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 ' OR, STELLA; AT CROSS TURPOSES Miss CHAPTER X. (Continued.) STELLA LOSES HER TEMPER AGAIN. "Mrs, Finch is my housekeeper and my slave in bondage she is also my consm by marriage." It will be understood that this explanation failed to convey to her a very distinct idea of the lady's social standing in the establishment. " You will find her along the second passage to the left, by knocking at the third door to the right." " Aa 1 have never been in the house be- fore, and there seem to be a great many pas- sages, don't you think if you were to ling the bell for the footman and tell him to take me to her, it might be a better plan " And Mr. King was so much taken back by the absolute coolness of the suggestion, that he actually took her at her word and did so. In this fashion Stella was shown into the smaller of the great drawing-rooms which ran along the whole of the garden side of the house, and where Mrs. Finch was accustomed to spend her solitary evenings after the master of the house had retired to his study. As a rule, when Norman was at home, he sat here with her but this eveniug he had not tollowed her after dinner, but liad re- tired to his own room. Thus. Stella was left to introduce herself to the only lady of the establishment. " '^â- '^y g'"andfather sent me to \ou. May I have soniethin£; to eat, and will yx)u show me my room " she said, rather hesitatingly, for it was natural that she should be less at her ease with this lady, whose existence she had never even heard of till now, than with the grandfather whom she lia I been long schooling herself to meet. Mrs. Finch was not disposed to be very friendly with this girl, who had come, as she well knew, to be a rival to lier own daughter nevertheless, she was too wise to show the want of cordiality which she felt. To smile upon everybody was Mrs. Finch's maxim, and she received Stella with a cer- tain amount of effusion. " i ou poor dear, you must be tired out with your journey of course I will order you something to eat, and come with me, dear Miso King, and I will show you your room. I had a fire lighted for you, though don't mention it, please, as Mr. King is so particular, and we all have to humor his little ways, you know. Ah well, old gentlemen are all alke, you know." "I don't think I know many old gentle- men," said 6tella, cold!/, lor at the first words she felt instinctively how insincere was the woman before her. "No Ah you will, soon learn to like your dear grandfather very sure, my dear," answered Mrs. Finch, hastily. "I like him now," answered Stella, rather to her hearer's surprise. She had no de«re to discuss her grand- father's character with anybody, and she felt that it was very bad taste in this Mrs. Finch to attempt to draw her into such a discussion. "Come up-staii8 and take off your things, '•'" Kmg," said that lady, with a trifle more of respect in her tone, dropping at once the subject that seemed distasteful to the strange young lady. When they reached the bedroom that had been prepared for her, Stella asked her con- ductress one question " Is my Cousin Norman at home " ""ies, I dare say you will see him when you come down-stairs " and Mrs. Finch lit the candles upon her dressing-table and left her alone. But it was not until the next morning that Stella encountered her cousin upon the staircase upon her way down from her bed- room. Norman colored like a girl Stella drew herself up to her full height. ' • How do you do, Stella " said the young man, holding out his hand somewhat awk- wardly. Stella could not refuse to take it. "I hope you are rested after your jour- ney." "Quite, thank you." " You will not, I hope, fiad us very dull company at Wrexham." "I do not mind being dull," answered Stella, quietly. And Norman felt so ntterly nonplussed in his little efforts at conversation that he showed her the way into the breakfast-room without making any further attempt to be agreeable. Poor