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AN EASTER LESSON.
Tile tiny seedla in each hat 11e,
Aad Beene to 0a to rot and die,
Are fruitful. germs of life and hope
As through the darken'd mould they
grope
Toward the sunshine and the shower,
That coax and kiss each future flower ;
Till soon above the earth is seen
Full many, a blade of living green,
And gonial Spring, with open arms,
Displays abroad her flowery charms,
Thus, Christian, thou must live and
die
Ere hope to reign with Christ on high.
Sweet Easter flowers that usher
Spring,
To us of resurrection sing I
John Lurie, Toronto.
sunshine? An arch of wawa wire
over Lho door, secured to Lite house
and
with the aforementioned Staples, a.
slongthoned. on the front be stout wire
or bonded sapling$, and at each end
planted some quiok-growlag vines, and
behold what a delightful change is
wrought:. Have you long wanted an
arbor? Iiow quickly and cheaply can
the frame for one be couatruoted if
a liberal quantity of woven -wire goon
into its make-up.
le there an unpleasant view from
some window which you would gladly
shut out, but do not like to cover your
window with 01)180 or comp your blinds
closed? At a proper distance from
the window to shut out the objection-
able view and allow free ingress of
light and air have set two strong poles
bigh enough and far enough apart to
make a screen of he desired size; from
the top oC ono polo to the top of ane.
oilier nail a narrow strip of board
or some similar material. Between the
two poles dig up a narrow bad, drams
liberally, and plant with some quick -
growing climber ; or, if preferred, some
have climbing roses. Secure woven
wire from pole to pole, and also to the
top piece of the frame. If the semen
Is largo a strip of board nailed across
the bottom, a few inches from the
ground, would make it more secure. !f
In a windy place a few braces would
help to strengthen it.
If the ammo; la covered with such
climbers as need protection during the
winter do not have the staples driven
too closely when putting up the trel-
lis. Then when it is time to cover for
the winter, throw down a liberal sup-
piy of leaves, straw, brush or litter,
draw the staples, and loosely roll troi-
lism and vine, lay the whole down on
the litter and cover warmly. Put away
the staples, and the next spring the
only work that will be required to
get un-
roll tie trellis ane vines in d lace itol be
seou ethe eframe
again.
Or, if preferred, atrellisof this sort,
may bo protected with burlap, straw
or leaves. Begin at the bottom, and
tank the burlap all the Way across and
about one Coot up on the side pieces,
Putting it on loosely; fill with Leaves
or straw, leaves bring bettor than any-
thing else if they can be secured ; tack
he burlap up a few inches further and
use more loaves, and proceed in like
manner until the top is reached, and
look the burlap to the drip of board at
the top. Protect the other side of he
trellis in like manner, being sure to
pack Lha leaves, straw or whatever pro-
tecting material may be need, very sol-
idly on both sides.
This is more trouble than the form-
er method, and for my own part Ipro-
fer taking down all climbers that need
winter protection, and, after spread-
ing a good bed of straw, leaver. or brush
or some similar material on the gronud
laying them on it and covering not
too thickly, leaving the rest to Mother
Nature, who, in the colder climates,
where it is most needed, is pretty sure
Lo tuck up her nurslings warmly un-
der a blanket of snow.
When it is necessary to thus lay
down a vine for winter covering that
has been trained in the usual manner
to the side of the house, or window,
or porch column, or whatever it has
been intended to decorate, or to a wood-
en trellis, there is the difficulty of
wrenching off the clinging tendrils
from the support and re-training the
following spring, when the winter cov-
ering is removed. With the woven
wire used as a trellis, however, it is
a very simple matter to untack he
wire and loosely roll the whole vine
about its support, and in the spring
only etaokiug in plane is required, and
the vine will start into vigorous growth
without he necessity of forming new
tendrils and becoming well supported
before beginning their growth and
blooming.
MOTHER'S PATIENCE.
While awaiting a train in a local
railway station, the writer became in-
terested in soma school children there
for the same purpose -to take the local
for a few blocks and save the walk to
school after the lun01180n hour.
The young girls were chatting to-
gather, and one, of not prepossessing
appearance, was saying;
"My mother gets so mad at me be-
cause she says I am a dummy. Butit
seems to take what little sense I have
awaywhen she asks me suddenly to
du something, and then I feel bewild-
ered, and. that vexes her more, until I
don't wonder she's out of patience, for
I can't oven think, I feel so nervous."
Aad she laughed in u sort of mirth-
less, half-apologetio manner, and
seemed really to feel and want to ex-
cites() the mistake of ever having been
born.
But the incident means something.
