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SELL Ral Ni al Nala,

WENDERHOLME.

A STORY OF LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.

CHAPTER I.—Contiaued, When the doctor delivered his last shot he gave his reins a shake, and the wheels of his gig gave three revolutiens. Then they suddenly came to a standstill, and the doctor looked round to his friend, adding, ‘ Well, if you reckon as you can eat anything come and breakfast wi’ me then: it'll *be just ready about now, an’ the’ eggs is sure to be fresh.’ Under other circumstances a refusal might have been possitle; but, af- ter the taunt about inability to eat a break- fast, the doctor well knew that a refusal was

side the gig as far as the doctor’s house. That house, it must be admitted, was not situated very pleasantly. There was a large mill just in front of it, on the opposite side of the street—a brick building, six storeys high, with sixty windows in its monotonous facade, and a general coating of soot. The top of the chimney was just visible from the street and it poured forth such masses of opaque black smoke that the sky was often obscured by it; and there fell a steady rain of black specks, blackening the greasy slime on the slippery stone pavement, and cover- ing all the leaves of the poor little trees in the doctor’s small garden with a noxious coat inimical to their vegetable respiration, Few plants, indeed, could live there, and for miles round Shayton they struggled and suffered; but the doctor himself had bes come, from habit, perfectly indifferent to the neighborhood of the mill, and had even got a sort of liking for its unceasing mono. tonous hum. Being a confirmed old baches lor he found room enough in his house for all his favourite studies; and, after having made sure of the place by purchase, had laid out two or three hundred pounds in ar. ranging it to his liking. The whole of the garret was a museum of comparative anat- omy; one room contained a herbarium, which included specimens of every known plant in the district; and another held the doctor’s library, chiefly consisting of scien. tific and philosophical works. He had no drawing room, and what was called the dining room was simply a general sitting room or parlour. Here Mr. Ogden found a breakfast table very neatly arranged, and awaiting only the arrival of the master,

As Dr. Bardley had to seea patient in the surgery, Martha, his old housekeeper, who knew Mr. Ogden very well, brought him the Manchester paper, The only news in it which in any concerns the readers of these pages was the following:

‘Tue Muritia.—It is believed that the Twentieth Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia, whose headquarters are fixed at Sootythorn, will be commanded by John Stanburne, Esq., of Wenderholme Hall, in Yorkshire. Mr. Stanburn is the represen. tative of one of the most ancient families in the county, and, although a young man, has had some military experience as a mili- tary officer. The appointment is generally approved of,’

Under the heading ‘ Haut Ton,’ which words, to many readers inexplicably mys. terious, were entwined with a wreath, in which shamrock, rose, and thistle were in- geniously combined, appeared another para. gragh concerning Mr. Stanburne :

* Colonel and Lady Helena Stanburne are entertaining the Earl and Countess of Adis. ham and a select party at Wenderholme Hall,’

This latter paragraph, copied from the «Morning Post,’ was the confirmation of the former.

Now, although Shayton was essentially a democratic and industrial place, and al- though nobody in the whole community had a pedigree—for even the Ogdens had been working men two generations back and the oldest families in the township were those of two or three very small yeomen proprietors— still they too an interest in the doings of the great world, and Mr. [saac did not fail to read the above paragraphs about Mr. Stanburne of Wenderholme, or Wendrum, as it was generally pronounced. In fact, although Wenderholme Hal! was in another county, and at least twenty-nine miles from Shayton by the high road (which followed the level of the valley, and was therefore very circuitous,) still in a certain sence Mr. Stanburne was Mr. Ogden’s very next neighbour, for not a single house in. tervened between Twistle Farm on the Lan. cashire side of the moor and Wenderholme on the Yorkshire side—nothing but a roll, ing expanse of heathery highland, inhabited by innumerable grouse.

‘Lhe first thing Dr. Bardley was disposed to talk about that morning at breakfast did not, however, relate either to Mr. John Stanburne or the lady Helen Basenthrope his wife, or her august parents, the Earl and Countess of Adisham. It is true that that Mr. Ogden attempted to start a con- versation in this direction, but the attempt was a signal failure; for Dr. Bardley, as he poked the fire energetically, turned round in the very middie of the operation and said, ‘Mr. Ogden, I reckon we’ve got some- thing to talk over together ‘at’s nearer to us than Wendrum ’All.’ And no sooner were the two seated than the doctor began

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iris attack,

not possible. So Mr. Ogden trotted along-#rible friend.

, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1876,

| I should like very well to know where | let me go on, 1 struck him an’ twenty or

| business,’ said Ogden.

talk to me like that in your own ’ouse.’ ‘Civil! who talks about bein’ civil ? I didn’t ax you here to beciviltoye. |

o’ stuff itwas? Martha’-—here entered the old housekeeper with another muttin— ‘step over to th’ Red Lion an’ ax James Hardcastle how many glasses Mr, Ogden drank last night, and what kind o’ spirits he took,’

Martha was too much accustomed to her master’s ways to feel any astonishment at this order, and set off immediately to the Red Lion. Neither host nor guest spoke a syllable till she put her head in at the door and said laconically, ‘ brandy and water ’ot fourteen glasses.’

‘ Now if you go on in this way, Mr. Isaac Ogden,’ said the doctor, in perfectly good English, ‘you will shortly be very seriously ill—very seriously ill; you will have an at- tack of delirium tremens; and in your pre, sent condition, the nervous system being evidently shattered, it is quite possible that you might not recover from such an attack.» Then, without leaving his victim time for a rejoinder, he added, ‘ How’s little Jacob ?” ‘ Little Jacob's all right,’ answered Mr. Ogden sulkily,

‘ Poor little lad! ’ said the doctor. a fine boy. father.’

‘ Nay, now, Bardley,whatever you may say again’ me an’ my ways, you cannot say I am abad father, I do all I can for the lad an’ always ’ave done. He’s as fond o’ me as Other lads are o’ their mothers. I am both father and mother to him, an’ I set more store on him than he knows on.’ Here Isaac Ogden’s face flushed with a not unmanly emotion, and there was just a per- ceptible moisture in his eye. The paternal affection, which was the best side of his nature, had been fully roused, and gave him firm ground on which to resist his ters But the doctor, who was by far the more keenly perceptible man of the two, had just done what he wished with Ogden, and now came the final assault.

‘I don’t say you may not bea good father to the lad now, but it isn’t likely that you’ll be so very long. If you go on drinking you’ll become hirritablity, there’s hoftens a very great impatience of chilther. I should not like to see any child as I'd a faney for, shut up in a’ouse with a drunkard, an’ little Jacob’s one o’ my special favaurites. Bysthesby, here’s a bit of a present I bought for him the other day in Manches~ ter; it’s a small silver hunting horn for him to let you know where he is when he’s out ramblin’ on the moor. He’ll be able to answer that great bell o’ yours that you ring at dinner time.’ The horn was a plain little one of pure silver, with the inscription, ‘ Jacob Ogden, Twistle farm, from his friend A. Bardley.’

_ The French say that little presents keep up friendship, and the doctor had rather a habit of giving little presents. As soon as this one had been sufficiently admired, the dobtor returned to his serious purpose, and became both scientific and philosophical. The tone of banter and scolding was cast aside, and he gravely showed how easily deterioration of character might be brought about by purely physical causes. The chief subject of his discourse was ‘morbid irra-~ tability;’ and although the letter h was used in such a manner as to deprive Mr. Bardly of all claim to the title of ‘‘ gentle- man ’—as the word is used in polite society —the subject of his talk was full of know» ledge and his intention full of kindness. He had spoken the truth in avowing his affection for little Jacob; but he might have declared with equal truth, if such « declaras tion would have been compatable with the external rudeness of his babitual behavior, that he loved not only the little boy but his erring and misguided father. Abel Bardly was the best and sincerest friend that Isaac Ogden ever possessed, and for the last six months he was grievously anxious for him. There had been a time of similar anxiety about four years previously, as the reader will shortly gather from the lips of Mr. Ogden himself,

How marvellous it is, that Heaven-born instinct of confession! Not only Roman Catholic ladies, but men and women of all religions and of no religion, have some con- fessor to whom it itarelief to speak with frankness about the errors that oppress the mind. Dr. Bardly was quite accustomed to this office of father confessor, and many a time did he, figuratively speaking, enter the confessional and close the door, and listen patiently to the poor whisperer at the lattice. Men and women who would have shrunk from the tonsured priest as from a black and noxious animal, and who would not even have sought out a Protest~ ant clergyman for any admitted purpose of the kind, went into Dr, Bardly’s confession- al unhesitatingly. And very queer and terrible things did he hear therein some< times.

