A Heart's Bitterness

By BERTHA M. CLAY,

Author of " For Another's Sin," " A Fair

Mjstery," &c,

CHAPTER I-XIX,

"I HOLD THAT THUNDERBOLT IN MY

HAND."

Bart Kemp had read Helen Hope truly. She vaoillatad between love and hate. One instant ehe abhorred Leigh and cried out for vengeance, the next she longed only to fling hersalf at hiß feet and buy a kind word by botraying all that Kemp had told her. After a troubled night, she despatched a messenger-an idle little truant from the village Bchool-who carried Lord Leigh thia uota: " The man Kemp has come back. I can tell you where he is, and what papers he has. The papers are dangerous, ruinous to you. Come and see me at the ' Folly.' We meet for the last time. If you cannot care for me, we part for ever." Leigh, in a rage, tore the note into atoms, and shook the little boy until he was black in the face ; then he flung him half a crown ; which the youngster dizzly picked up, and medo good hia escape from the precincts of the Towers. To learn the whereabouts of Kemp, and the nature of hia papers, was a matter of importance to Leigh. A wise and good man, who had no dark places in his life to conceal, would have found safety in re ferring tho ontire matter to his lawyers, into whose hands the affair, if pressed, must ultimately come. But Leigh's genius waa for concealments, bribery, deceit, and his first impulse was to find Kemp and buy him off. He did not doubt that Helen, on con sideration, would accept his offer of money, and he had faith only in a compromise that rested on a money basis. Thus after the first outbreak of his wrath, ho rashly set out for " The Earl's Folly." Helen was waiting for him. She was seated on the leopard-skin couch, and well made feet reßted on a rug of lion-skin. She looked like an oriental queen, in her dark splendour, her dress of black lace, a black scarf flung over her jet-black hail, and held by a cluster of scarlet honeysuckles, with the earns vivid blossoms at throat and belt. She could not understand that such brilliant, beanty should fall coldl yon the heart andthe senses of Leigh. But he had been one of Fortune's early spoiled children, who hadex hausted fancy in bis youth, and ho only craved the unobtainable.

"I had not meant to sco you again, Helen," he aaid, seating himself opposite her ; " but I suppose you have concluded to take the offers I made you. A woman such os you are need not lack for suitors —for rich suitors even—l think you can get out of life all you have any right to expect from it."

" Your step-brother, Bart Kemp, ia rich, and he wants to marry me," aaid Helen.

" Very good," said Leigh, cordially. " I ■will give you an unlimited trousseau, and I will do all I can for him in Australia." " Perhaps," aaid Helen, with intention, " you will be obliged to do more for him on hia own account. He has papers that will unseat you from your earldom. You have mocked at my birth, how will you be pleased to find a broad bar sinister in your own ?"

"It is false, atrocious woman I" cried Leigh, leaping to his feet, pale with fury. "It is true as truth. I have seen the paper?. And only I can get those papers from his hands. It ia in my power to bring you down to my own nameless level. Your wife will no more be Countess of Leigh. No coronet waits that baby earl whom sheholdß in her anna. Utter ruin, as a thunderbolt, will fall upon you, and I hold that thunderbolt in my hands." " Do not think that I shall abandon my rank and my privileges without a Btruggle, and all that power, and wealth, and prestige can do to maintain me in my place will be done. Your plot will fall, wretch 1" cried Leigh. " Heep names of scorn on me," said Helen. "I bide my time. I will fling them back when I ace you and youra leav ing Leigh Towers, carrying no name but your mother's namo of Kemp. Come and ait down by my side, Norman, we are equala now."

" I could strangle you !" cried Leigh, in a paroxysm of rage. "Yes, do. Sfrangle me, and fling me into tho Pool. But Kemp has the papers, safe at his lawyer a. You will only add a trial for murder to the trial of your title I" Leigh dropped back into hia chair. "I defy you." " At least read the list of our evidence," cried Helen, and lightly tossed him a folded paper. He read, and great beads of agony stood pearled upon hia brow. Verily the case was formidable. Helen waited for the effect.

"I Ehall fight to the bitter end !" said

Leigh. "And the end will be bitter, when you resign your coronet to your dearest enemy, Hartington." Leigh gnashed hia teeth. "It could even hereafter revert to jour boy—as nearest kin to the colonol—he will bo barred out."

Leigh groaned. He was not a brave man, nor a strong man, hiß life had given him ill conecience that makes cowards of us all. " There is a way of escape," said Helen. " I can Becure these papers, and tell you how to destroy these witnessesa. I will do it on my own terms." "And what terms !"

*' Make me your countess, and_ you are safe You will be still Lord of Leigh !" "What, fiend in human shape, do you wish to hint the murder of my wife—the mother of my child ? I can Bee that these is something mor infamous than my loss of the lordship of Leigh !" Then Helen, suddenly rising, flung her eelf on her knees before him. ""Be good to me, Norman—be merciful. When yon owe to me your safety, your title, then you will love me. The day may come when you will be free to marry me ; give me your written oath, as soon as you are free, you will marry me, and let us go to the Continent. You do not know how happy I could make yon ; you do not understand me. I, of all the world, ap preciate, understand, adore you. Take me and safety; reject me and Colonel Hartington shall be Lord of Leigh." " Even on these terms—never !" " Consider —it will save the earldom to your child." " What — when he would be at your mercy !" "But all evidence shall be destroyed."

