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The neatest woman M town
Volks say EVe get fOr
And what folks soy is gospel truth;
Inds time, you be your lice ;
Ketwah 13rown, sho Wats 41° w°'44
Qn bakinbread an' pies
Sut her best holt is fightia dirt
An' cireninventin"
Her temper's like her elo.orhst• which
They're both uncommon short;
An' the' Da free-ann-oasy like
Sometimes she makes nue snort,
There ain't no some in liavile things
So tinned, 4,11 Used net
Nor sayin' ev ry time 1 step,
"ow Zeleel, WiP0 your feet,"
. I can't set down in our leist room,
It is so slick an' spruce
Fact is, 'most everything we've got's
Too good for common use.
Tbotigh not to godlinese the book
Puts cleanliness, I'm bound
To say Returales mighty ti,pt
To run it in the ground.
There ale% no use in kickixe ;
Prdpared to bear my cross.
Some day, perhaps, wear my OrOWII ;
Keturales she caut boss
Things rounn in heaven. An' since we're told
Tbu t there nor moth nor rust
Comes to corrupt, 1 guess it's safe
To bay there auet no dust.
13ut oh; what will Keturah do
Within those pearly gates,
If sho no longer Mid the dirt
TIii.t she' so dearly hates?
O'er shadowed heaven itself will be,
Engulfed in awful gloom,
When my Returah enters in
And cannot use a broom.
—Portland Transcript.
THE SISTERS
CHAPTER XIV.
IN THE WOMB OF FATE.
On the Thursday immediately preceding
the opening of the exhibition they did not
go to the library as usual, nor to Gunsler's
for their lunch. Like a number of other
people, their habits were deranged and
themselves demoralized by anticipation of
the impending festival. They stayed at
home to make themselves new bonnets for
the occasion, and took a cold dinner while
at their work, and two of them did not stir
outside their nooms from morn till dewy eve
for so much as a glance into Myrtle street
from the balcony.
But in the afternoon it was found that
half a yard more of ribbon was required to
complete the last of the bonnets, and Patty
volunteered to " run into town" to fetch it.
At about 4 o'clock she set off alone byway
of an adjoining road which was an omnibus
route, intending to expend threepence, for
once, in the purchase of a little precious
thne, but every omnibus was full, and she
had to waik the whole way. The pave-
ments were crowded with hurrying folk,
who jostled and obstructed her. Collins street,
when she turned into it seemed riotous with
abnormal life, and she went from shop to
shop and could not get waited on until the
usual closing hour was past, and the even-
ing beginning to grow dark. Then she got
hat she wanted, and set off home by way
the Gardens, feeling a little daunted by
noise and bustle of the streets, and
g she would be secure when once
green alleys, always so peaceful, were
But to -night even the gardens
sted by the spirit of unrest and
that pervaded the city. The
were not quiet now, and the
elated isolation in the growing
more formidable here instead
ardly had she passed through
he Treasury enclosure than
ous of being watched and
ge men, who appeared to
place; and by the time
Gardens nearer home
s forced upou her that
ividual was dogging
th an intention
he was bold,
easily wrought
s danger, of
tally inexperi-
ves. So that
dly pattered
d an occa-
, she sud-
us pedes -
Paul's
words
con -
oh,
er
an
can be no harra in our being 90 withont an
eseort, We shall be Panel/ happier by our-
SalYea."
"Much happier than with him," added
Patty, sharply.
_ And they went on With their preparatiens
fOr the great day that had, been so long de-
sired, little thinking what it was te brief;
forth.
CHAPTER XV.
itiazAnbent inefloS A ruiMi-D,
They had an early breakfast, dressed
themselves with greet °are in their best
frocks and. the new bonnets, and, each
carrying an umbrella, set forth with a
cheerful resolve to see what was to be
seen of the ceremonies of the day, bliss-
fully ignorant of the nature of their under.
taking. Pard Brion, out of bed betimes,
heard their voices and the click of their
gate, and stepped into his balcony to see
them start. He took note of the pretty
costumes, that had a gala air about them,
and of the fresh and striking beauty of at
least two of the three sweet faces ; and he
groomed to Wok of such women being
hustled and bettered, helplessly, in the
fierce crush of a solid street crowd. But
they had no fear whatever for themselves.
