PBZM OK.
While the moonbeam bilRht ire pceploi
ThruUKb lh ivy curiaiuml ptn
Br iholr mcllo Mdiuuon action
lutl o' n. In Hie lauti
Will
Hh ullvorf arT.
Dretm on. narlm.l Whim ikon 'rtilwptng.
Au.ci pure iuo envrn
Around joiirol their watch art keepliif,
1'hroUKh tlx l ent nliclit
'ttioa dieaia un while joa mT-
All to toon will come the wklD(
from the (Imam ol clilldh.xxl'i ilp;
Clouds li e fair hoiiz io bn akin,
boon will mti Uir cminiui no
At jruu wniil Wc'i r
Bonn tlijf hurl will fetl the uh Of
hat ul y rn kll. orcalm:
ChnrMiod boima itwlr Iea be inking.
Heroin Uil ntw eoulo tiling bilui;
Ibeu (Jreain ou wdllo yux inar.
Boon the honri of rh'ldhoad flylni,
, Krim four mntlui.1 dream you'll awake,
And tiieuml of oli end IfihiuK
On yuur joiiUilul cam will tireti.
Anff.im do; lodiy
Yoa will try-but via Ilia trylnf
'ioflad llit blltn no one em kuuW
For grlr.f ii living. J.iy U Gylug,
lu thin wxiijr wuiid o.' wiM-i
'lheu lirctia on while vnu may.
Uiruhlll Uttxit.
ma smith's no.
"Lioness, I wont you."
"Yea, yos, Bob; I'm oomitig!"
On the terrace of a ml urban villa a too J
a boy. lie was thirteen yearn of age, por
Laps, very chubby, with cheeks as red
as apples, a square figure and brown
eyos. With a proud sense of appropria
tion, ho again shouted, "Lioness!" and
from a French window of tho house
rushod a littlo girl, somo four yoars
younger than her playmate. She was
curiously different in oppeuranco, tall
for her ago, very thin and pale; her
brown eyes wero too largo, and Lor eye
brows too marked, for beauty. An im
tnenso quantity of chestnut hair hud
gained for her tho namo which Uob
alone callod her of Lioness." How sho
liked to hoar hlin cull hor that! How
proud and happy sho felt whon he told
her that some day sho would be his lit
tle wife, and honored whon he ordered
her to fetch and carry for him, to bait
bis line, to field his balls! Mho ran now
across the lawn to Lim, expecting the
hoarty embrace with which he always
met her. But something was wrong this
morning, for liob's usually contented
face looked uncommonly sulky.
"I say, the mtslot has written to anntie,
and I'm to go home."
"Ohl"-withagasp. "When?"
"To-morrow, first thing. Isn't it a
bore?"
Tho little girl did not answor. Bhe
turned away, und forood back tho rising
tears and swallowed the lump iu her
throat, for Bob hated to seo hor cry.
"Well," said Uob, "anyhow, lot'H go
off and flub, us it's the last day."
So off the children sturtod, down tho
bot, dusty road, across tue Hold to tho
little brook. "Lioness" carried tho rod
and tho worms, and walked at a pace
which suited Master Uob, aud was per
fectly Luppy to do it for him. Hor heart
was very sore about tho parting on the
morrow, but, brave little soul, sho put
the thought away from her as she listened
to all tho tint), graud und splendid
things that Uob would do wheu ho was
man ana a soldier, -as an my peopie
are."
Soon tho two children wore sitting by
the sido of the brook. Bob h;dd tho rod ;
to fish was his part of tha work, to bait
the hook and to tuko oil tho Ash "Liou
ess." No talking was allowed, as it dis
turbed tho fish, and so au hour or two
went by. Perfect silence rolgnod.brokon
only by an exclamation of joy whon a
fish wus landed, or onu of impatioiieo on
tho part of Uob when "Liouesu" did not
do hor work fast enough. At lust, whon
six or oight Bhiuiug Uttlo llsh wero fast
ened togothor by a striug cuuningly in
serted through thoir gills by "Lioness,"
she said:
'Uob, wo lunch early today, und
undo will b back; so I must not bo too
Into, or aunt will bo cross. I think I'd
better go. What timo is it, plousc?"
Bob looked at his watch and roportod.
"It's about timo I went in, too; so
come along;" aud, having wonud up his
rod, the two children started to walk
homo, Bob Carrying tho results of his
sport, with which to astonish uny passer
by tliey might chunco to moot and
"Lioness" bearing tho rod aud tackle.
As they crossed the field Bob re
marked: "Oh, I oan't camo this nf lot noon!
Auntie said I was to go with hor and
some old wretch, so it's goodby now."
"I woudor if wo shall over see each
othor again?" said "Lioness," somewhat
sentimentally.
"Oh, I dare say wo shalll"
"I don't kuow. You have novor born
here boforo. You never spont your holi
days with your auut till this summer.