11 means that if the mother were ob-
servant and tactful, she could make her
slow-witted daughter lose mueh of her
"dummy way," besides cultivating
al the same time a curb on her own
somewhat impatient disposition, Ono
could almost see by a glance at the
lean, sharp -featured girl who seemed
to be oonstantly on the alert for some-
thing at which to be startled, how dis-
appointing she must be to the mother,
who hasn't patience with dullness. But
mothers, in order 10 help their daugh-
ters to overcome the almost hysterical
nervousness that is seen In the case in
point, must have unremitting oars and
endless patienoe. Don't speak sharply
to the poor child. You lose any power
you might' possess by that course. In-
dulge, for a while, that nervous appre-
hensiou that often troubles girls in
their early teens. B8 gentle with them,
and iC they seem stupid to you, remem-
ber that shouting at them will not
further your ends a particle, and will
only bo the beginning of a dread on
their part that will be an effectual
barrier against any future influence.
This girl's pitiful little confession
told so much. If her mother would
only take time to study her daughter,
and make her feel that she wants to
help her overcome Lhis weakness, with-
out doubt this "gawky" girl, knowing
only impatient taunts and contempt-
uous words from the one who ought
to bo her guide and counselor, would
develop into a self-possessed young
woman.
"When she says, 'What?' I forget
what I was going to say," she said
will a foolish little giggle„"and then
she is vexed and I forget every-
thing."
Poor little girl! If some one would
only tell her mother that she is losing
a. treasure because she does not Dare
enough to guard it 1 To be afraid of
mother's sharp rejoinder and ill-oon-
cettled contempt 1 What possibility is
here of that sweet companionship that
is the most precious link between
' mother and daughter.
WOVEN WIRE IN FLORICUTURE.
The woven wire commonly known as
" chicken wire" because so of ton used
to fence off poultry yards, has COMB to
play an important part in florioalture.
The heavy -looking ungainly trellises of
the past, difficult to make, and often
unsightly until entirely covered with
the vine, whicb they are intended to
support, have givon place to this con -
interesting for Women.
It is still widely maintutned that,
whatever opinions men may entertain
us to Ilio necessity for women to work
and their ability to compete with men
in almost all fields of labor, their ad-
miration and rsspeot are all for her
whose kingdom lies within the arms
of her children, and whose Sphere of
duties is bounded by her own borne. It
does not, however, fell to he lot of
all woman to have homes to manage
and children to cherish, while there are
many, at the same time, whose obvious
duly to their children lies in the Maltz-
anon of the talents wherewith nature
endowed them. Lord lbuasell of Kill-
coon, England, in addressing some
women workers recently ventured to
differentiae between the new and the
true woman, and denied that the
sphere or women lay between the nur-
tured to undertake other work for the
support of herself and,invulld mother,
she was
suaae0s that.
but with so entail
nearly starved, Queen Amelia tient at
once for some necessary materials, had
them taken to her workroom, and sum-
moning the girl, handed her three bon-
nets of her own creation. Take
those," site said, "make othere like
them, call them 'bonnets Amelia; and
toll your customers they were made
after the queen's own designs." Her
majesty wore ono of the identical bone
nets and commanded two of her ladies
to do likewise, and within a abort time
he once starving gid was able to move
into oommodious quarters, with an as-
sured income and 100 employes to help
to carry on her work.
Fano), a descendant of the Queen of
Shaba on a bieyole 1 It certainly
sounds a little incongruous, yet it is
nevertheless a fact, that the Emperor
Menelik of Abyseinia, who claims this
distinguished woman as one of his fore-
bears, has ordered a bicycle, with all
eery and the storeroom. Presuming the modern improvemente from a well -
that she has hese domestic fields in known Coventry firm. In what cos-
whish to labor, her plain duly is to
tume King Men6lik and lits retinue
see that they are duly and properly propose to ride about Adowa and the
cared for, or she cannot alntm 10 he neighborhood is unfortunately not
described as a true woman. But, as known, but it is to bo hoped the ubiqui-
the Iord chief justice truthfully re-
marked, a woman need not abate one
point of her womanliness or lose a
Little of that sympathy of softness
which is her greatest charm because
elle may find it necessary to seek some
other avenue of occupation, either for
the benefit of herself alone or for the
advantage of others who may be de-
pendent
o-pendent on her. ,(18his foot is too often
overlooked by women workers, and, on
the, other hand, it seems to be too fre-
quently forgotten Lhat there aro hun-
dreds of women in the great arena of
SLOW
BUT SURE.
Swim Iku,lier* Operate According to And
glinted Methods.
Some of the methods of banking m
Switzerland are sufficiently antiquat-
ed, according to our standards, For
inetanoe, it requires fifteen minutes,
in which to make a deposit at a bank.
