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THE PRIMA DUMA. CHAHTsiK .\X.-(r.>TH*tEBj. Wai Its OlmotH allnoN' prophet ! in ty I recalled the last Persian pi, en vi In. h I hail traii'Utod for my profesaion in Florence. The argument \vaj nil that 1 i - iii'j.-iuered, tout m it 1 neoni'd to see my elf and lo n-eeivo.i vague .ujxeition for the tutme. It was this : " I'I'MII- upon tli. sand ex tended, i. lows with a dhsdow blended ; Mi. I leu in .1 .1. > p n-cess 1 1- I 1 . i I 1 I'len wilderness. Fiercely ,it I he 1 1- w,--t lying, ItasOM tl e il.iy. in crimKon d) \ I "emu's Wlldei t Ami the tiery crimson lining, (III til. desert's ilv'l l-hllim:.. I.. 'I till' ..h liloW .in |l ;n ' Phitiloln of tin- wildi'ine-.-, |l l| i (nun Inlnn.icl ill-.'- ' nded. \Viih IIH knee to AIUI. i. i-i. i. I Ami ln i i v ' '< |- ' ' Aw., !.. tin- slci-pm w.' ' I i in,; thru tin "_ I r .in the esvst ill darkii ,. Mi- -.-. 11 .iddreus Hi- pr.iy.-i. 1:1 PCI -it- w:lil.-rcu !' N.niiiiii I 'INIi ki wiilhaindah !' p . . . . ., thi Persian nsuulah, ' Tliou, mid thi'ii alone, . ui.-t b!e Thy power pervades the wilderness.' " !.<> ' Tli.- prayer i .-tin ncd in blessing Ami. llu- pros! rat > fie m addressing, >p.ik" i .- u.-l ' i. ' HIIL; le* : i) I 1 ;].- mi ..f tin' wilderness '. Uy Allah. l>c-iidiliK i a "f light, ami "ending SHOC. ir, I" ' for lliy distress 1 .1.- I" ti. i i tliy wilderness. k shout thce ami di.-n-i.M-r That fur which, thy li.imlage ovr, Thou w.i.-l . i ness I-. prnl* tin- prolden wilderness " Hi- ti.ini-tl to obey, hut in dismay Id U I. i-Kl tin- angel grow old anil gray Ami tn i hi- desert, drearily Mii'l.lrn.; In-foii- l.im, wi-tiily Turn !> tin pilgrim's prodden way. " ' Biimitlah ! For me them shall not l>e Aii'-'l .nnl i lil uiul gray ' ' cried he. ' Allah forbid it '. I will not boast Salvation purchased at such colt; Why should my rrime be laid to thee ?" " ' Thy crime aliall I* dead.' the angel aid 'Aidieth tin- day in yon glniin:i.j. i. .1 But ini'l nor in. in . M hli-ming liriug \Vithi.ut vicarious sunVri up - The joy that suffers lu other'i tead.' " ' Naught have 1 done, immortal .>n<-, That my curse from me to thce should ruu. ' That day I wrote to my father'* bankers, -ting them to order tin disposal of everything belonging to me and to forward i loceedsat th" earliest pOMible notMBt, Then I waited. The sum -.* i>,in 1 had hoped for and in : nui age. It was . I.UVM-MM, l,y a r\ i UNO.'- li '.!' i ilwt wan full of . ttggesiions, from which it wan . r tlmt my nl'i tin-lid in Klmvin e liad no '.ispiciun whatever that 1 had been in nil abnormal state, .unl won n ,, .... ami astounded in the transformation that had taken place in me, aflr: my titl.t-r'.i death, but were seriously or!< mini, ii> ., . ,\ . tin' l>rutl dctUncc I hit<l exhibited : but I dni not write again to gather furJn-r infor- mation or offer any further explanation 1 knew of no ap< >:>.{) (or wii.it I had IM-.-H, ml wa e.igi-r lint thu dead put should hasten to bury its dead out of the way of what I hoped koba. Hi'- |n in. ipul i|iir- p n..L which arose wan fur thu future. Win-..- "iild Igo? Sliouiil it 1* back to Italy ' Nn. Totlerniany T No. Kciiiain in 1'aris ': X.i. V^-i tlii-n ? Why, my dear triond, tlmt ia the answer to the i|in'*tnm win. h you uiked me at the outset, and whii'b aUrted in. nil U|Hin ihi lunx ivntutiral ramble. That, inlei-il, is how anil why 1 came to America. Life without ai'harni.lnvi- without a hope, ili-ii-niiinittii>ii wit In ul an ambition, a put without pride and a future wit limit pnnnine, all came, as boon comiunioiis, with me. The rest you n nu-mlier : that i, 1 take il for arantnl that you do. How 1 tint taught drawing and thru tin- landguagun, and ob- tained a professorship in your ^raiid univer- sity. You know how nmny friends I found in that generous contiguity of charity for all, in&kiiix life's di-ncit hloMom with roses, aud rnnln-r for mmr, lobbing tin- roses of tlii-ir thorn*. My only disappointment was in my (allure to do, ill charity, tome deed which 1 might fondly fmu-y Icniln! >"u.n.