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 d i f:;|i p If I I His Unele's Heir. CHAFEER Y,â€"CownavMD. Bat. though thai fMrtiaUT rdiew^ 8w O«orga had quit* wongh of Jbmrpdxmdtad gnm^ ai^^to nko tho abort driT* throoghtho biaiiMtfrMhaMiaf «h*"«- mer monimg » DOTCr-to-be-tefoMen aod al- moot oaMMliuabla age. „^ ••Oh, Hmto-* apare my diild I" tto^ fi«roc eryof hia haart nae unahaeked to hia taM aa ha jampad oat at tiie wUcfMoa door, Hd pat tiw qoaatioB on which hia v«y life aaemad to hang to tha aonbomt atation- maater, who oame forward afe'oooe to graet him. all aagar attantioa to the great man of the place. Tea. certainly. Mr. Da WaUea had waUEcd over from the Oonrt and gene up hy the 8:60 ez^eta. 1. yea, he waa quite ram Iâ€" had aean and apoken to Mr. Da Walden, and thought he looked very pale and ill The atation-maater panied in hu tlaent explanation, atraok by the thongh that, if Mr. Da Walden had been pale. Sir George had grown abaolately flM^ly. Hia eyaa were dim and glazed, hia banda hong nerr onaly down, mod hia handaome nprigbt old figure abobk aa with audden palay. "You are ill, air. Sit down let me get you aomethinar. Simmima, fetch acme brandy," the man cried anzioaaly and for the moment Sir George had to yield to the atrong compnlaion of hia physical weaknera, and anffer himaelf to be aopported like a ohild. Bat when he had gulped down the fiery apirit the porter brought from the re- freahment-rcom, be puahed his supporter roughly aside, and, with only a muttered word of thanks, oaade hia way to the dog- cart With a dull overhanging sense of calam- ity, with a hot aching in his heart and a dazed agony in his brain, Sir George drove on and on until he reached his own lodge- gateâ€" the pretty honeysnckle-ttrown cot- tage that bad struck him yesterday as the very abode of picturesque tranquility â€" un- til the lodgekeeper's buxom, cherry-checked wife came oat, not, as it seemed, ti accord him hrr usual respectful curtsey, but to stay his progreBS. "Don't go on, sir," she cried eagerly, and earnestly pressing her curly-headed baby, with a sort of passion, to her breast â€" "at least not yet â€" not until yon know. Oh, poor dtar old gentleman, how shall I tell you aU?' She paused, with a little sob; and Sir George noted her pale cheeks and sad brim- miog eyes with a sort of intelerant anger. The change in tbe ruddy smiling face did not aurptiae him, but it filled him with a savage reaentment. He did not question the woman, and so make her hard task easier, as she h»U hoped he would he tried to puah blindly on, but ahe detained him â- Sill. *-0h, not like that, my poor master I" she cried, forgetting all fear in her intense pity for the man rn whose head calamity waa about to fall in such a crushing fashion. "We all love our children alike, great gentlemen and ^or folks like me, and there's news to break your heart up at the houoe. The little master " • What of him " Sir George broke in fao»8cly. '-Woman ?o not madden me! What of my boy la he â€" found " The woonan looked at him pitifully for a second, then cried, with a sudden rain of tears â€" ' Found Yes, the little ansel My lady found him in the shrubbery, quite dead, sirâ€" murdered they cay 1" CHAPTEE VI. "The course of true love naver did run smooth," quoted May Yerner cheerfully, as she patted her sister's dusky and dishevelled locks, and did her best to make light of an unpleasant sitution. "Come. Essie, cry- ing one's eyes out don't do a bit of gcod, to dry ;rur and help me to thick what ib to be done." r Essie raised her p'ctty head from her sis- ter's lap, and looked into her sisttr's face with a miserable attempt at a grateful jimi'e but the effort waa a failure. The small under lip quivered piteously, the blue eyes brimmed over^ and the girl hid her faoe again with a little choking cry. ' Oh, it is cruelâ€" cruel. And