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lewis >i. grist, proprietor. > Jin Ifiibcpciiticiif Jointly llrtospnpcr: /or tljf |1romotion of tlic ^political, Social, Agricultural anb Commercial |hitfrests of the ^outlj. |terj[s?>i2..jO a year, inadvance. VOL. 33. YOEKVILLE, S. C., "WEDNESDAY, ATJOTJST 3, 1887. NO. 31. ^ J>mal J>tovih jri by h. kii?i:b ha<;uaki>. AI'Tilt iU oK "KINti soI.oMoN's MINKS," j "sill-:," KTi, Kit (MIAITKR XXXIII. VKXOKAXCK. F>>r three or four minutes more they whis- ] jn'ivtl together. alter which the 11<?ttent?>t j rose tt> and liiitl out how tilings were j aii:oii^tlie l!?.ers helow, and see when Frank j Muller retireil ti> his tent. As soon as he had | marked him down he was to come hack and ! report to Jess. ami then the litial steps were ! to he decide I on. When he wa> mine Jess irave a siirh of re lief. This stirring up ??f Juntje to thehoiliug point of vengeance hail been a dreadSul tiling to in rvi- lu r-. It to do; hut now at any mto it [ was doni\ and tin* deed settled upon. Hut what tiio end of it would he none could say. j She would practically he a murderess, and she l'elt sooner or later her guilt would litul her out, and then she would have little mercy to hoi>e 'S,'h she had no scruples, for after nil Frank Mtiller's would he a well merited doom. Hut when all was said and done it was a dreadful thing to lie foived to steep her 1 hands in blood, even for Bc-sic's sake. It' ! Muller were slain Bessie would marry .John, j provided John escaped from the Boers, ; and he happy: hut what would become of her.' Bobbed of her love, mid with this crime upon her mind, what ' could she do, even if she escaped? except die: It worn i oe better to die and never see him again, for her sorrow and her shame were more than she could bear. And then she began to think of John till all her ! !*oia*, bruised heart seemed to go out toward him. Bessie could never love him as she did, | she felt sure of that, and yet Bessie was to have him by her all her life, and she?she was to go away. Well, it was the only thing to do. ! She would see this deed done and set her sister free, and then if'she happened to escape she would go?go right away, where she would never Ik? heard of again. Then at any rate, she would have behaved like an honorable woman. She sat up and put her hands to her face. It was burning hot, though she j was wet through, and chilled to the bono with the raw damp of the night. -V tierce j fever of mind and l>ody had taken hold of her, worn nut as she was with emotion, j hunger and protracted exposure. But her i brain was clear enough; she never reinemliered its being so clear before. Every thought that came into her mind seemed to present itself with startling vividness, standing out by itself against a black background of nothingness, not softened and shaded down one into another as thoughts generally are. | sn... co.!!..,! t,, <..n lier< >li" w.-onlerimr avvav? alone, utterly alone, alone forever!?while in the far distance John stood holding Bessie l>y the hand and gazing after her regretfully. Well, she would write to him, since it must 1 be so. and bid him one word of farewell. She could not go without it. She had a pencil, j and in the breast of her dress was the Boer j pass, the back of which, stained as it was with water, would serve the purpose of paper. She drew it out and, 1 tending forward toward j the light, placed it on her knees. "flood by,"' she wrote,'"good bv! We can 1 never meet again, and it is better that we never should, in this world. Whether there is another 1 do not know. If there is. I shall wait for you there. If not, then good by forever. Think of me sometimes, for 1 have loved you very dearly, and as nobody will ever love you again; and while I live in this or any other world, and am myself, I shall always love you and you only. Don't forget ' me, I never shall be really dead to you until 1 am forgotten. J." She lifted the paper off her knee ami then put it back again and began to scribble in verse. <|iiiekly and almost without correction. It was a habit of Iters, though she never .showed what she wrote, and now it assorted itself irresistibly and half unconsciously: When hands that clasp thine own in sinning truth. Or linger in caress upon thv head. Have rudely hr<-kc the idols of thy youth And east them ?lown amid thy treasitreil dead. lfememlHT tile" When she had got thus fur she stopped, dissatisfied. and, rumimg her pencil through the lines, began afresh: "If 1 should die to-night Then would'st thou look upon my quiet face, before they laid me in my resting place. And deem that death had made it almost fair; "And laying snow white tlowers against my hair 1 Would'st on my cold cheek tender kisses press Aud fold my hands with lingering caress. Poor hands, so empty and so cold to-night 1 "If I should die to-night Then would'st thou call to mind with loving thought Some kindly deed the icy hands had wrought. Some tender words the frozen lips had said. Krraads on which the willing feet hud sped: The memory of my passion and my pride. And every fault would sure l?- set aside. So should I be forgiven of all to-night. "Death waits on me to-night, K en now my summons echoes from afar. Aud grave mists gather fast about my star? Think gently of me: I urn travel worn. My faltering feet are pier with many a thorn. The hitter world has made my faint heart hi 1 When dreamless rest is mine 1 shall not need The tenderness for which 1 long to-night !" She stopped, apparently more because she had got to the end of the paper than for any other reason, and. without even rereading what she had written, pushed the pass back into her bosotii and was soon lost in thought. Ten minutes later Jantje came creeping in to where she sat liko a great snake in human form, his yellow face shining with the rain drops. "Well." whispered Jess, looking up with a start, "have you done it.'" "No, lnissie, no. I'.ans Frank hu> but nowgone to his tent, lie has been talking to the clergyman, something about Missio Jlcssie, I don't k'ow what, i was near, but he talked low and I could only h'-ar the name." "Have the Hoer? all gone to sleep.'" "All. misste, except the sentries." "Is there a sentry before linn.- Frank's tent;" "No, missie, there i- nobody near." "What i.- *V< time, Jantje.'' "About three hours and a half after sundown" (iibboi. "bet us wait half an hour, and then you must go." Accordingly they sat in silence. In silence they sat facing each other and their own thoughts. Presently Jantje broke it bv draw ing the big white handled knife and commencing to slinrpcn it on a piece of leather Tie- sight ltiU'io Jc.-s feel sick. "Put the knife up," she said, quickly; "it is sharp ell' 'Ugll." Jantje obe\ed with a feebh- grin ami the minute- pa-st-d mi heavily. "Now Jantje," she said at length, speaking iitiskiiy in her struggle to overcome the Spain's lie contract ions of her throat, "it is tim-* for you t<> go." The li 'tt'-ntot fidgeted about, and at last spoke. "Mi?ie iiiu-t in.- with in*-!" "Come with you!" answered Jess, with a tart, "why "iteeaise t ii?? "host n|" 111>* ol<l hn^li-Ii woman will eome alter in>' it I no alone." "Yi.ii fool!" miM .!< > angrily, ntul then !* ? ]! *<*(iiin l>'Tvll, a<l'l' -l ' t 'tiiK'. !? a mail, .hintje; think ?>1 ymir title r airl mother, ate I !? a man." "I am a man," lie an?w.-|. .1 iilkily. -an,j | will kill 111m like a man. hut uhat -oo.i jN mail a-aiu-t tlie j;le>?t ! a tl.-a.l Kii-lish \v< man' It 1 I-lit t he kllil'e jilt > Ile|- she W oil III "tilv mal.e taees. ami lire \vntii<l ei.me nut of tije h>.|e, I will ti"t ;?o without you. liii?i-. " " You e..." she sai'l. Iiere?-|y, -you shall xo!" "No. mi?ie, I will let go ah'iie. he an sWelVll Jess looki'il at him aii'l saw- that lie meant what lie sael. He was getlm- ?ulky. niel the wor?t 'li?iH.?itioiie.