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We mada the acquaintance of tbat pretty, golden-bairad little widow dur- Ingr our sojourn at a German bealtl reonrt. My wife and I are not aa « riul«, given to picking up chance ac (luaintances during our travels, but Fa^nn; bad been very much fascinated by the sweat- looking little woman; and when, in courae of a caaual conversa- tiomâ€" begun during a day of pitiless rain, which confined us, all three, to the hotelâ€" I discovered that Mrs. St Clair had been very intimate with my lear old frlenda, the St. Ledgers, of JIankabire, our acquaintanca with the (>retty widow rapidly ripened. Fanny and I have been married mamy years now, and get on well en- cttgh togetheir; bub if am'eat Helen St. Ledger bad lived, instead of joining the aagels some fifteen yeara ago â€" w«ll, a different Lady Sefton might have reigned ati the Grange. I can oevar forget "what might have been;" •md, though Mrsi. St. Clair's acquaint- ance with the St. Ledgers dated long after poor Helen's death, it was still interesting to ma to chat with her about my old friendsâ€" of whom I had Been very little since they had practi cally taken up their residence in Italy. It was at Florence that Mrs. St. Clair bad known them: "stayed with them for months at a time," she said; and indeed, saa muat have been on very \ntimate terms with tha family, to have noted au many of " dear old Sir Gieorge's" quaint crotchets and fancio--^ â€"little peculiariliea to which she play- Cully alluded, and. at which I smiled, with the sly amusement which one (eels for tiue foibles of one's best friends. To make short) a long story, before we left Fajxny bad invited Mrs. St Clair to [layi us a vi^it at theGrange and the little widow joined us there a tew weeks after our return home. A moi^ accompli:ibed and delightful guest "siie proved. She had "been alone near- ly two years now," as she phrased it and had laid ouiiie all the heavy trap- pings of woe, only retaining tbuse deli- cate mixtures of black and white, and gray, which were particularly becom- ing; to her rose-leaf complexion au<I golden hair. We had learned that bur late hus- bandâ€" a bankerâ€" had been considerably ber situior, and, tu judge from appear* tnctis, had lolt ber very comfortably >tf as regards worldly gouds; her be- reavement was confessedly no cru.sh- ing sorrow, "and I like her all the better tor noC teing a hyi;o rite iu the matter, uud pretending to be hearl- broken, for the loss of an elderly uiau, when, from, what she has told meâ€" the poor c^.ild v/aa an orphan and left to the grudging care of relativesâ€" she was really forced into marrying dim wbil» but a girl ju.it out ot the school room," remarked my wife. In addition to ber undeniably good looks, Mrs. St. Clair was possessed of a nuuiber of small accomplisbmeuts, which made her a valuable aJditiim to a country house-iKirty. She was musi- cal, an admirable tennis and billiard player, could make a creditable fig- ure at the whist table, and was always charmingly dressed, in excellent spir- its, and full of a pleasant ripple of society sma-ll-talk; bright and. lively, nith just tbat little suspicion >£ malice whicb. gives zest to such gos- sip. It was. Indeed, most unfortunate that we couild not invite our fascinating gH"j«t toi remain with u.s for tiie groat ainuual excitement of uur neigblorhood â€" our county ba.ll; but every room in our bouse had been bespoken for this Bvent loi»K before we met Mrs. St. Clair l'';i:iuy kissed the little widow •iffci tionately when they parted; and IS we ourselves were shortly coming to London for the winter, and Mrs. St. Clair had taken a flat iu town, weex- uected to aee much of each other while en the metrajM>lis. "And remember that I shall count ajx>n yuu to assist me in arranging aiy tableaux," dear Mrs. St. Clair," said my wife, who was intending to organ- ize a scries oit "livin« pictures," short- ly after our arrival in London, in aid af some cliurity ot wlicb aho was one of tlie patronesses. "I will design some effective group la which youi shall figure <as a queen wearing yoiir magnific>^nt tiiira of dia- monds" laugbod Mrs. St. Clair, as she waved her lost adieu from the carriage window. "Magnificent!" was certainly hardly an exaggerated epithet to apply to tbo l)eautiful ornament, in whicb were act some jewels which had descended to me from an ancestor who hod l)een in India in the dtty.s when ".shaking the pagoda-tree," was in( vogue. The dia- monds which now fla.shod amid my wife's dark braids had once been the proiKjrty of an liidijiu Ik'gum, and East- ern iiotentatos have a pretty taste for jewelry. "I should like to see you wearing those lovely diamonds, dear Lady Set- ton," our guest h.ad cried, when on a wet afternoon Fannyi had held one of those private exhil.itions of personal f>os.scs8ions to which; women appear to i» so fond ot invitinK their tominino friends. Men, by the way, never do the like. I should never dream of asking my dearest male associate to turn over my stock of stud.s and coats, but women will speml hours in. the seclusion of one another's i«drooEas scrutinizing frocks " am* jenrela. "I s'^>uld feel quite anxious if I kept such vE^luables in my room," added Mrs. St. Clair. '<is branny, after the ahow was oveiT, bad locked up the precious casket in one of the dreuwers of her wardrobeâ€" "3, very unsafe place for such trea- sures," as our guest warningly ex- claimed. But w^ knew the honesty of all our servantsâ€" old; family retainers most of them â€" i and also, though the Blankahire folks always admired the Uistre of the jewels which I had fetch- ed from their usuaJ resting place at our London banker's in order that Fanny might, as usual, wear the tiara at our local ball, prot»bly not one of our rustic neighlnrs or domestics, guessed at the real value of those dia- monds. Mrs. St. Clair, however, "who adored jewels," a4 she frankly ad- mitted, was a bettor critic, and ap- praised the true Tslue ot the stones at a glance. Our guest had left na and w« went to the l>all without her, Fanny resplen- dent in her diamonds. But a most an- noying accident happened; just a.s wc were leaving the ball-room, passing donm one of the corridors, Fanny â€" who is of aomewhat imposing height â€" caught her tiara Ln one ot the gar- lands hanging alcove, the ornament fell from her hair to tlie ground, and her escortâ€" a rather clumsy country squire â€"in hastily stooping to pick it up, trod upon it, cnisliing one of the corners, and forcing out one of the stones, hap- pily â€" for we never found tlie missing gem â€" merely a tiny brilliant of com- paratively trifling value. Several of these little stones had Ijeen addeil to the original gems when I had had the diamon<ls reset in: their present form as a bridal gift to my wife. The luckless perpetrator of the in- jury was so utterly dismayed and dia- conaolate at tha accident that I was glad that I could, with a clear con- science, aasure him that the damage couid be repaired at no very alarm- ing expense; and, having occaiiion to run u;> to town next day upon some liusiness, I took with me the injured tiara with tlie intention of having it repaired by my lAudon jeweler "I am anxioua tbat you should care- fully mat^h tlie, color and style of the larger stones in replacing this small missing brilliant," I remarke<l to the ci.il shopman, who was examining the ornajoent. "Oh, there'll lie no difficulty about that, Sir John," replied the man read- ily, "for it so hBjjpens tliat we have still several of thooci same stones left over from those we procured fur her lady- ship a week or so ago, when we took out the diamoiidi^ from the tiara, and set them iu the buckles, you krow" "Took out the diamondBl" I exclaim- ed "Yes â€" these present stones are mere- ly Fr»jnch