what has Frank done?" "frothing, cbild," sud the elder sister serently â€" "nothing, at least, but sent a most blnnderiug ambaasador on a moat deli- cate embassy. Any one with the slightest knovledf'e of papa's character migh; have known that in such circumstances he wou'd do precisely what he has done." "But Sir Gecrga Da Walden could know nothing of papa's character." "And therefore Sir George Da Walden should never have been allowed to inter fere. Nj it Frank had I.ai cne grain of common sensa, he would have come straight iMck, told the whole deplorable story to you at d me, and left us to break it gradually to papa instead of which he st nds the stiff- necked old unci 3 to make all manner of haughtily offensive concessions and awkward attempts at bribery." "Mayl" "Well, he did, my dear there is i o mis- take about that 1 And I am quite sure papa made himself equally disagreeable so they parted with a mutually bad ioapreasion. You know the temper papa cune home in, and I have no doubt Sir George was quite as unpleasant when he arrived at De Wal- den Court â€" not that that matters, for I am sure any puniahment he gets will serve Mr. Frtnk quite rght." "May I" Eiaie cried indignantly and her eyes sparkled angrily through the tears, her chetka flushed with htr passionate protest. "You are m bad as â€" aa all the reat. I thought you liked poor Frank but you too speak againit him and just now â€" ^when "When you mean to sive him up," May finished, with a misohievous smila; but, though she smiled, her eyes were full of tenderest sympathy, and the slender jewel- led fingers touched the dark ruffled locks as gently as a mother's could have done. "Is that it, Essie Do you mean to give Frank upr* She lifted the pretty bwe, and awaited the answer with some little anxiety but ahe was quite satisfied with it i^en it camp. "Nevw!" Essie aaid,ia » kw ateadlaat tone and her look was m bar vojca. "Papa gave me to Frank, and b» naimafc tafca aaa back. We cannot defy him w« wmf !*•!• to wait a long time, or Frank may grow tired and give ma ^^ b«t I riudl MMr foranfooeel^a. IwiHbe Fimnk'i wifeor If tiwwnrda •«• "S*^ ^i^ffi' woaanly aisdtroa. May atoopadty h«U»toai-lar. la;^ii«f ttrt *»«5^ *^»vol Ba*w "•*•* •â- â- J"*^'" a,.^ with two cMb • i n^yto^y ^gyy ftaoanla of Mn«ta A. dMnang dd aeia- d.ln^yi*will «akefeaoooiilaolde- idea, ny daar." *!..»_:_ impatiaatofi fcrayth** if^uS her own .brained p.m. T»» P«« "^J* J^ been cruelly nmaed from her dream of Nwa, driven out from her fool's puradise relent- kiMly, and tlM worldlMid f or her to-d^ no powibiUty of happinaai ani hope. Aa she Sirood blaikly ataring out into the n^^. aheoouldatiU sea her father'a fiwe. Want- ed with such anger aa »»•»«?* mJ«^^« ahownin her preaenoe -oonld atfll hear tbe harsh strident tonea in which he P««««»S*?' fly forbade her to think of Frank De Wal- d«i again. "He baa deceived na both, whether wil- folly or not, and must abide the conse- qnenoea of suoh deceit," he said sternly. •I wiU smooth no sooking barriatcr s patti with my moey, and my daaffhter sbaU be no stepping stooe to succssa and sj I toW the pompoua old asa who seemed to think even an offshoot of the De Waldeoa a to which we had hardly the right to aipure, and spoke of the palter hundreds he pro posed to settle on hia nephew aa though they were the revennea of a Bothaohild or a Goutts." Heartatruck and dazed with pain, shiver- ing under her father's anger, and shocked at the coarseness of his speech, Eisie would rt 11 have made some feeble loyal attsmptto plead the c»u8e of her love and champion her absent lover but May checked her with an imploring look. The wiser and cooler Kirl saw how much ruffled vanity and wounded pride had to do with his unjust explosion, and knew that further.argument would only exasperate her father beyond all bounds. So she interposed, directing his attention