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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-5-8, Page 2'lrhe Great Etobicelie PPM Yonne arra et was a Ammer eveelag, and ter trona city smoke, leasear sat beside hie dor Out in Etobiookel Aiid near him sported ou the green His little grandchild, $he Paw her brother, Peterking Lugging a woedeueigu With an inscription. half effaced Emblazoned on the pine ; Ifioes-covered, mildewed with the damp, He'd food, it in tlie neighboring awitmn. Old Kasper took it from the bee, Who stood expectant by, He spelled the wort% out : "Lots for Sale," And slowiy Spid "y eye: 'Tis like a, spectre from the tomb, This relie a the felEI01113 boom. "I And aim sometimes in the bush When X go there for wood, There's some a-kiekinrowed the barn, I've alwa,ye understood That many thousand mem' said be, "Was cleaned out most successfully," "Now tell ue hew the scheme was worked," Young Peterkin be cries. Aud Iizie Wilnelmine looks up Witb wouderavaiting eyes. "Now tell us all anout the fake, And how they did the boodle rake." "'Twas speculators, " Reaper said, That :test beganthe scheme, But why the suckers bought the 1e I couldn't even dream. But everybody said You bet Whergs lots a bigger Kickers yet." "try father lived around here then, And just before the smash They came along and bought him out For fifty thoueand cash; Be lost it tryilag to make more, Which Ieft him poorer than before. " The township then was overrun By speculatin' hordes, They throwed the farmers' fences down, An' stack up these here boards; Across tefields where harvests grew They run their 'street' and 'avenue.' They say it was a tough old time After the boom had bust, For many thousand suckers then Had neither ce,sh nor trust. But all such things, you know, must come After a speculative boom. "Much cash the real estate men won, And each smart go-between." e why, awes a very wicked thing," said little vvitheimine. " Net so, Young fernale—don'tpresame, It 7E4 a most successful boom!" —Grip. eeree't ADOPTED BY THE DEAN: TALE OF TWO OOTINTRIES. And with a sense of fresh work to be fitted into the day, Cornelia roused herself from her reverie, lighted her reading-lerap, and opening a ponderous volume was soon lost to the world eround her. Esperanoe came down -stairs the next morning in good spirits and ready to look at everything in the bast light. Before leaving her room she had. Weaned one of the wall -flowers in her dress, and had caught herself singing the refrain of a game which she need to play with the oonvent pupils. " Que tri as de belles fines Giroilee girofla " Her sprightliness, however, soon vanishee,Ior in the hot, oppressive dining. room she found to her dismay that a sub- stantial meal awaited her. To sit down at eight o'clock to a regular dejeaner a la fourchette, was an almost unbearable inflict. on to her; ohe resolved to take only her aocustomed oup of coffee and roll, but found the coffee so execrable that it was an im- possibility; moreover, Mre. Mortlake was so evidently offended at her numerous ' refusals, that she forced herself to take what she would much rather have been without. The garden looked teraptingly cool and shady, and after breakfast was over Elmer- anoe asked leave to go out. Cornelia received her proposal with some surprise. "Oh, certainly, if you wish to do so, bat there is nothing worth seeing in our garden, and besides it is almost time for service." "Service at the cathedral I am so longing to see the interior." " You will have plenty of opportunities, then, for we always attend both morning and evening service : be careful to be ready Ave minutes before the hour, as my father is very particular as to punctuality." And Cornelia moved away, leaving Eeperanoe chilled and repulsed, though she could not have explained why. She was still looking out of the window, rather Badly, when Mrs. Mortlake returned, leading by the hand a fair-haired little girl of about six years of age, who would have been exceedingly pretty, had not her mouth been spoiled by constant poating. "Bun and kiss your new cousin, Bella," said Mts. Mortlake. " Go at once, there is a good child." "But Bela drew bade with an obstinate " Shan't." Esperance who was very fond of children, began to coax her, and would soon have won her over,but Mre.Mortlakeinterferred in. an aggrieved tone. "Excuse tae, Esperance, but I must really have the management of my own child. Leave her to me." Then as Esperanoe moved to the other side of the room, with heightened color, she turned again to the ohild. Now, Bella, •do as mamma, tells you, and you shall have is pieoe of anger." Esperance would much rather have been without the bribed kiss, but after Mrs. Mortlake's very pointed remark she could not venture to say so; Bella hesitated for a minute, advanced a step or two, then turned once more. "A large pieces, mamma? " "Yea, rny darling, a large piece." '1 Bella hesitated no longer, and Esper- ance much amused, met her half -way and kissed her—nnluckily on both cheeks. "Bela ran back to her mother triumph- antly. 