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«inference and disr ’. sprang into the y along the back of - close in the wild riders encoun- rho were commg to- These pedestrians, ;e country people, and were quite ex- } await-y approach- at their a. halt, and said to their surprise, “An were bathing in the a Majesty’s orders, zled at. the strunge :telescope seemed to mp ‘non was that. d oveted a plot i chose to arrest the :e sure of them. 1813 beyond a. doubt, a on the life of the rowliled, on a pretext v, 1: air oung ste father’s genuine as ‘ 1*. most 01 the prop- ke away wnh him. Ives and hid their were waking along rity when they were onzed by the ng through the geogra- owning of the poor brothers, and while sight, he determin- of the murderers. tartled and thrown arrest; by the King. like the vengeance nfessed their crime, :ed at once. If his had not. been put crime wonid never Harper’s Young ism-e, and ore-«I15 a. horse saddled, asof the cavalry: ommand. :5}: King ordered them at once. No nover, Pa. , says : me recluse, died on sidence on theYork at Hanover. Since co from his strange do, and on this oc~ Id 1888, he’uisited a received a patent red 580,0)0 for the $100,000, and got Ition with a love eyed on his mind became dacidedly retire from society would oniy see 3 es with him, and Slept In a Coll). riummo; who died owned the place g of a. farm, , . three-story ,umma’s unils, V xing house. OIL party of Jacob at , who died about. one: me the property of ‘sold the farm to mlivingin the house prere out. for sale of Lurdzxy less, but, the icount. of Mr. Mum- hree rooms in t!“- In early life he \joyed himself and mtments. :14! live entirer in Here he would eat uner 5ime he would econd floor and on. rd. He went. from ”he aid of a. ladder, h the floor and ceil- ' other part of the F would come forth 1 I over the farm in STORY. IS well and at the sh air and exercise. a casket made in : buried. He had that rats and mice sleep and had high gaming in and out» I. tin box made and taker in which he He had no use for I» bet. His hair wafi 1183 C 91173- if,“ Then and ”In. raters. will be atly sur- mum rinking in no common In some some that. this will :eling assured that he fast they won d ‘ to out of the Bti remove the beat e would commefl revelations at t be other day a! ble woman whc herself with an. mum» I of ‘ a: ,he had been in let regularly for :e drachm a day my gradually in- f her death three sted her for nine perhaps, that this :he Coroner’s reâ€" ting idea ; he as- : own knowledge ;a common prac- z town ; country we in many other ble conseonences. crusaders. then, ludo laudanum sale is placed That is the Snnderland Cor- ut the best with- o! consistency, round the sale manner of legis- oying laudanm “ By all means do. I will take a turn round the village, and come back in half an hour.” “ You will find me gone.” “ Hum. And when shall I have the pleas- ure of seeing you again ‘3" H Who“ I ham: dcxnidad unnn than. nnnrse. I shall take.” He drew down his lantern cheeks between his thumb and forefinger, display mg the one tooth that stood up hideous from his lower gum, his brows rising in an expression of surprise and doubt. THROWING OFF THE DISUIU‘SE. I will think it over,” said I, when I 173d and Beeton out. “ Postponed sine die,” he said, shaking his head. “ You can hardly expect me to delay execution, so to speak, for an indefi- nite period. I am sure you are too sensible for that. Now, how would it be if I jogged over to-morrow afternoon, dropping in about tea-tune '2” “ There is no necessity for that. You shall know my decision by this time to-mor- row gaming)? _ _ .- . u c! LA “ Very ggod. Twelve o’clock,” said he, glancing at, the timepiece on the chimney. “ Give you an hour’s grace, and if you donot answer to the call then, I am to conmgler that you decline my services, and are makmg the best use of your time to escape from the police.” ‘1 1. 4L__.