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A :Dlodern .Romance. BY KRYS. H e Iaug1 1ed a1oud a t the tlioug]1t - tetirs ran hke ram-drops down the soft Pleasure, a distinct motive for Nora's laughed louder still when he saw that his wi·inklecl cheeks, "and even here, even ciume. · immediate neighbors in the room· first now, we could see that for the poor unThe new witness was Cristine Singleton starecl at him m a half-shocked, half- happy girl death was best." -the only member of Lody de 'Gretton's soared fashion, then, wiih a remarkable Artl1ur Beaupre stirred restlessly atthe family, it waii explained, who was able to unanimity, made way for ]um to pass. woids; they touched a painfully vibratgive evidence, Captl1ln Bruce bemg par- He p:.used to thank them, wo11dc1·ing the ing chord m his memory. He too had alyzcd, anJ Mrs. Bruce suffeting, on the while in a dazed and nusty fashion why seen thait death was best. He too had testimony of a medical certificate, from lus voice sounded so far away ai\d odd, prayed that Nora might be taken away extreme weakness and nervous exhaustion. · and why the wrong cfme mth such from the shame and agony to come, and Cristme was always pale, but she look- singular pertinacity to us ips. now-ed winter than ever- in the deep black He was famt-that"was 1t; he had not The cold drops rose like beads on his dress she hiJ,d assumed for the occaswn. eaten or slept for-how many months and forehead ; he seized his mother's hand, She stook r1uite calm and comnosed, con- years was i t · ' H e <;ou11 c not s1eop wl1i"le and the hollow fevered eyes sought her "1. J:'. · suspense 1as t e d . B ut n o-" ., wa" sc10us of the mtent and cunous scrutiny tlus vv lo ~ all face with a desperate emtreaty m their of which she was the object but m no over-now that Nora was dead. darkened depths. _'." ".They have hupg her, have t~10y not "Mother, how did she die 1" way disturbed by it. Ma,nJC' were thtU·e who knew her, ancl, guessmg instinctive- 110 mquued, with extrem_ e- c.ourtesy, of a No softenmg of the words was possible; ly at the Jealousy that had embittered man who stood beside lum m the doo~- they must be spoken, and to speak them her step-sister·s life, wondered that she way ; but somehow the .tone, suave as it briefly w11s best. . "In the moment of madness and her could so well cmitrol the remorseful was, made the stranger JUmp. anguish of whwh no doubt sl1C was the "You forget, sir," he began quickly; crime she must have rushed straight ! . If he could· but have but a l-0ok at Arthur,, B,eaupre's face,, down the cliff, and either fallen or thrown Prey. Rem"rse T ak e ~y arm, herself into the sea. One of her shoes known whatva tempest of passion surged c1 iauei:ecl h_is Pll;rpose. beneath that calm exterior, the hardest he Mid, with 4:mdly haste. . You look were picked up on the beach, a long scrip _ough you would ~amt. Th,i,s has been of her dross had caught on a pncky shrub. Person present would lia:ve shrunk m hor- as th and-and later--" ror from the fair, delicate-looki110- girl so t err,1blY 1 iai·cl f or you! b u t -.. d "'t> 'Il1 t d d d s a ed epcu Mrs . Beaupre broke down at last, an genuinely pitied now_ Anguish she felt . e sen ence 10 ma i m Y ,· - turned her head aside, unaiJle to endure rndeed · but it was for her own crushed lat10n, for .Arthur Beaupr0, " 1th a B ' h d l' d dd 1 t tl the mute horror of the listener's face. ut hopes an~ wounded pride.; m her savage smot ere g:oan, s ippe. ~u en y o l~ Arthur broke in impatientlyex:ultation ti, ere was nothmo- that savour- ground, and lay there hke a man struc "' d db dd bl · "Mother, for pity's sake, do not. pause "' ed of remorse. ea y a su en ow.. now ! Lot me know all " Once- how long ago 1-when first she "A week 1ater they found her, Arthur, learned how terribly fate ltad helped her CHAPTER XIII. that is all. She is buried here. Is it not plans, how far vengeance had outstiipped better to think oi her so than as she her thoughts, she had felt remorse mArthur Beaupie closed his eyes upon a might have been 1" deed, 'and would at almost any sacrifice summer world, and opened t11em conYes, it was better. Even in the moh B have undone her cruel work. But Arthm sc10usly upon a woild who.se brighter ment of supreme agony Art ur eaupre Beaupre s scorn had frozen the better im- autumn tints were fading fast. found strength and courage to acknowlThe small stock of strength he had b th tl pulse m the moment of its birth and b k