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Durham Review (1897), 10 Nov 1898, p. 2

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One lovely morning Rose looked " her calendar and realized that it was a. first of June. She had been on- S-Orissa, by increasing her every-day Mr. Minturn went back and forth, doing kindneues for everybody, and. inspired by his daughter's faith. would teach Everett with its innttenee still Possessing and controllinf hint Mr. Pounce unveiled in new hopes. The young couple genes . week with In. and visions of future visits brought " the most exquisite pictures for his quiet contemplation. -- _ - _ . “That is sol Thin Is to be a lovely occasion. I have just been in the con- servatory. You shall have Easter lilies to decorate the table, and the lit- tie ones of the valley to wear. We'll light up all the scenes in the hall and dining-room, and put great tires on the hearths. It will be strange if 1 can’t find something in this house to give and honor your wedding-day.' you prefer strings! Music is al- ways soothing. A quartet of strings. or what you please. And I have ord- ered s Cako--ahat will please you, I know. Every girl thinks of her werd- ding-cake. I see you like pearls--' have some good ones." He looked at- tentively st the anchor. which had slipped from its lace covering. "Is that your motto: It is a proper one. Hope is a mainstay as well as an ant-h- or. Do you want to give your has- band a pleasant surprise when he comes! You shall show him a pie- ture that will always be present to his eyes. Up in the olive room, in a box, you will find a. white dress. I remembered that you chose that room asyour favorite. loften buy costumes. You know in dress may be a work of art, as much as a book or s painting. I went some weeks ago to on exhibi- Hon of imported gowns. and this one I thought worth having. It seemed to me then that it might have been de- signed for you. It is heavy and rich. the lines are all long and the stuff is heavy and rich. Then the draperies are delicate. They have some French name for the material; I forget it. While you are making yoursel more bride-like, I'll find those pearls for you. I think the house will seem dit- Ierent to me after tcr-dar-lens like tt museum and more like a home. Per- haps you will often come to bless it with your sweet influence " Mrs. Everett and Mollie remained in town. unwilling to be away if news should come. The fear of poverty and disgrace being removed. they could indulge in grief of a purely personal nature. This passion resembled a spring which. overflowing suddenly. sweeps away all artificial boundaries, and makes its natural channel. Mrs. Everett lived over her early years of married life, and traced. as it were on a map, the lines of departure from ways of love and consideration to those of selfishness and indifference. Her remorse troubled her son, who was trying to make hope and faith his sup- rd",', in the daily duties that tall to is share. Powers was irresistibly lovable and encouraging.’ He man- aged to keep Everett in sight when away from home, going with him on ad quests and cheering him with theories_ol bright, possible ehsneee._ "It ‘is like, being in fairyiand. with- out even the effort of waving the wand." Toward the end of the month, Itose yielded to her husband', advice and re- turned home with her lathe-r and grandmother. The city was ttrt and dusty, and the monotony ot suspense was beginning to tell upon her ap- pearance. Carefully prepared state- ments had apprised the public tint the bank was solvent, and that the pecuni- ary affairs of its missing president were in s flourishing condition. So the fact of his absence ceased to attract fem-run notice and discussion, and his amily pursued all known means for his discovery, with only dishearten- ing_ results. - _ "Ah. but we were not to think of curb things to-day." Mr. Pounce wrote his invitationsand left the room with them. Rose was grateful for the rest and quiet. and when the old man returned, her dreamy smile rewarded him for his goodness. She spoke playfully. "After all, there are hairy god-fath- ers in the world." “It takes it good little girl to make one appear. You see. after all, my propensity for saving in going to re- sult in something very useful to you. 