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 ,c- WW ^i!%4^%4*^P^-.|pi- p^wl;-^p P â- "3^*^-' '• " r- [Now FiBST PUBUSHSD.] [Au. Rioars BasiByso.] -^ r. L t^ LIKE A ND U NLIKE. By M. B. BRADDON, Anthor'nf " Ladt Audley's Skcbst." " Wtllabd's Wbikd, ' Etc., Etc. but was not yet skilled in^bypocriay. Hia mother entered tbe room at this moment, and he went over to her, taking no farther notice of^elen. His heart was as heavy as lead. Gtood heaveps, what an idiot he had been to need this rough awakening to an obvious bitter fact what a blind, besotted idiot he mntit have been not to see that which was visible to every servant in his mother's house. " Ktiusted her so completely," he said to himself, " I thought her so pure and true." Fore True He could never think her either of these again, after that little scene by the piano. It was so little, yet it had told him 80 much. The drooping head and and arms, the half -dtspairiog attitude, as of one who submits t" the power of an indom- itable will and Valentine's attitude, his lips so close to her hair and brow, his easy air of mastery. Not for a moment after that revelation could Adrian doubt that his brother had stolen tbe heart of his betrothed. " Nature made bim to rule and me to serve," he told himself. " How could I ever hope to be victorious where he would be a competitor. He has beaten me in all things in which men care to conquer. He has left me my books, and my music a wo- man's occupation, not a man's. He might have left me my bride. There are women enough in the world for him to subjugate. He might have left her free." " Watch," wrote the anonymous denoun- cer. He had not watched, but the discovery had been made the bitter, humiliating truth had been forced upon him accident had given him the key to that secret accusa- tion. That a servant's hand should have pointed out that treachery, seemed to add to the sting of degradation, to the agony of betrayal. He had considerable power of self-control, and exercised it this evening. He talked easily and even gaily all through dinner, but the conversation was a trio. Valentine talked much and seemed in excellent spirits, Helen sat silent, and Adrian did not attempt to draw her into the conversation. " How tired you look, Helen," said Lady Belfield, after an animated discussion upon the news in the papers of the day. Adrian and nis mother were strictly con- servative, but Valentine had taken upon himself the opinions and the arrogance of an advanced radical. Hence politics always offered a theme for lively discussion and a little temper. Nothing so dull as a one- opinioned family " Yes, I am rather tired," answered Helen, listlessly. " The day has been so dreadfully warm." Adrian went back to the drawing-room with the two ladies. Valentine stopped behind, ostensibly for his after-dinner smoke. The old muUioned windows were closed and curtained, but a large bay window, which had been added twenty years ago, both to give more litsht and as an outlet to the garden, stood wide open to the moon- ligbt and the soft evening air. This modem window was an eyesore to architects and all persons of artistic temperaaaent, but it was very convenient to the dwellers in the room, and it brought Lady Belfield's drawing-room and Lady Belfield's garden into one perfect whole. In summer, people sat indifferently in room and garden, and teacups circulated freely between the Persian carpet within and the velvet lawn without. ^^ The day had been one of those precocious forc" itellf "uporhis^mind"' hauntld^hTm 1 sammer days that perk themselves up in the and goaded him almost to madness as he midst of the spring, and Helen s complaint hurried in his dressing, anxious to be early «* *» sultriness wm not unfounded. There in the drawing room, to see Helen again be- ^*8 a small wood fire in the grate, for show fore dinner, to be reassured and comforted f^^ "' "' heat, and Lady Belfield took by her presence, by the steady light of truth "^r accustomed chair, not remote from the in those lovely eyes. heartn but Helen went at once to the Not a word would he say to her of that I «P" ^i"^ow, and seated herself on a low foul slander, that stab in the dark; not for ottoman close to the threshold, worlds would he have her know of