Lost-A Bag of Gold.

"Auisyou engaged, coachman?"

1 hail Btoppcd at that moment to water my horses, ami to quench my own thirst at a saloon near. I had .scarcely reached my horses' heads when 1 heard the abovo ques tion, iiiul saw, as I turned around, a young lady standing by my cab, Without delay I answered, and, opening the carriage door, £ helped the lady in.

As soon as I had found the number which tho lady had t;iven me I stopped, got oil' the box and opened the door to help her out. She appeared to be iv grout agitation, as if an unpleasant interview was beforo her. I received from her over the price of tho fare, which sho evidently knew, a little drink money, thanked her, and she hurried away, whilo 1 turned my carriage towards a neigli liouring saloon to invest in a glass of beer.

But before I went in I proceeded to straighten die carriage cushion, and see that it wns all right inside. Ah soon as I opened the door again, I saw some object lying on tho seat. It was a small linen sack—without doubt wliat the lady had held in her lap. Itook it in ray hand, and its weight astonished me. With not a little curiosity I looked nt it again, and at last tried Io open it. It was easily done, for the bag was fastened only by a little piece of string.

One can imagine my surprise when I found that it wan tilled with gold pieces. I dared not look at them further hi this place, as a policeman might possibly notice, and ask how I came by the sold. Meanwhile I tied the wick iigiuu, ami put it in the lar«o pocket of my coat. Instead of indulging in the glass of beor, 1 drove to tho nearest hack stand and took my place in the rear of the line of carriages, so that I could bo sure of not being wanted for tho next half honr.

I got into my carriage, as haekmea often do when they want a little rest, and I exa mined for the second time my newly-found treasure. 1 shook the contents of the bag on the seat, and sat with d.ized eyes before quite a pile of gold. After delighting my eyes with it fora while, I cuunted the money—partly twenty, partly ten dollar pieces -singly, attain into the sack, and found that it amounted to exactly the sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

While I now looked more closely at the bag 1 found written in ink upon it the ad dress, "Miss Mildied Borkloy, No. 1, Madison Place." This address,which hu.d hitherto escaped rac, I read with aw much disgust as astonishment, for there now re mained,to me, as an honourable man, but one way. I meditated over it for a time, but could como to no couelnsion. "With Honesty/1 saiil one voice in my toul, "you will cum no bread ; with houesty you cau go, in your old ago, to ttio p >orhuuse." At last selfish interest and conscience cnnie to a compromise, and t resolved to keep the money till the following day. Then, I thought, there will be v reward offered, and no one can blamo mo for at least prolitine; by that. I remained all day in a fever of excite ment ; and, when night c*iiio, I fclc really ill. 1 could not sleep. Next morning I was pale and wretched. I went to break fast whoro hackmen arcs in the habit of drinking their collee, and curly looked for the morning paper. JSurc enough, at the top of the column for the found articles, I found this advertisement ;—

LOST, yesterday, in a haok, a Bag of Gold. The iinder is earnestly en treated to bring the money to No. 75, Grattaa-strcot, three flights up, where he will receive a liberal reward.

I knew well what.this last passage sigfini fied, as I had in many c;ise< learned that this common expression allowed ercat latitude. A liberal reward meant, perhaps, from one to live dollars »nd a glasi of beer. I laughed in scorn, and my cbagrin was great. My heart hardened towards the person who had inserted this notice, and I no longer felt the least desiro to part with my nowly-found treasure.

To my great surprise, the advertisement ■was not repeated. 1 could not explain this to myself, but began to fear that the police were on my track, and that eomo lino day 1 must walk into prison.

A week passed, and I liad becomo a mere shadow of the strong healthy mau I had previously been. Tlio money had been a curae to me ever since I had stretched my hand out towards it. I had no rest by night or day ; I felt weak and wretched, and visibly piued away. had noted the address given in the advertisement, and so I drovo at noon on the tenth day to 75, Grattan-street. It was the place where I had driven the young lady. The door stood wide open, I called a boy to hold my horse, and went upstairs. I asked a girl I met for Miss Berkley, and she thought that such a person lived on the attic flour. I went up higher and knocked at the door I presumed to be the right one. I could not help feeling that I had been a rascal, and only the conscious ness that I was at last going to do right gave an ease to my conscience. At my knock a weak voice called •'Come in!" I opened the door and entered.

For a moment the darkness prevented my seeing the interior. The windows were dim with dust, smoke, and dirt, and some broken panes were pasted over with paper, a table and two chairs, with a miserable bed, made the whole furni ture.

