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Markdale Standard (Markdale, Ont.1880), 15 Mar 1888, p. 7

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Out. lady in Winnipeg »*«W*^ Qkers to marry an Indian ow» cind of a hanker-chie' -ne » €ofl mo aiorc ,_. fc, n, cough drops are the â- â€¢â€¢" Tjâ€" le throat and cheat, f«r ^J^ See that the letter* B. *• *•' on each drop. should have eight •'""V^j^ tin, nervous persons '•9"~^j| d be taken regularly, » » "â€" torn ^rf* our Stomach or BowA 'taS« IliooaneaB, Syqwpsia, o* J^gf fr idant evila, tiJc* M o^M*^,Ji|IS laoh Bitten. Bert HMW 50 oenlB. ^^ ,â€" Bball pitchers get I6ff^j^ ggers capture tii»*^ »t enconragement â- â€¢ " ig half a dozeD y( eics? CuKS ernes in one â-  bagi^age oar, wfaiA^ Lm^ CsMifciW**^ UB raleotoraad •* tik* [AtL Bi^cn RnsBTXD.] AND UNLIKE. t^*Pproach^"„*^: kei^V ibsstossat do»„J?»-" ^* t'y lost hla hold i^»«m,^ Katedduri?'^^^ â- erms »«TOea jj ^^ fishul notice " .„ ' I jgnored in d^Sf " â- Â»8 conceded to a1 "°*«W, J ^e in.lea of. any bW ^.•»y»li. Kater on any dav w*" *» r I -n- a copy^'of 'S^J'^ed « be«enttous\ssoon,i't*y» A SETTLEMENT I litor said he was not an Ihst nor yet a Democrat"J puty to report thif •"" jhendoflCSLe^H.^h^^' during the past week Ti.'"H jsionecl by a free Jand th^H J of the frost. '**» Immittee on Public Building I to investigate and report, ^f! Ibe raised to the former level 1?. (expense it would be Jo„i!. " Jnot be then five'STS^ Jthehindlegs ofalltheH Ion. The meeting then adjor floney-moon, Perkins old boy, why Aj^f the club any more? 'h^J, ^Jaw shut down on you "uys he fact of the matter is,' my ho, fcynowthattWeisnoiid""' I fv J f" "V"" iDcrednW 1 |tive fact You see, my wif?n. o much from functional deraw nmon to her sex, that her roi emper were greatly afFectei ler fault, of course, but it m* leasant all the same. But nwJ has begun to take Dc. VietJi Prescription, she has beensowdL topy that we are having our honwl over agiin." ' :y fashion in silk dresses ia to coni ked and plain, or striped and plaiil icm. " A Secret ealth ia found in the regular mova^l he oowels and perfect action of tii(| 1 nese organs were intended by u-f ;move from the system all impnri:! you are constipared, you offer i\ 1^ mvitation" to a whole family of! md irregularities which will iiiely Pttd," and you will have gneatrl led and determined. All these Im- -nihtions may be averted by th« e of Dc. I'ierce's Pleasant Purgative j Powerful for the effectual regnla-l e bowf is r.ad Liver, establishing a I ction of the entire wonderful or- !th which we are created. China silk, and plush are beaaii-l bined in many spring ctstumes. r 2 surest remedy for catarrhâ€" Dr. i I e plush is a favorite trimming vaA white China silk dresses. 10 are suDJect to bad breath, fool i»a~ i any disorder of the Stomach, oaa atCOOl by using: Dr. Carf i's Stomach BtttM^ tr'sd remedv. ?onr Dnurctot I en in a great many shades is ex- 1 popular in spring dress goods. 1 Steamstajp PassentEers York should take the Erie rafl- is not only the shortest and belt inds people close to the pien oi I g steamship companies. T" •""' ' I, ask for the Erie. wool waistcoats appear on m«»y costumes. By M. B. BRADDON, irtHoB OF "Ladt Audley's Secbet," " Wru.ABD-3 WEm"ETC.. Eia the I Ts nF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. i vR " introtiuces the reader to Sir li8*^Lia and bis twin brother Valen- '*^u "Like and Unlike " of the story. la a close resemblance and vet a 'J difference between them. They 1 ke in the form of the head and face, tline of the features, but in colour- 'Loression they were curiously nn- The elder one had the pallid tints of Ith an almost woxen brow, hair of a -^bn'rn, eyes of a dark violet it was ntellectual power and innate man- ' feeling tha,t redeemed Adrian's f aos 'jeminacy- Valentine, on the other 'was altogether differently constituted. iiDplexion was of a dark olive, his eyes deepest brown, with a wonderful ' for expressing all the passions of r ^if.ffiiled manhood ia capable. His IS the head of Hercules. The Ljons of LaJy Belfield clung round her J and athletic son. As the story U Valentine has been riding a high- Ijed horse, much against the wishes of /jotherand brother, but returns from fjmt safe and sound, and with the Lt beaten and tamed. biPTEB 11.