THE RED RIVER REBELLION.

* «__• From a British Staff Officer m letter *»■»» m Fiold>

i- his Tent to tho Foronoon frCOff sweltering In the Altornoon- s ß„v«go C»mP Followers.

Bflrt Coßßis_,s.W.T., Canada, April _I fft ite this letter in my tent, A camp Cd'covorod with a fow rough blankots.an ' {or a chair, and two biscuit boxos do Lvforatable. Belts, swords,rovolvors field '•__-____ spurs, hnvresacks, and "hold «tSß. tho tent pole. The tent •7.1? is covered with military trappings £ ground to top. Small icicles aro sua- Sd Irom tho crown oi the tent, while the Kisolosoly buttoned and 1 am wrapped r'y greatcoat. My feet aro cold, my Lers pinched, and 1 am scrawling rathor ffiwrlttog this letter.. Tho cold, dry air comes through tho crevices and down tho ventilators, nnd a cop of snow crowns tho summit of the tent polo, Col Yon Slruubon-eo, D.A.G., is study inffoniap of tho campaign at tho other ond Smv camp bed. Ho is a votoran of many tattle" and his breast is covered with medah won in India and China. Ho is to command tho infantry brigade under Con. Middloton, and ho is horo waiting for trans portation to tho front. As ho bonds ovor the map boforo him, his grey board falls over his fatigue jacket, and his appearance bcomme a In tfitcrrc. Ho has discarded reeulation trousers, and wears a pair of hunting breeches mado of corduroy. His hoots aro dirty, and his uniform is stained ff ith the dust of travel. Ho is figuring out fjuestions of supplies, and his map is covered n-ith notes about waggons, teams, depots, escorts, teamsters, break downs, and tho bnps and mishaps attendant on feeding an army in the liold. Outside my lent I hoar tho measured (read of men's foot moving ovor tho ground, ana tho command of tho "drill instructor, cloar, sharp and do cHvo. It is the Midland Battalion, under command of Capt. Williams. M. P., at its morning drill. It is a composite corp?, what tho French call rvifiment* dit march, made up of many battalions to moot tho exigencies of tho hour. Bands of woollen cloth cover the legs from the anklo to tho knee, after tho fashion of tho troops in Egypt and India. They call these coverings "puttios." Whilo warm and sorviceablo looking, they prevent tho veins of the logs from swolling on tho march. Somo of the men havo fur caps pulled ovor their ears, whilo others have large mulllcrs tied over their forage caps. I can now hoar them doubling ovor tho ground to keop the blood in circulation, for tho air is biting, if dry, out on these bleak prairies, even thus lute in showery April. These men aro armed with Snidor-Enticld rifles. Their equip ment is of tho old kind, with packs, havre sacks, ball bags, and belt, such as wore worn twenty years ago. Their physique is good, and thoir faces aro bronzed by ex posure to the wintry winds. Squaws are lounging about the fringo of tho camp. They are of mixed tribes, tho Creos and Chippowas, and they aro picking up refuse with which to make thoir midday meal. Thoy aro gaunt, big boned, and hungry looking. Their faces aro painted red and thoir blankets are of many hues. The old and middle aged carry papooses on their backs, and they are not good looking in our eyes. Even the children aro not fair to the eye. As tho men are dismissed the squawß squat around the camp kitchens and look at the cooks preparing breakfast, as dogs look at their masters w-liilo waiting for a bono. At this soason of tho yoar thoy cook and eat tho offal and scraps, which the snuawscolloctwhilo tho buckslounge around theirlepees pitched on a neighbouring hill. Tho fingers of the squaws are covered with brass rings, and tho lower part of thoir logs are encased in buckskin and often ornamontod with bead work about the ankle. They all smoko, and as they open thoir "fire bags," which aro usually nearly empty, they look at us and grin. This we interpret as a ploa for tobacco, and an odd piece of plug or somo linocut is thrown down by the soldiers. Some of their boys were amusing a group by shooting at a tin can with bows and arrows. At twonty paces they knock tho mark over with an oxportness born of practice. They nover ask for presents, but they appeal by looks to the white men around them. Of "skidewnghkoo '' or fire water they know little or nothing, for the sale of liquor is prohibited. An odd one among thorn may bo found doing a little work around the village, and occasionally a buck will carry water for a small consider ation. In winter they shoot black-tailed deer and antelopes, and trade tho meat and skins for groceries and knick-knacks. The faces of them are striped diagonally with black, and thoir heads are ornamented with the feathers of birds of many plumages. Looking to the left of our encampment, I can see tho headquarters of the Ambulance Corps, where Dr Niddock, the eminent sur geon of Montreal, is busy preparing hospital stores for tho exigencies of tho campaign. Theiearetwenty-fivosurgeontfauddressursin the party. Ono of them, Dr. Douglas, wears the most, highly prized of all decorations in the British servire—the Victoria Cross never given except for valour in the field, Tbo bugle sounds, It is the order for Col. Williams to send two companies to the cross ing of tho south Saskatchewan. They are to be undor the command of Major Smitn, who, in civil life, is deputy Master-at-Arms at Ottawa, in a short time tho men ore paraded. So sudden are the changes in this country that the air has become mild, whilo the sun shines through tho bank of clouds and thethermometerregistors SOdege. in the shade I can sco ollicors and men hurrying about the encampment. Tho hum of preparation is around me. Major Ricards, the supply ofiicer, is busy providing teams for transportation. He is an old soldier, and he is covered with scars received in New Zealand when the Maoris wore in revolt in Taranuki on the Waikato. Tbo command lias fullen in and marches from the ground by successive companies, while their companions gave them threo cheors andatigor. Thoy goby the trail duo north, and win mako tho river, if all is well, to morrow ovening.

SIR PETER LUMSDEN

His Valuable Services in the Last Afghan War.

Ose of the members of tbe English Legation famishes some interesting gossip regarding -Sir Peter Lumsden. " From his youth, said this gentlemen, " Lumsden has been a man of war, Hetirst saw war in the service of the East India Company, and distinguished himself as a youngster in the terrible mutiny of 1857. Ho learned the Hindustani dia lects years ago whon Sir Frederick Roberts was on his way to Candahar. A few years ago it was of the utmost consequence that he should have some accurate knowledge of the route and forces likely to oppose him in the mountain passes. This information Sir Peter Lumsden volunteered to obtain. Three days elapsed and ho had not returned. General Roberts was sitting in his tent when a Fakir, or holy man, suddenly appeared, riding furiously down tho moun tain side. Ho was an extraordinary looking creature, his only garment being a pair of dirty trousers made of goatskin. His hair nearly reached te his waist, and his lean, brawny arms were covered with a paste made of sandalwood ashes mixed with castor ofl-a decoration of peculiar sancity and powerful smoll. Tho General camo out and asked his visitor what ho wanted. The reply, in a barbarian jargon, was a request for a private intcrviow. "When they wore alone the Fakir said : 'Don't you know me?' It was Lumsden, Whose disguise—dirt, wig and all— had been » complete as to be unsuspected by a man whose intimate friend he had been for ten years, Knowing how superstitious the Afghns are, Luuißdeu had selected a disguise they would not readily questiou. He know the dialect of the class he repre sented perfectly, and whenever be ap- Proaehedan Afghan encampment he dashed fearlessly up yelling, ' Lah Allah Mahmcud reeoul Allah,' the mystic words of the jiutliful. His idbnlity was nover suspected, *he information he obtained enabled the English to capture Candahar and rendered f>e -ampaigu the most successful one over JMde among those bleak mountains. . "For this service General Lumsden was Jf July, ISSI, commissioned a Major- Ganeral of the Ec_i_al staff and _ive3 SiO.OQO."

