The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

anti}; .1: the me. ‘ ,.er fans are in high furor. mourning fan sneaked with cups. BYtufpll’lufl an- mde of p'aid studs. Gsycolors inwatumesire mou‘y in thohouse. fabric. - Bottleng velvet trims (cm idminbly. Plush boots, fused with kid, are snot very pretty novelty. Brides' dresses are made with of simpli :ity this mason. . All elegantstnet dresses are de r'guear, dark, or neutral tinted. ‘ i t Alimnte brown and Bullet red are popfi- ’ lsr new shades of these colors. Gold thistles and gold bars are the latest millinery and hair ornalnents. ‘ Amber, topaz. and all yellow stones are in vogue in: ornamental jewellery. Cbickea-dowaâ€"â€"tbe color of the newly- batcbedwâ€"is the latest shade of yellow. Leather buckles appear among new orna- ments for bats, bonnots, and dresses. Sleeves of street costumes remain tight and plain, and are larger than last season. long shell or metal hair-pins take pre- cedence of all other ornaments for the coil- furc. Plaid skirts worn under plain fabric polonsiscs and overdrcs es are in high fa- vor. Both high and low chigaons are worn by fashionable women, but they must be small. The bridal coif'fure most in favor is wavy giant“, and braided into aclose kuotin the c . Dressy matinee: are in bright shades of rod and blue, and trimmed with lace and embroidery. fled in modorato quanti:ics gives a fine dash of bright color to black, gray, pale blue, and ccru dresses. Dark brown, green, black, or blue vclwt is the most elegant trimming for light-col- orod cashmere dresses. ‘ Gigot sleeves and cpaullcto of ribbon or rachmg are considered correct and good form or indoor dresses. The Season reports bridal toilets of “Puri- tanic plainness" forapproaching weddings in fashionable society. l’nusies of all colors and sizes on grounds of various colors appear in chine effects on some sash ribbons and scarfs. .5 Cream llama isa new and useful material for dressin -gowns. It is printed all over with the can merino palm pattern. Some garden hats are in J apancse style,of a lino, mat-like torture. embroidered in colored silks, and caught up on one side with cords and tasscls. The requisite dash of yellow inn white toilet is sometimes given by wearing an amber necklace and amber bracelets, or with yellow topaz jewellery. Dclicato leather dcsicnl of Ismail ivy leaves, berries, and flowers are now used on volvot, in cream colors, and are formed into collars and ends. The fancy work of the coming season will be outlino embroidery in bright-colored wools, cottons, and silks or Bllilln‘. tidies, bibs, bureau covers, and tablc and chair scarfs. A new and very thin material called "spillir's web," shot with color, will be used for tennis dreams, and also light fl inuels of various colors trimmed with narrow volvcts or braided. Among new bonncls of the Parisian Flow- or company's production is a genuine novel- ty of great beauty called the Nowmarket. It is a modified jockey-cap bonnet, produc~ lug tliuliccomiug effect of a poke without its oddity. The bridal vcil may be either as long as tho train of the dress or as short as the waist lino. but it must bu of tulle if the bride is youthful. if she is over ‘15 or 30 it may be ofauv lino delicate real lace, and shorter than tho youthful bride's veil. â€"â€"â€"loHO>«-â€"â€"-â€"- Sousa Culture. The special culture of tho tenses is toolililm- much neglected by us in this modern busy, Probably at no previous period of hu- 1 lilo. man history has the nervous system gener- ally, and, more particulari . the sense organs, been so severely tum as they now are, but novcr born they been less carefully cultivato-l. tho causo of the progressive do encmcy of tho facilities of special sense, w rich is evi- denced by the increasing frequency of thcI recourse to spectacles, car trumpets, and tho like apparatus, designed to aid the sonscl organs. The micro uao of faculties will not d.-vclop strengthâ€"it in morolikoly to exhaust energy. Special training is rrqnircd, and this 0480“th clement «f ulucution is wholly ne lrctcd in our schools, with the result we dai y witnessâ€"«namely, curly weakness or llufu't. In tho organ: by which the conscious- new in brought into relation with tho outer world. It is not necessary to adducc proofs of the position we take up. or to argue it at length or in detail. The truth of the pro- position laid down is sclf-ovidr t. On the one hand wo rco the neglect of tr duing, and on the other the increasing defect of some power. Tho matter is well worthy of the attention of the professional «factors of youth. . Muscular exorcise Wule regulated and apportioned to the bodily strength is felt to be a part of education. Sense culture, by appropriate exercises in seeing, hearing, touching. amellzug, would, if commenced sufficiently early in He, not merely prevent weakness of sight, deafness, loss of the sense of fooling. and im nirment of tho sense of smell long before 0 d age, but by its reflected influence on the nutrition of tho brain and upper portion of tho spinal cord would do much to roddcc tho groping tendency to paralytic discuss, which or vrry decidedly on the incrcaw.~l.lmccl. . A-.. ..-.‘.._.. .â€" Weak K308. Many who are troll-led with weak eyes, by aioid'ng the use of lllcm in rra‘ling, swing and the like. suh‘.’ ufler brml‘fac, will be ab‘c to ua-f lhvm with greater com- fort for the reminder of [he day, the reason being. tins: in tho Iligvstinn of the foul the blood is salioi in 1mm all one of the body, toaccrtain cxhnt, to an the stomach in that important rim-cu. ut’l‘lu'fi, tho food eaten gives geivral strength. imparts a stimulus to the whole man. and the eyes partake of their that». Ryan that are swab and watery are often stru read and roads to fool comfortable by d:pplng the finger in brandy or whisky or bay rum. and applying it to the closed lids. if the fumcsora little of the liquor gun in the eyra all the better. -fiw ...~»...u....._ We (at hm .