The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

 ?vT-« • " •â- T!"^-««v^«,-'=rT,;- *?: .•V!r*7T|^j^'*_:S*^wtrT"'e?' i^%'l/^9f-f^^^'*^^~H^ â- ' â-  V' 1! RECONCI LI ATIOl^r A HEW TJEAB S STOBY. i BY HENBY CBESSWHLL. It was with the air of a man profoundly indifferent to hia snoocaBes tnat Gerard Strickland, twitching his onffa and atretoh ing hia arms, before letting his hands fall into his lap, sank back into the Inxariona arm- chair by his library fire, after throwing on thetablethe letter that announced his promo- tion to an enviable post in the Civil Sirvice. As he thonjs-hc of the post, his advancement aeemedto himnosubjeot for congratulation, but only one of those grim jesta with which fortune delights to mock disappointed men. An old man servant, one of a cort growing rare, entered the room *ith aneveningpaper. He laid it at his master's side and stood at a respectful distance waiting, half hesitating, "' with some anxiety legible in his counten- ance. "Well, Thomas?' asked Strickland. "I beg your pardon, sir bnt do you remember what day it is to-day " " No, Tnomas. ' "Your wedding day sir " .. â- / Strickland's face clouded. "1 did not know, sir, whether you would wish for dinner the same wine asâ€" as you used to have." ••No Thomas; I shall probably dine at the â- ; club.' •'I ordered dinner, as usual, sir, and a bouquet, in case " ' "Quite right, Thomas, quite right." For an instant the heart of the promoted ofiBoial sank. The fidelity of his old domes- tic was humUiating. How ht would once have resented the suggestion that Thomas would remember this anniversary becter than himself. And that it should fall to the old Eervant to order irom the florist the bouquet Gerard himself had been formerly so proud to bring home on this evening to his wife! But the slight sense of annoyance passed away quickly. It was with absolute indif- ference that, seeing the man eervant still waiting, he asked: "Anything else, Thomas " "This morning when you had but just gone a young lady called. Hearing you were not at home she said she would call ,. again this evening about six. She wiahea to see you on important busiaess. ' "Hername?" "She left none." ' •'Did yoa see her? ' "No sir." " Did John say what she was like " "Rather tall, eir a young lady, dark and fashionably dresEcd." " If she calls I will peeher. You may go, 7- Thomas." The servant left and Strickland continued to himself " Tall, young, dark, well-dressed, business with me. Who can she be?" " The lady is here, sir, in the drawing- rocm," saidThcmaa, returning to the lib- rary alter about ten minutes. Stiickland went to the drawing room. At the door he paused a moment to steal a look at his visitor. Sue stood by one of the tables, idly lurning the leaves'of a pho- tograph album. Herback was toward him, 7 and he could distinguish only the tall and graceful figure of a woman, well-dressed, and wearing expensive laces. " Madam " he said, advancing. The lady turned. Strickland started aa if he had received an electric shock. To conceal, to the best of his ability, his aar- prise and the sudden pallor of his face, he made her a profound bow. ••I hope I am not inconveniencing you," she said, at the time returning hin salute. Then, with a quiet ease, she selected a chair and sat down. " Not in the least I am at your service," said Strickland. " As I shall avail myself of your condes- cension, I hope that was not merely a com- pliment." " May I ask you how I can oblige yon " The lady stroked the soft fur of her muff and once or twice lifted her aearching eyes to his face. Apparently she was heaitat'ng to name' the purpose of her visit. Mean- while Strickland gratified hia eyea with a good look at her, lovely, fascinating still as the first dav he had seen her. Only her pure profile had gained more decision and her eyes had a profounder meaning than when he last looked into them, as those of a woman who had lived and suffered. Ar length she said " Do you atill correspond with my fath- er?" " Yea. It is, however, a fortnight since I ' last wrote to him." "I received a letter from Iiim yesterday. He is coming