‘He’s Pity he should have such a

‘Doctor,’ said Isaac Ogden, ‘it’s a terrible place is this Shayton, especially for any- body that’s fond o’ company: You know well enough how bad I was four or five yearn sin’, but it wasn’t so much because I were fond o’ liquor; I never drank by my ownself, same as Seth Schofield ’at empties his bottle o’ brandy every night by his own fireside, with no better company than his newspaper. But there were two or three chaps i’ Shayton at that time as were rare good company, an’ we used to meet together at the Red Lion o’a night, an’ sit laughin an’ talking till midnight; an’ one says, ‘let us ‘ave another glass ;’ an’ another says, ‘come Ogden fill up again lad ;’ an’ another says, ‘ he’s nobbut gettin’ on slowly, isn’t Ogden ;’ an’so I filled up an’ filled up so as not to be behind hand; and then when I gotten into the habit o’ it, | grew to be as bad as anyon ’em; an’ at last, like a fool as I were, I came to take a pride in’t, for1 reckoned I could carry more b’out showin’ it than any other chap i’ Shayton. And t’other chaps egged me on, an’ made bets about me how much I could stand, An’ one-time when I was partner with my brother Jacob in our con- cern, I’d made a bet as I'd drink a bottle o’ brandy, an’ go an’ pay our ‘ands, and never make a mistake; but Jacob saw well enough as I’d taken too much, an’ after I'd made two or three slips, he shoves me 0’ one side an’ says, ‘ Isaac, I'll pay our ’ands to-night.’ So, like a drunken fool as I

was, I got into a passion, an’ as he wouldn’t

I | it to bits.

want to know how many glasses you drank | home to mother at Milend. last night at th’ Red Lion, and what sort |! didn't live with mother and Jacob, so I

colnet ett | Isaac Ogden made a beast of himself last | thirty fellows saw me do it. After this THE HEATHEN CHINEE IN A NEW | Bight’

‘T wish doctors could mind their own ‘ Whenever I want | the key on me, an’ I made such a noise as you I'll send for you; but it isn’t civil to| were fit to deafen anybody, an’ if the door

Jacob said nothing, but he got me somehow

|into th’ back countin’ room, and turned

hadn’t been a strong ’un, I'd ‘ave kicked

They didn't let me out again | till the mill was empty, an’ Jacob ‘ad gone You recoliect

| went to my own house, cursin’ and swearin’ I were i’ bed the next mornin’ when Jacob | marches right up to my bedside, an’ says, ‘ Isaac, I'll gie thee ten thousand pounds to be shut on thee.’ ‘I said ‘it'll be right Jacob ;’ an’ *torney Hanby drew up the deed, and I never went to th’ mill anys more.’

‘Lean recollect well enough when you dissolved partnership,’ said the doctor, but { don’t exactly know the circumstances,’ This, we are sorry to say, was a downright lie on the part of the worthy doctor, who, like every other inhabitant of Shayton, was minutely familiar with all the details just narrated. Nor did the remainder of Mr. Ogden’s confession contain anything new to his host, as indeed was very unlikely that it should, considering that the two had been on terms of intimacy during the whole of the period over which the narrative ex- tends. And perhaps if Mr. Isaac Ogden had been quite sincere with himself he would have admitted that he was himself aware of the doctor’s clear knowledge on these points, and of the uselessness of his communication, so far as his hearer was concerned; but he felt the great need of talking about his past life, and Dr. Bardly kindly encouraged him in this from the be> lief that it might affect his future. So Mr. Ogden proceeded as follows :—

‘If aman takes to drinking when ‘he’s got a business to look after there’s always a fair chance for him so long as he sticks to it; but if he leavesit, or if the business leaves him, and he’s nothing before him but an idle life, then he’s almost sure to get worse and worse. My brother Jacob did well for himself, and perhaps he did well for the concern, when he got shut of Hime, but he didn’t do so well for his brother Isaac. He gave me money enough—my share in the business was scarcely worth seven thousand, and he offered me ten— but he let me go to the devil, and didn’t speak to me for six months. My mother came many a time, but by bad Juck I was always either out 0’ th’ house or else drunk’ and I wouldn’t go to Milend upd’ ’count o, Jacob. This lasted till I had that go o blue devils, an’ when I came round I swore I'd mend and seek out the loneliest spot within ten miles of Shayton, and build my~ self a house there, and teach my little lad to read and write myself, So I fixed on Twistle, being the loneliest spot I could find; and as soonas I were busy about building an draining and making that bit of a fishpond, I got both steadier i’ my habits and better in ’ealth. But now that the place is quite finished, I am often very dull and lonely, and that’s why lcome down to Shayton, and see a bit o’ company at the Red Lion.’

