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 .r,t i\ ,[M m i ijs f-x mu BUTTIE'S FATHER. BT CHASLOTTK M. TOKOX. CHAPTER Vm. THK FATHER. ' I do think tbU lady To be my child.'â€" fin^ Lear. â-  Nattie, in her fresh holliid Snnday dress, worked in crewels with wild strawberries by her mother's hands, and with a white-trim- med straw hat, was almost shoved into the little drawing-room by Mr. Datton, though he was himself invisible. Her eyes were in snch a daze of tears that â- he hardly saw more at first than that some ' one was there with her mother on the sofa. " Ah, there she is t" sbe heard her mother cry, and both rose. I er mother's arm was ronnd her waist, her hand was put into an- other, Mrs. Ei^emont's voice, tremulous with exceeding delight, said, "Our child, cor Ursula, our Nuttie Oh, this is what I have longed for all these years. Oh, thanks," and her hands left her daughter to be clasp- ed and uplifted for a moment in fervent thanksgiving, while Nuttie's hand was held, and a strange hairy kiss, redolent of tobacco smoking, was on her forehead â€" a masculine one, snch as she had never known, except her cousin Mark's, since the old rector died, and she grown too big for Mr. x^tton's embraces. It was more strange than delightful, and yet she felt the polish oil til® t"»e that said, " We^ make acquaintance somewhat late, Ursula, but better late than never." She looked up at this neW father, and un- derstood instantly what she had heard of his being a grand gentleman. There was a high-bred look about him, an entire ease and perfect manner that made everything he did or said seem like gracious condescension, and took away the power of questioning it at tue moment. He was not above the middle size, and was becoming unwieldy but there was something imposing and even gracelul in his deportment, and hh bald narrow forehead looked aristocratic, set off between ride tufts of white hair, white whiskers, and moustaches waxed into sharp points, Victor Emmanuel fashion, and a round white curly beard. His eyes were dark, and looked dull with yellow unwholesome corners, and his skin was not of a pleasant color, but still, with all Nuttie's intentions of ree;ard- ing him with Horror, she was subdued, part- ly by the grand breeding and air of distinc- tion and partly by the current of sympathy from her mother's look of perfect happiness and exaltation. She could not help feeling it a favor, almost an undeserved favor, that so great a personage should say, " A com- plete Egremont, I see. She has altogether the family face." 'I am so glad yon think so," returned her mother. " On the whole it is well, but she might have done better to resemble you, Edda," he said caressingly " but perhaps that would have been too much for the Earlsforth natives. William's girls will have enough to endure without a double eclipse " and he laughed. "I 1 don't want " faltered the mother. " You don't want, no, but you can't help it," he said, evidently with a proud delight in her beauty. " Now that I have seen the child," he added, "I will make my way back to the hotel." ' Will youâ€" â€" won't you stay to tea or dinner?" said his wife, beginning with an imploring tone which hesitated as she re- viewed possible chops and her aunt's dis- may. " Thank yon, I have ordered dinner at the hotel," he answered, "and Gregorio.is waiting for me with a cab. No doubt you will wish to make arranejements with Ma- dame â€" the old lady â€" and I will not trouble her further to-night. I will send down Gregorio to-morrow morning, to tell you what I arrange. An afternoon train, probably as we shall go no farther than London. You say Lady Kirkaldy called on you. We might return her visit before starting, but I will let you know when I have looked at the trains. My compliments to Miss Headworth. Good evening, sweetest.' He held his wife in a fond embrace, kissing her brow and cheeks and letting her cling to him, then added, " Good evening, little one," with a good- natured careless gesture with which Nuttie was quite content, for she had a certain loathing of the caresses that so charmed her mother. And yet the command to make ready had been given with such easy author- ity that the idea of resisting it had never even entered