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THE SIOUX COUNTY JOURNAL L J. MM ova. BABBISOX, KEBRA.SK A. Large, handsome shade trees increase tbe selling value of the farm. Consciousness of honesty U a greater -FAinfort than a big bank account. A practical education will make the boy a progressive, enterprising man. Borne farmers think farming the beat occupation on earth, and some think it the worst Bt b are right, as they man age it. Henry E. Abtiey's death takes away a manager to whom the t'nited States was indebted for much bigb-class en tertainment. It is not safe to wear trousers in Chi cago now. Two highwaymen, not con tent with robbing a man recently, car ried away his unmentionables. The police but why speak of the police? The coal trust has decreased the out put for the last eleven mouths 3.ti,0ii0 tons, as compared with the previous eleven mouths. Iecreaiug output and increasing price Is the trust program. The less service it does the heavier the profit it extorts. Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont (divorced Vas derbilt) hag had a disastrous social sea on at Newport, it is said, aud will go abroad, among the English earls who put their mothers-in-law in jail and the dukes who kick their wives. She should make a hit in Ixmdon. North Carolina promise to become one of the greatest Southern States. Her cotton and hosiery mills are al ready sprinkled all over the State. Saw mills are turning vast forests into tumps. It has the finest castle in the world, built by a Vanderbilt. The Southern Railway Company is to erect the largest shops in the South at Salis bury. There was laughter such as even couiic opera never evoked In the court of special sessions iu New York the other day. The young woman who waa the cause had never been In a court of Justice prior to her appearance as a wit ness. She took a position with her back to the Jury and began telling her story to the court. The Justice said to her: "Please speak to the Jury, miss; the men sitting behind you on the benches." The witness at once turned around, ays the New York Times' story, and making a polite bow to the jury, said, with perfect gravity, "Good morning, gentlemen V The world is facing the grandest pos sibilities since the dawn of the Chris tian era. Africa, for Instance, with an area almost four time as large as our own country, and with an estimated population of 168,000,000 against our 65,000,000, has stood still for centuries, knowing nothing of the great outside world. The British are to build a rail road 750 miles long, almost under the equator, from Mombaza on the Indian ocean to the north shore of Victoria Nyanza. There are 20.0oo.0fi0 people in that country. Another l.isto mile road is projected, shirting UTio miles south of Mombaza and striking into the great and fertile interior. England bus a thriving industry in the building of portable houses, which are made of iron, and so constructed that they can lie put together with bolls in a very short space of time. All the purchaser bus to do U to rent a tiny plat of ground, repair to the "house" shop and select a domicile suited to his particular use, order it carted to his ground and set up. He has no delay in building, and is thus free from Improve ments and taxes. At the end of the summer season he sends for a man to tak down his little borne and store It in a convenient barn till the return of spring will tempt him again to desert his chambers for a little cot by the liver side. Blown dust ls a general and familiar nuisance to housekeepers over the en tire West. A minimum estimate, veri fied by direct oliservation, for the quan tity of dust settling on floors during neb storms Is about a fourteenth of an ounce of dust on a surface of a square yard in half a day. A maximum estimate made on the basis of the above newspaper accounts would be at least Are pounds to a square yard of surface for a storm lasting twenty-four hours. If we then suppose that a house that is twenty-four feet wide and thirty-two feet long bas open crevices, which aver age a sixteenth of an Inch In widtb and have a running length In windows and doors of one hundred and fifty