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M PM mm tall W - Me. C. [has has solicited his Rhyme; m f'wnriv'a to the queen's grand- children, and receiini he. - ,r .ul approval. Hamilton began his art.-;c on Dufaure? thus: " M. Usher: It)! ah: i. 4”: l 53. Bufâ€" 5 fan never nid tint croc: rife: acre wont fol ' live so long. i Tiiz Earl of Roseberry, at his rent audit, renntted fifteen percent. on the half yw’s rents due at Lady Day from the tenants on his estates at Montinore. :l‘wo drawings, signed “Alix”-â€"“)Ioun- tam Gloom" and “Sandringham in “'iuter” â€"â€"on exhibition in loaders, are the work of the Princess of Wales. _ Tin: order of the Seraphiin, the “blue ribbon" of Sweden, was conferred u u, Madame Lind-Goldachmidt by the King of! Sweden during his visit to London. If is claimed by Lord James Butler that‘ the Barony of Arklow, just bestowed upon l‘nnce Leopold, belongs by hereditary deoi 30193:! to his brother, the Marquis of Ur- ino e. THE BrilM Jlnliu il Journal publishes some hospital reports by “ Miss Clarke, M. ." are the first pen of the kind ever [noted in an Englis i medical newspa- per of mmmem' I I can see the whole brood earth around I'll! “sauce of lady Evelyn Campbell nian- ' For that one heart which. leaf and true. ages a large establishment in the south of new me“d”mp.w"'h°‘.“ “"1 0' bound' 1-... land for training boys for the colouies,| “d “mm” “mm” am has also inventet a musical instrument, 1 a combination of organ and harmonium, call- , VOL. IX. I ___.â€".~.__...__.. - '1“: 11130: “Blanca.” av .i. o. nousso. My dear. dumb friend. low lying there. A willing nasal atmy feet, (Had partner of in home and (arc. My shadow in t (2 street. I look into your at brown eyes, Where love an loyal homage shine, And wonder where the dlffcrence llcs Between your soul and mine. For all of good that l ha vc found \Vlthln myself nrl v :i an kind lhlh royally lnlUl’lnL'u .sii-l crowned Your gentle hcart and mind. I trust youss I trust theaters: Nor cruel loss. nor scon of pride, Nor bemry, nor dungeon-burs, ed the "wli‘m 0733’” Can move you from my side! Tux bath-room of the Marquise Visconti i1 ~ hardly likely to have its rival. The lava walls and floors are hung and covered with ta res , the windows are of stained glass, w Iile tie bath is a work of art in silver, the water being spouted in by a silver dolphin, one eye supplying the hot and the other the cold water. Lorin Kimberley has turned land rcfonncr, I and is in favour of the abolition of all laws impeding the free distribution of landed proâ€" perty. It: can easily take a leading position in such a reform, for he is the owner of H.000 acres, which yield a rental of £25,000, or , $125,000, per annum. l Slit I’ercy Shelly, one of the great tlicatri‘ cal anuiteurs, has built a little theatre at his own expense on the Thames cmlxuikment, I rtly for the love of dramatic art, and part-- ', doubtless, from that insane love of pub- licity which has become a disease in high- class society in England. 'l'lut Duke of Hamilton has built a new steam yacht, the Thistle, which has just been launched at Port Glasgow. She is 600 tons, ! and is sumptuoust fitted up. The saloons ‘ and cabins are eight feet high, and the draw- iug~room is being furnishcd with llungarian rosewood and tapestry. A? an iiiauguratory ceremony in London lately the Prince of Wales was down on the rogranune for a speech, and the Bishop of ndon for a prayer. and both chose the As patient under injury As Christian saint of old, As gent c as a lamb with me, But with your brothers bold; f ' More playful than a frolic boy, More watchful than a sentinel, By day and night your constant Joy To guard and p ease inc well. I clasp your head upon my breastâ€" The while you whine and lick my handâ€" And thus our friendship is confessed. And thus we undelstand ! Ab. Blanca! did I worship God As truly asyou worship inc. 0r follow where my Master trod With your humility, liid I sit fondly at Ills feet, As you, dear Blanca, sit at mine, And watch Him with a love as swcct. My life would grow divine! n â€".l!idsummcr Scribner. .__.__* -â€"¢.~â€"~0â€"â€"-â€"- i“Nob0dy Asked You, Sir,” She Said. 1;]. (he Ant/for of “.\l.\liitll1b i.\' lino-ii, “AZALRA: on, Love THE \VINSEH," “Tm: licenses or A Ross," “ A'r llsit llsxns," “Is lloxoun liovxn," kc. n Cler 1" ‘ER \'I. Greta slept in a quaint little room under the low caves at one and of the cottage, n same moment for beginning.‘ This led to an awkward deadlock for a few seconds, at which the Princess could nothpr smiling; but ultimately the Bishop gave way, and found his opportunity a little later. THE Duchcssc do Fitz-James resembles the eccentric Queen Christina, of tho Vasa line agriculture is an absorbin ' occupation with her; and she has success ully engaged in combating the pliylloxcru in the south of France, by grafting shoots of French vincs on American seedlings, French vines having worn-out constitutions, owing to long culti- vation, she argues. m «001->ooâ€"â€"-â€"' â€" A QUET SMILE. Til! inllucncu of a good man is good ; that of a bad luau over another is bully.â€" Picayune. llnftxuamrr's futurc tomb, we learn from the New York ('ommrrciul, will be adorned with Sara pliims. \VIIKN a man expires in Washington from raving delirium trcmcns, they say he died a natural dcath.~l!oslou l’wl. AMERICAN horses will never make asmuch money abroad as American donkeys liuvc spent there. 'l‘iil»: l'unlw' Slulrmiun says that whcii an arm of the sen encircles ii iicck of land, then look out for fishing smacks. A MAN iiiny be tlic architect of his own fortunes: but if he is not able to build his plan is not worth much to him. hm”: Johnny ~â€"toy pistolâ€"bib ! boom 3 -«doctorâ€"lock‘jmr>~undcr tho willowsâ€"~â€" pistol carefully laid aside for the next. GOLD ore and adcposit in the savings bank aru vor much the some, inasmuch as they are boti money in accrued stutc.-â€"I.ou-elf ('ourirr. BILLY the Kid was not the son of \Vil liain the goat. Indeed, no one over knew whose son hc was, and now they will care less. ‘oit thirty-five years after the \vatcr-pail was invented it had no handle, but was carried on tho shoulder. Genius used to bu slow. The New York (.