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It is the intention of the club ! to hold two tournaments each year, to which English players will be invited, and an English professional has been , engaged who will look after the lawn I and instruct players when necessary. ! The subscription is fixed at 150 francs f for the first 100 members, after which it will be raised to 200 francs. Couldn't He Genuine. Guest—That still life study is a wonder. Nothin# could be liner than that table, the book, the pipe- and the purse. How perfect the bank bill is! By Jove! I believe it is a real bill pasted on. Host—Impossible! I bought it of an artist. Uve Broiled l.obxters. “Broiled live lobsters” is a familiar phrase that has been explained to the satisfaction of the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to . Animals, but “live broiled lobsters.” which appears on the sign of a Broadway restaurant in New York remains unexplained. Asiatic Cholera In I.iibon. The special sanitany . inspector sent to Lisbon by the Spanish gov ernment in order to inquire into the epidemic which has prevailed there for some time past, after a long in vestigation declares that the out break is one of true Asiatic cholera, imported to Lisbon from the Cape de Verde Islands. * "STAR TOBACCO.’* As you chew tobacco for pleasure use Star. It 1s Dot only the best but the most lasting, and, therefore, the cheapest. ’ lie Didn’t Object. “But, my dear sir,” said the man Who procrastinates, “if I pay you this money, I will have to borrow it of some one else. ” “Very well,” replied the cold blooded citizen, “so long as you pay what you owe me, I don’t object t.o • you owing what you pay me.”_ .American Industries. * TO CORE A COLD IN ONE DAT. . Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 26c , Couldn't Stand Satire. ’ “You don’t seem to get along very well with yer old friend?” “Naw. He got ter thinkin’ ho knowed too much. 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Above was a canopy so arranged as to conceal a silver bell, fitted with a miniature hammer of the same metal, and, although it appeared to have no connection with the clock, regularly struck the hours, and could bo made to repeat by touch ing a diamond button on the lady's bodice. In the chariot at the ivory lady's feet there was a golden figure of a dog, and above and in front were two birds, apparently flying before the chariot. This beautiful ornament was made almost entirely of gold, and was elaborately decorated with pre cious stones. The Century is about to print a new short serial story by Mary Hartwell Catherwood,—“The Days of .leanne d’Are,” the result of a very careful study pf the history of the maiden warrier of France, and of a pilgrimage of the places she made famous. The story has been in the hands of the editors of The Century for some time, but its publication was delayed on account of the recent appearance of Mark Twain's novel on the same sub ject in Harper's Magazine. Mrs. Catherwood is said to treat Joan of Arc in a fresh way and the story is thought to be her very best work. McClure's Magazine for April will contain a series of unpublished letters written by General Sherman to a young lady between whom and an army officer the general undertook to re establish a broken romantic relation. The letters embody a story as good as any piece of fiction, and exhibit Sher man in a very charming way. The April number will also contain a series of life portraits of Alexander Hamilton and his wife, and a study of Hamilton's life and public services by his chief biographer, the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. _ All Explained. Briggs—Have you ever heard any. thing of that young relative of yours who went out West ten years ago? Griggs—Why, yes. 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"You'll be an old maid, Isbel,” re monstrated the aunt with whom she lived. “You are nearly 24, my dear." “I don’t care, auntie," laughed the young lady; "an old maid is as good as anything—a thousand times better than having a husband one doesn't cars for. I’m not in love, dear, and so mean to keep my freedom.’’ That was said—and said truly then —some weeks before she came on this visit to Halcombe Grange and there met the artist, Eric Errington; but could she have said the same as truly now, when the visit was drawing to a close? The lips might, perhaps; the heart was another matter entirely, and she knew it. She was no tyro of a girl in her teens, but a woman who lived in the world and neither could nor would deceive herself; she knew that she loved Errington, and he loved her, despite his proud reticence and silence. What woman could not read between the lines? What man could possibly at all times completely guard every look and tone and touch when thrown so constantly each day with the loved one? He is unconscious how or when his secret is betrayed to that one. But no one save Isbel Brandon her self suspected Errington’s secret. He neither held aloof nor markedly sought her. But there were one or two others among the party who did so, and one day Maj. Glyn, the host, said half Jest ingly to Eric: “My dear fellow, why don’t you try your chance with the beautiful heiress and win a fortune, and therewith a speedy rise to fame?” "Thank you, not I,” said the artist, with a laugh and shrug to cover the deeper feelings stirred. "I have no in tention of being ticketed ‘fortune hun ter’ by the world or the fair lady her self. Even a poor devil of an artist may keep his pride and honor untar nished.” "But, Errington, nonsense!” Glyn stared. “Suppose you really cared for a girl who happened to be rich?” "So much the worse for me, Glyn.’,’ , “You really mean that you wouldn't woo her or ask her hand?” “Never,” said thp othef.' ' • i • This had passed oil the terfaefe. n:> Some one .halt behind, the lace cui, tains of. a window above , drew back with quivering lips and heaving breast. "Is this terrible gold of mine to be ever, then, a hopeless barrier between two lives?” Isbel muttered, locking her •l : jut, . .. • I “MY LOVE FROM THE FIRST.” white hands. “He will never speak, never breathe a word, and I-Heav en! what can I—the woman—say or do without shame? And yet—yet—is gold and a mistaken but noble pride and sense of honor to keep ns apart for ever? I know he loves me—would tell me so at once were I poor. O, it Is cruel, cruel. Something ought—must be done; but what?” There it was; she, the woman. Was so helpless. And shortly after this the party broke up. *••**••* A month later the artist one evening received a letter from Isbel, and, to his utter surprise and joy, oddly mixed with pain, she wished him to paint her portrait. Would he please call on her at 11 the next day? Of course he would go; but how go through the ordeal without self-be trayal? Isbel had to strive with herself much harder for the ordeal she had at length with an infinite courage resolved to face. Therefore was it she had named an hour free from all visitors, and when her aunt, Mrs. Brandon, would still be in her own apartment. One of the two, she saw. must cross the Rubi con and burn the boats behind If both their lives were to be saved from wreck; and since he would not, weli, she, the heiress, must, whatsoever the cost. When she was tol'd he was in the drawing-room—when almost the actual moment had arrived—her heart sank, and at the very door she had to pause a minute to pull herself together; then she went in. How the man’s dark eyes lighted up! How unconsciously close was the clasp of his hand on hers! If she had had one fleeting, doubt of his love that second must have dispelled it. "What n pleasure to see you again. Miss Brandon!” he said; “and what : ' - * ; - ■>"- ; m honor you do me to let me paint your portrait!” “Is It? It Is good of you to call It so,” label answered brightly, but In wardly every nerve was quivering and strained. “Aunt Mary began again yesterday about having my picture done, so I wrote to you. My aunt will be down presently, but in the mean while we can arrange the sittings,' dress, and so forth.” Errlngton passed by the “so forth,” and only arranged for her dress and the Bluings. "But now,” she said, “that that U settled, we come to—you must please name your-” “Pardon me,” Errlngton interposed, with resolute quietude that in Itself gave her fresh surety of her ground; “but you must do me the great favor to let that part rest until the work is finished. You are not like a strang er-” "Indeed, I hope not,” label said gent* ly,„ ' *** 11 you please, then.” “Thank you very much. Miss Bran don.” He rose. . - She, too, stood up; the moment had come; the woman’s heart stood still for a moment that was agony; two lives’ happiness or misery hung on her courage or failure. “Well, I suppose your time Is valua ble?” she said, turning to him, but her eyes did not fully meet his. “By-the bye, Mr. Errlngton, I believe—If I am rightly informed—that I have come to congratulate you?” tuuiaie me!" repeatea tne an 1st, In genuine