â€" A week after the wild ride jthechesnut Valentine Belfield left for with a college friend, tn route for iteCirlD, with an " infallible" system rreaking the bank. In his absence Lady ]ield and Sir Adrian settle down into ifMoal quiet life. They hear that Mor- j a residence in the neighborhood has i liken by Col. Deverill, of The Bock, Kilrush, County Clare. The news Eer startles Lady Belfield, for Deverill in i8irG«ineB(dl«*MMgivm«iiam *e auuM to do; and Adrian woaldbe •OD ;~,***?*»».P««» to take them." ..Tk i^*?I?? is not hi. brother." Aj •^•. ^lfi«M is everything that Sir Adnan u not." repUed MiBTrSffstafr son- tentioasly. ery clever. »pp^„ „, ^^^ drawing-room just two min- ntes before the batler announced d^ner. «Ii that yon. Ifamrat?- ahe eriod. "Gorno and help bm dt«i«. Fm awfaUv Intongiin." ' Margaret, aliaa Madge, was Lady B4- field'« last protegee, the new girl who had been taken into the household out of ohar- ity. Mrs. Macrable had pronounced her very amenable, and had taken pains to in- sttuct her in certain domestic duties. Her province was on the upper floor. Helen, who had no maid of her own, was struck by the girl's good looks, and had in a manner appropriated her services. She was much quicker of intellect and handier altogether "Pxd young man in a way you and Helen were diifting. having been heartily glad," he wroti and to iaa«w«.f „,vi A -if --L "^â„¢te. "She This was spoken with a Mgh. Helen was Of"S|SCw"lTr,"Tr*"«- afV** •^ •'?P^ hy her der'sSellectS^ n* "1^'°"*°""' "»*'»rom a worldly point *1 snperiority. It was a kind of hi^i-rio. LZ'^Z.TlT'^^n^ rfiockii^bad Jhatkept the^i aparrHe k^t slm^cTrf daughters Thev ill ""'« *° «'^« "" books and the man who had written them twefn th^m Zl^ T •" ^^^% "y '**« be ?nd she so little. She was ashamed of her if thrfr ZnL il^ "" dead and gone, and ignorance, and thus dared not talk freefv If their should be a radical change in the "»th him upon any mteUectnal enWect l«t be woth «°° ?l^""' *»^« P^I^'^V ma^, he should dI^over\« dettenci:^- '**" "' littrâ„¢ ^r "V^u- ^^ P,'f "" »' " "O'-th ' "'•tohy ToflFstaff was talking about little more than nothing. My best tenant is yo" brother," she said to Adrian later as m^lTZ ?** ^^" "I"" '^^ ^» "«*; f" «*' "^«' *»»« drawin^-roomTe £ 't^ t^k.W« t^" threatened to shoot me to^ dusk before going off toXss for dbn^. envfainTL^" ^^1," '"'^^^'i^dows in a vain ' Helen had kept on her habit. She had a von with SZ'^;"",-^^"V S°°' '*««« way of sitting about for an hour or two just yon with these dismal details. Happily you »» she came off her horse, with rumoled hair are rich and generous, and you can afford to ^^d bespattered skirts. She wm suSg on marry a girl whose beauty and grace are her *he hearthrug almost at her lover's feet, star- only dower." ling at the fire in an idle reverie. Lady^l- Thus assured of the Colonel's approval, ' field had left them half-an-hour aeo s«ited !^l-.=fH"?,rt-™°u^?'" '"wing daily better J;" i^i the same attitudes. It was not that pleased with his choice, Adrian Belfield was t^ey had very much to talk about. It was completely happy. And the die being cast, i bappiness to Adrian even to be in the nis iriends tmd neighbours accepted the in- presence of the woman he loved, to have her evitable, and congratulated him heartily, or '• "ear him, a beautiful enchanting creature with seemmg heartiness, on his engagement. whose every tone was music, whose every jhven the Miss Trednceys and the Miss â„¢o^eâ„¢ent '^as grace. ABiflbtoitThiiur. mamiac. Mr. Eiitor," nld « „ for coat, â- tmiAig into Um offioo of tfaa SsMx Bofk. I iMve brought you some beautiful snow ** A terrible ezpreaaion passed over tiie fao» of the editor as he grasped the heavy offioe â- hears. "Allow me to explain," oontinned tfa* young man blandly. " I hav« brought yon some beautiful snowflake potatoes in pi^- naent for my kst year's subsoribtion to the Bugle." In another moment the tears of the editor were shining upon the shaggy front A thn young man's coat, and the twain passed oat arm in arm, to see a man. 