| ai'.m nil-Hi ; for 1 met with to uimli of |iii'i:ini.|y what I would havu Itestowi'd upon othem that I fuiind myiielf unpi-rfrrtly able to ii-iiiiii kinilnewi with kiinliiesi. You tcnii'iiilx'r whrn Mum made her lil at grand triumph in Aincrici, how you wont with the throng* that gathered to lirnr her sing, and ln>w you joined in those ovations ana woudrn-il that I, no fond of music, would let anything all me away from the city while she wan there. Now you under- stand, it was ln-raii I knew at last my ulti-i iinwiirtbiness and dared not to rick some fatal ai-ridcnt that might have hrouif lit us fa>-i- 1 face. The love was still in my heart, you see, n* dominant as ever, but it had rhmi"t'd liom that audacious sclfuhnesa to a ttiiiid but all ubsiirlmig di'Votion. l i, . Miii:n ioiii b.nl only angfn-il me, hut at last 1 ha<l ii- n-lifda mate where 1 knew that a ii'luiki from hor would kill me ; and I rii'ild not lest in the city un'il I knew that sin' wan gone. The in 'xi mm' tlmt she caino to America yo'i ii-inriiibiM 1 wnt blind. I n<> loii)<ur liMt-nd tint I nu,<ht n't- her. Tin- injury 11 I h.nl done to my eytn in Florence, and theiimult aililfl in I' iris, liml reached tli. li.!in-( nl ictnliiiiin jiistii'o in depriv- iiiK in.' of the power to distinguish not i nlur li., ...;<,i .dour, but day fioin night. It Was just ten yeaii since I had turned into linn w w.iy, anil, in I hi- final ili-|in\ nt ion, i hail joy, lit leant, ill thu dim-ovory that, liu iiu lli.it inn-, I had mado same little l>n>irM iii tin- way of doing better. I'pun tval.niK in the inorning to rttali/f that I wan I, In.. I. I ill. I not turn at once to lornu nt myacll M ith in y " n mi-i'i-y, as twdiri', but, to my utoiiisbment, Ix'gan to sl in order many tilings a) out H which urn llnmu I tin ^nililii'li- ; for the lake of tbc fin ml* ulxiut mi' 1 was glad that there was no apparanl uhange in my eyes, so far us tin woild sav- tliin, and for myself I was Inexprcsiibly grsirful that it had nut . nine ! ten yi.ns i-arln-i, in I'lirin ; then withal, wln'ii 1 b nl so heartily abused that winch I i< iMissemwd, wlint reason could I urge why I should not |Mtiently endure the loss of that which I luul IMI.-C kbtttsd ? HAITKI: Tin M" XXI. I "i tin- fell u withal, int Leoiim-ii'* cuie Wan >ti ' firnt nine .ind the laU I h.d lookef int > tin eycnl lovi.l, over her lifsles* breast. A tlimiiv |..nli hail U'cn tlieonc which I had followed to nee the ..... I*. My <'' l .V *M dawuc 1 in .larkuciw. ttiid, vcidy, my morn- 11 cloud and II"! "II ""' 1 ''I. , y .larkncua there stole the hgirlitni'KH "I a shining of a i|iiiet, pen eful moniiiiK. It wa.in.it the rapturous triiiinhp .il iviii-sin which I had so earnestly sought. It wan not the d-i/rling triumphant morn- Hi); which inv aiiiliition bad ;MII, tc. I, bu! the still, 'tt reffeiti'.n of the silver lining ^f the chilli, falling in mercy noon a penitent in sackcloth .mil iwlii', humbly hendinx to the ril that smote him, kilning the gentle hand of Kate that had allowed him ten years for onicthinjj A little better than that which he hail evolved for himself, up to the time Ulli-ll I:- I" 'led Ihc In-Ill of Mllia's KurilU lit. ThankH to i he kituliu-sa of friends 1 found myself in tin- ilelighttul home upon tin- Hudson. I \\t\f iii-vet- -*een the "Rhine without a citadel of tyranny," hut a 1 be;u UN iiiiiriiier from my veranda. 1 set'in to know it it n< an old friend, for I recall the vim! pirtiiies which my father piintc.l for n. r. with bis IMII, Imiir years ago, whrn hi- 1 !