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S In sults for subseriptione, the suit may be slanted in the place where the piper is pub hiked, although the subscidber may reside hundreds of nules away. 4 The courts( have.deoSied that aneeing to aknewspapers orperiodiesdo from the NW,. flet, or removing gad Lei etas 11150 itoIt1t,t1 eeprima facie °eidetic.: oteateacioan es sa AFTER MANY DAYS. CHAPTER L "I'll tell you 'what it is, Davenant," • answered the lawyer. "Tame is some - Glorious, Jame wea.ther,k,tencler moon- thing deeper than iou have owned to light frora a moon. newly risen—a man- yet et tje. bottomof emu; reluctance tieal light—silver-bright ott far-off to leave England. Tama es some one glimpses of the winding river, soft and al least—a woman." The other turned his. face full upon !mysterious where it falls upon the tete speaker. "You're about rigbanira," READING A. PAPER FROM HOME' growing darknese of the woodland; a he said, tossing the end, of his cigar Re was getting home from business -e, pensive light, by which men, not altoaway as he spoke. "There is a, wor he, a mereltant well to do—. man—not a sudden 'caprice either—but ether given up to the world are apt a woman I heve loved. truly and. fondly The wheels of the electric car, -were to ponder the deeper enigmas of this for the la.st five years of my life. It And. atriloru(Iintansparsekasreofati4uuteektances life, and to look backwaret. Heave!), I were a wise man. I should be glad who, where they stood or sat, knows with what Irene &genies oe re. of this chance of curing my infatuation By look or word or gesture, were invite. nTet, to youth that has vanished and by putting a few thousarid. miles bee , ma to a, chat. tweeze rneself and the loveliest face 1 friends tbat are dead. ever saw.But, quite ignoring all of them, except Two men who had, beea dining. at the "It's a hopeless case, then 1 supe to bow and. .smile Star and Garter, and who have stolen pose, suggested James Wyatt. away from the dessert to smoke their er terettewenzoltenlerieveeVlha4hheaymee01 ret,eo t:ifpft-. When hailed by some one at the door or just across the aisle, He read with boyisheagerness, while cigars under the midsummer moon, on whicsh L have managed to live since conteinplate the fanailiar landscape in my ruin and saneequent reformation speeding o'er the street, would be something worse than beggary The neatly printed pages of -a little a lazy, meditative silence. One is sit- s ee . for a wife swat as the woman l'iove. . . ting on the stone balustrade of the Even if she were willing to share my ; I He read of Tom Jones' enterprise in addhg:. to his barn, terrace, with bis face earned to the poverty, could 1 be mean enough to 1 distant curve of the river, watching the d rag her into such a slough of de- And learned that "Solon Huddleson has spend? No, abet, it is a hopeless case. not a brand new yarne' tender lighe with. a very somber COU i\ bra pretty one and I roast part. 1 to tenance; the other stands wait his el- dreaey baelielorhaed, slie to fulfill her That " Aunty Simpkins gave a tea," that "crops are pretty good," bows resting oa the balustrade, smok- raission, and make one of the roatehes of the season." grand A.nd that "Ab Bailey came to town and ire.; industriously, aud lookbag every "I think I know the lady," said Jatace brought a load of wood." aow and then with rather au uueasy• Wyatt, slowly. "Lord Clauya,rden Well, hapyes, these things are trifieSa per - The first is Sir Cyprian Davenant. e•oungtest daughter; tbe new one, eh, Fnaare reminders or him Cepatane The Clanyardes are ueighbors s to you and nee; ot the enema at his compaulon. at yours in Lent, I know." times that used. to be ; the last scion of a. good old Kenttsh -"Of course I can trust you, Jim. Yes, And from his busy city life he glances back with joy family, and owner of one a the finest youeve tat it. But what made you fix To see the towu that circumseribed his and oldest pieces in the county of Kent.. upent Constance Clane•arde?" The Davenants have been a es•ild reek- 'Have not I senses to understand, and deluge as a boy. less eet, for the last hundred years, and eyes to see, aad bave I not seen you Each neatly printed paragraph upon the and alias Clanyarde together at least little sheet there is not an acre of Davenant Park three times? Why, Cyprian, the in- Presents a