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SAVfcD BT LOYE. . ; : The work-room of tie jewelry manu factory of Jacobs t Co., at Attleboro, was just being cloned. The tired girls were finishing their day's work, while their thoughts had already preceded time, and were anticipating the delights of the evening's pleasures or reBt. Pretty, well-dressed girls they were, too, when their large work aprons were removed, graceful and lady-like; not one whit less so that they had to earn their living. Jessie Clifford was somewhat behind hand in her work, and the girls had nearly all gone when she had completed it. She arose hurriedly, threw aside her apron and went into the little dressing room from which the last girl was emerging, who said: "Why, Jessie, how late you are! I am afraid some one will have to wait to night." . "Oh, I shall be ready in a moment!" Jessie said, ignoring the last part of the remark. She washed her hands hurriedly, then threw on her short, light sock, and looked for her hat in its accustomed place, but it was not there. A little wave of impa tience arose within her, as she searched for it hastily, and found it laid carefully under the lounge. "It's that mischievous Maud Ray mond," thought she, as she put it on be- ...a tlia rrlnait. "She thinks it tnnnva llliO uw O " J me to keep Milton Kent waiting. She don't know" The door of the work-room closed with a loud, decided bong. Her heart gave a great leap, and she rushed across the room, shook the door, and called loudly. But the boy who had closed it, thinking that all had gone, was already at the foot of the stairs, having descended two steps at a time, his thoughts full of some fun he hod on hand. Jessie realized, with a heart-sickening sensation, that she was locked in for the night. She went to the windows with vague hopes of escape, but there were none facing the open street. They looked down upon a vacant lot and a close, narrow court, between tall, brick buildings. There was no chance of making anyone hear, and she knew that she would have to keep a lonely night vigil. But Jessie was not a coward by any means, and, besides, had cultivated a philosophical spirit of making the best of everything. So, thinking "No real harm can come to me here," she went back slowly to the little dressing-room. 4,It's an ill wind that blows nobody good," she thought, as she removed her hat and sat down upon the lounge. "Milton Kent will think I went out the side entrance to avoid him, and I am glad of it, for I want to disoourage his attentions. I know he is as good as he can be, but he isn't my fancy; perhaps I might have cared for him if" And then the handsome face of Gilbert Knight came before her mental vision, .and the remembrance of his dark, pas sionate eyes, his tender kisses and his words of love, thrilled her pulse with the boundigs of true affection. The twilight shadows deepened, the tall buildings shut out the last rays of the departing sun, and the objects in the room became more and more indistinct. She began to feel a loneliness creeping over her, but fought against it, and paced the floor slowly, determined to be brave The shadows grew still darker, and the stars came out. She could see them twinkling in the soft, clear, evening sky above the towering buildings. And with pleasant thoughts for company, and wishing that the author of them was be side her, she passed into dreamland. Hark! what was that sound? She started up with the perspiration standing on her forehead. She heard the window next the dressing-room lifted, and in a moment more steps on the floor. Listen ing with painful intentness, her heart throbbing so loudly that she feared it would betray her proximity, she heard that there were two. They walked past the door of the dressing-room, and Jes sie quaked with the fear of discovery. But, under the cover of darkness, she remained unmolested; and it was evident also that the work-room was not the goal of their ambition. "We've done the thing neatly so far, Baid one voice. "If we can only finish as well as we have begun, we shall be lucky." "Hush!" said the other, in a low tone. "What if we should be discovered before the job is done?" "No danger of that," the first returned. "There is no one within hearing distance, Knight. I came here in the role of a book agent the other day, and took the position of the rooms." The sound of the second voice had struck with a painful suspicion of