_.!._ A __ 1 I __ is to come. Let ua procewl to the last chap- ter. You found CHAPTKK XXII rut: i vjr i nv/rr.K. " Yon fniiiiii that you were blind, llov did von think of it ? ' " It - i- n'i| to me more of a just reward ili in what weunjii-tly call a ponislinient," I n plied. "And my chief regret is> that I have so (HKirly unei i eded in anything n t'l.in repaying kind. 1 ess with kindness; doing so little as casting bread upon the wntere, so little loving asOod loves." " To w hut end ?" he asked. " That tome land to her, I suppose, if she should ever know of it) it might IK' a guaranty that my desire at least was to do beUer. " " Do you know the effect of every act, considered by divine economy, so well that you can say to a ocrt linty that you have ui. t ' ' he asked. " ."Surely,"! replied, "eoto knows much if not all instinctive reven tain and reflex action. " " \Vhat, then," lie asked, " is your criterion?" " The consciousness of personal sAcrinVe and the heart's appreciable benefit," I re- s|>ondcd promptly. There was a curious solemnity in the full, rich voice tbat, without further comment, repeated : " ' Have we not proplic.-ied in Thy name, Tl.s n inn' il'im- ninny wonderful work" step as he crossed the room, aud I new th.it he was standing hy the open window. " Is it sunset yet ?" I asked. But he made no reply. He was thinking too deep- ly : thinking of my sorrow. I could hear turn <igh hut nothing mere, till softly, like the distant warble of a iiird when one must bio.ktht lightly to listen, am! Insure that it >* s, I4r<l, there came from the window a note and another of that dear old of which we had lieen talking : " Ich weias nicht, was soil es bcdeuteu, I>as ich so traurig bin ; " How strangely iny lite had woven itself in and out of that song, till Mina, my father, my friend, in thinking of me must think of the Lorelei. For a moment I thought that my heart hud borne me back to Boppard, and forgot that it was my companion who was singing, unconsciously, _ _ ^ as his thoughts of me wove themselves about ( n 'j t 7 ' n ~ "Katrine's beauty had Ijecame " the song of the Lorelei. He had never sung thing of the post, while the ex-Lieutenant'* before, but, even in that simple strain, there i ,. | ot h, n g betrayed the last stage of the was the force of a rich, melodious voice that j s habby genteel. But Katrina was ei|ual to thrilled me, almost as when Mina had sung the,* A , llin . .>|,c delci mined that 1 er lover it ti|>on the Arno. I would not ask him to j , uoll 'j ,l, a ic her crust, if she could not, for sing louder, for he could not sing it so sweet- : fearof ner f alm i y , ,,,.,Ue him legally her ly if he were conscious, but rising, softly, I approached him needing no guiding hand if the Lorelei led me on. I had almost reach- ed the window when he Iwgan the last verse and a sudden pang of regret shot from my heart. In the sirange joy that had filled tin- with that singing I had not thought of of the little '.rill at the end ; the resl might l .ilmost as sweet as Mina could have sung years, have allowed her a pension or S.iXX) francs (f 1, 800) from the family estate. On tin* pittance pxxir Mine, de Fisher has man- aged to live, although, of course, compelled to retrench largely and virtually retir-: from the social sphere in which sins former): livi .1. Si;, h wan the status of atl.urs when OUR day last October Mine, de Fisi>a was at once shocked and delighted by meeting, while taking her daily walk in the (.'ham | >.H Klysees, with Lieutenant Annixot/, wiiom she had not seen since he bade her adieu n -.T mnii:K IIKI: M.IIUIAIII. She had not at lirst noticed the old man, who passed, looked after and then followed her, but, being at last attracted bv his in- siaUnce, she retraced her steps ana mice she had taken a good look at him, was not long in recalling tlie beloved features. Rut how much sadness mingled with the joy of recog- She at OIKC. hired M Metiver i tin- name he had ao-sumed on coming to Paris) as a man-of all-work and to see that II KB APAKTVKNT-" \MCKK KK1T IN w.i- w. , mil-ring upon iln banks. And, for- v though I poaseased sufficient means | " > "U are right, I said, s niling toi ipp'oil myself with moiiei.it -.m y. ">"' ll "' Muster's authority when you de The Lieutenant, although at fiist refusing to accept the bounty, was finally forced, by sheer necessity, to agree to Mme. de Fish- _ ... .till. >.