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id.^^"^v:n- gf^'t CHAPTRl^ iXIV.-Contiuued. "Ah! ib Is v^y well for you, whose 11 (<t has l)e«Q BO |>uro and free from ©\tl, but lb Is cliffficnt /or me, with all loj' coBBciousneHB of sins uad im- perfeetion*. For me, and thoupjindn like rae, H'tiive lis wo will, immortality bus tprrorK as «ell as hopes. It is, and always will be, human to fear the future, for humani nature never changes Youknowithe lines in 'Ham- let.* It is "'that the dread of something at- tor deathâ€" Th* iiii'U!v<>.i«red country* from who.<5e l)ourn' No tiavclcT returnsâ€" j)Uzzles the will And makes us rather l<;ar those Ills we have, Than fly to( others that we know not oJ, ' Thu.s conscience doed make cowards of rus all.' They are true, and, vvhile men last, they will ahvaysr he true." "Oh, Arthur!" she anawered, earnest- ly, and for U\e first time addresFiny; him in (â- anversutioin by hii Christ i.iu name, "how limited your trust must b« in l\\e\ mercy of a t'rp;itor, w iio-ie mercy is as wi<le as the o-jean, that you ran t.-ilU liket tftatl Vou ajieak ot me, loo, OB U'tter tlian yourselfâ€" how am I better? 1 huve my l)ad thouphls, and do bad things a,H much as you, and though they may not be the sauie, I am sure they are quite as black as yours, since everybo<ly must lie resjon- Biblo according to their characters and temptations. 1 try, however, to trust iai God to cover my sins, and lielieve that, if I do) my Ust, He will forgive me, that Isi all. But I have no busi- ness to jireacli, to yuo, who are older and wiser tlian I am" "If," he broke in, laying his hand Involuntarily uiion her own, "you knowâ€" although I have never spoken of them to any one liefore, and could not 8|Jcak of them to anybody but yooiaelfâ€" how the.se things weigh up- on luy niLnd,! you would not say that, hut would try to teach me your faith." "How can I tcaoh you, ^j^hur, wbeu I have 80/ much to learn myselfl" .she answered, simiily, ami from that mo- ment, thooigh she) did not know it as yet, she loved, him. This conversationâ€" a very cuiiou.s wne, Arthur, thought! to himself after- ward, for two young [leople on a spring morningâ€" liiivinx come to an t nd, noth- ing more was said for bome wrile, and they took their way down the hill, varying the route iu order to pass through the little HanUet of Brath- lun- Under a choatnut-lreo that stood upon the village green Arthur notic. ed, not a village blacksmith, hut a small crowd, uiustly comim.sed of chil- dren, gathered round somebody. On going to Ken who it was, he discovered a liatterod looking old man, with an intellectual face, anrt| the remnants of a gentleuian-llke aiipearance, playing on l-'u- \io'.in, A very few touches of hid ba.v told Arthur, who knew .Home- thing of muxir, that he was in the fin'.s;'rt"e oC a performer ol no mean merit. Seeing thet quality of his Iho auditors, and that they ajiprcclated his imrformance, the player changed his music, and tirom a. village jig, (jHAsad to ono ot the more difficult 0!>era «irs, whicll he executed in liril- liant fashion. ' Bravo!" cried Arthur, as the last notc.4 thrilledi and died away; "I nee you understand hotv to play the fiddle." "Yes, sir, nlid so I should, for I have played fiinti violin at Her Majes- ty's Ojiera Ixifore nmv. Name what you like, and I will play it you. Or. If you like it letter, you shall hear the water running in a brook, the wind puHsing through the trees, or the waves falling <m the leaili Only say the « ord." Arthur thought for a moment. • "It is a lieauliful day. Id us have a contrastâ€" giv« us the music of a •torm." The old man/ considered awhile. "I understand, liU you set a diffi- cult subject even for me," ami, tak- ing \xi> his Ik>\v made several ntlcmpts at lieginning. "I can't do it," he said, "set Hometliing else." "No, no, try aigain; that or noth- ing" .