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Â¥uigator, Dusl , Stirling. all kinds of Saw vity at 8 per cen of time between MeTNXTYRE, A eoent. )e Grep Revicto. roved Â¥1 arm 17 As a rule railways proveâ€"socially anl l morally speakingâ€"great revolutionisers of the districts through which they pass, At th» time our story opens few places would have examplified this more inarkedly than the good old town of Kingsford, already losing its formes suggestively characteristic ( appellation of "the good old," and coming to be spoken of as "the busy little," "the l rising," or the "junetion" town. . It | was a country town certainly, but of the ; dullest of the dull order of country â€" towns. ; In the bad old times, when Eng]ishmenl were divided against themselves in civil| strife and those who have been as brothers | met in battle array on English soil,| Knightsford fignred somewhat conspicu us ly, and as such things are estimated, ac quitted itself not ingloriously. But in the | more peaceful and domesticated period | immediately proceeding the railway ern,l it had become a sort of English Sleepy | Hollow, and any ene with a tithe of the| ‘imagination of a Washington Irvine might have cas ly fancied the whole body of its| inhalbitants having undergone the sleep b6f . twenty years, judging them and their, ttown in relation to their progress â€" or rather want of progreisâ€"‘in the match ~of modern improvement. The natives, howâ€". ever were quite content, and strangers rarely entered within their gatés, save as | birds of passage in the race and assize l weeks. | _ From this continent of blissful ignorance l there was, however, to be an nwukcning.! More than onece in the olden times the town l had suffered storm and capture, and now had come a time when it was againâ€" to | undergo invasionâ€"but by a contingent» of ! the armies of perce and industry. â€" As the | railway network gradually extended its»If | cver the conntry, it 1 ecume olvious ‘that ‘the sitnstion _ of Knightsford â€" made â€" it | «pecially suiiable for junction purposes, and the railway powers ascordingly marked it for their own, and my de a junetion. station: and town of it. â€" Theâ€"great main lines ran into it, and were mot there by innumerable branch, local, and loop limes. _ It was nul "all change hore" ~stationg .A station | where trains were "made up,". or divided | 0#, whore additGional engines or qarriages) were: acded or taken away ; and tools and ‘ men kept in constant readiness for ‘disâ€" potching t» the scene of any accident «)f! w ole‘. nows anight be. tclegraphed. The: E crizinel station, after being enlarged from U me â€"to time, nutil arehitecturâ€"lly it was a thin@ of shrols and patches, was at length vulled down, and replaced by one of the "palatial" order ; and toms was naturally followed by the ercetion of hotels upon : corresponding seale. â€" Several of the comâ€" vanies had steam sheds in coanection w th the terminus, and at length one of them crowned the edifice in this respact by esâ€" tablishing extensive locomotive and carâ€" riage works in the town. The result of all this was the introducâ€" |Â¥ tion into Kuightsford of bands. of . varions ‘ i descriptions of railway workman, to the | b number in the aggregate of thousands. t Upon these foreigners, as they called them, | I the primative inhabitants of Knightsfor1| & looked with but seant favor, regarding: t them as a sort of invading arimy of octaâ€" pation ; and the foreigners finding theme selves so met, repaid the natives in kind. ‘ 1 They affected to consider the town outlandâ€" | ! ish, and its inhabitants wanting in spirit ; | / and esteemed it a fine touch of irony to | / ask a native gravely if he could inform | them whether English money was taken ‘. there 2 or if it was a fuct that a EKnightsâ€" I ford mau would sooner.be hanged in dnt! l town than die a natural death elsewhere ? ; | The manners of the invaders were certainâ€" l l ly not as those of the natives, and so far the ; latter were justified in regarding them as , foveigners. A good percentage of them were | | Lancashire men, others were from London, ‘ §or the large manufacturing towns of ; Yorkshire and Durham, and a fair sprinklâ€" | ing were canny Scots. . They were mn! who, in their own way and degree, hnd‘ { seen the world, and this, added