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"At the Feringdon Station. 1 wao tent
for to identify
"Stay," said Mr, Dutton, Rs there was a
wild horrified look in Nuttio'e eye, "Do
) you mean little Alwyn?"
ep, " Little ,Alwye 1 No, certainly not.
his What of him ?"
guy
'Gregorio managed to loge him in the
boy park yeaterclay," put in Mr. Dutton.
That accounts for it, then," aaid Mark.
ewe No, it was GI egorio himself, poor man.
"orn Re woe knocked down by the engine, and
ake killed on the ripot, just by the station, at
gig eleven o'clock last night, Our name was
found on him and I waa Bent for early this!!
morning. Tiler° Waki no doubt &bout it,
I came on here at ono to let my uncle kuovv,
little thinking---"
"Oh, it is dreadful 1" cried Nettie, oink.
lug bate a chair. "Do you remember my
father told him never to see his face again
unless he found Alwyn ?"
Broadbent came in at the moment with
the coffeepot, and stood suspended, as he
we Old what had happened, Mark addivg
tIidetel; lee oven crossing the line in
fro t f h !!
sir, said the haggis, " It is
BY CHARLOTTE M. YONGE.
CHAPTER XXXIII.—,-(ConointlEre
Would it last if Gregorio macle his
pearance at that inotant with Alwyn in
hand? Or even, as Mr. Dutton confide
redicted, a policeman might bring the
ome, before many hours were pas
The chief doubt here was the,t Alw
defective loronunciation, which had b
rather foolishly encouraged, might m
it difficult te understand his mode of say
his own name, or even that of the street,
if he knew it perfectly ; but the year he
bad been about from London had prevent-
ed him from acquiring the curious ready
local instinct of the true town child, and he
had been so ninth guarded and watched
that he was likely to be utterly at a loss
when left alone ; and Nuttie wao wretched
at the tliought of his terror and loneliness,
everNloile Mr. Dutton told her of epeedy
recoveries of lost chils'ren through kind
people or the police.
The found all th
alae;e4. a;-v-'a-ke and on the alert,
and quite certain of the impossibility of
nurse's prime dread that the boy had
fallen into the water unsema by any one
and been drowned. She was oven ready to
look into every bush, in case he had been
frightened and hidden himself ; and no•
thing would 'satisfy her but to stay making
these researches, when her rimater had de-
' cided on endeavouring to find " Parker" at
the club, and to awertaio fr nn him particu-
o •
mre sone and plane.
He was found there. Pee dilater -heti
had brought him back, he being a man i
authority there, very well dressed and d
ferential, teeolaring himeelf immensely di
an
knew it' was all up with him You
awfuldispen.oation No doubt Nider dau ht mefl .
dtoeviiirdotnaontoi "By the terePtatien ef the
And by and by, out of 11..poeket-book bear-
ing the date of the General's death, game ei
copy of the certificate of the baptism of Ur.
sula Alice daughter of Alwyn Piercefield
and Alice Itlgremont, together with that ad.
dress which Mies Readworth hal left at
Dieppe to gratify Alice% forlorn idea of a
poesible rescue, and which Gregorio had as.
severated to be nomexiotent.
Doubtlees he infinitely preferred hie Inas-
ter's wandering bechelor life to the reeump-
tion of marriage ties and thee he had con-
trived to keep Mr, ties,
from meeting
the Houghtons at Florence At the e
anie
tune the uncertainty as to Alice's fate had
prevented any other marriege. Gregorio
had taken care that, if Mr, Egremont had
been villain enough to make such an at-
tempt, he should know that his secret could,
be brought to light.
Compared with all tli wiekednesse the
proofs of fraud and dishonesty were entire-
ly unimportant. Ganabling had evidently
been a passion with the valet, and peculation
had followed, and Mark could have traced
out the full tide before the reinstatement of
HOU$EHOI-ov
dr't after the Bible like Pilgrim Progrees. I
feel imery for the mother ^who hes never
A Brint to HUsbantlia
Little Mrs. Evelyn stood before her hus-
band ready to attend church,
"How do I look ?" she asked pleaeantly,
slowly pivoting for his inepection,
"Hum 1" said Mr, Evelyn, layieg down
his 'Apar and taking uphis hat, you would
look better if you left off that disfiguring, stuff
on your Aloe."
"The powder 1 Oh, Albert, my nose shone
so it really looked perfectly horrid."
"Lot it shine," said Mr. Evelyn !Sternly ;
"if my nose shone like a gold dollar in a
mud gutter I would'nt dab powder on it."
" No- o, I suppose not. Bat will Edo 7"
"Do 1 Of course you'll clo ! What queer
questions you ask."