THE BATTLE OF PENJDEH

Narrativo by Eye-Witnesses,

Simla, May 4. —Eyo-witnossos of the Penj deh affair say that on March '29th Taib Solar, the Afghan commandor, roceived Gon. KouiarofFs ultimatum, in substance that unless tho Afghans rotirod from the left bank of the Kußhk and right bank of tho Murghab beforo ovening of that date, tho Russians would drivo thorn out. Capt. Yato thon conferred with Col. Zacharwski, as already reported. Tho samo night Taib Salar, after consulting with tho British olKccrs, declined to evacuate the positions roforrcd to, but offered to consider reason able proposals regarding pickets and out posts. (lon, Komuroff mado no answor to tho oll'or, and tho noxt morning, during tho rainfall occompaniod by a heavy mist, the Russians advanced, tho Turcoman cavalry covoring tho infantry. Tho movement drew tho Afghan tiro, when the Turcomans opened out, showing tho battalions of tho Soventy-third Rogimont, a sotnia of Cos sacks and oight guns. Two of tho latter camo into action, and tho infantry fired volleys for half an hour, swooping tho Afghans down in lilos. Tho Afghans, with muz-10-loadoi'B and wet powdor, answered feebly, whilo two guns, badly positioned, ropliod to Russian artillery. Tho Kushk River was swollen and unfordable. The only means of retreat was by the Pul-i- Khisti bridge, seven foot wide. The Cossacks went forward on tho loft tlank of the Afghans, and the Russian infantry charged thoir intrenchmonts and carried thorn at the point of tbo bayonet, killing hundreds uf tho dofondors who resisted bravely. After tbo first shot tho British otticors five milos smth of Ak-Tapa hurried to tho spot and mot the Afghans in full retreat, both from Ak-Tapa and Pul-i- Khisti. Col. Alikhanotl', with a strong escort, crossed tho bridge and occupied the Afghan military governor's tent, but no pursuit was made. Col. AlikhanoH'ordered his Sarakh Turcomans to attack Capt. Yato's party, which arrived during tho Afghan re treat. Capt. Yato asked Col. Zacharwski for an interview, and requested that troops bo sent to guard tbo British camp. No answor was given the request. Somo Tokke Turcomans appeared on tho scene, and tho Sarakh Turcomans with Capt, Yato urged a rotreat. The British woro placed under the escort of the Sarakh chiefs. Taib Salar was badly woundedund thoAfghansdomornlisod. A copy of tho telegrams giving news of tho agrccmont of March 17th was given Col. Zacharwski on March 27th. A Russian Horo. St. Pkteus-I'iu;, May 7.—C01. Zakrjow eki, who was with Col. Alikhanotl' during tho Russian's movements preceding and at tending tho battle of Penjdoh, has reached St, Petersburg with a full report of the Russian caso.and has dopartcd forGatschina to dolivor his report to the Czar, Ho says tho inhabitants of Penjdeh are well disposed toward the Russians. Ccl. Zahrjewski-report of tho battlo of March 30th is identical with that of Gen. Komaroff. Ho admits tho Afghans wore armed with poor rifles, but says thoir guns were better than these of tho Russians. Ho assorts that tho Afghan forces numboied 5,000, while there were only 1,500 Russian troops, He brings with him two captured Afghan standards, The Colonel is tho hero of tho day. London, May 7.—Gladstone, replying to questions in tho Houso of Commons this afternoon, said that although on the receipt of the first telegrams, he had described tho Penjdeh affair as an act of unprovoked aggression, still ho had never presumed that tho information in his possession when he made that declaration was unquestionable. As a matter of fact, within twonty-four hours aftorward nows containing important qualifications of that first roceived had como to hand. Gladstone had no doubt, ho said, that whon Earl Dull'erin, the British Viceroy at India, at Lahore, after his return from the conference with the Ameer at Rawil-Pinde, doscribed the Russian attack as an act of unprovoked aggression without any qualification, tho Viceroy's statement was warranted by tho circumstances under which ho spoko and tho knowledge in his possession ; but Russia had sinco denied that Col. Alikhanotl'had ordered tho Turco mans under his command to mako any at tack. Tho report that Col. Alikhanotl' had issued such an order was made to England by Capt. Yato and his party, who belonged to Sir Peter Lutnsdon'."" Boundary Commis sion, and who were in Penjdeh during tho battlo; but it had been ascertained since that noithor Capt. Yato nor any of his party wore aware of any foundation for the report of that rumour. Gladstone paid that Earl Dufferin had arranged with Abdurrahman Khan, Auieer of Afghanistan, tho basis upon which the British Government had so far proceedod in the frontier affair, and if further communications with the Ameer ou tho subject should become necessary they would bo made.

The Lute General Earle.

Tuii " Daily Nows " publishes a letter from its special correspondent giving full details of the battlo of Kerbekan on tho 10th ult. The correspondent thinks that a more gallant assault on a seemingly impregnable stronghold cannot bo found recorded _in military history. Ho continues :—Like wild beasts of the forest surprised in their lair, the Arabs fought at bay with the courage of desperation, having the vantage ground everywhere. And thus against desperate odds, our gallant soldiers, in apito of a withering lire all round, gained rock after rock, fastnoss after fastness, be hind which tho well-directed aim of the Arabs dealt death ut overy shot. Inch by inch, foot by foot, with fearful odds against thorn, do the Highlanders on tho loft und tho Stafford men on tho right press forward and gain ground, whilo the black granite boueath their feet became red und slippery from gore; while on they pressed uvor ghastly corpses, over the groaning, dying and wounded. Thus for hours was heard tho ring of the rifle, tho clashing of sword and spear, tho cheers of the soldiers on couraging ouch oiher, the yell of the in furiated Arabs, tho roaring of tho guns, and the groans of tho dying. Thero. is one house on a rise of tho ground, brick built, witli two windows in each wing, a door bricked up between. Moat of the enemy's positions had been turned. Gon eral Earle is walking up to this to sco what it is and what it contains, when a ser geant cries out, "Don't go near it, sir; there are men inside." Tho man has hardly spoken when "crack " goes a rifle, and the General is seen to fall dead—shot through the head. Tho houso is surrouuded, but entrance found impossible, but it is Bet tiro to andanopening blown with powder. Thero were from 15 to 25 men inside ; all were killed -some shot, somo burnt. They held out and fought to the last, knowing_ their fato if they issued forth. By three in tho ofternoon all resistance was over. An officer of one of the rogiments en gaged gives in tho "Daily Telegraph "an Account of the brilliant action at Kerbokan, in which, by tho skilful strategy of Goneral Earle, who himsolf foil in the attack, a mere handful of our troops dislodged a large - body of Arabs from a strongly entrenched position on the Nile. He writes :-It appears that the General was ki led in the following way. The position had just been carried. Tho rebels had made a stone house with loopholes, and a thatch roof, in a hollow of thoir position, Our men killed several mon coming out of this house, and had seen others enter. The roof of the house was on fire, and I beleive ammunition was ex ploding inside. The General had ordered the house to be set on fire himself. Some of my men told the General some rebels were inside, but the General advanced to the house, when he was immediately shot through tho head from a loophole, and Uie uTunwhohud shot him throw his Reming ton out of the holo. The Geuoral fell quite dead. _ _

Slang.

