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CHAPTER V.
During the next tvinter affodre grew worse,
Brenda vdte aeked out a good deal by the
leaclers o ceiaty, but rarely accepted an in,
vitation. Louie woeld go nowhere without
his wife, and Mrs. Bond, in apite of having
wedeed a man whose name posaessed great
social value, lead felled to secure recognition
among the eel:ming cliques. Regarded, as
an adventureas before her marriage, she was
avoided subtle quently.
" It is net my fault," mimed Brenda. "
weuld do anything to have the wife of Louis
reeetved. But tht Ehe ehould vent her
apleen upon nie because a not beteg reoeiv.
ed is certainly hard to bear.'
ate:nohow, after telling that deeoction you
prepare for me.
Brenda believea tint she Raw a slight
Ruth steal into Netalieet °been as her
huabancl thus replied. Bub an inabent after-
ward the young wife said, in hr gentleat
and moat solioiteue way : -"Ah, Louie, that
oan only be imagination my deer. The
Medicine has already Arengthened you
woriderfully, I think."
"Oh, well, I suppose you know best,"
said Louis, with a gaze that was in itself LI
OareSS. thought "HOW he loves her," ought Brenda,
"and how devoutly he treats her ! Can it
be possible that both his love anl his trust
Mrs. Bond did thus vent her spleen. She
are D.ptteously niip1aoed t"
behaved to Brenda asif filled with a latent Not long aftenwatlat on a 1°"151, atarlIght
hatred of her. No matter whom Braude evening Brenda chanced to be taking e little
visitedher sister -in -la re had some sneer to stroll about the lawn. She had walked in
direot at the hoot or hostess. American the direction o. the shore, where stood a
society, she avowed, was 111 -bred and teal- "mum house in whieh she would now and
then seat herself and watch the dim stretoh
of water beyond. This evening it was
rather chilly down by the rooks, and she
passed inland among a great grove at fit
Drees that rose near one of tee roadside
getes. On a sudden she heard the sound of
4 feminine voice emergent from a specially
dense cluster of trees. At onoe she reoogn
lead the voice as that ef her .sistenin law,
and peened, listening in eurprise.
"Never come like this again," Natalie was
saying, "You letter gave me a great shook.
I should not have met you here, and you
have been horribly imprudent in writing
for um to meet you ae you did write. The
money you needed was one thing, Aro hi
bald; to mast on seeing Me VMS another.
Then came the unmistakable sound of a
man's voice, but already Natalie and her
companion (whoever he wag) had strolled
beyond earshot, and all that Brands. oould
now hear was a. swift ancomaion of words,
few of which. conveyed to her more than a
faint idea of their ramming.
The girl remained for a moment quivering
with consternation. Then she hurried for-
ward and through an opening in the trees
presently discerned two forms that moved
presently
by side along a path leading straight to
the outer opeosite road.
ous. Brenda could never get her to say
just whet English people she had known
. during her long alleged residence in London
or pronely what had been her origin and
antecedents previous to her first marriage.
As for Louis he seemed immensely satiefied
with something the had told him regarding
her past life and to desire no weightier diver.
SUM than to watoh her mobile, dimpled face
while she talked amply though vaguely of
transatlantic reminiscences.
In the following spring Louis showed
symptoms of illness. Brenda became deeply
worried, and even if she had not thought
of the absent Gerald her Imaging for his
presence would now have wakened. Just
before the time came when Shadyshore was
preferred to tbe heats of a New York June
Gerald suddenly appeared at the Bond's
Madison avenue residence. He mane at
about eight o'clock one evening, and as
Brenda shook hands with him it seemed to
her as if She might swoon from surprise and
joy.
"Do -do you know of Louis' marriage ?"
she stammered. I -I suppoem though, that
of course you have heard."
Oh, yes," said Gerald. And tben to
Brenda's great relief, both Louis and her
sister-in-law came into theeroom.
Mrs. Bond was in one of her most amiable
moods that evening. "It givesme so innch
pleasure, Mr. Bavelow," she said, to wel.
come you home again. Dear Louis, as you
see, to not very well, but we hope that
Shadyshore will soon prove for him just the
change he needs."
Gerald smutted her lithe figure and let
his eyes dwell perhaps too intently for
courtsey on her clean OA SyMMetriC
face,
"I hope so with all my heart," he said.
"Louis however might be benefited by a
still greater change."
"Oh," laughed Louis,with that effort whioh
seeing always to cling a'oont a sick man's
laugh, "I suppose you mean Europe, Gerald.
But no; I'm a better Americen than you
are -at least, for the present. I mean to
try what Shadyshore will do. If it fails,
we may try more heroic measures."