The tears welled up in the young wife's
eyeseand a lurnp grew in her throat. Where
were the expressions of admiration. that
Albert Evelyn had used so lavishly in the
days of their courtship? " Beautiful,"
"lovely," ," look like an angel 1" " charm.
g. e had not changed. She still
rs. Egrement ner home, the gradual ebb thought her husband the most attractive of
during her reign the diminished t '
had fort:?erri b g 17 Theother aervants
may not be aware, lair, of the subject of
his conversation in the park. Mr. Parker
had just seen a telegram of the result of the
Derby, end he had heavy bete on Lady
na. I ran afraid, sir, there can be no
doubt that he found a voluntary grave,'
" Will not talk of that, We cantot
Judge,' ' said Mark, shuddering. I said I
would send some one from here to arraage
what was to be done after the inquest.'
Broadbent immediat ely undertook to "re
e, his master did not require him, and Ala
y was thought advisable, as his services were
tressed at the occurrence, and at having
accosted Gregorio and attracted his at-
tention. It was about four o'olook, he
thought, and he described the erred spot
where the little boy had been sailing his
vend fastened to a axing. They might
have been talking twenty minutes or half an
hour when Gregorio missed his charge, and
since that time both had been doing all in
their power to find him, until half -past
seven, when he had to return to his club,
and Gregorio went to see whether the child
d had been taken home.
By this time Mr. Egremont looked so
utterly exhausted, that Mr. Dutnin availed
himself of the hope that the boy might be
found safe at home to take him back; but
alas nothing had been heard there.
The poor man was in a restless, unman-
ageable state of excitement, almost as terrify-
ing to his daughter as the distress that mica-
sioned it. He swallowed a tumblerful of
claret, but would not go to bed ; indeed Gre-
gorio alone having had the personal charge of
him, latterly sleeping in his dressing -room,
none of the other servants knew what
to do for him. Mr. Dutton agreed with
her that it would be better to send for his doc-
tor, ail pembably he ought to have a sedative,
and neiCer would take the responsibility of
giving it-• while he himself declared he neith-
er would nor could rest till he had his boy
again.
The doctor was -dining out, and they had
two terrible hours; while Mr. Egremont
paced to the windows; threw himself on the
sofa; denounced Gregorio; or, for a -change,
all the system of police which had made no
discet•ery ; and 'Ursula for letting the boy be
helpless. Mr. Dutton sometimes diverted
hie attention for a few minutes, and hoped
he would doze, but the least sound brought
him to his feet again, and the only congenial
occupation was the composition oft descrip-
tion of poor little Alwyn's person and dream
„which set Nuttie crying so uncontrollably,
that she had to run out of the roona.
Dr. Brownlow came at last, and was very
kind and helpful, taking the command, and
insisting that Mr. Egremont should go to
bed, and take the dose which he mixed.
Broadbent, the butler, was to take Gregorio's
place, but he was a ponderous man without
much tact, and unused to the valet's office
"1 might just as well have a rhinocero
about me," said Mr. Egremont in a fit of
irritation; and it ended, Nuttie hardly
knew how, in Mr. Dutton's going upstairo to
smooth matters. Re came down after a
time and said: "I am not satisfied to leave
him alone or to Broadbent; I have his con-
sent to my sleeping in the dressing -room. I
am just going home to fetch my things.
Let me find you gone when I come back.
You will hear no more to -night. Even if he
is found, they will keep him till morning."
"It is of no use; I can't sleep."
"Even if you don't, the mere restful po-
sition will make you fitter for the morrow.
Will you promiee me to •undress and really
, go to bed?'
"Oh yes 1 if you say I must," said Nuttie
drearily; following an instinct of obedience,
"And remember," he said, "though I do
not say it will be so, this may be deliverance
from bondage."
"But what a terrible deliverance 1"
"Bonds are, not burst without something
terrible. No; don't be frightened. Remain.
ber there is safe -keeping for that poor little
fellow, wherever he may be."
"Oh, Mr. Dutton, if I could pray for him;
but the turmoil seems to have driven away
all such things! My boy, my boy, where is
he now? Who has heard him say his little
prayers ?"
"His Heavenly Father has; of that we
may be secure. You will feel it in the quiet
of your own room. Goochnight."
"And I shall know' you aro praying, bet-
ter tioan I can," murmured Nuttie, as she
returaed his good -night, and crept up to her
,thamber.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
FETTERS RENT.
• " ohe gods are just, and of our pleasant sins
Make whips to scourge us,"—King Lear.
