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her-5;. steadfas'tly. " I bélievo, after all. thaty yqu and laying!“ had your _â€"_...â€":-n- “n (or you. But it’s all right bygones is bygones. And we‘ve got to do is to gt the weddin . ,_ U‘yWU .v "J "v â€" v vv let him get away from this island. and just let him set his eyes on some smooth-faced young fellow that'll agree to take him into the concern and keep him for nuthin’ on books and tea. he’ll just throw you over without winkâ€" Lkn (9‘1“ HO II Juvv wâ€"avv- JVâ€" - _ __ in’. And Miss Ruth is not the girl to marry you against his will. if he Opens the Bible and piles texts on her. which he is capable of doin’. If in any way you two should get separated when you leave here, there's no know- in’ when you’d ever see each other again. for where he‘ll take her nobody can tell. He‘s more willin’ to set' down and stay where he finds himself com- lortable than anybody I’ve met yet.” ":‘BEâ€"Euhâ€"lég," l'wid: ”I’m ready to be married at. any moment, but ldon’t believe Miss Rutll and her father will “Don‘t you get into the way.” said Mrs. Leeks, ” of beiorehand believin’ this or that. It don’t pay. Just you go to her father and talk to him. about it; and it you and him agree, it’ll be easy enough to make her see the sense of in You attend to them, and 1’11 sea that everythin’ is got ready. And you'd better fix the day for to-morrow. for we can‘t stay 56 much longer. and there’s a lot of house-cleanin’ and bak- in‘ and cookin’ to be done beiore we subject to Mr. Enderton. “ Well, sir,” said he laying down his book, “ your proposition is decidedly odd; I may say, very odd indeed. But it is perhaps. after all, no odder than many things I have seen. Among the various denominational sects I have no- ticed occurrences quite as odd; quite as odd sir. For my part, I have no desire to object to an early celebra- tion of the matrimonial rites. I may say, indeed, that I am of the opinion that a certain amount of celerity in this matter will conduce to the com- fort of all concerned. It has been a very unsatisfactory thing to me to see "_' .â€" my daughter occupying a subordinate position in our little family, where she has not even the power to turn house-. hold affairs into the channels of my comfort. 'l‘o-morrow, I think, will doS very well indeed. Even if it should! rain. I see no reason why the ceremony’ should be postponed.” The proposition 0! a wedding on the’ morrow was not received by Ruth with favor .She was unprepared for such precipitancy. But she finally yielded to arguments; not so much to mine. I fear. as to those offered by Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine. For the rest of that day the three mariners were kept very busy, bring- ing in green things to deck the par- lor, and doing every imaginable kind of work necessary to a wedding which’ Mrs. Aleshine was willing to give into their hands. As for herself and her good friend, they put themselves upon their mettle as providers of festivals. They made cakes, pies, and I never knew, half so well as the three sailors, how many other kinds of good things. Besides all this, they assisted Ruth to fit herself out in some degree in a manner becoming to a bride. Some light and pretty adornments of dress were borrowed from Emily or Lucille, they: knew not which, and, after having been ' " done up " and fluted and crimped by Mrs. Leeks were incorporated by Ruth into her costume with so much taste that on the wedding morning she ap- peared to me to be dressed more charm- ingly than any bride I ever saw. The three sailors had done their own washing and ironing. and appeared in cleanly garb, and with hair and beards well wet and brushed. Mrs. Leeks and lire. Aleshine. put on their best bibs and tuckers and Mr. Enderton assumed his most clerical air. as he stood be- hind a table in the parlor and married Ruth and me. - “This,” said' Mr. Enderton, as we were seated at the wedding feast, “is a moat charitable display of attrac- tive viande; but I may say. my dear 1 took this advice, and broachéd the not Ruth, that I think I perceived the in- fluence of the happy event of to-day even before it took place. I have lately had a better appetite for my food. and have experienced a greater enjoyment of my surroundings.” “ I should think so.” murmured Mrs. Aleehine in my ear, for we’d no soon- er knowed that you two were to make a match of it, than we put an extra spoonful of tea into his pot. and stop- ped scrubbin’ the libr’ry.’ _- 1-..... -n ‘nnn hnn. PU“. DUI “My“; v-v â€"-.... _ For the next two days all was bus- tle; and work at 'the, island. Mrs. Locks and Mrs. Aleshine. would not consent to depart without leaving everything in the best possible order. 80 that £110 Dusantes might not be dissatisfied With the condition of their house when they returned. It was, in fact, the evident desire of the two women to gratify their pride in their housewifely abili- ties by leaving everything better than they found it. v Mr. Enderton was much surprised at these preparations for immediate de- parture. He was very well satisfied with his life on the island, and had prepared his mind for an indefinite continuance of it, with' the position of that annoying and obdurate Mrs. Lecks filled by a compliant and affectionate daughter. He had no reasonable cause for complaint, for the whole subject of the exhaustion of our supply of pro- visions and the necessity of an open- boat trip to an inhabited island had been fully discussed before him. But he was so entirely engrossed in the consideration of his own well-being, that this discussion of our plans had made no impression upon him. He now became convinced that a conspiracy had been entered into against him, and fell into an unpleasant humor. This, how- ever. produced very little effect upon any of us, for we were all too busy to notice his whims. But his sudden change of disposition made me under- stand how correct were the Opinions of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine con- cerning him. If I had left that island with my marriage with Ruth dependâ€" ing upon Mr. Enderton’s co-operation, my prospects of future happiness would have been at the mercy of his caprices. ” As long as the flour held out,” re- marked Mrs. Aleshine, “ I’d never been willin’ to leave that island till the Du- santes came back, and we could have took Emily or Lucille, whichever it was that kept house, and showed her ev- crythin’, and told her just what we had done. But when they do come back,” she added, “ and read that let- ter which Mr. Craig wrote and left for them, and find out all. that happened in their country place while they was away, and how two of us was made hap- py for life; and how two more of us, meanin’ Mrs. Leeks and me, have give up goin’ to Japan, intendin’, instid of that, writin’ to my son to come home to America, and settle down in the country he ought to live in,â€"why, then, if them Dusantes ain’t satisfied it’s no use for anybody to ever try to satisfy ’em.” "I should think not,” said Mrs. Leeks, “ with the weddin’ cards on the parlor table, not a speck of dust in any corner, and the board money in the ginger-jar.” The End. The new gypsy shoe 'is made of green glace kid, with a low heel, a square toe, and a chased silver buckle, con- necting two straps that cross high on the instep. Very often a pretty pat- tern is cut or pressed into the leather, and green silk hose, exactly matching the shoe, are worn. Venetian sandals are assumed chief- monize with the delicate geometric lines of gold embroidery that are fret- ted out over the black background. Occasionally one sees worn with these black silk strekings heavily interwo- ven with gold threads. Sandy Macgregor, after five-and-j twenty years’ steady work, took at fortnight's holiday and went to Lon- don. At the foot of the stair where Sandy was lodging two or three young fellows gathered every morning round a barber’s shop door, and when Sandy passed backwards and forwards from seeing the sights they began to no- tice him, and resolved to have a lark out of the auld Scot. One morning, on emerging from his lodgings. Sandy was accosted by the barber himself with the words: “ ‘Ere. old fellow. ’ave you seenalorry passing this 'ere way loaded with monkeys from Bailey’s show 8” "No. ma mannie,” ‘said Sandy. "I didna’ see it; but. puir chiel. hae ye few at! 1" GILDED HEELED SLIPPERS. HE SAW THE MONKEY. Wounded Ion Continued to lei-ole Rescues of Injured Lancersâ€"- Innu- Yak ab Fault travel! to the I“. of the London 1 the British at : Brilliant achievement 0 e charge! Omdurman, declares that th of the Lancers formed no part of thel Sirdar's plan of battle. He did not did it Rive the word for it; neither have any direct bearing upon the su- Preme issue of the day. But it was, the writer says, a superb display of military valo‘ulr. Out of a total strength of only 320 