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SLINGS AM) ARROWS By DUOH COSWAT. Author of "CalUd Back," 'Dark Day," "A Family Affair," Ale. " 'SuleJI Wtntihipr i exolaltnei, turn Ing to Grant , ViolssaiN for Amorlcanext week. Home friends of her mothar's live la New Yora; sbagoestotuein." I walked aero to Viola, "Why do you got' 1 asked, fl.;rcaly. Wie toemod to trem bl at th change iu taf voica. I repeated tbe question. "1 am too noar too near to Euglanl,' be slid, in a low, paiuel vole. "Too near to ma, you meanf "Vesl Xbere mut be thousands of miles between us." I stamped In my rage. I waa tried past endurance. Her one thought, ber only wtah, eeml to be tbutof avoHint me. "Uol" I cried, ' and may 1 never gaze again on your faUe, fair lace! Qol aul carry witb you tuo niJiiiory of tbe life you have ruinei, tbe bope you bave bligbteJ, Us love you bave thrown awayl Ool" I turned on my bosl, but in tbe imall mirror over the fireplace I iaw Viola rise, pale and tottjrin;. 1 saw Grant place bis arm round bar anil support ber. 1 cannot bear it," I heard ber pay. "I can boar all for bin sake, except bit re proaches. Eustace, wbea I am gone let bim know all. Not until I am gono. Julian, fare welll' Iturnel at tha lait wor-U pausing through tbe doorway, forward, but Grant cheKol mj. were rolling down bis cheeks. "No." be aid. "Leave ber. Viola wai 1 sprau? Tha tears No gool can be done. You will kill ber if you see ber aaln. Julian, leave tbe houo for an hour: they will be gone by then. Trust ma believe inn, it is better so." ''But I am to be told everything!" 'Yet, wb'-n ishi ha left England." "Na djw lull ma now! Wbatcvor It may bo that divide! us. I can swoop itaway. I can hinder ber from going. I can bold her to my h 'art and keep bor, Speakl If you are sworn to keip ber secret awhile, for my saki, for bor sa e, break that row, and let me know everything this moment!" Ho laid tils h tnd on my sliouldar. "Ju lian, my poor follow," ba said In voice fud of fonllng, "if you bava auy hope, abandon it. No ove, uo power on earth can bring Viola back to your Ills words swunl to turn my heart Into load. I tail uo more, but, obeying bis requost, left tbo houw. But I waited at tbe roadalda for the carriapri t pis'; I would eaten one more ghnipe of V.ola before she left mo, as Grant proJictod, forever. At hut tha carriage passed mj. Viola saw mo; our eye moL llor Iojs: wnsous of bopolosi, vuiuuln? misery. Hlu made a faint movdinint as if about to strolch out her niMis, tbon in a nioimnt paisol from niv gnat. And this wan rur farewell! Coiiuiiurlng the impulo wblcb ur'jd me to ruhh aitur the ctrria;;), eir tuf wite from It, and swoar shi shou.d not leave me, I turned away au 1 struck down toward tha coast. II -ia 1 wandered about until lata at nlnht, TbJU, weary and numerable, dragxed tnvaolf back to tbe farm. Grant, with a face fall of anxiety, was awaiting my return, I threw mymlf Into a chair, buried my tare in my bands, aud, I boliovoil, sobbed. The disappointment of the day, tbe threatened hoMleisuHS of the future, bad coinuletilv broken me down. I foil as a man urn it feel who is on the Targe of suicide. "Kumuoe," I cried, "can you give me no nopcr "My poor boy, It would be crul to do colve ye u-douI" I groaned. "Let us go away,'' I said. "Come with mo to England to Loudon. I sha 1 go mad, and throw niym.f over tu cliff if I star hero!" Tbe uext morning we started for England. CHAP 1 Ell X. "TT nA8 BERN A DRKAM, LET US FOROET IT." Ciirinus as it may smiii, I prosnnl Grant no mora to make a premature rori'lntion of the my story. His, waruliu wisrds, his solemn aswi tion that I had nothing to bopo for, whoii loiuel to tbe reiii!nitim'H,e oi Viola's gnuf aud ixirsUtoncy in Nnckiii'; to avoid m i, bail exorciMpd a great ctroct upin me; ho groat that I bxan to dreid tbo proinisixl disclosure. Until it was mado, I could at least toll mysjlf tbat someday matt ri would mne rlgnt Tbe look I had serin the last iu Viola's eys haunted me day aud nl rlit. Tbe last words 1 had heard bor sneak. "Julian, farewell!" rang in my aura, Both look and worJs told nu that she love! me, but told me that hope.es mlstry was to be our lot No worn! T I boan to wun to noatiione the know lo Ice of the worst! We wont to an hotel iu Lon tou. I was moody and miserable a cbeorlois comiian' Ion to the man to whom I now clung as for support and strength. Honiehow, Kustao) (Irant ei'inl to be tin only creature to whom I could turn iu my trouble for snn pathy and ai I. Ho was very g.