There was no real sleep for Ursula that
ehort summer night. She saw the early
dawn, lieteued to the distant roll cf market -
arts, and wondered when it would be reason-
able to be afoot, and ready to hear, if aught
there wa 'hear. At any hour after seven, e
surely 4ders would have niercy and h
bring the elcorne news. And just before h
seven the fell asleep, deeply, eounclly, and
never woke till paot eight, but that was just 1
enough to revive the power of hope, and d
give the mese of a new day. But there was .N
hothing to hear—no news. She found Mr.
Dutton in the dining -room, He had had to
administer 'another draught to her father,
and had left him in a sleep which would
prebably laot for some time. If ohe would
go aad sit in the outer room, after her break.
feat, he would go out to obtain intelligence. go
4' You must have some breakfaet," she E
sold, ringing the bell, and wistfullyrlookieg th
over the blincle ; then exclaiming t "Oh,in
therehr Mark 1 Rae ije heard anything ?" and th
I
out the darted, ()peeing the door before he ha
rang. "Mark 1 have you found him ?" de
" Yea," he said gravely, looking utterly de
innazed as the eleeped her hand, and Elora- th
ed ready to fling heroelf on his neck with he
joy, 1 came became at will be a great , togai
shook to my :uncle,"
"Then it xe SO 1 Nnroc was right," said
Nut, ie, turnieg deadly pale, and standing could
certainly not aceeptable to Mr. Egrernont.
Mark had thought himself likely to be de-
• tained and had provided for his absence, and
the avve-stricken trio were consulting to-
gether over the breakfast table, eatin.g, me-
chanically, from the very exhaustion of
• agitation, when the door opened, and
• Mr. Egremont in his drenoing-gown was
among them, exclaiming: You are
keeping it feern me." He had been
been wakened by the whiopere and ruthee
of the excited maids, had rung his bell in
vain, dressed himself as best he could after
so many years of dependence, and stumbled
downstairs, where, as with hie daughter, in
was something like a relief to know that
hope was not extingtiehed in Alvvyn's case.
But Mr. Egremont was in a very trembling,
broken condition, and much overcome by
his valet' a end after so many years of inti-
mate association. Certainly, if either of
the others had eo parted with the mesa, it
would have been a horror in the recollection,
but he did not seem to dwell on it; and,
indeed, attention was distracted by every
sound at the door, since each might bring
news of the missing child.
One of these tantalising rings proved to be a
policeman with poor Gregorio's keys, and a
demand for an investigatien into any papers
he might have left which would show his
state of mind. Mr. Egremont was very
much annoyed, declaring that he would
have no stranger meddle with them, and
that he saw no use in such prying. What
difference could it make to any living crew
ture ? However, when he found there was
no help for it, he eaid he must do it himself.
Nuttie offered to help, but was sharply,
strongly refused. Mark alone might and
should help.
Then Mr. Dutton volunteered to go and I
explain matters to Mr. Dobbs, so au to get,
freedom for Mark for at least the remainder
of the day. He would call at the police.
offices and see vrhat was doing in the search,
put forward the advertisements, and obtain '
that the Serpentine should .be dragged, for.
saw that only that measure would remove'
one great terror from thee anxious hearts..
'And," he said to Mark, "with your;
• permission, I will bring back Mrs. OTIgronnont'
and the children if they will do me the honor
to become my guests. She will be a comic!' t
to Miss Egremont, and then you will be at
hand in the evening."
Mark could only be thankful, and presently
addressed himself to the investigation, which
his uncle insisted should be made in his own
presence, though the opiate kept him for the
most part dozing in an arm -chair, only rous-
ing up now and then by some noise at the
front door, or putting queries, the repliet
to which startled him more and more, as he
grew more wakeful and Mark proceeded,
All, except a few unimportant bills
and a betting -book, was locked into
a dressing -case that had once belong•
ed to Mr. Egremont, and had tricks of
secret drawers that only he could explain.
It was full of papers, and they were a
strange revelation that Mr. Egremont might
well wish to withhold from his daughter.
They went very far back, and of course did'
not come out in order of chronology, nor
would Mark hey° understood them but for
exclamations and comments here a,nd there
from his uncle.
Everythhig seemed to be tnere,—the old
pamport and certificate to Gregorio Savelli,
when he left his Savoyard home to be a
waiter at a hotel; a few letters in Italian,
probably from his parents, which Mark
could not read, but which soon ceased; the
• counter -signed character with which he had
entered General Egremoiat'e zervioe ; and
then came a note or two signed &P. E. which
Mr. Egretnont regarded with great annoyance
though they only consisted of such phrases
as "Bach on Wednesday. Find an excuse,"
or in .French, " Envoyez mai la petite bate !"