Then papa is coming back soon, and I
shall go home; aud you havo novor boon
thore iu all your life aud I dou't see
how you ever should."
"Well, when I'm grown up I'll come
and find you; aud, remembor, you havo
promised never to marry anyone but me,
and I promise" magnanimously "that
if I don t seo anyone I IikJ hotter, 1 11
marry you whon I'm !30."
"But I shall be quite old 26-by
by that time."
"Woll, if I'm 30, you won't be too old
for me: and if I do marry anyone else
before that, I'll tell you what, "I'll lot-
you know."
By this time the children' bad walked
down tho road. Passing before a stile,
Bob said :
"This is my noarest way over the
fields; ao good byj" aud kissing his com
panion the boy jumped over tho stile
and ran home whistling.
And the girl? Bhe stood her two hands
clasped together, until his whistling had
died away in the distance, when climb
ing tho stile she threw herself upon the
grass nnder the hedge, and, buryiug her
face in the hair he admired, and which
. once, when it had caught tire from bend
ing over the candle, ho had put it out
with his bands, sobbed as if her heart
would break.
n
Some three mils from a hustling town
of world-wide fame as a great market
from which English goods are sent to
every land, stood a large country house.
It was called OakQold, and was the
house of Alice Markham, Bob'e "Lion
ess." Here she lived with her father,
many miles from the small country town
where years before she had speut her
happy tammrr holidays.
it was a warm summer afternoon, and
Alice waa gathering a nosegay to give
her white dresa aomeoolor, in honor of
Jawn-tennu party to which she and her
fattier were going. Ik would not hate
born easy to trace any likeness between
this tall aud lovely girl and the wild,
overgrown child of some ton summer
earlier.
Her hoir, thon a mass of confusion,
was now gathered low against the white
neck, in what the society papers of tho
time callod a llebi knot. The brown
eyes and marked eyebrows, whioh had
been too large for a child eight years old
lent a great charm to the bright com
plexion of a maidon of eightcon.
"Yes, Alico was lovely not merely
pretty; and if hor outward oppearauce
1 . . .1 . - 1 1 . ........ .. n
was cuangeu more wero umei uin-uus
to no noted also.
"Who would dare "fag" that stately
maiden? who could imagine those w.U
shaped white hands handling worms and
Aul.9 Kn (Iw.tr mirrht ffflthor roses, but
would scarcely bait a lino. Thoro had bcon
timos when she hod blushod at tho re
mombronce of hor childish promise; but
uer j no nuu uecn a bouiuwuii muumu
nousono. That one summer still stood
nnt in tirilliitnt. Rolnra ainonflf her many
nuiot holidays. No, she might smile
. . .... i. ..a
now st tue memory oi uer pro-urno, uui
sho hud neither forgotten thut nor her
boy lover Uob Smith and. whilo sho
told herself that it was very silly, she
Lnnnf tl.nt alin Wlllllll liko to 800 SffSiU
n uu n " -
the horo of that summer at Murrlolds.
Alico had hardly arranged nor nosegay
of roses, ond was choosing ono littlo bud
for hor father, whou his voioe from the
.Irnivinn Wllllil Iklmll.W tolll hOT it WSS
time to bo going; and a fow niiuutos
later she was icatoil in a low pony car
riage, driviug a pair of light chestnuts,
whilo hor father, a handsome old man,
sat by bar sido.
"Utf.innr T met Mr. Foster in town
to day, and ho wishes to introduoo us to
two young olllcor quartered ui jasv
lla ima iiKknil them over to day.
and ho and his wifo find thom very ploas-
.i . i i . nr.
ant young louows. uui 01 ooursu air.
and Mrs. Foster huvo not many amuse
ments to offer young mon."
"Nor have wo, papa."
"Well, we might ask thom to come out
Saturday and play tennis. Ask some
girl to mako tho fourth."
"Yes, papa, I'll ask Grace Foster;'
and Alioo wond-irod what the two young
officers might bo like.
Alice drew up at tier nosunauou, oni,
while she crossod tho garden to meet Mrs.
V,ufr alia anannml tllB Orowd of ffirls
and young mon who were gathered round
1 1 ' 1 i I.rinn. Il.nm tijiv AvaB urnn.
WoI in tim fi'w who watclieJ tho three
enorgetio gamos of tennis that wero being
.!,., I Imt ulm iliil nnt mnkfl nnt elfur-
'lutvu, WUW ..v..
y "in her mind which wero the two
young olllcors. Then nor attention was
uii-riuii!..l hv miiir friends, to whom sho
gove a gracious bow or friondly nod, ac
cording to thoir sex or to her degroo of
intimacy witu tuom.
