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 â- pvini i i 4 f" i .,; j ill 1 â- â-  â- ; ri ;ivi ^:\ "].â-  ;! i! â-  1, I' •fa feeBelatedto The other dsy tb* eiUe broai^t an Man d Hem iHiich ravivw the mamofy of mm oi the nuwl rwn»rk»Me erimM rooordod ia the history of Eogliah triala. Theitem na to the efiEwt that CoutaDoe Kent, eaarieted tweaty-fiye yean ego of the Boade mnider, had receiTed a tioket-of-leaTe. The womaa thus briefly mentioned wai at the time of the oommlanoD of the erime a young girl of 15 or thereabonte, eadtheTictim wm her 3- year-old half-brothor, Arthur Kent. The event aoqolred mraraal p*XMrinenoe owing to the relationahip all the parties immediately concerned bore to the queen. WUUam Kent, the father of Conatuoe and the murdered ohUd, wai a gentlemen of private fortone, living at a place called Roade. He was said to be, and' the etate- ment was never contradicted, an illegitimate son of the duke of Kent, fonith son of George III. and father of Qaeen Victoria, and his private fortone was soppoaed to have oome from his royal source. Mr. Kent was a gentleman of quiet and coltivated tastes, enjoying a life of lettered ease. His first wife,mother of Constance, having died when she, the eldest of his children, was about 10 or 11 years of age, he employed a lady of education as governess and superintendent of his family. This lady he married, and by her had a son, young Arthur. All seemed happy in the Kent family, though the eldest daughter, Constance, was occasionally sub- ject to fito of moodiness, for which she as- signed no reason. Early one Sunday morning in summer the nurse girl, whose name is not recalled, alarm- ed the sleeping household with her outcries. She had awakened to find her' young charge, little Arthur, who slept in a cot by her bed- side, lying dead, his throat cut from ear te ear. The horror-stricken parents at once sent for assistance. The police and the cor- oner were promptly on the spot, and inves- tigations commenced. It was then noticed that though there were traces of blood on the blanket on which the child lay, there was no saturation such as would have been the case had the murder been committed while he lay sleeping. Forther examination revelled the fact that the child had been teken to a water-closet in the house, and that there the butehery had been performed. A carving-knife, sharpened almost to a razor edge,^wa9 also found with traces oi blood upon it. Of course, all these circumstances tended te fasten suBpicion on the unfortunate nurse- girl, for who else could have carried the child to the scene of the murder without causing him to make some outcry. At the time of the alarm being given it was shown that every one else in the house was sleeping peacefully, including Coiutance, against whom suppicion was not once directed. An attempt was also made to fasten si.spioion on Mr. Kent, the unhappy father, and the whole of England took sides, one in favor of this, the other in favor of that theory. Finally, the testimony clearly exonerated Kent, so there was nothing left but the con- clusion that theservant was the guilty party. It Ib true that no motive could be shown for the deed that she was of a most anuable disposition and a great favorite with all the children, but there were the facts. The con- clusion was irresistible, and the poor girl was arrested and thrown into prison to awai: her trial. Meantime the Kent household was broken up, the bereaved parente trying to seek re- lief from sorrow in travel. Constance was sent to a sort of conventual school at Brigh- ton, on the south coast. This school was an attachment to a high ritualistic JSpiscopal church, the rector to which had esteblished the confessional as a part of his church dis- cipline. The time came nigh for the trial of the imprisoned nurse-girl. Controversy waxed warmer and higher as the day set came nearer. When it arrived the papers were full of correspondence on the subject, and all sorte of theories were broached to account for the deed without the interven- tion of the aconsed. Various arreete were made, but always without result. Finally the prl was tried and convicted. But the public was not satisfied, and the home sec- retary was persuaded to grant a respite pend* ing further investigation. The case seemed hopeless, however, until one morning Constance Kent, accompanied by one of the Sisters of a convent school, called on the reoter of the