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 W" HIFT AND SPRAY- â- s-^siatij^* i FAV «p)»»^ I t^ACTURE ONLY ^lated Wai )urabilityMidFij LTON, ONT. one thousand KennedTRii "e offer them at the^?,^ i barrel, «is.oo,octbMrdi 19.50, •' •' 20.00, •IM model, 16.00 ST3 nKxtel, I8.O0! 876 model, 19.50 •reled Breach-loading (hiu packed m a r^aae, price ilJi ,s c-.o.d., with privilegetiTi' ill be deducted from price 3 .rifest Gun Dealer in Cji Oil Sf ak STYLES OF RNE CO^ )N, ONTAF ME GOLD fCTRACTSj SGLUTELYPURJ )M SELECT FRUIT| \/ERYWHERE ESHERS WELL-KNOW* :lessO| CO., TORONTJ \MMO' FURNACES. IE AND VENGEANCE" 4 k'V, cnred, lo that Capteia Mooqnet wm a Tcrit- SHOfidLEK^ t -, Xhe Most Fascixatiso Ocban Romance Siuce thk Dats or CooPEB axd Mabyatt. -fl^PTER IV.â€" (COKTIXUED.) I â- â€¢ jijonted Captain Dolan, in reply [(â- â- â- ffiP*rtinence, LV;1 that «e may Who are you Strike know where yon " That sit -.call- '•t.r ahoy V. av, sir •.,,are vou (iiie. Down your helm, he"ll send a shot into -Red ' \lurv Jiiiieâ€" "^^^^^^ Shields- '"' I'n'l pickaxes 1" went agnnfrom the Spray but • :.-t had ahf red its course, the shot ' 'mle'slv P=^*^ ^^^' and it was only •7 tin'"m'.inent, ly the flash of the â-  'J that the position of the Spray â- fieeii'throu^'h tlie fog. "'mou 'â- â-  said Dolan. " 2sow I know 'vu'are. I can get out of your way. 'â- â€¢two i)oints east, Martin." "iv sir â-  â- ' ';â-  J ^..111 vas which had been set on r- •;' Kitt fluttered for a moment in the ami Happed itself into action, with "^^n^'e of "sition of the littlie vessel, Ihcn at an accelerated pace, fought fcvthroufc'h the rising sea. I [the sea was rising for the fog ap- ' have condensed the air above the uiij'to have produced some elemental r lt,K!i as is evoked in nature by the it e.iuilil'rium and equalization- arc the causes of meteorological i.;'|the J^prav fired a gun in the sup- • j.vectioiiof the Rift, but, like a spirit, if"jwn(itnnto the mist, and the bright 'he piece of ordnance only for a brief. " "lit uji the spars of the government •â- '.cI' thnUiih. as was that illumination h the mist, it showed to the officers â- IpI the Spray the yacht like vessel, kwhich doated the stars and stripes of ti I Not abo^-e a cable's length to tA the yacht was making a long tack „. if "it had become aware of its r liaiigerous proximity to the French â- -D from the Sprsiy a voice hailed the aa 1 the sound came hoarsely through ts-ifil a voice from I'lVhat ship ' Ahoy 1" ll\'i;o are you ""' shouted jviiht. j His majesty's schooner Spray." |:f rejilv was prompt liidit Nautilus, United States of Amer- iitaiii .Morton, owner, in command " Iiiw .lui you get here "' |Sed ihiwuward " IHi.M ' cried a clear, sedate voice, of ilitfereiit description to that which J-.p t(i this moment hailed and answered jiiil of the government schooner. ' ' Hold, iDaiutry ' I will see to this. What in- utiim "is requested by his majesty's (cer Spray that I, Captain Morton, of iN'iutilus yacht, can give " iHoT came you here "' |We iiave inade the voyage from New :. that Itoat "" 111 luik to you, sir, and a safe retiirn." Tr.ank you I" iVc are looking for a smuggler. If you tssel cutter-rigged with a yellow ust above water â€" "' [N'.sir: I shall see no such vessel, cut- p^ed or otherwise 1" said Captain â- '1 â- ' I am not about to effect myself a ktjitutary custom-house officer for his kmi-majesty ' (iood-day, sir." liioy Yaciit ahoy " t Nautilus sped on her course, and the h" Ml board the Spray laid down his St as he said II mound the fellow's coolness That's V'J with these American officers they rifays got some answer to you so pat j"t'"iy that one can't think of what to pi alter they have sailed off." lU; you tliink now. Mr. Green " F*iimonR(iyle, the. old sailing master F'^pray. and who in reality commanded |$:»ncr. rdl. s-a-h Oh. of coiu-se ' If he had E'jshed. I should have said to him â€" a â€" -I should ctrtainlv have said something ^â- " .. ' j •ay. sir I 'â- reVn gave himself a congratulatory I f fie ifecended to the cabin, muttering â- â- ' wish that the Rift, or whatever '«e name of the smuggling vessel, •â- under, or that somebody else would ^^â- .