'Two lumps of sugar, mamma, two big lumps, she kissed me twice I " Ilsperanoe laughed merrily, but Mrs. Mortlake, vexed at the foolishness of her own bribe, looked annoyed. "Nonsense, child, I said one piece," Then, as Bella began to ory loudly, "Ab, I knew that would oome of it; it just shows you, Esperance, how oarefnl you ought to be with children, and Bella is go very sensi- tive Besides, bow °Mild you expect her to understand your French ways? I'll not have theta introduced here, 80 pleatie re- member." Esperance was too surptised and indig. meet to attempt any vindication. " A thonsatel—' she would have said " Perdoote" but the words stook in her throat ; she hastily substituted " g thous- and regeete," and left the Mem, while Mrs. Mortlake began to bargaio with her child ag to the amount of sugar she should have, if dee would only stop erybeg, Thoueh Esperauce would only leaigh in after daye at the recollection of her abeurd introduetiort to Bella, at the time she was considerably ruffled by it f' it was the fleet tithe in het life that she had eaffered from injustice—it Vitae hard to be faleely blamed, end here, Mottlako's alighting mention of het Feeteh Wayg," had wounded her deeply. It was veith a very heavy heart that at tht appoitited time she joked Cornelia and Bertha, and walked with them to tile oatheareL tut oemfort ceme to her as Oho enterea t4124 gazed arOtind With Vendee Ined awe, Whether from the Ieeenty of the eight, or groin the ve,stuese and strength of all about her, or from a certain reeem dance o Ore Donee de Paris, oho did not know, but eomeleoW she was stilled, her heart eve leonger elarabbed, indienantly, and for the fleet time she felt at ettme at Rile/Jester. Whey walked meich teeter then she woold baYe liked dowo the choir ,sisis, awe she had male time Tor a brief glance) at thS nave, with ite glorious viste ot aeoh and pillar, before they passed through the soreen gate, and were ushered by a prim -looking vergey iato the deanery pew. 'The service seem el to her dull and dreary in ehe extreme, and though the (their was feirly good, she SOOn wearied of the oonaplioated Anglican (Awaits and lengthy oantioles, in wheat no one atteimpted to join. There was BOtnething depressing, too, in the eraallnese oe the con. gregation, which certainly could not have numbered mom them a dozen, and in the half-incomprebergeible foreign prayers. Eeperance was sadly troubled with reaaciering thoughts, so that she was re- lieved when the hour was ended and she was free once more to devote all her eyes to the beauty around. Cornelia, however, allowed no Ung' ring, and they had seemly left the oatb dral before she began in her clear, (teethed: ative way, As soon as we are at home will you 001ne to me in niy room, and I will see what studies you had better take up ? We must lose no more time." Esperanoe knew she ought to have been much more grateful, but there was some- thing in Cornelie's cold kindness which grated on her, and undoubtedly there was in her tone an implied reference to the time which had already been so foolishly wasted. It was with some diffioulty that she said, " Indeed, you are very good to think of helping tae, my cousin; I know I am very ignorant." "If you will take pains, it will be a pleasure to me to help you," replied Cor- nelia, with mooli more warmth. "And I am going to give you one correction already. Do not always address me as my cousin,' it is quite unnecessary in English. ' "Indeed I had no idea of that; in France it would be thought rude alined not to do it. But a- thousand thanks for telling me." The hour spent in Cornelia's room was not altogether a pleasant one. A brief examination brought to light what seemed to Cornelia almost unparalleled ignorseme, and she was really in despair over such an unpromising pupil. Esperanoe, unaccus- tomed to examination of any kind, and understanding English very imperfectly, Was, of course, at a great disadvantage, and though now and then she would give a quids, intelligent answer, she was generally either puzzled completely, or frightened by her oousin's perempeory manner into absurd naistakes. Cornelia, seeing that this was mere waste of time, began a lesson on physical geography, but this was not numli more successful. Though exceedingly clever, she was not a good teacher; she could neither understand nor sympathize with the diffi- culties of a less talented mind, and even painstaking slowness made her impatient and sari:notice Esperanoe was really unhappy—aware that she had answered badly, and vexed that she had not done more justice to her father's teaching. She was certain, too, that had the circumstances been different she could have done tnneh better, and a consciousness that Cornelia did not under- stand her added to her wretohednees. But this last thought reminded her of one of Gaspard's pieces of advioe—e What- ever happens, don't let yourself beoome a 'femme incomprise,' " and, taking courage, she began, " You will think me ahookingly ignorant, Cornelia; bat