church above spoken oi, and the two a^ed a private audience. Constance had oome to confess. She had evidentiy already told her story to the Sister. She then, djmly and lucidly, as the clergyman afterwards sUd, told the whole story of the crime. She had deeply resented her father's second marriage, though she had given no outward sign of her resentment. Her anger was still more heightened when her young half-brottier was bom. She had studiously concealed this feeling. But her jealous hate granr ha intensity as he grew trom infaney into laughing childhood. Gradual^ hate matur- ed into design, and she detenniaed to de- stroy the littie fellow.. Providing li«tp«afr with the idiarpened ki^c^ dwB^.sffear.- dawn she had slipped into the nwemrj ihldr ' dum'in way Am* P^ liad Bsaiid to flov the BQtisrj, nplaoad tlia Btliaeorpaa JnHa cot, wipad aad iwtatadtfaa kaifo to ili plaoaiB«b*kitefaaB,aBdtlMBW«Dt to bad sudtoalaap. Oo« eaa fanacipa tiae liorrar and exottsnant tiiia awfid oonfearioa created. Thonaaada rafnaod to believe it, aaylog the pA was dei iia sitwd, and p^ttingto a anp- poaed iMTeditsiry taint of insanity which Iwd oome to bar from her grandiather, GoocgellL, aaanargmnent. She waa, how- ever, tried aad not only maintained the truth of her eonfeasiui, but pointed out oorrobnating circomatanoes which had ea- oafod tbe notice of tiio poHce. Of oonrae, she WM ooavicted, andtlie other poor girl pardoned for tiie sime, ahe had never com- mitted. Then CoBatanoe was sentenced to deatli, but intaresta were made ia Tor tA a commutation. Her yonth and Iwanty pleaded strongly fat her; so did a certain feeling that, while oonfessioa was clearly proven not to have resulted from inherited insanity, the deed itself might have done. Her sentence was commuted to penal servi- tude for life, and good behavior bronght the tieket-of -leave mentioned. A niaee in blood, though not by marriage, of the queen, she has spent all the best yean of her life in a convict prison. Put such a story in a novel, and what critic would not scont at is too absurd for anything! £Iefi;ant Hand8 A pretty hand can no more be unfashion- able than a pretty face, but just now, we are told, it is particularly "the fashion" to dis- play a pretty hand. Tliat elaborate box of nonsense, the nail- case, made of plush or satinwood and filled with attractive.littie^implemente never used, is in more than usual request. Girls spend an hour at a time polishing away with pink powder and a bit of chamois leather, or carefully pushing back with an instrument for the purpose the slight film of skin that obscures the white cre^icent at the base of the nail. A freckle on the back of the hand fiUs them with dismay, and causes an instant demand for lemon- juice. A red hand sete the owner to searching domestic recipes for the proper composition of almond-paste. A tendency to knobbiness of wrist or knuckles plunges the victim into despair. There is good in all this, but the thing may be carried too far. A young lady's hands should always be well-cored for and pleasing to behold, but there are some bUniishes possible upon its beauty which no one should become unwilling to incur. Such is that roughness cf the forefinger which is apt to follow much use of the needle. Such also ia the puckered appearance of the hand of a young lady who has recently washed dishes, or the steined fingers of the preserve-maker and who would not regard the row of blisten along a rosy palm that has not disdained to grasp a fiAt-iron as honorable scars, no more to be coiuidered a disfigurement than the sword-cut on the forehead of a soldier The prettier your hands the better, young ladies, until they become too pretty to be useful. The white, smooth hand with a ring upon it ia a charming thing, but the huid that is redder and rougher, and does good work, has the first claim upon our admiration. ' â-  ^^** Ae^nes HedenBtrom. One of the best known among English philanthropic institutions is the Scandina- vian Temperance Sailon' Home in London, and one of the most interesting biographies of the century would be that of ito foundress, Agnes Hedenstrom. Left an orphan when quite a yomig child, she was brought up in the house of wealthy relatives in Upsala. Here she was petted and indulged to the last degree. " Let the child have her own way " said he friends. " She lias no parents, poor thiogj All her pranks were overlooked, and she grew up animated largely by the