LOST MAN'S LANE. A Second Episode in the Romantic Life of Amelia Butterworth, _ BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN. there to get ontof this house, which onriaaly Yas now made unbear able to me, I replied w: th the atmost Gheestulnese ere all T wouk down, at which she 5, aarvored "that bs that case must bestir herself or the breakfast would not be ready and bar- ied away. ‘There was no one in the tig ol room when I entered, and jndgimg fr Pearances that it would be somo a utes bey before brenkfast pny I took decasion to stroll priate the ‘grounds and glance be oe at pad Ria dow of William's room. gone. I would have gone farther, but just ri ho each hata 2 dap ype and, looking up, ‘sa sppronahing at "ee I eaioy not seream or giv place as soon after brenkfast as pati abla The ates ballet I now pos- eae cwarrani anded, in- consultation with pings police, and ived feom Mr. 5, Gryoe I did not consider any other thod than that of meeting the man prigel altnag hl 8 at the hotel. Le Ly ta and William were Swaiting me in the hall and made no apology for the flurry into whieh 1 had ivgatl by my rapi pe from: Saracen. Indecd I doubt if peat noticed. ft, for wr with all the atte tame they made to scem gay and at ease the anxieties bey fatigue of the fovgsing nights were tel: on. them, lessly cen. pl pail he pystiatte look from Lucetta siglo “1 moan,” be ey whieh penal bes raaeny tand that” vias not out ae Rpeieore phe for me had been ti ip in the court till rratgeethaysal eel yearn Gheir own safety and the proservation of| the secret which they so ev: be- Weved bad been buried with the body, which T did not like to remember Kidd minate nearly under feet atin own individual nal Coad has wii to do with Ww “he does not run want to take a ride ndh this morni and cold get pod gear lae out of rai that dog must oar companion. “T camnot go mal this vagsicee William but tence, poss: a ter's tone gel the table, into: “But if I must. Y¥. ate less than common, vemridennnding ‘all my efforts to seem perfectly uncon- serned except at hae demonstrations wi brother to go out, took me gently by the arm, and, looking at “Did you have any dreams last last night, Miss Butterworth? You know I promised ome . @ little taken aback and for a an pon their brother, but the real principle | sh, on my part de erred 6, Sad Sn a Light & tone as I could assume and m pboslnes ig pocriieT replied, Goat 7 wes sary te disappoint | her, but Thad z= lease more aunts re poateet 7 Py Thad md hel pt eI certainly had the most dreadful realities. (Tow net descnite that ride inte eid us, gret di of the gor Amelia 5 ti hy . toad Mee diree- tion of affai “Seb mo awn at the hotel,” said 1, “and then go about such business as pai may have hare 4 oN town, Iam not to to be tracked ne Se by that dog.” “I have no business,” was the surly reply. “Then “ue an bi bed my sharp e los edie ith gah eaalan's come to da sew: ie ibaa Weer do and expect to spend init ana ae before the counters, Why, berg i haven't done any shopping for a we ma ‘at me perfectly aghast (as 7 @ should) pag ron but little rience of sity Indies to go by, took ord and prepar ent aR 68 resulé 1 found penne on watoh- felleesrs and led me as unostentatious- ly as possible into a small pe thy one eee nom T had ak a i will take a seat inside,” saic “1 will snd you whatever you may pally ah “1 think y: ca Way wad tha is said’ Tat Which be Rodaed anata’ dead istt me, closing the door carefully be t. hind him as ho wen es elapsed be- aren of my old friend the fact that h my instrumentality thas ered. I wished—| might be wereld, but it all seemed 80 impossibte, ir. Gryee was aoa to direct mat ters, that I centers Hiss time va this portant as it wai onoern! The thing to which I devoted mj most ines attention was the neces ef telling exonerat feeble for such affairs and must there- legate them to me. “AbI? T nna lowly. ‘It is ot surprised. when you say you are lame you mean the in: no’ ahi Isaw that this was more than he ayo pate he asked, with just that shade lulity which it is so tan- iter. ge fearful ppeamanoes which have given to this lane its name?” “I could not be surer,”’ said — “forI Baye scen with my eyes and almost touched with my hands the bedy of one of the vietim: “Quite poll ” I returned, een “Why