famil iarity on Jessie's ear, and now that name! What did it mean? Could it be possible th he was her lover? Was she not mis taken in the voice? He spoke again: "After all, there are worse robberies ommitted under the guise of business transactions than we are meditating. Old Jacobs has been a miser all his life, and cheated people out of thousands. It's no more than fair to take some of his ill gotten gains." No, she was not mistaken. There was no doubt of that voice. It hod a charac teristic ring that could not be mistaken. Something darker that night's shadow's tiled upon her mind. She remained in her position as if bound hand and foot. But they passed along, and she heard them working with the lock of the door, which had closed upon her so untimely. For a few moments there was a dull, rasping sound, and she knew that they had succeeded in opening it and were passing down stairs. There were two mora doors to open before they could gain an entrance in the store below. She rose to her feet, and, listening intently, she could hear the first one below yield to their hands. She felt as if she must follow them. She did not care whether or not she was discovered. When they had opened the last door and were "within the front store, the followed noiselessly she had re moved her shoes and stood in theshrdow watching their movements, as by the light of the lantern they proceeded to open a safe which, they judged, con tained the most valuable jewels. As Jessie stood there motionless and pale, there was no feeling of scorn for him. The would was too deep for that. But there was a pathetic despair in the depths of the eyea which only a few hours before had been full of tender love-light for him and a deadly pain at her heart, and an infinite sadness to find that the idol, whom she had set up for worship so much higher than his fellows, was made of baser clay than ordinary men. By the light which he held she could discover his face dimly. Hardly con scious of what she was doing, she went forward to him as he bent over the safe he had opened. Both had their backs toward her. Without a word she laid her hand npon his arm. At the touch, so quick and unexpected, he started as if he had been shot, and flashed the light quickly in her face. With a low cry of surprise he met the pathetio sadness of Jessie's eyes. His compan ion rose from his kneeling position, ex claiming, "What does this mean?" as be saw the strange, dazed look upon Knight's face, and saw, too, that the girl was no stranger to him. 0, Gilbert! Gilbort! Can this be possible?" Jessie said with a pitiful wail in her voice that would have moved a heart of adamant. Ha stood dumb before her. Had she reproached him he would have retorted angrily; but he had no words to meet the look in the fair, sad face upturned to his, which he had kissed so often, just to see it flush and brighten under tne powerful magnetism which bad been the ruin of more than one womau before he had seen Jessie. It was a scene for a painter. Tho bolted and barred window showing in the dim light; the confused, shamed expression on Knight's face; thepainod, grieved expression on Jessie's, and the angry disappointment on the other, At longth, without even a word, Knight took the jewels he had secreted about his person and flung them down. "You can do as you like, Kris," he said. "I wash my hands of the affair. It is the last time I shall undertake such a thing. Jessie, you will despise me, of course, and I deserve it. But I shall re member you as the best and dearest girl I ever knew. Come, Kris, let us get out of this scrape as soon as we can." They left empty-handed, as they had come, and mode their escape as they had effected their entrance by an ingenious communication with a toll building that rose only a few feet from the work-room. Jessie groped hor way back up-stnirs to the little dressing-room, and, sitting down again upon the lounge, burst into a passion of tears. It had been a sad awakening from her sweet love-dream, for Jessie's ideal had been good, and manly, and honorable, and the real had fallen so far below it! She began to realize that she mnst con ceal the fact that she had been there all night, for of course she would be ques tioned, and she shrank from answering them. So in the morning she contrived to make it appear that she had come in with the other girls, and then later she went out and ate a warm breakfast, or tried to force it down, to