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The Exeter Advocate, 1889-1-10, Page 6THE. THREAD.. '.OF LIF QR SUNSFIINE AND SRAM delight, seeing to himself in Me flower') ; and all. around -stand coquettih sM. Brea°. On America. him at the sone In pure amniotic greensward awl fountains an parterres of throbbing heart that the wore after all wee shore laid temptingly out with bottnete awl Mr. J'Amee Bryce is e Liberal M, P. of very beautiful, and that he might still be jewelry and metnetic products ; for people happy at lest with who win largely dieburee freely, and many Elisio, ladies bover about the grounds, with fashionable dresses and shady anteoeilents, by no means slow to share the good. fortune of the lucky and all too generous hero of the dey. Hugh mooted the entrance steir ease with the rot of the crowd, and pushed titrough the swinging glasa doors of the Casino. Withia, they came upon the large and spacious vestibule, its roof supported by solid. marble and porphyry pillars. Preeentation of their mods sect:wed them the right of entry to the antes defea, for everything is free at Monte Carlo— except the tables, You may go in and out of the rooms as you please, and enjoy for nothing—eo long as you are not fool enough to nlay—the use of two hundred, European newspapers, and the moio of a theatre, where a spieudid bend. diseou,rees holey to all comers the enlivening suable of Streams and of Gangl. But all that is to =rob prelude. The play ittelf, which forme the solid core of the entire entertainment), takes CHAPTER XLII.—nnum no rAgE., grave an imputation. Helmet bide hie time. That hint sobered bine. , He roneed himself lie must simulate grief. He moat let a pro to Actual eotion at lastIt evo now Per coeventional interval elapee. Elsie was eight, and. Elsie wee +alloy tie 940 1 Toe hie, andhe mob guard her from evil tongues, :twiny thoughthad crowded elm fao. amd. °yen He must do nothing its cone - That single Iwo euclosed, fox Hugh Mae. Pronabwe Etele, a *whole eternity.Seill he might jest go to the station to naeet 0 eeee aue &ewe itemetaf with em ex., her. To satisfy his eyes. No harm In. that. peatiep, rememberb3g_tbeugh by am, atter, Why give the cote at all to the reptile t thengbe—tor decency's sake to put on bia But leoning at itimpertielly, the straight Reek cutaway zone andliie blackest trainees x°44 i -a eliaana the sided. The pronerb iti —he had with him two black awe these of right. aoPesty eppears to be on the whole hie evening suit—end to approeobt aa near the beat penny. He had tried the °reeked to a mourning de eh tete narrow metteme paele already, awe found it weating. Lyieg of his wardrobe nermitted. Bat It wee all t'ac' aft'au Incurs Whim Henceforth, he et hollow, hollow mockery: a. traesperent would be — reasonably and moderately— farce, a mere outer semblance: hie coat koneat raiglat be black, bat his heart WAS blithe Excess is bee. in any dixection. The Ivies as a lark's on a bright May mornieg. He Man will therefore avoid, exceas, be it either drew up the blind ; the ann wan flooding mLt the aide el vi...e8 Or Ylealeee A middle the bay and. the hilasidee with Italian lavish, mum, ot external decorum will be found by average minds the most prudent. On non Flowers were gay on the parterres of he ?Olio garden, Who ould pretend to be thiO, 0 British ratepayer, address yourself 1 Hugh took frora his portmanteau an en. see at setema *day like this, worthy of whi- vetope and his writtng.ottee. With lahleh tete chalk, when the San ehOres and flowers bloomed a,,,,a. itsica, was alive egnme Lee torn ennelope lain. before him for a model, the dead bury their ilea& For him, Oslo 1 he exearciaad Yet 'mat' maa his "eastelneil for nee was oleo again. Re wed. „ee skill in imitating to the letter—to the very enrolee, even—the three and tenets of that more a fresh life, Wtot need to play the bypoerite, beret alone, in his own liked aaered handwriting. But oh, with whet hello, in the prwaey of bee timely ,,,,ao.,,a. different feelings eow I No longer clod but his living love's. She wrote beelelouthert He *mated to himself le the Blateat =met eeeeentewe feebtemen.gamet the inherself, that very morning. Addressedse it wall! Be laughee hilariously. lieshowed was to Warren Reif, he preseed it to his blikiseevpwen wthitenteetrthimmin Used illy : bethudey shwinntue litePnaaeheaya_ffeoevr yottras le:.34,teutEghlsewalintd. kissed it unwonted cere ; for now he mot none In bemtow. Paremiale'hearted Ewe ) 144.0/ ,,,,,,,thy ,,,t lete., "111 be eeet. ete To write to that reptile 1 Whet desoratiou 1 gone one enet" he metenned, with the 14'4'41 /4 4/4keUefl ill°1° lover in. Neel, then I Woad be te royaelf Batt ill was not ler long. The sun had eteen entre: sue thee ne wee amen) Ewe risee, Before ita rays the loser Lotter Fie rang the hell, and gem the onal ans. teeratte Italian intervel, a eervantpreaented hirreelf, ''Y our Italie:le never einem a vulgar haste in azewering belle. Hugh handed him the letter, rev:at:trauma to Warren in a forge a it:ghetto