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futile, As far anfooll4 terrq or dread of
ing Lou it out of hie "ad 'would be wholly
carrying out such a ghastly oempact, Gerald
h dl d hie father dearly and could regard the prospect of deing so with
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s 'boys Gerald Revelow toad Louis Bond ert Gerel4 Been' eew thit the young iman IS
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tura r and Sadness were not solely a tended
toted lot play together. Tbey would pedlar; 1 ot, bemittineee: s It .we plain that Louie
never have sought one mother's company
had not circumstance °mead them to spend hardly heal enough wit/ maw* to concern
himeelf with thoee immediate tasks Which
many boyieh aurnmers on their parents' theadministration of hi a father's Waive now
neighboring tetatee, not far from the pictur. cleirmoded„ Gerald asoisted tits 4aging
cecina ahoree of New Rochelle; for Gerald was energies as much as proved possible, and
a robue b, merry, pink-oheeked lad, and Louis finally induoed him to take a short summer
with 'hie sallow face and great mystic black trip among the Northern lakes. Brenda
et es differed from him as an ivy leaf differs WaS deeply gratified by this plan, and gave
ftom a dandelion. Having ones met and be- aceraldoertain thankful words and looks bet
come friends, however, a genuine fondness cause of it that divinely repaid him for all
grew and throve betweeo their two widely annoyances at her past hauteur.
opposite nature& Gerald Ravelow% mother For a time the spirits of Louis underwent
was a meek-far:m(1 widow, v, ho adcred her a Mange. The weather in Montreal, on
only 641c1) and lived in a perpetual nate of the S. Lawrence and on Lake Superior
weak cheated and neuralgic regret that his chanced to be delicious and there were limn
late" father had not left him a ntillionaire. if not actual days when his companion felt
But Gerald* cheerful nand could see nothing hopeful that the sombre cloud had perman-
really manatee° in the snug little fortune ently lifted from his soul, , Then the old
that had survived hia father's commereial indifference and dreariness would take hold
collar°. They spent four or five monbles in of him once more, and at last, by the time
•Igew York eaoh year, and their Westchester of
their return to Shadyshore, it became
hone was pleasant if nob 'palatial. evident that he wee repay ne better than he
"After all " said Gerald one dew' "I begin
' had been when they started,
• to think, mamma, that money can't always 411 am haunted with an idea," he sudden -
buy us hanpiness." He looked so jocundly ly announced to Gerald one evening as the
ignorant of his own platitude that he mother two friends were seated together in a mon-
forgot how threadbare a one it Was. "There attic, highwainscotted, book lined room
are the Bonds," he went on. " Lon ie
ie a which was the perfection of a library. "It
nice little chap when you know him, but never leaves me. I have not told it to you
the he gets fite of the blues, as he oalle 'em, or to any one. And yet you aro of all
und he don't begin to have half as good a
time of it as I do. And just look at their people the one whom it would seem most
closely to oonoern."
great big house, and riheir atables, and their Gerald felt a sort of light shiver pass
servants, and everything like -that! And through his frame. He had long dreaded
oroev when I seen Mr. Bond, he's so awfully lest some humility might be at the root of
then Louis's father 1 I always think of a
his friend's peculiar behavior, and now
dark and glum."„ there seemed in Louis' tone and demeanor
'elle never recovered from his wifeaeloss, not positive confirmation of such fears, but
eiaid.Mro. Hayden?, a little reprovingly."- I
at least the delicate and mysterious prophecy
never saw her: they bought Shadyshore of ib.
after her death. But I've heard that little "Haunting ideaa should be treated with
Brenda looks a good deal like her dead extreme rudeness," he now said, in a voice
mother, and if that is the case Mrs. Bond
must have been very ineutiful.” gayer than were his furtive feelings. "When
they're morbid, Lm, they should be insulted.
"Do youtlaink Brenda Bond's pretty ?" up and down and given the 'neat inhospit.
asked Gerald. The idea of her being so had able notice to quit."
Louis shook hit, head, with a low, deep
"She's like a little angel 1" declared his
never occurred to him before.
sigh. Through the open window near which
mother. "Such hair as hers will, stay he sat glimmered the placid level of Long
golden; it ain't the kind that changes to Island Sound, blue in the dant afternoon
nut brown, as that of so many children does. =whine as though it had been one mon-
And then her pure little wild rose of a face i strolls slab of polished turquoise, and fringed,
Oh, Gerald, I ahould thinleyou'd be ever so at ita rooky shore, with dark basks of cedar,
fon&of her adres,dy Inlate_ large -leaved hickories and small yet std.