do you doubt it? Because I ha ee 80 quiet and not sounded one ey jing eaeil ‘Knowing your can hen?” I urged. “Well,” suid ho, “my real reason for doubting g you have been quite as suo- ‘selves have Gath taccinl Glew, Steck which ere can be no question. Gan you say jae of yours?” You will expect my answer to have been a decided ‘‘Yos,”” uttered with all the positivoness of which you know me to be capable. er Beenso of the strange influence ersonality exercises who do not aboolataly | sical (os SR , T tal have no kar aa Pr eautes in unearth! you,” was my quiet retort, Ithought kis presumption beyond all bounds and would at that moment have felt justified in mapping my fingers at the clew that he so boasted of had ot boon for one thing! Wika i Ves pot conc +s You and TWA gecne 20 ieee rad such asters befane, 1 aid a ian ther piaat of the fs foalnge it is 2 tanely ee as, sonaerng that sae fool aa to my discovery of th pay enacted under my eyes at the Hnollys mansion ima played snore or jess about this old cron (Only, neckapst He matled, with « playful forbearance with my mood for Wich T ahioula Baye been truly grate. fal to him. ‘She was there for no good purpose said I, “and yet if you liad not charas- terized her as the person m eee) fi sarese cee ep coor hare oo Ea tigate 1 oe Tiave aid from all that CR aes of her oon- duct aS uutinet acted 9s a supernumgnar; seiles pidel grlantnae) anal Tebat ae Imes me you should look for the correct clew ithstanding your locket a tide shaken "what did Sod. or Jane do in deat slosly shut house last nit Mother Janet re pa he think 1 wes going to in my. tragic ory by tailing what Mother Jane did? BAe Save sloctnal iF Guage deed I think I had oa i Macher Sane ete hac sopnes)"” ia ‘ont angrily. ‘(Miss Knollys gave it to her. Then she helped a little ith a pase of work they had on han It will not interest you to know what. Ie has nothing do with: your clew, 1 oii aia not got ang. He has fs Gryon, int re ti at Laci, ueat dstadenee se have held their pence and let you go on with what y have to tell without a hint Pate it rs either unweloome or unnevessiry, but 1 have consideration for ae pecsona! if wi Pati ered T bastenod Mable found a clew to nd in Mother Jane’s to save this Miss Tf he had thought to mollify me way, he mea not sucoced. He saw it = ante tO 88) “hoe ¢ that I doubt your consideration for them, only the justness of 7 “You have doubted those etre n,”? I replied, ‘yet ssa ther fal: Were not altowet er false.” 2 he Continued. How to Feed Calves IT IS NOT EASY TO aoe A SUB- STITUTE FOR W. a few districts ee There are many important points in- calf. The mother’s milk as she gives it should be given until the calf is 9 days| * q The problem then is, how to best feed calves bh food, the basis of which is separated o skimmilk, with all or bes all of the wh fat taken out. It is not easy to Bet a substitute that will ee ti the place of whole milk. Whatever the substitute is it must be easily digested| © for a few weeks if not 8 milk to feed calves. Twelve bane ed pounds of skimmilk and 108 pounds of oilmeal produced a gain of 111% FEEDING CALVES, ‘pounds at A cost of 64 een ner pound, 200 sammie set (BeHR as 10 pounds of fasten poe eee of 128 pounds at a eat fad conte ver ound, 1,200 pounds of skimrailk and mds Fit pss ea] duce raising—namely, teaching the calf to drink from the pail. e hours after the calf has b¢ from the cow milk should be offere shor ara be dissolved in w with the milk aoe fed ntil the calf re- as peace better than older animals. We have had better success in the summer fo keep the calves in the barn day: times, feeding them grain and hay and turning them out in the yard at night,! than to turn them out to grass in the daytim hat ri bothered by the flies and bits huddle together in a bunch and do n d and the Qui Cor ciao Pisa departed; iat Saati iz supplanting “re vsibee methods of ers r is the new | ceiving as attention and support -) when its advantages are fully realized. First aud foremost, considerably more eA eat that it has pee rnretofore filled, ; and ‘hat is on the pat 01 Waianae, of ip ea aa 1 home for the milk were i rom the cow the calves oat Hiss the warm ae ab once, and the expense of hauling the Hen bulk of milk to and fee ne fac tor ould be sav ae dt