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i l “W... A THINâ€"EXPLOIT. Th3 flame of the year was Febru . the day still in its youth, the sun was s ining brightlj, when hir. Edward Erroll. happen. ing to have a spare hour on his hands, strolled into a friend's studio, near Lang- ham Place. to see how he was “getting on " with his pictures. Drummond was, of course, painting. and the look which he gave the intruder was by no means encour- aging. Erroll, being not ‘easily daunted, only said, “Good-morning, Drummond; I knov that coming in now seems like being determined to take off the cream of your day, but don’t regard it in that light, I en- treat you ; just make up your mind that on won't be disturbed by me, and let me have a look at all your pictures." “ All my pictures 1" echoed Drummond ruefully. “ Yes, all your pictures; the more the better ; but where are they 1” And be ex- amined the room in surprise, for usually at this season of the year he could not even shake his friend’s hand without having to pick his way delicately through groves of easels with pictures on them. To-day all the spare easels were run into one corner and untenauted ; and, so far as Erroll could see, Drummond had nothing in hand but the one small picture on which he was working. This was, however, so improb- able that Erroll glanced around to see how many canvases were standing on the floor with their faces turned to the walls ; how many empty frames were wait- ing for their reception ; how much prepara~ tion, in fact, was being made for the various picture-shows which would burst into being with the rapidly approaching month of May. ” You needn’t look for pictures here,” growled Drummond, “ for I have got none.” “ that none for the Academy! ” “ No ; none for the Academy. None for anywhere." “ How unwise ! " said Errol], taking the most uncomfortable seat that he could find. “ You were ill-treated last year, but why should that go on? Any year might bring you a rattling success.” “ It's not likelyâ€"anyhow, I can’t send. Don’t think that I am not mortified, but it can’t be helped. I must make up my mind to loose one year of artistic life." “ And why. pray?" “ Because that fellow Clarke has lured away my model, and I can do nothing till she comes back. Its abominable of her to go ; it is infamous of him to take her ; but that’s how it is. I do believe the design is good. You shall see it.” So saying, Drummond wentinto an inner room and brought out a canvas. “ Good heavens, ~man how well that Comes l” cried Erroll. “ You really ought to finish it. It is a classical subject, and I hate classical subjects ; the design is origin- al, and you know how impudent I think it to paint original pic- tures, but I never in my life saw any- thing more masterly. What is it, and why on earth don’t you get another model and finish it '2” “It is Creusa just as she is about to put on the garment which will shrivel up her youth llld beauty. She is turning it over, and wondering at its strange magnificence. I don’t finish the picture because I can’t â€"it is a rievous vexation to me.” “ Sut you can if you like, and you must, for if it were well hung it would make your fortune.” d“”It wouldn’t be hung it would be reject- s . “That might happen, of course, but I don’t believe it would ; anyhow, it is your duty to finish it, for you are one of the heaven-sent prophets who have a distinct message to deliver.” “ Obadiah hid an hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them on bread and water; this poor prophet would be hidden away in the cellars of the Academy, and have to make a shift to pro- vide himself with bread and water." ' “ And if it were so, you might suck com- fort out of your rejection. Original work is always difficult of comprehension. You seem to forget that it is by no means easy to recognize a. prophet when he does appear, and to my mind you have always been in far too great a hurry to show that you were one. It is agreat mistake for any young man who is original to give the least hint of it until he is landed in a position which ives him the right to show his pictures. ‘ill then he should play dark horse. I mean he should never paint according to the spirit which is in him until he has made a real and well but-dressed-up success by glorious and most umnistakahle mediocrity. For one person who can recognize a prophet there are tens of thousands who would in- finitely rather be without him, and adore conunonplaccness. It is an excellent giftâ€" he