imitations, you see, sir I lioiie I am not betraying her lady- 8lii,i'.i little secret too soon. She in- formed me til vt it -.vas to l» a birth- lay surprise for yourself; but a week ai^j w<i received a few lines from Lady Sefton retiuesting us to have ready some patterns ol old-fashinned alioe- buckles for her to see, and stating that she would call u|H>n us to in- siject them and/ to give directions re- garding some jewela she wished re- set." 1 mnst her" niontion that I am an old I u.itiiinor of 5ji rs. Carbuncles' ; they know my country address, and I have often l:ought jewelry at their establishment for uiy wife, hut fanny liersoLf had never visited the shop. 'Her ladyship looke<l in, according to appointment, oni Mondayâ€" yea, it was last Monday week," went on the assistant, wlu> knew; me well, " and l>rought this tiara-^which we had the honor of arranging for you some years ago, I well rememberâ€" and she stated that she wished to surjirise you with a pair of handsome shoe-buckles to wear with your fancy dress at ber forthcoming tableaux"- Fanny's char- itable scheme had already been adver- tised in the paiwrs-â€" "and wished to know if wo could take the stones out of tlie tiara anil arrange them in these buckles, replacing the diamonds in the tiara with first-clasd paste imitations, 'for I scarcely ever wear the ti.ara, and l should like, on this st>ecial occasion, to see my busl>and using his own fam- ily .jewels,' her ladyship remarked. Of course we could easily make this alter- ation. I cmt: "Venture to point out to her laldyship thaU the i>aste imitations would do better for the buckles, but she only said, 'No, no, .Sir John lias given me so many pretty liirthday gifts from your shop and now I am resoh ed to give him a surpri.se In turn,' and of course it wasn't for us to argue further with a customer," added the man, a little apprehensive- ly, glancing at me. If my countenance only expressed half what I felt! I controlled myself, however, for if what I suspected was tlio case, it would in no wi.se mond mfltters to take the jeweler's assistant into my confi- dence. "IJid Lady .Sefton jjall herself to fetch away the buckles?" I asked. "Oh, yes, sir; she came itgain, by aiipointment, on the Saturday after, and took loth the buckles and the tiara away, paying the bill at the .same time, for it was all to 1» kept from you. And you won't let it out to her ladyship that I've told you her little .secret, will you, sirâ€" only, wheif you asked alx)ut the stones, you see " "Of course iti was Lady Sefton who called?" I said with affected careless- ness. "Oh, yes, a little lady with blue oyns and golden hair," re.filiod thesboji- man confidently, "and the letter wo had was writt/en on your own noteya- I>er, sir, it's all right, isn't tt?" with a sudden tone of anxiety in his voice. "Oh, yes," 1 replied, as coolly as I could, "butâ€" in the circumstances, I think I will just con.sult my wife be- fore l bavo: the tiara meddled with." And, .somehow-, I got out of the shop and into a hansom, and, after telling the man to drive to my club, began to delil)erate what I had better do. I understood it all now; and, oh, \vhat aa egregious fool I bad been ! I'ha* little minx of a Mrs. St. Clair I Tu think that Fanny and I, sensible folks aa we hod always considered ourselves •should, have beeiii so reailily fooled by a.ni a<lventuresB 1 And yet she had seemed sucJi a ladyâ€" and then her un- doubted intimacy witli tlie St. Ledgers I But thena was no <li)ubt that this lady, our lat» guest- UukI stolen my wife"s diamonds. I saw it all now. I well re- memlwrad that on Ixith the dates men- tioned by the jeweller Mrs. St. Clair had goQB tu Lou'lun on the pretext of vi-its to her dontist; and had >)ecn duly petted and ct»maii.s«rited by Fanny up- ua her return. '1V> a lady of Mr.s. St. Clair's varieil acoomplUhmeats. it had, doubtless, been, easy enougii to abstract the diamonds from my wife's wardrobe by moons of a false keyâ€" no doubt the woman travelled with an asaortment of such thieves' equiixmeatsâ€" and to after- wards replace the ornament, which she was aware would not be required or sought for Iiefora the day of the ball. Indeed, but for the accidental injury to the tiara, the substitutioecof the m<>ck for the real atones might have remained undetected until Fanny or I had. died, and the 'valuation for pro- l>at.