-- I “ You are at liberty to consider what you I like,” said I, rising. He looked at me sidelong in s'lence for a. moment ; then he saidâ€"- “ You think you may induce the lady "who sent you to prison to declare herself aour wife, and absolve you from the offence with which you wrll be charged ;” he smxled rdonically as he shook his wicked old ' ead. “ Well, you may induce her to gromise that ; but if you trust to the promises of a. woman who has _pla.yed YOE ‘7‘ When ffmve d'ecided upon the course {also when you Were young and stainless, I atzske my professional reputation that you will find yourself trapped a. second tlple when the chance is offered her of; clapping â€"--‘.. 1' 'l-uwu'v _â€" v--_ , you up, while she goes back in her brougham to the luxuries she has lost and her children from whom she has been taken. I trust to your good sense and the recollection of past experiences, and shall expect to see you to- morrow morning. In the meanwhile. “ he added, as I put my hand on the door, “ may I ask you to give me something in the shape of la. retaining fee ‘2” 1 had a. five-pound note in my pocket. He took it eagerly, and rubbed it between his thumb and fingers as if the feel of it pro- duced the most delightful of sensations. , LL:_“ 7’ uuucu Inn; luvav \tuLAsuu.-.. .. _- “ Take that as a. giftâ€"I promiée nothing,” said I as I left him. vv- -v-v--â€"â€"v_ I rode home, with Black Care for a com- panion. I remember how dark and dreary the moor looked ; it had changed in a few hours. I bent my head down that I might not see it. With what eager joy I had looked forward to returning to Hebe ; Now I could think of meeting her again nith a dread % that I should find her, too, changed. Bee- I ton had revived a feeling within me that‘ I thought dead for ever, by bringing before 16¢ those recollections which I had shun- ned of late. with the same stubborn resolu- tion that had banished happy memories from my mind in the early days of my misery. It was with a. maddening sense of my own weakness that I now strove to for- get her crimes, and I only succeeded par- tially. . w u | I ',,-. 1.-£....- ‘kn tin"- UAWI‘J. I heard Howler barking before the cot.- tage ms in sight. I dared not lift my head ‘ to see if she were there. Presently the dog rushed up, and after a. long growl of wel- come ran on in front, jumping up at the ambling pony’s head, pirouetting in be- tween, and barking all the time. She was thereâ€"smiles on her lovely face ; a wrap coquettishly arranged about her head and shoulders. Seeing me dejected and gloomy, her expression changed in- stantly, and in a tone of sympathy and. dis- gust. she saidâ€"â€" “ What a horrible afternoon; you must 5““ “ What a horrible afternoon; you must 1, u be cold through, and tired out.” : u If I had been gay, she would have found 7 o the afternoon beautiful. 5 1; She shut out the dreary sky while I was ‘ c putting the pony up, and lit the lamp. The t room was full of cheery comfort when I .t went inâ€"the dinner things laid, and the dishes glowing before the bright fire. 3 1 “ Good God !” I said to myself, looking ‘ t round ;“ am I to lose all this ‘2” I had never seen her so sweetly amiable. 1 It is when we are about to lose our happi- 5 ; ness that we see its full value. Not one ‘1 question did she put to find'an explanation 1 of my gloom; not an observation slipped - out to show that she had cause for anxiety : or apprehension. All her talk was directed ‘ . to give a gayer turn to my thoughts, to di- » vert them into pleasant channels. That was practical sympathy, all the rest is worth , nothing. »' And how untiring she was, how exhaust- : less the fund of observations she had col- § lected during the day to interest me ! How- . let, the fowls, the cow, her household i affairs, all provided themes that her wit and ‘ good sense made delighttu . “ "“ A " â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" on. kg. “in: this” I _. Published by special arrangement from advance sheets or C’hambers' Journal. uou “new wuuv u--.°..