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it It ling P, ast, on ner rof (1h- ent ger IHtS ere gh San ent wn en. i in sit. ere tat lor the i of the ral tea ith an ich en !l7 CI- as an all '86 le id Is, ;ir nr d 86 Hi Of ie 8, ;d ie r (,'OLD AND GILT. She. icrt I .IS EAKLI BI'BINO. , ... m.1 anil all was 8 very "-"--". no more do it than that," and he map ped his fingers, though what that action a mm mavs HPtTct nn.l hia tinniiw ll l. . .1 I - uid uuqi n, uiuugu wuat impaction had to do with Albert Hill's intn;n i. did tot explain. "Why, he's goto -to id auo 1 .-- i I ninrrv llm ilminli. If. 1- .. . I . . . . . ..-- I "i s . j mcu vu unking p . , .. . I ---j nv. it, aud did "or boat, in an wuuu-ui r:"ef f"7 t7flXm S..m tUat "aTHl ,tuen 10 J1'8- Tne waa ue,eprr an.u.ae?P. until in time you'll "w lor ,,r'' the other day of its nervo of a Jsapoloon, and he kept hia ' " l.,t .tl. nnnllln know it: I iravejS IOrilie Urm that 8 What lin' r- I raailv in h nmn 1.11,1 11, a i... .. .,!!. ... I ffflt itnwn inn tViu t.in-.li I 1 i. ... r . . I I..: . ... .. 'ilii u of ay, w r rv-r- M . inff to do. Ask ,lim 6- - ------ - - - Tl - - ::7i.:":,.Vwf mu,f . . CU,""'B- "ne nian v wer that it is wwnreiy pace until wen ! n i-oUld "01 Uir u""""Bi " I , - ., .7, ' " uo " I '- uuortni were going That has been done awav with lone , lint it is In hell who ,i ...?,;.' ii .... .i v. .: L. .u i. ... ril, in ... ""u "'."y "oo...,u. iuo huic utu mo caria i i -"i- -"i iui vou make one pitv the n-t beautiful of all, and it seems the yo ""ready. And you keep on sinkini A Soldier's TkrllUny Escapes. "What constitutes nerve?" nskod the "He's a Yank-shoot him!" called on of the men: but the scout walled on. They wore trying him; but he had the K"1", , .i,.n the Feltliaui road, that uu?7 hy. coming off diroctlv. aloiiR Hie road to heaven. Ou earth ' "n.nnnv with Tom Dawlish- ?niy ane s noming to look at, so he isn't .n was waste fould could :.1td l"nK just mini ?. timA.aml that marryinff Lim . . . 11 M nxar iin vkti bnn. .a. oi if. . be altogether tnrowing uermjii n( uary askea, iT . .. i i,n heart knew thnt lm linil fnii.n i.i i.. u,.r p noci.ou - an , . . ---- - .""r'J.' were trave nir a one ailentlv -.,) hv Ki.lo. ia - . t.,u..a I'.iiK hiirv a omce ana sue " "uv iu uer wnat nn mil ... " t ' ' . . ...ii u 1 1'. . - - - i i i ., . . . i' . r intntnn thflbill she oecn in tUO sprinsr (the summur vai nar. A smart looking young et) . Not that for a moment she believ liiW .uumnn- nn.1 when the ed Tom's words. ""!;iTwas mado out, and she turned to t ,",Why. I work there, and the servant I1.1 l that, thn mIiowpt which hud wld me, besides I V6 seen him en tlmm . ifl H1UUU fcMw I .. .. ' O- - Tlmn na .h l ' . " , ' . wm answer uiui n is i l'!1"8 falling, ?l.ViC-hm'B,l,.d?p?,r'.,nd PJw?nce 0f miml: anothor tuat i" u61Kl'l'orl"J. ,,ey ainns; b. k into lug easy chair, he held pluck; anothor that it is beinir cool and Mime '.'J8 ?"''' oewre his face aud sobboil; collocLxl in Ariinifinln T 4 I t I . .. away from the Detroit Free Presi. inw iu i I uuiv hliu iiiiinirifp in innir at an i.- .u nm i .u nnar nuoh n hn. .. i. .. I n ih tin 11 nar.m. t i i. . I i n ... - - I . . , . a;- to no loll v I : ...v.. ,v, uu , .,v , lut. Buu gouoeu I I CUUOCUH1 in nnmnninnif T i a l. l i mnu nr b nn i.ni .tr, l... i i . . a pun k ina ui i - - 1 .. .. i - 1 11 iiii n. 1 . 1 .. iv 10 iiifiiu vi a plain, uoue, uuru- ---- - - uii. Bne s got -""' " um" "i " -"" .-..; ' iou poor, uu nappy tiiose. It is somi.tl.inV wv n fellow-was rather a rwo",e' B,"e".a8 a.na. W on th. ":"' e.rr lmn n I'uU uecome of you?" . them, and something wh,Vl,a7,,n uiiuiu. Bull iooks liKfii). niiv " I uuk iiriiiu id uu rennecier ni twrrnmn nun 1 1 uiur uot'i n,i r , Hnn on.i ,i 1 1.. 1 .. -----d - How do von know it 9" M 1 I 80 U llilpoeiied that thev ha hnth i inil at on, aiKl, HH .7 - " AUItl V ILhKHU. ., -. . " 1 . 1.1 Miss nurdott-Coutts. Mias lhirdiitt-C'onttM, known as tho r upviioii th .r,.i wn.i 1 1 1 , owuiuiunijj n uiuii u man never i jiiiiih-v ouhh, Known as mo he pu ? d&!"i nnleM in him. Instances richont women in Kngland, and as a per- her lips turning white, for her exacting 8a,1", hour' aml I,ow UP0U ,heir road t' ,,'el,rd1 t,,e tkh "an still sobbinK: "J in th. ., T6 With 6l'e-y n J llb"ftli,ytin tho litribution heart Itnew that he had fallen ofl ? i Mn 'even were couietogetner again, an bo H, in .hell! You poor, unhappy Zi f ? An UIecr out in of her vast wealth ns to commend her to nn, hum win lutcome of vou?" 0 'u,"b'i w uu a reoonnow- wimuuuuu 01 mo civiiizca worm Aad again a hundred years went by !inee W0W he suddenly attacked. into oKRimnion of her fortune in a id yet a hundred, and the time was rMe.nco of niind aidod him to form hia very interesting manner. She sooms to . 