'â- 1 " Toffstaffs were gracious, taking an early oc- casion to call upon Lady Belfield and to ask if this Etartling news was really, really true. ' "She said that you and Valentine are ut- terly unlike," pursued Helen, "and yet I have heard your mother say that you are the image of eash other." "I believe we are alike in face and figure â€"alike with a difference," Misirered Adrian dreamily. "Oar features were cast from the "It is quite true, and I hare my fntore daughter in-law staying with me," answered „. „ Constance. "She ia out riding with Adrian ' «- ..., Tonnger days was a suitor for her hand, i "' *hey will be home to tea, if you can "ame sketch, but not in the same mould. he was wild and she rejected him. stay and see them." Yon will see him very soon, I hope, and We shall be charmed," said Dorothy ' J"dge for yourself. He and I have never Toffstaff, who had driven her smart little **^*d so Ions' apart, and if I had not had cart over from theheighta shove Chadford, ' yo" to give anei^ colour to my life, I should and had picked up Matilda Treducey on her bave felt miserable without him. Even with way. It was a long ride from Chadford to y*"' sweet companionship I begin to weary Crowshest, but the Toffstaffs, with their in- ^^^ bis retrrh, " exhaustible stud, made light of distances. They liked to be everywhere, and were to be met with at all possible points within twenty miles of their house. The Treducey stables were altogether on "Fondness can hardly express our feeling, a different footing, and there were daily ^t is something more than affection. It is a quarrels and heart burnings as to who sympathy so close that his vexations and should have cattle to ride or drive. Thus it bis pleasures move me almost as strongly as had happened of late that the Trednceys ' â„¢y own. I have never seen him out of tem- were always being ridden Jn "Toffstaff car- P*' without being agitated and troubled for ' hours afterwards and in all his I makes the customary call of courtesy tijdstwo charming ladies, Mrs. Bad- and her sister. Miss Deverill, engaged Ljame of billiards. Mrs. Baddeley is tola Major in the Seventeenth Lancers, I is Inr'ia, He is expected home in I winter. Ttie two sisters give Adrian a 1 welcome, and he is pleased with their open manners, though he questions ler his mother educated in the very mce of refinement, will care for these bwith their free and easy manners, ac- oa the Continent and in the Irish be. He promises, however, to bring her â- lee them. lariER III.â€" Lady Belfield and her son tijD pay their promised visit, and after- \ii Col, Deverill and his daughters at- li a dinner party at the Abbey, the Vicar, Mrs. Freemantle, and their son bein? the other guests, When the hrills have driven away Mrs. Freeman- linansiver to Lady Belfield, eives it as I opinion that they are decidedly danger- Adrian being, she thinks, already struck i Miss Deverill. taiiTER IV AND v.