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OlIAPTIA3 XVIII to abstain from hard vorde towards Miss "If it had hoots any one but, you You 094°"-" 00 honest, Are you sure that you, know "you would spare her," says she, frown' whet you are doing? asks frefusia, regard. hag her with a frowning brow. 'Oh, I know all you would say i" cries Terry, with deep agitation ; she clasps her itende together with eouvalsiee tonere. "All 1 all I I !Ave been theongh it myself. I know whet I seem to you, bet—" She breaks down. • It is ten days later, -steu days which have been given up to the mourning of Miss Bridget, who wouldn't have given up one hour for the seke of auything in earth or heaven, Terry had been a little glad of the ten days of solitude : they had, kept her from seeing Trofusis. And though a lover, in most cases, might be admitted at any time or on any emotion, she ordained it otherwise in her own ease. It helped her to put off the evil, hour of renunciation far a day or two at least. But time, like most things, is a failure. There is nothing subetantial in it. Con. anions of its defeats, no doubt, it flies from us, The ton days have come to an end, and with them Terry's reprieve. To-day THE oFmvEXNT.Ell ."4.1 TiMES ilERI E EANS NESYSIDEall are a new dis- covery that cure the worst mew or Nervoue Debility, Lost Vigor and Failing Manhood; restores tlas weakness of body or mind caused by ovp•-work, or the errors or ex. esmes a youth. This itemedyab- cures the most obstinate cases when all they s have failed even to relieve. Soldby drug- s or six for $5, or sent by Inchon ' TEED .TAMES MEDICTIVE -tuyhlet. Sold ta— re, Bs:eters ing. "And myself top, After all, she is uoth. log now to me ; nothing in the world, and never Will he. Of your geodaese be good to her. I ant going away, I slutu_snee "Going away t?" There la open concern con her face now, "Where?"' "Where do eit rejected awaina go?" he asks, laughlug : It is a rather dreary litiegh "To the Rooky Mountains, isn't Per - 'bane I shell go tesere. And if not, some- where else. "I shall hear of you 1" she asks, as he moves pest her with a kindly and, "Yes, you shall heart" CHAPTER XIX. It seems impossible, she tells herself, yet only a week has elapsed after the going of Tretusis before Terry knows that she misses him. At first -the first day or two, that is -- there was a high sense ef relief ; a feeling of liberty regained, of self -dependence re - now -she is standing bolting at Trefusis, stored. But the third day ehattered all with her breath scant, and her eyes a that. dreiem of misery. She haat lest laid bare Its morning broke doll and cheerless. to him her settled determination to end their engagement, "But whet," -sternly,-" what do you think you seem to sue 1 "False and worldly." She turns more directly' to him, compelling herself to it with bar and sad misgivings at her heart. He will judge her harshly, But she is act- ing rightly, well. However sure she may be of this, she has certainly grown very pale. Trefusis, with cold questioning eyes, ems see that she is deeply disturbed. But how beautiful she is through all her sadness and distrese I He knows her well enough to understand that this dividing of herself from him is a dis- tress. How sweet she looks, - White as the sun, fair tut the lily I She has clinched her hands tightly together before going on. "I know what you think. It is open to all people to think now. That I accepted you when I was poor, and threw you over when 1 -was no longer poor. 1 wish -I wish," with almost passionate regret, "that I had said all this to youwthet evening, when—" Rain was falling. From the. Ivy branches the drip.dripsdrip of the rein -drops 'oh mUd be heard continuously all the day. Terry: rising front breakfast, wandered idly to the drawing -room. There, or in the garden, Trefusis used to come to her every morning. There was no one to come. She thought hie visit i an intrusion then, while he was still in the country ; determi- nation had made her think them so ; but when those visits were forever at an amid ,the morning felt very long. There was such an odd,strange feeling about everything, —211oh &blank She walked from room to room restlessly. The