to town to morrow." This time Strickland made no attempt to â-  ' conceal bis surprise, " To-morrow 1 Your father, who never leaves home!" " Themedical men ardered,him to the South and he will on his way atop in town to spend thp night with â€" " She piused. " His daughter," said Strickland. " He says his son. And ao we find onr- aelves in a pleaaant embarraaament." She leant back, and with a small hand be- gan drubbing a waltz on the table at her side. " You call it pleaaant " aaid Strickland. "I did not come here to discuss words, bnt to discover a plan of action." "I see none." "^And yoa are a politican, a man of genius 1 If those subtle arts, that liave been so 8a:!ces8fully employed in your own advancement, could be, without prejudice to yon, this once employed to extricate me ftoinâ€"' 1 ' " Excuse me, madam bat year reproaches are scurcely likely to assist me to exeroise my imagination." "Bah! Well, I have a plan. First, I do not wish, cost what it may, to let my iather know â€" ^the trnth." " The anhappy troth 1" She made a little grimace, and proceeded ' My father would be craeUy hart, and the sins of the children onsht not to be visited upon their parents. My remorseâ€" I beg year pardon, that is of little ccmaeqoence here " â€" she looked aside to warn him not to expoetnlate, and oontinned " Hitherto, th ft^fc* to car preoantimns, the distaaoe of my father's residence and ttie eeolnsion in which he prefers to live, he has been spared thiaaorrow. To-morrow onr clever edifice rf dntifal falsehood falls to tiie gnmnd, and V. " I at leasty am mable to ooojeotnre the oon- « Jfe Striakbitd, It b ateolvtily aeeei- "'fUjoaadaL I teoat yoa lly wMir auNfrfiad w to- deep shadow m oenoern ;^ttled oAfceE hearer's fade. WrappeeHn th*sght, be delayed the answer. His visitor became • /â- v-Ks:»-;^ impatient. u»i " Yoarpromised courtesy costs too maon i she demanded. "No. lam ready. B0 1 aee«[«wy dlq- culties. The servants ?â- ' • «• Give the new man-servant I found here this morning a holiday. I will speak to Thomas." •« If a friend should call " " You will see no one." " If we meet your father, psople will see ua to gether. " We will go in a closed carriage." •' Your father will stay here several hours. Good and simple-hearted as he is, do you be- lieve it posEible he will not rccogniz3 aâ€" bachelor's house " " I will sond my work, my music, and so on this evening. The room?" "Is aayon left it." *â-  Sentimentality " " No â€" respect. " Have you any farther objectiona " "None. It remains tc be seen whether we shall be able to deceive Mr. Gregory," •'By playing the affectionate couple. Can you remember your grimaces and fooleries of two yeare ago!" she asked, sarcastic- ally. " No I have forgotten them" replied Strickland, with a frown. And the two looked into each other's eyes, like two duelists. " When will you come here " asked Strickland. ••This evening. I will bring my things, and I shall slicrhtly disarrange thia and that. I hope I ahall not inconvenience yon. You are not expecting anyone " "No one. I was going oat. If yoa wiah, I will stay and aasiat yon. My engagement is unimportant." •'Pray go. We ahonld have to talk and we have nothing to say to each other." "Nothing. Will you dine here." "No, thanks; I'll go home now and return bye and bye." She roae. Strickland bowed in response to her bow, conducted her to the door with- out another word, and returned with a aenae o! relief to the library. Wheti he returnea home, shortly after midnight, the house had resumed an aapect long stranga to it. Lights were burning in thedrawiog-ioom, and a little alteration in the arrangement of the furniture h*d restor- ed to the room a forgotten grace. Bouquets of flowers filled the vases and a faint sweet- ness of violets floated about ^he hall and staircace. The piano was open, and some music stood on the bookstand. On the baudoir table was a work basket. By the' hearth his visitor waa sitting in a low chair, her little feet half buried in the bear-skin rug, and her head reposed on her hand, whilst she gazed wistfully into the fire. Was it a dream Bertha's flowera