1 fnt intnA rimo van cnminiT walfBt-'u o fn with a vengeance, .'Oh, dear," she said, Hut the way became steener and Stcener. nild the rich nnm hmmn t,i (iml it an very hard, for he was fat and hhort- ,njre uuendlsslong totherich man thau Pi01 - r t'ofoll80' Ho hiul tho presenco prefer the simple title of Miss Coutta to ureatneu, ana in an nis lire lie never --aii oegiu to imagine; and. as the , . "" even tnongli liis faco was as ot jtarontwM lonttn, conferred upon aicu mr ueiure; mereiore. me poor -- iuiana camo to an eud. Peter "uuc 8 ,lour n"d ms emu sliakinir. ner oy uueen vntoria in 1871. in con- ..... n f i. 1 ! I i ... I ntani.a.1 m n,..:. ' ' I )(.... . . . . ..nl'i .v ... .' ... io were common enough in tho suieration or ncr munmcent public ranks. Call for men to faco certain death, charities. Miss Coutts lived in rather 1 aIIiI I" Wait here a few minutes.miss; it will tfwjn be over, saiu me smuri young uimij i hn havine accepted his offer of fkulter. Mary found herself, limn iraf olwkii.l rf Kim n.,.l AH.:. n I fltpnnPil ill uioI "ffi'-t u u v Jhe'tt,'e of .he.a.ven- !. ''Ah !A ot the rich man ns ho en- -v.- iuu ourai io oe locaeo, nnu tue poor man naun t t ie icreu, uow i nave loneet to vnn i ? 'and I have no Hnou of yourself," and she rushed courage to rap. He just sat down pa- ui so very ad. And will it alwavs be na away to hide her gathering tears and I tiently upon the ttep, saying to himself, now the whole eternity?" And after a frightened face. "I'll waft' until the rich man comes whiIo: "Saint Peter, but say, how lone is She wrote to him, asking him to meet alonP; pefhaps he'll rap." eternity?" her that night; but he replied with an After a long while up came the rich I inoii I eter answered : "When your ten ana a hundred privates would stop out at straitened circumstances during her ays be as oneo; yet test thoir "norve" and they had "Iy years, inheriting no property from nno. her rich grandfather. Thomas Contts tho after a excuso that made her heart sick. . . i . i,rt,i iioniir.iTii i imir ir. u'hh hi) I mo moh iiuiu uuu ior 11114 haka nried-and he had a little dark was false to her charge of Franky. , .!8tache. and wore such a pretty blue , 0 mn about, Master Franky, uear, sue said, "1 want to tidk to a friend of mine but then don't get out of sight; and then in her bewilderment she lorgot all about him. Alfred Hill look- he wa3 very nice-looking, itache, necktie, oh! """tl vou Mrs. Poole's sister?" he isked, 'after a few minutes' conversation, jfjiy flushed as she repliod truthfully i. ha was far too good a girl even to wairocate that she was not such a dis Simiahed individual, but only the house-maid and chamber-maid combined AVH V UW I ea ramer pored than otherwise, but he no question about that. I don't soe whv was smiling and Bhiny as ever. She you need give yourself such airs. It's had hardly greeted him when he appear- little enough to 'your credit what we've ed, but she looked at him with all the heard about you up here, all those years admiration she had ever felt for him. in- you've beon living upon the earth." x .' n . i . i . . r . . . Tl, .1 1 . r . I . t I j. lieu uitj null uiuu luit uis courage ue gin to sink. Peter, however, troubled man quite out of breath. Gate locked? thousand years are passed away, then has V bat does that mean? hy don t some- "just commenced." and open it? and he grasped gate and negan 10 shake it might, mid to pound on it with his fists. Peter, busy within, heard the racket and came rushing out to seo what it all meant. He opened the door a bit, looked at them both a minute, and then said to the rich man : You are the one that couldn't wait: As the rich nmn lmnr.l ti.; i. i his head upon his breast and began to weep bitterly. But Saint Peter, standing tmiiitiii in... .. .i .... ...... .,,,, BdTtHjy counted ins tears, u w;her he saw that they were so many that the dear God would certainly forgive him, .e spoke: "Come, 111 show you ouiuciuwifngiii neautirul. Upstairs, in the attic, I know of a IbjMioIo in the wall, through which you can see a bit Among two or tlllvn cahir in min.1 that of John Melrose, a trooper in tho Sixth Michigan Cavalry, is recalled. He was an under-sized, nuiot snokpn and he had that wonderful nerve whioh not three other men in tho whole hricmlo possessed. While acting as a scout in tho Shenandoah Valley, ho was ouo day friends some of tho first literary mon and vuuK muuer at, a iarm-nouso. when in actors oi his clav. Soon nftur In snHln wanted seven Confodorato soldiors. mont in London he marriod Elizaboth iney Know him as a Union scout, and he btarkley, a girl of hnmblo origin knew thorn as Confederates. A bravo lho lived lmmnlv fmrotlmr an.l eminent banker, born in 1741. At