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CHAPTER XII.
err or wenn,
"es seeklmethe fruit that's nee ;,rowing,,"—Ballad.
' Society. reoognised the new comere, Lady
i aroemecie's card appeared the next day
s and was followed by showers of others, and
,everybody asked everybody inIttve you seen
Mrs, Egremont V
It was well for Alice's luippiness even at
name that she was se suceess. When Alwyn
sEgremont had been lashed by his nepeeven
• ndignant integrity i ate tardy reeognition
i of tile wife a .his y meth, it had been as if
s' he hod been forced to piole up a flower width
A he had thrown away. He had cosedderable
• donbts whether it would anewer. First,
e ne reconnoitred, intending, if he found a
• houiely or faded being, to pension her off;
t hut this had been prevented by her undeni-
, able beauty and grans,bringing up a rush
a such tender associations as he was cepable of. Yet even then, her position depend -
• .ed eni the impressien she might make on
those about him, on her own poweriof self-
assertion, and on her contributing to his
^ oomfort or. pleasure.
Of self-assertion Alice had none, only a
gentle dignity in her simplicity, and she
•was SQ absolutely devoted to hitu that he
0 !found his house far more pleasant and
' agreeable for her presences and unfailing
. attention, though still his estimation of her
a' was sinfitieneed more than he owned to him-
eelf by that of the world in general, and
ho Rectory in partieular.
And the Rectory did its part well, *e
•"Canoe was not only charmed with the gentle
•lady, but felt an atonement due to her ; and
his wife, without ever breathing into any
ears, save his, the mysteriosu adjective
e. governessyn praised her right and left,
ioonficling to all inquirers the romance of
i the burnt yacht, the lost bride, and the
,happy 'meeting under Lady ,Kirkaldy's
...auspices, with the perfect respectability of
'the intermediate career, while such was the
enniversal esteem for, and trust in herself
and the Canon, that she was fully believed;
' .
and people only whispered. that probably
AlwynEgremont had been excused tor the
eadesertion more than he deserved.
• The subject of all this gossip troubledher
self about it infinitely less than did the -
good Canoness. In effect she ididnot know
• enough of the world to think about it at all.
Her cares were of a different order, chiefly
' nausea by tenderness of ,conacience, and so-
licitude to keep the peaoe between the two
•S beings whom she best loved.
Two things were in her favor in this latter
srespect, one that they saw very little of each
- ether, einem Mr. Egremont seldom. emerged
' Item ids own rooms till after luncheon ; and
ethe others that tfrsula's brains ran to little
sbutlitwintennis for the ensuing weeks. To
ihold a champion's place at the tournaments,
neck and neck with her cousin Blanche, and
deieast Miss Rittliven, and that veteran play-
er, Miss Baeset, was her veremost ambitioa,
and. the two consins would have practised
morning, noon, and night if their mothers
would have let them, There need have
been no fear of Ursula's rebellion about the
•iCembridge honours, she never seemed even
.i.to -think, of them, and would have had no
e
time in the more important competition of
veackets. Indeed, it was almost treated as a
• .hardship that the pair were forbidden to
emaii together before twelve o'clock, and
those Ursula's mother insisted on rational
shomo occupation until that time, setting
the example herself by letter -writing, needle-
work, and 'sharing in the music which was
a,
penance to the girl, only enforced by that
trong sense of prat•ecting affec tion which his strong desire to emigrate, an intention
notleade rebellion. But -Alice could hope which. the Canon coinbated with all his
that th eperfermances were pleasant to her
mo,
•husban the evening, if only to sleep by,
Nutt. se dri lpersistediaagpepforoint ti tune: np, r tennis,
o.br andi ni gt/f for apdtahirecemenat.
'aud.sot bse
‘,4 get, bless of her old life and aspirations
iim make her mother's task easier than
elf she bad. been her original, critiool, and
protesting self. • In the new and brilliant
surroundings she troubled herself much less
• thon could have lseen expected at the failure
of her father, his house, nay, and of the
parish itself, in coming up to the St. Am-
brose standard. How much was owing to
mere novelty and intoxication, how much to
a yet unanalysed disappointment, how much
to inlay's having thrown her upon the more
frivolous Blanche, could not be guessed.
