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The -Sweating soma -
Sapper is over, the heartis swept
tend now, in the woodnre's glow,
Wee children cluster to hear a tale
Of,the time eo 'engage ;
When grandmarnma's'hair Was golden brown
.And the warm blood came and went
O'er the face that could scare° he,vebeen sweeter
then ^ -
Than now in its rich eqntent.
The brow ki wrinkled and careworn now,
And the golden hair is grey
But the light that shone in the young girl's eyes
Ras never gone quite away.
And her needles catch the red ilre'S
' Asti. Mid out they go,'
With the clicking music that grandmanirart
loves,
Shaping the etocking toe;
And the waking children love it too.
For they know that stocking song
ings many a tale to grandmamma's mind,
Which they ahallhear ere long.
in vain endeavoring to render it an elegant
production, he threw all his soribblings into
the fire and dashed Off an earnest, raimple,
straightforward letter, in which he told the
heiress of hie sadden and deep passion -of
7 the &fall/hies whittle surrounded him -of
the opposition which their proposed mar-
riage would call forth, and the complioation
its publicity would add to the troubles in
which he Was already plunged, but from
which he hoped ere long to extricate him-
self. `
" Once you are my own," it proceeded
"everything seems possible. With you by
ray, side, life has no task I do not feel,
capable of accomplishing. Trust to me,
and your future shall be my tenderest care,"
etc, etc.
In short, Neville, thoroughly in earnest,
produced a very readable letter, and one
well calculated to make a heart, already
full of him, all his own. He concluded by
an impassioned entreaty that she would
give hirn some opportunity ci speaking to
her -of pleading his cause personally,
whenhaeouldhetter explain his hopes and
fears. e • ,
" She will pot hesitate long "'he said to
Sir Frederio. " She will put me out of
pain one way or the other ; for if ever
staiman was true and upright she is, though
there is just the least dash of coquetry,
about her -just enough to set one burning
steadily, like a slow Match 1 It is a
wonderful position, Compton, to be head
and ears in Jove with the right person !"
"By Jove I you may say so." -
4, Now," continued Neville, " I'll be off
to my new acquaintance, the old apple
woman, and try to manage some means of
conveying this "-tapping the letter. "1
suppose the old lady does not attend divine
service ?" (It was Sunday.)
"1 dare say by the time you reach Car-
lingford Terrace she will be at her post.
The people will be feeding from one to two,
'So you'll have the 'field for yourself. Shall
I 'come with you ? "
"No. She might take fright at two in-
quirers. Do you want to come?"
" Well, I'd like to see that little pale girl
BO it brings no story of olden,thtte
To grandmamma's heart to -night-,
Only a parable, short and quaint,
It sung by the needles bright.
"Life lea stocking," grandmamma eays,
And yoursis just begun;
/Int I am knitting the toe of mine,
And nay task is well-nigh done.
"'With merry hearts NVC begin to knit.
And the ribbing is almost play;
Same are gay colored. and some are white,
And some are ashen grey..
"But the most are formed of many a hue,
And many a. stitch set wrong,
And inany a row to be sadly ripped
Fire the whole be lair and strong.
"There are long plain spaces without a break
That in youth are hard to bear,
And many a weary tear is dropped
As we fashion tho heel with care.
But the saddest, happiest time is that
Which WO sigh for and yet would shell- -
When our Heavenly Father break e the thread,
And tells us our work is done."
The children COMO to bid'good night,
Witu tears in their bright young eyes;
While in grandmanarna's lap, with a broken
thread,
The finished stocking lies.
LOOK_,BEFORE YOU
y Tilre. Alexander.
" It I could induce her to give me any
clew to guide us," said -Neville in one of
their numeroue consultations, "but a fear
elle will not. To say truth, I ant afraid to
elk
Afraid 1 Psitaw 1 Let me teed Sim-
mons to reconnoitre." •
"I would rather go myself," returned,
Neville.
"You will look so confoundedly suspi-
eiou'i."
. r will have a trythough," said our hero.
Accordingly about midday, when all St.
John's Woods was at luncheon, a tall,
mustached- -man--might-have-been_seeto
sauntering, in a purposeless -way, up and
damn the devious turnings of 'thatrefined
and ultimately pausing at the
janction of Warrington Terrace and Caa,
Enter& Villas. Ile looked, round; and
stood as if lost in thought, till the sound of ,
e. Wiseezy, aggravating dough caught his
attention. He turned- and saw, niched in
a. convenient corner, a tgrayish. brownish
bundle of tolerable dimensions, surmounted
by a crunched bonnet, under wlsioh further
iteepection elucidated a withered, t russet
face, with twinkling watery eyeB. and a big -
helpless looking mouth. The feet of the.
Ilgure were propped up on a wooden toot,
stool, and beside her, on a entail, low table,
was a basket of oranges and , some- ,stout
bunches of wallflowers.
"Ugh, ugh !" gasped the eta woman.
"Buy a purty posy from a poor widdy,
whose heart is bruck with the cough, and
the Lord will reward you. I haven't sold a
Faaporth this blessed day." 2
Why do you stick to so unfavorable a
eituatimi," said Neville, idly entering into
talk with her.'
" Oh sure more times I've 'better luck.
The young ladies, God bless them! do be
tander-hearted to the poor widdy, God bless
them! but none of them give me a penny
At the mention of young ladies, Neville
pricked up his ears.
