I 
THE 
Pauline! Quick! Before mamma can say a 
word!” 
“ Why should you not come too?” urged Tom. 
“J’ut on thick boots, and come. I’ll carry you 
b u me If you fall by the way.” 
“My dear, I could not walk half-way there I 
And I cannot say 1 think you ought to ask the 
girls to go. Why cannot you and Mr. Blundell go 
by yourselves ?” 
Four gloomy faces made answer first. 
Then, “ It. would be such a grand sight,” mur¬ 
mured Pauline, 
“1 really think they ought not to miss It,” 
pleaded Blundell. 
Torn. “It will do them all the good In the 
world!" 
Elsie. ** We must go." 
Further remonstrance would have been Idle, 
and It was understood that Blundell was to re¬ 
turn with them to the castle. 
CHAPTER IV. 
Tho Cour Burn. 
With revived spirits and glowing countenances 
the little party found themselves out upon the 
moor, surrounded by dripping heath and fern, 
brawling streamlets, and glistening sheets of 
rock. 
“ III!" cried Tom, walking backwards In front of 
them, up a steep tncllne. •• This Is the kind of 
thing for me! What a pair of cheeks Elsie has 
got!" 
“ What a pair you have got yourself!” retorted 
his cousin, as though it were an accusation. “ Bo 
talk properly now: this Is not a place to trip In." 
"Just what I should say It was,” tripping as he 
spoke, and pretending to lurch over the side. 
“Why did none of you catch me? That pool 
down there would drown a haystack!” 
“ Isn’t. It a splendid pool ?" said Elsie. “ And 
the rock opposite is called ‘ r.he Otters' inn.' The 
otter, when he travels up to fhe lake on the other 
side or the hill, spends the day here, and pro¬ 
ceeds on his way the following night.” 
“I should say ho meets with cold comfort,” 
said Tom lightly. “ It wad be sma’ pleesure to 
me to bide in a hoosa where there was neither 
parrltch nor whusky—eh, Blundell ? The Otters’ 
Inn is not quite lu the style of the old 1 Goat and 
Compasses.’ ” 
No answer. 
“ Do j'ou and C’kawarth go there still ?” 
“No.” 
“ Where la Cliaworth 7” 
“J don’t know. Miss La Sarte," Bald Blundell, 
turning to his companion, “ I suppose, by this 
noise, we are close to the fall now ?” 
“ I knew I should draw him,” whispered Tom, 
triumphantly, "Did you Bee how angry he was? 
He hates the very name or Chawort.li.” 
•* Then why did you mention him?" 
lie stared. "Why? Just for that, to be sure! 
Dldn’L you see how he turned to Pauline, and 
would talk no more to me ? Oh, it was rich!” 
“Elsie,”said Pauline,turning round, “we are 
going down lo the ledge; we shall not be away 
more than a rew minutes.” 
“ Js Miss Calverley not coming too ? ” 
No; MIks Calverley declined the Invitation de¬ 
cidedly: it made her so giddy, that never once, 
not even when she was a child, had she seen the 
fall. She would await their return where she 
was. 
The other three crept down the bank, clinging 
alternately to branches of trees and points of 
rock. Pauline mutely decllued assistance, for 
speech was unavailing. The hollow rumbling 
sound which had been loudly audible on the 
bights, was now a deafening continuous roar, as 
the volume of water, which had been consider¬ 
ably augmented by the recent rain, thundered 
over the cllfr, and lashed the black pool below i 
into a seething caldron of yellow foam. 
The three adventurers, from their ledge, be¬ 
held the spectacle In silence. 
Tom, Ills restless eyes roving up and down, as i 
If to gather In every point of the picture, was still ’ 
inlluenced by a certain amount of awe, for this 1 
was a sight to which he was unaccustomed; his i 
sister, to whom It was more familiar, gazed i 
thoughtfully into the depths; Blundell surveyed 1 
the scone with seme degree of emotion, but of a L 
kind so inscrutable that It, was difficult to guess 
whether It. afforded him pleasure or pain. x 
Suddenly he motioned to the others to remain 1 
where they were, and immediately disappeared i 
up the bank. f 
“ Miss Calverley, you really must come down I 
It is magnlilcent; and your cousin says you have t 
nover seen it.” t 
“ I should like to come so much,” said Elsie, 
piteously; “ but ob! if Tom were to touch mo — ” s 
“ He shan’t touch you. No one shall. You t 
shall touch me, and that is all you need do. Hold i 
on by my arm, and you can come down as safely t 
as It you were on a high road." 