really, it is partly my ignorance of English that makes me so stupid; you must not think I have never been taught these things." "Tho fraits ef good teaching are seen in the impression left on the memory," said Cornelia, calmly. Esperanoe flashed angrily. " No, no, that cannot be, I am sure it oannot ; if the memory is bad, the best teaching may be thrown away to it." "On it," corrected Cornelia, in the same impaseive tone; "but do not excite your- self so much; I surely may hold different views without rousing all this indignation." "11 is not your views—I do not care for your views," replied Eeperanoe, her voice rising; " it is your—your slights to my father, to the education he has given me, that make me angry. You. do not know, you oan never know, how good, how wise, how noble he was." "Perhaps not," replied Cornelia. " But if I were to judge of him by what his daughter is at present, wbat should I—." Esperanoe burst into teare. "You are ornel--ornel I to epeak so of him --now that—oh, papa 1 papa 1 why did I not die too ?—shells falling all day long— and not one would come where it would have been welcomed She was leaniug down on the table, her face hidden Would Cornelia never speak, she wondered—would no word of sympathy pass thewe grave lips? Bat still die silence was Only broken by her own sobs ; and looking rip at best, she found herself alone. , She was so dismayed, so astonished; that she could not cry, even though such a deserbion seemed to her most cruel ; she sat looking at Cornelia's vacant chair, and at the map of raountaine and rivers on the table, soaked through and through with her .own tears. When Cornelia returned she was quite oalm, however; her tears were spent, and, to her cousin's scorn and surprise, she was busily engaged in tracing the wet tear - marks on the map to the same length as the various rivers. "1 think you do not require the quiet of my study for such an intellectual employ- ment," said Cornelia, "and ite our lesson is over you may go." Esperance could not help smiling at Coe- nelia's sarcasm. "1* was very foolish, was it r10b ? I hope it has not hart the map," she said, with a little laugh; adieu, then, and many thanke for your lesson." Cornelia WaS mute with astoniehroent. She had lefe the room, quite oat of patience with Esperance's teare, and resolved to read her a lecture on her dernonettativeriese when she returned—but her plane had been frustrated, the good-humored reply to her dinging apeech, and the little ringing laugh, were even more aggravating than the sod. den burst of passion, and kr once inher life she felt thoroughly nonplussed. This little French girl was, indeed, a puzzle to her; bat on the whole she was not altogether displeased with her for being out of the boetatore and as a teW dudy of oharaoter she interested her. Espetatice, meanwhile, went down -stairs, amused arid a little trinmphant at Clem - oldie's evident surpriee ; the coned:et:anus of having averted a " Nene " Or a looture wad exhilarating, and she was (lade obeg- vinced feona Clorneliaee Manner that saint). thing of the Moe had beet: 1:Atonic:a. Bea leer joy wee shod lived, for hi the dining -room she build ttre. elortiake and Bella eagerly looking at the leat " Illudrated Loeclon Newt]," 'which was full of the errors o t e Cdinneune. that Wenean aeked Belle, "Shooting her, derhog ; she bee been spreading petroleum, wicked oreature, Aud there, you.Beee are aome houses, all felling down, in the Roe ; the silly people aro deetreYhag their own city, And look l there they ate phooeiag the insurgeots in theLuxembeurg Gardeoe." The femilier names, and the oruel want oe considerate= in speaking thus before her were too mucilw for Esperanceni poWers ef enderanoe ; again her tears broke forth, and not attempting a second argument ehe hurriedly left the room., _ 'But where could she go? To ',yeti= to Cornelia would be to resolve a double scold- ing, and she longed too muoh for eyropathy to oare to seek Jeer own rex:ow—she would, at any rate try to fixed Bertha before she resorted to it. Bertha as sitting in the great drawing- roora writing letters; the looked very unepproaohable, at Jeeperainee Was too miserable to hesitate, "Oh, Bertha!" she exolaimed, e I at so unlageppy, do have pity on me. Cornelia will not have me in her study, ad Christa- bel will talk about the Commune, and can't bear it, indeed I coml." "Bub what oan I do for you?"paid Berth", gravely, but not unleindly. Of course you rnay sit here, if that is what you. Want.' "Yee, I want that too, but Bertha, if you could only love mea little—I cern live without love." " I thought so owe," replied Bertha, with a half smile; but I find I can man- age without it now." Then, as Esperanoe looked astonished, "1 am epeaking, of course, of one's ideal of real love, not of the ordinary sort of tolerant* that relationship brings." "1 don't know what you mean," said Esperanoe half frightened. " ith us, relationship brought all that was true and atrong, and beautiful in love. Does it not to every one? do you really