"Step softly, death is here," said a trembling voice, in which I only too well recognised the young lady whom I had brought there ten days before. But .how she had changed in this short time ! Her cheeks weie hollow, her face wss pale as death, and her eyes had an unnatural brightness. When I had gained the necessary self command, I said, with my face turned away—for it was impossible tor me to look on myself as other than a cowardly Tillain :

" I brine: the big of gold which " and then I muttered something about haviog only just seen the notice.

'■ It is too late !" she whispered, sadly. "He for whom that money was destined is no longer living. Here he lie?, be died some hours ago. Yesterday you could have saved him—saved us both—but now it is too late, too late."

And she went on murmuring to herself, "Too late, too late I" as if she had fallen iato a heart-rending stupor. Suddenly the poor woman rose slowly from the chair, where she sat by the death bed, aud after walking up and staring at me, gave a hollow cry which thrilled me to the marrow of my bones.

"It is only right that you should know what you have to answer for," she said.

"That is your work. You can ba proud of it; it has been a comp'ctc success " She langhhd wildly—n was most a ming ling of laughing aud cryiug—and Loked at me.

"He was my husband," she went on, after a while. "AYe lived apart; why and wherofurc is nothing to you. For three years I have heard nothing of him. During this time I lived out as a governess, and

earned that money which you hold iv your hand. May God forgive you for what you have done?"

Here she luul a severe fit of coughing, and when she took tile handkerchief from her mouth it was wet with rresh Wood. "At List ho found me," she continued, "aim wrote, begging ing to come to him. I came. He lived in thin hole in sickness and poverty. Had I not lost my gold then I would have taken him away and cared well for him. lie died of hunger. We have had no food for the last three days and there is no other fate but for me to follow liim. oh, you have done a manly deed ! Look there ■—vonr work !"

She drew a cloth from the face of the coipse; it looked almost a skeleton, and the sorrow of the tight overpowered her. She tlirow heraolf over it and sobbed violently. This emotion brought on an i>thcr lit of coughing, with a frightful torrent of blood, during which she cxpiicu. Her disease had gone to far for her to Burvive the shock of tier husband's death, and if die could not die in his arras she died by his side.

Tho landlady was very indifferent about the tate of the unfortunate pair. She merely taid that nothing different had beou expected, but sho was very much pleased when I asked what they owed, and pro ceeded to pay her. I went to an undertaker and arranged with him for a. fitting funeral for the couple united iv death. I could not and would not sock for their friends and rela tives, to draw suspicion upon myself. It was now clear tome why the advertisement for the loss of the money appeared but once. The poor souls had not the money to pay for a repetition. 1 followed the coilin to the grave. No stone marks it, but I kuow it well, and it often follows me in my dreams. The very fame day I diove to the Hospital for Con sumptives, and pin tho rest of the bag of gold in the collection box, for I would rather have died of hunger than kept a penny of

Daphne's Last Resort.

" There is no more pic." "Heaven help us, then," said Daphne M Guire, looking up to her mother with a weary, wistful, wliy-don't-»oiiiebody.hiiy me-a-sealekiu-sacque oxpreesioo ou her oval face.

nlrs M'Guirc did not reply. Leaning her bangles head on a thin, white luud— the hand that Vitian O'lioutko had called " a dimpled treasure that one might ri.sk his koul to win," that night no many yeimj ago that «ho had rejected his proffered love aiid caused him to wander away in wild despair ami marry (Jiiolle Quirk—she thou-'ht of how, had she plighted her troth to him, lue would now nave been a garden in which pretty llowois waved their bright laces, instead of a wind-swept waste, barren uliko of flowers and verdure. e>he remem bered how, for the first few years after their marriage, every thing went well with Pericles M'Guire, and how, wheu Daphne was a prattling infnnt, ho had come home full one evening and told her in proud toneo that he had reached (lie summit of his ambition, ho was a policeman. All theso memories of the past—the bitter and the swtet—came surging through her mind as she looked out through her tears and caw Blue Island avenue cars "oing by like ghost* m the twilight. "Why do you weep, mamma?" said Daphne, placing her soft white West Side arms about tlie neck of the mother she loved bo dearly—rho only mother she had " 1 fear me, Bridget," aaid Mrs M'Guire, using the pet name by which Daphne was known at homo, "that our future must, in deed, be a cheerless one ; that the coming days will hold for us only sorrow and niisory."