H_ee is an extract from Michael Davit* j book on British prisons:-" A ptckpockot told me the history of his arrest one day ,n the following language:-«I was logging down a blooming slum in the Chapel whenl I broke off his jerry and boned tho cloc_, which wa- a red one! but I was spotted by a comer, who claimed me. 1 was lugged before the beak, who gave me so: doss m the Steel. The:week after I was chucked up I did * snatch near St. Paul's, was col-

ROMANCE OF RIEL'S LIFE.

Tho School-Boy Friendship of the In

-urgent Leader,

The unheroic war now being carried on in tho Soudan by Victoria's favourite, (leneral Wolseley, recalls the timo when ho first bogan to attract attention from military operations, with fower men at his back, in anothor and obscure portion of the globe. At that time ho may be said to havo fairly won his spurs, and thereby sprung directly into public notice. In a comparatively unoxplorod region, way up in British North America, far beyond Canadian civilisation, nnd at the point where the last western fort of tho now extinct Hudson Bay Com pany Btoodfirm and stanch, ho mot, a score or ho of years ago, a foe well nigh as ro doubtublo as the Mahdi has proved to bo Perhaps, if thero is any way to measure heroic atlinities, not a few points of re semblance might bo traced between El > Mahdi of tho Soudan and tho leader of tho lioreo and desporate littlo robollion of tho Saskatchewan district, Louis Kiel. I

A swarthy, hot, impetuous and impulsive as gonuino French-Canadian nature can mako ono, was Riol when he took a hand in tho first scenes of bloodsbod along tho turbulent Rod River of tho North. He waß then posing as a supporter of popular rights. His status in tho presont outbreak in tho samo Territory has not yot beon deter mined. But if the English authorities again got him into thoir bauds matters aro apt onough to go hard with the rebel. The death he so remorselessly motcd out to othois when in his power seems likely to bo measured out to him. Surely nobody knows this bettor than Riol. His existence has boon emphatically a duel one, and tho instinctß of the savage may justly bo said to havo supplanted eventually thoso controll ing ideas which education and civilised influences are popularly supposed to en gender.

Imagine a youth just escaped from tho strict discipline of scholastic life, from tho dull routine of a Catholic seminary, and, plunging at a bound into tbo rude, untram melled oxistonco of a frontiersman. This, as 1 havo it from one who knows him woll, is what happened to Louis Riol, Such a change was too sudden, and it is little won der that to his fiery soul this incautious jump into the freedom of bordor life was morally disastrous ; and yet I am told tbo man is not the ruthless desperado tho Eng lish press pictured in 1872. Of what he is now, however, and what his ultimate fact may bo, perhaps fow pooplo can spoak; but there is a little story of his old seminary lifo in the Lowor Provinces which shows thuthc onco displayod remarkable unselfish ness.

In his first yoar at tho seminary, when he had no ambition for tho priesthood, Riol bocamo greatly attached to a young class mate who had como from the Laval Uni versity at Quebec. How two of such oppo site natures became friends was something of a mystery to all. Rude, uncouth and gruff to tho other seminarians, Riel was kindness itself to his newly-found friond, Thoy were tho first in tho morning to de scend the old oak staircases leading from the dormitories, and long boforo the chapol boll sounded could be seen, arm in arm, walking to and fro along the promenades of the recreation ground. From chapol to study and then to classes thoso insepar ables wont, and at tho refractory meals sat side by side. Perhaps if this companion ship could havo continued the wholo cur rent of tho Canadian's life might havo beon changed. Thero came an hour, however, whon, without tho fault of eithor, the bond of union, formed at an all-important poriod in Kiel's life, was rudely broken.

One day in the midst of a class locturo Ricl's chum became suddenly ill, sprang excitedly from bis seat, and boforo bo could roach the door of tho lecture-room fell di/.'iy and sick to the floor. Before tbo astonished Professor could realize tho situation tho studonts had quitted their chairs and rushod to tho prostrate form. Unceremo niously parting the circle, Riel roached tho sido of his friend, caught him up in his arms ond bore him Bwittly away through the long, dim corridor, down the staircase and across the recreation ground to tho in firmary, somo distance from tho main build ing. An hour afterwards the youth was ly ing on a snowy cot in the small pox ward of the Nun's Hospital. Louis Riol was at his sido. Despite entreaty and command ho had insisted oh accompanying his friond, and ho had actually forced his way in tho hospital. Thoro day by day ho sat as patiently as a woman in almost constant vigil. Not even whon tho scourge dovoloped into complete repulsion and hideousness did Riel waver. Tho caro ful nurses—nuns long used to tho horrors of tho pesthouse — were appalled at tho un sightly spectacle of the sick seminarian, but .till tho loving watcher kopt his place. Tho ond drew nigh. At the_ close_ of tho busy physician's last hurried investigation, Riel followed him out of the ward. Was thero any hope ? Could nothing bo done to savo the sufferer? Tho doctor shook his head and darted off to other duties, whilo the young student walked slowly back to tho bedside of his friend, with tho light gono out of his eyos. Presently the figure on tho cot stirred. Louis gently pressod a cool cloth to the sick man's brow. The sufferer's eyes opened ; his seemed all at once to regain something of his old-timo vivacity and strength. For an instant or two ho began to talk in tho dear old patois they bad both loved to übo. Thon suddenly thoro camo a great change ovor tho features lying ghastly on tho pillow. With no apparent offort tho dying ono eat bolt upright iv tbo bed, turnod ovor toward hiß friond's chair, and stretching out his hand, said, clearly and distinctly : " Louis, lam going, Good-bye, dear Louis ; good bye,'1 Louis Kiel nover returned to the semin ary where hu had met perhaps tho bolo porson bo ever lored. Doubtless many of bis comrades uovor know what had bocomo of him until years aftorwurd, whon they hud faded away in-o demure cures of habitant villages, tbe news of tho Red River insurrection roached their oars. Then thoy woro mado aware of a certainty that Louis Riel was in tho land of tho living, und making prodigious strides iv the direction of equivocal fame. Now onco moro tho telegraph boars his name nightly. It is to a Catholic priest, one standing high in tho councils of his Church in this State, that I am indebted for this story of the Winnipeg rebel. He treasures _ a daguerreotype likeness of Riel, given him years ago, and presenting the picture of o smoothfaced lad — scarcely -0 years bo looks—with hair knotted in curls and eyes open and bright. Thoro ate hints of a sad romanco in the life of Louis Koil's mother.