men with which the regiment went into the fray, thby lost no fewer than forty killed and wounded. ' Several horses were quick- ly hamstrung, and their riders were being cut to pieces by the ferocious foe. The Lancers attacked the enemy when wheeling to the left, and thus they passed over ground which had not been examined by the scouts, wherein Ia deep khor was held by a couple of thousand of the enemy. These the Lan- cers saw for the first time when two hundred yards away, too late to change their minds; and though the dervish- es were placed ten or fifteen deep the regiment dashed into them with a SOME VALOROUS ACTS On getting through one subaltern cried to his 'troops to rally, but found only four men behind him. Lieutenant de Montmorency went back among the dervishes to fetch the body of the ser- geant of his troOp and found. Lieuten- ant Grenfell’s body. He hoisted Gren- fell on to his horse, not knowing that he was dead. The horse bolted and} Lieutenant de Montmorency was left: alone before a crowd of the enemy, who were firing heavily fifty yards distant. Captain 1’. A. Kenna and a corporal caught the horse, rode up, and brought Lieutenant de Montmor- ency off in safety. Lieut. Grenfell's body was also recovered. The Lancers who were killed in this charge had their heads, necks and limbs slashed to ribbons. ,With one exception, no man who was once actually unhorsed was again seen alive. The single ex- ception was Surgeon-Major Ginches. His horse was brought down to the ground, and the officer fell among the furious dervishes. Sergeant-Major Brennan, who was riding ahead, saw the major's peril, and gallantly re- ‘turned to his assistance. After a tough fight, in the course of which Brennan killed several dervishes, he succeeded in getting the officer on to his own horse and back to the regi- ment. Trooper Byrne, fighting with deSper- ate valour, was badly wounded first by a dervish sword'and then by arifle bullet. But the madness of battle was upon him, and he continued to fight. His troop officer told him “to get out- side." He replied, “Do let me have one more ‘go at them. sir." Sergt.- Major George Veysey got aslash from a dervish sword which severed his nose, and almost simultaneously a spear was thrust into his chest. Blood streamed from his wounds, but he still rode firmly in his saddle and continued to cheer on his troop till the tight was over. 'Sergt. Freeman received a terrible wound from a sword in his face, but, like Veysey, he went. on fighting, and only sought the aid of asurgeon after he had carried his men through the action. Before the Lancers could get at the dervishes they had to jump the water-course, and they did it in Splendid style. Lieut. \Yormaid, of the 7th Hussars, engaged an Emir single-handed, and nearly came to "grief. Delivering ater- rific blow at the mail-clad warrior, the lieutenant's sword. striking against the chain armour. bent double, as though it were lead; but before the Emir could get his own sword home Wormaid hit him across the head with the'bent sword and stunned him, and _‘ v.“ v.--“ "v“ullvu ”I”. uu a Lancer opportunely coming along finished the chieftain. Another offi- cer, While parrying the thrust of a dervish spearman, lost his sword, and his life was only saved by the prompt- ness of a trooper behind him, who ran his lance through the dervish. BRAVE EMIR YAKUB Comparing eXperiences, many of us have arrived at the conclusion that the finest display of individual heroism was made by the Khalifa's brother, the famour Emir Yakib. Never did man show more supreme contempt of death. He rode at the head of a crowd of horsemen, and repeatedly tried to get to close quarters. Over and over again these horsemen galloped right at our line, wheeled round, and thundered along our face, raising dense clouds of dust as they went, and leaving a trail of dead and dying men‘ At one moment a merciless rifle fire into their flanks and rear. but they stopped, and, scorning to get out of range, gathered in in dense mass round Yakub’s standard, the. rain of lead. A great body of white-clad footmen screaming hoaraely the name of A1111“ .....: ‘ WOUNDED MEN FOUGHT 0N W --â€" â€"â€" .. t of ten reached xaxun's standard Sloth: Pasha, who had re- cognized Yakub'a flag. rode out and ton d .tho Emir still alive. The dying ‘ {tam roootnized his old enemy and erstwhile prisoner. and died in his presence. . . As Yakub expired several of . hls body-guard, who lay