"What young ladies ?.." he asked ' in a
careless tone. - • "
" Sure, the young ladies out of the
Simmitattries; they do be marching down
like regiments of soldiers in a morning, and
they give a poor. soul a copper now and
again. But there's one ovem-the Lord in
Heaven look down upon her! She buys
mee flowers, and spakes like an angel. Ah!
if the rich always knew- the valley of a kind
word --ugh, ugh!-OheLord 1"
"And who is this augel Of 'a young lad y 2"
said Neville, dimly .expecting to hear the
beloved name. •
•"Faithi I dunno her name; ,but every
Thursday and Saturday, as reg'lar as the
-day COMBS, she passes mee place, ttud'has a
kind word and a trifle of talk." .
"He 1 And does she live near?"
"At uumber twenty -two -DO lees -a big.
house, there to the right; forenent you.
Faith, she's a grand, lady, and as putty a,
crater' as your eyes 'ad rest upon.' ,
Number twenty-two WiteMiss Redoubt's
famous establishment -it must; be Marie
Delvigne I
" I think I know the young lady you
mean," said Neville, with diplomatic skill,
" a short fair girl 7"
" No. -faith." said tbe old woman. "Her
eyes - is like . two setae% andher as
black as your hat, an' she has a color like a
rote. The blessin' of Heaven be with her.
Hasn't she a lucky mark-ebrown mole on
her left cheek --and may luck attind her
Won't, yoer boner buy a posy from a poor
widdy? "
"None to -day; but there's a shilling for
you. Gard morning."
"Tie /leavens be your bed ? " exclaiined
the eatoeithed widdy "and -ugh! ugh
Au opportune fit of coughing cut 'short
her eloquence, as Neville turned hastily
away, for signe of life were beginning to
show themselves. 1'
CHAPTER V.
Compton and his friend had various end
different engage haat' ts during the rest of the
next day and it was not till Sunday Morn-
ing that, they rnet again, when Sir Frederic,
at a gleam) saw that Nevillelookedatall
antray."
" I've been looking evetywhere for you,
Compton," he said. " Efere's a. sell?
didnatateetter -didn't Meet her 7 Wan-
dered about that coufounded Perk tilt the
police looked at me suspiciously ; could get
no tame of her 7 What's to teadone ?" ,
'a Done rt -repeated Compton. a New "is
our time for the letter awriteitnd-haVe it
oady for any chance; we will manage the
nonveyance afteiwerd. , She ' may • have
Changed the days for her lessons. A
thousan.d things may have happened." -
" I'll tell you what I did on Fridey," add
Neville, and proceeded to describe his inter-
view with the orange wonaan, ,
"Capital I" said Sir Frederic, as he con-
Olnded. "The widdy -.shall be Cupid's
niessengena
--"-No that -will-- will--never--do.--1--shall
manage better in some way." .
again"." ' - * ' ' a a :. -
Neville frowned; he did not like idea
of ..Compton peeking a friend of his future
wife's He did not think- such . seeking
could 'end' well. : r at- 7.-- • - ' '' - -,•-•
In spite of his attempts to delay, .Neville
was rather too 80011 at the apple evenieis's
corner, and encountered the whole tide 'of
atihOols ' returning from church;
' '..a By -Jove!" he oftetaeaclaimeditaafter
yearsedescribing it, , "It was 'like ishoels.
Of .-Initiikeret :or.. herrings sweeping - over
,saaietaand overwhelmitigYOu ',like au. &vat-
_ ancliet ', Reginientsotthern, so demure and
steady that I felt utterly abashed and out
.,of,ecianteieance,befortatheni." a • • . -
.
Third or "fourth . of 'these detachments
•eatne.'lliest' Redoubt's • tempi; among the
most distinguished and highly disciplined.
the ranks' were • closed. by two young ladies,
More 'mature sin age than the others, in
whom , ,Nevrite, ', quickly ' recognized the again! Do not torment yourself ;-a month
, d -namesakes. asence,--yenseillavionder-whytaoti-evei_heisie,
heiress flashed :all • Over . with . eleottio.' ' tete& to PrOrniee yourself to met". - • ' a
rapidity,, and ': then turned ' pale, as 'he . ' • ; ' - ' - . ' '
little pale .French a governess took • scarce • . : ' . - • - - '
AP ----TER 'NT
;gravely end silently, bowed to there. The'.
they Were hidden atone .his 'sight by ' the .
and • : "What ili" the. Metter With you, Maaena
'Medi° 'Delvigne? " asked .Mise Redoubt,
any ...notioecit aim.- Another naonientt
gates et No, 22. • ' - • ' - ' " . • : • ' . . :With sudden,. unnsaelc curiosity, One alter.
Neyilleaeatatet beat mote see.eteate net ' noorfabputthietime. "1 do hope you aro.
be indifferetit to hint When her color not sickening for anything!. It Would be
dreamed. hehadintoh.tin important come ,ing like% a -gaoistatted,a.. lam toad.. you'buret
just new. 7,atau are look.