« duty" revealed the fact to our 'liatiu.'^tt'd heirs and executors. We ahouhl never have suspected the trick that bad beeia played. Messrs. Carbuncles' nalne and address wern upon the c^ise which held the tiara; Mrs. St. Clair had beard me men- tion the firm aa old tradespeople ot mine; and the wtiole story of the "sur- prise" of the shoebuckles was a very ingenious devics- for putting the jewel- lers off their guard. To have simply re- quested that false stoni's should lie sub- stitutfld f')r the real might have excit- ed some suspicion. "Well, I had bean "surprised" witli a rongfanue, and the question now was how to rcicover my property. By the time I bad reached my club I hud settled my plana. I knew Mrs. St. Clair's London address, a flat in Victoria Street, and bade my cabman drive me tht-re. Yea, the huly was at home, and came forward with outatrtt- ched hands and a prutty cry ot min- gled surprise and pleasure to greet me as I entered. That surprise, became very genuine after a minute or two, but the pleasure â€" Well I will not recall one of themoat paiofu! acenes of my life. At first the lady attempted to brazen the matter out with a high hand; but when 1 spoke of the jeweller's description of "Lady Sefton," as "small ,golden-haired and blue-eyed"â€" Fanny elands five fiK>t eight, and la as dark as a gipsyâ€" well, then my bosteas fairly gave in, and there was a huddled, tumbl«>d heap of ailk skirts ajid dishevelled golden locks â€" her hair really was all h«r ownâ€" at my feet; and such a piteous sobbiag and wailing. AVell, I had come to the flat furiuusiy indignant, hut a man cannot behave like an actual brute to a wom- an, and to such a pretty one, ev<an if she has robbed bun of some thousands of pounds' worth of jewelry. " ^ ou shall have back your diamonds again â€" now, at once," wailed tlie culprit; "and, oh, if you know alt, it was my husband. I only acted under his directions. Oh be merciful and pity me â€" " "1 thought you were a widow," I cried Id amazement. " Heâ€" James â€" made me say Uiat I was; he said it would make it <a3i.^râ€" " "To get yourself into iieople's houses umilor false pr«»tences," I said rather cruelly. "Ub, you don't know," soblied the ladyâ€" and how pretty aho looktwl even now !â€" 'you would pity me a little â€" kind, good man as yuu are â€" if yuui only knew all. I was a friendless orphan, governcsa in a family"â€" "tho St. l^oilg- ers", of course," I mentally ejaculated â€" "and I fell into the i)ower of a lad man, and when, afterwards lie married me, he made mo â€" " "Assist him in his thefts, a{>parent- ly," I said trying to harden my heart. "Now, see here, Mrs. St. Clair, It I con- sent to keep this matter quiet, it is only upon two conditions: First, that you giive mo book my wife's jewels; then that you swear to leave Bngland with your husband before another week is over." The lady readily n<{reed to the first condition, assuring iiiu that she had the jewels ill the bouse, liiit hesitated a lit- tle alx>ut the last. The latter condi- tion, however, I was c.