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wm Gong to the neapillere.
I've struggled through the 'winter with 'bout
balf enough to eat,
An old hat upon my head, and with old oboes on
my feet,
And all the thume that I have bought hate been
as cheap as dirt,
But I'm going to the seashore if I nave to pawn
my Shirt.
I've lost my situation, and nay poetry won't
sem
MY:money's now en gone and my only friend as
well ;
But he can go to ula-hu where the hoses never
squirt,
For I'm Going to the seashore i I have to pawn
my slairt.
I'llaweak upon the sandy beaten and hold my
dm:Magni hand ;
And in the roiling eurf, in rapture I will
ete.nd,
And with all the giddy idens oil the sandy
beach nu tura
For I'm going to the seashore it I bave to pawn
my shiet.
When my chetah an expended, and the grand
bounce 1 have got,
Though I leave so quick that I won't know if
i'm (awe or not ;
Thougla the landlord's few remarks may be—well,
quite severe and curt,
l'm going to the seaBhore if I have to pawn
my shirt.
weese anameasemaimemeasur
THE DOCTOR.
She spoke his mane !shyly, with the
womanly intent of rousing him by un -
Wonted kindnen from the sties ege, cold
elbow.
" Ill 2 " he repeated. "No ; bet I might
have been. Your father is tit, L by. He
on fret and moan, but I ammo even do
that. Will you walk with me n • v, and I
will tell you the news I have omen- out after
you to tell."
Hie voles was low and hard, e nd Letty
Shivered as she listened to it; still the
would not shrink from hearing whatever
it was he might have to tell. It was a
story many had betened to beiere with
only the difference of a few paltry details.
It was a story that nese been told with
deadly effect, by many a heerthmione, and
in many a banking-hous—e tale that
many poor creatures had shivered and
moaned over before her—but it fell none
the len heavily and enadeuly on poor
Letty on that amount. It was all coni.
prised in one word—tuin 1 It meant hard-
ship and poverty, and hamilestion ; but
they were all hidden us yet in the bleet:
folds of that oue ominous word of four
Letters.
Mr. Leigh had sank all his daughter's
fortune in a great brilliant bubble eoheme ;
all hie gaudy airoastles bad the well-being
of this scheme for their foundation; but
now the false sands had Shifted, and the
eide-board mansions ware strewn in the
dust.
Ernest Deverena had no fortune to stake,
bat he staked his name and his proepeots,
and all the ready mesh he could master, and
the end was ruin for him also; more dire,
more complete, than had even fallen upon
Mr. Leigh.
The young man had hardened and
atiffened under the blow; the old man had
broken down under it, and bat for Ernest
Deverenx he would never again have been
able to reach Fenmore.
Not a very plemarint story bo to tell any.
muoh lese to a young girl who had grown
accustomed to all the joys and luxuries
which money brings to tea possessor. And
Ernest Devereme remembering the deathly
faint of the past New Year's Eve, felt no
little uneasiness as to how it would be
received. But Letter did not faint now.
She heard him to the end quite calmly and
patiently, and than her words did no express
sorrow for herself or for him, only for her
father.
o My father 1" she said, her eyes fall of
teen, her voice broken - " my poor father
how will he bear it 2 What oen I do to
make him able to bear it? "
Ernest Deveretat looked at her wondered.
This was so different from all he had
expected; and half dreaded so see, when the
hard news was broken to her.
" If I could endure a life of poverty with
any women, that woman would be Letty,"
he thought. "She would never grow into
a shrew under her troubles."
"1, too, am e ruined man, Letty," he
said aloud, after a peuse ; "but, for all
that, the bond between no need never be
broken, unless you will it."
She turned and looked at him as he stood
beside her, the breeze playing among his
luxurient whiskers and gently raising the
thick, silken ends of his mustache. He
was very handsome, vary gentlemanly, but
he was not the man she would care to face
the storm with. She was honest and true
to the core, and she spoke out frankly now,
as Ernest Devereux, man though he was,
would not have dared to have spoken.
"1 do will that it ehould be broken,
Ernest," she replied, " but not for my sake
only. Yon are not one who could make
your way in the world if you had a poor
wife to drag you down. Some men could,
but you could not, and I dare not marry
any man to be a burden upon him—I dare
not do it. No, don't," she said, putting her
hand on hie arra to stop him when he
would have anewered her, ' don't say any.
thing. I know you are honorable and true.
• I know you would marry me to -morrow if
I wished it, though you would have to live
and die a poor man in consequence; bat I
do not wish it, Ernest—believe me, I do
not."
I She stepped and stood silent for an
instant, her face flushing and paling, her
frank eyes turned from him; then she
whispered, timidly, as though owning some
heavy crime:
d I—I'm afraid I do not love you as you
should be loved. I don't think I could if I
tried ever eo. But----."
