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Bin little weids lay olaine to me eaoh neselug
dey ;
1 ought, I Anon,1 can, I erne 1dare,1 may.
1 Ought—that, is oho law (led oil my bean hes
written,
'The niark for whieh my soul is with etreng
yearning emitten,
,1 Mest—that is she bound set either side the
way
By nature an the world, so that I Shall not
etray.
. 1 Can—that ineasures out the ppwer intimated
me
Of aotion, knowledge, art, skill and dexterity.
• Will—no higher crowe on human head coal
rest ;
Tis freedom's signet seal upon the seul im-
pressed.
I 1:lare is the device whioh on the seal you
road,
By_freedom's open door a bolt for time of need.
1May among them all hovers utioerteinty ;
-The moment must at last decide whale shall
I ought, I must, I can, I will, I dare, 1 my
' The six lay elaim to me each laour of every
Teach me, 0 God ! and then, then shall I know
each day
That which I ought to do, must, can, will, dare
and may,
IVIsacm of the Brahmin."
hy we entione.
e Beene First—Married Fan.
"Why do I smokell" Because my mind
Is so peeplexed with gloom,
Business is dull and money tight,
Greet debts before me loom ;
And thou my wife'e extravagant
• And scolds and trots all day.
agars are eheap, El. dime apiece;
i smoke, but ten a day.
• Ahl When the fragrant smoke upends
What miues of wealth arise!
Each wreath &marble castle holds,
leach puff an enterprise;
And then my wife's au angel too,
As wheu I uourted her of yore;
Who but like me would smoke and chew
Neath such a sky to soar?
Oh, telt me not of wasting dimes
Bad b eath and teeth's decay;
°Igen are ohea,p, a dime apiece -
1'11 smoke and spit all day.
[]lxit in cloud of smoke.)
- Scone Second—Enter old bachelor.
"Why do I smoke?" Because, alas;
I am alone in life,
Alas I Atas I Alas! I cry,
Yet fail to win a wile;
And when my cloehes come home from wash
There's nary a button left—
My socks are all unmated too,
• Though no one dreamed of theft.
Or when I it me down to write
A lecture or a tpeech,
• I !vow so nervous nov a gleam
Of genius eau t cetch ;
Bet when the vapory smoke unfurls
Its banners to the light
A gorgeous wend with angels thronged
Arises to my sight;
What tido e of eloquence I pour,
What plaudite 'round me ring!
Bach cobweb to bright vesture tarns
And robts me like a king.
At college long ago I learned
Oirelee in moko to blow.
How liogartieb curve of beauty paled
To see my genius grow!
Ah! when my breath delighted. sends
Those 1.ght rings from my month
I feel a-cirelieg through my veins
The fiery blood of youth;
And then the girl of whoin I dream—
My lovezy Mary Ann—
Sits by my side all smiles and grace,
And l'm a happy man.
She Meal mice nen..
She said the men we're " horrid" with an
energy emphatleal,
And. built upou n verrdreadful plan;
And when one jarr 4 upon her, with a gesture
quite dramatical,
She said, " Wed, it that isn't like a man 1"
Their manners were so rough, she said, with
voice earnest hysterical.
They were so big and vulgar, she declared,
e They made her very ill ; and, thus, with adjec-
tives very numerical,
if, She rattled on—not one of them she spared,
ee,e, ntil there came a fellow with a proposition
praeuical,
Thatratede her cheeks turn very, very red.
' "Yoa ca a oave me," the said to inm, with
pout that was attractical, •
_
"But -1 wish you weren't a horrid man !"
she said.
Jack FroPt.
An old man came to our door last night,
I wonder if he caned at yours, too;
„Re wore a gray coat and els hair was quite
white,
And he sneezed. all the time "chew"-" chew."
. He hasn't -been this way in weeks before,
We shall look for him now every night.
He didn't stay long, but just peeped in the
door,
And he covered the grass with white.
Ah! now I think you co,n guess his name,
Though nearly SCX meatus he's been lost,
.An old nian cold oeld table and lame—
Some can him Mr. John Frost.
When John was a boy -.years, years back—
His real name some way he lost.
Instead of John they called. him Jack,
Don't you know him no w ---Jack Frost 1
He's s.jelly good fellow and makes folks well,
For ameam he destroys—so they say—
But the ilowersmoh, dear 1-1 don't like to tell,
My pensuse are dead to -day.
...Tack Frost, he tells us that whiter is coming] ;
Thauksgiving Will 5000 08 here,
Then the Christmas bees again , ring,„
Never miud the flowers my dear.
They'll come again next spring you know,
Then brush away the tears,
.Get ready no wfor winter and snow—
a, ha, Jack Frost, three cheers 1
mecoaragiug.
'Hope springs etermal in the human breast."
Maids unweu her may wed by going West;
And those unbormy wedded in tne east
...13y going West :nay also bo relemed.
original. mu.
Eve's hankering, which we all deplore
in ohurchee ad in elaapels,
Crops out in little boys ono) more
Iror interdicted apples.