'Old money-lmgs.’ as they call me, will open some of them and let you scatter the treasure. Perhaps, one of these days when [em going where money It; not needed, you will come and hold my hand. You will not let me die neglected and tuone--unioved, un- wept?" "I think it la always wise to be nonal- ble. You must dine somewhere to- day; why not here! I know how you feet, child. Now let no talk this over from the bright aide. You will be willing to do me a kindness. I want this day to be one tor you to recall always with delight. You have been too much absorbed and excited to ree- lize what a momentous day it is in your life. You ahall put away all end thoughts for tomorrow, and we'll set about making your husband and his tpie (eel happier, if only for a few mars. Now, we'll assume that Ever- ett in alive and turong--1 have no doubt of the. fact in my own mind. We'll ptaro his chair at the foot of the table and drink to the absent. I'll get my notes off and then we'll plan all our lilt_l¢-, delights." . CHAPTER XX. "I an going to ask all these people who no concerned in your welfare to dine here this evening. We can dis- cuss the matter thoroughly and get ready for action to-morrow. Let me Bee; this young fellow who undet- ntunds about the business and thinks he could manage everything with my bank account behind him-eht We must have him. Then, that chap with the big heart and bright wit, wheeo- joys idknes.--we'it need him to enliven us." "But is it wit-tder the circnm stances t" CHAPTER XXI nll traces of their recent tryiuirordeai. His ransom were Perf or. E, eryihing now depended upon giving Mr. Everett the complete repose of mind that he expected. He had chosen his place of refuge. and them he was at. Ind in good care. In due time Mr. Hintnrn :mived with proper circumstance and “that”; and too! Mr. Entire“ Md Rose on the porch discussing Larry. Later on, after Mr. Everett had retir- Presently. without luring night of the ham, she ran noiselessly to the nearest wing and sent for Mrs. Min- turn. They decided upon the tele- gram, and then Rose went to keep her joyous vigil. At noon her grand- mother relipved her while she ate her lunci and then she returned to her post. The family physician camu at intervals, looked, put his fin- ger to his lips, and stole back to the house. Rose imagined the effect of her telegram. When the sun was low in the west and the bees that inhabit- ed the harm were returning so heavily laden that they passed close to her face, Rose ww, attracted by a slight. broken sigh, and met Mr. Everett's eyes fixed upon hers. A startled ex- pression changed to one of eager eat- iefaction. He looked about him, and seemed gradually to recognize his sur- roundings. Ho rpolre slowly. "Where am It" "Taking a little nap in the barn." "When did I get heret" "This morning." "That was quite an inspiration. 1 made up my mind yesterday, the mo- ment I felt my head growing heavy and numb, to come here. I left the office and started. I knew that Larry's little girl would be glad to see me, and I thought of the restful at- mosphere of this spot. But. dear mel i Coming out or a light. sleep and lying quiet amtthoughttat, she was conscioua of a sound that was strange and unaccountable. Rose knew that her nerves were not in ttuar normal condition. and her first impulse was to rise quickly and call one of the ser- vants. she had a natural shrinking (trom tramps and stray animals. and ;this peculiar noise was certainly pro- ?duced by heavy breathing. After ireuching this concludon, she located 'tIre irrrgular respiration. Between Aer Seat and the sine door stood a row of stalls no longer in use, and they ‘uoncenled the object of her com-.rn. ‘D'lt't'p is helpless. She summoned her courage, and going soft.y to the end 101 the p..rtition, bent forward and looked beyond it. The floor was cover- ed with loose straw, and stretched upon it was a figure that Rose knew well. For a second her heart seemed to be in her throat. She made no sound-only observed; She was aware that for this man sleep was the great .hoon: His head rested on a small val- Ise, his hat was carefully laid aside, his gloved hands were comfortably placed in the straw. his light overcoat was unhuttoned. and his watch-chain was visible. " hat a wonderful sight was this! Rose could only gaze upon it in an ecstasy of delight. Then a sense of gratitude-overpowering, silent - pols-t sesseil her. I have had most vivid, disagreeable dreams! It seems to me that I have been changing cars for an indefinite period of time. Did you ever have such