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The New Era, 1883-06-22, Page 8ilinssiss" JUDO ‘22., 1 883. ' rotaTalis Indirection. Fair are the flOwers and the ohildeen, but their subtle suggestionis fairer Hare ie the roee-burst of dawn,but the secret that clasps it is rarer; . Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is zweeter— And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outheaetered the metre: Never a delay that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty sceptres the flowing: - Never a Shakspeare that aoared, but a stronger than he aid enforce hime- And never a prophet foretells, but a mightier seer foretold bum. Back of the eanyee that throbs the painter is hinted and hidden ; ' Into the statue that breathes the eoul of the sculptoe is hidden.; Under the my that is felt lie .the infinite tissues of feeling— ' Crowning tha, glory revealed is the_glory that crowns the reeealing. 1./ Great are the symbols of being, but that which is symboled is greater ; Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the idward creator; Back of the sound broods the eilenee, back of the gift stands the giving; Backed the hand that receives thrill the sensi- tive nerves of receiving. - Space is DA nothing to spirit, the deed is outdone by the doing;. Tbe heart of the wooer is warm, but warnier the heart of the wooing. And up from the its where these shiver, and up from the heights Where those ehine, Twin Voices: and shadows swim starward, and the essence of life isdivine. A Woman's Work. One hand on the glory supernal, One hand on this world of unrest, Her heart for the pity eternal, A faithful and sheltering nest. No serge of the cloister enfolds her, But happy and hopeful and sweet, She lightens the...eye that beholds her, In mart, or on roadside or street. - She shines for the darkened who need her, She speaks for tho sorry and. sore ; Art, science and nature all feed her, — That more she may give from her store. Courageous against all oppression, She -fear' 9elyestands4 reale Her pure ace,ents calling truth's legions To quit them like men in the fight. \Vhile oft in the suieset's red gloaming . She murmurs a lullaby low, Or charms back the wanderer roaming, With word -magic loving andlow ; Her White hands fierce fever -heat soothing; And rey'reetly robing the dead, Or deftly the bright needle using,• Aed rnouldingthe sweet daily Dread. For this is the true woman's mission, Its held as humanity wide; To see with love's clarified vision Man's ueeds and their cure side by side. As free as the winds or the angels, All fetters all meanness above, To hearts and to homes God's evangels, Our calling, His calling is love. Woman's Love. A sentinel angel, sitting high in glory, Heard this shrill wail ring out from purgatory Have mercy, mighty angel I hearmy story. " I loved, and, blind with passionate love, I fell: Love brought me down to death,and death to hell ; For God is just, and death for sin is well. "I do not rage against His high decree; Nor tor myself do ask that graceshall-be, Bailor my love on earth, who mourns for me. "Great Spirit, let me see'my love again, And comfort him one-hour, and 1 were fain To pay a thonsaud years of -fine and pain." Then said the pitying angel, "Nay; repent That wild vow. Look! the dial finger's bent Down on the last hour of thy punishment." But still she wailed, "I pray thee, leeme go; I canuot rise to peace and leave him so! Oh, let me soothe him in his bitter woe!" The brazeu gates ground sullenly ajar, And. upward, joyous, like a rising stir, She rose, and vanished in the ether far. I3ut soon °Mown the dying sunset trailing, And, like a wounded bird, her pinions trailing; She fluttered back with broken-hearted , She sobbed: '1 found him by the, sun:truer sea. Reclined, his heael upon a maiden's knee; She curled his hair and kissed hii nt. Woe s me!'" She wept : "Now let my punishment begin; I have.been, fond and foolish. Let me in To expiate my sorrow and my sin." The angel answered: '!.