Bertha's music. Bertha herself in her home again Two years' misery cancelled in an evening. In a moment rushed across his memory a golden wooing, a proud wedding, happy months, and the bitter day of aep- aration. He turned away, and passed to hia room, aaying, '• Good night " " Good night," replied hia wife, without moving. The strange event that had taken place in G'^rard Strickland'a house prevented none of ita inmates enjoying a wholesome nighi'a reat. Bertha, persuaded that to-morrow's comedy could effect no real change in her relation to her husband, went to her room with the feelings of one who spends a night in a iiotel. Strickland, similarly, regard- ing the past as irremediable, read in bed for hsdf an hour, and then fell asleep. To get married they had both com- mitted a thousand foUiea. After meeting her at a t»ble d'hote Strickland had puraued her half over Europe, vanquiahed the diffi- cultiea of an approach to her father in hia secluded country house and nltimately, as- sisted by the lady's prayers and teara, gained the oM man'a reluctant consent to surrender his idolized daughter. The young married people, nassionately attached to each other, enjoyed fifteen months of re- markable happmess and then came the end. Bertha became jealous. Devoted to her husband, proud, hasty, immoderate in all her thoughts and emotions, she resented, with all the intensity of her nature, a meeting between Strickland and a former flame, a dance, a note, half-an-bour's con- versation. The husband anfortanately met her paaaionate expostulations with the diadaintul insouciance of an easy tempera- ment. The inevitable consequence enaaed, a bitter miaunderatanding. An impudent ser- vant,, a malicious abquaintance, half a-dozen venomous tongues, lashed the wife's jeal- ousy into madness. Aa explanation de- manded from her husband was refused with a sneer. He had began to think her a proud, unloving woman, and under the circumatancea, judged aelf juatification ri- diculous. The following morning she entered his library and with marvellous calmness, without quavering over a tingle word, announced to him their immediate separation â€" ^for ever. Taken by surprise Strickland tried to temporize, acknowledged he had been thoughtless, did all in a man's power to avoid the rapture. Bertha only replied so proudly and with so much severity that self-respect forbade him farther self- defense. Thay separated. Strickland ex- ternally bore his ndsfortane with quietness, and, in counsel with hi* own conscience, conoladed his-life broken and mined by his own want of tact. The hosband and wife met two or tliree times as people who barely know each other. He devoted himself to professional dnties, resumed some of his bachelor liabits and amnsed himself as he conld. She led a qnlet, almost solitary life, restricting her pieasores to sndh rimple en- joymenta as she oonld provide herself at home and seldom appearing in pabllc On one point both agreed â€" ^to write regularly fo Bertha's father, repeating such stereotyped phrases as ' Bertha is well and sends her love. 1 believed she wrote to you a few days ago." " Gerard Is well and at present very busy. He wUl not this year be able to aooomi any me to the seadde. " It will le easily believed that to go to her husband's house and to as^ a favor d him had cost Bertha's ]sride a atnuigle. '?or papa's sake for papa's sake I" she repeated to herself, to stsel her nerveif to the huaiilla- Uon, whioh, howevei^, ;8t)^idcl» « odld oonrteqr ^^ condderabr r ep epM MhA\ TMifpVri would be cfiuJly eonddmte m W* iBanww, 'J!;SL'^{M"3nML' ftUttle sdkt. a litti* adf-ooviaMga. and ^^^ «lm5r --.