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L f-4. -w " 1 41 V i h kf r 1 I I I i W & f: THB-EED J1L0TID CHIEF 4. C. HQSS-1E5. Publisher. RED n.OTTI). . . N-KUR QK '. 4N OLD MAN'S LOVE. BY ANTHONY TEOLLOFZ, Author of ' Hocbir Thome," " Framljj Panou 03c," " c I'opcnjnyr' I'hlnrat Finn, Vie Irish MtmhT." 77i H'unrij," "liarchultr Tuxccrt," Klc, Lie CII ATTHIt XVI If.-Co.--Ti vesu. "I am as good as my word." "I don't know about that. Gordon." "Hut I do, and I won't hear any as sertion To the contrary. I offered you the .'hares for a certain price, and, you rejected them ' "I did not do that." "You diil do that exactly. Then there came up in my mind a feeling that I might probably wish to change .my purpo.-c." "And I am to suffer for that?" "Not in the leat. I then told 3011 Lh at you .should ritiil have the shares for the price named. Hut I did not offer them to any one else. So 1 came home and you chose to come with me. Hut before I started, and again after. I told, you that the oiler did not hold good, and that I .should not make up my mind 41s to selling till after I got to England." "We understood matron meant to be quarried." "I never said so. T never said a word about marriage. I am now going back, and mean to manage the mine myself." " Without asking me?" 1 Ves: I klk'lll iut' 'lll Hut I have two-thirds. 1 will ..7 a ri.tA it -n ,it. irive vou for vour share ten per cent, more than the price you o.u-red me for iaeh of 1113' share. Jf 3 on do not like that, you need not accept the ol'iVr; but I don't mean to have anv yvord-. about it." Mr. Fitwalker Tookey' s .face be came longer and longer, and he did in truth fi-cl himself t- bo much aggrieved within his voiy soul. There "were still two lines of conduct open to him. He might move the stern man by a rcrnpitu'ulinn of tho sorrow of hi eircum -.Lances, or he might btir-t out into pa-ionatc wrath, and 1:13 all his ru'.n to his partner's doing. lie might .still hope that in this latter way he could rouse all Kimberlev against I uomon, ami mus cre,;p oac.v into ine Vet.geof j-.rop.Mtv under the shadow . t l.i If. -of (.ordon s ini unties. He would try both. He would lir.si endeavor to move the stern man to pil3. "I don't think ton ran imagine the condition in which you are about to price me rm MITVU' 1 ntadi.utthatl am placing you " 1 ca anvwh-'n " I'll j,ul exjihiin. Of cour-e 1 know that 1 can tell you eveiything in strict est coiilid'ii'e." " J don't know it at all." "Oh. 3-ts; lean. Vou remember the story of 1113' poor wife?" "Yes; I remember." "She's hi London now." "What! She got back from the Port tuguese settlement?" "Yes. She did not stay there long. I don't suppose that the Portuguese are tci3 nice people " Perhaps not 1 1 11 "At any rate they don't have much money among them." Not after 1 he lavish expenditure of the diamond-fields.'' suggested Gordon. "Just so. Poor Matilda had been accustomed to all that 11101103 could buy for her. I never used to be c!o-e-listed with her, though sometimes 1 would be -tiiJn." ''As far as I could understand, 3011 never us-'d to :u;ree at all." "I don't think we did hit it oil". Per haps it was my fault." Vou useil to be a little free in vour v;i J in mi;. "I w-a- J confess that I yvas so. e :..: " J I' wa- voung then, but l am older now. I haven't touched a H. and S. b"fore eleyen o'clock since I have been in Lon- don above two or three times. 1 do mean lo do the beat I can for 1113' young lam iv. it yvas 1 no incL 111:11. ir. Tookey had three lilllu children board in e; o :"t in lvunlieriev. ".mi yv don?" 4 is the lauy ilomg .1, in Lon- To tell the truth, she's at my lodg ings.'' ''Oh h!" "I do admit it. She is." "She is indifferent to the gent'eman i'j the Cape Town penal settlement? ' "Altogether, I don't think she ever leally cared for him. To tell the truth, she only wanted some one to take her ayvay from -me." .And now she trusts 3011 aga'n?" "Oh dear, yes completely". She is my y;fe, you know, still." "I 5ippoo so.'" -That -acred tie has never been scv- eiv.l. Vou must ahvavs reiiiemuef Cf-that. J Ion t knoyv yvhat 'our teeimgs 'v are ow mi h a sub eel, but according to 1 1:1 v yi-jyvs it should not bo severed roughly. When there are thai should ahvavs be borne chihlren. in mind. Doift vou think so?" "The children should bo borne in inind." "Just so. That's yvhat I mean. Who cm look after a family of young children o v.'ell a their young mother? Men have var on ways ot looking at ihe matter." To this John Gordon gave his ready assent, and yvas anxious to hem- In yvlint yvav his assistance yvas to be a-kcil 111 again imumg .ur. ami : : ... -. ... -, 1 , Mrs. Tookev. yvith tlien y-oung chil - .ii. dren, re espeolably on their feet. "There are men. you Know, sianu-0.1 wu felloyys. yvho thiuk that a yvoman sliouitl never be forgiven." "It must depend on hoyv far the hus band has been in. fault.' ".Exactly. Noyv these stand-off sort of fclloyvs" yvill never admit that they havc been in fault at all. That's not my case. "You drank a little." "For the matter of that so did she. When a yvoman drinks she gets herself to bed somehov.". A man gets out upon , a spree. That's yvhat I used to do, ami then I yvould hit about me rather reck- Icsslv. I have no doubt Itlatima ma get it sometimes. When there has been that kind of thing, forgive and forget is the best thing you can do." "I suppose so. "And then at the Fields there isn t the same sort of xmulish life yyh'ch one is accustomed to in hnglaud. Here in Lond-n a mu is noyvhere if he takes his yy"f back. Nobody knoyvs her, bc cattsc th-rc are j'l'nt'to knoyv of an otbc t. Bnl" there things are. not quite so trit. Of course she oughtn't to have gone off yvith Atkinson a vul gar, loyv felloyy, too.