in a much more luxurious f Situated near the barracks, the Cerf a Bs g i Be good fri eile looking for some one. selle ?” I asked, rising. x a haughty stare, she disapp if “Ma foi!” I exclaimed, ara pene ee girlr’ i cathe she’s a comely Lae” ae “No; do yout” “Well, who is she ?” T asked, as ug) salle-a-manger. “She's Luciile Charvet.” “What! the girk whose Ree is all about, and who is going to sing night for the wounded?” “The vi a good plenty of tim ig ; tion that she shoud marry a distant re enormously rich, eae sree to be sher eae She's ei hot- * ‘l, and the idea is ee not suit her Han al eee as bee father to put her in a co if nature. ite wonder she is socotd ant ie distant,” it. - oT i Cit we are to get a lgbod muaon ie sue we w Tours at et gence was te chief seat of the lature, and also the juarters of the army of the Loire, q thei rather an embryo cE state. ery full course on an of appiayae:: She t LUCILLE. Tt was towards the end of 1870 that I, I usually did as an art student in Paris. 4 i Pos BES . come to Tours to study the chateaux which Mose in that district. Though our temperaments were diametrically 5 pera woes and I got to be very ‘Table nee hhad nearly finished one in. as decidedly tall Pes teicn girl, ene so perfect was her figure that her 3 oe Me ah een ight dark’ sy ae pecs ‘ee ee that Ses , more especially as her as parted at the side. She was “Can I do anything for you, mademoi- “No, thank you,’”’ she answered, in a sharp, brusque manner; and bala me Sc isast: yon know who that is?” ait Gartier, a lieutenant in the 169th Line. “Yes; Tl tell you all yen es her after- wards.” ard, so we used to stay in the one.” “Let’s be off then,” I repiied, “to get place. “You seem n pretty ae — oe ‘Give u and I'll tell ae hho Dentna'te kasi bout her. Her real name is Lili Cariae, and she was the daughter ofa mage ae pee ‘ith a witha perfect matter of course, and seemed ena she was able to comment which was out of Offenbach’s “Grande esse.” cme gee the audience alant Dieaner/it seold wa erected aittard ently; but every one knew that the beautiful girl before t! sold her jewels and trinkets for Cee peat, of the wounded, and a = been the means of draw of francs into the fund. All ioe ‘were en- gored, but, she did not trouble to sing When I got back to the hotel that evening I learned that she occupied a room on the floor above me. Duri ‘som he eee ee aking to her. I consoled. myself, however, with the aes Fie atat cans. excepting the landlord, who was ar tebe, Sui! man, with a family. Night atter might Tused to rack my Drains thinki paint backgrounds for my pictures in fhe summer and autumn, and then put inthe figures when I got back to Paris; ee that, Bor z number of canvasses only wanted the sfigures rooin w! to make Men complete, I had recently been reading Proepor Merimes's man," a book much popularized since by fascinated by aint ascene out of round—the ing rcectioalh about one ni cht, ‘thinking of the beaut aca phen idea occurred me. Ry hy, said es myself, meee I not nee ine picture oe “Catmen’ to the bazaar that the ting up for woundes en that eaae Mile. Lucille cathedral clock strike three, four, five : then the revellle sounded in the i then the faint glimmer fava adually lighted the chamber ee commenced can Ww eas kno, aa) sh 2 have given itu was with trembling knees that I went "up-stairs with my canvas (ots arm. Who's there?” said a soft, musical voice. “Henry Dalton,” I answered, ‘‘an artist who lives on the floor below.’ All this time Duncan, who had a dry sense of humor, was grinni - tom of the stairs. ‘“‘She’ll send you do you want?” “Toran to ask you about.a picture I am doing for the wounded,” I” re- You're very artful” said a voice at the bottom, of the 2. I enieet Dread simpy in white, She was seated in an easy-chair her dejeuner beside her, wspaper. ined matters toher. 