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CHAPTER XXV.

Tay roved more than a mile, so deep wis the glorious bay; and then their oars struck the ground. But Hazel, beat-hook, propelled the boat gently over the pellucid water, that now seemed too

« shallow to float a canve; and at last looked

like the mere varnish of that picture, the prismatic sands below; yet still the little

| craft glided over it, till it gently grazed the

soft sand, and was statiovary.

So placidly ended that terrible v oyage.

Albums for Xtnas Cards, '™ Mr. Hazel and Miss Rolleston were on Ladies’ and Gents’ Pocket Books, Card Case, Purses, etc.,

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QUIRK,

‘shore in a mcment; and it was all they could do notte fall ‘upon the land and kiss ‘it.

Néyer had the sea disgorged upon the fairy isle such ghastly spectres. They look- ed, not like people about to die, but that had died, and had been buried, and just come out of their graves to land on that blissfmi’shore. We should have started

k with horror; but the birds of that virgin isle merely stepped out of their way, and did not fly.

They had landed in paradise.

Even Welch yielded to that universal longing men have to embrace the land after perils at sea, and was putting his legs slow- ly over the ginwale, when Hazel came back to. his agsistance. He got ashore, but

/ was contented totsit down with his eyes on

the'dimpled ‘sea and the boat, waiting quietly till the tide should float his friend to his feet again,

The sea-birds walked quietly about and minded nim not.

Miss Roliestin ascended a green slope slowly, for her limbs were cramped, and was lost to view.

Hazel now went up the beach and ‘to ok a more minute survey of the neighbor- hood.

The west side of the bay was varied, Half of it presetted the soft character that marked the bay in general, but a portion of it was rocky, though streaked with vege- tation, and this part was intersected by narrow clefts, into which, in some rare tempests and high tides combined, tongues

_of the sea had entered, licking the sides of

of the gullies smonth; and these occasional visits were marked by the sand and broken shells and other debris the tempestous and encroaching sea had left behind.

The true high-water mark was several fe wer than the debris, and was clearly marked. On the land above the cliffs he found a tangled jungle of tropical shrubs, into wbich he did not penetrate, but skirted it, and walking eastward, came out vpon a delicious down or grassy slope, that faced the center of the bay. It was a gentle- man’s lawn of athousand acres, with an extremely gentle slope from the center of the island to the sea.

A river ftowing from some distant source ran eastward through this down, but

at its verge, and almost encircled it. Hazel traversed the lawn until this river, taking a sudden turn toward the

sea, intercepted him at a spot which he immediately fixed on as Helen Rolieston’s future residence.

Four stort, thick, umbragecus trees stood close tothe stream on this side, and on the eastern side was a grove of gigantic palm-trees, at whose very ankles the river ran. Indeed, it had -undermined one of these palm-trees, and that giant at this moment, lay all across the stream, leaving a gap through which Hazel’s eye could pierce to a great depth among those grand eolumns; for they stood wide apart, and there was not a vestige of brushwood, jungle, or even grass, below their enormous crowns. He christened the place St Helen’s on the spot.

He now dipped his bailer into the stream, and found it pure and tolerably cool.

He followed the bend of the stream ; it evaded the slope and took him by its own milder descent to the sands; over these it flowed smooth as glass into the sea.

Hazel ran to Welch to tell him all he had discovered, and to give him his first water from the island.

He found a roan-colored pigeon, with a purplish neck, perched on the sick man’s foot. The birc: shone like a rainbow, and cocked a saucy eye at Hazel, and flew up into the air a few yards, but it soon appear- ed that fear had little to do with this move- ment; for, after an airy circle or two, he fanned Hazel’s cheek with his fast-flapping wings, and lighted at the very edge of the baler, and was for sipping.

‘Qh, look here, Welch!’ cried Hazel, in an ecstasy of delight.

‘Aye, sir,’ said he. ‘Poor things, they hain’t a found us out yet.’

The talking puzzled the bird, if it did not alarm him, and he flew up to the nearest tree, and, perching there, inspected these noisy bipeds at his leisure.

Hagel now laid his hand on Welch's shoulder, and reminded him gently they had a sad duty to perform, which could not be postponed,

‘Right your are, sir,’ said Welch, ‘and very kind of youto let me have my way with him. Poor Sam!’

‘I have found a place,’ said Hazel, in a low voice. ‘We can take the boat close to it, But where is Miss Rolleston?’

‘Oh, she is pot far off; she was here just now, and brought me this here little cocoa- nut, and patted me on the back, she did, then again went off on a cruise. Bless her little heart!’