'ellaitged' ab enlayeldwaya HOW Mile- see Moat inconvenient
.intiniaittion a for ;her in his ,:tiooleet 1 • ' a: few . ianhgt !a ,...,°_ryihogaia.iti,,phi9g4F:ieetuw6heeeklaiesessithi..saleint.Igrfea
neiriutise More and almost all had
,eteaten, .• ; , .. -. , - . , e • .' . _eoriteniatuous tanplattaiti. ' a . , at ,
will look 'nate atesaeher 'Wheat/ea". with
disappeared. Neville -approached., the old
, e Yon do not take a 'holiday, then ? '"' he . ' I:46 '116t'ice. why giE114. are t6:exPect‘
said good naturedlaa , . a - ., their governestiee to. be more than human,"
. "Faith I I do not," she retUrnedaa Shere. said Male Delvigrietheaeitess, aggressively.
Sunday's -mee beet .' The bits of boys "You know nothing about it, ma demi 1"
and girls, the bratuies..do be going,.up• to said .; the .sterte .mistress of the, eatabliale-:
Hempstead, and stop. to buy.oranges.of et ment, "though it is very sweet • Of You . to
oaaa.., widdy. pampa your . aaaar.. want, take Mademoiselle's part. • It ia MY, aim ever
a peey..,ee_eaye ,,.., . , . . a _ . • to be. test and considerate, and teel I :am
" No thank I And your , young lady both in insiatiag•Maltaadenioieelletelliog iise
lately?", • • ' • ' : - ' the truth state the state of • her health:sal-
have' a solemn and charge, intrusted
friends, have ' they, . been geed to I you
.eye ar int as to laiet"atli° saiOtlial'andleialioral'auciB' n-
" Ah 1 ,shitre,'Mee dark . d d a li.
just . gone by with the aawsha little . white atoiy welfare of twelve ''yatog ledies. of .
orietura that's. always :alone wid her.; but diktitietion; and I must act accordingly." •.
ehe never stops, when. they are all 'together'. . This , areseeaaniMation took place ha an
She'll be baok-by and by maybe,• • b h apartment OtatinUpper etory, 'linovin is' the
- a , .y flr' •• • • - • '. ' , •
Belt; and then she'll• havesa-kind[Worta for. study, .where. the young ',ladies prepared -
the poor widdy." , ......,. theirlessone, etc., now only tenanted by the
taleville.aaased. t be could not earnicninta.ri two friends and pameeeketaa; .' . . .,.
invi,noible repugnande to pat Marie Deltigne • " Mad°1#°i8°11a.'7 e'll ' 61341W34 ' gei:"*41Y
in . the power ..o!, so low, and ignorant a Called .eertainly.looaedill-pele, ..detvtioast;-
creatuie as he now addressed. ' . e tremehiaies, ,and reused a moment befOre .
• . ., •• „ " . . . .• , - . . . . , . . ,
"And *theta does' this angel of yours go she replied: .. , ., , a
to church ? a he asked, oareleasly. • • - "1 do not feel' aalite myself, Madame;
, "Oh! down - beleva there. You'll ban:lost but there. is nothing , to telarm .. you:' -ii is
see . the spire' bityant the big amnia t themore nervousness than bodily indiaposition
corner." . , . - . .,. ' . e • , Which, .alinost unfits me for MY abeam.. I
,. . .
"Shure, all the ladies do be going there. . " Inherit excitibilityl taire is elarming I "
'Isn't the'clarga . a great pracher entitely, cried Miss Redoubt. ..•
and outeep en' daioes 'usastior papists up and . . "1 think," resumed. Marie, petering, liesi-
down? Faith! heal know the differ one tatiog; .end showingaigneof-oonfusion-, if
. ,
flay. ,.And iterroaa weed the BlessedMary. ,I had. a aolidaYe--9, little rest -I Might re -
will sayloi him." , ' . ' ' ', . .coveir.a . a ... ....; •• '. . e- e
' " itmight make some opportunity tOgive , " Holidata-test I in the Vera' busiest part
her '.•the letter 'in. church," 'mused Neville. of the term! Impossible! lf.- you want
,.
"I'lltraP . • ' .. : , • a, • . • rest, you must be content to . give im",y,our
clerk coming cut, . , '' a the appointment, :Mademoiselle, and ._ give ,,teit
leave -to fill yoitaplece" • ! - . •
. . .
.• .,Ile strolled Oh. to the chetah, end met
"When, ,does . tile ', efternobe • service . • .' "11 you insist upon it I must," returned
begin ?". . ." , - • • sear - ..Marie, eta'. intact sante hive; timid. tone. 'j"'I
.., "At lista past three; sir," returned that 'thought next week, during .theEaster heti-,
functioneryssoniewhat surprised; .. . days, I • might have .aateva days' leave of
- --"-Who-preaehes ? " ! continued --Neville. ' absence. 'I Might go to My friend, Mada,nee
"The Reverend Mr. Jones, sir." laesoraeilleS and - recovery' nay strength, '
'I‘Thal•-otohuapulke you."
In he returned and ' "1 can. allow nothing of the. kind," dried
presented himself-. '. - . alias Ream:at ; ' "Mise Lewis • and. Mies
- at.Coeldsyonplace-menext-Mise-Redoubta- Aleereden eatel :be .h'ere, ' and I have prentieea
seat?" he Whispered, pressinalalf a crown Miser'Morrisaiii-al-Mier GateiaatheatatactEnagas
'bate, the peeseopeneag ben& - , . - - With • 'governesees; permission. to go anti '
. "1 think I can, air." their friends; so if you ineist .OU gang too,
And apooidiegly, Neville had thef,elicity Maderaoitell—etaten need not retdro.a.