'The effect was unsatisfactory to her mother,
but a certain relief, for Nuttie's aid would
have been only mischievous in the house-
hold difficulties that weighed onthe anxious
'conscience. Good servants would not stay
at Bridgefield Hall for unexplained 08:11808,
which tb.eir mistress believed to be conneci
ted with Gregorio, or with the treas-
• ure of a cook -housekeeper over whom
• she was forbidden to exercise any authority,
and who therefore entirely neglected all
meals Which the master did not share with
the ladies. Fortunately,Yin Egremont
,eamein one day at their luncheon and
found nothing there but semi -raw beef, upon
which there was an explosion ; and being
by this time convinced that his wife both
would and could minister to his comfort,
-her dominion was established in the female
department,. though, as long as Gregorio
-.continued paramount with his master, and
thestables.remained ,in their former state,
it wee impossible to bring matters up to the
decorous standard. of the Rectory, and if
-ever his mistress gave an order he did not
approve, Gregorio over -ruled it as her
ignorance. In fact, he treated both the
• ladies with a contemptuous sort of civility.
Meantimegr. Egremontwas generally caress-
• ing and admiring in his ways towards
his wife, with only occasional bursts of
tesnper when anything annoyed him. He was
. proud of her, gave her a liberal allowance,
• and only refused to be troubled; and she
was really happy in his affection, for which
she felt a gratitude only too humble in the
. eyes of her daughter.
They had parties. Blanthe's ambition of
tennis courts all over the 'sewn Was fulfilled,
and stindry dinners, which were orosses to
Alice, Who had neither faculty nor training
for a leeder and hostess% suffered much
from the menu, more from the pairing of
her guests, more again in cittChing her chief
lady's eye after, and most of her huebann's
• scoWls and subsequent growls and their
, •consequence, for Ursula broke out, 'It is
i mot fair to blo,me My mother. How ehould
,she have all the aavosr--faire, or what you
may eall it, of Aunt Jane, whee she has
had no practice 1'
"Perhaps, Mrs. Egremont, ' he retorted
with extreme 'suavity, "yeti will also attend
to your daughtern manners," OtherWise
he took little notice of Ursala viewieg her
perhaps, al din the neighbourhood, as a p ior
imitation of May, without her style, or it
may be with a sense that her tongue might
become inconvenient if tot repressed.
Whole he began to celled sporting guests Of
• hie oven easlibre in the enacting season, the
Canoness quietly advised her sister-bnlavs
to regard thein as gentlemen's parties, and
•eexid 'Ursula down to spend the evening with
her coming ; aucl t� this n� Objectien was
nnado, Mr. Pgretnont wanted his beatitiftil
wife at the hean of hie table, and bis guests
neve); ooraported themeeivea unsuitably be s
fore her ; but nobody wanted the unformed
girl, and she and Blanche were always hippy
together,
The chief restraint was when Mark was at
home and that was not alwo,ye, He made Ben -
dry visite and expeditions, mid woe altogether
in au uncomfortable oondition of reaction and
perplexity as to hi s future, He was a good
couscieetious fellow, and had never
been actually idle, but had taken education
and life with the eanueses of the prospeotive
heir th e large property; and though, he
acquitted himeelf creditably, it was with no
view of uniking his powera marketable,
Though, he had entered at the Temple, it
was chiefly in order to occupy himself re-
spectably, and to have a nominal profession,
so as not to be •vrliotly dependeet on hie
uncle ; and al then he had acquired was the
conviction that it would be half a lifetime,
if oot 8. whole one, before the low would
afford hisn raanntenance.
His father wished him to take' Holy
Orders with a view to the reversion of
the Rectory, • but Mark's eiitimate of
clerical duty and vocation which was
just such as to make • him shrhilt from
them. He was three-and-tveenty, an awk-
ward age for all theme examinations that
stand as lions in the face of y.outh, intended
for almost any sort. of seiwice, and oehlom
or never to be gagged by interest, For ono
indeed, he went up and failed, and in EU&
manner as to convince him that cramming
bad more to do than,general culture with
8n0008S.
Be had a ceetain consciousness that most
people thought another way open to him,
most deoidodly his gentle auet, and perhaps
even his parents. The matter (Arne promin-
ently before him one day at luncheon,
when, some parochial affairs being on hand
and Mr. Egremont out for the day, .Alioe,
whose free forenoons enabled her to take a
share in church and parish affairs, was
there, as well as the curate andhis wife.
These good people were in great commo-
• tion about a wedding about to take place
between a young farmer and his delicate first
cousin, the only eurvivor of a consumptive
fatnily.