-_ “n “ She must love me to be like this,” I said to myself, and then giving myself up to the joy of the present, I looked at her and smiled, forgetting all the past, until the thought struck into my heart, like the stab of a knife, that perhaps this was the last night of my happiness. Then a. mad desire possessed me to catch her in my arms, and put an end to both our lives, that such a. miSery as separation might be defied. , ,_._-n Uncvn 1 inch R1] .. “vi; {Hero no escape? Have power of invention that. I cannot feeble old rascal like Beeton? ” mysgl‘f. A L- LL:..I- Ann’f In“ Ulywu. “ ’ou want to think, don’t. you? ” asked Hebe, when she brought her work down after dinner, and found me with my elbows on the table, and my head in my hands. “Yesâ€"t little while,” said I. “ I must think, too ; for I have to make three and a. half yards serve for four.” And so she sat. down quietly, where I could not. see the movement of her fingers; . L -__ ~_~nnn§¢:‘ a 1-0. cculco IIUU WV III-v mu. -.._,,, though my mood must have suggested} re- turn to those mechanical calculations, which I believe she hated with 311 her jealous heart, for it. was in this way I used to sit when I wanted “ to think” in former times. - - nI ‘ I don’ t know how sorbed In though” CHAPTER XLV. BEYOND RECALL. know how Ion I sat there ab- thought; but * end of it Was fiéve I lost all cannot outwit a. etcn?” I asked that I turned suddenly, and fixed my eyes on Hebe. She met, my regard with an in- quirin smile in her soft eyes. 1 “ ould you like to go away ‘3” I asked. “ Go away !” she echoed in hushed as-‘ toniahment, dropping her hands in her lap. r?! “ Do you want. me to go .' “ That’s not an answer to my question.” “ I am quite happy here.” “ Quite ‘2" “ Quite. Have you found any sign that leads you to think I am not ‘2” e . L__.- ~QA‘AAB “There at; a. thousand things one could wish for, and yet be happy without them.” “Yet. vml would be happier with them. asked "and v- â€". he, I AVA, may. J Ali-I “Yet: you would be happier with them. Y on yourself have said that a condition is goodfionly until a better is obtainable.” ,, ,1:4.:-_ LLA.‘ Huh: ” mail] wwnvu.’ v v "““'a .â€" _-_ V , “ My own discontent. i Hake this barren, monotonous moor ;” indeed, I felt what I said. “I. hate pile pgrpetual mist and AL-__A,_ uunu. .; .-w v v leaden sky. I haZte xthe‘ mean existence with its servile offices, its cramping restric- tions, and miserable make belief of sufi‘i- __ - . -- ‘ o T LA.-- n-..“ Ian“:- “I know! I know! I have seen how distasteful many things have become to you with the growth of finer sensibi‘xities ; but, I can light the fire, Gregory, and I don’t; a. bit migd sweeping the floor.” t: T; 3- :_‘â€"~A~fi:k‘n Illluu gflvvrnua .1..- ._v -..V The better voice said, “ It is impossible that such a. woman equld be false again.” gnu-u any-g .â€" u v--.“â€" “I should detest; the work more if you did it.’ ” Her face lit up with pieasure to hear me say this; nhen, after a. moment’s grave thought, she saidâ€"- I. m 1.,l‘___- yuvua I. w) â€"--v -w- “ 0 you thinâ€"1;; we could afford to keep a little servant. ?” I laughed with the knowledge that I could give her half a dozen big servants if necessary. “A little servant. won’prm’ake this moor less bleak,” said I. “Tell me the ' benufifulplagg you. hz‘we- ever visited.” ”Va“ VVVVV r-v-vv' J v ~~ â€"_,, , “ Oh, Amalfi in Italy is the most beauti- ful spot. I know of at this time of year ; but there are many sweet places in our own couniryâ€"tzhere’s the Isle of \V'ght.” ... o ‘17 ,‘I M- LL.... 2’ It took her a. moment of two to overcome her astonishment, accustomed as she was to my sudden changes of attitude. Then she said meditativelyâ€" owl“ IIIV“-v-vvâ€" . --‘, “ But the hotels, I think, are expensive 1 and I fear they wouldn’t quite like Howler : I still, we might find small apartments if you 3! have made up your mind to go away, and; we could give Howler to some one who ‘ would treat him kindly. And the cow, and l Kit, and the fowls ‘5” Her voice dropped in 3 a. melancholy cadence of regret as she went I through the list of the creatures who hadl responded to her affectionate care now to be 1 abandoned. n .1 “Y- fiuunuvuu u. l “ W'e won’t part with one of them. We * will have a. whole yard full of creatures ; and you shall have a. house furnished with all . the luxuries that money can buy, and servants to Wait upon you; there shall not; i be a. wish ungratified." g She looked at me uneasily. I daresay the excitement in my face and voice justified} the suspicion that I had taken leave of my ‘ . sober senses. I laughed at her anxxous . gravity. “ I’m not mad. I mean what I say. You 2 will see. To-morrow we will go from here 5 to choose the new home. It is all plmned ,out: I will go over to Newton and bring : back some one to put in the house and t2. ko l ‘ care of your pets, and some sort of a carriage { to take you over to Tavistock, and from - . there we will go house hunting.”