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if “it Ssn Roma. ' Yes. ' She spends her winters there. For the mmmen,she Alwayl gag-J11) to Sn My'tin. .,, n I... o- ‘ c THE THREAD OF LIFE It was innocently said, but \Viniired‘e face wee one vivid flush of mingled chemo and humiliation. Tell: About oeaute du diable indeed; she never knew before the kid grown so very plain and ancient. “ I’m not quite so old as I look, perhaps,” ehe enewered hutily. "I’ve had a rent deel toybreagrnendown.‘ But _I_’m gln_ to learn inure Elsie i3. anyhow. Yon iaid she was living atLSnn Bemo, [fancy 1': “Thank you,” Winifred answered with s throbbing heart. “I'm glad to bsve found out nt lush what's become of henâ€"Mrs Burton, if you cuu tear yourself away from Dr. end Mrs. Tyecke. who no nlwnys so alluring. suppose we 00 up-stuirs now and look at the pletum." --â€" o. .. . _ - CHAPTER XXXllI.-â€"(Conlxuw ) When the hired msntrom the mews behind flung open the drewin -room door in his lord- ‘Y '3! Mid onuonno in s very loud voloe, "Mrs Banverie Baton snd Mrs. Hugh les- “0801‘.” neither Worren nor Elie wss in the Iront room to hen the stertling snnonsos- meat, which would certsinly lor the mono out hove token their hmth ewsy. For com noniooflons between the houses of Rolf snd Musing“ hed long since oeossd. But Wsr~ no end Edie were both np-stsirs. So Winifred snd her hostess psseed idly in “not shnhing hnnds M the douwoy with good old Mrs. Rolf. who neVer by on, ohsnoe coughs nnybody's name) and mingled shortly with the was of the visitore. Winifred wss very Kind indeed of thnt. {or she wanted to escspo observation. Sir Anthony's report hsd been isr iron: r0. sssnring. She preferred to remsin u much in the background as possible thst niternoon : a1: she wished was merely to observe nnd to tan. In the studio, Warren Rel! recognised her at once. end with much trepidntion come up to speek to her. It would all be out now, he arently feered :Lnd Huvh would learn at last thet Elsie wee living. For Winifred'e own ukoâ€"ehe looked so pole and illâ€"he would loin have kept the secret to himself a few monthg longer. _ WTho lady nodded. “ Her n'ume’ e Elsie, zuid he wiyth a quiet inclination, “ and she was certainly n Gil-ton girl: butl hardly think she can be the some you mention. 1 Ihould im oglne. indeed, she’s a good deal too young 3 .“girl to have been your govern- Winilrod held out her hand frankly. She liked Warm; the had olwe o likei him ; and besides. Hugh had iotbi den her to see him. Her lips trembled. hut aha wu bold, ond spoke. "Mr Ralf." she said with quiet announces. “I'm IO glad to meet you here “why ogainâ€"glad on mom thou one account. You go io San Remo often, I believe. (fan you tell me if Elsie Cholloner is living there 1" Warren Ralf looked beck at her in undia- guiscd astonishment. ” She is. ' he answer» .a u hiri mo sister toll vou so 2" in . g‘ Oh Yea." one voice aid in e low tone, with the intention thnt betreye a furtive .ide-glence; “ She'e fer from strong -in fact, very delicate. He mnrried her for her moneyâ€"of ooum: thnt'e cleer. She hedu't much else, poor little thing. excepts certain ehortdived beam «in diablc, to recommend her. And ehe her no go in her; she won't live long. You remember what Gelton remake about heireelee 3 They are gen- eielly the lat dech-n mamhen. he says, 0 e moribund neck whoee Irrength is failing. They hear no children, or if nay, weeklinge: meet of them break down with their first intent; and they die at last maturely of organic feebleneee. Why, e just sold himself outright for the poor girl’e property; thet'e the loin English of it;end nowI heu‘, with is extrevegent hnbite, he'e got himself After all into mone~ tery flifiicultiee.:' - n -n .u I 7 7“ Agricultural depreuion 2" the second voiqflnquimfiâ€"gq om guy's md lopdgg. huhide, you know. But Mine Chelloner doesn’t come to England now ; ehe we: go- ng as usual to S! Martin de Lentooque to d the summer. when we left the Rivien. S e dweye poee there u soon n ‘he Sm Reno eeuon’e over." "Donâ€"doe. Musing" anow ll?’ War ron nked all aghut. mum. r. h , n he, und unwittingly trampling on h z. “ Oh, yea,” the second My Midi-cued mule unwel- cheerful! ;“ she we: very well when we In.» new her April at San Remo; We bed the next ville to the Relh on the “ flow and the Relfs first came to pick her 11 l ’ the other speaker ssked curiously. “ , I fancy it was Mr. Werren Ralf him‘ self who made her acquslntnnoe somewhere unearthly down in Sntl'olk, where she used to be e governess. He‘s always there, I believe, lying on a mudbsnk, yachting end Ikmhies-f . . - . . . c to 'be Elsie Challone}; who wins once at G‘xton? Because, if so, she was a governess of mine, and I haven’t heard of her for a long time past. Governesses dro out of one’s world so fast. I should be 3135 to know yhereshe‘s living at present." Winifred could restrain her curiosity no longer. “ I beg your pardon,” she said, leaning forward engerly. “ but I think you mentioned A certain .Mias Challoner. May I “E“: dug if happen _by any chance '35:""5'i3i6'ihy sisicr tell you so?" no No." Winifred replied with bitter truth- fulness. “I found it out.” And with that one short incisive sentence, she moved on coldly, M if she would {am look at the pic “ Worse than that, I (on; agricultural depression and an encmching In. Beside: which, he spend: too free! .â€"But ‘excuue me, Dr. Montrie," in a. very {ow tone: “ I'm digiduthojedy’g ugh}! near ut’: A- the ntood there mingling with the gen- onl crowd nnd uiking to some chance ncqnninunco of old London dnyl, the hap- pened to overhau- two IOI’IpI of conversation going on bl'hind her. Tno first was one that mentioned no nnmu: and yet, by some Itungo feminine instinct the was: sure it was of hermit the speakers were tulip Winifred named her em to the utmost to here the rent ; but the mica had Innk too low now to catch n cound. Even so she did no, nnothar voice. in more diltincb, from a Indy in front, caught her nttention with the nuns “ Min Challonor. " Winifred Izv,uu u “- rut feelings. iickéd up her an inoontinently. 0011 d It be of her Ellie (hut thou two were talk- D SUNSHINE AND SHADE. OB, “I thought no," Edie amwerod with a happy little laugh of com lete triumph. “ I hit upon such 3 oepitel odge, \Vnrren. I I never told you beiorehnnd what I woe going i to do, for I knew if I did, you'd never allow me to put it into execution ; but I wrote the name and prlce of eech picture in big letters and loin figures on the book of the frame, hen,_whenever I tack up n CHAPTER XXXIILâ€"Tm-z S-rmxns ' me CLosnB. “ I feel it my duty to let you know, ” Sir Anthony Wraxell wrote to Hugh a day or two laterâ€"by the hand of his amannensisâ€" “that Mrs Maseinger’s lungs are far more seriously and dangerously affected than I deemed it at all prudent to inform her in person last week, when she con- sulted me here on the enbject. Gal. [oping consumption, I regietto say, may enpervene at any time. The phthiaioal tan- denency manifests itself in Mre Massinaer's case in an advanced stage; and neral tuberculosis may therefore on the e orteet notice ca efl‘ with startling rapidity. I would a vise you, under these aininl circumstances, to give her the bone t of a warmer winter climate: if not Egypt or Algeria. then at least Mentone, Catania, or Malaga. She should not on any account risk seeing mother English Christmas. If she remains in Snfl'olk during the colder months of the present year, I dare not personally answer for the probably conse- quencesfl Hu h laid down the letter with a sigh of des a r. It was the last straw, and it broke his ack with utter despondency. How to finance avisit tothe south he knew not. Talk about Algeria Catania, Malaga l he had hard enougblwork to make both ends meet anyhow at Whitestrand. He had trusted first of all to the breakwater to redeem everything : but the breakwater. that broken