â€" Mrs. Freemantle prightin her diagnosis; Adrian was in Meantime, Helen Deverill and her Mr irere considered by the county families id style, to be received and tolerated If, but not to be admitted to the inner "Take care I shall be jealous of anyone whosteals your thoughts from me â€" even of a brother. Tou must be very fond of each other?" rlages and liding Toffstaff horses. They' broke in difficult animals for the Miss Toff- staffs, who, notwithstanding this, could never be induced to own the Traducey superiority in riding. " They have very good hands," said Dorothy, speaking of her dearest friends, " but they have no style. They would be dreadful in the Row." Style, as imparted by a fashiona'ole rid- ing master, at a guinea a lesson,' was Dor- ' othy's strong point. She balanced herself airily upon her saddle, stuck out her elbows, tossed up her head, or straightened her S®* anything out of life, great triumphsâ€" on tne river, in the cricket field, at a steeplechase â€" 1 have been as elated as if I myself were the victor. Yes, I have felt a thrill of pride and delight far keener than common sympathy." "I don't think sympathy is by any means common," said Helen, lightly. "I believe that the majority of people are supremely indifferent to the joys and sorrows of others. The world could hardly go on if it were otherwise. SVe have such a little time to live that we must live fast if we want to (to be 30NTINPED.) â€" ♦ A Good Joke. Boys are often fond of playing practical jokes. Such may sometimes be done, but never to any-one's inconvenience. In one of our colleges a professor, who made, him- self very friendly with the students, was walking out with an intelligent scholar, when they saw an old man hoeing in a corn- field. He was advancing slowly with his work toward the road, by the side of which lay his shoes. As it; was near sunset, the stodent proposed to play the old man a joke. " I will hide his shoes we will conceal our • selves behind the bushes, and see what he will do." "No," said the professor, " it would not be right. You have money enough just put a dollar in the man's shoes then we will hide behind the bushes, and see what he wUl do." The student agreed to the proposal, and they concealed themselves accordingly. When the laborer had finished his row of com, he came out of the field to go home. He put on one shoe, felt something hard, took it off and found the dollar. He looked around him, but saw no one, and looked up gratefully toward heaven. He then put on the other shoe, and found another dollar. He looked at it, and looked all around him, but saw no one. He then knelt upon the ground and returned thanks to God for the blessings that had been conferred upon him. The listeners learned from that prayer that the old man's wiie and one of his children were sijk, and that they were poor so that the two dollars were a great relief sent to them from heaven. " There," said the prefessor, how much better this is than to have hidden the old man's.shoes."â€" [Christian Advocate. spine in the last approved manner, and she was an admirable horse woman as long as her horse behaved hiiLself but it was the loary of intimate friendship. Adrian „ cestohis brother at Monte Carlo, but he Tradueeys strong point to master vice andj ' ' "" think it was in inexperience in their horses, and to make pies that he did not Irian to be such a fool. Wear, takes eepecial interest in one of I parishioners, Old Dawley, as he is called, 1 gets his living by basket making. ago his daughter had been decoyed tiler home, none knew whither. Three Mterher flight Dawley, returning to |se8okte hearth finds a child whose ap- ace tells ac a glance that she is the m? of the daughter who had left her p. Diwley accepts the charge of the M handling without a murmur. At the f the story opens, this child, now growing 13 womanhood, gives evident signs of an pMuming passion, and her father sus- Pnghtly that she is in love. He has ped evidences of[strange;viaitations from fsatleman" at the cottageâ€" a smell of M.emaii's baccy" in the room, strange "s near the cottage â€" but Madge all knowledge of such visits to her Asked to interest himself in the ^the A icar speaks to Lidy Belfield on fiitiject, and she offers to take her to re- Mr. Rockstone, "*•»? hunters they ever rode. And now Dorothy Toffstaff and Matilda Traducey sat on each side of the hearth and complimented Lady Belfield on her son's choice. " She is so pretty," said Dorothy, " one can hardly wonder that he fell in love with her. But I