^x Ai^ain he Ht.arted, and Ibis time his genius l(Kik i os.session of him 'i lii> notes fell very softly at fir.sl, bul\>ilh nn ominous sound, then rose and wail- ed like the, rising of the wind. Next the music came in g<i>:bs, the rain pat- tered, and thei thunder rcxired, I ill ,it length the tempe.st seemed to spend its fone, nud |)jiHscd slowly away inio the distance. "There, sir, what) do you say to thatâ€" have I fulfilled your expecta- tions?" "Write It doiwD,' and it will l)e ona of the finest pieces of violin musi' in the country." I "Write it dolw'n!; The divine "alfla- Uis' is nrtt to lie caged, sir; it comes and goe^s. 1 could never write that "music d-TOu" I Arthur felt in his poi^kets without tnswei'ing, and found, five shllling.i.' "If you will ncrept this?" he said. "Thank yi.ii, sir, very much. 1 am (ladder of five shillings now than t •nee wa» of' as many pounds;" iind he r.<Sto to go. â-  ".A m«n of y<mir taleiil .should not I* wandering al>iiiut like this." " I must eajtt a living somehow, for all Talleyrand'* wittif^mfi to the contrary," wiis tt>e curious rejily. "Have you no friend/*?" " No, (iir ; this' is my only friend, all th» resti have deserted mo," and he tnpfied his violin and was gone. "Lord, sir," said) a farmer, who was standing l<y, 'he.'s, gome to get drunk; he is the; biggest old drunkard in the country-side, and yet they do say that he was a. gentleman once, an<l the liest fiddler in London; but he can't be depended on, solno one will hire him no^v." "How Bad!" said Angela, as they moved homeward. "Yes, and what! mutiic that was; I never heard any with such imagina- tion I«fore. You have a turn that way, Angela; you should try to put it into words, it would make a poem." "I comjilain, likei the old man, that you set a difficult suliject," she said; "but I will try, if you will promise not to laugh at the result." "If you succeed on paper only half so well as he did on the violin, your verses will lie worth; listening to, and I cer- tainly shall not laugh." CBAPTEa XXV. (>â- ! the day following the somewhat curious religious conversation l^tween Artliur and Angela â€" a conversation which began on Arthur's part out of curiosity, and ended on loth si 'es very much in earnest- tlic weather broke up and tlie grand old English climate re- as-wrtsd its treacherous supremacy. From summer weather the inhabitants of the country of Marhuhire suddenly found tlieinsetve; plunged into a spell of cold t Jut was by contrast, almost ' arctic. iStorms of sleet drove against the window-panes, and there was even a very damaging night frost, while that dreadful scourge which/ nol ody in hid senses, except Kingsley, can ever have liked, the east wind, literally pervaded the whole place, and went whistling through the surrouAding trees and ruins in a way calculated to make oven a lvai)lan(ler sliiver. Under these cheerless circumstances our pair of rom|<iniuns â€" for as yet they were, ostensibly i.t any rate, nothing i moreâ€" gave up tlieir outdoor excur- , sions and took to rambling over the ' disused rooms in' the old house, and hunting ii;i' many a record, some of tliem valuable and cuiious enough, of long-forgotten Careafool.s.and even of the old priors ticfore them; a splen- j dldly illuminated miscial lieing among the latter iirizes. When this aiuu.se- 1 ment was oxKiustcd, they sat togrth- j er over the' fire in the nursery, and Angela translated to him from her favorite classical authors, esjiecially I Homer, with a fluency of exprea- j sion that, to Arthur, was little short of miraculous. Or, wheji they got tired of that, be read to Iier fromstan- '. dard wriUirs, which, elal.