Ot. contemplating the back of . the adored • There , was lamonaent's 'silence ; the New
one's bonnet, through a service that seemed Orleans heiress opened her Has to speak,
interminable.. At . best it • was over, mid and olOsed •them again . resolutely, looking
Neitille,managed adroitly to Pass with Mies 'fr°na am.° to th° 'Alia'. with th° de'OP.°3'-
•Delvigne; side by side, down the 'dale; and, intereet and kindling. eyes. Madanicaselle
.during the transit, slid his letter into the. had risen from her Heat whezi MieaRedoebt
. folds of her parasol. ,r . - . , . , . first addressed her,. , and ' nowerenetieed
It Watt neatly done; but as he saw her 'ataiadiog :with downoaet . eyes, and bande
shriek and change color he whispered in that clasped. each other tiervously. `
' There was no indecision, however, in -bee
eager 'meanie: . a , .. ,a -
voice; .tis she replied calmly and distinctly,
- "For God's sake read et ta . •
It was but samoirentts . work, and no eye "Vary well, Meditate; I accept your die -
or eat -save their owe detected what was
. . . .
passing.. But Marie's cheek - glowed' 'and ' -aaAnd pray.. whet do ydit. intend Act do,
paled; • her brain gra* dizzy; shetfealt. how. Mademoiselle? If I am reluctantly obliged
momentous for ' het' wee this tratithitee to state that youahealth , and strength ere
ateerk: • But -she took. the lettera Whitt Unequal to your work you 'Will not find 'taste
elsteeould she doSwitheut risking a, slander? easy to procure. another enaagerneet.",
Whatelee Coital -elle diataheit her heart Was " ',Mast tale my aliances Methane: 'Itl
yearning for the love of the grave, ' ohavalt am unsucaessfel. 1 Meet retutel to -Pari ra to
rouslociking stranger, who had sought liet• my people." • , ' , ' , .' .." . • __
So pertinacietioly; And -whose, earnest eyes "I consider You exceediegla tweak arida
expressed iso much tenderness and admir-• foolish, but perhaps I may be gainer ha
Mien? .. . , . es . the. and; mortileweaknese Leech ea ' yoilie
It • was 'safely io her _possession without could never attain, the standard I expect
betrayal; and novvivto weary days had to fiona My employs." ' • . ' : , . ,•
(tome and, rgo before/Neville 'could jodge With . a hatighta aspect Miss • Nedoiabt
-what-progiess he had Made. ' Nevertheless- ailed ottt of ' the room. • • Pais's.' Delvigne
, it was with an unwentea beneeof exultation started iii, and shook her small fist•iit the
that let met Sit Frederic-aadinner.. - retreating figate. 'Nasty 'disagreeable old ,
"Now," said ho, "grant I ins not mate so cat!" she -exclaimed. '__. .
cluniey a. fell*:11S'you took Me for. . . • .., . , ._ "What ie the neetinitigtiet ap,all a Are you
; a No, ' by Cupid and Vetzusl You are ' ill.? Are you really' goingetWay, or Will yeti
*Able a few lengths of the winning post. ' make it up?" / . -
She 'will meet you. You . must , harry ' aladenaoisellie .Delvigne fitted quite , still
matters' one do not give her time to think; and silent, 'gazing • evitk an odd flied,
-beamaithiclanexitweeit ;- get -a liceuee,7and. straittelleoletowardsthemindoweevideritlye
all that tame' of ;thing, aedbertiady,for ea not seeing . any of the objects athioh sur-
The_oemp_oesetionettieetheie.epustlettaxed, , a a ' rounded her.
Neville'a leiter, she answered it. Two days
after his succeseful stratagem he received a
little note -a little tremulously written
note, that made him almost fancy he heard
the writer's heart beat.
"I may be doing Very wrong, yet I will
see and hear- you; I can only do so by
missing my lesson on Thursday, and there
is always the chance of some one being sent
with we. Yet it is the -only opportunity I
can make. Are you not very unwise ,to
seek me; if it will vex every one? Ah I
think well. But Itecan write no more.
May God guide us both I -M. D."
Not even to his confidant Compton
would Neville mention this little billet;
ehort and simple as it was, it expressed
vividly the mingled. trust and fear, tbe deli-
cacy, the tenderness for the writer.
" Thursday .is a deuced long way off,"
thought Neville, as he read Marie's note
over and over again. "1 wish I was not
weighted with the sense of being a humbug!
Will Marie distrust me by and by, when
she JMOWEI I had the word of her little
eni•ma? Well at all events, she cannot
fail to see that I love her as ardentilY-a-s-
ever woman was leved ; and that ought to
cover a multitude of sins. Poor -darling!
whet a horrible fright she wile in when she
wrote this! and there are more than forty-
eight hours' to drag through lsefore I can
comfort her." •
Neville was greatly moved by the
agitation which Marie could not control on
meeting him; though her color caree'often
and quickly, it alwaye left her deadly pale,
and her eyes looked larger and more wist-
ful than ever.
All the chivalry and tendernesa of his
nature were drawn forth by the unmistak-
able signs of her emotion, and he pleaded
his ca,use with earnest truthfulness, that
could not fail to insure success. "Alter all,
it can't be such a tremendous undertaking
to marry a fellow that is so awfully fond of
YOU as I am 1" be concluded, after a long
talk and arrangement of plans; "end if
you are not frightened by the catalogue I
have given you of myedifficultiee, why, I
see nothing to prevent our'being as happy
as the day long! I suppose you have not
confided in any one at the school?"