- ,A_- A..-«..L ‘ ‘ “'uuv lUL u vvvvv D .---_- - ‘ (1‘! “You have taken my wits away !” she d replied, laughing hysterically. “ Let me go over it quietly in my mind, and realise I : all you have said.” ;0 She covered her flushed face with her ‘11 1 delicate, white hands. But I was too ex- 18 cited to wait. for reflection. bb l “ Tell me you will be satisfied with that,” 51: g I said. re 1 Something in that _phx_'ase_ alarr‘ned her. “ Yés, DUCIU "v "4... av ...-._-v “ But can we afford it? Isuthcre enough left of what I brought away to pay for all these things '3” “ All that you brought away lies un- touched in the drawer under my bed. Not a thing is gone. You think I am a. poor man; you are mistaken. While I was in‘ prison thereâ€"before I went wrong-I in- ‘ vented things that made me a. rich man. I intended then that you should have every penny that was realised. You shall have it now and as much again, and double that; for surely what a. man does in despair can ‘ be better done under the incentive of hope. :13 it a. bargain?” I cried, springing to my { feet in wild joy, “ Do you agree to it? Will you have all that I can give you, and ; want for nothing_more 2” , r,____ c” 4.- Something in that phrase alarmed her. She took her hands slowly from her face, and fixed her eyes anxiously on me ; then, after a. moment’s silence, she askedâ€"- “ Is it only for that you would give me all ‘2” “ To be sure. What other motive could Ihave ‘2” She shook her head gravely without speaking but she might have replied, “ For i love that needs no motive.” ‘ “Come,” said I, with an uneasy forboding. ‘ “ You are too sensible to let any sentiment- al notion stand in the way of our happi- ness.” “ No ; I will try to think uite t” - ally. We are to live in the “Enid gar-ac 1c “ In societyâ€"yes.” “ And what position_am I to hold in the world 2” firmfiess. “ What you likeâ€"my sister, if you will.” “ No ; there must be no more pretenoes.” In “ Very well, then, you shall be my wife; that will do.“ ‘Ve wilf go there,” Q” .. I 7, , Her vmce had recovez'ed its clear m’t make this moor “ Tell me the most. seen how The words came through my teeth, for ex- citement pa. ralysedm I .. 1..--L-..J’.. mama - you W111 :" Her lips trembled, her voice {altered and her eyes melted as she spoke. She ut her hand upon the table for support. ran to her, thinking she would fall, and put my arm round her ; then, unable to control my _L_-.- ul'm [Uullu nun. , urn-..“ ..__r passion, I drew her towards, me, and straixia ing her supple body to my breast, pressed my lgs to her cheek and throat. “ it 1 Kit 1” she crled feebly, and her head fell heavily back. She had fainted. I carried her up to her room and laid her on her bed: and when consciousness re- I carried her 11p to her ro on her bed ; and when c turned I tore myself away. BETWEEN THE EVIL AN D THE m I “ She loves me ! I said over a agam as I lay sleepless on my bed. \T A ._.4. A_ ‘\n‘:nv‘n A: agaln as .I. In] alvutnuuu v... “-4 V- - I started for Newton before daybreak, leaving a. note on the table to tell Hebe that Ishould be back by midday. I was impa- tientto finish with Beetonâ€"tn break the connectfng link with the past. The very thought of him disturbed me with recollec- tions thgt I strove to dissipate by repeating , a---“ M... w UIULIB ulA-u .; Ilv-vv _ -- ”i, the words, “ She loves me '. she loves me !” as if they were a. charm. The old man was easing his breakfast at the inn where we had separated the day be- fore. He had a 1mm and fish and eggs be- fore him, thh tea and cofi‘ee besides, evi- dent! y counting on a continuance of prosper- Saying this he moved his . the crumbs off his knees w lhandkerchief, and then as: fessional. attitude. ity. , “ There’s nothing like beginning your day well,” he said ; and a. man in my posi- tion, with afl‘airs on hand of incalculable complexity, needs physical support to meet the stavere strain upon his intellectual facul- ties.’ Saying this he moved his chair, {licked the crumbs 03 his knees with his ragged lhanderChin. and then assumed his pro- Major vxcvcucn. “ You misunderstand me. The proceed- ings of Major Cleveden or any one else give me no uneasmess, and I have no Wish to deprive him of your services.” “ What, sir i” he exclaimed, with an ac- cent of surprise. “ Am I to understand that you decline to accept; my services, and are prepared to face the proceeding, which in that case, it will be my painful duty to take on behalf of my client, the major?” â€" -â€"-- LA .unAnp_ name on Wuaul. v. “.1 v ...... “ That is exactly what §ou are to under- stand.” “ Then, why, sir ?”â€"his astonishment disappeared, and he assumed the bland manner of a. counsel convicting a. witness of prevaricationâ€"“ Why have you taken the trouble to come here at this early hour, when it was understood between us that your absence would entail a. prosecution ot the suit you affect to despise '2” “I came here to save you the trouble of coming to me.” “Oh. you are really too good-4:00 con- siderate !" he murmured, rubbing his hands one over the other, and smiling blandly, while his sharp ferrety eyes sought in my face some less diagnterested explanation. :___-J nnnnn r- "A“ lace wuw IVW u---_-o_ , “In other words, I preferrea seeing you here to seeing you on the. moor.” “Surely, my friend, you are not so simple as to think I shall stop proceedings merely because you don’t. want to see me with a. couple ot police ofiicers this afternoon?” _â€" q . I‘ AL:_L uvnn It!“ nui‘ficientlv wvur-v _‘ “No, bit; I think you I shrewd to avoid making joggney for nothing.” . .... m-:I-‘u q “‘1‘: Journey 101' uvv-uua. Be sprang up with a sudden convictmn‘ that upset 9.11 his professional equanimity. ‘ “You‘re going to bolt. !" he exclaimed. “No ; when I leave here I shall return home.” “Then you have got her out of the way?” “Do you think I should be £001 enough to come bore if I had intended to do anything of that kind '2” He kept his eyes on me another moment, and than sank in his chair with asigh of ;relief. __ .. . u, n -..:.1 ”kn ur‘nind 1131. “ To tell you the truth,” said he, wiping theperspiration from his forehead; “I hardly know whether to regard you as extremely simple or the other thing. At one moment I think of you as the gull and dupe of a. woman, and that old v‘agabondâ€"l should say my estimable clientâ€"the major, and the next moment I recollect that you’ve had eleven years in prison to get over that ‘ weakness. However, I apologiseâ€"I really doâ€"for ever thinking that you could be so ‘wanting in generous feeling, so despicably mean as to bolt.” ‘-‘ I might have bolted if I had seen any advisability in it.” “ And will you tell me, my dear sir, why it is not advisable ‘2” “ I have nothing to fear from the police, CHAPTER XLVI. 3, AN 1) THE (£001). 8.1% sufliciently expensive 0V8]? world xu. “ How do you propose tomeet the charg- 1 es I explained to you yesterday ‘2” 1 “ My wife took nothing that was not hers, and she will, if needs be, acknowledge that Iam her husband, and that she left the Hermitage voluntarily to come to me.” “You have told her of your dangerâ€"of our meeting yesterday,” he said sharply. “I have not mentioned your name.” “You have not mentioned my name, or hinted at these proceedings?” he asked ‘ with an earnestness that I then miscon- ‘istnufited as a 'sign of incredulity. o. ’ AI ,1. -‘LA ' U“ U. “And she has led you to believe that she will do this for you ; and she is capable of such self-sacrifice, as this acknowledgment would seem to involveâ€"I say would seem to involve advisedly, for absolutely that acknowledgment would involve no self- eacrifice, as I will show you presently.” ,LLL. ,. ‘1‘.”- SQULLMUU an; an. guy" J'"L'“ , .. “I befieve that she will do anythmg that a. loving woman s_ho.uld dq.” l, ,11_ 4.1“. “gm. a Luv-u u v.-..--- ._.. W, “1’11 be bound {he'niajor holds the sumo opinjoxj ; 31nd 3.0 do I.” L 1.312--.- :. pom“. on 3. mo< on, or the m'or or an one in the 1.1 9’ J , nuuu, dtuu wowv- "n. -uv.-- I could not answer. My reason told me that I ought not to trust the woman ; it told me besides that to yield to the passion of love for such a creature was infamous and debasing. I walked across the room with uncontrollable agitation ; suddenly I stop- d. pe“ No matter” said I, hoarselv ; “ I will trust her. If she held poison to my lips I would drink it ;” and then, suddenly moved with a. more generous emotion, I cried, “ Oh, she is true ! I feel it here in my heart. She will never leave me. ‘he old man shrugged his shoulders. “ If you are fixed in that opinionâ€"If you don’t want to lose her, nor let her lose you, I advise you to make terms with me.’ “ \Vhat can you do ‘2” “I’ll tell you, since you can’t see your owu danger. I said just. now that her acknowledgment of you would involve ‘ no self-sacrifice on her part, by which I i meant that it wouldn’t save you from be- : ing arrested, or her from being taken back L to the Hermitage by the major. Have you . l got your marriage certificate? Has your wife got hersâ€"the first, I meanâ€"over there in the hut 1~Your silence tells me that you I have not. Well, I can inform you that the major is armed with his, and that until you have procured yours to prove the justice of your claim, he can keep you in custody for abducting his wife, and do,” separating his words, and speaking with slow emphasis, . “justâ€"whatever-â€"â€"he~â€"likes-â€"â€"with her in l the interim."“ _ .â€"-....-m n fim¢ r E 3 J . u-“ ___ M... gestion. ’C§ULUAD “In that interim,” he continued chuck- ling over his success, “I should think the fickle young lady would have time to for- get the convict, and find more charms in her military friend.” “What do you propose?” “Will you leave the matter entirely in my hands?” “I will see.” “Well, if I may regard you as my client I should say decidedlyâ€"bolt ! For though 1 I throw up my brief for the major, another may takeit up, and you will never again be safe on the moor.” “ 1 agree to that. we will go.” “ But before I can consent to my clientâ€" anrl I am proud to call you myclientâ€"taking that step, we must be certain about the fidelity of our capricious lady. I am very much mistaken if she has not the same view of her position that I take, and is only lull- ing you with confidence in order to betray on.” y “ Keep to the point,” I said getting in a rage. “ That is the point,” for we must not ‘ venture to take her through a civilised place ‘ in the day-time, if she is likely to hail the first policeman she catches sight of to give my client into custody.” “ Well what do you offer? What do you suggest 2 Out with it." “ This, my dear air. We will prove your wife’s fidelity, and make the first stepfa- 1 1‘,- __...A than; ’ 0 Lu avg. .u.. I looked at him aghast at this new sug- nil-65‘- - , “ This, my dear air. We will prove your wife’s fidelity, and make the first step to- wards escape at one and the some time.” “ How 2" “ You shall stay here whilst 1 go over to the but in the baker’s cert, and make her exactly the ofi'er 1 should have made had I found her alone the other day ~nemely, the ofi‘erto conduct her safely to Major Cleveden. If she consents, I shall bring her back with me, and we shall then i know that we must be careful in moving her further toâ€"” “ If she yieldsâ€"if you bring her back with you, ” said I. clenching my fists, “ keep her out of my reach.” “ Don’tbe excited, my dear sir. She may not yield. 1f 1 come back alone, why, I’ll make you a present of my services.” LL-_ :.. m... mnnbnaun (1n. mBKfl yuu a ”noun... -- .â€" I could not even then in l'nSr weakness de- termine on a course which might prove her false. I wanted still at all cost to believe her innocent). -“‘ "' "'- “ That is my advice,” said the old man. “ And if you cannot reconcile yourself to be guided by it, 1 must with regret ask you to obtaip‘prgiessional help from source,” “ I agree,” said I. An Outlawcd Beast, but Yet in Many Ways! Interesting. Always and everywhere in evxl repute and bad odor, hunted, trapped, and killed, a pest and a. fur-bearer, it is wonder not only that the skunk is not exterminated, but that he is not uncommon. ‘ .~ r,,. Una-v ..v _â€" _- - W'ibh an eyefiign the mam chance . , th f - trapper spa-res hxm when fur is no: 13:13:. but, when ithe lepter “ R” has become well qu u “v... v--- 7, established in the months the cruel trap gapes for him at. his outgoing and incoming, at the door of every discovered burrow, while all the year round the farmer, sports- man and poultry-grower wage truceless war against him. ,, 11.... “A. nonnro‘ nanwrv- Ggaluuu nu...