" Que la Torte soit ouverte apres minuit."
"That was the way," groaned Mr. Egre-
mont. "The scoundrel 1 he kept all those
to be able to flow me up to the General if
he chose 1 I was a young man then, Mark,
not the straitlaced lad you've alwaya been.
And the Greneral 1 A bad old dog he was,
went far beyond what I ever did, but for all
that he had no notion of any one going any
way but him own, and wanted to rein me in
as tight as if he had been an epitome of all
the virtues. And Gregorio seemed a good-
natured young fellow then and made things
asy for me, though no doubt he meant to
aye me ha his hands in case I tried to thalte
im off."
Another discovery affected him far more.
t was of a letter in Alice's handwriting ad,
reseed to Captain Egremont, in the yacht
inon—posterestaute, Madeira. He had never
nen It, never known of its existence; Gregorio
had gone to inquire for the lettere, and had
supprened it. Mr. Egremont had wondered
how he had become aware of the marriage.
Plis knowledge had from that time bon
need as a moans of enforcing tho need of a
od sunderetatding with the heir. Mr.
gremont was much moved by the eight of
e letter, and its date, from Dieppe about
x months after he had left bio young wife
ore. He made Mark give it to him unread,
sidled it tenderly, Struggled to read the
liege pointed writing to himself, but soon
ferred the attempt, observing, "There,
ere,' can't stand itnow t But you sce,IVIark,'
added altet an intervid " t 1
ler the heartless brute you thought
nob help thinking, of the old:preamble
Mark, as he told his wife aff,orwards,
y on nap oohed, but, except a
young groom and footman, Mark thought
the present oet quite free from the taint, and
was glad to acquit BroadDent. But the last
telegrasno Pia tilc betting -1304 in the ere
once that of late he had staked almost mad.
happy melee pocket confirmed Parker's evict-
ly, and bad risked sumo far beyond any
means he could raise upon the horse which
had failed. The bailiff at Bridgefield had,
it had long been guessed, played into hie
bends bet O whet an extent Mark only now
discovered.
The result was that what lib had learnt
in the Park had so again:hied him that his
inattention to the child had not been wonder-
ful. He had—as Parker testified—sought
the' little fellow vehemently, and '.ho,d he
been sueceieful, he might yet have made
some effort, trusting to his master'o tolera-
tion; but the loss and reproach had made
him an absolutely desperate man. Was it
blind flight ;or self-destruction? That he
had money about him, having cashed a
cheque of his master's favored the first
idea, and no one would too curiously inquire
whether Mr. Egremont was aware of the
amount.
(TO BE CONTINUED, )
Next Door to It.
Well, what is it ?" queried the sergeant as
a colored man stood before him, hat in hand,
yesterday.
"1 wants a puss= 'rested, soh."
" Who is it 2"
"Ai incendiary, flab."
"An incendiary, eh. Did he set your
house afire ?"
" No, Bah."
" Some one else's house or barn ?"
"No,Bah. He lib next doh, an' bekase I
stoppedde fondly from gittia' water at our
penstock he's down on me. He gets out in
de yard an' calls me a hog, an' dares me ober
de fence, an' he's tole lots of folks dat he
means to do me up."
"But he's no incendiary."
"Why ?"
"An incendiary is a person who sets fire
to a building. This is a case of threats."
"Ar it Well, it's next doah.to bein' an
incendiary. an' I want de law :to step in an
stop it. If it dean' do it 'shan't reconcile
de consequences 1"
" How ?"
" How ? Why, if he keeps on I shall
designate myself to elevate ober dat fence
some day an' percolate dat pusson wid a club
until morality sots in ! "me a worm, sah,
an' arter about so long de worm turns 1"
The Freaks of the Telegraph.
A noble lord, as proud and fond as a man
should be of his beautiful young wife, was
just about rising to speak in a debate when
• a telegram was put into his hands. He read
it, left the House, jumped irate a cab, drove
to Charing Cross and took the train to
Dover. Next day he returned home, rushed
into his wife's room and, finding her there,
upbraided the astonished lady in no um
measured terms. She protested her ignor-
ance of baying done anything to offend him.
"Then what did you mean by your tele-
gram 2' he asked.
" Mean ? What I said, of course. What
are you talking about ?"
"Read it for yourself," said he.
She read: I flee with Mr. to
Dover Straits. Pray for me." For the mo-
ment words would not come; then, after a
merry fit of laughter, the suspected wife
quietly remarked: "Oh, those dreadful
telegraph.people No wonder you are out
of your mind, dear. I telegraphed simply :
"1 tea with Mrs. -- in Dover street.
