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•- ' ~°* w#mie&am&3nv > ,/v ,|TJ * - y"£ 'M»l« m~^7- ms V '•j - V"? " 'TV *» -- - -1 - - .»»•«• . <• ^ n umi win. |, - v BX HBSBX AUSTXM. v Hhe lent Teiy pretty, :}• ; w »•! (So say her lady friends); She's neither wis* nor witty " With verbal odds and ends. "J jo fleet in* freaks of fashion Across her fancy run; . She's never in a passion-- Except a tender one. V" *" i-%\ _-* -v • er voice 1« low and cofltafc • •• - *u She listens more than speaks, "? . .While others talk of ilolmt, ^ The duty near she seeks. • ::Jt may be pnt to banish Vf The sideboard's scanty plate, ^•|)r with bread to fnrnish The beggar at the gate. fo I, who see what frracjM She Fhedx on lowly 1MB, fo fashion's fair st faces Prefer my little wife. ' , 1 And though at her with pity The city daraes may smile, Who deem her hardly pretty ' And Badly out of style; To me she seems a creature So musically sweet. 1 would not change one feature ... Or curve from crown to feet. And if I could be never , Her lover and her mate, 1 1 think I'd be forever ; ' " The begger at the gatfe THE NEGRO UOCTOR. T»e charged, Jedge, ycr say, wid piaen'n' tie man : Wid medicine when he was sick, _ s i An' l'se 'rested up heah 'fore de law ob do lan Ter see ef de 'ditcment will stick. Jin doctorin' a man my mine's mighty sonn' Case I studied a year iu de woods, 'A-dipKin' up herbs an' roots from de grotin'-- Manulaciurin' my medical goods. |>e gen'leman was sick an' I went to his bed From <tea h, w d a white flag ob truce, An' when I had 'umined de sufferer's head, I gin him a dose ob my juice. ' 'From dat berry minute .he looked like a boy, , Case he gun ter get well right at once, iBut he kicked up his heels an' diedob de joy-- Dat nluger, liars. Jedge, was a dunce. 8o doan' charge me, Jedge, wid pitenin' de man. But note all my pints as da rise, An' so in honor tei law what reigns In the lan', Jes say dat he diedob surpr.se. •--Arkansas Traveler. if; t THE LION-TAMER'S REVERSE. In the gray light of early morning within a large tent an excited group of Some twenty or thirty men gendarmes and citizens, stood before a large cage inountcd on wheels, within which were two huge lions, a lioness, a brutal-look­ ing man and some human bones streen upon a blood-stained floor. The gen­ darmes were threatening, protesting, promising and trying to cajole the man In the cage, endeavoring to persuade him to come out and submit to arrest "If I come out," he replied grimly to All the arguments, "I shall bring the lions with me." 7 At that there were cries of alarm, and ft lot of women clustered at the door of Ithe tent vanished suddenly. "Throw chloroform into the cage and stupefy them all!" suggested some body. "At the first snuff ctl a drug I shall open the cage door," yarned the man In the den. "Shoot the lions T'cried"another voice. M., Ditabolla, the proprietor of the Cirque Olympe, where this unusual scene was going on, shrieked his pro­ test against the solution of the diffi­ culty. ^ "No! Shoot the man!" proposed ^ another in the crowd. The caged man put his hand on the > bolt of the caged door and replied: "Even if you shoot me, my weight in {ailing will "draw the bolt and then you will do well to look out for your­ selves." , The gendarmes made haste to assure liim that they had no idea of resorting to such extreme measures and had no autliontv to do anything but arrest fiim. ' "Starve him out!" exclaimed the offi cer in charge of the gendarmes, "We will lay siege to him until he capitu lates and surrenders." "Meanwhile," growled the man, "if we get hungry we will come out and look for our breakfast together. And while 1 think of it, you had better ibring me something to eat now The lions have had enough for to-day." Expressions of horror and cries of rage were uttered by the group--de jnonstrations of feeling that did not seem to have an adequate cause in the man's few words. Surely there was . something known to the hearers that did not appear. But, whatever the in donation andthe fuss they made, they judged it best to get the man his break fast, which they did, and lie ate it stol idly, while the lions lay blinking sleep ily at liim and at the angry little crowd of lookers-on, who chattered volubly all at once, as the people of the South of France are wont to do when ex cited. A sacred waiter in M. Sebastine Le jioir's disreputable little tavern, about midnight of the night preceding the scene just described, found, sitting alone in one of the rooms, at a table, a dead man, with a knife in his neck. Hardly an hour before, the now dead man had entered the place alive and /well, bringing with him a woman close­ ly veiled. Food and drink had been brought to them. The waiter, occu- jpied in his duties in attending to calls from other rooms, did not observe the departure of the woman, but at length Noting as singular the silence reigning in that apartment, tapped at the