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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-9-8, Page 6Sheer Oft BI.'er Jonathan - 0 doretleett, genet douathaia, A. seraweet of the earth, Ildby Mimed the world. to one like you Bo of fair matches dearth. Woo those wbo impress in your wealtb • Your height, your lareadth may end. But leave .untrammelled maidenhood To one 11,11.0, though most kind, never had ree-ard tor you For you are sordid through an througle Miss Canada has never led You to believe that she Would iu the union you propose A wee& (if prat see, Indeed. $ho's given meaty hints • Which, had you tactyou'd know, As toile suggestions, when 't oanoted. 'Twas tirne for you to go. So press no more a hopelesa suit, 'Tis mercenary at its root. Miss Mexico's &rich 701MR lass, And then there's Miss Brasil, ADA Paraguey and Uruguay Who both might 011 the bill. Ana severe other budding maids. Beeidee Bliss Chili, who eves cold And let you know. not long ago When you presumed, that t-ou wore bold But leave 'Wile maiden of the frost" To cherieh love she's never lost. You say John Bali is numb, too old, But good is that ola age That holds its youthful lave through all The britut of rivals' raga; Good that old age which cireles those It loves with arm strong. Protecticg with its honest mighb The tender one from wrong, Prepared to do and die for her No matter what event occur. Bettor to be an old mann net. The darling of his iatter (lays, Then slave to an unpolished youtb, Of famished mien and narrow ways, So, Jonathan, leave oft your pranks And go Your old self -loving route. And hedge youreolf with teritts high Enough to keep the eh plena. out, MSS (:nada, will tend her raw While you. to inenition go. —rT. ..e._ Gregg, in the Teronto WothL ifjpELLS OF LIRAVEN. to be comparing aneething od the neper with whet he saw' eet upon the,shield. The effeot upon the roast was etrauge-- almost startling. He grew sueldeuly pale, as if some unexpeeted reveletiou had hurat upon him ; and with the cry of "My God 1 what be this 1" turned, and fled front the church - Captain Norhain sat for A few minute amazement. What did this mean? Wbat could this repetition of his dream, followed by the appearance end attitude of this stranger, portend? Quitthig the ohuroh, he was in a few seconds at the vicarage. "'Clara," he said tei his wife"I thought I knew everybody in the village. Bet to- day 1 luxe seen a tall old man, with white hair, whom 1 fee sure I never saw before.' "Why. George," replied Clara, "that is our little Luys friend, whom you have heard her epeak so much about, That must have beea Uncle Giles. Where did, you see him' " In the church." "in the °Much?" she said, with a ques- tioning and half amused air, " WIty, your father has veinly besought him to go to i church, bet conld never succeed with him. The man is evidently decent, and is well be - hared.; but he has some mysterious scruple as to going to °hetet. He te altogether a good hit of a mystery to everybody." And she wont on to tell her hitaband the etory of his earning Amon them. George listenedattentively and then pro- eeeded to tell cf the repetition that day of the Cairo dream, and what he had atterwards seen and liestrd.M the church. Clara, who had first treated the matter aomewhat lightly, was now ie thee much impressed by whet she heard, 4 "Why, do you know, she said "the first time I saw the man—it was when he was iu a state of delirium—he ter* me her the hand and called me Ether. I have never mentioned it before to anyone." “ Well what of that Id queriecl her hus- band, . "What of thatrreplied Clara. "Esther was my mother's uatne." "011 1" exclaimed George, in a tone be- en wonder end curiosity, Then, after a. pause be added : " And does no one know Who the man is',' " Nebotte-, more than I hinte told Tom" "Then, Clare, you and I MUSD find out - Fut on your bonnet.; we must eeek him at once." They walked d.oven the gerden-path to- gether in the direction of Lawrence Dale's house. The cottage which Giles inhabited was adjoining the garden wall., and was ap- proeched by a green house, through the door of Which yoa could eee the centime. This being Saturday afternoon, and work suspended, Lawrence Dale and a few 'other villagers were seated on a bench outeidethe door. Among these was Giles, who, on his way from the thurch had been intereepted by two or three lads with a request that he would arrangesoine fishing -tackle for them., He was now busied with thise, and at the same time listening to what Lawrence was reading alotnd from a newspaper. Both the miller and his wtfe came originally from Yorkshire, and the paper was apparently one sent to them by old. friends. Clara drew her husband back a little. Mrs. Dale was evidently one of the listeners too, for they could hear hervoice inside the cottage door, as from time to time some news of particular heportinme would cell far en exchange of epsilon between her and her hothead. "Ale Milly," tried Lawrence, "hark thee to this. .tearah Dobson bat married dem Metealfe after all. It's here in black itnd white. Did thou ever hear the like?" "Oh, indeed," replied Alilly ; “ timt be news. Why, how she did flout that young num 61 hers, to be sure ! "Happen," she would say, "lads shall be so scarce thou will ha' to seek them wiv a candle, ere I marry Jens Metcalf." Yet she ha' took him at the last. 