-inl to m in those d iya Ho woa more thuu a friend, more than a brother. But in spite of tbo coiiipnssiou which 1 know ho felt for mo, no word which oucouraiiei tho faintest bopo passed bis liM. 8yiiimtliy ii precious, Lut I wnn'oil bone. The Uttvs went by until I guessed that Viola s departure must be near at h:iiiiL I grew n rvous and iWp'na Wild thi Uihtt cf flying baek to France and re.nnt bor once more shot through me. To km ber, touob even her band once ni'iro, be ore I learned tbe fatal recret which I hid by now brought myself to believe would part us jorever. "When does she sailf" I asked Grant abruptly one night "The day attar tu-niorrow." "From barer "From Hsrra." In forty-eight hours she would be gout. In forty-eiifbt hours I should know why she had loft me. "Eustace," I said, "before I learn what there is to learn, there is something 1 should like to da Viola Is my wife. Whethersne has acted rightly or wrongly. I shall soon know; but 1 must make some prorision for her future. "Yes," aald Grant "That you should most c.irtalnlr do. "Come with me to my solicitor's to-mor row. 1 will give bim instructions." Grant nod Jul; so 1 wrote at onca aul made the appointment I resolved to do all 1 hud purposed doing before Viola lirt By tuis act 1 cou'd at least show her that whatover tbe peii liu; revelation miKbt be, I loved and trut,l ber. 1 told Graut of my lntontioos, and wondorel be expressed so little surprise at what, under tie circumstances, might be woll callel gnsnuv It not quixotic. "It will be Just ani fair," he said quietly. "ro it aa you sugeit, at once." Tbe next afternoon found us at mr solic itor's. Tb large tin box, labeled "Julian Lss-ains, Esq.," was pullel down, dustd andopenel Tbe notes which, two years asa had been taken retpecUnt tha settle- men t were looked up and produce!. It was arranged that Grant should bs on trustee and mr solicitor. In whom I put great faith. tha other. All was to bs dona with as little slelav as pjeuble. I smiled sadlr, pirhaus bitterly, as 1 thought it wai to be done for tbe sake of one who was eagar to put thou sanls of nillos betwein UL I was looiing through some papers, amonx which I found one indorsed "Copy of Julian Loralne't wilL" I drew It out opensd it and hld It toward Grant. ' Sea," title to all I dosjsoh. What adifferenca tboie few lines made to me at the time! Now, little good, after all, they bave done me!" "Shortest will I ever real, rar. uraiu, ;,i i, .,,ll.lr "If Avnrr one made SO simple a will as that, lawyers would starve." Grant, wllnout mucn snow oi mwrai, .jr tha mmr in his hand and ran bis eve over It Buddonly ho stopped short and stared at It like one who aees a ghost Never bofow ha 1 I sem a nran'a face and bearing so changed in tingle SJConl. I was positively irigncena. "What ia tbe micurr i cnei. n mrn.il tn th solicitor. "Will rou leave ui alons far om mluutof" he said; "only one minuter Tks il,i:iiir tniknl mirnrisil at tha hrnsniiB reouest: but, nevertheless, court eously racated the office. Grant seised my arm witn a grip oi iron. "U'k.tHroi It mam-thlsT' In aked. in a roice full of wild excltemunt At he spoke, be laid bis forefinger on tbe words 'adopted sou! "Mean! it is English. It moaas what it aays." "You are not tbat man t aoar ''Foti or no( fmf man's on." "No more than you are. I have always passed as tucb, and never troubed to correct the error. Perhaps, as my origin is a bumble one, I was asbamod to do so," 1 addel with a faint lauzh. Ho took no notice or. my seii-aoprecauon. "Toll me all about yoursol as short as rjossiblo. but piss over notbing." So tn a few words I told him tbe story which, years ago, Julian Loroine had told me. How I was born in mid-ocean, and In curious way established soma sort ot a claim on Mr. Loraine. Mv tale was but half fin- lsned whin Grant hit me, and I beard him la tbe outer otllce sbouiiug for telegraphic forms in a way which scanUaliioJ t ie decor ous clerks. Ho wrote two meisugei ranUly, threw down a sovereign and aak"U for pome one to go at once to tho teiegraph ollic Then l.e reiaid me by the arm. "Uomol" be cried; "all that trash" meaning the business papers "can wait Come with me." Ha