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SUNSHINE AND SHADE
CHAPTERXXVIL-(Celiewagn.)
" r Hugh anewered, in one of hia
heroically sanguine mood, as he sat in the
diniegroora with hie back to the window
and the hated poplar, and his face to the
ground- plans and estimates on the table
before "1 mean to go up te town for
the emcee always, and to keep up my jour•
;Sandie connection irx a generel way; and in
time:, no doubt, 1 ahall begin to get work at
the bar also, I shall make friende assiduous.
ly with what a playful phrase absurdly
deseribeea "the lower breech of the pro.
fesaion." I shall teak my nicest to every
dull solicitor I meet anywhere, and do my
politest to the dull eolteee sittiPid wife
and Plain daughtere, I'll feteh therri lees
at other people's, At Homes, at shower on
them ticketa for all the private views we
den't care about, and all the first nights at
unintereeting theatres. That'll the way to
advance iu the proceesien. Sooner or later,
get on at the bar. Meanwhile, as the
estatese fortunately mieneumbered, mei
there a none of that precious noriseeee about
entail, er remaieders, or eettleuiente, or so
forth, we can raise the immediate eash for
our prevent need on ehert mertgages."
"I nate the very name of mortgages,"
Winifred cried impatiently, "They suggeat
breikere men and bailiffs., and bankruptcy
and beggary."
"Mui evetytleing else that begins with a
B," Hugh coutiettetl, nailing a tilaCid amtto
to himself, end vdguelY renutnecent of "Alio
Wouderleud. "Why with a B?" Alice
said musiegly.-" Why not ?" 044 the
Marele Hare.-Aliee Was allent.-" Now,
fei my sewn part, I coning, an the con -
Wary, Winifred, to a cereals% sentimental t
likte%fer the mortgage as mein viewed in r
when deed Elsie lived therm 411 was
changed, without and within. The got
was now fit :Or A gentienlan to dwell
iotrooetfoo or tko phylloxera in 1875 koo eneterintlelniopotteriidrc9044
Only one eyeetore etill remained to gen
rieve wink Hugh wt on, nothieg abashed, with been reckoned at X-190.000,000 nted4rpogrot"tzttatt Eie
ing. the rentable were band Oersted on their slides,
and annoy him.. !Me Whiteetemel poplar the game sonorons metre-raetked mouthing. , 'Act nuenber of Bee oven tu Roman I wnd, in ono 444,3 iyi,la fa,y;, dow4war4; tbe.
yet faced and COnfrOnted bun Wherever
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he 10ked. It tented hies, ;sick. lt Raison- xxxvi. 1865 end 1887 wad as fellew4-44 1865, Me, letter was that of A fnil-grown women, with
OW wiredeswept j
country matenen. of the lee l eecd othe
839horsea, 3.497, nte 0,41%3 Q7Waaheeetifel tremeetterever
.356 sheep,
East Anglian, type, 4 frQue.0 i34.4utow ed Suffolk for him. The poplew must "They can not any whiler pain or plemere 1.395 nnargo ; .te 1887 55
,
got He eoeld rOtVer endure it We That stem to men theme), and end «all. 40.57,404 &Attie:, 3.577.828 ok0e7r;;E°5 hoes, ehetthiere " eating thatold teosged bein
efteaheet the oeek, 1441-
evarYalttet withlmt and within' and anwouldimaged be a living death, in sight Damb feree and barren number are their o. 1,408,4515 , r g conaigned to her last
Ilnlik4 " Pe"ihie te the 'Una lail that for ever of that defeated. and grinning mentor- measure ; rogreatieg-plece, the htent ;spark oiife uick
Hugh Messinger bad seen and mentally .
f q,
diecountenanced on the eeceelen of his first ial. Per it grinned et hina often from the What on be, ghat be, though the gr, eet u.I.tcle 4vteaeiuireil4dgettivathepteit eroognotinyetahoe oe at ego" z A 4 •44 uertia,eg ille nsoi the.rtibui fartrpelesoniol el
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visit to Wbitestrand. "You giVe an archi. guatled aad heliew ttaPk" A huteaa taw
Misstated toleugh oat upen him from les shape- bey take ne heed of man, or eoan'e ratwefrore's.2,00,0' .00 tr", 49.000.000 toxin 3,aelaIrtt4rawellean44elawni4intheg fwertPial 40.04-liftga42,1e:
world fall, s , and in 0 4 0/4 . 9
hae been 40 877 394 tone The yield lies d
itti=MinClate17.e"':reuagthe's;sraoymsanCletehlaSrilaSone--14171; 1,:rthh:V:areratt niedwaVEra'elegnic.Liahwing titaaenjethY: Reordettisort*wtst kainey wee they makes El;.xv6441ucte,...0b,ciatixorLogeraedgefr boera:_047.27;w:...5i5.1r...009 to, 044roWliway olvlsere4of 41,ietrivprriro"Danitlunogri2t e,exilothattotion
the Etsglish ianguage, "and he'll bald you He Wed to :see it, it grinned SP Itidemel,y . ,
gave Ina architect money enough, or at
a fine house every tiree." RIO Iotassinger so be set hi s wits to work to derfoo a way. Work aat4 their fatal will, caswarvad, a oinhee.hvanaleme 9orfetbatuerotglofArtebree toowne-thcoirtdomen 4,m7j/z jtoe znlyciizawt 4apeoad:tgar up
ea:adt9f Marra!
