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.. , I 016 total amounted. He had poeketed no 3 preaiges teblee," WO can all be 49 WiSe and
it SelE when he aew to how very
extent of his wienings. He trembled him- , this hlace the better, T,,,* A Oli 0 Ulf T TERAII.
Soft Ethel galvanized whet aescla as astet
Weesx As v FAR;/ CONTE=Enne.
ugh play lead only putt begun w nen I sontlaehadeaftelPreres:viinng::hItafe°:*:074rigld brb%erwnt:bneer:Q:tod;rw;h1t2r :tete ciejsrtg;ortit;:ltdin;rteadeicibaileonairtsYholet:" And Is," -6 sa-- *vane,
end IAA conthaelons eittereel the SW. money, he died into his pocket with a such
enwere Wes Yvon Genie 1"
ER XLIV.-" Lewes AND G 4 4- i of one deep breath he hesitated an
acrikTsamE AND 811.A.DE.
1
I back. What was the use of gambling with
a held hUlldreClit4111
Ruesten. Raffelevsky bit hie lip Whith et-
tebseemeteirai, nia:bralbrwitilleuorffeta'h,nbi °Le:vitt:4f ' wi4tt wir:t et all," wagh aeewerett with his four distinct Attains, the "America:0s De- Wong. In the absence of these thetimit avelit
pittance 1 How he pitied and
He tnentioned ttte auto of his winniege otootteet geateeehy.
tehebay7:r::Patedhsabcti: th keep do Yen Vett laY bre*" but"
largethat:Pihuould ' "YtflaY;4'rria:edryioakur aonWithme-roe'P:uncl,thyPou6gnailltille"t°1
61 own ten loule out of it for marmot, Tee proved Saxory." All Are similar la size, rather large. waving hither eg these eett
pleesenteat elude ; he knew how to do a grin
rest hi .. Your wile% I elothon it in her freedom from wrinkles, and general chexac wires we MAT SOW a button upon tiff cleat,
" I've taken beelteny tho " piaci/limo Itlerluetet" Wad the " Int. pipe will answer. The latter, It.oweeer, ie.
Medi:men" The clam cotaprisee int tem then but is a trifle more expetteive and net ate
po414:1rtatrir; etknaowt "isn tehte,b region as "The Big mon copper wire will amwer haat as wehle
Mine !Orinoco" the "Black -top lVferinoes," wire med by stove men for putting up stove
Washington Ohenritt Pao is the heed' geed ptir oftpliers it can be used airamitt
eheep which are Pot like striog. When ;hie gannet be had, Dom -
I or the eheap telephones, isWonderfullyhmet
0 R, • • • ' leas in that: shorts time then fourteen hundred 'prudent for others
London for a loogi lone year upon /n4f that ma wen on, glenehm down at its heeptehly. Aetentoelt Domeloo Meanie Slum..
fat about the house or the farm. , With a
leme i Foote that plod and toil and moil in "But it really yours," theyouug Engitsin
won or.
It was her good luck oleos that tor of wool, but each atrain is bred in its femme the ear of a tie pail he piece, or Mad
n, the rooms were already pretty well me own *abet line. The first three were a. whams of periodicais. With the copper-
rowded with molar vlsitore, who oa,me napoleotte from law scanty perm, "4 a Ixet '14 Yet/ e"ePel — engem:11y bred from Spameh Merinoes aud wire leather cae be footheed in many plaeme
rawly to secure thelr accustomed seats, sod I without A word on 27, and awaited petlently It's wonderful with whetplitoid. deptlet of to,tune moot iota soatowilorh Dense cane the jest named is the result of eresiee be. ass for example about; a harem where owthee
who lent forward with big toile of gold the reault of his action. heroism the winner* can endure the IMMO af tween Spanish and Swum. That all are ary waxed ends will fail. For traineefg
piled high In colemes on the Ulla betfOrO " hhe game in made," the croupier cameo, ill TnaYe 73743tiVillt'SIZOS4(14:10asenkterrAitinno- purobred Merinoes has never been queatton- planta evilest the home wire is far WOe.
them, markino down with a (10t On their out as Hugh, withdrew hie hand, After
I
- t. e tlee 108a0. "Never mind, my friend,"
Hugh answered beck cheerily. "Fortune
alwaws takes a turn in the long run. Her tentlY' virer the litleuee'n3'eaeY) and gu/It4' Spentele Merino breedera with something of
undisturbed, turned back again with a nod ed, yet they have alwaya been regerded by thee etring„ For this purpoae cop.per te
their twenty or thwty nspoleem with me- &received or altered. Whir wr.. went the
'telhete the whetting memento, and etakIng that warning signal, no steltes can he further weeei win airor. You'll win aeon. And to me mew itembimit. Tee etreteee teemed the &awash which. Shorthorn. oattle brood- wire Isom wid fence wire may be worked
Oren the galvanized mond, and plata hem
chanioal tudiunesti on every turn of that :roulette. The pea appal round 'alai wirzzum
fellsteloge whirligig. Ilugh had often heard i -speed. Hugh tooked on, ell eager, in a Briton.
beside; you 101094 you Imre an infallible es ee e e
,
generous amtion prettily perforated Jeep:we. era have for the seventeens." While will.