-Nay,' sad soul; go higher To be deceived in your true heart's desire -ea., Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!" M ELIC ENT'. • Th Mytery 'of tho Voiled Fictur. .A: to;zrea-Elih Fesa „ There dame emends as of .people .coming towards them through the shrubbery., The Melicent looked at him with eyes full pf sound-was-an--.unapeakablehrelief--tosbeth._ apity:L_Buta_ehe_opuld mot ,r3peak. ' With, A light laugh -that was Clinton; affect- Clinton she couldbe openly sympathetic. ed reprimand -that was.. Mrs. Gardner. But with , Frername her sympathy, was Amy and Rene walked forward to iiieet TreePectfid.-atidsacertainetinaidityreetrained them. • • ,herinimelsee. ' ' . Here you are," said °linter'. -"Mr. Mfivitawai3-eless-thaneeighteen when , . Fremaine fent us to .look for you. I have she died," Freneaine , went .on. "Wo were brought you a shawl, Miss Fremaine." married barely a year, and that period "We might go back by the other'shrub- seemsto nielike a dream. Even Amy fails • WITS", suggest -tad -Mrs., Gardner:ke' the realizehit-T-here-is-a-bisiikeots "Are Melicent and papa still' On the prinitose.a.that I could !Mowyou now, On terrace ?" inquired Abay, as she walked by the top of WhiCh 1 steiods:eince- wheial.was - Clinton's side- •a little bciy, with theseS,Verniele sunshine alt , They were_ on the terrace oertainly, and about me, and a great joy ineeray heart. •• alone. At first their converiestion,fiadbeen filled.naY hand with the pal,ohaste flowers . -desultory and vague. --AfterSsa' stuck them: into ,the assumed a more pointed character. , straw hat even thrust them into ainy " Rene' s new book ' will be : .out Soon," pockets; and into the sides . of My shotath observed Melicent.. We are longing :for Then a lady drove by, with as scarlet; rug - it." • a, over,her knees and, a. white- dog lying'oa " Ah T" said Mr. Fremaine, "11 muet be the rage- `-Wheeethateirieceefairyhibild17): an interesting moment. to -an author Whee She It is little King Primrose:' I he sees his manuscript .ocerierted into a remember ,this incident 'distinctly, but I printed book -after unspeakabletoil and • cannot believe that King Primrose and I trouble." _ a are the same. In a like manner, I remena. _ „ "Rene has . taken immense pains over berthe few itienthte of My married life.. this said Melicent.. , " At first when. he ,could "show : YOU the church Where I.,stOod was Collecting his data he almost lived by my'cliild-Wife in her bridal,dress,. and I at the British AstaSeuna, andit ha coek. . could showryon. her - grave inethaTyrenean do not hike that proverb," said he liim inaurcierable journeys , London village, whereiLeaped sobbng in•the.autumn impatiently.. "11 Means any Jack and . • • • • 510043."' ' • radiance, with the everlasting hills looking Jill can Make a, pair. It' is an ugly Pro- • " I almest wonder that your brother does . solemnly on. But 1 feel I am , not the 'Vail to a ohivalepue, tnaneand an uglier to not live in London, or, at least a.great deal Very nean who stood there heart -broken. a 'much Prized woman. Forgive me, my nearer," said Mr. Fremaine.' "It must be I tecaliit as one recalls et touching.. play. dear miseDu. Lys, but I hate the ideathat somewhat disadvantageous to . literary But I have long ceased to be an actor , any man lean Marereenyewomanthat any man to live so farfrom the haunts of lite- "How strange that the dead should. leave , woraedi Willponsent to marry any man: It rary husiness. Besides. he scenes almost . so little.•markl" haureaured.Melicent. ,18 prefana" . • , thrown away here among a set of :people so "11 is strange," he rejoined..- "1 have «1 thihight the proverb.ohly inaplied,that much below his ;Calibre." s ' marvelled at it mpeelf, for I am.not heart- , -it is ' man's part to woe" said Malicent„. "1 don't think that at all," said Melicent, lees. I epeakeinly the plain *truth. I have surprised at his energy. ' "Rene is very modeet." • finished a fairy tale. I have awakened ,e -Ah 1 that is different. Arid it he woo?' • "But even modesty might knew wn from a dream. ., I. have " risen .to full "Must not a fixed purpose Win at last?" merits." • manhood, and the. love has conie to me sid she. ---"-I-dare-nity-Retie7does-knoW-thena;"- -which-riertime-csinatflace-4iceafterhappi-- .