Stella her pride was a real punish- ment to her. She could not forget that, to her, dreadful leaf of her past life, now more than a year ago, when Norman Allingham had dared to kiss her because he thought her a common girl, and had told her to her face the next morning that she was a virago for being angry about it. All through the first breakfast »t Wrex- ham the sense of shame that was upon her was almost more dreadful than she could bear. All through her grandfather's occasional questions and Mrs. Finch's little gush of amiable chatter she seemed to feel her cousin's eyes upon her, and to fancy what he must be thinking about. Every de- tail of that foolish escapade came back to her, painted by her disgust and dismay at herself in strong and exaggerated colors. How Norman must scorn and despise her and what a bad opinion he must have of her His thoughts, had .she known it, we* of a very different nature. Norman made up his mind once more that S bell's eyes were the very loveliest that he had ever seen, and that her beauty was so great that a wiser man than he was might be forgiven for trying to make his peace with her. Perhaps her temper was not as bad as he had imagined. Perhaps her re- cent sorrow had softened and improved her. Possibly a few kind and gentle words would efface her past displeasure to him. In short, Norman told himself, impetuously, what was the use of waiting for the other sister, whom he had never seen, when there was this deliciously fascinating Stella, with her blue eyes, and her tempting rosy lips, and her pretty, graceful figure. If only she would smile upon him, Nor- man, just as she is smiling now at one of the old man's crabbed, half -angry speeches How charming she would be if she would only send her blue eyes flashing round to his side of the table There, she actually IB looking this way I Bat no Stella meets the young man's eager gaze v^tb. cold aad 4uir«BpMiaif# sternness^ ^£ich provokes and attracts,eTen whilst it repels him. But, after breafast vt over, he ««tchdf1i!8 opportnnity, and finds ber alone, 8taaditii|; listlessly by iHM of the long French wji^ dowa^ i)^ -^ -• "' ** " "Are yon no^going to befriends withtme, cousin Stella?" ' "' She looks up startled. Her cousin is standing close to her, lookins; down at her wistfully. "I am quite willing to be friends," she begins, coldly. " Only that you have never forgiven me," he objects. " Ts my crime to be always un- pardonable L Are you always so vincHctive to othfer Jieflple as you are to me " "I canniest tell you that, for no one but you has ever insulted me," she airawers, flushingjiflSIv. He 4ritt!8- his lip, and controls himself with an eSoit. "You most not use such ugly words. Stella. Gentlemen do not like to be told they have insulted any one." "People never do hke to hear the truth about themselves when it is not pleasant," she sajrs, scornfully. "No, I will live at peace with you, and I will speak to you politelj when oecessity oblie^es me- to ppeak to you at all but it will be better that you and I should exchange as few words as pos- sible. And, as to oux being on intimate cousinly terms, pray do not think oi such a thing, for I can never forget your past Con- duct, and I can never forgive it " She looks very lovely as she utters tliis speech. Her cheeks are flushed, her eyes flash proudly, her lips tremble a little with her own agitation. Norman, looking at her face, forgets the bitterness of her words, and thinking only of her great beanty, says a very foolish thing. " Vou lojk so lovely whon you are angry, that I have a great mind to repeat my of- fence, and take you in my arms and kiss you again " Stella turns upon him white with pas- sion. ^^ "How dare you ' she cries, furiouslyâ€" 'â-  how dare you say such a thing to me Oh! I wish my hard fate had never driven me to take refuge in a house where I demned to meet you." ^-."