who has it is certain of glory, honor, and prize-money, and what can mortal man have that is better? ” “ You don’t know what you are saying â€"-you would not like me to be common- place,” said Drummond. “ I don't suppose you could if you tried,” answered Erroll provokingly. " It would be just as hard for you to be commonplace as it would for a commonplace man to be originalâ€"besides, it requires something very like genius to hit on the kind of com- monplaccness that is certain to be popular. Look at the painters who were the god of our father's idolatryâ€"you might fret your Ioul out in trying to be as bad and as highly thought of as they were, and at last repro- duce thtir work exactly, uni yet never be noticed at allâ€"there is a fashion even in :ommonplaceuess. “ I don’t want to be popular. I have no desire of any kind but to paint my picture as well as I can according to my own idea of what is best, and to have permission to show it." “ You must int one before you can ihow it; so. for eaveu's sake, get to work; it is madness to lose a year of your artistic life in this wayâ€"perfect madness. Finish ibis if you want to send one of your origin- Ll works-«do anythin you like, so long as you do somethin . I saw Stukeley last sightâ€"that’s t y what brought me here lode '. I con d see that he was well dis- to you, and quite aware that there was something in your work which gave it a ri lit to be seen. He said that he was on the anging committee this year, so just think what a chance you are losing if you don't send in. New I am going, but if you don't take what I have said to heart and let to work with an Academy picture at mos, all I can say is that you are your own worst enemy. Good-morning.” mend, assoon as he was' alone. “ I dare say he is, but what can I do 2 This thing that I have on the we! would be lost at the Academy, and this other which might 3'3 he “’33 "mug hi3 PA “ I must have your name and address,” he said, taking out his note-book. “ I might have to write to you." “ Alice Hayley, 4 Wolseley Buildings, Canonbury." “ Models and persons who be in the street always live at the other end of Lon- don," thought Drummond. “ \Vhat artists have you eat to?" he demanded casually, latte afresh. \Vhen have done me credit can’t be finished until he kaEd at Miss Alice Hayley 311° W" t “ Perhaps he is right,” thought Drum- Clarke lets me have my model back. It was dis ceful of her to goâ€"I shall never feel comfortable about here ain.” » Then he fell taperusing t e lines in his deserted picture. and it was so imposstbk: not to see that they were good, that they restored him to eace with himself, only his vexation at eing unable to finish it grew more and more intense. “It would besuch a good thing for me if I could send it,"he thought; “ I am almost cer- tain that they would hang itâ€"it would sell if they put it in a good place, and then for another year at least I would work without anxiety. I will write a moving up al to Clarkeâ€"I dare say he is not a. bagefellow, after all. I will tell him exâ€" actly how I am situated, and get bin to let me have my model if only for ten days." “Dear Clarke,” he wrote, "how are you getting on with your picture ‘2 Would it be possibleâ€"" v At this moment he was aware of a knock at his door; there was something unusual about itâ€"it was not like the easy confidence of a model’s knock, and none of his brother artists were likely to be abroad at that hour. \Vhile his thou ht was in his mind the knock was repeats , and this time even more faintly. “Come in,” he said, but no one came, so he went to the door and opened it. A girl was standing outside, a girl of twenty or so dressed in what he would have de- scribed as ultra-msrine-ash color, and she wore a large black hat which shaded one of the haudsomcst and most expressive faces he had ever seen. There was acertain likeness to the model he had lost, and for one moment he thought that it was the truant girl herself, improved almost beyond recognition by good fare, good dress, and good gifts of all kinds, but the moment the new-comer opened her lips'he knew better. His Hetty Harrisâ€"a name she herself prefer- red to renounce ’Etty ’Arrisâ€"had received at her irth thegift that every time she spoke showers of superfluous h’s should alight on every side, and no “ a ” should ever be utter- but now a sweet voice said, or rather fal- tersd, “ Mr. Drummond, will you allow me to ask you a question ‘3” “ Certainly I will,” said Drummond with eyes