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DAINTY DISHES.
Pepper Pot. -Two pounds tripe
fon)" caelyee' feet, orie red peppei
Over with told water, bring slowl
to boil, and cook until the meat i
tender. Take out the meat an
skim theliquor. Cutthe tripein
small bits and 'return it to the li
quor, aelding honing water if need
ed. Stir inoneehalf teaspe•onfu
each of sweet marjoram,basil, an
thyme, two sliced onions, two slice
potatoeis, and salt to taste. Whe
the Yegetablee are ahnost done ad
a lump of butter rolled in foue
drop in some egg 'balls, boil for fif-
teen aninntee more, and serve.
Cheese Oakes.' -'Pres all liquid
from one and one-half cups of cot-
tage .theese, and beat it light with
two tablesPoonfula of creaan and
three egga whipped hard. Sweeten
with one-half cup sugar and flavor
with the juice and rind of a lern.an.
Beat 'smooth and put:into a pie
plate lined with puff paste.' Peke
• in.a good oven until set and lightly-
' -DA-wee
Potatoes ai Cin.-Paaboil po-
tatoes .and peel ell&u. Slice cross-
wise and arrange ia _layers in a
hake dish, 'sprinkling each layer
with salt, pepper, and bits of but-
ter.. When the dish is full pour in
a small teacup of hot milk in which
a teaspoonful of butter hats ,been
• melted, sprinkle the top layer of
potatoes thickly with grated cheese,
and sift fine buttered crumbs over
this. Bake, oovered, until heated
all through, then uncover and
brown.
Graham. Geme.-One cupful of
granulated sugar; half a thaspooh-
ful of cinnamon and the same of
ground nutmeg; one tablespoonful
of land and the same Of butter ; one
eupful of sons' milk or. buttermilk,
in which dissolve half a teaspoonful
of soda; one and three-quarter cup-
fuls of graham flour; one-quarter of
a cupful of wheat flour; two tea-
spoenfule of baking powder; one
'egg.. Mik the spiees with the eugar ;
cream butter, lard and sugar to-
- gather, add the egg, then the milk;
next, the flour, into which the bak-
ing powder has been sifted twice.
This should make a rather stiff bat-
. ter. Bake in gem pans. Top each
with a raisin or two. This will make
a dozen gems, •
Bavarian Crearn.-A quart of
sweet cream, yolks of four eggs,
half ounce of gelatin, one email eup
of sugar; two teaspoonfuls of flavor-
ing extract. Soak the gelatin in
ju.st enough water to cover it for
• one hour. Drain carefully in a col-
ander or strainer and stir it into
a pint of thel»
cree, made boiling
hot. Beat the yolks smooth and
light with the .sugar, and boat into
this the boiling: mixthee a. little at
a time. Heat again lentil it begins
to thicken, but not uneil it &dually
boils. Remove front the. fire, and
while it is etill hot stir in the.ether
pint of cream, which n has beewhip-
ped in .a. syllabub churn to a stiff.
froth. Beat this "whip," a speon-
fitl at a time, into the custard until
it is .of the consistency of sponge
cake batter. Dip a mould into cold
water to met the inside, pour in the
Mixthre and set it in the ice to
• form. When you serve it dip the
mould into hot water for a seeond
oto loosen the cream, but not until
it melte in the least; reverse 'Upon
a chilled glass dish and sorVe with
whipped cream about the baee. It
is .0 delieious snmrher Sunday des -
sere. Eat with angel cake.
Bairn] of Calf's Liver. -Boil a
talPs liver in alightly salted water
and let it get cold. • Then eut into
dice of suitable size (about an inch
in length and nearly as wide), and
for eaeh cupful allow a tablespoon-
ful •of butter, a. cupful of stock, a
teaspoonful of tomato .sance, and
tWO tablealMOnfuls elioneed
olives. Breen) the butter, stir into
it seta,blespooriful of -butter,• and
Stir over the fire eate ,
•add vile:litany' the stock and cook,
stirriag continually until it is
:smooth and Properly thickened.
Now put in the catsup, olives. and
liver dice and simmer for fifteen
:minutes, A glass of blown' sherry
is an improvement and makes a
really elegant dish out cf homeav
ingredients. This salmi may be
• used agethe principal element in the -
:family dinner iferme begins de novo,'
AEI ,here di reefed, with the • \OA e
raw liver. In making it from the.
'leftover portion of a breaded and
baked liver one omits. of course,
'tbe boiling mentioned in the first
,lioe of thh recipe, The cooked liver
is vat into dice end not adeled to
the rest Of the. ingrebents until it
goes ie with the catsup andolive..s
„at the bitd.
SUMMER DESSERTS,
• Fruit Salad Served in Grapefruit,
Shells --Halve grape-fa:lit and
-pink the edges of each hen neatly
after taking out the pulp and rncni-
hranes them in iced wa-
ter while you prepare the filling.