rgee ach pat test with the oil test ental the sime as it tone in cream gathering creameries. Selling Milk In The visitor from Ameriea who gets s eal at a Paris restaurant may drink tles o& which are ment Raa ie ceria ‘tat the arti: le is pure lesome, says a writ in The ae atpelemaite Milk sure, en oe generally are cee a ei) se at the railway, sta tions Gla dreds of and w d boys struggle along Here and there one old woman carrying a mule, They sell the milk at the ho- oy restaurants and cafes in order to ke out a R pecan coe ae ‘There are milk is canned at “the ers ae milk to dwellers in apart- He SN es his herd into the aout and aed “go on strike” there would be a revolution indeed. Seated in a comfortable cafe or on ople whose labor contributes to their enjoyment. Rights Them. “I am told that you write poetry,” said the snake editor to the proofread- er. ree sir,” was the poetry, and L right vibes Ke — burg Chesutciotetestat ph. The Way. = "How ea 70H i fall a bad egg, dear?” asked a wife of her new nea pi deg: ignore it.’ eect le-Telegraph. 1 Th “What Kind ok mad le Rodney aie- Nibbs? “Ob, he’s ‘a the kind that ee Lica i you with the second volunie o: garine still lives—Cleveland Plain Sealer. and not know it.”—Chicago rence burden that would be fit for a horse or © 2 Strike (me ecurth m such quick beat your pulses take the same vibra- tion, Bat all these things are not Rev. Dr. ‘A despatch from Washington says Rey. Dr. Talmage preached from the} following text:—“They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as| the stars for ever and ever."—Daniel | xii. 3. It would be absurd for me to stand here, and, by elaborate argument, pfove, that the world is off the track, You might as well stand at the foot of an embankment, amid the wreck of a capsized rail-train, proving by elabor- crushed thing be lifted? By what ham-| ty, mer may the fragments be recon- structed ? First: We may turn them by the taught at school to wash ity face. went home so much improyed in ap- pearance that its mother washed her face. And when the father of the housebold came home, and saw the im- the whole city felt the result of one school- boy washing his face. That is a table, by which we set forth that the own heart and life cleansed a fied. A man with grace in his heart, and Christian cheerfulness in his face, fin and holy consistency in his behaviour, | is a perpetual sermon; and the ser- mon differs from others in that it has but one head and the longer it runs, the better, There are honest men who making the There are Talmage DiscourseS OM} Yonder xepiune tiashes on ; Their Reward. swift in comparison with the motion of whicn I speak, The moo: fifty-four 4housand miles in ASSESS : the stars, the Christian Sueetatalh prayer. The breath of Elijah’s prayer) shine in swiftness of. motion, You blew all the clouds off the sky, 2nd/ hear now of father, or mother, ur it was dry weather. The breath of Eli- ue sick one thousand miles wefenk jah’s prayer blew’ all the clouds to-|and ix tikes gether, and it was wet weather. Pray- my to the: er, in Daniel's time, walked the cave} of suffering that demands your im- mediage attention, but it takes you POWER OF PRAYER. The time will come when the Ameri- ca Church will pray with its face to- ward the west, and all the prairies WHEN DEATH STRIKES YOU and hee cities will surrender to| You will only take on more veluci icy God ; and will pray with face toward] There is a dying child in London, the sea, and all the pape and ships|and its spirit must de taken up to vill God; you are there ii an instant to do it. There is « young man in New York to be arrested trom going into that gate of sin; you are there in an shall get right up from the gaming-| instant to arrest him, Whether with table, and go down to the wharf to|spring of foot, or stroke of wing, by find out which ship starts first for | the force of some new law, that shall merica hur! you to the spot where you would As stars, the redeemed have a bor-| & rowed light. What makes Mars, and Venus, and Jupiter When the sun t iif the heavens, the stars pick up the |YOU Shall shine in swiftness of mo- scattered brands, and hold them | 409 as the stars for ever and: ever. in procession as the queen of the night} S€##: Christian workers, {ikke the advanees; so