Every banking house has numerous
chairs outside the railing. and the vis-
itor is expected to sit quietly and cul-
tivate a spirit of patienee while the
machinery is getting under way.
A customer who wishes to make a
deposit goes to a window and hands
in his money, together with amemor-
a.ndum, of the amount. The employe
behind he railing counts the money
and prepares a receipt: for it, adding
his signature by way or preliminary.
A small boy takes this receipt up-
sCair8 and submits it to an official,
00aieut, almost invisible support, that who studios it and Chan ponders for
totes kodak will ere long satisfy our
curiosity on this point. It will be ex-
ceedingly interesting to see what man-
ner of dress suggests itself to the
Abyssinian mind, as being suitable to
wheeling exercise.
PAUPER PRINCES.
Curless* Tures For the Worse or the 'Wheel
or Fortune.
It was a curious Creak of fortune
the world of work who aro every 181 which recently made a pauper inmate
as gentle, as thoughtful and tis woman-
ly -there is no other word that is ade- of Ely workhouse of a mu who had
quate-as those who "hem pocket hand- once ruled over it as its master, or
kerchiefs." The great mistake that which brought a marchioness, desti-
has been made all along has been to • treat women who sought other fields tate and ailing, to seek an asylum in
of occupation as hybrid beings. Un- the St. Mary's union workhouse, Righ-
doubtedly the so-called "new" or "em- gate, England,
ancipated"' woman is often objection- A few weeks ago an abject creature
able, bub perhaps she might have been in rags fell dead in the streets of
less "now" had she not been persist-
ently assured that she had divested Paris from the rupture of a blood ves-
herself of every shred of W0manlin088 set. On his body were found papers
by seeking to improve herself and to twhich proved that the pitiful wreck of
The ideal woman, in the
find employment outside opinion of the o the house. humanity was Count Auguste G. de
lord chief justice, 18 sho who, never la 'four, member oL a dielingutshed
forgetful of her sex, ever mindful of family, who had fallen on evil days,
r--0-0-9-0-O-i--O^0-0-•-0-r
Young Folks.
I-4-4-o-o 4^0-0-0- 4
IIOW MAMMA KNEW.
It watt almost time. Polly sat on the
next to the lower stair with her el-
bows on her knoos and her chin to
her bands, and waited. Her oyes were
fixed on the they door that would open
la a minute to let the birdie out.
"O, I'm glad Merle O'Ratio gave
mamma the cuckoo -birdie elock 1 It's
such fun to hear him sing, en' Bee
him come out a-hoppin' I" she murmur-
ed contentedly, Then she jumped up
a -hopping for the tiny door woo quiv-
ering, opening-
" There he is i" cried Polly excitedly,
" Sh l"
'twelve time the cuckoo -bird sang
" Boo -coo, coo -coo" in his sweat, clear,
little voice. It was a regular little
concert, Tben he disappeared again
behind the tiny door.
Polly drew a long breath of disap-
pointment, If he only would stay out 1
Uncle Horatio had given mamma the
beautiful clock several weeks ago, but
Polly didn't grow a bit tired of hear-
ing the bird " sing the time o' day ' -
no, indeed I She hurried home from
school to' bear him say that it was
twelve o'olo(tk. The " third -readers" at
Polly's school got out at half -past els-
is quickly arranged and Beatty bunt
to foam new designs in arches, curves
and artistic effects about the Bummer
houses, windows, porches and summer
baloony arrangements.
The wire is oheap and durable, and
000105 rn widlbs varying from nine
lnehes, to six toot or more, and eau be
bought for a cent or less per square
foot. 'ospeoially when Nought lu quan-
tities.
Do you want a trellis for your sweet'
peas? What is so convenient and dura-
ble, says an exchange, us woven wire?
Do you want a low hedge? 'Iben the
two -foot wire is what you want, Do
you want a screen instead, to shut off
some disagreeable view ? Then use
the six-foot wire, and if your pea blos-
soms are cut every day they will soon
nod at you from .tire very top of oven
a -nix-foot trellis.
Do you want a bank of nasturtiums?