-orate as her | education had been, in certain re- 1 8i)ects, she bad siarcely yet even opened, notably Shakesuearo and Mil- ton. Needless to say, herself Imbued , with H strong povtic feeling, these immortal writer* w*re' a source of | intt'nae delight to her. "Uo-.v is it that Mr. Fraser never gave you Shake«n^eare/ to read?" Ar- thur asked one, (lay, a.-* lie shut u;) th» volume, having come to the end of 'Hamlet." "He said that I should !» better abUi to ai)preciate it, when my mind bad iK-en proi>are<l to do so by the help of a clas.sical and mathematical educiitiou, and thai it would le amis- take to cUcy, my mcnt;il [lalale with eweets liefore X had learned to appre- ciate their flavors'" "There is suine sense in tluit," remarked Arthur ' Hy the way, how- are the verses you promised to write me getting on?" Have you done them yet?" "1 have done something," she an- swered moilestly; "but 1 really do not think that they are worth producing. It is very tiresome of you to remember al>out them." Arthur, however, by this time, knew enough of Angela'n abilities to he sure that her "soruethiug" would be some- thing more or less worth hearing, and mildly insisted on their {iroduction, and then, to her confusion, on her reading them aloud. They v.in ns follows, and whatever Angela's ojiinion of them may have been, the reader shall judge of them for himself. A SyOIlM ON Tfll-; .STlHNGa "The miustrol sat, in his lonely room, Its walla were luiro, and the twilight gray Fell and crejit and gathered toj glbom; ' It Clime like the glxwtt of the dying I •luy; "I And tli'A chords! fell hushed and low. I Pianissimo! "His arm was raised, and the violin i Quivered uud shook with the strain} it borei. While tl'.e swelling forth of the sounds J within. Rose with a sweetness unknown tie- fore, And the chords; fell .soft and low. Piano! "The first cold flap ot the tempest's C'lasliL'd -VN ith Iho silence liefore the storm. The rain-drops imtlcred across the sti'ing.s As t'le gathering thunder-clouds tiHik form- Drip, drop, high and low. .staccato! "Heavily rolling, the thunder roar- ed ,i .Sudden and jagged the lightning played, Faster and fa.stec the rain-drops pour- ed, .Sobbing and surging the tree-crests Hiwayed, Cr«<tkiitg and cra.shing, aliuve, l>elow. Crew^endo! "The wind tore howling across the fvold,; And tangled his, train in the gronn ing trees, Wrapped the dense cloads in bis mantle , cold. Then shivered and died In a wailinK breeze* Whistling and sweejdng high and Ipw. Bostenuto! "A pale suit broke from the driving cloud, And flaaheid on the rain-drops serene- ly, cool: At Uie touclu of bis finger the forest howed. As it shimmered awl glanced in the ruffled pool, Wbile the rustling leaves soughed soft and low. Gracioso! "It was only a dream on tbe throbbing strings. An echo of Nature in fantasy wroai^t. 1^ breath of hE>r breath and a touch of her wings From a kingdom outspread in tbe reg ons of thoupht. Below rolled tlie sound of the city's din And the fading day, as the night drew in, Shwve-d the qua'nt old fa'-e and the pointed chin. And tJie arm that was raised o'er the violin, As the old man whispered his hope's dead tale To the friend who eould comfort, ' though others m'gbt fail, And the chords stole hushed and low. Piani.ssimo:" He stopjied, and the shiet of paper fell from his bands. "Well." she sa 1. with all the eager- ness of a new-born writer, "tell me, do you think them very had?" "Well. Angela, you know " "Ah! go on now; I am ready to he cru.shBd. I'ray don't sjxiremy feeling." I was about tti say that, thanks he to Providence, I am not a critic; *but I think " "Oh! yes. let me hrar what you think. You are sfieakiug so slowly, in order to get time to invent something extra cutting. Well, r deserve it " "Don't interrupt; I was going to say that I th'nk the piece aliove the aver- age of tiecond-class