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She eet her litbIe balite= hon.
On full & dozeu big white eens
.And laughed, for joy, a -thinking whoa
They ell hatehed out two more than ten
Sweet, fluffy chicks arousal the0 hen
Would run on lovely yellers/ legs ;
.A.nd all those °niche svould be her own
And by and by-, when they were grown,
Twelvee idea, big egge those Ions would lay,
.Aid she would grow doh right away,
Aseellbig t,welve fresh eggs a day 1
That cunning bantam hen did eit
On fulka dozen round white eggs ;
At hatching time, one eraggled pet
Out of his little shell clid get
And struggled feebly to his legs
The shell was hard, but he wee game,
And a Moe little rooster all the same
Ills ma -as proud as a hen could be-
Cluoked as theugh he wore uine plus three;
semi, Flo dahiced round. hit:11.in a ring,
Shouting, • Ah -o 1 you darling thing:"
So 1 don't suppose it mattered aught
That eleven eggs had come to neuglit I
WAS LIE JUSTIFIED ?
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S.
HE was an exquite creature, he
fair and fragile as a flower. Her
beauty was of so delicate a type
that Dr. Davenant seeme& to
have been endowed with a eense
of premonitiorn whenhe calledthis
only and beloved child "Lily."
She was all that was left) to
him to recall the perfect happi-
ness of the four years during which his
beauti ul young wife had been spared to
him. And from the moment that he had
carried her, a 3 -year-old child, from the
death .. hamber of her mother, he had seemed
to live for but two things on earth -his
daughter and his profession.
Often and often had it been said of Lily
Davey ent that, had she been the child of
any ot her father than an experienced and
learned physician, she would never have
survived to grow to womanhood. All that
science, guided by love, could achieve -all
that an intelligent and affectionate watoh-
fullness could foresee and avert -had been
brought into play to guard her fragile
health.
There was, indeed, no organic disease to
contend againsb ; but so delicate was her
constitution, and so sensitive her nervous
. system, that a breath seemed capable of
disorganizing the one and of disturbing the
other.
But, under her father's watchful oath, she
gradually outgrew the more alarming of her
general symptoms, and, at the age of 17,
'Lily Davenant was a latest lovely and at-
tractive girl, and the very light of her
father's eyes, though her still fragile health
caused him, as ever, a certaia degree of
anxiety.
It was at this epoch that Dr, Davenant
decided upon taking his daughter on the
Continent, in order to try the effect upon
her constitution of total chertge of air and
scene. He was a rich xnan,not only through
the accumulated savings of long years of
extensive praotthe, but also by the inherit-
ance of his wife's ample forbune. There-
fore he could well afford to devote some
months to a tour through Switzerland,
Italy and the South of France.
The experiment succeeded perfectly.
Under her father's watchful guidance and
incessant care Lily bloomedinto more stable
health and into added beauty, and by the
time that they reached the Riviera on their
homeward journey, the season being the
month of January, she was quite capable of
taking part, in some degree, in the bril-
liant social gaieties of Nice and of Cannes.
The climate, too, of that lovely shore, as
yet unshaken by earthquake, suited her
admirably.
She was so well and. so happy that Dr.
Davenant, delighted with her increasing
strength and bright spirits, hired one of the
most charming villas at Nice, with an
extnnsive garden full of rose and orange
trees, and situated on the heights ofCiraiez;
so that Lily, from the balcony in front of
her bedroom windows, could look afar over
the aparkling Mediterranean and the blue
hills of the EstereL
It was to be expected that so lovely and
winning a orea.ture should attract a host of
suitors ' • and, in fact, Lily had not long
mingledin the gay whit I of Ntce society
before she had become an object of serious
attention to half a dozen wooers, including
a German baron, a French count and a Rus-
sian prince, all with more or less anthen-
tie titles and more or less dilapidated for-
tunes. 1
Oa none of these did the young beauty
seem inclined to smile, and Dlr. Davenant
had begun to oherish an unavowed hope of
keeping his darling to hinutelf, for some
years longer at least, when chance or
destiny brought to Nice, a young English-
man -a Londoner by birth, but a resident
of South America -by name Philip Leigh.
§ iHo was a fine-looking young man, of an
ardent impetuous temperament, the scion of
an old family that had gone to reside in
Brazil.
