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A CLOSERELATION. rHVTBft III iCoNTlNOKD I (ll.lflfcK 111. IUO>TI!>UU. I I am confident that th* deception srss rniint-ined in their mo*t private inter- j risws, that sh* atsu n*d in* superior kuowl- tdge and skill, and he graciously allowed th* assumption. ID wholesome ituiguu at , he deception, I could not bin recall the plea by which K-ttierine Prr *_ved her hesd. : .1 war* not alsy my {Bother's secret persua laioo. BeiKSlth. tbe show of absolute trust In other*' t,gb> h never descended from _,,,) admiration that KaUsd me to tbe quick the du aail his motive power was never ; i_,,( .ha professional aids of her rale him at hi* exact value' '.Vas her apparent endor- sement of all ne did the mask fora brae, suit-land effort to strn/hten hii deflections and ward o(T the consequences of his errinx judgment? As the meaning of what daily went on __, un ler my eyes grew and glowed before my IB reading aloud Strickland* "Queens of ' contemplation, my heart stood still. From England" to Mrs. Upton, I could not quite WO iMrriug reverence for ths grand creature Sold my roio* steady at tb passage de- i ; whose dual life oonsuiencs and heart scribing' ib* diplomacy of the royal and most j touched baud* across what woulu bars 'hristian consort : I seemed lo limid nature* a mighty ohasm, ' 1 bar* alway* h*id it preposterous for , _, nc .y p__g, e( _ _ nto speculation at to what a woman lo instruct her lord ; and if 1 ever . would or might be t lie end of the piou* presumed to differ with your highness on f rlu a. How long would ths sensitive religion, it was partly to obtain information ! TM1 iiy of the occupant of the throne brook for my own comfort regarding nice points on the w hi.per of the concealed v i/ier ? Since which I *tood in doubt and sometime* be- no mor t_,i ., ubiquitous, might not some ex- cause 1 perceive that, in talking, you were ; jg, n cy find him alone and unprepared? A better able w> paisaway ths pain and wsari- ( . lng i e f___i,_._ intact would wreck th* wife'* ntu of your present infirmity, which en- | influence. A word *uch as Mre. Robb had courag*d me to this boldness in ths hops i f j dropped to the effect that she was " firsted, profiting withal by your majeity'i learned discourse.' " ' And it i* so, sweetheart?' replied the king. 'Then are we perfect friend*.' " Raymond Wentworth'* wife could have been perfect friend* with him upon DO other terms. The hu)iaiiil i* the head of the wife," to the 1 IlfJ 'lUaiHkllil * IUW MTJsBXa vn viiv w *s* I heard him r*piy once, and pointedly, Don'* argument for the equality of t ioteeconded"by hi* partner, would infuriate him to the rending of the *ilken leading- itring* so cleverly digui*ed. And then My hand* and feet were numb with cold : a veiwleM wall closed upon me and hindered b* had left. She returned ths salute with a wave of th* hand, turned from bar out- look, walksd a few stepi. paused irretolute and remained (lauding for a full minute, hand* clasped tightly upon one another and head bent. Not daring to stir, I gazed at her whitening face with uew agony in my heart, the anguish of teeing her torn by suffering with which I might not in- termeddle. She was hardly a doxen feet from me in body. Death could not have sundered us more completely in spirit. Had the man who wounded her been my father, I could have flown to her and mingled my tears with her* over his injustice and petulance. What I branded, mentally, as tbe monstrous relati n she had assumed to this man cut ber off from my svmptthy with, or just apprehension of, the nature of that which made her vul- nerable, and lent him the art to pierce her through with incommunicable sorrows The awful mi lute during which, all un- conscious of my scrutiny, she stood motion- less in the middle of the room, paling visage and clinched fingeis testifying to th* inward but Is she must ever wage alone, was ended by her abrupt motion to cast herself upon her knee* before