^„^*' rid you of my society. Miss. King, answers Norman, who has turned very pale. He maJies a low bow and goes suddenly from the room. He marches ssraight up into his own, and packs up his portmanteau, then seeks his grandfatbeTs study. "I am going ap to town, air," he tells him. "I shalLgo by the twelve o'clock train rthrnfe." "That is a very sudden resolve," an- •w^tftheoldtoan, looking up from his wait- ing-table, where he is busy revising the weekly account-books which Mrs. Finch has just brought to him for payment. " What 18 the reason of it, pray " "I can't stand that girl's temper," said his^andson, Io6liing down rather sulkily and pushing away a footstool with his foot! Do you mean Stella What is the mat- ter with her temper?" " It is dreadfuUy bad, sir," answers the young man with a short laugh. "I have not discovered it," "â- â- â-  ' "I think am con- her replies Mr. a very nice. King, gravely, clever girl." Norman is somewhat ' surprised at this favorable verdict, for the old man is not given to taking sudden fancies. "It is rather rude to go away just ss she has arrived," he continues. " Oh I thought it was the other sister I was to be attentive to there is surely no occasion to stay here for this one." "Oh! very well; do as you like, of course. Mr. King is evidently not very well pleased; but for all that ^;orman Alling- ham goes up to town by the mid-day train and after he has gone Stella King, at the very bottom of her heart, is a little bit sor- ry that she has driven him away. CHAPTER XI. maud's COMMUNICATION. " It was a most improper and indecorous proceeding. Miss Finch." i! w ?. ^tT' ^^^^ ^^"y- ^^y Dyson." VVell, I beg It may never be repeated. I don t wish to say any more about it now but pray remember that young women in your position should be very careful indeed in their conduct with regard to the gentlemen ot the house they are living in. Jf it had been one of the servants, for instance, in- stead of myself, who had found you alone in an out house with Sir Edgar, whilst your pupils were running about. Heaven knows where, and in lesson-hours, too, it would .^'•.i^^^' enough to have made a scandal " te f iT ""'^^" ^*^ "^^ "^â- " pleaded Lily, "Yes, and I am williag to allow that that was some mitigation of your fault but you had no business to go out walking with Sir Roge^r at aU. However, I will say no more abouL it now, as I see you are sorry but I hope you will remember that if Sir Edgar is kind enough to notice you, and to talk to you occasionally, it will be wise and modest of you to be extremely reserved in your man- ner to him. Gentlemen are often very thoughtless, but it is your place to recollect always the very great difference there is be- beween his position and yours. You mav go now, Miss Finch." " Still trembling almost as much aa at the tirst awful summons into her employer's presence, which she had received half an hour ago, the little governess went swiftly and noiselessly out of Lady Dyson's boudoir, and sought the retirement ot her own bed- room. She sat down on theend of her little white bed and wept bitterly. Oh how miserable t^7^^ V u^^y Py'°° ^^ °ot been harsh or cruel to her, she had indeed found fault with her in words that were well chosen, f^nirr ,V°'^-^"" °^ • ^°^ dreadful to be found fault with at all on such a topic ' More than ever did LUy Finch realize^the immeasurable gulf that lay between herself and the man she loved """aeu Nothing she felt would ever bridge over be worked would ever serve to transform thatcold aiidhaughty patrician dame intohe^ own mother-in-law. To recollect the snperionty of class over class, to bear i^ mmd her own littleness, to be goodt* thi position of life in which Heaven had placed _. „„.,._, ,. ,.. ^, -, M4 hiU^iofeto due-to Uffe-tarv^w «b«Te^ -ikm^tid 'something to him al itâ€" that had been the gist of Lady Dyson's " â€" ' '^»" '" ""• ""-^ »!' exhortation. And Lily had understood her Mrfectljt Oh how vaiife and futilBiwere all: her foolish dreams of •ippines*^ how l|p|i^eng^those wild visions of joy which aom^oBBA, in the dead