the avenue farther they word lu the big postoffices, and Unde Sam’s gray coated men are in constaut came to a halt In front of a little white dread lest they forget to “ring In” or painted two-story house at the north west corner of Upsal street and Ger "ring out.” About a year ago the United States mantown avenue. For over an hour Postoffice Department at Washington, the two old men lingered in front of D. C., conceived the Idea of procuring tblH "old house.” and the following a clock to keep a correct record of the story was told: The bouse was occupier for a number arrival and departure of all employes In that branch of the service all over of years by the late John Bardsley. bet the United States. which resulted In ter known as "Sparrow Jack.” During the supplying of all postoffice» of im the time that William F. Smith rep portance with the now famous docks resented the Twenty second Ward In at a cost of over fl»») each. The Bundy Councils he presented an ordinance dock is a large affair, having three appropriating $300 with which to pur strong mainsprings and an Intricate chase English sparrows to destroy the time-recording apparatus. Two of the measuring worms that liad become a springs work the clock ami the other nuisance in the city squares. John Is the power of the striking part, for Bardsley. an Englishman, but for the Bundy strikes off the time the clerks many years a resident of Germantown, and carriers report on and off duty, not was delegated to go to England to se like other clocks that only strike the cure the sparrows. Being familiar hours nnd half hours of the day. It is with the English birds, he bad no trou a complicated affair and many a poor ble In catching them In nets. He se cured between 300 and 4<s>. On bls j way over from England, oue-balf the i sparrows died, but enough existed to I Insure a rapid Increase of the little pests, which have »Ince become more troublesome than the worms. Bardsley was always an enthusiastic admirer of the sparrows, and to show I his love for them he fed them regular ly during the winter months, and had a number of fantastically constructed | I Kiel's, surmounted with weathervanes and ornaments, for their use. lie al- j ways reprovnd any one who Interfered with or abused the sparrow.—Philadel phia Telegraph Luck Better Than Brains. OIIIKI.XU THE TIMS. hard-worked clerk ami carrier w ill ver Ify the statement. for It lias cost some of them much of their bard earned anj small salary. The Bundy Is worked as follows; When the office opens for business at •> o'clock In Hie morning the clock Is the first thing attended to. The three dating keys are used, and the date nnd hour, tl a. m. is Imprinted on the tape; then the employes each take their key and "ring In” their arrival. Each employe lias Ilia own number nml that number I* on Ills key. He Is uot allowed to use another's key er "ring in" or out any fellow clerk or carrier, under penalty of dismissal from the service. The let ter carriers have four keys, the first IH-Ing used when he reports for the day at 0 30 a lu. When he goes out on his first trip he takes down Ids next key, w bleb In the key bearing the letter "L." and "rings out” and leaves the of fice. 1»n Ids return he Immediately oti entering the office "rings In" his arriv al. the key bearing the letter "It." nnd after he ha« performed hie office worn and It Is time for him to take his "lay off” or "swing” for nn hour or two. n carrier not befog allowed to work more than eight hours per day. he uses the key bearing the letter "E." meaning ' end of duty As each key 1« "rung In" | the clock registers the time to a frac tion of a minute. Letter carrier* are allowed by law to work only eight hours, ami when •« carrier has worked over that time. If only for one minute. Intentionally or unintentionally, he must pay the penal ty. which Is usually suspension from one to three days without pay. for Un cle Sam Is a very strict master in the postoffice and the Bundy never lies There are penalties for failure to ring the clock on arrival aud departure, for all employes, from the heads of the va rious departments to the porters. Let ter carriers are suspended from one to fifteen days, according to how many I prior convictions there may be record I ed against them In the record book. Clerks suffer for their mistake« by be- I Ing tim'd from one day's salary up. as the case may be. as prior convictions . also count against the clerks. ____ Supposing a second Klebelieu, recog nizing th* achievements of the mod ern woman, were to found another French academy, reserved not this time for men. but for feminine mem- I-ere only, who would be the forty "immortal” women who would occupy its armchairs? A general vote ou this question has just been taken among the readers of a French review, each of whom was requested to send in a list of forty names of living «omen. Tbe women "immortals" thus elected Include five royal personages—one etu- pre«s ami four queen», sixteen author esses, eight actresses and »lngers, nve artists, four women emlneut for their philanthropic works, aud two compos- M. Houyer, a survivor of rhe massa cre of a French scientific mission by csunlbals at Slleraka, New Guinea, on | Jan. 1. lu describing the horrible occur Ex-Governor Upham of Wisconsin, who. ns tlie Post stated the other day. was once mourned for dead, told a good story on himself at the Capitol yesterday. "1 was once Interested In two lum ber deals ’ he said. "I bad offered a valuable piece of property at $tkt.i»»i nnd at the same time I wns trying to buy a tract of pine trees. YVhile the deals were pending I ran across a gypsy fortune teller lu the woods aud 1 asked her to tell my fortune. " 'You wdl be very lucky in your deals.' she said. “ 'That's go<Kl,’ I remarked. “ 'Yes.' continued the fortune teller, •your luck will beat your brains.’ Governor Upham says that the wo man spoke Hie truth. A few days later the syndicate which held the op tion of $00.000 upon the property he had offered at that price decided not to accept It. and It was not long before he was able to sell the land for al most double the amouut. Washington Post. Had Given It Up. "The priest was here the day,” said Mm I.aiiulgau to her husband, as the two sat down to supper. "He said be was hoping you nor your brother Tim would go to hear that walking delegate that's making speeches all around the town." "Sure, and til'd no Intlntlons to go.” said Mr. lainnlgiin. bls utterance clogged by a biscuit. "He said." proceeded the wife. Im patiently. "that the man indoolged too much In hyperbole. What is that. Ar- thur?" Mr. lanulgan looked at her reprov ingly. and paused In the middle of an other biscuit “Ol’m a tlmperance man these eight years,” he said, loftily, "and If you are wishful to know what «anything of that kolnd la. Mary Anu. It's from some wan else besides me you'll have to get your Information. Ol’m amazed at ye. woman!” I.sw |<> Promote Honesty. "We have an old statute In Arizona making ft a misdemeanor for a hotel or restaurant keeper to set out viands on his bill of fare that he is uot actual- ly able to serve," said Clarkson South- ard. of Bisbee, "and It might well t>e adopted here. It was snacted many years ago when prospectors and others, returning to the tow ns after months of privation, were deluded and enraged by elalsvrate bills of fare, to And after ward that the only article* they could THE ENGLISH SPARROW ! really get to eat were bacon and beans. Hew ths Ohnnll"it< Hird W«l Hronght »« usual. So many »booting* resulted to This Countrv. ' that this law was enacted and for a Two old residents of Germantown time was strictly enforced. The neces took advantage of a delightful day to sity for Its enforcement has long since Mtinter up Germantown avenue, stop pasaed. but It has never, so far a* I ping now and then at the different know, been repealed.”—Philadelphia place* of historic Intervet along the i Tluiew ___________________ avenue. They spent some of the time A Ivy doesn't believe the m<»tb>e« in at the old Ship bouse, telling each other al>out th* ancient structure, and a* to bi* cot'y t>ook after be I* ten. a girl be bow the ship cam* to It* placed ther*. lieve* them all her life. when their attvnt:on was attracted by A man make* a sweeping assertion niyr ads of sparrows that congregated when be Alls bls opponent's eye* with up on the root. dusk A sovereign lady in her own right, Queen Wilhelmina of Holland heads tbe entire list, with 5,212 votes, where as the tirst of the authoresses, Mme. Adam, has only secured 4,150. I he four other royalties are the Czarina. Queen Margherita of Italy. Queen Marie Christina of Spain and the Quwn of Roumanla. who is. of course, a writer as well as a queen. Among the authoresses Mine. Alphonse Daudet, with 3.433 votes, and tbe Countess de Martel ("Gyp”), with 3.040. run Mme. Adam close. Tlie remaining eight in clude Mme. Rosemonde Rostand, who who wrote verse before she married Ed mond Rostand; Mme. Severine, the dis ciple of Jules Valles; and Mddle. Lucie Faure, the daughter of the late Presi dent of the republic. Among the artlsas are Mme. Dumont- Breton. Mme. Madeleine Lemaire and Mddle. Louise Abbema. The actresses who would sit In tlie ladies’ academy are. of course. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, and Mmes. ReJane, Bartet. Marie Lau rent. Emma Calve, Adelina I’attl. Miss Ellen Terry and Signora Eleonora Duse. 1’lie last three women, with Mme. Au gusta Holmes, who would represent music in tbe academy, by the side of Mdlle. Chaminade and Baroness von Suttner, are tbe only foreigners on the list of forty. Apparently the readers of the review in question, says the Ix>ndon Telegraph, are not very well up in contemporary English and American literature. HIGH DIVING IMO IHE 1IBIR. Plunging into the lllver TII k T used to be a favorite pastime with the au- cient Romans. Modern Romans have revived the old sport and have added some frills to it In the way of aero batlc feats and feats of daring. A society, known as the "Rarl Nantes.” Is the patron of the sport and offers each year diplomas for "winter swimming.” These are awarded to anyone who braves the swift, cold wa ters of the ancient stream during the months of November, December, Jan uary and February. At tlie fourth meeting of the society forty-two swimmers won the diploma, although the racing took place in a stream swollen to nearly fourteen feet above its normal level by torrential rains. High diving and swimming races In clothes are now exciting the sport ing section of the Eternal City, and the Illustration, which Is from a remark able snapshot photograph, shows the high diving In full swing. I<eather of the Egyptians. The ancient Egyptians were skilled in tbe art of tanning leather and man ufactured It In various ways and for various purposes besides that of fur nlsblng coverings for the feeL Indeed It Is to those builders of the pyramids that we are indebted for the first artis tic forms of footwear, and so far as can be aseertalnrel from history and the researches of archaeologists the Egyp tians were the first shoemakers who were worthy of the name. It 1» a fact too. that tanners of to day employ very much tbe same meth ods as did the ancients. About the same materials are used, and the proc esses are almost precisely similar to those In vogue hundreds of years ago. It 1» true that tanners of the present day have found means of greatly short ening the time required to convert a hide into leather and that steam power and modern machinery have donemueh to expedite and Improve the processe* of finishing tbe leather; but. after all. the principles of tanning remain the same as they have been from the first The old Cellar. A treasure cave it seemed to be. Full of delicious mystery. Across the windows' narrow panes The spiders swung their silver chains! Upon the swinging shelve* e'erhead Were jars of jams and jellies spread. Which, when unsealed on festal day«. Outshone the ruby's richest ray«. In one far corner’, dreamy dusk Ripe apple« stored their balm and mn»k. Huge pumpkins from the next one rolled. Like giant beads of richest gold. Ranged upon «helves upon tbe wall YY'ere firkins «hort and firkins tall. Where, youthful palates to entice. Green pickles swarm in seas of spice. Among them, bulging boldly out. YVa» the brown oak cask filled with "kro«t." Perchance that cellar, rough and dark. 1« type of many a man of mark Whose mind, unpolished, yet has stored Rich viands for life'» festal board. —Good Housekeeping. Renetl» of Ho»r«lto*-Ho**e. CHAPTER XXIII. stwkLT "C™* h«- sight •tr.ke« terror to her heart tk , of the wtrL 7 Th* h 1"11 hirh • * ** that, mountain« th'm^ to iB1,n! '“’h r*k»;th7X i7^. ,h* rrani'' prominent; he seems to tower above those around him. He is evident], .d dressing them with passionate words, »-j now he spring» into the boat, an,] ^¡7 renewed eloquence seems to compel t]^ present to follow him. His voice, 1. j? vehemence, rise» even above the »tor* Not that the stricken girl crouching in the shelter of her rock needs that t<L timony to know that it is he whom b» soul loveth. Vera staging* to her feet ami star«, blindly into the semi-darkness. he»,-t. cry goes up from those crowded togethw on the beach. The mists have cleared away from the moon, and she can »« as well as those eager watchers that •> Ave black spots that were upon the rig. ging are no longer there. They have been successful, then, io far. They have taken those five half, dead creatures into the blessed Ufeboit Surely, if the rescuers could go throuR j such a sea in safety, they can return. A blessed relief comes to her, so share- ly, *o unpreparedly, that she almost giT,., way beneath it. The good ship, indeed is gone! Where the black, indistinct m«M stood a minute since, now all is bare- there is but sea and sky, and the meniurr of it! But the lifeboat still lives. Every onward dash of the tempestnoM waves drives the lifeboat the more sure ly into shelter, until at last it touchy ground. A hundred eager hands are stretched out to prevent the return:», wave from carrying it backward. the men, more adventurous than the re^ rush into the surging tide up to their waists and seize tbe boat and drag it for. cibfy into safety. „ Dysart, springing to land, helps out the rescued men, now exhausted by fear sj] exposure—one of them, indeed, has faint ed—but there are kindly arms open to receive them and kindly voices to bi! them welcome—and to praise the God ¡g sea and land for their delivery from death this night. With a hurried wave of the hand be turns abruptly away from the cheerinf crowd and the dancing torchlights, and makes his way