-....:i Dinner was ended, MJ tt»egoii^»«mikd contentment and happiness, and the two actors at the opposite ends of the table M necessity smiled too. Their puts had jcoved difiScult. From the moment of the old gentleman's arrival they had had to call eaoii^ other by their Ofaristin names and to use the little endear- ments of two people still in love. More than once, a word, an intonation, that sonnded like an echo of the dead past, made Strick- ]and pale and Bertha tremble. Their em- baraasment momentarily increased. The more perfect their dissimulation, the bitterer was the aeoret remorse that wrung the hearts of both of them, whilst they exchanged^ for meaningless things, words, looks and smiles, once the most sacred signs of affection. With the fear of betraying themeelves by an indiscretion was intermixed another, a misgiving lest, while they acted affection, they should be guilty of real feelings warm- than the courteous indifference with to cBodaot iur fatiisr tlirwMh Ifcefar hMMtoteqpwt is towB, toiit|#i«Cik«ii er which they desired to regard each other. Oa the staira, when Mr. Gregory, pre- ceding them, was for an in;.tant out of sight. Bertha turned back and bestowed on her huaband a grim look of .fatigue that meant, "How are we to continue this?" •« 'Tis only till to-morrow, Bertha," he replied in an undertone, wishing to help her. But the Christian name which, becauae he had in the l..at two hoars used it so frequent- ly, unwittingly slipped from hia lips, caused her to turn her face away with an angry frown. By the fire in the back drawing room Mr. Gregory appeared actuated by a desire to ask all the most awkward questijna, and to broach all the topics of conversation most difficult for his hose and hostess. " Letters are welcome. Bertha," he said, " when people can not meet, but I have en- joyed my little visit more than %11 the pages yon have sent me. There is very little in letters. Don't you think your wife grows handsomer, Strickland " ••I tell her so every day." •' And so he telis me. Bertha. His letters are all about you. You have a model has band, my dear." " I have, papa." Strickland hung hia head and regarded the pattern of the carpet " I ahould like to see your house, Bertha," said Mr. Gregory, after a moment The little patty sat out on a tour of the mansion. After an inspection of several rooms, as Strickland preceded them into the breaktast room, the father stopped his daughter and said •' Bertha, where is your mother 'a por- trait?" " The frame had got shabby and we have aent it to be regilt," replied the daughter, promptly. " Where doss it generally hang " "There." She assigned to the picture, which she had taken away with her, the first empty apace on the wall that met her eye, •• I don't think that a very good place. " aaid the old man. •• Ah, what a woman ahe was What a wonderful woman 1 You ahould have known her, Strickland. You owe her your wife. When ahe was leaving me, poor dear 1 ahe n:ade me promise never to hesitate to make any aacrifice that should be for Bertha's happine s aud 40, when my little girl came to me and said, •Papa, I can never be happy without Gerard, ' I thought of my dear wife and let her go. I feared, when I sent her abroad, I ahonld lose her. Well, you were made for each other. Do you remember your first meeting in Paris " They remembered it. The tour of the house was completed, and they returned to the drawing-room, Gerard and his wife congratulating themselvea, not without reason, that the good papa was not very observant, for many a token of some- thing abnormal had been plain enough. • ••••• • With a common sigh of relief the two ac- tors sank into their respective corners of their carriage, after seeing Mr. Gre7ory off the next morning. Not a word was ppoken. Bertha watched the drops of rain that trick- led down the windows. Gerard studied the back of the coachman. They had again be- come strantrers. Presently, moving accident- ally, Strickland touched his wife's arm. •• I beg your pardon," he said. " Pray do not mention it." Perfect strangers Tet both in the si- lence were anxiously meditating every event of the last few days, remembering the most trifling impression and studying all they signified. As they past near a cross street the husband asked " Shall I drive you to your own house " " 1 am oomipg to yours to superintend the packing. My maid can not do it alone." On arriving the wife at once went to her chamber. Strickland, conscious of utter pnrposelessness, returned to the back draw- ing-room and took up the paper. Bertha paaaed backward and forward. Once or