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OR, A SAD LIFE STORY
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CIIAPIEit XXX WI. --(Continued).
"If t had as many gowns as the ele1t-
terranean, how well-dressed 1 should
be I" says Elizabeth, with a smile.
It Ls the first lints she had sroken since
they had set off on their return drive.
She is lying buck, with her brands care-
fully shielding in her lap a 'few little
crockery p.,t, that she has bought of a
fat Turk for some children at her hotel.
Iler face 1..oks tired ; and yet over its
small area is spread an expression of
content that makes his heart warm. is
it only the pageant of sky and ocean that
fine yelled forth that look of real, if pass-
ing. happiness on the features of her
who is always so tremblingly sensitive
ae instrument for all influences of
beauty and grandeur to play upon? or
has his own neighletruood anything to
say to it? Before he can give hiutself
ren answer to this anxious question, she
speaks again.
"You do not mind rely not talking to
you, do your' she asks, half apologeti-
cally. and yet with a confidence in his
sympathy that still further quickens the
beats of his already not very still heart.
"N.., 1 arc sure you do not. Some -
hoe it is a great gift—you always feel
in tune with ono, and one does not chat -
leer most when due is most greatly
pleased, does one? e-.1, what a treat you
'have given mot"
As she speaks, her humid oyes travel
from his face to where, beyond the long
Atlas range, delicately toothed and cut
out. rises the gold -washed snow of the
Kabyle mountains, that retire majesti-
cally invisible on dull days, end only
conte out, candt.eent and regal, when
111., great sun rides in pomp. Above
their heads wild plumes of deep mese,
that it seems ridiculous to call clouds,
tuft the sky.
Jim's look has followed his &Intpan-
ion's ; the chins of both are in the air ;
the: cheerful va et vient of the boulevard
is lost upon them. They see neither the
Frenchmen nor plump Frenchwomen
drinking coffee outside the cafes, nor the
idle indigenes leaning draped against the
sent -wall. (Never does that industrious
race seein to attempt any severer exer-
tion).
"Thought was not ; In enjoyment it
expired.'
But it is brought back to life w' `► a
jump.
"Arr'ctez ! arrelez 1" cries a female
voice. "Jing ! Jim 1 do you not see us?
Arretez! arrelez I"
Obedient to his errs, Rurgoynes eyes
stake one bound from the heavenly
spectacle down to earth. and alight upon
111) \\'ilsons carriage, which, going In
the same direction as himself, has just
been brought to a standstill alongside
of his fiacle, by the solemnly beautiful
yellow -jacketed native coachman.
It Ls, of course, Cecilia's voice that has
apostrophized hien, but oh, portent 1
does hLs vision, so lately recalled from
the skyey bowers. platy hint false? or is
it really the moribund Sybilla, stretched
beside her, with only Iwo Instead of
three cushions at her back. with a bon-
net nn tier head—he did not even know
that she possessed a bonnet—and with
n color In her cheek and a lustre in her
eye that may owe their origin either to
lite freshness of the evening air, or to
P.c invigorating properties of the eon.
versation of the very ordinary -looking
young man seated orpasite to her?
In a second Jinn has leapt out of his
own vehicle. and gone to the side of the
other. It is a perfectly futile impulse
that leads hm to do so. Not all the
leaping in the world from her side now
can alter the feel that he has been drive
ing tele -n -tete with Elizabeth Le Mer-
chant, and that elle Wilson sisters have
seen him so doing; hal yet It is a dim
instinct of preservation towards, and
shielding of her. that kends hire to adopt
this useless conks of acli• n. It 18 Ce-
cilia who has summoned hon, and yet,
when he reaches her side. she does not
seem to have anything parliculnr to say
t o hon. Sybilla is the ono to address
hitt.
"A miracle! a nlirnele ! 1 know you
are saying to yourself f" cries 8110, in a
sprightly voice ; "and well you !nny!
This is the mirriele-monger 1" indicating
with rt still sprightlier air her vises -vis.
"Ilr. (:rump. let me present to yeti efr.
Iturgoyn..- 1itn, our Jlni. whorl 1 have
so often talked to you about."
