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A LOVE CRI
(Tnaeleteexiin SUM 11X4 ..Fs,10.Zeti, SY G. .1t0114a.)
leenesther then, feeling egraewhatuI-
limey, however See at °nee gotta to her own
xmoire gad theta tierself ie. Sere oftuot being
dietnthecti She dame all the piece* from MI6
.beitora of her dream end- extrema& thetn eat
enthe tattle. Two or three bite ere weet-
lag tacomalete 401140 0 'the eentenCee. The
"wind haa oerrteil them too ler &way, Bat the
mom pittin enough from what) remaiee.
Aid elle reedit. elee devoare the worda. Tee
'blood leevea bei vethe. Her he.art sitope
leeettlag ae eke reede, Malta in for letageli
the wade thet are weetteg,
"IV s mpeeettile for eae to live longer,
.wittleire I see yoe. I whale to epeek with
70n. If whet I.guesee. le tree, you cennot re-
. fuse me er ellen the cenvenation wIlieh I aek
,aread wbech1 neplote yea to greet nest, •
might add, treatied, that it .wilat I guess 10
brae I halte alexia the right t demena is
eneetieg, ' The avowel of Ma. love whith 1
once Made to you ;galleon refluerme your
dechien or =eke you dreed any deepeeate
•etterapt by me. .1 eta year garter's aetebeaci.
Yen can andonght to have coeftleace la me
larded. You • engine heve teith La um,'
loyeity." .
The letter dia got wee ta erid there bat
elm bedtime heeu ettio to tied the rot. Little
matter Ague time, however. Watae whim
arhe had teat third melte enough? Tee rends
akta,s 1 Ail her aeuitat were cetedreeed.
She thraW the letter In the fire and wa,ich-
ed filbert
As leeg :she tted only be
bad 41Waye f0nr.4 4 piece Amid ber troutelem
But SUIW, where She hnsl the certainty, the
pain wait well utgll aettewrahle.
Of melt a nerveree temeereawat wee ohm. ao
extreme be eve/Maths, la her tees ea' la her
*Prow*, time -the fele all the epreugs of her
We hroaen, Strack full in the be the
WA e mortally a -mingled. And yet ft waii
steeelatary to diseimulate.
Her weteltfultine 1)00010004er them. eren
AR the IWO of her hie wee Cennetrat4 FF
F4tt4 I thought I could coat:peer your ebttinaoy,
make yeti brava your Incredible silence."
a ..eneyer mild a word time mould make yea
think I loved you."
ever Ihuow that, It was a epleudid
triumph and one of which you have a right
to be proud. I was driven to give attentiou
ro Martha beeauee I knew tale lovecl me and
I ow that her whole heart we occupied by
me, Thee, I hoped to provoke yourieeknuty,
excite your contempt, to force yot. to
aging Action, to :some word. that would
betray you. In that emit yon would
have had te thew me 'something dit-
ferent to limb Indifference which you,
made me to feel so oruelly, No wee thee
all. $o far titil you path. tho spirit of tell-
seorifice that you pretendea to feel no
alert:a at the love wele Oliver allowed, you
to owe. Yen even eeetrien. to eneourage hire,
and when °ace 1 reproached you yen
replied with whitewag almeat ii vowaL
'butt day I did not love you. It was
then perhape that I made the firth advances
to Mertha. Auti I was gently led ou partly
out of cempastion partly by gralitude to
the ebild whose heart; wet* out tewards me,
to the idea of marryieg her. You, who
had only to the elle word in order to tepee
xim eyes, why did you Hay nothing 1 Way
did yon not teke me by the hand and guide
nte?
"It wasaot a matter of my own happineee,
nor of youth, but of tderthan. I eo,erifieed
your It is tree bet where your drat anger is
'Petted, awl year 44,3mM:44th:tent forgotten,
you will 'Smirk me, in your thoughte, for
towing acted as I have done."
The young gia shakes her head, refusing
to liaten to him.
"Very well then," said June, "1 ehall
know how to compel you."
Bathed rime teld goee slowly out of the
room. Jemes prone* bis heaa with las
geivering fingers. A sadden fit of madams
zea hit breim
Martha is atilt sleeping. Ile gots out.
Martha raises heraelf, listera, waite a minute
for fear he abould return to assure 'himself
that elle is still asleep, then throws hereelf
out of bed, hurriedly slips on a dressing
gown, and gees in emereh et her huebead.
4t dee door ef a room which he neee as at
fare she hears limbers veto. They ere ha
teere‘ She stops. Ifer beerk is beating
violeatly, aud :Me is nearly teintlem
Isabel wao jest going out, and bad alreadY
reached tbe door et the room, witen Jamul
eructed by another door, 'retied himself
opou her, etcpped her and preveated her
trent leeving. He was in a state of each ex.
cirement the she did not dare reeise Wei
He dragged her bete the middle of the
room and rbez id,
"Beebe!, 1 !Ave written to you ten times,
rend ten times I beve tern op my lettere. 1
nevnr goela write ell thee 1 Wialied te say to
you. lethel, wilt you epeak to me, frankly!'
