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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-6-4, Page 6$xo You In It You criticise your neighbor's wife. You criticise her daughter, You help to swell the scandals rife, Yell wades ill foreign water.. llo stop aud think before you speak ; Just .cogitate a iniuute; It makes all the difference in t13e world if you're not in It. Yoh rail at playing cards and such, You swear at " decoration,' Society you scorn to touch,' What° or may be your station, The ohanoes aro, could you got in, Yon would the first begin it ; It makes all the difference rn the world If you're not in it. You fled fault with the churches, too ; ',Phe members aud the preacher ; Their creeds may seem unwise to you. You ruiocoscopio creature, Take off those glasses look around Unprejudiced a minute ; It makes all the difference in the world If you're not in it. A funeral went by to -clay ; You ealled the dead " a sinner "; I wonder what the world will bay When you forget your dinner ; When you ride by in such a coach, A lone pine box within it It makos all the difference in the world If you're not in it. There's not a thing upon the earth, Or over you in heaven, But you must weigh its little worth, Iusott the gossip's leaven. wonder when you view the Throe e What iiaw you'll find within it ? It makes all the difference in the world If you're not in it. EvELTA' 0. Bion :n World. T E DOCTOR, Mrs. Atherton gave a motherly smooth to ?Lefty's brown hands inpaseing, wed stepped quietly from the room. For a emend or two the girl etcad where elle had left her, an ominous crimson spot burning on her cheek, an ominous flame (alight in her gray eyes. Then her head dropped on her alaeped handa, and she buret into angry tears. " How dare she ? " she pried, through her gasping sobs ; " how dare she 2 " Mrs. Atherton dared to do anything, as Letty had yet to learn, and any passionate crying out againet her sharp worda was masted. Ernest Deverenx, sitting smoking by his fire in the room next to Letty's, heard her indignant sobs, and wondered, in an absent kind of way, where they came from. Could he have seen her, as she crouched on the rug before the fire, her dark face flaming, her gray eyes dim with scorching tears he might, perhaps, have thought a little mora of the heart and a little lees of the fortune of thie woman he had come down to marry. When, a little while after, Mr. Leigh, tapping at her door, asked, with a touch of irony in his tone, if he should send her boxes and peroots to the station, Letty, steadying her voice as well 39 she could, replied,"No. " She wee not going to Huleton that day. He wont down smiling, and met Mrs. ,Atherton in the hall. " I told yon how it would be," he said. "Laity would not dream of disobeying me." " No, the dear girl would not," she re- plied smoothly ; " your word wee enough." roe"Oh, quite enough," said Mr. Leigh ; "Land it was the same with her mother." He reamed quite to plume himself on the absolute control he possessed over his daughter's will, and Mra. Atherton did not hreak the illusion, though she knew very well that, bat for her womanly shaft sent etzoight and sorely into a tender part, Mies Letty would not have been Bo easily eon. gnered. A. letter had to be sent off to Balaton, saying she could not oome, and why, and then Letty dressed, and went down to entertain Mr. Devereux. Very little was left for her to do in that way ; no man knew better how to be easily agreeable t:aan Ernest Devereux, and to -day he was doing his beat to shine. There was something in the frank, upward glance of the girl's eyes that drew the truth into his own ; soma spell there most have been in her low, clear voice that brought the man. tier ring to his, and the honeeter words. Perhaps never had earnest Devereux been eo nearly a good man as when in the pres• once of Letty Leigh. The short November day passed rapidly and more pleasantly than she could have believed any day could peas for Her now, and so many after days, till it grew into weeks, and Christmas was near at hand. Mr. Leigh proposed giving a number of select parties to whioh the elite of the neigh- borhood should be invited in turn, for bin °'oome were too small for one gran' assem- bly, ouch as hie proud old heart would have delisted in. No one whose coming could add to the tone or the pleasure of these gatherings was forgotten by Mr. Leigh, who himself made out a list of these who were to be melted, Mrs. Atherton ably helping tins ; c,nd while the rico were being remem- bered by them, Tatty, in her quiet way, did not forget the poor. Ernest Devereux,' following as esquire, and, watching Letty day by day as she went among the people, began to think there :must be some subtle pleasure in doing good that so brightened the sweet, dark, womanly face he wee fast learning to look upon art beaalifnl. He had seen ladies standing be- hind the stalls of bazaars and fancy faire, selling off at fabulous prices useless articles that their own fair handa were supposed to have formed, and smiling their sweetest as :.hey oosxed" the golden* of tightly buttoned. up