Then sow the sited in a bed two or
three feet wide, and after the plants
a leaf under the operation. Begonias
are well up and have been wood-
ed woe or twice, drive down on; eaoh
side of the bed little stakes about two
feet apart; those at aaeh one of the
bed about six Inches high gradually in-
creasing the height from each end to
the middle of the bed till several of
the stakes aro about two feet high, Over days the elder Mrs. Gladstone will
this low arab spread a strip of woven make her home in London. with her son
wive the width of the bed, securing Eeerbert and be oared for and nursed
to the tope of the staites with tiny by her unmarried daughter, Helen,
staples that acme for the purpose. p C suicides in
Have you a door who80 at ells would, The largest proportion o u
prove ,l pleaaartt retreat could they 1p0 European countries �ie to b0 found.in
sheitorod fron'r the glare of Lim suutnt5r Germany,
the delloney and grace that belong to and who had tried in vain to keep bd ly
be understood that it is assumed she and soul together by selling pamphlets
a while as to whether it will be safe
to take the money. If he decides that
the Lank can undertake the risk he
passes the receipt to anuthor mart, who
prepares a duplicate slip and makes
several entries, and finally signs his
name.
As soon as another man has examin-
ed the receipt and added his uamo, it
is taken downstairs and turned over
to the deposilor. There is one satfs-
faotion-the money is thoroughly de-
posited.
OUT OF HER HOMII.
Good old Mrs. Gladstone Is uo longer
mistress of Rawarden Castle, and. the
Weer henceforth is etc longer her
Meuse. That is uu intimation which
will come in the nature of Something
of a. shock to all the many admirers of
England's grand old man on both,sides
of he Atlantic. There has been a
oousiderable amouht of "friction and
unpleastmtness iu the Gladstone fam-
ily since the old statesmen's death,
mainly in connection with the disposl-
tion of his estates and in the control
of the properly, bad feeling being en-
ine minds of the sane and
genderedth
daughters of Mr, Gladstone by the al-
tared position in which the widow of
his eldest sols -namely, Ron. Mrs, Wile
Ilam Henry Gladstone -has been plaoed
by Itis death, 11 le probable that
henooforth and for the remainder of her
it, aver sympathetic, and once let it
will be all this, though she works in the streets.
abroad instead of at home, though she I Soareely less pitiful is the fate, •
may mend broken limbs instead of I month or two ago of Ladislaus illier-
stookings, and wo shall find that he ,
"new" woman is after all the true zurniaki, who in the nighties wan one
woman. Again, many of the women of the must idolized singers in Europe.
workers who are strong in all woman- earning fabulous sums and living in
ly instincts have to suffer through the almost raga! style.
questionable deportment of their less .
refined and gentle sister workers, who ! Alter a few years hid voice failed,
seem to think that because they work and lee had to abandon the stage, and
side by side with men that they become rapidly sank into he most abject pee -
more companionable to their masculine ! arty. In this aondiLion, ragged and
co-workers if they assume a "hail fel-
low well met" manner and keep them destitute, the former idol of hdurope,
selves conversant with the latest slang. was found by a friend and installed
Such woman may be popular for the' as hall porter at a hotel at Cannes,
moment, but they rarely wear well, where in the days of his fortune he
end the self-respecting man does not
live who will not tire quickly of a wo- had lived as a prince.
man who defiles her womanliness by In August last a woman was buried
gamins. had been within a measurable die -
ilia use of language which is only as- fn a pauper's grave in Bulgaria, who
socitited with street
von. It was more fun at neons, for
then he sang so long, you know.
To -day was a holiday and it reined
and mamma was over helping to take
care of poor Mrs. Mifflin's elck baby.
There wasn't any fun but the cuokoo-
birdie, and -0, dear 1 -he wouldn't come
out again for hall an hour, and then
just to say "coo -Cool" once. And he'd
only say it once at one o'clock too -
and at ball -past one 1 Three once's all
111 as row -O dear 1 Then Polly thought
of something splendid.
"I know how to," she cried, chipping
her hands. " I've seen mamma. It's
just as e-asy I You turn the hand round
with your forefinger--0-oo I"
She dragged the step -ladder out of
the library and climbed up to the tiny
door. She opened to big glass door
under it and began to turn the hour -
band slowly round the clock's face.
Row often the little bird came out,
a -hopping 1 Rote he did sing I It was
beautiful, just like one long song 1
But just as the hour -hand passed by
half -past eight, Polly heard mamma
owning up the steps outside. She clat-
tered the stepladder bank into the lib-
rary, and elm stayed there, too.,.
Polly felt queer. She kept feeling
queerer all the afternoon, and it was
such a long afternoon! Everything
wont wrong, and the queerness felt
so queer 1
Almost an hour after Polly went to
bed, mamma saw a little pink outing
Gunnel night -grown, creeping into the
sitting -room, and the first thing she
knew it was up in her lap.
" I meddled, mamma," whispered Pol-
ly's sorry voice, "I thought 'twoutd
be suoh fun -but it wasn't when I'd got
through."