--a-a-Willeymiepromiseethat I ellen net 'woo • said Melicent, " although he has never said nees eclipse. ,A.nd yet-"• . hain a that I shall win at last ?" • so. What I meant la that he 18 not a pan 1He looked fixedly at iMelicent, and she 5" Meet likely." that feels superior. He is never tOrMented dropped her eyes.. She .eculd not ‘„ help " Thank.YOu,". said Fremaine- • by the thought -that he ia a giant amting remembering some 'foolish gossip' she had His Voice_and Manner. would havabeen aiginies,” heard . 'which coupled the names of ,Fre- significant to any one .less self-consoious. But he is." said Mr. Fremaine, ear- Maine and BUS. Gardner. • , than Melicent. Bit lie was thinking of nestly, "and I 'regret sit. To be Frank And yet," he continued, " I suppose IllreeGatdrer. , Surely the woman who had with you, my dear Miss Du Lys, ithemtee young People call me old. ' They think I Voluntarily 'married as disagreeable recluse, me to see your brother in a ePliere 80 am a. widower -that my virgin heart has and now found it hard to live on thascanty narrow and 'confined," and ' Whicheche been given .away long ago -that my feel.' hundreds he had bequeathed' to her, would hardly fail of being, ,More or lesseuncon- nage are blunted,' They are -keener .thith never ..refuea this! wealthy and chinning genial ee: bine; Le „ ,-1nao.-8„ure1y she lisel4mt hidden him'hope " But Rene does Met feel itso, I assure '" 'suppose eVersr one is -More . or less' you" cried Melicent. "-Indeed, you 'Tale- lonely and.sad," seachMelioent, gently. SIM . The pealof whistling bells, were ,stilt take his .,character, 31Ir, Frenaaine. -He is .was very sorry for.hire,. but he did not 'ringing ehrongla the /beim. Rene 'looked gento. simple and friendly. :He akeumee 'know in -what way to offer him coneolaticiii. doyen .at Amy as sheat with foldedlirends' nothing'. He has nci condeit." • She began to vvish that -the men -of elenkingsouthirto-the-quiet-darknees.__. "But, unconsciously • .his eurrOtindings aaquaintance would eonfide in her "In " ltlies Fremaine, can 'hope to lee for.' must clog his winge." • • freely. . given ?" heriaid; meurnfully. She raised "He does not think so, lam sure. He 4 She was glad to hear voices • meter offher dark dye's to his', and he Saw they were can be quiehhere. He has time to think." and to paeceive the approaoh of the four moist. - -daThatiaear-dangersasid Mr..Fremaine. abeenteee, who presently came up the steps, " am. only a spoiled .Ohild," she. said,. • insiegusesainiagemispimusumanie "Thought IS one sided. A man neede pereonal intercourse with other mindslie ought to meet eontradicition-e divers opine ions -animated disoussions." "Indeed Rene hit not one-sided," said Melieent, warmly. Even the adverse critics owned he was comprehensive," " X meant no blame," said Mr. Fremaiue, gently. "But surely the intelleoe of any mau needs friction with other mincle?" ' "Illy father did: not greatly esteem lite- rary eirelee," said Meheent thoughtfully. "He considered that too much association with literary men rather engendered an undesirable orthodoxy of .thought and style." "That rnay apply to common minds, but not to original thinkers," replied Mr. Ftetuaine. "Contact with others may cramp medioority, but it can only render originality more piercing. In London snob O one as your brother would expand into a .man Of repute. London is the place for, rising*men: ' - _ "But.Rene has a good name already," said Melicent. " Ilawould have a better, were he better known. Hai is acquainted With numbers of Well-knoevn people," said Melioent. "He is in London on an average °nee a month, and he meets a great raany clever people every time." . "1 hope I am not impertinent," said Ma Fr,ei2as,ine, with a sigh. "But I am inter- ested in your brother' e career, mid I speak 'ale an older man, and as one ‘41.o, has mixed inuoh with the world. I don't' want -to intrude my advice, but I cannot help 507- ing to you, in confidence, that if your. brother really Wit:11388 to make a .name, he ought to -live among men."' , "Do you really think 80?" said Melicent. "1 do, indeed. Look at your "father, Mi eh Du Lys; he made no lasting name and why ?" "He did not work nearly as hard as Rene," said .Melicent. "He had much leas ambition.He studied for