->, .Ml , *t l*\; V <BB ... nil* ,-,;u>,l ,!* WIIUJl i , i ,. v imd in Thy name cast out demons and ill | it, but that trill was more than all th, tome. I could have stopped him, hut each tne nrospect of da.ly intercourse with I, note breathed so much of a warm heart's old fove would prohahly hive overcame all scruples. The Autumn and \Vinterthus it has not proved nei -e.- u v for me to livi .in utterly useless life. Thu:iks tomy father, 1 id the talent of an education, and, to utilize it, found some y,.un.' men whose imhiimnH led them higher than poverty allowed tin-in to aspire, and for them I -j n ed a free evening school fitting them for college. This soon so far out grew its limits that through tin) day I found myself cm prcciatc.i n.nlideiice in that criterion, so far as the soul's here after faith is consider'-. i : IMI-. wh it, for instance, would you suggest as an established criterion for him who longs (or something of that consolation hen Again tin- lull, no -I Minus voice replied: " ' In.isinnchas ye have done it unto one of the leas' of these.' " " That," I n plied with a deep sigh. svmpathv, that, for his love forme, I 8crB P' e "- he Autumn an mt.rtu. thought it were better that I should suffer P-ed peacefully and happily for the re - than that he should know how hi. song had . u "' t d . fove ' ? "? l " ,1^ _*?:* .*' ducting a real private S"ln>ol of languages. I the gentle eriteron establisheil by t >: inclTa- It was a suggestive though'. " c 'Wioiuilly ble love of tin- Most High, (iod j;rant me coming into my ni^lit. ti.iit this cipn-ity, mi-n-y upou a judgment more ihantil'le -iiggest .... coining into my night, tl.at this -ipn ity, mercy iipoii a judgment more charitable without winch n) life would now ! Mm h tli. in I could judge. I think you :ue bring .mutter Idalik, where instead it has IM-I-II filled with pleasure, WIIH llic only acquisi- tion which 1 had nut .1 n-"l. iiid tin- only good thing which I ha-! reccivcil, for which Iliad failed to lind r.:iy a 1 . normal ii.lapla- In. n to the aim of mm ambition. too much of the hereafter a.* an element in ihel.ere. When, for myself, 1 cannot, who shall I venture to ask of another mortal to look.it methroiigluheeyesof the Almighty?" " It net'ds not the Infinite, Proles-tor. Hre long it was absolutely necessary that have an assistant, and 1 had hardly- the need when, pro\ nlentially , .1 was securo 1 for me, pn--i--.sing all 'he iei|iiirement for the peculiar p "i- tion. He was al.erimtii youth of superior eilucation and remarkable ability, und at The veiy timte mind can easily teali/e that to err is but ahuinan wt aknei-. U'lio liai not erred ?" he asked " To forgive is a divine compassii'i.,' [ ri-plieil. " And when I have l*en so omsly human is there any juni< in my tiimking that she should I* divine '.'" There was a moment's pause, followed by .11 In- grew so much intojnyjife. os^ M 1 11 mt . Wl) ,,l,, ( Mlc |, uango complication lu-r lioil has for- given you It did not appear as an interrogation, but as the shallow of a thought, falling acci- 0s* ~ .- me w 01 tin ui auiii r M my labor, that I xvi.ndcicd how I had lhat t | u ... , U rlled me : ever sn. -eded wi'ln'.H him. I hough ! young, lie was kiih d in all the modern language*, and was more apt than I in im- puting them, s, thu In- MI. in relii veil me ,\ in that 'd p.iitmeMt, while, J replied "Unworthy as lam, I surely trust with all my soul that her I -ml has forgiven " Again a moment's pause, and again that ' gentl'- voice proiiiniiii-rd the startling n quiry : " Is she greater than her liotl?" f ( ' dentally upon the twngue, without inten- tion, aud euually without consideration I hours of rest, he was so much a companion ,- , 1 caused me pain, and thus I stood in silence as each clear note fell a sad, sweet memory of the lost, the unforgotten " Ich glaube die \Vellen verschliugen > Am I'.nde Schifler und Kahn ; I'm! n. n hat nut ihreni Singue Die Lorelei gethan." liopp. ir.