news that he was gene had been con- veyed to her by Fanny, in a letter. Fanny had disdained to bring the news by which Terry knew that she was terribly angry with her. But Terry was so angry on a small account of her own that she paned over Fanny's unjust indignation very light. ly. Why had he gone thus, suddenly, with- out another word, then, when, all was re- versed between them, -when she was no :,,pemettae beggarmaed? se, Mug tiennorwer- Yet teems:fhb to "When I read your letter," baa festival with hen She was new rid quickly, as if defying her reserve. " Alt I that letter I" forever of the visits she used to ((reach -of "But for it, perhaps-.--" the voice, the step. And yet— "No would made no different*, I think. I et4sik'seePleaesel. over her, no doubt, until she had told herself that she no 1" She lifts her hands. had often wanted 1.(211 you that I could hated him. But that was all over, and her chance slaoull have been given her. She not marry you. And .Tnat letter, it made an end, nothing more. But what I It.,4„4 ii-," would have liked to play the lady over him, for a itteheneagelletecuald be done without her voice vibrating with poignant sorrow, "that I had said all this to you before her the hatefuttie t. etegegement. death!" But he -was gone. lfserrey'e leveer h d "For how long have you wanted to tell told her that yesterday. He had gooehtway me you could nod marry me I" asks Trefusis the morning after her final rejection of him. in a strange tone. He could not have gone a moment earlier. "I don't know." She presses her hands Hewas glad of his escape the girl told against her eyes, as if to compel memory,or hereelf, with a queer laugh. Thus ended else shut hint out, "I know nothing as it that third day. should be. It is all so strange, so dark. * * * ti_ , But do know that I meant to"tell you,loug before my aunt's death, that I would not marry you. I did! I did I" she cries, her eyes tearless, hub her voice full of weeping. "Von do -you must believe me l" He bows his head affirmatively if stay. "But say it I" entreats she, with a vehe- ment gesture, "Of cinema' believe you. Do you think I could have loved you as I do, if I did not believe you?" He draws his breath a little sharply. "Now you have it all your own Ivey,' says he, "I hope you are satisfied." He stops and smiles at her ; a queer smile, filled with many oomplex thoughts. "Von will be satisfied tom' says she, in rather a suffocated tone; he can see that she is crying now. "You will be rid of me; you will forget me—" "Probably," coldly. "What I -"hall not fcrget, however, is that I was engaged for some weeks to a girl who eeent that time wondering how she could: in any decent wise put an end to lien engagement with me." "That is taking a very unkind view ()fit," Terry eries, tretoulonely, and with a tech of indignation. The truth, the real is plain to every one. And it places gather in the wrong. I should never, ecepteci you; having accepted you, I have kept to my word: Yet have in both ways. Oh, I know how I be regarded by my world. But. you W that all is over between us -might nore generous to me. Yon" --looking ddenly up at him with sweet drenched s -"you must know how I shall be con- ned and commented upon by many pea- , whereas you will go quite free." 'Quite free," bitterly., His tone troubles Yes. Quite free without a backward he," says she, eagerly. "For you , you know, you never really loved t was a fancy on your part, --a, mere fancy. But love, there was no follows this, short but tragical, gaze into each other's eyes. to -flea her by the arms, holding her, his face transfigured from lin to passionate anger. She him shove so much emotion ad not thought him capable velation to her, ! says he, between his and you know it,"e Sad - from him. "Pah I you mbering 1" says he. through the park he son. His brain still on to conceal the anger in, when a sudden turn brings him face to mild have 1 -Dirtied bY mutton, but she stops r, gratified revenge, as she puts out her petted," says slue, thrown you over ? agement?' the heeti Were awe oompelled her to think of hint egaia. OW .and over her brain erevelled woe ttib reed that had had hint al a.Ii \v8 pane -11%1y, had ntade spa