with delicate cact to Eiate's snow- white f»c9 and dark dilating eyes. "You are frightening her to death," she said, m a reproachful whisper and Mr. Verner, who realy idolised his younger daughter, followed the direction of her eyes with quick alarm, though he suid with lit- tie perceptible softemng of his gruff tones: â€" "Gnrls always faint over such matters. I don't fancy it doee tiiem mhch harm. Bat take her away. May. and, when she has cried her eyes out, make the poor little fool understand that I will have my way in this." And May had obeyed him, so far at least as the taking of her sister was was concern- ed â€" anythingelse was an after-consideration; just then she had to soothe the girl's hysteri- cal fears and prevent the speaking of im- prudent words on either side. L'ng after Essie had sobbed herself to sleep and regained her lost happiness in dreamland. Miss Vomer sat alone in the great diawing-rocm, for her father bad angrily betaken himaelf to hu oln\ and would not return until late, pondering a thousand plans for setting the crooked thinss straight. "They must be patient â€" that is all," ahe decided hopefully. "Papa can never resist Essie long, and he is very fond of Frank. Moreover, I must enUst Croxford on their rde.n» A little dimplinq( smile ^that was not due to maiden consciousnesi played round May's red lips as tbe last thought flashed through her busy brain. She was an affestionate and dutiful daughter; but she was too clever a girl not to have taken her father's mental and moral gauge pretty well by this time; and she ha wthat her own aristocratic »ix,t or would be her sister's best ally. So she difpitched an imperative little note to Lord Croxford, bidding him come to her f a'ly on the following diay, and then, with a pleasant sense of duty fulfi'led and every precaution taken, had retired to rest m a tolerably hopeful frame of mind. She awoke in the morning with this hope unchecked, and it rose higher still when, at the breakfast table, her father not only ask- ed with anxious solicitude after E«ie, who did not appear, but spoke with something like toleration of the absent Frank, though his indignation againat S r George blazed as fiercely as ever. "As though the arrogant old ruffian should no tbe ashamed to show his face after the dirty trick he played his nephew " he said, chippirg as fiercely at his egg as though it represented the head of the offend- ing Bironet; and May bent her bead over the tall coffee- pot to hide a little triumphant smUe, as she answers demurely â€" "It was certainly hard on poor Frank." "Hard!" Mr. Verner echoed the word with a derisive sniff. "It was the most out- rageous â€" the most disgraceful And then to ask him down to the Court aad csoUy spring the mine upon him If the lad had an ounce of spirit, he would never have broken braad under the old traitar's ' roof. He would have come straight back t) me, and " "And you would have given him a differ- ent answer from that you gave hia unole f May suggested audaciously. Her fa Jier frowned, and pushed hia cup away. "I did not Bay that," he growled "bat at leaathe should have tried me. But I suppose it'a the old storyâ€" pride and poverty alwaya g- toget'ier." " 'It is never too late to mend,' " M%y suggested, with nervous cheertulneas aa ahe came forward to pin tiie flower in hw fatiiet's ooat, and looked coaxingly into her father's face. Things had gone ahnoat too well with h r as yet the stem man had been almost too easily maoagei. She began to be afraid. And aimoltaneonslv with the fear tin first repulse oame. Her iatiMr almoat posh- ed her away, and hia frawagrew very ter- rible aa he said between bit teetiiâ€" â- *It is too lata, I tell yoo. Do not nnrae^ cr let E^aie nunm, any, dafaHion d that kind. No dan^^ter of aune shall many in- to Sir GeiHge 1)3 Wald«*a family, ai 1 think he anderstands." He went out then with a very detvmined look; and May's cfealiaUawed him ratiier bliHBklyfara.aapond«rao. Bntaho waanot eawiy.dcpraessd; aaid, wanaba had xeoaUed ttoeonoesaoDa behad iaadela eiysn so ahoit n^tBM, ahaoasM aiofebtfieye thakon tiiia oaeyital poiat faarirtiar innld fta ohifaatta b« tin* ahe had bMD able to ptey with 1"' aiatei^a fsaia. .