She stopped short and looked up at him,
and then quickly turned her face away,
painfully flushed and embarrassed. Per-
haps the memory of that ether love she
had once confessed to this man was sting-
ing her pride now, painting her cheeks with
those burning blushers, and making her
clear eyes falter and droop.
Norte but Ernest Devote= himself, or
some self- cankered, world -hardened spirit
like him, maid know tlae effort his offer
had cost him; and now, looking at her, he
wished on hie heart thet she had taken him
at his work. For one moment he felt that
to have the lova of this true•hearted girl he
would leave been content to fight his way
in the world, and take bis plasm, humbly
and earnestly, aroorm its busy workere; the
next, he saw that he never could have token
hie piece there with any chance of themes,
and being a sensible man he took 'things as
they were, and was thankful.
But in that ehort apace of time, while he
*stood by Letty, wittohiag the setting sun,
without clearly knowing that he was
watching it, the one bright light of his life
faded out, tine Emma 'Devereux was the
men of the world again and forever. Then
he stooped and raised the sweet fame *hat
• was so near his own, and kiesed it softly,
and Broiled, as he saw the blushing bloom
under hie lips.
• "he last time, Letty. Remember we
were engaged," said he, end drawing her
arm clone him, as he led her toward
• home. "our father Will went to see you
by this time," he continued, "ea he will
perhap think you tire grieving if you Mem
away longer now."
Bo they walked, arm in inn away frora
the darkening este, eta on toward the little
cottage where the old man was wattnag for
the daughter he lead dragged back into
piteertY.
CEugxErt vzz.
" TAM, STRO10Ba max r num."
Erma Devereux did not ohm long with
the Leig'os ; that some night he darted or
Loudon; from thence he purposed making
hie way to Beillogne, wnere at lomat he
would be free from the peep of enraged
creditors. Then Letty eet herself to face
life bravely, as it was bee nature to do.
Nat very pleseeet would that life be hence-
fotth, bus it weal, have he (Rain, and
these she wao determined to fulfil.
One of the hetet of the many unpleasant
things' thie loes of fortune brought Letter,
was the lose of Mrs. Atherton. That lady%
cutlery °data no longer be paid her, and she
was not one to stay 0 (Angle hour for noth.
Ing; he even grumbled and lamentsas
though thiS lege was her own personal
grievance, end hO, indeed, it was in one
way. She made no pretense of sympathy
beyond a few commonplace politenemes,
that woe wort h less than the puff of breath
that gave them ettbstanee. She ooramenced
without tiny daisy to eet hor properties to-
gether, end they liad increased vosetly dur-
ing her stay in thet hoose; and then, when
she lied all her preparations completed,
she lamed Linty on the cheek and drove off
to the known, MI:. Leigh escorting her.
That was the bet journey the pretty
little trap ever went wbile Mr. Leigh was
ito owner, for three dos after ha sold it,
and the gay mare that drew it. The
cottage he had bought, and he would neither
dispose of i3'nor of any article of furniture,
however costly, however Ont of place and
uselese it might be; and so father and
daughter went back to their former humble
way of lime, their one servant, and the
thousand and one petty troubles that
genteel poverty is heir to.
Unutterably weary were tho glaring
summer days the* followed to poor sorrow -
burdened Letty. It was not the riches
themselves she grieved after; they had
galled her more then they had comforted
her, at the beat; but it was the means of
supplying the selfish neoeseities of her
father that the was raining. The taste of
wealth had fired the old passions of waste
aud extravagance in hio heart, and he
fretted sorely when he loot the power of
feeding them.
Gladly would poor Letty worked to
produce for her father, bat work there was
none for her to do. She could not toil
meaningly, for she was a gentlewoman;
teething, that laet resoaroe of reepeota.
bility, was barred to her, for she had none
of the showy accomplishments that the
governesses of the present day are expected
to possees and transmit to their pupils with
proper zeel for the munifinnt stipend of,
say, twenty pothole per annum.
There was nothing, therefore, that Letter
could do but sit pasaiva, and eootaomize her
household expenses, and soothe her father's
temper as beat she might.
Oh 1 what a terrible thing it is for a
strong soul to sit passive 1 Some have
learned this from experienoe and the
knowledge has sent them into their graves;
to sit passive, and see the high tide of life
drifting past, over paet, without flinging
one waif of good fortune over the lonely
rook where you are placed; to sit passive
and see the fair years of youth gliding
away into that terrible past, from which
no after amount of prosperity can bring
them back—so sit passive, and eat your
heart out, till the chain snaps, and the slow
agony is ended.
Stich was life to Letty through the burn-
ing heat of the long summer, and the biting
cold of the longer winter that followed Mr.
Leigh's last memorable visit to London.
And he was growing dreadfully old during
all those months.
In the first bleak days of the early March
Mr. Leigh coaid not leave his room; he
seemed to shrivel up and fade as the days
grew longer and brighter, and before the
May blossoms whitened the trees, he ley
under the green sods of the little thumb -
yard on the hill. Then Letty stood alone
in the world, with but a very small annuity
to keep actual want from her door.
