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Agent for Exeter and vioinity The Molsons Bank WOMAN'S STORY, CHAPTER, IX, We had been nearly a mouth in Switzer- land, moving quietly from plitee to place, end thoroughly enjoying the beauey Of everything, all the more becauth of Uncle Ambrose, who was like a walleing encerolo- podia, telling me all I wanted to know about everything and everybody, talkinn most delightfully about Voltaire, Rousseau, Gibbon, and all the Lake Leinall poets and philosopher, and quoting whole pages of Tyndall on the Alps and glaoiers. Itry mother had no more nervous fits after that night in Paris. She seemed thoroughly happy, and pleased with my en oyment et everything. Sometimes 4 shade of Nmelancholy would creep over her at the thought a years ago when he had been in these places with my father, and there were days when the had a listlesa air aa if she Were weary of life, in spite of the love that watched her footsteps and wrap. ped her round like an ietinoephere. I won- der if all husbands are like Uncle Ambrose. Chore is an intensity in his devotion to my mother whick shows itself in every act of his daily We; and yet his affection is never intrusive, it never touches the ridiculous. I think very few people at the hotels where -we ;stopped guessed that they were a honey- moon couple. Mother is silenteand reserved among strangers, and Unole Ambrose has always the thoughtful air of a student. At the National. at Geneva, there were some Oxford men who were very much impressed • When they found mit who he was. I heard them talking about his books one evening in the readingeroone when I was looking , through the Tauohnitz novels. I felt quite proud to think thee the man they were praising was the man who had stooped, from his high estate to eduoate me. wonder whether it was for mother'e sake -whether he worshiped her from the very beginning, even in my deer father's life -time, with the same worship that he has for her now -a hopeless, distant love in those days, without expectation or thought of reward. I eau but think that it may have been so, that no leaser feeling would have induced so learned a man to devote himself fie the training of an ignorant little Ie WM at Lucerne that the sewed of my father's death was revealed to nee, It hap- pened only the (ley before yesterday, and yet I feel as if it was ages ago. I was so occtipied with the novelty and delight of this beautiful country until thede-that I (CHARTERED 13Y PARI,IAMENT.1866) ,Paid. up Capitel - $2,000,000 Nest Fund. - - 1,000,000 Ikea Office, Montreal. WOLFERSTAN THOMAS,Ese., GENERAL MANAGER Money advanced to good farmers on their, riwn note with one or more endorser at 7 per cont. pox annum. Exeter Branch. Open ovory lawful day, from 10a., to 3p. et SATURDAYS, 10 man, toi.p,in • urrehe rates of intereet allowed on deposit E. E. WARD, • Sub-Uanager, POWDERS Core 14aAtiACHIE and i4bncalgie in AO snefArtitn.4? Size CoateoeTteegue, Mega tees, Binoeseeenislit In this hie*, Constipation, Torpid Liven na teethe to stay cured also regulate the hoWels. VASRY Nide TO TAKI34 PRI013t5 dEsrra M T bRaisi Svsitts. baffle all the endeavors Of the yohoe, and being tileoredit upon tho force. - "Yes, I have a feint recelleetioa a the affair -the Deninarle Street mystery, I think they 0%110. it. I had 'utterly lorgoeten the Male's Immo. Do you say that bba Miss .ttatrell is a relation of the murdered man ?" "Only itio daughter. 1Vire. Arden Wee widow lintel a month ago, when she married the man who is walking with leer over there in thef moonlighe. I have some friends at Henley Who talk about her. She has a place on the bans of the Thames, where sho lived in retirement since her huaband's murder." "Was it never known Who murdered him ?" "Never, Tete motive was plunder, of course. The murderer got <dean off with his booty, in the form of Rank of Englend 1)Otest WiliGh were cashed in the south of France before the bankers in thee /tart a the world had heard of the crime, The murderer got a start of eighteen hours Or SO before bhe crime was diseovered--just margin enough to allow of his turning the note e into hard cash." , "Were the, e any arrests made, or was anybody suepected "Oh es far as that goes there is no doubt that the mart who committed the murder was a foreigner who took a, room in the Denmark Street lotiging.house for" the ex- press purpose of murder. He lured his victim there by the use of a woman's name --the name of some French woman of whom Hatrell had once been fond, He did the deed unaided, in the broad light of the day, and then he locked the door of his room, and