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CHAPTER XXVIII.
She found him sianding by the fire
place, looking with evident interest at ihe
various costly ami beautiful ornament
that decorated the wide velvet mantel
board. She cheeked herself when she
eame within a few feet of hmi. clasped
ber hands loosely toother, a:id sio.nl
there silent and motionless, waiting for
him to begin the battle.
He looked round, a Tier wh.it seemed a
long period of time to her, and smiled
pleasantly.
"You don't appear to be overjoyed at
the sight of nie,"' he ls-san, affably.
"Why have you conieV"
"To see for myself that you havi
ered your nest comfortably, and
care of yourself all round."
"Only thatT
lie lauitlied.
"For what other cause should I
I hiue. to be dure, a great desire
tenth
I a ken
come r
to see
the gentleman whose declining years you
are likely to render so peaceful and hap-
"You have cotne to ruin me!" she broke
out wildly. "You tempted me to the de
ceit in the first place; you almost forced
It upon nie: and now now you have come
to gloat over your work to witness the
ruin you have made, to revel in the agon
ies of your victim, and hers."
"Be a sensible woman, and caltn your
mind," he said. reassuringly. "W hat
there is to upset you in this situation I am
at a loss to imagine. Here am I. a friend
of your former husband the best friend
he ever had, the close!, in fact the
friend who saw him buried conic to con
gratulate his widow on having duffed
her weeds and buried her dead. All I ask
ia a little hospitality f. r a few days, and
as much (.port as cm he crammed into
them. Surely an Irish gentleman will ac
cord nie that for his wife's sake."
"You must have all things as you will."
she said, hopelessly; "'out, listen! You
shall not toi-'cre that true, honest, noble
heart, that I may be compelled to break:
you shall n"t taunt him with the fact of
the woman he believes to be his wife be
ing a liar, a traitress, an impostor, a
fraud. I wiil tell him what I am myself."
"No, you'll not: there' really no occa
sion for it," he said, coolly slinking his
head adnimiishingly at her. "if you'll only
believe it. You're a most ieellent and
practical woman: you have dime a good
thing for yourself, Mrs. TuUatnore, and.
as a friend, I advise you to keep the good
things you've got. and not to make sen'.i
mental strife. Thanks for your offer of
a servant taking my traps to n,r loom. I
look forward to meeting the admiral at
dinner with real pleasure."
"Let nie leave you now and think."
she asked, humbly; a'nd he opened the
door for her. and coHrteonsly bowed her
out of t'.ie room.
It seemed to her like a dream from
which s'.e must awake with a crash that
would stamp out her mind and brain when
she found herself seated at the table
presently, di-eonrsing pleasantly of the
prospecled sport for the morrow. The
gamekeepers were to receive Admiral
Tnllaniore' strict commands that night
concerning tile best preserves, which were
to tie shot over by his wife's friend the
ext i!uy. The lcst horse in the stable
was to carry Mr. Whittler after the
hounds the day after. Indeed, altogether.
Admiral Tul'.aniore catered so liberally
and heartily for the amusement of the
nelf-invited guest that her resolution to
'confess her fault and folly before she
slept faltered again.
"Will you bring me a shooting lun
cheon to-day?" Mr. Whittler asked hi
hostess, us he was nliout to depart with
the head gaiuckceiier, a couple of beat
ers, and a brace of the finest pointers in
the South of Ireland.
"If you wish it."
"The hollow under Kindale Wood will
he the best place, my lady about two
'clock," the gamekeeper suggested, and
Admiral Tullnmore cried out heartily:
"We'll be there to meet you with some
crop at that time, Mr. Whittler; mean
while, good sport to you; mind yon bring
tome a' good bag."
"Theie's no big game to fill it in this
country." Whittler laughed. Then he
went off, with a respectful salutation to
Mrs. Tiillanioie. leaving that lady with a
mind burdened with an overwhelming
sense of approaching calamity.