That "already" piqued. Gerald by its wart oaks. Louis let his eyes traverse the
ambiguity. He did not know exactly whe- rolling lawn and then nab on the exquisite
ther it zeferred to his own youth or that of sea view beyond. Presently, in a musing
Brenda, who was two good years younger vcioe he said a—
linen himself. But pride kept him from in. " att.ou've never told me, once and for all
quirks as to his mother's actual meaning, Gerald, whether or no you believe in the
while at the same time he reflected that he immortality of the soul. Do you ?"
was privately very fond indeed of little Gerald looked puzzled for an instant.
Brenda'and that in more than one gallant "You know it isn't much iir my line, Lon,
way he had. contrived te tell her so. to think at all on those questions," he at
The thought of her son marrying Brenda length said. "I'm sure," he went on
Bond at some future day filled Mrs. Rave- "it's my most, earnest hope that were
low with ambitious thrills. The Bond for- immortal after death. As for my belief,
tune was well known to be six millions if a however, ---11
dime, and though Louis would perhaps re- "You're like me, then," broke in Louis,
waive the great bulk of the property on his turninghis black eyes upon Gerald with
i
father's death, still hie sister's share would sudden ntentnese, "I don't believe; I only
doubtless prove a handsome one. But Mrs. hope. But I'd like to believe; I'dlike it
Ravelow was of too hypochondriac a turn to
above all other thingo."
allow hope the least altitude of flight. Her
Is that the haunting idea you spoke of?'
Benn-invalid eyes forever gazed on the dark asked Gerald.
-aides of things, and she saw slight prospect "Oh, I suppose that's what makes me so
of a tneresboyeand-gid preference ever result
forlornly blue."
trig seriously in after life.
"At last you admit there is something,
Louis. Well, all the more reason for you to
make a stout effort and crush down the
devilish nuisance. It hasn't any real exis-
tence, anyhow; it's born only of an un-
healthy. fancy. Good heavens 1 we've all
got to die, and none of us—no, not one—
really knows whet life at all, waits beyond
the grave."
"I'd like to know—if I could," murmured
Louis, in a low stubborn voice.
"If you could 1 So would everybody—If
he could." Louis seemed to take no heed of
this rather sarcastic response. In a certain
way," he pursued, "you and 1, Gerald, are
peculiarly placed. We both own estates
which we shall probably never part with
during our lifetimes. On either of these
there is a family vault. The chances of one
of as being buried in each of geese vaults
must be excessively strong."
"In the name of everything unearthly,"
said Gerald, as his friend peaked, "what
can you be ariving at ?"
• "Simply this," replied Louis, whose man-
ner and tones were now as calm as if he had
been passing judgtaent on some very ordin-
ary and prosaic question. "It would give
me great satisfaction if you would make a
compact with me, and the compact
to which I allude has been one whose
moot minute detail I have caretully
thought out." He went on speaking for
some little time after this, and as he finally
paused Gerald gave an exclamation of acute
surprise.
'Will I agree ?" rang his words. • "Why,
Lou, its altogether too ozazy a scheme 1
Just imagine my going alone at midnight
into the vault where you're lying dead 1"-
• "I somehow haven't; been imagining that,"
returned Louie, with a quaint little motion
of the head. "I've the fancy, Gerald, that
I shall survive you—and perhaps by a, num-
ber of years. You see I'm not apeoially
strong of conetitution, yet I live a quiet life
and pat no tax upon my forces of endurance.
You, however, who are strong as an ox, pay
very little heed to your physical powers.
You're like the man who draws thoughtless-
ly on a large bank account, and who may
wake some morning to find hie cheek polite-
ly returned by the paying teller. I, on the
other hand, am like a man with a small de.
posh, yet who treats it in a most economic
spirit and hence makes no mistake about
the surplus that he might rely upon in case
of any sudden embarrassment."
Gerald gave one of his loud, joyous laughs
and got up from his chair, going to a Win-
dow and staring out of it with both hands
thrust into his pookets.Caltatas W IA
"I see, Lott," he said, "you calculate
confidently on my dying before you do."
"Oh, not confidently. But--"
I underetand. Well, this compact
will be carried out by the survivor, of course,
and in absollste solitude, ail you say. You
could receive from me a key to our vault,
from you a key to yours. Say that 1 died
before you did, On the fire' night following
my death you could steal to the vault, unlock
it and wait inside with a lighted candle for
the space of three home, after having ve-
reeved the lid of my coffin so as to make my
face and part of my form clearly visible.
Then you could endeavor, by every poasible
effort of will, to receive some eign from me
that I was aware of your -vigil. All this,
as you suppose it, thy boy, might be perfectly
predicable—that leg ptovided 1 were not
lost at Sea, buried abroad, hanged for murclir
and afterward claimed by the physicians
• CHAPTER II.