\ «mu pondeat in Smyrna, Turkey, sends the follosiag, and states that it is "liable : Tulle a pin-e of oliskin cloth. such as waqu locum tables. hotel a soft. ' thud, sulllcioall to cover tbe l 3 place it over the than shirt, and bandage yourself withaflaaasl hamlsre 3 profuse perspiration willeusuoeathsloimaadyouamquickly rid of this when” complaint." Baryllagh, tbofrieudefsnimals. two. He freq-sully acts like it. I This is in part, if not wholly. l V0 L. X I. Whither 1 at c. w. Damn. the aspirinâ€"When the body is dead e. space infinite trcsdâ€" ' realms arr-(gen azure blue for you Whencs Does it. Alone through vast 'l'o homes prepared for me Mint visions than dawn on the ncwogivcn sight 3 As ward wings eternal its flightâ€" Onv? m, lion onward beyond stars that now a no. Reflecting Creator. Maker divine. Arc. $3? an lipomgoys to catrry lll. th’rough To it e [e r at open ov cw â€" Are there friends to welcome and to be braced 1 Will ties that earth strengthened be cver efi‘acel The soul is immortal, we love tobelievc. Though perish the body it will receive, A life everlasting through film that hath made The grave lerrorless. since in it He laid. Iilmigizflâ€"TE.” CHAPTER I. " Are you in such a hurry to see the fcl~ low, Kitty 2" “ Oh, Angus l" “ Thou give me a few minutes more; the ride has only In:ch too short as itis. \Vhy need we hasten on 3" “ Because malnma will wonder; andâ€"and we are so far behind the others.” “ You think of the others, Kitty, and I think only of you.” ‘ As he spoke, Mr. Dare putont an auda- cious hand in the friendly twilight of the drive, and took his cousin’s trembling lingers into his pissessiou. Their horses were very close together as they walked hisurcly on toward thclighfcd- up windows of the white house at the end of the avenue. Kitty's heart begun to beat. Perhaps Angus was going to speak after all, in time to save her from what he had taught her to call “the horrible late" that was in store for her. “It may be the last time we shall ever ride together as we are riding now,” her cousin went on ; then, in a-low voice, “That follow is going to come between us, dear. I suppose it is only natural. And I must make up my mind to retire as gracefully as I caninto the background; but "â€"bc bent over and looked into Kitty’s face with his ardent gaze, at once impcrious and beseech- ingâ€"“you will not quite give me up, child? You will still think of me sometimes 3" “ Youâ€"you know I will, Angus.” “ That is all I ask," declared Angus in a heroic wa ; but two big tears fell upon the bosom of 'itty’s dark blue habit. They were close now to the house where her “fate” bad either arrived or was about to arrive, and Angus had only asked her not to forget him. Did that mean that he cared for her really and seriously? And ought she to make up her mind at once to refuse Mr. Woodstock and the moneyâ€"tho ’grcat fortune that everyone was talking about ? Kitty felt very unhappy. But how was she to speak plainly if Angus would not ? The poor child trembled as her cousin lift- ed her ofl‘ her horse. She wanted to run up tho steps at once and hide her quivering tenr~staincd face : but Angus hold her back. It was nearly dark out thereunder the trees; and, ntting his arm gently about her, he raise: her pretty dimpled chin with his oth- er hand, and looked again with a long deep look into the girl’s cycs. "Kitty," Angus breathed softly, still gazing down into tho uplifted fascinated eyesâ€"“my own little cousin Kitty 1" “ Yes," she whispered, almost inaudibly, and then he put his other arm about her too. i and pressed hcr more closely against him as i he stooped and slowly kissed her trembling om The touch awoke her, and, with n littlo gasp and a brilliant blush, sho torc herself v from his arms. “ Angus !" she pnutcd out reproachfully. ! “ We are cousins, you know, dear," he I urged in his low, clear voico ; but Kitty had ' already flown up the steps and into the hall, ! and was half way up stairs before he could I attempt to follow her. , she did not daro to face all the other poo- ' ple in the drawing room; she felt as if they ' must be able to sec the kiss which was still i burning on her lips and making her heart i thump so loudly. It was cvenn relief to find ‘ that her mother's maid was not in the room. 1 The candles had not been lightcd,thcro was only the flicker of the lirclight. Miss Mar- joribanks was free to tear off her gloves, to ; fling her but and whip upon the bed, and to ; drop brcsthlessly into an easy chair, hiding I her face in both her little shaking hands. 1 She hardly understood what had happ on- i ed to her ; she was angry, frightened, happy, i all at once. She was thinking, in a vague, Q excited way tint at last she know what true i love meant, an i that she would never, novcr { flirt any more._ No. no man but Angus lshonld ever-â€" The bright blood rushed : again to the girl's face. She took down her hands, and got up and pooped at herself in tho tirclit looking-glass. Her nut-brown hair was blown into a cloud above her vel- vet dark eyes, her sweet irregular peach like face was blushing and glowing, and tho charmin guilty red mouth smiled shyly back at or. They were both so poor, she and Angus, and there were a hllndrnzd thousand pounds 3 depending on her answer in twelve mouths’ i time to this odious Stephan Woodstockâ€"not . that Kitty know whether the man was odi- ous or not, considering that she had novcr seen him; but to her he always would be hateful for haviu been thrust upon her by her uncle's crue will, and for having come between her and her cousin Angus, just when they were beginning to discover all that they were to each other. A gentle knock at the door startled Miss , hlsr'onbanks out of her perturbed reverie. jSho hastened to unlock it. "I have plenty of time, Doggct, haven’t If" she said, turning away so as to avoid the old sorvsni's eye, and beginning hurriedly to unbutton her habit. list it was not Deggct who answered her; it was Miss thley. " Mrs. Marjonbanks aunt mo for you Kitty,“sho said in a soft voice. " She wants to no you before you dress for dinncr." “0h, Barfâ€"kitty turned round nervous- ly â€"â€"“what for 2" She thought that