824 ROSE CHERRIL: AN EXILE'S LOVE-STORY. that you are disgraced, and that we have it. will go to Richmond and tell her all about "That is of no consequence so long as you keep your hands off," rejoined Paul with an attempt at a joke. At heart he second thoughts he did not tell Rose Cherwas rather humiliated to be treated with ril of his heroi-comic adventure. He conPaul Brun did go to Richmond, but on this ignominy, but by the time he had de- fined himself to assuring her, in Miss scended the doorstep he bethought him Smalway's presence, that he was free, and that it is a good thing enough when a to asking her if she would marry him durdrama which threatened to end as a traging the holidays. To the schoolmistress's edy concludes as a farce. Nobody fol- speechless disgust no further explanations lowed him. The door closed behind his were vouchsafed her then or afterwards, back, and he felt that he was free. "And I owe it all to Rose," he muttered, came to pay occasional friendly visits to thinking of his verses, which one of the Acacia House with her husband the mowhen Rose, having become a happy wife, brethren had confiscated. "Well, now, I sier. In the latter part of January and in Febru- | low and subject to floods, but a short distance ary last Mr. G. J. Morrison, of Shanghai, to the south it becomes undulating. A little made an interesting journey overland from to the west of Puki, on the borders of the Hankow to Canton. The distance in a straight line is about five hundred and twenty-five miles, and he estimates that an ordinary route would be less than seven hundred miles, though by the route he took it was eight hundred and sixty miles. does not appear to have experienced any very On the whole, Mr. Morrison grave difficulty with the natives during his journey; the people in the southern part of the province of Hupei were very civil and not very inquisitive; but as he got into Hunan, the population of which is notoriously turbulent, he remarked a great difference. The main portion of his land journey was through a district which had not been visited by a foreigner "within the memory of the oldest inhabitant," and the natives—as is always the case in out-of-the-way parts of China most anxious to see the stranger. Mr. Morrison's great trouble appears to have been with were his maps, and this was especially the case where the provinces of Hunan and Kwangtung meet. "The Chinese maps of this district," he 66 says, foreign maps are worse. 'are very incorrect, and some the north of Kwangtung there is a range of The fact that along mountains, but that this range does not form the watershed, has been puzzling to geog. raphers. Ichang, which is on the south side .of the pass, is still in Hunan, and is situated on the head waters of an affluent of the North River of Kwangtung. This affluent runs in a narrow gorge through the range above referred to." Morrison passed on his journey presented The country through which Mr. many points of interest. Near Wuchang, on the right bank of the Yang-tsze, the land is great tea-districts, as elsewhere in Hunan, a large quantity of tea-oil is made; the plants from which the seeds are obtained grow about eight or nine feet high, and are more straggling than the tea-shrub. be in some places nearly a mile broad; but its flows through Hunan, Mr. Morrison found to usual width, when the water is low, is about The Siang River, which one-third of a mile. At certain seasons vessels of considerable size are able to ascend as far as Changsha, the capital of the province of Hunan, which is a large and apparently prosperous place. Siangtan, a great tradingplace further on, though only a third-class city, is larger than Changsha, and its population is estimated by the Chinese at one million, which, no doubt, is an exaggeration. In the the country is bleak and uninteresting. The road over the Che Ling Pass, which is by no neighborhood of the borders of Kwangtung means steep, is crowded with traffic, tea-oil, tobacco, etc., going south, and salt and Canton goods going north. The absence of trees is very noticeable both in Hunan and Kwangfor miles denuded of every tree, but in Hunan tung; in the latter the traveller sees the hills some attempts are being made at replanting. The part of Mr. Morrison's journey which interested and astonished him most, was the examination of the coal-fields of Hunan and Kwangtung; but it was with very great difficulty that he obtained permission to visit one mine. He noticed that there, as in all Chinese seriously interferes with the output of coal. mines, the great want was a good road, which END OF VOLUME CXXXVIII. Nature. 4. Is the best liquid dentifrice in the world. It THE FRAGRANT "FLORILINE" Prepared by HENRY C. GALLUP, VITALIZED PHOSPHATES, BEATTY ORGAN. 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