edge that the grave was etter au 1e Wi\lj:ened the old resentless Jealousy that brought home with him had een rec - prison or the madhouse, to one of which lessly expended 111 those days of waiting the fiat of man must inevitably have conwould hardly slumber again. Clearly, coolly, and succinctly Miss aaony; and when the react10n of the sianed her. Heaven had been moriful to Singleton's evidence was given, and every strong extitement came, it came in the h~ tried and erring love ; he would make word told with deadly effect against the shape of utter and complete collapse. no impwus protest. And yet--absent Nora. For six weeks he lay between life and Lady de Gretton had never love,d her death, parched by fever, and torturejrby "Oh, Nora"-the cry ot the ~trong husband-it had been a marriage of con- fierce pain, but mercifully spared the lovmg heart broke forth irrepress1blyWhen, "if I could but have seen you m your cofvenience only. She had been engaged supreme agony of suspense. to a young man who was supposed to have slowly and painfully, sense c~me back fin, and touch your dear dead lips, I been killed in the Zulu war, and grief for and memory took up its torturing task, could bear the partmg better! I should him had completely changed her nature. he learned that for the girl he had left m not sea you for ever as I see you now, ·1 there was notlung · more with that cruel madness in your eyes." The young man however was not d ead , sueh d eadly per;. and Lady de Gretton unhappily }earned to hope or fear. Mrs. Beaupre shivered at the words, the fact on her wedding day. Very gently, very pitifully the news recalling the terribly altered face of the A quick murmur of surprise, mingled wa~ told him, for it was told by his dead gITl, bruised and battered by the with pity, passed through the rool!-1 ; the mothets' hps. Mrs. Beaupre summoned cruel tossmg waves, swollen outof all remotive, hitherto a little uncertam, was from her northren home by the news of semblance to humanity. Only by the -neral 11eight growing terribly clear. Iier son ' s su dden an d dangcrous i11ness , loner o black hair and the ~~ Did she learn this fact before or after had come without loss of time and nursed was it possible to identify the poor huthe wedding ceremony ~ hmi ·mght and day with true motherly man sea-drift upon wluch few could bear Cristine raised her clear eyes, 1t11d met deYotion through the terrible weeks and to look and say that it had once been the Coroner's gaze fully, as she answered, months that followed, never losing heart, beautiful Nora. with mournful decisioneven when hope seemed madness and the "That too was best, dear; she was sad"After, certainly, ortheweddmgwould doctors gravely warned her that death ly changed," she said gently; and that never have t:.ken place ; she was devoutly was hovermg near. The !\,hadow presence day, to her great relief, he questioned her attached to Mr. Beaupre, and--" could not kill the fervent faith that "Com- no more. , "Keep to the point, if you please," the forted and upheld her What had been The doctor found his patient le$$ well lawyer interposed a little sharply. "Are would be again, she thought, as she sat, that mght, and warned Mrs. J;3eaupre you sure she did know it at all~" - an erect and watchful figure, through the rather sternly against excitmg c<fnversa"l gave her Mr. Beaupre's lettter with long night hours, keen-eyed and eagerly tions, which the p<1>or woman fe1t hermy own hands. I · know that Mr. alert. . Had not this h er son been gtven self powerless m the circumstances to Beaupre followed her down h ere, and that back to her from the dead already, and prevent. Lord de Gretton found them together on would the Power m whom she trusted It needed no higher medical skill than the beach." . with a firm unfaltering faith work but she herself posselised to tell her that the The last words, au evidence, were half a miracle in her-behalf 1 . vivid scarlet spots on either thin cheek, wholly inadmissable of course · but they The doctors shrugged thell' shouldel'8 and th11 feverish light that made the blue told as nothmg spoken in that 'room had over the old .Sco~clnv?man's a~gument, eyes so dazzm,gly and restlessly bulliant told yet; and, lookrng at Arthur Beau- but she w_as Justified m he~· faith. The were danger-signals- she recogmzed them pre's uhastly face- the pomt on whrnh her doctors said h er son owed his life to h er only too quickly, and with a sore and eyes l~ad r ested