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SIR GUTS WARD. A THRILLING STORY OF LOVE AND ADVENTURE. CHAP. XXV. (Co*ii.xciD.) When they have played for some time, an I Archibald hu meanly allowed Lilian to win all the game* under the mistaken impression thai lie ii thereby cajoling her fcsli staying with him longer th.n'she other- '" '- r wise might have done, ahe sudilenly de- ttroy Ihe illusion by throwing down her cue impatiently, and laying, with a, delicious little pout, " I hate playing with people who know nothing about the game ! there is no excite ment in it. I remark when I plav with you I always win. You're a regular muff at billiards, Archie ; that's what you are.'* This it a severe blow to Archie's pride, " Because you don't wish to," angrily. "In the (irt place, I am far loo small to be lovely." " You are tall enough for my fancy." " And my mouth 11 too Urge," with grow- <rho is a first clan baud at billiards' ; Lut ie grins and bean iu "If you will give me a few more lesson*," ie says, humbly, "I dsre say I shall im- prove." " No, I can't afford to watte my time, and you are too tiresome. Let us go into the drtwinjr-soom." " Rather let us stay here for a while," be tavs, earnestly. " They are .11 out, and I I have something to sty to yon." During the last half-hour one of the mtn has come in ami given tbe fire a poke snd lit the lamps, o lhat the room looks quite seductive. Miss Chetney, glancing doubt- &BSUWBissETffifa3H LSttSSSSsS-SaBSSgSi tA IU...HKA A *lii.r>.t ,.m m.ml.K n inn WOI1 l>, ' ' .. ^ ' \ , A " You nave been looking able for days, going melauchol ot it. What You used to he quite a charming companion, but now you are very mu -h the reverie. Sometimes, when with you, your appear- ance is so dejected vh.t if I smile I feel al>- tolutely heartless. Do Iry to cheer up, there's a good boy." " A fellow can't be always timpering, especially when he is wretched," retorts he, moodily. " Th'tn, don't be wretched. That ii tht very thing to which I object. You are the very last man m the world who ought to suffer from tht bluet. Anything wrong with you?" " Kverything. I lovt s woman who loesa't care in the very least for me." " Oh, so thai is what yon have been doing i London, is it '"says Lilian, alter a snort tauts that impressive " It is small enough for my tatle." " And sometimes, when the summer U very hot, my tkiu gels quitt freckled," with increasing warmth. "I adore freckles. I think no woman perfect without them." ' I don't believe you, "indignantly; "and at all events I have a horrible temper, and I defy you to lay you like '.hat !" triumph- antly. "I do," mournfully. "The hardest part of my unfortunate case is thii, that the un kinder yon are to me the more I love you." " Then I won't have you love me," s'.yt MIM Chesney, almost in tears : "do you hear me ? 1 forbid you to do i t any more. It is extremely rude of you to keep on car- inir for me when you know I don't like it." " Look here, Lilian, "says Archie, taking both her hands, "give me a little hope, a bare crumb to lire on, and I will lay no more." "I cannot indeed," deeply depressed. " Why ? Do you love my other fellow ?" "Certainly not," with suspicious haste. " Then I shall wait yet another while, and then ask you again." "Oh, don't!" exclaims Lilian, deperately: j " I beg you won't. If I thought I was going to have these scenes all over again at inter- I should learn to ; and then what without them lhau from any great desire to look her inako her words still more " I certainly did thine you weren't in a very great hurry to return, and that you looked rather bpghled when doggedly 'Kami heart never won fairlsdy,' and I shall take my chance. I nha'.l never give you up, so long at you are not engaged to any other man. " There it a pause. Lilian's blue eyes are full of Mars that threaten every moment to overflow and run down her pale cheeks. She it desperately sorry for Archibald, the more to that her heart tells her the will never be able to give him the consolation that alonn can do him any good. Seeing the ex- prenion of tender regret that softens her face, Archibald falls suddenly on his knees before her, and, pressing his lips to her hands, murmurs, in deep agitation, " My own, my dearest, i there no pity in your kind heart for me T" At this most unlucky moment Sir (iuy layi his hand upon tbe door, and, pushing it lightly o|>en, enters. Five