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EUGENE CITY GUARD. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. Wr They Uualldedr A correspondent sends gums evidence that it U not always the tcbool children who nave queer ideas regarding the meaning or words, bhe has transcribed from several hundred replies to qne lions glveu in the examination of applj. cnU for the position of teacher. The candidate were an lied to define plagiar ism Here are eight of the answers. Plagiarism la an occult science. Pla tfarisra U the act of planning, it ii the tateof believing different from the majority of people. it ia the act of telling falsehoods about an opponent It Is downright meanness. It la having the disposition to fight It ia something made correct by usage. 1 do not know aniens it relates to the power of witching. Define pedagogics. Pedagogics is fe mall teachers. It relates to petty rulers. In that case there Is something about pedagogics in the history of Europe, alao history of the United States and the Bible it in (he history of one's good or bad deeds Pedagogics is an old teacher that's cranky w hat are metaphoric rocks? They are rocks t'iiiiiMM-d of little animal called metamorphose Whatjs the derivation of the word polypnaT It is derived from poly (many) and pus (puaa); many cats. What i anutomy? Anatomy is extinct in a dead buddy. n bat can you say of the uaeof pain and pleasure? Tain is of no uae, but it is bad for the health. Pain gives the phyaician practice Pain tells ns that all ia not right in the region where the pain ia There are many kiudsof pain, enough for every one to have some, I'leaaure ia useful because ft promotes health, it lets ns enjoy ourselves while the pains are absent. Describe the bee. The bee baa 3 wings, 4 leggs. It Inis I part at the end of the boddy not the bead that is poisonous, lie Is classed among flies. Olve an account of Horace Ureelev. I He led the lireeley expedition into the north, turned cannible, eating op their mrtnoera when provisions gave out south tUiuipauion OLD MAN GILBERT By ELIZABETH W. BELLAMY, ("EAXBa THOKri,") Author of "Four Oak," "LUO Joan na, KU. Why I'n.ple Gel Married. Though it ia very common to reproach Old ttachelors wltu their celibacy, and to pity old lunula us if single blusaedness were a misfortune, yet many married people have aeen lit to offer apologies for Laving entered Into what some profane wag has called the "holy bands of pad lock." One man says he got married to get houaekieer, another to get rid of bad company Many women declare they got mar ried for the sake of a home; few ac knowledge that their motive was to get husband Ooethe averred that he got married In order to be "reapectable." tfonn Wilkes said he took wife "to please his friend." Wychorly, who es poused Ina hoiiaemald, suid be did it to "spite his relations." A widow who married second bus band said ahe wanted somebody to con dole with her for the loas of ber flrat Another, because she thought a wedding Would "uniiise the children." Another, to get riil of iiicenKiuit Importunity from crowd nf Ml 1 1 It H. Old maids who get married invariably assure their liicuds that they thought mey coum ue -more useful" as wives (Ooprrlf.Ud. AUrtcotaraMrnd. PablUkW by apaciai arraafaairai vim in Mirora Usuimar. Hew YarkJ "He bad nothing to do with it!" cried MIksv indignantly. "Itrer Nicholas wrote of his ow n accord; bo said never a word of your 'MawseOin'rul Fletcher.' I won't be indebted to Capt Fletcher. We've returned all he did for Brer Nicholas, and there's an end of him." "Is daaso?" said old Gilbert regretfully. "Weill welll Tubbe sho!" "Ilukkom you ia so sot beginst do capen all or a sudden tr u lory -A mi re moiiHtrated. "Times I is heerd you snv Chancy can't mek waffles fliten fur iiini to eat, en now you talk lak be wuz good riddancel You Is Jes' ez onsartin e chile, Miasy; dat you is." "I wish I were a child," Misay sighed with a vngue, unwilling apprehension o the truth of ber Aunt Elvira's declara tion that the old joy could never come again. As the day for her brother's re turn drew near she bad discovered herself, to ber sorrow ami confusion, an Inexplicable shrinking from that Ion delayed meeting, a feverish eagerness to have the agony of joy over and done with. In her anxiety to eliminate as much as poNsibluof the element of pain and em barrassment that ahe could not I. lit foe) wuited upon this first meeting, ahe es sayed to coax her father to his beat be havior. "You will not look stern, my father:'" she entreated, with a smile that struggled to express a confidence ahe did not feci. "For the old time is over; for getforget the paat." The colonel frowned Impatiently; but a little