cure the faint ing sensation that came over her. Great was the surprise of all, the next morning, to find the doors open, and greater still was the surprise to find the safes open, and yet no jewels missing. Meanwhile, in his room, Gilbert Knight was writing this note: Ml Clifford: I dare not call you dear Jele, a my liean, dlotale", becauae I know myxeir unworthy. I have oared for you let me con fern It aa I have oared tor many oibera, but I never reullied until lat night that you were one woman of a thonaand. Bometulng In the teuder womanllneaa that never uttered a re- K roach to the wretobthatdared to contaminate er with blit touch went to my heart. You nee I am not altogether hardened. If I did not feel the vast gulf ihere li bettveeu ua I would go to you now and beg your forttiTenesa. Ai It la, I have the grace to atay away. Sometime when I have redeemed myself, may I oome backf Milton Kent tried in vain to win a place in her heart. She knew he never could be guilty of the deed from which she had saved the man she loved, but she could not transfer her affections to him. Her heart yearned over that other, and she waited. At the end of two years he came back and found her patient and somewhat sad, but with the old loyelight kindling in her eyes at sight of him. "I have lived an honest, upright life before God and man since I left," he said humbly. "Jesse, will you be my wife? Can you forgive and forget?" For all answers she reached out her arms toward him, and waB held in a close embrace. A Well Man on Klclies. The following story, says the Wan tide, is told of Jacob Ridgway, a wealthy citizen of Philadelphia, who died many years ago, leaving a fortune of five or six million dollars. "Mr. Ridgway," said a young man with whom the millionaire was con versing, "you are more to be envied than any gentleman I know." "Why so?" responded Mr. Ridgway. "I am not aware of any cause for which I should be particularly envied." "What sir!" exclaimed the young man in astonishment "Why, are you not a millionaire? Think of the thousands your income brings you every month!" "Well, what of that?" replied Mr. Ridgway. "All I got out of it is my victuals and clothes, and I can't eat more than one man's allowance, or even wear more than one suit at a time. Pray, can't you do as much?" "Ah, but," said the youth, "think of the hundreds of fine houses you own the rental they bring you!" "What better am I off for that?" re plied the rich man. I can only live in one house at a time; as for the money I receive for my rents, why I can't eat it or wear it. I can only use it to buy other houses for other people to live in; they are the beneficiaries, not I!" "But you can buy splendid furniture, and costly pictures, and fine carriages and horse's in fact, anything you de sire." "And after I have bought them," re sponded Mr. Ridgway, "what then? I can only look at the furniture and pic tures, and the poorest man who is not blind can do the same. I can ride no easier in a fine carriage than you can in an omnibus for five cents, without the trouble of attending to drivers, footmen and hostlers; and as to anything I 'de sire,' I can tell you, young man, that the less we desire in this world the happier we shall be. All my wealth cannot buy me a single day more of life; cannot buy back my youth; cannot purchase exemp tion from sickness and pain; cannot pro cure me power to keep afar off the power of death; and then, what will it avail when, in a few short years at most, I lie down in the grave and leave it all forever? Young man, you have no cause to envy me." Eugenie's Sob and France. The first published doacription of the death of the Prince Imperial re veals the possession by that youth of uBiiuca muiuu ubko it prouaoie mat ms removal irom the world was an event of muoh more importance to rrance man is usually supposed. The facta which Sir Evelyn Wood collected while with ex-Emrjress Eugenie in Zululand, from the inde pendent narratives of eighteen Zulus who were in the attack upon the Prince's party, show that he was very brave, fighting like a tigor un til overpowered by a dozen antago nists. The possession of tho courage which would have mado bim a great soldier might huvo hud an important effect upon tho future of Franco, bad he lived. Like bis futher, ho entor. tained the notion that he was destined to be a conqueror, such as Napoleon Nonaparto, and his ambi tion to regain the throne which