| .huikev in the work! is tar, far easier to.|..,al with than a sulky Ilotten tot. She lilll't either ;;i Vo tip t lie |i|'oji>et of e.i with tie* man W.-ll, he wa> equally ouilty one way or the other, an-l was really almost ea I lolls ahollt !?-il|o ileteeteil, so she mi-lit a> well "o. Sir-lui'l no power left to make fresh plans, lh r mill.I .?,einw| to he e\hailstei|. I lllly she ilitlst keep out of the wav at tie- hist. She eouM ie-t hear to i?? near then. ; "Well," she saiJ, "1 will go with you, f Jaiitjf." ' Good, initio, that is all right now. Y<?u can keep oil' the ghost of the dead English woman while I kill Bans Frank, l'.ut lirst lie must he fast asleep. Fast, fast asleep.'' Then slowly and with the uttermost caution they once more crept down the hill. This time there was no light to be seen in the direction of the wagbn house, and no sound to be heard except the regular tramp of tho sentries. But their business did not lie in the direction of the wagon house; they left that on their right and curved round toward the blue gum avenue. When they got nearly V>i>posite to the lirst tree they halted in a patch of stones, and Jantje went forward to reconnoitre. Presently he'r-turned with the intelligence that all the Beers who were with the wagon had gone to sleep, but that Mailer was still sitting in his tent thinking. Then they crept on. perfectly sure that if they were not heard they would not bo seen, curtained as they were by the dense mist and darkness, till at length they reached tho bole of tho first big gum tree. Five paces from this tree Frank Mull-r's tent was nitehed. It had a light in it which caused the wet tent to glow in the mist, as though it had hceii rublted with phosphorus, and on this lurid canvas the shadow of Frank Midler was gigantically limned, lie was so placed that the light cast a magnified reflection of his every feature and even of his expression upon the screen before them. The attitude in which he was seated was his favorite one when he was plunged in thought, his hands resting oil his knees and his gaze lixed 011 vacancy. He was thinking of his triumph, anil of all that he had gone through to win it and of all that it would bring liiin. He held the trump cards now, and the game was in his own hand. He had triumphed, and yet over hint hung the shadow of that curse that dogs tlit? presence of our accomplished desires. Too often, even with the innocent, does the seed of our destruction lurk in the rich blossom of our hopes, and much more is this so with the guilty. .Somehow this thought was present in his mind to-night, and in a rough, half educated way he grasped its truth. Once more the saying of the old Boer general rose in his mind: "I believe that there is a God? I Itelieve that God sets a limit to a mail's doings. If he is guing too far, God kills him." What a dreadful tiling it would be if the old fool were right alter all! Supposing that there were a God, and God were to kill him to-night, and hurry oft' his soul, if lie had one, to some dim place of unending fear! All his superstitions awoke at the thought, and he shivered so violently that the shadow of the shiver caused the outlines of the gigantic form upon the canvas to tremble up and down. Then, rising with an angry curse, lie hastily tin-..,,tr l.ic nufi.r el,,thin" mill havilllT turned down but not i-xtinj;tii>hc<l thorough parallinc lamp, llung himself upon the little eamp bedstead, which creaked and groaned beneath his weight like a thing in pain. Then came silence, only broken by the drip, drip of *'10 rain from the gum leaves overhead ami the rattling of the boughs whenever a breath of air stirred them. It was an eerie and depressing night, a night that might well have tried the nerves of any strong man who. wet through and worn out. had been obliged to crouch upon the open and endure it. How much more awful was it then to the unfortunate woman who, half broken hearted, fever stricken and well nigh crazed with sull'ering of mind and body, waited in it to see murder done! Slowly the minutes passed, and at every raindrop or rustle of a bough her guilt}* conscience summoned up a host of fears. Hut by the mere power of her will sho kept them down. She would go through with it. Yes. she would go through w ith it. Surely he must be asleep by now: They crept up to the tent and placed their cars within two inches of his bead. Yes, ho was asleep; the sound of his breathing rose and fell/vith the regularity of an infant's. Jess turned round and touched her companion upon the shoulder. He did not move, but she felt that his arm was shaking. "Now," she w hispered. Still he hung back. It was evident to her that the long waiting had taken the courage out of him. "He a man," she whispered again, so low that the sound scarcely reached his ears, although her lips were almost touching them, "go, and mind you strike home!" Then at last she heard him softly draw the great knife from the sheath, and in another second he had glided from her side. Presently she saw the line of light that cut out upon the darkness through the opening of the tent broaden a little, and by that she knew that lie was creeping in upon his dreadful errand. Then she turned her head und put her lingers in her ears. Hut even so she could see a long line of shadow traveling across the skirt of the tent. So she shut her eyes also and waited, sick at heart, for she did not dure move. Presently?it might have licen five minutes or only half a minute afterward, for she had lost count of time, she felt somebody touch her on the arm. It was J ant jo. "Is it done:" she whispered again. He shook his head and drew her away from the tent. In going her foot caught in one of the guide ropes and shook it slightly. "I could not do it. missie," he said. "lie is asleep and looks just like a child. When I lifted the knife he smiled in his sleep, and all the strength went out of my arm, so that I could not strike. And then before I could get strong again the ghost of the old Englishwoman came and hit me in the back and I ran away." If a look could have blasted a man Jantje would assuredly have been blasted then. The man's cowardice made her mad, but while she still choked with wrath a duiker buck, which had come down from its stony home to feed upon the rose bushes, suddenly sprang with a crash almost from her feet, passing away like a gray gleam into the utter darkness. Jess started and then recovered herself, guessing what it was, but the miserable Hottentot was overcome with tern a* and fell upon the ground groaning out that it was the ghost of the old Englishwoman, lie had dropped the knife as lie fell, and Jess, seeing the imminent pet it iii which they were placed, knelt dow n, picked it up, and hissed into his car tiiat it he were not quiet she would kill him. Vliis paeilied him a little, hut no earthly power could persuade him to enter the tent again. What was to be doind What could she do} Eor two minutes or more she buried her face in her wet hands nnd thought wildly and despairingly. Then a dark and dreadful determination entered her mind. The man Midler should not escape. l!e?ie should not lie sacrificed to him. I .at iier I han I hat. she w ould do t lie iIced hel'-elf Without a word die rose, animated by the tragi"- agony ?>!' h-r purpose ami the force of her despair, ami glided toward the lent, the great knife in her hand. Now, all' all too soon, she was inside of it ami stood tor a nd allow he|-e\fv jo grow aei ii-toim d t<> the light. I'r> seiiily slm began to see. tird, til'- outline of tie- 111 d. Ilieli I lie outline oj J he iuanl\ form stret.