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Acd finish off their krt.,-
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And auoh confounded d's
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And is mosquito wings. '
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Who never oroes a t ;
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To form a u or v. •
" But surely you are not thinking of
marrying t
" I am."
" A Frengb girl I "
" A Frenoh girl."
" Welly I never 1 " -
" So it fe ; and, Bob, when the day corium,
you will be my beet man, will you not ? "
" Best man," said Bob, " often means
greatest_ foal. I am not sure that I care to
be the latter."
" Never mind what you are. or will be, or
may be," I said ; " be what I want you to
be ; and 1 can say this mnoli, no man will
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Prom drivers of the quill :
'Cney poll us snob a omelette set,
Ana scribble on at will.
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Ana vainly try to please.
Tei they go bank to school and learn
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IO BY AN ENGLISHMAN
maritec��o oolovely a ' girt"
" I never knew French girls were lovely,"
provokingly remarked Bob." -
" Be my best man, and you will be able.
to judge for yourself," I said.
" So you give up China," continued Bob,
while docketing some silly despatch, and
preparing it for those—Office pigeon-
holes, which contain more wisdom and
trash combined than any other official
department in the country.
"jd
" For the purpose of marrying a French
girl?"
., yea 11
" 13y the way, when is the marriage to
take plane ? "
" That ie not fixed."
" There is a bitoh, is there ? "
" If yon like to call it eo."
" Well," said Bob, somewhat sentent-
i 1 hit h hitch E land
Poria. It made a deep impression onaihe
good ole man, who. eniver speaks of you
otherwise than with kindly expreesione of
ward; but. la: matquiee .la • not. on your
side. She does not enter into the noble
aspirations -whish move you, because she
cannot comprehend them ; and as to her
daughter, her sole argument is, ' I do not
see why she ebotild be treated otherwise
than others, and I think it very nnbeoom-
ing for a girl of her position to affect the
ways and ituanners of another country than
her own.'
" Diane never anawere, and her silence
-''"e l ceenr x
L,K ra 9 Onion aad..b A.. La o : re
. R• •r? bra 4 n� . �...ar+,J� .a�t _. ►a.,.an t
eatione to drop ;ii aider one of`theee die occupation was to see Raymond de
treseing moments Diane comes to my Chantalis. I found him at the club ; and
room for consolation, and then, I oan. as he was not going to the Chantilly rapes,
asenee yon, we dieouss all your faults and we determined to have a walk together.
merits ' de casae joie,' and we generally end Atter his usual bantering remarks had
by agreeing that your mutual love most be been administered, he eaid that on the
ooneeorated at lsetby your mutual Bufferin Saturday after I left Diane's father had
and crowned by your mntnal reward. seen him, and seemed apparently in great
" Diane has authorized me to write to dudgeon about eor rosea which his
you 000asionally on my own behalf, it I oare daughter had sent me. "
to ; but she has sold me never to send yon " What about that ? "'had said Raymond.
o." a message rrom worsen. • fie , Howe a
It 4ae not so much the premise I
bad made se the fear of insulting that
beautiful trust which the girl was evincing,
both in .the. effiosoy of her appeals to
Heaven and in her reliance that 'I would
not do anything her father might have
cause to reproach me with.
When she had left the church, I went to
the chair she had knelt on, and I prayed as
I had never prayed before -as never a man
of 20' has deemed it neoeesary to pray.
When I Left Si. Thomas d'Aquln, I telt a
better, a calmer, • and a more contented
man
than had for ®ars.
I
h
s
ggeat ' eel, a s ' replie . the mar-
oan possibly say to him,' she says, 'and our quis.
next message must be to one another in the " Well," had answered Raymond, " if
presence of witnesses. yon cannot allow your daughter to fulfil a
" Have faith, monsieur, have hope, and promise publicly made to a man you did
charitably forgive the ehortoominge of this not refuse to meet at dinner at my house,
letter. - " M Imus Nn Genoux. you cannot expect her to look at her
" P. 8. -Some little gossip has been promi8e has lightly as you do. The girl has
about, that on the day after her engage Ger father's love of troth and his notions of
meat to M. de Manpert Diane sent you
the obligations of politeness ; and I won
some roses. Sow has it come to be der at the father being eo blind as to his
known ? " own merits reflected in hie daughter."
