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The Exeter Times, 1890-10-9, Page 3NEXT -DO OE NEIGHBORS. ety erontt Irabberton. CHAPTER It WW1 Atlas llortley moved from the eity to a suburban village, in search of better air for the children and for his own asthma - tie lunge, he told his wife that ener she could haem the pleo.sure of knowing, her next-door neighbore-an experieece she never Imel been grante(1 in the city. Mrs, Bortleyt Niro awl reared in thickly settled portion of tbe metropolis, believed her hus- band's statement, for had not Zenas always Item a, country boy until he eaelle tO New -which Was uttered came to him unbidden spoliation be a judgment upon the woman house next me. 'ThieVOS,' says to snyself. la his &eases and roused him from needed who had been so blind, insensate and beutal I peeked out of winders one side an' another ; rest-earne to him as he read the morning as to call the Bortley family-thelarger and then I woke Brother Jim, an' him an* me paper Nvhile dashin,,e by rail to the city --better pirt of gang"? u-ent out kinder keerful like. We Could came to him as he added columns of figures llut why all this worry and. terror 9 Pro- see in the moonlight where the ladder had at his desk, and caused hun to make some bably the man was, after all, only a common terrilele blunders. "Gang!" Although he ifruit thief. Only a few feet from, where the was a mita maneered Inan, and a nteniber Ilaader had been dropped was a great tree of the church betide, he came to regard hisaatrawberry" apples, whichtheliortley chit - next door neighbort-woman and hemelsome %ren bati been eyeing wistfully for a fort - atoned), she was, with deedly batred. Snip- night, as the teeth on the fruit bud deepen.- tease ale his awoke too= that be oat hi ed. to crimson. Such apples commanded a his window one sultry moonlighe night and Ingh price, Bortley had leernea to hisser - gleefully beheld a stray cow eater the alay- row- Well. the tree were robbed, his them garden and clo more demage than an children would be delivered from anther florist could undo at that season. 4•Gaeg, temptatioa : such trees were Opt safe When. ludeedl he Was a bey. He recalled, with a wicked In awe te was more with joy owe eorrow chuckle wInch was almost audible, how he Malls= was not in daylight attire, he York tmake ins fortune }lad he not .tt "0 tlaY enes learned, from a thence once had braved bulldogwhath and shotgun todes- pered eosnething to e mea, who ale o 2 Z described to her, to,olo owl eaoie, the woe acquaintance on the tram, that there were poll just WW1 a tree. Perhaps a tree of ap- ruptty turned, said "good. Main.' and went special reasons who :tea atitythain would be ples might not seentwortbuinels to tbet proud been dragged aiou,e in the dust of the road Comb's rounda bewhee thort we he erd it hit sommisina-laatlers allus sake a noise whets they bump a wooden house, ale its a kind noise you c-eu hear a good way in a still night like his. We began to run then, an' when we heerd the bollerin' we kumeal where to come." "So genii of emu," ethiepered Mrs May - them, "Ever so much obliteed." said Zenas. 'Then. realizing for the hrst time that Mrs. Falls, where everybody knew everyboay away from home for S01410 time, for the man aesman---- and fleeing from justice. Just then the man began to raise the else -where one mao was es good as another was a defaulter, so long as Ise aimed his living, paiThe llortleysagreed Hot it was providential kler, net lo the apple tree, hue against the d his that the families hail not become acquaint- side of the house. At the same instant ed, for although Zenas, like a good luau, dlertley s heart and heiia began to throb as tried to pity sinners while he hated silt, he if rhea' would burst. He feared heart dis- ease and apoplexy. He dosed his eyes mad toal his wife that a mere entry elerk. with a family dependent upon hint could not afford trie4 to t.hnik of something else. Wbet was to be known as an acquaintamee of adefault- in 1414 re/ad a monient before? Oh, yes- bilis, ana went to church on Bentley, ami where every woman was a lady if she had a black silk dress, no matter how plain, in whites to receive calls? 