twice he canght a glimpse ot her moving about the room. At last he looked up. •• You will tire yourself," he said " can not I assist you " " No, thank you. I have nearly done." A few minutes later she came and seated herself on the opposite aide of the fire. She appeared tired. As she sat she looked vound to see if anything had been forgotten. " I think it rains leas," said Strickland, who had laid down the {Mper. " No. It rains just the same as before.' " Is the carriage ready f' " I have sent to know." The carria«e would be ready In tea min- utes. Those ten minutes seemed an eternity. When Ae servant entered to say the oarrlam waited. Bertha roee and stood for a Itette whue before the mirror, arranging her laooa and rftbons with difficultyrforher flann trembled. Then ahe dowly drmr mlier gloves and turned towards her husband. He had risen and was standing waiting. " Good moml^" shMaid, bowing aHght- Be bowed, hut mad* no rmlv. fiU turMdand quietly, with oUai, 'm*. ttep walked froav the raem. ^Qm oaald *-â€" that ha fii^lbiNd heti. " '«?»â-  â- â€¢Â« fN7J»^jiQthehaIL Sodtely^fca peaso.aecsiM^ ' ' â-  yOUNG: FOLKS. ;V Thi fiektleBs^Bot in'Clmich. How he turns and twists, And hew he persists In rattling his heels •;- How ancasy he feels. Our wide- awake boy la church Thto earnest and still. He attends with a will, .* â-  While the Mory is told Of some hero bold, Onr dear, thoughtful boy in church But oar glad surprise At his thoughtful eyes Is turned to despair As he twitches the hair :. Of his little sister in church I ;; ,| Still, each na,nghty trick flies, At a look from the eyes Of hia mother ao dear, r Who thinks beat to ait near Her miachievoas boy in charch I Another trick comes J^ ' Yea I His fingera he drama, Or his 'kerchief is spread All over hia head â€" And still we take him to ohurch He's trooblesome Yes That I'm bound to confess Bat God made the boys, :. ' With their fan and their noise. And He surely wants them in church Such children you know, " r;-: Long, long years ago. Did not trouble the L-rd, Though his disciples were bored So we'll keen them near Him in Church THE LITPLE BPAETAK PElNOESS. The place, a grim, gloomy-looking room in a royal palace, rude weapons of war gleam- ing upon the walls, the windows draped with haniings of coarse tapestry, the floor a solid pavement. The time, a summer day in the year before Christ 593. It is afternoon. Thd two bronz;d soldiers who stand on guard at the door, armed with spear and shield, stand alternately on one leg and yawn lazily. A great wolf-hound, gaunt and tawny, lies fast aaleep on a coarse woven mat in the center of the room. Out of doors the sun shines brightly and it is still. In the palace there are ahade and coolneaa. but there ia atillnesa there too. Standing at the further end of the room is a tall, long-haired, dark-bearded man. He has just come in from eating his usual dinner of black porridge and garlic for though of the highest rank in Spsirta he has to sit at the public table and eat the saine kind of food the common laborers do. His features are heavy and hia dark brow is frowning. He mutters and gesticulates with his hands aa he gazea at the auit-i of armor and the weap- ona on the walls. What do you suppose he ia thinking about Some enemy, perhapa, that he ia going to war agaiiut for fighting waa the chief employment of kings in thoae days. You would hardly j tidge by his dress, for he wears no better clothes than the two guardsmen at the door, that this va\n is a king, and yet he is KingCleomenes of Sparta. While he stands there, talking to himself and stamping hia feet, a little giil enters the room. She ia a slight wee thing, and she looks juat a little frightened as she sees the soldiers and all those fierce, glittering weapons on the walL Her eyes are very black and dtmcing, but her hair is like gold and falls all over her face and shoulders. She is pretty, but grave-looking, despite those wide-awake eyes, and she ia dressed soberly, with not a particle of color about her her long Darian cAt^on or dress, her short cloak, and even her sandal-straps are all of a solemn