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THE NEW INMATE OF HILFONT. A THRILLING 8TOVY OF OLD ENGLAND. CHAPTER XV1L Reluming back, after the little episode which coocrni Bertie, to the quietness of oar succeeding life, when Bertie took him elf away. I could not help observing that Lucy matt have Mine very faithful corret- number of weeks which lay between Clara and her marriage day lessened one by one. We had compromised our former proposal about her marriage. It was to lake place at Estcourt, where, for that week, we were all to remove, an. I Clara was to be marri*! in the old church where the had been christened, her father's church, winch was e.l and touched hy this arrangement, which was suggested by the two girls themselves, Alice being spokeswoman "Kslcnurt has been our home so long, wt have to many pleasant feelings connected witn it," said Alice, and with a sweet seriousness which meant more tnan itsaid. "If you will per- mit it, Mr*. Crofton; everything that has happened to us led our thoughts there." "And I trust many pleasant thing* may happen yet to turn your future thoughts in the tame direction," laid 1, frequently, and with a good deal of emphasis. Alice turned half round to look at me and .lis- t-over what I meant. She colored a little, pondenti. I am sore the got a letter I dear to the family for hit sake, I wai pleat- every second day at least, aud often more ; and generally put her litters in her pocket, and kept them till she went upstair*. I had not taken to myself any authority ever Lacy, nor attempted to interfere with her a* if the wa* under my control. Perhap* t her years, and in her lonely condition I ought to have inquired more particularly, but I did not "see my way," so I made no inquiry about the Utter*, and feeling rather coricus, I put restraint upon myself, and never looked again at those which were laid upon th. hall table before gathering them I ".'' f-' .way without. word Perhaps Alice could guess without being told. le poet-hag. Once I met one of the | ^i the time progreesed, menage* went maid* coming down-stairs, just aa the bag and came perpetually between the two was being cloeed. with Mis* Crofton's let. houses. Mis* Austin, somewhat disturbed ters. " Mi. Crofton'. never ready till the j JJ ''JJa .""iS^" rtV'S^t Jon "these IMI minute." aaid the, man, with a lit- .u.ce'ptibln little personages which would tie ill-humor : and though my conversation be made by a wedding, became Hurried, and with Lucy had not dwelt in my mind, I w constantly sending to me for orders; i i . . i and the marrying of ''lara Harley seemo! could not help recurring to ,t for .moment. ] , ike|y ^ ^ J-f ^ troable0!ll- [~J and trying to recollect what she had told | \y* had arraned to leave Hilfont on the me. H*r father's man, .Somert, tnd the ; Tuesday of thai Easter week, and were to rich family of Mr. Kroom -what im it? ll* J ' niHi < r^court by Mrs. Harly and her family, and Thursday was thi wedding- had already forgotten, aud could not be , hii fellowship made the young man indepen- dent, but toe habit of hit previous lite remained. He was bin a In tie interest*! in, and not very trucli ai'i|u*ioted with, hia own family, and wan ctreletdy conjesoeud- ing to ( 'lara and Alice, "mere pretty girls,'' whom, IwiDghis sii!er, he could unt fall in love with, nd consq- ieu-.ly treated with very trifling attention. 1 could not help looking at my girls with some triumph after half an hour of Mr Maurice. I ha I the presumption to think I had ber.ten Alma Nialer, and that my vmlani were very much more natural and lovable human natures than hers. That evening, when w la lien went into the drawing-room, we fonnil everything arranged for a graii'l ceremonial. Tn girli and the servants liyjomVand extraord- inary exertions had mitniiiaolured a tort of dais, elevated a cuuple of steps above the level of the fl.xir, at the upper end of the room. On thil dais stoud a grand old elbow-chair, one of the antiquities of the house, supported by au'ilt and velvet-cover- ed f jotstool. Before the chair stood a small table, and spread over the table, falling down to the floor in heavy folds of needle- work, was the mysterious work which had absorbed all Kslcourt for ihree months pait the table-cover wrought in twelve squares with the arms of the Harleyi and of the Sedgewicks impaled in lhemiddle(I suspect the rector