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-, They Form an Important Factor in Bull- wnv illunuumucnl. To the people who live along its line a railway comes to be regarded almost as a person, says the Railway Age. It is popular or unpopular, Just as an indivilual is among those who deal With him. In many cases the people who have business rela- tions with it seem to be proud of the road â€"thsy brag ct it and speak of it with affection. They give it a nickname expressive of their kindly feelings, as soldiers do to the general they love, or the public to the politician for whom it has an admiring affection. That the favorab‘e regard of the public is of decided cash value to a railway it needs no ergum an: to prove. In these days when the whistles of rival locomotives of competing roads mug. be heard at almost every rallway at 't m; the importance of having the g00d-V,lli of. the petple is very great indeed. This .‘act is generally recognized, and it is only those who control roads which 11W competition who are in dun forgetting or ignoring ifs in” . t .. But in the case of Lv.ry paying line of railway in the United Stews. the existence of competition is only 2:. (l'lflntlon of time. The arbitrary, surly, il bred representative of the road may hue mat- ters in his own hands for yawn People must patronize his road been: lhcre is no other. Of course he can carry out his theories, establishing his FClE‘JlOZIB “ith the patrons of the road upon “the basin of “business,” encouraging no sociability and incapable of good fellowship. But he is creatinga belt of hatred tie long as the railway and as broad E8 the territory dependent upon it for {soil t :s for trans- portation. He may not Tulip the evil harvest which he have time-51. Hie salary maybe regularly pan“, (or he may resign his position before {he pub‘i ~ he: an opporâ€" tunity cf avg-rigging iml‘. But when that opportunity cornea ~â€" wiltu a competing road enters the territoryuine penalty of “arrogance and arbitrarinrss will surely he suffered. Pm pie do not forget such things. Prejudices in snob C'itzbrl are more power- ful than pocketbooks. it" the patrons of a railroad fee! that they have been treated with scant courtesy. 1i their self-love has been wounded by those who represent the road, they will “ get even ” if they can even though it may cost them something. But: the imaum’s gift is not u‘l. There are in the collection superb jewels received at other times and in various ways. Tur- quoisos blue as Syrian summer skies ; emeralds like the reflection of Ireland‘s green turf in her crystal-waved lakes ; rubies, Oxieutal rubies. that; flesh a. world otliquiiorimson light till the eye grows dim with gazing ; sapphires ; pearls as whita us the foam of the sea, and opule {has shimmer with reeiuuus radiance as only the precioue opal can ; all these are there. There are many beautiful and many quaint ornamentfl, jewellx‘l brooches, rings and sword-hilta ; bediamonded oreeaes brought from the Malay 15195 by Wilkes, and lots of other rare and valuable trinkets. They have no definite ownere, and are placed in the treasury vaults because they are too value.le to throw away, and nebufly dares to claim, because ncbflly has eny I‘lth to them. What. disposition to make of them is a puzzle. Congress alone can authorize their disposition, and Congress. ulihoufl] asked to do so, has declined to take any notice of them.â€"-Washington Gazette. Long before Horsea Greeley had made him fouxmm, Hark Monk was a. hero among the homo» Lf .120 Profit coast He was. perhaps, the flrht mam to use the short doublL-barrelled Bholgun, which Wells: Fargo's meenangors made famoua in their bloody battles with stage robbers. The hots are Hunk Monk was such a. reokeess drwsr thatE while every one was proud oi the honor of having once crossed the Sier- ras with him, no treasure messenger was Willing to make a regular thing of it. For it was universally conceded that it was only a question of time when Hank Monk and h a now famous “Tally-ho"stage, along with the six horses, would be tumbled from the heights into one ol! the innumerable gorges that lay yawning under his narrow span of road around the mountain peaks. It was the mgonuity of Monk that introduced the short double-barrelled shotgun. But be dad not carry it under his cloak, with cock lined and finger on trigger. Nothing of that a m. ; his hands were too full of the ten or a. LZ m rains for that. He simply had the gun Unowntd Gem-i Lying in Hm Treasury Vaults nl “’xlshlnglou. Few are aware that in the bond vaults of the treasury are deposited for safe-keeping a large quantity of diamonds and other pro- cious stones which will form the nucleus of the crown jewels when the country becomes an empire. These gems all havs histories. Among them is a bottle four or five inches long filled with diamonds, and there are many other kinds of precious stones. Some of them are set in gold ornaments, intended for personal wear. The first collection of which we have any authentic account has been in the custody of the treasury officials For over 45 years; They were sent to Pre- sident Van Buren by the imaum of Oman, whose capital city of Muscat, in Arabia, on the Persian Gulf, is the mcst widely known of all Arabian cities to outsiders. The imaum was the dude politician of Arabia, the boss dandy of all the Bedouin kin, and having found that Martin VanBuren was two-fold sharper, keener, subtler and dandier than he was himself, he sent these diamonds and pearls to him as a. tribute to superior genius and morality. It takes a pretty smart sceundrel to discount an Arab cut-throat of the higher classes. but the Dutch patron of Kindcrhook could do it. and the imaum of Oman allowed he could take the cakeâ€"and the diamonds too, But after he took them he did not know what to do with them. He had an elephant on his hands. He could not accept them for himself, although he wanted to do so, as the constitution expressly forbade any person connected