jxctry. and that a few of the lines touch th" first-clasa standard. You have caught S'lmeth'ng of the 'divine afflatas' that the drun- ken old fellow said he could not cage. But I do not think that you will ever he popular as a w^riter of ver.s.?s if you keep to that style; I dou) t if tb>re is a magazine in tbe kingdom that would take thise lines unless they were by a known writer. They would return them marked, '<iood. hut too vague for tbe general public." Ma- gazine editors dun t like lines from 'a, kingdom ouU.prea'1 in the regions of thought.' for, as they say, such jjoems are apt to excite vagueness in the brains of that dim entity, the 'gener- al puldic' What they do like are com^ monplace ideas put in pretty language, and 8we»'tcned with sentimentality or emotional religious feelings, 8U<h as the tb nkiiig jiowers of their 8ulocril>- ers are coinijetcnt tu al.«iirh without mental strain, and without leaving their accustomed channels. Tu lie poi>- ular it is nece.>isary to 1» common- place or at least to descrilie the com- monplace t'> work in a well-worn groove and not to startleâ€" requirements which unfortunately, simple as they Kecni very few persons pcs-sess the art of a/'ting up to. See w hat hapiiena to the unfortunate novelist, for in- stane, who dares to break th'j unwrit- ten law, and defraud his readers of the orth'dox transformatit>n l ene of the reward of virtue and di.si-iimfiture of vice; or to make his creation finish up in a way that, however, well it may I* suited to its tenor, or illustrate its more .sut>tle meaning, is contrary to the 'general reader's' idea as to how- it should endâ€" badly, us it is called. He simply collapses to rise no more, if ho is new at the tiade. and. if b" is a known man. that hook won't .veli." "'^ou talk quite feeiingly," .'aid An- gela who was getting rather Uired, and wanted, not unnaturally to hear more aliout her own lines. "Yes," replied ."Vrthur grimly; "I do. Once I was fo.d enough to write a hook, hut I must tell you that it is a painful subie;t with me. It never came out. Noljody would have it." "Oh! Arthur. I am so sorry; 1 should like to read your hcok. Itut as regards the verses, I am glad that you like them, and 1 really don't lare what a hyiK)t helical general public would) say; 1 wrote them to please you, not the general public ' â-  Well, my dear, 1 am sure 1 am much obliged to you; I shall value them (loulily, once for the giver's sake and onie for their own." .Angela blushed, hut did nor reprove the term of emiearment which had slipped unawares from his lips. I'oe- try is a dan^rerous subject lietwfen two younig people who at iMuirt adora one another; it is apt to excite the brain, and l)ririg about startling re- velations. The day following the reading ot .An- gela's piece of poetry wii.s ren<lered re- markatile hy two events ot whiih the first was that the weather suddenly turned a somersault, and Iwic.ame beau- tifully warm; and the .S4>cund Ihal news reached the Abbey lUmse that, thanks chiefly to r,a<ly Hellaniy's devoted nursingâ€" who, fearless of infection, had, to (he great admiration of all her neighbors, volunteered her ser- vices when no nurse could lx> found to undertake the ca.seâ€" (Jeorge was pro- nounced out of danger. 'l\his pieoe of news was i>eculiarly grateful to Philip for. had hi.s (^•>usin died, the estates atust have passed away forever under the terms of his uncle's will, for he know that Oeorge had made none. An- gela, toa, tried, like a good girl as she wai, to lash herself into enthusia.<im aliotit it, though in her heart she went as near iiating her cousin, since his attempted iuclignily tosvard her- self, us her gentle nature would allow. Arthur alone was cynically indifferent} he hated GeorgB -without any reserva- tion whatsiever. J And after this there came for our pair of Ambryo lovers some ten or twelve 8u.