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Towards seven enema on a summer
evening in July, E,osaiine eh'ouid have
been helloing' .bor mistress in the
' dairy, instead off which she was sit-
ting under (bitshadow of the big wa-
ter, barrel., at elle lcitohen dour and.
writing teener sweetheart. She wrote
to tell 'let tow she end been given
(save to go, home next Sunday, and she
did not stop to cunsider that elle was
at ibis very moment risking the loss
of her halide?, by rotting into dis-
grace for negloot of duty. But it
was not Hosanna's way to think of
more than one thing at a time, so as
It occurred to her that John When,
Who. had called about the loan of a
buy shaken•, night peat a letter for
her' as he went home, she acted upon
the idea without further reflection.
She bad her paper spread out on the
barrel stand, and craned her curly
angles as she
unlikely
Road over it at g
nn to meet her at
enjoined Dined
Dan ]llcCle
Bunt's, in ICilbracken, where the gig
would drop her next Saturday even -
4i
body's load tbat it would be better for
them to gel. together a tow pounds be-
fore they sot up housekeeping, Roe -
none now said to herself that she did
not see any evasion for it; She Won-
dered, too, what sort of a girl Maggie
\Venal, her stepsistot', who had Just
oomo to live at home, was apt 1.0 be.,
She. heti a presentiment that there
would be lithe love lost betweenYthem.
However, tett didn't mu h sign Y
by reason of Dan,
,through three or four fielde Res -
Mule passed without. meeting any-
thing to interrupt these cogitations.
Now end then the voices of home -going
hay -makers were waited over a bodge,
and a belated cornerake was heard
from a long way off faintly "ereak-
creaking." The shadows lengthened
silently all about, and the sunlit in-
k to
in-
terspaces seemed as they sheen
jewel-like in their glinting
grow more
t corner
d res In a sheltering t
of on n
g g.
a largo olive -method frog started up
out of the tangled grass, and went
log. flugiug himself on before her in a
Meanwhile the dairy warp had been tang series of expanding leaps; but
going on well enough without her, l at last she almost trod on him as he
Mrs. Conroy had a pleased smile when stopped and sat suddenly squatting.
ole saw the ripe yellow arcane earl AL the same moment somebody called
eo oolbly up under leer skimmer, and
added it to the ride eantents of her
great wide-mouthed gathering -crook.
She thought they would lave u grand
churning to -morrow, and at least 8
dozen pounds of butter for Saturday's
fair. But when she had finished, she
recollected that Rosoane should have
been there to carry the pigs their sup-
per' of sour skim milk; and after call-
ing her in vain several times, she sent
little Ned to Tial her, and bid her
come along out of that this instant.
Ned delivered the message with the
pithy addition: "n
le'e raging;" and
coin frightened baste Rosanne finished
addressing her envelope with wild
biota, and overset the ink bottle, and
rushed away to fetch the bucket.
When she reached the dairy she was
relieved at flailing nobody there to
scold her, and, still burry -driven, she
filled her bucket and ran off with it
across the yard. Roseau° rather liked
seeing the pigs at their supper, they
wriggled so all over with enjoyment,
and s11e now leaned against the sty -
door to watch them. She begun to
sing Norah Creina, but in the mid-
dle of the first verse she stopped
abruptly, A frightful misgiving had
suddenly sei.zed her, come she knew
not. w'hcnce. She leaned forward and
looked into he trough; she snatched
up bor bucket and examined it care-
fully ; and then she perceived that she
had indeed done a dreadful thing. In
her baste she .had emptied the wrong
crock, and bad thrown a week's gather-
ing of cream to the pigsI
Hone dreadful it was she could esti-
mate by the pride her mistress took in
the row of rich, yellow-toppedmilk
which she
surrounded pthem,ions her rvwrath if any
clumsiness imperiled them. What
would tbiit wrath be now? Rosanne
made her mind up all in a minute not
to face it. She would run away home,
Ce uaa no such great distance across
the fields; she might get there, she
supposed, before it was quite dark.
She thought her father would be glad
to see her, and, if so, her stepmoth•
Br mast perforce acquiesce. But at all
events there was Dan McClean, who
would be certainty "as pleased as
enythin'," and make much of her and
take her part, whatever happened—
D an's stalwart frame held up the
whole fabric of Runtime's future. Be-
yond a doubt she had lost her chance
of getting a holiday in any other
way, she thought, as she raced at full
Speed back to the house. For she had
ao Lime to hesitate, as the discovery
might at any moment prevent her
flight. Luckily, almost everybody
was out in the hayfield, and she got rip
to herr attic unpreoeived. There she
collected her 'few most cherished pos-
sessions—the rest might be fetched
afterwards—threw on her shawl and
once more 'dared the °reeking, clatter-
ing stairs and the passage that led by
the awful dairy door. Fortune still
favored. her; she escaped all their perils
and was presently sorambling through
Ile gap in the briery hedge into the
meadows at the back of the hay yard.