The liest pigeon pie ami cold game that
the larder provided, tojeether with the
tber etceteras of a shooting luncheon,
tot forgetting some excellent curacoH,
Wm packed iippetiziugly and deposited
tl Mrs. Tnllatnore's four-wheeled dog
mt at about half past one.
Hr bauds shook as she gathered tip
fee Nina, and the two spirited ponies
lasi It all their own way down the ave
Mtt Lock, 1,' die pile was) thrown open
tM UsB for them to pnsa through with
CMr ka a bad lest temporary control
of her llrt'e s-ts-.ls. The thought "Am I
destine I to l.reak this dear old man's neck
by my driving?" cut through her brain
like a knife. The slioi k it gave her stead
ied her nerves, and with a long and strong
pull she go! bold .if of her p-inies' hea'U
and brought them back to a fast but
steady trot,
Hilda re Hollow, under the great wul.
was later than all the region round in
changing j; au'unni robes of gulden
ferns, orange and crimson b!arklrry
lea c es and w reaths of honeysuckle, still
in flower, for its wintry mantle of wither
and decay. The bright sunshine was over
it as they drove in'o it this day. and she
cocM nut help crying out in admiration
of the glow of color thai was reflected
upon the foliage from the sun's rays.
Hut her cry of admiration changed into
a cry of horror as she caught sigh! of a
group, men and dogs, huddled round some
thing that lay prostrate oil the grou'ol.
The "biggest" game that can fall to a
man's gun had fallen that day. The
great actor lay d.-ad upon the ground,
shot through the heart by his own hand.
CHAPTER XXIX.
When the admiral's wife read the ac
count of Mr. Whittler' funeral, when
she realized that from hitn she had noth
ing more to dread, and felt that it rested
ith herself solely how whether she
should remain the honored mistress of
Kilde te. or cast herself on!, poor, friend
less and shattered, on the wide world of
want and woe, a better spirit, an humbler,
braver spirit, possessed her, and it made
her go to Admiral Tullnmore with calm
ness and coherency and tell him all her
pitiful story, and impress him with the
truth.
When she had told him all, everything
nothing extenuating, nothing excusing
he stood with downcast head waiting
for the verdict.
There was silence, then at last a sob.
She looked up. The old man was wiping
his eyes and blowing his nose vehement
ly. When he could eiieak, all he said
w a s :
"My poor, hardly treated, hardly tempt
ed dear, yon must go off to lMiblin to-day,
and to-tmirrow we'll U married over
again, and we'd never sjieak of all that
has happened Is-fore to-day as long as we
live."
Hut if Mr. Whittler' death brought re
lief from slavery that had Iwcii worse
than death, and eveut.mlly peace and pros
perity to Mrs. Tullnmore, it brought dis
appointment, and what he regarded as
ruin, upon Captain Kdgecumb.
He had, under the influence of the glori
ous success on the stage, for Jenifer,
which Mr. Whittler had foretold so glow
ingly, risen from the ashes of his despair
at her failure ss a lyric artist, and be
come brightly hopeful again. And Dow
all in a moment, hig hopes lay shattered
and dead at his feet. And he told himself
lhat he was tied for life to a woman who
didn't love him, and, which was worse,
who would never make any money for
hitn.
His temper, under the combined circum
stances, of disappointment, and what he
regarded as penury, became rapidly one
of those corroding things that can't fail
to wear the freshness and brightness out
of the best and brightest of women's
heart. Jenifer struggled on week after
week and month after month, trying to
keep the home atmosphere clear, and at
the same time to give singing lessons,
that she might preserve something like
independence. But the period was an aw
ful one, and she met with scant sympa
thy in her endurance of it from any one
but her mother.
It was a daily penance to Jenifer to see
the way in which h(V husband iermitted
her mother to feci that her presence in
their house was a nuisance to blm. Yet
when, goaded into resentment by bis
scant courtesy and ill-concealed dissatis
faction at her lieing there, Mrs. Itay
would propose removing to another home,
he would protest against the proposal
as being unjust and injurious to himself.