'Well. well 1" Lawrence scarcely heeded lenity's conclud- ing comments, for eomethieg of apparently more engrossing iuterest had ettreetea his attention in the paper, and. be read it few lines to himself as if by way of tastiug its &Amur before offering it to the others. "It's put in big type, anyway," he said at length ; "it must be something worth read- ing." And without further exordium he proceeded. " ante:snit Dzscoverar.—et the White Horse Lan, about three miles from this town, a somewhat singular discovery was male a few clays ago. Some changes were being effected in the interior arrangements of that long-established and popular hostel when, in the course of the operations, the workmen had occasion to lift the flooring of the Blue Room. While doing so, one o them found under the floor, close to the wall on the west side it good watch, whicl Appeared, from the dust that had gathered round it, to have lain there for a long time A piecesof thin silver chain was attached to it; and on the outer case of the watch was •an engiaved monogram. Inside the ease was a paper bearing that the watch had been cleaned and repaired" by the firm of Letaing & Jobson, of this town, more than a quarter of it century ago. Upon in quiry beim,l'made of this firm, they found from their books that the watch had be longed to a gentleman of the Immo of Ar- thur Naseby, which agreed with the mono gram "A. N." on the hack of the watch. This discovery has eecited much interest in the town, as our older readers will remember the somewhat extraordinary disappearance from our midst of the gentle- man above named. A great deal of mystery surrounded the whole . affair; but it was believed by Many, after his dia. appearance, that the name by which the owner of the watch was known -here was not his real name. We refrain at present from entering into details that /night be painful to some of his friends who may still be alive among us; but we may mention that there was some reason, from what • transpired after bis disappearance'for thinking that his real name was Norham, and thee be was connected with an ancient and aristotratic family in the north of England. What gave additional mystery to the disappearance of this young gentle- man, was, that he had only been about a year married, and was much respected and beloved wtehin the circle of bis acquain- tance." . • When Clara and her husband had first come Within sight of the group, ihd heard Lawrence, in his loud, stow, drawling Yorkshire voicd, ponderously retailing • the news of the day, it wee more from a feeling of amusement than any other motive than Clara waited end listened, But as he con- tinued to read, a deeper intereat was awaken- ed in her. From where he stood; she could see Uncle Giles seated on the bench, and was astonished at the extraoratnary expres- sion which his countenance assumed at the meetion of the finding of the watch. Th blood entirely deserted his face, and he let the tackle on vrhieh lui was working fall froni his hands as if he had been struck with paralysis. CepMba Norham saw this also, and watched hie wife's demeanour with sorriething of alarm. As Le.wreuee read on, her eyes gradually developed a loon of etrained attention, as though every CHAPTER IV, Arsidener. A few days before this, the Viear s son, Dentate Norhare, arrived at Lielavers. He had been on sick -leave for some months. The wound which he harl received at Tenel- Kehir was quits) healed, but his gemmed health had been injuriously %fleeted by the severities of the campaign. Clarabailtoisted Itim when in February he landed at South- ampton; and as he was too IU to proceed northwards at once, theyhad togethe- pass- ed the early epring months in the Isle of Wight Nor would behave been at Linlaven now, but for the eireurristance that he bad been hurriedly summoned home. This was izi ecusequence of it letter from Mr Brookes, who has been already spoken of as the family lawyer to tlae late Squire Norhant. of Beath, rig Hall, and who still acted in that capecity for the Squi e's widow. Mr. Broolca letter bad intinutted to Captain Norham and his wife that tho old lady at the Hall; Laving hoed of the gallantry which had distinguished the Captain's conduct in the Eastern campaign, had evidently relented somewhat, of her former severity end bitter - neva against the daughter of her lost son Arthur, and. was apparently disposed to tater the will by width she had conveyed her wealth away from her natural heir and given it to an alien. Itut before doing aey- thizsg. she wished to have an interview with her grandchild Clara and her husband; hence Mr. Brookes desired thet they shoed come north at once. Alm for the hazards of it repentance that awakens not the conscience till the eIeveath