's the cursed, system that seam to stud iavigoreted hie play from thet enerne4;:. Mg to concede them points of high tudividu- trth rfeeer ItatrielPd en r Perpfse it eta thbeeturtleapIr try: °Ifr
eam up ee els wore. A pleasant cense o. a
nem depleted upon every face, the :melee: he have betrayed me," the Rosters blurted He weut on with ble game wIth an appree, balEtratfileinlid7illebtel the purity :Efrr47110Piet= pee.a. A pretty stout ateke is wanted ati
or read eemattomil descriptIons of the eager- . fever of suspense. He half regretted eot eatirely, to take the place of ;mesh foo
had haeltod 27. Re wee me r° le'ee• beak with a swage outhurat of uncheoked ing eoteseienee, strap peoples consciences blood. Stephen Powers, in his " HistorY eath end of the row- Tomatoes can he etth-
gem, the rape attention, the o bvions fam , The chances, After all, 9vere so mew- per. alien of the game for tta votaries; "It worleett oue ao well on paper, approve so blandly. The other player*, too, of tee Autarkies] Merino, says: "For some ported by a pair of wires stretched. along the
.6 ;truck hire rather on the &et bluish 'you win, it's a fluke. What a fool he bad.
but • mane egainail Urge TbIrtr4--fr 6° Me 1 n ' some ; lett on theee precious tables', oessreed and applauded. Getablere over- reaeon a cloud has eivraye rested over inn row, 000 00 each side. Thie must he done
with their terms anel their enhations, outs gove with petty eupereettone. 0,te of tusk portetions male subsequently to 1812." early before the Mum begia to epreed at the
all sem the exset opposite : the stellti i been to wan the riak of making himself look thing
*mace with which men and women ( smell in tide
Inured to the verging chancee of t eyes of that =feeling I:Meehan.
gratuitous way before the cold up to vat awe prevent my legitimete
twexPecieel je alwaYe b°5ble8 prat:ow:0mo ie the "rooted belief that, mea4. These "big Marinoes" trace to Inc Meade
neee end generoeity mon teem ite due re, importatiou of 18hh, We shell aean thOW
them. top. An old berrel hoop mem be fastened to
tt. Jo the eocket of the buggy entl, the
the wiree fie thett theplent comet; up thresehle
sigla, lost or woo e couple stf doom 1 0,, triereph. Would you believe it, nowt het ward: whoever gemeiges in A lavish f*oe. how groundlees are any preiedicee ageatiot
or ao on each jump ot the peo, whoRet.hkeneowyotelht WI/liertigel4:.,..Q1;61211T:,:nt I turn bat oue, and the tam before in I hen 'touted opeaeuteeeh way iloora, they honk
ugh it were A matter of the supremest t never hangs upon ab'ettag' "le'ilu-7117. It de- calculated. seven. hawked, aud tweetyttwo to Itecorne the, favourite of fortune. The American Ihtletne teterinoes ewe to f:nrathewpaire::--tihnerieaestiotailud beeve:YeCerlr roll
distinct <Menem all in iny fewer th a raiser- The Russian, ee the other bane, kept on a Reek of Spaniel:a Mediums, imported, abettt of Aire, as well ah a bell or stoat strings.
earn to them le their capacity of gam- ; peados upon a long ealculatton of ohemees, able solitary one against me: and not one losing madly. Now and again, indeed, he 1820. by atebard W. Meade, United Stetea In the event of a hreak-down ell sorts eh
whether they or the bank ItalMen• Yet:ante/01ot one risk balaneganother. Rof- et the seven hundred and en" two good wen eer e whoa on tome g,Teatcoup* reitiog Caned in Spain, and father of the late OM mending can be done with great emir . A.
take up eit mpereleelar 1L lo heap ' folovoky hadtiveivo thoaland. ron,g. to to, i oorobwation. evil:, twoo, up at a, Imo twit t . ey tea
110Y. They mewed, Indeed, to be back epee, If he felled OTICO, Se Aire thA114 tho mei 'mhy esunigtin Me fifty or 4 henderd load* ; beOm Othrge GMOAN Thwere takea to bretten alaps.thillt or Ovate wht on he
hry goettinetlou thet
hid: aini ewe PeePlet engaring front (Mel; utetter : he could go Qu Mill and rest made egainat me and ruined my &specula- was by except -toe ; for the meet pert, be Weshingten C000ty, 1,,,A,,, end created with mede whole, etel actialeittsi whIch are EIEREAl.
• eritteree mote hit weemehe time etter time, ()there imported altenta the eatIle data bpi. It. ly tierleuely eexetioes Wee= Mere bole
ore el the purse, ValO geoid afford to (mop Mined( In the end by mom ot the aye, twos. yea might platy for asiven huudred
Awity their gold thee water, and I hem who Only under such eireumetancee ot it Nod tweoty.tsvand had recount() whet eiermieh treheeney Dieltioseu, mutual ocemioneliefusioe °Utah deuteo tarnO en ea everege mete et ieterettee to lais bundle a „ot,,,„, 14.0,i, blood from Vermont and other fleeke. They Wires woueal tiehtly about the end oh a
It away eereleehlY out of pure wituten' i tun PAM tan allY method of eatabliog ever withoot Hiatt ever heppening a le9QOa titee vrttiele he chenged ea thaneratd franas every were known tot Mimic -tops Merles:sew front the Mack, and the end cerefully tucked Int or
. or the 'Ake of the antelt mottle= of 'by Any poisaibtlity be worth anything. to eostouod yoz4a
ug exeltententyielded by thenecertale- .. re est ee a ta beet, even or hall hour or go with pereisteet nieortene, opium eecretion el yolk. From 1862 to 1867 the led tarn toeured with it teek, Timken o
Rothschild Tem epee the reheitim batik wlth uevaryt two bucks bred front croseittg Speuleh blerino good end substantial ferret% To lore bow
, they most elmoet uecemarily rieer , ierrEri, xvitet..1,40.rophe hrh)44p„ me reit/1144qt Now it wee nee thee tented with Blaeletop, and purchmed of 0.11, Beall, tbia Afield he done cue has may to study
pierce the heed theta team upon them s"'''.