to the hd' | that their wages were very much higher . ‘lh.n those prevailing among the natives,. probably accounted for their being disâ€". | tingnised by a more selfâ€"assured bearing . * than that which characteri<d the fownsâ€" Mintching of the National Policy. The weather‘s too cold For the chickens to hatch, And ‘taint quite so casy A tariff to patch. "Have patience," says John, "We are all busy seratching. "Storve on ! live in hope ! ‘Ministcrial hens May be sometimes dsluding, "But at presontâ€"dopend on‘tâ€"â€" We are busily brooding. "Towerds spring, while the rumours, Political thickon, "Look out for the birth O[ the Nutional chicken. "All industrics then Will be duly disected, "By povertyâ€"wealth Be increased and protectod. "The barbers will flourish As reformers look grave, "For who could refuse Fiftoen cents for a shave ‘When the faces of Grits, Kow so lengthened and sallow, ‘Shall attenuate more When our chicken they swallow." 9 tching. The grand policy‘s hat EVE HARWCOD. POETRY. CHAPTER I. .i-;:;i On first coming to Kunightsford, he had | t owh t provided himself with the address of the | ] now | one pastor of his counnectionâ€"the Primitive | ; , o | Methodistâ€"in that place, and, secking him | t~ of| ont before a Sunday came round, iminedâ€" | élte ! iately joined his congregationâ€"who were | ;s )]f| for the most part poor working people, | that | among whom Reulen, ‘"foreigner" though | , ;1 | he was, soon became a leading spirit, and | and | occasional preacher. _ Finding that, though | | d it } there was a considerable amount of drankâ€"| nion-teup‘:s“ in the place, there was no organized | ran ;t.empmuce af:-s«cu-muu, and being a prac« able | tical enthusiast in such matters, he set s â€"an l him to work to form a scciety, and to this ition | en* he wonld on Saturday afternoons, and rideq | other suitable occasions wlen he happened iages ‘ to have time at command, go out into the c and | highways and byways and deliver openâ€"air gi,. | addresses to all who e u‘d befgot to hear, it of| and being in a plain way, as we have eaid Tp, | an offeetive and racy speaker, and having, from | moreover, a cause «trong in itself he soo0 vas 3 | sucseeded in attacting adherents and f«!â€" ngth lowâ€"workers, both pative and toreign. ( the | And it was in these respects that Reuben irally | Harwood was a noted man in Kuigltsford on f | as a chapelâ€"goer and temperance advocate, eom. | and ,; a gord fellow" generally, in a higher with ‘lsensa than that pu.rase in castomarily used | them | in.. At the time our â€"story opens he was y as. | some two or thrce and thirty years of age, | car. | had been five years in Kunightsford, and \ had by way of family a little son three oduc. | years of age. Being homely. and simple men proper. If they did not spoak evil of lignities, they treated them in what seemâ€" »d, to native eyes, a very cavalier fashion ; ind they lawighed â€"to scorn the attempts to deal with them in the patriarchial, or patromising fashion, in which the "‘great folk" of the town or county were wout to treat the natives. But, prejudice notwithstanding, it soon came to be admitted that the railway set were, after all, ‘"not a bad lot." It was found that, if they were selfâ€"assertive, they were generally_ warmâ€"hearted, and had among them the spirit that makes men true to the death when duty calls, as was examplified by <the quietly heroic conâ€" duct of some of those whose fite it beâ€" came to be involved in eoliisions or other railway disasters. Boon, too, individuals among them began to show themselves men of mark, not only to the ‘natives, but among their own get alsoâ€"; and most prominent amsong these was one Reuben Harwood, a foreman of the night shift in one of the steam sheds. Reuben was a native of Mnmhesfier.i where his parents had been factory operâ€" | atives, and in accordance with the com-! mon usage of the, time and locality, he j had hLimselt been put to work in a factory | when only about nine years of age. . In| one respect, however, he had, up to that | time, been more fortunate than many of his | kind.. His pavents, a sober, steady, God-‘ fearing couple had kept hbim regularly 1 t{ school, and being a quiet, studious, intelâ€"| ligent clild, he was, for his age, . already well grounded in the three R‘s when he entcred