At sixteen Gerald went to Harvard, while
Louie, owing to the enfeebled health of his
melitnceholy father, remained at home under
the care of tutor& During Gerald's vaca-
tions he saw a great deal of both Louis and
his sister. Theirs had proved one of the
few childish friendships not fated to be
shattered and dispelled by time. Gerald took
no high stand in his class, and Louis, study-
ing and reading amid comparative solitude,
wouM sometimes assail him with gentle
ironies.
"I dare Bay you'd beat us all out of our
boots if you were at Cambridge," laughed
Gerald one day in hierjunior year.
"0 h, how I do wish he had gone 1" said
Brenda, who chanced to be present, and who
had, now become a damsel with hair like
threaded sunshine, figure of arrowy straight•
nese and cheeks to rival rose petals.
Her brother looked at her with a little
start. They ecarody seemed as if blood
allied them, he was so dark and grave be-
side his blonde, buoyant sister. "Why do
you say that, Brenda?" he queried. "Do
you mean that you could spare me so wally
if I were off in Massachusetts with Gerald ? '
Ah, no, indeed 1" cried Brenda. "But
I think you grow glooroy, Louis, from living
in such complete seclusion."
"I'm gloomy by nature," sad Louis, with
um of his sad little smiles.
"Heaven only knows why you should bel"
(=kilned Gerald, with a glance at the
rich appointed room wherein they sat.
" You've everything to make you jolly as a,
erfeket. " be went on; and now there cornea
mellownessanto his hazel eyes ashe fixed them
on Brenaa s tace and softly added, " in-
• cluding the lovliest sister on the face
of the earth." Brenda blushed and gave her
gotden head a, little mutinous toss. She had
xeadhed the feminine age that often resents
broad compliments as tiresome and a trifle
vulgar beaide. • But if Gerald could have
seen, by some clairvoyant warardry how her
heart was fluttering at the thought of suck
high praise from his lips he might, perhaps,
have failed to regret the rather intimate
boldness of what he bad just said. •Some-
times he told himself that he rebelled
ungraciously against Brenda's assumption of
the grown up young lady, and again he
would feel indignant flushes that she should
•find it in her heart to alter their old care-
less relations by a distance and ceremony
which depressed and chilled.
"Confound it," he once said to Louis,
"Brenda 'tote as if we'd never at in the
same awing together and made voyages with
our heels up among the birds' limits, not to
speak of letting the old oat die with our
arms quite unnecessarily about one another*
waista. '
Louie smiled, "Oh, don't be annoyed at
• Brenda's aim," he returned. • "I dare say
all young girls put them on in abundance,
• Besides if she tiow and then eeerns distrait,
Gerald:it's no doubt becattee she's worried
at the way our poor father goes on failing
wonte and woree from week to ereek."
The Bonds were now back in their charm-
ing country Tame, end a short time after
• they had quitted town to come thither
Oawforci Bond rapidly 0111111 and died. The
ftineral was held in a quiet country church,
not for from Shadyshore, though many pro-
minent New Y others came up by train to
• attain it Afterward the body Was inter-
red in a filthily vault on the Bond eatete'a
massive granite mausoleum which the late
proprietor bad realised to be built soon atter
purchasing Sliadyriliore and to which the
telaithis of hie wife hed long been oonsigneel.
entire calmness. Iodeed, as an not tha
would supposably involve nerve emd pluck
its possible undertelting retaier ainueed him
than otherwiee. Still, he would perhaps
have discountenanced the entire project as
both frivolous and senmational but for a
thought Cud now oame te him, born of his
loyal friendship. What if he ehould humor
this whim of Louis', in the hope that by so
doing the persistent mood of melancholy
might be dissipated?
It was a matter of mortifioation to him
several hour a later when he reflected upon
what he had done, The termof the compact
bit° which he had now entered with Louis
pledged him to absolute emcee., otherwise
he might have informed his mother of the
strangelyacquiescent part that he had played
To obtain a duplieate key of the family
vault was a more diffioult tags for him than
for Louis, since in one case the master of
Shadyshore needed but to employ a lock-
smith and in the other it was necessary for
Gerald to hunt through closets and odd
corners, and always with a sense of ultim-
ate failure. But suddenly one morning he
found the object of hie search,. and to make
the desired exchange with Loms was thence-
forth easy enough.
There were now but a few days left
Gerald betare his return to college, and
during this time he failed to notice much
Mange in his friend. Perhaps, however,
the attention which he paid Louis was in a
manner molested and thwarted by semi -
farewell meetings and tallts with Brenda.