door and, receiving no answer, entered. The woman was gone. The man's body was drooped forward upon the table. From the back of his neck stuck tip the white ivory handle of a stiletto. A little stream of blood ran down each Hide of his neck, made pools on the table-cloth, and dripped slowly drop by drop to the floor. The waiter uttered a yell of affright, and in a few moments the room was thronged with jabbering and jesticulat- ing Marseillaise men and women. That the man had been assassinated, there could be no doubt. And it was the opinion of a medical man who was summoned, that the victim had died so suddenly that he had not time to make n single outcry, or even a gesture, but lind fallen dead just as if he had been struck by lightning. Very soon, when the face of the corpse was lifted up, it was recognized as that of Pedro Galancho, an athlete and general performer in the Cirque de Olympe, which had arrived in Marseil­ les less than a week before. The wo­ man who accompanied him to Lanoir's place was, of course, suspected of the crime, and the theory of the police was that she was some woman of the town who had done the deed in order to possess herself of the athlete's money. It was hardly a reasonable theory for It would have takan a powerful hand to have driven that keen pointed but thick bl&ded stiletto so deep, and with so sure a direction to the seat of life, just where the spinai column joins the skull; but reason is not necessarily a part of any police theory. Prompt inquiry among Golancho'a iootr&de's at the circus brought to light » hostler who had, After the evening performance, seen him go away from the tent and join, at a little distance outside, a woman who was waiting for him. She was closely veiled, but the hostler knew very well who she was, for he knew more than any^one else in the troupe about a certain amour that was in progress and had always expect­ ed some bad end to it The athlete, sod the woman, who was none other than Senorita Silvia Novella, the beau­ tiful star rope dancer, had gone away together. His description of the wo­ man tallied with the waiter's descrip­ tion of the person who had accompanied the murdered man. "Tell us," commanded the sergeant of the gendarmes, "what you know about these people !* And the hostler, nothing loth, glee­ fully narrated what he knew of the drama of Lust and Blood. "Silvia Nov­ ella" he said, is one of the most beauti­ ful girls in the world, and as licentious she is beautiful. She is not a mer­ cenary and soulless woman who yields herself for gain, but who seems unable to view a fine looking man without de­ siring to possess him carnally. She tires of her lovers as fast as she acquires them, and none whom she invites repel her. Oh, no! She is too beautiful to be repelled. Hardly eould even St. Anthony himself resist her. So there is a constant succession of favored ones. Those of yesterday are not those of to­ day, and to-day's will not be those of to-morrow. She is like the sea, to which all the rivers go, and yet it is never satisfied. Now, that is a dispo­ sition that may cause some unpleasant­ ness in the mind of a man who proposes to marry a woman so gifted and liberal, as you may imagine. Our lion-tamer, Jean Dufrac, has been madly in love with her for six months, and wishes to marry her. He has the funny fancy that if she were once legally and prop­ erly married she would become an hon­ est woman, and he is willing to over­ look the past, if she will only be true to him in the future when she is his wife. Af. if she could! "Well, four weeks aero, when we left Paris, Pedro Galancho, for the first time, joined our company. I knew, when 1 saw her place her eyes upon him, just as well as if she had spoken aloud, that she was saying to herself: "There is another one I must have." Jean Dufrac also saw that look, and understood it, and, I believe, was more jealous of him than he ever was of any other man. Pedro was a very fine looking, tall, powerful built fellow,with a handsome face and a fine head of curly brown hair, while Jean is, though strong as a bull, short, very dark, and not at all good looking. Still, for all his defects in point of beauty, Silvia had promised to marry him,' and he was not disposed to wait until marriage for her faithfulness to commence. I myself heard him warn her against go­ ing with Pedro, and that is probably why she took the pains to veil herself and avoid observation as much as pos­ sible when she went with him to that house. She has not usually been so careful to conceal "a little thing like that." The police hunted for both Silvia and Jean, but they were not in their accustomed places, and managed to evade pursuit, for the time at least. While that chase was going on, a dis­ covery, not without an interesting bear­ ing on the case, was mada by a sharp- eyed detective. He found that there was no glass in what appeared to be a curtained closet window just behind the