her mind, though she stood still while her mother went out of the door with him and watched him to the last. Coming back, she threw her arms round her daughter, kissed her again and again, and, with showers of the glad tears long re- pressed, cried, "Oh, my Nuttie, my child, what joy How shall 1 be thankful enough Your father, your dear father Now it is all right." Little sentences of ecstasy such as these, interspersed with carersea, all in the incoherence of overpowering delight, full of an absolute faith that the lost husband had loved her and been pining for her all these years, but that he had been unable to trace her, and was as happy as she was in the reunion. The girl was somewhat bewildered, but she was carried along by this flood of ex- ceeding joy and pladness. The Marmion and Theseus images had been dispelled by the reality, and, with Mr. Dutton's sharp reproof fresh upon her, she felt herself to have been doing a great injustice to her father believed all that her mother did, and found herself the object of a romantic re- cognition â€" if not the beggar girl become a prin- cess, at any rate, the Uttle school-teacher a county lady^I And she had^ never seen her mother so wildly, 'overpoweringly happy with joy. That made her, too, feel that somethme grand and glorious had happened. " What are we going to do " she asked, as the vehemence of Mrs. Egremont's emo- tion began to work itself oflF. " Home I He takes us to his home I His home " repeated her mother, in a trance of joy, as the yearnings of her widowed heart now wece fulfilled. " Oh, but Aunt Ursel " " Poor Aunt Ursel Oh, Nuttie, Nuttie, I had almost forgotten How could 1 T" and there wu a shower of tears of com- punction. ' But he said he owed everything to her 1 She will come with ns I Or if she doesn't live with us, we will make her live close ty in a dear little cottage. Where is ajto? When did she go? Inever saw her go. The sound oi the front do» was heaid, for tiie Tisiior hftd been watched away and lOas I'.vv-jvrfa'"**' â- â- '" Headworth was returning to her own house to be there received with a fervent gush of happiness, much more trying to her, poor thing, than to ICnttie. There was even-song ianninwit, and the most needfnl act at the moment was to com- pose the harmonium player sufficiently for her to take her part. Mlas Headworth was really glad of the necessity, since it put off the discussion, and made a reason for silenc- ing Nuttie until all should be more recov- ered from the first agitation. Alice Egre- mont herself was glad to carry her gratitude and thankfulness to the Throne of Grace, and in her voluntary, and all her psalms, there was an exulting strain that no one had thought the instrument capable of pro ducing, and that went to the hearts of more than one of her hearers. No one who knew her could doubt that hers was simply innocent exultation in the recovery of him whom she so entirely loved and confidedin. But^herecould not but be terrible doubts whether he were worthy of that trust, and what the new page in her lite would be. Miss Headworth had said they would not talk till after church, but there was no de- ferring the matter then. She was prepared, however, when her niece came up to her in a tender deprecating manner, saying, "Aunt Ursel, dear Aunt Ursel, it does seem very ungrateful, but " " He is going to taks you away Yes, I saw that. And it ought to be, my dear. Y'ou know where " " Yes to Loadon first, to be fitted out, and then to his own home. To Bridgefield Egremont. I shall have to see Mr. Egre- mont," and her voiced sank with shame. " But Mark will be good to me, and why should I care when 1 have him." " It is quite right. I am glad it should be so," firmly said the old lady. " And yet to leave you so suddenly." " That can't be helped." " And it will only be for a little while," .she added, " till you can make arranpements to come to us. My dear husband says he owes you everything. So you must be with us, or close to us." " My dear, it's very dear and good of you to think of it, but I must be independent." She put it in those words, unwilling again to speak unguardedly before Nuttie. " Oa, dear auutie, indeed you must T.aink what; you are to us, and what you have lioae for us. We