did this kind bit of heraldry for them I, which wae the present of our children to the Kitcourt bride. We were marshalled to aeatt with great solemnity by a young mistress of ceremonies, who conducted m to the throne OD> the dais. Then the kind girl, the eldest of th* twelve, stood up before me to make a spe?h. Rut wnen the of course wai strongly disposed to cry, an i said, "]'.", r Clara ! ''as I set her ven straight, aud month* 1 her nir ; so did every woman in the house, down to the. kitchen-maid. Why "poor Clara" ? I am sure I can not tell why, only it is nature. I am ready to say as much to-morrow to the very happiest of bride*. Mrs Hirley had never en'.trel K%st- bourn en arch since her husbtnds >lea'h; she laid she could not bear it, and shrank from its neighborhood. L-ist time the was there, poor I >.-. ICarlev himself stood fc', the altar, in the prime oir.it strength, and th fullness of his happne*s. Now our pro- fession trx>ped<|Uiet!y \iy the square blocks of marble which poor Mrs. Harley had pinched and spire. I to set up, a groaninz weight of unshapely stone, over his grave. They all thought, of him as they went along the narrow path into the old choir. Poor happy Dr. Hurley !who fell like a tree in the midst of hi* yarn whom tr.e first breath of trouble killed; the woman and the children, though they were a 1 tnder enough, heaven knows, had been (-.outer of heart than be. So at last we got it over. Clara went past tne~marule name again, I feared this time without noticing it so much, and up- turned to Estcourt, white, trembling-, ami worn out, no longer Clara, but Mrs. Sedge- wick. Then came the gay table, the crowds of t;uests,the different sounds of re- IRRIGATION IN THE WEST. The Walrrlsj* ' l*d '< 4riin.ini Jrasu Ma l-r4url MartrlUas Krnlls. The object of the Canadian Pacific rail- way in obtaining from Parliament a varia- tion of the iirm of its land subsidy is evi- dently to experiment with irrigation in the North- West on large scale. Under the original term! of the grant toe company took alternate section*, so that a map show- ing the public and the railway lands would resemble that familiar object a checker- board. L'nder these circumstances any extensive improvement in the C. P. It. prop- erty, such, for instance, at excavations for irrigation, would lie ss likeiy to benefit the public as the railway lan.ie. Thu of course was not contemplated when the grant waa made, for it is only of recent years that the | success of irrigation hat been demonstrated. In the Western Sta'et the watering of land by artificial meant has admittedly produced These will be best understood by consider- ing the rise tu value! already effected. la Southern California, land that previously told at 1.2.1 an acre hat, by irrigation, been converted into fruit farmt worth now S3.00O stimiilattc 1 into recollection by so slight a On Monday I wai in the village seeing some oi my cottage friends, on my way pressure. Other events made me find my memory, but t h.-se were nut now. Yet.'wa* i hom ' r "' n church, and Lucy wat a* ntnal LI .L . r with me. It was one of Lucy's principle* it possible that Lucy knew *o little of m. ^ ,,,, w|th m- _ y .. It H WM H . that she ihe tent down her letter! by a young spokeswoman cast her ."irst glance on I the audience, she becsme frightened. Old I Nugsnts, builders up of the old house, Mrs. Sedgewick clapped her hand*, and I dear familar facet two heart* a* one truck an the floor with the foot, and cried "Hem '." in encouragement. Mini An'ir, who was standing by, gave an admonishing and anxious look, and all the girls grew very red, and glanced in sympithy. But the speech would not come. After private em.eeary, for fear I should look at them while they lay in the hall? We went out but little for tome week! after that ; the weather was severe, we were alone, and I was tired of my past ex- ertions in the way of company. Then it wae drawing near the tim of the election! in the nothern district of our big countyi and I was extremely anxious to itir Der- went up to the point of offering himielf an candidate. 