‘ommm-iul devotes a share of its space to "A Hospital for Lame Jokes." It is wcll supported by private con- tributions. Ull, why does the. small boy utter the mid- night groan? flush. keep quiet. liring the mixture. "l‘ia the clicri‘y's tonc.--â€".\'nc llu- ivu Register. Tint following is the way an editor would )ut it : " Men may come and men may go," at "Heaven defend us from the man who comes and never goon." Josvs thinks the reason why people al- ways take their opera-glasses when they sail on North Shore excursions is that they are going to sca.â€"---l!oslon Globe. ’l'iil‘. season of the hucklcbcrry is at hand, and the ruby lips of the maiden trike on a charcoal hue, and kissing in the dark is apt to be “given away" in the light. Tn: girach is a vcr ‘ timid animal. llis neck isso long that w icn his heart comes into his mouth it takes him half a day to 5,“ it back when: it belongs.â€"â€"-Perl-'.v Sun. 'l‘in‘. Cincinnati (n'uzrrfr openly and badly advises the female sex to hang a limb on either side of the bicycle and rule to healtl. “,1 glory. And its editor is a deacon at that. Auruorou we are not trouble as the an- cients were in making bricks without straw, still a straw isa great aid to a fellow desir- ing to put a brick in his hat.â€"~Boston filofk. This notice is found ted up in a We ginia lilacksniitli_nliop: “.\'otis~l)c co- putncrahip hmtufoni resisting betwixt me uni Alone Skinner is hereby rmlvml. Dem glut owp do firm will settle WI“ ins, and ,1...“ out do Ern- owc will settle wid me. “Till beast is made that a “main girl is so “Nady attinal that she can at a high s run two blocks After s horse car wit out awkwardness or getting red in the face. The conductor catches her run and enjoys it so u." that he forgets to stop the car until she g, “fer aboard. A tinnitus sstnnicuier says the comet'- “n is room miles long; s Russian as. kalfl‘l is is ammo; a French as. maniac: da half a million to that; an ‘ ugh astruuoincr calls it &(XX),(0), and i . Swift says it is All-Ill“). None of them know to a find tenant!- Pawn? stand. Why: "h 'vo for a cent! 3'. 'iutcr gc wie- gammy," \‘cador:‘"\’cs. but all the [wig iafailed this yen. and mat: is W slow a moon in. 3 hayâ€"J'Tbcu route a cent's worth 01 NM ; than isn‘t failed. New York llmld has been "momkhsmhotha, and this?! the remit: " lt issiaiply any which mm hunter kin-insane another. 'l'bedocblo Warsaw-thu sad choc, per- up, it isth when it will do it is mouthing worth coating mining. little room with a tiny dormer-window look- ing out over the thatch. The first thing she saw, on oing to her room this evening, after she had ightcd the candle and put it down on the narrow dressing-table, was asmall piece of paper folded once, not over-clean, and addressed to herself. It had evidently been placed conspicuously on the table, so as to attract her attention the moment she should come into thc room. l’uzzlcd, but never dreaming of its conse- quence, she opened it, touching the soiled paper delicately with her finger-tips. It contained merely the following lines, with- out date or signatureâ€" “ If you care for the man beyond at Drunk nnbrcezc, don't let hiln leave Kincom this night, or you’ll never see him again nlivc. This is from one who does it for your sake, Miss Greta, at the risk of llCl‘ life.” One hurried glance, which searccly took in the full incarfing of the note, another quick, but more comprehensive, reading, and then the 'irl, crushing the morscl of paper in her hnn , ran out into the narrow passage, through the door left Mac for Jack, who had not yct come in, and so out into thc darkness. ~ piteously, clasping.‘ his am with her light and they were after me in two minutes. They j " “'hat more ‘3" Greta asked. ‘ great help in collar-lug the roam lsâ€" nothing more to hear." the two policemen could never have succeed- ed in capturing six desperate rascals like the Phenixa, if we had not come up just in the mown fingers. “ very minute is precious ; they may come on up here when they find you have been delayed. Oh, for pity’s sake, don’t stand here any longerâ€"Jet us run !”’ “ Run 2" he answered, smiling at little. “ Indeed I am not going to run !" " Is there nobody you care for 2" the girl cried passionat’cly, “if you do not care for yourself! Have you no mother, no sis- ter?" “ I care for you," he replied, claspiu her more closely to him ; but Greta push him away. “ Come," she said, seizing his handâ€"“ oh, come, come 2" “I will see you mfely to your own gate," he answered in the same tone in which he had spoken throughout; “ but I am not going to show the white feather, you may be very sure of that." “ You will go on to Drumnnbreczeâ€"nowéâ€" tonight 3” “Certainly, I shall go on." “ Though you know they are lying in wait to murder you I" “' I shall the police-lurrack at Gor- teen, and to c a couple of the men on with me, just to help me to secure the rufiiaiis if they molest me. You need not be afraid.” “ But they ma ' be waiting for you nearer than the police-barrack! Do not go to Drumnabrecze to night!" the irl said, her' voice shaking. though she tried hard to steady it. “I never asked you todo any- thinu before, though you often said you won d do anything for me. I ask you to do this nowâ€"do not go to-night to Druuma- hreczc !" “ Would you make a coward of me, Greta 2‘" “ What does it matter about themâ€"â€" about anythingâ€"if only they don’t get hold of you?" . ‘ ‘ I never thought you would advocate sur- render, Gi‘eta 2” She had been drawing him with her to- wards Kincora while she spoke, and he had yielded to the touch of her hand. “ I am wasting time," he said, putting his hand over hers as it held his nrin. up with inc in realityâ€"they will know that I am on my guard. I will leave you inside your own gate, and then you must let me go.” Her hand drop d from his sleeve. She turned away inutcfyeand covered her face. “Darling, do you love me so much 9" he said passionately; and, stoopin , he kissed her rufllcd hair and hands t lat hid her eyes. “ Will you stay at Kincora 2" she said then, making one last despairing n pcal to him, but he shook his head inexorably. “ I cannot do it, Gretaâ€"«do not ask me. It breaks my heart to refuse you, darling; but, if I did what you want me to do, both you and I would be sorry for it afterwards. I should be much more likely to lose my life if I shirked from duty now." lIis blue eyes flushed with an odd light in the darkness, and there was a ring in his voice which the girl had never heard in it before. They had reached the gate of Kincora by this time ; he pushed her inside gently, and turned away, closing it after um. “Run homc,’ fi'i 'htcncd. he said, “and don’t be And, if you see you brother, . tcl him to come on after me, by-and-by." She lcaiit her head against the gate in a passion of crying : but she offered no further FENELUN FALLS, ONTARIO, SATURD I policemen walk a hundred “ Too lntc !" she said to herself as she spud regismncm She heard his SWPS P335 {apidly down between the close laurels, hcr hcartzdown the road» “"9 “ho did “0‘ mm" I!