However, they had not gone far before
they, perceived that the idea of securing a
good position early in the day had occurred
to a great many people besides themselves -
Even sleepy Myrtle Street was awake and
active, and the adjoining road, when they
turned into it, was teeming with holiday
life. They took their favorite route through
the Fitzroy and Treasury Gardens, and
found those sylvan glades alive with traffic;
and by the thne they got into Spring street
the crowd had thickened to an extent that
embarrassed their progress and made it
devious and slow. And they had scarcely
passed the Treasury buildings when Eleanor,
who had been suffering from a slight sore
throat, began to cough and shiver, and aroused
the maternal anxiety of her careful elder
sister. "0, my dear," said Elizabeth, com-
ing to an abrupt standstill on the pavement,
"have you nothing but that wisp of muslin
round your neck? And the day so cold—
and looking so like rain ! It will never
do for you to stand about for hours in this
wind, with the chance of getting wet,
unless you are wrapped up better. We
must run home again and fix you up. And
„I think it would be wiser if we were all to
change our things and put on our old
bonnets."
"Now, look here, Elizabeth," said Patty,
with strong emphasis "you see that
street, don't yon ? "—and she pointed down
the main thoroughfare of the city, which
was already gorged with people throughout
its length. You see that, and that"—
and she indicated the swarming road ahead
of them and the populous valley in the
opposite direction. If there is such a
crowd now, what will there be in half an
hour's time? And we couldn't do it in half
an hour. Let us make Nelly tie up her
throat in our three pocket -handkerchiefs,
and. push on and get our places. Otherwise
we shall be out of it altogother—we shall
see nothing."
But the gentle Elizabeth was obdurate on
some occasions, and this was one of them.
Eleanor was ckilled with the cold, and it
was not to be thought of that she should
run the risk of an illness from imprudent
exposure—no, not for all the exhibitions in
the world. So they compromised the case
by deciding that Patty and Eleanor should
run" home together, while the elder
sister awaited their return, keeping pos-
session of a little post of vantage on the
Treasury steps—where they would be able
to see the procession, if not the Exhibition
—in case the crowd should be too great
by -and -bye to allow of their getting
farther.
"Well, make yourself as big as you cap,"
said Patty, resignedly.
"And, whatever you do," implored
Eleanor, "don't stir an inch from where you
are until we come back, lest we should lose
you.,,
Upon which they set off in hot haste to
Myrtle street.
Elizabeth, when they were gone, saw with
alarm the rapid growth of the crowd around
her. It filled up the street in all directions,
and condensed into a solid mass on the
Treasury steps, very soon absorbing the
modest amount of space that she had hoped
to reserve for her sisters. In much less
than half an hour she was so hopelessly
wedged in her place that, tall and strong as
she was, she was almost lifted off her feet;
and there was no prospect of restoring com-
munications with Patty and Eleanor until
the show was over. In a fever of anxiety.
bitterly regretting that she had consented
to part from them, she kept her eyes turned
wards the gate of the Gardens, whence
he expected them to emerge; and then
e saw, presently, the figure of their good
us and deliverer from all dilemmas,
Irion, fighting his way towards
The little man pursued an ener-
course through the crowd,
almost covered him, hurling himself
Elizabeth th
had, ceaeed to eee er care for e
great spectp,ele that she had been se
Manxious
to witness.. Moment mount ent hy nt the crewd,
about her grew more dense and (legged,
'more pitilessly indifferent to theei cnfert
of one another, more evidently minded that
tine fittest Amnia survive in the fight for
existenee on the treasury stone. Rough
manVushed her forward and backward,
and from, side to side, treading on
her feet, and tearing the stitches ot her
gown, and knocking her bonnet awry, until
she felt bruised.' and sick with the buffetings
that she got, and the keen consciousness of
the indignity of her position. She could
scarcely breathe for the pressure around
her, though the breath of all Borth of un-
pleasant people was freely poured into her
face. She would have struggled away and
gone home--couvinced of the cotatOrting
fact that Patty and Eleanor were eafely out
of it in Paul Brion's protection—bat she
could not stir an inch by her own volition.
