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J taking of funtnis, and never showing
( the slightest sign of consciousness dur
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were broken to feed her, and great
force was otherwise applied to open
her locked jaws. No quiver of an eye
lid gave proof of the sensation. The
children of the family were pronounced
out of danger on Sunday. The fungus
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CHAPTER XV.—fCoxTiNCED.)
"Fancying he must have sailed for
Australia—Just then attracting much
attention—I recklessly took passage
for a port there, leaving my little girl
to follow in another ship with a cousin
of mine, when she had recovered from
a slight indisposition. The blow that
cam© was terrible; the ship they sailed
in to join me was lost—never come to
port. I returned to England, not dar
ing to murmur, for I felt that I deserv
ed whatever woe might come. When
Eleanor was returned to me, the idea
of atonement grew more definite. I had
heard in India that Paul had a son.
Why shpuld not my daughter's hand,
and all her wealth make amends to the
son for the blight flung on the father’s
life? At this moment my secret agents
are in all parts cf the world searching
for Paul Kirkland, or his heirs. I never
thought that he would change his
name. Only two weeks ago I told his
history to Eleanor, and asked if she
could sacrifice herself to relieve her
mother’s conscience. Noble indeed
was her response. O, how I thank the
gracious Providence that has brought
good for her out of her mother’s evil!
Paul’s son and Annabel’s daughter
may be as good and pure and happy
as our first happy dreams portrayed for
us. Walter, bring me to-morrow the
Bible your father writes about. I must
talk no more to-day. Go, now, my
children, and leave me to rest.”
Silently, almost solemnly, Walter
passed out, and Eleanor followed—just
one moment to raise up her white in
nocent forehead for the pure betrothal
kiss. As Walter’s arms enfolded her—
his own, his beloved, at last - a world
•of grateful joy beamed in either eye,
although chastened and tempered to
pensiveness by their quick sympathy
In the sorrowful lives whose recital
they have just listened to.
From that day Tom’s Bible never left
Lady Annabel’s side. It was either in
hor hand, beneath her pillow, or press
ed against her heart. She failed swift
ly, as though the smothered fire that
at length had overleaped its barrier
burned more furiously for its long con
cealment.
The night after the grand marriage
which dazzled and astonished all Lon
don, when the distinguished artist bore
away the star of the court, to lose her
proud name as Lady Annabel Collin
wood in the humbler but not less hon
orable one of Vernon—as the young
couple sat tenderly beside her, Lady
Annabel said softly, with a Joyful
gleam lighting up her faded and sunk
en eye:
“I believe it has come at last—the
inefTable peace of forgiveness—the
tranquil content of trusting all things
to heavenly grace and mercy—the
same that Paul received. Peace—
peace!” she repeated, with a rapturous
smile, raising herself to lay the well
worn Bible on the table.
The effort—the joy—something was
too much for the frail system. Her
head drooped,and when her frightened
children flew to her relief, Lady Anna
bel was indeed safely on the shore of
Peace!
(THE END.)
THE MINISTER’S WIFE
By Mary Kyle Dallas.
O BE the minis
ter’s wife is the ne
plus ultra of dis
tinction in the eyes
of a village
maiden, particular
ly in the Eastern
States. No one can
deny that; and,
knowing this to be
the case, no one
can wonder that a
single man is generally successful in a
rural district, while a married clergy
man finds it far more difficult to make
a favorable impression under the argus
eyes perpetually fixed upon himself
and his spouse, who never, in any
ease, comports herself in a manner
which quite tallies with the precon
ceived ideas of the spinsters in her
husband’s congregation as to what the
clergyman’s wife ought to be.
The gentlemen who had successive
ly, but not successfully, filled the pas
torate of Appleblow had good reason to
learn this lesson by heart. They had
all been married men; they had all
had large families and small salaries,
principally paid in what was known in
the neighborhood as “green truck” and
“garden sass," and had never given
satisfaction. After the first few months
the trustees groaned over the salary.
The elders began to wonder whether
Brother A. was quite right on “them
there doctrinal p'ints.” The congrega
tion complained of not being visited
enough, of not being sufficiently edi
fied. A few influential personages gave
up their pews and traveled miles every
Sunday to a church in another village,
where they were better pleased, even
at the expense of breaking the fourth
commandment with regard to the “cat
tle and the "man servant.” And
finally matters came to a crisis, and j
there was a vacancy in the Appleblow j
pulpit and a succession of young min- ,
isters and old, who preached “by re- j
quest,” and generally made a favor- j
£,hl« impression. And finally another
call was made, another pastor came
was welcomed, feted, treated to dona
tion parties, ascended to the summit of
popular favor on the wings of the wind,
and’ descended as rapidly, until his
light died out in darkness.