Gladstone's Eulogy of Gordon

The right honourable gentltman'(Sir Staf ford Northcote) has dwelt with tho utmost propriety and the utmost fooling on the loss which the country has sustained in tho death of General Gordon. He stated that General Gordon had devoted his life and all that makes lifo valuable to his Sovereign and to his country. Sir, ho might have enlarged that eulogium, for the life of General Gordon was not limited even to those great objects. It was devoted to his Sovereign, to his country, and likewise to the world. General Gordon's sympathies woro not limited by race, or colour, or religion. In point of fact, he secmß to have deemed it his special honour to devote his energies and to risk his existence on behalf of those with whom he had no other tie than that of human sympathy. General Gordon was a hero, and permit me to say he was still more—he was a hero among heroes. For there have been men who have obtained and deserved the praise of heroism whoso heroism was manifested 0" the field of battle, or in other conflicts, and who, whan examined in the tenor Of | their cenonal lives, were not altogether b'ameless ; but if you take the cose of this man, pursue him into privacy, investigate his heart and his mind, you will find that he proposed to himself not any ideal of wealth and power, or even fame, hut to do good was the object he proposed to himself in hi. whole lifo, and on that one object was bis one desire to spend, his existence. Such is the man we have lost-a loss great indeed ; but he is not all lost, for such examples are fruitful in the future, and I trust there will grow from the contempla tion oi that character and those deeds other men who iv the future time may emulate bis noble and most Christian. 9»»P le'~" "^Bd.uTwjejj'"

ITALIAN ARMY FACTS

Flan of Conscription and Division oi the

permanent Force,

The present organisation of the Italian army was decreed by laws passed in June, 1882, and July, 18S3, which added considerably to the war effective available under tho Act of 1873. On the at of January, 1885, tho total numbor of soldiers on tho roll of the permanent army was set down at 750,705, tho numbors in tho mobilo militia, or first class of tho reserve, were 341,250, and those in tho territorial militia, I,o2l,99l—which made a grand total of 2,113,9(39 soldiers,' The Italian army, like tho French, is raised by annual conscription among young mon having completed their twentioth yoar, but those who wish to finish their term of service early may volunteer for three years at the ago of IS, Tho draft for 1884 was of 75,000 men, for ISS2 it will bo 80,000. Conscripts drawn for tbo pormanent army have to sorvo 1 three years in the infantry or four in tho cavalry, after which thoy pass into the resorvo and then into tho territorial militia, their liability to sorvico terminating only at the ago of 40. Young men who are not wanted for tho regular draftsorve sixmonths with tho colours and thon enter the mobile militia, where thoy may bo called out for six weoks' training a year during four years and for lesser periods subsequently. Exemp tions aro granted, however, to conscripts of superior education. Those, aftor passing an oxumination, are ourollod for a twelve month, then re-examined and consigned to tho territorial militia. The carabinieri (gondarmos), tho artillery, engineers, tho Alpine companios, und tho picked companies of bersaglieri (riflemen) aro recruited for tho most part with suldati d'ordiuanuc, or long-service men, who enlist for eight years and are thou discharged without further liability to arms. To attract recruits of this kind extra pay is ollored, with promise of employment in the civil service after dis charge.—" London Times."

A Native Solomon

I was sitting with tho Raja on tho raised platform in front of his house, drinking tea in tho cool uf tho ovening. Suddenly our poacoful, silent smoking was disturbed by a young and vory pretty girl, with tlowors in hor hair and silver ornaments on neck nnd arms, who rushed up tho laddor and threw horsolf at tho Rttja a foot in a passion of toars. After hor ascended slowly, ono by one, a number of villagers wrapped in thoir long homespun mantles, who quietly sat down on tho platform to tho right and loft of tho chief. The Jtaja smoked on silently, until the woman's sobs had grown somewhat less violent, when ho remarked quietly, " Weeping is good for womon." A fow moro puffs of fragrant tobacco, and as the sob bing still continued, he added with so lemnity, " Three conditions are to bo avoided, first, not to bo ablo to weop ; socond, to weep without knowing for why; third, to weep too much." The last condition was pronounced with im pressive distinctness, and an assenting murmur went round tho assembly. Tho girl raised hor hoad. "My fathor! I cannot livo with Tawngoy. I hate him !" " What has ho dono 'l Has he boaton you ?" " No, he has not heaten mo ; that I should not have minded. Ho suspects me. Ho watches mo, and I will not onduro it, I demand to bo divorced. Oh, my father, bo it on your hoad !" " Tawngoy, como for ward, thou son of foolishness ! What is this I hear ?" Tawngoy appeared, slinking shamefacedly from the depths of tho crowd. First making a lowly obeisance, he sat down before tho chief. "My Lord," Baid Tawn goy, "I saw hor flirting with—" "It is false—it is false !" vehomontly criod tho girl, dashing away bor toars. "I wont with tho other girls to draw water in tho stream, aud Acini's swoothoart I'owthco camo and bogan laughing, and so wo eplashod him with tho voter. Thon this man" (pointing with concontratod scorn at tho wretched Tawngey), " this man was siiying behind a tree, and he camo and draggctl mo by tho arm and abused mo boforo thorn all. I nover sufl'orodsuch shame, Koloaso mo, oh my lather I I will not live with him." Horo sho again prostrated hor solf at tho Raja's feet. A doad silonco en sued, broken only by the girl's sobs. Tawngey lookod as though ho wished the oarth would swallow him, but ho said not a word. Suddenly tho Rain spoke again and gave orders. " O you and you " (naming two or threo oldors among the spec tators), "tako away theso two wicaed ones, who disoboy tho holy law. Strip thorn of all thoir clothos, savo ono cloth only to tho woman, and shut thorn up together in tho great empty guest-house. In tho morning I will hoar them again. Enough ! I havo spoken." So the young couple wore hustled oil', and shut up in a bare empty house. The night was very cold, and as I pulled my thick wadded quilt over my shoulders before going to sleep, I admired the shrewd wisdom of the Raja. In the morning, when their clothos were handed in to thorn, and the door was opened to conduct them before the chief, they quietly slipped away hand in hand, antl departed peaceably to their own abode. —" The Fly on the Wheel, or How I Helped to Govern India," by Lieutenant-Colonel T, H. Lewin.

A Suicide's Letter to his Son

Ma A. Bkaxton Hicks, tho deputy. coronor, held an inquiry at tho Wostmin ttor Sossions House concerning tho doath of .lumes Langloy, aged l_i.ly-.Ui yuittj* a butler, formerly iv tho Borneo of tho jKir quis uf Northampton, who was Blind drowned in the Thames. The docoased had boen out ol employment for somo time, uud in Octobor lust was soiitonced to throe mouths' imprisonment at tho Westminster Police Court for obtaining money under false pretences from the charitable. He was married and had four children. His body was found in tho Thames, a piece of paper being discovered iv ono of his pockets, bearing the following words:—"Namo, Jamos Langley; age, thirty-six years; particulars, no friends in a position to bury me." Hie son, a boy twelve years old, had previously received a letter from the deceased written on mourning note paper as follows : —" 8, Kinnerton Place, 8. W., March 2nd, 1885. My Dearest Hobace,—Beforo this reachos you I shall havo quietly passed to my last and long rest. My last wish is that you will over try to lead a blameless life, and never forgot your God. Do all you can for your mother and sisters. You are very young. I was only a year older than yourself whon I commenced to fight my way in lifo. Never give way to drink, and never trust yourself to any man or womon in the world. 1 pray for God's blessing to you, and trust you may grow up in His four. With love and kissos, from your affectionate father, James Lano-EY. P. S.—My things will be foundatthoaboveaddress." TheCoronor said that it was a terrible letter for a boy to receive, but he Bhould return it to him so that he could keeps it before him as an example. A verdict of " Temporary in sanity " was recorded.

French Spies in Germany

Another trial, similar to the late high treason case, though it was held with closed doors, has just come to a eloso at Leipsic, and resulted in the condemnation of _ the chief culprit, Janssena by name, to eight years' penal servitude. Janssens was a Belgian by birth, and ostensibly a news paper correspondent by profession, though ho was made out to bo nothing else than an agent of the French Minister of War. In its pay he had lived, on and ufif, in the Rhine region, chiefly at Cologne, from 1873 to 1882, with the obiect of spying out the military secrets cf the land. By bribing two non-commissioned officers at Deutr and Diisseldorf, who made use of duplicate keys, he succeeded in obtaining copies of certain valuable written directions relative to the mobilisation of the 7th and Bth Army Corps ; while it was proved that he had also en deavoured to procure other forbidden know ledge of military matters by similar means. The iucideat is sig-ificaat ia more wajs tlprnwret).