poaketa in the name of the destitute poor of London or elsewhere. He had seen them leaving their carriages stand in by.streets, while they themselves stepped daintily over soiled pavements, in search of some favored ueamsteees, whom they had heard to be in want, and, on the impulse of their own warm lreetta, had oome to relieve. Ho had 'stood by while a lady signed a check on her honker for a good round earn, and handed it over for the benefit of some charitable institution, and he had known the same lady to give up many of the pleasnres,we had &moat said duties, of her station, to attend meetings and form one on committees, mumbled for the parpose of helping these Mama poor. Erneat Devereux had known all this, but he had Dever known, or even dreamed of, the ince.te-face sympathy, the warm• hearted pity, the open.handed, delicate helpfulness, that marked Letty Leigh's vieiting among her poor neighbors. " My poor sister " with her was no Christian pill, to be'swailowed with a wry facie, in hope that the good it would do hereafter would make up for its present bitterness. She spoke little of charity and love, but those great twin Oaten were her constant guides and Ernest Deveroox, seeing this, felt many a sting of eonsoience rip he thought of his neoessitiee and the resolves they had forced him into. On New Yenr'a Eve a pleaeant party wee gathered in Mr. Leigh's rooms—not a very large one—and mostly young people. It promised fairly to he n, suooeoa. Letty had never been ao nearly beautiful no she was that night, hi her pure white ea, with its sweeping train—for Letter de. lighted in extravagantly long dresses; her oboeke a delicate rose- color, her dark gray eyrie alight with pleasure and excitement, and a twinkling bunch cif holly berries in her 'Mining hair. So deep grew the flash on her cheeks 59 the night peened that one lady, Bitting near the door with her three pale daughters, growing valor every hour with spite and envy, gathered round her, whispered to the eldest I shouldn't like to fifty it to anyone but you, Tilde, but I do think Mies Leigh paints." Tilde, feeling the blood eettling in the tip of her nese instead of is her cheeks, threw e resentful glance at Letty, radiant in a circle of adniirere, as ehe answered; " I dare any. She looks very like as if aha did," was very selfleh but tonight self was for. gotten for the time ; and the quaint, dark fano, that hie friend had eo ridioaled, seemed to have a vivid, witobing beauty, so it theme ant on hint between the dim hell - lights of the low tire and the bronze lamp overhead. Lefty, sitting there, all unmindful of the tender gaze of those keen eyes, was *Wok- ing, with vain, rebellions longing, of what might have been if Pant Lennerd'S wife bad The 1lliseed Topham were not tamed for never left her those ill•fated riches. elegance of diction—and no great wonder o thHeought, mightan have lovednevmo then,"she that theywere not. Rumor did gaythat,more, , and need never have left yF0in more, We might have been so happy in their grandfather had thought himself that old brown house, with only my father, blessed when he wan owner of a flailing- and none of this hateful money to gather smack, but the present Misses Topham, people round ne who would not pare if we their mamma and papa, and one brother, died at their foot, so, that they were safe. were the essence of well. to-do reapeotability, Ohl it he had only been poor, I would have lived in great state at Topham Lodge, and married him, and worked for him, and kept a groom ; and what more would you borne anything for his sake." have? So she kept thinking, with fretful pain, A little later that same evening Ernest ea she sat there, and picked away first the Devereux, leaning idly against the pillar by leaves, and then the blossoms of her whioh Letty was standing, and having bongaet, nothing beater to say Piet then, told her that Letty was just like the rest of ns ; she he lead met Dr. Lennard riding a little way was willing to endure any trouble but the out aFenmore that morning. one that was pressing down on her. Her I Haver saw a man eft changed in my ehouldere felt strong to hear any of the life," he said ; " lee looked years older, quits Grosso that might have been laid on them, an old man, and be was as distant and cold but they bent and shivered under the as poesible. I am sure one sight of his harden that they were called upon to carry. grave, pole Taos, would Dara any of the " We thought you were /oat; or had run young ladies who need so to adore him." away, or eomothing dreadful had happened, The first hers of a valee came floating Lefty, dear," called out a clear, ringing toward thorn, and Ernest Deverenx stood voice, as its owner swept into the room, pillar, keeping time with one hand on the turning over a tiny Parian Psyche with her filar a eine# whioh he leaned. It was a ,° p g voluminous skirts, as she passed. You sweet, plaintive air, but Letty wee not have been searched for everywhere, you heeding it ; oho was thinking, with inward naughty darling, for you were most tears, of one true heart that could not be particularly wantred. estranged, beoauee