went down -stairs and out of the house, as coolly as if he had tone home to fetch some implement of his trade and were only going back to his workshop. Thi, I believe, is the last that was ever seen of "No doubt he is knooking about Europe somewhere," answered the other man. "Who knows? lItt may be here to -night. The Sohweitzerhoff would be a capital. resort for a man who was wanted by the police, The very publicity of the hotel would be his safeguard. last there °old and trembling while they talked, oh with such callous indifference, as if it mattered nothing that an adored husband and father should be lured away to tome horrid den and. oniony murdered'. And then the dear face same lesek to me in all its brightness -the happy smile -the candid gray eyes. The loved voice sounded again in my ears, just as if my father had that instant called to me from the garden. Oh, how could my mother get over such a blow as that? The wonder was not that she had grieved dreadfully, but that she had ever ceased to grieve. And nothing had been done. His death was unavenged ; his murderer was walking about the world unpunished. Yes, as that man . said, he might be in Lucerne to -night. had not found time to open my diary after I left England; bat now I come to the book for relief from my pent-up agony. I have not had one happy moment once that revelation; and yet I have been obliged to appear as lia-ppy as ever, for fear my mother should find ant what I aartebrooding upon, and be reminded of the one great sorrow of her life. Oh, what rt sorrow it must have been! What an awful haunting memory ! It is wonderful to me that she could ever smile again, or take any pleasure or like,or think of anything except' that one dreadful fact. I know now how my father died -why he was snob:deed away from us without an hour's warning. I know that he was cruelty murdered bynn unknown hand; end thathia murderer is walking about the earth at this day, undiscovered and unpunished, unless God's vengeance has fallen upon the wretch in some mysterious way that we know not. We were t the Schweitzerholf, at Lu- cerne. The weather was lovely, and we had spent the day on the lake, and in the evening after dinner we all went out to the portico in front of the hotel. There were some Tyrolese musicians playing under the trees by the Is.ke, and I thought of that curious stoey of Tolstoi's-of the poor wan- dering musician and the cruel people at the Schweitzerhoff, who listened and applauded but never gave hirn a sou. And then the poor ereature wentstrolling about the town, where the teller of the story followed him, to take him back to the Schweitzerhoff and treat him to champagne, much to the in- dignation of the company in the coffee - room. I reminded Uncle Ambrose of Tolstes story, which we had read together. We were sitting in the deep shadow of the portico, looking out at the moonlit quay, and listening to the Tyrolese musicians, one of them playing upon the Streichzither while the others sung. . Presently Uncle Ambrose and my mother went for a turn on the quay, leaving me sitting in my dark corner at the back of the colonnade. They asked me to go with them'but I had walked and run &bout a good deal in the aIbernoon, at Altdorf and Fluellen and I- told mother I was tired, and would rather stay where I was. I was sitting in a dark corner,' enjoying the music, and unobserved by enybnely. There were two rows of people in front of me. "Do you know who she is ?" naked a man sitting very tear me, as my mother moved slowly away on her husbaud's arm. "Her name is Ardere.....a, eery atereede, woman, is she nob V' returned his compan- ion. "Decidedly hanaseme 1 But don't you kuteer who she is?' "I only know that the men she is walking with is her husband, and that their llama is Arden, I saw it iu the visitors' hook this morning." "Didn't ypri notice another name braoked. ed wibh it? I did," "Meet name?" , • "Miss Hatreli, the lady's daughter. Sho is traveling with her mother and step- father. Mr. arid Mrs. Arden hire only been merried a month. I saw the marriage in the Mines' " "Bub what about Mise He.trell?" "Do you niean to say the name has no astooietion in your mind ?" , "Not the slightest. 