"Do not be disheartened, mamma," re plied the girl, kicking the dog oil the front steps, and kissing her mother with a warm, lingering, I • have • come ■ to • stay - all-the winter-and-part-of-the-springkiss. "Things may not be so bad as they seem. We have Mill one hope, you know, one resource in ense all else fails."

" What is it, child !" asked the mother in hoarso, anxious tones. " What is this hope you speak of ?"

" Doughnuts," roplicd Daphne, speaking the word softly and with infinite tonderuess. Wo have a jar ot them down stair, you know.

" Then let us tackle them at once," said the grief-stricken parent, starting for the pantry.

The Garibaldi Imposture.

It seems that the -world has missed a sen satioa trial, compared with which tho famous Ticbborno case would have sunk into insignificance. The Italian nation has, aa it is now alleged, been wasting its hero worship for many years past upon a Bham Garibaldi falsely and fraudulently inveated with the name and honours of the real patriot, who in point ot fact was killed at Aspro montc. The "Scntinelle dn Midi" has divulged the secret to the world, and an oflicial Italian paper, the "Fanfullo," thinks fir, while contradicting the story, to reproduce it at length in Its columns. Vari ous circumstances are mentioned in support of this novel talc, and amongut others the supposed fact that tbc real Garibaldi had siiuulhands and feet, and wrote clumsily and with difficulty, whereas the impersonator of the defunct hero, who was mourned withsuch cuthueiasm tho other day, had large, clumsy hands, but wielded the pea ot a ready writer. As the story will no doubt now deeply imprcs3 the popular mind in Italy, it is perhaps fortunate'that the origi nal intention of burning the so-called Gari baldi was not carried into effect, for it will now be possible to exhume the body and as certain, at any rate, whether the hands are tbc bands of the true patriot or not. Considering, however, the loug time dur ing which the Garibaldian character was successfully sustained by the person whose identity with him is now impeached, it may perhaps be douted whether he is not as much entitled to the honours he has worn as the original would have been. Most people are of opinion that tho " claimant" has achieved far greater fame by his impersonation of a borrowed character than the real Sir Kogtr could ever have secured, and in the case of the revolutionary general as the task of im posing upon a whole nation was more diffi cult, so ought the credit to be the greater. As for the " Sentinelle dv Midi," no one can sufficiently praise tho moderation and tact shewn by it in concealing the disquiet ing secret of which it had the monopoly until tho pretender was beyond the reach of detection, and the story itself was in capable ot being either proved or disproved by adequate tests. *

A railroad traveller in Germany, who was provided at the long delay made by the train m an obscure village, was informed that the engine-driver was giving lessons to the station-master's daughter. \V hat to him was love or hope ? What to him was joy or care ? He steppe,) upon a plug of soap ttio girl had left on the topmost stair, and his feet Hew out like wild, fierce things, and he struck each stair with a sound like a drum ; «nd the Birl below with the scrubbing things laughed like a fiend to see him come.

Great Events from Little Causes.

The coquetry of the daughter of Count Julian introduced tha Saracens into Spain, The murder of C;csar ia the Capitol was chiefly owing to his not rlting from his «oat when the Senate tendered nim somo par ticular honours.

Warton mentions that tha Treaty of Utrecht was occasioned by a quarrel be tween the Dtiche-s of Murlborough and Queen Anne about a pair of rlovcs.

The expedition to the island of K6 was undertaken to gratify a foolish and roman tic passion of the Duke of Buckingham. 'Ilio poesossion of a house, land, or other real property for twenty years, without payment of rent or acknowledgement in writing to any person, gives such possessor an absolute title to the property against all claimants. An order of ejectment to turn out «uch possessor cannot no sustained.

Interesting Clippings.

Outsider (opening door): Ye'rc aw foo in here ? Indignant Seatholder : Speak for yourself, ma man I—Judy. Ole Brer Kabbit at dinner after an Aus tralian match: "Bauuerman, my Bonncr Boy."

Don't carry a million sovereigns in your pockets for fifteen years. In that time, we are told, they will lose in weight, by wear and tear, one-half of one per cent., or about £6,000, and this sum is an important item at the present pi ice of beef.