a chair. Her face hidden upon her outstretched arms, she lay, rather than crouched there, dumb, still, but shak- en by dry sobs more terrible to look upon than excess of weeping. I stole soundlessly respiration. When 1 heard the risitort de- scending the stairs, I shook off, as it were, a horrible nightmare, and ran into the lib- argument for the equality ol the | n^ j u , t __, _ __,! not )ook into ,. stirs. " If your principle were put into ; mother'* eyee, or support her hu-U" practiso. the household would be a double- headed lusus naluraj. " And my dear mother applauded the phrase, her fine eye* thinning with pride to struggle with it. and love upon her superb lord. " He wa* never cross to her in presence. Ths Ibng window through which I would have fled into the garden wa* fast, ; and the bolt wai stiff. public. never dunitted the least of the graceful attentions due from the chief to an honored lieutenant ; vet I tl.iak he wa* never alto- gether rid of the apprehension that she There wa* no time . _,.__. . ._ ._ I muit have wrought ' myself into a state akin to dementia, for I had butthe one motive in mind of eluding ob- servation until I could comport myself more 'corously than wa* practicable just now. I stood cloee aT* in *' the frame of the , i door connecting library and drawing-room, might pen.trat.thss.cret of her power and (olding the ,?.. por 7 .,, r() .bout me. I oil" weakness. Her loyalty must hate sur prieed him in moment* of candid self com- muning, if such ever visited him. Husband and wife itood together this morning, just within the entrance of Mr*. Upton'* drawing-room, evidently expectant of a summons to the upper floor. Roth were tall. There wa* hardly the difference >f half a head between them ; yet, as I .wrceived from the stair*, he wa* looking never thought of the chance that they might linger in the outer apartment to coniult a* to the case they had examined together. I marvel still that my mother'* fine tense of propriety did not dictate a different course. The first sentence I overheard put the discovery of myself out of tbe question : " If you are bent upon murdering your friend, you mnit choose some other eon fed - erate. Your favorite I >r. Barker may l> lees iownupn her fro m the height of one of h. .,,,,. than your husband.' To my surprise, the reply wai in the wife'* mildest urel or that they could U Bv-Uiias. but ' methods >f the natives. Oati, wheat, tad slow agon/ to me?" : u*r!ey are grown in large quantities, -nd "I know it better than you can tell m. almost everything dos well except Indian \et for my sake you will eudure them. We con, which needs warmer weather than is cannot afford, at this juncture, to excite -furaishvl by this nortluru climate. The uipicion. It is altogether natural tht you ' *umir.eni veuot cold, but rather cool. The In, ni 1 spend the first week, or leu days, or ' weather i* waally dear and >unny, and even ihe whole term of Don'* absence, with peculiarly free from the fogs which are a mr It is not, natural or, what mnounu prominent featuro*)n the climate* of Nora in society to the same thing conventknal, ' dcotia ami New Brunswick. The island that you should retraut a promise given to , winter i* milder than that further south on a friend hectuse you cannot leave a woman the mainland. who ha* cogent reason* for wishing to be Prmo* Bdward Island i* more denaely thought well." .populated than an; other part ot the A shad* of nervous worry, new to my Canadian Dominion. It ha* aoout 1 10, (XX) sight, cro.ise.t the face. The serene depth* ' inhabitants, or 54 to a aquar* mile. Of of her eyes were ruffled : her hands shook in : th?se the greater part are of Scotch and passing over my hair. She tried to recover j English descent, but about 10,000 are her late manner but ineffectually. French Acadian* com* over long ago from " I should call it whi-niual folly if an- ' Neva Scous. They lire apart, spoak other woman shrank with dread that she French, marry