3 never know any Hatrells, so far as I eau remember." "Perhaps riot, but I'don't blank you have forgotten ene mysteriotia' murder in Der wok Street, Se. Giles', which everybode 'balked ee.thipt six or !seven yeaee ego. The Mau ffeardered was a country gentleman Who had gone tip to London to cash a big check in Order to pay for an tetate he was buying. Bes cashme the oheck in Pall Mall, bus he never reedited leineolit'a Inn FieldS with the money, He Wee intercepted on his way and lured to a lociging•house in Danmark Street, Whore he was found next (ley stebbed and plundered by an unknown hand, It was otio of thous miirdere which I did not cry out, or faint, or do any thing to create a disturbance. For a min- ute or no there was a rushing in my ears, and the pillars of the portico seemed to rock; and then my bead grew cool and dear again. But I felt that I could not go on sitting quietly there; and I started up and asked one of the men -who had talked about my father to make way for me, and I broke through the double range of sitters somehow, and ran down the steps aud away toward the cathedral, and then up the hill at the back of the hotel., I wanted to get away from the crowd, from my mother and Uncle Ambrose, from everyone and everything, just, to be alone with my thoughts of my dear dead father. The nartow path up which 1 went to the top oe the hill was quite deserted at this time. I stood on the h111 -top alone, looking down at the lighted oity, so pic- turesque in its stillness, the quaint old ropfs and gablee,and market squares and tiarriew streets, which it had been such a delight to explore with Uncle Ambrose only yester- day, but which I looked at now with dull, unseeing eyes. Pilatus lifted hie snow - crowned head above the further shore of the lake, and over all there was the clear light of the moon, clear yet soft, leaving. great yaps of densest shadow, black depths where the lamps twinkled here and there, siugly or in blusters of warm red light, which seemed a relief after the coldness of the moon and stars. I had noticed all these things the night before, when 1 stood m the same spot with Uncle Ambrose. I naked them mechani- cally to -night, while my heart beat loud and fast, with a passionate longing to do something, weak, inexperienced girl as I was, that should slowly, laboriously, surely lead to the punishment of my fathertt murderer. "How is it," I asked myself, "that one murderer escapes, and that another, who seems to leeve but the slightest indications to lead to discovery, is arrested within a week of his crime? What is it that makes the chahoes of criminals so uneven, and how is it that the police, who in some cases seem to exercise a superhuman intelligence, seem in other cases helpless and blundering el. most to the verge of idiocy ?" I had heard this question discussed with- in the lase few weeke in relation to a mysterious murclee in Liverpool, and 1 had baken an intense interest in the subject -a morbid interest, Uncle Ambrofse told me, when I talked to him about it. He reproved me for occupying my mind with a. ghastly story. I reminded him that the story of this melrder Weshno mere ghastly than the seory of Agamemnon's murder, or of tho string of enurdeis in "Macbeth," and that one might as well be interested in real horrors as in fiction, Little did I think then that there would conic a day when I should have e stronger reason for brooding upon thie ghastly subjeet, I stayed on the hill a long time, forget- ting everything except the horror that had been made known to me that night -forget ting, meet of all time my absence evonle alarm my mother. I was stareled at epee by the cathedral clock, which began to libelee the hour. I counted bhe strokes, and found that it was eleven o'clock. I had bean away away from the hotel more than an h I hurried back, and on the way met 'Cade Ambrose, who scolded me for going out alone at such a late hour. " Your mother has bone anxious andagita- ted about you,Daisy," he said, "How came so wise e. person to do such a feolieb thing ?" "1 don't know -T fergot," I said. " Where have you been all this time 2" "On the hill tip there, looking down at bilethryn dear Daisy, how could you forget that your mother would be alarmed at. your disappearance." "1 forgot eeery th ing," And theo I told him what 1 had heard an hour ago in .the portiote I asked him why the othel truth had been kept from nee during all theft years? I looked at his faoe in the moonlight, an maw more trouble) there theet I had ever erten he My life he - ore. "It would have beau cruel to tell you the truth, Daisy, The greatest cureo of life is the existenee of idle chattereru Who must alweys he babbling about °dam peopleei business. if Wiehee could beer &hit, it %mould be had for those men you overheard to -night." I had never heard a uh anger in his voice as I heard then. "God only knows the pains your mother ;lea I have taken to keep this sorrow from said. "We have pledged all who knew you and were about yon to ailence. We have hedged you round with precau- tions. And yet, oe one uutuoky minute, the prurient goeitip of a wonder -monger frustrate e all our care," "I am glad I know," I answered. "Do you think / wenbed to live in A. fool's paradise ?