"If she goes she will take the pittance
she gives you for her maintenance away
with ber, and I shall be left more in the
lurch than ever." he would say to Jeni
fer, who always abstained from remind
ing him that all he contributed toward
the household was wax candles and good
cigars.
Down at Moor Royal the ball was roll
ing far too fast. F.flie, in her praisewor
thy desire to efface all memories of other
and inferior Mrs. Rays who had gone be
fore her, strained all her resources too
bard, and eventually cracked them.
So difficultiesmoney difficulties that
would not let themselves be set aside and
forgotten, were perpetually rpcurring at
Moor Iloyal, and were us perpetually be
ing cleared away by Mrs, .Icrrolse, whose
sympathy and regard for her sister was
or an unfailing surt that sou. J asve
ifoiit- far u redeem a much more faulty
character than Flora's.
Aq'J ia Jack's household, at the Home
Farm, a coarser sty!- of extravagance
prevailed. Minnie had been a thrifty
houek.-eper when she first met Mrs. Jack
Itay, but the temptations of her new i-
t.tion mad soon grown too strong for ber.
at was D.rt an idle aaian by nature,
but to work with ber bands seemed to her
to be an "unladylike" tbiDg to do. And
her head gave ber no occupation.
When the three years expired, at the
end of which the sealed letter containing
the late Mr. Ray's last will as to be
read, both bis sous ere in sad straits for
want of means, and both of them had
alienated themselves entirely from their
mother and sister.
CHATTER XXX.
Six weeks or so before the expiration
of the probationary term, there fell an
other heavy trial upon poir Jenifer in the
dangerous illness of her busbaud.
The grand ambition of bis life bad been
to be rich not for the sake of riches
not that he might be quoted as a wealthy
man, or one to whom the "s;ictiding of a
thousand up or down" was a mere noth
ing, but for the sake of procuring the
sport, the pleasures, the luxuries, the ex
citement, without which life seemed to
him to ! a thing not worth living.
With Whittler' death he gave up all
ho;s of ever being able to make Jenifer
into a in in. y-iiiakiiig machine. And so
his home-life had no happiness in it, for
he always regarded bis wife as one who
ha l tricked and defrauded him by apjiear
ing to have remunerative talent when she
had it not
The result was that the disturbed. d:s
satisfied, lowered tone of bis mind acted
in time tip on his body, and when a heavy
old assaiiel him, and feverish symptoms
speedily set in, he had neither the strength
nor the spirit to do battle against them.
They had left the furnished house in St,
John's Woo.! now, and were in lodging
in dismal Iielam.re Crescent, where his
straine! uervei were tortured by barrel
organs by day, and the cries of every cv;i
disposlti oned cat in the neighborhood by
night. The sun rarely shines iti thi
favored spot, ami the odors that reach it
from the adjoining canal are not the ones
bet ii the world adapted to reinvigorate
and refresh an ailing man with fastidi
ous sense ami tastes. However, here be
had !o live, poor fellow; and here, finally,
after weeks of anxious, patient, hojieless
nursing on Jenifer's part, be had to die.
Then his "own people." the ones who in
their selfish prosperity had nearly forgot
ten him in !;; adversity, came and almost
reproached Jenifer for "not having man
aged better" than to let him g'-t into such
a st tte of health. II. s mother took com
fort in the thought that the "Ihij was ex
actly like poor Harry, no! a truce of the
Rays in hiin." and then n;ti!o her con
science fur the neglect of her son when
il.lng. by offering to pay bis' funeral cx-
i-!les.
The news of Captain Kdgecumb' s death
reached Moor Royal at a most inoppor
tune moment. Kflie had just achieved her
current aim. which whs to receive an invi
tation to a ball at Admiralty House, I'ly
niouth, to meet royalty! No such blissful
opjx. rlutiity might ever come again. In
justice to herself she could Hot neglect it
now. So she put Jenifer's telegram into
the tire, and drove into Truro to order her
dress.