1 made his life miserable, I am thankful to say. I gave him no reU I left him no pleasure either in dressing-gown or novel I made a perpetual succession of political speeches to him all of whic.t however I am obliged to confess, Derwent bore with a very great degree o' placidity and non-resisting courage. When ys sad," she said, "for Aunt Clare to be so much alone," and the good girl devoted herself to me with unwavering assiduity. As we pused down the village street, I wst much surprised to ie a gentleman's cab standing before the door of the little inn a very dashing equipage, unknown to these rural quarters. The horse stood trembling an! smoking in the harness, evidently still suffering from the excitement of furious speed, and from the inn window young msn regarded the operations of the hostler who c me forward to assist a a tiny groom in attending to the wearied animal. 1 did not observe the young man much; but he was evidently the owner of the vehicle, t visitor unaccustomed to thee parts. "Ifow very strange !" said I. "Lucy, do yon see that <-.\\i " Who cah it be, I wond- er? If the election had not been over I should have supposed an electioneering agent : somebody with urgent news, I sup- pose. We are happier than most people ; life and death ate likely to come." Hut Lucy ilid not answer me. She gave a slight start, so slight that it was sc rc<-ly desoribable by that word, and grew pale over all her face, with a strange chill white- ness, as if of fesr. 1 though' she looked Coward the inn window, and 'raised her hand in sudden slight tignal to tomebody. I beeaine still more turprieed. % "u yon know who it lit ? Do you ex- ptctjany one ?" I asked, in momentary aixistv and alarm. "I ! ' s aid Lucy, turning her fao* to me with its usual smile and usual color. "Dear Aunt Clare, how should I know who it Is I have no one to expect now, and, a* you ay, no one in the world who would lend to me dispatches of life and death. " I was still puzzled, suspicious, curious, bat her tone touched me. It sounded as if her loneliness wai recalled to her by my mailverunt worili.l I beg your pardon, Lucy," laid I, I. ... I p"c. VT v ! e ii|uivr ni-xii munb IJCIIIMC , drove him out of my dressing room, out | we have uo one Jfiom whom dispatch*! of of the breakfast-room, out of even the ex- ' ' elusive person*! ground of his own library, Derwent sustained the assault like a hero, bat he was not to lie moved. Though I myself look to the " Timos ' and rea I it sedulously though I studied with devotion, and alway* in his presence, the interesting pages of the " Simon burgs/ Chronicle" though I gave hint* to our gentlemen visit- ors, and wrote two different but moot elaborate aecret epistles, one to our f ndon soli- itor, a matt whom Derwent trusted greatly, and the other to ft<.brt Crofton, nrging them both 10 add their exertions to mine lor his desirable object I am grieved to lay lhat 1 failed entirely ; Derwent wai not to be moved by any argument or endeavor of rrind. " Why should I make my life a trouble to myself and everybody else. ?" said Derwent; "do you want to write yourself M.I'., you J ambitious Clare? Franks are no longer' ', : .- pos*,ble, and nobody want, to arrest me- I H "' nOt In "" to Woun * {?"' ',"" l^ whp thould I go mto Parl,am.nt? 1 am ' '" T 1 * ' myie " ""' Mr Crofl< " 1 than ' v*ry oomfortaple, thank you, here." . y .,,. "Derwent!" I .xclaim.d, in.l,,rn.ntly. ' . " '"'. ". ' Mid Luey: "and "you are nf no use in th. world-" Y" 1 iu . r " ' 1 not "P<* Ppl ' ">" At which my husband only l.ughtd. "Oh. ."I" ' " w .^, n r< ; u TV "* ' ''" b " JM. I am." h. laid. "1 am no-, flighty, nor l<lllm * WIJ j*JM r*P* lot an Innovator. I am the balance "of the ' *%' ' | '!" ' l . ""'"< I *nyon. country, and pr...rv. it. equilibrium ; th, I V? ,Tl I ,T T ' X "'" VMM! want. ballast a. well a. s.ils. .nd I ' *St2Z*l * flatter myself, though you are so very far ! "-'' i0n " thln WM o1 from complimentary, that I am of iom* uie to you." "Oh, Derwent, how can you speak an? ' aid I.justly aggravate.! and out of patisnoe. I !' '. " Of course you are everything to me and ' of oours. 1 am ambitious. I want you to ' t a thlnk ' "'" . u " 1 ' "'- 1 Ln J:- "'' Mrv. your ,untry-I want everybody to >'' T"" do not want me. and know what you are " * '" w w " r<1< m " rt ' >' '" leave me, "Th. le.. we say abont that the better." ! '""> ,' H '' f n V, t 1 ''?" 'l'! ", ' h h *' aid D*rwent.. hailing his head. "Nobody ' '"?' J v.'i , Y ", *' l * f ' h "' r>turn f l w.ll be very much the w,er for knowing m ie "' n<1 h "* '"n for .,, time in ths wh.t I .m. Ar. you willing to shut your* '"""{J -' !"f. ' "wl* -If up ,n som. dingy square in town from gj , bonn - t * 1 - Me.