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94::17'intg"
tehae3teacinrIttitZ-1111---d wttebigObt a7filn:11a:Ptrae,t aet9 1-"tanr gaeh4411* wigthelint4Inllee'tetaarile' P;VatriariraGgoWt rail And know mot that they are. crop. mains taken away to alloWofptbo ex ..tonsa lreon
far
as the Imams at hial disposal went, on 'tad*
------. The foreign tonnage entered and eleared of RaYUn 1 steet, the 5vritfr saw in nero, 1
tinot MIT' cerner of Bet tangly wade at for- "Now, what do voutosaythat, Winifred? at Chineso purta durwg the yeer 11887 wee indieatione a premeture interns:40. Ton
When the buildidg was done and the ya cee,tapTER xxweee„....eseeneeenee, 1814 kdomn'ttbigikitIi:terrupting," Winifred tena. of wineli, ne roiled neresbae, two. a Q a hdy,' feend in tbo old.F•reabyterian
oaken Whitestrand. . the greatest ever recorded-Niz # '4199,601 Most hideona and blood -curdling of thaw was
saapped ont savagely. "Yon told ire not thirds were Britiali, one-fourth. Chinese, Poblieremiving emit. Ithen bean planed
poring finithed, they set about the furnish- Meanwhile, when the bouse/sams all deielted to Interrupt., exeept. or a geed and sufficient uaaare4doan:e-sl]geiettiGietrio2r.,sloTtooaerapr ceteinfiesi; uthaereozahLept follura4yebaz4pr2g44419nodaly„.69and t al:
nog proper. And here, Winifredie ate and deemated throughout, Jingle turned bia reaaon."
began to clash with Hegh'el; for everywomen, thoughts came mere, on fame intent, 0 his "Well, gion'c be meth" Hugh pot in, 5,670,123 ; German, 459,53;1,„pApiase, i come of the scnewe were torn half our.
though she may esetiew greund-plexte. eleve great forthcemieg volume of veneee. Sines belf anailing. `J -Ilia is heeinese, you know-- 305,169 ; F(ench, 159,89) ; American, n'il the end end lower part of the toy iersd beau
tions, and estimates, has at least dietinct hemanied Winifred, he had published little" A Matter 04 pnhlie appreciation -and I Want 539; and the other menteies Jew. 0 ?Sete wtenehedso o ene,wparereltr4,endi.ng!.e tr&er::::::::.
idea, of her ow o on. aho aoparearie question eseheeneg teurnajnan and such 40141 teskeliviercritietam ; it all laenens Money- Criti• the total tonnage .was 11,754,76), and in 41):4.°31tiottliele:ez4haritirobbeexi24:7eniot:4riontgwilis, ta:
of Infernal deeeretton, The nee, Squire Waa se unworthy the eligeity 0 aceemplishe ,4ctene from enybely, nO wetter whene, Es 1855 18,95S.117.
Indian durreea, and Persian tilleg But mg bard from time to time at paelling
all for oriental hangings, Itirtgey carpet, ed Nuked= ; but be bed been work- 'always, worth et least soutethmg."
a Qh_, thao.k you, ea mach. Tibet it polito The ere?, of tho Chgghlre 04°3'11° has the skall turned ttnier ;WI r4e augers of
heathenish gewgews, ehe aelensuly dee/aired ; PAFtosophy-a leogthy peeve ha is met= of muter from whom, I ehteehl say I feil to a4t4°1'ide"'" 4111r* Trwn4" Ward of NQrt4'
him Mtkasinger would, have none Of these , and repoliehing his engeentint PPU.st 4 Zig$ 9f you. Theo if you waut critiefece, roe been eetheated very differently by different; Eirannbuorle:1;wirop%crthrtte:liery, atiinnbin.twt:r L:4
ber testes by no means took a Samenie his own more or leea novel, and embPdying perceive, myself, the prechee,diffeteri2e,Y54 ipevzi3eahlrarlThniati!ortivg:74911e?"154tbad4tet4etalle14gQ116%! ace3-41:tai4e4 ofwagitiest4t4I-Twqatlim;eare44f4o.:wnisI to4.te
turn. Mr Hatherley and the Cheyne Bow a number Of Dural
Men wOnld Make fun 91 hers and cell leer trite, PP the yontle, edolemeneee maturity, l' uneweeved ' awl "neetwervbeg,' To the
reflections, more or lea4 mean to enema between the twir9 adiuvg* h neete probeigy weepy at leeet tnr• an
beum Liberty 1141, if the ferniehed it and deerepitude 0 the hem= subjeet, noteteeed 0,elligenee of a mere women,. t re miles and caatala ta t ha agg-egate Tri40 or tea t
It exeetly eluded Mr, Metthew Artneld it wheel eleeeleel alinalen'S an Atter blents, 0004409"oed 'rho tQfairae;tbn,9204„Panailtrobs1niTt:Qt.:0- rla'S.OSIit: b9uxcige3 gavilt;"14.4va'
well.known •detioition, being, in faCts en they sews to say exaetly the Same Thinii;',1 wialiara iatlis a t boulm that, ix ninara? neierneetenen en eta r,..a.F4 eneen°
exhauetive ceitkient of life, as Hugh Mete twice over," Mae V
n
insion'a an litter blank to thern,--at you've
get nothing bettor than that to object, have
the hindnese, 'deem, net to interrupt me,"
Ttlinifred plosed her lipS with aaharp snap
OTATISTIOS. Benolted ftoke the Ornite.