of Eileen londwriting, and meted timely z "This gentlemen n in the pension, es het' Luigi bowed and toiled profueely, "On the memo floor ; uext door, signore' he an- swered, indicating the room with a jerk of his elbow. The /Whin waiter lacks polish' Hugh notea the gesture with British. dim Approval. His totes were flue ; he dieliked familiarity. On the Seine floor—ite yet nutheked 1 And he coratleet gee at him. gorrible horriltle 1 Fer Eleiele mane he mot =one Vane re gret for dead Wumfred. CHAPTER XLIII. —Ae Monett Gemno. Hugh had not had the carriage entirely to laineeelf all the way ; v. stranger got in wish him as Meatone station. But so ab- sorbed was Hugh ha has own thoughts that he heady noticed the newoomern prom:wee. Fell of Elsie and drunk with ivy, he had ut- terly forgotten the man's very existence more then once. Crying and. laughing by tures sre he went, he must have impresaed the stranger almost like a madman. He bed ana frowned- and ehuckled to himself, (meetly as if he had been citeiteeloo; and thougn he sew occesienelly, watt A cam. leo glee, that the streuger leaned, back nen vouely in his seat and seemed, to shrink away Irma him, as if in bodily fear, he scarcely trobled his heed at all about) ee insigniecaut mad unimportante person. Ilk. soul wo all eagrosied with Elsie, What was a visual foreignet to hint, with Elate, Elsie, Elsie, recovered! The Casino gardens wears already filled with loungers and children—go:Mere children, in gay Parialan dresses—but the gaining -rooms themselves were not yet open. Hugh, who had come there half by accident, for want of somewhere better to go to, and who meant to return to San Remo by the first train, strolled casually without any thought to a seat on the terrace. Preoccu. pied as he was the loveliness of the pleee overtheleat to,* bera fairly by sweeten Hie poet's soul lay open to Let beenty, had never vielted Monte Canto before; and evennow he had, merely mentioned the name at random as the Eat thee occurred to hIne when he went to take hie ticket at the San Renee booking -dame Ile had stumbled ri whole> by eltanee. But hewn glad it loll cool It was all Ho lovely. The espeet of the ;pot took his breath away with wonder, And the peaceful oir of en that blue bey soothed amnewhat bis he wite quite certain, Iler loved had atte fared eclipee, no doubt ; Warr4u Relf, like 1 a ShadOW, 134 flitted for a tome* in be- ieween them; but when once he, Ilegh, burst Untie like the elle 'open her eyes otece more, Warren Re; paled and ineffectuel, would ale hie dements/Ina head Ala Wallah into vacancy. gi Metro Belf 1 That reptile—tliet Ter- rain 1 hot I have you now at ray feet -- heel ou your noir, you tweaking traitor. eag fray Belie ee long from my sight 1 hmt wok you aQW, OA the eve of goer vie. toy. Yea think yell have her sale In the beReer a your loud. You'll cnrry her off away from tee to England 1 Fool 1 Idiot 1 Imbeeile Fatecete Toe reckon thee time Without your beetesm There's Melly neap 'tight the cup and the Ilin, (lob away tide eep, any e40teuw, from nettle, Your Up shell never touch my Eitien. Natter is. for seem au d uet for =Meeks. lit brleg we down on your reerrow-benes before me. on tried te outwit nte. Two on pew et that game, nty friemel.—Be aeizea, the bon ater frora the bed, euel diegine,it with a datift =tate cerpetines deer, Trampled it lu CX - Ma frozy under foet for Warren in efagy. The relief from tee grain had emcee too qaiele washolle himself cow with lova and rage, mad with excitement, -drunk with entree and ley and jeelecey. That ere/Ware merry his Elsie, foreeolth Ile &meal 14 A fever of prospective triumph over the proatrate body of We taller: enemy. Warren Rolf, meanwhile, by :dwell next door, was Repine' to himself, ea be dreena azul tp/eked. ewe sober anacerity "Poor Montego 1 What a terrible time ho must devour The clime etiO, elnaes; of the bole. be won and nit neeneing conscieuca 1 entebe ing sole ; " the lusetous glebe of vintneledniulte eenonymena. Ilea he addee in loviom down them 'doe with his dead 13 lauds," he bad celled It himself in thetlFronch : " Let me introduce you now to one twootededrotwnsaanadiligrhante:raltelsaaburbidesn forhim,pretty song in A irift's phi!osopliy—Re re. another. M. le Lieutenant Fodor Reffa. " dthe lines for his on la pleoure, lavsky. of the Rustlers navy." too letevy to beer. Ought I to tell him that them on his palate with mat nAtiefection, as M. Reffelevaky bowed. "1 fear, Monsieur," he old with a courtly air, "1 Elcien olive 1—tint thee:death atleest knee connoisseur rolls good old Medeire lie at his door 2—that lie halt only to answer caused you some alight surprise and discern. ' for poor Mee. Messinger 1—No. It would My thinity bosom Eants for sunlit weters, fore by my courier demeanor in the train this raorning.