Ti lings of Captain Kdgecumb' illness
had reached Moor Royal before this, but
lin y had hot )ocn of an alarming nature,
and Kflie trusted to chance keeping Hu
bert in the dark as to his brolher-in-law's
death, until after the ball. Then file
meant to call her !x-st tact to her aid, t-II
him (he sad news, and justify her tempo
rary concealment of it by the success she
had made at Admiralty House,
Jack had received a similar telegram,
but as Holiert and Jack were not on
speaking terms, no notification of the
event reached Moor iJoyal from the Home
Farm.
Ktlie's dress was as lovely a thing as
white satin, delicate gold thread, hand
some embroidery. Mechlin luce, and t In
most perfect cut could make if. And
Kflie had ail the success she desired, and
far more than she deserved, at the ball.
But toward the end of it a great blow
was dealt her. A man who bad len in
the same regiment with Captain Kdge
cumb at Exeter, desirous of Is-ing seen
to U- on speaking terms with the moM
iitlnietive and most highly distinguished
woman in the room, came and spoke to
her when she happened to be going to
dance with her husband.
"This is very sad about poor Kdge
cumb, isn't it?" he said, after a moment i
or two; and before she could answer he
went on: "1 hardly expected to see you
here to-night."
"Why, what's sad?" Hubert asked, j
"You don't mean to say that you don't
know he's dead?" the other man said,
in tones of such evident surprise and dis
trust that Hnls-rt, after one glance at his
wife's face, thought he had better take
her away at once.
"I shall go to my sister tomorrow; the
shock has been too great for her to think
of anything," he said to Captain Edge
enmb's old comrade. But when he was
alone with his wife he said:
"You knew, Kflie'"
"I couldn't give up Hip ball. 'I meant
fo te) you to-night," she stammered.
"You have made me npi-ar a greater
brute than I am in reality to my own
sister, ho sighed.
And that was his only reproof to Kflie.
The thought of the sensation she bad
made at the ball made ber bear the re
proof heroically.
One Monday morning, about six weeks
after Caplaia Kdgecumb' death, a letter
came from Mr. Boldero.
"The time has arrived for the opening
ami reading of your late husband's lat
est will," he wrote. "The day fixed is
next Thursday, the place In which It is to
be read is the library at Moor RoyaL All
the family. Admiral Tullnmore and my
self are to be present. 1 hope Mrs. Kdge
cumb will do me Ihe honor to be my
guest, instead of going to Moor Royal."
"Of course we must go, but, oh, dear!
what a trial it will lie to go and have Just
a glimpse of my old home, and see thai
I'm not wanted there," Mrs. Ray said,
wiping away a few tears.
CHA1TKR XXXI.
The momentous day arrived. All the
family, even Jack Ray and Minnie, were
assembled In the library. Elbe, arrayed
In a sumptuous tea gown of silver gray
plush, which she wore as a graceful com
pliment (o the memory of Captain Bdge
cunib, and an air of gay Indifference,
lounged In one of the new pencock-bliie
velvet chairs which bud succeeded the
stately old library ones of golden brown
stamped leather and oak. Mr. Ray int
regarUng tba changed aspect of terj-
tbing with wistful eyes.
Aud Jenifer could bsrdly conceal ber
annoyance and contempt for Hubert, for
the cool indiffereuce be displayed toward
-is mother. Then their father's latest
w ill s read, and the aspect of all things
underwent a sudden change. Cleared of
all legs! veiling, it as to this clear edect:
M Kr Royal, at t lie expiration of three
yesrs. was to remain Hubert's property
on unchanged terms if, during those three
years, he had shown real filial feeling and
true manly considers! ion for bis mother;
charged merely with the payment of two
hundred a year more to Mrs. hay, which
two hundred, together with what bad
l-eu left to the widow under the former
will, was to be settleJ on Jenifer at her
mother's death.
But supposing Hubert had developed
the "latent selfishness and extravagance"
which bis father had always detected in
him the property was to go, on the same
conditions to "my second son, John Ray."
