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had pasted aer examination
ad will be harae Tuesday," she said.
"Aa, is that so?" ctiea Mertz with
• 1
;Lott, wiping her eyes with her handker-
'thief.
aButy told jaantwhat I, thnuglit,•of
aim," centinuea..the eexcated.„ woman,
"and you know My' words are dot al-
ways
e , Walled in hooey.
41111;""t' 'She will, no 4"bb' 6e glad I Aunt Lott didenot re,ply; she knew
o turn her back upon. the sohooleroonan that only too well. __
"( wanted to ii..AK you. Xoritz; what "So Moritz Well have his way," Lerau
Id be done itith her." • I von Ratenow added crossly. •
knaletentionest eyes gazed at her I "Never mind, cousin " comforted Aunt
. •
stonishinent, • , Lott, whose heart was secretly filled
. 1 with joy that her pet was eoming home,
Nettling at all et. first, mother. r , "never mind, who kiaowe how all will
ilk the pear thing shoulti have at: enda"---"
d rest; alae probably needs it." R"I know very well, Lott," Frau von
i atenow inlerruoted, "tbat this is the
Free von ltatenow nodded, "Very I way it will be: a gay life moll as is
ell-ea „: will make:net return; now tbe fashion, and some day she will
1 •RI I. ti.
e .
Mat." ;
have to work, for the 'must' willcome,
het father' h ge so, Much the more a
depend upon, and perhaps 'it is not
very far off. Then she will have for -
"Yes, Moritz, you will spoil tier 1" gotten how to accommodate herself to
ied the young wife, •• •. , , circumstances."
"Poor child, whet will she do at that" el;Le,eaRitsetetnheawt ,in the hands of Pre ,ie..
She may marry"
d bear's?" he asked compassionate- "Will you assure her a dowry, Cbart
y. lotte?" she asked scornfully. , "You
'ft is her duty to care for her fathe cannot buy a single loan nor set your
table once with your poetry. The et:ira-
te-1m Is growing old' SiethIllane ach ja there' WI °bad' andeven duringore stupid. and untidy than ever." the period of love oravea food, Our
yes, mother, you are right,. he En. young men of to -day know that vary
well, and they know, too, that (sentare
tupted, "but she eannet go at once a tastes better than 'boiled rice."
e house must at 'least he renovat- . To that speech Aunt Lott made no
so that a respectable person env. reply, but after a :pause, she venture
in it. ,Efad I suispeated this, it atilt() sat" timidly:
' Ratenow, I have an idea! If you
add ban) hum done long alp); as it it -1telinoritznatrieda said the other day
OW. I will not permit the girl to en- slie.laust soon have a governess -if El -
1, The first two weeks she mush eat oditld begin with the children, she
is euetgetia and --a" She hesitated and
here; so, prey, raise no objece glanced at her vis -avis.
; "Perhaps that would do, Lott," said
are just wlaere we beganea•said; Frau tem Ratenow rising. "It is not
lady. • ,. a bad idea.; indeed,. I well epeek to
Moritz about it at once:" •- •
in the Sigaa, place, mother." She galleried up her Mantle and
e anSiutit during , which only threw it over bier arm. An the. door
'eking of the icpitting-needlee' • she turned and said'; "1 should like to
ard.base the child near me and I should
• Pinter to have her oecupy a position
was two years ago to -day that other than that of en ordinary goviter-
ennewitz Hegebach's two eons nese 'But, do not say that I said sol
Good evening, Loth".
The door closed behind her and Aunt -
Lott stood in the centre of her' teem
shaking her head.
•' Ob, the world was growing more and
more prose%) ,
me with that accident," said the young
ma, n at length. "It is terrible to lose.
t� children at one time!" •
tares, it is," agreed his wife.' "raala"
tett comprehend to this day how it
laemened,"
'It was very simple, Frieda. The
, boys sailed. out on the Elbe aloae
a boat labiaa sadden squall must
have reosized, for on the following dayi
Veen bodies were [(Julia." ;
"That was a heavy blow," remark -
el Frau. von Ratenow. "ft is only
faur years same his wife died 1" Her
lands fell into her lap. and sloe gazed
iheughtfully before her; finally ehe
mkt aghtenect color: "Could we
.; teatelx there for Elsie? The
. ip is tteenhy and has no one—"
"Indecia t have thought of that,'t
enterrupted Moritz. "For as daughe.
ters, accordimg to the will, are debarred!
19•444•49.9
CHAPTER, IV.
The dreary, unpleasant October day
was drawing to a otose. The l000rno-
Live, with ,tt long rpw of coaches behind
it, rustled through the heavy, gray log,
emitting clouas of steam
At the ,tviadow of a. ladies' tioape
/stood a tall, slender girl. he was
tke sote ocohpant of the coupe, on that
dater autumn evening, but upon her
y•otitliful hien there were nil signs of
fatigue; her cheeles were aglow with
joyiul exeectation, her doe -like • eyes
sparkled, a smile lurked about her
small, full nos, with their sweet, ehild-
like expression.
