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i >1t i niml iieEir; OR, A HEART'S SECRET. L ^- ::r.^- ClIArTKlt X. ' It was now lute in the year, nnd the winter storms were beginning'. There wore intervals of culm, cool 'veuther, when the wind came from (he i-ast or southeast, uiid still frosty days, when a broath as cold '»H steel crept from the red sunrise of the north ; but over und again the trunuKJt o( the tempest sounded wcatwartl and southward, und tlio ocean rose iip before it in inouii- lains of furious storm. A now lif^vboat had come round from Falmouth during the summer ; it was manned chiefly by workers In the mine, and I was their captain. Fortunately, few vessels came that way to need our aid in time of peril, for the groat ships gave that lonely shore a wide berth, knowing its Biany perils. Sometimes, how- ever, a coasting-vessel, heavily lad- en, cBBie ushoro on the outlying reefs, but. thanks to our sturdy boat, without much loss of life. On the uftcrnoon of the 22nd day of Ko\-entber, 18 , there occurred HMch a phenomenon as I have seen only onco in my life, und scarcely expect to see again. I had just been down the mine, where 1 found the men had ceuaed workinp, and had g'atherod in knots, whispering to- gether. For all through the dark galleries and pa.ssuges there came, from time to time, a curious tre- mor, like the shock of earthqunko â€" Kulloii, sinibler, terrible, making the h'Mrl. for some unknown reason, stand still with fear. Nor was this Hounil to Iw accounted for by the dashing of waves above that subaqueous darkness, since there Was not i\ breath of wind, and the hea lay in sullen, moveless folds, scarcely vibrating. •What is it, my lads ?" I asked, uccostii>g ttic first group of men. As I apoke, the tremor camo again. so that the walls seemed tumbling over, the hard ground rocking under me, with a vibration which aeemed to send a nameless terror into my very blood. .My uncle, who was there with the others, .shook his head ominously. â- Wo davyn't lightl.y knaw," ho Said ; "but we ha' hard 'un again und again, sounding like that. Heems threalening like, und I ha' hiildon the gang knock off wark for to-day murmur from the men, who detested him cordially. I cannot express in words the strangely depressing and vaguely alarming efTect of this phenomenon on myself and till who witnessed it. Nor was the eflcct les,soncd when the dimmer of two suns disapi>oarod. and the other changed in a mo- ment from purple to jet-black. A jot-black ball in the midst of a waste of leaden gi-ay. "Lawd save us !" cried Martin Treruddnck, an old fisherman. and one of our life-boat's crew. "Lawd save us ! It looks liko judgment, mate.sâ€" like the Lust Day !" This. indeed, \vas the thought which was passing through all our minds. Wo stood looking in sus- pense till the black sun disappeared, and total darkness camo : a.nd then, w'ith no little lorebodiiig, we .scat- tered to our homes. Hut In the nijht, as we lay sleep- ing in our beds. wo learned that what we had witMiossod betokened, not any supernatural distui-bonco. but the gathering of .such a tem- pest as has seldoni been seen, before or since, on those shores. It caran with fearful lightning und close- following thunder, followed by drops of black and hideous ha.il ; and then, with a crash, and a scream, and a cry, the wind rushed from the sra. Presently I saw my uncle, partial- ly dre.sBe<i and holding a light, enter my chamber. "UHigh, my lad, be you asleep ?" "As if any one could sleep on such a night ! I thought yesterday's portent meant something. The storm has come !" "Mother be frightened badly," he returned, "She be praying. lad, dawn i' the kitdien. Lawd save us; hark to that !" he added, as a flash of fiery lightning filled the room, and wind und thuii<ier mingled to- gether in iiwful reverberation. For the greater part of the night wo remained sittinK up. The thun- der nnd lightning lusted well on till morning, and when tlioy ceased. it became possible for the first time to realize the frightful violence of the gale. It was. as I afterward learned, a well-rielinod cyclone. With the first pcop of dn.v light, I ."