pleasure. .Besides, lie always said Rene would surpass him." , "His ambition would have been stirred up,, if had not been always secluded here." - , "7I -don t eeppose Rene -would care to force renown," Haiti Melicent frowning * ' There -aremore eubstantial advantagee , - in a. well-known name than the mere" emptiness of fame." "Rene does not want money," said Melicent stiffly. • h.., "Now 1 have offended you," said Mr. Fremaine. " Miss Du Lye, you do me an injustice." Ha sPeke deprecatingly, and Melicent's heart was instantly tounhed. "I did, not, mean to appear ungrateful," she said.. "Please forgive me if I seem ungracious. But-" "But you don't like your brother's plans to be questioned? I can understand, your feeling," said Mr. Fremaine. But most :men of distinction have exiled themselves -for a time at all event ---from their. homes. Shakspeara left Stratford, Des- cartes went to ,Efolland, Goethe to Wei- mar-" , . ".Acid Milton stayed in London!" "Ah!' but it was London 1" They both laughed. . "- Still I should be sorry to change my home," said Melicent. " But'why sheuld you go?" • - "Rene and I should never part," said she. Not iS you raarried ?" • ___ "Ab, if we married! But .that is another, thing." " Anti a moat important one. Your brother will marry, and then he will see things in a different light. A wife, Miss Du Lys, will never be as patient and self- denying as you have been. She will exact more of his society. She will be impatient of distance. Probably he will find it expo- , client then to 'settle in the -midst of some bright coterie at Hampstead or Kensing- . "'I think Rene's wife will love Delysford for Rene's Bake," said Melicent. ' "Yes, .but she will love his society better. __She will not brook repeated absences." He paused but as she did not speak, he preceded. • "1 envy him his youth," he Raid. ' " I envy allyourig men, who have the Chance of winuing devoted brides.' As for me, lam, comparatively/an old man. I -have no Wife. and, no SOD, and my daughter will marry 7 - is sure'to marry -and leave mein solitude. The young have the best of it. Aad they think ,their elders are shrivelled up-eLimPer. vious to -feeling -half-dead. I ilppoethey. Would say Ihad'had ny JAY- ut it was Bo and jciined the pair on thaterrace. Clinton was full- of talk. ,Etis sportive ,jolity was alnaost OX0eBeiVe. Per )3acco 1". he exclaimed. " This is a place and an hope ip which to play.Roine,o and Juliet. See . there risee the crescent mood She has climbed to the horizon, and presently ehe will floodthe earth with poetry. Oh, Moon, Moon, Moon 1" -he apestrophieed. " Wherefore., art thou so cold, so .ficalle ? We cannot;iove thee, for thciu art a ,olianging heauty, a d thy irregu. larity, if fixed; is still singular: But, ah, peer Moon!. is it perchance thy Man who ea,ases thee thus often to _hide thy eounte. mince, or.to dietort it? Is it thy eosese, rude inhabitant, who, with unrulyniesoulitil tastes, vexes thy maiden. sobriety,' and, by hie insolence and his roughness, so fre- quently necessitates thy diepleasied retire, merit, thy. 'coy disappearance? Ia, it eel, iny pentnere Moon? my -shy, demure Night - Light 2" ., He burat into a Wild fit of langhteree't hi Oven conceit, and Melident re-echoed hid mirth. Amy smiled faintlY.' She was ill at ,ease, and unhappy. 'Rene leaned back in, his oleteir, thankful that Clinton's non- sense should oover his own dejection:- " How uproarious. you are, Sir Oliver !" said Mrs. Gardner. She,'Wati;-liewever;- wrong, for 'Clinton was never noiey. In his greatest exbassete of sspirita hiB thine were invariably Modulated and , his manner partially subdued. He reseMbled one who dances upon4ishe brink of ,a precipied, but Warily,elest a false step should be his destruction. And "his very joviality_was grabeful. . "There is. always too .raueh heaviness abroad," he said. "Let us bejightlearted while we can. Listen!. do you not hear the goblin -ringers jangling the Wedding- lbells with -Unseen hands ?e, You are sur - 'prised tasee a bridal; in the nighteb.ut the bride, in her high heels; and the bridegroom, in his satin bravery, care 'naught. Do you not hear how Sweetly they .disbourse • He began whistling