swept me out of the (ffl'O like whirlwind, down the stairs into the street He shouted for a cab, and In a moment wa wera tearing at full speeJ toward our ho'oL Had 1 not guess d tbat sometbtng deepr, something concerning my own fate lay un derhis exoitoment should have tbought tbut Euitace Grant bad suddenlv gone mad. No; 1 knew tbat be had made tome diicove 'V which wrought a groat coauo in everything. "WhatiiiU TollmV I said. "I cannot I cannot siteak. WaXt one minu V "Tell me that it nuans gocd to Viola and to me." Ho grasp iJ my hand "Julian," he said, "it means everything." I sank back speeculo?. For a minute or two I wes willing to rest content with this bold assirtiou and aik no ino-o nmitions. 1 said no more uuMl w roachel tbo note!. Grant carelessly threw monoy to the cabman, passed his arm through mine, an I led me to our sitting-room at a rate which mado i'S the observed of all. Uucs tbnre, be gras)el both mv hands aud shook thim rlwiroudy. Then ho lort me. In a minute hi was b ick again. He bald two 1 tttors In his huuiL Ho gave me one. "ISbe wrote this," hesaiJ; "it is a fire well, an 1 was to bave b.-on given you when you hid loarned all. I snatcbol it and would have onenod it, "Mop a moment" he said. "This one is a letter wh eh on her death bed Viola's mothor told ma to give her daughter on her twentr -first blrthlay. Your wile rial it in Mr. Monk's olllcs while sbo was wait.u j for you and while I wus talking to Mr. Mo.ik. Wuen you read it plcturo bor feclina, aui voit will uuJerslanl everything." Grant turuol anay and left me aloue with the letters. Which should I onoi first f Viola's, of course bad tliough it m ght it would contain some word of lovo which wou d b iireclous to ma. 1 kiss-td it and to.-e it open, Hero It is: "Peaiikst-You will read this, knowing all. U.id wo not met bal von evea be hove t mo tni'.hliMs to you! I could have car ritnl the dreadful secret to the grave, and you at least might one day bave found yourse f happy aniu. You have forced tho truth from raj, and the truth shows you thnt this letter is an eternal farewell. At times 1 thought, when yjars and years have passed, we might meot asaiu. Dearest it can never b. Even that hope is denied us. Julian, fate has bencruisl, aui se.Museren cruelar now that you must share the sorrow and the sbamo. Farewell." 1 laid the letter on ths table and opened tha second picket Anotbor letter in womau's writluj;; also two lonj narrow strips or pa;ier. 1 read tns letter. "Mr Pavohtir if I am dead, this will be given you on your twenty-first birth lav, Tbe nsme un lor which I pass is not my own. I am tbe wife you are th daughter of Julian Loraine, of Herstal Abbey, Somersetshire, How he treat -d me, why I left bim, are nutters upon whlc'j I need not speak. He was a fiend in human shape. I shall nerer sea bim a;iin. 1I-J does not know whether I am alivj or dead. I tell you this, not t iat you mtr sek him and claim the riht of a d iu,: liter, but that you mar shun and avoid anv one bearing his wicked nama He is no, but rionet do not brinj bappiueu. Live your own swoet life, marry a good hune-t mtn, and let your true nam, or the relationship you boar to ths man who so cruelly wrongei me, never pass your lips. If ever you feel tempted to go to this man and say, 'lam your daugh ter,' think of me and the years of suffering he bat caused ma. LH bim die without knowing he has a chil l so fair and loring asyoursjir. lour aneoli inate mother, "Margaret Loraime." Tbe slips of paper were certificate! one of tbe marriage of Julian Loraine aud Mar garet tha otlier of tbe b.rt'i i f Viola. Now I knew all I rested still and pic tured my poor girl's unspeakable horror when aba read that fatal le'.tir, aid learn hJ I that ber husbinl was h.r father's son by wnat sue supposed was former wire, I seemed to aoe bsr struck down In the first flush of ber wedlod happiness, even as I bad beeu struck down. 1 seemed to enter into ber thoughts, to feel tint it was im possible she could meet me again. I could bear her agoulzl entreaties to Grant to bear her away and bide ber from ma i could understani now why she took no stops to clear ber nama in my ayes. How she even wished me to thiuk her perjurel and faithless, so Ion; as tbe secret could M kept from me .10 lonj ai I did not suffer as she suffor-nL Yosl I could understand what