When she did stir it was by some violent
propelling power in another person, and
i
this was exercised presently n such a
way as to completely overbalance her.
.A. sudden wave of movement broke
against a stout woman standing imme-
diately behind her, and the stout woman,
quite unintentionally, pushed her to
the edge of the step, and flung her upon the
shoulder of a brawny terrain who had
fought his way backwards into a position
whence he could see the pageant of the
street to his satisfaction, The larrikin half
turned, struck her savagely in the breast
with his elbow, demanding, with a roar and
an oath, where she was a -shoving to; and
between her two assailants, faint and fright-
ened, she lost her footing, and all but fell
headlong into the seething MOM beneath
her.
But as she was felling—a moment so
agonizing at the time, and so delightful to
remember afterwarcls—someone caught -11 r
round the waist with a strong grip an
lifted her up and set her safely on her' feet
again. It was a man who had been stand-
ing within a little distance of her,tall
enough to overtop the crowd and strong
enough to maintain an upright position
in it; she had noticed him for
some time, and that he had seemed net
seriously incommoded by the bustlirreal
scuffling that rendered her so helpless ; but
she had not noticed his gradual approach
to her side. Now, looking up with a little
sob of relief, her instant recognition of him
as a gentleman was followed by an instinc-
tive identification of him as a sort of Cin-
derela's prince.
In short, there is no need to make a mys-
tery of the matter. At half -past 10 o'clock
on the morning of the first of October in
the year 1880, when she was plunged into
the most wretched and terrifying circum-
stances of her life—at the instant whelitehe
was struck by the larrikin's elbow and felt
herself about to be crushed under the feet
of the crowd—Elizabeth King met her
happy fate. She found that friend for
whom, hungrily if unconsciously, her tender
earth had longed.
CHAPTER XVI.
" VTERE NOT STRANGERS, AS TO US AND
ALL IT SEEMED."
"Stand here, and I can shelter you 'a
little," he said, in a quiet tone that con-
trasted refreshingly with the hoarse excite-
ment around them. He drew her close to
his side by the same grip of her waist that
had lifted her bodily when she was off her
feet, and, immediately releasing her,
stretched a strong left arm between her ex-
posed shoulder and the crush of the crowd.
The arm was irresistibly pressed upon her
own arm, and bent across her in a curve
that was neither more nor less than a
vehement embrace, and so she stood in at
condition of delicious asfonitmlic
tingling blush from head to foot. It wo Id
have been horrible had it been anyone else.
"1 am so sorry," he said, "but I cannot
help it. If you don't mind standing as you
are for a few minutes, you will be all right
directly. As soon as the procession has
passed the crowd will scatter to follow it."
They looked at each other across a spaoe
of half a dozen inches or so, and in that
momentary glance, upon which everything
that mutually concerned them depended,
were severallyrelieved and satisfied. He was
not handsome—he had even a reputation for
ugliness; but there are some kinds of ugli-
ness that are practically handsomer than
many kinds of beauty, and his was of that
sort He had a leathery, sun-dried,Weather.
beaten, whiskerless, red monetached face,
and he had a roughly -moulded, broad-based,
ostentatious nose; his mouth was large,. and
his light gray eyes deeply set and small.
