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o ALICE OF THE GLEN,

Wildly howled the wind shrough the glen, sighing through the weil-nigh leafless tress, in melaocholy wail, as Ranald A'len was returning from tbe autumnal fair, held in Dunlow. Lt was late—'be hour being past midnight. Besides, Ranald bad not only overstaid his time, but speat that time at the change house ‘wi’a a couple o” oeebor lads, and a dim consciousness hutg about bh m of being, at the present time, ‘do that

ley.’ : + But che canna, an’ she be Christian, say aething an’ me bringing her hame sic a cown, wi’ stripes in’t lige a duchess,’ and Iianald carefully folded an additional .wrap- per arcund the peace-offering. * For bye to lang syne the fair he'd,”

Thus solilopuizing, be shook the reins, and urged bis pooy forward,

‘Och, but i-’s a drear night an’ a mirk,’ he continued: -the very night for bogies und kelpies to dance. I na like, noo, to meet ane i? the glen, Guide guide us, what’s you?’

‘The horse shied, then trembled, his whole appearance denoting terror, Straining bis eyes through the almost impenetrable gloom, Kanald peered into the darkness, and ‘be- came certain that bis head, although some- what dizzy, wus not deceiving him, A white object lay in the road, a few yards in front of bis horse,

*1i’s a ghaist, for certain, an’ means death!’ . aiuttered) Kanald, holdiog his breath,

His borse, which, at first had shared the terror of bis was.er, zow pricked up his ears, and, trotting farward, brought bim close upon the object, A child’s voice arose distinctly, aud the kind hearted fel- \low leaped from the steed. | *Mamma, pretty mamma, look up! cried | the roft tones, | Ranald bent over the white object, and ‘beheld a fema'e, apparent!y dying about whuse peck a child was twiaing ifs arms,

* Man ma-sleep,’ suid the child, as heen- i\déavered to raise the still form, It was ‘cold and pale, though life had not departed, Taking mother and child iu his strong arws, ihe placed them on his horse, fold pg thew jcarefully im the mach valued fabrie, which ‘he bought for bis dame, and hasteniog | forward, soon arrived in front of a small ‘cabin from the window of which a ruddy

little group gathered about the grave,

* Rest, poor stranger,’ said the pastor; ‘bere ends the journey; and here we pledge to protect the orpban.’

And months aud years the promise was kept by the simple peasants. ~ Elipath claimed the little Alize, because she wes lonely, and when the May gowans floated in fragrance down the glen, the pair might be seep On the green bank beside her cottage ihe bent form of the matron contrasting with the fairy-like beauty of the child, and the white locks mingling with ber curls, Around the neck of her mother was found a locket containing the portrait of a soldier in the uniform of a colonel, with the in- scription in a delicate band, * From Ellery ;’ and trom this circumstance the little girl was called by that name, The good minis- ter slept on the island, yet ncae the less did Aunt Klspath protect ber charge; and though the bow] of goat’s milk might have been larger, it was cheerfully shared with the friend!ess one,

Tbe glen of Inversly was one of exqui- site beauty, Si'very larches hung as it by magic from its sides, and velvet mceses set- tled in its hollow. Birches of every shade rose above, and alders dipped in tbe pure wave of Lock Alow. The red deer aod. ptaimigan were, as yet, undisturbed inha- bitants, yet the spirit of modern enterprise had entered the giem;-and desecrated it by buildieg an hotel at its remote extremity, To this hotel, ia the mid-summer and early autumn, the fashionable bejles of Kdin- burgh, and the still more wondrous beau- ties of London, came to admire and be ad- mired,

At the present time, the star of the first magnitude was Lady Bycoft, the wife of a baronet, who, with much magnificetice, had established herself for the summer at lo- versly,

Great wae the wonder, 2s her ladyship’s carriage, with real gold on it, rolled through the glen; and greater sill the wonder at the untold wealth which these nuble personages seemed to possess, Tak- ing her accustomed airing one morning, L.dy Bycroft came upon the romantic cot- tage of Kispath, and, from its modest door came bounding a beautiful girl of tev, With-natural grace, she courtseyed to the noble strangers, and then, tcssing back the soft hair that shaded her face, she began to sing; #0 soft, so silvery, even the rocks seemed to prolong the echo, It was a simple Highland air, yet the taste of the sungstress rendered it charming ; and, when she had finished, presenting the lady with a wreath of blue-belles, she stood modestly silent before ber.

gleam. shot far into the darkness.