wus lost at Sedan was so ardent that he would doubtless have figured at some time in u struggle for tbo renewal of the Empire. The intenso interest of Queen Victoria in tbo young man was significant, and it is by no means certain that she did not favor bis union in marriage with hor daughter, Princess Beatrice But however that may have been, she did desire tbo restoration of the French Empiro, and whatever she could do without injury to England she would huve gladly done to place tho Prince on the throne of his father. Her inter est in the triumph of the imperial theory of government is well under stood, but besidos her disliko of a republic, she bad much admiration for the Napoleons, so that tbo accos- sion of the Prince to power in France would have been to hor gratifying in tho extreme. Now, it must bo admitted that a brave Prince, who. fired by an ambi tion to imitate Napoleon tbo Great, should become a mombor of the fam ily of the Quoen of England, would have been able to excite the enthu siasm of a strong Imperialist party in Franco, and in tho frequent com motions to which the politics of tbo young Bepublio are subject, it would have been strange bad bo not imi tated his predocossors by an attempt to seize the government. I ho bravery of his death shows that he would have made a formidable antagonist of the French Bepublio. His death leaves no claimant who inspires a following or who is deter mined enough to struggle to become Emperor. His death was the death of French imperialism. Gambotta says that the Bepublio is now inde structible. Had the Prince lived who died with his face toward a dozen savage Zulu assailrnta, Gum- bettas assertion might nave boon loss confident. His death was an event of an importance to France which the world is not likely to ex aggerate. The Cultivation or Courage. In tho less of demand for exertion that has come with the appliances of modern life, thore is loss strength and muBclo to meet it, and artificial exercise becomes neoossary to a man wboso occupations docs not attord it, if he would prosorvo his bodily tone and vigor. A similar fact results to some extent in tho montul faculties of courage and presence of mind. A lifo whose normal conditions are ab solute peace and security unnervos the mental hbor lor conflict with sud den and serious danger, as one of ease and freedom from manual labor enfeebles the muscles for strenuous and continued exertion. Tbcro are soino who are born bravo and cool, as others are born strong, in whom thore is an irapulso to sock the ex citement of dangerous sport as in others a craving for muscular exer ciso, and these do not require the stimulus of reflection and senso of something wanting to urge thorn to the cultivation of courage and pres ence of mind as to take exercise. But to the average individuals, habit ual peace and security bavo an influ ence unfitting him to meet occasions of confusion and peril, and a peace ful community as a whole degener ates to some extent in courage and coolness. Tho need of physical ex ercise for a community engaged in sedentary pursuits has been admit ted, and tbe cultivation ot bodily strength urged. Tho necessity of exercise for tbo cultivation of the mental fibre bus not been yet so readily perceived; but it is quite as true as of muscular strength that mental bravery and coolness can be cultivated and are increased by cir cumstances that call them into play. The war was a very striking ex ample of this. It did not make nat ural cowards out of those who sought battle as a pleasure, nor strengthen shattered nerves into unmoved and onquaking fibres, and there were some who absolutely broke down under the ordeal. But the average soldier, neither a born hero nor a coward,, learned courage and cool ness in circumstances which lie would have been utterly unable to endure without training, and he emerged from a campaign more en suring in mind as well as in body. Providence Journal. As it should be. ("Young persons ought, above all things, to b taught perfect candor." Manual of Etiquette.) Visitor: "la Miss Percival at homer Servant "20, Miss; did yoo wish to ate her V Visitor: "Lor, no! J want her to see mi." After a Million. An ancient lady in Baltimore has fur nished some evidence whioh tends to surround an ordinarily prosaio land case with considerable romance. In 1812 a sea captain named Ford fitted out a Erivatoer, leaving his wife in Baltimore, e was captured by