The pers.m Thus apostrophized re-
sponds by n 11(111(1 Nev. rind an over -gal-
lant ii••severntion Ihel any person intro-
duced le his acquaintance by Miss Sy-
billa needs no further rrnminendcltion,
"11 14 nn experiment. of course; there
is no use in eretending that it is not an
experiment " continues she, with n
slight relapse Into Initialer; "hut" --
lowering her voice a lillle—"They wished
me 1,1 make the effort,"
It Is a favorite allocation of S)billn's
that nny courw of action towards which
she is Incline') 14 adopted solely under
the pressure of urgent wishes en 110 part
of her family. Burgoyne has 1x11,
known. and been exaeperate.1
pet'ulinrily ; but nl present -1•. ' , -
what stn' pleaaee; he hew. t•,•.:.1
it for his enr is pricked 10 catch the
sentence. that (.,5'ilin 14 lei/ling over
p1 . carriage -side to shoot •,' 1 • • ,err
"011, \lis. Le \Inlrhanl : t. it t : ' 1
beg: yew. panlete I did not temple. you
A' the first moment. One doles 1`• t r•'
cognize penple-.luxe ane? ---when -
nnt e\parting In s.5' them --is an in-
tended .ling lurking in This imph.'nlion?
"I1 ex :•r• r. n ' 11• !• t pit like Al-
gis i 1 hope.• \f;.. 1 e! is +cit is well.
\Whet :1 !.•11i! 1 i •• . i tt Ino! ! 1
NIP, t,.. .ttihl! . . .•• 1. _ ,en."
:N.. .'liep.'111i4 110 .'•- is meant.
1,,'111,1 trill all her two. r.'sIIy s
g• 41.1 •••111. 811.1 i:• tt!l! Tat. ,.r to hear
Its• 1.4rn1 ! my ,,. , ! ..1 .
Zie-•e voitu to lti►U to t., a slight lal
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b r in the tone with which Elizabeth re-
sponds. and her voice sounds curiously
81111111 011d low ; hal 111111 may be merely
owing to its (lute quality, following upon
and eolt'asling the other's powerful
organ.
11 is not till the two parties have again
separated, and IIui1 he is once more
sealed by iter side 111 the !Mere, that 110
(14110-4 31e111 0 1001( at her face to see how
plainly written on it aro the traces of
v(xaliemt cahsed by u meeting which has
produced in his own breast such .1.• 110
annoyance. Good heavens! it is seen
worse than 110 had expected. Down the
cheek nearest to him hvo goad -sized
teal:, are unmistakably lricitling. NO
dcubt the consciousness of the mysteri-
ous story attaching to her past makes
her smarlingly aware of how doubly
di.er• t her otv11 conduct should be—
males 'her
e—
nial s'he' bitterly repent of her present
iteli 't•etiell.
Ire i, a slrlul•htee) man, and it seems
1' hien as if ill.•ro were something grave-
ly 4•,ntpuemu-in4 to Iter in this tete-a-tete
drive with himself, in the known absence
el her parents al Ilan1nlsm Mira. Why
was Ire f..:.' enough this morning to n41 -
nit to t:ee•iliit that they had gone ihithe•r?
Ile had no business to have led her into
templalion, and she had no tensa ..es to
have fallen into it. Remorse and ilTila-
tiun give a tee -Mess to his tone as Ire
says :
"After all, 1 do not think you need
take it so much to heart."
"Take what to heart?" she asks. in
unaffected surprise, turning her full face,
and her blue eyes, each with one hot
raitedrop dimming its slate -bine teem
hien. "Oh, I see l"—a sudden enlighten-
ment coining to her wi th an instant
siring to a carnation—"I see what you
mean; but you are ntidaket—l—1—il had
not occurred to me: 1 was only think-
ing—only remembering that the last time
I saw her vvtl_s al—at Wallombrosa."
\'allembrosa. Is he never to (tear the
last of 1'allombrosa?
CIL\I'TER XXXVII.