riveted to her face, while in imagina- tion he was painting her, and painting with delight. She hesitated. “ What is it ‘2" he asked. “ Pray don’t mind speaking." “ You must excuse me if I am taking a liberty,” she said, never raising her fright- ened eyes from the ground, though their lashes were quite long enough to be a pro- tection. “ I was told that youâ€"that artists, I meanâ€"sometimes wanted models, so I came ; at least I thought I might perhaps come to see if you happened to want' one no N, and if I was at all the kind of person that you would ever care to paint.” “Ever care to paint!" She was exactly what he wanted. She was athousand times better than Miss Hetty Harris at her very best. An h-droppiug London model may by the painter’s craft be turned into Helen of Troy, or Joan of Arc, but there was a girl who could lead him and inspire him. I ! . blushing to the roots of her hair. “ I will tell you the truth,” she said. “I have sat to none ; I have never eat to any one but an amateur. I want to earn a little money, and I came to you because liked a picture of yours I once saw in the Grosvenor Galleryâ€"that’s all.” This was eminently pleasant to hear. and she was charming to look upon. He placed her with care in the attitude which he had chosen for the trea:berous woman who had deserted him, and then with a feeling of ex~ treme hopefulness began to work. She sat much better than to had expected, and for more than an hour he only opened his lips to say, “A little more this way, please,” or "Try to keep the position, unless you are too tired.” Suddenly, to his surprise. for his thoughts were so entirely given to what he was doing, he. found that she was speaking. By an effort be understood that she was telling him that he really did work hard. “Do you never stop to rest? Even you must want rest,” she added. “ I scarcely know what I do. I sup~ pose I ate now and then, but I am afraid when I do am still thinking of my picture. You must rest though ; I am forgetting that. You have been in that position more than an hour. Get up and walk about the room a while." He spoke with authority ; perhaps that was why her lip curled. But what a beauti- ful month she had. “Artists order their models about i” she said, rising to obey him. “ They must, but I hope they don’t do it discourteously. Models who have bad no practice do not know how to spare them- selves. It will do you good to walk about.” “ I suppose you would rather I didn’t look at what you are doing," observed Miss Hayley rather coolly, as she rose from her chair. " Not till it is farther advanced, if you please.” She strolled about the studio, or rather about such parts of it as did not command a view of his canvas ; and he worked on, tak- ing little or no notice of what she was do- ing, for heart and soul were now wholly given to work. It was not long before he began to wish that she would come back, and he turned to see if she were nearly ready. He had always been supposed to have one of the most artistically arranged studios in London. Miss Hayley, of Can- onbury, was standing looking first on one side of it and then on another, with an air of deep commiseration. \Vhen she saw that for a moment his attention was with- drawn from his canvas, she exclaimed,â€" “I had been told that artist‘s studios were so pretty and comfortable 1” “ Don’t you call this pretty and comfort- able ?” said he, much nettled. “ Well, no ;but perhaps it is. You see I I know nothing about such things. You want me to come back to my place ‘2” She returned, but being new to sitting, did not resume the original attitude, so he had to place her again. A little before one she suppressed a yawn, and said tentative- ,.._ “ You can’t both talk and work can you ‘2” have conquered some of my difficulties I “Of course vou will do," he said; “you shall be more $1,183, will do admiribly. You are exactly what “ Very well,” she said, in a semi-discon- I want for a. picture which is at a. standstill tented manner. u I dare say I can amuse because I have not been able to have the myself with my own thoughts.” 