with the Government accepting any present or decoration from any foreign power or p Itctntaic, w1thout express authority of 001 gross. This authority Congrats would not give. In fact. it was inexpedient at that time to ask for it. So the jewels were finally turned over to the treasury, where they are now. ointed down on the side of his leg, with ‘ he muzzle just peeping through the sole of is heavy boots. And no one was per» miited to know of the presence of this srm N5 :dl. It was known that he esried his b wie knife down the hack of his neck so as w he in easy reach when he pushed back his; broad hat to get a. good look at his enemy; but the now famous shotgun no one knew anything about; no, not even after he had twice been attacked and had thrice beaten off the robbers. lam told tint the first time he used this weapon he stayed the stage, and was slowly handing dawn the treasure box to the leader. when. get-ling his leg in range, he emptied a. load of buckshot into the robber’s heart. A second shot into the crowd of surprised robbers and he dashed away with all his desperate speed down the mountain. And even then no one knew who fired the shots. The robbers believed it was all the work of the passengers inside the stageâ€"Joaquin Miller in the Philadelphia Press. A general meeting of the German 0010- nial Union was held yesterday, with Prinoe Honenkhe, of Langenburg. presiding. Resolutions were adopted approvmg of the recent notion of Germany on the west coast; of Africa, and declaring that the Govern- ment might: rely upon the, full support of the nation in the event 0! lurthor action. AMERICA“ CRO “7N JE‘VE LH. A liuro of the Rockies. {DD MANNEKE. flow a “'nrllke Editor Forced 11 Pull!- cul Speaker to Burner. An Irontun, U., éespafioh says: The fol- lowing st )ry, too good no keep, has resisted all efforts to suppress in. Allen 0. Myers made a. political speech here on Saturday night in which he said that. W. B. Tomlin- son, editor of the Busy Bee, 9. Repubhoen paper printed here, had a. negro mother. Tomlinson was absent: at the time, but the news was carried to him. He sent Myers Word yesterdey, demanding a, retraction of such remarks as had reference to his mother. No answer came, whereupon Tomlinson brought Myers to buy at his hotel at dinner. “ Do you know my mother ‘2” asked Tom- linson fiercely, at the same time displaying a revolver ot the largeLb calibre and advis- ing byttmdera to keep their distance. “ No,“ answered Myers. “ Then stand up and hold up your right hand," thundered Tumlmsou. Myers obeyed. “ Now," added Tomlinson savagely, while covering Myers with his revolver, " swear by the eternal God that What you said in your rspeech about my mother was a. lie, and than you knew It was a. lie. Swear three times.” Myers obeyed and Tomllursou walked away. Tomlinson’a father was kllled an Ripley early in the war and hia mother still lives there. is on the way to me Government. The burdun of Ur.) lutaer win, doubtless, be a plea for the retemion of Khartoum, and in me preliminary letter, already received from General Gordon, be expresses a strong belief that if his advice be 1ullowed, he can ensure the permanent pieification ot the Soudun. 0.1 the other hand, if his plans he rzj'sctcd, he predicts serious disaster, all of wnwh Will be uémrbtab‘le :0 the English Government. A London cablegram auyé: There is & Bteadyimprovemenn on the London Stock Exchange in the price (If Egyptian bonds. ’l‘his is due to the gcnmul belief that. the energetic action of the (,‘mvernmeut in send- ing reinforcements to Egypt means a reverml of the wubriiug oub policy, which was proclaimed in Gladstoua’a famous maxim, rescue and retire. It. is evident now that the Bii'aish troops have gone to Egypt; no stay, and that the outcome oi Lord VVoIaelsy’s expedition Will be the permanent occupation oi the Soudan, and Its industrial development by means of railroads and modem agriculuuml methods, This View is strengbLeued by the recom- mendation which ii. is beiieved in contained in the letter in 1L1 G ulerdou,whiuh Somerville Journal : A Cholera Microbe while passing alon the street met two dis- tant relatives na d Imperfect Drainage and Bad Ventilation. “ And how are you today ‘2" asked the Microbe as he shook hands with the pair. “We are very well and hope we see you quite well,” they replied. “ I'm just about so 80," answered the Microbe ; “ the sanitary authorities are everywhere harassing me terribly. But how is your interesting family i’” “They are very well, indeed,” answered Imperfect Drainage ; “ our eldest children Typhoid Fever, Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria. are in business {or themselves and are getting along remarkably well.” “ Ah I that’s where they have the advantage of me," sighed the Microbe; “ my business is very unsteady and fluctuating. It takes a spurt occasionally and people think I am doing immensely, While in fact you and your intererting family do twice th amount of business. You go on year in and year out steadily and prosperously while I have only an occasional job,” and the Microbe dropped a tear and felt so humiliated at his inferiority that he went and hid himself in the soitest part of a decayed peach. ‘ Breaks Up the l'lilliouuin’s llomeâ€"The Mother, Dl'lvrn {)rnzr, Alu-mpls Suicide. A New York despatch says : The truth shout the recent severe illness 0! Mrs. Morosini, mother of Victoria Morosini, who eloped with s.- coachman a few days ago, comes out at last. It appears that she has on three occasions since her daughter ran away attempted suicide. Thursday morn- ing. September 11th, she drank a large quantity of laudsnum. It was discovered, and medical aid restored her. The same day the again attempted suicide, but was discovered In time to be prevented from swallowing the fatal draught. On the 13th, when alone, she got a more powerful opiate than laudumn. Of this drug she took a. larger dose, and was discovered insonrible on the floor. A doctor, who was at once summoned, worked over her an hour before he succeeded in arousing the faintest spark of life; belt-rs morning, however, she was out of danger. From that time she has not been left alone a. moment. Last Sunday Mrs. Morosini was a raving maniac, end she had relapses ever since. 