Stay for me."
His Bitter Disappointment.
"George, dear," she gurgled, as they met
at a junction of two streets where they
could hear the monotonous scrape of the con-
fectioner's spoon as he ladled out, "George,
dear, I fully realize that father did not treat
you right when you called last evening."
"No, no, ,he did not," he answered, with
O halt in his voice "but never mind that,
it is past and let it be."
"But you were not angered, were you ?"
"No, not angered, disappointed, that
was all."
" Disappointed ?"
"Ye, I think you must agree with me
that at that hour of the day I was juatified
in hoping, even in expecting, thaeyour fath-
er would be wearing cloth slippers."
A Successful .Agair.
"1 slay, Bobby," said Feathery, "did
you hear your sister say if she enjoyed the
exhibition we gave last night ? "
"She was pleased with your part of it,
Mr. Featherly. She told me that you made
O perfect exhibition of yourself."
All He Had Against him.
Emaciated Tramp (to business man).
" Pm a, survivor of the Mexican War, an' I
Want you to help me a little, Cap'n."
"Get out o' this 1"
"Look here, Caphi 1 what have you got
against a survivor of the Mexicali War ?"
"All I've got against you is that you sur-
vived."
--
The Dominion. Emigration Agent in Paris
has been drawing a nice salary for years
without having beet! able to coax ono
Frenchman to brave the snows and ice of
Canada. It seems that he is' now at last heavy
happy and has the prospeot of being able to brigh
eay that he has earned his pay. Some fit- that
teon French familieti Ilene landed in Quebec, I and la
and it is staid there aro more to follow. The ; Bible
ono cherne Mutt was laid upon them by their told t
priest be me leaving Ranee, wee that they I worm.
were to remain true to their nationality, the ea
their religion and their language, Does I 111
An dinner the next day she prepared a
ourprise for hire,
"You used to be so fond of laird's-neat
pudding, Albert, that I have made one on
purpose for you," she said, as she helped
him te the delicacy,
"The proOf of the pudding is in the
ing," he answered, in a grandiloquent
ner.
He ate one plateful, and asked f
Second supply.
"Is it good ?" inquired the little
whose foolish heart was hungering for
tribute to her.
"It clowin't need any praising," said
lord, coolly.
A more critical and less sensitive wo
than Mrs. Evelyn would perhapa have
satisfied with this ambiguous praise.
went to her room and had what woman
"a good cry,"
A fow evenings later she had forgotte
about it, end radiant in party finery so
her husband who was waiting for her in
parlor.
"Will elrO'' she asked, as she b
upon him in all her girlish bloom. 'Dais
the " disfiguring powder" was so sleillf
concealed that no man living could
told where nature ended and ars began.
He looked at her critically,
"What's that thing dangling on
shoulders ? '
" That? Oh, it's my white jet fi
sn't it lovely ?"
reeted herself and her children with the
wonderful melody of Bunyanni dream,
Many mothers don't believe in tellin
stories to children after they are in bed, I
1 do. Half the children go to bed half an
I hoer earlier if neeeveary fgt. the privilege.
The trouble so many times, ie with our-
selves. We retakestudyinre the Bible a duty
and lreeping Sunday a burden. think
day afternoon ought to have mere rivi
than any other day of the week, and I think
the time of hearing the bible ought to be a
little cosier than any other hour.
An ignorant young mother talked to me
once, in great (Henley, about her boy, yvho
often refused to say his prayers. The result
would be a pitthed battle between the two,
and a compulsory repeating of the prayers,,
" Don't ever let that happen again, ' en-
treated. "If you see the battle coming, foua
it on another point. A good general chooses
his own battlefield if possible. Then have
everything specially pleasant about prayer
time. Tell hira a story, give him a new toy
and,in his happiest mood, have prayer time
come." She promised me to do this.
Two months afterward that boy was run
Over by an engine and instantly killed. I
was with hit mother in a few hours, aid al-
most her first words were, "1 never had any
trouble about his prayero after that day at
our house."
EOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
a:w ALIVE DOEDBMITU,
A French marquis divided women to
two classes: Women whe ilsten and Ifomen
wlio do not, end when giving advice on
matrimony always aaid, "Marry a hand -
Pomo women if you will, a ticla One if you
can, but in any case merry n woman who
S ." le is a good _qualification in
1 ' woman, but I am amused zu my work among
ges, o note the (lavers and numerous
accomplishments and endowments we are
required to possess. We must ride, walk,
and swim; sing, and perform on sorne nrusi-
eel instrument must cook, and mend; '
must talk, and be silent, and oue sagagious
writer says, "Bo sure the woman you
marry can laugh, for a woman who cannot
laugh io a bore."
