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' At Annie We needn't go that daYiand nOne
-usateany-hreagidast--onlr ow, ---
And that waspapa-and hiq eyes were red
When he came round where wo were, by the
shed.
Where Jack was lying, half-wny in the sun
And lialf-way in the shade. When we be
erl Out loud, pa turned and dropped
head
And went away ; and mamma she went back
Into the kitchen. Then for a long while,
All to ourselves like, we stood. there and
cried ;
We thought so many good things of Old Jack,
Andlunny things -although we didn't smile.
We couldn't only cry when Old Jack died.
When Old Jack died it seemed a liuma,n
friend
Hail suddenly Rona from is; that,some fags!
That w&1adJved4o follow acembraceFrom babylir,od no more would condscend
To-eraile-en-us-ferever; -W-ermight-bend
With tearful eyes above him, interlace
Our chubby fingers e'er him. romp and race
"Plead with him, call and coax -aye, we mighi
send
The old haloo up for him, whistle, hist
It sobs had let us), or, as wildly vain,
Snapped thumbs, called "Speak," and he
had - not replied:
We might have gone down on our knees and
4 Ldssed
The tousled ears, and yet they niustremain
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' died.
When Old Jack died, it seemed to us some
way.
That ali the other dogs in town wore pained
With our bereavement, and some that were
chained
Even unslipped their cellars on that day
To visit Jack in state, as though to pity
• A last sad tribute there ; while neighbors
craned
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To sigh Poordog !" remembering how they -
Had, cuffed him when alive, perchance
roe, Ione of them lie leaped to lick their
..1'4'.eng'011(1,10 could not, were they Beide-
. ileda •,
NO children thOught that, as we crossed his
paws,
And o'er his.grave, 'way down the bottom -
lands,
Wrote, "Our First Love Lies Here,' when
Old -Jack died.
-James Whitcomb Riley.
THE SISTERS
CHAPTER L
A DISTANT VIEW.
On the second of Jo/Unary, in. the year
1880, three newly orphaned sisters, finding
themselves left to their own devices, with
an 'income of exactly one hundred pounds a
year apiece, sat down to consult together as
to the use they should make of their inde-
pendence.
The place where they sat was a grassy
cliff overlooking a wide bay of the Southern
Ocean --a lonely spot, whence no sign of
human life was visible, except in the sail of
a- little _fishing boat far iiway. The ..low
sun,that blazed at the back of their heads,
and threw their shadows and the shadow of
eVery blade of grass into relief, touched
that distant sail and made it shine like
bridal satin; while a certain island rock,
the home of seabirds, blushed like a rose in
the same necromantic light. As they sat
they could hear the waves breaking and
seetkinginithe sends and stones enea
them, but could only see the level plain of
blue and purple water stretching from the
tees of their boots to the indistinct horizon.
That particular Friday was a terribly hot
day for the colony, as weather , records
testify; but in this favored, spot it had been
merely a little too warm for comfort, anet,
the sea -breeze coming up fresher and
stronger as the sun went down, it was the
perfection of an Australian summer evening
at the hour of which L am writing.
"What I want," said Patty King (Patty
was the middle one), "is to make a dash -a
straight-out plunge into the world, Eliza-
beth -no shilly-shallying and dawdling
about, frittering our money away before we
begin. Suppose we go to London -we shall
have enough to cover our travelling ex -
penes, and our income to start fair with -
surely we could' live anywhere on three
hundred a year, in the .greatest comfort -
and take rooms near the British Museum ?
-or in South Kensington -or suppose we
go to one of those intellectual German towns,
and study music and the languages? What
do you think, Nell? I am sure we could do
it easilyif we tried.",
"Oh," said Elenor, the youngest of the
trio, "I don't care so long as we go some-
where and do something."