the British, but escaped and returned at the close of the war, to find a little feminine addition to his family whom he was informed was his daughter. After knocking around for a whilo, ho went West in 1817 and located some land titles, one in the heart of what is now the city of Toledo. In 1822 he died intestate. His family knew nothing about the property until 1833, when some capitalists instituted a soaroh for the heirs, and finding Mrs, Ford and her daughter, secured a conveyance from them. The attention of others was also attracted to the growing value of the land, and their investigation resulted in a purchase from the sisters of Ford, who lived in Connecticut, and who were as sumod to be the heirs at law. After a lapse of years Senator Bon Wodo acquired an interest and set to work to , establish his title. Affidavits were securod of the legitimacy of Mrs. Ford's daughter, whioh seemed to dispose of the Connoetiout purchase. President Haves, Chief Justice Swayno and Myron H. Tilden, a cousin of Samuel J., be came interested, Hayes and Swayne through the Baltimore title, and Tilden by the Connecticut purchase. The pur chasers from Mrs. Ford and her sup posed daughter brought suit to quiet the Connoetiout title, in whioh they were successful: wherouvon the sister of Mrs, Ford come forward and introduced the eloment of romauoo into the case.' She now claims that the girl was her own offspring, adopted by Mrs. Ford to con coal the disgrace. This, if true, makes the conveyance from the daughter value less, and establishes the claim under the Connecticut title to all except tho widow's right of dower, which is one third. Upon this Judge Tildon entered suit to sot aside the decree quieting his titlo, making, among others, Hayes and Swayne defendants. The living sister has told her story, and the caso is still pending. There is onopeculiur allega tion mode by the plaintiff and substan tiated by the sister: At the time the Baltimore purchasers sought to quiet the Connecticut titlo, tney produced a depo sition by Mrs. Ford's sister to the effect that the child was the daughter of Mrs. Ford. The Bister now swears that the deposition was a forgory; that she was never asked about the parentage of tho child, and never gave the information embodied in tho deposition. It is on tho ground that this document was forged and fraudulent that Judge Tildon now moves. The proporty is valued at a mil lion dollars, and is divided up among a number of purchasers, who hold under the Baltimore titlo and who may begin to regard their tenure as particularly slim. Efforts have been mode to keep the facts and details quiet, but they are now made public, and the suit will be watched with roterost as muuu ior me rumuuee u in volves as for the fact that the parties in interest are Ohio men. The Ice Speculators. A good deal of trouble has boon taken bv tho Tunes to find out the present con dition of the ice market, and the result is rather encouraging for consumers. It is clear that the present high price of ico is due not to a short supply, but to a "corner" by the speculators. These worthy gentry bought up early in the season all the ice to be hod in tho State of Maine, the great source of supply for New York when the crop of Hudson river ice is short. Tho latter orop was short last winter, but then there were left over 450,000 tons cut in the winter of 1878-9. and the crop of last winter in creased this amount to about 81)0,000 tons. This, with the ice brought from Maino, mado the Bupply for Now York about 1,500,000 tons. Having thus the complete control of the market, tho ioe dealers have put up the price with a venceanco. Whereas the price in ordi narv seasons is from $3 to 85 a ton, they charge families now at from $20 to $25 a ton. This royal profit would be all very well for tho pockets ol the ice deal ers if the consumption romained tbo wimp. But the speculators Have over shot the mark. Whereas in ordinary seasons the demand for Now York, Rrnnklvn and their suburbs is from 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 tons, the demand this season is not likely to exceed 1,000, 000 tons. This would leave the ice dealers with about 500,000 tons left over until next season. If next winter s crop is large, the price of ice next summer will be lower than it has boon for years. With this prospect before them, it is barely possible the ico speculators may see that they have gone too far