Yet it was a strikingly, distinguished
and attractive face, and Elizabeth fell
in love with it there and then. Similarly,
her face, at once modest and candid, was an
open book to his experienced glance, and
provisionally delighted him.. He was as
glad as she was that fate had. selected him
to deliver her in her moment of peril, out of
the many who might have held out a helping
with ea velocity that was out hand to her and did not.
proportion to his bulk ; and from "1 am afraid you cannot see very well,"
time she saw his quick eyes flash. he remarked presently. There were sounds
other people's shoulders, and that in the distance that indicated the approach
king eagerly in all directions. It of the vice -regal carriages, and people were
eless to expect him to distin- craning their necks over each other's shoul-
the sea of faces around him, but
nit in the human tide that rose
hove the level of his head, he
ely for a footing on a higher
so doing caught sight of her
way to .her side. Oh, here
claimed, in a tone of relief.
anxious about you. But
ty ? Where are your
'she responded, " you
up to help us as soon
and I am so thankful
had to go honie for
meet me here, and I
come of them in this
ey to come ?" he
ut the gates are
," he said.
They will
right. You
think I can'
omised I
d I must
ed., or
ders and standing on tip -toe to catch the
first glimpse of them. Just in front of her
the exuberant larrikin was making himself
as tall as possible.
"Oh, thank you—I don't Want to see,"
she replied hastily.
"Bat that was what you camelhere for—
like the rest of us—wasn t it ?
"1 did not know what I was coming for,"
she said, desperately, determined to set
To be eared for and 'protected was new
senss.tion, and, though the had hed to bear
anxione responsibilities for hermlf and
others, she had no natural vocation for in.
dependence, Many a time sine() have they
spoken of this Arst half hoar with pride,
boasting of bow they trusted each other at
sight, needing no proofs from experience
like other people --foolish boast, for they
were but a man and woman, and not gods.
" took you to my heart the first moment
I saw yon." he says. "And I knew, even
as soon as that, that it was my own place,"
she cahnly replies. Whereas good lick,
and not their own wisdom, justified then.
He spoke to her with studied eotoness
while necessarily holding her embraced, as
it were, to protect her from the crowd ; at
the same time he pat himself to some trouble
to make conversatien, which was less. em-
barrassing to her than silence. He remarked
that he was fond of crowds himself—found
them intensely interesting—and spoke of
Tha.ckeray's paper on the crowd that went
to see the man hanged (which she had never
read) as illustrating the kind of interest he
meant, He had lately seen the crowd at
the opening of the Trocadero Palace, and
that which celebrated the completion of
Cologne Cathedral ; facts which proclaimed
him a " globe-trotter " and new arrival in
Melbourne. The few words in which he
described the festival at Cologne fired her
imagination, fed so long upon dreams of
foreign travel, and made her forget for the
moment that he was not an old acquaint,
mice.
"It was at about this hour of the day,"
he said, 'and I stood with the throng in
the streets, as I am doing now. They put
the last stone on the top of the cross on
one of the towers more than six hundred
years after the foundation stone was laid.
The people were wild with joy and hung out
their flags all over the place. One old
fellow came up to me and wanted to kiss
me—he thought I must be as overcome as he
was."
"And were you not impressed ?"
"Of course I VMS. It was very pathetic,"
he replied, gently, And she thought
" pathetic " an odd word to use. Why
pathetic? She did not like to ask him.
Then he made the further curious statement
that this crowd was the tamest he had ever
seen.
"1 don't Pall it tame," she said, with a
laugh, as the yells of the larrikin and his
fellows rent the air around them.
He responded to her laugh with a pleasant
smile, and his voice was friendlier when he
spoke again. "But I am .quite delighted
with it, unimpressive as it is. It is com-
posed of people who are not wanting any-
thing. I don't know that I was ever in a
crowd of that sort before. I feel, for once,
that I can breathe in peace."
"Oh, I wish I could feel so !" she cried.
The carriages, in their slow progress, were
now turning at the top of Collins street,
and the hubbub around them had reached
its height.
"It will soon be over
inured encouragingly.
"Yes," she replied. In a few minutee
the crush would lessen, and he and she
would part. That was what they thought,
to the exclusion of all interest in the pass-
ing spectacle. Even as she spoke, the
noise and confusion that had made a solitude
for their quiet intercourse sensibly subsided.