black. This girl is our prin- cess, little Gorge. By and by, when she is older, she will wear a cap over her golden hair, and will go out to run and leap, and even wrestle and box with the boys. For this waa a girl's hard lot in ancient Sparta. They were trained to be strong and brave and enduring, and not to look well and to dress handsome- ly. A Spartan girl did not go to school she did not evenlearn to play on the flate or the harp bnt she had to bear burdens to make her strong, and dance and run to make her graceful, and then was whipped severely on oooasiona so as to toughen her. All this Gorge will have to endure when she grows a little older. As she is still young, only about eight, she can mn about and play all she chooses. So she has come Into that gloomy old hall to see what she can find to do. Perhaps it was to romp with Alto, the hound but he is cross and sleepy, so she goes straying up and down the room, peering at the sikvage- looking weapons and the horse hair crests and gleaming breastplates and shining shields. After a time her father sees her and calls her to his side. Though a grim and moody man Cleomenee loves his daugh- ter, for die is his only ohild. He is talking pleasantly to the little girl, when all at once there Is a great commotion outside. In another moment the guards throw open the door and a moat gorgeoiu-Iooking stranger is ushered in. Cleomenes bade Gorgo leave him, and in- stantly became grave again but Gortfo does not go out of tht room. She b so Interest- ed In the man's magnificent appearance that ahe forgets her father's â- command. She has never aeen aaytUng ao fine In all her life be- fore. He wean a aoarlet cloak with a great deal of rioh trlnunin«, the atrapa nf M t â- andals iparkle with jewels, and on his head Is a helmet w lofty and with aomaay gayly. oobrad fearhon on it that Goroo's eyea are qalte dazzled. ' ' No one takes a^ aotiae of her, and Mt she â- taadaaadUstoaa. Shahears tiia straagw My that hU name Ja Aristasnnu. and that halsfromMOetna, a dty of Ionia, acroaa the tea, and that he is tiybg to get up a war in his own land, and wute Cleomenes to help him. It |Memi that Ariategorns and h people had an enemy In Darius, thejpeat King ef PeMi^ and they had mad* no their minds to llhht hfaa. But they not .have qoitf polcUars eooogh to OMiy on a war with aiw ncpmeofc ol snooesa with « mighty a fos tt '*SS3aii of Persia. S?*i^_?J"'5?f^ M««*s:%rtiias!w«re t?aittr^^ ^* ^^"*^ *» B^.ttF- irte«s«iiNbq«rll. IktetSssda Ihie showmg the way to^lT^ the k.^ in a fl'tterm|'**f • *dli,. Spartans, hsing such good sS7 "^^ have no diffiouUiea in i.^^^ wo,SJ obstacles on the route. r,!«Z " tt. with a great deal of inS.r?**««C cautious man, he told At!.!! '°" W, would think themJter ;\S-^"«^ days would let him know his .- '" *ia, Aristagoms, probably fei'i^*^' that Cleomenes would\e?pX'^^'\«ir, leave and departed. Gorco f„« ' ^*^ lii« out and had a chance to wK'*?' W dark, handsome face. SameW.f '°/^ 1^, jast fancy him, and in spite of hil^^" mmgs and gorgeous hsad-dre^sp"' '"«• that he would not come a^ajn """""'•'â-  noped But on the third day he^did r handsomer than ever b his el^h '""^g Gorgowas pkying in the outTr c^!!?"«»- as the aervanta ushered him kVA,?"' *oi where the king sat she dlS?*"** suppose It was jast a little bit i! ' her but the rich dress andte«i»i» of Aristagoms were a rare treaf r \P"*« never before had seen any tM^^ u *!" dull colors of her Srarti 'Lom?^ ^.j" I have a fancy that ihe feared Ari.f"' might harm her father, for the J^?^°^ made up her little mind that he IJsIl" ed man. ""'»wict Cleomeaea very caimlv tnH a • that before he gave him his arLwpt?**^"" like to ask him a question ' '""i "How far is it," he askeV " fi.^,.. 4.1. king's capital to the sea " ""^^e great «'A three-montha' joumsy," repUej tie three-months' ,.„„,„ „, Ionian, without stoppmg to think. ' The king wjks very angry Hp li.j supposed it was more than three daW T tance. To. march a three montW^J^^^^ mto^an enemy's country waa fi "You are no friend to the Spartans." .