-' nd vou oughtn't to have licked her." "That's just it. It was tit for tat, I think. That's the yvay I look at it. At anv rate yve arc living together noyy, and o one can sav we're not man and Wife. "T'-ero 11 be a deal of trouble saved in that ay "' . - "A gr-at deal. We are man and wife, and can begin again as though nothing had Happened. No one can aay that black's the white of our eye. She'll take to tho-e darling children .u though nothing had happcurd. Von can't con ceive how an yious jhu is to get back to thorn. And there's no other impedi ment. That's a comfort. "Another impediment would have upset you rather. "I couldn't have put up with thai' Mr. Ht.walker Tookey looked very grave ami high-minded" as he made the assertion, "lint there's nothing of that kind. It's all open sailing. Xov., yvhat are we to live upon, yj-it for a begin ning an "Vou have means out there.1 "Not as things are at present. I am sorry to s.13-. To tell the truth, mv third share of the old Stick-in-the-Mud is gone. 1 had to raise money when it was desirable that 1 should come with 3011." "Xot on my account." "And then'l d d owe something. At aii3 rate, it's all gone now. I .should find myself stranded at Kimberley with out a red cent." "What can 1 do?" "Well, I will explain. Poker & Hodge will buy 3'our. shares for the sum named. Joshua I'okcr, who is out there, ha- got 1113 third siiare. I'okcr & Hodge have the moiMjy down, and when I have ar- j ranged the hale, will undertake to give me the agency at one per cent on the whole take for three 'ears certain. That'll be 1,0 it a 'ear, and its odd if I can't find tm'-clf aga:n in that time." Oordonsloodsitcut. -scratching his head. "Or if 3ou give nm the agency on the same terms, it would be the same thing. I don't care a straw for I'okyr & Hodge." "I dare sny not."' "Hut you'd find me as true as steel." What Utile good I did at the Fields T did b3 looking after 1113' own busi-ne-js." "Then what do 3-011 propose? Let Poker t'c Hodg- have them, and 1 shall blc-s vou for ver." To Ibis mild ap peal Mr. Tookey had been brought by the manner in which .John Gordon had scratched his head. "I think ou are hound to doit, vou know." To this he was brought bv the subsequent look which appeared in .John Gordon's c3'Ci. "I liiitik not." "Men will sa so." "I d.n't -a:e a straw what men say, or women." "And you to conn, back in the same SUlti with me and my wife! 1 on J'HIHII L MM if! 1 I1U A -l4 L.n M f ilt (I I lwt lij-ItltJ . 1 . t t 1 wouldu t . (-,()V(U)i bell0U!rllt him. , ,. ..-, .,.-. :...:..,, rejection might not arise rather from tho char ade of his traveling companions. "To bring back the mother of three little sainted babes, and then to walk in upon -""- -..-v,..- ----- --j leverv shilling of property which had ,jclfjj j to"t,Jljir1 i&llwri You never could hold ini vour head in Kimberlv again. "I should have to stand abasiied be fore your virtue?" "Ves, you would. I should be known to have-come back with my poor re pentant wife, the mother of tnrce dear babes. And she would be kuown to have returned with her misguided hus- 1 band. The humanity of the 1-ields would not utter a word of ropioval to either of ih. Hut, unon icy word. 1 should not like to stand in -our shoes. And how 3011 could sit opposite to her, ami look her in the face on the journey" out, I don't know." "It would be unpleasant." "Deuced unpleasant, I should say. Vou remember the old Konmti saying: Never be conscious of aii3'thing within 3'our own bosom.' Only think how you would fe-l when 3011 were swelling it about in Kitnberh. while that poor lady won't be able to buy a pair of boots for herself 01 her children. J say nothing about; myself. I didn't think you were the man to do it I didn't, iu deed." Gordon did find himself moved by the diversity of lights through which le was madi to look at the circum- . stances in ouestinn. In the first nlacc. ( jju.ri. Was the journey back yvith Mr. , Tookey and his wife--companions he j ,:ll not anticipated. The lady yvould J probably begin by soliciting, his inti maey, yviueh on boar.t ship lie coum hardly refuse. With a felloyv-passen-ger, whose hu-band has been 3our part ner, 3011 must quarrel bitterly or be yvarni lriends. Ujion the yvholo, he t'nought that he could not travel to South Africa yvith Mr. and Mrs. Fitz yvalker Tookey. And then he under stood yvhat the man's tongue yvould do if he yvere there for a month in ad vance. The yvhole picture of life, too, at the Fields yvas not made attractive 1)3 Mr. Tookev's description. He yvas not afraid of the recept.ou yvhich might be ac-orded to Mrs. Tooke-, but sayv that Jookey found hunselt able to threaten him yv th violent evils, simph because he yvould claim his oyvn. Then there shot across his brain some remi niscen e of Mary Layvrie, and a com parison between her and her life ami : the sort 01 a life which a man must e.ul under the auspices of Mrs. Tookey. J JIarv Layvrie yvas altogether b-yond his , reach; but it yvould be belter to hare j her 10 think of than the other to knoyv. Ilis idea of the diamond-fields yvas dis turbed b3 the promised return of his lato partner and his yvife. "And 3'ou mean to reduce me to this misery"?" asked Mv Tookev. "1 don't care a strayv for your mis ery. "What! "Not for your picture of y-our misery. 1 uo not uouob uui mat wnen you nave pcen nere tor a month 3'ou yvill be vv.. ..v.v .v. .. ..