BURIED ALIVE

Eleven Miners Entombed by a Snow-

elide in Colorado.

Denver, April 25.—A "Tribune Re publican " special from Tennesso Pass says that news readied there at midnight of a snow slide near that place, in which eleven minors are supposed to have perished. The mon had been working in the Homestake mine, and nothing having been heard from them for a fortnight, a man named Frank Sanderson started out to ascertain if any harm had como to them. On arriving at the flat, where two cabins had stood in which the men livod, Sanderson found everything buried by a deep snowslido that evidently camo down in dead of night. Not a sign of lifo was to bo seen in any direc tion. There is no doubt that tho whole party was buried alivo, A largo rescuing party is now leaving for tho scono. Tho " Tribune-Republican's " Leadville spooial says : At :! o'clock this afternoon nows was received that cloven mon working in tho Homestako mine on tho Homestake mountain, on Euglo Kivor, woro buried in a snowslido. A special train from here, carrying a relief party, loft within an hour for tho scono of tho disaster, Arriving at a point nearest the mino, the party was mot by a crowd of oxcitcd miners, who informed them that it was useless to attempt to reach the mino through tho wilderness of soft snow, evon with anowshoos, at that timo of tho day. Tho party returned to Leadvillo and will repeat tho trip early in tho morn ing, when it is hoped the anow will bear the woight of tho men. Denver, April 20.—A large rcscuingparty left Leadvillo early this morning for tho scene of tho snowslido on Homestako mountain, and tho men aro now working with desperate earnestness to roach tho victims. Uptodark this ovening two bodies had boen recovored. Tho fate of tho other buried miners will probably not bo known before to morrow, as a great mountain of snow must lirst bo removod. Thero sooms no douht that all havo porished. Tho Homestake mountain is ono of the highest in that part of tho Stato. Tho sido of the mountain on which the mino is located is very precipitous, and a great avalanche must havo literally fallen upon the cabin of tho unsuspecting miners, crushing it to atoms.

A "Nows " Leadvillo special says : Tho searching party has just rolurnod from tbo Homestako mountain, having found ton bodies in the cabin dostroyed by tho snow slido two weeks ago.

SHOT AT THE ALTAR.

A Brido Wounded by a Discarded and

Jealous Lover.

Tin-: "Now York Sun " of April 27 says :— Tho friends of Mary Durquo and Julius Snzoy gathored at Woodhaven, N.Y., last night to witness thoir marriage. While tho minister was performing tho ceremony the report of a pistol rang out. The womon screamed and tho mon drow back. Thon camo a socond and a third shot, close to gothor. At first no ono could tell who was hit. Not until the excitement subsidod was it discovered that tho brido had boon wounded. Sho was carriod te hor room and a physician summoned. Ho found that ono of the bullete had cut through tho lloehy part of hor log, inflicting a slight wound, Tho shots had been tired througji a window, and whon tho crowd rushod outßido thoy found Frank Lanio not far away from tho door, and arrested him. Thoro is much surprise in Woodhaven over his conduct. It is supposed it was caused by joalousy. Ho is said to havo boen un admirer of Miss Durquo. Whon the wedding invitations woro Bont out ho was nogloctod, and some say this had something to do with tho shooting.

A Thief's Adventures—The Death of a Constable.

At' tho London Mansion Houso, recently, James Smith was charged on remand with beingon tho roof of tho Great Northern tlooda Station, in tho Mint, for tho purposo of com mitting a felony, When trying to capture tho man, a dotectivo of tho Metropolitan police, named Barbor, fell through tho glass roof, a height of upwards ot sixty feet, and was so seriously injured that ho oxpired soon afterwards. Mr St. John Wontnor, who prosecuted, said that sinco tho remand a searching inquiry had beon mado, and tho evidence given at tho inquost showed that thoro had not been any struggle botween the prisonor and tho detectivo on tho roof; therefore he could only prosecute tho man for tho crimo with which ho was now charged. Alderman Sir R. Carden said that it was a melancholy case, inasmuch as a young police-officer had lost his life in carrying out his duty. Barbor was about to bo married, his mother had recently died, and at tbe timo of his death he was the solo support of his aged father. Ho was glad to hear that the metropolitan polico had subscribed £40 for the father, and ho had now the satisfaction of adding £5 which tho Lord Mayor had ordered to bo taken from the poorbox. Police-constablo Bryce said that when tho prisoner was in tho station in Seething Lane he destroyed a wooden lid, and when Bryco entered he dealt him a severe blow on the back of his hoad with a pioco of wood which tho man had concealed behind him. Tho prisoner said that the officer was going to cut lub throat with a knife, and that ho was badly hurt all over. Mr St. John Wontnor said ho did not wonder at that, for after leaving tho roof of tho goods slat ion Smith fell through tho skylight of an huuso on to a woman who i was in bod, and nearly frightened hor to death. Hor son soi.ed v broomstick and dealt tho man a blow on tho nose, and it was in this houso that ho was captured. A iirisou warder said thut tho accusod had been in pcnul servitude in tho name of ■lohti Kelly. Ho was convicted, after a previous conviction, in 1579, and was now ut largo under a tickot of-leavo. Tbe Alderman said that tho Homo Secretory would deal with bis ticket-of-leavo ; but on the present chargo ho should order him to bo imprisoned for threo months as a roguo and vagabond, fourteen days for the wilful damago in tho cell, ond an additional two months' hard labour for the dastardly assault on the officer.

A Philadelphia Tragedy

Philadelphia, April 23. —William Knight, a married man, was shot and killed by Annie Cutler last night. Annie was cook in a private family. Knight had been a content visitor, and promised marriage. When Annie learned that ho was already married she went to a concert saloon and drank several glasses of beer, and then watched for Knight in the shadow of a door way in Arch-Btroet. When ho approached she stepped out, drew a revolver, took care ful aim and fired, the ball entoring under the right eye. Ho threw his hands up and foil on liis faco. Tho woman took a step forward, aimed the revolver steadily at the prostrate form, and again fired, the bullet this time entering Knight's back on the left side. He writhed for a second and then lay motionless. Two mon ran up and Beized tbe woman, who struggled desperately "Lot me have ono more shot at him," she cried. Knight was dead when tho body reached the nospital. Aunie was taken to a coll, where she drew from her pocket a photograph of Knight, and, gazing at it long and intently, said suddenly, with vehemence: "I would die for him." It was with difficulty tbe officers succeeded in getting the picture away from her.

Unexpected Result of Penitence

A iiE"AK-AELi. case of confession of guilt caaie before the Salisbury magistrates re cently. A member of the Salisbury Theo logical College was in the habit of visiting a family named Nicholas, and soeing that the man was in distress, he induced him te confide in him, and the man confessed to having stolen money at a villege named Downton during a fire. The student wrote to the man robbed a-king forgiveness for the culprit, and promising to pay the ca.h by instalments. Thi. letter was promptly handed to thelpolice, and the culprit was arrested. He was considerably surprised, more especially at the unexpected result of the student's interference. "He was senten ced to three months' imprisonment. The I btudent tw4 bwio oJijcwUcj. at High Cburcb serYivSS.