the changing cadences a marriage -peal in • a sweet; low voice. They all listened, surprised and faioinated. -Not.evenldis. Gardner attempted to silence this natisic, 1which sounded almost rayste- rithis in the increasin darkness: It seemed . wafted- friern . airy: realms on' .0 balmy 'breeze ; it' 'seemed as if the sprites who sojourn ,in the lily's deep, pure nap- had iesmed forth to pall the elfin ropes' and etir the elfinelaPPers. " la, -la, la, le, la, la, la, whistled Clinton. ..To Melicent's quick arid sympatheticinaliginationthe'air seemed alive witlinciiseless„ invisible creatures. . • "Whose wedding -bells are they ?" Fre- mine' wliiiiPered to her. "They sound melancholy to to whom no toride will •evercomed ' • - . "They are for a phantom bride a;tid ,bridegroom," , murmured Melicent. " Sir Oliver said as -much."' • 1 "But he speake iu parables," said Fre- rdidrie:" "He is dreaming of Some peerleaS 'bride -for a young man, ,not tor me." . "Do not say so, Mr. Fremaine." • , ": You are ,hard-hearted, Miss Du Lys. I ask you for consolation, and you give me common places. Will you give nothing. else • . • "Yea'," . said Melicent; frankly. h -If may, I Will give you sympathy." ` The whistlingauddenly ceased. "They have deieen, away in ahoach and four,". ' said; Clinton, pathetically: "Who knows whether te antold joy, orunutterable sorrow?' TheYs- have crushed the,. flowers_ that strewed their path, and perhaps they have alsoherushed se human heart which -stood . in their way. 'Who knows -who knewa?' ' ' ' • " You hmake . me quite unhappy," said Amy, rising And shivering slightly. " us go in. ,Melicent Shall play eis her favorite Lieder, and I will sing something to make us cheerful:". - • • , . But Melicent , would. not play. Her ,./4-derwohlirtiot-tend-to-clieerfulne8s; she. said.; it was in a doleful key: So Amy took her seatat thepiano and her father begged her.to sing" J 'attempt frenalove's sickness to fly." \It was not the 'song Amy would have elioisen on that occiathou; but .She was not in the .habit .of ,disputing her. father's " hes and she commenced -the - quaint old .song with gentle ooneplia,noe. .13he sang. with perhaps More tenderness'and, feeling than she was aware of,eand as the liquid. notes floated through' the room, they come rhunteated San,. unspoken , pain to Iterte's • distressedbeart. It had been but a rosebud thrown away in angry haeM; now it was but a song vibrating: through a limp -lit room. ,But the rosebud ,and the 'Sena had drawn ,veelsfroth, ,before his ekes. He was'.awar.e new that' -he. loved Aneeh thicOnfessed,,he had been, thinking of her and loting-her for weeks -for 'Menthe, •• And yet -- she had finished singing' ha rose' -and-thanked-here . •, "You r. have sung rerraa.rkablye t�- - nig te. eaid 111,rs, Gardnee, dryly. , I do :notlike that song, papa,". cried Amy,, with, sudden- petulance. "1 don't think.' will evereing it again." • "11 pierces me, but I like it," said Fre- maine. • "Some peoPle likc to be pierced.' • It is -like. the , peculuserspleasure-theye-takeeine tragic representations,' said -Clinton: Thee he . recommenced whipthng the wed- -ding -bells. . .• • • • . "He will,drive me mad,". Said Fremaine to Melieent. ." He seems to keeron .There.,is no li,ride for; you! There is no .bri!le for you!" . . ' '• Nay; 'there .he -there must be," .said. Melicent„ remerabering that she had pro- -rinsed. to give bine her sympathy., She. glaneed in the' ;direction of Mrs. Gardner, and hopedthat the bride Who should make,' Fran:mine happy wauld notprove an unkind: stepmetherto AniSe , ' h You think so ?" said Fremaine eagerly. • • " Every Jack had his .3111 they say she ,• replied, • • • pathetically, "and I have been very, very Dross, Forgive me!" "ay, but am I forgiven?" he urged. "Yes, Oh, yes 1" she answeted., They both looked forth flt,0 tkoslaidiwy garden. A failing 'star suddenly cleft the eky and disappeared. "11 has passed away and left no trace," saide3aerlitelelese, the scene in the rose: • Nvegarden lied left an indellible mark OD both of them. • They were miserably unhappy. but possibly they were the happiest people in that party of six. Truly they BIOOd 11130I1 a wide