through the whole speech nursing, and thought, a_nd interi:ded h er sinking heart; but how was the danger - Cristine felt that her vengeance was at to say, that he u_wed ij; to their skill,, to b e avertrd now 1 last complete. Fur lum to stand up and B ut, though she thanked them with the The poor soul passed the night in pitispeak the words that would rob the girl grac10us sweetness of a true ~entlewoman fully earnest prayer, feeling every now he had loved so loyally of her last des- and with a tender tremor m her cl~ar and then that the chill shadow of despair perate hope would be a rnartydom in- Yoice, she still h eld firmly to her faith was fallmg over her at last ; but with the deed. that Heaven had heard her prayes and morning came renewed hope. Arthur "Now l1e is sorry he flung back my given back h er son. fell into a deep sweet slaep with the peniteuce and, refused his pardon!" she He was lurr_welf _but half thankful for dawn, and woke at mid-day to meet her thought with cniel exultation. " He the boon of hfe ; it would have been s0 anxious glace with a faint shadow -0f his should l~ave remembered that Nora had easy to drift out with the ebb tide of his old bright smile, to clasp her hand with sometlung still to lose and what a woman own weary weakness. It was cruelly hard the Ion<>" thin fingers that looked so scorned could do. wonder what he to bear again the burden and heat of the strangely white and frail, tlunks of me now !" day. Life had lost all interest for him. "I shall not leave you, mother; I am The speculation was a wasted _ one. She . l\l[rs. Beaupre read the eager. quest~on not such a coward as that," he said, with had no place in Arthur Beaupre's thoughts, m the blue eyes that gleamed with a piti- a.n attempt at cheerfulness which nearly which were wholly absorbed in the t'ask ful bnghtnessfrom the pale haggard face, choked the worn-out and Gverwrought before him. , Stro11g man as he was, he and answered it m her gen~le womanly nurse, who, not trusting herself to speak felt a 3udden deadly faintness steal over fash10n before her son had time to put it the gratitude that swelled her lrnart alhim felt his eyes ctrow dun and misty, mto words. most to bursting, found practical vent and' for a moment feared that he was "My poor boy I" She drew the hot for it in the prompt preparation of a reabout to swoon. How should he speak of head down upon her shoulder, and ~moo~h- 1torative. Nora to these men, how tell the love and ed back the soft short brown hair '!1th From that moment Arthur's pro1ifress to terror that possessed him~ Why had he trne mother-touc~es, tenderandsoothmg. recovery, if not very rapid, was steady not put the width of the earth between "You have be~n ill s~ long, A;rthur, that and sure. He knew the worst now, and him and the possibility of such a cruel -th~~ there is nothing ternble to f~ce all that was manly, and steadfast in the task~ Could h e escape even now~ Afas, now. , _ young man's nature woke and armed him no! Even as he asked himself the quesHe mismterpr~ted the words, and a against a cowardly despair. Life was . tion, h e heard Cristine's clear cold voice sudden horror dil.a ted and> da~kened the barren of hope and empty of joy ; but answering it and the query addressed to b~ne eyes. , H e tried to free himself from life held duties still. With the sun at h er simultaneouslyhis mothers clasp as he asked broken- noontide, he must not weakly cry for the "Mr. Beaupre tbld me. Mr. Beaupre ly-;;. · · ,, cool soft airs and deepening shadows of is now present. " The- the trial-is it over then 1 · the night. He had still his profession And the slender black-gloved finger Mrs. Beaupre bent her head a little and his mother. Men sorely wounded pointed with vengeful purpose to the re- lower, and answered softlyhad bound up their hurts and faced the mote corner in which Arthur sat. He "There was no trial, <,l.ear." battle bravely for less things than these. had no choice now but to perform the "Why~" The word was . but a long- He was up and about,jrail and shadowy one duty fa.id upon him, to tell the story d.rawn gasp ; Arthur held hlB breath un- looking, but still a room-bound invalid which had served to convict the girl he t1l the answer came. _ no more, before he again adverted te the loved so dearly in his eyes, and which ".Because-oh, my dear, b~ brave ,,and subject that filled his thoughts, and that must needs, he thought, t ell t erribly pa~!ent !