seat of the man who was stabbed in the neck; that the muslin curtain had been cut loose by a Bharp knife from the bottom and side of the empty sash, so that it could be easily and noiseless­ ly lifted up; and finally, that the dust-- thick on the sides of the lower piece of the sash--was rubbed away in the cen­ ter, as if an arm had been protruded through this small window. The closet behind this window was a dark one, only used to stow rubbish in, and could be entered by a door from a ser­ vant's staircase, which was never locked. There was no doubt the assas­ sin had hidden himself within that closet, and through that window had dealt the fatal blow. , Suspicion was fixed upon Jlean Du­ frac as the assassin. Indj^S^ there was no question entertained of his guilt, and • he most strenuous efforts, were made bv the police to effect his capture. They could not find him iu his bed or in any of the low cabarets where it was supposed he would be most likely to be found. Indeed, he seemed to have vanished entirely. They fancied that he had fled from the town. They were wrong. He was close at hand, in the place where they would be least likely to look for him. He had taken refuge in the lion's den. The moment after plunging his stiletto into the spinal marrow of his successful rival. Silvia, horror-stricken at the sight of her paramour falling dead on the table before her with a knife in his neck, darted out of the tavern room unseen, ami fled to the circus tent. There, hid­ den in a dark corner, she heard her name mentioned to the police, and fear­ ing that she would be denounced a* on accomplice in the murder, in a blind excess of terror sought for Jean Du­ frac to' shield her or help her escape. Singular as it may seem, her fright M as so great that she did not think of him as the murderer, or suspect that he knew of her faithlessness. She knew better than the police where she would be likely to find him. More than once had he taken her with him in the dead of the night into the lion's den for their secret amorous interviews. There she now sought him and found him. The cage was divided by a movable iron barrier about one-third of its length from one end. In the larger compartment was the door Driving the lions into a corner, he admitted the girl, and with her passed into the small­ er compartment, closing the barrier be^ tween them. '1 he huge savage brutes, relieved from their momentary subjec­ tion by his eye and whip, put their noses to the bars and signified with hungry ferocity in the direction of the girl, but she felt herself beyond their reach, and was not afraid of them. "The police are after me. Jean," she said, stammeringly, "and you muathide me." "Why are they after you?" "I--I can not tell yon. But I am in­ nocent of what they suspect me. I swear to you that I am. 1 am not ca­ pable of killing a man. Am I Jean?" "N4f But you are very capable of being the means of a man being killed. Do you know what they will do with you if thev catch you ?" "No. What wiil they do?" "Well they will put you in friien, but first they will bind you and gag you to prevent your escaping or making a noise. Come, my pet, let me show you what they will do. Let us play that you are my prisoner. See, I take your handkerchief, which is mueb soft­ er than the hard rope which the police would use, and I fasten your hands so, behind your - baek. Then I take tsty handkerchief*and rolling it up, so, put j it in your montfi and tie it benrad your neck, so. Now you can not help your­ self or make a sound, can you? The girl with a vague look of fright in her eyes silently shook her head. "And now," continued Jean, I have some pretty things to tell you." "I warned you not to betray me with that fellow Galancho, and you did. You went with him to-night to Lenoir's I followed you, and saw all that you did. When my opportunity came I put my arm through the little closet window and knifed him where I knew the blow would settle him quickly. Now, it is your turn. Do you know that I have Iored ycu so .that it has made me mad, and you have laughed at me! You would never be faithful to me. But noboby else shall ever possess you again. Your time has come." Springing to his feet, he passed through to the larger compartment where the lions were, throwing the barriers wide open as he did so. The wretched girl, staggering to her feet, followed him dumbly. He hnrled her backwards, and as she fell, her head received a t-light cut by striking the bars of the cage. With blows of a whip the lion-tamer drove the ferocious beasts into the compartment where Silvia lay as if paralyzed by terror, and closed the barrier behind them. Fold­ ing his arms, he stood outside, waiting stolidly for the inevitable result. From the single lamp swinging in the center of the ring he had barely sufficient light to see what transpired. One of the big lions walked deliber­ ately with a slouch gait over to the prostrate girl, sniffed