Gerald found himself perpetually quarreling
with the girl he had now gtown to adore,
It sometimes seemed to him that Brenda,
in the imperious arrogance of her maidenly
beauty, would like him to get down on his
knees and kiss her olender little foot. He
told her something of that sort one day,
and she answered him, with an insolent
quiver of her long golden eyelashes, that,
on the contrary, she would be afraid to
forbid his even doing, anything so silly for
fear that obstinacy might make him stupid.
ly disobey.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER
The ttitiarid threw a terrible gloom oVer
Darin Gerald's next term at Harvard he
learned from his mother that rumors had
reached her of how Louie Bond had placed
himself in the hands, as it were, ot three
or four Spiritualistic mediums azicl had be-
come a confirmed devcitee of their theories.
Then, soon afterward, another letter fioin
Mrs. Re.velow told him of how Brenda had
been to see her at that lady's hodie in New
York and had wept plenteous and most
pathetics tears over the infatuation of Louis.
"1± seems," wrote Gerald's mother,
"that there •is a pertain olairvoyante
named Mrs. Laveridge Who has acqeired
great control over your friend. Brenda has
seen her once at a meoting where she
spoke in a real or fictitious trance, and de-
soribes her as strikingly beautiful, with a
slight foreign accent and a, voice full of the
most dulcet cadences."
Robbery in Paris.
Blakely Hall, writing from Pods to the
Chien° 44lnter000an»Fabouti the way in
whioh the Parisittua are fleecing vieitora te
the Exhibition, Bays actor in the
Gymnase one night howed me three bills of
tare whieh he had collected in the Cefe de le
Paix--which is one of the beat known
restaurants and oerteinlo the most promin-
ently looeted one in Parte. The first menu
was apparently intended for the Frenoh
patrons of the house. It was laid on the
tables from 11 to 2, which are the usual
breakfast hours for the business men and
sportsmen who frequent this particular
hostelry. At three &Week the second meru
was placed upon the -bible. It was precisely
like the fire& except that the prices were
100 per 'sent greater. At seven o'clock at
night the third menu, in a, beautifully gilded
frame, supplanted the other two, et prices
whichwould startle a Rothschild. Such
charges as 90 cents for asparagus and a
similar aum for potatoes or green peas figure
on the list of the last of the three bilk of
fare. If one is content to live in tile Lttin
quarter, the expensee will be only about 25
per centmore this year than last. But if
he frequents the mist hada, as Americans
invariably do, and lives at the restaurants,
he will find that his breakfast will average
about $3, dinner $6, his late supper $3, and
a single room, tvith coffee, candles, bath,
and attendants, will come mighty near $8 a
day. In feet he will have to pay about $20
a day before he begins to spend any money:
A little while after his graduetion, in the
following June, Gerald met this Mrs.
Leveridge. He had no sooner teen and talk-
ed with her than he realized the.b she WEIS
odious. Not that she was without beauty
of s certain sensuous type, but her green
gray eyes hid lights that repelled him, and
in the coils of her glossy auburn hair he
seemed to see suggestions of a serpentine
temperament. She had given it out, in a
vague way, that she was by birth a Huogar
Ian, though about all her past clung the ha ze
of sledded uncertainty. Almost from the
first moment that she and Gerald met an
antagonism developed itself between them.
Mrs. Leveridge appeared to •realize that
her away over Louis would now be disputed,
and that Brands had seourecl an ally. Still,
Brenda and Gerald soon fell into a dispute
concerning thia very questionsartheireonfedt
eraoy. You are doing nothingto take my
brother from the clutches of thin; horrid
woman," she at length said. "It is so
disappointing 1 I thought you would use
your influence."
"What more can I do then I've already
done ?" quried Gerald. "Lode is infatuat-
ed. If you attempt to speak the truth about
Mrs. Leveridge he receives your wordsal-
most in the sense of personal insult."
• Brenda tossed her head. "You should
disillusion him 1" She exolaimed. "Yes,
you should 1 If you were nob indolent
about the matter you would 1"
Gerald bit his lip. "Do you want me to
make myself absurd both in your Brother's
eves and my own ?" he said.
Brenda gave a bitter little smile. "I
want you to show that you have some human
compassion," she answered. "On, not for
myself —indeed, no 1 For him whom you
once told me that you truly loved 1" It
was on the verge of Gerald's tongue to say,
"Not half so much as I love you," but one
of the moods that vieit lovers prevented thia
sentiment from being uttered. "I suppose
Louis is at least moderately sane," he said,
however, and then followed some words on
both sides which were hostile, if not posi-
tively angry. Brenda reproached herself
after Gerald had gone away, and saw re-
pentantly her own rashness. But Gerald,
stung to the quick by her unjuat treatment
of him, and feeling exasperated by the ad-
verse spirit in which Louis had received his
counsels, took passage nob long after-
ward for Europe and remained there almost
a whole year.