The total moaey.loae to Eraaee from the Oaa Qt tha glaY4,cliggarawbo eirCaYatad
threugliout with 6W/A Mknianirean ab
eurditiee, For her own pert, she re -
nonage(' Ltherty and all hie werke ; she
exchewed everything eme et longitude
thirty degreee ; hdeid coffeedablee
were an abomination 0 her eyee ; pierced
Arable lamps; rousted no hitePt EithPilla,411
he only real thing In decoration wen Mar,
the e atreet. It's A donument intimetely r
conneeted with the Wed interent wed the
feudal Omen ; it savours to ray mind of
breed estates and haughty arieteerate, and a
lordly rent -rolls and a baronial ancesstry.
I will admit that I itheuld feel a peculiar r
pride in my conueetion with Wlaiteatrand
Lf I felt I had got it reelly with a morterige „
on le How proud a moment, 0 he seized t"
of A mortgage 1 The peer, the ebjeet, the
lowly, and the !mullein don't go 0 homily e
for the lueury of mortgeges. Tney pawn
their watch, er raiee preeerietni shilling
or two -upon the temporary security of
Suenley mete, kitchen cloaca, and seeoud-
bend flat•icona. But a mortgege le an
eminentler gentlernenly term of impecture
Like gout and the lordAielitettancy
of your *him it** incidental to birth, and
greatnesen-Upen my word, rrn not really
certain, now 1 coma to think upon
it, that a gentlermin'e house le ever quite
Implant without a Riatalry of Belgian
billierd table, and. a mortgage. 151flienen
bared eetetes Ingest Braman -gem ; they
bespeak the vnlger ;Odium:see of the nouveau
rkhe, wbo keeps untold gold lying idie at
his banken on purporo to ;mite; the political
eeeeomiste. But a lout of a few thouseuds,
invested with ell the glamour of deposited
title deede, foreclosing, engromed perch -
meat, and an extremely 'needful and elebn.
rite epeeimen of time ehaemiug dialect,
conveyancers' Eoglith, carries with it an
' air of antique reapectebility and county im-
portance that I ;should he 'oat to forego,
even if I happened to havo the caah in hand
otherwise mailable, for carrying out the
neenesery improvernenta
Is and On Mersin she pipeed her faith ttn-
aservedly, She would he utterly utter.
She bad a Morrie eer.pet and Morrie cur -
nine ; white ivory pant adorned hs e lop.
hied overmaetelie mid red De /demean Ware
With opeltecent hum ranged in long straight
OWs upon her pigeon -130e etibinete. To
Hugh'e poetical mind this was all too
laguy modern; out of keeping, he
bought, with the wide oaken staareme end
the punetilione Elizebetheitierge of the
Minent erchiteet'a imagist and eeiliege.
"Sat how shall we ever pay beck t"
I; - - Winfred asked, with native feminine eau.
- Hugh waved biz hands expensively open.
, non.
When he went in for the !sanguine, be did
' it thoreuelny. "Ono thing at a time, my
child," he murmured low, "First borrow;
then set your wits to work to look around
for a means of repayment, -In the desk at
borne in London this very moment Ilea an
immortal epic worth ten thousand pounds
if it's worth' a penny, and cheap at tho
price to a discerning purchaser. Ormuz
and Ind are perfect East Ends to it It
teems with Golcondas and Big Bonanzas. In
time theal ow world would most mutely discover
that this Englandof %until' encloses agreat
livo poet. Tho blind and battling must
open their eyes nd look at last placidly
about them. They'll then bo glad to buy
fifty editions of that divine strain, varying
In character from the large paper edon de
luxein antique vellum at ten guineas -five
hundred numbered copiea only printed, and
kl, issued to subscribers upon conditions which
'I may be learnt on application at all libraries
' -to the achool selection at popular prices,
intended to familiariae the 'ingenuous youth
of this nation with the choicest thoughta of
a distinguished and high-minded living au-
(, thor.-Winnie, I'm tired to death of hear-
ing people say when I'm introduced to them:
UO}, Mr Messinger, I've wanted to ask,
are you descended from the poet Messinger?"
