Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1889, Page 10

‘Written for Tax Brawree Stan. TRAPPING WOLVES Munster ie Hunted. 6 Darms WITH TEN EUKGRY BRUTEs—waaT SAPPEsS WHEX HYPROPRORIA SETS IN—PIOS FOR BAIT, DOSS FOR DEFENDERS—HOW HoRsEs DEFEND TREMSBLYES. (Copsrivht. 1889.) That swift, hungry and implacable little ani- mal, the wolf. is almost as much dreaded Russia as the czar. is very prevalent, sets in: They rush into the villages and attack the fmhabitents. The villagers arm themselves with scythes and bindgeons and knives, but before hydrophobia gives way to death some one has been bitten. and probably in the face, for which the maddened animal displays mysterious partiality. cows, horses, and even children equally well. Male seeking their food on the outskirts nearest settlement. ot Bussian life outside yolk exists as so that it is the sort to large of a easy THE SQUEALING PIG DECOY. why wolf hunting has developed into some- thing like an institution in Russia. The ele- Ment of danger in the sport has been greatly | @xaggerated. but is large enough to fascinate geinit. To the mavses nd heir flocks and their The exterminating That most the wealthy who eng it is anvthing but they prosecute it to sa children and their homes. Methods are many and curious. e. It is a war. IN| RUSSIA. ew it Sometimes Mappens that the Tn its milder moments, it has any, it is unsociable enough; when it be- comes « victim of bydrophobia it is especially interesting. The two varicties, forest wolf (lesney volk) and prairie wolf (polevoy volk), differ in size but not in appetite and instinct. ‘This is what happens when hydrophobia, which To villagers and peas- antshe is a veritable curse. Sheep. goats, suit him Sometimes small towns are kept in a state of siege, hordes of the hungry ani- In every phase cities Nemesis, understand -" THE EVENING hind this turn out is another and larger vehicle, 7 the fallen wolves. But we A TASTE OF BLOOD. From among the newest arrivals to the pack are two er three gaunt wolves, heroes evi- dently ef many a chase and particularly ficet After some desperate cseagred manage to reach Monsieur Porosionok, in spite of the efforts of the marksmen, and the Pig is soon in that bourne from which no porker has ever rued. Then the whole | with whetted appetites put on double pe surround the Nantes and attack the | horses. The bells are put into requisition to warn them off, but their tongues might as well | be dumb. The wolves have tasted blood: they have seen it, and they must have more. Our team is well hidden among the pine trees, and prepared for action we watched the conflict, ‘The foremost wolves have succeeded in catch- ing the outside horse at the left side by the nose. He kicks and struggles and the hunters | shoot down the aggressors, one by one, but now the speed of the sany is’ slack- ened and the entire pack are upon them. Now is the time for us to inter- in if of IN CLOSE QUARTERS. fere. Before we can be of any assistance the first horse attacked falls on_his side, is cut away from the sleigh and off dash his com- Pauions at lightning xpeed. It is a race for ife. Dozens of fresh wolves are on the trail and another horse soon succumbs. Ere we can reach the spot the men to defend themselves fire shot after shot into the pack and then comes a sudden cessation of the shooting. As we hurry along we see the three men in the road fighting desperately with their blood- thirsty assailants. having now no other weapons than long knives. Algeady one man is on the ground, when a blow from a musket stock and a | quick kuife-thrust relieves lum of his antago- nist, and he is on his feet again dealing death blows ail around. eyes and sensitive mouth. the same finely- arched brows. black as the hair which shaded them. But with these ou:ward features the re- semblance ended. Miss Frances Latimer’s had and power of the older face; there was more patience, gentleness, and, if less pride, more soft and womanly dignity in the expression and bearing of the younger woman. With her shght, tall figure bent a little forward in her high, old-fashioned chair: her !ong, white fingers moving gently about the coil of wool on her lap, Miss Frances, for all her thirty-three years, @ young and attractive picture enough. Her thoughis were wholly retrospective and tinged with a little melancholy. She still wore mourning for her Great-aunt Sarah, the last near relative she hed in the world, the woman who had taken her as a pititul little orphan to the old ancestral home, and hid been all the father, mother, sister and brother the girl had ever known. ‘The proud, stern woman had idolized this eh: the last member of one of the oldest familjes in the county, and had thought nothing too good for her darling. All that care and money could do had been done for the little Frances; her education had veen of the best, above her natural abilities, indeed. and it had left her well-bred gentlewoman with delicate and somewhat uartistica! tastes rather than a cultivated and brilliant genius. As the girl grew to womanhood her social posi- tion, the fact that she would be something of an heiress, and, perhaps more than these, ber dainty charm of person and manner, brought several suitors for her hand, She was gracious and kindly to all, but her heart remained un- touched, and old Madam Latimer was well con- tent to have it so, Her own married life bad been none of the happiest; she had had children and the current idea was that thi: appointment had embittered her husband against her. Be this as it may, itis certain that his death left her with a soured, warped judgment of men and