the face of its idol had The young lady, the twenty-first, and blenched and egad. moat demonstrative, of Letty'a new friends, " He said he bad only come back for a wsa standing on the rug by this time, her few days to cattle his affairs and dispose of gauzy skiris dangerously near the steel his praotioe," continued Ernest Devereux, bare of the grate. She was looking up with " He is going to live at Cranleigh." a mischievous wonder at Ernest Devereux'S buzzing sound, growing la A mazy whirl of ng to olored lights, ander and fonder smiling fade, and Letty's grave one. ., I bepardon a thousand timse, if I am every instant, till she felt as if her ear meat intruding," she said, with a little mock burn under the pressure, and Laity lay pale coarteay, and a pretense of going away and atilt on Ernest Deveraax's arm. She again - had fainted. Ernest Devereux plopped her, and A pressing, useless crowd was gathered gallantly pushed forward a ohair for her round them in an instant, and many were clone to Letty'a side, himself standing the the a named as the cause of this while, and watching the two girls. saddeenn attack. "I thought she looked too brilliant to be down with a half "Who wanted me " Letty asked, looking blush on the scattered quite in health," eone. ,petals strewing her lap and the carpet e t Yea, she was evidently idently excited, and the her feet. heat has been too mode for her," said °� Doctor Lennard," was the reply. °' He another. is leaving Fenmore, and he called to pay Not one of them imagined real amen is Of course he knew nothing of of that deathly faint, not even the man the party ; but it was odd to come at this who had Amok the blow, so to speak, and hour, wasn't it ?" seen her reeling under it. She was carried The rosy blush was a burning flame now ; to her own room, and Mrs. Atherton and a cheeks, neck and bosom one painful, flush- couple of young lady friends attended on ing crimson. her. " He had no time to wait till you could " Poor dear," said Mrs. Topham, who be found," continued the young lady ; was at heart a xindly women, "crow white " but he left hia respects, and compliments the ie to be euro 1' And then she said, of the season and all that. He's going by lower poll, "Astonishing Tilde, isn't it ? the 12 o'clock train, and it's half -past 11 Bat I was mistaken, and I'm sere I'm very now, and more." sorry. She couldn't be rouged, you know, patting up one white jewelled hand to and turn lima that." shade her eyes from the fire, the speaker In little more than an hour' time Latty looked at the tiny ormolu timepiece whioh was down again, moving about among her stood oxi the mantle, and whioh jnet at that fueeta, bat with a face so pals, an eye er moment began to ring the three•gnarter fixed, that people turned to look atter her chimes. It was a quarter to 12. In fifteen as she passed. Ernest oaaght a minutes more he would be gone from glimpse of her, and breaakinglong froa group Fenmore forever t of gentlemen who surrounded him, made An insaoe impales to up and fly to him, his way to her hide at once. and pray him to atop, to stay for her sake, " Miss Leigh," he whispered, bending seized Letty. She felt as it ehe would go over her BQ as not to be heard, "do let me mad sitting there quietly, and her love persuade you to go bank to your room. passing away from her forever. You are nob fit to be here." Miea Lyle rhea, and, shaking ant her She answered with a smile and a quiet skirts, declared ehe wap engaged for the shake of the head. very valve they were playing, and declared Do Wm my advise, he said. ° I can she must go. see that you are suffering acutely." �• fair. Lawton will be seekevery- ' ever She glanced quickly up ab him, and then where ae it is." said she, " and 'thinking me every I bent her head over her banquet, bat still Neve gone off after you, Laity, for they ehe did not stir. none of them know where you are hid." It is too warm and noiay for year here," Ae she opened the door to pees out, a he continued. " Come down to your own gush of mingled music and laughter swept little parlor ; we shall at least be quiet in ; an essence of joy it seemed ; and Letty there." hearing it buried her face in her hands and He offered her hia arm aa he spoke, and burst into tears. That sound of outer she took it, and walked with biro to the happiness tingled along her bruised heart small dimly -lighted room he spoke of, glad like a shook of agony, breaking down pride to get away from the glare and the minim like firmness at one dash. and the stony faces of those guests, who Ernest Devereux was shocked, touched were no friends. He seated her before the even at the eight of those melding tears ; lira in a large easy.shair, and drew another he felt as though he must do something to near to her for himself, soothe her, bat she would not be soothed ; The light, as it played on both their hie words tell dull on her ears ; and the Pave., showed vary different emotions n loud, passionate Bobs only ceased to give each. Hie was pale and agitated, sudden plans to low, broken gasps thee seemed to scarlet flashes coming and going morose the come from her very heart, and that a sallow cheek, fugitive gleams of tenderneee stricken one. coming and going and going in the fair hlne °° My darling, my own Letty, you must eyes. Lefty's face was as pale and still as tell me what is grieving yon," he cried, it had been in the drawing -room, her ayes drawing her hands forcibly away from her half closed, her lips preened elope together, fete ; and then, as a sudden thought flashed she pat and eupon him, he added " Dr. Lennard 1—was her roses overr her ed lap in silence. the crimson petals of he ?