Angus must have announced their engagement. “ Come and see," said Dora. nodding her neatly-braided head. - She was a protty little thing. with modest haul cyu and a close little pink mouth like a bad. She ins dressed in cove-colored cashmere, and scorned to move and spuk with hardly any noise. "0h. Dora." cried Kitty ‘u, smooth. ing her rallied hair with but bands and turning a littlepal e, "is momma vexed? Au: 1 awfully late? liars you all had tea!” " Yes; but I have had some made for ,andâ€"plssu, dear Kitty, mks haste. agents Dogget; she will fasten up your "bk, dear, Inn in such a state," ex- claimed Kit . bouncing her habit _'n. and looking at her and stained while mt pat a hair pin onto lumber and Miss Kelley waited eilsstly, with her putty hands billed. ss well in it over,” Ki was ‘ dthca torche- ;go in and V . . I “Kitty,” she said than, a little: auxzous- Ebowu brruids fall. over her shoulders and lfallbe‘ow her waist. l x In the bail Mrs. Maxi-~rihanks was wait- ing for the two giris. Six-.- askcd Dora to pmr out lhu tee. ly, ".‘lr. \v'oodstofit hss arrived. I thought you had better see him at once " “0h, nialnma"â€"â€"thc girl turned pale again; she had quite farg-Jttcu Mr. Wood- sLock; she had been thinking only of An‘ gusâ€"“ not now! Just look at me! \Vherc is he? Won’t it do alterwards!"-â€"and as she {at her string of protestations and qucston, she felt a mingled sensation of relief and disappointment in the know- ledge lhat her cousin had not spoken. You will do very well,” Mrs. Marjorb hanks decided comfortablyâ€"she knew very well that Kitty could never look anything but pretty.“ And it will be less embarrass- ing to you both to meet quietly now than lxn the drawing-room with cvcryone‘s eyes Come, be is waiting f0" you in on you. the library “ You have seen him, mammal is he very bad, dear 2" _ " Nonsense l"â€"laughing. “ “'hy should he be bad at all! He is certainly not bad looking." “ 0h l" said Kitty blunkly. She felt vex- ed that Mr. \Voodstock was not a perfect monster. “Come and judge for yousclf," added her mother, moving towards the library door. “ Oh mamma,"â€"â€"-Kitty shrunk back with most uhnll'eclcd reluctanceâ€"“wait a bit! _ I â€"â€"I am horribly frightened 2" She was ready to cry with all she had gone through, and the trial that still await- ed hcr; but she swallowed her tears, and only put her arms around her mother, rub- ing her downy little face against her check with a kitten-like movement. “Now, don’t boa little gooscl" said Mrs. Marjoribanks, laughing again. “ Do you suppose that any one wants you to marry against your will? Come and have some tea you silly child 1” “’ith which she went into the library, drawing the charming reluctant figure of her daughter after her, bliss Kitty hanging down her ruffled head and looking like a scolded child. V Mr. lV'oodstock was warming his hands at the fire and cheerfully talking to Miss Netleyas she made ten. He turned quickly now, displaying a resolute, sunburnt face, and. made his bow to Miss Marjoribnnks with a look of eager curiosity, which gave Way to one of profound and pleased surprise. Really Kitt Marjoribanks was too much to expect ban inth with a fortune. Her sweet cross peach of a face was fortune enough in itself for any reasonable man, the astonished Now Zealandcr could not help thinking. As for Kitty, she looked up through her black lashes at her talland broad-shouldered “fate,” and thought scornfnlly What a con- trast he was to Angus. Then she looked down without attemptingi to originate a con- versation. She was at) la. little pale, and was perversely posting. She looked prc t- tier, if possibly, than when perfectly dress- cd and in a good temper. “I ho e I am not a. very great shock to our fee ings, Mr. lVoodstock,” she said at but rudely, as the young fellow continued to gaze at her furtively while he talked to Mrs. Marjoribanks. “ But I assure you that you are," he an- swered simply, quite startled out of his vood manners. “l have never seen anyone i the least like you.” Is heâ€"â€" “Oh,” thought Kitty disdainfully, “he 5 has made up his mind beforehand to take me on account of the money ! But he might have the decency to abstain from paying compliments." Mrs. Marjoribanks, however, smiled in- dulgently at the youn man. She saw how irresistible the impulse ad been that prompt- ed the words. “ Kitty would have been here to welcome you, Mr. lVoodstock," she said, kindly, wishing to put him at his ease, .“ but she has only just got homo from her ridc. How come you to be so late, dear 2” she asked, turning to her daughter. Kitty colored up suddenly. “ Angus thought he knew a nearer way through the out-lane, and we-â€"â€"wc lost our-‘ selves. We did not mean to be so late, mam- ma 1” and then she added, with a fresh display of tern er, “ I am very glad that Mr. Woodstoc has arrived safely, and I hope he had a pleasant vovngc and that he will like England. I suppose I may go now? I have hardly time to dress as it is.’ 'Looking rcscntfully at Stephen as she spoke, she found a pair of penetrating groy eyes fixed upon her petulant little face, and saw an amused smilc break over the young fellow's lips. “It was my fault,” he said, gravely. "I begged Mrs. Majoribanks to lot mo 50.: you at once. Surely you can understand shall always be gladto lzavo had snclrau adventure, and to have seen a glim of I lilo in the old country which hitherto have only read or dreamt about. After all, I am only here on approval, and the odds am that I :ha-ll lwiiL-cliucd with thanks, in which case Km;ch months will scc ms back with you again, none the worse for my holi- day, and with a host of enchanting memo- Eies to keep me compzmy for the rest of my ays. "But," any you, “ the comedy, the com- pany, the ‘juvenile lady 2' "â€"I’m coming to all that. You might know by my coy delay that I have an interesting confession to make. ’ “Is she prettyâ€"lilies Murjoribanks 2" I hear Mrs. Herbert cxclaim ; and " Isn t she l” I reply with enthusiasm. Pretty enough to marry without :l Sixpence or a second gown to hcr darling little back ! The worst of it is there is some one else too who is pretty -â€"Miss Netley â€"â€" Dora Netiey. Doesn't that sound tempting? Almost as tempting as Kitty Marjoribanks. I wish you could have seen thcm both as they calm: into the libraryâ€"it was enough to take a fcllow’s breath awayâ€"Dora, with a little dove-like air and a dove-colored gown, Kit- ty with her hair down her back, and the loveliest, snlkicat face you ever saw. Poor child ! Sho is fond of some fellow with whom she had been riding; and she looks upon me as an ugly personification of her uncle’s blessed crotchct, which seems likely to cost her so dear. Shc (lid not trouble herself to be civil. She looked as if for two pins she would have boxed my cars. l wished‘shc would, and went on making myself agreeable, and com- pelling her to look at me with her great re- luctant velvet-dark eyes from time to time. Doraâ€"sweet little Doraâ€"poured out the ten, and only spoke, like a road child, when she was spoken to. I felt istractcd, Ned, between the two of them. Buttho distrac- tion was delicious! _ “’cll, scene first ended by Miss Marjoxil banks making hor‘cxit in a find", and I sup- poso she got a maternal talking to, for, when we met again before dinner, she hung her head and begged my pardon, but in such a rebellious manner thatI did not feel as if my cars were safe even then. My pretty little hostess looked almost as young as her daughter. Mrs. Marjoribanks is a. darling. Did I mention that I am in love with her too? After dinner we had music, and there was which for those who had nothing better to do. But what did I want of cards with such a jolly absorbing game of my own to play? I have forgotten to mention the light coml‘ edy villain of our piece, by-thwway-Mr. Angus Dareâ€"cousin Angus. Such a. hand- some fcllow ! Ho scowled at meâ€"scowls become his clear-cut dark face. Miss Kitty blushed when he drew near, and I thought little Dora. looked wistful. Oh, what good fun it is ! How can I ever be sufficiently thankful to old'Jasp-J'? 1 would not have missed all this for the world. CHAPTER II. It had been looked upon as a matter of course in certain circles that Miss Marjori- banks was to be old Mr. Jaspcr’s heiress. Her mother had been old John’s favorite sister, and, as Mrs. Mnrjoribnuks had been early left a widow, she and her little Kitty hndsspsnt a great deal of their time at tho Southlunds, where indood John Jasper would have had them take u their abode alto- ether, but that, tho 0 d man’s temper bo- lng simply unbearable at times, Mrs. Mar- joribauks preferred her independence and her comparative poverty to being altogether under her brother’s imperious thumb. 01d Jasper had baffled a good many of Kitty’s expectant suitors by the fantastic disposi~ tion he had chosen to make of his wealth. “ The sort of thing you would expect from a rich uncle in a play," Angus Dare had said scornfully, when the contents of the old man's will became known. “ And who on earth is this Stephen lVoodstock? â€"some Colonial follow that no one has ever ' heard of l” Stephen \Voodstock was the son of a wo- man with whom John Jasper had once been very much in love, but whom he had lacked courage to marry in his struggling days, Millicent Graham being only a pretty gover- ness, as poor as himSelf, and with a. delicate mother to support out of her earnings. Shortly after her disa pointinent, Milli- centâ€"her mother being cadâ€"wont out to New Zealaud with her pupils, and there married, and bore a son, the identical broad- shouldcrcd, sunburnt, oy-eycd Stephen Woodstock, whose arriva at Southlauds had worked such havoc in poor Kitty’s hopes and plans. According to the conditions of the will, Stephen and Kitty were to endure cach other’s companions ip for the space of twelve months, living at Southlands, of which Mrs. Md Pardon my minimum? But- if I had Mnrjoribanks was constituted absolute mis- known about the out-lanc', I would not havo tress for the been so indiscrcct." “\tht do you mean 2” demanded Kitty, to each other, we“ and with an lndiguant blush. " Short cuts are invariably the longest way home in certain circumstances," he answered impcrturbably. Kitt drew up her white throat. Was this hf}. “'oodstock presuming to laugh at her and at Angus? “That entirely depends on who your com- panion is," she rctorted with withering politeness; and, having fired this shot, she got up and marched out of the room, eyes flashing and checks brightly flushing, leaving her mother and Miss Notlcy to do what they could toward keeping the peace. In the gallery that led to her room Kitty almost ran against Angus Dare, who was coming down stairs already dressed for dinner. He stopped short at sight of the girl’s agitated face and dishcvclled locks. "Kitty," he said, as she would have passed him by, “you are not angry with me, surely 2" “Oh, no, no, no !" she cried impatient- ly. She felt as if she had had enough for one day. ” But I have seen him-Stephen Woodstockâ€"and I would not marry him for two hundred thousand pounds!" 0 s s I - o ~ Stephen Woodstock to Ilia Farmer in Auckland. Well, old boy, the "drop" has fallen on the first act of the comedy ; and, according to promise, I sit down virtuonslyâ€"having left all the other fellows iu the smoking roomâ€"to write my notice of the performance so far. And, first, a word as totbe "act" provided by the management. The house is a perfect dream of a place. Old Jasper bought it from some broken down swell or other, I am told; and I d ' of 'ving you the least idea of all its on on cries and battered armour and faded tapestries. There's a ghost, my dmch. and a blood stain on the floor cf the picture gallery, whkhabnomwonh the price of admis- alenâ€"or a voyage from New Fenland, ll yen choose to t it in that way. .And I don't believe I be able to sleep to-night for looking out of my window at the park, which lies dreaming so exq:isitely in the moonlight, and for thinking of the whole fantastss business of my visit toSouthlands. It certainly ll themost wonderful thing that ever befall s common-place. cveryds