minutes later all the world 'night have entered freely, but tsti i i iiiitsv >*u |i/isi*vjij I ssviiri 1SU|(II t~' I w 11*711 - i , . you did come. I doubt y^ have been M-"-*-"*-- ' ^ " dancing the 'i.eliel.t and verloren' waltzes once ion often. Did the refute you?" " I love you, Lilian, and only you," re- turn, he, reproachfully. "No, do not tun, ' llUsslimi. and GlIV 1 1; from mt ; let mi ple*.I my cause once more. ,,' lt ;,,,, 1 '.irl in^, 1 have indeed tried to live without i . r . , i . withLlliaiiMnmi'lin fou tod have failed ; if you reject me again you will drive me to destruction. Lilian, be merciful ; lay something kind to me. " " You promised me," says Lilian, ner- vouily moving wsy tr.nn him, "never to tpesk on tins subject again. Oh, why is it that wine people will insist on falling in love with other people ? There is something so ttiipld about it. Now, I never fall in love; why cannot you follow my good example?' " I am not bloodiest, or -." "Neither am I," holding up her pretty band between her and the fire, so that tho rich blood showi through the closed fingers of it, " liut 1 have common sense, the one thing you lack." " Vim are the one thing I lack," possessing himitlf of her hand and luting it fatuously. " Without ^ou I lack everything. Heloved. must 1 learn to look on you at my curie ? (Jive me, I in treat you, one little word of encouragement, if only one ; 1 starve fur want of il. If yon only knew bow 1 have ulutiK for months, and am still clinging, to the battel shadow of a hope, you would think twice before you destroyed thai one f ikint gleam of happiness." "This is dreadful," tays Lilian, piteous* ly, the ready tesn gathering in her eyes. Would you msrry a woman who doe* not love you ? " I would," eagerly, "when that worn an assures mt slit does nil lovt another, and I have your word for that. ' Lilian wiucei. Then, trying lo recover her npiritt, " ' What ont suffers for one's country i*'ii "' she mlnqunlei., wilh an affectation of lightness. " Archie, billiards have a de morali/.ing effect upon you. I shan't |>lay with you again." " I don't want to bribe you," says Ches- ney, turning a little pale, and declining to noli. i. her interruption : " 1 should be sorry cause* unutterable pain. Archibald had barely time to tcramble to his feet ; the tcsrs are still wet on Lilian's . cheeki ; altogether it is an unmistakable turns cold and pals as he Chikney on nil knees, irnoned in his own ; Lilian in tears, what can it mean hut a violent love scent ? I'robably they have been quarrelling, anil have juat made it up again. " The failing out of faithful friends, but the renewal is of love." Ai he meets Lilian's shamed eyrs, and marks the rich warm crimson that hat mantled in her checks, Clielwoo.le would have beaten a pre ipitoui retreat, but is prevented by Taffy's following on hit heels somewhat noisily. " It ii a charming night, Lil," sayi that young man, with his uiu.l /.o/iA..r "The ram is a thing of the past. We shall have our run after all to morrow." " Indeed ' I ..in l 1 ol that," replies Lilian, half indifferently ; though, being the woman of the party, sne is of course the quickest to recover self possession. " I should hive died of despair ha. I the morning CHAI'TKK XXVI. "For now -ho known It in no gentle flume, sin- look- upon hi < lips, and they are pale : She Uikei htm by the hand, and that is cold She whixpe.it. In his enn a heavy tale. A- if they heard the woful wonti- nhelold : .-ii. lit' - the cutfcr lid thai close hit eyes. Where lo! two lamp-, burnt out. in il.irkne-- lien. Two glasses, where her-clf. hcrxelf beheld A Ihon-.incl lime*, .ni.l now no more reflect ; The. r virtue lol, whrrnip they late excelled. And every beauty rubb'd of bin effect.'' [shakipeare. "Asoutbirn wind and a cloudy iky pro- claim it a hunting morning,'" quotes Mist ('homey, gayly, entering the breakfast un at nine o'clock next morning, lookiug if anything, a degree more bewitching than nal in her hat and habit : in her hand it a little gold mounted riding whip, upon I her lovable lips . warm, eager tmilt. " No ' ont down but meV'ihe says, "at least of the gentler sex. And Sir (iuy presiding ! what fuu ! Archie may I trouble you to get me some breakfast ' Sir (iuy, some tea, please: I am as hungry as a hawk." Sir (iuy pours out a c.ip of lea, carefully, bul sileutl) ; Archie, gloomy, but attentive, places before her