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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-9-10, Page 6The Tree or nitotelleege, ann 131bo eons t nius 3,060,46a haters, 610,1197 words. ealie vole }es, 1,1S9 chapters, eon fa; hooka, The lougest chapter is tee Beth Psalm; the shorteet and middle cbaptor tae 117th Psalm. The middle verse is the Sth of the laeth. Psalm, The longest mane lain the Sat elmater of Isaias.. The wcaal "anti"occaars1.6,627thees; the word Lord 1,arie times, The 37 tei caap- ter of Ieaiah end tae 19th chapter of the 2d book of laiugs are alike, ease long- est verse is the 9th of the Slh ehapter of F,sther; Vie shortest verse,i he 35th of the ohapter of John. In the 21st verse of the Zt ehepter of Ezre is the alphabet. The finest piece of reading is the Ma ohapter of zacts. Manatee) of Ood is not mentioned itt the book of Esther. It coaearies. laxowassecae Waseesi, Housress t.tw L01"0. THE SISTERS "We'll come without that," said Eleanor, walking boldly in. "At least, I will. I couldn't resist cutlets and mashed potatoes under present circumstances—not to speak of lemon cheese -cakes and meringues—and, your ;society, Mrs. McIntyre." And she went on—while Mrs. McIntyre, having concluded her remarks upon tomato sauce, detailed the results of her Wide ex- perience in orange marmalade and quince selly, and Elizabeth and Eleanor dial their best to profit by her wisdom—playing to him alone. It did not last very long—a quarter of an hour perhaps—but every momeat was an eostasy to Paul. Brion. Even mot e than the mum, delicious as it was, Patty's gen- tle and approachable mood enchanted him. She had never been like that to him befoee. He sat on his low chair, and looked up at her tender profile as she drooped a little over the keys, throbbing with a new sense of her sweetness and beauty, and learning more about his own heart in those few minutes than all previous weeks and months of their acquaintance and taught hien. And then the spell that had been weavMg and winding them together, as it seemed to him, was suddenly and rudely broken. There was a clatter of wheels and hoofs along the street, a swing. ing gate and a jangling door bell; and Eleanor, running to the window, uttered an exclaanation that effectually wakened him from his dreams. " Oh, Elizabeth—Patty—it is Mrs. Duff - Scott !" In another minute the great lady herself stood amongst them, rustling over the mat- ting la her splendid gown, almost filling the little room with her presence. Mrs. Mc- Intyre gave way before her, and edged towards the door with modest, deprecatory movements, but Paul stood. where he had risen, as stiff as a poker, and glared at her with murderous ferocity; "Yon see I have come back, my dears,' she exclaimed cordially, kissing the girls one after the other. "And I am so sorry could not get to you in time to make ar- rangements for taking you with me to see the opening—I quite intended to take you. But I only returned last night." '" Oh, thank you," responded Elizabeth, with warm gratitude, "It is treat enough for us to see you again." And then, hest - taring a little as sne wondered whether it was or was not a proper thing to do, she looked at her other guests and murmured their names. Upon which Mrs. McIntyre made a servile curtsey, unworthy of a daughter of a free country, and Paul a most reluctant inclination of the head. To which again Mrs. DuffScottresponded by a slight nod and a glance of good-humored curiosity at them both. "I'll say. good afternoon, Miss King," said Mr. Brion haughtily. "Oh, good afternoon,' replied Elizabeth, smiling sweetly. And she and her sisters shook hands with him and with his land- lady, and the pair departed in some Mete, Paul in a worse temper than he had. ever known himself to indulge in; and he was not much mollified by the sudden appear- ance of Elizabeth, as he was fumbling with the handle of the front door, bearing her evident if unspoken apologies for having seemed to turn him out. "You will come with Mrs. McIntyre another time," she suggested kindly, "and have some more music? I would have asked you to stay longer to.day, but we haven't seen Mrs. Duff -Scott for such along time--" "Oh, pray don't mention it," he inter- rupted stiffly. I should have had to leave in any case, for my work is all behind - hand." "Ah, that is because we have been wast- ing your time !" "Not at all. I am only too happy to be of use—in the absence of your other friends." She would not notice this little sneer, but said good-bye and turned to walk upstairs. Paul, ashamed of himself, made an effort to detain her. "Is there anything I can do for you, Miss King ?" he asked, gruffly in- deed, but with an appeal for forbearance in his eyes. "Do you want your books changed or anything ?" She stood on the bottom step of the stairs, and thought for a moment; and then she said, dropping her eyes, "I—think you have a book thab I should like to borrow— if I might." "Most happy. What