—did you ? " Ernest Devereux was the drat to speak, " I loved him," she broke in with a sob, and his low, earnest tones woke the dream- halt shame, half sorrow, as she bent lower ing girl with a start. It was the came talo and lower to avoid his reproachful eyes. he told her on the sands some months back, For a moment he stood waive, his face but told now with many passionatechanges as white as the bent fade before him ; the that had been absent thenn..HHee hadd pleaded muscles of his close month twitching. for the hand of the heiress than ; now he Then he stooped and drew Letty to him, was pleading fon the heart of the woman ; clapping her closely, tightly, as one who and all the earnestness and troth of hie would 'not bo denied. nature roes into his face as he spoke. °° Forget him, Laity," he whispered, Letty had then answered '° No," firmly softly. " Let my love fill the plane of bis in and easily ; now she whispered it with a your heart. He ie not worthy of yon, faltering tongue that would scarce obey its dourest." office. She measured his love by her own ; The tiny ormolu toy on 1 e mantel and feeling through every quivering nerve etrnok 12, and finished with a Silvery, ting - what it was to love in vain, her heart was ling cadence. A second later, and the stirred with pity for him ; and he dew that sonorous peals of Fenmore belle came it was so by her face. clearly sounding over the snowy fields. "No, don't answer ma now," he said. They had been ringing the old year out, " To -morrow, or the day after you shall tell but eo softly and sadly, that the made in me. I am willing e wait any time it Mr. Leigh's tiny drawing -room had pleases you. Only give me some token by drowned their chimes. They were ringing whioh I may know there is hope in wait- the new year in so loudly and joyously, ing, and I will be content." that their peal penetrated even the quiet He bent closer to her as he spoke, and took both her cold handy into hielovingly, her white, stony face with a shiver from tenderly, with the soothing touch' he miof the summer parlor, and Lefty, raising ghb the breset where it had lain waive for a have used to a grieving child. Her life was few moments, and taking Ernest Devereux'° very bare, her heart was very empty ; any first kiss upon her lips, knew that the old love wee better than none, and she left him year, and its bright dreams had, indeed, hold her hands, and press warm kisses on died for her forever. And with the new them in silence. year, a naw lite, bleak and bare, and mo- aner Devereux was a gentleman poll, heapeakably desolate opened before her. to.mouth existence, and would not press after all those yore of s wo ge and hand- my own love—happier than any year that " May this be a happy new year to yon, his snit any farther then. He told her he has gone before it 1 " paid Ernest Devereux, final answer fore day or two, or three if it gently pushing the heavy, dark hair away loved her, and he put off the giving of her from over hon brow. pleased her, himself content to wait ; and " Thank you, ' she answered as gently ; So while the maaia peeled out fonder and there he left her, but no blush rode on the Berk face under hie tender gaze. No quiver troubled the bonder, and the ham of fresh voices and sweep of her long lashes as they rested on burets of silver laughter came fitfully to her cheek, though hie hand, fitm and them, they eat quiet and silent in the little strong, and loving withal, wee being softly summer peeler • the bronze lam throwing° d over her heated brow. Beffate News : " And eft you aro not i? passes a mellolight' on Letter's dark, still face, Thank yon 1" The low, even words married yet ?" and only halt revealing the gleaming jarred upon him strangely. But now, and l'No." statuettes and shining silver ornaments he wan thinking and paying how little " Engaged 2" Scattered throughout the room. would content him till the could give him " No." Ernest Davereax leaned his arm on the all, and already the stony calm of her " Expect to be ?" low mantle, and hie head on his arm, and manner was fretting him. She had told " No." looked down silently on the fano of the him herself that she did not love him, bat "What's rho matter ?" woman he loved and hoped one day to the spoken word° were nothing to the " Well, papa Bays that my husband must make love him. That ehe did not love him written evidence before him, plainly to be ben keen and experienced man of goodhoalth be knew, but she was young and tender- read in the quiet face, not drooped nor and good habits. Mamma Saye he moat hearted ; once his, her love, he thought, rosy ; •the gray oyes, their depth unstirred be frugal, industrious, attentive and moral, would be easily won. and sleeping ; and the close red lips that And I say he moat be handsome, dashing, As he otood there in the bait abadee a only breathed of grief and longing. For a talentedand rrob. We are still looking genial softness stole over hie handsome, moment ho stood beside her, half touched, for him." cynical, world -hardened floc --a shifting, half angry, then he kieeed her and let her tremulors, tenderness — that had go.neva Ignorant Modem believe in a Cholera rested there since hie boyhood, if even " Well, after all," he thought, " she is Demon with a heed like a „huge earthen then. He was not wholly bad, although he naturally sore M this lellow'e indifference hat alto will got over that, no fear. On that dull November morning on whioh her father left her to go to London, Lefty teed longed for a change, no matter of what kind. " Any .ohmage must be for the better," she had said then. THE WYANDOTTE OAVES NEW YOIii PidentaIROVNDB., saltie and morale at the roar tntildreet Pr. illulntyre. veils ur Wonders In the uremia emprovod.. New York has two plots of ground irtz- noon' of mother Earth- preyed oepeoielly for the sports of ebildren. In opening his lecture the dootor said, and superintended in their interest. One "There are two kinds of men who go measures 50 by 100 feet, and was ,opened a In the cola, gray dawn of the fire# day in everywhere. One ie the Amerigan, and year ago throanh the oaertionu of two the new year, she was lying on her bed, once when oroseing one of the Lagos of phrlanthropto women, in West Fiftieth moaning and ebrinking Away with fear and Killarney he asked the Irishman, who was street, near the North River. Tho other dread from the very change she had been rowing the boat, if there was any road an extends from Ninety-firet to Ninety -emend eo ready to weloome while yet distant. In American never trowelled, and the Inieb• street on Second avenue, eovera an area 2001 the room next to her's Ernest Doyenne sat man,ainting to heaven, eaid,'He travels feet 'einem and was given to the ohildreen by the fire, gmoklu;. He had not gone to ell roads but that one.' The other kind or on the 8th of last January by the Naw hod at 811, and his head had grown dizzy man is the preacher. As a negro wailer of York Society for parka and playgrounds poring over a morocco -bound volume were a theologioal college once said, when being for ohildren., Eaab ie furnished with his debta were jotted down in nnpleaeautly rebuked for stealing and asked what he swings, seesaw stands, ewali waggouen round nnnibere. He was emokiug comfort- would do when he went down to eternal wheelbarrows, shovels, footballs, bags', ably now, and thinking of Letty. The doom, replied, ' Well, I patent I will wait on banner's, flume and a beep of sand- Beth softened look had not quite left his floe, proadhere the same as I do here.' Being aro crowded with children from morning and he half smiled, half sighed ae he both a preacher and an American I have to night. thought of her. been moat everywhere and will lead on a When the Ninety-second Moat piety- " Poor little girl 1 " he said to himself ; journey through one of the two great oavee ground was opened last winter the reineualar "she is terribly oat ; but the fellow was of. America, the Wyandotte Caves. Thera aotivity of ohiidren in that :nightie:Naood: old and boorish. She will Boon forget him are two groat caves in the world ----tee was devoted principally to emaohing win- -she cannot help it." 1'demmoth Cave, of Kentaoky, and the dows, fighting and abusing smaller children. The young man passed his ringed hands Wyandotte Caves, of Indiana, where Gurnee and recognized sports seemed to be caressingly through the eilken tangier of the Wyandotte Iadiaue lived be- unknown, and the ground at drat euniply hie whiskers ea he said that, mentally Dom- fore the appearance of civilized served as a larger field field for the rough paring Paul Lenuard'e dark, bearded face, man in Amerioa. The exact situation is in and unorganized pastimes of the larger with its pale square brow and grave, search- Crawford County, five milea from the Ohio boys. The promoters of the scheme aeon ing eyes, to his own fair, handsome one. River. Yon go round a hill by the path till saw that apace elan° wart not suiiioient tct " By Jove, I would not hurt ouch a good you Dome to the entranoe 20 x 7 feet, which reform the reoreatione of the children, lent little soul for the world, though I don't lama the west and then down a gradually that supervision was neosasery. The olhil- pretend to be moth of a Christian." ' declining path till you reach the first room. dren did not know haw to play ; and it He threw the stump of his olgar into the Our party consisted of the proprietor and they had known, the larger boys would. grate art he °poke, and, with a yawn, draw gaide, Mr. Rothrook, a Mr. Johnson, Aire. have monopolized all the appliances for d 'et fitted e s si til andentered t sones with whioh the peat the oartaau°bank, and let the