-le-d upon it, then hoik !,. .! and man disi iiietlv. Jantje laid said that h'was sleeping like a ehild. lb- might have been, now he was not. tin the eontrary. his fin e was rolil lil-ed like that of one in an ev rivinity tear, and beads "I sweat stood 111><>n his I.r<>\v It was ;in tlioi|o|] |?. knew Ins iluiifp'r. n1 wiis y<a utlerlv jhiWitle?s t'i avoid It II.- lay U|H>II Ills hael; heavy arm. !ileft, liiim; ovi-r tin? sj,|e o| the lieil, t lie klll|e|;|es of the li.'UI'l lestln^.in the oroiiinl: the other was tin-,,wti lm,-k ami his liea'l was |>ill,,w, .1 upon it "I Ik- ,-1,>t hin^; ha ! tajleti l,.i' k It*<iii liis throat tin,I nia--i\e, hV. Ilieli were ,|llite l.ai e .less st'Hiii ami ^az -'l 'T'or It, ??!, ', sake, for I Jessie's sal;.*!" she murmured, ami the.i. illljielleil by .'I lofeethat seellli',1 to luo'.e i.f itself, she el'ept slowly, slowly, to III.. I je|,t haml si'le o| t he he<l. \t this I'.oineiit the man woke, ami his opening , yes tell tit II ti{?>t i her fare. What ver his ilfeiun ha>I heen, what lie now saw was far more terrible, for hemlitt^ over him was the e||,,st of the woman lie ha<l n11?r.Jet> 1 in the Waal" There she was, risen troin her riv? r ofave, torn, dishevelled. water yet -Irip pine from her hamls and hair. Those sunk and niarhle eheeks, those dreadful llamiii? eye. eould 1,clone to ||0 IlltUiall lieine, hilt < nly to a spirit. It was the spirit of J.s. Croft, the woman lie had murdered. e<>m? hack t-> n il him that there was a living veil ffejitiee ami a hell' Their eyes met. ,'llld !l'? ereatur" w ill ev.-r l.uow the ajjony of terror that lie taste.| ,.| l.etol-e the eli'l e, line. She saw hi. tare sink in ami tin n ashen yt iv, while ihe e,?|,I sw- .at ran from every por?'. lie was awale*, hut fear paralyzed him, he eoiil.1 not speak or new Hi* wa-; awafc?\ anil slu> muM liisilati; no moiv. Si I1K WAS AXVAKK AND SDK idl l.l) HESITATE XO MllltK. Ho must have seen the Hash of the falling steel, ami Slii' was outside tin' tout again, tin* nil knife in her hnml. She Hung the aeeiirseil tiling from her. That shriek must have j awakened every s<nil within a mile. Already j she could faintly hear the stir of men down j by the wagon and the patter of .lantje run! ning for his life. Then she too turned and lied straight tip the j Kill. She knew not whither, she cared not where. None saw her or followed her, the hunt had broken away to the left after Jautje. Ilcr heart was lead and her haul u rocking sea of lire, while before her, around her, and behind her yelled all the conscience created furies that run murder to his lair. On she flew, one sight only before her eyes, one sound only in her ears. On over the hill, far into the rain and night. CHAPTER XXXIV. TAXTA COKTZKK TO THE UKSlM K. After Jess had been set free by the liners outside Hans Coet/.ee's place. John was sharply ordered to dismount and o|fsaddle his horse. This he did with the best grace that he could muster, .and the horse was knee haltered and let loose to feed. It was then indicated to him that he was to enter the house, which lie also did. closely attended by j two of the liners. "Are you hungry, rooibaaje.'" asked one in English. I l,.l.? 1 I I,.,I l?. iv.,s "Tie his hands behind him. and let us see if . he can cateh in his mouth, like a dog," suggested one of the gentle youths. "No, no; make him eat pap with a wooden spoon, like a Ivallir," said another. I will feed him if you have a very long spoon." Here again was legitimate cause for merri meat, but in the end matters were compromised by a lump of biltong and a piece of bread being thrown to him from the other end of the room. Ho caught them and proceeded to eat, trying to conceal his ravenous hunger as much as possible from the circle of onlookers who clustered round to watch tieoperation. Suddenly one of the men remembered about the young fellow whom he had thrown backward off the horse and wlm was lying very sick in the next room, and suggested that measures of retaliation should he taken, which would undoubtedly have been done had not the elderly lioer who had commanded the party internosed. This man was getting drunk like the others, but fortunately for John he got amiably drunk. "iiet him alone," ho said, "let him alone. We will send him to the commandant to morrow. Frank Midler will know how to deal with him." John thought to himself that lie certainly would. "Now. for myself," the man went "ii \\ itii a hiccough. "I bear no malice. We havo thrashed the British and they have given up the country, so let bygones be bygones, I say. Almightv, yes! 1 am not proud, not 1. If an Knglislunan takes oil' his hat to me I shall acknowledge it." This staved the fellows oil' for a while, but presently John's protector went away, and then the others began to get playful. They got their rifles and amused themselves with leveling them at him, and making sham bets i us to where they would hit him. John, seei11-' the emcrtronev. backed his chair well into tln> corner of the wall and drew hi* revolver, which fortunately for himself lie still had. "If any man interferes with me. hv <Jod. 1 I'll shoot him!" he said, in good Kngljsh. which they did not fail to understand. I niloulitcdiy as the evening went on it. was only the possession of this revolver ami his evident determination to use it that saved his life. At last things got very had indeed, so had that he found it absolutely necessary to keep his eyes continually fixed. now on one and now on another, to prevent their putting a hullet through him unawares. He had twice appealed to the old woman, Hans t'oetzee's wire, hut sin- sat in her big chair witii a sweet i smile upon her fat face and refined to iuterj l'erc. It i* not every day that one gets the chance of seeing a real live Ktigli-h rooihaatje haited like an ant hear i>n the llat. 1'resentlv. just as John in desperation was ! making up his mind to begin shooting right ! and left, the old woman, seeing that matters were getting beyond a joke, came waddling down the room with marvelous a>-tivity ami threw herself between theiil. 1 "There, there.''she said, rulling right ami ' left with her fat fists, "he oil' with yon. everyone. I can't have this noise going on here. Come, oil' you all go, and gel. the horses into the stable; they \\ ill be right a way by morning if you trust them to the Kallirs." The woman, to John's astonishment, and relief, literally bundled the whole tribe of them out of the front door. .Now then, rooihaatje," said the oid lady, briskly, when they had gone, "1 like you because you are a brave man, and were not afraid when they mobbed you. Also, 1 don't want to have a mess made upon mv Moor here, or any noise or shooting. If those us n mine back and Mud you here they will lii-sf get rut her drunker and then kill you, so \ ou liad better be oil" while you get the chance," and she pointed to the door. "I really tun much obliged to you, my aunt." said John, utterly astonished. "t Mi. as to that," sic said dryly, "it would ne a great pi'y to kiil the last l-aigldi rooihaatje in ihe whole llritish army; they ought t i keep yog as a curiosity, lb-re, take a tot of bra inly before yoii jg< . it is a w.-t, nigiit, and sometimes when VOII are clear of the Transvaal and remember this business, remember. too. that you owe your life to Tanta Coetzec. Hut 1 would not have saved you, not I. if \on had not 1 so plucky. I like a man I ! a man. There, be oil ' jii'in | <.1:i-- i >1111 im*i l:u11i 11.i11 a 111111i>! :'tij 1 "I tin- inamh.iiiul in ;ni"llii'i' 111 ?111>*iit was "iit-i'l" i li?' li"ii>'' nii'l lia>l >li|'|?"il ti'in!" tli'* nijlit. It '.ia> \itv ilafi; ami Wi-t. I"i ill'* lain rli'ii'l- 11; i < I i*ii\.-tv.| 11 ] tlin iii""li. ali'l In-Mi'Ui !" *a]i/ <I tlint an\ alt'nipt, I" !"' !; t"i Ins li<Tx* v.i-u!.| "iilv i n.I in lailiin* a in I in 111 - i*i ;i | *t u ri :il?