The Horsham Bank Robbery.

There appears to be a prospect at last of solving the mystery which has so long sur rounded tbe extensive robbery which was committed at the Horsham branch of tho London Chartered Bank of Australia, on Saturday, the Ist of March, 1884. On Saturday afternoon last, says the " Mel bourne Daily Telegraph," senior-constable McArthur, stationed at Curanyalpa, and Senior-constable Bedinfield, stationed at Louth, arrested a young man named Alex ander Ross, alias McPherson, who was formerly employed as a clerk at the Ararat branch of the London Chartered Bank, at Cainpadore, Now South Wales, on a charge of having been implicated in the robbory at Horsham, and H. Milne Smith, who occupied the position of accountant in tho bank at the time of tho robbery, was subsequently arrested at Brewarrina on a charge of having com mitted the offence. At tho time of tho arrest Rosb had £3 in his possession and a bank-book which showed ho had £390 to his credit at tho Commercial Bank at Bourke. At tho period of the robbery, Sub-Inspector Brown and Detective Nixon, who woro in charge of the caso, suspected Smith of having committed the offenco, but thoy were unablo to obtain sufliciont evi dence to justify a criminal prosecution being preferred against him, and ho was consequently brought down to Melbourne and employed in tho head office, so as to keep him under the surveillance of tho police. After some delay, during which a reward of £1,000 failed to elicit the noces sary information, Smith was dismissed, and bo at oneo proceeded to Horsham in com pany with Ross, and they commenced business as grain-buyors. As soon as the oxcitomeut occasioned by tho robbery calmed down, and the police appeared not only to havo failed in their efforts to bring tho oli'endor to justice, but to havo given up the pursuit as hopeless, the partners proceeded to Bourke, in New South Wales, ostensibly to take up land, and opened a joint account in tho Commercial Bank thero for £400. Thoy were kept constantly under the surveillance of tho police, and Detec tive Nixon, who recontly proceeded to Bourke for the purpose of continuing an in vestigation that has nover been allowed to rest for a day sinco tho robbery was dis covered, has succeeded, uftor a very difficult and tedious puieuit, in completing a strong chain of circumstantial ovidence against both prisonors. A largo number of tho notes which have beon traced to tho posses sion of tho prisonors aro stated to be iden tical with those stolen from the bank, and sovoral of their deposits at tho Bourkobank consisted of notes which boro marked traces of having boen recontly buried in tho earth for a considerable time. The police are, it is stated, now in possession of evidence of a more criminating character, which thoy hopo to bo able to comploto in timo to pre sent to the Court on the prosecution of the prisoners in Melbourne. It will bo remembered that the robbory was first discovered on Monday morning, tho 3rd of March, 1884, and as the bank was closed punctually at 12 o'clock on tbo provious Saturday tho offenco was supposed to have beon committed in tho meantime. The bank building,asmall ono-story wooden one, adjoining Joseph Fletcher's Commercial Hotel, in Wilson-street, consisted of two rooms—tho ollico and the manager's room. The safe, in which upwards of £0,000 in notes aud gold was kopt, was one of Hobbs's mako, and was stationed in tho furthermost corner from tho office of the managers room. When about to rosumo business on Monday morning, H. Milne Smith, the ac countant, proceeded to open the safe, but found that tho lock had boon plugged up with pieces of wood. Tho brass plate outsido tho lock had to bo takon off, and the woodon plugs, which turned out to bo pieces of a ponholdor, were extracted with somo trouble. It was thon ascertained that tho treasury drawor and a email cash box had boen oponod, and the whole of tho contents, which consisted of £800 in £1 notes, £1,875 in £0 notes, £1,480 in £10 notes, £477 in gold, and £1,146 in notes of various kinds belonging to other banks, bad been stolen. A sum of botwoon £30 and £40 in silver, which was in tho safo ot the time, was left bohind by tho thieves, who disarranged but did not abstract any of tho valuable papers in tho placo. Tho keys of tho draworand tho cashbox woro kopt by Mr B. J. Kicholis, tho manager. Mr Stanton, a clerk in the bank.elopt on tho pro mises, and was about tho wholo of Sunday without noticing anything to arouse his suspicion. It was at first bolioved at the timo that tho robbery was committed from the outsido during Mr Stanton's temporary abeouce on Saturday or Sunday evening, but it was subsequently ascertained beyond tho question of a doubt that such was not tho case. Tho whole of the evidence collected vent to show that the offence was committod by some ono employed in tho bank who had access to tho keys, and the police now believe that they will bo ablo to shcot tho chargo homo to Smith. Tho prisoners will be brought down to Melbourno during tho noxt fow days.

The Bonanza Kings.

TilEKii nover was a moro improvidont set oi mon than the Colorado bonanza kings. In aptitude for business lifo was also a striking characteristic.

Chaffoe frittered away tbo bulk of his im menso fortuno on railroad stocks of which ho know nothing—absolutely nothing. For years his lifo had boon mainly spent in tho neighbourhood of tho " ticker," Bob Groor, onco a wealthy placor-miner, is a miscroblo pauper, wandoring about tho streots of Denver.

Col. Denver, possessor of hundreds of thousands not many yoars since, is enjoying the lifo of tho gentleman on tho collection of supposedly bad loans mado whon he was allluenl.

Richo, the discoverer of tho Little Pitts burg, is in a fair way to soon return to his Bhoemaker bench. Ho it was who paid £10,000 for a wife, and who, whon he shot Pat Dillon in a saloon brawl, said, " Iv I haf kilt him, send arount the pill in the mornin'."

George Daly was killed by the Apaches, His doDts, which were cancelled by his tragic death, are said to be enormous. He led a lifo that for fastness was never sur passed in tbe West. Nelson Hallock, discoverer of the Carbon ate mine, and William Yankee, of tho Yankee Consolidated, have a mere pittanco left between them. Jim Williams, one of the discoverers of the Grand View, did not have enough money to buy a coffin when he was shot down in a Silver City dance-hall.

Bill West, his partner, is a destitute ' drunkard at Leadville, dependent upon a chair in some friendly drinking resort for a sleeping place. George Houston, of the Big Pittsburg, died penniless in an Ohio insane asylum. General Craig, of the Little Giant, died of paralysis of the heart, after a nighf s de bauch. And so ended the lives of twenty others, who turned up fortunes at the point of a miner's pick in Colorado. The case of George Gryer was perhaps the saddest. In IS7- he cleaned up £40,000 from the sale of the I'ioneer Consolidated at Alma, His aged mother was in poor cir cumstances at Philadelphia, and the first expenditure he made was that of £6,000 for a home in the suburbs of the city. Banking £4,000 to her credit, he launched out into a life of dissipation and profligacy that made him notorious. Chartering a coaster, he peopled it with the most beautiful womon to be bad from among the southern demi Monde, and'loaded it with wines and table luiuries. After cruising about for twu weeks at a total expense of _-,000, he returned to land to continue his mad revelling. A' year laier he was traversing the mountains, again, an impecunious prospector. He never would take as much as a dime from hi« mofchei, and punished himself for his folly by ex • posure to every privation and hard-hip known to mountain life. Tour years later he struck it rich a second time in the new Di_ covery claim at Leadville. Ho endeavoured to take advantage of tha opportunity which the sudden acquiaiti-n of £40,000 gave Lie, but through business incapacity failed.