"There le oo res," she replied, "why
I amulet lobigh for my thoughts„ nor does
Anyehing obtege ne te hide u&y thoughte
trona yea."
"leabel, why were vousoged said ptle QS1
mereiege dey 1 Way did on es tm to b
hiding irom everyttc4y t *
" Why, whet en idea El elm veld with a
nerveue laugh. "Ieetead of beteg eed, I
was happy hteenee I SAW my eteter happy."
" That te faith, There were teare in year
eyees, I Few them,"
"Atul why Omuta I have beau weeping?'
"Why, indeed! Hove do I know! For
the same reaStna. S10 deebt, that Made you
go out thet night into the ceurtymd, in apite
2ttee
h
00 tree teektua, 0,4 melee Cho wfithed to , ef te void, end leek et our windows.
lenoweetild, her hotbend end Idebel doe one "That hi A mere fancy of your own, I
another I went out because I was utte feelieg well. I
They baa 110 an that One Masten, The bad a beedeette, Aud if I was looking at
letter proved lima Bets same tae letter t your windows it was =eche-Ideally merely,
12401 ilea refuted once, but was that to say end without thinking what I was deiug. It
thet ithe would always retool wee peobebty heettuse Tour windows happen.
The Ante thought thet came Into her mind ell to be the only Q144 that were open.
W15 to aeek an explanation from her lima "Veen au, 7.9114adeuly,
bead. Since he loved Imbel why hed he Fee lellua Tgurseltf Moue with veer Yol %Yew
xeerrieel elarthat She weuted to eek him talpett beside Weurtelft ...Pg for 47" well/
ms
that, " geto betray youreett when you, SAW
Then, able feeliog of irritation wan glue Murtha ea the %bedew 1"
tO 4.3110re Wet:0441y thourlst whIele clads ber weenie. 1 will drew on my memory
ayes Allstate valth a deal hope. little. You remember the it time we
Sim l'ilth"td ta ittaithle eStIzat thie spoke of !eve, do yen, noel Teat wag cone
*ma iimartmee part, to oppoae to It bet- ewe.lime Were (tavern arrive). I besought
love, her devotion, her teudernans.
would be A eupreeem aud hereto tithugale,
one late whieh the would put all her itfe,
Ana where, in ce.se of &fen she would leave
Slott life.
She began a self- examiustioni Whet ern
I like? Do 1 Weed (imam so be loved?
Uwe I not Watts? If re, what 1 ad AM 1
beautiful enough o pleese him?
Meet mattreely, the had all the quelifica,
times Whiell eau oudnee to a snalret bawl.
nets. Very gentle,. and of tine intelligenee,
she knew inettheuvely whet :mead plente
&Mee. She invented. 4 thouned dietree.
tiog when she saw him sad, mad nuelenteod
alto, at certein tiume that he would rather
be left alone, and that any attemptea dig.
tritettou would only be midi theetly peteful
to him.
Sae Immune more gey than fermerly,
puttiog conmatelou on aer 0an en Leman
which were rather tweed* melencholy, In
order to suit all his vvielaee. She was grac-
iounaess ittelf on every outmeioa. She began
to telk mote at readout and to laugh wall
re At reason, overflowing apparowly witb
Jutelth and spirits.
But As she saw herself, the morel titan
reacted on her ply at health, She began
again to color her Smoker:Aid with a little
„hlood as ehe used to do whomever the be
came unatually exalted.
She needed happiness and mental calm in
order to be in good health, an it was trouble
and sadness Suit were killing her.
James was very far fromstrepinting the
drama that was pasting in the heart of his
wife. He noticed her piety, without think
ing it fietitioue. He could not guess that
she had penetrated the secret of his
love.
Ana Martha would say to herself continu-
ally when she saw how powerless- she was
to chase the clouds from her husbenda
brow,
"He was right in loving Isabel—very
right—but why then did he marry me ? Why
especially did he tell me he loved me?"
The torture to which she had to submit
during theao days made serious inroads on
her strength. For days at a time she would
be forced to keep her bad. The <lector
showea. some uneasinese.
"She le very weak," he said to James,
44 any violent emotion may be fatal. I have
no treatment to order. Absolute quiet ie
necesessy—meatal quiet I feel—otherwise
the more you can distract her attention the
better. Isabel was hardly ever oub of the
room. Neither was James. Martha brood-
ed on them with her eyes. She telt fright-
ful fenoies spring up in bar diaordered im-
agination.
"Does James wish me dead?" she would
say to herself.
At other times even when she felt her,
trelf better she would pretend to be ill yet,
eaying to herself that the longer she re-
mained in bed, the longer would Isabel and
James feel themselves more free.