The next was only a line from Raymond "Capital 1" I said ; "what did the old
de Ohentalie. It ran thus : margnie reply 2
"Having much to tell and nothing to • "He replied that the present Imperial
write, it is for you to see whether yon oare regime had upset every notion of propriety,
to talk to me, or remain away from your decorum, and right in Pranoe ; that the
friend, RAYMOND." old nobility. of France was not a. jot better
The third wee an anonymous prodnotion.
then Ir pzialietc- ••nay, rather worst, for
it contained only a verse of Grasset— they were imitators only, whereas the
• others were originators of will manners
"list rose elle a veon oe que vivant les roses and notions ; that all seemed topsy-turvy ;
L'espaoe d'un matin." that apparently parents could no longer
Taken altogether the letters had pro. judge what was best for their children, but
duped an uncomfortable and depressing that ohildren were to adopt a la mode
feeling. I began to fear that the silence Angfaiee, because, forsooth, it happened to
whioh the marquis had enjoined on me, pleaee them that young men went about
•and whioh for Diane's sake I was so making love to young ladies, turning .their
anxious to preserve,. was about to be silly heads, even before the age at whioh
broken, and this distressed me. the ides of marriage could take definite
Then I wondered how this could be. shape."
The Chantalieee knew nothing exoept the' " That is somewhat a cool statement," I
broad. foot that we loved, and were not said, '• considering that before the young
allowed to love in pesos ; but even if lady in question had even known the
Diane had told them more than I had, young man alluded to. the father had
their family ties would have sufficiently broached to her the marriage gneetion."
insured their dieoretion. " So I thought," said Raymond ; " bat it
The Count de Manpert had no doubt amused me to let the old gentleman have
been told all by both Diane and her father, his say."
as these two high-minded natures world ``Well, what else did he say ?'"
not have borne for a moment the idea of " He said this : that De Manpert was an
being disloyal to a friend, or foe ;° but' old college friend, a country neighbor, and
surely the count would not, nor oonld im- a man of irreproachable conduct ; that be
prove his position by showing up the girl had known him more or lees intimately all
he wished to marry. Again' the :argument -hie life, that he had- watched his social ad -
was. good, and even stronger when applied vanoement with fraternal pride, and that,
to Diane's mother. given the world to choose from, he could
How, then, could this matter of the roses find no one for whom he entertained so
have been talked about ? much regard, so real an esteem, and so
" I have it 1''" I exclaimed, iib at once, great a consideration ; that --under -these-
" The porters at the Hotel Bretenille must circumstances he had broached to him the
have spread the report. What a fool I was subject of a . older alliance between hie
to ask for these flowers, instead of waiting house and the count's ;'that M. de Maupert
till they were sent me. My God 1 what had at first objeoted that he was too old for
have I done 2 " eo young a person ; but on his being alto -
Yee, Raymond is right. I shall return gether pooh-poohed, he had, like you, been
to Paris without delay. The rose shall struck with the wonderfd! " beauty of
live more than the spade of a morning, I Mademoiselle Diane, and being struck, had
thought, as I commented to myself on this struck his bargain with Diane's father."
well-expreeeed but eorrowfnl line of poetry. I was much interested in these details,
, I left for Paris that evening, having re. for it clearly showed that M. de Manpert
plied to both letters, and borne with me at least was not the principal culprit in
the anonymous quotation. this affair ; . and that, should matters come
I got to Paris on Sunday morning -the to a orisis,• the result of whioh would be
second Sunday eine Diane had been given Painful to him, as I now felt absolutely
to M. de Manpert by,her parents, and had certain it would prove, both Diane and
given her heart to me. myself would find an unexpected ally in
Though resolved to be true to my the father, whom we both had treated with
promise to the marquie, yet I' could so much confidence, and whose tardy
not resist going to the church I knew remorse at being -the originator of . our
Diane usually frequented, on the chance of troubles would soften into -a ready instrn-
catching a glimpse of her ; but instead of ` men for restoring peace. .
her dear graceful Iittle pereon I saw her " Go on," I said to Raymond ; " all ' thie
mother kneeling. near the high altar, with is very interesting."