hope you like her, dear Lidy Belfield " Dorothy was prepared to receive a reluc- tant negative. " Yes, I like her very much I love her very much 1" Lady Belfield answered frank- 1 ly. I " Lucky girl, to have such a charming mother-in-law," said Miss Traducey, look- 1 ing round the noble old drawing room, ' which had been a drawing room in Queen Elizabeth's time, and had echoed the sil- i P»ith her at the Abbey, I UWEK VI. -Madge Dawley is installed P household of Lady Belfield, "having, W somewhat ungraciously, consented to nl- "^^ ** *^® Abbey. Meanwhile FMiian proceeds apace in his.wooing, and pi Ueverill half consents, in a brusque, [^Bort of way, to accept him as her „.„ 'f^i ' she'says, " 1 am not going «lled 'love- or 'darling,- or aSy of i!n"'yi.«'eet appellations. You are TK •"' ^^ ^^*" °*^ you Bo»^ t ^^® ** a world more meaning in K l""*^' '^^^'^^ '^^""g *o us in- BiiUk' " " *°y bar ley. sugar epithets ^IJe world uses." She, at Adrian's «hJ« "11^ to stay at the Abbey dur- •^nce of her father and sUter. !»., ^^^ "'n.â€" Not Quite Content. .,1?"'*^" ^*d been staying at the i^dom««*'^y*"^«« '^eeks; sh7hadbe- Ku^n ?^**' there, and seemed a part I. 'wwlyhfe. Lady Belfield found her- ' id ever managed girlish figure al- i swift to wait anticipate her "Is it not rather a selfish theory " I'l suppose it is but I frankly own to being selfish. Selfishness is one of my num- erous failings." "I will not hear yon say so. I know you better than you know yourself," he said tenderly, leaning down till his lips touched the golden-brown hair. "That is a delusion on your part. Yon only know an ideal Helen, a Helen of your own invention, faithless, a bundle of virtues, a concatenation of noble qualities and lofty feelings. I am not even a blood relation of your Helen. I am full of faults." "Then I will love yon with all your faults. I have plenty of my own to balance them." "No. You have only three â€" three great faults." " Name them. Let me know the worst." " First, you are too good for me. Second- ly, you are far too clever for me. Thirdly, ou are not a sportsman." " The goodness and the cleverness might very tones of that great sovereign's speech, be easily got over, since they belong rather and the graver accents of Burleigh. The to your ideal Adrian than to the actual man. Abbey was rich in traditions about dead But I fear I can never be a sportsman." and gone monarchs and senators. More "I should have liked my husband to keep than one sovereign had rested there on a a pack of hounds, and to hunt four times a royal progress through the west country. j week," sighed Helen, with the air of a child Matilda Traducey had always admired the that has been baulked in some eager fancy. Abbey. If there was one houie in which " My dearest, I can never be the typical she would rather have ruled than in another, English squire nor can I allow the wiie I it was thia Elizabethan mansion and to know that it was to be the home of an Irish scapegrace's unsophisticated daughter, a girl who had been brought up anyhowâ€" this was bitter. Miss Toffstaff also felt that she had been cheated. Sir Adrian was the only good mateh in that part of the country â€" and with his family and position, and htr wealth, they might have done any- thing. And he was throwing himself away upon a pauper. Helen came in with her lover whue the gentle Dorothy thus mused. She was flush- love to spend half her days and nearly all her thonghto in the hunting field. I want to share your life, Helen, I want your com- pany all day longâ€" your mind, your Heart, and all your thoughte and fancies. I would not have one of your thoughts wasted upon horses and hounds." "I have been brought up to care more for four-tooted friends than any others." " Perhaps you never had a friend who loved you as I do. Such friendship is exact- ing, Helen. There must be sacrifices." "Must there? Well, it is not a very ed with her ride in the cold clear air, and great sacrifice