wane familiar or a scene las or a tree in :Davenant woods unencam- fatuation Oa both sates is patent to the most unsopaisticated observer. It's used to meet, bered by mortgage. How Sir Cyprian a pity you've only four hundred a year. A.ncl maybe—you, can tell it by the lives and coatrives to keep out of a That would be rather a tight sqTh ueeze smiles that quickly 'acme— debtor's prison Is a 61.1Wjet`l for the won- for a Clauyarde. They're a notonously ere's mention of his mother and the other "folks" at home. der of his etamerous acquaintances. extravagant set, I know, and have been His intimate friends now that the up to their eyes in debt for the last `k forte", Years. Yes, I have seen the lady,. Men ss•ander far for fortune, and find man has few expensive habile and that Cyanprie and she is very lovely. L pe it, too, and yet he has a small income from an estate on my word, I'ext sorry for u ao.' The farm and. slothful village and its folk tbey ne'er forget; inherited from his mother. "Thanies, old fellow. I needn'e ask And there's not a thing in city life t to mention us - name in con - Sir Cyprian' companion is a men ap- you. no with Miss ,. 3 , . - jUnt ROA _Sims (.. lanyarde s. And Than which greater joy cen. give proeehing middle age, with a derided now 1 suppose. we'd better go back to the little country paper printed. where they ased to live. ly plain face, redeemed frotu ugliness our friends." by a. certain brightness of expression "I think so. 13y• the way. what do you think of tbe lady we were aeked about the mouth and eeee. This gen- to meet ?.. tleman is James Morton Wyatt. asot- , "31r',.Walsinghain e She is very leiter, with an eneellent Practice. ana handeowes. A widow. I suppose." a decided taste for literature. a hieh lie , -rale Is rather silent on that point. is rich enough to be able to cultivate and 1 have heard it hinted that Colonel at his leisure. leaving the ordinary' run Walsirtgham—he was colonel in the of cases to the rare of his junior part- Spanish contingent, I believe. and Count ner. an.d Only Putting in an appearance : ot the Holy Roman, Empire—etill walks at his office ileum an affair of some im- this earth, and that the lady owes her pertance is on hand. James We at 1 is agreeable freetion1 to an American a. bachelor and a great favorite with court of divorce. The anteeedents are the fair sex. for wbora bis fashionable . altogether doubtful, and Mrs. Walsing- modern cynicism seems to Possess an barna set is of the order fast and fur - extraordinary charm. The cynic has a ious Gildsert Sinclair likes that kind natural genius for the art of flatter, oy. 1 thing." and a certain subtle power of eleasing "And. 1. sup that surprises Isis male acquatntance, likes Gilbert Spose Mrs. Walsinghem inclair." who wonder what the women can see "Or his money. Sinelair's about the in this fellow, witk his long, mean -look- biggest fish in the matrimonial waters, ina nose, and his- small gray eyes, and 1 n she stall be a happy angler svho is leincessant ffow of sha low talk, lan(Ls him. But I really believe Mrs. "You're not very lively company, to - W n t alsingharet pas a weakness for the night, Davenant," James WYait ban" i Mall hilliSeli, Independent of his money, t last. " I've been waitingwith ex- I Strange, isn't it inclair's the dear- emple.ry pat lenee4 or some kind a re- I est fellow in the world, and as his ply to the quest . I asked you about ;' friencl of course I dote upon him; but a quarter a an hour ago." I 1 confess that if I were a wonia.n I " Youecan scarcely expect much live- j should. regard him with unmitigated lines from a elliill who is going to • loathing.. start for Africa in four -and -twenty I "That's rather strong." hours, with a. very vague prospect of "Of course he's a most estimable crea- ture; but such an unspeakable snob, " nt ell, I don't know about that. It's 1 such a- pompous, purse-proutl cad. Ale a pleasure trip, isn't it, this African ex- there he is at the window looking for plomt ion business ?" us. If I were a woman, you know, "it is to be called pleasure, I believe. Cyprian, that man would be the. object My share in it would never bavecome eot eey aversion; but I'm not, and he's about but for a promise to an old friend. my client and it is the first duty of It is a point of honor with me to go. , a solicitor to love his clients, Coming, The promise was elven five or six years Gaaert.