^^ ,.vt Xayaia. Mji«aid ia haKty oomfortinf ^tam fboKyk ehildt Do yon thirit^I woold laa«h at yoo, or "7 "^TJ!! acaiaatdwr old Frank. »« I w«" ""^J??^ STiSwi^d soon bT went OfotniMtX wdald ha oryfcg «^ oy" oat lor sl^e. Btttiuatfor onedaramii not apod mykwka. BaSSea, Croxford la oomiatthia 4n«oon. Coma. B«e wu cainietNoUytldnk that pipo will lefose yoa aaytUag yoar heart is aet apoa I ^«;ioolferapwi.tfoUy. ob^ingl^ dtifc bead, bat aaaffiBBthroogh hortew She bad aa faitansa idnuratioa for her alder aiater'aoourago ond bri^twit, an onqaes- tioning reliaaae on her word .bat Jiere ahe had w mueh at stake that ahe hardly dared to hope. ... ji_ "Bat Frank." ahe whispered ladlyâ€" "Frank most know all now. May. why does he not writer* ,. ., May Verner laaghed. a sweet httia nlvery peal that was like a owdial draught to the pale and frightened E«ie, andahook her aiiterinthe immensity of her amased con- tempt. "Writer* ahe echoed, lifting her fine hazd eyes in emphatic jqppeal to the celling. "A pretty sort « lover he would be to plead his oaaas on paper i He will coose." "Gomel" E«ie repeated vaguely; and the shy sweet pmk tints stole back into the soft cheeks; tie blue eyea loat their atrained pathetic look. "Of course he will, aa fast aa an expnas- train and a hansom oab oan bring him 1 Oh, Essie, what a baby you are I You ought to have a nurse stUlâ€" not a lover'" E«e answered her sister only with a grateful kiss. A great burden had been lifted from tar heart, but it waa still too full for words. She was so young it wai so natural to hope, to believe in her strong clever sister, to trust the father whose pst and playtiiing ahe had always been. "Now, run out and play, child, for there is Croxford in the hall, and I must talk business with him." May said, in her good- natured peremptory tones. And Eiasie waa only too ghwi to obey her, only too thankful te escape ipto the grnnds, where she might wander at peace through the winding shrnbberiee, under the shadow of the elms and chestnut-trees, or nown the little path beside the sparkliniK river, and dream of all the happy hours that she and Frank bad spent amid these familiar scenes. Aa hour ago it would have been torture to look upon places so associated with the lover she baa thought forever lost, and it was painful skill, though May's words echo- ed cheeringly in her ears, and her heart throbbed high with hope. AU might- nay, all muse be well with them again but the contrast between the solit ay stroll and the last ramble she had -taken with Frank, when, witiiout a doubt or fear to hamper their imagination, they had boldly skeikstted out a future full of bliss, was inevitably presant in her mind. Hope would have seemed an impertinent intrader when felioi- ty seemed soreâ€" and she dang to that hope with a tremulous passion now. She seated herself upon the mossy bank, leaatpg her dark head against the stem of a tall tree, and giving herself ap to ihsmory and thought. She shed a few gentle tean from time to time but. on the whole, she was not unhappy.. She tmated her sister so implicitly, and May had been ao sure that Frank would oome. Aid somehow the minutes and hours flit- ted by she did not know how long the lovera had been tete a teU, how long she herself had been dreaming in the sunUght, when she was roused by the sound of a atep on the crisp sun-dried moss, and the hurried utterance of her name. A ahadow came be- tween her and the sunshine and, looking up, she sawâ€" Frank Da Walden. "Eaie I" It was all