*. Tin' "ill v tiling In I" ?a-I" y I auay mi I'm it in lie* ilii*'*'*li"ii I M'liiit'iiiit' in as i|iiii*l;lv as h uliI: IV In- v.i-nt <|..;i a ilia trai l; ai*l"-> tin' \"Mt as lianl as Ins till" |i*^> w..t||.| tain* htm II ! nti'l a ! ii niili-s" 1 rmly I?.*ti?!* him, ami with that i h'' i t ill .*i 11i: in i-iri'iiiiistaiii'i-s nv t vvlii'li Ii.- ha>l ii lit i*"l w lii' ii was "lit' I' Ills i liaia ! risiii-.. h'* si-t |. work inak" tin- is -t "I il l'"|- tin* lil'st 11**i11' "i* mi all wint wi-ll, ami tli'-n Ins iiit'-n?i*i|i^iist hi* ili.vtn. !* .| |hat In- was '!' l)i?* tra'k.a la"t. at wlii.-h a 11 \ i .. i \ wli.i has ?*\i-r I.: i i III" I'l'-asiift- "ii a ilark nijlit "I waml'-ial'Mi" a > all'-'l ma.I ..n tli<* Airmail v.*|.it will M-an*'-l\ l?- -in pi is.--|, \lt'-r wa.-iin^ a |ii:irli-l* "I nil li"ill* <>r ni'-r** til a vain al!<'lii|'l to liml tin- path. In* 'ti'ii- k "lit li"l'll\ I"l- a 'lal k looking mass that 1* < >11?- i in 'In* ilistamv, ami u hi' li In- i""k to i"' .Mooit'-iil'in lull. Amis-, jt wa . 11! \ itisi. ; < 1 i;*- pin^ to tint i hit. wli'-n It- w "i I Ii I ha v ' lalnh-'l lip at lint hoiis.*. .i ralli'-r wln-m tin* h"i|si* ha-1 . sl"'"l. ii.- miwiiiiiiIv IMiia* I" ih" rijjlit, ami th'is win halt )' >1111-1 tin- inll Infill*" Ii" t"itii* 1 i ut liis mistaki*. N"r wniil'l In' liavi* l"iim! it "lit tli'-n hail In* ii"t 'haii'-i-'l -,i tin- mist ami i|;irkm*ss t turn into III" ni"iith "V tli" m".-il y'i^i* l.miwii as l."iiw kl'"il. w h"i' h" ii.-i'l "ti"". iii''tiliis Ii" t l"i". liml an nit*-i-<-s t in^ t ill. with .h-ss jmt I before sln> went to Pretoria. II was while he ; r was hlumlerins ;i11<I stitiiihlins up this "nrse | ' that at length llii-rain reaseil ;111 1 the moon ! t e.it init, it l>eine thi'ti nearly iiii'hiiylif. Its 1 very lirst. ravs lit. upon one of the i-.vtraorili I nary pillars til' Imlaneeil howMrrs, ami hy it f her >;ni/.eil the locality. As may he ima?- t ineil. strung man as lie was, .John was hy this r time ijuite exhaiisteil. I'ur nearly a week he 1 hail heeii traveling im e>snntly, ami for the t last t uu nights he lia-l nut niily nut slept, 1.at. | ?had eiuluieil a yre.al ileal nl peril ami mental ' f exeiteineiit. Hail it. imt lieen I'm' the lirainlv ' s Tanta Cnetzee hml si veil him he eniilil not | t have ent nver tint tifteen miles nr sn until I c lie h.'lil ei iVel'eil, anil IIIIW he was Ijllile hrnkell II tloun, ami I'elt that the only thins that he : s I*1 III! 1 i|n. Met thrnlisll IIS lie w.'IS. WnllM he til | 1 lie ilvwn snmeMhere ami sleep nr ilie as the I t ease mi'siit he. Tln-n ii was that the little 1 { rave near the tnp nf the klnnl', the same I'rnlll I t wliieli Jess hail watelieil the thllllili'l'stni'lll, i t eanie iiiln his reenlleetinu. lie hail hern then.1 | t niitv with liessie after their msase'in-nt. anil r Mil' 11:l I tnM 111111 Ili.'il it was oncoi .n*ss ia- i i vorib* spots. t If lit' i*imilil oiuv lvarli tin* cave In* would at j t any rate get shelter ami a dry place to lie on. j It I'niiM not ln> niori' than ."mi yards away. | s So hi* struggled on liravi-ly through tin* wot 1 grass and ovvr the scattered liowldri's, until I ! at last he cairn* totho basonf the hngccohmiu ! n that had been shattered by the lightning lip- | J fori* Jess" eyes. t Thirty paces more and In* was in tin* rave. | I With a sigh of uttor exhaustion ho thing ' t himself down upon the rooky (loot* and was .1 almost instantly buried in a profound sleep. t t l"IfA1TEU XXXV. TlfK 4*1 i.VCI.t'SlON OF THK MATTKlt. )i Wli4*n the rain ceased and the moon began I to shine, .Iess was still fleeing like a wild ,1 tiling across the plain on the top of tie* moan- I ( tain. She felt no sense 4?f exhaustion noiv or y even of weariness; her only idea was to get ; | away, right away somewhere, where she j s could lose herself and nobody would ever ?eo s her again. Presently she came to the top of I,eiiw ICIoof. and in a bewildered way recog- j ' nized thes|iot and commenced to dcseeiul it. ] t 1 lieiv was a place where she might lie until I j| she died, for no one ever came there, except i n now and again some wandering Kallir herd. | t On she sprang, from rock to rock, a wild, ; ji weird ligurc, well in keeping with the solemn ' a and titanic sadness of the place. Twice she fell, once right into the stream, > but she took Ii4i heed, she did not j even seem to feel it. At last she wasat the bottom, now creeping like a black j |] dot across the wide spaces of moonlight and s ' now swallowed up in the shadow. There ' p before her was tla* month of her little eav; her strength was leaving her at last, and she j f was fain to into it, broken hearted, crazt.il, and?dying. i v '()h, Hod, forgive me! (Sod forgive me!" ! o ?A?.. ,,c wink sifint* in,,hi tli,? riit'tr flour. "Itcssie, 1 sinned against you, but I j a liavt- washed aw?v my sin. I <1 id it for you, | v Bessie, love, not for mysMl'. I luul ratlmr j <1 have diifl tliiin kill liim for myself. You will f marry John now. ami you will never, net-r v know what 1 did for you. I am going to die. j j| 1 know that. 1 am dying. Oh, if 1 only n eonM see 11is faee otiee more liefore I < 1 i?* ? lie- ii fore 111i- !** Slowly the westering moonlight .crept down s! the hlaekness of tin; rook. Xmv at iast it a peeped into tilts 1 it tilt cave ami played upon ! k John's sleeping face lying within two feet of f her. Her prayer had lieen granted; there J was her lover l?y her side. With a start and a great sigh of doubt sho saw him. Was he dead.' Shu dragged hur' self to him on her hands and knees ami listened for ld> breathing, if perehaiiee he still breathed and was not a vision. Then it came, strong and slow, the breath of a mail in deep 0 sleep. ; j. Should she try to wake him.' What for? To tell liim she was a murderess and then to J let him see her die, for instinct told her that i S nature was exhausted; and she knew that she j, was eertainly going?going fast. No. a linn- . drill times, no! J (Inly she put her hand into her breast and , 0 drew out the pass, on the baek of whi-'h she ?. had written to Iuiii, and thrust ? between his listless lingers. It should speak for le-r. Then j( she loaned over Iuiii ami watched his sleeping face. a very inearuat ion of iuliuilc. despairing I . tenderness ami love that i> deopi-r than th" grave. And as she watched gradually Iwr ^ fei-t and legs grew cold and numb, till at length sll nil feel nothing below her ? bosom. She was dead nearly to the heart. | 1) The raysiif the moon faded slowly from the C level of the little cave, and John's faee grew n dark to her darkening sight. She bent down ( 1 and kissed liim oliee. twice, thrice. Then at last the end eame. There wasa I ^ great tlashingof liglit before her eyes,and tilt (| roaring as of a thousand seas within her ear*, and her head sank gently on her lover's br<-ust j as on a pillow; ami there she died ami passed upward toward the wider life ami larger liberty, or jM-rehaftee downward into the depths of an eternal sleep. ^ l'oordark eyed, deep hearted Jess! This was the fruition of her love and this her ' bridal bciI. j) It was done. She had gone, taking wi:h i? her the secret of Iter self saeriliee ami crime, ('i i and the night winds moaning amid th" ro.-ks I \t sang their rei|uietn ov-r her. Here slie liist .si ikki icanit'ii ut*r itivi', anu uric mic cium'u iim honk. jl Sin- might. have been a great and g, n.*i <( woman. She might even have been a happy "s woman. I'.ut late hail ordained it otherwise. } Women such as she arc rarely happy in the i worM. It is not well to stake all one's tor- :l tune on a throw anil lack the craft toloailthn ? dice. Well, her troubles are done with. "Think gently of her'' and let her pass in I1 peeee. 