The tail of the procession was well in sight;
the heavy crowd on the Treasury steps was
swaying and breaking like, a huge wave
upon the street ; the larrikin was gone. It
was time for the unknown gentleman to
resume the conventional attitude, and for
Elizabeth to remember that he was a total
stranger to her.
now,"
he mur-
"You had better take my arm," he said,
as she hastily disengaged herselfbeforeKit
was safe to do so, and was immediately
caught in the eddy that was setting
strongly in the direction of the Exhibition.
"11 you don't mind waiting here for a few
minutes longer, you will be able to get
home comfortably.
She struggled back to his side, and took
his arm, and waited; but they did not talk
any more. They watched the disintegra-
tion and dispersion of the great mass that
had hemmed them in together, until at last
they stood in ease and freedom almost alone
upon that coigne of vantage which had been
won with so much difficulty—two rather
imposing figures, if anyone had cared to
notice them. Then she withdrew her hand,
and said, with a little stiff bow and a bright
and becoming color in her face—." Thank
you.,,
" Don't mention it," he replied, with
perfect gravity. "1 am very happy to
have been of any service to you."
Still they did not move from where they
stood.
"Don't you want to see the rest of it ?"
she asked timidly.
Do you ?" he responded, looking at her
with a smile.
'� clear no, thank you) I have had
quite enough, and I am very anxious to find
my sisters."
Then allow me to be your*Sebit until
you are clear of the streets' did not
put it as a request, and hebegatt th descend
the steps before she could mike up ner
mind how to answer him. So she found
herself walking beside him along the foot-
path and through the gardens, wondering
who he was, and how she could politely dis-
miss him—or how soon he would dismiss
her. Now and then she snatched a side.
long glance at him and noted his great
stature and the easy 'dignity with vehieh, he
carried himself, and transferred one by one
the striking features of his countenance to
her faithful memory. He made a powerful
impression upon her. Thinking of hime she
had almost forgotten how anxious she was
to find her sisters until, with a
start, she suddenly caught sight
of ,them sitting comfortably on
a ben& in an alley of the Fitzroy Gardens,
Blom& and Patty side by side, and Paul
Brion on the other side of Eleanor. The
three sprang up as 80071 as they saw her
coming, with gestures of eager welcome.
" Ah 1" said Elizabeth, her face flaming
with an entirely unnecessary blush, "there
are my sisters. I—I am all right now. I
need net trouble you any further. Thank
you very much."
She paused and so did he. She bent her
head vvithout lifting her eyes, and he took
off his hat to her with profound respect.
And so they parted—for a little while.
CHAPTER XVII.
AFTERNOON TEA.
When he had turned and left her, Eliza-
beth faced her sisters with that vivid blush
still on her cheeks, and a general appear-
ance of embarrassment that WAS too novel
to escape notice. Patty and Eleanor stared
for a moment, and Eleanor laughed.
"Who is he ?" she inquired, saucily,
" I clon't know," said Elizabeth. "Where
have yen. beeia, dears ? " How have you got
on ? I have been so anxious about you. '-
" )13116.WhO 18 he ?" persisted Eleanor.
" I have not the least idea, I tell you.
Perhaps Mr. 13rion knows."
" No " said Mr, Brion "He is a perfect
stranger to me.
" He is a new arrival, I suppose," said
Elizabeth stealing a backward glance at her
hero, whom the others wore watching
intently as he walked away, " Yes, he can
have but juS€ arrived, for he saw the het
seven weeks ago, He has come to see the
exhibitionp probably. He seems to be
great traveller,"
"Oh," said Eleanor, turning with a
grimace to Patty, " here have we beea
mooning ahOut in the garden.,, and she has
been seeing everything, and having adven-
tures into the bargain !"
It is very little I have seen," her elder
sister remarked, "end this will tell you the
nature of iny adventnres "—and she Showed
them rent in her gown. " I was nearly
torn to pieces by the crowd after you left.
I am only too thankful you were out of it."
"But we are net at all thankful," pouted
Eleanor. "Are we, Patty. ?" (Patty was
!silent, but apparently amiable.) " It is
only the atiching that is undone—you can
mend it in five minutes. We wouldn't have
minded little trifles of that sort—not in the
least --to have seen the procession, and
made the acquaintance of distinguished
travellers. Were there many more of them
about, do you suppose ?"