\tr«mely resolute In in.si8ting upon. The woman hadlietn seen iit our house, and it \vould never do. to allow her to trade upon this oir- circuuistance. and, perhaps gain admit- tance .to other i-esiwctable alwdes in consequence; I did not want to expitse my friends to the same experience I had undergone. However, under prcasuro, Mrs. St. Clair gave tbo required promise â€" which I assured her I should take measures to discover was keptâ€" and I left the flat, bcariing with me tbo buckles into which my diamonds wore now set, I may remark, that, from certain cau- tious inquiries which I set on foot Int- er on. alter l had asiwrlained that Mrs. St. Clair ami her husband bad .sailed for New Yorit, I convinced myself that tlio resiiectable elderly banker-husland deceased was a pure ntyth, that the lady bad lieen for some yoars the wife of a very e.\i«jrt "jewel thief," alxjut her own age; and that the pair had successfully "worked" more than one famous "jewel rohlx'ry." How far the woman had Ixscn the viotini of the man I never ascertained, but I fancy -when we wen^ honored by Mrs. .St. Clair's ac<iuaiiitanc«â€" tbat the husband and wife were pretty much ii|)on a par OB regards honesty and rtiaiHK;tabilit.y. I airriod my rescuicd diamonds to Moaars. Cnrboncles' and informed them that "Lady Sefton" had changed her mind regarding the arrangement of the stones; the tiara was duly return- ed â€" with the real stones in it thia time â€" to its rightful owner, and, when my wife's famous tableaux c<im« off, I ap- peared resplendent in a pair ot gorge- ous shoe-buckles, "but only nuule ot paste," as 1 explained, when Fanny ex- claiiined at my "extravnganoe." I kept the adventure to myselL It was a half-iiuiplied ooaiditiou of the ooEupromise that l should do so; and al- so, Lf Fanny liad heai d what a fuel I had been, though she was as much gull- ed hentelf I â€" I am rather a believer in the maxim, "Silence ia golden." "Now, misfortuuea never come alone," exclaimed my wife as she opened her luttei'8 the day aft'r my journey to towTi; "you know, John, how I have lieen alisolut^ly wearing myself out alKjtut these tableaux. Uora is a let- ter from Alice Gordoui who was to have been the Sleeping Beauty, to say that her brother-in-law is dead, and that she and her mother are off at once to her sisti^r, in Paris; and then. Mrs. St. Clair â€" juat read her letter." It only contained a few^ brief lines, expresaing the enditer's deep regret that "some udioua but important busi- •bss"â€" "connected with her lata bus- nand's affairs of course. " interiected Lady .Seftonâ€" obliged Mrs. St. Clair to start immediately for New York, leav- ing so suddenly that she oould not even run down to take leave o/ her dear kind frlenda at the Grange. There was a P. S.: "Please make my adleux to Sir John. As a man of business he will under- stand how impoaaible it ia for me to put off my journey even to jo'n in your sweet tableaux, as I had biped to do. But, Sir John can quite under- stand the matter." Yes, Sir John thought he oouldl I ofteo wonder if the little woman has "turned over a new leaf" in a new country; anyw^ay. I have never aeon or beard ot her again. THB SUN WAS LATB. Failed r* Set on rimr, Arrordlag !• a MlBltlrt'* Walra. They were telling storiea aliout wat.-hes, and the man who alwuy.s waits until bist had just ooucluded a won- derful story of huw a watch of the same make aa the one be carried had disclosed an error in the fall of tb» time ball at Greenwici^ England, sup- posed to be the most accurate time re- oorder in this worldâ€" when a minister »[>oke up. "That ia not so )«d, but they tell a story equally good on Dr. ," naming a well-known divine. 'What's the story*" bo was asked, "Why, you see, Dr. o^v^s a very accurate watcb of whi/Lh he is c^uite proud, it hapjiened one winter evening that he was look- ing over an almanac, as the sun was aix>ut to Mct. Ai'cording to the alma- nac the sun was due to set in a wry few minutes, although it was still Mo(aiewlu>re alxive ihe horizon. Pulling out bis watch, Ihe diictor, exclaimed 'Vou bad letter hurry up, old sun, or yuu won't get down on time.' Since the almanac and the w.'it<.