can't go away to be happy and prosperous and leave you behind. Citn we, Nuttie 'i Come and help me to get her to proiniae. Do â€" do, dearest auntie," and she began the coaxing and caressing natural to her, but Nuttie did not join in it, and Mis3 Headworth shook her head and said gravely â€" " Don't, Alice. It is of no use. I tell you once for all that my mind is made up." Alice, knowing by long experience that, when her aunt spoke in that ,tone, persua- sion was useless, desisted, but looked at^her in consternation, with eyes swimming in tears. Nuttie understood her a little bet- ter, and felt the prickings of distrust; again. " But, aunt, dear aunt, how can we leave you What will you do with all|the board- ers," went on Mrs. Egremont â-  " I shall see my wav, my dear. Do not think about that. It is a great thing to see you and this child receive justice." "And only think, after all the hard things that have been said of him, that we should meet first at church He would not wait and send letters and messages by Mark. You see he came down himself the first moment. I always knew he would. Only I am so sorry for him, that he should have lost those sweet years when Nuttie was a ±iny child. She must do all she can to make up to him." " Oh dear " broke out Nuttie. " It will be all strange I It will be all so strange 1" " It will be a very new life," said her aunt, rather didactically " but you must do your best to be a good daughter, ard to ^.11 your new position, and I have no doubt you will enjoy it." " If I could but take all with me " said Nuttie, " Oh dear whatever will yon do, Aunt Ursel Oh mother, the choir Who will play the harmonium and who will lead the girls and whatever will Mr. Spyers do and who will take my class Mother, couldn't we stay a little longer to set things going here " " It is nice of you to have thought of it, my dear," said Mrs. Egremont, " but your father would not like to stay on here. "But mightn't I stay, just a few days, mother, to wish everybody good-bye Mr.' Dutton, and Miss Mary, and Gerard, and all the girls " There was some consolation in this plan, and|the three women rested on it that night, Mrs. Egremont reqovering composure enough to write three or four needful notes, explaining her sadden departure. The aunt cou'.d not talk of a future she so much dreaded for her nieces, knng in it th thonght of her own loneliness Alice kop back her own loving, tender, nndoabtiU[ jovwithacarioos ssnsethat it was hard andnngrateful towards tiie annt bat it was impoBsiUe to tbink of that, and Nattie was in many moods. Eager anticipation of the new unseen world beyond, exaltation in finding herself somebody, sympathy with her mothers happiness, all had their share, bat they made her all the wilder, becaase,!they were far from unmixed. The instinctive dislike of Mr. Egremont's conntenance, and doubt of his plaosible story, which had vanished before his presence, and her mother,^ faith, returned apon her from time to ianta-, canght perhaps from her aunt's tone and looks. Then her annt bad been like a mother to herâ€" her own mother much more like a sister, and the quitting her was a wrench not compensated f £ r as in Mrs. Egremont's case by a more absorbing afiection. More- over, Nuttie felt sure that poor Gerald God- frey wohld break his heart. As the mother and daughter for the last time lay down to- gether in the room that had been theirs for the seventeen years of the girl's life, Alice fell asleep with a look of exqaisit peace and content on her face, feeling her long term of trial crowned by unlook^-for joy, while Ursula, though respecting her slumbers too much to move, lay with wide- open eyes, now speculating on the strange future, now grieving over those she left â€" Aunt Ursel, Gerard, Mary, and all such the schemes from which she was snatched, and then again consoling herself with the hope that, since she was going to be rich, she could at once give all she wanted â€" the white altar cloth, the brass pitcher â€" nay, perhaps finish the church and build the school For bad not some one said some- thing about her position Oh yes, she had not thought of it before, but, since s^e was the elder brother's daughter, she must be the heiress There was no doubt a