And how was it with these two?
Of necessity, Martha's illness brought
them together. Formerly Isabel avoided
him. But now she was obliged to be often
with her sister, and she could nob forbid
- James to come near his wife.
Yet she never met hia look.
One evening Martha was asleep, or rather
was pretending to be asleep, for the poor
little gill in her extremity was reduced
to all sorts of ruses.
Isabel was working as a small table.
James was reading, but his gaze kept
wandering from the book. His attention
was concentrated on the young girl. He
heard nothing bat the sound of the needle,
and the cloth against her knees.
Suddenly he puts down his book, rises,
goes to the bed, and looke at Martha for a
moment or two. Her breathing is calm and
regular. lier eyes are shut, her month
slightly open. She is asleep. He approach-
es Isabel from behind. The young girl
hears him and trembles but does not life her
head.
"Isabel," he said "this course must end
in madness. Did, you nob understand what
I said to you once? I have a right to ask
some conversation with you. You have not
the right to refuse me. So then, one of us
must make a determination. This time are
you going to listen to me ?"
She does not answer. She is looking
nervously attMarthan bed. Marthatt eyes
opened wide fora second, but clotted again
without isabel's seeing.
you to grAllt VIIMA interview. Ion coneent.
ed. I wanted to tell you my love, but
you had resolved Martha's coufideuca, Yett
anew that Martha loved me, and you have
ever since pined a aed, *ed comedy belorts
me. Yon pretended to take it ao if it were
meat for your eider the confession 1 mede
to yourself. 0, yea, I have understood it all
lou g time. You wonld not let me finish,
I was speaking to you of my love, You an
-
steered by telling mo of Muth% love for
me, by depicting the bapptucts the would
have in knolviog hereelf beloved, Whet a
faltehood tbet was 1 You replied by des.
cribing Mettler% on tick and dtieg tt I did
not love her. Was that well? Heves I
understood might 1'
"Up us my word 1 don't know where you
gat :such =sous.
"b I don't deny it, doret deny it
way lozger I What good will that dol
Why did you pity with nay heart and your
t
"Sarno, leave me, dont trek me,"
"Bat I will know, and at any prize,"
" It Is imposlible. Of what use to exact
an avowal which could not melte without
theme, and eapecielly when you are not a
single man any linger, bin the buthand of
ley slider:
"Ah 1 you aro right, you are right," he
"The very fear you thaw is Ahead: an
avowal."
She fell on her knees And clasped her
hands.
Don't question me, James, I beseech you
Let me go. Have pity on me. I am suffer.
ing terribly."
"And do you think that I am very
happy in knowing that you loved me and
that now I cannot be yours. Don't you
think that I too am suffering? And why
do you implore my pity since you have had
no compassion for me?
" Jetties, you are cruel."
"Not any more than yen were."
"Ah 1 if you wily knave 1 You are ac-
quainted with Martha's no.tore. You know
how impressionable and nervous she is. She
loved you to distrao. ion. Indeed if she had
enetwel ray—my love for you—forgive me,
0 my God, for being obliged to any so to him
—if abe had guessed it, if she had guethed
where your love really lay, I swear to you,
James, that it would have killed her, and
her death would have killed my affection for
you. I would have regarded your love with
horror, since it was the os.use of ench
catastrophe. But now she is happy, and I
can always love you since nobody has any
suspicion of it, nobody will know of it, be
muse this is the first and the last time I
have ever mentioned it, and I only do so
now, became you have forced mo."
" It is a piece of madness you have done."
"No, because it sprang from my love for
my sister."
For yoa to be able to speak in that way,
you can tome no real conception et the
etrenoth of my lave for you. I had piaeed
niy witele life on you, ell my here—end
you have broken 411.
"4.4140 de not reproach me, 1 m
alma I have none in wheze to con6de.
Sparet me. Tbielt ot Morale,. Continue
my work for the is now your own. Never
let her nuepect anything, never, trever. That
Wank! he frightful) it weuld 'he death tor
loer."
Jetaes ibiteued with towed heed. "1
miletetand You: Isabel," be geld.: 41
know how lofty our soul he I can.
not pert -rapt reaoh mole heiglate. 1am
merely a men who lovas, and I have all
the weakness of 4 man who adieu, Bat
agree with yo a in thholtieg that the ieaat
imprudence width would melte Martha est -
with what has pawed between as
Weuld be Q1141414, I agree with you, too,
that tie reeponeibility for hlarthan hayed -
nese rota on U10, WI that I might te emit
dee everything to +nevem that Not
merely, UAW, becaute I no longer have the
fear that I am urdovel by you, but treeause
We my duty. So be eatteured, I have
hts1 the co:emotion I &aired. I now
batyou Imo me, that you Mew,* have
loved rm. Tbis convereatien will not be
renewed. It would be dangerente for me,
AndIt Wenld he 0001 44 Well."
