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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth - Series, No. 48, Vol. I, November 29, 1884 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: October 24, 2021 [eBook #66606] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Susan Skinner, Eric Hutton and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The - Internet Archive) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR -LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, FIFTH SERIES, NO. 48, VOL. I, NOVEMBER 29, -1884 *** - - - - - -[Illustration: - -CHAMBERS’S JOURNAL - -OF - -POPULAR - -LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART - -Fifth Series - -ESTABLISHED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, 1832 - -CONDUCTED BY R. CHAMBERS (SECUNDUS) - -NO. 48.—VOL. I. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1884. PRICE 1½_d._] - - - - -IN BROMPTON CEMETERY. - - -‘In Memory of THEODORE. Died November the 20th, 18—, aged three -years,’ I am not going to tell you about the tragedy this little life -represented, and how much suffering and how many tears lie buried with -my darling. I put all that away—all useless regrets, all vain repining, -when I laid him under two great pine-trees, looking straight to the -south, where the morning sun peeps earliest in faint yellow streaks, -and the broad arms of the firs are ever held lovingly over the little -head, and shelter away alike the drifting snow and summer heat—where -the thrushes and blackbirds sing their matins and vespers. They and -the pink chaffinches, and bold-eyed sparrows, come half-timidly, -half-hardily, with their little shy feet, close to mine, where I sit -alone by my lamb—Rachel weeping for her dead. - -As time, God’s true physician, softened my grief, and yet drew me to -spend many hours where all was buried that could have pieced together -a broken life and broken heart, I became gradually interested in the -great company of the dead lying round, and anxious to learn some word -of the lives and histories, even of those whose birth and death-date -make up all the world shall ever write of them. - -Right and left of my baby lie an old man and a young girl; he, a -wealthy, honoured merchant, who had lived ninety years of prosperous -and successful existence. His tomb is of gray marble; the letters -are cut well and deeply; all its cold grandeur is perfectly kept -up in unsurpassed cleanliness and order; but no one ever comes to -put a flower on his grave. The other grave, young Bessie’s, is also -neglected, though in a different way. The letters are fading fast -from the crooked headstone; and the ivy that has crept round it is -so tangled, that before long the little tomb will be quite covered. -Bessie was sixteen years old, and went to her rest in the glowing July -of 1851, when the fairy palace of Hyde Park, sparkling in its glory, -promised, but did not fulfil, the commencement of a long reign of -peace and good-will to all the nations of the earth. Where are now -those, I wonder, who left Bessie here! - -Hard by lies many a different life from the maid’s and the merchant’s. -Brompton is essentially a military cemetery, where sleep the veterans -of the Peninsula, the Crimea, and India, and the Cape. Truly, when the -last réveille sounds, no more gallant hearts shall answer to the call -than our dead English soldiers. - -Close to my baby are Sir John Garvock and Sir James Anderson, the last -under a pyramid of cannon-balls; and on this February day, warm and -breezy, with flying rain-clouds, driving off the fogs that for days -past have hovered like unclean birds over London, there comes a wail of -fifes and muffled drums. The trees are dripping with water, the grass -is sodden, but through its muddy surface, here and there, are peeping -green blades—fresh promises of spring. Shrill over the long damp -walks under the yews comes the _Adeste Fideles_. It is ‘a soldier’s -funeral,’ the gardener tells me—two Guardsmen from the Tower, who -were drowned last week, having fallen into the river in the fog. The -procession winds slowly into view—the muffled drums, the gay uniforms, -the coffins, each covered with a black and white pall, and heaped -with wreaths. On each coffin lie the dead man’s bayonet and shako. -The chaplain commits earth to earth; and the volleys flash over our -brothers departed, and with cheery strains the band is back again into -the world. - -Next in number to the soldiers lie the actors, with whom Brompton has -ever been a favourite burying-ground. Here is one of the greatest -actresses of our day, Adelaide Neilson, whose ‘glorious eyes’ -closed—for us—too soon; for her, just as a first gleam of happiness -and repose was dawning upon a stormy, clouded life. The ‘beautiful -gifted’ is ‘resting’ under a tall hewn cross of roughened marble. The -noble head of Mellon the composer, conspicuously placed, looks out -upon us from a grove where lie Nellie Moore, the ‘Lancashire lass;’ -T. P. Cooke, the sailor-actor; Keeley, Leigh Murray, and Planché, -whose coffin may be seen through the iron gates of the catacombs. -Albert Smith is here too. Near Mellon rests a lady whose story and -recollections must have been interesting—one Sarah Agnes, who died in -1846, ‘widow of General Count Demetrius de Wints, elected Prince of -Montenegro on the 1st of August 1795.’ I know nothing of this page of -the history of Montenegro; but for Sarah Agnes, it was, as Bismarck -said of the election of young Battenberg, ‘something to be remembered.’ - -Sydney Lady Morgan is here too, and makes us think of the Wild Irish -Girl, with her harp and green fan and _mode_ cloak, her quarrels with -her publishers, and her endless vanities, from the concealment of her -age, to the blue satin gown which made her ‘the best dressed woman in -the room;’ her ceaseless tormentings of the staid sensible husband, -who won her so hardly and loved her so patiently. One wonders if that -unquiet spirit sleeps soundly, and why her novels—novels that brought -the Dublin actor’s daughter from obscurity to be a leader of the -fashion she loved so dearly—should now be hardly remembered even by the -fact, that one beguiled the last hours of Pitt. - -Jackson the pugilist, whose tomb by Baily, with its couching lion, is -one of the most conspicuous objects here, represents a science that is -now moribund. Near him is the humble grave of one of the sextons of the -cemetery, who a year or two ago was crushed by the falling-in of the -warm yellow gravel of the grave he was digging. - - * * * * * - -The year has rolled away; it is Christmas eve; the snow is crisp and -sparkling in the low December sun, and groups are thronging in with -wreaths and crosses and bouquets, to tell their dear ones they are not -forgotten, and that to-morrow the vacant place by the fireside will be -haunted by - - The touch of a vanished hand, - And the sound of a voice that is still. - -Near the Brompton gate, where the porter, smiling, good-natured giant, -stands holding the gate open for loiterers like me—sleeps a dear old -friend, long passed away—an Indian doctor, the kindest heart for -young people, the most interested in their pleasures, I ever knew. A -Scotchman from Skye—even in his eightieth year with strength unfailed, -and the large limbs of the people of his race. ‘A strong lad, Samson; -sure he cam’ frae Skye,’ was the old woman’s commentary on the hero of -the Book of Judges. The merry days of girlhood on Richmond Hill and -Thames, clear Marlow water, childhood treats of strawberries at Kew, -rise up before misty eyes as I read your name, dear old William Bruce! -Many a happy Christmas eve have we spent at your kindly table, when -your dark beaming face and Scottish voice asked the ‘bit lassie,’ whose -tall toddy glass stood untasted at her side—‘Why, Miss Helena, Miss -Helena, are ye doing naught for the gude o’ the hoose?’ He used to say -the fifty years of perfect health he had spent in India were due to the -nightly toddy! I believe it was the kindly heart and cheerful mind. - -Lie lightly, snow; shine red, ye holly-berries; and I pass out bidding -good-night to my baby, sleeping till his young eyes shall open, not on -the Christmas, but on the Resurrection morn. As I go, I see that even -the long-forgotten old merchant has at last been remembered, and on his -grave is a scroll of immortelles and berries inscribed, ‘Kind words and -deeds, they never die.’ - - - - -BY MEAD AND STREAM. - - -CHAPTER LVIII.—CLEARING UP. - -Philip with amazement not unmingled with displeasure recognised Mr -Beecham in the person who in this mysterious fashion intruded himself -on their privacy. - -Madge was for a second startled by the sudden apparition; but that -feeling passed as the shadow of a swift-flying bird passes over the -breast of a clear pool, and her face became bright with hope. The -object which Philip had so longed for was accomplished—the distrust and -enmity of Austin Shield were extinguished. Remembering about the secret -recess of the Oak Parlour, and the legend of its having once served as -the hiding-place of a fugitive king, she did not pause to speculate how -it had been discovered, or how or why the man came to make use of it at -that moment, but waited eagerly for the upshot of this singular meeting. - -The invalid, resting back on his cushions, stared at the intruder -with mingled emotions of astonishment, curiosity, and suspicion; then -he glanced inquiringly from Madge to Philip, seeking from them the -explanation at which the latter could no more guess than he. - -The man himself advanced calmly. - -‘I must ask you to pardon the odd way in which I present myself to you, -Mr Hadleigh,’ he said gravely, as he bowed with respect; ‘it is partly -due to accident, partly to design.’ - -‘I am your debtor, Mr Beecham,’ answered Philip coldly, ‘on my own -account and my uncle’s; but I am not conscious of anything you have -done which can justify you in playing the part of a’—— - -‘You would say the part of a spy and a hidden listener to what was not -intended for my ears,’ was the calm rejoinder, a smile of good-humoured -approval on the kindly face. ‘I have been both, but I shall not lose -all your respect when you understand the position. Be patient.—I was -waiting in the room until the girl who admitted me could find an -opportunity of telling Miss Heathcote that I wished to see her before -seeking an interview with your father. She returned immediately to say -that she had been unable to deliver my message, and that they were -bringing the sick gentleman in here. She left me hurriedly. I did not -wish to meet Mr Hadleigh until his leave had been asked, and I could -not go into the hall without meeting him.’ - -‘Why should you avoid him?’ - -‘There are circumstances which might have made an unexpected meeting -unpleasant. I am now aware that that was my mistake. At anyrate I -remembered the secret of this panel, which was explained to me years -ago by old Jerry Mogridge. He was then the only one who knew it. I -was aware of the misconceptions my conduct might give rise to, but -entered the place hoping to find the outlet to the garden. Some time -was occupied in searching for it without success. I would have endured -my ignominious imprisonment, however, had not Mr Hadleigh’s voice -confirmed Dr Joy’s assurance that I might speak to him freely.’ - -He paused, as if desirous of some sign from the invalid that he might -proceed. The latter assented with a slight movement of the head. - -‘I do not regret my awkward position, Mr Hadleigh, since it has enabled -me to hear what you have said to these young people when you could have -no suspicion of my neighbourhood. Your treatment of them has done as -much as the proofs placed in my hands by Miss Heathcote to convince me -that, in the blind passion of youth and deceived by a scoundrel, I did -you gross injustice. You know me: is it too late to ask your pardon?’ - -There was silence. Philip, in much perplexity, was looking alternately -at the two men; Madge was watching with breathless interest, the dawn -of a joyful smile on her face. At length, Hadleigh: - -‘I trust it is never too late to ask pardon—or to grant it. There is my -hand, Mr Shield.’ - -They clasped hands with the calmness of men who strike a mutually -advantageous bargain: there was no pretence of any other feeling in the -touch. But Madge placed her hands on theirs, and her face was radiant -with joy. - -‘You are both my friends and Philip’s,’ she said; ‘he wanted you to -understand each other: he desired it and thought of it a great deal -more than of the fortune you tried to tempt him with, Mr Shield.’ - -‘I should like to understand this riddle,’ Philip broke in. ‘I have -known you as Beecham, and another as Austin Shield.’ - -Beecham drew from his pocket a pencil and note-book. He wrote: ‘I -am the Austin Shield you have known in correspondence—as this will -testify. The man you have met under my name is Jack Hartopp, who has -been my faithful ally and comrade for years past. For reasons—most -unhappy reasons, which shall be fully explained—I desired to test your -nature before you became the husband of Madge Heathcote.’ - -‘I recognise the writing,’ said Philip, ‘but am unable to comprehend -what authority you can pretend to have over Miss Heathcote.’ - -‘I will explain that,’ interrupted Madge; and she did so to his entire -satisfaction within a few hours. - -Meanwhile, Philip was anything but satisfied. He was frowning as he put -the next question: - -‘Then this report about the losses—the financial difficulties which -prevented Mr Shield from giving me the assistance I required?’ - -‘You have had the assistance you required; you have been rescued from -the clutches of a knave, who would have duped you out of everything; -you have had a lesson which will be worth thousands to you; and you -have still the opportunity of carrying out your plans to what I hope -will be a satisfactory issue.’ Shield said this in a tone of reproach; -but observing the changes on Philip’s face, he proceeded with his -usual kindliness of expression: ‘I could never have known what genuine -and generous stuff you were made of, Philip, unless I had seen you -in misfortune, and found that you are ready to give up everything to -support the man whose money you had lost.’ - -‘That was my duty.’ - -‘Yes, yes,’ was the smiling interruption; ‘but it was a duty from which -you might easily and without discredit have excused yourself. It was, -however, your brave acceptance of the duty which convinced me that she -would be safe in your keeping; and to secure her happiness as far as -it is in human power to do so, I was ready to sacrifice anything. I -am satisfied on that point, and you know that Miss Heathcote has been -satisfied for a long time.’ - -‘Then the story which this Hartopp told me about the losses—what of -that?’ - -‘You must not blame Jack Hartopp; he acted faithfully according to his -instructions; and it was only on account of his mania for drink that I -was obliged to keep him out of your way as much as possible. With that -pitiable drawback, he is as shrewd and brave as he is honest. To save -my life and property, he has stood up single-handed against a gang of -mutinous workmen on the diamond fields. He likes you, Philip, and you -will soon respect him as well as like him. As to our losses, they have -been heavy and sudden, owing to the failure of a gold-mining Company in -which I had invested and the fall in the price of Cape diamonds. But we -have still ample means to go on with comfortably.’ - -‘Is Mr Hartopp a son of our neighbours of the Chelmer Bridge farm?’ -inquired Madge. - -‘Yes; he was in California for a time, but hearing of the diamond -fields, thought he would try his luck in them. He was in a poor plight -when he reached my station; but he had a hearty welcome as soon as he -told where he came from.... And now, I should like to see Mrs Crawshay -and her husband. She would have recognised me at once, and that is why -I have kept out of her way.’ - -When, however, Madge brought him face to face with the dame, the latter -had to scrutinise his visage closely for several minutes before she -identified him. - -‘Faces change with time,’ he said, as if excusing beforehand her -slowness of recognition. - -‘And hearts too,’ she answered somewhat drily. - -‘Not always,’ was his earnest comment; and the grasp of their hands, -the smile on their faces, proved that their hearts had not changed at -anyrate. - -‘I am glad there is an end of this prank,’ she said by-and-by; ‘many a -weary thought it has cost me, for it is the only time I have ever held -anything back from Dick. But I knew thou wert meaning well, and it was -not in me to thwart thee in doing what seemed to thee right, for love -of Lucy. But it was a perilous adventure for all of us, and we have -reason to give thanks that it ends as we would have it.’ - - * * * * * - -Dick Crawshay could not easily grasp all the details of the -explanations which were given him; but he quickly comprehended that -Madge had been doing her best to make others happy at the risk of her -conduct being much misconstrued. So he took her in his arms. - -‘Buss me, lass, and forget that I was ever angered with you. But it -wasn’t easy to keep temper when all things about the place seemed to be -going contrary, and everybody was more dunderheaded than another—not to -mention my temper was always known to be of the gunpowder sort, so that -one spark was enough to blow up the whole place.’ - -‘But the explosion is never very destructive,’ she said with a smile -and a kiss. - -‘Dunno how you take it, Madge, but it always leaves me somehow -uncomfortable. Hows’ever, let that be, and come and see to the entries -for the Smithfield Club. I’ll be main vexed if we don’t get a prize; -they have got a clean bill of health, and I’ll go bail there are no -cows or steers in the country to beat them.’ - -He took Austin Shield as much into his favour as he had done when that -person had presented himself under the name of Beecham, and consulted -him about the cattle as if he had been the most famous of ‘vets.’ To -Jack Hartopp he gave a cordial welcome, and, unwisely, opened a case -of hollands, which had come from Amsterdam by way of Harwich, for his -delectation. - -‘Never you mind,’ he said in answer to the dame’s remonstrance; ‘there -is nothing too good for a man that has been as faithful to his mate -or master as Jack Hartopp has been to Shield. Clever rogues, both of -’em—and they say, and Philip says, I’m sure of a red rosette at the -Smithfield show.’ - - * * * * * - -There was a great gathering at Willowmere this Christmas. The huge -barn was cleared for the occasion, and all the lads and lasses of the -village who had ever done a day’s work on the farm were invited. Gay -ribbons and happy faces, lamps and candles, made the place brilliant. -There was a huge bush of mistletoe and holly hanging from the centre of -the roof, and Uncle Dick led his dame forward and gave her a sounding -kiss under it, amidst the cheers and laughter of the lads, who whirled -their lasses along to follow this gallant example. - -Then the fiddles struck up _Sir Roger de Coverley_, and yeoman Dick led -off the dance with his dame, both as young in heart as the youngest -present, and as joyful as if they had not those long reaches of the -past to look back upon. Madge and Philip followed, as if their young -lives were to fill the gap between youth and age. - -All the guests agreed there had never been in their recollection such a -merry Christmas gathering in the county. - - -CHAPTER LIX.—GLIMPSES. - -‘’Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.’ - -The sun still bright on the hilltop; figures rising to its crest, and -there halting, with hands shading their eyes, to take a glad or sad -look backward. - -See there; Dick Crawshay and his dame can look down and smile on the -road they have travelled, although there are sundry small black patches -that they would have wished away. But they can see Madge and Philip -in their joyous course, waving orange blossoms towards them, laughing -at the slips and hollows of the hillside, because they march hand in -hand, and when the one falters, the other possesses sustaining power -enough to keep both in the safe path. - -‘Lucky dog, that Philip!’ says old Dick Crawshay, fumbling with his -fob-chain. ‘He has got the finest woman in the world to wife—bar my -missus.’ - -‘They are very happy,’ observed the dame contentedly; ‘and Austin was -not so far wrong as I fancied he was, when he said that the real test -of a man’s nature was money. I never liked it; for losing money makes -men mad or bad, and gaining it seems to do the same thing—but neither -way seems to have hurt Philip much, good lad.’ - -And Philip and Madge were walking quietly up the hillside, halting here -and there to give a friendly hand to those who were stumbling by the -way. Hadleigh, sitting in his easy-chair, is glad at last, for he has -found the Something which he had sought so long without avail, in the -fair-haired grandchild sitting on his knee. The love that was so slow -of growth in the man’s heart has blossomed in this child. - -In the work which Philip had started, Austin Shield with his ally Jack -Hartopp was working with might and main; and the speculation promised -to be not only successful in a commercial way, but also in a moral -way. They had all the idea that in course of time it would come to be -the universal system of work—that men should be allowed to do as much -as they could, and that they should be remunerated in accordance with -the results, calculated by the market value of quality and quantity. -The men themselves were rapidly coming to understand that their real -advantage lay not in combinations which restricted the labour of one -who was quicker of wit and hand than the average labourer, but in doing -their best to keep up to him, and beat him if that were possible, -allowing the lazy and the stupid to fall back into their natural places. - -Miss Hadleigh as Mrs Crowell was permitted all the joys she desired; -for she had grand dinner-parties; her dear Alfred became an alderman, -with every prospect of being chosen Lord Mayor in due course of time, -and the possibility of a baronetcy attached to the office. - -But look down into one of the side-paths which leads into a jungle. -There is Coutts Hadleigh moving through a maze. Contrary to everybody’s -expectation, he has not married for money, but for a position in -society. He has led to the altar the Honourable Miss Adelaide -Beauchamp, the penniless daughter of a bankrupt peer. She uses his -wealth in the vain effort to re-establish the position of her family. -The master of the house is snubbed; and his presence is only required -to attend those entertainments where the presence of a husband is -supposed to give countenance and propriety to what is going forward. - -On that merry racecourse down there is Wrentham, a white hat encircled -by a blue veil on his head, a note-book in his hand. He is one of the -most popular book-makers on the turf; and away in a quiet cottage -are his wife and daughter, happy in the belief that he is engaged on -important business, whilst he is drinking champagne, giving and taking -the odds on the next race. Bob Tuppit sees him often; but they pass -each other without recognition. Bob is content to turn an honest penny -by his juggling craft, and to bring up his family respectably. - -By-and-by there comes a stranger man out of the wilderness of foreign -parts. He speaks to Sam Culver. The gardener knew him at once, and was -in great glee that his old pupil should have found fortune in another -land. So he took him to the cottage where Pansy was waiting on her -grandfather, who had been at last persuaded to give up his ‘business -rounds’ and settle down at Ringsford. - -Caleb and Pansy were only a few minutes together when they came forward -to the gardener, and the light on their faces seemed to suggest the -burden of the rustic song—‘We’ll wander in the Meadows where the -May-flowers grow.’