what she most fancies ; Cyril gets her a chair ; Taffy brings her some toast : all are fondly dancing attendance on Ihe little spoiled fairy. " What are yon looking at. Taffy ?" asks she presently, meeting her cousin 'i blueeyes, that to oddly resemble her own, fixed upon her immovably. " At you. There it something wrong with your hair, "replies he, unabashed: "som of the pins are coming out. Stay steady, I'll wheel you into line in no time." .So saying he adjusts the disorderly hair-pin; while Chetwoode and Chesney, looking on, are consumed with envy. " Thank you, dear," says Lilian, demure- ly, giving his hand a liiwle loving pal : "you are worth four weight in gold. Be lure you push it in again during the day, if you see it growing unruly. What a ilclu-ious morning It u t" glancing out of the window ; " too desirable perhaps. I hope none of ui will break our neckt.' " Funky already, Lil ?" sayi Taffy, with unpardonable impertinence. "Never mind darling, keep up your heart ; I'm fit at. fiddle myself, and will so far sacrifice my life at lo promise you a lead whenever a cropper brings me in your vicinity. I thill keep you in mind, never fear." "I consider your remarkt beneath notice, presumptuous boy," says Miss Chesney, with inch a scornful uplifting of her deli- cate face as satisfies Taffy, who, being full of mischief, pastes on to bestow hn pleat- ing attentions on the others of the parly. Chesney first attracts his notice. He is standing wilh his back to a screen, and has his eyes fixed in mody contemplation e-n the floor. Melancholy on this occasion bat evidently marked him for her own. " Wha'.'i up wilh you, old man? you look suicidal," tays Mr. Musgrave, stop- ping close to him, and giving him it rattling slap on the shoulder that rather lakes Ihe spot, ami presently lands in tbe next field afe and sound. Archibald, howevir, holds on his original course, and Lilian, turning in her saddle, watche* with real terror his next movement. Hit horse, a good oaa, rise* gallantly, springs, and cleverly, though basely, brings himself ck*r to the other side. Both he and his master are uninjured, but it was a near thing, and makes Miss Chesney s heart beat with unpleasant rapidity. " Archibald," she says, bringing herself close up to his side as they gallop arrosi the field, and turning a very white face to his, " I wish you would not rule so recklessly : you will end by killing yourself if you go on in this foolish fashion." Her late fear has added a little sharpness to her tone. "The sooner the belter," replies he, bitter- ly. What have I got to live for ? My life is of no use, either to myself or to any one else, ai far as 1 can see. " It is very wicked of yon to talk to !" angrily. " it is ? You should have thought of that before you made me think so. As it is, I am not in the hnmor for lecturing to do me mu;h good. If I am killed, blame yourself. Meantime, I like hunting : it is the only joy left me. When I am ridiag madly like this, [ feel Again almost happy almost," with a quiokly suppressed sigh. "Still, I ask you, for my lake, to be more cheerful," says Lilian, anxionsly, partly frightened, partly filled with re- morse at hu words, though in her hee-t he ii vexed wilh him for having used them. "Her fault if he gels killed." It is really too much ! "Ito you pretend to care?" asked he, with a sneer. "Year manner is indeed perfect, but how much of it do you mean ? TUB WtftTF.KI OF TslK Bl tV* Ma, Wkal Itrramr* f>fcrt. << Whe Ever killed a H>. .llr.. B.l.-k f " One of the greatest mytteriet ot th woods it the buck de^r and its antlers." remarked an observant old hunter the other day. " Who ever killed a buck that had no horns, and who ever fonnd a set of ant- lers in the woods ? I've rotmed the foreilt of northern Canada at all seuoas darisg the last forty years, and in lhat time deer have been very plentiiul in thise wcodi, and I never either killad a hornlen buck or found a pair of horns or heard of tny one who did. Yet woodsmen all know, or ought to know, that no buok hat even the sign of a horn until he it two yeart old, and that every back that has horns cuts (hem off each spring and grown a new let. "Now, where d > all the buckt under two yean old keep themselves, and what be- comes of the cast-off antlen that no woods- man ever sees' These are mysteries at deep as the mystery of dead wild anii.ials I mean wild animals that