a dream?" Everett to return to-New Haveai, "it counselled Mrs. Everett and Mollie to RI back to tpe, city and quietly “more “In'lwd. yrs. You want to reach a place. but you always go in the wrong direclion. It won rs you out, in sleep." "'lhat's it exactly " "But. you see. you are here with us. and it is nearly dinner-time. Daddy had some btrineste that called him away. so grandma and I will have you all to ourselves." The dinner proved charming in every particular, and having lingered for a little chat andasmoka with Mr. Everett, Dr. Coleman reluctantly pleaded professional duties. His do.. cision was most satisfactory. He sent Mr. Minturn home to mount guard over his self-invited guest. told young "No, you shall have mine. Oh, we're going to have a jolly little vaca- tion. I won't be needed for a week, at least. nnd Larry is bent on winning prizes. We won't interfere with him -ehf" Hosp slowly collected her senses, and having shown Mr. Everett to his room, she comuucd Dr. Coleman, who was reading in the librmy. He concluded to happen in accidentally and any to dinner, make his own notes, and then meet the Everetts at the train and te they his opinion and advice. "Did you know, I really have an appetite. So much for country air and a :19de sleep." "Will rod take my arm?" Rose laughed. a. pillow of hay, and while thinkipg of the strange condition of family "ttairs she dozed. When she awoke the drowsy nonunion continued. so she indulged it, for she. had become ac- qauinted with restless nights. _ In spite of her preoccupation, she knew that the side door of tho barn was open-an unusual eireumatanoe. However, it caused an extra. draught, the morning was warm, and she ply'- ed herself comfortably to 00.503 the breeze. After a while she made '1 he birds were noisily pursuing thy" search for food, and a humpiirig-bi.rd that found honey in her vicinity 1n- terested her. When it flew off to- ward the barn something impelled her to follow. This old barn was her most Charming refuge for the enjoyment of day-dreams. Why not go in, find a fragrant seat in the hay, and think of the wonderful incidents that follow- ed her marriage? occupations, to lose sight ot time. which seemed to creep with her. Lite had suddenly become an enigma. It was hard to feel that she could do no- thing to help those whom she loved. \fhe was sensible enough to admit to herself that she was beat off in the country. “Her presence in the city only added another to Larry's cares, ind he had enough to burden him. She sat down on the porch to consider the beauty of the day and what use to make of it. - Presently, came by the Vicar. but he only shook'his head with a smile as he passed his son. . "Not going to honour me, Geoff r " Not this morning, sir; you said you were going to preach about the pro- digal son. and you always have a cut at me over that parable. I can't face it." The Vicar laughed He was broader.. minded, and perhaps. too, easier-gains than his daughter, as a man who had mad much and thought much would be likely to bo-Florence took the more practical if more narrowing aspect-of Leaning upon the stone parapet of the, bridge, looking down with akeen interest at the spasmodic movements nt' the tinny tribe, was a young man of six-and-twenty. He was tall, and rather slight in build, and, he had smooth, dark hair, and eyes that were as brown and translucent as the waters into which they were gazing. He was pleasant-looking, rather than hand- some-he might not, possibly, he ever mistaken for a hero, but he would nev- er, in any company, have been taken ttyrany)hipar, but a gentlernan. The villagers, in groups of three or four, in twos, or tsingly-in beat bon- nets with blue and red ribbons, in long cloaks puckered up round their necks, or in clean smacks of faded green and dingy drab-came bubbling by on their road to morning service. The school children trooped past with the neat 'ittle teacher behind them-his little >isters and their governess hurried by him-but still the young man in the 'rrown suit, with the clear brown eyes. 