—To tall you the truth, your attitude discomposed me. I was coming to Monte Carlo to Join ia the play, and I carried no leas a aura for the purpose than thme hundred thousand francs ihoet my body. Not knowing I had to deal with a person of honor, I felt somewhat nervous, you may readily conceive, as to your muttered remarke and apparent Abstraction. .Figure tol yourself my gelation. Sc, =oh money makes one natu-ally fanciful 1 Monsieur, I trade will have the goodneres to forgive To gam the truth," Hugh answerea frankly, "1 was so much. absorbed in my own thoureats that I scarcely noticed any little hesitation you may have happened to expros in your Icoke and manner. Three hundred thousand francs is no doubt a very large sum. Why ins twelve thousand pounds sterting—isn't it, Look ?—You mean to try your lack, then, en groat Monsieur ? ' TheRassan smiled. "For once,"he answer- ed nodding his head good-humouredly. "1 have a system, I believe: an infallible system. I'm a mathematician myself by taste and habit. I've invented a plan for tricking fortune—the only soda one ever yet die:covered.' Hugh shook his head almostmechanically. "Alt systems alike are equally bad," he replied in a politely careless tone. Gambler as he had always been by nature, he had too much commonsense to believe in mart- ingales. " The bank's bound to beat you in the long run, you know. It has the deepest purse, and must win in the end, if you go on tong enough." The Rassisees face wore a calm expression of superior wisdom, " know better," he anewered quietly. "1 have worked for years at the doctrine of chances. I'vc Jalculs.ted the odds to ten placea of decimals, MI hadn't, do you think rd risk three hundred thousand francs on the mere tarn of a wretched roulette table 2" Great Britain. who enjoys the unique dis- tinction of having written a book about Amerioa in such a way that the Americans themselves have no fault to find with it. The New York Times says that every page of the bocnc is eradiated with "the Liget of a real and kindly sympathy, of carelid anxiety and, not entrequently, the glow of genuine admiration." It is good to know that Englishmen do exist who can write about "the Yankees" and this riew world general ly without that offenstve note of arrogant oondesonalon which infect* irritable people with a strong desire to apply shoe leather with good effect if soraewhat rudely, to their self-aufnalent permute Here are one or two ehort extraota from Mr. Bryce'a book which, will reveal some- thing of the map who wrote it. Be has a chapter on "Creative Intelleotual Power" ostnucleri3in:i! appear these wies words among "There Is, therefore, no reason why the absenoe of brilliant genius among the sixty millions in the United States shoald mite plasm in the gambling saloons en the left of eny eurprise. We might as well woncler that there is no Goethe, or Schiller, or Kant, or Hegel in the Germany of to -day, so much more populous and better edecated than the Germany of their birth time. It is not to be a repioach against America that men like Tennyaori or Darwin have nob been born there. 'The wind bloweth where it listetle' The rareat gifts) appear no man can tell vhy or how. In broad Frog° A century ago no man was found able to spring upon the note of Revolution end turn it to his will, ate brought' favorite from a wild Ital- ian bland that had but just passed under the yoke of the nation to which. ib gave a maaInteren.'other place he puts well -marked phase of American °tweeter in a etmeg and true way as followe it It is obiefiy their faith in publiolty that BLOW BUT OBLIGIAG. ive4 to the American publio their peculiar yesem, naeton -yrho wens wis itoat to ghOopenual04441.4Wdbrotou.OenseinDag aeyvecettiahaeirceiz exalt Everybody, points of their mann, They are always "Lome have their time to but telliegyou that they Oven° skeleton eleeeta, country conveyance)), ran by private enter nothing to keep bole, They know, and are prima, apparently do not nave their time to coitteret that All the world shoed keovr, the inert A little atemner that Plies between won't as well AS the heat of thereeelven They heEe a boundleat feed) in free inquiry and full dieeeesioe. They admit' the pease bility.of any numberof terttporany'errors and dela:one. But to suppose) that a vast Nation Should, after hearing everything, ceavaasing everything, and trying all the preliminary experimente It has a mind to ultImately go wrong by miatalxing its own true interest), nem to them a sort of blasphemy agahot the human intelligence and ite Createn" Ile catieizes Cougreas this judicial and etraightforwardeway. CODPOIDi &OA DOt Ode and illeouleete its orient:iota. It is n morph:ma and. bas little beitiative. deo not focue the light et the Nation; does not warm its itnaguta- don ; does not dramatize principles in the does and eharactera of men. Thia tappets* becalm in ordinary them% It lacks great leaders, and tbe moat obvious MSG 'why it Iona them is its dieremnectige from the Ex. ecutive, An it is often devoid ot such ram, so neither does the country babituelly come te it to look for them. In the old days nel. her litamilto nor Jefferson, nor John M. ams, in our own time neither Stanton nor Grant nor Tilden nor Cleveland ever sat in Cogreen Lincoln sat for two years only and owed, little of his obaequent eminence to his career there." He takes a very charitable view of the realroadKings, for he saysof these magnatee : The Liszt Stiftung ie an institution found. "These railway kluge are among the ed in Weimar, as an act of homage to tbe greateat men—pothers I may say the great. memory of Liezt, by Primus Maria Mho - est men in America. They have wealth, lobe, who has enrollee it with a donation of oleo they oula not hold their poitioue. 