here the very 6ret Ulamaat that erht at i it it imutureto toy there OA a p, to conf000d h4 reeitenieh, tote the of Weat Virgiuta, Neere ;nod in one of the the whetting of wire upon a. brown, Thie
thet eerly hour of the mottling, When the
e jlettY After a sumptuoue tenth, Hugh mid the gouger with the how mule a Olsen sweep, hooks in Weeloiegtoe Ceuety, Pa. le 1871 a broom wire ia of ebout the right adze for ea
404141) Ot Pocket eeP,Itela Itud llugitht 7'work had haedly yet got well under werePhY ler 4a -g4 Rumble returned to the theme. To the whited, et tee entire teme ,,; twer h wes a Speuiatt Mediae rem nalned Viche m
ter, of greet 1 tallet Pim, There ere plecee Ana
5 oPitel ee Set • net BPM:114 l'=-11417 rather to the treethrehouseof teeh suo4ossitog a 1dt beta ettethere owe wog indirihtml writ, was breught hate the Iteekse timeawhen e 9?.Ilige of tarna of wira around
.eigh, the rooms, theugla large and lofty, o lerge venture -he A only mute twenty- peuods ithone him
out all belief hots and closev
dentatletei reelaa i Oti the atepe, they pained it youus tote a rude while he bee 'mixed h'; hem of two leediog breedera end left hie imprete the meth of a bn ere muthen
ch better em
,. gve . riEuglieb, Jed, who looked barely twenty. wtth untrarytug naleham open the right -baud epee both. 1113ft:en wee remarkably heavy, etrIng. A wite staple or lasted will held se
from the atrange another el leverteh heulen liow relit itt thought, and how long A 44 Omit teuxamgm 1 played, i he mkt soytog column. jown,„ neatens b
eeett time toh10wei hiatwenty gpounds, very white, and flappitig strap and witheat allowing like.
hearta and lenge, all throb:W.11.g and panting time it eeented ters thampe
hae pee td I Re
their eupremed excitement, te thee miugle to a compel:den ruefully oa they pmsed him, to see tile bank eerwereh, weiteg out urge witi e sulUtlently oily wes free from any eh. string. A atreteheil wire will keep floweo
heti remelted oue all thie, awl e‘ then4end." " Shedd break her heart over it if the ever sem to Two, wbue be hteniet wee, on eteasive seeretiou. He lefc hie Itaprese an the pate from blowing off a bench or shelf in
emi-u„N 44(1.,..1mrrni1_18 the Air with their inter- fold moth in his OM mind with lightning iteew ten teat Bete bee The time to notice toeing and ieeteh„ Bet et tet imeereet be ileake, which were still farther improved. simmer. A splitkniholtatelle may he wouml
nel hteet e-te relted Me *Yea aaa glaaged allettl Wate that foolialt wheel wee Stilt in posstog the pethos of the remark. Who weed follow his cetealattoce to tite bleter Thewrogeuy of them aheep mad *there bred wIth wire and needs to do good work. It
fer 4 e'ementi ereeed the 59"leen. It waa whirling awl ePinning- Il be wert at alit oonid bother Me heed ?Mout trifles like than clew week meet bnyo n tere ioroowhoo; On snefiler lino teeth kept eatirely distieet meet not he fargottee thwt it Itandle tightly
arreeleve and haueleomes After ite own geudy it goehl only be by A rare strelte at fichie 'forsooth, whew he...1.1.g K. hutoirede on and at norms, p aeons would ;lever be, from the Bleebt Witt And railed Vie:tor-Been wound with mapper wire affacla a very grue
Cubicle eddy deeoseted In the lietwerque fortune. Thirty-etx to cue were the Ode 1 the tern ei it eoutette tote t prove tostters, Hugh hittee htra erem bie Da4doo mortrzo3, in 1857 Ole mute wee gtip. Leidy, when your auspendere broke
ityle (Abe Spenith Allteethra, though tea egeleet Idea 1 aud if he kat, to meet either ' He intent to wet hnueretewthetwaude--
fee lem teeth mad harreemy of masher than In heart, peer tgueraue devil. Why matilduhi chwaged to the more vempreiteneive owe of and emeillea and threel ere a mile Aweye
lank lantilleritect la /lend= end SYdeehents turn oat 14, or eine lathe on edet or even, At Then yeera bee, tenbt bee a noztan *art
the re:garage= to which hie eye bed Wan the teruis of the eyatera, etehe teat louts next tee,e_eor Bleu, tor Bwie,
lose off at (mem or elm, he ageordauce while wee He resent to beim up it eatetwe ter.
ebegoes wee, ie bie oene theme t Teen alieep live bete breuglet op to the
tbet Amerieett ittlebee Meriremet chalet !ergot the -copper wire.