- the r,oor u.nhappf- girl-hung forever like the :sword of Damocles agamst h er in those of othern. My Nora I he interrupted fiercely, -suspended in the air over poor :M:rs. All eyes rested eacterly on the pale and with a sort of savage pride. "Have Beaupre's head. handsome face, all ea;; were stramed to they found her,- has she- confessed r' He was sitting in a big chintz-covered catch the low-toned words m which this, Mrs. Beaupre shook her pretty gray easy-chair before the bright little fire. the h ero of the romance, told the head. . . which was acceptable t.o more than invapainful story of his meetmg with his "I,~old y~u, A1thur, all her P!lm is lids on this sunny but chill autumnal day. lost love. past, she said, with grave emphatic t en- A newsp!llper lay open before him ; but He had met Lady de Gratton by acci- derness. "Lady de Gratton is dead." . his eyes rested on his mother's face, and, dent, and knowing nothing of h er mar"Ah I" The sharp spasmodic cry t~nl~- had she chanced to look up, she would riage. Lord de Gretton had interrupted ed thro~gh the mother's h eart, f!lakm~ it have known his thoughts by their strange the meeting, and had naturally seemed acl~e with a keen sympathetic pam. wistfulness. displeased thatit should have taken place. Wit~ an abrupt movein~nt, _Art!iur tu~nBut, as it chanced, she kept h er gaze There h ad been no quarrel- this with an ~d Ins face to the :wall, m stmctively Jn~- steadily oil.._the work befor·) her, a piece earnest emphasis and evident sincerity. mg the 31gonyonwhich not even a mothers of fine darnmg, which she fancied few They had parted with the underR tanding eyes might look. women of her age could aclueve. She that Ghe farewell was final. Mr. Be~upre He asked no questions, the one great felt quite bright and cheerful to-day, and h ad returned at onGe to town, and only fact for the m oment swallowing up all looked as she felt. The morning sunlearned that I,ord de Gratton was d ead others for him. Nora was dead- no mat- light fell across the quamt old-fashioned from the evening newspapers t er h ow or where or when_ Never agam little room, fillmg it with warmth and No one d9ubted the truth of the young could tiie old days come back and brmg homely comfort; the fire crackled merrily man's story ; all pitied the pain with his bright-eyed s.veetheart to greet him m the small polished grate, the pale which it wae wrung forth ; but none the with outstretch~d hand and sunny smile. pretty asters she had arranged in an old less did it d o the work Cristme Singleton In t)re first sharpness of pain he forgot chma bowl refreshed her flower-loving inteuded it to do and sweep the last all the intervening anguish, forgot that eyes. Over and above all, Arthur had shadow of doubt from the jurors' barriers wider than the grave had come taken his breakfast with somethmg like minds. between them. The Nora who died for an appetite, and sat now quietly readmg "Wilful murder !" The verdict, aftcF him in that moment was not the wild- r Ins newspaper. Truly all thmgs were all, was but the echo of Arthur Beaupre's eyed sorrowful woman to wh om life was well wit h her to-day. own desperate thoughts. Yet the words, all bitterness and dread, but t he innocent "Mother, who followed Nora t o the linked with Nora's name, seemed to him light-h earted girl who had placed her grave?" the most hornble profanation. Nora, httle hand within his own and vowed to Suddenly, in the midst of her cheery his fair gentle love, his innocent be- love and trust him until d eath bid them vis10ns, the thunderbolt fell, scattermg trothed, a murderesa ! There was some- part. her h opeful fancies right and left, and thmg hideously unnatural in the idea. A smothered !!Toan broke from the pale raising a ctrim and spectral army in their 0 · These men did n ot know her, they cquld lips, and Mrs. Beaupre, who, from h er place. not call to mind a thousand instances of distant corner, had been anxiously await(T0 BE CbNTINUED. ) her patience, long-sufforing, gentleness, ing an opportumty t o break in upon t he as he could ; and yet the thought struck grief that she held sacred, now came to him sharply as a kmfe-thrust that he too the b edside. They who do speak ill of themselves, had doubted-no, not doubted- cmnict"Arthur dearest, it was H eaven's will " do so mostly as the surest way of proved her- in his own mind. .she whispered feverently, while the in g how modest and candid they are. The maiden s brow was aad, The waiden'e voice was low, And