matrimony, and it would ve needed strong feeling on the part of Frances and superexcellent qualities on the art of her suitor to reconcile the old lady to Ber marriage with one of the despised gex. Birth, fortune, looks, morals and manners faust all be of the bestin the man lucky enough to win Frances. As year after year went by and she reached her twenty-fifth still unmarried the neighbors began to despair, when suddenly her fate met her in the shape of a pen! sailor, the youngest son of a country squir of uo great social pretensions, who came on a visit to his cousins, the vicar of Latimer nothing of the fire, the indomitable energy | her yon ide and her filial love was not made in vail forbade her to unburden her heart to Mrs. Graham; Fanshawe never again visited his re- lations, and it was only accidentally that his promotion and success came to her ears, She was glad of it for his sake, but still more for her own. Capt. Fanshawe did not seem the same person as the young lieutenant, und it was easier to forget him in his new and unfamiliar dignity. Little by little she regained her old calm of mind and manner; Fanshawe was ban- ished from her thoughts and, as she hoped, from her heart, But hers was a faithful na- ture, and if she could not bear to dwell upon ‘the scene in the yew alley, at least she could not repeat it with another lover. IL Miss Latimer rose slowly from her chair by the fire and with a little sigh of reluctance laid her work aside and crossed the room to an old bureau that stood sideways in the broad bay window, aud. drawing out the wooden rests, unlocked and let down the flay, thereby discovering pile or tradesmen’s books and let- ters to be answered. She sat down and attacked them with more virtue than good will, and was deep in the problem of weights and measures in relation to pounds, shillings and pence, when thing leaped sudd*nly upon the table be- er, almost upsetting the inkstand and rom her hand. “That strange gray cat again!” cried she, with an accent of vexation due more to the trials of house- keeping and accounts than to the presence e@f the cat, which was rubbing its head against her shoulder with a deep purr of pleasure. Miss Frances was extremely fond of animals, and, when the said gray cat mysteriously made its appearance some days previously, she had not had the heart to drive itaway. There was something in its size and stately movements, a calm superiority in its big gray eyes, which made the necessary ad- jancts of departure—the brickbats and “shoo cats!”—assume a sort of moral incongruity al- most amounting to a crime. Anyhow, the gray cat staid on in the great housdé and ap- peared to have a special fondness for the wainscoted parlor and the company of Miss Frances. It was, however, a dignified and un- demonstrative creature, and it gave Miss Lati- mer # kind of mental shock to find that it could coax and purr after the fashion of the,veriest kitchen kitten, It seemed to find a peculiar pleasure in the connection of the lady aud the bureau, and rubbed alternately against the shoulder of one and the front of the other as if it had found a secret affinity between them. The interior of the bureau was = silence of the woman he loved had at out Capt, Fanshawe’s patience. Frances laid the letters on a stool near the fire, and sinkin; down beside them burst into an agony o weeping. She was torn with contiicting emo- tions, resentment against her great-aunt fraught with an actte sense of the paihos ot the lonely old lady's great love for her; Fanshawe’ derness and pride, the thourht of all he must have endured at her innocent hands, the memory of those eight years during which she mightat least have had the happiness of his love, all crowded upon her with overwhelming bit. terness and confusion. How long she lay and wept she could not have told; she was wakened from her trance of passion by a soft touch upon her hand and a pitiful wail. They came from the gray cat, who had jumpéd upon her knee and was exhibiting every sign of dumb sympathy with her troubie. Miss Latimer rose quickly to her feet and drove the poor animal from her with inconse- quent anger; she feltshe must vent her wild sense of injury npon some one, and was not the eat the cause of her knowledge of that injury? With trembling hands she gathered the letters and papers together and laid them again in the secret drawer and returned it to its place. ‘Tho cat still continued to mew piteousl, Miss Frances, who was at heart a tender ture, suddeuly felt a quick revulsion of feeling toward it, It was unjust to make a scapegoat ofa mere dumb animal. She went down on her knees and coaxed the cat to come to bh It crept up in a half-timid, half-caressing fas! ion, and she took it up in her arms and stroked it gently. It was a consolation to have the love and sympathy even of a cat, i. “Mrs, Graham, please—Miss Frances,” with which introductory formula, peculiar to her- self, Ainley, the parlor maid, ushered in the vicar’s wife, beaming with smiles and laden with parish magazines, Miss Latimer went to meet her with eager pleasure and kissed her warmly. The shock of the morning had left her nerves vibrating and her manner showed that she was still under the influence of some strong emotion, Mrs Graham noticed this touch of excita- bility—she was a woman who prided herself upon her powers of observation—and her curi- osity was roused. Franves had felt Mrs, Latimer's death deeply, as was to be expected of one of her still and faithful nature, but she had not been demon- strative or overstrung in her sorrow. Besid ten months’ mourning might be supposed to take the edge off griei