of the night, would ^nake h^^eart beat tremulouslyjfhen she re- Ai«mber»$ his words and hia" looks, and which made her now and again believe, de- spite her reason and her common-sense, that all would end happily for her soma day. â-  Poor Lily criei till her pretty^ eyes were red and swollen, and her cheeks as pale as the while curtaids of her bed. "Oh hoW-1 wish I conld go away and forgot him," she cried aloud in her misery. Bat she Jsilew she could not go away, be- caiisfc her indther and Mr, King had placed her at ParfieTd, and woufd never allow her to leave it.. Neither, at the very bottom of her heart, did she desire to go. â-  Meanwhile, down-stairs, in Lady Dyson's boudoir, the subject of Miss Finch's delin- quBncies was-not yet done with. Not more than tenmmntes after the governess's silent and tearful exit, -the door opened softly, and Maud Dyson crept into tlve rocm. " Maa]ma,"'may I speak to you " â- " Yes, ray d-ear, what is it?" " It is something I think I ought to tell you, mamma â€" something I think it right you should know," said, Maud, mysterious- ly. She stood behind her mother's chair, fidgeting her feet about upon the hearth- rug. Lady Dyson was an eminently practical wo^ian she prided herself upon being utterly free f rOm nonsense herself and upon detesting it in other people. She glanced sharp'y at her young daughter. "Keep your feet still, Maud, and for goodness sake don't carry yours arms akim- bo. I never saw anything so unlady-like in my life. Well, what is it you have got to say to me Make haste, because I am very busy with my letters this morning, and have not mach time to give to you." Thus adjured, Maud, feeling that her dig- nity was compromised by her mother's un- teeling allusions to her feet and her arms, blurted out her intelligence with an abrupt- ness that had the effect of well-nigh startl- ing iiidy Dyson out of her presence of mind. "Mamma, I came into the school-room yesterday, and saw Edgar kissing Miss Pinch." For half a minute Lady Dyson was so struck dumb with astonishment that she dirt not know what to say but with a rapid and comprehensive train of thought her resolution was taken almost immediately. " Maud, yeu are a very silly little girl," she said, severely. " It is quite true, mamma I thought you would have been pleased with me for =*elling you," cried Maud, in an aggrieved tone. " I am quite sure it is not true, and I am not at all pleased wiih you for telling me euohfa ridiculous story." "But, mamma " â- ' Plea.se kold your tongue, Maud. I sup- pose you fancied you saw your brother and .Mifis Finch standing close together they were probably looking over photographs. Gentlemen don't kiss anybody but their mothers and sisters," explained Lad y Dy- son, drawing somewhat upon her fancy for the boldness of the statement, by which it is needless to say that Maud was not in the VQry least mbled. "You could not possibly have seen such a thing, therefore I beg that you will never speak of this silly fancy to anybody. Now run away, niy dear, I am too busy to talk to you any longer." Butafterheryoungdaughterwas gone. Lady Dyson laid down her pen, and sat for some time plunged in meditation. She pondered very deeply indeed upon what Maud had just told her. Of course she knew it must be perfectly true, for the child was not likely to have invented such a thino anrl „;..i Jt fourteen servants had left the di lit a that had been in her head all day. "EdgaCj-myilear,.,! am^^inking of ask- ing Ladr^ono^ K^te '**»y here for a little while^4foiU y^ rtOoS I'f ' " Not iuthtflMw5^m^Ji«r," answered her son, as he cn^ed: haWftWut*. "Ifdy Honoria,,** a ve^E^4pdliofa%la'lr' «»d'I have a weakness for handsliJ^e wOffien. Ask her by all means." This was hopeful, Ldy Dyson waited a few minutes, and then she said, rather timidly: i J. "My dear boy, h^ve you. ever thought About marrying " ., Sir Edgar looked ap over the wine de- canters at his mother, and laughed.' "Very often, mother dear," he