grand beautiful story before her she would with- stand all sorts of fascinations, wicked baronets and earls innumera'ole, and come back and take Gerard by the hand, and say ' Pride was quelled and love was free. Not that Gerard had ever uttered a word tending in that direction since he had been seven years old, but that would make it all the prettier they would both be silently constant, till the time came, perhaps when she was of age. Mother would like it, though that father would certainly be horrid. And how nice it would be to give Gerard everything, and they would go all over the Continent, and see pictures, and buy them, and see all the cathedrals and all the mountains. But perhaps, since Mark Egremont had really been so generous in hunting up the cousin who was displacing him, she waa bound in duty to marry him ter should have red eyes to vex her husb^d ** I shall go into a brotherhood," obserrad Gerard desperately. " Oh, dont," bM(aD Nottie, mooh grati- fied, bat at tiiat maawnt Miss Kngeat oama out at her door, and Mr. Spyers, who was some way in advance, looked ronnd and waited for them to -some ap. He held oat his hands to her and said, "Well, Nattie, my child, yon are going to begin a new life." " Oh dear I wish I coald have both I" cried Nattie, not very relevantly as far as the words went. " Seheiden ujul toeiden thut uieh " quoted Mary. "If his place was only Monks Horton. What will Aunt Ursel do r' " I think perhaps she may be induced to join us," said Mary. " We mean to do our best to persuade her." " And there's the choir And my class, and the harmonium," went on Nattie, while Gerard walked on disconsolately. " MicklethwaytB has existed without you, Nuttie," said Mr. Spyers, taking her on with him alone. "Perhaps it wUl be able to do so again. My dear, you had better look on. There will be plenty for you to learn and to do where you are going, and you will be sure to find much to enjoy, and also something to bear. I should like to re- mind yoa that the best means of going on well in this new world will be to keep self down and to have the strong desire that only love can give to be submissive, and to do what is right both to God and year father and mother. May I give you a text to take with you 'Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.' " They were at the door and there was no time for an answer, but Nuttie, as she took her place, was partly touched and partly fretted at the admonition. The quzstion as to her remaining a day or two after her mother was soon dispoBed of. Mrs. Egremont sent a pretty littie note to make the request, but the eleganc valet who appeared at ten o'clock brought a. verbal message that his master wished Mrs. and Miss Egremont to be ready by two o'clock to join him in calling on Lady Kirkaldy at Monks Horton, and that if their Inggage was ready by four o'clock, he (Greporio) would take charge of it, as they were all to go up to town by the 4 40 train. " Did he have my note " faltered Alice, stimulated by the imploring dances of aunt and daughter, but anticipating the answer. " Yes, madame, but he wishes that Miss Egremont should accompany you immediate- " Of course," was Alice's comment, " now that he has found his child, he cannot bear to part with her." And all through the farewells that almost rent the gentle Alice's heart in two, she was haunted by the terror that she or her dangh-. States broke the spell of oeBf»u i trade and oonqaest aud^nSl.*"'*^^! A modernized agricnltn ^^| general mtroduotion of raiffi " A senrice, would rejavewtrHL*^»ial "FloweijI^nd,"whichUaUM *• for a land de«t.i-nf. ^c a. "Udoiw" treeless, and trasts strongly with" tne ^^" "^aai made the American continent to^.^kn like tiie rose," and to be rich -^^X products thai its enterprise il"*^!*! parts of the civilised world *« •111 'A destitute of floW. ?W2| "dwithaduUh^SS**^ ngly with tne „„i!?" ««c«'l I isiJdu'of India won firs taadM^ffWding in Paris r« P^*»*""'2^ torbau, and wa f of a mUlion- DIAMOND CUTTING IH LOBDoj The Enormons Amount Paw for m by Aiuertcaiu. ^**»k| The public are prohablv not .» I extent to which diamond cuttiS!T""1»l revived in London. Nearly W '*«l Englishmen were the finest dilm J/*" S»l in the world, the trade bei;;r!l?