1) The hours grew on toward the morning. :i hut John, the dead faee of the woman lie had t loved still pillowed on his breast, neither J dreamed nor woke. There was a strange ainl p dreadful irony in the situation,and one which () sometimes tinds a counterpart in our waking ! ,. life, hut still the man slept and thedead woman lay till the night turned into the . morning and the world woke up as u.-ual. 'l'he siinheaius slid into the cave and played iiidill'erciitly upon the ashen face ami tangled curls ami on the broad chest of the living ' man whereon they rested. An old baboon , J1 ! peeped found the rocky edge and manifested I'1 no surprise, only indignation, at tin-intrusion I , of humanity, dead or alive, into his i|.,111111- 1 <' | ions. Yes, the world woke up as usual,'and V ] reeked not and troubled not because Jess was 1 dead. ' V It. was s<> amMomcd to sudi sights. ! y And at last John woke up, too. He stretched his arms aiul yawned, ami then for ! y the first time became aware of the weight j upon his breast. He glanced down ami saw ,, i dimly at lirst?-then more clearly. 1. There are some things into which it is j wisest not to prv, ami one of them is the first agony of a strong man's grief. ' Happy was it for him that his brain did | not gi\e way in that lirst lonely hour of bottomless despair. Kut lie lived through it, as \vc do live through sii' h tilings, and was sane and sound after it, though it left its mark upoll III- hie. Two hours Inter a gaunt, haggard tigurc 1 eainc stunihliiig down the hiilsiile toward the < site of Mi">if<lutein, hearing something in lius || arms. The whole plaiv was in com 1 not ion. Hd'cuml tlu-re were knots of Koers talking excitedly, who, when they saw the man com ^ ing hurried up to see who ii was ami what he (| , 1..... 1. ... 1 ? 1 1? .-..11 1 1. j r.irilfl i?ili niHM 11 if \ nn* mii i'.?? i% , i ;i\\ * 1 and without a word, and h?\ t**??. ( j |ia>sfd llirnii^li tln.'iii without ;i woni. .i |, } im-im-iit li"- lii-<il;it?-'l. ri-aliziti;; tlint 1 li?* lioiisir ! was l>nrin-i| ilnwii. ami tln-n tunii'.| into tinw a^"H -li?-il ami laiil ins Iii11 <l<-n ilmvn upon t ho saw Im-ji'-Ii uii whh-h l-'rank Mull.-r htnl sal as ^ jml^i- iijmiii iii.- |iivvi<*ii? .lav. * Tln-ii at la*! li>- s|>"!a- in a linnr-i* voiro, 1 -Win-re is tin-1.1 I man:" < >m-ofth.-i.: intcl A l?> 11:.- - i.l tin- Intl.- room. < -' Iji.ii it;" In- sai-l, s'? li-T.-i-lv that tm-y c aynin I' ll l-a- k ami l?--y*t-? 1 hi n w itliout it | ' w..nl. ( 1 ".h.hii! .I"hn!" i-ricl Silas t'i"lt ''Thank | i 1J... I \.>u in.- ha.-l. ! > us from tint | I >1>-ail;" ami. ti-.-iiil.Ini^ with j..y ami MH|.n ( In- wniil.l havo falh-n ii|ion his m-i-k. -| luslt'"' In-aiiswi-rt-.l; "I have l.|o|ij;ht th-> j. ili-wl with tin-.-' ^ Ami In- Ii-.I him to wln-i-.- sin- lav . Illll iny tin- ilny tin- Iall wi-ut ami h-lt I till-in aliim*. Now- that Frank Mull.-r was * , il.-a-l tln-n- was no 1 hoiiyht anion;; lli.-ln of ! .-arryinj; out tin- sfiit.-n--.- upon tln-ir oM ' j n- iyhlior. I'.'si.li-s, thi-fi-was no warrant for 1 ' tin- .-xi-' iltioii. ev.-ii ha.I tln-y li--lfi-iI so to ilo, , for tln-ir i-omiiiamlant ha-l.li. il I.-aviny it nn , 1 sio|n-.|. So tln-vli.-lii a sort of intormal in !< i i|iii--.t upon tln-ir I.-a.|.-i's lio.lv. ami tln-n I liiii i.'.l Iiiiii in tIn- lit11<- fira\.-yar.I thai was ( . plant.il with tli>. four r>1 yum-, ..in- at .-a-li . i orncr, ami walled in 011 the hillside at the jack of where tho liouso had stood. Ilather han I jo at tlio pains of hollowing out another boy buried him in the very grave that in* lad eauscfd to bo dug to receive tin* body of Silas Croft. Who had murdered Frank Midler was and cmainsa mystery among them to this day. Clio knife was identified by the natives about ho farm as belonging to the Hottentot lantje. and a Hottentot was seen running rom the place of the deed ami hunted for :omo way, but. could not be caught or heard >f again. Therefore many of them are of the pinion that ho is tho guilty man. Others, tguin, believes that the erimo rests upon the boulders of the villainous one eyed Kallir, Jendrik, his own servant, who had also myscrously vanished. Hut as they havo never ouiid either of them, and are not likely to, ho point remains a moot one. Nor. indeed, lid they take any great pains to hunt for hem. Frank Midler was not a popularehar ictcr, ainl tin; fact "f a man coming to a myserious end does not produce any great sensaion among a rough people and in rough imos. . On the following day old Silas ('roft, Hesic and John Nicl alsoliurie<| their dead in the ittlo graveyard on the hillside, mid there she es, some ten feet of earth only Iict ween her md tho man on whom she was the instrunent of vengeance. Hut they never knew hat, or even guessed it. They never even t aiew that she had been near Mnoifontoiu oil hat awful night. Nobody knew it except hint jo, and Jantje, liannteil by the footfall of lie pursuing Itoers, was gone from the ken of lie white man far into the wilds of Central Vl'rica. "John,'' said the old man, when they had illed in the grave, "this is no country for Englishmen. I.ct ns go home to England.-' htlin bowed his head in assent, fortunately ho means were not wanting, although they rerc practically mined, for the .','l.o tit he ha<l mid to Silas for u third interest in the farm till lay. together with another in the Standard bank at Newcaslto, in Natal. And so in due course they wont. And now what more is there to tell.' Jess, o those who read what has been written as t is meant to lie read, was the soul of it all, .nil Jess is dead. It is useless to set a lifeless hing upon its foot, rather let lis strive to fcilow the soarings of the spirit. Jess is dead if 1 her story at an end. One word more. After some diflieulty John fiel, within three, months of his arrival in England, got. employment as a land agent, fo large estate in lint latidshire, which position 10 fills to this day. with credit to himself and ueh advantage t<> the property as can lie oxiccted nowadays. Also, he in due course beanie the beloved husband of sweet I!es>io 'roft. and on the whole may be ronsideivd a appv man. At times, however, a sorrow of chieh his wife knows nothing gets the better f him, and for a while he is not himself, lie is ii< ) a man much given to sentiment r specula!ion, but sometimes when his day's cork is done and lie strays down t" ^iis gar en pile .*IM<1 looks out at lie tlint ;im 1 pc;icent Ku^lish kunlsrapr lu-low. :i:i<I then at tie riile, still" -livwil licaWMs allow. lie Wonders I'tlie hour will over nunc M ien lie will once lore sec tlio?o il.n lc aii'l piissioiiiite i-ycs ami ear that sweet tcneinlieroil voice. Kor lie feels as near loliis lost love now I hat he is ileicl :is lie Ii 1 when she was yet ulive, nil from time to time he seems to clearly now that if there prove 1o he ail iiuliviilnal ntlire for ms strn^iin^ mortals le will finil ess waiting to ereet him at ils"atrs. tiii: t:\t>. MniimmiMTOi HI SIKH S. (HI TIIK Dili; STAIS. < Mi the _">th day of .July tint rciyu f the Hojr Star commenced. Sirius * a star of tin* first magnitude, ami >r forty days rises and sets with the uii. I'tiring these forty days there 5 more sickness ttud a greater ituliter of deaths occur than durinj; any titer forty consecutive days of the ear. These doe- days occur diirinjf the ot seasons, hut are peculiar over titer hot'days. The air is humid, >e;s prevail and dampness is everyI'herc? in the house, ami even peneratcs bureau drawers, boxes, and titer places which are presumed to e dry and safe receptacles for line utlery, which will rust, as it will ot similarly stored during any othr season of the year. 11 once, duritt?f ny days, ;i11 tine articles made of teel should he frei|iiently wiped ry and placed in cotton. Merchants, :io, who keep cutlery, will do well > heed this