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Keep the Hcacon Light in Trim. *‘Do year light*, sir, never go out ?” I said To the keeper of Calais light; “ Do you never forget to trim your lamps, My friend, for a single night ?” Never!—Impossible 1” cried the man; “For to me would be all the shame And his bright eyes flashed as he looked aloft At the steady lambent flame. “ If I should neglect my duty, ma’am, Weeks hence would go forth the cry— * A keeper at Calais forgot his trust, And a crew went down to die!’ “ It seems sometimes as if the eyes Of the world were fixed on me, As the myriad stars of the firmament Look down on the cruel sea. “So I’ll never forget to light my lamp, That it’s radiance far and wide May warn ‘poor Jack’ of the hidden rocks That lurk ’neath the restless tide.” I thought, as I went my homeward way, Oh ! would we were all as true And faithful in trimming the beacon lights Of home, as we journey through. Ah ! then we should never, never hear The voice of the drowning shout: “ We looked for the sign of the tower of home, We looked ! but the light was out 1” A LITTLE COWARD. That was what Miss Merivale had called her that morning when site trembled and turned pale because the black mare reared with her. She begged Sir Robert to take her off, and stood in ignominious safety while Agatha Merivale mounted Stella and rode off triumphantly down the avenue. She was a coward. She did not deny It, and was sometimes very much ashame^AV But no one had seemed tiuttiujPHintil Agatha Merivale came, rer bold, dark eyes and her dash- fg ways, her riding and hunting ; and everybody admired Agatha so much, even Sir Robert! She almost hated Agatha ! You see, until Agatha came they had been so happy at De Rossett. Little orphan Madelaine Leigh had never been so happy in her life as here at the hall, with sweet Lady de Rossett, who was her guardian, and her son. Sir Robert. They were so kind and good to her. They petted her and loved her so. And now Agatha had come, and for two weeks had monopolized Sir Robert, and kept the house in a turmoil of gayety, and laughed at Lina, and made her life wretched. Lina’s maid reported that everybody said Sir Robert was to marry Miss Merivale. Lina made a stern resolve that she would run away from the hall when that event took place. Run away ! She would run away now! Not far though—she was too much of a coward to venture far into the world alone; but she would go away across the fields to “Aunt Margaret’s,” as she called Lady de Rossett’s widowed sis ter-in-law, who lived in a quite com fortable house a mile awav from the hall. Mrs. Harrington was an invalid, par alyzed and confined to her bed. She was rather a grim old lady, and most ■were inclined to shun her; but sweet, bright little Lina had won her way into the old lady’s heart, and was al ways welcome at the lodge. Yes, she would run away to Aunt Margaret’s, and perhaps, when she was missed, Sir Robert might feel a mo ment’s uneasiness about her. Seizing her hat and a light shawl she flew off “A thousand pounds and all the old woman’s jewelry and plate!” said a man’s voice, in a husky under tone. “ Yes,” was the reply in a woman’s voice—the voice, Lina knew, of Hark ins, Mrs. Harrington’s model, soft- voiced, lady-like nurse—“and there won’t be any trouble about it, because I have let the women go away to stay all night and sent the gardener on a fool's errand to misses’ brother’s twen ty miles off.” “ But this girl that came to-night— what about her?” asked the man. “ Oli, she will go to her room pres ently, and stay there if she is wise. She’d be no hindrance anyway—a silly, timid little tiling. But it’s as well to let her get out of the way,” said Park ins, coolly. “ But see here, Molly, why not do it now? Then we’ll have more time to get away before daylight,” said the man. “I tell you it is not safe before 11 o’clock,” Parkins said, positively. “Peo ple may come in. Sir Robert don’t like her out of his sight for long, and that idiotic young Marsden may come moon ing in. Wait till half-past 11, and the west door here will be open. And, Jim, look here, when you get this swag you are to take me with you— your wife, mind.” The voices grew fainter. Evidently the speakers were moving away from the house. But Lina