book is it?" " It is one of Thaekeray's. I think you told us you had, a complete edition of Thackeray that some one gave you for a birthday present. I scarcely know what volume it is, but it has something in it about a man being hanged—and a crowd—" She broke off with an embarrassed laugh, hearing how oddly it sounded. "You must mean the 'Sketches,'" he said. "There is a paper entitled 'Going to See a Man Hanged.' in the London Sketches '—" "That is the book I mean." "All right—I'll get it and send it in to you at once—with pleasure." "Oh, thank you. I'm so much obliged to you. I'll take the greatest care of it " she assured him fervently. CHAPTER XVIII. Trin PAIRY GODMOTHER. Eliza,beth went upstairs at a run and foand Patty and Eleanor trying to make Mrs. Duff -Scott understand who Paul Brion wag, what his father was, and his profes- sion and his character ; how he had never been inside their doors until that afternoon, and how he had at last by mere accident come to be admitted and entertained. And Mrs. Duff -Scott, serene but imperious, wee delivering some of her point-blank opinions upon the subject. "Don't encourage him, mydears—don't encourage him to come again," she was ;saying as Elizebeeh entered the room, "Ile and hie father SLTS tem very different people, whatever they may think. " We cannot help being gratefal to him," ;said Patty sturdily. Ile has doneso much for us." " Dear child, that's nonsense. Girls catn'b be grateful to young reeh—doe't you see? It is aut. of thS EliteStiOD. And now you have got me to do thinge for yam" " Put he helped us when we had no one " Yes, that's all right, of course. No doubt it was 4 pleasure to hint—a privilege —for him to be grateful for rather than you. 13ut—well, Elizabeth knows what 1 meats. " —turning ati expressive glance tenverds the discreet elder sister. Patty's eyes went itt the same direction, and Elszaboth answered both of them at once. " Yon must not ask us to give up Paul Brien," site said, promptly. / don't," said Mrs. Duff -Scott. 1 only ask you to keep him in his pleee. He is not the kind of person to indulge with tea and music, you know—that is what I mean." " You speak as if you knew something against him," murmured Patty, with height- ened color. " I know this much, my dear," replied the elder woman, gravely ; " he is a friend What are you laughing at r lie asked, of Mrs. Aarons'." witli more animation than she thought him " And is not Mrs. Aarons—" capable of. " She is very e -ell, in her way. But she " Nothing," said she. likes to have mon dangling about her. She " Oh, but you were laughing at some- , means no berm, I fon sure," added Aire. thing. What was it ? Was it because I Duff -Scott, who, in the matter of scandal, was staring at you ?" prided herself on being a non-conductor, " Well, you do stare," she admitted. but still it is not nice, you know. And I " can't help it. No one could help don't think that her men friends are the staring at you.' kind of friends for you. You don't mind " Why? Am I such a ettriority ?" my speaking frankly, my love? I am an " You know why. Don't pretend you old woman, you know, and I have had a don't." great deal of experience." She blushed at this, making herself look She l000ked at Mrs. Duff -Scott with a prettier than ever ; it was not in. her to world of ardent apology in her eyes, before pretend she didn't know—nor yet to pretend which the matron's fell, discouraged. and that his crude flattery displeased her. displeased. A cat may look at a king," he remark - You make me feel that I am an irupul- ed, his heavy face quite lit up with his en - sive and romantic girl, and that you are the joyment of his own delicate raillery. wise old woman of the world," she said with "0 yes, certainly," she retorted. "But a proud laugh. you see I am not a king, and you are not a But at this, Patty, pierced to the heart, oak" flung her arms round Mrs. Duff -Scott's neck, "'Pon my word, you're awfully sharp," and crushed the most beautiful bonnet in he rejoMed, admiringly. And he laughed Melbourne remorselessly out of shape over this little joke at intervals for several against her young breast. That settled the minutes. Then by degrees they dropped question, for all practical purposes. Mts. away from their party, and went stra.ying lauftScott went home at 6 o'clock, feeling up and down the nave tete-a-tete amongst that she had achieved her purpose, and the crowd, looking at the exhibits and not entered into some of the dear privileges of much understanding what they looked ; maternity. It was more delightful than and they carried on their conversation in. any " find " of old china. She did not go much the sarne style as they began it, with, to sleep until she had talked both her I grieve to say, considerable mutual enjoy - husband and herself into a headache with ment By -and -bye Mr. Westmoreland took her numerous plans for the welfare of her his young compamon to the German tent, protegees, and. until