through the heavy dark ness toward the small pathway that win lead to the road above. Stumbling, u». certain, and feeling altogether exhausted, he nevertheless finds it, and put» out bli hand to grope for the rock that he know, stands at the right sid* of it, where the beach commences. “Good heavens, what is this? He »tarts violently, and then his lingers fast en with almost convulsive energy over the small cold hand that has been thrust Into his. A sharp little cry break« through the darkness, nnd then the cold hand is hurriedly withdrawn, and two arms are thrown round him, and cling to him with passionate vehemence. “It is you—you! And you are safe! Oh, Seaton! Oh, thank heaven, thank heaven!” Whose voice is it? Not Vera's? Verb and yet the clinging arms are warm, liv ing, and genuine; the sobbing voice a real; a small disheveled head is very dnw to him—very! What has happened? Hu he gone mad? He is ghastly pale, white as the death from which he has but just now: so nar rowly escaped, and across his right tem ple there is a alight streak of blood, «till wet. This adds to his pallor. Vera, we ing it, shudders violently, and involun tarily, almost unconsciously, lifts her band, and presses her handkerchief to the wound. "Speak!” says he, and now tbe word is a command. It rings sharply. There is a very anguish of doubt in bis tone, aud his eyes, burning into hers, are oo full of desperate question, that they ut terly unnerve her. The strain of the past terrible houn has been too severe, and now she sink! beneath it. She bursts into tears. "Oh, yes, yes, yes!” she cries, giving him thus vaguely the answer he requim In a moment his arms are round her. crushing her against his heart. To him those incoherent words are full of sweet est meaning. Yes. she loves him. Who shall tell the joy this knowledge brinp him—joy that is almost pain? “Darling, darling!" whispers he, softly. And then after a little while. "I am toe happy. I do not know what to say. I cannot speak.” And then again, "M>I I kiss you?” He does not wait for permUsion. but presses his lips to hers—dear lips, tbit kiss him back again, with honest, beirt- felt gladness. (The end.) Where There 1» No Twilight. The days and nights are of eq'»' length at Guayaquil. The sun knock» off promptly at fl o'clock In the evenlnf and gets up at 6 In the morning wM equal regularity the whole year around- There is no twilight, no gloaming, w Interval whatever between dayl fbt aud dark—only a brilliant llltiniinar --i the sudden disappearance of a red b»-1 Into a blue ocean, a spread of dame ‘’-■i- or over all the western sky for a If* minutes and a purple haze In the ea<- Then the surface of the ocean, like tl* heavens. Is lighted with mlll ona strange and shifting stars, f -r the ” ter Is so Impregnated with phespiM’n* that each tiny wave Is tlppe1! vr - light, and tbe foam that follow» in tF wake of the vessel Is often like a sue»® of fire. Sometime* you can i" poises swimming along the t»w ’’:5' vessel livid with phosph > ' and followed by a streak of * fi“* a comet’s tall. The southern ■ ■'«’• ’ 1 the right arm tipped out at proper »* gle. Iles straight ahead. In th- ml 1’’ myriads of unknown worlds that I1** strange to those accustomed to northern constellation«. Un ler the arm is a large black spot in th-“ b-“' ena. brightened by only a s n- e u “i”' star, which the sailors call "th-' '•J dinner bag." • Over the stern ■ ( tbe v •«el in the early evening you an P * , dlatingu'sh the fatnll ar -on- ci >' , - with tbe children.—Chi ago » "i The British marquis work ng : b«*** i ;t. lie’*’* I the ma«t has turned up n °o a sailing vessel plying " gland and Australia, aceor .,L* re ** S*t. Helena Guardian. It is the MH ‘ko-otsisetaMe^UhL?*""* ” r*,rh of Graham, eldest »on and b-'lr .f ’* brink, and ro » Huke of Montrose. 21 year* of »tor* heart»; it i» th» '.if* failin< wants to find out all aboi it tae *2 chant marine «nd to earn > I A toll hgur* has .u,lde^y '"»rtlficat*. Keeper* of Washington boarding- houM-* are taking prompt actio* umj. r tbe new provision of the district code which Axe» a heavy penalty against perwon* who fraudulently evade pay meat of bill* for lodging and keep. After women beg a w«r.ng teetk. they ali look aUk*. CHAPTER XXII. Night has quite closed in. • night e eeptionally wild and violent, * * ■ more the sound of wheels upon the gravel without catches Vera a ear. Perhaps »he had been listening —is even in a measure prepared for • but even If so. this does not prevent the sudden agitated change that overspreads her face as she hears it. Her pu »es quicken unpleasantly and she half rises to her feet. . , An hour, two hours, pass, and she is in her room dressing for dinner, when a servant brings her a note. "I have to thank you for the kind In vitation which Griselda gave me. Busi ness matters have compelled me to come here again—for the last time-to-night; to