The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

BURIED ALIVE. Dr ANNIB THOMAS (lIu. FIHDU Cw CHAPTER V LI.—Continued. Where shall we keep her ? is the' question my two dear old aunts keep on asking one another. tu we journey away from the fated, bated Hurst. And I answered for myself- I shall be happy—so happy anywhere now, for I shall know how to value feeling safe Finally after a few days' rest in their own house- days which were busily employed by them in get- ing my wardrobe into its old perfect order—they take me away to beautiful Torquay, the fair Queen of the West. It is golden autumn when we get there, and we spend an hour or two in really delightful uncertainty as to where we shall locate ourselves. We look at the "Imperial," seated superbly on the top of a precipitous cliff; at the lloyal," situated in per- fect comfortable ease and prettiness, on the straud, and finally resolve that neither of the hotels shall claim us for its own; but that we will go into lodgings in one of the picturesque mansions that sit on the sides of the hill facing Torbay. How happy I am here or rather how happy I ought to be here, under the loving care of my aunts, who would concentrate all the sunshine and beauty in the world into one focus if they could, and bring it to bear upon me. How happy I am to be surrounded by every possible indulgence that care and love can provide for me. With my love for flowers, and for roses especially, this garden that spreads itself before me ought to be a Paradise. And it is a Paradise, but I am a discontented daughter of eve, and long—how I long—to be once more in My Lady's Garden, with Frank Wilton by my side. Shall I ever see him again, I wonder ? or is that one sweet, stolen walk with him through the woods to the village post-office to be the nr-t and last time of my seeing and speaking to him? Does lie ever think of the girl who made him her hero at first sight—whose heart went into his keeping in I her bitter loneliness- went into his keeping without his ever so much as hinting that he would like to be its guardian ? or if lie does think of her, it is as the bride of vain, coarse, terrible young Arthur Hesslington ? By-and-by, when we have dawled away a month in Torquay, my aunts begin to get seriously alarmed about me. I have grown pale, and thin, and languid, and cannot rouse myself any longer tc take an interest in the lovely scenery through which we take our daily drives. A doctor is called in, and instructed in my case. He orders me quinine, and horse-exercise, saying that my nervous system has not recovered the shock it received during my residence at the Hurst. I take kindly to a portion of his prescription, and agree to the horse-exercise readily. But the quinine I refuse. Quinine can- not minister to a mind that is exhausting itself in dwelling upon faint memories of Frank Wilton. For the first time in my life I am what my aunts call fidgety and hard to please. I cannot find a horse in Torquay or its neighbourhood that at all meets my requirements, and 1 insist upon advertis- ing for one in the Field, giving my name in full and my present address. As I send my advertise- ment away to the office, I think, I wonder if Frank Wilton takes in the Field still? I get shoals of answers to my advertisement the day after it appears. Horses possessed of every beauty and virtue that horseflesh can be'tf\doweè with are offered to me ty the dozen. But I am veiy hard to please. I reject them all, and decre. that my advertisement shall go in a second time. Fortune favours those who fight for themselves Between crying and laughing I rush to my auiits, 0 nn out morning, just after the post comes in, with '11\ open letter in my hand. "My Advertisement has succeeded!" I cry, waving my letter before their astonished eyes. it is answered by Frank Wilton, Lady Frances's sun, you know. He says he has the very horse for me, and will bring it down himself, if he may." It's the most remarkable thing I ever heard of in my life one aunt says, and the other puts in— ''Only fancy! How odd that he should have happened to see your advertisement, Florence! Why, I don't know a single person in all my circle of acquaintances that looks at the Field from one year's end to another." "I suppose he may as well bring the liorse ? I ask. "He's a good judge of horses, I've heard, and I think I shall feel satisfied with his choice." Then by all means let him show you the horse, at any rate," the dear old aunts say, and so Frank comes, and I get a most satisfactory mount. How splendidly Torquay agrees with me from the day I take to riding round itslovely environ" with Frank Wilton Once again the dawn of the New Year is break- ing over the hills that encircle my beautiful hoaie in Westmoreland. Riug out the false, ring in the true," the glad joy-bells seem to say, for they are ringing, not only for the birth of a New Year, but for my marriage with Frank Wilton-a marriage whieli Mr. Hesslington does not venture to oppose, though I 1111 not of age, for Arthur, by a magnanimous effort over himself, which at one time I did not think him capable of making, has decreed that there shall be no opposition to my being happy in the way that seems good to him. And when his father cavils at this decree, as a week and Quixotic one, Arthur has merely to mention that note-book, which lie holds, and his father surrenders his will, and his guardianship. THE END.