^ei/cd m.v hat and moved to the door. "Whar ho'st gawiiig. hid ?" cried 1 knew that it was useless to re- | my mint, mnnstratc. for the men were evi- | "Down t<i the .shore. It's a high ! spring tide, and I want to see if the life-ljont'fi .sti' ;;. " dently full of superstitious dread, which, if thi! truth must be lold, I could not help sharing. They threw down their pickaxes and shovels, and (ollowcd nie up tlie shaft. We found .lohiison there, who seenn-d astonishi-d at our appear- ance, unci when I told him what huil taken place, looked savage. "You're spoiling the men, Tre- lawney," ho said. "Ouess Huch ner- vous fancies are only lit for an old woman. Wli.y. the sen's like a mill- pond, and there ain't a breath of wind." â- If you think it's only fancy," I replied, "come down with me and try. I'll Rive you a live pound note If ,voii St op down there hall an hour." He shrunk back nnd shook his heiiii angril.v while th<! men, cluster- ing round us, greeted my speech with a laugh. "I .fhall report this," ho cried, vicioiiHly. "A puck of cowards !" And Ik? walked oft, amid an angry â- 'Nu, nu," sheciiid, "stuwp yar!" Mut I only smiled at her fears, and hastened nwny. ^fo sooner had I left the cottage than the wind Piles To pr»v« CO yea th&t Cn Cbiug^s OIntmtntIa acsrtalo and abnolute oaie <or eacli »nd erory form of llchinar, bloodlDfl: fvnd protrutlina pllad, 'ha manufKclurei's haTOKUarantecdlt. Sue tea. kmo:ili.l8 tn the dallr press nnd ask ;ournei((tr' bors vhAtthajr think oMU Yon can use It and get lOur ntinoT back If not oured, COo a box, at kU dwkl<rs or Eouinbok, Bates Si Co.. Toronto, ^r.QhCLse's Ointnrierit caught nie, and nliuost da.shcd me from my feet ; hut T stooped my head, nnd plunged fight on in the teeth of the gale. At last I gained tlu- cliff, and hero I had much ado to prevent my.self frfini hciuK lifted up bodily and blown awa.v. (Joining courage pi-esently, ns the light in the east rtow clearer, I crawled down the p»ith lending to the shore. Coughs, Colds and Asthma As Well as Croup, Bronchitis and Whooping Co ufirh are Quickly Cured by DR. CHASE'S SYRUP OF LINSEED AND TURPENTINE. The virtue of this groot priwri))- tion of l>r. (^hase is so well known In Ciu.iidian homes that it teems linele.os to <lo nioie than ii'rnind ,vou that it \\n^ n lni|{er sul<> and in cur- in[( more j.oople than uvei beloie. Mrs. .1 . W. I.loyd, Albion street. Belleville, Ont., stule.s: "In (ho bi-ginning of last winter I took a ^cry ncM'Je .old, accoiril)anio<l With a liH(1 ciiiigh, und was alnicist lalrl up for a time. 1 tried .several reniodlce. but wllli iritlilTnrmit re- Idijls On the advice of a frltind I got n boltic of Dr. ('hatrt's Syiup of LliiKrcrt nnd Turpentino, and founil that it fc!lM'\ed the cciugh at once. S\y the liino I had taken the one bntllc my enlil wtig gone, und I ciin trill lifiilly rc«'i»niniend it ns a splen did reini-dy for cnuRh* and coldii." Mrs. A. C Vnnhuahirk, Rohln*on •tieet, Moncton, N. n., and nlioso liuslmnd is carpenter on the T.C.U., states: "For yer.rs I luivi> used l>r. Chases Syi'up of l,in««-ed und 'hir- pcnline for my cliililien wlionevcr thoy take cold. I used it first with one of my children siilTeriii(( with a seveie form of astliuia. It sue.oMsl us though the leant exjiosKre to cold or dampness would hriru on an at- tack of this (liscusi!. I bryun using thi.H iiiediilne. e.nil ir.lisl Miy tliat I found it must muilont. \V« havg ii«ivei tried iin.vt hiiij! ir» li:e wa.v of a rough nioriicir.e llint worked so sat- isfactorily. It seeiiii'il to (,'0 right to the dlKCascd piirt.9 and In ought speady relief. " Do not be sntinfled with iinilut loiin or .milisl iliites. The i-m troll nnd N'ignaluio of Hr. A. W . (Iliusn in on eveiy bottle of thpucnnlnn 'J.'') < ents a bottle, family sivo (three tlincH a* much) flO rents, nt nil dealers, or FSdnvanson, Uatea & Co., Toronto. It was high tide ; the roaring bil- lows were thundering up close to tho clilT, and tho shallow creek sur- rounding tlio bout-house was a» white as milk with tho chtirning of the waters. I then perceived, to my consternation, that the gale had struck tho boat-house with such force as to 8^veep the wooden roof away and dash it into fragments UK<iinst tho cliff. The great boat lay there unharmed, but was half full of wuter. fresh from the dark rain- clouds, salt from the angry sea. One of the oars had been lifted out and snapped liko a rotten twig, but that was all. Suddenly, as I stood here rhelter- injj from the gale, 1 heard a sound from seaward, like the sound of a gun. I started, listening. In a min- ute tho sound was repeateW. Yes ; it was a gun at sea, and tho sound could have only one significance â€" a vessel In distress I tiuitting the storm-swept .shore, I climbed half way up the crags, and endeavored, with straining eyes, to penetrate the darkness seawai-d, but, although it was now broad day, tho clouds of wind-blown vapor still covered the