"There are some depths of infamy to which I cannot go dowD," said Leigh, furiously, " and to link myself with you is one of them. As well lose my earldom as live the fugitive Lord of Leigh, the slave of the governess Helen Hops, while all Eng land rings with my folly, and my son growa.up to execrate alike my memory and my crime." "You refuse?"

' ".Utterly and for ever ! Words cannot speak my detestation of you, Helen Hops. You are a monster, a serpent in a woman's form." Helen rose from her kneeling posture. She wa9 white as one dead. She shook like a reed in the wind. " I see all is ended between us, Norman," she said, "I will be revenged on you. Live now in dread of me 1 When you go out» nameless exile from the house where you were.born, remember that "Helen Hope —the woman you docoived, played with, despised, mocked, rejected-has stripped you of your honours, and brought you down to eit in that same duet from which she sprang." She turned and left the " Folly," going aa some dark prophetess whose errand is doDe. Leigh sat U3 one stunned by a heavy blow. The words that he had road on the parjer were branded on his brain. Instead of'feeling energy and courage to rise to ward off or return the impending blow, he Bat down in a heavy Btupor, as giviDg up the battle before it had begun. An evil life, an encouraged vice, rob the soul of nobility and stamina ; in any sharp crisis of fate it weakly succumbs. Leigh was a man selfish, indolens, re3tless, a lover of pleasure; play and brandy were sapping his vitality. Already he felt as if the fatal blow had fallen and be had met his doom. He returned to the Towers in this night mare stata. From afar he saw Violet on the terrace, with her boy in her arms. Would Violet try to save him for the sake of the child ?

CHAPTER LXX.

"I AM COUOTESS OF LEIGH!" CRIED LADY

CLAKE

One. of the prettiest villas of Kow wa3 in habited by Coloucl Hartington and his wife, the Honourable Lady Clare. In France or Italy; such a place would be culled a palace; in-wealthier England it is modestly known as a villa. High hedges of arbour vita shut off its charming garden from the road; a tiny

lodge stood at the arched iron gate-way; the broad gravelled drive formed a semi circle around the green plateau, where a fountain played, and when the doora and windows of the villa stood open to tho summer light and perfumed breezes, one caught the shimmer of silken curtains, the warm glow of plush and gilt furniture, and a vivid mingling of conservatory flowers, drawing-room pictures and elegant trinea, and the gleam of marble or bronze statu ettes. In the dining-room, rich ebony inlaid sideboards supported an abundant supply of plate and flashing cub glass, and from the walls the Hartington ancestors, leading up to Lord Leigh, looked down on the feasting of their descendants. When Lady Clare came to this charming abode, she felt and said that it would do very well aa a stepping place to Leigh Towers, and the noblo manetonß in country and city that belonged to Leigh. For at the time of her marriage Lady Clare had felt fully persuaded that the reckless, mor bid life of Norman, Earl of Leigh, would soon be ended, and Colonel Uniting ton would inherit. A daughter of belted peers, Lady Clare ill brooked a lower rank than her mother had enjoyed. But the birth of little Rupert had put an end to all Lady Clare's expectations, and changed a quiet dislike towards Violet to a deep hostility. It is true the christening of the heir of Leigh had been gracod by a gold cup, plato and spoon, Bent by the B.artingtouß, but very little love or good wishes had accompanied them. Lady Clare had grown more haughty, cold and Barcas ticthan ever, tince tho world was fuller for Master Rupert's arrival. Colonel Hartington and one of Mb friends were amusing themselves with knocking about the balls on the table in the little billiard-room in the east wing of the villa, when a footman announced that a lady was in the drawing-room to boo the colonel. He found, apparently lost in a contem plation of a picture, by Cuyp, above the (ire-place, a tall, handsoiiie waman, in a dark, rich dress. "You asked for me, madaih, eftid the colonel, with a low bow. " Haye4 I the honour ?"

"My name is Hope—Misb Hope," said the visitor, " and I have come to see you on business of tho greatest importance ; alno of the greatest privacy." " I am at your service," eaid the colonel, politely " It ,18 business that ahould only bo dis cussed behind closed doora. A word of it, breathed prematurely, would be disastrous. This room ia so public, servants near, and possibly other cullers admitted. My busi ness may take some time; an hour or two "

" Surely it can hardly concern me. If it ia the presentation of some charity, a pro epectua left " "It concerns no charity," said Misa Hope, with a smile, " unlesa to give you your own is a charity. And it does concern you, if you are, as I believe, a collateral heir-presumptive of the Earldom of Leigh." "I was," corrected the colonel, "heir presumptive until the birth of the Honour able Rupert Leigh." "In a word," said Miss Hope, with im patience, "my errand is important, and I trust you will not bar me in performing it. lam doing my duty. I have made an im portant discovery, and I come here to dis charge my conscience of it. Am I to have full opportunity to speak with you pri vately !" " Certainly—in my library. But I fancy that thia subject ia one which equally inter eats my wife, Lady Clare. Shall ehe make a third in our interview?"

"Act your pleasure as to that," said Helen, calmly, as, gathering her lace mantle about her, she moved with the colonel to the library.