desire to enjoy herself and have her own way. Still a sense of dissatisfactim would make itself felt in her life. She was not quite ha;^, though she oould have given no reason f^r her despondency. One day, however, she listened to ai| em- inent Swedish preacher, and then, Cmt tiie first time, became conscious of tiie leligiDus element lacking in her own life, and at tiie fact that sIm only needed to fillber idle honn with thought and labor for others. She began preaching to her oonntrynMa in the Nortli, where no woman had been allow- ed to speak in public, first addiessiag small meetings, and finally vast assemUsgea. For some yean she oootinned this woric, becoming at last persuaded fliat it w«a her duty to go as a miarioaaiy to Ladia. Bat whUe in Loadosi, awaiting an o pp o r t un ity 0mtgp in mack, abnad, slie wasimpraa. eedwitittiM great aeedrf tiM poor in East Londaai -fflie ii^totii«niatiM streets, aad ifrwaatliare lihBt ioand of W owk Iaagwi|(4^IB||oiEe On tar eair,Ud(.pivi^$nd or ii*(fa. era. l^ithe hnaM, ia horrible pftbDa ro'if .(liKfi.fr .1 ;and pami^£ii^ itteaafl- oolbotaaiatkia ibliag, tiieir ean»tcy hMSfWUiaaey Oaa after aDotiisr, they beoanie qoiet, on. tfltteiHioIecMnpoay was finally aabdaed Next evening tit^eaoM^ luiagiag aomecom. radea with Hiea, aad it waa not long before a SoaadinaTian lectore-room iraa permanent- ly eataUiahed. It wasseowye la before Miaa Hedenatrom coold raiae aaffident funds for a larger ea- taUishment, but in 1880 tiie Home* was founded. Of this IGss Hedenst om is sole manager. She oorresp«mds with the members of her company, when tiiey are abroad on voyages, reoeivea and investe their money, and aids many a captain in pl^Mug ont his crew. Beyond all this, she superintends the Home and entertains the ' haja " who are tempor- arily on shore. For their benefit, bedrooms are kept in order, meals are served in a laige dining-room, and plenty of spice is provided for tliem to pass their leisure houn amid books and newspapers. In short, the Home is tiTi immense boarding-house, though of oourse it caimot be entirely self-supporting, some of ite patrons being quite destitute. Miss Hedenstrom says of her charges: " I have never yet had a aailor among tiie five thonsand that have been in this home, who has returned from itte his former liannta' and, tiiank €kd there are at present a good many decent dressed men among the Seuidi- navian sailon in London, whereas, when I began my work, there was not a single one of all that cune under my notice who did not look ragged or slipshod. " I can do littie 'o raise funds but never yet have I asked anythicg in vain from my Heavenly Father." It requires strong chancter for a work like this. But this woman seems 'to possess it, and to owe to it her fitness for her calling. Legends of the Strawberry. The people of Bohemia are the oldest dwellen in Europe, and retein many of the most curious supentitions. Some are unique and are scarcely to be traced elsewhere. For nstance, certoin fruite have curious fancies connected with them. The strawberry is especially reverenced. When the fint crops are gathered in the first handful is set aside for the poor, and placed upon a tree or stump or convenient spot in the open air, whence they can be fetehed away. If a mother has lost her child during the previous, year, she must gather no strawberries before St, John's d-iy, for if she does her child will not be per- mitted to join the blessed children when they go with the Virg"n to pick strawberries in the fields of Heaven. Another venion o the same snperatition says that the child may have a few, but not so many as othen whose mothen havs refrained from eating. The Vurgin will say to her " See, darling, your share is small, because your mother has eat- en them." In a valley at Tetachen there i a crag wiiich the villagen say is in the form of a human bust, and wliich is called the Scone Strawberry Lass, because a legend as- serte that on St. John's day, in 1614, a cer- tain willful maiden penisted in dancing and eating strawberries instead of going te mass, and added to her sins by laughing at her grandmother when she chid her. Thereup- on the old lady said, " I wish thou wert a stone," and the lively maiden became trans- formed. ' The legend further aswrte that she will retnmto flesh and blood whenever a pure and pious youth is found, who has never neg- lected his church from his seventh year, nor looked at a maiden during