yellow, a y MoTntyre and myself, we r d he Y light of the young day creep in, while he cave at sunset. The guide carried two up the grounds. A fence ten feet high am - lay down to get a few hours' sleep before eataltele, two`rooketa and four torches. The rounding the plot, several hand-to-hand breaktaet time. first room glitters with nitre crystals and encounters between the roagheat boys and CHAPTER VI, efaer leaving it we entered a tunnel about the persons in oberge of the grounde, aud throe -quarters of a mile long, where there the arrest of four ringleaders among the was no light but the light of onr torches. invaders, served the cause of peace as well Passing . through Columbian Aroh we that the playground is now the meths - come to Washington avenue, named tnrbed possession of the children, as many after Wadbington avenue, St. Louis. At as five hundred of whom patronize it in a the end of the avenue we halted before a day. The system of admiseion tickets„ projecting stone and the guide, lighting which lhaa been adopted es the faireat to some red ohemioale, threw a rtfieotion of all oonoerned, shows that a thousand boys the stone on the nailing. The reflection and girls enjoy the privileges of the represented a man and a woman quarrel- ground. ling and was named " Betsy and I are Amusing and pathetic incidents alter. out." We had now reached Banditti Hall, netted in early attempts to teach the chit and a more appropriate name for time dren how to play the ordinary games of horrible place Goold not be found. Jest little folk. Two young men ono mornin before going across it the guide thorned, gave some of the boys at the play -ground " Keep oldie to my heels ; there are bot- an object -lesson in leap -frog, which they tomlees pits on either side." After show. had never seen before. In trying to imitate ing the dangers of thio room with the aid their instructora, the lade anted as clumsily of a Bonged light, the guide 'rook as if they had been young Hottentots ne northwards. We had been going taking their first leseone in -the waltz ; asst. We now saw a Bight I will and one of them, who could have ewam never forget. A room, the walls and across the North River, or run from Con - ceiling of whioh were literally thick with tral Park to the Battery, fell flat upon bats. The guide threw a Roman candle at his nose, bruising his face so badly that 'a cluster, and ae the light etruok them the services of a physioian had to he. they made a dart towards the door where secured. we were standing, jest as the guide cried, Aa a result of throe months' training in "lie down, quick." They swept over onr this ont-door gymnasium, the power of en- heade in a solid dead, and when returning durance for all apart') has inorertsed per- sonae of them struck spinet the silo of the ceptibiy in thechildran. The improvement entrance and fall bleeding jests where in the pbyaioal condition of the girls ie we wore lying. We all leaped to onr even more marked than in the case of the feet and ran, terrified, down the road till boys. Their cheeks are ruddier, their step we were joined by our guide. We went on stronger, and their appetites are better two or three miles and name to a grotto, than before enjoying this coarse of exec- which is much spoken of, ae a romantic else. The laet result is not always aocept- young lady was once eo mach etruok with able to parents, one father prohibiting his it that she brought her affianced hasbsnd three daughters from visiting the play - there and got married. After a short ground any longer, saying that the family time we came to what appeared to he grooer'B bills had materially increased a solid wail, but the guide pointed out a since hie children had began to take ea small hole running ander it and said we much exercise in the open air. were going through there. We all got The moral improvement observable in through all right bat Johnson, who was a the children is the moat hopeful result of big, fat fellow, and when the guide and I the training at the play -ground. Persona palled him through it was without buttons with old-fashioned notions regarding the on any of hie clothes. In the dining -room, innocence of childhood would have had which we came to next, there ie a natural their ideas rudely upset could they have Wile covered with visiting cards from all heard a few sample sentences from the parts of the world. In the next room, after mouths of some of the boys and gide who examining the beautiful stelaethtee and thronged the play -ground at its opening. Stalagmites, we carne upon another party Nothing was too blasphemons nor 'too foul. of tourieta guided by a son•in-law of Roth. for them to utter in their ordinary convex -- rex, our guide. They had one of the best cation, and the most vivid imagination can. Singers in Kentucky with them, and the hardly duplicate the vocabulary of one of echoes of her voice made the most beau#i. these sicklings when angry. By adhering fat music I ever heard. Passing through a strictly to the rale of instantly ejecting low tunnel, called "Purgatory," we arrived every boy and girl guilty of improper at the