reed, had only pierced the hand that leaned upon it. The sea shifted and the sand drifted worse than ever. Then he had hoped the best from “A Life‘s Philosophy ;" but “ A Life's Philosophy." published after‘long and fruitless negotia- tions, at his own riskâ€"for no firm would so much as touch it as a business speculation â€"had never paid the long printer's bill. let alone recon ing him for his lost time anl trouble. obody wanted to read about his life orhis‘phllosophy. Winifred turned round upon him with n. angry flesh. This wu more then the coal beer. l‘he tour were struggling hard I- rite to her 0 or 3 she kept them heck with » supreme e art. “ How should I know. y 2 ' the enowered fiercely. but very low ‘ Doe- he mnke me the confidante of nll hu lover, do you In) , Mr. Bell 2â€"He uh nho we: in Anatre â€"Be told me n lie.â€" Everybody'r combined end «lulled to de ce ve rumâ€"How ohonld I know whether ho known or not! [know nothing. But om thing I know : from my mouth nt lent h. shall never, never, never but it." She turned nwey turn. nnd hero on iron. Hugh hnd deceived her; Elsie had deceived her. The two soul. the had loved the but on onrth! From thnt moment forward, the joy of her life. whntever hnd been left of it, was n1- gone Irom her. She went forth [tom the room n crushed orentnre. _ . n .n I‘ “Have, on tuned up the tot-xi of the Idea. Vnrren!" Elie Ralf inquired with a bright light in her eye end a smile on her lips; for the private viewâ€"her own inceptlonâ€"hnd been more than success- fuiifrom i“, very_ beginning. . . a up mentdly with firofound trepidation. “Mother," he cried. clan ing her hand with a. convulsive clutch in in “ I'm efnid to tell you; We no positive] grand. It 009m! teeny too much,â€"If t 5 goes on. vou need never take nny pupils again;â€" Eiie. we owe it ell to youâ€"It can't be right, yet it cornea out Iquue. I’ve reckon ed up twice and got each time the some tomlâ€"Fonrrhundredgnd fifty I" And nll this while, poor lonely Winifred was rocking herself wildly backward and forward in Mrs Bonverie Barton‘s comfort- able carriage, and muttering to her- self in a med fever of despair: “I could have believed it of Hugh; but of Elele, of Elsieâ€"never, never 1" perm with 3 good, coiny, solvent expres- Iion of countenance, wt! 0. picture-buying croue about the corners of tine mouth, to inspect the studio. I waited for them cumi- ly to ah the nuno of my special piece they puticglgfly Pdmirgd. “ Lat {no nee,’"_ni£l Ov'lul - v-uuu-u v-wvâ€" _- _. How varied in 1ight end elude the world in l While \Vinifred was driving gloomlly beck to her own lodgingsâ€"solitary and heart~broken, in Mu. BJuVerie B uton's comfortable oarriegeâ€"revolving in her own wounded soul this incredible oon‘pirecy of Ru h'e end Eluie'Iâ€"Edie Ralf and her mot er and brother were joyfully discussing their great triumph in the now dismmtled end empty front drawing-room at 128 Bletohinvly Road. South Kennington. A_L.l -t _._.vâ€" -v. .-" W Warren jetted down 5 Ieries of figures on the back oftiun spy-lope ‘and _counm§l‘ tyem IIIU nnnnnn vâ€"v ‘- V "" r J' . or Winifred! health, Hugh thought far less than of thofinnncinl diflimlty. He saw she was ill, decidedly ill, but not so ill as everybody else who new her imagined. Wrapped up in hie own eelfiah hopes and fears, never really fond of his poor smell wife, and now estranged for month: and months by her untimely dlnovery oi Ellie'. . « Whats doe. Wmen call mm [think it's on the book here." So I turned round the fame, and there they'd see it, u luge a life: “ By Shomy Seenâ€"Ten Pounds g” or, “ The Hunt of the Sea-Swellowâ€"Thirty Guineas." Thn nlw-ye fetched them, my dear. They couldn't mint itâ€"Wamn, you may give me u kiss, if you like. I'll tell you wile} I've done : I've mgde your f‘ortnne." ‘ e tL- Warren kieeed her efi'sctfonntely on the forehand, hull ebuhed. “You're a bad girl, Edie,” he uid good-humonredly; “and if I'd only known it, I’d certainly hove token e greet bio coke of heel; ink-eraser and rub- bed your plein figuree all carefully out egein.