'urned his back upon the village com- munity, and stared down at the trout in the rippling stream, " Not going to church? erted a voice ‘ohind him." Oh, Geoff! I wish you "would! it does set such a bad example, .u see you lounging here when every- body else is goiagto church." - _ - With a gesture, half of 311383", half of sorrow, Florence Dane burned on an}; left Tun, His clothes were the ordinary coun- try dress of a gentleman on a week- day--a brownish tweed suit, and a brown pot-hat-there was about his at- tire no trace of the "go to meeting," orthodox black coat, which the relig- ious ceremonies of the seventh day neem to exact of us as a moral neces- wily. Ergo, this young man, had, evi- lently, no intention of obeying the mandate of those tinkling belle, not I hundred yards away from where he stood. " If you worked as hard as I do from Monday to Saturday, you would beglad enough too not to be what you call. 'respectable' on a finé Sunday morn- It l’ike this. Go on, Flo, you will be ate.' On this particular Sunday morning, Ilia autumn sunshine glinted down through the halt-stripped branches, and lay in yellow streaks upon the road Leneath. It came down, too, with a sunny iadianee upon the little flat, green meadow, and upon the rippling waves of the river, lighting up all the brow) pebbles at the bottom of the -,lrtllow-strearu. The speckled trout My basking in the warmth, here and there, under the stones, or darted about swift- ly_in the opulescent water. - Thus reproachful}y addressed, Geof- frey Dane slightly turned his head, but did not otherwise alter his posi- lion. There stood behind him ayoung indy wit): a number of hymn-hers, um] " roll of music under her arm. She had I clever but not a pretty face, and she had brown eyes like her brother's-only they were not quite so pleasant to look 't--and she had no pretensions to ele- gance either of form or attire, but were a plain, useful stuff gown, very short, to keep it out of the mud, and " pair of good strong country boots upon her feet. The eldest Miss Dane was organist and choir leader in her father's church, and was on her way to Sunday morning duty. She was two years older than her brother, and was a good specimen of a hard-working, sensible-minded, country clergyman‘s daughter. She was her father's right hand, and the prop and tsupport-as we” as the admonishtsr--of the whole village of Coddisham. "My dear child," said young Dane, in answer to this young woman's some- what dictatorial appeal, "Do you im- agine that I come down all the way from London to Coddisham in order to set a Jpyo1 _ex_ample to tho village t" "r think fou needn't a.t.all pvents flaunt your Sabbath-breakgng' In the face of the whole Parish-it mat really respeetable." He had driven himself over in _I light wagon, and they took a turn In the dewy air and compared happiness Joy is a giant-a perfect force. When the throng of graduates ss- sembled for their Class Day glorifiosp tion. Everett held his coveted place in the ranks. His party was a large one. It included his father, in buoyant hmlth and spirits; a venerable gentle- man with sharp eyes and a stout stick, who devoted himself to a handsome old lady; and a tall girl with bronze hair and a brilliant smile, who went about with him and was made known to his intimates as Crny wife." One Sunday morning, late ln Octo- ber, the church bells were ringing merrily from the square grey tower at the end of the village, and the red yellow leaves were fluttering down in quick little showers from the over- hanging limes and chestnuts on eith- er side of the road. A trout stream rustled and gurgled with a pleasant murmur through a narrow green meadow which divided the struggling irregular street of thatched and gamed cottages on the right, from the old church. in its green churchyard to the left. It, the church, stood upon a little conical hill, that lifted it above the road, so that any- one upon the bridge across the river could only we the porch and the lower portion of the ivied walls, and the green, swelling graves that surround- ed them; till the upper part was hid- den by the long arching boughs of the avenue trees that led up to it, and Whose trenches, like friendly hands, stretched forth and interlaced them- selves overhead. for tho night, Rose received a little note, and going a short distance down tht red,, {quad Lam-y apyaitintr Aer. Diamond (1) RIO iRCHIVEs TORONTO CHAPTER I. HIE ilti4 {ll llt Mt The End. giigl , Guest. It anniversary dinner-You belo g to one bunch of the host's HER ' I believe! P61 1usiatton-Yea, I belong to the 'bran that never had my plum on t. Su-angely enough. Fritz is not more villainous of temper than other ele- phants of his great age. The German officials of the Zoo do not look forward to any great difficulty about