“ beating quickly --1 81m" “eve,- ovcrtakc j head tolook after him. . But, after one Wild him now. If I had only seen this ten min- i (lesllall‘mg 3"“ 0‘ “'ccl’ll'gv She aimlghtened “tea ago ! put "0“. it is too late t” lici‘sclf‘nnd pulled the gate 0 on again. . She She thought she should certainly meet V must find Jack and send nm after himâ€"â€" Jack before she reached the gate, and send J‘le “’3‘? 3‘ "milligram 9 they would "0"" him after Bulwcr. She called out as she'd“c to "Hum 1‘1"" She “"1 down to tho m“ ; but her mice seamed hoarse and entrance into the lane, dashing the hot blind- stmngc ; she could not raise it above a faint "‘3 tea” from he? Cl’es- her car-‘5 an the time strangled cry of u Jack' Jack 3" Them was tingling for the terrible sound she dreaded to hear startling the dead silence of the night. A moment later, she come full tilt against her brother, leisurely returning from his farmyard, smoking his pipe. “ Why, Gretchen ! What on earth are you doing here at this time of the night 2'" be ex- claimed. “Oh, Jack, go after him ! Cull up the Ryans or somebody, and go after him, for Heaven's sake ! They are going to kill him toâ€"night !” the girl cried hrcathlcssly. “ 0h, Jack, won’t you save him? I couldn’t stop himâ€"and now it may be too late ; he may be beatenâ€"he may be dead 1" “Bulwcr !" Jack Power said, and he hur- ricd past her into the road. C Q C a G . fl no answer, no sound but the sound of her own flying feet. It was so dark here between the high laurcl hedges that she could not see twenty yards ahead of her, though the night was a starlit one, without a cloud. She run very fast, though she felt as if some dead weight were dragging her back, her ears and eyes strained to catch the slightest sound, to see the faintest outline of a figure. Shc roachcd the avenue gate. It was shut, but not pndlocked. Jack must still be in front of her with Mr. liulwei‘, un- less he had gone round to the farmyard again, intending to lock the vote as ho came back. She dashed open the ow iron gate and ran out into the road. It was bright starlivht here, so light that she could see a long ( is- tancc down the strai ht white glimmering road. She thou lit sic could distinguish a dark figure at the farthest point of sight ; but if she did, it must have turned the cor- ncr round tho old olnntrcc, for, while she looked, it disappeared. She ran down the road, she came to the old tree, standing out darkly froui the hedge; she looked ahead again. A man certainly appcarml, walking on bcfore her down the inn dlc of the road, an erect black figure in the starlight. But was it a friend or a foe? She did not stop to think. Running after him, she tried to cry out ; but her voice was gone. Strniuing cver nerve, she made one more despair-ate effort. The distance lessened between her- self and the man striding on unconsciously ahead of her ; she could identify himâ€"it was Bulwcr, in his gray tweed and shooting cap. She came up with himpahc cried out again with a choked despairin , gasping cry. and then she would have f on forward if he had not turned round and caught her in his arms. "Greta l" he exclaimed, thunderstruck. “ What is the matter 2" “ You !" she gasped, panting. "Comeback â€"they are waiting for you 3" “ll ham 3" he asked ; but he did not seem very much surprised. “ l‘eo lc to kill you. Oh, don't stop talking ere! For lleavcn's sake come back with mo 1" “ .\l ' r child, “on have half~killcd you f," he said, holding her very tenderly in his stmn clasp. “ Who told you 3 How did you fin it out 3" " Idon't know-«I cannot tell. I will tell you if you come back with me. Oh. why will you lose all this precious time 2" she pleadr‘l in an agony. “Greta, you must tell me what you heard." “I will tell youâ€"if you come back with me." "You must tell me now," he said in the old masterful way. “ I don't know. You must promise not to betra - her if I tell you what I think." “ will not betray her," be proan “will ’. "I ‘ itwastho woman whmechildl out of the water that dayâ€"«you rc- neuaber! I don't know but i think it was." she said hurriedly, tryi to lift herself out of his arms, forgettiagntia infereow Bulwcr night draw from thsunnfcuion, forgetting :‘vcrything but her agou'urd anxiety for in. " And you have done thisfor me Y" be aid, keeping his arms obstinately round her, look- ing down into the girl's face-with ayes which were pan-Sm in the starlight. "You can never say {on do not care for “Greta, after to'uig t." But Greta was listening for other sounds besides the sound of his voice. " Are you mining bark Y" she exclaimuf "If we don't catch the rascals tonight, it will be all How long her brother was away Greta never kncw. She spent the time clasping the top rung of the gate closely in her two hands, her ears strained to catch the slight- est sound, her whole heart and soul concen- trating themselves into one prayer for the man whose life hung in the balance, her wild wide»open eyes raised to the quiet night-sky with its myriads of stars. She was a brave girl ; but she never forgot the anguish of those twenty minutes. Once, scarcely louder than the beating of her own heart, she fancied she heard the sound of firingâ€"«two or three shots following each other in rapid successionâ€"but she could not be sure. And