-â€"Bnt I don't core n pin in the end, otter all. if I on meke this dear mother end you comfortable." “And merry Elie," Edie put in mischiev- 011$. i h r ' erren geve a. nieb s g 0 re 1:. “ And marry Ellie.g he edded low. 5;;th Elsie iwill never merry_m9.” "7 thirgooae l” said'Edie, and laughed at him to his hoe. She knew women bgtber than he did. She read the letmr through without I nlnglo wordzthen the yielded M: hut, in spite of horse". to her womnnly tour. "I no it I", Hugh," Ibo cried, flinging herulf The action sud the insult were too much for Hugh. He oould no longer mtrsin himself. Slr Anthony’s letter trembled in his hands: he wes clutch- ing it tight in his waistcoat pocket. To show it to Winifred would have been cruel. perhaps, under any other circumstan- ces ; bn: in {Lee of such an emulation us thst, .yet whollv misunderstood, flesh and bloodâ€" at least Hugh Musinger'sâ€"could not furth- er resist the temptation of producing it. " Reed that," he cried, handing her over the letter coldly ; “ you ll see from it why it is I want tn go ; why. in spite of all We‘ve lost and are losing, I‘m still prepared to submit to this extra expenditure}: "Out of my mono ," Winifred amwer- od acornfullv. as a 0 took the paper with an inclination of mockcmrteuy from his trenmlona hands. "How wry gonor- ouo ! Am! how fiery kin}! of you !”_ ....... . ‘5 \Vi;ifrod laid the Au... down with o flop on the five o’clock tee table, thet etoggered with its weight, md turned the psgee with feverish huts till she come to the map of Northern Italy. “I thought so," she gap ed out, an nhe ecenned it clone, 3 luri red .pot burning brightin her cheek. “Mentone end Bordighen ere both of them dmoat next door t') Sm Remmâ€"The unrest Itotione on the line dong the contâ€"Yon could run over there often by nil from either of them." She mount-the name to spook velunso to Hugh's conscience ; but it fell upon his eon ss flet end unimpressivs as my other. "Not neocssnrily to Sm Rome," he replied, ell unconscious. ‘To Algeria, if you likeâ€"or Montana, or Bordiglorn. Winifred arose, snd walked without one word of cxplsnstlon, but with e resolute lit, into the study, next door When she come out sgein, ehe curried in her two urns Keith Johnston‘s big lrnperinl Atlss. It we: 3 huvier book then she could eusily lift in her preoent feeh'e condition of body. but Hugh never even offered to help her to carry it. The dey ot smell politenesses end oourteeies was long gone past. He only looked on in mute surprise, anxious to know whence come this sudden newborn interest in the nealocted study of Europeun geo- grephy_._ __-. - - .- .. n.‘ ‘-_._ _:s.l. .. a-“ An idea nuhed suddenly oeroee Hugh’- mind. “ I think, Winifred," he oold celm- l , “ you‘re iobonrin under a mlltolre obeul: the place you're open ing of. The ‘geming tables are not at Sen Remo, on you ouppooe, but at Monte Carlo, just beyond Montana. And if you thought I. wanted to go to the Riviera for the sake of repairing our ruined eetete at Monte Carlo, you‘re very much mistaken. I wanted to go, I oolomuly de- clare. for your health only." Winifred rose, end foced him now like on ongry iigreee. Her sunken white eheeko were flushed end fiery indeed with eunpreee- ed moth, and o lirightulight b1o_zod_ In her me for years, and you're lying to me now as you’ve always lied to me. You know you've led to me, and you know yan‘re lying to me. This pretence about my healbh's a transpar- ent falsehood. These prevarioatlons about the gambling tables are a tissue of fictions. You can’t deoive me. I know why you want tc go to San Remo I" And she pushed him away in disgust with her angry fingers. “ Run overâ€"oftenâ€"by railâ€"to San Remo 2" Hugh reputed with n genuinely pvznlgd “Pro-aim! of. 09211199292; dilated pupils. The full force of n burning indignation sealed her