I mean the time to arrive before long when
I can answer them plainly with a bold face:
"No, my dear sir, no madam, I am not;
hut I am the poet Messinger, ii you care
to be told so." -When that time comes,
we'll pay off the mortages and build
a castle -in Spain or elsewhere -with
the balance of our fortune. Meanwhile, we
have always the satisfaction of knowing
that nothing on earth could be more correct
•-• or squirearchical in its way than a genuine
mortgage."
"1'di not so sure as I once was, Hugh,
that you'll ever make much out of your kind
of poetry,"
"Of course not, my child; because now I
happen to be only your husband. A prophet,
we know on.the best authority, is not with-
out honor, et eietera, et cetera. But I mean
to make my mark yet for all that ; ay, and
to make money out of it, too, into the
bar-
gain."
So, in the end, Winifred's objections
were overruled -since this was not a
matter upon which that young lady
felt atrongly-and the money for im-
proving and developing the estate" having
'cxbeen duly raised by the aid, assistance in-
strumentality, or mediation of that 'fine
specimen of conveyancers' English aforesaid,
ito which Hugh had to touchingly and pro.
fessionally alluded, a fashionable architect
WPM invited down frail, town at once to in-
spect the Hall and to draw Bp plans for its
q,renovo.tion as a residential mansion of the
:most modern pattern.
T ' ' '
• he fashionable architect after his kind,
performed his work well -and expensively.
He spared himself no pains and Hugh no
money on. rendering the Hall a perfect ex-
ample on a small scale of the beat Elizabeth-
an domes_tic architecture. He destroyed
ruthlessly and repaired lavishly. He put
mullions to the windows and pillars to the
porch, and moulded• ceilinga to the chief
reception -rooms, and oaken balustrades
to either side of the wide old rambling
,Tudor staircase, He rebuilt whatever
elager himetif had found le, Ife meene be "No, no," Iregle ettewered, getlieg warm
print it in time for the autumn book-eemost. eelfelefeseett " Theewerved p iv
It was the great; entire bis and hawas 4 ellaWerileg aetiVe, Or At teas Rad
cauddent of enceeev, leed werked it up the .ene Meanii that they ewerve themeelvee;
with manelese toil to What Reated to the ener; that SOZaeh4PY 9r nomefbleg el% ,
hiuteelf the higleget pmeible pitele et eweevee them."
artietie hentlierefe ; and be roiled OWn Yen de ViOlettee to the geelee of the
venereal, rhymes* over end ever again With English hinguage,'" Winifred remarked curt -
ingrate aetiefaction nem his Winery 1.4140# ly, "X may not he acitr4irittA with LAW
pronoungieg them all, an inneertied SOXVey, and Greek, but I talk M beet my MOther-
of meet excelleut flavour. Notlibeg ix tongue„ Are yen goleg to priot seething
indeed, can be more deceptive tlx the poet- butthiegreat, long, dreary, incemprehenellthe
aster's cenfisletsee in hie own prodnetione. 'Life's Philomplef in your new volegae
He mietakee familiarity for suituthziem, "1 Weal make it up moiety with that,'
ring, and a preetised hand for getting end Hugh answered, creenfellen, at m olovien
rimnality, in his fate alweeet to Pled a failtire leveembly to impreee the derneeti
OWn itnea ttheointely perfeet ; in wit eh eritic, " Bat I ;shell also eke out the titi
Winifred, however, laughed his enerital re eheerful persona creed the relit of the world peers with a lee at stray occasional unlace-.
Montaxalleea
to Utter worm She hated an meetly fella altogether to agree with hirla. the 44 Funnel Ole for Oembetta, for ex.
upbeleterees boom, she said, ell furnithed In each s, aelfdreugretetatery.and. leepeini ample, end plenty el other* eliet I heven't
alike from end to end with servileOilers mood, Hugh *Mena Ulerning in the new read you, Seme of them mere to um
telerehly elizenefel," He wav grewieg
modeet before the lege of her useitiching
criticisms.
Oro trr eantrierVenaI
Vedritit1 Orchestra,
have received a printed cowries:tic
torah%
an inveutien width, if the
smelt be coerect, Certainly deserves; the
eicriptiote of truly =means applied to
&goer Bozzs an Italian, has euceeed-
t ippon', aiplyieg eleetrleit
'Westin extent, genteuneg at lemt
ft in a welheutitentizeted feee rhet the
CW.elea°°tIot:glI.A.)41ss:leta. t T/447, 40'7147 ador pfraor.. mother 0 the vett Seette white lying in a
lahi .e.eid to be intnheeetible.