She turned Crane one window to the
other; nothing was to be seen but
steam.; the train traveled inseaPortahin
slowly, she thought, For the twelfth
• inheritance, and as liermaxin vorg tune she took up her .satethea and laid
Ingebath Is not an old mwoul
an, it stands it down again. How surprised they
d alt be Moritz was Lo meet her at
eason that he will marry again, ten o 0101:kand it was only sevenaller
heart aalpatatedyielently, as the eti-
"I =Winans him here," interrupt.. gi°8 gave a tong, shrill, whistle, and
several lights passed the windows. How
erau. von Ratenow,. "I found his loam a time ,siture sba hodi "nen home'
bther day." t ,, roe two years and a helf she had not
,. "Da yotz know hoz, mamma?" aske4 spent tier vacation at the castle; oncis
late -young wife. "Leaver said any. tee family:. was at some resort, then
%ha children had the measles, and -
•ttention to him, tot my sister,
ain -there was the station'
very entbusiastie about. him" she Elsie towered the window and lean-
oes not rsenailhi
attled on; "be is 'a handsome man;
ed out; there was the well, there the old
ea s COUSIA ;
mg more about him," one -eyed porter, and farther on flick-
ered the village lamas. It was truly
tu von Ratenow made no replet.
ose words. a pleasure to came home once more 1
"Wbere to, miesr asked the porter:
vita" she asked, "how are the
, Uta my trunk can remain here; it
good, mother" will be fetched to -morrow," said she
n pray excuse me ;,.r am going
hastily; "I came sooner than I was
.
She rose, anad tuldding pleas-
et -opened"
o the husaa,nd and wife, enter- Are you going to walk?" The man
• seemed disappointed.
.aajotning rgom. •
It are you. going, mother?"
e suddenly occurred to Elsie that
•Aunt Ratenow had always considered
andamma, itt, fifteen minutes 1. am go- it improper for ladies to walk alone.
,, tag to drive. to Frau von Kayser's," "You may carry my aatchel, bat be
• "crted Frieda. "Can you wait that quick, please," and sae preceded the
• long A" man up the familiar high -road. to the
•ta iliank you, my chintren, 1 shall CiLy gate, she did not panels until she
walk;" but an answer to the question reached the "Thorgasse." There stood
tse;
-whither-tlaey did not receive.
the old town -hell towers, the irregular
t was already- dusk when Frau vonhouses; and the Lanterns still swung
• oaot -Ratenow returned and, ascending the Amon their chains in the middle of the
N.' ..' stairs, kneaked at Aunt Lott's door. streets. The bells rang just the same,
The old lady was seated at Lhe wiz- and the sliop a.b whica aloritz had occa-
(low, looking out into the garden; she sionally -bought her bonbons had still
had laid aside her Isook and knitting, the same lelackamoor in Us window to
•a for it was what she called, "blind man's show that good tobacco could be had
holiday." nacre. As Elsie halted she glanced up
"Lott, it is incredible!" exclaimed at a couple of dimly -lighted Windows;
Frau von Ratenow, seating herself involuntarily she felt an impulse to
breathlessly upon the nearest chair. ascend the stairs; -Lo go .to her father's;
Aunt Lott was startled; her cousin. but Moritz had written- her emphatit
• rarely lost her self-control, catty that he and Aunt. Ratenow want-
"Ratenow I For God" s sake, what ed to speak to her first; she inust be
has happened?" she asked.
. • obedient, and slowly she turned
••:". "I have come to you because 1 can-
not talk iivith Moritz about it." "n nice,' roundabout way, 'miss,"
r • e "What has happenedali" grumbled her companion. "You surely
"Well,- yen know, Elsie is coming the aro not acquainted here."
day after to -morrow. Moritz and r She nodded smilingly, and proceeded
' do not agree as to her future. I sae: rapidly to the Linden alley. Her heart
'Shechoald go to her tether.' He th
says: She should come here."
• And Frieda ?" Aunt Lott inter-
rupted,
t "Frieda? Frieda has nothing to do -brightly; through
robbed wildly as she saw before her
the dear old house. Upstairs were Aunt
Lott's windows, which were lighted,
and below were Aant Ratenotv's The
lamps were burning
.witataita' •slie
"Once she says one thing, and contemptuously. the kitc•hen window forms could be
;once an- seen moving to and fro, and the large
has r
otheLjust as she happens to feel; she•
carriage was being drawn out of the
ito io opinion -has never had any. If c,oach-house.
she wanted to produce a play and , "You can go," Elsi
soe whispered to the
naeonwas lackinge for a part which n, takin,g the satehel; and putting
' Elsie could all, she would say: " ma
• Oh, • a gold -piece in bus hand, she hastened
mamma, do not let her go to that bear • on, crossed the court, ascended the
of a father!" and if we should hattiPen steps, and entered the hall. Where
te, to be thirteen at table she would say: I should she o first? She hesitated but
'Oh, ntaratha., the child should o to h
father 1' on account of the ominous num-
ber. ' ' Frau von Ratenow pauseda
mometit, then continued. ,gathering up
• her heavy silk mantle: '1 went to
• Hegebech myself 1I hoped he would
want to take his child home, that bis
, house might be brighter, And what do
an you Woke Lott? she exclaimed, mis-
ing her voice and letting her hands fall
a moment; she turned toward thestaix-
case-that tiny room upstairs was home
to luta!
"Anta Lott!" she cried, upon the
threshold, her voice ein•ging out through
the old maid's silent apartments like
the sow of a lark.
"Elsie, Darling!" tees the reply.
Yes, sae was at ham at •tgain for here
t e able
she was expeoted. Ah, how delightful
avt y on Tie does not ivantwas1
her I Rave you ever heard of a father '
nFL:evenly Father ! t sbould not
not wanting bus own child? He final'
• grew angry and said that a young girl
required so much "ainuseraent while he
ncedea rest, testi,
13u1., Ratenow, you let it vex you
un necessarily,'' cried Aunt •Lott,
eecithincay. He was always like
that I"
have reeognized- you, ELsie, only your
eyes are the semen' cried Aunt Lott
after having embraced the girl.
"Dearest Auntie, 1 hetet grown,
hare 1 notit 1 am eigateen years
old, too."