soul. " Hugh Mussinger," a a said, tepellinv him hln ht- lly with her thin_left hand, “ you've 1i to “ Oh, you not edmirebly I" Winifned cried with e meet. “\th1; perfect bewilder- ment 1 What childlike innocence l I’ve nlweye conaldered on an Irving wowed upon private life. (you'd gone upon the sage. you'd hove mode your fortune : which you’ve scarcely succeeded in doing. it must he confessed, at your‘ vuions existing u- eolied professions.” utoh, which both he end ehe hed entirely Iii-interpreted, Hugh Mneinger had seen het in“ young oreeture grow thinner end mier dey by dey without et my time reelin- ug the Jada-dis)! of the change or he hem eerioueneu of her felling oen ‘ition. He went out into tho drowluproom to join Winifred. He found her lying [ally on he 001-. pretending to reed the fire! vol- mm of Beeent'e lat new novel from Mudie'e. ‘ The wind'e ehiltod." he hegen uneeeily. ;r?;le’ehell get it wamer. I hope eooo, Win- " Yce, the wind'e Ihifted.” .Wlniited en- nui-ed mily, looking up in l hepeleu ind be! god why {mm the egee of her -tory. " t hiev "night mm on Sibfl'ih 10-00!th ; to-duy it blown etreiahe wroee rem Greenlend." Iv.- u~“â€".â€"â€"â€". " How would you like to ubroud for the winter. I wonder?" Hug ukod con- asivoly, '"h um. hint “temp. At his old kindness of ton. and mpgr. His wife ginggodâ€"B;o:;; him with a sudden sud gauge” nunpioiou smile. ‘ To Sm Rope. I cuppa}. !' the nlmworod bitterly. L __‘____- L- But he hnd noted too often and too no cesafully to be believed now, for all his enrneetneu. “ Your solemn word of honor l" Winifred burst out angrily. with intense contempt. " Your solemn word of honour, indeed! And prey, who do you think he. lievea new in your precious word or your honour either ?â€"V'ou can’t deceive me any longer. thank goodness, hngh. I know you want togo to Sun Rama: and I know for whose nuke you want to go there. This noiicitude for my henlth’n all a pure fiction. Little you cared for my health 3 month ago 1 Oh no, I see through it all distinctly. You’ve found out there's a reneon for going to Sun Rama, and you want to go there for your own pleasure nccordingly." Hugh stared back at her 11: blmk unus- mentg “ I don‘t know whut you man," he anmprogl [hortlyl “ Winifred," Hugh cried, with trump“- ent conviction in every note of his voice, “ 1 no you’re ishonring under ”median-ou- in minpprohension; but I give you my no own word of honor I don't in the lent know what it in you're driving nt. You're hiking about uomabody or Iomething un. known that I don't understand. I wish you'd explain. I can't follow you." “Cepitsl! cepitni !" Winifred went on In her hitter mood, endeavouring to neenme epleyinl tone of unconcerned irony. “ I never aw you not better in all my lifeâ€"not even when you were pretending to fall in love with me. It's your most Inceeeefnl pertâ€"the injured innocent :â€"mnoh better then the pert of the devoted hubend. If I were you, I eheuld elweye stick to ih.â€"Bnt We very ehrnpt. thie sudden conver- eionwof yearn to the chum of the Riv- ism " Yes, the wind't mend rally, lo we! be! and way ‘tory. _" h bio! ur_l volumi- to oartege on this waited coal is calculated to be £268,750, while the passage oi a large number of horses through the streets in drawing it adda considerably to the coat of street cleaning and repairing. Toere is also the coat of taking away the extra ashes, £43,000 a year. Summing it all up, the direct and indirect coat of the wasted coal in net dowu at {22600000, plus the addition- al loss from the damage done to property caused by the smoky aimoaphere, estimated by Mr. Chadwick at £9,000,000-the whole amvEmiing to £4,603,000 or 823,000,000. â€"| ‘x. Neither of these theorieeBQ the derivetion of the along any be right. They fit auspi- cionely well, and hove a “ msdo tooorder" oir about them. But my body who thinks he has. beater theory is welcome to try it on. The effects of the defunct Glndat mo Club. ti111 