among themselve*, and mix could not shape into words f-om the auto- | little with other races. Un the nortnern mortem inquest that will sit upon me if the coast still live* a ren nant of the once truth should take wind. I am old enough ' powerful tribe of Micmac Indian*, dwtnd- to put away childish horrors. But the fear | led now in number* to about 900. They is a mild edition of Prometheus's lacerated are conservative and keep up old CD*tom*. liver. I seem to hear and feel the vultures, j gliding softly up the streams in birch-bark Pray God my boy may never know of my canoes or prowling through the forest*, weak, silly notioni and my real pain '" j wearing moccaainaai did their ancestor* of I *prang to catch her a* she dropped to long ago. the *ide of her chair. The bluish pallor Moet of the people are farmer*, and live that had overspread her face at the station was i here now ; her band* plucked at her to the long window nearest me, w resiled | chest ; her breath intermitted alarmingly. loftisst and blandest moodt. His well-fit ting morning-coat was buttoned below ths twsll of his bread chest ; hi* shoulders wsr* .quared resolutely ; one gloved hand holding . .us silk hai was rait behind him : the other I ' ! played with a silky chmtnul mouitocb* v nhi.ul hiding a politely weaned smile. I kuew the mood for one that tried my umlis nplinsd soul mois than downright and vulgar abuse would bar* dons. I caught, ! ', lh pleading intonation* that sought to iiinsl it Both turned at my foolsteps, Dr.- Went- worth leisurely, with perfunctory interest in the report I might bring; my mother sagrrly. her hoarl in face and upon tongue. "Hw is shs this morning 1 " she aiked before I could ki*s bsr. " V*ry bright and brave !" I answered, breathlessly. "And quit* comfortable. She w.shes you to come up." Dr. Wsntworth bowed IB stepping back (or hi* wife to pass. Looking around al the stair-foot, she saw thai h* did not fol- low and made ao anxious paut*. "Come. Raymond, dear." "Nut without an invitation, lovr. It our friend dxsira* my presence, she will send for me." I bit my Up. To itrik* him I must thrust through mv mother's heart. "I'he'you wsJ plural," 1 said, with tolerable grace. "Mrs- Upton mentioned you both V>y nam*." "Sh* I* rory good. Your mother and T)r. Barker hare shown Ihemstlvei so com < oioe : I liar* nut ciutd Dr. Barker'* opinion I merely questioned if your diagnosis were altogether correct. She has remarkable will-power, and i* lee* nsrrou* than one Would believe in the cir- cumstances. I think it the truth weie told hrr she w..uld instantly propose " " Thatisyour theory. I have mint," broke in I >r. Wentworth, heedlessof common cour- tesy " If 1 am to perform 'he operation, it "., I submit, somewhat important that my veins should hare some weight. If you are to run tbe affair, do not shirk) responsibility. That would be womanish t" I anessed at the sneering smile from hi* tone. A* he grew insulting, my mother be- came calm. I divined, too, for whole sake desperately with the bolt, and escaped into the ihrubbery. CHAPfKR IV. Half an hour elapsed before I dared show my face in Mr*. Upton's room. Tbe scene was peaceful, bright with the sunlight that had crept arouud to the invalid's feet, and cheerful with the tone* of the two friend*. My mother hai laid aaide her hat, and produced from her retiaule a purs* she was crocheting as a Christmas gift for Ler hus- band. Mignonette scent mingled with the half-bitter odor of a bowl of white chrys- anthemum! Don had set that morning upon lui mother's table. Roth ladies turned at the sound of the open door. " Here is our truant '" said my hostess. And my mother a* blithely, " We were exchanging conjecture* a* to your hiding place, my daughter. I thought you might have walked orer to see Kilty Wilcox. .She called loses yon this morning. We are afred Mrs. Upton and I that you should not be kept in suspense any longer. Kverything is settled. The oper- ation i* simpls, and we think