At last sno was again at nooriy to
l,.li II. n uHHnmtilml CUesU. and sho
f.iiin.l l.i.r nLlnntion caucht 1)7 OUO of
the lawu tonuis players. A not sorve
whioa lus opponent lanoa io iuko ni
traded hor, und she looked at the
server.
"Who is that very handsome young
man, Graeio?" sho asked of a girl stand-
intf by uor.
Tho young lady, who was two yeavs
younger than Alice, dovoutly believed
that her frieud was tho most beautiful,
tho cloverost und tho noblest woniau who
hud ever trodden tho earth.
"I'll oik my aunt," sho repliod, and
hastening to Mrs. Foster, had usked the
question oud was back with tho unswer
before sho could bo prevented.
"Ilo is a Mr. Smythe, quartered st
East Tort, ond that othor playing with
him is Mr. Smith, another of thom."
"Mr. Smith! Uun it bo Uob?" thought
Alico; and sho turnod bur attent ions from
thohundsoiuotoiiuis-pluyor to hii brother
officer.
Tho latter was a well made though
lather heavy man.
"I am sure Uob's hair was not so rod
as that!" said Alice to horself.
This was rather hard ou Mr. Smith, as
his hair was not really rod, ouly iuuliuiug
to that hue. His oomplexiou was per
haps too ruddy for beauty, though his
whole face was oxprossivo of ono quality
rmA tinflirrt
"Well," soliloquized Alico, ' 'Smith1
is rather a common name, bo why should
it bo Bob! Certainly this man is just nu
like Bob as I sm uuliko now what I waa
then ; but I dnro say it is uot he."
With this idea Alice oontoatod horself,
and turned to look ut Mr. Smith's part
ner. What she could see of his face pleased
her large brown oyes, well-cut nose,
firm moath and ohin. All tlis Alice saw
and uotod at a glance. Iu a fow minutes
more tho game of tenuis was brokou up,
ami Mrs. Foster odvuncing, introduced
Mm two voiiniT mon to Miss Markhum.
and with her uioco Oracio to make tho
fan r Hi afliit thom off to ulav.
It fell to Alice's lot to be the psrtnor
of Mr. tsiuytuo, ana a merry gamo mey
had. After it was ovor the four sat and
watched thoir successors on the cround,
chatting merrily. Uracio did not speak
much, and tho two young men devoted
themselves mainly to the entertainment
of her friend. Very lovely Alice looked
as she talked und laughed with hor new
acquaintances.
Before tho party broke up Mr. Mark
ham invited Mr. Suiytho aud Mr. Smith
to come to his house on the following
Saturday for lawn tennis, and persuaded
Graoio's aunt to allow her neioo to make
the fourth.
As Miss Markham drove her father
homo sho was vory silent. Just as she
was leaving the Browns, she hoard Mr,
Smythe address Mr. Smith as "Bob."
and somehow she was very aorrv. Of
course there might bo two Bob Smiths
in the world, and until this afternoon
she wonld havo boon very glad to meet
any one of thut name, particularly if he
were a soldier aud about the right age.
Then why was she not glad t have met
thia young man, who beside fulfilling
these conditions, waa a perfect gontlo
mau, looked vory good-natured, aud, as
she said to herself, altogether "nice?"
Yet aomohow she was disappointed.
In the meantime Mr. Smith's dog cart
waa bowling along the straight, dusty
road toward the East Fort. Its cccupauta
did not speak to each other for somo
time, but paffod away at their cigars in
ailenco. At last Bob Smith, takiug his
cigar from his month, said:
"Awfully nice, that girl, lotorr"
"Very-
"Ontv dauchtor of that rich old chap.
Markham."
"Iss,"
"Lucky dog, you, Io get her for a
partner instead of the little iohoolgirl."
"The littlo schoolgirl, as you call her,
is a very pretty little thing."
"Yes; but Miss Markham is a very
lovely Kirl. I wondor whut her name is?
Lilly, I'll bot.
"Alice."
MIa Anvnn Irnnw?"
"Heard her father Cill her by that
nima "
Silence again foil on the air and lasted
... I I 11 . IV. -A. 1.V--A.
nntil they wore in sight 01 too bastion
whon Mr. Smythe said:
"You'll drive over In the dog cart Sat
...1 T .n.,,.nn l!nll?"
..... ....
l nanus, i win. i say, viuior, wu
you fall iu love with that young la iyf
tl.inlr T .l.nll "
"Don't be snch on oss! Can t you see
a protty girl without talking such non-
il .niinn T almn't: vhr should
1? Here we are!" and he jumped from
tho dog cart, turning to give an oruor to
his man.