moor whose limittheir eyes could not disoover, but theground they trod was firm, althbugh it blistered their feet, and areality encircled them, although no end was visible, and a certainty, dim but convincing, wrapped them round, although they might nit yet dieoern its form or grasp ita haud. Half an hour later, Melicent and Clinton, walking home side by side, paused to say good-bye where their paths, diverged," Whey were waiting for Rene, who wasdiugering behind, lost in meditation. Standing there in the palid moonlight, Melicent shawled in white, and withhooded face, Clinton bareheaded, and courtly of gesture, tit 3y might have been taken for the phantom fair whoa& bridal bells -Clinton ,had so 7 lately whistled forth. "Do you know why 1 have been so joound all the evening ? Do you know why I whistled ?"she salted her. • "No, indeed 1 I hope because you were happy." - - You are-mistaken.....a_wae beeause the weir -which we could not hear in reality - kept crying its weary invitation ) in my ears." ' f • "And what is that?" asked Melicent, almost fearfully. " It keepa on saying, sometimes loud, and sometimes low, but alwaya clearly, COM Come! Conie !" - " Is that all?" said Melicent, relieved. "Why don't you make it say something else ?"• '"1 have tried. I have tried to make it say, Mdicent Melicent ! and I have 'tried to make it say LOve ! Love!but -it will only repeat, Come! "Conte 1 Come !" . "Sir Oliver," said Melicent, firmly, "you must not stay at Belmont." "No," he returned, sadly. "1 think I shall go away in a few days." CHAPTER VI. -Melicent was in her quaint garden on the following afternoon, when a servant came to tell her that -Mr. Fremaine was below. Forsome time she had been lean. ing idly on the broad, low • parapet which surrounded the rciof-a position -which gave her an easy view both of thquiet Green and the busy little High street, though !she was herself invisible. To say that she had been musing might not be strictly true. She had been rather empty. ing her Mind of all volition, and permitting' involuntary fancies to chase each other through its void yet, dainty recesses. She stood (as it were) apart from herself, listen. ingavell pleased to thesiren voices which ehe neither CiODjured up nor exorcised,and gazing content at the tender illusions whioh she neither created nor dispelled. Of what she was thinking she scarcely knew. Perhaps • of geranium petalsblown to her feet by the soft west wind; perhaps of laughing wavelets hurrying to overtake and kiss the „fringes of her garnients; , perhaps of a sweet an�tneous symphony played by seraph hands. Who shall pry into the secrets of a maiden's folded heart? She was loth to break the spell that had enchained her to the roof. But she did not tarry long, and soon descended to her dratv- ing.rootri. Earlier in the day she had eat there painting, and her unfinished picture lay .drying upon the easel. Fremaine stood before it. "It is very beautiful, Miss Du Lys," he asaritd,tearnestly. "You are an accomplished is "1 am very fond of painting," said Mali - cent. But I seldomplease nelf." Khga0113tehattrodiv.peas. Nowyou;" I begin to see, its defects." - "Bait Tehaery clever. Its defetts can be but•trifling." "Do you think so? You are very kind," she said. "But Sir Oliver Clint= was hero this morning, and he- pointed\ out a defect -a- huge anpa,rdoriable defect. He said it was all sunshine." 1 It was indeed. It was ong, p rOW picture, representing - a village street at noonday. A bridal procession trooped front the church naerry 'boys and girld-, pelted the happy pair with primroses; a jolly landlord stood at hia inn -door laughing and beckoning;' little toddling children played outside their :simple homes; pretty young nil -Arens, with crownir-liabies -in their arms stood upon their threeholds to wel- come baok , the sunburned husbands who 08,0113 striding along, perhaps with an urchin upon-their--backs,-or-a_shy_little_ maid clinging to their strong hands. • " He said it Wag ail sunshine," repeated Melicent. "He wanted me to put in a _grim_ehadow her, e with the idea of a myste- rious figura in bl-ack stealing into, tlae ,midst of till's happy group, or a V0/10000118' toad