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 ^l^ mm m^^ssuf^^nmmm of Itoher d^fcP h^ he 1^1 J scene. ^1 lack into-jJI -my â€" -~i RIFT AND VENGEANCE AM0K6 THE .OVE AND SMUGGLERS. I| eminence j^ I wi miles 80B% I pd is comnw^l letranBfigTtt^ K) feet ks-i. I It with oiS,| with an^l iit with at oc.| It is a platea« I Lk8 fes Irill, scene, â€" [eg Ides, Ide lair lajer. \-Thre«- [free, â€" IhlUm,-. I bow â- row. kaep, OH, es draw near, cheer. yrand, • ami," Seer, ith found ;,'ro\ind, tte, -â- t, â- iid d Airh friend. ow brow irpiise :ie'.5. scene â€" 'iiie, night. hear â€" s.'iaye bear, there in ends .ds. oud shroud f ijloom, ooni ,11,(1, irroiind. and clear, well â- e more, ' o'er iWL-rs. houi-» â€" r, n hear. lifht, oose, ht. by Thee, he way, for me. tray, 3. way. tn, â- 8 be, Jtfall t;-' me. EleaTen lis, 'hrone" not mine.' le one re, le sc«r alian tiDops n the Ital- ci^einent, is five met the march to not prored. It EngiiiA ed to n^i • those two-,: ish peo]^« work denff" idun. Thej. 1 natioa « 3n up di#' e reacfaiiiff ' ion to thli^ ish troop* i th»te»f*\ ish CTes..-** is in allsf- impreTilif Thb Most FAflCdAinro Ocbav Bokakob Si»ae ih« Dam ov CkoPBB Ain Mataxt. CHAPTER XXVIlI.â€"(CosTiHUED). They saw him, then, standi up in theb»t ^nd look over the bulwarks of the cutter by Iclinging to it.* aide and scramblmg up a foot lor two Then he dropped mto the boat ' lagaia and began slowly to pull away from the Rift Suddenly he paused. Something attracted his observation in the water. lOur friends from their boat, too, saw that Bomething. .. j /~. u " What is it? whispered Gerald. '• Hush Nothing." " \h, I f-ee ii-.w. Benjamin." "Hia'boly. He ia drowned See! Dolan knows him j!OW " They saw Dolan bow over the side oi tne b(at and turn the body over, so that the face was visiljle, and then he at once recog- nized Benjamin. He did not say one word, but bent to the oars and pulled quickly to the mouth of the cavern. There was one part of the sails that clos- ed tha entrance, which could easily be push- ed aside so as to allow a boat to pass out, and it was toward that part that Dolan rowed. He was evidently escapin^^ with a treasure- chest from the cavern and then Martin said to Joseph "Shall we stop him?" " No, "interposed Gerald. " Let him go." " But it's very unfair. The rascal is making away with the money of the whole crew.' "He cannot go far." " Who knows He may have some cutter â-  cr schooner waiting for him in the offing; and, before daylight, may be far enough otf. It seems a hard thing to let him go easily." "I cannot control you, sighed Gerald. " Do as yon please." ;race crept closer to Gerald. " No," said .Joseph to Martin. " Let us land our cargo here first, and then I have scmething to say to you. Dolan will only 'o to the cottage to-night, you may depend Spou tliat. I have been on the lookout till within the last hour, and there is nothing in the otnng waiting for him. Besides, we can watth lus course. If he goes seaward, let us overhaul him, if he double the point, we shall know he goes to the cottage." " Be it so." Dolan reached the opening of the sea-cave into the bay. He put aside the sail cloth and rowed out into the open water. "Now, pull away with a will," said Joseph " we shall soon see what course he intends to take." They were through the opening in the sail- cloth in another minute and then they saw Mr. Suffles, j'oa and your fanuly are very much more romantic tJum I thonglit you all were. Good night. I can t?ll you boatmen, that there's a squall brewing." " You don't say so, sir Bless my heart and life And what. Lieutenant Anderson, may you be about here in the bay at this time of night?" " Why, wc have captured a good cargo to-night and we are on the lookout for another." " Oh, yes I Ha Good night." "Good night Cast oflF, my men." The revenue galley disappeared in the darkness. " Thank yon, Mr. Suffles," said Martin. " Oh, don't mention it. Business, yon know, is business. I'm ever so much better and if Dolan goes off and you, Mr. Martin, set up in the same line of business, I hope you won't forget your very humble servant, Charles Olympus Dufr»in Suffles, Esq., who will be only to happy to purchase any cargo of you on reasonable terms." " Oh, you will, will you " said the voice of Lieutenant Anderson. " I