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"A short time niter our scparatiol
received 0 letter from Louis telling
• of his marriage trill! 1n Italian lady, a
begging me to forgive Ilial for the tyro
he had done 11 e it e
I 1 t tempting me fn
my duty as a d•ife. .A year later tie
of his sleuth reached me, and then
sought my brother, the only living re
Um' I theft had, Ile received me kind
and las devoted himself to my 00101'
• and happiness ever since, and we ha
lived for each other and for the good w
conn do to other's who have stiffer
and sinned. '1 have had much of pat
1 have even known something of fi
pm000, since no one call relieve the wall
of others and witness their comfort tI
g111111ude without being blessed for tl
nod wrought, But 1 nwearying
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b,Y
with my long story," mad0m seaid, st
pal g, with a sad smile.
"No, it is thrillingly interesting, but
so 00(1,' Earle said, longing to hear the
remainder,
"1 shall soon finish note. 1 told yo
1 belhece, that 1(11 husband w•ii8 an Arne
kali, dad I not?"
"No; is it possible?" Earle 00010)na
greatly surprised.
`Yes; and for Years I have longed to
come to the United States to visit his
native land, hoping that by some chance
1 might glean souse news•of him and in
Schild. fly brother and I visited the place
that used to be his home, but he had
been gone from there for army years.
After the death of his parents he lied
removed to some city, but 00 one could
tell us where, and no one lanev anything;
of his having a child, and were even sur-
prised to learn that ho had ever been
married. We could trace him no farther,
and I gave up' all hope, believing that
my child nest have died before. it reach-
ed this country, and so he had never
owned the fact of his„ marriage.
"We thought we might Its well visit
00me of the points of interest here be-
fore returning home, and. it was while
at Newport that 1 found Editha:
Surely you could not have recognized
her after so many ,years?" Earle asked,
thinking she meant to imply that.
"011 no, although we were both strong,
ly attracted to each other at once. She
was ill; she had seen sorrow something
akin to mine—that I knew las noon as
I looked into her sad eyes—and just as
I had discovered its nature, and was
seeking a better acquaintance with her,
she. and her father suddenly disappeared
from Newport. 1 learned through 1L'.
Tressalia the.' they had gone to tiara •
toga, and, being determined to know
something more of her, and wishing nlsn
to visit Saratoga, we followed them thi-
ther, Immediately upon our appearance
Mr, Dalton became strangely excited,
and behaved in the most unaccountable
manner.
"1Ve arrived at night, while they were
at a garden•pa'ty. We went to seek
them, and, after a short interview, Ed•
itha and Mr. Dalton withdrew. Early
the next morning, before any of us had
arisen, they had departed, leaving 110
trace behind them 118 to their destine;•
Mtn."
"Aha! lir. Dalton must have had some
suspicion of who you were, and, for ren -
sone of his own, desired to dkeep the
knowledge from Editha," exclaimed
Earle getting really excited over this
strange history'.
CHAPTER XLVI.
"Did you ever meet Mr. Dalton be-
fore?" Earle asked, excusing himself for
his involuntary interruption.
"No, never; but I will soon explain
how he recognized rte, though I should
never have known anything of him —
should never have found my child oven
then, had it not been for you cousin,
Paul Tressalia." replied madam.
"Poor Paul!" Earle sighed, thinking
how his hopes were doomed to be blight.
ed at every turn.
"Mr. Tressalia has eufferod deeply,"
madam returned, "but he is rising above
it nobly. I really believe if it had not
been for his kind and ;judicious care of
Editha after 'he returned to Newport,
she would have su010 into at decline. Ile
bravely renotmeed all his hopes of win-
nining her, when she told him that she
could ncw'or love another, and devoted
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me
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himself to cheering her, and no one has
expressed himself more truly glad over
these 1econt dincoveri00 than 1(1)1' noble
cousin.
"Ile is 0 truly' brave noun, and desert
a better Late than las overtaken nim
,Lust In the prima of his life;' Paine wind,
ht- regretfully.