"Proputty, proPuttyn quoted the Can-
on. " Joanes Johnson is whet they call a
warm man."
• "11 is a sin and a. shame," said Mrs.
Edwards "What eau they expect ?
George o on oo 8 8 ong enoug now,
but they tell me his brother undoubtedly
died of decline, though they called it inflam-
mation ; but there was tubercular iisease.',
• I am afraid it is strong in the family,"
id h Ca " they alt h th
clear complexions ; bat I do believe George
is heartily in love with poor little Emily."
" First cousins ought to be in the table
of degrees," said Mr. Edwards.
"11 is always a gitestion whether the
multiplying of prohibitions without abeolute
necessity is expedient," said the Canon.
He spoke quite dispassionately, but the
excellent couple were not remarkable kir
tact. Mrs. Edwards eave her husband such
a glartoe of warning and consternation as
violently inclined May to laugh, and he
obediently and hesitatingly began, "Oh
yes, air, I beg your pardon. Of course tiabre
may be instances,' thereby bringing an in-
tense glow of carnation into Alice's cheeks,
vrhile the Caron, ready for the occasion,
replied, "And George jcihnson confiders
himself one of them. Ile will repair the
old moat house, I suppose."
And his wife, though she would rather
have beaten Mrs. Edwards, demanded how
many blankets would be wanted that win-
ter.
The effect of this little episode was that
Mark announced th his father that evening
sa t e oarless, a eve os
might. He was apparently a hale and
hearty man, but he had had one or two at-
tacks of illness that made him doubt
whether he would be long-lived; and not
only could he nist bear to have his eldest son
out of reach, but he dreaded leaving his
family to such a head as his brother. Mark
scarcely thought the reasons valid, consider-
ing the rapidity of commumeation with
Canada, but it was not possible to withstand
the entreaties of a father with tears in his
eyes; and though he could not bring him-
self to consent to preparing to be his father's
curate, he promised to do nothing that
would remove him to another quarter of the
world, and in two or three days more,
started for Monks Horton to see what
advice his uncle • and aunt there could
give him ; indeed, Lord Kirkaldy's influ-
ence was reckoned on by his fannly almost
as a sure card in the diplomatic line.
The Kirkaldys were very fond of Mark,
and had an odd feeling of being accountable
for the discovery which had changed his
prospects. They would have done anything
for him that they could,- but all Lord Kirk-
aldy's interest was at the foreign office, or
with his fellow -diplomates, and here he goon
found an insuperable bar. Mark's education
had stood still from the time of Mise Head -
worths flight till his fatter's second mar-
riage, his energies having been solely devot-
ed to struggles with the grim varieties of
.governess purveyed by his grandmother, and
he had thus missen all chance of foundation
of foreign languages, and when once at
school he had shared in the average English
boy's contempt and aversion for the French
masters who outecrearned a whole class.
In consequence, Lord' Inirlsaldy, an Lei;
curate and elegant scholar in European
tongues, besides speaking them with the
cosmopolitan ease of an ambaesador's son,
was horrified, not only at Mark's pronuncia-
tion, but at his attempts at letter -writing
and,b anelation, made with all the good will in
the world, but fit for nothing but to furnish
the. good stories which the kind uncle re.
framed from telling any one but his wife.
T,Inluskily, too, a Piedmontese family, some
of them not strong in theinEnglish, were
on visit at Monks 'Horton, and the dialect
in which ttie act mizquis and Mark tried
at times to interchange ideas about Phea-
sants was something 'tearful. .And as in the
course of a week Mark showed no signs of
improvement in verhacular Vrench or Ital-
ian, Lord Kirkaldyn conscience would let
him give no ,ether advice than that hie
toylaew ahoeld glint to Euglish law living
still on the ellowance his father gave him,
and hoping for one of the chance appoint-
ments open to an English barrister of good
family and fair ability.
Of course Mark had gone at once to carry
tidings of " Aunt Alice,' as lie scrupulously
called her, to old Mies Ileadworth. Whom
his aunt had eontinued to visit at intervah.
That good lady had given up her boerders,
hating realised enceigh to provide 1 or bet -
own old agoatel the had jollied forces with
the inugeilte, Mary being very thankful to
hove her companionship foe Mrs. Nugent,
who was growing too blind and feeble to be
sutisfaetorily left abaci oil day,
rk delighted the eid ladies by hid vieltrs
and Accounts oi their r arlingn succese and
popolarity, which 10 conkl paint SO brightly
float they coidd tot help exulting even
thotigh there might be` wad misg,iviiige aS
to the endurance of these palmy days. He
was e great hero in their eye, and they
had too good teeth to Oppreee him With their
admiration, to that he really was more at
T
ease in their little Owning -nom than Pain, Training Children^
in conla penQtroe. The bearchosino spoke AY Dins, ILEDTRY wAaD DEEMER.