Presently Lady Clare entered, cold, haughty, with a supercilious lifting of the eyebrows at meeting a peraon whom she had never seen "in society." Her motions had a stately, swan-like grace, but the low, icy tones of the carefully trained voice filled Helen Hope with a fury of hate, and for some minutes ehe hesitated whether, for sake of revenge on Leigh, she could put thia proud, scornful croaturo in the place of the sweet, gentle-toned Violet, who in all provocations had never given her a cruel look or word. In fact, Colonel Hartington had twice to say to her, " Madam, we hear you," before Helen could make up her mind to play into the hands of this arrogant pair, who would ruthlessly have trampled her as the mire beneath their feet. But her heart burned with jealoua wrath againet Leigh, and she spoke: " I am engaged in marriacre to a step son of the late Countess of Leigh." " Of the countess of Lord Allan Leigh ! Was she not a spinster when ebo married my cousin!" cried the colonel. " She was, or said ahe was, or thought she was/a widow," paid Helen, quietly. Colonol Hartington and Lady Clare locked at each other.

"I had no idea of (Aa(,"said the colonel.

" Since the question was so important, I wonder you or your family did not iuvesti gate the antecedents of the adventuress counteas," suggested Helen. "16 was in my father's time, and he waa a man to take things easily, with the least trouble," replied Hartington. "It waa" culpable negligence!" cried Lady Clare, angrily. " As I eaid," pur.ued the quiet, clear voice of Helen. " I am engaged to her atep son. I have lived near the Towers, and know of the family there and their claima. By accident, in converaing with the gentle man to whom I have referred, I diacovered that the claims of the present lord were null and void, and that he was not the law ful Lord of Leigh; and, looking at a Peerage, I found that you were his nearest kin—in fact, you were the legal successor of the late earl."

" What is this ?" cried the colonel. "This passea belief. What proofs have you of such statements ?"

"I know they are true!" cried Lady Clare; "I feel it." "Not feeling, not intuition, but hard, solid facts, mußt satisfy lawyera and the highest court of the land, when a claim such aa Norman Leigh's is to be invalidated," said the colonel.

"Are you willing to investigate such proofs ?" asked Helen. " Willing!" cried Lady Clare, losing her hauteur, and seizing Helen's hand ; "he mast, he shall investigate." " But what are these proofs ?—what is this story?" eaid the colonel, more cau tiously. " Let me first say," said Helen, "that I come here in the cause of honesty and justice. lam not here to sell a secret, nor stipulate for rewards. If we had wished for money out of this discovery, we could, no doubt, have sold out to the person now called Lord Leigh, whose wife is rich enough to pay any price to maintain the title of her child. We could have sold the evidence for any sum, and that evidence would have been for ever destroyed. But the gentleman to whom I refer is already wealthy, and he has lived so long in Australia, making his fortune, that he did not estimate the value of the facts in his possession, nor how important to either you or Lord Leigh they would be. When I suggested that duty and justice required that they should be laid before you, he allowed me to come. Will you read this statement ?" She handed the colonel the same paper which she had tossed to Leigh a few days before the in the "Folly." The colonel read it with breathless eager ness ; his wife followed the lines, looking over his shoulder.

" And this is . truo ?" they cried, simul taneously. " Will you refer it to your lawyer?' eaid Helen. .'

"lam Countess of Leigb," cried Lady Clare, in transport. (To be Continued.)

A NARROW ESCAPE.

A Story of tho Franco-Prussian War.