feet, the wind may te supposed to enter half of these crevices with a velocity of five miles per hour for the time the storm teats, or for twenty-four hours. The dast may be supposed to settle On not leas than eighty -five square yards of anrfac, Including floor space and hori zontal surfaces of furniture. The min imum estimate, based on these figures, gives t fwo hundred and twenty-five tons of duart to the cubic mile of air. Tb maximum aatlmate would be one kandred and twenty -six thousand tons. Tbt awed corn put up for next year konld be carefully guarded from pre slatory animals, such aa mice, rats and fatrrela, Mperialty the Utter. The metn drying which asm corn gets by fcaftsf hng up la a warm place makes 04 grain especially aftractlvs to tba rarral, wboaa appetite baa lose bean made delii-ats by feeding on stk rice food as nuts. When either squirrels or rat get at corn in the ear they Iev the outer busk uneaten as much aa possible, and dig down to the genu, which I sweeter aud has a really n; like flavor. This germ they will com pletely devour, taking, with this re jection of the coarse part a large amount of corn to a&tlsry them. If the corn 1 bung in an attic Isolde the chimney for warmth It should be looked after occasionally, to see that nothing gets at it. A single squirrel finding bin way to the choicest seed corn will tic fore spring spoil it for anything but hog or chicken feed. Despite the fact that nearly $3i.io.. 000 is expended every year by the vari ous States for public education, illiter acy is still a giant evil in this country. When nearly one-half the population over the age of ten in one of the origi nal thirteeu States North Carolina is unable to read and write. It Is high time liiat 'he American public should realize the importance of battling against ig norance. Nebraska is entitled to the distinction of having fewer illiterate!! iu projMirtlon to population than any other State. North Carolina has the largest projairtiou of illiterates and yet there are H.'.V) teachers within her boundaries. So far as literallty of pro - visions for education Is concerned, the Empire State leads with her contribu tion of Sl-tU" XV0, one-half of this amount being devoted to the metropo lis. Pennsylvania ranks se-ond. with her appropriation of 19.0"0,'H). Then comes Illino'ui, with lo.fs ,(, Ohio with $12.r 10,000, and Massachusetts with J10.()0.00(J. I , , "" , , . A physician, who has made the hn - man face a study, insists that It Is a perfect Index of Its owner' physical condition. For Instance, Incomplete ex- posure f the eyelWls, rendering the whites of the eyes visible during sleep, is a symptom of all acute and chronic disease of a severe tyie; It is altto to lie observed when rest la unsound from lain, wherever seated. Twitching of the eyelids, associated with the oscll- latlou of the eyelids, or squinting, her alds the visit of convulsions. Widen ing of the orifices of the nose with movements of the nostrils to and fro points to embarrassed breathing from disease of the lurrgs or their pleural In vestment, contraction or tne t.rows ,,t, handed ner by the stage doorkeeper. Indicates pain in the head, sharpness lu to say that h r mother's long illness has the nostrils, pain In the chest aud awaken an unsatisfactory turn, auj that drawn upper lip, pain In the abdomen, the doctor feai the worst. Annie baa To make a general rule, it may be stat-, Wn working hard for the last two years ed that the 'upper third of the face is 1 th P' " never grudging the altered In expression In affection of the : 'nlu" b1m! u? l r brain, the lower third In the diseases of organs contained in theibdominal ( cavity. j Crude petroleum seems likely to be the coming fuel on the Government warships. According to a report Just made by a board of chief engineers. United States Navy, the ancient prob lem of using crude petroleum instead of coal as fuel for vessels is very near so lution, if not already solved. Experi- ments have been in progress during meant words of consolation. She is a more than a year, chiefly in the Hudson woman of at bast forty years of age, aud river, with torpedo boat No. 2, belong-. lne ignorant, who