| ' Florence ! That trill ! "Mini! My Mina!" 1 cried, scringing forward And two arms wound tenderly aUiut my neck, and a loving whisper upon ir : , Yes. Carlo I My Carlo '. Mma is here not to I" ir:. , . i 'i: ID ' Mina believe me '. Only take me again '" And tins is what, with her singing, my l.oi i !i i Im done. What then T \\ hy, for you, too, God grant it, out of the night into the morning. [THE K.ND. ] last seemed to betoken a calm if not joyous old age. OM- JATtl. MliKMMl, however, an ominous-looking package ar- rived from Moscow. Il contained letter* from Mme. du I-'isher's relatives to the eflect that it was their desire that she should break up her little establishment in the aristocratic Faulhoiirg St. Honorc and retire to a home for old ladies of the upper class. and friend as well that, ill time, 1 fonin alllIO-,1 nlieeilllg lit COIlf CSSIOIlal wiiil'- we -.i, \er--d It was the iir'. time in my life that I had ever experienced the doUghtoi whispering life's seiilinienls .unl -mow- to a nvmpi thetic ear I'eih.ips 1 might wts.-ly have heard an iidmonitory whisper saying : " (!i, ' bury thy wit row, the world has its share. (in bury H deej-ly. C.o In lo H with care. ' Bull thought of tin- nun ploverh: I lurch Krfahriing wild maun king," and Theyalsoaddeilth.it the pension of tri-..-s would lie discontinued. Thus in a moment crumbled all the hopes of the at ' last united, all the happiness that had t-ome, o your heart lf ^' '" " ,.ii.e,l hearts. In this crisis there was but one step to tak< they took it. tioing out, hand in hau. . they wandered to a lonely spot by the Seine, and yesterday Tumi BODIES WURE rorso csmcD BY JOKD. At Mme de Fisher's residence the police found a note addressed to her implacable relatives at Moscow, craving money for her burn!. It seems that the family in Russia hail learned the fact* regarding the hiring of M. Metivier and had pierced the disguise of th" former subaltern. The pension wa* withdrawn to force Mine, de Fisher into the home and break up the connection. Through the courtesy of the authorities, the lovers will be buried in the same grave. I could net see my < ILUIIOH'S face, but I knew that the soul of sympathy was in it and was not an^ry ; but (eeluij' that we had , carried the dit u*.i"ii ti>o (ar. I replieil : " If I could feel, some day, only that she saw in the just, in my way w mlness, some- hoiH-d that my cTpcriein e might baTfoi my Hung, afti-r all. of the impelled love 1 DON M.'ing friend the wisdom which my father's hci , that she were willing to Und such ex- would have been (or me had 1 giv. n my I-US.-K a you have found, dear friend : lli.it thoughts to his warnings. Here it would when she thought of me she reali/e,! that, have end. .1 h.id m-t my colliMgiie bcguile.l t the least, 1 had tried to do better : that ,th'Bbi-ew,l and m-nrching .,ue-ln,ns, ' h.- knew how bitterly 1 regret tint M A** d.-licately hidden in susceptible excuses, till. " cl """''' '">' /"""Kl'U have wiohg.-.i I k.. . it | t . u|,| feel this, dear friend, I should possess inlin WILL LIE IN ONE GRAVE. Love and Death Achieve a Victory Over Poverty. U on Hill *<OTt "I Kll .-I HI I'rl.l. I I ! I - liilen -nil- f.irl. tiilillirul I..., r- 111 iiiiinU In Ihrlr Will - U N I'M III I,' lu II Doublr Tmxrdt . A despatch from Paris says : A stnn.',-. romantic story is to-day the topic of th>- hour in the Kussian colony here, a tale of true utle. t ion, ndur.iik; aud at last triumph- ant, but the hero and hcnum- of which have between them very little of the youth or U-aitty lhat are naturally associated with love's young dream.' Among Vhe noble families of Moscow arc the lie Markotfs. Some half century ago they were represent- ed by the Fioiior de MatkotT, who, with his ( Majesty is an adept in the art of charming wife and three beautif til daughti is, f* ->--- added lustre to the best social circles of that , . iinwittiiiKly. I wan led .l.