had heard enough. Sick with terror she leaned against the pantry wall a moment and tried to think. What did it all mean? Rob bery, murder ! And no help near. Her first instinct was to fly out of the house and across the field to the hall. But her absence would be instantly dis covered, she knew, and then poor Aunt Margaret would be alone with those wretches. No, she must not go —but to stand here idle would be no good. She flew along the halls and up stairs, Leo pacing by her side. At Aunt Margaret’s door she paused, and a sudden thought came to her. She would send Leo home for help. “Where is the spoon, child? How long you staid. Good heavens ! what is the matter?” cried the old lady, as she saw the girl’s white, terrified face. Lina began some evasive answer, but instantly remembered that Aunt Mar garet must be told the whole story or nothing could be done to save her. She did tell it, and Aunt Margaret listened in silent consternation, and then burst out impetuously with : “ Good heavens, child ! Why didn’t you run right home?” “ Because I knew Parkins would be up here in a few minutes and find I was gone, and then—” “ Ah, well. So you stayed to save the old woman if you could. What are you doing, child? Why don’t you lock h e door and pile things against it ? Good God, if I was just able to rise out of this bed!” But Lina did not speak for a moment. She had found a pencil and paper and was rapidly writing a few words. When she had finished— “ Now,” she said, “ when Parkins comes tell her I am to sleep on her couch here in your room, and she must go somewhere else. I will be back in a moment. Leo ?” Out of the room she darted, and down to the hall door, which she un barred and passed through. Then, kneeling in the shadow of a pillar on the portico, she tied the note tightly in her handkerchief round Leo’s neck. might wonder about and not get home until it was too late. Too late! Lina shuddered and sobbed again as she thought what that might mean. Oh, it was hard to think of dying so helplessly, so horribly, with help so near. The long minutes crept on and no sound came until 11 o’clock had passed. The little clock softly chimed the half hour. Then, in a few mo ments, came a sound of stealing foot steps in the passage and the knob of the door was softly turned. Breathless silence in the room. Then a gentle tap at the door. Lina clasped Aunt Margaret’s hand convulsively, and the old lady spoke. “ Who is that ?” she asked, steadily. “It is me, Parkins, ma’am. Will you ask Miss Leigli if she will kindly open the door? 1 have the toothache, and want some laudanum.” “ What a fiend it is !” whispered Aunt Margaret. Then aloud: “ Go downstairs and get something. Parkins. I cannot trouble Miss Leigh.” Lina hoped that Parkins would urge the point a little. Anything to prolong the parley and gain time. But a whisper in the passage fol lowed, and then a man’s voice : “Ladies, there’s no use making a row. Just open the door peacefully and you shan’t be hurt. We’ll break it down if you don’t.” “ What do you want ?” Lina asked, hoping to gain a little time. A new and gruff voice answered, insolently: “You know well enough what we want, miss. We wants the thousand pounds and the diamonds and we mean to have them. So don’t be a fool, but just open the door peacefully or you’ll be sorry.” Lina sprang to her feet and seized the pistol. A fiood of color rushed to her cheek and brow. She had been in sulted and threatened, and indignation overpowered terror. She went toward the door and called out, quickly and clearly: “You’re not coming in. I have sent for help, and Sir Robert and his men will be here directly. I am armed; and if you break the door down I will shoot you like a dog.” A moment’s silence followed, then a coarse laugh, and— “ All gammon. She hadn't no one to send. Break the door down,” in Parkins’ voice; and heavy blows began to fall upon the door. It trembled and cracked beneath the battery. A panel broke, a man’s hand was thrust in; the whole door seemed about to fall when—bang! bang! came two re ports from Lena’s pistol, and a couple of bullets crashed through the panels and the besiegers paused abruptly. “ Go away instantly,” called the girl’s clear voice, “or I will fire again.” “ One more rush, mate, and we are