"There will be no need of them, Louis,"
said Mrs, Bond, addressing her husband
with a certain tartness of tone. "I'm sure
you will mend as soon as you begin to
breathe the fresh country air." She turned
toward Gerald now, with her sweet, radiant
smile. "Shall you be our neighbor this
summer?" she asked.
once More egainPt no°'" F°1' two or three
days poor Breade waited some belch develop-
ment, but none mute. Louie failed to give
her the elighteat confidence on the aubjeot) of
hie wifeet avowals, though au interview of
thiakindevas eagerly and Imagingly exempted.
Louie' appearance and deportment) were
meanwhile clejeoteon itself. lie allowed no
longer & Align of fondness toward Natalie,
and Brenda perceived thet her sister -le -law
labored under vlsible annoyaeoe or worri-
ment, it was hard to tell precisely tvhioh.
Shortly after dinner time one sultry,
lifelese eneninge servant oeme toBrende and
bold her that Mr. Band had euddenly been
taken very ill. Hurrying to her brother's
apertment Brenda found him stretched on
a sofa near one of the windows looking pale
as death. His wife sat 'made him, chafing
one of his bandit between both, her own and
seeming to be overwhelmed by dietress,
"Hehis heart," she whispered to Brenda.
has had one or two illnesses like this
before. They are usually, followed by fainb.
nese, just as you 880$ though this is more
severe then any other that hes yet visited
"1 shall and at once for Dr. Southgate,"
said Brenda, with decision. She promptly
went toward a bell and rang it.
Natalie looked at her with an abrupt,
challenging stare. " Louie does not need a
dootor," she said, "He is better now.
Besides," she went on, with an obstinacy
that bore strange °entreat to her femme
mein of grief, "a rural doctor like that might
do him more harm than good. To -morrow,
if he is strong enough, we will go to tow
and see some phyaiolati of authority."
Brenda gave a slight, earcastio smile. I
disagree with you," the said, "and shall
send for Dr. Southgate."
Natalie rose haughtily from the chair
beside her husband. "You shall not set.
your will against mine," she said. "You
are always delighting in opposite views to
my own. Ever since I mewled Louis you
have BeCII fit to treat me with either con-
cealed or open insult."
Just then LOUIS opened his dark eyes, and
Brenda saw as they fixed themselves on hers
that they burned like diamonds.
"Louie I" she exclaimed, hastening to-
ward him, "do you not sanobion my sending
forDr. Southgate ?"
"No,' he anewered ; but while Brenda
started backward in despair at this unmet
-
come reply he put forth his hand with a
amistakeble motion, Brenda at once
maned the hand between both her own and
and mak down at his ide.
She perceived the next instant that he was
more ill than she had ever seen him. Across
Brenda's shoulder he looked at his wife.
"Natalie," he Haiti, in a voice that was
husky and yet contained a ring of command,
"1 wish to speak a few words with my
sister. You yourself oan go and tell them
bhab the bell which I heard Brenda ring need
not be answered. Do you understand me I I
hope that you do."
Those last two brief sentences had not a
sign of menace, and yet there was somethies
in their low emphasis that 'made the color
slip from Natalie's cheeks.
"Dear Louis," she broke forth, a moment
afterward, however, in tender, Persuasive
tones, "you had bast not talk with any one
this evening. To morrow --"
"Do as I desire, you," Louis interrupted.
His voice was nob taw* above a whisper,
but Brenda recoiled from bine as :the heard it,
so unlike his usual self did it seem, so com-
pelling, so commandant and yet so terribly
tranquil.
CHAPTER IX.
Natalie went to one of the doors and slow-
ly opened it, She disappeared' slowly, too,
and as if some magnittio force were inaisting
upon the exit.
Louts' hand trembled a little now in Bren-
da's hold. But soon it lay there quite still
agaiu. He presently spoke, but as if with
intentional caution against a possible listen-
er. Brenda, leaning forward, act .that her
breath almost swept his cheek,tw'aeljust able
to hear each word es it fell from his pale
and slightly twitohing lips,
"My sister -I have wronged you very
much. Yes -I see this now -now, when
death has laid hold of rae and there may be
only a few hours left me to live. Brenda -
don't dart like that -it is nothing, this
change we :tall death. But to die as I am
dying is an exquisite con:Wort. I would not
live on, Brenda, tor an empire. My parb in
life is donee -utterly done. I have loved
that woman, Natalie Leveridge, with an im-
mense passion, an immense constancy.
What I forced her to tell me the other even-
ing there is no need of my telling you. Yon
are a pure girl; you could not avenge me.
But all has grown clear to me and I know
beyond & doubt that some one else will."
"Some one else ? Oh, Louis---"
"Hush, Brenda, you see how weak I am.
My brain menu to swim now. There
is a paper here in my breast pocket. Reach
up your hand, take it and hide it as though
your own life depended on its jealous con.
cealraent. Have you found it, Brenda ?"
"Yes, Louis; yes."
"Have you hidden it ?"
"Yos--yes."