Monsieur de Manpert at her side,.and I " Of course it ie," he answered ; "abut I
heard the banns between Diane de Berte- was not going to write all this, es you may
nille proclaimed from the .pulpit for the imagine. I never waste words on paper, or
" emend time." sentiments either, for the matter of that."
They have lost no time, I thought, and "Do go on," I said, impatiently.
one more Sunday must bring neattere to a " There is not much more to add," he re-
orisis ; but my heart sank within me, and plied. " What took place afterwards is
I ran out of the church. better known to yourself than to any ono
Once in the street, it etrnok me that it alae ; but the idea that you have blabbed
was curious Diane should not accompany about the roses has powerfully moved the
her mother to the parish church ; bat a old gentleman ; end though his indigos -
moment's reflection made me understand 'tion is softening a little, yet it was so great
that. in these days' of trial the poor girl that he ° hard d matters as soon as you
would -naturally avoid, if possible, a church ne, a d paused the banns between
from the pulpit of whioh words wer me nd his friend to be published
given out to the congregation that pot.. �"
tended so much to herself and me.
Involuntarily, though instinctively, I
directed my steps to St. Thomas d'Agnin,
near the Rue -de'Bac; and arrived in time to
see an angel rise from her prayeraat the
high altar where she had heard mans, and
asked the Almighty Himself to lay upon
us both hie merciful hands, and bring ns
oat of ,,our trouble, -and come and kneel at
Oar Lady'° altar .to beg her gentle inter -
incision incur behalf.
To see this graceful little thing kneel, to
watch her pretty little hands cover her
beautiful face, to note the lithesome figure
bent in humble devotional attitude 'before
the mother of the Most Holy, and offer a
child's simple prayer,' that, provided it
were the will • of hor divine Son, ehe, who
never implored in vein, might bring to her
relief wonderfully powerful intercession,
and obtain from Bim the grace of allowing
this great misery to pane away ; to behold
this ineapreesably touching speotaole, end
to feel that the child in her eimplioity, the
girl in• her beauty, and the woman in her
calm, steady resolve were mine, and mine
alone, produced so great an impression
that I bad to snpport myself against the
nearest oolmmn lest I should faint, pito
moved was -1 by the scone before me, so
stirred by the inward feeling it produced,
and so proud in the knowledge of my
triumph even in that hour of helplessness.
She moved, and her head being raised, a
ray of sun through one of the iattioed
windows oame down upon her golden heir,
ae if answer to her prayer. It lit np that
beautiful head with all the glory of its
biightneas ; and as she made a sign to her
governess by her side that it was time to
go, I felt that her prayer had been
answered, together with a oraving to
kneel at the spot where she had knelt, and
to wok what oho had aeked.
° hid behind the column. No
ons y, " a i o is a in En an ,
whatever it may be in France."
■ I was irritated and annoyed that he
■ should not have jumped at the prospect of
being my best man, thinking all the while
of the enormous favor I was conferring on
my friend in asking him to stand at my
side when the girl I loved put her hand into
mine, and he would have a right to look
upon himself ae having contributed to our
joy, our happiness, oar union.
Bob either did not see it in this light, or
was slow to perceive any particular advan-
tage in <aooeding to my wishes.. He there-
fore lit a cigarette, and, having done so,
turned the conversation by making me how
long I would remain in town.
"Let us do a -theatre together," ire maid„
" and dine at the St. James' (Hub, where
jest at present there is a very decent cook."