0n \Veduesâ€" day Mrs. Morosini and her daughter Julia sailed for Europe on the steamer Aurenia. The entire family will soon go to Florence, where they will henceforth make their homo’ London and Paris say that they have at , last solved this problem. After experi- menting with wooden pavements for years, the English capital gave them up as a failure. About ten years ago, however, it tried a new system of wooden pavementsâ€" or, rather, a combination of wood and stone â€"which did very well. The stone founda. tion was made of concrete, cement, gravel and sand, and stretched in an arch from curb to curb, readily supporting the traffic that rolled over it. Wooden blocks were laid upon this as aoushion for the horses’ feet and the ears of the public, and held together by asphalt. The new pavement gradually won its way to popular favor in London, and is now essentially the pave~ ment of that city. In the last ten years 53 miles of it have been laid, all of which is in good condition, and gives complete satis- faction. Indeed, London is so enthusiastic over it that all of its streets are to be thus pavedâ€"New Orleans Tinws-Democrat. Perlnnut‘nl Occupation of flu: Dal-dun Probable. 'l‘IIE DA UG fl’l‘ER’S ISIADI'EMEN'I‘ Mr. John Morley is about to contribute to the series 0! “Englishmen of Letters," of winch he is editor, a. sketch of John Stuart Mill. A literary judge, of high Conserva- tive tendencies, has been stopping with Mr. Fronds at a seaside resort, with a. View of preparing a. sketch of Carlyle for the same series. Swinburne is reading the proofs of a new batch of songs omiled “ A Midsummer Holiday." Admiral Courbeh is perplexed as to the course he shall pursue towards neutrals. A Pavement That “'1” Last. VOL. XXVII. IRE llE'l‘liAC'l‘ED. ONE TO 5' A". A Modern Fable. The story of Miss Nutt’fl betrayal, the murder 0t her father by Dukes, his acquittal, and subsequently his death at the hands of young Nutt, and the latter’e trial and acquittal. were given such wide- spread notoriety that they will be recalled readily. The shooting of Capt. Nutt created a sensation throughout the entire country. He was cashier of the State Treasury and Dukes, his slayer, was a memberâ€"elect of the Legislature. Dukes was urrerted and after an exciting trial was acquitted. James Nutt, a cold- blooded, passionless young man, was aroused by the verdict, and it was expected that he would avenge his father’s death. Dukes knew this and on one occasion said: " Jim Nutt may shoot me some time, but he Will never come before my face and do it. He will shoot me from behind when I can’t see him.” The friends of Nutt never allowed him to forget the death of his tether, nor the manner in whio his sister’s character had been assailed by Dukes. They were ever urging him to kill Dukes. This had an efleot on the boy (he is only 21 now), and when Dukes met him on the street one day Nutt thought he laughed at him and told his mother of the occurrence. That settled Dukes' late. A few days later Nutt concealed himself near the post-office and as Dukes edvanoed he shot him in the back. Dukes lived only a short time. On his person were found a revolver and e. howie~knife. Nutt surren‘ dared himself and was subsequently tried and acquitted. As to the distance of 93,000,000 miles, a cannon ball would travel it in about fifteen years. It may help us to remember that at the speed attained by the limited express on rallroads a. train which had left the sun for the earth when the Ma) flower railed from Delfmwen with the Pilgrim fathers, and which ran at thet rate day and night, would in 1884 still be a journey of some years away from its terrestrial at moo. The fare, at the customary rates, it may be remarked, would be rather over $2,500,000, so than 1t is clear that we should need both money and leisure for the journey. Intense excitement has been caused at Union-town. 1’s... by the discovery of an atrocious z.t‘.empt to ttke the lives of the members of the Nutt family. The well from which the supply of water used in the Nutt household was drawn was poisoned by some unknown miscreant. Two of the young ladies are already dead and other members of the family are ill. As far as can be ascertained, there is no apparent motive for the deliberate crime, and all efforts made thus far to trace the person or persons engaged in the horrible affair have proved a signal failure. The first intimation of the coming horror was the announcement on Friday evening of the sudden death of Miss Annie Nutt, sister of Miss Lizzie NuLt (whose betrayal by N. L. Dukes was followedl by the tragic death of the young giri’s father and subsequently of Dukes, who was slain by James Nutt), agirlof 16 years. Up to Tuesday last she had been in the enjoyment of perfect health. Go the following day she and all the other members of the family were taken sud- denly ill. In twenty-four hours Annie was ‘dead. The explanation given by the family was that she died from indigestion l caused by eating a large quantity of 'uuripe l fruit. Next morning, however. the horri» ble suspicion gained currency that the i Nutt family had been poisoned, and that Miss Annie was the first victim. This was confirmed by an examination of the water of the well situated in the rear of the house, into which it was found poison had been thrown. Dr. John Fuller, the family physician, has advised the holding of a portmortcm, and although Mrs. Nutt was at first unwilling, she finally gave her consent. In the evening Miss Nettie Nutt, another of the sisters, expired, and the news of her death was quickly circulated through the town, intensifying public opinion over the horrilying revelation. The water in the well is being analyzed, and all are