"You are good and noble, James."
Jame* *hook hie head as he *aid,
"As for you Isabel, yoo have gone be.
voird the limit which bunters owere permit.
Ged grant that our heart* aro not broken,"
label hastened to leave the room. She
felt that the tears were very near her ryes.
She had hardly gob out when site wink upon
upon a lounge, end, bowleg her face anon
her hands broke out in impassioned weep -
lug.
Jealousy end dere* disputed together
in her heart.
"flow he loves her 1" elm murmured.
Then softly, makine no trate, the returned
to her room, slipped eir her dm:dug-gown,
and crept ohivering into bed, The fever
had returned.
Jemea remained for a long time on the
seta. When be arose, ho came to Martha's
Weide, and looked leugat his wife's face,
She was not sleeping, bat kept her eyes close
alma for ia her state of intense emotion it
would have been impossible for her to have
looked at her husband without betraying
herself.
When he had gone the opened her eyes
and ley thinking.
Whet would she say! What would tho
do ?
She saw her life broken in the very high
Ude of her hoppinees. She felt so weak, to
lonely.
"Isabel kuows me well," she murmured to
here& during the night—for she did not
deep a miunto. "1 shelt not survive what I
have just learned. And ib will not be long."
Before her sister's milasaorifice, in presence
of James's resolve to allow her to gusts no-
thing, sho felt herself email and bumiliated.
youNe FoLE.B.
xonaan *rim
az was. curnE
We were at the tea table, mother and
father'and all seven of us. children, and.
Aunt Sue beside., We see very lend of
Anne Sue, and she alwaym comea and tpende
New Year's with as. Some people call her
an 46 01(1 maide" She lenie rearmed, atilt she
ien't tangly au "o14 maid," either, for she
was going to marry a man, only he. was
killed in the war.
It was one of the tiniest mother lets us
have tea, moth of ug only "moniale tea," and
Phil nearly got sugar be his twice, by hand-
ing hie oup to mother rfght while she was
tellieg Aunt See Menet the cook leeviee
Christmas Trey jusb before dinner. hfother
took the cup wIthent thinking, 1 upporre,
and went on talking, and Phii would, have
had the sugar if she had not notical me We
were watching to saes) if she woull do Be and
Jeannette had lux sup all ready to hand
baok, too, when mother said, "'What in the
world is the reatter with the children Vi and
we eat laughed right out ; we couldn't help
it. Aunt Sue put her hand up quick and
felt of her ce.rle, the way she always does
when anyone laughe, beeauge she lost them
enee at 4 tea perty, but =ether raw what it
was rs3ht away, and told Phil elle bad a
mind not to lab him home his cup baok,
laughingly' and githigit ta hiinjest.the same,
couree ; but withoot any more sugar.
Aunt See talk it Give, birn a little more
sugar, Margaret." But mother doee not
think ateoli 'sweet is good for we Then oho
went on telling how imandent the eook had
been, while Aunt Sue mil, for her part, she
W44 sorry she Wag gefaa$ for She WAS efraict
to -morrow's dinner would not be as good as
het yeara. Bee mother told her we'd had
four ettoke deco them and their this One Was
learntuo, whielt made Aunt Sae glad oho
ware gone after all. Phit Was earry. 811e
heed to !ewe pertiee in the kitchen aid
great dot of fun, which wee one of the very
tillers mother didn't like—arad it was just
becease also wet* Jutted, Phil mid to a
mieolgevotat sort of way.
Teen we told our reeetvee ice: the new
year. We ohildren had made pretty snarly
the same °nee as last year, but we deter -
Mined this time we would keep therm Petit.
er said be would give Phil two days, and
thou Aunt Sue, who alwaya fights Philn bee.
tles(t'e was named for the man glee didn't
marry, who was killed in the war), and wha
delight* in trying to team tether, mid she
thought there Was more need for fathee than
for all of as, to torn over new leaves—new
rtermere letwee—and she positively wouldn't
go to eleureh if he had that genie New Year's
sermon. UK upon hie desk for to.morrow.
Of course father doemlante old Mule= that
way, and he only smiled and answered if
the had been working all afternoon over one,
as he had been trying, to write en a subject
which, though itselt brand knew, waa really
as old as the hills themseivee—the uew year
—elm would realize better what germeniamg
was.
Mother asked what teed he had (Amen,
and he said, 44 Whatsoever tby band find
eel to do, do it with thy might." Aunt
Sue Wel ahe guessed elle would go to demob
after all. And lase then, the bell rang.
"Now," gain Aunt Sem "who Is that
ringing at this time ?".
"Perhaps it is some ono combat; to see
about the ehildreri'e festival," said mothor.
"Or very probeldy the texton to too too
about the church," caid tether.
"I think it's Mary Pendleton, to nee
what time wo aro to tee, to the hoepitol to,
morrow," said Auna.