" My dear Bob," I said, " I want no
dinner, t will not.go to the play, and I re-
gnir an.anewer to my question."
".But there ie a hitch," he said ; "time
enough when that is,arrenged to give yon
an answer. By -the -was, what is the nature
of the hitch ? " .
".I cannot tell you."
,''day yon will not tell."
" I bad rather not."
" Does, the lady care for some one .lee 2 "
" No."
". Or some one else care for her 2,"
"Everybody meet care for her who
knows her." This 'seemed to me- the most
dexterous manner of avoiding the question.
" Is it about'settlements ? "
"No."
"Then I give_it up." geld 'Bob ; "and now
I am; oft to' H' Par i'or a whiff -of air.
This • place iestnffy to a degree,, and I shall
die if I remain here another minute."
"Bob," I said, 'be.serious ; promise me
what I ask. It will give me a little com-
fort, and I needit."
. The kind-hearted Bob noted the' earnest
tone of my request, and while patting on
his hat rather snappishly replied, " Of
course I will if yon wish it "; and asking
me whether I wee not going his way, with-
out waiting for a reply walked out."
I followed aim and hoeing gone to-
gether as far ae Pall Mall we parted.
I felt as if I had done wonders towards
the advancement of my marriage with
Diane. I had secured myself against pro-
motion, and therefore displacement ; and
I had a beet man ready tto give me away
to a girl who could not be mine just yet,
because of a terrible hitch, as Bob Dolled it,
namely, because she herself was being given
away by her father to another man. The
idea, horrible as is was, filled me with no
concern whatever. I had enoh faith in
Diane's love and loyalty, such implioit con-
fidence in the strength of our mutual
understanding, that my refusing promo-
tion. so as not to. be away from where she
lived, appeared to me only natural ; while,
if there was a little self-saorifioe in it, I
was the better pleased for being permitted
to lay it at shrine of my divinity. On the
other hand, I derived immense consolation
from Bob's acceptance ; and it seemed to
me as it it were a good omen that I should
have, moored so important an element in
the marriage ceremony on my first day
away from Paris whioh held all I oared for
in life.
Nothing of any oonsegnenoe occurred for
some days ; but when, at, the end of the
week, I was beginning to wonder why
Madame de Chantalis had not written, I
found three lettere at the club, all in differ-
ent hand -writings, easily recognizable
however, and all three bearing the Rarid
postmark.
The firet I opened was the one I looked
to to give me moat pleasure. It was from
Mademoiselle Garonx—" that governeee'
poet," whioh Diane had once told me
might occasionally be used.
"Motasreua,t' wrote the faithful governess,
-" I hive little: to gey, for mademoiselle is
not aware that I am writing ; bot knowing
her feelings and yours, I cannot but con-
gratulate you on having secured so plucky,
so stannoh, and so trne an_ affection.
" Nothing in her manner towards her
parents betrays the least dierespeot, the
slightest wish even to disobey their com-
mands. Towards M. de Maupert she is as
reserved ae it is possible to be without
wounding les convenancea, and it must be
allowed that his own manner towards her
is perfect. Ile attempts no more then
marked politeness, and even the cold recep-
tion of hie attentions never indnces a re-
proach. What annoyed Diane more than
anything at first ie the fact that while he
mnet seg how distasteful to her is the
oonrtehip he hue permission to pay her, he
never once hes asked whether she indorses
her parents' consent to hie being her
fiancee, and that this gave her no opport-
unity of appealing to hie • honor not to
purtuo an engagement no palpably distaste-
ful to her ; but oho seems now to hope that
he will continue as he is doing, as she doom
not want to owe anything to hie generosity,
having, as she tells me with her sweet
langb, ' a little plan of mine own.'
" Mon Dieu! ho.w I wish matters were
otherwise Abttnk (ey 'are 1 But that •velli
elfish err k Bob, come right, if i.fl1 convinced.