at the blood on her head and licked it, growling the while. The other lion and the lioness crouched and watched him inquiringly. Thus several minutes passed. Ti.en Silvia, in a fit of desperation, struggled to rise to her feet. The lion over her at once seized her by the shoulder. Her blood spurted out of the wound made by his teeth, and the smell of it intoxicated the waiting brutes. With the swiftness of arrows they sprang upon her and began rending her to pieces. The second lion buried his teeth in one of her legs, while the lioness closed her powerful jaws on the poor girl's breast. In a few moments Silvia's ago­ nies were over, and the savage brutes were gorging themselves with dismem­ bered fragments of her fair body. The floor of the cage was slippery with blood; the horrid jaws of the beasts dabbled with the crimson fluid, and the only sounds heard were the crunching of the bones of the unhap­ py rope-dancer and the low growling of the lions. Jean Dufrao stood looking on at the appalling spectacle, pitiless as the brutes that worked his awful vengence, motionless as a statue. So he was dis­ covered at early dawn by an hostler moving early about the tent--the same one who had told the story of Silvia's amours to the police--and there, when he gave the alarm, the gendarmes still found the lion-tamer. Tiien ensued a similar scene with which this narration opened. All that day Jean Dufrac kept the officers at bay, and by threats of letting loose the lions compelled tribute of food and wine. At length the happy thought occurred to someone of drugging his wine. It was done, and at length he sank down upon the floor insensible. Then the lions were kept back by means of red-hot irons while he was dragged out and carried off to prison. Two months later, on the 13th of No­ vember, 1849, he was executed. The W a y They do It in Maine. Squire Borge, of Bangor, is wealthy, and wishes his friends to understand that he is a wonderful sportsman. Last winter he started up the country on a fishing trip, where he met with poor success. The first thing he did on re­ turning to the city was to go to a market and buy fifteen trout. They Mere beauties, and he told the sales­ man what he was going to do, and asked him where he should say they were caught. "Oh, tell them they were tal&n from Linus Pond." On his way home the Squire called and had the largest one photographod. Underneath the picture he wrote; "One of the fifteen taken from Linu9 Pond, January 8, 1884, by Timothy Borge, Esq." In two or three days he came back to themarketman and said: "Lookee here, where is Linus Pond anyhow? They asked me where it was and I told them it was up in the north part of Hancock County. Then they got a map and wanted me to show it to them, and for the life of me I couldn't find it. Just tell me where it is an 1 I'll go home and fix them. Confound their hearts, I'll tell 'em where Linus Pond is and give them enough of it" Then the marketman led him gently outside the shop and pointed to his sign. It read: "Linus Pond. Fish, oysters, and game."--Boston Globe. The Great Canal. It is now proposed to join the Bay of Biscay with the Miditerranean Sea by means of a great 6hip canal, which will save the voyage around the Spanish peninsula. This would be a work second in importance only to the Suez Canal itself, for all the vessels from England and Northern Europe would be forced to use this new means of communica­ tion. It would be a gigantic'work, but it would certainly pay in time. In the meanwhile the Panama Canal is being vigorously prosecuted by M.deLessees. This is a mighty work, for it aims to join the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by a great ship canal cut through Central America. A vast amount of work has been done, and the most gigautii- efforts are being made to finish this extraordinary channel by the close of of 1886. But it seems that only 1-GO of the dredging, 11-50 of rock cutting, and 1-15 (2,1*67,000 metres) of the earth of excavation had been completed on the first of March last. The important supplementary work, the Chagres Dam, is not yet begun. There is reason to fear that the canal will not be finished before 1900. Of the 600,000,000 francs subscribed for, 300,000,000 have been spent in pre­ liminaries and plant, and 100,000,00tl in purchasing and improving the railways. It is supposed that 500,000,000 more of francs will be required to complete the work.--Demorests Monthly. A Rare Dish. "How do you suppose the name rad­ ish was obtained?" asked the dude boarder at the table, as he ate one of those succulent vegetables. "I suppose," replied the fly telegraph operator, "that with the man that named it, as well as with us at this boarding house, it WAS a rare dish.