love your sisters ? " " If we were not sisters we should pro. bably hate eaoh other," replied Bertha; " never were there three less congenial people, I should say; but being related, of course, we have to tolerate, or if yore like 'love' each other. Now you understand what I mean about exiating 'without love." Esperance looked aghast. " It must be vary dreadful," she said, with a shiver. " One grows ea:mato:tad to it in time," replied Bertha. "11 will soon cease to trouble you." "No, that I can never believe! and until I have come to that state, yon will love me a little, will you not ? " and Esperanoe looked up so coaxingly that Bertha was fairly conquered. " I will try," she eaid with more energy than usual. "Only I am so unpraotioed that you must not expect much from me - 1 can't be demonstrative." e Never mind, I will do all the demon- stration," aaid Esperanoe, laughing, and givine Bertha what seemed to her an overwhelming embrace. "There 1 now I am happy. And you will really do a little more than tolerate me? " Yoa are the strangest child I ever saw," said Bertha, but as if ehe did not mind tlae strangeness. "Yes, I will try ; but yon have come to a most unlikely quarter for love." Bap:name was, however, quite satisfied, and moreover, she had solved the mystery of Bertha's nonchalant manner and dreamy indifferenoe. If ehe neither loved nor was loved, what else could be expected? Here was an interest already at the deanery; she would make it her special object to give Bertha pleasure. Her letter to Gaspard that day was almost oheerfal, and though she could not avoid telling him what she thougi-beMrs. Mortlake and Cornelia, ehe dwelt sa much on Bertha's kindness, and the beauty of the cathedral, and gave each amusing descrip- tions of the English manners and customs that Gaspard was relieved from his anxiety about her and much cheered in his loneli- ness. '‘ CHAPTER XIV. Earth is sick And Heaven is weary of the hollow words Which states and kingdonas utter when they talk Of truth and justice. Turn to private life And social neighborhood: look we to ourselves. A light of duty shines on every day For all; and yet how few are warmed or cheered l The Excursion. Rilehester was a picturesque old town, with narrow, irregular streets, gabled houses, curious old courts, and ancient gateways. A peaceful—not to say sleepy— air. pervaded the whole place; even in th3 prencipal street there was little traffic, and the few pedestrians walked quietly and leisnrely along, as if hurry and bustle were a thing unknown to them. The population was not very great, and had of late years decreased, so that although there was little actual poverty in the place, certain parts of the town had a most de- pressing aspect, the old houses having fallen out of repair, and the owners not oaring to lay out money on them. These deserted quarters, however, were some way from the cathedral, and rarely, if ever, obtruded themselves upon the notice of the more wealthy citizens. Proximity to the cathedral being a mark of stittion, houses in the close were eagerly sought after, and though they were mostly very old, draughty, and ill -built, some people had been known to leave much more comfortable dwellings for their sake. There were certainly, however, the advantages of a fine view of the cathedral, and an open, healthy situation, not be mention one of the great attractione to the inhabitante of Rile ohester—a first-rate view of your neighbors' houses, and the beat possible chance of knowing all they did. For, like all small towns, Rilohester de- rived its pleasure, its store of anecdotes, its daily conversation from gossip; and as there was but little amusement of a higher kind in the place, and a dearth of work, or, more truly, a sleepiness in the atmosphere, which tended to destroy the faculty for work, there was some excuse: for this. The arrival of a visitor at the deanery was sufficient to set all the tongues in the place going, and when it gradually became koown that the dean had adopted hie niece), and that she would thenceforth live at Rib duster, Esperance became quite a nine - days' wonder." Hui she only come to the place earlier in the year, when every one was frill of cone - peed= for the whole Frenoh natien, she Would have met with a muoli Warmer wel. come ; but the horrors of the Commune had quite altered this feeling, end to be of Preach birth was the reverse of a recom- mendation. Her appearance yeave oritioised severely, ated strange storks were set calorie as to her history'; one old lady—well-known as the greatest gossip in the cloae—had told het frieod that the dean had been cleen to flash quite angrily when some one had Made inquiries after M. do Mabillon—ohe feered he lead been a most notorione decameter— the detial had felt hie elbter's marriage moot aoutoly, she knew this as a feet. Front thie beginieleig athee a wildstory exaggerated still More at each repetitibre in which it wag stated that Esperancere father had ended a Most iniquitous lifts bY at- tempting to bettay his cone:try te the