"Yon do not moan it ?" he meld "I must obi a ward about your oonver-,(power on earth ootild have meds eon in a variety of ways, and .h pertain
, If 1. d0,"_ - r Y,...m --_ Y.:. _.., _.-_oat e* wino a n4ftI T it o is ► yen ileft� _ e_=reveal myself at that moment. I ehadea it is a very at'treotive combination. cohort," " Ye
A LOVE STORY.
I walked soros the yard to the porter's
longe', where I received a little bouquet of
'three roses tied together by a blue knot, and
Veiled to whioh was a blank oard, on one
nide of whioh was written my address, and
on the other these words : " ()willies par
Chane."
1 hurried home and at ono° eat down to
write :
" I have just seen your father, made?
seoieello, and have heard from his own lips
that the deep devotion I have sworn to you
is returned. The knowledge hart filled me
with enoh inexpressible joy, that, trusting
in you even more than I do in myself, I
leave given my word of honor not to press
lacy suit with you any farther, relying on
the swrength of our purpose, our love, and
our I ite to bring your parents to pee the.
rt.•,oela�,ity of uniting two lives that were
•--tae.de-f-er---one--another, nd-that- reeoc
r•;.ed this neoessity from the first hour of
U- sir meeting. `
" Though I may,not call and may not
• write, I will be (hungry for news of you,
and shall try to iee'your aunt before start-
ing; in a few hours,. to beg,. during my ab -
emote, for the favor of an occasional line
from herself to tell me how you are faring
"➢day Heaven bless you and guide you,
as you have blessed and guided my own
•ata -in life 1" <"
It was 'a lover's letter, and nit ntis'take;'-
loot I had obtained permission is write 'it,,
:bed 1 fu11y'trusted the old marquie to give
the letter to hie daughter:- • . "-, .• .
That he nobly fulfilled hie.promise, bow -
avow much it mdet;baye cost him, I heard
t.t sat very evening when, at the station, 'a
message from Venetia governelie nonveyed
t me Diane'r,ajdieux; her delight atreoeiv-
i•i my Ietterr h !.resolve to. be 'Staunch to
i , e, and the announcer -meet that, as she bad
i re:been allpp°wad to lee me in the afternoon,
o �'-e had re�tpeed 10 see . M. de Manpert's
s „roily, by the very simple process of going
1 • bed on the score of a headache.
I coiled on Madame de Chantalis before
s vrting, and told her of my interview with
I �,e marquis.. She approved. of it, and
p 'ernised; now that matters were above-
t„yerd, and bereft of that mystery whioh
rr+ado it, slie thought, so unpleasant, to let
roe know all ehe could about Diane :
Th., ugh," she added, with a laugh, "your
-promise not to encourage Diane to disobey
h,r parents appoint to me to be somewhat
Jesuitical ; for you reserve to yourself the
r' ght of a ..,parting shot in the shape of a
-hive-note, and you mottled to have a regular
medium of oomimunioation between you
through my humble self."
" Countess," I said, " the meduini is so
bright and clever that I oonld not do better
than leave in your hand° the management
of my affair°, and I am • so much in love
that it would kilt me to be without
&tecnssioned news of Diane, while I am not
at alt , certain that to be without any news
from herself direct is not the greatest
° martyrdom I have ever heard of. Pray
remernber what it has cost me to accede
to this self-eaorifiee."
"� I suppose," said the •counteee, "that,
after all, a man in love is not a000tintablo ;
but frankly,I wieh,on your return,you world
tiaciY Raymond the way to be in love, for I
never• saw so matter-of•faot a man in my
life ; or, perhaps, you will teeiob me,.whioh
will acme to the °acme thing in the end.
Gso -bye ; bon voyage ! "
d 7z hour later I was in the train bound
for Calais, en .route for England.
CHAPTER VI.