]y "A 'better fate' drill yet come to ' Im,
At I feel sure, and his life will yet be rimed-
vee and completed by the hand of One 1 0
kieers best how le Cashion the lite:.
ed 11' 1.a•' given us," madam answered, t.'t!:
00 gray • thoughtfulness.
LP,.
a• 1 told you," sh0 continued haler
to a aliment, "on our arrival at Duwt.;-1,
rad (0 repaired immediately to the g.r.lei-
ie party, and while there, 1 nulnlgeel to
(ret
rdith•
.1 one side
for a little I',
t e .sec'
oil)!
I
chat,
during which 5110 opened Ler. heart
°I' to me, I head hoard isomet1ing of her sd
story from 11r. 'Tressalia before but she
related it to Ino more fully. She spoke
of her uncle several times, tel 01 his
deep interest in you, of his fondness for
her, and tivat he.had,in dying bequeath-
ed all his fortune to her, save the sum he
had wished you to have. 1 casually in.
quircd his name, but before she could.
reply, ML'. Dalton interrupted us and tool:
Editha away. The next fnor'ning 1 arose
quite early, considering the lateness of
the hour that 1 had retired the night
Y previous, feeling very restless, and ap-
prehensive prehensive of 1 knots' not what,
"1 mat tili'. Tressalia in a small sitting
ruon as I went below, and inunediately
began talking of the conversation 1 had
had with Editha the night before,
'What was Visa Dalton's uncle's
name—the one who left her his fortue?'
1 asked, during the interview,
"Richard Forrester,' he Ietunmd; and
I sank into a choir; feeling as if a heavy
ted Long Branch the previous summer,
and pw;sibly we might find thorni. there!
se to Lung Branch we repaired, but with
the saute success. \Ve visited one o'
1 w other watering-plaees, with a hlce
result, 1, h nue
1 then n ret'New to, for .
1hinting we might find then at 101010;
bet, their house was 'dosed, 011(1 We knew
n,, which •wnv totrimthan. L'ut1 was
desperate. Tile fact of Sumner Dalton's
flying from me would have alone coy
vineed nu'. that Editha, was my child if
nothing else had, and I was determined I
would never give up ,the chase until I
found her.
"At last we discovered that they were
b010)11ng quietlyat. tb hotel, and one
morning, while .salted in their -private
es parlor, 110, Dalton. reading, Editha sew-
ing, we walked in' upon 1110110 wfgnnotnrc•
0uununeed, beyond a light knock upon
their door.
"g'he look upon Mr, Dalton's face upon
beholding us was a strange One—it was
nhn1izement, rage, and despair combined,
while Editha immediately sprang for-
ward with a cry 01 joy to welcome us.
1 am unable to account for this in-
tension,' tni' \ It
ff
Dalton sandloftily,
an
d in-
stantly tly tr ounivahis self-possession.
1 can explain it in a few words; I
returned, eaiutly, 'I have cope to claim
my Cllllfl.
T do not understand you,' he an-
swered, with well feigned surprise, but
rowing white as a piece of chalk at my
words.
'"You do understand me, MU. Dalton,'
1 sddd, steely, 'and you know that I
,peals llthe truth when I claim this dear
girl as my ,chile( and Richard Forrest-
r's.'
"I turned to clasp her in my 0.0018, but
she bad Funk, white and trembling, into
a chair
"'1 should like to se your proofs of
Celt statement,' Air. Dalton sneered,
"1 did not reply, but Bending down I
took both of 11(1itlaa'5 bonds in mine, and
said•
"111y dear child, tell me the state of
your birth.'
"`Editha, I commend you to hold 00
commination with that woman; lir.
Dalton cried, shaking from head to foot
with passion.
'Editha looked from one to the other
in helpless amazement for a moment;
u,
r.
1,
hand nasi :suddenly been laid apse m;
heart and slopped its beating,
"You will trot wonder," madam con
tinned, her face paling with emotion eve
then at tine remembrance, "whet 1 tel
you that Richard Forrester was Thy lies
band("
"Your husband!" repeated Earle, fair-
ly dazed with astonishment,
"Yes, my husband, and Editha's fath-
er. I saw through it 1a11 in an instant.