fur one’s great-aunt, and wipe Car Al P40 p te. Pacttic ¥ daily, fo = Sleeper to Pittsburg and ITOMAC RAILROAD, ester and Niamare. ree. C jest, with through te Cha tor But- andes, 10:00 « thacheater, mira, at #508 had agreed quite quietly to a position that | he should ‘call wits Mire, Grobom upon her, but when it came to the point of taking him Mrs. Graham hada queer sinking at heart which sb wenlars have confessed to for Reet | Captain Fanshawe was embarrassingly silent | during their walk up to the Grest house and Mrs. Graham was reduced to a fragmentary monologue, for her cousin's half-absent mono- syliables could scarcely be said to constitute a conversation. Between ber struggles to talk and appear at ease and her curiosity and anx- iety the poor old lady worked herself into a perfect fever, and it was with an extraordinary sense of relief that, as they waiked up the FOR PHILADELPRIA ¢ Past Express 8:10 am, wook days Express 2:10 pau. daily. Accs For Uoston, without chase. 2-3 For, Brovkiya, ¥Y;. ail thrush Jerwey ( 5 | drive, she espied Frances gathering roses on | For pointe on Delaware ai 117 jm. week days, j the lawn. ‘There were, topics of conversation TiO ie gaat Sorene Liao Can wok and chances of escape from dilemmas in the 20, 8 open air and the big garden not to be hoped J 19, 9.00, » et 08: 38% S30, 23 for between the four wails of a sitting room. . Se SS eR Bier She called out while still far off to Miss Lati- om. 2:10, 2:50, Sot 10, 6.00, 7-40, 8.14, mer, wishing to give her the benefit of the dis- eters For Pope's Creek Line, 7:20 a.m, and 4:40 p.m. daily, except Su: 5 For, Anuspois, + 20 0nd 9:00 a.m, 12-05, 4.20 and 6:00 pm. datiy,except Sunday. Sundays, 9:09 aum., 4:16 pan ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL Way QAP ALaxanni tance between them in which to quiet sible agitation. . ee Frances looked up withastart and came slowly toward them. She had on a gown of some soft woolen stuff of alight gray color, which hung in straight simple folds round her slender figure. Her face was shaded by a big gardea hat and her hands were full of Toses. She was the very Frauces of eight years ago and it seemed to Fanshawe that time must have been playing a trick upon him. His heart went out to her with all the old ten- derness and a new feeling ot reverent pity when he saw the pained timidity of her glan@e. She shook hands with both and ho: Mrs. Graham would come in and bave some tea. Mrs. Graham asked nothing better, but it was no part of her program to leave the great sunny sarden, instinct as it was with interesting and bilities, Might they not A LA AND WASHINGLON KALLWA Bis." Sol, bus and odatscm for_Quantico, 7:45am. and 4:55p, ys 7.40 Gm any pm.’ On S31”, 7:05, 8:00, 3° 0 ai Ticket and duturmation at the per of 18th street aud Tenus)lvania even the station, where orders can Ue leit tor th first walk around the rose garden? CGaas roan fm ros “You cannot have forgotten how lovely the Geveral Manurer General” a" to ‘office, northeast cor roses are here,” she said, appealing to Fan- shawe, Barrmone Axsy Omo Rauxoan “have forgotten nothing,” he replied with Schedule in oes BIURE 3 quiet intention, Leave Washington trom station corner i A painful flush dyed Miss Latimer's face, and | _ Fer Chi p au her lips quivered, but she mastered her emotion “08 and led them across the lawn to a strip of gar- den still bright and fragrant with late roses, For Hittsbury and Chevelai od Tietrahen- “They are almost over now,” she suid gently; | Pg $49 1420 km. and ocaped “ota “Capt. Fanshawe should have secn them @ | on main line, express daily Monday, at 3 The badly frightened Yam- shik urges our team toward the unequal battle on the roadside and then comes our fusilade. Shot arter shot of our revolvers told their tale by the increasing heap of lesnoy volks that jay dead or dying around the hunters and their | wrecked conveyance. | INSTANTLY THE TIDE OF BATTLE Is TURNED and the remaining wholves take to their heels and scamper off. It was a “close call” for those three sportsmen. The entire battle did not occupy ten minates, Had we not turned up just in the nick of time all three of them would have shared th of their horses be- fore their p 1 time to come While si scenes are not at all infrequent it rarely happens that abunter is killed. Wolves are proverbially cowardly and if they are struck across their sensitive nose they are either rendered insen- and his wife, and who feli head over ears in love with the daughter of the Great house at first sight of her ou ‘sunday in the family pew. Franees, for her part, had seen a tall, com- wanding figure, and a plain, frank face, re- deemed by anmistakable intellect, anda pair of extremely beautiful, kindly eyes, and had little by bi allowed herseg to be won bya finer and cleverer mind than any that had yet tid courtto her. The relations between the at house and the vicarage were all that pleasant ggd cordial; Mr. and Mrs, Gra- ham spe Pathos one evening every week with Madam and iss Frances, or vice versa, and mmon courtesy demanded the extension of come to their guest, the young lieutenant. Then Frances had her district to visit, and this necessarily effailed running iuto the vicarage on the way and asking advice from the vicar or good Mirs. Graham. Of these opportunities, it is needless to say, dack Fanshawe availed commonly resorted to by the peasantry is somewhat similar to the plan adopted in Airi when bunting much larger game. Som where near a forest which large numbers of Wolves are known to frequent, 4 space is eleared and a large hole, 8 or 10 feet deep and Sor 6 wie, is dag. This is covered with