service, who will strike the stone three times while high mass is being said. However, the flesh is weak, we know, and the youth is yet to be found who has. kept his eyes in his prayer- book from his seventh year, so the maiden renuuns petrified. A Boy's Wish. I do wish I was a clockâ€" got a face and don't have to wash itâ€" got hands and don't have to keep them clean, and just geteto be looked up to by evwybodyâ€" just runs all the time, and dad never onoe say^ "now don't run the legs oflf of you, boy." Reckon ito a boy, sermstobe pretty good on the pteike^ or may be ite a mill-handâ€" anyhow ito a prettynioe tting tobe; of doartoit can't eat I No good fried " taten " for you oloekiel No Jfaorioe water, either. You've got hands that might shakeit, but no mouth fw to drink with. Neitiiereaa you go ban- foot Oh I'd hate that. Bat then yon don't have to wear an overcoat, or mittens on your handa. I hate that, tod I One erf your haada is aoaller than the oOiar, I weoldnt ilka that- wouldn't like to be "naiomad,'» 'twould be Book a ptagoaâ€" all the boys woaldfiadfelMit. liek 1 TisiB 1 Tick 1 II(^ My i^ » Toaaer Tw fli 1 1 bat tf yon waannuAg on a two do n s i|l ij M 'rf ^hosalbat dad.feadW pay for yonVrWrt^ppad vMttr qoiflk. ' "" Myidadainta- -•"» h-«». ai«a^ft l^^'i^^ sbot^" aadlaaghodaow ilto ••ShMitfUljaaihaiiMb^â€" i'ope. €$ Ifc^waa anem^ yet ko# aiay â- !• daily 00 â€" l it t la g modi gtaver snera by M lowing the firat aymptowM rfooBaoMpasote go naheeded. If afflfotsdwitiikM of appe- tite, chilly aanastiona, or hao Mng oo«i|^ it ia suicidal to delay a ringle mooMat the nee of Dr. FiHTce's "Golden Medical Diaoovesy,' â€"the great and onty reliable remedy yet known for thia terribly fatalir ledy. Send two letter atampa for Dr. Pieroe's eranplete treatise m this diseaae. Addreaa World's Diapensary Medical Aaaodation, BofEalOk N. Y. A Japanese inventor makes paper from eaweed, which from ite thickened trans parency, can be colored to an ezoellsnt im- itetion of stained jrlasa. "Langli and Crow Fat," is a precept easOy preached, Imt not so easy to practice. If a person has no appetite but a dtstreaung nausea, sick-headache, dys- pepsia, boils, or any other ill resulting from inaction of the bowels, it is impossible to get up such a laugh as will produce an sl- dermanic corpulence. In order to laugh satisfactorily yon must he well, and to be well you must have yonr bowels in good or- der. You can do this and langh heartily with Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pel- lete," the little regulaton of the liver and bowels and best promoten of jollity. It is impossible for that man to despair who rememben that bis helper is omnipo- tent. Delicate diseases radicallv cure^. Con- saltation free. Address World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. The qualities we possess never make us so ridiculous as those we pretend to have. If the public are fairly and faithfully deialt with they will come to appreciate it sooner or later. This fact is well illustrated in the experience of Messrs. Tuckett Son, witii their well known " Myrtle Navy " tobacco. Throughout the manufacturen of T. B. have stood firmly by their original idea to give the public the best article possible, at at the lowest possible price, smd in the large demand for their tobacco the public have manifested their appreciation. Nothing cute like neglect. There b a proverb that it " pierces the shell of the tor- toise." On the other hand, nothing heal wounds, and softens trial and cheen the soul like sympathy. They Speak for Themselves. PiCTON, Feb, 17.â€" This is to certify that I have used Poison's Neevilinb for rheu- matism, and have found it a valuable reme- dy for all internal pain, and would greatiy recommend it to the publicâ€" N. T. Kings- LKT. 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' My dear child, yov a perfect fever " s ntthe looks at me. and alt down for a i II make yourself ill." I'Ofa, Judith, I have 1 time I" ^I am glad to hear it i me while yon are oi fAnd I missed you I next time I goto Ye 1" P Who said so?' she i ^y. 'Errollsays so, am I make Mrs. Rutherfi P"*s f Ii it 'we' already " jcurls back from my f Oh, Judith, I like hi N me " [If the first is true, t bte." [Itisquite trae. I. levening, andnow- fAadaow?" Judith f DoDan. f towailicaac««lnfl"eiilnute«.«)ttonP|55r^ I la^noaida. Addicsi, FEBKIS itCO^^J • h«laren.Ta Arri* Street. TOSONTO.*^ MiiiiMiihiaiiii^