do not know the ne in to tho iin Th.r h i.nit.i ity of a "t-rst old woman" in a com- ao happily that the engineers have mad: a report favoring the adojution of the fuel under given conditions upon cer tain minor craft, auch as tuglouts and torpedo boats. If the results foresbnd- owed in this report shall be realized, a revolution is at hand In the fuel for warship and all ocean-going craft. Their operations have been known to the naval officers of all the nations, and several foreign countries have, it i said, applied to have a i hare In them, but were refused, as it was deemed wise to preserve t lie utmost secrecy. . The tests of a new fuel for steam ves-, sels are cheapness, ease of operation. ! , , , ax , economy of room and general efficiency, , , and the claim is that by the use of spe- cial apparatus pertroleuin meets the re quirements better than coal. The Mother of Seven Soldiers. When Col. Knox, of the Dyke i of Cornwall's Light Infantry, acquainted the Queen with the fact that Mrs. Ke veth, of Cairo w, St. Bernard, Corn- Wall, was the mother of seven sons, all in the army, her majesty caused :li- following letter to be written to Col. Knox: "Her majesty considt rs the fact of seven sons of one family serv ing in the army, all with exeuipl.tr characters, reflects Infinite cre-Iit on fbemselves, and on the pareuis who J 0,1u from various voices. For the have brought them up. The Queen de- fact is, that "Miss Uouverie" and "Bcs sires that you will congratulate Mrs. sie" and "Mrs. Gresham" are all one and Keveth, give her the 10 and framed, the saim perscr; Mr. Gresham baring print of ber majesty, which I send ' married the prettiest and youngest mem herewith.' and tell her how lnrf ,h i T of his company only the year before. Queen Is to think of this fine example of good and honorable service to their sovereign and country from the sons of a single Cornish family. H-r maj esty bas kept the photograph of Mrs. Kevetb which you stmt me, and would be glad to have one of the seven broth ers In a group, but If this cannot be obtained of each separately." The pho tographs bifve baen framed together In an oval f'same, that of Mrs. Keveth being in tba middle, aud sent to the Queen. London Graphic. - - t, A Mag In a Cow, A gtJ4 ring that is supposed to have spent nearly two years iu a cow's stom ach was sent the other day to its owner, a young lady of Homestead. Pa. Two years ago the young lady was vIsJHng; on a asirj lira, ana wniie in tne burn prcaea. up a ainen ana tossed it in a pile of chop and bran. With the kitten went a gold ring from her linger, which could not be found, and wss given up and finally forgotten. Several day ago Edward Jonea, a butcher, bought a ! cow from the dairyman, and when the 1 cow waa killed the ring, wtth the ' . . , young lady s nam engraved upon It, waa found la Ita atomaca. CHAPTER I. It i a bleak, Jul. morning in March, and the curiae. rut-s upon as nuinviting ! scene as can well be Imagined. A dense. leadcn-hued aciiosphere hangs over the manufacturing town of Ockham, kipp ing down the tnioke that ecnH- from its filthy, black chimneys, to choke the lung of tin- unfortunate inhabitant, who bat tle helplessly stains', the coiiibinatiuu of fug and cold. The High sticct i almost deserted, and two Daring s.sers a' the entrance of the J Central Tbeaii I setting forth that Mr. Joseph Gresha'.i's eelebratcd comedy and burlesque comr.any will perform there 1 for lht n,If , x i(fhM- re at(nlt (he only livt.lT K,M,mc11s 0f which the town can boa.L Inside the theater, huddled together up on the stage, t is iin fortunate company are waiting f-T him to conduct the re hearsal of a new piece. The call was for ten-thirty; it is now nearly eleven; the company are b'ue with cold, but the act ing ami stage managers have not made their appearain e. The house is w rap- ped in gloom, aud smells damp and musty aJi a graveyard. Pretty Annie Ijirkom (who plays prin cipal boy uoir the name of Miss Stella de Yere) is sitting on the lowest rung of a step-ladder which the carpenter has left in the wn.gs, and crying her heart ' out in a quie' way. She has just had a ... i rr u, rl ,l,U(, n RliC