80,000 marks, Its objects are tharity and They have fame, for every ono has heard of the encouragement of struggling talent, and them e.ohievernents; every newspaper cbron- its nee.dquartere aro in Viteinter, in the house ides their movements, They have power, that Linat deelt it, and that now contains more power—that it, more opportunity of the oolleotion bearing his name. making their persona' will prevail—than perhaps any one in politiord life except the President and Speaker, who after all hold theirs only for four years and two years, while the railroad monarch may keep his for life. Meauwhile, railroads illnatrate two tendencies especielly conapietwous in .Amer- ion—the power of the principle of anodes tion, which makes commercial corporations skillfully handled formidable to individual men, and the way in which the principles of the field of monarohy, banished from government, creeps book again and assorts its atrength in the zoaroely leas momentous °outwits of induntry and fionce." Naturally the social aspect of things attracted him very ranch, and many of hi reflections on the different menifestedomie the social aptitude and habits in Britat and America are well worth reading. 0 the relation between nen and women he makes the following comparisons: "So far as I have been able to collect views from those observers who have lived in both countries they are in favor of Ameri. can practice, perhaps because the theory is based on and departs less from pure economy than does that of England. These observers do not mean that the recognition of women as squab or superiors makes them auy better or aweeter or wiser than Englishwomen ; but rather that the principle of equality by con reciting the charaoteristic faults of men, and especially their selfishness and vanity, is Among the Yombas of West Africa, who more condttoive to the concord and happi- take great care of their teeth and scrub nese ot a home. They conceive that to make them welt at least three times a day, an old the wife feel her independence and respon- tooth -brush is regarded as a touching pre - 'Ability more strongly than she does in sent, not being so mueh intended for actual Europe tends to brace and expand her char- use indeed, but rather as conveying a sort eater, while conjug.al affection, 'usually of implied message that, as the sender took stronger in her than in the husband, inas- the greatest care of his teeth and used his much as there are fewer competing intereats, tooth. brush continually, so his friend was saves her from abusing the precedenoe yield- also in his thoughts morning, noon, and ed to her. This seeme to be true, but I have night. heard others maintain that the American system. since it does not require the wife habitually to forego her own wishes, tends, if not to make her self indulgent and capri- cious, yet slightly to impair the more delicate An Undignified Position. charms of character, as it is -written, "It is mthoarte blessed to give than to receive." And, continuing the object, he observes "A European cannot spend an evening in an American drawing room without per- ceiving that the attitude of men to women is nonthat with whioh he is familiar at home. The average European man has usually a alien] sense of condescension when he talks to woman on serious subject). Even if she is his superior in intellect), in character, in social rank, he thinks that as a man he is her superior, and consciously or unconscious ly treks down to her. She is too much accustomed to this to resent it, unless it beoomes totelestey palpable. each a notion does not cross an American's mind. He talks to a woman just as he would to a man. of aourse with more deference of manner end with a proper regard to the topics like. ly to interest, but giving her his intellectuat beat, addressing her OD a person whose opin• ion is understood by both to be worth as much as his own. Similarly an American Lady does not expect to have conversation made to her It is just es much her duty or pleasure to lead it as the man's is, and more often than not she Mims the burden from him, darting along with a gay vivacity which puts to•shame hie slewer wits." All which gees to allow that Brother Jona, n efface themselvge feverish exeltemene at the reeraentOas covery that Elaie, his Elio, was still living, Elsie was alive, and he mot be a poet He root up a fortune for himself and for Elide. than has every reason to be plea h serlikewil Mr. Bryon book. the Couto. Farnialted with their indispensable little tioket of