the death of his brother Toter. Mr. Coutts asssnmed tho entire direction of the firm, which, under his control, roso to its highest prosperity. Ho was a cen- tloman in manners, hospitality aud ufuevwience, ami counted among his tensified by her fear. He sat down ba mi with another blush she told him that flde fler, and elegantly crossing his legs f ' Bin- .,reier! n?w1e.veri l0U"'e( fwu Clara, but Mrs. Poolo said it was began tapping his highly polished boots "m?elf "o further about htm, but, reach tjasviuiu, , .. , . inir the noor- man out hia hanri to lin li with his bone-headed cane "Alfred," she said, crossing her hands in front of her and looking him directly in the face, "is it true as you are going to get married directly?" "Who told you so?" "It isn't any account who told; is it to sot so he followed up his successful i'ue , tts. y we going to marry Miss mIIt with another one: "Do you -U"oks because she plays on the piano, loo fine a name ior a sorvant, and so 1M her wary. "I shall can you oiara, lie sain .'shall I?" he added with an appealing elanee. iuary leu uer nean oeai lasier; timpthing seemed to tell hor that her destiny had come, and she had no words . . .771" :! trer get OUl 01 an evening ior u wain; "Somotimes, sne sain soiuy. "Will you go for a walk with me next tune.' "It wouldu I no rigui; you are quite itrange, you soe, sne answered slowly. "Oh! we 11 soon gei over mat, you bow. Perhaps you ore engagod, though?" Mary's inconvenient heart pre a thump, which showed that ho meant bnsines f. e., matrimony. "No. I m not; out 1 m wanted to be. ' Sot a very lucid answer, but he under- stooil it. Who to, he asked conxingly. "Well, perhaps I oughtn't to say his jime," she answered slowly, for in this, the most important movement of her life, is she felt it to be, words seemed alto gether to fail her. "What is ner ''FTe'iihft'B a carnonter." Marv never felt the truth more difficult to tell in all her life. "A carpenter!" he said, in a telling lone of inquiry, not unmixed with scorn. "Well, of course, if I am not better than i carpenter " "Oh! you are; you aro, sir," said Mary in her excitement, putting out hi r hand, and resting it for j ust a moment on his sleeve. Mary lost her heart to tho smart young man with the blue tio and well-oiled hair. He never said anything more defi nite than he said that first day; but ho vu always ready to tako her out, nnd most particular about her dress; and the result was that all her littlo hoard of sav ings went in more or less ill-chosen tnt-ry, and Tom Dawlish was forgotten. There was only one thing sho refused to io, and that was she would not give up ler Sunday afternoon to him. She hud ilwys had to take little Franky Toole ontfor a long walk on that day, it being hia half-holiday, and sho would never ing the poor man out his hand to help him arise, he said : "Just come in, both of you, into the ante-room. We'll soon see about tho rest." And of a truth it was not heiven at all into which they entered, only a great, wide hall with many locked doors, and with benches along the walls. "Sit down and rest yourselves," began mto the attic, where through all sorts of rubbish they came to a litile chamber. entered this, there fell a goldon iaj miuugii mo kiioi hole, precisely on neioroneaa of Saint Peter, so that he looked as if a tlamo of tire was burning upon him. ;ls this really from heaven?" said the ricn man, trembling. "Yes," said Peter. "Now just look iiirougn." had throe daughters Susan who marriod the Larl of Guilford, Francis, who ninrried tho Marquis of Bute, and So- phio, mother of tho subject of this skoteh, who married Sir Francis Burdott, and has money, and" The tears came into her eyes and her lips quivered with anguish. "Oh, it isn't true, I know it isn't true!" and she touched his hand in her dismay and looked up in his faco with all her heart story written in her eyes. "I don't see why it shouldn't bo, so there's the long and short of it. It's no use making a fuss of it. my dear girl. " "But it isn't?" she said appealingly "Well, yes, it is true," he said slowly, not daring to look her straight in tho face, "so you may as well know it at once. She stood up before him. "True! Do you mean to say Alfred. after all that has passed between us, as you are going to marry some ono else?" "I really don't know what you mean by what has passed between us. Yon couldn't think I wa3 going to marry you?" "Why couldn't I?" "Well, I don't want to hurt your foel ings, but consider the difference in our positions. One walks with a pretty ser vant girl but one doesn't marry her." "Yon are not a gentleman, as you think yourself, Alfred Hill," she said slowly. "You are dressed like one, but you are just a bit of a clerk, not any bet ter