ioett iltiln7t, jet leaf galthe otoilut:o biti her to hoef her itfo. tinlianititert‘illolvieegahbetett,1 Aldo. orife4 He had Hot: heleio4sb, ahleahmadig lAvyedwahyo,rtnionaohuisb ,tel...vnbwutYtil-but was love in it, love all through it, for all svinier she had learned to believe so numb. Here-te-day-this thought reoure to her again. patteviug of bet behind her brings her to sieiden calm. She tarns. "Farley I" she cries. " Here I am 1" deeleres Fanny, in est sigueer,flaoasly, flinging herself into Terry's e You are ha* 1 you are home I" says Terry, (dinging to her convulsively, Oh, how sweet it is to see her again, to know that some human thing, in sympathy with her, is within a mile or SO of her 1 4' Came last night," gasps Fanny, hold - hag her batik and shaking her lovingly. Silly baby, not to cisme with me I fent I'm baok anyvvey, and Terry, darling," - with the fondest air, --0 so glad to see you again. How sweet you look I How sweet your garden looks I -how sweet it all ie I" "You especially," says Terry, catching her and kissing her again. Oh, get away, flatterer." " When did you come ?" "A moment Ne "Well, half an hoar ago, and ran down to see you first thing." "Oh Fanny!" "Yes, you ought to be conceited over it. But," slowing of a little, " the fact is, Terry, 1 ought to let you know at once that -Gerrard is with use' " Mr. TeefusiFI" " Yes, Gerrard, He would come. I tried an I coalcl to Prejteut him, but you know Robbie I Hetedelich a fool. Bat I suppose it won't matter mita, darling, will it? As yea are so indifferent to him--" a Alla he so indifferent to me," says Terry smiling. " Oh, as for that, quitee'l think. He talks of you in the most usual manner. He has quite got over that, I think, so youneed not be worried about it in any way. And you'll come up to dinner tsenight, won't you? Better get over it at °nee, ypu know, espec- ially as he is going to stay here for a month.", " Certainly I shall come," says Terry. She feels gaits, unconcerned, quite cairn and composed. She had thought she would have felt, a kind of neevousness at meeting him again ; she had even once or twice imagined it possible that she had liked him more than she had known ; but this sudden news of Nanny's has dispelled all those hallucina- tions. It would be impossible to feel as unconcerned as she does at this moneat, if there had been S. sparkle of regret in her heart. "That's settled, then," says Mrs. Adam. leye her heeds on the girl's shoulders. " You are looking pale," says she, "but, as I have always., 'maintained, you are the most beantifulegette in the world. There, I must go," giving her a friendly pat. "1 know .1 am IS for your morals. Half. past seven, r." •(zf'BE cONTDV17.31).) This day is charming. A -last titete of summer pervades it. It isa weiltt` later, and. Mr. Trefusishn, going has become a thing of the „Paste Terry, leaning over the old. balustrades, COOkee to the south, where the light -blue climids are blowing, and whence the stir of the ilea, can be beard. Larry, who e's *elide her, touches her arm. as if to btingr eback from fairy -land, or whatever 1e4 itelnay beta which her thong its bane wanliered. "Yea?" says she [ttajgto him, her eyes a little vague. "I wish yoit wo try to ifelyeleiallow, says Larry, hitt levied tone. t'sd'eet. "Help you? I'll help yen he, e most liberal people in the world in any way I can." e others. Twice in their history they have "Come down from the • , then," experienced a complete change of fronnand says he jealously.. adopted a foreign civilization. Th n first "Oh, clouds l'' says she, laughing, a time was many centuries itgo,when Chinese little uncertainly perhaps. "Well, I'm civilization, vet& its literature, manufac- down now: what can I do for you ?" titres and salmi% was found to be better "Von can marry me I says Larry, than their own,aind its adoption raised them promptly, brilliantly. It is a tribute to from a state of barbarism to one ot com- b's innate honesty that it never for one parative high civilization; and now in these moment occurs to 'him that he ought not lase few dectades, the new civilization of the to mak her to marry now, because of West has been adapted to a degree' that the money