"What do you think, Elizabeth?" pur-
sued the enterprising Patty, alert and earn-
est. " Life is short, and there is so much
for us to see and learn -all these years and
years we have been out of it so utterly ! 'Oh,
I wonder how we have borne it ! How have
we borne it ---4o hear about things and never
to know or do them, like other people ! Let
us get into the thick of it at once, and re-
cover lost time. Once in Europe, every-
thing would be to our hand -everything
would be possible. What do you think?
" My dear," said Elizabeth, with char-
acteristic caution, "1 think we are too
youg and ignorant to go so far afield just
yet."
" We are all over 21," replied Patty
quickly, " and though we have lived the
lives of hermits we are not more stupid
than other peop. We can speak French
and German, andwe are quite sharp enough
to know when we are being cheated. We
should travel in perfect safety, finding our
way as we went along. And we do know
something of those places -of Melbourne we
know nothing."
"Wo should never get to the places
mother knew -the sort ef life we have heard
of. And Mr. Brion and Paul are with us
here -they will tell us all we want to
know. No, Patty, we must not be reckless.
We might go to Europe by -and -bye, but for
the present let Melbourne content its,. It
will be as much of the world as we shall
want to begin with, and we ought to got
some expekenee before we spend our money
-the little capital we have to spend."
"You don't call 235 pounds a little, do do, we don't want to. be interfered with,
you ?" interposed Eleanor. This was the Elizabeth."
price that a well-to-do storekeeper in the " Sam Dunn is out late," said Eleanor,
neighboring township had offered them for , pointing to a dark dot far away, that was
the little house which had been, their home , a glittering sail a little while ago.
since she was born, and to her it seemed a ; " It is a good night for fishing," said
fortune. ' Patty.
" Well, clear, we don't quite know yet And then they turned their faces land -
whether it is little or much, for, you see, ward, and set forth on their road home.
we don't know what it costs to live as other I A pretty and pathetic picture they made
people do. 'We must not be reckless, Patty as they sat round that table,
with the dim
-we must•ake care of what we have, for light of one kerosene lamp on their
we have only ourselves in the wide world to strikingly fair faces -alone in the little
depend on, and this is all our fortune. I house that was no longer theirs, , and in the
should think no girls were ever so utterly wide world, but so full of faith and hope in
without belongings as we aro now," she the unknown future-discessing ways and
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added, -with a, little bre* m her gentle (meanst; gettia$ teat tO
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The parents of these three girls had been OHAPTER JIL
stinc.ettaia antecedents people knew just aa
mach as they liked to conjecture, and no Melbourne people, when they go to bed,
more. Mr King hadi, been on the diggings chain uptheir doors carefully-, and bar all
in the okbrdays-that inuoh was a fact, to their windows, lest the casual burglar
which he had himself been known to testify; should molest them. Bush people,. pia more
'but where and what he had been before, afraid of the night than of the day, are
end why' he had lived likp a pelican in often quite unable to tell you whether there
the wildern8ss ever since, nobody knew,. is such a thing as an effective lock upon the
though everybody was at liberty to gimes- •-premises. So ear girls, in. their - lonely
,X.C4r# itt4d years ago, he came to this lone dwelling on the cliff, slept in perfect peace
coast -a. region of hopeless eand and scrub, and security, with thn, wind from the. sea
which no squatter or free selector with a blowing. over their faces through the open
grain of .sense would look at -and here on a door -windows at the foot of their little beds.
bleak headland he built his rude bowie! Dan ilieke,r, the terrier Walk= aettly
piece by piece, in great liart with his own and fro over their thresholds at intervals in
hand s and fenced his little paddorl,_-and he-eeurse -of the -night; -And-kept away -any
made hislittlegarden ; and here he had lived stray kitten that had not yet learned its
till the other day, a. morose recluse, who proper place; that was all the watch and
shunned his neighbors as they shunned him, ward that he or they considered necessary.