in,” yelled the gruff voice outside. What followed the wild tumult and confusion; the crash of breaking pan els and bolts, the fall of the door and the furniture Lina had piled against it, shot after shot from Lina’s pistol, a yell of pain and rage from both of them. The door was down. One of the men was in the room. Lina had fired her last shot, and, running to the bed, snatched Aunt Margaret’s pistol and turned to face the enemy. Sud denly came a wild shriek from Park ins. Then a voice calling “ Lina, Lina I I am coming,” and Sir Robert de Ros sett hurled himself bodily upon the ruffian outside the door, prostrated him, and sprang into the room over his body, and this is what he saw: Made line Leigh, the “little coward,” with A STRANGE OCCUPATION. A New York •‘Professor” Who Renews L«j Noses, Ears, Eyelashes. Etc. On Fourteenth street, not far fr< Broadway, New York, is a cert; show window, in front of which less than ten thousand people every day. The window is rath larger than usual, projects outward Un bay form, and is lined inside wiith plate-glass mirrors. Suspended in the center of the window by fine, almost invisible wires, are two cork legs which, operated by clock-work, maVe in an up-and-down motion as in walk ing. On shelves of thick glass, sup ported by depending wires, is the curious collection that attracts the thousands of passers-by. Noses, eyes, ears, joints and limbs, all arranged in a certain kind of order. Above th( shelves is this strange announcemenl in gilt letters: : Legs, Arms, Noses, Eyelashes, Etc., : ; Made and Renewed. 1 : Prof. R. W. Weigiiton, Proprietor. : Pushing through tlie crowd that was collected around, says a correspondent, I entered and asked for Professor Weighton. A gentleman behind the glass case removed an enormous jewelers’ mag nifying glass that was screwed in his right eye, scanned me carefully, and not detecting the absence of a nose, or ear, or arm, or leg, finally said : “ I am Professor ’Weighton—wliat can I do for you, sir ?” “ I wish to know, professor, by what process you renew legs, eyebrows and noses. It seems to me a rather odd and difficult profession.” “ It is difficult—you are perfectly right as to that—but I cannot agree with you that the business is at all odd. It is the simplest thing in the worli. Look, for instance, at this nose I am perfecting,” he continued, pointing to the curious-looking thing he had beel eyeing through the magnifying glass. “ This nose is almost in a state of con- pletion, yet I’ll venture to say yo’j couldn’t tell me what sort of a nose | will be, Grecian, Roman or retrousse .1 I admitted that I would not ha>\ known it was a nose if he had n« I kindly informed me. The professor smiled proudly. “I thought so,” he said. “By ti morrow morning this will- be one t the prettiest Grecian noses you saw. See what a handsome flesh I am giving it. It is for a lady t Fifty-second street.” “ How on earth did a lady lose h nose ?” “ It was a curious accident, whi» almost rendered her inconsolable. I’., father is a well-known scientist s.- inventor. While watching an intere: ing experiment in his laboratory a ft/ weeks ago she stooped over to exami the eccentric of a cog-wheel. Beir short-sighted she incautiously bent 1 low. The wheel was revolving rapi' —a siz and a whiz ! and the nose fr the bridge down was shaved clean t The family physician was sent for a wanted to make a nose from the an but, aside from the pain of that,, tion, the uncertainty of turning out*| well-shaped nose raised objections, I was ordered to prepare a wa.t sulfT- Uite.” “Do you mean by ‘natural substitution ’ a real nose of flesh asked. “ Certainly. The skin is remo*'C. from a certain portion of the arm, *6 proper preparations made, and the then bound tightly DOWN WITH HIGH PRICES AND POOR SHOES. THE SENSATION OF THE SEASON. WM. MULHERIN & GO., At 722 and 913 BROAD STREET, .A-u.gusta, Georgia. Are slaughtering Boots, Shoes and Hats! There are two large stores filled with bargains, and it will be strange if you cannot bo pleased among such a variety. We offer: Infants’ lace shoes Infants’ lace shoes, better grade.... Infants’ kid and pebble bat’d shoes Children’s pebble shoes, heels... Children’s A calf polkas, heels. 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