Prue - dance and had in oonseetieoce been shot, While her beother hed Mended he the mac- "bhantthawliatard they doing to dot of Clement Thomae, and had aellese OtieutlY keen killed aa a 00e0Meinietlo loser - gent. Villen it towel:deed, that he was alive and, well in Londoo, a marvelous °Bowies was Area auppoeed, and afterwards added to the story as e feet, O 0011038 the subjeot was ttveided, both with the (eollineone and with Esperanoe herselfe so that it was long before tbe truth was redly known. Esperance, iu °owe - queue% thought the Rilehester people hard-. tweeted and unsympathizing. It would have been a relief 'to her tq talk some- times of her father, aolt of their troublee in the sieve, but no one opened the eubjeot, and If ,she eyer alluded to it, they ohauged tkhi ne a ,choelaavretrqsdant el Guns thauta ono\ owelazi n foe ao lpi4t ef rher,erie but with whet seemed of coarse, to leer, an utter want of interest. Those first few months tried her severely. She was very lonely, anxious about Gas- pard, and out of harneouy with her ear. A:landings. Cornelia was gold and sar- castic, end her time for study was a real trial. Mrs. Morthelee was unjust and irritating; Bella, arose and poiled ; Bertha, disappointing and re:et:rye:I. This, at least, was Espertmoe's view of the family. She had yet to learn that- 4"Tis we, not they, who are in fault, 'When others seem so wrong," cd course her grievances were not wholly ieaaginary, but she magnified them greatly, and would not see the good points whida eountethalanaed the failinga. Her letters to Gaspard, which bad at first been brave and cheerful, were now either in a etraia of forced merriment, or with an ondertone of bitternees which was very foreign to hee nature. She never complained, it is true, but the indulged herself more and more in little sarcasms at the expenee of her cousins or their friends, and Gaspard grew seriouely uneasy about her. He wrote to her ab kat with a very gentle reraonstrance, and entreating her to tell laim if she were wittily unhappy; but the reply Was far from satiefaretory, and only made him still more anxious. It ran as follows ' " The Deanery, Rilohester, 121h Septem- ber, 1871." "Mr Dean GASPAnn,—A them:and thanks for your welcome letter and for the scolding you gave me, only I can hardly call 11 by au& a name, einoe 1 ani socustomed here to a much more severe fault.finding. So you really think I am growing sarcastic I Well, I am hardly surprised, for I am a great deal with Cornelia, and she is just one great piece of earoasm—I suppose it ie infections. Nothing in particular has hap- pened since I wrote. Bertha is still away and the house is very dull, the moat en- livening thing being one of Belia's scream- ing lite, which are like a kind of intermittent fever, and come every other day. In be- tween she is what Christabel calls good,' really petted and spoiled! She is indeed an enfant terrible. I forgot to say that I have had ray firat experience of an English dinner -party. I vezah you could have seen it, it was most amusing; that is to say, the evening. was, for I did not dine, thus escaping an infliction of two hours. The ladies come to the drawing -room about nine, or perhaps later, looking very sleepy and bored, and then they sit trying to talk for about half an hour, a footman bringing in first coffee, and then tea to prevent them from quite going to sleep 1 I must tell you that they are all dressed to match.; the married ladies chiefly in grays, mauves, and violets, and the young ladies in limp white muslin. I suppose it is the way English people put on their clothes, but they always look as if they had been out in one of their fogs. Later in the evening the gentlemen straggle into the room, as if they didn't ranch want to come; they all look very black and sombre, the old gentlemen, wear- ing great white ties and the younger mks stiff -looking collars, and no dress clothes at all, for they are all okrgymen, there seems scarcely it layman in the place. They stand all together in a group, like ao many rooks, though it is not thought iraporper in Eng- land for them to speak to the ladies, and perhaps two or three venture into the oirole by and by. I noticed the other night that there was quite a little manoeuvre to secure a vacant chair. Englishmen seem so much happier when they are sitting down, they never seem to know what to do with their hands and feet, otherwise. Altogether, it was very dull and stiff, but perhaps I have seen a bad speoimen ; people never could endure many such parties, surely, they would die of ennui. Why do you ask point-blank if I am happy? It was incon- siderate of you. Of course I am not, and cannot be, away from you. As to the cathedral, it le marvelonaly beautiful, but the long daily servioes do nob agree with me; perhaps it is being quite unacoustoraed to such things, or perhaps the foreign prayers, or it rnay be what Mrs. Mortlake would call my frivolous 'Frenola mind.' but certainly they are at present a patience. No one here has a good word to say for a