mMor Praelzally the heels dtratieF3::rwearnt,divaliciaguicitltionetleov: .yhd7i:rttisttebecisitp444eirit:,49cehilegra,11014
At slight the ghoulish sea:;ou stealthii
; mid itolrevemeut sat 1149`ecula" t? too "40 etegant awl weidtbP
gp11514.000.; abpolnptu-i: ;Aity"roibict: ,oeweis wpt, .ein:ei were
thee ze
;wee of small femora who eminot W41 eeeetthen to the then prevalent cue,
tee. ether metitetiene. They hue
atteehed to there fee instreetion
andethereehteete. Up to ISS6 the
Si there were St wheels of .sigricel-
el !fereetry in Agetrie, gonteheing
tote. Ftuding elttet, finger ;hiss toe tightly
Seed, the aneeneeleuenle thief teek
pocket knife and shethed the ileth from. tbe
44 the wt. eloes,„„bod tlegere, lee eedden 004 end tiew ef
woo far establishment and main. 11114w4 C -444e4 4 reAetiQ4 of the vital Arden,
ei whleh the stete stele 4.21, 102, awl ttaxalzerved unitents epeued her
ther ahl of ageleniturel edecatiene 11311,*"(1 an "c141r44au wazereelet *Ad
teetitroto 43.o p314 by the tffelotry aiitteenelted tee* up. Theguitty ismer.
enco ta htetericel eternetnem, Sett -
tienical purism was/gamut for eleven
pretend. to be living in Elizabeth=
Land or Unit QUIDIS France, whenew 're
really vegetating* as we an know, in
thereby wilds of niueteentineentury Suffolk
Let your 1140154 rennet your own 60e:ember)
very. good pbraite, picked up Irene A
Triadiati handbook elemeetio gleeoration.
She liked a little individuelity and Imelees-
nue of purpose. "Your views, yen know,
Hugh," she cried svitb the ex cathedra con -
victims of a wenn= laying down the law in
her own household, "are Piet the least little
dewing -room holies:1ga quire of dewily writ.
sermondeeper etitehed together in ilia
and SUMS effectimately with par -
pride at hia leat.born Stamm. 1", bd.
bed only returned yesterday bon a
legexpeditionuptotownendwae itilieg
dity in rent end repeir niter Iter nee
tiem among the crowded Inman
a ru Bagdad. So Hugh healed
Wit iu his astir at his ems, 40,40144 with
the sudden thirst for AU Audience, began to
pour forth, in her ear In his rotund, =IWO
th.0 final finished intreductoty prelude to hie
Life 8 Inlosophy. Ms wife, propped tip an h ploquur of retwes mitturneuta„ Nu
bit in the world pedantic.. You end your , the pillows; of the Sofa and lolling ettrelesely, here ee nreee and other fuotrumelata at
rchiteet want a atiffneneurts of Flizebathan flistened anti smiled as he reed and read, anerinied in mid air, eeperated from one
art. It may be eilly ef me, but I prefer with womewhat emptiest though pitlite auether mach as the Idea of ow wm
toyeelf n house to Ike ken difference. , permit. Siguor Beres thee by means of
go g The arewingnoten noes look an Lett inc nee, Mier° 134 Iil(4 to ?lHilnb an limenieue eleetrical keyboard, pine on
fectly lovely,' yea remember," I u went en once, after her frequent and tryiug any or all of them, producing at wilt the
full effect of a baud of thirty or forty pr
formers. Re is at present exhibiting
.nvention at Liverpool, awl holies asked
miesion to preform at the forthcoming
quoted quietly from. her own old let. entleq Intertellgeos, 4' You Put tne out
tem We've done it up exisetly so, Wutnie, with your eenstent foult-fintliegi
you recommended, with the aa Nine" I can't recollect bow far I'd read to you."
it for the old mantel -pima, an a red
apanese table in the dark eorne.r; and I
really think, now I see the efteet, yottr
teatens simply exquieite. But then, you
know, what elm can you expect from a dirs.
tinginehed poet 1 Yon always do everything
beautifully 1' Can you recoiled, hire. Mate
singer, dewn the dim Ayes of twelve or
eighteen months, who wrote those touching
words, and to whom ahe addressed them?"
" Begotten nnewaree e" new go *heed,"
Winifred Answered, carelessly -es though it
were Some other fellow'S poem be lied betel
pouring forth to her.
'Or bastard offspring of uncontelous na-
ture, Begotten unawasee," Hugh repeated
pompously, looking back with a lovingnye
at hie muchadmired manneeript, "Now
Raton to the lime good bit, Winifred; It'll
rerdly impreasive.-
"Ab, that was all very fine then," Wird- xxx11.
frea anewerea with a laaatt arraaffickl Ilakktia When dam alowly tot en sun or planet,
Sateuma ears with Japaneeque irregularity And molten matins hardened into earth I
on the dining room overtnantel. " But you When primal force wrought ant an sea and
see that was before I'd been about much in
London, and notieed how other people granite
The wondrous miracle of living birth ;
smarten up their remote and formed tny own Did udtrhtler Mind in clouds or glory hid-
,
taste in the matter of decoration. I WAS don,
then in the frankly uusephistwated state. ra Breathe power through its limbs to feel
etudied no models. I'd never seen anything and know,.
beautiful to judge by.''
Or sentience spring, 'spontaneous and tt
"You were then Miss Uoysey," her hus-
band answered, with a iistently cold infien- evithhifdeedbelt step and slow?
tion of voice. " You're now Mrs Hugh de
Carteret Massinger. It's that teat inekes xnXtrr.
all the difference, you know. The reason Are sense and thought hut piarasites of being
there are so many discordant marriages, Did Nature mould our drabs to ace and
says Dean Swift, with more truth than move,
politeness, is because. young women are so But some Arange chance endow ottr eyes
much more occupied in weaving nets than in with seeing
making cages."