IUUIU U'01T moner to ornv.de her mother with the comforts her cond'tion required. She knows that she will be unable to go home ajid see her mo: her again, for she is bound under a three ) ears' engagement to Mr. Gresham. En n while she cries at the necessity, poor Annie cannot help feeling a thrill of pr dc to think the manager would refuse to let her go, so fascinating is the knowledge that the public cannot do without u Mrs. Jarrod stands near her. giving vent every now and then to some well- edy company, might be surprised to learn that Mr. Grehaa: considers her one of the most valualle of nis members. But the fact is, Mr Jarrod can playing any thing, from a duchess to a kitchen maid. She is an actre' s of much ability and long experience, an I would be more missed from the company than a dozen girls w ith twice her heany. it is known that she was married to a man much younger than herself, of w;iose existence she never siieake; and it is evident that she lives friendless and alone, not courting even the acquaints D'-e of those by bom she is surrounded. All the company like her. and are agreed upor the point that she ls V'r-T clever .T?0' tK" ?T nh'bhr ma cians hie slow'y into the orchestra, aud ., , : the meiniiers 'f the company commence to ljin . , .,..: -rw all move for- ward as Mr. Gresham appears, rosy with the steaming u ixture he has imbibed at the bar, but ooking somewhat put out and anxious in vertheless. Mr. Gresham is a favorite wilh most, and invariably oolite tn nil art. am III wjtlku mi flie utuire tMlt nrnill(j rPf.ives salutations frAm ',Very side. ( "f;(M(j morno.g. ladies and gentlemen." ' be answers, raisin; his hat "I am aorrv to have kept you waiting. I am afraid 1 am nearly twtnty minutes behind my time; but the fact is. Miss Uouverie found it impossible to get here sooner, and it was useless to commence without her." "How ia Mis Bouverie?" "How is I Bessie?" "H w is Mrs. Gresham''" re- "Oh, she's a wel' as possible feclly well!" rejoins the manager. Per I ex- l-ct her here tvery minute." "She's not coming out to rehearsal for the first time on such a day as this!" in terposes Mrs. Jarro" Incredulously, "She is, inoied! Why not?" replies Mr. Gresham. "Sh Is aa strong is any one here, and .oat anxious to be at work again." "It'll be the dtl of her.1" mutters Mrs. Jarrod Inaudibly, as she retreats to the background. Meanwhile, as Mr. Gresham's attention is directed to 'he orchestra, the lady in question apeirs from the stage-door en trance, holding a bundle in her arms, and looking timidly round lu search of her husband. She ' a very pretty girl, not more than nmeieeii. tall and slim si a yonug poplar iree, and with a delicate complexion, the faiiness of which is en- iMnrf i c.iniract with ber chestnut hair and hazel eyes The whole female portion of the fommny pounce upon her at once. "Bessie, deal '. How glad we are to see Tou! Welcom back again! But how P"1"" '"l thin you are! And is that the b"b'' tUn rrl" th b,b'7 oh- tht l"bn-ih dear little, sweet little "".?vL! 0 fr" . t "les jush! says the young mother. Id , half-frightened tone; "but wh.tever yoo d0( ,Ioil-t ike h,r. i iB trild Mr Gresham will lie angry with me for bring ing her here, but 1 couldn't help it. My nurse went home last night, and the woman at the lodg:ngs refused to look after ber for me. So I thought as she was asleep. I could lay her down in this shawl sotnewbtre in the wing until the rehearsal is ovir." "It's deuced inconvenient," answers Gresham, "and Mrs. Tomkins is a brute! If we weren't cfl in a couple of days we'd change the rooms. Never mind, though; sp it down somewhere out of the way We can't kc-j. the rehearsal waiting any longer." Nevertheless, he lingers by his wife' side, looking duwn proudly at the little red, inanimate face she has uncovered for the inspect-on of ber friends. Bessie lavs her baby down on a piece of scenery at the back o.' th; stage ami takes her place with the rest of the tumiMiiy. She is still trembling from the effects of lie walk to the theater, and she feels much weaker than fie thought she would, as she moves about the boards and hums over the airs of the songs and choruses