thought we should have you some day, Mr. Suffles. You have been long suspected. You .are my prisoner, sir, and all in this boat." CHAPTER XXIX. DOLAX SEEKS BEVEXGE BY TREACHERY. W^hen Captain Morton gave chase to Dol- an in the boats of the Nautilus, it was soon I very evident that the accurate knowledge which the smuggler captain hsMi of every set, every ripple and every eddy of the tide gave him a great advantage. Notwithstanding the utmost exertions of Captain Morton, Dolan succeeded in reach- ing the promontory and in rounding it at least live minutes before Captain Morton. The first thing, then, that Morton saw when his own boat rounded the promontory was the boat that Dolan had gone in, float- ing bottom upward on the surface of the sea, and one of the oars a few yards from it. Captain Morton paused a moment or two, and then he said to the sailor who was with hiiri " Let us right the boat. The rascal may Ije beneath it yet. I have heard of such things." The boat was righted, but no signs of Cap- tain Dolan were visible. Then Captain ilorton looked carefully about him, but there was nothing to be seen but the bare rock and waters of the bay and the rugged j clifis. I "To the cottageâ€" to the cottage '" he said, and then he and his companion pulled Dolan making evidently for the promontory, ' back again to the cottage on the beach "He is not the tin. It won't do on the other side of which was the cot-st on v.hich stood the cottages. "That is it," said Joseph, quite oil vet. Now for the ravine in cliff." " Ay. ay," said Martin " and it's just as well, Joseph, that you and I know where Dolan's strong boT; is." " Hush " "What now?" 'â-  ' Do you see that dark object out yonder, southward " "Ahem! A schooner." "You did not see it from your lookout, Joseph." "I did not." â-  ' " Boat ahoy " So suddenly was his challenge that both Martin and Joseph were completely non- plusseil by it and they heard the vigorous strokes of a pair or more of oars in their immediate vicinity before they could make up their minds what to do. " Pull back, ".said Marti No no I not to the cave " " Boat ahoy We will tire into you if lon't lay to. Boat ahoy " " Friends " cried Gerald, in a load voice. "Who hails?" " Revenue " " lah "' said Captain Mocquet. " Now you've been and gone p.ud done it, Miister Cierald," said Martin. "It's a coast guard Iwat. " Another moment and a boat-hook gave the little boat of the Rift a vigorous pull and she was alongside a long galley, in which were some ten or twelve men. " What's all this about," said a voice and wliy are you cruising in the bay at such an hour as this?" Gerald was puzzled to know what to say â€" and so was Martin â€" for a variety of emotions were busy at the hearts of both of them. Gerald had never for a moment con- templated â€" as one of the incidents of his and race's escape from the caverns in tne clif! and from Dolan â€" that they were to be- tray the smuggler's haunt. And Martin and Joseph had the greatest possible dislike to committing the crew of the Rift, as a whole, to Dolan's villainies. I Captain Mocquet, too, ran a great risk of being got into serions trouble if he should fall into the hands of the English author- ities. Take it, then, on the wholeâ€" »lthongh in the momentary ing its ting either swered the hail â€" neither he nor those with him knew what to say. "Are you all dumb?" said the voice again. " Bring a lantern forward here " "Ay, sir." I It was then that a most unexpected ally stepped, so to speak, to the rescue and Mr. Shuffles said at once "Lieutenant Anderson, I think " "HiUoa! Who's that?" "I, sir I, Mr. Suffles, attorney-at-law, of Queen street. Don't you^nowmy voice, sir r' "Yes, I do. What on earth hrlMs you at this time of night at sea, Mr Suffles " " Why, sir, my two little girl« have had a fancy, you see, to come." " Your two little girls Ohâ€" ah I see. The young ladies are with you. Well, Mr. Suffles, if I didn't know you for a. reapect- a'-ile man and that yon had your two little g'rls with yon, I should almost think you were smuggling." " Oh, dear, no My dears, you won't see it." "See what?" " The moon in the caves*" " Oh, that's it, is it Ha ha 1 Well, bit of ' and as~ they beached their boat they saw that there was a great commotion among the women and children