she had designed where the Henan jewels were, by way of down to the smallest detail the most giving her the greatest _treat he could think becoming costumes she could. think of for of. He bet her sixpence that he could them to wear, when she took them with her tell her which necklace she liked the best, to the Cup. and he showed her the several articles (worth OEfAPTER XLX. some thousands of pounds) which he should have selected for his wife, had he had A MORNING AT THE EXHIBITION. a wife—declaring in. the same breath that Paul Brion was wakened from his sleep they were vary poor things in comparison next morning by the sound. of Mrs. Duff' with such and such other things that he had Scott's carriage wheels and prancing horses, seen elsewhere. Then they strolled along and sauntering to his sitting -room window the gallery, glancing at the pictures as about ten minutes later, had the satisfaction they went, Eleanor making mental notes of seeing his young neighbors step into the for future study, but finding herself unable distinguaahed vehicle and drive away. to study anything in Mr. 'Westmoreland's The girls for their part, practically for- company. And then auddenly came a tall got him, and enjoyed the difference between to -day and yesterday in the most worldly' figure towa.rds them—a gentlemanly man with a brown face and a red moustache—at and womanly manner. The sensation of sight of whom she ga,ve a little dart of de - bowling along the streets in a perfectly -ap- pointed carriage was as delicious to them as lighted recognition. "Hullo I" cried Mr. Westmorelane, it is to most of us who are too poor to in- dulge in it as a habit; for the time being it "there's old Yelverton, I do declare. He said he'd come over to have a look at the answered all the purposes of happiness as exhibition." thoroughly as if they never had any higher am.bition than to cut a dash. They went Old Yelverton was no other than "Eliza- beth's young man." shopping with the fairy godmother before they went to the exhibition, and that, too, -^ A stopped to speak to an ae,quaintemee who bade tis compaeion rest herself on the trains, the sunny road was alive with wee driving in an opposite direction, and other until she had recovered from the vehieles of every deeeription—epringoserts by the time she .reached the exhibition, fatigue of getting upstairs. lerries, cabs and buggies, broughams she found that her husband's hails= had There is liar hurry," ho said wearily ; end, lanelaue, and fear -in -bend coachee—all arrived before her, and' that he and Mr. "we have plenty of time." And thou he Allot' to their -anted capacity, and deploy. Westenorelatal were waitieg et the eutrance lcoleed at her with that twinkle in his eye, ing the sweetest thing's in bonnets and to offer their services a,s escort to the party. and load "Mies Xing, you aro very parasols. And amongst the bed -appointed She did not know whether to take him as atusieal, 1 hear. Is that a fact ?" carriages Major Duff -Seed's was conspieu. joke or in earnest, but either way he was " We are very, verys'iond pfa hobby svith °us' not only for its build and and amusing. He strolled heavily along by her said, smiling. " tt is rather music,' she the excellence of the horses that drew it, side for a while in the wake of Mrs. Duff- us, I think." and the fit of the livery of the coachman Scott and Patty, paying no attention to the " A hobby ! Ala that's delightful ! len who drove it, but for the beauty and dazzling wares around him, htlt a great deal so glad it is a hobby. You don't, by happy eltarmiug costumes of the ladies inside. to hie companiea. He kept turning his chance, play the violin, do you ?" The major himeelf, festive in light grey, head, to gaze at her, with solemn, run -limit- No. We only know the piano." With his member's card in hie button -hole ing eyes, until at last, tired of pretending " Yon all. play the piano ?—old masters, and his field -glass slung over his shoulder, she did not notice it, else looked back at and that seat of thing?" occupied. the place of the usual footman on him and lattehed. This seemed to put hini " Yes. My sister Patty plays hest H the box Seat in order that all the three er at his ease with her at once. touch. and expression are beautiful." sisters ehould accompany his wife; and Mrs. " Alt !" he exclaimed again, softly, as if lauff-$eott, hexing set her heart on with much inward satisfaction. He was dressing her girls for the occasion, had been CHAPTER XX. was absorbingly delightful—both to Eliza- beth, who went in with Mrs. Duff -Scott to CHINA VS. THE CAUSE OP HUMANITY. assist her in her purchases, and to the Meanwhile, Major Duff -Scott took charge younger sisters, who reposed majestically in of Elizabeth, and he was very well satisfied the carriage at the door. Patty's quick with the arrangement that left her to his eyes caught sight of Mrs. Aarons and a pair care. of her long -nosed children walking on the "Oh, that's