she, hat just come into. To must astonish any one who has a thor- Terry also it must be allowed that not one ough understanding of thernagnitude of the base thought of her cousin on this subject ehawsee that has taken place. In no way is helps her to her decision, this change made more evident than in the She looks at him sadly. hold which electricity has taken in the past "Well will you marry me '1" he asks, few years. The telegraph,of coaree,has been " • Larry, don't be angry with me. in use since soon after the openingof thecoun- Every one" --pathetically-" is angry with try and now extends to all parts of the Em- ma now, I think. But you won't be; will pire. Whenit was first estelelished there were you 'ft couldn't marry you. I don't love many amusing -occurrences, due ta the in' you that way. I couldn't, indeed !" ability of the people to understand how the "I believe you are in love with that message wee sent over the wire. The confounded prig after all, in spite of your writer's first visit to Japan was early in sending him away," says Leary, violently. 1886, and one day he was, with a guide, "Von have been moping for the last week; walking over a remote mountain road along not a word for any one. Just look at your which passed a telegraph line. A country- li tE4TDITY 114 THE FAR EAST lepte AverAter, incidents in Japan-Tiae ehiserag vsee wag waiting to See the Illes- ii A ne go eity. The * lingnets of the Japanese to adopt, withoutireserve, says a writer in The Elec. eealesWorld, a civilization totally different in charecter from that under which they hadpreviously lived is One of their moss striking characteristics. While they are very conservative in many ways, they are ry one should know' eye he, =kite, an but failing. A.nsoe, She breaks: (1'1/engin "She has when her future is knew she would do lot she no dece,ncy, She used you as a, eitronger staff, then eido. Was that fair esty ?"' One ;SO honest," says ountleg to hie brow,, atmly, as if angered svrer. " One' can to lice ---th one who cherously I Whet you were engaged erl Did I not 'warn too lever?"e clever," geye Tre- "You b un - you ineao," with onfess I ito net as here, If you yell still regard Mho, --that you call her tttly, 1,14, kly, eecete man was met who had seated himself by the face.'! Indeed!, her face is a study. A deep blush roadside and w intently watching the has dyed it. Bo vivid, so painful is this wire. His gaze4iss so fixed that the guide rush of color thatit brings tears to her eyes. asked whet he we doing, and he replied All at once she knows that she is trembling, that he was 'entitling to see te meseage go What had Leary 'said to make her feel like along the wire, that he had watched many this, and why should it touch her so 1 It is times since it was pat up but had never been falene -false 1 There is no truth in it. Yet able to see anything. This incident was, it is orifeeby a determined effort that she perhaps, no more amusing than the recep- tion of the telephone in Rio Janeiro. The recap - keeps herself from bursting into tears. ' You are rude," she says with a calm, writer was in that city when the exchange nese that Costs her a good deal. ,cIf I was being started amid considerableopposi- tion was shown, as the people suppcned blush, it is for you, --your manner, -the ywweaouyr.d,y, aotu osbpeeea, kr,. atIrtyi. s bIe tat:erne obesvaeyr e eine a.lrereyt you; never. I'' -tremulously- "would rather be an old maid forever than merry that language.-Nleotrical World. sotrodtheri ntgobbuot Eabulgelitsoh aceo:lidt btletel3Y9cimicuesnbanledarinn " You won't say that when you are an old maid; and I'll wait till then," says the devoted Larry. ' Terry bursts into uncontrollable laugh - Our sweetest laughter with some pair. is fraoght, sang one not to he seri:teased, some years ago ; and indeed, Terry's mirth is full of unshed tears. " Ali, don't I" says site. " It will be no ; and look at my nose, Larry. I shall be 0.