who inhabited the huts. A captain's guard of marines was on the spot, and the moment Captain Morton landed he was surrounded by several of the marines and a sergeant. " What is all this " he said. " Our orders, sir, are to make prisoners of all who land here." " Very well. Where is your officer " " In the cottage, sir. March " Captain Morton soon reached the cottage, and was met at the door by the captain of the marines, to whom he said " Your men, sir, have very properly, no doubt, in pursuance of their orders, made me prisoner but I am Captain Morton, of the United States Navy, and that is my vacht, the Nautilus, yonder." " Sir, I am delighted to make your ac- quaintance. Admiral Clifford is much con- cerned about you. A conflict took place last I night here between some smugglers and the coast guard, and I have had orders to hold these cottages as a port, and arrest all cruis- ers who cannot give an account of them- selves." " Sir, is there a female in this cottage- Mrs. Wagner " "There was." "Was?" "Yes. She has been marched off to jail, I fancy, as it is found she was in league with the man Dolan, who is now clearly as- certained to je a smuggler, and to command and own a cutter, which goes by all sorts of names, but which is properly, we believe, called the Rift." "Will you pardon me, sir? I must seek this woman at once, as she is in possession of information so important to my peace that the whole object of my journey to Eng- land hangs upon it. Did you say to jail, sir, they had taken her " ' "I fancy so. A couple of revenue officers took her. There are several of them at the upper end of the lanes, and they can doubt- less tell yon about it. " " Pardon my abruptnessâ€" good day, sir." The officers bowed and Captain Morton hastened up the narrow lane that led to- ward the town, but when he gained the top of it, he was informed that Mrs. Wagner was conveyed, in a sinking state, to the jtdl, which was some five common county ^l n men.ary dread of a stray shot^find- 1 miles off. With a sigh *f .th?/«J*y *J** " way into the lv,at and possibly hit- this occasioned him, Captam Morton started :her (Irace or Marie, Gerald haS an- off on the road ^^^P^'^^i^"'r^^\!l^^J bit of rising ground which he soon reached, he was able to see a long way about him, and he could not refrain from casting a glance both seaward and landward as he proceeded. j The view that Captam Morton had. from the breezy height on which he now stood was in every respect interesting and if at that moment he was too much engrossed by those affairs which lay so near his heart to fully appreciate, the pretty bit of sea md land that the prospect opened to him, he was far from being indifferent to various ob- jects that iqet his gaze. So to speak, all the salient points in his present great anxieties presented them- selves to him, although he did not recognize them all. • -i 4. • Seaward, there was about six miles out in the offing, the Spray, under her new com- manderTthe Ueutenant to whom Admiral Clifford had given her in charge and there was his own yacht, the Nautilus, quietly and as if instinct with life and reason to guide its movementsâ€" so accm»tely did it obey those who had ite deck-beatmg on and off and waiting for Wm. Landward, a sSes of dowDt •« Ibt •• ttie Tliere were roada faHerwetiag (iMae br^eqr downs in nnmerons direetkma and it Was on two of tliese roads that Captain Morton saw some objects that deeply interested him. On one of tiie roads thnre was a gronp of people and several mounted men, appearing as if they had escorted some prisoners, for diere was a little throng of persons among them whom the others appeared to keep well suRonnded. This little throng of persons appeared to be about a mite distant and to be movidg slowly toward the town. Then again, on another road, there was a coach which was travelling with speed, and that, too, had an escort, which consisted of mounted men in the police uniform of the county. This coach was coming by a cross road toward the town likewise and seemed as if it would intersect the road on which the throng of persons proceeded, and probably at the same time that they would reach the point of intersection. Captain Morton looked on all this, but he did not know how largely he was interested in what he