" 0 no, replied Elizabeth, promptly.
Only he."
" And you managed to find him! Wily
shouldn't we have found him too—Patty
and 1? Do tell us his name, Elizabeth, and
how you happened on him, and what he has
beeu saying and doing."
"He took care of me, dear—that's all. I
was crushed almost into a pulp, and he
allowed me to—to stand beside him until
the worst of it was over."
"How interesting !" ejaculated Eleanor.
"And then he talked to you about Cologne
Cathedral?"
"'Yes. But never mind about him. Tell
ine where 111r. Brion found you, and what
you have been doing."
Oh, we have not been doing anything—
far from it. I wish you knew Ins name,
Elizabeth."
"But, my dear, I don't. So leave off
asking silly questions. I daresay we shall
never see or hear of him again."
"Oh, don't you believe it ! I'm certain
we shall see him again. He will be at the
Exhibition some day when twe go there—to-
morrow, very likely."
"Well, well, never mind. What are we
going to de now ?"
They consulted with Paul for a few
minutes, and he took them where they
could get a distant view of the crowds
swarming around the exhibition, and hear
the confused clamor of the bands—which
seemed to gratify the two younger sisters
very much, in the absence of more pro-
nounced excitement. They walked about
until they saw the Royal Standard hoisted
over the great dome, and heard the
saluting guns proclaim that the exhibition
was open; and then they returned to
Myrtle street, with a sense of having had
breakfast in the remote past, and of having
spent an enormously long morning not un-
pleasantly, upon the whole.
Mrs. McIntyre was standing at her gate
when they reached home, and stopped
them to ask what they had seen, and
how they had enjoyed themselves. She
had stayed quietly in the house, and
busied herself in the manufacture of
meringues and lemon ceeese-cakes—hav-
ing, she explained, superfluous eggs in
the larder, and a new lodger comiug in ;
and she evidently prided herself upon her
well -spent time. And if you'll stay, you
shall have some," she said, and she opened
the gate hospitably. "Now, don't say no,
Miss King—don't, Miss Nelly. It's past 1,
and I've got a nice cutlet and mashed pota-
toes just coming on the table. Bring them
along, Mr. Brion. I'm sure they'll come if
you ask them."
e'fo be Continued
Quartermaster-Generai.
The &miler proverb, " what is good for
man is good for t,his beast," is fully under•
stood by all horsemen from ‘the'turf to the
farm, from the stable to the saddle. Very
high authorities on the subject of horse and
cattle ailments, concur in the opinion of
General Rufus Ingalls, late Quartermaster -
General, U. S. Army, who says " St. Jacobs
Oil is the best pain -cure we ever used. It
conquers pain.' This department has the
custody and treatment of %riny horses and
mules, and thousands are treated.
A Fact at a Glance.
The Alps stand in six different States.
London employs 500,000 factory hands.
Half of the surfrce of Russia is forest-
olad.
Pepper cost £15 an, ounce in Henry VIPs.
reign.
The avenge age that women marry at is
22, men 26.
A rabbit can jump nine clear feet on level
ground.
Photographs were first produced in Eng-
land in 1802.
The annual drink bill of the world ex-
ceeds £1,000,000,000.
Doctors say that the left leg is usually
stronger tkan than the right
The flower trade of London exceeds in
value £2,000,000 per anmum.
A sewing machine works twelve times as
fast as the hands.
An ostrich's egg weighs about four pounds
—equal to forts hens' eggs.
A sunflower in a season will produce 12,-
000 seeds, while a poppy bears 32,000.
The third-class railway fares in Hungary
only average one penny for six miles.
Covent Garden has been in the possession
of the Bedford family for 300 years.