riebtlyor wrongly, the and Grant bad striven to do for my sake! On what a chance a life turns! Why bad I never told Viola the story ot my birth and stranga adoption! W by bid 1 never told Grantl It wouli bave clearei matters in a second. Ktrania to say, it had never occurred to me to mention it to either of them. After bad succeeded ta my reputed fattier t wealth, mv position was so assured it soemed to me so natural to be thought aud callod the dead man s son tbat iu sober truth my real origin had all but faded from my mind. For years I had scarcely given it a thought But I ground riiy teith now, es I reflected how a t niplj chance migat bave made me spea, aud io saved my "if 3 aud myself from mora thou two years of misery I iben tna nea came to mi mat every moment w jich elapsed before Viola learnl the news was in) of sorrow to her. I sprang to ray feat aui went in search of Grunt. Good fellow! I found be bad already packed his portmanteau, aad was budly engaged on mine. "ilyoumaKo naste we snail just caicn the Southampton train," be sail. It thanked him br a locnc. 1 tossed tmngi into my portmanteau higgledy-pigg.ety, aud iu ttiree miuutoa we were on our way oacK to France. We were in plenty of time. InJeel, as the boat did not leava Southampton until nearly midnight, we might bave waitel tor a later train, it was Letter as it was. Although starting from Ljiidiu at once meant pacing for hours tin qua at South ampton, I bad the tatisiactiou ot being so many miles nearer to viola. Shall 1 ever forget mat crossing i ine nieht was fair. No thought of sle ip came to me. I aat on deck all night, gazing out over the tea; looking out for tho two great lizhts on Cap de la llevo; list mug to tbe steady, monotonous thump, thump, thump of tha engines, and Knowing mat, every revolution of toe padJlo-whools waa bear ing me nearer to Viola; or I leaned ovor trie side of the boat aud watched tbe hissing water flrioe behind in a foainiu; white track. I folt tbat 1 was beinz borne away from all my trouble, and that ths path tue sturdy ship plowed tbrougn tue mooa lizbtelsea was one wtiiuh lod ma to ua sDiakable happiness. I waa alone with my Uioushts nearly an ine lime, uraut, uae a wise man, bad gone below to court sleep. Perhaps, in spite of the joy he felt in tbe approaching aappiness or nis irionas, mv ceasel ss and o-t-repeatou questions D?came a trills monotonous. He bad to assura me a thousand times tbat one, at least, cf h i messages would reach Viola in tim tj tta ber departure. Ho bad telegraphed ton. steamer, as well as to the Hotel do 1 Eu op at which be knew sue was staying, no ua limply said, "On do account gj to ui.e row," and folt certain she would counter- maul her journev, and await explanations, Would sh3? Would a few words from him change her plans) What nhould 1 do if we reached Havre after the American steamer had sailed, and found tbat after all Viola had gone in herf "Dor' said Grant "Take the next beat and follow her. It will bj but the delay of a weeii, and tbe voyage will do you good. But 1 could not contjmnlate witb equa nimity tbe thought of Viola's spend. n? another week in ignorance of the truth. So Graut bad again aud again to assure n:e that we should certainly tkid ber at Havre wl.h his sistor, who accompanied her thither aud bad promised to sjo ber saioly on board tbe atomier. 1 hai otnor questions to ask bim, anion? thom wheu ha tlrs barnel tbo true renstn of mv wife's sudden flight how ha loarned it lie was sileat for a while, then ba sail gravely: "Lorain, I will onca for all make a clean breast to you. A mouth after I bad placed Vio;a in mr sistor s bands 1 said to myself 'This man, who suould hare made her life h ippy, has bv his treatment forced ber to leure him. Why should she waste her Ida iu erieit I love hart' So I wrote to her I could not have spoken the words I wrota au i told bar 1 loved he.. I askei her what tLe voice of the worli matcerei to us. The law mi;ht free hor from you, and we might be bappy I llor answer was to sen! me ba mr letter, accompanied ly tue papers which I gave you to-day. She know that I would guard the secret I knew tbat sha left you, not bacause your love had wanoJ, The hale I Mt toward you, the pas-iou I lelt toward Violu, turned into the deepest p.ty. Isow you kuow all. It was j ist utter saying this that Grant bade