" Hew ranch stronger and nobler they are
than I," shemaid, to herself. What can I do
to be cquel to them ? And then she lost
herself in disordered fancies, begonea by
tbe fever. The next day she gob up. Her
agony was great when she fouud herself
face to face with her sister. She could
never have believedthat she could have had
strength enough for the necessary diesimula•
tion, and yet the had the courage to smile to
her.
She noticed that Isabel kiseed her more
tenderly than usual.
They mot in the same room in which the
then° of the night betere had transpired.
They sat down upon the same rola on tvhich
Martha bad seen james'in tears. Both were
pale both were thll of anguish, both were
infinitely unhappy.
(ro BE CONTINVID.)
"It was neceesary then, was it, to make
the sacrifice quite complete?"
" Alas 1 how could it be otherwise?"
"Isabel, I tell you again, that what you
have done wits madnets. See how complete
our despair now is, and without a remedy,
withoat a remedy. Granted that Martha
loved me, and that she would have been un-
happy had we married. But who knows
but that she might have been comforted. In
any cage she only would have been miserable,
while now there are two miseries due to
your action, yours and mine."
" Mine 1 speak only of mine 1 I wanted to
do everything the* would make you happy 1
Don't tell me I have not suoceedea 1"
"Seo to what constant dissimulation you
condemn me, for Martha has no sutpicions,
and ifshe had her chagrin would be terrible."
"You love her. Calm of mind will come
In time, and I will go away."
"1 love her 1" he repeated with ironical
emphasis.
"Yee, you love her. It cannot be other-
wise. You love her because the deserves to
be loved. "a ou love her. It is necessary,
and you would nob have married her without
that."
"You are jealous 1"
"Jealous of my sister 1 Can you think
sol'
" is jealousy that instigated what you
have jut said. You wanted to know why
I married Martha. Listen, then. I loved
you passionately, desperately, as one never
can love twice. And you saw that perfect-
ly well. I was not duped by the scene I
mentioned a little while ago. I waited long.
Took Him Off His Guard,
They were sitting close together in about
as dark a corner of the visitors' gallery as
they could find, watching the proceedings of
a night session of Congress.
"What is it, Chawley, that man on the
platform asked the others ?"
"That is the Speaker, my dear," Charley
explained; " he is just getting ready to put
the measure before the House to vote, ind
he asked, Are you ready for the ques-
tion 7"
"Yes, Chawley," she sighed as she drew
a little closer,. as though to make room for
four more linters on a orowded seat, "yes,
Chawley, I think I am."
Then they went out into the calm, story
night. Congress lied no more attractions
for them.
46 .b.t83.13e 101 OU0 of the boys to make ar
raegements for our colts " said 'Reward,
who was twelve pears old and bad had
some eards erintea this year.
" Perbaps," Phil said, " perimps it's Little Ono in Speetattles. .
Now Yeses."
Sante Clans come back email; became it's e
The number of children who wear epee.
tacles has become a serious subjeot of "0 1 0 l'' exclaimed the twirls, and Ethel
re -
added, "1 with it wath," mark. Thee a thalami wren ; exists mune-
Then Jane came back looking really
where, when ohildren only four years ot age
are thus hampered for life, is only too pal -
frightened. 0 "ma'am," she mid, ' there's petite, bat whom, the biome, and what the
soreethingon the door-dep.' remedy for this evidently incressiog alto-
"Why"Wheat is it?" said mothea looking np.
dian't you bring it in ?" asked tion? Aro future generations to be sans
eyes as well as sans teeth? The defects in
father. vision ntheesitating speothalee are inherited
" Graoiona," cried Aunt Sae, " is it or infants scarcely able to read would not be
alive ?" hurried to opticiams and fitted to gloxinia that
" It's auite e big basket, ma'am," said mustbotherthemwhiletheylive. Oculietegive
Jaw, " with something in lb, and a letter ninny sensible melons for this weakness of
on the outside, and there bein' n& -one with the optic nerves. But no one impresses the
It, ma'am, I was afooxed to do anything with
neeetssity of care in the mattagenaent of eyes
" It certainly rime be Santa Claus,"
until the damage is done, and then lb is too
late.
Baia Phil, "ho never shows himself, you Yonne/ Plethora who cover tbe baby's face
know." with a veil, or who wear spotted hoe ageinse
Howard thought ib was dynantite, but their own eyes, and. who allow their children
mother told Jane to bring it in. We to read by iraufficient light, are laying up,
were getting quite curious, and most of us trouble for themselves, though oculist and
were away from the table when Jane came optician will be better off for their criminal
back and pub the basket down upon the ignoranee. As to the aohoolrooms, where
fiter. 1* had what looked like a little ohildrenepend so many hours of tho day, do
bundle in it, covered over with an old thaw]. parents ever atk or know how they are light -
1 wanted to have all of us guess what it was, ed, and whether the scholars face windows,
but father ettici he had rather disagreeable and whether they are obliamd to !drain their
mapicions and thought mother had better eyes by blackboard exercises in hell lights.
open the nete pinned on to the shawl at A little precaution in the use of the eyes,
once. She did, and it only took her a mom- and some knowledge on tire subject of im-
ent to read it. Sae handed it to father with. proper lighting, would be a pound of cure in
out saying a werd. He took it and read it
aloud. "Pear litre. Townsend, please take this matter of see/tholes.
my little baby and care for her. God Mem
you always." There was no name, signed.