A few more entreaties, and she was persuaded, h 
Yes, wonderful to relate, she was persuaded. 
Shivering, miserable, yet excited and triumph¬ 
ant, she stood upon the ledge. t- 
Pauline nodded her congratulations, and Tom 
clapped his hands in her face; but Elsie heeded J 
them not. 
She was holding on, as Blundell had told her, v 
by his arm; and as wilder and wilder grew the 
hurry of the torrent, and more and more horrible A 
the yawning depths below, she cowered the closer .r 
to him. 1 
Strange cries, and shrieks, and groans sounded 
for her In the terrible din of the waters. Her 0 
eyes began to swim, her brain to reel. Well for .. 
her that some one at that moment touched her " 
elbow! It was Pautlne, unware of the compact y 
made beforehand, and kindly anxious to see If 
her cousin were uneasy; but it gave the last 
touch to the girl’s nervous terror, and uttering a 
cry which was lost In the raging of the waters, 
she shut up the bank like a hunted animal escap¬ 
ing for its life. 
The other three followed, grievous to relate, in 
convulsions of merriment. 
Pauline’s rare laugh rang out with the hearty, 
thorough enjoyment of one not often In mirthful 
mood; Tom see-sawed to and fro with the ago¬ 
nies of his delight; while oven Blundell looked 
diverted, though politeness restrained him from 
giving way to the same extent as did the others. 
—[To be continued. 
-- 
SELF-VIVISECTION. 
It is not often that an inventor has such an 
Implicit faith lu his Invention, or the nerve to 
demonstrate the fact as Dr. Waters of Salem re¬ 
cently showed before the Massachusetts Dental 
' Society, lie stated that bicarbonate of soda, such 
as Is used tor cooking purposes, or any other alkali 
In neutral form, would afford instantaneous ces¬ 
sation or pain from the severest burns or scalds, 
and would cure such Injuries lu a few hours. De¬ 
liberately dipping a sponge Into boiling water, the 
Doctor squeezed It over his right, wrist, produc¬ 
ing a severe scald around his arm and some two 
Inches In width. Then, despite the suffering oc¬ 
casioned, he applied the scalding water to his 
wrist for half a minute. Bicarbonate of soda was 
at. once dusted over the surface, a wet cloth ap¬ 
plied, and the pain, the experimenter stated, was 
almost Instantly deadened. Although the flesh 
on the wrist, was literally cooked down to the 
sweatrglands, and the wound was of a nature to 
be open and painful for a considerable time, on ‘ 
the day following the single application of the 
soda, the leas injured portion was practically 
healed, only a slight discoloration of the flesh : 
being perceptible. The severer wound in a few 
days, with no other treatment titan a wet cloth 1 
kept over It, showed every sign ol rapid healing. 
A. D. 1877, about the hour of noon, in the county and 
•Slaw aforesaid, one Joseph Scroggs, late of said 
county, did then and there feloniously take, steal 
and carry away 
One bay horse, of the value of fifty dollars, more or 
less 
(The same then and there being of the property, goods 
aud chattels of one Ilezekiah Hess); 
Contrary to the statute in such case expressly made 
And provided : and against the peace and dignity of 
the State wherein the venue had been laid. 
The prisoner, Joseph Scroggs, was then arraigned 
upon this charge. 
And plead not guilty, and of this he threw himself 
upon the county at large; 
And said Joseph being poor, the Court did graciously 
appoint 
Mr. Smith to defend him—much on the same principle 
that obtains in every charity hospital, where a 
young medical student is often set to rectify a i 
serious Injury to an organ or a joint. 
The witnesses seemed prejudiced against'poor Mr. 
Scroggs; 
And the district attorney made a thrilling speech, in 
which ho told the Jury that if they didn't find for 
the State he reckoned he’d have to “ walk their 
logs 
Then Mr. Smith arose and made his speech for tho 
defense, 
Wherein he quoted Hhakspeare, Blaekstone. Chitty, 
Archbold, Joaquin Miller, Story. Kent.Tupper. 
Smedes and Marshall, and many other writers, 
and everybody said they •• never heered sich a 
bust of eloquence." 