The Young Lighthouse-keeper.

Sometimes in the long winter evenings Harry Bruce amused himself making out lists of lonely pooplo, and his own namo alwayß stood at tho head. He agreed that Robinson Crusoe bad a hard time, but Robinson Crusoe could remember when ho had as much company as ho wanted, and Henry could not. The "Man in thejlron Maßk " was solitary enough, but how about the time before he wore it? As for St. Simon Stylites, Harry would not put him on the list at all, because, even if be did choose to live on at the top of a high pillar, he always had a crowd gaping up at him. Horry's grievance was one he shared with Adam ; he had never had a boy to play with him.

Bis father was the keeper of a lighthouse on the northern coast of England. Tho lighthouse stood on a rock two miles out at sea, but Harry lived with his mother and little Bister in a cottage on the mainland. There was not another house within sight, and not a boy within a day's travel. Men used to come up tho coast shooting and fishing, but curiously enough no boys ever came along, and although Harry had scon him on vessels, he had never had a good honest hour's play or talk with a boy in all his life.

Thero was another odd thing about tho lifo here :at all lighthouees in these times there aro two or three men, so if one gets sick there will bo some one to tako his place. But Mr Bruca had never had an assistant. Everything had always gono on right, and so the Government had never realised that ho was alono, and ho never spoko of it bo cause he was afraid he would be paid less if he had a man to help him. He expected Harry to tako tho place of assistant as soon as ho was old enough. In the meantimo to educate the boy for possiblo contact with the world, he used to put him through what ho called " The Emergency Drill." This related to different matters, but always began in tho samo way. Tho first question was, "What is the matter?" The second, "What first?" Then, "Do I need holp ':" and if tho answer to this was " Yes," then, " Where shall I get it."

Harry became so used to theso questions that ho put thorn to himself on many occa sions, and he often amused himself playing ho waß a general on the battle-field, or a king out hunting, and ho imagined all sorts of troubles when tho " drill " was of use.

Ono morning a fishing boat camo in, bound for the nearest town, and Mrs Bruce asked tho mon to tako hor along to buy yarn for tho children's stockings. They agreed, but told her she would havo to walk back ; but elie was willing to do this, although the distance was twelve mileß, be cause, as sho said, if thoy did not take hor sho would have to walk both ways,

Everything wont on very well until near sunsot, when tho sky began te cloud, and little Lucy became cross and sleepy, and cried for her mother. Harry gavo her bread aud milk, but still she frotted. She did not want to play, and sho would not go to sleop. At last he cried : "My goodness! I wish all babies were grown up. I would rather hunt lions than take caro of you I" Ho then picked her up and carried hor to tho door. "Now," he said, " we will watch for mamma." The rooks stood up against a grey and heavy sky. Tho wind had begun to moan, and tho birds flew screaming over the water. Thoro was not a sign of their mother com ing on the beach, and Harry felt more lonely thon over. He looked ovor to the light house and wished his father would light up, and it seemed to him that sunset, tho timo for lighting, must surely havo come. Suddenly a littlo flag appeared in the lantern. Harry sprang to his feet. " What is the matter?" he exclaimed, in real earnest.

" I don't know," was the reply, " What first?"

" To go to the lighthouse," But he was mistaken. Tho first thing ho had to do was to dispose of Lucy. He could not take her; he could not leave her.

" If you were only a horso," ho hurriodly criod, " I could put you in a stable If you were a cow, I'd tio you to a stake ; but what can I do with a baby ?" "Lucy can go," said the child. "No sho can't!" ho answered; and theu he looked out again ; but hia mother was not yot in sight, and the red flag, which meant, " Come at onco !" still shook and beckoned to him,

Ho tied Lucy into her little chair with an apron, and wrote a note to his mother,

"Dear Mother: Fnthor wanted me right away : and the lamp is not lit, and it was after sunset, and I hopo Lucy won't get into any trouble, Your son, Habby Brock."

Ho put this note in front of tho lamp, and hurried off, A boat was always kept ready, and Harry sprang into it, and rowed off with energy. It was dark, however, whon ho roached the lighthouse, and tho rain had bogun to fall. Ho tied his boat to the little pior, and ran to the tower. He opened a small, heavy bronze door, and ontered a large, always dimly-lighted room, in which was stored coal and wood, oil for tho lamp, and fresh water from the mainland. Tho stairs woro in this room, and Harry ran up. The room above was the kitchen. Over that was the bedroom, and from this a ladder led to tho lantern,

Harry called, but there was no answer. Ho wont up into the lantern, All was dark and silent. Ho spoko again and again, but still all was silont; then he beard a groan, and ho rushed down the ladder, got the keeper's hand lamp, and ran back, His father lay on tho floor; his oyoa wore closed, and blood ran from his templo. It was plain that ho bad fallen and hurt himself. Harry began to cry. He did not know what to do, and tho "Emergency Drill" did't occur to him ; then he remombered that ho ought to stop the flow of blood, and, taking his father's handkerchief from his pocket, tied up the wound. Still his father never spoke or moved ; then be cried again ; und thon he thought of his mother. Slie must by this time bo at home, ond,, without hesitation, ho rußhed off again, but this time to his boat. It took but a moment to untio it and spring in and be oft. " Tbe rain fell heavily ; the waves dashod on the rocks ; and Harry, looking up, saw the dim outline of the lighthouse. He stopped rowing. His heart gave a meat jump, and before bis eyes seemed to flash the "chargeto the keepers" hung up in lighthouse : " You are to light the lamps every ovening at sunsetting, and keep them burning bright and clear until sunrising. Hiß father's faithfulness, the great impor tance of lighting up, rushed into Harrys mind, and again ho involuntarily repeated his " Emergency Drill." " What is the matter.'"

" Tbe lamps are not lighted." " What first?"

"To light them." He turned his boat, and rowed back a few rods ; but was it first. It could not be ! He must take his mother over. His father would die for want of help. As he paused, trembling, anxious, irresolute, he re membered how often his father had said that no wreck should ever be his fault, and it was a terrible night! Harry knew what his father would say, and he at once rowed directly back. He re turned to the house, stumbled up tbe dark stairs, got the lamp again, and ran up to the lantern. It took him but a moment to light the lamps, and the glow spread out on the sea, and, aroused by the glare, his father opened his eyes. " The lamps," he said. "I have lighted them," Harry replied; " and now I am going for mother." " Stay !" was tho answer, and his father closed his eyes again. _ Harry hesitated ; but he sot down in the hard chair in which his father had spent each night watching. He knew what bis father meant. Tho lights would go out, aud needed core all night; and Hurry sot there. The wind howled ; the houso shook and swayed ; tho sea-birda dashed agaiu.f the glass; the rain beat on the roof; and all scuts of wild sounds seemed to be in tha air. Sometimes he got up and bathed his father's head with cold water. He brought a pUlov/, He talked to him, but had no answor but a moan ; yet he never cried ; ,and he never ceased to keep the light. r burnin" " bright and clear." 'I It seemed to him nearly morning when he i heard pounding at the lighthouse door. He ! l_n_w it was someone seeking shelter, and Ihe went down and opined it. There stood a man and a boy, and—his mother ! Harry cried then, and be laughed, and ho clung around her neck, and he poured out that bis father wm hurt, and b? had kept

the lights burning, and he had to leave Lucy—and all of it in ono breath. " But," said his mother, pushing back her wetjhair, "I do not understand. Where is your father 1 Where is Lucy 1" '• He is upstairs. I loft a note for you by the lamp." " But I have not been homo," exclaimed his mother. " I hove been all night on the sea. Our friends here told me they would give me tho passage back ;so I waited. It became dark so early, and we were dashed on the rocks, and our mast broken. We had no idea where we were, ond wo could not sco the lighthouse ; then all at onco it blazed up, and all night—this foarful night —we have struggled toward it "

How happy thoy all were that night after the keeper was cairied downstairs and came to his senses, and told how he fell and only had power to put out the flag The only thing that troubled Mrs Bruce was the thought of Lucy tied in her chair. When sho arrived at tho house littlo Lucy was asleep in the chair, and Boon in the arms of her mother, who was ovorjoyed to find hor safe.