'rhe latest waking impression left on
Jim's fancy is that it Ls the golden rule
of Eliznbelh i.e Merchant's life to cont -
p17 with any and every reque,•st (hot is
nettle to her : moreover, that in her
mind the boundary line which parts the
permitted from the unperntitted is not
so clearly defined as, did she belong to
him (llto naked hypothesis stakes his
strait-laced hear!. give a jump) he should
wish it to be. If, on the morrow-, with
the sun shining and the leaf -shadows
dancing on the fretted balcony -wall, he
invite her to some fresh junket, lie is
surd That she will readily and joyfully
ie quiesce ; that her spirits will go up
like rockets at 111e prospect; end that
her ono anxiety will be that she may
be sure to hit in her • choice upon the
forth of dLssipation most congenial to
him. Ile will therefore not invite her.
Ile till' have a greater care for her re-
putation than apparently she has for it
herself. Not until the return of her ear-
ents, not until the difficulties of inter-
course with her are centupled and the
pleasure minimized, will he again seek
her.
i'o put himself beyond the reach of
temptation, he sets off immediately after
bteakfaat on a long walking expedition,
which he means to oc''eipy the whole of
the daylight hours. Inc wander about
the great piain of the Menage; he visits
n Kabyle village, with its hovels cower-
ing nnx.ng its hideous fnl-fleshed cac-
tus; later on in the afternoon he finds
himself 111 the little French hamlet of
IJiernta►dreL', tend finally drops down
upon the Jardin dlsssni, the delightful
(s,lanie garden which Ls one of the
many blessings for which Algerian
France lets to thank the rnuch-vilipend.
e.l Nate linin 111.
11 is dilllcult for even the reddest Ite-
publienn to think hardly of That dead
ruler ns he walks flown the revenue of
gigantic palms, that 100.1. straight ee
the, to where, like n deep -blue gent far
away, the Medilerra10an shows -
"No bigger than the mote stone
On the fonlinger of an alderman."
lee away web her gold thimble and her
r..1. red tilkaa. The sun, ►1 is true, has
t.•ft the garden, but he departs thence
,,ter early. It will be safer to stay away
yet half an hour ur so.
Thus resoling, he rehears his stets,
and explores In a new direction ;
slnniters down a rose -alley, where,
climbing immoderately high up tall
balms, seeming as if they would straw
g4. them with their long bowery arms,
rose -tee, wave far above hint in Ike
still air; and upon them, though it Is
still but the month of January. when
people are skating. blue -nosed u Eng -
la, ey leses show heir :►le-
y'eltndowcrheartsam, fair a-ru01id frequent,t.retp the
nsnprunel boughs, rioting in licensed
lilee'l' above Itis head. 'Tho walk olds
in 0 circle of gigantic magnolias. which
take hands round a square f.,untain-
basin. Each huge trunk is, as it tv,ere,
a little oorlllllettw'eallh of tree; tenet'
In10 one. instead of u single tree. Be-
neath them benches stand. l.'pon one his
nc•gress sits, chatting with a French
benne; ; on it second there is also senue-
Ihittg remele and slender, something
with ire Wile white profile. how while it
leeks In this deceiving light !—Iif1,'.1, al-
though \vitae. yet smiling. animated. and
talking to a reran beside it.
Ile Inas dawdled and kicked his heels,
and run the chance of contracting a
si.ileful Southern chill. in order to avoid
Elizabeth ; and he has succeeded in
running straight into her ants.
lie does not al the first glance recog-
nize her companion, hitt n se...nd look
sleeve hint that he is one of the in -
mutes of the hold—a French vex—mite;
and Ihu11gh lint knows Unit he is built
consumptive and The father of a family,
111111 know itelge does not hinder the ris-
ing; in his breast of the jealous and cen-
sori.>i.s thought that he has detected
Elizabeth in throwing a great deal more
than the necessary modicum of amia-
bility into her planner to him.