awaiting with intense anxiety the report of the physicians. In the akseneo of any known motive for the trims the story of the Nutt scandal and the tragic events which followed it are being rxcitedly discussed ; and. while there may be no truth in it, the theory is advanced that some friend of Dukes has resorted to this despicable act to avenge his killing by Miss Lizzie Nutt’s brother. Young James Nutt, the avenger of his sister’s honor, who is at home, and also his sister Lizzie, were both made ill, but their condition is not critical. Perhaps the most striking illustration of the sun’s distance is given by expressing it in terms of what the physiologists would null velocity of nerve transmission. It has been found that sensation is not absolutely instantaneous, but that it occupies a very minute time in travelling along the nerves; so that if a child puts its fingers into the candle, there is a certain almost inconceivâ€" ably small space of time, say the one- hundreth cf 21. second, before he feels the heat. In case, then, a. child’s arm were long enough to touch the sun, it can be calculated from this known rate of trans- mission that the infant would have to live to be a. man of over 100 before it knew that its fingers were burned.â€"Century. The Surrey Gas Company can boaet of having the largest gasholder in the world, says the London Standard. The top of it ‘ can be seen for miles around the Old Kent road, where it stands, and it may be said to be one of the lions of London. OE orna- mentation it is utterly void, but there i8 8. hand-railing on the top running around the crown which enables any venturoun person to enjoy a. promenade on a fine dayâ€"enjoy- able enough it his thoughts did not revert to the presence of no fewer than 5,400 cubic feet of gas in store beneath him. This is a telescopic holder of the neweet shape. The imming which surrounds the holder and keeps it in poegtion is 160 feet high and consists of wrought iron uprights, with five tiere of Fltl‘liti and ten Reta of diagonal braces. The tank is 218 feet in diameter and 55 feet 6 inches in depth; the inner holder 53 feet 6 inches deep and 208 feet in diameter; the middle lift 53 feet 3 inches deep and 211 feet in diameter, and the outer lift is 53 feet and 214 feet across, and altogether its capacity is equal to the storage of nearly five and a. half million feet of gas. ’l‘wo sisters 0: Ihn Young Uninulown Avenger Deadâ€"The Wutrr In the “'0” Poisoned. THE NUTT FAMILY POISONED. Ten thousand persons collected in the cathedral at Naples on Friday to Witness the miraculous liquilying of the blood of Sn. Junuariua. The low quarters of the city on Saturday night were brilliantly illuminated. BIammoIh Gus Reservoirs. A Journey to the Sim. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1884. Ghaslly Discovery in [he Cellar ol 8 Prussian Hotel-keeper. The Prussian police believe that America is harboring at this moment awholesale murderer whose many crimes have just been brought to light. His name is Sievert, and he was until recently the proprietor of a publichouse known as the Uruche Hotel, at Rurzig, in Pomerania. He is a shoemaker by trade, and is a tall, muscular man, with a florid oomplean and yellow hair. Afew weeks ago b‘ievert sold out his hotel and left Pomerania. The new landlord took possession recently, and on searching the premises was horrified at finding six corpses. in various stages of decomposition, concealed in a cellar. The bodies were all of men, and all had evi- dently been murdered at difierent times. They have all been identified as the remains of travelling merchants who had been tem- porary lodgers in Sievert‘s tavern, and who had mysteriously disappeared. They lived at various remove portions of the kingdom, and there has been hitherto no clue to the fate of either 0! them. It is now evident that they were murdered for their money by Sievert. and concealed in the cellar until the assassin became alarmed and sold his place, stipulating that the purchaser should not take possession until a certain time. The police claim to have positive informa- tion that Sievert has fled to America, and detectives will be sent to search for him. The oorssge will be out square and bor- dered with lace, while the sleeves, slightly puffed on the shoulders and reaching to the elbow, will be met with long white kid gloves, which are being made to order to fit the slender little hands of the bride. The Slippers are to be made of the dress meter- inls, and embroidered in white pearls, While the stockings will be of the finest white silk. The veil Will probably be of illusion. There is a. rare old paint lace veil in the family, and this may be worn, although tulle is more becoming and preferred by the bride. It will be fastened by a. half wreath of natural orange blossoms and caught by diamond pins. She will went other diamond jewels and carry a large bouquet of roses and lilies o; the volley, surrounded by maiden-hair ferns. There will be six or eight bridesmaids, among them Miss Edith Warren sud Miss Belle Wilson, sister at the groom. About two thousand invita- tions have been issued, and everybody prominent in the New York and Newport social world will be present.