1:Tad not Zenas' own mother, wife of the bookkeeper of the local lumber company, been asked by theeon- , gressman's wife to help entertain some dis- er's tamilta Everybody seemed "down on'' ting 'shed guests from another state? And the MaYthairis; Pe°Rie 'sabi twas only be" it le been se delightful when yea Zenas came the house was In the esafe's name that had been ill or feeble, in her little gat 111 the eity, to hear her husband tell how in the country any man -whose wife was feeling poorlycould borrow a neighbor's earriage or sleigh awl take the dear woman out for an airing. Mrs. Zenasnever bad an outing except in a horse ear, for her bus - band, though stroog in afteetiort mei self- elerigee, bail but a 141114111 salary, and the olive branches, tehicit st ere the familytt only riches, always Ileetka sornethiug which coat about as much as a carriage for an hour or two. So the Bartleya Went to the country, mid a bleee,ed change they fomul it. The child - that proud nenuan-wornan-woulan. In an instant the little fellow slipped out at. "Me. Bartley," eahl the woman, seizing her neighhor'shands, "you are a noble man." • "Madam," eaid the little man, who lospite of a, broken nose end eloeed eye 11OW felt him- self tile equal of .a.uy onealive, "yen are a tree lecenate Try to feel easy about your huebatd. seill be safer in my house time in bis own, until we.see how the authorities regard the burgier story. They 4:344,..4 sou- peet me -With this faee.7 Then he turned quickly and entered his of the liammask, and, with taws tightly house. Softly he went up the stairs and . as. Maytham . r set and oervee and museles like bundles of searebed the top floor, liga hi Land, until that tbe eouple had not liveti there loom and steel wires, had hoeuded acmes the fence he found the fugitive, to whom he whispe,r- never bed become acquaintea in the village 'and toward. his neigiabotat house. Short ell: atioogli the dietence was he hail time, as he "Take the room with the bed init. Turn anyway. . Though lie still was full of bitternees, ran, to realize that Ida wits bail never be- ;he key, so none of my children happen intim Zeno.* began to be interested anew in his fore been so clear since the night he pro- you in the trionaing. 11.1 arrange fer your handsome neighbor, for he never beionehen posed to the angelie girl who afterward wife to come in -111 get my erife and tae seen the wife of a eriminel -one of Mrs, beearne his wife. - Tile ladder bad touched youngsters offeonte way afterlirealefest, and alaythanas eless, Caws heti been gm- the wall, making coueideralgenoise, but the we hevena any servants to poke around. Mitted at fitaahopper Rills, ond wives of tburglareliti net woe to mind this, for he Good night" ' tides -es and rowdiee were too numerous, asn.tilleatly had a foot on the lowest, VOilnii Theist tiii.411t 'le Man proceeziell toblpl him. occasional subseriptiousfor theirrelief show. when &nes, spriuging 14 front of bull, ge WO self on ius own reilecuons and wet a towel eil, bot they were a Shabby, forlorn, Aar- the Wider a Push algal f4a.ke tliat threw it with alump of ice init. Witha elearer head acterless set, mst like their hush:etas, wane bet*kwerth The MlianOWn Man apreng off than be ever bail talten to ids desk in tlie here, in the very next house to Zenee, wosainieklea lnitin an instant Zenas innfbini by city Le nevertheless Led many colligating see began to grow litre weeds, their mother's a crinninalai wife who was bandanna self- `the threat, and bearing him, beckward, got eneetieme. Within a single hour -a mere elteeks beOnle fuller of roses than the gar- jnid, proud, apparently rich, and map bun ulant the ground. quarter of an hoer, iudeed-be hail beau den, and Zenae himself, though lie was se'arorgi oi the bellest “t4aug • 4 fil• .1 I titr re.vtreini elttl or,two there was a fierce guilty a cowardice, sit, 'eion, heartlessness I obngea to breekfuse early and eup late in arenas thought ods, alaytitarn Utah he • 4 141 0 114.11, appeal:Mg to yield, end severel other unpert enaale sine; he also order to make a full day at the etore iii beemea1m°4 fawily-kteil lar ler. His eYil tuiliell on his sale. Zeitav ic_a_ngn.; liti heel aea iteleleal in violence, atiashnelatien mni whielt be was entry 'Limit, found his a,stlima sought her each day as he left home and re- killed tin/ kilOWa relaxed Iiiegreepe but in an1'. threet to commit niurder, or at least disappearieo with tinexpectee mokutv. m310111104; &ART* Oen ite 0 hi q tItstanlAry !Want 114 SAW a hail dratriau a putted from ortneleughter. He had imagined himself ^ e"emanier vaeatien of a es -Wight he speoteit jacket poehet. Quiekly the weepon was cottoge cos. ,ess pee mouth than a ciey flat; he bad a little garaen which, Clarks to his boyhood's expenence, yielded malty yoga. tables, which tasted better them any he had ever bought from a ettrocer ; the children had a swing wider au old apple tree, and rolled in the grass to their heart's coutent ; the pastor of a calla% celled after eeclog the *ends of the families in his tangs egation, anti Zoom wits invited to join the lotet1 club of his pelitical party, anti also to eubseribe 10 couree of lectures to Ise delivered in the local aseatleiny of unieie during the