surprise. “For what? on what account?" His surprise, and, oddly enough, the very comedy of the position, gave her new courage. “Why, I heard that you are engaged to an heiress,” she said. The Rubicon was crossed; there was no going back now, come what would. Errington flushed to the brow, then paled again. “It Is absolutely untrue," he said, in a strained way, and drew back a step. “It never could be true of me!” “But why not?” persisted label, now standing to' her colors with true femin ine staunchness, her eyes aglow, her soft tones Bteady. “If, as I heard, you are attached to her, why should your engagement be an impossibility, as you Imply?” Had some one—Glyn, perhaps—dared to tell her this, meaning herself, but without naming her? flashed across Eric, In baughty wrath and pain. “Why impossible?” he repeated, stung to a sort of desperation. “Be I cause I am a poor, struggling man who bolds his honor dearer even than love if the story were true. Neither the world nor any woman born should have the right* to believe me a dis honored fortune-hunteh" “The world’s judgment!” she said; and now her breath came quickly, her eyes flashed like diamonds. “You are not such a coward, I know, as to tear that; but is it much less cowardly to be afraid of even the risk of the woman's mistaking your motlye—the woman you love, remember?” She was speaking with a strangely passionate, if suppressed, force that sent a sudden vague thrill through the man—a dim sense of something that dazzled him —of a personality beneath the overt meaning; an assertion of hJs love for the heiress as a fact, not a mere figure of argument. “The woman you love, remember, and whose happiness, per haps, your pride may wreck as well as your own—who doubtless knows your heart’s secret, and curses the miserable gold and cruel pride that stands be tween your lives.” “ label!” Errington sprang to her side—caught her hands in his own. “My darling, my love from the first! Forgive, If you can, worse than fool that I have been. Ah, my poor Isbel!” For the girl burst Into tears as he locked her to his heart; the tension must needs give way at last, brave girl though she was. "O, why were you so cruel? Why did you force me to—to-O, Eric!” “My darling—forgive me!—because 1 loved so much I feared your scornful refusal. Why should you think me dif ferent from other wooers? And I nev er dreamed of this happiness, dearest,” he said, passionately. “One word—tell me you forgive your lover.” “Eric, I love you,” she whispered, and lifted her face for a moment for his kiss. What matter if some of the world did say, when the marriage did take place, that It was the money the painter had sought? He cared not, and those who knew him and his wife knew well It was a love match entirely. The pic ture—not a mere portrait—of beautiful Mrs. Errington. when seen the next May at the Academy, made a sensation and sent up the rising artist’s name at once. “So, after all, you see, Eric,” his wife says, arch and tenaer in one, “you will win the best in the end, fortune and fame.” “And the priceless treasure that neither gold nor fame could buy,” he answers, smiling down on the dear face—"my wife.’’—The Folks at Home. rh» New Woman. The new woman is representative of a renaissance, of a universal awaken ing among women. I am going to ad vance and try to support the theory that the new woman movement, repre sented by the new woman, is an indi cation that the modern world wom an is losing ground, and that this is a pathetic,' vigorous, sometimes fran tic, effort on the part of woman for self-preBervation.—M. M. Mangasarian. To Pay All 'Round. An Indiana editor wrote: “The re cent cold snap played the devil with a portion of our better half’s house plants.” The printer's devil left the "1” out of “plants” and the editor's readers are , wondering Just what be meant. *■ -t ■ ! I W»t« lif tha Corn. “Ton Washington people quarrel about the water supply,” said u wo* man who has just cornu back from a two years' visit in Dakota, -‘but you ought to be ashamed to say a wfg’d. Why, I have learned to bo so saving of water that 1 really tuako calcula tions on every drop I use. Out there in Dakota vfe had to buy water. In the siimmor we paid twenty cents a barrel for it. In the winter wo bought by the cord and hod it Stacked up in the back yard—ice. you know—and then when wo wanted it wo chopped off a piece and molted it down. And yet you object i! the water is a bit murky .]? Sh» Tom Lott. 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