â- 'iiihand ;â- " •-f cabin of the Spray a young man f^^gugently lounging on a couch with [=«^m of a meerschaum between his lips t ' '^kish smoking-cap on his head, r » pair of red morocco slippers hung |-? «s feet, Ll*' "«^Uy."' he said, as Mr. Green, ^i lieutenant, appearedâ€"" Now, '•iTreen, did vou ever lead such a life r^erything Ah, what is it all abbut Iwl?^' ' ^^ annoying." |«iMying ' said the Honorable Charles ^^y. who was in oonunand of the !»,_, -joying, do you call it. Green deal worse than that. What is r^. having a great uncle at the Ad- ffc, '??"asto gooA deaced expedi- krLr* ' ^^** i» *e use Now, PiBi »^ *** ™™e, Sinunons. He We V ^* ^**°' ^^^^ anything pW* tL "' ^^ ^^* down, Green. [,;T;«t^t Moselle It is delicate, but "^-the sea airâ€" Dem it's the sea IJ*,*?J»Aed the wine, sir ?» â-  |(L'„, "f^W say yes, and there's snch tTj,~r^! Whatisitr llJ**l'atfor?' |H oi 1^* ^^ ^n paying the schooner tt was then that, aftw itrikmg his hrwrt qnette. aeverairtUblliIi demair. he obwr^Hlitiy Tlwik atiimnzfat cttaie wrer G«rald, and the Ut^t that caoMdolnoiuhr in fn^ tha while hii| cyas^Mdied with a^ic^ light that^: elikf iiif^iip rf|Jl|^ thai |ib waa not ' made hintlook admejhihg more than mortal, ' -.lT'er».«--T- ' ' Paying Dem I'll pay him when I can He's a brute, Green-^n old brute Now, really, as I say, what i the use of having a great uncle at the Admiralty It was all very well â€" Soda water â€" it was all very well when I was in commission as captain of one of the ships in ordinary that were to be some day in active service. No, Seltzer water â€" I won't have this. Simmons " " Yes, sir " " You are a fool " " Yes, sir " " Be off I As I was saying â€" let me see what I was sayingâ€" well, what is the use of having a great uncle at the Admiralty Sir Marmaduke said to me ' Charles, you have rather committed yourself about that little racing affair, and the substitution of that bay, Tippoo Sahib, for the Light of Mom,' said he. ' And you must go and do some- thing out of the way to make folks forget it. There's a smuggler and pirate and wrecker and all that sort of thing that Sir Thomas Clifford, the admiral of the port at Falmouth, is always bothering us to commis* sion something specially to hunt down. You goâ€" do it Ah ' " " Yes, sir " " Well, there was a row " " Yes, I refused â€" dem I Point-blank re- fused, and that same night a low, mechan- ical fellow a tinker, or tailpr, or candle- stick maker, or something of that sort, he got up in the House of X^ommons and he asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he could tell him whether or not the Honorable Charles Minto Grey was still in commission as a post-captain in his majesty's navy, after the recent expose of the swindling trans- actions at the last Leger " " OH did hfe'say Jthat, sir ?» " The very words â€" shocking!" 'Scan-daiou3 â€" hem!" " W^ell, my noble relative, the First Lord, he got up and he said that the young and gallant officer â€" meaning me â€" had been, for a moment, the dupe of designing people, but that with his characteristic gaJlantry and nice sense of honor, he had â€" meaning me â€" at once given up his cominand of the Orion and had volunteered to go in a schooner and rid the Channel of one of the most daring and blood-thirsty pirates that had ever appeared upon the coasts of Great Britain â€" meaning me. " "Youâ€" the piâ€" " "Dem, no! The volunteer." " Oh, yes, sir " " Well, then, all the treasury hacks and the government men cried, ' Hear, hear ' Loud cheers,' said the Times, next morn- ing. And that was the way I was, so to speak, pitchforked into this precious affair. Ah More seltzer water â€" no champagne â€" still? Be quick, will you? Ah, it's a iitiguing life this. Green, and I don't knoy where to look for pirates and those sort of annoyances. Now, what on earth is that for " The rapid discharge of a couple of guns above on the deck of the Spray disturbed the equanimity of the Honorable Charles Minto Grey, and then the voice of Mr. Royle was heard in almost shrieking