[1] - -[1] The right of translation is reserved. - -THE END. - - - - -ONE WOMAN’S HISTORY. - - -CHAPTER IX. - -Among other visitors in search of the picturesque who had found their -way to Stock Ghyll Force this morning was Mr Santelle, the stranger -who had held the mysterious conversation with Jules the waiter. When -half-way across the bridge, he paused to look at the waterfall, which -from this point was visible in all its beauty. While standing thus, he -was attracted by the sound of voices, and next moment his quick eyes -had discovered Colonel Woodruffe and Madame De Vigne on a jutting point -of rock half-way up the ravine. The lady he recognised, having seen -her start that morning from the hotel with a party of friends; but -the colonel was a stranger to him. Humming an air softly to himself, -he paced slowly over the bridge and began to climb the path on the -opposite side of the stream. When he had got about one-third of the way -up, he reached a point where a more than usually dense growth of shrubs -and evergreens shut out the view both of the waterfall and the ravine. -Pausing here, Mr Santelle with deft but cautious fingers proceeded to -part the branches of the evergreens till, from where he stood, himself -unseen, he obtained a clear view of the group on the opposite side of -the ravine. That group now consisted of three persons. - - * * * * * - -The approaching footsteps, the sound of which had put an end to the -conversation between the colonel and Madame De Vigne, were those -of M. De Miravel. He had spied them before they saw him. ‘Ah ha! -Voilà le monsieur of the portrait!’ he said to himself. ‘What has my -adorable wife been saying to him? She turns away her face—he hangs his -head—neither of them speak. _Eh bien!_ I propose to myself to interrupt -this interesting _tête-à-tête_.’ He advanced, raised his hat, and -smiling his detestable smile, made one of his most elaborate bows. -‘Pardon. I hope I am not _de trop_,’ he said.—‘Will you not introduce -me to your friend, _chère_ Madame De Vigne?’ - -Superb in her icy quietude—the quietude of despair—and without a -falter in her voice, she said: ‘Colonel Woodruffe, my husband, Hector -Laroche, ex-convict, number 897.’ - -The fellow fell back a step in sheer amazement. ‘How!’ he gasped. ‘You -have told him’—— - -‘Everything.’ - -She sat down again on the seat from which she had just risen, and -grasping the fingers of one hand tightly with those of the other, -turned her face in the direction of the waterfall. - -Laroche’s _sang-froid_ had only deserted him for an instant. ‘_Quelle -bêtise!_’ he muttered with a shrug. Then becoming aware that the -colonel’s cold, haughty stare was fixed full upon him, he retorted with -a look that was a mixture of triumph and tigerish ferocity. Turning to -his wife, and all but touching her shoulder with his lean claw-like -finger, he said with a sneer that was half a snarl: ‘My property, -monsieur—my property!’ - -Suddenly there came a sound of voices, of laughter, of singing. A troop -of noisy excursionists had invaded the glen. - -Mr Santelle had apparently seen as much as he cared to see. He let the -parted branches fall gently together again, and went smilingly on his -way. - - -CHAPTER X. - -It was the forenoon of the second day after the picnic. There was -thunder in the air, but the storm had not yet broken. Any moment the -clouds might part and the first bolt fall. What might have been the -result of the collision between Laroche and Colonel Woodruffe on the -day of the picnic, but for the opportune invasion of the glen by a -number of excursionists, who put privacy to flight, it is of course -impossible to say. It may be also that the Frenchman read something in -the colonel’s eye which warned him not to proceed too far. No sooner, -therefore, had the remark last recorded passed his lips, than he turned -abruptly on his heel, and striking into the same winding pathway that -Mora had taken earlier in the day, became at once lost to view in the -depths of the shrubbery. - -‘Had you not better let me take you back to the hotel at once?’ said -the colonel to Mora after a little pause. ‘You can easily make an -excuse to your party for leaving them. There is an inn at the foot of -the valley at which we can hire a fly.’ - -Mora at once assented. Now that the worst was known, now that -everything had been told, her heart cried out for solitude: she wanted -to be alone with her despair. - -On their way they encountered Miss Gaisford, to whom Mora made some -kind of an excuse. An hour later they alighted at the _Palatine_. As -they stood for a moment at the door, the colonel said: ‘I shall remain -here at the hotel for the present, in case you should need me. No one -can tell what may happen. Night or day I am at your service.’ - -She gazed into his eyes for a moment, pressed his hand tenderly, and -was gone. - -From that hour, Madame De Vigne had ceased to appear in the general -sitting-room down-stairs. The bedrooms occupied by the sisters were -separated by a small boudoir. In this latter room Madame De Vigne now -passed her time, and here she and Clarice partook of their meals. Miss -Penelope and Nanette alone had access to their room. - -Of all the people in the hotel Colonel Woodruffe alone was aware that -the polite and good-looking French gentleman who called himself M. De -Miravel had any acquaintance with Madame De Vigne, or had as much as -spoken a word to that lady. De Miravel, to all appearance, did not know -a soul in the place. He was very smiling and affable to every one, but -seemed to have no acquaintances. His sole occupation—if occupation it -could be called—seemed to be to lounge about the grounds and smoke. -Once, it is true, he went for an hour’s row on the lake, but that was -all. When he and Colonel Woodruffe chanced to meet, they passed each -other like utter strangers. - -Another visitor who appeared not to care to make acquaintances was Mr -Santelle. He took his breakfast in the public coffee-room, and dined -at the _table-d’hôte_; his keen, watchful eyes saw everything and -everybody, but he rarely addressed himself to any one. He was not so -much _en évidence_ as M. De Miravel; but with a guide-book under his -arm and a field-glass slung over his shoulder, he took the steamer -from place to place, and seemed bent upon seeing all that there was to -be seen. Jules kept a furtive eye upon him at meal-times, but not the -slightest sign of recognition passed between the two men. - -When Clarice got back to the hotel on the evening of the picnic, she -found a telegram from Archie awaiting her. ‘Governor not yet to hand,’ -ran the message. ‘Probably fatigue of travelling has been too much for -him. May have broken journey somewhere. Can only await his arrival. -Hope he will turn up in the morning. Will telegraph again to-morrow.’ - -Clarice handed the telegram to Mr Etheridge. That gentleman read it -slowly and carefully, and handed it back with a smile. ‘I think it -very likely, as Mr Archie suggests, that Sir William has broken his -journey,’ he observed. ‘But I have long thought that Sir William -fancies himself more of an invalid than he really is, and that if he -chose to exert himself a little more, it might perhaps be all the -better for his health. But there is no accounting for the whims of -these rich people. I sometimes think that a little poverty would be a -good thing for some of them.’ - -There was more cynicism in this speech than in any that Clarice had -hitherto heard from the old gentleman’s lips. But it was not in her -province to make any reply to it. She had never even seen Sir William, -whereas Mr Etheridge had known him for years. - -When not with her sister—and Mora seemed to prefer to be as much alone -as possible—Clarice spent most of her time with the old man. She could -talk to him about Archie, whom he seemed to have known from childhood, -and could listen with unfailing interest to all that he had to tell -about the eccentric baronet; while Mr Etheridge seemed quite as fond -of her society as she was of his. No message, either by telegram or -letter, had yet arrived for him, but he never failed to ransack the -letter-rack three or four times a day. ‘We can only wait,’ he said -once or twice to Clarice, as he turned from the rack with that faint, -patient smile which she was beginning to know so well. ‘Sir William is -a man who can never bear to be hurried in anything.’ - -Next afternoon there came a second telegram addressed to Miss Loraine: -‘No news of the governor yet. Most extraordinary. Would have started -back to-day, but Blatchett strongly advises to remain till morning. -Should there be no news by ten A.M., you may expect me at the -_Palatine_ in time for dinner.’ - -‘Just like Sir William—just like him; I’m not a bit surprised,’ was Mr -Etheridge’s curt comment when he had read the telegram. - -‘He must indeed be a singular man,’ said Clarice. Then her eyes began -to sparkle, and a lovely colour flushed her cheeks. ‘Perhaps by this -time to-morrow Archie may be back again,’ she said, more as if speaking -to herself than addressing Mr Etheridge. - -In the course of these two days Colonel Woodruffe and Mr Etheridge met -more than once. They talked together, walking side by side on the lawn -of the hotel. The chief part of the talking, however, seemed to be done -by the colonel, his companion’s share of it being mostly confined to -‘Yes’ or ‘No,’ a confirmatory nod of the head, or now and then a brief -question. - - * * * * * - -When Lady Renshaw got back from the picnic on Wednesday evening, and -was in a position to have a quiet chat with her niece, she declared -that she had not spent so pleasant a day for a long time. Dr M‘Murdo -was really a most agreeable, well-informed man—a man whose talents -ought to make him a position in the world; and as for the poor, -dear vicar, he was nothing less than charming. ‘So simple-minded -and unworldly, my dear. He quite puts me in mind of the Vicar of -Wakefield.’ Then she added by way of after-thought: ‘But I cannot say -that I care greatly for that sister of his. There is something about -her excessively flippant and satirical—and I do dislike satirical -people, above all others.’ - -But Lady Renshaw’s real enjoyment—of which she said nothing to her -niece—arose from her thorough belief that both the doctor and the -vicar had been irresistibly smitten by her charms. If they were not -in love, or close on the verge of it, why had they followed her about -all day like two spaniels, each of them jealously afraid to leave her -alone with the other? It was delightful! As she sipped a cup of tea -after her return, she began to ask herself whether she might not do -worse than accept this clever, well-preserved Scotch doctor. She had -no doubt in her own mind that he would propose in the course of a few -days. With the help of her money, he might buy a first-class West-end -practice; and after that, there was no knowing what he might not rise -to in the course of a few years. Seven to ten thousand a year, so she -had been given to understand, was by no means an uncommon income for a -fashionable doctor to make nowadays. She would think the matter over in -the quietude of her own room, so that she might be prepared with her -answer, when the inevitable moment should arrive. - -The fact was that Dr Mac had fooled her to the top of her bent, as Miss -Gaisford had prophesied he would do. Her vanity, as he soon found, was -insatiable; no compliment was too egregious for her to swallow. ‘I’ve -done my duty like a man,’ he remarked with grim humour to Miss Pen at -the close of the day; ‘but I hope you will never set me such a task -again: the creature’s self-conceit is stupendous—stupendous!’ - -The picnic took place on Wednesday. Thursday was ushered in with wind -and rain. The hills had wrapped thick mantles of mist about them, and -had retired into private life. Visitors shook their heads as they -peered out of the rain-streaked windows, and made up their minds to -settle down for the day to novels, gossip, and letter-writing. Despite -the wind and rain, Dr Mac set out for Kendal at an early hour with the -avowed intention of hunting up some old friends. The vicar, too timid -to tackle the widow by himself, kept to his own room, on the plea of -having a sermon to compose. Miss Wynter might have been justified that -day in her belief that her aunt’s temper was not invariably the most -angelic in the world. - -Bella had enjoyed her picnic more, far more than her aunt was aware of. -And yet the girl was troubled in her secret heart. Dick had never made -love to her so audaciously before; in fact, the opportunity had never -been afforded him; while she herself had never quite known till that -day how dear he had become to her. Her training, almost from childhood, -and her mode of life since her aunt had taken charge of her, had all -tended to stifle the feelings natural to her age and sex, and to induce -her to regard the sacrament of marriage as a mere question of pounds, -shillings, and pence. Yet here, almost to her dismay, and very much to -her mortification, because she felt that she could not help it, she -found herself hopelessly in love with a man the amount of whose income -seemed in her eyes little more than an equivalent for semi-genteel -pauperism. What was to be done? Should she treat Dick after the fashion -in which she had treated more than one man already? Now that she had -brought him to her feet, should she turn her back on him with a little -smile of triumph, and bid him farewell for ever? But then, she had -never cared for those other men; while for Dick she did care very -much. Whatever she might decide to do must be decided quickly. Dick, -easy-going and full of fun as he might seem to be, was not a man to -stand any shilly-shallying nonsense. As he stood for a moment or two -on the dusky lawn with her hand in his after their return from the -picnic, he had given her plainly to understand that he should expect a -categorical ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ from her on Friday. And now Friday was here, -and her mind was no nearer being made up than it had been on Wednesday. -Not much appetite for her breakfast had Miss Wynter that morning. - -As a matter of course, Mr Etheridge was introduced to Lady Renshaw. Her -ladyship was very gracious indeed, when she found in what relation the -pleasant-voiced, white-haired gentleman stood to Sir William Ridsdale, -and that he was the bearer of a letter all the way from Spa for Mr -Archie. With her usual penetration, her ladyship at once concluded -in her own mind that the story about a letter for Archie was a mere -blind, and that the real object of Mr Etheridge’s journey was to spy -out the weakness of the land. In other words, Sir William had deputed -him to ascertain all that could be ascertained respecting Madame De -Vigne and her sister, their mode of life, antecedents, &c.; which, -under the circumstances, was no doubt a laudable thing to do. In fact, -all her ladyship’s sympathies were on the side of Mr Etheridge, and she -would most gladly have assisted him in his task, had she only seen her -way clearly how to do so. She smiled to herself more than once, as she -remarked how innocently all these good people around her accepted Mr -Etheridge’s version of the reason of his visit to Windermere, not one -of them seeming to dream that there could possibly be anything in the -background. But then, it is not given to all of us to be so far-seeing -as the Lady Renshaws of this world. - -As she rose from the breakfast-table this Friday morning she chanced to -spy Mr Etheridge pacing the lawn in front of the windows with his hands -clasped behind him. He was waiting for Clarice. The two were going on a -little excursion together; but not to any distance, as Clarice thought -that at any moment there might come a telegram from Archie. Lady -Renshaw, seeing Mr Etheridge alone, could not resist the temptation -of a little private conversation with him. She might perhaps be able -to glean some information as to how matters were progressing; besides -which, she had another motive in view. - -‘I trust that you left dear Sir William quite well, Mr Etheridge?’ -remarked her ladyship after the usual greetings had passed. - -‘Tolerable, ma’am, tolerable. At the best of times his health is never -very robust; but there has been a considerable improvement in it of -late—or he fancies there has, which comes, perhaps, to pretty much the -same thing.—Probably Sir William has the honour of your ladyship’s -acquaintance?’ - -‘N-no; I have never yet had the pleasure of meeting him. You see, he -has lived so much abroad, otherwise I have no doubt we should have met -at the house of some mutual acquaintance in town.’ - -Mr Etheridge coughed a dry little cough, but said nothing. - -‘Dear Archie, now, and I are old acquaintances. What a fine young -fellow he is! So clever, you know, and all that. I’m sure Sir William -must be proud of such a son.’ - -‘Possibly so, madam—possibly so.’ - -Her ladyship was anxious to touch on delicate ground, but scarcely saw -her way to begin. However, it was necessary to make a plunge, and she -did not long hesitate. - -‘Between you and me, Mr Etheridge,’ she said insinuatingly, ‘don’t -you think it a great pity that a young man with Mr Archie’s splendid -prospects should seem so determined to throw himself away—no, perhaps -I ought not to make use of that phrase—but—to—to—in short, to take up -with a young lady like Miss Loraine, who, so far as any one knows, -seems to have neither fortune, prospects, nor antecedents? To me, it -seems a great, great pity.’ She glanced sharply at her companion as she -finished, anxious to note the effect of her words. - -Mr Etheridge came to a halt, apparently engaged in deep thought -for a few moments before he replied. Then he said, speaking very -deliberately: ‘It does perhaps seem a pity, as you say, madam, that Mr -Archie should be so infatuated with this young lady, when he might do -so very differently, were he so minded.’ - -‘I was quite sure that you would agree with me,’ returned her ladyship -in her most dulcet tones. ‘But no doubt Mr Archie will listen to -reason. When Sir William places the matter before him in its proper -light, and proves to him how irretrievably he will ruin himself by -contracting such an alliance, he will surely see that, in his case at -least, inclination must give way to duty, and that his career in life -must not be frustrated by the mere empty charms of a butterfly face.’ - -What her ladyship meant by a ‘butterfly face’ she did not condescend to -explain. - -‘As to whether Mr Archie will listen to what your ladyship calls reason -is a point upon which, as matters stand at present, I am scarcely -competent to offer an opinion.’ - -‘Sly old fox!’ muttered her ladyship. ‘He wasn’t born yesterday. But he -doesn’t take _me_ in with his innocent looks.’ - -She had another arrow left. ‘Then, as regards the sister of Miss -Loraine—this Madame De Vigne? A very charming person, no doubt; but -that is not everything. I daresay, Mr Etheridge, your experience will -tell you that the most charming of our sex are sometimes the most -dangerous?’ - -Mr Etheridge bowed, but did not commit himself further. - -‘On all sides I hear people asking, “Who is Madame De Vigne? Where -did she spring from? Who was Monsieur De Vigne? What was he, when -alive?” Question after question asked, but no information vouchsafed. -Ah, my dear Mr Etheridge, where there’s concealment, there’s mystery; -and where there’s mystery, there’s—there’s—— Well, I won’t say what -there is.’ Possibly her ladyship had not quite made up her mind what -there was. ‘In any case, Mr Etheridge,’ she resumed, ‘were I in your -position, I should deem it imperative on me to make Sir William -acquainted with everything, down to the most minute particulars. You -are on the spot; you can see and hear for yourself. Of course, it would -be a dreadful thing if, after Mr Archie were married to the young lady, -something discreditable were to turn up—some family secret, perhaps, -that would not bear the light of day; some scandal, it may be, that -could only be spoken of in whispers. For Sir William’s sake, if not for -that of our dear, foolish Archie, everything should be made as clear as -daylight before it is too late. I hope you agree with me, Mr Etheridge?’ - -‘Quite, madam—quite.—What a splendid man of business your ladyship -would have made, if you will excuse me for saying so. Sir William shall -be made acquainted with everything. I will see to that; yes, yes; I -will see to that.’ - -‘He _is_ a spy, then, after all,’ said Lady Renshaw complacently to -herself. - -At this moment, Clarice emerged from the hotel. Lady Renshaw greeted -her with a smile of much amiability. ‘I trust that dear Madame De Vigne -is better this morning?’ she said. ‘I have been so grieved by her -indisposition. But, really, on Wednesday I myself found the heat most -trying. I cannot wonder at her prostration.’ - -‘My sister is a little better this morning, thank you, Lady Renshaw,’ -answered Clarice in her gently serious way. ‘I trust that by to-morrow -she will be well enough to join us down-stairs.’ - -‘I hope so, with all my heart,’ answered her ladyship with as much -fervour as if she were repeating a response at church. - -After a few more words, Clarice and Mr Etheridge went their way. As her -ladyship turned to go indoors, Miss Wynter, escorted by Mr Golightly in -his boating flannels, emerged from the hotel. They had breakfasted an -hour before her ladyship, who was a somewhat late riser. Dick had said -to Bella at table: ‘I want you to go on the water this morning. It’s -going to be a bit cloudy later on, I think, and it’s just possible that -the perch may be in the humour for biting.’ - -‘As if he cared a fig about the perch!’ said Bella to herself. ‘The -wretch only wants to get me into a boat all to himself, and then he -thinks he can say what he likes to me.’ She trembled a little, feeling -that the crisis of her fate was at hand. She would have liked to mutiny -and say, ‘I shan’t go,’ as under similar circumstances she would have -said to any other man. But with Dick, poor Dick! who had run such risks -for her sake, and had done so much to win her, she felt that she could -not be so cruel. Besides, she had a woman’s natural curiosity to hear -what he would say. ‘And I needn’t say “Yes” unless I choose to,’ she -remarked to herself; but in her heart of hearts she knew that her ‘No,’ -if uttered at all, would be a very faint one indeed. As it was, she -merely looked at him a little superciliously for a moment or two, and -then quietly assented. - -‘I trust, dear Mr Golightly, that you are thoroughly competent to -manage a boat?’ remarked her ladyship, when she had been told where the -young people were going. - -‘Rather,’ answered Richard a little brusquely. ‘I didn’t pull stroke in -the Camford Eight, seven years ago, for nothing.’ - -‘I only spoke because I’m told that the lake is most treacherous, -and that a year rarely passes without one or more fatalities.—Bella, -darling, I think you ought to have taken a warmer shawl with you. The -air on the water is often chilly.’ Then in an aside: ‘Be careful what -you are about. If he proposes, only accept him provisionally. This -affair of Archie Ridsdale’s is by no means at an end yet.’ - -Bella nodded. ‘Too late, aunty, too late,’ she said to herself. ‘I’m -very much afraid that I can’t help myself.’ - -Lady Renshaw, as she turned away, remarked to herself: ‘I’m not sure -that young Golightly is quite such a nincompoop as I took him to be at -first. But in any case, Bella ought to be able to twist him round her -finger.’ - -Clarice had not left her sister many minutes when Nanette entered her -mistress’s room carrying a note on a salver. It was simply addressed, -‘Madame De Vigne.’ One glance at the writing was enough. Mora -remembered it too well. She turned sick at heart as she took the note. -‘You need not wait,’ she said to Nanette. As soon as she was alone, she -sank down on the ottoman and tore open the envelope. The note, which -was written in French, ran as follows: - - ‘I have not troubled you since our last interview. I have left - you alone, that you might have time to think over what I said - to you. But I have had no message from you, and this long delay - begins to irritate me. I must know at once what you intend to - do. I propose to call upon you at seven o’clock this evening. I - need not say more.—LAROCHE.’ - -Madame De Vigne sat staring at the letter for some minutes, as though -the reading of its contents had taken from her all power of sense or -feeling. Then waking up as if from a trance, she said to herself: ‘It -must be done; there is no other course.’ She touched the tiny gong at -her elbow. Nanette appeared. ‘Inquire whether Colonel Woodruffe is in -the hotel,’ she said. ‘If he is, tell him that I should like to see him -here at his convenience.’ - -(_To be concluded next month._) - - - - -THE MONTH: - -SCIENCE AND ARTS. - - -It has long been understood that the vaults of the British Museum -contained many treasures for which no space could be found in those -parts of the building accessible to the public. But the removal of -the Natural History Collection to its new home at South Kensington -has placed a series of spacious galleries at the disposal of the -authorities, and these are now being filled with the hitherto hidden -antiquities. Among the most interesting of these is a collection of -tablets bearing inscriptions relating to Babylonian history. One is a -Babylonian Calendar, from which it would appear that in Babylon the -superstition existed of certain days in the year being either lucky -or unlucky. This book of fate had to be consulted before performing -various acts of domestic life. The same superstition is common to the -Chinese, and seems akin to the astrological fictions prevalent in -Europe a few centuries back. - -Mr Petrie, whose excavations at San (Zoan) have been adverted to more -than once in these pages, has now returned to England, and has recently -given an account of his work at a meeting of the subscribers to the -Egypt Exploration Fund. He has examined more than twenty sites of -ancient cities and remains, and speaks of certain ground so thickly -strewn with early Greek pottery ‘that the potsherds crackled under -the feet as one walked over it.’ He pointed out that the main object -with regard to San—a city built seven years before Hebron—was to gain -knowledge of the unknown period of the Shepherd kings. But the work -will occupy several years, for the district to be explored covers some -square miles, and the remains are in many cases lying beneath eighty -feet of earth. The Exploration Fund shows a balance of two thousand -pounds, a circumstance partly due to the liberality of our American -cousins, who are greatly interested in the work. - -It is proposed to found at Athens a British School of Archæology, -the aim of which will be to promote the study of Greek art and -architecture, the study of inscriptions, the exploration of ancient -sites, and to promote generally researches into Hellenic life and -literature. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is President of -the General Committee, which includes a large number of distinguished -representatives of our universities and schools. Sufficient money has -already been subscribed to start the enterprise, but more will be -required for its maintenance. Subscriptions may be sent to Mr Walter -Leaf, Old Change, London, or to Professor Jebb, at the University, -Glasgow. - -The French Minister of Agriculture some time ago commissioned a -Professor of the Collège de France to experiment upon the best method -of destroying the winter eggs of the _Phylloxera_, it having been -ascertained that that line of attack was the most efficient in dealing -with that terrible scourge of the vineyard. After several trials, a -mixture of oil, naphtha, quicklime, and water has been tested on a -large scale with the most successful results. It was of course easy -enough to hit upon a chemical compound which would kill the eggs, but -not so easy to find one which would not destroy the vine at the same -time. The remedy is not only efficient, but cheap. - -For some years, Dr Jaeger, of Germany, has been preaching a new -hygienic doctrine, which has quickly gained disciples in the -Fatherland and in other countries as well. Under the title of Sanitary -Clothing, this new creed teaches that our dress requires a far more -radical change than is indicated in the philosophy of so-called -dress-reformers. Here is the pith of the matter. Man being an animal, -should follow the dictates of nature by wearing only clothing made from -wool and similar animal products. Cotton, linen, &c., are harmful in -collecting the emanations from the skin, whilst animal textures assist -in their evaporation. At the same time, animal clothing is warmest in -winter, and coolest in summer, and by its adoption we might count upon -the same immunity from disease as is seen in well-cared-for domestic -animals. By night as well as by day we must shun contact with vegetable -fibres. Sheets must give place to wool and camel-hair coverings. It is -obvious that, besides revolutionising the Englishman’s innate regard -for ‘clean linen,’ the general adoption of these new tenets would cause -a revolution in trade, and would therefore at once court opposition; -but for all this, the doctrine seems to have a considerable amount of -common-sense about it. - -A very pleasant and interesting ceremony was witnessed on Scarborough -sands the other day, where a large collection of donkeys and ponies -were assembled in review order. A few gentlemen have for the past two -years subscribed for prizes to be offered at the end of each season to -those drivers who can show their beasts in good condition and bearing -the signs of kind treatment. This was the second distribution of the -kind. There are many seaside places and other spots of popular resort -where this good example might be followed with much advantage. - -Lord Brabazon utters a useful note of warning when he points out, what -has long been patent to many observers, that there is a deterioration -in physique of the inhabitants of the more crowded portions of our -cities. Want of food, exercise, and fresh air are the causes of this -decline. He points out that in this year’s drill competition of School -Board scholars it was clearly noticeable that those children from -the poorest and most crowded districts were of shorter stature than -the others. As a partial remedy for this lamentable state of things, -Lord Brabazon advocates more variety in the system of education, and -begs the authorities to remember that the body should be cared for as -well as the brain. He pleads also that cookery, needlework, and the -knowledge of a few simple rules for maintaining the body in health, -will be of more value to a girl than a smattering of French, and that a -boy will make a better citizen for having been trained to use his hands -as well as his head in honest labour. - -It is stated that a Wild Birds’ Protection Act is much needed in -several parts of our Indian possessions. The birds have been hunted -down for the sake of their bright plumage, until in some districts -certain species are almost exterminated. The frightened agriculturists -are now calling out for protection for their feathered friends, for -insects of various kinds are increasing to an alarming extent, and are -playing sad havoc with the crops. - -According to the _Building News_, another curious use has been found -for paper. At Indianapolis, a skating rink has been constructed of this -ubiquitous material. Straw-boards are first of all pasted together, -and are subjected to hydraulic pressure, and these when sawn into -flooring-boards are laid so that their edges are uppermost. After being -rubbed with glass paper, a surface is obtained so smooth and hard, and -at the same time exhibiting such adhesive properties, that it is well -adapted for the modern roller-skates. It is also stated that in Sweden -old decaying moss has been manufactured into a kind of cardboard which -can be moulded in various ways for the purposes of house decoration. It -is said to be as hard as wood, and will take an excellent polish. - -When we read the account of some fatal gas explosion, we are always -prepared to find the oft repeated tale of the foolish one who goes to -look for the leak with a lighted candle. A recent explosion of this -kind in Paris has led to the appointment of a Commission to determine -the best manner of searching for gas-escapes. It has been now decided -that an electric incandescent light fed by an accumulator—or secondary -battery—shall be rendered obligatory for such operations, and suitable -apparatus has been selected and approved. It now remains to be seen -where the lamps are to be kept, how they are to be always charged ready -for use, and whether the foolhardy folk who court explosion with a -naked candle or match will ever trouble themselves at all about the -provision made for their protection. - -Japan has the unenviable distinction of being the one spot on this -globe where earthquakes are most frequent, and therefore it may be -assumed that the Seismological Society of Japan has plenty of work to -do. In the last issue of the ‘Transactions’ of this useful body of -workers, there is a good paper by Professor Milne on Earth Tremors. -The study of these slight movements of our great mother is called -microseismology, and a number of exceedingly ingenious instruments have -been contrived for identifying and self-recording them. From the fact -that earthquakes are generally preceded by great activity in the way of -tremors, it is hoped that reliable means may be found of forecasting -those terrible occurrences. Professor Milne supposes earth tremors to -be ‘slight vibratory motions produced in the soil by the bending and -crackling of rocks, caused by their rise upon the relief of atmospheric -pressure.’ Another investigator thinks that they may be the result of -an increased escape of vapour from molten material beneath the crust -of the earth consequent upon a relief of external pressure. In other -words, these premonitory symptoms are developed when the barometer is -low. - -Messrs Manlove and Company, engineers at Manchester, Leeds, &c., in -calling our attention to a paragraph which appeared some months back in -this _Journal_ descriptive of a street-refuse furnace or ‘destructor,’ -point out that that title was given to an apparatus of their invention -some years ago, which is now in successful operation in various -parts of the kingdom. Owing to the word ‘destructor’ not having been -protected by copyright, it has been applied by other inventors to more -recent contrivances. - -A New Jersey capitalist has lately planted a vast area in Florida with -cocoa-palms, and he expects in a few years to rival the most extensive -groves of these trees in other parts. The plantation covers one -thousand acres, and each acre numbers one hundred trees. They will not -yield any return for the first six years; but at the end of that time a -profit of ten per cent. on a valuation of two million dollars is looked -for, the original cost of planting being only forty thousand dollars. -The trees, we learn, will flourish only within a certain distance -of the sea-coast, and each full-grown tree produces annually sixty -nuts. We presume that the estimated profits take into consideration -the processes of oil-extraction and fibre-dressing, which necessarily -follow in the wake of cocoa-nut cultivation. - -The International Health Exhibition has been even more financially -successful than its predecessor ‘The Fisheries,’ for the total number -of persons who passed its turnstiles is more than four millions, a -number equal to the population of London itself. The Exhibition of -Inventions which is to open next year has met with some unexpected -but not unnatural opposition from some of our great manufacturers. -These complain that competition with foreign countries is so keen just -now that it will be a national mistake to exhibit for the benefit -of others, machinery and processes which have deservedly earned for -Britain a proud pre-eminence in various manufactured products. They -point out that a patent is very little protection in such a case, -because of the ease with which, in other countries at least, it can -be infringed, and because of the difficulty and expense of tracing -the delinquents. It is probable that for this reason many of our -manufacturers will stand aloof, or will only exhibit such things as -comprise no trade secrets. - -The dwellers in a certain part of suburban London have hitherto been -in the happy possession of artesian wells on their premises, from which -they could draw a never-failing supply of good water. They feared not -the calls of the water-rate collector, and looked with indifference -at the disputes with the Water Companies going on around them. But -suddenly they have been rudely awakened from their pleasant dream of -security, for their wells have run dry. An enterprising Water Company -has sunk a deeper well than any of the others; and as water will insist -on finding the lowest level, the smaller fountains have been merged -into the big one. - -No one likes to pay exorbitantly, especially for such a necessary -as water, but the system of artesian wells is hardly suitable to a -crowded city. In London itself, many pumps have been closed because -of the dangerous contamination of the subterranean water by sewage -and proximity to graveyards, &c. As a case in point, the city of -New York, instead of drawing its water-supply from a hundred miles’ -distance—as London does from the hills of Gloucestershire—has to seek -it underground. Lately, the cholera scare has frightened people into -a sense of insecurity; and inquiry shows that leakage of sewers has -rendered the New York water unsafe, and it has been condemned by the -city Board of Health. This is of course hard upon those who have sunk -wells at great expense; but we have all to learn the lesson that the -individual must occasionally suffer for the public weal. - -A clever imitation of amber, which it is difficult to distinguish from -the genuine fossil gum, is made from a mixture of copal, camphor, -turpentine, and other compounds. It exhibits attraction and repulsion -on being rubbed, like real amber (_electron_), which because of the -same properties has given its name to the science of electricity. It -is now being largely manufactured into ornaments and mouthpieces for -pipes. It will not bear the same amount of heat that genuine amber will -withstand, and it softens in ether. These two tests are sufficient to -distinguish it from the genuine article. - -The great ship-canal between St Petersburg and the small fortified town -of Cronstadt, which up to this time has been the actual port of Peter -the Great’s city for all vessels drawing more than nine feet of water, -has at last been opened, the work of construction having occupied about -six years. The canal is nearly twenty miles long, it has an average -width of about two hundred feet, and is twenty-two feet in depth. Apart -from its importance commercially both to Russia and the traders of -other countries, who before were subject to the cost of transhipment of -goods going to St Petersburg, the canal will have a strategical value. -Ships of war could now retreat up the canal if Cronstadt were attacked, -and could, if required, emerge from the security of the waterway fully -equipped and ready for action. - -That small creature called the weevil, whose depredations were always -understood to be confined to grain and biscuits, has lately developed -a taste for tobacco. In America, smokers have found to their disgust -that both cigarettes and cigars are riddled through and through by this -pest, the creature confining his attention to the choicest brands. This -discovery has had a most prejudicial effect upon the cigarette trade -in New York and Philadelphia. It is said that in some factories the -weevil is swarming from cellar to garret. - -The chairman of the Western Railway Company of France has lately -volunteered a statement respecting the behaviour of the Westinghouse -brake, which has been in use on that line for rather more than four -years. In this statement we find a list of accidents which have been -avoided by the use of the brake, and these accidents are classified -under different heads, such as Collisions, Obstacles on the Line, -Rolling-stock not removed in time, and so forth. Upwards of forty -disasters have been clearly avoided by the prompt use of the brake. -On the other hand, the brake itself will sometimes get out of order -and refuse to act at the critical moment. How many accidents, we -wonder, have already occurred from this cause! We may mention in this -connection, that a meeting of the friends of the killed and injured -in the Peniston disaster has been held, and that it has been resolved -that a test action should be brought against the Railway Company -concerned, on the ground that to send out a train with an insufficient -brake, after the Board of Trade have for seven years laid down certain -conditions, is a wrongful act. The necessary money has been raised -without difficulty. - -The recent exhibition of the Photographic Society was a very -interesting one, the pictures shown, a large proportion of which were -by amateur photographers, indicating a very high average of excellence. -The modern gelatine dry-plate system, with its ease of working and its -cleanliness, has attracted a number of amateurs, who, a few years back, -under the old condition of things would never have dreamt of handling a -camera. Indeed, aspirants to photographic fame have become so numerous -of late, that a special journal, _The Amateur Photographer_, has been -started in their interests, and bids fair to attain a wide circulation. - -The vexed question as to how long a gelatine plate can be kept -between the moment of exposure and its after-development, has been -partially answered in a satisfactory manner by a certain picture in the -Photographic Exhibition. It was taken in July 1880, and not developed -till four years afterwards. No one would guess, from looking at it, -that the plate which received the light impression had been kept so -long before that impression was made visible by development. - -The _Times_ correspondent at the Philadelphia Exhibition gives an -interesting account of the electric lighting system in that city. The -Brush Company there supply arc-lights to the streets and the shops. -The charge amounts to as much as fifty pounds per light per annum; but -the people are content to pay this for a brighter light than gas will -afford. There are no fewer than fourteen towns in the States which are -lighted in this manner; and the writer of the account thinks that the -English public and the English manufacturers have perhaps been rather -hasty in condemning the light on insufficient grounds. We are disposed -to think that the light has had a very fair trial here. Many of our -railway stations and public thoroughfares have been illuminated by -electricity, and many of them have discarded it. In a word, it does -not pay. With improved appliances, which are sure to appear, we may -nevertheless still regard it as the light of the future. - -It may interest many of our readers to know, since the ambulance -classes which have been established in most of our large towns have -drawn attention to the subject, that a small case or chest, containing -the requisites for ready treatment of injuries, may be had for a -moderate sum. This case, first introduced at the Sunderland Infirmary -Bazaar by the inventor, Mr R. H. Mushens of that town, is intended -for use in shipbuilding yards and large factories where accidents -are likely to occur. As in many instances the life of an injured man -depends on prompt and ready treatment, and as a considerable time may -elapse before the appearance of a doctor, the advantage of such a handy -means of assistance to employers of labour will be at once apparent. -The case is twenty-one inches long, nine broad, and seven deep, and -is furnished with a brass handle for carrying it about from place -to place. It contains a complete set of splints; roller and Esmarch -bandages for finger, hand, arm, head, and broken ribs; tourniquet for -arresting bleeding; strapping-plaster; sponge, scissors, Carron oil, -&c., with printed hints regarding the rendering of assistance to, and -the removal of the injured. The use of such simple appliances does not -do away with the necessity of the presence of a doctor, but it may save -the life of the injured person, and simplify matters very much for the -doctor by the time he has reached the sufferer. - - - - -THE MISSING CLUE. - - -CHAPTER VIII.—THE SEARCH—CONCLUSION. - -Rising early in the morning, mine host’s solitary guest had ventured -out on foot for a walk through the village. Having passed the last of -the straggling cottages, he now stood beneath the frowning portal of -the ruined monastery. It was Christmas morning, and all was silent -here, silent as the voices of those who built the pile which they -vainly thought would have ‘canopied their bones till Doomsday.’ Of the -stately abbey church which had once lifted its head so proudly over -the fen, and beneath whose shadow slept the ill-fated baronet, but one -ruined wing remained, and in this the snowdrift had accumulated to the -depth of several feet. Straight from the north-east, soaring through -the dark mist that gathered thickly out to the seaward, a screaming -gull flapped on its way—a certain harbinger of more rough weather to -come. As it passed near, the bird’s discordant cry roused Ainslie from -the moralising train of reflections in which he had been indulging, and -turning back, he slowly retraced his steps to the _Saxonford Arms_. - -Breakfast having been partaken of in the quaint old room up-stairs, -mine host saw no more of his visitor for the rest of the morning. A few -customers dropped in from the hamlet, and under the combined influence -of strong ale and lusty singing, the company—old Hobb included—got -quite merry. Dinner-time came at last, and Christmas cheer was -conveyed to the solitary guest above. - -More of the villagers put in their appearance during the afternoon, and -the babel of tongues in the _Saxonford_ bar waxed somewhat deafening. -It is quiet enough up-stairs. As the evening draws on, the merry-makers -gather closely round the fire, and one of them—an uncouth figure with -restless eyes—relates a weird Jack-o’-lantern tale. Afterwards come -more songs, finishing with a right rousing chorus, and then the company -leave in a body, to return again later on for still more uproarious -merriment. Old Dipping, who is now left alone, steals to the foot of -the stairs and listens, inwardly hoping that his visitor has not been -disturbed by the confusion and noise which for the past two hours -have gone on beneath him. He does not wait there long. The sound of a -door opening is heard, and then an excited voice shouts from above: -‘Landlord!’ - -‘He must be in a temper,’ thinks old Hobb, as he slowly toils up the -staircase and enters his visitor’s dining apartment. - -The lieutenant’s eye is wild and his manner strange. He motions to -Dipping to shut the door. - -‘I’m sorry, sir’—— begins the landlord apologetically. - -‘Sorry! What for?’ interrupts Reginald. ‘Look at that! Do you mean to -tell me you are sorry, now?’ - -On the table was the black box! - -Old Dipping could only stand and gape. ‘Where did you find it, sir?’ he -at length falters out. - -‘Find it!’ answers his excited guest ‘Why, under that loose board by -the window! I’ve been searching here all day long with scarcely a hope -of turning anything up. What a lottery life is!—Get me a knife, a -hammer, anything that will wrench the lid off. Quick, man, quick!’ - -Old Dipping disappeared and shortly returned with a chisel, that -being the only article he could find which was in any way likely to -suit his visitor’s requirements. Seizing upon it, Ainslie endeavoured -to force the lid off the mysterious box. His efforts are for some -minutes paralysed by his own precipitate violence, and old Hobb groans -impatiently. At length the fastenings can resist no longer; hinges and -locks give way, and the lid flies off, disclosing to view a quantity -of time-coloured papers and parchments. Beneath these, at the bottom -of the box, is a coarse canvas bag, which on being opened is found to -contain about a score of guineas in gold. These the lieutenant tosses -aside, much to the surprise of Hobb Dipping, who looks upon ready-money -as being far more valuable than any papers could possibly be. Various -documents are one by one read and laid aside. Many of them appear to be -letters of correspondence from persons of rank, and the greater portion -are expressed in language which is enigmatical to Ainslie, but which -he rightly conjectures as relating to the Jacobite plots in which his -scheming uncle had been engaged. Not the slightest hint can be twisted -out of any one that at all refers to the subject upon which our hero -had hoped to be enlightened. After all, the discovery appears to be -very much like a failure. - -‘There—there’s somethin’ in that bag you’ve overlooked, sir,’ nervously -remarks the landlord, who has been watching his visitor’s actions with -a trembling kind of interest. - -‘Ay, so there is.’ And a precious something it turns out to be. At the -bottom of the bag which Reginald had so carelessly tossed aside is an -old parchment cipher alphabet. - -‘Landlord,’ says Ainslie, whose fleeting hopes have once more risen to -a fever-heat, ‘this may or may not be—I know not which—the very clue I -hoped to find here. Be it so, or be it not, at anyrate this money shall -go to you,’ and he thrust it across the table towards the wondering -innkeeper.—‘No thanks,’ he added, seeing that old Dipping was about to -speak. ‘Leave me alone now. I must be quiet.’ - -The landlord carefully gathers up the gold and goes out, amazed at such -unlooked-for generosity. - -‘Now for it!’ - -At the top of the scrap of paper which Reginald had obtained when -he first entered the house was a bold, curious kind of monogram; -underneath this were two words, which, on being interpreted by means -of the cipher alphabet, read as NUMBER TWO. Thus far all was plain -sailing; but as our agitated hero proceeded with his task, his heart -sank within him, for the meaning of the translation seemed well-nigh -as obscure as the document was itself. When the whole of the intricate -writing which covered the paper had been followed up letter by letter, -it ran in ordinary language in this style: - - Read the - Second word of the first line. - Third word of the second line. - Fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth words of the third line. - Seventh and eighth words of the fourth line. - First word of the fifth line. - First, fourth, and seventh words of the sixth line. - Fifth word of the seventh line. - Fourth and fifth words of the eighth line. - First and sixth words of the ninth line. - Second and third words of the tenth line. - Tenth word of the eleventh line. - First, second, and seventh words of the twelfth line. - Fourth, sixth, and seventh words of the thirteenth line. - Third word of the fourteenth line. - Second, sixth, and seventh words of the fifteenth line. - Sixth and seventh words of the sixteenth line. - Sixth, seventh, and eighth words of the seventeenth line. - Seventh word of the eighteenth line. - Second and sixth words of the nineteenth line. - First, second, and sixth words of the twentieth line. - Fifth word of the twenty-first line. - Eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh words of the twenty-second line. - Sixth and seventh words of the twenty-third line. - Second word of the twenty-fifth line. - - CARNABY VINCENT. - -These incomprehensible lines would have the effect of reducing the -feelings of most persons to a depth of sickening disappointment. -But Reginald was not to be beaten so easily. A moment’s reflection -convinced him that this singular table could only be the key to some -letter or paper which had contained an important secret. Important it -must have been, else why should such scrupulous care have been taken to -effect its concealment? - -What sudden half-formed thought is that which shoots across Ainslie’s -mind as he gazes on the monogram at the top of the paper? Quickly -unfastening the breast of his coat, the young officer takes therefrom -a strongly bound pocket-book, and opening it in the same hasty manner, -draws forth from among a miscellaneous collection of papers the -identical letter which Sir Carnaby had intrusted on the night of his -death to his servant Derrick’s charge. - -By this letter hangs a tale. When Derrick, while still lingering -in the neighbourhood of the _Saxonford Arms_, was informed of Sir -Carnaby’s death by a labourer who had heard the facts from the mouth -of old Dipping himself, he resolved that, since he could no longer -help his master, he would at least execute his last commands. In this, -however, he was providentially disappointed. On arriving at the Grange, -after a long and wearisome ride, he received the startling news that -Captain Hollis—to whom he should have delivered the note—had been that -morning arrested on a charge of high-treason. Completely foiled in his -well-meant endeavours, Derrick now thought only of his own safety. -Sir Henry Ainslie’s country-seat on the borders of Suffolk, he chose -to be his next destination; and thither the attendant went, intending -to acquaint his unfortunate master’s relatives of the catastrophe -which had occurred. The journey was not accomplished without grievous -difficulty, due in a great measure to his wounded arm. A low lingering -fever followed immediately upon his arrival at the Hall; and when -Derrick at length recovered sufficiently to have some sense of his -situation, Sir Henry Ainslie was lying under the sod, having died -while in the act of imparting to his wife a secret of which he was the -sole remaining possessor. The attendant’s sad tale was briefly told; -but neither that nor the singular letter which he delivered, threw -a spark of additional information upon the subject. Notwithstanding -this, the peculiar character of Sir Carnaby’s epistle warranted its -being preserved; while, as Reginald grew towards manhood, and laid -Derrick’s tale more and more to heart, he not unfrequently carried his -uncle’s letter about with him, vaguely hoping that some clue might turn -up which would eventually solve the mystery. This was his object in -bringing it on the present occasion; and now he sits eagerly comparing -the translated document with the letter which he had kept for so many -years. The contents of the latter ran as follows: - - DEAR SIR— - - My son Harry informs me that your - wager on my horse is taken. I have had - much bad health lately, and have been forced - to keep my bed. I have not seen your nag - run in consequence, but hope to have the - pleasure soon. Squire Norris left us yesterday; - he only offered one hundred against Martin’s - thousand; but Martin was too deep for that, - and in the end the bet fell through. My wine - is in a bad state just now, for the cellar is all - under water. I regret purchasing this house, - instead of the Hall, though I dare say the - latter is not half so good. I do not think we - shall return to the Grange, but shall know - before long; if so, I trust you will come and - stay there. Hunters are hard to get; it seems - is if they were all going out of the county. - The Meet saw nothing of me for some time - after that accident I had, and Warton was - greatly in want of help. My arm is better - now; but I shall not be able to use it for - some time. Remember to deliver our good - wishes to the parson; may he never - have cause to regret his choice.—Your sincere - - C. V. MORTON. - -This very ordinary specimen of letter-writing was headed by a monogram -similar to that which Ainslie had noticed on the scrap of paper, -coupled with the words NUMBER ONE. Many speculations had been made -as to what these hieroglyphics might refer to, but up to the present -moment their meaning has remained unsolved. Will they be solved now? -Can there be any connection between the letter Derrick had failed to -deliver and this incomprehensible document marked NUMBER TWO? What does -the interpretation of the latter say? - - Read the - Second word of the first line. - Third word of the second line. - Fifth, sixth, &c. words of the third line. - -Instinctively following these directions, Reginald applied them to his -unfortunate uncle’s letter, and produced therefrom, to his surprise and -delight, the sentence—‘Sir Harry is taken.’ - -The meaning of this was obvious. Reginald’s father, Sir Henry Ainslie, -was known in his lifetime among a circle of Jacobite acquaintances as -plain ‘Sir Harry,’ and the writer had evidently been alluding to his -apprehension in 1745. - -Reginald pursued the method with as much deliberation as the excited -state of his feelings at the moment would admit of; and by means of -underlining such words as the key mentions, soon extracted the pith -from Sir Carnaby’s letter: - - _Sir Harry is taken. I have been forced to run, but have left - one hundred thousand deep in the cellar under Waterhouse Hall. - I dare not return, but shall trust you to get it out. Meet me - after that, and help to use it for our good cause._ - -He had found the Missing Clue at last! Sir Carnaby’s scheme was as -clear as open daylight. The spell of this intricate labyrinth, which -the plotting baronet had formed to protect his secret message, had been -dissolved as if by the wave of an enchanter’s wand. - -Roused to action by his discovery, and burning to know the truth of -it without delay, Ainslie at once descended to the room below, and -communicated to Hobb Dipping his intention of starting early the next -morning. - -The whole story was plain to the young soldier. Sir Carnaby Vincent, -whose adherent loyalty to the House of Stuart greatly resembled that -of many of his Cavalier forefathers, had determined, like a true -subject, to expend his wealth in prospering the beloved cause. For -this purpose, the young baronet had combined the money he had raised -with that of Sir Henry Ainslie, and secreted the whole amount in a -small country-house known as ‘Waterhouse Hall,’ there to remain until -a favourable opportunity should present itself for using it according -to their wishes. The explosion of the Jacobite plot, however, occurred -before any measures could be taken for the removal of the money, and -Sir Carnaby in his flight was obliged to have recourse to Captain -Hollis, an intimate friend, and an ardent participator in his schemes -against the government. It was customary among these as among other -plotters in state affairs, to communicate with each other in what is -termed cipher; and here at last Reginald was in possession of the key -to the letter he had carried about for so many years. Most fortunately, -as it happened, Waterhouse Hall—the only piece of property which Sir -Carnaby had not parted with or mortgaged, but which he had reserved -mainly for the purpose mentioned—escaped any official sequestration -after the baronet’s death, so that his sister Lady Ainslie, to whom it -reverted, was able to take possession of this solitary remnant of the -family estates, which eventually became her home. - -Next morning, Reginald left the _Saxonford Arms_, starting at dawn, and -checking not his horse’s stride until he beheld before him the towers -and pinnacles of Fridswold Minster. - - * * * * * - -As the dissected parts of a puzzle are put together piece by piece, -so has this mystery been worked out until one part only remains to be -added before we bid adieu to the reader. - -Sir Carnaby’s ‘hundred thousand’ had not left the cellar in which it -had been deposited fifteen long years before; but so deep down was it, -that considerable perseverance had to be expended in bringing this -precious sum to light. He was now able to fulfil the conditions which -had hitherto prevented him from claiming Amy Thorpe as his own; and the -stern old colonel, before many years had passed, was content to find -his happiness in that of his daughter and her husband, and among the -sturdy little grandchildren that clustered on his knees and clung about -his neck. Lieutenant Ainslie left the army and took to politics; and -ere long it was rumoured in the county that his loyalty and services to -his party were to be rewarded by the removal of the old attainder, and -the restoration of his family title. He was shortly thereafter spoken -of as Sir Reginald, and no one grudged him the restoration of the -ancient and honourable title of his family. - - - - -OCCASIONAL NOTES. - - -A NOVEL PEAL OF BELLS. - -In many parts of England, bell-ringing has of late years made great -strides