In regard to the liotening won an let me s
Tea For Children.
eat- The practice of giving tea to children has
roan- been much discussed and commented upon,
and, at the same table may be found the we-
er a man who thinks that is is heresy to give tea
even to grown people,. the one who allovvii
wife, her children to drink it full strength and the
some one who gives it to the children diluted with
milk. • To be sure, there are other drin
my at the present time, that are healthful, a
some of them are quite pleasant to
Mantaste, but a half cup of good tea, with the
been other half of milk ma.kes a drink that almost
She all children like, and which cannot be in. calI Children take milk in this way
all when they would not take it in any other.
o Cold water people will try to persuade the
ught thildren that cold water IS the en],y At dri
the for them, but cold drinks do not aid dig
tion, and warm ones do.
urst
httliamiviYee
your
chu.
give you a hint. If she attempts to do anye
thing except listen while you are talking,
don't take any stook in her as a eetiafactory
listener. Bevvare of her if she 18 crocheting,
or tatting, or embroidering crimson peaches
on old -gold plush, for she will think far
more about her stitches or shading of
oilks than about the tale you are unfolding.
As a wife the will perhaps! be able to darn
the family hose and listen with due atten-
tion, but she can't do the "knit one, purl
•two, widen one" businese,
PIN MONEY
"Pin -money "with the average wife means
that she cannot buy a row of pins except
with her husband's money and consent.
She suffers humiliation in her own eyes, auci,
she fancies, in his also, whenever she pre-
fers a request for the sum necessary for the
supply ot the daily wants of the household.
lts, She cringes, like a whipped slave, under his
ncl comments on the rapidity with which men-
the ey melts in her fingers, and if high-spirited
roents lue suggestion ths,t she ought to
keep an expense book and learn the
worth of a fellow' a earnings" as a' reflection
upon her honesty, For every instance in
which the estate of wifehood , is proprietary
there are one thousand where it is eleemoser-
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es-
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" Oh, yes, very. It makes you look
o Feejee. Is this etring intended to dra
"That's my fan ribbon. How do
ike the way my hair is dressed ?"
"Why, I suppose it's all right. I c
see as it looks any worse than usual."
Choking down a dry sob, Mrs. Evelyn
back upstairs to put on her wraps. A
fiant, half -wicked thought flashed thro
her innocent heart like the trail of the
nt over Eden.
"Somebody will admire me," it said.
Mrs. Evelyn, senior, was in her dress
oom. She saw the look in the young wi
yes, and felt aorry for her.
"Albeit always was conceited," she e
the decided tones of mature age, "
ou have thoroughly spoiled him. N
ke my advice, and give him a dose of
wn medicine."
Mr. Evelyn would have scorned the s
estion that he was vain of his personai
pearance. But before the evening was
over he found himeelf asking his wife h
he looked. She did not answer, but glan
him over coolly.
"18 my tie all right ?" he whisper
"Dont you think Smithers out this vest
low ? How do I look, Ella ?"
"Just lige the other waiters," said M
Evelyn in a carelessly indiferent to
Did you intend to have 0110 end of y
e longer than the other 7 Can't say I
ire it," and she walked off to her dat
th the gentlemaia waiting for her, leavi
bert blue with rage.
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the little wife prevented that. Only s
d not hover about her husband in her g
umage any more, and he missed his brig
rd. He never alluded to the dishes she p
red, and no surprises were set before hi
ing in the main a sensible man, he s
ere he had made a mistake.
"How peetty you losk 1" h e blurted o
e night almost by accident. Ella, lit
item had studied this effe-t for the pa
ur before her glass. Her eyes fair
need with delight.
It is my new dress --the one you go
on my -birthday. Is it becoming ?'
'1 should say it was. You look like
I again, and it tits you to a
f there was any insincerity in this, El
not observe it. No rouge could ha
nght such a color to her cheeks as th
ohm from her husband.
It pays," thought Mrs. Evelyn, senio
she overheard them; "a man is safe
king love to his own wife."
She was right. And the average man
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The Best Bedtime Stories.
n enthusiastic young lady, on her intro -
tion to my mother, exclaimed; " Oh 1
m so delighted to know you. I have
rd about sr ni for years as the lady who is
ays telling such wonderful stories to
dren, and they invariably tutu out to be
e stories. How do you do it 1" "Very
ly," replied my mother; "the Bible
ies are the most wonderful aeries in the
Id."
never thought the Bible anything but
resting, and to this day think my
her's stories better than all other tales.
gam telling Harry the Bible stories
ger than many mothers think worth
e, and I used to put his chubby halide
ther and say his little prayera menthe
re he could lisp the words after me.
y practice has always been to go up with
at night, oversee the undrosing, and
, after he is tucked in bed, tell the story.