that base ^f « ™°°' " °ear the full, and all the attempt to blemish her name. Bat he want- 1 g"**^' was steeped in light. The girl sat «d to be with her again. Never since the ' '^1® matching the night sky, above the tall first hour of their betrothal hstd he been so cypresses and deodaras that bounded lawn eager to see her. land shrubbery. It was a little more than haU-past-seven ' Adrian seated himself at his mother's when he went downstairs, hU heart beating ' "^^ table, and took up a volume of biogra- phy which had arrived that afternoon. Helen stole a look at him presently, and saw him engrossed in his book. She was ' not surprised that he should be so, as it was I a book he had been particularly impatient j to see, and the librarian had been slow in sending it. Lady B alfield, finding the other Hi noticed this detail as he opened the 1*^° "•*?*• *•*? resumed a new German door and went in. Helen was seated at the i ^?J^^ which she had been reading in the piano at the further end of the room, her • a^ernoon They had been all three seated head bent ever the keys, in an attitude of t^"" ^°' about a quarter of an hour, when self-abasement Valentine was leaning upon Helon rose quietly and went out mto the the piano, talking to her, his head close to I 8*£ ?* to hers, his lips almost touching her hair. ^^^^J^ «^« ™°^«*' "'"' ^^' *1»! The girl started guiltily at the opening of """^^ «** ^^^ ""^iH ^T? " "^^/oae and the door; the man went on talking, moving ' Pi^s^** .l'^*; He lifted his eyes *»- CHAPTER XIL TOTAI. SUBKEXDEK. All Helen's serionsness seemed to have taken flight, as if blown away by the balmy west wind. Once more she was gay and volatile, for ever on the wing with a cease- less vivacity. The change pazzled Lady Belfield, who liked her daugbter better in her serious mood. " My dear child, you seem as if you were bewitched," she said. Helen blushed, and was silent for a few moments, then replied with a laugh. "I am so glad summer is coming, so glad to be out of doors agun. You must not forget that I am a wild Irish girl, and love fcy liberty." ' I am pleased to see you happy, Helen, answered the mother, kindly, and then Helen went back to the tennis court, and the balls were flying across the net again, and the girl's graceful form was skimming over the grass, swift as the flight of a bird. She came back to the drawing room flash- ed and excited at tea time, and then Adrian had her all to himself for an hour or so, while she lolled in a low easy chair, resting from the fatitrues ot the afternoon, and -allowing her lover to wait upon her. She had a prettUy deprecating air, as if apologis- ing for taking pleasure in a sport which had .no interest for him. "It is a foolish, childish game, I dare «ay," she said ' but it is something to live for." She did not know how such a speech as that wounded her lover or' how much it revealed to him. He went up to his room to dress for din- ner one evening, after having lingered longer than usual in the drawing-room with Helen, she had been out of spirits, fretful, like a child overtired with play, and he had been soothing her as tenderly as a mother might soothe a wilful child. He was so deeply in- love that all her fail- ings, her childishness, her triviality, seemed to endear her to him only the more. There was a fascination in her very faults which seemed to be ioeeparable from her beauty. A fragile delicate loveliness like that must needs go with fitful spirits and a variable temper, R3bust virtue would not have been half so charming. Pinned on to the pincushion upon his dressing table he saw a slip of paper, with four words written upon it in a large round heuid " Somebody is false. VVatch^" He felt as a man feels who finds a cobra on his pillow. Who could have dared to put that diabolical scrawl there. Someone in his mother's household â€" some servants eating his mother's bread, had been black- hearted enough to stab an innocent girl's reputation. His first impulse was to tear the paper to atoms his next was to put ;t'away carefully in his letter case, with a view to identifying the writer. •• I will have every one of the servants in the library to-morrow morning," he thought, " and each shall write those four words be- fore my eyes until I discover