"I'rovided, that i. that in sll respects
since my death be has proved himself
worthy to l trusted, and has uot married
lieiieath him a tasie for low company
being. I fear, his besetting sin." In the
latter event the whole properly was to
in- Mrs. Ray's oh condition thai she left
it to Jenifer.
No one could assume for an instnnt
thai any of the conditions bad Wii ful
filled, and Hubert and Jack had the grace
to accept their just reward in silence.
But Ktlie. loudly protesting against the
"d sgastirtv treachery of the whole of the
revolting family into which she had mar
ried." swept out of the room without a
word to the lady who was now its mis
tress. Then Hubert went up and kissed
his mother, and whispered:
"I deserve ii, dear. "I hate sinned be
fore heaven, and against thee, aud am
not worthy to be called thy son.'" ul
all her hear' bl"d f-r him. and weni out
to Irm. and urged her to give him buck
Moor Royal on the xit.
But this the two executors would by no
means allow. So in an hour or tvn Kflie
ordered HulsTt i ff with her to join Flora,
whose wit and wealth would surely, he
though', npe! this intiuitou plot against
her peate and p.ciity.
But when they were gone, Mr. Boldero
wen! to Jenifer and said:
"Now yon know why I have rcsfiained
myself?"
"I think I do; it was because you would
not ak me to Is. your wife till I knew
as well as you d:d that 1 should ! a rich
woman."
"You are right, Jenny, dear."
"But you will ask me -one day?" sh"
said, blushing a little as she b"ld ber
hand out fo him, and reuiem'iM-red her re
cent U-reavement. 1
"I'l.-ase heaven. I will," he said, frank-
I
At t'.e end of a year he kept his prom- '
ic. Ant when they were married, h"
said to her:
'Jenny, can yon trust me to he a father
to your boy. and a son to your mother?" I
'Entirely." i
' Then ask her fo give back Moor Royal
to Hubert. You will I. a rich woman
without it. my darling, and your mother
w ill be happier with us than alone up i
there, with thoughts of the son who ha j
Ix-en punished for his faults to her. Even
I can trust Hubert now."
So this latest proviim was earned out. '
And there nrc no two happier women in
England than Mrs. Ray and Jenifer;
hough Kflie holds her fair bead up scorn
fully when they are spoken of, and says:
"It s so unpleasant for me, you know.
to have to visit a country lawyer and his
wife, Jenifer ought to have known bet
ter lhaii to put me in such a position, but
she always was so selfish! Flora and 1
hate seifishn'-ss, and visiting any but
country people." j
(The end.)
Science's Explanation of Moonlight
"The iniHin Is a mirror which reflect
the sunlight to us," write Ablen W.
ftilmby In the I -adies' Home Journal.
"An ('XHiiiliiiitinn of moonlight with
the M lroHcope shows, of course, the
same spectrum as Hint of sunlight.
The quality of the reflection Is indi
cated In the aiiuoiim-enieiit that it
would take no fewer than six hundred
and eighteen tlioiisiind full moon to
supply to us an amount of light eqtinl
to that which wo gel from the sun, and
there Is only room for. sav, seven) v-
live thousand of them. Some heat
comes from the union, but onlliinrv
methods will not measure It. However.
It is estimated Hint It iilxitit one
eighty thousandth of the amount which
the sun supplies to us. The Inclination
of the moon' orbit to the horizontal
accounts for the 'Harvest' mid the
'Hunter's' moon, which occur when (he
tipping 1 slightest, thus iMTinltting
the moon fo rise alsiut the same lime
for several successive evening. The
liKKin often npiwnrs much enlarged
when on toe lioi iy.oii, lint this Is eati-.-.
by the refractive, ftaturv of the air
nlsiut the horizon and the tmulrul ten
dency to compare it with terrestrial ob
jects." (sculptured Stone in Guiana.