"Come, come, take off your cloak; tea
• will soon be ready. Indeed you are
"Wbat 1" exclaimed the old lady, eighteen, ohild."
One should not got angry? 1Ie act- "Ab, aunt, I take such pleasure in
alteatatimethat he had ao use for such ing'," the girl interrupted. "When I
ail expensive: luxury as a grown-up wa.8 sitting at my books and my head
daughter. He had barely enough for ached so that 1 could learn nothing,
himself; he had to pay off old debts the,u 1 anaught a( all the beautiful
every menthe...11e could do no more things that come, to everyone --of my
than tr tualtdohe tragtviag ILisa's three youth which lay before me. Sister
hupr1r1 dollars; "Elsten he said, Beate always said that Heaven allot -
'meet eut to some ten what she had ted everyone his or, her share of hall-
learne ; how twiny had to do the pintas. Ah, aunt, how delighted I tan
.., le and so -Platte" • ',with mine! I coulcl scarcely waAt un -
'1 on rgient eate e tn teratioltal &tint i1t coul4 leave the school -room."
•
At Lott bastilY poured out tbe a;]teProm which point of vantage sbe eould
sae was dreaming ot spriug and of the gaze, with, her large, chilehala eyes,. up -
warbling of nightin ales; she too bad on the unfamiliar, ever -varying parlor -
been yew:1g, and tn nr room was set- arna before tter, consietang q. dzzUng
ting the embodiment of spring ! tHow uniforms and striking though tasteful
handsome Elsie had grown 1 how bright toilettes.
Was her ,Yolang faze: how 'snarloillan. Sudd,enly 'the,ee woedsnaletoitanafetom
her eyes and how joyous her !mart! neouth to mouth:
"Oht youth 1" walapered the cid "13ernardi is, going to play!"
ady. ,
• atteeofficer with whore 1sehad en -
There at the china she had worked teted, took his violin front: ts caste and
hard Co.r years, she had no home, no consulted earn:est:1Y with Vida; after
devoted mother, no prospects for the arranging her lare cuffs carefully, the.
future; still youth helped her to be latter seatea herself at tbat filaumatrUcle
ha•ppy, tel be gay. It watild not Ion a few claords, and silende reignea in the
long, !for Aunt Ratenow woutd come room.
with her garden -scissors, and in her "Bernardi is goiag to play, Elsie; pay
horribly rottisto wanner would nip off attention," Aunt Lott.whtsperred to the
the buds of hope, one after another. girl. " He plays magi:lancet:day,"
' Aunt LW, was -forced to tura away, The neat moment finne that violin
and set the tettenot onthe stove, in were drawn wonaerfally sofa sweet
order that she might gai,n the mastery strains -now AVIV' mourn.
over her• t ful, tut if the small brawn instrument
"Well, „little aunt, how are things were weeping,- dow breaking into a
here?" cried Elsie, as she drank ber tea brilliant staccato, into a wild, flay,
in haste. "I must go downstairs Inst.. rhythm. Then it ceased, Elsie stetted.
• tt.irrisedt
soonto Aunt Ratenove, Moritz and It seemed to her as,itsbe had awakened
frotri a dream. Applamee' resounded
"Yes, yes, you must, child. yes; year" through the roonnaana. Auttt Rateeow
said the old lady. '"tboug.h you will applauded tbe loudest, "Dear Ber-
• net see omen of Frieda; they are re- nerd'," she cried, ' it is true, I know
heereing down tbere, in order to give nothinir of modern music; your Patti-
e representation onekunt ftatenow's ed 'moved me to fears, by bla.ying Bee -
birthday, but Moritz will nrobably have thoveins 'Adelaide' upon that mane vie, -
a few minutes to spare," • lin ; but musaawarnthe palm to you."
"Rebearsing Who V"
"To Be Continued.)
"'Who, child Why -the officers and " •
some young ladies from town; alter -
ward,• they have euppnr, and the daY HUSSNIAK PEASANTS.
before yeatenctity ',bey danced. • Geed-
ness gractious-t Elsieel hear Aunt,Ratee Toltettle In inaginci,ba--Flret 'Party Arrived
now's footstepa, dnd You did not go to in New VOrk Oil Saturday -Gigantic Men
see her first!" Snd Women.'
"No, it is Moritz," cried Elsie, and in
a trice she hid bebieuntluestove,dra!we .4 party of Ruesnink peasants, the
ing her skirts closely abont aer sten- first, as 'far as is known, that ever came
pier form.. a -1 t
• . o th Ls continent, passed througlintiew
•
1 Yea, it was Moritz; be bed wine to
ask if Aunt Lott would not like to York on Saturday, on their way to
drive la the 'station te "Meet Elsitni WitnipegoManitaba, Canada, where the
Frieda had half of the town down-) British Government has granter' them
stairs a.gain. to supper. As he speke', .
he sank 'Into the neatest chair and an extenstve tract a land, says the,New.
/mailed -beak the hair from his brown York Herald. They were dreiod it
a -gesture peculiar to him when he' their national costume.. The Buena -
want ed to exorcise unpleaeaut thougbts.' aks, or Rutheniene, as they are also
Suddenly two, tiny, trembling hands! coned, ere the inh,thiteots of the semi_
mere hied, lpott his eyes. •
, "Uncle Moritz,' who am I?" asked a i itubttelencient dug by a Bulativiaa, of
• STREETS OP LONDON. powER
Wood allia itsallgait tbe Favorite Paving
. materiels. •
Landott is -so latgef and its 'municipal
admstration lsonemalnated that only
tile barest ontliine can -he given in a
short lenten 'says - a: ; Lando'?" lattelt.•
There is tie, room tor *defeated statiiticst
• BIG ELECTRO -MAGNET DRAWS
METAL FROM THE EYE.