^h could nut be wrong it follows that the sun was l«hind hand." The mini-,ter's story was voted til-) prize, and no more watch stories wore told that evening. FORTUNES BY SEA LOVRRS. "Tea leaves are not certain at all times as fortiuie tellers," remarks a well-known lady, "though I have known a verification from them in many cases, .and even in more in- stances than from the numerous oth- er signs wliinli jirevail with women folk. There should lie no preiiaration or .ar- rangement, and the leaves should I e allowed to rirrango tbem.selves in tlie bottom or sides of the cup after the tea is drunk. If they take the form of wavy or long lines, vexations ami loss are liable to occur, the more numerous and distinct the lines, the greater the vexations and losses. On the other band, .straight lines tell of peace and long life. Should the leaves take the form of human fi.'^ures, or approach- ing tliem in apiwirance, it should l>e regarded as a good omen to tlioae con- cerned. To the unmarried, they indi- cate marriage, and if there are any circular forms neor the figures tbcy mean that wealth will come in connec- tion with the marriage. Anylhint; akin to a trefoil or rlovi-r is a sj.ecial- ly good sign, and if it is near the top of the cup It means speedy marriage An anchor denoU^i* succewa in any bus- iness venture, while a serpent or any form like it is the sign of an enemy A dog-like form, it at t^ho top is a pret- ty safe sign of having true friends, though if they are further down they should lie carefully watched. A tree- like form meansi to a sick person re- storation to health, and if clearly de- fined speedy and permanent health Several trees .separated widely mean that all wisluvi will I'omo, and if there are dots aliouti them, riches will loine. All l)ird-lik«i forms are indicative of Rood fortune and good friends, while a fish Is jiretty certain to mean news from across the water. The figure of a man ineants) a sjieedy visitor and if his arm i.s outstretched, a. present. A crown isllkewi.se a good sign, as are flower fonns, tlio latter denoting h.ap- Iiiness. The .sun, moon, and stars have a similar meaning. These, ot course, are the more outlines. The experi- ments afford nmuseiiieuf and are in- teresting, for it is wonderful what j>eculiar forms tea leaves will occasion- ally take." OLD ENGLISH GRAVifS. '.trance ('nvlomit nnU Ultrs Is Rrllnin !â-  Ihe Oldrs TlBn .•â-  Melhaa* •/ laler* â- lent. From A.D. 93t to 1011, ^Ttjryga modes of burial were in vugue in the South of Kngland. Tlhere existed a distinct form of interment for each sex. In tjie case of a lu&n wbj ded befor* attaining the age of fifty his body vr»m subje-t to a curious examination im- mediately after death. Kvery porti.m of it was vigorously rubbed over witU a solution of water and the jui<es of various plants, herl's and berries, wbi b it was necessary should be picked with- in a radius of a mile ot t;he deoeased'a alnlile. As soon aa tbia was completed a newly-«ut branch rrom the nearest tree was bo-ought in and improvised m» a sort of brush to uweep the tiody with, the Idea being that by tbUnieana all earthly particles Mnre ramota^ frogn the oorpse. This sweeping oomplel»d the nearest relative made a minuite examinatioq of every inob of the Iwdy, with tha oi>- ject of disoorering whether any blem- ishes or sores existed. In the e\Bnfc of any lielng found. pram(>t m<answera taken to remove them. lilxa tly at no^in on tiie third day after death the fluieral took pla e, the txMly w rapped In various cloths and graasea. and en- closed in a peculiarly o <nstruoled lx)X> being carriud totlia gra.is on the lia>-lE of a hone or other ani/nal. Immedi- ately thi^ grave was rt'avhed the coffin was deixx4.te>d therein with as mu h baste as iKisailile and a retreat I eatsn by all who had accompanied the cor- tege, except the nearest re'ativea %\ba were left twhiud to fill in the earth. When a woman di<«l the Ixidy was <y<n3igned to the earth just one hun- dred hours afterwarita. A weird form of lervLce was (jerformed at the oi ea grave. It nhio was a married womanb and died leaving a hUkSlKind and ibil- dren beh ud, the^M were a^semb.ed round the grave, and, ea h provided with n lai-ge iioiy of newly-gathere<i flowers, whi< h they gesli.Mi'at d "ith in a manner illiistrnti.e orf the > hir- u-ler of tbi» deo(>a ed when ali e U she had any physical deformities or de- fects they wore chown in -the dumb a-tiiigof her I'wlaii.e.s, wh>, after en- gaging in this sort of thing for an liour, Iwgan fcj e.