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 pened to meet walked down the Btieet. m a bantering way, â-  tell me. Sir Bishop,' I pn, I r where you are at Kor ance longer to roam â-  luch, you know, madi A^nl ;he straight road to heaves " at a* witty retort, to fools of this Rort^ 1 and most graoiondy aiil I and then keep on ahead.' (to landlord)â€" Do yoJ hotel sir, bring all the dog t â€" I'll have to go aomfr 't stand dogs, er Tourist â€" Do you alloi 1? sir, won't have k dn )rry. My wife baa a da ore of th-ui she does of i ilxcelsior. Jones He's a goes :i story higher up t ter day ' but Snboidisate- martial-looking manyoj Hobson," observed a m in the parade on :iuite struck with his :e." inded Mrs. Hobson, "tj 11 in his uniform." LS fretful, and I told him j a around the block in ' he Prmislmient Fit ansaw, composed of elei d an old fellow from ed to the jcry-room. selected, remarked thatj s prisoner ought to be r ary for five years. "I igh," said the old fell n him fur ten." "Oh,| " Wall, then "â€"Btret benchâ€"" I'm with 're going to hang the jn it." "My dear sir, wel ack to our business." h •ten." " But that wcnil^ 30. " " Th«m squat an' i nfortable." "HaveyouJ rhy the prisoner shouJafl " Thiuk Ihave"â€" thro^ CO at the spittoon. ' le it " " Yes, for it He is my son-in-law, )portin' him ever since M went up for ten years. teHead ina Pail ofWj ^nd distressino: accident lay afternoon at the ren" Henderson of P**^^ »n went out into the y^ leaving her *oor-°^ leside of the bed. *;. ,und that the baby 1»^ f and fallen head fir« hat stood by ' J*^ i ding OQ its head, stoB*^' f its mother. It *•? self and was drownea s of water. 1 love for the gooas^ " torn, or larger P^^ 1 ,8hillend«re^^«' hag gone to «*?2,_»- forldha8pa-ed.tr«y- I BT»tM» W"iS JiO^ op fcom the JS"^^ j may pen " »°d^ -^ He Can't Go I^, Oh. doctor. »»J«»^ ig in hi- »M»!,.irfri' irlo know* **2?*#»l Btth»t; Irtc^^*^ ffftfflftt ::.,» BV B09E TMfflY 000%£. poise ^ru**^ t« Angy B Bi i.»4 poise enough to *ȴ? â-  i»^,^L.*rxd hearing TQi«Jea% ,mr4 ' tiu^ fc»»^wdd have bear gy^ M ammttMioftl., tlie #ldbe]«« *^y"":ant me, Jack?" Uellie aakea, ^et I will; w" ^^^ " *^^* a mament. uj.meisja3tthrougn." " '•- iXwent into the library and flung him- if-nto s great easy-chair the delay was jfnl-his courage fluttered, sank, pac- ^riouid have failed, but that his wife " J to him, and with femiuin^. instinct his distress, knelt- on «he Qom "" J him and putting her warm soft arm b«"^^°"":„.L. ' The tender touch broke "'» NeUy*" ne said,â€" the word was like a u " I have failed my business is gone "VenothiP-Sleft." we He thought sSe would faint and slip from i,i,ann3; bat she looked up into his face 7h lan-^bed a flish o! cheer and courage iSer pale face. " Is that aU " she Sa tone like the reveUe of a bugle. "I Light you were ill, Jack." Tluswas what the level brows, the clear oves the cleft chin, and the firm lips had in ire for him, inspiring courage, will to fight Jecdure. Jack burst mto tears the ha«d (freadf 111 tears of a man. ,• Never in all her married life had Nell kvighed on him such caresses as now. She clasped his head agamsther bosom, and cov- ered his face with kisses she wiped away those slow'hot tears that burned like melt- ed lead she stroked his damp hair, damp with the agony of his resolve and reluctance she murmured inarticulate sounds in his ear such as mothers croon to their speechleaa babies She saved his soul alive. Was not that something to do After a time he re- covered strength and looked up at her with the saddest smile " Nelly, you are an angeL' " Not a bit of it, sir I" she laughed. " I'm i very mortal woman, and here's the proof." She poured out a glass of wine from a de- canter left there by a careless servant since ^e night before when a friend had called, and mide him drink it slowly the wwmth of the stimulant drove oflf the chill of his ex- citement. " Now tell me the rest," said Nelly, as she felt his cold, damp hands recover their warmth. " There is nothing more to tell, Nelly, thank God I am only unfortunate, not a rascal." " As if you could be " she replied indig- nantly then she made him sit beside her on the sofa and by dint of questions, gently yet acute, drew from him the condition of affair* as far as he was able to make her un- derstand them. In the course of this conversation it was needful to tell her of her father's insolvency at the time of his death. " And you never told me I" A hot color swept over her face as she uttered the words. " My love, I could not bear to trouble you it was not necessary." " And I went on with all sorts of extrav- agance, thinking I could do as I had done. because father was rich, " How can I for- give myself " " Ho*- can you ever foraive me, Nell is the real question." She drew his throbbing head down on her shoulder. "Is it so very hard to forgive one. Jack, for over-loving " He could not answer his voice failed. Presently he rose. " I must go now, Nelly you have saved me out of the depths." He looked at her with his heart in his eyes, and with one long, loving embrace left aad«rkia â- ftoa- _jSSS^[jFth3BF ^^' lucky to set that. ««•« M.Jr!!