for a penniless Irish girl to be looked lovely in her neat little felt hat and " â€"' ' 'â€" ' "*-" ' â€" ' '"â-  girlish habit, a little blue cloth habit made by an Irish toiler. Mrs. Baddeley had her huntiiur gear from the most fashionable habit msScer in London but then Mrs. Baddeley had her own bills, and her own re sources, great or smalL Adrian and his your wife, and to live in this lovely old house. It will not be my house, though I I shall only be a secondary person. Your mother must always be the first." " You do not mind that " asked Adrian. "Mind? No, I adore her. She is much above me as if she were of a superior Marriage. Marriage should be waited for, not sought. " Who knows," writes Miss L. C. Moulton, "round what corner his destiny may be hid- ing â€" at what unexpected turn he may come upon the face above all faces for him To put aside as far as possible the thought of marriage until compelled to think of it by some strong and special attraction towards some special person is wiser than to be seek- ing in every chance acquaintance the possi- ble husband or wife. We shall meet the peo- ple who are coming to meet us,' no matter in what f *r off land their journey towards us begins. Perhaps parents are more to blame 'or worldly marriages than we are apt to think. How constantly we hear the term, 'married well' applied not to character or congeniality or true ficnesi, but to a com- fortable income! And yet there is something to be said for ' the stern parent ' of the nov- els, with his ' hard facts.' The old adage that when poverty comes in at the door love flies out of the window,' is true only of small and poor natures â€" natures incapable of a great love but it is nevertheless true that to be loved it is necessary to be lovely, and that it is far more difficult to be lovely when we are hard pressed by want and rendered fretful by care and overwork." Progress of the Electric Industry. Little was added to our knowledge of elec- tricity during 1887, but there was a remark- able development of its practical applica- tions. One of the most important scientific discoveries was that sparks in tubes dis- sociated iodine, bromide and chlorine. Immense improvements have been made in the construction of dynanos, motors, ac- cumulators and secondary generators, and in consequence the electric lighting and working of railways and tramways has entered upon a commercial and useful stage. The application of powerful electric currents to smelting, as in the Cowles process for producing aluminum, and to welding, as proposed by Eldiu Thompson, is gaining rapid progress, while the use of en:rmous dynamos for the deposition of pure copper from impure ores is gaining ground with giant strides. Nature quotes the president of the Institotion of Electrical Eagineers as authority for the stotement that there are at least 300,000 persons in Great Britain depending upon the electric industry for their daily bread. â€" Ex. A Speoiman Testimonial " How do yon like your new type-writer T" inquired the agent. " Immensely " waa the enthusiastic response. " I wonder how I ever got along without it." "Well, would you mind giving me a little testimon- ial to that effent " " Certainly not I'll do It gladly 1" So he rolled up his sleeves, and in an incredibly shortspace of timehe pound- ed out thisâ€"" af ted Using thee automatig Btok-actionnatyps writer torthreemohths£ an d Over i udhesitottinggly prono nee it to be al ad even more than the Manufaotun claim for it. During the time been in our possessio n e. i, th ree monthzl id has nore th an than paid paid for it£elf in the Save- ing oF time an d labrr ?