"Now remember. When I am Iald in my
coflin--not until thent-get a ithance to place
Ib next) my heart just as you found it placed
a minute ago. Don't let her see you. But
tkerald will come; he will come the day of
the funeral even if something should delay
him from the funeral itself. And then as
soon as you and he shall meet tell him where
you put the paper. Will you swear to me,
Brenda, that you will carry out this wish of
mine? '
"Yea, Louis, I will swear with my whole
out I But--"
"The paper is sealed close, as'you will see,
and beam no supersortption. It is something
I wrote yesterday. Thews been in fearful
suffering for hours paste but I have guarded
this even from her. And don't grieve much
for me, Brenda. I'm a thousendfold hap-
pier at going than staying. To live now
would only be one prolonged anguish.
* * * Some day I think that Gerald will
make everything clear to you. He will find
oub. Never robed how. He can't tell you
yet, even tf you ask him. He will simply
listen to you when volt tell him what you
have done." * * *
fluttering, aud at the vergee of his Upwind
colleoted a alight wreath of team.
"e Louis I" called Brenda, wildly. "Leah'
speak to me le
But she bad heard the owed of his voloe
for the last time in life, About' two hours
later he died, besieged by recurrent spasms
of what appeared keen suffering, though old
Dr. Southgate, summoned at last and
watahing him with cleepeat atteution, de-
clared, that being wholly artoonsioloue he
°tamped all mein.
(TQ flE COBTTINVED)
CRAMER V11
A little while after this Brenda had resolv-
ed on taking one particular course. She
made no further attempt to follow her sitter -
in -law. Returning to the house she entered
the still, vacant, lanaplit drawing room
For some time she sat there with her eyea
fixed on the floor and her face pale and
determined. Then she rose wad went to find
her brother. He was updates in the library,
lying on a great leathern lounge and
apparently sleeping. But he gave a quick,
nervous start as Brenda approached hire and
lifted himself into a half sitting posture.
"Oh, it's you, Brenda," he said, f'
thought you were Natalie. Where is she?
Have you seen her lately ?" '
"Not very long ago," answered Brenda.
She was standing close beside her brother,
now. She put out her hand and let it rest
on his shoulder. "Louie," site said, " I
sometimes think you no longer oaro for me
the leasit in the world!"
He shook his head, with a cold comma:don
of the lips. "Ab, Brenda," he murmured,"
"you are to blame for whatever change may
have come between us 1"
"I, Louis No ; no ; you are quite wrong.'
t• I'm wholly right,' he coutradicted.
"How do you treat my wife ?" he went on,
with mournful reproach. "She is worthy
of your love and devotionsbut yon give her
only neglect and rudeness."
Brenda felt her face flesh. " Oh, Louis,"
she exolaimed, "it you would only rettliz
that what you call neglect and rudeness is
the sternest self ,diecipline."
He flung her hand from his shoulder and
met with a scowl her pleading eyes. "Bren-
da," he said, "how dare you? What right
have you to assume, as you do, that my wife
is beneath your respectful treatment ?
The girl's lice moved, but she said noth-
ing. Rad she not perhaps already said far
too much for her brother's health anct men-
tal peace? "Brenda !" again cried Louis, and
his eyes flashed with anger, "you can no
longer live in this house 1" There seemed
to have been something about his sister's
recent silence that had acted upon him more
stingingly than her speeeh, "No ; Shady-
shorei
s mine and I shall be master here.
You have your own fortune. Spend it as
yon please and where you please. I've
borne with your sos.ndalous mations long
enough. I give youjust one week in which
to make your preparations; after that,
go you must I"
Brenda had grown very pale by the time
that Louis had ended. Horror at the
thought of leaving her brother settle Natalie
now made her desperate. "You tell me that
I wrong your wife Louis," she said in °holt
ed tones. "But ah, how does she wrong
you? With whom is she walking the
lawns now, at this very moment Who
is the man she calls 'Archibald,' and what
right has he to be here as her clandestine as.
sociate ? Let me tell you the words that I
have just heard her speak to this man" -
and then Brenda gave those words, with
unerring literalnese.
"1-1 multi believe this," falthred Louis,
when she had finiahed. He looked steadily
into his sister's face for an instant. "And
yet, Brenda, I have always known you to be
so truthfuL"
"1 SiVerar to you," said Brenda, " thab I
have told you nothing but the absolute
truth."
He caught her hand with his own thin
and feverish one. "Oh, forgive me 1" came
his response. "1 have been unjust to you.
Perhaps your fears, your doubts were, lifter
all— Butmeo ! no it he suddenly broke
off, and theta for a moment he oovered his
face like a man in very great agony. "Ah,
my Goal' he soon pursued, if it were pos-
sible that she is faithless to me! But,
Brenda -not a syllable to her. Promise me
this. It may be that she is altogether inno-
cent. And yet she has told me ect much -
everything in fact -about her past, and I
have never mien heard her mention, the
name of Archibald' -yes, I am certain of
It. And pray, Brenda, keep silent). Say
nothing whatever, leaving all to me, and -
and forgiving met I hope, as I -I do not
deserve to be forge:we!'