WIT AND HUMOUR* Motto of the gardener-Lettuce plant. A commercial traveller—A merchant-vessel. It is much easier to lay plans than it is to hatct tten).. Proper costume for an elopement-A cut-awaj jacket. A maiden heiress is the only miss that makes a social hit. Advice to persons in search of employment- West. ward hoe. I It is perfectly proper that the boy who is whaled should blubber. Prevention is better than cure," as the pig said when it ran away from the butcher. The fashions talk about "shot silk." It must be the material so many hats are made of. A carpenter can seldom be as handsome as his wife, because he is generally a deal planer. Rob a man of his life, and you'll be hung; rob him of his living, and you may be applauded. A spiritualist has discovered that cats have souls. Probably their heaven is the milky-way. "Give Me Back my Dead shrieks a poet. Pro- bably the editor "killed "some of his poetry. Waiter Will you have Chili sauce with yout meat? Diner:—"No, sir; I'll have it hot." In reading the puffs on gravestones, we can only hope that the dead are not spoiled by gross flattery. There is an inveterate smoker who is always very leaf when informed there is no smoking allowed. A rhymer is generally fond of giving you a few stave* from his last work as specimens of the whole barrel. "You can't do that again," as the pig said when the Doy cutoff his tail. "Honesty is the best policy, but it keeps a man shocking poor," said Smith, as he wetted the sugar, without mixing it with sand. I speak within bounds," as the prisoner said when addressing the jury from thedock. "It is said that a watch-dog is not so large in the morning as at night, because lie is let out at night and taken in in the morning. "That motion is out of order," remarked the chair- man of a political meetiug to a rowdy who was raising his arm to throw a rotten egg at him. You may depend upon me, wife I give you my word." "I had rather you would sometimes keep it, sir." "I can't find bread for my family," said a lazy fellow in companv. "Nor I," reolied an industrious

GRIEFS OF BOYHOOD.—Heaven have mercy on the boy who learns to grieve early Condemn it as a sentiment, if you will, talk as you will of the fearlessness and strength of the boy's heart, yet there belongs to it many tenderly-strung chords of affection which give forth low and gentle music that consoles and ripens the ears for all the harmonies of life. These chords a little rude or unnatural ten- sion will break, and break for ever. Watch your boy, then, if so be he will bear the strain try his nature, if it be rude or delicate; and, if delicate, in Heaven's name, do not, as you value your peace and his, breed a harsh spirit in him that shall take pride in subjugating and forgetting the finer affec- tions THE BANGOR SHERIFF.-A correspondent tells the story of an old-time Bangor sea captain's es- cape from a sheriff many years ago. The sheriff went aboard the schooner with a warrant for the captain's arrest. The mariner received him cor- dially and invited him to step into the cabin to take refreshment. This refreshment was taken in the guise of a drink of Santa Cruz rum which the cap- tain had brought from the West Indies himself. the sheriff took several drinks and swapped a num- ber of jokes and yarns with the captain, becoming lixhilarated and forgetting his errand. At last he bethought himself of his duty and told his enter- tainer, with an expression of regret, that he must arrest him and take him before a magistrate, hoping that the trouble would be explained and the respon- dent discharged. But, Mr. Sheriff," replied the captain, "you are not within your bailiwick—you can't execute that precept now." "Why." said the sheriff, "we are at Bangor, ain't we? "Well, no, 1 ratner guess not," said the captain. "\Ve'vè got pretty well down the bay by this time. Do you want to go to Baltimore with me ? SLIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES. — Sir Walter Scott, walking one day along the banks of the Yarrow, where Mungo Park was born, saw the travelipi throwing stones into the water, and anxiously watching the bubbles that succeeded. I was thinking," answered Park, how often I had thus tried to sound the rivers in Africa, by calculating Itow long a time had elapsed before the bubbles rosj t,) the surface." It was a slight circumstance, but the traveller's safety frequently depended upon it. In a watch, the mainspring forms a small portion of the works, but it impels and governs the whole. Ho it is in the machinery of human life-a slight cir- cumstance is permitted by the Divine Ruler 10 derange or to alter it: a giant falls by a pebble a girl at the door of an inn changes the fortune of an Lr empire. If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, said Pascal, in his epigrammatic and brilliant manner, the condition of the world would have been different. The Mohammedans have a tradition, that when their prophet concealed himself in Mount Shur, his pursuers were deceived by a spider's web, which covered the mouth of the cave. Luther might have been a lawyer, had his friend and com- panion escaped