I was very anxious to lot my employora in London know tho exact state of affairs as regards the intended advance of MacMahon towards Metz, and how the attempt to re' lieve Banaine had utterly failed. To telo graph the news was impossible, as all the wires had been out by the enomy. I ha~i prepared a long letter, which gave many do tails that had not ydt been published in England, and I felt sore that if I could only manage to get what I had written to Lon don, it would do me no little credit. As yot Sedan was not even threatened by the Ger mans. I knew the officer who commanded there very well, and I resolved to push on by myself, and aeewhatcouldbedone in the way of forwarding my letter tbonco over the Belgian frontier, whence it would be safe to reach London in twenty-four houra. It took the best part of three days to reach Sedan. At Sedan I was able to procure a horse, and rode somo ten milea over the Belgian frontier to Buiony, whero there were neither wars nor rumours of wars. Here my letter was posted, registered, and sent off to London. I then returned to ?edan, and having the horses harnessed to the wretched old conveyanco of which X was the owner, sot off on my return to the headquarters of MacMahon'B army, whero ever they might be. The Colonel in command at Sedan was very kind to me, gave mo the bent of food, and the most reliable of information, advising mo, if I wanted to rejoin Mac- Mahona army, to make the best of my way to a small town called Mouaon, aomo fifteen or twenty miles off, situated in tho valley of the Mouse, whence, aa ho eaid, I would be pretty certain of finding the headquar ters of the army. My coachman, a Swiss whom I had engaged when I bought the trap at Lion, told mo that tho drive from Sedan to Moiison would occupy about four hoursj going at a comparatively slow pace which cduld not knock up the horeos. It was agreed that we were to halt for an hour or so, after wo had been a couple of hours on the rdad. 1 was very tired and sleepy when we left, and therefore made myself comfortable to eDjoy a good Bleep, thinking I Bhould have at least ttfo hours in which I could do bo. To my amazement, we Had not gone more than a couple or three miles from Sedan, when the carriage came to a sudden halt, and I hoard more than one rough voice ordering ths driver not to move, unless he wished to be Bhot there and thon. I drew back the leather curtains and looked out, when I found that some thirty or more armed men had surrounded tho vehicle, and two of them opening the door, orrierod mo in the most brutal manner to get out. At first I thought they were soldiers, and that they were labouring under some mistake, having taken me to be somebody else. But I soon discovered that they belonged to tho Franca Tireurs, and that thoy fully intended to make me a prisoner. I still thought there was some mistake, and asked them what they wanted, telling them that I waa an English newspaper correspondent, who had accom panied MacMahon all through tho cam paign, and waa now on my way to rejoin him. " Vous mentes "(" You lie ") waa the polite answer I got; and as one of them cocked his rifle and swore he would shoot me dead if I did not get out, I thought that discretion was the better part of my valour, and got out upon tho dusty road. I asked where their officers were ; but they replied that there wore none present, and the Frenchmen knew how to deal with Prussian spies without being controlled by officers. I asked him what I had dona thnt 1 should be made a prieoner of. They answered that I was a Prussian spy, and that they intended to try me by court martial and shoot me. I told them if they would only come back to Sedan with me the commandant of tho garrison would satisfy them that I was not a Prussian, still lass a spy, but an Englishman who was Roin<; about his lawful work. They Baid that tho commandant at Sedan was, like most of tho Grench army, a traitor to his country ; that they would not believe a word ho said, but had determined to make me a prisoner and kill me. Anything ao brutal as they were In their words and mauner, it has never been my lot to witness in any part of the world. At laat they decided to begin what they were pleased to call a " conseil de guerre," or court-martial, in order that thoy might try me for being, as they asserted, a Prus sian spy on French soil. I question whether, in the history of the world, a greater farce or a more entirely one-sided affair was ever enacted than on this occasion. 1 was accused, as I said be fore, of being a Prussian spy ; but what I cime to spy upon, or in whoßO employmont I was, my accusers, who were oleo my judees, did not say. A couple of dozen times at least I was told that I was what they said ; and when I dented it and said I was an Englishman, I was told " vous mentez" (you lie) Of the twenty-fivo or thirty men presont, twelve resolved them selves into what they called a Court, a thirteenth individual acting 83 President. I offered to show them—in fact held out for their inspection—my Foreign Offico passport, as well as a pass I had received from MacMahon'a chiof of tho staff when I joined the army at Strasburg. But the first they would not even look at; and the second they said waa given by a man — Marshal MacMahon— who was himself a traitor to France. They did not seem to think it requisite that I should be put upon my defence. One of them waa called for ward by the rest, asked whether he could apeak English, and whether he would know an Englishman by sight when he saw him. To both questions ho replied in the aifirma tive. He was then told to speak to me in Englteh, and to look at me and say if I waß an Englishman. He came up to me and muttered some gibberish, which might by persons of a very strong imagination be called English. I endeavoured to say a few words to him in my own tongue ; but he stopped ma by shouting out that I was a Prussian, that I spoke German, and did not understand a word of English. This seemed quite enough for those who were trying me. After consulting for a few minutes, one of them announced in a loud voice that I had been found guilty of being a Prussian spy, and that as such I was con demned to be ehot. He then told me—look ing at hia watch and letting me look at mine —that I had a quarter of an hour to liye, and, as a proof that he meant what be eaid, orders were eiven to twelve of the party to load their rifles, and two others were told off to give me the coup de grace, in the event of my not being killed by the firing party. In a word, my lease of life eeemed to be very near its ter mination, and I felt very enrtain that I had not more than the fifteen minutes the fellow named in which to live.

To analyse one's feelings or thoughts under such circumstances is impossible. For about five minutes, a third of the time that was left me, I felt utterly stunned, and kept wondering whether those I had left behind in England would ever learn what my fate had been. At last an idea, a suit of forlorn hope, came to me, and I lost r«o time before trying whether or not I could put it into execution. I called to one of the men, who seemed to be a leader amongst his fellows, and told him that I wiehed, be fore being ehot, to sea a priost, which waa a privilege invariably granted ti even tho greatest culprits in France, and asked him to finH out the cur<s, or parish priest, of tho nearest village, and bring him to mo. My idea was that by making this request, I should at any rate gain a little timo, and that, if this priost did not come to sco me, it was poesible, although I feared notvery probable, he might hzvve some influence with these men, and might get them to eend me to some military post, where I Bhould have justice done me. My request did not seem to annoy my judges in tho laast. On tho contrary, they approved of it, and at onco F6nt cff a couplo of mes sengers in different directions to look for this curd.

In the meantime my feeling and Bur roundings were by no means bappy. It is true that Bince they had sentenced me to be shot the men had—most fortunately, as it afterwards turned out —unbound^ my hands and feet. I waa allowed to sit on the ground, cloee to a wall, a sentry with a loaded rifle being within a dozen yarda of me, and due notice was given that if I attempted to get away this man had orders to shoot me at once. I was covered witb dirt and dust, the result of having been knocked down more than once when I was made a prisoner. What the ultimate result of my reprieve might be, or what the priest could do if they found him, which aeemed far from likely, waa, I need hardly say, utterly uncertain. I kept on hoping from the very improbable best, but fearing in my heart thit the more than probable worst would bo my fate. At last wbat turnod out to ba my guardian angel appaared. The mossengore who hud gone iv search of tho priest had baen absent some little time, and my captors wore bo ginning to grumble and say that it was time to finish the business, and shoot me off-hand, when all at once au old man, " a