hint. The young ladies, who array tliemelves in line fabrics, while in church, fonder why their nice dresses stick > the pews; or, while in their own lean, neat parlors their apparel aderes to the hacks of their chairs. It < because the pews and chairs are tjvcred with a clammy dampness, fliich pervades everywhere, at this [;ason of the year. Hence, we all ought to he vigilant :i keeping our yards ami out-houses iTUpulously clean. The dwellings Iioulll, VigllL MOW, UIKU*rj4'i a umrugh cleaning, and warm as tin* days re, tires to dry out the dampness light to lit* made at night. While time of the forty nights may he opressively warm, most of them will e cool, awl others quite cold, when lire will he needed to dry and warm he rooms. Kspeeial attention should he paid [> the health of children. They light not to lie given anything and verything to eat. Only well-ripend fruit is lit for them, and that light to he freshly picked. The iuiiioderate drinking of any llnid is cry harmful, hut more especially re lemonade and other mixed drinks lirtful. The .simplest diet is the est. Fresh meats soon decay, duing this season, and nearly all of very kind ought to he partaken of cry sparingly. ('leanliness of the person is a precntivc of disease at all times except rlien contagious diseases prevail. Vml, to be healthy during dog days, re must he temperate in all things? u our eating, drinking, sleeping nd laboring. I)is.-ipation of all duds must, therefore, he avoided. Iany deaths occur during dog days rhich need not to if rightful p recallions he taken to prevent sicknos. i/'i i'1/y/toi'ii II n/'l'iitn/i. * -+ Wiiat WTki; tin: l.n>r An is? Ul we know of them is by iudicaions of their practice, which we tind n works which have survived decay, if their number only a few can he nentioned. Theancient Kgypliatis, I'lnenieians nd Unmans had a knowledge of ome things in chemistry which we lo not possess, such as to make inallehle glass. They also knew how to olor and gild glass by a process tin:nown to u-. I'.ron/e and copper cere tempered to the hardness of teel, and of thi~ the Egyptians made heir edged tools. I'aints were mixed chose colors were imperishable; at i -1 i lii'v* li;i vc evisteil fresh for i .iii hi cars. At I lamaseu-theymadeblades if steel which could lie Iiciit into a irclc and would lly hack into perfect inc. Neither this nor the jpild tracry in their steel can we inmiitate o-day. We do not know how Kinjc tainases and Thotmes transported nonoliths and elevated them on the yraniids, though we could do the ante to-day by other procc.s-.es. A risans and chemists have in vain ried to produce isidecent ylass which ircha-olo^ists have brought to li^ht. I'hisdoes not complete the catalogue, nit it is enough to show that the anion ts were by no means unskilled. tHJr ho not be afraid to part with mythintf for Christ. It is unbelief hat persuades you there is more ileasure, satisfaction and happiness n anything than in 11 im. drttisccUanfous trading. Till-: i:i,.\( K shawm. We were creeping well up to ('ape llatteras when the storm broke. The steamer had made all secure, ami there was not even a shade of anxiety on the laces of the oHicers as they passed to and fro. The storm came with a howl of fury. < hit of a clear afternoon sky the hurricane leaped like a hungry wild hoast, and in a quarter of an hour the ocean was frothing and foaming and rushin?r upon itself like a mighty anitnal driven mad by awful torture. : llalfand hour after the lirst leap of the storm women had jmle faces and set lips, and children were wailing. An hour later men trembled and looked hollow-eyed. fury let loose?the shrieks and screamsof lu.tMiu devils?the bellow- ' ing of legions of fierce bulls! It was a grand, big ship, but she wasa chip in that huge cauldron of froth, no ' more than a grain of sand in that roaring, screaming hurricane. Mie groaned ami lamented at every surge; a thousand prisoners seemed heating a( her hatches to escape as : she lifted wearily over thegreat seas. Around her iron spars, through her wire rigging. over her and around her screamed the gale, and every hreath of it which struck iron or wood sent out a hundred other shrieks. In the long wide cabin were gathered loll people. They were awed? ! silenced?humbled. Thochildren no longer Wailed aloud. The women gasped and choked as families gathered together. Men may fear, but they do not weep. They may feel the terror, but they are dumb. In the broad light of a June day? with the coast a thin line on the ; water?with a great world about us? : with heaven's sun shining as brightly as man over saw it shine?men, j women and children felt the shadow of death creeping out from behind j the sun?advancing with tlie furybubbling up from the depths of the treacherous sea. They felt it, and they prayed to (Jod to spare them. By and by then! was a sudden shock. The great vessel lurched heavily, righted herself slowly, and ?.wm dwii11 i no* in IMA i 1 I tr?i ?i 11 i 11 i vi ?? v * .7. (w%? w? ... | :iInrm. The shaft had broken. She | was helpless. You liavi; read of the troughs of the sea?the great hollows between the waves. They are the graves of . ships du?c bv the hands of the howl- ; ing gale?covered up by the hands ' of the calm. These graves are never : marked. The waters of the sea cannot be written on. There are neith- ; er tombstones nor eulogies. In a day the grave has vanished?gone | none but the waters can tell where. J And now the steamer's head fell olV and we were presently rolling I broadside to the hurricane. She was | in the trough of the.sea, and her grave j had been dug. While some of the crew worked to get a drag over the (piarter, others went to the boats. They had no heart. Terror was shriveling their courage as paper shrivels in the lire. Fury laughed derisively at the idea. Puny man lighting a hurricane blowing a hundred miles an hour! Mortal man striving to conquer an etiraged ocean ! j No boat could live in that turmoil. I No make-shift could bring thatgroaning, complaining steamer's head|buek to the wind. When they realized I this all hope died out of their hearts, j Men crowded together to die in com- I puny?some went away to be alone j when the last moment came. Tliere were life-preservers. A few i glanced at them and then at the sea. i Mockery! A hunter with but a sin- ; gle shot thinking to save his life against the denizens of an Indian j jungle! To be smothered in the angry foam?to be buried under tons of rushing water?to be Hung about as a toy?strangled, drowned, bruised?swept out to sea a bloated corpse, | so on to become food for sharks ! And now the end was nigh. The merciless waves wore pounding at I the steamer, breaking, bruising, j sweeping away, hid men curse and women shriek hid men pray and j women weep? hid children moan in their awful fright? No! Not a: voice was raised?not a murmur ! heard, heath was coming. The -hadow of the terrible hand rested j over tlic boat. Then; were no cow- | an Is, or all won* nowanls. At the I hot moment laces <rrew paler, lips j were more tightly drawn, eyes had i such a haunted, tortured expression that, you felt to pfty. Families j drew apart from each other, hands were clasped, and there was only a j moment to wait. As the steamer j reached the crest of a wave she staggered, -hook herself, and then fell over on her side. At the Ia.