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Nolly and
'M'y dear chap, what on earth le
that prevents you train going boldly
up to the the girl, grabbieg her bend,
sod singing out, 'Nelly, 1 love yoti;
will yqu leve me?'"
Nolly Coiling's= stared at his
•friend for some moments, atm, tale -
leg out his; hauakerchief, wiped Pis
forehead
"Whet's to Linder you 4rota dotes
theta" repeated. Jaok Anstey. "11
would be as easy as—ae--"
"As hanging; is that tee word you're
in search of?" suggested the otaer,
"If Wit not the word, it 'should be
the word, for it exactly applies to my
ease. Everyone ,knows that the actual
operation of hanging doesn't take
very long, but tbe walk from the, con
damned oell to the ladder must asem
belt round tbe globe. I believe that
l'm constitutionally incapable of fac-
ing that girl in oold blood and :sing-,
ing out point blank -well, whet you
say I should sing out. I should
!mow! I've tried 11 every day during
the past week. What opportunities
I've bad' Mae alivel abatis 1141,0 Com-
plained Lo ane that they never bad, a
Moine of saying. a dozen.words to the
'girls whom they wanted to marry.
Well, they weren't like me -that's all
I've got to say, I can't complain of
being without chances. Why, to -day
alone I was with her long enough to
discuss the most interminable ques-
tion, and yet nothing came of it,
worse luckt"
"Well, you can't blame her, at any
rate," said Major A.nstey. "She too
gives you your claance. 11 you ouly
muster up courage enough to call her
Nelly' she'll jump at you."
"Atme? on me, you mean."
'Not she. Men are too scarce. Chalet
like you are the scarcest at all. The
V. Cas are the scarcest of the scarce.
Have you ever told bee hove you got
thesV.C., by the way?'
"She never asked me; she's the only
girl I ever met who didn't. 1 La.ieve
that's how I first came to think of
her. Some of them ask me twice
over, Tbey forget, you know, that
they did it before, and they think that.
I like bragging about it. They lit-
tle know the agony -ab, 1 wish to
goodness I'd la you lie among the
wreck of your guns, Jos. What on
earth possessed me to mai around the
troop beeause you haspened to be
knocked down I can't imagine. Oh,
here conies the general. We may
give up all idea of having a moment
to ourselves."
It was pretty plain to tee majority
of the people who Wale OLLLY111V; 511
Cranetoun Towers that Captain Col -
!Ingham had only Lo tell Nelly Har-
well that he was anxious to marry her
to receive the hearty acquiescence of
that young woman in his proposal
Everyune ems& see that he was in rove
with Nelly, and everyone could see,
moreover, that Neity sow 1. She
showed nu reluctance to give him four
or five dances of an evening, andl she
submitted without a mord of protest
to be tatesie. ail that he knew, on
the :object of horses.
People said (hut Nelly Barwell was
a very lucky young woman, and she
was not disposed to disagree with
them. IL was, however, only when
the had met Oliver Collingham that
she fully appreciated how lucky she
bad been in refusing to marry the
three men who had given her a chanee
of doing eo clueing the previuus eigh-
teen months.
Perhaps it was hearing how she bad
won a reputation for fastidiousness
that attracted Oliver to her; and for
the same cause his own natural shy-
ness had been so increased as 10 make
tine shrink from telling her that he
loved her. He was naturaily of a
retiring temperament, though his
behasiur during the interviewshehad
had with the Afghans was not, of the
exect type that tended to impress this
charenteristio of his niacin them. He
had undoubtedly his forward mom-
ents, as his friend Major Anstey had
satid.
However this may have been, he bad
certainly no forward moments when
in the presence uf Nelly Harwell; and
some young women began to ex-
change views on this very subject. -
the men never went farther than to
exchange winks and nods when it was
alluded to, The young women wonder -
ad how a Man who could send his
horse flying into the midst of an
Afghan army and induce the men of
hie troop to follow him, could fair to
muster ma so small ass amount of con-
fidence as was necessary to catch a
girl's hand and tell her that be loved
her, and this fact shows how little
they knew of men.
Nelly Harwell, however, knew some-
thing of men -had she not refused to
marry three of them? -and IL did not
seem to trouble bar greatly that,
when her hostess, Lady Cranatoun,
whispered to 'her after en evening
spent by tie Side of Captain Collings
ham, "Ara I to congratulate you,
my dear?" she mould only reply:
"Oertaitile I am to be congratulated
on being the guest of the most des
lightful of women in the most de-
lightful of -houses."