--Oil City Derrick. IT WORLD be easier to endow a fool with intellect than to persuade him that he had bone. A Boston Idea. Visitors to the Public Garden, Bos­ ton, may have noticed a number of novel and tasteful devices in the ar­ rangement of the shrubbery about the Washington Monument. A gentleman from Malaga, who was a Spanish Com­ missioner at the recent foreign exhibi­ tion, furnished these designs. One of! these devices is the crux ansata, a looped cross emblematic of eternal life. This was a familiar Egyptian symbol. Another striking device is the coat-of- arms of Alhamar, a word meaning "Only God is all-powerful." This is from the walls of the Alhambra. The coat-of-arms of St. Peter is also dis­ played here. The sword of the famous Moorish hero Boabdil is represented in the shrubbery, and the little hatchet with which the youthful WTashington executed his famous assault upon the cherry tree. A map of North and South America is also depicted in this plot about the equestrian statue, and the representation of Cuba suggests the warning counsels of Washington in the farewell address against "the insidious wiles of foreign influence." Altogether these designs are in excellent taste, and furnish an agreeable variety to the stereotyped forms of garden decoration. They suggest that a useful stimulus may be given to biographical and his­ torical study by thus bringing its etti- blems before the eyes. .. Throat and Lung Diseases a specialty. Send two letter stamps for a large treatise giving self-treatment. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buf­ falo, N. Y. Dissemination of News in 1844. As late as 1844 there was but one line of telegraph in the world, that from Washington City to Baltimore, and one of the first messages transmitted was the nominations of the National Dem­ ocratic Convention which met in the latter city on the 27th of May, 1844; After selecting James lv. Polk, of Ten­ nessee, as the candidate for Presi­ dent, Silas Wright, of New York, was nominated for Vice President. A tele­ graphic dispatch was sent to Mr. Wright at Washington Citv, and in a short time an answer was received de­ clining, and it was regarded as the world's wonder. This made the tele­ graph a success. It is true that in Baltimore at the time many doubted after the reception of the telegram whether it was in truth genuine. They could not believe in the power of elec­ tricity to perform so great a wonder. One old gentleman from New York, who had lived a neighbor to Silas Wright, said he knew it to be a forgery, for he had seen the signature of Silas Wright a hundred times, and had seen him write it, and "the thing is no more like Wright's handwrite than it is like my own." But still, with this evidence against its being genuine, the telegram was regarded as genuine, and George M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania, was nom­ inated in place of Wright, and "Polk and Dallas" were elected.--Cincin­ nati Enquirer. To SEE right is the province of every­ body; to do right is the glory of the few. Horsford's Acid 1'hanplinte, FOK AI/COHOL1SM. Dr. C. S. Ellis, Wabash, Ind., says: "I prescribed it lor a man who had used intoxi­ cants to excess for fifteen years, but during the last two years has entirely abstained. He thinks the Acid Phosphate is of much benefit to him." IN China a son is obliged to divorce his wife If she displeases his parents. Mother-in-law means something in China. * ' Better Than Diamonds, and of greater value than fine gold Is a flrrent tonic and renovator like Kidney-Wort. It expels all poisonous hutnors lroin the blood, tones up the system and by acting directly on the most important organs of the body stimulates them to healthy action and re stores health. It has eff< cteJ many marvel­ ous c.ires and for all kidney diseases and other kindred troubles it is an invaluable remedy. HEADING that is bad for the eyes--Volumes Of smoke.--PhiUukl/jhiu <'Itronicie. fariiM'rt*' Folly.; Some farmers adhere, even against tlie full light of fact and discovery, to the o d-l';i!>h- ione l folly of coloring butter with carrots, aunatto, and inferior substances, notwith­ standing the splendid rocor.i made bv the Improved ltutter Color, pre pa ed by Wells, Uichurdscn & Co.. Uurlinii-ion, Vt. At t^eorcs of the hrsl agricultural l'ulrs It has received the highest award over all competitors. CREMATION is one of the burning questions Of the age.--Hochmtrr I'ntt-Kjrprets*. THE DIAMOND DVKS more co'oring is given than In any known 1 yes, aud they give faster aud more brilliant colors. 10c at all druggists'. Wells. Kiehardson & Co., Bur­ lington, Yt. Sample lard, 33 colors, and b„ok of directions for 2c. 6tamp. THE world doughs every man the bread that he kneads.--Whitehall 'l ime*. COIQODQ BUTE -OR-- A WOMAN'S PRIDE. ;|^ Fannie Deeping PHYSICIANS prescribe Lydia E. 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Sent free. -- <1 1 PUBE Cod-Liver Oil, mado from selected livers on the sea-shore, by CxsmaL, HAZARD A Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have de­ cided It superior to any of the other oils in market. HAY-FKVKR. After trying in vain for eleven years to cure my Hay-Fever, I pur­ chased a bottle of Ely's Cream Balm, which entirely relieved me.