Mr. Leigh had been a gentleman by birth
and fermne ; he hid relations and friends
in pa ety, bet they were worse than
etrangere to hie orphan ; many of them
he scarcely by knew name—to none had she
shadow of a right to apply for help.
Letty instated on going to the funeral;
and when kind, motherly Mrs. Wilson
begged of her, for her own sake, not to go,
she turned a deaf ear.
"He was my own dear father," she said
pitifully—m the only creature that ever
oared for me; and he shall not be carried
to the grave without one who loved him to
follow him."
" Bat, my dear, you are not expected to
do each a thing. It will be too trying for
you," said the kind woman. " Do let me
persuade you not to think of it, Letty."
"1* he had a eon he would have gone,"
said Letty, " I was both son and daughter
to him, and I will go."
Well, my love, you must do what seems
best to you," said the good lady, and there
were tears in her eyes as she kissed Letty's
cold cheek and left her.
Every heart ewelled with pity for the
pale, drooping girl, who stood so bravely by
She open grave, and looked on with white
lips and dry, burning eyes, as the earth fell
heavily and sallenly on her father's coffin.
lid. There was something terrible in the
quiet grief of the girl, something perfectly
thrilling in the stony calm of her young
face. Looking at her, one felt the iambi
was unnatural, and the reaction would be
awful.
When or how that reaction ems no one
but herself knew, Mt the Letty that eat in
Leigh's' pew on the following Sunday was
so unlike the Lefty that they had known
hitherto, that more than one eye turned to
look after her se she went up the aisle in
her long black dress, a dark, mournful
shade between them and the onnshine.
Small as the cottage was, it was too large
for Letty now, and if ehe could the would
have let it. But no tenant could be found,
and she stayed it in perforce.
The greater part of Mr. Leigh's income
died with hira, and on the amity remainder
Letty had learned to live. A proud girl in
her poverty would gone away from the
place, and from the people who hid known
her in different circumstances. But Letty
was more loving than proud, and ehe olung
tenaciously to the opot that had seen the
dawn and the darkening of her brief love
dream.
The sultry rammer ripened into "autumn,
She corn stood high intim meadows stretch-
ing around Letty's home, end the purple
blooms of the fens were in fall luxurianoe.
The first rending pain of her loss VMS
over, but the weary void in her heart was
unfilled, end often sitting in the warm
haze of the Asignet days, looking out on the
shifting sea, she would think with half a
sigh that perhe,pe she was wrong, after all,
in meting away Erneat Deveretut's love eo
readily. And yet she felt that she could
not do otherwioe, were he to COMO end offer
it again. Of the one love that would have
been so preolotes to her, the had given up all
hteme ; and any other, however *toe, how.
ever tenaer, ocnild be bra An empty mune
to her after that.
Th0 Weary days drawled away till
!ping -time woe *gain. Leidy, Mending
to the ohorohtyard by her fathel'a armee,
looked down, through the blinding teare,
on the green soda tate* heal been laia there
so emmothly juet one year before.
It was a tair April day, raede up of snore
'smiles then ehoivere, and the treble noted
of the birds mingled, shrilly eweet, with
the emit hind weer of the incoming tide.
Tim narrow etrip of sand let t Imre by it
was sparkling and gleaming like molten
gold in the sunshine ; and es Letty turoed
away from that lonely grove, the warm
glitter ormeht her eye and drew her toward
it, %Mom unawares.
The henna' Peet Letty hed left so far be-
hind seemed nearer to her as the great,
green WaVeS rolled up to her feet, and the
frail wind bruohed her fams. On that
narrow strip of end, a few years back, she
had firat mei Paul Leonard. Up ana
down it she had walked once afterward
with Paul Leonard's young wife, trying, to
amuse her, striving to love leer, if only be.
cause of the great, tender heart in which
she was shritlea, like, as the girl in her
oleermighted truth could not but own,
a glittering glees bauble in a casket of
retreat gold. Out there, where the great,
gray bowldere rose dark against the foam of
the strong sea that was breaking over and
around it, the had stood and listened to the
first few barren wordo in which Ernest
Devereux had told his love; whioh was at
that time just as oold and scant itself as
they were, though she did not know it,
and he would not have owned it even to
himself. In that tiny creek, now slowly
filling with the tide, she had picked up one
morning, a dainty drab satin shoe that had
cleared up a mystery in the past and
opened a sealed door in her own heart,
even is she held it in her hand and looked
at it. Ili was not the common shore at all,
it was fairyland, and every step she
walked was haunted.
Poor Letty was changed now—how Gould
the but be—from the happy, merry-heartde
gir/ that she was when the find walked
there; changed by sorrow, and weari•
nese, and vain longing, into a mere
shadow of her former self. As she
stood there -- thinking of the past
and the present—the large tears welled
up in her eyes, and fell glistening down
her netted fingere. The past might have
been so different, the present might have
so bright, if only—. The grit of pebbles
near her caused Letty to look up stuidenly,
and Dr. Leonard was standing within a
yard of her.