She ran all the way through the first
field, because sero had such a vivid pic-
ture in her mind of whet might be at
that very minute happening within
doors. She could almost ser Mrs. Con-
roy's face as she stared into the empty
cream croak and hear her terrible call,
loud and peremptory? 'Rosanne!
Rosanna 1" The mare thought of it
made her scud along like a rabbit.
But at the end of the field she heard
real vetoes, for the haymakers were re-
turning to the house, so she slipped
out of bleier way behind a smooth -sided
haycock. When they' passed she stole
bank to the Loot path and on again.
About llilorumlyn farm the land was
all dawn in meadow, and the fields were
bordered by thick bosky hedges. 'tall
cocks threw shadows nearly across
some of them, and the interspaces were
very goldenly green with fresh -spring-
ing afiergrass, under westering sun-
beams. On others the newly -mown
swaths still lay Mlle soft' waves, and
the shorn sward underneath was paler -
hued, not having had time to thrust up
auy young blades sauce the sweep of
the scythe went by. Along under the
hedge the roinuet: of the meadow made
a fringe witb feathery crests, de•ooping
and creamy plumes, tall stalks that un-
furled w'htte sunshades, and here and
there a scarlet poppy. The drops of
an early shower still twinkled beneath.
them, and Rosanne's crisp pink calico
skirt grew limp andbedragglod as o
brushed by, But site did not herd this,
thereby, she wasn't sure that she
much regarded—her new hat, with Its
wreaths of our•lous buff and crimson'
malls—rested safely on bit head, and
her head was full of proocoupying speo-
l: ations, She began to think that per' -
taps, after all, no such harm was done.
That is to say, it was, of course, a woful
pity about the beautiful cream ; but,
Por the matter at looting Nor place
thereby, shit wasn't sure that ale
wouldn't as lief ne not quit being in
service. And she thought it as like (18
not that when she came home this
way Dan. McClean would again Lake
up tho notion oetheft getting marled
after' the harvest, That wits what he
had wanted todo:in the ging, tiller
stepmotihor he'd tort put it into, every -
her naive loudly Diose by: "'Rosanne,
Rosanne."
A Happy whits sunbonnet was look-
ing at her over a gate in a hedge, a
little way to Lhe right ; and in it she
recognized her cousin, Martha Reilly,
who lived near' them at home. "And
where might you be off tot"" Martha
said, as Rosanne+ came up to the gate,
"and wid fine grandeur on you," she
added, referring to the rose -wreathed
bat,
"Sure Tm just streelin' about a bit,"
Rosanne said, with rather confused
unconcern. She regretted the encoun-
ter, and was not at all disposed to con-
fide in Martha, wbo had the name of
being "the greatest ould gossip you d
meet in a long clay's walk," 'It's n
fine warm evenin'," she continued, to
account for ]ter stroll.
"Warm enough, bedad,' said Martha,
"you might say so if it was in the hay
you'd been, I come up yisteeday to
work above at Hilfirthy s, and I was
mania to run over this evenin' and see
you, on'y southing delayed me. And
what s the best good news wid you this
long while!"
I dunno is there any news in par-
tio'ter, bad or good," said Rosanne,
with a guilty ' I could an I would"
in her mind, as she thought of the pigs
supper.
'Then yes haven't heard tell about
Dan McClean9" said Martha, suddenly
craning her neck over the topmost bar.
"What about him' at all?" said Ros-
anne, with a great start,
"You haven't heard?" Martha re-
peated, in a balf-incredulous tone.
"Can't you tell ate 9" said Rosanne.
"I'll come over to you—just wait?"
—said Martha. She launched her
pitch -fork across the gate, and began
to shale its many bars with remark-
able agility, She bad scarcely Dripp-
ed to the (;round, oh Rosanne a side of
got the best lad on the townlan-n11 y.p,y®•,
,vyl r gO 1
were swept away from bor, end in their
places
rage n
subsided, elle eco all, c.ir 1 several Things
boll it, and those who do not object
to boiled lea find that the tett gets cold,
h
eat
r to
e t
flood o. e
seethed a fl, i f jealousy.
I while wailipa for th wa
and despair. As its first. rush jhc t ' ibdt. is seeded to weaken it. Ws triol
that seemed like disregarded warnings v ' i an asbestus mat, but found that It en-
uC Martha s news, Silo had wondered
0010 and again than Ilan had never
managed to getover and roe her be-
tween this rind Easter; and than the
hat time old Biddy Doren from his
plane was up al the farm be hadn't
sent e'er =image by her aL all. The
reason was plain enough now. And
with that, Rosanne bethought her of
the letter which she had sent by John
Guinn, and whiob miglrt be delivered
by tine time. Perhaps Dan was at that
minute of time laughing with Maggie
Walsh over the suggestion that be
should be wasting his evening slreel-
ing off to meet Rosanne Tierney at
I{ilbraokan. Cock her up. This pits-
Oibility was the cruel little barb of mor -
intention by n'hieh the et'usbing bulk
of her ntisdortune naught bold of her
mind, and she raged herself for baying
ignorantly wrought it.