dit natural deaths. The four-footed dwellers in the woodt certainly do not live forever. Age aoi disease mutt carry them off regularly, at human beings are carried off, but what becomes of their bodies ? I never heard of anyone coming across a dead bear or deer or wildcat or fox in the woodt that had died fiom natural causes. I found the carcass of a big five-pronged buck in the woods once, but a rattlesnake, also dead, had its fangs buried in the deer'i nostrils. There bad evidently been a fight to the death be- tween the reptile and the beast. Another time I followed the trail of a bear from a clearing where it had stolen a young theep. I came upon the headiest body of the sheep a mile or to out of the trail, and half a mile i-i ic 1 i, nm IK/W IIIUIM vi iv uv vwu urvtjan . . . Give me the hope I asked for last night,- , '"">" on - ? e r . vh / T 1 '^ "^ f w m P. l say only two kind words to me,-an/I will wprit*! to find tbe dead body of the bear. Its jaws were open, and its gl tx- more careful of my life than any man in the tield to-day.' 1 "1 think I am a) way i say ing kind things to you," returns she, rather indignant; "I am oily too kind. And one so foolishly bent on being miserable ai you are, all for nothing, deserves only harsh treatment. You are not even civil to me. I regret I addressed you just now, and beg you will not speak to me any more." Be assure*! 1 shan't disobey this your last command," says Archibald, in a low, and what afterwards appears to her, a prophetic, tone, turning away. The field is growing thin. Already many are lying scaliered broadcast in the ditches, or else are wandering hopelessly about on foot, in search of theii lost chargers. The houndi are going at a tremendous pace ; a good many horses tbow signs of flagging ; whilv the brave old fox still holds well his own. Tafly came to signal grief hlf an hour ai(o, but BOW reappeart triumphant and unplucked, splashed from head to heel, bat game for any amount still. Mrs. Steyne in front ii fighting hard for the brush, while Lilian every moment it creep- ing closer to heron the bonny brown mare that carries her like a bird over hedges and lails. Sir <!uy it out of tight, having jutt vanished down the slope of the hill, ' ' only to reappear again a second later. . V eyes were puthed far out of its head. I held a post-mortem examination on the dead bear and found the theep'i head lodged in its throat. How or why the bear ever permitted it to get there 1 am unable to explain. 1 have many times found other dead wild animals iu the woods, but never one that did not thow nnqnestionible evi- dence of having died from violence of some kind. Every woodsman will tell you the same. " I don't believe there it anything more curious in nature than tbe buck's horns. They begin to mike their appearance in the spring of the buck's second year. The first sign of thsir coming is a swelling of the skin over the ipots on top of the h/tlil from which the horni are to rise. The antlen are now budding, for on the swelling spots are the footstalks from which they are to spring, and the arteries of the head the autfert being, in all their preliminary or carliUgmout stages but parts of the animal's general system are beginning to deposit on tiiem, little by little, but with gieat rapidity, the bony matter ot which the finished horns are composed. As the antlert grow the ikin still stretches over them, uid coatinues to do so until they have reached their natura' sue and become horn. Thii it the stags in the growth of the antlers that is technically Archibald isapparently nowhere, and Mitt ' * no .* 1>uck to picture own gore. proved unkind." "Well, you needn't die for awhile. say, Lil." lays Mr. Musjjr^vr, ' I her curiously, "what's the matter with you, eh ? You look awfully down in the mouth. Anything wrong!" 