Appleblow was particularly unfortu
nate in this respect; it was, In fact,
famed for its dismission of pastors
without peculiar provocation. Many
a grave, middle-aged mgn gave good
advice to Walter Redlaw, the newly
fledged clergyman who at last pro
claimed himself willing to he installed
as pastor of Applebow. Men of more
experience, men old enough to be Red
law's grandfather, had failed there—
able men, too, whose orthodoxy could
not be questioned. Redlaw was a man
of promise—why should he doom him
self to certain disappointment at the
outset of his career? Nobody approved
of the act; but Redlaw, ardent, hopeful,
and not twenty-five, was all the more
resolved to accept the call. To suc
ceed where no one else had ever suc
ceeded before him, to do good, to be
come beloved, to see his congregation
grow about him, and to end his days
at last where he had begun his life of
pastor, wept for by old and young, and
humbly looking forward for reward in
heaven for the good he (as an instru
ment in his Maker’s hands) had done
amongst his flock—a pure and beauti
ful ambition, albeit worldy men might
smile at it as being very humble.
So Walter Redlaw came to Applebow
and stood before the pulpit during the
ceremony of installation one evening
and received the charge from the pres
bytery with an humble determination
(God helping him) to obey it and the
next Sabbath stood in the pulpit and
preached unto the people.
There are some very young men who
have all a woman’s beauty without be
ing effeminate. ; Walter Redlaw was
one of these. He had soft, golden
brown hair, which could not be dubbed
"red” by his greatest enemy. A broad,
high forehead, white as flesh and blood
could be, regular features, pearly teeth,
and a color that came and went—now
the faintest tinge of rose-leaf, now the
deepest carnation. Moreover, he was
neither puny nor ungraceful, stood
straight as an arrow, and had a voice
clear and musical and powerful enough
to till the church without an effort.
That day bright eyes looked up at
the young minister, and many a girl,
if the truth were but known, thought
more of his fair face than of his ser
mon, and he, preaching with all his
soul in the words he uttered, thought
not at all of any one of them.
Perhaps they did not quite under
stand this, for that night, when family
prayers were over, and shutters closed
and barred, and old folks snoring in
their beds, more than one girl in the
snug little village of Appleblow stood
before her glass and wondered how she
would look in white muslin and orange
flowers, and all the paraphernalia of a
bride; or in black silk dress and broche
shawl and straw bonnet trimmed with
white ribbon (Appleblow fashions were
yet primitive), sailing slowly up the
aisle of the little church some Sunday,
while envious maidens gazed and whis
pered, “There goes the minister's
wife.”
And, at the same moment, Walter
Redlaw, sitting at his desk, traced, at
the beginning of a long and loving
letter, the words—“My dearest Rosa.”
Sewing societies, fairs, tea-drinkings,
merry-makings of all kinds followed
each other in quick succession. Apple
bow, so to speak, caroused, though in
a genteel and virtuous fashion, for the
next three months, and Miss Pinnhe
mall, the dressmaker, took a new ap
prentice and superintended the fitting
department herself, leaving the needle
to vulgar hands, so great was the de
mand upon her' skill. New bonnets,
too, purchased in "the city,” came by
express to Applcblow, and the nine
Misses Fish excited envy unparalleled
by appearing in the first bodices ever
seen in the village, all of black velvet
trimmed with scarlet.
Successful! there had never been
such a success before; nobody dared to
find fault' with Walter Redlaw, upheld
by all the womankind of Appleblow—
maid and matron, young and old,
grandmothers, granddaughters, mam
mas, spinsters, aunts and schoolgirls.
By-and-by whispered rumors were
set afloat. The young minister had paid
particular attention to Miss Smith, he
was seen out walking with Miss Brown,
he had taken tea thrice with Mrs.
Jones, who had two unmarried daugh
ters; in fact, he was engaged in turn to
every single lady in the village, if re
port said truly; though, on the state
ment being made over the teacups,
some one was always found to aver,
with downcast looks and conscious
blushes, that she had “particular rea
sons for knowing the rumor could not
possibly have slightest foundation.”
' Then “dearest friends” became ri
vals, and feminine Damons and Py
thiases "didn’t speak,” and young
farmers, tradesmen, the schoolmaster
and the doctor were jilted, one and all, \
in the most ruthless manner, for the |
fair-haired, biue-eyed young pastor, ]
who had no more thought of aspiring i
to be king of hearts in Appleblow than
he had of attempting to become Presi
dent of the United States, but was gen
tle and amiable to all alike.
And »o the days passed on. Sprinp
vanished, summer followed In her
steps, autumn came, and every grape
vine In Appleblow hung heavy with
their purple fruitage; and amidst Its
balmiest days,when a golden haze hung
over everything, and russets were more
glorious, and the moon seemingly
rounder and more brilliant than it ever
was before, Walter Redlaw took the
train to New York one evening, and it
was known that there was to be a
strange face in the pulpit on the next
Sabbath.
There was a special tea-drinking at
Deacon Yarrow's to discuss the cause
of this; and stories, hatched no one
knew how or by whom, were circu
lated.