Hazel and Welch then got into the boat, and pushed off without much difficulty, and punted across the bay to one of those clefts we have indicated. It was now nearly high water, and they moored the boat close under the cleft Hazel had selected,

Then they both got out and went up to the extremity of the cleft, and there, with the axe and with pieces of wood, they scraped oat a resting-place for Cooper.

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This was light work; for it was all stones, shells, fragments of coral, and dried sea-

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grave, and deposited it. He was exhausted by the exertion, and had to sit down pant- ing for some time. As soon as he was recovered, he told Welch to stand at the head of the grave, and he stood at the foot, bare-headed, and then, from memory, he repeated tho service of owe church, hardly missing or displacing a word.

This was no tame recital; the scene, the circumstances, the very absence of the book, made it tender and solemn. And then Welch repeated those beautiful words after Hazel, and Hazel let him. And how did he repeat them? In euch a hearty, loving tone as become one who was about to fol- low, and all this but a short leave-taking. So uttered, for the living as well as the dead, those immortal words had a strange significance and beauty.

And presently a tender, silvery voice came down to mingle with the deep and solemn tones of the male mourners, It was Helen Rolleston. She had. watched most of their movements unseen herself, and now, standing at the edge of the ravine, and looking down on them, uttered a soft but thrilling amen to every prayer. When it was over, and the men prepared to fill in the grave, she spoke to Welch in an under tone, and begged Jeave to pay ber tribute first; and, with this, she detached her apron, and held it out to them. Hazel easily climbed up to her, and found her apron was fullof sweet-smelling bark and aromatic leaves, whose fragrance filled the air.

‘I want you to strew these over his poor

reniains, she said. ‘Oh, not common earth? He saved our lives. And his last words were, ‘I love you, Tom.’ .Oh, dear! oh, dear! oh, dear!’ And with that she gave him the apron, and turned her head away to hide her tears. Hazel blessed her, for the thought, which indeed, none but a lady would have had; and Welch atid he, with the tears in their eyes, strewed the spicy leaves first; and soon a ridge of shingle, neatly bound with sea-weed, marked the sailor’s grave.

(To be eontinued. )

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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Srr,—The Presbyterian Church or place

of worship at St. Peter’a Bay having become

dilapidated, a new building has become a

necessity; but an unfortunate dispute has

arisen over the question as to where

should be the site of it. Some, a large

majority probably, contest that it should

be erected at the very Head of the Bay, and / near the centre of the congregation, while

others contend that it should be buiit on

the site of the present place of worship.

The contention being conducted with con-

siderable acrimony and feeling, the

Presbytery was applied to to advise with

them and enable them if possible to

reach a harmonious conclusion, and parties

were seut-as a deputation supposed as they

might be, being strangers to the locality

neither to be prepossessed in favor of one

arty, nor prejudic:d against another.

After a candid and impartial investigation

on the part of the deputation, it was agreed

ata meeting, with their advice and con-

currence, to erect two churehes, one at the Head of the Bay and the other at Morell

The conclusion, however, is not acquiesced in by the congregation as a whole. A large party, it is said, insist still upon the church being erected on the old site.

We have no wish to interfere, but there is one part of the scheme proposed inad- missable. Before erecting a Lhurch at Morel), the senction of a neighboring con- gregation must be obtained according to ecclesiastical constitutional law. Morell forms the dividing line and the adherents of Mount Stewart congregation who have given it their consideration feel that their interests would be materially injured by it. A church at Morell if built, must be the conjoint property of the two congregations, or its erection must be defined till it can be the seat of an- independent congregation. This part of the scheme being set aside, it seems to us who take a very deep interest in the welfare of St. Peter's Bay congre- gation, that the dispute may be easily, and to the satisfaction of all, adjusted. On the supposition that two churches must be erected, one near Morell, what objection can there be to the adoption of the old church site as the site for one of them since it is clung to with such tenacity by so many. It is not more than four miles from Morell, and not much less from the Head of the Bay. It is plain that the vital interests of the corgregation—of the deno mination of Presbyterians—if christianily demand that the Head of the Bay where a village is: growing up, should be the seat of a church,why should not all concur in that, and take immediate measures for its erec- tion, aud that being dene, then proceed to

ut up another and a smaller one on the site of the old church out of its materials with hearty unanimous consent. Then there would be three churches within the bounds which would allow of Divine Service being maintained every Sabbath on one part of the day in the central one, and on every alternate Sabbath in each of the other churches on the other part of the day.

J. R.

Mount Stewart, Dec. 20, 1883.

(Patrivt please copy.)

Any housekeeper can prove the honesty of her grocer, or his butter, by melting it. Pere butter melted produces a pure, limpid,

olden oil and it retains the butter flavour. Melt oleomargarine, and the oil smells like tallow, and a scum rises to the surface. Butterine is a mixture of dairy butter and fats. Melt that and the butter oil wil! rise to the top. Pour this off, and you will find the fats at the bottom, whitish in color, and giving off a disagreeable smell.