:Cut± the pulp of the grapefruit into
'email bits, taking care not to tear
,or !olds° it, Out the inside e
juicy oeange in the same •ray, end a
-cimplr of peeled bananas into dice.
If you have a few bits of pineapple
they will add ze.st to the salad.
Mix all together with a silver fork,
crushing aer little as may be, and
fill the halved •fruit with the mix-
ture, having taken these from the
water and wiped off the. wet. Heap
the contents high in the improvised
bowls; stick three or four maras-
chino grapes in the top and leave in
the ice until you are ready to serve
the •dessert. They cannot be too
cold. Five minutes before they go
to the table, sift powdered sugar
over ,them and pour upon each a
tablespoonful of sherry wine.
Fruit Salad in Cantaloupes. -Se -
led, ripe melons and extract: the
seeds. Notch the edges prettily,
suiting through akin and flesh. Fill
with the mixture just described and
set on ice for ot 'that two hours be-
fore serving. Then sugar and add
the wine ate directed in the last re -
Although. for lack of a bet-
ter name, we call these "a Salad,"
they are served as appetizers in the
first course of luncheon or dinner,
or as a dessert.
USEFUL HINTS.
• •
To mend torn leavein books
paste over with tissue paper. The
print will .how through this.
A lump of sugar placed in the
bowl of a paraffin lamp will prevent
the lamp from ;smoking.
• A pan of charcoal in the larder
keeps the meat 'and other; perish-
able goods sweet and fresh.
To preventsoup frorn turning sour
add a pinch of carbonate -of soda to
every quart of eoup, and it will not
turn sour for several -day. .
When polishing otoyes add a tea-
spoonful of powdered alum to the
polish and the stove, will keep
bright twice as long.
To thineve mud from clothes
scrape with the edge of a penny.
This will not destroy the nap of the
-cloth end will quickly remove the
mud.
. To remove the smell of onions
from a saucepan or fry -pan place a
little oatmeal in the pan and put it
on the fire till the meal thorches.
Turn out and wipe with a damp
To clean the collarsof coats., mix
a teaspoonful of essential oil of le-
mon with & wineglassful of spirits
of turpentine atm] keep in a tightly-
covIced bottle. A little of this mix-
ture should be dropped on.a flannel
and rubbed over the greasy portion
of the collar.
If starched clothes become wee
with rain on tho line do not take
them down.. Allow to remain till
(IVY. flied thav will retain their ori-
ginal stiffness.
To stiffen neaslin clreeses dissolve
a tablespoonful of gum arable in
three quarts of water. Use instead
of sterch: dry. sprinkle, and iron
in the usual way. ,
To :renovate leather that has be-
come dull and shabby leaking, rub
over with the white of an •egg well
•
To remove marks from wallpaper
rub gently with a piece of dry bread
on which powdered French :chalk
• hits been sprinkled.
• Orange peel .should be -saved, as
it makes a delicious flavoring for
eakes and puddings. Dry it, and
then pound and bottle it for use.
When beating ehairs a.ncl sofas
cover with ft clamp cloth while beat-
ing. road the dust will adhere to the
cloth, and not rise in the room.
When shaking heavy rugs hold by
the sides. If poasible .spread them
wrong sale up on the. erase encl
beat to dislodge the ,dirt, thee
brush eff and hong up to air..
A great beauty expert says that
-nutriment has more to do with a
woman's geed looks than am/thing
else. A mama sterved, wrinkled
fane. siav:s this Indy, cannot be
beautiful.
When washing glassware try
dropping a' 'few drop.s of blue into
eratpsuds, Then wash tIm pieces in
the ordinary manner. You will like
the way the glass will sparkle, and
hew clear it will look after this sim-
ple yet most effective treatment.
, NEEDED.
The rnee - -co ong Intim walked up
to the book 'counter. "I want eornee
thing to keep Me home at night,
shOw me my faults, tell me how to
epeied rev—''
."Ifold onold mac," said the
clerk "yOU'i•e in the wrong de-
partment. Maariage bereau on the
left, three ,eisles
EXCITEMENT.
Husband (ehe,erily)---"Well, love,
have you had a pleasant day?"
Wife -Oh. splepdid! After • I
dressed tile children and get.,them
off, washed the dishes and made
some pies, cleared away the lunch-
eon table and answered some jot-
ters, T .stin had time enough left te
darn my stockings." -
OUTGROWN HIS OAR.
Si you've sold your automo-
bile ?"
"Yes, I've outgrown it."
"Outgrewn iti Do yam mean
you've tired ,of it?"
• "Not at all. "Fee eimply grown
tee stout to crawl underneath it
eny more."
•• SMALL BLAZE..
MaDirbb-"My 'brain is oh fire."