„ ago, when I Was not upon theTh 1 subiee • ct. e two men crossed a little bit, of I expect, very little enjoyment rom "lawn, and went in through the open the business now, but I am bound to window. The roan was lighted with ed in life with the determination to' Me, never leaving me when she could. enjoy existent*. atter his own fashibn. help it, and. always with that pity in After three years spent in his (stemma- her eyes. For the next night it was ionship, his tutor eamarked that he • the same; and the third mght, That scarcely knew Gilbert Sitwell" any bet- Mid night 1 thaeght I could not bear ttsr at the close of their acquaintance "I'm Wine nae lees—it was standixe it any longer, I would. have to do than he had 1C110W11 him at the begin- . . nine. of It. open just like ony Meer windy. It's as something—if only I knew what to dol If it weal -a ever get dark, quite dark, nd, yet the follow seems so can- Smarysee'1,; bdueatthit',,s trIue7elibiba. believe il Ithhereae mwt&ht4eettmesometothientgetationgbemAdtoli. ditl," said Mr. Ashen, wonderingly. ' (To be Continued.) "And. there it in" I cried, taming the house and getting' a ladder, and mounting up to try 11 .1 could not wen • Mad and pointing it out to them. with great triumph in my beert. But the that window, in the middle of the night --a.f. perhaps I couldt get the baker's boy light was all grey, it bed. faded., it had to help me; and. then my mind got into had. alwaysebeen, a sombre break upon changed. The window was just as it a. whirl, and, it was as if I had clone it; and I could almost see the by put the the wall. ladder to the winciow, •and hear him • cry out that there was nothing there.' I was treated like an invalid all that 011, how Slow it was, the nigist 1 and evening, and taker!. up -stairs to bed, how light it was and. everything so clear • —no darkness to cover you, no shadow, and Aunt Mary sat up in my roma the whether on one side of the street: or on whole *night through. Waenever 1 the other side! I could not sleep. opened my eyes she was always sitting though I was forced to go to be& And there close to. me, watching. And there in the deep midnight, when it Ls dark, never was in all my life so strange a vdeareck sionftleyverdyownat-lisetaririls,lactehimIghslitPhpeerde night. When I would talk in ray ex- was one board on the landing-placethat creaked—and opened the door and °Bat/Lent, she kissed, me and hushed me like a obilde "Oh, honeys you are stepped out. There was not a soul to be seen, up or down, from the Abbey not the only one!" site said. "Oh to the West Port; and the trees stood whistle whisht, baira I I should never like ghosts, and the silence was terrible, and. everything as clear as day. You lia,v,4e ulnet spaattarb,,e Aunt 13"Tary; yen have don't know what silence is till you find it its. the light like that, not artorning seen hire too ?" but night, no Sutirising, no shadow, but everathing as clear as the day. "Oh whisht, whishn holleY l"' Aunt It did not make any differeece as the Mary add; her eyes were . sbining— slow minutes went on; one oalook, two there were team in them. "Oh winsht, o'clock. How strange it was th hear wbisht 1 Put it out of your naiad, and the clocks striking in that dead light when there was nobody to hem. theml try to sleep. 1 will not. speak another But it made no difference. The win - word," she cried. dow was quite blank; even the nearlciag But I had. my arms round her, and my of the panes seemed to baste melted mouth to her ear, "Wiso is he there ?— away. I stele up again after a long tell me that and. I will ask no more--" time; through the silent house, in the clear light cold. and trembling, with • "Oli houey rest, and try te sleep! It despair in my heart, is just—how can I tell you?