--K. W. HARRIS, letter Carrier, Newark, N. J. Price 50 cents. CHAPTER L IKTRODL'CTIOK. Nestled among the Berkshire Mil* *** At­ lantic's stormy main, not many years ago, was a tiny but flourishing village. Its inhabitants were of the grnus homo sort of people who de­ lighted in cleanliness and exhibited a marked pre­ ference for white paint, and in consequence from a distance the village resembled a huge snow­ drift surrounded by rifts of green. On the outskirts of this village, in an isolated nook, gloomy and desolate, stood a dilapidated inn of ancient build and architecture, its tall chimneys towering above the hill tops, as though striving to dr«w attention from the many American trav­ elers passing that way. It had the reputation of being wholly satisfactory in hospitality, good fare, and cleanliness, and therefore was patron­ ised greatly. This iwn, called "Travelers' Re­ treat," was kept by one Herr Minkler and his wife, generous people, who had but very little knowledge of the English .language; however, a sufficient supply, as will be seen, for ordinary purposes. The day upon which onr story opens was very fine. The lawn in front of the Inn had been re­ cently mown, the trees trimmed, the spacious walk swept thoroughly, and Its general appear­ ance that day went far toward verifying Its far renowned reputation. At about o'clock p. in. the old lumbering stage was heard rattling up the graded road, and all was eager expectancy at the Travelers' lie treat. Herr Minkler entirely ap­ propriated one window, being a square-shoul- aered, corpulent, broad-faoed man, with red whiskerR, small gray eyes, and a huge nose. He was no beauty, as yon may Imagine. But plain faces oft-times are beantlfled by a brilliantly cultivated mind and an nnsallied character. But Herr Minkler was an exception, being avari­ cious, cunning, and a willing partner in any petty crime which was likely to consist of booty. His wife and himself were well mated, for she was greedy to a fault, and although anxious to ap­ pear perfect In the eyes of the public, was very careful, if possible, to assist all in her power in any money-making escapadc. Dame Minkler was standing at the only other win­ dow in the bar-room, her short, fleshy form clearly outlined against the panes, while her nose, flattened against oue of them, appeared to Its fullest capacity. Her looks belied her char­ acter. She was elever and good-natured look­ ing enough- The stage rattled up to the gate. The door was opened, and a lady and gentleman alighted. "Is this a tavern?" asked the younger of the two, a line-featured young man, raising his hat. "Yes, sir. Cau we do anytlng for you, gem- men?" "Have you any spare rooms that we might hire for a tew days?" "Zah. mine ynng friend, we hav' got dat samel Me an' Katrina, we do all we can possible to inak' de beeples comfterble." "Ah! Then you are the landlord, I Judge?" "Daryou be rinht. sure! but comes in; Ivill show you de 'comodations." "We will take your word for It, my good sir, as everything exteriorly wears so neat an as­ pect." 80 saying, he settled with the hackman, and assisted his mother along the walk in­ to the hall. They were shown their suite of rooms, consisting of a small parlor, tastefully furnished, and two bed chambers communicating. They were well pleased, and the refreshing repast which followed, was very appetizing, and relished by both mother and sun. Mrs. l'rescott was the lady's name. She was traveling for her health; had been all over Europe, accompanied by her son, and was soon to embark for home. Her husband wss a great speculator, and had been very successful thus far in his stocks. He very seldom, if ever, left home, preferring the solitude and quiet of his own study in New York to the fatigues of travel. He was, naturally, of a quiet disposi­ tion. acquiescing in all of his wife's wishes, and doting on his son, their only child. Mrs. Pres- cott was relined and lady-like, and very proud of her stainless ancestry, and at an early age in life strove to Inculcate in her son's mind thelm portance of her teachings. 8he was tall and slight, with a well-bred air about every piovement, small, well-shaped hands and feet, and a gentle, well-modulate I voice. She wore a traveling dress of (.