Miss Keen -"I hardly think we
need call out the fire department."
TIIIE WHITE LAI)Ye.
OR, WHAT THE THRUSH SAW.
OnarTER in.--(oost'a)
That night I gloat in another briekfteld
within sight of London, and at ten Oolook
next morning entered the great city., and
walked on, wondering and bewildered by
the bustle and the noise, until I stood
at the foot of Ludgate Hill.
As I stood in the middle of Ludgate Cir-
cus and watched the buman river llow
round in converging and diverging
streams, the embers of my hope died out,
and a eonee of utter lonelineea mum over
me. All that Yeet city round me, all
those,teeming millionof fellow-creaturee
BO near to me, and amongst it all I had
not a friend, not ono soul to speak
For an hour X stood and wateeed the
crowd. No one notieeel me, 021e seem.
ed. to notice anything, alverybody wee
eager, and self-contained, a/2d in a hurry,
On all the faces there seemed to les', the
game grey shadow of are. in all the eyee
there seemed the same cold light of slue
ploMn, and at length I became coneeioug
.,ef a. strange feeling, half shame and half
fear, as a grim fancy grew upon me that
if I dropped dead there ip that street the
men and women I naw would ,imply step
over me without looldug down, and that
my death would make no more lasting
Impression on that awful human river
than the fall of a stone into a troubled
stream.
This was my first experience of London,
and it has clung to me. Ilven at WS day
reould not pags that spot without slily-
.
ermg. as a mac shivers when a aloud
covers the -sun. Londoa people are mush
like other people I know, but the sight
of a Vest and busy crowd is terribly de-
pressing. The huge grey ,CCOnnin Ot Bum
thee infantry, which used to come down
aeon as in the night outside Sebastopol.
did not appear to me nearly so hostile or
tremendous ao the people in the London
areas appeared that day. It was with a
elum face and a 'heavy heart that I con -
tinned my walk towards the poet office.
There was a letter for me, addressed in
•a strange hand. I went out under the
portico to read it:
Dear Sir, -Your sister, Miss Alice Minter,
is very ill, and wishes to see you at once.
Meagre come quickly. Her oonditMn is
serious. -Yours truly.
HBLBar ARMITAGE'.
I stood looking blankly at the paper
after I had read it. Alice ill. Come at
once. Condition serious. Yes, and I had
passed within a new miles of /3edford. And
now Bedford was full forte' miles away,
and I was hither, weery, penniless, feot-
sore, and almost shoeless.
I looked at the poste:dice clock. It wag
twelve noon. / put the letter into MY
Peeket, and aslced the way* to the nea.reet
railway station, There I found a map,
and by it discovered wbat route I must
take. I also bogg10 a bit of string from
a Porter, and, haying fastened my broken
boots together as well as possible, I set
out on my wally at a few minutee to one.
CILIFTit XV.
It was still very Ooze and hot, and what
with the heat, and the crowd, and my
lameneas, I made very poor progreem for
the firet four or five houre. Mut I did
not try to force the pace, Anxious as
was not to lose one single minute of
time. I was yet well aware that it would
tiLX My powers to the utmoet to get
through it all, and that my- only chance
wag to go steadily BO ae not to break
down before the end of the journey.
: X left London by Highgate Hill: pushing
on -thence tbrough Pinohley. Hill Hill, and
allsaree to St. Albans, which place I passed
about six o'olock, and feeling very faint,
sat dovvit by a bridge acmes a little brook
to rest and bathe my feet in the cool
water.
while I was sitting there tiao little girls
• came along the road. They were poorly
but cleanly clad, and were eating bread
and alleles. They glanced at me with sorue
apprehension and hurried bai but when
they had gone some little way stopped,
and after few words of talk the bitmer
of the pair, a round -eyed, Cuddy -fazed
child of seven, came slowly back, and,
ammoaathing me thuidly, hold out to me
her piece of bread.
I took it withoat sneaking, and she,
never looking in my face, ran off to her
sister, and both went skipping and laugh -
lug down the road together.
It was a, little thing. but it meant much
to me. I ate the broad -about four ounces
-took a drinly from the stretun, and re.
sunned my journey. There were still thirty
miles between ane and Bedford, and but
for that crust I think 5 should have died
upon :the road. ,
And I did not want to die, Alice was
ill. and longirtg to see me. I must get cm,
With painfal distinctnese I recalled the
weary hours of Mimes when I had lain
at home, weak and queeulous from rover
and hunger, counting the Melchor of the
clock and liatening for my grieter'ac step.
And she had never failed •to come, nor
to comfort me by -her. coming. And now
she lay sick, amongst strangers, lieten.
ing for me. I looked along the dusty
road, neat half covered by the blue sha-
dows of the hedges, and I tightened the
strap round my waist and tramped dog-
gedly on.