-h harrpy days, for there was no talk of Arthur's departure I hillp having on several occa-^ions pointedly told him that the house was at his dis- posal for as long aa he chos'-> to remain in it. The sky was blue in thooa dayi, or only flecked -yvith summer clouds, just as Arthur and Angela's perfect coinpanionshlp was flecked and sbai'ed with the deeper hues of da-.vning pas- sion. Alas, the sky in Ibis terrestrial clime is never quite blue! But as yet nothijvg of love had pass- ed between them, no ki.ss or word ot endearment; only when hand ti.u bed hand a strange thrill bad moved them both., and sent th.-^ warm blood to sta'n Angela's clear brofw. like a waveriinf tint of sunlight thrown upon tbe mar- ble features of soime wh.te Venus: only in ea'-b other's eyes they found a holy mystery. The spell was not yet fully at work, but the wan<l of earth's great enchanter had touched them, and they were changed. Angela is hard- ly the same girl she was \vh?n we met her a little more than a fortnight hack. A nameles.s change has come over her fae and manner; the merry mnile. once so bright, has grown .soft- er and more sweet, and the laugh ng light of her gray eyes bits given p!a e to a look of some such gratitude and w-onder, as that with whih the trav- eler in lonely deserts gazes on the oasis of his iierfect rest. Many times Arthur had almost blurted out the truth to the woman he pass-onately adored and evt-ry day so adiled to the 8Upi>re.ssed fire of his love that at length he felt that he could not keep his secret to himself much longer. And yet he feared to tell it; lietter. be thought, i i live hap- py, if in doubt, than to ri k all his fortune on a single throw, for ! < fore his eyes there lay the black dread ot failure; and then -what would life he worth? Here with Angela ha lived in a Garden of Eden that no forebodings no anxieties, no fear ot that partially scorched serpent George, could render wretched, so long as it was gladdened hy the preeence ot her whim he ho[ eil to make his F.ve. But without and around where she could not he, there was nothing hut clods and thistles and a bla-k desolation that, even in im- tginalion, he dared not fa'e. And Angela, gazing on veiled mys- teries with wondering eyes, was she happy during tho^* spring-tide days? Almost; hut still there was in her heart a consciousness of effort. a fense of transformation and knowl- ege of the growth of hidden things. The bud bursting into the glory of the rote must if there be feeling in a ruse, undergo some such effort before it can make its beauty knmvn; the but- terfly, ^ut newly treed from the dull brisk that hid its 9;>!endora at first must feel the imperfet wings it atretches in the sun to Iw irks'vme to its unaccustomed sense. And so it was with Angela; : he spread h-T half- grown wings in the sun of b«r new ex- istence-. au<l found them strange, not kniAviug as yet that they wer^- t^bap- ed to bear her to th" tiower-crowned heights of love. Hers was one of those rare natures in which tbe paswlon that we know by the generic term of love approached as near perfe<-ton as is [ussible in our human hearts. For there are many .sorts and divisions of love rang- ing from the affection, pure. sl>>ady, and divine, that is .showered upm us from atiove, to the degrading madness of such a one as (t«M)rge (''are8fx)ot. It is surely one ot tbe saddest evidemes of our poor humanity that, even umon^ the purest of us, there are n"ne who can altogether rid tbe whiteness of the love they have to offer ot its earthly stain. Indeed, if we could so far con- quer the preouptiuga of our nature as to love with p«*rfecc purity, we should hecom--' I'lke angels. But. just as white flowers are 8<Hnetim:i"« to l-e found on the l!.