^"' Neither he or Kia wife had much idaa S^ ^^°?,?* "ey ijt ^»« nee^dfnl th»t mafMnnldtvre 8MntfÂ¥lac4|»Lfl^ Waaaoan looUnlr 'or a liomr a^6tteBu--^\fi^w»ai^ days passed in the search 1 what depths £ Z,\ fl^** "»d^i«90'ragement sickened NellV nearUtdd discouraged her aoul as she went from one cheap boarding-house to another "md came-away disgusted. They sat down re8oto(»ly^«» fiigbft, and raadtt. a sMct cal- culation of means and expenses but even takMig into consideration the fact that they WMMT-both clothed for a year or two, for they found it was economy to keep their or- d»'»»rj.«lotlMng rather than sell iti and also Lieanor sat down, stunned her courage, jer generous faithful heart, her strong will, nad rained to her husband's aid but now nehid left her she buried her head on the Mm of the sofa with a long shuddering sigh, "il tried to rhink there was much to be Mae, she could not plan yet, bat she could ZJ\V^^?'®" ^*'^^ to lier dressing-room, and there lay the silvery folds of satin «ro33ahigh chair she should never wear wa dress, the ball for whiph it was prepar- S'f'^.""'^?"*^"end she unpinned the ZuCa^^ " breadths carefully together ^^idthem in the box from which^ they wd\r ""'^^ ^^°S*h8 of deUcate lace, the garniture of apple-blossoms that Cher r-^^?.T°™ ^»th them, and caU- SSi^'^^^y ^^' «« ^P the box and tieLn 'tI^* ^*' °^*°g«d her mind about aod^V " ireadful weariness of soul '«Xrir'f^"' fo'NeUy Palmer sliehadT!- ®i'°*t« woman after aU, and »«rtofr"""*»^^y «»»ock. But after WthTi '"'®* hours, (for she denied ' I ^A^ *° °*"«" «he rallied, and fl' T®"' showed a serene and »«i»eW» J u. "'â- '^^ when he came back, ^^ M^'" as if he had stiU been he^ ' ' he was more. Never since he â-  image into his 'i_8o adored as ""i'lil!""" *he int ^.» .Helpmeet for him." ""t toot h« • more. Never since he BO d«!r "^^! ^°*^ hU heart had Nelly Satin 80 adored as now he knew tune the intent and sweetness ,the first e: of w It ®^°'t«ment of any change, ^.nstotnf®' ia a certain force tl£it â- " W ,• ' '"e Ja°t was busied :?^ 4e o^l,.fe°S "P »»?•«».. h« of the situatioB, possibilities. and ^fnstA^-j " certain lorce uiac â- " W ,• ' '"e Ja°t was busied ••^i a^ °. ^Siring '^rJt P^habUitiJ ^*T ttSl-„\"^^'^l possibilities, and W«gltt°8 her jewels for sale, ehap- SfallLi^®" «8uch things for hSr S^ '^eHS Hh^ °o»*nme8 of velret and •"lona^i "1» personal loznries she fci'*»^i^f-^" *^*" was the impetu '^2£*°°' °«^ thonghts. tiTMp !J'V.»!;»T ]^^«* their wavTbnnt ^u, how values 'sbriiik in "is wortii tilian tring of pearls Idiasfi^did price Mr. B^ch had ^Bton?^ « ana n dress is wortii tilian 5^'*2r^**" ^°«ht as to what !»lSjl^**'1°ewhome. Agun C*9»t w"2.^*" was the Krtxrf ^*«^ it*^ thought necessities i»- ^ftruckL^J'^y'J^eUwho did it. WSS'^t *v.'^°^'°ent at her s4;»ho â-  ^velopment before. mL*^ toj ^^ eat the lists of fur- ** i 4e .iT" " arranged them "»ewho managed to seU the comfortable manner, or to rent a whole houee so they resqlved.to hire three rooms and keep house inldhpm. ... " ^, T. " don't l^now Iww to cook. Jack but I m iwt'a fooL I can learn," landed Nel- ly. ' I Mother be^iB inasmali honse when she marded father, and I've got her dingy «»Id^Jreape.look kept ft for sentinent's sake now it will be worth everything." " But Nelly you have never had to work; how can you I No, we most keep a ser- vant" " My Jack, we can't. And if we could, how oonld I teach her? I know nothing mpelf we sbonld waste her wages to begin with." Jack had to give in. TheM was great satisfacticm to them both in the fapt that Jack's business being wound up so ^SSdy ia the course of his trouble, not only paid all his creditors, but left him five hundred dollars, to which the delighted creditors added five hundred more, as an ex- pression of their respect for his prompt winding up of affairs, instead of trying to recover himself by borrowing more money, and asking more credit, till the business would have been a mere hollow shell, and those who had helped or dealt with him been liopelesaly deh'auded. They did not know that they owed tMs to Eleanor's counsel. " Don't try to go on another day " she had energetically exhorted Jack "ask Mr. Hartmann you say he knows the state of