Frenohman—they seem to think we are all Communists, and forgot that the martyrs, Monseigneur Darboy, the Abbe Degnerry, Pere du Coudray, and many others, were also Preach. /t is very hard to bear. I suppose, however, the troubles are nearly over? Have you heard lately from Monsieur Lemercier I hope he has not been arrested, poor 'man. How wonderfully in earnest he was that morning we left Paris. With my compliments to Bismarck. Je t' ewbrasse de tout &cur, ESPESANVE BISO•Aurtnil DE MAarLLON." In reply to this letter Gaspard sent a little French edition of the English Church Services, and she was so muoh touched by his anxiety for her, and go really anxious to do right, that she tried very hard to attend better. One bright sunny morning, about the end of September, Esperanoe, after it greater effort than usual to listen to the Psalms, had taken her platie in the unoona. fortable oaken stall, which wee her temal seat, and had opened her French Bible, in order to follow the readipg of the first les. son, when a sound of voioes in the olaoir aisle roused her curiosity. The speakers were evidently close behind her, for she could distinctly hear even the low -toned conversation. "No painting allowed in service flume, sir." What, not out here? How can I pos- ably disturb the services ? " replied the setiond voioe. " Can't tell, sir," megwered the first: "bub 'tie against ettlee you must move at erne." "But I tell yon, my good fellow, thie is my service, Jest as mach as it's yonrs to Wear a black gown and carry that poker; besides, the light is perfect now." The reply was ineudible, butanes folio wed by a gnash, as of something falling heavily on the stene floor. An tinguarded exclamation of wrath mede itself heard so dietindly in the choir, that the reading Of the Leeson Was for a meowed suspended, and the two vergere, eeizin.g their eiltewheaded staves, hastenea to quiet the disttithiume, Esperance liettned with hushed breath, really quite trembling for the victim, She heard a great rattily repetitioew ef " httell," then flee eager voice rising again, "1 was doirig ne harm here." Another admonitory e bush" iollowed by a whispered alteroetion, then that yoke once mote. ia" WelIt fince X Mayn't paint, I will come The footatepe drew nearer; Esperanwie and indeed everybody looked oeriously toward the dor—with a seetely, measured step, the two vergers returned, their staves triumphantly mead in the air, and behind them walked the culprit, a young man of two or three -and -twenty, tall and; hand- eome, his fair complexion a little fluelled by the dispute, his lipe gravely eoPeareeeedi but en impressible sparkle of amusement in his keen blue eyes. He was sojemnly ocnaCtuoted to a seat, and after eine rapid glance around, Eeper- &nee Was relieved to Bea that he been:yea with perteot reverenoe, joining in the Te Deum in a way which set an example to the silent congregation, and during the reading ot the second lesson, scarcely stirring, but gazing at the 'reredos end the grand east window, through Which the sunshine Was streaming, shedding an exgoisite radienoe on all around. At the olose of the service, Mrs. Mort- lake made all epeed to go out, but not before the stranger had already left tlae choir. Whisperingan explanat iion to Cor- nelia, she followed n the direoticin of the' north choir aisle, closely attended by Esperanoe, who was fall of ourioeity, and in great terror lest Cornelia should cell her back. In the aisle they discovered the cause oe the downfall and the angry exclaination—a prostrate easel and canvas; the young artist had just raised the letter, and was looking at it oritioelly, when Mess. Mortlake epproached, "Mr. Magnaw 1 how are you? Yon have indeed taken us bersurprise. ' • " I came late last night," replied the artist, glancing from Mrs. Mortlake to Esperance, as he book hand. "1 was hoping to cell on you later in the day, not thinking thee the cathedral might be our neeeting•place. The dean iS Well, I hope 2" " Very well, thank you, he will be glad to see yon, I am sure," replied Mrs. Mortlake, moving toward the door. Clancle Mag.nity hastened to move the easel, which lay in Esperance's way, and walked down the aisle with them, holding open the heavy outer door while Mrs. Mort. lake uttered many last words. "Yon are here for some time, then ? " she asked. "1 cannot tell how long," he replied, "1 have a oonamission for it view of this interior. One could not /neve a more delightful subject, certainly. How glorious 18 18 in this light!" Esperance thought the grand old door- way, with its sombre neoldings, the eager, half -wistful face of Claude Maguey, and the baokground dim with brightness would have made a wonderful picture; but detecting a slight shade of impatience, and a restles movement of the hand which held the canvas, she was not sorry when Mrs. Mortlake closed the conversation with a pressing invitation to dinner that evening and really turned honaeward. "What a thorough artist he is, to be sure 1" she exclaimed, half muoingly. " So engrossed with his work, and with