the factory ;â€" and as afterwards he still continued to attend his Sundayâ€" school, and make good use of whatever little leisure his employment left him, fae improved educationally as ‘time went on avd by the time that be reached man‘s estate was a valuable member of an mdult Bibleâ€" class, an 1 a frequent and attractive, if not very eloquent or scholarly, speaker at the meetings of the connection to which he belonged, and : also â€"at temperance and mutual iimprovement society gatherings. l But while his intellectual powers were \strengthening, his bodily health reémained i wenk, and, concluding that the confineâ€" | ment of factory life did not agzce with him, he sought, and obtained employment in a I-tcnm shed attached to one of the Manâ€" chester railways, and from there he had removedl to Knightsford, to "better Limâ€" self" by taking the position of leading hand | of u night sef in one of the steam sheds there. Finding, after a year‘s experience, (that, as he put it, ‘"he ®uited the berth, | and the berth suited him," he veutured | upon the responsibilities of matrimony, | taking to wife a young Manchester woman, | to whom he had been engaged before leayâ€" | ing that town. f in his habite and desites be considersd himself fairly wellâ€"of with his wages of thirtySshillings por woeek, while his fature prospects in this respect were also bright as he strod well for early promotion from the shed toâ€"the footâ€"plate. the saason had already commenced, but even at hohday times there must still be left ‘l few working bees in the great human ‘ hive, and on this night Reuben and the ‘ "gang" of which he is leading hand were | among those whom the necessities of their { callings kept "bound to the wheel." Their , having to work, hovever, had not preventâ€" | ed them from imbibing the holiday spirit, " or being merry of mood ; andto a stranger 4 it would certainly have seemed that they | were entitled to the merit of being happy F under crediubig cireumstances. A steam | shed is not a cleerful or comfortableâ€"lookâ€" ing place, even by day, while by night 1ts ! comfortlessness of appearance are of the | most decided character. Lines of rails { runping right through it, and the whole | width of its ends, consisting of great gates !hat have fgenerally. to be kept more or It was close upon midnight on a Christâ€" mas Eve that we have first to make his nequaintance. The Lohday incidental to less fully open, it is always cold and draugiâ€"ty. Its heaty raftered roof, and dim «kylights, me thoroughly | emokeâ€" begrimmed, and the lower part ot the walls | bor plentifully beâ€"dashed with the same black | be grease with which the workâ€"benches are| 1 permeated, the floors slippery, and the| the faces as woll as the clothes of the men exâ€"| an tensively besmirched. As the engines| ay hbave to be "blown off," and thceir fires| tid rakel out before they are cleaned, the| wis atmosphere of the shed is of a hurmid,| &s. steamy, sulphry character more or less| We difficult to breathe ; and as the few gasâ€"| ton lights seattered about only serve to make| thi darkness visible, an air of gloomy weirdâ€"| Da ness overhangs all. To a stranger, such} an a place would seem fatal to anything like| 8t merriment of spirit, even in the "festive | th season ;" but there is a great deal of pith| *$ in the saying often applied to some minor| *CJ evil of life, that "it is nothing when you| off are used to it;" and Reuben and his| the mates, being perfectly used to the envoirnâ€" | $ ments of steamâ€"shed life, felt their holiday | th« mood in no way damped by them on hy this Christmasâ€"eve. The arrangement of fir the trains for the month was such as to| & make the hour from halfâ€"past eleven to| fr haifâ€"past twelve the most convenient time ble for the night hands to take the menl which | W« answered to the dinner of the day men,| NC innd as the bells of the town chimed the halfâ€"hour to midnight, they began to th make their way to the wellâ€"heated stove, | !it | on top of which the shed boy, or "nipper," | P ‘ had a fow minutes previously placed their | do coffecâ€"cans to warm. Around the stove | 0% | forming three sides of a square, of which| D it was the fourth, were three short "baulks" | ds of timber, such as are used for "packing" | &# engines when they are "lifted," and