• .a, cheaper way.
Mrs. Y0unghuaband-1 with you would
•sbep into the grooms' more on yeur Way in
bower, Curlier ad oak sham to send me up
a pack age et mud for the cerway birds.
Mr. Younghaselaad---Whatee the use of
doing than Estella 1 We age all going dawn t
to the beach Sanday, you know, and Mon.
dem morning all we shall heve to do will be
to empty out our shoo.
She Had Wound wim out.
"1 caia tell year fortune, and find out
your fetter° husbeed for you, lady," said a
.glpsy.
• " if you find him out as often as I find
my present husband out)," replioil the lady,
• " if shall Deem marry
Who theory thin man desesended from the
•mmakey dome% seem so ridiculoue after you
.have seen the scot:then in a hotbioyele ea06.
Many a girl who meanies for leioure re
-
petite in heste.
They never pardon who hove done the
wroag.--Koran.
The man that le given bo anger destroys
his ow* house. —Talmud.
Many •a melee tongne shrikes out his
mseiter'e tandeing.--Skokspertie.
"1 guess tilieb's Ilumpty Ditrapby," sap
Mollie, as she gat ate ab the camel thud noted
the curlew hemere ett bit back,
She—it is tank injustice to sey that a
Woman it Inferior to a man in keno/sing
powere. He --Why 1 he—Became.
"Did Gelthard inherits anything from hie
father ?" "1 gluon he did. hie rams he
was bora with an appebite for 'igen." ,
Don't Pit in a dreaght, If yen do, ate
elector will in all probability he the one to
oash 11.
Elephanto roMetimee live be be 300 per
old,
LOVE AND GUILE
" What did you do with lb ri broke in
herfether in a rage. " Where is ib how, you
wished old 1" •
Marie wee Went. She had some vale,
dexperete hope that We question would nob
be aokeel of her now tint he had ortafeesed
rend when her father had outuelly fele it in
her pocket, The eilenoe seemed to exam
mete the old men still more, He elle" not
know for mania that it wits the money thab
he hed fele, so woe more he interrupted
with a remark.
"1 toil you, offioer, she has the money in
her Poalaeh I felt it there. Smola her,
and, you will find it."
"Tun out your pellets 1" said the gen.
derma.
With a gesture of despair mud a horde'
breaking sob, the put her hand into her
pooket end mid in a love voice:
" Oh, father 1"
"Come ! Be gee* !" said Beaumont in
a, harsh voice. '
Merle wen to the table and eumbied her
pocket of the sad weight which for so long
had borne her down. The money was of all
kinds; some of the coins were tarnished
and some were green with long lying it( the
cheap eerth. Others were bright, and had
evidently only been, lately addrd to tiro
stere. When the old man save theta he
malted at them greedily and turned them
over in his hand, rauthentioating them ati he
went along.
"'Themes my louts d'her. Then are my
coins. Title is all my money, which lona
been stolen from me."
He staid this all in • such a heading WaY
that it hurt) poor Maria eamosb as muds as
her own theme to find that her father had
quite forgotten that it was his own daughter
whose he was so pitilesaly animing.
The eergeant new spoke;
"This unhappy matter seems dear
enough. You heave made a °Image of rob-
bery. The crime is confessed."
Here Marie broke in:
Crime 1 Oh, de nob say that 1 I Inver
oonfeesed to orizne ; the good Lord knows
thee I am innocsen."
Here (again the sergeant amuck In:
"You do nob confess. Yeu affirm that
you are blamer& Then you mute be
tsoreening some one else. Who so likely
bo be ecreened by a wife as her huabaud
Eibey where you are 1" This was spoken
to Robert, who had risen and waa
quietly leaving the rem. "Now, pleate
to tell me, did your hatband know that) you
had the money '
" Oh, no 1 A thousand times no 1"
There was such a ring of truth in her voice
that all who heard ib were satisfied ou this
point at least.
The sergeant went on again:
"Bow d‘d you know where the money
was hidden ? '
" 1 c hw my father hide 11."
"Why did you think that it was in
danger of being stolen? "
" I feared it"
"Did you suspect any one 2"
" No." This said very fabably.
• "111 was at night when you saw it hid-
den 2"
" It was."
• "Hive you been in the hebit of going
out, et night ?"
"Then what made you go on this occa-
cion ?''
" I sew my father go out with a spade,
and I followed him."
"Did your bnebancl know that you were
• going out ?" Tole was getting Into auch
• close quarters that Marie feared thee one
• more question of the same kind woeicl in-
fallibly discover the morn which she was
trylug to gamed. She breeitated. The Der-
geant angrily addressed her " Answer
my minden, and without waiting. If you
are trying to aoreen any one else, I tell you
plainly that it will be of no
"My husbend did not know that I was
out.' He knew nothing whatever; of my
having bhe money until it was produced
here in this room.'
"Was he ever onti at night ?"
Here, in a moment, was the quoation that
she moat dreeded. She looked amend het
with a wild, hanted, despairing look—eried
to speak, lout her lira moved =wail-
ingly. Her hands moved for a moment
wildly to and fro, and she sank senseless en
the floor.