all Christian workers, | *t#"% shall shine in magnitude. The rone, will | 0st illiterate man knows that these pine in the light borrowed frdm the|‘Hings in the sky, looking fike gilt Sun of Righteousness, Jesus in their| buttons, are great masses of, mat- |ter. To weigh them; ona would think chains of “miles bottom of aor ms on either he But let him | abdicate his throne, and go away to of light stagnate; would be would toll, room on the hill sides to bury the dead f the great metropolis) for there | metry, and weighed world against a sick-room, broken: bone to knit, and the excited nerves drop to calm beating. ‘They are pure men whose presence silences the tongup of uncleanness. ‘The mightiest agent of good on earth is a consistent Chri tian. I like the Bible folded between ¢| he will divide his kingdom with them;| Who have toiled shape of aman, it goes out into the| world— A BIBLE ILLUSTRATED, Courage is beautiful to read about; bat rather would Isee a man with all the world against him confident as were for him. deliverance. Faith is beautiful to cond about; but rather would I find a man! walking straight | © how many souls have been turned God by the charm of a right example ! Again: We may turn many to right eousness by prayer. There is no such detective as prayer, for no one can it. It puts its hand on Atlantic. The little child cannot under- stand tbe law of electricity, or how telegraphic the instrument here, a messa under sea to another continent ; or can we, with our small intellect, understand how the touch of a Chris- tian’s prayer shall instantly strike a soul on the other side of tha earth. You take ship and go to some other get there a operator, by morning. arrive here five hours before it start. | 1 may spur up a lathered steed until he |} shall outrace the one that brougnt the| night train from the country. village, and reach ihe sea-port in time to gain he ship that sails on the morraw; but a mother’s prayer will be on the deck to meet him, and in the ham- mock befare he swings into it, and the capstan before he winds the ope arourid it, and on the sea, against the sky, as the vessel ploughs on to- ward it. ? There is a mightiness in pon, and as be passes, th> four hoofs ; Yabsley—Ain’t you used to it, vet! ° would be pestilence in heaven. measuring-line, and’ announced that L recognize | Herschel is thirty-six thousand miles | them as his comrades in earthly: toil, and remember what they did for the ee of his name, and for thd spread | Jupiter eighty-nine thousand mifes i f° his ‘All their ers, | diameter, and that the smallest pearl and work will rise berbrs on the beach of heaven is immense voks into their faces, and| beyond aif imagmation. So all they it on earth | shall rise up to,a magnitude of privi- mad a magnitude of holiness, and | from the gurroundiag thrones, is la Spot Of sin| struble trom the Ch become greater than Bs op entire nature a Cieinible all that we) can now, imagine of en and a flash with light, they shall|*™cbangel. | shine as the stars | Lastly, and coming to this point my * FOR EVER AND EVER, mind almost breaks down under the Again: Christian workers shall be|Contemplation—like the stars, all like the stars in the fact that they | Christian workers shall shine have alight independent of each oth-| IN DURATION v, Look up at night, and(see eachi|‘The same stars that ok down upon world show its distinct glory. It is| us looked down upon the Chaldaean not like the conflagration, in which | shepherds. You cannot tell where one flame stops| ‘The meteor that I saw flashing] and another begins. Neptune, Her-| a the sky the other night, I won- | schel, and Mercury aro as distinct as|der-if it was not the if each one of them were the only| pointed down to wh Star; so our individualism will not be) a manger, and if, having pointed out lost in heaven. A great multitude} his birthplace. it has ever since —yet each one as observable, as dis-| wandering through the — heavens, tinetly re ed, as greatly cele-| watching to see) how the world would rated, as if in all the space, from! treat him. When Adam awoke in the gate to ee fie hill to hill, he were | garden in the cool of the aay, hesaw i up—| garden in the cool of the day, he saw sh; each coming out through the ajuk of th tending out illus-| evening the same worlds that Piheked story of earthly tus on our way to church to-night. adhering to each one;/ Safe for ever—all Christian workers. No toll shall fatigue them; no hostil- published. 