following winter. Yet. ZellaS was net happy. The neighbor- lyaffiliation whielt lie had promised his wife did not some about. He waited for it a few Is eelts, for he was a dignified little felt low, and had Mite bilawhilge of the men - nem of good soeiety, hat when his wife reminded him that the summer hail nearly pasted and no one hall tailed alio bad net. some senialmeiness purpose, he informed himself, with a inmaty pelt at all hia ami- ties, that something ought to be done. What most irritated him WaS that ltie meet• door neiglamr-a, handsome woman wisate husband, BO the agent of Bertitomeetage Bald, would he obliged to be away from Lome for some tilne -had never called. Mrs. Maytham, the latly• in queetion, was dila tingodebeil look Mg, as well as Weiser:le ; her t house was enalaee, cosnpared with the bowie wIsieltranaslad birea, and she &eve:sanest daily beldna e tine pair of horees. she was a eaott woman, too, or Zenas was no judge of human nature, aria, as she had no child- ren, the little man, who coula not imagine that any one regarded boys and gide ex- cept with the adoration which he bestowed upon his darlings, WAS sure that if Mrs. Maytham could know his brooa, slle would in her loneliness ba.ve an unfailing source of consolation. As for Mrs. Bortley, Zenas' loyal soul profoundly pitied any one rind every one who did not know that estimable woman. Yet the two women did not become ac- quainted. Mrs. Maythain did not call, and when Mrs. Bortley felt hurt, her husband suggested that, perhaps, the alder resident itwas impoesible that any bonest meclumic was from one of the southern states, in which o AIM be gomg to work at that time of night, calls must first b made by newcomers upon brightly though the moon shone. Maybe the fellow WAS a fruit tree plunderer. Zones bed been warned to. gather Isis own early pears if he did not wish the tree to be de- nuded some moonlight night by unbidden gatherer& Well, if the man were bent on stealing fruit from the Maythant place, let him steal ; it was a shamesuch things should be, but-Zenasentetiot,one of the village's three policemen, and, as be would rather have his own single pear tree stripped thau attack a midnightprowlerehe coula not be expected to Protect his neighbor's property -the property of a neighbor evho haacalled his family a "genet Bat, horror! The man was no fruit thief, for he bad taken the ladder toward tlie alaytham home, placed it in. the shadow cast by the moon, and stood motionless a moment, as if to rest. P.videatly he was a burglar, and knew his business, for it was town taAk that the Maytham house was ex- pensively furnished, and contained much hours of each day in e hammock under the. Vestal away sad tweedasitle,and t he strug. trees, looking slyly for Mrs. Maytham, mai bY natural arum began aaellt, Zenasre- saunterea Omega her finely -kept grounds, yelled as if by magic all the loeg-forgetten He was sorry for ber ; emila underetana fistic lore of the and the village why she did not caret° make new acquaint- green, int his antagomet was Urger tban tat eaves ; emad not Ro anything in her tago.S0 the little devoteil himself to ikikag. that illidiCated In her husband's' Were and even same skill at this art did not mime ; he so pitied 44'411 ber leagues -sand' "web' Ck„ve Virg he became cons. probable gloom that he prayed earnestly,eleas that Jia email net bretuilee through bis tor lieralott do What Ise would lie could not ataieetben Ite„ lest ,,the„eight 0,1 inte ttliv ami forget tbe tone in which she hail called his Inc chest =la ocitianY, ant at availed ationtlile family a "gang," himself of anotheryoutIoftil trick. practised lying ot famixt ; lie had *ought a Urger man without the slightest sometime of Jeer. He,. a mintier .of the eisureit, was even now ng a fugitive from ,justice; a married nan. bad stoad some momeuts in the pee- ve of another 1111314 e wife Whe WaS in light evenina attire, before ite. was covieeimet of: the delemey of the Bit nation. - had sprung to the rescue InV.inSe the intended victim -- 3s 14(' "11110--t'd -was P. Iv°144111 ,).-41, that very same woman hai veiled his ineenoper eble family a 4' gang." Att he reS karat. the evening's experience ids tueutelity iwasitie by srnellleive who were atteeked by bullies tioniled suet. 0.14 Vitela th0t he eri2pt inte -he gat 'Whim' his aatzgaubit awl wand hall ta each refuge in Float As lie eilitly CHAPTER, a tight eollaagrip with troth halide, brought. stretelted Lama his wife eieltea, half watt - tip his knee sharply egahat the berglarai ening: As the dogalays dragged an back and quickly lied the fellow seetwely " I thought I-licaril atioiee -little while banoneek miller the trees hogine more and pinned to the ground. ago." nune attraetive as a lounging place, until While the struggle had been going an "Y's, dear; I tumbled ilowit alt tinelly the little man, evho often /deist 'Zetias beard window blinds open, nut.' a Mar- right aow ; go to blvep." out ordains in the -woods 'when he was a. tleil exclamation in a yoke he remembered country boy, ventured to ho young again well -the wive that had uttered the wen] and spend an oevasional night in Inc hem. "gang." Now, as he tried to tweathe, he emPTER. 