introduotion, the three newcomere entered the rooms, and took their place') tentatevely by one of the tablo. The Rue. elan, selecting a seat at once, addressed him- self to the task like one well accustomed to systematic gambling. Hugh and his ate quaintance Leek stood idly behind, to watch outemee of bla infellible method. ' And all the time, alone at San Remo, Wielfred's body ley o)a the solitary bed of cloth, attended only at long intervals by the waiting -women and la.ndlady of the shale by pension. Somebody teethed Ida elbow as he sat there. life looked np, net witheat Roma pteseeng tinge of annoyauen What a bora to be dise,overed 1 ale didn't Want to be des- tarbed or recognized. just thee—at Monte Cerle—and with Winefreil lying dead on her bed at Stet Remo 1 It Was a desultory Leaden club equate. tence—o. member of the Savage—end with him was the man who bad come with Hugh Ip the train from hlenteee. '1' Tidies Matminger," the detultory Sav. age ebeerved coraplateutly who'd. ever thought of meeting you here , Down in the Swath for the winter, er on A 'deb? Como Se he toid the landiedy with a sigh of fwb°11elemrrturnerti 4or m11'401.; rItroue wilh r2 English November, be I Hugh rode up Me mind at ono to bia course of anion; he would say not a. single word. ahead Winifred. "Oa a visit," he answered, with same alight methane:earnest," "1 expeet to etop only a week or two." As r. matter of fact, It was not bis intention to remain very long after Winifredn funeral. Ile was in haste, as -things stood, to return to England—and Elein "leen:clover witb Your friend from Matitono this morning, Lock." "Ansi he took you for a mania, my dear boy," the other (towered with a quiet smile. "I've duly explained to hira that you are not mid, moat uoble Messinger ; you're only a poet. The tonna, though ueerly, aro not eel:Ability be lied he heart that morning te Mete breanfeate Re would se and atm] by the seashore aloe. Everything twee been armeged about the peer signora, 44 Moe grief V' said the landlady, "Leek you, Luken. he eau est waiting," At a eliebby trafterra the Train atreet, he took his breakfast—I: sloppy brealefest ; but the neffee was geed, With the exquitito aroma, of the newly rootra berry, Ancl the fresh trait was sexily deli:ions Oa the liediterratman elope, coffee and fresh frait cover A multitude of due What could you have nicer, now, than thee. green Ben to tit:11161y purpled on the enemy side, and them' small white grapes from tho local vine, nods with their taut undertone of rooky (ea Be mesernenen.) MISCELLANEOUS. Traointoloth is node by varnishing linen with Canada balsam diesolved. in turpentine, to which a few drops of caetor.oll have bon added. Mlle, Popelin, who lately paned Snood. nation for aamiseion to the Belgian bar, has . been deafly adjedgefi ineligible, being a wo. mate One of the greatest innovations in the House of Pe.rliament le the introduction of * bootblack im the Comnaeme oloak room. "He is the firat of hie kind. The hest recipe for going through life ins oommendable way is to feel that everybody, no matter how rich or how poor, needs all the kindnese they can get from others in dm world. The new Star Theatre in Buffalo oat a quarter of a million dollars. It is lighted throughout by electricity and is said to be ene of the most completely Appointee the. etre!) in she country. "What is your oiling ?" asked the ma. gistrAte of a prisoner who had been looked up tor being drunk and disorderly. Primmer in e hoarse voice:" Inventor," Magistrate; "Wheat have you invented ?" Prisoner: "Nothing t but I am trying to." two porn) tee Lalre qbansplaba is oblegingly lex in this respect. Two tevellera whet receetly boarded In in the hope of reaching their destine:doe before nightfall, waked the captain what time he intended to Inert. "Well, I ought to stare in half an hour, bo treturned, 'but yea see there is a fan here, and folks are late about gettin down te the bast." "Thee you don't have a regular time for going I" yes, five o'clook's the hour; but then, you see, we have to show come comeideratiou for folka thet don't get here. Half an bour peasedt during which, the boat ly bolthiag up and down to the tottery of poem:mere Addicted to qualms, and dm whistle at Intervals thrieked. fraud° dia. cornance. Five o'cloek came, end the cap. tale gave the order to move, when a WO. Mahll voice piped, -up from among the pen 'engem: "Coda yea \vele juin a minute bo* Warreni life said he would be here." "Now you know I can't," rernonatrated the eolehearted captain. "I can't make all these folks wait for him. Besides I told. him when I raW him on the fair• ground teat he muat be here at five tharp." "Well, whistle just once more?" And ha did. He wheatled not once, but seven times, tilling the Intervale of silence with protentatione of bia inability to dlettp- point the many for tho ono. At length, ho announced, desperately, and yet reoret- fully: "Well, I'm going now! Nobody can't blame mel rve waited longer'n I coula love been expeoted to." So with ow' parting