In this simple language did Isaac Ogden narrate a very noble struggle against sin. He had fled for safety to the wilderness, he had built himself a new dwelling whose vir- gin purity was defiled by no evil associates, and he had firmly resolved to lead a new life therein, and win for himself tranquility and peace. The little estate that he had won from the uncultivated moorland was to be a sacred refuge; and in building the wall that enclosed it, and divided its sweet verdure from the rough heather and frown- ing crags around it, Ogden was not merely erecting a wallof grey sandstone, but at the same time spiritually building fortifications about hishome. His firmest resolution had been this, that within the precincts of Twis~ tle Farm he would always be perfectly sober; and, to do him justice, this resolu, tion had been kept quite faithfully, even to the present hour. But although, so long as the improvements about the place, or ra- ther the very creation of it as a dwelling place, had occupied) him, he had stayed there week after week in the utmost appax rent discomfort, yet in a condition of happi- ness to him quite novel and delicious, hig absence became more and frequent when all was finished; and although he earnestly tried to avoid old habits they gradually res sumed their hold wpon him, and now poss sessed him almost as absolutely as before» with the single difference that he kept sober at Twistle Farm. He would go to Manches~ ter and besot himself for a whole week to-~ gether in the hotel that he frequented, and where he was only too well known and too obediently served. He would be often seen in an evening in the parlour of the Red Lion at Shayton, and the landlord actually kept a bedroom exclusively for his use. The very rigidity of the law that he had made about never drinking at the Twistle Farm made the state of his nervous system al~ most intolerable to him when there; and the sweet solitude, which was to have been a refuge from all but the *pleasantest and most innocuous cares, had become a hell of unsatisfied cravings, and always lay in wait for him when he went there,and gnawed his vitals till he fled from them to the coarse orgies of the alehouse, Stili it was somothing to have detended the citidel of of his own resolution, not to ¢rink in his own house; and the doctor praised him for it and encouraged him.

‘It seems to me,’ added Mr. Bardly,‘ that you wanta little better society than we ’ave hin Shayton. It is a miserable spot for any man with time on his ‘ands. Now, as you saw just now in that Manchester paper, they’re startin’ a militia, and there’s to be a regiment at Sootythorn, under John Stanburne of Wendrum. I know John Stanburne and I knew his father before him; and when they start these regiments they’re hoftens short of hoflicers; so as I’m to be surgeon to Stanburne’s regiment I ‘ave no doubt but Icould get you a leaf- tenancy. What do you say, Ogden, to bein’ a leaftenant? It’s my opinion it ’uld be about the best thingfor you. You’re far too much by yourself up at Twistle, and Shayton folk are worth no~ thing at all for a chap like you.

So it was decided that Mr. Bardly was to ask Colonel Stanburne for a ‘ leaftenancy,’ and that Isaac Ogden were to accept the commission if it were offered to him.

To be Continued. ONS ea

As the fragrant incense cloud went up from the kindled coal in the censer, so true believing prayer coming from a kindled heart, rises of necessity to God, and the only altar which sacrificeth and renders it acs ceptible is our Lord Jesus Christ himself,

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POSTAGE PREPAID,

AAMIN ER.

WINSLOW RELEASED,

The forger Winslow is now at liberty,and there has been at once a triumph of red tape and a conspicuous failure of justice. Yesterday Chief Justice Mellor granted an order for Winslow’s release, and he was liberated the same afternoon. In answer to enquiries, it was stated that the British Government did not ask that Winslow should be retained in custody, the refusal of the United States to make a supple. mental article to the treaty having put an end to negotiations, We have much re- spect for her Majesty’s Ministers, among the rest for Lord Derby, whose special duty it is to deal with foreign Governments, and we would fain hope that ample justification of the course adopted may yet appear. At present, however, we see only this, that a criminal of a most dangerous class—dan- gerous because of its heavy depredations upon society—escapes scot free, and laughs at two civilized Governments that are powerless to punish him by reason of red tape fetters in which they bind themselves.

Seeing that Canada; lying for thousands of miles along the American border, has really a greater interest in the extradition question than England has, the public here may wish to know whether the authorities at Ottawa have ever represented this view of the matter to the Home Government. Winslow being now released, any murderer, robber, forger, or other criminal from Canada will if once on the other side of the border, be avie to laugh at officers and courts of justice. What has long been threatened is come at last, and now we know that a Canadian criminal of the deep» est dye has but to set foot on American soil to be beyond the reach of law. Can we afford to let such a state of things con« tinue, more especially in view of the alarms ing demoralization and encouragement to crime caused by the wholesale pardon of some murderers and the easy escape from jail of others? Even if there should now be a halt in the work of murder, it is not pleasant to reflect that any one contempla- ting rape, arson, robbery, forgery or em- bezzlement, has only to besure of reaching the other side of the border to be safe.— Toronto Mail.