Philip's father had bought an estate there
and had taken to Rowing coffe and indigo.
His affeire had prospered and young Leigh
was in a suitable position to present him-
self in the character of Miss Davenant's
wooeroeitich he did. before their acquaint.
atiolad extended over a since of many
days.
He was, in truth, blindly and madly in
love with her, and Lily returned his devo-
tion with all the fervor of .,which her sensi-
tive nature was capable. It was a ease of
mutual love -of love at first sight -which
sometimes, even in our prosaic nineteenth
century, proves that Shakespeare was not
so far wrong when he depicted the swift
fatal pa,ssion, sudden, mutual and all.
absorbing, that lencle the tragedy and the
charm to the history of "Romeo and
Juliet. "
Dr Davenant aequiesced in the engage-
ment more readily then might havo been
anticipated from his fond devotion to his
only child. He WaS a man of greet/intel-
ligence and strong common sense, and he
was able, therefore, to keep in check his
natural yearning to retain sole possession
of the society and affection of hie idolized
daughter. Yet the engagement Was far
from obtaining his uqualified approval.
It is true that all the information he had
obtained respecting Philip, Leigh's fortune,
family and businese standing, was highly
fettisfactory. The young man was hand-
some, intelligetzt, well bred and highly edu-
cated. Of the depth and sincerity of his
passion. for Lily there existed not a eludow
of a doubt. Yet D. Davonatat noticed with
uneasiness certain marked defeeta in young
Leigh's character mid disposition'iwhich led
him th dread the intresting of his delicate,
sensitive daughter to his care.
He Was frenziedly arid eureasonably jeal-
ous, vestchhig Isily'e every glance end ges-
ture as thotigh he eould not f.eel assured of
the stability a tbo love she had oonfoend
for him, Hie temper wets violent and his
disposition moody, and he tried the poor,
girl sorely by his alternate bursts of temper
and thence Of morbid sullenneen.
Dr. Deveriane °flea retnenstratccl with
_ hini concerning thew anjueianteb alternae
lemns of vioIerice aad talk theme, Bid Philip al -
'ye declared that it wee the very honu.
eitihof his love for Llly and his dread of
IoeitVler that so faied hie temper.
ono the it mine, De Mamma,"
ii
he cleeli red with fervor, "I ehall be happy ;
my mint Will be at then and I atoll be able
to dovot every moment) of my thine every
faculty of my being, to rendering Lily's ear -
tame° perfealv haPliq."
The yirtuotis mind of the good doetor was
by no means setifseecl by therm assuraneee,
but the young, ardent lover had won Lily's
whole heart. To hasse parted them would
have been te deal a fatal blow to her fragile
neture, ancl Dr, Davenant could only let
mitten take their course, end hope for the
best.
The engagement was announced in March
ank the marriage was th take place in Sep-
tember, at Dr. DevenanVis country seat in
Northamptonshire. The father and daugh-
ter were to leave for Englfuld in May, and
Philip was then to sail for South America
to complete important business arrange-
ments and also to settle up his affairs pre-
paratory to taking up his permanent resi-
dence in London, For Dr, Davenant would
by no means consent to having Lily trans-
ferred from her lexurious home to a dwel-
ling in South America.
To this condition of his engagement
Philip willingly acceded. His family ties
did riot seem to be of especial strength.
He spoke sometimes of his father and
mother, and occasionally of his married
sister, who had become the wife of a Bra-
zilian gentleman, and was living in Rio
Janeiro ; but he did notheem to care much
about couversing respecting his family, and
appeared, on the oontrary, to avoid all men-
tion of his relatives -a foot that by no
means tended to reassure Dr. Davenant con-
cerning the peculiarities of his future son-
in-law's temper.
Ib was in Paris that the lovers parted
with many fond embraces and =mole deep
emotion. For so brief an absence the an-
guish displayed by Philip Leigh was really
extraordinary. He clasped his young be-
trothed to his heart as though he could
never bear to let her go.
Overcome by her own emotions, as well
as by the agitation of seeing him so moved,
poor Lily fainted in his arms, and Dr.
Davenant, taking from him the insensible
form of the fragile girl, bade him depart in
terms of genuine indignation.
"our selfish dimness is injuring the
being you profess to love so dearly,
Philip," he said, stevisly. "Go ' • it is un-
manly for you to give way th suchexagger-
ated grief concerning an absence of a few
months."