near grievously wounded, managed to raise themselves up and fired their rifles at our men, whereupon they were promptly de- spatched by some Egyptian soldiers. The Khalifa had already fled, and, Yakub's superb effort was the last! organized attempt by ’the dervishes to retrieve the fortunes of the day. MARCHED INTO OMDURMAN The Sirdar's entry into Omdurman cast their arms at the Sirdar's feet and cried out for clemency. The women pressed forward, seizing and kissing the hands of our officers. The Sirdar rode straight along the main street. of the city to the square, where stood the now battered tomb of the Mahdi. All the prisoners were found un- harmed. The previous night ‘they had been led out in chains. apparently for execution, but their jailers changed their minds. All the afternoon and evening our army marched steadily through the streets of Omdurman to the river bank three miles beyond, where the Sirdar had decided that the camp should be , pitched. Without waiting for food, the men, after quenching their awful thirst, threw themselves on the bare ground utterly exhausted, and there and then went to sleep. For all of them there had been but little water or food for twelve or fourteen hours. Of the visit of the Sirdar to Khar- Of the visit. of the Birdar to unar- toum. Mr. Stevens says: To-day the Union Jack flies over the grave of General Gordon. Egyptian regiments left Omdurman, early in the morning by steamer fort Khartoum. 1 ‘Before ten o'clock the troops, drew up opposite a derelict stone building. Its regular rows of windows were once shaded by shutters; now they are loosely bricked up. Once it was atwoâ€" storeyed building; now it shows only a single storey, half concealed by silt- ed-up rubble. This forlorn ruin was formerly the seat of the Government of the Soudan, and the scene of the death of Gordon. The troops were drawn up in firing lines around three side of a quadrangle opposite the front of the ruin; the Egfiptian detach- ment on the right, the ritish on the left, in the same order that they had taken for Friday's battle. From the battered tower rose two flagstaffs, with halyards ewhich were in charge of Lieutenant Stairley, R.N., Captain \Vatson, A.D.C., Major Milford, and the Sirdar's native aide-de-camp. The Sidar, who stood with his staff in- side the quadrangle, suddenly raised his hand: the band of the Grenadiers tplayed “God Save the Queen" and the Khedival hymn, and at that moâ€" ment the British and Eyyptian ensigns were run up side by side. The Union Jack shook itself and streamed out strongly on the breeze. The guns of the Melik boomed a salute of twenty- |one guns. The rest of the ceremony had refer- ence to General, Gordon's death. The British band played the “Dead March in Saul," and the Egyptian band the march from Handel's “Scipio," in memory_ of their dead. The four chap- lains â€" Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican and Methodist -â€" advanced and faced the Sirdar, and alternately read the burial service, the gunhoat all the while pealing minute guns. The service over, the pipers of the Cam- erons and Seaforths wailed alament, and the band of the Egyptians follow- ed. The burial rites havmg been con- summated, the troops were dismissed. We wandered afterwards through Gordon's garden. It is still green with palms, and acacia, orange, lemon. pomegranate and fig trees and sugar cane. .Vienna. papers are commenting on the great cost of .actresses' dresses Stage folks who play kings and queens say they must dress like royalty. EFrau Odillon as Mme. Sans Gene paid $1,250 for her costume, and an opera singer recently bettered this record by 3500- It was a vivid and refreshing scene after the arid, stinking condition n! Omdurman. As a matter of fact, however, real royalty pays nothing like these prices. The young Queen of Holland gets Paris gowns for $40 to $50. The Arch- duchesees Marie Valerie and Gisele get what they want for from 880 to 8160. The German Empress buys her dresses in Vienna, and pays not more than $320, while the Empress Eliza- beth gets the latest fashion and beat quality for ’60. glistening among the feathers is ex- amsite. The feathery trimming reach- es from- the shoulder right to the hem of the gown. The crinkled velvet sleeve is small and laid in tucks toward the top, end on one shoulder The Countess Castellane has just bought a tea gown trom Worth for which she paid $0,000. It is trimmed with diamonds and is made of helio- trope velvet, crinkled according to the latest fashion. ~The long, straight front is of cream-colored mousseline do soxe and cascades of cream and silk lace.