Lady Cranetoun shook her bead
gravely. She was too good a hostess
to be a matchmaker, but too good a
woman to be able to reggae from
matehmaking, She felt that Nolly
was being badly treated; but she also
knew that 11 was in her Rower to
convince Captain Collingham that he
tiad only to havq Aye minutes -nay,
.
lams minutes -she had heard of a
mane proposing to a girl in three
Minutes -of courage 10 melte hire the
happiest of. men. No, it twin
• eery provoking, to be ewe,
isis t to interfere with a view
of preinpitating a proposal would be
indiscreet to the verge'Of madness'
The next day Collingham came
across his friend Ansley on the way
to the stables.
going to do it toaday," Ii said,
In a reseiute ton. "I've been think.
ing over what you said yesterday,
Javk, and I've made up any mind that
IIbsan a•VZ! lool T; mao
1:e, caa do sendat
nxe
about my -businees," and be laughed
wills great uneaeiness.
jaele Ansley slapped bint an the
baek.
Leap up your heart, meta" be
cried,' "Don't you fear that eball
send you about your business. I know
girls, and when I see 0 certain lank
in their eyes when a particular man
is near them I know tbat he's all
right."
"And you're sure that she --I wish
I meld be pure, jack," said Coiling.
ham, doubtfully-rether more than
doubtfully. "How on earth have 1 a
right to hope when dares other chaps
as good as I ana-two of them a deal
better -were flung by her?"
My dear old Nolly, you've on a
•wrong track altogether," said Jack.
"A girl like Mies Harwell will ta
r a
hlecause she Peoa tcA:o? because hehas7titlelhrmn
Ludbury'-Lord Ludbury was the
name al! One of the Men refused by
Nally the previous year -"nor because
he happens to have twenty thousand
a year, like Algy Claorn"-the named
the second man in the list of Miss
Barwell's refusals. "Shell jump at
you because you happen to have
caugbt her fancy, strange though It
may appear."
"No, no; she'll not just sump at me,"
said Collingham. "The most that I
ean hope for is that shell be so taken
by surprise she may accept me before
abe knows what she ie about."
"Well, you've dibapuointed her so
often She may be a bit surprised at
your coming to the point at Just,"
remarked Major Anstey, with en af-
fectation of the most cordial acquie-
scence. .
Anyhow I'm going to do it to -day;
I've made up. my mind to that," said
his friend, straightening his collar
with the air of a deterniined man.
"Let me take your temperature,'
suggested Ansley. "'What's the order
of the day? •
"Nally, is mad on fishing, and Wini-
fred has asked me to drive bolle of
them to the Purl after lunch. I'm to
carry the landing net."
"Oh, that's all right; if Lady Cran-
stoun stands over you, I do believe
that you will propose after all."
"I'm afraid that she'll go away and
leave us." There was aettially what
singing -masters cult a tremolo in his
yobs's.
"Not she," cried Ansley, encourag-
ingly, as he continued his walk to the
stables. "Not she. Shell stand by
; her young protegee and see fair play.
She'll take the edge off her young pro-
tegee's surprise."
But it. so hamened that Nelly Col-
lingham's surmise was justified by
the conduct of his cousin, Lady Oran -
stoma For before she had been fishing
by side f Nelly Barwell Los mote•
than twenty minutes on the banks
of the picturesque stream known as
thePuri, she
that almost. justified Oliver's belief
that she had a bite.
"Good gracious!" atm oiled. "How
could I have been so idioLicf The com-
I mitten mecting of the Sou • and Blan-
ket Guild takes place at four o'slock,
and here am Inearly a mile away at
five minutes to four. I must drive
back immediately."
"Oh! what a pity!" said Nelly.
"Never mind. A committee mewing
of the Guild will be a new experience
for me. Captain Collingham may take
both rods and we'll drive bark for
him."
"Nothing of the sort," said Lady
Cranetoun; "I've no idea of spoiling
your sport. Nolly won't mind taking
charge of you for the hour or so
that I'll be absent; he'll show you how
to gat to the beat parts of the stream,
Won't you, Nally?"
"ru do my best," said be.
"Oh, it would be so good of you,
Captain Collingham " said the girl,
with no fnoll-h Hater in her voices
"You'll take Winifred% rod, will you
nett"
"Here it is," said Lady Cranstoun,
"I hope that when I return 1 shall
hear thnt you have landed a prize, Nol-
ly."
She got into the phaeton and drove
ore leaving the. p.m* very inclusl nous-
ly whipping the stream.
During the next quarter of an hour
they had varying success. Miss Har-
well succeaded in landing two smell
trout, using a .fly of her awn, but her
companion managed to get five with
a grey fly.