-Rana'd, ‘man, where hae se been?’ ex- c‘aimed a half-k ud, half-angry voice,

‘Now. mither, houd yer tongue; I’se | beea saving life, eried the farmer, as he | bore the inanimate figure through the door.

‘OQ father, she is dead; and a leddy born!’ cried Mary, the fair-haired daugb- ter of the cabin. * How beautiful!’ she isaid, chafing tbe white hands and, temples, land putting by the dark wet masses of hair tliat swept the face of the sufferer.

‘Au? # baby, too,’ as Ranald placed a child of two years in her arwe,

fhe threatened tempest ‘which bad ga- theréd on the brow of the good dame melt- ed into the sweetest cxpression of Jove, as slio hucried about the cabia .ia search of restoratives,

* Rarald,.pile on»maer peat, and take hyourse?’ to the village. Ye maun ‘bring medicinés and the minister belike, ’

Ronald heard her orders, aud scratched his great red head beard xs if a dim idea of bot-browse simmering o@ the fire suggested tbe needs of the inner man,

* Oehb, ye need na stan’ glowering there,’ said his ioving he/pmeet,* when life and death hang on ber speed, ’

‘Av’ that’s true, mither,’ said Ranald, replacing the bonaet he had dropped, 1711 bz back in a thought, And instantly, the good-natured fellow departed on his ayission to the village, eight miter distant,

Lelt to themselves with the stranger, mother @od daughter redoubied their ef- forts, aud at last were rewarded by a faiat sigh, She opened het eyes stured wildly about, then broke into a passion of tears,

‘she has not spoke,’ said the dome, as she wet her husband on bis retufn, He was aéeompanied iy the minister—a pale, thin old mah, whose benevolent features bore traces of bis indefatigable labors.

The same kind, good girl I ever knew,’ he seid, laying bis, band on the bead: of Mary, as he stepped to the side of the low couch where the stranger was lying, fol- lowed by an aged fema e, one of those dear old sou's who belong to everytody. Aunt Hiepath, or, as she was called, Klsey, was ever welcome at cot or cas:le, Her distaff Was ever twirling, aud, if it accomp'ished but little, that lictle clothed the orphans aud not a farmer in the halidome but would add a lock to Aunt El-ey’s single sheep.

She now sfood beside the minister, who added a small stock of medical skill to his many abilities, and looked with intense curiosity atthe stranger. She might be vbout twenty. Her features, of Grecian regularity, were now pinched by the ap- proach ofdeath, and the heavy !o'ds of her dark hair, st)!1 damp with dew, clustered about ber shcu'ders, Be ide her lay the child asleep, ove | tile arm flung protectivc- ty about. her mother, whie.the o:her hand was tucked under the dimpled chin,

¢ Poor wanderer;’ said the minister, * perhaps she haty brought ber bere, bat it bath led thee to frieuds’ —

She opened her eyes, and motioued them to p'ace the ee in her arm,”

‘Stand aside!’ said Runald; ‘bere’s what would, bring the dead back,’ as he beld a glass of sparkling cordial in the light of the fire.

Kispath put it tothe lips ef the sufferer —she chocked, gasped, and raised herself npon ber pillow, supported by Mary,— Her eyes gought the face of tke minister, She pressed the ebild to her bosom,

* (less thee, my Alice,’ she murmured, and full back io the sleep that knows vo

-waking. a

‘The pipes wailed mourpful'y.down the glen, as the boat, ia which stood Mary, the minister, and Ranald, and Aunt Elspeth sitting by the rude coffin, floated across the

small jake 40.the beautiful isie of Livecsly.

‘ Here, sweet maid.of the mis:,’ said the baronet, placing a geld piece im her hand, ‘that merry glee was well sung!’

“How much that child locks like Aga- tha,’ said Bancroft. * Muke allowance for her youth, and it is her face!’

‘ Yes—perhaps—wonderfully like— fora peasant child,’ said Sir Hugh, Drive on!’

Whether it was this incident or the beau-

ity-of he moors, -the noble patr were viten:

until they reached their hotel, and for come time neither spcke of the beayty of the glen.

We must now ask the reader to journey to London, in St, James’ Square, on the second floor of a magnificent’ mansion. Enter a drawing-room, where heavy cur- tains are carefully folded, as if to exclude tbe light, A fire is burning in the'grate, ulthough it is s:ill late summer, and the rich furniture, that is a little old fashioned, reflects the cheerful blaze. The most con- spicuos ornament of the apartment is a por- trait of a lady, whose surpassing beauty seems too life-like for art. An expression of sadpess seemed to follow the beholder,

In an armchair, opposite the fire, sat a gentleman, whose pale face and slightly warked gray hair gave him the appearance of age, although be could not be more than forty. He started, as if from a reverie, as the door opened, and a frank, pleasact face became visibie.