darkly looked she at the olock, :And darkly at her beau. "My pa wlll swoop upon you Before the clocl!: strikes ten, A.nd if hia boot once ma.kes you Ecoot We ne'er mll'meet again!' Then out spake brave John Henry, .A. suitor bold was he: .. "Let him who feai·s a fatho~a frown Like some base coward flee ; But I am not a suitor ·who'd safety seek m lhght; I'd sooner die than try to :fly Without first sbowmg fight." ' He sat upon the sofa, - , HlB arm around her waiet, .A.nd ot't he'd squeeze tho bh:ishrng maid, And oft her lips he'd taste. But hark 1 tile clock is s1r1kmg; It sounds like knell of doom! A. form appears ! The father fierce Comes sta,lkmg in t)le room. Helonks upon dis daughter. A tearis m hie eye , Ile gazes on her byld-eyed beau, His glance wq,s stern aud high. "Young man I give you w ..rnin~ 'l'o leave. without a fiout · .., Or else I'll see th.at you will be Feet foremost carried out," Then up sprang brave Jonn Henry An athlete strong was he ; · And with that frowning father's form _ He made exceed mg free. Ile gave him one lP-ft hander, Which sprawled him on the floor; H;a blacked his eye, smote hip and thigh, And drove hrn1 through the Joor. "Proud parent," quoth John Henry, "\>Vb at thmkest thou of me1 Dost thou bclteve tbutfrom this house That I would meekly !lee 1 If thou are not too weary, If thou canst wag thy jaw, I'd like to know if I'm too slow To be thy aon-m law~., "John Henry," spake the parent "As thou sa) 'st, so Jet it be," And straight unto the parson then Forth went both he and she. The lovers, m love's quarrels. Should be both brave and bold ; Or quite berefti they'll soCln get left And find the a.ay is cold. Now m tP.e nights of winter, Whene'er the clock strikes ten, John Henry chuckles at his wire, While rookmg little Hen. With ipgg!rng and with laughter, Again th.. t ale is told, Of how he fought when he did court In the brave davs of old. voi:rs !'.' llftfME (}UPJD 't1f --·-ND A U ~· I CHAl'TER XII· (c ONTINUED · ) "What did you do then 1" · "I shouted with all my might as soon as I could get my vorce back. All the 11ervants came m, and we sent for a doctor and lier ladyship. The doctor came at once, but her ladyship was not to be found." · John Hicks was followed by Celeste Dubois, Lady de Gretton's m11id, a q?ick, }>right-eyed Frenahwoman, who, 111 a very different fashion, told substantially the same story of the over-night dispute and the mornmg horror. "I went to call milady," she cried, with a dramatic uplifting of her hands, ·:to break to her the sorrowful and dreadful :news and she was not there ; she had fl.ed, her bed unslept in, her dress untouched, for she would not allow me to attend her at mght. She had gone, like a madwoman, out into the world." Mademoiselle Celeste's evidence produced a profound sensation, and left little doubt in the minds of the listeners that the flight had not been the only mad act laid to Nora de Gretton'e charge that nio-ht. Link by link the chain of evidenc~ convicting her was being forged fo her absence. It would be hard mdeed to find a weak place in it presently. The doctor, who was not a little flustered by the unusualimportanco attaching to his words merely deposed that he was called betwe~n seven and eight a. m. to Clift Cottage, and found Lord de Gratton, who had been dead five or six hours. He was stabbed under the l eft shoulder, and the blow had penetrated the heart. U ~mst have been dealt with considerable force, but- in answer to a timidly-put question- not perhaps with more strength than an abnormally-excited woman could command. The weapon used was long, ;keen, and narrow ; there was no trace of Buch a weapon in the room. He was of opinion that at the moment the blow was struck, or immediately after, Lord de Grettou had inhaled chloroform, as a 13trong odor still lmgered m the room and about the dead man. . At this point of the procee~rngs the Coroner thought it better to adJourn th.e inquiry for the production of fort.her evi(lence, and, if possible, for the dIBcovery of the missmg bride. So matters stood when, tor the second time m three days, Arthur Beaupre arrived at Stoke Vernon, and took up his quarters at the village inn. As yet his name had not appeared in the case ; no local detective, it seemed, ha~ discovered that there had been a third per~on present at that momentous beach meetmg that had brought jarring discord to mar the music of the honey· moon. He felt that it would have been wiser and better to k eep