utoffsllowlihe me. No aist how t endsâ€"sadluiisk 1 can guess alreadyâ€"I year of trial. At the end of that time if the young people took a fancy good, the money was theirs. If Stephen dcclincdto marry Kitty, the fortune went to her by way of consolation. If Kitty declined to marry Stephen, the fortune went to him. If they mutually declined to have anything to say to each other, the hundred thousaudlponnds w;nt to various charities. Kitty was late for breakfast the momine akcr the arrival of Mr. \Voodstock. Not that she was the only culprit. That gentle- man came in through an open window at the same moment as she opened the door. Kitty got a little scolding from her mother, who was the only other person in the room ; but Stephen got off, on the plea that ho had lost his wav in the park. " Well, Kitt shall give you sommbrcak- fast,” decided rs. Marjoribanks briskly. {I have a hundred things to do this mom- ug." “ Oh. mamma’l" protested Kitty hurried- ly. “ IVth is Dora? \Von’t sbo come? I hate pouring out tea.” But Mrs. Marjoribanks was gone, and poor Kitty was left alone with her fate in the pleasant breakfast room. There was nothln for it but to sit down. Miss Mar- ioriban looked very bad-tempered. Mr. Woodstock appeared to be suppressing a smile of amusement. " Will on have cream and sugar!” the youngi y asked, without looking up from er cups. Her eyelashes lay like a black fringe on the clear tinted round of her pret- ty checks, her nut-brown hair was immacu- lately braided, her clean stifl' cambric gown without a crease. Stephen was wouier-iug whether she look- - cd'prcttier in the morning or in the cveuln as she asked the question. Ila felt that it would be necmssry tosec hercyes again boo fore he could decide. “I beg your prdan!" he said, as Kitty mt pairing the sugar-tongs and waiting for his answer. Then she lifted her ’ _ _ darkeyesan reputed zrmqrurymavery distinct way. an withacurlof herrel dis- ,dainfnl lip. ’ "Ismsoglsdto meet you aloneatlsst for half an hour," Mr. Woodstock in- paturbabledas he too his tea from her!“- willmg' ' ban a. "Ayearizootavery nag time, is it. in which to study the character ofona‘s future husband or wife! Ism anxiousanmypartbloseuotimeinbegiu- “8'” t sullen velvet- FENELON FALLS, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1883 ,got to say is this,” said he, as he tilted back b so? _.___,..___.._.___. Kitty sat sulking behind the silver urn. and would not touch her breakfast. The angry blood rushed to her checks as S:c- phcn made this audacious speech. “ I will spare u the trouble of studying my character," all: said, curtly. “ It is just as badasever it can be, and I can tell you all about it in five minutes.” “ I am very sorry to hear you say so." rc- joined the young man gravely. “ But i think I would rather judge for myself. Not that I am so easily disenchanted as that, Miss Marjoribanks, especially when there is so much at stake.” “I can quite understand that l" declared Kitt , in her most cutting voice. “ 1' course you can. I am sure you would be the. last person to blame me for being cagerxi) sccuro such a prim." ‘hcrc was a sudden gentleness in his voice which startled her into looking .up. She found his eyes fixed upon her again. Stephen had very cxpressivo eyes; and she looked down, reddening and vexed. “ Please don’t take the trouble to pretend that it is me," she said, with angry incoher- ence. “ I can certainly understand your being eager to secure the hundred thousand pounds 1" “ There is not a man living,”hc answered calmly, “ who could honestly say he would not like to have a hundred thousand pounds at his command. I confess that it would take a good deal to induce me i: - refuse it. And. as to tho trifling defects you havc hinted at, Miss Marjoribanks, well "â€"sigh- ing rcsignodlyâ€"“one can‘t have everything in this world, I suppose.” There was silence on Miss Marjoribnnks’s part. She was pulling a great purpleblack rose to pieces and strewing the leavcs on the table cloth and on the floor. “ What are your principal faults 2" con- tinued Stephen, earnestly. “ It is well perhaps in such a. case to be forenrnm .” “ Really l” .cried the girl, drawing her- self up. ‘ [To an coxrixnrzn] Mn<scv>eobâ€"â€" 'Iwo Famous Song Writers. Samuel S. Sanford, who is known as the father of negro minstrclsy, is brimful of re- colleclions of Foster and other song writers of the country. The old end man was met yesterday by a reporter, who found him just in the mood for talking. “ One thing I’ve his silk hat and placed his thumbs in his vest arm holes; “I think that too much is thought of Foster and too little of Nelson Kueass. Foster owed his first introduction to the public to Nelson’s generosity. Nelson had written a lot of songs that are now more sung by minstrels than Foster’s. Therc’s ‘ J sue O’Mallcy,’ aquartotle founded on the death of a poor youn woman who was found in tho Hudson; ‘ en Bolt,’ one of the most popular in the minstrel reper- toire, ‘The Miller,‘ ‘Hold Your Horses,’ ‘ Wake Up, Jako,’ ‘Ncllie “has a Lady,’ ‘Juniata Johnson,’ and besides these he wrote any number of burlesqucs of operas and sentimental songs. Away about 1845 it used to be one of the attractions of min- slrcl troupes to offer prizes for conundrums and songs. In Pittsburgh our company, in which Nelson was the musical director, of- fered coup for the best song, and Nelson wrote several himself, because he was afraid there would not be enough sent in to make a good ublio contest. Foster sent in u. songâ€"I on’t remember now what it was-â€" but the judges didn't pick it out for honors, but pitched upon one of Nelson Kncass’s. Nelson went to them privately and told them that he had only entered in order to make a. good show, and that in his opinion, the cup ought to be given to Foster. That was done. Foster got the cup, and after that plenty of minstrel troupes came idea and asked him to write them songs. I bought the manuscript of three from him for $50, and it was my company that, in the fall of 1854, in Pittsburg l, rought out ‘Como thero My Love Lies Dreaming,’ ‘Hard Times Como Again No More,’ “The Old Kentucky Home,’ and ‘ Glcndy Burke.’ I have the original manuscript yet. I know both Foster and Nelson Kncass, and I think Nelson was the better man."-â€"Philadelphia "7188. Church and Dinner Pct. In a. certain village in Maryland a small boy kicked up a breeze in the parish church on a recent Sunday. It seems that acer- tain good woman bought a calf's head and put it on to boil leaving her little boy to mind it while she wenttothe church close by. The minister had reached his “ fifthly,” when the small boy stuck his head in the door and whispered: "Mammal" The good woman» recognized her son instantly, and began to make signs for’him to leave the door. “Msmma l” again come the whis- perâ€"this time a little louder than before. The mother shook her finger at the boy warningly, and indulged in other familiar pantomime with which she was accustomed to awe her son. But it didn't work worth a. coat. The boy was excited and in dead earnest, as tho dcnoucmcnt will show. Raising his voice, he shouted: "Mamma, on needn‘t wink and blink at me, but had otter come home right away, for the cell’s head is buttin' all the dumplins out of the pot yr What ls 11: Made or. Take astrip of something that, for the sake of convenience, we will call a manâ€" whicb, by the way, is a gross libel on man. Around its neck place a tight collar, cu- shroudcd with a hideous scarf and brcastpiu. Put upon it a silk hat and cutaway coat. Clotho its lower extremities with pants wherein calves worc never meant to grow. In its hauda cane, and on its feet boots that crcak at every step in limping measure. Place a cigarette in its mouth; teach it a brief vocabulary of adverbs and adjectives commencing with “immonsly clever" andl finishing with "sec you later, you know," and in my humble opinion you obtain a fair conception of the brains and capacity of the American dude. But let us change the subjectâ€"it is aotenlivening.â€"Ka£e I'lclu'. >â€"¢.â€"-â€"-.oâ€"-â€"â€"â€"â€" A Half Dollar Worth $1.000. When Mr. Oscar Taylor was in town a few wrecks: o he showed me a silver half dollar for w ich be has already been offered SLOOO. It is one of foixr halves cast by the Southern Confederacy. when the mint was seized in New Orleans. Oathe liberty side the die is the same as on the present half dollar, but on the reverse side was substitut- ed seveu bars and seven stars, surmounted a pole with the cap of liberty. A stalk sugar cane and a stalk of cotton are shown, around which are the words, “ The Confederate States of America." Only four of these coins were issued. Mr. Taylor pur- chased it from a man in Ozark, who 1 with it for the extremely low price o- 8100. -â€"df¢riwl}icr’s Wally. “0.4””â€" A pint of whiskey put in a fruit cake will keep it for six months, sndthe same amount patiato a man will keep him down town uuéilln‘fno'clisle‘kI in the morning. ' an span are getti an onlstic. A uer day. If Japan highs up, pro lyallEuropc winnatapiecuâ€" Bosml Jamal. We suppose there will be more than one Chap-oaâ€"uo' then. I l x l 3 i l t I r; l l l l ‘ l l i l s OUR YOUNG- FOLKS... CURIOUS ms ABO'JT BIRDS. “An Easy Way out or I:.“ “ A pretty little fly-catcher, “bid: had taken much pains to build he: nest, was in trouble about her own pearly eggs, and through no fault of her own, An impudcnt cow~bird (.lloloflircs )xcoris of naturalists), too lazy to make a neat for hersclf, or to look upon old one, or, indcod, to hatch her owh c 3, had slyly dropped an egg in the fly-cafe er's nest, and then gone all, quite indifferent as to what became of it. “\Vhat tho first thoughts of the fly-catch~ or were when she saw the intrusive egg, I am at a loss to conjecture; but the nest it- self tclls us that the bird was not easily ont- wittcd, and also that the conclusion it final- ty reached was, to get rid of tho noxious egg, by making practically a new first out of the old one. .4! “Now, this fly-catcher, which ornitholoâ€" gisls know as the white-eyed vxrco (l'i'rco noveboracmcis), builds a rather fragile, hang- ing nest, usually out of lino twigs and strips of thin burk, all nicely interlaced, bu‘. some- times also employing large pieces of men‘s- paper. The cost is suspended to the deli- catc twigs that grow on the very ends 'of long wavy branches. To compcnsato, thcrc- fore, for the considerable motion to which it is subjected when the wind blows, the nest top. So deep is it, in fact, that 'uauully w; i can not detect the sitting bird, on. .1: the; nest is looked upon from ubm‘c. [ “In the instance of the neat here describod, ! this great depth of the original slrnciurcl came nicely into play.- for the outcome oi the bird‘s thoughts v. as that to build a new floor to the neat, while it would ncccsntutc lcoving two of her own eggs nuhntchcd, would place the unwieldy egg of the inter- lcpcr down in the basemcnt aim, and would thus leave her free to roar hcr own family, unmobzstod, on tho second floor. This sho cunnineg accom lished by first )lacinzz a stout twig just a are the eggs, out then in- terweaving suitable soft materials Ywith the sides of the neat, allowing their weight to rest upon the twig extending from sillo to side and projecting between them. “Considering the fix the fly-catcher was in, and her determination not to nurse the foundling, certainly this was on easy way out of it; and not only easy, but ingenious, showing, as it does, on intelligence that would be little suspected by the unfortunate men and women (and girls and boys) who ass by, unheedcd, the many wonders of bird-life that help to make this world so beautiful. “Another little bird that is much more frequently subjected to tho annoyanco of visits from the cow-bird, is our very common, pretty summer Warbler (Dcmlratw w-n’ira). \thn this bird finds tho strange egg in the nest, it covers up the egg (with any of its own that are alongside it) in a mass of ma- terial like that of which the nest is made, and another set of eggs is laid upon this new flooring of tho nest. Sometimes it; happens that a second cow-bird's egg is laid on this