these,| 0f covered with loose sncking by way of| re eushions, served as seats for the hands | 89 who mustered fourteen all told. Duke,| b« the dog of the shed, a universal favourite ] P and common propérty among the men had |fo come forward on the first note of preparaâ€" | t< tion for eating and, caltoly taking up his | t position in the centre of the square, waited | i! with an air of easy assurance for his share | W of the meal. ‘One more figure, and the | U picture of this motly Christmas party is | i: complete. Sonndly sleeping on a bench | t! close to the stove, a pile of sacking serving | : him as a bed, and the overecats of some of | u the men as coverlit, lies one to whom the | }i |hands are conjointly playing the part of| & good Samaritaz. â€" He is one of those comâ€"| s paratively rare, but »till not altogether unâ€" | 8 known personages, an honest tramp ; a | | genuine working man, out of employment, | 0 | and tramping in search of it, and earnest‘y | $ | hoping and endeavouring to obtain it ; not | 8 | like the professional cadging tramp, affectâ€" | I | ing to look for what he would be very | ! |sorry to find, and to which, were it foreed j t ,| upon him, he might very iruthfally ex: |© | claim, "Ofall things else, I have avoided | < thee." This man had been a considerable | time "on the road," and was "hard up." | ® : | He had worked on railways in his day,|® | and knowing that it was no uncommon ) | thing for the hands in a steamâ€"shed to give | â€" | a night‘s shelter to one in his plight, he| e | had, on reaching Knightsford, footsore and | , | weary, and after nightâ€"fall, made his way | . h | to the shed. By thegood leave of Reuben, | 1 d | as leading hand and the goodâ€"will of his|: b | fellows, he was, on preferring his request | â€"| at once taken in and kindly entreated. ; d | The first meal of the night had been shared | â€"| with him, water had been brought for him t | to bathe his feet, the best bed made for is | him that the appliances of the estublishâ€" d | ment afforded, and, though they now "let d | him sleep on," enough will be put aside to e | provide a substantial meal for him when ir | he awakens. 1t is the duty of the "nipper" r. | to see to the stove, and he has done hil‘ id | friag up so effectually that by this time| g.| its sides and tops were red hot ; and when l 0| the door was opened a bright red glow 1â€" | shot out and played and flickered fantasâ€" nâ€"| tieally upon the "smudged" faces of @ ) the men, so that a fanciful lookerâ€"on rd | might Lave easily brought himself to supâ€" €, | pose that he was gazing on the encampâ€" €"| ment of a party of "braves," with their ed'war paiut on. All the gas burners too, AS ) near enough to be of service, were hitchâ€" 8: | ed round so as to cat their full light stoveâ€" nd | wards, so that altogether the spot on which ree | the hands were assembled shone out like pl€ | an oasis of light in the surrounding desert rsd l of smoky blackness. Even as we have already described it,| the group was a tolerably striking snd% "mixed" one, but before the meal hour | had expired it was destined, as we shall | see, most strangely to receive a strango'l addition. Each man‘s knees served him as a table, the newspaper or other wrapâ€" ping in which his food had been tied talâ€" ing the place of the usual cloth. As nigu1 work such as that incidental to a steam shed is found in practice to be a grent appetiser, the display of eatables was of a plentifal and substantial character, and in more than one maun‘s portion was to be seen a goodly sized mivce pie or slice of plum â€"pudding, cz other distinetively Christâ€" mas fare. The tableâ€"talk, too,â€"if tableâ€" talk it could be called, when the parties to it were tableâ€"lessâ€"was of a *"seasonable" character, turning upon Christmas cheer, o s SS n Pn CCb dsn d > W mas fare. The tablsâ€"talk, too,â€"if tableâ€" | too, seemingly, thorigh I suppose there ure | talk it could be called, when the parties to | those who wish it wasn‘t." it were tableâ€"lessâ€"was of a “umnahh"l "You may stake your life on that,". prt character, turning upon Christmas cheer,‘ in oneofthe other men emphat.cally ; ‘"you Christmas _ holiday â€" making, mullmy depend upon it that those who could reminiscences of Christmas times gone by, ‘ serve it like this would have rather put it Christmas customs and legends, and the| under the dasies if they conld have done so like. In such conversation the first half! without risking their neek«. 