-e|H-, and deep.-i in her; if I could feel theconfeHMiig. till, at last, cM-ryi inng a "hmild IM- hsiipv. I ..... ,,. Me ,i. U came aK,ut mote in the way '"''y more of fotgiv ol discussion than as at an open confession- al, and we argued warmly sometimes HIT the various motives and lack of motives ; first and m-cond causes and extent of n-hpon- iilulity having what my companion would l.ni-liiii^ly call an hour nt met ,iph\ iic- w hen th" pupil* left ii-< to be our own ten-Ill is. I protested tlmt my own life was lit-ing made too much the text book, but my oob league only laughed ami said : "That is (|iiite as it should be, Professor, for it is a txxik which you can read." I remarked, too, that the ground whicn he took in arguing was always one to |>alli ate my errors and find plausible excuses then-tor. Laughing a^.uii, ho said : " We never see ourselves as others see us. Sometimes it is for lietlcr ; sometimes it is for worse. \Vumayliavctlmrightof it, I suppose, and eipially well we may have the wrong. Kor years, as you nay, Professor, you had yourself very much better than you really were I wonder if it he not |ios- sihle, that', in the reaction, you are now far i in. i. >;h tin- oihei way to make up in all a fair average. " Well, it was thus that 1 told my story, and this it is, just as I am sending it to yon now ; for, unseen hy my blind eyes, while I tol.t il my colleague was transcribing it word for word, s he drew (rum me the of my life. It was while this was going on that e discussed the errors and weaknesses, which to-day I M> Utterly regret, and I gained a much clearer understanding of myself, which would x-ery greatly aid ire if I were to live my life over. " We .ire coining to thu end," I said, one day, " and I mil hoping that you will permit it, that N.'.H life shall be tin- next volume for ii< to nt udy. vVe shall have a happier time of it, 1 am sure, my friend, for it stands without saying, it sounds in your vary voice, that we shall have sunshine instead ol elomls lo discuss, and after my night we shall the Iwlter appreciate your morning." " When we have done |with this volume, you shall choose the next according to your i," be replied. " If you wish to dis- 'ii-i my life, why yes, there will l>e sun shine ; but no morning sun shines the whole diiy The swonl of Damocles, unseen, h.-iiii- o\i-r many a sovereign of fiinshine. The skeleton, unnoticed, stand) in its closet behind the chair of many a host, of smiles. To elu.se an investigation may cut that hair imd unbolt that door, but there is no need of shaking t he skeleton prematurely. ' Suf Iii cut until the, day,' you know, Professor, and we Imx e yet (ho pleasantest part of the present volume left to us. I assure you that It has been to me interesting, suggestive, uihtrui ti\ and, why, I nsvn hardly say what it has not lionn I" mo. \\ehavcatleastan hour before Mini, i, and I am u ;' fur what tgiveness |H*sess than I can ni THK Vvn:ilTKs KATKISA was the youngest aud most lovely. I nipi ror William'* Kawblrs ! li,l,e. 1'iople who imagine that his imperial Majesty passes all his time in christening new-born urns, meditating on the w ickednesa of Prince Bismarck, and quarrelling with ( 'oitnt von Waldersee are very mu.-h mis- taken. He likes his fun also, and takes it. There is a certain music hall in Berlin where the F.mperor enjoys adventures worthy of th Caliph Haroun Al Kaschid. \\imhci he is recognized or uot I cannot say, as his Ly u an adept in the art of " making p. However, policemen, detectives, anil others are far too wise to express suspicions in case they have some idea they are in the presence of the Lurd of (iennany. It is con- ti.lomly said that the other day, in tlit- guise ot a Hebrew peddler, his Majesty wandered hope for or deserve.' His startling comment was : 11 Who knows hut love may still abide with her ?" " Ix>ve I" 1 exclaimed. " Ixjve in her heart for me? U ir friend, how soon you have forgotten all tiiat I have told you of iu\ell. I.OM' mi., on iing such abhorrence? l.oi r for a blind man." I am thinking more of what you have told me about her," leaking very slowly. my friend replied, You have not re- j presented her as being less than human, that she should so |K-r.iist in condemns- ' turn I do not believe that she is cruel. , I uicive me, Professor, 1 am speaking fimu my heart. Such sentiments as were pro- voked by yesterday to In- dr.iwu into to ilsy would simply be ili.ibolic.il. I can l,.