"1 think my fly is too bright for the
Purl," said she, as he worked bis way
up to her.
"I've a spare grey. Let me tie it
on for you,' said he.
"I do think I'll lot you es you've
been kind enough to suggest it," said
she. 'Pin a bit tired, and it will he
a rest for me,"
She sealed herself on the brink and
be gat beside her. But he fumbled so
among the 11:es of his book that be ran
a hook into his thumb -fortunately
not past the barb, but quite deep en-
ough to produce a copious stream of
blood.
She gave a cry of distress.
''Oh, Pm so sorry!' she said. "Let
ma bind 11 tip fOr you."
"IL was my own clumsiness," said he,
shaking off the ruby drops, and wind-
ing his handkerchief round the wound-
ed thumb.
"You are binding it up most Gitlin-
sily," said she. "Do let me bind it
up peoperly. I've a bit of fine gut
that will be the very tbing."
Be allowed himself to be persuaded,
and he knelt before her w4i1e she deft-
ly discharged the duties of surgeon.
Her little fingers crept round hie
larger ones with the tender touches
et a tendril. Their beads wore very
dose together, 'so that he could bear
the faint sigh -like sound Of her breath.
Ing;
He fell tbet his hour had some. Af-
ter two or three false starts he man,
aged to stay:
"You sari you were sorry, Moo Dos-
well,"
"And do yen doubt my sincerity 1"
she asked. "01 course I was tom ; you
did it for me, you must remember."
"Did whet for you f" he asked.
"Spilt • your blood," she retailed,
"Don't wobble your bend about like
that, pleaae,"
"Oh, I'd -I'd -I wouldn't mind---"
Ile knew wleat he menet to altY,
Ile meant to say that he wouldn'S
eated shedding every drop of Ina blood
for her; and be believes to this day
that he would have said it all right if
abe guI t It i t o is
p.
rt. lIrt 9innaJ t1),'
His eyes Met hers, and he foamless
that there .was an indignant look in
hers. Be examined his bound -up
thumb most critically, He wondered
how she had managed to wind the thin
gut so evenly round it,
"You wore about to say that you
wouldn't mind something -what was it
you wouldn't mind?" she asked,
"1-I-evell, 105113' meant that- that
I think it is so clever of you to be able
to bind us a ethap'fi thumb like
Ws like a rag doll that you'd find! in a
bran -pie at a bazaar."
Ile bald it up, and she said coldly,
without looking at it : •
"I density It is something likethat.
Anyhow Pll go on with ray Helaine."
She rose and walked away from him
and made a cast with the utmost sang-
froid. He had an uneasy feeling that
she suspected what he had in his mind
to say to her, and waa slIgbtly offend-
ed. Hod she not refused three men
Inside of eighteen Months?
To Be Continned„
FIRST VISIT TO IRELAND,
QUEEN VICTORIA AND PRINCE AL-
BERT IN THE GREEN ISLE.
It Was Over Fifty Wars .1C»-IntereglIng
IlteettlleetIons or the Visit -115r Ettio•itS
Ilt5551v5i1 n Grand Jtecenflon,
Recolleetions of Queen Victoria's first
visit to Erin's isle are indeed interest-
ing at this (dine. Her Majesty enter-
ed Cove Harbour, on the night of Au-
gust Ind, 1849. Nowadays no such place
as Cove Harbour is shown on the Irish
map. But the bay that bore the name
of Cove Harbour in those days is no
other place than Queenstown, Its
name was changed after that first
visit. . , •
Her Majesty and her royal consort
were welcomed on their approach to
the shores of Ireland by a feu de joie,
fired from the batteries on Spike Is-
land and Camden Forts.
As the thunder of thee heavy pieces
of ordnance, writes a journalistio eye-
witness of the scene, bounded across
the still waters of one of the most
splendid harbours that the eye of man
ever rested upon, bonfires spraug up
in all directions along the beach. A
number of brilliant rockets also burst
into bright stars above the woody -
crested hills that surround the pic-
turesque little town of Cove.
AM the merchant shipping in the
harobur, as well as the vessels which
had accompanied the Victoria and
Albert, heisted lanterns on their yard-
arms and mast eractles.
GREAT BLAZE OF FIRE.
The fortifications of Spike were one
blaze of fire, so that the entire same
,waa magnificent beyond description,
the intense darkness of the night add-
ing to it an additional grandeur. the
houses of the town were not illumi-
nated; the people not having been pre-
pared to receive Her Majesty so soon.