as an art, and has been taken up, studied, and practised by a -class of persons who, from their intelligence, education, and position, -are altogether very different from the ‘bell-ringers’ of the olden -day. We now constantly hear of the ‘Society of Diocesan Bell-ringers -for the Diocese of So-and-so;’ and on inquiry, we shall find that -the members of these Societies are mostly professional men, men in -business, respectable tradesmen, and suchlike, and very often clergymen -as well. A remarkable instance occurred recently where the ringers were -clergymen. This interesting exhibition took place on Thursday the 2d -of October, at the village of Drayton, near Abingdon, Berkshire, where -there happens to be a peal of eight fine bells in the parish church, -of which the Rev. F. E. Robinson is vicar, and to whose energy and -spirit this experiment is due. The clerical ringers were all members -of the ‘Ancient Society of College Youths of London,’ and the ‘Oxford -University Society of Change-ringers,’ both Societies being celebrated -for their skill in this art. The peal rung is technically described as -‘Thurstan’s peal of 5,040 Stedman Triples true and complete;’ and this -took nearly three hours to accomplish, and was conducted by the vicar, -who himself rang bell number seven. - - -A STEAM-FERRY ON THE THAMES. - -The inhabitants of Woolwich and neighbourhood, with praiseworthy -energy, have determined to take the question of a bridge or ferry -across the Thames into their own hands and decide the matter for -themselves, as they were, we presume, pretty well tired out by the -endless talk and procrastination of the government authorities, who -have spoken for years of a swing-bridge below the Pool, without -anything ever coming of it. A steam-ferry is now proposed, by which -vans and carts of any weight can be transported without delay or -difficulty from one side of the river to the other, at a small cost. -Where the traffic will be greatest there will be one tidal, and two -travelling platforms, to be constructed on an improved principle; and -the stagings will be so arranged as to avoid any inclines for horses -and heavy loads. The tidal platform will be managed by machinery as -the tide rises and falls so as to bring its deck to a level with the -deck of the ferry-boat, and is to be worked automatically by means -of electricity. The ferry-boats will be fitted with double engines -and twin screws, and lighted with the electric light, and they will -run every twenty minutes throughout the day. Return tickets and -workmen’s tickets will be granted, and every facility provided for the -convenience of passengers. As the banks of the Thames near to both -North and South Woolwich are the centres of an enormous industry, -it is morally certain that the scheme of steam-ferries, where there -is no bridge for many miles, will pay well; and as the capital -required to start with is estimated at only fifteen thousand pounds, -it will doubtless be soon forthcoming, and the scheme speedily be -an established fact. This resolute energy, on the part of private -individuals, forms a striking contrast to the time-losing and -money-spending schemes of the Metropolitan Board of Works, who proposed -to lay out the modest sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds on -one single swing-bridge! - - -UTILISATION OF SEWAGE. - -To many large and growing towns, the disposal of the sewage is -becoming a serious matter, and while several large towns are just -now contemplating the expenditure of very large sums for the purpose -of getting rid of it, a Company has been formed, and works have been -erected at Shrewsbury with a view to utilising this valuable waste -material. The process by which this Company profess to be able, without -creating a nuisance, (1) to purify the sewage so that the effluent -water is sufficiently pure to be admitted into any river, within -the requirements of the Rivers’ Pollutions Prevention Act, and (2) -to produce ‘native guano,’ is very simple. As the sewage enters the -works, clay, charcoal, and blood are added as deodorisers; and after -thorough mixing, a solution of sulphate of alumina is added, by which -the dissolved and suspended impurities are quickly precipitated in one -or other of the settling tanks, from the fourth of which the water -runs without further treatment into the river. Dr Wallace reports -that the sewage as it enters the works contains 37.5 per cent. of -suspended organic and inorganic matter, but that in the effluent water -there were only the merest traces of either. By experiment it has been -found that in this water fish will live for months. The deposit is -then removed from the tank, and, by means of pressure and artificial -heat, is deprived of its moisture, till it obtains the consistency and -appearance of dry earth. It is then ready for market, and is in such -demand, that as yet the Company are unable to overtake all orders, -though seventy shillings per ton is charged. - - -ELECTRICITY AS A BRAKE. - -A new electric brake, recently invented by an American, named Walcker, -and which is already in use in America, was lately tried on a tramway -between Turin and Piosassio, with remarkable results. It is reported -that by means of this brake two cars, running at a speed of about -twenty-two miles per hour, were stopped in the short space of six -seconds, and within a distance of twenty yards. This, if reliable, is -a great achievement certainly, and will doubtless lead to further and -more extensive experiment, and possibly to its general adoption. The -brake is at present being exhibited in the Turin Exhibition. - - -MAKING OF MUMMIES. - -An extraordinary subject was brought forward at the recent meeting -of the Social Science Congress, namely, the actual making of modern -mummies. A paper was read on this question by Mr Thomas Bayley, of -Birmingham, going fully into the objections raised to cremation, the -most important, as far as legal points are concerned, being, that -cremation does away with all evidence of foul-play, which must be lost -the moment the body is destroyed. In the face of this grave difficulty, -the paper proposes a plan by which the dead may be easily preserved for -an indefinite time after death, so as to be at any moment recognisable -and in a fit state for analysis, examination, or otherwise as may be -necessary—the body, in fact, becoming a perfect mummy. This curious -position is arrived at by enveloping the body in cotton-wool; it is -then placed in an air-tight case, and exposed, in a subterranean -gallery lined with cement, to the action of cold air, which is dried -and purified from putrefactive bacteria. After this, air at a higher -temperature is used in the same way; and the result of the process is -the manufacture of a complete mummy, with the integument remaining -white, and the body entire. And herein this new process differs from -that adopted by the ancient Egyptians, who were specially careful to -remove the interior portions of both the trunk and the head, their -place being supplied with peppers, spices, and other aromatic herbs. It -is a somewhat delicate question to ask whether this curious suggestion -will ever become popular with Englishmen, or Europeans in general; -but there can be no doubt, in questions where suspicion of murder -has arisen and yet cannot be proved, that the preservation of the -body of the deceased in such an ingenious manner would be eminently -satisfactory to the relatives of the supposed victim, because the body -is always at hand, intact and ready for careful examination at any -moment, on the discovery of fresh evidence, or otherwise. - - -TURNING WOOD INTO METAL. - -Our readers may not be aware of a process whereby wood can be almost -turned into metal; that is to say the surface becomes so hard and -smooth that it is susceptible of a high polish, and may be treated with -a burnisher of either glass or porcelain. The appearance of the wood is -then in every respect that of polished metal, and has the semblance of -a metallic mirror, only with this peculiar and important difference, -that, unlike metal, it is unaffected by moisture. The process by which -this curious fact is arrived at may be briefly described. The wood is -steeped in a bath of caustic alkali for two or three days, according -to its degree of permeability, at a temperature of between one hundred -and sixty-four and one hundred and ninety-seven degrees of Fahrenheit. -It is then placed in a second bath of hydrosulphate of calcium, to -which a concentrated solution of sulphur is added after twenty-four -or thirty-six hours. The third bath is one of acetate of lead at a -temperature of from ninety-five to one hundred and twenty-two degrees -of Fahrenheit, and in this the wood remains from thirty to fifty hours. -After a complete drying, it is then ready for polishing with lead, tin, -or zinc, finishing the process with a burnisher, as already mentioned, -when the wood, apparently, becomes a piece of shining polished metal. -This curious process we are told is the invention of a German named -Rubennick. - - -RELICS FROM THE HOLY LAND. - -An admirable proposal has just been made for the foundation of a -Museum of Antiquities and Curiosities from the Holy Land, and of all -museums such a one as this would surely prove of the deepest interest. -Already there appears to be a room in the Louvre at Paris devoted to -this purpose, and containing about a couple of hundred objects. The -British Museum possesses various articles, such as lamps, vases, &c.; -but a very much larger collection is known to belong to the Palestine -Exploration Fund, and is partly in the keeping of that association both -in London and Jerusalem, and partly at the South Kensington Museum; the -whole collection probably may number about a thousand objects of all -kinds. Coins would of course form an important part of the collection. -Many very ancient and curious Jewish coins are still in existence; but -perhaps the three of the greatest antiquity and consequent interest—two -copper and one silver—bear the names of ‘Eliashib the Priest,’ four -hundred and thirty-five years B.C., and ‘Eleazar the Priest,’ two -hundred and eighty-one years B.C. To the coins might be added relics -of the crusaders, and memorials of the Christian occupation of parts -of Palestine, crests and arms of the Christian warriors, architectural -relics, and fragments of sculpture. The aid of plaster-casts and -photography, too, might be readily called in; and it may be reckoned -that few travellers visiting this sacred soil would fail to bring -back something with which to enrich the museum. Thus a good beginning -might easily be made; and in the end, a large and curious collection -of objects would be brought together, which would materially help to -illustrate and throw light upon the history of Palestine and the study -of the Holy Scriptures. - - - - -HOPE ON, HOPE EVER. - - - Hope on, hope ever. Though dead leaves are lying - In mournful clusters ’neath your wandering feet; - Though wintry winds through naked boughs are sighing - The flowers are dead; yet is the memory sweet - Of summer winds and countless roses glowing - ’Neath the warm kisses of the generous sun. - Hope on, hope ever. Why should tears be flowing? - In every season is some victory won. - - Hope on, hope ever, though you deck loved tresses - With trembling fingers for the silent grave; - Though cold the cheek beneath your fond caresses, - Look up, true Christian soul; be calm, be brave! - Hope on, hope ever. Though your hearts be breaking, - Let flowers of Resignation wreathe your cross, - Deep in your heart some heavenly wisdom waking, - For mortal life is full of change and loss. - - Hope on, hope ever, for long-vanished faces - Watch for your coming on the golden shore, - E’en while you whisper in their vacant places - The blessed words, ‘Not lost, but gone before!’ - Hope on, hope ever, let your hearts keep singing, - When low you bend above the churchyard sod, - And fervent prayers your chastened thoughts are winging, - Through sighs and tears, to the bright throne of God! - - Hope on, hope ever. 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