manag- .ing him. He wilt use his great strength to crush peanut shells. Pink lemonade will not be his drink, how- ever. He is not a. circus elephant. But for this lack of tone, his life will be conleur de rose. He will no longer have to work for a living. Whether he will regret his bloody occupation, no one will ever know. A report has been circulated since it was known that Fritz was to go to Berlin that the warrior Kaiser in much interested in the beast and means to see if expcrlrnenta cannot be made with him to determine just how effec- tive elephants may be in modern wu- "Fritz," assuming that to be his new name for sake of argument, is an elephant with a history. He has been for sixty years the chief public executioner of Burmah. And as elo- phants are very long-lived, he has still forty years to live in the Berlin Zoo. Thin link-sausage of a name may be several syllables out of joint, but it doesn't matter. The beast will have to be renamed annow-"Fritz" or "Max" or "Ernest" or possibly even "Wilhelm." Because he is not going to be a Burmese elephant any longer, but a Balinese, a. naturalized citizen of the German Empire. The reasons of this practical although simple expression of surprise and in- terest were twofold. Firstly, he had never seen the person who was advanc- ing towards him in his life, before, which, considering that he knew ev- ery man, woman and child within a radius of ten Miles from Coddisham, was peculiar. and secondly. in the whole course of his existence he had never, to his knowledge, seen anybody yet in the very least like her. To be Continued. It will be a great change. Men have trembled and turned pale at the bare mention of Fritz's Burmese name. Robbers and murderers were his play- thing. When they were thrown to him in Isis pit, he welcomed them with a wide grin. Very deliberately, but conclusively, he set his broad toot upon his man. squeezing the life out of him in one agonizing moment. It was, at any rate, more merciful than the "peine dure et torte"--the death by pressure of the Middle Ages. And it may be more merciful to let an elephant kill crimi- nals than to let them be shocked to death by electricity, as is done in some places even now. Fritz was won- derfully clever at the hangman’s trade. Utselesstoramun toattempt to get away. Slow and cumberous as his movements may seem, an elephant can outrun any man in the open. For Sixty Inna Slnyr of lien, [Ink-da- l-cluu Will New Become a Pet or cull dren. The European press has contained no more interesting "personal" of late than the brief items concerning the great Burmese elephant, Hak-da-i-eha. In a narrow pit he can reach about with his mighty trunk through a rad- ius of many Ice: and pick no his Vic, tim, strive he never so earnestly to geyaway. - Always the end was the tsame-the brief shriek, the groan of death, the crgshing weight. He lifted his head sharply-and saw the figure of a woman coming slowly along the road towards him under the over-arching branches of the chestnut trees. There was something in the as- pect of this female figure which caus- ed Geoffrey Dana‘s brown eyes to open themselves to their widest and full- est, thereby displaying the fact that they were very beautiful eyes,--and al- so still further to give signs of aston- ishment hy a sudden reversal of him- self-that is to say, whereas up to now he had leant forwards upon the para- pet of the bridge, he now leant back- wards upon it, supporting himself with his elbows behind him upon the wall, so that he faced the oncoming fig- ure along the road. the details of daily Ittts, but It did not shock Mr. Dane at all that his son should prefer an idle morning on the bridge, with his pipe, and the sunshine, and the trout, to the long service in the crowded little church; he thought it very natural for a man who was oooped up in a London office all the year round, and would have been more inclined to blame him for a pharisaioa.1 attendance, than for his more honest absence. . So Geoffrey stayed on the bridge, and it was not accounted unto him for Bye and bye the church bells stopped, and the last straggler went in, and the doors were shut, and there fell a profound silence upon the road, and the world without. Now that the clanging sounds were hushed, you could bear, with a delicious diatinetnetgs, the soft undertone of Nature's voices, the gurgling of the running water, the far- away "Coseoroo" of a wood-pigeon, and