111. meek. The grst effort watt quite iniccasful. heard a soft riletle, and, looking up, he amt. but during the second night lie was roused ,cled all in white, and with lune dielievelleilt ‘.%-tt " the by an await dream of an anaconda gliding, ble handsome neigisbor, visage in the morning when the diearranged through the grass near him, and causing a " Madam," hep.vspeil, "this -this burglar e"sieusurr of the head a the fainil.Y Iva'4 rustle stuck as any meandering anaconda -tried to get into -your house. I. saw bon exiaisr4*1245 Alias mid it all Pam 0if conlil be depended 1111011 to make. 'Starting -lie tried to shoot me. His pistol is Knee- during the day. All he needed. bee:till, Was up in affright beneath hie low banging covers,wheretathe grass. Find it, please -fire it- %basalts quiet, aud he aloolutely ordered of bemills, he 114W What at first .eeemed 'fast -make an alarm -bring help." his wee to take allthe children on a etatin- But the woman, instead of looking for the boat trip to New York and back, taking the earliest boat and bringing isim up a first rate breakatek just 'before they started. Ms wife obeyed hen, under protest, anti no sooner were the family out of the gate than ?onus, in hie pajamas, took the loaslea tray. as- cended. to the top floor, and kieked settle. at the door of his guest. As the door opened, alaytisam looked more at the Matt than the breakfasi, exelaimed. in contrite tones: Did I do all that ?" " Dona mention it," aaia the little fellow with a reckless air. I letven't bed melt a bully? light teams I left sehool. Eat your bloat:feet before it gets cold, so I can brieg your wife up to seers. The coast is clear; first time in my lifeI ever was glail to do Everything here le -water, towels, comb and brush? :She deserves to see you looking yonr best." Then the little fellow &eased hastily, hid as much of his face as poseible in -a boidage anti slipped out upon Ins rear piazza. As he suspected, Mrs. Maytham was in her garden :ma saw him; he beckoned, in real country stylise:it'd she was beside him in a moment. "Allow me, madam," said he With a bow which was dignified in spite .of his aspect, "to conduct you to your busband," Be led the way upetsurs, and soon the husband and wife were in eacb other's WM& The host discreetly withdrew, but stopped at the threshold and remarked: "Don't feel the least bit uneasy; no one atm disturb you. I have sent away Illy - really a huge eerpeut About to cross the fence and enter the Maytham eetate ; through Nvell othhen eyes, however, the monster retolved itself into it ladder, mit dently brought from a house in comae of building not far away. Of course, the ladder was not moving of its own volition ; a man was under it. Zenas was at once as wide awake aS if no such condition as sleep had ever existed ; he also was in abject tereor, and was coescious of the outbreak of the solld sweat of which he often hail heard, but never before experi- enced. What Omuta be ? Wane could wears, fell upon her knees, loolmil 418 moaned: " Oh, Arthur 1" Then she sprang to her feet and hiesed rapidly: Ile's no Istimear, man. Let him go -4o eon hear me? Ilea no burglar, I say. Ile ss my buslmuti." " Your husband 1" gasped. Zenas, relaxing his hold -a movement of which the prostrate man endeavored to take Advantage. Yes -yes I Han% a man a ri lit to Ise do? Pshaw I Perhaps the man meta e"ier bis b°"se "Y. way °i°sesi woe of the males lase As was otihite, ema carpenter, AOKI been after a bit of his '211150 120b exPeetadmints ne keY11. Let own property, to have it reedy for use l'im,104, P, you bear "%e say be is my somewhere else. But no, the clock of one 1205'48°1 of the village churches struck 2 just then; " Yea madam, and sorry I am to hear it, for I've heard of your husbanda-" 44 Agnes," moaned the captive, "find my pistol -quick -and shootthe fellow. Put it 0080 to lOs arm and fire, then break the other in the same way -that will make the devil loose his hold. I hear men running - they are coining this way." "Help Monier Help !" roared Zenas, who oleo heard quick footsteps on a sidewalk notefar.away. Then be said quickly, " Ma- dam, "before pitman find that pistol eau kill this man with my lands at bis throat. I've had to fight savage animals with my hands." "God a eve mercy?" exclaimed the wo- man, again dropping on her knees beside the Iwo men. "Listen to me, nian ! As God lives, my husband is innocent of the charges agaiuse himea1 knew he ise-I anew ,fl 4h the ola fannaee. 