To be Continued.
it, before she said: "Ho s tooe up wid
Maggie Walsh, that s what it is,"
"Took up wid her?" said Rosanne,
staring up stupidly' at her cousin.
"Ay, bedad, and so he has," said
Martha, "but it come to my knowledge
on y last Sunday. About gettin' mar-
ried they are after the harvest—he and
your stepmother s daughter. And
he be all accounts as good as promis-
ed tenon, Rosanne 1"
"Who was toiling you see He
never• set eyes on her Lill she mune
home after Easter. Dan s no affair of
mine. I don't believe any such thing,"
said Rosanne, rattling the rusty bolt
of the padlocked gate.
"Sure they was all talkin about it
after' mass," said Martha, ''and that
evenin I taxed file young feller's
oomin home, Earn(n' money for your -
mother wid it, and she didn't deny it.
Ooh, Rosanne, bub you was a fine fool
to let your stepmother pack you off
to service that -a -way, wid Maggie just
self, bedad I 'Deed now, what notion
she had in her minds as plain to see as
the sends in a ripe gooseberry. Puttin'
you out et it was the way she d have
the ohanoe of gettin young Dan for
her own girl—and that a what she's
after dein' on you."
"She•s welcome," said Rosanne, des-
perately.
"Cob, that s just taikin', Rosanne,"
said Martha. "I was spakin about it
to your father on Tuesday. I'd ha'
thought he'd be none loo well pleas-
ed, but be said nothin agin it. I sup-
pose she had him persuaded, poor man,
And Dan s mother was axin' me had I
beard tell anythiu about a young chap
was 000rtin' you up here. Mark my
words. that s the story your step-
mother s been Puttin' into their heads.
But I tould Mrs. McClean there wasn't
it loture of ?truth in it as far as' knew,
And there isn't in 000rse l" Martha
said, glancing again rather suspicious-
ly at the grand hat.
Midi Scare
By six o'elock my story had been told
to the superintendent of police, wbo
was called oat of his bed on purpose
to hear it. Thanks to the description
I was able to give of the fellow, both
be and his wife were arrested about
a week later at Liverpool. The man
proved to be a very notorious charac-
ter, who was "wanted," for curtain
other offences against the law, perpe-
trated in the south of England. To
--Wral6'' '�46. eouraged too much soot, but after a,
Sketch of Rosa Bonheur.
Alphonse Daudet used to say that
the people who ilii the real work are
rarely seen, and this remade applied
TINE OF THE HEATHER,
INTERESTING NEWS FROM SCOT*
LAND'S BONNIE BRANS.
NO 1'11ZS, I time wo Stumbled upon the idea of set- especially to Rosa lionliour, who died me Houle or seotuan reople and None
Pies—and, all other good things—aro ; tang, the teapot down into the teaket- recently in France. In no country is or Interest resin England's Northern
appreciated by the gond man, but they tie where tho strain from the boiling it mere difficult for a woman to apply Stemmer'.
make Loo much work in hot weather, water beneath brewed it Just right borscht to an art or profession than in Tape very extensive farm of Nary-.
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writers a subscriber. Why, i eau Pre and Si/100 then we have adopted the 1"ranee, the result bring that thereu,ro Held, which includes tlo grouter part
'mo it I !Vann. Be careful the nooks do not m±toy women writers who have hid- of the, Island of Bressay, and has aeon
pare' a bat•h of cookies in the L' 1 flare up and You may u8e the oltc gest den thea' identity under maeculinc held for the frust twenty -live years by
taken to make one pie, What =am- I chin' or silver teapvl a round-bol'
a re with a r 19beat, although a flat mime's, They find this necessary for the Marga;s of Londonderry, as aSllot-
Lina appetite would se quarrel one m teapot es , ug pony, breeding farm, has just
Plain pudding for dessert? And that i �'+: may be used if it is largo enough; the reason that. women are not token land
to cover the top and set Cirnely. When, seriously, for though the French are beonalot to Mr. Anderson Manson, who
and a mgingecl for to or supper
w c a : making, tea Lar dinner, the teapot ranis also an extensive and highly sten of gingerbread for supper could level.,
upon the top of (be dinner ketl.le, gallant, they will not grunt the women eessful brooder of Shetland ponies, The
De put into the oven as quickly as the , but it must be made five minutes Pur- the right to rival men in arta and laro-
ome pie that might not be enough to ,liar as the heat le nut so effective. \Ve fessiutia. Madame Tibnheur, bad at blooding of these hardy and uaefullit-
makea
our cotter when using the oil twined dislins tion, howxver, by hr- ire horses is an important tndusigrry In
the Shetland Wands; and the great
coming a master in her. craft, and bit improvement that bas been effected en
aehLevements were largely due to al- the breed withitr the last quarter of
most the absolute reclusion, which elm a century has been in a large measure
kept fibs was only known in publio ciao to the careful and skilful system
d L d
terry at Maryfield, most of the pr n-
cipal prize -winners at the National and
hi,m punishment was meted out in
due course; but the woman was ac-
quitted, and it is chiefly from her af-
ter'-oanfession that I am enabled to
supplement my ewe narrative with the
following particulars.