For answer Brenda impetuously threw
both arme round her brother's neck. "Oh,
Louis," she cried, "heaven knows that I've
hated to tell you these things I" I have no
whim to quarrel with your wife. I should
se have loved her, Louis, if only -but never
mind, You have rat, pr011lifie. And yeti if
Natalie should attack me, I can't be sure
just how calmly 1 theft receive her."
Gerald's eyes wandered toward Brenda.
"It lependied he said, vaguely. Mrs. Bond
gave a light rippling laugh. "On what,
pray?" she asked. "You look at Brenda
while you reply in that unsatiefeetory way.
Is the at all concerned with your future
plans ?"
Gerald said nothing, while Brenda slowly
crimsoned.
A little later Louis was seized with what
in called one of his tired feelings, and
begged Gerald to excuse him.. His wife
accompanied him out of the roont. Gerald
was net sorry to be left alone with Brenda.
" Your brother looks quite ill," he said.
"Do you think so?" she answered. Her
eye!) filled with tears thetnext instant. "Oh,
Gerald, I am dreedfally worried about him,"
the went'on.
"You'i don't like the woman he has
married," said Gerald.
"No, I don't," and then a sign of her old
haughtiness revealed itself, " You know
very well that I don't," she prooeeded. "You
ought to know."
"1 ought to know 1" repeated Gerald,
with a little) upward motion of one hand.
"Yea ; why not I You might have pre-
vented the marriage, too, if you had ohm -
en 1"
Gerald rose. "Ah Brenda," he said,
"you are at your unkind tricks again I"
Brenda bit her lip. "You've never give
me credit for having decent manners," came
her piqued words. " You're always fancying
rra the same little hoyden ev,, o used to
gambol about with yon at Shadyshore.
"Oh, no," said Gerald. " You were
natural bhen."
Braude's blue eyes flashed. "I'm always
natural," she said. "Do you mean that
you think Me a hypocrite 2"
And then oa,me one of their old hot little
quarrels. Gerald said things which he
regretted, and Brenda ;said things which
kept her renaoreefully and tearfully awake
all that night. After he had departed from
Madison avenue Gerald told hitnaelf that he
would join with the physioians in forcing
his mother to spend the entire summer at
the White Sulphur Spring!.
Mrs. Ravelow, whose digestion was he bad
stealth, would have given a finger to have
sprat the summer with her son in Westchest-
er country, 3aotwitbstanding headaches and
like bodily ills. The idea of having Gerald
marry Brenda was a dear one, and his trip
to Europe had been takenab the very bayonet
point of her maternal dierelish. But now
4 at Gerald leagued himself with medical
unite' there, WAB no use in fighting his
minion,
cEcepTEEt VL
Brenda Mb very lonely and guilty after
leavir g town with Lotus and Ms wife. A
certain dim sespielon had crept into her
mina; and although there were times when
she told herself that she hideously wronged
her abbot m imaw ib still occurred that spe-
cial momenta of anxiety and alarm wotild
work their darker alight. Louis brightened
O little at fine) and then grew more languid
and nervelese. Once she said to blunt-
" Why don't you have et talk with Dr.
Southgate, Louie? He is only a country
doctor, it's hue, but he knows your constitio
floe. well, having attended you from child.
howl."
"I cannot ion why you want to doge Louis
With any mere medicine," said Mrs. Bond,
a hard note creeping. into her voice, " It
strikes nto tint he is getting along excel',
et _ „
etude Leeks fi
e well." Leexed hie dark eyes en But Natalie w
lie made no attack. hatever
i
the speaker. "I'm not getting along hell (soon pasmul between herself end Louie was
aireeell at I should. like, Natalie," he return- spoken behind closed (10Ora. " She will tell
ea. "Bob ae foe more medloiee it seems to him some falsehood, no doubt," stained
inc you're quire right. / altveye feel Worse, Brenda, " mediae will believe it and turn
Remarkable Disooveries, in EgYpt.
The two ;large JOY gatherings held in
London, England, by the Victoria Institute
are considered to have been of math import -
anew The President, Sir G. G. Stokes,
Bert, President of the Royal Sooiety,
took the °heir at both, and on each occasion
the members crowded the large hall engaged
to the doors. At the first meeting, Preheat.
or Sayoe's account of hits examination of the
library brought by Anienophis III. from As-
syria to Egypt 34 centuries ago, was given,
The Lord Chancellor delivered an elcquent
speech on the occasion, and M. Neville, the
discoverer of Sucooth-Pitiltom, Baltaittie, and
other pleoes of great hiatorioel importance in
Egypt, oharaoterieed the discovery deemibed
by Professor Siva() as one of the most im,
portant, and perhaps really the MOO Jetport -
ant, of this century; end the Viotoria 'natl.
tette% members were not slow in recognieing
the value of their fellowenember's work.