Daring thie time Mrs. Leveridge became
the wife of Louis Bond. Brenda suffered
the keenest pain at being obliged to welcome
beneath her own and her brother's roof a
woman for whom she had only doubt, sus
pioion and contempt. Her deep affection
for Louis alone &wired her from leaving
him and going to live in the companionship
of a relative. Poor, higbeepirited Brenda
suffered untold pangs as months glided along.
The "trance states" of her new sister-in-
law had struck her from the first as rank
humbug. Louis still believed in them, and
would sometimee openly declared • his al-
legiance to their potency. In New York it
was unpleaeant enough for Brenda to occupy
the same house with her brother' S wife, but
at Shadyshore it wee ten times worse. The
girl strove to curb her bentper, and succeed-
ed, Mrs. Bond had seemingly no temper to
curb, but tale dealt in little touches of 'rare
mom and hnpertinence which taxed keenly
Brendeas powere of endurance. LiOUia so
peadonately loved his Wife that any cora.
plaint on the part of his dater would have
been equally unveiae and meatus. Brenda
comprehended this and passed a summer of
silent martyrdom.
(To nn ocammunn.)
It Was saa.
Bugs That Laugh at Heat.
New Haven "Palladium :" • A few dayo
aka' Frank Woodward of Albany, N. Y.,
who was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B.
Smith in Fair Haven, received a peculiar
present from California. It was aent to him
by Leland Stanford, the millionaire senator,
whose wife is an aunt of Woodward and also
of Mrs. Smith. Mr. Woodward opened the
box and found three salamanders peeked. in
cotton. Them bugs!' are more often read
about than gazed upon. They were found
in caverns by some of Mr. Stanford's em-
ployes and Mr. Stanford sent them met.
The three bugs traveled the 3,000 miles
without "visible means of support," unless
it was the cotton, but on arriving they were
very frisky and evidently in good, spirits.
They are chunky little fellows about two
inches long, and resemble nothing so ranch
as they do a piece of 'steel. They look like
raw steel and act like it—that is, they seem
to be metallic and invulnerable. They are
alike ineensible to heat and cold, and can be
toasted on a red.hot stove or seated upon an
ice cake without their composure being in
the least disturbed.
or---
" Ohl hew you're laughing at nie," etruolt
in Louie, which ct, hurb intonation.
"No, I'M nob," protested Gerald. "1
merely want to rernihd you that although
eticht extraeagarzas as thole -eau be played in
ted life, discovery subjecto tholti concerned
In thank to good deal of severe ridicule."
A Swag of PettOe.
Noe wandering by the summer sea,
A radiant vision came to me ;
Bright spirits, whose clear voices sound
Theouglemultituainotatclopthe profound,
Sweat by. Anti left a music rare
Low puking through the sunlit'alr.
Ah, Could that Bong be given voice,
I know all hearts it would rejoice,
For while it echoed in my soul,
I saw the waters landward roll,
A perfect peace and calm repose
VS her tete and atorray tumult, rose.
And far away a nearing ship
Out from the gray mist seemed. to slip,
And with a stately, regal way.
Came on aoross the shining bay,
Till past the lighthouse, tall:and white,
She slowly faded from toy sight.
There wao no rough and blustering gale
To strain and rend the hempen sail;
Bat from the omitted on the hill
The robins sent a merry trill,
And cool and sweet the southern breeze
Sang through the Jamie and mossy trees.
The fragrant meadow, daisy -starred,
And by the river's 'silver barred,
Rang with the mowona cheerful call,
and by the roadway's dusty wall
The lingering, (settle stayed to eat
The purple clover honey.oweet
There was no cloud to break the spell,
• A Doubly Dark Deal.
Deacon Jones—" le was a, mean trick for
Brother Brown to trade his broken-down
nag to the parson for a young colt, • wasn't
?"
Deacon Smith—" Yes, a mighty mean
trick, for I was about to close e trade with
the parson for that balky horse-ot mine. He's
a very unfair man."
He Strove to Please.
"See here, Spaghetta, move on with the
hurdy-gurdy. There's a corpse in this
house," said a citizen to a hand -organ
grinder.
"A dead -a Irian?" inquired Spagbette.
"A dead woman. Ws all the same. We
don't want any dance music" around here."
"I'll play -a da 'Heart Bowed :Down.'"
As that meet murmur rose and fell.
The regal lily lifted up
Toward the sun its onow-white cup,
And even the lowliest blossom found
A joy in that myeterious sound.
And as. its cadence sank, I heard,
Clear, like the calling of a bird,
Sent far along a shadowy plain
Just as the low clouds break it rain,
&chorus rippling like the tide
That kissed the white sand by my aide.