Wilco at Menke Hortou, whither the Itan
Eeglith very well, but tnet vvas ail the To training the children, e subject upon
worse for 1Vistek, eince it oave such a sense
of iuferiority. • He vva,s an intelligent man
too, bout on being acquainted with .Euglish
industriee of all kinds • and, thus it was that
a party was organised' tosee the umbrella,
factory. It woe conducted by Mr, Dutton,
with whom Lord Kirkeldy, between char-
ities and publio business, had become ac-
quainted.
To Markis seeret theme, thin manufacturer thie is A dostrine teat receives of late but
span, renion perfectly, and ewe get into little attention, and is in &tiger of becons-
such a lively fionveraation with tl es old ' obaolete, Mother—who must be chief-
quis about Ceveur, that Lord Kinietny ly respousible—scOut at the idea. The
bogged hirg to come to diogor 000tiogo moue is advanced that ueefulness with girls
to teach boys to be of
it. They were all surprised, not only the id P'inisible, and that
details of the manufacture and the multitud, mryte° is all absurd and hopeless task. It
of artmans, mole and feneale, whom it eon
ployed, but by the uumber of warehouse-
olerles whom they found at work, and who,
it appeared, were in correspondence with
agencies and iepots in London and all the
principal towns in the kingdoin. ' Gerard
Godfrey Was there,—coeting looks askance
at the young Egretnout, whom he regarded
as a kind of robber.
• The nierchesino asked from svhat class
these young men were taken, and Mr.
whim have beep asked by many to, write,
1 cannot suggest anything' Potter than that
mothers shOuld teach their children to be
useful, and begin the leesons early --from
the first step out' of lsabyltood, , Parents
would more readily except thin suggestion if
thy Would give le an honeet examination.
Uofortuuately, except among the poor,.
whine poverty compels them to prautise it,
is said thee boys are troublesome, restless
and awkward, end more given ever to mis-
chief awl play than work. We are asked,
" Would you have us teach boys, as they
grow older, to run on errands, up -stairs and
down, at the risk of oventurning every-
thing with which they came in contact ?
Would you try to teach them how to dust
a rooni, to help eat tie table, etc. ?"
Certainly Why not? Is any mother will-
ing to believe that they cannot teach, to boys
what can be taught to ? Surely each
Dutton made reply that 1311)st of them were one,boy or girl,;30.0nanbehoselrgeerlyltelyaralnydt:ku iihfutitely
sons of professional meal. If they could ob- be smolt into
thin a small capital and take abates in the
business they were eueourasged to do so, and
rose to the headship of the agencies, .obtain-
ing a fair income.
"And you don't exact an examination,"
said Mark.
"Except in handwriting and baok-keep-
ing," said Mr. Dutton.
" Poor Mark, you look ,for your 'bugbear
everywhere 1" sighed his aunt.
They went over' the Institute, coffee -
guided that they will find it all "as good
as play" to be able to help their mother and
others, indoors and out, Bad with teachlog
they learn to help. themselves.
In cities, and ,faanilies depending on
hired help, it may not he en easy. Children
are too imitative to be with servants *here
work is being done, unless the mother is.
with them, for what they learn ole practi.
cal nature should be taught by her, and not
cosught up by seeing aervents do it. Wealth
is by no means to be demised, and the rest
being, with them eutdoers lees ouch injatious
°fleet, the Beane element will follow them nn
to the house. But we thiuk this is a felee
conclusioe. We have found as lady -like,
intelligent, pureonmded girls intim country
SU in the city, and ofteo far superior, It la
quite a noticeable fact that those that live
martens to a city, or often visit a city, too
often unlike artificial habits—affectatioe,
wiquetry, loud speech, and fondness tQT
&OBS, Whi01.1 tempts them beyond their
income. This is seldom 800A in genuine
ootiutry life. We do not believe any
kind of labor, under euy conditions, will
make a girl lees modest er ladylike. We
emphaticelly believe that every girl should
Insow how to do with her own Jeands every-
thing she has atrength to do, until she
thoroughly coutprehends and. uoderstendsit.