1 wish I had hour passed plessantly, but as if acted the doctoring of them, that‘s all! _ Five upon by some cotninon impulse, all ceased minutes in the river with a fiityâ€"siz round speaking as on the last stroke of twelve| their neek would be my perscription for the bells of the town rang out the peals by . their complaint ; one application warrantâ€" which they announced the birth of another | ed to cure, you know." anuiversary of the greatest day the world _‘ A girl, I think," said Reuben, who hn« evrer seon, ie Joy whyâ€"ren We wes daringtine Vitke outburet had hbeen regard TORONTO born, through whom it is given to us all to be born agnain. Reaben Harwood was the first to break the silence. ‘"Ay ! ay !" he soliloquised in an under, but still an audible tone. â€""Ay ! ay !" ring out, ring out ; publish the glad tidings the further the bettâ€"r. 1 only wish you could speak as surely to the soul as you do to the ear. Look here, lads," he went on, raising his head and changing his tone, ‘"we all know the burden of the bel‘s this time. We are fairly into Christmas Day, though it be but by a few minutes, and what I say is t=at we are up and doing at this hour, don‘t let us let it go by as though we were heathens, instead of being, as I hope we are, Christians. â€" Let ns have *Christians awake.‘ Come on, lads, hats off and strike up." Suiting the action to the word himself, he uncovered, aud "struck np" in a good bass voice. This, the most popular probably of all Christmas hymns, was well known to them all, but at first only some two or three joined in with Reuben. Betore, however, the end uf the first verse, all lent their yvoices, and the blackened rafters of the shed echoed suck words and such harmony as they hed never heard before. "And now," said ove of the men, when | . the hyman was finished, as we are on the | line of bringing in Christmas properly, sup» | . pose we open the door and let it in as we do New Year‘s day. Go on, ‘nipper,‘ open one of the gates." The "nipper," with Duke following at his heels, proceeded to do as he was told, and after bolding the gate for about a minute‘s space, he was ordered to close it again, which he did, and returned to his place. . He was scarcely seated, however, whea Duke, who had been shut out, was heard barking and pawing at the gate in a very peremptory fashion, and the "nipper" was again seut to the gate to reâ€"admit the fourâ€"footed member of the circle. The dog bound.d in, evidently exited. It is no misuse of words to say of Duke that he was a reâ€" markably intelligent dog. With that fine instinet, i kin to reason, wluch characterises ‘ the dog above all other animals, he: had come to know as well as any of the imen that Reuben Harwood was the "leadâ€" ing hand," the man to be appealed to in any emergency. _ The dog had made straight to him,. and by motions that spoke as plainly as words could l:ave done, asked him to come outside. *"What is i, old fellow ; tramps ch ?" said Rouben, patâ€" ting its head, and looking ‘towards the sleeping man as he spoke, but Duke would not even follow his eyes, his only answer being to repeat the action of troting towards the gate, and then coming buck | and barking on finding Le was not followâ€" ed. asked him to come outside. "What is 4| poryid and haunting thought, as Mechbeth old fellow ; tramps eh ?" said Reuben, patâ€" | of ghe ghost of the murdered Banguo,â€" ting its head, and looking towards the "Why so! being gene sleeping man as he spoke, but Duke wou‘ld I am a man again t" not even follow his eyes, his only Auswer | Quickening his pace, he passed the front of being to repeat the action of troting|the house, ind, tiking a latchâ€"key from towards the gate, and then coming buck | is pocket let himself in by a sideâ€"door, A and barking on finding Le was not foll0wâ€" | minute or two Inter he entered the wellâ€" ed. appointed drawing room of the establishâ€" "I shouldu‘t wonder but what it‘s thieves | ment in wlich were assembled a number among the waggous on the coal siding," | of ladies and gentliemen, by whom he was suggested one of the men. received with a chorus of welcomes. These "Likely