once she fancied she heard shouting ; but it might have only been the blood tin vling through her veinsâ€"it mug in her ears iko the sound of bells. All about her were the quiet trees, the dusky shrubs for in their shadow, the ivied walls, the old familiar objects. unfamiliar in this semi-ob- scurity, looming vast and strange against the quiet sky. Her hair and dress were damp with dew, her hands were cold, claspin the cold iron ; but she only thought of one t ing, the man who had thnist her from himâ€"yet the touch of whose lips on her hair still thrilled her with passionate painâ€"lying stark and stifliu the middle of that lonely road. in the gloomy shadow of those fatal woods. The sound of quick footsteps fell u n her cars at last-«sonic one running; fine flung open the gate and ran out to meet the mes- scngcr. It was Jack himself. “0h, Jack. what has happened?" she ex. claimed, seizing his hand. “ I don't know yetâ€"they may have done for him, poor fellow, for all we can tell. lint he is alive yct." “ Have they shot him 2" “ They have shot at him-â€"a charge of buckshot over the lied . But we have had the satisfaction of as hing half adozen of the rascdssnd scndin them off to theeounty good. And We haves had the satisfaction of provin that llulwcr'a supposition was rightâ€"cl Nick Phenix and his sons were at the head of them." “But where is hcwwhy did you leave him 3" Greta gasped. with great widoopen eyes. “llel al me to come upand tell you not to be tightened. I outed to go down with him to Drumnalireeu first: but he would not bar of that. One of an Ryan: ran for the doctor, and the other two carried him home between them." “ Is be much hurt P” “I cannot tell~uohody can tell till the doctor sees him. I think he fainted from loss of blood~his arm and shoulder set-in to have been ahwlutely riddled with shot." Greta shit-crud ; but she asked no more "33m. “ It was well you thought of the Ryan'â€" I knocked them up as I no past their cabin, l i gave us nick of time.” There was no sign of trepidation about Jack Power's boyish face, no shake in his hearty young voice. The affair had evi- dently been an adventure after his own heart. “ I never met such a plucky fellow as that Bulwer is, in my life," he went on, drawing his sister with him towards the house ; but still full of the night's work. “He made the paces behind him; and, the moment the man fired at him from behind the hedge, he dashed in through the blackthorns~you know there is not much of a fence there, 0 posite to the Drumnabreeze gatesâ€"41nd col arcd hiui. He was badly wounded, and he knew it : but he never stopped to think of himself. He dragged the rascal out into the road just as I came up with the police. The rest of the gang rushed out to rescue their comrade : but we nabbed them to a man. It wasn hand-to- haud scuffle at the last, and but work while it lasted ; but nobody got hurt but Bulwer : and even he did not go down till it was all over. main". “ “'ere there no other shots fired 1' I thought I heard two or three." " The Plienixes fired through the hedge before they run out; but nobody was hit. The whole thing was over in less than thirty seconds, and when it was all over the police came up from Cnppaghâ€"or rather from pa- trolling on the roadsâ€"and helped our men to handcufi‘ the gang." “ \Vill he die 2'” Greta. asked, when ch paused at last to recover his breath, tighten- in r the little cold fingers over his arm. “ Sack, do you think he will die 1'" “I hope not, Gretchen ; he had recovered his senses before I left him. What I am afraid of is the loss of blood. But he is a splendid fellow ; and, if they have killed him, they shall swing for it, every man of them, as sure as my name is Jack Power i" The assurance did not comfort Jack Power’s sister. She walked back to the cot- tage as if in a dream from which she could not awaken, a troubled, horrible dream. She remembered all the events of this night afterwards as one remembers events in a. dream. Shc remembered Jack's going into the dining-room and drinking a glass of whiskey, and then telling her to go to bed and not fret herself any more about what could not be helped, and that perhaps Bul- wcr might be all right in the morning. And then she remembered his leaving the cottage to 0 back to Drumnabreezo, promising to let ier know very early in the morning how things went on. All this she remembered in a kind of dazed unsympathetic way. But, when she found herself back in her own lit- tle room at last, standing by the dressing- tablc as she had stood by it an hour ago reading the paper which had perhaps saved Bulwer’s life, the new bitter-sweet despair- ing knowledge forced itself into her mind that she loved Lord Evreinond's agent bet- ter than she loved any one else in the world. But did he care for her? He had seemed to care for her ; ho had looked at her as he had not looked at Laurie or at Mimi Grant. It might be that she had not given all and received nothing ; but, even if it were so, she felt that it was too late to hide the know- ledge that she loved him from herself. She would hide it from the rest of the worldâ€"- most of all from him. But, even as she thought this, she remembered words that had almost been forgotten in the terror and excitement of the lust lialf-lioui'â€"â€"words that he had spoken, holding her in his arms in the starlightâ€"“ Darling, do you love me so much 1'" Her cheeks burned at the rccollcc~ tion so badly, so painfully, that she put u ) her hands and hid the lovely damask \vhic I there was nobody there to see. She must have betrayed herself horribly before a man would venture to say such words as those to herâ€"«before he would dare to call her “darl- in ," to clasp her to him, to kiss her hair ! IV hat a fool she had been; and how she hated herself for her folly ! And what a fool he .must have thought her to show how much she cared about him when he hiiid never asked her to care about him at al ! Now that the terror and excitement of the moment were over, she saw her own actions in what was perhaps an exaggerated light. And she resented his behaviour as well. “'hat had she said to him, what had she done, that he should, after