VevY RSu
amie and ccessful-X*11Na actike
New Work 10ye and .Ear Infirmary for
Year -sot a oagiure Recorded.
uNkiorPir Duo
'Succession eit nerrowe Was the tate at
"Uneasy lies the aeon thett weireat * a
Cocily nevi*. .
a orowet." It lay uneasily in Stakes.
pearel time, and. before bis, time. if
,,,,,The magnate history tells the truth; probably it liest .
which,. by the. way, are very diffigult tat-- bas become one of the uthnprasoiltylmeivehneaudoww. hiBohut vivtereveasantatroonwloyi
to a ise'tettest alas to, tbe eye eurgeon.
aetainal3etween the years of 1856 airoaderful power of electricity for Itu- toot% meta too near to wearing a
rbe that was uneasy in time pant; the bead
and 1889 the domeste housekeeping °I Man good is demonstrated every week
the city was el 'tbecontrolfa h
metropetttali 6.00,r,d, of • works. , ine.thet jaaet Lite New Yorie Eye and Ear Infir- arnwn bad its anrrnwa' tile Wars
age so esaut en° penal& Rascal 'ant tia
latter:34er this Was- anolished for, the ; Few persons lexaea of the. sewn- nobility of
too mach and too extensive workto be plished with the giant electromagnet England, tbough the plain
reasog ' (given to nee). that there weal ,ixtett marvels which have been acoom- people sufte,red little; and reatnY Well-
looSted atter •hy one' board. This avill. a the institution referred to. sons slain in tbe wars. But fon if
bora mother.s mourned. husbands and
which is Located i Lbe t' '4
, be apparent I when' it as genownt that • e
apparent whenait is kriovvn that' tromagnet at the infirmary
The particular to winch the elee- j any of them had suen a successtQn (4
is nut is tiorrotve as one who might have seem -
there are over ' 3,000 Miles of streets. to •locate or extract portieties oi iron ed born only to enjoy- the days a beet
Thoaher,(ent ode 066trie8Se4roeor:osoyos..tera built by that or Steel lodged in the eye. The sitmpli- life-Ceeiln Wife of Richard' Planta-
, .• city of the plata is obviou.s, and yet wgelniette, DRuoksee,of York, and leader of the
Domestic afnairs were then turnectov- , this magnet represents the first,
Cecile' Nevil was granddaughter of
er to the London county council,. and.. tical experiment in the use of elec
;by .vaxious parliamentary acts ananus-e ity to aid the surgeon in removing the "Old Jean a Gaunt, time-honored 1.aue
ages - their supeivisiote has been sttbdiv-I bits of iron and steel wattle have. Pre.' tscaeter," and so great-granddaughter of
.ided until at tha time the city"of Done-OVions,' to the adoation. of the anagnet 'e'llag divard la; her father was
;Pare, e e
don is divided into twenty-eight ravalial,systien, generally caused filludness. Rahn). Neva, Baal of Westmorland. ken
mother Joan fliii
the Duke a
cipal boroughs, or parishes, eachThsoft iron core a thmagnet
ash being governed by a vestry, make Oa about two feet long and three in- Lancaster' /laughter. Cecily Nevil
hag an a,nnual report to the .London ethes in diameter. It is pointed at
city council. Each of thense borou married Ricaard Plantagenet when she
was about twenty years old, in 1440;
ghat eacaa end. The windiug is disposed on
ar parishe.s, is a separate municipal org- spools in. the. mannex indicated in the and they had four sons and two daugh-
amizatiou, callecting taxes, evening picture, area is ;supplied with eurrent ters, ',Edward, Edmund, George, Riad-
streets, paving and cleantng them, talc- I frown the house raains. The a hole meg-
Mg care ef garbage, looking after ttle. nl et rests ori a steed, and is arreaged In arta Anne, and Margaret., For fifteen
Years no especial sorrows reactbed her;
health of tbe people ad the sanitary . :"Pare 'tuee'lly
, wale. thin at d the Itouch of a band. her sons were strong, bar husband
c..i,v1.1n ertitJ zactfettht:tretk,olst great was the principle oubjeot in the king -
condition Of all the houses and. publio.
places it the parish. When it % /at{ aower hare displayed can be maniple- darn. .
memberecj that the entire area of the-
' perform the taicest of operations.
lated in so delicate a manner as to But in 1455 the Warsectt.the Roses
otty is i a
'
E DRAWN FROM Tat' EYE. began. with the bloody battle at St
122 SQUAB MILES. . t
Albans, on May 23, and the Earl a
S
et iStafford, the neebew of Duchess Cecily, alvoes a wroker in iron or ste s
Ls will be observed that ea.ch vestry etrueo in the eye by a fine splinter was killed there. At Northampton,. on
has only about four square miles of ter- of metal from a xnacbine.The cass;Tidy 10, 1460, her brother-in-law, State
a Fniperor o us ria i the1ritory to look after and many ot the ford, Duke of Buckingham, was killed i ,
.sweet, fautiliar 701,00, while the queset
'don wate,acorapanted by a, °leer, re- hereditary Archatike. The dually nest
on the extreme south eastern corner of - -
narishes are 4 fa L h
, in ce very muc small- Jul specialist.. So the sufferer is ta- .
quires the attention at the mutt skill-
freshing laugh. ken at once to the Lomita". Ille firet and the terrible fight at Wakefield •
th • • , 6T. . ., ' .