The woman in question was a native
of Westerfield, and tad at one time
been employed as housemaid at Stan-
dish, the seat w the Derome family.
She had afterwards gone to London,
where sbe had fallen in love with and
married rt worthless scamp, who in
days gone by had been a gymnast in a
circus, but had latterly taken to more
dubious modes of earning a livelihood.
At length the hue-and-ury after aim
became so hot that he determined to
go. into close hiding for some time to
come. In this emergency his wife be-
thought hetrsedf of the vault of the
Deroenes in box native town as a likely
spot whets her husband could lie by
till the beat of pursuit should have
soanewhat slackened. Ser residence
at Standish had made her acquainted
with the existeeme of the vault, and
she was aware that the big old-faeh-
ioned key always hung on a certain
nail in the armory. Having been
somewbat of a favorite with the house-
keeper at Standish, it seemed only na-
tural, when she returned to Wester-
field—where •she gave herself out as
a widow—that she should go up to the
Hall to pay her respects to that per-
sonage. The opportunity was uCi-
lised by her for purloining the key,
which a second visit, made on some
pretest or other a day or two later,
enabled her to replace on its nail be-
fore it and been missed.
By this time she had engaged hum-
ble lodgings in the town, and her
husband had taken up his quarters in
the, vault, where he had a sufficiency
of blankets and warm clothing, not to
speak of a frequently replenished
brandy flask, to keep him from suf-
Loring from the chills and damps of
his strange demloile. His food, which
was bought in small quantities at din-
ger aronne. atter a,t, 'Pia pies, no , stove somewhat after the distilling
steamed puddings that need three i process. Put the ouffee.and hot wafer
hours' fire, no fussy dishes for me , sntu it glass jar, and stir well, seal
during the summer menthe. Leave fair tight and set the jar down into
the doughnut orock empty till Nevem- the teakettle, tlo on the cover and
I buil the teakettle 10 rmiuutas; the cof-
bar and see if you can't keep the , fee will be delieiuus, as none of the
stron.gcr sex as well as your own half 1 aroma has been allowed to etwape,
of the house plumper and happier oe a
P p 3
e
• cooling, alai rooked diet,
more oo ng, on
dfush for breakfast instead of the
dearly loved fritters. If cracked wheat,
Put in the oven over night with
feron't shops u the town, so as to
avoid suspicion, was conveyed to him
by his wife at night; and as he knew
exactly wben to expect her, he placed
his lamp in trent of 111e grating as a
guide to her through the intricacies of
the ohurchyard, the light being shut
in at older times by an extemporis-
ed curtain. Both the man and his
wife were aware ,that that side of the
churchyard was overlooked by ono win-
dow only, brei: as they never saw a
light in it, they! had come to the con-
clusion that the room to whirl it per-
tained was unoccupied. But not
every night did the lamp shine
t'hroagb the grating. Sornetimesthe
man met his wife at the low wall by
the river, where there were no rail-
ings, and where easy access could be'
had to the churchyard by day or night.
It was only When he wee too lazy, or
otherwise disinclined for stirring out,
that the signal was down; whereby,
as we have seen, came his own undo-
ing.
It would seem,tbat in the course of
the man's professional °erect he had
more than once personated an ape in
a pantomime, and that he still re-
tained the tight -fitting hairy dress and
mask used by frim for that purpose.
Tired, and no wonder, of his ung days
and nights in the colmpany of the dead
and gone Deromes, it had seemed no
more than a pleasant relaxation to
the fallow to soar° and terrify the good
people of Westerfield as they had nev-
er been terrified before and never
have been since. When funds be-
gan to run law, an easy mode of re-
plenishing them was found in the con-
tents of Lady Deere's jewel case.
Doubtless means and opportunities
were not wanting for disposing of the
diamonds and other gems which came
into his possession on that occasion ; in
any rase, none of them were Lound on
him at the time of his arrest.
A few last words and I shall have,
done. Not only wear the rewards of-
fered by Squire Dallisou and Lady
Duero paid over to me, but t'be towns-
people subscribed among themselves a
further sum on my behalf, so that, al-
together, I was enabled to put away
more than a hundred pounds into the
saving -bank. Throe months later 1
married. My tether lived for' sonic
years longer, and although before his
death he name to understand that he
was the last utentbnr of the Solditoh
family w'ito, was likely to till the post
of aixtein to the old abbey eleventh, he
was never gn(ts reooncilod to the ne-
cessity, neither gould he be made to
understand why his only son should
have so Lar degenerated as not to feel
a pride in following in the footsteps of
so many of his progenitors.