even the rustle of each particu- lar little brown and yellow leaf " it flooted down to its death upon the moist bosom of the earth. How long this lasted he never after- wards could have told you, but all at once, he became aware with that strange occult instinct that we all poo- sess, more or less, though few of us know the why or wherefore of it, that he was no longer alone in that still landscape. Borne presence had invaded his solitude, some other human entity beyond his own shared in the sweet influences of the sunshine and the air. The young man upon the bridge might have been carved out of stone, so quiet, so immovable did he remain; and so intensely was he in harmony with the absolute and delicious stillness round him. , it sin TO BECOME A ZTEPOO. FRUGAL. I "The harbor presented agrandly aw- ful, seascape. The water, caught up , by the wind gusts, rushed in showers _ of white mist seaward. Each succeed- ; ing squall whirled the sparkling spray l into fantastic shapes which broke up- ton the headlanda, leaving the harbor entrance indistiniraishatms in amass of t white vapor, within which the sea could 'be heard distinctly pounding. among ithe hollows of the Vigie rocks. To- I ward the evening it began to rain in earnest, with occasional flashes of ' lightning and the rumbling of distant thunder.' With the oncoming of night the lightning became incessant. flash- i mg with lurid vividness, and the thun- ider rolled out in staccato claps sug- ' gestive of some terrific artillery battle, (but a short distance away. Then the (flood-gates of Heaven were opened, , and Niagaras of water poured in a con- _ tiuuous downfall upon the island. For i ten mortal hours the deluge continued _ without“ let or pause. -eev “w”... .unuer strongly I, being unaware that spurrican w“ expected, did not turn bagk. gins town, I may here exithiin, is practical; formed by three-parallel streets run- ning out to live-ta Malia}? out." runnln nort an ion . one t roe 'it/e/df although, I believe. but” other names, are common!) 'sattesd Bay. Middle and Back stgeetp, mtivn. ". 'e... _ A , . 1y. __- uvubuul' and been hot and unsettled of late. My own experience of the hurri- cane began about mine 1.121.. when I left my room to walk down to the th. tholie church. a llttla under half a mile away. Although I noticed that the wind wee blowing rather atronnlv t Int-u- _____, -- ,r_, v- ‘uuw W110 of lite. and strength on Su ing, were before the close either crushed or drowned l ence, others again were cu ed down and killed in the I ing missiles. The weatht hot and unmttlnd no 1...- "V -." .004... "nu-Hg 1mm lungs- town on September 16th, states: Although it seems that. the few per- sons whu have barometers warned as many as they could that ahurricane was approaching, it may be safely as- serted that comparatively few perilous knew, on Saturday evening, of the tar ritie storm that was about to burst on this place on the following day. Alas! many of those who awoke, full of life and strength on Sunday morn- ine. Were anrn tk., -I,, - - - ‘_v unvx;l. U]. V "The Rosaeau Valley was in I same plight, hut with the addet tune that the landslips were ous, and nearly all ttr, prosperc plantations in this fertile val. sustained permanent injury; a said to be ccmnletelv Irv-min DETAILS OF THE RECENT HURRI- CANE IN THE WEST INDIES. The labour at " he“ 'Free"'"" - In: Granny Awful ii-re-alrite Description By III Eye-Winona of the Hurricane at Kingstown. West Indian papers give graphic ac- counts of the terrible hurricane that recently visited the island. The Bar- badoes Advocate says: - - ' , -t...A' -"e"t -.-.-- .uv .uuuuupa were numer- ous, and nearly all ma prosperous cacao plantations in this fertile valley have sustained permanent injury; some are said to be completely wrecked." DESCRIPTION BY AN EYE WITNESS A correspondent writing from Kings- town on Mont-b,,,.. 112.]