"Only to my kind little friend and name-
sake and ehe is quite safe."
*hat tycau-r-ftiend the -setae heiress?"
asked Neville. '
" YOB; she is very friendless too. Per-
haps I -you -we may betriedd her
hereafter!
"Of course you shalaa said Neville,
smilingly to himself ; "and must I let you
go now? It is deuced hard 1 You will
write direotty you can fix a day to visit
these friends of yours -what do you call
them 2 -at Bayswater '1"
"Madame Lacordeille ; they are South-
ern State people."
" Very well, give me three or four days'
notice, and all shall be prepared. God
bless you, my darling! I shall have you
before my eyes day and night till we meet
" How do you know she goes there ?" inherit a.n excitable nature.a
Neville% poveers rather eeverely ,and after But Make- ,balaigne • not only road ' "adariedearelia'atatak t trite a istiMething.
is. the matter, more than I.know. If yeas
leave, hoar desolate I shall be Do sneaa,,
Marie!" putting her arms round- her.
'You can trust me and tam sure you -are
in awful trouble." '
"No, not exactly trouble, but in. terrible
dread and agitation," she returned in a lew,
quick tone, glancing round nervously. "
think we are safe for a little while; there are
some visitors coming up the garden, and
the girls are all out. Oh, weenie! (night
not to tell you, but I mast, or I shall terse
my head l Oh, dearest be true to me I "
"1 never , was false in my life," said the
New Orleans girl proudly. Why, Marie,
what is the matter?" for the young French
governess clasped her tightly, and, laying
her ihead on her shoulder, buitet into a flood
of tears, weeping quietly, intensely, and
struggling to suppress her sobs. •
" Chere wide," she whispered vvhen she
was a little calmer, "1 'want to leave this
house;I want to go quite away, but I fear
to tellyou why -you may perhaps think
me wrong, imprudent: I aan afraid my-
self _I am, yet I cannot draw back."
fget on eatar-a-reryoutgoing-to-dolaa
exclaimed her friend, opening her dark eyes
in amazement. "You are surely not going
to marry any one?" •
"1 am," whispered Mademoiselle Del-
vigne, pressiug her brow upon the heiress'
hands, which she held in hers. "1 am
going away with a mail I have only known
about two months, aacomparative stranger,
of whose nature and disposition and history
a know nothing._ Oh! I see how imprudent,
how bold, how unwonaanly it all is, as well
as Miss Redoubt herself could; and yet
when he ill with me I forget all tbis, and
only feel unbounded trust in hirn, and that
it is inapossible to refuse him, or let him
go." ,
"I suppose 'he 'is that Captain Neville?"
"Yes ; how do you know ? " -
"1 have eyes in my head, and I have
noticed his when we,have met him, and the
odd, way he his been appearing every now
and then in this neighborhood. I say,
dear it is an awfully wild thing to do!"
Her @map of her friend's- hand tightened as
she spoke. _
' "It is! If three months ago any one had
told me that I could be tempted to such a
step, I should have been intinitely offended,
sand:denied the imputation; yet—a.
She stopped, and bit her lip to keep back
the Hobe that would heave her bosom.
"And yet you are goiug to do it," added
BUBB Delvigne. •
" Ah ! you despise me -you think me
mad, infatuated! You would never do such
a thing!"
"How do you know?" asked the other,
"Nobody ever made love to me,
and asked me to run away with him At
the Same tiMJil, I wish you would not do it,
Marie. Why doesn't this man come here
and see you, and ask you to be Ids wife
openly ?. I am sure he leeks bold and
resolute enough to do anything, and 'old
enough to be his own master too." ,
" He does -he is." said Marie eagerly.
"-But-there-are--reasons-he--has_.fully_.ex.-
plai'aecI to me. He ie in debt and difficult-
ies, ' and he has some lames of his brother
or sotne relation awaiting him; but if this
relation knew that Guy was going to be
naarried be would make objections, and be
implacable, whereas if Guy is actually
married he cannot help it, and will not be
Behan]."
"1 don't see how Captain Neville makes
that out," said the quick witted American.
"Anyhow. it is at bad lookout for you. Sup.
pose Captain Neville's 'relatives leave him
in the lurch? What is to become of you?"
"Oh!Guy says the sale of his commis -
Bion Wiii put him right, and we mast just go
away to New Zealand or Auatralia, and
struggle on together." „
"Deva he?" cried the heiress, much
struck by this proof of devotion and faith-
fulness. " Tben be MUBt be a real good
fellow if he will give up everything for you,
and you ought to follow him to the ends of
" I think," whispered Marie, resting her
-glowing cheek againet her friend's shoulder,
to avoid her eyes-" Yes, I do think he loves
me -and Oh! dearest, how can I refuse
him? Look what isey life is I I am a, mare
drudge -ill paid, undated for. If I look ill
I am taken to task for possibly defrauding
my employers by physical inability; minty
lite long I have known I was a burden to
be got rid off as soon as possible! Except
your dear self no one seems to consider me
a senond thought. If I dare for a moment
forget that I am . a .machine I am soon
pushed back into my groove.