--,,
he dad out with eit exenthe of Mien
A. thousand hawse on et. 1 The teble tenet ateudurd by cereful aeleetion and
At Moute Carlo* to thy the truth, A certain that tette, hie pear little cepltal would aeon ot shesbutee et wee no kmger tor hie et= stens, pm, 0,4d, wbeeperh Heevy ler A . Oleg from the Simi* atrium% with a
auhdhed tiuge el wiger garielluthe ihet rear* he exhoUSIta, How IAO lengeti for Reffa- tuse thet he Nwettea money; he longed ta ley uumber 1 Who puta it on' This Monate= tow to producing "mere wool and more
dile notive PoritY , of tile sitYle ultra Per levaky'a twelve thoustnd to draw upon. Ha it on down ot Elsie's feet. She was his
an the ecet here -palletise'. to Hugh. The 010 22.1 en fewer leqe." z' re'4"1 In the
feet it .r41 with the eetate 444 purviews would few go mean It O7 Woe end if there n,,„en 2 he wow tio ber heritage.
eroupler ahrugs Me ahouleter tied Wan Oat rhr'.91141 l"I'lee Ikriee .,1 t, lluee ere
of that temple of Mornreou in hie vileat wm epethote on eerth that Hugh htetaieger "tht
aveter. The tablets had Ned up three hlee deep 3401/34 therm. r eqrtzeu winiewleenweer etsetareh ta weigh not ion than QUO 111 .1'O
bated It W" feeling entail : tbe sem° (4 ig' , with pleyera by this time. Hugh haul hard wee very uthrly right amain, voyremous 7- ,and elletitY Weegleas 1,1231,14terUY* 4aa 43WC4 11"
Hugh, however, for hie part bed no lunniny, and Its opposite the feellug of per- work te imp Me waydexterouelY so between Fourteen, toy hireti, Is Joe the preelse teas *4.'44 nee "Iuhtleh fel:Ina. TIJO cuale
acrupics in the metter of gentbilisfi• He eeohl dihulth were deePlY veered In the them : the Rued= followeh with must atii. hoolile of thyme atualeutte lack le some -
&tech up aud down et the *021 02? Mehl) very hese end core of ide loath imbue. cuity, Bat A oroupier, recegattiug them, thieg truly mirth:alone, Ile gees ethoutend
roulette tableathat crowded the ealies delete, At last the pee jumped. A hreethleesi, motioned bath with e cote/cans wave of his francs OnSe more, still on aeven. Li. but
with the utmost complacency. He Med eond 1 The croepter e i
, , livid to two vecaut chews he hal kept on he has the courage ef his °envie:Ione. mon
pley, and it diverted hint to weteh it, ea and Watabed ite tell, "Itiugt ssept." uot purposes. Alen who win -or lose-lerge anti I Tiventy-threo wince -Wrong again 1
peeiolly wheel the Man he raeaut to observe cried in hts stereotyped tone, lodughhi hearti eutimeommand respect instinctively at Monte He erope oe bit a seeeee thouteue. hat
wee the pro 001 of a new and infallible letept up with a audden wilt1 bound, The cattee, lino met the, Butt= bee each
with. what pact I A theusend franci la
ayetem. lefellible syteems are &therms ie. fever ot play land 'mirth on him now. 110 qualified, on 000 02- other of then eppotim nothing to then milord% Hugh similes hie
tereetirg : they collapse with e emit- hail won WI atrolte-e buedreh send seventy -11 goeuuds for ER Goat at the teble. ilughhi perturbally and otekos a thlre. Oa *even
antuniug to everyleely except their propound- live IrrOlt. 7; turn It/the syteem, however, had not yet agate 1 Tue man is wonderial, What WIWI
er. Ho bent Ways:, clogely men a:ohm:de Here Neile a eepital indeed upon which to ' come on ; bo teed to watt, ageordbast to his
A, this time 7-" Soft gamer," ories everybody
of the Ruesiau, who had renv pilled out hie begin. He would back his O1711 Denton een'imP)34 Imvi tal ana a the fent' reltlew in bushiest telmtration ; stud Hugh, more
roll ef gold and diver and 22 1" eagerly with this aeainet Refittleveltyhe Or rather,' nambers shweld hap en to turn u before spluilx•iike in his emits; than over, hub eon
!weltering to back ita chosen numbere, he would beck litff dovelty's hiecevery, a3* he again be_gen stalt rim Se he gaze. arouud mime of a deem adralthig eyes geed full
doebtletle with the blind and atuplal ean rightly approhendeil aud worked out bert
, with pleold intereet for aeme roinutes at upon him, takes coolly up hls thirty-dve
fidence of the infetueted aystem mon e r. turnoff, agetnet Roffelevaky'e dieeovery let hie crowded followtpleyora. Succors ex- thouteed. Thirty -live thousand franca la
Br:flaky/shy, however, pfeyest ts. e e t. ut, wrongty c.pplied anh disterted throneh au4 cites some nervous heads ; It always made not to be eneoreh at. Fourteen hundred
opeoioto Re otarted mete tt:y with four eateutith error of detail by he original in. Hugh Messinger plastid. There they ate pounds feeding! The biggest hive v. t, hut
five irate pieces, distributed about on a venter and stood, not less, he thought, than five nothing when you're accustomed to it, Whet
diotineW plan, and each of them staked on It was weetwa pitted aghast F*11 ttun now. hunired busty man and womem fifty or vixty a run of lack T Monsieur WaS 111 tho vein
a reperate uumber. The five iraue eneoe, The creepier meted in the teettered gold joatliog one mother round oaoh separate t
in hot, it the minimum, coin permitted. to beeped we the various cabalittio numbera, bond, playing awey as if for deer life, and Veeti. He played on and, en, mare elated
t en ever. At thit rate, he would mon
thaw its face tin these altiteor,,,tio tables ; squar.;s, and diamonda-aud amongst theirs, fishing fortunee giddily on the Jame of A
^ earn a fortune for Elsie,
ihai oix tbettehud fhatlet 10 the mhtillnure R.iftlevelty'a live napoleous 'epee 21. Then pea in thew meeninglees ilttle whirligig 01 21
sum which the hanIt ellowa any one player He pieyed an still with careless; eagerneta
ha petit the holly playera then. gains ; count- apinning roulette wheel. She WAS A Ger-
to hezard on A elegle mid of the roulette: ing out three thousand fitto huudred frame man ho smote:Allred. that fist -faced hopes- till the tables alma -played with a contin-
wi,,h praothed eau, end heading them to eve 'lady opposite, gambling cautiously hut