new floor, and again the warblcr has to cover it also, that its own eggs may not be dis- turbed; so that we have in such 0. case a three-storied structure. “’hnt patient, per- sistent birds, then, those little \ 'urblcrs arc! " Considering that many of our birds vol- I untnrily perform so much unexpected labor to secure the wcllfarc of their broods, lctmc ask of my young readers that in all cases they will examine the nests of birds Without disturbing them, and col- lect them only when the birds need them no longer. Their structure and mmcrinls can be studied as well then as before. “Let me add, in conclusion, that a task [1 of much interest to ornithologists is to deter- mine how far the nest-s of our birds vary in construction, materials used, and localities chosen. \Vhilc many ofour birds buihl nests throughout vast areas of country, it is not . certain, by any means, that their nestingi habits are the same in Maine and in Mary- ' land, at the Atlantic seaboard and on tho, \Vcstcrn prairies. I trust that my rcndcrai will largely study this subject, and subso-i qucntly compare notes, bcing very careful) to correctly determine the species of birdnl that have built the nests found.” Too Clover for tho Cat. (is often foil larger enemies than their feathered foes by some cunning piece of strategy. Here is an odd incident which really happened. A mother-bird racing scat l nproaching, and fearing the 1033' of her brood, attracted tho attention of the stealthy animal by flying down to tho fcncc upon which the cat was crouched, and then, by] feignin a broken wing and hopping along‘ with paintivo chirps just in front of hcri enemy (but always just out;_of his reach), she succeeded in luring him to a mic dis- tance. Then she immediately took to flight, I and by a circuitous routc returned to her nest. Iiravcly donc, littl: mother! And here, too, is an account,, taken from n. ncws~ paper, of n pitched battle between some spar- rowsnnd a cat, in which the sturdy littlo winged warriors actually put Puss to rout: '1) :â€" uu is made very deep, and quite small at the ;p 6833 OF ransom. Patient» is a succeu. Above all things, reverence yourself. The virtue of prosperity is tsmprrnnm-Jho virtue of advauty is fortitude. \ ‘isdozn ia t .c talent of buying virtuous pka \xrcsa: the cheapest rates. L3". Llll‘ il\'cs be sure as xnowfialds when: our fw‘...:r;\lcavc a mark but not a stain. Act and speak to your servants as you would wish ctnus to do to you if you were a servant. 0 Bear in mind every service that you can render, forgot every service that you have . rendcrnl. Those who would let anything take the place of Christianity, must first abolish all sorrow from the earth. To h: perfvctiy just is an attributoof the Dixin: nature; to on so to tho utmost of our al.2ii...~s is the glory of man. > Life is loving, and that soul livcs tho larg- col. lifc that is trucst to his God and himself, and is most useful to his fellows. _'f‘huusands will at once form a positive opinion of a subject from its aspect soon at their standpoint where one vrxll wait around and scan it (n all sides. Scarcity is the virtue of a confessor. And assuredly the secret man hcaroth many can- fessions. for who will open himself to a hint or a babblch We. must choose between the romance of a man and tho mysteries of God. God only reveals llimscli through many a veil, but those veils are not falsehoods. The coin that is most current anion Inau- kind is flattery, the only benefit of w uoh is that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructi-d what we ought to bc. “M00405”?- Solcncc and Religion. It is a great mistake to fancy that anyono in his soul for religion objects to scientific investigation of facts. Very much the re- vcrso. It is not the investigation of facts or their discovery that is ever found fault with, but the imperfect and illogical conclu- sion-s. sought to ho drawn from these facts. l‘nr io‘..:.ilicc, nobody could say anything I, on the most thorough investigation of all tho plnnomcua in ccunoction with tho cornpositicn and varied conditions of water, tho Lcmp..mlure at which it freezes, tho fact that at the moment of freezing it uxpands, &c. .lut what is objcclcd to is thclaymg it down .1 universal and irrcfrngablc pnuciplc that such luzrs not only are everywhere pre- valentthroughoutthcnnivcrsc, but that it is not pr... ..l>:o to supposo them changed or dill‘crcnt for any or every reason. This, of course, cuts at tho \‘cry root of tho miracles of the Gosprl. And this, it is urged, is at onto unphilosophical and illo vical. Thcro is, it is mead, nothing antccm cutly absurd in supposing itnll different, and it conics- to bc umoro question of evidence whether such dill‘crcncu lllS actually over taken place. There is nothing, it is urged, unreason- ablc in water fronting at 40 ‘7 fuh., instead of 32°. It fact, there is no reason why it should do the ono and not the other, except that such is the fact. \Vhether there ever has been a. case in which this difference In freezing or in anything has taken place. whethcrm turning water into wine or in multiplying the feeding power of a few loaves, has to be determined not by argu- ment on its antecedent impossibility or the rcvcrsc, but simply on ovidcncc for or against the fact. A law of nature is simply nothing but an observed mode of action. The very opposite would boon quito as much a. low of nature, and in itself quite as amenable. ._.._.. «as-W..â€" An Incident or Sarah Bornhardt's Early Life. The memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt will be nhlishcd next October. The book will be edited by M. Dcrcnbourg, and will be cuti- tlcd “ Ma. Vie do Theatre.” “\thn I conuncnccd to row a girl,” rays Szu'nh Bernhardt, "my 0 mractor had nuddculy changed. I boot everybody, and got into a. furious passion whenever I was contradicted. - “ I was: fond of drawing. I was copying in chalk 1). copy of Grcuzc’s picture, the ‘Crncho Cassec.’ My pretty aunt was laughing while pointing with her parasol, observing that one of tho eyes was much higher than the other. Tho parasol scratch- ed the drawing. 