1 told her that, although English, span great- ati ed he oe ers, ‘so eloquent on “the ce, ‘her had ot that Be ee ht with pleasure, and fell fetes Tho tie teen ie eaten ity into the scheme, “I gave her the ae ‘il, let you know to-morrow,’ she id, “‘at what time I will see you. ee with this, beginning, I de- seen’ “T was delighted with the book bs inercatan ‘that Tread thet ofit at once,” she said the next morning. “I amafraid Thave got you tocome rat early, but Tam quite anxious to begin. 0 large box—‘look at that man- fila: Tooke at that sash ; I shall be ready time ot re aie Leh shed by he thu: aacre oete eee fd ek Mate exile. | dower, Tenouet “ ‘all’s fair in tine "Aven Wee ei atts Was aetrotoly need, ik, seae parton end beautital “Carmen” it woul be wi, to, imagine. ‘The mantilla, ‘the aaa, the allare partie y The thorousity: Span Sy es tout at 6 nsemble,. 9, Showed of of her figure. Tt wasa toe dag, ond ‘tae ight | in ber ifttle room, or ra that we were cbuged yee beni landing. Tn the picture “Carmen” was repre- sented leaning against a tree waiting for the smvegiers, who are seen ap- the distance with their 1 There,” she said, asshe Teant against WAIL tes Secnclor hex Mie ah moe the other she wossied & layed. with |b eda pad y fest stand I Tike this} tor! Tete 3 with her, which, it may easily be ima agined, I was not vat to de. When i was finished I went on painting till the darkness obliged me to'd She dia n in cose stand bas picture about a week. fa lar modal ‘andIwere equally pleased with ae you have done this,” she said, “to ee me. Now, if you like, x will, Pe Please you. Acsodingly she sa! the daughter of eee ge ina ios It, represented a couj officers of S| near waiting for rses to brought round; in the meanwhile they. Tirtiobe with the innteeper’s deugnter, ‘irt wit inn! "s dai ery hho was seated on the corner pf a tal in front of the old ‘wayside inn. understand,” said Mlle. Lucille, as I explained it to her; “and that fellow whois chucking me under chin is un the impression he wil get_a kiss for his — “Yes.” F “Well,” she added’ nai a mistake in ther ooking, Out of the Notes About sors or oe Great Folks of e Worl Qi India and had Seok Tings in erie wie granddaughter of the 0.00, Baron ie t¥. years in erat "the or bis mantaipieos for ine nds to drop is a master oe of Garten Het Glasgow. Dr. Gat Boters fas seturned to-Len- don, and is at work on his "ise of the ish Hmpire from the Time of Queen -y bui that are fang ie ruins. SANTA CLAUS SCATTERS HIS PRESENTS. This w Roman dia i oogee sa s Mantt eet ay Catholic Westininster cathedral, on the ing some a 2 det o'd contracts, snd fee that subd blankets were sent by firms es. gi ae iL ir China, send to tbs Tuten’ a brelngy porte s ited. by she Bet, icia: Commi estions jet Mee atiee country ae ord ie Bee the Congo aire: “tor ommittee of the Private Council. He inkomation ae ale aapelgne Wanea rived at St. John’s, Nild., from ivan | te was his voor pare ee ouiiees ae invita Pa fer head of sare in n Grain etl rho is So ety Of ‘the summer ae stop its rae by a seal sale slaughter Of aistive cattle provoked at rant ean of the Tiber being now on gia for manslaughter, " Revenue Department “shows {hat the revenue accrued during $8,041,080, a5 compared with a $13 bar and mui “ieee of ‘en See inis and the Brit ih fee ee fiscal year ending J powe Se ere Bate @ look of eS, fii ae reporting was 527 out of a total of 745. ing of ae ok T can’t remember any- Mrs. Billtega tried for oh to get Wiataose britblen my siege tian iL nae Ws 00 "10 > trouble io ae half-a tl 3 dice fixed. ayes day Mrs. iltons weld ear me eg T knew wel is Destined to ee the Mould- “You pane to to Jon the Me plea Why, i we ete Caag son £ ae the shoes.” Orrin Bryant of Buta, after two yea soine. woman. ois the bottom ot ¥d ment eae 2 revolutionize the eae q giv Jag T have put claus shoes in Duke it ware ave captured prizes at ths eM tat Gia did seem like business. Norwich cattle show. ade ed for non-payment of rent. tal English Lee was asked. y a friend to pone as we ve ve. hitherto given ar yaya ramet ane DEMAND ‘FOR COPPER. are more, ae ca one isa se sav-| oly the demand Toe Sone ee ae estes te ees LONDON’S SCHOOL CHILDREN. _ Five eae a seventy- four thous- THE Merde LATEST ee ALL THE EER peestine Items About Our Own Country, » the United States, and ant Parts ‘of the Globe, Con Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. ; ‘The trial of the Winnipeg election pe- tition has been’ ‘postponed to January is ill Bu ustrian, immigrant Bi jeved ta n Austi Wining with a disease Syren exceeded the with- ‘Trade returns for four months of the current fisca! yea an exporis amounting nfo 847727,000, and imports of $2,163, The ocean nae season just closed at 5 Montrea shows an ee: of 238.