shriek the little boat moved out into the lake, the obliging cap. tan Mills' ailing hiseyes, and scanning the there for a poteible glimpee of the recreant Warren. be heel= for me to tell bim. He ago me toe muele Be weindetlistera te me. Elsie thall break it to him in lier twn good time. Bus my heart aches for him, for all that, in spite of his cruelty. Illaworat enemy cola is nth Mira no hems now, He must be suffer - lug agotaies of regret and repentance. Perhaps at etch a -moment he might tiocept ecanolerion evenfrom me. Bat nrobably not. I wish I could do anything to lessen this misery for him." Why did no answer come frora Elsie t That puzzled and anrprieed Warren not a little. He had bogged her to let him know Brat thing In the morning whether she could got away by the 0.40. He won- dered Elsie could be so neglectful—she, who was generally so thoughtful and so trustworthy. Moment after moment, he watched and waited: a letter must surely come from Elsie. After a while Engles excess of mania—for it was little else—cooled down aotnewhat He began to face the position like a man. He must be calm; he must be sane ; he meat deliberate sensibly. Elsie was going by the 9,40; and Warren Relf would be there to join ber. "ru meet you at the station at the hour yon mention." But not unless Reif received that letter. Should he ever receive it? That was the question. He glanced once more at the envelope— tern hastily open: WARREN RELE, Esq., Villa della, Fontana (Piano 30 )." Then Warren Ralf was here, in this eeltsame house—onthis very floor—next doorgpos sibly 1 He would like to go in and wring the oreature's neck for him 1—But that would be rash, unadvisable—premature, at anyrate. The wise man diseembles his hate—for a while—till occasion offers. Some other time. With better meana and. more pre- meditation. If he wrung the creature's nook now, a foolish prejudice wonld hang him for it, un- der all the forms and pretences of law. And that would be inconvenient—for then he could never marry Elsie 1 How inconaident ? that one should be per- mitted to °rush under foot a lizard or saa ad- der, but be hanged, by a wretched travesty of justice, for wringing the neck of that mix. leas vermin 1 He statnped with all his might upon the bolster Owe Warren Relf, not then producible) and gnashed his teeth in the fury of hie hatred. "Some day, my fine fellow, it'll be your own turn," he mut- tered to himself, to get really danced upon." .Happy thought 1 If he let things take their own course, Reif would probably never go down to the station -at all, waiting like a fool to hear from Elsie • and then—why, -then, he might go himself and—well—why not ?--ran away with her himself off hand to England.? There, now, would be a dramatic triumph indeed for you 1 At that very moment when the reptile was waiting in his lair for the heroine, to snatch her by one bold stoke from his slimy grase), and leave him, ditoon solate, to seek her in vain in an empty wait bagmoom 1 It was splendid 1—it was magni ficent 1 The humour of it made his in sixth water. - But no I The scandal—the gossip—the indecenoy 1 With Winifred dead in the room belovr 1 He raust shield Elsie from so And looms gle. o el vinemiall lands, Anti chanted polio of freedmen bronze. °hearted daughters, And sacred grasp of brotherly hands. That was :edam' before he knew Winifred 1 His spirits were high. He enjoyed his breakfast, A quarter to nine by the big church olook ; and Shaw goes at 9.40. He atrollecl down at his leisure to the station with les hands in his pockets. Fresh air and sunshine smiled at his humour. He would have liked to hide himself aomewhere, and "sea unseen," like Paris with the goa- desses he the dells of Ida ; but aterri fact intervened, in the shape of that rigid coa tinental red -tape railway system whin) admits nobody to the waiting -room without the passport of a ticket. He must buy ticket for form's sake, then, and go a little way on the same line wine them just for a station or two—say to Monte Carlo. -31c presented himself at the wicket accordingly, and took a first aingle as far as the Casino. In the waiting room he lurked in a dark corner, behind the bookstall wi.h the paper - covered novels. Elsie and Ralf would have plenty to do,he shrewdly suspected, in look- ing after their own luggage without troub- ling their heads about casual strangers. So he lurked and waited. The situation was a strange one Would Elide turn up ? His heart stood still. After se many years, atter so much misery, to think he was waiting again for Elsie 1 As each new -comer entered the waiting room, his pulse leaped again with a burst of expectation. The time went slowly : 9.30 9 25 9.36. 