Without heeding him Philip caught the
cold hands of his betrothed in his own, and
kissed them passionately.
Farewell, Lily, farewell !" he cried. "1
go -and when shall I return? Perhaps
never 1"
And, with one last hand -clasp to Dr.
Davenant, he hurried from the room, and a
few moments later tbe roll of carriage
wheels outside the house announced his
final departure.
It was long before Lily recovered from
the shook of this agitated parting; nor was
it, indeed, till they had been for some time
established in their charming country home
that her transparent cheek regained its
usual wild -rose bloom and her large brown
eyes their soft and tender lustre.
A very impassioned letter, written on
shipboard by Philip, gave the first impetus
for the better to her revivmg spirits, and
the pleasant home influences that sur-
rounded her on her arrival had much to do
with re-animaeing her drooping spirits.
The visits of her friends and acquaintances,
the preparations for the wedding, and the
iediting of long letters th her future hus-
band filled with agreeable occupation the
first few weeks after her return to her na-
tive land.
But the weeks grew into months, and not
a word was heard from Philip Leigh. After
that first letter all tidings from him ceased.
The ship in which he had sailed reached
Rio in safety, but no news of his arrival
ever came to his betrothed. A silence, as
inexplicable as it was profound, eaveloped
all his movements and his very exiatence.
The days wore on, and mail after mail
arrived from South America; but the
letter so ardently desired and expected by
Lily never was received. The poor child,
under the pressure of suspense and anxiety,
became the prey of nervous terrors and un-
speakable misery.
"Philip is dead -I know that he is dead
-or else he would have written to me 1"
became the burden of her plaint, and Dr.
Davenant could find no arguments, in the
face of that inexplicable silence, wherewith
to reassure her.
Finally, Lily fell lll with a low, nervous
fever, which baffled ail remedies, saidwhich,
without ever taking a form of aggravated
intensity, slowly undermined her strength
and reduced her fregile form to a mere
shadow.
And still there came no news of the ab-
sent lover. The summer wore away, and
the date originally fixed for the wedding
approached, and yet the bridegroom came
not, neither did he vouchsafe a word of in-
formation as to his movements. And Dr.
Davenant beheld, with creel forebodings,
intensified by his medical skill and science,
the rapid ebbing of the vital forces in the
frame of his beloved child.
She lay on her couch beside the window
all day long, with scarcely strength at her
command to give a faint, sad smile to her
father, or to murmur, as she did from time
to time :
"1 shall soon be with my. Philip. I am
fast going to him."
One evening toward' the end of August
Lily seemed more feeble, and more averse
th exertion than over. She had begged
that her wheel chair might be drawn out
on the terrace ; and, as the weather was
warm her request had been granted. She
lay there, watching in silence tho gold and
crime= of a splendid sunset, with a far-
away, look in her eyes that seemed to tell
of other regions to which her thoughts had
wandered.
Dr. Davenant eat gazing upon her with an
oohing heart, in whose depths was hidden
a dread more terrible than he dared to re-
veal to the sufferer, or even to confess to
himself. The mined light faded, Lily's
eyes closed, and she sank into a deep sleep
that was less like natural slumber than the
insensibility that precedes death.
-01:Zrhe doctor fearing the effects of the nigh
oar, Was about to give ordetsfor the removal
of the chair and its occupants to the house
when suddenly Lily started from her recurra
bent posture, and uttered a wild cry. The
sound of an approaching carriage was heard.
" Father !" she shrieked, "it is Philip!
He is here 1 Look -look I"
And there through the shadowy twilight
came the long-looked.for fortn of her be.
teethed. With a scream of overwhelming
joy, Lily Sprang to her feet, and fell faint-
ong the breast of her lover.
Duriug the long and deathlike Moon that
secceeded the hurried explanations that
took place between Dr. Davenanb and the
returned wanderer were apparently eatis-
factory ; for Lily, on reviving, found the
latter seated beaide her couch, tvith one
thin burning hand close looked in his own.
She Was not allowed to speak to him, or,
incised, to do mors than to gm him a part-
ing glance and smile, before she was hurried
avitay to he chamber by the peremptory
orders of hot fibber.