't believe in telling the storieo hap.
rd, and from ancient and. hazy recollec.
. I carried the boy (quite unconoious-
hrough a regular plan of Bible history;
used to spend a little time every morn -
n getting up the story. The more
ledge the mother has, the more dram.
he story can be made.
not say (HI speak frankly) that
the reason why so many children find
ible dull, is because they have had it
t to them by a lazy intellect. Dulness
crime sometimes, No indolent and
mina cam interest and entertain a
t, wide-awake child, think, also,
the great time to make this glorious
sting impression of the charm of the
is before the child trowel, The things
hen take on wonderful hues, Does
ng mid day ever give Us color S like
rly dawn?
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Joy,
There5 nothing in ail the world
loyal ettbjeets of Britein
Good cream improver! tea ao much as it .
Novreet
does coffee. The solitaire diaraohd ring worn by Mrs;
Veranda Screens.
They are usually made for the ends of
verandas, rarely for the front. Measure the
length from the joist under the roof to the
top of the rail, and then get a piece of
matting as long, but as wide as liked and of
whatever color you prefer, although the
white is best on -account of not fading.
Paint a bold design in oils on the aide that
is to show on the inside, sew small rings on
the upper end, run a rod through them, and
screw two sockets on the joist for the rod 'so
rest in. Have a cord at each lower corner,
and one in the centre, with which to make
it fast to the veranda rail, and by this
simple contrivance you can seoure a shady
spot on the warmest day, and it wouldn't
take more 'than two minutes to lift it down
anchroll it up when a shower threatened.
More Room.
When every nook aria corner seems full,
consider the walls. A great many things
may be hung on a strip of wood running
across your bedroom or kitohen wall, cover-
ed from dust by a calico curtain. Envelope
bags straightened by ropes or lath strips,
may bang anywhere to hold aprons, collars,
hats, newspapers, everything. Pa.cking
boxes may be placed one abonerenother nn
shelved and curtained, or stnall ones may
be padded like ottomans and used for seats
And cases to hold bed linen or underclothing.
A few yards of bright chintz adorns a room
wonderfully in the way of curtains, chair
covers and wrap bags.
Bating and Drinking.
POLLED BREAD.—This is eaten with
cheese and if bread is made at home, is
easily made by taking the bread from the
oven when it is all but done and tearing the
crumb from the inside with a fork in irregu-
lar pieces; place them on a buttered baking
tin and crisp them in the oven.
8PONGE CAKE. —This can be made by tak-
ing four eggs and separating them; add to
the yolks one cup of powdered sugar,a very
little salt, four tablespoonfuls of water and
a large teaspoonful of bitter almond extract;
beat all together until very light. Have a
cup of flour sifted, to which you have put
as much soda as you man lay on a three cent
piece and an even teaspoonful—scant—of
cream of Tartar. Beat the whites of the
eggs to a stiff froth, stir them into the batter
after the flour. Bake in a slow oven. This
cake will be found to be very nice cut in two
when cold. Spread with crab-apple mar-
malade and creem over all.
Cneemen CoD IN A PoTATO CASE.—Boil
and mash six good sized potatoes, add one
egg, a gill ot milk, salt and pepper to taste ;
then beat the potatoes until very light, Pick
and scold one pound of boneless salt cod;
drain and scald again. Now press and shred
the fish until it is dry. Put one large table-
spoonful of butter in a frying -pan, add two
tablespoonfuls of flour, mix, and add one
pint of milk and stir until it boils and thick-
ens add pepper to taste. Grease a small
pudding mould, and line the hottom and
sides with the potatoes. Add the cod to
the cream sauce and fill in the center. Cover
the top with a thick layer ot the mashed
potatoes, and bake until a nice brown.
When done turn it out and serve.
• About the House.
CURTAINS. —Curtains of scrim, good in-
grain carpets, or, better still, rugs, which
will fit any room; neat odd chairs for the
parlor in place of a gaudy " set " of cotton
plush or velvet, a few pretty pictures and
plenty of towele and bed linen, denote the
artistic and neat housekeeping.
REDDER Kicons.—Furniture that mars the
wall can be provided at sinall expense with
tubber knobs at the back. Rubber tips
drawn over hooks on which the towels and
other things are hung, save a deal of wear
to the (articles hung on them. Chairs that
scratch the floor and make a noise mu be
booted with rubber.