On the morning oe the 3ed of Aug-
ust, the news was known generally
literallysevaaming with people and its
literalyl swarming with people andits
noble harbour was studded tblokly
with sail of all. description, from the
stately ships of war to the two -oared
punt.
About two o'clock her Majesty and
her royal consort descended from the
Victoria and Atbert, into the Fairy
steamer tender and steamed around
the harbour, amid the roaring of the
frigates and line of battleships and
the artillery on Camden and Carlisle
Forte, Spike Island and Haulbowline.
Having arrived opposite the pavilion
erected for the royal reception, the
Fairy stopped, and the members of
the reception committee went on
board the royal tender, and were
introduced to her Majesty by Sir
George Limy, Secretary at State for
the Home Department.
ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY.
Au midterm of 5551c:erne from the in-
hatilants was et eseeted, ad her Ma-
jesty and the Prince then landed.
Although a handsome throne had
been ousted, her Majesty reinetned
auandiug and bowing to the deputa-
tion, whieh included the (country mem-
bership and the IOW seinen priest.
She, at the request of the deputation,
changed the natne of Cove to Queens-
town. Her Maje.sty tben re -embarked
and proceeded to Cork amid the firing
a the guns and the- cheering of the
people.
IL is interesting to note that the
Queen on the oteasion was attired in
a fancy muslin dress, light green Jo-
sephine with white trimmings, straw
bonnet lined with white stale and or-
namented with a white feather. She
had:a parasol of variegated enfant's.
The Prince wore a Week bodyeowt, a
white waistcoat, the band of the Or-
der of the Garter, drab tremors, and
•gloves of the same mine.
After a delightful sail up the Lee,
the royal party arrived in Cork, where
they were received by a guard of
honour of the Cameronlans. Enter-
ing the carriage a the Lord tieuten-
ant of the country, the Eitel of Bandon
the regal party cleave round the gay,
and everywhere her Majesty% recap -
tion xarstallost enthuslitette.
'''ilIIEENSTOWN TO 1tINC4STOWN.
The following day the royal Party
on board the Victoria and Albert,
sailed 1rom Queenetown, and on Sun.
Any entered Kingstown harbour. On
the Mat appearance oa the yacht eon-
veying the Queen in front of Delkey,
there was a constant rush of people
between that plave and laingstowaa.
The royal yaolit Ent entered the
harbour, having at a short dletanee
behind her and on her selector, the
Pelee,• and the Vivid, then forward
the Banshee, the Sphinx, the Trident,
and the Villain, followed by the
Stromboli, the Lucifer and the Gar-.
tenth
The reception of bee Majesty, ace,
cordials' to the "JOreeman'a Journal,"
Aug'. 6, 1849, was " in the highest re.
spelt orderly, creditable, and even re -
soya]."
The following morning the royal
party disembarked. Her Majesty on
leaving the yacht to* the Prime of
Wales, and the Princess Royal, one by
oaob hand, and having paused awhile,
proceeded onwards to the vestibule
leading to the carriage terminus, and
her Majesty was accorded a most
'Away welcome, in recognition, of
which elm repeatedly bowed.
• KEYS OE OLD DUBLIN.
Her reception en route to Dublin
waa most cordial, and at the city gates
she was presented with the keys of
the city by the Lord Mayor, addreas-
ed bim in terms expressive of her
great delight on arriving in Dublin,
and at the reception het' 103,111 sabjecte
had given her.
The scene at night seas one of boil
Slant illumination. In reply to an ad -
rheas from the corporation on thefols
lowing day, her Majesty expressed
ggatifieation at the scene she had
witnessed, and referring to the fa-
mine, expressed •a hope that the
heavy visitiatiun with which PTOVi5
dance has recently visited largenum-
bars or my people in this country is
passing away."
After leaving Dublin, her Majesty
visited Carton, the seat of the Duke
of Leinster, and subsequently left for
Belfast, where her reception was ex-
ceedingly enthueiastia,
Her Majesty's Mit visit to Ireland
was paid in 1861, when she visited Kil-
larney, and reviewed the troops then
quartered in the Dublin distriet at
the Curragh.
NOTED 5\TO3IEN•
It is now known that Miss Helen.
Gould Ls the Lady Bountiful, who, some
little time ago gave e100,000 to the
University of New York, but desired
that her name should not be made
public. , ; ;
Lady Wolseley, wife of the Commen-!
do in Chief of the British Army, was;
a native of Ottawa, Ont, Her daugla-'
tee Frances is the constant compan-
ion of her father, Lord Wolseley, whose
peerage she will inherit.