and lowor the price this season so as to increase the demand. When sales diminish from 50 to 150 ner cent., as thoy have this sum mer, it will bo pretty difficult for the ice dealers, as the season wanes, to keep up the price sufficiently high to compensate for this diminisneu uemanu. ' Got to Stand It. On one of the hotest corners of Wood ward avenuo at high noon yesterday, a mall hnv with a bootblack's kit sat un der the full blaze of a sun pouring down lor all it was wortu. me ooy perspireu, roasted, blistered and almost melted, but 1,o l.ol ntnrk tlinra for half an hour. when a lady passing by him halted and said: "Little lwy, aren't you afraid of being sunstruck.' "Yes, ma'am," was his prompt re Then, why don't jou get into the gmvier a i ntt "I can't." "Dili anyone tell von to wait here?" "Vn ma'am lint I'm iloinff it on D1T own hook. It's awful hot, and I'm most dead, but I've got to stand it. Kh Innltnd trt KM if he was tied, and atmnt tn on on and regard him as the son of a brutal father in a saloon around the corner, when the lad ex Ttioral.a it nnwt That bnv nn there is the chap I was waiting for, and I had to sit out here to see him wnen ne turnea h. mnutr. Ht'l th feller that Called m aiator a take evad rabbit, and I'm go ing to jump in on him and lick him most to death l 1 wian y on d bold mj mikji can get the bulge on him afore he su- pecta it." IMtroit tru rreu. Breach of Promise. An action in tho Queen's Bench Division, Hall against Uawes, in which judgment was allowed to go by dofault, was hoard recently before Mr. Undor Sheriff Burchell and a jury, at tbo Middlesex (Englund) Sheriffs Court, to recover damages for a broach of promise of marriage, in which tho plaintiff, Ann Hall, a lady's maid, claimed 500 from Bob. ort Hawes, a boot and shoemaker, and a shopkocpor at Dickleburg, Norfolk, England. The acquaintance commenced in 1878, and at Easter, 1S79, tho wedding was fixed. Some sixty letters wore producod as sent by tho defendant, and several woro read, all couched in warm terms of affection. He addrcssod his intondod wife, who was about thirty-fivo, as his "Doarost Ann," and always allcgod himsolf as hor "true lover. In ono ho declared that "Love's fair dreams can never perish, Hearts that meet no power can sever: Life has ninny hopos to cherish, And the good is sinning ever." Thursduv. the 23d or January lust. was fixed for tho wedding at Hollo way. Tho plaintiff loft her situation some timo bofore, and 20 was spent in dresses, and guests invited. As tho dofondant did not mako his an. poaranco in London, from Norfolk, on tbo Wednesday, tolegrnms wore dispatched and his sister Julia wroto that ho had loft to come up to Lon don. Afterward he returned to Dickleburg and brought back an other woman us bis wife. His family wroto to tho young woman to com. miscrato with hor on his heartless conduct. Atter tho plaintiff and her mother had given evidonco tho de fendant was culled on his own behalf, and gave an extraordinary account of himsolf. Tho letters vero writton, ho said, by his sister Julia, and Bhe bad mado love for him and fixed the weddinr without his nuthoritj'. (Laughter.) Ho said he had no money to pay aamngos. ms uusi noss was about 20 a year, and he intondod to file a liquidation potiliou. Mr. Under Sheriff Burcholl loft tho caso to jury to say what tho plaintiff had lost. Jn bis viow ot tbo caso lmd tbe plaintiff boon a relative of his ho should bavo thought she was fortu nute in escaping such a man. It wus, howevor, for tho jury to estimate the loss sho had sustained. Tho jury ro tired, and after a brief consultation assessed the damages at 120. Tho court orderod immediate judgment. Cucumber Pickles. Tim mVLW nramnll encumbers should be carefully assorted as they come from the field, and all the large ones salted by .. . mi. i themselves or tnrown away. iuo iurga nnnu tiaA.1 mnn aalt! m harder to keen and to prepare forsalo, and soil for much less. A cucumber that nogins to grow yollow, or is too large to count one hundred to the bushel, should not be salted at all. The medium sized ones, liner nlirmt. three hundred to the liimliol and Ann onns. containing about seven hundred to the bushel, are the . m a a . 