-to believe that my father died peacefully in the arms of a friend, when he was brutally murdered ? You don'e know how I loved him, or you would know better than that." I was angry in my turn-and,00w tears came, the first which I had shed since I heard the story of My father's death -tears of mingled anger and geief. I seized Uncle Ambrose by the arm., 1 was almost beside myself. You were his friend," I said, " his Closest friend, almost like a brother ! Did you do nothing to avenge his death? Noth- ing, nothing 1" I did all that mortal man could do, Daisy. I stimulated the police to action by every means in my pewee. I did not rest till all that could be done had been done. It was in concert with me that your mpther offered a reward large enough tit set all &Wand Yard on the Alert. If the murderer escaped, be assured it was not be. cause his pursuers were careless or indiffer- ent. Had he been a prince of the blood royal the endeavor to solve the mystery of leis death could not have been more iazense than it was." " What idioesethe detective police muse be l" I exolaitned. "No, they are not idiots, Daisy, though it is the fashion to cal' them so whenever a notorious criminal evades pursuit. There are some uncommonly- clever men among them, and there are some unootnmonly clever captures and discoveries made by them. But now and then they have to deal with a criminal Who is both eiever and lucky, nd that was the case with the wretch who murdered your father." "Tell me all about his death -every detail," I said. "What good will it do for you to know, Daisy ?" he asked, in his pleading voice, just as he used to talk to me year ago when I was a child, and inclined to be naughty. "For God's sake, my dear girl, try to forget all you have heard to -night. Think of your father only as you have thought of him hitherto; as one who was taken from you in the flower of his years and who sleeps quietly in his grave, honored, loved, and lamented. The manner of his death makes little difference. It was swift and sudden - merciful death, without death -bed horrors, or prolonged pain. It must have been an almost instantaneous death." "You know all about it, and I Want to *know, too," answered. "If you won't tell me I shall out the eruth for naysetf. I know the date or my father's death, and I have ohly to get the newspapers for the following days, and I shall learn' all that can be learned ahont his murderer, and the circumstances of his death." "You are obstinate and foolish, Daisy," he said. "It would be far wiser to blot the horror of the past out of your mind forever. Your father's sleep is just as sweet as if he had perished by the slow and pain- ful decay which darkens the, end of life when men live to what is called a gond old age. A good old age! as if age and decay could ever be good 1 I wonder at your want of philosophy. I thought I had trained my pupil better, and that whenever you should come to know the worst your own calm reason would show you that death by assassination is no more dreadful than any other forest, of death. "It is more dreadful -infinitely more dreadful -for it robbed me of my beloved father. He would be with us now -he might be with us for long years to come-. but for the wretoh who killed him. It is easy for you to preach resignation, for you have been the gainer by his death," I was too angry to think of the cruelty of my words, or of my base ingratitude to- ward the truest friend I have in the world, after my mother. I oould think of noth- ing but my father's hard fate, and my own bitter loss. • "That veill do ,Daisy," said Uncle Am- brose in &voice tit sounded likea stranger's. "So long as you and I live you coat never say anything more cruel than that." " Or ungrateful," I cried, throwing my- self into his arms. "1 am a wretch, a thankless wretch." He soothed and comforted me,assuring me of his forgiveness. Yes, it was a hard thing to have lost so dear a, father, so good a man. "For God's sake, don't think that I fain ed in regard for your father," he said. "Although our ideas of life were so differ - tent -he all action a•nd vivacity, I dreamy and self -contained --he was.the best friend I ever had, the man I liked best in tbe world. Yes, I have gained by his untimely death, gained a pearl beyond price, the one dream and desire of my life. I can never palter with facts there, Daisy. You and 1 must understand each other and