enough," said Reuben, "but | first greetings over, however, more than anyway there is something unusual Of | ope of those present remarked that he was Duke here wouldn‘t be taking OB 80. pof looking "the thing," that he looked We‘d better go out and have a look round. pale, jaded, out of sorts," and #o forth ; All right, old fellow," he went on, addresâ€" | q; which observations he answered in the sing the dog, "we‘re with you ; show the :iight. offâ€"handed tone of a person explainâ€" way," and accompanied by most of the |ing a matter scarcely calling for explanaâ€" others, he followed in the track of the tion, that night travelling was rather eold animal, which darted eagerly forward, and | work." _ And the tone taken certainly was let out again by the attentive "nipper»" | geemed justified, for soon color came buck Some fifty yards from the gates stood the ‘to his cheeks, and the rather wild look in large openâ€"barred grate, in which night | g,, eyes died out, and the generally hbarâ€" and day was kept burning about a hund1¢d | pageq expression cf countenance gradually weight of "live" coal, to be used for start |‘,“.e place to one of easy selfâ€"complaceney . ing the fires in the engines. The glare 9| Before the quarter of an hour had passed the fire lighted up a considerable £pP2CO | qo was joining freely in the chatand laughâ€" around it in all diractions, and on getting | ter going on, and any one looking upon him out the hands could see Duke standing & | might have supposed that he had indeed if on guard within the belt of light on the | pogping worse to forget or overeome than xside of the grate farthest from the shed:| o offects of a winter night journey. \ The figure of the dog was the only 00¢°| â€" Mosnwhile, among the workmen in the visible, however, and taking it from this | gpeg wonders bad increased gpd mystery that any wanderers of the night who might lb"n intensified. As the ,'l.}; was still have come "fora warm" or been prow|ling | squmbering soundly when Réuben curried about for some less innocent purpose, had |;; inyo the shed, and as he in his own wisely fled the spot, the hands were turnâ€" \ phrase, ‘‘*couldn‘t a while" to nurse it now ‘ing to enter the shed ngain, when they | gint theâ€"time for resuming work bad arâ€" ,‘ were brought to a halt by a loud ery O\ jved, m t lorably comfertavle bed was | surprise from the "nipper," who, with boyâ€" \nump« rised for it by piling a mumber of |ish ewniosity, had followed Duke closer &D4 | overoonts together. As Reuben was gentâ€" | further than his elders. Turning at the ly depositing the child on this couch the : | sound of his voice, they beheld him kneelâ€" | peavy shawl in which it was wrapped got t | ing beside the dog, a very picture of ftaazeâ€" | gomehow disarranged, and from its folde a ment, and hastening forward they Were | poper futtered to the ground. One of the ,| met by a sight that instantly brought & | hands picked it up, and, after looking at it 1‘ expression of astonishment into fheif|for a moment, gave vent to what could r t countenances. With the dog standing | pnly be described as a roar of surprise 1| quietly watch/al ly its side, and the boy|=«well, this is a startler be exclaimed e 1 kneeling at its feet and gazing wonderingly | «14‘% a regular case of Christmasâ€"box. for a|in its face, lay a pretty infant warmly ' y»u, Reuben. There you are; see, t‘ s l wrapped «nd calmly sleeping on a mound | uddressed to you ss plain as it can b â€"| of soft grey ash. wrote." ¢| â€" "It‘s alive, you know," said the boy, who| _ Reuben, with a bewildered look, an n|had probably himself, at & first ¢l20¢t) | geareely knowing whether the cther spok t| mistaken the stillness of sleep for that C|in jest or earnest, took the paper on whic a | death. _ | was written in pencil, "To Realenâ€" Ha "Yes, it‘s alive," said Renben Harwâ€"od, bending over it, and addressing hie ada‘t companion, rather than directly answeriug the nipper ;" "alive. and hearty enough wos No MCEs BE ECCE | droln‘ s it ns *A girl, I think," said Reuben, who l present in the U daring this» Vitke onuthuret had been regardâ€" @90 0 1. "Oh, yes, it‘s a girl, and a right preity one too," answered one of the men, who numbered two little girls among his owa ‘Perkaps ite a Christmas fairy," said another, laughing at his own small