,
Saturday came at IbbI. Anyone who had
..,o.l.u.v;l'lliii rrl-nntilKT rIVOn 1)V Alice to
hor guests, und wutchod their demeanor
na Kiev recoivod it. would but havo
remarked how gracefully sho played her
part of hostess, and considored that the
two young men behavod liko any other
gentlemen on being received by a young
and pretty girl. But thoso three could
each have told a difforont talo. To each
of them tho singlo hand shuko, tho few
ordinary words of wolcome, had in them
something special. So, too, the talk
over the tennis, tho "chaff" over the
afternoon toa, the stroll round tho gar
den, tho conversation at dinner, thn fow
words on the terrace, whon Miss Mark
ham, her father and their gnosis stood
and admirod the' rising moon oil ordi
nary and commonplace to an outsider
woro fraught with inner moaning to
three of the aotors.
A month went by; ono or the othor or
both of the young mon wore constantly
atOukflold. Very raroly did either of
them see Alico alone, and even when
they did, what passed was exactly tho
same as when othors were presont. Yet
each knew well whsn thoy had boon
alono with her, and she kuow woll when
sho had boon alone with oach of thom.
During that month, by tacit consent,
tho two young mon nover moutionrd
Alioo to each other, and excoptiDg onoo,
when they callod after that first Satur
day, they never went toOakfield together
again, though tboy met each othor thoro
and drovo baok togothor several timos.
So a month wont by.
Alice had nover liked to ask or find
out in any way whothor the now Bob
Smith of hor acquaiutanco and her boy
friend of that namo woro ono und tho
same. Her promiso stood in her way,
for even now she could not ask, "Aro
you the man whom, whon I was a child,
I promised to mairy?" But as tho
mouths slipped by, sho grew more and
moro afraid ho was hor formor playmate.
Sho had now no fresh rouscn for suppos
ing so far from it; but sho had begun
to boliovo that he must bo porhaps bo
n.nuo aim un lmna ha nas not. This
uncertainty made hor a littlo shy with
Mr. Smitu, and siiynesi lent n cuarm iu
hor manner and a softness to her words
which fairly intoxicatod poor Bob. And
yet the brilliant blush, the downcast
eyes, tho slight tremor rouud the mouth
with which sho hailod tho outranoo of
one of tho two wero not for Bob. But bo
,.u inn nuii'li oocnoied in noticing and
dwelling on tho little stammer and pretty
liynoss witu wuicu sno niien greuio i
some chuueo remiiru 01 ins io seo uow
he received his friend.
On Tuesday, exactly ft month after tho
lawutonuis party at Mrs. Fosters, tho
two yonug men woro out riding. That
thoro was somothiug special in this rido
both of them know. It had boon sol
omuly arraiigod that morning; aud both
felt thut thcro was something wuion
would havo to bo said beforo it was over,
i.m.1 vet tliev had ri.ldon uow for nearly
au hour, and but little, and that very uu-
. . i i l.
importaut, conversation nan passeu ue
tween them. But, as thoy rode down a
lane with steep banks of sandstono ou
either sido slightly oovorod with grass, a
road so bad that both mon should huvo
boon ocoupiod in holding up thoir horses,
Victor Smythe broke silenoo:
"I say, Bob, old ohap, do you romem
berwhat you said this day month whou
we wore driving home from Foster's, thut
you mount to fall in luvo with Alioo
Markham? Because if you aro playing ut
falling iu lovo, I wish you'd stop."
"But I'm not, Victor, old follow; and
I'm Tory glad you have spoken at last.
You are such a reticent ch ip that I
daren't speak first about it; but I havo
seen plainly ouougli lately how it is.
We both love hor, and we both want to
havo hor. Now, in the old days we should
ha7e hud to fight, and ono of us would
have been killod, aud then tho othor
could have married her; but things ars
different now, so we'll do the same with
a difference We'll toss up, and the ono
that wius tho toss shall nave the first
chance, a week from to-day, all clear
shall make love, ask her, aud be either
the happy man or a miserable sinner this
day week; if sho says 'No,' thon tho other
shall ask hor. What do you say? But,
Vic, whichever it is; dou't lot's sacrifice
a fiiondship of Vtars for tho sake of any
girl, howovor lovely I Of course I am not
to you what yon are to mo; you aren't a
lonoly beggar liko mo, but"
Somehow the horses were noar to
goiher, and the two men graspod hands
tightly; thon Victor said:
"You are right, Bob. It's an idea to
tnaa-nn in Riioli a matter: bnt I think it's
:.--'." ... . ' -i .1
M Y on crvx. anu a sovoroiKu aowjivf"; nuu u
d
tl
'1
hi
lirJ-liirrMarkbam; but te beg
red that gentleman not to influence hi
daughter, but allow him to plead his
own cause. And Alice? That week
taught her that, if Bob Smith was her
boy lover, nho would not fill her childish
promise. For the first three days, when
she entered the hall after being out, sJie
glanoed at the table for the card with
"Victor B. Smythe" npon it; but it was
sever there.