Ah, could our restless apirits know
That harmony so sweet and low
When olaehing in disoordant strife,
Than would we reach to grander life,
And man by nobler manhood prove
Worthy the Saviour's gift of love.
Tues. S. COLLIER.
Psyche.
Against the dusky background, pale and
• hir
She stands, and in her heavy -lidded eyes
• A lurking sadness like a shallow lies;
Above, the golden tendrils of her hair—
Fit halo for the maiden -face beneath;
And from the opened casket in her hand,
For which she sought the dark, Plutonian
land.
The mist, aleep-laden, floats, an airy
wreath.
Quite the Contrary.
A merchant, engaged in an attempt to sell
a wooden refrigerator to a lady, boasted of
the various good qualities of the article.
" But 1 am afraid.," said the lady, "that
these refrigerators will taste the food."
"Bless ye, ma'am!" exclaimed the dealer.
"Taste the food ? Why, they'll take the
taste all out o' the food, ma'am, every bit
of itl"
Economy in the Kitchen.
"Kate, what are you thinking of ? You
have two candles for your knitting 1" "Oh,
no,
nuwant, I haven't but •one ; but I cutit
in two."
The gentleman who raises his silk hat to
a lady gives her anywhere from a four to a
fifteen dollar tip.
• The young King of Spain's nurses pro.
bably have little trouble in keeping him
clean since he is himselt the Castilels hope.
Some experiments • lately made at the
Royal Polytechnic School at Munich show
that the strength of camel hair belting
reaches 6,315 pounds per square inch, while
that of ordinary belting ranges between
2 230 and 5,260 pounds per square inch.
The camel hair belt is unaffected by acids.
He was dining out one bight, 'Whelk a
social olown inquired whet meat he preferred
most. "Well,' replied the clerk, moiling
pleasantly at the thought of the many ap-
petizing dishes he had enjoyed in the peat,
"I teeny think I give the palm to veal."
"isn't It sad," whispered the humorist to a
friend, "that a man whet le AO passionately
fond of veal eliould ranee such, badly de-
veloped calves 7"
Sometimes I think about that picture clings
• A magic spell, a subtle witchery,
That, breeze.like, sways the folds of drap-
ery
And quivers in strange lights upon her
wings.
It steals into the depths oi violet,
Whose loveliness her lashes half eclipse
It wavers in the smile across her lips,
Although her eyes are full of vague regret.
Ah,• well 1 The world is wide and years are
bong;
Perhaps some titres we may discover why.
The billows murmur—roses bloom and
die,
Or liotwour sweetest poets weave their song.
We may learn what the spell is In a smile
That brightens earth as when Spring
comes again,
May learn why Psychs smiles so strangely
when
Her eyes are dark with sorrow all the while.
Only a few years ago the painter of "The
Angelus," which recently brought t22,120
was reduced to the most humiliating etrug,
glee and diffioulties to gain a mere subsist-
tence. "My heart is all black," he wrote to
a friend, and in another letter he exclaims:
—"Ah 1 the end of the month—where shall
I find the money for it ? For the ohildren
must eat." The painter who wishes to ba
given neither poverty nor riches should con-
fine himself to holism' and signs.
The surviving sisters of Dr. Livingsten,
have sudd enly discovered that the manuscript
journals from which he wrote his first book
are missing, and they are very anxious for
their recovery. It will be unfortunate in
the extreme if these journals are irrevocably
los& for -they contain the record of the groat
explorer's missionary work and travels for
sixteen years, and Livingstone himself said
that out of them ha could write three hooks
as large as the " atimionary Travels," which
made him famous as an explorer. Living-
stone collected and preserved in his manu-
scripts a good deal of information thab has
never been printed. Mr. Ravenstein, the
eminent English authority an Africa, in his
recent article on the exploratim of Lake
Bo.ngweolo, made use of Benue unpublished
manuscripts that he found in the possession
of Livingstone's family.
Some of the rioheet wo,mett are the lead
extretvagant in their clothes, writes a Now
York correspondent, as is the &lee, foe ex-
ample, with old .Mrs. W, H. Vanderbilt,
who ekes not spend above $1000 is year, and
the late Mrs. Gould not ao muoh. Nelly
Gould, who will inherit $15,000,000 or $20.
000,000 and already has at Income of $40a
000 a year, owl& 'dumb $2500 in thee&
The late Mrs. A. T. Stewart was a fortune
to the dreasmakers, who put away $8000 or
$10,000 it year on het furbelows. lalra.
Alder dresses with a solemn, handoeme ex.
penalveness at the bed of 54000 or $5000 a
year and all of the yoang Vanderldltivomen
'spend a great deal of money on theiralothes.