-'-.-'. F.bruaryto August ' Ar. you content l? r ' K ?',, '7' '? lhe ."']">. > " to lose sight of me altogether from ? r '' h " -"'. .| c.rU.nly her ,-h,,k, ten o'clock to-day till two o'clock to-mor- I l>loon) d int ""''> ' > m.l my row morning ; and u, oarry a poor gasping ' ' h ' ve h * "'ndi.ring about in th. sinner home in September to get him alive f '[" " ne ' '\ n I '' 1 |" ^ e r> Krain? Much obliged, but I'd ratb.r l "' "'''' ">-Jy. *nd now Heel quite Ot." "Itho-ildb* cnnUnt with anything." j h * ""^"'V loo '' a" 1 ^ . "> *. laid I "lhal employed your Ufa and your "' "<> roimi with a quiet step talentt for the goo.1 of the world " "'" '" ln l " ***, " ' thought. I had Derwenl ihrug M ed his shoulders. "Th* I f "" ' m ?i (ur . ther ""I." 1 ' 1 "' '/ "" short and th. long of It is that you want to [ 22I?l!Si^? !^ n .'""''; I",' 1 '*" ^ me, lick and giddy, to happ*n; but m. ? I ' " N 1 l | y ., <J " r , < f * m 1 rrv - ' ' 6 * r b* a legislature. Clare. I daiVsay, If you assail him as you hav* don* me, your son- in-law, Hugh .Me.lgewiok, will vnt. as you I. id him ; hut dnn t mak* any further plots, I beg of yni, against my life. Do you sup- pose th.y sup.rint.nd the good of the world in Parliament? I did nit think you were qmtn sn green a pliilman a* that. vague su'pii-ion o( something hidden and clandestine whieh I could not explain. CHAPTKK XVI11. It wai early April, moist wsather, balmy, showery, snd spring-like. It anything, I think there ws rather too much " taste" shown in the embellishment nf K<t. .>nr' Very well, nrvnr mm. I Parliament," | All the early flowers whloh oould to fimnd said I ; "li.it do something Dsrweut that r i-oaxml into I. loom, or that oould be stolen is all I wish." | or begged from the florists round, adorne.l 'Then you shall he satisfied Instantly. ' in profusion every room in the house, and Clare. I am going to rad the paper," laid ' the children were in a ...minion nf excite- my inaorriglli'.e hui'uml, and 1 sigheil and mont whiuh I should tin I it difficult to gave up the hnpelms attempt, Sn the I describe, Clara roul I scarcely move any .oiinty elected, In nram of old Mr Hrnmliu, where without an admiring train of Imle the brilliant lawyer, Mr. Phelun I'leailer, uirls after her, every one of whom had t he who was an Irishman and an orator, ami list of om hridn'i we.,1, 1 in present. |,y heart, had no opiniunii to speak of ; and I swal- and knew what evsry one hail given h-r,' lowed my iliH|ip<iintinsnt as I l>st might, ; and evsry one of whom nlsn ihroblwd with an.) became rather iniiAiithroplcal about a mighty secret which Clara AI yet did not the llouci of I '..mmoiis, in wln.'h I henn know, We dined at Kitcoiirt that Tue,Uy. to fear, I>erwent aaid, 1 should nsvsr have j a very large party, nu-lu. ling ths hri.lMgriiorn a Mat. and sundry friends ..I his. Maurice lUrley, who WM now r ' 1 lw "f his collage, an. I And so the winter patted. Lent, whloh, Instead of a season of mortification, was to rather a great prrinnagr, sat hy me. He joiciug and then a rush tothe door; a mist of an acre. No one n.-ed expect such excep- embraclng armi.and a perfect shout of good tional result* in th. U est, bat thatimprove- wishes. So good-by to you, little Clara !! ment of a substantial nature can be effected You were the first who left Estcourt after I therecan be no doubt, for in itts premising thislasbicn of the young generation. Iwonder i parts of the neighboring republic than I wonder who the next maybe ? and I re Califoruia irrigation has proved a good in- turn to think of thalKstcourt which should ; vitstment. Trie last census of that country hen I was gone. KiUiourt ot two yung [ shows that <77,4!m,im invested in this way has within a few years grown to the sum of $290,830,000 consequently we find that irrigation bond* are regarded in the moment'! pause, the representative the school roe* fro.