After the fourth day Aliee devoted
herself to her garden, and went for no
more drives in her pretty pony carriage.
She know she had already broken her
childish promiro, that alio bad a ready
c. : ..' i.-. iwmrf-nnJ anroly not
given "c . 'u,i.
B i.i I TJ.,t wl.orn was lib? Bol
Smith had never raentionod bis friond,
and sho could uot ask.
The week went by, and Alios as she
dressed on Tndsday morning, only kuew
that it was a week aioce Victor had been
at Oiktield. She did not know what was
before her on this dsy. Bob Smith had
been there the evening before; but
though ho had triod, somehow ho fui od
to pluck up his courago and tell her that
be loved her. Tliis morning, hiring a
hansom, ho drova out to the Mark
hams', uud was shown into Alice s morn
ing room, whero she was sitting, endear
oiing to road, but, oh, failing utterly!
Thon and thore, in a simple, nunly
wov, Bob told her of his love and asked
her to be his wifo. Astonished and
horrifiod-and, oh, so very sorry-poor
Alice only murmured
"Oh, no oh, I can't! '
Bob stood up.
"Please don't cry; I'm so sorry 1
Tt ilnen not matter. If
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vou are quite suro you can t, you can t,
but are you quits sure?" ho asked, ho
wiutfully; thun, as she inunagoa to iook
. . . . . I . i r. rv nf I 1A
up, ne saw in uer iuuu uiuuiui.ih
truth. 1 tuinK l Know, no nam,
in" over her as sho half roolined on the
sofa. "Don't be unhappy; it u on come
right. And he's tho best chap id tho
world!" ,. ,. .
He raised her hand to his lips, pressed
;i vai,..,i nut. nf tha house. and inmpincr
inVi tlm liinsnm. buriod his faco in his
bunds, sobbing like a child.
Alios, springing irom iuo k,u
intn tim r,ir.in nd. throwinc herself
npon a grassy bank, cried as if hor heart
wonld break,
rri.a monk vaa un. Aootlior hiiisora
passed poor Bob somo two minutes after
he had loft tho house, but the ocoupunt
of each, buried as he was in his own
thoughts, did nol notico the other.
As Viotor Smythe drove np to tho Mark
hams' door, he saw a white form among
tho trees, which, with true lovor's in
stinct, he knew to bo his lady lovo s.
Dismissing his hansom, he warned soiuy
fnurnr.l lior nvnr tho crass. Porhaps she
wos asloop or horrible thought hurt.
Yes, for she wus sobbing droudfnlly.
"Alico Miss Markham what has hap
pened?"
She turnod; he was bending over hor.
Thoro was something written on his faco,
something on hers, and neither was
astonished that he dropped down ny uer
and that sue inado room lor uim.
"Now toll me what is tho matter, lie
said.
Poor Alice. Sho had no mother, no
friend near her, except this one, who
wanted to hear, and Bhe felt as if she
must toll some one. So, as well as sue
could, she bejan.
"Mr. Smith a panso ana a urigut
flush followed.
T Itnnw " from hor svDJMthctio com
panion; "ho has been hero aud you have
rotusod lum.'
The nuestion was naked in a half glad,
half anxious tone.
"Yes," sobbed Alice.
"TVinr Hub! But don't err so." he
said ; "you know other girls have refused
ither men beforo this.
Of nnnme: lint I always wanted to
seo him uud to say 'yes' when ho usked
m.
A puzzlod bok oaino iuto Victor's
eyes.
""What? Did you kuow him before? I
don't understand!"
bho looked up. Sho conld tell him;
ho was not Bob, and would only laugh
ut it all. Sho talked fast.
"I know it is vory silly, and yoz will
laugh at the story; but years ago I was
staying ono summer in Yorkshire with
uu aunt and uncle of mine. Next door
lived un old ludy, a Mrs. Smith, and
her nephew, Bob Smith, cams to spend
his Bitnimer holidays witu her. Why are
you looking liko that, us if you know
about it?"
"Never mind. Go on, please."
Alica droppod hor ojes, and, looking
ut tho grass, wont on:'
"Well, wo were allowed to play to
gothor, and I I likod him very much; I
don't kuow why for I think hf rather
bnlliod mo but I did; and ono day"
sho spoke low somehow, even after all
thoso years, to toll any ono of her prom
iso mado her foel Bhy "I promised that
I would marry him, aud he promised"
she laughed a littlo hysterical laugh
"that wheu ho was 30, if ho hud not seen
any ono he liked better, lie would m.trry
me; and though I don't know that it was
Mr. Smith, I thought it might be, aud it
bothered mo."
A ringing, happy laugh from her
companion auswered her.
' I knew you'd laugh," she said, hum
bly. "And you did not quite like to break
your promiso and you promised that?
Why, Lioness, what a brute I was to
muke you!''