hour The day before the arrival ot the Captaiu and his wife, the old lady had a stroke of paralysis, from which her physi- cians bad pronounced it impossible that she sbould recover- And so passed all hope of her being able to rectify the injustice the had eretely done. The aged Vicar's joy at once more re. coiving his gallant boyuntler his roof was cousequently not muningled "with sadness. Nor was George himself much more cheer- ful. It is true that the sight once more of tete little girl and boy -who called him father filled his heart with pleasure and gratitude; but in the background sat black Care dis- tilling pen. Shattered in health, and poor hi estate, he could not help reflecting with ominous feelings upon what the future mig'n have be store for his wife and. chil- dren. The conversation which we have above recorded betreen Uncle Giles and Mrs. Dale as to the evident premeditated depar- ture of the former took place on a Friday evening. On the following day Captain Norhaen, in the course of an afternoon stroll, and weariest somewhat and fatigued with the glare of the summer sun, walked across the graveyard and entered the church, the doors of which stood open. It was to him it more than usually sacred place, for here was the pew in which he had sat from in- fancy to manhood, side by side with the mother who had long since passed into it higher sanctuary behind the veil, and side by side also with her who had been the true love of his youth and was now the *nether of his children. Inside thechurch all was calm and peaceful. The sun ;hone bright and hot on the old stained-glass windows, but soft and cool were the purple shadows within the ancient aisles. He sat down in the vicarage pew, and gave himself up to pleasant reveries of the past. He heard the hurn of bees about the windows, and saw the green branches swaying beyond the open door. Whether, lulled into restfulness by the calm and stillness of the holy place he fell asleep, or not, he coed not tell, once more he heard the bells eoll out in the church -tower, and he experienced once again all be had seen and heard in that far- away dream of his sick couch at Cairo. He saw the same sbadowy figure walk clown the aisle, saw the man halt before the tomb of the Norhams, heard again the accents of grief and dejection with which he uttered the. SVOrCIS " He—gone - and I—unfor- given:" Thereupon followed a sudden noise, which woke him to consciousness. The no* was caused by the slamming of one of the church doors, as if thrown -to by a draught; but this time it was not all a dream. There vas some one in the church, The tall figure of an aged man, white- hairecl and slightly stooping, was approach- ing softly down the aisle, The Captain withdrew himself noiselessly within the shelter of a curtain at the end of the pew, whence he deed see without being seen. ?he e eked slowly forward, looking korn side to side like one who had. simply tome thither from a feeling of curiosity, end with no special purpose. By-and-by ee reached the tomb cif the Norhams, with Its white marble effigies ate golden emblaz- fitments. Something here seemed to at- eact the man's attention. It was the arms if the family cat upon it shield surmount. ng the tombstone. He looked at it for a secouds in it hire of wonder, ad if it re - :ailed something. to his memory. Then, putting hie bend Into his breast, he chew out it emelt teather case, from which he ma , Ineeted eleven end fteemed for it morneet word he uttered went deep down into her very soul. A ;Orange pallor overspread her face; she reached outlier hands and clasped with it feverisk grip at the bath of it minden chair that stood near by, as if her limbs were no longer able to support her ; them as the reader concluded, she -uttered a atifie ed shriek, and. fainted away, Her husband caught her in his arms as she was enout to £8.11. Her cry brought Lawreitce Da1e. and the others te her help, and she 'wee carried back to the vicarage. In the confasion that • followed upon Clara's ory of distress, the movements of the old man Giles were unobserved. When the reading of the newspaper was ended by that sudden cry, the little group before the cottage was suddenly scattered; whereupon he immediately rose and entered his house. Re was ghastly pale, and trembled like it man in an ague fever. .A sharp fire burned. in his eyes, and he clutched at the well for support as he wept, • "11 he ermined at last," he muttered.geance "Be thou, ever so fleet e foot, the ver a' God is fleeter." He did not sit down, or tarry for e nue ment ; bet going to where he had. thrown his pecked velise the evening before, be lift- ed it up, and taking it staff from the wall, quitted the kouse. He walked off, et first slowly, but, as he repined oomposure, at an increas- ing pace, going directly towards he Old Grange, He was about to enter the fa. miliar door'when, he hesitated, and looks ed as if be would turn away without entering- There were voices within, end this startled hint in vt stresige way. Yet what was there to fear? The men inside