â€"â€"New York Morning Journal. The Chinese are a composite nation. The Chinese proper form the basis of population in the eighteen Provinces. The Tartars are the ruling race. They have held the imper- ial power for more than 200 years. Tartar garrisona distributed throughout the empire keep the great cities in order and dominate the Provincial armies, which are chiefly composed of Chinese. Besides these lead- ing elements there are the Mohammedaus, who are found principally in the southern and western Provinces. They are descend- ants o! the first Arab invaders, who found their way to China about the tenth century. They have not preserved the faith of Mohammed in a high degree of perfection. and in externale of dress and manners they resemble the Chinese about them. The Mohammedans are always oppressed and usually discontented. The Chinese,though they have so long obeyed 8. Term! Emperor, are dissatisfied, and, as shown by their recent revolts, would willingly transfer their allegiance to rulers of their own or even of another race it they could do so with safetyâ€"San Francisco Chronicle. Mlss Astor’s Wedding dress is now being made in Paris, and will be sent over about the lat of November. It is to be of very heavy pesrbwhite satin, made with a. full princess train, which will be bordered by a. plisse of the satin, and on the edge a ruching of fine point lace in a. wild rose design. The front is to be covered with ruffles of rare point lace that belonged to Mles Astor's grandmother. The lace will not be cut, but will cross over in flounces, and at the sides will be caught down in a. twist, and held by a cluster of orange b105- soms and pearls. As previously announced, it will be cele- brated in this city abéut the middle of November. It is not yet decided whether or not it will take place in Old Trinity Church, on Broadway, where the Astors have worshipped for several past genera- tions. But the service will be read by Rev. Dr. Dix, rector of Trinity, who baptized and confirmed the expectant bride. There is to be a. reception at the Actor mansion on Fifth avenue, corner of Thirty-fourth street. The three long drawing-rooms will be festooned wiIh rare flowers of every description, and a bower of prime, ferns and indie-rubber plants, lined with pink roses, will be made tor the bride and groom to stand in. The large art gallery will be brilliantly lighted, and an orchestra of stringed instruments will occupy one of the balconies. The broad White enamel stairway Will be decked with garlands of roses twining the bulustrade, end the large reception room will also be made guy with rare and costly flowers. Large pink La. France and Gloria de Paris Will be among the roses used. The arrangements for zhe Astor wedding are progresbing rapidly, and society belles are on the tiptue of expectancy. The great social event has been the topic of every drawmg-room since the announcement, and the poselbilities of the troussesu o! the bride-sleet have been fully and frequently discussed. That the wedding will be more brilliant than any that has txkon place in New York for many years is conceded on all sides. Let the business of everybody else alone. and stbend to your own ;dou’t buy What y )u don‘t want; use every hour in advantage, and study to make your leisure hours use- ful; think twice before you throw away a shilling. remember you will have another to make for it; find recreation in looking over your business; buy low, sell fair, and take care of the profits; look over your books regularly, and it you find an error trees it; out ; it estroke ofmisfortune comes upon you in your trade retrench, work harder, but never fly the track; control difficulties with unflinching perseverance and they will disappear at last ; though you should fall in the struggle you will be honored; but shrink from the task you will be despiged. On Friday night R. E.Ruukle, Internal Revenue Inspector, was found dead in an opium joint in Philadelphia, where he had been two days without food. Preparations for the Nupllnls 01 Russ Astorâ€"Elaborme Toilets. A BLUE BEAlfill UllAfllBER. ‘he Chinese I: Subjccl Race. ’l‘llli.‘ ENVY 0F BBIDES. Receipt to [make Money. I was young, rich, free as the wind to follow my own devices. I could leave Eng- land to-morrow and visit the moat beauti- ful places on the earth ; those places I had longed and determined to see. New I knew I should never see them. and 1 groaned in anguish at the thought. My limbs were strong. I could bear fatigue and exposure. I could hold my own with the best walkers and the swittest runners. The chase, the sport, the trial of endurance had never been too long or too arduous for meâ€" I passed my left hand over my right arm and felt the muscles firm as of old. Yet I was as helpless as Samson in his captivity. For, even as Samson, I was blind 1 Blind! Who but the victim can even faintly comprehend the significance of that word? Who can read this and gauge the depth of my anguish as I turned and turned on my pillow and thought of the fifty years of darkneeswhich might be mineâ€"a thought which made me wish that when I fell asleep it might be to wake no more ? To begin I must go back more years than I care to enumerate; although I could, it necessary, fix the day and the year. I was young, just past twenty-five. I was rich, having when I came of age succeeded to an income of about two thousand a year ; an income which, being drawn from funds, I was able to enjoy without responsibilities or anxiety as to its stability and endurance. Although aince my twenty-first birthday 1 had been my own master I had no extrava- gant follies to weigh me down, no debts to hamper me. I was without bodily ache or pain ; yet I turned again and again on my pillow and said that my life for the future would be little more than a curse to me. Blind! After hovering around me for years the demon of darkness had at last laid his hand upon me. After letting me, for a while, almost cheat myself into security, he had swept down upon me, folded me in his sable wings and blighted my life. Fair forms, sweet sights, bright colors. gay scenes, mine no more! He claimed them all, leaving me darkness, darkness, ever darkness! Far better to die, and, it may be, wake in a new world of lightâ€"J‘Better,” I cried in my despair, " better even the dull red glare of Hades than the darkness of the world I" Had death just robbed me of one who was dear to me? No; the only ones I had ever loved, my father and mother, had died years ago. Were my revings those pecu- liar to an unhappy lover? No; my eyes had not yet: looked with passion into a woman’s eyesâ€"and now would never do 30. Neither Death nor Love made my lot seem the most miserable in the world. This last gloomy thought or mine shows the state