For a second we were all perfectly still ;
then A.urit Sue said :
"01 mune . you wouldn't think of keep-
ing the ohild, I never heard of such im-
pudence."
" Well, we have seven already," answered
mother.
"And my salary is 81,200 a year" added
father. But we children all wanted them
to keep it, ib would be such fun naming it.
"1 think you'd better have Jane put ie
back on the stoop," advised Aunt Sue ;
"there's no tellingwhat disease the child
i
may have, or been n contact with."
"Dear me," mother exelaimed uervously,
and she knelt down and took off the eltawa
while we all crowded around. pal whys 0
top of father's back to see better, and I was
hoping ever tio bard it would have bine eyes
and light heir, for there were eo many of
ne dark, when mother took out the bundle.
She gave a little ors, and jumped up. We
all started, and then laughed urrtil the tears
ran down out ef our eyes. I thought .Aatut
Sue would lose her curie this time, too, For
the bundle WaS just 4 beautiful long sealskin
eine for dear mother, and agust in a pocket
said came because of the love that was
bores: her by Leer& Vaughn. Mrs. Vaughn
wee one of the richest lattice le the church,
and helped mother a :treat deal in the parish
work. And oh! we were all. so delighted.
Mother didn't say anything, but father
belied to Aunt Sue and said, 'Well, Sue, if
all the twenty babiee are like this one, they
mays teft et our door and welcome' And
Phil murmured rather sleepily from Auut
Sue's arms, "It wee a sort oi Santa Claus
after ali WaSn't it 7"
Imet at Sea,
In a recent] epeech at the sixty-fiith alma
vomit-, of the .Royal National Lifeboat In-
stitution, Mr. Obaniberlein evicted some re.
amicable statistics to show the beneficent
effecte that have followed the lesistatire
efforts of Mr. Plimsoll And Others to preventt
the laet eleven years nearly 36.000 persona, ""lb b"" th4 c°n43%nY'
or an average of over 2,700 4 year, have lost
their lives In Brittsh and Coloiaial trealleg
and fiehteg veiled/a In the last year for
whittle there are returns, 1886-87, the num-
ber had fallen to 2,071. la tail no leas
than 1„414 live* were loth in misting tamale
—that is, in viteraelst which feaudered at steri.
In 1886 the number thus lot weir only 356.
Though it :night be claiming too mach to
attribute the whole differenee to the herniae.
itaritia 'validation referred to, no one Can
doubt thAb the reduation of mortality at
nea Jet:wooly due to that QVaaap and. Viet
the number unseeworthy eventide flying
The British deg has been greatly reduced.
The blear:beg of many that were ready to
perith rote upon the heed of Mr, Plimeoll,
" roux') DilawNED."
who Ectoe of a illaa who ehotted to Defraud
the ensue/ince company.
The following rather lauding etory is
vowel,* for as being tree ia every emetic.,
Mar. The "hero" ot the adventure was a
young man of 24, liviug in a town in
Illinois. He took out premiums amounting
to $15,000, and thirty demi subequently
went in bathing in 4 river and. was drown-
ed. There were ten witneseee to the fact
bliat he was seen to sink, baying .apparent-
ly been taken with. a oramp, and, altheugh,
striet *earth had. been made, the body had
not been friend. Pending the payment of
the policy the company tient me out to look
over the ground. I tonna first that the
young man was Alone 'lathe world, and that
his ob.araoter *toed well. Secondly the
testimony of the ten witneseees could not he
put aside. It teemed as plebe a ease
as one amid Ask for, and there was only
0513 Q1711ER WROCIMOTANCE
about it. Ile had made a wad a few days
previous to his deetle in favor of another
young man about: hie own age. The two
were room maws, 1101 could hot id that
Wakeful, the polioy holder, Was under any
great obligetioos Sootten, who had been.
made hie heir. They eimply ptend for
chums, Seetterin explanetions were very
smoky, and after nay talk with him, I wale
eeffie thips from being :sent to tea. Daring rite eettoded that there was a plea on
Tag 00t Seleeted by the betheve woe a
portion ole. deep mill pond near where wet
ter was taken into a Same to rue a grit*
mill. This mill was mimed by Seotreen
father, but managed by hired help, b,,d
eeveral et the boys go down with we Aga
legate the$put where Wakeful went down.