were only workmen, every oue of whom he kuew, busily engaged in complet- ing some epairs upon the old piece. Ile might easily pass up the stake to his own quarters without bang seem. Yet still be hesitated. At length he said "It must be done, whether they see me or not. 1 cane not mike my way with never a penny in my purse." He ascended the long stairs with slow and cautious foot. Mien he bad reached the top floor, he unlocked it drawer near his bench'and took therefrom a little box whichcontained a few sliver coins. Putting thern in his pocket, he was about to leave the room, when he observed, just where the evening suu streamed warmly in throe& the dusky pane, the little maid Lucy lying asleep beside her playthings, "Ale thou hero 1" he said in it low voice, that had a perceptible lever in its He cep- eroacited, and bent -down aver the sleeping °hit& "I see it all, my little Lucy. Thou ha' been seeking Uriele Giles, and aeivaitieg for him till thou ha' felon asleep.And as be touched her fair treeses, hie first impulse was to raise her and carry her up hame—as et other tines he vsould have done. But be dared not do this now. It might frustrate in some way his departure, end he must go. She was safe enough ; her nurse was ante to seek and fiud her here. Lifting a. pair of scissors tram the miseen lancets gathering of tools upon the bench, he raised one of the shining locks of the sleep- ing child, awl cut, off part of it; then taking from Isis breast that same little leather ease we be,ve before eeen, he placed the tress in- side, and turned to go. But once more he came back and looked at the child, with something pensive and touching in his eyes. "God bless thee," he said, "and keep thee! May thou sometimes think on old Uncle Giles whei . he be far away." Teen he be - gen to descend the staira—slowly, with groping hands, and a meat mist in his eyes. He had soon left the valley behind, and was unending the hill -road by which, only it few months before, lie had first entered Linkven. At the outset he walkea as if dreading observation or Inter. ruption; but as he entered the solitude of the broad Fell, he went upward with slow and yet slower steps, turning from time to thne to gaze on the village below. The place never looked to him more beautiful than now, under the splen- did effulgenee of the summer sunset, with the level light gleaming along the mere, and wrapping the high church -tower in a golden glory. All the hills around i were bathed n the yellow light; and far beyond he could see the mountains of West- moreland rising up dark against the kin- dling west, their broken and serrated ridges gleaming like massive jewels through the soft purple haze. It could be seen thab various and strong emotions had taken possession of the man's soul. "For nigh thirty years Iha' fled from my fate, yet it dogs my footsteps its I ha' seen a bloodhound nose the track ora slave." Yet still he passed upwards, heedless more and more of his surroundings. The wild thyme and the bright-eyed tormentil were atdhis feet, and around him was the sweet scent of the pines; but they had no charm, because they had no existence, for him. Once over the brow of the Fell, with village and lake and thurclistower all hidden from Ms sight he -eat down on the heath, and gave vent to his misery in tears. Here, among these scenes, he had for a time been tranquil— almost' happy e and new, driven forth by the exigencies of his own blighted existence, he must leave them, _and for ever, For thirty yeses as he numbered it, had he lied before the ;low foot of retribution; and yet, here, among those wilds, was not Nemesis coming up with him at last? Sitting there—the moor -birds circling with wild screams round his head, and then darting away with it warning cry—he took no note of time. Suddenly he was aroused out of his reverie by a quick sound that struck upon his. ears. It was the bells of Linlaven I Why should these bells be ringing now? Was it the curfew? No; for they were ringing out in tones harsh and angry. Never, surely, during the three centuries since our Lady of Langleydale brought over these bells from Holland, and hung them in the gray church -tower of Linlaveu— oever had they given forth anch clamorous and discordantmusie. The man started to his feet, and stood for a brief moment lis- tening to that wild alarm, re-echoing and reverberating ainoni the hills. I1. must be fire," he said, as he turned and. ran towards the ridge he had just cross- ed, and from which Liniaven could be seen. They sounded out witha still more angry and dissonant clangour as he came within sight of the valley. The sun had already left it ; but the twilight wasyet diem' along the lake, and be could see it dark cloud of smoke tinting ominously in the calm "It is fire I" he exclaimed. "And," in a horrified whisper, is he looked again'it is the Old Grange And Lucy—my little Lucy —vellat if they ha' not found "her? Ole God," he cried, in a voice of agony—" must yet another sin be laid to my charge?" And as he uttered these words he rushed madly down the hill towards the village, clashing onwards with all the recklessness and energy of despeir. ' (so as CONTINUED). ROUSEROLD. White Roses, tenth more the roses of her tender care. With subtle fragrance flood the twilight gloom; From out their dewy hearts it shining air Carries me far away to a sweet Juno. Star -like and radiant 'math the dusky leaves A taco as pure. as iaerfect as the rosel With oyes whose light my litee sweet $1111S1d00 weaves, And o'er my happy leeart the brighter glows. 