or mind to which I was reduced. Perhaps, after all, I write this for my own sake as well. I also hate mysteries. One mystery which I have never been able to determine may have given me a. dislike to everything which will not admit of an easy explanation. The truth is that, in spite of hope held out to me, I had resolved to be hopeless. For years I had felt that my toe was lying in wait for me. Often when gazing on some beautiful object, some fair scene, the right to enjoy which made one fully appreciate the gxtt of sight, a whisper seemed to reach my earâ€"“ Some day '1 W111 strike again, then it will be all over.” I tried to laugh at my fears, but could never quite get rid of the presentlment of evil. My enemy had struck once, why not agsm? For myself I should not trouble about this. I should laugh at the garbled versions of my story set floating about by my own indiscretion. It would matter little to me that one good friend has an idea that I was once a Communist and a member of the inner circle of a secret societyâ€"that another has heard that I have been tried on a capital chargeâ€"that another knows I was at one time a Roman Catholic, on whose behalf 9. special miracle was per- formed. It I were alone in the world and young. I dare say I should take no steps to still these idle rumors. Indeed, very young men feel flattered by being made objects of curiosity and speculation. But I am not very young, nor am I alone. There is one who is dearer to me than life itself. One from whose heart, I am glad to say. every shadow left by the past is rapidly fadingâ€"one who only wishes to live her true, sweet lite without mystery or concealmentâ€"wishes to be thought neither better nor worse than she really is. It is she who shrinks from the strange and absurd reports which are flyâ€" ing about as to our antecedentsâ€"she who is vexed by those leading questions some- times asked by inquisitive friends; and it is for her sake that 1 look up old journals, call back old memories of joy and grief, and tell every one who cares to read, all he can possibly wish to know, and, it may be, more than he hasaright to know,of our-lives. This done, my lips are sealed forever on the subject. My tale is hereâ€"let the inquisi- tive take his answer from it, not from me. Well I can remember his first appear- anceâ€"his first attack. I remember a light- hearted schoolboy so engrossed in sport and study that he scarcely noticed how strangely dim the sight of one eye was get» ting, or the curious change which was taking place in its appearance. I remem~ bet the boy‘s father taking him to London, to a large dull-looking house in a quiet, dull street. I remember our waiting 11) a room in which were several other people; most of whom had shsdes or bandages over their eyes. Such a doleful gathering it was that I felt much relieved when we were conducted to another room in which sat a kind, pless- ant-spoken man, called by my father Mr. Jay. This eminent man, after applying something which I know now was bells.- donna to my eyes, and which had the effect for a short time of wonderfully improving my sight, peered into my eyes by the aid of strong lenses and mirrorsâ€"I remember at the time wishing some of those lenses were mine~what splend burning glosses they would make! Then he placed me with my back to the window and held a lighted candle before my face. All these proceedings seemed so funny that I was half inclined to laugh. My father’s grave, anxious face alone restrained me from so doing. As Once in a moment; of confidence, I made a. friend acquainted with some curious cir- cumstances connected with one period of my life. I believe I told him to hold his tongue about them-he says not. Any way, he told another friend, with embel- lishments I suspect; this friend hold another, and so on and on. What; the tale grew to at last I shall probably never learn; but since I was weak enough to truit my private affairs to another I have been looked upon by my neighbors as a man with a historyâ€"one who has a romance hidden away beneath an outwardly pro- saic life. I have a. reason for writing this tale. or it Would npt become pubiia prggerty. _ PAULINE. IN DARKNESS AND IN DANGER. CHAPTER I. WHOLE NO 1,369 NO. 17. I was not left enciri ly alone in my trou- ble. Like Job, I mm oomfornera; but. unlike Etiphaz and company, they were good-hearted fellows, who spoke with cheer- ful conviction as to the certainty of my recovery. I was not so grateful for these visits as I should have been. I hated the thought of any one seeing me in my help- less condition. Day by day my frame of mind grew more and more desponding and morbid. I was foolish. I had better have trusted my self in other clever hands. Before a month was over I had lost all hope, and at the end of six weeks I was almost dis- tracted. Blind, blind, blind! I should be blind forever! So entirely had I lost heart that I began to think I would not have the operation performed at all. Why fly against fete? For the rest of my life I wee doomed to darkneee. The subtleat skill, the most delicate hand, the most modern appliances would never restore the light I have lost. For me the world was at an end. Now that you know the cause. can you not imagine me, after weeks of darkness, broken in spirit, and, as I lay sleepless that night, almost wishing that the alternative refused by Jobâ€"to curse God and dieâ€"â€" were mine? If you are unable to realize my condition, read the above to any one who has lost his sight. He will ball you what his feelings were when the calamity first came upon him. He will understand the depth of my woel My best friend of all was a humble one; Priscilla Drew, an old and trusted servant of my mother’s. She had known me from earliest childhood. When I returned to England I could not bear the thought of trusting my helpless self entirely to a stranger’s care, so I wrote to her and beg~ ged her to come to me. I could at least groan and lament before her without feel- ing shame. She