vehem- ence, shouting "Cutter ahoy? Heave to, or I'll sink you! Who and what are you " " The Rift, smuggler and pirate?" roared a voice in answer. The Honorable Charles Minto Grey step- ped from the sofa on the floor of his cabin and Mr. Green ran to the hatchway. Then there was a sharp, ringing report, and crash through the oval light of the cabin of the Spray there came a six -pound shot, which passed over the head of the honorable captain and smashed a mirror, in which he had been in the habit of admir- ing himself, on the opposite side of the cabin. " Good day " " Fire " roared Mr. Royle, and there was a volley from the.whole six guns wnich had been shipped on board the schooner for the special service she was on. The smoke mingled with the fog, and for about five minutes enveloped the Spray in* an impenetrable mist. When that in some measure cleared -a way, there was- nothing visible, however faintly, through the va- porvMr, of the Bift.. " Make sail " cried Mr. Royle. "If it's to be Falmouth, let us be after him. These rascals often speak the truth in bravado, thinting, when they name a port, that that will be the last place to which you will follow them. Give -her full way." The Spray was a fast schooner, and but that she was a little overladen with her metal; would have sailed well^n a wind, such as she now took advantage of but even as she was, she sped through the water at a respectable -speed. The pirate lugger had disapjjeared. Had the mists or the waves swallowed her up CHAPTER V, A FAIB YOUNG JJFE " SKSCFED FBOM THE • V^AVKS. Captain Dolan, when he flung the French captain with so little ceremony through the half open skylight, was not at all unmindful of the fact that 0tr4d was in the cabin, but situated as he was Tnth the boy, he didnot concern himself whether he heard a little more or a little less of the peculiar business of the Rift. ,. ,_ In fact, as his avowed object in bringing the boy on the voyage at all was to commit him to the common guilt of the cutter's crew, it was not likely that he would strive to hide anjiJiing from him. The French captain had been so complete- ly taken by surprise that he had not made lie least effort ofTesistance, but fell on the table in the cabin as if it had been an act of his own. It was only for a few moments, however, that he was thus mentally stunned by the -treachery of Captain Dolan. Springing to his feet, with a shont of an- eer he made a dash at the skylight to re- gain the de but the woodai covering that was placed over it on the moment, by the ere* of a» Biit, defeated him, and then he jn,h^ Uj^ the hatchway, but that was se- side of the oabin t^te, stood poorUenJ^ Had Captain Mocqnet â€" ^who was a'fee to rOTrenae,'^both«f Fr^ceand^^ngland, but bv mt means ay^n^else put cme of the kndeat hearted aadMMbiest^en iHreathing â€" been in his ordinarily observant and co3 condition, fie' must have seen at a glance that Gerald ooold be in no wa^ concerned, except as a sufferer, with Dolan. and his crew. But Captain Mocquet was thrown off his balance by the treatcherous act of which he had laeen the victini, and there was despair at hi« heart, for fortune, life, and what to him was more than either or both, was now at st^e«-. " Voleur what j^u |ay, villain, pirate Qjie Jif e, one life " -^^^ '• .-* He drew from the breast of Tiis apparel a small pistol, and Gerald felt the cold miuszle of the weapon touch his forehead^ while Cap- tain Mocquet glared fiercely at^im. The smile with which Gerald regartlsl him was so sweet and yet so full of sadness that the arm of the French captain slowly dropped, as he said faintly. "Etvous?" Gerald shook his head. "Ah! vous ne parlez pas Francais. I shall sppke English. You too-ryou too â€" you are one prisonnier " â-  • "lam." t *-Wl Captain Mocquet immediately embraced Gerald, and then a voice from the deck of tho Rift cried out " Don't be too quick'over it, mates â€" she'll soon fill and go down " For a moment the French captain seemed to be trying {hose words in different ways, to see if he could extrct any other meaning from them than that