Mrs. CIeoege Gould, Who was Edith Xing
Son , the admire, speeds money like wetter
when it coiner' to it queetirni of clothes, and
mud pat a good $10,000 a year id the hands
of the dreastaakeri.
Mouth and the Man I Bing,
INCOMPATIBILITY 01' 000131,'ATiOt
W by it Was hupossible tor Henry Monazite
Lo Win tile Widow Grampus.
The voice of the lady trembled slightly as
she looked at the middle-aged but well
preserved gentleman before 4er and said:
"Can it be poasible ? To this Henry Stmt.
pm, the friond and oompanion of my earlier
dete ?"
'1It is, Florellee—Krs. Grampus " he said,
his own voioe betraying an excitement he
could not suppress. have come 500
miles to see you."
w How straoge 1" she said, 85 0110 oauk into
a chair. "Pray be Heated, Harry—Mr.
Slunapue. How it iseeme to bring back old
times te see you agaio
"It does—it does 1" he replied. Twen-
ty years have gone, It seethe an age, Yet
how lightly time has touohed you 1 on
me for saying so, but you look soar it
day older than on that and, bitter mo ning
so long ago when that foolish quarrel, in
which I was to blame, separated us "----
Do not speak of it, Har—Mr. Skunpue,"
replied the lady. "1 was not bla,neeless
nayeelf. But tell me your history. Where
have you been and what have you done in
all these years? Are you—are you "
" Merrlecl ?" he interrupted, in a voice
that quivered in spite of him. "No. There
has never been room in my inert for more
than one love 1"
For a few moments he was silent, andtlaen,
he resumed
"Wlaen I left your presence that memora-
ble morning I went to the Far West. I threw -
myself into business, oaring little whether I
was successful or not. / prospered. In tine
time I learned through a friend of your mare
riege to Mr. Grernpus. I threw myself ebilh
deeper into business. I made fortunes and
lost them again, unmoved by either success,
or failure. .A.t present I am not rich, but am.
in comfortable circumstances, with my means,
invested in a business that furnisheded me a,
satisfactory income, I learned a few days
ago, by actoident, that you had been a vridow
for several years, and it longing came upon
me to see you again, I could not 'Witt it,
and I am here. Are you sorry to see me,
Florence 7"
"I—I am not," add the widow, softly.
"You have told me of youraelf, Mr. Slum -
"Call me Harry, please."
"SO ell—Harry—and it may interest you -
to know that Mr. Grampus, while not weal-
thy, left me a competence which is inverted
in a business that is in every way prosper-
ous."
"May I ask what it is ?"
"It is an establishment for manufacturing
russet shoes." •
The visitor rose and took his hat.
"My romance is at an end, Mrs. Gram-
pus," he said, in a hollow voice. "I am a
manufacturer of liquid shoe -blacking."
I love the man who knows it all,
• Fron east to west, from north to south;
Who knows all things, both great and small,
Ani teak it with his tireless mouth;
Who holds a listening world in awe,
The while he works his iron a aw.
°Mimes, in evening's holy calm,
When twilight softens eight and sound,
And zephyr breathes a peaoeful psalm,
This fellow brings his mouth around,
With its long gallop that can tire
The eight-day clock's impatient ire.
His good strong mouth 1 He wields it well!
He works itjust for al/ it's worth;
mj
Not Sa
son's awbone famed could tell
Such :nighty deeds upou the earth.
He pulls the throttle open wide
And works it hard on either side.
Up hill and down, through swamp and sand,
It never stops, it never balks;
Through air and sky, o'er sea and land,
He talks, and talks, and talks, and talks,
And talks, and talks, and talks, and talks,
And talks, and talka, and talks, and talks.
Good Lord, from evils fierce and dile,
Save us eaoh day; from fear and woe,
From wreck and flood, from storm and fire,
From sudden deatn, from secret foe,
From blighting rain and burning drought,
And from the man who playa his mouth 1
R. J. BURDETTE.
KILLED A BEA SERPENT.
He unfortunately Sinks Before Anybody
can Get Hold oe Him.
Cap& William F. Smith of the bark Nand.
lus report"' thatwhen off Cape Berkely,Gan
&pages Islands, a sea serpent was seen about
thirty yards from the vessel. Capt. Smith
estimated the serpent's length at eighty feet,
and he was about as large around as a barrel
in the thickest part. The head wao shaped
like a smite's, only on the extreme end of the
upper jaw there was a ridge or bunch. The
head was about three feet In length, and
about two feet back of the head was a inane
of hair. No fins were seen. The tail was
long and tapering and shaped like that of an
eel.