\h bit the luiist poign- ant signs of grief, ending in wi.d Ukr muutauous and wai.inga. TOBACCO SMOKING COMPARISONS. Holland holds t^lie first jilac* ini the world as a, nation of smokers. Every Dutchman consuniefl on n n average one hundred ounces a year. The Rolgiiin come-H a good second, with an annual con.suniption of eighty ounces, fol- lowed closely by Turkey with seventy ounces, and the I'nited Slates witli sl.xty ounces, Germany, France, Spain and It-aly, tread closely on their heols, while the United Kingdom comes com- paYatively low on the list, with( twen- ty-three ouncw. VICTORIA'S CROWN. Ikr llrntlrtl anil MMt llnromrortnble niadnn In Karonr. ISi" cri'wn used at the ivirunation of Queen Victwria In ISyJ, whi' h is Kuid to l» the heaviest and mist un- fortalile diadem in Kurope. couliiins 1,;;73 rose diamonds, l,;ill3 brillianl.s, l73 round iiearlfi, i large, peiidani -shaped pearls, 1 immon.se ruuy, 1 sum 1 1 rubies 1 U>rge sapphire, iJti .-iuiall sipj hiresand ilcmeriild.s. Tbo large ruby Is sot in ths (â- enter of a daiiiuii'l MaUosa crotja at the front of thJiiown. Th.sslonewas 'givtui to I'^lward I. by I>om Pedro th« cruel, ivnd wa* worn by Henry V, at the l.tttt:e of Ag ncjurt. \>hen it wai wet iji his Bl<9el caa.iue. It ia jiecu iarly out and it,i center is hollowed out to fonu a sett.ng for* anialler ruby. Many of tl* stone* weni taken from "Id crown.s now un- uyed, and others were furnished l^tha quotui luir*'!!. 'Ihey .vro p a od in .set- tings of both gold and .silver and in- ia« a orijiisun velvet cap with an er- mine lordcr. h'our iiurcriaJ ar.-.hew spring from the four sid«s and support I lie uMjiinl. wb'h is ojmpoMod of 13S diiuuondsand the whole ia surmouat- oJ iy a u a.iioiiil ' r tw wlujse oent«r is a si.igle Tt»i cut sapphire. TITE BOERS DAUGHTER. The Huer's daughter must not be ix>mB a domestic servant, except oi condition of having her meals with the famil.v, says a Johannesburg correa- (Kundent of the London Telegraph. "II my child is not good eaiough for your Uiblo, she shall n;»t live in your houpe," said a father. A inwr womaa with- drew her son from an of fare bei^aiiKe he was loaiuing aoine duty which she deemed menial, and, "thank God," said .slve, "my family never yet did any slav- ery of Lbut kittil," A gentleman whom I know secured employment on the railway for a youjiig fellow as porter. On the very fir.st request ot a ikihscii- gor to leiul a band with luggage he re- pliiMl, indiijnnntly : "What do you lake me for? Do you tbmk I am a Kaf- fir?" These jHior folk-s cannot forget that they oa->v had farm.s iindweic in- deiwnilont. For two cenluiios tlioy (<MUi)clle<l the .st>rvice» of a limor nice, and ni^w they would rather starve than work "like a Kaffir." For various reasonii they have lost their lanMs, and it is a bitter cry that is licing raised thirmghout .South ..Vfrica that tliftse lands are passing' i"to the hands of strangers, and er.stwjMlo landed gen- try ot the coumtry are. fiu-e to face with the dread altornative, "work or starve." KOMAN CART.KRS. The carters who haui into the rit.y ot Rome the sand used in making mor- tar work 19 hiours a dny. They are al- ways exposed to dangers, thi> greatest of H-hiih are thii laiidslidas in I he. cou'ntry and the fines of the guards in the city. Ihoir live hours' rest ia taken in the stables with thoir mules aa bed-fellows. All this for about 35 oents a dfgi;. ^