right. You and Mrs. Duff - pavement, and she cheerfully owned herself Scott will get on together earn:tablet, I O snob and gloried in it. It gave her un- foresee. Come, Miss King" --turning to speakable satisfaction, she said, to sit there Elizabeth—" let us go and see what we can andlook down upon Mrs. Aarons. discover in the way of desirable bric-a-brac. As they passed the Melbourne Club on We'll have a look at the Murano ware for their way to the Exhibition, the coachman you, my dear, if yon like" --again address - was hailed by the elder of two gentlemen ing his wife softly—" and come back and who were sauntering down the steps, and tell you if there is anything particularly they were introduced for. the first time to choice. I kaow they have a lovely bonnet the fairy godmother's husband. Major there, all made of the sweetest Venetian Duff -Scott, an extofficer of dragoons and a glass and trimmed with blue velvet. But late prominent public man of his colony (he you could take the velvet off, you know, was prominent still, but tor his social, and and trim it with a mirror. Those wreaths not his official qualifications), was a well- of leaves and flowers, and beautiful pink dressed and well-preserved old gentleman,. braids—" who, having sown a large and miscellaneous "Oh, go along!" she interruped impa- crop of wild oats in the course of a long tiently. "Elizabeth, take care of him, and career, had been rewarded with great don't let him buy anything, but see what is wealth and all the privileges of the highest there and tell me. I'm not going to put respectability. Reheat been a prodigal, but any of that modern stuff with my sixteenth he had enjoyed it—never knowing the bitter- century cup and bottle," she added, looking ness of either hunger or husks. He had at nobody in particular, with a sudden tasted dry bread at times, as a matter of brightening of her eyes; "but if there is course, but only just enough of it to give a. anythingpretty that will do for my new• proper relish to the abundant wskes and ale cabinet in the morning room—or for the that were his portion ; and the proverb table—I should like to have thefirst choice." which says you cannot eat your mite and "Very well," assented:: her husband, have it was a perfectly dead letter in his meekly. "Come along, Miss Xing. Well case. He had been eating his all his promise not to buy anything." He and life, and he had got it still. In Elizabeth then set off on their own ac - person he was the most gentle -looking count, and Elizabeth found herself led little man imaginable—about half the size straight to the foot of a staircade, where the of his imposing wife, thin and spare, and little major offered his arm to assist her in with a little stoop in his shoulders ; but ' the ascent. there was an alertness in his step and a "But the Murano Court is not upstairs, brightness in his eye, twinkling. remotely is it?" she asked, hesitating. between the sha,dow of his hat brun. and a "0 no," he replied; it is over there," bulging mass of white moustache that giving a little backward nod. covered all the lower part of his small face, "And are we not going to look at the which had suggestions of youth and vigor glass ?" about them that were lacking in the figure "Not at present," he said, softly. and physiognomy of the young man at his "That will keep. We'll look at it by -and - side. When he came up to the carriage bye. First, I am going to show you the door to be introduced to his wife's proteges, pictures. You are fond of pictures, are you whom he greeted with as much cordiality not?" as Airs. Duff -Scott could have desired, they "1 am, indeed." did not know why it was that they so "Yes, I was certain of it. Corne along, immediately lost the sense of awe with then, I can show you a few tolerably good which they had contemplated the approach ones. Won't you take my arm ?" of a person destined to have so formidable She took his arm, as he seemed to expect a relation to themselves. They shook hands it, though it would have been more reason - with him, they made modest replies to his able if he had taken hers; and they marched polite inquiries, they looked beyond his upstairs, slowly, in face of the crowd that ostensible person to the eyes that looked at was coming down. them ; and then their three grave faces re- "My wife," said the major, sententiously, laxed, and in half a minute were brimming "is one of the best women that ever over with smiles. They felt at home with breathed." Major Duff -Scott at once, "1 am sure she is," assented Elizabeth, "Caine, conic," said the fairy godmother with warmth. rather impaMently, when something like a "No," he said, "you can't be sure; that fine aroma of badinage was beginning to is why I tell you. I have known her for a perfume the conversation' "you must not long time, and experience has proved it to stop us now. We wantto have a long me. She is OBS of the best women that ever morning. You can join us at