With the exception of the short rest near
St. Albans, I never halted once from the
time I left the city until nearly midnight.
By this time 1 wag just beyond Hailing.
ton: about. twelve miles' walk from Bed-
ford, and belny fairly exhausted, I threw
myself upen a patch of .grees by the road -
Bide with the intention of ticking' a full
hour's rest. But before I had been there
many Minutes X felt a great spot of rain
upon my face, and, looking up, notated
for the first time -that the sky was en-
f,irely overcast, and that to chill wind was
Puffing up the dust in the road and mire-
-Mg the tree under which I lay :to shiver
and sigh.
Then came a low rumble of distant
thunder. • The big ratualrops splashed
flown thicker arid faster, and a faint flagh
of lightning :Mowed impose the fields, re-
vealing for an instant a abouette of
poplar time and steeple against a bagk-
ground of coppery cloud. .
There was going to be a 000 in. Per a
few momente I 'knelt there ei the dark,
thiuking what I had Inatat do, but e
sudden idea, that the lightning inigict kill
me before / lad iteeomplisned Inc +cock
aeon -led me, and I scrambled up and stag.
gored forward.'
Within a minute I wan in the luck of
one of the most tremendoun eternis f have
ever seen. The rain fell in torrents, The
road become a muddy stream, the footpath
almost too geeasy to walk npon. I wag
(Went:heel to the skin before 51 had gone a
furleng. The waterran dowe any breaSt
and beak; trickling from My fingers end
Caseand through the boles lo inv boots.
The thunder buret:over my bead, peal
after peal. with eudden detonations. like
Ole explosion oftheavy shell, and the light.
ning rent and Jlooded the sky from end to
end with blinding sheets and dazzling zig.
zaps of flame, Twice the. bolts 81511010 trees
close by me, rencline and connebine the
boughe and seeding the leaver/ and twigs
about me in showers: Orme the lightning;
seemed to blaze right in tny eyes, so that
X 'could flert see for many anine:es, and
that time a thundereclap exploded, aa I
thought, within a yard of me, with a
Melee Ilide the discharge of a great gun
and a shook that made the earth shiver.
'But throngb it all, fee two awfid hPin's.
I limped end staggered along with -herd
bent low, teeth and hands olenched, and
in my mind nothing but the thought ot
VARIETY IS THE
SPICE OF LIFE
The preparation of appetising and
nerarithing feed icr often a perplexing
matter:, bat variety in food is 'essential
aria the• taoublee of the housewife bave
been greatly leesened by Bovril whieh
is the, moat oonvenient form In which a
eomPlete food can be prepared.' 10. ct,
minute you earl ,Imee Comforting and
nourishing bouillon • or Bovril Tea.,
Bovril Sandwiches, thin bread and
'butter with Bovril append lightly
between, or hot buttered toast with a
little Bovril, are • positive delitlacies.
Bovril tri excellent fot gravies and soups
and a little :used, in reheating meat adds
eitelee piquancy and leaproveg
-2/
Aliee. ill and mieorable, and hoping
against hope for the liOUnd at MY voice.
A little cliter two -I beeed a clock strike
In a village) I was nearing -the storm sub
-
Hided • into hollow rumblings and fitful
flashes, though the rale fell, if anythini.
more heavily than before. I wee not
hungry now, nor thirstyonly faint and
giddyand so tired: that I could hardly
forme myself to drag one foot, behind the
other. I etopped for a minute, and, tak-
ing off the znuddy remnants of ma boote,
throw them into the road, and went on
barefootea, and suffering Boverely at every
stem until at last, more dead than alive,
I passed the first villas onthe south
side of Bedford, just as the docks Were
ehimieg the quarter after five.
It was broad daylight, the rain had
ceased. the sky wee blue and alincet,
eleudiess, and the air was ricb with the
scent of the Bummer. flowers. I had ec-
complished my tack. The night and the
journey were over, and I was in Bedfoad.
X found Mrs. Amite:area thoutaz a few
minutes tater. It wee nCllasI Pero Lodge,
'ad stood in a pretty'garden just off the
male road. I grumped und leaned upon
the gate. The blinde were drawn; the
door closed. Nobody seeined to ,be et.r.
ring, There was no BOA vieible in any
window. The gravel all around the rameh
was strewn with the yellow mails of she
tea roses beaten down by the storm; on
the left a bed of• scarlet poppies 'lunge
their did/ming blooms like wet flags, and
In the littM tbieket, of laburnums a thrueh
was singing cheerily as thrushes only ,do
sing in tbe early morning.
I don't kn,ow bow it was, uor why, Int
now, when I stood for tbe firet tine with-
in sight of the house I had creme so Inc
to find, the conviction suddenly mime up-
on me that I bad come in vein. "Too late,
too late, too later seemed to be the bus -
den of the thrush's song, and the rain-
drops on the, roses looked like tears.