and never was known to have either bear.- At five o'clock in the morning, Elizabeth
nese or pleasure, or commerce of any kuidKing, who had a little slip of a room to her -
with his fellow -men. It was supposed that self, jut wide enough to allow the leaves of
he had made some money at the digging; the French window at the end of it to be
for he took up no land (there was none fit held back, when open, by buttons attached
to take up, indeed, within a dozen miles of to
aha. Yiir*iieti, in en cows and pigs for the larder; and at the ing up into & sitting posture, propped her -
same time there was never any sign of 'self on the pillows to see the new day begin.
actual poverty in his little 'stablishment, When the little loaves were done and the
simple and humble as it was. And it was big ones put in the oven, Eleanor fetched a
also supposed -nay, it was confidently towel, donned a bread hat, and, passing out
believed -that he was not, so to speak, "all at the front of the house, ran lightly down
there." No man who was not "touched' the steep track on the face of the cliff to
would conduct himself with such prepos- their bath-hease on the beach -a little
a myeterious couple,, abent whose dreamer_
rneninaanons eon FLIGHT.
marked his long career in their midst -so
the neighbors argued, not without a show
of, reason. But the greatest mystery
in connection with Mr. King was
Mrs. , King. .He was obviously a
gentleman, in the conventional- sense of the
word, but she was, in every sense, the most
beautiful and accomplished lady that ever
was seen, according to the judgment of
those who knew her -the woman who had
nursed her in her confinements, and washed
and scrubbed for her, and the tradesmen of
the town to whom she had gone in her little
buggy for/occasional stores, and the doctor
and the parson, and the children whom she
had brought up in such a wonderful manner
to be copies (though, it was thought, poor
ones) of herself. And yet she had borne to
live all the best years of,her life, at once a
captive and an exile, on that desolate sea-
shore -and had loved that harsh and melan-
choly man with the most faithful and entire
devotion -and had suffered her solitude and
pijivations, the lack of everything to which
she must have been once accustomed, and
th
e fret and
trouble of her husband's bitter
moods -without 'a murmur that anybody
had ever heard.
Both of them were gone now from the
cottage on the cliff where they had lived
so long together. The idolized mother had
been cfrend- for sev-eiral—yearr `and -the
harsh,'and therefore not much loved „nor
much mourned, father had *lain but a few
weeks in his grave beside her ; and they,
had left their children, as Elizabeth de-
scribed it, more utterly without belongings
than ever girls were before. It was a curious
position altogether. As far as they knew,
ey,hacl-rio-relations, -and-the3r-had-never-
had a friend. Not one of them had left
their ,home for a night since Eleanor was
born, and not one invited guest had slept -
there during the whole of that period. They
had never been to school,' nor had any
governess but their mother, nor any ex-
perience of life and the ways of the world
save what they gained in their association
with her, and from the books that she and
their father selected for them. According
to all precedent, they ought to have been
dull and rustic and stupid (it was supposed
that they were,because they dressed them-
selves so badly), but they were only simple
and truthful in an extraordinary degree.
They had no idea what was the. "correct.
thing" in costume or manners, and they
knew little or nothing of the value of
money; but they were well and widely
read, and highly accomplished in all the
household arts, from playing the piano to
making bread and butter, and as full of
spiritual and intellectual aspirations as the
most advanced amongst us.
CHAPTER. II.
A LONELY EYRIE.
" Then we will say) Melbourne to begin
with. Not for a permanence, but- until we
have gained a little more experience," said -
Patty, with something of regret and reluct-
ance in her voice. Ey this time the sun
hari set and drawn off all the glow and
color from sea and shore. The island rock
was an enchanted castle no longer, and the
sails of the fishing -boats had ceased to shine.
The girls had been discussing their schemes
for a couple of hours, and had come to
several conclusions.
"1 think so, Patty. It would be unwise
to hurry ourselves in making our choice of
a home.. We will go to Melbourne and look
about us. Paul Brion is there. He will
see after lodgings for us and put us in the
way of things generally. That will be a
great advantage. And then the Exhibition
will be coming -it would be a pity to miss
that. And we shall feel more as if we be-
longed to the people here than elsewhere
don't you think ? They are more likely to
be kind to our ignorance and help us."