the Exhibi- tion presently, if you like, and bring Mr. Westmoreland." She indicated the young man who had been talking to her while her spouse made the acquaintance of her com- panions, and who happened to bet one of the three husbands whom she had selected for those young ladies. He was the richest of them all, and the most stupid, and there- fore he seemed to be cut out for Patty, who, being Fib intellectual and so enterpris- ing, would not only make a good use of his money, but would make the beet that was to be made of him. " My dears," she said, turning towards the girls, " let me intro- duce Mr. Westmoreland to you. Mr. Westmoreland, Miss King—Miss Eleanor King—Miss Patty King." sitting languidly on his chair, nursing his allowed to have her own way, with the hap. knee, and gazing through the balustrade of Piest results. The geed woman sat back 111 the gallery upon the et owcl below. Elizabeth her corner'forgetting her own Parisian el a - was on the point of suggesting that they gance and how it would compare with the might nowgo end look at the pictures, when Cup Day elegance of rival matrons in the he began upon a fresh topic. van of rank and fashion, while she revelled "And about china, Miss King? Tell in the contemplation of the young pair ho- me, do you know anything about china ?" fore her, on whom her best taste had been " I'm efraicl not," said Elizabeth, exercised. Elizabeth, by her side, was per - "You don't know the difference between fectly satisfactory in straw-colored Indian silk, ruffled with some of her own fine old Chelsea, and Derby -Chelsea, for instance ?" lace, and wearing a delicate French bonnet "Nor between old Majolica and modern?" andparasol to match, with a bunch of f i No. PI Camille de Bohan 'wee at her throat for " Nor between a Limoges enamel of the bcoelaoutt. ; butElizabethfa Eolizabestthylsevatsobnotexoefraerisltnreinktineg sixteenth century—everything good belongs y,n to the sixteenth century, you must realm- upon. Patty and Eleanor wore; and they baery—s arn, cl what they call Limoges now -a- had been " treated " accordingly. Patter d was a harmony in pink—the fairest shell. pink—and. Eleanor a study ia the "Ah, well, I think very few people do," softest, palest ehade of china -blue; said the major, resignedly. "But, at any ibiogthay tilferiilrledcl,resasneds being r°ofundniustlhin rate" --speaking in a tone of encouragement h —"you do know Sevres and Dresden when wa you see them ; you could tell one of them witicslitin3;itillittlheeas ap; .ibte onnYewore ts,wibtehe. from the other i" swathes of tulle uuder their chins. The cswhile sile h "Really," Elizabeth replied, beginninf effect—designed for a sunny morning, and to blush for her surpassing ignorance " to be set oft by the subdued richness of her am very sorry to have to confess it, liut i own olive -tinted robes—was all that Mrs. don't believe I could." Duff -Scott anticipated. The two girls were The major softly unclasped his knees and exquisitely sylphlike, and harmonious, and leaned back in his chair, and sighed. refined—lookingprettier than they had "But I could learn" suggested Elizabeth. ' ever done in their lives, because they knew " Ah, so you can," he responded, bright- themselves that they were looking so—and ening. "You can learn, of course. Will it was confidently expected by their chap you learn? You can't think what a favor eron that they would do considerable exe- it would be to me if you would learn. Do ecution before the day was over. At the promise me that you will." back of the carriage was strapped &hamper "No, I will not promise. I should do it containing luncheon, sufficient for all the to please myself—and, of course, hemline it potential husbands; that the racecourse is a thing that Mrs. Duff -Scott takes an in- might produce, and Mrs.' DuffScott was terest in," said Elizabeth. prepared to exercise discriminating but ex- " That is just what I mean. It is be- tensive hospitality. cause Mrs. Duff -Scott takes such an inter- "Dear me, what a crowd !" exclaimed est in china that I want you to cultivate a Mrs. Duff -Scott, as her horses drew up on the smooth gravel, and she glanced eagerly taste for it. You see it is this way," he proceeded argumentatively, again, still up the steps. "We shall not be able to find clasping his knees and looking up at her and'c'ne.” with a quaint smile from under his hat brim. (To be Continued I will be frank with yon, Miss King—it is this way. I want to induce you to enter into an alliance with me, offensive and de- fensive, against that terrible energy which, as I said, is my wife's alarming character- istic. For her own good, you understand -- for my comfort incidentally, but for her own good in the first place, I want you to help me to keep her energy within bounds. As long as she is happy with music and china we shall be all right, but if she goes beyond things of that sort—well, I tremble for the consequences. They would be fatal— fat'llW1'11.1 