Our nerves "with feeling, and our hearts
"I never wove nets for you," Winifred With love?
cried angrily. Since all alone we stand, alone discerning
"Nor made cages either, 'it seems," Sorrow from joy, self from the things
Hugh answered with provoking calmness without ;
as he sauntered off by himself, cigar in hand, While blind fate tramples on the spirit's
into the new smoking -room. yearning,
Their intercourse nowadays generally And floods our souls with doubt
ended in ouch little amenities. They were l'XXTY`.
beginning to conjugate with alarming fre-
quency that verb to nag Iona, often sue. This very tree, whose life is our life s sister,
ceeds in becoming at 'last the dominant We know not if the ichor in her veins
part of speech in conjugal conversation. Thrill with fierce joy when April dews have
kissed her,
One portion of the,houte at least; Hugh Or shrink in anguish from October rains ;
succeeded in remodelling entirely to his own We search the mighty world above and
taste, and that was the bedroom which had
under,
once been Elsie's. By throwing out a large Yet nowhere 1ind the soul we fain would
round bay window, mullioned and decorat-
find ; •-•
ed out of el recognition, and by papering,
Speech in the hollow rumbling of the
pxinting, and refurnishing throughout with
ostentatious novelty of design and detail, thunder,
he so completely' eltered the appearance of Words in the whispering wind,
that hateful room that he could hardly know xxxv.
it again himself for the same original square
We yearn for brotherhood with lake and
chamber. Moreover, that he might never per-
sonally have to enter it, he turned it into mountain,
the Married Guest's Bedroom. There was Our conscious soul seeks conecious Byrn -
the Prophet's chamber on the Wall for the pathy •
N mnbs in'the coppice, Naiads in the
bachelor visitors -a pretty little attic. under Y . -
fountain,
the low eaves, furnished, like the Shunam-
Gods on the craggy height or roaring sea
mite's, with 'a bed,' and a table, and a
stool, and a candlestick ;" and there was We find but soulless sequences of matter;
Paoli linked to fact in adamantine rode;
the Maiden's Bower on the first floor, for
Eternal bounds of former sense and latter;
the young girls, with its dainty pale green Dead laws for living gode.
wardrobe and Morris cabinet; and there
was the Blue Room for the prospective heir, "There, Winifred, what do you say to
whenever that, hypothetical young gentle- that now? Isn't that milonlated to bake
man from parts unknown proceeded to the wind out et some of these pretentious
realise himself in lictual humanity; so Hugh fellows' sails ? Wlsat do you think of it ?"
veutured to erect the remodelled chamber "Think ?" Winifred answered, pursing up
next to his own into a Married Guest Room, her lips into an expression of the utmost
where he himself need never go to veor his professional ecnenoiseeurship. "1 think
soul with unholy reminiscences. When he 'granite' doesn't rhyme in the Es elfish
could look up at the Hall with a bold face language with" planet and I colloid.
from the grass plot in front, and see no (sr' sentience" is a horribly ptosaie word
longer that detested square window with of it's sort to intro duce into serious
the wistaria festooning itself so luxuriantly poetry'. - What's that stuff about liquor
round the corners, he felt he might really too? We know not if the liquor in her
perhaps after all live at Whitesbrand. For something.' I don't like liquor,' It's
the wistaria. too that grand old climber, not zood ; bar-reom English, only fit for a
with its thick :tem was ruthlessly 'mod- publie-house production."
" didn't Say " Hugh pried. in-
dignantly,. " I said Jolter whieh of course
is a verY different matter. 'We know not
if the ichor in her veins.' Iehor's the blood
of the gods in Homer. That% the worst o -
reading thee° things tip women ; oloandoel all
fined
igo a defaced, an pulleddown, porch
whatever of vile and shapeless Georgian fangl
contractors had stolidly added. He " re- drape
itored" the building to what it had never and a
ore bean;. a fine squat old-faehioned of the
; and in its place on the left of the
, Hugh planted, a fast-growing new -
ed Ampelopsis, warranted quickly to
and mantle the raw stone emblems,
till further reetataporphoise the front
Hall from what it had once been-
e Agritelture, and $57, egricuitturel ttleekktn Tiara halt -too ettaleiht, Woo his
bruin,* have been ottselelishogl et' teteleted by 11"''''"4* 44.4 "11 the fell ot desperate ulna-
thesanteSeetre Depertment. Beeetling, lend. i{ta.,,tmt he..f_,P12.114 forth* dem Wang the
improvement, and ntiter branches et argienl- '"art'a wo'41.s me•A8h; hep cza reigue so
teral develepreent are also meted by State h".• She ilvc4 many Se4" 414449.4444Y$
faads„ The outlay no agricu/oare, wont twee the Watke far leer safe? adveetare.
and weeds end tureen is *vex $1,099,990 wit_eetb "e4uttet1toe Par4 firVvivoll to the
Usa oidit turodgQ°1104:1452,111tobilorri4enze'e://rot bhu4Thel„grethliter.Iuter Gett. Peteetne,
nI
paorutoro tbeallolatry of .044rwtoro reveluttonery relSOWO, WAN placed:in her
*woe 15s1 ham been £311,293 per etthe and the funeral ;swims corernseese,
when she revived, aid i* years years sfrorwartl
ga C arse.,
TO117;56 AND LOIN= QUM Ilt'SrOnllil TO,
10031g ears ago tY4Fier:triedieel =Idea e.
who paid Mt eXtra latti of Maw- y to a
itten by a bla-Ar snake. professicuss **resurreztionist" for pur.