in which she will have to sing. Meanwhile the little infan sleeps securely wrapped up In its warm shawL and Mrs. Jarrod who has nothing to do in the first act of the new htirlesoue. takes her place as watcher tieside it. "Oh, Mrs. j irrrxir exclaims Millicent Harvey, in the intervals of work; "what a sweet little thing it is. I)) tell the cards for the baby! it'll be such fun; and I'm sure Bessie would like to know whom she's going to marry, and all that.' "Don't talk to lightly of things which you don't understand," replies Henrietta Jarrod. and she takes her pack of cards furtively from her pocket, and arrange them in a my.tic c.rcle round about the bundle of slumbering humanity. As she perceives the order into which they fall, her face darken. I thought as much, she murmurs "There's noth'ng Irit death and trouble rouud and about the child. Site's as wrapped up in them as she is in that shawl." "Oh, Mrs. Jarrod; You don't mean the poor bahy will die!" "Nonsense," returns the other sharply "I never said arything of the sort; and if 1 did, do you want the whole company to bear it? But mark my words, Milli cent Harvey, you may live to see It if I don't That child has such a peck of trouble before ber, that she'll wish thousand tiin-s before she dies that she bad never ben born It will begin be fore she knows what trouble U, and it will grow with her growth till it is part of herself. And It wil. keep her baniring rbetween fwo vorhis until she won't know if she's living in this or that." At last the rehearsal is over; and the young mother take her baby proudly in her arms, with the intention of carrying her home aga'n. But as she does so her color fades, I er tssly sways backward and forward, ar.d Mrs. Jarrod has only just time to si.atch the infant from her arms before she fall: on the stage in dead faint. "1 told you hi'v it would be! I said this would prove tu? deatn of ber," cries Hen rietta Jarrod iu her indignation. The exclamations of his company bring Mr. Gresham hurriedly to the spot. "What is all this nonsense alsiut?" he commences angrily; but as he catches sight of his 1 1 oat rate wife, his checks blanch. "What has come to Bessie f hp adds in a lowe voice. "How did it hap s-u '!" "How did it happen?" echoed Mrs. Jar rod, who is standing i lose by with the child in her aims. "Why, any one can see how it happened, from your letting her drag about the stage on a iliiy like this, when she 'vas moie tit to be in her Is-d than out of doois; hut what will come of it is more than I or any one can tell you! The best thing you can do now is to get h'-r home as fast as you can and send for a doctor." Tbey wait until Bessie Gresham's lan guid eyes once more unclose to the light, mid then, half-lifting, half-dragging, they convey ber pill Lss body to a vehicle and drive her back to her comfortless apart ments. J he o.R'tor and nurse are re summoned to ber ashistance, and they do all they can to avert the illness she bas brought upon herself, but without effect. In a few houis her weakness and fever are merged in delirium, and in a few days she bas paswd away from them forever, and the theatrical world will know the sparkling face and graceful figure of Bessie Uouverie no more. CIIAPTKK J I. Joseph Gresuam sits In the common place little room, which his landlady calls her "drfving room floor," utterly disconsolate. His wife's death has been a moat terrible shock to him. He has been a manfc.r now for nearly twenty years: and It is the first time be has felt as if he must throw up business altogeth er, and strike i ut a new line of life for himself. He feels as If he could never bear to look at a stage again. As be is thinking thus Mrs. Jarrod slips quietly -into the room. "Mr. Gresnam," she says In a low voice, "I am torry to disturb yoo, but I was thinking of Bessie's relations. Have you Informed them of the sad event?" "She had n relations at least none who Interestei themselves In ber. Hhe was an orphan, j on know, and her mother was an only ch'id. 1 have written to her mother's aunt, Miss Prescott of Malis hury. She sent or Bessie a present when we wer? married, and is the only one, 1 fancy, who would care