¢ Welcome, Mathew, welcome,’ said the invalid, with a faint smile,

‘Glad to see you, general; and bad you been with me on the healthy braes, you would not need the fire yonder,’

A shuke of the head was the only an- swer, and a fitful glances at the picture,

‘General’ said the stranger, ‘1 have a request to make. Although I have known

-you for years, yet you have never favored

me with the story of your lost child. Have you any objection to do so? I have an cb- ject.’

‘Jadeed, Mathew, indeed,’ said the gen- eral; * it is to all but myself, a dull tale— a story, by the way, that [ care not to tell to others, Yet, if you insist—~’

‘[ do,’ interrupted his friend, bowing.

‘ Weil, then, i was, as you know, an en- sign in the —— regiment, India. Being fond of my calling, I rose rapidly, and at twenty-seven found myself a colonel, and on the way to further promotion. — Per- haps my connection with the Karl of Bred- albane belped matters. Be that as it may, [ then first saw.my Agatha;’ he pressed his hand nervously to bis forehead. *‘ We were married, aud, as the regiment was or- dered home, we rzterne’l to England, No- thing could exceed the happiness of my life for two years, Atthe end of that time a subaltern became acquainted with me, and of course with Agatba. She was ali grace apd kindness to her husband’s friend, and —I was all jealousy, In each word, how- ever trifling, I fancied some slight to my- self. Well—to cut the matter short—I left ber—’ his voice faltered—‘and my awcet Alice—turned north to joia-ay re- giment, to return to India forever. Whe- ther Agatha suspected my design I cannot say. .1 received.several letters fr;m her: couched in terias that should have touched my heart. At length she left London for, I know not where, taking my child with her. You have my history; at least all that interests me. Sinee that«~weary year ‘ife has been a blank, Mathew. ‘You see what she was. ‘Yet..no, only the outward! Excuse these tears!’

‘Aud your daughter — general —\ ur

daughter was never found?’ old. man. sighed. ‘No, my has been unavailing.’

‘Then,’ said his friend, striking the arm of bis chair, ‘I am right. Sbe bad eyes vike her mother? Golden hair in abun- danee ?”

|Pue infant clasped the neck of Mary, and

sobbed and prattled about ‘mamma’ as the!

riage stopped before the mansion of Sir Hugh Byereft in Grosvenor Square,

In a few moments Lady Bycroft entered the chamber of her young protege. Tak- ing her hand kindly, she said,—

‘Now, Alice, dear, remember all you can of your pretty mamma. Tell your own story from the night Ranald found you in-the storm A friend of your mother wishes to hear all about her.’

In a few moments Alice wae riveting the atteation of Sir Hugh and the company by her story, while the genezal buried his face in bis bandkerchief.

* Lt ts—it is my ecbild,’ be cried, as the locket, wkich Alice bad always-worn, was placed in bis hands

General Lamont’s mansion in the north, in a few months was refitred to receive a happy party, and the village bells rang merrily, as Lady Altice and her youthfu! groom, the one who had restored her to her father, in an carriage, entered the park, Beside the gate they paused. Alice sprang from the carriage and threw kerself into the arms of a tottering form, which ay- peared at the door of the neat cottage just erected, whose tiny garden was frugrant with flowers, the gift of the grateful gener- al and his daughter, to Eispath,

“SCAT.”

A ROW ON TOP OF A ROW—HOW THE FUR FLEW, AND HOW “ FOR’”’ IT FLEW.

The fact that Mr. Oliver, lived in a uni- form row of hcusesin the Fourteenth Ward, says the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, was the reason why he was ucfortuaate. One moonlight night last week the noise made by the cats on his roof was simply awful, Mr. Oliver lay in bed, trying iv vain to get tocleep and grinding bis teeth in rage, until at last the uproar overbead beorme uncndurable. Mr. Oliver erept out of bed softly, #0 that bis wife wou'd nut be awakened, He put on his slippers, seized a boot with each hand, and, clad in the snowy robes.of night, he opened the trap- door and emerged upon the roof. There were thirty or forty cuts out there holding a kind of a general synod io the coo! of the evening, enjoying ‘the bracing air ead sin- ging giees, As Mr, Oliver advanced and flung abootat them, They then adjoursed suddenly to the summit of the adjoining residence, Mr Oliver projeeted another boot aod went over alter the first one,