CHAPTER VL
The Hergeaut of the gendarmes now tool:
a deolaive attitude. Ceiling to the men
under him, he ordered them to amen both
Marie and her husband, as it word(' be
necenary to bring them before the uremia -
trate of the commune.
Mme. Beaumont protested vigorously.
Her poor child was in no fib coedit:lea for a
Gurney; thee) there was no charge egeinse
her that would warren:mu:3h a thing; that
her father ressuld nob prefer the charge
against his own child ; that the whole
thing was a mistake; that if any harm
• should ,happen to Marie lee would be a
,murder—nothing bub a murder—and that
he, the gendarme, wieild be themutderer,
and for all his smooth ways and words that
• they all knew now te be false' would het e -
ether perish in overlaeting torment, for thab
• the le bon Dieu win jab and world nob
Gaffer swish things. A thousand such thinge
She poor soul maid in her .distranion, to the
• satisfaction of the neighbors and to the
growing anger of the other gendarmes, who
• would fain have reiterated them in some for.
way. • ,
Bat the serpent .was a otrong and mate
terful man and knew hew to keep his sub-
Ordblaibea he eider. There is ,generatly an
inninctive feeling against the , other on the
part eif ',both the predatory • mare and the
man of the law. •
, Besides all this there was the mystery of
the death of Pierre Lamar tahe cleared up,
end the sergeant) had somehow gob it Into
his head that' in some way or mein Robert
• Macialre was erauserned in the rnstber. He
• had nob got any ostensible ground for the
belief, no he did nob venture to even hint as
yet at such making, but he had every fiaten-
Wort of following up the train.
• He had fully made up his mired to keep
his eye on him, ranch he was not satisfied
how in was that's, man so differeet frorn all
aroma him had come to be Retitled in this
• little unknown village. Indeed, were the
mot must thoughts of the astute gentle:me
knowo—not tholse which had actually keeled
a voice to his own suspicion, bub thereowhich
as yet his instinct) had nob revealed to hie
nation—lb would have bona found that he
half ettspeeted him of bsing In the category
Of "wanted.'• ,
Roberb tried at thZ3 first go off to bake a
high hand in the mabter And claimed the
righter of a eitizen, but the angesaut took
each a prompt • sand dreaded view in the
opposite direction Urn he quiekly euccum bed
to the inevitable and determined to nun to
the chapter of noidente, the more BO ars the
ACM Of the gehdattlhea were aeoehmenied
with appropriate anion in the shape of
meemolee.
The Indy that set out over the mountain
eth thab afternoon was a tad one Wand.
%tie Wan quite) broken down with grief
and Fan. She Ilea nob evon the consOltt-
eion Of a kind wotd, for Reberb net only
kept soneling at Ian all She thee, toad
treetiog even tom ditoothquestioza whioh aho
might ask him With silent cowbell -1A but' he
resented her epeoldug o au *4 the gen-
darmee, who now and itgedu preened, POMO
little Madams of speech or aotion.
Moreover, the cub which carried her erne
ried also a ghastly hurelere, the reiriaine ef
poor Pierre, which had been found eb the
foot of the preelpice and which the eergeant
thought oaight be neminary for his later
investigation.
It was late in the efternoon when they
stinted: Po that the Win wait isefaloni°0 t°
throw long shadows through the meratuteino
when they had metaled the mine Of Pierrehi
death. When they had arrived ot the Wel
• ledge, the Bergeron; coaled to them to atoP.
Then he pointed oub to the others the die'
position of the ground and made a rough
oketoh of the place, remarking to Robert, in
a voice of camel unommern, which chilled
his Mina heart:
"The juge de paix will require you 10 1011
how and where you paned the night) that
Pierre Lamar left his benne and why you
pre:Rated thee) he would go for a soldier and
would probably never be heard of again un-
less he got promotion,"
Roberb made no answer, but atiowled alt
his wife whoa no one wao looking ire 8way
that boded ill for her happiness rand even
for her 'safety in case he should have her in
hie power. •
The night seemed Quillen. Mho rude mat
bumped and shook to a degree that would
• _have rendered sleep impossible under the
mon favorable conditions. The gendarmes
waked sholtelly along, • keephag • Robert)
• alwor between two of them, for they
monied to fear iamb at) any moment he
mighb melee an effort to asoaspe. AN for
poor Marie, they took little heed, for they
never thought for an indent that ib would
he peosible for her tee make the mammary
effort.
• When the morning broke, colc1 and gray,
and a wider range or the country was trader
their view, the gendarmes rebored their
vigilance so far as to let Robert walk
beialsid the carte holding on to its
back ea they aeoended a hill, Hitherto
there had been to Marie a hideous and ever
• increasing doubt as to her husband's guilt
as regerded the death of Pierre, but his
attitude the very indent he gob an opper.
• %unity of Paying a word to her in
• private turned the doubt into an appalling
certain by.