answered, lightly. "Butlmean seriously, Edger, and with regard tO"fttiy particular |)«rso.n ' " Very seriously, mother mine, and with regard to â€" oh, hilf a dozen particular per- sons at the very least " Lady Dyson smiled. • It waff plain that Sir Edgar could not be meditating anything very desperate with regard io Lily Finch. " I think, my dear, that Lady Honoria would make a very charming wife." "I am quite8*u?e she would; mother." "She has beauty, rank, and fortune," continued Lady Dyson. " Certainly she has no one can deny her any of the three," assented her son. "Shall I peel you another walnut " "No more, thanks. Then I may under- stand that if she comes here you will think about her, Edgar " " I suppose if she is staying in the house my thoughts willl inevitably be fixed upon ler, more or less." This was rather less satisfactory. " I mean, my dear, that yoa will take it nto consideration whether she would not be liie most suitable wife you could possibly select." Sir Edgar loooked down into his sherry- glass, and sipped it thoughtfully. "I will take her ladyship's case into my eracious consideration," he said, so gravely that Lady Dyson could hardly be sure whether he was laughing at her or no. Ten minutes later, running lightly up- stairs to fetch his cigar-case, the baronet en- countered Lily upon the staircase. She turned away at his approach, and would ha-e fled, but he stood before her, and stopped her. "I am in capital spirits to-night. Miss Finch," he said, laughingly. "lam very glad, Sir Edgar." said poor Lily, rather sadly, ' ' What do you think about " "I cannot guess," "Lady Dyson has been recommending me a wife. She has beauty, rank, and fortune. She is an Earl's daughter, Lily. Don't you think I had better marry her?" " Of course you will do as you like. Sir Edgar," she said, geucly. "Of course I shall, L ly," replied the bar- onet, and straightway gave Miss Finch a kiss. But, of course. Lidy Dyson never heard of the sequel to her successful conversation concerning Lady Honoria Rosett. •^ The special marks nF t be found in the on,. ^Pi workment'o%tV5^5^^'.J Both these features dTd, influence of Tdigi^;\,.. made the altar or hoL.i."^toi sc c.^?1 ^^^^^^ deepest reverence and finite patience and in Z*"'""" led. mentation; BuddhUm'Ty i^ltM the sacredness of » "~:, b iixii^l »ffecti;?,=',!ti the Japanese thattntSS. all animals which mal-I ' of-^*« butteiC^: on the hands of .4!^^ beasts of chase fror^aUff'^^C Whatever be itroIig^^jC' the Japanese workmau to V' '=^« -I intense appreciation of =11 ""'ft ' mnch that all IS grand taat 1 and of world, are alikp "„""""' "t5f ^« throughout its htor;S«K'S' stances of the coumrllT'l'^n',,,^ the growth of those dfsn^.^^^'ij"ai:^: principle of division TX'""^^- t nowadays suppose 1 to L t"" ^^t, t.onofAVesterLu-ili.,S;::7;o.4l among them tlis Japaue; ' 'f ,^ always been deposed to ci-n.r"'"«»:^l self through every one o' ,t'o ""^^tta histaskbethatofwork,i'.^' ' quer,_of preparing v/oven ubn-.T"^i tery in any of its branches v ' "' " thus looks on liis .vork, wl'ilV ;f ' "*ti as on a child that he lov« u i^S'^^, tion in the same seuso in whint '" "" picture is the creation of a n "^^^i ter and the feelings which it ei^i^'^f* are not_ less strong, n, ^.^v^'^^ beauty in every shap,, not' J l' ^?l and he has his recoinpep.^e inT â- â- â-  must cause some surpris ""'" In Japan the merch us, has DO status ^^-ha.p^-^.- ,1,, asrichasCr..u.. ^l^n^ £^1 buys no position, and a princ'V; hours la conversation man, while the riciic^l beneath 'iiis notice. .•Nome of of Japanese potters and lacm.r,. â- -' may be said to know no'hi"-r ' 'â- ^' the wife or child takiut: cMvi^^J'r""'^-' when it leaves the hand of the m '" takes no thought for anything '2 'j* riant, Dr. L'.