1 sizes mostly wanted, as soon as assorted flmv alinnld lm iiliuad in emntv beef bar rels or molassos hogsheads, and covered with brine. The brine is made strong enough to float a potato, and the pickles in lrnrtf nmlnr hv a llPftd ftttinir tflH bar rel loosely, and loaded with one or two stones of about twonty pounus weigui fnr a lino-Hhfail. The brine BOOU becomes weak by absorbing the fresh juice of the pickles, and wui neeu to oe ii?narn nflTand uniirad on aaain in order to thoroughly mix the stronger brine at the bottom of the package wnn tue por tion at the top, which is weaker. This l.l ha rannatnd two or throe times at intervals of two or three days, and if the brine is on large picKies a iew uamuuis t naif aldnd Aftrth time. If Cftrefullv kept undor the brine and the surface of tho brine kopt equally mixou wnu wuat is below, there will be no trouble in lrnaninfr tlmm . Tboy are taken out oi tne urine several days before wanted for sale, and placed in ft-aah nnlil watnr. which must be changed as often as convenient say two or three times a nay anu aitor iour or Am dava tliAv will be fresh enouith to re ceive the vinegar. If the latter is strong enough they will keep. Uder vinegar is nt nnpnrtnin atrenfrth. and is often too weak to keep piokles after warm weather beffins. If the vinegar is not strung enouKh. scalding will do no good ii,.Vl. tlma Drcnared are known at English pickles, and have a dull, yellow l1HAH.n iiAlnii imnarfa.1 hff tllA hrinfl Ti.n Vtrirrlit. crrnnn mil or often seen in the AUW a ifx v o - pickles in market is imparted by scalding them, whon taken out oi tne Dnnn, in a copper kettle. They ausorD enougn ver digris from the kottle to give them the desired color, and yet so little that cop. per poisoning from eating pickles is a tl.i'nx nnlnnwn Ht.il 1 it la one of till signs of increasing knowledge of what is dono in preparing our ioou, ana oi care ; .n.'..ttinir anvfliinir nunipini1H tllflt the IU lDJCVWURJ"-0 I F- ' - green pickle, so universally used a few years since, is last Becoming nnpuiuiur, dure to the English pickle. witl.nnt nnnnAr. Partners. beans, cauliflowers, unripe melons and martynias are prepared in ino same way as cucumbers. vouniry uenueman. Teaks. Tears, chemi cally considered, are a weak solution of chloride of sodium and phosphate of lime, the overflow of the lachrymal nlnn.la nan u 1 hv tliA flnntrnction of cer tain muscles. A writer who has analyzed them "as a weapon" says: "The best method is to hold the head erect, look the cruel tyrant in the face, and let the .oar- flnw down while the lios feicrn a smile. If the head be bent fofward the tears will be likely to run down the nose and drop off at the end, and that spoils tka whnla tlii no- for the eves fret red. and the noaa sympathizes with the gen ra1 mnintiiTA and frets a sort of raw look at the end. To use tears with effect re quires, in fact, judgment. The effective ness is gone as soon as any 'mopping' liain'na A liolit hvaterical smile mav W. n.M.!tUl H artiutii-allr TM.ntvf UV iVSUliftl'W, M . j . with a gasping sob, but no polishing off of eye or nose is admiatib. Misfortune of Punctual Man. He said nothincr but lod me into the dining-room, and my - family, arrayed in traveling costume, hats on, dinner eaten, was waiting foa me. 1 And the baggage, thoy told me,' was all packed. And, more than that it had all gone down to the depot, and was there now. And they were all ready and were only waiting for me. And on the top of all this the faithful clock pro claimed that it was two minutes past train time. Now, you see, ever since we left Bur lington I had boea playing "old traveler' with my confiding family. When they were nervous about the baggage I sniffed and told them to be calm and not worry about the baggago while I was running thinirs; accent heavy on the I. Whon they timidly wondered if we weren't running too fast I yawned and said if we didn't run faster than this we would never get there, and then told what time we made there one time when I came in on No. 3, with Billy Putnam running the train and Ed. McClintock in in the cab. When they suggested that I should ask the clerk at the hotel about the time the train left, I loftily said that if I didn't know more about the railway trams of the United States than any hotel olerk in America, I would travel by canal boat. And hore I stood, wilted, perspiring, humiliated, "sot down" upon, left. 1 he girls wore merciful, llioy were mafrnaninious. They didn t say muon about it. They simplv made it tiie gen eral topio of conversation that afternoon and evening, and I think her little serene highness spoke of it onoe or twice during the night. I