he said but the oae word was eloquent enough; the shining ea^er eyes cald all the rest. £«ie did not even attempt to answer Iiim â€"only rose to her feet with a little glad and grateful cry, ran straight into her lover's oatstratched arms, and hid her happy face upon her lover's brewt. And for a little Bpase, while the birds twittered gayly in the thick-leaved trees above them, and the river rippled musically at their feet, the young people clung together and were utter- ly oontant. Then Essie drew shyly back but frank still held her fast. "So yon did not give me up 7" he asked, eyeing the sweet flushed faoe with jealous fondness. Essia looked np with a swea t rqproac'af ul glance; but the rotiroach rhangsd to anxiety, for Frank looked pUe and haggptd. and al- most old, she thought aad her haart smote her M she gazed at him. "You are not well, dear," aha aaid, slip- ping her little hand withbi hia arm and pieaaing it gently in her ahrm bat he an- Bverad^at once â€" "Quite well, my darling. You and May have cured me, for May sent me to you.' "You were ill then 7" she persisted. "Ill of suspense and m'sery," he answered gaily. "Nay, I will confeaa to such prosaic ills as fatigue and hunger, for I did not aleep all m'ght and cam withoit my break- fast thia morning." "Then come in to luncheon now," cried May'a bright voice behin them, "for Lord Croxford and I are tired of eaoh other's company and are moat decidedly hungry by now.' ' ' CHHPTERVn. D spite t te nncrtamty o their pontloa and the cratl disapp3intnMnt one of them had sustained, the four young people enjoy- ad a nmry meal in a tiioroachiy moour^- tional fashion. Lord Crozfoid did not per- haps conttibate v«iy bugdy to iho «aaOMa of the entertainment, bens a yoong nan of fewwmdai^buthe waa Smnu^j kind- hearted, and by no meana a fool, and arftad May much better than ft more nuMterfnl na- tnrewould have done. Morsovar.ha ad- mired his bright betrothed in aueh a whde- hearted fashion that heahnort aaoiMrto shine with a reflected lostra when aeatod Iw her side. ' "Daea he not look lAonrdly happy r trfy. toi also*' tiKc«f«jyi)i^ to: hinv m _. taa ttMoi^- «h4 fl^r she erisd, with a hngh wad tha idea ao amaied the work .Hai*ao«Baofl^j«;^2fS batwith aMiiWtfcrtB mth»ltm ^ha nllk. iBMpMPialNlt QO^daNd nartfawlarly â- Â«Â»*f jJL' tioii. of pofiSial ocoao iy. Md, *Si. dS fMaihoM on being prao«eal«boToaU things, prended on the oonaon. _^. pSm^J. howoyer, I^«»" 'WSS ahodkdrtka onemliMaeMeof oontentad weU being that had repboed hu lata el pain, and loaaad hinsalf for *** that lay before him. -it "With Basie aad May boih oo my ddo, I ought to win the battle," b« ""jd^hia m ey« brightoning with the old hopofd 1 |k "bat the firrt thing now la I to aeo Mr. Ver- "e aie g»w a Ultla pide. xiamemboring her father's uvar-night dcc^aratlona rf »»*»• would do and say. ahoold young De Wal- den ventare to' mtrada into hia preaence. She bit her Iqp narvondy and shot one pite- oasglanoe at May bat her mater retarned it with a oonfident amUo. _^ "The aoontr the better, Frank, and fortu- nately it oan be very aoon. for I see papa jobt enticing the avenaa." Frank waa anything bat a ooward never- theleaa hia heart beat a little faster, and he twisted his noastaohe nefyoudy, whiU Eieie looking like a guilty little ghost, preased oloaely to hia tide. "Courage, my obildrea," Moyoned gaUy, her spbritB seeining to rise with the occasion, though in truth she was aa nervous aa any one there. "Papa'a bark is terrible, that I admit; bat I do not think he ever really bitea. Besides, we are foor to one, all raso- lute and atroag â€" ours should be an easy victory. Hark, he is at the door I" •â- Tell him Frank is bora. Mayâ€" tell him, please meet him in the hall, dear, oni pre pare him I" poor little E«ie cried, with whitening lips, as her eager aelf-torturing fanoy oonjored up oradly vivid