the thunder storm at Erfurt; Scot- land had wanted her stern reformer, if the appeal of the preacher had not startled him in the chapel oLSt. .leu, in res,)Iitfioii ts L% expediency of charging "certain atamp duties" on the; plantations in America, the western world might still have bowed to the British sceptre. Cowley might never have been a poet, if he had not found the Faery Queen in his mother's parlour Opie might have perishc-d in mute obscurity, if he iiad not looked over the shoulder of his young com- pauion, Mark Oates, while he was drawing a butterfly; Giotto, one of the early Florentine painters, might have continued a rude shepherd- boy, if a sheep drawn by him upon a stone had not attracted the notice of Cimabue as he went that way. A COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP.—" A widower mid son courted and married a widow and daughter, tile son marrying the mother and the father the I a ugh lor. Can you explain the relationship all j' A stagger can be made at it, anyhow, The saw-buck arrangement is rather difficult of solution. When the widower married the daughter lie became father-in-law to the widow, who was.his daughter-in-law, or, in other words, was father-in- law to his own mother-in-law. Do you grasp? His wife became the step-mother of her son-in-law, who was in fact her half-brother, being the full son of his father, her husband. Tiie son and widow who married without the aid of a net caused a com- plication somewhat like the following: -\Vhen the son married the widow he became the father-in-law of his own father, because his wife was his father's wife's mother. By this last marriage the son be- came the step-father of his own step-mother, who was his step-daughter. Touching the widow, she is the 'mother of her daughter and is also thedaughter- in-law of her daughter, who so recently became her mother-in-law. The widow is likewise the daughter- in-law of her husband's father, who, it cannot be denied, is her son-in-law, by being her daughters ,husb;md. By marrying the widow the son became the son-in-law of his mother, for the reason that she was the wife of his father. When the son | married tlie widow he became the father of his father's wife, his half-sister his own daughter, be- S!II: was the daughter of his own wife. deferring to the old man for a few minute*, it would seem that when he married'the daughter he became his son's wife's son-in-law, that lady, it must not be forgotten, lie ing also his daughter-in- law. although tiie mother of his wife. The father's wife, as step-mother to his children, was, therefore, step- mother to her mother and step-father, the latter being the son of her husband. Supposing, if \"11.1 are not too Ured, that the son was blessed with a girl baby then, ordinarily, she would be the fat her s grandchild, but, in this instance, the old man being sou-in-law to his sou, he, in addition to being his grandfather, is a iialf-brothtr to the infant, IlId the child is half-sister to its grand- mother. In case the daughter should have 1 wins, a boy and girl, why, then as the poet truly remarks

FACTS AND FANCIES. U.Gr.. TOM's CABIN.—" Uncle Tom's Cabia. is tailed in French La Case de I'Oncle TOlD:" in German, "Onole Tom's Hutte in Danish, Onkel Tomas Hutten in Dutch, De Nesrerhut; in Flemish, De Hut van Onkel Tom in Hungarian, Tama's Batya; "in Italian, "La Capanna Dello Vio Tomaaaso;" in Polish, "Chata Wuja Tomasza; in Portuguese, A Cabana do Pai ThomN;" in Spanish, La Cabana del Tio Tomas;" in Russian. Khichina Dyadi Toma and in Swedish, Onkel Tom's Stuga. ♦ A DANCING BIRD. — A curious bird, found in the jungles of Australia, is described by a traveller in that country. He says: "It is called the ballador, or dancer, from its jumping action. Two of them were !een together and carefully studied. As teen as one bird alighted the other jumped up, the time being like clockwork in its regularity, and each ill. turn uttering a note sounding like 'to-le-do,' mttering the syllable to as he crouched to spring, le while in the air, and do' as he alighted—a regular song and dance performance." AN EARLY EASTER.-Easter will fall next year on its earliest possible date, namely, St. Mark's Day, April 25th. The last time that it so fell was 1736, old style (1734 new style). The next time will be in 1943, new style. Easter falls on St. Mark's Day at irregular intervals, happening on an average three times in four centuries. At present, however, it happens about once a century, at intervals of either 57, 68, 84, 95, 152, er 163 years. This wiU continue till the year 4,900, when three intervals of 120, 1,363 and 288 years will intervene. ♦ CURIOUS OLD CUSTOM.—Perhaps, of all the curioes eastoms established in London, the following wu one of the least becoming of its kind. The Daily Jiwmml of December 21, 1740, says On Sunday, alter Divine service, was performed the annual ceremony of throwing bread and cheese out of Pad- dington church steeple among the spectators, and giving them ale. ThiB custom was established by two women, who purchased five acres of land to the above use, in commemoration of the particular charity whereby they had been relieved woev to extreme necessity." THJI FIRST GLASS WINDOW.—The first glase w- dow that we read of-we may still see it-is one found in a window-sash at Pompeii, where it was fixed some time before 79 A.D. The first indisputa- ble mention of glass windows is made by Gregory of Tours in the4th century, who speaks of church wi. dows of coloured glass. It appears from Bede's Life of Benedict," that a glass window was put up ia an abbey in England in 674 or 680, but for a long time after that period windows remained-what their name indicates—doors against the wind. As late as 1577 the glass casemates at the Duke of Northumberland's seat, Alnwiek Castle, were regu- larly taken, down when the family were away biom home. 4» ■■ ■»