0 roses sweet / Why do you seek agent The garden paths my dear onetoved to roarn Iler Jim is gone ; and clinging miste of pain Press 'guest the csnm ty darkness et my home 1,1. G. Buffalo Bugs and Rugs. A resident of Indiana caught a -young crane in ' the woods near Hall's creek on Monday. The crane was prevented from flying by a hive mussel she'll, which was fasteised to its feet. flWrs, Whittaker in Our Grange Homes.) If you chance to see bits of red wool cloth lying about oa the floor of neighbor's rooms or clothes c osets do not hastily calJ, her un- tidy for these are probably "traps" which she looks at every morning—for early morn- ing is the best time to hunt for buffalo bugs. Housekeepers generally believe that watch- fulness does more than thenlica a or poisons it exterminating- this pest. Many ropore to _le that weekly they take all garments hanging in the closets end shake them over it sheet spread even the floor, and if but two orthree bele° bugs fall they are con, t n t in believing thee the enemy AS oub la ne great force. One Worcester county reader explained how she steamed A OArpOt that had been Wen uutil the edges hunt like fringe, tt.fter beating the carpet uutil mo dust re- mained she folded it until it would just slip into the wash -boiler, then slut Set it large colander into the boiler, put in it few inches of water, )aid the cerpet ecrose the coland- er, put ell the boiler lid and lee water boil until she was sure no Moot bfe remained. in the carpet. Then the cerpet was takeu out while the weer was yet boiling, end was dried on the clothesline in it few hours. It was then tied securely in a new cotton- eloth bag, and hung up to remain while the infested room was treated, This treannent consisting of filling all the floor oracks with putty or ealcine piaster; she preferred the putty. The cracks between the base -boards and floor are favorite Wing places for the buffalo bugs. She adds Mutt she has con- siderable faith in the value of ground clovela and keeps Am411 bags of it in berean draw- ers, and theta bags are sbaken up QOGASE011. ally to dissipate the odor among the folded elothing, lt ie of no use to do one room thoroughly, and neglect others; it piece bag, hanging in the attie mew conceal enough bugs to eae up all your carpet and they take ledginga in material winch they do not eat, making join:nays to betterfeedingpleces or abstain- ing from food until better opportunity COMAS to work destruction, Housekeepers in cities have so many things to conteud with in keeping carpeta in good order that they invest, money in rugs than carpets. Rugs will lit any room, while the migratory hfe of a city family shortens the wear of it carpet by the arioue cuttings and I -141w to meet the require - meets of long, aquae or triangular-shaped rooms. Not one of my- winter rooms is rectiinguler in shape, audit would make ono dizzy to think of fitting every corner and jog with ingrain or tapestry. Art squares and ens and stained borders look well, anti nip are so easily shaken compared with it heavy carpet. Be carefulin selecting paint or stain for the bord,er. A varnish stain is good; always put on thin coats of pent or stain rubbing them in well. Straw mat- ting is auitable for a country sleeping room, but not for a. room in it °heel:1st where every foot of floor seace is in censtant uses It breaks away rapidly and lasts but it feet months. Ingram carpets may be made into squares by sewing breadths of suitable lengths together and 1 ringing the ends. By sewing on the machine or overeasting the carpet two inehes frentthe sides, these may be fringed, but the "square" will look well without the side fringe, and one hesi- tates about cutting the edge of new carpet% In a sleeping room the tacks fastening the aquare need not be placed near together, buti in a room of more general use the tacks should be close enough to prevent rocidents from tripping in the loose edges. What is called hit-or-mies rag carpet—and whieh is imitated in woven carpet—makes pretty squares to put in the center of a room hav- ing eighteen inches of the border stained a dark red. The various but subdued col- orings of the carpet will harmonize with almost any furnishing or decoration of the rooms. If rugs are home made do not imi- tate the flowers of old-fashioned tepestry carpets in what are called "hooked rugs," or twist braided rugs into little wheels and corner pieces. Mix the rags for the first need and use without desige or make a line of one color, all around the edgmof the rug followed by a row of another