OU Dos. 30, 1460, robbed ber at °nee
"You Witch,' le exclaimed. healing' Russia, Roun•azia, Galleia, and IVIola-
en rapire, ,ort entax on
Elsie fast and rising. "'Why, you have avia. The laaguage of the people is
grown to be a woman!" a Slav dia.le?t, which is alinost identital
His kindly face beamed. "The food at with little Russian. Their religion is
D— could not have been very poor, a form of Bottum C•athelicism.
truly! And you do not leek like a The_iiarty whieh passed throngb
blue stocking, either, thank God!" New York on Saturday consisted t 1
tha'Nt; sdirilieclotriioteis;abmieye,t"alashsetsatesastwiiitsh ina children, all of snagnifieent physimm.
nine men, ten women, and. twentyeftve
consolatory stalls, 'my examination was Not one of the men was less than
excellent!" . I six feet tall, and two or three were
her.. .
"'Aunt :Lott, we are growing old! Once
His eyes were Aill rivetea aPon I
were aiso tall, and well formed, and
the claildren
more than seven' ant. The women
I held this young lady in my arms, and intealgatt, seemed to he healthy and
now-" None could speak English, but the
"Is it. not so?" cried Aunt Lott. "As leader of the party, Constantioe Cos -
1 saw her before me I was reminaed oven, could speak a. little Gerxnan, and
of Schiller's lines," and she forthwith through- an interpreter, he said that
proceeded to quote from her favorite the members of hie party were
poet.
FARMERS AND GOAT HERDERS,
That is right," interrupted a deep
voice, nttutt such nonsense •in hea- head and that they came from Vac neighbor -
at once. hood of Czernowitz, the capital of
,A.unt Ratenow. stood upon the titres- Bulkowima. They were indu ed. to eini-
bold, and from behind her peeped grate by an agent a the Britisla Gov-
Frieda's face wreathed in smiles. ernment, who held out golden pronais-
"We eame to eee it it was true," the es to them of wealth and freedom from
latter exclaimed. "Camila° declared taxation in Canada.
she had heard. Elsie's voles; yes, there The men wore their hale long. and.
she is!" , i clipped across the forehead in an old-,
Elsie' had nist emerged from the vole fashioned "bang." They wore tight-
aminous folds Of. Aunt Ratenow's shawl fitting trousers of coarse, evbite home -
which the old lady wore around her spun linen, tueleed into rawlide boots,
on passing through the chilly cerridont, ties tops of "whitch were aurited down,
when she was p•ounced upon by the and heavily embroidered,
they wore shirts of the same mater-
ial, and a sheepskin coat, or "shuba,"
witth the. b•tir inside, and,laeed in front
teung to do is to locate the piece of
The favorite paving mataxialthere, as. metal. The instrument used is a. small
in Paris, is wooden blocie. .A.11 of the needle bigaly magnetized; with electri-
best streets are eith.er paved a ith wood- : aitn" If the epliatetr is or. the sur-
.
i faee of tbe eye, it will cline. to tLis
younger lady and kissad boisterously.
lust at the right tuite. I received
note to -day from Fran Von D-; she with rawhide thongs. The hat was a,
cannot take part; there has been a witle-brinamed. straw affair, with a
death in the family. Now, OM diffi- bawl of cock's feathers stuck in the
Gutty is settled 1" left side. Earl] man wore a wide belt
" What is it?" asked Frau von Rate- of leather, -emercaralered gcometrieal
now sharply. designs, from which hung three or four
"1 have no time to anneal, now, pouches of untanned leather, contain -
mamma ; I must go down stairs and you ing food, tobeeco, ant] water. A long,
must not ask any questtons, either." sheath knife was also hug); from the
cried Frieda. "Moritz, • bring Elsie down belt.
with you after a.while," she milled but The women. wore sheepskin coats
as her graceful form, in its blue silk just like the men's, and their only eth-
dress disappeared behind the door, er gam:tent was of linen, with eniltroid-
" Well, child," sad Aunt Ratenow, erea edges, and reaching to half -way
turning to the young girl, " we have between the. ankle and knee. Thelegs
decided that ,you shall remain here for were bare, and on the feet were heavy
ra.whide shoes. Their headdress was
the present.'
a shall be delighted -if papa will of white linen,. somewhat similar to
permit, tat aunt- ' that worn. by Tutkish women, and with
" litawat "mit," interrupted theold a long veil flowing over the shoulders.
lady. Her a, els sounded strange. Most of the china:en were barefoot -
Aunt Lott and Moritz stared at her. ed, and they wore only a single sleeve-
" And in order that you-" she continue less garment of white linen, wad h
ed. e looked more like a, time bag with holes same way -that is, with orderlies tak-
• " Let us talk about that to-xnerrow„" cut la it for hands and arm; than any- ing up the droppings during the day
and Miran "Dear mother," he midst, thitng else. • • and ordhaary street sweepers sweep
"give us the pleasure of supping with As a whole, both xnen and women ling at night. At present the streets
us to -night! Frieda would be so happy were. remarkably, handsome. Their fee- are not washed, here at night. For a
to •have you." tares were of the. Greeian type, and
t' You kn,ow, Moritz, I cannot endure the men a are clean. shaven, except for
that eternal chatter," she replied. long and cerefully curled moustaabein
It wouldtbe much pleasanter, to be The women were all bandsome and
alone; but -do inc that favor, mother. idle.