Mr. Dalton's wife was his shote', and
to her he had committed his child. 11
was no wonder that I had been attracted
toward her from the very first; it was
no wonder that, when 10101 her for the
first time in Redwood Library at New.
port, my heart thrilled with so11 eta' -g
stronger than sympathy athy for her soma.
and pity for ha' suffering. She
11'115 r�iy
oil 0, own child, and it was
the instinct of the mother claiming her
offspring, even before she recognized her.
She was my baby, my pet, my little bud
of prcmd00, which had been so Cruelly
wrested from my arms more than twenty
yen rs before."
And madam's tears fro
now. Ile• joy- was so net
not speak of it without
What n strange, strap
exclaimed. "Richard Forrester
Hither! Thateco
trots, then,
tense loco which he alt
bear her."
"He did love her, then—he-
visit her mother's sin upon
child?" nm(1am asked, eagerly.
sorry w' fully ,of the dying pian upstairs,
whose whole life had been 111111ed by giv-
ing rein to Mei evil passions, '•
'ft would seem, too, as if there 'ought
to 110) e Leen some netual instinct in his
live
rt
lint would t nld at. hast have neweul-
Ul 11'11 fre,m 1
doing yet such respite, even
it 1 e. trine you no love;' madam uturnt11,
"13111, , he sin's," she added, "he bas
been ries own worst enemy—out of his
ow':, 11G.• :Ione hale sprung all his mis•
lortwles and disappointments."
"That, is tree, and it is not often pros?.
ed that those who seek to wrong °there
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only injure themselves the most in tl
met?" raEarl , asked.
"•11 is, Mitred," 01011010 returned, sadly
then she sail, rising: "1 believe I tun
10111 you all note, I think Editha tau
he awake by this time. I svill go an
tell •her: til' your arrival, You will fin
her ;0 little worn and pale, perhaps, bu
not a whit less lovely than she was
yettr ago,"
Madam's smile w•as 0111 of beauty. an
iwndernesi whenever she spoke of he
newly -found daughter, and Earl
thought she was a very handsome wo
man.
She left the room, and he sat tbinkin
000)• all the strange incidents of the pas
six years --yen, all the strange incident
of h'"
1s whole life.
The
story he had just listened t
seemed wonderful to hire, Ile 00111
scarcely credit the good news that wa
to blot out all the dark past, and mak
his future so bright and full of joy.
Not withstanding he had conte to a
house upon which death had sot its seal
and he (mind not help a feeling of sorrow
forthe mean so near the bounds of eter•
nil'', yet his heart was bounding with a
11010 and ble-used hope. -
He no longer needed to schoolhimselfto calmly endure the ordeal of meeting
Edlt11a; there was no need now to force
buck with an iron will all the natural
impulses of his heart,
She was not his sister, and he knew
web now why his whole soul had revolted
method the fiendish lie with which Sum-
ner Dalton ha11 sought to crush him.
Editha would be his wife now; she
would go back with him to. Wycliffe
when they should he needed here no
longer: she would go there to reign as
its honored and batutiful mistress, and
then she said: he 10001(1 have the right to love her;
"'Surely, papa, it can do no 1111.01 for there was no sin now in living her fondly
- me to give the date of my birth; ' th00 as his great, true heart prompted him
n fixing her eyes wistfully on any face, i to du,
1 and with lips that quivered„paiufoll,y. lois face grew luminous as he sat there
- she added, I was born October 24111, wul t-nitcd fo her; him eyes lost their
1843. hea0y look of forced eridurmee, mud soft -
"My child and Richard Forrester's— red into rare, sweet tenderness.
any little blue-eyed, fair-haired girl, that
her father named Editha for the.11(1ppi- "After the shower the tranquil sun—
ness she brought Lion—was born October' Siho stars when the day is done.
24th, 1843. After the knell, nodding hells,
"lfy lute,
did 110 oe 0000 tell you Joyful greetings from sad farewells,,,
that you resembled Richard Arrester?'