As Jim conies into sight, the French-
man clicks Itis heels, doubles up his
body, lifts his hat, and walks away. It
is evident at all events, that their meet-
ing was n caeunl one; and the reflec-
tion brings with it a sense of relief,
cc.upled with a feeling of shame at his
own rooted readiness to suspect her, on
any or no evidence, which yet, on the
other hand, is not strong enough, when
she turns her .sweet. bright look towards
(tint, to hinder the thought that it is
scarcely, if at all, sweeter or brighter
than that which he had caught her
squandering on the casual table d'hoto
acquaintance who has just quilted her.
"Yoh, loo 1" •she say's ; "why, the
whole hotel set'nls to be emptied out into
(hese gardens; the widow \\'ndnman is
buying violets—mark if they do not ap-
pear upon Uncle Toby at dinner to -night.
'file l ialnitc—"
"1'es, i saw you engaged in animated
dialogue with hint," intermits Jim, with
slight acrimony ; "1 had •no idea that
you were such allies."
"diad not you?" rejoins she innocent-
ly"Ile v;ts telling me about his Eng-
lish governess, what a Ireasnl sho is"
—her face dimpling mischievously—
"and how wonderfully pure her accent.
So it is—purr. Cockney. hot, should hear
the little viconite talk of the biby 01141
The pipers."
Ile rewards her small pleasantry only -
by tin absent snub, and she speaks
again—rather wistfully this limo.
"Have you been on another oxredt-
lion ?"
"No, not on an expedition ; only n
walk. if"—yielding to the temptation of
putting a question which no one would
have judged more severely thou he. had
it been put by anyone else—"if 1 had in-
vited you to do mo the honor of mak-
ing another excursion with mo to -day.
do you think that you would have con-
sented ?"
As he speaks, he departs yet further
from the line of condt.ct he has marked
oil for himself by sitting down on the
bench at her side.
Iler eyes are fixed neon the soaring
date -palm, which stands, instead of a
water -jot in the middle of the fountain -
biotin. and on which the last y'ear's dead
plumes hang sapless and ready to fall
off, in contrast to This y'ear's verdant
vigor.
"Is not that rather a tantalizing ques-
tion when you did not ask me?" inquires
she, with soft nrellness. "les, i sus-
pect that I should ; 1 was so very happy
yesterday; and although you told mo the
other night"—swallowing a sigh—"that
you supposed l must love my own so-
ciety, in point of fact, 1 do not Think 1
sloe"
After all. the sun is not quite gene;
there are fleshes of light in the verdant
gloom, rind green reflections in the
wider.
":\red. yet," say's' Jim thougblfu)l'.
"you seem to have a good deal of It ; 1
suppose, in your position, it is unavoid-
able."
Ile had mean) an allusion In her situ.
Jim walks thong beneath the huge anon as bed Ihll'cl 10 her uxorious par -
dale -palms that give hire a crick in the erets : before his mind's eye has risen n
ne?k to gape ur at ere he can perceive pit'ture of the little forlorn eltnwled
their lowering heed of waving Omni" flgure he !Intl seen studying its Italian
1,11 rep against he blue. They remind 10111 grammar with the door 811111 111,)11 11S
alsublly of the pictures in lite mission-
ary books of his youth—The palm -Wee,
Ile . log -cabin, the blackanloors. tied the
missionary in a palm lint. Is he the
missionary, and is the inky negrxss in
a black bonnet, scare. •1 -1'imguishable
ir,n1 her face, his one ;lumen?
loneliness : hap almost IK fore the worts
fine.• left Ili, 111tq, he sees twee elf/teen,.
of Thew cruel. a construction they 111ay
be eneable.
Ito snatches n glance of real terror at
her. If, ses' whether she has made that
errnneone. yel nil lee 1 leli-stole anplicn-
Allernating with Ili" dale Are superb nen a l lane. tvli,'h (million s hes vseret
frm-pahns, of wli 4 -It it be difltcul1 lo fear:. She Inds tunnel ns 111)41,' na the
realize that 11 is their stinted, puny la.ekt islet dkeeeeief which she is pass.
brothers which, anxiously lend,el, tug. over her.lr.vnbling lips.