«j Cleomenes. "Quit my capital S^^e 'S But Aristagorus meant to get Cleomeaeaj help If he could so he began to offer £ money. Now the Spartans, though Z were such excellent soldiers, were very uoor and Cleomenes, though a kbg, wi^J too. The bribes that hia vbitot held fL were a great temptation to him. Aristwo rua offered him first five talents, then ten then twenty, then forty. Cleomenes beian to consider apd to look at the money. "Aid us with aix thouaand of your bravesJ Spartans," said the cunning Ionian at hut' "and you ahall have fifty talents for a thrw- montha' aervice." It waa a large sumâ€" more than fifty' thouaand dollara. Cleomenes hesitated no longer he reached forth his hands to take the fifty talents. •• Father, father " and a little hand clutched at hia arm, " fly, I beseech yon, or thia stranger will corrupt you." It was Gorge. Sae had heard the whole conversation, a,nd felt that her father waj being tempted to do wrong. It was very brave in her, but she was terrioly frighten- ed when Aristagorus flashed his angry blwk eyes upon her, and she thought she should sink through the floor. Cleomenes, however, very kindly took her hand,s;ave Aristagons back hia money, and told him to leave Sparta at once. Aa it happened, Gorgo saved her father from a great mistake. Aristagorus waa miserably defeated in his great revolt, and thoae that had helped bim fared as badly as he. So her eight innocent little years served quite aa good a purpose as many older onee. ' Da you want to know what was the alter career of thia young girl who began life so bravely and thoughtfully ' We called her the Princefs Gorgo, bat she became â- * queen at last, marrying her consin Leonidas â€" who led the three hundred Spartans a: Thermopylae, "and died with glory in that biatoric fight. A Lesson in Grammar. Ono night, an owl was prowUng round Looking for mice, when on the ground He spied a cat, and straightway flaw Quite close to it. "Tu whit, tu whojl Qaoth he, •• may I again ne'er stir, It here, dressed in a coat of fur, I do not see a four-legged owl. O what a very funny fowl It makes me laugh, so drollâ€" Ha h». Ha ha !â€" it areâ€" ha ha I ha ha It are, it are, it really are The drollest thing I've seen by far " /ou're much n-iataken, scornful m, Tne cat said, as ahe ceased to purr "For though, like one, I often prowl About at nipht, I am no owl. And if I were, why, still wouid you Be queerer creature of the two For you look, there's no doubt of tliat, Extremely like a two-legged cat. As for your grammar, 'pon my word, (Excuse thia giggle), he-he-he-he, It be, it be, it really be The very worat I ever tisar-^ ^^^^^ Do? and Cat Story. People who have much to do with wimaj are often puzzled to k^o^^^'^^^'^riter ia gins and instinct leaves off. s^* f"^;,„, an exchange. Aa an example ff^^^^^,' I muat tell a little anecdote of a ^/.""j.jt,, loneingtoa friend «^ "•^'"f- J f'm the animaf always fetches the le'" " tour. postman, who arrives »* "Jf ^.t^f with a The dog aleepa on very Soof^^*!.^" ytter- large cat. The other mormng it was w ly mid when the POB'^^^^.^^Bob W» Aough reminded of hia du"M. B^b w^ to tSm out. He waa observed t^^ make the cat do »'"/t»'»8 *Sn J ' lydid not or would «»* ""^^"Se^lUr. last he jumped up, "'z' puss by w and driRodhim to the door, where m £o«^^n, hurrying l»ckintoJ« as fast Uhe '^^^^J^^trSS^' get up, for puss walked back 'nw"' btters after alL V ' V niNNT LimE STOIBB. What Tliey Were OaUed.^^;^ WeU. Dfvie. did you enjoj J," ..po yoo themieum?" Y"' '"'S.you «»' remember any of th?"" *Si" '\^, can you tell m\'^»»»* *f cJled ' Do »"' •• Yes most of them were cau tonoh.'" Could c7t the Meat _^^^ Little Rudulph one dayj)«ttlefrf«; ' Si* ?