The husinees which Bob had insisted
th y w:1 should lose no time in settling was
eff +' tually disposed of in a very few
tutu ;rites ; for hearing from him on arrival
et the-•----0ffioe the day after the events
recorded in the last chapter that a vacancy
baei Huuidenly 000urre at °ome plane in
China, and that he had ooneidered it e.
wonderful pieoe of lack for me, icasmuch
as if I band volantbered to go to that oat-of-
lho• way country, it might advance my prop
legation in the service, and -at any rate in-
gilre' m -goings-•through a disagreeable
neoeseity before I was too old. to bear it
with rquanimity, I thanked him for his
ftienylly ooneideration, but stubbornly re-
fased to he removed from Paris, whioh was
to mo a� paradise, on any consideration -
least of all,•thronght any effort of mine.
• B•ib l�nghed, and exclaimed, " Oat, with
it, el�i fellow 1 What's the attraotion ? "
" Wait and yon will see."
"' ly she, then, coming over ? " •
" It might be the other way."
" If you mean," said Bob, " that I am
going to dross the Channel to see 'your latest
admiration, you are greatly mistaken. I
ehoald have something to do were I to
tra"vel to and fro enoh time you had fallen
e m lone.' u
" Bet, i�i�s -serione'1 hie time," I said, with
. spot a 'eli/i#lt accent of pain in my voioe
e
his de
at o
oe
ave you seen Diene? and does she
think me' capable of boasting publicly of
her kind thought of myself ? "
"Do not put on that tragio air," he Raid.
" Lovers are perfectly insufferable," added
ktaymond. " The most i intelligent men
become absolute foole ; either their voice
and manner become tragical, or their
mirth, in its exaggeration, steps • into the
regions of comedy.
"No, monsieur !'ami," imitating my
voice, " Diane did not think yon capable of
boasting of her kind thought of yon. She
never thought' of you at all. • She hada no
doubt that yon were a gentleman, and
would act as one.; but she was annoyed et
her attentions to you becoming the .object`
of public remark. How do yon explain the
circumstance ? "
" Easily." And I told him of my getting
the roses from the porter.
That explains everything," he maid,
and I will let the marquie know."
(To be Continued),
Needs Watching.
Chicago Inter -Octan : 'There ie a good
deal• of talk aboad " lllkormoniem being
dead," but it wilbbo just as well to watch
the corpse for 'a good long epell yet.
Aoknow.ledged The Corn.
Yorker's Statesman: A oorn is something
whioh is pretty hard to get used to, but
Mill it grows on you -
The ene hundredth anniversary of
Ltsmartino'a birthday will be celebrated
with great pomp at Marion, his birthplace,
on Ootober 18th, 19th and 20th. The
company of the Theatre Francai& will go
to the Burgundian city for the o0oa°ion,
and on the evening of the 18th will play
" Toussaint L;dhverture." "
Purple and .pink are combined this . sea -
A EXPEL HEAD.
The A dvantage of Presence of Mind in an
Riatergeney.
During the late strike on the New York
Central Railroad, the militia were ordered
to be in readiness in case of a riot, but they
were not called out.
In an interview, Gov. Hill said the troops
were not to be palled span except in wase of
an emergency. :The emergenoy bad not
arisen, therefore they would not be ordered -
nut. He remarked tbat this was the first
a ri-
which he had had e e
.eret4t etrike with+ t?
74x2, "l-,.�•.?P,•ill4-- 0.7,'1 - rall9sh. • 70"' l _I318 ^�;,?-r..•;
'head ; the only point --at w nit ibere bits
en been eerions trouble was at Syracuse,'
end there adepnty•eheriff bad lost his head
and precipitated an encounter.
The strike continued several weeks, and
there was riotous soden at variops pointe
along the road, but the oivil authorities
were able to nope with it without calling on
the militia.
The test of a man's real ability comes
when an emergency arises whioh makes a,
has y oa on his good ju s peens gnu" fi'la-
oretion. The man who retains hie presenoe
of mind, maintains his egnrpoise_ and oxer-
aims sound discretion at anoh critical
junctures, is to be relied on and will be put
to the front.