affairs ask him if it isn't. better to stop now, pave your creditors and your credit, and get out of suspense yourself, rather than keep dragging on till nothing is left. Oh, Jack it is honester, I am sure, to stop now and .1 want my husband to be the very honestest man in all the town." What could Jack do but kiss that lovely glow on her radiant face, and take her advise forthwith " A whole thousand dollars that makes " said Jack, when the creditors sent in their cheek, with a letter that made Nell's heart proud. " What shall we do with it Don't yen want to board now for a year, to get used to our descent " " No, I want the worst first. Jack put that money in the saying's bank there may be need of it sometime we may not alwav^ be weU." " Sensible creature " laughed Jack and he deposited the money that day. By the time the household goods were sold, and the house turned over to the largest crditor. Jack had hired a small flat of three rooms, in a tenement house on the comer of a street in a totally unfashionable and obscuie part of the city the rooms were in the fourth storey, but there was a lift for coal and wood, and another for the tenants and the sun shone all day into the south windows, from which one also could look away over the roofs of the lowest part of the city to the sparkling waters of the great bay beyond. Nelly had sold all her personal property, only reserving enough of the proceeds to furnish these rooms with such things as the creditors allowed them to take at appraisal prices all the rest of the money went for Jack's debts and her own. She had taken the plain crockery from the kitchen cup- board, two pairs of good blankets, one down comfortable that had been hers since her school-days that she did not sell, and she kept half the bed-b'nen that she had brought with her from home. Carpeting for two of these rooms in the flat was f umiohed from the one on her bed- room, and one rug brightened the tiny par- lor ;. chairs from her room too now did duty for the parlor, and a small card-table that had been her grandmother's stood under the odd old mirror from the same quarter. There were bright chintz curtains from the bath and dressiiui-rooms put up here, and the bedstead and bedding were those she had used at home, though they were rather large for the small bed-room but when all was done, the three apartments were as pretty aagk doll's hoose one picture on the wall of each gave an air of reinnement, even if they were only autotypes, and the taste f or liatmiuiions color that had distinguished Nelly's drees and Jiobm Came intd play now notiuag was incongmons, glaring or cmde if this new home was cramped it was cheer- fal and home-like, and they entered in and shut the door with a sense of est and reUef Bommrer, this was bnt the b ann i n g. Jack's duties were not nn ft aniliar to hun, bat NeUy's were all new; abe bomed.hwr fininnand her food in trying to oook, and M^Sdnoad HuMb indewwibable mesws ev«m Irith the old rec^bpok to soide her, and Jadk-miased erory day «» «»" «* " •* dimier tha* wonia havaidpaddown tte im- bak^dOenieaL ItwaswaDfarhmithathe Udtorive it np while it was only one glsM. bat the iMbit w bard. to break, and he SJSaWrtit.. Nowonte!ae^i«2 rfand«.;^^^vory saaoes «»»* .•.Pâ„¢~J oo had had sent up were quite diffiarent and taitdeas gtatfea â€" tiiay did "?ti» Kelly M^Mfafui »g iw daOy-^ilQinakat that Ja had va^ b^uor saloons, Jeed^tbem weU at bodM; gj* *b?B»:w*jeo«lBiBd meat, savory tc^. mble^ gc^;0^^,^diboolate, tea a cheer- ,-,, •â- â€¢Â« a^F*""" wife, a well spread table, are the best tonperance leoturfs'in uie world and all these can be had cheap if yea will only laambew, :- But this is a digression. AU this experimenting and the neir labors which she had not yet learned to take easity and ^stenatieayv fiilly ocon- Eed Ndly, but when she had learned her uon tisM b^fan-to dng,.and she was a little lonely, a little languid, though her daily activities were a hdp to her physical condition that she did not appreciate she- had hours now to sit at her window and sew, looking at the bine stretch af J^ows, or dresmiag «:fer tiie«D stltchas ailfl deli- cate edibroIdMes wbereiritit iBfaa'gailtiished tiie little robes th^ she- could npt buy lace for fashfamfaw her own half-wom garments into soft small wrappings, uid doing her best, ignorantly bnt insttnctively, to pre- pare for the arrival of another member to this small bonsdiold. When it came the hoard in the saving's bank stood her in good stead the doctor, understanding the state of things, sent out into the country for one of those skillful and bomely nursies who not only care for the patient brt do the house-work, so that