than a respectable girl like me; you are not a gentleman. A gentleman doesn't try to take a girl's good name and win heart, as you havo done." Mary often wondered she fought her battle as she did; but she seemed to have no feeling then, only to realize that which would come hereafter. "I'm very sorry that you let yourself fall in love with me," he said tapping his boot again. "I thought you would have had more pride, at any rate till you were asked." "More pride! What do you take me for?" she asked, her cheeks flushing: "Do you think I'd go out with one and talk to him, and let him talk to mo as make vnui-sclf rioht Peter again, "and wait until I come buck. 8t'ln.d.on ,ne liP8 of y0""" toes," said Meanwhile, improve your time, and think ,, .u' over what you will have here above; for each ot' you will receive precisely what he himself wishes. So consider well, and when I return, no ceremonies, but out with it, and be sure you don't forget any thing, as hereafter it will be too late. So Peter went away, and a long time elapsed before his return. But when at last he did como back and asked them if they were through with thinking it over, and' how they wished to have it in eternity, up sprang the rich man and said he wished for a great, golden castle, finer than any the Emperor had, and every day the very best to eat. Mornings, chocolate; aud noons, one day, roast Veal and apple-sauce; the next, milk-rice and sausage; and tor dessert red groats, and so on, one day after the other. They were his favorite dishes. And evenings, every day, something new. Besides, he would have a right fine, easy chair, and a green dressing-gown. And oh, yes! uiuu nimiii uavo niauo a man or had a nght. Melroso simply looked up as they filed in. smiled ovur hia tlx. nml Kidifi.l 'i' i ... . . . . . i , 1 - luerewnn reter led tho way up stairs. 0UK lOlllABttip ih,,.,, ..i. .11 ... . ;. ,. .... .i: vui vtviimu. ulil uu uiiim dimmr here, and we'll all have a square meal to- the member of Parliament who proposed gother." tho celebrated inquiry into the Uoldbath Vrt.. ; ill 1 .1 li' 1 1 ; i 7 i i. v . .. iuu uro uy prisoner i sum mo ser- luiua prison which resulted in tuo dis geant of tho squad, as ho advanced. I missal of tho keeper and a complete ro- x Know it, uut i li pay lor a dinner lormation of tho regulations of that pris for you and your mon just tho samo. Sit on. Ho doubtless transmitted to his down and mako yourselves at homo. colobratod daughter many of his bonovo His nerve upset tho soldiors, and after lont virtuos. Soon after tho death of a moment they took their seats at tho Mrs. Coutts. in 1815. Mr. Coutta fell in But the knot-hole was somewhat l.i.-li . . ' Iormin8 complete oirolo around lovo with the beautiful and accomplished upon the wall, and the rich man was not i i 1 As 8?on they began to cot NUiss Harriet Mollon, a very popular very tan, so that he scarcely reached up "b" ""i i escape, ii was i -um m comouy in mo eariy pan oi v.. I. - .... I Hiimnmr an, Tin win, nw iwii.m.i !.... I Tina nnnfni 'i'i..u ....... i. ...... ... lvTr. vu IIIU3I, IUUK6 VOUrSeit rihL IOni I " "ii i.iin mut i ,w..tij. xmn imij niw mull lu II I Um and ton feet awuv was onen. If hn Rtniul and was so much vniiiiirxr limn lmr mmn. up all eyes would bo on him, nnd any lent suitor, that she declined the match. excuso to leaVe the room was not to bo representing that the f.mrty-four years thought or. The meal was about half finished, and captive and captors woro chatting away, when Molroso suddenly flung himself backward, upsot his chair and bounded So the rich man stretched himself n no much as he possibly could, and at last he could peep through the knot-hole and see a bit into heaven. There was the dear God, sitting upon his golden throne, be tween the clouds and tho stars, and in all his pomp and glory, and about him the angels and suinh?. "Ah I" he cnea out, '"upon earth one can have no idea of tho beauty jind glory pf all this. But tell me, Saint Piter, who is that sitting at the dear Lord's foet, minim uuea is turned to mer "That ? That is the poor man who dwelt near you on earth, and with whom you came up to the gate. As I asked him what he would have in eternitv, ho only wished for u footstool, so that 'be might sit at the dear Lord's feet. And behold ! he has received it, exactly as your castle. With these words Peter went quietly away, without his departure being ob served by the rich man. who was vet through tho window. The soldiers ran out and fired at and pursued him, but ho mado good his escape. In tho Luray valley, just beforo tho affair known as Woodstock races, Mel roso and his companion foil out of tho ranks to forage. After scouring a sup ply of meat, they pushed on after the column, and were riding