trespass, for the last time, upon your hoepitality. I beg you will not let my presence disturb you: my stay will be so short that I dare to hope you will not mark the coming or going.” _ quick wave ____ ________ A of color dyes Vera’s face; she lays the letter with studied slowness upon the table near. "My compliments to Mr. Dysart, and I hope be will dine with me to-night,” she says, calmly, but with an unconscious touch of hauteur. How does he dare to treat her like this, to persist in believing —or rather, to pretend to believe—that his presence is so distasteful to her ? What is he to her, one way or the other, that she should care whether he was in her house or out of it? At dinner, however, she will have an opportunity of widening bis knowledge somewhat. It will be the simplest thing to let him see how utterly unimportant an item he is in the scheme of her exist ence. There is a brilliant light in her eyes as she turqs to receive the woman who ha3 uow come back with au answer to her message to Dysart. There is a timidity in the woman’a air that warns her. “Mr. Dysart's compliments and thanks, madame, but he has already dined in town.” "Fasten this bracelet." says Vera, hold ing out her arm. She is aware that the woman is watching her, curiously if ner vously, and she so moves that the sudden pallor of her face, the sole thing that shows her Indignation, shall not betray her. "That will do; you can go,” she says after awhile. She sweeps down stairs almost in the servant's footsteps, aud into the green drawing room, a smaller apartment than the usual recep tion rooms, and now looking delicately cozy beneath the touches of lamps and firelight, and with the perfume of many flowers hanging around it. The wind, the thunder, the lightning, still rage, but the rain has ceased, aud !n the murky heavens above, a pale, sick ly moon is striving feebly to break a way through the dense clouds. Suddenly the door is thrown open by an agitated hand, and the woman who had attended her upstairs comes hurriedly, without cere mony, into the room. "Uh, madame, I thought you would like to know—that you should be told—” she stops, frightened by the expression on Vera's face. "Well?” says Vera, going a step nearer to her. “There is a ship in great distress, ma dame—somewhere out there," pointing vaguely in the direction of the ocean, “upon the rocks, they say! There is scarcely any hope—— ” “But the life-boat?” cried Y’era, sharp ly. forgetting everything now but the aw ful thought of death—and death so near —out there upon those cruel rocks, with the boiling, murderous waves leaping to receive their prey. "Yes. madame, but that accident yes terday you will remember it?—they say it has disabled six of the men, aud it is almost certain death to go at all, and the hands being short, there must be volun teers, and who will risk their lives----- ” the townbred girl stops short with a quiver, and covers her face with her hands. "Y'olunteers! Wtiere is Mr. Dysart?” cries Vera, suddenly, with prophetic in stinct. "Speak, girl!” turning fiercely on her maid. “Gone down to the beach, madame, to see what can be done.” "Gone!" says Vera, slowly, as if dazed, and then again, "gone!" A little convlu- sive shiver runs through her—it is the final breaking up of any lingering de ceits, any last illusions, that she may still have clung to. “Order the carriage,” she says, after a minute or two, during which mistress and maid have remained silent. This sudden w aking up has been so far a shock that it has killed all Immediate nervousness. Khe feels chilled, calmed, strengthened. The moon has in a measure conquered the clouds, and now shines out with a pale, watery luster, that rather adds to than takes from the weird wildness of the night. The thunder still rattles over head. and vivid flashes light the black ness. Here and there, as the carriage passes by the outskirts of the wood, these intermittent burst» of light show” w'herZ a ' tree *"** haa "" been ' felled, " ’ or'the road ripped up. or a small bridge carried bodily away by the force of the swollen cur rent underneath. All through the deadly crashing of th* •torm a booming sound may be heard at long intervala. Half maddened by it, and by that other greater fear. Vera lies back in the carriage, pressing her fin- gers now to her ears, now to her throb bing brow, that feel» as if ¡t were bur>t. •Off- Arrived at the entrance to the village a <lriv* of about a mil* froni Greycourt, she atops the carnage, and opening the door »prints to the ground. A sudden gnst of wind passing by almost da.he, wr <° ' b”' by ■ ’"P-'rinmi.n Th/a *nd h,lf bI>nd.-<l bv he flashing bghtmng. and bewildered bv th* rag.ng »torm, »he turns aside, and runs run. panting, pannng. struggling, strugghng. down . KS'^' ln "' »•£ torch«- th., « H»m:ng. re»tles* Ph'ture; .U *o ,he w77ho« ^"Se^t * dark object h-i„- . . t*«rb. A