soenee of disaension, in whieh her lover and her father played the principal parte. May hesitatedâ€" not from any aelfish fear â€" «he would have uadertokan the moH d^- ficalt and unpleasant task possible to save her timid little sister an added pang; but she was by no means sure sore that it would be wise or politic for her to interfere just now. "Shall I," she cried, with a rapid oppMd to the waiting trioâ€" ' or shall Lord Crox- ford, or " "Or ahall I myaelf " Frank intorrapted, with a rapidly riaing color and proudly brightening eyes. "May, you are the kindest of (drls; but I tbink, if I am asham- ed to face Sir. Vemer, I have no right in his house." An emphatic and apparently involimtary "Hear, hear!' from Lwd Croxford gave point and emphasis to the speech and, with a frankly-apoken "I think voa are quite right," May Vemer drew back to let tne young man pass, and oroeeed quickly over to Eiaie's side. "Come, Eiaie." She threw her arm round the little trembling figure and sm'led into the white frightened faM. "It ia just one wrench, like having a tooth out, you knosr, and then everything will be right. It is not Frank papa quarrels with â€" only Sir George; and you do not want to marry him." But E.-sie did not smile ahe was ataring with an agon'sad intaiaity of gaze across the room at t£e door which opened jost as her lover reached it, and afaoired he father on the other aide. For one second the two men stood faoe to face, so close that they orald have touched one another then Mr. Vtmer drew baok a stop or two, with a harsh and dreadful cry â€" "Youâ€" and here Heaven help as all I" All eyes had natura'ly been turned upoi the newoomer'a face, all ears bad been strain- ed to oateh the first words he shonld nttor, and none doubted that these would be angry, even insalting perhaps but there was no anger in the cry that rang out with suoh painful iaoongraity â€" ^rather a great horror and dreal. that were emphasised by the hag- gard sbarpeaed face and dazed-looking eyes. "Mr. Vemer," Frank cried, drawing up his tall figure, and spanking rapidly in an impulse of bewildered ndignation, "I have no right here perhaps but onoe yon made me welcome yo9 gave me Easie and â€" aod ahe and I " The poor young fellow broke down with flushed face and eyes that sparkled uneasily fw even he onld no longer tnistoke the strained terror of that unwavering gaza for mere a iger at his intruaion. "Papa,, what ia it?" May cried quickly; and the tones of his dauehter's dear vibrating voice seemed to rouseMr. Vemer. He oame quickly into the room, dos'i^ the door care- fully behind him and, aa he stood in the fuller light, they siw more dearly the dead- ly paUor of hia ordmarily ra Idy faoe. He had grown. May thought, older by ten yeara aince the morning. It waa to her and not to Frank, that hia firat worda were apakeu. '-Take Esther away," he aaid peremptor- ily and, thooga hia woris were atam. it aeemed to the girl that hia yoioo thrilled with anintenaepity. Pwhi^ Eesia thought ao too, or perhaps love save the timid girl oourage, for ahe took her plaoe by her lovar'i side, and, titoogh her faoe grew red aad white with painfol rapidito. her pretty voieo hardly faltoed aa 'Tleasa'do not aead me away, pana,^^- oauae I could not go. Whatever yoa aay to Frank vou must aay to me. I am jost aa balaa ha. for Ileve him and I oannot giyo him up J" a • (to bi ooxxurpsD.) The hooasa buUTiHr the flftt anM^ I natnly tog oabii§^ 8m» leir\??*i|t itta ||»laan'I^|Uoa nmnw i, !z|*J(' m ^-mmm-M. y^m m a avay i^ otiL?"' tlkva^Htia, jpi^a 00Btttmel«l5.' •Wjl^thiinghiwlaadof al«,4J2» aabamed bricks anr^i!*' Thet» adobes a-eiwiJ?S!» ptapi*!^ anl toe w^UhJ^ tiMtaHWMedtamadetwici « u^ one otHMiried briMca would be. oH!!" thia matuial lends itself readUy to an.?!