—a dreem, 1 am sure Aunt Mary must have watched and seen Inc contain back, for a dream! Did you. not hear what Lady after a while I heard faint sounds in Carnbee ,,said e—the warn= 01 eur the bouse; and Very early, when there had come a, little sunsbine hito the air hg:Lat! what? Aunt Mary, oh Aunt she came to In3' tea, in her hand.; and she, too, was loon -- bedside with a cup of "I canna, tell you," she cried in her hi negn e yl—i like a y 0 ghost, co:ea I f. 0` i' .At Lei e know and. no morel It is a longing all one could. get into the dark somewhere Ylo"ashewasarimd: agitation, "T canna tell youl How mu "It doesn't matter," said L I did not I tell you, when I know just what you feel as if anything mattered; unless if —the soft, deep (lark that would cover your life after—it is a looking—for You over and hide you—but I could not what never conies." tell from what. The drea,dful thing "He will come," I cried. "I shall see was that there was nothing, nothing to him to-morrow—that I know, I know!" silence and the nett. look for, nothing to hide from—only the She kissed, me and cried over nee, /ter That day my mother came and look cheek hot and wet like mine. "My me home. I had. not heard she was honey, try if you can sleep—try if you coming; she arrived quite unexpectedly, and said she had no time to stay, but can sleep; and. we'll wait to see what to -morrow brings." must start the same evening so as to be in London next day, papa haying sattled to go abroad. At first I had a "I ha,ve no fear," said 1 ; and then I wild thounht I would not go. But how suppose, though it is strange. to think CUR a girl say I will not, when her of, I must have fallen asleep—I was so mother has come for her, and there is worn out, and. young, and not used to no . reason, no. reason in the world, to lying in my bed, awake. From tima to resist, and no right! I had to go, what- ever i might wish or any one might time I opened my eyes., and sometimes say. Aunt Mary's dear eyes were wet; itteoped up remembering everything; she went about. the house drying them but Aunt Mary was always there to quietly with her handkerchief, but she soothe me, and I lay down again in her always said, "it is the best t hing shelter like a bird. in its nest. for yrou, honey—the best t hieg her Bat I would. not let them keep me in you 1" Oh 1 • I hate t h ear it said bed next day. I was in a kind of fever, that it was the best thing, as if any - no longer encourage the opium traffic not knowing what I did. The window thing mattered, one more than another! in India, signally failed, and the bitter , was quite opaque, without the least The old ladies were all there in the denunciations against the drug vented glimmer in it, flat and bleak like apiece afternoon, Lad,v Carnbee looking at rae - t ..1 of recel. Never from. the first day had from, under her black lace, and the by certain sectarme bodies have los I seen it 'se, little like a window. "It diamond laraing, sending out darts the weight they eterried whertethe 'truth cannot'in ewondered at," I mid to my- fromeander her finger. She patted me a sell, Bing i like at, and with on the shoulder, and told rae to be a eyes that are old, not so clear as mine, good bairn. "And never lippen to what they should. think wbat they do." And you see from the window, she said. then I smiled to myself to think of the "The- eye is deceitful as well as 'the good than' alcohol. The reply af a dis- evening and the long light, andwheth- heart." She kept patting am on the tinguished native Indian official when er he would look out again, or only give shoulder, and I felt again as if . that questioned. on this subject is sugges- me a signal with his hand. I decided I sharp, wicked stone stung me. Was tive. ale said. the opium habit was would like that beat; not that he should : that what Aunt Mary meant when she much preferable to the alcobolism of take the trouble to come forward and said you ring was the token? I thought Amenca, and Europe, and recommended open, it again, but. just a turn of his 1 afterwards I saw the mark on my that a reform be inaugurated in those head and a wave of his hand. It would 4. shoulder. You will say why? How auarters of the globe by the introduc- be mare friendly' and show more con- I can I tell why ? If I had knownaT tion of. the. drug as a substitute for al- fidence,—not as if I wanted that kind should have been contented, and it crawl. The Bishop of Calcutta. admits of demonstration every night,. I would not have mattered any more. that there are evils arising from the I did not come down in the afternoon, I I never went back to St. Rulea, and. abuse of opium, but is of the opinion but kept at my own window up -stairs ' for years of my life I never again "that they ttre not sufficiently great alone, till the tea-party should be over. ; looked out of a window when any other to justify us in restricting the libert Y I could hear them. making