As long as be lived, Mr, Aysnough
remained myyyr true friend, and to him
I owe anAlclt of the prosperity with
years have happily
winch my toter yea
been eraten°d.
Tho End.
Dl OOM,
R BATH IN A BEDROOM,
A
,vAl?o >3
h
Plane, a par] three parts filled with
boiling water under a chute with a
cane seat. Have ready two hot brake
plenty of salted water, and did you which have been treated in the fire,
know bow delicious rye mush is, aero- Place Clem gently In the pail of water
ands eft down upon oho chair, covering
ed with batter and boiled molasses, oneself entirely with a blanket, let -
maple •syrup, or evtlnhoney, with milk ting the latter fall round the ebair so
to (drink instead of coffee? Fruit for that the steam may be kept. Have
dinner's dessert, after an abundanee of a warm blanket ready at the and of
half an hour, and wrap round one, Got
into bed with it on,
WASHING LACE HANDKERCHIEFS.
vegetables, and sauce for lea, unless
bland mange be preferred, will help.
In one household of eny acquaintance
there is no attempt at other dessert
than berries And cream during their
By pointing lace bandkerclliefs in
season, Whore a variety is raised in warm, water in whirl are a few drops
the home gardeln this is desirable. 1 of ammonia, and using Carlile soap,
wouldi far rather serve them fresh in th aro easily washed find made a
hot weather than to preserve them for
the whetter months, when it would be beautiful, clear while. Rinse well,
easier to cook extras. When the
then do not Lion, but spread the hand-
easier
tires of theme raw, stew them. kerchief out smoothly an marble or
Mice makes a delicious pudding,
glass, gently pulling out or shaping
either cooked alone with milk, or with the lace. Just before it is entirely
eggs and raisins, apples or berries 1 dry, fold evenly and smoothly and.
added and served with spiced, nutmeg, 1 kind., and youa will f d handk t'chiem%s
sugar and cream. For u change use lasting thrice as long as before,
"Maybe there is, and maybe tbere
isn't," said Rosanne, defiantly, It's
no affairs of anybody s. Let other peo-
ple mind their own business, and I 11
mind mine. And let them plass them-
selves—the pack of them—end they'll
plase me. I dunno which of them s
the greatest liar; but its little I
trouble moself about them. And it s
time for me to be runnin back, or
else I'll be too late. So good -night
M you kindly—Dolt, don't be delayln'
me, you ould toi'mint 1" Rosanne
whisked the corner of her shawl out
of Martha s detaining grasp, and ran
away down tbo field. Aa she went
she struck up Norah Creina, and sang
it lustily as long as she thought. her-
self within hearing; but her mind was
not at all occupied with that gentle,
bashful heroine, The sun had disap-
peared behind the rounded tops tof
o
Drumareo Woad while she talked
Martha, and the vivid lights had gone
out among the haycocks and hedges,
ll,vel'thing had grown dimly green,
soft and cool, and when she left off
singing, not a sound was to be heard,
But herr _thoughts wore Inflecting
through, do scorching, hissing, whirl-
ing chaos into' wbioh this thunder -bolt
of tidings had shattered the world be-
fore her. Dan, and idle little house of
her osvn, Mad love and trust, and a fine
Wedding and the Aylesbury ducks Mrs.
Conroy promised. her, end her pride (n
old Tim Donagb's remark that she had
entire wheat flour instead 01 graham
for the breakfast muffins. 1lieeipe 4
Make a soft sponge of the reheat—,
salt, warm water, wheat—and when it
is risen thicken with flour and leave
to rise again. Drop into muffin tins
and let rise again before baking in
quick) oven.
Rise with the sun, prepare the three
NEW STORY ABOUT PATTI.