will be attend- ed with little danger. It is to be done in a few days, and a* quietly as poaibls. Our dear friend wishes thi* especially. Not a creature in the neighborhood is to know it. She oan trust her servant*, and the nurse to be brought from New York will be re- ceived a* a visitor." She had told me everything inhslf a dot- on sentence*, with no waste of words and in the matter-of-fact way that might go with the utterance of an unimportant piece of gossip Hsr power of quelling nervous disorder was a gift. I thought how useless hail been the prescription of a choice of drugs. Her gift had wrought like a charm upon her companion. Mr*. Upton's manner, ..I) mother loosened her clothing and low- ered the adjustable chair to an easy angle ; then bidding me support the lax figure. in the country. Tr.ere i* but one town of mich importance. Cuartottetown, the CsU)it**v*L Though there is no large four-tooted game toft, wild birds are still about in plenty and the forest itreams hide ihon- poured out romething from a phial, admin- ' sands of speckled trout, whil* a tew salmon wtered it, and, her lingers on the sufferer 1 * \ still ramain in sow* of the larg* river*. The pulse, her lip* set hard, her eyes upon Mrs. Upton's face, watched for the effect of the pouou. she laid. The paroxysm U posting, 1 presently snd reassuringly. The patient opened her eye* upon simile " re*olute cheer. "Yon ai* better now," said the sym- pathetic aooen'.s. " The worst i* orer. It was not a very bad attack." A n gleam responded. The weak hand groped for mine, and, feeling it to be icy cold, Mrs. Upton looked anxious. l)<>n i let Sydney be frightened. Tell her what it is," she whispered. My mother arose abruptly, and, go- ing to a closet, took oat another phial. For some moments she was too intent upon counting the drop* of a dark liq- uid into a glass and measuring teaspoon- ful* of water to mix with it, to *peak. Not nntil ah* had held it to lips that wsrsrsgain- ing color did she give sign of having heard the r|ue*t concerning me. fresh water lagoon* by the coast are the lummer resorts of enormous eels and count- less herring and smelt There are the sea tub which i warm all summer along the eoaet, mackerel the most plentiful, thea come halibut and cod. Of the half dosen way* of reaching the uland, all ars part rail and part water. One of the most in- teresting pttSBS lengthwise through Nova S.-oiia, affording a good look at that inter- esting old peninsula Like every on* el**, the Prince Edward Islander* bars half-chimerical schemes for improvement. Their particular one i* to build a (reat railroad tunnel under tbe Straits of Northumberland to connect Nora Scotia road* with those on the island. The viand ha* much railrovi for so small a ter- ritory, and is also traversed in all direction* by toleraMe country roads. Some enterprising citiseni of the island bar* started large Hotels at the most attractive points, which are already much frequented in summer by Canadians, -nil Sydney ha* never had an hyterical fit, ' the proprietors hop* that their fine summer but she know* that inch are more alarming , climate and pictnreaque scenery will prove than danfrerone. If she would be of use to . attractive to Americans also. A nicely you she must boar this in mind. " | gotten up little pamphlet ha* recently been The admonition was upon her lips when ' inned with this end in v.*w. her huiband'* ring was heard. She biaksu- ed into the hall and calle 1 to him over the balustrade : " Come up atone*, lUymom 1 ." The tone was profesional. and in ring authoritative. Some powerful emotion had mastered wifely reverence, or swept it aside for the instant. The summon* was not obeysd in haste. IB the stillness of expect an-'y we heard the visitor lay aside hi* in IK AMUs U A rwtMerliui IneMeal Is e>rs la India. Two young men of Boston while on a journey through India last summer wit- nessed an exhibition by a fakir in a (mall village outside of Calcutta. The faLir was performing the usual experiment of making which bad been calm while I read and talk .