A lady member ot the London Coun-
ty Council will receive She appointment'
as Archivist, a new office created to
make some use of the valuable records
and documents; of tbe Council. The sal-'
ary will be 3500 a year.
Women of Western Australia are
rejoicing over the practically agreed
upon enfranchisement, as tbey hope
it will improve their chances for em
ployment, and that women from Eng-
land will go there in great numbers.
The Empress Frederick of Germany
is a musician and excels in sculpture
and painting. She owns a large nurs-
ery garden al Friedrichehof, making
a-specdalty of choice fruits to be pur-
chased by royalty and diplomats, also
of rare rases for decorative purposes.
The Duchess of Marlborough will
have quite a collection of miniatures
of herself and the children. She has'
just bad her portrait painted by Mor-
timer Illenpes, the miniature painter,
who has been the rage abroad this sea-
son. He recently completed a portrait
of the Countess of Craven.
Mme, Marguerite Durand, manager
and editor of La Fronde, the famous
Paris newspaper run by women, has
formed a syndicate of typesetters, also
one for typewriters and stenographers
thus aiding the labor questions and
finding work for the unemployed.
Mrs. Edmundson, of the Dublin Wo-
men's Temperance Association, has
drawn the attention of the society to
the increase of intemperance among
the women of that city, blaming the
fact upon the husbands of the wom-
en. A bill Will be introduced into Par-
liament prohibiting the sale of intoxi-
cants to minors.
Most wonderful speciimens of wood;
carving have been done by Mies Ida'
Musseiman, of Somerset, Penn. She'
uses the fungus found on partially de -I
()eyed oak and maple trees. %his is an;
invention of her own. The fungus is
cured and made hard, the lights and
shades are made Lo suit the subject,
and the finished effect is surpassing-
ly beautiful.
Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, is a ills-
tinguishedi entomologist. She received
the degree of LL.D. from the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh'was elected in 1878
a Fellow of .the Royal Meteorolgical
Society, and in 1802 Consulting Ento-
mologist of the Royal Agriculturist
Society of England. At Moscow Mies
Ormerod received both e silver and a
gold medal from the university Sor her
work, in modeling from life.
AT T1114 ALTAR.
Several of Bishop Bow's stories re-
.
late to weddings. Mr. Ibbetson, of
Si. Michael's, Walthamstow, was
marrying a couple, when the ring
was found to be 'too tight. •A voiou
from behindexclaiined,. "Sunk your
finger, you fool," Again it is related
that the rector of Thornhill, near
Dewsbury, on one occasion could not
got the woman to say "obey" in the
marriage service, and he repeated the
word with a Strong stress on eath
syllable, saying, "You must say o -bey."
Whereupon the man interfered and
said, 'Never mind; go on, parson. VII
Make her say '0' by and by."
A LONG REACH.
Bixby called rhe a liar last night.
Did you knoc,k tarn down
I struck at him, but my blow tell
shert.
Couldn't reach him, eh?
Nop. 15. was over the long distance
'photo.
...1„vvolwaywv.ftwof
HOUSEHOLD.
Eton jacket of tan ladies' cloth laid
in narrow tucks, which are stitched
down with brown silk. The shawl
collar is edged with three rows of
brown silk stitching, also the coat
sleeves. Material required ladies'
cloth, 48 inches wide, 2 yards, Out in
94, 30 and 38 inches, bust measure.
Price, 10 cents.
.FLOWERS AND 'REVENUE.
Mrs. Helen Ohurohill Candee, in 'a.
bright little book entitled "How Wo-
men May Earn a Living," • which is
full of practical suggestions, gives
chapter to the cultivation of flowers
as a source of revenue, not to the wo-
man who has glass and a greenhouse
at her command, but to those with
merely garden beds. What she says
sounds so helpful and may be so eas-
ily put into practice by any person
so situated as to command a market
that we glean a few of her pare -
"Were you ever," she asks, "at a
small summer resort, where flowers
except the dusty wayside weeds, were
unobtainable? And while at such a
plaoe have you ,had an event occur
which positively demanded a gift of
flowers? Perhaps, some one was try--
ing to celebrate an anniversary, or
perhaps illness or affliction had come
to a dear friend, and nothing but,the
loveliest things God ever made and
forgot to put a soul Into, seemed like
fitting messages of your affection.
"Many a time, and oft have I search-
ed for flowers when none were to be
had. In the mountains, the summer
cottage residents are there so short a
time that garden beds cannot be made
to bear, and those who live all the
year in the place seem to have no high-
er inspiration in the way Of summer
ministering than laundry work. .