1 asked, gathering hcrelose in my arms, Earle mimed this little verse with a
for I know she was 'nine, find I wont(' fond smile wreathing his handsome
never, relinquish her again, unless, after lips,his glad heart beating time to its
hearing my story, she should refuse to the first mould of the footfall he eu
acknowledge me as; her mother. 1000(1,
tied freely even
r tlutt she could
weeping;
strange story!” Earle
Editha's
nor, for the in-
tense Seemed to
did not
the life o1 her
`No, indeed;' he seemed to love her
most devotedly. She never came into his
presence but that his eyes followed her
every movement with a strange, intense
gaze, at which I often 'wondered. But I
cannot understood why he should have
resigned all claim 'upon her -why le
denied himself all the comfort of ter love
11101 had tai' reared as: Sumner Dalton's
child," Earle said, thoughtfully. )
"You w'ill,nnde'afund it as I go on,"
madam returned, wiping, hes' tears. "0f
course, after that discovery, 1 was nearly
wild to claim my child, and lir. Tressalia
went et once to arouse Mr. Dalton and
denlaud a full explanation of all the
past in my behalf. Yon can imagine
something of our consternation when
be discovered that he had departed on ,
ad early train, taking Editha with him, 1
and no one could tell 115 whither they ; t
had nine. \\e returned to Newport, l0
thinking they might have gone lack
thele, but they were not there. Mr. f
Tressalia said that lir. Dalton had Ids- , u
"'Yee, it was often uwnirked.' she
retuned; 'but mamma always •nicb 1t
was not strange since 0111010 Richard
was her brother.'
''Not 'Uncle Richard' any longer. my
darling,' I said, `but your own father,'
"iffy father! and volt 'were 1110 wife—
you are my mother? she :said, studying
my face, and trembling in eye'y nerve,
"`It is a falsehood! Editha, leave the
room, instantly, and I will deal with
these people myself. On, I say: that w'0 -
100n is no fit companion for my daugh-
ter!' Mr. Dolton shouted, and Strode to-
ward me, his hands clenched and his face
blazing with fury.
"Whatever his intentions were, he
never reached 100,- for the blood all at
once gushed from his month and he fell
fainting to the floor.
"0f course everything was at one0 for-
gotten in the confusion that followed nal
the alarm occasioned by his condition
Ile had 0. ve,v violent hemorrhage, and
the doctor' gave very. little hope of his
rallying; but his constitution was strong
and after a couple of 'weeks he began to
gain strength and' flesh, and the .physr
chin then said, with the exercise of ;,+newt
Pare he might live for a good while.
Meanwhile, Editha and I clung to each
other with all the fondues and delight it
is passible for a long -parted- mother and
child to expeience.'l'here,wos no doubt
in our own minds � n
i rad that we belopged t
each other, although 11i', 1)011,011 was still
Very sullen and mo'Os0 on the subject,
mil would confess nothing. But one day
10 11'110 1tt,acked with another bleeding
urn. so severe that we all (:new he
01(11 not live long, and he scented one
scions himself that he could not rally
ant it. '.('hen he seemed willing le talk
ipnn the subject so fraught with inter
st to 115 all. Editha (might 1101 one day
nil begged him to tell her all the truth
'hen lie confessed that it was all 110 I
ad Supposed, and that the moment le
00' me at Newport he knew tie from a
picture that he had once seen in Thr.
Forre. to 1 s possession. He said that when
1y husband returned from Europe with
is little child le took her directly to
is sister, who had no children and beg-
ot her to adopt it as hor 01)1 He. told
iI the story of his
marriageniarriage and the sad
yenta 0111011 followed it, and sand ho
ever wished liis child to know that any
n'eow was connected with her early
10; 110 wished her to grow up happy
ud free from all etre and he w'ou'vl
gladly forego the comfort of calling hor
his own 1111.0 no shadow !cell ever
001110 upon her through life. In re•
turn for the consent of \Ir. and AR's,
Dalton Io adept her, he settled alp, n
theta fifty thousand 110111-s, and promis-
ed 1lmm that F.rlitlin should have all his
furl 11)10 if she 100110ed bent.