;Frere is an amusing and characteris-
tic story about Adelina Patti, who, as
all the world knows, recently became
the bride of Baron de Cederstrom. Af-
ter .her marriage she went from her
by the picture whirl Achille Fould of seleation followed bo Lof on an-
t
.Intunted of her, in whiob she was re-
presented in male attire, causing many . bred bygbe Lordship during his long
at she
People express he ;Winn th
pe a to a lees t o
1 1 i p
tenancy at N r
Y
c a field
scu-
musL be an eccentric person of m a pZr, William Gillespie, who for over
fine disposition. As a matter of fact fifty years WAS an official of the Cale -
there was no more womanly woman in donian Railway, and who retired within
France. She was the daughter of a the past two months from the position
painter, and had been devoted to that of district superintendent at Perth, has
art from her obtldhood. As a child
she was full of life ; in fact a romp,
d oft preferred to bide in some
received the following letter from Sir
an an pr .e Fleetwood Edwards, her Majesty's pri-
uiet corner and paint pictures of ani- vane secretary:—" Balmoral Castle,
4 June 17, 1809,—Dear Sir,—Tho Queen
male, which she pasted into a book. has heard that you have recently re -
Sive was born in Bordeaux, in March, tired from the responsible position
1822, and went to Parma in 1829. Her that you have for a long time ooau-
early days were sad. Her mother pied in .the Caledonian Railway Com-
pany. Her Majesty also understands
died when she was eleven years old. that your duties involved your personal
Her father was ruined financially i attendance for many years in conneo-
shorti afterwards. She was then' tion with the Royal train. The Queen
sent to a boarding school, where her ' desires me to forward for your accept -
passion Los art slowed itself in a die -
mark
a framed portrait of herself as a
taste for other branebes of learning. mark of Her Majesty's appreciation of
Her father, receiving complaints that your services and the share you bave
she would do nothing but draw, took taken in arranging for her comfort and
her home to study with him. Animal
life then interested her more than any-
thing else, and the Paris slaughter
houses was her field of observation, a
fact whiob showed no little courage on l with their graves in the Aberdeen
her part. Sho used to spend wholeCemetery are now approaching an
summer clays there amid rough and
brutal men and animals about to be
slaughtered. The brutality of the
butchers was a tribulation to her un-
til one Eugene Gravelle became ler ..clean" lairs had other interments
ciamplon against the insults of his
fellows and fought some heroic Lights made in them. Up till the end of the
safety. Believe ma, yours very truly,
Fleetwood Edwards."
The investigations by private lair -
holders with regard to interference
end. On Tune 24 a number of graves
were opened. In several cases it was
found that what had been sold as
meals so that a slight fire merely will on her behalf
Welsh \V It
be needed to. Moat the dinner; then a oma, C raig-y-nos, to Canee
n p week 253 graves bad been examined,
F
e afternoon's sun is at its erdinand de Lesseps had great be- and of this number 172 were reported,
when the
brightesttake a nap in the orchard and before leaving she gave instruc- lief in her gonias, and expressed re -
tions that all her mail was to be for- gret that the French people allowed right, and 63 not satisfactory. The
hammock. Don't start a fire for tea. Cannes c -, office. the English to take most of her nese- date of the trial of Coutts, the ex -
warded to the terpieces out of the country. How- superintendent of the cemetery, has not
ever, her greatest picture, "La. La- yet been fixed. A peculiar incident ee-
bourage Nivervais," Is still in France curred at a Menlo in Aberdeen the
at Luxemburg. There is a pathetic other day, which shows the feeling
story connected with the picture. that exists in regard to the Nelifield
When Bonheur was dying in March, scandal, Shortly after the children had
1849, he had this Picture planed at hie1reached the field in which the games
bedside, and with his daughter in hiswere to bo held, a van belonging to
I
arms, passed away in a state of pride a prominent member of the Baker In -
and artistic joy. In the days when corporation drove up with the bread
she lived with her father, who was in 1 that was to be supplied to the pick -
poor circumstances, she often slaved pickers The children raised the cry of
Leomanade, shrub, milk or even cold
water will suit the men just as well She arrived at Cannes, she went to the
when they find it is one of the regula- Post office and asked the official if
turn the machine for you and
hang the clothes out while it still
pours. Try, it; they will be the snow-
ier for it. Use only colored napkins
or•nane, and white oilcloth tablecloths
or oilolotb doilies over oolored table-
olothe. They save 1v:,'hing as well as
ironing.
Don't iron bed linea, and dress your-
self and daughters in dark seersucker
every day—gowns that will need no
ironing. ,Underclothing need no touch
of the lean. Doctors say they aro
healthier.. Have the men 'and boys is.
wear soft shirts that will need no "0h, that's not enough, madame,"
ironing, or if that method seems slack, was the 001d reply; Any one can get
smooths only cuffs and collars. Some visiting. cards of other people. If you
men wear dark flannels everywhere, want your mail, you will have to give
in church, to save the women unneed- ms better proof of your identity than
work. Moreen skirts save laundering. that.,
Thin frocks for barn 'wear keep shirt 1VIme, Patti, however was not to be
sleeves. clean. baffled so easily.
Wear slippers without heels and "you surely have seen Adelina Pat -
don't neglect either bath or nap daily. ti's photograph," she urged. "Well,
Finally, do the burden of the work bo- look at me. Don't you see that I am
fore the supe is high and after it has the same person 9"
set, Seep a cool bouse and think of Even this argument did not convince
yoursolt once in a while. the official, and a moment later he
turned away, after throwing the eov-
01/D-FASHIONED ROOT BEER. eted pilo of letters into a drawer.
Dona. ash rainy clays that the men there were any letters for the Baron -
can ass Adelina de Cederstrom-Patti.
"Lots of them," was his reply. "In
fact, they're coming in by every mail."
"Then give them to me," she said,
eagerly, being naturally very anxious
to receive news from home.
"Have. you any old letters by whiob
I can identify you?" asked the of-
ficial.