the wretch who penned that lie." Yet to do this would creite a scandal. Better that than to exist under the same roof with the venomous traitor who wrote that insult to truth and purity. False with whom should she be false What tempter had ever tried to seduce her from the straight line of faith and honor since she had been his plighted wife. Spurn that paper as he might, the argument it suggested heavily, passionately, impatiently, for the sound of the only voice that could give him comfort. There was the sound of the piano in the drawing-room, but not his mother's touch. A modem waltz lightly played fitfully, as if the player were pre- occupied. from the not a muscle. " Say yes," he ureed " say yes. " Well, yes, if you like," she answered, ,,^ carelessly, and resumed the waltz, which she had stopped for a moment. She played more brilliantly than usual, it seemed to Adrian, with the spasmodic page which he had been staring at fixedly, without the faintest knotr ledge of its con- Watch." He put his book down softly, and went across to the window. Helen was walking slowly along a path .„„...^„„.^„ .„ that skirted the lawn. His eyes followed er, who'has"i^urteTf"eMoution"and dwh I *® ^^**^ F****®** *8^F* **" »* disappeared at now and then, occasional moments in which » *â„¢[» the path which led into the heart the fingers have an unaccustomed precision â-  "' ,*5® shrubbery, where a labyrinthine and power. She played for the next ten ' ^.^t '"und m and out among the thickets minutMâ€" a waltz, a mazurka, a nocturne of of choice comfers, laurels and arbutus. Those Chopin's all with the. same air of being en growed by the masic. Then she rose from the piano hurriedly, and went across the room to Adrian. " How early you are down " she said. " There is nothing strange in that," he answered coldly, "but you are not gener- ally so early. What compact were yon m a kin g with Valentine just now." Hu brother was sitting at a book table near the piano, reading a newspaper, and apparently unconacioas of anything going on in the room. " It u about our tennis tournament. We are to have a tournament yon know." " Indeed I know nothing about it. The tooraamant will be something to liv» for I snppoM." "Oh, Adrian, yon never spoke to me be- fore witili a meer." "Did I not T Then mnst be a besiiuiiBs for all lidngi.' «.8â„¢-»8 Btood looking at him. atriiAeB. S»i%. TbatUgfatlLtare t^t teS shrubberies had been laid out and planted a century before, and had been improved and added to by every new owner of Belfield Abbey. The ground sloped on the other side of the shrubberies, there were steep grassy banks sloping down to the stream, and by the side of the stream there was a long Italian ter- race, with a row of cypreaaea on each aide of the walk. Thia terrace had ever been a favorite pro- menade with the ladiea of the Belfield family. Scarcely had the white gown vanished into darnieaa, whenaman'a figure akirted the lawn upon the opponte ride, and then djaappeared in tiie afambbury. There waa j natl^ t enoogh foir Adrian to Identify Out hnrryfiig fignre aa hia Iwotiiar Yatentbe. He went oat, banliaaded and oroeaed the ,f-; ea^forUmtofoibwintiMri^kdirMtiDn^ though neither figate wm ririUe in the thi^y ahaded paa by which he went Preaently, that qniok firm step stopped, and thm, after a panae, wentm witfa alaok- ened pace. H« oonld gneaa that theae two were now tiwether, walking alowlyaideby aide, the girPa light foot inaadiUe, amidat the aonndof the man's firmer tread. He knew he waa gaining nj^n them pre- aently, for he could hear their voice* at in- tervals, faint gnata of sound blown towarda him on the evening aur. He followed to the sloping bank, and atanding there in the ahadow of a cypreaa aaw them on the moon- lit walk bdow him. He waa near enough to them to hear every word, every breath, and he had to control hia own hurried breathing lest they should hear him. They were s^andiog ly the waterside, she waa daaped in hia arms, her head upon hia breast, and Adrian could hear her aoba in the stillnese, the passionate sobs of a despairing love. Never had his arms so enfolled her, never had her passionate tears been shed for him. They had been like children playing at love. Here was love's stem reality â€" tears and de- spair. Her