Kingston, were told by motion on Fri- ay. Professor Chandler Roberta estimates the weight of the smoke cloud which daily hangs over London at about 50 tone of aohd car- bon, and 250 tone of catbou in the form of hydrocarbon and carbonic oxlde gases. Cal~ calated from the avenge reaultof teats madc by the Smoke Abatement Committee, the Value of coal wanted from domestic grates r aches. upon :he annual onnanm “0an 5,- 000 people, to £;,257,§Q0. _ hp cont of “In the soup" first achieved classic au- thority, so far as can now be ascertained. in one of the picturesque stories of what are called “sporting” events. The event was the arrival in America last fall of Kilrain, the pugilist. The situation was that the big Cunarder Etruria, with the pugilist aboard, lay in the darkness ofl' Quanutiue, waiting tor morning, and a tug with Kilrain's friends aboard, was hovering about, anxious to get Kilrain ofl‘ and bring him up to the city. The Captain of the Etruria had announced with a seyerity that seemed unnecessary that no such drunken crew should come anywhere near his vessel. The disconsolate but not unhappy crowd on the tun had to content itself with howling greetings to Kilrain across a watery gulf that separated the two vessels. One of the men on the tug, Johnston by name, was so anxious to get as near Kilrain as possible that he tumbled overboard. One of his companions, witnessing this act, instead oi assailing the still depths of the darkness that brooded over the waves by shouts to help, or shocking the calm stars overhead with frantic cries for a rope, simply balanc~ ed himself against the rail and called out : “ Ho 1 J ohnston's fell in de soup I" The sublime audacity of the comparison of the great Atlantic to a plate of soup was wasted on the drunken crew that heard it, but the waves chuckled gleeful rlpkples against the tng's sides, the stars twin led merriy, and next morning, when people read about it, it tickled the public fancy so that the new slang became quickly the t expression of the day, and by this time II has attained just about ripeness enough to make it ready to pick any lay away alon with Mr. Gallagher and other slang once 0 i repute. The police, on the other hand. say that they never hour! of the expression “ in soup" being used by criminals to mean im- prisonment. They derive the phrase, " in the soup,” from an entilelv different source, the theatre, and make his original spelling ‘ ‘snpe.” " He‘s the snpe,” according to this theory, was first acontemptnons designation of an actor's place, classing him among the snpernnmaries, and then a general expres~ sion of contempt for anything. :0 growing najnrslly intojts present significance. down onoo non In dupir upon tho ooh. " You (no, I'm in: to dlo now 3 “d It will be so oonvo out, so vory oonvonlonl (or you to be nu he: then out door or 55:: Rome I" I‘ve Thou-leans to' the .rlule of tile let- esl In of Popeler ale-x. Everybody who is running for office, to gether with every perty thet is running a oendidete. ls, eoeordlng to one etetement or e‘nother, “ in the soup." Outside of politics, the ssme feet is observsble. Everythln end everybody thet doesn't just suit every dy else is lure to be consigned by somebody or other to “ the soup.” The world, infect, seems to heve become en immense tureeu, end ell its inhebitente ere floeting eround like chopped vegetables in e jnlienne. Why this should be so, end why the “ in the soup ' ides should be uppermost now in the mind of every cluz an who went: to sey something funny, is not more apparent than was, ewhile ego, the reason for every one being inclined to tell every one else to f‘ Let her Nobody knows just where this “in the soup" expression came from, but two ingen- ious theories have been breached to a re- porter who attempted to trace the “soup" to its lairâ€"to its kettle, as it were. M r. Gafl‘uey, who is the language sharp of the “ Police Gazette,” rays that the expression