"You! What?" Alice's eyes wero full of
a vory sweet surprise.
"Yes, Lioness. You soo I know the
name that Bob Smith oallod yoa by,
though you have not told it to mo. I
remember it all now, though, being a
man and not a faithful woman, I had for
gotten all about it. My name is Victor
Robert Smythe. My father thought the
name 'Smith' common and changed it
for 'Smythe,' and at homo I was always
called Victer, to distinguish me from my
father. But auntie would always call
herself 'Smith,' and sai l it was a groat
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liuin.w.iuu vil tun UCIII via KUVurOur S
m fnr tha cmA non
f " - " " www, va .MW
hlllil Ofttl nin 'I!nl na f,itl.a .l
andfuthor had been called before mo.
oil, Lioness, now," he whispered, tak-
j her two littlo hands in his big ones,
our boy lover Bob has come, and he
:syouto redeem your words. What
ismy Lioness say?"
k.'herewas no need for words. Bob,
is Victor, got his answer without them
1 was well satisfied.
in the comse of all the bannv nnn-
so that was talked during the next
iir, "poor Bob" was mentioned more
This did not refer cither tn
it. amytue the
"And I really did 'fag' on," Viotor
said presoutlr, "and make those hands
bait my line? How I must have wanted
kicking! Well, we'll have fair division
of labor henceforth. You f etched and
carried then, and I'm to foto'a and carry
... ii.;. .;... -
irvui mia uiiuute.
"hour
tli.in .-iT.i.
Bob Smith tho boy or Y
msn
"Put me downl Do. please: some nn.
will see."
'Then will you promise and I know
rou'U keep a promise-witness the way
you 11 aci'ji m y m nnlea SCO.
vou said ios iuiuu"" -
I you .aid yon would year, .go-will
you promise to bo very good and a way.
to do jost what I like, and novor to do
anything for yourself?"
"No, I won't." ,L .
"Then here you are, and I won t put
you down." But ho did, for oil that.
A few minute. Juter Alice .aid, look
inir up grsoefnllv into her lover', faoe:
"What will papa say? Did you osk
him?" , . . . .,,
"Oh, I'll make that all right with
PF-a. n .tl.t .lid makolt: so "all
right" that throo month. later Alice be-
camo Mrs. V. . orauue.
i.'., .i,o i.nn.lunmnst nresent wuicu
X1UIU , I I
Alice recoivod slipped a card on whitli
was written, "With the host wishes of K.
Smith." And on the happy day the
man who stood by Victor Smytuo, he
who aotod the part of "host man, was-
Bob Smithy .
Mr. Smith's Large Family.
1 1 . .nii.ii nf ilm Smith family, in
II V IB Ull"H w- "- ' - " .
n..in,., p.n ic T.i-ooklvn. the other day,
Mr. Bobert Smith mado tho following
address of welcome :
r .iii nnt " ho said, whou tho an-
plauso had subsided, "occupy your timo
with any preliminary remurks. You aro
aware 01 mo occusiuu unubo
,.. I, n liinna tha ilaVS of tllO (1
tingnished founders of our family, Adam
and Evo Smith, the world has known
our illustrious namo. we neeu noi gt
nnaiia mir own kith and kin for cx
.mnim ni nil ii.nt in pond. bad. and iu
difforont in life, iuomsiory 01 uui i"-
ily is the history of the world. v nti
f' .In Q.nltli killo.l ln'a innooont and n n-
..... I (J . .
suspecting young brother, Abel amitu.
n... r..m v ran.ir.14 verfl iirHi. Diaiuoi
win. Lu. I,. in from. Three crund old
specimens of our raco should be forever
before our oyes Abraham Smith, Isaao
Smith, ond Jacob Smith. I neod not
dwell upon the more remote branches of
t io f.im r tnnnn winch ll.san Dlllliu ue-
Innivnjl & Tl .1 it will hn Hiiflicicnt for me
briefly to mention tho renown won by
mir nnarurflll annflstnr. S.imDHOn Smith.
and the obloqny brought upon ua by
.1 in ua Iscuriot Hllllin. LUIBBOS. iuuro
iviii a tifim in mir history when a blot
seemed about to mar tho face of our
escutcheon. I refer to that dark period
ivl.on "nnli Smith, havilicr rCHCUCd tUO
mnmWs of his family from a disastrous
freshet, sent his three sons, Sliem Smith,
Ham Smith, uud Japhat Smith, out to
battle with the world, it was nam
Smith who so nearly brouaht us to dis
frnien. Hnnni.1 Inl his namo with a "y,"
To this day ho has followers, but they
nriv fortunately, fow. Look buci al
your glorious uucestors, my kinsmou
und learn from them wisdom und iirud
ence. Look ut Ananias and Sapphira
Smith, aud let not your tongues be
furred with falsehood. Look at Lot
Smith and his unfortunate wifo, und
.....
never look bade when you navo a goou
thing ahead. Think of Mose.i Smith,
und havo faith thut you will bo rescued
from ueril. even thoucrh there is no
Queen's daughter to take you out of tho
bulrushes, iiooic at Junu smitu i
Cheers J I mean the great original
John who lived so lonir in the wilder
ness. When you aro in grevious dauger
thiuk of Jonah Smith, who was eaten by
a whale, ltemomber Paul Smith. Tlirso
werasomo of tho founders of our family.