It WA% forty feet abeve the gees to the
Roma The body bed been dragged for in
Vain, end the idee was that the eurrent tea
carried
It over the dam easi down to tho
I found upon quiet ingetry that tilekefol
was considered the bee* SWIrerrIer And diver
In the neighborhood. I expertmented
tnyee/f, and eitheugh mitt, efelr
slier, 1 found that by diving et the apot
where the young Man Went down 1oopld.
remeth uucier writer Almost to the getear
wth perteetty sezittiel, now ;het I had
tiro plate Weltetul hed reiteheil end peered
tattler the gatee, gone down the flame, ena
then embed out by the beeme el the mill.
He had risipped ant, to reit for the money
to be yeti to Stotteu, and then both were to
go off together, 1 bail this theory all dower
fine, WI014 le I
A aehy WM, reVaR,
ten miles: down the river end identified a*
thet of Wakeful. It was badly decomposed',
but 4 sit an people awore that it wise
fah 1 was willing to surrender, thud I went
ahenb feeling thee 1 deserved to be kicked.
A otreuge feelleg ;trete me to the nail, how-
ever. if liVekeltil had not worked the
game he could home done it, and I aorneliew
wanted to 400 the route he wonld take.
3. swam down the flume, dodged, to the
left of the enter wheel, and caught a brew.
Pelltng myself up on the tlmbera I walked
along until I found a pate of Stara and an
opening leading to tiro firetetory of the mill.
It woo After benne and the mill wee (dolma.
I had been 'tending quietly for a few min.
ewe, when A shit door whit% I had nee
noticed opened and young Seotten appeared.
Ho did not look about him at aii, but atart.
ed up stairs, and I SAW that he heel a parcel
under hie arm. I iollowed him to the gar-
ret of tbe mill, and there sat Wakeful, an big
as life, The plan was jaet what I hail sur-
mised, Altogether tho two conspiratory were
honed in their deoleratione. Wakeful was
to remain until the money WAS paid end
then the pair wore going to Europe. In-
eteed of going there they went to prison
for five pare apiece.
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Canadian Cattle in Ringland,
C4uada has an imerienee advantage over all
other countries in being able to alailive cat.
tie to Great Britain ; cattle front other 00111).
tries have t be slauehtered at the port of
debarkation. Even Ooze from the United
States, where foot and tooth climates end
pieure-pneumouls. prevail in certain pieta,
are debarred. Canadian tattle are allowed to
pees hecenee they are perfeetly healthy and
oaten of either are very ram COMMA
ehipmenty, Canada is, of mune, in danger
of receivles deemed eattle from the Vatted
States, wiara diem* preveile at the North,
as the Imperial Government now waren our
Government 11 does, The Dominion Goveru.
meet has ordered the Widest application of
the querentlue regulations, which are never
very lax, aud Ceurtdien shipper:: may be
trusted to takeali nrecantious, as their inter
este are at stake. The English eettle raieers
are already asking that Cemelhno cattle be
aubteeted to tho same regulodlona as other
fore:au cattle, but an they have no ground but
that of protection at home industries against
foreigu competitiou to urge—a plea ins:dudes-
lila in Free Trade Beglaml—thete petitions
have boon refused. Canada aortic' be oereful
not to give them ie better reason for urging
their petitione.
Awful Pato of Two Children,
A metals with loan has arrived at Rest
Darr Station, Queensland, from Baroeldlne,
and the driver repute the following terrible
tragedy Lo. man accompanied by hie wife
stud two ()linemen, aged 3 years and 1 year,
had pitched a taut an the river hank. The
first night the father Was awakened by hoar.
bag one of the childreu moaning. B.e lib a
candle and foniad the girl apparently in a
at, and she died in a /ow minutes. She
was buried on the spot text day. The in-
fant ohild was placed in the bed -previously
occupied by the deceased the next night,
when the pumas wore Again awakened by
the child moaning. The father immediately
struck a light and saw a largo brown snake
gliding off the infant's breast. The ohild
elite died in great agony in a few minutes.
Some (=Hera came and dieeovered the
snake's hole under the tent. Digging down
they quickly unearthed and killed the
reptile.
A new shade of brown lilac is "burnt bran -
'dye"
A novelty in children's underwear is to
have it of 'wash silk."
A crushable or collapsable bonnet is one
of the letest London fads of fashion. It can
be "sat down upon" without any injury to
it.
The people of New Yet k have been for-
tunate enough to obtain a legal decision to
the effect that Jay Gould and his friends do
not own the streets thereof, A Judge has
refused to grants a permanent iejunction to
the Western Union Company forbidding
the city authorities to interfere with the
companya poles and wires., holding that
the laws compellhag the platimg of the wires
underground are reaeonable "pollee regale -
done" and do not infringe upon the rights
of the company.
Not Portable Property.