. ' . TERRIBLE BigtgWllllllf, "At five pan., on Monday the val- ley from the Marne presented the ap- apearapce of an immense lake in which fields of well-grown canes stood out as islands. Mr. Bennett waded and swam about the valley on Monday, for the whole was one sheet of water. "The Rosseau Valley was in much the same plight, hut with the added mister. tum: that the, Inna.”w "At nine o'clock on the (are: lug-n, the wind was blowing with hurricane force. The sky, which had been of inky blackness, was now one mass of quivering brilliant continuous elw trio waves leaving the sky tl lurid red- dish hue. Against the hillsides and down the valleys the electric fluid flashed like shining streams of quick- silver. The waving branches were one moment a mass of silvery light, the next they vanished from sight in the black pull of hurtling darkness. BO- tween eleven pan. and midnight the storm reached its height. The barome- ter had fallen to 29.462, and the velo- city of the wind, for one mile, was sev- enty-tive miles per hour. The raging of the wind deudened the sound of even the thunder, and the strongest houses swayed to and fro beneath the gusts. "When a sunless daybreak came on Sunday, town and country were under water, and the rain continued to full with more or less regularity until Monday morning. When at length it was possible to get around on Sunday, the signs of desolation on every side Were heartrendlng. Never had it been our lot to look upon scenes more re- plete with misery and woe. The streets were shallow rivers filled with trees roofs of houses, telephone posts and palimdes. and were impassable except to foot passengers. On every side roof- less cottages met the eye, whilst thou- sands of homeless, chilly, rain-tsoaked halt-naked persons wandered around, taint from fright and want of food,too dazed at their misfortune to do more than state blindly at the places from which their homes and all their posses- sions had been swept away. The city Presented a woe begone spectacle." AWFUL SEASCAPE AT ST. LUCIA. The Voice of St. Lucia describes the effects of the hurricane in that island. The journal lays: "Out from the villages, ever and anon between the pauses of the wind, accentuating them with tragic et- foot, came the cries of the poor people whose trailer houses were being swept away. The crash of falling trees, the mapping of teleph me posts, the shrl"kl of the inhabitants, mingled with the roar of the elements and impressed the mind with asense of horror and hell? lessness rather than of fear, nteeling vividly implanted on the mind and ne- ver to be forgotten; yet, like the cause from which it arose, impossible to per- fectly expreM. At two e.m., the storm had spent its force, but the flood-gates of Heaven were opened, and the mis. erable ruins that the wind had made were deluged and floating away. v -e-- "-ww. respective- My tottd to my destination lay u. ""-V v. yuu "N or drowned out of exist, rnin --- - . V blowing with hurricane r, which had been of ' was now one mass of liancy, continuous eletw Inner Jtith, states: Leems that. the few I barometers warned could that ahurrio: were Cut or Gai.. in the open by tlr.. yeather had been Prose-M i I”-¢nphlc [men or ‘If of 153;, 'ka,' But t ,.1idrrTan'"irav"i"iiri? i7itlitii: about the jockeys A Very pathetic scene occurred " Myers Bridge, St. Vincent. About mid- might. when the storm was at ill height, the despairing screnms ot a wo- man rang out above the din of the storm. In the streets of the village l distracted female, clad in the HM!!- t.iest clothing. was rushing about. Her five children had been swept away by a landelip which had overwhelmed hf'r home, her youngest child being liler- tillr dragged out of her hsnds. But even more pathetic was the fate of a little girl " Laborie. Who we! the sole inmate of a house close to the Water. To the horror of a number of mentors the child, who wss stand- Inte st the window smiling and quite unconscious of Mpg, was swept ewsy .to m bathe ebb the tidel “we. on the Book street, moron. and aloe: than, which the wind was blowing from unortherly direction. I could see the rain being driven at a great rate before the wind, which was playing furiously among the palm and other trees, yet so well above the street did it blow that I had no difficuhy in holding up my umbrella. 0n passing the Wesleyan chapel, a strong gust caused me to run for shel- ter in a doorway in one of the cross streets. From this place I was able to make out the two masts of a schooner which I was told had been blown out of the harbor to sea, where, when 1 law her, she was in great danger ot laundering. After a few minutes, I left cover and made for my dam inalinn which I safely reached. On my way down I noticed that_branchles of trees Early in the day crowds of people from the. country began pouring in the town with tales of death and disas- ter. About five pan.. I went to 'he court house, and an unpreeedenied scents met my eyea. The plug was fill- ed with acrowd composed principally of Poor black people of all ages. ssho had been rendered homeless by the hurricane. The great majority were soaking wet; only here and there a mu who had managed to save and pram-t a dry Garment or two, could be wen in, or putting on, dry clothes. Among the sights that met my eyes that of 5.10008 negro and nyuung negro.