11 Nothing,'' sharply : "what should lie ?" " Can't say, I'm sure. But your cheeks," persists this mifcralde boy, "are asredai Hre." " I lhat is it wan the lire," confusedly, directing a wrathful glance at him, which ii concretely thrown awajr, a* Mr. Mus- grave is impervious to hints: "Iwassitting cloen to it. ' " Thsl goes wilhout telling. Any one would imagine, by your color, that you had been put upon the hob to iimmr. By the by," a moet fortunate access of ignorance, carrying his thought* into another channel " what is a hob ? I don't believe I ever saw one." " Hob, lulntantivr, ihorl for gublin : ai ," sayi Cyril at thii moment, liav- curl out of him, leaving him limp, but full of indignation. Chesnsy is almost beginning "Look hen," ho says, in an aggrieved him to henelf bathed in hit tons. "1 with yon wouldn't do th.l, you when raiting her head the sees him com know. Your hands, iniaM and delicate as ' j n g toward" her at a rattling pace, hi* as they are," Taffy's hands, though shape- j hone, which is scarcely up to Tiit weight, ly, we decidedly large, "can hurt. If ! well in hand. you go abe-it the world with tuch habitt Itefore him rise* an enormoui fence, you will infallibly commit muidcr tooner beneath which gleams like a nlver streak or later : I should bet on the sooner. One . food bit of running water. It is an can never be sure, my dear fellow, who has heart-disease atyl who hat not." Heart disease meant love with most followt," says the irrepressible Taffy, "and I have noticed you aren't half a one since your return from London." At this mal apropos speech both Lilian and Chesney change color, and (.iuy seeing their confusion becomes miserable in lurn, o that break- last it a distinct failure, Cyril and Mm- (rave alone being capable of animated con- versation. Half an hour later they are all in the saddle and are riding leisurely Inwards known among hunters ts the time when the lUllaira, which is some miles distant, through as keen a teeming wind as any one coiiM desire. l think I could do to ; but I have ten '"K entered, how, or from where, nobody thousand a year, and if you will marry me you dial! have, thounand a year pin-money, and tive thousand if you survive me." "It would sp-.il my entire life fearing 1 shouldn't survive you," sayi Miss Chutney, who, In spite ol her nervousness, or brcuss of it, is longing to laugh. " You will, you need not l>e afraid of that, "It sounds ilir/linn," murmurs Lilian, " more eapocially wben you give me your word you will die Hrst ; but still I think it downright shabby you don't ofer mo the whole ten." "So I will I" -eagerly--" U " "Nonsense, Archie," hastily : "don I l>. absurd. ( '-annot you tee I am only in jett ? I am not going In marry any one, as I i..l I you l*(ori'. Come now, ' anxiously. " don't look mi dismal You know I am very, very fond nf you, but ufter all one cannct marry everv one one if fond of." " I suppose not/' gloomily. "Then do try to look* little pleasanter. They will all notice your depression when we return to them. " "I don't care," with increasing gloom. " But I ilo Archie, look hers, dear," taking the high and moral tone, " do you think it is right of you Ui go .m like this, in. i as if * I don't care a hang what n right, or what is wrong," tayi Mr. i. lei able vehement e. Chesney, with I "iily kn on trn the only woman I ever rsally oared for, ainl you won't have me. Nothing else ll of the nliulii.nl ronseijiienoe. " " I am not the only woman in Ihe .!,.! Tim* w.ii r-how you thtre .re others ten II,,. rt ,11 I < Lei " ' IJ<>.' .!- knowi. " St. II bent upon historical re- search ?" " It hat something to do with kettles, I think," says Taffy. " I don't quite believe V'ur mi-amiik' for it. " " Don't you ' 1 am sorry tor you. I do. Hut tome people never will learn. " " That u true,' says Lilian, sums what abruptly. Involuntarily her ryes fall on Cln-ney. He had l>een itarinu 11 in.x.ily mlenoeat the tire mice Chetoo<l's entrance, I. ui now, at her words, ilmigbleus hniixelf, and civet way to a lew, rather fo: laugh. " Knptrienlia ilocrt," sayi (iuy, in a i|Heer tone impossible to translate. " Time is a stern schoolmaster, who compels us aKAinst our will," letting hit eyes meet Lilian's" t., learn many Ihings.' " It hat taught me one thing," put! in Cyril, who looks half ainnied, " lhat the ('.re-sing bell has tuii^ some timr mice." "Has it" lays Lilian rising with alacrity, and direct iiu> a very grateful glance at bun: " I never heard it. I khall scarcely have time now to gel ready for dinner, \\ hy ill.) you not tell me before ?" Aishttpeakt, she sweep* by him, and he, patching her hand, detains her momentarily. " Because whim one is not in ths habit of it, one lake" time !. foiiu a good lam diddle," replies he, in a toft wtntper. She returns hii kind pressure), and going into tin hall she duds that full live tmniitei must elapse before the hell really rings. "I >ar Cyril !" she in urmento herself, almost aloud, anil, running u|> to her room, ei irt a good deal upon nurse s breast before the kind .