new lover's head waa bent tc the half hidden face. He was trying to kiss those sobs into silence. And then came the sound ot hia voice, deep and atrong, and resolute. " Break with him, dearest, yes, of courae yon must break with him. You were meant to be mine, not his. He has most of the good things in this life. He is the elder bom, the honored and wealthy. But I have you, and I mean to keep you, aqd hold yon against a kingdom of brothers." " Lady Belfield has been so good to me," faltered the girl's tearful voice, "She has been so lovingâ€" and for me to disappoint her " "Who knows that you will disappoint her. She shall love you still, my sweetest, love you all tbe better perhaps for that which you call treason. Don't you know the secret of that kind mother's heart, Helen She doed her duty to Adrian, b^ t she gives the lion's share of love to me. She will love any wife who loves me." " You are cruel to say so," cried Helen, escaping from his arms. " What, are you to have everything and he nothing, he who is so good " He has the estate, and he is Sir Adrian. Do you call that nothing " " Yes, nothing, nothing, nothing, if he is not happy. No, I won't betray him, I won't be called ,a jilt and a hypocrite. I loved him before I knew you. 1 will try to forget you, and to be true to him." " Helen, don't be a fool." He drew her to his breast again, snared her as easily with an unmanneny speech as with the honeyed phrases of a modem Bomeo. His influence over her was a thing apart from words. It was the despotic power of a strong man's will, which to a weak woman seems destiny, Adrian caice a step or two forward, enie-rgad out of the shadow and stood suddenly beside them. The girl recoiled from her lover with a star- tled air,, horrified at being seen by a game- Keeper, or some such insignificant person; but at sight of Adrian she clasped her hands before her face and stood motionless, as if she had been turned to stone. "I did not think myself passing rich, Valentine," he said quietly, as his brother, faced him boldly and resolutely, with the defiant look with which he had faced angry college dons and aggrieved authorities of all kinds. " I thought myself like Nathan with my one ewe lamb," laying his hand lightly upon Helen's shoulder, " and you have rob- bed me of that one inestimable blessing." " Don't talk about robbery," said Valen- tine, "that's arrant nonsense. Men are the slaves of circumstances in such matters. l"ou bring a lovely fascinating girl into the house where I live, and say • She ia mine, she is taboo, you are not to fall in love with her.' But I am mortal. I am of a clay that is quicker to take fire than most other clay. I have not been under the same roof for four and twenty hours with your privileged young lady, before I am over head and ears in love with her. I don't give myself np without a struggle. I say no surrender, and try to be as uncivil as I possibly can to the young lady. Helen will bear me out that I was a most consummate savage during the earlier part of our acquaintance. And then we hunted together â€" nothing so dangerous as those long hours of easy intercourse in the hunting fieldâ€" and I got fonder and fonder of her, and she â€" yes, I know she be- gan to get rather fond of me. Bat she too cried no surrender, and then she took to being uncivil and then I knew it was all over with us both. Tennis finished us and you will please to remember, Adrian, that tennis was my mother's proporition, not mine. Poor simple soul, she wanted to see Helen and me more like brother and sister, and she thought tennis might help to bring us together." "You are laudably candid now," stud Adrian, holding passion in check with the strong curb of pride. " Would it not at least have been better to be candid before resorting to a secret meeting like this, and degrading your future wife by a clandestine courtship while she was betrothed to your brother, would it not at least have been wise to spare her the humiliation of being spied upon by servants." " What do you mean?" " Only that it was some servant or hang- er-on in the Abb«y who gave me the hint that brought me here to night." " One of the servants spoke to yon about me, about Helen " "No one spbke to me. I found a paper in my