When his face came opporate the opening
of the curtains of the tilted cart, she wao
sbruok with the expression which ehe saw
there—an expreseion , quite different from
arty that she had ever before seen there. It
was one of brutal, unmittgated forestay,
• such a look as the galleys or the hulks only
can products. When a man desoenda in the
wale of humanity to his very lowesb, he can
be, where his seiety le concerned, more cal-
lous than even the breads. The better
• qualities of mind and Insert c an dituppear
altogether, and the relentless inatinot of
eta prenervabion can be seen in all its
possible baseness.
Such was the look whioh met poen Maria's
eleep-forsaken eyea as they sought for B01111
gleans of hope In the gladneso of the moo:slog
and chilled her to a pIteh regulate to
hear unmoved the terrible confirmatien of
her harm
She hardly knew her hueband in the
• cruel -looking remorseless wretch who
glared at her and spoke in a &roe
whisper:
"De yen hear! 1 umst get away some-
• how or they will settle me for that affeir of
Lamm. You mut do it for me. I shell
• melte some exam° to get into the cart. Ba
reedy to ohange clothes with me. Then pub
out your head ard ask to be allowed
• to walk a bit. Then lie close, no matter
velvet happen?: or ib will be worse for us
beth,"
•
She attempted to remonstrate with
• itim but in vain. She was p analyzed with
this new fear. She heard him ask the ser-
geant to let him rests in the comb for a bit,
• es be was tired to destsh and chilled with
the cold.
The sergeant consented with a contemp-
tuous oath, but refused to step the cart. 89
• with a clumsiness quite unmixed to hint, for
• he was a man of great) strength end aotivity,
he half scrambled, half tumbled into the
• cad, breowleing meledietione 00 evoeybody
and everythlag.
Once in the carb and hidden from the
view of the gendarmes the change was easily
• effected, and wIth Marie's petblcoat (had
cloak over his ewer °lathes he was ready for
the next nap of the enema. By his =drum
Mon Marie, with her little thaw' over her
hrad and her body hidden in the interior of
the cart, staked the sergeant to let hex walk
• for a little while, as her limbs were clamped
e with eliding ea loeg in the cart.
(The sergeent could see no Warm in so
simple a regent, se tad the driver to stop
for a moment while she got out. Bat ab
the very moment that the can stopped
Robert; slipped down in her stead, imitat-
ing, with a skill that allowed thab at some
time he must home been an actor, the
peculiarity of her gait, so that the soldiers
never anspeobed there was any • trick en
hand. •
For awhile he wakebehind the cart,
holding on as if to aid in walking. But
after alerhile he began to fall behiud. Now
and again the sergeant looked back to see
as in duty bound that hia prisoner was still
there, One of the ashen naked him if he
should not make her hurry up, but he
answered 5101 15 was all right, as the man
• was safe in the mob and that the woman
could not go far.
For 110/310 litble time they progreased in
this faehista. Marie's state of mind was
borrible, and she only longed for death to
pub an end to her suffering. All the light
seemed to have gone ona of her life. As
yet she could noe ace the blow that had
fallen—her husband a murderer, herself ar-
rooted as a thief and even now on tha way
to some unknown peril, while the author of
lb sal, the man whom he had loved and
loved still in spite of all, treating her not
even with • a cold indifferentre, but
harshly, and threateniug her.
When the curb some little time after came
veer a wood which stretched for many a
league around away to the frontier, the
sergeant burned around to tell his female
prioner that ib was time to get back into
the aerb or to come again into lino with, the
reat of the party. He could not on her.
With a quick rash he ran to the can and
dregged beak the curtain, :
" What dose tilde moan ? If your wife
has escaped, it will be the worse for you.
Get up, you lazy St-- Here he started hack
in amazement, for hie eyes met those of
Marie, dilated with fem.
" $ame!" he called to the °there, " he
hes escaped 1 Run, Wed enfente. Quick
He cannot) ba far. He was here brit a
moment ago. Do net hoeitete to shoot if
he does not stop at the word."
• The gendarmes ran back and Skimmed the
reed right and left, but all in vain, for
Robert) Menke had ineken from prison and
wormed from custody too often 50 be caught
neappiog when there was a chance to tempo.
Ho Was already safe in the wood and under
cover of its shelter, putting each moment
a great Manna° between himself azd his
lettermen, while they were vainly certrolaing
for him ore the ground which he had premed
over.