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the English nation.

On Sunday last a letter was read in the Basilica, Quebec, from the Archbishep, in- viting all to support the efforts of the Vigilance Association in the war on the liquor traffic.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awk- ward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with many patrons as beholders.— Hughes.

In San Francisco, where there are many wealthy Chinese merchants, the credit of no class stands higher. Bankers solicit their custom because they are so scrupulously honorable, and their word is, in nine cases out of ten, better worth having than that of the majority of wl ite traders.

In a trial in a Chicago court the other day the prosecuting witness was. a China- man,the defendant Irish, hir lawyer a colored man, the policeman who arrested her a German, and the prosecuting attorney an American. Things do get badly nixed sometimes where law and order are suppos- ed to prevail.

John Morley, M. P., late editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, epeaking at the New- castle workingmen’s club, advised them, as one who had probably written more leading articles than most men to avoid reading them. His advice was: ‘* Read newe, get information from your own judgments, independent of the cut and dried leaders.”

Mr. Childers, Chancelior of the Ex- chequer, speaking ‘he other day of the pro- posed reduction of the national debt, said ‘hat this reduction was necessary in view of the competition of the kingdom with other nations which were rapidly paying off their debt. It will be seen that the ‘*Tory” Government in Canada and a Liberal Gov- ernment in England may have points of re- semblance.

Taylor, the wizard, got a $90 house in Paso del Norte, and then, saying that he would show the assemblage a trick that would open thir eyes, te:md ‘ The Mystic Man, or the Disappearance,” he brought out a large box and said: “I will now shut wyself up in this box ; the trick is to find me.” Five minutes later every- body knew that he had escaped from tie rear with the receipts of the evening, and a coat belonging to an employe of the theatre.

The guestion of insanity as a product of sunstroke came up in a New York police trial on Wednesday last when the prisoner's counsel produced the record of the first case of sunstroke. He opened the court bible and from the second book of Kings read of the death of the Shunamite’s sun, recorded in chapter 4, as follows: ‘‘And when the child was grown, it fellon a day, that he went out of his father’s house to the reapers, and said unto his father, My head, my head! And he said to a Jad, Carry him to his mother. And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees til] noon, and then died.”

The Toronto Globe's special correspond- ent in the fruit region «f Ontario, writing from Grimsby, describes the peach orchards of-Grimsby township, of one of which he says:—‘‘Just below us lies perheps the largest unbroken area of peach orchard to be seen at one glance anywhere on this continent orin the whole world. For a mile and a half it extends along the mountain’s base reaching up its lower slopes, and it stretches half way out to the lake side, and sends here and there broad tands of purplish-biown the whele way to the water. In one mass, untroken eave by the beautiful residences thickly seat- tered along the main road, there are about eight hundred acres, or two hundred thousand trees,”

When that consistent apostle of total abstinence, Mr. G. W. Ross, by grace of Mr. Oliver Mowat Minister of Education for Ontario, stumped South Oxford against Mr. Joseph Gibson, a prominent tem- perance man, the Globe and the Grit harpies that.are now at the heels of Sir Leonard Tilley did nct attack him and demand his expulsion from temperance organizations. Not a bit of it. They applauded Mr. Ross and encouraged him in his crusade. We verily believe that if the most depraved drunkard in the province were up for ekc- tion on the Grit side, and if his opponent were a Grand Worthy Patriarch, «1 some- thing of that sort, Mr. G. W. Ross would vote against his temperance friend.

At. St. Patrick’s bazaar held last winter in this city there was voting for the most popular flremun, the most popular truck- man and the most popular newspapers. The contests were warm epough, but there was no fighting and no acrimony. In Kingston they do things differently. At a church bazaar in that city a vote was taken to decide the relative popularity of two politicians. li resulted in a riot in which tables were overturned and general con- fusion brought about. A lady fell fainring to the floor, while the clergyman in charge stood horrified and helpless. When the smoke cleared away and the poll closed the result was disputed. One of the ladies who tock money declares that her man is elected, while the other lady is equally certain that the other man got the most votes. The winner was to have a chair, and the trophy was given by the uzpire to one of the can- didates. The other has called in the strong arm of the law and through his council de- mands that the chair be given to him.— Halifax Herald.

On which the Montreal Witness remarks: —‘‘Church bazaars that are made the scenes of vulgar political contests, of barefaced gambling and of unmaidenly forwardness, may raise money but they cannot raise the standard of Christian life in a congregation or in the community generally. These are the things by which outsiders judge 4

Christian church and what a pivture they make of it!”

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