Well, I must .know the: worst. I went
round -to •the side -door and rang the bell.
The door was opened immediately by a
stout, middle-aged WOMan in a servants
dress and cap. She started back in alarm
when elm saw me, and would have shut
the door, but I nut err bare foot over the
threshold and managed to croak out the
wordfs, "X tun William Homer. 34.-- sister
-Alice-is she—P"
The wontau appeared bewildered,
ye and call Micmac," sbe said, holding the
doer irresolutely in her hand. •
"Firet answer my question," said X -"Is
my slater dead?"
The woman looked at me, and I BMW the
BMSWee in, her OYOB, and it was, YeB.
CHAPTDB, Y.
Having read my answer in the servant's
eyes, I did not wait to hear it from ber
line. My sister was dead. What, oould
mere talk avail? Witliont a word I turned
away from the door, and limped clown the
gravel path, between the quenched flame
of the poppy bed and the raimerunhed
sweetness of the mignoriette.' The thrill*
still sang In tbe tree. I heard hie note,
"Too late, too late!" All around me the
world wan hushed in the tranquil still-
ness of. Ole early dawn; all, above me
stretched the liquid bluenese of the HUM -
mer sky. I seemed to feel those things
ns 111 a dream, I reached the "road, turned
to look ab the house again, saw all the
picture as through roa glues, heard a'
steange musing like the song of SWAM.
ing beea, felt the earth heaving under my
feet like the deck of a elan at ooa, and
then sornething otruck me across the tom -
pies and I knew no more.
I had fainted, and had fallen heavily
on my face in the road, gashing my fore -
Y.
When I recovered consciousness r MB I
sitting on the milli, with iny back against
the garden wall, and the eervant kneeling
beside .me staunching my wouncl with a
napkin, and pressing; me to drink from
laiagnida.ss of water she hold in her shaking
aw/alyvetted my lips, and pusbed the glass
"Are . you better?" said a voice, which
Rounded a long way off. X turned my
heavy eyes and saw a tall, grey figuee,
like the Shadow of a woman, standing ee•
tween me and, the trees. I tried to epeak,
tried to rise, and fainted again.
After a blank space of time, whether of
minutes or of years I could not judge, 1
found myself mice more. I was lying on
MY back, and :daring at the ceiling of .n
strange rooin. it was a yellow redline
and upon It vacs a raised pattern of flow-
CI'S end loaves in gold. The eunlight gain -
ted on the edges of the mouldings and
hurt my eyes. 'I ghat them and lay silent
for ca while, wondering where I war, 'try-
ing to reeall my own mune, until there
fell faintly on nre eas the sound of a
bird's song. which eel& , "Too late, too
its, tog later and I realized at once
that Alice WRS dead that I wee lying on
the sofa in the drawing -mom of her mile
tress's house, and that the POrtlY Man
in bleak, gating on -the' edge of a hand-
songe chair and bolding My hand in his,
.w3i0Yilt's(0
adtf°1e%ling was one of shame, me
next feelieg one el pride. I remembered
my Wiled and shabby dross, my shoeless
feet, My weakness mid guy destitution,
and iny heart burned with the 'thought
that these rich people should see mn mis-
ery. and perhaps regarded Inc coldly as
a burden on their charity.
'I struggled into a sitting poeture,
snatching my hand awaP from the doe.
tor, and saicl rudely, "What are Yon do-
igg? Let me go,"
The doctor smiled gootahumoredly,
• "All right," he said; "no one will de.
tain you. Get up and march."
✓ tried to do this; but struggle its I
would I, could -not drag my heavy limbs
front the conch. My bath seemed broken,
xe-, arms hung down like bars of lead.'I
sank. back, helpless, and tears of pain
and mortillaction filled My eyes,
"Clara." said the doctor, iu a rioh,
thick voice, "aak dfrs, Armitage if elle
can_ spare us a, moment of her time."
I lay back upon the oushione aed elosed
I must go my way -X felt that X must
prom on. ,
Tice good widow rearconed with me in
hvGaiiiin. In' .W.ouury geo,,,,canntaolnowo.,uvIdomaicue jet,p14,nicei
that but as a loan. So she Irani, "God
Weee You, my poor boy. Bo good, zny
dour, be geod," and I sot out once again
for London.
• ClIAPTEIt VI.
In the lonelinens ol' the geeret 'oily my
grief hogaM to make itself felt, Day after
day mg I went from 1,110 10 place seeking
work, or,. lay on my bed lie:tonne; to the
distaut roar of the train° and the tollina
of the bells, the ehddowy cloud of sorrow
assumed more definite shepe, and the two
.Q
BAvtal ideas IM, I was utterly alone, and
that I.should never Bee Alice again -never
never, never -took th
suchold upon me that
begat/10 hate my life, to shriek from
(contact With my fellowmreatures, • and to
brood upon the thought of death.