When Mr Bruco recovered ho asked for an assistant, and when the man camo, be hold, ho brought his son—a year younger than Harry : and Harry felt as if he had got his " Man Friday."

A TOOTH PULLING FANTASY

i With eleven toeth had I parted without : the aid of amesthetics. Unconditionally t surrendered them to the dentist, who was willing to receive them for a consideration, A twelfth must go. As I took the chair of torture, I remarked that it was a four-footed molar and would hurt. " Take gas," suggested the dentist. " What is gas ?" " Nitrogenmonoxido—tho bostamosthetic known. It is harmless and serves woll."

" I'll tako it; give mo enough." The dentist brought forth a rubber bag, the wooden muzzle of which he thrust into my mouth. With a bound I sprang into the air. I attempted to fasten my nold upon some thing, but everything gave way—even a giant elm camo up by tho roots, I realised that I had but a few minutes to live. All my friends—l saw every ono—were watching me. My deeds, good and bad, filed past me. I will not say which formed tho longer procession. A man to whom I had given a pewter quarter asked mo how 1 liked it, and said ho knew I would come to it.

Now I was going upwards, and whon I had reached a great height, I swooped down liko a bird of prey, and dashed through a wall of masonry—just 100 feet thick by actual measurement. A dozen times I soared aloft, and as many times sailed down, when I descended all tho stone fences, cob bers, boulders, and trees ran to meet mo, I hit them all. Now I was ascending again, but in a different manner. A balloon, miles in circumference, was bearing me upward. I clung to its lower part with my teeth. My hands were in my pockets, for tho air was chilly. Above mo was the balloon car, and out of it leaned a man resembling the dentist. In his hands he held an immense pair of tongs. Heregardedme with evident displeasure. We were rising at a fearful rate of speed —so fast indoed that I could not shut my eyes. The wind blew the lids open and held them back, At last the man in the car said—" Now I'll pull that tooth ; you must cling on with your nose till I pull it." I obeyed, knowing I was in his power. The tooth came out on the end of tho tongs, and was placed in the car. Soon after I hoard a tumult in tho car abovo. Tho den tist appoarod and shook his clenched band at me, and shouted—" Confound your old tooth ; it is growing so fast that it will crowd mo out. Pretty fellow you are to shed such a monstrous molar." I thought this very unkind. I had not asked to pull tbo tooth, and how could I be responEiblo for its sizo ?

Again the dentist appeared and cried in great wrath, " I shall throw it overboard— look out!" It did not hit mo. I saw as it whizzed by that it was many times larger than the Capitol building at Washington. I hoped that none of my friends were standing where it would fall upon tho earth, Wo wore near the sun, ond approaching nearer at lightning speed. The dentist sat on tho edgo of tho car, dangling bia legs, and smoked. Ho had the impudence to ask mo why I did not smoke. It was co warm from proximity to the sun that I decided to go no further. I relinquished my hold ana shouted, "Good-bye, old jaw breaker." (.uick as thought, insulted, in dignant, tho dentist roached for his tongs. " I'll pull them all," he said, and as I fell the tongs lengthened and gavo chase, but ; could not overtake mo.

After falling all day and all night I came near tho oarth early in tho morning. As I flew downward a gilded weather-cock on a church steeple crowed. I considered this offensive, and by come unknown agency, arrested my flight, and went back to the weather-cock and demanded to know what he meant by it. He crowed the louder. This was too great an insult. I flow at him, when, presto, he began to crow louder and to grow larger. I was on the earth now, fleeing from a monster cock. The church and steeple were still attached to him, but he had become so much larger that they were no impediment. I remonstrated with him, but his only reply was a blow from the foot that held the church and steeple. He was on the point of dancing a hornpipe on my stomach when I emerged into_ a new world in time to hear the dentist say,

" There it is!" at the same time holding up a tooth. " Did you know when I pulled it ?" " Yes : I saw you and your tongs polling, but I felt it not. You were a great whilo about it! How long have I boon hero ?" The dentiEt consulted his timepiece. " Ono minute and twenty seconds."—Georgo Apploton Stockwell, in " Every Other,"

Release of Air Edmund Yates

MiiEi'MimD Yates has just been released, He drove away in a brougham, a lady and his private secretary coming to meot him. He looked jaded. His release was entirely unexpected, the governor only receiving tho order on tho morning uf his release.

In one respect Mr Yatea has beon more fortunate than Leigh Hunt, who underwent the uttormost penalty of a literary indis cretion, remaining two whole years in Horse monger-lone Gaol—to the permanent injury of his health, as he believed. Ho had also to pay a fine of £500. In other respects tho editor of tbe" Exa niner " was probably better off under the old system than a first-class misdemeanant of tho present day. Seventy years ago there wero fewer regulations ; and a prisoner who chose to pay could havo almost anything ho wished except liberty. Thus Loigh Hunt tells how he turned o ward of the infirmary in which ho was confined into a " noble " room : " I papered the walls with a trellis of roses ; I had the ceiling covered with clouds ond sky ; the barred windows I ecreened with Venetian blinds ; and when my book-cases wero set up with their busts, and flowers and a pianoforte made their appearance, perhaps there was not a hand somer room on that side tho water." He adds : "I took a pleasure, when a stranger knocked at the door, to Bee him come in andßtoreabouthim. . . . CharlosLamb

declared there was no other such room except in a fairy tale. But I possessed another surprise, which was a garden." And so on. The following fact, which he has noted, is curious :•—" I never dreamt of prison but twice all the timo I was there; and my dream was tho same on both occa sions. I fancied I was at, the theatre, and that the whole house looked at me in sur prise, as much as to say, how could he get out of prison ':"

THE SILVERY SPRAY

When sorro-wi-fc o'er .orjic broken toy, >\ ith soul bow'd down wil h tfrief, "Of whoro," niy heart cried, "Is the joy That brings its ewect relief I O"! 7 dark cloud, around me fret, Only the «ild waves roar."— .A las! I saw not !hn sil-ery spray Was ki_3ing the golden short.

E '/er and ever wo mourn ajd weep, E.oraiideverslKh— When cicudsnju.t break, howover Mack,

What matters a frowning skyi F.very flash from the throne of (Jo. Bridges some trial o'er, And every ray Illumes the spray Tliat kieSCo the goidcu .bore!

The-.; why repine; Let unkind Fat.: Her 07Clor.es dash and roll, _. sweet-robed saint stil! si-'-,- >-lei' 3 llur fait- song, ro the eoul ; For never a .term but comes a ca.m— peace follows tho breakers' roar— For sunbeams play iv the silvery spray That kisses the golden Shore I Qt_Ju*V. June Ist, lags. w. It. Wiy,..

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1886.

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