Mamma looked grieved and sorrow-
ful. She rooked the little pink night-
gown and stroked Polly's bright hair
above; it, for a long time without speak-
ing. But how her face talked to Pol-
y" I meddled, mamma,' reviewed the
sorry little voice with a ebb in it.
" Yes, dear I knew it," said mam-
ma's grave voice.
Polly's eyes flew open wide. " You
knew it? Why, mamma, how'd you
know ?"
"A little bird told me." mamma said,
quietly.
" Oh f" -_
Although the Countess of Minto has lanae of wearing e. crown. At Bel -
been in Canada but a few months she•gradu 1'erdinnud Kinaxy, the confide
been
already very popular. Shc to a • ential friend and adviser of Prince
beautiful woman, and is endowed with Ferdinand of Bulgaria, fell under the
groat grace of manner. Her excellency spell of her alarms, and she induced
also hes the advantage of exquisite him to foment a rebellion against. his
taste in gowning herself. Though prince, in sho hupo that as his wife
nearly 40 years of age, she looks muoh she might succeed to Lho 11 80u0.
younger, and those who mot her a dos- The conspiracy was almost ripe, when
en years since, when her husband, the Kinsky died suddenly, and he fair con-
epllatbl was 1
ex pelled from Bulgaria.
Lord Melgaird, was acting as Lord She quickly fell into absolute want,
Lansdowne's secretary, say that she and after some years of terrible pri-
has not changed. She is fond of out- stations, diad penniless and heartbruk-
door sports, rides, skates and cycles, en at Pasoloff.
and is an accomplished artist. The 1 Many a career which ()petted full of
Countess of Minto is a sister of Earl ; brilliant promise has came to a Had end
Grey, and granddaughter of Earl Grey in Australia, but none more patbetioel-
ot the reform bill fame. The Minton ly than that of Prince Czetwertinski,
linea five children, all under 14, and : a nobleman of Poland.
these young people are ultraoting al -1 It was Monte Carlo which robbed the
moss as much attention as their par-' prince oLfortune and position and sent
eats, as there has never been a young him an exile to New South Wales. He
family in the government house be- i died in the most abject puverly, and
fore. The eldest, Lady Eileen, was ;the prdni a now tests in 5. pauper's
born in Canada, She is a beautiful 'giave.
that tbey must be making a noel. And
sure eneugll,aswe found oat after-
wards, they were lining the neat with
a eke i
tam4
oth
the t white
hair,t m
sof
and beautiful for heir babies. Now
If you will open the package which I
have mailed to you, I think you will
find something In it which you will like
to add to your e0116c1100 ref fleets,
'Your loving Grandma."
Ralph opened the package pretty
quickly after finishing the letter,
and there inside the, box, attached to
a small brattish of a tree, was a little
round nest beautifully made, and with
the inside completely covered with salt,
white hair, woven so thee It formed a
Part of Lho dainty bird -cradle.
""IW'egrandpa's hair," Ralph exclaim-
ed, as be ran to show he treasurer to
mamma.
And do you wonder that all the
members of the family considered that
nest the ohief treasure of all Ralph's
collections.
PARSONS AT SEA.
nee Feeitnge or nhlppera al Elavin0 Mlerlea
I'aa*e$era Aboard.
Merchant skippers almost without
exeoplion have a great dislike to hav-
ing parsons aboard. Navy men, owing
to their respect for the queen's regu-
lations do not care to talk on the subs'
jeot. The commanders of big 111161'8
are also rather shy about discussing
the subject. I once wished ane a plea -
ant voyage, says a writer in the
Churah Gazette.
" Pleasant voyage l" he retorted Saw
agsly. " That's, likely, ain't it, when
there's three persons shipped, and' one
girl, with much of her mother's grace
of manner. The children are delighted
with Canada, and are anticipating .he
best time they have ewer had in their
lives. The question of what Lady Min-
to will do with regard to Lady Aber-
deen's public work has not yet been Russia, who was in the zenith of hi
answered, but those who knout her say power when Chilkow was 0 railway
that the woman workers in Canadaguard hi England disgrarcd himself
may feel sure of her sympathy and
and 'fell into such depths of destitution
Prince Chilkow, Russian minis! et; for
railways, began life as a mechanic in
Liverpool, and in turn became a rail-
road guard and station master.
By a. serious inversion or fortuue, one
of the most distinguished officials in
patronage. That she should do as
muoh actual work as her predeces-
sor is scarcely to be expected, for the
social duties that. devolve on the gov-
ernor general's wife, aro numerous
enough without the addition of any
such responsibilities as those assumed
by Lady Aberdeen.