Mr. Redlaw’s mother was 111. No,
that could not be, for Mias Brown knew
"for certain sure,” that he lost his
mother in infancy.
“His sister was about to be married,
and he was to perform the ceremony.”
Mrs. Morris had this from good au
thority, but better contradicted her.
Mr. Redlaw was an only child, and
therefore had no sister to be given In
marriage.
Somebody had told Deacon Yarrow
that a maiden aunt had died, leaving
the minister a large fortune, in real
estate. This was very favorably re
ceived, and gained universal belief. It
I would have been firmly established,
but for a suggestion of old Aunty
Brown, who had neither daughter nor
granddaughter herself, and who threw
cold water on the air-castles of maids
and matrons by saying, with a solemn
shake of her head, "Mebbe minister’s
gone tu git married himself.”
Aunty Brown was sent to Coventry
at.once; but, nevertheless, her sugges
tion made an impression even on those
who averred most loudly that it
couldn’t possibly be so.
(TO HE CONCLUDfD IN OIJK NEXT )
NEW YORK FOOD SUPPLY.
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Months* Staff*.
If the city of New York and the
neighboring district were to be be
sieged or in some other way entirely
cut off from the outside world, and
therefore deprived of the food supplies
which in normal times come in daily
in large quantities, how long would it
be before the pinch of hunger would bo
felt? That is a very hard question to
answer, for the reason that there are
.such inequalities of purchasing capac
ity in New York society that some go
hungry in times of greatest prosperity
for lack of means, while the great ma
jority eat more than is good for them.
Undoubtedly the number of those who
always go hungry would be increased
after two or three days of a siege, and
then day by day this number would in
crease until the public authorities
would feel compelled to take possession
of the food supplies and distribute them
among the people. With the exception
of milk and some other things the sup
ply of meat, poultry, hardy vegetables
and fruits would last for two months
at the present rate of consumption. If
all the supplies were taken charge of at
the beginning of a siege—and tilts
could easily be done—the food within
New York could be made to last for
four months at least. The siege of Paris
lasted only four months. Before two
months had passed high and low, rich
and poor, had learned what hunger was.
And, as is well known, the French arc
the most thrtfty and economical people
in the world. In the arrangement and
disposition of food the Parisians are
especially distinguished. But the food
supply in New York could be made to
last as long as the Paris siege lasted,
and the people would still be comfort
able.- Uadies’ Home Journal.
English Adnltsratod liner,
English legislators are making an
effort to protect beer drinkers from
adulterated beverages masquerading as
pure malt liquors. They are confront
ed by the fact that the adulteration of ]
beer is a very ancient practice in Eng
land. A curious tract published in
London in 1592 asks several embar
rassing questions of unprincipled brew
ers. “And you, maister brewer that j
g.-oweth to be worth $200,000 by selling
of soden water, what subtiiity have
you in making your beer to spare the
malt? You can when you have taken
all the harte of the malt away. Then
clap on store of water (‘tls cheap
enough) and mash out a turning of
small beer like, Rennish wine; in your
coDsience how many barrels draw you
out of a quart of malt?” It is asserted
that there are English brewers to-day
who use actually no malt in their beer.
They use a saccharine solution that is
made bitter by almost anything 'but
hops and put on the market as beer.
The fact is it is not beer in any sense
of the word and parliament has been
asked to pass a measure that will put a
stop to tills antique imposition.
Fume* of Kerosene.
Many physicians believe that the
fumes of kerosene, when the lamp is
turned low, may cause diphtheria. Many
sleeping rooms are thus semi-light
ed all night, and the windows are
closed, or raised but slightly. The
atmospheric conditions become death
ly. A turned-down kerosene lamp is
a magazine of deadly gas to which the
healthiest lungs cannot be exposed
safely.—Health.
With More Nerve Than Brelna.
A Lyons (France) cyclist named
Garaud, a plumber by trade, who had
undertaken to ride around the coping
stone of a house in course of construc
tion, successfully accomplished his feat
in the presence of a large gathering.
This coping-stone is barely two feel
wide, and is about fifty feet from the J
ground. j
Employment Is stature's physician.— J
Galen.
Raising Full Strawberries.
James Allen of Covington a member
nf (he board of trustees of the institute
for the blind, called on Governor Mat
thews the other morning and gave him
a box of strawberries, lie said that
George W. Merriman, a tenant, on bis
place, is rnising hundreds of gallons of
fine berries and finds a ready sale for
them In the Chicago market at 81 a
gallon net. The patch covers six or
seven acres When asked how snch
berries can be raised for fall market,
he said: “After the first crop is picked
the ground is covered with straw and
then set on fire. The vines are all
burned to the ground. Then, by fer
tilizing the ground and irrigating it
the vines come quickly and bear, not
so much fruit as before, but just as fine
in quality and saleable at a much high
er price. There are several farmers in
northern Indiana who are pursuing
this mode of berry raising for the late
market. We have been having berries
for three weeks at my house."—Indian
apolis Mews.
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