joke. *Well Isuppose there‘s nothing for i# but to take it into the shed till we can setâ€" tle what else is to be done," said Roubon, taking the infant gently in is arms as bhe spoke, and beginning to lead the way back, ; followed by the ‘other hands, the "nipper," and Duke bringing up the rear. » On the discovery of the infant, some of the bands bad looked searchingly about in . every direction, but had failed to catech sight of any human being, orâ€"detect anyâ€" thing that might serve as a clue to the my â€" stery. . Throughout the scene around the fire, hoWweéver, a pair of cyes "had "been eagerly fixed upon the actors in‘it; & pait of eyes set in a face that, though to judge by the regular cut of the features, doubsâ€" less handsome enough when in repose, was now distorted as well as deadly pale From fear and excitement. It was the face ota wellâ€"dressed young man of some two or three and twenty years of age. His secret post of observation was a guard‘s van standing on a siding sufficiently distant from the fire to be out of the range of its light, and at the same time suficiently disâ€" tant from the fire to be out of its rangs <f light, and at the same time sufficiently near for one standing with his face aguinst its lookâ€" out glass to command a view of all that was going on within the belt of light, When, on the return of the hands, the shed gates were closed again, the unseen watcher gave a heavy sigh of relief, and sinking on the seat of the van, as if in a eollapse of reaction, muttered, "If he only does take to the child, it will be the best way out of a bad business for all parties, At any rate the other plan would most likely only have ruined me, without se.* ing the sleeping face with kindly attendveâ€" ving it â€"â€" and, l‘m committed to this now." Though it was a cold night, per: spiration was standing in great beads upon his brow, and when he rose to his foes again it was with the unseady gait of one struggling against physical fuintness. He steadied himself by the side of the van for a minute or two, evidently bracing himâ€" self for an effort, and then mustering, "This wou‘t do; I must be of while the coust is clear," hbe took a key from his pocket and let hLhimsel{ out,. _ Moving noislessly and rapidly, he clambered over three rows of waggons drawn up on as many sidings. This brought him to Ahe embaukment of the line in the shaddow of which he walked for a distunce ol ubout three hundred yards. . At that poiut a flight of roughlyâ€"cut steps led up to a gate openâ€" ing into the grounds of a large white frontâ€" ed house, from the windows of which lights were gleaming. Quickly ascending the stops, he entered the grounds with an «ssured step, and the air of a person familhar with the place. â€" For the fint time he seemed to breathe freely and hold his head erect, and altogetler assumed a bearing as of oue imentally saying of some t‘int theâ€"time for resuming work bad arâ€" ived, a t lorably comfertavle bed was extempcrised for it by piling a number of overconts together. As Reuben was gentâ€" ly depositing the child on this couch the Leary shawl in which it was wrapped got somehow disarranged, and from its folde a paper Auttered to the ground. One of the hands picked it up, and, after looking at it for a moment, gave vent to what could only be described as a roar of surprisc. "Well, this is a startler be exclaimed. "It‘s a regular case of Christmasâ€"box for ‘ym, Reuben. There you are; see, it‘s uddressed to you ss plain as it can be Reuben, with a bewildered l wok, and searcely knowing whether the « ther spoke in jest or earnest, took the paper on which was written in pencil, "To Realens Harâ€" wood, from one who, knowing Lis good nees, believes be will keep the Lelplese." The piece of paper had the appoarance of having been the Ay leaf of a book, and the obtrusively schoolâ€"boyâ€"like hand in which the words were written Lad evideutly been i“fit purposes of disguise. The extent of beeâ€"culture in America ig so large that the product of war is stated to be 20,000,000 pounds anmually, and increasingâ€"worth in meney at least $6.000,000. . Of tius, about $700,000 worth is exported and $1,200,000 worth :..’ honey also goes abroad. â€" The tot.l product of honey und war is worth at evirthss ** * L-ro BE COXTIXUED.] wited States newrly t