Aunt Lott and Elsie. get ready to (tome
to the table. Mother and aunt can re-
" 11 oritz, do you see, am has come
of two nepaeves, a brother, a aon, and ,
a husband. In the battle fell Sir
en blocks or asphalt. ' The following: Thomas Nevil and Sir Edioun,d Bour-
facts I obtained by personal interviews! But it may bas's haat 'muted with ard. Immediately after the battle ben
needle and may be easily removed. ohier, netehews, and her busband, Rich -
with publio officials or out; of official! such force as to have become embedded
reports waere I could obtain themandI in the eye itself. The white eortion -of brothertRalph, Earl of Salisbury, was
[give them in as near Ehe words of the', the eye which surrounds the iris or executed, and leer son, Edmond. Baal of
()finial as I can, having, in most taste I colored ring Ls composed of tough nuts- Rutland, only 12 years old, was mur-
ances made memoranda at the time. of' ales attich can be penetrated with only
the kiterview. • dered by John, Lord Clifford, in cold
I the. greatest difficulty. If the iron
There are soinething over 100 mileanat. steel particle become embedded in
of wood pavement in London, some laid this muscular tissue, it will no.i. . yield blood. in aevenge for the death of, ais
father in battle. • .
by earetract, as in Paris, by the Parish." to tbe !magnetic neddle.
About seven -eights of the wooll ie. tree! Now comes the use of tbe large mag- cillyl,rhtehneysardidrorot eacommee-teolonDe4.
osetea, some by "dipping" more by i net. This instrument has a *leaning clAhenssothCetee
Tow -
forcing the cremate into..dte Weeks byt force of sixteen pounds. As the. eye newbew, Sir John Nevi", fell at Tow -
ton," Ma.roh 2U, 1401. %hen. came a
, ... .
pressure. "White 'pine was formerly us- ' of the patient is pressed tee:. . 1 its .
ed, but yellow pine ereosoted is now l'poiat, the eubtle naagnetic on • r be- breathing spell; but in 1469 Sir Ileurf t
tae most ' used; 'anthotegli Australien • ,ins to draw upon tho splintat,
woods, uxe now being- laid on some ,' the. eye from the socket. If not. too
'1:11° Nevil was exeeuted, andeot .33a.rnett ..e
"jarratit" and "karat"' halt very hand metal, struggling for release, ; ulges April 1.4, 1471, fell still other nephevillag: in
streets .of. exceptionally heavy traffic.' deeply imbedded, the eplinter wilt yield
pave.ments are laid on Portlaad. c,ement (tome attathed to the point of the mag- -John Nevi'. Marquis .nif ' Mcniangataitia et ,
These woods are not creosoted, All ; to the force and, leaving, the eye, be- and Riohord Nevin „Earl, of •Waniaitlitnit:!'tel'
el its meetly used in making concrete"; •But as only too often ours, the tamous as "the lateg MakeranCritantaaa t e
4, 1471, the battle 'Of Tewiteetnititeine ."r''le'''
concrete; Inetead of broken stone, grave net. .,
The cost for foundation and blocks coana Metal may staake -with such force as to, '.fought, and inintediately aftnneti.lfd. ti;tiatena
yard -one year guarattee. if done byn he cavity of the eyeball. Espenally
per square yard, per annum to maintain the iris or the pipit. One inetenee was ater'encastrieri, bad married the duch- ,,
ess's niece, the King Maker's daughter a
contractor, .Lt costs about 5 per bent. is this the ease when it passes through
• . tue,ntionea to me by the, attendants at Anne, was owlacssis,mruenredeeraendd bdiehueerestseoto.str, Itheye
them.
The averagealife of bloats on heavy the hoseitel of a splinter Ataxia pass -
traffic streets is about ten years. A ed entirely through the eye 'and lodg- kept the killing in the family, but it
wooden pavement on a' light traffic ed in the coating at the other -ids of was killing just the same.
Duck -
street was shown me that had. been the. ball. Applied to the eye, the big Two years later, so that the Duch -
"Blocks dipped in creasote;" but thenehe skilled sight of the physician the ass should not get untecreasterned to
down seventeen years, with the remark, magnet wUl reveal with. atauracy to
street was not in good condition. King eontion of the troubLatome particle. grief, her son -in -nen Thomas Holland,
Duke of Exeter, wile bad had to beg
bridge, with 22,000 vehicles passing ov- an operation. Only in the most des- his bread in exile, was foam!. dead on
the seashore at .Dover, and. in 1478 hex
William street, leading to London -Knowing this, he can remove it by
er it oath twenty-four hours is paved •aerate caws need loss of sip,ht follow. son, the Duke at Clarence, was drown -
with wood, bat I was told it 'had to 'be . It is mew little mere than a year ed in a butt of Malmsey, his wife Ce -
city baying been poisoned previously;
replaced.tsinee. the ftret experime.nt with the her son -m -law, Charles the 13old, .Duke
Asphalt is more popular hero than in . During that entire time not a single in 1477. ahen 1.1.ere was n little re -
Paris, especially on narrow streets, and failure has been revorded. The magnet
in sections of the city where there is is as reliable as truth its 11 and there spite for the poor Duchess. In 1483
a good deal of•filth and dirt. There are , ars at ]east a dozen persons with un- died her son, Edward IV., only 41 years
about one-third as many yards of asph- impaired eight, the infirmary plant- old, the first one of her descendants
costs upwards of $3 per sauare yard,
with only eighteen months guarantee, i clans say, who can thank the meg-
net and that only for the fact that
they oan see. to die a natural death .since 1455-
twenty-eigbt year. In the same yeag
her teno grandsons, Edward V. and
alt as of wood, so I was informed. It
.after Which it costs from 22c. to 280.' Richard, Duke of York, were murdered.
by their uncle and. her son, Richard,
per square yard' per annum for main- Duke of Gloucester, who became King
reliance. as Richard III., and in his turn was
The cleaning is not so well done here
as in _Paris, but is done in mode the killed at Bosworth Field on Aug. 22,
1485, when. only 35 year old. Her son-
in-Iatte Sir Thomas St. Leger, was exe-
cuted in 1483, and a grandnephew, a
second Henry 'Stafford, Duke of Buck-
ingham, WO.S. executed in '1487.