came, wept over me for a while, and then, like a. sensible woman, bestirred herself to do all she could to miti- gate the hardness of my lot. She found comfortable lodgings, installed her trouble- some charge therein, and day and night was ever at his beck and call. Even now, as I lay awake and tossing in mental anguish, she waseleeplngon an extemporized bed just outside the folding doors, which opened from my bed-room to the sitting- room. Ihsd pinned my faith upm this man. No doubt there was s skilful oouliet in London, Paris, or other capitals ; but it was my fancy that. if I was to be saved, I could only be saved by Mr. Jay. Dying man are allowed their whims; even the felon about to be hanged can choose his own brealr‘rfeut, so I had an undoubted right to choose my own surgeon. I resolved to wait in dsrkuess until Mr. Jay returned to his duties. I flew to the eminent oculist'e. He was out of town. Bad been ill, even at the point of death. He would not be back for two months, nor would he see any patient until his health was quite restored. It was a. stifling night in August. The sluggish air which crept in through theopen window made little perceptible difference in the temperature 0! my room. Every thing seemed still, hot and dark. The only sound I could hear was the regular breath- ing of the sleeper behind the door, which she had left an inch or two ajer in order that she might catch my faintest call. I had gone early to bed. What had I to wait up for now ? It was sleep and sleep alone which brought forgetfulnezs, but tic-night sleep refused to come to me. I struck my repeater. I had bought one in order that I might, at least. know the time. The little bell told me it was just past 1 o’clock. Craving for sleep I sighed and sank back upon my pillow. A monster meeting in favor of the Fran- chise Bill was held in Dundee ou Satur- day. Speeches were made by seven gambers of Parliament. He came upon me swiftlyâ€"far more swiftly than is his custom in such cases ; yet it was long before I would believe the worst-long before I would confess to myself that my tailing eight and the increasing togglness of everything I looked at were due to more than temporary week- nese. I was hundreds of miles from home. in a country where travelling is slow. A friend being with me I had no Witch to make myself. a nuisance by cutting our expedi- tioo short. So I said nothing for weeks, elihough at the end of each week my heart sank at the fresh and fearful advances made by the foe. At last,being unable to bear it, or in fact conceal it longer, I made known my condition to my comrade. We turned our faces homeward, and by the time Lon. don was reached and the long journey at an end. everything to me wee blurred, dim and obscured. I could just see, that was all! “Certainly; but in my judgment it is not well to meddle, so long as the other eye remains unaffected.” " Is there danger ‘1’" “ There is always danger o! the disease appeariugin the sound eye; but, of course. it may not happen. Come to me at the first sign of such a thing. Good morning.’_’ The great specialist bowed us out, and I rttumed to my school life, troubling little about the matter, as it caused me no pain, and, although in less than a twelvemonth the eight of one eye was completely obscured. I could see well enough for every purpose with the remaining one. But I remembered every word of that diagnosis, although it was years before I recognized the importance of it. It was only whcn compelled by accident to wear for some days a bandage over my sound eye that I realized the danger in which I stood, and from tihal; moment felt that a. moreiloes ion was ever waiting his time. _ The Panama. (Jana! Company has signed a. contract with a. New York company pro- viding that the last section of the canal shall be out in 1887. And now the time had name. In the first flush of my manhood, with all that one could wish for at my command, the foe hag struck again. “'Th§t may. be Véhfeai 7;; operation,” he said. This terribly sounding name took away all my Wish to laugh. I glanced at my father and was surprised to nofiioe his face wenrjng an expression of relief. “ This is called the oatoptrio test, an old- iashioned but infallible test, now almost superseded. The boy is suffering from len- ticular cataract." “ Yes ; no'w try the other eye. How many there?" My father looked long and carefully. “I can only see one,” he said, “the large_orne.r" soon as Mr. J ay had finished his researches he turned _to my fgrtherâ€"i “ Threeâ€"the one in the centre small and brigyfi but upside down.” _ “Hold the candle as I held it. Let it shine into the right eye first. Now, Mr. Vaughan,what do you see? How many candles I mean ?" H Teef} (To be continued.) It may be said that a comprehensive and impartial survey of Bach’s genius and works favors the conclusion that the old view of him, as essentially a great instru- mental composer, was not so for wrong as it has recently been thought to be. It is in this realm that he is supreme, and that the contrast with his great compeer is almost entirely in his favor. While agreat deal of Handel’s instrumentai music is now faded and passe in style, the smallest minuet by Bach contains matter for study and exhibits qualities of construction and expression which can never lose their value to musicians and intelligent hearers, the exception being only in some of those choral preludes which are connected with a form of religious expression in music which s now obsolete. As a vocal composer his works remain a monument of astonishing power. of rock-like stability, of sometimes poignant expression of religious yearning, but pervaded by a certain monotony of style and character, which is perhaps truly expressive of the one pervading subject, the religious life. which is at the centre of them all. He is the subjective composer; Han- del the objective artist. He is the musician ot the student; Handel the poet of the people. Neither can be spared ; nor perhaps is