' No," answered Mme. Path," "I have
nothing but my visiting card.• Here it
burdock, yellow dock, and dandelion A brilliant idea than struck blme,
Boil until the strength is extracted Patti. It was quite early—only eight
o'clock —and there was no one in the
in plenty of water, one pound each .of Post Office except an old.clerk, who
roots, (half p pound of fresb, lively was busy writing. A golden oppor-
tunityhops and a pint of corn roasted brown. it was, and the great artist
Straus while hot into a huge meat availed herself of it. She began to
g sing. A touching song she chose, the
jar er keg, and add water to make 10 one beginning "r\ voice loving and ten -
gallons. When nearly roil, sweeten der," and never did she put more heart
to taste with half brown sugar and into the melody.
And marvellous was the change as
half molasses, and add four dry yeast! the brilliant mesio broke through the
cakes dissolved in a little warm water. intense silence. In a few minutes the
Liquid, homemade yeast was used, but quiet Post office was 1111ed with peo-
cake' yeast, if fresh and lively, is just pre, and hardly had the singer conclud-
ed the first few notes of the ballad
as good. when the old clerk came forward and
Ain excellent beer for summer drink said, trembling with excitement:—"ft's
lacked the medicinal qualities of the Patti, Patti 1 There's no one but
Adelina P It who could like
b but was more palatable Boil Patti w sing
a _ eve, u that,"
a peak of lean and three handfuls of "Well are you satisfied now?" ask -
hope,, to two GT three gallons of water ed the madam of the official who had
until both sink to the bottom or do expressed doubts as Le her identity, and
not float, Strain and add 'Juke -wane who now stood open mouthed in front
wabetr to awake 10 .gallons ; when the of the crowd. of studies, containing all the sketches
Whole is tepid, add two quarts of mol_ to The onto therdra drawich he er handde wits she her the of ineatile mall stint res48 t and, va ulch are
e. Out-
asses and stir iherougbly. When tergosi.do is a menagerie, containing six
yeast• tion ceases put into the task a pile of letters. horses, isaxds, Cour sheep, ten stags,
yeast cake dissolved in water. Shaktl and does, a number of dogs, a mon-
well and cork. This will be good in
SUPERIOR WOMEN. key, two parrots and Other animals.
four days. Generally speaking woman who bo- Among the horses arc two wild ones
Spring Beer: A peck of birch bark, longto the class who refuse to marry from South America, which are quite
a peck of wintergreens, old and young, unmanageable, and figure in a great
half a peck of sprues: twigs and half far• the sake of marrying are the best clues of horses treading corn, upon
al peek of princes' pine before it flow- of their sex. Some people think they p g p
ere. Cover ,with hot water and boil 20 prefer single blessedness because they whirl she was working prior to ler
minutes or half an hour. Strain and have a "mission" which calls them to death, and for which n firm of picture
to every gallon add a pound: of sugar some useful work or other. No doubt dealers were to pay $00,000, showing
cake of compressed yeast. many of them do employ their time that though ler work has fallen in
and half a p value m l+rauoe, it is still oonsidsred
Da not put In the yeast until the de- with great benefit to their fellow -
worth acquiring abroad. She had
011 n• en is lukewarm, Homey was oft- hive res; still, we think they adwould bean mare tnecoessible to the publics
ern used to sweeten this beer, a pound. have beat willing to marry. h thee
and only half the met one whom they unuld love. Either than ever stare 1E93, when Mademselle
to irvo gallons, Y
amount? of sugar, 'Mlle in a largo jar th.•y are faithful to the memory of the
away as copyist at the Louvre, though ,. Nellfield Bread," "Away with it,'
her superiority made her queen among 1 when they saw the name on the van
copyists and her services were 111 and the driver had no other recourse
great demand, being even required by than to get out of the ground as
the Government. Towards the end of quickly as he could, without leaving
a single biscuit,
That Scotchmen are to be found the
world over is evidenced by the follow -
class medal being then only 20 years inc contribution to the Scotsman;
old, This was only a year before her „
her father's ]Lie she provided for the
wants of the whole family. In 1845
she won the third less medal at the
Salon and three years Later the first -
father's death. In the period between Allow me to give my experience in
1811 and 1851, after the poignant sor- the course of a trip between the pro -
row caused by her father's death had vice of Mendoza in the Argentine Re-
passed, she produced her best pictures,
including the following: "C meras et
Moutons," "Ani,maux dans un petu-
rage," 'Le Cheval a Vendre," "Che-
vaux sortant de 1'Ab reuvolr," "Che-
vaux dans one Prairie," "Vaches au
Paturage.'