between them extreme limito, all posaiblo nous run ot Melt, often varying, of coulee-
aysteme must needs ornfine thernae'ves, ao Hugh, who was one among the ?Heap a, very high, and laden on her nook and arms for who minds a fee. hundreds to the bad
that the common martingale of doubling the now tied thca when hen witming one time
winnere by that paetioular turn. To two and cams with an atrocious deed -weight of
Mike at each tuiencocesful throw becomes with another his thousands ?-but on the
minutes more, the board was oleareh ; the vulgatly oxpantive jewelry. Then the bola
hero praetically impossible. Rettalevsky's wooden One had hauled in all the banktt whole a run of leek persistently favourable.
but handaome young girl at her aide, with
play had been carefully calcsulateh. Hugh, receipts; the fortunate -players had Add- • the oxquiehe bonnet end well -out mantle, RhiltlershYs rneellwitliestadltlaYed and look
*who was already well 'creed in the myster- At the end of the day, as the laekeys came
ed their rvinniuge to the heap before and the remarkably full-blown Penney1-
108 of roulette, could see at a glance that in to bow the world out with polite smiles,
thorn ; and all was ready for a further vanian twang, =tat surely by her voice be
the Rusisien hut really a method in his further venture. "Modems et mes. they both rose and left the rooms together.
an American oitizen. By her voice and by
madness. He wee Nvorking on .striet mathe- Then it 'sudden thought Mashed =pea hit
dames, faites le jeu," the bark voice of her play • for she risked her broad old
matical principles. Sometimes he divided soul. Too late to return to San Remo nowl
the creeper owed mechanically. The hundred -franc pieces with true -born Amer',
or decreased hie leek° ; aometimes, at a Awkward as it was, ha must stop the night
laid down their Melee once more ; the OAD. recklessness of ountqabnce. And therms
bound, he trebled or quadrupled it. Some. outfit Monte Lark. relief himself -of play
croupier wetted the aeoustorned Interval. little wayoff,standsanewlymarried English- he phumed on a single number ; and of Eliii4-be had actually ,forgotten all
" Ls ten eat fait," he cried at last; and the man, with his pretty small bride nestling
stmetimes for several tame together he pea again went buzzing and whizzing. Hugh oloae up to him in wifely expostulation. about Winifred i
steadily backed either red or black, was backing his eyatem this time on the Hugh could eren catch anatchea of their They walked across aide by silo to the
pair or impair, But en the whole by regular rule : three lode on the left-hand vrhispered colloquy: "Den't George, don't." Hotel de Paris. Hugh was far too feverish -
hap or stunning, he really seemed to be row of numbers. -" Just this once, Nellie : a napoleon on ly excited now with his day's play to care
winning rapidly. His snatained success hie lost. That wan but it small wetter, of rod." -Black wino: he loses,-"H'ra, the in the least about the slight and the insult
made Hugh more anxious then ever to watch course. He boa. won to begin with; and a chances there are onlo even. If I win next to that poor dead girl. The mere indeoenoy
his play. Ie was clear he had invented a stroke of luck at the firat outset is respond- time, I get nothing but my own old napoleon of it was all that he minded. A cynical
germ= system. Might it be after all, sto ble for the greater part of the most reckless back again. ill go it one better now: a hardness possessed him at lad. Nobody
he said, an infallible one ? playing. Time after time he staked and imp on a colttron. Then if I win, you see, need know. He strolled to the telegraph
If only Hugh could find it out 1 He must, played -staked and played -staked and I get four times my stake, Nellie." -Lost office and boldly sent off a meitsege to the
he would marry Elsie. How grand to marry played again, sometimes losing, sometimes 'gain 1 How fast they rake it in 1"-" Well, penaion :
her, a rich man 1 He would love to lay at winning; but on the whole, the system, as then, I'll back a number this tima."-"Oh, "Detained atMentone with sympathisitag
Elste's feet a fortune worthy of his bean- he had antioipated, proved fairly trust- bun George dear, you know you really can't friends. Return tomorrow, Make all ar
tifui Elsie. worthy. The delirium of play had taken afford mt."-George, unabashed by her wifely rartgemente on my account!-Messnwart "
Things were all changed. now. He had full possession of him, body and soul, by this reproof, plumps own his napoleon on 32. Then he presented himself at the bureau
something to live, to work, to gamble for ! time, He was piling up gold; piling it fast: Whir goes the roulette.-" Dix-huite" cries of the Hotel de Parte Moneleur had no
If only he oould nay to his recovered Elsie: how fast, he never stopped:to think or count: the croupier, andhsweeps in the gold with a uggage ; but no matter for thee ; the hotel
" Take me, rich, famous, great -take me, enough for him that the system won: as careless curve of Ms greedy hand -rake. Poor made haste to aocommodate him at once
and Whitestrand, no longer sand-awept. I long as it won, what waste of time at a souls 1 In his heart, Hugh Maseinger was with the best of rooms, not even requiring
Lay it all in your lap for your gracious ac- critical moment to stop and reckon the ex- genuinely sorry for them. If only they had at depoeit beforehand. All Monte Starks
oeptanoe-these piles of gold -these heaps tent of his fortune. known his infallible system 1 knew well, indeed, that Monsieur had been
of coins 1" But he had nothing, nothing, He only knew that every now and then he Bat t von as he thoneht it, he touted hien winning. •Hie name and fame had been
eave the few napoleons he carried about him. thrust it freah har dful el gold or notes into seif with a start. Eighteen WM oite of the noised abroad hy many -headed trumpeters.