ma good ulht aud loft me to my own reflections. So I watched and natched until morning duwned, then broke broad und bright; until tho sun wus well up; until at last we steamed into Hi vie, and I coull stop cn the broni quay aul tall myself that in a few minute) my wife would be weep ing in my arms. Wereuchei l In hot -I We learnel that the Indies wore still there. Grant's tola- grain bad due its work. My impulse was to rush in search of my wife, tut Grant checked me. As be said, she kuew notain ' lib Diesuge had given no information as to tha discavory he ha t uiade. Let him sea bor first, aud couvmce ber (bat I was. without a shadow of a doubt, Julian Loraine' s adopted saa. Thou I migbt se ner as soon as 1 iiKod. I consented, and curbed my Impatience. I sat in tbe courtyard ot the hotel counting the minutes. Grant must have told bor by now. She must kuow what joy is a waitinz us. She must 1 lougiug to throw hersolt into my arms. Wby am I not summoned! Porhaps the Joy has killad herl 1 will wait no longer! I rose, but at that moment Grant ap- parcd. ins lace told me tbat the good tidings nad worked noeva Iran toward bim. lie grasped my band. "Stay yet a few minutes,'' be said; "sbe wishes it" "Sha is well! Thore ia nothing wrong!" "She is welland happy. In tea minutoi you shall see hor." Somewhat sullouly I r?eatd mysslf. Presently, wa were joiuel by the sweet Xacad Sister of Chariiv, who had for the time discarded the spotless liuea insignia of her calling, anJ was dressed in simpli black. She talkoi on rurious subjects; but ll l answerea at nil i oil so mecaauically, her roice bearing no meaning to my ears. At last she rj, and 1 u tders:ood that sha wished mi to follow ber. Grant wrung my band aa I paued him. Witb a beating heart I followed his sister np the wide stairs, followed ber until sbe pause! before a door, and placed her hand on tbe handle. Then, turning to ma, she whispered: "Mr. Lorain I know all tha sad storr of tha last two reirs. I know what this poor cuiia nas suuarei. i n -re are some grief j which are too acute to boar even the men tion of. Take her to your arms as if .rou Had parted witn ner but an Dour ago, auu until sbe speaus or it lei no worn us w two years pass between you." She made tbe sigu oi me cross, upeueu tbe door and left me free to enter. Wbatdldlseal Viola, even as ine ien that mornin? so soon after our wedding. Viola In the rery dresi the wore that day. How well I remembered It rememLerei its hue, Its rery material Long afterward she told me that during tnosi monins vi iparatlon she bad treasured up ani kopt always near ber ererything that reminded ber of the few hippy days she nad sreui with ui?, before tbe fatal mlsiate crusneu ber to the earth. Yes, I saw Viola as ot eld even down to the sparkling ring which had, it almost seemed to me tbat morn ing, given ber. Viola, my l ive, my wiiei The door closed softly behind me tbe sister's care must bave done tha i oponei my arms. With a cry of rapturous d dight Viola ran toward me, and in a momeut was jobbing and laughing on my breast. "Dearest ho wluvparod, wnen ai ibsk we found speech for more than ejaculations and broken words of love, "Jeareit, it has b?en a dream a black cm d dream!" Sbe shuddered as she spoira. unce more I presied my lips to hers. LitusloreiH." i saiu. Then hand in band, out of that long night Of dark dreams we riassed into the full day- lignt O. tue jOV wuicu ma cuu uuir auun when Drignteneu uy men iove as ou ui THE END. OVERFEEDING. Ureeding Stock In Connection With Live Htork Exhibitions. In connection with shows of breeding stock, as thoy are now conducted, there is one crying evil which seems to us to demand the serious and immediate at tention of all concerned. The overfeed ing of breeding stock, or of stock in tended for breeding purposes, is a ruin ous practice, pregnant with disastrous influonoei, and unfortunately it is pur sued extensively with animals exhibited at our breeding shows. In conuection with the imnortnnt annual meetings which they conduct, there is no suggest ed reform which culls so urgently for immediate attention as that winch is the subject of our remarks. It has sometimes been averred that high feed ing is inseparable from showing that as long as breeding stock are brought into public competition, overfeeding will bo pursued. There is no reason