O MY HEAD MY HEAD W;.y scould people suffer when Hughes's Blood Fill* at ooee remove the pains. They act directly upon the hver and stomach and nerves, so that, head- aches ot all kinds at once give way to them. One of the ?'«a-Dest blessings ever came to the knowledge of hUill.li. lieings. Sold everywhere at la. ltel., 2s. 91., and 4e. 6d. Ask your chemist for them.

I FROM CITY CORRESPONDENTS: A "REVOLT" of convicts it reported from Dad. County, in the State of Georgia. The Government, of the State pursues a system of hiring out the con- victs in the penitentiaries for work in the coal pits. About a hundred of them thus employed under guard, in Dade County, after complaining of the ill-treat- ment, revolted, entrenched theniseJves in a building, and declined to resume work. As they declared that they would die before surrendering, the governor has advised a recourse to starvation in order to re- store subordination. Accordingly the guards liavw* made arrangements to prevent them obtaining fooil or water. -Many of the convicts are under sentence- for life. THE Shanghai correspondent of the Standard- states that orders have been given at l'ekin for the.- Ministers of State and the Board of Astronomy to select an auspicious day in the first 111011 th of the next Chinese year for the assumption of tha Govern ment by the Emperor Kwangsu in person. The selection of this day is a matter that wilt exercise the ingenuity of the Board of Kites, the Board of Astronomy, and the Doctors of the. Hanlin Yuen for some months to come; and 110 doubt the decision will be ma le in strict accordance with the precedent of the Emperor Tungohe's ac- cessioii in The next Chinese year begins at the end of January next, so that the ceremony will be held before the end of February. IT is not to be wondered at that the proposal to- remove the seat of the Indian Government from Calcutta has been received with much dissatisfac- tion by the people of that city. At a great publio meeting which has just been held there, resolutions strongly condemning the suggested removal to the» hills were adopted. The meeting nppears to hava been thoroughly representative of all classes in Cal- cutta, and the resolutions were unanimously carried. The climate of Calcutta is not such as Enropeana: would prefer, and no doubt the members of the Vice- regal council and their official following could make" themselves more comfortable on the hills than iik the sultry capital, especially during the hot season; but the comfort of officials is not the only thing to be considered in the government of a great Empire. The contemplated removal could not be effected without considerable expense, and the finances of India are not in a condition to warrant unnecessary outlay of any kind. Moreover, the removal from Calcutta would deprive the Government of the ser- vices of the non-official community, and involve numerous other inconveniences. Nobody would benefit by the proposed change excepting the officials, of the highest grades, who are paid extravagant salaries. The humbler class of civil servants would atill have to remain at their departmental work i, the capital. The numerous reasons advanced at the meeting against the suggested change are for the most part unanswerable, and we trust will Itave, some effect in preventing its adoption. THE Stipendiary magistrate at Liverpool h- been asked to solve an unusual difficulty. About ninety of the Greek gipsies, who recently arrive4 in this country and encamped at Mill wall, mad. their way to Liverpool, with the intention of migrat- ing to America. But they were "dirty and frowsy. and blowsy," and, an Ingoldsby says, A rhyme modern etiquette never allows ye." The steamboat company by which they sought to take their passage, finding they were in such a filthy state, declined to convey them, and intending emigrants by the sam& vessel protested against being brought into contact with this unsavoury foreign contingent. Divested of the romantic gloss which has been put upon it by such writers as Scott and Lytton, and like Balfe and Wallace, the gipsy's life presents a painful spectacle of squalor, filth, and wretchedness; while the moral atmosphere apparently is about as bad as it can be. These Bohemians, doubtless, have laws of their own, such as they are but they seem to sit lightly upon them, and are scarcely ife harmony with