room, with a suggestion that there was falsehool, and that Ishonld watch." "The she-devil," mattered Valentine be- tween his Set teeth. "What, you know who wrote it?" asked Adrian, anrprised. "No, but I oan guess; some old busy, body. The housekeeper, perhaps." " What, Mrs. Marrable That good old soul never did anything underhand or tried to make mischief in her life. Bat whoever my informant was, I am oratefnl to the hand that Uf ted the vmL Yon and Miaa Deverill m^ht have left me in my foora paradise ever so mnch longer." "There yon wromr us both. Thinga had come to a crisis to-night, and it Wonll' have been our duty to confeaa the truth to yon to-nKwrow; AU I wanted to be amn of waa tiiat Helen wonld give op an anmle for. tane and tiie privilege of bebg La^Bel- field, u Older to share a yoongw bntWa makiDg it de^nitefy when joa iata^JiS "I oaa«tleMt «â- Â» Addn, i%. Devwill tiiat after whathaa happened to- night, I withdraw all claim npon lier fidelity orher consideration. She may hold heraeU aa free aa the anmmer win! that ia blowing in onr faoea." Helen's handa had fallen firom bef»e her face, which ahowed death-like in the moon- light. She tried to take Adrian'a hand, bat he recoiled from her tonch, and drew .back two or three paces. ** Forgive me," ahe cried, with paaaionate entreaty " oh, forgive me, Adrian. I hate myaelf for my inconatancy, my weakneaa, my folly. Be more mercifnl to me than I am to myaelf. Forgive me I" " When I can," he anawered, and left them without another word. He had left the Abbey before Helen came down to breakfast next morning, and he left the following letter for his brother â€" "You have shown yourself my superior as a lover, as you have in all other accom- plishments in which men wish to exceL I submit to fate, which gave me failure and disappointment as a part of my birthright. I thiuk you have used me ill, and that Helen has used me worse but it is a qual- ity of my nature to love you, and even while smarting under the sense of a deep wrong, you are still to me something more than a brother. You are a part of myself. Be as happy as you can, and I will take comfort in my desolation from the thought of your happiness. But above all things make her happy. She ia all that is lovely and sweet in womanhood, but she lacks strength of character or stability of purpose, as you have already proved. Bear with her, and be patient with her, as I would have been. Her nature will expand like a flower in the warmth of your love, but it will be warped and withered by unkindness or neglect. I resign her to you as a, sacred trust. Let me never have to call you to ac- count for her peace of mind. When once my mind and heart are reconciled to my loss, I shall accept my position as your wife's brother, and shall assume all a brother's responsibilities. Tell Helen I am leaving England in the hope that absence may teach me the lesson of forgiveness. Good-bye." This was all but in a letter to Lady Belfield, Adrian explained that he was going to London, whence he would start for Nor- way, after a day or two spent in prepara- tion for his journey. He meant to spiend the summer and early autumn in Norway and Sweden, and thence to go to Vienna and to follow the Danube southward, and winter in Greece. "If you should feel tempted to join me during any part of my travels,I would go to Frankfort to meet yon, and would adapt my wanderings to yotir comfort and pleasure. My engagement is brokenâ€" suddenly, like a dream from which one awakeneth. All the good fairies were at my brother's chris- tening feast, and one of them gave him power over the heart of woman. He has stolen Helen's love, almost involuntarily, I believe, so you must not upbraid him with treachery. Make the best of the position, dear mother, do all you can for your younger son and his betrothed, and be assured of my co-operation in all you do." The letter was a shock to Lady Belfield. Her loyal nature revolted against Helen's treachery. She, who was truth itself, could not understand how any other woman could be false. Howevrr her heart might secretly incline to the way ward.self-indulgent young- er son, her sense of honor and justice were outraged by his triumph. Helen came into the breakfast- room while Lady Belfield sat with Adrian's