And he said: " On this hypothesis, my client must go 
free 
And: " Again, on this hypothesis, it’s morally impossi¬ 
ble that he could tie guilty, don’t you see f" 
And; “Then, on this hypothesis, you really can’t con- 
vict 
And so on, with forty-six more hypotheses, upon none 
of which, Mr. Smith ably demonstrated, could 
Scroggs be derelict. 
Prosperity Is the very best dish in the world ; 
but It docs not. prove us. 1 1 fattens aud strength¬ 
ens us, Just as the sun docs. Adversity is the 
Inspector of our constitutions: she simply trios 
our muscle and powers or endurance, and should 
be a periodical visitor. But until she comeB no 
man Is known.—Geo. MereaWi. 
THE AUGUST MAGAZINES. 
In pursuance of the custom Introduced last 
year by Scribner’s Monthly, the August number 
Is issued as a special Midsummer Holiday num¬ 
ber. Among the material put forth to vindicate 
this title are Illustrated papers on the following St. Nicholas la as charming as ever. The Ulus- 
subjects:—" North American Grouse," “Cana- trillions roach after and attain perfection In a 
dlan Sports,” dealing chiefly with Lacrosse, Snow- way that leaves nothing to be desired—unless It. 
shoeing and Tobaganlng; •• Babes In the W ood," be the succeeding number of the same magazine, 
an account or a trip through the Maine forests to Among other good things, Mr. Frank it. Stockton 
Canada In a blrch-bark cauoe, made by the family describes a visit to "A Milage of Wild Beasts.” 
of the author, Mrs. Hoyt, who Is a daughter of the He says: 
G *, aSB j aUd !l rourth l )ft P cr on Not long ago I paid a visit to a tiger. I did not 
:t K TT Cl : JUdB ’” by MaJor K ’ “<«*■ this Tiger a call, for I am very glad to say 
t l ° highest railway in the that he had never been to see me; but 1 wanted 
Tnti?' ! t, bJ Lh ,° way ’ was bullt by Amurtran to see him, and so I went to his house. 
" « P nm e ‘n T , h '“ r ^ 1s ” b50 1 a llorscb ' lck vevetio on n e did not Uve alone. He had a room lu a large 
,,rc L.-,n\ P0St0n i ? ri .v'' by K ' 8 ' Nadal (wl)0 htts Building, where there were a good many other 
Just been n‘-appointed to the place on tho Amor- boarders. Some of these were leopards, others 
I'London, which he held under Mr. pauthorsor Hons; there was another tiger and 
nefrtaM B ^i° XlSh l Las one 01 lllfc char- on the premises might be seen almost every kind 
accemtlc talks on “Strawberries,’’ which will of wild animal, from alligators to zebras 
doubtless prolong the season of that delightful i particularly desired to see this tiger, because 
... ’ he was a very large royal Bengal tiger, and I 
t e noteworthy new contributors, Berthold know of no beast so powerful and handsome as 
iSSSS 155 01 rr nt ure ’ one of these. But uZ t was not In S2SSS 
LinAii ® *‘ t lhe A S rtculr ' ural Fair," establishment that I would not have preferred to 
illustrations by Prof. Thumann of the Ber- uim as a close acquaintance. 
, n 2 '" a *- my ’ Miss Clara Louise Kelloggwiltcs It was near hta dinner-time when I called and 
about some Japanese Melodies,” the scores of i think he would have been very glad to have me 
a? “ PIJ ’ Und tb6 aUt1l0r 01 “ 1)eLrdre ” C0IIU ’m and dine with him. but 1 had two oK 
has a three-page poem on •* Reflections” about tions to this. In the first place, the beer heal- 
Amcrlean authors, Inscribed to Dr. Holmes. ways had for dinner was too rare for me, for 1C 
Other stories of a light character are “Smeth- was not cooked at all; and, besides, there were 
u raises,” by Mrs. Burnett, the author of “ That some things which I wanted to do next day. 