ln this manuer the synod retreated ond Oliver advauced until the last of the row of twenty howses was reached, when the cats arranged themselves io a line along the pa- rapet, ruffled, up their fur, curved their spipes, and spat furiously at Oliver. That bold warrior gathered up hia toots and de- termined to retreat, He walked back over a dozed houses and descended through a trap-door. He wentdown stairs to his bed- room, and epened the door, There was a man tn the room in the act of walking up aod down with a baby. Before Oliver had recovered from his amazement, the man flung the baby on the bed, and se‘zing a revolver begut firing rapidly at Oliver, It then dawned upon Otiver that he had come down the wrong trap-door. He proceeded upstairs again suddenly, the man with the revolver practising at bim ins painful man- ner. When Uliver reached the trap he shut it quickly and stood upon it, The man fired through the boards twice, and then hooked the door upon the inside, A mo me*t after Oliver heard Lim springing a watchman’s rattle from the frost w.ndow. As soon as the neighbours knew there was @ man on the roof they al! flew up stairs and fastened their trap-doors, and Mrs. Oliver fastened hers with the firm convic- tion that some predatory villain bad enter- ed while she slept and stolen her Oliver. When he tried the door it was fast, and Mrs. Oliver was screaming so fiarely that he could pot make himseli heard. By this time the street was filled with policemen, all of whom were blazing away ct Oliver with their revolvers, while the young men in the houses across the street kept up a eteady fire with pistuls shot guns and miscellaneous missiles. liver, with every advantage for forming an opinion, said that Gettysburg was a mere skipmish to it. He bid behind the chimney, and lay up agaiast the bricks to keep himself warm, while the policemen stationed themselves a!! around te capture him when he would slide down one of the Water spouts,

But Oliver did not slide. He sat out on that roof all night, with the bitter sir cireu- lating through hig too trifling garments, lis- tening to the howling cats and the occasion- al ‘shouts from the picket line below, end thinking of the old Jews who used to pray {rom the house-tops, and wondering if Mus- sulmen were ever shot at or tothered with cats and policemen when they practised their eveniog dovotions on theirrocts. Aad then he wondered bow it would do to take of his night sbirt and wave it over the edge as a flag of truce! He concluded not to, be- cause of the danger of a bullet from some misguided policeman not famitiar with the ru'es of war. When daylight come, the neighbours rallied in a crowd, armed with all kinds of weapons from howigers down, and mounted tothersof, “Oliver was taken down acd put to bed, and he now has more influecza for a.man of his size than any other citizen of the Fourteenth Ward. He says

he is going to move as soon as be gets wel:

he is going to move into# house that is next door to'nobody, a house that stands in the tpiddle of a prairie of some kind, and be ic- tends to stencil bis name in whire on the trap door.

A private letter from Christiania, received in Londoa, gives some details concerning the.Freneh ‘balloon which fell in Norway, It appears that the balloon wassent up from Paris on the morning of the 24th. The wind blew it ia a northerly direction with such rapidity that it coon passed over the North Sea, without the ocewpants of the car kuowing where they were. When. however, thes found themselyeadupgerovs!y close to thé sda they sent off a carrier pidgeon with a message that they thought themselves lost, at the same time throwing out ballast. .Ultimately the balloon reached | Norway, and when over Mandel, a email town on the southern cost twenty-three miles

Short and -horried were the few swords west-southwest of Christiansand, a sack of

that followed. Suffice it to say that, in|letters and news-papers were thrown out, less than an hour, General Lamont’s car-| which fell among the astonished inhabitants,

who were watching the balloon pass over their beads. After having been many hours in the balloon, the acronauts, whose names are not given, decended several miles further north, on a snowscovered mountaio, as best they could, aad without even know- ing in what country they were, there being no habita'ions wear. For nineteen hours they wandered about in the snow in light boots, which later had to be cut off, so sat- uratec had they become. I[n the meantime the balloon was discovered by some of the vatives The acronauts were not to be seen, but the remains of meat, bread and wine in the car showed plainly enough that it had recently contained Six carrier pigeons were also found ia it,

one the worse for the journey. Beant ly the voyagers reached one of the small cabins which are to be seen at wide intervale among the mcuntains, which give shelter to those who look after catile, and where an aged and poor woman gave them some food. ‘Ihey then discovered, by seeing upon a match-box the word ‘ Christiania,’ that they were in Norway, and made the woman un- derstand as well as they could thag they desired to proceed to the town, They were then shown the way to a farmer’s house, where they received the atiention of which they stood so much in need, as we'l as dry clothes and shoes, The vews of the arrival of the balloon passengers did not reach Christiania till Sunday, the 27th ult, On the evening of the 28’h thousands of people went to meet them on their entry into Christiania, and gave them a cordial

tion. They were feasted io Christiana that night, and ca the following day were to start for Tours, via London.