* of arohitaotore. and many of the eliS" bofldiaga as well aa cheap oottaeeiaM^ of it, the aolt gray tint c/the i:i,bs7,a mg one of tiw craam-colored waU« waakea. Generally, however, the adahT overlaid by a atacc i. which is tinted/r " housea with abundant piazzu arj thsn^ oommon type in the older part of the toaT and over these ao many vin s will be tn^ and so maoh foliage dustar '*-" -^^ hardly aay of what matsrial that out Qi itsdfiafiirmed. The restdenoes l^^ a mire Eastern 1..1 c n*ly built have a mire Eastern aud'oa. vantitmal aspect, and some are very in»r ing: but big or little, old or new, it ii !«: to find home not em cohcedâ€" almost b^ â€"in treea and shruba and climioi( pi^ while smooth, r'ch lawns greet thTnt eveiywhere in town, in brilliant contraitT the bleak, bare hills towerng overhead jgit without tbe dty. As for flowers, no tos Bast or West cjltivates them more QoiT«. sally and assiduooaly. Salt L»ke City, then, is bcautifalâ€" ap^. dise in oomparison with the buffalo plauit, the atony gulches in which the great msjotj. ty of Rooky Mountain towns must needs be set. The aabarbs. except toward the rocky np. lands northward, grade off into farmi qait, imperceptibly, the atr aets ontinning straight out into oountry r jads between dense joi. gles of senflowersâ€" glorious walls of g(dj edged with green and touched with icnn- merable dote of mtroon. And in these sab- urbe yoa may find some of the quaioteit, mojt idyllic homes. Oae such, for sxample| stania down in tbe third ward. Toe home is hardly bigger than a good sized rooai, ud is entered cbrough a queer narrow cowled dooraray. The second story is hardly hi^ as large as the lower one. leaving a clanting r jof between, and a picturesque hedge and fence inclose the whole. This would b^ striking enough aloae for its shape; bit every two'weeiks the whole adobe and stacso affiur is whitewashed from roof-trse to fono- dation, until it gleams like a fresh snow- bank against the grape-^nea that creep around ito angles, aod toe poplata ud ma pies that photograph their boughs in shad- ow upon its spotless sides. But to sat it dS the better, the owner paints his small wtodow-sae^et bright yellow, his caiingi the reddest of red, and his sills and sbntten and door panda vivid green. If the whole afEkir had jost boon handed out o( a Ditck toy shop, it could not be more fantastic aid childishly pretty. â€" Ebksst Ikgbbsou, in Harpei'a Magatme /or Avgtat, The •r *The Scold.' MB^^witii sadi ittoprifltoilii SrMiL^^^^^^. Fxnik fdlowed tha^Maiiy^i!^ l^L^l gd^i^led battin nmTSSZ f^oSS FtUmrlaf the Mtox^ ^Mi|!M» 1 J'^M^^I'^** »^*? *• «»#»«»» far ••D What Ja^ .fKopghjk aVooft thi|W||f _.^ "Bok ohMd to von. liOf a fo Mid take tamSZ^n" Dbappeatanee Nothing waa more common in the six- teenth century that a "scolding wcman," and the aoolding womvi had not disappear ed in thia country till aftar Declaratioa A Indep ndenoe â€" some even survived that. The evideaoe of this does not rest upon tradition. The literature and the laws art full of it. Lawa had to be framed with severe penalties to protect men from the "common soold" and toeae penaltiea wen often inflicted, one of the most effective of them being the "ducking chair," which in many caaea waa the only one that oonld obeok the wagging of the virulent tongne. Nothing ia commoner in the ballad literature of the aixteenth oontary than the complainti of the railing of the soold and the shrev, and the devices for taming them was a« in- genious aa they were brutal. Either the Ut- eratara of tbe time is an awf ol libal, or soold- ing wcman were so numrous as te be a great feature of the a^^e scolding wai H prominant as begging, and the scolding «ue as c mmon as the tipsy bnaband. ll philoeopher wants to know whether it is tht ttmpar of women which has changed, since it i« a fact that the "common scold" bu practically disappeared from molern hn (thereused to be Woman whomeven thetheriff was afraid of), is