garde champetre," appeared on the scene, hia fowling-piece over hia shoulder, and the red ribbon in the button-hole of his blouse, showing that he had served, and served with honour, in the French army. He asked what ivas tho matter, and, turn ing to me, inquired whether I rosily wua an Englishman. I told him my story, and showed him tho different documonta I had by me oommoncing with the paaa given mo by tho chief of MacMahou'a staff. Ho read it carefully.and 1 could ace by his faco that he was convincod I was tolling tho truth. He theo lookod at my Foreign Office passport, but did not soem to bo able to make out what it meant. All at once he left mo, acd I saw him go to where my carriage was, and whilst examining the vehicle and horses—tho lattor most provi dentially, as it turned out, having never been Unharnossed—ho spoko a few worda to the coachman. He thon camo back to whore 1 was,asked mo to show him again my differ ent papers, and than turniug to somo of tho Francs Tireurs who wore standing near, said in a loud voico, "Moeßieitrs, you hnvo mado a groat mistako. This par son," pointing to me, "is not a Prussian. He i 3 an English officer of rank, who has como to Franco in ordor that ho may coo and admiro how Frenchmen defond thoir country. Even now French officers are expocting him at tho headquarters of tho army." And then, turning to mo, ho Slid, " Allons, Monsieur, or. routo ; no pordrz pas un momont." With that ho caught hold of my arm, hurriod mo away, and bofore my enemies had time, or anything liko time, to roalieo what ho was doing, wo wore not only iiisido tho carriage, but woro tearing along at a smart hand-gallop, on tho road to Alouson. Tho anger and voxation of my captors may be imagined. They had not tho means of pursuing us ; but they fired sovoral Bhote aflor us, one of which «vonb through tho crown of my billycock hat. However, I was paved ; and if over one man saved the lifo of another, that old garde-champetro saved mine. Whon wo arrived at Mouson I got 500 francß (£2O) en my letter of credit, and made it a present to tho old fellow, who had behavod with such pluck, and who had certainly risked bis lifo to savo mo. Had wo been caught beforo we could reach the carriage, nothing could hnvo caved him from suffering with mo the death to which I had been condomned. Karely, if ever, lias a man had a moro narrow oscapo from death than was my fate in this instance.— "All the Year Round."

Phenomena in Inebriety.

A whaltuy farmer and strong tompcranco man was elected to Congrow. He formed a strong attachment for a hard-drinking man in tho samo body, and, after being in his company for a few hours, would walk and talk like him. Ho would talk foolish, and etnggor, and net identically like him ; but ifcalled away, ho soon recovered and was as bofore, yet in his company ho used no spirits, and only occasionally ooda This imitation intoxication grow on him, nnd ho seemed to fall into this stato in any drinking party where 6ovoral woro intoxi cated. He was not nwnro of his hilarity or stupidity In drinking company, nnd only remembered that ho could not uee spirits. He was reported to bo intoxicated in the papers, and could with great di(U culty make any [defence He ia still in office, but has loarned to keep nwny from all drinking men and State dinners whore wine and intoxicated hilarious drinkers are present. A hereditary taint of both in sanity and inebriety was present in his case. 1 have mado another group of those casos that brings out eomoj facts seen in other circles of lifo. Thoy aro canes of roformod mon, who show signs of intoxica tion from the contagion of othera who uso intoxicants. The following is an ex ample :—A prominent military man, who had drunk moderately during tho war, ani had abstained from that time on, while at tending a dinnor with his old comrades, wheae moat of them woro intoxicated, sud denly became hilarious, mado a foolish speech, and settled back in hia chair in a drunken stato, and was finally takun homo quito stutiid. Ho had not drunk any spirits and had only usod eoffoe and water, and yot ho had all tho symptoms of the others, only his was intoxication from contagion; tho flavouring had beon prepared long ago in tho army. Another ca?o was that of a man who had beon an inebriate year? ago, but had re formed. Ho waa recently elected to otlico, and gavo a dinner to porno friends. Among thorn wus a physician who hi 3 been greatly interested in tho=o studies. Ho sont me a long report, the substanca'of whish waa this : On the occasion referred to m:»ny of tin company baenmo partially intoxicated, and tho host, who drank nothing but water, be cimo hilarious, and finally stupid with them. Ho wd.% put to bod with every sign of in toxication, but recovered, nnd next morn ing had only a confused notion of tho?o events. Tho third ca°e occurred four years ago. A reformed man of twelve yeara' sobriety went on a military excursion with a drinking company, and althongh he drank nothing but lemonade, nocame n* much intoxicated as the others. This event was tho subject of much comment and Io?s to him, socially and othorwise, although ho protested, and others confirmed his state ments, that he did not take any spirits at this time. In these case? two conditions were present—ono in which pome special un known nervo stato was inherited, which readily reflected alcoholic states from contagions; the othor, iv which this particular alcoholic Btate had been ac quired, and moro readily responded to contagious surroundings than other wise. In both cases, undoubtedly heredity was present, but in the latter some previous pathological stato existed. What form of brain and nerve defect, and what circumstances and condition?, combined to develop this special pathological Btate must be determined in the future. Along this line are many pyschological facts of great interest that throw light on othor mental states. Thus actors, who essay to represent insanity or inebriety, aro successful in pro portion aa thoy inherit a norvous organis ation predi?poßing them to these affections, A single glasa of spirits may awaken a la tent nerve defect, and soon after mergo into inebriety. So the effort to imitato the manner and conduct of an intoxicated per son may give impress and direction to on or ganiem that will be permanent. An actor, greatly praised for hie skill in Hamlet, was ob liged tv leave the stage for the reaEon that this character was becoming co intimately his as to suggest insanity at an early day. A man who acted the part of a drunken man was, after a time, so completely intoxicated as to be unfit for his part. Ho could not use epirite, and bad to give up this part of the play for the same reason as mentioned above. A remarkable incidont came to my notice along tliia line. A temperance writer, of great power and vividnes3 of detail, said that he lived all the details of the hero he was describing in his own mind. When tho character waa intoxicated, he had a 1 the symptoms, and had to go to bed after writing that the hero did so. Ha suffered, was exhausted, had pain, mental agony, was joyous, happy, contented, and lived over every eveot which he described. This man was strictly temperate but had a drunken father from which ho inherited a peculiar nervous organisation, that gave him power to ronliso tho toxic stato from alcohol, and throw himself into it moro per fectly. He nays that it would impair his health to write more on this theme, for ho would bo intoxicated most of tho timo while writing. Many of these states may be termed emotional trance states, and in come future tims will bo the subject of some very curious and wonderful psychological dis coveries. Those who observe inebriates carefully find them literally encyclopedias of pyschologicsd fact that cannot be under etood by any present knowledge of the sub ject. For instance, reformed men or thoso who have recently stopped tho use of spirits, cannot safely liston to a recital of the suffering and straggles of othera to become temperate without taking on somo form of mental shock that is fatal to their own re solutions The more vivid and accurate the struggles of a drunkard are described, tho more certainly tho will of tho hearer is weakened and rendered impotent to help itself. Temperance lecturers, who hope, by painting the horrors of drink co vividly, to detor anyone in the audience from falling in that way, are deceived, and produce the very effect they eeok to remedy.— T, D. Crothers, in the " Alienist and Neurolo gist."