at a gallop, when five bushwhaekors, well mounted, camo out of tho cross-rod about twenty rods ahead of them. "We are dead men!" said the scout's companion as they came to a halt. Looking back they saw four more bushwhackers climbing the fence to tako difforoncc in their ages made too great a oarricr to bo surmountoil. The enamor ed millionaire, however, successfully porststed in his Bnit, and Miss Mellon boenmo tho happy wife of Mr. Coutts. Peter musn't forget the daily paper, as he I stiindirjr perfectly stilt upon the tips of position on tho highway. Melroso consent tn lii liiny nllnvved t.n run wihl in Kensington nnrrlnna n Alfrp.l Hill you've done, if I iforao the ftmirt.vnnnr man nnlUn I've too much pride for that, and I should nun HO lib uuill'uujr IKJL UllJ UlUCQb Hill 11 11 I hudn't. And you know as I've liked you, for you mado, me say it and you know it; but it isn't you as I like, but the man I took for you, and he isn't here at all." "Well, I'm sorry yon are disappointed tie proud recipient of thirty shillings a in y.r ll0l of bettering yourself by eek income. Kn nnswfirrnme save that marrying above you, and I think, after W clasped hands mado one in their al-y1u'vo BniJ' J,e fetter jmrt iamb movement of contradiction. Not . . lhe 80oner the bctter. a!d sho .et mm go, anu sue sai uown ano aimosi sou bed her poor foolish heart out, and spent the bitterest hour of her life beneath the trees from which the leaves were falling. Suddenly she looked up for Franky; he was nowhere to be seen. She called at the top of her voice; no answer camo. With a fear that deadened nil other feel ings, she ran to and fro in a wjld en deavor to find him. She asked tho police man at the gate; he had not seen him. An hour passed in fruitless search; and then, pale with fear, and trembling in every limb, she went home to relate the terrible news. Just as she got to the door sho saw through the gathering shadows Tom Dawlish, and in his arms a little figure, which her heart told her was Master Franky. "I met this young gentleman as he was running away woea sauor, uuu lutnu; brought him back." "Running away! Why, how were you going to get to the sea.' "I was going to walk there," said Franky, stoutly. "Iou would havo killed your poor mamma. "Mamma," asked Franky Poole tho next dav, "would it kill you if I ran awav to sea?" "Yes, dear, I think it would. Oh, well, then," he answered patroniz ingly, "I won't." It was spring time again when Tom Dawlish asked Mary a qnestion once more, lie nau a goou situation, anu a prospect of a rise; and he'd always been daft on her; and he wanted to know if she conld love him. She iooked up with a face that had grown thin and pale, and answered truthfully and simply: "I don't think as I do now, Tom; but if von liko to wait I think it'll come." Blesa vou!" said Tom. "Id wait seven years rather nor lose you." But'he had only to wait one. "He's gold and t'other was gilt " said Mary on her wedding day; and she was right. would want to know what was going on Then Peter looked nt hi in with pity, and said: "But don't you wish for any thing else?" "Oh, yes !" interrupted the rich man, quickly, "gold, much gold, whole cellars full so much that one can't even count it." "You shall have it all," returned Peter. "Come, follow me;" and he opened one of the many doors and conducted the rich man into a magnificent golden castle, where everything was precisely as he had wished. After showing the rich man around, Peter went out and shoved a great iron bolt before the door of the castle. The rich man put on his green silk dressing- gown, seated himselt lu his easy chair, ate and drank and took his ease, and, when he had eaten enough, he read the daily paper, and every day he went down nto'the cellar and looked at his gold. And twenty and fifty years went by, and again fifty, so that they were a hundred; and that is indeed a mere span of eternity. Bv this time the rich man had gotten b linn lain, m mu aa I !,,. ... . 11 . i hadn't cared for him? 8? of ' magnificent golden castle mm ne couiu uaruiy euuureuany lunger, his toes and neenintr into heaven, ami could not see enough. Truly it was very hard for him, as the knot-hole was high up. and he must even stand on his tip4oe; but he did it gladly, because of the wondrous beauty of which he saw. And after another thousand years camo Peter again, for the last time. There, in the attic chamber, upon the tips of his iura, stiii stooa tne rich man gazing hx edly into heaven, and so taken up in see ing that he never evon noticed Peter's entrance. After a time Peter laid his hand on the rich mau's shoulder and ho turned around. Then Peter snoke: "Come with me; you have been standing here long enough. Your sins are forgiven you. I am come to