small branches and straw. At one end. or sometimes | in the center, is fixed a pole or tree and tied to | this is « young pig (porosionok). The bait has | an unpleasent time of it even before the) wolves appear—it is so fixed that he is in con- tinual torture, and as a consequence yells, | grunts and screams as only a porosionok can. | ON THREE SIDES OF THE BAIT fs built a high fence, so that to get at the | Porker it is necessary to cross the pit. One Bight’s setting of the trap“requently lures to the slaughter of next morning as many asa dozen wolves. The work of killing them is lined with drawers, three on either side, and above them again with pigeon holes full of ‘letters, docketed bills, &c. The central drawer had « hanging handle of quaiutly-carved brasa and with this the cat graveiy played, patting it softly as it would have done a mouse. Miss Frances watched it for some time. half fascinated by its grace and by a puzzling sense of recognition. Where had she seen the gray cat betore? It had the familiarity of an old friend, All at once the creature turned from the bandie, and, lifting its head with an air of solemn pri looked straight at Miss Latimer. With a mingling of pain and amuse- ment the reason for her perplexity flashed across her. As far as a cat can resemble a human being, in so far was the gray cat the very image of Great-aunt Sarah, Miss Latimer’s amusement gaye way toa consciousness of something like irreverence; the look of proud affection in the cat’s eves be- she such au old lady, too. Mrs, Graham would give worlds to fiud out why Frances showed such unusual agitation; it took her back in memory eight years, to the night before Fanshawe left the vicarage in radi suggesting many interesting i confessin; His sul month ago, shouldn't he, Mrs. Graham?” “Ah! they were perfect then,” ejaculated the vicar’s wife. **By the bye, dear. I see Johnson coming down the sidewalk; may I go and speak to him about our new chants? Johnson is our best bass.” she explamed, “and I promised Tom I would see him. You show Capt, Fan- shawe the rest of the garden.” “With pleasure,” murmured Miss Latimer, but her tone was the reverse of delighted, and Mrs. Graham felt that her little ru cked the fiuesse on which she prided herself. She must leave her companions ina more natural man- ner. “Oh! Frances, I quite forgot to ask after = strange graycat, How is it?” she inquired airily. “Oh! I am so unhappy about it,” cried | 7 Frances, catching eagerly at any pretext for detaining her friend; “it has disappeared as am. Por Lexington and Local Stations 110.300. n mu, Th days, 4:00, and interest in love matters; but one forgets many things in eight years, and Mrs, Graham had practically forgotten the whole affair till this moment. The rand his wife had made several attempts to induce Fanshawe to renew his visit, en those occasions which found him on shore, but, finding him obdurate. they had given up asking him to Latimer, and of late years he had seldom been in England. Mrs. Graham had suspected Frances as the reason for her cousin's disinclination to revisit or Anapolis, 6:40 aud 6:0 pau "Ou Su Leave Anbajolis, 6.40, very soon over. tempting in a far differeut manner. A few years ago I traveled ona sany (sleigh) from St. Petersburg to Archangelsk via Oloneg, 8 distance of 1.104 versts, or about 730 miles. it was in December, and owing to the ex- temperature varying tremely cold weather, the It does not, however. take the | survivors long to learn that there is something | suspicious and auprofitable about the affair oad Wen teas ace crema whee they cease to be tempted by the screams of the succulent and ig. Hunting proper is conducted sible or skulk painfully toward the forest. In a few moments after the last of our fur-coated | companions had taken his departure the sec- ond sleigh came along and once more our horses’ heads were turned toward Archangelsk, We met many hunting parties, but they were more fortunate, and ou the picking-up sleigh of one of them I saw the bodies of at least thirty wolves. AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENT. We arrived in good season at the Hotel Troitskaya in Archangelsk, where a very ex- himself liberally, and yet with such happy tact that Madam Latimer never even suspected the state of affairs between the young people; so blind are we when we most need our eyes, It good Mrs. Graham had her supicions she kept them to herself, Jack had not taken her into his confidence, and as yet his love mukiyz, though serious enough, had been of a tacit, uudemonstrative character upon which one could not easily dogmatize, She did not see how he could very well speak plainly; his posi- tion as a penniless sailor, with nothing to look to outside his profession, made it impossibie. came unbearable, and with a little shudder she lifted it off the table, set it gently on the floor and turned deliberately to her books. The cat made ng attempt to disturb her again, and she gcidually shook off the feeling of discomfort it had caused her. Book after book was added uy and Inid on one side and the sum total of eac! set on & Slip of paper, till at last Miss Latimer loosened from her chatelaine a bunch of keys and proceeded to fit one into the middle drawer and open it. The drawer stuck and the force necessary to move it pulled it right out of its the vicarage, and she now determined to sound her—with tact and discretion be it understood, “How nice to sev a fire!” she began, throw- ing aside her circular cloak and letting Miss Latimer relieve her of her bundle of papers, “We are still trying to think it is summer and haven't begun fires except