sponged and enseeted. drag out a Inn- "Yes," Allo say: in n hollow whisper ;
gleed 031-81wtce in 1.•ui,o11 Browing- "you are right. In 111)' J (,illm It Is un -
rooms. Aineng their Titnl fens pies avuidahie. nee 11 is cmvurlly of ins not
their mighty filet. pike n hones of to accept it ns sury"
grape's. a yard a•e.l n salt long, strung "1 t,i, i n" --he cries desperalely—"l
upon Pipes of yell•,w wurslesl, only nmwu11--1 mealy '
1InP1•wny down els length the main ihlt she tines not suffer him In tineeh
.ono. is intersected by n splendid alley hie ult,'t'(51 cxpinnati •n.
bamboos. wheh 101111 their w,i.,.,lh- "II <- ^)'d," she sae•. r: -;rel. 1 will
itnnit'tl Mons mut Ih.'u' luxuriant 1,e nee )' !•. ,,,,
helves lewards each ether tier''' the II• .trees nal al!•'t: ;'t to nccelupany or
dimmed intens are. and unite 1n n r• .' • t her.
pointed Gothic arch of living greed. !To be continued).
Jin paces objectleesly doe 11 the long
nrcnde, stooping now and ag3ue to pick
up, a frnglnent of the peeled 1 eel, that
leeks so strangely like a p.:e,.t 1 is roll
with. a niedhcr-of-pearl gl+tze .104.11 i1
Ile pulls it idly open, as if I.: ,end the
secret of Nettle forgotten race a ripen
upon its shining stu•fate; but if lie
binds nny :•erret there, it is only his
men, whishe after all. is not mh.eh of n
Barret. 110 merely sec; written 1110.1
Ilial it i+ ten, rat Iy 144 go .suite yep ; 111a1
111.r, I. Iw ..scut Ity Ilial 1..111:1 1.0111 its
nut still by sitting on the terrace, $Gk;h-
"Hee says 11131 ho loves me more Than
his life, end that he can't live without
nue." "Ole all young men say that."
"Thal may be; but they don't any it to
me,"
Smith : "01.1 Seekins was kiekeel in
the h,'n.l by a mull. yesterday." Jnn)s
"Peet JMV,,tne r South : "tluh 1 Jaw -
tees le all light. buil the mine s.. Injurxl
its feet Mel Mee had to shoot it."
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NOTES ON 114 AIE elleneeeelAIUNG.
A cheese maker gives the following
feints on the process of cheeseutakuig
at home which is very simple, and yet
1•equiros tee most absolute exactness.
Cheese Making is something lucre
than going Through the notions of set-
lntg the milk into a hub or vat and
drawing off the whey; putting the curd
lino a hoop, etc.
There must be no goes -work about
Pie quantity of rennet or the tempera-
ture of the milk. The temperature 01
the milk must be 85 degrees.
For cheese snaking get the rennet
tablets; i1 Ls much easier to determine
the quantity lu use Than when using
th( old-fashioned rennet. The tablets
can be had at nearly all drug stores.
For a medium-sized cheese a large.
tub or Iwo tubas can be used. They
nnlst be absolutely clean and without
odor.
Soak the rennet tablets in a little tutee
waren water, and when the milk is just
the right temperature, carefully stir the
'rennet all through the milk. Weigh
of measure the milk with care, and use
'the exact ettoUnl of rennet the dlrec-
1 ons call for.
Put a clean cloth over the tub and
ice Ike milk be tutdislurbed for about
n►: hour,
When the milk has become a little
I;,ick, take a long bread knife. or n long
wooden knife and cul it into quarters
of about an inch.
Put a clean cheese cloth ever the curd
and gently press down with a dipper
until all the whey has leen dipped off.
L'., not rush the dipping. and handle the
CUM wilts care or the butter fat will I.e
liberated in the whey and make the
cheese hard and dry.
After the whey has been dipped from
the first cutting, gently break the curd
'with the hands and more will be freed.
Then heat 11 small quantify, just enough
to cover the curd, and pour over O.
feat the whey to about 100 degrees.
Gently break the whey with the
elands until all parts e:an be reached Dy
the trot whey.