color, and so on until the beat rags have been used ; mix the rest and use for a mottled center or make stripes of color across the ends, hav- ing each end alike and it central broad stripe of solid color. But reference to this kind of work recalls the fact that I made one of these rugs once and memories of the back- ache and pain between my shoulders endur- ed make me hesitate in recommending their manufacture. In making braided rugs do not make them too heavy or large or use too bright colors. But this is unseasonable talk; buffalo rugs have led to rug manufacture which is winter work. Next week the "Interests " will be devoted to pickle making. Preservation of the race. It is a foolish idea. to think that one canget rid of wrinkles by filling them with face pow. der, or even, by enameling the whole face. It is a much better practice to give the face it Russian bath everynight. The principles of the Russian bath for the face is to batheit in such hot water that it makes one jump every 'lime it is applied, and. then a minute later to soak it with cold water. The re- action which this causes in the blood will make it glow and tingle with warmth. Then it should be rubbed dry with a towel before retiring. Day by day the skin will grow hrmer and the wrinkles will gradually disappear. The Use allot and cold water for the .face is important in many ways. Hard, cold water will xsot remove the dirt and grease which settles in the pores of the skin, but if bathed in hot water first, and then cold, the dirt will be removed and the skin strengthened. bid, grit and grease will settle in the skin when the face is Only washed in hard, cold weer and soap, and this alone in time injures the color and softness of it. One should never bathe the face in hard. water, anyway, if a fair complexion is de. sired. The water should be softened with a little borax or it few drops of ammonia. When the face is very hot it should not be bathed; web until it cools off a little. In traveling where one knows nothing about the water, it is better not to use it for bathing the faces If necessary add a little alcohol and then rub with a fade vaseline. un this way a fair complexion may be ob- Mined aria retained thee will be a pride to any lovely woman. When wasbing the face-ewhich, by the way, does not mean giving it a little dab and it pat with a sponge or cloth, but a right down good washing with warm water and settp—always rub upward, never to- wed the chin, as the constant motion in that direction will incline to that sagging and double -chin effect that is far from de- sirable. If possible, elose the eyes for Ave minutes at eorne time during tbe day, not Amassed, ly to sleep, but let them rest, ad yo e will be surprised to note how those telltale lines will after a little while grow less and less if you will avoid frowns and giggles, wash your face thoroughly and well and give the tired lids a ehauce once a day to recuper- Some people never find out that an oppor- ate. ---- the nniteyxlnseaoinioe. prportunity until it hes turned The Omnipresence of Lovers. PEARLS OP TR,IrTR. A dollar will buy four times sea touch for a grateful man as it will fel A AL NgY one, The are people who make it good deal oi noise in shouting.who keep very still, with their money. • People who want to do good never have to staud around on the corners waiting for an opportunity. The riget kind eta Christian never has to apologize anywhere for being religieue. • Don't forget that your children will pay more el ention to your teethe than they will to yoer precepts. Have you ever been in it house where a couple are courting? It is mese trying. You think you will go and Sit in the drawing - room, and you meth off there. As you open the door you hear a noise as if some one had suddenly recolleeted something, and when you got itt Emily is over by the win- dow, full of interest in the opposite side of the road, and John Edward is at the other end of the rooni with his whole soul held in tinsel by photographs of other people's rot - Pelves. " Obi" you say, pausing at the door, "1 dien't know anybedy was here." "Oh, didn't you?" says Emily, coldly, in a. tone which implies that sho does not be- lieve you. You luting ebout for it bit, saysjerome Jerome in "Three Men in v. Boat," then you remarke— " It is very dark, Why don't you light the gas?" John Edward says he hadn't noticed it, and Emily says papa, does not like the gas lighted in the efternoon. You tell them one or two items of news, and.give them your- opinion on the Irish question, but this does not appear to inter- est them. All the remark is, 011 1 18 t" "Did hal" “ Yes," and "You don't say so 1" And after ten minutes of such coin versetion you edge up to the door and slip out, and are surprised to find that the door immedietely closes behind you and shuts it- self without your having touched it. Half an iteur leer you think you will try a pipe in the eouserretory. The only chair en the plath is occupied by Emily, and John Edward, if the lauguage of clothes can be relied upon, has evidently been