Mo. Hobson (to callet)-0h, by the way
Mro. Van Blunt, did you know that my hus-
band left the bank and is epending a few
days in Canada?
hire. Van Blunb—Why, no; that is a aim
prise to me. And so he really left the bank?
Mo. Hobson—Yea.
Mrs, Van Blunt—Teo heavy, I suppose.
Bleak hosiery remains in favor for general
U98.
Both plaided and striped ginghame of fine
combisations of color will be much worn this
Simmer.
The fastest of British macre, the Shel-
drake, twenty-one knots, just launched, ie a
steel twin screw.
"I hardly like to put it back," father
said, "it is pretty cold out to -night, and
yet what you gay is true, I can't run any
risk with my own little ones, and besides
they already crowd our fireside."
"Poor little thing," said mother; "poor
little homeless, friendiese thing, 11 is inno-
cent of all the trouble, and what reason have
we to believe it is sick; yo, we must take
it in, though I don't see how we can afford
to add another to our little family."
"Well, I think if•you take that waif in,
not knowing a thing about it, you'll be
crazy. Why, you'll have all the stray babies
in the country left: at your door," Aunt Sue
said, almost getting angry. Bub just then
mother turned to father.
"George, what about your text, What -
smatter thy hand findeth to do' ?" And father,
who had been walking up and down with
his hands behind his back, etopped and
smiled, the way he always demi at mother,
and said, "Thank you, Mary, you are right;
you are always my good genius. We will
eep the ohild."
"I was going to remark," said Aunt Sue,
"keep it or not, you'd better stop talkir g
and take the child oub of that basket any-
way ; moot likely it's half 'starved, though
I must say it bee been remarkably quiet and
well behaved."
Colored light wool or silk petticoats,
when black ones are not preferred, have all
most superseded white underskirts for street
wear.
This social slip is even worse. A. city
MU complained bitterly of the conduct of
his son. He related at length to an old
friend all the young men's escapades,
"You should :Teak to him with firmness and
recall him to his duty," said the friend.
"But he pays not the least attention to what
'1 say ; hal:stens only no the advice of fools.
Iwiah you would talk to him."—(Chambers'
Journal, Marcel 2,
We hear a good. deal of the rapid growth
of Canadian and American cities, and once
in a while it in necessary to remind ourselves
that British cities do not stand etill. Some
figures' relating to the postal department of
Manchester are interesting and suggestive.
Fifty or sixty years ago the number of em-
ployees in the Manchester Posbaffiee was
between tweaty and thirty; to day it is
nearly 2500. One hundred years ago the
people of Manchester spent for postage £11,-
000 per annum • to -day they spend just that
much in a week. The number of artioles
posted is two hunched million a year.
A wooden coffin has been discovered in
the crypt of the parish church of Linares,
in Spain, bearing the following strange in-
soription : "Herein lies the pretended
corpse of Franoieco Pizarro." It is needless
to any that the coffin was eagerly opened,
notwithstanding the dieclaimer. It was
found to contain a corpse which had been
carefully "mummified,' and which was
clothed in a garment of violet cloth. The
countenance is said to be remarkably like
the portraits of Pizarro, and it has a pointed
beard like his. One of the hands was de -
Oohed, and lay near the body, while the
' other hand reposed upon the breast. Nei-
ther jewels nor a eword were found in hie
coffiu.
The Mormons Active.
Mormonism is stiII very active in its work.
of proselytizing, as is evidenced by thermal-
bers of emigrants from the north of Europe
who land at New York every year, and the
very considerable exodus of proselytes from
some of the States east of the Mississippi.
Their converts are commonly very poor and
very illiterate, and are, it is said, bailee:iced
to embrace the doctrine:a of Mormon by the
glowing pictures painted of the fertility and
bounteousness of life in Utah. Alabama is'
O favorite field of Mormon Work at present,
probably one hundred probelytere being at
work in that State. A Baptist clergymen
of Alabama stays : a
"1 have preached and worked against
them (the Mormone) and done all in my
power to arouse the people to action against
these men, but to no avail. Yon see they
first interest our people by their promises of
good homes and rich lands in the Weet. Our
people here know nothing but poverty and
Lardship. It is all they • emu do to live ;,
they are in debt, and the future looks dark
and gloomy to many of them and they
eagerly acoept any chance to better their
fortunes. ' More than one-half of their con-
verts are made by glowing representations.
of the ease with, which fortunes are made ihz.
the far West."
From four counties in Alabama five hun-
dred converts have gone to Utah within.
four years, and two hundred more:ere pre-
paring to go in the 1 all.
Proof of Hie Love.
Ethel—"Do you think he loves you,.
Nellie?" Nellie—"Oh, Fin certain of it.
Why, he wants to, marry me so much that
1 he has borrowed money of papa' for tie to
'get married on—a thing his priatcl, sensi-
tive soul could not brook if he did not lova