Fleet the whey again and pour it over
the curd. If everything hits been done
properly, by this time the curd will
squeak a little as if is handled, and
when it does, it is ready to have the
Whey dipped off and the salt worked in,
KEEPING UP THE MiLK FLOW.
The lessening of the milk yield is too
(Men taken as an unavoidable conse-
quence of the summer season, end 110
effort made to avoid the sltrinkoge.
rows will decrease in their yield from
month to month after freshening, but
This decrease should be graded. At the
'Dairymen's Convention at Cowansville,
Inst winter, Mr. C. F. Whitley pointed
but that 10 per cent. is the usual shrink.
'age between any particular month and
'.he following one. If It is only 10 per
cent., it is not abnormal and need not
isms° surprise, but this shrinkage varies
very much. Some cows will give a
good flow for some time, while with
ethers the yield of milk falls off 'very
rapidly. In tae district -of Gowansville.
lnst year, there were cases where .the
shrinkage was as high as 15 per cent.
That is .tee high altogether. The oh-
jecl of feeding et for the cow to produce
milk through a reasonable period. To
maintain the flow of milk is one of the
secrets of good dairying. In mnintnin-
Ing the flow we give the cows plenty
of succulent fled—any quantity of it.
The cow needs plenty of juicy materiel.
out of which to make milk. Peas and
oats cut green aro vey valuable, and
reels, but do not give turnips. Every
dairyman should have a silo; two Ions
of ensilage, costing about $3 nt'e equal
to one ton of hay which would cost
from 86 to 88. In summer pet the cow
Lave plenty of shade and see That she
Is well protected front flies. '!'here is
nothing that will cause greater shrink-
age than those Iwo thing. --exposure lo
the hot sten and letting the flies worry
the nnimals. Provide protection from
l►le fires in some way. Give the cows
aceesa to salt. By these means and by
booking after her comfort in every way
that see can and milking regularly and
clean, we • may ntaintten the flow of
milk,
BLACK TEA 1.Olt SCOURS.
We wish to give our renders n cure
that never fails, and can always be de
-
'tended upon at any lisle ns a bt-.nn11de
cure, one Ihnt n chid can handle with
(eery certainly of success. Whenever
ye ur calves. colts or young stock are
11(,ub'.11 with scours, make Them n cup
of black lea; let it get nlnlost cold, but
net quite. then give it to the calf er
cell in the usual way.
Dent throw this nwny and Inugh tt
the kb a of tea doing such vel sable
work. for the truth is it will cure when
everything else 1811:. However, dnn't
1 •egret, when they are very bad, to give
11 ern it cup of len (rem four to six
ewes doily. taking cure to keep them
frt•n1 the vows, ns their milk will hying;
(n 1110 same e.,n(ht•ens es you are fry-
ing 10 cure. This Is a sure i•ure, end
(.ne p■eun(1 of black ten .night Io last
it bog ranch one wla,le year.
t;.lreeert Duette!. • "A1lhnngh 111•• 111-
(114.11' 4. 14 8o snit 11, t'otlsialint! 01 01111 • n''
person. it is nevrrlhc1e•+ our intent' 11 14)
et- 11.rn11gh Illo ev1101 eputs,grillem . 'The
Audience : "Well, git 11 over as (11114 as
you can, glue -nor -1'm the caretaker I•'
Plumdnff : "Has Ihnl charming( widow'
any properly 7. Kel•hum : "hes. (*teeml-
erablo." I'lunnduff : "Rear estate or per-
rsennl Ketchum : "Per' onnb. She has
eix children."
"The trouble with that talkative ter
son is That he frequently mnlra.licls 1.
self." "After listening to K.me n1
thew he snys," miens! \11s Kttycnn'•.
"it seems rattler creditable that 1,i
bliould."
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THE GIRAFFE'S REVENGE
—lllustre Arnus:,nt.
A Bright Idea.
A little boy wanted to give his mother{
a birthday present, and he did not know f
what to give her. 30 at last he decided
to give her a Bible. After he hnd bought
it, he . id not know what to put on the
front page, so, after locking through
Some of the books In the library, he de-
coded to p t the following on: "To dear
Mother; with the author's complt-
mauta"
Misplaced Money.