Ono night, as I sat 111 the dismal coffee,
room of the place where I lodged, with'
my head in my handy and. blanknese in
y
mhearan
t d eyes, I grradually became
consciocie of a boy's voice pleading for
t oue chaece-just this one," and of a
gruff vohe, known to mo as the waiter's,
anewering. "no," and "no," and. "no,"
X gnu up and called the waiter to me.
"What's the /natter?" I ticked.
The waiter shrugged his shoulders. "OW,
ole nothire," he said; only a boy as
wante a bed, an
n' 'ae o igre.s to Day fer
it Common enough, teat there 'in oue
businese."
The waiter brushed an imaginary crumb
off the table, and set the castor etraight.
"Where is the lad?" said
"He's gorne out ralookhe fer a .copper,"
he answered. "It's rather lineS, it 10.
'Ceti 'e'a only an 'apenny short of 'is price,
'e In; an"e's been a hour a-tryin' co1.
leet it in the .Strand, 'e 'ave; which no-
body down't give notbire away as .they
wants in London, they down't."
The idea that he einem ?alive .giveit the
bey thIt
e alfpenny dad not seem to have
occurred to the waiter at 5050,1all. I ked
him .to 1)41 the boy back and mend. him to
me.
Thyen I counted mmoneY. I had two
shillings and a penny. tallest I founa
work to -morrow. I should he soon deati-
tute. But tide Was •a cheap bowie, and
the beds Only sixpence, so that I was Still
rich enough to entertain a guest, .
The boy came back in a minute
the waiter. His name WAS Harry Yield-
ing, and be appeared to be about fourtee»
years of age. He was very thin and pale,
and his clothes were coverea with white
dust. I asked him to sit down, ordered
hliiism.stoomrye tea, and waited for him to toll
He had no »arerits. Hie mother had been
dead five yeams. His father, a soldier, dis-
(charged DA unfit for service, had died. in
Dover worklionse mon•th ago, The boy
after trying to millet for a drummer,
and being rejected. owing to a defeat in
his left hand, had lived upon the charity
ot the soldiers in the Shornoliffe Camp Ma
til the provost had expelled him, when
he set all and tramped to London.
He had walked twenty-flve: miles that
day along the dusty roads without toed,
and had sold his waistcoat and mocker-.
elder for fivepence to a Iew clothes -deal-
er. He toldane, with the ghost of it Fenno,
how he had spent an hour in fruitlene
eirolls to persuader the Sew to give him
another penny; and how the waiter in
Gbe coffee -room hnd sent him out to beg
for the same amount. "But," seld he,
with a sigh, "I could only get a halfpenny,
and he 'wouldn't let me until I bed six -
twice."
(To' be eontinued.)
(15e
PREFERS THE COUNTRY.
As a writer of fiction, Mr. Max
Pemberton enjoys great piepularity
both in England and on thie conti-
nent. Thousands ef schoolboys have
3•evelled in The Iron Pirate,'1 Mr.
Pemberton's first great success -
Since then he hes written over a
score of novels which appeal to
lovers of wholesome, exciting fic-
tion.
Mr. Pembeuton; who lives at
Bury St. Edmunds, is of the opinion
that creative wcnk done in th
country is decidedly better than
that done in the town. Describing
his methods, he tes
e sta: "I do my
Mr. Max Peinimr
work between 'eleven .ared: one.
e'elock in the morning and five and
neveh ih the' .eNening. • The two
my - toms. I thd not want to :see the fine 11011.1,'S before dinner are the best in
lady of this fine house. I ratnentbered the
of water. I wished that the lightning had
youne girl who bad refused me a drink
etruck ale dead rather than that I should
live to see the cold glanee that told me
I was an intruder.
• And then I felt a cool, soft hand strok-
ing misy face, and heard a woman'e voiee,
such ca low. sweet voice, eaying. "Poor
fellow! what 'an awful thing! and he ie
but a boy, a mere bov " 1,11,1 I 100ka
up and SeM a tall lady, (tressed au te grey,
and withgeey hair tend grey oyes, who
MLR loaning' over Inc with a look ot ,mn•
tis sadnese, just air my sister did in the
Yeare when X was still a child. .
flay fed rne, and nursea mac,andclothed
me, those kind people, in snite of MY re-
peated proteetatious; and when my poor
sister was laid in the -earth. I felt com-
forted by the assurance that the last
yearic of her life had been made bright
05 le've and tenderness, and that in the
velley of the shadow of death land hands
had upheld and sweet worde cheered her
spirit. • .