saw, although, in regard to the throng of people and to the coach, he had a strange, undefined feeling of interest that made him keep them for a time steadily in his view. It was in a sort of reverie that Captain Morton remained for a time, and then he started forward with the intention of reach- ing the jail as quickly as possible, in which he was told he would find Mrs. Wagner, and as he did so he saw that the coach suddenly turned down some narrow lane, which was hidden by its hedges, and disappear from his sight. This disappearance, though, was but very partial, as Captain Morton had not proceed- ed another quarter of a mile when he sud- denly heard the tramp of horses' feet and the sound of wheels and from a lane there emerged, almost close upon him, the coach and its mounted police escort. So close did the vehicle come to him that Captain Morton â€" seeing the county police uniform which had been pointed out to him before thought it would be a good opportu- nity to ask it the lane from which the car- riage emerged was a near route to the coun- ty j»il. " Will this lead me to the county jail?" he asked, loudly. And hardly had the words esoaped his lips when there was a scream from the interior of the carriage and no other than Mrs. Wagner, put her head out at the window, despite the opposition of a police officer who was inside and called out â-  " Stop â€" stop I It is the gentleman with the little flag. I must speak to him. Stop â€"stop " Captain Morton at once rushed to the window of the carriage, calling out to her, aloud " Tell me â€" oh, tell me at once â€" where can I seek for my child Speak to me â€" tell me at once and your reward shall be none the less." "The cliffâ€" the cavern." " What cliffâ€" what cavern " " Helloa " said the sergeant who was with the party of police. " I don't think I ought to allow this. We are taking our prisoner before the magistrates. That is to say, to Sir Thomas Cliflord, for she says she has something to tell about the smugglers of the coast." " I know Sir Thomas Clifford. I am Cap- tain Morton and that is my yacht, the Nau- tilus, in the roads yonder. This woman can give me information that is to me life itself and I beg you will permit me to question her." " I will tell all," said Mrs. Wagner. "I will tell all. He is going to tell something, but I will tell all." "Who is he?" "Dolan." " I saw him â€" I chased him, but he escap- ed me." " As he was sure to do. Come, sir, I will tell you ail. Give ine the little flag that you said I should have till I had the thou- sand pounds." "Well, sir," said the sergeant, "if you are a friend of the admiral'^, you may as well come with us and he will do as he thinks proper in the matter. You see, sir, we were taking her tb the county jail for the present, but when she said that she would tell all about the smugglers, we thought it better to turn her about and take her to the port admiral. " I will go with you." " Very well, sir. You dismount, Jen- nings you can go off duty for the present. If you don't mind riding one of our troop horses, sir, here is one at your disppsaL" "Thank you." Captain Morton was mounted in a mo- ment. " My thousand pounds " screamed Mrs. Wagner â€" "my thousand pounds. I will tell nothing without my thousand pounds I" " Be assured that if I recover my daughter through your means," said Captain Morton "you thall have the thousand pounds. I have given my word and it is not one that Was ever yet broken. " " Very well â€" ^very welL The cliff and the cavern I will tell all and I will hang him!" " Forward I" cried the sergeant of police. "Stay one moment I Tell me," cried Captain Morton â€" "tell me, woman, can I go at once and get possession of my child " •« Ha, ha " laughed Mrs. Wagner. "No, no you can go and at once sacrifice your life " " On, then, in the name of heaven I" The cavidcade started forward, and then, as the coach toiled up a hill, Captain Mor- ton, who rode in front with the sergeant of police, reached the summit of it, and slanc- mg over the downs, he saw the same throng of persons on foot that liad before met his observation. " Who are those people " he said. " Those with some of our men Oh, yes. I heard of tJiem. The preventives, last night, under Lieutenant Anderson's orders, made a capture of smugglers. They