At the iiecond meeting, the members as-
sembled to welcome M. Neville on his arrival
In England after his discovery of the sight of
Bubastis, and his exploration thereof. The
buisineas of this meeting was commenced by
the election, as membera, of several who had
applied to jciii the Institute as supporters,
including His Excellency Count Bernstorff,
and several Australian and Ancerioan BB.
sedates, after which M. Neville, himself
described his own discoveries at Bubastis, for
the first time in England, -his last visit to
England having been previous to those db.
caverns. The Society of Arts having most
kindly planed °their apparatna at the disposal
of the Viotorio.Inetitate, he showed, by lime.
light, the photographs he had made on the
spot.
M. Neville commenced by quoting the
prohecy of Ezekiel against Egypt because
Lt contained the names of the leading bari
ed cities, *the recovery of the reoords of
whith hem so desirous to obtain; and ,here
we may be permitted to digress for a monient
to call attention to the fact that the authoress
of the last published work in regard to the
Best declares that this prophecy had not
been fulfilled according to the prophet's
worde. Stange that the greatest and most
succeasful Egypelan explorer of modern
tirnea should go to this very prophecy for
light;to enable him to find that which others
had failed to discover 1 Taking the last city
named, he described how he found ribsseth
Bubastie, how each day's ettoawating work
brought him new relics, new inscriptions ;
how he 'found Remain IL, in the 19th
dynasty, had. as usual, blotted out the llama
of previous Pharaohs, and put his own
name on everything, even on the Aetna of a
Pharaoh of the 4th dynaety ; and how, by
careful oomparison, aided by the fact that
Remeses II. had not been quite thororgh
in his appropriationa. he, had discovered
which Pharaoh of the 4th dynasty the statue
represented. He came to the conclusion
that Bulatatis was founded at least as early
as in the reign of Cheops, between whom
ana Pepi, of whose iefluenoe there- wore
traces, '5110 years intervened, -800 year
after there was a transformation of
the city in the 12th dynasty; in the
14th dynasty there was the invasion af the
Elyksos or Shepherds, who, from the statues
of great beauty found, and from other
evidences, must have been a highlymulte
vathd people, who, he considered, must have
come from Mesopotamia, Mr. Virohow con-
sidered that their monuments represented
Tura.nians, and Profeaser Blower considered
them to represent people of a Turanien or
Mongoloid type, but that did not mean thet
the population itself was Turanian. Their
worship and language WAS of a Semitic type,
but the statues of their kings showed that
they were not Seethes. M. Neville added;
"It was then what it is still now: and I be-
lieve that the conqueet of Egypt by the
Hyksos is not unlike what would happen
at the present day if the population of
Mesopotamia overran the valley of the Nile;
you would have masses, in great majority of
Sarnia race, speakinga Semitic language,
having a Semitic religion, and being under
the command of Turks, who are not Semites
but Taratli&U,S."
Neville, having referred to the head
of a Hyksos King, width he had sent to the
British Museum, added that he had found
two statuee of Apepi, the Pharaoh of Jo.
mph, and inscriptions in regard to the
Pharaoh of the Exodus, and many others of
high intermit. Bat it would be ienpolisible
to refer to the mine of interesting metter
this paper, and we oan only oongragulate
the members of the Victoria Institute on
possessing it: it is certainly worth the whole
year's subsoription to pOSBeafi this one paper,
M. Neville, in conoluding, otionot
dwell at great length here on the events of
the Exodus, yet I should like to mention
*et the successive discoveries made in the
Delta have bad the result of making the
sacred narrative more comprehensible in
many points, and in one espeolally in show-
ing that the distances' were much shorter
than was generally thought). I consider,
for instance, it important to have establish-
ed that Belmstis was a very large city, and
a favourite resort of the hing end his fami-
ly. It is quite poaeible that, e.1) the time
when bhe events preceding the Exodus took
place, the king was at Bithastia, not at
Tanis, as we generally believed."
Sir George Stokes, Bare, having conveyed
the thanks of the members to M. Neville, a
short discussion took place, during which
Cogitaln French Petrie, the Honorary &ere.
tame pointed Mit thAt what Professor Sayoe's
paper bad done as regards Marian and
Bebyloniein history, M. Neville's Ind done
as regards Egyptian history. They were
papers advanoing the practical work of the
Institute in investigating philosophical and
scientific questions, especially any questions
used by those who unhappily sought to
(the* the Bible in the name of Science ; and
both would appear in the Journal, which
would be presented at the Institute's Rooms,
Le, Adelphi Tertacie, to ell members and
associates who were now on the list,- or who
might apply tit join after the -10th of July,
The President, Members, and associates then
adjourned to the Mtleet1M, where refreelm
ments wine served.
TALK&GE ON NEWSEAPERS.