'Mrs. Bortley acted upon this sugeestion, but was unfortunate to select an hour when her neighbor was out; she made a supplementary effort when her husband ex- plained that country people usually became acquainted by borrowing small necessities from one another, but when Mrs. 33ortley begged the loan of a cup of groimaeoffee one morning:she saw -only hee nemhbor's servant, and the same result attended the payment of the loao. In vain, too, did ehe display her anthem who really were pretty and well dressedt when ner neighbor Nvalked eilonethrough the well kept garden, which the I3ortleys -coveted for its rare display of flowers; Mrs. Maytham seemed to ignore the very existence of the Nvell-behaved children, for whom an emperor might have been glad to exchange his crown. Zenas, howeve”, had no idea, of giving rip, and the unexpected lack of neW acquaint- ances -a peculiarity of suburban villages - added to his determination to know his near- est neighbor. While watering Ins late lettuce solid silver ware, beside a great deal of one Saturday afternoon, and felicitating bric-a-brac, worth its weight in gold. Pro - himself upon Isis success during hot weather bably the windows, inside the blinds, -were with th:s eucculent but caprimons vegetable, wide open -all country windows were he suddenly climbed a tree and inspected dutang the dog -days. Let that ladder once his neighbor's kitchen garden. just as he be raised, and the thief et its top, and Zenas had. suspected, the only lettuce there had was sure that the frail blinds would prove run to seed. In a moment Zenas was upon no obstacle to the fellow's wicked designs. the ground again, and pulling sotne finely But what could the unsuspected observer blanched plants, which he took to his neigh- do? Ile could. not move toward his own bees kitchen door, saying to the cook : house without being seen and heard; even "1 hope I don't intrude, but good let- were he within his doors hehad no firearms, tuce is scarce at this time of the year, and, no telepbone, no burglar alarm. He might as mine is very fine, I thought perhaps your slip oat, through the shadows, to his gate mistress would enjoy some:" . " and. thence to the local police station, nearly The servant took the crisp present without a mile away, but before a.n officer could a Iv . 'After moving several steps toward. come the robbery would be accomplished. brill iant clump of tritomas. As he stood gas- might move the ladder across the fence and (ed hol e Zenas stopped suddenly to admire a Worse still, the' fellow, flushed by success, inghe heardn window blind apex:and a voice enter the Bortley Amine. True, Zenas owned calling,' in a lOw tone: " . ?no. valuables except his wife incl. children; 7 4c Bridgefr • ' " Mem ?" " Who was that 19. " leliseher Bortley, mem." et The owner of taat.gatigt next, door?"- . , but the thoughtof a ruffian prowling giout his sanctuary was not to be endured for an tustapt. Coeld he scare the fellota Away by nrnicieg, a nciiiee .Pedxaps, bathe liaeiheaid- °fist's:ghats Who rim Fight. at a settee lathed df awayt frith It. Should the burglar attack " Tanpli 1" The last expression was 'emplitt- hint there woula be nothing to do but give sized by so vigor Des a closing of the,Windoweupahe ghost earn*, for his heart was al-, - blind that the catch fastened with a Sharp ready in his throat, and *he .felt unable to snap. A moment before 'Zama had felt bent move hand or foot. And his life was in - as well as short; a moment after t,he wound sured for only $1000. . to his paid° had straightened hum until, as hel Terror and excitement .hael made him so strode acmes, the fence, he felt as till as wild that exhaustion speedily followed, with Goliath of Gath. He hastened to the house its consequent apathy. Eveis his conscience to tell his wife, but he checked. himself ; he , followed the lead of his will and became ea adored that wife of his ; he was always en- terly demoralized. It was too bad, on gen. compassing bar with his love, that she might eral principles' that a house should be rob - be shielded from the slings and darts oan bed, but thatparticular house, probably unappreciative world; she should not know furnished with the wagesof Maytham's crime that tiny one' had alluded to her and her -wall, the little men recalled without a bit nestlings as a " gang." 1 of shame, and to his treat satisfaction, the Yet Isis own heat grew sore as it was infamous old saying t sat "the second