A short time ago a gentleman In 130. -
ton sent a amall boy 1n hos neighbor-
hood to deliver a note to a young lady
pho heed a few blocks Tway. fie gave
the boy a quarter to Make him hurry.
After a short time the mesaens••r carne
lack, and, handing the 1141)144.y. es41:
'•fit:':i --- says silo will be glad t0 Fee
you tonight, but she didn't want the
quarter."
A Jingle Game.
One of rho players leaves the room.•
and the rest determine on a word,
When he enters, he is told a noun that
rhymes with the one chosen, which h.
must rind out by their dumb movements.
Say ••bat" is the word selected. Ifo is
told that It rhymes with rat, and the
1•'ayers either try to imitate flying or
hitting a ball with a bat -
THE BEST IT COULD
IT WAS a beautiful rock—blue, hard
and straight on the edges as If It
had been cut from the parent ledge
with a chisel. As it cause out to the
light of day, the workmen cried to ono
another In a rapture of joy:
"What a beautiful thing It Is! Fit for
a place in a palace. It ought to be put
high up sotnewhere, so that every elle
that passes may see It. We shall tend
no other like It."
And the Lovely stone was carefully
lifted from the earth and carried away
to a place all by itself to watt for the
final long journey. There it lay for a
long time. As they passed It, other men
stopped on their way and looked down
at the rock with its clear-cut Innes and
striking color. They. too. admired Its
beauty and expressed the hope that
some day It might be lifted to some
high place where the world "light see
It and enjoy its beauty.
Ilut (here tame a day when the atone
was lifted, this time with rx►de hands,)
and thrown heavily upon a par, where!
1t lay In a great heap with a.thousand
others. No one now made any remarks
about its beauty. One man did glt'o it
a paestng glance, and thought:
That's a better looking stone than
the most of them. It will work wed
Into the well," .
Days of journeying came next. The
storm and sunshine beat down upon the
lovely stone. It was tossed about rude-
ly. Other stones came against It with
a crash that marred Its clean-cut edges.
At times it was completely buried. Was
the darkness of the quarry coming
again? Could It be, after all, that it
was to be hidden once more out of the
sight of men? it must wait and see.
Then the end came. Far down on tho
side of a great sea welt the stone was
placed. Other stones wore laid al.•jt It.
Some of them held it so firmly that it
Could not move. To fasten It still more
securely in its place, thick layers of
cement were laid on every side. There
was only one side of the stone which
ever came out to the light of day; and
often the sweep of the sea, rushing
against 1t, shut out even this bit of sun -I
light. Then only darkness and mid-
night reigned supreme.
What was the meaning of all this ex-
perience? This wad not much like hold -
Ing a high place In some grand cathe-
dral, was (t. Where now were rho eyes
to admire? Surely. no one wontd ever
come here to look down the blank face
of this wall to look for this beautlful
stone. if he did, the chances were that
he never would find the store he was
looking for. No light from run or lamp
could reach down here. Ali was dark-
ness. Why not be discouraged?
But a mlglity storm burst over tho
city. '111,• sex raged In Its fury. Great
tallows d:).shed against the wall. Would
It ho11? 1 f It failed now, the sea would
c•o:ae ro.hlag in to flood the clty and
carry away its people. Now men did
mens down to watch every swelling
wave as it hurled itself against the bar-
rier of stone.
"Will It hold? God grant that It
may!"
So the cry went up day and night
from the beleaguered residents of tho
city.
how I must hold on just the best I
can:" whispered the stone softly to It-
self. "You must put your shoulder
against mine, too!" it called through
the derkn.•ss to the rocks that lay next
to it. "The city's hope Is in us. We
must prove true!"
Anderove truo they did. The DM ea
it. fury out against the wall
and went sullenly back, beaten. The
city was ,.aced. The wall held fast.
The little stone had done just the beat
It could.
EDGAR T. VINCENT.
A SMART DOG
TIiintE 1s an old lady in Rochester.
N. Y., who lives with a family
which keeps a hog dog of which
she Is at the same time very fond and
somewhat afraid. 'fhe house contains
an armchair, which both lady and dog
particularly like to occupy.