If he had but the Russian's twelve thousand his pooket-for Elsie -and went on playing very numbers he had pat. been waiting for. wis pockets were literally stuffed with goId.
pounds now 1 he would play and win-win a with feverish eagerness with the residue of No time for otiose reflections now; no time
fortnne at a stroke for his darling Elsie. his winnings left upon the table. for foolish waste of sympathy : the moment fle was the hero of the day. He had cat -
Fired with the thought, he watched Raf- By two o'clock, however, he began to get had arrived tor vigorous action. With a riod everything at the Casino before him.
&loyalty more closely than ever. In time, hungry. This sort of excitement takes it sharp decisive air, he plunged down a Min- Attentive servents awaited his mereat beak
.
he began to perceive by degrees upon what or nod ; everybody was plow& ; the world
rapidly out of a man. Look had dissapeared dred Ionia on white. Bystanders started smiled on hon, Alphonse, Marie, look well
prinelple the money was so regularly lost from the scene long since. He wanted. sortie- and whispered and nudged one another,
and won. It was a good principle, mathe- body to go and feed with. So he leaned White twon, and he took up hIS winning . hest et Renee.
after .thonaiear ! Monsieur has had the very
matioally oorreob, laugh worked it out over and whispered casually to Raffalevsky : with the utmost oomplAcency. How quitkly '1
haetily on the back of an envelope Yee, in He Blipped with Itaffe,levsky in a beauti-
"Shall we turn out now and take a mouth- one accustoms one's self to these big figures 7 i fully decorated Ballo amianger. They re-
ties hundred and twenty chences oat of one ful or two of lunch together ?" A hundered lonis seemed nothing now, i '
hundred and thirty-seven, a man ought to Raffalevsky looked back at him with a pureuance of the system. Then he glaneed 111 e,
-n. , counted to one another, gleefully, gloom -
win ten Ionia ands turn against seven lost, on paleface. " As you will," he said wearily. aoross at George, poor luckless George, with y their wernings and leases. The
an average reckoning. At last Reffeleesky, "I'm tired of -this play. Losses, losses all a mute inquiry. How. that smooth -faced. i utoptals were heavy. They totted them
after several good haeards, laid down five along the Inc. The system breaks down young Englishman envied hie mamas ; with varying emotions. Hugh had
louie boldly upon 24. Hugh touched his here and there, I fled, in aatual practice." George, poor George, had loot again "Nad-
ler 1 won three thousand four hundred pounda.
shoulder with a gentle hand. " Wrong,"the So Hugh had observed with a placid amile &mew' Hugh said, addressing himself with Reffalevsky had made a hole in his larger
tor the hour or two. an apologetics smile to the pretty young wife, ooptital to the tune of 'something like two
murmured in French. " You make a mis• . 44+ last u
take there. You abandon your principle. They lefb the toblee, and strolled across "allow me to venture ten lois for you."- thousand seven hundred. At the announee-
You ought to have backed 27 this time. the equare to the stately portale of the The blushing girl shrank back timidly. anent, Hugh stniled his most benevolent
The Russian looked.baok at him with an Hotel de Paris. Hugh WEE,EI in excellent Hugh laid hewn ten pieces of old on a and philosophical smile, "After all he
angry smile; so slight it scratch at once spirits indeed. • • number again, backing hie own luck separ- said, as he scanned the wino card, tooth.
brought out the Tartar. " Back it yourself, "Permit me to constitute myself the host, ately by the regular rule on a oolumn B
IA& in hand, in sieatch of a perfeetly sound
then, Monsieur," he said aullenly. "I make monsieur," he :said with his courtliest air to of figures. Chance seemed, to favour argundy, "if one Man wins, another nn486
my own game. Pray, don't interrupt me. ileffalevsky. He had won heavily now, him: he was "in the vein," as garab- ' „f gambling. It's at bottom it truly anti -
lose. You have there the initial weak point
If your calculetions go so very deep, put and was in a humour on all•grounds to spend. tern say in their hateful dialect. The
his winnings with princely magnificent*, • number won for poor shrinking little Mrs. socud amusement. But these things equalise
year own money down and .try your luck :
against me. .510 principles, when I firs:tale The Russian bowed. "You. are very Nellie aua the column also 'won as well for . themselves by the doctrine of averages.