-ioke»t i«ak. ko there d> bloom in I he world spirits ;vs pure as they am rareâ€" .-o free fnju evil, so closely sha- do.ied by the Almighty wing. that they can almost rca^^h to this pertec- t'on. Then tlie love they have to give is toil refinetl, tco holy and strong, to le understood of the mass of men; often it is squandered on som.e un- equal and unanswering nature; some- times it is wisely offered up to Him from whom it came. We gaxe upon an iie-l);iuud river, and there is nothing tu lell us that leneath that white cloak its current ru.slie» to the oi-ean. Hut presently the spring comes, ihe prisined waters burit their fetters, and we see a glad torrent siarkling in the sunlight. And so it was with our heroine's heart; the l)reath of Arthur's iKission and the light of Arthur's eyes had beat uiM)n it, and almost treed the river of its love. .-Mready the listener might hoar the ice-sheets crack and start; soon they will be gone. an<l her i!eei> devo- tion will set as strong toward him as the tide of the torrent towards its re- ceiving sea. "Fine writing!" iierhaiis the reader will .say; but surely none too tine to descrilie the most beautiful thing in this strange world. the irrevocable gift of a good woman's love! iH<»vever that may le. it will have .served it-s purpo.se if it makes it clear that a crusis is at hand in tbe afOiiis of the heart of two of tbe centiui ac- tors on this mimic stage. (1V> Be Continued t SOME CAUSES OF SODDEN DEATH. Abeiil Oiie-Hair the T*ial Number of l'a>rt nni- ro Heart Olaenie. Roiugh'ly speaking, about one-half ot the total oumJber of caees of suddea death fri-«n natural cauaas in adults is, more or le-ss, due to heart diseass, whii\h has sxisited for some time, mod in which no further change is in pro- gress at thfe tim.e «f death â€" such as valvular disease, aagin-i, fatty heart, and ."icLeroisis of tUe cardiac muBcLe from chronic myocarditis, Im many cases concurrent lung or kidney ; di.sea.ses complicates the statistics, such cases frequenbly be-inig tabulated as I death solely due to heart disease, csponr- ! taneous rupture of the heart, moscly in men, may exceptionally occur; the left venlri le, often toward the front, Ls almost invariably tlue feat of the rupture. It is to be remembered that in traumic ruptur» v/t the heart the rigrbt side, usua.lly tlws auricle, suffers more frequently than th« left iu the pivportiou of about as seventy to fif- ty-four. .AiKjplexy and other cognate brain leeion,:^ rank second as natural causes of sudden death. It is to be noted that miliary aneurisms of the vessels ot tbe brain,, although most c«>mmon in persons past middle life, oc- casionally occur in young people, even Lu children, and by bursting cause < death from apoplexy. CHHOMC ALCOHOLISM, a potent factor among the cau-'es of sudden deaiii. is frequently a.-scx-iat- ©1 witjii ra^fidly termioaling heart an)i brain ui.--ea.'*e. lAspbyxia, a not unfrequent cause, may be dud U> oedema of the glottis, membraocnis depuuitd in the trachea, pres.sure of a neoplasm on the trachea, spat-m of the vocal ctiurds, plumoaary emlxvlism, air embolism, rupture of a vas-sel or of ajn aneurism into the air passages, asthma, whoupinig cough, pneum'^nia and beamo thorax, pleuri- ti • effusion and eidiepsy. The rupture of a gusitric or of aa intestinal ulcer, of an aneurism, of a varicoae vein. o( the surrou liftings ot an ectopic gesta- tion, the I'oria.-itiou of a peri-uterine haeniotocele.may severely prove quick- ly fatal. NaphHlis, uraemia anl apo- plexy, diabetes, exoph/thalmic goitre, ajid Addisi>n's di^e^tse may also 'ferm- ioate with unexpected rapidity. Hem- orrhnge iinto tho pancreas occasionally oaucsie.s sudden deathi, appart^ntly from this impression produced on the con- tiguous nerve centers. 