-e â- ser ^;-' w ttn a ski â- â€¢â- I â-  '^P establishment of feudalism und=r tSpn 1 10s in no way afiected the conditionr""" for the growth of the higiieat letistl The palace of the baron urame'^to^' ented such a thing, and a ^irl of 13 quite as wall able to judge whether two people are kissing each other or uot, as though she were forty. Lady Dyson had no doubt whatever as to the truth of what she had just heard but she had not chosen to allow it to Maud, be- cause she did not want to send Miss Finch away and of course, as long as Lily was Maud8govemess.it was necessary to up- hold her authority to her pupils. It would be very inconvenient in many ways to send Lily away. She was a good, mdustrious little thing, and did her work very well and Lady Dyson knew how diffi- cult a business it was to find a governess who would teach almost everything to four children for thirty pounds a year. ' It was long since she ha.! had a governess who suited her so well as Lily did. Before her arrival everythmg had been chaos and con- fusion m the school-room arrangements. Once she had three different young ladies in the house m six months, and then there had been an interregnum, and for onemelancholy ^^ i,-?/^'" I'f^Lady Dyson had to teachher own children herself, an occupation that she decidedly disapproved of, Fat ever sinci Lilys arrival everything had gone on smoothly and quietly. and%he had^had no trouble at all from the school-room. Moreover Lily was related to Mr. King, and It was he who had recommended her io La^y Dyson, and it would be very unpleaa- ant indeed to risk a quarrel with her nS- bors at Wrexham, to say nothing of M« Finch, who would be down upon her like a^ mturiated wild cat were her daughter S Te sent away for such a cause. No, altogether she did not at all see her way to' dismlssTng Nevertheless, Lady Dyson felt that if her son had actually gone to the length of kiss- ing Lily Fmch, it was quite time that hfs iT^lZ^lii: P-" «â€" shou'^^ oJ-^^ ^t\^^^ Slad that Maud's communi- S^^h^""" '^^ after her lec^^ret^ MiM Fmch upon the comparatively milH rer?r.?.°L°!i!- ?-g ^onni.^L S CHAPTER XIL .STELLA S ANXIETIES. It was dreadfully dull at Wrexham after Norman had gone away. As the weary days succeeded each other, one after the other with interminable slowness, Stella told herself that any amount of quarreling with her handsome cousin would have been better than the utter blank of her present existence. The great, gloomy house appeared in its desolate emptinei,s to be larger and drearier than ever. There was an old man shut up reading from morning till night at one end ot It, and a middle-aged woman perpetually domg accounts at the other. What was a girl of nineteen to do with herself between two such uncongen.nl companions' Stella's time hun^ heavily upon her hands; her light footsteps echoed weirdly along the silent corridors and up the deserted flights of the wide stone staircase. At meal times she met her grandfather, and the little war of words that generally took place between tem on these occasions made the sole amuse- ment of her life. At other times she sat silently in Mrs i inch 8 sitting-room with her needle work or wandered disconsolately and aimlessly about the park and gardens. «^^*i^*^:?°,°°* of these occasions that htella suddenly encountered a little, light- colored village cart, drawn by a fat gray pony,trotting merrily up through the park towards the house. There was a pretty, soft-eyed young lady driving, a quiet little giri by her side, and two noisy, laughing bo^s in the front seat. There was a black retriever rushing on in front, and two little nondescript, broken- haired terriers scampering behind. Alto- gether It was such a vision of youth and brightness and animal spirits as poor Stella had not been blessed with since he? j^i v^ H.Kn^.-®^° " '° astonished aS'S Ufe^tvi,*'" spectacle of happiness and life (which, however, was nothing more wonderful than the young Dysons and Iheir governess drivmg over from Barfield with a note to Mr. King from Lady BvBonTtt^, she stopped shorl by the side oJ the road 1 S ^X'"'"' *^PP^ '""'^^g young pTo' pie with their pony and thek dols as though she had never seen anythS sf charming and so delightful in her iffe bXe so Some said quite enough air^e^dytoher 'urn the â-  ubiect. anti «» t^,.