themselves in the long run- they equalises
covered them, wore not worked out on the kind, monsieur," he answered with a smile, Hugh 'himself. Re pulled in his own pile. of Takeo colletatively, we're better off than
baok of an envelope." Then he added, half apologetically; at the gold aerates:sly and handed the other to the
[he gibe offended. MTh. In a emend he end of a pane? : ".And after all, it was my pretty young Englishwoman. we were De lunch at anyrate. Then,
tow that the fellow was wrong: he w -as mite own oystem." . .. ours," she murmured with a shy look.'It vi4In't1 his Sarettity of Monaco had pocketed a
interpreting the nature of his own disoovery. The oarte was tempting, and money was mustn't ask me ;I really couldn't take it."
" -ow couple of hundred loans out of . the pair
Ile had neglected one obvious element of cheap-oheaper than in . London, Hugh Hugh laughed, and pressed onto the anx- . Of us vietved in the lunip. This even.
the problem.. The error was mathematical: ordered the mese sumptuous and rotherche ions husband, who oast a sidelong glance at ' ing, en the contrary, we're seven hun-
Hugh snapped at it mentally with his keen of luncheon'', with wine to match, on a the heap of gold, and finally in tome vague i dred pounds to the good, as a firm, against
perceptiono-he had taken a fleet in melte- millionaire male, and they sat down together half-hearted way decided upon. Accepting it, him -4 like to .beitt these hereditary plena:.
restless at Oxford -and noted at once that if. at the Iuhurioua tables of that lordly testae- . "Now go," Hugh Maid with a fatherly atr. oe everything vre're more than MD with him
elms, Its a comfort to think that, in spite
tiee Russian. nurimed his present course for rant. While they waited for their red " You don't understand thie sort of thing, on the d2 '5 transaction (I,
many turns together he Ware certain before 'nutlet, Ilugh pulled out a stray handful, ' you know. You beloug. to the class predes- a ,
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long to go under hopelessly. For the space oenotes and gold and began 10 count up the tined to be cheated. The sooner you leave i
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twerthelese, he reramked with eurpriee
W. E. Palthithotth
RENOVATISCI RE'S•Oe.2 Oegee=3.
Wes oft= meet with no orchard of appere
ently healthy trees, vatiels preetteellty
fraitiees. The owner my telt us ethet in
formerly bore abundant crop, but a hta
pars the Wan have "moat." Why heves
Is besot upeu the following palate Beily- khey "run out"? They !eagerly gen good
good cenetitutiou ; heevy around the bent ;crops of applea. All the other laud ou the
abort heavy neck: goad dewlap; 'nowt twin was expeeted to give but me geed
huh; well eltrulth ram; short icAnt heavy crap, eel this of the orcher3 wal ma -le to
bone ; smell sharp hoof. Fleeee-ten th esh - ' twop of grain. or A cm) of grade or
staple, *Dec yoer old, three incluet ; denso mever, to o talon MI 80 hey. To mil moa
darkish catit on top, gaming up striae; good b watt e tired. of &lug thie denble duty.
flew rA white oii ; god crimp in staple. The trace "gave out' Inceutet they were
Theilenceis requited to banulhorm in length robbed of foul; the drat thing they wed
all over tee body, belly and limbs to the is feeding,. Of mune if the eoii male Arsitn
limo, Atli crier the lute oq,uare t the eyes ;,,iug, lay the int..dvd, thee et outhe or as 80921
of omooth, uniform :surface, hut not Meat tes the cell will allow. Suoh orohae it are
enh ornsty on top, which wtil deaelve in usually in gram; drew on a heevy etleg
washing, of manare an.1 *Teta atld ae coon ea the
As will be men by the deseriptlon, the soil in in proptr condition, turn over the
deem of this breth are wine:let and metalve eel and the manure with the plea ; with
In form, without wrinktet mule wry a henry, the hot weather the SlOcl Neill dezey rspitity,
uniform time of floe crimpy wool, with ee- when this is foiled to be well rotte a give
erotism of white, well -distributed oil, suffi another plowlog, ond a deep oneef twins
dent to protect., theta from wet, but net te can be had, spread a he wry coaling and
form a dem black crush The stople is of harrow ; in the absence of alba, harrow ire
combing length and quality, from which agoal dressing of limo. IE the tee* and
textile fahrict are undo Inc enough for lergerbranehea are covered. with looseaaaleit
ladies' dram goods. Ficeoes weigh from ten of old heti: upon whieh lichees ona moues
poutdo twister& The mutton is elaimeh to have a foonholh, comp off the 1003e hero,
be of good gettlity. Whether it AM cent- ming a blunt, ahort handled hostee a -gaper,
pete anocesaltilly 10 the merketa with the Then in a damp time or thaw WAth the
uloy :stud finely marbled Real) of tha English trees with soft soap, made thin enough to
Down tweets is a point upen which there is apply whh a brush. Use horne-mado loft
mini for question. seep, made with lye or potash. Teat sold.