-^ ^j faat th _ nek lh , . sd with hsr, wss now almost y. It wa* ___ ____! hfir d| y OM j.t it of on* whose | s rope descend from the clouds and a man apparent that a weight bad left her heart. ._._,,,___.. wa* a proverb -be breathed come down ths rope, who ascended by the In very shame I struggled to emulate th* n _,__.__,, between his teeth in the delib- i *m* rout* after having his bsad cnt off. bravery of the pair of strong women^ I ffM tttvtal o { ln , s _sirs. A shads less of . The exhibition was in an opsn square be- BlOC P*' r k ' erate ascent of the stair*, aped to kiss the crown of livery hair __,(.,_,,_,_ wou id have converted it into a for* 1,000 spectator*. Kvery one *aw plain ths hid the writhiugt of a wounded heart a _o V , the teren* brow of ons, and aitting i ,_!__"| a ami i-onlinued to argue in support of her position. " It is because I vain* your reputation, and liecause this is no common case, that I urge mature consideration of all ponibili- is*. My confidence in your skill is perfect. )ut 1 have heard you say thav women are, ometimcs, better judges than more learned men of one another'* physical idiosyncras- es. The fear I have expressed is not new me. It is base. I upon careful study of symptom* tbat so:n* months ago excited a:>prehennon(." nvriit to ths management of the case that tin, at beat, but a supernumerary." 1 Vmi are phys|,-ian in 1'inef, ' raturnsd my mother, emphati.-alhr. "Without whom ws cannot take a step "Opinions may ililler upon thai, a* upon other point*, my dear." Hut he conde- scended to follow her up the tlairway. Left In-low, for 1, at leas' had nothing to do with the ooniultaiion, 1 *tamn*<l rather than walked up and down the lloor la s psroxyim of angry mortification. To see inch a woman the puppel to inch a man woulilstirany lover of juitlon to indignation. When the puppet wa* the woman dearest to me, the object of my exult injj adoration, .ni the man was drsplssd in my eye* the exhibition drove me to fren/y. I anlicinat rd ihe prolonged psnancs my mother mint pay for limiting her friend'* visit, to th* * it) tihysirian, if sin- had not hcnelf pro- posed it. Hrr hush-mi's vanity wa* mad* up of nerve- lipt, and, a* hi* manner showed, every nsrre wa* smarting. With th* in- isnte self-ivinsoiousnes* of one who knows hunsnlf lo be a weak a* vain, h* descried with the naked eye Intentional alights wlin'h (.reater souls could not have sen with a microscope, and resented them In inverse proportion lo his drsrrts. Whil* tin- preciiius life of one white* goodneu lo dim and In his had been beynml computation hniiU upon ihs flutter of a breath, he i stand U> winsiilsr questions of precedence ainl'ccremony, and stab a* he best under >,>,.,! how to pierce the soul already racked with anxiety as to ths fate of her beloved u I They wers a long tune lip-stair*, I began t<> 'i-ll myself, a* mv impatient III *ul<*iili-d. It wai silly an I selfUh in me to wast* 1 1 ne RUM lemper upon wh-t could uol affect h*r h,, MI interests wers now paramount. WhftUvtr might be my private opinion o Dr. Wontworth's menial and moral calilir* th* sufferer up-stalrs believed in him, an< mutt be sustained in that faith unul th* great trial wacnvnr Hi- wai, Iwyond doubt aikllful surgeon Hi. hoail and, I rouli nut lint i\,|,l, Ins liixtrt woro o.ml ; his ban was Iteaily and deft. Surgery wa* hi peuialty, and several rntiral 'operations inveasfillly performed hy him had given him in 'i" tl.aii provincial fam*. Only a **k sgo hs h..il I nmn nailed into consulta- tion with a oo, p of olsbratd metropolitan . (in I ui upon aoiuieol unumiitl int.rr>t, ami, aivnrdmK to hi" iliem \, ha<l taken a j>ron\ Inen' pitrllnthal whirli nnii. I in a otire noised iilirnml k* inn a, ulorn. Impartial |inlgmi<_l ileunlnl tliat while h* .lintil.1 nf>i (Irn ihocaifng vot* a* tn lli* nl ( tlie knif*, hwaipnni|<leiittwiel,l II wden wiser mn