Seeing that eearoh was in vain, and that
the onay change of recapturings hisn was by
raising the hue and or from the =diem
the norgeant called( his men beck. They
• mato, traturtally =nigh thoroughly a:am:yet
the way en whlatt they had been teiokrad
and vowing Vengeance oh Rebore Malign,
in one they Photeld ever lay their „WWI°
VIM him opiate
'Rho sergeeut sold nothime to Marie for
a while. Ile was P. megabit emu Word-
ing to his Bolide, and IM WNW it Would
only onto her more mate witirlittfa doin$
her any good, and he fele that it was only
natural foe a woman to help her • hutboad,
Under the oiraumostangeo. Berger!, he
'o'er! nob at all Imre in hie mind arom the
find; thet she was guilty. He could en
that there was POMO freyetery en foots 'mad
he thought that in ell arobAbilitY ehe W°8
not the most guilty party in whatever ill -
doing was on basil Presently, herveVera
he came to the cub and amid to her gently
entre:el;
"1 wanted to treat you es hihdly all 1
You mustnie blame me if there le
any riger shown to you after whet has hap-
pened. Poor soul 1 I pity you from the
bottom of my heart. And you BO YOOligg
WO—little more than a child, 1 heve ghee
of my own, and who knowe but sem day
they may need a friend or some hand of
pity stretched soub to them1 Viral% there!
he's a worthless wreak bo nay thinking,
aud parboil% you're well rid ef bita—but
he has °gimped., and we aro so near the
frontier thab if he is d,ecently careful he may
gab away all right, so don't fret youreelf
about any danger (meting to him, but keep
your dramas for what yea have soon to go
through."
This kindliness wale toe much for poor
Marie afber all the bitterness she had gone
through. A ficrodade of gratitude raehed
to her been, and with a rush of Mars she
bent over and kissed the rugged bend thet
lay on bhe back of the inn as the oldi ool-
dier walked along trying te comforb her.
From thenceforth Marie had a, states:1h
friend in the old isergeante who mado up hie
mind that he would aid her all he could
withhe the line of his duty.
• CHAPTER VIL
After a flow hours more foaromeime the
petty reached their destination. For Merle
513 was e, time of blessed peen, for the kind
words of the sergeant had brought her etuth
relief that wearied nature asserted her
power and she aleph So weary was she
that ehe law as me claad, and even bad
dreams came nob to her. The road had got
somewhat smoother as they drew mann to
the vealey, so that she wan len jolted than
had bison the experience hitherto ea the
journey.
When they arrived at the gendarmerie,
the sergeant would not have Marie
awakened. "Let her sleep, poor soul,
while she can," he mid. So a couple of
men lifbed without wakening her and placed
her in a room, where the sargetande wife
had her laid on a bed ets good as was to be
had. The door wan looked, and ohm wee
left alone to aleep until. the morning, when
she was to be taken before the magistrate.
When she awoke, efter a long sleep, dm
sergeant:10 wife gave her a comfortable
meal, and in many little vans onoh as
kind women knew helped to ease her
distress.
In the morning she was token before the
magistrate and charged with the theft of
the money. Of couree the sergeant' had to
tell the story of the eseape of the ether
prisoner. Those In the court room were
much interested to the recital, end when)
his description was given erne of the
gendarmes who had newly come to the
strati:al said :
"Thee must be the very man, who escaped
from the galloya at Menai/es after killing
two of the guards."
He was immediately interrega,teel as to
the antecedents of the murderer, and Marie
had to listen while the whets chtalogue of
her husband's iniquity was unfolded. With
growing horror she learned that ha had been
merry times in pekoe, from which he had by
oome trick or subterfuge escaped on each
ocoasion ; thab he was a orivaleal of the
deepesb dye—revaerselese, plaices, cruel;
that his want) of gratitude to those, who had
helped him in his times of troubio hadalien-
ated even those who had clang to hica bhe
iongeat ; that he bad been accueed of esdeexel
murders and suspected of many more, but
that his manning Nut been snob that, be had
been able to prove en nearly every eacaeten
thab the guile had reeked upon some of his
dupes; thab he had never healbated 10
betray his fellows and e,ocomplicess when it
had served his purpose. In tbe opinion of
the uposher there was notr so black a crimi-
nal in the whole roll of crirae, Finally Isa
had been convicted on a charge of mut:atm
and condemned to the galeys for life. He
had been in the gang at Hematites for only
a short time when he had eseamed by an
effort of desperate courage, having In the
doing Be murdered two of the guar& under
circumstances of peculiar atrecity.
When the reerital had come to an end, the
magiatrato sad that se far as the charge of
the thefb was concerned he would have been
content to lob le lie over until a later time
'had there not been direct evidence of the
woman having taken the money ova fee
being discovered in her pomession. From
the foot off her husband being such a (Des-
perate character it would have been pre-
aumolly as a tool in his hands that she had
committed the theft. As, however, he had
eseamed with her atieletence, it would be
necessary throb she should beheld in custody
for both oharges—that of the crime with
which eho was charged sad the additienal
one of °outliving with end atdirg in the
escape of ran arrested format. "At the same
time, said the magistrates, "oz raireetueb of
the prisoner's exbreme youth arrd owing to
tho urgently of her condition, and farther
relying on the facts that she may have en
her Meal some explanation to gOve which
rosy mibigete In bhe eyes of the comb her
moral delinquency in the imatiter, I am
ling that every kind of permed considera-
• Men should be shown te her consiaterd with
her safe custody."
The hint of the magistrate was not lost on
the ;sergeant or his kind-hearted wife„ send
wheel she returned with them to the gen
rharmerle they shared with her whatever
coraforts they themaelveo pessened. Bub
though she hied twine measure of ooniforb her
date of mind was pitiable in the =trent°.