-..v.. .w. --- w. .1 1. .f. - 1 I . . t . uiui-.iv a oueu :is uyer. ami iusl :u ire- J with 30111 fUts yv hen a yvuniau comes ia , your yvav. ever!" "Ami 1 do not see that I am at all bound ' frown across hi" face as she stood iook to provide for you ami for your yvife and in r at him. She yvas getting to knoyv chihlren. You have seen main" tips and the manner of that froyvn. Noyv she doyvns. and yvill be doomed to see. many ; stooped doyvn to kiss it ayva- from his more, as long as you can get hold or a j broyv. It yvas a brave thing to do: but bottle of yvine.' 1 she did it yvith a brave consciousness o! "I mean to take the pledge I do. in- t h -r courage. "Noyy I may burn the deed. I must do it jriatiuallv. because .. ." . of m" constitution: but I shall do it." "l'don't in the least be.ieve in it: nor do 1 believe in any man yvho thinks to redeem himself after such a fashion It may still be possible th at I shall not go " back." manic uo-l." "I 111:13" kill "-.villi beasts in Buenos A3res. or taKe a ta farm in Thibet, or join the colonists in Tennessee. In that case I yviil let you knoyv yvhat arrange- . nient i may propose to make about the Kimberley ciaim. At any rate, I may sa3 tins 1 saali not go bacu in the same vessel yvith you." "I thoturht it yvould have been so comforta le." "You and Mrs. Tookey would find yourselves more at 3our ease yvithout inc. 'Not in the lensl- nnn't-. lot thnt thought disturb ou. Whatever misery late may nave in store for me. you yvill alyva3s find that, for the hour, I yvill eudeaver to be a good companion. 'Sufficient for the dav is the evil there of. That is the first of my mottoes." "At any' rate, 1 shall not go back in the Kentucky Castle if 300 do.' "fin afraid our money is paid- "So is mine; but that does not signi- fy. Vou have h week et, and I will b't 3ou know by eleven o'clock on fhursdav what step I shall finally take. If in any way 1 can servo you. I will do .o; but'Lyan aumit no claim." "A thousaudAhanks! And I am so glad you apptVve of what I would have donoabout Matilda. I'm sure that a .steady-going fellow like y u would have done the same." To this John Gordon could make no answer, but left his fricad, and went away about his own business He had to decide between Tennessee. Thibet and Hueno.s Ayres, and waited his time for hi own pur poses. Wh"n he got to dinner at his club he found a letter from Mr. Whittle-staff, which had come In the day mail. It was a letter which," for the time, drove Thibet, and Huenos A3res and Tennes see clean out of his mind. It wai as follows: Chock eus HAtx, --, Jun-r. 1?-. "Tir.Mi Mn. Jour 'oiti.: I fhul! bo m ton tola afternoon, nrobaolv by the w-n train which will tirlns this l.tt-r. an-l ulll io rny-Milf the honor of cabin ujxn you at your club the next day at twelve. I am. dear Mr. John GorJon, fuiUifinly your. Wii.ua WiiiTn.ESTArr." Then there was to be an answer to tho appeal which he had made. Of what na'ure would be the answer? As he laid his hand upon his heart and felt the violence of the emotion to which he was subjected, he could not doubt the stieugtii 01 ilia UAii 10. u. CIIAITEIt XIX. MIt. wniTTI.KSTAFl-'S JOCKSKV DISCC'Sr.D. "1 don't think that if I yvere 3011 I yvould go up to London, Mr. Whittle statf," said Mary. Tnis yvas on the Tuesday morning. "Why not?" "I don't think I yvould." "Wiry should 3011 interfere?" "I knoyv 1 ought not to interfere." "I don't think you ought. Especial ly as I have taken tne trouble to con ceal what 1 am going about." "I can guess," said Mary. "Vou ought not to gues in such a matter. Vou ought not to have it on oiir mind at all. I told you that I yvould not teil you. I. shall go. That's all that I have got to say." The wools yvere il!-uatu"ed and sav age. The reader will find them to be so if he thinks of them. They yvere such tiiat a father yvould hardb speak, under airy circumstances, to a groyvn up daughter much less that a lover yvould address to his mistress. And Mar was at 'present Idling both capac ities. She had been taken into his house almost as an adopted daughter, and had, since that time, had all the privileges accorded to her. She had noyy been promoted still higher, and bail become his alii a need bride. That the man should have turned upon her thus, in an-Aver to her eoun-el. yvas savage, or at least ungracious. Hut at every yvord her heart became fuller and more full of an affection as for some thing almost divine. She came round and put her arm upon him. and looked into his face. "Don't go to London. I ask you not to go?" " Why tdiould I not go?" "To oblige me. You pretend to have a secret, and refuse to -ay' yvlry 3011 arc going. Of course 1 knoyv." " I have written a letter tosav that I an coming. 11 It is still lying on the hall-table doyvn-stnirs. It yvill not go to the post till you have decided." ""Who has dared to stoo it?" " I have. I have dared to stop it. I shall dare to put it in the tiro and burn it. Don't go! He is entitled to noth ing. Vou are entitled to have what ever it is that you 111:13 yvant, though it is but Mich a irille." " A tri.le. Mary!" "Ves. A woman has a littlo gleam of prettiness about her. though here it is but of a common order." "Airything so uncommon I never came near before." "Let that pass; yvhether common or uncommon, it matters nothing. ' It is something soft, yviueh yv:ll soon pass ayv.