at night; but these September days have a touch of winter in them, and I really think I shall begin a fire in the dining room next Monday.” It was one of Mrs. Grahai little idiosyncra- sies to begin everything on a Monday. ‘8, it does look comfortable,” rejoined mysteriously as it came, and we are a.raid it must have been caught in a trap.” 0 doubt, no doubt; poor thing, I am sorry,” and so saying, the vicar's wife edged gradually away, leaving Frances in wh agony of nervous embarrassment, Capt. Fanshawe looked at her fora moment and mastered a wild desire to take her then and there in his — regardless of Johnson and the vicar's ‘Will-you show me the yew alleys again?” he asked with studied carelessness. He was half i ight run away from him. ©:15 peu. For Stations $10:30 a.m. $1 Olam, t4 Por Kockvilie La Metupolitan Brauch, } an, TSW, TO Rt, and St. Last Ey: 3 irom Pivsbure 70 anand ‘ = laceinthe bureau, Instead of replacing it Miss | Frances, moving restlessly about ‘the room. ke,” she faltered, leading the way | 6:00.1. dail: eee een weet, fue Welvee Sere P| socn inary event uecaiiea’ ii wae bier | His prospects in his profession were bright | Frances set it down beside her and drew | “Lam rather « chilly mortal, you know,” sho Bor how tors. sreutan he aan Mit Pemestinne, aacty te the maceian tok | Cold aald evan for Wile cena af too id king, | enough; he had always succeeded in every-| her check book out of it. The rattle of the | added. Fanshawe followed her, making no attempt 4200, 133 thing he undertook from his first attempts to walk and taik, but his expectations were hardly proportionate to Frances Latimer's birth and fortune. But in reasoning thus Mrs. Graham overlooked the very qualities which had hitherto been the main factors in Fanshawe’ success—a simple directuess of purpose, a Were soon among the pibe forests (sosnovoy Jess), bowling along at great speed. We were warmly clad in sheep and reindeer skins—the Woolly side in—but the cold was inten: though we found some compensation in the weird beauty of the scenery. We saw numbers or hanging handle as she did so must have at- tracted the cat, f leaped swiftly up into its old place upon the flap and began to scratch and sniff in the empty receptacle for the drawer. §o intent was it upon this that at last Miss Latimer’s curiosity was roused, She ob- served that the cat continued to pat and sniff Food in the forest was unobtainable and the ravenous lesnoy volks organized a hunting scheme of their own in opposition as it were to the usual style he chase. The game they followed was no less than the famous North Russian food, the reindeer. It was about 3 “By the bye,” remarked Mrs, Graham, with apparent irrelevance, but in reality pursuing an undercurrent of thought, ‘you remember Jack Fanshawe, my husband’é cousin? “Perfectly well,” rapid Frances, as simply as if Jack Fanshawe had been a topic of daily conversation for the last eight years. Her to speak until they were’ fairly between the high green walls of the memorable walk where he had first told her he loved her. Suddenly he stopped: she was trembling so that she could hardly stand, He came close to her, looking down on the shrinki figure. “Frances, do you remeuabect? ais) eth sud Chester, 4:20, °7 08 folves early on our journey, but ik % r eae “8.30, o'clock in the afternoon and the stillness was | quiet knowledge of his own power and strength | at one side only of the hollow. mind had been so occupied with the thought| She lifted her hand to her throat as if to oR SAR, “SSS Das. ane they did not annoy us. for, unless they | disturbed by a great coimotion in the New| Tet! Qt only - d P hong! ; _ are particularly ravenous they will not | ceilnaye prt Spada the hotel 1 es leeng oy eee youthful scorn of mere| Could there be a mouse in it? Impossible. | of him that Mrs. Graham's abrupt question fell —e her voice and to still its throbbing. ~ Philadelphia for Washington, *4:1 DW etme th ho ea ose bias aad -M, Atlantic City 4:00 and 1:30am. 12:00 noon PD. OUbdays 4:08 a, and 12.00 neOm For Long Brauch aud Ocean Grove 14:00, 18.00 & mi, J1z 0 en a Except Sum “Daily. {Sunday only. Sunday wid Mowday, % xce). aa wae calied fur Temidences by U, ticket offices, 619 at Depot. MAB. O. BCL 4. T. ODELL. Geueral Mawaer IEDMONT ALK LINE. Schedule in eflect Jane 330, 1889, 8:30. m.—Eust Tennesse Mail, Uaiy for Warren: come near to a sany and horses and Ringing sleigh bells. Our Yamshik driver as- sured us, however, that before the lakes (La- dogs and Onegskoe Osero) were passed we would have our hands full and we were not dis- sppointed. The mail road or trakt over which we traveled is splendidly kept by the govern- ment. It leads through forests of giant pines, ‘The hollow was clear and there was no hole or room for any animal larger than a fly. The cat, seeing that her notice was attracted, left the hole and, with beseeeching eyes, rubbed against Miss Latimer’s shoulder. The latter bent dovn and carefully examined the hollow; nothing was to be seen. She put her hand in and felt all around the sides. A thrill of ex- citement went through her, for assuredly some- thing had moved against her touch; she pressed more closely and deliberately and a 1 , deep drawer sprang out into the open space. She drew it out upon the flap and saw that it was quite naturally upon her ears, That good lady experienced a pang her little shaft had f: ha ill you forgive me?” red in Ren. humble tones, “Iwill forgive you on one condition,” he said, taking her hands in his strong clasp, Frances raised her eves questioningly; what she saw in his made her quickly lower them. “I will forgive