"' Oh, we don't want any one to -help us."
" Squieone must teach us what we don't
know,' directly or indirectly -and we are
not above being taught."
" But," insisted Patty, "there is no
reason why we should be beholden to any-
body. Paul Brion may look for some lodg-
ings for us, if he likes -just a place to sleep
in for a night or two -and tell us where we
can find a house -that's all we shall want to
ask crf him or of anybody. We will have a
house of our own, won't we ?-so as not to
be overlooked or interfered with,"
" Oh, of course !" said Eleanor promptly.
"A landlady on the premises is not to ' be
thought of for a moment. Whatever we
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high water; whence she presently emerged
in a scanty flannel garment, with her slen-
der white limbs bare, and flung herself like
a mermaid into the sea. There were
sharks in that bay sometimes, and there
were devil fish too (Sam Dunn had spread
one out, star -wise, on a big boulder close by,
and it lay there still with its horrible arms
dangling from its hideous bag of a body, to
be a warning to these venturesome young
ladies, who, he fully expected would be " et
up " some day like little flies by a spider);
but they found their safety in the perfect
transparency of the water, coming
in from the great pure ocean to
the unsullied rocks, and kept a wary watch
for danger. While Eleanor was disporting
herself, Patty joined her, and after Patty,
Elizabeth • and one by one they came up,
glowing and dripping, like -no, I won't be
tempted to make that familiar classical
comparison -like nothing better than them.,
selves for artistic purposes. As Elizabeth,
who was the last to leave the water, walked
up the short flight of steps to her little
dressing closet, straight and stately, with
her full threat and bust and her nobly
shaped limbs, she was the very model that
sculptors dream of and hunt 'for (as many
more might be, if brought up as she had
been_)._but_seldem_nre fortunate enough_to
find. In her gown and leather belt, her
beauty of figure, of course, , was not so
obvious ; the raiment of civilization, how-
ever simple, levelled it from the standard of
Greek art to that of conventional compari-
son with other dressed -up women -by
which, it must be confessed, she suffered.
Having assumed this raiment, she fol
owed-heFairrifeisThiCtlie-cliffpath to the
house ; and there she found them talking
volubly with Mrs. Dunn, who had brought
them, with Sam's best respects, a freshly
caught sehnapper for their breakfast. Mrs.
Dunn was their nearest neighbor,. their only
help in domestic emergencies, and of late
days their devoted and confidential friend.
Sam, her husband, had for some years been
a ministering angel in the back yard, a pur-
veyor of firewood and mutton, a killer of
pigs, and so on; and he also had taken the
orphan girls under his protection, so far as
he could, since they had been "left."
" Look at this !' cried Eleanor, holding it
up -it took both hands to hold it, for it
weighed about a dozen pounds ; did you
ever see such a fish, Elizabeth! Breakfast
indeed ! Yes, we'll have it to breakfast to-
day and to -morrow too, and for dinner and
tea and supper. Oh, how stupid Sam is !
Why didn't he send it to market? Why
didn't he take it down to the steamer ?
He's not a man of business a bit, Mrs. Dunn
-he'll never make his fortune this way.
Get the pan for me Patty, and set the fat
boiling. We'll fry a bit this very minute,
and you shall stay and help eat it, Mrs.
Dunn.
CHAPTER IV.
They decided to sell their furniture -
with the exception of the piano and. the
bureau, and sundry treasures that could' be
stowed away in the latter capacious recep-
tacle ; and, on being made acquainted with
the fact, the obliging Mr. Havvkins offered
to take it as it stood for a lump sum of.£50,
and his offer was gratefully accepted.
And so they began to pack up. And the
fuss and confusion of that occupation -
Which becomes so irksome when the charm
of novelty is past -was full of enjoyment fin.
them all.