'Ills reason told hum that Ilieh n t For -
'stet would gladly have absolved him
'mu all preiniiiii of setreey regarding
er birth, rather then that her life
mule he rained es it ;ivas likely to be
pan Cliseovering that yawaeenehis son; -
ut, ins enmity toward • yen Auntie him
refer to ,sacrifice her happiness rather
tan forego hit revenge.'"
"'-hat a disposition for a person to
ierish! It is beyond my comprehen-
on;" Ea •le said, gravely, and_ thinking
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the child of Richard Forrester and \In-
dnm Sylvc.ste', or Mrs, Forrester, its she
mast henceforth be culled, and only a
few words will be needed to give an out•
line of his early life. -
While he was quite young as maiden
curt had died, leaving him heir to: a
handsome fortune. As 80011 as he 1011
completed his college course he made the
acquaintance of Estelle, Sylvester.
He loved her from the seri first, and
though he thought her a trifle giddy and
wild, he laid it to the fact that French
people are naturally more 010110ious and
free in their manners than the staid.
Puritanic Americans, and Inc reasoned
that when she should marry and 00811100
the responsibilities of domestic life, she
would sober down into the quiet, self-
possessed matron,
For e year after their marriage, as we
we have said, all trent well—indeed, the
wild aid giddy Estelle !weenie too quiet
1 mend :iodate to snit him; but that he tit
tributed to the state of het health some-
what, But when, on the fatal Mantle;
of .Louis V'illemain's return, he learned
the truth that lois wife had 'neve'' loved
him, but that her heart buil been wholly
another's even when she had t'ow'ed to
love hint only until death, lie was crush-
ed for the moment; then Inns fiery tem-
per gained the ascendancy, and for h�.
P g y,
time, made almost a madmen .of him,
and he uttered words which in his calm-.
cr moments he would never have spoken.
lipou his return one evening, after a
day of solitude and of brooding over his
injury, finding Ids wife and child gone,
he was for an instant tempted to put
an end' to his life, but a wise hand stay-
ed the rash act.
A11.14111 long he mourned for the lost
Ones—he had loved his wife tenderly,
and his baby had been his idol—with a
bitterness which only: strong natures
like jus can experience; but when lemm-
ing broke, and he began to consider the
dishonor that would fall 'Upon him, his
passion flamed anew, and when poor,
penitent Estelle returned tit noon, his
heart was like a wall of bnasstoher en
toeltieo and prayers for forgiveness.
Ile was sorry afterward bitterly sot
0y, when be came to reflect on his rash
floss, and that all her life long his child
mast -be motherless; but the devil was
done --110 Thad driven his wife away- in
disgrace nod he would not relent enough
to recall her.
He took his baby and her nurse, and
sidled immediately for the United States.
His Oder wa0 about changing her haute
to it distant city, and to her ausc he
('00110111(11 his little Editha, AO he
brought up as her owe, deeming it wise
to renames all claim to lien than that
she sl1'auld grow up to know- of her
mother's folly and sin.That was what those Strange 0111111')
meant that •le uttered upon 'the night
before lie died,Avhenhie eyes ;fetidly fol -
]Owed Editha from thereon', audile had
said; God; gre,nt that that sin M1y
never shade* her life;'•
After the deafly- his parents lie had
left his nn'titie-town101d irepaired t'o the
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sided, that he might be near and watch
over his child, whoa he loved almost to
idolatry.
lie neve' sought to obtain a divorce
from Estelle, 'tor cared to marry ng1tdu;
his trust in woman was destroyed, and
Ire lived only to make Editha happy; and
to amass a fortune to leave her at his
death.
Taos' well he succeeded in this we 011
know; her life up110 his death was like
a cloudless summer day; she had
neva' )mown a care or a sorrow 11101
had not lightened; she had never shed
a tear in his presence that lie had not
wiped with the utmost tondeil05s away,
(To be Continued.)