grinning here in the foreground. Shall I, do you think?" ' " Whyheuld you ?" said Fremaine. " If life is not perpetual sunshine, it is some- times -BP& for half an hour;' Melicent looked doubtful. • "Have you never been quite happy for half an hour?"' said he. - " I 2-- Ola yes 1- Tam alvvityi happy,"- she saidebrightly. eg But I am an individual. .This representEi a whole' community.' " But communities are made up of units, and you are one of the units." "Ah1 but every one isnot so happy as I am. I have known no care and very little sorrow: I have never been separated ling from Rene, and lie hits been everything to me ell my life." "And does hey apProve of the toad and the shadow you propoSe ?" "1 don't know. He has not seen the picture yet. But he thinks Sir Oliver's ,viesso of life just, though melancholy. He says that because be admires a rosy-cheeked apple; that is no reason why he should reprehend Sir Oliver for seeing under its skin to the rotten core." - " Sir Oliver is a very eccentric young man," said Fremaine. "People who see below the surface are always more or lees abnormal." "'Rene slays Sir Oliverhrtifelseaclaolyis- the result of temperament, and that he • cannot help , either his exuberance or his depression." " And what do you think, Miss Du Lys ?" Melicent blushed slightly. "1 don't like to think of these things a,t all," she said, after a moment. "11 peo: ple cannot help themselves, where is our Vaunted free will? If they can-" She paused. "11 they can 2" repeated Fremaine --`" They aro-tilad, aor-badrorbotheadiaich she, reluctantly. " 131t I dislike to think about it: God moVes 10 ,0 mysterious way, arid i1hireasatir-partasto-truste---Sir-Olive1- swasavery_cheertn1 thiamornings"--- " I fancy his health is not good," observed - Fremaine. "1 don't wonder he finds your quiet house restful. By -the -bye, may I see your garden 2'1 Melioent acceded Willingly, and she led the we:y up an ancient staircases:With, wide, shallow steps; and a massive carved balustrade. They ascended a second stair- case equally handsome, and then mounting a, narrower and less imposing flight of steps, they emerged on to the roof itselL The so-called garden consisted of au arrangement of curiously -shaped boxes of naould, filled with flowering plants, and over the sides of which ivy had been trained to grow to conceal the woodwork. Turf there was none, nor gravel. An awning on rollers afforded protection from the heat, and care had been takento hide the chim- neys; and to mitigate the ill effeets of their smoke, as much as possible. Melieent conducted her guest to some chairs beneath the awning. (To be continued.) 'EKE FUTURE OE PAPER. Predicting That Wood' and Iron Rust Give Wayiti. to the Use of The etateMent 'from. Laneingtherg, N. Y. that a firm there has just completed- a paper steamboat for a Pittsburg company is not surprising. The vessel is twenty feet long, and will accommodate nearly three dozen people, and has a carrying,capacity of three tone. The sheathing is three- eighths of aia inch thick, and a bullet from a revelver fired at it from a duitance of four feet made no abrasion in it. The . Baltimore News says that the neat thing we Abell hear Of, and, indeed; there'is noreason why'. One should not be'on exhibition in Chicago now, will be the paper locomotive. Some one has already constructed a light and pretty paper railway carriage. Paper wheels are vary pommel!, and an inventor is confident that he can make paper rails a success. Paper ties are fixed facts, and much superior to those of Wood. Paper lieuses have long 'since lost ' their novelty, and .sImost every imaginable small artiole of common service has been formed out of paper. In short, where will the uses of paper end? Men, and they are not enthusiasts, predict that the day is not far distant vehen, from the solid and hardened pulp, everythingwill be manufac- turned that isnoev mane from wood and irom--Thus we -seer ateleast4n-the-ease-of- the former, how nature always preserves the balance of compensation. Our tenets are fast going -at the present rate destruction some even of those now living naay see the end.of therm But already, for most of the purposes to