Daring the days that succeeded her ex-
treme weakness catieed her to be confined
tO her tome, and oho ithe permitted to moo
Mr. Leigh only lot a feW minuthe daily ;
rior wee elm allowed to mit for any depletive
tiort reapeeting his long eilenee, Tie WAS
there, howettey and ale ; end he leved
her, and the drooping reed alined dying
girl revived es a fading flower, parched by
the drought, revives anew ender, the influ-
ence of a gentle shower,
The gladneas of her heart furnished forth
a well -spring of vitality for her whole being,
The fever left her, strength end appe-
tite and a capacity for sleep returned,
and in less than a fortnight After Mr.
Leigh's return Lily had entered into full
c°4Vuatit wasenee
Btong before fthe could support
the fatigue and agitation of any prolonged
convereation with her betrothed. At fleet
he was only permitted, under the watohful
supervision of Dr. Ditvenaet, th sit beside
her couch in the ehaded twilight of her
room, holding one of her hands in his own,
for a few minutes daily. He was not al.
lowed to talk to her except to reply in mon-
osyllables to her faint murmurs of delight
at his return and perfect content in his
presence.
She was told by her father that the long
absence and etrange silence of Mr. Leigh
had been caused by illness, and, though
Dr. Davenant entered into no details' re-
specting this mysterious malady, Lily was
fully satisfied. Philip had returned to her,
safe and well, and that was all she asked.
Gradually, as her strength revived, she
would fain have talked over with him the long
period of their separation ; but he seemed to
shrink from the subject. He preferred to
linger at her side in comparative onetime
talking very little, and that only, on indif-
ferent subjects, or else he would spend
hours in reading aloud to her, displaying a
talent for the delivery of verse with which
she had before been unacquainted and with
which she was greatly charmed.
"You never told me that you could read
eo beautifully, Philip," she onoe said, when
he closed a venom of selections from the
Englishpoets. "How came it that you
i
left me n ignorance of your possession of
so delightful an accomplishment ?"
"Ah, dear one," he answered, "we had
so much to say in those days about love and
each other that we had no time to bestow
on the utterances of the old poets. You are
still an invalid, and I must try th make
these great mastersof speech and song speak
to your soul in their language, since I dare
not use my own."
But there were other things about Mr.
Leigh that puzzled Lily sorely when she
meditated over them at her leisure.
When he was first admitted to see her he
did not, as she well remembered in her
hours of revived strength of mind, as well
as of physique, evince any of the passionate
ardor that he had been wont to display
toward her before their separation. His
manner was kind, gentle and compassionate,
bat nothing more. Gradually, indeed, the
old fervor had returned, but with a differ-
ence. He was as fond, but less vehe-
ment, the gentleness of a parent seeming to
have become mingled with the tenderness
of a lover. He was unselfish, instead of
exacting, wathhing over her health with a
patient affection not to be surpassed even
by the paternal love and care of Dr. Dave-
neut. He was no longer jealous, unreason-
able and violent.
Even the character of his beauty seemed
to have undergone a change. The dark,
deep eyes no longer caught an unpleasant if
vivid lustre from impatient irritation or
causeless anger. The whole expression of
the well -cut features was different, and the
alteration was for the better.
Dr. Davenant seemed to rejoice in the
change, and was far more happy in the
prospect of his daughter's future than he
had been before Mr. Leigh's departure.
Oddly enough, Philip seemed to have for-
gotten moat of the minor incidents that had
diversified their stay at Nice. Lily would
sometimes allude to events that had
occurred during their sojourn on the
Riviera, but he would either change the
conversation or lay the blame of his forget-
fulness to the long and severe illness from
which he declared that he had so lately
recovered.
"Do you know, you frighten me some-
times, Philip," Lily said to him one day.
"You are changed -you are not the Philip
that I firseknew. You are another man -
some one nobler, gentler, more perfect.
How does it happen that you are so dif-
ferent? You seem to me as Philip might
have been had he died and returned to
earth, stripped of all his faults and weak-
nesses. Have you come back to me from
heaven ? "
Her voice stank to a tone of awe-stricken
appeal. Mr. Leigh only replied, smiling as
he spoke:
"1n one respeet I am unchanged, dearest,
am I not ? I love you as [have ever done."