-efteleOus old maid 1" "Oh, ru wait," say's he. I'll chance the nese I" At this they both laugh. * * * * Eight months have gone by, and once more sweet April Is with us. The trees are all olive teach bush and shrub it casting forth its grectery. OfSprtng that break,: with all her leaves, Of %Ms that build in thatch and eaves, Of woodlands whore the teroatle Of girls that gather cowelip there are enough end to spare. Terry, stepping into the sweet up -bursting ,garden, stands still, as if to take in all the delights around her, From a corner a the old orchard beyond, a stray wind has blown, tome blossoms Oil her head, " Ala it it sweet sweet I" She sighs and throve ont her arms pensively, The winter is over, -the long, long winter. She is glad to think of it as buried, dead, It wee terribly long, and so (divider ly so inexpressibly dreary, Fanny had gone abroad,. Vainly, who had been to cola to her, ett Almost tuikhtd, dust at the vety !mesh° had asked Terry to go with her to Florence but Terry hail refused. There were the boys, sly: tiled, But the boys had noinielped her to hear the durfiese, Max had been sent, to a. grinder, prePitter tory to his entering college, and (1-ooltrey A Osnsolatory One evening, jaet about dark, I rode up to a. celen in the Tennessee mountains and asked to stay all night, " sorry, mister," set& a woman who had respendee to my rogues t, but yet can't stay here." "Why not?" I asked. "I'll pay for it." "Tain't the pey l'nt afeard uiv, mister," he said, "bat, Viet' ain't no mertfolks in the house and lere cente keep you." "What am I to do 7" I aske I, helpless- ly. ' "Goca to th leZt place, I reckon." "How far is i ." " Two miles, or sitch e es ttter," "But it is dark," I urged ; " I never wee here before arid I'll be ante to lose the road." "I reckon ther'e a chanee int that," she said, and then, more encouragingly, "but hits Shell a tattiel bed veal, mister, that you'll be glad you lost hit, afore you've gone a mile." 3.01‘1,1f4.41. wpm", A large part of the average haelinum'a success is doubtless due TO his knowing how to take people, " Bilkein's is a /strong face, or I'm no judge of physiognomy.° " It ought be be, lIe and his whole family are living on it." Binkers-" I don't see how's you eau laugh at 8 aphead s insane jokes. f?Ilenir ere -,A Yon would if you knew his pretty els, tor." Bridget --" Plemee ma am, the market man hag brought inc meat bill." Mrs. wife-" How stupid ; it was Ash I ordered, I'm , Seedy luveritor-"I've got'au idea that's worth millions, sir!" Capitalist-" What do you want for it?" Seedy Liveators- About a dollar." e Friend of the fareily-" Well, how's lit - Us ? We don't see as much of you as we used to." Willie (shyly)--" No M - Pm in long trousers now, First poet-" Don't you netioe quite decline in poetry in the newspapers?" Sees end poet_" You bet ! I've had six pieces declined this week," She---" I must ask you to release me from our engagement. Pepe has failed-" He --" Oh, that's all right. I em the man who won all his money." Johnny Plenty--" Say, Jimmy, does pie hurt anybody? My aunt says it does." Jirreny Scant-" Couldn't tell yer, Johnny. I never had no chance ter eperiment." Torn -" Well, a girl can't be expected to keep a diary." " And why not, pray sir?" " Bezause diaries are supposed to be secrets, and women can't keep a secret." Hoax-" I hear Hemphet has just re. (solved a legacy of SI 00,000." Joex-" Yes, and that Makes him at made the richest and the poorest actor in the profession." Hobbs-- "I like to hear Spoater make a speech. He ?nee his whole soul into it." Slobbs-" He doesn't stop\ with his sole. He usually manages to put his foot in it." Sha-" You want me to be your wife? I thought you said you wouldn't merry the best woman in the world." Efe-But ve changed my mind, and I will if you'll have "You don't look like ye'd had very good luck ab dat house," said Plodding- Pete. "I got a cake," replied Meandering -Mike. "Den -what yen Tookin' so sour about?" "'Tires or cake o' soap. Hocuts--" What happened when you told your mother-in-law to mind her own busi nese ?" Poeus-"I don't exactly know. When I recovered consciousness I found myself in the hospitabl." "Now listen, Freddie the doctor said that it was that little bit of candy you ate last night that made you sick." 