«S| carried on in London.^'anTa? r^' '"I time old Englishcut diamond^ iiF I fetch a very high price, asthecnfr?! still so much prized. "â„¢'g nl Through religious prosecut.on the mh I migrated to Amsterdam, where tU?** I rince remained At th; timrvtl^'"' African diamond fields w '• " was only one Id fields w.r.disooveredjha! diamond cutter in Lona!' perhaps he reckoned on her doing so. She would be generous in her turn, give up all the wealth to him, and return to do and be everything to Micklethwayte. How thay would admire and bless her. And oh 1 she was going to London to-morrow â€" London, which she so much wished to see â€" Westmin- ster Abbey, British Museum, All Saints, National Gallery, nc end of new dresses. Half-wakiag, half-dreaming, she spent the night which seemed long enough, and the light hours of the summer morning seemed still longer, before she could call it a reasonable time for getting up. Her splashing awoke her mother, who lay smil- ing for a few momenss, realising and giving thanks for her great^oy, then Mstirred her- self with the recollection of all that had to be done on this busy morning before any summons from her husband could arrive. Combining packing and dressing, like the essentially unmethodical littie woman she was, Mrs. Egrement still had all her beautiful silky brown hair about her shoulders when the bell of St. Ambrose's was heard giving its thin tinkling summons to matius at half past seven. She v as dis- appointed she iceant to have gone for this time, but there was no help for it, and Nuttie set off by herself. Gerard Godfrey was tit his own door. He was nit one of the regular attendants at the short service, being of that medern species that holds itself superior to ' Cran- mer's prayers,' but on this morning he hastened up to her with outstretched hand. • And you are going away I' he said. ' I hope to get leave to stay a few days after mother,' she said. ' To prolong the torment ' he said. ' To wish everybody good-bye. It is a great piece of my life that is come to an end, and I can't bear to break it off so short.' ' " And if you feel so, who are going to wealth and pleasure, what must it be to these who are left behind " "Oh " said Nuttie, "some one will be raised up. That's what they always say." As to Mr. Dutton, he had only come in with Gerard in a great hurry just after breakfast, said there was much to do to- day at the office, as they were going to take stock, and they should neither of them have time to come home to luncheon. He shook the hands of mother and daughter heartily, promised to ' look after ' Miss Headworth, and bore off in his traic young Gerard, looking ;he picture of woe, and muttering "I believe he has got it up on purpose;" while mother and daughter thought it very odd, and rather unkind. (to bb continued. Chinese Farmers and China's Pros^ess- There are reasons to believe that the trade of America with China will soon grow to majestic dimensionr. Of the seven million five hundred thousand "dollars of I exports to China in the last fiscal year nearly five million dollars' worth was of distmctively agricultural products, and of their manufacture. Of the remainder, the largest share was mineral oil. The Chinese Commusion in the United States this year IS charged especially with the promotion of banks, telegraph afd telephone lines, behind which looms up the extension of canals. the introduction of railroads, of agricultural machinery, and of such of our products as Chma needs, and she has need of many. Her home products, aside from tea, are wheat, millet, garden vegetables, rice, poor apples. peaches, grapes, etc. The food of China is I modtly vegetables and fishâ€" the extensive j sea coasti rivers and canals supplying the I it .^ " almost unknown, except in I the foreign settlements, and berries are rare • I mutton IS plentiful pork, poultry and egm are abundant. Domestic animals, exclpt I dogs, are not common. Horses are scar^ mules are numerous, cattle in small numbers! â-  out flocks and herds are unknown The I national habit is opposed to change, and so the nation of three hundred million souls goes on in "the good old way." The United Dutchmen were acowdiTaVelJ'Jf'i"' work in London from M -idav m.