you, my beloved, if you will only tell me that you care for me a little still,” he ery Ss. he “But I wronged you so; we forgotten,” sobbed Frances, £55 “What do I care?” he cried. taking her in his arms. ‘Don’t cry, my darling; for heaven's | a volley of rifle shots. Seven magnifient rein- | deer had delivered themselves up to the ex- cited people, after a good deal of hurrying and scurrying through the crowd. They had pre- ferred capture by man rather to being torn to pieces by ravenous forest pests, and not one of the pack who dared follow the reindeer into the city escaped. HOW DOGS PROTECT SHEEP. One other phase of wolf hunting deserves brief mention. The dogs which guard the sheep of southern Russia are as intelligent as she whispe: Jack, though a modest man. had some reason to thinks that Frances cared for him, and he was not going to leave Latimer without secur- ing. if possible, the greatest desire of his life— the woman he loved. The night before his de- aslo he and the Grahams dined at the Great e keen disappointment— of the mark; but she nother in her gui’ ‘We are hoping for a visit from him in a few days,” she continued carelessly, but eye- ing Frances xs a cat might a mouse. ’ This time she was satisfied, Miss Latimer turned ag to the fire g it, but not so jouse. He had had a telegram that afternoon zy him home, but neither Mrs. Latimer nor Frances bad any idea of his intention of sara, He determined to speak to the latter some time during the evening, and as usual fortune under the pretense of po quickly that Mrs. Graham could not see the blush that dyed her face and the trembling of ber hands, » djneubare, aud ws { . favored him. Owing to some little contretemps | full of letters, on the top of which lay afolded| “We haven't seen him for eight years; not | sake, don't cry! eight yearsare a dream; the Seotch collie. Atevening time the shep-| in the kitchen dinner was delayed for half an | slip of paper vealed with her Groat-aust Sarah's | since he was, last here, in fact. He was a| it was last night you said you loved me, my i herd (pastouh) gives his signal to his ofcharkas | hour, and as the evening was fine madam seal. It had no vestige of writing or address charming fellow, didu’t’ you think?” A con- fused murmur from’ Frances enco ed the vicar’s wife to further efforts. “I wonder if he is much Ce pe It seems strange, doesn’t it, that he should never have married; he just the sort of aman to make « perfect husband, and he has metso man; deigntfal girls, and with his position he might so easily have m: ried. His mothers and sisters adore hi she continued, a le diseomposed by Miss Latimer’s persistent silence and attention to the fire. “His mother—Lucy Fanshawe!” came in- voluntarily to Frances’ lips, “do you know her? I fancied she was dead,” she said, ris and seating herself near Mrs. Graham, with her back to the tell-tale afternoon light, “Ob! Lucy Fanshawe wasn’t Jack’s mother; he is the only son of the second Mra, Fanshawe, a very different person to poor Lucy. I knew them both. Lucy was a poor creature; pretty, you know, in the sort of style men admire, but a silly, empty-headed little thing. How a superior man like Mr. Fanshawe ever came to marry such a woman I never could understand, cried Mrs. Graham, waxing virtuously indig- nant over such a waste of good thin; “I thought it was just the kind of thing superior men always did.” suggested Frances with a fine smile. Her heart leaped up at the thought that she need no longer connect her old lover with the woman who had wronged ner Well he wma for it by marrying Ma: “Well, he made up for ry 3 Majendie,” continued Mrs. Graham. Jack gets bis sweet, lovable nature from her and most of his cleverness. She’s a delightful woman, Plainer than Lucy, but the sort of woman who fascinates you, so that you don’t pies how she looks. must a er son for marrying; he won't easily an- other woman like his mother.” Frances. Let me hear it again!” “Tlove you, Ihave al loved you. Ah! if you knew! It was all mistake, I must explain, I must tell you!” “You shall tell me Te like when you are Mrs. Fanshawe,” laug! Jack in the full- ness of his joy. it would spoil the illusion now. I am still a penniless lieutenant, and you are my little ces, not a bit less shy for all the eight years. Let us forget them.” “You are very generous,” Miss Latimer murmured; “you take me without a word to show that I did not treat you as shame- fully as you must think. Oh! I must explain, “I believe you will have no peace till you have made a full confession. There's a went fast bebind come, now for your sins!” ‘They weren't my sins——” ‘oe thought as much,” interposed the cap- “And you must promise me you will not be angry or speak harshly about the person who separated us,” “My dear child, remember I am human!” ‘Iean't tell you if you won't ise, Jack” —the effort at familiarity cost Fstop very lovely blush. “Please for my sake.” Slugs if you will kiss me,” replied Fanshawe Abi you are unkind,” cried Frances, with a still deeper blush, and moving a little away from him, “Well, there, I e. But I will claim it when the tale of Great-aunt Sarah’s iniq- 42.4.4. am.