Then she secures and establishee vigor and
capacity for many duties utterly unlike, to
be sure, any that it now appears at ell like-
ly she will ever be called upon to perform,
but vrhich, by some uniorseen change in her
circumstance, may fall to her lot in after
years.
We do not mean that boys' work should
be the habitual employment for girls any
more than that boys should. be set to house-
hold duties for steady employment, bob that
both should have the actual knowledge
necessary to every variety of work.
The heavier, coarser labor appropriately
belongs tome'. and boys, andonly for girls to
do ettotigh of it to learn how to master it in
anemergency should demands come to them
in later life, Love or will, or both united
with the assistancie of her girlhood training
and knowledge, will enable a woman to do
the hardest week while the necessity last.
It is because eueh kale may came to every
one—boy or girl, man or woman, at any
time aud in the most unexpected manner—
that teaching very little children to be help-
ful and useini is so etienestly advocated, to
rooms, eating -rooms, and bodging -houses, learn how, as far as pbssible, to do all kinds
by which the umbrella, 6.rm strove to keep and ease it meet bring is pleasant to the of work, se that in later years, when some
their hands respectable and contented, and weary; but when it freee from all care or startling, extreme need, may come upon
were highly pleased with all, most especial- responsibility, so that the mother finds no them, to do it well and thoroughly. But
ly with Mr. Dutton, who, though his name neceasiby, or, indeed, opportunity, to teeth the unnatural strain, which in critical cases
did not come prominently forward, had been her little ones, the first steps toward useful, may compel a woman to do work which
the prime mover and contriver of all these habits, which they may sorely ne'ed later' only men •oan do uninjured, if of long du -
things, and might have been a vvealthier years, then it ceases to be a blessing and be- ration, is not safe and only to be undertaken
man if he had. not undertaken expellees comes a curse.• through absolute necessity. Women are
Many who begin life. poor and reach not so endowed as to do the sterner work
wealth through years of hard labor forget for which man is fitted.' We do not mean
how flinch of true, solid pleasure there was to say that they are not equal, but only dif-
after all in this unsuccessful struggle for ferent. • The question of equality th-ir own
well-earned prociperity. As the necessity works must answer. Woman has sweeter,
whicla he could not charge upon the com-
pany.
Gerard Godfrey came into Mrs, Nugent's
that evening in the lowest spirits. He had
sisterd t te • th
country with Bridgefield, and she had sent
him a locztl paper whmh "understood that a
marriage was arranged between Mark de
Lybiniais Egremont, Esquire, and Ursula,
daughter of Alwyn Piercefield Egremant,
Esquire, of Bridgefield Egremont," and he
could not help coming to display it to Miss
Headworth in all its impertinence and
prematurity.
n Indeed ho said nothing to me about
it," said Miss Ileadworth, if and 1 think he
would if it had been. true."
"No doubt he batends it, and is trying
to recommend. himself thro,ugh you," said
Gerard.
"1 should not think he needed that,"
returned Annt Orson "though I should be
very glad, I am sure. He is an exoellent
young man, and it is quite the obvious
thing."
don't always do the obvious
thing," putin Mary Nugent.
" Certainly it didn't look like it," said
said Mrs. Headworth, "when he told us
about the great annual Hunt Ball at Red -
castle that Nettie and his sister Blanche are
to come out at ; he said he did not intend to
go home for it if he could help it."
"Struggling against fate," said Miss
Nugent.
"The puppy 1" burst out Gerard.
Havingescertained the particularsof this
same Hunt Bell, Gerrard becoarne possessed
with a vehement desire to visit hie sister,
and so earnestly solicited a few clays' leave
of absence that it was granted to him.
"Poor boy, he may settle down when he
has ascertained what an as he 18,0k -raid Mr.
Dutton.
"Ah 1" said Mary. "1 thought he was
very bad when I saw he had not changed
the green markers for St. Luken Day."
(To BE CONTINUED.)
A Broken Heart
"Pap'," she said as the old man came in
late, "young Mr. Sampson offered himself
to nee to -night and I refused him. And oh,
papa I am afraid his heart is broken."
"He told me about it," said the old man.
"Then you met him,"
Yea, he Is down at the Eagle playing bil-
liards."
• Looking for his Han
Husband (to wife)—Do you believe in the
theory that the greatness of a father often
proves a stumbling block to the advance-
ment of his son in life?