The Princes Dolgourouka-Jurieffska, the morganatic widow of the late Czar, is very anxious to impress on the world that it >yas she who honoured tuat ruler by accepting him, rather than he who raised her. Her family, she states, traces its origin to liurck, and is much more illustrious than that of the Romanoffs. In fact, she states that Alexander used often to say, "I am proud to have married a Dolgourouka j"

Modebn Friendship.—Fawnius : "You know I'd go through fire and water for you, old chappie." Lteliua: " Believe you would, dear boy. .But it's not so bad as all that comes to. Can you lend U3 a fiver till "—Fawnius: "Oh, I never said anything about money." The Princess of Wales has been wearing white a very greal deal of late at concerts, dinners, and balls, supplementing its neu tral uniplicity with a judicious blaze of diamonds here, there, and everywhere, which haa made the leaders of society follow her example, and many an eye must glisten at seeing; such sparkling substitutes lor com of the realm on the lair neck and arms.

There is a difference, albeit a slight one, between the modes of treatment applied respectively to pigs and landlords in Ireland. They don't try to starve pias before killing them.

Mr Thomas Hughes has just completed his "Memoir of Daoiel Mncmillan." The volume will be published immediately, It isjust twenty-five years since Mr Mac millan died. Along with his younger brother,, the present head of tho firm, he started at Cambridge tbe business of Mac millan & uo , now one of tbe largest and most famous publishing houses in the kingdom.

A scene we can imagine iv the near future:—Gubbins, with a piece of blue ribbon tied thiough tbe button-hole. Friend (to Gubbins) : " old man, what's wrong? have you joined tho Blue Kibbon Army?" Guboins: 'No, I haven't; but before I wore this no one would nsK mo to have a drink, because they knew uncom mon well I'd say yes, but now they see this piece of blue I get any number of in. vitations to liquor, and I always have one ; so, you sec, it's very good business!"

COMIC BREVITIES.

The man who was not bred to work will evontually be compelled to work for bread.

A question for a debating society—Does a gunsmith who sells a gun on credit charge it?

What interjection is of the feminine gen. ilcr ?—Alas !

Does a person lose his sense of touch when he doesn't feel well ?

" I occasionally drop into poetry," as the man said when he fell into the editorial waste basket.

" tfever," says an Irish orator, " write an anonymous letter without signing your name to it."

A Circular " Saw."—A saying that cuts all round.

It is hard to catch a man's meaning whea he carriea on a runniDg conversa tion.

The man who is always as " cool as a cucumber" is generally as green. A servant with a turn for figures had five eggs to boil; and having to boil them three minutes each boiled them a quarter of an hour together. Why is a man never knocked down against bis will ?—Because it's impossible for one to fall unless he is inclined.

It is bad luck for thirteen to sit down to gether at table, especially if there is only dinner enough for tan. "When I first married," said a middle aged lady, "my husband looked only for bapuincss, but very soon he only found fault."

A writer says :—"The bicycle is a great thing to put flesh ova man's legs." It is also a great thing to take flesh oil" a man's nose and other portions of his face. . The lir3t task that devolves upon the biographer of a deceased American states man seems to be disproving reports of his profanity. Charges of intemperance can th«n be handled at bis leisure.

" Charityjvaunteth not itself, is not puffed up," and yet some men expect a puff every time they give half-a-crown to an indigent old woman's society.

Unfortunately the man who has a silent sorrow is seldom silent. He plays the flute, scrapes the fiddle, and most diabolical of all, tries to master the trombone,

A negro mistook a mule for a ghost, and poked it with a stick. The Verdict recited that he came to his death by using too short a stick in probing the unknowable for evi dences of a future existence.

"I never thought but once," said old Smith, "that ie was a sin to steal an umbrella." " And whtn was that?" asked his friend. "It was when some thief stole my now silk one," answered the old mi.

Brown says he hates inquisitive people, and the worst kind, of inquisitiveness, he thinks, is that exhibited by the man who stops him in the street and wants to know when he is going to pay that little bill. A physician, who was shooting with his nephew, ridiculed the poor marksman, whereupon the young man retorted. "Ob, well, uncle, I can't be expected to kill every time, as I don't load with prescrip tions 1" c

The following hit at the water-cure was made by Charles Lamb, aud none but him self could have made so Quaint-a conceit: —"It is," said ho, "neither new nor won derful, for it is as old as the Deluge, which in my opinion killed move than it cured." A Pretty Comparison.—A gentleman, whiskered up to the very eyes, was pa^sin" along the street, when a couple of jolly taw on a land cruise observed him " Shiver my timbers, Jack," said one to the other, "that fellow looks like a rat peeping out of a bunch of oakum 1"

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, SEPTEMBER 16, 1882.

Printed and Published by the Proprietor Hknbv Brett, of Symonds-street, at his General Printing Office, Wjajdham-street, in the Pro- Tiiioo of Auckland. New Zealand. Saturday, Skptssibeb 16, 1832.



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