—Fast mai daily for Warrenton, Char. a, Stations Cl ynci between sed a stroll about the garden and a look at er roses, of which she was justly proud. The arden was bounded and crossed by walks feazea in with old yews some 10 or 12 feet high, and down one of these alleys, out of sight of the elders, still appraising roses on the lawn, Jack contrived to lead Miss Latimer. The sunset was still red above them, and the air was sweet with the scent of lavender and roses. Into the bosom of her ape white gown Frances had fast- ened a deep red carnation; it was the only touch of color about her. As she moved slowly down the walk, her soft skirts trailing bebind her, she looked so like some lovely, innocent angel that Jack's purpose fell before a sense of his own Rigen and a reverence for her | ge be All his bol: lans crumbled to noth- ing but @ confused feeling of impotence, a tongue-tied helplessness very foreign to mature. He ed beside her, looking any where but at her, Frances made no effort to breuk the silence between them (she was al- ways a quiet person), and at last in sheer des- peration he said abruptly: “I am going away for good tomorrow.” “Going away!’ The sudden uplifting of her startled gray ey touch of surprised pain in her voice, the rush of color to her pale face, betrayed Frances’ secret. Another moment more and she kuew that she had betrayed herself. “Ty an agony of shame she moved from hi at the brief sight of her face as she turned an- locked Fanshawe’s tongue. He caught her h: and drew her toward him with gentle fore “MY darling little girl—Frances! tell me you love me before I go. Tell meI may hope. I never, never can tell you how much I love you, how I worship and reverence you. Frances, speak tome. Don’t keep me in suspense,” he and in ashort time the dogs have driven their charge—sometimes numbering thousands of sheep—into an unmarked circle. Then they form a ring around the imaginary pen (tzep) and keep watch, at stated distances, for their the polevoy volka, When a wolf makes his appearance near the tzep only two of the thirty or forty dogs forming the tzep ring attack bin. And these are always the two nearest the intruder. The others are taught not to leave their posts and never do, unless more than one wolf endeavors to get at the sheep. Having sighted the polevoy volk, the dog nearest to him barks loudly and immediately his nearest companion rushes to his assistance, while the others widen their distances to keep the sheep from breaking away. Then ofcharka No. 1 growls at the wolf aud No. 2 gets behind him. Whea they get into this position they signal to their comrades and the entire number | set up a strange kind of a howl to warn the shepuerd that the dreaded pest is near. Meat time the wolf finds that he ts in danger and en- deavors to escape, but he cannot. Should he | try to run forward the ofcharka catches him by the leg or tail and holds him fast,und if he attempts to get away toward the prairie again the dog in front holds him by the ear. ‘Ihey do not try to kill him. They are trained not to risk a fight, but to keep the intruder at bay un- til the arrival of the pastouh, who puts him out of the world by afew sharp knocks on the bead with his staff. HOW HORSES DEFEND THEMSELVES, During our drive from St. Petersburg to Archangelsk we had an opportunity of seeing how horses defend themselves, in the open from the attacks of the lesnoy volk. From the banks of a pretty little river we saw there about twenty horses, young and old, male and female, kicking through the ice to find some upon it and Miss Latimer held it in her hand, hesitating whether to open it or not, whensud- denly her eyes fell upon the letters, She took them up and saw that they were all in the same handwriting—clever, decided and obyi- ously that of a man—and that they all bore the same address: To Miss Frances Larne The eames louse, timer, Northamptonshire, “Migs Frances Latimer?” For a moment or two she wondered in a confused, foolish kind of fashion who Miss Frances Latimer might be; then suddenly a mental illu nm, an intui- tion lucid as @ certainty, struck her with sharp pain, They were Jack Fanshawe’s letters, and they were meant for her! A tumult of passions swept her quiet soul curiosity, indignation, and reawakened love, She trembled like a leaf, and the cat, evidently frightened at her emotion, sprang down from the table and took refuge under a sofa, For some minutes Frances sat, the letters be- fore her, the sealed paper in her hand, too haken and confused to think or act; but at last @ rose, moved to the fireplace, and deliber- ately broke the seal and unfolded the slip of paper. Itwas written all over in her great- aunt’s fine Italian hand, close, minute, but cleur as prin ces gave one look at the face above her lookitig calmly and proudly down upon her agitation, and with a sudden hardening of eyes and heart began to read: “Should this secret drawer and its contents ever come to the eyes of my great-nivce, Frances Mary Latimer, or of any of my descendants, it is neces- sary to my honor and should be som: besapeske and Ulio ‘houte, isucky Mount, Ville aud Siauons yuehbure aud Danvilie, Ure 0, Charl; to New rica prem, daily ey, Charlottesville, ‘Pulliuan Vestbule train W. ciunai with » Pullauen sleeper for Louieviise. 