â€" John 1 Smith." " There you are, sir " "Thanks," said the agent dubiously. In a Hurry. A' landlord met a tenant wag. And said. " Without a doubt, sir. Unless you pay up, Mr. Bragg, You surely must get out, sir." Then promptly did the other say. His tone his hurry proving " Excuse ine, sir, I'm rushed to-day, And really must be moving." Seiieved. Bjones Well, I tell you, I'm relieved. Jsmythe Believed What's happened to relieve you Bjones Oh, it says here that my brother George and Sally Higgins were quietly married at St. George's yesterday. I waa afraid the papers would exaggerate, as usual, and say they were noisily married. Things Impossible- To admit that our shoes hurt because they are too small. To luten cbeeriuUy to a twice-told tale. To love a bore because he is good. To remember debts as vividly as we remember debtors. To be grateful in proportion to the intention of the benefactor, rather than in proportion to what we receive. To feel as deep a remorse before as we feel after being found out. Shaving- Water. A country vicar was recommended by a doctor to take a little stimulant, and at last reluctantly consented to do so for the gcjd man believed in the force of example, and hence had been an abstdliner far many years. So he decided to keep the bottle in his wardrobe, and take a little whiskey with hot water at the time at which he shaved. When the ^iculapius called at the end of a week, the vicar's butler announced to him that his master had gone mad. " For," said he, " he's crying for shaving-water all day long." »onderiaghowZ i^T ~i W^were nerfecUy frank and gracious clay-an angelic being out of my sphere. .««Cut1he iTh ^^a*? ^^elr^^^^^^^^.iorf^^^' Bull sl^XL La^^ Belfield. tlo;*Will 'M hni. .,""""" I'ue girusn ngure ai- » her i« "?*' P»'o«npt and swift to wait tort J L*^""' »nd anticipate her " wuhes, to cut the leaves of her ' nen« "*°8e her crewels, to listen ' more Vk^""" *« I'er music. She ' girl ^Tt ""oicUed to the idea that ' Shi* " •**"â-  **°«bter in the fu- r'««rivLk ^^*"*1 *o Providence for L**i«tBiL,? devoted to Adrian as â- Sly tt?ei""S"**"® """"• "" ^•"^n^K^^'P *^** "onbt, unta love riS " " *^® furnace of ^«^ h" "^^ elder daughter |««W,t iJi^_ That Uvelyci^â€" • ' WSf! *S' **e t'â„¢ o* tbe year. ^W^?-"'^^ wile had nnmerona 'Sj'iS"'^«»dEngliriL They .^HweiythW The Colonel hni ^t^T^lu!? 8° »***« DOTooAire, ***• â- Â»th«.in.Uw."S •'^^ hkdno idea of any leaven of malice lurking not that seem strange? Two Lady Bel under the outward semblance of good will fields in one house. ^We must live half the accepted congratulations and good wishes as year m Ixmdon and Pans, Adrian. We a matter of (inrse. „ ,_, mustnot rust away our hves here." "Yes we are both very happy," said "Do you call Oaa rusting f he asked, Adrian. 'smiling at his betrothed; "I did tenderly. ^.. ,. notSdik it 4s the common lot of man Her h«^ reete^Mtainsthis knee. her ey^ «r 'L^^^noh hliH." ' were looking up at him, storlike in the dim »vZ, don't hunt, now, do yon?" adted lijrht of Selow wood fire. MLloffiSff of Hd^" I haven't Men " No. this i. fkiry-land.droam-lMd what youOTtforevwwio^ ^^^^ is iot a moment longer "-as the tJm«pSBoe ad^'nJttohnS^anK don't care about chimed the half ^hour " There I. GT if^^wShto:" IP-t eeven, andlahaUbe late fordinner 2^^^^^ be a dreadful deprivation again." fhZt^^to^bSy wtotofood Jl sport " I "^^Daut if you o«i hsip it, darling. **^S?? 't«.^ffwrtalking together on oneoldiefewthingethakvezeeniyni. .^^^^rZ^^^^,^:SJ:: Hda. made. «o«.--»»n onto* the ^iS^thhis ««o*»»«"^*^ Tredncey S^e otberaide, oat rf_h««g5 It is « ir-«^#i«doIii»rt,"Hel«ioonlBW- field. iJiMrMroi It seemed to her timt thore varan good many tJyaciwUeh vexed Ledy Bel- field. DiwiriOTof aUkindeaat dmtgnda OB edge^ wd Heleo ytm tte IT I jTa An Odd Accident. Near Sioux City a passenger train on the St. Paul railroad was running at a rapid rate when the engine jumped the track) broke loose from the train and went into a ditch without disturbing the rails. The oars kept on, passed the scene of acKsident, rounded a curve and came to a standstilL The passengers rushed to the doors, only to find that their engine had disappeared from sight. Various suggestions bordering on the supernatural were made as to the man- ner and cause