all, have dared to say to her what he did? It was only natural that a woman should try to hold back a man from danger ; no woman would allow a man, if he were an utter shrangcr to her, to go out and be assassinated from behind a hedge if she could help it. Ifithad been Joe Reeves or Tom Grant she would have tried to hold him back all the same. This thought con- soled her a little : but the thought that per- hnps he would have forgotten it all by the morning consoled her still more. But then the thought of his dim er came back with a sickening dread, a dul anguish of apprehension. She might never see him again, to remember or f0 ct; even now he might be dyingâ€"lie mig it be dead! Arid, if he were dead, would she not treasure up the memory of that kiss, of that whispered “ darling" which troubled her now so much? She felt that she would treasure them up, even if he had only been amusing himself all through those golden harvest-days. All night long she lay broad awake, long- ing for the time when there should be a stir in the house, a pretext for getting up, a chance of any news from Druninabrcezc. And she made one resolution ; nobody should guess her secret. Neither jealous Laurie nor even Jack should have the slightest shadow of a retext for supposing that she cared for Lon Evercmond's agent one with more than he cared for her. Then I thought he was a dead CHAPTER \'II. Jack returned to Kincora in time for break- fast the next morning. “is cheerful face, even as he came up to the door, prepared Greta for good news. She left the window and went quietly out into the hall to meet him. “ lIe is going on very well," he said. with- out wnitiu for her to spmk. “ As weak as a at, you now; but the doctor says he will be all right in a few days if he takes care of himself. And if you send him a few books in the course of the day, Greta, it would be a great boon to him. There's not a vcstigc of a book at anabroezc." This prosaic view of the situtaion did much to restore Gretn‘s uluanimity. " I am so lad i“ she said, sitting down at the table an pouring out Jack's coffee with bands which scarce trembled. "lam surc ‘ou must be half starved, Jack, if you save uteri nothing since yesterday morn~ in ." 5‘ Oh, they gave me supper! The Phanixcs there have not stirred : we have not said anythingto them yet, nor they to us, though of course they know everything, and I dare my will be implicated as well as themt. The woman looks as whiten a ihcet : but the man is only surly. And hoa- do you feel, Gretchen '3 You look nearly as pale as llul- wer bimelf does this morning l" “I am all right,"Gretaanswered steadily, “ Don't you want to hear more about your friend 3" AY, AUGUST 20, 1881. ' ’ There is r “ But there is a great deal more to hear. Gretchen, he owes his life to you." “ To inc 3" Greta asked. “ Yesâ€"he told me all about it last night." ' llulwcr seemed to have reinstated himself in Jack‘s good graces, however he had inan- nged to do it. “ Greta, have you got that piece of paper? found ; wasn t it I" “ Yes," the girl answered, busyiiig herself with his cup. “ You have got it, I hope 3" “ No, I have not got it." “ Not got it, child ! Do you mean to say that you have thrown it away 1'" “ l have burnt it," Greta said candy. “But it was of the greatest importance ! " Jack exclaimed, droppin ' his knife and fork. “ It might have led to t we npprcliension of half a dozen more of the scoundrcls, such a valuable clue as that! My dear Greta, do you know that you have done us a greal deal of mischief?" ' “It could have been of no use to Greta said stunlily, “ unless you hat found out the person who wrote it.” “ Butthnt would have been a very simple, thing to do if we had the paper." “That was why I burnt it,” the girl re- marked quietly. “If you can’t do without it, I am sorry for you. But I should never have dreamt of giving it up." “ You destroyed it on purpose ?" Jack eja- culated, staring at her. Greta nodded. Jack's expression changed from annoyance to admiration as he looked at her, till at last he began to laugh. ” l on are a plucky girl, Gretchen, and a true Power ; we never betrayed a friend. And I can tell you, if you care to hear it, that liulwcr would be a dead-man this day but for you; and the Drumnabrccze murders would probably be continued ml iluiliitum. I am awfully proud of my little sister Gil‘tfatchen, and you ought to be proud of your- sc . He laid down his knife and fork again to ut his arm around her neck and kiss her, oy-fashion. Then he returned to his break- fast of brown bread and coffee and fried bacon, and to his still uncxhaustcd comments on the doings of the past night. “ The police-sergeant was with Brilwuv when I left. him, taking down his deposi- tions. There will be a fine stir in the coun- try when all this gets wind ; it will read like a story," he said with keen enjoyment of the idea. “ Only we won’t let your name appear in it, Gretchenâ€"just yet.” “ I liopc not," Greta said fervently, while her cheeks grew red. “It will come out, though, sooner or later," Jack laughed ; “and then they will make a heroine of you. Gretchen, Bulwcr told me to tell you that he knew licjind to thank you for his life.” “ Not me,” said Gi'ctagrnvely. “ \Vcll you, under Providence,” Jack ainendcd. “Poor fellowâ€"didn’t be long to come up here with me this morning ! llut the doctor has consigned him to a. sofa for thcncxt four or five days to come. I havcpro- miscd to go down to him in the afternoon for an hour or two if I can. Don’t forget the books,’2§uck added, as he rose from the table. iin McCorinack will run down with them ; I’ll tell him to be about the yard.” Just as Jack walked out, Joo Reeves came up to the door. - “ This is a. nice business l" he said excited- ly. “ I’ve just heard all about it from the police. And I hear you were in the thick of it, Jack ! Lucky for you i” “ Yes,” Jack admitted, with a grin of satisfaction; “I certainly was that. And I wouldn't have missed it for a ‘ monkcy.’ " “ I believe you,” the other said regretful- ly. “ But tell me all about it. Donald's account of it is so sketchy ; I wouldn’t wait to hear him out.” Jack, nothing loath, told him all the par- ticulars, while Greta stood on the thrash- hold listening, her head against the doorpost, her hands behind her back, the early lllOl‘l'~ ing sunshine full on her round pale checks, on her great dark eyes, on the sleek hair combed low on the forehead, on the firm rcd mouth and the pretty rounded chin. “ What made them resolve to take his life so suddenly 2’" Rccvcs uska at last, when J ack paused to recover his breath as well its to light his pipc. “ I suppose he has no idea ;aiid pcvha 3 they had fixed upon last night to do it al along." “I‘ll tell you what Bulwcr thinks. llc had been examining that old plan of the house again, and, at the end of the passage near the door into the first of those vaults we examined, he saw a circle marked ‘ wcll- hole.’ This surprised him, as he had never known of the existence of any well in the basement story, and of course had not seen it in mcrcly glancing down the passage, which had seemed to him n more (‘llf-(fc-qu'. \Vlicn I’hcnix came up with turf for the fire that evening, he askcl him, quite carelessly, if the well in the basciiicnt-story had water in it. l'hcnix looked up in that scowling way of his and said he knew nothing of any we I ; all the water they used was carried in from the pump in the yard." “ ‘But there is a well all the sninc,‘ lul- wcr said ; ‘and, if you will carry that candle and conic with me, 1']! point out its where- abouts to you.’ “ l’henix took the candle and went on be» fore him, down to the lmvcr regions. “ ‘ Do you know,’ Bulwer said, as they passed the door of the vault hauling to the built-up wall, ‘ I fancy the rats that invest the house must all come out of this well-hole.‘ (10 iii: mnrscxo.) How Mill: Should be Taken. Again, milk is food that should not bu taken in copious drauglits like beer, or othcr fluids, which differ from it cliciniailly. If We consider the use of milk in infancy, the physiological in cstion, that is, of it, we find that the suc 'ing babe imbibcs little by littlc the natural food provided for it. Each small mouthful is secured by effort, and slowly presented to the gastric mucous aur- fncc for the primal digestive stages. It is thus regularly and gradually reduced to curd, and the staunch is not 0 pressed with a lump of half-cmgulated mil . The same principle should be rcgardui in the case of the or ult. Milk should be slowly taken in mouthfuls, at short intervals, and thus it is rightly dealt with by the gastric juice. If milk be taken after other food, it in almost surcto burden the stomach, and to cause discomfort and prolonged indigestion, and this, for the obvious reason that thcrc is in~ snfficicntdigcstivc agencyto dispose of it. And, the better the quality of the milk, the more severe the discomfort \vill bo under these conditions. Milk is insufficiently used in making simple puddings of such fariuaccous foods as rice, tapioca, and sage. Disfaste for thcwis engendered very often. I believe, bee-aim the milk is stintcd in making them, or poor. skimmed milk is used. Abundance of new milk should be employed, and more milk, or cram, should be added wh't-n they are tak- ea. In Scottish households this matter is well understood, and a distinct pudding- plste, like a small soup-plate, is used for this counc. The dry incarc- mmmonly sen-qu milky puddings in l-anlsod are ex- actly fith to create disgust for that should be a most era-Heat and delicious part of a Whollme dinner for both children and adults. first It was a paper or letter of some kind you‘ 'ou," . The “Liver! mm: the hm Dr. Eliza: and his miitcinjmmries who have A memorial tablet has just been placed on No. 35 St. Martin‘s Street, London, by the I Council of the Society of Arts. Sir Isaac A Newton lived them for some time. . ‘P The Engineer says that an increase in the quantity of the fulminaling chifhgv has been nvonuncnced as a means of avmd~ ‘ ing any necessity for throwing dynamite car“ writist .-\ Luau: clothing establishment in Paris is . employing with success a number of mogul» ‘CltVu'lL‘ machines for the transmission of ; rower from the basement to the top of the V niilding. [r is said the presence of large insane? of ,dvy coal dust in the Albion Minn. .\ova on» ‘ tin. had much to do with the disastrous ex- ,plosion of the l'lth of November, lm, and i the sucuuling days. 1 . . ~ g Flam an examination of the ngurvs show- bccn trying to make the l’usidcnt believe : ing the distribution of. population and the that if the bullet struck his liver he will have a clcec shave of it know very little about that orgzin, or else they have entered into a conspiracy to scare him to death. li 'ht here in our State of Michigan one can col cct a cart-load of affidavits that a man's liver is about the most worthless organ in the human body, and down in Indiana they I won't have. 'em at all if they can help i it. . Our correspondent at Lansing 3 \vritcs : 1 “Please let the President know through igni- columns that in lST‘.’ a boy fired a big [agate marble through my liver from a toy - cannon. I stuffed up the hole with an old ' hataiid after the third day I could attend to 1 busmess as well as ever. The injury rather i blunted my taste for New Orleans molasses. l g . effects." 1.7 ;his liver. ; way of a blast at Lake. Superior mine and a | stone weighing a pound was driven clear ,through him, carrying portions of his liver , over 200 feet. ‘a dead man, but in four weeks he was able to play base ball, and has never had even a headache since. = which knocked his livcrout as a proof of inv statements." ' ; 0m- corrcspondcnt at St. Joseph writes : f “In June last year I had a coloured mnn lnanch John llnkcr in my employ. \\"liilc l I In council of seven doctors decided that he must die Within two hours. He is now a well, healthy man, chewing the stron'cst (10mm ‘kind of plug tobacco, and drinking \vhis cy which kills ordinary nicn stone dead at thirty-six rods. " Our correspondent at Grand Haven says he knows an Indian who was ripped open with a buzz-saw and his liver flung upon a beam forty feet away. The doctors scwcd him up in such a hurry that the last organ was forgotten, but the rod man has suffered no inconvenience whatever. On the con~ tmry, he has never been in such spirits. gutting tangled ; it. is much casrcr for him to swear ; he does not pcrspirc as much ; he is cured of the habit of snoring: his coat fits better in the back; dried niplcs have im- proved in taste, and he. wouh not have the old thing back again under any circumstan- ces. The cjitirc sash, door and blind shop in which the accident occurred has been for- I worded tosubstantintc the assertions, and the have their doubts removed. ._‘-.