1:00 p. ui. —bouthern Lx ress daily for Lyucibure, 2 , Danville, Bale ‘Abevilie, Charlotte, Colwubie: Auyroste; Atlauts, Montgomery, New Oricans, exes Cult. ear W o BAITING THEY TO THEIR DEATH. erossing frozen rivul and winding over and Found sud through mountains of whose naked- Bess, barrenness and desolation only inade- uate ideas can be conveyed. Away toward the southwest were the lakes. frozen many feet deep. The pie trees and smaller growths @listened with frozen white and bent beneath their burden aud the ground in the forest and in the open toward the lakes was carpeted with an immaculate coveriet of nature frozen hard as steel by the icy atmosphere, The croaking of half buried crows and thy casional howls and barking of the wolve¥ were grim ac- companiments to the music of the sleigh bells. On the horizon the three hours’ sun—so pecu- liar to this region—glowed with a dull goiden light that anything but suggested the brilliant Sunshine of the south. There would be aay- light for but a few hours, but when night came it would be illuminated by glittering stars and @ moon of extraordinary brilliancy and for weeks made more beautiful by the aurora boreatis, whose exquisite colors add an almost fairy-like and weird spleudor to the scenery. Bieeper fom tO gud Georgia Pacitic Kalwey spumailg ty Weazie itd Objo division logy Was 200 Sully arrive Bu returuitar leove pn, ‘trains from the South via Charlotte, Dan- ville, Lyncubury arrive i Wastingua 6.55 0 7:13 p.m. ; Via Last Tennessee, Bristol aud Lyuch- at 8:03 a.m. and 10:40 pan; vie © PAs pa end Ub om and iVauia avenue, ald Sia iaioad St payment afte: uity was unfolded to him, Jack found it hard tokeep his word. He rose paced stormily up and down the At last he came and sat down i. 1. Biske, unday) for Mount Wants We ing the end of f the lak dded, hi lending a touch of or ange aii, Coun orevine ‘hie will tore and forget ail if witiance @ were pearing the end of one of ve lal added, his eagerness len a touch of com- i: urriedly, conscious of sa: some thi u- | We wil ive when ‘ho Yamebik’ drow my tention vw a | Fate, Jue then and appereutiy without warn | mand to bis owe. e Praah gles buswe in Sonus oat oe foeeee w | liasty toe te bet deuke to kes tone | But I shall claim my reward.” strange feature of this northern clime. On the males) For answer Frances lifted her sweet, | matrimony and my innate distrust of men. If 1| in the conversation. sides of the road we could seo the crows and | €sthered together im @ group and the with a feel : cf ‘y = could have done so cousistently with my loyalty toward our house and name I would have kept her unmerried. As it wasI desired to see her marry one who would consent to take her name and whose birth and fortune at least equaled her own. Years went by and refused many so-called eligible offers, and I hal begun to- stallions immediately formed jaround them with ~ their inward. Then with a chorus twenty wolves rushed from the cipitated themselves aguinst the square or circle of horses. No soouer wasa wolf within reach than a fierce kick from oue of the stal- lious seut him off howling with rage, Many of them, at the riverside of the group, were sent rolling down the -tecli: The battle contin- ued for nearly half an hour. It wound up b: oung tures, an equine victory, and we collected thuee ot That Pers Sten ean ses nobdy, saat e we, @ jess — foes as mementoes of the engage- | have dared to make his love so evident that a crete ee A Mammoth Ship Canal. From the American Architect. — face, pale no too dee; ‘or shame or blushes, and looked him straight in the eyes, For a moment he held her so and then caught her in his arms, It was ht of heaven to both, and how they came down to e: and the exigencies of common life and society they never knew. But do what she would Frances could not hide the “one on her face, the unusual absence of mind, the fitful glance and ready blush. At last | Certain madam’s eyes opened, and her anger grew woodcocks and small wolves and other animals buried in the snow with only | their heads peeping above “The snow | is warmer than the atmosphere,” said the Yam- sbik. Ou we sped over the frozen road, which rings like metal to the motion of the sleigh Funuers and the strikiug of the horses’ hoofs. It is @ curious musical riag that comes from is seven or eight feet of ice-frozen snow, aud We are all ears aud eyes as we puff our cigar- ettes. Soon we have passed the lakes and are spproaching « sharp bend in the forest road, when a very bedlam of howls and shots and @ies and grunts greet our eara, WATCHING THE SPORT. “Tt is hunt,” my companion explains. We Grew off the road at the turn to watch the Sport. Our revolvers and knives were hastily gotten ready and our sleigh bells kept ringing by « string to warn the brutes off. We had hardly turned the corner when there dashed past Us a sany of peculiar construction; it ‘Bot more than one foot raised from the ground and was unusually broad. The harness, too, was unusual. The inevitable bells were absent, and contrary to the ordi rule of the smetritels (government officials), who insist ‘upon there being three horses for asleigh car- two persons, ag heads — turne of yelps fully forest and pre- on her delicate face deepened; she dr self up, rose, and, ringing the beil, eaid and with an evident desire of conveying a re- vie you neshy for tm, Mex Grahiaat™ for the future rude! “Are you lor ‘3 pelled by a sultor for her hand who found taver | “Whenever you like, my dear,’ with ber,a Mr. Jack Fanshawe. I failed to see sof conciliating he had|and the conversation promptly flowed into shallower and safer channels. “You've gota new ee remarked Mrs. Graham to Ainley as latter opened the front door to her au hour later, “Yes, mum, astray cat it is, but it’sa fine 4 spoccblews ‘with indignation, le and 8} less felt a storm in the air, and des- canal, which is to make thi Th whiel ¢ the manufacturers of Nosks end Manchester independent of the railways and of Liverpool dock charges, by enabling steam- ships from New Orleans and Savanneh to unload their cotton bales directly mto the Precincts of the mills, may not realize that the B TRERE WAS 4 YOUNG Pia, =~ Tt sereamed and grunted as though its exist- ence depends upon it. And in trath it did, for there were at least forty wolves yelping and “barking at it and ronning pell mel! after the ig fe i 4 Eee z Fe Hs z i i £ A es i | f F 5 | F fi Fi soe and Fi ‘engineers ab FFst i e F