away, but a fatal fascination drew him. to the.spot in which th e death-blow to !us happmess had b een dealt, and kept him chained there from hour to hour, helplessly waiti.ng for the news he longed and yet dreaded to hea1~the news that Nora was found. . But the news lmg~red stra~gely. It was easy enough to brmg the ~nme home to th~ un~appy madden ed gu:l, who by flight mdeed _ h ad mad~ a yirtual ~onher _ fess10n of her guilt ; but it was ternbly hard to find her, thongh the keenest detectives in England were soon in search of h er and descriptive handbills appeared on every wall. ~t ?hould have been so easy, such mei:e c~1ld s play, to track the maddened fugit1ve, who must surely have b~rne about h er some traces of_h~r Mrnble deed. The detectives . were mdi15nant with and ashame~ of thell' own failure : the n ewspap_ers iromcally congratulated the~ _ on t h eir ~mstomary display of . persp1?uity and skill ; but a failure l~ still remamed, even after the Coroner's Jury had returnf ul murder," and the ed a verdict of "Wil_ Government h ad. given a fresh spur to zeal by the offer of a. large reward. ~erhaps the verdict. :would have been a h~tle . lon~er m commg, a httle more hesitatm~ m tone, but for the arrival of a new ~tness, whose clear straightfor wa!d ev1den?~ de~troyed the last element of improbab1hty m the case, and rs,ave. a .strong reason for Lord de Gretton s dIS- ! i 0 "' .A. Horse, Sir, is Like a Chilcl." THE JEWSJ IN ROUM.A.~IA. Standing, a few days, since, just outside the cabin of a ferry-boat on the Hud- The Tide or Fanaticism Agatnst. Them son, looking listlessly over the water Increalling In Fury and Barbarity, through which we ploughed our way, I With a regularity that would puzzle heard at my side tbe movement of har- even the most scientific ohserver, the tide ness, and then a voice saymg, ma playful of fanatwism against the Jews in Routone, "Now, Kate, behave yourself." I mania sets in with ever-increasing fury looked round, and sa\l that the words and barbarity. "\Vhilst in other countries, came from a pleasant looking fellow, and where the Jews formally were per- ~ were addressed to a bnght-eyed, power- secuted, their Imes have now fallen in fully built horse, agamst whose shoulder pleMant plaes, this is not the case in Roulie was le!lning. mama. The glamow· of an unreal civihAs l.e stood there, the horse would izatiun appears to have obscured her sight, throw her head round, and, openmg her at the same time that her dealmgs with. mouth, would reach after him, wlule the the Jews have become more and more disyoung man would draw back, repeating graceful. Not that we are handed ·over tho words which had drawn my attention to ferocious beasts as m the case of the to him, "Behave yourself, Kate." In her Roman emperors, or sent to the gallows. ungainly way, the animal was sporting Our treatment is even in some respects with her owner, and he was answering worse, we are living martyrs of unspoakable tyranny, h er pfayfulness. "You seem," said I to him, ~ 'to. It i1 not enou<rh for our enemies that have .~n mtell~ent and- playful horse, we are debarred 0 from exercising a large th~Ze. h numbe1 of callmgs and that public funcYes, sut·, shedk~wwi all \:~y to ed tions are withheld from us. Other means r am 0 accus o~ne P ay wi ier ; an are now taken to keep us down, among ~s I 1 am s~an~;~~y ~ert hjad,. 8hdttouch- them Jew-baiting, which has become a 1 mg iefr, s 1t;th11h ·s ia Swlis ·11of lilave favorite sport. The government, no some un wi er now. ie wi o ow I f h · t f f E t all and do anything I want her <;mger earmg t . e. m er erence o. ~rope ~eda ,,my c ' smce the recogmt10n of Roumaman mde0 cl I ' l t" r peudence by the great powers, make no " ave you owne iel a ong ime d secret of their action with respect to the Not very long, s~; about a year an. Jews and they now publicly order the a ha~f. You sec she is not a young horse. expuision of our corehgiomsts from vilShe is some twelve years old. But she }ages and towns in virtue of a new law can do more work, and more willingly, wluch confers arbitrary powers on the thfm any horse I ever owned, and though executive. The case of the expuls1011 of I am ~.young man, I have owned a good Rabbi Taubes, of Dorohoi, by order of m~~~ dd t tl t · the council of ministers, deserves special ou i no ' ien, ram 1 ler notice, as his case forms the startmgfrol!l th~ sta.rt to this gentleness and 1 pomt of a long series of contemplated_ do?