He was almost as much astonished as
herself, for he had come in sight cif her
suddenly as he turned on to the shore from
out of the tiny peso that led down to it at
that part. For a second or two he eeemed
scarcely to recognize her; then he same
forward, his grave face all alight, and took
her hand and held it,while he asked after her-
self, and then, with a downward glance at
her black dress, letter her father.
Her heart bed throbbed wildly at the
eight of him. She had to put up her free
hand to her side and hold it there to keep
down the stormy throbs of her heart before
she could naenage to speak. When she did,
it was in a voice so low, in earth broken,
faltering words, that the doctor could only
catch at their meaning, which he soon did,
sedated not a little by the deep mourning
which she wore and the sad, weary, pained
look on her face.
(To be nonterined.
SEVERE froste and freezing blasts must
come, then come froat bites, with swelling,
itching, burning, for which St. Jambs Oil
is the beet remedy.
A Diet for Diabetes.
The following diet for persons suffering
from diabetes has been arranged by Priefes-
sor Braurfoid Lewis, lecturer on Gantt°.
Urinary Diseases at the Missouri Medical
College, St. Lonna
Allowed—All kinds of meats (except
liver). Poultry '• all kinds of game. All
kinds' of flake fresh or salt, sardines,
oysters. Eggs in every style (without
addition of flour, starch or sugar). Fate
and fatty meats. Butter, theme. Soap
(without flour or the prohibited vegetablea).
Celery, cabbage, cauliflower, string -beans,
asparagus, lettuce, spinach, mushrooms,
radishes, cucumbers (green or pickled),
young onions, water °ruses, slaw, olives,
tomatoes. Graham bread, rye bread.
Occasionally otale light (white) bread.
Aoid fruits, smile as oranges, lemons,
apples, plume, cranberries, inerrant%
cherries, etrawberries, gooseberries (sweet-
ened, not with auger, but with saccharine
and sod. bicarb.). Gelatine (without sugar).
Almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, hazel nuts,
filberts, pecans, butternut% comanuts.
Salt, vinegar, pepper. Drinks: Coffee,
tea (without sugar), skim -milk, cream,
soda water (without syrup), mineral watere
ot all kinds, but especially viohy. Claret,
Rhine wine.
Prohibited.—Liver. Sager in any form.
Starch in any form. Sauces containing
flour, anger or March. Cakes of all kinds.
All cereals, such as oraoked wheat, oat.
meal, mush, cerealina, eto. -Potatoes
(either Itieh or sweet), corn, carrots, trim
nips, hominy, panpipe, beans, peas, beets,
rice. White bread, corn bread, white
Wilmette. Pears, peaches, grapes. Sweet
jellies. Chestnuts. Malt liquors, beer, ale
Gallant Burns Choate.
1110W TO HOLD ONE'S OWN
And How not to Tithe on a Lot of ifIcah--
Froaperity's Drawback —A Talk for
• Adlooee Americans who Eat Life's
Sweets.
Celle Logan, writing for the Chicago
Nem,gives WI a great many bite of iniOr-
roation and some Al suggestion's in the
matter of healthful bodies. Celia, who la
deter of Olive, writes :
All healthy baloiee are fat, bat infanoy is
the only period of life when that oonaition
is natural. The adiposity of, infants is
maintained by their milk diet, and gram.
ally dieappears when they begin to take
solid food.
Should the excessive fat continue after
the child begins to walk it ought to be
subjected to dietetic) measures. At the
same time no one should be skin and bone
only. The body needs some fat to draw
upon in (Baptise when the normal eupply of
nourishment is cut off.
FACTS ABOUT A 4•YEAR OLD.
A child in the 4th year should be 3 feet
high and weigh more than 28 pounds ' • in
the 6th year, 3i feet high and weigh42
pounds; in the 8th year, 4 feet high and
56 pounde in weight ; at 12 yearo, 5 feet in
height and 70 pounds in weight is a fair
average.
On a pretty girl saying to Rufus Choate.
"1 am very sad -you -see, ' he replied, "Ob,
no; you belong to the old Jewish soot; you
are very fair-I•see 1"
Nothing made eo muoh to the beauty of a
fair girl, as a clear, bright, healthy com-
plexion. and to secure this pure blood is
indispensible. Bo mady of the somalled
blood.puriflers gold to improve a rough
pimply, muddy skin, only drive the
soroftdone humors from the surface to some
internal vital organ and disease and death
in the inevitable residt. On the contrary,
Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Disoovery
strikes direotly at the root of the evil, by
driving the impurities entirely out of the
firearm and with a fresh dream of pure
blood flowing through the veins, nothing
but the softest and fairest of complexions
can remit.