Queen Amalie, the beloved Queen of
Portugal, is as eminently practical a
woman can be. The story of
her study of niedioino in ord-
er to cure the ill health of
her, husbuld, caused by obesity,
is well known, but few knew that sho
worked for her degree of els D., in the
most democratic manner. the attend-
ed classes at the university at Liebe'',
took 0 hospital course, and, it is re-
ported, has on various occasions prac-
ticed .her procession. in an emergency
Or fol' the benefit of the poorer of her
suhjeots, Queen Amelia is also an
adept at millinery, and hat) a. room sot
apart at the .palace, where hats end
bonnets are continually in process of
being fashioned, Not long since, when
out driving in he streets of Lisbon,
Queen Amelia observed a largo crowd
surrounding 80500 object. The foot-
man dispatohod to the acerae to find
the cause of the commotion report-
ed that a young woman had fainted,
The queen alighted ft'o01 her carriage,
had the girl carried into a neighboring
shop and applied restoratives. When
she revived suf(dolently the queen re-
moved
her to her own home and
Inquiries as to llor history, It appear-
Catiingt tohfInd gill
employment, t, had Von -
that he eras glad to earn his bread as
a porter in ,t business house in Ger-
many.
of hem a bishop?"
Here his feelings became too much
for him, and he called to the steward
Lo refill he glasses. I was not sur-
prised to hear that a oylinder cover
blew off in the bay.
Silting in my olub one night, askip-
per came in. 1 shook him by the hand
and hoped he had had a good voyage.
" Voyage l' he replied, in heart-
rending torsos. " Don't call it that. I've
never had such a dog's time in my life.
Got two parsons aboard at Sydney and
another at King George's Sound, and
blame me if two mloeionariss did not
join at Colombo 1 Sooner than sail with
five parsons again, 1'11 break an arm
or a leg and get put ashore.
But to see the prejudice in all its
glory one must talk to the masters
of ocean tramps. I have known of cue
case in which' a skipper feigned ser-
ious illness sooner than take command
when he found that five missionaries
were booked as passengers, and two of
them ladies.
As it happened, the ship bad a partic-
ularly bad voyage, and the unlucky
missionaries had more than one very
near squeak for their lives.
Once e, case was quoted to me as
showing grout presence of mind and
seamanship on the part of the skip-
per. The ship had a couple of parsons
aboard, and as the crew expected, the
voyage was disastrous. The misfortunes
culminated in the decks being swept
and three men washed overboard. One
was a parson who ought to have been
below.
After this, the woathor suddenly
abated, and the ship came safe to land,
I remarked that the parson ought to
have been under sho hatches.
" Ah l" replied the old seedug who
told me. "Cap'n S. is a good roan. Re
talked it over with his mates, and
there seemed nothing else to be done.
So they got him upon purpose. Better
one man than a whole company, and
he parson ought to have been pre-
pared, while it weren't in reason that
the whole crew should be."
Skippers have told me that, danger
apart, parsons are not desirabio pas-
sengers; they interfere too =oh. One
told nee that the wife of one clerical
gentlemen insisted on holding little re-
ligious conversations with the stew-
ards and the crew and giving then
tracts Lill they nearly had a mutiny.
At length he found her trying to
improve the moral condition of the
A Wedding Telegram,
'r' The
Jano was going to be married.
oonlraot wee all ready to be aimed
that very evening, and the notary,
with her finance, were to 60505 downs
from town by he eam0 train in time
for dinner. Jane's father lived in the
oouatry, but as the bappy groom -chat
vies never known to be en. time in
any of his appolnt aintIa, Jana's papa
had privately sent off a telegraphiA
dispatch halt an hour ago saying to
the young man. " Do not memo too
late," e0 now all was in readiness,"
The eventful night had come, the
guests for the ceremony of signing the
contract had arrived and all wan pre-
pared. The little bride to be began
to feel nervous as he hour Brow near
for Jean's arrival. Wheels on the
drive 1 She flew to the door. The not-
ary alone had come by the 6 o'clock
train --no Jean. Twenty limes at least
she had gone to the end of the long
terrace to catch a glimpse of his ap-
proach, but nothing met her view.
"Bah," said her father, " do not fid-
get so, my ohild; he will Dome by the
8 train; bo is very charming, this
lover of yours, but he is always late."
" Oh, papa I"
"Yea, yea, always behind. time."
At 8 o'clock, they sent again to the
station, but no Jean was there. Din-
ner was served without him, Jane try-
ing bravely to be cheerful with her
gueets, but as the hours passed' and
no lover appeared she could bear it
no Longer. She left the room and ran
to the end of the terrace, where she
could weep to solitude, but a young
cousin -a fine looking fellow had fol
lowed her, and said gently, " You
weep, Jane; Jane sobbed. out: "Oh',,
think what an affront --horn can I face
all hose people?"