Poverty and Suffering.—"l won <?rgzed down with debt, p verts nud M.ilarirg for cloctQiinp, which did til- m im [' od. I w.nrnm pleidlyrii-crii'uv'd, u:i:il v •-. ;eirnif>. b7 tne aclvico of n.y i a nor, 1 pro- ur<d Hoj !'..! are, and comwoi"art Hitirusf-. nti't i.i mv mo .ill u r weroall wull. mid ;ioua < t »n havn »wn ntivx day elnci!; and I want i" wiy to all ooor niou, you can keep your lainiiit-a wcil n. year wilii American (Jo.'s Hop Kittom for loss th'iu one dootor'svWt will ooit. iknowit.I—A Wokk inq Man. Read.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1887.

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• • — - - jH Mk |JP^\ .. A POSITIVE GURE %'L ,^tf for every form of i^^lt .fi%Jk SKIN AND BLOOD \Js9 4^^> DISEASE ■ J|§^ * Eczema onikalp. FROM J Scrofula onjjefk. i PIMPLES to SCROFULA •niSFIGURmO HUMORS, Humiliating Ernp-/TOTIOTRA RESOLVENT, the new Blooi'ftiit.. 1) Sou., Itching and Burning Skin and Bcalp \J flnr, Diuretic, and Aperient, cleanse, tha B»S i Tortures, aad every spectra of itohlnK, Scaly, and Vorßpiration of all Impurities and Pojumffii?; > Pimply, Inherited, e/croTolom, and Syphflitlc Dl»- Elements, and thru, removes the .CAUSE, TfeX; iv."ea of the BIooJ Skin and Scalp, with Lews of it cures speedily, permanently, antf^cfflffiolndfr" ', \- c Jun r A iSolTraSl? ',ne°ncw gKlood Purfne? tater". Cnticura, the Gi«ATT3kra o™^tft^edlciali. ,- f : nslly, and Octiccka and CuTiottßA Soap, the Jelly for externaluse •'^""y/l^jWlDg wg.•;, . 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K^^fr' ", i A Magnificent Populur Work on the Skin, Purifiers and -Skin BeaiiUners free froft merctu* , ; with En|r:»ved I'lates, Is wrapped about the itesOL- ttWKIB, lead, ijiie, or any other mineral, or veg£ vbnt7 Also! one hundred TctimonlaH, solemnly table :po!sfln whrttsoeVer, GuaramMOTaoUjtS* * i eworn to before the British Consul, which repcß»|pUre by the Analytical Chemists 41 fe Baft * ■ this story: I have been a terrible sufferer for yboni Massachusetts. :: ../.. ; from Diseasosof the Skin and Blood; Iwve bet* j. or g n i e by all tfinsin oi medicine. Pried. • obliged to shun public places by reason of my dis- Cuticcra, GOctj.J ftrge boxes, $1.00. CrmcoS k| ■ • ■ figuring humors; have had the best physicians, Q OK -p t js «tj. CuTICOitA Resolvent, »100 ' \ have spent hundreds of dollars, and -got no relief wto'lesale Agentß, New South Wales,E.Towm 1 until I used the Cdticotca Remedies, which &<Oo., Sydney; Victoria, Felton Grimwade & Co^ have cured me, and left my skin and blood an Melbourne; So-th Australia, A. M. Biekford £>m pure as a child's. Send to any wholesale druggiol Bons Adelaide, Jucensland, ElUott Bro». &Co I' named in the opposite oclumD, for "Ho-wtottare Brisbane; New Zealand, N. Z. Drag Co- Auc2 Skin and Blood Diseases," land and Dunedin. ?T nm Ob Address with Stakp, - Pbefabed bt thi B. Town* & do., New Sevtta. Wales. Potter Drag & Chemical Co., Bo»ton,TJ.g; A, y TCT EW T^EALAND T> A I L W AT . TIME TABLE. —ON AND AFTSB J UJSiS 21, 1886. a, ! AUCKLAND AND ONEHUNGA LINK. AUCKLA3vD • ; to Whk Days. Sat'sonly. 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'.'. 6"22 6.18 7. 8.23 B 440 5.45 B.