sitting upon the floor, They ilo tot speak, hut they give you it look that says all that ean be wad in a. civilized community, and you back out promptly and alum the door behind you. You are amid to peke your nose into any room in the house now, so after welting up and down the *take far is while, you go and sit in your own bedroom. Whis becomes uninteresting, however'etime, ter A me, and so you put on your het and atroll out into the garden, You walk down the patb, and as you pass the simmer -home) you gnome in, end there are those two young idiots, huddled up in one corner or it, and they Tbe sweetest music is not in the oratorio, bat in the hurnaa voice when it speaks in, e tones of tendernesa, truth or courage. Irresolution on the schemes of life whictdit offer themselves to our choice, and Moen- stancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes grail our unhappiness. The bleakest landscape in the world. brightens into something like beauty wheu the sun shines upon it. So love, the rithere sweeter light of 110 soul, makes thy fact Iseantiful, y "t The art of net bearing should be leiened by alhaehore aro $0 manthings whit Is pitinful to hear, very many of wilt heard, will dieturb their temper, et simplicity and modesty, and cletrents contentment awl happiness, Never lose it chane of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vecant place in his estate but he took an A00111 Opt OE his poeltet aud popped it in, so deal with your comptiments through tile. An aeern costs nothing, but it may sprout into A pea. digioue hit of timber. "Live for the higher forms of life," nye Dr. T. T. Munger in is talk to young men; "for self respect, for honor, for mai-maim purity, for a marriage that shall be as pure on your Side as on the ante of the woman n'hom only you would take far your wife; be as streuuous in your demands upon your- self as upon her; offer her in yourself what you require in hen" W. T, Stead saya ; "Whenever it duty le shirked there Christie rejeated. Whenever went knowingly euddeliberetely asev e krises,* that Clsrist would not, have acted had. Re been in our eircumetancee, then we proclaim our disbelief 1st Him. And whenever we (Anse to try to remedy wrongs which de- grade cur -brother or our sister, and render ie impoesible for them to Med it divine or even it decently human life, there alto we deny Him, and crucify Hiin again in. the person of the least of these Hie brethren." The Doctrine of Cheerfulness. We need the doctrine of hopefulnent and cheerfulness preitched niore than it is. in our pulpits -.4 doctrine based on the. duty of dad and loving obedience to the will of the see yoe, and are evidently under the ides emete mamfested through life and all ha t thet, for some winked eurpose of your own, istabrynianconditions and events. The world yg you are Mllowing them about, thecarelesa, prectierd, indifferent. ; but "Why don't they have it special room for ' it has keeneet appreciation of the brav e this sort of thiug and make people stay face, the hopeful heart, the willing elide it ?" you mutter, mid you ruth back to the in stibmissiee attitude, the courageous spirit,/ li hall, get your umbrella, and go outt that will not sity slie. It toes 3, revelation of religiousness m these facts, when it does nob go to oburch or pray. Ib recognizes the Men's Opinion of Women, power and majesty of the soul, Creativein so much that, :when its props are taken away, its dwelling Ciao destroyed, its possessions lost, its goodly heritage laid waste it cart build again, throwing its .force into neuVu forms better than the old, cart make itsel it morrow brighter than its yesterday—fo : creativeness is in the soul, and the power „ of renewal '• and God, lest we should lose the force of selndireetion era self -activity, allows the pleasant places of our lives to be trampled under foot of beasts, and practical- lyea.y,,e, “ Beild anew, exercise the strength that is within you, trust ard love and labors and fire cannot burn you, nor can water drown, nor shall death triumph over you t for you are creative and co-workers with' Next to the smiliglit of Heaven is the cheerful face. There is no mistaking it—. the bright eye, the unclouded brow, the sunny smile, all tell of that which dwells within. Who has not felt its electrifying influence? One glance at this face lifts us out of the mists and shadows, into the beau- tiful reelms of hope. One cheerful face in the household will keep everything warm and. light within. It may be a very plain face, but there is something in ie we feel, yet cannot express, and its cheery smile, ' sends the blood dancing through the veins for very joy. Alt 1 there is a world of magic in the plain, cheerful face, and we would not exchange it for all the soulleas beauty that ever graced the fairest form on earth. It may be it very little face, but somehow this cheery face ever shines, and the shining is so bright the shadows cannot remain, and silently they creep away into dark cernein. - It may be it wriekled face, but all the dear- er for that, and Lone