first became current in sporting circles about eight or ten months ago, but that for long before that he remembered to have heard the street gamins cry after a drunkerd man that he was “ full 0’ soup" and he also thinks that among criminals the expression “ he's not in soup ’ was used to ex ress the idea that a person has fallen into t e hands of the law, and was locked up. Fro‘n using “ coup" to express the idea of drunkeness the step was to make it cover,the misfortune to which drunkenness led, and so to convey the idea of any misfortune, so that “ in the soup" came to have its present signifi- canoe. gaidnrliargher.” Th6 origin of both expres- Iionn is involved in_ obeougigy. Hugu goud use her ogtln ln mute eupriu A. loan be new lb-he new It tn ell lte Inkeu nideoulou. A ll be begun nuduolly to Jun upon his lulu . It In owlulâ€"lb In: norrlblo ll 1. cruel Nome-la upon hlo un apokeu orlmo. Te fihlnk Ill. should bv jeoloueâ€"of bl. murdered Elsie! He could oudly epoch of ll ; but he must, no mun. “Whale," he cried. olmnu softened by his fly for who he nook to be her esdly Ind terribe mluuke. 'Iundeutend you.I think, that alL I new whet you moonâ€"You belleu- â€"hu Ellieâ€"lo u Son Rune. ' Winfirod looked up It him through he: bum-rm: o withering glmoo. ' You hm told it I" oh. otlod lo o houghtv voice. and "lop-ed into odloot 6' o! sobbing sud lup- prooood cough, with her poor woo hoe buried doop_onoo F?" llyo o wounded ohlld'l in the Million: of the Ooh. “IN THE SOUP." )ro In: comxvxn ) There was a time when the Jews were pene- cuted in every country in Europe, but the unreuonin prejudice again-t them he: in most cases een weakened or removed alto- gether by the spread of civilizing influences umong the muses. As the probabilities Are thut oi the European nations Russia will be the last to obteln iree institutions, it me be expected thst :necution will there fin itn lut etronghol . The degree of civilintion which a. country has reached mcy be fairly gsnged by its free- dom from bigotry and intolerance. Judged by this stnndard, Russia must be a semi- bnbarous country, another anti-Semitic crusade having been started in the Czsr’s dominions. Foreign Jewish formers have been ordered to quit. Po. . \d. and it is expect- ed an edict of expulsion w. ‘I be pronounced against the foreign Jews in southern Russia. A sensation ‘nu been created in Wood- stock by a sermon prenched by Rev. Mr. Farthing. of the Episcopsl church there, in denunciation of gambling. Mr. Farthing condemns the practice as tending to deprove the community end to divert men from honest toil to speculative means of rushing 3 living. The practice is n tremendous do- oeptlon in more ways than one. \Vhenever s men fs_lls__u victim _to the gamblers the pniar feeling for him is one of regret. gilt a due regard for the circumstances will show that the man has really made a fool of himself by deliberately walking into a trsp. Nobody but the professional makes money at gambling. The games of chance are not devised with a view to giving the green- horn on equal opportunity with his gamb" 1g acquaintance. Even if the appliances are not fixed so as to prevent the novice from winning, the superior knowledge [oi the ame possessed by the professional renders one to the beginner a certainty. l’rofeeeor Chendler Roberta eetimetee the weight of the smoke olond which deily huge over London At shout 50 tone of solid oubon, end 250 tone of carbon in the form of hydro- carbon and eerbonio oxlde gnu. Calcula- ed from the average result of tests made by the Smoke Abatement Committee, the velne of con! wanted from domestic gretee renohee, upon the annnel conanm tion of 5,000,000 people, to £2,257,500. he coat of cert-go on this wasted coal in calcnleted to be £268~ 750. while the passage of a large number of heroes through the street- in drawing it add- ooneuderebly to the coat of street cleening end repeiring. There is also the coat of tek- mg away the extra ashes, £43,000 a your. Summing it all up, the direct and indirect cost of the wanted coal in let down M: £2,- 600.000, plus the additional loss from the demege done to property caused by the smo- ky atmosphere, estimated by Mr. Chsdwick at £2,000,0J0â€"the whole unohnting to £4- 600,000 or $23,0L‘0,000. A N 2w YORK Enzcriox-A Room: Estua- ATE or WHAT Tuxsmr‘s Fleur 0031 THE CITY. ' Whole expense st polls ......... $620,500 Msyornlty fight... ............. 