" Do you love him so much ?"
"No, not so much now; but I wan
happy in being married; alt my school-
mates at the oonvent are married at -
reedy.'
Jacques smiled. " Never mind," said
he, " we'll find another husband for
you."
" You think that so easy? Papa was
a long time selecting Jean."
" But suppose I know of another ; eh,
little cousin I"
Jane answered joyously: " Ah, then
1 should quickly give Jean hia dismiss -
at; but, oh dear, when I think that
all the arrangements are made, that
to -morrow the wedding guests will be
here -I feel as if I should die with
shame, I wish I could—"
" Foolish girl, there is no need for
that ; to -morrow you shall' be a bride;
there will be no excuses to make to
the guests; the bridegroom of whom I
speak will ask nothing better than to
marry you at unoe, for he loves you.
he has loved you Lor years, nut did not
dare to telt his love, because, he be-
lieved that you loved the other, and
if you marry him to -morrow he will be
the happiest of men." Struggling with
emotion, he ceased for a moment, then
said softly : .
" Little cousin."
" Jacques."
" Well?"
" Well, I do not regret this, Jean,
I will not give him another thought,
Bring your friend here."
Jacques took her hand. " Have you
not divined that it is 1 who love, who
adore you, who has loved you for years;
I know I am not a sentimental fellow
like the other, but my heart is yours
alone,"
Jane thought for a moment, then said
WR.t.T GRANDMA STINT.
Ralph Rogers woe making a collec-
tion of birds' nests. He had become
interested in watching the birds while
studying about them iu school, and
when his vacation came he began look-
ing for birds whenever he had an op-
portunity.
Kb1urnod a great deal about 'the
habits ofiha different kinds, mid how
Limy constructed their nests. Then
later in the stetson, when the baby
birds had learned to fly, and the nests
were of iso more use to the bird) fami-
lies, he began his collection, He would l shade. before ?
h 11 brunches of the tree Lillis° I�:gg'loston was a good-looking never Because a Jana w as rich and I poor.
PEART, OP GREAT PRICE.
Five hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars Was the prion paid for the great
Tavernier pearl. It was originally
owned at Califs, in Arabia, and hf.
Tavernier made the trip from Paris to
the desert city of Arabia for the ex-
press purpose of purchasing the pearl
about which so much had been said and
written, Ho went prepared. to pay any
price from £1,000 td £1U0;0011, Ili ' was
thought that he might succeed in alos
ing the bargolu for about 1`15,000 dol-
lars, but this proved. lobe a great mis-
take. •The 0uin first offered was 50,000
dollars; but the deal remninedopen far
scene days Oven after that offer .tad
been increased to 375,000 dollars. Fin-
ally the bargain was closed for 550,000
dollars, Pearl conuois0eur8 declare
that it is not Duly the largest, bat
also the most perfeoL gem of its kind
known, being exactly two inches in
length, oval, and of spotless Metre.
Among the Drown jewels of England
there isa pearl over an inch long and
egg-shaped, which oosts the Govern-
raont not lees than 500,000 dollars.
AGAIN,
I know, pleaded the little bride,
humbly, that I make a good 'natty
gratnnaattoal errors.
They are n0111ing, said the young
bttsband, to ihoee mother Ostia to make
l
steersman, when he ibreabened t. hat quietly, " Jacques, I believe .t is you.
if he naught her abaft the funnel I have lovod'after all, without know -
again he would put her in irons, after tug 11, for out you spoke just now my
which she subsided. . heart beat with joy. But (tome, let us
• go to papa -the notary is here; there
is nettling to do bur. change the name
TATTOOING AN EYE. in the contract, and to --morrow we wilt
The scientific world is watching with be married. We will leave directly ai-
ler the wedcliag breakfast, and when
interest the result of a surgical opal's- bite outer 000100 he will find me (10118.'1
lion recently perforated at the London l'hey laughed together like ebildroa,
EInspital, whereby a young w001an's and run to explain matters to her fath-
eye, which had lost its color by disease, er, who wan 001 quite so ready to ace
has been tattooed back to its normal ' 00P1 the situation.
S''hY, you stupid follow, did you
over speak e.ore
Dui down the oma rune tri of nineteen when thelefI side of ;
which the nest wan hung, or dig up . used, I3u1, viewed'
But now
cm her ince was exp " Now, I, 100, am rioh. 0. distant re
from the right side, quite anoth• er pie- helve, has left me all his fortune of
the bit of sod or moss ou 0111011 it rest-
ed, and in this way his nests made a
flee showing, Ills collection was penis -
Lure was presented, or at least nt rv0.e 20000 francs, wbiob enables me to ask
before the surgeons tack her in land• the hand of Jane without being regard
Her right eye was almost colorless and ed as n Fortune-hunter."
e
d by the older members of the family,
dfi tired besides by a number of
was is gua The father speedily beeamo recon -
and by his teachers, until Ralph began salmon patches an the cornea.