• "We shall certainly want some clothes,"
said Eleanor, surveying their united stock
of available wearing apparel on Elizabeth's
'
bed -room floor. propose that ' we
appropriate -say £5 -no, that might not be
enough ; say £10 -from the furniture money
to settle ourselves up each with a nice cos-
tume -dress, jacket and bonnet complete -
so that we may look like other people when
we get to Melbourne:"
We'll get there first," said Patty, "and
see what is worn and the price of things.
Our black prints are very nice for every-
day, arid we can wear our brown homespuns
as soon as we get away from Mrs. Dunn.
She said it was disrespectful to poor father's
memory to put on anything but black when
she saw you in your blue gingham, Nelly.
Poor old soul ! one' would think we *ere a
set of superstitious heathen pagans. I won-
der where she got all those queer ideas
from ? "
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With Mr, ',Brion andhls old 'housekeeper
fore they went on board.
CHAPTER V.
nocirerratr Tan -011ADLE"OF-TI1W DEEP.
Late in the evening, when the sea was lit
up with a young moon, Mr. Brion, having
given them a great deal of serious advice
concerning their money and other business
affairs, escorted our three girls to the little
jetty where the steamer that called in mice
a week lay at her moorings, ready to start
for Melbourne ead intermediate ports at 5
'o'clock next morning. The old lawyer was
a spare, grave, gentlenianly-looking old
Anan, and as much a gentleman ache looked,
with the kindest heart in the world when
you could get at tt-a man who was
esteemed and respected, to use the lan-
_gunge of the local papeu...• by all bis
fellow townsmen, whether friends or foes.
They Anglicised'his name in speaking of it,
and they wrote it " Bryan " far more often
than not, though nothing enraged him more
than to have his precious vowels tampered
with ; but they liked him so much that they
never cast it up to him that he was a French -
be - quarters in case Oa rough dea-and Ws*
carried out their old opOsimin rug and asi
armful of pillows to make their nest comfor-
table. Se, in this _quiet and _breezy bed
chamber, roofed over by the mponlit sky,
they lay down with much satiefaetion
in each other's arms, unwatched
and unmolested, as they loved.
to be, save by, the faithful Dan Tucker,
who found hieway to their feet in the
course of the night. And the steamer left
her moorings and worked out of the bay
into the open ocean, puffing and clattering,
and danced up and down over the long
waves, and they knew nothing about it. In
the fresh air, with the familiar Voice of the
sea around them, they slept soundly under
the oporieuna rug until he seri wen htght
14'o be Continued
man.
This good old man, chivalrous as any
valterniVinvialinkyl'aItennteeetetAypaWayiP
anxious to hide his generous emotions as
the traditional Frenchman is anxious to !dis-
play them,'had done a father's part by. our
.young orphans since their elan father had
left them so strangely desolate, Sam Dunn
had compassed 'them with sweet observances,
as we have seen ; but Sam was powerless to
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unravel the web of difficulties, legal and
plunged them.* r. Brion had done all
this and a great deal more that nobody
knew of, to protect the girls and their
interests at a critical juncture, and to give
them a fair and clear start on their own ac-
count. And in the process of thus serving
them'he had become very much attached to
them in his old-fashioned, recent way; and
he did not at all like having to let them go
away alone in this lonely -looking night.
" But Paul will be there to meet you,"
he said, for the twentieth time, laying his
hand over Elizabeth's, which rested on his
arm. " You may trust to Paul -as soon as
the boat is telegraphed he will come to
meet you -he will see to everything that is
necessary -you will have no bother at all.
And, my dear, remember what I say -let
the boy advise you for a little while. Let
him take care of ' you, and imagine it is I.
You may trust him as absolutely as you
trust me, and he will not presume upon
your confidence, believe me. He is not like
the young men of the country," added
Paul's father, putting a little' extra stiff-
ness into his upright figure. ".No, no -he
is quite different.
" I think you have instructed us so fully,
dear Mr. Brion, that we shall get along very
well without having to trouble Mr. Paul,"
interposed Patty, in her clear, quick way,
speaking from a HMIs diiitlmce.