ere are you afraid Emile Zola is usually about nine months to ?" asked Elizabeth. "1 am afraid she should go into philan- thropy," the major solemnly rejoined. "That is the bugbear—the spectre—the haunting terror of my, life. I never see a seedy man itt a black frock coat, nor an elderly female in spectacles, about the house or speaking to my wife in the street, that I don't shake in my shoes—literally shake in my shoes, I do assure you. I can't think how it is that she has never taken up the cause of humanity," he proceeded re- flectively. "11 we had not settled down in .Australia, she must have done it—she could not have helped herself. But even here Mark Twain is at Aixlo-Bains, under she is beset with temptations. I can see treatment for writer's cramp. His hand them in every direction. I can't think how has given out from overwork in signing it is that she doesn't see them too." checks and making deposit accounts. " No doubt she sees them," said Eliza- beth. "0 no, she does not. The rnoment she sees them—the moment she casts a serious eye upon them—that moment she will be a lost woman, and I shall be a desperate man." The major shuddered visibly, and Eliza- beth laughed at his distress. "Whenever it happens that Mrs. Duff -Scott goes into philanthropy," she said, a little in joke and a great deal in earnest, "1 shall certainly be proud to accompany her, if she will have me." And, as she spoke, there flashed int t Cricket Champion. The celebrated Australian Cricket Team, of which Mr. David Scott is a noted cham- pion, is safe against field injuries. Mr. Scott writes: "The effects of St. Jacobs Oil are magical. I used it for a terrible bruised leg. The relief was surprising." Members of all athletic clubs would be alike surprised at the results of its use. Men We Hear About, Emperor William has a sandy beard. Dr. Huilde, of Americus Ga., has a pleee of chinaware 791 years old: Dr. Taylor, of the Broadway New York) Tabernacle, is paid $16,000 a year. It is noteworthy that although James Russel Lowell was born and bred a Unitarian he was buried with the aervice of the Episcopal Church. Major Frank McLaughlin, who turned California's famous Feather River into a new channel, says most of the big enter- prises in his date are now managed by Eng- lishmen. o her mind some idea of he meaning of certain little sentences that were breathed into her ear yesterday. " There's Westmoreland and your sister," said the major. .And one of those strangers who are swarming all about the place just now, and crowding lie out of our *Mb. It's Yelverton. Kingscote Yelverton he calls himself. He is rather a swell when he's at home, they tell me ; but Westmore- land has no business to foist his acquaintance on your sister. He'll have my wife about him if he is not more careful than that." Elizabeth saw them approaching, and for- got all about the crowd tinder Cologne lOathedral and the crowd that went to see the man hanged. She remembered only the crowd of yesterday, and how •that stately gentleman—could it be possible ?— had stood with her amid the crush and clamour, holding her in his arms. For the first time she was able to look at him fairly and see what he was like; and it seemed to her that she had never seen a man of such noble presence. His eyes were fixed upon her as she raised hers to his face, regarding her steadily, but with inscrutable gravity and absolute respect. The major rose to salute him in response to Mr. Westmoreland's rather imperious de- mand. "My old friend, whom I met in Paris," said Mr, Westmoreland; "come over to have a look at us. Want you to know him, major. We must do Our best to make him enjoy himself, you know." " Didn't I tell yea ?" whispered Eleanor, lived. But she has her faults. I think I creeping round the back of her sister's houerghfatutoitew;!,rn you, Miss King, that she has chair. " Didn't I tell you he would be here 7" "1 think you ought not," said Elizabeth, And,at the same moment' Elizabeth heard with instinctive propriety. "Yes," he went on, "it is a point of honor. I owe it to you, as the head of my house—the nominal head you understand— the responsible ho,a—not to leb you labor under any delusiou respecting us. It is better that you should know the truth re- specting us at once. Mra. Duff -Scott is en- ergetic. She is fearfully, I may say ab- normally, energetic." "1 think," replied Elizabeth, with de- cision, "that that is one of the finest quali- ties itt theawooryldo.u"r, he re joined sadly. perhaps that of 1880 was the most "all round " eetisfectory arid delightful it) year 37 in Birmingham for jevrelry mitnufae. but Dr. Pierce'rs Favorite 'Proscription some one murmur over her head, "Miss King, allow me to hitroduce Mr. Yelverton —my /timid, whom I knew in Paris—" And so he and she not only met again, but received Mrs, Grundy's graeious permission to make each other's acquairitance. CHAPTER XXI, THE " Out, of the many Cirp Days that have gladdened the hearts of