believe in each other, if I am to stand in a parent's place for My dear pupil and friend. There shall be no sophistication on my part. I have told you why your mother and I have labored to keep the meaner Of your father's death hidden from you; but now you have discovered So much . I 'will not stand in the way of your knowing all, since it its your ouee Mere I pleaded for pardon for my toolieli and ehenitless epeeeh. oksild, how On 1 bo angry With You ' he said, ba hie grave and gentle voice, rile vino 1 have loved from my beley.hood almost. "Whet een be Anoo natural than that you thoeld leYe rue father, and ee. ffrOt hithe peosionately and fondly? Only tell me, deer, honestly, are you sorry that your mother has need° my life ilePPY? Are you sorry that she has allowed me to steed in the place ef the father you have lob?" I told him no, a thousand times no. Next to my tether and mother, he was the Per4011 I loved. beat upon this earth. And I was very glad to have him bound to me for all my life as my guardian and friend. "There shall be no one ever neerer or dearer to me," I told him. Bat you rauat be Ma* Ambrose to the end.. I oannot call you father." (Oh BE am -Taman.) Tfig LATE CZAR'S FUNERAL. Great Preparations mad Meet illaborate Draping at St, Petersburg. A despatch from St. Petersburg Says :- The inhabitants of this city awoke on Tues- day morning ia a etate of feverish expect- anoy. The last touclu3s were being put at • daybreak upon hundreds of thousands of funeral +impinge, orape streamers, mourning flags and banners of black and white, made out oe every coneeivable material, in honor • of the memory of the late Czar. The facade of the Anitchkoff palace, isa wbioh Alex- ander 111. lived, was oompletely draped, with black, and the Hotel de Ville and the Newsky prospect were shrouded in mourning emblems ot the most elaborate desoripzions The high tower ot the Hotel de Ville was mantled with black not a stone ahowing, and the building itself was, a mass of black streamere, Thronghout the city the stores were decorated with mourning emblems, and in the windows of all the prominent shops there were been* ful displays of petals, evergreens or Rowe -as in the centra of which, as a rule were pictures of the dead Czar, surrounded by crape. The weather was dull and foggy. .16.13,1i1VAL OV THE TRAM The funeral train, with the body of the late Czar on board arrived at the Nicholas atation in the middle of the Light, and it was shunted upon a siding until this morning, in order to enable the imperial family and their relatives to finish their night's rest. As soon as all preparations for the proe cession were completed, at aboub 10.20 a. m., the imperial train re-entered the rail- road station, the body was transferred to the hearse in waiting, and was conveyed to the eathedral through the den.sely crowdedstreets, guarded by thousands of troops. • Trio monneans, Behind the hearse came the Czar and the imperial buosehold. They were fol- lowed by the Xing of Greece and by the Prince of Wales. Then name a long line of GrandDukes and Princes, followed by their various military suits. After the latter marched a detachment of Grenadiers amd following the Grenadiers came the imperial carriages, with the ladies of the imperial and royal families. In the first coach was the Czarina., Prin- cess Alia of Hesse-Darmstadt. and the Grand Duchesses Xenia and, Olga daugh- ters of the le.te Czar. The second coach contained the Queen of Greece, the Prin- cess of Wales, the Duchess of Saxe -Coburg Gotha and the Duchess of Meoklenburg- • Schwerin. The other mourning coaches contained all the other royal and titled ladies, who have journeyed from Livadia with the body ot Alexander III. After the carriages came thousands of troops of all arms, who brought up the rear of the funeral possession. Prior to the arrival of the body at the cathedral a short tervice was held there in the presence of the Czar, the diplomatists anri many of the Russian nobility. The hearse exrived at the cathedral a, few Mirl. utes past 2 o'clock. Four of the chief pall bearers removed the pall. The Czar and other Russian Imperial personages and foreign princes then carried the coffin into the church with the same ceremony as had been observed in Moscow, and deposited it on the catafalque. Metropolitan Palladins • of St. Petersburg, bhen conducted the im- pressive aerviee. "It is my wish -my most ardent wish." "Very well. When we go back to Hug - land I will give you the report of the in- quest, which will tell you every detail.. I will give you a collection of lea,ding articles, which will show you how easy .it is to .speculate and conjecture and theorize a,boub a Grime, and how very difficult it may be to find the eriminaL I have all these pa- pers for you to read, and you shall be al- lowed to read them, but under protest. I know that it is not well for you to brood upon thee tett'. ev ent," "I shall brood less, perhaps, when I know more," I told him. And then he implored me to sity nothing to my mother about this dreadful peat, which heel tried her so terrible!. "Gori knovre what woold happen if her sorrow Were to be brinight too vividly back to bier by any display of emotion upon your part," he said. She must never be allowed to talk about that dreadful time, Her life and hor reason .were both in danger. Child ite you wore, you muse heve seen what a wreck she was when you went home from Westgate. You must have known how slow she was to recover health and spirits." I promised him thiet mime what might I Would never Allot my mother by any allutdon to my father's death; and then • A Hint to Life -Insurance Nen. Said Charles F. Ritter, the insurance maw "A funny thing happened in this office to- day. A young man came in and said that he wanted to get a tontine life polioy for $5,000. "'How old are you'l' said I. "'Twenty-nine,' said he. "Then it will cost you $1.62.50 a year for twenty yeses." " But suppose I pay ib all up at once?' said he. Then it will cost you $3,050,' said I. 11 And how much do 1 geb at the end of twenty years?' said he. "'About $4,600,' said I, " Then I will pay my pert of it in ad- vance and you pay yours in advance. I will give you $3,050 and you give me $4,- 600. Thatles fair, isn't it.' "Now, there was login for you," contin- ued Mr. flitter. "I had never heard such proposition before, and I asked leave to retire and consult. When the weather gets cooler I will figare this out and renort." • N..ss.L , for I r_AtLttittt............aid WORBire "Dastorlakisowelladaptedtoehlidrenthat trecommend it as superiorto any prescriptioA known to me." IL A. Altman, N. D.• 311So. Pxford et., 13rooklyie, nise of 'Caeitorie.' la se universee and its merits so well known teat ib seems a work of supererogation to exelorse it. Few are the lotelegent tontines who elo not leeep Castorla tvitbin e.asyreach." • Cantos New York OrIty, Late Pastor Bloomingdale 'Wormed. Church. • Castor -he come Celle, Coneelpetfort. , Peer Otoineeth Plareemearelegation. xeue, Worn*, gives sleep, end promotes di. wit. imnrious inedieseeton. • "For several years I have recommended, Yew "Castoria,' end shall Always continue to do so as it hes invariablyproduced hene.licial DOwlx 7. P,anten; 14. 0 TheWinthrop," 120th, Street and 7th Ave, llewYork City. TU= CHNTA.CrR 001WPANY, 71 Nem= OramsT, Mow Tonic. 511E0="503200512Mt"MatMerMiliniMMINSM 11 usehold. House Plants. What the winter house plant likes best, after it is properly established, 13 pure, reasonably cool air. The sort of atmos- phere that human beings ought to bree.ehe also good for plants. Do not expose hem to draughts, but give them clean air. If the houee is heated by a furnace, put pans or pretty dishes of water on the registers, and the evaporation will delight the plant and benefit their owner. They will want plenty of water in furnace beat, but no rule for watering can be aet up. Study their needs as shown day by day, and water accordingly. Give them all the sunshine you can secure. But the cool, pure air, the even temperaturesis the great neoeseity. With this, oae ceahave beauti- ful ferns -the adiantum is specially lovely and very usefitlas a dinner-teble deco/ellen. Most plants do particularly well in a rooiri with a large fireplace opening into a wide chimney, as this generally means clean air without draught,the dead air being drawn away. There is a great deal of pleasure in rubber trees, which endure so much neglect with patience, and are so glossy and thrifty looking. The Wife Owns the Presents. lt is now decided that the wife is entitled to own all the wedding presents, includ- ing the suspenders, °oiler buttons and neckties, provided she can prove she was the drawing deed at the marriage cop. molly. This is the latest victory fel' tho' end.of.thementury woman. • •• Thiti important ruling was made by Justice Underwood, of Chioago,ao he gazed solemnly over a pile of presents that completely covered tho bar of justioe anti formed a fortress between. hien °awl the two persons who quarrelled over the acoumule times of ten years. It was be case of Philip Anhalt vs. Louise Anhalt. The presents were valued at 0,0004 aud the woman gob them all. • Two of a, Kind. Sh6-"I can't marry you; you are too poor." He (indignantly) -"I am no poorer than you are, / gueasi." 