thief chafed by the wad whi could not be for.' is the best owner. And really -this as his gotten. The exprestlo 1 and the tone in nonscience. atteniptecl to rally -might not I've got the whole amity out of the t 4 TRUTH" CENSUS COMPETITION wa_ 1 •"••••4 .tPasle Prizes fo the nearest calculations to the ropulatioit.ot Canada and Ike differesit PrOvinees anti VitieS the MSS below. Pend new, as the Fleet Carregt Estimate in, 7e4kee the First Prize each aa -SO. The publisher of Toronto Titrrt in order to extend the alreadv great cirenlation of that popidor .ireekly magazine. trill give the following s-alcs of cash prizes to th.t persons who first kend hint the neare$ c•tletilailen, guess or est...mite of what the population of the dilScrent Cities Pravinces or the Dominion. of Canada, mooed in the list following, will be In 1nf• Tito Mitelal government lignites whim they am given to Parliament will decide who the winners are,. As ageide give Elie Porellettons lett and Ism. You eara See what the increase hasheen in the ease guess 0i -estimate what it he in 191 and send in our figures now. - POPI:LATION P PitOYINCF.1 AND CASH PRIZES. i- lett i lee* 11 Craig,/ 't ist god Jrtt i 4th 5th --- 3,3)2.55,11 i 4.321,Sti iheninioa ofeanada..... *1 04 *250 , $10e 50 1.64.4.1.t.;54 1 1,1,125.±."5 Ontario ..... .... ... • . ••• k 44Y) 1.101.510 ( 1,3,10.027 Ilriebee ,......... ...•• 400 164 50 25 ai-4%Sall a 40.4U Nova :rito.tia.,..... 200 75 2.5 10 21 .105 t a4taa N;Q..... umniwies ...... eoo ati 10 91.041 1,ki,,•11. .Pr.nee El. Island.... 00 10 15,2-li Wait Manitoba, , - - ,. - .I. *et* 51 10 10,541 4, S:Mtii lirttii-h Columbia.. ...iv 25 10 1 51411 1.7..•Vti'. 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Any rt,rson srmling, receive Them for fifteen months tor it preferred, the paper ill, he sent to live tuldrer.p.es for three inntglis caelol and will be allowed one estimate 05 eao, city and province the list, as wen 54 021thetioutirsion; or thirtyaive ditierent estimates Onanr Ono vitt:. or provinee. 01 00 the Dominion. 3, Au lor•oin. hirultigt wenty re,?eive Iwo trunliers of Cie a trial, atel will be one guess or ettimeto on the populetion of ane 000 0* the cities'. province...Liar 1)emin. UM In the almovelist• Should any ;cue*, or estimate of any cite or province: or of tbe Dominion be the exaet number of the eelinisition. lir the nom": ta that nuiuhrr, thellr4 aka prize oppasitottm name of the eit Y leeFeWeer thellOiniolon will he given to the gues,ier. The pers who comes next near. est will receive ilia second prize. the third Monet the nee', and so on tin all the priessare buteti, 15 there Is more than onetorreet gait”s or estimate kf the potiultitien each eit.34 pmvinee or the iloininion. the prizes will he awarded in the order the letters arrive at fl'ituan entice. That st., SIM some first 1..ert ed. Fo don't delay Bending in your estimate. These prize (dere will be withdrawn and the ,iVinipetition eloNed mine time to prevent any gaVer.nlieilt onleiai from,,ending in who utiglit be in a position '20 know the exact thrums bete e 1505 515 given to Parliament. No one knows now what t he population will be, therefore, eon have as good.an oppOrtaulty wilily to etrike the nearett **urea. Even th goVernMent censas enumerator blinself ems ws o more tlan you 112'. The Paella ser at Titt"rit doeQn't. decide -who the winners are, the oillelallIgures of the govern- ment of tanaila will settle the matter. and the prizes wilt he paid over at. once on t he official a, nouneement, being made in Parliament. nal result+ will be published in T111:Tit the moment at:quire:1 all copyright* of the actual ollieial figures are known. The Publisher og TurTir bed these Census Voropetitions. and will prosioute an infringement s. Adores; and make all orderepayab'e to S. Pak:it& TertoNTO. VAXAD/L, siaegente wanted in all unrepresented district& fiend In now before territory is cecupled 4gang.31.3 He was ashamed of the shot as soon as he facts. He's the maim of a conspiracy that lea fired it, and still more ashamed when Ise must be exposed before long. He bas risked discovered that it did not take effect. Then he remained on guard over both 'muses, en- tertaining officers and all other curious peo- ple, and forbidding that any one should even ring Mrs. Maytham's door bell, as the poor lady's nerves had been terribly shaken. Later in the day he watched ca dully for the return of his family, and warned Mrs. Maytham in time. "05, Zenas I" exclaimed Mrs. Bortley, as her husband met her at the gate. ‘4 The everything to-mghtfor the sake of seeing his wife -his wife, do you hear me? Imaeine yourself in his place -for your wife's sake for the oneperson alive who trusts you—" "It's no