bring you into heaven. But how much more comfortable you might have been all these years if vou only wished it. Don't you think so?" Journal. jested, while she walked about with , - . , - - - tier hne sweetheart. "He is such a wild little fellow: no- tody knows what ho might do if he had mecnance. . Ah! yon don't care for me," said the wo of the coal merchant's office, and love him! Why, every moment in the J was devoted to thinking o him; her was neglected, her money spent. w piace in a fair way of boing forfeited d DOOr Tnm T)nvliuh npnrlv lipart.. J?ken, and yet he said she did not love ta! "Ah! yon don't care for me!" he peated artfully enough; for no avowal of his own feelings had ever escaped his "Oh! I do. I do." dlift said: and cover Her face with her hands, let her head - uown upon his shoulder. II. AFTER THE SUMMER. "I hato school," Franky Poolo in ,"u uer one mnrninir. as lie sat on e table while she sewed a button on his wcrs. "I should like to be a sailor, uoodness! Master Franky. what's Pit that into vonrhpful V "Oh! nothing, only Tom Dawlish was -""S me about what they did in 7. you know, and all that, wild like to be on a raft. I should; aae drew his naked toes up on the T" anil Wrifftrleil thorn nlimit as he I come him more 105Cllt fif iha .l 41.; i. i.i ,i - ... v. imiiua 11 o nvuiu uv. Inn, . . - . -"a o fominff tswlfi v I linor.l mamma . o i J , ....... ..".."."... .!; and if he isn't gone when ekt ii.ft t ?.ii - l.:. ,i .T " uuuu i. siiaii ab& uu ..... ,? .to11 lm not to co filling the 'CTZ ' beaJ "with such nonsense, only I Bt tin i i -- i. -- " r '"Rot But somehow Tom got in her nl that afternoon. 'Loolt here, Mary," he said; "I want 'peak tn T-r.ii n ;n't i,i t nllnt to look at me if you haven't a mind though goodness knows I'd do any for you, but I don't want to see a i, Prl like vou a lowering of yourself -""6 ui wuu a cuap ime Aiireii i1 1 u; , 8u vu ao wuu jou : cue wgrily. 1st 08t thftt rve founJ ont mt him, and he's only laughing at 09 in 1 ' " "mJ U8U,UK ui thinking your'e a nice looking ion! -v you are dreMe1 nP wa,k a,ith;bntfor marrying vou, he'll He who would be a teacher for otheii must first be a learner. "That roast veal and the sausage got poorer and poorer every dy." he said. They tiro no longer fit to eat." But it was not so, only he had got sick of them. "And for the'daily paper," he continued, "I haven't read a word in it this long while. It s all the same to me what's co ing on cown there upon the earth." I don't know a single man there any longer. My acquaintances are all dead there many years ago, and, as for the peo pie who now live there. They do such foolish things and talk such unheard-of nonsense that it quite makes one dizzy headed to read it. Thereupon he was silent and gaped, for it was indeed very wearisome; then, after a while he said : 1 m sure 1 don t know what to do with my gold. What have I cot it for, I d like to know llow can a man he so unheard-of stupid as to wish for gold in heaven? Then he got up, opened the 'window and looked out. Now, although in the castle it was very light, outside it was pitch dark, so that one couldn't see bis baud before his face; pitch dark year in and year out, and as etijl as a cnurch-yard Si he shut his window ami sat down m uis chair agin, and every day he got up once or twice and looked out of the windows. But it was always the same, and alwavs early chocolate, and noons, one day after the other, roast veal with apple-sauce, and milk-rice with sausage, and afterward red groats. Ever and ever, one day just like the rest. At last, after a thousand years had passed away, the great iron bolt rattled before the door, and in stepped Peter. "Well," asked he, "and how do you find it?" Then was the rich man bitter angry. "And hot do I find it? Miserable enough; that's how I find it. Out and out miserable as miserable as one can be nowhere except in sncn a good jor-noiu-ing castle as this. How can you imagine a man s going to sianu it nere ior a thousand years? One hears nothing, one sees nothing. Nobody concerns him self about one. It's all a lie about your cracked-np heaven and your endless bliss. It's all an out and out miserable arrangement" Then reter looked at mm wuu aston ishment, and said : "And you don't even suspect where you are? Do you indeed think yourself in heaven? It's in hell that you are. You have wished yourself there. This castle belongs to hell." "To hell? repeated the rich man, azhast But this isn't bell. W here are, then, the Devil, ana tne nre, anu tne cauldron?" "Do you think," returned reter. "that sinners are sun roastea at lormeriyr llow Russian Wolves Capture Horses Whenever wolves associate togcthor for mischief thore is always a numerous train of smaller ones to