9 38—evould Elsie come in time for the 9 40 1 ,A. throb 1 a jump 1—alive 1 alive 1 It was Elsie, Elsie, Elsie, Elsie 1 She never turned; she never saw. She walked on hastily, side by side with War ren, the serpent, the reptile. Hugh let he pass out on to the platform and choose hei carriage. His flood of emotion fairly over powered him. Then he sneaked out with a hangdog air, and selected another oompart ment for himself, a long way. behind Elsie's. Batwhen once he was seated in his place, athie ease he let bis pent-up feelingshavefreeplay He sat in his earner, and cried for joy. The tear e followed one another unchecked • dowe his cheeks. Elsie was alive 1 He had see)) Eleie. The train rattled On upon its way to the frontier. Bordighera, Ventimiglia, the Roya, the Nervia, were soon -passed, They catered France at the Point St Louis. Elsie was crying in her carriage too—ory ing for poor tortured, heart -broken Wini fred. And nob without menthe pangs o. regret for Hugh as well, She had lover him once, and he was her own °mein. And all the tinae, Hugh •Matteinger, bs his own carriage, was thioking—not oi poor dead Winifred not ,of remorse, os regret, or penitence; not of his sin and th, mischief it had wrought—but of Elate nee bay of 'Menton° smiled lovely to hi, eyes. The crags of the steep seaward semi on te a Bay Martin side glistened and shoe, in the morning sunlight. The rock of Monaco rose sheer like a paiuter's dreso from the sea in front of him. And as b. Atepped from the carriage at Mont Carl station, with the mountains above and the gardens below, flooded by the rim Mediterranean eunlight, he looked abou Mies Howe, of Boston is one of the letest tdclitions to the bevy of.A.mericart songbirda who are add to be captivatieg the °pools- gel:ma of all tins European capitals. Thoe who have heard her, state then her voice roads in purity and power thee of Gerster in her prime. The cheese of Olieshine is sappoeed to owe its excelletme to geOl?giCal as Well ether otune, The geologwal formed= of to county is principally neW red eaudstone load boulder °lay, and, as it foe immense salt (lemmas, the herbage produced is suppood to be embeentin Waited for chnee produetion. " In ray fertile country," said a Laical- teranire man, " yod could turn A home into a new mown field, and the next lemming the gran would be quite growe over his boob." " thg4t'S hethiog," ;weed a YOrkehirerean ; you may turn a berse into a field le Yorke -hire, and not be able to dud uexti 'morning r He who ameeses wealth, not as an equit. able return for value given, but by under. hand dealing or oppreseion of tbe poor, or gambling or a high or low scale, halt been engaged in no houourable coropetitien, He who clixabeinto power, not by proving him- self the gaol: Mall to wield it, but by push. log others down and crowding them out, desecratee the name of etaulatioe. The following is old to he a good appli- cation to prevent reetela from ruttier& Melt oue once of resin in a gill of tinned. +dimmed while hot raix with it two quartet of parafen-oll. Thie can bre kept eetune to apply with a briteli or rag to any tools or unplemonta required to he laidby for a time, preventing mat, and aeving much vexetiona who the tool Is to he need agaim The Spanish coel.fielda are dated to cover an area of 8.500 equare miles, the quantity of available coal being estimated at 3,000:- 000,000 tons, of whine at leette two.thirds can be mined with profit, The produetion of coal in Spain in 1585 amouuted to 919,440 tons. Half this output was obtained from the coanfield of the Asturias, on the northern coon The doors of the Casino were now open, and players were tegirating to crowd the A melodrama was some years since played gambling rooms. " Let's go in and watch in a certain theatre' the chief actor 'in which htm," Lock suggested in English. "There had made himselffrom his haughty and cae be no particular harm in looking on overbearing conduce disliked by one and all, i'm not a player myself, like you, Mat En the laat sone be was supposed to visit the Anger; but I want to see whether tine omb of his ancestors. In the oentre-of the fellow really wins or loos. He believes le rtage, ,epon a marble pedestal, stood the xis own system moat profoundly, I observe name of his father. A heavy fold of dra- Ile's a very nice chap, the Paymaster of the pery covered the figure. Enter Albert-- Rusala.n Mediterranean: squadron, I pioked Once again," he said,, "10 gaze upon those aim up at the Cerole Neutique at Nice last features which in life so often gazed on me qeek ; and he and 1 have 'Keen going every with tenderest Wadden. Father, thy mourn - where in my yacht ever .sinoe together." mg sen DOW comes to pay thee adoration. "A:1 right," Hugh answered, with the hot Get me remove the veil which from the val• iible new-born careless glee of his recent ger gaze shields the beloved image of a dear imanoipation. "1 , don't mind twopence 'leer parent." Off went the drapery, and 4rhat I do to day. Vogue la Ronne 1 ler, otered the father stood upon his head. The game for anything. from pie:elem.:14os t ffeot cannot be described. It was eleotrio nanslaughter." He never suspected him Tlanshouts of laughter which followed the ielf how true those casual words of the stool •upposed mistake effectively put an ewe to etng expressiona were soon to become .he scene, which changed to the next as Pitch and•toes first, and afterwards man quickly as possible, amid the bravos of the- eaeghter. :udience, the anger of the manager, and the They strolled round together to the frow uncontrollable rage of the ,actor. .1 the Casino, that stately building in th. et. mudiest Hausmannised Parisian style JIutcsi plump down with grotesque Quick -firing .Artnetrong gum,. 