requirements of modern civilisation and sanitation. Whatever induced this colony of Greek nomads to seek a refuge in England we have, no idea; but it would seem that at least a portion of them have turned their thoughts westward, andi have resolved to try their fortunes in America. Irk one respect they appear to have reckoned without their host, so far as the proprietors of the steamship, by which they expected to travel were concerned, for on their arrival at Liverpool their dirty condition was such that they were unable to find a resting place outside the railway station. There they es- tablished themselves for the time as squatters, and the difficulty was how to get rid of them, for their- unsavoury condition was such that there was soma- risk of their generating an epidemic. The railwity-, authorities were powerless to dislodge them, and the advice of the Stipendiary magistrate wast sought. Mr. Baffles found that he had no power in the matter, and advised that the Health Committer of the city should be consulted. Eventually the difficulty was solved by the announcement that one of the steamboat companies had undertaken to ship, this offensive cargo. Whether they are to be disin- fected prior to the voyage is not stated, but if their condition was so bad as to be likely to cause infec- tion in Liverpool, it is to be presumed that some, cleansing preparations will be enforced before they are allowed on board. How the American authorities* will receive them remains to be seen. NOT the least among the many advantages accrue 109 from the present Exhibition in South Kensing. ton may be reckoned the successive lectures upoit. the productions and capabilities of the several coun- tries represented therein which are being deliverer in the Conference Hall. The portraiture of Ceyloiv which Mr. Wall drew in his admirable lecture presents that island in an aspect of the most favour- able and promising character. Ceylon, according tQ- the lecturer's statements, is an India in parvot possessing in abundance the natural products of the greater country, which only require the industry at man to develope. For the information of the travel- ler or the sportsman in search of new experiences and unlimited adventures, it may be premised that there is perhaps no other country which possesses to an equal extent so many and varied objects ol attraction and interest, or such an inviting pro- gramme of novel scenery as the compact island of Ceylon. Speaking of the agricultural products, Nlr. Wall had to admit that the cinn anion plant, wliiclv during the dutch occupation had been a prominent characteristic of the island seaboard, had, by the pressure of competition and native indolence, almost disappeared from the list of exports. Paddy fields- were everywhere numerous, and though the plar of cultivation was not the most economical the method was the most perfect conceivable. The Cingalese labourer does not work for wages, but 0, a somewhat complex system of co-operation, the re- sult of which is that in adverse seasons lie suffere. the extreme of embarrassment, and becomes fra- quently overwhelmed with compulsory debts. This, arises from the innate native aversion to stated wages, which neither argument nor adverse economi- cal considerations have hitherto been able to shakev The natives display considerable ability in the con. duct and arrangement of the coffee plantations, which are laid out in the most precise order and watched with the most scrupulous attention. No t, withstanding this outlay of industrious care and the- jse of elaborate machines, coffee as an article ofr-j commerce has for years proved j disastrous failure/* ind in instances notrn. few is giving place to the tes^Jf ind in instances notrn. few is giving place to the te. plant. To the production of tea the island looks to recover its loss prosperity. Ceylon has in its sjil ind climate the elements of success, and its present lepressed condition cannot be charged to the account 3f nature. But what the one thing needful to pro. mote the brilliant and prosperous future Mr. Walt readily prophesied is, he failed to reveal.

It is understood that arrangements are being made which it is believed will enable Mr. Goschen to re- turn to Parliament at an early date. A somewhat serious disturbance has taken place at Poole. Radicals attacked a Conservative proces- sion, captllrel1 flags, and tore them to pieces. At the Wolverhampton Police Court, Elias Wil, kinson, tin-plate worker, has been sent to gaol for sk month for a violent assault on his wife. At Backworth, near Shields, a coroner's jury lIas returned a verdict of "Wilful murder "against John Rowe, who is alleged to have shot dead his step-father W111. Aspinwall, because he refused him money. A man named Muspratt, in the employ of tlte- London and South-Western Railway Company, was knocked down by an engine, the other day, and hat since died. An inspector of Scotland Yard arrested a mem- ber of a long-firm at Bristol, on a charge of obtain- ing xl,000 worth of diamonds by false pretences, and took his prisoner as far as Westborne Grove Station* and then the man eecapfd.