« IV-iro-u Junction 628 7.0 8.0 830 12.25 t1.16 5.50 16J«u? Otulmh. {Z\ "f 7.10 8- 10 8V42 lilO 1.56 &.° 7;? \ X - :: :: :: :: : a :: iio :: 1 I'an.ikum 8.0 "g .. 130 6.35 .. .. ~ Drury"1 .'.' .'.' '■'■ '■'■ '■'■ '■'■ 8.15 I 9.25 1.47 565 " " Pukekohc' '.'. '.'. '.'. '.'. '.'. 8.57 a 9".52 £l 9 6.28 '.'. '"*'"..til •Burkland .. § ■• •• " •■ •• .. I Tuakau 9.21 a .. 2.13 6.43 .. Pokti'io arat. a Z '.'. '.'. '.'. '.'. 9.46 f . '.'. 8.3 7.0 Y. ZW& ~ f arr. .. 10.0 JA 10.35 5.15 7.10 Mercer dep £ i 055 3-10 t I t«- h?" eR"ia " " " 'unhangi .. ao •RangiriFi •£§ ■■ ■■ - ■ -■■ ' - \' •Ohiiiewai .. .. i 4.. .. - „ ' : Hiintly .. s 12.15 5.25 „ .. ■ '..'■" ■'.: .:, Taupiri .. ti 12.30 5.10 .. .. '.} ::V Ncaruawahia S 12.48 6.10 .. .. • :■„>■",■. "I'ukcto .. c .. .. .. ... . !..{,.- ■ •To Kapa .. .. -3 .. .. .. .. .. j - _ cFrankton Junction.. { a a e^; s " 0 ;; | xlso 6.'. 45 " V. '21 1 '- •Rukuhia g iir! i Ohaupo 8.35 .. g 2.5 ..; •LakeKoad _ .. a ■• •• •• •• «'M '■''>, Ngaroto 8.55 .. w 2.25 .. .. .. .. V TeAwamutp nrr. 0.0 .. \ 2.30 I■■ I ■■ .. '»■ |-' North—Week Datb. . ~• a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. : ■ - ; TeAwamutu dep. .. .. .. .. 9.15 .. .. 3.0,.. a ISKaroto _ .. .. 9.23 .. :. 3.5 " 'Lake Road „ .. .. .. .. .. .i---iii Ohnnpo .. .. .. 9.15 .. .. S.a r .« •Rukuhia .. _ .. .. .. .. .. _ ~" '■:, Frankton Junction .. {"J » •• ;; - JJg » - -. Toßnpa „ .. .. .. .. .. i!« •Pukole .. .. . .. .. .. ..:■ •, P Kgnniawahia _ _ .. .. 11.30 .. .. 4.4S ,* ; Tnupin. .. .. _ .. .. 11.47 .. .. 4.58r ' '» Huntly ....__ 12.25 .. .. «.» H d "Olilncw-nl „ .. .. .. „ .. .. ~-: •limigiriri • _ .. .; «wfen,a - - ::'■ ■ Mercer .. 'i Z "{*§ ■■ » $* ■■ » g^ .:', Pokcno .. „ _ .. 6.31 U. 13 2.16 .. .. 7-0 ~ *iMiangarata J* _ „ .. .. .. „ .. •• " r' ir« Timkau • .. _ .. 6.50 12.8 2.42 .. „ * >■-, » 'liuokland _ .. .. . .. ~f V Pukckohe _ .. 7.10 12.31 3.3 _ .. WT ; prm-y .. '.'. '.'. U i; " '.'. 7.10 1.10 3.37 " ". W-.': "llunua _ .. ....-.: Pniuikura „ 8.2 1.26 3.47 .. .. 8.18--. Manurcwa _ .. 8.17 1.42 4.5 .. .. ■■'•'■ ■-'"'' Papatoitol .. 5.31 2.0 4.17 - ... ■•■.»:» OlaliulHi C.50 8.18 5.12 2.10 4.25 6.10 7.15 .. „ ; .. Kniiri>«s Junction (T. 15 18.30 (8.52 f2.30 U. 35 6.20 t7.30 9.0 ,'■; Ellcrslic .. .. 7.20 8.35 8.56 2.33 4.40 6.25 7.35 ■ ./■- - a . ■ "Onion Lano . .. .. .. .■.!"; Rcmucra 7.30 8.44 9.5 2J5 1.51 6.35 7.45 .••_vis ' Ncwumrkct 735 8.50 9.13 2.55 15.0 6.40 7.50 9.M ;; Auckland .. .. air. 7.15 9.0 0.2-2 3.5 5.10 I 6.50 | 8.0 t -9.30 '; t Change for Onehunga. I Chango for Auckland and Intermediate Stations. : ..;' Change for Ivaipara Branch Stations. A. Passengers are not booked by this train to Stations between Auckland and Onehnnga. ■'■;' li. Only stops to pick up Passengers for ."outh of Peurose Junction. .t;;5)3 -> c. Frankton Junction for Cambridge, Te Aroha, and Hotorua Lines. - .. ......-, ■~,;. « JJommenoing on MONDAY, December 20, the 11.40 a.m. train from Auckland will run througk - "' fi 10 Amamutuon Mondays and Wednesdays, running FranJcton JuncUon to Te Awamntn as V' VMrntri~H aiJi on Jun°tion deP' 6»5 p.m.; Rukuhia,*; Ohaupo, dep. 7.30 p.m.; Lake Road*!:. , T »p or B?t down'pa^mKors Awamutu- 7- 55 P-m- -Flag Stations; stops only when required to pick..,? taSrS, 0"™^ 1' December 21, the 8 a.m. trai» from Frankton Junction to »= W AWamutu will not run on Tuesdays and Thursdays. -JVM Cambridge—Te Aroha and Rotorpa Lines. , ; ., South.