1 turned pan and felt in- cliucd to bunt her. Taking pity on me, an old friend declared that the drawing was not so bad :zftcr all, and that unquestionably I had an artistic sentiment. 'Lcl; us mako an actress of llLl‘,’ ho continncd, appearing happy to bare found a solution. ‘An actress l but she is as ugly as a moustar,’ cried my godfather. 'Uglyl' cried my mother, protesting against thc outrugo; ‘my daughter ugly l you arc mud. She is charm- ing, with her wild looks. But look at her eyes, are they not splendid? and these curly lxuirs,’ exclaimed my mother caressing my head. ‘Ugl lwhy you must be mad, my dcnr.’ And mmilutcd in her amour proprc my mother loft tho room. 'ch, she is delicate, small, always ill,’ continued my brutal godfather ; and in so sayin ' he raised my long arms and pushed mo cnlly to show that my thin legs would hard y hcnr Inc. I hsnl the appearance of a poor, sickly-looking bird whom nobody would care tobuy."â€"- filmwlmufcr Courier. _u .__._¢eo4..o>eo_-â€"â€"â€" Dangers of tho Cola Bath. Alluding to :1. recent case of death of an old gentleman, council by a morning cold bath, the Medical I’n’ss and Circular says: “Tho gnat mistake that is usually com- mitted in regard to it is the error of never raising the tcmpornturc of the water from that of tho ourrounding air. In very cold weather the bath, cvcu whcncxpoaod over night in tho bedroom, will often ho lower , "At POtmvmo- PA” recently: a hull" thrmlecgrccs, and whom watcrisbrought (“Of-V" 03} cnllfiht “ 3")ng Bil-“row. W1 the straight from the main or wcll it may be lane” c""1""l “Wily. SWH’l-lfllc 31‘1"": “Moran 10 or if; dcgrccs lower. Only tho m ‘7' "9"" low Women,“ 3 large numb” 0‘ strongest constitutions can dcrivo‘bcncfit Hm i’cu'gcrcnt little bird" “'0” 0“ “10 “P'Jl- frmn the shock produced by application of “my .H‘VOOPC‘I down 0“ PUSSY {mm 0“")? I a liquil GO to 70 tic-grch colder than the direction, and, although she arched horimck, i body 9., in, surface, and it jg very question. “tended h" Claw”: “"htnc‘l ‘0 give bald-i": nblc ii if. is ever attended with Permanently she was overcome by numbers, and fled in- , “5,0,1 mm)”, Reaction may be afterward COUHNUUY 50 “l? Ellen/01’ “f 3 Coai'flw'l 1 complete; but there is always the risk of near at hand. This (llll not end themattcr. 3mm“, danger {mm the condition 0‘ ",0 In the course ofa half~hour l'uzss made her body being ilunporarily such as to prevent entry 0’1 the "cane “Balm “in “1" him“ immediate reaction. In such cases very “em to in“ l’mt 30m“ Of their “umber” 0" noxious accidents are possible, and this but - t. . . , , . Feel“ limb for. M 3003 M “It cat 93m” instance of death may perhaps be regarded r as an example in point. A temperature of om. her shelter, the alarm was sounded and the feathered clans came afresh tolfmm .10 m 50 (30mm p, (um, camouwgh lattack in greater force than ever. ’l‘hcirlfur any person to submit iimself to. This {c.fiu’" “‘va Profiting by l“Mt “Wrim’ici lnlloam for a difference of between 40 and 50 (ha “0t w‘m to "wk" a “3m: 1’“: m“ M 3 (lowers in the heat of the body and that of “Wimy “5 5h° CW” ‘0 if“ home: b3“ “libg‘balhâ€"amply sullhicut to produce all square away, the sparrows striking bur :. , , u . the bout fits desirable from fin-and it would long “5 film W‘“ 1” S‘EM- ’ he roll for all if these extremes were never -â€"-â€"â€"-«<-.v> «Wâ€" - i dud." Black Men as Liana:an Conductoru, » ._â€"â€"-s»<..wuâ€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"- Ir: his Lear“ from a South African Jour- no Zulu 0"” or mhaou my, Mr. Froude writes: “On the road to The Zolus supply uswithathoory of the or- thc Vaal Riverâ€"first cxpcrienco of camping ; iginof lmlwonu. 'l‘olhcmababoonis much less out. I am alone in my tent with n glaring ] an animal than a nun, whose transformation sun raisins: tho tompcratureiuaixlc to ninety he is quite able to ex lain, It is one of de ces. 'l‘hc mules have strayed, being in- ’l'nzi’s men, he says, wont: he kills one; and mi ciently hobbled. I sent Charley my Tusiwas manual the Amafcuu tribc,a is black driver in search of them in the early } to habitually idle that they would was s morning. He returned with his face as poor 1 cat'a‘. other people's house rather than dig white as nature permitted, declaring that ' for tlmnsclves. Tusi, their child, one day the Evil Oncliad jumped out of the groundglcd them iuzo the wildernw. when the at his feet with four younger cum. I sap- 1 fundch of their digging im demerits - pose it was an antbt-ar. Anywayfilx mule: , naily turned into tails. their fate ends {are lost. lie has gone back wour int halt- became overhanging, and their bodies ing place to look for them. My other youth i corned with hair; and from that time they has started wilha rifle to shoot back, which went to the precipiccs and have had their g are round as in tens of thousands, and hero , dwelling among the rocks. 80 thought the am I by the side of a pond which is trample-d , Germans once of the storksfihcy were borne: by the antelope: into mud-soup, the only men in other parts of the world, and came to stuff in tho shs of water which so have 1 Germany in the farm of “I‘LLâ€"'le C'orslu’ll to depend on or our coffee, and, also ! for ; Maya-fine. our washin'v. To add to tbs: .‘lcasnre of tin.- ' --â€"-â€"-â€"â€"u4-.-r“â€"-â€"â€"â€"- situation, “t in may: the t nndcr-sformsl Peter Cooper believed that it was better has act in. The lightning was playicgl to be deceivul by man than to deny one round as all yesterday afternoon. and we , deserving sufferer, 5:11de the four cold shall now have a storm duly. Whole teams 3 winters succeeding 1874 he sat in his office of oxen are often killed. To a white: mm, 3 or library from three in the afternoon till (dz-y 1:1,“!!ch no danger while he km a : half pas: six, with pile: of one dollar green- blark a! Maude. (lie («:1er being (In: but"; backs and new half dollars, and gave to mdsdor. Wlim one is dark, anofitrécvcry applicant. sometimes aggregating 6f- . mud beinmediafdy substituted. ;te:n bur - ' ' ""'k. .l