a great talk; i window was in sight. You ask me did winch all men should be permitted to and I was sure they were all in the ' I ever see him again ? I cannot tell; the exercise in such matters. The testi- recess staring at the window, and j imagination is a great deceiver, as Lady mony showed that opium used in moder- laughing at the silly lassie. Let them I Carnbee said; and if he stayed there so ation was harmless, and under certain laugh! I felt above all that now. At ' long only to punish tit- that had. conditions of life distinctly beneficial." dinner I was very restless, hurrying to ; wronged 'him,.. why should I ever have Mois.san finds that the Chinese do not get it over; and 1 think Aunt Mary was j seen him again? for I had received my smoke crude opium, but a preparation of it called Chandu, which, when heated her Times when it came; she opened it lin a heart that often, often, and so long restless too. I doubt whether she read I share. But who can telt wbat happens to about 250 degrees, produces a. smoke up so as to shield her, and watched : as than comes back to do its errand/ formed of volatile perfinnes and a small from the corner. And I settled myself , If it was he whom I have seen again, in the recess, with my heart full of the anger is gone from him, and. he expectation. I wanted nothing more •s'means good and no longer harm to the than to see him writing at his table, and house of the woman that loved him. to turn his bead, and give me a little I have seen his face looking at Inc from wave of his hand, just to show tbat he ; a crowd. There was one time when I knew I was there. I sat from half past I came home a widow from India, very seven o'clock to ten o'clock; and the ; sad, with my little children; 1 ans. eer- daylight grew softer and softer, till at ; tain I saw hint there among all the last it was as if it was shining through • people coming to welcome their friends. a pearl, and not a shadow to be seen. I There was nobody to welcome me,—for But the window all the time was as . I was not expected; and very sad was black as night, and there was nothing, I, without a fa.ce I knew; when an at noth• g ere. " once I saw him, and he waved bis hand. Well; but other nights it had been like to nee. My heart leaped up again; 1 had that; he would. not be there every night forgotten who he MIS, but only that it only to. please me. There are other was a face I knew, and I landed almost trigs in a mans life, a great learned cheerfully, thinking here was some one. man like that. I said to myself I was who would help me. .But he bad not disappointed. Why should I be disappeared, as he did from the win - disappointed ? There had been other dow, with that one wave of his hand. And again I was reminded of it all when old. Lady Carnbee died—an old, old woman—and it w as found in her will that she had left me that diamond ring. I am afraid of it still. It is locked up in an old sendal-wood box in the lumber -room in the little old country -house which belon_ge to me, but where I never live. If any one would steal it, it would be a relief to my mind. Yet I never knew what Aunt Mary meant when she said, "Yon ring was the token," nor what it could. have to do with that strange wiridow in the old. College Library of St. Rule's. (The E 14. ) goe, wax candles, and a merry party was . He sighed as he said this, still look- crowded round a table, at ono end of ing far away at the windingriver, with which a. lady was dispensing tea in quite the same somber expression in his a home -like fashion. She was a very eyes. It was a face not easily forgot- beautiful woman, of a showy type, dress - ten by those who had once looked urtn led in white muslin half covered with it, a face of remarkable beauty, a id- lace, dressed just a shade too youthful - dissipations of a career thee had been ; • tie war and faded by the cares and lace, for her five -and -thirty years. There Inc from perfect. Cyprian Davenant was not uite five-andatirty but he had i were two other ladies present, one a fashionable actress, the other her friend — OF TWO EVILS CHOOSE THE LEAST. -- opium sold to Re Less (of a Curse 'Chun Alcohol. Few people have any idea of the vast areas given up wholly to the cultivation of opium. The ronsainption and the manufacture of tbis drug, Inc from de- clining, are on the increase to an al- most incredible