I went through :the funeral ceremony
calmly and without emotion. ..1 had no
Pang of anguish at the thought of gny
eister's deathaly spirit eeemed to be
steeped in a strange, unnatural tranquil-
ity. I saw the yellow earth piled up at,
the graveside,., with daiSiefi peening
througli it whore it lay the thirinent. I
beard the dull droning of the parsocee
voice, and the JOYOUS trills and eadonsee
of a skylark's sone filling Mp the paimes
In the solemn eervace. I looked tin at
tha glistening gle.7 ana thought filet the
fluttering bird might be ngy .sieter's .sonl
glorifying in HS TeleaSe fvom the muddy
flesh. I heard, the parson bog forgiveness
for the Bine of onr &ear sister departed,
guM felt tempted .to laugh. It was ere.
tesque; the idea of a more nuth inter-
ceding with Gpd on behalf of the white-
souled, golden-heerted Alice! What mots
there to pardon in her blameless. life?
What Mortalapirit could deserve a bright-.
er crown, '
And then the earth rattled on the coffin,
and the parson closed his book, mal .the
leak sang ont a fitting requiem, one of
joy and triumph for the death 5f a {M-
alan and the birth of an angel, and we
moved away in silonoe through the sheouy
grass, and ainoeget the lichened tombs
where so many of the strong and the frail
ley dead -forgotten ef the sone of men.
That night airs. Aamitage came te cisc
AB I sat in the garden watehing the sand -
/owe play. and laying her hande upon
my shoulders said, "My poor nee, you
ha,ve not yet felt your trouble, and when
it COnlefi upon yen It will not be well Inc
Yo0 to be alone, I have go e through it
all myself, and I know the bitterness of
the trial. You will stay here. We will
foul you work, Promise me thata,
But 51 shook my head and answered that
the day, but I generally get my
ideas when 5 first awake in the
morning. This is all Very -common-
place b t 't My cxpeo'i-
encdl tells me that you can do, in
the country, a good day's week in
three hours, whilet al Loudon you
el° a bad aley's work in seven. That
is why I have dut, myself free from
telepbonee, and gale where the
taxis are ab reet
SHE WAITED.
Olerk-"But yen just bought this
novel and pa:a for it."
Chtsiomer-°'Yes."
Clerk -nes wily do you wish to
return it?"
Clitetorner-"I reed it while wait-
ing for my change."
OBEYING ORDERS.
Employer-r`You' re late again,"
New Clerk ----"Well, you seid you
didn't want a man who watched the
WHAT THEY ESCAPE.
Willie --"Paw, what is the middle
cla ss ?" ,
Pow -"The naidclle, clasa consists
a people who ate not poor enough
to accept charity and . not rich
enough to donate anything."
HARD BUT TETIE.
"Have yea, any rolatives living in
t,he. country
"Ne ; whenever we take oar vaca-
tion we have to pay our board."
A HOT ARGUMENT.
getting. scolded In your
house, now ?"
"Nobody That's just ma telling
pa a few reasons why women ought
bo vote."
Agomioug
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CONFORMS TO .THE..
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MieGNIFICUNT KAIETEUR.
Fall is 741 Feet High,' Four Times
the Height of Niagara.
In the :equatorial jungle 'of Bei-
tish Guiana, so far from the travel-
ed ways that only a few white mon
-perhaps it doien or two at meet -
have even looked upon it, there is
a wonderful waterfall, one of late
greatest natural wonders of the
worlda. It was . diecovered forty
yeaes !age, but so great are the dif-
ficulties of the trip that it hakb.een
visited very infrequently since. A
welter in the National Geographic
Magazine, Mr. L. Kennedy, who
has seen these fauia o Kaieteur,
gives a very piethresque description
of them.
They are upon the Rio Potter°, a,
tributary of the Essequibo, where
Mas river" plunges over the conti-
nental :escarpment that overlooks
the coastal plain. Thevalley
through which the river flowe, be-
low the fall, is quite - impassable.
So far as I knew, no oue has ever
reached the bottom of the fell. Our
way lay up the steep side of the
gorge, along a trail that I could not
recognize nt well, but that to the
Indian is thehighway to Brazil.
The jouraey resembled elimbing
ladder of stone.
At length the top was reached,
and we plodded over the plateau to
.clump of bushes that lined the
brink of the precipice. Through
these we pushed, and stood upon
the edge of a :cliff that dropped eighe
hundred feet straight down beneath
us. To the- right, five hundred
yards away, I saw the fall.
Ibis bnpossible bo describe .the
sensation ef awe that came over
me as I stood there with my single
Indian guide and gazed upon that
hidden we n de r of the world. The
guide was talking in his peculiar
"baby" English.
"Tha Fall of the 01(1 Man," .he
said, "in our talk kaietuk. Long
ago an old man above here had so
many 'jiggers' in hie feet, that he
was no more use. So they tied him
in his eatoe and let him go. He
and his boat turned to stone. You
see him?" It is true that in the
turbulent mass fl,tthe foot a the
fall two boulders show a rough like-
ness to an old man alai a. -canoe.