The most Interesting relic of pnst
age that one encounter In the Guiana
country are Immense stone containing
hieroglyphic Inscription. These are
to be found on the Bldi- of the moun
tain and upon many of the rocks lu
the river throughout British and Ven
ezuelan (iulana, and have evoked it
great deal of discussion among ethnol
ogist. No theory regarding their ori
gin hjis yet lieen accepted, though they
are Mild (o la similar to those found
In the exploration of I'licniel.-i. Iir.
Marociinoof I'urls, Hflcra careful study
of the skull found In an old Indian
burin I ground of the upper Orinoco,
any that tliey are similar to I hose dis
covered In Ihe Egyptian tomb, from
which I deduced the theory of Plielil
clnn origin, and a confirmation of the
existence, In former time, of the At
lantic Archipelago, by which one could
cross from the African const to South
America In smnll Ismf. Century.
Not Unite.
"Have you a bicycle, Willie?"
"Xo, sir; uot qurte."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I have a bicycle button." Washing
ton Tost.
Engaged people kiss and mnke
but after they are married they
such hotiioepatlilc remedies for q lari.
.will not do-
id
ds
BLUFFED THt TICKET SELLER.
How a Young Man tiot a Pasteboard
Mssiped at a Bail war tf)ic.
Railroad, manager make a Que ire
tense of oplKsslug the ticket broker.
In some Stales they have been Instru
mental lu baring laws enacted Intend
ed to squelch the waljors ly making
their business! illefal. A a matter of
fact, the ticket bruker la one of the
be3t aids. In securing business pnsaeuger
agent have, and ordinarily tbey will
a little lietter for a ncalier than for
a jH-rson who wishes a ticket for bis
own use( Once in a while, when excur
sion ticket are lieing Hold at a particu
larly low rate, the rail run d3 do not
wish the brokers to have the ticket at
alL Then they surround the handling,
of the pasteboard with what they cou
ddcr safeguards sufficient to prevent
the brokers getting a slice of the pie.
But the broken! never nils a good
thing, and the regular travelers make It
easy for the effort of the railroads to
be frustrated.
A I'lttsburg woman took advantage
of one of the cheap excursions to Niag
ara Fall recenijy to pay a visit to rela
tive In Buffalo. The return portions
of the ticket were made gisxl only when
stamped by the agent or a certain road
at the Fall. The visitor did not wish
to limit ber stay in Buffalo to the time
for which the ticket va good. So a
few day liefore It expired she bad It
taken to a ticket broker, who gave her
one of later date In exchange for It.
A few day before she was ready to
come home ber grandmother, an Inno
cent old lady, went to the Fall to have1
the tickft stamped.
"I'lease stamp this ticket," she said
to the clerk.
"Where did you get this ticket, mad
am?" demanded the clerk In bis gruff
est tones.
"Why, we got It from Mr. Blank In
Buffalo," was the naive reply.
"Sorry, madam, but thai ticket is no
good." declared the clerk. "Mr. Blank
has no right to sell these tickets."
"Oh. but you mast stump It," pro
tested the old lady. "It' for my grand
daughter, and she must have It to go to
I'lltsburg,"
But Uie derk did not care anything
for the old lady's granddaughter, and
be wild so.
She returned fo Buffak' In great trepi
dation, and was met with a merry
laugh by her sons-ln law. "fjlve me the
ticket." said one. "I'll get It stamped."
"Where did you get this ticket?" ask
ed the man at the Fall In the same
gruff manner he had used toward the
old lady.
"Can't you read?" was the Interroga
tive reply, "(live me the ticket and I'll
read It to you. If you are not able to do
no."
"Well, when did you get It?"
"If dated. Sim- for yourself."
i "If your place to ttH me," sab) the
clerk.
"Now, see here, If you nren't going
to stamp the ticket give It buck to me.
and I will see If there Is not a means of
making you perform your duty." and
the tb ket holder made a bluff at being
Indignant.
The bluff worked, and the ticket was
stamped without more ado. All of
which shows the value of know ing how.