which seemed obvious- ly upon their surface. Kien with a shriek of agony, he flew upon the hatchway and- beat with his clenched hands upon the wood- en covering. "Non â€" nonâ€" no! Pitie â€" what you say â€" mercy My Marie â€" mercy Oh, non, non What you call to give all, all, pour ma Marie? Mercy, mercy " Not the remotest attention was paid to the shrieks and prayers of Captain Mocquet who then, with hands bleeding -and such a look of despair and agony upoij kis face that it was awful to see it, half fell, half stagger- ed back into the cabin, and flinging himself on the floor he placed the pistol to his head "Adieu, adieu ma belle France Adieu, ma chere belle ma belle, mon ange Adieu, adieu " " Stop, sir " said Gerald, as he snatehed the pistol from Captain Mocquet's hands. ' ' What would you do, sir Don't you know that the good God would be displeased with you?" " Le bon Dieu " "Yes, I know that much French. You are a man, sir, and should not be cast down to kill yourself because Dolan and the crew of the Rift are thieves and bad men. " "No,- no. But you don't know; vous shall know my child (I cannot spoke de An- glaise well), my child, my Marie. She will kill on board one Coquette. Oh, you shall know. She is si belle, so beautiful,- she sleep so unsuspect comme un ange, and she and de wild sea roll, roll over one head of my dear little child. Mercy mercy No mother, no mother, no father tosi^ live and I will die for you, my Marie. With tears, and sobs and frantic cries. Captain Mocquet then explained to Gerald that his little daughter was on board the Coquette and would be drowned in the ves- sel on its being sunk by Dolan and his crew, as it seemed to be their manifest intention to do. At the thought the image of his own dear sister Grace, who was the one being that he loved, and who made up that one charm and tie that held him to life with a beautiful hope and ar happiness even in the midst of all else that spoke of harshness and misery, came up before the mind's eye of Gerald and he felt deeply for the despair of poor Captain Mocquet. " Sir, sir " he said, " tell me as plainly as you can. Do you mean to say that your lit- tle daughter is on board the Coquette " " Oui, yes my child my child " "Good Heavens! They do not, they cannot know it." Gerald rushed up the hatehway and knocked as loudly as he could against it to attract attention and then with a voice that should have been "heard even above all the bustle upon the decks of the two vessels, incidental to the transfer from the Coquette to the Rift of every portable article which any of the crew of the latter took a fancy to, he shouted "Martin Martin Ben Bowline H6y On board the Coquette is Captain Mocquet's little daughter â€" a child, a child, Martin Martin you don't want to murder the little child â€" Captain Mocquet's child. Do you hear me Save her Save her J Martin â€"on board the luggerâ€" a dhild on board. Save her Save her I and Ben Bowline Help, help, help " He beat furiously against ' the hatchway covering but with as much: effect might he have appealed to the raging i sea to give up its deadâ€" for not the remotest attention was paid to him. Weak, and faint, and exhaiisted, then Gerald staggered bcLck to the cabin. " It is aUin vain !^t is all in vain " The French captain flung himself npon his knees and with tears streaming down, his face began to pray. "All onboard, clear away " shouted the voice of Captain Dolan. " She is sinkiiigâ€" clear away fore and aft there, keep all' clear!" I " Ay, ay, sir " shouted th«.crew. Then Captain Mocquet uttered a scream and fell npon his face. Grerald felt as if his own heart had pansed in its action at that moment, and he was then alarmed by the Frendi captain smdden- ly sprin^^ing to his feet imd making a rash at the httle oval opening thatserv^asa window to the cabin. It was fastened b)r â- i' screw and the wash of the sea each mMKt splashed upon the piece of thick, greenish glass that was let into the little frame. It was evident that Ci^ptau Mocqnet waiB adzed with a deeira- to gc^ out qf the Kfi by that openii^, and it was