follow, in tho rear and nnd act as auxiliaries in the work of destruction. Two largo wolves are sufficient to destroy tho most power ful horse, and seldom morq than two ever begin the assault, although there may be a score in the gang. It is not less curious than amusing to witness their ingenious modo of attack. If there is snow, or but littlo on the ground, two wolves approach in the most playful and I hadn't got. calmly viewed their situation, nnd nnully said: "We will chargo them. Fall iii bo hind me and there will bo loss dangor. Draw your saber and strike hard." The other dared not try it, though ho was a brave man. Ho, therefore, kept his place as the scout dashod forward. Melrose rodo straight at the men with a drawn saber, and tho volley they fired went ovor him. llo struck the lino, sabered a man as he passod, and soon re joined the column. His companion was nover heard of again, probably being murdered in cold blood. In 18U4 Molroso aud threo other fora- gors were captured in tho Shenaudoah valley, taken to a small encampment, and tho lour placed in a log houso under ground, until thoir cases could bo dis posed of. They talked the situation over and tho bravest of tlmm could see no hope for escape Melrose quietly listen ed to thoir discouraging remarks, and as quietly remarked that ho would bo in side of tho Union lines boforo midnight, Thero was a circle of sentinels around tho building which had no door. Tho sentinels paced within ,six feet of the building, and the one in front could see tho prisoners through the doorway. Mel roso said thad that if all would rush to gether tho sentinels would cither bo con fused and either hold their firo or fire wild. The throe mon had participated in more than twenty battles, nnd were known as bravo fellows, but here thoy wanted norvo, and nervo was what they caressing maimer. lying, rolling and frisking about, until the too credulous and unsuspecting victim is completely put off his guard by curiosity and familiarity. During this time the gang. squatting, nre spent this way, the two assailants separate, when one approaches "Very, well, I will go alone." was tho quiet announcement, and as night came on, Melrose was ready. Standing in tho dooiway, ho asked the sentinel what time it was. "You git back tliar, or I'll shoot! assailants separate, when one approaches I wflB tie t,r0mpt reply, the horse's hoad, the other his tail, with "Yes, I'm going right back!" a shyness and cunning peculiar to them selves. At this stage of the attack the frolicsomo approaches become very interesting, the former is a mere decoy. the latter is the real assailant, and keeps his eyes steadily fixed on the hamstrings or flanks of the horse. The critical moment is then watched and the attack simultaneous; both wolves spring at their victim at the same instant one at the throat the other to the flank and if successful, which they generally are, the hind ono never lets go his hold till the horse is compmpletely disabled. In stead of springing forward, or kicking to disengage himself, the horse turns round and round.without attempting a defense. The wolf before then springs behind to assist the other. The sinews aro then cut, and in half the time I have been describing it, tho hor so is ou its side; his struggles are fruitless the victory is won. At this signal, the lookers-on close in at a gallop; but the small fry of followers keep at a respectable distance until their sii;.eriors are gorged, and then they take their turn unmolested. London JSeicg. A young arti.4 has painted the picture of a dog nnder a tree, and the work is so artistically done that none but the best connoisseurs can tell the bark of a tree from that of the dog. "It does seem as though some people are born to good luck, said a vinegarish looking spinster to a select circle the other dav. "You know that pretty Mrs. Smithers who married old Smithers only a short time age. Well, he died last week, left her all his money, and she looks perfectly lovely in black." said tho scout as ho dashed upon tho man. hit him a stunning blow and made for tho wood. He had to run across an open field in full sight of tho camp, and though it was dusk, he could be seen quite plainly for half the distance More than fifty shots werefired at him, and then pursuit began; but ho reached the woods and made his escape. Ho was one day scouting up the valley having on a mixed uniform, when he sud denly camo upon two ferocious-looking guerrillas whilo crossing a thick wood. They were seated on a log, backs to him, but at the sound of his step they sprang up and covered with their carbines. It would have been bold to bolt and take the chances of being hit. Melrose never slackened his pace nor changed counte nance, but walked