273,000 Bel ot printing .................. 60.000 Benners ........................ 24,000 Parades ...................... . . 350,000 Three eldermsnic candidetes in etch oi the twenty-four districts et 81,030 etch ................... 72,000 Three candidates for Congress in esch of the nine districts et 82; 500 eeoh ............ . . . . ..... . 67.500 Three osndidetes for sherifl’et $20,- 000 each ......... . . ......... . . 00,000 Three csndldstes for county clerk et 820,000 eech ............... 00,000 Three esndidetes for president of the Board of Aldermen et $5,000 esch....-. ........... 15,000 Ten candidates for coroner et $5000 The statistical returns of the expor- ' trade of India during the last ten years show a very considerable and gratifying in crease in almost all the chic products of the country. The amount of raw cotton ex- ported has risen from 93 800.000: to 134,700,- 000 rupees, wheat from 28 700,000 to 86,- 200,000 rupees, and rice from 69,500,000, to 88,300 000 rupees. In cotton twist and yarn there has been a larselv increased ex. portâ€"from 7,400,000 to 34,100,000 rupees. The only marked falling at? is in opium which declined from 123.700.000 to 110,700, rupees. The tables further show that the growth indicated has been steady and is still kept up, the total export trade of India which has increased about 35 per cent. in the ten years, having been larger last year than in any year prewding. The fi ares respecting cotton and wheat are psi-tic arly suggestive. They point to undevelo possibilities wihch have a serious mean g ior America, no less than for Europe. But increased abundance of food and clothin must be in direct line with the worlds well-being. All tho money whtoh tho worl’d pas-ouc- sonny would only urohuo coo-thud of II railwoyo, limo to- 5, tho nilroodo of tho world on worth nouly 630.000.0003“) of .bout one-tenth o! Oho tot-l momma-y woolth of the clvjliud muons. out! our on quubt A “Mr, inn-ad ooplhl. In oomporloon with this sum the omount of mcnoy invoohd in baking throughout the ontlro world i but o mas. Tho rollrood bulinooo h g... which in inoroulng no on olmon inorodlbl. moo of Ipood. In 1875 tho world'l rollwoyo sggflgoud 185 000 miles, while in 1885 thou note over 300,000 mun of Milt-cod, thu thawing an lnorouo of "5.000 In an yours, or. on on “on. up!!!“ ot‘!1.009:l_n_l_l:$ aflvfidfifiléfilhig ou‘t Euglafid in groom: than that of all Europe put together Vet. ily we are living in a marvellous oountr , whioh‘the road ingenuity of the people doing more an more to developsâ€"Sprint- field Repubh'can. "u VII nu .vvl v. ‘lrv’uuâ€"u .. -_,-- - y u. want??- considered um um noun mm the lying «oh you of nilwuy “om to tuck nouly hulf around the oath magnitude of the lnorouo on be in a mu m A; pruoltbed. No betur illuutndou of the woudotful wouhh of the United Shot“ in furnlohod shun the figure- which David T. Dog of the divulou o! mining Ihflstioa of the uh- ed Show. geologic“ survey, given "guiding the human» mineral output of the country [or the put your. Tho, Ihow thut the mu value of oll minerull ruined thut your amount- ed to $538,000,000. Thin ll $70,000.000 more thou the output during the previous your, nud more thnn $100,000,000 grout! thnu tho! of 1835. The luv you'- output Is not only the arena-t over raised In the United States, but is ut lent $100,000,000 (router _tb_an tuo output__of uny‘ogher ooun- , A___ each...... ..... Coat of the election in the city.81,724,060 STATISTICS.