••-" Humph "nij V^^SS' if 6OOBEBOHE PEEDIGi: ••'^r g««t af Wealhrr 'VTe Are to » ^^ lag tbe Winter. ^e fortshadowing of the i ^^ter, as it is read from the do ^\he Goose Bone, is not a cb QUie promise given forth of aleei aeld u a gloomy picture for the ^on, and the many whose short ^Stpenuit them to lay in a boun of foel will diiver at the thought «f weaker that the little bone J Ite next four months. There 1 ^^ and wet weather than th thb latitude have experienced winter, and tiie cold spells wi aad more severe than usuaL is dark at both ends, whici a long winter. Winter weatl ligre in November, and th aaow will be familiar sights fai llaroh. The goose from whose bone ««â-  tuen, was hatched in killed after the ides of Septen bane Is WOKDKBPULLY MABK the dots and breves and linea along the keel, thna indicating able weatfaer, but the breyea n down and are heavy, showirg th xal character of the winter will cold weather. The danger period November t^an any other mont from the 10 h to the end, wi severe weather falling between t 26'h. and at any time withir blustering anows and nnaeae* weather may be looked for. Tbe Ifirat danger period in D tends from the lut to the 5th, t titere will probably be a few days -weather. The heaviest storm p aonth oentres in tbe Christma beginning on the IS-h and paa 27th. At the opening of the will have very foul and prob the coldest weatfaer cf the seaso oold lines ran along the bone the nuddle of January. Watch but above all prepare for it. It probable that the darth will be c enow when Cbiistmas dawnf oold north witd vill be blov Christmas fires will have to b big for comfort. The 24^ 1 December will be tbe darkest STOEM Days of the mo On the bone all the indicatii cold, and stormy weather meet time. It is a curious cln etering such as is seldom seen on the I mixture of weather may be look wet and cold predominating. long apell of bad weather eome on the bone are very dark, v "very cold, and we need not loot mercury far away from zsro dur day week. The new year will come in co' with the first danger period con the 14th. There are three ator this month the second comme the 14th and the last one about the month. The dots that ap] bone up to the middle of the heavy, from about the 10th especially so, and during this cold weather may be- looked i December and January the n frequently be below zero, proba ir there for days. For February short periods n the bone, and the general chara month will be stormy and blust some very cold days at the 1 month and again at the close, spells and continued cold weathi the ice and snow and the month will be aa hoary aa Aa the bone enda very dark, it bable that March will be a r November. In that caae the find it very difQcnlt to break all kinda of vegetation will be getting a atart. It will cot be tiiinga in the ground too aoon winter will be likely to be foUo' ing frcata far into April. The members to have seen only one to compare with the one .this yi season there were frosts as la Every indication, from the rea bone, points to a backwud sprii gardeners who have their richei early vegetation will find their and difficult. An Aid to Science 'K-.'^,'4.' ii'" A '{â- 'i' " !» 'Vt-li Curiously enough, the firat Mr. Leary, and which reaultod ly to ita prcjectora aa a tinan proved an invaluable aid to ecu be remembered that it broke tucket daring the aevere atom cember, and since then almost sent time these logs have been and their exact position noted ed to the hydrographic office at All these reports have been can and compaied, and the result central office can now f umiah a chart showing the courees of oorrents that could have beei no other way. Indeed, eacl Leary's raft became a special the offioe, doing the same worl scale on which the Govemmei other coimtriss have been floating Iwttles. The Bigger Half.â€" " Bobl mother, " did you give half of CurUttletister?" "Oh, yes r more than that," replied Sflenerous air. " Did yoa, in Why, that was very nice of ma, I tucked the jnice out am tile rest." One of the semi-annual revol m bi Hayti President Telei â- â€¢â€¢dnated last September. Gei Mised the reigns of power compel tiie Assembly to me Prinoe in order to go throuj deoting him. Iwo-wirds of t fun refuse to come. Oppoeiti is develofdng under Gen. Hip] ^sQaotlng a large force. Legit nss peaseSsion of the navyâ€" 1» *^ Is blockading the ports. ^ved himselt ia a serious scr •a American vessel, the Hayt ;^ Pstitbm has been presentet ssdaiUngfor Us interfe hastate Si anarchy half "» 8*ss sad property of -fSfrigaers are conatai i wfltSeao lack of prete: «lHBtkawi8htointefer .»"-g-"«