'It is most ooimjuon, In mulu-i o\ier -10 years of age w-|«> may up to the uccurrcini.-e of the hemorrhage to all appeara.ni.-es be in perfect healUi. Olieaiity, the habitual USB of alcohol, an. I the presence of heart disease ai>pear ini majiy lyC the cades to be predisposing cause. Koets- chau, honvever. observed hemorrhage inito the punvrea» in a woman â€" an al- coholic- in her 2+th y<!«r. Occasion- I ally it ui'curs iu spare people who are free tnun obvious dL>-«ase aad who are 1 ab.steimious as regards alcohol. The sufferer may die within h'olf an hcur after the oc-curreuv;e of the hemorrhage or he nwy survive for twemty-four or even thirty-j-ix hours. Draper re- cord.s five cases between the ages of 26 aind ;J3 years, of whi,-,h three were men [ OiOil two womwu, FItz tabulated six- teen case.s, of vvhiieh eleven were males Iwtweea 31 an I 70 years ot age. and five were females tietween 26 and -17 y*ars. SI'lJDaV HEATH has La iustan'-e.s followed spontaneous ruprlure of nu enlarged spleen, the re- sult ot tropical malarial influences, tbe intii, idu'il immedi'itely liefore rupture j being to all intents and purpo.ses quite , well. Fellereaux gives the history of tb«rleo.n cates of rupture of the en- • larged spleen; in five the rupture was ] spoulaneous. and in thlB remainder it Iwas due to npparetntly inailequ.ite causes, such as a simple fall in the street. It is to lie liorae in mind that when the spleen is thus enlarged a mere iiet with the imlm of the hand may determine rupl ure and con.sequent .si>oedy death, wlnich. in the absence of knowledge of the expei-ienoe of others, might readily Iw a-s-sumed to be the reKult of crimiaal violence. It is to 1» r>!«meiubere<l that .some of the alwve-namel diseases may exist without giving ri-fe to any symptoms uatil the final mmment arrive*; this applies with special foive to diseases whi-."h bavea pri>lonig'i'.d course, during which, as a rule, symptoms inidicative of disea.se (le?!a.re themselves. .Such a disease is gastric ulcer. 1 have seem more than on>J ca^e iu which, until Iho fatal rupture o«-curr»d aljsolutely no .symptoms were experieui-ed, noi even su-eh as might have been attributed to simple dyspepsia ; in, one such instance a sect-'O)! ulwr was present in the walla of Ihe stomach (n luUlition to th,;^ one that ruptured and caused death, :ind yoL ujitil pertoriilion oi-currei the po- tiejit aaver telt any ad normal sen.sa- lion whatever. TJIE OLDE.Sr ITNIVERSITY. The olde.st university in the world is at Pekin. It is called the "School For the Sons of the Fnipire." Its antiquity is very great, and a K''anite register iianKistiug ot srtone columns, 820 iu nu'iuler. contains the names of 6O,0Oti graduates. rUR'riUTY. rhis is mighty good soil, said Farmer (ireen, see that tree? Ves. • Wa-al. that wuz a hitchin'-post when '.was set out. â- flR. BILLTOPS LOSES AN UMBRELLA. :!ui li<> liiiko It Celiir to Mr«. KilUop.H rttni lie tinilii 1 i.rll II iiiynlirre. "I have been aJil these years," said llr. HilltoiM. "and i»ever had au um- brella liiriied igidiilu out; but it ia - lened to me last night, and just as I lurned inIo mj own block, right near liouje. 1 once a^n a man iu thw .same .situation lure ant let the winl I low his uiuluella in! o shuie again, and then go on UK ((iluily a.s though nothing 1-tt.o Irapiieued. I Uiejl titer last night . bu' ii isn't one li>nb iu a hundael t- at i' •an lie ilnmin. a» I ihls was mit on > of ihe t itues. 'ihp \. .i\d ouijy View m u« inlK a more outlaadi.sh sh«,.ii}. " "Hut 1 di-ln'i throw it away, 1 ^ ar ried it home. 1 a«i\ raihier incline lo Uvse iimbrellas. lo leave em aroun I here nijtd tl fre, aa I I ihougivt, I would make it clear lli^t 1 /Ad a^i left ihs one anysvhere, and so I ipok it along. as II* newsijaiieTs saj-, as a gtiaran'e^ oi good failh."