extent. In the dis- trict of Bengal alone, there are Dearly 1,000,000 acres devoted exelasively to the cultivation of the poppy. The re- cent agitation in England with a view to inducing the British Government to The.....Library of the matter bad not been told. It is now widely believed that, taking it all around, opium does less harm and more quantity of morphine; this appears to lived at a hith-pressure rate for ten and confidante, also an aspirant to produce no more ill-effects than tobacco dramatic- fame. The first was occupied smoking. The residues that remain after opium molting are sold as dross. When this is treated to a temperature of 300 degrees to 325 degrees various toxic compounds are. given. • This is to opium fiends what the strongest brandy is to the habitual alcoholic drunkard." years of his li e, and bore the traces of the fray. The perfect profile, the broad low brow, and deep dark eyes had not lost neueh in losing the freshness of youth, but the pale cheeks were jpat a little sunken, and there svere Imes about those splendid eyes, and a rigid look about the resolute tbin If there was a fault to be found in the fuse it was in the too prominent lower brow m whien the perceptive ore gams were developed in an extreme dee gree, yet this very prominence ;gave charateter and individuality to the coun- tenance. James Wyatt heard the regretful sigh, and noted the despondenee of his companion's tone. "I should have thought there were not many people in England you would care about leaving, Davenant," he said, with a curious, w.ateleful 1 ook at the other man's half-aveated face. "I have heard yoa boast of standing alone in the world." "Rather a barren boast, isn't it?" said Sir Cyprian, with a brief and bit- ter laugh . "Yes, I am quite alone. Since my sister Marian's marriage, and complete absorption in nursery cares and nursery joys, there is no one to offer let or hinderance to ray going yonder. I have friends, of course, a great many—such as you, elm, for ine stance; jolty good fellows, who would smoke a cegar with me tcanight in the bonds of friendship, and who would hear of my death a month hence with- out turning a hair." "Don't talk platitudes about your friends, Cyprian. I have no doubt they are as goocl as other people's. I don't know a man going more popular than you are." Cyprian Davenant took no notice of thie. remark. "Dear old river!" he murmured, tent. derly. "Poor old river, how many of the happiest hours of my life have many spent upon your banks, or oh your breaet! Shall I ever see you again, I wonder, or shall I find a grave in the sand far away from the Thames and Medway? Don't think me- a sentie mental oId fool, Jim; but the faat in am a little out of spirits toenight. ought not to have accepted Sinclair% invitation. I talked nineteen to the dozen at denten and. drank no end of hock and seltzer, but 1 felt as dreary as a ghost assisting at his own funeral. I suppose I am too old for this African 'hominess, I likve Outlived the explor- er's spirit, and have a foolish kind of a an agreeable natation with a cornet of dragoons, the second was listening with delight to the lively conversation of Mr. Bellingham, manager of the Phoenix Theater. A couple of gentle- men belonging to the stock -broking fra- ternity, and Gilbert Sinclair, the giver of the feast, made up the party. Mr. Bellingham had been entertain- ing the company with anecdotes of Mac - Stinger, the great tragedian, the point of every story turning on the discom- fiture of the great man by some blund- ering tyro in dramatic art. Mrs. Wal- singham had heard most of the stories a good many times before, and she gave a palpable little yavves as Mr. Belling- ham told her how the provincial Hora- tio infonned the great Hamlet that; his father's ghost "would have much amus- ed you." • She covered the yawn with her pretty plump little hand, watched Gilbert Sinclair's face with rather a troubted expression in her own, and in so doing was a little inattentive to the demand for more cups of tea. Mr. Sinclair was a man whom many people admired, and who was in no ob- vious manner deserving James Wyatt's unflattering description. He affected certain bluntness of style, which his friends accepted as evidence of a can- did and open soul and a warm heart. He was generous to a lavish degree to- ward those he associated with and was, supposed