In these days flowers are a necessity
of civilization and People will have
them at all price. And does not that
mean that a snotty penny can be
made by raising them for sale in
places where they are ditfieult to ob-
tain 1 . . . To pursue the business
in a modest way depending upon sum-
mer visitors for oustom, may not
mean to earn sullicient money for de-
fraying all the expenses of living, but
suns a business is capable of expan-
ston, and especially in a place of short
sojourn where people are much crowd-
ed there is opportunity."
Attar suggesLtng some flowers, eas-
ily grown and always in demand, ilte
allitlienfre
r5005100‘n't'S, are ready to cut,
then conies tha matter of disposing ot
them. It may hurt the pride a little
bit, if business methods have hitherto
been foreign Lo the flower -grower, but
the best way of letting the public
know that the bright rows of flowers
which tbey admire from the other
aide of the fence earl be had, for a few
tinkling cane is to put up a sign to
that effect. Cut. the Ilowers after
they are ordered and not before; the
mere process of cutting is gratifying;
t o the customer moving delightedly
from row to 1055. LC you love the
flowers yourself you will mum by in-
stinct how to group thern, how to
Mass them, and when to let them lie
loosely and scantily in the way the
Japanese love to cluster Dowers;
"Flowers un the dining table are al-
most as mu* of a necessity -1 Might
say more of a neeessity-in hotels than
at home. The progressive hotel -
keeper realizes this, and in cities
tables are supplied with fresh flowers
daily. 1. have in mind tt welltry hotel
deep in the Adironclaults where each
table is relieved of 118 unbeeutiful
hotel -like aapearanee by the vases nil
flowers which always stend upon the
table. Theflosve re are brought, about
fifteen miles by someone with a little
gerden. They are of the simplest
sort and so scant that sometimes only
four or five blossoms eau be accorded
to each Labia but 5 heir number is
eked out by lbs addition of facile from
the woods near by, which are placed
among the flowers and laid on the
(eons near them. If the hotel in your
vicinity has no flowers of its own, pay
a visit to the proprietor taking with
you some sample blossoms, and use all
your persuasion to gain ltiS custom
and his consent to let you supply Ills
table."
Among • 5155 blossoms wbioh Mrs.
Candee enumerates lie speoially suit-
able for this sort of trade aro inigno-
nettes-' the old-fashioned kind, mod-
est and delicious, in preference to the
modern tgin n lime tomes ISa fragrance
in the effort to grow big" -sweet peas,
bluets or bachelor's buttoes, nastur-
Hume, enemas and poppies. Of tlie
latter she says:
Tahoe ere the delicate varieties of
single bloesenis that burst, into love-
liness at sunrise. At evening the bed
is may o mass of gray -green foliage
and reticent butte; in the, morning
there are Linens et grail, beautooue
blossonas nodding 013 long desv-wee
etas, every shed° of Pink anti seri,
every possible •areangsalleta of odor
on the petala. A bun* ut them set
In asparagus green or maidenhair fern
le it gift for a fairy Or a queen, But,
alas, they are exeeedingly perishable,
never lasting longer than is day, and
arts not att Peofitable as their less deli-
cate relatives, the blir double poppy,
These are lose Molifte, but are favor-
able beoause of their lasting quality
and when put with the wild Queea
Anne's loo flower, the wild °tarot,
are softened almost into eentheent,"
mown*.
CHOICE RECIPES.
chickens and Celery,-Choip smoked
chicken ote turkey, and mix with en
equal 'proportion of celery; a little
salt and vinegar only, although some
like it, dressing its dor thaw, out this
takes away too much of celery. taste.
It may he prepared with lettuce . in-
atead of celery.
Pickled Muehrooms,-Cilean and
wash young, white mushrooms, drop
them into salted belling water and al-
losv them to boil up two Or •three
times. Throw them on a sieve, 'and
when cool and dry place them in jars
and cover with vinegar in which salt,
peppes. and laurel leaves have been
boiled.
Marlborough Pia -Six tart apples,
six ounces of sugar, six ounces of but-
ter or thick cream, six eggs, the grat-
ed peel of one lemon and one-half the
juice. Grate the apples, after par-
ing and coring them; stir together
the butter and sugar, as for sake;
then add the other ingredients, and
bake in a Ken under -paste only. ,
French Eggs and ,Spinach. --Peach as
many eggs as you may require, and
let them get cold. Then flour each
egg, dip into a rich batter and fry a
golden brown. ' Cook some spinach,
press it through a sieve, return it to
the saucepan, add to it butter, pep-
per, salt and a squeeze of lemon juiee,
and make very hot. Place the spin-
ach an a long dish in a mound, place
the eggs in a raw on this and pour
round a good brown gravy.