-n her place Clara'* arms. Oh, C ; ara, t.ke it our two lives after my own heart. Mra. Harley and Alice shut themselvesup British market a* gilt-edged security. In- upstairs after our gne*t*, and were invis- deed, to enthusiastic have become some of ible for the remainder of the day. Mauric , tho advocates of the canal plan of watering I Harley secured Derwen', in the library, and land that tb.y are bold enoagh to alter-, it | tempted him with discussions of those phil- is better than Nature's method of supplying of i oiophies which your g men love, and men who j moisture irom the clouds. But in Canada to ! have been young retain a hankering after, we do no: need to go that far, since the ilh The children broke forth in legitimate riot vY est at a whole has a fair share of rain. all our love.!" cri.d the brokec-down into the garden, whither I followed, taking ' though, perhaps, in some places, not suA- orator, and as all the remaining eleven a *obtr walk with Miss Austin, to spaak of i c ent to tully meet the requirements of the rushed after her to echo the sentiment, the the afain of the school. Everything scene became rather tumultuous and ir- very luxuriant and well preserved, tor I regular, till order was restored. Then we had not the heart to saunti:e to any econ- all admired and examined, to the heart's ; omy the beauty of the Estcourt gardens ; content of the young laborers, and diimiti- ! and the children were running to me now ed them in the highest spirits to a refection and then with little knots of violets, toil. It it to make the farmer MORI IXDirtNDBNT of the elements, and to enable him th better to meet his competitor*, that irri- gation is proposed. The uecenitv for the o , i . - -. . of cakes ind fruit in Mios Austin's room, j gathered in shady placet below the trees ' J' i " m " io foll y rec n ''l "> " that new companies are consequently asking umphone faint lily ot the valley, ihe very '" 1 "" ior authority to undertake the ' > work fur inherent localities. This session. and once a full procession hearing in in | first that had been teen or heard of in thete parts. Then we came to the terrace in to facilitate their organization, the (iovern- ment has introduced what will be known a* the Dominion Irrigation Act, r.nd it is in- truded to be a general law upon the subject. We do not want it to go abroad lhat it i* one could not tee the*, buds greeny i '"P""' 1 ' 1 " f rm ' ^e Welt without faintly the l- hr.n..h.. ik. re. I rtifictal as.isunce, for that is not the cue. ; front of the house, where we could tee the park with all its trees stirring to the < spring. It was a pretty tcene th very name of itself wat fall of suggetions ; and There never had been tuch a holiday in the children's recollection ; my own marriage wa* a very dull arlair m c rnpari-on ; and they had to try on an. I examine their white frock*, win -h arrived from London along with Clara's wedding-dress that night. But don't be indignant, charitable public; they were xery pretty, but they were only white muslin ; and what with letting down of tuck* and altering of trimming*, they last- ' faintly tho bare branches ot th* u<r, , ed for. 1 will not venture to say how many without thinking of all the summer wealth But ' Canadian farmer is progrewive.and year*; sol was strictly a^nomtc'al. a* tvery- of foliage ths culmination of thin beginning PfoP *** improve Hi oppor-.uoi! body must perceive. life. .\ly thought, w, re full ot another ry P-'t>l.w,v. That ,. why irrigation Next day Bertie Nugant arrived quite life, which I honed wai at ill beginning unexpectedly at Kstcourt. I had not look- too. I almost thought I could tee Alice for him, in cn*equence nf hi* long visit at Harl-y, when she wa* Alice Nugent. Christmas, but he protest* I he could not let walking among these trees, and lingered little Clara lie married without bein^ near ou the terrace, smiling over my own u> help, and brougni his present tor her, thou^n'.i. whi:h I dare say male a great hoi.- in the I And even at this moment,in the distance . poor boy's po.-k.t-mon.y. be*.di brining yond.r toward, th. .un..,t. ar. two figures, j A ^"'Pondcnt in Shanghai sends the a small hamper nf bouquet* from *veot And one of them is llertie. Has Alice i following translation of an article from the i.ar.len, wbitji I am afraid some of the ' Harley left comfort'ng her mother ? Is it I Senpao, Shanghai: h* over whom he 11 bcnding-whom he "\VehaveipokeninMveralitsuesotthe is wanted in the West. THE BLACK PLAGUE. ir >. AlMI. mml of Ihe Terrible re*llletjee in I klnn. , Clara Harley and all her friends a Mason of, had spent most o' his time sinew his father's considerable exolumeat, came on, ami the , dt * tl1 wiln Mr ' Htrley'i rich un.