no mire a piece de ruitl- anee of literature, and has n3t t) be legisla- ted ag^Uit, or whether the apparent differ- ence u only a change in man's at!itade to- ward the sex. Some stadentsof sonology think that the m m'a submission has vrougbt the transformation, and that wom^n appsv to be more sweet and amiable no v they nave their way nnmffljd. It is a very deUcato question, and oae that would not be riisea hera except in the interest o! science. For the disappiaranoe of traits in human natnre is as nsdful a study aa the elimmtcio: of nse- fnlmemben or thedevolopmentof nswor^ in our evolution. Nobody except ttie toa- ologist oan aay what the disappaarance ot the "commm aoold/ baa to do with m^i position in the modem recreations of Bocie^ tile business of this department is to oolleot facta, not to oo-orlinate them.â€" ChabUU Dpolot Wabnsb. in Harpa't Magcauu for Awnut, Thrpwlng the Boomerang. Tha boomerang nsed by the nitires of Australia ia a piaoe of thin wood aboat u inoh and a half wide, an eighth of an npB thick, aiad perhaps twenty inches long " shape varies, asmetimea being like the leg- ment of a drde, at othera Uke a »"»'â-  'S bfat at the dbdw, but the way of using botn th- as forms is exaodytiie same. Tne weatou ia mraiped at one end » »»" r^ht hand, with the oonoave side npp«- moat, udthoUaek man takes a ran,*» a« the ordinary oHekaterdoea when w " throwing a balU Da a audden he sto^ v" awkyflfi tha boam^rang. not straight j* 000 ndgjb aiwpoie, tmt revolving on lU ^^ axis W^i^ that in the air it loatcs iuc « ^ir^nlar piece of board this motion ffy? iV the woikdacfol power ot flight, *»5 taoot really be aeon to be believed. A« the ojoant fel in« diioet Una from *^»^ or,nnd'at8aoha height aahe mayrequn bqt aa itdrawa toward the limit of if t«ii|04it swervea alirttiy to the rigbtjv ni^mg a seoiajrol^r tarmr toward its o«v^ oSagJbaokon anezaotly oppouM to jtm^i^Ah it took on the ont*in; jmnoy, genetil^Jalling wftiiin a puriiag asand, not unlike tiie hum |tO|V^ ra One a^ldgOt OUll jgr*m final ^0^ whan he P fSWthintd SKlSngthJ ^tuDOtbeyl Zd qaivarin J S yelled fori ^beoomefnl Bpeooogbr*â€"' 10 boor. ip^ other 1 Omarted wbil horses' beads V ^ay were f*eUi Mfl»el(: "TneJ to-day.ond I Ws work out I jltabeusedtd l^be would L iKwrible. would! {0 get his tead f0f rumpus or ,^»fewirrefl of tiie furrow a^ « few times. ^jatwhen thej voik. toey woul fbe sane time q« himr theae woul' lows to show •%team" the otb and fume ai As it is with of fowl; if you Hss toward thei yoo for all your Baddu The one propagat known r tree or hg it to another, fte bud ia plaoec liinlts of this ope fined, but for all «y that it is lim â- aw genus, or cl gaks may be hue ohsitont, and ge be spedes, the tion. But, like a tiie propagat'on tions, and occaiio wood of two speci genus, cannot be lAat is termed a There is alwayf longing to the sa liter seeks the ba aay, however, thai bwle growing sho tiw strong growi] long life ia the objc Kidding is usna soon after the hv ate fully develope present season's j which the buds ar aiimilar conditic branch at tbe poin tbtn one year old bark be so thick ai readily separated bsdtaue the bud is bark of the stoci tea, the operatioi ytt have to aep ortme sap, to foni lad the stot^, the aad cuttings to p: ifperttions are an taa albumous ma ihs same material hjsr aad cutting, of toots. The proper time of esurae, vary w ind kind of trees 1 forward ea nls,it may be] toaoa as good plu tbtaaolaoftheles *ktsaaon*agrowt: â- stare ones, can ithneceaaaiyto tttarsinfitcondil '!â- - .\ Kill Wn eonld be onlj Ky o f » thorougli â- â- â- Muuaoon find â- 25^ " tbeappj l*t« inthe ooonti 1*4 » great deal l«o«iabrm work I^Mhardworl l?1SF"» Pototoes, o their work aa " [ttt would who sb l"f^«inake a IJtodressed lum 1 ills' ** .â- **"*! lu^.totmarke ISM°*higfaartai lJ5*f»^^moe ~tonntton hdr on a of 01 ai th« of»