Except for a few small deaths, sucb
as two husbands of a niece, Cathar-
ine Nevil, and a grandson, John, Ear'
of Lincoln, and a grandson, Edward,
Prince of Wales, the Duchess lost no
more relativee, and died. peacefully in
1495. 'All but tlae Prince of Wales, et
these tater, 'died by violence. Of her
obildren, Margaret, Duchess of Ber- '
gundy was the only one who survived
her. During the forty years, 1455-95,
disease.
she had seen twenty-five of her re-
latives die by violence and three by
But sae herself did not. rest even
after death. When Henry VIII. de -
stowed the =masteries. the Collegiate
Churth of Fotheeinga,y was razed to
the ground, and the bodies of Richard
Platagenet and Cecily Nevil, Duke and
Duchess of York, were exposed to view
in thee' graves. They lay so for sev-
eral years, until Elizabeth, -their great -
great -granddaughter, Queen of Eng-
land In her own right, caused them
to be re -interred, with the solemnities
befitting tbe funexal of two en& din.
tinguisb,ed persons. •
So Cecily Nevil, =then of two Ring's
and. grandmother of one King. ha
ing died at last found rest,
plate is from $2.44 to 0 per satiate terforate the coatiate. and drop Ian ward, Prince of Wales, who, though.' h*
EVERY SEVEN 'YEARS. magnet . was made tit the infirmarY; of Bergundy, had been killed ill battle
PLENTY OF CHALK.
tire soon after supper; indeed, mother
will be; requested to."
Frau von Ratenow rose with a shake
of her head.
"My poor birthday," said she, " fur-
nishes a pretext for their nonsense -
well, you may expect tme Moritz, if
"matters have gone so far."
"Aunt Lott" said Elsie, she fan.
toned a pale pink bow upon cue,..tatple
black cashmere dress, which enhanced
the beauty of her fair complexion and
flaxen hair, "it is so strange here! Aunt sande. A number of years ago Oharles
InnigIht, a pbotogaopher at
Ratenow is cross, and se is Moritz."
" Yes, but -I do not know why," was • Newport,
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Isle of Wight, oecured a Manses of her
the evasive answer she received. "Are majesty not merely, smilingbut broad -
you ready? It is time to go." y angina:Lg.
Elsie replied in the affIrmative; to- Haw did it batmen, that such a like,-
gether they walked along the hall r'l nri.Ae.SSeenwa, ws sosbtaviinsetdggInNtehlwcs 0 -trete!: . Tilit:
The Queen Does Smile.
The tradition that "the Queen never
smile' is at old in Englena as her
reign.' Tlhe hunelreds of photegraphes
of her majeety sold in all parts of the
world invariably ahow the one impres-
ation, the bettvinees cf the face accen-
tuated by the panneunced droop of
the long upper. lip.
Buit, trevertiheaKss, the Queen does
desciendea the stairs.
" Oh, Elsie, my bandkerohief I" ex-
claimed Aunt Lott as they were about
to enter the young Ratenow's apart-
ments. It was customary." for her to
forget something. n't
• "Go in, aunt, I will fetch it," cried
the girl.
Tn the course -t a few mozhents she
again descended. L ' staircase, but paus-
ed hentatingly ; nea; far from her, she
saw an officer with a violia-e'e about
to enter the so-called hall. At the hes-
itated, he looked up and his ayes met
hers. As is usual when & gentleman
meets a ledy he that way, he bowed
low,. opened Ehe door and allowed the
young girl to. enter first.
The bell was only dimly lighted, but
as Elsie passed tlarough it, she could
perceive the ehange m the once so
• gloomy room. It bad become the fac-
simile of an old German state room,
with its dark wainscoting, its elegant-
ly carved furniture, its rich hangings,
which fell to the ground in such artis-
tic folds, its soft ca.rpets and costly or-
naments. 1
From Frieda% sat= issued a flood cf
light and a chaos cd voices. When. the
yoang girl appeared in the doorway,
the. conversation ceased for a moment ;
Introductions followed, and Elsie, uo-
accustomed to the perfumed, intoxicat-
ing atmosphere of the drawing -room,
sought refuge with Aunt Lott, behind
' 'a -Mayor of the city was presenting be
ayerbose and fuleame speed), a mag-
nificent bouquet. He had c.arefully
Foramitterl tbe opeetta to memory, but
in this anxiety to make a favorable int-
painacesse.7 with his courtly manners, his
pouip and s tendex of royal velvet and
and cable ate of gold, he "lost lats
fu,r trigenne eolee, medals, corked that
After same stammering and stut-
tering the suddenly ehotttea, "I've for-
g•otten' the rest," and astood gazing at
the /RU00/1 like a etupid scheolboy on
visitars' day. Tben her !majesty laugh-
ed outright, and tbe flustered and
heartbroken inlayer dropped the bou-
quet and fled. While the Queen • aes
laughing, Kinglet, the pleotogatepher,
took- the picture.
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• Queen 3/Laagharita of Italy considers
flatteryta a "an impeetinence only ac-
ceptable, ta idiots," and always evinces
an ini,ense dislike to a compliment
waich is not truthful. 'Upon one occa-
sion when a lady was offering her feta
icitations on tbe approaching marriage
of the Prime of Naples, she spotte of
him as a "hanclsoine youth,"
"No," replied the at:teen frankly, "my
son is not leandsome, ;but he is good.