Men with level heads have staying
qualities whioh do not falter in the face of
danger. Olio A. Cole, of Kinsman, 0., June
10, 1890, writes : " In the fall of 1888 I was
feeling very ill. I consulted a doctor and
he said I had Bright's disease of the kid-
neys and theft he would not stand in my
shoes for the state of Ohio." But he did
not lose courage or give up ; he says. "
saw the testimonial of Mr. John Coleman,,
100 Gregory St., New Haven, Conn., and I
wrote to him. In due time I received an
answer, stating that the tteetitnoiriel that lin'
gave was genuine and not 'overdrawn in
any partibular. I took a good many bottles -te
of Warner's Safe Cure ; have not taken
any for one year."
Gov. Hill is accounted a very successful
man ; he is cool and calculating and belongs
to the class that do not lose their heads
when emergencies arise.
The Importenoe of Accent.'
" To be a suooeeafnl lawyer one mast
know how to manipulate the English lan-
guage, ' said a lawyer: " There is no other
language that oan be twisted around to
mean so many thinge. The use ' of words
is various, the accent of the speaker is
eignifioant. If a lawyer would be iefluen-
tiat before a jury he must be ablate master
ala-the-intrioaoiea--o€--language. I --don't
mean that he mast be able to use all the
words with profound meaning; he mast be
able to take advantage of all the 'ine' and
outs ' of the common language -the lan-
guage we hear on the street and in business
every day. -
" I sometintee use sin illustration before
a jury to show how many constructions
may be put upon a single sentence of our
language. The illnetration,�I use is a sim-
ple one. It is this :
" Are. you going to town io-morrow ? -- ---
" Are you - going to town to -morrow ?
"Are you going to town to -morrow ?
" Are yon going to town to -morrow ?
" Are you going to town to -morrow ?
" There, yon see, are six words in a sen-
tence arranged alike yet susceptible of five
distinct shades of meaning. in this it `is
simply a'matter of accent. The fact is,
our language oan be made to mean almost
anything, and the man who has the blest
command of it, whether he be an orator or
note has the advantage before a jury any
time." -Indianapolis Newe.
Functions of the Tongue.
Taste is not equally distributed over the
whole surface of the tongue. There are
three distinot regione or traote, each of
which has to perform ite own special offioe
or function. The tip of the tongue is con -
corned mainly with pungent and acid'
tastes ; the middle portion is sensitive
chiefly to sweets or bitters, while the back
or lower portion confines itself entirely to
the flavors of rich, 'fatty substances. This
subdivision of faculties in the tongue
makes each pieoe of food undergo three
separate examinatiaus, •which must be
successively passed `before it is admitted
into full participation in the human
economy. The firet examination gets rid of
substances which world be actively and
immediately destructive to the tisanes of
the mouth and body ; the second disorimi
notes between poisonous and ohemiiially
harmless food,• and the third merely de-
oidee the minor question whether the par-
ticular food is likely to prove wholesome or
indigestible. The sense of taste pr Beds,
in fact, upon the principle cf gradilselec-
tion and elimination; it refuses first what
is positively destructive, next what is re-
motely deleterious and finally what is only
undesirable or over laaoious.-H'all's
Journal of Health. •
Removing a Cinder From the Eye.
The proper way to get a cinder out of the
eye is to draw the upper lid down over the
lower, utilizing the lashes of the lower me a
broom, that it may sweep the surface of the
former and. thus get rid of the intruder.
Or, gently draw the lid away fro'n the
globe,. pees P a clean camel's-hair brash, or
fold of a soft silk handkerohief, two or
three times between them. ,Thio procedure
will, in nearly all came, suffice ; wkie it
doea not, the services of a physic' revs
necessary. It is a remarkable fast ' at a
very minute body will give rise to i eternal
pain, and even after it has' been extracted,
the eeniiation remains for an hour or more.
After the fail:leer is out, gently bailie the
lids every fifteen minutes in ioed•wpt;�er till
the feeling subsides. -!•Home Journa e
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