(To be continued.)
envious -Patents.
Some investigating person has furnished
the New York Times with ,a brief list of
patents on, small things which in many
Inetatices have proved great mines, of wealth
to the lucky discoverer. The list mightbe
extended to a much larger number, but we
only elate those given in the Times. Among
these trifles is the favorite toy -the
"return ball "-a wooden ball with an
elastic string attached, selling for ten
cents each, .but yielding to its patentee
an income equal . to $50,000 a year.
The rubber tip on the end of lead pencils
affords the owner of the royalty an inde-
pendent fortune. The inventor of the
gummed 'newspeper wrapperbi also a rich
man. The gimlet pointed- screw has
evolved more wealth than most silver
mines ; and the man who fleet thoughtof
putting copper tips to children's shoal is us
well off as if his father had left him
02,000,000 in United " States bonds.
Although rolier skates are not so much
atifittaties-whereeiceis abundant, -in
South America,_ especially in Brazil, they
are very highly esteente,a, and have yielded
over 41,000,000 to the inventor. But he had to
spend fully , a125,000 in England alone
.fighting infringements. The "dancing
Jim Crow," a toy, provides an annual
income of $75,000 to its inventor, ,and the
common needle threader is Weitb $10.000
a yearetoethe man who thought of it. The
"drive well" was an idea of Colonel Green,
whose troops, during the war, were in
want of water. He couceived the notion of
driving a tweet/ma tube into the ground
until water was 'reached and then
attaching a pump. This simple
contra/anise was patented after, .the
war, and the time of thousands of termitio
who have adopted it - have, been obliged to
, pay him a royalty, a moderate estimate of
which is placed at 03,000,000. The spring
window shade yields an ineerne of e100,000
a year ; the stylographic pen also briugs in
e100,000 yearly; the marking pen, for
shading in different colors; al00,000; rubber
tgaiikettee the gonna A very large fortune has
been reaped by a western 'miner, who, ten
aeara since, invented a metal rivet or eyelet
at each end of the mouth of coat and pants
pockets to roam the strain caused by the
carriage of pieces of ore and heavy tools.
Gangs of Men , commenced yesterday
Luoyang to dig Up every let in Lebanon
Cemetery; Philadelphia, for the' purpose
of .eoznpatieg the contents with the offidiel
tidbit:Mete of the records. Great,' D, 134,
which 'should contain sixty , bodies, Was
toted taiipty. The- authorities Of all the
Other tattered cemeteries Of the ;city :have
dittertninea, enteimilat examinations. , A
call, basbeentsinied- for , . indignation
meeting 00 Thursday night, and trouble 18
eared.
vaitarv
The *Ramon:oils aide -of wiltartling Propos
Seinebo' has p:litioPoeet'
ed the BilbStitUtiOn
of train -girls fortratia-boya, ',urging in be -
hall of thisescheme that at ,would afford
ernploYment to the girls and lessen .the
eufferings of the passengers. The sugges-
tion is rather a startling One, and should
not be adoptedayitheut a full and careful
consideration of the subject.
The train -boy is • not, as thoughtless
people imagine, merely a human boy wbo
Bells newspapers and candies- and prize
packages on a railway train. He is a dis-
tinct species. One fact alone is sufficient
to prove this. Were a train -boy like other
boye, he would in time become a man, but
it is notorious that a traireboy who has
ceased tobees- boy in appearance is never
seen. We never meet with brakeernen
or conductors or railway Presidents who
began life as train -boys, and we never meet
in any path of lifewith men Whom we once
knew ak3 train -boys. - •
atistarpleasitutatod-seductiveenaion that
ties advocate of train -girls places before .118.
Instead Of the rude train -boy who hinge
his wares into our laps and, hi case we do
not buy, intimates by his leeks that we
have concealed a prize package or 'a box of
gumdrops about our person, a gentle and
attractive girl is offered to us. She is to
smilingly pass through the train with a
tray of delicate and attractive calm and a
teapott kept hot with'a epirit lamp. She is
to distribute oetalogues of desirable' pubt
lications which she is to euPPly ine case
they are wanted, and elle will carry with
her a package of gratuitous time tables
which she will be ready to explain with
the litniost' patience to any passenger.
She will never slain the door Etna tatear
thrust unwholesome fruit 'and perniedeitis
literature under .the travelling noiee: In
short, she will be a help and a solace to the
public, and will add a positive chaina to
railroad journey. .
. Attractive as the aioture' is, it cannot be
regarded' as -a- truthful one. • We -cermet
forget the female book -agent, and it is im-
possible to 'avoid the conviction that the
train -girt will resemble her to some extent.
We OEM refuse to buy the train -boy's books
and applea, but weld we . Becceesfully
resist the determined Onaitt of theattain.
-girle?e, We catineatexpect her to exercise
the profession of a train -girl froro purely
benevolent motives. She will want to 'sell
her wares, and she 'wit', sell there:, af she
is to pass from one .oar to another wane
the trainis in motion she must out .her
hair short, adopt . garmentsthat cling
.rather -than float, • and substitute a upit
forth _ cap for .her Gainsborough hat. No
amount of personal beauty could survive
this dress and the, inevitable dust and
qinders of the train. The train -girl would
be a sort of combined book agent and train.
boy, and a brief experience' with her would
lead us to clamor for our lost train -boys, •
or death.