Creamed Eggs. -Boil six eggs for a
quarter of an hour, plunge into cold
water, remove the shells and cut into
thick slices. Put layera of the egg
into a greased (pia dish, strew it with
bread crumbs, add small bits .of but-
ter, pepper, salt and chopped, parsley.
Continue these layers till all the egg
is used up, then pour over a cup-
ful of cream and brown in the oven.
Tapioca Jelly. -Take four table-
spoonfuls of tapioca, rinse it thor-
oughly, then soak it five hours in cold
water enough to cover it. Set a pint
of cold water • on the fire; when it
boils mash and stir up the tapioca
that; is in the water and mix it with
the boiling water. Let the whole
simmer gently, with a stick of cinna-
mon or mace. - When thick and clear
mix two tablespoonfuls.of white sugar
with half a tablespoonful of lemon
juice and a glass of white wine; alir
11 into the jelly; if not sweet enough
add more sugar, and turnthe jelly in-
to cups.
ORDERED TO SMOKE.
An 111101fiolft of'1155 etrent league in Ena-
bled Ili 11165.
The heroic perversity wbieh in,ducei
so many boys to defy the. eonsmands
of parents, the rules of schools, and
the protests of their own stomachs
for the sake of learning to smoke, re-
.
mains still the despair of fathers and
the marvel of mothers. There would
be Lively reanonstrane.es and pathetic
pleas, indeed, if the lad who cheerful-.
ly proceeds to turn bimself ghastly,
green and limp with hie first cigar
were obliged to take a dose of medi-
cine that would make him half its
uneomtortable.
One element in the attraction is,
no doubt, the very flavor of forbidden
fault. The Ono. 0085 on record in
which a large body of boys were pres-
cribed tobacco tends to prove this.
The prescription was far from being
popularly welcomed.
In England, in Ititia, when the Great
Plague was raging, tobacco was re-
garded as an excellent prevention
against infection; and the boys at
Eton were officially ordered to smokel
Nor was the prescription confined to,
their hours out-of-doors.
f it would have looked odd to see
some hundreds of bays, ranging 10 550
from six and seven Lo eighteen and
nineteen playing at all the school
games from peg -top and hopscotch up
to the 'earlier forms of football and
cricket, each with eigar or pipe be-
tween his lips, it moat have been
stranger still to see the class -room
work progressing in a dense blue cloud
-master and pupate putting away to-
gether. The prize scholar removed
his "Weed " to construe a passage
from Homer ; the master laid his pipe
carefully aside to thrash the dunce,
who dropped his rigor to howl!
,But afr. Lionel Cuel, whealn a re -
0011i history of Eton, recalls this our-
ious parted, adds that there were re-
belsagainst the tobacco rule. Neither
shirking nor disobedience, however,
was tolerated. The boy who wouldn't
smoke, the boy who couldn't smoke,
the boy who would very numb relater
not try to ernoke.-811 alike bad to
smoke. Those who aid not were
promptly tied thor011ghly flogged, -
and doubtless given a cigar afterward.
The choice for a qualms; litt le fel-
low in the lower data between imme-
diate ilaniSea, or the immediate birch
Inisab ce r I.ainly have been a trying one.
Shoe is no doubt that the repeal of
the tobacco rule, when it came, was
joyfully welcomed. The.Plague did not
reach the cahoot], but whether lit was
Molted out or otherwise warded off
Would be u difficult matter te prove,
atter more than two centuriee.
Not hints is so wretched at foolish as
to anticipate misfortune. What
madness it is to be expecting evil. be-
fore it eranee.-Seneca,
Why 3, 1000
ZEBAHR j TIM SOUDAN.
the trossince Mambas to nelson
to Keartelnat Miler 301113 Eee4'5.
Vor about twenty years Eebahr
Paella has been a prisoner in the
.hands of the Egyptians or Britieb,
Part elf the tame at ' Oalro and OS
some yeere ill Gibraltar. He was onee
the moat powerful nativern the Egyp-
tian Siouslan, and last month he was
permitted to return to bis old home,
The British eommander at Khartoum
received the aged man with.mucla hon-
or and the recentioe given at the pal-
ace was largely attended,
Many years ago Zehabr was &weal.
thy slave deeler and trader, He had
immense slave depute in the province
of Babr-el-Gbazal, and maintained
large banda of armed men who went
on his playa -catching raide.hinally Ze-
baler kook it into his head to help
Ismail Pasha, the egypbian Governor
of Khartoum, to conquer the large
countries of Darfour and Dar Fertit ;
and it was with the powerful assist-.