-t inslant, just as she turned, there was one awful chorus of shrieks and prayers and shouts for mercy. Kven the ! howls of the hurricane could not ' drown that sound, but it was caught j up and shattered and scattered, and i next moment half a dozen strong i men, I?a111in^r with the desperation ! of despair for two or three minutes i more of life, were the only remnants j of the awful wrath. That black shad- ; ow had enveloped all the rest. ? !h h'nit I 'i't r / '/'i > >'. Till-: SKt'KKT OF JoV. Suppose that a personshould invite ! you to his house, and on your arrival , you should lind the window-shutters closed, and the house looking as if prepared for a funeral. You would hardly regard yourself as a welcome guest, or that your coming gave your host any plea-tire. If, on the other | hand, you wore greeted witn open doors ami lighted apartments, a ho? pitable least and smiling fares, you i would feel your.-elf instantly at home, j Now, in every sincere. healthy ('hris- j lian, .le-us Christ lives. "Not 1," i .-aid the -tinny-hearted old Paul, j "hut Christ liveth in me." That was tin- secret of his happiness. < >utwardly, the homeless, persecuted apostle had a hard lot; hut a more j joyous roan did not tread the "lobe. t Never a whimper, never a whine of complaint, escapes his lip-. "Ilejoiee in the 1 .ord always, and j a?tain I say rejoice." Such was the ; jubilant message which he .-out from Nero's ipiunl-house, with a chain clanking from hi- wrist. Outfht every Christian to he happy? Yes; and may he -o always, provided that lie seeks in the ri^ht quarter lor his joys. Paul was too wise to command us to rejoice in money, Idr wealth is a shifting sand- j hank; or in health for it i- a variable possession : or in the society of' household and children, who may he j snatched away at any time. Our joy, to he solid. u,"<t re.-t on some- j thiny inmiovahl.-. There is but 1 one such permanent, unchangeable possession, and that is a lovinjjSa-t viotir dwelling perpetually in our souls?a Saviour served every day. A healthy and a holy joy is not an exalted rapture. .Mind nor body j could not stand the strain of a con- I tinual ocstaey. I have observed that those people who live on moods and frames, who are shouting to-day, artvery liable to he ?jroanititf or scolding to-morrow. \ strung bow soon loses its tension. I '.ven spiritual exhilara- | tioiis are apt to be followed by reac- ' I [ions of depression, .lust us shi?ii as we hun*; our happiness, even our religious satisfaction, on circumstances nr surroundings, we pm up, or uc ^o down, with tin- tiih*. Tin? thermometer of our joy is at (lie mercy ofoiitside atmospheres. I'.ut ifan indwelling, strengthening, comforting, gladI? 11inSaviour he always in the core if the heart, then we can expect to 'rejoice evermore." "Don't you expect inc to rejoice when either a reverse or a rogue sweeps away my property V" Yes, because poverty, though it may strip lis of a thousand comforts, does not strip away ("lirist. "Am I to rejoice when the cotlin is horue away from my door with some darling of my -? . ,i ii I I in-a i i i u 11 . I*"*, i ii'- in?- i.-<- i i' ?ik? Spirit considered even such severe throes of anguish when He commands ns to "rejoice always." And -imply because death does not carry Christ away. Nay. we may have a more full and .soui-lillin;r sweetness of his pre.-ence when we are threading the valleys of the "death-shade." "Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing"- that was the apostle's experience. 11 was when the ti<r tree had no blossoms, and the vines no fruit, and the stall no herds, that the olden prophet exclaimed, "1 will rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the < iod of my salvation."? Tiirnilnrc /.. Cui/Ur. - I'llK CAULKS nl- THE WtlltLli. I have a chart issued by the hydrographic olliee of the Cnited States navy, in which are shown thesubmarine cables of the world, with the sea coast stations and the principal connecting land lines. It i- an interesting map to any one, and I've no douhl of (jreat value in money. In fact, 1 should imagine it would make one of the most important charts that a mariner could have in his collection. Besides showing the locations of the lines a table of international rates is also jjiven. The conversation to which I had been a listener, you may be sure, started me on a fresh investigation of my chart. Let us take a glance at it together. Tin- I 'rnted States of course is well ribbed with wires, three lines ol which stretch from the Atlantic to the I'aeitle coast or at least practically so. Then there are two running from the extreme north to the < Jn 1 f, while another skirts the Pacific coast. Mexico has a number of lines, while the West Indiesappear to lack nothing in this respect. I loth coasts ol South America as far down as Patagonia have telegraphic communication with the rest of the world, while running into Brazil from Lisbon, Portugal, there is a pair of submarine cables. Did you know there were a^ many as ten cables connecting the new and old worlds? They don't run directly across, either. The couple that bring St. Pierre, on this side, and Brest, France, together sweep down as far south as the latitude of New York. < >f course you understand that in laying submarine cables the bed of the ocean is lirst carefully considered. Knrope is crossed and recrossed, while from St. Petersburg clear across to the Pacific coast extend a lonely line of wire. Siberia is as bare ol poles and wire as the average old gentleman's head is of hair. So is the greater portion of northern and western Russia, the whole of interior China and Africa, Britisli America ami Alaska, and of course Greenland and Iceland. Australia has several lines of wire running its length, out of which comes clear from the north, where the cable from Briti-h India emerges from its watery bed, down to Tasmania. Suppose, now; a California merchant wants to telegraph a correspondent in New Zealand. That isn't so far, geographically speaking, but from a telegraphic point of view it is far in distance. The California man would send his message something like this: Mr would start it across the continent, where it would take a journey under water, be Hashed through Knrope, again under water in the Mediteranean sea, through the Suez canal, across India, under the Bay of Bon?r.>1 flu* f.iv.i ot'i ? ninpu nf t hi. In IIIV '"l ? U ?V 1'IVV.V U'" dian ocean and finally to the operator at I'almerston, Australia. He would start it across that continental island to Sydney, where it would take another hath, this time in tin Pacific ocean and finally it would be delivered to the man to whom it was addressed. The message on which ITeller's murderer, Maxwell, was apprehended, took something like this route from St. Louis. You remember he had taken steamer from California to New Zealand. Lkt tiik Hoys 11ki.e.?Why is it that the hoys are allowed to sit around the house doing nothing, while their overworked mother i.struggling against nature and fate to do the work? Only the other day we saw three large, able-bodied boys lounging about the house, not knowing what to do with themselves, while their mother, tired and pale, was trying to do the work for a large family and company alone. Not a boy's work to help about the house? Why not V Is there anything about washing dishes that will injure him or that he cannot learn to do well, or about making beds, or sweeping, or setting the table, or wa.-hing, or ironing, or cooking a plain meal? < hi the contrary there is much to benefit him in such work, the most important of which is the idea that it isn't manly to let the "weaker ve.-.-el" carry all the burdens, when it is possible for strong, young hands to help, .Most boys would gladly help in the house if they were asked to do -o, and were taught how to do the work properly. Many a smart boy wantto help his tired mother, but doesn't know beyond bringing in the wood and water, and shoveling a path through the snow. This done she tells him to go and play while s|1( plods wearily on. Not a hoy's work? For shame! 