The first volume of the Register of this at the stores is usually merely hard soap
breed NM issued in 1889, the second in mixed with water and very defitiont 10
18831 anti the third in J889, The member- strength and quite inferior to the home -
ship of the asamiation is moody located in made. Mix the soap with enough water to
Washineton County, Pa., with a few mem- work readily, go over the earape4 portiona
berg in Ohio, West Virginia and Iowa. W. with it, and leave the spring rain to finial.
R. Craigheed, Cannonsburg, Pa., is preti. the work. In due time the bark will be
dent, and John MaNary, Houstonvillie, found beautifully smooth and deprived of
se:watery of the association. he members all foreign growth. The soap that has been
are intelligent, enterprising breeders, who washed into the soil will act as a useful
are successfully maintaining the standard of fertilizer. Long negleated trees usually
this *mealy American brash. require pruning, and this must depend upon
the condition of the tree. Never cut out D.
branch without good reason for it. If the.
PROFITABLE PAINSTAXIIIG. top has become crowded, cut out enough
bran:thee to let light Midair into the centre ;
The days of easy-going tanning are ended, if growe on one aide, remove the branches
if farming 123 1321140011 for a living ora profit. needed to restore the balance. If large
With the improved systems of transporta,- wounds are made, smooth the =face and
tion, by means of which fresh eggs from paint them over with some dark -colored
Europe and wheat from Asia can be laid paint.
down in New York at sharply competitive
prices,the farmer must resort to painstaking
and. scientific effort 11 10 desires to hold his
i
own. Progressive farmers are waking up to 33a sure to ventlate the ahede. Of all
this fact, both in this country and abroad. animals sheep are most susceptible to foul
Thus far the pressure of competition is most air. The best ventilation is through the roof.
felt, perhaps, in the older countries; hence This prevents drafts, to which sheep are also
they are somewhat in advance of us in the very sueceptible.
nicetiee of culture, , Have you built it. bin or arratged some
Here is a wheat experiment which well IL barrels under cover, to store your poultry
lustrates the importsuce of keen tense and droppings, tuatil next spring? If note do so at
painstaking on the modern farm. Mr. Mir mute The droppings of a fowl will almost,
of France, is a farmer whose specialty is some say, gaiter pay for the coat of her feed.
wheat. He experimented with some of the Afarraer whose horse always seems tobe free
new crack varieties, and found that on his from colic and bets and staring coats and all
farm they did not turn out as well as in the diseases, informs us that he keeps it green
locality of their origin. Accordingly he con- pole in his stable for his horses to gnaw at.
eluded to teat selected seed from the wheats
already acclimated in his neighborhood. For a bad coat he keeps a white ash or
cottonwood, but still better it poplar. To give
Here is the result of this very commonwense appetite he puts in a quaking ash p le. For
experiment : The land on which it was tried worms or bats he puts in slippery elm. He
had been mai:lured in the autumn with super- says that the slippely elm is the best remedy
phosphate in the ratio of 260 pounds Per "ra,. that he ever tried to expel worms, bets and
and in the following spring with nitrate of all asearities from the alimentary organs of
soda, at the rate of 130 pounds per acre. In the horse. Besides it is excellent in urinary
the subsequent, autumn, 21-5 acres were troubles. For coughs he puts in a wild cherry
sown with unselected wheat, and 1 1-5 mores
were sown visith selected grains of the same pole.-Phio Farmer.
variety. The 21 5 acres yielded 60 1-2 bush-
els of wheat weighing 61,17 pounds per bush-
el, equivalent to 24 1 5 bushels to the sore. Montreal Gazette: Now that questions
The 1 1 5 acres sown with selected seed of military organization and defenee are be.
yielded 49 1 2 bushels weighing 73,15 pounds ing discussed in Canada, it is of some inter -
per bushel, or an equivalent of 41 1 4 bush- est to know that snow has been ascertained
els to the aore. At the current price of to have considerable value as a prophylatio
wheat in his locality, Mr. Mir's painstaking engine ot warfare. The experiments which
yielded him an extra income on the land brought this fact to light were concluded he
sown with eeleoted seed at the rate of four- Norway, a country of a climate not unlike
teen dollars an aore, in round nunabers. To our own. The colonel of it Itierwegian regi
get his each Mr. Mir employed two methods. mine) had an entrenchment constructed of
Oue wag the smelting of the grain, keeping two and a half metres thickness and on this
for seed only the keenels whith were too fortification caused guns, to be diacharged,
large to pass the screen. The other was the from it distance of 33 metres.. The bal ,
selection of the heaviest heads of wheat hoot penetrated to a depth of only a metre and .
the stoutest stalke in the field. Of these he fifth, and were found censiderably out o
threw away the extremities, retaining for shape. (The metre is abott6 A yard and
seed only the perfected grains in the middle tenth.) 01 course much a mode of defence i
of the heads. It is needless to add that precticableonly in cold countrith or at least
henceforth Mw Mir will not 'concern himself in conetries cold enough to have plenty o
so much with "hoprOvedh varieties 61 wheat snow at command. In winter Canada will
as with careful attexttion to the, =Mortal never, therefore, laok a sulfide:toy of de
-
already in hand. -W. H. W. CAMPBELL, fensive material, whIch for cheapness cam.
Gitaroalta. not be well aurpastiedt
AnnICULTIMAL NOTES.
Snow in Military °patient.