-u", and of itself can do no good. It is contemptible." You are juct Mrs. Haggett over again i Very well; I am ouUe satisfied. Mrs. Haggett is a good woman. She can do 'something btyond lying on a sofa and reading novels, yvhile her good looks fade ayv:i3. It is simphy because a yvoman is p ret 13 and yveak that she is madcM) much of. and is encouraged to neglect her duties. Hy God's help I yvill not neglect mine. Do not go to London.1 He seemed as though he hesitated as , he sat there under the spell of her little 1 ,and upon his shoulder. And in truth , ju d"iil hesitate. Ci uld it not be that he should be alloyved to sit there all his day's, and have her hand about Irs ne k sonieyvhat afler this fashion? Was he bound to give it all up? What yvas it that ordinary selfishness alloyved? What depth of self-indulgence amounted to a yvickeduess yvhich a man could not per mit hiin-elf to en"o3 yvithout absolutely hating himself? It yvould be easy in t'n s case to have all that he yvanted. He need not send the letter. He need not take this yvretched journey to Lon don. Looking forward, as he thought that he could look, judging from the girl's chara ter. he believed that he yvould have all that he desired- all that a gracious God could give him if he yvould make her the recognized partner of his bed and board. Then yvould he be proud yvhen men should see yvhat sort of a yvife he had got for himself at las let iti ttloriA rf l"-.i 1 1rt.tin l.ktlj AtwI A,x m W444V.V. Ul V.4klillV 11.41 4 .4I4H , I . , . . ...-., wiiv SIlOUUI sue not love um: 1J1U HOI . allher yvords tend to shoyv that there yvas love? And then suddenly there came a - letter.' she said, as thoug-i she yvere about to depart upon the errand. "No!" he sank, "Let me have a sandyvich and a glass of yvine, for 1 ! shall start in au hour." At this moment Mrs. Haggett came into the room, detecting Man almost Im the embrace of her old master. ' "He's come back a-;ain, sir," said Mrs. ' Haggett "Who has come back?" "The sergeant." "Then you may tell him to go abom his business. He is not yvanted, at anv rate, lou are to remam here, and I have 3our oyvn yva3", like au old fooL "1 ina that, sir." "There is not anv one coming to m- . tcrfere with you." -i Then Mary got ttrt fiTti c--rru enk bing at the open windoyv. "At anv y-W .... .u. w.vwv wv- ; ratt i'on " nave lo ren,'Va licre- tojook after the house, even if Where is the sergeant?" g awav. "He's in the stable again.1 "What! drunk?" TO BE COSTCfUED." " To struggle, and again and again to renew the conflict this is life's ia heritance, Mrs. GroU. fhc link of Wcinaoa'sExpcrlJWn!, - - jgp' t In n gronn-f-boor room m one of im :ac nam ami ma-tiiTc granite , status wearing tbd wt look p.-cmiar to mn who h-ivc santv?unti great d:;licultie3 and eonfron'.i-u groat pnb. Fevr, inlfo!. had had more practi. e .a bitb Utan thi man, for he wa no oher , than the 1. tike of Wellington, and his ; crowning victo-y at N aterloo i still j but a few years ohL 'Jin-re wai th tinkle of a IkII oiitiWe, and then a murmur of koieu.s in the anteroom but the Duke never mil his head from his writing, even when his .-eeret.'try entered and said- "If it jifeoe your Grace, that man with the bullet-pioof brea.itti.ate has called again, anil wiihe- very much to see 3our Grace for a moment." The Duke s lace darkened, as well it might, for the man in que-tton wa.s the most pertinacious bor whom he had ever en ountered. The bullet-proof cuirasv was his own invention, and lie never lost a chance of decl tnng that , the c,fety of the whole Hnush army de j peudd upon the mutant ailoption of j thia "unparalleled di coven. which t he sAnieil about yvitr. him. anl ox-hiMl-'d at all tunes and in all places. llinl this been all, he yvould soon have been disposed or : but, unluckily, he had contrived to interest in h.s in vention one or tyo of the 1 Hike's per sonal frie.tds. and to get from them let ter of re--)uiiuendation yvhich even Wellington co:dd not easily d.sregard. Something must clearly be done, how ever; for although the fellow bad hith erto been kept at bay, he yvas evident ly determined to gvc the Duke no peace till the matter had been fully gone into. For a moment Wellington looked so glim that the secretary began to hope for the order yvhich he yvould gladly" have obeyed, vi., to kick the inventor into the street forth yvith. Hut the next instant the iron face cleared again, ami over it played the ven' gho.st"f a smile, like a gleam of '.vinier Minshine upon a precipice. "."shoyv him in," said he, brioi'y". The obscryant secretary noted both the tone and the smile that accom panied it: and he iuyvanlly decided that it yvould have been better for the in ventor if he had not insisted on seeing the duke. In came the great discoverer a tall, slouched, shabl, slightly red-nosed man, yvith ayvould-be jaunU air, wh eh g:ue yvay a little, hoyvever, before the "Irou Duke .s" penetrating glance. "I am glad to think that 3our Grace appreciates the merits of 1113 inyen tion," said he, in a patronizing tone. "Thc3 are. indeed, too important to be undervalued Ijy any great command er. Vour Grace cannot fad to remem ber the havoc made bv your gallant troops at Waterloo among the French cuira.is'ors. yvho-e breastplates yvere not bullet-proof; yvhereas. if " "Have 3'ou got the thing .vith 3011?" interrupted Wellington. The inventor unv.'rapped a very shoyvv looking cuir.vss ot polished teef, and yvas just beginning a long lecture upon iLs merits, vrhen tho Duke cut him short 1-3 asking: "Are y-ou quite sure it ? bullet proof ?" "vvuite sure, 3our Grace." "Put it on. then, and go and stand in that corner." The other yvondering'y obeyed. "Mr. Temple," shouted Wellington to h.s secretary, "tell the sentry out side to load yvith ball-cartridge, ami come in here to test this cuiruiH. tciiick, noyv!'' Hut nick though the secretary yvas. the inventor yyis -pinker .-till. The moment he realized that he had been set up there on purpose to IO fired at. and to be shot dead on the spot if his cuirass turned out to be not bullet-proof after all, he leaped headlong through the open yvindoyv yvith a veil yvorihv of a Hlacl-' 00! Indian, and darting like a rocket across the court-yard, yani-hed through the outer gateway: nor did the Duke ot Wellington, from that da;. form, ever see or near ot n;ni again. Jjuvid Ki-r, in Harper's Munizinc. Homesickness. I cade , When you yvere you ever homesick? first, left the jiarental roof and yvent out into the yvulo yvorld lo heyv out a road to fortune and to lame, diil you not feel that strange sense of unrest, tnnt made it seem impossible that you could live another hour ayvay from home? Where one has not had this experience a hundred have. Well do 1 remember yvhen, at fifteen years of age. I yvent out from father, mother, home and friends, and sought an educa tion nearby live hundred "miles ayvay. The novelty of my new surroundings in the ei'v,havingpassed all my life on a farm, susta.ned me for a month or m ii- re. and then, I felt the gua-.vjng at heart one evening, and for yv:eeks tm heart one cvenine-. and for wueks end months it canm and nanin .i-r-im. I i -.. .i;; - - - .. .. isrge j'UJiie uu-iuiu 01 uvnunu a hji W.j, i9ZrK Ra,I aI uUf, my n5H-mal. sat wriring at a table covered li t tol I of how I bad calWd foe raothr la papers. He yvas a short, .Won..lr U:i!; mr . a3,j 1 . ht-.jjhtar-t-l figure, trilli a prrmment no-; and a 3,n. TWIaHv oi ihv IottM a kaI yvas standing in the front yard at my ; Ivss habit of "left ng things co." is re boarding place, yvhen suddenly a lump ! i''1-'' .v French political economist, arose in mv t .roat and almost cl.oke'l M. Say. me. I yvas looking in the direction of my old home, and my gaze yvent over the houses along the rher, ami over the tree-tops on the bluff hevond, and wandered into .-pace, yvhere 1 sayv in imagination, the old iirc-side. .Mother. dear old mother, yvas sitting there at readinr the villa-re nan'er. iust as I h.-ul her ac ustr.tned nlace. knittiinr nw-iv .-; . time a ners-jn yvent out. if her life deoended on "turiiin.r 'the ! in a state to shut readily beef' of that stoekimr. Kntlip? -.v?i ! ttoultrv yvere troni time sjcn him do a hundred times. My 1 ids escape, and the yvhole family, yvith brothers and Msters yvere all there j the gardener, cook an 1 milkmaid, as usual, and the cat dozed and purred ; turned out in quest of the fugitive, before the lire of cr.ickl.ng branches, j The gardener yvas tne firs', to discover and the back-log of hisng-hot elm ! the jug, and in leaping a ditch to cut rolled from its place and scattered cm- J off his escape, he got a sprain that laid hers here and there, as I had -ecu it do hi1' ? for a fortnight, ovr and over again. The shouts of the I The ecok. on returning .o the farm children, the terror of the cat. the hurry I house, found the linen burned that she of mother to brush the gloyving coal's j had hungup before the fire to dry: and from the oht rag carnet before they , the milk-maid h:ing forgotten, in her should add to the number .T.AM. t r t-.i.. ;ci Ui UiI.glHl it, the aci.vitv holes already burned in of father in checking the progress of the back-log yvith his heavy boot, the overturning andirons, the clicking smoke and all tlie accompanying ex citement and effort to repair damages. v.iviiw-.i v uau Aits . tw iwuaii uw.u-i ,'U-T yvere as 1 had seen them often; but I yvas not there to help and an tinfathom- able longing to go "and participate ia tno near oui scenes came upon me. What would 1 have given for the poor privilege of burning my lingers in a futile effort to set up the fallen tire dogs? Hoyv I should have leaped and danced for oy even to have coughed from breathing the smoke! It yvould have been only second to Heaven to have had mother bind up im- blistered lingers and little sister lo put her chub by hands upon them and hurt them in her anxiety to find out whether I yvas shamming. But no: this picture was bnt a mirage, and I must wait. One day a letter came. It said another sister had been born to me. How very strange I felt. 1 had a sister I had never seen, and when I talked about it at the table the other boarden laughed " c .. ' cxcj njcot rftii i a sw -w. .-. tn tj c xamn. xnv wllow ws? wet J tr, m ,nj. 0i-n wi, hc ttmml ( ,-bj;. ud .troked wv r hair o ltt mr -.j,, ja In rtwrs aoR. j vvpt ' afrh. At lat "a Uar eam-i ? wj,cn j wa, 1 boron. Tlic ltor mm(Mi ai: ami the micutc to obo-i ' bo0ro lhti lra,a yrtiUid Wl0t;. wer. loor oi mnn 4x j.;, j-ood-W tv s saW to rav nexr 1 uwjwfl w j ,,,,,1 ,B;i t ., , nn .ve w7r. Tb ,-.,.. . . . --. , hj1 was Ult :oo .Iow, am I alai"l , leJt taat . couhl ro fxer if 1 wore : afoot- When at lost the brakeraan ' callel th- naratej of station tkat L knew. m' heart bt hlh w.ih evor- i n-ing bojK, aad I w a, in an ec-tary of ' J03. At la the uhtjUd Mfttndod'aad the brakti.nan call-i th stntiun near rav home. The train it K-m! woUl never stop. Tn plntfortn reached. I prang of. Wht change ha-1 cr-ute ',.,,?. th. -w.-f.rbl? Th huildiR I Wiul thoiigjt so hitrh two var- before wru I Vl.rv mv lhe K.rc m Joadrr-. j an,f mv iilU,. aWortlart was o tall awi j siell.lc.. ?,v and bluih:ng. I o-uM 1 h-trdlv .im.iV to H.-r. At horn it vr.u me tame. rat'wr anu motn-tr yy rv I more gray , the chihlrt-u larger, and I , called the one I'd never --ua bv the j name I'd -.-nihil tin next o:m o'der i: fov f yyviit ayvay. I tit cat yva -.leer-v and inactive, ami life fire upon tJbj j hc-trth not half t-n bt;ht- Ala! a change had come, ami hothe yva1 never home again. liLominjA. . . r. IhrvugA IiIIv"-i Invention. Hilh Longhead, yvho lives out on . Dayton "bluff, ha lwen ch-el mgng-j the ja-t tyvo yars on a tvttlrlvanci to cluck runxyvav horses. lvt yvek ho J brought his scheme to a head and eel- i j braled .he affair bv taking hi- bet girl ! I out foradrve. lie had n!aeel one ! ' hi- inventions on tne yvagun for the purpo-e of -hoyvi:i hii girl ltoyv long lu- head yy.i- and hoyv piicklv he couhl br'ng a hr-e to terul if lie took a notion to run ayvay. The invention is simple, being a reel ' round yvhich a line linkel and very' strong chain is yvouud. The chain runs , under the hor-o and i? attached to the ' bit. The reel has cog yvhoel connection yvith the yvagon yyheei, and is throyvu , into gear In a little lever that mus up into the yyagon. j The day yvas largo- Tho sun shone, the tiirds sang, the rivulets nvlod and as Hilly and h.s girl rode along thnuign ' the country, happy 5n each other slow, they plnuiu-d an I tchemed hoyv they ' yvould have the.r house arranged ami , grounds laid out yvhen Hilly '.1 wonder- ' ful invention should till his coffer-, yyith ' gold. Everything seemed bright. The pro-pect ya brilliant and lunch conn-, ter.- and box cars occupied a very ha.y I back ground in the picture which Hilly . had painted oi the luttire. The, yvere goirg down hill. Tho , yvagon yvas boo.-ting the grape arbor J that yvas lra yv ng it along at a pretty! lively ga t. Nov. yvas a good opp rtu-' nity'for Hilly to piove the value of his iny'dition, "He whippe I the horse into, a run, which was not hard work as ho ! yvas going down hill. At last when 1 tney yvere moving through space at the rate of seventeen miles sn hour. HilU smiling on his lady yvliisjierod "Noyv yve'll slop, hang on;" just at this point he shoved the lever, the reel com-1 menced to puil in the chain at the rate ' o one thousand miles an hour; the hor. yvas going one yva yvhile the chain yvas j coming the other. Th's state ot atfair.i j last(.'d about eight se ond. yvhen thoi horse and ciiam l-oth came the same ' yvav and the yvagon yvith its occupants j continued to proceed through the air. 1 j Somehoyv things got mixed. Hilh got bevildered. his girl got tangled up among the yvheels of the buggy, and j the ho se seemed to be Irving lo kw k ' himself back lo toyvn. When Hilly hail' excavated his eyes he went on a relief ! ' expedition for his girl; ho found her in . j to,roljier ' iu.Cuu!l recognize i7er and ' 1 foIH, lh:il u Uh tlu. ,.X(.(.j,ti0n of a few, seyeral places, nut mauajeu i) gei ner hair and much of nose, she yvas all present. A very hnv temperature ha sju-ung up betyyeen liilly aim the girl, and he ha-n't been able to prove that he didn't, nut, no :i scheme on her to ye I i.r out of the yvav o that he iniirht tie io another female on the other side ol the river. St. 1'aui Herald. For Want or a La'rli. An old step-iadder lesson, settin forth the sad import ff little neglect,-, is yvorlh a thou and repetitions: K-r urit o a nm i'- stioo wa lot: 1'or want ot u -.hoe tlio lsorte wit kur; For want of n hore tho rlder wn lost Ami all lor the want of u horse .-hoe null." This is -aiil to be originally taken from actual hi-torv of a certain aide-de- i camp yvhose horse fell lame on a retreat and delayed him until the enemy over- 1 took and ki.lel I1.111. Another actual case. Another actual case, embodying the 'o.lino lesson again-t the la.V and sllift- Once, at a farm in the country, them yvas a gate, enclosing the cattle and poultry, yvhich yvas constantly swinging open for yvant of a proper lat.h. The i expenditure ot a penny or tyvo. an 1 h ; few minutes' tune, yvould have made all right It was on the swing even," ...I ti.it f..tn.r .! J'-. '.. i many 01 ine r .1 I to time lost. I One day a line young porker made li..t 1 r tin tit flirt tttlf. -tn ttr rttt- ( ...-. .v .- ' .... """ - ..- ! house, found that one of the loose coyvs had broken the ie of a colt that hap pened to be kept in the same sbeiL The linen burned and the gardener's yvork lost yvere worth fully a hundred francs, and the colt yvas worth nearly j ------ ., ... v . v-. .. -. - - ... ..--. .- j double that money; so that here wa3 a f ! loss m a fe'.v minutes of a large sum, j purely for yvant of a little latch which . might nave oeen snppuea for a fev half-pence. loutHs CtrianioTu A Boylston street dentist was re cently asked bv one of his lady patients if he "would make a set of fabje teeth for her do. who, being old, had lot his own. bbe said she was willing 10 have the experiment made on her darling, yvho e digestion was now greatly im paired, and that many other people she knew would be glad to have their pets' absent teeth replaced if her dog's set was a success. The dentist declined to try. Boston Bcmcotu When soaking salt fish before cook- j ing add a little vinegar to the water; it it-m-troves the iuh Exekamae. atci- and aid I rjw hornet- I crkd Our Young: Headers. A iVSKLV J&TTKR. Hr Wrs -tirna im tV 4 ftrtiC 'Kamr rtrwwr'' 7" l I umv Twit 4 jrr. 'VSj it l trr " 3 be- wm iws t wr iim jt-Mk" - MM, t tt rr 'I. IM notWf iMt . V4 W " rWjr i-rrT t r PK & rtt ?