to like; but he was not liberal with protestations of regard, and he had few intimate acquaintances. He was a man whom some people called handsome—a big man, upwards of six feet high, and. with a, ponderous, powerful entree. He had large regular teatures, a florid complexion, promin- ent reddish -brown eyes, thkk curling hair of the same reddish -brown, and in- tensely white teeth. - The chief claim. which Mr. Sinclair possessed to notoriety was coraprised in the fact of his wealth. He was the owner of a large eatate in the north, an estate consisting ;el iron -works and. eoalpits, the annual income from which was said to be something stupendous, and be had shame in more railways and mines and. foreign loans than his friend e could calculate. His father had been dead about five years, leaving Gil- bert sole possessor of this great fortune, unfettered by a claim, for the young man was an only child, and had neither kith nor kin to share his wealth. He had. been at Rugbe and Cam- bridge, and had traveled all over preeentirctent that the thing will come Europe with a private tutor. He to a bad end. Of course I wouldn't own Englishman ought to see or to learn to teeth a feeling among the men -who and had profited in a very raoder- are going, but may cartfe.ss as meth ate degree by the process. He had a to you without being put down as a strong will and a great capacity for enaven." keeping his own secrets, and had start - COLD METALS FLOW LIKE FLUIDS. Mercury, of ecturse, is fluid at all or- dinary temperatures, Of the metals which we commonly regard as solid, lead can be made to flow with great ease. If, by hydraulic pressure, it is forced into a. cylinder with a hole in the side of it, it will, when the cella - der is full, flow oat of the hole in a solid bar -like stream, The harder met- als, as gold and silver, obviously under- go slight fluxion movements in the pro- cess -of coining, as iron is not perfeetly rigid. In drawing out a bar of it into wire, the change of form compels the particles of the metal to slide or shear over each other, just as in the flow of a liquid. So great are the pressures that can be applied by modern mechan- ical -science that even steel can be com- pelled to change its shape without fracture; and, all such changes imply fluxion m the metal. NEW BRITISH GUNS. Some of Great Britain's latest guns will be employed for the firet time during the autumn campaign in the Soudan. They carry a highly explo- sive shell ten miles, and each shell is 'capable of disabling 200 of the ene- my. These guns have such a rapid- fire capacity that before the first shell bursts three others are on their way in the same direction. The Gov- ernment shell foundry has been over- whelneed with oeders for the manu- facture of projectiles, • and private contracts for 1,000,000 shelle have been given out. THE PATIENT'S ULTIMATUM. Fashionable Patient—This bill is ex- orbitant. Doctor—Bat-- Fashionable Patient—Not a word,sir, Either cut it in two, or find something else the matter with me. A NATIONAL INDICATION. Cumso—The queue a Chinaman wears is indicative of the backwardness of Cawker-allose• do you make that out ? Otanso—Isn't it always hanging be.. • ? Children Cry for Pitcher's Cnstorig nights when he was not tear°. Aunt Mary watched me,every moveraent made, her eyes sinning, often wet, with a pity in them that almost mane me ory ; but I felt as if I were more sorry for her than for myself. And then I flung myself upon her, and asked her, again and again, what it was, and who it was, imploring her to tell me if she knew? and when she had seen him, and what bad happened? and what it meant about the women of our blood? She told me that how it was she could not tell, nom when; it was ,iust at the time it had to be; and that we all saw him in our time—"that is," she said, "the ones that are like you and. me." What was it that made her and me different from the restt but she only, shook her head. and would not tell Me. "They say," she said, and then stopped short. "Oh, honey, try to forget all about it —if I had but known you were of that kind! They say—that once there was one that was a scholar, and liked his books more tlsan any lady's love. Honey, do not look at me like that. To think I should bave brought all this on you!" "He was a sCholar ?" 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