to hear if she was alive or dead." At that ino'.icut the deserted Infant lift! up lu voice In an adjoining room, and makes its -if distinctly heard. "Good heaven!" ejaculates the father, "what on eari am 1 to do with that child r A If in answer to his question, the landlady ente j the room, and silently presents him mtb a let lei. He tears if I open and commences to peruse it. Mrs. Jarrod is about to leave hun 13 himself. He detains bet. "One moment, Mrs. Jarrod. Yoa have ben very good to me all through this dreadful busu.es in fact. I don't know what I should have done without you. I should like to have your advice on this letter. It is (:uiu Mws l'rescott, in an swer to the o-'C 1 sent ber the day poor Bessje died " "MsJisbury. March 20. "My Tfcrar Sir: 1 have received your letter announcing the sad news of my poor niece's dei iie, and the difficulty you are placed in wi a regard to the infant she has left behind ber. Although strongly disapproving of the profession she adopt ed, I always felt a certain interest in poor Bessie. I am aa old and lonely woman the last, as I believe, of a large family, for my young.! brother, who emigrated to Australia treaty years ago, baa uever been heani of -luce, and I am possessed of a certain income. 1 have no legal heirs to whom to k-ve my little proerty, and I would rather leave it to Bessie's child than any one 1 know. But it must Is- on two conditions First, that she is bap tized by my own name of Susan l'res cott; and secoi..lly, ihat you give ber up to me at once aud entirely. If you agri-e to my term 1 wlli send a trustworthy persou to rcce.-. e the mfaut at any time you inny apisii-t. "Yours truly, "SI SAN I'KKSCOTT." "What do you think of it?" says Gresh am grimly, as he looks up from the pe rusal of the leiler. "I think she s a canting old humbug!" replies Mrs. Jai rod. "Well." says Gresham undecidedly, "Slie'll have a comfortable home, and U' provide.) for ai the old woman's death, and that's lslt -r than having to earn her own living, wh.ch is all I could bring her up to." "If these arc jour feelings, you'd better send her to Mjlisbury," suys Mrs. Jarrod. The next day an answer travels bark to Miss l'rescott. iu which he gives his full consent to all the conditions she makes for adopting his child. The same day that poor Bessie is laid In the graveyard of Ockham a suiierior looking nurse pre sents herself it Mr. Gresham's lodgings, armed with fu'! po'pr from Miss l'res cott. to convoj ths orphaned baby back to Malisbury. The next w.-ek Gresham's celebrated comedy and burlesque company is draw ing crowded houses at Kordham. aud the provincial uoli.-es teem with admiration for the performance of Miss Anua Iyeton, in the part whi -h poor Bessie was to have filled. After U.at fatal week in Ockham, toe never menti ns the names of his wife nor child. Only It Is noticeable that his company nevet visits that town again It travcrss the country from one end to the other, and becomes more Justly cele brated with the passing years. But Bessie lies in her lonely grave at Ork ham, and her infant daughter learns to walk and talk at Malisbury, and the bus band and fathci sees and hears as little of one as of the other. CHAPTER III. I.ucaa Court, at Malisbury, tells It own storv, U consists of some ten or twelve small houses facing one another, and built after precisely the same pattern In gray stone, it Is as strictly private and retired as a nunnery, and Its inhabitants live very much the life of nuns. Here, at nine years old, Susie is a tall, graceful lit tle girl, with limpid brown eyes set wide aiart In her head like those of a fa-vn, and a mass of curly chestnut hair, inclin ing to red, wh.cu it takes all Miss Pres- eott's leisure o try and reduce to any thing like order. The nurse baa leen dis missed by tba'. tin , and Auntie Susan haa resolved, with the assistance of her maid Deborah, to take the future train ing of ber adopted child into her own hands. Little Susie ha- a playground all to her self. She is p-'mitted the free range of the yard nearly, for she is an honest and conscientious ch'ld, and Miss l'rescott knows that if she promises not to puss through theg.t.i s, she will keep her word. One day in June Sjsie takes up her kit ten in her arn.s and proceeds to take a walk before gmng in to tea. She is pac ing leisurely 111 and down the rich green grass plot, ta sing childish nonsense lo the little iiiiiui il, when she is startled by hearing anolh. i child's voice exclaiming: 'Oh, what a dear kitten! Ito bring it here, please! 