At one fell blow she had lost all their
eat& , had to give her--husband—
for Wait net the discovery of his
traet character worse than dote T --father,
mother, hone, frlenda, honest name, all
that makes the happitteos of life. Ntty,
was the not even at the moment a prisoner
on a criminal oharge 1 A prieoner, eso that;
her child muse be born in prieen and be
stand for all ha life with the vision
taint 1
The idea appalled her, and in the great
=garish *410r net a wild idea creme to bor.
She wouldrun away if she could from the
prison. She had every opportunity, for the
room ribe ocoupied ern not even looked,
eine° no one thoughts it portable that she
oottid even make an attempt to egoape.
She would seek a ehelter eotaewhete—any-
where—in her ()rouble. 810 might die,
starve or petiah from the cold, but death
•had no torrent for her. AR oho hoped wao
that her child would not be born in the
Finn. She felt) that if she could =tie gee
out) lute the free air, no matter where,
her Halo ozze might °nape the mamma
taint—that it Might rads be cursed with the
sine of in father ot with her own tin
happineatu
While the thoughb WAS upon her she roast
up arid stole to the door. 15 wed night.
Not * sound was 10 10 heard rave theoretic*
POPtli Of 010 UMW. (540 OMP a MOMOOM
IMP' gfrl, and tine inetrad---this voice of
nature to whiole she was ammotomed corn -
hag through tho etalluarre—lerotight an nu -
utterable relief to her Stahl. A eenOtr ef
freedom creme to her through all the nal=
that reeked her.
fah° paned Into the night rand fled ort her
way wish one blind hope elver before her
--that her child al:Meld not hear the prison
taint).
AO the morning wee brenting oho found
herself doge to *little vermseide amine. Her
etrength wee going fake bet the eight gave
her reamed etuargy. As she looked through
the gra,tiveg that emerded 11 in front she aw
the figure of the divine smother, end her
heart gavo a glad, throb as aim mak to her
knees in the dust ond bowed her weary
bead IRMO ohe prayed. She felt no fear now.
With that divine image of motherhood and
reoffering before ber she felt thab her prayer
was heard, and that her ohild would be
free from the aurae ef its fatherhood. There
alone, save for whet; ahe "felt to be the
presume of the Mother of Borrows, she en-
dured all tho pangs et her matormity.
Ae the light grew in the emit her
thoughts havered between the child that
Ity upon her breast end .thae other Child
whose atar woo. nen In the lantern oky so
many coutravies age, and the {sebum of her
pain inane Itt tho ley that a MOM was born
ham the world.
• As the morning grew, hewever, a new
• fear began to esteala her. She thought
that elm might be, csatared and taken
back be the wham again. The fear that,
after alle her Kan raighb yet gob the leant
of the prima gave her ebrength 50 fair
• herself, and adzes leaked o,round her
eagerly for some clew bhrough the maze of
doubts before hem She thought that
the best thing that she andel do was to put
• her eland some pine where it) would be
taken care of arid where ib would never
• know the sufferings or the deimair of his
• poor mother or las father's shame. The
• thought of leaving him aimed broke her
• hearte She fathered fallen purpose,
Soddenly she flattened. There wire the
mead of a handle feet quietly eanteriag.
The thought came to her like an inspira-
• tion thet it oeuld not be any one planning
her, or Mae pace would have been qutoker.
She nmde up her mind—she would trust her
child to the mercy of this etranger.
Hasbily wrapping him in her woolen
shawl, ehe laic/ hios tenderly at the fob of
the shrine, after &Using him with passion-
ete fervor, end hurriedly hid herself in a
caump of trees that grew thickly around the
ohrine.
Cidee horseman approachesi at an ether
pace. She peered out eagerly through
the !eaves to sea to what kind of a person
the was about to trust the fate of her
chit&
• He had throvat tire rein on the horee's
neck and was to all seeming unconscious
of what went on around Idea. He was
evidently In some deep distress, for the
team were railing down bit cheeks. The
mother's heart grew glad, for the eyea
caldera weep when the heart is hard. As
ho drew neer, the child, which mimed the
warmth of its motheee lareeet, gave a
feeble cry.
Tee horseman instantly 'stopped, and It
strucle Marie with sterprize that his first
glance WAS upward., as if he eupposed that
the voice heel come from the sky. She
understood the restoom however, with a
gash of thankfolness from her motherly
heart wheat she saw him jump from hia
horse anti rush to the feob of the shrine,
where he fell on his kayos and rallied the
baby tenderly in hie alms as he exclaimed
through his testa:
"10e good God has pity on my lenelinese
• and muds me this litirtie one that I may
cherlah bine in the stead of nay lit tie Charles.