" Even your love's different. You are so
kind, so thoughtful, so unselfish in your de-
votion. Ah, 'Philip, your malady has bean
like the fires of purgatory -ib has consumed
all the dross, leaving the pure gold of your
nature. Bat, 1011 me ".—
"1 will tell you nothing, exacting child,
except that we are to be married in three
weeks' time and that I love you with my
whole heart and soul. Believe me, dearest,
if I am indeed changed for the better I
can only rejoice in being more worthy
to become your husband. k''stir you still love
me, changed as I am, Lily, do you not ?"
To this query Lily gave, smiling, a full
and satisfactory response, and there the
matter rested for the time being.
But with her restoration to perfect health
her intelligence regained its vigor and her
perceptions their keenness.
The chance, inexplicable, vague and yet
most real, in the manner and the nature of
her lover seemed to preoccupy her mind
and to fill it with troubled apprehension.
She would sit at times andgaze into his
i
face with a wistful look of nquiry, ques-
tioning she knew not what, respecting
the alteration that she could not compre-
hend.
Mr. Leigh was always rendered to a cer-
tain extent, anxious and uneasy by her
Scrutiny, but he could not escape from it.
The daily readings that had once furnished
a resource and a pretext for avoiding all
personal or agitating topics in their in -
course had naturally been given up
when Lily's complete recovery had allowed
her to resume her usual occupations, and
her.questiona respecting the early day% of
their attachment and his unaccountable
lapses of memory concerning that period
were neither to be averted nor satisfactorily
answered.
Whett Dr. Davenant was at band he usu-
ally tnanaged to change the ;subject or to
contrive some response for Mr, Leigh. But
during the long tete-m.4,9th interviews be-
tween the lovere, Lily's amazed perplexities
seemed only to strengthen and to increase.
At het the crisis came.
One evening, Lily, on returning home
with her father, was surprised on arriving
at the house to hear the full, soft tones of a
fimeloaritone voice filling the drawing room
with melody, while a shined touch amen.
poled on the piano the Detect of the flinger.
The air wtse Massenet's beautiful " Sita
Vision of My Life," from the "King of La -
here." All the tenderneas, the fervor, the
exquieith chum lent to the song by the coins
poser wee redoubled by the bee execution
and noble voice of the singer. Lily pauriad
to Hebert oh she entered.
"Who is that sbeging " she poked of the
savant who had adnaitted her.
" It it lar. Leigh, Moe Lily." wotild have heeh marred mid 'Wrecked by
" Mr. Leigh I -Philip? It is impossible, the itifleence of an evil and selfish nature.
He cermet sitzg !" And she hurried te the
dre,wing-rocnn, Wholly dietegarding her When a mint slip oft a banana bide he le
throeve upon his own resotirces.
fither's efforte to detain &snit
It was iudeed her lover who eat at the
piano, absorbed in the tender fervor of his
sone, the glow of the cloudless sunset
illuininating his countenance.
Lily palmed on the thresholdand listened,
gazing, herself unseen, upon the features of
the singer, and with the agitatiouof a strong
conviction visible in her kindling eyes. As
the song ended he iiame swiftly forward,
and, placing her two Muscle on Mt Leigh's
shoulders, she looked eagerly and intently
into his face.
"This is not Philip 1" she cried. "Philip
hated rausio-he oould not sing 1 I realize
it now as I look at you. Who is this that
wears the features of Philip, that looke at
me with his eyes, that apeaks to me with
his voice, that bears his name, and yet
that is not Philipl What is tins strange
mystery? Tell me who you really are ?"
I am your future husband, Lily. I am
he who loves you 1"
" But you are not Philip 1" he exclaimed,
in ever-increasing agitation. 6. Father, tell
me, who is this man, and where is Philip ?"
"The truth must be told," said Dr. Dave-
nant, in his deep, low tones. "Answer
her, Leigh. The moment has oome for a full
explanation."
Yes, answer me -answer me 1 Who
are you ?"
" I am Raymond Leigh, the twin -brother
of Philip."
"And Philip?'
" He is dead 1"
A ory of exceeding distress broke from
the lips of the young girl. But Raymond's
arms were stretched out to shelter her, and
it was upon the breast of Raymond that
her tears were shed.
The likeness between the twin brothers
had from their birth been really extraordin-
ary, fer surpassing the 11840,1 degree of
resemblance in such oases. Even their
parents, when one or the other of the
brothers entered the room alone'could not
tell whether it was Raymond or Philip who
stood before them. When they were to-
gether many minute points of difference
might be detected; but when they were
seen apart, a confusion in their identity was
unavoidable.