troubled sea. Oreutly agitated, I made my way up the clilT, and reached the summit, where I found that an excited group, composed of fishermen and miners, had already gathered, who addressed me eagerly the moment I appeared. "IJld you say the lights, lad ? Sure as death there be a ship on the rocks out thar !" "On the South Stack," said an old fisherman. "Are you sure .she's there ?" I asked, eagerly. •'Sure enough." was the reply. "When the last light went opp. I saw'ni' â€" leastways, sumtnat black amang the mist and foam." There was nothing for it but to wait and watch. tor to go to the rescue in tho teeth of such a storm was out of the (jucstion. even if we had been able to launch the life-boat through the billows madly breaking on the shore. Krom time to time the gtm sound- ed again ; then it ceased altogether; and no more rockets ro.se, to indi- cate tho whereabouts of the vessel. Was all over '? Suddenly the storm-smoke blew upward here and there, leaving vis- ible wild patches of tossing- water. A wild er.v rose. and all hands were suddenly pointed .seaward. Then, straining my eyes through tho blinding rain, I saw something like a white wall of vapor rising right out to sea in the direction of the South Stack, and right in its centri" the black outline of a large vessel, wedged firmly on the jagged rocks. .She was a large screw- steamer, with her back broken right across, and onl.y saved troiu sinking by tho very rocks which had destroy- '«?d her. How she got into that fatal posi- tion it was difficult to tell. She Was -so far awa.v. and the mists were still so troublesome, that it was dillicull to tell if there were any souls still left on board. More than once I fancied that I discerned shapes liko human forms clinging to or lashed to tho rigging of tho mainmast, but it was impossible to ili.itinguisli them with any certainty. However, my iniud was now made up. ^Phi^ life-boat must be launched and niniuied without delay. I turned lo the men and said ns niii(;b. but they shrunk back un unconcealed terror at the mere proposition. While the men stood hesitating, the mists ro.se all rodnd the ship, nnd we saw, to our amazement, that a stir wns taking place upon her decks. Yes ; there could bo no iloubt of the fact ; a boat was pre- paring to leave the sides, and, freighted with human beings, push away for tho shore. "Cod help them !" I cried aloud. The boat (lUshed olT. The under- swell caught her and rushed â-  her along nt lightning speed, and in a few moments sho reached tho broken water. Then wo saw ra|)idly a|>- proiichiiig her a mountainotis and awful wave ! The little boat. as if it were a living thing, seemed to .see it too. and to struggle to escape ! Sick with horror, I covered m.v e.ves. I could not look. Then I hoard a deep groan from the men around me, and looked again. The boat hud gone, never to reappear. â- 'Man tho life-boat !" T cried. "Quick, lads ! I'ollow me !" My viiicli! grippefl me by tho arm. "Too lute, lad I There's ne'er a sawl aboard !" "Look yonder !" T answered, pointing seawnrfl. '"I'liere are liv- ing men on tin? deck still, and in tho rigging. Como !" The lads, who were Knglish born, and had their hearts in tho right places, responded with a cheer, and down the path we rushed till we reached tho shore. To every man 1 gave a cork life-belt. an<l titMl on one m.yself. Then, siuinging to my place in the stern, I urged on my men, as with slu>uts and .yells, scarcely hoard amid the roar of water, they run the boat into the creek. I'ach man knew his place. Thoy urged the bont, bow forward, into the surge, and waded with it. those tho farthest from shore wading hivnst-deep in the waves. Thrice wu were tieaton bark, and I thought the boat Would have Iwsen crushed to pieces on the beach, but at last she llonti>d â€" the men leaped in nnd took their phices, the oars smote the boiling surge, und out we crept to MU. Once fairly afloat, we realized for the first time tUo strength and fury of the storm. But the lads put out their strength, and sheer muscle and bold heroic will conquering at last, the life-boat left the shore. As some great wave came near, curling high above us. I cheered on the men, and we met it with a shock like thunder and a rattle of every plank of which the boat was made. On we went, with the light of tjie kindling east turning from red to reddish-gold behind us, und the mists, struck by the new radiance, thinning to seaward : and so, after a fierce tussle with wind and water, we caino in full sight of tho doomed vessel . .Stuck