- The front is bordered with. a most exquisite trimming, consisting of a Ilufly jabot of white feathers caught “11" -_J LLAH MUST DRESS LIKE QUEENS. nu ind-5035:1819 Ii} oi British and Omdurman steamer for KR. 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The pathetic .k’my of the last; that Beethmmi («er lOU‘flletlI forte is not \ery xxirie‘) knownllt traveling from Baden to View response to an urgent call from favorite nephmx, who “as int and, to saw nine); “as mallllli greater part of the. journey 0111" few leagues from Vienna he "" exhausted, and “as oblige; IO ‘ ' . L..m3.loimust l lust III: e double advantage his oslculstlons all the 1 ti minimum quality of the 1 th supply of the best mill do» the overuse percentag this profit, and in the tall, w lilk is from 1-2 to nearly 1 dollar in fat and at a gre ~ gross weight the hund rule is still in force, and he ' ' gain. at the expense of all This may not, as alumi‘ vion. be a dishonest thing. - be avoided if all the milk (or fats and the price of x . upon it instead of pounds. “milk puts a premium M 1"th milk, and the inven llnlk low in fatalâ€"either so or because of coming infinity to sskimmerâ€"is av fats pound of (at swimming in . pounds of white fluid CHI as and the one hundred pou ' testing five is credited v a“ the value 0! the UL: ‘ 4 the gross weight is the .sa ‘ by the one-hundred-pound t all mess would have been :A‘ u . two taken from the “M to the one. The books < thh pays for one hund ‘ ‘ 0‘ milk by its fat test is a 4 well illustrated what I “lab ' “‘1'. The first fifteen pat: ‘ ' all the way from 51 re ‘ M pounds. based upon the I M“ ht. up to 83 Cents. M cue there was an at ' ' d ‘ Premium of over 30 we ‘ " Pounds for supplying I '~ Hulk, which cost no in ' “Otto“: the other In c . n rust is even 'l‘tnfl Nut dairy gave, intâ€" rut mclhwvm pounds of milk ll. -. to o “v 82 cents advance. : f . ‘ premium of 8352. Ann “320‘“ It Is that the herd p ”I cent [at 1111”; “a: t The pz'ttlwtiv NMF OI the 1w. “a at. up to 83 Cents. that Bvethm'ml («tr touvhedfl‘ “a” ”I," was an .u‘L forte is not \m‘t' xxi-ie‘}. knuwnfl‘ . ..‘ Premium of over .30 (‘e - . ' B- “3n 10 View 903"!“ (qr supplymg t traveling {mm “L- ‘ Milk. Which cost no tn response tu an urgent call I than the other In (a favorite nvpbzm. who “3‘5 mt mm man‘s}? in even gym ,, .V Milt duty gave in IHU and, to 5‘1in [11"193. L 24 .110.“ pounds of n'jiik ”i I greater part of i x) .' ,M ‘t cents advunw, :l few Myles from Vienna ~heI "' tzofi??m§f 3352. Ano , .; , “as obligeu 0 ‘ 18 t at the held 5: eXha‘IS‘ed, «Di "‘2 ?rp:$‘tic€:t nfillki “A; < The family reveived him Lln*1l.‘ hi "flat 8 en 5» 1’ ‘ him supper, and then mmm a comfortable seat near the ‘ ' “tween averaged wit h a ht hid per cent fat-an injusl 1' “ft.“ tolerated by !l h lot”. t u a matter of m Milka that of uur {:nnu I'm-"1:100 fouyhuncbes of mm to fit ranging {rum lig . l'lme C(ihristmas lwvi. M 5 Cl} . Who. on rmur mi “km must that all thy 1111 1: int th PI! 0 a comm m fu dinded by the numhr‘l‘ _ ant thb time (‘nnw 1h ‘ m th "Verywhere SthIti l ‘ Iflk 0! have the full m1 '1‘]; ‘04 not share in am or. u ‘ 8???“ Chant-p 1 Piano. and the sun: 0th dull 01d musical instrument. an to play. For 25 years . ., deaf. and the mtzlsm “i . ' '1; we . big), but, he LU. ‘ 'd 1h?” ans played with m the notes. Ht‘t-thtn‘t‘ui “new” (‘motiun entiomlv. 6 ers ceased askui to 5:181]? pm”: had moved thvm 50. J ed him the "Atleg‘ the head of ID piano, and the old musical in: to play. For 25 years Heewum- deaf. and the. music W. unhfl: him, but be. comd see M d?” Wife and dauzhler laid 1M" - " h leafs“ fared. . I his “M“ era listened wrap - ‘ .od There are drink; for i gonia and Far East. . it of forést. ill milk can: in quality a: dances u t a” nun this betterment o ;chu‘ gain. It is notoriuus but. 'Cl'icnltural chemist, h u “u'el‘d an interesting :I ha made sutomem s l ‘ Illa of lime and 01 her {e “and at M will see the (3 ”dining cows that fail u ”In. at! turn these off, fee In I. to the limit of prudu malt hi- hord with better 8 n in no gun-tying the fact II ‘13 ll lold by the bum II Without recurd to its qua. lint In: t double advantage aou organisms. '1‘ n of the leguminus; ‘3 00 the roots, withm ‘0‘ Phat: was .1} milk laid for useless en! in that gr!