bad decreed tlm u*e <ifit. I fiuiu sudden m.ji iaimn if tlm my a|>pr It is I o them until lately. Yet not so strange. Mre. Upton'* eye* wsr* closed j ly what was happening, "t h* two Boston- again, and in* did not tpnoar to notice ian* had cameras with them, and took nn- that anything ss amiss. My mother avoid- ! merous snap shot* of the exhibition in its down upon her footstool, asked cer tain question* as to symptom! and ths rentmen indicated by which the | i__~ m 7sV_"j~_is) "paled perceptibly, yet m*t J various stages. Thsy intended to writ* an system we* to be prepared for the excision. lh<| j,^ upotl the threshold of ths ' arlicle upon th* subject for a magazine and Ths child of two physicians, and the eup- | oh(Mn r R wll h collected mien and ready child of a surgeon, was not tombed by ' ; word the details The thought of the ordeal | wa* already familiar to me. But I muit be instructed in the dutie* delegated to m* a* ths custodian of th* dear patient. I had a talent for nuninr, and had often exer- oised it. I inquired boldly if I might not of _,_, , nUr _, t in the i take ths place and office of th* professional , (WB r >cloui m __,tery of the di t-. ~l-> ^ "-""P to nstance by many in which I i*pt in i in- dark until you sai rait in* to your counsel's seemed aftsr all, perhaps. Thit it not Ihs first bars been fit to ail If I have not conscious of this before, it wts not that I liave not observed and f*lt every indication of your growing independence of myself and such |Kvir service as I havs been able to render >ne so gifted and dntini(iiithsd as Dr. Charlotte Salisbury Krnlmtrlh .'" I hav* he.nl other men say cruelly un- ju*t thing* to tbe women they had s<rorn to cherisn, men of piety and refinement, whom the world at large accredited, like wiss, with humanity. No other exhibition of th* powsr to wound, vested ly law and goepel in husband or wife, ever appalled me a* thit unexpected demonstration from the *u*v, elegant physician. Mad the Human h* iddmsssd shrieked, or sobbed, or swooned, I should havs thought it natural. It was more sadly ignilic-ant of th* fraqusncy of such sous* that the brief pause succeeding th* last speech was not broken by so much a* a \t\\. " 1 here I* Ik* carriage, dear," wa* the n*lt remark, IB a full, gentle tone. I am afraid ws bars detained you inconvenient ly long I know how full your handt are. There Is no need that this matter should be decided to-day. Further developments may make plain t lie pah of duty andenpedienoy. Would you like to bar* m* go home now, or shall I stay with Mr*. I'pton a little longer ?" He answered sulkily, evidently but half appeased liy her deferential qu.iry Stay if you like. Perhaps you may quiet measurably her intense nervon* ex citemsnl. (Jive valerian, red lavender, or bromid* of potassium, should it contlnus. It I* of th* Ittt importance, that she should bs kept iranqiill. I will look in again in about iwn hour*. Let her suppose that 1 am lo call for you In time to take you horn* lo luncheon. Sh* might h* agitated did she rieiiflci my woo-d visit to bs professional. " lie ha<l grown composed and perfunctory ths kiss without winch h* never Isft hi* "lie for an hour was dutifully given : in ihe hall hu raised hi* Toic* slightly, that tin- " A a rrmir, my darlloi I" might roach the upper cluniU i mill delude th* invalid inti U'liet of hi* easy mind with reipect lo her t*lf. He wis not roinolimsly liVpoorit leal, and holler men find their tempera sweetened by ov*rHow and gu*t. Milled hy the silenot In th* outer room into (he ides, that it wi-s untviiMited, 1 'i, MM l,ehi'id my curtain Thtnugh ib* front window I taw l>r. Wentworlh erect and 'lately, march down the walk am tr|> linn Ins cikrriairs, loaning forward, as the lioiin itar.ed, to lift hi* hat to th* wife city nui h* letter, and that my nerves would not play me fslse. Mrs. Upton took m* in her arm* impuls vely as I said it. I fslt hsr tsars upon my ace a* shs tpoke : I >arlmg daughter I Ursatsr