A New Mareriat ror Smpsvmoine.— A correspondent icforms us (Gicbe) that « private view of some inventions was given to a nuwber of noblemen and scientific gen- tlemen on Thursday, at the establishmeut of Colonel N. C, Ozerchiey, Oxford Street. This officer nas perfected a discovery named ‘*Zopissa,’’ out of which be made paper boards with which to construct ships, forts, hove o. The specimens exhibiting con- sisted of huge sections of boarding applica- ble for armor plates, ships or forts, pentibe of houses and churches, gas and water mains, rocket tubes and hospital tents. One ot the hoards an inch in thickness was fired at by a Whitwoath rifle, and a similar shot was directed agaiost a solid block of oak ot tea inches thick. Oo examing the paper board, it was found that the bullet had only pene- trated three quarters of an inch, whilst tnrough the 10-inch oak a clean hole had been dril'ed, The invulnerable properties of these Zopissa boards were next tested, and the resuits-suggested their employment in sb*pbuilding. They are non-absorbent, incombustible, and it is impossible that avi- mal or vegetabie life can oxist- upon them. A large jet of gas being applied to the sur- fave of one of these boards, there was pre- sented an inflammable surface, combustica only taking place at that part to which the heat — me The Zopissa material was discovered many years in Egypt by Colonel Cuorhaens tal eae Thursday’s experimeuts, when applied to paper it constitutes a material an absolute nou-conductor to heat, cold, aud electricity.

Important to Youna Housexee7any— In the recent work of Dio Lewis, he gives an account of one week in which the sum total expended for rb s food:was 544 cents, Two dsys out of the seven he indulged in a beef stew, the meat for which each time cost exactly two cents, and be says * there was really enough for two of us!’ Ag for the other days, the carte for a couple of them will give an idea of all:--* Sunday breakfast, hulled Southern corn, with « little milk. My breakfast cost three cents, I took exectly the seme thing for dinner. Food for the day, six ce:ts, 1 never take any-upper. Tuesday's breakfast, two cents’ worth of beans, with half a cent’s worth of vineg:r. Wor dinner, one quart of rick bean pooridge, worth one cent, with four slices of coarse bread, worth two cents, Food for Tuesday, five and a half cents, In conc!usion, Dr, Lewis remarks: * Of course I dou’t pretend that every one can live io this luxurious way, 1t isn’t evers- body that ean afford it. 1 could have lived just as well, so far as bealth and st b are concerned, on helf the money. ides, on three days I eat too uch altogether, and suffered from thirst and dullness. But theo, I may plead that my habits are very active Not only have I written 40 odd pages of this book during the week, but i have done a large amouot of hard wascular tabor.

Tae Martint Heney Rirtz —We should be very glad to confirm the av- nouscement in the Times that a step bas been taken towards the rearmament of the British icfantry with. superior weapon by the issue to the 204 battalion 23rd Koyal Welsh Fusiliers aud the meo 0’ the various depots attached to the geveral depot bat- talion at Chatham, of Ma: tini-Henry rifles, Unfortunately, this anz0une: ment, like that of the Army and Navy Gazette reapecting the definitive adoption of the weapon (which our coutemporary repeats in ite last issue) is premature, The Martini-Henry rifle has not yet been adopted ; and as for its alleged issue to the troops at Chatham, we believe that on'y twelve Martini-Henry rifles of the proposed pattero (with the ‘short cham- ber’ ) are in existenee, «Lt ia probable that the Times e.rrespondent has mistaken the issue of one or two of these rifles for experi- ment for @ rearmament of the troops. Weare afraid that meny months must elapse afer the rifle is finally adopted before a supply will be ready for issue to the treopa; and we belicve we are correct in stating that it is i uader say circumstances, that tbe manufacture of Mar- tini-Henry rifles will eommence before the lat of April next, if so soon,—-Pall Mail Gazette.

Ir is reported that Dr. Liviogstone bas been beard of at Mozambique, waiting for a vessel to take him to Eogiand.

Tur state debt of Main is $8,098,000, becowes due the-present yeat, aud is pro

| vided for in the sinking