Sinasnete to the Femme 1,re:whores
to the Work or the Press,
((weary newspaper reporter in New York
Is my persouelfmend, I have been Inhaled
by abeut every clam of men iu the world, but
never by a newspaper men, and I believe
there is e spirit of /Menem itbrottd in the
newspapers that is hardly to be found (Any-
where else. There 18 00 man, however poor,
if he has been done an ivjustioe, that cannot
get himself set right by the newmpeper.
rerhape by our own indistinotneas we are
reported as swing just what we did not say,
and there is e reveler riot of eommas and
temioolone and periods, and we get used to
talking Rhein the 'blundering printing press.'
Or sometimes we take up a viper full of
social soendele and divorce mom, and we
talk about the filthy, scurrilous preesebut I
could preach a whole sermon on the everlatit.
lug blessings of a good newapeper. A good
newspaper is the grandee') temporal blaming
that God has given the people of this cen-
tury.
"In the &at place all the people read the
newspapers, and the newspapers furnish the
greater proportion of the reading to the
people. Tbey don't read books. The old
people look for the deaths, the young look
for the marriages, the laminate man reads the
busineee and financial (ninnies, and thine
who are unemployed read the watt ado.'
tireat libraries make few hatelligent men and
women but newspapers lilt the netions into
sunlight.
" My idea. of a good newspaper is a mirror
of life itself. Soma people ooreplein became
the evil ot the world is reported as well as
the good. The evil must be reported as well
as the good, or how will we know what to
guard against, or what to reform? There is
a chance for disorimination as to how much
space shall be given to reports of such things
as prize fights, butthe newspaper that merely
peeseute the fair and the bright eide of life is
o. misrepresentation. That family Is best
qualified for the duties of life who have told
to them not only what good there is in the
world, but) what evil there is in the world,
and is told to select the got d and reject the
evil."
RIG AWARDS FOR INATRIEB-
isa Baotou Sinter to whom the eourte
Gave a Quarter or a Mallon.
The payment of the judgment of $20000
In the OrbliCUOBSe reminds few feed lawyers
phut within the past twenty yeare the mil -
route of Pennslyvaela have mid hundreds
of thousande of dollars damages to persons
e
Who have been injured and inoapaciteted.
Other hundreds of thousandhave been
awarded, but through the Supreme Court's
reversals of deoisious and the settlement of
eases on a basis eatiafacitory to both parties
the aggregate of judgment)) has been mattne
Wig rttluited. The largeeb sum ever paid
for railroad damages lu Penntylvartia was
in the woe of J. Roserzweig of grie against
the Lake Shore and Mithigen Southern
Railway.' Thia OBee wee heard before the
Court of Commoigneau of Erie county, and
remelted in the award and payineut of $48,-
750 to the plaintiff. Mr. Roeerzweig BT&B
a man of middle age, whose annual eitr4ings
amounted to $30,000 or $40,000. He wag
put off a train by the conductor about half a
mile emit of Cleveland late ab night, on the
ground that the tioket he presented was not
good. He saw two other trams advancing to-
ward him, and in his confusion tripped SSA
With dragged beneath one of them end crip-
pled for life. The Judge ruled that he was
not a trespasser on the train, since it was
shown that he did not know that his tioket
was not good.
The greatest ew trd ever pad in the
world was $250,000 to an English physician,
who deleted that hi, mamma earniog °apace
ity was over $200,000. The verdicits abroad
are muoh more to (meet and of greater
amount than in this cuuntry.
it Betilway spino" it a frequent ootnplaint
in England, and very often damages of from
$50,000 to $100,000 are awarded for it.
Alhe dimase is ocomioned by the jolting re-
ceived when a railway carriage is derailed.
This is said to be one reason why the foreign
railway corporations are nob so prosperous
ite those of our own country.
Upon the death of a Canadian blacksmith,
aged 35 years, on the Great Western Rail-
road a few years ago $25,000 was mild to his
family, and the seine road pad $15,000 to a
farmer's family about the same time.
A Mr. Holland reoovered $25,000 for in-
EOIENTIFIO AND DBEFIlla
'juries received in the neighborhood of Chi-
li a silk has been stained or diaooloured °ago several years ago. He had been in ex.
by an acid, such as truit.juice, wine, vine. oellent health previous tio the aoo.dent, but
gar, eeo, the ' colour may tometimes be re. was so injured as to be thereafter almost a
stored by damping with liquid ammonia or physical and mental wreck. • A little later
sal -volatile, which is composed of ammonia.
Creases may be Wien out of satin by damp-
ing them and ironing on the wrong side. ,
" Volt " means the inducing cause of an
eleotrical current, bearing the mete relation
to eleotrioity that "pounds pressure per
inch " do to steam or " head " does to water.
One cell of gravity -or Daniell's batterg.gives
about 1.07 volt potential. " Ohm ' zs the
unit of resistance offered by a wire or other
conduator to the passage of an electric cur-
rent ; one thousand feet No. 10 pure copper
wire repreeent a little over ane ohm.