-t tor iM-lieve that even now, she is torment- ed, y us, more than you have been, with thought* that she has ln-en in the wrong. Nay, Professor, let me speak, for it is in my heart. What if she realized she had erred 7 What if us bitterly as you, and as earnestly she longed to be forgiven ? I will by her friends, courted by mny admirers j through the haunts of the Jewish conmiun and idolized by her parents, her life appear- I j ty j,, |,j, ..^.ita! and discussed with a nuni- ed to otlei exceptionally brilliant attractions ! )',,. o f working Israelites the conditional to the fair girl over whose cradle all the their race in his own dominion* and the good fairie-i xvould seem to have wntchc'l am! ,., uvt ,,f ttu , harsh measures recently promul- eni lowed her with remarkable gifts. \ et, g;ite, I against them in Russia, at the \cry threshold of her career, Mile, de ,),, another occasion the Kinperor is said Markotl mot with a disappointment that ' lo |,ave passed many hours ot the night embittered her cxislcm e und tinged her life ., n .| er iiig among the' saloons used by sailors to it* very close. Kutimi, naturally of an .md common soldiers, arguing and inviting affccti mate disposition, had loved and love.l , nuasm <> the life of a private in his army oarly, but the youth wh..m she desired to or an A. K. seaman ill his navy. All thest make happy was only a poor cavalry sub- things doubtless assist the young alteiii, Lieut. Arnngort, who, though of ,,, hiseudeavors to act as the fal gentle birth, had neither money nor influence wherewith to open for him the gates of pro- motion. She might as well, so far as the reah/alion of her dream was concerned, have speak it, Professor ; it iias grown and grown upon me. You sh ill not interrupt kept her pcrference ssTKKT EVK.X FROM ITS OBJ El T. I . .do do MarkotV, howcM'i, had other designs tor his daughter and uaturally objected to allowing the gem ol his f.nnily casket to Iw enshrined in a setting in n . w.n woit'iy "tit tin brilliancy. In due time K tinna was wooed and weddci poor me until 1 am done, for you are doing her to-day a great injustice. You are wi-nni;in^ her to think that she cannot foigive. Nay I I in almost believe, at this moment, that ! I by | t oloiicl do 1 i -her, a member of the Czar's I nal stuff and occupying one of the most important p.i<u in the Imperial household. sovereign father of hij |H-ople ; but occasionally the fact that he n a young man bursts upon him, and he is apt t, join in vigorous dancing, and play high i i ilka generally, as enthusiastically a thu atest Jack ,1-1, .. Then, m the middle of a can -can or a schoppen, comes the memory, " Ich bin der Kaiser," and his temporary IH>OII companions are surprised to see their new- comrade suddenly draw himself up, turn on his heel and leave the place followed '"\ i i ouple of, till that moment, supposed- '"tiiken chums. Thr Mrarn-aaml rrJr-t :U* Tears lil. , . A NK. \kaii Kcntlcmau lately gave a bit of Mere the young dame ot .Moscow took her curious history with regard to tnc proposed place and in tin-Court festivities was remark- Nicaragua Canal. He said that iu the early ..1 by all as * most valued accession. For a days ofthc Spanish occupation there was hei.H thinking that after her cruelty toy-oil, tun, the cnm-tant round of gaiety and her talk of a canal across the isthmus, and a though that, too, was meant in love, it is you, instead, who cannot forgive. Pardon mo, Piofussor ; ill my earnestness 1 forgot to be respectful; but 1 believ right : 1 believe that she has that she is carried her naturally high spirits sceinod to have effac- ed all tra.