~hty 1 persecutwus agamst the Jews. Some \Vell, sir, not exactly. Yet when I time ago the commissary of the town of first bought that horse she was a very dif- Dorohoi disgui~in,., lumself as a Russian ferent beast. Why, Sll', she was ugly and Jew de:Uanded adm1ss10n one mght mto stubbon1, she would, likely as not, re- the house of Rabbi Taubes The rabbi, who fuse to budge a step. But when 1 saw did not suspect that any danuer was in how she was handled by the man that store for him, admitted the v~sitor ; bu1;, owned her, I knew what was the matter. before a word could be spoken on either The owner was cross and ugly to her. He side h e was seized by some gendarmas- at beat .and banged, her about, and halloied the disposal of the commissary, carried angrily to~1er. 'Ihat mad~ t~e horse uoly. out of the house, and dragged into a carYou see, sir, a horse don t ~e that. If riage which stood inreadmess a few yards you are ugly to them they mll be ugly_ to eff. '.!.'he carriage w:.s driven straight toyou. He could not make her move with ward the Austrian frontier, over which the load of twenty-fiv~ hun~ed, we had the rabbi was conducted by his capto1s. put on the dray. I said to him, Let me For some time no one could understand take the lmes.' He gaye them to me, the motive for this harsh procedure. At and I went. to the horses hea~, patte~ length 1t was discovered that the rabbi her, and spoke softly and kmdly for had been the victim of a gross mi&reprea few moments to ~er, and then ~old he~ sentation, the prefect of the district havto go on. Why, sir, she moved nght off. irw denounced him to the mimstry as a. Then we put on ~he dray a load ?f forty spy of the Alliance Israelite ; hence his hund~ed, an,d I JUSt said to her, Go on, transportation across the frontier. Let Kate, and at. once she starte~, as if the me add that Rabbi Taubes was born m ~oad was nothmg. you se~, sir, a horse this country in the town of Targufromos, is hke a child; he will be JUst what you and that he has occupied for many years are t<;> lum. . Th~ man that owned her the post of rabbi of the community of said, m surpnse, If she would only do as Dorohoi. His father is at present rabbi much as that for me, I. would never let at Bottucham and his uncle fills a similar you have her.' H~ did not un~erstand post m Jasse~. H 18 antecedents, are, that yon must be kmd to au _ ii.mmal hke therefore, of the best, and as he is neither her. When I am harnessmg her,_or avagrantnormtroducedhirrtselfintothis when 1 come home with her, I i:omp with cot1ntry by fraudulent means, the chMge he! and she e~Joys it. She will do any- of bemg a spy is as base a calumny us his thmg fo:r: me. expulsion is unwarranted. · Fresh orders have been given that all I let him talk on. To a i~an wh~ has a good horse, you can do no oreate1 _favor Jews residmg 111 the rural communes, and.. than t? listen attentively and with mte!- engaged as clerks, overseers, farmers and e~t wlule he ~ells you all about tho quah- merchants, shall without delay qmt those ties of the ammal. You could cool off an places, and m case of refusal, force is to angry man, if you could only get a ?hance be employod m order to compel them to to stroke the ue?k, and look admmngly comply w~th this order. Five days' grace at the :flank of }us h orse. We soon reached 18 aiven them to settle their a:flairs_ The the v. har~, and parted. vVe shall not mgtive assigned for these exi)Wsions is m~et agam, but I" shall remember one that the Jews are addicted to underhand~hmg that he ~~id, You see, sir, a hors~ ed practices, t hough no pr?of can be citedi i~ hke a child. That remark showed m in support of tlus accusatwn. What an, s1ghG. ! amount of misery, accompamed by its l wish that a good m;my parents, some usual tram of evils, awaits many innpcent. that I have seen, and whose words lhear f ilies 1 in my walks, could learn JUSt a little of am · . what my acquamtanoe on the ferry -boat On the frontier,_ too, the J~ws a~e knewsowell. "Ifyouareuglyto them, they harassed on entermg or leavmg this will be ugly to you, sir." So he said, country. Roumama had already m~t and he was rio-ht. "He banued about that with a sharp rebuke from _Russia on this horse and spoke angrily to her, and it ?