4.449
Just Children,
I
'--If Royal �ya I
Miss Kitty Cheatham emerged from 1
the pile of 51111011 cushions tel&11 had
been serving her as 0 variegated back-
ground at the sunny and of a huge di-
van, sat bolt upright and turned one of ,
the most serious gazes in the repertoire
of her big blue eyes full upon her wiei-
for. i
"And so," she said, "you want ale to
talk about children"
_'Why, if you don't mind, it would be
"What de you Wrenn by children?" in.
terrupted Miss Cheatham,
"Oh, I suppose any one under--"
"Ah I thought so."
A shadow of scorn crept into the gaze
and then a twinkle of amusement,
"Haven't you heard yet that some
persons never were children no matter
what they were `under,' and that lots
and lots of others will always be child-
ren whatever tliey may be ever? Age
has nothing at all to do with it."
"''hat has?" asked the visitor, meek. t
10.
Another kaleidoscopic change was ef- b
feeted in the gaze. It was now one of h
pity.
'What las? Why, tempe•ainent, of
course, and being 0110 of the elect" is
Having delivered herself of this ex•
planation, hiss Cheatham again availed dt
herself of the sustaining power of the s
cushions. She clasped her lands about "
her left knee and gazed searchingly into
ly: `0h, this !s a very nice country, but
1 Miss the 'tumble cottage and hatched
roof,, ,,
'Hui blue eyes were now pathetic, and
their owner sighed, Then mune dimples
came into 1
1 n e mete play, and ]u. softvoiced sage
1 t a ,l
crooned refle trvely: There was a lit-
tle girl and she had a little curl'-- By
the way, did you know that Longfellow
wrote that for his own little girl?"
The visitor didn't,
"Nearly rill the best children's poems
and 00101)5 have been written for particu-
lar little people—Sipling's, you know,
and Riley's and Eugene Field's and Ten-
ny'son's. 'l'ennyson's, of course, were in
many instances composed at the special
request of Queen Victoria. Ile got
pounds and pounds for the Minnie and
\\'innie one."
"'Well," commented the visitor, "I sup-
pose it's so difficult to amuse royal
children that when one succeeds in ac•
complishiug it he deserves a substantial
reward."
At this point a lidnutdve forefinger
that was een more impressive than if
it had been twiee as big was 'brought
into
true play. n
p y person at 'rami it
was pointed felt i iately that she
was the veryessengel'-tif ignorance and
stupidity, ven though tho blue eyes
iy
e were m 'I
orwritsrn indulgent,
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"My dear, you aro altogether mistak-
en. Royal children aro brought up so
touch more simply than those that 1vc
are accustomed to seeing every day,
they have so mull less variety in their
lives and so many acro rules and regu-
lations to observe that often the mer-
est trifles delight then.
"The ohvious readily appeals to them.
In part it 'MIS the delight which some
of King Edward's nieces took in two
or three little animal songs than I sang
for them that suggested to me the idea
of giving recitals especially for chil-
dren,
"Princess Alice of Albany, Princess
Eno. of Battenborg, now the Queen of
Spain, and Princess Beatrice of Saxe•
Cobourg wore tremendously interested
several yours ago in hearing how tile,
camel gut his hump.' They all wore
short frocks then, of the plainest pos-
sible out and material, and thread
groves,
"Last July when I sang for the par-
ish church in Whitechapel Princess Bea-
trice cane down and opened the fete.
it was the first time she Iliad done any-
thing of the kind, and she confided to
me a ftcrward when we wore, having sunt
per with the rector and Miss Minnie Co-
(Airline, one of the Ladies in waiting, and
other notables that she ((11.0 nervous. •1
"'I hope I did it properly,' she sahl ,.
quite as apprehensively 08 a high school,.'
girl might have spoken of reading her"•,
g'radu0t1on essay,
'SPntneess Mice of :Qibany is now?
Princess Alexander of Peek, and she •
did me the 1(0110 of presiding over my'
matinee of songs for children at .8144 -
lord House (the Duke of Suther�ii''
historic town hoose) for the benefit of
the leptfe'n 1 Fnml of the Chi ali'en's
Grill. Iter two-year•old baby is pat-
ron of ono of �the Bots,
"A large proportion ed' the children;
in 't.ho audience were highnesses and •
heads and hulks and honerables. One of
the little.princes shouted right out loud
in the midst of my praotiaing song:
"'Wiry, that's just what any mother
nukes tie do!'