011dron Cry for Pitotior'o Outgo* if You Wan—t to be Loved. Don't find fault. • Don't contradict people, even sure yoa are right. • Don't be inquisibive about the affairs of even your most iutimate friend. Don't uaderrate anything because you don't possess it. • Don't believe that everybody else in the world is happier than you. Don't conclude that you have never had any opportunitiee in life, Don't believe all the evil you hear. Don't repeat gossip, even 11 18 does inter. ese a crowd. • Don't go untidy on the plea that every- body knows you. Don't he rude to your inferiors in social position. Don't overdress or underdress. • Dealt jeer at anybody's religious belief. Don't try to be anything else but a gen- tlewoman; and that, means a woman who has consideration for the whole world, and whose life is governed by the golden rule, "Do unto others as yoa would be done by." many of these oases are now bought by women as by men. The next beat thing in which to carry an extra dress is one of the long pasteboard boxes be which dry goods dealers peek cloaks. These are very light, and in them gowns may be packed to better advantage than in a bag. They may be wrapped in stout paper, not newspumer, however, and carried either in a sho.wletrap or tied with a strong cord held by o, wood en handle. A leather-bound coverrog made of brown linen is often very convenient for wrapping aboueshawle or fiat boxea when traveling; though it adds to the weight of a package. The telescope bags that come in Many sizes and are ligire, stout and strong, are also very desirable for Short journeys, especially for those trips when one is constantly buying something, and an elastic piece of baggage is a ne- tessity. Useful Recipes. Graham Geres.-1 pint of graham flour, one egg well beaten, one teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful baking powder. Mix with sweet milk into a stiff batter and bake quickly in gem pans which have been both greased and heated before the mixture is put into them. Tomatoes Filled With Mayonnaise of Celery. -Select firm, good sized, ripe tomatoes. Cut a lid from the top and scoop out all the seeds and soft pulp with a if you're spoon, being very careful not to break the tomato. Mix celery, cut as for salad in small pieces, with mayonnaise dressing. Fell the tomatoes with this mixture, put a tablespoonful of dressing on the top of each tomato and serve on crisp, curly lettuce leaves. Fruit Salad. -Fruit salad can be ono of several kinds. Oranges and bananas are often served with mayonnaise dressing, a a are apples, the latter being chopped very fine before dressing. In making an ordin- ary fruit salad the dressing • is made of sugar, water and wine in the following Wear a Tag. Before starting on a journey see that yOurneme is olearly:Paarkedon some article of your clothing, as well as with your ad- dress in your pockee book. In case of ac- cident ib may be of incalculable advantage to you to be immediately identified. 'While there are frequent and terrible disasters on our large public) conveyances, the relative loss of life is much less • than by the older and less rapid methods. At all times it is desirable to go tagged, and if people would wear clothee Properly marked or carry oth- er means of idettificatiou about with tbern, there wooldo't be so many people unao. counted for, and many an occupant of a namelmie grave would be identified. Let. tors stitched into the bands of a skirt or other preterit icprobiebly the Barest meth. ed. Baggage for Short Journeys. • For short joutheys where only 11 gowns s. night dress sena 0. few mares are needed, the nieeet piece Of baggage in which to pack them is a &tee -suit ease, ond at proportions : Onehalf cup of atgar, two tablespoonfuls of water, onefourth -cup of sherry, to which is sometimes added Maraschino or champagne. Put the Auger and water over the fire and stir until the sugar is dissolved; boil five miautes, take Iran' the fire, add the wine, pour the dressing over the fruit and stand aside to cool. lf wine is not used acid fruit juice can be used ia its place. lo plain banana salad orange juice can be used; when the oranges are mixed with the bananas use the juice of a pineapple. Cranberry juice is also good to use and the salad can be varied at will, using different combinations of fruit • Encouraging, Tenant-- "Why, I haven't been able te 'Melee a fire in this fireplece all the winter. it dome' b draw." Landlord -"So'? Thee ib mint have, saved alueat five Dolmas for you in Nee II\ tRell a ca,ee the afraid I'll have te raise, • your rent,"