letter in her hand. The girl's white face and hollow eyes, with traces of prolonged weeping, made a silent appeal to the mother's pity, but even that remorsef al countenance could not lessen Constance Belfield's contempt for the of- fender. " I find, Helen, that I have been looking on at a comedy, and that you had your own secrets, while I thought you were to me as a daughter, and that I knew your heart as a mother knows the heart of her child. ' " Do mothers always know " faltered Helen. " There are things in this life that no one can reckon against. Oh, Lady Bel- geld, forgive me if you can. I can't help your despising me I don't wonder at it. He has told you how base I have been," with a glance at the open letter, " but indeed if you only knew, if I could ever make you understand how I struggled, how I tried to be good and true, and how my heart went to Valentiae in spite of myself. Indeed, I tried not to love himâ€" tried to hate him, to avoid him, to shrink from all contact with him, but it was all in vain. From the hour we first met, a fatal, foolish, mistaken meetine on my part, a cruel sport on his â€" from that hour I was lost-, my fidelity to Adrian waa shaken, and I began to ask my- self if I had ever really loved Eim." She flung herself on her knees before Lady Belfield and buried her tearful face in the mother's lap, sobbing heart brokenly. It wu. hardly possible to be angry with a creature so bowed down by remorse and the consciousness of her own sin. " My child, it is the most miserable tum that fate could have taken," said Constance Belfield with sad seriousness. " You were all the world to Adrian, and the loss of your love may darken all the best years of his life. He is not the kind of man to recover qoickly or eaisily from such a blow. You will never be all the world to my other son. I have studied them both from their crsdies, and know what stnff each is made of. Fondly as I love Valen- tine, I am not blind to his faults. He has a passionate, self-willed nature, and to be loved by Um will not be all sunshine. This young head will not esoape the storms of life, Helen, if you are mated with my son Valentine. It is your heart that will have to bear the heavier harden in your life journey, it is yon who will have to suffer and submit. Adrian wonld have subjugat- ed his own inclinations to moke you happy. Valentine will expect you to yield to him in all things." " I know that he is my master," answer- ed Helen, in a low voice. " If his will were not strongw than mine I should have been trae to Adrian. I know that in oar life to come I shall be his slaveâ€" hia fond adoring alave. But I shall be utterly happy if he alwaya lovea me as he lovea me now. Notidng in thia Uf e could be miaery for me ao long aa I am sore of his afbotlon." "It wmtld be hard if that shoald ever waver, when von have sacrificed ao maohâ€" pnnoiple, aelf.intenrt~f or his sake. Ton know tiiat yoorjpoiilimi ui Valcntine'to wile wm. MTerjdUbrcnt from wfaatit wonld *»%X^b?«» •â-  L«4y BaMWd." ^_1P^J*v« ttou^t ofpodtfam-aet *2?» *»•!*• *»**• l^iMM jdmrTH^ «ad to hew M nan of di£b and «ffioidtiH Drinking Water at Meri. O^iniona differ a, t„ ,u f^ingeation of water »t^?*«i ably that it mt^^^^i^^ ao "tarda digestion, ^^l^jri^^ that a moderate delay t^ '^4.1. no means a diaadviifcIL 'P^J! Roberts has ^STft *• 8«n%i the popularity of tea ftn/^i*Pl»i«21 than doubtful whSe^J ~H US^ in reaUty produced W.! 'â- " « ing meahi water may do !° ??«* out the digested food M.d^'^^n^ indigested part more thornnL*^'**«l« tion of the digestive femeoS'^^ "** Pepsm IS a catalvntiV k-j " quanSW will woKlta^^J ?? ' 8i* vided the pep stoneaZ I *^"«ly I are formed^ The go^ 'n«l M drunk freely before ^mlu*" »S another beneficial resulM't Z,)^ the mucus which iseecreted ut " membrane dnrmg the istervat S "" ani favors peristalsis of the whnl. " ary tract. The membrane thnS*H in a much better co.ditioa rS] The accumtibtlou of mucus iTL. well marked in the morning T" gastnc walls are covered with a tM t L acious layer. Food entetinu m. Z ' H this time'wiU become'cJv'eWfta ocious coatmg, which for a tiZZS from the ac ion of the gastric tS^* so retards digestion. Thetub^i' ed stomach, with its pugkered mncM L and viscid contents a normal eonditiâ„¢^ the mornmg before breakfast, i, not mSi to receive food. Exercise before partaZj a meal stimulates the oircnlatien d the?' through the veeseU. A glus of washes out the mucus, partially dirta the stomach, wakes np peristalsiB and pares the alimentary canal for themon meal. Observation has shown that mm ritating liquids pass directly throntlr J "tubular" stomach, and even if fwd I present, they only mix with it to a ilk extent. According to Dr. Lenf, whol made this subject a special Btudjr, i water should be given to persons who U sufficient vitality to react, andhotwataj the others. In chronic gastric catarrh it j extremely beneficial to drink warm or 1 water before meals, and salt is said in m. cases to add to the good pffect producdl [British Medical Examiner. '^^UBS. BOWBEB. JMT cUM," said an old aunt of jCi I was married, "have you got •JJid's love letters?" „fl|e^^ yon are married you will "'Sil^'em?" WgKinst what I was going to do." "gj^doot I^**P 'em to the longest __-T2f tiiey wiU be stronger weapons tSKUor tears, pl«»duw »/ "gaments. MS*** *z^ lyring a husband to time like a "jFsSe o* **^® ^°^* letters he wrote be- F*JII*hsr*sdvice and have always been M*rtS. On several occasions 1 have â- * L^Tto bring Mr. Bowser down off Ahorse, »d the fact that they Tiia neaoe of mind ia proved by the *iMt tbatbe has several times hunted k*JJj^ over in my absence in hopes to handa on them. r. in j.t. t^^^lnff went wrong at the omce the ^Ai^md ho came home cantankercus. ^jjTin unta we got to the supper ivwud then broke out witii HfcitVny name for these thmgs here CSL diLrTThose are called biscuit." LwSl the man who calls 'em fit to eat j.rtebe shot Mrs. Bowser, why is it I Kmr get anything decent to eat in my tumseT" rf Whv Mr. Bowser No one could take ' .Vmubs than we do. In order that the ^flight be extra good I went out and J them myself." "§«» was a time, Mr. Bowser, when yon Urd over my cooking." hqieTer I I knew from the day I set eyes on iirading across a mud puddle that you idd nevoi cook. You can sing very wellâ€" rjUdl as some bad actressesâ€" but you can't Tr^xA if I will prove that you once hun- Ld for my cooking you willâ€"*' F^I will give you $50 cash m hand. 1 AftK supper I went upstairs and brought Lni several letters. Mr. l:owser had got iDoaeinto a magazine and wanted the r dropped, bat I read to him the fol- â- nog extract ., r^Sid £thonght,darling, while eatmgsup r that night, how proud I should be ovei iordelicioua cookery when we had a home Icnr own. The thought of those biscuits Lw made me hungry. Good bye, my pet. ' |«Who wrote that?" stemly demanded §1. Bowser. T' Yon did." Women as Buleis of Men. History does not encourage ns to com the State to female rule. England owetp civil war to the temper of Margaret of j jon, and another to that of Henrietta Mii Mary was an impersonation of liability t clerical influence. Anneovertnmednotail, a Ministry, bat the policy of the coiuilifj and robbed the nation of the fruits of its i tories to gratify the spleen of a favo waiting woman. Under the resnlti dnl cent researches the reputation of £liza for statesmanship has collapsed. It waili good luck to give her name to an era ofi tional greatness, but her own political cbirJ acter, as it no iv stands revealed to as, iithill of a false and heartless coquette. Heril treatment of her servants, such as WaleioM ham, was not less conspicuous than her pi tiality for handsome scoundrels like! ter, or dancers like Hatton. Herneg the national defences on the eve of Spanish invasion was little short of treu able, and the nation saved itself initswj ereign's despite. Caroline, the Qoera George II., did good service by upholdi Walpole, but she did it in a womanly my.l If we look to the history of other conatwil we shall find its testimony the «*"«â-  uj France the Regent Anne did pretty TOl because she put herself into tbe hai^«l Mazarin but Catherine de Medicisaadttel Pompadour did far from well. TbatfenuJI rule is not essentially favorable to peace, tmi exploit sof three nearlj con temporary (i«*l Elizabeth of Spain, M»r» "««»"' *J;| tria, and Catherine of Russia, are pnwi enough. Femalp ambition or pasaios, n»l takes a warlike turn, is likely to be k^ ed more danperous by their espoiiiu)iu«yM sex. Isabella