1 want to see it close." Susie glances up, snrprisi-d and pleased. If there has he. r. a nan! feit in this child's life it has lieeii, not of pa rent a, but of playmates. Sli . scarcely knows what It is to have a good romp with a child of her own age. MUs l'rescott has kept from the child the n ry bread of life compan ions of ler own standing Susie loves all other children with the quick, free love of a generous clu'd. and she glances at the one who bns addressed ber now with a sudden interest. She is also a liltl girl, older than her self by soverai years, but very small of her age, and with a weird, impish sort of lx-auty that sitg unsuitably on the face of innocence. She Is standing inside the gates of the b'ubop's garden, holding on with both bnuis to the iron fretwork, and with ber checks close pressed to the bars. She haa large Mack eyes (startllngly large ami black for so young a child) and a profusion of dark hait that falls about her features l.ke a cloud. She ia richly dressed In a i'if frock, and her pinafore is trimmed wi'1! rows of lace. There Is an fmperiousn'-ss, also, iu her manner of asking to see 'he kitten, which seems to Imply that she is some one, and that she knows it. Sin-U drrws nearer, shyly but cordially. "Io you think him pretty?" she asks, alluding to the kitten. Give him t" me," says the other child. mrtly; "J want him." "But not for ever,'- remonstrates Susie, in a half-fright ned voice, os she clasps her kitten olosr to her breast. I csn't let you keep him, and he wouldn't like it. either." "Why not?" demanded the litU'' girl. "Oh! because he doesn't know you, and besides, he is nne." But I don I know you. and yet I like yon," says the- strange child, fixing ber black eyes upon Susie. Ho you? I am giad of that. Can't you come onu then, ami bave a game upon the grass? Sec what a lot of daisies there arc. V- could make a thousand chains." The little sti'.nger shakes the gates. "I can't! These gntes are locked, and If mademoiseoe knew I was out here, she'd fetch me n at once. I was doing a French exereUe, and I slipped away. Hut wbat'a your mime?" "Susie Presctt; and what la Tours? "Lena. "That's very pretty! I like It morh bet ter than Susie." "Kiss me, tb a," said tne imperions lit tle UiJy, poutiLg her Hp through the bars of the fsfe. , Susie draws closer ami the children s face meet frh, innocent and ontamlr ed by Jealousy or care. But at that mo ment a Fren:bwoman' shrill voice is heard besriug down in their direction. "Here is mademoiselle." cries Lena, darting away behind the shelter of some neighboring busies. Susie is not so fortunate as to escape notice. She is jioviug away slowly, wheo the governess comes in view. "Leetle girt." she ssys. "bave you auoder leetie g r'. Just so big as you, son.e vere about ben ?" Susie bad brtr trained that to tell sa untruth is to have fellowship with tba evil one. So, dough she grows very red, she answers in a low voice: "Yes, she was here just now. but she has run away, If bind these bushes," ssys Susie, pointing with ber finger iu the di rection of IenV hiding place. But l-fore the governess could uiwsrtb her rcl.cllioiis charge, the weird gir! has run up to the gates again and thrust ber tongue out at Srie Is-hind the bars. "You are a u-ast!" she exclaim pas sionately; "and I hate you. and I'll uever play with you ;k:ii." 