When the dog gets to it first, rho old
lady. fearing to order hem out lest he
bite her, tries subterfuge. She opens
the window, puts her head out and ex-
claims "Cats!" In a loud voice. The dog
at once leaps to the window to see, and
the 014 lady get the chair.
Ono evening, however, the dog came
in and found the old lady in the chair
ahead of him. He wandered round un-
easily for a time, eyeing her end the
window. At last. he seemed to eons
to a determlnatlon, for be suddenly,
rushed to the window, hie heir all brie -
Ring up on hts back, and began to bark
and growl frightfully.
It ever a dog cried, "Burglars!" he
did so then. The old lady, much sur-
pHsed, rushed to see what wan werry-
irg him. She saw nothing—until she
turned round. 'Then Phe . aw the amen
dog peacefully enthroned In the con-
tested "hafr.
The old lady is not sure, but she is
Almost convinced that he eloeed one eye
solemnly at her In it v.,ri'ablo wink.
Two had nlav-41 3' tho sante game.—The
Youth's Companlon.
FLOflA1. VAGARIES.
(By a blanker).
Of all the multitudinous diversities of
form, colour, and structure of that guy
and beautiful oinature with which Na-
ture hes so ltwishl' ndornrd our earth—
lite Ilornl -world—that strange genus,
seine deriving their nutriment from -the►
boughs and limbs of trees, some from
the earth, and .some even frotn the air—
th., orchids, presents a greater variety
of type and form than perhaps nny
other order. And, while some in this
great family of several Ihu11send species
ore extremely neatililul and attractive,
others are quaint 01141 even grotesque;
n. Though Nature were in spra'lise mood
when designing them. awl would excite
one wonder 0s well as our admiration.
And truly n large c..1h'ei nn of well-
groen orchids is it brilliant and yet
ci.rlous display of colour and of strange
forms. Dere a flower which the imagine.
ton cony picture as n glittering lem-
ming bird in full Ihght with outstretched
wing. and scarlet toenail.. tail; here a
long rope !udder formed will► geometric
precision, every rung provided with a
transverse pair of seipp errs and erne•
moiled with cream-coloured decorations;
o.' here n fantastic cluster of light fea-
thery whisps, !moiling like a see y of
air -fairies disporting Iherneeles in the
sunlight. And perhaps sirangor Ruch
Ihr I++ n11, here the Mn.dlerallia Ghulner't,
I,- - nettle ilpliee. 0 tend of Imaginary
monster, n long curved horn prtjectug
f15110 its strangely gl'alesglle head elft a
pair of claws w' tentacles pr'oreeaing
from the extremity of its lower limb:,
And too several of the• common nr-
ehicls--or orchis—of the fields represent
members of the animal world. The Ileo
orchis is exactly like twig up which
lunlf a dozen bees nee climbing: the
snide' orchis represents a Troop of those
devouring creatures lying in wait for
prey : the butterfly orchis resembles a
nunlla'r of greenish while graceful little
butterflies settling upon the ptnnl ; and
Mc fly urehis. as its name implies. reere-
sends, though not so life -like as S,i11" of
the others, sonde of these ineecls reeling
u10)11 els stens. And. apparently etrnnger
than all, the much rarer nlattorch'. 11
said to resemble n linnging man. with
fully -developed arms. IM,tly and leg..
And the mere the wonders and the d1•
verse beauties of Nuttily are shelled anti
investignitd, so 111114'1 Ill" Inose 1.041'114
derM 0w.• and amazement are' 4'5511041
8t the august ,n41 ntaj'-lie genies 'filch
planned lied contrived 11 ;111. Anil yet
Ile by \\'lent and for ee hint all thing,
--frnln !nighty universes 1•. the !mealiest
01 flowers—were made. was content to
live a life of imetery. and 10 selff r an
ngonizing death, in artier that ell who
will appy" priele that expiation for sin,
may be al...dvel from the robuihulion
due M Eternal Jo -lire. -and may dwell
Inc ever in the' midi of 81411rrnn1 j(oys.
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