'Well, you know how I asked you over and over to give met Whble lot.' Now that I've won the maiden's heart, The facieto me is clear, To win her hand have to try To win her father's ear. Poor Pay --"I'm in a lot of trouble. The landlady says I'll have to settle up orlee,ve," Dead Betelte--"Why, you're in great luck, old man. My landlady says I must settle up before I can, leave." Alas for the season erratic When bards know not how they should sing; Too warm for the jingle of sleigh bells, - ' Too cold for the poem on spring. "Ane so, Peter, you spell 'women' with ten 'a' ?" said the teacher, correcting an exercise. "Please,sir," was the reply, 'my papa told mamma only yesterday that wo- men were singular beings." ' To buy the maiden a choice bouquet "He pawned the coat on his back, And she wore the flowers on the street next day, Pinned on to her sealskin sacque. "Confound you; sir! I've a notion to pull your nose. What do you mean by, telling people that I've got a temper?" "I take it all back sir. When I said that wasn't aware flat you had lost it this morning." D. Holrass Aniviem Qasstion A young !PAO ambitious for eneeeee weote to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes not long ago propounding four gnestione which are oftee raised of public 'men, and the distinguished poet's ateveere ate not without interest foe their coneiaeness neer meet answer your gime- blebs, If at all, in my ewe hood, as my as. sistant is absent at this time, I. A youtig man of good taste end good priteiples may safely go to dee a good actor in a good play. 2. The best three good beeks ? The 'Bible, kespeare's plays, and a good dietionary, Woreester or 'CV ()hater. To obtain Shte ii eticeese"/ Real woAr. ; 11440.10.04",141.e 04.0fnLoallitK,adlipt, Didn't Know What Work Was. Farmer Ileadfieb-"What under the sun is the reason that boys are such no -account critters nowadays? Here is our son, Jas- per, pretty nigh crazy to leave the old farm and try to gat a job in town." Mrs. Hardfist (meekly)-" Perbaps he thinks the work won't be quite so hard." Farmer Hardfiet-"Work ? *Why, shucks, Polly, he don't skurcely know what work is I He hain't done a thing settee supper but milk the cows feed the horses, slop the hogs,seplit and carry in the wood and kinder lie's, shell a little corn,ketch the colt., and turn the grindstone for me about half an hour. He's had all the rest of the time to himself, except the few minutes it took him to mend the bridle I broke this morn in'. What in the name o' thunder makes all the boys so cranyeto leave the old farm?" American Gams Disappearing. It is appalling to compare the enormous amount of game on this continent at the beginning of the century with the wretched remnant of 'to -day. At that time the American buffalo teamed the prairies in countless thousands, and was probably che most numerous'large animal in the world, and now --bat all Americans know the shafileful story of its extermination, Little more than a hundred years ago greet herds of elk swarmed in the Kentucky and Illinois hunting.groonds, and arenas late as 1820 a few con Id be found in the dietrietnorth of the Ohio River, • To -day their fast dim- inishing bands arc confined to the mono - Clive of the Northwest. The is sad store of fast approaching extinction s true of the other game animals, the antelope, bighorn, mountain goat and the various kinds of deer; in fact, it is true Of all our larger niemmels. .Many persons living to- day will sere their final disappearance in a wild state.-EThe Century. GQ 4 ABOUT ROYAL The. Prh1oes1 of V4les isOaay.V.os1111. The Wrneve is to no 140101U/ It Oa, the relit - eine nue r.milly 11111. Leave ocz.ind fur is sef ate .-toyat fsoi r mut -oar Naval Fisterenaney, Mr. Edmund Yates in his latest Lendthe cable sews ; Tee Priecese of \Vides is coo- valescent after her, recent severe illness, but is still very weak cud inuoli'depreeeed The Prineess Maude has also been ill, Sun- day WU the second anniversary of the death of the Duke of Clarence. Her Royal Highness mud her daughters will be away from England until about. Whitsunday, The Prince of Welee intends to be at Oanliet daring March and His Royal Aglt ness has ordered tee cutter "Briteunio„," whieh has been laid up at Cowes during the lase three mouths, to get ready to sail at once foe the Mediterreeeao in order that elm might take part in the