A Nixed Commission,
Roohester Herald: The BMW' Royal
Commission on Labor has resolved that
its meetings shall be open to the pros and
public, and the fullest information ob-
tained of its proceedings by those inter.
exited. Among the members named as a
oormnittee to arrange a plan of businerni
are Lord Hartington and, "Tom" Mann,
the dook agitator; Lord Derby and "Ben"
Tilling, a aletlaodiet local preacher, and
John Morley and Mr. Bart, the miner
repreeentative. This eocamittee is demo-
cratic though at all events.
—In this age of keen competition a mon
roust advertise and advertise wisely. He
must give the wenn attention to hie saver.
tieing as he doers to hi a etook and store.
An advertisement forme an impreosion on
the mind of the reader and it means a
Feat deal to the , advertiser that that
napreseion be a favorable .one and thet
it he fully sustained in the establiehMent.
—Ex.
—Amy—I am sure that Charley levee
me. Ethel—What makes you so sure
Amer—Although he doesn't eayao, 1 (*nee
that he Woe all my relativOia
A MAN'S pRo2oRTIONS,
Should
weigh
Ft, In. Pounds.
5 6 150
5 7 155
5 8 160
5 9 165
6 10 170
Should
Weigh
Ft. In. Pounds.
5 11 180
6 0 •..... 190
6 1 200
6 0 220
A hirge-boned man will weigh somewhab
more than one whose bones are email, even
though the height be the sarne—a raw.
boned Highlander more than a small.boned
Hebrew.
THE OUNCE OF FREVENTION.
How should a man who observes that he
is losing his elendernees ascertain whether
he is growing too large? Let him measure
hie chest and waist and compare the figures.
If the circumference of his waist exceeds
that of his chest then he is verging into
oorpulenoy, and if he desiree to preserve
his symmetrical proportions he should at
once begin to treba down. This is the only
time when obesity is easily hendled.
" MAN'S GIRTH AND LIM.
I have been informed by a fashionable
tailor that for a man the waist measure-
ment and the inside trousers SeB,M should
be the same. That is, if the trouser° leg
is 32 inches the waiet should be about 32
inches. A. margin of one or two inolees
does not matter much, e.ud will usually be
found in the case of very tall or very short
men. The ratio of the waist and leg holds
good in ordinary oaees.
WEIGHTS FOR liVOIMIN.
A woman whose height is
Ft. in.
5 0
5 1
52
5 3..
5 4
Should
weigh
Pounds. Ft. in.
118 5 5
124 5 6
128 5 7
130 5 8
Should
weigh
Pounds.
139
143
148
163
168
—••••
Tide table is for women between 20 and
45 yeare of age. After that they become
heavier.
FAIR PROPOETIONS.
A woman should weigh but little lam
than a man in proportion to her height.
The bust of a perfectly -formed woman
should measure ten inches more than her
waiata If the waist is laced in smaller
than this the abdomen is pressed down
and the bosom up, causing both to billow
out to an unusual size and compressing
the waist too much for either health or
beauty:
Before the natural shape of a women
has been distorted, not to Bey deformed,
by tight lacing and ohild.bearing, her
abdomen, when ehe snide straight,
should protrude very little, it any, be-
yond the front line of her thighs. The
abdomen should never be larger than the
bust, whioh should measure at hetet five
inohes more than the abdomen. The hips
should measure one-third more than the
shoulders.
WHEN STOUTNESS BEGINS.
When a woman sees signs of etontness
elm 'should begin to deny herself many of
the pleasures of the table. The shaking of
mattresses, making beds, sweeping and
dusting with the windows open, the run-
ning up and down stairs while setting
things to rights, is exercise constituting the
best of obesity cures.
LEAN CHAMBERMAIDS, FAT COOKS.
The doing of ohamberwork steadily has
been known to reduce a woman's weight at
the rate of five pounds a week. Cooking,
on the other hand, will add thet much.
Cooks are ailment always etout, owing to
their leek of outdoor exercise, the heat to
which they are constantly subjeoted and
their habit ot tasting the althea they pre.
pare. It a girl is corpulent when she
begins to do chamberwork she soon be-
comes slender.
As the reader sees, the best thing for
health is (1) to restrain the appetite and (2)
exercise. What need to say more.
A Pennsylvania District nerrorized.
A Huntingdon, Pa., despatch nye: The
citizens of Mmeseysburg, Moreeville and the
surrounding country distrioto are terror-
ized by an organized band of robbers, who
have established their headquarters in the
fastnesses of the mountains between this
and Centre counties. For two months
past, almost nightly, incursiono have been
made upon the inhabitants of the com-
munity and muola valuable property has
been stolen. Where the marauders fail to
find anything of value of a portable char.
tester they mutilate horses and cattle.
They are believed to be also engaged in
manufacturing moonshine whiekey. At an
early hour this morning the residence of
Winiera MoAlevy was plundered of much
valuable property.
He Did Not Walt.