of the locomotive's mysterious disappearance, but after walking down the track and around the curve they found the disabled machine in the ditch An English travellei told a Beliza (Hsn- duras) newspaper man that he had eaton a "scorpion pie" while in Mexico, and that he liked it. The natives told him that young â- corpiona were frequently utilised for food for the flower clasaos, who dig them fnan their nests in hundreds, remove the sting, and make omelets of them. The Minister's Old Thoroughbred- Something over half a centory ago an. in- tense rivalry existed between the inhabi- tants of Litchfield and of New Milford, in Connecticut, as to which of those villas^ had the fastest horse. It happened that the Rev. Dr. Taylor â€" a famous preacher of that day, and a warm personal friend of theRsv. Dr. Lyman Beecher's â€" had an old thoroughbred horse that could outrun every- thing in that part of Connecticut. The young men of New Milford, being greatly worked up by the boasts of their Litchfield neighbours, called on Dr. Taylor, and asked him to let them have his horse for a trial of speed. The doctor shook his head, and said, ' My dear young friends, that would never do. It would not answer for a man in my position to be mixed up in any such affair. You can see for yourselves that it would never do." The young men however would not be put off. They argued the case at great length with the dootor, but he waa inexorable. He would not be mixel up in such an affair. Supposing that the case waa hopeless, they at last turned to go, when the good dojtor called out to one of them, " John, you will find the bridle behind the barn door " The young man took the hint, and also the horse and the doctor's old thoroughbred beat his Litehfield competitor out of sight. No £ar Bat a Warm Heart. A bit of musical anecdote waa told me the the other day. On the first appearance of a famous pianist in Boston, Mr. A. found liimaelf seated in front of his nog^bor, Mr. B., whom he had always nnppoaed entirely devtdd A musical turte. but wlio proved es- pecially demoMtrative in Ids appLuua. In the intemuHion Mr. A. tamed to hie seat •ndoheervedtoflMoidMr: **ltmfgbaAjva an enjoffaig tiie coodert w wmA. I didat know yon oarad for mnaic to swehn degree. ** **0h. I dooft," Mr. B. twiiwilsa vlA it*! «n Gfwk to aa^ b^ fSLkaM An Opera of reat Antiquity. Nearly three thousand years ago. a very wise man and a great sporteman. exchanged the company of philosophers, and grave senators, for that of wits and gallants. He established a playhouse in oraer to entor- tain himself and others with jests, banter and drollery. Solomon had every tlung that was charming and diverting all sorta of melody and music, vocal and instrumentid, men singers, and women singers, the best voices he could pick up. all the wind and hand instrumento that were then in use. But -he pronounced them all vanity and vexation of spirit. He obviously came to grief in attempting to run a national opera company on k theocratic principle. Appar- ently, he could manage 300 wives and 700 concubines, with the Queen of Sheba thrown into the heap. But the great Israelitish opera experiment fairly panlyzed lum. Man And Eis Shoes. How much a man is Uke his shoes I For instance both a sole may lose Both have been tanned botii are made tight By cobblers both get left and right Both need a mate to be complete. And both were made to go with feeb Vnth shoes the last is first with man The first shall be the last; and when The shoes wear out tliejr're mended new When men wear out they're men dead, too. Tbm both need healing, (rft are sold. And both in time turn all to mould. ThOT botli are trod opoB and both Win tread on othen, aothing IoUl Botthnvethatrtiae, ead bo iadhM, Whan p^alMd, iallM world to I HW botb pag viAt Sow, woay Ibbeami^baUaahowI \li ii %A: WÂ¥' 'f\ • ** I i â-  ?P; i â- r'^- • ' 't iJ if 1 5*«. *;,! ' pi I -A"v

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