the less cheerful. We Perhaps the secret of the sweet ex- linger near it, and gaze tenderly upon it, pression and habitual serenity of tee Jere and say: " nod blest this dear happy face! anese women can be found in their freedom We must keep it with us as long as we Can; from small worries. The fashion of dress for hoine will lose much of its brightness never varying stores. the wear of snind on when this sweet face is gone." And even that subject, and the barenees of the houses after it is gone, how the remembrance of and simplicity of diet makes houselteepig the cheerful face softens our way. a mere bagatelle. Evetything is exquisite- ly clean, and easily kept so. There is no paint, no drapery, s o crowd of little or- naments, no coming into the houses with the footwear worn into the dusty streets. And then the feeling of living in room that can be turned into balconies and verandas at a moment's notice, of having walls that slide away as freely as do the scenes on the stage, and let in all out-of-doors or change the suites of rooms to the shape and size that the whim of the day or the hour re- quires. The Japanese are learning much from us some things not to their improve- ment. 'We might begin, with profit to our- selves, to learn of them. The society of ladies is the school of polite - nese. —[Montfort.. An am or can be, I owe to my augel rnothen—lAhrabam Lincoln. Remember woman is most period when most womanly. --(Gledstotie. Earth has nothing more tender than a pious woman's heart. ---[Luther. Ile that would have fine guests, let him have aline wife, --[Ben damson. Lovely woman, that caused our cares, eau every care beguile.—[Beresford. A woman's strength is meet potent when robed in gentleness.—CLatnartine. Oil and water—Nyman and a eecren—are hostile properties.--[Bulwer Lytton. No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife.—[Richter. Yes, woman's love is free from guile and pure as bright Aurora's ray.—{Morris. Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Ms woman, woman rules us stell.—[Moore. Women need not look at those dear to them to know their moods--plowells. Even in the darkest hour of earthly ill woman's fond affection g1ows.7tSand. Raptured nian quits each dozing sage, 0, woman, for thy lovelier pages—[Moore. Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks shall win my love.7[Shakespeare. Eternal joy and ever asting love there's in you woman, lovely woman.—[Otway. Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. —[Andrew Jackson Decision, however suicide, bas more charm for a woman than the most unequivo- cal Fabian success.—dflarrly. Why Japanese Women Look Pleasant. Couldn't Stomach Salted Grandmother. A few monthago at a board meeting at an English workhouse it boy who had been previously an inmate of the house was brought before the board and asked to ex- plain why he ran away fronehis situation at a neighboring farm. ' The boy could net be Induced to speak until the chairman asked: "Did you like what you got to eat ?" "The boy hesitated for a moment and then replied: Well, sir, the eecond week I was there a calf died. They salted it and we had to eat it. Three weeks after a pig died, whichthey also *feted and we had to eat that. Then the old grandmother died and when I saw them carrying some salt up- staes I ran away." ----- • The laughing jackass, when warning his feathered mates thet daybreak is at hand, utters a cry resembling a group. of boys, shouting, whooping and lautghims us a wild chorus. Wonderful Things That the Bina DD. It seems as though it were only in a few such cases of brilliant talent that there c be any real competition between the lath and the seeing; but it blind child like one who has hest imam or leg, may learn to make the mese of what is left to him, and • co that end the work -rooms of the Institu- tion claim their full share of each day. The boys are taught to make mattresies, to cane theirs, and. if they have ear and brain ,i enough to be tuners, there are models by ' which they may become familiar with the anatomy of the piano. Tne girls learn to knit and sew by hand and on the machines; they embroider and inake coarse lace, and are also taught cooking an little gas -stoves. Not long ago one of them had to go home because her mother was ill, and on her re- turn she was heard to say, half in jeleewe half in earnest; "Ib seas a bed day for pl when I learnt to 000k, for I was kept at all the time," • The list which is kept of the ,occapationg followed by pupils after they leave thr school gives some curious reading. One ot the tuners in Steinway's ware-roorns is a graduate, and another was for years the or ganist of Dr. Howard Crosby's church. A insurance broker, a prosperous news -vend who owns three stalls, a horse -dealer, 0,.. 48 M , colleer; a real-estate ageet, a florid, arat duly recorded ; but the most alkalisi s entries are those,ef a lumberman, it s 1 and cook, and a, switendencler. A dog shut in it sthoolhoute near Sh oken, Pit,, devoured an $19 map and , stroyed half the fureitere (A hi iap rage.