Bishop Williams, of Hartford, recently
wrote thio sarcastic note to a fresh young
men of his diocese who was about
to enter the matrimonial state : " I
regret, sir, that it is without my
province to order the word 'obey' omitted
from the marriage service. There is no way
Shat this cent be done except by vote of the
house of bishop% The house next convenes
in 1892, and if you will postpone your mar-
riage until then I will take pleasure in pre-
eenting your petition to the botise for its
notion." The young man aonolnded not to
wait.
• Men That J'unip
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clam Dr. Sagehi Chitarrh Remedy with the
usual run of euoh remedies. It is way
above mid beyond them It is doing what
others fail to de 1 It is curing the worst
cages of Chronic Nasal Catarrh.
If youdbubt it, try it. If you
on make at thorough trial, you'll
be aura. 0500 forfeit for an incurable
cage. This offer, by World's Dispensary
Medical AiiimiatiOn, Buffalo, N. Y. At all
• druggists; 50 cents.
LIEUTENANT O1A5T13 (MANCE.
The Young ilcotoli Meer who Beat Four
Thousand Hanlpurie witli a Force of
Eighty Nem
(Richard itarding Davie, ic Harper'e Weekly.)
The tone story of Lieutenant Cement is
almost too good it sitory to be true, end
reads like no of those that Mr. Bayard
Kipling invents.
lte scene is laid in Mr. Kiplinge own
territory, ansi it deals with domain and
jauglee, end tlae little daring GoorJshasot
whom Mr. Kipling is so Loud, end with
native pewees anal rajahe area Itendlem
haud fighting and the glory of the British
In the early part of April the Aesooiated
Pram, under the unfamiliar date line of
Calcutta, told of a masenore in Manipur,
wherever that nay be, where eemi.
barberons native Indiana rose against the
representatives of the Empresa of Indict,
and killed them treacherotialy while they
were negotiating terms of peace, and try.
ing to put the right rajah on the throne,
from %Minh troops of the wrong rajeli had
driven hint. The newe was partly rumor,
pertly horgible fact, and the names of
many compideeioners and ofacere were
given as dead and as butohered after
death. And at the end of eaoh news.
paper account was the brief etatement,
" Lieutenant Grant, who left Telma for
Ilitinipur with eighty men, laas nob been
heard from. He is believed to be demi."
It was a moot unimportant ending and an
anti -climax. Nobody but the Grants of
Grant, in the Highlands of Scotland,. who
" rased the Blaok Watch," knew or oared
about this unidentified and UMEIDOWD
Lieutenant Grant. What WWI one lieutenant
and eighty men to three cammissioners
and colonels and the ouniroiseioners' wives
and the plaited troopa of the Forty.foueth
Goorithaa ?
But on the days following came fuller
and more nacurate acommts of the mini-
mum; and it was told how the hienipuri
had shelled the Residency with the same
cannon the Empress of India had Sofa
them tie a token of her royat good feeling;
and how the younger officers and Mrs.
Grimwood had escaped in the :doled, end
treiveled on foot by jungle prates for 120
mile, living on roote, to be rescued at the
last by Ormtain Cowley hurrying fora -ere
with re-enforoements ; and how Mra.
Griinwood's hueband and the °there who
nasi lab the Reeidenoy to arbitrate had
been cut into quarters end thrown into
the moat for the pariah dogs to
nainerao as they pleased. It read
like a page from the history of the
Sepoy mutiny, like a modern version of
the terrible stories of Cawnpore, Delhi snd
Lucknow, and it was a blow eat the British
rule in India, and a trial to ehe hearts of
every one who read it, whether he react it
in English or translated into a foreign
tongue. But there was one saving clause,
one paragraph that lightened the rest for
everyone who mad it, for Lieutenant Grant,
the unknown'matching, unconecions of
massacre% between Tamur and Manipur,
had at last been "beard from." Hie para.
graph came ot the end, as it had on the
days before, models:4, ao became his rank,
behind the colonels and coramissionere
"Lieutenant Grant," ib read, with 80
men, has deteated 4,000 Manipuri, and has
taken Fort Thobal." Now nobody knew
whether Fort Timbal was bristling with
cannon or a mud embankment, but every
one could appreciate that 80 into 4,000 goes
fifty times, and that Lieutenant Grant's
°Mince was only one in fifty when he
charged up the wall of Fort Timbal, and
drove the Manipuri acmes and over the
other side. And all over the world, theatke
to telegraphs and cables, the name and
fame of Lieutenant Grant became mouton.
tons and familiar, not only in the clubs of
London, but in the elevated cars of New
York, tend at breakfast tables from Paris
to Portland, Oregon. For if all the world
loves a lover, it loves a hero next, and the
chance that came to Lieutenant Grant, mad
the way he rose to it, became a brilliant
spot in the gloomy tale of tressehery,butch.
ery and blundering of the Manipur mane.
are. Lieutenant Grant held Fort Thobal
for three day e, and then repulsed the Mani -
puri again at Alongtaing in a fight that
lasted three long hot hours, during which
the Senapiatty prince and his two own
menders were killed, and the Manipur
were driven off into the jangle by Lieut.