• Leen down te-ley on rue, my young wife,
from your high place beyond the etare. See
for year sake and theta of our little Charles,
whom I laid in the earth on your breast eo
little velelle ago, I take thio little one
whom LW parents have abandoned to be my
son."
haarie !sank to the ground with a heart
hal of gratitude, and me the etranger rode
• a way, holding the child in his arms, she
brewed her heed bit her hands and said:
"They may take me to the prison now if
• they like. They are sure to seek for me,
and if they sleek they meat find me, for my
• etrengble is gone. To thou, Mothee of Sur -
rove, helper of blie affliebed, be the praise
a! tray Mews to -day, fer thou hest guided my
• footsteps to this spot and haat remind my
• child)
CHAPPER, VIII.
Ia all the Depatement of the Seane-et-
Loire there was no man more generally
• liked and respected thee M. Dumont, the
proprietor of Lea Efate Amite a thriving
• waherge which Mood in the ceztekirts of the
village of Simard, jest where the high road
to Montreirpmeee the end of the lane leading
• be the old church.
D wets is tviclowerihaving lost
• hie wife ame twenty moan bsfore. They
had gone to Mereeillew to cao her fe.ther, her
• rely remaining relestive, who was dying.
• The fatigue of the jeurney had been too
• much for her, and the had died In giving
birth to a son, their flat and only child,
Heeling hill his young wife and her old
• father Ode by side, 151. Durnont returned to
Les Boos Arnie with a, little dark -eyed in -
fent, a few weeksi old, to be henceforward
the groat joy and interest of his life for ho
never thought of remeerying, but: he de-
voted himself to the bringing up of his
child mid the cora of his Ann and farm.
• In course of time Ube little delicate baby
grew up boleti a teal, strong young man, the
pade ard joy of hie father, the apple of hie
eye. He WWI a gonered favorite with eld
air& youog, while hke gentle mannere and
sofb dark eyes made hirer spoolsally popular
tattorg the young girls of the surrounding
• villagea.
Things had e.11 goao Wall with H. Du-
• mont, and at the time of whieh we write he
was a very prooperonis man, as he ,well de-
eerved to be, fee he was always gen-
erous! and ready to help his poorer neigh -
bare.
An air of well befog pervaded everything
about the Immo o,nct ferm. The thriving
delds of golden. mute now almost reedy for
the sickle, were a ple;tera to beheld, while
rowel of great pee bailed yellow crourgee
lined the farrows. From trunk to trunk of
bhe slender poplar:a were festooned the care-
fully oulblveted V1e08.6 already showing pro -
make of good vicatage and a busy them for the
vendengeuts who o, tittle letter would gather
biro purple fruit arki freed it out in yonder
barna, with Many se laugh and jest), for 10
those days when She otantatry was still bet
youtm such amok methods were still
pentIced, and modortt inaprovententri were
quite unknown be thed quiet village in the
hetert of Franca,
The embargo Reda was a picturesque old
bub1dLngwibb high peaked roof and little
dormer windows lighting the ape:nowt roomy
granter, Whore the wittier otore of fruit was
kopt—applera and peare sat auto of various
kinds, while fruit Ibos stretching from
rafter to ratter were hung burtohea of grapes,
etwoh launch =ugly eneoenced 10 ite own beg
and carefully governed from ito neighbor.
And ate hitolaen---kitoltera bat it name,
for no rough Werk viraa over done there—
how cornfortable is was and how plant -
empire With ite aeiv 'fireplace, where in
winter time greire too blazed and .oraelded,
• itsi roof Watt wiSti tell.amelsea home and
many bum* of Sweet and Nanny her*
end poppet pods, its rove of obtains Jimmi•e*
and well-preenhed Cletaint ad obit*
earthenWares ite neitehed oaken
Mies and gettlee, the vivid essiow
of ite red tiled floor 1 In tha
comer by the fireplaise Wao the pleture Of
the Virgin, with n Pli Of freeli &Wen/ 00
the little •weed bracket) beneath It, fon
thee' were pietas, then ample people, and
the 'Virgin never woe Without her Werra
Up Stairs whet piles of soft) Wool malie
firemen, with ellen of snowy homeoptos /Were
arena and oozy blankets 1 Then the best
room, with iSa armoire a gine, Ito Ired,
&mash covered chairs and sofa in the ritYler
of the first empire, the tell gilt framed
minor over the chimney, the groups et
wax and the paper flowers under glass
shades, and on the wail facing the wiedol'ir
the portraits of ha. Damon and hie wifee
taken when they were firsia marled. There
was net a girl in the commune whe did not
envy the Inure miebress of that room, for
Oherlee, bbe only son of M. Dumont had
made his choice, and the pretty, blend,blue
eyed Clementine Gerneen11 was to be the
future mietress of Les Bons Amts.
M. Gement' was a wealthy farmer who
lived et Broom!, on bhe bordero of the
forest of La Menthe, some ranee on tho
other side of Simard. He was en eldfriend
and crony of M, Damont—a warm men,
too—who could give his only daughter a
niee bit of money. The two old men had
long planned this mart iage rand had watched
with settsfaction the growing affection bar
tween the young people, and hardly a Sun-
day morning paned that dld nob see the
carnole of bd. Gametal, with ita ownen
driving and hie daughter beadle him, arrive
at Les Bono Antis just as the bells began to
ring for the midday service. The martian
was then pub up, and the fens net off together
to the church.