â„¢ 4.u^J^ ^.^' upon the "ubject, and- she knew that it ' "no must no ' To speak to iT.T„.^L*^!i""^!P 4=hine, for shVhad the Who must now be^poken"to " ' °°* " Jri SuV^i^t otrsird^ Dyson well knew mieht nnU, T • .^^^ youth nirs^prsr/heU^pS? «d turn .0 her ii.h r.i„Td 'SS,r"it 'wo girls had never met before- !,„/„? oo«e they h.d h«rd of e.oh oth^r. "' °' limia" "°'"'°' "»â-  King " said Uy, (TO BE COXTINCTED). man what the monastery had been t â-  • ' Hebe^me one of the chief^s ta^ clothed, fed, and lodged by him the -?' expected from hini being the pr'oductio;1 the best work in his power and with golden leisure aad frt'sdom trom a-'"" power was mcreased tenfold. Thus hsC developed not merely a patience alto-etC marvdlous in the most minute and-^ plete finishing of every detail-not Eerfi;. mechanical excellence seldom equaiw;' never surpa.ssed -but a power of deHncaji- life, especially the life of birds and i^am which placed the Japajiese in the front rai of the artists of any age or countrv Itji strange to see in drawin-a whicu'ejtiht greatdefects of general perspective, portraiB of animals which actually live on thecaiTi^ or the paper. The metal- caster will not hesitate to cast a crowd of birds in tieir night, the birds composing it being aiaoft separate one from the other, and yet iorm" ing one continuous casting, No adequate conception of Japanese r. can be formed by those who are not at- quainted with its colouring. The brishtes and the strongest hues, red, blue, _^ea white,_ and gold, are employed in alftliei' intensity. Tne greater part of the spice ' be covered is broken up hv patterns iste;- lacing each other often with astoniskan- intricacy but some broad mass of leadai- colour is always interposed unbroke: s" defini-L .^intervals to impart solidity to t:: whole. It would not be too much to say that the maguiricpnce of the imh Caarei of St. Louis is but poor in comparison Wut the splendour of some of the greatest Jap anese temples and tor majestic and soiemi impressiveness, to far as we refer to ccior, the advantage would rest altogether m the latter. We have to imagine the elabo:- ate panelled vault of the ceiling eoariig s hundred feet above us, while the overhaasinf roof, extending nearly to the railings of ihe balcony surrounding the shrine, softens the intensity of the sunlight, the light w:i;: ultimately reaches the ceiling being ail reflected f--n a Hoor of black lacquer w.:;: has recei\ the highest polish. The art of Japan is, indeed, a sub.ec: which will well repay all the care with wric: we may study it. There is probably nt reason for thinking that the study will a'i' any Englishman blindly idolize it. It ii»= wonderful merits. It ought to teach a-' some important and very needful lessoai; but the forms which it employs, beautifc though they may be, fall short of ti:e ei quisity dignity, grace, and loveliness v'di'i mark the work of the Teutonic races «* Teutonic art was still a living tradition, ant which remains to us as a rich inheritance. until patient and honest work ma'ics it » living tradition once more. In mediaeval times, when the work oiaa artisan became part and parcel of his religion, we had the same conscientious care devotea to the unseen portion as to the mostpromW" ent. Ail our great cathedrals and monas- teries have examples of this thoroughness 01 work. The conditions of an artisan's life » Japan at the present day would appear to be parallel to that which prevailed in Eng- land in the feudal times, but the race o' conscientious workmen has not died out ' this country yet. â€" 2'he Furniture D' " and Cabinet Makers' Guide. The death of Capt. Webb in to swim the whirlpool at his attempt Niagara leaves Xf tfo '^^' '"® a namber of things through the N.°w Yorki^S.Sh S 12 squirted out the nozzln of TflL • °® Anting hnaii:^.^!,t'^^.