UNKNOWN FORCE. (From an American Paper.) A rival to Keely, named Wingard, is an-~ nounced in New Orleans as the inyentor and proprietor of prodigious power, which he calls the Unknown Force, But while Mr. Keely proposes to use his mysterious motor for running railroad trains and similar peaceful purposes, the nameless force of Prof, Wingard is intended to destroy and render the building and sailing of our ships of war an unnecessary expense. Prof. Win-~ gard claims that he can annihilate a ship with his nameless force at a distance of seven miles, and on Friday last he gave a public exhibition of his invention near New Orleans. The schooner Dreadnaught was anchored in Lake Pontchartrain, a commit- tee was appointed te see that everything was done fairly, end at thirty-five minutes past two o'clock, p.m., the Professor diss charged his nameless force with such effect as to nearly blow off his hand and actually blew up the vessel. The committee’s re- port reads as follows : ‘‘ We, the undersigned committee, have just witnessed Mr. Wingard’s demonstras tion of the nameless force. At 2.35 p.m.,, Mr. Wingard discharged his nameless force and a flash of smoke occurred, and one minute and a half after the schooner moor- ed at one mile and threesfifths, blew up by the stern and sunk to the water’s edge.” The professor and his friends were in high spirits over the success of their experi~ ment on Friday night, but on Saturday the Bulletin published a statement that two gentlemen, who had been fishing in a skiff, came suddenly on another skiff concealed from public observation by a pier, in which were two negroes and a white man, and that immediately after the flash from the nameless force on shore the men in the second skiff began to wind a wire or string from the water upon a windlass, which con- tinued until the explosion on board the schooner, when one of the men was heard to exclaim: ‘ Well, that biler didn’t fail us this time.’ This led to suggestions re- lative an infernal machine on board the vessel exploded by means of a wire running to the windlass in the skiff, and the Bonse~ quence has been discouraging inactivity in the nameless force share market.

THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY SUI- CIDE ON RECORD.

[From the Chicage Tribune;

Larayetre, Ind., June 11.—James A. Moore, aged about 35, living on a farm near the Farmers’ Institute, about 15 miles south of this city, committed suicide at the Lahr House in this city last night. He leaves a wife and three children. No cause is known for the deed. The manner in which it was accomplished is perhaps unparalleled in horrid ingenuity. He came to the Lahr House Saturday, and he was perfecting an invention, and would probably stay a week but would visit his home Monday, and pre- paid his bill till that time. He called at the machine shop of Harding and Sens bought a large new broad-axe and 2 bars of three inch wide by leinch thick iron, 16 inches long, which he had rivited to the head of the axe. ‘)n either side, fastened to these bars in the shape of a handle to a an axe he had a system of wooden bars 8 feet long, the extreme end of which was fastened to a cross-peace, secured to the floor by hinges» The axe was raised and held to its nearly perpendicalar position by a double cord fastened to the wall. Be- tween the cords stood a candle, arranged so that when the candle burned down to the cords it would burn them off and the axe fall. Where the axe would fall be placed a small box, open on one side, in which when found was his head with some cotton, which was chloroformed.~ His chin was held up from his neck by a stick run across the box, through holes on either side, holding his head§firmly in position. He was tied tightly to the wall with two straps, one around his legs, another around his arms and breast. The straps were both secured to the floor, rendering it impossible to move. ltis supposed that he set his axe, lit his candle, and strapped himself to the floor, put his head in the box with the chloroformed cotton, and was probably in- sensible when the axe fell. ‘The axe and fixings would probably weigh about 50 pounds, and would fall a distance of from 10 to 15 feet. His head was completely severed from his body, and the axe buried in the boards underneath,

MISCELLANEOUS,

BABEL LLLLYww"

King Alfonso’s ministers do not allow Liberals to have fair play. On the contrary they seem afraid that the spread of Liberal doctrines will prove dangerous to the stabiis ity of the very shaky throne on which the conqueror of Carlos sits. During the course of the last three months, the three leading Liberal papers have keen suppres®s ed. Of six published in Madrid five have been suppressed and the sixth is not likely to be permitted to survive, while Casteler’s organ, ‘El Globe,’ will it is stated, be sup- pressed too. Fut the ministers cannot get rid of Castelar himself, a single speech from whom in the Cortes makes them shake in their shoes.