various regattas which are held during iebe seasons off the Riviera. The' tBritaataie.' will leave early in February for Marseilles, where the regatta begets oa !March e. The Queen has.mede- a fennel grant of Clarence House to the Duke and Ductless of Oonneughn certain rooms shut up and reserved for the exclusive use of the !take and Deehess of SexeeCobourg, who retain the right of living there vritenever they Imppen to visit London. The Duke and Duchess of Conneught tilways occupied apertmeate in Beekinghatn Palaee when they wertrin town, but this was a very in- convenient arrangement, and the Queen has long, been anxious to give then' o permanent residence in Londoh. The offieial announcement of the betroth.. al of the Grand Deice of Hesse and his (mush' Princess Vietheia Melita of Co'bourg which took place formally iii -the Palace of Oobourg en Tuesday af bemoan, -WO stlelsy. ed until it had been privately oommenicat- ed to the Emperor and Empress of Russia, the German Emperor and Empress and other relatives. The marriage, according to the present arrangements, is to take plane at Cobourg dunng.the last week in April, when the Queen Will be stiYieg there. During his recent,visit to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir (Neel° the prince of Wales carefully inspected the famous silver churn which was made during the reign of Queen Elizabeth and weighs two thousand ounces. The superb christening ewer and basin by Benvertuto Celliai were also on view. The recent visit of the Duke and Duchess of Chartree to Prince arid Brincess• Walde- mar, of Denmark, at Copenhagen, was con- nected with the project of a marriage be- tween tfieir second daughter, Princess Marguerite who accompanied them to Copenhagen, and Prince Christian, the eldest son of the Crown Prince of Doom ark. In addition to his being the ultimate heir to the Danish throne, Christian will inherit a considerable portion of the immense for- tunes which came to his mother, the Crown Princess, from her father, the Late King Charles of Sweden, and her mother, Princess Louise of the Netherlends. Oro WTI Princess Louise at the time of her marriage in 1869 was the richest heiress in Europe. The Duke of Connaught has been situ- culing at stIdeeshot an order relating to bootlaces. He holds that theepractice of crossing the bootlaces is wrong. It is small matter, perhaps, but- the routine of regimental life Is made up of small matters. All the Duke of Connaught has done here is to point out what the right of way is for a soldier to deal with bootlaces, for, the sake of uniformity, whichis eesential in a well - ordered army. The Kb.edive has instructed John Inglis of the Glasgow shipbuilding firm, just returned front Cairo, to design and build a screw steam yacht of 600 ton for his own services in the Mediterranean. The vessel is to be ready by summer. The condition of the Queen of Sweden is causing -great anxiety: Her Majesty is suffering from the atter effete ot a severe attack of influenza and a state of extreme weakness. - The Crown Princess of Sweden is ex- pected this month at Carlarhue on a visit to her parents, the Greed. Duke and Duchess of Baden, and will visit Algiers later., The Duo de Sagan, who has been naseiog. the autumn at Chateau. Velours -ea spent a few days in Paris before goingeo Berlin, where he will remain for the 'rest of the winter. He is the only exampleed a French- man, who is a Duke both. in his OSVII country and in Germany, for while he is Duo de Talleyrand of France, he is head of the principality of Sagan in Silesie. Sir Moreimor 'Durand, -who arrived in London last week, e ter a speoial mission to the Ameer of Afghanistan, is to go to Osborne in a day or two on a visit to the Queen, and will- dine and sleep at the Palace, Tau in the ?duties: OE's. The humours of a newspaper office are sometimes most amusing. The .following incident happened not very far from Glas- gow. One of the reporters had written a paragraph, and being noupluseed es to whether he should insert a comma at it cer- tale Place or not, he applied ta the editor, The editor told hurn a,s he (the reporter) indicated Where he thoeght the comma should he ieserted, that he was " streets off