lov* could no child have than this. It may not be, I'hf burden i* not for your young heart and ihouldi-rs. Hut I shall never forget nor will Don that you have begged to have it aid np_n you." My mother'* decision wa* the same, and as prompt. She gave ma, as a compensation !or the disappointment, plenty to do. : wa* to see that th* prescribed diet and rule* for daily living received proper atten- tion Ws wer*. to take several short driv*s saoh day, that Mrs I'pton might, without fatigue, get abundance of fich air. Betweensrhilee h* wa* to tpend much time upon th* lounge, and I must see lo it that hsr mind di I not dwell upon mournful or agitating theme*. In short" the dicator concluded in the Drm, sweet voice that was like elixir to heart and spirit, "you two girl* are to have a ' jolly time' together, build up your nervous system* and freshen your complex ions by keeping early hour". and enough of thsm, eatinu whit you ought to eat, and leaving uneaten the things you ought not to cat, writing lo Don ev*ry day, of course, and never letting him know now, or in day* to come, that his mother wa* ever really ill in her life. That will h* a secret lh keeping from him and from 0. A. R. !" I wollrcted myself just in time not to tell her that Ihs newspaper-woman, as sh* 'loried in calling lisnelf, had interviewed ton but yesterday M to th* visit :o Dr. lUrker which both of them imagined wa* known to nobody outside of th* two house- holds. To keep back the remark wa* th* ttrst exeroit* of my new othoe of guardian. What 1 said, carelessly, instead, to hide th* trilling awkwardness o'. the pause, was not well cliosei, : "I will write at once to Kate Wilcox and excuse .nyself from hsr luncheon-party next week.' "My lov* 1 * nun you havs ordered a new uim n purpos*ly for th* invasion " ex postulated mv mother. " I'IMUI what pretext will you withdraw ths acceptance already sent'" laid Mrs. I'liton. I answered them in on* disdainful breath : " A* if 1 'ied for wearing the new gown tbat or. o.i i I 'pun no pretext at all to h*r, except that oir, immune, over which 1 hav* no control oblige me to refits* myislf the pleasure and an that, ynu know. !>,, you sii|qi.'*o for on* moment, dear Mrs. i p on int I could )<e so heartless as to leave you for a Isw hours of so railed pUa* illustrate it direct from photographs. They dsr*lop*d th* plates with much interest upon vn*ir return to Boston recently. They were nonplussed when they saw tbs re- sults. Tbe photograph* revested th* fakir surrounded oy '.hs crowd, with astonish ment , hewildarmsnt and horror pictured on their faces, but tbe extraordinary decapi- tation tbey bad witnessed did not show upon the sensitive plats*. Th* crowd standing around was apparently looking al nothing in the) photographs. What they taw had not happened at all, Imt they merely taw it in their mind's eye. Whils there is nothing remarkable in ths fores ol suggestion when applied to on* person, and possible for an impression J log*t her *nre lhat his inoorr* ' inch as ihe event whi.-h th* Boston men was double.! by the degrs* of perfection to taw to b* conveyed to one person IB a hyp ' ' ' notic condition, th* circumstance* at the Indian fakir's sxhibition were entirely dif- ferent. Here ware 1,000 people fully awake who all taw In their mind* exactly the (am* picture, sad had an doubt* that th* won- derful events actually happened. An in- cident of this kind tends to maks on* be- gin to consider if k* ha* not don* so before, if it i* not possible for certain inflnsnoss to so itrnngly impress tbs mind that we may. " Mrs Upton hat had ons of her faint turn*. I wiih you had been her* ia time to ward it oft ' Dr. Wentworth, with the cool grace for which he was renowned, the happy blending individual, and i conscious mastery of the disease that had I brought back more than on* almost fright- ened -to-death psiiKui from th* grave's month, laid his finger* upon Mrs. Upton'* wrist. 