^:r^^^r^o deal he can drop us a noatal „o,^ J will suggest soi^eKgPSerrore Trvi^^ on the netyeB.-I,etJt ^aI^^ """ "y"' tbeir -Detroit Chaf. J Womanish Reasons. "You would laugh to hear the women make for the imperfections o; feet. I measured a nice lady the other aaj Who had a bunion of severel years'stanaffl ' ' Oh.' she exclaimed, as I was about toK^ gin. 'I am afraid you will have to nn» my shoe a little larger there. I hit ^.V'"^^" against the doorstep this morning and i^_ is quite a swelling.' A lady toidme '-!; morning that something bit her '^^fz' ing and she supposed the poisoned ff* there had got into her foot. We donm any attention but go on measuring-â€" seller. " Stop kissing me," crisd a pretty l^^^^l her bashful beau. "I ain't i^^,l% said he. «' Well, ain't you going to- asked. He ran away like a frightenea u AIISCELIiA.NI '•â- fbout them someti. Jplmorethaninany. irve. fc tfoold be diflicnlt to frtsult of Cetewayos 'be will be found no n^ble. Othfer chiefs V [besetaiide. nlhe Confederate bcnr " so worthless after al lioate has been formed em. and it is thought jwiil have to pay '"rate. It is to be end in good money time men have the theo giness depression com and all laws that m, ies that may be devis ,e misfortunes. The t DCS in about each ten y uethen our next " cy ,ot be far away. Tl B pretty ominous indie her general business d ,ebave been hearing jjX •' journalistic coui fenitiesof the press." i ntly been heaping coi ned contemporary's »d kerosene. "Ourc Bgton Gazette," he be; [tones, only to add ' he will permit i she says we are an as: ,ntzerland and the Ui I good example to othe: tto agree upon the sr on of all their dispute [greater republic has agreement, and the S My is now to act upon kts may point out tha J have very little in c bt; but there might kor the agreement pro] ihionable people hav .ies over all the grand ,3 at the meeting in th ibnilding got up to r klish Church in Berlin ftful." The heart of e [beat with gratified d* of Wales sold tea. aught kept a saloon quite too awfully love] fruit cakes for a onrse it was. Could S'enns or â€" lies had best undtrs t the petting of dogs a f so much indulge, is Cats can take liydi and they can comn 3 as easily and quite a ;b from a cat's claw- madness even thoi I rabies. But in most c; ira so diligently that th bn them ready to dc rk at any time. Dear I dogs severely alone. bhuleep Singh is goinj yt know that this gei i representative of tiie jiub." He is a Chri leral salary from the Bi i Oliver Twist and a isioners, he is always lis in a huff at prese got what he -r anted. ioff and is goiug to bed that he remembers I as India is concenu r where the Governor- there is a hitch iu tr.c n \Mr. Geo. Stephen:/ .-^ Pion. The Home Co [the scheme, but tlw ot decline to assume t. loan to be advanccu asury. It is, hcvL-v. able will be succctjiuii kh case, M-e hopi' 1 Ibe takuu to sccv.vl- t ats as may be ii;..'^; Succeed. Cana.la iia-. pthe States, fur p" i K English or Irish. F is very diliicult t per than that whicli Med. All took pi... V f?^oO- A young i;i;;;i "BsinaXew Yoik ;.. p'as found dead, a I'.l pealed his own and ins laer was a prominent i Divinity at one tii i^Qa. And thus ran edead: "If the 'oKlb, ul°^ his son, he maj 1 Mat the expense ot j'ltbs sold for diss.cti rbotelbill." Awhoh |ihe conviction of ii "â- ges of crime has bei J^^arrecce of late in Gen icauing earnestly for t 1 secure indemnification ,J*""nent in such ca: "f unjustly convicted, "lined thereby in tci " whatever upon the • The latest report Po was adjudged guiltj 'ae crimmal court at â- ^to three years' impi ' After serving o\ term, indisputable e- «e « now discovered, I Pnson a ruined man l^t is to be don f*er8? The fact is i « number of such is lar •.^"r^ady some of the I? ^gwast the impor ^»«d that there area! »^lar opium em. .r^".*!! very bad, but »pphed? The dama Sl^wnottobecoE ^*wle to whisk* 1 »j,*l'e latter not b weu aa the former nu**)^ great numb iodJ°j "°"« ^ind 01 i^aenied they will cholera is spreadi K*--.