-Cc?unt. Incredible as this may appear, made her stubborn." That was it. It was it is. none th~ less true. If a Russ~an not wonderful. Jew is _Placed m an unf_ortunate pos1t10n It is so with children_ Do you think of h!1vmg t? make .a JOnrney to Routhat it is in human nature to be other- ~a~ia, the JOUrne;y is attended by many wise? Just remember. Were you ever difficulties of w~ich. he perhaps never called at sharply and angrily 1 Do you d1·~amt. If _ he reside m Moscow,~Varsaw, not remember just how the voice seemed or other distant parts of Russia, he is to stir up all that was determined in you, compelled first of all t? travel to Odess!1, and make you, almostinspite of yourself, at a large expens~ of time and money, m stubborn and willful 1 order to. have lns passport VlSed by the When I hear how some mothers and Roumaman co~sul gene!al before he can fathers speak to their children, I am not cro~s the !rontier.. It is _alleged that .the surprised in the least that they are diso- policy which msp1red this measure ~s a bedient. I think that I would be so too. desire to restrict the entry of Jews m~o I could not help it. The only relief I this country, and I must. say that if this could find would be in being ugly. The be so the government partially succeeded, very tone of voice has somethmg in it ~or no sensible J ew would tl~mk of entel"" that rasps you that are older, while mg the country under such c1rc~1!1stance~. it t ears mto the sensitive nature of a For a time the Russian !1uthonties ~etahchild. . ated by absolutel:y refusmg te admit.any _ "Oh, they get used to it," some one person, irrespective of creed, provided says, "and do not mind it." There is with Roumaman passports.~ But the b ear what is very sad in that, if it is so. It can and the fox have ~ome to ar~ understand· only be because your child has grown u:ig, and the frontier r~gulations for Rua. hard. The feelings must be callous, when s1an Jews have rema~ned the. same.harsh words do not wound or excite an- JasS'lj Oor. London J ewish Chronicle. ger. You can make an infant lip quiver by the tone of voice. You must not forSimple Little HorseTales get that the cords are not broken. They will vibrate at your call in the after" I remamber an experience of mine, ' sa1d tl1e cab-driver, taking off an overtime. You that have spoken roughly and coat that had at least ten capes. "I wasi often harshly to yo11r children, try the driving a 2.30 trotter along a country gentler ways. Soften the voice. L et it road, some fellow came up with a horse have the melody of kindness and affection that went by me as if I was standing in it. There are little faces that will look still. I was dead struck on his action up wonderingly, perhaps, at first, but the and speed, so when I had caught the boys aiid girls will surprise you with their chap at the next t avern I gave him $50 smiling obedience and manifested affec- to ent er the horse in a three-mile race fo~ tion. - F1 om "A Bachelor's Talks about a pot of money. Besides I backed liim Married Life." for every cent I could· lay my hands on. H e looked near the h<m1estr etch as if he The man has not lived in vain wh· cJuld distance the field, but just in front plants a good tree in the right place. of the club-house he stopped stock still. When one l eaves truth and honor he Ne thing could move him a foot. I found ' out afterward that a whiskey drummer eaves genuine success. Mr. Edward Harringto'n, proprietor of used to d1ive him, and nothing CllUld inthe Kerry Sentinel, who in June last was duce him to pass a bar-room. That pecusentenced to six months' imprisonment on liarity broke me." "l got broke 1 lne winter on a race nearaccount of the publication in the Sentinel of a placard inviting persons who desired Toronto," broke m the stabl e-boy. "It to jom the Invincibles to attend a meet- was on the ice. Of course my horse was ing, has been released from the Tralee rough -shod, but the other fellow went Jail, his t erm of imprisonment having ex- right away from me, and I lost all my. dust. I found that his horse's shoes had pired. been filed to an edge, and that the ani· One of the novelties in London is the mal had actually skat ed the mile in fiftyliterary bracelet. It is made of twelve eight seconds. You'll fin'!l it on recordtiny books (silver or gold), attached t o aml. re~ords can 't he." ~ each other by a double chain. Each little book bears the enameled name of a favorite poet or novelist. There are also I look upon mdolence as a sort of sui· musical bracelets of the same model, only cide ; for the man is efficiently destroyed, they, of course, have the names of operas though the appetite of the brute may sur· or composers. vive. "H _ ___............. ~----