^ " Friday sunset, and t'hey w^oSS a week each man. They struck « I times successfuly for higher waees hnVlt'^l they demanded £18 per\-,.k e2Zt\ were discharged, and E»,rii3h gemTnZ were put at the work. "â„¢" At first the Englishmen were only »vj after a deal of trouble to cut a class of d!^ mond in one month which they couM „7t cut in about four days. As soLSw: clearly proved chat Englishmen had Zl more gained the art, the Worshipful gâ„¢ panyof Turners decided Us give Cm cutters every encouragement, and « with the valuable assistance of theBaronea' and Mr, BurdettCoutts, offered monw awards in competition against the Ihtcl for the best-cut diamonds. After several contests the Englishmen gained first nria and most of the others. I Up to the end of 1885 out of four of tin principal mines of South Africa-namelv Kimberley, De Beers, Bultfontein, andlJi Toit's Pan, no less than 33 million carats ot diamonds (or more than six and a half torn' weight) have been extracted, realizing ibont £40,000,000. The diamonds now discovered are nearly all found in British possession*- 1 namely, Africa -and ladia. Yet the vast I majority of the stones are still sent to I foreign countries to be cut and poU _.^ which every Englishman should coDsidal ought not to be. As one of the greit- est secrets connected with the trade consists in the one word patience, there isaniil mense field for the employment of women As a nation, the Americans are the finest I judges of diamonds in the world, anditii to London that America goes for her finest- cut diamonds. The last official report pub- lished was that America took about £3,000,- 000 worth of cut diamonds annually from England. The Futnie of the World. It has been the custom of late to disbelieve in the ancient estimates of the population of China but the North China Herald, a well- informed journal, publishes statistics which strongly support them. It appears- thrt the authorities at Pekin have recently taken a census for taxing purposes, and ' that the village bailiffs, whose interest it ii to understate the figures, return the popu- lation at 319,383,500. Five provinces are omitted, and their papulation, as recorded in the last census, brings the total op to 392,000.000, Even this figure is indepen- dent of the population of Thibet, Kashgar, Hi, and Corea, and the total number of souls ruled by the Emperor of Chma, tiieie- fore, exceeds 400,000,000, and still displays a tendency to increase. As the population of India exceeds 250,000,000, the Indians and Chinese together constitute more than half the entire human race a fact wortt the attention of these philosophers who study London and Paris, and then annonn* that "-man believes" this and that. Then are many races of men, but some of thi foremost among themâ€" e. g., the French and the Arabs â€" scarcely increase at all, whUe afewâ€" e. g., the Ottomansâ€" sligMlj decline. If the process now going on con- tinues for another century the world wiD belone in the main to four races or rather peoplesâ€" tl. J Teutons, most of whom wiU speak English, the Slavs, the Chinese, and the nativts of India, It is quite possible, however, that they may quarrel, and that their march toward the mastery of the planet, which else will belong to thâ„¢ 'j^' a cheese to mites, may be seriously checkefl. â€" The Spectator. A Crow in Peacock's Peatiers. A remarkable case of imposture has re- cently been brought to light. Some montM ago a young man of gentlemanly appeara?* and plausible address succeeded in obtainisg an introduction to varions West End clio. and sporting circles by representing h"" to be a Captain in the Etjvptian Arniy.^» an aide-de-camp to the Kledive, which "«" were neatly printed on the visiting i»r that he freely tendered. He also aUegw that he had formerly beou an officer aa^ Majesty's Army, and that he t»dservea» the Cape and in Egypt under Gen. Herbert Stewart. Some discrepanciM » his statements excited suspicion and cai^ inquiry to be made of the miUtary ant"" ties with regard to him. It was^pw^J ascertained that the goidisard Cap»"'|^ aide-de-camp was an impostor "'°. never held any position whatever iBj^^ Egyptian Army or on the staff pf tne dive, nor had ever held Her Majes^Jf^ mission, but had until very recently ^^ serving in a line regiment is Corp^^^ tulfilling the useful but unambitious "^^ of a letter-sorter in the military P»' at Cairo. SO THOUGHTFUL. A OUflS 0» WACIB, PUAsa. " .U '•â- ^'I'ii.. flaving a Lovely Time- ^^ She (witnessing a game of f*** What are they dMng now, George .,^ He-Xhey're putting Browne, one ^j, half backs, into ui amhulance. ^^ ribs are broken and his spine u beo^ She (enthnsiasticaUyHOh, nn*" â-¼Â«ry intereating and exciting I P*» f^ahskaspeare Hotel m Stn r!fc««'**Wtoitead of numbe UrAto^.