kept them at the station yonder, where you see the flag flying, all night, and then sent to us for an escort" " They are prisoners, then " "Yes, sir, smugglers." Little did Captain Morton guess that in the midst of that little throng of persons was to be found his own daughter, Grace, whose image so filled his heart, and con- cerning whom he was at that veiy moinent enduring an amount of abnety that made it difficult for him to assume even flte oatward appearance of ordinary compomre. tears. It .tenan^iat wimnjfwIJ pi raCoMd ta lirten to any rt4teta«ftits rf^'explanati«|na, b«t re- solved «k"iM^'«lMil«^^tte#^]| the town aath«iMiea."i"i ' â-  '^â-  It was in yain tiuMk both Mar«||^ vcS Joseph protested tbafc Caytajn Id^cw^net was a French iradiiig captam and had no» thiqg to do widi iDolan or the Rift and that U. ^ghter Marie aad Grace could not be smogglas. They both made a itrennons effort, too, to get tlte lieutenant to set Grendd at liberty. In reply to all tiiia, the only proposttien the lieutenant made was in a few words, when they reached the bench. " The two girls may go," he said, " where they like. iJl others I keep." Grace, on the instant, laid her hand soft- ly on the arm of Gerald, as she said " No, noâ€" witii you, NQetald 1" Captain Mocquet held his daughter close to his heart " Non, non. We shall â€" ^what yon say in one proverb Anglaise? â€" always go to one sink and swim there together. A^ " Gerald turned upon the face of Grace such a look of periect affection that, seen as it was by the light of the boat's lanterns by the crew, it softened even their rugged hearts, and one said to Gerald " Keep a good heart, youngster. It can't go very hard with you." "Thank you. What is that?" Marie had burst into a passion of and was sobbing aloud. Captain Mocquet looked very pale. " It is nothing â€" ^nothingi" he said, is nothing." Marie clung closer to him, and with a look of pride, pale and sad as he was, the Frenchman courteously declined all help, and lifted his Marie tenderly from the boat to the shore. Then it was as the police sergeant had said, that the captured party, amid the waitings of Mr. Suffles, were for the brief remainder of the night conducted to the preventive station, and in ' the morn- ing, as Captain Morton saw them, were oe- ing escorted to the town. " It is a good job," said the sergeant, " that something seems to have set the smuggling fraternity by the ears, and they seem anxious one to tell of the other. 1 fancy the end of it will be the rooting out of the whole of it. " " It's probable," said Captain Morton. A sharp ride now of about a quarter of an hour brought the coach with Mrs. Wagner and the American captain to the door of Admiral Clifford's house. But while all this is going on a strange scene was being enacted in the caverns of the cliff. When Dolan had so mysteriously eluded the pursuit of Captain Morton, he had done so with the double object of getting out of the way of one who, if he had but once got a clutch at him, would have been the least likely man in all the world to let him go again, and with a view of affording no clue to the secret of the cavern in the cliff. Hence, then, Dolan took advantage of those few moments when he had doubled the headland, and was out of sight of Cap- tain Morton, to scramble on to the rocks after upsetting the boat and he concealed himself amid sach a mass of sea weed that nothing short of actually landing and tread- ing upon him could have enabled any. one to find him. Dolan was a bold and good swimmer, and no sooner had he felt assured that Captain Morton had given up the pursuit of him than he launched himself into the .bay and made his way with the tide for the cavern in the cliff. As he swam Dolan reflected upon the present prospect of his affai^ and felt any- thing bat satisfied with theth, although he was fax from knowing or suspecting the whole of his danger. It now seemed to strike the villain that no one but himself would or could expose the secret of the cavern in the cliff. Even Mrs. Wagner, he considered, only intended to sell, so to speak, Grace to her father, the American Captain and he still cherished the delusion that for him was re- served the prestige of betraying all his com- panions of the RiJft. In the little chest that he had taken