„
-W,hy:eyster:ehouidaaet• rte.
n-laa. ;ovyorksun
Why .---
oysters should be eaten raw is ex-
plained byDr. Wm. Roberti in his lecture on
"Digestion." He says that the general
practice of eating the oyster raw isievidence.
that the popular judgment upon matters
of diet is usually trustworthy. The fawn -
colored mass, whittle is the aelioious portion.
of the firth, as its liver, and .ie apney.
a mass of glyeogena--Associated with.
the glycogen, ' but withheld from
actual contact twith itdaring life, 18 its
appropriate digestive • ferment -the hepatic'
diastase. The mere crushing of tfie oyster
between the teeth brings these two bodies.
together, and ethe glycogen is at onde
digested without any other help than the
diastase. The raw, or merely warmed,
Oyster is seltaligeetive. But the advantage
of this provision is :wholly testily cooking,
for the heat imtnediatela destroys the arise
mated ferinent, and a cookedoyster. as
to, be digested., like any Other food, by the
ea,ter's own digestive powers.
" My dear sir, do you want to ;elle, your
digestion ?".asked Professor Houghton, Of
Trinity College, one day of a friend who
had ordered brandy and water with his
oysters ina Dublin restaurant.
Then he sent for a glass of brandy and it
glass' of Guinneee' XX, aricl pet an oyster
in' eaOh.. In, a very short time there lay in
the bottom cf the glass of brandy a tough,
leathery substance resembling the finger of
a kid glove, while in the porter therewas
hardly a_ trace of the oyster to be found.
crier Dining with Mir -John wnioughity.
At the Marlborough Street Police Court
yesterday Mr. Michael' Sandys and Mr.
Charles Browne, of Onslow Gardens,
described as gentlemen, were charged
with being drunk and disorderly. A con-
stable stated that on Sunday naornitig he
saw Sandys dancing with a woman in the
streets. He requested him to go away,
but be would not, put his, arm round his
(Witness') neck and attempted to &ince
with him. Brown then got up a, lemp.ptest
and read something from a newspeak' as
to the duties of the police. He took Sandys
into the station. Browne ran in, also and
• was detained. It was urged for the defence
that the defeutlants had been dining with
Sir John Willoughby on his rehire from
Egypt, and on leaving the club there was
some " chaffing " with the policemen, and
_Browne gotnpo, lemp-ppst and read ex-
tracts from Mr. Howard Vincent's book on
the duties of policemen. Sir John Wil-
loughby was called, and stated that the
defendants were not drunk. Asked by the
magistrate_what he cainiadered a drunken
man, Sir John replied that when a man
was uneonscioue of what he was doing he,
considered him to be drunk. Mr. Newton
said there was some doubt about the matter
and dismissed the oases, but he thought canaiiel
Idihtwh sometimes
or ttmhireeesf
, toirmweseekas dinaysu(ohl.
gentlemen should not dance in the streets
cession, but emnehOw it does not seen:Ito
or ctimb lansp-posts.-Pall Mall Gazette.
affect tny general health. As for myself, I
The Princess Beatrice likes speckled ani never Hick' rf my bead aches a little I
heather tweeds. apply ice water ,and the pain is gone. If I
take cold and my throat is sore I dash on
ice water and am well. Always ice water; it
is my_ Bovereige remedy. But I do not
drink it. No. -Ia I did I should ' be pale
and delicate and 'always all; like some of
your pretty American ladies. Do you
know, I believe drinking so much of this
, same oeld,cruel ice water is what makes inva-
lids or so rnany Atnerioen women ?.-a-From,
an interview with Arlie. Rhea.
In order to put a stop to farther incendi-
ary attempts, the naerchants of Belleville
have engaged a itioht watch. •
The laisaian Minister - of Marine bas
asked a .gattut of five and a half million
roubles for the construction of four men -of -
WEEKLY Clillitelt Btb01
rote f the Progess of the Denomination8
- the World Over.
Berlin,. With over 1,166,000 population,
;Lea only forty-fiveptaties of worship.
The Golden Rule elite congregations have
the making and unmaking of good preach-
ers to an extent they do not dream of. '
declares that no nteriehould
attempt to preach if he has " sincere
doubts about the reliableness of the
Bible." .
, „
Two native evangelists, who are known
as the " Moody and Sankey of Hawaii,"
aslteanardop.iising the .sinners in the Sandwich
Islands.
Mexico has proved a very encouraging
mission field for the Methodists and Pres-
byterians. The most flourishing mission
in that country is that of the Preabyterian
__Church North.
At the Quaker revival .aieetirtg in pro -
gross in the Orthodox Quaker Church at
Lafayette and Washington avenues, Brook-
lyn, a quarter of an hour is devoted to
silence at the beginning of each meeting.
Kaska Okawa, the daughter of the Brit
elder ohosen and ordained at Yokehama, is
the .first to complete the fullseouree of Bti!iiIy - ,
in the Isaac Fatale Sereinaiy• in Japan.,
She is only 18 years old, -and has grown up
with the school. -
'Natives of Madagascar have given a1,000,t
000 in the last ten years to spread the "gos-
pel. The advance of Christianity in that
island • is one, of the ;most remarkable
achievements in the history of missions.