why the case should bo viewed in this light. The disorder is not incurable. It unfortunately has obtained a strong hold on the show system, and mild measures would not be sullicient to re move it An effectual remedy, how ever, is at hand, and all that is re nuircd is prompt, judicious and persistent application. "Disqualifica tion ' is the only cure. If a rule pro Vidmg for tins were introduced by all societies and rightly enforced, the over feedinar of breeding animals would very soon become a tiling of the past. As to this there is no reason for doubt. Ex hibitors pursue high feeding because thev have found that it has increased their chances of gaining show-yard dis tinction. Change the showing system so as to make high feeding a certain bar to show-vard success, anil no exhibitor would be so blind to his own interest as to continue the costly and destructive custom. Exhibitors are well aware of the harm high feeding is calculated to inflict upon breeding animals, but they have felt that to attempt to gam distinction in show-yards witn lean ani mals would bo perfectly useless. The fault lies entirely with our show system It has hitherto been conducted so as to encoitrngo high feeding. It must now bo altered so aa not only to encourage "natural" feeding, but even so as to dis courage, or rather banish, overfeeding. Until societies take the matter in hand, and deal firmly with it in this way, no improvement need be looked for. rttrmer, Jr ie(d ana aiocKman. SLAVES OF QUININE. The Growing Abu of That - Drus; as Re- pnrtvil by an fp-Town Aptliee Ty. "Have you noticed the growing use of quinine?" a druggist in the vicinity of tho Fifth Avenue Hotel asked last night. At the same moment ho bowed and smiled to a tall, red-whiskered man who strolled in. "Just watch this customer," he said. The man was very thin and cadaver ous looking. Without saying a word he walked up to the .--oila fountain, and the boy drew out a pill box poured three pills into the palm of the custom er's hand, set a glass of mineral water in front of him, and turned to the next customer. The tall man swallowed the pills, drank tho water, turned ou his heel, nnd stalked away with another plcuuit nod to the proprietor. That costs him a dollar and forty ceuts a week " said the proprietor, "and before long it will kill bim. He started to take one live-grain pill every i.ight about six month ago; he now takes tit'teen grains a night belore he goes home, so that it will brace him up for Ida dinner. Within a month no will be taking twenty grains a night. Oi c urse hn takes it at home be-ides what he gets here. I've gono out of my way three or four times to explain to him that he had a good deal better drink rum, even if he is a deacon iu church, but his answer is a simple one; he says quinine makes him feel cheerful and strong, and it has no ill o:lects. Ho tried stopping it once, and caved in: hence he wants to know why ho should stop. You can't combat such reasoning as that" Have you many such regular cus tomers?" -Well, to be aceurat?, we have only three men who come in every day and pay at the end of the week, but there are many others who take their uinine as regulurly as nijst drinking folks take their whisky. It is c Ttainlv a treat temptation to weaklv organized and frail people. All they have to do Is to swallow a pill or two, and thev feel robust, wide awake and cheerful. The practice grows on, them continu ally, and it seems to be spreading, for otir sales of quinine are constantly growing. A good proportion of the custom comes from women who crow f.itinod or wenrr whilts khnmiinc ami , - J -f..u , .- V. who, instead of buying nutritious lunch eon or dri iking a wholesome bottle of porter or alo, resort to the insidious uuitnne lull.' A. . Hun. A professor at tue unirersity in Ber lin, hating tried it, says that it takes ten times as long to commit to memory eighty meaningless syllables as it docs to matter eighty that bars meaning. ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION. A Number of Ineiplleable British Pecul iar! I ts. Tn th nhituarv notices which tho death of the Duke of Somerset called forth a curious diversity in the spelling of the family name was noticeable. The old Duke, a plain, rough-tonguod, un ostentatious man, spelled it Seymour; the new Duke, who himself is seventy- five years old, writes it St. Maur. And tfin old brothers disagreed on this point so the nephews of the present duke differ, for thore is among them a Lord Algernon St Maur anu a ioru Edward Seymour. Whon members of the family are themselves of two opin ions it would be temerity Indeed for a plebeian outsider to attempt to deter mine tho right of the thing. Apparently the original name was Norman, and the family harks bacK wan imam uo St Maur, who held lands in Monmouth under Henry III. but three genera afterward, in tho time of Edward HI., the head of the house wrote himself if, indeed, he knew how to write at all Roger Seymour. This name they bore with them when, in Tudor times, they emerged from obscurity by a lucky chance, pained court favor, fattened themselves on church lands, and hnaliy, from the ninacle of the Lord Protector- shin, cained the right to sniff at all the . , . -1! .. t T.- ... 1 .... .1 V.n . . gn 1 if otner iaiuuies oi riijmiiu, uaum thn Howards. Indeed, I am not sure that this exception ought to be mado, for a thottffli tne uuKes oi ioiioir M48a antedated the Dukes of Somer set bv some sixtv-four years, it is well- known that Howard is a corruption of tho excessively common-place Saxon nnme Ilogward, while now tnat Sey mour is spelled St. Maur, there can be no manner of doubt about its Normati bluc-bloodedness. Of course, it is true that vulgar tongues corrupted the name for something over hve centuries; but, thank Heaven, it has been restored now. and we can all breathe easier. The name will continue, however, to be pronounced Seymour, just as St, John is called Sinitin, and St, Letrer is spoken Sillinger. Alas! we did not all know this last until lately at least the reporters in the Commons callerv didn't nnd when the aristo cratic Marquis 'of Hartington spoke of the correspondents who had been killed in the Soudan, one of whom was named St. Leger, the papers next morning all had it Sillinger. But not that we know wht fashion demands in the matter of orthoepy it shall never happen again. Sometime I am going to make a whole book about the funny things in English pronunciation. Everybody knows about Majoribanksbeing Marsh- banks, and Cholmondeley being tlium lev, aud Levison-tiower being l;ewson- Gore. These are stock samples familiar to all. Most people know, too, that the Norman names of Uelvoir nnd llean champs are pronounced Heaver and Ucecliam, while the equally Norman name of Grosvenor retains ite French sound. But these are only sign-posts on the road to a general knowledge of the subject. When you get to know why Houghton is pronounced Bawton, while Houghton has the long o, why Wemvs should be W'eems, and Knollys should be Knowles, you will tie getting on in the mastery of tho subject. But there are no rules. Some words like Pull Mall, which is pronounced pell mell, retain the sound of foreign origin after they bave lost its form. But, then, the word mall, inclining path, is pronounced mal and as thev both came from the oia French game of pail Iu niaiUe, it may be seem tlml th Knglisiimnii disdains mere laws of analogy. He says Rumsted when lie refers to Kotbamstead, but he pronounces Southampton out fully and clearly. In London, too, he has a dialect of his own. He says dark, but the rest of England says clerk. He turns all his long a's into long i's, say ing dyly pyper instead of daily paper, but the country people do not. But, then, he says Hcrefford, while the na tives of that shire call it Harford. London Cor. N. Y. Times. BOILS. A Hoy's Composition on the Benefits to be Derived from Job's Comforts. A boil is generally very small at first and a fellow hardly notices it, but in few days it gets to be the biggest of the two, and the chap that has it is of vory little account in comparison with his boil, which then "has him." Boils ap pear mysteriously upon various portions of the human body, coming when and wliere "they darn please" and often in very inconvenient places. If a boil comes anywhere on a per son, that person always wishes it had conio somewhere else, although it would puzzle him to say just where. If a chap has a boil he generally gets a good deal of sympathy from others, "in a horn." It is very wicked to make sport of a person with boils; they can't help it, and they often feel very bad about it Boils are said to be "healthy," and