, The leaves of plents should be kept free
from dust; hence frequent washings are
absolutely essential, although, when water-
ing, never wet the flowers of a plant nor
allow drops of water to stand on the leaves
lu the suashine. Never allow water to stand
in the saucere of the pots unless the plants
are semi -aquatic. Watering is at least) two,
fold. It supplies to plants food or elements
of fertility contained in itself, and converts
the plant -food or nourishment of the soil
into a tiquid foun so that it may be absorb-
ed by the roots. The roots of a plant must
be kept moist, not wet.
A non polsonona fly-peper is made by
pouring half a gallon of water over one
pound of quastimwood, allowing it to stand of a railroad official.
overnight, and then boiling the strained The TIMMS Passenger Railway Corapamy
field down to one quart. Ties wood must had to pay $5,000 to a ledy of 57 years, who
lost the use of her arm, and received injury
to her shoulders awl spine a couple of years
ago.
Some of the largest Philadelphia, verdiota
are that of Alexander Boudreau againet the
Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets Railway
Company for $10,000; Mos. Hughes against
the Pennsylvania Rellroad Company for
$18.000, and that of CatherineCrilley against
thePenneedvania Railroad Ocimpany for 019'.
000. The two latter were settled between
plaintiff and defendant, but the claim of Mr.
Boudreau'who was injured in 187' while
ridirg onthe rear platform of a car by being
struck by the pole ole following car, was
paid in full in 3879. The case of James
Wilson, Jr., va. Pennsylvania, Railroad
Company, wherein he was awarded $5,000,
is now pending before the Supreme Court.
atoms*
CHAPTER VIIL
Perhaps Loth might have gone on speak -
leg in hle faint yet Clearly heard voice if the
door had not now been (leadenly opened .and
Natalia had not swept into the moth.
tftrendit at mice realized that she had tried
to listen and felled. The girl rose !hen her
brother' s °meth, etill holding hie hand and
facing the intruder. •
4111:,:, an; jai,i.et kye:
Ohne to do BO. "Aly place hem at me,
know why
btiebe6gl's side, and here I that remain,"
now hroire from Brenda. " Vou Were afrold
to lotus be alone together!, You Were amid
of tiemethieg ha might tell, me!"
Natalie bit her lips and that meth 4 look
at her husband's sister cia might have flashed
item the ()yell of a etrikitig intake.
But at thie ittoetein Di long, limey groan
beret froth Louis. Breecda flung hersell
Pine again et his tilde. Ale facie had new
grown' binith, hie egolide Weee etraegely
Sal IngliBMS MEM received $30,000 for some.
what similar nations.
Marked differenoe may be noted in the
liberality.of Jadge and jury in various States
of the Union. Pennsylvania's awards are
In general small as cornered with New York
or several of the Eastern States, and young
Orbann's big damages are therefore oonaid-
ered all the more remarkable. Dr. Funeton,
whose yearly earnings amounted to $2,000,
was awarded $10,000 by an Iowa court for
inj ivies received that incapacitated him for
work. The Gerrgis courts have in bw,o cams
awarded $4,700 for the lees of a 'hiked and
$4,500 for the loss of a leg. Fifteen thous-
and dollen eves the verdict of a Mississip-
pi jury as demages foe a broken thigh and
pelvic bone. There have been numerous
oases through the country in which $10,000
has been paid by a railroad company for a
severely shattered leg, accompanied by
additional injuries.
Mrs. Hinton, aged 70 years, who was a
marvel of health and heartiness, was teptaid
$5,000 by the Cream City Ballroad Gainsay -
of Wiscoesin for personal injuries reoeived,
and the °our!) of the same State awarded '
$8,000 to John Cummings, who Ind been
formely healthy and vigorous, but wes rend-
ered helpless for life through the negligence
be again boiled with one quart of water until
one pint remains, when the two infusions
ore mixed together and from one half to
three-quertere of a pound of sugar diasoived
le it. l'ha paper is now passed through this
fluid, drained, Ind hung up to dry. Blo bting-
paper of any colour may be used, and a smell
piece of it thus prepared, plaited in water in
a smote, will wove a very effective destroy-
er of the puma. Persian insect -powder,
lown into the air by means of mao insect
powder gun, will quickly rid a room of flies,
and is a good remedy for the removal of
cockroaches and ants,
About twenty.four hours after capture
the herring is liable to the pouring out or
extrdvasation of blood aboub his gills and
fins: fish With this darkened and damaged
or bruised appearance are qaaintly called in
the filth. trade over -day tarts." These, to
their ignorant and uuwery customers, un-
gorupulons whiny oosterroongers actually
audaciously recommend became of being
"bleeding new." Among the early signs of
commenoing decomposition is the pouring
out and °lotting of blood, either externally,
as in the Inning tribe, or internally, along
the spinal oolutnn, as in the sole end znany
fresh -water fish. They should be known as
"bleeding bad stale." If before capture the
herring shonla have ovez-distended its dom-
es:1h with undigested food, then, prior to the
fishingsmaok reaching the shore, putrefac-
tion seta in so rapidly that oath herrings
are toeless even to the professional fish curer
-which condition is technically termed
" gutepook." Drowned in the meshes of the
net in the water, herrings decompose even
too rapidly for the fisleourer.