directly up to the men and quietly said : " I've got news for the colonel, and I want you both to go along and show me the way." "Who said so?" asked one of tho men. " If I miss the way thero'll be a row, for this is important news," he answered. "Who be you?" "Come along and ask the colonel." "Well, we ain't going to tramp clear up tliar. You go down to the road, toi ler it for a mile, and when yon come to the old log stable on tho right, turn into the blind road." "Why can't one of you come along? " "Oh! you can't miss the way. We are watching here for game." Melrose slouched off in a lazy, tired manner. He had got about fifty feet when be heard them cock their guns. He did not turn his head or quicken his pace. In consequence of tho violent opposition of his threo daughters to his union with Miss Mollon, Mr. Coutts disinherited them, and made his wifo solo mistress of his collossal fortune at his decease About ttvo years after the death of Mr. Coutts, his widow marriod the Duke of St. Albans, Grand Falconor of Eng land, who was much younger than Mrs. Coutts. At her death sho loft the Duke an incomo of 50,000 a year, and a life intcrost in some landed estate With this oxcoption sho, from a delicato son so of justico, bequeathed tho entire fortune which sho derivod from Mr. Coutts to his granddaughter, Angola Burdott, youngest danghtor Sir Francis Burdott. The Duchess of St. Albans, in be queathing hor fortune to Miss Angola Burdett, desired her to take the namo of Coutts. This lady was born in 1814, and roceivod tho vast logaey of S20.000.000 in 1837, since which timo sho has been conspicuous for her charitablo deods and humanitarian schemes. Her liberality establishing the corps of nurses under l'lorcnce ISightingnlo, in tho Crimoan war, is familiar to every one. She is said to spond her en tire income, 81,000,000' or $1,200,000 a year, in hor philanthropic projects. Sho is an unfailing friend to tho poor, a pro tector of dumb animals and founder of churches and schools. In 1817, ton yoars after obtaining hor fortune, sho endowed a church, with parsonage and schools attached, in Rochester Bow, one of tho most neglected parts of London. She also established the drinking foun tains which aro such a blessing to weary pedoBtrinnsjalso the coffee saloons, which are suuh aids to tho temperance move ment. She is so much revered and be loved by all classes that the very popu luco, whon exasperated by poverty to extreme moasures of violence, pro tected tho homo of Miss Coutts, and declared that no hand should he raised ngainst tho peace of thoir "benefactor." This boncficontladv who had spent her wealth so freely for tho improvement of human welfare, is by no means averse to the pleasures of lifo. Sho has iust been soekimr a little healthv recreation in a yacht voyago up tho Med iterranean with a party of distinguished guests, one of w hom, Mr. Henry Irving of tho Lyceum, had an opportunity thus givon him of surveying tho identical scenes which ho so forcibly portrays in onucting the part of "Shylock" in tho Merchant of Venice. After returning from tho sunny South and ro-enterinc tho Thames, her ladyship's commodious steamer lay a week off Oravesond, whore sho and hor companions had leisure to study the vast maritime, coasting and river tralllo of the port of London, w hich had great interest to Miss Coutts, as the condition of thoso employed in it had long ongnged her kindly attention. Jons Kanpom'h's Rudeness. Perhaps Randolph's social peculiarities cannot be better illustrated than by tho following anecdote of his encounter with a French abbe, who, being on a visit to Washing ton in the early days of the Republic, chanced to be present at a dinner w here Randolph was also a guest, although un known to the abbe. The story is also valuablo as a history of tho only known verbal encounter in which Randolph came out second best. It goes that, upon being asked how ho liked the South, the abbe repliod: "Exceedingly, , but I confess to have been a little disap pointed I had heard so much- in the Virginia gentleman." "Perhaps you wore nnfortnnate in yonr circle, broke in Randolph, with a sneer. "You did not come to Roanoke, for instance." 'True," said the abbe, covering Lis evident annoyance, at the rude tone with his nsual calm smile. ' True, the next time I visit Virginia I shall certainly go to Roanoke. "Gentlemen, answered Randolph, embezzling the word, "do not come to Roanoke unless they are in vited!" It was a cruel thrust, but the abbe took it in the same placid manner; and, lifting his gray head, paused for a moment , to give due emphasis to his words, and then replied, looking inquir ingly at the othor guests: "Said I not,' messieurs, that I was disappointed in Virginia gentlemen?"