of Castile " t^^ ?f female government but she had *efrj? at her side and she established the^"" tion. Mr. Mill thinks that Charles \.»m I ed his high appreciation of femalestawn-l ship by setting women of ^i'J^'fl 'T,l em tfie Netherlands; but Charles WJ men of his family avaUable for the apjw ment, and the result of these fenuLeJI gencies, though little of the 1»°'?,°^J due to the regents, can scarcely M»JV I have set the seal of success upo" "Jfrjiil ment. It is chUdish to talk ofJ^L,! govemmentof kmgs or queens wmh-s-j but do i^ot govern. The Package Bells the ^o°^ The business of :iaaingjntbia{°l foreign countries is chiefly. *^r Den^rk, where, to J^dt;e from^ of the American consul at t'Opej^^ business has grown to 1m 8« P'^P^'27 so much from the excellent quality .. butter as from its convenient »"^^i age. It is a fact well known to wjVji ts bmiine« that this conven.enU«»^ which the butter is offer^ if^' ' effective in its disposal than wg "ijjj, is when the form is inconvemen^ 50 pound tub of the very best W^j^ madeViU not seU for "norethan » «*; vanceupon the ord'?*^^ "Se" w" cause it cannot reach the °"'^nie«r willing to pay more money »' inferior q^Uty ^fJ^^^S^t^t^ SmaU packages of fresh sw^t ^^^ ^^ more than 5 pound weight M^ ^^^ „pi cents or a dollar per I«""VarBi««I' time that butter of the '»?«'l°^tt p** ed in tubs has brought onlyj'^b, f In the report referred to, •a»yjj,rfW in the mosTinteresting wl«?«F» e* the Department of S^'^SMt dence sEownthat thetm-P»^th,tJ^S ter ia of any better.qaahty «« ^tffiP beat American i^^J^Ai^^ ponnda of it are taken by d"' {» wh* e^ammaUy. K,*-,?'*^' " the paokai^e aells the goo* I " Three months before our marriage. '•Keverr I " Bat here's tne letter, dated and signed. ' Itg a base forgery, and the forger mus 1 How could I have praised youi .. a t" "Jmi also used to predse my singing, Mr r« Never I" I " Oh, but you did. Let me read I " And, precious pet of mine, let me agaii ok you for that beautiful song, ' The Lov I larewell,' and the exquisite manner ii ich yoa rendered it. It drew tears f rot ' eyes, and I ws« not ashamed of them loo nave one of the purest, clearest voice I "Who wrote that " he gasped. I "Yoa did." I "lira. Bowaer, don't 'carry this thing to r 1 There ia a limit beyond which you mut • "Well, here it is, in your own writing an ryonr own signature. Once in awhil imngont a hint that I am very dul t was a time when you thought diffei I "Loek out, Mrs. Bowser 1" "Yes, you did 1 You even thought n smarter of t^e two." I " W-waht Am I awake or dreaming I " Wide awake, Mr. Bowser. Let me res an extract from this exhibit markc I "Idon't see why you should go back iiaar. Few yonne ladies are more Few young ladies are more or 'bettor educated. All you yo' Ho 1 Mda, myself included, give in to M Batter of grammihr in particular. _i8e you OS usual next Sunday, my dear m honeysuckle." [Ur. Bowser sat and looked at me like o "And, sir, you often fling out about t of my fee J. I admit they are as far in as 1 should have ordered from a d ^1 sMiongh I wear No. 3's with a great d« eMrfort. Let me say, however, tb K Bother wears 6's, your three sist iSd the two girls you kept compa "i before we met wear full-sized G's wi Thwadtoes" ^^_M». £owier, do you suppose I w ' snch insnlta in my own house " •d aahe sprang up. Aiefaeta and trntha insults? I he • laadinr from your letters." Ksver Never 1 If I ever wrote st â- ^*M crazy!" _J"t here ia your sienature. You " ypnnaedto want me to sign »Q^ 'Roaobud," and you signed yo 'â- â€¢ver did No power on earth "^J* â- "• *•»»* I waa any such fcol ^^ perhapa you will remember 1 " Yon wrote it a few months â- â€¢niago. listen. f^^*V Boeebnd, but the heart of/ iiJSt?*** thousand times lighter al** ^otyonr loving note yesterd St?*^^ou UtOe missivea ahonld ce hi ahonld pine and die." â€"I olaim I wrote that " he asl ty(4o9. Yon can't go back on y can you " ' tiiat those are my letters, K:^ 0ught be no Lnpedlniens w ment of his fooa ^; i^l called you fond names ivtliie die of it, Mr. Bow wretml timea that yon wei -.Jaaifl had bought you a»t» jumped into a well any pat on hia overcoat and •ad then kissed the 1 gi H. yon never that he loved yon wltiioat so maw i I'laidaiflM came 1 illtobeS, aadnexi altar that pQ