Cashmere shawls are made of the hair
of a diminutive goat found in Little Thibet.
mile of railway' permanent way, with
herself right in his eyes. I never saw
two sets of rails, takes up 12i acres of land.
auything like this before—I was never in a
crowd—I did not know what it was like." Five thousand advertisements appear
"Some one should have told you, then." sometimes in a single issue of the London
"We have not any one belonging to us
to tell us things." Times.
According to a cycling paper, blacklead
" Indeed ?" is the best thing to lubricate the chain of a
"My sisters and I have lived in the bush bicycle with.
always, until now. We have no parents. ,
We have not seen much yet. We came outThe now or It.
this morning, thinking we could stand How poor, how rich, how aloject, hew
together in a corner and look on quietly— august, how complicated, how wonderful, is
we did not expect this." man ; and it might be added, how "marc
"And your sisters ? " - so " is woman. With her peculiarly deli-
" They went home again. They are all cats and intense organization, she is the
right, I hope."tap erlative degree of man. Even in diseases
"And left you here alone?"
,she excels him, having many that he has
Elizabeth explained the state of the case not. She has, however, found out a grand
more fully and by the time she had done
o , remedial agent, for the cure of her diseases
so the Governors' carriages were in sight.
in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrition • a
,
The people were shouting and cheering,: the medicine suited to her nature, made for the
was dancing is and, down in his
boots, and bumping heavily upon
exprees cure of those diseases which affect
at shielded her. Shrinking from her. It is especially effective all weak.
v her feet ba,ck another inch or nesses incidental to motherhood,while it is
ich the right arm 9.8 well as also a potent restorative tonic for the feeble
and debilitated generAlly..3
is folcle round her. A/td
end , her front harm, the Ele—I see by the papers that a girl read
,
eart upon her shoulder,the as her gradtmtiug essay a paper on "How
heated breathing in her
ti of the involuntary and to keep house on $1.2 a week ;" do you
of the situation tould think :rat could Iteep house on $12 a week,
by these things. , S lig ah ne —. Oh, George) this is too suddels 7
us excitement coin -
he been cast upon
other arms than" Yab°40:42i11:ve t:8136.eak to mother. b ts
—To build an fi up a hansom ca cos
imply insupportable
right. Ile said
y uncomfortable, —The Duke of Elf° is always mcasted
traelict him, she for his neckties.
i her primitive storie pub to the 13tulding of Cologne Cathe. 1 —There are niore than 2,000 Sraithe in
recoft fortabla dral', and that was not Mere than elk or ' the London Direetory.
ose two arras stretched li ce
c.'ausht on the Fiyo
" I have been a great
Asthma, sufferer f Asth-
ma and severe Colds
every Winter, and last Fall my
friends as well as myself thought
because of my feeble condition, and.
great distress from constant cough-
ing, and inability to raise any of the
accumulated matter from my lungs,
that my time was close at hand.
When nearly worn out for want of
sleep aud rest a friend recommend-
ed me to try thy valuable medicine,
Boschee' s Ge 'in a it
Gentle, $yrup. I am con-
fident it saved my
Refreshing life. Almost the first
Sleep. dose gave me great
relief and a gentle re-
freshing sleep, such asI had not had
for weeks. My cough began immedi-
ately to loosen and pass away, and
I found myself rapidly gaining in
health and weight. I am pleased
to inform thee—unsolicited—that
am in excclient health and do cer-
tainly attribute it to thy Boschee's
German Syrup. C. B. STICKNIM,
Picton, Ontario." io
Care of the Hair.
Very few of the young girls of this.
country have fine, healthy heads ofbain.
Their hair has been burned by the curling -
iron, ruined by bleaches and washes, and,
cut so for back on the head for bangs that
there is hardly any left for back hairs. The
only wonder is that we are not all bald-
headed instead of only having hair that Er
thin and broken off at the ends.
Thorough brushing is excellent for iho
hair; but if your hair is broken off, dry an&
thin, after brushing it well (morning is the
best time to brush the hair, though brushing
it morning and night both is better), rub ma
the scalp with the finger a little well-mixecl
sweet oil and whiskey. Do not put toe
much on at a time, but rub it well into the
roots of the hair. Repeat this application
every third night for about two weeks, anil
your hair will become strong and glossy. De
not cut off broken ends, but singe them off
for if cut the hair will "bleed," as the hair-
dressers say.