"No, it wouldn't do for me to tell
you which one—it would be a clear case
of less majeste,
"Tho gun boy was there too. What!
didn't I tell you albout the grin boy?
lie is only a viscount, but he is; very in-
imate with little pr—" -
The bell sounded a long. imperative.
uzz, and M1. v Cheatham sprang up
astih'.
"I didn't realize it was so date!" eke
exclaimed. "It must bo my aceompan-
t."
It wasn't the aecampanist, however;
was a ,tall thin ,dark man, who in-,
tsted on interviewing his hostess in
e hall.
She looked half annoyed and half ion
"sl as she came back to the d:vaar,
Olt, about the *un This Phis little boy,
lm so many other children, imagined
ery time he had some trifling illnss
et he was going to die and go to Ira-
n,
"Among the pictures in his room 100.5
e of the Madonna and Mild, of which
was specially fond,
"'lfuvver,' he said one night at hed-
me, 'I ase ve'y, ve'y sick, and I fink
n gain' wite tip t' heaven, an' do yo;:
pose that 'f I took ray gun tie little
ens world be lightened?'
"If people would only postpone relig-
ts instruction uetil--"
Then the bell rang again. This time
was the accompanist, and the visitor
uctantly took her departure.
Miss Cheatham followed her to the
elevator,
"Wait jt1sk a minute," she Bail, "f
forgot to tell you about the darling
Dickens kiddies, All the Dickens e1il-
drensate such treasures! This one Caine
running in the house on day, crying:
"`0h, mamma;, mamma, there's such a
dear little Mick bride in the atreet.'
"After, careful 'questioning it was
learned tit the boyehad seen a nun.
d '
"Coo I could lave ave told you.
n
}
about
s 'more children ildre '
n rf it wasn't
m
r
aq hour."—N.
Y P � '
�Y. Sun.
♦.0
,Hid Road.
space. 1011110 silence reined for nearly a
second. T11011 she sighed of contentedly. 11
She bethought her that in deaiiug with
the average mind illustration is more th
effective than analysis, and told about ve
an old lady of 75 who seemed to her the
very' incarnation of childhood—a, truly en
lovely old holy with a smooth pink face he
and baby blue eyes, an old body who al-
ways had n beautiful time wherever she ti
w'e't and only played at being a grand- Inn
mother because she was really a fairy s'p
godmother. Je
"Also I know;" pursued the blue-eyed
philosopher, "tw•o 00 three full-fledged bol
society women whose ages range from 0
to 12. it
"I remember one little girl of 10 who rel
was one of the, members of a 'Hansel
cud (!rete(' box party given last wintr
by a Wealthy old bachelor.
"7su't that wonderful, my dear?' he
asked, turning to his lieruffled and be.
plumed young guest during the famous
witch scene
"The little maid yawned, hesitated a
moment, end then nuunuu'ed, `Well, I
tidal: there's a trifle too much( blue light
ti
onthe9 'stage, dontnu. I like
/ "5ige-
flied'i
tette than this opal
"Ihe six-year-old son or one of our
Metropolitan singers of being asked how
he liked Aunriea replied comleseending-
1 '.:that•u'. railroad president,
Andy vvl tit is t ether gti0or,
lie 5)11)0 ho1lilgon1113010, toe,
BnakenunMal'tnglieor.
seer
Hi, railway is 11 grol througl1,l
lie owns it, every share,
One terminus is "Ciran'ua's Idoou,,'
Th; -t110r, "Lathe Chair"
101t1l'8 Companion.
Fire killed timber' ns hetog used more
railroad ties, and ,where tried in the
same track with ties cut green, las been
found to 1'e ns good as the latter, De-
spite the fact that dead timber is often
regarded as unsound, there are many
tracts of it, killed by fire fifteen or
twenty years ago, that are still sound.
The strength is not ingn0ir01, and the
durability is often inorcased,