In 1853 she painted the "Horse Fair,"
one of the pietures by which she was
best known to English-speaking peo-
ple, whiob was purchased for $8,000 by
a London dealer, and afterwards sold quay. I dined at an hotel in Callao,
to Mr. Vanderbilt for 352,000, at the Eight gentlemen sat down to dinner,
loath of the latter being bought in Seven of these were Scotsmen, the
for $40,000, and presented to the Nev eighth was English. After leaving
York Museum, where It now is. In Callao I met on board the steamer a
1855 she palated the cture son en she exhibit- An- rl orfarian bound for the Guano Islands.
vergae,•' the last picturePursuing my jorney from Colon,
ed at the Salon. After this she ceased
exhibiting, alleging that no advant-
age was derived from that course. Al-
though nearly 80 years of age, at the
time of her death, her hand had not
lost one titbit of its cunning. Since
1855 she .had exhibited nothing in
France, the whale of her work bring
sent oft to her numerous patrons in
England and America, where She al-
ways lead her most ardent admirers.
She lived and worked far 48 years at
the Chateau de By in Fontainebleau.
None but her most intimate friends
were allowed to pass the gates of her
chateau. The ohateau has a gallery
public, Callao in Peru, and the Pan-
handle of Texas in the U. 5, A. On
crossing the Andes to Valparaiso I
found e. Scotsman from Galloway away
10,000 feet up the mountains repair-
ing the telegraphic wires. Just before
starting from Valparaiso to Panama
I met a Highland piper with pipes
under his arm strutting about on the
or cask. This will be ready for use past or the m•tn whom they
in two or three days. Put in bottles
rvftlh patent stoppers and keep in a
aanl etllar.
Hop Beer:, Boil four pounds of hops
throe hours in five quarts of waier.
Strain; acid five quarts of boiling wat-
er wad four ounces of bruised ginger
root. Boit 15 minutes, strain, add four
pounds of sugar and:when iukowarni
add two dissolved yeast 'sakes; let
Mond, 20 hours before putting into
juga•
GOOD TEA AND COPPER.
It is sombwbvtt of a puzzle how to
matte good tan on a small oil stove,
at Acne having room for Only One ter-
tian at a time. Ono ?nos net •t<iele to
aliens, her inseparable friend for 15
years, died amid the devoted attentions
could have married has never crossed anti profound regret of tlho grant
their path. And being; women of the Pointer. Though many artists con -
utmost honor end rectitude, they pm.,- tested B.osns talents, and spoke of bee
Mr "old maidism to merry Mr the as an unsuaoas5ful Lmi(ator of mem-
'
t efforts none ever denied her good -
was indeed the great
of this type:
"Not never verlada iove
sake of marrying. Says a dear old lady Hess, Shc�
sura"," she 55.1.1 10 us, "Ona or two Fvanohwonlan.
men have asked me, but I never yet
saw 'him' whom I could have loved."
Dr. Talmage says: "Two or'adies, each
with its thee occupant, commence rook -
Mg; ane may be thousands of miles
from i:ho other, Through the long
years those cradles are racking toward
pooh other; when they meet there is a
marriage made in heaven.. But may-
be one oeoupant dies, and then? Weill
We have the woman who refuses to
marry."
WHAT IS IN lA NAI,X1L
Old Party -What s you're first name,
little boy.
.The :laid• -•.Moya, sur, I ni named,
arter mo 1addor, what 6 a stsvydoro.
A German army officer estimates
that in the century just a�osing,�no
less than 80,000,000 men have been k it
ed in t^, ar in civilized; countries.
across the Caribbean Sea to the Pan-
handle of Texas I discovered two stal-
wart Aberdonians looated in a small
wooden village selling rump steaks at
2 1-2d. per pound.'
WEALTHY BEGGARS.
The Wealth of Beggars '11* Many Parte of
the World.
The wealthiest known living pro-
fessional beggar, Simon Oppasich, an
Austrian, was born without feet or
hands, and sympathy far his infirmi-
ties brought him a largo fortune in
Lha shape of alms. In 1880, when he
was 47 years old, be had saved £12,000,
and in 1888 be had increased bis Mr -
tune by speculation to £25,000 in cash
and about £40,000 in Trieste and
Parenzo estates. Since then be has
quadrupled his wealth by speculation
on the bourse.
When Tori, a well-known Italian
beggar died last year, bank books,
securities, gold and silver end other
articles, to Ube value of upward of
0280,000, were Mend in bis rooms, His
beirs were 1:W0 nephews, who badbeen
existing in it miserable state of pov-
erty bit years.
A beggar with died in .Auxerre,
France, in 1895, was found to - have
bonds to the value of 1,1'(3,030 francs
in an old trunk and ;0:) bottles of wino
of the vintage of 1790.
The French seam to be a generate
nation, far in the same year an old
woman, who lived 111 it wretched gar-
ret in the Rue de Sevres, Paris, died,
leaving Government securities repre-
senting an annual 101000e of :l',21, all
maids by begging.
A beggar named Gustave Maraelln
Avignon, died in November, 1892, sy1d
left £20,000 in. French Government
bonds, to be divided equally between
the city and lbs • Bureau iii 13ion11
faisa1100, the great Plrench charity say :
day.