.ittsburg Tost.
The Ingenioua Jack.
May I give nn Instance of the imwcr
dogs seem to possess of understanding
what Is said lu their presence? We
have a terrier who objects to spending
a night alone, and 1 therefore allowed
to sleep with one of my brothers. A
short time ago they were all from home,
and an order waa given early lu the
evening Jack being present that he
waa to sleep with the groom away from
the house. Jack, who always remain
In the room until the rest of the house
hold retire, disappeared this particular
evening very soon after l he order was
given, ami was not seri again. When
we went upstairs, however, there be
wan curled up In an arm-elm Ir In my
youngest sister's bed-room, evidently
settled for the night, and a we entered
he looked up and wagged hi tail, us
If he were begging to Is? allowed !o
stay. As be had never lieen known to
go to lied early by himself, or In that
particular room, we felt sure he had
understood the order, and hoped by
these uieaus to escape.
Obstinate Hoy a I I'atient
"A king ha the right to die, but not
the right to be ill," wild l.oul XVI II,
to bis dis-Iora, forbidding them at the
name time to publish the truth about bl
condition.
Alexander I., perhaps In Imitation of
the Bourbon he had helped to bis
throne, acted upon the same principle,
though he did not einlwdy It In a para
doxical epigram. For more than forty
eight hour he refused to be bled, not
withstanding the urgent persuasion of
his physicians and the. Empress. Find
ing all persunslou useless, Dr. Wellye
plainly told the Czar that, having re
fused the aid of science till It wits too
late, he had no resource left but the aid
of religion.
"But 1 Lave an Idea that that will
prove a broken reed to you." said the
blunt physician, a worthy predecessor
of Zacharln. "I am afraid that religion
will be of little use to the man whose
olistlnncy In refusing all medical aid
Is tantamount to suicide."
Thirty hours later the eldest son of
I'aul I. had breathed his last.
It I'ependa.
''Dah's a good deal dependln on de
way er man applies 'I Inergles," said
Undo Eben. "De bass drummer often
uses up rnoh muscle on one chime dan
de fust fiddler does on half a dozen."
Washington Star.
A Lightning Change.
Talk alsjut lightning changes! Did
you ever watch a business man greet a
visitor who ho thought was a custo
mer, but who turned out to be a book
vjiot? SomervllU Journal.
THE LITTLE FRENCH CIRU
! 8b la a Miniature Woman and la
Tsnitht All Feminine Art.
However Innocent he may be, lit
tle French girl is much more of a little
woman than a .hlld of any other na
tionality. She d'-s mrt romp; she la
demure uii 1 q ii lei in br game, which
are often Imitations of k grow n person's
life. She 1 trying to learn bow to la
the ui'trvrd of her house by means of
her dolls, furniture, kitchen and d.shc.
Feminine art are still a part of every
well-arranged French education. Men
really care more for these accomplish
uiciits than for others, as they make
stay-at-home wives who look after
tlielr households; and as a Frenchwom
an's principal aim in to peac her fu
ture husband, every mother prepares
her daughter for this end. This is why
she doe not'iMTtnit too dose an Inti
macy with little tsiy cousin, ls'cause
ten years Infer a Jealous husband would
take a dislike to these friendly cousin:
nor would be like his wife's Imhsoiii
friends, in whom she confide, and who
never leave her any ls-tter.
Mothers, ilicreforo, permit few if any
Intimacies, and these are all winnowed
and fU'bt-ted with the greatest care.
One advantage of this system Is that
the name of friend i not cands.dy b
stowed right and left; it t:ike time ami
gixsl reason for simple acquaintance
to rise to that rank. The mother not
only wards off little ly cousin mid In
timate girl friends, but she discourage
the little girl In whowlug off her knowl
edge out of the dan r.smi. for she k
fully aware that nothing could be less
attractive Iti the eyes of the expected
lord and fillister than u blue stocking.