The hair must be kept clean and free fronn
dandruff if it is to be kept healthy. The
very busiest people—women I mean—ought
to wash the head and hair at least once a,
month. Always wash the hair in rain -water
or distilled water. Hard water will make it
harsh and likely to break off. Use plenty of
warn soapsuds with a few drops of ammonia' .
in it, or borax if you prefer it.
After washing it in water, if there is
much dandruff on the scalp, rub it well
with the beaten white of an egg, then wask
it with another soapsuds water and the
dandruff will all come away. Then rinse
the head and hair with clear, warm water,
and finally with cold water, for its excellent
tonic effect upon the hair and to avoid taking
cold. Last, rub the scalp with a little
whiskey or pure alcohol, for the same
reasons.
Two Queer Epitaphs. ,
This unique epitaph is found in Cali-
fornia: "Here lies the body of jeemes
Hambrick, who was accidentally shot on
the banks of the Pecos River by a young
man. He was accidentally shot with one of
the large Colt's revolvers with no stopper
for the cock to rest on. It was one of the
old-fashioned kind—brass mounted. And
of such is the kingdom of heaven."
The following epitaph is in Lariesboro,
"Here lies Jane Smith, wife of Thomas
Smith, marble -cutter. This monument Wag
erected by her husband as a tribute to her
memory and a specimen of his work. Mona-
ments of this same style, $250.
Conscience, or "What?
"Conscience doth make cowards of us
all," says the poet But it is just so with
the nerves. When a man's nerves are un-
strung, through indigestion and torpid liver
and impure 'blood, what wonder that he
feels depressed and nervous! He starts at
every little unexpeoted sound; is afraid of
his shadow, and feels like a fool. Let such
a man go to the chug store and get a bottle
of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
the great Blood -purifier and Liver Invigor-
ator. This is the only blood -purifier and
liver invigorator guaranteed to benefit or
cure, or money will be promptly refundecL
It cures Indigestion, or Dyspepsia, and front
its wonderful blood -purifying properties,
conquers all Skin and Scalp diseases, Salt -
rheum, Tetter, Eczema and kindred ail-
ments. All blood -poisons, no matter of
what name or nature, yield to its remedial
influences.
Isolated.
Wagg—We had a terrible thunderstorm
as I came up in the train this afternoon.
Wooden—Weren't you afraid of the light-
ning?
Wagg—No I got behind a brakeman.
Wooden—Behind a brakeman? What
earthly good did that do?
Wa.gg—Why, he was not a conductor.
Two Views.
Miss Emersonia Russell, from Beacon Hilt
—Don't you think Mr. Bowles' countenance
would arrest the workings of the interior
mechanism of a horologne ?
Miss Calumetta Porcine, from Michigan
avenue—I don't know. But I think it would.
stop a clock.—Jetve/ers' Circular.
That is, Most Men.
Brooklyn life: " There are two social
functions that a man always attends, no
matter how many previous engagements he
may have."
What are they ?"
"His own marriage and his own funeral,
of course."
Malting Criminals Conspicuous.
Rochester Hera/d ; Rochester has cov-
ered patrol waggons, and they are both SOH -
Bible and decent vehicles for conveying
prisoner's. Nothing is gained either for
the criminal or for Society by making erind-
nals conspicuous.
. A London shoe dealer recently reeeived
. an order from Russia to furnish sixty-four
pairs of shoes for the daughter of the Grand
Duke Paul, a child less thati a year old.
_
. Old NTS. Hayseed, reading from a nevi's-
paper—Li the new play at the Third,
Avente Theatre, New 'York, the heroine of
the piece wears nothing but a siMple roSo-
bud in her hair. Mr. Hayseed—Gosh
—Great Britain consuMes one.third of tli�
world's crop of cotton.
—The Opera House of Paris covers near/7
three acres of ground.