-v...- Hygienic Value of Mirth. But, aside from all this, mirth has an by- gienic value that can hardly be overrated while our souial lifc remains what the airway of vices and dogmas has made it. Joy has been callcd the sunshine of the heart, yet the some sun that calls forth the flowers of a plain. is also needed to expand its leaves and ripen its fruits; and without the stimulus of exhilarating mstimes perfect bodily health is as iinpossrblo as moral and mental vigor. And, as sure as a succession of uniform corps will exhaust the best soil, the duin repetition of ii monotonous occupa- , l j Ourcorn-spomlcnt-at Mackinaw sends down I the IOIIOWHI": : “The President need not be alarmed about lust-class railway carriage are providcd with Last fall my brother got in thc ¢ The doctors pronounced him ' I inclosc you the stonc' driving ii mowing inacliiiiu he fell to the. ’ Locomutiw” by . . ground and was badly cut 11]). Among other inn"! t"yll‘b but i‘ hm" 13" "5": m" ""‘I’I‘WV‘I lie 1 can d "i k twi c as i uc ' ' ' ' " 3 - u l a u h “ make) “ who“ , pcncd of carbon rests upon a knob of copper. I iuid is thus in practical, though not absolute, temperature. of the regions settled in this country, it appeam that the population tends to inch-rise between isotherms of low degree. Tin: canal across the Isthmus of Corinth. begun by the Romans under the Emperor Nun), but never finished, is likely to be cut by tho.- F‘rvnch, Gen. 'hirr having latclv received a concession from the Greek Government to carry out the project. IN a recent work on tho nests and eggs of birds Dr. W. \‘on Reichcnan states that the ornamental plumage, crests. ctc., of the male bird are due to an excess of cncrgv, while the vitality of the females is exhaust- cd by the production of eggs and the task of incubation. but asidc fmm thatl have noticed no serious , Tm; discomfort of travelling in Illtlifl in hot weather is decreased on the line of the great, Indian 1‘ ininsular Company by an iii- renious device : The windows in cvorv screens made of fragrant khan grass. which are kcpt constantly dam) by mechanism connected with the wheels. lly this means the air is kept sweet and comparative- ly cool. IV. (i‘. llagnnll, of Stafford, England, has ; just completed the smallest locomotive cvcr fitted together for actual use. It has a 3 inch cylinder and 135 inch wth and its maximum width is only 31 inches. .It is of three-horse power and 18-inch gauge. It Iii . to be used on some road in South America. the. some builder, of the - wounds he had his liver cut slick in two, and ' “‘ South Africa, J uva and ndis. AN English scientist consich worry and . overwork to be the most important causes of y. The men, he says, who flflll. en- ticcd women and children into an industrial , career, and they who have in later times dc~ , viscd the scheme of competitive examination, have done more to cnfccblo the British than can be counterbalanced by the most perfect“ systems of drainage and ventilation, with t i 0 highest pcisoniil cleanliness supch added. ‘ Tun Joel electric lmnp, which has vnnu into practical use to some extent in Lulu on, is a modification of the \Vcrdermaun. A contact with it. As the positive current flows from the carbon to the copper tho and of the carbon is heated to incundcscciicu, and at the same time it minute globular are is formed at the junction of the carbon and the copper. It is said that this lamp yields u. light of 7b") candles porhorsc- medical fraternity are invited to call and ipom‘r’ I’rof. Frederick Kick, of Prague, calls lit- tcntion to an interesting report of guttu pcrcha. It is well known that it becomes plastic in water of 60° to 70° degrees, and can then be used for making the lint-st imprints. It is less generally known, how- ever, that soft utfo pcrchn is elastic when exposed toshocks, and is ca mblu of bearing, without alteration of form, lilows of a ham- iner or being thrown against a wall. This peculiar property, which other plastic bodies, boo, appear to possess in a do woe, is due to air incloscd in them, Wiich . Professor Kick has proved by direct cxpci'i- incnt. Dr. F. A. Atkinson buliuvcs that goutmny be prevented in this wny, and the pruvcntion tion will wear out the best man. Bod and 0‘ “ll” “'0111’1‘330'1‘9 mid one“ dm'liumufl db” mind i‘cquii‘c llll occasional change 0 uin-j ployincnt, or else a liberal supply of fertiliz- ing recreations, and this requirement is a factor whose omission often foils thc arith-i inctic of our political economists. To the creatures of the wildci'iicss nfllic~. lion comes generally in the form of inipcndo i ing dangerâ€"famine or persistent persecu- ciisc fur morc easy than its curc. llis method of m-rcsting a. tendency to gout con- sists in : (1) Limiting the quantiton nitro- genous food ; (:5) taking regularly a certain amount of (iut-of-door CXUI‘CIHU in ordcrto help the proper fissile changes Ming ciirricd out ; (3) nvoidnncc of Info hours und every thing which is likely to unduly cxcitc or do- u; tion: and under such circumstances the mo- ' PIC-‘53 {he "CHOW Pylm’m ; (4) km'lli'm “l‘ difications of the vital pi‘occss seem to opcr. i the WW)" “I “"3 5k"! by “"m" l‘lfltlllllls' “"1 also against its long continuance; \vcll-wisli- ing Yzilzurc sees her purpose defeated, and v’ the vital energy flags, the sap of life runs to ' seed. On the same principle an existence of joylcss drudgery seems to drain the springs of health, even at an age when they can draw upon the largest inncr resources: hope, too oftcn bafllcd, at last withdraws her aid; l the tongue inaybc attuned to cantng hymns ‘ of consolation, but the heart can not be dc- 5 ccivcd, and with its sinking pulse the , strength of life cbbs nwny. Nine-tenths off our city children are literally starving for luck of recreation: not the means of life, but its object, civilization has defrauded them of; they feel a want which bread can only aggravate, for only hunger helps them to forget the misery of ennui. 