M. Gammen pretended that he liked bet,
ter the preaching of the good cure eft Simard
than that of the oure of Brooard, and that
was why he came. Bub for all Oust every
one knew quite well that lb was but is wan.
ning device to give the young folks an
opportunity of meeting.
Charles was a little thy, but at lath took
courage end spoke ao he and Cleznentin
walked home from church side by side under
tho bali poplars which bordered the stream,
while the elders followed slowly at a die-
oreet distance.
"Clementine 1"
"Vee, Charles 2"
A long pause, during which she gives a
sidelong glance at him out of her blue eyes,
having a pretty correct Idea au to what he
le trying to my.
" Clementine 1'
"Well, Charles, what is it ? Why de yen
repeat my nems like Shat?
"Because—because— Dear Clementine,
may I speak to your father 1"
"Speak to my father 1 Why, of norm 1'
she replies, perversely pretending to ram
underatani him. "1 hope you don't think
I with to monopolize you 1'
"You know what I mean, Clementine
when I ask you may I speak to him 1"
"Indeed, I don% M. Charles. How
should 1 T"
"I love you, Clementine, and I want you
to let me ask your father's consent to one
marriage. You know I Ieve you, and that
in my oyee there be no girl in all the coun-
• try to °ampere to you. If you refuse me, 1
• will never marry any true, Say yon love
me a little, Clementine, and that you will
be my wife !"
"I don'b know, M. Charles! And what
• about Jeanne do Moulin?"
• "Jeanne du Moulin 1 What is ohm to me,
Clementine?"
(To be Continued.)
THE PAMEIJIG misurnew.
How the French Savant Treats Patients
Cure Babies.
The Paris cerresperidenb of the " Mont-
real Medical Journet" thus deseribes
recent Atilt to this interesting inableution
11 We entered a large wating-roora at the
side, which contained about 60 imamate of
all netionalitlee. I noticed among them
tvvo Arabs in their native street, a Chinese
a Japanese, besides several English people:
The treatment is gratuitous only, eto rich
and poor have alike to waib their turn. The
porter took our earls into the profesaor's
room, and in a few moments .wo were
ushered into the presence of the greet
men, He greeted ua very kindly,
and efter a few remarks called an
assistant, who showed as about a bib, sand,
explalued the treatment to us. A very
careful record is kept of each patient, the
state of the deg, site and extent of the
wounds, date when bitten, date of com-
mencement of treatment, oto., all b,sing re-
corded. It theme bites about the face are
considered the meats dangerous. As a rule,
from 20 to 60 injections in all are given, alt
intervals of a day or two. The strength of
She solution is gradually inereaued as the
treatment goes on, the duration of the
treatment depending on the site and char-
acter of the wounds. The fluid itself is an
opaque milky -looking substance w1th but
hale Odor. The patients coma in turn,
with the olothing about the abdomen
loosened so that a small area of
skin can be reached on either side. The,
patient is held by and leans on an moisten%
as most start when the needle is intro-
duced. The Bite of the injeetion having
been cleansed with a solution of carbolic
aoid, abeub 10 C. C. of the fluid is /ejected
deeply into the tissues with an ordinary
large hypodermic needle. As a rule, an in-
jection la given en either side of the ab-
domen. Paeteur is a small, rather ammo
man, with a muoh-wrinkled, yet kindly
face, and gray hair. I was surprised to
notice that he has very little power over
bhe lefb side of his body, and that his
opeeoh is effected, so that itt is diffictulb bit
understand what he says. This condition
is the results of a " abroke " he had aim
years ago. The work or the institution ha
done by assistants, Pasteur being able to do
but little.
Aunt Nancy and Her Day.
We are reminded thettaare bsobill a young
country by the death of Aunt Nancy Hyde,
of Peekskill, N. Y., who V7a0 bent two days,
before General Washington was inaugurated.
first President of the United States. The
world hes probably advanced ell mneh
during Aunt &any'a lifetime as during
atm thoueand years • itt its previous
history.
15 le fully an easy to shook an engaged
girl as lb is hard to shook a married woman.
A man never has to petiole use for hie
Watch as when liatening to a long sermon,.,
Pigmies were once nunaerouil in Iodated.
"Genius," said a great thinker, . "is an
infinite °verity for taking prattled' BrIghti
Mrs. Melligtuba, whohas invite, saya theft
the ammo rote:ark applied to (milky hebien,
The oldeat batik mites aro the flame
motley," or " cenvonient motley," fines la-
med in Chine, '2697 B, C. Originally these
notes were Nailed by the Treasury, but owe
portent) dlobeted a change to the banks.
Under Govetnment inepootIon ansi 00eitteto
The noted Were printed in bide Irak on olio
merle from ths filler of the melhetry tee%
Orne ftesso le 1390 8. 0. le stili Oetefitity
Prceerved in the Aelatio museum at Sia
Polonameig: