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oniaineoou wntag tt ml vj c ixtsxr- ing oflaiatia ftoarjlhipgof birds w aj mstnctksadtfcmrtniiagrcue fa cootaio thenrhle priee loo postpaid address ontario bmunen college kueraie ont sept 11878 i j wr shtngle millp edward mooref wishes to announce to those who intend building or repairing that he it about to commence the maun- i facture of ail classes of pike ahd oedae shingles wluch will be told arrnat iom ojajsaec aniirttf bout ot will ht daac ofthlmttlut btuldo aud mxb voam t a pinda it dnuu ot dm vert uuc bat ttaoe air ere lotl atiua ideth rrtm bdtai rt f dy n mm tuth itmutu bin bat votuii heu mm nf aastlkaaedr raz acrrioejor for lovis suif oxtv artittatt uabrd iif ulicksc chapter l arjuyil irokt- your foot wilt soon be on your native heath now jack br ihrui elm and oajc staves and basswood heading of the beat quality also manufactured and dehveredt 0 b the gte cars here at the lowest possible prices nsstoliba lile alwlts 0e eaxti custom logs cut to order on the shortest notice sad at reasonable rates ssiitfiuliak giumtud ordert saucued ebwaeo hoope acton april 2nd 1673- harness harness y perw hiraea good sett of in rut teai dtfaer smqle oil double shoaldall it creeclis saddlery actow where they can get better value for their money han any place in the cocoity a good assortment of i teuheb akd valises on uacd all of which will be sold cheap for caah ear eepairiag promptly attended to r ceeech acton feb 20 1679 bntajeho sobeaaafjcd lbzttetole6itaki0 rnfle design of the above institotiorrfnd i thewoa it is rhort successfully acoom- pbshing s aaown in the great sneceasof its graduates throughout the country is to pro- 1 pen boys md young and middle aged nun dr caanmercial pnriinita by giving them i thorough and practical education in bookkeepjngrnaluti forms penman- sinp arxttukaetie t t grammar and spelling banking methods howtodeal with notes drafts bills of exchange checksn and all unas of business psperj 1 gtitjuim ot thecolleqe who have four months course and takes their diplomas are each week stepping into good poaitinns in which owing to the com pleteness of their knowledge they speedily attain promotion among our student are those who have bees through the grammir tchools and uni- teneties as well is those whose education in early life has been neglected the former come to receiva a practical education such as if seeded is every day life the latter to remedy past neglect and all to secure that knowledge which will help them to success is the world i i i s3 the college journal containing full parscslars and specimens of penmanship ire sent on inflation address i v s g beattri t co benevflle out sept 1st 1878 j j j- how lobt how eistoebdi ttte have recently publianed i hew edition w of drcwtenreuj0ele6rati vggur on the eidicii ikd nejunarr cdex without medicirie 6f nervous pe- baitj k d ptiyncal incapacity impetlimenti to marriage etc resulting itx5ssiiiv i tjjprioe is sealed envelope onlyair oeals ottwo postagesmps thecfclehrited anthor m this admirable sequtsioes may w the daogeroos use of internal medicine jor the appbeation of the knife painting out a 3bo ofjnze at cmoe aimpleveertjuh shd rffectnil by means of whiub every sosorer tttterirhitms condition may be mar cure kmseh cheaply privately aid radical ly i i i tus lecture should be in the hands of everjtootb and every man in the land the oiilverwell mediosa co- 47 arm 8t new yore port office box too soon 1 jackcarew answer with a are walking the hsrricasedeck of the nuilteamer coutufh our ulsters button ed to our china and our tweed caps drawn will down over our eyee kisawildmom- inr and we arc baring what it technically called a dirty paaaara across the lilru afreak of sea yclept the irish channel voe dont leeragud to get home jack tl i observe watching nim luhfc his third d- garaince breakfast he had sot oared about breakfast and though the cabin windows to leeward were under water and to wind ward obscured by flying sheets of foam ud the osciuitory motion had considerably les- 1 sened the number of our fellowpassengers who put in as appearance is pablia ifasoied it would take more than a bow wind across the irish channel to spoil jack drew a ap petite tm not glad he answers rather sulki ly ill hid had my own way i would not have come hack from australia at alt why did you do it then r i asppoae i ru bound in honour to come bacr he says coaxing the agar to keep alilht is the wind and the tsiu but if i bad had a loophole of escape yon may be very sure i shouldnt be here today i feel very like a man who u stepping up to have the noose nicely adjusted round his neck what do you tneia f i erclaim staring at him i xothisg jackcarew answers iaajhiar grimly except that lam going to be tan- tmau portmanteau fieroelr into ths nilgrer jua tead and buries hlmtelf ft the damp ool sot o be iha kmtk it is a quarter to six when we get out at the little oonstry station nearest to cutis gaidar a dogout waiti for si drives by a ahookvhaausd gossoon thi vehicle ii of toe ramshackle order but huu pretty a bit of blood and bone aa i avor saw between ihaf ts jack takes the reins and we go up and down the itetp hilli in great ityle i upset momentarily fa and myeolf sitting is the ditch or is the middle of tho funs hedge the country looks very desolate in the rainy twilight and we seem to be iur rounded os all sides by itejmsdoui bills j thuubjuuaharigjaktelli meu the sldttiih grey subsides into a walking pace to climb the shoulder of a big brows mountain the damp air u full f the wild fragrance of gorssisa broom a little thread of a brook rani by the aide of the lane jor it can scarcely bo called a- toad crossing it here and there is a tony channel or lost is a miniature marsh of lush green grass and auaxy spues of wudmlot when wnaah i 00 mb annum ik advakoi- myrooa i ten minutes afterwards ai i am iasily winding ay watch i am itartud by a sud den loud cry i fancy the voice la t womans voice j tat the sound is oufbed by the tbioknem of the old walla as far u i can judge it comes from the room overhead my first impulse is to seise the wicked- looking sixahboter on the table bnt i re member that i am not in the bush aid merely open my door and look out the oorridor outside il long and narrow and at the nppsr en is a long and narrow stair- cse leading i lupposeto the garrets tfae cry is sot repeated bat u i stand with the door in or hand a little old woman in a check bedgown and mobcap with a candle in her hand tarns the comer and comes lowly downalaire i think the may be able to explain the row above but i dont wait to uk for the explanation thought of the candle falls full upon her face and ntskwsb tetulaw mrbttrt lo aj ladri imptai jua svm ber atranxtb on drrowo sban laft nlbtfritnanawjtmaiaubtiitenrer n weiartake ci tea in cnptthav i jeel u if ll should crush if i hold them orerfirmly between my couragr sad a ooldly wfthn them i sdmire er minute ladyki dinner she has e andthamb i take the harsci and i am just beginning 0 hint f her own but my friend has fctgottenthia trouble is his birgsestsvaad vwwm favourite old brisrwood whan he ansousces or h then pariajpsrl his intention of riding over to carriok and jyesspeets jack errand aiks me to go with him may ai well ket it over it oace he uyi desperately the longer i put it off toe worse it will be why jack you talk- about it u if you were going to execution i if you feel like that you bad better knock the thing on the head altogether for her sake u wolf as your own eats we are granted plensry ynbmlgerjee m the matter o eterdhjdrew aid agree tor rei- sialsl todinmeir j j fij rl v well what do yon think of ner jsel enquires dragging me out of the room presently f i i well enough wt not i jpatch on j the fair one to nryjmind amlak rwbenwemsh a minute and tor ihv srsttime rremember be tep of the rise jack points downwards the doctor itory of the old woman is the with his whip garret for so huleonf ao malevolent is ried going to be married f r but yon never told me a word about it who is the where ia ahe miere did yon meet her one would think you were a yankee charlie instead of a native of new south wales i but tell ait idont believe a wcri of it youre not engaged i i would give you ell im worth it imt much if you could prove that but if you dont want to marry the nil and i suppose im to infer you dont why in heavens name do yon let yourself iaforitr because i cant help myself snswers carew gloomily but what were you thinking of to get canght like that it wasnt my fault you may be very sure but i thought you steered clear of girls alwsyt i i never knew you commonly civil to any girt much lest let her make a foot of you i suppose it nude me hate them all t know myself tied to one carew answers gloomily and how long has this precious engage ment lasted since i m a boy she it my lecood cousin it was all arranged for st by the parents you tee taken out of our hands al together her father married an english heiress and he wanted her english mosey to patch so the old place in ireland thes shes got mosey youre sot fa jjepitied my dear felioelisihe beat thing that mold have happened to you or the worst says jack pulling at his cigar aavagely oh moneys a grand thing i and what is the hie i havent seen her it least not since he was a schoolgiilrbefore i went to aus tralia and i hated her then is she pretty i dont know and i dont care it would make no difference to me it ahe was as pretty as helen or as ugly u hecate i hate her and that is f he long and the short ofitp then hadnt you better let there be an end of it altogether if i can see my way out of it you may be sure i will i say charlie theres the hillofhowtfa look at the great purple hill stretching into the bay to the right the dublin moun tains stand out haxoy against the hatysky it is sot a favourable morning for a first view of one of the most beautiful bays is the world the t7owiv ploughs her way gal lantly through the heavy seasleavingiiowth and bull sands to the right and bray head to the left making straight for kingstown narbcur rewstaajrithishandsiahis pockets tflently watohingthefaitairrnoach- ing shores and i watch him wondering if he really feels as badly about his engage- 1 ment la he would have me believe 1 know he is not a mas to itend being dio tiled to or to endure anykmd of coercion natiently and i rather pity the woman who is to be married to him against his will and i be gin to understand why his temper had gra dually grown worse during our four months voyage from australia till at but i scarcely cared to go sear htm chums though we were i suppose hefehmkeswndeirmed mauwho knows that every day is bringing slim near- er to that terrible morning when he may have what he likes for breakfast and he will be the centre bfjtttracttos to a gaping crowd for once- is hii life how intensely nattered jack carew second cousin ought to feel if she only knew i i begin to be wonderfully curious to see the lady but the subject is not bropght up agaio we steam into kingstown harbour dip our i eiisign fo the manofwar lying off the east i pier and come cleverly alongside the team- quay where the mailtrain it waiting for ui in a few minutes we areat westlaod row andinas many moreare havings beoondedition of breakfast it the gbelbonrse hotel ind 1 am gating out of the window into the urn- brageooa precinats ofstephensgreen brageoos proannta oi stepnens ureen w eqkmoiadtyjkk oarew setsus foot upon hie native soil ertuerbethinki ft bad form tobe iemonstrative or hedoes not care a bnttonabost it wo itroll out after breakfast and jack takes me to trinity obt lege to ice an old friend of bis who has rooms in botany bay atne oclock we leave kings bridge n routs for the wilds of kerry andican see that jacks gloom increases momentarily now- and that lie pitches his there is cattle garde he sayi j aid i look out between the collars of my ooafud lee a thicklywooded valley with a iqver teach o lake lying at the bottom and be yond it more big roundtopped hills stand- fnjr out a gloomy purple against a lurid treat of insect is the west if the distant view of castle garde gives us a melancholy impression a nearer one does not remove the same the drive be tween two rows of splendid old elms and beeches u green for wast of human tra vel broken boughs trail os the grata the cattle have made their way to the laws and eaten down the young larches and nibbled the branches aa far as they oosld reach the house itself is a big barrack of i place four storeys high with flowerbeds before the windows so gratsgrowit that they look like neglected grates the lake comes up to within a few hundred yards of the hafl door and clamps of budding hawthorn and ancient holliei stand up is the gloaming about tho sodden lawn my traps are carried fo a big halffurnish ed bedroom on the second boor where a splendid turf fire biases up thi chimney and here jack leaves me with as intimation that they dispense with the ceremony of dreatiog for dinner at cattle garde i am ready for that meal in j a few minutes and standing is the hall looking about me cu riously at the quint oldtithioned prints and forgotten caricathres on the wsllsj at the start antlers and foxt pads hung over and under the tame at the guns lying in the racks over the blackoak cabinets and tie itnffcd goosander on the table ia the comer it it a great square hall with a fireplace at one side but there it so ere is the giite there is s dotty musty odour about the hall and about the drawingroom open ing out of it with its well- worn turkey car pet and spindlelegged furniture its fire- screens of deacocki feathers its few mouldy kttpuitt and duualt with faded geranium leaves between their pages placed there by heaven- knows whit vanished handt 1 fake lira carew in to dinner she ia a fadedlooking woman with a wistful face ages ago i had beard ot preityane fether- sfone est i cannot find even the remains of good looks injae drew she it dressed in a plain black gown with a ihawi reemd her snooidstsv and wears bee irosirrey hair banded dowucioie to her cheeks she looks at jack all the time but she doet not say the is glad to see him doctor carew it a fat jovial little mas with a bald head and grey whiskers he is well and carefully dress ed in black frock coat and grey trou sers he talks away all dinnertune and and helps me plentifully to rent turkey and i see without giving much heed to the incident that he carves another plateful ot the tame and that the servant st his elbow adds vegetables and a knife aad fork and carries it out of the room i wonder vague ly for whom it if intended tome ruperan- sseted surse or housekeeper most likely who is too superior to dine with the other ervaata i should think it waa for the dogs of whom there are several is the home were it not- for the knife and fork but i forget all about it before the man is dilapidated livery omej back is to the room t it if mowing hard the wind making a sound in the woods all about us like the sound of the sea i i we are is lor a wild night the doctor observes sitting us a good example by be- pnnfnj lx wv -a- tamole of whiskey- puueh we dontt enjoy a itorm her some of the old tree round the house are is a bad way and the chimneys are con siderably out of the perpendicular one of the chimneys came down in theyear of the big storm we date everything from the big storm it is our heginrand killed an old woman in ose of the garrets a good riddance f taya jack- pushing the whukey icroas the table to me if it can be called getting rid of her tiace the walks tse garrets on windy nights still the doctor iaoghs itirring hit punch the wind is coming scroti the lake now in heavy gustt sending puff of smoke down the chimney slamming distant doers ahak- ing the windows wickedly and then dying away in hollow murmurs over the woods and up and over balllnaharig jack brews his punch gloomily i fancy ha and hie fa ther do not get on very well together it had never struck ma that jack waa a par ticularly silent person but sisci we came fo castle garde hs has icercely opened hit lips yon hunt pf course 1 the doctor asks taming to me jack is occupied is caning a trtqnsry face on i haiieln ootj spoken for ten minutes at a itretch i own the soft impeachment 1 am em phatically a hunting man wecangiveyou a good mount at all events iti sot like old bmefat castle garde when thirty tat down to dinner every night during the hunting season but well do the best we can for yes asd show yon some iport the place is alive with foxes many of em jack dunboden is bought at last i indeed 1 jack iayslrelessly yes ibmlrins the brewer wbought it dis doing it up in grand style etucoo and jboborders and ill that sort of thing poor bid- tom martin himself wouldnt recognise the place if he could lee t now jacks face darkens but he says nothing bdt anything is better than to tee a fine old place going to wreck aud ruin or want of itew thoutandi doctor carew goes os beginning a fresh tumbler to be obbged toiellitockneforethey are half fsttesed sidto out timber and to turn h park iato tillage- jsok did yoa see that the cattle have eaten down all the young lerohee on the lawn f r j i did jaoirianswers absorbed- in hrs monkeyi nose 1st ikmt aprrveol patching up irish estates with english mot oey foralf thit v iftftdplgb w to iua ownienctoinv where totous me he sits up reading half the night for though be nevjeri ptacfdiei aow he likiirtff knep hiinfiif rh in all the twr roodiaal iimvefaeov jsok and i smoke forinoiher nont ortwoflnit i cannot lay say thu my friend rnakee himself very agree the expression of the hsgi cosstenanoe that i cannot doubt for a moment what she is i am not superstitious i have faced death a hundred times but i am not ashamed to confess that i bolt into my room and lock and doublelock the door devoutly hoping that this kind miynet be ibhtopua through a qusrterinch oak plank chapteeil larrrxa eus iritt itiw the ghost last dight i announce next morning at breakfait f the ghost f htrscarew echoes holding her teapot in luspense yes a little old worgasisi cheek gown and mobcap with a moat vfttl m tion of couatenaocejaotwer not without a ahudder though the isnshine glints in and out among the evergreens in the shrubbery ind lies warm and golden ou the brown paths all about the house that wasottly old nanny murphy r jack lauiha turning from the window where he his beenitanding his hands is his pockets and a frown oh hiitace aisce i came mto the room arid who it nanny llurphy r jacki old nurse mrs oarew answers nervooaly a queer old ereatnre bat riithfulvery faithfal we couldnt turn bet out of doors because ahe wu put her work you know to the lives in the garret roim that used to bi the nurnry where did yes see her 1 i on tho stairs at the end of the corridor rmgiad to know she ir still a damns of this world but iebnfeis she made my blood fun cold fast night does she slways walk the upper regions st such unseasonable hours she is rathev an oddity mrs carew explains if ill nervously 8heis very old and we let her do very much what aha likes ithisk myself she hardly ever gees to bed and i don t think she has swept out her room or washed her face for yean and vein she racket a abort black pipe sometubee and i am often afraid she will set fire to the iibtise some night i i fancy the mystery of the dinner la solved now isnt iheafrsidof seetsgthe realghostr i sak doing full jetties to a fine salmon- trout v she has seen it scores of times jsck tells me beiinsisg to eat- his breakfast but most likely it as one of her own gowns hingiog on a nail what thill we do with ourselves fday charlie j wont yos go over to csariok dear hir mother aakt with a deprecating look they will be expecting yos 1 jack turnl bit shoulder to her i why dont yon make a bonfire of that old elm under my window jack i ask to bhasge the rubjeot- i notided it this morning all patched with tine asd propped ap with wooden pilars there doesnt seem to be i sound hit of timber ia it i 1 when that tree comes down the head of our family for the time being will die within the year jack says with solemn cc but very faithless eyes try an- er trout charlie these came out of own lake this morning we mutt have crossfiahing while you are here the breaiiaitrporo window there it view of the lake tnirklirig under morning sun a sheet of living rilier d it nse the moon ta tt beaa- ruoay wivhleaaj grey wiurbck with forte i watch the nearer one lose great side t can distinguish the r of purple heather the brows boggy ts the little square patches of oultiva- here and there the huge closdshadowi floating across then the lonely valleys half obscured by swathes of morning mist asd long to be striding through thai heather with my run in my hand and a good dog at my heela i tm afraid jack carew wont be such good company sere ai he was is the wilds oi australia asd i privately anthematiie the girl who hii apoilt my tpgrtoutherein the west j there are two windows is the breakfast- room one looking- into the lake- the other at the end of the room into the drive hu left this one open ind the soft tember sir ocmea in laden with the tt of the firs and larches and the breath seand broom from the hills ifrbmmy at the table i can sea down jtbe dark under the cures and beeches where golden ahaf ta of ssnahine are falling through the tsnohes sod lymg in folden patches on th j grass and weedy gravel while i look iy rabbit pope ont of ae underwood a great thrush kopa abou among the it so nndittnroed that i might jbe 2htjt ioskmi an eangementlike this if she were that sort of girl xoflikeiy would ahe hold you to it if ah knew how you felt on the subject i i hardly think iny grl would ay would they i jack questions v- flly bat hilwri i tt ibum likes me yisd i cant be such a brute as to tell her i dont like her hi didnt know she liked me do yea think id trouble my head about her i i who told you ihebked you she told me so herself aodlhsve letters of hers too wmah yes ndeer answered ft oh of course i msweted them f jut admits- reddenihgi little and were jut as sentimental as the wat i could i be lesr it is easy to t np the leulimeotal m writing youll find it list as easy is reality no iihallnot the eeryideaol being obliged todo it itnough bat im in for it so lets oynoaore about it yob may be sure if ican get ay bead out of the nooee without dishonour i will well have the horses- rottnd in fivmkutes and i wish to heaven yoji were ia for this busi- neas instead 6 ma and then perhabs you wouldnt look so reioi araused jack itnot ready in five minutes if the horses ire he tpkodt a lebg time over ha toilet rjther a ijootadietary proceeding on hit part i fancy but he idoea not seem to see it i wimirst him that he is only m- juring his own cease by putting that gloira do dijon had in hstbnttonhole and am re warded by a tuggbrtion that my own bnn- neat would be th j better of my attention i ton mounted on abeauiifuf gray with steetblaok points the saddle it not so perfect an artioie at the mare j but that is nothing carew rides a big bony chestnut with one white stocking which rejoices in the name of cupid i tell him he oocld not hive chosen moje appropriate cognomen considering the errand on which he is bound and am again reminded of the advisability of looking after my own affairs we turn from the avenue mto a grassy ride under the beeches and so into a steep lane be tween hedges of the omnipresent furse with its darkgreen needles and uazl of yellow blossoms i turn to look atthe uke while our horses ctcep up the rocky defile like goata but can catch only a glimpse of it with a white speck of a sail gainst the pur ple foot ofknockmony thati potaerors boat the drrsss those are the carriok woods to the right jack telle me and that ij fort he points to the left with the handle of bit whip and torn to see littl tnnble- dbwgviuage winding up thenflttiiw h it caterpillar blue turf smoke curling up from its chimneys the single street looks to iteep that i do nut think a donkey could be got up it how people can be content to spend their lives is inch a wild and lone ly place i yet tome of them have bees to austra lia and america jack laughs lad got so homesick that they hid to come back again i mute over this new view of the subject till we pass the little grey church and the ivyoovered personate the hilly church yard it full of ancient gravestones and has one or two biz grey vaults i know all the carewt and fetherstonet have been buried here time ost of mind i cartick itasds on a wooded promontory sear the foot of cumghhawu the houte it i modern one of red- brick with 1 bell- tower in the centre asd a iploodid water- gardes in the western wing we dismount in tho courtyard where all the people seem glad to see carew sad crowd round him for news of relativea is melbourne asd 8dney of whom be has never heard in his lilapro- bably but that mties no difference thes wa walk back round the terrace to the other aide of the houte two men in knickerbockers sad cssvu shoes are playing lawntennis they are in troduced to me u the hessri pomeroy another is lying on the gran face down- wardfttsdying icienoc ander difficulties for an examination in trinity college in october this is an old friend of suae in ydnoy late in the merchant service bat how heir to a baronetcy brett carlitos they all crowd round ua but jack ahakea thersoff i must pay my respects to her lady ship he ssys with a glance ia my direc tion t suppose i ahall find them is the wistergardes i i think they are at tea there tom pomeroy inswersv- dont go in yet come round to our den and hive abottle of fix or claret or beer if you like it better i know you dont go infortea dont mind them there are everjsi many of them got together arranging about the eroqaet- oiub and yosu be awfuuy bored i must go though jack asserts with a kind of desperation you can stay here if you ike rutherford l i should have preferred stayiag but i do g into the heart of aorse foresi miles rojn human ha zt woulothave sur- irised me leas to see a vision of little red tijinghood and the wolf or una and her lioh or a knight with aby lanoe in rest pass down that sjlvsn glade than the more proaiic figsre of old jemmy the poetrnao with his cauvm bag or hit shouklsr and old juno the red setter loitering familiarly behind him- let jemmy fake a message to carriok that yos will be over there to luncheos jdrf carew taggests j bst jickitlowi the chi ace to be lost doggedly remarking that so nesssge is neoesaary and uri oarew wit ia very wistful irgh resigns eerselt to the inevitable j r after hreikfast we visit the stables and the kennels and spend two or three hours very much to bar own tatrsf action iter monoyistpentatoastu gardsis is thbeereglonsicfnaee that at itneuesrrjgardes uewobd houteaare dsaaleea and rdantless bjactnerrarfen lteeswtugfittjut high will topped with a bush of ancient ivyfii a reguv derrjacktelumk hij grandfather never inhabited the front of we boose at all but hved entirety in two roojns oommandinfaviewof the stable- kokjhinji fajicy it lbusthivo been a rather hat imeearsmfiaw wben jane oanw ihst oace to it omcirew had beena widower for twenty yetre anov ha4 nbtepwebuted us toos wife but she rmeneylw they ootid net have the money without the jadr i fancy jane cirew had th wont of we have aauntered round to the front of the house again smoking and talking- tbout across she uwn and into the wintergarden together j there it nothing here bnt festoon of rsre and beautiful foliage suspended from pillar topillar jnsum of punts with splendid bl i and pink aad firirhsoh aad purple smooth t floors clesming rows of statsea as atmosphere of delicious moist warmth and perfume but through the drawingroom ptifn beyond oonjti a chatterof highbred voices i and i cahsee jack who has faced a herd of wild cattle on the prairies wince and draw back i wish it wu all over he ccnlesset abjeotly v faint heart etc i suggest bjther 1 jack mutters laconically asd we are in the midst of them lady mary pomeroy is a pleasast little worsen 8he is preeidiag at a testable oovered with whit looks to ste very like a piece of sacking sparely embroidered in ooloured thread i do not admire it v bat i am told that it it orewelwork and- thought very lovely thereare several girls in e room but the ably two i netdcemaoh are staying is the house i know it becauae they hare no boantu on i wonder which ia jacks fate lady mary leads him up to both indbeeeemi w a embarrassed in hu greeting of oner as of the other- i sin ltlsjintrcdnoedte them the till flir- hairnrt darkyedgirl stao3isgbr ful height in the window in a wh and moocap o white taeejh hiss tone the little dark meith the pfanan bee and irish uuo eyes is hcss ayimer u i wereis jaoka shoes iahbiud be awjul- iy disappointed if lie fair one were nbtilis itltotblove bat it besku ayimer that jack lingers and i coiobid x i ghi charley lots of fan in her ether is as cold as icei the other is the girl for myr jack and theres nuay abetter man wonl ery you dawtrtoseihir tor jf yon do mywori tm it youll hjs sorry only jack looks steadily oh thegrbund 1 see so way ost of it he siya bitterly and so tho subject drops 1 tioincojrnirrsti english aad american faces r mchaed otist wirrt 1- iwheni landed one of the very few dif ferences that i observed between the people whom i had left and those among whom i had come was a calmer and sereosi erpret- rion of countenance this in the descend- big scale of intelligence bedsme a stojidlookv the outward aign of l sluggishness bot higher 6r lower in degree cc tnikiad there it was placidity instead of a look of intentnesj and anxiety sew to snppoee that- this difference is caused by lss thongnttslness teas real anxiety fat l- bririeuiness on the rjert of the rnjrli1 is to draw a conclusion directly in face of tho facta the tou and struggle of life is harder in england than it is here pobr med are more dnves by necessity rich men tamkmbre imohg all classes- exoepv the frivolous part of tseaxistocracy sot a large claat there is more mental strain nf ore real anxiety than there is here where ill the matenat conditions of life are easier and whsiw there is leas sire forpitieel and y social matters why then this dierence of look i i am inclined to think that it u due is a great measure to difference of climateuot to such effect of cmhate upon i organization as makes a difference in the physical man but te v4eeeh of otlmito which is ahnott mechanical and which oper- atei directly upon each indivrdnal ly i think that an impression of anxiety is given to the american lace by aneadrc i to resist the irritating effect of oursuh and wind watch the people as theypase you i on a bright windy day and yon will see that their brows are contracted their eyes half closed and their faces set to reaitt hc glare of the sun and the flare of the wind and besides in winter they are stung with the cold in summer they are scorched with the heawfor about three hundred days out of three hundred and sixtyfive they undergo this irritation and brace them- selves to meet it now a scowling brow haltclosed eyes and a set faoe taste to make an anxious dkturbed strnggtiag ex- preisioii jfcottbesibosv whether the atatt is really anrioni disturbed and strngghng or not by the experience of yeast this look becomes more or less fixed in tlje rnat jority of americas faces in england on the contrxtry there is comparafarelyiio glare of the tun and lit tle wind the forrom assertion will be re- ceived without question by those who have been in both countries bt the laties may be doubted and may be regarded as stcihge coniisgirbmnmaawbobfare he had been on english land fortyeight hours was al most blown bodily off- chester wails ind came sear being wrecked in the mersey in fact there are not unfrequently breng laid wind storms of a severity which if not unknown is of the greatest nrlty in the umtebtstates or in canada we have re cords of such torus in england in tho past we read anmoancementt of them it the present day i had experience of one there more severe than any that i remem ber here and heard ettle or nothing said about it but in bnglandwhen a storm is over the wind goes down here on the contrary our clearing sp after a storm his affected by the setting m of a northwest wind against which it is at firrt toilsome te walk and which continues to blow out of a oloadlesa sky for days with a virtlence quite diabolical because it does sot rain or show people call the weather fine and de lude themselves wish the notion that- the wind is bracing bst nevertheless they go about with scowling brows watery eyes and let faces as they brace amulfei up to endure it on my return this wind met me nearly two hundred miles at sea it- was tomcttiing the like of which i had not felt once while out of reach of american ahores the air was u clear at a diamond th iky wu at blue ai aipphireand is hard as steel the moon aheatfirty thousand railetjiigher than lit waa in england blued with a cold cheerless light jlifoieemed made np of bright pointi and the wind blew from the northwest net tempeetuouily ox in gssts but with i steady overbearing persistence for which nothing in natore ifforaj any tknik it it itself alone i knewthat i was near home there iaothing- of this kind in england kot only did i not find it in my brief experience but i herer of it nor of it ia there any record the absence of it there and the presence of it here may- i think be reasonably regarded jv a very unpbrtaht mflsesoe is the tries ae the more does this soim probable because i have observed tiut americans who reside in england for afew yearsgen eralrylose ins great jneaaure if not eirjabe ly the look m question and on theirre- turn to their own shores oa aojflire it again of course there are numerous ex- ieptioni to these remarks in both coutrea j i hi wu aichinamaaahghtryornrsu bay and he rushed into a blake street saloon ruthedupfo the bar and cried excitedly- wbitkee oockee tailee for me allee samee 1 mtucanmin thebeikecieranfeedthe mixture handed it out and the chinaman pouring it down started- fcrin3bor ing futee down op sutee allee samee meucanman ana bn before the baft keeper cttq get hohl of- fub the celestial was sees so mora i jokisnewrynurfiebvto speaking over the wine and cigars t hit bachelor friends brows and kobiiison no its not yoathooebemty nor eettb nor rank that a senaible man ibould look for is alrife itirb9n5ajjinibd to experience of life r arid steadfastness of pose oombjaed with a de ttoughj means unpfactical sense oi thb fleetinj tnre ofhmnan adrteaeeottis be- enter mrs jones suddenly bearing l can die i aii ct to ourtatbiyoo myloto aprxantmentin town tomorrow with the i hi t i i smt titkpiappr meet