11 is a positive harm to :t hoy's mora! character to think it ri^ht to ho idle while his mother issta^yerinir under her burdens. I ,et tjie hoys help, and those who can't ^ret help tor "love 01 money," a- they often write to us, will see their troubles disappear. I'h!hl,lrj,,/n,, \/t till n!is/. * A Sr.itMitN r.v a I>i: \i? lea .?The still form of a little hoy lay in the collin. surrounded by mourning friends. A mason came into the room and asked to look at the lovely face. "You wonder that I care sri much," he said, as the tears rolled down his cheeks, "onetime I was coming down by a Ioujlt ladder from a hitfh roof, and found your little hoy standing close beside me when I reached the ground, lie looked up into my face with childish wonder, and asked frankly: 'Weren't you afraid of fulling when you were so hijjhand before 1 had time to answer, he said: 'oh, I know why you are not afraid ; you -aid your prayers this morning before you bewail work!' I had not prayed, but I never forgot to pray from that day to this."? (71<i in/'i /. iriui/ (7/iii'i7/. t"ii" It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born. i.kaumm; wirimi r i mjkkstaniunu. All iir^nin?_r and putting forth of plans and harping upon generalities inii-t, it would socio, perforce be reduced to thi>: ()iii* rending, our study--for the two should be synonymous?should be divided into periods; during the first we are under tutelage and must read what is set before us and lay down the foundations for our great and real work. During this period, say some, and we cordially agree with them, we must imbibe much knowledge without at the time being able to distinctly understand all that we learn. Indeed, with our present system of education, this must assume great proportions, for we cannot expect every schoolmaster to form such a''grammar of boys" as that which is so ably and i wittily advocated by Thomas Fuller in his portrait of the good schoolmaster?numbers, and that precious commodity, time, is against it. Capacity cannot be accurately gauged. Yet the curriculum must be got through. In a good private education a more rational and reasoning method of teaching is practicable. sj i; 11 t : . . i ? - - iiii-n* i> aiways a certain lime lor which, and there are many subjects which a child must learn parrot-wise, whatever system of education he adopted. Bet ween this stage and the second there is a transient >tnte, prohahlv the most important of all, when the youn^ man is feeling his way at <1 endeavoring to walk i alone; here and now a careful <rnid. ing hand, neither too strict nor too ea>y, will he of immense value, for the taste is now being informed, and, perhaps, the whole future career depeinis upon thedirection in which the taste of the disciple is led and continued. A good man or woman is a .sufficient guide .luring the preliminary stage ; a very wise man is necessary during the second. For, from this transient stage we emerge into manhood, when we must choose for ourselves, and according to our capacity and the constitution of our mind. We may do too little or too much, read wisely or foolishly, for the steering of our course isa difficult matter, and the success of our voyage through the shoahand quicksands of literature depends greatly upon our primary and secondary instruction or training. What is absolutely certain is, that he who allows his mind to lie fallow?unemployed in rational reflections, is grievously at fault. We cannot all be very wise, great philosophers and sages, but we can and.should lay in a certain loading of learning and wisdom, and it concerns us vitally to ascertain our capacity, and forthwith fall to work and guth, er in our lading. The mind, if worked when in a "fluid state"?as Thomas ('arlyleput it, when addressing the students of Kdinburg Fnivorsity? becomes elastic, and we can do more . and more work,and soon find out that , each day brings its lessons and enlarges our capacity for receiving , them. I In tiik 11 a x i ?s or tiik .Jiky.? The demand for 11 more rigorous eni: fnrcement of the law against murder is imperative in South Carolina. It has come to he not only a question of protecting human life, but it is ; more titan that: it is a question whether our civilization shall be protected. It cannot he unless luil man life is held sacred by the law 1 and by those charged with its enforcement. There are cases of self-defense, as , all know, where it man kills another in defending his own life. But out i of the alarmingly large number of homicides that have occurred recently within the State, it would be most , remarkable if the right man was always killed. The enforcement of the law is in the hands of the jurors. Their power ; is unlimited. They are under no i responsibility except to their own , consciences. A newspaper can insist on the enforcement of the law, hut it is only in the abstract. .Jurors and jurors only can enforce the law in particular cases. Any attempt by a newspaper to influence public opinion lor or against a party under the charge of murder is wrong in prinei> pie and in policy. If against the accused, the cry of "persecution" is raised and that becomes the means > of exciting public opinion in his be half. If for the accused, it paves the way for a popular acquiescence in a verdict of acquittal, without regard , to the evidence. ? ; It is the duty of the press, as it is the duty of the pulpit and of public men, to take their stand on the side of law and order and to use their inlluenccagain.st luwlessnessand crime. But the whole matter rests at last in the hands of jurors, and unless they do their duty without fear or favor ; the law becomes a farce and human life becomes of no more consequence 1 than the life of a beast.?.Vt'irfimy ( jflSl l't'l /'. si ri i:i: i no.?Those of tis who have lost little children feel a prompting within us to speak a word of comfort to every parent who is passing through a similar experi? ........ \\\ I .1.. 1 * ii1.. >) r rumiui WU^tMMl IU UlllUra save at :i cost to ourselves, anil our own atllictions are the price we pay lor our ability to sympathize. He who would he a helper must first i?e a sufferer. He who would be a 1 saviour must somewhere or somehow have been upon a cross; and we cannot have the highest happiness of life in succoring others without tasting the cup which Je.-us drank, and submitting to the baptism wherewith I le wa? baptized, livery real ltarnabus (Son of Consolation) must pa~s to his vocation through seasons of personal sorrow, and so again we see that it is true that "by these things" men live. The most . comforting of 1 >avid's I'salms were pressed out of him by sutiering, and ' if I'aul had not had his thorn in the 1 tle-h we had missed much tenderness which quivers iri so many of Ids letters.? /'ir. It'. .1/. Tii//for. lh?r \'i:ks; s b km Tka.?Tea, taken hot, is certainly more whole; Mime than iced tea. This is well shown by the enormous population of China, which could never have increased to its present numbers if epidemics had ravaged that empire as they have those of the West. In spite of overcrowding to a degree elsewhere unknown, and indescrib ably lilthv surroundings, the Chinese have remained healthv. The only sanitary redeeming ft aire of their lives is the almost universal use of tea as a beverage. That is to say, of i water that has been boiled. This lesion in nraetieal sanitation is of more value than anything brought forward by our numerous boards of health, national, state or municipal. In the presence of an epidemic ol cnolera, typhoid fever or dysentery, the wisest precaution to take against infection would be to boil all fluids used for drinking purposes. B~ij'" When a person uses the tirst personal pronoun constantly, and tells bow lie advised, and knew, aid acted, and what great results came from the fact of his being in the world, the disgu-t of the listener is ' complete. A