fast on tho cruel reel, her back broken, she was struggling like a crippled bird â€" lying over, with her decks and funnel inclined to- ward tho shore, and quivering through and through with every blow of the strong metallic waves At first I could discern no sign of life, but as wo drew nearer and near- er, I saw one or two figures clinging in the rigging, from which many of their comrades had doubtless been washed away. They saw us coming, for one of them waved something white. "Pull for your lives !" I cried. "There are men aboard !" The lads answered nie with a cheer, and tho boat shot forward to the steady sweep of their united oars till we were within a hundred yards of the steaingr. Then I saw a sight which filled all my soul with fear and pity. Lashed to, or clinging to, the mainmast was the solitary figure of a woman. 1 told the men that a woman was there, and though they needed no new incentive to give them strength, their faces grew more animated, and I k-new they would have faced fire as well as water in such a cause. In a few minutes more we were close at hand, rising and falling on the %vhite surge in the vessel's lee. Then the woman raised her head, and looked in our direction. The men saw her, and gave another ehrer ; hut Iâ€" I could have swooned away in consternation. My head went round. I looked again nnd again. Kithcr T was mad or dreaming, or the face I ga/ed upon was that of the love of my boyhood â€" Madeline t; rah a in ! (To Be Continued.) Good NUTSHELL FARMS. Profits Made on a Quarter of an Acre. To conduct a farm no larger than a quarter of an acre, and to make a good jirolit thereon after paying the high annual rental of $15 for the tiny area, is one of the current acliie\ements of agricultural science. The Kwret is iriigation directed by educated men. E^gypt is tho scone of these successful agricultural ex- periments. The farming is carried on by tho Kg.vptian (•overnment at the School of Agriculture at Gizoh, not far from t;a»o. The students, who are high caste natives, are allotted each a (piartcr of an acre. Water pump- ed from the Nile is furni.'^hed the .student fanner, and he is taught when and how lo distribute it over his miniature farm of .stigar cane, cotton, forage plants, and tropical and .semi-lrop.ical fruit. His canals, dams, and little ret'ervoirs are con- ducted und ojHM-ated .scientifically. Tho .school leuees tho land by tho > ear at $00 an acre, and the student is given the use of his quarter-acre plot at a proportionate rate. The revenue from one of tbe.se T.,ili- putian farms has been a .surprise to agricultural exjorts. and would ^ be an amazing revelation to many Can- adian farmers, for whom a quarter of an acre wnrcely nITords space for iuMilenients and barns. Although their experience is all gained from their miniature farms, these Kgyjitian students are develop- ing into suc'.i export agriculturists that they arc receiving offers to ac- cept the management of extensive sugar and cotton [dantations else- whore. ins WK.KJHT IN GOLD. The ancient ceremony of wt!(i;»hing the Maharajah of Truvancore v.-ith gold was porformed with guat pomp in that city recently. His Ma- jesty being a devout Hindu and a great stickler for tho rites of his religion. Months before tho core- mon.v his (! overnment bought a great ipmntity of |)ure gold. tho greater part of which was converteil into coin. After presenting an ele- phant to tho shrine the Maharajah entered the tein|do nnd mounted one of the scales. his sword and shield being laid in his lap. In tho other scale the newly-struck coin.s were put in by the first nnd second Princes until the Maharajah rose in tho air. the priests chanting Vedic h.vmns. Tn addition to this the band pla.ved nnd the guns finnl. Afterwards the coin used was distributed among about tho 15.000 llrnhmins. A SF.UVANT DKCOUATKn. Sh.o Ma^ludn. a female servant of Niwagoii. .Japan. has had a green riliaml conferred upon her by tho .laiianese Uiireau of Decorotions, for remarkable fldelity to tho family who employed her, Sho is said to be tho first domestic .'jiTvant who has over been decorated by a Oov- •rnment. 