away so secretly in the boat from the cave be had the bulk of the plunder that should have been, by agreement, divided among the crew of the Rift, and that he had buried in the little garden of the cottage, unknown even to Mrs. Wagner. It was to the cavern, then, that Dolan took his way; still with several beliefs in his mind which the facts themselves by no means warranted. He fully believed that both Gerald and Grace were in the caverns. He f uUy believed that Captain Mocquet was a prisoner in the cabin of the Rift, and he fully believed that when night should come again and he should go to the cottage he would find Mrs. vv agner repentant and ready to make what excuses she could for her conduct, since he was resolved, so soon as he should visit the cavern, to put it out of her power to take Grace away, by secur- ing the young in some of the secret recesses of the cUff. There were many matters still at the cavern which Dolan wished to settle. There were valuables, too, wiiich he wished to take away with him, and when he neached the canvas covering to the sea cave and dis- appeared beneath it, he had the conviction on his mind that he still had the power and that he was in no very great danger. But there was one thing that he had done which he hardly liked to think of to him- self. He had taken the most important step he could in the betrayid ot his comrades he had written to Admiral Clifford, and at the very moment that Dolan was swimming over the cool waters of the little bay the Ad- miral was reading a letter, of which the fol- lowing is a transcript To Admiral Sir Tho.mas Clifford Sir, â€" ^It is well known that the captain of a smuggling vessel that has long infested this coast lies very near your heart. You know, sir, that that vessel has been seen under many disguises and that it has got the betto' by fair means and by foul of all the crafts sent in search of it. Among the rest, sir,- and the last, the Spray has tried in vain to capture this smuggling cutter (for it is but a cutter). I, sir, intend now to give her up to you and, if it should ever happen that I get into misfortune, I hope that when I sena to you and Say to you that it was I who wrote you this letter and enabled you to capture the â- mugg^iag ontter yon wiU be my fnend. B«t thk m^ Berar bappin. Ifto-nicht a* just the torn of Mb PM* ywo), y oB h swjB the Sp r ay or Bay oQ wr aumbeatfeorbMj^ intha very lai^ j^t toaeafnm tailBChing any one on board of her says but boudner at onc» M d .tak S -iier,. SiA yoa' will M in poa- ssss i ofc^ ef tlmueb ^taikeft of inaggling v essel and all her crew except me. Aaong that otenr, rir, are some of th* most detwmined rascals on the face of tha earth. There is one in particnlar, a mere boy whom tiiey name Gerald. It was he idie insisted on firing at the Spray, in spite of allloovld.fay tohimtotiieooatoary; and as the worst part of the cfew were rather mutinous, I could not prevent him. Ha has committed several murders, and if tha {^fallows is not his portion it will be de- frauded. The expression of this boy (for he~ is a mere boy, and of very specious and insinu- ating address,) when he fired at the Spray, WBJi: "Now, mates, we are smugglers but wa will be by this one shot, pirates " Hang him, admiral, and you will get rid of a pet to society On this information you may rely. I was almost forgetting to say that next to this boy, Gerald (who, by-tiie-by, is none of mine), the two worst men in the cutter are named Martin uid Joseph. Let Gerald, Martin and Joseph be prose- cuted and bung. I dare say some of the crew will turn king's evidence against them. This was the precious epistle which came anonymously to the hands of the admiral and it was for the purpos^of carrying out the details of it that Captain Dolan, so soon as he reached the sea cavern and scrambled on to the deck of the Rift, blew his whistle, to summon about him the smuggler crew. His intention was, clearly and distinctly, to get them all out of the cavern by the sea opening on board the Rift, leavig him with' Grace alone there and then he intended to take the girl out by the opening into the ra- vine and make his escape, overland, as quickly as he could, after taking from the cottage the plunder which he had buried. A flashing idea was in his mind of taking