aadadcerE
°teshet
i° sclie7toldieelteth
lero tbeaep
tBoifst
edth
sten in the Soudan. To recompense Ze-
bahr for his valuable aid Egypt made
Won Muli,r otf the Chekke prosinee,
with the rank 01 Bey, and later he W510
promoted to a Pashaship.
ao Zebahr went down the Nile to
Oak° to be invested with his new
title, leaving the government of his
province in the hands of his son Su-
leiman. This young man, intoxicated
by the power he now wielded and in -
sensed by orders from Khartoum to
cease raiding for slaves, allied Mama
with the dethroned Sultan of Dar -
tour and attacked the Egyptian posts.
Geesi Pasha captured Suleiman after
a short campeigu and put him to
death. There was no proof that Zebahr
had anything to de with Ms son's re -
vole, and he had gone to Cairo to 7-
c -sive further honors. Hd't he was dos -
trusted on account of his son's Lreaohs
erg, languished for many years In
prison, .and has not been penaitted
to return, till now, to his old home.
When Gen. Gordon went to Kbnrtoum
on bus futiao and. tragical mission to
allay, if possible, the rising wave of
Mandisna, he asked stleat Zebahr be
permitted to go with him on account
of the wonderful influence he possess,
ad over the people of the Souden. But
Dar. Gladstone would no/ Oust the
old slave dealer and refused to let him
go.
Sixteen years base passed sines
Gladstone decided that Zebahr must
remain in pri.son. Tbe °fel man is in
favor with the present Government of
Great Britain, and so has been per-
mitted to go home. In his spews!' at
the reception at Khartoum, Zebahr.
according to the despatch to the Lon-
don Times," eulogized the present
Government and paid a tribute to
England." The same despatch says:
"Though a very old an Zebahr can
still do good solace, and the great
influence that he has over the coun-
try between Berber and 'Khartoum
wall bo on the side of the Govern-
ment. Of course tbere is not the
slightest. fear that the slave trade
will receive any impetus from his ar-
riRvaIPI
REPAIRING SEVERED ARTERIES.
A SurgleLl 1E27:55:11115,1,1,11,01:slltitsail,17,7 mouggi
In the recent medical archives In
the library of St. Petersburg is an
account of a most wonderful opera-
tion iserferaned by Karnisky, oue of the,
greatest surgeons of bis time, an op-
eration like whieb no other is 'reecird-
ed. Patinkosk, a rich farmer, cat-
tle raiser and reindeer farmer, resitt-
Ins; north of St. Petersburg, suffered
an injury to the upper end of the
thigh, caused by being violently hurl-
ed from his sletgth, the latter having
struck a stump. .The farmer in fall-
ing WWI jagged by • a snag 'which
struck about two inches below the
fold of the flank, causing a torn,
bleeding, gaping wound of about
four inohe,s in length, directly down-
ward and in a line over the femoral
ailiery, the large artery which sup-
plies the entire leg with blood, 'the
latter vessel'having. been laid bare
and severely bruised sn the wreck, nt,
large vessels having been torn.
Reavisky, with the great wisdom of
a world of experience, wisely appre-
hended the possible results of this pe-
culiar wound, and for Lhe next twen-
ty-foue hours he spent every minute
of hie time, valuable as it was, work -
with chemical fire, molten substances
and apparatus of divers kinds until
finally the object of his Worts was
finished, a small Renew, elastic, col-
orless tube, about five inches long,
the compositioe of which is not re-
corded, consequently not known. In
twelve hours after his task was fin-
ished careful scrutiny of the injured
limb revealed a slightly bluish tint,
scarcely noticeable on the end of the
great toe. This was the signal for
opettation to the surgeon, and the
stockman was immediately taken to
the operating roam, Where, in order
to arrest onconehig grangrene, he
was subjected to an odd and
A FAMOUS DIADEM, •
The son of the Xing of Abyssinia
married a Lew years ago the dough -
tole ott the E'Llslopian Xing of Shoe
who we're at her wedding, 0 curious
troWn,made centuries before Christ,
and said to be the famous diadem that
Xing Soloaton gave to the Queen of
•Sheba, when the visite 1 him at ;ter-
m:talent. It is of gold, glittering with
preeieus stones, raid has been pre-
served through all the centuries by
the kinge of Shoe.
•
311151 AS A ROCK.
Flaville Flipps is the most remark-
able girl I Item.
• In what 55950151 respect?
• Why, there isn't a milliner in the
world who can .Make her apnea one
emit ,more en a het that abe stoked
Out to (Vend.
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