it to much purpose, after all, to dispute which of the two be most valuable in the world of artâ€"a matter in regard to which even individual feeling will vary with individual mood or circumstance. What is important is that each should be correctly appreciated and placed on his own honored pedestal in the musical pantheonâ€"The Edinburgh Review. “ Pshaw,” replied the venerable savant, “ let us not trouble ourselves about to-morrow. Let us enjoy the present. I had a model of a wife, the mother of a most exemplary family. She has left me a posterity that I love, and by whom I am loved. Why, one of my little great- granddaughtersâ€" she is 3 years oldâ€"salutes the bust of her old great-grandfather every morning. Another 0! them, quite alearned lady of 9 years, wrote this to me the other day : ' My dear papa, I‘m tired of the country. My sister Marie likes house- keeping; I don’t. I like to read. I want to be a librarian when I grow up. They call me Miss Blue Stocking, and that vexes me.’ ” The old man laughed. “ Why, my dear sir,” he continued, “ I am made young again by just such letters as that. Moreâ€" over, I have always put in practice the old adage, 'Seek and you shall find.’ I have sought, and I have always found something, at the domestic fireside as well as in the laboratory.” It is now regarded as certain that the Great Eastern will be chartered by the Exposition management to bring from London to New Orleans the collective and individual exhibits that have been promised by the Governments and by private indi- viduals and firms of Europe. Unless the negotiations fail, the great vessel, the largest in the world. will leave London between the 15th of October and the 1st of November. The Great Eastern herself will be no inoonsiderable feature of the great show and will be worth going hun- dreds of miles to see. The management has not yet decided what use the great ship will be put to after her arrival.â€"â€"Ncw Orleans Bulletin. New York Star: It was at the baptismal font and the minister had the baby in his arms. “What is the name ‘2” he asked of the mother. “ Josephine Newton.” “ Joseph E. Newfion, I baptize thee in the name~â€"” “ No, no,” hurriedly whispered the mother in great alarm. " Not Joseph E. Newton, Josephine Newton. It’s not: that kind of a. baby.” Count Peeil, with several gentlemen belonging to the German Colonization Union, will sail shortly for Zanzibar, to acquire land for colonization purposes, instead of the west coast of Africa, as at first projected. A correspondent of the Voltaire recently had an interview with M. Chevreul, the famous French chemist, whose 99th birth- day has just been celebrated by the Acad- emy of Science. After thanking the journalist for all his good wishes. the old man proceeded to tell him the secret of living long. " I have never been a pessi- mist,” said he, “ and I have cautiously kept myself from being too much of an optimist. It I had not worked hard I would have died long ago. One thing above all I have remarked, the older I grow the better man- kind seems to have become. I have seen the Reign of Terror. I was then 7 years old. Such 8. thing will never again be repro- duced in this world. To-dey we have more need of universal peace than of foolish reprieals. Times are more gentle and life is better." “ To-murow, my dear master,” said the Journalist], “ you will appear even bebter uhagypu d9 to-dgyi” r Men who Always Tremble Before Making :1 Speech. Great orators are almost invariably ner- vous with apprehension when about to make an important speech, says the New York Star. Luther, to his last years, trembled when he entered the pulpit ; the same is true of Robert Hall. Mr. Gough confesses that he is always inatremor when coming before an audience. Many of the leaders of the House of Commons have ‘ given similar testimony. Canning said he could always tell in advance when he was about to make good speeches by a chill running through him, caused by a fear of failure. Lord Derby, father of the present Earl, when a young man, was one of the best speakers in Par- liament. He was known as the "Prince Rupert of debate,” and seemed so self- possessed as to be incapable of embarrass- ment. But he said : “ When I am going to speak my throat and lips are as dry as those of a man who is going to be hanged." He also told the late Sir A. Allison that “ he never rose to speak, even in an afternoon dinner assembly, without experiencing a certain degree of nervous tremor, which did not go off till he warmed to the subject.” It is recorded or Cicero that “ he shuddered visibly over his whole body when he first began to speak." In the “Life of Lord Lyndhurst,” by Sir Theo- dore Martin, we are told that he did not prepare his speeches. “Though, like all great orators, he never rose to speak with- out nervous emotion, this in no way inter- fered with his power of thinking as he spoke, and calling into play the finest lan- guage to express what he thought. The intensity with which his intellect worked became contagious. He got his hearers‘ minds within his grasp, he made them think with him, see with the same clear- ness as he himself saw them, and so led them insensibly up to his own conclusions.” Tierney, whom Lord Macaulay calls one o! the most fluent debaters ever known. said he never rose in Parliament without feeling his knees knock together. It is one of the compensations of nature that the nervous temperament which occasions the trem- bling is also one of the causes of oratorical success. In fact, it may almost be said that no one can be a great orator, or a really effective speaker, who does not experience the feeling. Frank Larnard, whose case has puzzled the surgeons, died on Friday in Boston. He wasabnseball pitcher, and his righo arm became useless. The shoulder and a portion of the collar-bone were removed, but the man lingered in great agony for months. The Secret of Living Long. A! the Baptismal Foul. NERVOUS OBA'I‘0RS. e Great Eastern. Handel and Bach.