- 229 tons shipped. ‘The live stock trade was very unsatisfac Lory. real, was seri- or Qusly injured while resculug another man from the wheels of a train. ol neient Capital hat tendered for woollen on Sir Henry Strong, Chief Justice of 22 Hominated by of au the Dot representative on Pus Judic as has no R. pro- expiring this year adds a mil- the ratable property of thé The steamer Carthagenian has ai Minister of Marine will not the Ee! ‘the previous year. on record, ate Or eaaliee on Montreal has been number ay aiaaieipalitics Sir Oliver Mowat is y imprisonment lashes of the cat-o'-nine GREAT BRITAIN. hie ores, first secretary in Em! bassy at London, ti ‘he Prince of Wales and ‘the Five tenants on “Te rd Dunraven’s tate’ near Limerick, have been evict- Prince and Princess ay wale are he 2 Ieaanicvek io Beith merciane “ships lat | jans, Year, 1848 were lost by drowning or + Sther accidents. . Jameson and so i in the ‘Transvaal Ta lay will we | leased from. prison on the ith Londen. is invit- fad tb onde eae Rae nity bv an persia own Bonses, ning the ‘Watton eid is mention aa United ae ‘Ambasoador to agian, the principal law officers of the Bri- a view to demnnding the recall and, if fer, pachiee of the Pirst ‘National Bank, coeur the indictment of ae nae o Deposits in the post-office saving tical refuges in a public thoroughfare the sitention to the fact that kidnappings Renate sererely chided by nome celtic far/pre- between tie actions of the St. sen 0 th anid ie kidnapped in of the e American ve ot Nideara Falls retly deported to St. Pee AR antees the Vatican was his own ter- ritory, and upon it he could execute - | bis ae will. tion, and the kidnapping of the Chin- ly ship him back to China for torture and death as a conspirator, show that such things are really being done, and | that spiriting a man out of a counteg against ‘his will is ‘not ae practic- bassado1 sedor to Spain, is dead at renee on the eve pf the day on which he on aie pr arc “neighboring | “25 oa ae eee page Natives of the New Hebrides are be- ing sold as slaves to masters of trading ee at Cina a maa cere Gare Be washed Nan at “thelr graves. The loss 2 | nation servants of oe we case of Dr. a perfectly, professes Gea Unit re ted eanizing ee navy ont voulling a lot und Chany = ee from ‘Genova forth the Aneen- mere despatch says that Grand justia has se Em, modified as ah partition of ‘Tur: ian conspirators been pped in the same way as Dr. Sun and shipped off to Riga on board iD, thier and will “pease “in, person. over iL ofthe estat “etsclives | in athe ioe | Riad police an te e kept to Loop aE OF tt ih by (fhe fact that every embassy and legation is offically reas regarded as. con stituting a piece of 2 case ae poset ehh cated and si The P: ting relations| bein the United States ie for fnishinent, although the of- fense had been Chan pe and. ie <2 ie atiention of the i mieeatt Of-| ‘The English police Drought him in a cab to the German F aie Hamburger Nachrichten, Prince con eaee op ae RS ee reine ee 2 man officials & that | being Considered ag German terri slooely - itoprisoned for, several es be shoul man prandad as 2 Hse Ma tat country, and bees Do you ii ee or by aa 2 Si a in ‘ae back? t London fhe auld ‘certainly have as oat precisely in same manner | den.’ ag if ihe had ventured, on board of one} er aie Spano FLAGS PROTECT CRIME, |. EMBASSIES MUST pile BE ENTERED BY ae OLICE. ti Ws ies of the Chinese Dr. Suu in Lon- | eff Lord Sal ay Acted Promptly Embassy—Some Curious Cases. Lord Salisbury’s action in instructing ish Crown to prepare documents with day McCartney and the ot Reialetis enaarblic eeeetelt cal & as these are both