1 hav* not described as it deserves hi* manner of parlorming so timpls an act, and I despair of conveying an adequate idea of it. It was an ar% and inimitable. I am not at all sur* that there wa* not geniu* j it would not he m it. I am altogether inr* that his inoorr* inch as the eve which h* had brought what i* considered by most practitioner* too slight a matter to receive serious consideration. rl> l.nv* i ULAMst. II It s . rt-mi rarssslBf rssmtrr There Are ntlll IH.II.B. loins *>B Ihe IslaBSl. Our island prorince, though generally vet v little known, is on* of th mo*l pecul- iar and interesting part* of th* Dominion. Prince Kdward Island lie i in th* tiulf of St. L*wren-e, *perat*d from Nova Six>t la ..nd New Hruoswick by Northumberland Strait. It I* th* smallest of th* Canadian provinces, with SB ar*S of _', IT.'I square miles, and is in shape an irregular cri-e.-ent , lO.'i mile* in length. The shore is indented by nnmeroui har- bors, those on opposite coasts twice ap- proaching so olois to on* snother tbat only narrow isthmuses connect the three peain- ulas that form ths island. Many of th* bays terminate in ti.lal ruers thai run far into the intsrior. Ths coasts ar* hold, in most places high clilTs of red sanditons ru- ing up from tbs sea between twenty and on* hundred feet. Part of tbs eastern shore, however, is low, and bordsrsd by long, curving lines of sand dunes, IB places broken through by winding channel* lead ing btck to shallow, sandy bay*. Ths island is generally flat, and nowhere too rough for cultivation. Th* vegetation i* very r*:i and luxuriant, thick turf growing in every vacant placr. Nearly all th* trees naltve in ths North ern States and Canada ars to be found la it* dark mos*-oarp*td forests. These ars latgs tt-rd I 'ordered inarahei and pontis of freab water separated from the ssa by only a barrltr of drifting sand, strewn with th* . wrecks of many re*asl* daihed up and lostf>>tain a velocity of in th* storm* of sprint ind autumn. There are larg* mossy post hogs, whose products give ff twr*l tmell* in burning, tad it i* said that hidden away far under th* island U* seams of coal, too deep, however, for profitable working. The tnll it usually a layer of decayed vegetable matter over a strata of bright re I loam. It i* very fertile and yields abund ant 1 to th* rathsr piiraitivs farming even whil* clinging to th* old theory, "seeing is believing, bs honestly deceived. yet what we s* may be so real that ths thought of its rwmg anything els* never enter* our mind. It ' the Koiloniaas. ia ths oat* of ABttl T* I'M niT M Is Vsr* rawerr.l TkaB, Maest Pswslrr II. sBstkelea*. The smokeless powder which ha* bssa adopted by ths Brttith Government for uss with the New Kaglish army rirl* is known as cordite. Oordits d*riv* it* name from it* structure, the powder being mad* up in slriBK* or nord* nf varying thickness, from about vhr*-hundredth ol an inch to half an inch indiamtfr. The thick cordit* is cut in leniths of fourteen inch**. The cor- dite used m field guB* i* cut m *trip* m*as- uring eleven inche* in len.th The small- arm ammunition is made upof tixtyitrsnd* to a load. Aooording to Col. F. W. Burke, of theBritith artillery, thenew cordite i* a com- bination of nitro-oellulo** and nitro-glycsr- ins. Th* combination i*S7 percent. gnn-rt- toB.AN per cent.nitro glycriBe,ndSp*r cent. vasslius, to which is added t proportion of acetone distill*.! from wood. The mixture take* on a stringy form. In a magazine. rifl* a charg* ol seventy grain* of blsok gunpowder givrs a velocity of I.SSOIeet - second, while thirty graius the same bulls! a of cordite give " f*jV To field gun requires a black powder charg* of four pounds. Th* tarns vslooity it obtain- able from on*) pound and a half-oBBO* of oordite. Cordite, it il stated, has luoosss- fully withstood all climate tests impo**d at lh* powder wrkt at Waltkam, r.ngland. CorJits tamplet hav* been axposed in an open case in an open pouch lo rain, anow M\| th* SUB. and retained tksir for nni- paired.