judging from the way they take hold and hang on and ache and grow and burn and raise Cain generally, there is no doubt about it. 1 hey are generally very lively and playful at night. Boils tend to purify tho blood, strengthen the system, calm tho nerves, restrain profanity, tranquilize the spirit, improve the temper and beautify the appearance. It is said that boils save the patient a fit of sickness, but if the sickness is best not to have the all-fired mean thing it must be. It is also said that a person is better after he has had them, and there is no doubt that one feels much better after having got rid of them. Many distinguished persons have en joyed these Harbingers Of health. Job took the premium at the county fair for having more aehers under cultivation than any other farmer. Shakespeare had them and said: "One woe doth tread upon another's heels, so fast they fol low." Treatment: There are a great many remedies for boils, most of which are well worth trying, because if they don't do any good they don't hurt the boil. Everybody knows "a good thing fi them." Among these remedies'' are shoemakers' wax, trix, Spalding's glue, soothing syrup, Charlotte russe, sedleit powders, gum-drops, water-proof black ing, night-blooming cereus, chloroform Kisaengen, soap and sugar, etc. I'hysi cian and Phawiacist. NEW WORK FOR WONIEU Tlie npnere o me "vruiumer" Inj the Fair Hex. There is a new field opened 1 ' of tho most prominent firms in th, ' for the employment of female V The scheme is certainly unique. J reporter the manager of the firm J folded tne plan. 'The idea," he said, "that I v been following since the first o j, July Is the employment of -..1 A- I. . . lauies as biuobwuhiuu, hj introiluci goods on tho market by creatine u mand on the dealers from the con, era. When thev first enter m ,l I havo them solicit trade from hoti ' nouso in ine ciiy, una out from i grocer their customers are in the to j oi puroiiuaiiig a oiuiiuir article, u f when thev have secured a suffices number of orders, they turn them to ine aiuereut grocers, wtio, for ti sake of getting them, will giveanord.. for double the amount of goodi quired, at the wholesale price, thai p ceiving an insured prout on half fc oraer wunoui uuy wuia. i "As soon as any one ghowsbetsj proficient 1 put liJr on the road. X not alone. Eight young Indies eJ ether under the charge of an ek.f lady in whom we have confidence ' has authority over all of them, f' ' party of nine go to a town, put npii hotel, and canvas every house in io, 1 and turn tho orders over to oneofrf , i i a i- a salesmen, wno seeps irues oi lettr. parties, arranges for hotel accommoL Hon, transportation, etc. in each company is run just like a theatr. nl troupe, and the young ladres b no bother at all outside of the ranvJ ing." How do you find them as comci; with menP" Thev compare favorably. Then steadier, as a ruie, ana more aep enco can bo placed in them. Tl .. - - i i - . don't fool away their timo in ak playing billiards. It is not their J ture, and, even if it were, the fact! somo one being over them and rl travels with them always, would pt; stop to any foolishness of that ki: Thus far I have been quite succei with them, and next year the firm i tends to cover every State in the I'd . ... Ml l 1 in tins way; so, you see, we win u employment for a good many. I L now Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and L nois covered,, and part of Iowa. T. takes about threo hundred young' dies, and you can figure yoursch It many it will require to cover the wL country." "Do you have many applicants?" "Yes, a good number. ProbaUv only employ fifty per cent, of tfc who apply. Some we don't want, ii some don t want the situation. salary on tho road is from seven eighteen dollars per week andexpen paid (that is. hotel and traveling! nenses. which Is. indeed, much it than the majority of girls in this tr make. Besides, they have the advu tages of travel, which is of benefit any one, especially as they are go; over new "round all the while. "-1 eaao News. A Fair Income, Outside tho House of Comnrnvisf persons are of opinion that L" per annum is quite enough for thee. tenance of the royal family, and this amount ought not to be mem' Why, then, is this opinion so little presented inside? Because M. 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