But the resemblance between them was
of an external nature merely. No two
young men could. have been more dissimilar
in character and disposition. Philip seemed
to have absorbed into his nature all the
evil qualities, and Raymond, all the nobler
ones, that they ought to have shared be -
them. The first was passionate, moody
and unreasonable, intensely selfish, and
given to dissipation; while Raymond -
gentle, intelligent, affectionate, and self-
sacrificing -was the very light of his home
and the idol of his parents.
A very disgraceful affair on Philip's part,
which had caused much scandal in South
America, had forced his father to send him
abroad, ostensibly so take charge of sozne
important matters of business, but really to
get him out of the way of the consequences
of his base conduct.
His passion for Lily had been vehement
and sincere, but he had never told his
family of his engagement, owing to the
jealousy he had ever filt for his more
lovable brother. An uneasy consciousness
of Raymond's superiority in all eaeentiel
respecte had caused Philip always to shun
any possibility of comparison between them,
and he had bitterly resented all his life long
the fond affection svith which Raymond
was regarded by their parents. He had
looked upon Lily's love for him as a treasure
to be guarded from all encroachments,
especially from the being whose rivalry he
most dreaded.
The night after his arrival at Rio he bad
been attacked, when on his way home late
at night, by some unknown person, pre-
sumably one of the family which he had
injured. He was desperately wounded by
several blows from a long, sharp knife or
dagger, and was left for dead. From his
terrible injuries he had partially rallied,
and for some time there had been hopes
of his recovery. But his constitution,
undermined by exoesses, had not the
strength necessary to sustain such a shock,
and, after Lingering for some weeks, he had
found relief from his sufferings in death.
Then, and then only, was the whole his-
tory of his love for, and betrothal to, Lily
Davenant revealed, and explanstion of his
papers having led to the discovery not only
of the young girl's letters, but of an excel-
lent photograph of her, which Philip had
treasured among his most precious posses.
dons. He had so neglected the business
with the management of which he had been
intrusted by his father that it was found
noceesary to dispatch Raymond at once to
England to take charge of it
Before his departure the elder Mr. Leigh
had written a long letter to Dr. Da,venant,
giving the news of Philip's death, as well
as the information of Raymond's speedy
arrival.
The letter had reached Dr. Davenant at
the moat critical point of Lily's illness.
He did not dare to tell her of the simian.
choly news that it coutained-the confirma-
tion of her worst fears -lest the sudden
shock should extinguish at once and forever
the feeble flazne of life in that sensitive
heart., And, when Raymond finally ap
peered, the doctor, struek by the wonder-
ful resemblance to his brother, which was
lees a likeness than actual identity of
feature, form and expression, had prayed
him to humor for a short time the sick
girl's delusion, and to rersonate Philip until
she was strong enough to bear the reve-
lation of the truth, the gentle and kindly
nature of the young man had led him to
become at once interested in the fragile suf-
ferer, and he gave is willing consent.
But before Lily's recovery was perfected
fiona personating her lover he had become
her lover in earnest. Her beauty, her gen-
tleness, her fond and clinging nature won
his heart as completely as they had won
the affection of his brother, and he had not
long lingered beside Lily's couch before he
made to Dr. Davenant formal proposals for
her hand.
It wag at his solicitation that the dearer
haddeferred all statement to Lily of the
true condition of affairs.
"Let me win her, really win her, doctor,
before he learns that I am not Philip,"
pleaded the young suitor ; and the doctor,
himself half afraid of the effect of his corn -
=ideation, had suffered matters to drift
till chance had brought about the long -do,
layed catastrophe.
For some time Lily murmured very bit-
terly for her lost love, and refused to be
comforted, but Raymond was at her side --
Raymond who was all that Philip had been ;
or to speek snore correctly, all that she ever
imagined Philip to be. He was, indeed,
far more the realization of the idol she had
etwhrined in her soul, and that, so far as
her first lover was concerned, was chiefly
the work of her own imagiriation.
Gradually the forgot to weep for the dead
lover in the presume of the living One, who
WAS SO tender aria patient with her in her
sorrow, who cherished her so fondly and
who rejoiced so sincerely in her firee nie-
mente of reviving cheerfulness. So the
Wedding Was not long postponed, after alt;
anti Risyrnond Leigh, more fortunate than
many another heir, inherited the happinties
that his brother had not lived to enjoy, and
which doubtless in that brothet a hands
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WMAT AILED THE COUNTRY.