conntlese holiday- makers on the Flemington course assembled There is no truth in the reports that the poet, Whittier, is dangerously ill. His health is as as good as it .has been for the last year or two. He is now with his friends, the Cartlands, at Newburyport Jules Verne and his wife live in a de- lightful villa in Amiens. All his writing is done in a bit of a turret -chamber, through which boom every hour the chimes of the cathedral bells. Mr. Gladsbone is now giving Sir John Millais sittings for the portrait of himself, and his grandchild, which the artist is re- painting. Ex -Senator Reagan, of Texas, a hard- headed, practical man of the world, got it from an old negro that it would bring him ill -fortune to put on his left shoe first, and never once in all the years that have sped has he failed to give the right foot prefer- ence. ' U. S. Secretary of War Proctor, who is to be the successor of George F. Edmunds as United States Senator from Vermont, is a driving, active man of affairs, immersed up to the ears in railroad's'marble quarries, mills and other projects for accumulating money rapidly. Treble and Bass. "Twinkle, twinkle, little star? How I wonder what you are." In treble sweet piped little Grace. "Catarrh, catarrh, catarrh, catarrh, What a horrid pest you are;" Growled dear papa in lowest bass. When papa reads this, he will learn how to get rid of the pest. By its mild, healing, antiseptic, and cleansing properties, •Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures the worst cases. This infallible remedy does not, like the poisonous, irritating snuffs, " creams " and strong caustic solutions with which the public have been so long humbugged, simply palliate for a short time,, or drive the disease to the lungs. It produces a perfect and permanent cure of the worst cases of Chronic Catarrh. "Cold in the Head" cured with a few applications. Catarrh headache re- lieved and cured as if by magic. It removes offensive breath, loss or impairment of the sense of taste, smell or hearing, watering or weakness of the eyes, and impaired memory, when resulting from catarrh. Only 50 cents, by druggists. Barrows' Luck. " Barrews was always lucky." "What's happened now ' "You know that $500 watch the boy,s gave him ?" ei yes ' .ugus. Mr. Lorenzo F, Sleeper is very. Apple- ton, knownto theneidgthl citizens 000fdAypilt says: " Eight years ago I was taken, sick, and suffered as no one but a " dyspeptic can. I then began talc:- " ing .August Flower. At that time "1 was a great sufferer. Every - "thing I ate distressed me so that I "had to throw it up. Then in Li " few moments that horrid distress "would come on and would have For that "to eat and suffer "again. Itookir "little of your med.- " icine, and felt much "better, and after taking a little more "August Flower mite "Dyspepsia disap- " peared, and since that time have never had the first sign of it. "I can eat anything without the "least fear of distress. I wish all "that are afflicted with that terribkik "disease or the troubles caused by "it would try August Flower, as am satisfied there is no medicine "equal to it " .asorasussummusoususawn!troanoswarualruosuumussit IN 111$131.4111-ILIPIIILI. Wonderful flatus of the Great Brazen Palace. Horrid Stomach Feeling. One of the most noteworthy buildings of the "refulgent" city was the Lowe-Alai/a- Paya, or the Brazen Palace, erected by King Dutugemnim in the year 142 B. 0.. It stood upon one thowsand six hundred . . granite pillars, and vied with surrounding bagobas in height, rearing itts ninth story two hundred and seventy feet skyward ; ib contained one thousand. dormitories for priests; its roof was of brass, and, accord- ing to the Mahe.wanso, the walls gleamed with resplendent gems; the great hall was supported on 'golden pillars resting on lions, and in the centre wait an ivory thorn° with a golden sun and a silver moon on either side. Several times the Brazen Palace was razed by iconoclastic invaders from India, and as - often restored by the zealous adherents of the new faith, up to the latter part of the twelfth century, when the capital was re- moved to Pollonarua.. From the upper - stories of this magnificent pile the priestly occupants could vievr the far -extending city, and look upon six great dagobas, all within a radius of little more than a mile, and. lifting their huge white domes as high as some of the loftiest cathedrals in Europe. The Rummell Dagoba stood near the palace; and according to the native arch- ives, rested on a, platform 500 feet square, its glass pinnacle glittering in the sun 270 feet above the city, its base surrounded by marble statues, and its outer walls mounting elephants of masonry with real talks. In the north, befond splendid pavilions of king and queens, loomed the greatJetgwanarania Dagoba,, with its twenty million cubic feet of masonry. The beholder at the palace had only to turn his gaze in the direction of the rising sun to look upon the greatest of the relic -tombs, the Abhayagiria Daeoba.