the life of Mrs. Wagner before he left â€" as he feared she would be a dangerons incum- brance to him. (to be continued.) '*f" Seasons for Migration. By what strange and mysterious psycho- logical mechanism does the swift learn that the period for migration has actually ar- rived Simply, I believe, by a natural see- saw, dependent only on the alternation of the seasons. For when the swift is not in Great Britain he is off at his other alterna- tive residence in the Cape Colony. As some people keep up a house in England and a Winter 'illa at Cannes or Mentone, so the swift has always a Summer nest in Europe and a winter nest in temperate South Africa. Or rather, they are each in their own time Summer nests ^ike, for, of course, when- ever it is Winter here it is sunny midsum- mer in the southern hemisphere. Unwise admirers of the swift have ventured boldly to assert that he knows when cold weather is coming, and therefore goes away from England in Autumn before it arrives. When men speak so to you believe them not. This is nonsense (with all due deference to its propounders ;) the swift knows not when it will be cold, but when it has been cold â€" a much easier matter â€" like all the rest of us. The reason why he leaves so much earlier than our other Summer migrants is simply because food fails him. There is nothing miraculous in knowing when you are hungry the merest infant well knows that much. The cold upper air begins to feel the chilling effect of Autumn long before the basking lowland meadows, and when the supply of flies falls short in the high circles where swifts habitually move, the swifts are prompted by an inner monitor (other than conscience) to. flit southward. So then make tracks for Africa in a formed body, devour- ing the remaining insects as they go, and, in the words of the poet, otherwise applied, " swallow, swallow, flying south." At the same time I do not deny that the swift is a bird of delicate constitution, and that a marked aversion to cold for its own sake is one of his most obvious personal characteris- tics. A member of an essentially tropical family, he visits the northern and southern temperate regions only during the very height rf their Summer season, and probably loiters long on the way, breaking the jour- ney in Morocco and the Soudan, like those wise invalids who leave Egypt or Algeria early in February, and only reach the Ad- mirality Pier at Dover when the English Spring has fairly reached the dangerous summit of May hill. Then in Autunm he is off again about the middle of August, and VE by any chance a few stragglers linger on too late in September they are not unfrequently overtaken and numbed by the first frost, in which case they fall helplessly fluttering on the unfamiliar ground and are left to the cruel tender mercies of the village child- ren. ♦ Importance of Beading- No matter how obscure the position in life of an individual, if he can reaa, he may, at will, put himself in thebest society the world has ever seen. He may converse with the greatest heroes of the past; with cdl the writers in prose and poetry. He may learn how to live, how to avoid the errors of his predecessors, and to secure blessings, present and future, to himself. He may reside in a desert far away from the habitations of man; in solitude, where no human eye looks upon him with affection or interest, where no human voice cheers him with tlie animating tones; if he has books to read, he can never be alone. He may choose his company, and the subject of conversation, and thus be»omo contented and happy, intelligent, wise and good. He thus elevates his rank in the world, and becomes ind^wndent, in the best sense, of the first inimportaiicei of the department of school education. ' ♦â-  "J The ex-Empress Eugenie approves of the marriage between 'Princeis Letitia and Prince Roland Bonaparte, and she will give the bride a handsome marriage portion afid all her jewels, " Pion-Ploh,' too, nods ac- quiescence in the mating of his da^h^r with the son of the despued Prince Pierre and the dressmaker Clemence Ruflin. But Humbert of Italy is unalterably opposed to it, because Prince Roland's income of $150,000 a year consists solely of his dead wife's share of liie profits of the Monte Carlo gaaibling hell. 'â- "'-•«' "â- ' " â-