Grant's men of the Second Burmahs.
General Sir Frederick Roberts, the
Commander -in -Chief of the Indian army,
has congratulated Lieutenant C. J. W.
Grant, which is as it should be, and Punch
has given him a full page all to himself;
it is also as it should be that Lieutenant
Grant is se handeome as his portrait shows
him to be,and that he ie only thirty years
i
old. "It s the boys—the raw boyo—who
do the fighting,' Mulvaney (aye; and
though Lieutenant Grant ie no raw recruit,
he is a boy in years, and the
Second Burmahe are but newly
formed. Now, while the Home
Government sends ant more commiseionere
to determine who blundered and who
should be punished, let no hope that some
other Board of Investigation and Inquiry
will do more for Lieutenant Grant than
congratulate him, and that he may go to
Simla on leave, and ride with all the
pretty girls, and wear cool things, and
drink the wino of praise and approval, and
keep ont of the clutches of lira. Hanksbee.
And in time he may get leis regiment and
become a K. O. Who knows?
And in the meanwhile his father, Lieu-
tenant -General D. G. S. St. J. Grant, who
is now in London, goes to all of hi o many
clubs that the members may say, "
Grant, fine boy that boy of yours; ought
to be proud of him." And then the lieu-
tenant -general says "Pooh 1 pooh 1 only
did his duty"; and then goes home end
telia his wife everything they oay.
Perhaps this may mere to you a greet
deal of bother about one young man; but
do not think of what he did, but whet
he might have done. He might
have said: "1 have no instructions
to take Fort Thobal. I have no
right to rat my men's lives ab cid& of
fifty to one. I ought to make s masterly
detour, and show my 'strategic knowledge,
and leave Fort Thobal eind the 4,000
Manipuri alone." Who would have blamed
him? Fabian would have done it. But
Lieutenant Grant walked right up the mud
wall and over the other side. It was his
chance, you see, and he took it ; and it
teaches the moral that when .one's chance
aoinee'it ie mach better to lee reported as
" heard from" than "missing."
A blew Beligion.
Of the raultiplioation of octets there
appears to be no end. The latest ha e been
found in Alabama, ita creed being °lipoid -
tion to all human law. The members
claim the right to do what they pima°.
One of them rune en ililait diotillery, and
claims that any attempt to stop it will be
religioue perseention. Dotzbilem the parse.
°atom will accept the reeponsibility with.
out trembling. .
33addha la worshipped in Park in vatiouo
private temples, whe*a the devotees meet
tegalarly to pay homage to the "Light of
Asia." Moot of the Buddhisto aro japaneoe,
but among them are many Frenchmen Slnd
a few Englishmen,
Neu TTI14 KITCHEN OMEN.
palatable ponces That Are Within II/eachi
of livery Teetotal Coolk.
Horsemadisla Samee.--Beae a tweedier aa
a pound of butter to a demo arid mix with
it e quarter of a pint of oreera, half a etiok
of horsemadieb, grated finely, pepper, eata
one white wine vinegar to taste. Is ehould
be es thick me °nem and be kept cool.
Brown Batter Sauee.--Put tV70 ounoss
of butter in a etewpan sod etir over the
fire until it begins to get heown. Add one,
teaspoonful Tarragon vitiegor, one of Prima
Alfred's, or similar satin, twelve chopped
capers and a nide essences ef anchovy.
Simmer two or three minuteand eaves
with ealraon outlets: or other grilksa fish.
Butter Same.—One ounce flour mixed
smooth in four teaspoonfuls of cold wittier.
Stir into a half-pint of boiling water, add a
pinch of salt ; let boil up and then stir
in an ounce and a half of butter Wheat
dieeolved serve.
Parsley Sauce.—ele above, with chopped
pareley thrown into the boiling water be-
fore mixing with the flour.
Caper Sourie.—Tableopoonful of French
capers, simmer for ten minutes uncovered
with a quarter of a pint clear broth or
water. Mash well with a eitver or wooden
spoon. Mix dessertspoonful of flour with
two of cold water and add it to the oement
while boiling, stir until thialtened. Break
in an ounce of butter, and, when it is dia.
solved, put in a teaspoonful of caper vine-
gar and serve.
Tomato Sauce.—Boil two sliced onions fa
just enough water to cover them, and when
nearly done, out up haltendezen fine ripe
tomatoes rind put in the stewpecn with an
canoe of butler, a dessertepoonful of emit
and a shake of pepper. If toniestoau are
seame a sharp apple, out up, may be need
with them. Simmer threammerters of an
hour and rub through a sieve. Return tar
pan with a small piece of butter rend where
thoroughly hot serve.