The steamer, with her lamps lit, was all
in a clatter and bustle, taking in passengers
and cargo. Sam Dunn was on board, having
'seen the boxes stowed away safely ; and he
came forward to say good-bye to his young
ladies before driving his cart home.
"I'll miss ye," .said the brawny fisher-
-mani--with-savage-tenderness--;--"-and-the-
missus'll miss ye. Darned if we shall know
the place with you gone out of it. Many's
the dark night the light o' your winders has
been better'n the lighthouse to show me the
way home."
He pointed to , the great headland lying,
it seemed now, so far, far off; ghostly as a
cloud. And presently he went away; and
they could hear. him, as he drove back
along the jetty, cursing his old horse -to
which he was as much attached as if it had
been a human friend -with blood -curdling
ferocity.
Mr. Brion stayed with them until' it
seemed improper to stay any longer -until
all the passengers that were to come on
board had housed themselves for the night,
and all the baggage had been snugly stowed
away -and then bade them good-bye, with
less outward emotion than Sam had dis-
played, but with almost as keen a pang.
God ^bless you, my dears," said he,
with paternal solemnity. " Take care of
yourselves, and let Paul do what he can for
you. I will send you your money every
quarter,
and you must keep accounts -keep
accounts strictly. And ask Paul what you
want to know.Then you will get along all
right, please God.'t
They cheered themselves with the sand-
wiches and the gooseberry wine /that Mr.
Brion's housekeeper had put up for them,
paid a visit to Dan, who was in charge of an
amiable cook ' (whom the old lawyer had
tipped handsomely),. and then faced the
dangers and difficulties of getting to bed.
Descending the brass -bound staircase to the
lower regions, they paused, their faces
flushed up, and they looked at each other,
as if the scene before them was something
unfit for the eyes of Modest girls. They
were shocked, as by some specific impro-
priety, at the noise and confusion, the,
rough jostling and the impure atmosphere,
in the morsel of a ladies' cabin, from which
the tiny slips of bunks prepared for them
were divided only by a scanty curtain. This
was their first contact with the world, so to
speak, and they fled from it. To ,spend a
night in that suffocating hole, with those
loud women their fellow -passengers, was a
too appalling prospect. So Elizabeth went
to the captain, who knew their story, and
admired their faces, and was inclined to, be
very kind to them, and asked his permission
to,occupy a retireicornerof the deck. On his
seeming to hesitate -they being desperately
anxious not to give anybody any trouble -
they assured him that the place above all
others where they would like to make their
bed was on the wedge-shaped platform in
the bovvs, where they would be out of every-
body's way.
"But, my dear young lady, there is no
railing there," said the captain, laughing at
the proposal as a joke.
"A good eight inches -ten inches," said
Izabeth. " Quite enough for anybody in
And so, at last, all their preparations were , El
made and the day came whe/n with unex-
pected regrets and fears, they walked out of
the old house which had been their only
home into the mld
iworld, where they were
utter strangers. Sam Dunn came with
his wood -cart to carry their lug-
gage , to the steamer (the convey-
ance they had selectedl in preference to
coach and railway, because, it was cheaper,
and they were more familiar with it) ; and
then they shut up doors and windows, sob-
bing aa they went from room, to room ;
stood on the veranda in front of the sea to
solemnly kiss each other, a.nd walk ed quietly
down to the township, hand-in•hand, and
with the terrier at their heels, to have tea
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nthe roughest sea." • „
" For a sailor perhaps, but not for young
ladies who get,giddy and frightened and Ean-
sick. Supposing yol tumbled off in the
dark and I found you gone when 1 came to
look for you in the l morning."
" We tumble offl" cried Eleanor. " We
never tumbled off anything in our lives.
We have lived on the cliffs like the goats
and the gulls -nothing makes us giddy.
And I don't think anything will make is sea.
sick -dr frightened either.".
"Certainly not frightened," said Patty.
He let them have their way -tatting a
great many (as they thought) perfectly un-
necessary precautions in fixing up their
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At Last.