The Toting Idea Knew now to Shoot With-
out Teaching.
One nighe at a little mountain town in
Kentucky, Says a writer in the Detroit Free
Press, I was seated on the front porch of
the tavern waiting for bedtime to come
along, when a tai, strapping fellow louuged
through the office and dropped inth a 'chair
beside me.
"Stranger in these parts ?" he said, in-
quiringly.
"A little somewhat fro," I replied, glad
of a chance to talk to somebody; "though
I've been over a seotion of it in the last
month."
"What do you think of it ?"
"Well, it might be worse."
"Yes, I s'pose so, but I've studiei up
some and don't see exactly how."
" Oh, it isn't all bad," I said, encourag-
ingly.
"1 reckon not," he replied, in a half-
hearted way; "1 never heard anybody say
anything against the moral character of our
mountains; our trees would stand well in
any community; the Cumberland River is
clean, and our cows are, as a rule, peaceable
and well disposed."
The man's mower surprised me not a
little. I had not heard any native talk
quite as he did and I was interested.
"Do you belong here? " I inquired.
"Yes ; never lived anywhere else."
"What business are your in ?"
" I'm a sohool teacher."
"Ob! you teach the young idea. how to
shoot, do you ?"
"Not much," he replied, with emphasis;
"it's born right in 'cm, and that's what elle
the whole country."
Probably he knew what he was talking
about.
The Phonograph for Deafness.
An interesting isoovery was made a few
weeks ago which promises to do much for
medical science. It is the application of the
phonograph for the relief of deafness. The
theory is that ear trouble caused by the
thickening of the bones in the middle of the
ear is greatly alleviated by the constant
shock of the rhythm of the phonograph
when applied to the medial membranes of
the organ. Last week Prof. Geary, of Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, made the
first public demonstration and. since that
time his clinios have been crowded with
patients. A rising young practitioner of
Toronto,. Dr. Murray MoFerlane, ear and
eye speoudist, has followed the diacovery
very quickly. Recently at therooms of the
Edison Company on Yonge street, he gave
a demonstration in the presence of Drs.
Barton, Collins, Heetwood and other profes.
atonal and lay gentlemen. He used an
ordinary phonograph with Techilly pre.
pared cylinders made by depressions with
the stylus. The instrument was applied to
the ears of six patients who all declared
that 'there was an improvement in their
hearing. Dr. McFarlane was unprepared
to say whether the imagination had any-
thing to do with this or not, but he is of the
firm conviction that the discovery has
opened up new avenues in the treatment of
diseases of the aural organ.
Enlarging the Bust.
No better method for enlarging the bust
can be found than a systematic souse of cold
water treatment. Morning and nightbathe
and rub dry with Turkish glove or towel,
after which massage with cocoanut or oil of
vaseline. Rub spherically.
PlffS.-Ali Fits stripped fres by Dr. Niltreole
treat Nerve Restorer. No Fins after flmt
day's use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and W.00
trial bottle free to Fit oases. Send be Dr. Elise,
OK Arch St., Philadelphia. Pa.
Starch for Collars and Cuffs.
Add to each quart of well -boiled starch
half a teaspoonful of pevedered borax and
a tiny piece of lard, and dipthe collara
and cuffs in while the starch is quite hot.
Use a polishing iron, and your collars and
cuffs will look like new.
Mothers, are your daughters,pale or
sallow? Remember that the period when
they are budding into womanhood is most
critical; fortify their system for the change
with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, unsurpansed
far the speedy cure of all troubles peculiar
10 females. A trial of a single box will
convince you. Beware of imitations and
take no substitute.
If boiled potatoes are done a little too
soon, place a towel over the kettle, instead
of the cover.
It's pleasant to see a ladyselect the shady
side of a street to avoid the un and conse-
quently the necessity of carrying a parasol
but it is distressing to see her carry that
wretched poking apparatus half a mile in
the shade.
Catkin --What did you marry her for if
you intended to apply for a divorce so soon?
Barlow -She threatened to sue me for
$25,000 damages for breach of promise, and
I knew I could get a divorce a good deal
cheaper than that.
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