'Then made m lisellc pounces on her, and !ars her aa, kicking and screaming, while sr lit.i' Susie, much disturbed by the whole occurrence, g.x-s home to tell the story of the little black-eyed girl and the govern is to ber Auntie Susan. She finds Miss Present Just sitting down to tea aid toast with her great friend and crony, Miss Whistler, and the two old ladii-s aa interested iu Susie's narrative and i s eager to learn the issue of it as if it had Ihh-u a sensational novel. "In Bishop Anstey' grounds, and a blue silk frock. Susie?" Interrogate her aunt. "I am surprised! Who on earth can she lie? 1 never heard of the deal having any br;lhers or sister." "I know who it U, my dear," says Miss Whistler, wilh pursed up lips. "I guess ed it directly tLe child opened her mouth. Have you never heard a rumor of Bishop Anstey being married?" "Well now you conn- to speak of it, I think I bave. He's a widower, isn't he?" "He went abroad for his health, I be lieve, some twelve years ago, and fell Into a and trap msrried a most unsuitable person, an Italian co I have been told; and they've '.irdly ever livi-d together since. Fancy i n Italian wife! Oh, ter rible! And U.is is his daughter, I sup pose; and I loncludc the bishop bas brought her home to be trained in the right war." "Why have we never heard of her be fore, nor seen htr mother?" i "Why, her mother has been dead for the last seven or eight years, long before Bishop Anstey came to Malisbury; nnd the child has teen brought np by her grandparents it Italy. Now, they're dead too, and I am told the child Inherits nil tpejr fortune. She's a good heiress, this little Miss Anstey, but a most trouble some monkey, ind, I fancy, whoever gets her will want all ber money to mnkv amends for th charge of her." (To be continued. J - J w Woes of the Heavy Villain. The man who plays heavy parts in a theatrical company dor not lie on a bed of roses. He la utiwpu!nr with the audience, and especially with the deni zens of the gallery, because he is al ways cast for the villain's purt, and all the dirty work of the play falbt to his lot. In one of the local Mock com panies Is a gentleman whose Imperson ations of all sorts of villains tins for several seasons offended the virtuous gallery gods, and be Is always sure of being roundly bhssed, which Is really a compliment to his art. He was really startled, though, one day Inst week to receive Hie following letter: "Take warning by this. For a long time I have tMire your nctshuns with piislmnts and so bus many others. Your it dirty sneake and a skoundrel. I dont see how the folks wot runs the theater puts up wilh your a-tlniim. The way you penekutc f tin t poor young lady every wek Is outrageous and I want you to slop. If you don't I will lay for you when you come out of the theater sum nlte and soke you." The actor In rpiestion pri.es this com munication highly, but, at the same time, be Is ou the lookout for the gen tleman who wants to "soke" him. Philadelphia Kecord. He Bid High. All Instance of perhaps not very ele gant but well justified sarcasm was de veloped ut a n-ceut meet. rig of credit ors to hear the statement of a man who had got Into linunclnl difficulties under discreditable circumstances. The debtor offered to pay a certain small percentage of his Indebtedness, and closed by saying that "If bis cred itors were not satisfied with this amount, then they might take his body." There was a moment of "Impressive silence" after tbl deliverance, ami then a small, elderly gentleman, who bad been sitting at the lack of the room, rose aud addressed the meeting. I wish to give notice," h said, in a high, squeaky voice, (r,n.t ! the gen tleman's Inst proposition Is accepted, I will take bis gall for my pnrtr The "proposition" was not accepted. Fish as Climbers. "Fish can aisl do manage to pass up stream over falls fifty feet In height," olsserved an Investigator of the sub ject. "There are hundreds of well-authenticated Instances of this In the Columbia Hlver, In Oregon, where sal mon, which Is a salt watt-r fish, la found above the falls In the fresh water. There Is no other way for them to get up the river except to use the falls as a kind of ladder, and tbey have been seen while making the ascent. By this I do not menu abrupt falls, but tb kind of fall generally seen on the Western rivers. The Great Falls of the Potomac are an Illustration. Though there Is an artificial Hallway there now, millions of flsh managed to get Into tb Upper Potomac during their spanning season before the flshwsy was con structed. Every girl who can nbiv n inii. a j cn play a wedding march a