-ray barege, with dainty lace tinting at neck and wrists. Her eves were as dark and changeable as her son's; she called him lialoh. They had souuht this retreat for quiet and rest for a few days, ere starting for home. "1 want to get a good taste of the rnral," sh? had said to Ralph "ere we go back to the close, dusty city again." She led him wheresoever she listed, for her wish was his law. A more dutiful son never ex­ isted than Ralph Preseott, his parents declared. Well, mother," exclaimed Ralph, "I believe I will take a stroll around the premises, with your permission, while yon aie getting acquainted with your new domicile. So, au revoiri" and he 1 laylully kissed his finger-tips to her and left the room. CHAPTER II. ALICE. Ax Ralph Prescott stnpped lnto the hall he heard a stitied soli, mingled with the sound of a scrubbing-brush above liim, and beheld a little thin, ranged figure at the top of the staircase busily scouring and washing the steps. She was barefooted, and it amused him not a little, her evident mortification, as she strove never so hard to cover them with the poor apology for a dress which she wore, and which barely fell to her knees Sh<- stopped scrubbing to answer the questions with which he was plying her, while her color came and went in childish embarrassment. "Well, my little maid, how do you do?" he asked, as ah excuse for addressing her, and grat­ ifying the curiosity he felt upon observing her in tears. "yuite well. I thank you, sir," she answered, with a ch irniing little courtesy. "What is yonr name, may I ask?" "Mv name, sir, is Alice." "That is a very sweet name, to my notion. But, Alice what else? What is your family name, Alice V "1 don't know: I never heard, sir!" she replied. "And are yon not our landlord's own childY" "Sir," she said, as she drew her little figure erect, and assumed an air of hauteur amusing in one so young, "1 do not know what right you have to ask me so many questions. I had rather not answer a |>erfect stranger." And ere he could recover from Ills astonishment at such a manifestation ol juvenile spirit, she had resumed her work again. He could not but respect the "little sprite," as he termed her to himself. "But, by tleoree, she has spunk," he mi concluded. "I don't believe she is any connec­ tion of that uncouth old German and his frau. I am sorry that 1 offended the little Liliputlan princess, for I should like to l>efrlend her if she would allow me. But, what pride! Almost equal to my ovfti mother's." He had sauntered toward the stables, and seeing the hostler at no great distance, his soliloquy tnrned into an­ other channel. He took in great draughts of the exhilarating air, then reluctantly retraced his steps. The dews of twilight were falling, the birds calling their young ones home, and the sweet evening bells in the little white village were chiming the hour for prayer. What a hallowed, restful feel­ ing eame to the young man as the bells smote liia ears, and seemed to strike a chord of har­ mony somewhere in his heart. His had been an unselfish, stainless life, so far; happy, care­ free. No ft>il had hardened his hands or caused perspiration to dampen his brow. In short, his life had been one cloudless summer day. As he re-entered the hall he heard loud, angry tones proceeding from the kitchen, ac­ companied by a child s pleading voice. The voice, no doubt, was that of Alice, and she was being severely leprlmanded for some trivial fault by Dame Minkler. Ere he had gained the parlor door, with a lit­ tle scream, Alice ran by him, and was in the act of flying up the stairs, when he arrested her flight by saying: "My poor Alice, what Is the matter? Confide in me, my poor child; I will be yonr fiiend." "Oh, sir. I dare not say a word against her, but she is not my mother! They say that a mother loves her child; but she does not even like me, or she would not treat ine so. Oh, sir I am so miserable!" "What have you been Jdolng to oanse her to misuse you, child?" "Oh, 1 know I did wrong, bnt I cannot help It, sir. I have an old spelling-book, which a kind lady gave me, and 1 do love to study so much that sometimes, when I get my work done, I go away by myself and try to pronounce some of the long, hard words bv first spelling them. She found me to-day np in my room and threat­ ened to burn my book, and tried to make me give it np to her. Oh, sir, should I have done so? It is all the book I have. The rest have all been burned from me. Do yon think that I did wrong, sir?" "No, my little girl; I think that yon should be allowed to cultivate your mind, especially when yon are so eager to learn. How ola are you?" "Twelve years old, sir. But I must go now, or I shall be punished again." "Waits moment What Is the matter with yonr arm? Why have yon that bandage around It?" Allee flushed painfully as she said: "Oh, that is only where she threw the poker at me because I was sitting thinking, after yen left me to-day, and had not quite finished my work. But, oh, sir, I was so tired." "My poor child! To be living in dread of pun­ ishment if she but rests a moment! What brutes they must be, to be sure." The next morning, bright and early, Mrs. Prescott arose and wandered out Into the grounds, where she was soon joined by her son. "Oh, mother, I have a proposition to make to yon; please grant it?" The above are the opening chapters of an interesting serial tale to be com­ menced in No. 58 of the Chicago Ledg­ er. 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