'l- u only model who would Slllu. She raised her eyes nowâ€"they were light, golden-brown eyes, with dark eyelashes and eyebrowsâ€"she looked somewhat re assured. “And there was something else,” she began, and stopped. “Yes,’ he said encouragingly. “Go on.” “Do youâ€"oh, I can’t say itâ€"I am ashamed to ask.” Then she seemed to gather her courage together for a moment, and got so far as to say, “ When people sit She sat for another hour, and then he saw that she had turned very pale. “ You are not used to this kind of work,” he remarked compassionatcly. “Would you like to go out and get some luncheon? The air might do you good.” “No, I don’t want to go out and then have to come back again,” she replied promptly. “But won’t you want luncheon ourself ‘2" “Not: yet. I don’t trouble myself much I “ Not to-day,” he answered. “ When I’ to you: MP- Drummondâ€"girls like me: I about luncheon. WhatI like is a cup of meanâ€"do you cverâ€"â€"-” “ Pay them, do you mean?” he suggested, thinking she must be young at the busi- ! tea.” “Then you may go on with your work, and I will make you some tea. and have a 11855. ” 0"» yes ! I always Pay the!" i it is l cup myselfâ€"that is, if you have any tea- ed by her without being turned into an “i ;” eightecnpence an hour. I will give you ten and Sixpence for three or four hours daily.” 5 things.” He was surprised at her coolness, but _“ 011: Wu and Sixpence 1,: 51“? Fallen-tad: attracted by the prospect of having some- ‘Ylldl 3!} 311‘ that bemkene“ lemme-1y 0011' tea without the trouble of making it, so he 31demu°n 0f 110‘” “web ten and Slxl’encc told her where to find everything, and left would buy. “ Yes ; but you must not fail me till my picture is done ; that’s why I am giving you more.” “ For how many weeks should I have to promise to come '2” her to do what she liked. She first ct alll carefully inspected two or three hits of embroidery that were in the room, to see which would make the best table-cover, then set the cups on it, discovered biscuits in the same cupboard as the cups, dusted ‘ ‘ e I ' . u e “lhree, for est tam, endpel‘h‘lpS longer: l some Persmn plates, and pr( sscd them into but. we need not be so particular; need we; ' her service, and when an was ready you will come as long as I want you?” “I will come as long as I can. I promise you faithfully to come for three weeks.” “All right,” said Drummond joyously. “Come inside, and I will get to work at once." “Should I have to be here early?" she in- quired before entering the studio ; “for I am afraid I couldn’t.” “At half t mine,” he said. “Oh, I can’t- come till eleven 3" “Very well," said Drummond; “if you can’t, you can't, and it shall be eleven ; be left in the lurch when once I have be- gun to paint you. You must make a defi- nite bargain with me. You promise to come every day for the next three weeks i l l said. “ Shall I bring your too. to you, or will you come here ‘2” “ I Will come there,” he answered, andi went to an easy-chair by the fire ; and as I she gave him his tea he realized that she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. (r0 m: coxrxxusn.) AN OLD ESTATE IN DANGER. Crcdltors (‘lamoringr for a Division of Savcrnnke Forest. Lord Henry Augustus Bruce, who is bro- . THE LAND OF PIGTAILS. ghina not so Fair as Fancy Paints Her. A Country More the lnhabltanls Think They Have a Sun or'nneli- own. Spit at Fort-Ignore. and do Every lhlng Bark- wnrtlâ€"Civn Service but no Civility. The Chinaman abroad is a different being fpom the Chiuaman at home. Here be per- mits himself to hold an opinion of foreign~ ers, and he permits his boys to'express it with mud and pieces of tiles. The first glimpse we had of China was within the mighty semi-circle of hills that forms the harbor of Hong-kong, a port equal in res- pect of its tonnage to New-York, and in no way suggestive of the China of the geogra- phies, the land of tea chests and mis- sionaries. The name means “ fragrant streams," and nothing could be mores propriate than this sppelation if applied to t e native quar- ter, for there the streams are fragrant, in- deed, in these festering Summer days. Even one who knows the hideousncss of the Chinese quarter of Victoria or San Francisco is appalled at the foulness and loathsome- ness of the creeping lanes and mazes of the homes of the Chinese in their own country. And when one gets hopelessly 'entaugled in their crooked streets it seems as if it were only by a special dis ensation of Providence that one might be de ivered alive from these shuffling, stolid-faced crowds of cue-wearers who shout out “ foreign devil ” and spit in your face as you pass. It is only in China one realizes how foul a habit expectoration may become. The Chinese at home are of all people the most uninteresting, their country the grim- m'est and most grotesque, and their religion as dull and stupid as their stony and feroci- ous gods. Western civilisation