Travelling and walking entwine inay be
made in eny of a large variety of light wool-
len clothes and hittla home -sputa
The statistics of the Salvation Army) fur-
nished by Gen. Booth at the last grand. con.
001.1rBe WitiCh took Place et Alexandra Pa
-
'Demi ShONVeci 00 increase of 283 corps and
1,665 officers. /he enroll past Gen, Booth
wile performed by 4 body of over 20,000 sob
glees, and wareoweiteel With intense fervor,
Brows as Street Gleaners.
The City of Onitha has in its service
force of thousands of scavengere, who draw 00
pay, report to no offiJial, but are protected
by law from molestation. They are the
crows who fleck into town an regularly as
cold weather comes, slay &tripe the Winter,
and owlish in the spring. Each evening, aa
the shadows fall, legions of orates wing their
way in a seemingly endless flight to the wil.
low popes and clumps of smell cottonwood
hem CM the banks of the Missouri, where
bhey roost for the night. A favorite haunt
is at the bend of the river between Cut Off
and Florence Leith, where the bunks shelter
them from the net:Ohm:et Wind. The air is
thick with sable wings and resonant with
hoarse caws there 'thee sunset each night, as
the scavengers settle down among the
branehes to dream of bath area lunehes and
carrion spree&
With the break of day the sable Book be.
Mire itself. Each 'member hops about to
werai its ohillea lege, (Antoine ita shiny
wimp, stet heads back toward the city.
The vast flock breeke into Innen groups,
and they alight tiers and there on the the
tope mid survey the ba.ek yards mid allege
until they, can pick out foraging places.
Then they descend, and in shoti order the
remalite of the breakfaate, the, earn* of meat
from markets, and rata killed by hottaehold
doge and cats are gobbled up. Some crows
do Hi:avenger NV* 413011t the rthideitoes.
Others alight ,(teattibusly in the alley, teed
other() are .attraoteci to the stock yetis and
peeking lemma,
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Lieut. Aoteff moonily todo from Lubny,
in southern Ettsila, to Paris -1,630 miles -
in thirty &met riding two horses alterneitelyt
One gngleste the other Rowan; •
The Fashions.
Bathing stookinge whloh are rubber -fin-
ished and oork-aoled find a large sale jUSt
Dresses made up largely of pink should
not show color combinations although, of
course, white lace may be used freely.
Flower -crowned hate in Empire and Direct
toles etylea are poeular. Those known as
the " Toon " sbyle have a bacthenallan air
and are decidedly ugly.
Ab all the fashionable remorte a popular
.tollet for youthful wearers is a tinted silk
blouse waiat with skirts of lase, either white
or matched to the blouse in color.
Bridemaida and debtitentes wear very
!Mynah toilets of real China crepe in willow
green, old rose and primrose yellow over
softwelMed sicilienno with fronts of pearled
Cool and pretty annamer toilets in white
end green, or white end gold, are of white
orepaline or India veiling with garniture of
Chine silk arrateged as a sofb, early Empire
vest. •
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, A pretty dancing toilet recently Rem at a
seaside resort was of anemone pink. The
oolor was as faint as could be without being
pure white, and tlae effect is desoribed as
tharmitee.
Piazze and ball room Wraps resemble very
much the thanes of other days, - The ga-
nnets now worn, howetter, ate much more
graceful, the crepe portion being &Owned',
(minty to the figure.
Hats of green or brown rushes are a hot
weather luxury. One of theseitathie wholly
veiled with green tulle, with mos i buds and
great) yellow Totioa, roses and leaves around
the front of the crown.
Rich black toilets are In vogue end thaoh
the height of fashionable elegance. Soft
silks of various kinds lace veiling grenadine
crape de chine, plain and beaded mete, end
other handsome materials are in popular
1180.
A pretty toilet for summer evening wear
is a gown worn by a young New York
woman. Di is a skirt of oretun-white Chino,
folk trimmed with rowe of narrow moire
ribbon, the silk pressed in accordion pleite
froth the hips, *here it is joined by a close
jersey...at:aped bean of mane lace, while
the joining 18 000ered, by an immense meth
of moire, A similar skirt le gernitneed with
ribbon bands and Sash of apple.green silk.
It is rutnotarerl thet the Queen hat at last
yielded to her phyticiar a and will take it
long Cca trip perhapa to Indio., or potaibly
to Comade mid the United Statee. •