-l.. Now, children muaf*Aav>- made private appiivation for. I was very much pleased, ou the whole, lhat Kerlie had come, remembering, iu my new lol* of match -maker, tnat one marriage i* apt to produce other*. Aliceandhe.it is true, seemed rather reserved and distant to e,a>.-h other, and behaved in a manner very different from their old familiarity- Alice, in particular, who wai a* stately ai a princess ; but I rather hoped that this WM the btst possible sign. In the mtthiime, Lucy made Nancy very useful. She could mske up wedding favor* with the greatest (kill, it appeared, and j leads among the lime* which give no cover now at that alow Imgrring.pleastnt pace ? I suppose so of .-ourse ! So I had better return in-doors, in case Bertie, when he comes back, may have something to lay. (TO B CONTINl-C[>. ) BOODLERS IN MEXICO. Test ( hiinl Kiihl anil I en s>v ravaget of the pestilence in Kwangtung province. Kur one hundred years tnere have not been so many deaths during a single pestilence. It has entered even into official residence* and attacked both civil and military otficials, and their s-rv.n:. generally from .ithec placet, are fleeing to had very tolerable taste in the arrangement ' offioia , inTMtil!mv i on which lb . Government of flowers ; and then was never flurried nor , hurried, nor thrown out of composure their homes. Charitable institutions are giving coffin*, and within three month* have distributed several thousands, one A City of Mexico despatch says : The i institution alone giving over one thouaand. 1 1 he people who hav* bought coffins ar* without number altogether, so far, over lu.iHN) persons have died of the plague. has been conuuctmg the last few day! into misfortune which everybody el*e in the I the Post Ottice department of this city and -Still the ravage* of the pestilence are wor*e hou.e was somewhat ubjsct to. As for other part* of th* republic has wealed a ^' v by d ' y - The uoffillt ' tn ' ch "ity Clara and her mother, they hardly appeared ! _....n i., ...- , .,. ... I .lown.stairs at all that day, and the house- hold wa* full of excitement and agitation, greatly simulated by the half-subdued riot of th* children, who ran wild and forgot part* ot Mexico. the local Po*t Office ha* been systematically their propriety, and kept the otticvrs of the . ....... i are used up, given all awav. an.) startling condition of affairs, and there will noWi m . Mina hM Vbe used to wr.p ap be a wholesale weeding out of th* dithon- ( th* dead bo.lies fa deep misfortune from a e.t employe* in th* service in different Chines* poiot of view]. Atto the nature /Mexico. It hat been thewn that ! ' ta * disMi*. it begins with a rising about ceremonlahn a state of perpetual (right and ' robbed of sums of money, which in the aggregate, amount to over $100,1100. The shortage of the Postmaster, Manuel Nava, terror. Th* drawing-room, which th* only quiet room in the house, wa* preisrnatiirollv qaiet in the mi.lst of the bustle. l>9r<rent sat yawning over his newspaper, snd Mr. Stlgewick, pretending to be reading, waited with lanlalued impatience for the appearance of the little bride, who wa* shut up with her mother, and had not thi remotest intention of showing herself agiln LII night. 1 wai too restless to do anything. ! went watuUr- the sue of a plum at the largest, or a bean at the smallest, very painful, accomp.tnie.1 by a pain in the stomach. In a little while; unconsciousness or delirioutntss follows. ing about the room, examining into all the have been discovered in not lsi than three old corners, and I dare diicomfortable and ci amount* to ov.r $AO.OOO. and that of the '"' medicine is unavailing. The cashier of th. office to about $U,IKK). Six onl >' remedy is when the disease it employes of ths City Postal Bureau have taken at its beginning: needle* inserted in also been arreited, investigation showing j tne parent's body in several places, and on that their shortage amount* to a consider- i *" needle is burned moxa made from mu,;- abl* sum, but ths exact amount has not " rl - This seem* to b* a relief. The >e*n made public. The investigation is be t d'Mat* is called the 'Serpent Mark.' The in* extended to all part* of the rtpublic, , oaus***ems to he atmospheric. Th*r. wa* with ths result already that big shortage. ' "n not.d physician succe*ful with the movements. Th* only other persons in the disease, but his patient;, after 'tehad ineuie e s.y adding to the i of the large Pot Offices out*id* of thia city, them well, again .ouk the disease and died. ited quIetneM by my ' Postmaster Nava of this city is still a ' This physician named U gave it up, ' l .