largest room in the world, so large language, the character of these chile that St. Paul's Cathedral, gates and all, dren'e conversation has been radically could be dropped in and would not touch the changed. Not only has their language boundaries of any part. We now wont been reformed, but a sense of, jastico down Slippery Hill, and near the bottom hae been developed which seemed entirely my feet slipped from under me on the wanting at first. Large boys and gine; wet clay, end I slid forty feet to the who two months ago wonid monopolize ale bottom, and Johnson fell on top of me. the toys as soon as the snperintandent'e When the guide was asked why he had back was turned, now understand the not told us, he said, " The hill was so power and the benefit of organization, and slippery, it slipped my memory." At cheerfully accept their share in the amuse - Cerulean Hall six walks meet, and here we meats provided. were placed fifty feet apart, all lights put It is the purpose of the Society for Parke ant, and we experienced the fearfnl eenaa- and Play -grounds for Children to °stabile& tions of abeolnte silence and darkness till recreation grounds in every ward of New we were ready to shriek with terror. We York, and to intere9t in the movement fished for half an hour at Crawford'a pnblio-apirited residents of other oitiee- Spring°, but without success, and then Blocks of tenements have been selected for went into Milroy's Temple, which was demolition in the moat thickly crowded first entered by a dare -devil school -boy, districts, and the society hopes to interest named Milroy. Here the guide took a key the local Government in opening and pre- aud struck some of the stalactites, and on serving these apacsd for purposes of health; the first five were the notes of the musical and sport.—Harper's Weekly. scale. My wife took the key and played " Nearer, my God, to Thee," on them. A Cook Books for Men. moment later I saw Johnson and my wife New York Weekly : Lounger -Do cook ranning towarde a spot whioh shone with hooka form an important item in yam alabaster whiteness and found we were at Sales ? the entrance of the cave again. It was the Bookseller—Yee ; we sell them by the early morning of a beautiful September thousand. day. The brook was rippling at the hill. " The women appreciate them, eh 7" side, the birds were pouring forth their " Oh, the women don't buy them ; than song, and the very grass was sending up its husbands do." perfume, and the whole day was perfect." " LLTTt, REMEMBER WE ARE ENGAGED." March wee in, and Letty, to wham a Iittle of her old bloom had come back, was being daily blown and blustered into some- thing of her pact fresh youth by the keen winde that swept and surged round her as she took her long, lonely walks over the sands in her sealskin jacket and flowing woolen dress. Those walks were not always lonely, not often, indeed, considering that London was more than a hundred miles away from Fenmore, and that it was in London her lover was forded, a9 he said, to live. No one could be more attentive, more gallant, more loving even, than Ernest Devereux had been during there two bleak winter months. Letty had long since learned to mies him when absent, and wait expectantly for his coming. Sho WOO every day learning to do more, though she thought very often of Paul Lennard's noble, earnest face, and aometimsa caught herself wishing Chet her lover was a little bit more like him. Snob. as he was, how- ever, ho was very well; and if the bad oared leas for him than she did, she would yet have had her reward in the joy and :comfort their engagement gave her father, for Ernest Deverenx and she were now formally engaged. The old man was now in high delight he talked vaguely of great good fortune yet in store for her, and for which she would have to thank him wieen it came. He spoke of a handsome house in Belgravia,, and a dashing tarn -out for his pet, as Iargely and confidently as though Mrs. Lennard's legmoy had been hundreds of thousands in plane of thousands. Letty sometimee smiled, and smiling, wondered at the old man's talk ; but she always thought lovingly of him, and thanked him in his heart for this unex- pected care of her. Bat what often sur- prised her was, that Ernest Devereux, cool, wise, man of the world, eee.med to see nothing extravagant in all this, that sounded in her ears but aa so much fond babbling. Toward the latter end of March Mr. Leigh went on one of hie mysterious visits to London, and Ernest Devereux, who had been staying a few days with them, vient back with him. They were both to return before the thirtieth, they said, and they smiled at one another meaningiy as they said it. Bat the thirtieth passed, and April Dame in, and wore on toward May, and they had neither come nor written. Letty was earprieed, and a little vexed, but not at all frightened as yet. Ernest Devereux was in the habit of sending her long, loving letters, written on dainty paper, with the Devononx and Ashley crest on the top. Sho ha 1 received them as a matter of course, and put them safely by in the pearl and ebony box where her few treasures were