-teat me call in. luce her to change her gown. Alter which the gels into her clothes wore because it would ut indecent to go awkward jump, the more so that from the other side it is almost impossible for the rider to g\uge its dacgen properly. (T<> BE CONTIM r>.) i\ 1 111 Katrr Wlvet ! Turke). I. renla. ..r d In In Persia it is an almost invariable cus- tom to choose a wife from among one'i re- lations, such as cousins in a near or remote degree, and only among acquaintance when failure has occurred m following the old habit. The Hebrews especially sanctioned a plurality of wivei according to the law of Motet, and that shows how thoughtful they were of the futuie of their race so much so that sterility in a wife was con- sidered a sufficient reason for contracting another marriage. The lot of a Turk who has to bear the whims and caprices of his numerous wives is anything hut an enviableoue The harem ppose it is, a build- At (irantley Kami they find every one be 'ore them, the henn.li sniffing and whimp- ering, the ancient M. P. H. cheery at it hit 'out, and a very fair Held. Mabel Steyne is here, mounted on a hand- tome bay mare that rather chafes and rages under her mistress's detaining hand, while al some few yards' distance from her is Tom, carefully got up, but sleepy as is his wont. I ' not - " Inan , 1*[? OI> P.P hull <>- One can hardly credit that his i.dolent blue ? wh roin TV rk ! W ??, f ! M> thtr - eyee a little later will grow dark and eager at ho scents the fray, and, steadying him- If in his saddle, makes up hit mind to " do or die." Old Ceneral Newsance isploiiling in and out among the latest arrivals, progtinsticAt- ing evil, and relating the " wondrous ad- ventures" of half a century ago, when (if he 11 to he believed) hounds had wings, and hunters never knew fatigue. With him is old Lord Karnham, who has one leg in hit grave literally ipeaking. having lost it in Kii lie more years ago than one caret to count, but who rides wonderfully neverthe- less, and it at young to tpeak to, or rather younger, than any nineteenth-century man. Mabel Steyne it dividing her attentions I.ei ween him and Taffy, when a prolonged note from the hounds, and a quick cry of ;one away," startles her into silence. Kach legitimate wife of a Pasha has a asp .rate dwelling, her own cook, her own coachman in a word, her own' separate household. Tiue it it lhat all the dwellings are enclose*! within one sucrounding wall, and frequently they are beneath not roof, at it the case in our modern flail ; but nevertheless ths isolation it complete among the wives. The eti.|uette among Turkish ladies U anmewhal complicated, and the tystem is hierarchical, the favorite exercising an un ilii|inted authority over Ihe other*. In the Sultan's harem the supreme authority is vested in his mother, who Ukes the title Sultana valid, and sho alone it entitled to go to and fro in the harem unveiled. It it only when the goet out that the wean the yasnmaok. At the present time the veil ussd by Turkith ladies it no longer what it was. lit trantparency admits of a pretty face being easily outlined. When the yashmack it very thick one may con- clude that the face it hides it not very se- ductive. In tpite of the progress of civili- zation and the consequent transformation of habit* and customs in many countriet, the position of women in Turkey hat only Lilian and Sir ( Iuy art well to" the from ;' l'ghtlv changed ; it is only in sxceptional Archibald olow. betide them Cyril U. Ihe | '" tn * *" belonging to the higher left it.ven farther .ihead ; while Taffy and 1 >l w "> unaccompanied out of doort by Mb*l Steyne cas he tern a little lower ' "">m'h- These are the candmss, wh down, holding well together, Mabel, with h v dopUd and glowing with excite- " K Tal Talkers are scattered, conversation forgot- ten, and every one settle* down into hu or her saddle, ready Mid eager for the day's work. U.-wr. the hill like a flaah goes a i(ood dog fox, past the small wood to the right, through the ipinnies, straight into the pen licyonil. The scent is good, th pack lively ; her eyes bright mem. sailing gallantly .long on her hand- Home bay. After a time the fox showing no signs ..