-es of her early sorrows from Kat- rina'smiud. i-.l T AI-I-K vi; \M t- u I:I:B I>KI i ITH K. austenty V-ofar. I believe at this moment When some ten \i-an had elapsed Colonel .lie would gladly come to you and tell you ,|,. | ,,|,er, who was still the C/ar's favored Spanish explorer named damara in l.Vil Indicated the Nacaragua route as the inoet 'e I n.-t ween the two seas. The Spanish Government did not at the time give the m itter attention, hut in 17S1, desiring <|tiicki i conniuiMicition between the oceans, sent out an otiicer named Ualisteoto make of her penitence, w itb teara in her eyes ao- B1 . rv aiit and had seen scsvral "live branches i ui N ey ,.f three different louteB, and among knowledge shehadlilundcit-d. lhat u hen she. might have opened her arms to you, as her lunging heart had urged her, she had mis- judged yini mid ilnvcn you :,uthci into wrong. Oli, I wish I could open your heart In unilerst mil it so. Perhaps she might do II ll Bhe Wele In n. il.c some glcat kucrifice : if she were to give up all the world to he with you now, to try to prove to you her love and her soirow, and if, upon her knees, she should plead with you and tell you how she slmulil pk'.iU with you ami tell you how bliink and empty xvoa the world lo her, till you forgave her and took her to your heart again, as the only loving, longing hope of all her life Think of n Professor! I tell you it is possible. Think of it. I 'mild you not, would you not Iwtiove hor " Dear friend," 1 replied after a mm Iiause, almost i hokiiig with emotion. " S.., should not believe it, IM n if Mm.; herself should say to me that she was cruel or Your kind heart is too full of sym- pathy for whitt 1 am to appreciate what I have been." lie had nothing more, to say, and wo sat a littl" longer in silence. Then 1 heard his spring up ah nr Ins l,,,.i:,|, Mas siiihleuly at- d by u malignant iln,-, ( s,., t,, which he succumbed after a brief illness. 1 1 is widow left with her children and .1 ii.ui l.sonie fortune, decided to remove to I'.ms the Ix'tlei to educate them Perhaps she was iiitlm-nced by the fact that Lieutenant Unngoil linl it-signed from the army on li i' mug of Katiinu s mai riaite and gone to theFiem h eapit il In gain a precarious liveli hood by giving lesions j n languages and ig. AniM.l m Pain, Mme. de Fisher nt once took up the social position to which her mlcocdenU in M. Petersburg entitled hor and she was able, in a few years, to see her .l.u.ghtercomioitahly settled in life and her sons stalled in remunerative careers. HIT H'l.N l\ t MI.K hATKIN I was not destined to 1 H - happy. Before she had attaitie.1 her fiftiolh birthday her child - i>n had ilii-'liuulhei fm tune been dissi|. through the speculations of an executor in St. Petersburg. Shew-as thenceforth reiluc ed to she necessity of dc^iiiding on her id iti\.- n, Moscow, who, for the past teu them that through Nicaragua. He also re- ported in favor of the latter, but Spun cou 1,1 not not raise the funds for construction. In 1V!S the routo was again surveyed, this time by an Englishman named Bailley, who was employed by the state of Nicaragua, and again in IS.">1 by Col. Childs for a com- pany which proposed to undertake the canal. Nothing came of it, but in 1H73 an otlicer of the United States navy made the surveys which resulted in the choice of the routo by the company which in now engaged on the work of the canal. A writer in one of thu New York papers at, until very lately, nothing like th Kiiropcan system of tipping existed in the . hut that now tips are as freely ex- I,.! r ,-il in the health or pleasure resorts, and m nn other places, as ever they were in London or Paris. Me axlds : " And what is lamentable, we get nothing like the equi- valent to the Ktiropean service in return We pay the toll ana get more kicks than courtesy for ; A."