Wife—I certainly do. Thank heaven
John, our boy will never be handicapped iri
that way. But what are you looking for,
my dear?
Husband—My hat.
Got Used to Him.
Happy Man (to widow of three husbands)
—Whom 69111 ask to perform the cere-
mony, darling? That matter, of course, I
shall leave to you.
Widow (hesitatingly—Well, dear, I have
not any very particular preference, although
I've always had the Rev. Mr. Goodman.
for close application relaxes and they begin tenderer, dearer duties, demanding a na-
ture distinct from that which prepares man
for his rougher, harder, more extended and
more public, but not more noble, work, and
each by working in sympathy together ca,n
to feel the enervating effects of abundance
they forget all the pleasure, and, remember-
ing only the hardships, shrinkfrom teaching
their children what seems like work, and
thus (sheet them of the strength and miss.
penclence for which no wealth can com-
pensate.
But if boys are taught to do girls' work,
should not girls be made to reciprocate the
uphold and strengthen the other.
Women have clearedioff the timber from
their land, built their houses, laid their
walls, ,ploughed their fields with their own
hands from choice. If they take pleasure
favoi and take their turns m doing boys' in .it, none need object. But when they
work? Whet mother would like to see her leave youth behind their own bodies will
girls do this? But why nob? Who can ob- beur witness against such continued unna-
ject to it? Certainly. not the girls them- tural labor, Still, it is a great blessing for
selves. Isn't it just what many young . the young to be so equipped that they can
ladies are seeking to do now, and many protect themselves agabast a time when it is
young men--" children of a, larger growth" possible all they hold dear may depend on
—stilling to prevent? If not unnaturally , their havingeuch knowledge carefully put
biassed by fashion of conventionalities, it e .vay for sudden needs. Not for regular
would be diffiault to find any who would not employment should this interchange of em -
gladly do the many little things they can do
with their brothers, and in the free air and
glad sunshine do their work.
-Whatever is proper for boys to do, many
girls often think "such fun" if they can oc-
casionally share them with them. We refer
now to country girls. God help those girls
whose home is in the city, and, although but
just stepping sout of babyhood, have been
taught that Work of any kind must be neces-
sarily lacking in style end refinementI How
few, then, are the real pleasures the young
can find in the open air 1 Nothing that they
are allowed to have coin equal the enjoy-
ments which our country damsels, with their
larger inheritance and more abundant real
ployment be inculcated, but that every mem-
ber at a family should be so instructed that
there may never be a temporary vacancy
about the house that some one, boy or girl,
man or woman, shall not be able and will
ing to step in and fill satisfactorily. It may
be argued that many things familiar to
country girls are not necessary to the lie of
the city -bred ghl. The harnessing or driv-
ing of a horse is cited as an example. Slip -
posing a young lady were driving (a desir-
able accomplishment for any girl in city or
country), and the harness breaks or becomes
unfastened, ought she not for her own safety
to know how to repair the mischief? Every
girl should born early how- each part of the
blessin,gs possess, and nothing is more plea- harnesa meist be adjusted,else the pleasore
sarit to them than any outdoor enjoyment and) indeliendence of Veing able to delve
Suited to their age and intelligence. when older will be attended with much risk,
But it is argued that such work must if not with fatal consequences.
The duty of teaching children to be use -
make our girls coarse, romping and hoyden-
ful and handy in everything, cannot be too
ish. " Bough, noisy- boys are bad enough ;
strongly impressed upon the minds of
would you have our gills become like them ?"
Is it the outdoor work thates them parents. And let these lessons begin when
so? Is it not rather the o of animal the mind is young and ready to receive.
spirits, more energertic and Ainent in Early life is the time when children will
best secure knowledge, and then they may
girls, perhaps, that finds no escape"but by
be prepared to use it when needed with
boisterous and rebisir adieus ? This may not
confidence and self-control. Even if never
be agreeable to the old and staid, but is oer-
needed in after life, the knowledge will not
injure any one.
MIGGELL EMS 1TEXG-
An Italian at nlanefield, Ohio, wore nee
pair of very tight Sh,oes two days. The re."'
eult was injuries to his feet that were follow-
ed by gangrene, so that he hes had his toes
and other parte elf both foot amputated in
order to %Me his life.