"Thu you don't ilice hathir' said the pose of precuriug extraorain giesir•
al,y, attruly, "I don't olkieg3 to lratb,.r sinablijtecbtt,truntrcerzeedist_ci.de.cill,elae:b:itstechio
,tae the blarder. " rehash kLur ;04t0 ORO night to view thtir pareaase which
cover they discovered that the Wily was
aud that they inveriably inhele the amok..
elott
Washington are great smokers of cigarette. 1'1311:Vera
It is saki that the Steen chide now
lYgautpgbeang1111, and suppned to
Thus In the not very remote future alt vex- 1Zoasdateu:geti:endlneer:get:ttlydleelitesteed, tainui,1421:.
Ian exhibitten, If this *meant has ana' ethane renlimli questlaaa may dissPPeer for leinceieutlii;rmfaxnotaielya :ernuit alhtzwutatlwneonttyclinneuuttra...
dem reletion to fact, what an opportunity tarn 0 Indiana,
*tor. ttse %inner to wheel the loser through. rem- ea the eyelid' mad saw none of the
the street, in a wheellterrow. The wager • 42v1aoatitsoe oioadnehoitutaiyIracetiairuititte,4a.in cavte,reetre
able noise and hilarity.
waseettled the other evening with consider,
.-regiOndof the'db lear* t. Teen be was puzzled
It is reported that the "Rev. 0, A. Juba- land stratled. and applied the stetimatiope.
ion," whoever he may be, annottners that iThen he repressed his growing excitement
reault of much sandy he decides that land euramoned assietance. Elide:men 0
"in just thirteetwo years frorn now the !latent life in the bedy were discovered
electricity ;stored in the earth will come in ibeyond doubt. Vigorette efforts were then
centeet with the heated mttter inside and made for resuacitation, and auccessfuliy
blow the whole world up."
11180ELL Alf HOU%
DAVit, 0 Inxingten, Ind, •
tl of Ieelej tw from a make bit
hes been misted of impressing credulous
F.R S.'a and others by seances at which
such cony/41°12m spirit music might be play.
ed.
Halring it Hight.
Customer (to headwaiter) -Here, sir, thi
clumsy fellow bee ispilled over half of m
up_ of tea down my brick,
Heed Waiter (to elstnasy svelter, sternly)
-Bring this gentleman a full cup of tea
instantly.
Ab!e to Relieve Her.
outlg Ludy (to chiropolist)-I wish
yeti could. help me Professor. I endure
o much agony when dancing..
Prefeasor (confidenttly)-Oat mademois-
elle. I have z 3 sure cure. I make se 'prof-
ane za light fantastic toe.
,A Square Heal.
Over eisievadashauty hangs a shingle bea
ing thia legend
come in An git
a aquar mele sieli
as Your mother Used
to Kook
for a Quarter.
Blue serge, with sash and facings of black
moire, is a popular combination in fel I
costumes.
There was a yoring man 0 Axminster
Who fell in love with a spinster.
When he asked her to marry she said"Ce
to old Harry -
My father, I mean," said the spinster.
The plutnber cemedown like a wolf on tho
fold.
And his pockets were laden with solder and
gold;
Nine hours ad a half he made love to the
cook,
And sixty•five dollars was ehorged on his
book!
One 0 the most desirable plots of land at
Bar Harbor is owned by an Irish woman, who
lives on it in a small hue She has had
tooffesres11.of $150,000 for the land but refu se
Kansas Teacher -Where does all on r
grain go to ?
Soholar-Into the hopper.
What hopper.
G-rasshopper.
A Chinese tiger story: In a wild region
near helping is the village of Takang
Tsun. In a temple of Wing there stays
at night a man, not a priest. Two small
holes in the door allow him to look out.