eqnally^ evident that it was far too small for any such pur- pose. Then there cim^tkoy raon the. air and there was a commotion 09 the saree of ifae water. heteried " Who shaU sayâ€" God, who shall say f It may lie the will of 'Heaven^ sir, that yobr diild should yet be saved, and that I, even I, may be chosen as its instrument. Yoa cannot pass through the window, bnt I oaa. Iswimw^ Let-meso â€" ^let me go " It was but imperfectly that Ca^aih Moc- quet comprehended all that Gerald sieiid^ 1dl ' he understood enough of it to be aware that he meant to make some effort to save his daughter's life and he held him to his heart for one moment. "Go go " he sobbed, " Go " Lithe and active, slun and tall for his age, Gerald found no cBfficulty in projecting his feet throngh the window, and in at once gliding into the sea. It had been the favorite pastime of Grer- ald from the earliest years he could remem- ber himself as an inmate of the house of Captain Dolan, among the rocks and cliffs, to play in the sea as uough it had been his native element, and he was thoroughly and fully at home in the water. The thick, white fog that had floated over the channel and the Rift and the Spray and the Coquette and the Nautilus, from the coast of France, lay heavily upon, the sea and was slowly making its way into the cabin of the Rift. The waves were washing to and fro with a slow, heaving motion, and the smuggling vessel was making at that moment but slow progress through the water. " Here, here " whispered Captain Moc- quet and the light splash of a rope in the water close to him let Gerald know what he meant. The boy coiled it once around him and so was able to keep up with the Rift. While gently beating the water with his feet, he gazed as well as he could tlirough the fog over the suriace of the sea. " Lost, lost " he said. " The French-, man's child has gone down with the Co- quette " Even as he spoke, a something glided past him on the top of a wave â€" half on the top of it and "half below it â€" rolling over and over, and looking like anything but a human form, amid the fog and the light ocean spray that was about it. Gerald was impressed with the idea that it was some little child he was to look forf but this did not come up to that notion and when, upon dashing the salt ooee from his eyes, he felt confident that it was a hu- man form that was rapidly floating away from him, he did not think it was the fair girl who had spoken those few words we have recorded, to the villain Dolan, and who was the life and hope of poor Captain Moc- quet's heart. But still, that the object in the water was human, he now felt assured, so Gerald struck out for it. And now a circumstance that neither he nor Captain Mocquet had calculated upon very nearly proved the complete destruction of Marie. Mocquet l6id found in the cabin of the Rift the rope he had flung to Gerald, and he had lashed the end of it firmly to a ring in the paneling of the cabin. Now, however, Gerald found that he was sudden- ly .brought up by this rope, and that the white-looking object in the water was float- ing away from him rapidly, while he could not advance another inch in pursuit of it. " Cast off the rope " he would fain have said but his words would easier have reach- ed the crew of the Rift, busy as they all were, then the ears of Captain Mocquet. So Gerald had only to make a struggle in the water to get the rope from aroui^d him, which was no easy task, wet and tight as it had got. After several efforts, however, Gerald did slip the rope over his head, and was free. Then, with vigorous strokes, he swam after the floating white object in the water and as he went mth the same current that car- ried it, and swam likewise, he soon overtook it and flinging one arm around it, he strove to raise the face of the young girl from the waves, in order that if the lungs had not yet ceased to play, they might inhale fresh life from the free air. She did not move. " Dead " gasped Gerald, " Dead " He then looked for the Rift. It was at that time that Captain Dolan had ordered the first change in the