which we turn them to account, paper supplies the place.' In many oases also the paper is reallYbetter than the wood.' It is always less expensive and, in most instances, will last much longer. It can, moreover, be made fire proof, so that when we shall °eine to build our houses of it. they wilt be praetioally indestructible at a much less cost than at present, and of course down will go insur- ance rates. And yet.it is a comparatively • little while `since this 'fabric began-tobe used for other than writing and wrapping purposes. As to paperitself, it may be said to be absolutely inexhaustible, for there is hardly any material, from, wood, rags, husks, peat or turf, leather and weeds to gutta peroha, from which it cannot be made. The poets have often swig the wonders of iron -let thew celebrate the glories and marvels of paper. , -ROW' TACKS AlE RADE. IngeniouslyContrived Illlachines that Bite 00 Thousands n Minute. The iron is, received from the rolling mills in sheets from three inehes to twelve inches wide, and from threefeet to nine 'feet in length, the thickness varying, secerding to the kind of work into which it is to be made. froin one-eighth to one- thirty.second of an high. . These sheets are all cut in about,thirty-inch pieeesShand by iminersion in liteld cleaned, of -the hard out; side flinty scale.They are then chopped into strips of ,th ,width oirresponding to' the length of the nail or:istoli required. Sup- posing the tack to be but is au eight -ounce carpet tack,. the strip of iron, as chopped and ready for 'the machine, would be about .elevensixteenthe of an inch wide and_thirty inches long. This_pieceis placed firmly in the feeding apparatus, and by this arrangement carried between the knis es of the machine, At each revolution ofethe. balance wheel the knives cut off a smell pieee from the end of this plate. The piece cut off is pointed at one end, and square for forming the head at the other. It ie then carried between two dies by the action of theknives, and these dies, =Mug together, forth, the body of the tack under the head. Enough Of the- iron projects .,beyond the face of the dies tO feral the head, and while held firmly by them,a lever- striliei this projective piece into a round head. This, as ve_e_have said before,js ah ,.done during one revolution 'if the wheel, aid:the knives;_ ae soon as the took drops frond the machine,' are ready to cut off another 'piece. These maohinee are run at the rate of -agouti 250 revolutions per romute. The shoe nail machines, for cutting • headless shoe nails, are run at.about tOO revelationa. per minute, and cut from 3 to 5. nails at each. revolution.-MecIzahical Engineer. • Brat:Vera -Rountit' Waists. • The more,closely e woman can get her bust to approximate - to the shape of a peg. top the prouder and happier she usually is. Why -the peg-tosilias attained tithe high_ distinction of serving' as a model for .Wornen is one of -the many ' puzzles connected with drees. The Greeks -who certainly knew-, .seeaething ab but the humareforni-aesigaed to their ideal waist 'dimensions quite in.. telerable to .an Englishwoman of to -day. Moreover, they made it oval, whereas the modernwaist, is round. It is a pliysiologi, cal fact that there is about an oval waist it delightful suppleness and ' elasticity, 'while. the round waist 80 common at the, present day is hard, rigid, and' tinsyropathetic.*The fact is that some women are blessed with waists naturally sinall,; and oval- as every natural Waist: is, while other Womeia lees. favored by nature, are determined to outdo the sthallest aa -no matter what cost. But no discriminating critic Can -ever, fail to perceive the difference between natural and artificial eniallness.: Perhapsif this were :hotter understood, women wciald cease to ruin their health andwealien the rausoles;of their baelni bY,going about an', a tight -fitting cuirass,' even at the risk of appearingto depart conspicuously -from women's ordinary dress. They vveibld then -find-that_some_other, problemri, such as distribution of weight, would settle them, . selves without much difficulty. -London Times: Fear Not.. 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