-. A4 . tunc tr ci-t. I. jo e4 4 rK f Mtuac . " -jory mAv mt r lUvo Uy mi fik m vxyi J, Ok. tntmt ( tto tuimi. Amti TunT -H jmn n IX Wr 7a ri- fc 4 tetbs. m ia MkX U t-nar tt-ww )c" - IVr . M I 1 U - m t t t4- . It "itm muniX t - tit iAMiMf Ktmm m. In mi f -t tttmtttitt Am! 4ic- Ki- tttt't-m mk- L JUma4. n Y tXh Ctittttdux. OUT UN A UKk. Jottnay and Joo :-fpi! to lh !:hm that Aigut m-rwHme at! Kki--d ta rough into the oW Mr. Tlioma' or chard, yvMnt tHe lraaeln of tb afh: tre l-uat Ura-KiUi their burden of luickro--lo-kiag fntit. "Ikui'l tb-f kk-"c.I.,, -nkl ,!. uhcMn mouth already ualml tor meh applra a lhe.e. Ut cottUi iMv-l- niifr MAtui kw our Mother Kve jfwvr w.tt u totnpialion yvhen it yva. prrmtmi a the fihapc of a jlntap. Mcy npph. " i , tJy uo knjk nice, thai' .1 fact." Joknuy anervl. "I tw!i u had -4it! hkf tbem inoiir orc4r.!. " " It's hard yvork to go bv Ihtw rvrT d.ty and Me tboe itppiiw hrutiaK Uer to UMtlnlue a fellow -hi" ald Jo, with amtltr longing look through the lon. Ju.t -hj-o that bi-' r-x! fetl.w on tin end of that bntb. lie bobs about a. It he was Mtring: Don't 301 wih mi eouhl get me" Wouldn't it W jolly it you aad 1 e-juhl hae n chaace at 'm' O-oh'." ami here Joo made an imhsHjnb able sou u 1 intendud to i'prra lb phwut ore be fell confbleal h yyoald eprt etice in having th frre mug of Mh an otvhntd as thw yvas. Kvwr-fbwtljr sahl Mi. Thou in had the llii'-nt nppl-M in tin uhol. country. "Guess you felb'wi have gft qnlte a mou'h for apple-, hain't ve?" fsAid n gruff voice eh use by, nad Iwth th- Uoy yvere so startle I tint th-y jumpfnl, bl-ingitlmo-- a If thy had been d-fttH-tan! in doing soinr'thuigyvrong. Mr. Thomas yva standui-f hi a corner ,1 a onriiur . th raih. of the fence, leaning oyer vatching tii.Mii. ""fyyon't do to let vou xtnrvo If a feyv apples Ml save ye." and h laugh in his usual gnm yva-. "Hern's half a dozen for ye. JrV pickil 'cm up under that tree on thai knoll vender. Kuit I've fouml r-pe, this year. I don't gene'lv give many apple-s to thu ny, tor they steal 'em afore I get a chance, but 1 dun no as you'd do that. Drulher give 'em n.vay than have 'em ?U!, cau-e teller likes to have the hatidllu' of his own prop'ty." added Mr. Thorn a. yvith a chuckle. The 1kis took the appl-vi and thanked Mr. Thomas for them. Then they yvent on tmiard the village, to yyhich Johnny's lather had -cut him and his con-on Joe on some ort of an errand. He-fore they had got around the corner the apples had ile-appoated. "My! Wan't they good?'' vaiil Joe. smacking bis lips. "If ther'd only been more." That night he proposed something to Johnny. a." said he, in a loyy and myste rious tone, when they yvero going up stairs to bed. "yvould 11 t you like aoino more of thot-u npples?" "Cour-e I yvould." ansyverod Johna,. "Then let's get sop-e." r-nid Joe, "Whal d'ye say?" "Hoyy'll yve get V-nt?" aked Johnny. Why, take 'em!" an-yverd Jtn. "If we don't some other 1ks will, an' yve might as v.II have 'em a auv body. ' That yvan a very poor argunn ut. N"o one yv-i?- ever juntiHed in a yvrotig action, because if they didn't do H, some one else yvouhL " Wouldn't it be Mealing?" Huhl Johnny. " '-"oiks don't call it stealing if a boy takes a feyv apples to eat. ' ansyvered Joe. "Hosides. Mr. Thoma won't niwa cm, an yva'." May1 bu not." sad Johnny-. heb tat'.ngh. "Hut it don't seem ju.st right, lor he gave us --ome. and a.- much as f-aid he didn't think we'd stenlor take any yv.thout his li.ve." corn'ctcd John rn' He hardly liked the sound of the yv.ird "steal." Well, you needn't do it if yon don't yvnt to.'' said Joe. .vith an offended air. "I thought 3011 liked fun." "I'll go along!' said Johnny, yvho yvis ahva- ready yvnen there yva a chance for .-port. He didn't quite ap piovc of this yvay of doing btnioe. bi't. 1 ke a pood many of us "children of a larger growth" he smothered his consc ence and set oil. I don't suppose there'. any need of baing very careful." &aid Joe. "'Tain t verv iikelv Mr. Thomas '11 be 'round this time of night-" But they yvere -archil, for all that, and didn't speak above a breath until ihev yvere in the tree from whih the fruit ha I been taken hat had m aroused Joo's appetite for apples. Ain't this jolly?' yvhispcred Joe, yvith his mouth full of apple. "Seems to me they taste better than thern did this morning. I'm going to siutT my pockets yvith 'cm. aud ctnrr ail 1 can in m3" shirt. I Hark!" The exclamation was cxuwi by a noise near them that sounded very much like a step in the dry grass. "Wouldn't yvonder if foruc of the other boys were out on a iark too." whispered Johnny, who yva not with out some mbgivings, however. "Lis ten." Yes, the sound they heard was the sound of a step sure enough, and they fancied they could hear other near by. "It is the boys, sure's ou"re alive," said Joe. "I m going to bail 'co. S-a-v. bovs. hello!" "Wbat'd that? Who air ye. an yvhere be ye?" demanded a gruff voice that sent terror to the boys heart? the voice of the owner of the orchard. "Stealin apple, hey? An' hain't sen-fe enough to keep still about it Lucky I came home crtW3 lots. ow d'ye jest git right straight down out o' that tree, an' don't yer trv to run. or the dog'll take aftcrye. Come down, yoa thelvin' young scalawags. sot I can get a squint at ye. Dye hear?" "We'll hare to get down and run for it,' whispered Joe. "That's the only chance. Bo spry, or he'll nab us." Joe jumped and set oat for the fence on a run. Johnny followed, bat Mr. Thomas was too quick for kirn, and the unlucky youth was abbed. "bc 'en Towse!" crie-i Mr. Tb ft-9I T-rfT, ivstlisc U&. ZT y??f c ;wi 4 JUtif in jmri l J- Is -rtN fer -S-1---4 Wf TWb, Atoiojbi J4aj' & J ?. "I tuflM tr fc M ' j jt- tfe wa 5 4Nb't kiwh u uff . an ft I te 71 'K --" swats4 fi tMorv ta." -uwl lf. TWa totUi4 Vo)U teas ?t fw Uhi ir4 bn TVI j'''i m .timy tat a it J lli SKic rj 4Hri a MM itnsng fWhmm am. 3umx fcf H ku-it r 11 l-- ft 3. 