course of the vessel, and that change had the effect of bringing it each succeeding moment nearer and nearer to Gerald, who found no dif- ficulty in keeping -his {dace in the water, al- though he might have found it an impossible task to swim after the Rift, burdened with the apparently dead body of Marie Mocquet, which he still supported on his left arm. It wa;s with a strange sort of rush that he heard rather than saw through the fog the Rift coming down upon hiin and in fact it was with no small difficulty that he kept clear of her cut-water and she rushed along past him at what looked like great speed, as he was floating at autyigle in the other direction. (to be continued). 'â-  i ' â-  A Falaoe Tngedy. M. Maspero added an incident of a pe- culiarly horrible character to the i^tory of the unwrapping of the royal mummies of Deir- el-Bahafi. Among them was found the body of a yoni^ man between 2$ and 30 years of age, bewing neither name nor in- scription of any kind, which is by itself an extraordinary circumstance. Instead of having been Embalmed in the usual way the body had laiTeky been dried by seme skill- ful process, without removing any of the in- ternal orguis, and had been covered with a thick layer of some mixture at once fattp- andeanstic. Above all, the attitadeof the corpse, its bent legs, its feet tamed against eam other, its dendied hands, the expres- sion of its face^-all combined to indicate that the unknown person had died in ex- trame agony. At first M. Masporo was tempted to sos- pectf^Vhe ha4 ooBoe across a case of the embalmment of a livingjnan â€" a form of mnraer which is not difficult to Reconcile with EWptian usage. Medical men, how- ever, who had been consulted, were dispos- ed, rather to recognue the symptoms of pAisoning, tit a4yca8e,iM are brought face Hofaatf-wkh a^pkJace tragedy, for a body found among tbe royal mnmmi^ ni; Deir-el- "Bahari can hardly be other tiiaa tiiat of a princefy personage. ..4:4 'U -hi; Qaeen Vlctmii^'achioken house isa palatial, semi-gothie boiktl;^ ' ^\MrK Clefvdariat ft iar^AkriEed, has an ex- cdUent memory of names. i Mrs. Wm* H. VandevUH ia said to receive- |i^i^;i99 b^pn^^t((Brt|daUy. Katie Putnam, the actress, has an annual income of $10^009 fnqn her fruit farm in "Miohigitn Lady Randolph Churchill goes to the ladies' gallery rf the nouse of Commons al- most every day. •" â- ' ^- '--»-' • Minnie Palmer, having c^pleted her tour of Ireland, has sailed for Australia for a nine- months' engagement. Chung Sing, the Chinese doctor of Pueblo, is very sad over the death of his wife, fcHr whom he had recently paid;92,P00. The Duchess of Cambridge, wlio is verging on n^iety, is still in good health and preser- vation. She takes as great an interest in affairs as the best of the young ones. Sara Bernhardt will round the Horn for Chili and Peru, thence she will cross the Isthmus and visit Cuba and Mexico. Great woman, Sara thin, but. plucky. Miss Belva Lockwood has developed into a pugilist of no mean pretensions. She threw a troublesome client out of the window of her law office in Washington the other day. Miss Ellen Terry is reported to have a won- derful dog. She holds in her hands two bis- cuits, and calls one Clito and the other Faust. The bow-wow eats the Faust and leaves the' CUto. The widow of John B. Gough has re^ ceived at her home in Boylston a letter of condolence from the Grand Lodge of the In- dependent Order of Good Templars in New South Wales. Running stage routes is a favorite occupa- tion with women in the free and boundless West. A maiden of 15 owns the stage (and drives the horses herself) that connects Ham- line and Milnor, Dak. Princess Aria Murat, now Duchess of Mpuchy, is by birth an American, her native plce being Bordentown, N. J. She was bom in 1841, and is still regarded as one of the handsomest women in France. The fortune of the late Comtesse de Chani- bord exceeded fifteen million dollars, the greater part of which came to her from the Duke of Modena. The mother of Don Car- los inherited one-half of the duke's fortune. Mrs. Gteorge E. Codke, of