Al the diose of his vaca(ionl he wrote on Dec. 20. After a carafes' examine- saying. i p 'p
Lo take a great deal of pride in it, She was admitted to the institution oiled to the change of bridegrooms
All s repared
the prios>'
elou letter to his grandmother who tion the alIliotion was diagnosed as will be here to -morrow, and the mar -
(1 priage will take place after all -and
lived in the cowitry, telling her how ata be lama, u 1118 300 which had Dei` when he other,comes how furious he
he bud !earned during the rummer giitated in the iris and had wholly re will Lei Rut he will be as he always
months. placed the cornea. is -too late.'
Of course one of the main things Lottie begged that the surgeonplace 1'he happy couple had just drivazl
Mut he told her about was his calico- should Lake out her eye aid replace wooly from the house next' moruiui
hadon of bird's bits
Hit out.
d low he it by a glass one. The surgeons re- when a nolo was brought to the obi;
thrown bits of string out on the fused. But under the guidance of Dr. entleman, with rvhtoh visa enclosed
lawn, and thea had watched the aria- Thompson the salmon -colored' patches a telegrnphio blank. 01 offs lis"awn
los dome and take them and use them
to weave into heir nest on the end of
the elm tree boughs. Then oboe the
orioles had loft the neat he had cut it
down and kept it.
Grandma always enjoyed Ralph's let-
ters, cud she enjoyed this one especial-
ly well, because site know at once the
sho could 'give hila a delightful 8ur-
prisa.
About a week tater Ralph received a
totter from g.r0n2nta, 01101,10, the same
mail Was a Strong, 8qua08 pasteboard
box dlreoLed to him.
Ralph opened the letter and this is
what it Said:
"Dear Ralpht I was very glad to re-
ceive y moth ourletter, and very mh inter
acted in your collection of birds' nests.
And new I hove it story to tell you
about a bird's nest. One day in the
early sumutor grandee was out on the
side porch having his hair out. Ralph
remembered what beautiful silvery-
white hair grandpa had. 01 course the
wind blew the hutches of heir out into
the oracle, and a little while afterwards
we Milked that a pelt of stall birds
were malting frequent, trips from a tree
near by to .lie geese beside the porch.
Then we saw that they wore (tarrying
may the bunches oC heir, and we knew
on .the cornea were easefully out away
and replaced bar pieces of equal sire
taken from the cornea of a rabbit. The
transplanted pieces united in a few
days, and .Lottie's appearatto0 was al -
reedy much improved.
But the surgeons wished toimprove
the large white cicatrix whleh was
disfiguring the cornea and iris. For
this purpose delicate tattooing needles
were seeptally made channelled for In-
dia ink.
Lattices eye was made insensible to
pain by cocaine, end Indian ink was
introduced into the white cicatrix by
a number of prinks with the needle.
Before long the cornea and iris were
diffused with the proper tint, The
operetio,t Ives satisfactory and bliss
Eggleston was able to leave the hospi-
ial .next day with a right eye which
so nearly corresponded to the dark
brown left eye, that nobody would be
likely to notice the differences.
A GALLANT.
Lady -1 think you ere the worst leek-
Ing tramp 1 over saw,
7 ramp-Dladana, it's only in the pros-
mute of ullettMl0Ou beauty T look so
bad,
d[spa Loh.
Be read the letter accompanying it'
and rubbed his bands.
"No wonder he is furious, poor fel•
low I I cont him a message, thus: 'Do
not cones too late,". and the opera-
tor made it road, thus: "Do not dome,
too late,"' -From the French of Maxie.
Louise Noren.
NATURAL BORN,'
Be -I wantt you to understand as
woman ever made a fool of the.
She -Indeed I Who did it, then it
An Ti:nglish 1pep00 tette bole the Arche
bishop of Canterbury, some time age
entered an Vast lend, London, ohttrck
during a weelt-uigbt Malec% and,
taking a book seat, joined in !tinging
0 s heroine
one of Moody and Sankey
Next to him was a avnrkingman who
was singing lustily lu tuna. The Pre,
mate was wretchedly out of trine, anti
his singing evidently upset the work..
in(1man, who patiently endured the.
discord as long as he could, and the*
nudging the Archbishop, whispered lit
his ear; "'Ere. dry up, misther; you-
're 'spiting the show 1'