It is proposed to have the Castle Church
of Witteaburg, upon the door of which the
famous ninety-five • theees of ,Luther were .
nailed, in thorough repair on 'the -400th'
anniversary of the great reformer's birth„
November 10th, 1883. '. •
.- Di. Horatius-Bonar, at the meeting of -
the Edinburgh Auxiliary :of the Moan,
Mission inFraace reoently, said that eleven
years ago' they had only 100 followers in
Paris; but now they had eilt,ty:eight meet-
ing placise,,with sittings ,for nearly 4,000.
aaji creel -joke ilareported in a Sheffield
paper: The .proinoters of a church bazaar
reeetved 'au offer from Manchester Of a
horse and trap, and gladly accepted it.
'One of them then went' to the railway •
station toreceive the present, *hash paned
to aelothes horse ,and a mouse -trap.
The prospects, of, the success of the -cru-
sade agatust Sunday liquor-selhngin Eng-
land are good.- :Over 6,000 petitions have
been sent to latirliainentatieh 679;000 signa-
tures -in -favor .of the ,,Sandaa. Ctostrig
In 400 towns in England and Wales there,
were 8 to 1 in favor of it.
.At a recent.meeting of the Oxford lanima
a resolution was adopted 'declaring that
" the present condition of the Established
-Church --in-Englitedacalls-fer-laige-tand •
vigorous , reforms, and that math reforms
should be based upon a recognition of the, ..
constitutional right of tlie Church of , Eng-
land to self-government in spiritual
_Matters." An amendment in favor.. of, die
establishment was lost without a division.
"Well, brethren, what luck?" said the
Rev. Joshua Then:lie, the famous Methodist.
eiergyMali,.94'11U paddled in his canoe to,
AO !Bide Of two Maryland fishermen. ,!134a
enough, Parson 'Thomas, bad. 'ehittighaa
replied one of the men. The other 'called
out in it joking ' way: "Now, • took yet,-
-
Parson Thomas, you pray an' we'll telt."
"Done I" quickly' responded the gotidnian.
He tied has 'canoe to at post and went dewn.
on his knees. , Over went their lines: The
parson poured teeth his prayers in earnest,
not forgetting to put in a word for, the sal-
vation of the souls of the mem. Presently, -
. excited and . enthusiastic, one of the men
straightened himself ,up and exclaimed:
"Stop right that, Joshua Thomas; .I're
got a bite; 111 jine, your congregation." '-
Sure enough the first fish for that day was
a large sunperch; honestly believed to have
been caught under the anepiration of that
prayer. ,
Plow Man is Constructed.
The average weight of an adult man is
140 pounds 6 ounces.
The average weight of a skeleton is about
14 pounds.
Number of bones, 240.
The skeleton measures 1 inch eless, than
the living man. .
The average weight of tbehrain of it man
.is 3 peunds,8 minces t of a woman,2 pounds
,11 ounees.
The brain of a roan exceeds twice that of
any other 'animal. • '
The average height of an Englishman is
5 'feet 9 inches ; of a Belgian, 5 feet 6a •
The average weight of an Englishman is
150 pounds; of a Frenchman, 136 pounds;
a Belgian, 130 pounds.
The average number of teeth is 32.
man breathes about 20times a minute,
or 1,200 times 0.0 hour.
A man breathes about 18 pints of air in
a minute, or epwards of 7 hogsheads in a
A rnan gives off 4.08 per cent. carbonic
gas of the air he respires ; respires 19,666
cubic feet of carbonic acid gas in 24
hours, equal to 125 cubic inchee -common
A man annually contributes to vegetation
121 pounds of carbon.
The averege of the pulse in infancy is
120 per minute; in manhood, 80; at 60
years, 60. The pulse of females - is more --
frequent than that of males.
uses ana--Ahuses of Ice Water.
If you don't pay your rent," said a creel
and implacable landlord, " I will certainly
expose you publicly." The dejected debtor
lifted hie streaming eyes to his persecutor
and cried, " Oh, my friena,. I beg you not
to do that; I would even prefer to have
you increase my rent." '
In Fiji thirty years ago war was made
quite OEH much with a view to dining off,
captives,' who were actually carefully fat-
teued before slaughter, asfor any other
cause. In some oases meat was cut, cooked
and eaten in the presence of the victim,
who bed previously been compelled to dig
the oven and collect the wood for heating
it. The, sick tvere' buried alive, and the
death of a great man was colebreted by it
general strangling of widows. Beside every
great -chide house living beings were
buried. They had to stand clasping the
supporting pillars while earth wee rolled
hand and feet and laid On the groundto act
as tonere.
over t em, When a chief munched a new
canoe a number of persons were bound
, It is stated that the Sentence of tattle
will also be paned against Mahmoud
Foamy, Arabi's military engineer, and
Kakook Sato, his Under Seoretery of War.
They with fourloaderswere sentenced yes-
terday -and • will leave in ten date for
Pietermaritzburg.
A Vienna despatch 'says Zahcoff, ex -
Premier, will be tried on a charge of incia
ina the people againet the Government of
Bulgaria. ,
• Arabia' confederates were sentenced to
death, but the sentence was cOmmuted to
exile for life by the Khedive. It is rumored
that a European mob at Alexandria, will
attempt to lynch the prisoners.
As the 20th of' December is the golden
wedding day of -Cluny Macpherson, chief of
the elan im'SoothindrIlightandowrbattriti=
the old land and in Canada intend present. '
Ing him with some token of esteem,