The younge,st daughter of Mr. John Wan-
namaker, of Philadelphia, has at their coun-
try house a little house built on the grounds,
furnished throughout and containing every-
thing that another home contains, a kitchen,
diningrooint varier, chamber, etc., only
everything is about ote.half or one-third
the ttoual size. It is very "cute,"
There is every liklihood of Sault St. Marie
becoming one of the most ineportant ()entree
, of busineas in the whole of the Dominion
1, It lie the gateway of commerce from a great
part of the North Western State,not only
to Canada but to Xow Ye* t 11 h
NoW England States, whale the mineral and
timber svealth in the neighbourhood is gimp-
ly hunIculable. Thooe who had land in
the nelighbourhood will make a very good
W. K. Vanderbilt cost $4S,000.
The Princess of Wales and her associates
are setting the fashion of wearing an ninth
jewelry as possible.
Mrs. Grant has received $411,000 as her
share in the profits of Gen. Grant's memoirs,
of which 310,000 sets have been sold.
Eva Wentz, a little Baltimore girl, whose
birthday falls on the same day of the year
as that of Biemarck, wrote hint a letter of
congratulation on his anniversary. She has
received an autograph reply, in which the
great Chancellor says :—" For your friendly
congratulation on the occasion of my birth-
day I return my sincere thanks. Von Bis-
marck,"
A$ YOU LIKE IT:
RONDEAII.
When death doth call or king or slave
None dares the edict dire to brave;
Gold, though a magic anaulet,
Can never pay stern nature's debt;
Hope cannot close the opening grave.
On battle field; beneath the wave;
On princely couch; in hermit's cave,
Fate's seal must be forever set
When death doth call.
In vain a brief re mite' we crave,
The hand that taketh likewise gave ;
In vain we fools the hour forget,
In vain like frighted children fret,
The body's wreck no power can Save
When death doth calL
The commercial value of the Mississippi
river is estimated at $2,000,000,000—the cost
of constructing railroads of equal length and
tonnage.
A well-read man of fair ability is said to
use from 6,C00 to 7,000 words,and to be able
to define and understand from 25,000 to 30,-
000. Shakespeare's vocabulary contained
about 15,000 worels.
It would bring the salt tears to the eyes
of a stone lion to see a Vassar graduate and,
a Harvard man who took honors in French -
at college trying to order a dinner together -
in a Paris restaurant.
Since Mr. Tilden's physician has brought
in his little bill of $143,350 for professional
services, a Western paper remarks that al-
though the livirg expenses of the deceased
statesman were undoubtedly very high, his
dying expenses may be rightly called extra-
vagant.
At Close Quarters.
Hunting wild animals is great sport,—for
those who like it ; and the larger and fiercer
the animal, the more enjoyable—to thooe
who enjoy it—is the excitement. But one
adventure like that described below by an
explorer of Africa would be likely to prove
enough for any but a thoroughbred Nimrod,
Determined to make one more effort to
destroy the lion, I again entered the brake,
and all at once the beast sprang up within a
few paces of me. It was a black -maned
lion, one of the largest I have ever encount-
ered in Africa. His movements were so
rapid, so silent and smooth withal, that it
was not till he had partially entered the
thick cover that I could fire.
On receiving the ball, he wheeled short
about, and with a terrific roar bounded to-
ward me. When within a few paces he
couched as if about to spring, having his
head imbedded, so to say, between his fore-
paws.
Drawing a large hunting knife, I dropped
on one knee, and awaited the onset. It vows
a moment of awful suspense and my situa-
tion was critical in the eXtrerne ; but my
presence of mind did not for a moment de-
sert me—indeed, I felt that nothing but the
most perfect oelf-command would be of any
avail.
would not have become the a,ossailante
but on account of the bushes and the cloudo
of dust raised by the lashings of the lion's
tail, I was linable to see his head, while to
aim at any other part would leave been mad -
nese.
Whilst I was intently watching his every
motion, he suddenly bounded toward me,
but somehow, in making his last spring, he
went clean ever me, and alighted three or
four paces on the other side.
Instantly, and without rising, I wheeled
round on my knee, and diseharged, my sec-
ond barrel. The ball Smashed his shoulder.
At this he made another and more determin-
ed rush at nie, but owing to his disabled
state, I happily avoided him, though he
passed within arm's length.
He ecrambled into the thick cover, where
we found hie body some days afterward.
Not a Nato.
Sna.„,,oeb3r, you aro preserhing upon x'ily
oredulity. You never killed 150 rabbits in
ono day."
aSSUre you I have not de.
viated a hare from the 'truth."