the beauty or the cathedral, that he forgot even to speak of the distarbancie he made daring the service 1" "Is he English ? " inquired Esperance, secretly wondering whether any one so polite could be,her dielike to the Rikhester people having prejudiced her against the whole nation. "Yes, obe yes," replied Mrs. Mortlake. "1 am not sure that the name is not of Scotch origin, but the family has been in England for years. This young man's father was an eachiteot—a very clever maia —and a friend of father's. He had great money losses before his death, and had it net been for Clande's talent, 1 don't know how they would have managed. However, all is comfortably settled now; one sister is married, and has taken the youngeet child to live with her • the mother died not long ago, and so Claude has only himselt to support." Esperance thought this a very heartless speech; but the mention of the losses, the bereavements, and the loneliness, touched a chord in her own life, and for the first time. sinoe her arrival she felt thoroughly inter- ested and attracted. The day passed rather more happily than usual, and Esperance was quite in spirits when she went to drees for dinner ; she could not help looking forward eagerly to the diversion of seeing. sonae one really new and not an inhabitant of Rikheeter. Claude had already arrived when she came down, and was standing talking to the dean, having quite lost the somewhat pram:copied, expression he had worn in the cathedral. The dean gravely introduced My,, niece, Mademoiselle de Idabillon —he" always uttered the name with an effort— and Claude's easy bat courteous manners seemed all the more pleasant when eon. treated with her uncle's pompous solemnity, "1 am afraid youwere one of those whom I disturbed this morning in the cathedral," he said. I hope ana will for- give me for the confusion I made, was it very distracting ? " Esperanoe's first impulse was to utter the false" Oh! not at all," a form of polite lying proverbially habitual to Fereiaoh women, and not infrequently indulged in by their English sister. She had, how- ever, been broughtrap very carefully in this respect by her father, her standard of truth was high, and with ready tact she said instead, "1 do, nob think it disturbed the congregation generally; for myself, I cannot say ranoh, it takes enoh a small thing to draw off my attention." "1 had no idea there was any rule as to not painting during service time, so I hope nay ignorance may be my excuse," said Claude, turning to the dean. (To be Continued.) Lacking, Yet Bich. Graves—I see they propose to tax bachelors in Wyoming. at the rate of $2.50 it year. Merriman—Well, as they are not married men, they can afford to pay it. The Hackman in the Forest. "Would you like to leave ? " Fetid the wood-ohopper to the youag tree, "1 don't know bat I wood," answered the young tree. "Can you take me cloven with a "1 griefai so," said tlae chopper, "seeing' you've only got one small trunk." --Puck. A Wiee With a tariff tax on eggs, the American rooster Will crow half an hour earlier than natal, thug givieg the lamest farmer more time fen his day's work.—Courier. Journal. General Von Capriel, the new German Chancellor, never has it pipe out of his mouth when he is awake except duriog' his mewls, and he drinke beer by the galloa. e is most deliberate ki his movements, and always meditates for a naheute ot two before answering the moat trifling ques- tion. „ When the cutrent in eleetrio railwaye pateecc born the ear -wheel to the track it oantieg oceasiderable incirease in frioton betWeen the awe. Expert Opinion somas to faor the theory that aid adclitioeal resistance is due to a Blight s:velding notion eaused by the haat genetated by the current. STeePlelleileeeMeeINO T�kI 1$001e, be English physigoe sdeterioeaeing ae, the resale of the deoay o agrioultutv and the unhealthier conditeens of ingenufeoPer- ink life. A writer in the Porteifoeitio ee001:0- mende gyronsetic exercises to etrengthen the bodiere not orly of the upper and middle ohne:es, but of the laborera. If there wereemy room for dbabt of the benefits of eeoh training, he says, evidence is not Wanting Of the extraordinary effeot Of el corse of gymnastics regularly continued' for only it few months, Mr. kfachwen luta giver: some valuable etatistios of the measurer:lento and weights of a detachment of non-commissioned officers sent to him to be qualifiee as military gymnastic inetriaa tors. The men ranged in age from 19 to 28 years, in height from 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet lle iodise, and in weight from 9 stone 2 pounds to 12' stone 6 pounds; so that vedette - type were represented. After less than eight months' training, they were fond to have gained. on the average 10 pounds in weight, 2.Z lobes in girth of cheat, in the Stati of the forearm, and lt Indies in that of the upper sem, while there was in every case it alight inorease of height. One man 28 years of age bad grown from 5 feet 7- haohea to 5 feet ti inches; his weight had increased from 10 