time ago this same inordinate Winifred had declared that to forget was death. "I have written Nicholas to come home; I have made no conditions," he said, little coldly. "I never do things by halves, and I shall not behave Ina manner unbecoming a Thorne," Missy sighed ami auld no more. It was a dark and atormy night when Nicholus rode away from Thorne Hill, young, buoyant, ardent, defiant; be re turned on a bright spring day, broken, soliered and saddened. And he came not alone; he brought with him not onlv hia wife and child and the redoubtable Itoxanna he brought with him also the shadows of the long, sad years of ab sence und estrangement. They wrapt him ubout as with a mantle; they made themselves visible in his hair, prema turely gray; iti the deep lines that mark ed his handsome face, in the sadness of bis eyes, in bis drooping figure, and In the carelessness with which ho wore ins shabby, threadbareclothcs. Missy would never bavo known him, and the shock of finding him so changed went niirh to breuk her heart. It was a meeting in which sorrow In evitably outweighed joy. The colonel would have preferred to see his son first alono, but his pride and his shyness made bin) shrink from exacting tins'; and when the carriage that brought Nicholas drove to the door he stood on the piazza erect, composed, with Miss Klviratrcmblingon ono side of liliu and Winifred trembling on the other, whileoldtiilliertnnd Olory Ann, In jealous rivalry, maintained a re- sHftful distance In the reur. Hut at the th7 go, tlmr I go; whar thoj slay, tfiar I stay. "But, Lor' A'mtghty bless yo' soul Col. Thome, I ain't layln' up no grudge beginst you long o what s paat an gone I've toted my load 'long o' Nick Thorne, an I mek no doubt you ve toted yourn. Accounts is squared now; you let 'em stay squared. Hit's po' business ter be openin' new trade with trouble; I ain't no objiftions ter bo stayin' here 'long o' you all, fur I don t eat no idle, bread no whar. An' be-in' you're a bawn gentle man, you got no occasion, as I kin see, ter set me a-drift bein' how I ain't yo' son, the udded men tally). Thn colonel bad no desire to set Itox anna adrift; be uciucisced in her pres ence w ith dignity, if not with cordiulity; and, happily, alio did not prove so un comfortable an element in the household as bad been feared. Miss Elvira, In ex plaining the situation to the friends of the family, was accustomed to say, with a neat little air of commendation, that Roxumia White "knew ber place;" but Itoxanna stated the caso somewhat dif ferently. "I ain't claimln' ter belong ter the Thome family," she said; "all I ask 'em is, gimme space ter myself, an' lemme have the raisin o that chile, an' I'm sat Isfied." "An' what manners is she fltten ter teach Mawse Nick's boy?" C lory-Ann de manded, in dudgeon. "Po' white trash! Lawd, how times is changed!" "She ullers wuks ter do right," said old Gilbert, charitably. "Dat ain t gwau render her quality, is niir retorted Ulory-Ann. .No, bit am t, old Gilliert admitted. "Out lack o' beiti' quality ain't k'wan hemler Iter lum gittin ter bebben, ex I kin see." "Hit's dis yeth what I'm discussin'." said Glory-Ann, with supreme disdain. CHAPTER XXXIIL A WAUNIPO. "I got somethin' on my mind ter tell you, Winifred Thorne," said Itoxanna White, mysteriously; "an p'r'aixt you'll thank me, un p raps you won t; but Im bono' ter open my mouth in 'cordance with my lights." "About whatr Winifred asked, with more amusement than curiosity. They were sitting under the scunner- nong arbor, w here there was little or no danger of interruption, and yet itoxanna lookcu around cautiously to make sure there was no one near. tor lay hili Ef evertfiatcircularfn' Yan kee gits back ter Thorne Hill, hit won't be ter argyfy with me, nor yit with Nick Thorne, though hit niought be with the colonel p'raps." And she cackled shrilly. 'He will never conieagaln!" Winifred declared, with burning cheeks. "Some is easy got rid of an' some aint," said Miss White, sententiously. "I ain't blind, an' In these six months what I've been ter Thorne Hill I've seen one w hat ain't cotnin' buck not in a hurry, Paul Merry aint. I know the looks of them kind. I don't sift up ter be a prophet, but hit weights me heavy ter give you this warnin', Winifred Thorne when he comes, that friend o yourn, md Itox anna stretched out her hard and bony hand to clasp the girl's soft fingers, "I dunno notion' 'bout you, but hit's goin' ter be onpleasm ter the colonel." He is not coming again," Winifred Insisted. "We don't want him." And she drew her hand out of Miss Koxanna'a sympathizing clasp and went away in a tumult of painful emotions. She con- confessed to none, hardly even to her self, that ner