-.! <u...._ _. _._ ._ . > fugitive Irom justice. room were Bertie and Lucy, who whispered and laughed together at a table where Lucy WH. heaping up her wedding favor* into a ba.ker. ready for use. They were merry i-imigii. but Ulked under their breath, sometime, disturbing Mr. Snrlgewiok. who looked at them half angrily, som.- limeeattraotlng Der w*nl'e attention fora mo- menu Th. group struck me once a* I . p.. d by them. Luc> dropping th* wKte ln *.** >' * h proj.otn*. The length satin rihtans slowly mu, of her pretty of the latter, in fact, cannot ticefdacer- Angers, on. by oue ; Hurtle leaning over in j tain limit, beyond which it Would no longer linve sufficient stability in it* trajectory. It would thereforo be of considerable THE RIFLE BALL. Mar Take Ikr riaeeef Lea4 r*r Kylin NaklBB. The reduction of the calibre of guns it necessarily accompanied by a diminution commenting on their min.ifa.-t ur : th. t head, very close together, his bond ing down upon hers, hy neceesity of hi. superior height a very pretty group, but I could j interest to have at oar disposal for the not help thinking for ths Instant that Ber- tie looked rather too happy. Why wai not he, too, watchtne the door, like Mr. I l . .'. I VI lilt- II. VI Sedgewick' The rt,ouht pur.,u,d m. | f ^ , ling , Un . Thi. metal, wlu,l, r," t. 7 T """ s PI"?'i -y alm.-st a. har.i a. steel, ha. a don ,ty vary h,Hly had mad. a picture of the., tw,, | , from , ; , n ., ' ,> "J Hgiir... wh.tn.,,. should it have borne ? , jmM h , , H 'By 7 r.an of such . N .??!?::i. .rrr - a j 'r,i ho ':? :. .T. r : 'i <*** >>", f ung., y .n of ,.. , lim , B . saying, 'Heaven net man can control this peetilence,' and he not a K wangtung man has returned to his home. The pro- minent men of the province consulted to bring in able physicians from elsewhere to treat the people without charge. They have arrived, and are beset with patieute without number." l manufacture of rifle balls a metal of reason- 1 1 aide, price and heavier than lead. One of the metals upon which hopes may be at a mere gratuitous vexation. Why should permit mjwlf, in td.. merest freak of fanny, to do Bertie *o ni'ioh wrong. "Happy is the bride that the mnthlnos .HI, ' I laid to myself, next morning. I 'ent to Clara's room to find her drvsted and ready I'xir Mr*, llarley waa endeav- oring to swallow a cup of tea in somewhat hysterical (iilps, and verylik* to !< angry with Aii. -e, who had brought her .omxthint; more tubatantial by way of breakfast, Sh* wai a ten.ler heartr I woman, irresolute and feli|e-ininil..l, hut kind to th* extreme qualities balls of tungsten of equal lioiit possess a power of penetration much greater than that of lead. Thus, a tungs- i.-n ball penetrates asteel plate three inohea in thickness at a distance of tiji> yards, while a similar one ot lead p*n*tratet a -'; inch plati> at :.-! yards oily. The pr*- ent olmacl* to th* DM of tungsten is it* t datively high price, hut there ar* indica- tions that It will get cheaper. Learned by Experience. Teacher What little boy r*n Ml m* th* of kindness, and cried, without very well J aams of the wont nation on earth ? Bobby' k. w .._ it. i . ' ,, i i . f_ j -j l too, I knowing why over her pre-.ty child. Bobby V ace inatum. Fed His Cows Tallow. A correspondent of Hoard's Dairyman thinks that he has some practicalcxpsrienc* to negative the work done by many experi- ment stations relative to the possibility o( feeling fat into milk. He h\s four cowi which oil ordinary tt~\ gave milk requiring -3 'pounds for one pnund of butter. He resolved to try the experiment of adding to their feed pur* beef tallow. He fed nt tirtt one-quarter nf a pound twice a day, sha\ .- 1 an. I mixed with their grain ration. Within almut two weeks he increased the an: to two pounds of tallow per day. Th* re- sult of this experiment wa* that instead of requiring '.'.'! pounds of milk for one pound of butter, after the feeding of the lard had fslrly got in its work on th rows' systems only 1H( pounds of milk were required for one pound of butter . A Wee Connoisseur. Aunty (finishing story) And M Prince (ioody-good 11 arne.l her and they In*.) happy *v*r afterwards. Helen (thoughtfully) Now tell at a true Itory, aunty.