use, Agues," groaned the man. " The fellow's a brute. Those men are almost here -I'm too weak to run far if 1 try -I'm gone." "Oh, God 1" the woman moaned. "Has heaven no mercy for the Innocent?" Zenas looked into the face before men -a greatest news! I bought an evening paper woman's upturned face, full of agony, the as we left New York, iincl what do you moon shining So hill upon it that its every 'thin': ? Mr. Maythain isu't a defaulter at line was visible. Then he said softly and all. The securities he is said to have taken quickly : , have been found, and the real thieves have "Yes, madam ; heaven has mercy, as man ' eenfesPed I and - 14 win show you." He relaxed his hold and I "Give me that paper," interrupted. Zenas. thrust a hand into his pocket, continuing to 'Fie glanced over the story, and, as he read, talk fast. his wife exclaimed. "Mr. Maytham, you say you're too weak "Now, what do you think ?" to run far; you won't be safe in your own "I think," said Zenas," that our neigh - house -hurry into mine -here's the key to bor will call on us to -clay." Then he dashed the back door. -go upstairs as softly and as into the house, showed the-newspa,per to his far as you can -there's nobody on the toss hidden: guest, hurried downstairs and over floor, and there's light enough in the halls thefenca rang the belleandbroke the news for you to see • your way. ,Den!t make a as gently as possible po.iii. wande411 neigh - noise, or you'll reuse -my family, Now'sTbor- y,our. chance -knock, me aside ancl hurry I " You will.excnse me, Ltrust, madame, if ' across the fence -,quick. Go softlyon your I present you 10 InY wife when you come toes -keep in the shadow." - lover'? She is the head of the family when Away itied Maythath, and Zenas continu- she is at home.'" ' ed, as ,two men came hurrying, into the 1' -"I shall do myself the. honor to tell Mrs. garden gate. , 'Bartley how loyal a neighbor, how beave a soul how noble a man her husband ix," "Remember, madatn-'twas a burglar-, he-rati derosi ' my backyard -,--he 'hurt me said Mrs. Maytham, ltricl I shall beg her to badly -you're trying to restore me -make la me be her husband's devoted friend -and them help you --don't let them take me into hers -forever."' . my house till Pm restoreci-----" I So the Borticys came to, know their next - Then, for the men were almost upon him ' door neighbors after all. that good little inan played hypocrite with consummate ability. He begged the men riot to leave him, bade them see how teriibly • injured he was, sent Mrs. Maytham into her • There is no deep love which has not in it house for water and stimulants, and toM the an element of solemnity. story of the attempted burglary at great Love. -True, unchangeable love remodels length, until one of the men said: our eharacters, removes the weed of selfish - "Well, I emcee' taint no use to try to find nese, making us live for something better the feller now --he's got too inuch start. It's than ourselves, makes us see new beauties in only by chance we followed him any way, T things around us, and by Its sanctifying in thort 1 heerd a ladder bein' took from a fluence purifies ourlives. The Little (look. teed to bread. Here the question of yeast Every ehild, especially every girl, has an instinctive desire to make mut meddle wher- ever any ettlinary processes axe going ou ; and every mother and every kitchenanaid are accustomed to give the little one a bit of dough ,then mixing bread or ealte, and of ktiang ber bake her own httle confection in a saucer. It is a wise mother who takes ad- vantage of this natural inclination in a girl to make her a eook betimes, and to turn the taste and tendency to aecount in the family. To be a good cook, 'to be a good nurse, to be a.gooil needl e-wouiati, are the three thingaa.b- solutely easentialto thehappieess, and to the continuance in happiness, of the great major- ity of all women, whatever more it may he given them to be ; and if the things leading to such desireaproficiency are taught in sea- son, there Will be so =mil more tiancleftfor alltheother things that invite after the foun- dation of the positively necessary Is laid. , " The basiness can be begun by letting a. child of nine or ten, for example, make a bowl of gruel, overseeing its preparation so carefully that there can be no mistake made and that the consumer of the gruel can praise it so sincerely that her ambition will be fired for all the future, so far as gruel is concerned, to make it perfectly. She will put a quart of water in the saucepan over a good fire, and then wet a tablespoonful of oatmeal in a little eold water, and stir it smooth as the smoothest paste, and when the water boils she will pour the paste into