A ilook of about 100 crowe paesiug over
Cumminsville, Ohio, were attacited the oths
after000n by 'thrice their number of 14
sperrows, who rompletely routed
big birde. Several crows were disable(
one was found with both eyes peeked
• Elba Cohen, a negro railroad hen
lawtonville, G. A., cent° te Seven
other day and wanton to be admitf
the Charity Hospital. The doetore
at him said ran. lie lied leproint. lee wee
shipped back to ,Lewtonvillii evrey.
There are whole towns in incermany that
do little else than make done for American
ohilclreu. They are mostly si pie country
folk. 'England's children ap almost
$1,000,000 for French and Ge a dolls,
end America a children ennuis 'olethat,
Jamesjames o E.
. 1, Jig n ofdePairisat. y113
;3;20744 0
&Alleges, Two years ago Fto r pulled
Johnson's tooth and broke his jaw' et the
same time, The victim has spent $2,000 in
dootorn bills since then and is a, confirmedinyclid ,
yet.ot
Quill tohoick% came from Frame. lak'
largest factory in the world is near Pis,
where there is an annual product of 20,000e,
000 quills, The factory was started to make
quill pens, but when thee° went out of ire
it was turned into a toothniok mill, Wooden
toothpicks are thede principally in. Michigan,
Wisconsin, India and, Ohio.
The colored children at Oxiord, Ohio
have always had pnblie schools seps
from the white children's schools, bit
year they refused to Attend them
sided upon going to the same tsoh
the white children attended.
• refused admission and brought
against the schoonauthorities, whio
been decided in favor of the negroe
• A driving wheel of a locomotive t
drawing a passenger train burst re
near Milford, Pa. One piece whizz
the fireman's head and passed, scr
like it shell from a cannon, throu
baggage CET, the smoking car, and a p
ger coach without doing irjury t�
person on the train. The train was runn 6
at tho rate of forty miles an hour when the
accident occurred.
Levi Campbell of Kingsbury, Me. set a
bear trap and a bear got'iuto it. 13; drag-
ged the trap a good distance, -until it was
caught in a log': Then Levi came up and
struck the bear with an axe. The animal
turned suddeuly, wrenched the trap loose- /
grabbed Levi, and was in a fair way to make
an end of him when his dog pitched in, and
attracted the bear's attention until Levi
could drag himself away.
A ghost that has been for sev a
scaring the engineers at a certain
a railroad near Atlanta, was
days ago, lyingunconscious
i
frozen to death n a pool of we.
spot. She had neither shoes n
and few other clothes, and was
demented, although she could talk
on some subjects. She seemed
good birth and had evidences of r
about her. She said she was Anni
• and had taken to the woods because s
disgusted with the world and lac
courage to commit suicide. A h
found dug out beneath the trestle
that she had lived.
If the Marquis of Ely has acted li
t mi
sible and prudes
an n reducing
rents by one half , and in reinstati
evicted tenants, the Marquis a (Luna e
has taken exact) the opposite course and
has shown. hiinsi If exactly the opposite kind.
of man, for when his agent urged reduction
of rent upon him again and again, he only
abused him and told him to do his duty,
with the most uttiatiefactory results positive.
Amoug the rest a lawsuit in which his late
agent, Mr. Joyce, prosecuted the Marqui
for libel and got damages to the extent oi
£2,000. Claude irde has long had an abom
inable record and as usual he apparentb
grows always worse the older he becomes.
Willy less annoying outdoors than m the
house It promotes health, and is only
what we alb did, or wanted to do in our
•young days. Let our American boys and
gir/s have full swing, as far as at all consis-
tent; age v411 soon tame the wild spirits, or
restrain a too -exuberant overflow, but no.
thing will keep them so 'within bounds ari
pleasant labor some parts of each day.
Children are, to be sure, liable to come in
contact with warns, rude matures—neither
boys nor girls should be exposed to suoh in-
fluence if it can bo prevented—but that evil
• is found everywhere, as often be the house as
in the field; we must go out of this world
to insure safety from such contact. If not
inherent in the child's own nature, the in-
fluence tending toward evil will not gain it
litres% foothold, the dross will be thrown off
and the pure nature rise uninjured. It has
anso been argued against this that country
girl's are seldom ladylike or graceful, and
that laboring with their brothers will make
them still less so. -
If this objection is valid, then the brothers
meet be separated from the sisters, for if
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law US DYER SINCE 1,,
What We Know About Meteors
1. The luminous meteor trac a are in the
upper part of the earth's atmosphere. Few,
if any, appear at a height greeter than 100
miles from the earth's surface„except in rare
cases when stones and irons fall to the
ground. All these meteor tracks areeaused
by bodies which come into the air from
without.