did not enter into the spirit of the conversation very heartily. I do not think I comprehended its fullness very thoroughly. I endeav ored to cultivate a facial expression of serene resignation and martyr-like forti tude. And I really stood it very well until Sabbath morning, when I had the prince on my lap, trying to teach him a lttle hymn and be raised lua blue eyes to my face and murmured, "Papa loft." liurdette in Hawkey. Love that Glorifies the Humblest Man. TliArn ia nntliinrr in tliA wnrld an aad as human nature, and the tears oome into my eyes now as I think of the pitifnl storv" Tom told me as he smoked his after-suppur pipe last night. Tho other day, just before I came homo, Tom had occasion to go over the lake, un his way back, and wneu mo train stopped at the Bay, he notiood a man getting iuto the ear in front of him with a littlo baby in his arms. The babe seemed young, and the man hushed it in his arms with a gentle rocking motion, bonding over it now and then to kiss its little white faoe. After the train got undor way the oonduotor came to Tom and said: "Come with me; I want to show you the strangest, saddost sight you ever saw in your life." Tho oonductor led the way into the noxt ear. "Do you see that man over there?" said he: and there sat the man Tom had noticed with the babe. His prsoious lit tle bundle lay quiet on the seat in front of him, and as the two watched he loaned over, lookod long and earnestly in tne little flower-face, and then kissed the frail finger-tips he held so gently in his hand. "That baby's dead," said the oonduo tor. "It died this morning at the Hay. Tin nnnMn't hour frt nut It in a Onflln. M- cause then it would have to go without him into the baggage-car, and so he is carrying it home to Mew Orloans in his arms." . Ami the car rattlod on: the bov called his stale slicos of spongo-oake and his cigars througu tne train; me passengers laughod and smoked and lougm tne itnna! and ha. stricken to the heart's core, sat there quiot and unheed . . i i j -v.:i.i ing, watciung over ma ui-u uuuu, ing the fingers that would never again -nfilv nloQn his nvrn nnVna down nnon the white lids that had closed over the bright little eyes as the potalB of a sensi tive flower close at night-time over its delicate heart and the world was noth ing to him. Catherine Cole, in Hew Orleans ISme. Rules for Quoits. rtuniiu ia hv no niAana a diffieult came to play, seeing that noither great strength un. -..winna w mnnirfld! on the other UU& I1.1J111I . " v.,i.-- , hand skill and dexterity, which are both . . . Ml 1 - 1. acquired by practice, wm mono uuj, youth, or man a skillful quoit player. There Is, of course, a considerable amount of knack in pitching a quoit, and no Ad atrflncrth of wrist: for the acquisition of an accurate aim rests entirely witn tne degree oi Bieaiuuewi m this member when delivering the missile. So long as the space surrounding the "pitch" is fairly level the intermediate space may be rough or broken. Quoits are of different sizes and different weights, but few good players use the hoavior weapons, for, after playing a moderate longth of time, they over-tax the strength, and a beginner should al ways use the lightest he can possibly secure. Stool qnoits are, in our opinion, preferable to either iron or brass, and aa much care should be taken of them as with a pair of steel skates. The appended rules, which were agreed to at the Birm ingham Conference in 18C9, are still generally adopted oy piayers. v;rt That the distance from pin to pin shall be nineteen yards, and that the ' .... 1 !iL At.- player snail stand levei wnu tue jjiu wu deliver his quoit at the first step. Second. That no quoit be allowed which measures more Jian eight inchea external diameter, and that the weight may be unlimited. Third. That the pina be one inch above the clay. Fourth. That all measurements snau ha talon frnm anT visible part of the pin to the nearest visible part of the quoit. No clay or quoit to do auwurueu. Vifti, That no nnoit shall count un less fairly delivered in the clay free from tbe outer run, and uia uu uui. I.-.V -i.ail innt- unless it first strikes another quoit or the pin. That no quoit shall count unless it nra " quoit or the pin. Sixth. That each player shall deliver his quoit in succession, hie opponent then following. " Seventh. That an umpire shall be ap pointed, and in all cases of dispute hu decision shall be &r1.-CumU $ Yea-Book.