Lass o’ Lowrle s,” told In Cockney dialect, by the So I stood und admired his magnificent coat of 
wax-works man; “ swart among the Buckeyes," striped fur and his graceful moveS i he sat 
Rov^f n°n T Ulftsra 1Jte > by Hjalmar HJorth close to a great Iron door which led Into the next 
S“ d * character-sketch, by Mary E. C. cage, pawing and biting at. bis rcflecUon ln Um 
\ yeth, of Moses an Aaron,” who, It must be smooth Iron as If he had been a playful kitten in 
Ii0t tW0 * stead of one of the most suvagl SlrnaS oTme 
f Installment of Miss Trafton’s new face of the earth; aud them left him aud went 
serial. His Inheritance,” is given in this num- on a little further to see a Ron, 
er ' I’ b, ' larid s “ Nicholas Mlnturn,” it Is an- The place where these animals lived and still 
nounced, win be completed in the October num- live, Is In the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens,Tn 
m. . , , Falrmount Park, on the western side of the 
Wt have space for only one extract, a bit of Schuylkill River (which runs through Pliiladol- 
humorous poetry by Irwin Russell: phia), aDd as ^ cover thlrty-S ac^s, ?ou 
the first cum. cau easll - v see & great many animals can be 
(A Legal Ditty to he Sung without Chorus to the Air o) ^ ar f Vfiry beaU ‘ 
"The King’s aid Courtier."] tlful, and aie shaded by many fine large forest 
.w- - -__ . . ... trees * There is a lake where the swans and the 
But the Jury, never stirring from the box wherein they 
sat, 
Returned a verdict of •’guiltyand ids honor straight¬ 
way sentenced ficrogtrs to a three-year term in the 
penitentiary, and a heavy fine, and the costs on 
top of that j 
And the prisoner, In wild delight, got up and danced 
and sung; 
And when they asked him tho reason of this strange 
behavior, he said; " It is because I got off no 
easy—for if thcre’d ha* been a few more of them 
darned hypothesises, I should certainly have been 
hung!” 
The contributed articles In this superb number 
ure too good to mutilate. Wo advise those who 
yearn for the Ideal magazine, to buy and read this 
umber at least. 
Thk Uai-axv bravely holds Its own, beside Its 
more picturesque brethren. Mr. Henry James, 
Jr., chats pleasantly concerning “The Picture 
Season In London." Justin McCarthy continues 
‘‘ Miss Misanthrope." Henry \v. Frost tells about 
“Figures of Speech;” and the poets are out In 
force. A very interesting paper is that of Henry 
O. Dwight on “ Typical Turks.” 
John Smith, a young attorney. Just admitted to the 
bar. 
Waa solemn and sagacious as—as young attorneys 
are; 
And a frown of deep abstraction held the seizin‘of his 
face— 
The result of contemplation of the rule in Shelley's 
Case. 
One day in term-time Mr.ZSmith was sitting In the 
Court, 
When some good men and true of the body of the 
county did on their oath report. 
That heretofore, to wit; upon the Becond day of 
May, 
ducks and geese swim about, and where the 
cranes stand on one leg and watch lor little fishes 
and frogs. Here and there are large houses for 
the different kinds ol animals or birds, and there 
area number of smaller buildings; but a great 
rnanyoi the Inhabitants or the gardens 11 yc out- 
of-doors In fine weather. Altogether, there are 
houses and inhabitants enough to make up a 
good-sized village. 
MISS Horton graphically describes the way they 
canduct the dairy Interest in Naples. It is very 
funny. Listen: 
I must tell you about the Neapolitan milkmen, 
I for they are funny fellows. They do not have a 
milk-wagon and horse, as our milkmen have, or 
even a pall and dipper. They have only Uttle 
three-legged stools, tied to themselves (so that 
when they want to sit down they arc all ready), 
and they drive their cows and goats before them 
to the different houses, and milk them at the 
door lu a bowl provided by each customer. No 
chance for watered milk there, you see. 
This Is not the queerest part ol It., though. As 
I have Bald, Italian houses are very high—five, 
six, and seven stories often, with a different fam¬ 
ily living on each floor. r.ven the valazzor (pal¬ 
aces) of the rich are divided m this way. To the 
first floor (not the ground floor) there are some¬ 
times from eighty to one hundred steps leading 
up. On this floor perhaps .a duke may live; on 
the next above, some one lower in rank, till it 
would not be Impossible that the noble duke’s 
laundress might live In the seventh story of his 
palazzo. These uppermost families usually take 
goat's milk, because thB goats can go upstairs, 
even to the very top floor, and be milked in mu 
view of the customer l 
Part, of little Paolo's pleasure was In patting 
the goat tha t, came up to his grandmother’s door, 
rubbing its Uttle nose, and giving it roasted chest- 
quls to eat. After it was milked, the goat would 
turn and skip down the stairs so briskly that the 
Milkman could not begin to keep up with it. 
TU Rina's bristles with good things. The fol- 
owlng sonnet, written by the late John Lothrop 
Holley, when he was about seventeen years old, 
s published for the llrst time, In the August num- 
>er: 
lupid hath been a god so many ages. 