The sports of summer are always prof
of all kinds of physical i juries, andfor
treatment of such, here is a most 'strikin
exampta. Mt-. .J.14.;111/ 11-1, zensperger, 14 Sum,
ner street, Cleveland., 0., U. 5. A. ,, saya
" I sprained my arm, clubbing chesnuts ;
could not lift it; buffered for years, but
years hThit the right thing at last, The
best thing first saves much.
A -ENDIVE CALENDAR.
Every Day a Greeting front a Distant Friend
• Was Seen.
Some one , the other day thought of this
abo t , a cal dar. A danebter was to fro
side of the earth. So the mother, thinking
to bring her good cheer, bought a calendar.
But the calendar this mother made. could be
duplicated by no one, for this is what she
did. Below the date on each leaf there wail
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a blank space. She therefore tott the
calendar apart, sending its 36.. leav s to as
many friends and relatives, asking e ch to
write seine sort of salutation 011 this'biank
space below the (lute. When these were
returned they were bound together again,
and the calendar was given to the daughter,
who knew nothing Of what had been done.
She was made to promise,- however, to tear
off no leaf until the day had dawned when
the leaf was due.
What a Source of delight such a calendar
would be to an exile from home can easily
be imagined. Every day a different greet-
ing from a different.friend ! Every day a
new surprise, and never to know till the
morrow what friend was to send a word of
good cheer.
The one addition this mother might make
,on another calendar of its kind would be to
.ask each friend to keep a record of the date
when the greeting, as it were, fell due ;
a
then to remember both greeting d date,
artt
so .that when the exile readi one of
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those far -away countries,.sh '. d her
friends. .at-home. -might,-for se moment at ------21---. -----
least, stand consciously face to face. -Har -
per's Bazar.
Gilbert's Latest ifuriesque
W. 8. Gilbert -who has been made a
justice of the piece -no, no ; of. the peace,
has produced at the Vaudeville theatre,
-London, his fair-burlesque-of--Handen;
under the title of " Rosencrantz and.
Guildenstern." The funniest part of it is
that in which the young gentlemen, who
are not titled young gentlemen, set by the
queen, interfere with the soliloquizing
propensities of the, prince. The ruffians'
rude remarks play havoc with the "To be
or not to be deliverance, and Hamlet,
with patience exhausted, cries out :
It must be patent to the merest dunce
That they cannot soliloquize at once.
Hamlet is described by the fair Ophelia
as " idiotically sane with lucid intervals of
"
lunacy.He discovers that the king has
written a very bad five -act tragedy. For
this horrible crime the majesty of Den-
mark is filled with remorse ; yet Hamlet
piles up the agony by engaging the players
to play the tragedy before the assembled
court. Of course, be wants to give adviee
to the players, but they belong to the pro-
fession, and don't require instruction front
a raw amateur. In the end, young Hamlet
is ordered to quit the palace and to find a
shop at the Lyceum.-L-A/bany Press.
Sunday Concerts.
Truax -What is there sacred about these
Sunday evening concerts ?
Blade -They are attended by a great col-
lection.
The pickpocket is a living example of
the truth that in order to succeed in life
one should keep in touch with his fellows.
For age and want save while you may;
no morning.sun lasts all the day.
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" I inherit some tendency to Dys-
pepsia from my mother. I suff
, two years in this way ; consn1tea
number of doctors. They did me
no good. I then used
Relieved In , your August Flower
and it was hist two
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got so that I could sleep and eat, and
I felt that I was Well. That was
three years ago, and I am still first-
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Two Days. without -a bottle, and
if I feel constipated.
the least particle a dose or two of
Augtist Plower does the work. The
beauty of the medicine is, that yon
can stop the use of it without any bad
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Constipation While I was' Ack
fe 1 t everything it
seemed to me a man could feel. I
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Life of M I sery with judgment. OA.
'D • M. Weed, 2/9
Fontaine St.. Indianapolis, Ind." 0