“ with a baby in her Irma sitting enm- pactly enthroned in the Bishop's than was about the must incongruous, Go- uyr out from the Cathedral into the pitch dark night lighted now and “gum by flashes of lightning, my two friends and mybelf gingerly felt. our way along one of the footpaths, leading to the street. and headed tor our homes. About the worBt feature in the utspect of r.hi.utps is that almost the entire is- land " bereft of fruit and other trees. The trees, usually so green with lone. ary bare, Ind look like trees in mid- wtnter, or as though a fire had raged over the. land. had been, end were being, broken, um palm branch falling I few yards he. hind me in the streets. and some tele. phone wires had come down, but no bones that I could see had tsuffered much annexe. TEE VIOLENCE OF THE STORM. been raised to the ground. The no! and upper masonry of the Public Lil» rary was on the ground, and the fish» market shed near it. The Weelerar, chapel and Wesley house the "wi- dence of the minister, were partially wrecks. The Anglican cathedral which has recently been undergoing repairs. was nearly stripped bare of gluten, and only the remains of the cupola were to be seen. Bad as was the weather, it was not bad enough to prevent a few persons attending the Mass which was said by the parish priest. Mass over, i could hear the violence of the storm out- side increasing. and now and then omi- one and disquieting creeks. Not until the raging storm of wind and water was such as not to be mistaken did I realize that ahurrieane was on us. Signs of coming disaster soon became apparent. Cries of distress from wo- men could be heard above the roar of the wind. Boon after half adozen or so of them drenched to the skin and in a state of abject terror, took IP- fuge in the building. A crash in (he yard told of the western portion of the roof of the Presbytery church having come off. A man who, reporting that his house had been blown down, had come in tor shelter, warned us that the roof, which could be seen slightly going up and down at the western end was likely to come down. Looking around, the space under agellery at the eastern end and almost under the tower seemed to me the safest phluo and thither we went for safety. There, feeling anything but comfnrtable, and more or less drenched to the skin, the refugees, among whom was I, witness- ed the western portion of the roof he- ing lifted up. and saw " come. down wiih a crash inside the church, I first, a second, and tsthird time, tttr various intervals, leaving the western half of the building unrooted and amass ot wreckage Inside. A friend coming to look me up told me that the Rev. J. B. Darrell, the principal Wesleyan minister in this col. any, had been wurning the people that a second and worse. blow was near at hand. On all sides it is said that Mr. Darrell, by going about and warning all and sundry that the worst was not over was the means of saving many a life, which, but for that warning. might have been lost. The second ttere tion oft he hurrieane,whieh blew gilt cipally from the south-east, was, rom all accounts, more destructive and very much worse than the first, tor it blew down many buildings which had with. stood the assault of and caused tht death of many who had escaped urr scathed through the first. When 1 was Able to go and hare e look round the town, the streets “err strewn with tiles. dates. galvanimc and other rooting, and nearly every where barred by fallen houses or freer -telephone and telegraph wires help- ing to obstruct pedestrians. The en- tire roof and moat of the town house of Mr. Ernest A .Rlchards, merchant and land owner, wee lying m 3 cu:- fused mass across the upper part of the back street. His country residence {It Mon Hill his, I have since learnt, AN UNPRECEDENTED SCENE. THE SECOND HURRICANE. PATHETIC INCIDE 1" 3'." " in tttated apply for pom bank rubber: on November The Niagara [list but! again-I ttte pr I! monument at Q Ionlzoury. I It in reported at H J. S. 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