is a mere hem to this great garment, a few dots here and there, and, though ‘we are not a hundred miles from an English port, Canton is as heathen as it was a million years ago. Since the eccentric theories of Palgrave and Abbe Carreau, it has become the fashion to speak of the Chinese as the coming race, and even Lord Wolseley has lent his support to some such view. M. Carreau has even gone the length of expressing the belief. that the con- quests of Tamerlane and Genghis Khan will be repeated and the sovereigns of the West will regret having provoked the descendants of Han-Yen. If they ever do accomplish anything, it will be by sheer force and l brutality of numbers. The Chinese do everything backward. Their compass points to the south instead of the north. The men wear shirts and the women trousers ; while the men wear their hair long, the women coil theirs in a knot. The dressmakers are men ; the women carry burdens. The spoken language is not writ- ten and the written language is not spoken. Books are read backward, and any notes are inserted at the top. 'White is used for mourning and bridesmaids wear black. In- stead of being maidens, these functionaries are old women. The Chinese surname comes first, and they shake their own hands instead of the band of one whom they would greet. Vessels are launched sideways and horses are mounted from the offside. They commence I their dinner with dessert and end up with l soup and fish. In shaving, the harbor oper- l ates on the head, cutting the hair upward, I then downward, and then polishes it off ; with a small knife, which is passed over the eyebrows and into the nose to remove any superfluous hairs, and the performance is completed by removing the wax from the ears with a bit of cotton wool on a wire. The Chinese have no religion, that is, if by religion is meant anything more than a code of morals which is not to be carried out. They have cults, but no creeds, and innumerable forms of childish idolatry which are never believed in and often are laughed at. They are a practical race. They have no god of their own and are ready to chin- chin any joss whose claims may appear to be the best and whose powers of evil and good are the most easily recognized. Con- , fucius himself was a. practical, conservative, and sober-minded ritualist, and he laid down five essentials ; disinterestedness, justice and public spirit, good form in ~devo- tion and manner, education and good faith. Excellent in themselves these are, but the only thing that will excite a , Chiuaman to mirth is the idea that these are 2 many way being carried out. A well-known lady who wandered in China. and was unable to keep it to herself, was “ attracted by a bright little fellow about eight years of age, who for some months had refused to worship I the village idols, and who repeated various! Christian hymns with much feeling.” And yet with all his perspicuity he carried in his arms a “ wee baby girl whom he confesscdl was his wife.” The labor question is in its crudcst stage and it is absolutely impossible to make head against the secret societies. If a lady in any of the Straits Settlements discharge her cook she will find it quite impossible to on- gage another. They have taken to banish- ing the leaders with good effect. At I’enang two police officers accompanied a Chiuaman I named Lu Thieu on board the Empress of China with his wife and four daughters. They were escorted beyond the lines and will not return from China. Last year an- other labor leader was exiled, but be disre- garded the decree and came back. He was at once sentenced to imprisonment for life. Lu Then, before leaving, made his will in t favor of his family for $115,000, so that labor loading appears to be a profitable em- ployment here as well as in America. He l at eleven, and after that we can, if neccs- ther and heir to the Marquis of Ailcsbury, is accompanied by his clerk or secretary and and others intcrcstcd in the presentation of an imposing rctinue of servants, and is when, a lake existed till the barrier was for “ That is much the best," she said, with l the splendid estate known as Savcrnake mush afraid that his old friends in Chinal an air of relief. ” I do promise ; I will come ' Forest, Marlborough, Wilts, have carried will reason that if he is not good enough for l sary, make a new arrangement.” every day for three weeks at eleven ; work- ing days of course I mean, not Sundays.” “ You have eat before 2" “ No," she answered, and