Hear, hoar ! Tho latter shows wo have
not degenerated. My feelings will not
allow mo to do more than refer to the
first great soldier of our namo, Ciesar
Smith : nur to tho first creat r:oet. W.
Shakspoare Smith; nor to tho founder of
our own great laud of liberty, George
Washington niuitii. uueen.j iinnK
of your ancestors, my relations, and keep
vouriwmi unsullied. Rather let vour
bones bo laid iu tho cold aud wormy
oartli than disgrace such names us Well
ington Smith, Napoleon Smith, Lafay
ette Smith, Garibaldi Smith. Wher
ever meu aro raised above tho level of
tho brute tho nume of Smith is known.
Applause J
Hie Hunter aud tho Bouncer.
Thero is something very childliko Bnd
touching in the letter of apology to Miss
Maggie Cline, the ballad singer at Harry
Miuer's theater iu tho Bowery, which
Johu Morris, "monntaiucor, hunter and
trapper iu Cascade, Siscuo ami Blue
mountains," as ho describes himself, has
addressed to our contemporary, tho New
Yoik Sun. "I went iuto Harry Miner's
theater," ho says, "and was much
amuaed iu it. Miss Maggie was on
tho stage singing. Sho looked to mo
actually as if sho was a quoen. I was
greatly delighted with tho looks of tho
woman, und her voice was so musical that
it overpowered my ignorance, so that I
didn't think in coming in I had actually
paid enough, uud so I tore up a pioco of
paper and wrapped up 23 cents into it,
and I hove it onto tho stage across the
congregation, not thinking I was doing
any harm at all. The big bouncer
snatched mo right out where 1 was a sot
ting, and shoved mo ahead of him till I
wa3 outside, without listening to what I
bad to to say." The letter is as racy and
expressive as tho generosity of the writer
whioh met with such a cruol reward, lie
is evidently now fillsd with awo at the
decorum required by a Bowery "congre
gation." Tho huDtcr wont iu like a lion,
and cams out like a lamb nnder the pas
toral guidacoe of "the big bouncer."
Indeed, thero is a flavor of mountain
lamb in his playfulness, as well as of
prairie hen ia the expression "snatched
me where I was a setting." Thore was a
delicacy in his wrapping the quarter of a
dollar in paper before ho "hove" it over
the heads of the congregation, remind
ing one of the old fashion in handing a
physician his fee. Indeed, Maggie's
voice had acted like a lonio medioine
upon him and stimulated his generous
blood. But ha will give no quarter in
future even to a queou of song.
How was poor John, who for twelve
years had had no pillow for his musical
head bnt a "Winchester rifle and thirty
rounds," to know the severe etiquette of
the Bowery stage, which will not tolerate
an ajsthetio rapture which ia expressed
by the cash value of tho song instead of
by the choicest boquet of flowers A
bunch of lilies of the valley or mountain
violet, would have woa a smile from the
high-toned nightingale whoso salary
renders her impervious to .mall change.
Vr, if John had only written a few
lines, informing Mis. Clinethatbe was
"ho might have been more favorably ia'
oliuod to receivo hi. admiration
hap. an invitation to nppo,1'
abrupt and metallic waa n0or j ?
note of admiration compare l ,..,ck
which Fred Gobhardt dlt 'L to '&
Langtry. John a realism, which .''
Miss Clino seem "actuullr .
minds one of the .ailor whoiio Tv"
were so overwrought at tha n.,. cl,D8i
of the stage ruffian in the bon$Rtv
innocent beauty who was doino L ht
back hair beforo the mirror thft .r
leapod upon the stago, fuiuV
astonished tragedian, and pultj V
arm protoctingly around tho Iudv'. . J
roquobted to be "darned" and hav. . i
timbora ahiveroj if she should be t
whilo ho was orouud. Brooklyn fcagle'
EDUCATIONAL KCTI3.
Of Virginia'. W87 schools, over inn
aro colored.
Lincoln Institute io Philadelphia ilt.
bo horoa ter used as a training ihoul "J
Indian children. lor
An attempt to substitute Roman f.
Gothio text in German book. 0f stnrf,
in the St. Louis schools has failed
Brooklyn public schools ore fo ha.