The fall is eeven hupdvialarid
forty-one feet high, more than four
times the height of Niagara, more
than three times the height of Bile -
leer Hill Monument, two himairecl
feet higher than the Washington
Monument. and thve.e hundred feet;
higher than St. Petteoe Dome. 'Phe
top of the Mettopoliten Life Build-
ing tower in New York is nob se
high by almost fifte: feeb. .
was greatly impre.sset1 by the
noiselessness of the monstrous fall.
A smooth but rapid river, nearly
four hundred feet wide, flows quiet-
ly to the. brink, and turns quietly
downward In' its fall it breaks into
soft white mist, and reache.s the.
bottom in a cha-os of seething
clouds. There is a gentle rear.
Only now and then, from the hid-
den caverns at the bottom, a deep,
thunderous growl arises that gives
some hint of the forces, contending
there.
Above, I could fellow the. colfree
of the Potato for a mile or .1*). be-
tween the trees. Farthee off the
conntry became rolling, then 111011 11-
tainous,. The precipitous banks of
the elver curved in a semicircle,
with the falls at the head. Dire.ctly
belf/W Trif? t'he M1,01. !Ts:Ilea among
huge boulders, its if terrified by the
shock it had just received. The
emay enzlfletcfflo of the goege was
clowned in many plece.s with bril-
liant green moss watered by the
spray. -which constantly ris ree in
cl cls from the bottom of Iittic-
tour. The radiant coler il the
111-0S0 was almost the 01113'
touch T. sii.tw in the Glilft11£6 blIS11,
FROM MERRY OLO MAU
NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND HIS Pr.OPLE.
Occurrences in The Land Thai
, Reigns Supreme in the Com.
inereial World.
There are now more than 9,000
ehildrea in the Dr. Bernardo's
Homes,
Lord and Ledy Sa1isbui7 cote -
heated their silver wedding at Hat-
field Howie,
Benjamin Peaeeek, an octogenar-
ian, shot himself at Rowledge
Farnham, Surrey.
The body of a Swedish sailor was
found hut in a railway' earriage at
Charing Cross.
The body of a well-dressed wo-
man has been taken from ithe River
Medway at Maidstone. •
Serums outbreaks of the foot and
mouth diseiree among cattle are re-
ported in the north,
A earved fent. the work of two in-
mates, has just been placed in Item-
isharn Workhouse chapel.
Mr, John Burns paid a great tri-
bute to the London firemen at a
great display in Battersea, Park. ,
The King has oonierred as. knight-
hood upon the Crell-known journal-
ist, Mr. Edward Tya,s Cook.
John Nagle, a veteran of the
Crimean 'and Indian mutiny, has
(bed nt Colchester, aged' eighty-
three.
Calibaearee which weathecl respec-
tively 10Y, lbs., 73,/, lbs. and 6% lbs.
have been grown at Wool, Dorect.
The profits of the International
Horticultural Exhibition at Chelsea
are stated to be approximately
55,000.
A spike of liquid orchids with
over fifty blooms has been found
growing by the roadside at Greet
Chant, Kent,
The Lardy Mayoress of London
paid ri visit to the Leed• s '1Vfayor
Trolsen Crippleei Hospital and
College, at Alton.
A thief bias visited the crypt of e
the new church of S. John the Bap- L
Web and took 1be0 and a gold watch
itird chain.
A young women named Wright
has been .strock blind by lightning
at Soritheheivele near Bishop Auck-
land, Durham.
yompa married woman named
Frances Da rlington, Copper-
head, hae been arrested for putting
her child in the'flre.
A moving stairway at Oxfoed Cir-
cus "tube" station is one of the
proposals iu the, London FlIectrie
llailwave
A resolution has been adopted by
the Ceravesenel Education Coniant-
tee that women teachers, .shall re-
sign en their marriage.
Henry ICitcheri was sentenced to
three months heed labor for steal-
ing the key oi the fire .emergenea
,t)Xii' 114: Marylebone well:amuse.
While .exenveting in Kings Road, e...
Swanage, workmen came across aai
ancient bargc . believed to have been
buried for over 000 years,
Several di -let -ore 100 Leieestershire
and • Ruthinel connected with
friendly societies, heve resigned as
a protest ilea -lust the Insurance. ACe.
At the Wile -ism. Rose Show the
King Edward Challenge. Cup for
1he best forty-eight blooms was won
by Messrs. Price k Sons, of eel-
ste te
A Citimock-Cieree miner: hes re-
ceived the King Edwarcl medal for
heroism clidpinyod at the Olcl Red -
'regrind Pit disaster on Dec, 1.4th
lash.
Mr. -William Baker. Dr. Berner-
• su ceeesor, eeports that out of
24,000 children \she have ethigrated
to Canada, 98 p el' cent have been
succe.ssful.
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