100 YEAES ABO AND NOW SUCCESSES OUR GRANDFATH- ERS SNEERED AT. Jas. Watt Patented tho Steam Hammer ia 1784, But It Wu Scoffed At. N^early allâ€" if not all â€" ot tha world's definite successes of to-day â€"academic and commercialâ€" were more or less scolTed at when Mother (Jenius first produced them and gave them to mankind, and their early Ijcginnings were in a large number of cases sneered at and condemned, Ba.vs London Answers. Take, for instance, the steam ham- mer. This contrivance has dona more, perhaps, than any other me- chanical invention of modern times to develop the wonderful resources of the great iron trade. Tho lay mind, erroneousl,y taught by hearsay, believes that the steam- hammer was the invention of Mr. James Nasmyth, the ironfounder, of Manchester. This is true in a meas- ure, but only in a measure. Mr. Nasm^vth c-ertainly made a success ol it, but the original inventor of the steam-hammer lived half a century before Mr. Nasmyth's time â€" to wit, James Watt, tho father of engineers. Watt patented his idea in 17S4, but the world .scoffed at the thing then, and refused to have it at any price. In 1S40 the world thought other- wise. It changed its mind then, and ndc^jted the marvellous contrivance. Without tho steam-hammer the gi- gantic forgings of tho huge ma- chinery of a liner could not be made. Sheep-shearing has been done by hand since the time of Moses â€" and Ix'fore â€" and the method of to-day has in no wise differed from that observ- ed by tho ancient Israelites. But the development of mammoth sheop- I'arnis in Australia, and in others of our newer colonies, and the increas- ed demand for .sheep's wool for man's and v.'oman's attire, fed by degrees the MINDS OF INVEKTOIiS. who set about conceiving the means cf S'heep-shearing by machinery. An oitlinary farm-hand can shear no more than from thirty to fifty sheep by hand a day. Now, in Great Britain alone, there are some iiO,- 000,000 .sheep â€" a Government return published in 1890 gives the exact figure at 31. 667,19l>â€" whilst in tho Commonwealth of Australia and in Nev/ Zealand they may bo counted by tens to our units. As one sheep is capable of yielding four pounds of wool, the gross quantity of tho annual wool-yield is tremendous. JIulhall. the statistician esliinates it at l,(>47.t>(:<X00O pounds, and the demand is for more every year. When an Australian citizen invented the Wolseley sheep- shearer, and declaretl that it could shear about ;-iOO siieep a day, the world hum'd and ha'd, and its doubting eye looked obliquely at the invention. Hut it has since changed its mind, and more sheep now are sheared by machines than b,v hand, thus saving niUlions sterling in labor. and directly reducing tho cost of woollen materials. Typo-coiriposing machines liavo had a big tight for their present invmier position in the world of printing. Th ' well-known Linotype machine is a native of America, where -it is thought by half tho people there that it wns the wry first invented, but that is wrong. fleginning on December 17tb, 1842, sevoral numbei-s of the "Family Herald" v;x^ri'. .sot up by a TYPK-CO.MPOSINtt MACHINE invented by a James Young. Ilat- torsle.v's .self-composing machines ap- peared in the London Fxhibition of 18(i2, and in the fsamo year another machine of the same character was shown by the inventor. Hart, to the British Association at Cambridge ; but none of the thi"ee machines suc- ceeded in capturing the admiration of the world ; neither did Mitchell's first tried at Spottiswoode's in IHtJl : nor Kastenhein's. first tried at tho "Times" ofiice in 189"J ; nor Hooker's. nor Mackio's. All failed to win favor, though tho mtichines were all right. But when, in July,' 18,S9. tho Linotyi>e was shown in London, it "caught on." for tho world had changed its mind by then. From tho typo-coin|H)si.ig machine to printing is a short journey. Till the close of the eighteenth ceittury lirinting was done by a hanilpress. the then current Stanhope Press turning ont 100 pagi's per hour. In 1814 (Nowmber JSth) a newspaper â€" tho "Times" â€" was. tor the first time in any country, printe<l by a machiiw driven by steam-power. This machine printe<l 1.800 inipivs- sions i>er houi'â€" one side only â€" aiid for years the "Times" new.spaper was printed like that. Cowi)cr's ^ improvements increa.sed the output to 1.200 tK-r hour. Then Mr. Applcgarth brought out a now printing machine which turned out 15.1)00 impressionsâ€" of course, still one side onlj â€" per hour. To-<lay's great luintlng-pre.ss is the lh>e. which can turn out four or six page I>opers at a speed of about .""lO.OOO per hour. The reel of pai>or â€" of double widthâ€" is rolUxl oft into tho machine at one end. and tho newa- paiwr con^e.^ out at the other end. printed. fold<nl, counted, and. if re- quired, wrapped ready for p">st. ( If ..4,;.': :• While 40 Turkish shlp^ passed through the Suez Canal last .vear, only 25 American vessels did su. â- PW