$75,000 worth of books to establish th!
free school system for tho coming ye&,
A measure to secure to the teaeuencf
tho Baltimore pnblio schools a tenure of
ten years lias failed, chiefly, it i atte
ed, through tho opposition of the p0l:.
tioiuns. v
Rutherford college, North Carolina
matriculated 278 studeuts during tha
year juBt euded. Ovor 2000 indigent,
have been educated thcro gratuitous?
since its existence. '
Nebraska has set aside 2,413,148 acres
of land for publio schools. The stats
university at Lincoln has an average at
tendance of 300 students. A now school
of modioine will be opened in the stats
next year.
Of 1010 girls examined for a(imiii0n
to the normal college in Now York thia
year, 904, or 95 per cent, were success
ful. The percentage of successes among
tho boys who nppiiod for admission to
tho city colloge was 82.
Tho now Indiau institute at Oxford
will furnish, when completed, a com
plete courso of instruction in the dead
and living lunguuges of Indiu, with all
tho necessary studies to fib and equip
one for life aud success in that country.
It is hoped that native Indians will take
advantage of it, as well as English stu
dents. Ilnxloy, Tyndall and somo 470 mom
bora of the British Association for the
Advanood Sciences will meet in Mon
treal in August of next yoar, the Caua
diun Governmott having appropriated
$30,000 for their entertainment. The
American society for the Advancement
of Scionco is asked to hold its session at
Philadelphia next year, so that tho for
eign contingent of wiBO men may be
shipped thcro after the Montreal session.
A euro for rheumatism an English
doctor has found in total abstinence
from food. Uo declares that many cases
of acute articular rheumatism have Wn
cured by fasting from four to eight days,
whilo chronic rhoumutism was also alle
viated. No medicines were given, but
patients could havo cold water and 1cm
onado iu moderation. The doctor states
that rheumatism is only a phaso of indi
gestion, and thereforo can be cured by
giving comploto nud continued rest to
ull the digestivo organs.
Somo 2,000,000 children aro being
taught in the Japancso public schools ou
the A.moricon and Euglish systems. Be
sides the schools under government coi
trol thore aro a grout many priva'o edu
cational enterprises scattered about the
country. With a view of training young
men for sneei.il professions, there ara
also schools ond colleges iu connection
with tho various departments, as ulsoa
school of foreign languages, medicine,
truncation, etc. Separuto institutions
are established ior mo uuueuiuu ui
girls, aud are meeting with good snccesf.
Judge Laughliu of St. Louis, in re
nnntlv hnnorublv discharging a school
principal, against whom a charge of as
sault und buttery hud been enfered for
punishing a refractory boy, aged ten
yeurs, said: "Whipping hurts budhoyi
only a short whilo. Tho sentiment
against this is productive of positive in-
jury. Tour years oi expenuutu u .
administration or criminal iuw cuuv.u.
mo that the boys who becoma criunnals
are tho boys who don t get wuippeu,
and whon it is romemberod that a large
percentage of the bolder crimes known
to tho law is committed by youths rang
ing in age from fourteen to twenty yoari,
tho question arises: Is it better to whip
first or imprison afterwards? Boys M
from infancy are allowed to follow IM
,; t i.; nn,n vi'nimi inclinations go
from bad to worse and unrestrained to
thoir almost certain and ultimate ruu.
Helpful IHuts.
i i ? . 1, Traallfld CiSill
ijamp emmneyu uu -.
. , f. . xi. . nnan nf tha tei
Dy uoiuing mem uvei w .
kettle when the water is boiling funons
iy. . v
... .... . -1 .l.nniwl DUO 101
it is said mat a ciovo , ,
will preserve it from molding, and w
any essential oil will answer thowm
purpose. . ...
ii.- f.,i tnr iuvalia'
They are excellent boiled bput hwrnu
utes and eaten hot fifteen minutes before
breakfast. .
For macaroni with cheeso.or w
rarebit, cheese which is too ur,
Wblopybou8od;when.usgrst
melted, aua a vory -
moisten it. ,
i.:t, lmveloat
Pale blue stocKings, wu .
their color, can have it restored
are dipped into hot water in wtiicn
v,i.- i,a iiAn noured na
U1UU U1UDIUQ Uua " " 1
lump, of alum dissolved.
There were nineroueh-looking fello
and a real bright, sensitive boy on
chaineane in an Alabama town.
boy attracted a great deal of atrfnwy
on account of bisyoutu.u.-- --
nocence. An Indiana inuj. ,
him a. .he passed' along tto jWJ
stopped and spoke to him. "Jthl
verr roneu manner, w--- ...
-rir n looked up r
lady', face, and his eyes fiUed '
tears, a. he turned to obey.
the exprew came thundering 0?httt
wuuuui a wuru u "j - .nghM
himself in front of it, and was n
i i l
into a snapeieu mass.
in
boy
the