'l'hcir pallor is the sallow line of a collar plant ; they would be healthier if they were happier. I would undertake to cure a sickly child with fun and rye-bread sooner than with tidbits and todium.â€"â€"l)u. Fr.in L. ()va.b, in Popular Srirnrr .lImillt/y for August. ..... _.,._ 0.... .«Wuoâ€"n . Tho Comet Yesterday morning between Iiaiid 4 o'clock we were called from our bed by the pres- cncc of a mrrel_cow with an iniulcquntc tail in the grounds of our winter palace. She had eaten a row of tnbcroscs and some miguoncttc to sweeten licr brchtli, and was just smelling of thc litatuc of Eli l’crkins which stands on the west side of our boulevard, when we came up behind her with n.de slut and smote llt'l‘ on the shoot. While merrily romping with her over the velvety lawn, our attention was sudden- ly mllul to a large $2.30 comet, nor'wcst by not", and about three feet above the horizon, with its tail ovcr the dashboard. When first scan it was in pcrhclion with thcdoinc of the court-house, but while we watched cithcr the court-house changed position or we did, and the space became more clearly defined. Sonic arc of the opinion that this comet is the mic that amicarcd about twenty-five years ago, but our own idea in that it isanew onc that has never bron used. It has ii nucleus that ahinrs with a nebulous light. It. also comics with it n hyperbola and n parabola, in a common valisc. A well known astronomer claims that this is a comet which, according to the books, was not din: yet for i,.’;00 yuan, There must be Some inisuikc, howuvi-r, iinlmui it lost mint-thing when it was hcrc 500 years ago, and has returned to um: if it cannot find it. Still its running time may have bum clmii 'cd in order to stir up competition with at for comets. “'0 had not time to fully investigate the wonderful wlmtiai phenomenon as pmplo be- gan to pass when: we were taking observa- lions. and, noticing our simple omtuinc, callul the attention of other people to us, and, in a short time, a large and demon- strative audience had gathered near us, which disturbed our scientific researches and amt-lulled the early morning session. ....__._._...‘.. w...» .__.. Tm: blindan of the little Ford of Arundcl and Surrey, heir of the dukedom of Norfolk, is noiv beyond a doubt. ’l'hcrc has been a long suspcnse, for in early babyhood bliiul~ near mnnot be gauged with certainty, impe- cially when. as in the truest mac, there is a slight mx‘ilbilily to iglit. The Duke and , Duchess of Norfolk, hlmrvcr, have not. givrn L up all hope for their child, in whose eyes on exterior « elect in visible. if the occasional use of Turkish baths v in short, it consists in living as far as posiublu ll. natural lifc. . «u- ->.. . The Pleasures of Yaontlng. A yacht is a man's home. He nccd ncvrr bc‘in nhurry. Like Jefferson in “llip \‘ltll \Vinklc,” he lives nbout in spots. He may leave a good deal to his skipper, but he is al- ways master; he owns the craft which oth- crs ulcer, and never 11 humor ciui mum into his head which he may not indulge without having anybody to nrguo with him. If. is n linc thing to be lord of the sea in this fash- ion. A captain of a big ship in ii great man, but he is a sort of a slave, also. llis busi- m-as is fomaltc haste, and obstacles \‘cx his soul. 'l'hcpatcnt log hc tows natcm typifies the condition of his mind. A head Mtfll in nu affliction, and most of the wonders of tho , dccp are great nuisances to him. He wants to sight nothing. He objch to excitement and adventures. All that ho prays for is fine weather and so many nautical inilcsa day. These arc the penalties of huviiiga destination. The bliss of yachting lics'ln the having to go nowhere in particular, and one port being very nearly as good luf nil- otlicr. If you can't weather a point, thcn there is nothing to do but to put your helm up and come back again. â€"-â€"-â€"â€"Q-.o¢â€"-Aâ€"~-* â€" A Woman's Ago. Ew, it is well known, was nixtccn yciirn of age when she was uWakunml at the side of her husband. Sixteen 'mrnold, so ' ancient writmrs, and that so mld that t icy mnfit' have seen l‘ivc’a rc'istcr written u ion the lilics of l’armlisc. ih'ow, womcii, w no llll\‘f' nine times out of ten more curious rabbinical Icarnin than the mean envy of our soil will allow t 1cm : Women inheriting thc privilcgn from their first-parcnt, believe that, after a citrtain time, they have a just right to let their first sixteen years go for not iing ; and so they sink the prclimiunr sixteen with a smile, counting with Mot icr l‘ivo thcir seventeenth as thcir first. real birthday. And they are right. For it Ilctlucts from your women of five-nud-forty all that sht- ran-n to bow, giving livr a fair start with Eve, and pv-gging burr back in full-blown nine-and- twcnty. find inch it in lfIlpOlllllle that an rivally charming woman should bu a day oh er. “w-‘owâ€"o’ â€" .. . r » i'iwru: who have flattered themselves that lightning m-vrr strikes twice-in tho anon: him: "my are the ruins of a barn heart/Wm". cil Bluffs which has been burned byligbtuing nix tum-sin tcnycani. It was rebuilt fin,- time», and thcowncr tlicn concluded that l‘rovillcncc wanted the site for some special purpose, A LADY guest at one of tho Atlantic City lifill'lil foolishly concealed a bracelet in the sand foraafclkec iug while bathing. \l'ltltt she came out slit: couldn't find the place‘ wlmrc she buried it. . , Tm: lrishmsn'a proverbial snrilon to frogowl'atrick, to his mommy-arrived com in: “And. Jcinmy, d'ye imle the littlr things that rise up in the «rather an' hollet cbugg.‘ Sure the devil himself wouldn'- fsce two 0' thiin." Auoso the dainty and refreshing of the displianous summer fabrics, because of its frailty, its incxpensiveneas, and the suit- ablcness for midsummer wait, tinted batine in not the but noteworthy. This material is htxlurc, while of a much liner and worm desirable quality, somewhat resembles the bandsmuer grades of chewsâ€"cloth. i.