then altered it to, “ Yes, I have sat before, but I am not a rofessional model." rummond was used to people who said that they were not professional models, and took occasion to reveal that they were daughters of coloncls in the army, or of physicians who had not been able to heal themselves, and had left a struggling fami» ly behind them. He was wont to deal tenderly with these tender growths of tie- tion, but it was quite possible that what {but remember that it won’t do for me to gever 'nted from; besides, models are genera ly proud to bring out a long array 1 I to the House of Lords the question whether Savcrnnke Forest shall be disposed of to meet the encumbrances upon it, and to re- lieve the present Marquis from his load of indebtedness. The judicial tribunals have« already decided in favor of the sale. Lord 5 Henry Bruce, however, has all alon been opposed to the disposal of the estate, liev- ing that when the Marquis and his debts Penang he cannot be cod enough for China, and that his head wifi fall. The restaurants are arranged in the same - manner as those in Paris. The customer! cats his food on the sidewalk, and at the; same time ives a demonstration on the, elasticity o the human stomach, but the- Chincse dinerout is a little too free in his cxpectorstion. For common people the land the prescription required for " b “1 They are most inveterate medicine 15.“; ' and in certain quarters the air is heavy with the f tunes of a special preparation of rhubarb, icorico root, orris root. lovago, and musk. During the season whole junk- loads of these drugs come down from the interior. The mixture of old and new is grotesque. The civil service is bacod entire! on esa~ mination and education is the onfy passport to office. The highest university in the em- pire is the Imperial Academy at Pekin. where the highest degree, that of hanliu, is conferred. About one in seventy succeed in graduating. Sometimes 6,000 students are examined and only 200 succeed in ~ ing. These students have alread een examined in their native town an again in the capitals of the provinces, so that they are the picked men of China. And yet these students, many of them sixty years of age, have been known to ask if the sun which rises in China is the same as that which shines in other countries. The fame of Chinese literature rests upon some anti- quated maxims of morality. Here are some examples of their poetry: "Climbin the ire ' Fill the nirgwith thocsortik‘g dflfmggss: Each of the trees has its owner. But every one rospcots‘bls neighbor‘s. The living leaf flies to-day into our basket. And the zophyr is less quick than the hand that gathers it." "In Szechuen our ancestors in ancient times Became masters of the precious worms: So. when the snowy skcins we see, Let us pay our vows all at Loni 'l‘scn's feet. Bonding our heads before her shrine. OIl‘erin her silk and the flowers of the land. A pecu iar lustre of tho worm‘s hollyâ€" It is a sign that is about to change. And that its mouth will spin us its silk. Madame buslcs herself in pro aring its bed. And lays it on straw, that not ling may sell The immaculate thread which itself fixes." TO BRING THE MOON CLOSE TO US A. French Savant Proposes a Gigantic Crys. lal Mirror M. Francois Deloncle, a French savant, and Deputy for the Basso Alpes, has 9. mar- velous project in hand which he hopes to see completed in time to astonish mankind at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. Though the moon is 240,000 miles distant from the earth. M. Deloncle thinks he can construct an ap- paratus which will enable us to examine that luminary at very‘ close quarters. The idea has been expounded by the au- thor before a French scientific society, and M. Deloncle says, in substance, that the only obstacle to a close observation of celestial bodies is the relative imperfection of instruments, and that- all that is re- quired is an enlargement and improvement of the present instruments. Astronomers, says M. Deloncle, have reckoned that the image of the moon can be brought quite close to the earth by means of a crystal mirror eight meters in diameter, but which, owing to the thickness required, would weigh about eight tons. He has consulted various Opticians in Paris and they are pre- pared to execute the work before the year 1900. There remains, however, the question of the structure which would be required to hold this gigantic mirror, and upon this point M. Maurice Loewy, a distinguished French astronomer, says