1 4srrt xm Jw W -teac-a cry "Xo- io "t-a irrvrt ff mm a UcmiI- cvmc k vmm lth te t" r-ffcr -ft-r'cC M Mr. TStotvs Jkmmj kw-A hi -MtH-c -t -fm i d out ht h4 tMiro of JSK fVrt wtttf; Vir f tcWM-4a fruit kx4 iartittl fur th- t-r-, Jrti h iKWtnl Ow 4of do 1mm4 li.nn li 5 it, TtwKgm m a tr- TWrv Mr. 'l"haMa. immml him It To- otiia 34 Um ffrot of it. rw Marj: "Y-Mi'nr- Hxte f rextl.mn.' d4 tVflebi m. a cV Kn,f ,-uch vm htm. T"- G-1 lehi. hdh. Hojwyw'll m( nn" TW h cot a ar iw U Jr- to Xln itKytmi rh f ntNlUn h owr saw fl lnr-3 U dri th- U-jf acj. x-i tW, failm-c m that. l cy him tatj W-JNt: fnatwb, bt ta rkit. Th k I imrc ut-w Mt (--mkm, aim vm9, 1 u he lrinm o- coo. -ad froot dMv jft hi Itrtr Um turvt noc4j; Mr. TWtw oror in Jv nif- k. Jhwny a huu. mi hwfi. hH if jfhi. ") ' your v-ommc rrwr l In wj orrh.rl." mll-sl Mr. Th"-. r tho tMM. (ot Im laV n Jtirf. lWWr g a -prt hit otH. I ne, "I Ul." mu4 IKch Ah, at . ' . . axl 4yrvii fofih-H-ilh. H yjHMHNl US i-l th im d-rit. ntti! it rntf in tut-whW. latwtr-wd A llst hm d rrt-nl Jt rch! In a I Ic-okitriff ah--t a bft4k.h -i- ji Ih -nam. "'tm'r iho mjf I m hoVlit' hwhwvl aahl HrUn A bill, htvtlg U kttffk III riU of htmrlf nl JHi'. tr4iii.Ml a irrtM. -11m1 a tm U--, I io,t -hi a U it t Rr;-W wUh yn to ha up ail abjfht. hwhjjfia imm Jr looks." Jo elitirib-ol lvn f Um ttPMt. whiW kh HttcU ktfji Toe i a nafAa dilatKN. "1-1 wlh you'd Ik I n." k mk Vo htn ucU. wiUi orh a o4-r mmI -oiil-wal iprtlou cm Uui tm UmU I'imIu AUo lol to Inttgh a-nti. mhI Jjm-i Ittthd, ti, in .1 bUy w-y. and marrhml i4 h(-tyrani. tfUxyr that "larka" didn't agrr-t yrtth h4H a wili ni j, tlMCH tht-v iMlffht. ,.ri lol TOW w'huR u mH to Job. nv. that alleni-tn, "yon iUmj'i tnUfh inw -1-Killn); nppl- nj-nui " "Nor tin-,' sold Johnny, lkinVln hi- mw back. "Didn't ue pt unio up' yv-th In if-nxl hapo. though" "Should -ay yv did." atiiyvrel Ju "Vou d litter bfh-fi I flt iiuraii and foolish when I ww 1'ucle Abbi ctniitij; 1 never tliI feci qufln -m 4r-nlr lit all rn. life. I'd rather havn had a 'tan ning twjeo ov-r." "And to think of 'thf yvay hi hlah. yve pm urned Mr. niouiai' klnd"," nid Johnny. "Ho gave u oui" a" phvt and yve yrore mnau enough to try and -.ti'ul more fnm him haul ntjghc it looketl Uk fun to me or ruiy vay V, tried to make It look m, but lnee I? thought It all oror I -n Uiop wwn't any fun aLnnit it, I toll yoo what it U.. Jo. it ihxwn't pay to do a itionti lb tie and try to retiM- yotinu-if by eallbig fv Aport. "Thai' ho," ntt-ov-if"! Jo. So the hoys (otind out tht forbiddnu fru.t idton lae a Ixtter t.-ito beJdr.d It. Kbctt li. Itcjj'jrti. t 'tlrn lTot3 rmttu The IMnHitnl. So far a Ihw ehh kadee It i:on4Nrl, I sq nothing whiitotrr Ut wMi dltfor out: I Hit nm x'i1'' t" h'i-fve that fsr my day and lo.g after, tie yvill nwiMiin tho Mini! unsj-uiiung. cttreb-rt-.-honrt-id erentnru that he noyv U. If I tituiy hs nllouiMl th Hiradox. It wtHiW Ift Um bad for htm to ehnng. oven for th tMit tor. Hut tho bluebird, yvho like thu tft utouso U hanlly Ut bi ae--o-ittol a ittti iran. do wm to bt h mow hat blanurwort.i. Uim in a while. It W tnift, h tak4 a pruh ami Injc'hut for th mot art h ks ctmU-nto'l with a f-v. -linpbi not-., having no iembluno of a tone. I'm'My U- onidr4 that his pirn -.intmlto voico 1 do not r--rnpmber ovrr to ham heard from hint any not of a Mprnno. or evon rf a muj7,otc-friio qunlitv ) ought by HJf U bo a Mttlii'Utnt dUtfnetiou. but I think i. IiknHr that hU Ujcht attempt at rnutie i only one mantf-vttation of tho hnbiui.il reawrvu which, rnorw than any thing ebo jKjrhapi, may to -laid t characters t him. Hoyv differently ho and the robin itnpre un in tin par ticular! Hoth take up thuir Lbode In our door-yards ani orcbanii; the blue bird gocn o far. iiid--d, a to accirjit onr ho.pitality outright, building hw nct in boxe put uj tor hl a commotlation, and rnakinj; the rojfct of our bottwra hit favorltn tirch ing stations. Hut. while the robin U 1 noidly and '.aunUhy familiar, the bluc- b.rd maintains a dignified alooino; coming and gong about the premtw. but keeping ht thought. Ut hhnel. and never becoming one of us are hy the mere aeel lent of local proximity. The robin, again. loves to travel in large flocks, when houiehnh! dulhs-i arc over for the wiaKra. bnt although tho same hai bca reported of the bluebird. I hayc never myKJf sen aui-h a ihing. and am atisUd that, as a rule lhi gentle spirit find.- a family party of lx or ieren company enough, ills r4lccocc. as wa cheertillv admit, i nothing t quarrel with, it Ls ail well bred, ant! net In the h a.t cnkitidlv. In fact. w like it. on the whoc raliur better than tno room .ernei5 ami garrumy. uu none the lew. itt natural coa.WMjai:M U that the bird ha :aH concern for mi: -deal display. When he umg-f. it i not to galnapplatte, hut Uj rtprc hli affection; and while. In one aspect ol the cajwr, thete Is nothing out of tha way in this since bw affection need not be the less deep and true hecsuM it is told in few wonis and with una dorned phrase 3et. as 1 a!d to begin with, it H hard not to fee! that tM world is bsiug defrauded, whea for aaj n-asoa. however amialle, the pct-e4oi of such a matchlc&s voice has no ambi tion to make the mot of it. Bradjbrd Torrey. -. AUanite Moniklg. Feggoknt, on the Islaadof MoH Denmark is for sale. The owser gvar antee-3 that it was the btrtfcplae "that remarkable maa Uamkt.-' aa4 that on it is a hill with the grars oi King Fclgge. who was th ideatcal ia dividual slain by th yoag Ftmhw tc aveage the -murdtsr xcoat f oaT d hit lathr.n Wai Catkl umn AVt--M' t .. -y-r !! At 31 l ff . 1 X )- (tUcM. ?M "As -" 5.. ?jj $k&&&&M&k& , -r - . jri fry 5jfci mlM - , i y. i"v W v. -r-T. - ft. ,