it.." The reporter got tannewhat nettled at this,'and on the editor pointing out where the comma should be inserted, he toll him he Was wrong. After discussing the matter Ow some time they ;agreed to adjourn to a "path," and eettle ibOver a pint of beer, At ter haviag had a few " pests, they set. tied it by leeviligsthe matter to the demises, Role the editor saying, by the Way, that whenever he had any difficulty in punctu- ation he inveriebly left the compositor to put in the stops where he liked. Togs of the Pyrnd Thrillers. A two years steiiyair txtzen oonvoin. ea lit% Flinders Petrie that the Bennett) doti000raelters of, 4,1300 years ago had ma surprising anauaintsace with what ii eve been cortsideted modern tools, Among the many tools rieed by the pyramid bui.dera were ,both solid and tabular drills cud ipt and eirou, ar saws, a inte dri II, Iii ene keeeensesteee waste. eat, Vitt.b.6zIewelkUttf - PEARLS OF TRUTH. Esteem has more engaging charms thatt friendship and even love. It captivates the hearts better, and never makee grates. More joyfafeyes look at the setting than et the rising sun. Burdens are laid down by the poor, whom the sun consoles more than the rich, ' Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about me, and never *am a real sufferer but by my own fault. Ibis only from the belief of the goodness and wiedont of a supreme being that our calamtties can be borne in the manner which beTcohmeebsoadynln. body, overcharged with the excess of yesterday, weighs down the mind together with itself, and fixes to the earth that particle of the divine spirit. Discretioa of speeeh is more than elo- quence ; and to Speak agreeably to him with whern we deal is more then to speak hi gool words or in god order. The authority of teased is far more im- psrious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool. There is not in the world so toilsome,a,,, trade as the pursuit of fame; life ooncludes' before you heye so much as sketched your work. ,fiustiee ariees either front precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both; 'the rapid end slow are seldom just ;'the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too lolge,' , you would stand wellwith e great Mind, leave him With a favora,ble impression of yourself ; if with a little enrich leave with a favorable opinion of hineeelf, An indiscreet man ifi More huttful than an ill-natured one, for the latter will only ettaok his enemies arid those he Wishes ill to ; the other Injures indiffereetly both fIt is awiladirfoheasnded, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection hi die - ease and sorrow, there is nothing. in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter "dhepronti g(1°ahual(ht Ttamed ;the peeitent ho cheered ; nor to rebuke the rich offender feared ; preaching much, but more his practice wrought, a flying sermon of the truths he taught. 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I know a youagfellow who went around the world in a. private yacht and kept a daily diary. For leek of others. thoughts he filled in many ot the S undays with The sky seeme brighter, the sea bluer, and the air sweeter on a, Sunday than on any other day,' On reaching port, he found they had neglected to skip the day at the -1S0th m ' eridian and consequent ly all his Sundays were Mondays. It is stretching it a little to say that the sky iiestriti brighter, the sea bluer, and the air sWeeter on a Washday than on any other' day.' Take a lesson 'from that and jot down your ideas and impressions as they come, awl not force them at regular inter - eleeew save the poor feel for the poor, The smallest newspaper an the world le said to be El Telegram, published in Gua. dalejera, Ate -idea. Ibis but inches equate, Vieiter -"So you have a little baby brother ?" , Little Girle-"Yes'm. I prayed for a little baby tester, bat I e'pose the angels haul run obi, ef geld babies" Ade-'' Wasn't Charlie nearly drowned when he fell off die yacht e" ; of dottrso he &mid ,swim a beautifully ; ha had his duok troteerd on." , "So you end George have been staying 1th soy does' old -f reeda Sir bIttt)a0a,c and Lady;lihr:itia Waite yea list -it them 61o:P14 1#1101 tfo gi ii' *1:4 s,1 o