Louisville, Ky., is iqeading ' her spare time embroidering a superb altar-cloth for Calvary church, Louis- ville, the pastor of which is Mr. Minnigerode, son of the noted Doctor Minnigerode, of Richmond, a cousin of Prince Bismarck. An African Princess is living in Hanover- county, Virginia. She is fourteen years old, and lives in the family of an Episcopal clergy- man, who was a missionary in Western Africa some years ago. She is soon to return to her native land to marry the King, and,, with her American education, she is expect- ed to prove a useful Queen. English tailors have recently made dresses' for the Princess of Wales with the entire front and sides of the skirt covered with dark braid on white or light grounds, while for her daughters, the young princesses, are wide side panels, merely braided across the foot as a border, or else, the entire lower half itiay be covered with braiding in open, showy patterns. Mrs. Custer, whose first book, " Boots and Saddles," has met with such universal favor both at home and abroad, is arranging ma- terials for a work on frontier life in Kansas just after the civil war. She and her iiiw- band lived in that locality five years at that time, and between the Indians and the four- footied wild beasts the days and nights were alike filled with danger and perilous escapes. Jenny June has long been known as one •of tiie cleverest of women newspaper writ- ers, and that she has not made money will be a surprise to many. To an interviewer she rcscently said " If I had not owned my house in New York I fear I should have had many -hard times. I have never received high prices for my work, nor do I receive them now. Allow me to tell you, my young friend, that high prices paid for journalistic worth are a myth. Such prices are never paid. If one is a magazine writer things are different, but I have always worked for newspapers and received newspaper prices. I have been enabled to get a living and to educate my children. That is about all. I am not a money-maker by any means. I never had any faculty that way." A Sad Tale. There lived in N^w York city during the last twenty-five years a family that consist- ed of a brother and two sisters. They were idl members â- of the Presbyterian Church, and held that positipQ in society that culture and a comfortable incoine secure. It became apparent some years ago that the brother was tippling. His friends in the church expostulated with him, and the effort availed nothing, afterwards sought counsel of his sister. The fact was admitted, yet excused and softened, and even to some d^;ree exonerated. Ultimately the com- munity were shocked to learn that the sisters had long drunk, and were then drinking heavily. The few counteracting cords that it is possible for friends or church to throw around the falling victims of our liquor traffie were quite too slight to prevail at all against habit and apatite which drink had stren^hened, while it had demoralized con- conscience. Rapidly the family passed the downward stages to poverty and contempt. It was daring the last year that one of the sisters died. The sexton brought tiie case to the notice of one of the prominent ladies of the dinrch, aridi^ her to go and see what could be done. The details of the case were a single room utter destitution the liviiu; â- liter drank npon the flcior braide the daaid; the landlord waiting only for the funeral to set what was len of the home, the in- tome,' and tiie respectability out upon the ndfwalk. When a tonporaiy lodging was â- ong^t for, it was found ^t in all t^t city there was not an institntidn that could, by.itn diarter, receive the living woman, exce|»t the Tombs. And into its mth, with ignonaoe and crime, she was placed.- Ont of this last startling fact grew an effort to establish a B!ome for inebriate women. Bat out of the sum of t3ie facts, self -preser- vatioD, preaches to evny one of as a poww- ial temperance sermcm. The gist of it f Let rupeeteMe people let drink alone. |i â- â€ž t .11 if. ;i| "is â- ^' :l.i S i it ...-.iSL;.;.^^...-,:- ..jjaiMiiiattiaiMt. MMtti â- iliiiMMi MMMN