the saucepan, stirring it all the time, when half done adding a saltspoonful of salt, boil- ing a, half-hour, and straining thlough a fine wire strainer, when ±1 114 has not scorch- ed, the inavlid will have a fastidious appe- tite who is not pleesed with it. Indeed, many well people find it an agreeable and satisfying dish ; and we have known of a house -keeper, in distress for a Soup, serving this oatmeal gruel, well salted, and with , sommcelery tops thrown into the tureen as it came to the table, for the sake of appear- ances,and experiencing the delight of one who has made a new discovery at the relish with which her guests disposed of her. white soup. When our little cook is sufficiently ac- complished in this simplest grael,• to which learning in later -years remade and the more Icomplicated sorts can t be ataded, . her . at tention can be thrned to bread, that .one most necessary thing in the support of civ- ilized life; and her interne stop , in the pro - aces ban be the 'concoction of seine dream of tarter biscuit, in which she will be shown how to rub a piece of butter the size of an egg into a quart of flour till there are no lumps, adding then a teaspoomful of salt and two heaping; teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, stirred in well, then wetting it with a Out of cold water ln Which a heaping teaspoon- ful of soda has been dissolved; when well mixed pouring it out on the board into enough flour to let it be moulded sitooth, rolled to a surface a half-inch thick and the biscuits cut out with a tembler, if there is no biscuit -cutter, and baited In a well- san her biscuits hava been admired, as they ought to be; she can pro - g • vv rompliattes matters at the outset; but as yeast is now so easily °loaned at the baker's and in the compressed form, we will assume that she has it on band, and if sbe has to learn to prepare it, that exciting business can come afterward. If now she scalds a balf-pint of milk, ana adds it to a, gill of -water 111 Willeh a quarter of„.a, yeast .cake has been dissolved, together with a teaspoon- ful of salt and another ot butter and stirs all that into a quart of Hoar, turns it out and kneads it, till her little sons are tired, and another Stronger person must finish the half-hour's kneading for her, and then puts it 'into a pan, and vets' a transverie tht in the top of the niass and /eaves it to rise overnight, she will have completed the first chapter of her work. In the, moraine. when the dough may Imre doubled in heigalit, she will take it out, and kneatlit again till the litt/e arms can do no more and assistance is called in; then she will shape -it into a loaf, put it into a buttered. pan, prick it with the carving fork, anti bake it in a hot oven three-quarters of an hoar, when it will not be her fault, or the fault of her overseer, if she has not prodnced a good leaf of bread, and is not entitled to be called lady, or loaf -giver. Giugerbreads and cakes and elainties will come into a later year of our little cooking - school, as in this year only the essentials aro dealt with, although to hungry school- children cookies and snaps and jumbles sometimes seem snore essential thanbread and, meat, aud they quite egret with that wit who thoughe he could- dispense with the necessaries of life if he could only have the luxuries. Bet all this accomplished week by week, it is time for the young cook to learn how to roast the meat, wiping mid not washing the beef anti mutton ; how to boil it -in hot water if the meat is fresh, in cold if it is salt or corned; how to broil a steak, by searingeach side quickly as possible in order to retain the juices ; how to make and sea- son a stew; leaving the dressieg of xs fowl tit a much more aclyeamea period of kitchen lore, eogetherewith the composition of ea - Live and all euela elaborate affairs. It will be time, too, with this roast or stew, to learn about the 15reparation of the simpler vegetables a hew to ,cOok potatoes, for . in- stance, by Plunging them into belling Water, and- when thine pouring off 'the water, sprinkling them with salt, 8,nd leaving them one hot evaporating berstina, segment `over the tiro. And when with this our little maid has learned how to make a plain cus- tard pudding, by beating five eggs with two tablespoonfuls of sugar into a quart of milk, adding half a teaspoonful of flavoring ex- tract, peach or kernels, and a generous pint of salt, grating nutmeg' over the top, and baking three-quarters of en hour, she can truthfully style herself a gcod plain cook ; and she has learned her art, moreover, in a way as good as play. The poet is never happy, because in Na- ture he wants the world, and in the evor1d. he longs for Nature.