all Nelly's cares were lifted from her, and she could lie still at peace, wondering at the loveliness of her tiny daughter, whom Jack stigmatized as " That crumpled np red thing I" And now Nelly would be lonely no longer. She had her hands and her heart full, and that divinest of all earthly affections, mother love, possessed her in all its fervor and patience Jack, as the baby grew into some human aspect found hinii^lf longing to get home and play with it and all the anxieties and troubles its childish sorrows and ail- ments caused, only endeared it the more to its parents, and bound the three together with stronger ties. Two years after Jack's failure he was walking home from church one Sunday with a young man who was a clerk in the same office. Jack asked him in to lunch. " No thank you," said young Holcombe. " I go to your house too often it makes me envious. Palmer." " Have one of your own. then." suggested Jack, with a laugh. "On a thousand a year? No sir! we must wait until I can do better tham that." "That is all we began on, Holcombe, ex- cept a little in the bank for a rainy day and you have got twice what we had laid up." " Well, you didn't begin Itfe so, and I won't I daren't ask Mary to leave her father's house and come down to work for me." " Look here " said Jack energetically, "you're all wrong 1 How did your father begin life How did Mary Carter's Why can't you and she begin just there Give her the chance, Sam; that is due to her. And believe my experience that you never can know or feel what a true woman can be. who truly loves you. till you are poor to- gether. Tell her all the truth about your af- uirs. your fears and why you have kept silent so long begin right begin at the bottom and take " a help-meet for you " and when you get to the top you'll find out what the Lord meant when he made the firt woman. I own I begim wrong but I'm going to end right, after all, fiespectior The Dead. are dings, and tastewae gr»»««- *^J^^^t dTijeBy could oowjoot. To Ja^s credit it Sid tbat hir deep devotion to Nellie, Ml daily reooflectieiiL^Ser ainwt, brave ae SS«ce rfftc^ble, kept bia mou^ .tot « to^ber^nres now «ij?'»«Vl S?«SS^ Sewwduty. CkKikingianotanab^ Our respect for the dead, when they just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful stUl. We snow it with black feathers and black horses we show it with black dresses and black heraldries we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our most beautiful cathedrals. VV^e show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of lies w think amiable or creditable in the epitaph. This feeling is common to the poor as well as tiie rich and we all know how many a poor family will nearly ruin themselves to testify their respect for some member of it in his cofn, whom they never much cared for when she was out of it and how often it happens that a poor old woman will starve herself to death in order that she may be respect- ably buried. Now, this being one of the most complete and special ways of wasting money â€" no money being less productive of good, or of any percentage whatever, th»n that which we shake away fr»n the ends of the undertaker's plumesâ€" it is, of course, the duty of all good economists and kind persons to prove and proclaim continually to the poor as well as to the rich that respect for the 4ead is not reaUy shown by laying great stones on them to tell us where they are laid, but by remembering where they are laid withoit a stone to help M, trusting them to the sacred grass sadaenea flowws; and, still more, that respect and love are shown to them not by great monnmente to them which we bnUd witii our hands, but by leU^ the monument stand which they build with their own. The CoBimeroial Tiftvekr. Said a commercial traveler to a reporter the other day " People have a strange idea that all traveling men are ne co e ssT tiy ^rd oases and oonstantiy full of liqu«r. 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This meeting (being the 15th since the Company was organized) took place on Tuesday, the ISth April, when the foUowing gratifying increases were announced t PREMIUM INCOME INCREASED FOR YEAR, INTEREST AND RENTS, ASSETS, $260,420 96,894. 13,029. $356,375. SURPLUS, 80,234. Were allocated as Profits to Policy Holders. Profits payable on and after Hay 1st. J. E. MAGBOKALD, Managing: Director. Standard Hot-air Furnaces F£IGE8T0 81IITALLDSALEBS THE it €t tt BOYNTON," HARRIS," MAMMOTH/ « MONARCH." (( tt Send for Price liit and l!lIiutra,tMl'CataIogae. ITOFMiCtftDlRAITB TH^ E. C. QUiiNEY CORiFANY, (LTV), TonoNTO^ HAMM-Tdii MOfrntEAL, AND wifimpm. :i n 1-.;! I-' f J ii Bi k â-  «i ill 1! IS I 8t m 11 II. m m