— From " The City.of the Sacred Bo -Tree,"- by' ames Ricalton, an September Scribner. Perils of Modern Lire. Contacts with electric wires, railroad accidents, broken car and elevator cables-, explosions of steam, natural gas and cheini- cabs, poisons in adulterated food and drink, are a few; but all these dangers combined do not kill as rapidly as slow and sure Con- sumption. The death rate, however, frons. Consumption is being yearly cut down since Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., has given to the world his celebrated "Golden Medical Discovery," a cure for Consumption and Throat and Lung troubles that lead to Con- sumption, if taken in time and given a fair trial. The time to cure Consumption (which. is nothing more or less than Lungescrofisla)a is in the first stages. A cough generally animas the alarm, an.d you should take the " Diseovery " at once. There is a time When it is too late. Women Who Can Wear Blue. The question of the becomingness of bIne is one that is continually arising, says Airs. Mallon in the .Ladies' Home journal:. Napoleon blue, a grayish tint, is only - adapted to 13runettes, and the peculiar shade of blue,which is sometimes called sapphire, sometimes called robin's egg, sometinies called electric blue, is also best suited to the ladies with dark hair and clear, dark complexions. These shades are very apt to make a blonde look colorless. A pure blonde with clear eyes can always wear - baby blue in the evening, but if she wishes the whiteness of her skin and the blueness of her eyes and the yellow of her hair to be brought out most effectively, she will chose rose color. All the dark shades of blue are suited to her, and she will be -wisest if she chooses them in preference to all other hades of the color. About A.verages. The average weight of a skeieton is aboub 14 pounds. , The brain of a man is twice as huge do that of any other animal. A man breathes about 20 times in a minute, or 1,200 times an hour. A man breathes about 18 pints of air hr a minute, or upwards of 7 hogsheads in a. day. The average of the pulse in infancy is 120 beets per minute; in manhood, 80; at 60 years, 60. The average weight of an Englishman is 150 pounds; of a Frenchman, 136 pounds; a German; 146 pounds. A man gives off 4.08 per cent. carbonie vas of the air he respires; respires 19,66$ cubic feet of carbonic acid gas in 24 hours, equal to 125 cubic inches common air. Little Johnnie, on seeing a skeleton for the first time, exclaimed, Why, but they skinned her mighty close didet they t She looks worse than close, Jane did, before ma gave her that bottle of 'Favorite "Ile uceeeded i t the other day Pieicrp, tioni' " "Aunt Jane" was so cern- for .l4." peteiiwornoutbyproiapsus,veriodior dfficttiesandnervousprosration,that Over $2,800,000 worth of gold is used he Was a constant sufferers daY and nl The heavy young rasa made a heavy boil , " That ze because you are young. I used to everybody concerned --except th. fvora o each, and then stared straight at Eleamow ) think so, too, when I was young, Put I makers end nobode y grieves much boekture. acted so promptly and.. bly upon the over The bee hills himself to slee in the uterus and other organs that she suffers 110 a rt nd studied her with calm atteation nntr, don't 710W — experience has taught me theie disasters ough there are seVeral ,M 0fi• P ' 11S f&MIy. pain at any time, and her general health he carriage bore her from his sight. She, better. What I object (thO to in my wife ia legitimate and highly aespected lines of was never better, As a remedy for all. ith her tender blue eyee and hee yellow ; thet experience doesn't teateh her ahythiag. businese that are conaucteci preeitely female 'weaknesses as a strengthagiving --As much as $10,000,000 is invested in air, and her skin like the petals of a, blueli ; She Won't learn. Sheillusions, peiaista in keeping the eame system 51.8 governs their nefarienia °"•Arat3rica• Wide and quieting neraine "Favorite Pre- , peaking of her a little later ta steu eenfieltial obsn tiate n ad unjua atifible manner.' the discomfiture of the bookmakers was a what is it 7" 'Ve found out wha,b'e the satisfaction oe muse 01.00) refunded. "iU ose, was what he was pleaseg to eajg fat tier youtafal the Most practices), It Wee, indeed, coneicleted that "I've made a (eat diseavery," " )tea ; seription" is iineraled. On'aranteed to giaite I .ietet, the "girl for him." 'Of Patty he Here they reeehed the gellet.y and the part of the brilliant success of the occasion. matter With re,ritiali." "Really?" "Yes ; ooltnoisotice whatever. rpictures, but the inajor taw two empty While a full half oi the °roved was being she can spell her name backward and it Walter Carr & Co. p educe &Memo liter 114rs, Daff.Scota on her wey to Coaatosi, ehairs, and, sittieg doWn on ene of them, conveyed te the course by innumerable ma,kes her stuck up.' S':orls, assigned to day