feasible and uu, when he wrote “ Fedora,” was Jen Upward was similarly considered as m the ground that by the law of guar- ‘Truth, however, is stranger than fie- tor, Sun Yat Sen, his incarcer- arrangements for his doctor might have been put Sun, who speaks he to St. Petersburg, mostly on e here a number Tr heir fans ae are "ted, as stated above, wag be amed over the German authorit- committed in Eng- mbassy, on al yy Ger- tory. offender, a as on Hie defeat of a Ser i the "Sian Re coe ah him from the Some PETAR. wien | the Turkish Sul- ay. twas Enel territory, and that no in the yale ieee age the tor Nor is this any mere modern dooeiin: tes y cutee Heer epes no facilities tor hang- ‘The Great Ceremony Which Must be Gone rehase. Things are not hurried in Constanti- The probably less than a dozen words have spol and eee salasins, lays his right says: <i y tas ereclacs aes provea most | The official returns the salutation, ies vette exsellent. Here ae are. u vet ieee thou, Tay, a eenele lamb? oe bdul “You are mies en slcad it the = “tin very goat ° ee of mine eyet ‘With this the Turk | produess an ss intrie. “\FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH : THE TRUE STORY OF AN OLD MIS- SOURI SEAN Me peapelnans unm Master to California, Took Care of Mi a in His Last ihe Peake: Tlis, Fortend Back the Widow, and ar’ Buried by Mer ak Mer Request, When a man has been dead forty-six ears'it is rather late to write a tribute - fe his memory. But this is an inst where a conjunction of cireum- Sines crowded out the facts, and which the man did was almost Terkel @ithe bie bcos The writer recently made a journey into the country near Harrisonville,Mo., the country seat ofc Co £ the county ad~ joining that in which Kansas City is situate. A few miles from the county wi from neglect than otherwise. The man was acting as guide said, in a mat- etr-of-fact manner, as he coaxed the “One ia the grave of the Bhistress the the other, that of her faithful negro He was buried beside her, as you wa at her request.” Of course, ie explained, os died about the same time, The mistress was told a short time before her ‘death that the old slave was dead. “They were victims of the cholera,’ ery doctor in the town was stricken their work. After that those who were left died in their turn, it oe and without any Aare the latter lot were piocoinneiae in the graves we just passad. The #om- was the wife of the oldest and best doctor in the town, John McReynolds. ‘When The California ; weld oes struck the whole countr, nolds caught it, and he SBhned nevus es 10 ‘proveselon which whitened the plsing id took and crossed the mountains. ee him his faithful body servant, an Bt ad been his property from a Antancy He had attended his mi long that the master arded. Pape ei bis welfare: | The old servant often accompanied his d|master in the calls of the latter on his patients. ir “When the doctor reached the gold country the gave up his profession and Sornteyiiaiiaues (amet aticeee che: buried his master HE OWNED HIMSELF. He was in a country where there was no slavery, and had the entire S= sions of his master in his own hands. a rich man, “I have been told, but £ do eee member the partic the ue in the mines who Bellet Asa servation ‘he experiment reds with such success that they regard- ‘him as a special dispensation for their epetit; Fromm the. hanes of Hale Great Spirit. In™ Dp! Pcs erceied (tue aie wine ed i master, bad ‘buried AS Fa aes resume his resurrected ii et journey Riistress an account of his stewardship, . with the larger am: amount (IS MASTER’S FORTUNE. “I have been told by some of the very old-timers that Asa was the first col- _an_ ovatic Harrisonville heard of the old negro's return be was invited to the homes of the people, and had greater glor tian ny white man who has ever live gave him his’ freedom mist: and soit a money; I don’t know r ps oe a ith ee ‘thy that Ea Ww increase wer feral thattpolered: soa bane shado i : would arg oe May thy tages after his nam story Tbe aye told ee were ent have 8 few words on it, thing like “Faithful unto Death.”