- Notwithstanding this general outlawry, when you go forth of a Winter morning, after a night of thaw or tempered chill, you see his authentic signature on the snow, the unmistakable diagonal rows of four foot‘ prints each, or short-spaced alternate tracks, where he has sallied out for a change from the subterranean darkness of his burrow, or from his as rayless borrowed quarters be- neath the barn, to the starlight or pale gloom of midnight Winter landscape. More often are you made aware of his continued survival by another sense than sight, when his far-reaching odor comes down the vernal breeze or waft of Summer '6- mmHv overbearing all the fragrance of “V'Vu vuâ€" . _ air, rankly overbearing all the fragrance at springing verdure or perfume of flowers or new-mown hay, and you well know who has somewhere and somehow been forced to take most offenswely the defensive. t L - L L:n ank'uxnu )VG net; W, believe Little Dotâ€"I wish I was a boy. Little Dickâ€"Why 1’ Little Dotâ€"’Cause a. girl 1d man. always feels so wicked w’en she does any- .rself to ‘ thing wrong, an’ a. boy don’t. Boys jufl ask you goes right. along and has a. good time.â€" Bane luvau vuv-wu ., It may be said of him that his actions speak louder than his words. Yet the voice- less creature sometimes makes known his presence by sound, and frightens the be- lated farm boy, whom he curiously follows with a mysterious, hollow beating of his feet upon the ground. Patches of neatly inverted turf in a. grub:- infested pasture tell those who know his way that: the shunk has been doing the farmer good service here, and making amends for poultry stealing, and you are inclined to regard him with more favor. But when you come upon the empty shells of a. raided partridge nest, your sportsman’s wrath is unkindled against him for fore- stelling your gun. Yet who shall say that you had a better right to the psrtridges than he the eggs? ' If you are so favored, you can but ed- L mire the pretty sight of the mother with > her cubs basking in a sunnv nook or lead- a ' ing them afield in single file, a. black and white procession. a If unto this humble acquaintance is i vouchsafed a. life beyond his brief earthly f existence, imagine him in that unhunted, i trapless paradise of uncounted eggs and h callow nestlings, grinning a Wide derisive I- smile as he beholds what tools we mortal 7’ -â€"- annthnf b trapxess Paxauuc v; ..--..__-, UV callow nestlings, grinning a. wuic derisive smile as he beholds what tools we mortal be, so fooled by ourselves and one another [Forest and Scream. l To avoid these losses the storage sysrem employs boiler power equal to only about one-sixth or one-fourth the maximum load. These boilers are worked continuously at their best and most economical rate of evaporation. When the genera-ting demand is small the work of these boilers is stored by passing the water which they heat into a suflicient number of plain storage tanks, which are protected from loss by radiation. The boilers will work at a pressure of, say 250 pounds, and will be what may be called flooded boilersâ€"that is, there will be no steam space within them. The storage tanks will of course also be worked at this pressure, but, by arrangements well known to engineers, steam will be taken from them when the engines are working at a. pressure of, say 130 pounds. During the time of maximum load the water level in these tanks will fall by conversion of heated ‘ water into steam, and the level will again _ be made up during the fell to minimum de- ' mend. The estimated cost of the new arrange- ment is said to be less than for a much larg- er number of boilers, and the saving on the present cost of steam production will, it is believed, be from 40 to 50 per cent. CHEAPENING ELECTBIUITY. der the North channel of the Irish sea at its narrowest pert, between County Antrim in Ireland and Wigtowu in Scotland. The length of the tunnel would be some twenty- seven miles. A number of eminent engi- ‘neers declare the project entirelyieasible. It ‘ is admitted the tunnel would not be com- mercially profitable, but much is claimed for it in the way of natural advantages, and the proposition is that it should be a. national . undertaking. (10 m: coxnxcnn.) Tunnel Between Ireland and Boo thud. THE SKUN K. The Difi'erence-