( giving in hedges and doublet throw paces in helween the riders. Sir '.uy is far away in the distance, Taffy somewhat m the hack ground : Cyru is out of light ; while Miss Chesney rinds herself side by iide with Archibald, who is riding recklssi- ly, and t.uhei- badly. They have just clear- * very uncomfortable wall, that in cold blood would have damped their ardor, only to find a more treacherous one awaiting them farther on, aim Lilian, turning her mare I head a little to the lift, makes lor a quieter and follow the Parit and London fashioni, and it has even been whispered that thei are mysterious assign- at ion* in tho shops of the grand haaaar at Constantinople, where some ladies spend a good deal of time en the plea lhat they have numerous purchases *o make. In Thilwt they reverse the order of thing* foi in that country it it not nmiin.l to tee . woman marritd to a plurality of hut- bauds, sometimes two or more chosen from among her cousin*. The battles of Creasy, poiotiers and Agincourt were won by the archers. Thi bow apneart among the earliest sculptures of Kgypt, B.C. 41WO. in velvet.' Tbe skin U, beautiful velvet covering, and all beneath it is, in fact, limply a great tissue of blood vessels. While the horns continue soft and a part of the deer'i nervout and vtinoui structure, the arteries which run up from the head through them make furrows iu the yielding substance. It is these furrows that give to the buck'l horns their rough, corrugated surface when they have become hardened. " Tbe buck't first horns do not arrive at the dignity of antler* They are limply graceful, sharp-pointed spikes ; hence the term 'spike buck' among huutert. Each succeeding year adds a prong, though, and when the buck is adorned with his proud head gear of five prongs all htinten know I lhat he can't be lest than seven yeart old. i The five-prong antler it the perfect and complete one, ami any more proiigt have no significance except as freaks. But the vel- vety skin, with its delicate lubarterial struotnn. grows with and envelops all the great sprevl ot the five prong antler as well as the tew inches of the young buck i spike. At long as the horni are in velvet they are extremely tender and entirely useless. The toft tkin mutt therefore be removed. Jut not suddenly nor reughly, and not until another extraordinary stage in the develop- ment of the horns is completed. The art- eries and their circulation mutt be ditcon- ected from the horni before the skin it :>roken, or the result would be the turning of the large quantity of blood back to the irain or some internal organ and death ths result. Thii danger it prevented tnd the desired end at tut same time ac- omplmhed by the formation of a rough ring of bone around the base of the lorns, notches being left in at tint for tht passage of t.ie arteries. These openings tre gradually contracted at ne bone formi until the arteriet are compressed as by a mature, and the circulation above the ring of bone is effectually stopped. The velvet tkin, thus deprived of its vital source, ilriee up and peels off the horns, a process which the buck now hastens by rubbing his in tiers against the trunk of tress. Thii rub- lung againtt the trees displaces more or lest bark, and leaves a favorite sign to tho ob- servant hunter pasting through tht woodt that there are deer about. W hen the vel- vet it off tbe horns they have reached their perfect Uge. " That the t weeping, powerful antlen of a mature buck, which he carries to proudly and defiantly, thoul.l be but the growth of a fortnight or so doet not seem possible, but tucti it the fact. When early spring comet a^ain a new set of hornt be- gins to sorout. They spring from the head ike a growing plant, and push last year't anllen from their place. These fall from the buck'l head. The now hornt soon crown him again proudly, but what becomes of ths cast off set? I have asked that one ques- tion scores of 1 nnos, and paused for reply. 1 am pausing yet. (ireek helmets covered the head, back of the neck, ears and nose. After perhaps one of the most exciting weeki iu the history o! the New York Stock Kxohangs, the atmosphere of Wall street on Sunday was comparatively calm. The report that certain rums which lately suc- cumbed would recommence operations, the absence of any further failures, and ths satisfactory uatsre of the bank statement, all anted to restore oonfidetwc. and caused, material advance in the price of many of the stocks. The tone of the New York K\ change at the close on Saturday was strong