36 and 100 nooneruity heneatla the lofty °rage of ch t pounders, discharging ten and eleven slots a Meritirne Alps. The palace, of sin faces a minute, have been Lolly dopted by ,the aims: and handsome open square, with British army. Mena° Legeramain. LI these days of Adulteration "Wban all things aro net abet they seem And everything is something else, it it no more miraculous that olive alt should be squeezed out of a peanut than that Sava coffee !should be ground out of chioory root, or that black pepper be only another name for pulverised cocoanut shells. Science is making auoh rapid gelded toward helping ua in our gastrononaio node, that nature her- self must get out of the way or she will be ran over. Even the poor honey -bee was accused, not of laziness, for that would have been too palpable an injustice, but of being too slow, and spending too much time over the elover-heada. "1 will remedy all that," said Science. And she did. Shutting up the bees, she knocked the head out of a barrel of glucane and told them to go to work and help them- aelves, which they did faithfully. Their long journeye to and from the flowering fields being done away with they had noth- ing to interfere with their getting down to actual bwaness. The scheme was a success, for the honey was piled into the combs in treble abundance aud in one-third the usual time. And yet Science wasn't satisfied. Greedily she put her wits to work. "'What's the use of going th the expense of buying bees-? I can make the comb quicker and quite as well as they; and as for the honey—well, gluoose is honey 1" • And Bo the occupation of the honey -bee beinggotit, so far as it had any hand ha i what s known as the "honey of commerce," it now confines itself in a small way to bone manufacture, samples of which, if the reader particularly wanes he must particularly search for. Nothing can be more certain. than tha the tharacter can be enetained and strength, ed only by its own energetic aotion, The will, which le Cho cental force of tharaater, mnst bo treaued to Obits of deoision ; other - win it will be able neither to resist evil nor to follbw good. Deoision gives tbe power of standing firmly, when to yield, however slightly, might be only the firse step in a down.hill course to rum. Thirty -odd years ago there was a poor drawing:master near Frankfort who re- jernea isa tho title of Deka of Shleswig. dolstein.Sonderburg-Gloksburg, and in three pretty daughters. He wae so poor that he could allow the girls only ne month eaoh pin -money. Bat the girls "got there all the same," being now xeepectively Empress of Russia, Princess of Wales and Duchess of °timberland. Here is a novel but apparently a very effi- cient meatus of testing the coated= of home' feet. Take a bettery or magnetic machine, one that gives a light current such as can be felt only with moiat hands • attach one ter- minal to the animal's bit, tite other th the shoe. If the horse suffera from the shoe or was, he will wince winder the beat: if there be no irritation, he will pay no attention to it. A Hale electrical science in blacksmith's shop would locate much auffering. The Polynesians and the Malays always sit down when speaking to a aupbrior. isa some parts of Central Africa it is considered respecttul to tarn the back to a superior. °captain Cook asserted that the inhabitants of Malliedo, an island in the Pacific, Ocean, ehowed their actmiration by , hissing, The Todo of the Neilgherry hills in India show respect by raising the open right hand to the brow ansi resting the thumb on the nose. It is asserted that among Esquimaux it is customary to pull a person's nom: as a oomplimene. A large number of Congressmen have been lamenting lately to a sympathetic cor- respondent the wretched fate which one Chem to Washington to be Stateemen. They say that the election exponent of many mem- bers are greater then their entire salarien for two years. Living at the National Cap- ital is also very expansive, anti frequently plunges the legislators deeply into debt. Ti ey saythat, while a wealthy man can gee plenty,of enjoyment and tone honor oat of a, position in Congos, a poor men is Meaty to grow poorer as long as he is in Vieushieg- ton, unless he resorta to questionable prac- tices to swell his income. They also assert that to try to please one's constituent* is hopeless drudgery, for which no thanks are returned, but much abuse is .freely proffered. While these doleful stories seem to show that the possession of a seat in ,Congree: is generally a great misfortune, it is worthy cd remark that Congressmen do not have to be drafted into the public service. They vol- unte,er.