A bright little girl I could name had.
by chance, picked up some astrotiombiil
ser,'ils, together with other s ielltific
facts, which allowed her to shine now
and then. One evening, while playing
In the garden, she heard a friend of
her father's exclaim: "What a d iz.liug
star! I'li.it Ls md a Mar. sir." lio
s.-i.l; "it U a plane!." Her mother was
In despair, for she would rather a hun
dred thin have found her Ignorant
than have seen her "show off," or ciki
ble of committing the ciioniilly of con
tradicting an oblcr person. "I hoie,"
she said Jestingly, a a sort of cxotifc.
"that when she Is clghti-fti the poor lit
tle thing will have forgotten a great
part of what dic knows to-day!" -Century.
t lifT'-Ilwieller at Home.
Hamlin (Jarland contributes an Inter
esting article to the Ladles' Home Jour
nal, on the homes and home life of the
ruelrlo-Dwelling Indians iCMIT Dwell
ers of Ihe Southwest), w lioin he desig
nates un "The Most Mysterious l'eople
lt America." "It tik feur of man to
set these villages on those heights," lie
writes. "As I approached Wulpl I
could hardly believe anything living
w;i uioii It. The houses, massive, dlrf
colored, flat and square rocks, si-ereted
themselves tllili file cliff, like turtles.
The llrt evidence of life was a small
field of corn set deep In 'tin wash' or
dry river Inm!. Then un old miin watch,
ing it--sea tod Is iienth a shade of pin
yon boughs. Then some peach trees
knee deep ill sand.. Til' 11 some ri-d-roof
housi- built by the lovcniiiietit. By
this time I could see tiny flgtin-s mov
ing iiIhmii on the high ledges and on
the roof of the bouses. I'p (he trail a
infill on a Imiito was driving a Hock of
hecp ii iid goals. He wore light cotton
trousers mid a calico shirt. Ill legs
were bare, and on his head was a straw
hat. Further up the trail some old
women were tolling with huge littles
of water slung on tlielr backs. From
Ihe moment I entered that trail I was
deep In the elemental past. Here was
life reduced to Its slinjib'st form.
Houses of heavy wiilUt, with Interiors
like ivllar or caves, set for defense
iikii n cliff. Here were flat roofs,
(hick, to ki-ep out the sun mid to make
a dooryni'd for the next tier of bouses
above. Here were nude children with
tangled hair, wild as colt und fleet as
antelopes, dancing on crags us high as
church sj Ires. Here were dog Just
one remove from wolves -solemn dogs,
able to climb a ladder. Here were men
and women seated ujkmi the floor and
eating from plaques of willow and
bowls of day of their own shaping and
burning."
Ir. I'ark hurst on the Theater.
"The theater 1 believe In profound
ly," writes the Bev. Charles II. I'nrk
htirst, D. D., in the Ladles' Home Jour
nal. "As a means of Intellectual stim
ulus aud of moral uplift there Is noth
ing, with the iKissible exception of the
pulpit, that could stand alongside of If
a an enginery of personal effect, pro
vided only It would mnlnialn Itself In
It procr character a the dramatized
Incarnation of strength. Borsonnlly, I
would like at bust once a week to gel
out from under the Incubus of ordinary
obligation aud to yield myself up Intel
lectually and emotionally to the domi
nation of dramatic power. I could
live with a fresher life and could write
and sj-ak with a more recuperated
vigor, I am sure."
Not icclflc.
"Tbl paper," remarked Dora, "slate
that there are eight colored physicians
hi Baltimore."
David looked thoughtful.
"Does It specify w hut the color are?"
he asked In an anxious tone.
Then Dora declared Hint he was a
mean old thing, while Invhl winked to
himself softly In the glass. New York
World.
Bruised.
lie wheeled out into the country,
To breatho the sweet pure air;
Tw ns a rouged lndscaie and even he '
Was much struck by the scentry there.
Detroit Tribune.
Among other fnlry stories 1 one to
the effect that If you do your duty, It
will Anally become a pleasure you