3 thein ay a wor "Ss will ae Laeae no tobe d r S in swiftness of m ion. 6 ri joy,flows on; for worlds ids” HOt “atop! to . | ever the jubilee progresses. The Lamb = which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them te living fountains of | water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. But none of these things for the id- lers, {he drones, the stumbling-blocks. finds no star stand- | m4, who have, by prayer’and exam- ich amois hunter bas to | 1), ‘and Christian work, turned many is prey, but not soswift |'to righteousness, and only they is b chat which thd sefent-|*ehall shine as the stars for ever.” iW eareacah ase through the tower | of the observatory. Like petrefs mid- | THEY DIDN'T CHATTER, come from | Doctor—Did you have a heavy chill? andi Fair Patient—It seemed so, worldecrag sho: | Fs pants flying—so thess great | Doctor—Did your tecth chatter? flocks of worlds rest not as they. go—| Fair Patient—No; they were in my FRIENDLY COMMENT. ‘udge—It is an awful thing to rea- swift horse under w: hose | ze you have made an egregious ass of yourself, isn’t ¢| World, Yea, he has pulled out his | Th aft and a magnitude of strength |ti PAY OF MISSIONARIES jhe penance raduate courses. The ‘ime THOSE LIVING IN CHINA HAVE naa cigupesdstateanpiecenis tani ex- paler lized by Perth ttons by the Mitte. ay ‘h the Boxers | ™ in China has served 'to bring the mis- sionary, particularly the one in China, prominently before the eyes of the world. There are many things con- nécted with the missionary, which are | best not generally known. The Protestant | one they receive more money t other cvuntries, when the conditions under which they work, are taken into consideration, the| to pay is found to be about equal to that elsewhere, bal The cost, of living, the social require-| the a year and a half to obtain a work, ing Inowledge sary living exponses. zone, where the clothing must be light) and food is ep, Gen the rate of the leading es fhe 3450 to a man med in Micronesia, $500 to one in ‘Attica, and $1,000 to every married, r Thi in the street squares and at the fairg if he can get an audience in no oth- er way. | One of the first moves is the establishment of a school for Bible ” instruction, ‘The contributions ma ign missionary purposes, accordin; statistics prepared for the couple going tp China ana those accredited to Japan. ciety has a graded scale, ine in} China to a single man per annum, tha) first five years £6 0; the next ten ye2rs) $700, and 5 0. | peepee ih THE Naar BUTTON. States, $5,403,048; England, $6,843,031. world’s to+ tal was, $17,161,092. are increased to $1,000, $1,100 and $1- is Meibiess ica Only by Those Whe 200. A third society has a fixed rate, Mx el Without Te. of $1,000 for married couples. | “Ia lool king over at sone full of PRO RATA DIVISION OF abi old truck the oth One society having a la child. Hise One missionary organ-/ greater inventions, surely, but , |ization also provides what it calls an many that have conferred somone te “outfit,” at an expense of from $400 mixed blessing. on nd. The $500. This consists of furniture. younger person of to-day, path aed and clothing collar button always, realize what it was to be wi yuld be considered plain | He can n houses | so very many years ago, when the col placed in walled) lar button was yet comparatively new, inclosures, called tekst hopes before persons had come to keep, as of the unsanitary conditions pre- everybody, commenly does now, a lot vailing. of buttons on hand, the nan who had The travelling expenses of the mis- { Jost his collar button thought himself sionaries gare paid by the societies entitled to the sympathy of his fel- sending them out. They havea vaca-|lows; but wrung as he might be by t intervals, apter, | that loss he could not even guess at who, when he came to put on his last clean shirt, found that key button, beyond five years. the one on the collar band, most im- main from seven to ten years. portant one of all, gone entirely or only just hanging by a thread! 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