The tiger name and crouched outside the
door a long time. Then he put his paw
through one of the holes and olavred a-
round. Then he put his tail through,
and felt about with it f or the man. The
man out the tail off with an axe. The
tiger butted the door until it Was knocked
from itfl hinges and fell over the man,
who had bee t trying to prop it up from
the ineide. The tiger sprang over the
door, without finding the man under it,
and seizing one of the josses which was
the.iti orm of a man, -ran away with accent it, whereupon the cowboy cooked
Next day some grtisti cutters on the the weapon, threatened to kill the drat men
mountain', a goocl distance nff,- found the that moved, filled his pockets with about
Joss lying on a lonely hillside, where it 8400 in gold and silver that was steeked on
had been abandoned , by the tiger, and the table, backed out of the room, monnteit
took it beek to the village. • his horse,and made off unhindered,
Teo worn= of Appleton, 'Kea bOt- (1111 ; cold, although 1. 1 g
the recent election at certain Stade Sea- 11');.t bard an'tif0:4"orleyasulauTigleo:ral 0%.11
There recently died at Eliot, Mich.,
man who had made preparation thet no.
thing should be said at hia faneralthet would
not meet with hie approveL He had written
his own funeral sermon, the hyaena to be
sung at his funeral, the wordsof consolation
to Ins friends, end the epitaph for his tomb-
stone.
Here's& pretty tough story from New
Heaven: Brakeman George Lefties atood on
the top of a car moving over a bridge at
West Haven when a gest of wind lifted the
roof from the ear. As the roof, with George
anit, swept under a telegraph wire, he seiz id
the wire, made his way along it to the near-
est pole and then slid to the ground unharm
ed.
Edward Birge of Hartford, was on his
toe. Thee the hapless girl, while yet un.
conscious, was wrapped in blatikets, and
tenderly removed to the residence of 000 01
the professors near by. Her relatives were
sent for, and in time she regained perfect,
health, and enbeequently wedded the stri-
dent, who afterward became president of
Philedelphie Medical College. She is mow
a widow, suad resides with the youngest of
four stsgvart sone. -(Chicago Harald.
The Sheath of thuttom.
Every human being grows up inside a
thee% of custom, which enfolds it as the
swathing clothes enfold the infant. The
sacred customs of one's own early hotne, how
fixed and immutable they appear to the
child 1 It surely thinks that all the world in
all times has proceeded on the same lines
bicycle the other day spanning
squirrel darted breach 0 these rules (some of them, at least)
along a which bound its tiny life. It regards a
country road, when a red
from the woods and attempted to cross the
OS a wild step in the dark, leading to un -
road in front of him. The little fellow was known dangers. The eldets have always
s
just in time to get caught by the big wheel, said (and, indeed, it seems only reasonable)
that by this time of day everything has been
which, curiously enough, took him up into
him.
so thoroughly worked over that the best
out of
the slot ander the seat and crushed the life methods of ordering our life -food, dress,
V oung Fred Harris of New London, while domestic practices, sooial habits -have long
handling a pistol on a Monday afternoon, ago been determined. If so, why these diver -
sent a ball through his leg below the knee. gences in the simplest and most obvious
He didn't think it wise to say anything matters? And then one thing after another
to his parents about it, got through the gives way. The sacred, world wide custom
night as best he could, and started. for &shoot in which we are bred turn out to be only
as usual on Tuesday. Before noon the the practices of a small or narrow caste or
wound became so painful that he had to class; or they prove to be confined to a very
tell of it, and he was sent home and put limited locality, and must be left behind
under a doctor's care.
when we see mit on our travels; or they be -
There were 19,912 patents issued in the long. to the tenets 0 a feeble seat; or they
States last year,
and of these but 1,083
are pat the products of oile age in history
were granted toSoutherners. Texas led and no other.
?
the Southern States, a patent being granted Are there really no natural boundaries
for every 6,006 Texans. Florida came next. Has not our life anywhere been founded on
reason and necessity, but only on arbitrary
Mississippi's ratio was one patent to every
customs? What is more =portent than
food, yet in what human matter are there
more arbitrary divergences of practice?
The Scothh Highlander flourishes on oat-
meal, which the English Sheffield iron work-
er would rather starve than eat; the fat
snail which the Roman country gentIenton
once so prized now crawls unmolested in
English or American gardens; rabbits are
tabooed in Germany' frogs are unspeakable
in England ; sauerkraut, is detested in
France; many mess and gangs of people are
quite certain they would die if deprived of
meat ; others think spirits .of scene kind a
necessity, while to others again bete these
things are an abomination.
25,146 of her population. Alabama, in spite
of the recent great mechanical development
of the State, was credited with but 5a in.
ventions in the year.
Some weeks ago the hre of Willard
Lovering, at Gill, Mass., was struck by
lightning, and he was burned to death and
all his papers were destroyed, including his
will. Register Thompson, who wrote the
original will, has written another as near
like it as he could front memory, and this
has been filed. Lovering left an estate of
about $5,000, and if this postmortem will
holds the Congregational Church at Green-
field will get $2,590 of ib.
John James was running a Spanish Monte
game in the new town of Gasper, Washing-
ton Territory the other night,. when a half -
drunken cowboy played against him and
lost a few. dollars. He then wanted to
stake hia six-shooter, but James refused to
"I washed Willie's pants t udder day, and
day shrunk so chit de 130' ehile kiti ha'dly
walk in 'urn. Won'er how I gwau fix 'unit"
"Try waelain' de cline. Maybe lie shriek
Honesty that is only volley is not Worth
muela ; the very heathen knew better than
that and said that what was right and jest
+aught; to be done though the heavens IlhOnld
fall,