stone 10 pounds to. 11 stone 9 ponnes, and he measured 40 inolees instead of 37 inches round the chest, 111 inches instead of 10et inclial round the fore arm, and, 181 inohesinstead of 12i inches round the upper Arm. Another man, aged 24 years, bad grown from 5 feet n inches to 5 feet 9 inohese and weighed 11 stone 6 pounds matead of 10 stone 8 pouncle, while hie chest bad expanded from 85, inches to 40 inches (es gain of no leas than 5 inches), and thefore- arm and upper arm had gained 1 inch and 1+ inch respectively. A third pupil, aged 28 years, had added 16 poeinds to his weight, with corresponding developments of arm and chest •' and thge smallest gains of each hied were5 pounds in weight, 1 inch in chest, inch in the• forearm and 1 inch 10t A the upper arm. We are toid that the reesadar additions to the arme and shoulders and the expansion of the chest produced a ludicnonee and embarrassing result; for, before the fourth month was out, several of the men could not get into their jackets and tunics without aseistanoe, and when they had got them on they could not make them meet down the middle by &hand's breadth. La it month more they could not get into them at all, and were obliged to go to and, from the gymnasium in their great -costa until new clothing could be procured. It is impossible to estimate the advantage gained by these men from the expansion of their chests, and the additional scope thereby given to their hearts and lungs, According to Dr. Sagnean, gymnastic), exeroiees are one of the Emmet meane of diminishing the frequency of pbehieis. And, as Mr. MetoLaren justly observes, "before this addition could be made to the cheat, every spot and joint of the frame must have been improved also, every organ within the body must have been propor- tionately strengthened." A.grietiltaral etoteee Ten minutes spent in warding off disease from a dumb domestic animal is often worth ten days trying to care disease. It is said the beet sweet corn grows on rooky and strong soil better than in sandy fforberli,ght bleak soil filled with vegetable When a hog loam appetite it may be that all he requires is a lump of charcoal. Char- coal should always Be kept where the hogs can eat it at will. Unless grapes are trimmed without delay it may do them injury to out them back later on. All varieties of grape vines should be trimmed early. Bright oat straw, run through a cutting - box and mixed with bran and a little ground oats, slightly moistened, makes one of the best fodders for home. New novelties in plants are often old varieties renamed, and the "novelty" dies out after the first season unless it is some- thing superior to anything of its kind already in nee. When a farmer onoe raises small fruits for himself and family he will never be without them again if he can prevent it. There are both enjoyment and health in small fruits. Striatly choice cattle are not in excess of the demand at any time. There is always an extra price ready for an extra choice article and this applies to everything that may be produced. The use of a purebred sire in any kind of stook is the eadest way to improve a. herd or flock and ia the surest method any farmer can adopt to get his business on a paying basis. It is estimated that one acre pleated with black walnut will, ab the end of twenty. five years, prodace 10,000 feet of. lumber, worth at least,61,000., Thiele profit at the rate of $40 per year. When planting corn bear in mind that the variety known to be well adapted to your soil and climate is better than any new variety until you give the new variety a trial on a small plot. Wood ashetare exeellent on all kinds of vegetables,' The stalks and leaves of pots- toeti abound largely in potash, as do also the leaves of beets. Though ashes contain 00 nitrogen, they reapply not only, potash but lime and, a proportion of phosphoric add. Dear and Dear. "Tell me, George, darling," said she shortly after their marriage. "Do yott love me as ranch as ever 7" "Yes, indeed," • " Arid do you findanything in the world dearer than yoar wife 7" "Nothing," said 'George, "unless it is the house rent." • Oh, no. 'at by two •eix- Ttaresaia"e9:0 been "Leen:big Things Warin for Rim.' " was a fearful night—cold as the Arc- tic regions. The ruffiarie were two hours ransacking the ' "You must ha eery freed)." shootere." Ah Experi's Opinion. Bobby—Why do they have. that big fantail in front of the engine, papa? Papa (with memories of the past)—To Ware travelling aotorti, Bobby. —The mannieh girl Will carry a Meek-, horn melt le. , The pet names of the four baby states are as follows: Xorth 1)shote,' is the " Fliekettail State," South Dakota is the " win go Cat State," Weshingtoli ie the " Chinbok State," and Montana ie the Stabbed Toe State." Theo oheracterizew tieing will be ahort lived. They &net earo- pare well wieh the " Empire," " Key - stoat" " Pineitteeee " Green and sunilarly accepted appellatione of the older Stater:, e Tie() Dnollees of Marlborough deals:reef that Ohe and the Luke cile't live eiti 1400,000 e year, "e!