"We all ha ra a good view at him," odd the
Captain, "while he wee slowly coming to-
ward the ship. We loaded two bomb guno
a,nd banged away at him and tot about
fifteen mitites there was. quite 0. cuenia, the
serpent lashing the water with his tail and
running his head outfour or Ave feet. , All
last he ran out his head, whisked Around,
and 'mat deed. •Both bombs hit him.
When he went down he was not more than
twenty feeb from the ship, and ao, of course,
we ha4 a good look at him.
"We spoke the bark Bertha'Capt.
Jyeenakroinesg,o."afew days later, ancl he told us
a,
that large serpent Was 1366D off Redonda
Rook by Capt. Jonea in the Camilla several
• Pride° Biamark le endeavoring to oecure a
meeting of the Czer, Emperor Francis joseph
and Emperor William at Berlin, with fair
prospoota of mama.
Lillian Russell's Enemy.
Lillian Russell is the victim. of he owe'
beauty, and the dreadad getting tat* keeps
her as miserable as the humblest chorus.
girl. Sae can't eat any sort of sweetmeats,
cake or pastry. Every vegetable is forbid-
den that grows under ground; no vane is
allowed to pass her lips; meat is limited
to one meal is day, end between the foods
that she dare not eat and does not care, to
eat her bill of fare is' confined to bread and
butter, lemon and jam.
Every day she is compelled to walk ten
miles, sold in this hot weather the exercise
is far from agreeable. • She dresses in blue
flannel, wears cork -soled shoes, a straw hat
with a moist sponge basted in the crown,
and. carries a double -lined sun umbrella. As
the object of this exercise is to keep her
flesh down, she never fails to weigh herself
before starting out, so that Me knows exact-
ly what reduction Is necessary. A part of
her outfit consists of long strips of white
flonnel which are coiled about her body
spirally and kid double where the flash is
too abundant. In this snug woollen suit
the only Lillian walks until she is a rich
rose color and dripping with perspiration,
when she is rubbed down with alcohol, re-
freshed with cold bullion and put to. bed.
On her toilet as much care and money are
spent as if she were a princess. Every da,y
she receives the visit ot a hair -dresser, mani-
cure and pedicure, and a bathing mistress
prepares her vapor baths.
Not All Wrong.
Aspiring Author--" Wean* there anything
In the lettere I sent you that you could user'
Praotical Editor---" Yes, the stamps you
inclosed for their return we used, but. them
wits nothing eke avalleble."
Mr. Schwalm, Liberal M.P. for the Xortit
DIviaion of Manchester, has donated $2,500
for the relief of evicted tenants in Ireland,
• William Brodie, the self-confessed White-
chapel murderer, has been discharged, as his.
statements were evidently the ravings of
delirium tremene.
The most intelligent explanation why Sir
George Chetwynd was not punished by the,
court of. arbitration between him and Lordt
Durham, which dealt so vigorously with!
jocky Wood and trainer Sherrard, is offered
by the St. James's Gazette. That journal
thinks it was "partly because he is nob
proved to have played an active and con -
salons part in certain transactions brought
home to his asociatea : partly because many
persons think that he has already paid a•
sufficiently heavy penalty; partly because,
it is known that many other parsons in an
equally high position have been offender
not less serious against the rules of racing.'''
The town of Newcastle has recently been
in it state of great excitement through the
visit of "Dr. Sequah," a "prairie flower"
medicine mtn. He was there for three
weelre, and it is estimated that he sold 540,-
000 worth of medioine. At hie farewell, in
the largest hell in the city, the attendance
was enormous, and when he went out a, crowd
of men seized the vehicle containing his
band and his Indians, and led it through the
streets headed by a workman who h re-
gained the use of his firths by Dr. Seq oh's,
treetiment
About two centuries' ago an old citizen of
51. Ives parish, Hants, left in trust to the
vicar and churchwardens an orchard, . the
rent of which was to be devoted to the rim -
chase of Bible& The teetator farther pro.
vided that the Bibles should be raffled for
with dice in tho church, end Rinse then the,
prescribed oeremony has been duly carried
mit every Whit Tuesday. Last Whit Tues-
day, after is shortohed evening ` prayer, the
vicar delivered an eddreee telling thoee pre.
sent that they must look upon vvhet WAS go-
ing to take place reverently. Ho was sorry
they had to observe the oust= in is place
sanctified to the SerVice 61 God ; but it had
been observed for 200 yearki. DIOR 60 prO•
ceedinge began. • A table covered with a
white cloth was brought forward, and the
boys and girls came up as their named wore
called and throw the dice, which were pro-
vided by the church, kach,hail three throws,
the highest numbetri winning the Bibles. The
cetemohy dont/ with it hymn and the bene.
ell tie