And be is far Mb eenablie to nesire to
have qualities aserihea to lii • ° tic.h he
whose easy -cheer stood a vacant seat, is fullY wittare be does not i aness."
while it was tned, but the cost of the
water made the cest of cleaning exces-
sive. An effort, is now in progress to •unravelling of whieh is one of ihe most
have a system of pipes put in to con- difficult- Problems with which the
vey salt water about the eity for clean- endeal. This pion is in reality a chip
ience of the present day is called upon
ing and sewer flushing, and the only
thing that prevents its adoption is the to ;
Sheet' of _It Lew Feet Thiel( to no Found
• • _ in Eneinult.
The small pieoe of chalk which is in
constant utie,,in the school -room, the
lecture room, the billiard room and the
workshop, has a stra,nge history, the
sanction of parliament. Stone pave- o( an immense bloek of cheek that onoe
raents are not laid now, and as rap- filled an area the size of ahe'c,ontinent
idly as those now in use are worn out of Europe, and of wIlieb even yet sev-
eraagigantic fragraents remain: each
hundreds of square utiles in taxtent.
Those patches are scattered over the
region, lying between Ireland on the
west, China on the east, and, extending
In the other direction from Sweeten in
the north to Portugal in the south.
they are replaced with wood or asph-
alt.
There are many miles of macadam in
London, but as no practiced way has
been found to clean them and still re-
tain their fine surface, they are rather
rough. • They are cleaned with the ord-
inary sweeping machines •which re-
moves the fine material, leaving the
coarse stoaes sticking up, making a
rough surface.
This is a city of parks. Many are
small parks and stittares, no other city
in the world have so many. There are
over 3,000 acres in parka and squares
in the city, exclueive of the royal parks.
Public bathing places are a great fail-
ure here. ' eeparate departments one
provided. for woroen. • A bath can be
obtained' far one penny. Public lavat-
oriee are everywhere about the city,
mostly'. balmy the street surface, each
in charge of an attendant.
• A OUR Fort LOVE.
As a cure, for love, patients are aa,
lased to take: Twelve ounces of dielike;
one pound of resolution; two ounces
of the powder of experience; a large
sprig of time ;. one quart of the ceoling
water of constderation. Set them over
• the fire of love, sweeten it vvith the su-
gar of forgetfulness, skim it with the
spa= of melancholy. Put it to the bot-
tom of your h.eart, cork it with the cork
at souad tonscaextee, and then let it
remain, and you will instantly find ease
and be restored to your senses again.
These ingredtents axe to be bad of the
apothecary at the house of ander-
standing, next door to reason, in Pru-
dent Street, in the Parish of Content -
paean .
• To remove stains from silver.-Medie
ohne stains are taken off by rubbing
with a cloth dippecl in sulphuric acid,
then washed in soapsuds.
iltt."...et7t4t.•
In the British Isles theohalk is found.
in greatest perfeetion and oontinuity in
the east and southeast of angland•
sheet of chalk more than 1,000 feet in
thickness tuiderlies all that, portion of.
England which is situated, to the south-
east. of a line crossing the island dia-
gonally from the North Sea at Flam-
borouath Head to the coast on the Eng-
lish Channel in Dorset, This enormous
sheet of chalk is tilted op slightly on
the west, and its depressed eastera pore
titionthat die) toward the waters of the
North Sea are inanity buried from sight
by means of overlyi-ag sands and clays.
Where the edges of the chalk floor come
attpenettee sea the olift scenery is strik-
ingly grand and beautiful. Anyone
who has once seen the magnificent rocks
of Flamborough and Beeehy Head, the
jagged stacks of the Needles, or the
ephrieenee•em, tees oi Shakespear&s cliff neer
Dover, can understand why "the white
cliffs of Albion" bas grown into a stock
That massive sheet of chalk appears
again in France, in -twiny other ,parts of
Europe as far seat as the Crimea, and
men in Central Asia, beyond tbe Sea of
Aral. How far it stretched evestward in-
to what is uow the Atlantic may never
be lonown, but chalk cliffs of at least
200 feet in thickne,se are seen at An-
trim, in Ireland, and less conspicuous
formations are found in Scotland, in
Argyle. and Aberdeen. There can be
little question that all these now isolat-
ed patches were once connected in a
continuous sheet, wbich must, therefore
have oceupied a superficial area about
3,000 miles long by nearly 1,000 broad,
axi exteat larger than that of the pre-
sent contineet of Damps. .
. „
nailinnianota otteettatieiteatettett •
• WHAT IS A NICE WOMAN,
A man said that leis idea of
woman was one who was cam
what he raid, and peal Nosy lit
tion to the thinee Media,
A nice woman is one who as
morniag with a smile, read:goo
with a -blessing.
A. nice wnenan is one who do
make you suffer „at seceadahand
her ruches, nor expect you to think ther
is but oae_ doctorin the world, and that -
hais the one of her choice.
ta. nice womaa ie one who Is evenly
pleased with the weathepothat is, tile
temperature sloes not affect her temper,
and when the skies rain watex she does
not sheerer tears and. groans every.,
Where.
A nic,e WOTO.SKI is one who can eat
want is set before hex, vveae the clothes
the possesses, aixa do both with ainiabil-
ity and without envy.
A IliCe'woMat is one who sees tbe
nioeuese in you a,nd me and all the
rest of the world, and as the obtiler-
a,bee OUT faults she makes15 tty to
de it too.
That's the Mee wetterete
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