stored ; among the rest a certain drab satin shoe that had no pleasant memories linked to it, and the reason for keeping whioh she could hardly have given, even to herself. Now that he wan oft long away, and no letters were coming, she began at first to wonder, and then to fret ; and finally she grew angry at what ehe looked on as 'Alight- ing indifference upon his part. She did not lova him well enough to make excuses for him, and so oho went her long walks alone, and brooded over this new phase in her engagement. One fair, sunny afternoon, when the sky was more settled than usual, Letty put on hat and jacket and went down to the shore. There was a freehaess as of new life in the kind breeze that brushed her fern softly, and the great waves rolled, in with a mueioal murmur very pleasanto listen to on that mild April day, and looking over the restless green waters, moving joyoualy under the spring sunshine, a little of stir- ring gladness entered into her heart as she Mood there. Then she eat down and buried her bands in the soft warm sand, and thought of Peal Lennard, lovingly, yearn. tingly, ae she the betrothed wife of another man, should not have thought of him. Sho knew that very well, but she could not help at; so ehe eat still in the warm sunlight, and dreamed her dream, tailed by the drowsy murmur and roll of the sea. A hasty step coming over the rands, a heavy hand laid on her shoulder, and Letty started to her feet, and turning suddenly faced Ernest Davereax. So she put out her hand to him with a smile and a blush, wondering that while he took it, and held it tightly in his, he never smiled or spoke. Then Abe saw how pale and haggard he was, how ill ho looked, and a feeling of fear stirred in her. " What has kept yon away ea long, Ernest 7" she asked. "Have you been ill?" (To be Oontlntled. " tie Uometli Not." only a child. Just row she is feeling pot. Lynched the Agent. Montreal Star : A party of Hnugarians, who were deceived by the glowing accounts of life in America into emigratine, returned to their native land a few days ago, hnnted np the agent who had deceived them and hanged him to a convenient tree. Sada object !tenons as this might be expected to do more to stop immigration than all the restrictive laws yet passed. —IIneophiatioated Parent—Hello there, nurse, what's the baby yelling that way for 7 I can't read at all. Nurse—He'a cutting his teeth, sir. U. P.—Well, see that he doeen't do it any more, or you lose your place. --" Is your deter in the house, Mies Dorothy 2" " Yee, she is ; and if you're coming often you'd better hurry np and propose, 'ranee I've noticed with all the others when it goes on so long it never cornea to anything." —Charlie W., aged 4, had two pets—a canary, which was a fine singer, and a oat. One unlucky day the door of the bird-oage was left open, and the oat was caught an the not of swallowing the last morsel of poor birdie. Little Charlie gazed at the oat a few moment° in sorrowfal mtdita' tion, then suddenly queried ; "Mamma, will Kitty sing now?"—I-Lousekeepert' Wey. Theeklbody of Boron Draie, who ie sup. posed by some to have invented the bicycle, and who died over thirty years ago, was removed the other day from an obscure reeting•plaoe, and given burial among the tombe of illustrious Germans at Cdanlerethe. A funeral oortege of about 400 pores= of both sexes, mounted on bioyoles of all °laeeee, and waiving the uniform of their respeotive °lobe, followed the body to the grave, Lovers Are Blind. Boston Herald : Old gentleman, to anitor—Yon want to marry my daughter, do you, young man Young man—Yes, sir. Old gentleman -Dear me, I gave you: credit for being a levelheaded young fel ow. The General Assembly of the Presby- terian resbyterian Ohuroh will meet this year at Kings- ton in June. Extensive preparations aro being made for the reception of the 40G delegates who are expected. Statistics show that 500,000,000 of the human ram wear clothing, 250,000,00n habitually go without clothes, and 700,000,-' 000 oover only portions of the body. What, an opening for a trade commission 1 —Sad, a humble bleak man, died is Zanzibar May 6th. He was Dr. Living. stone's faithful servant and carried hia master's body fifteen hundred milea. through a hostile region, and to hie plank is due the feat that Livingatone'e remains now lie in Westminster Abbey. Parliament gave Susi a vote of thank° and the queen and govornmenment gave him other eub- etantiel tokens of recognition. Archibald Forbes gives the London Graphic this Utile story about Von Moltke; a deputation of ladies oome to congratulate him on his ninetieth birthday. He re- ceived them very straioably, and tallied to them for some time in his quiet, pleasant way, when, referring to all the good wishes that had been showered upon him, he said: " I am almost sorry, on noticing all this affection, that I am not a young titan again." " How old would yon like to be, sir?" asked one of theladiee. " Well," re- plied the nonoganerian and smiled, " If I could only be eighty once more." The Brazilian Government hes decided that in future all meta=, duties must be paid in gold.