^-w open the room Kit SLvMSfeBiin's Inggsgeup to Fftk^jfTfirroomnion order. 1^ JaB^ Qjijna have a very g(*q,^'*Vr, Tientsin hospital • •rti.^ 1"' summer a ma «• •* In his fftC« »» anothei r* _.wu4ed that the Enjrllsh_ » '^v^Sntieceives yearly in tithei iJ!2*Sr*Sthis|i5.ooo.ooo g, ft'""'Tde«ynian, and the ren *^ Jâ€" 'a "Bagged Sunday Sc ff if d«l«Sdt be tiie great m *^„^d improving the poor cl 0"'^.Z- Mt increasing fast m n ittS^ T^ynow'have40.00( K 4.000 teachers. ^, â-  r, Booth of the Salvation An '•SlS^d^aadsofMssoldierst rS. Soutu Americ^ Some " vlra already reached Jerusale l^taof the Holy City resour KrTjmens" and the jingle of the "â- JfSi autobiography the Rev tgaa, a(Jennan clergyman, wt rSSel not loi.g ago. claims that fjT^ art of photography in ^JTbb before Daguerre's discovc tfUble to apply or utilize it o jiMk of knowledge of chemistry. A mM clad in nothing but a shirt J np to the ticket office on the plat Uation in Dublin, and applied for a He had delirium tremens, and had gt he waiting toora, taken off his clothe ii dion there. He was dressed and i and fined 5s, and costs at the rolic "We find that Miss Lilly was a f killed by falling over a precipic ing in her sleep," was the ve at Barmouth, North Wales, 1 ideied on the death of a young bo, it is believed, while in a somna be state walked out of her house, ai lonnd at the base of a cliff fifty fee One oit the most successful mission omi^ is a blind Armenian from £ irkey. He knows the Bible thor d riding on a miserable little lioh is lead by a one-eyed deaf i 1 boldly from village to village pr ^e gospel. His blindness protects 1 be people crowd to see the wonderâ€" 1 reading. A kamp recentiy called at a hous an old couple named Terry, at /, England, smd asked for wat oding Mrs, Terry alone said he woi and money too. He was jo otiier tramp, and the two tied h( nd legs together and rifled her f 7s. and took £2 from a drawer, a nped, leaving her tied. Among the many proofs of the " i ilations " of Germany and Russij «t that restaurants on the- f rontij nsized largely by Russian soldier " play placards saying " Here i D8 are served with meat or drin ay of the shops in the large let announce that no German nld there. Next summer there is to be held Hon a Roman Catholic Congress "English-speaking communities â-  ented. The three chief top' «ed are The attitude of the Chnrch toward education in sfeneral "Mperation of the laity in the woi *Mch, and the difiiision of Catho among the masses, There b every reason why the land tiie Free Churches oilti and yet they are kept a matter of name. The V atarally want to keep their hist. I«d fte Free Church insists upon I3t â„¢^»tion like the Evangelt pitaly.' Sentiment favors the Ws ICMnmon sense the Free Church j« mteresting to see which wiU l^j".**'" Ponnds. has been fo |J^„"4»»^. near BaUarat, AuJ linlS. ' ^^^ long in its longei few '^•' "^d 2i inches thicl 1!^ Pp'nd,was worth $13,C S^ '««' tl^ this !nl?'*^*^«i^ty- Thelarg I ttS*" .*^«nty-four hours U^S^i" fell from BilaSr ?^"«s below zero o todtot-i "^^® night's sno» •IB. i!-?*^?'"" oommunicatii H^in^^eep hung from th h*«toi^mr T"y places th« »ijSrL!^P*"""^erturned ' yeui ri!^??^y"'8 *e snow. i3f!«a« there has been s ^V Beginning of winter 4d W«^* â-¼*' found the ske '»dfa^U?"'° had evident ^MBri" JS? *»«l oeen clad in *^W^ 8°^^«»^ clasp *»ftlitoi^ ^7 leather si hi* i£fc" •*» rimmed with «d,;j^» wooden scabbarr '•^T'itâ„¢* "Word, tiiirty fir*"a»rondaMer_ P«i««JV5«" a bu^t o) ****-? ff ^^ Saxons i iii42|Asrtr«liui nearBl ?** â€"^^â-  wep on the sii !S»2«!L**» lie 5*lSyS*««_^Mid Sh. 2*i|lfflPl5*«^ and 25*'fiE?i?""'» •»«• of S^«i.2^i«-Mlwp aU 1 Ikatonii aawl day g \\ rd Bumml ua!ig?t:3ij^..^. i-w^ --*- --^^#iiihii -Ii h T-Ti tm. " r^i V