Prince alfredas sauce—Vinegar IA pinte.
water a pint, India soy A pint, walnut matt -
sap pint, chilies 1 ounce, shalote 2 onneser,
huritt en,gar 1 outlet), Salt 2 ounces. Bruise
the catmints and boil the whole for la
minutes; when cool strain and bottle. Ex-
cellent for fish, cold meat or steaks.
Robert sauce Fry equal parts veal and
beam, bones aud trimmings to a nice
brown ; slice three large onione and fay
them in a little butter to a good golden
color. Put all in a etiewpan in a pint of
wetter arid boil to a Tarter of a pint. Re.
move the grease; let the gravy boil rip; Mar
in a deresertspoonf al of flour mixed in a
little cold water or stook, meld an ortiami of
butter, stirring until melted and finiefe
with a good pinch of muetard in a demerit -
spoonful of Prince Alfred's, or other
oimilar samice. Pour on outlets.
For wall Ladies.
If you are tall and your height annoys
you, have a plain shirt slightly geithered at
She sides and tightly gathered—no* piaited
—in the back. Get SoMe eilk two or three
ehades darker than the cheese and make a
sevendnah knife plaiting. Catch it dawn
inside, along the centre with a running
thread of button.hole and sew on the very
edge of the skirt. This is not only a
graceful trimming but it is easily made, it
fleets prettily with the motion of the
wearer and will take just seven lanhee frorn
the stature. The little woman will do Well
to ignore it, however, as any dark band or
trimming will give her a stunted appear-
ance. Have the plaiting, it you like, but
keep it the same color as the materiaL
A group of three three-inch bine raffles
put on with a very narrow braid is pretty.
These ruffles may be edged °with ribbon
velvet of fingernail width. Another homy
io the butterfly flounce. A deep flounce
of lace is sewed on the dress and
caught up in five places with bows of
ribbon or velvet. This is very new, but
only appropriate for house wear, the
carriage, or the piazza cif a amide hotel.
Perhaps the prettiest ruble of all is a blast
one, six Mabee deep covered with a flounce
of white or bleak marquise lam the same
width and the two firished with a heading
of stiff brocaded ribbon two inches wide. If
the material is lace, gauze, net, organdy:or
the like, the runlet con be made of old roses
orange, peach or cardinal silk, and, oeen
thronghthe flounce of grenadine indistinctly,
the effect is yore pleasing.
The Wife'e Obedience.
Whole denominations of Christians have
dropped the word " obey" from the rhea-
riage service. The great Roman Catholia
Church never had it inserted, and even in
the Episcopal Church it is ommeionally
cemitted—I have personally known several
instances; or when retained, it is con-
stantly explained by the parties con-
cerned, or even by clergymen, as a thing
to be taken with a mental reservation..
Two things have contributed to *hie—
the constant immense in the namber of
women who earn incomes of their own, and
the vast progress el the higher education.
Either of these experiences very soon ex-
pands the wings of a strong feminine
nature, and a return to the ohryealis fa
thenceforth impossible. It is out of the
lineation to give woman equel etatioritfon
and equal property rights and yet keep her
in the proatrate attitude ehe otedipied when
her earningo belonged to her 'husband, and
when tbe law denied her tbe safeguard
called "benefit of clergy" on the ground
that it was not supposable she could read
or write.—T. W. H., in Harper's Bazar.
• Bo to Speak.
Woman is wonderfully made! Such
beauty, grace, delicacy end purity are alone
her possessions. Bo has she weaknenee,
irregularities, fanotional derangements',
peculiar only to hereelf. To coned: these
and restore to health, her wonderful organ-
ism requireo a reatorative eapecially
adapted to that purpose. Bach ei one is Dm
Pierce's Favorite Prescription—possernaig
curative eind regulating properties to a
remarkable degree. Made for this purpose
alone—recommended for no other 1 Con-
tinually growing in favor, and numbering
as its stoma frie»cla thoneands of the rood
intelligent end refined ladies of the land.
A positive guarantee accompanier' each
bottle— at your druggistas. Bolden triag t
Warning to the Kitchen.
There are greater evils than those of in-
digestion and ill -temper arising from bail
cooking, it wotild Refisin. In a paper upon
the sooial questions of the day and upon
labor refortse, where the opinions of ens&
men as Seth Low, Henry 0. Potter, Simnel
W. Dike and others are given, there occurs
this peragreiph :
" Inetadient food—more often, inotiffig
oient variety of food—and poorly cooked
food Create a craving for strong drink and
create intemperance. * One of the &et
phyeiologists in the land is authority for
this,"
MSS M. G. McClelland, the Virginia
noveliet, is of middle age'tall rend slender,
with iron.gray hair that she wears parted
over her forehead. She 150 genuine South-
ern woman, cordial and kindly of manner,
and a rapid and prolifio writer.
Mrs. Gazzam—To-morrow in your day
out, X believe Louise? Louble, Who onoa
served Boston family—To•rnorrow will
13) my day out, madam.