—Wekk Days. North.-Week Dats. Sat. Sat. Sal. . \ only. only. ffllr- ' . |..l, jj A. M. A. M. A. M. A. MP. M. V.M.P.M.P.H. ii Auckland, dep 8 011401140 .. Lichfleld, dep 12 5 .. , - 1 'Putaruru Junction . .. .. -..■...,„ :,-;i „ .. T pm. p.m. p.m. "Taumangi v n \ 130 7 0 7 0 .. Oxford, dep 12 50 .. Hamilton West ' 38 710 710 .. "Okoroire - HarniltonEast "Mangawhara .. •• Ruakura Jun.. arr. .. '52722722 Mataraata 13 .. 57=^-5^ —77 — :\^g™. :: :: :: :: :: ■». Ruakura Jun., dep. .. | « 207 25 .. 345 'Klwitahi .. ♦T^mffio 11 I: ::.Vi MorunsvUle^r. n .. '.. si ;; ;; ;; ;; tearohaßb.-' , ' SS> a"-° P':: ::'": :: ; JUD"deP- "■ '° J* 2 ° •• 730 .. n'atu'a oHa.ua '.'. '.'. V. '■'■ •'• 1 'Motumapho " '.'. " " " " ,] Morrins^ville, arr' '.'. 9"& '.'. 535 Momnsville, arr. ..1050210 .. 810 .. ■ , TETnr^l'R^ MorrinsvMle. dep. ..910 250 510. IE aroha Bk— 'Motumaolio .. •• SS^' ;: ;; - X;; 8 : - 5;; ; ;waiho U .. .. :. :; - ;; ;; ;; gJS"SdSfSS." .. 9isaso s*o ! l^Aroha,arr ■ 10 .. 855 .. •H»->1-in'i.. - •• . ■.. ■ Morrinsville, dep. .. 50~T 7. .. ""■' °"nrn '.'. .. .. ■• •■ :' ' •Wnha?ol'" •" •• •'■ I-" •' Rua'kuraTun, arr. '.'. 9^55 jjO gjg' Matainata '.'. '..'. !' 3'oo '.'. '.'. '.'. Ruckura Jun.. dep. ..10 0 310 6» ;. h ' Manfrawhara ! .. _ .. ~ "Hamilton East ■• „•:« i'M 'Okoroire I HamiUon West.. .. 10 20 3556 40 ~,• ;> Oxfoi-d .. 435 Frankton Jun., arr. .10 25 4 0 645 Tammangi .. .. : ! -. —- •Putaruru Jun... „ '.'. \ '.'. ','. " " Auckland, arr. .. .. 510 930 ..' LichHeld, arr. - .. ! ;'i 20 ■■ ■' - ' .': * Flag Station. a. In connection with 12.5 p.m. Train from Lichfleld. KAIPARA BRANCH. — Auckland—Henderson—Hkleksville. Auckland to Helensville.—Week Days. Helensvillb to Auckland.—Week DaY& o.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. a,m. P.ni.* ' t Auckland .. .. dep. 7.15 10.50 4.40 Holensvillo .. .. dop. 6.30 11.46 I***?*; Newmarket Junction .. 7.V9 11.10 4.57 "Helensville South . •• ' !| Mount Kdcn- .. .. 7.31 11.17 5.3 •Ohli-M.ei •Kingplunrl •Pneroa; ",'. i i "Morningßide.. _ *Woo>hill •• "* ' ♦Mount Albert _ *Boweti •• - -■' '■>' Avondale 750 11.37 6.20 *Waimauku •■. «•«:.-■ 1 •New Lynn Kumeu 7.25 1.5 "•» •Waikomiti *Taupaki .. -i. .•!« M Henderson .. „ .. 8.15 12.4 6.45 Waitakerei .. .. « T.« LW •*■■-. m Swanson .. .. ... .. .. *Swanson .. v ' l c"i«;: '' -*: Waitakerei .. .. _ 8.40 12.31 6.15 Honderson .. .. .. 8.15 2.5 o.» ~j ; ■ •Taupaki 'Waikomiti •• " Kumeu 9.0 1.5 6,38 *New Lynn .. -• .. .. -i. -•;„, "Waimauku Arondale 8.10 3-Si; ■H". ■ "geweti *Mount Albert .. .. .. ■■ • - r. ♦Woodlull JMorningside ». : •OnfSnsi 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. 'unml'men" 7. 7. 0.0 i« 6.^ •HelenKvillo South Newmarket Junction .. 9.13 3.10 6.». : r _ Holensville .. am 9.55 2.10 7.30 Auckland .. .. arr.l P^P S.M I »•»■ • IHag Stations.—Trains do not stop unless required! Notice should ba given tp tie Guard •» previous stoppingstationß by any passenger desiring to alight at Mag Stations. . :'1 ,; MT AU Time-Tablea issued prior to this date are OTj^ C£lltlll,-jill«i yfT '