that while in prin- ciple M.Delonclc’s scheme is possible,thero are enormous difficulties in the way of its realization, the chief of which, so far as the exhibition is concerned, is that the appa- ratus must be erected ona mountain about two miles in height in order to secure the proper atmospheric conditions. If this and other difficulties \vere surmounted, says M. Loewy, there would be some very remark- able results, for it would be possible to clearly distinguish in the movement objects about the size of a four-storey house. BRIL LIAN T EN GINEBRIN G. Creation etc Great Lake to Supply Liver- pool wlth “'ntcr. For a small country we do a big thing now and then, even by the admission of our American cousins. The Forth bridge was one ; another is the creation of Lake Vyrnwy, in Mid W'alcs, which was yester- day declared by thc Duke of Comiaught at Liverpool to be “open” and fit to act as the scarce of the water supply of that city and the surrounding district. This means a great deal. It means that the corporation of Liverpool and their engineer have act“ ually re-made a great lake which existed as a lake in the glacial epoch, but which during the time cognizablc by human record has been a marshy valley, through which a tributary of the Severn slowly wound. It means that a village, a church, a burial- ground and a pleasant country house had to be removed bodily ; that a vast dam, un- equalled iu the world, had to be built, and that the water had to be conveyed through pipes and storage tanks as far as Liverpool, across the Mersey and over seventy miles away. The work has taken eleven years to bring to completion, and has employed an army of workmen and an engineer, whose name will always be associated with this grciit achievement. Mr. George 1". Deacon. Everybody will join the Duke of Connaught in congratulating the engineer, the men and the corporation on the conclusion of so great a work. and not the least element in the public satisfaction will be the thought that it has been done without hurting the susceptibilities of even the most ardent devotee of natural beauty. Ten years ago the Vyrnwy Valley was a bare, marshy, uninteresting region, which had been a lake once, but the waters from which had flowed away. Now, though, of course, the engineer’s work looks raw and new as yet, the good achievement of untur has been done over again and there ira lake some reason worn away. its enormous im- provement, indeed, has been effected, as everybody will admit when the masonry has toned down and the trees have grown. We are not without hopes that the same will one day be found to be the case with Thirlo mere; but it was not to be expected that good Wordsworthians and lake-dwellers should believe that to be possible when first Manchester asked for leave to make her works in that sacred region. We skull see; disappear in the course of nature there will Chinese have no recognition and no forms of l “a, meanwhile, it may he hoped that Man. he no difficulty in restoring the glory which used to attach to the magnificent seat of the Bruccs. .The question was argued to-day before the . House of Lords, and in behalf of the sale it‘ consented to it. Sir Horace Davy appeared l for Lord Henry Bruce and the other opposing of names of artists who have found their, relatives, and the case is likely to occupy services valuable. l days in hearing. l politeness, but if the circumstances warrant, cheater will lose no time in her friendly race the host‘hns ready : “ God be With you [0!" , with Liverpool. The making of waterworks “91" “I” my house: my home. my a“ : I ' in a beautiful country, with all their accom- am your slave; I bow down and kiss your‘ foot;" but it does not follow that the this girl was saying was no fiction, for she was maintained that the trustees had sanc‘ stranger will not be murdered before morn- nu, would be done (luau 1y, looked very superior to any model he had tioncd the sale and the Court of Appeal had in . The physicians are admirable for their outspokenness. They prescribe for a pati- 3 out by permitting him to draw one out of a f bundle of straws, which indicates the disease I animcnts of unsightl mounds of earth and caps of piping, is a t in , which. if done at 'I'l'iore have been, we know, many unexpected difficul- ties in the way ; Blanchwtcr is rather un- lucky in these matters, but it is to be hoped that these have now been overuseâ€"{Lon- don Times. . < .... m. mot-q 4 < mam-ou- W , s. u '3. .,.. A, __-.â€"._...__.,....