2. The velocities of the meteors in the air
are comparable with that of the earth in its
orbit about the sun. It is not easy to deter-
mine the exact values of these velocities, yet
they .may be roughly stated as from 50 to
250 !Ames the velocity of sound in the air, or
of a cannon ball.
3. It is a necessary consequence of these
velocities that the meteors move about the
sun, and not about the earth as the control-
ling4. bTodhy.
er
are four cornote related to four
periodic star showers that come on the date.
April 27, August 10, November 14, and No-
vember 27. The meteoroids which have
given us any one of these star showers con-
etitute a group, each individual of which
moves in a path which is like that of the
corresponding comet. The bodies are, how-
ever, now too far from oue another to in.
limns appreciably each other's motions.
5. The ordinary shooting stars in their
appearance and phezioniene do not differ
eseentially from the individuals in star
showers, ,
6, The nieteeritea of different fella differ
from one smother in their chemical composi-
tion, in their mineral forms, and in their
tenacity. Yet through all these &Crime:met
they have eseculier cemmon properties which
distinguish them enneely from all terrestrial
roeke.
7. The mast delicate researches have
failed to doted any trace of organic life in
meteorites,
These prepositions bane practically men
versal acceptance among scientific men.
A Good Chaco for Reatiniscenoes.
Ss-filth—Say, 13rown, I wonder where the
"oldest inhebitant" is this year?
Brown—Why?
Smith—Well, don't you think it abmt
time for hita 10 ehow up end tell es some.
thing,about the weenier they lied in Do.
camber whole he we e young men '1
Broarn-4f he haee't thawed up y et he
mutt be dead.
The "Wish Father to the Thougt.
Small Boy—" Papa, what des rotation
in cilia° mean 1"
Papa (Who is waiting for a plaos)—" It
means turns the raiicala oat, my son."
It is a great mercy that there is ecs
thing like justice going sometimes fon
who try to make rich at the expense
other people. Harper, the wrecker ox
the Fidelity National Rank of Cincinnati
got something the other day in accordance
with his deserts. He gat ten years impris-
,onment in the State prison. If not good
for him it is at least good for the people
and good for the law. Let every monetary
scoundrel, whether in Canada or the States,
get the same or even something more severe,
and the world will be all the better for the
new departeres.
in her daily life Mrs. Dinah Mulock Craik
was, says the London Daily .ffews, remark-
• ably methodical. Though many of her
works appeared in periodicals, she would
never under any circturistanceis consent to
a beginning of a publication before the work
was entirely out of her hand; and what is
very singular, aim is said that during the
whole course of her forty years' labors never
to have begun writing anything which she
did not carry straight through, and it is be-
lieved that she las not left behind a single
line of unfinished ,Work intended for publi
cation. Indeed, everythiog she ever wrot
with the view to publication has been pnis
lished.
Eliza P. neaten says: The honse of de
future will have in most °Ma rooina-lia
wood floors, hard wood 'walls and hard wood
cseilieg. The tendency in that direction ie
already noticeable. An inspection of the
finer houses built within a year or two show
a lilting for wood paneling, every where. As
best arranged, the darkest Wood for the
floor, a lightei shade for the WallS &lid the
lighest overhead. Oak, aah,L iahogany,
maple, sycamore, holly, rose-vr o and ebon
are the woods that figure mos row.
under the new regime, and pr
they noke apartments that a
beautiful cesthetically, butbkve*
to live in. Rugs fake the •1e06
and hangings are used in suffi nen
to give a warnei furnished look* b
breed dust and entente
A Buffalo milkman wears it nickle 'fivei
cent piece as it watch (Aetna end gives this
reasou :—" Over a year ago I took this
nickel, which was then beautifully goln
!slated, as a $5 gold piece, in payment of it
bill. AS soon as 1 detected the fraud I took
it back to the woman who roiled it on
but she ratified to make if god. So t fas-
toned in to my Wetch chain mid kept on sup- no
plying her with milk. But now every day
I Intik° her quart onnfourth water, and
onoo a week 1 credit her 'with one-fourth
the amount �f her milk bill. When the
sum total standing en her credit is $4,05 she
shall have pare itttik once morg, and net
until then. She knows the milk is Watered,
but whenever the ohs:ewe:en inelloation to
complain . I hind's' the nickel and Say that
my, milk 'Is as pute goiti.' That sattleS
it,•