That it is strange he yet continues young, 
md hath inspired so many scores of pages. 
That it is strange his praises yet are sung. 
And strange tho theme should now inspire my 
tongue. 
Sut still, a* in the olden time, the power 
Of Love exerts the same mysterious spell ; 
till man's high purposes in one brief hour 
The glancing of a bright eye may dispel, 
.s Softly ilk the frost wreaths of the night 
lelt in the brightness of the morning light. 
ml though, when yet n spring hath shared its rose 
And beauty with thy check, und thou may’st rove 
a brightness forth, where'er tho world discloses 
Hearts to bind goftlen chains round; when you 
move. 
The fair Napoleon of tho world of Love — 
hen way thj soul, as it is now, be pure 
As the find sunbeam ere it blessed the earth ! 
hen may the joys around thee now 
Still light thine, eye, still dew thy lip with mirth I 
hen, while all charms their wreaths about you fling, 
ime Khali, in love with thee, abjure his wing. 
October IS, 1831. 
LimNCOTfa has a very Interesting concluding 
iper, “ Down the Rhino,” by Lady .Murphy, and 
B. AVlster Illustrates “ Verona " with pen and 
>ncii. R. il Davis’novel, “A Law mto ller- 
H," Increases In Interest. Lizzie W. Champney 
mtrlbutcB a dialect Btory, “ Vinas, ‘Ole Man,’ ” 
hllo Mr. Fisher's knowledge of the “Paris 
tfes”.ls turned to good account In this num- 
>r. The “ Marquis of Lossle ” Is as full of love 
id preaching as usual, while, not to be behlnd- 
md, the Editor has corraled Mr. Ker and ex¬ 
acted a bit of Russian life in a Russian “ Trak- 
er.” 
Tuk Eclectic contains a fine steel engraving 
the Southern poet, Paul II. llayne, and its usual 
refuffy selected foreign miscellany. We select 
e question: 
“ is tub Eccalyptub a Fbvek • Destroying 
Trek?— The lust published volume of Transac¬ 
tions of the Royal Society of victoria, contalus a 
paper with the above title, and It is a question 
which, as our readers are aware, Is not less Inter¬ 
esting here In Europe than In Australia. Baron 
von Muellor, Government Botanist at Melbourne, 
has described more than one hundred and thirty- 
species of Eucalyptus; some grow In forests of 
great extent both on high and low table-land; 
others form dense desert scrub, while others are 
so distributed as to impart a park-llke appearance 
to the landscape. The leaves are evergreen, and 
so arranged that the light and heat of the sun 
fall equally on each side; and the roots are dis¬ 
persive and drain water largely from the Boll. Be¬ 
sides the genera] constituents of a ligneous vege¬ 
tation, the Eucalyptus contains a gem-resln, a vo¬ 
latile acid, and a peculiar volatile oil. The finest 
forests, thicolyptus amvgdaltna, extend Inland 
about one hundred miles, beyond which the scrub 
species prevail. When, by vicissitudes of season, 
the seaweed species are poor In volatile oil, then 
the scrub 1b rich, and Hoe versa. 
“ The extent of scrub and rorest In the three 
colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, and South 
Australia, la so great that the quantity of oil 
therein contained Is estimated at 06,877,440,000 gal¬ 
lons. On this M. Boslsto, the author of the paper 
above referred to, remarks;—' Considering that 
the same condition exists throughout the major 
part of Australia * • * we cannot arrive at any 
other conclusion than that the whole atmosphere 
of Australia is more or less affected by tho per¬ 
petual exhalation of (hose volatile bodies.’ The 
aroma thereof would be disagreeable, were It not 
that * volatUe oils have the power of changing 
oxygen Into ozone while they are slowly oxidiz¬ 
ing.' it can hardly be doubted that the influence 
on climate must be Important. ‘ Let,’ says Mr. 
Boslsto, ‘ a stnaU quantity of any of the eucalyp¬ 
tus olla-hui, especially the oil or am >/g- 
dalina—bc distributed sparingly In a sick cham¬ 
ber or over any unpleasant substance, or add a 
small quantity to stagnant water, and the pleas¬ 
ure of breathing an Improved air will immediately 
be manifest. The application of this to the clim- i 
ate of Australia has great force, for it is acknowl¬ 
edged that we possess about us, both la bush and 1 1 
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