brothers return had not brought hack tho old joy of her child hood. "Hrer Nicholas" was at home again, but she wus lonely still; some thing was lacking, she knew not what, or would not seek to know. Yet, as the uneventful days went by. and season gave place to season. Wini- freil, If she wus not glad with t.'ie old joy that once she hoiwd for, in her broth. rrs return, had begun to find a sweet content. She understood at last (hut her ardent soul hud ileiuunded more than THfJ MYSTIC HOPE. K'hsl Is this nrtlic. wondrom horn Is ms, That, wbao bo atar train out th darknaM bora aires proaiia of ths coming- of ttie morn; Wtwo all Ufa teems a patlilmi mstary Through which twir blinded eym no way can sea; When lllwaacotnea, ami lireffroOTinuat forlorn, : BtiU dans to laugb to Lut dread threat acorn. And proudly crtea, Dmth It not, thall out bat I wonder at myself ! Tell rat, O Death, V that thou nil the earth: If "dual to dust' tinall be tha end of lore and bop, and strife. From what rare land la blown this Urlng bnsatb That harm lu.-lf to whimper of atronx truat, And tella tlis lis 1 'lit a lie of llfef -Mluot J. Baraga. the hlabNt itsta of excitement Jane J cull apon our looanu Wrorofr?T" and I flew to put on onr bonnets, and tnjoyodour wulk; thepleosantneMof a? Mutthe w reached down bis hat and stick. ' day, added to the near prospect "nf r. cuef MY AUNTS HOUSE The gentleman told ns that bis name was Wilton; that be had seen our adver tisement in the paper, and that he want ed a house some little way out of the town, as bis children were not very strong. "now many children have you?" in quired Matthew. "Oh, several." replied Mr. Wilton. "Is this the house? It looks very pretty." We had become so accustome j to hear the house found fault with that our hearts warmed to him ut these words, and we parted mutually pleased, after showing him over the place. We heard from hira in a day or two, accepting our terms. Our house was let! We could scarcely believe onr good fortune. We took an early opportunity of walk ing out in that direction, and paying a call on a friend who lived in a house not far from ours. The conversation soon turned upon our new tenants, and Miss Caxton's worda confirmed our worst fears. "I am to sorry you have got such a tribe of rampaging children into your house," she said. "I was going by the from our difficulties, raised all la mil iri..tiiiftil irn..ln .1 PV vi"' t"j v 'o"g me road until the house cume in sight "I think they might keep curtains in the windows." suid Jane aa we rea the gate. ne4 "Nonsense, Janel" I replied sharpl. "You are always finding fault aholl omething or other; no doubt it ia a. f,.tl,l,.n W-o " momium -n nf uurmins. "The house does look rather odd. though," suid Matthew; "in fact" ju broke off suddenly, and quickening his pace went up to the dining room win. do w and looked in. Jane und I followed, and pressed our faces against the gUsT' The room was bare I Not a stitch of furniture was let- r. i ItA curtains, all were gone. Jane bur into tears, "Jano, how stupid yon areP I ex. claimed angrily, but more because of the growing dread at my heart than that i 11.. .1 1 i f k rcanjr uiuugiu ner stupiu. "Uf course they are bouse cleaning." Matthew suid nothing, fie went op and tried the door; it waa open, and w rushed in. The empty rooms echoed t me boiiuu oi our icei; me Dare wall ecmed to mock our misery; our tenants had run away, and we were ruined! Whatever Matthew's fault ore I must admit that there are sparks of nobility in his nature. When we had proved be yond a doubt that our fears were cor rect nts nrst words were, "Now w0 must think how to meet our creditors." "Matthew," I cried, in a sudden burst of remorse, "it has all been my fault. Oh, I wish we had never had the house at all; but you shall do just what yon think best now." "Very well," said Matthew, "we will sell the house and pay oil tho mortgage and then we will see how we stand with the world." I felt it waa right, and I said not a word to hinder him, but it was not tha affuir of a moment; nor when the house was sold at lust were we in any better position thun we were before; for in d. dition to the buck dobU which still hnA to be paid there were the legal expenses. I was not at all surprised toseeatrent. of gray in my hair, nor to notice how many new lines had appeared on Mut. thew's forehead. As for Jane she n-iarf all day, which only made me croea. I could see no way out of our tronhlo. and I did not even try to advise Mat thew. The sky was so dark and Klnm. that it seemed impossible for any light to appear. "I suppose we shall have to go tlirongh the bankruptcy court?" said I bitterly one day. "No," said Matthew; "there is another way, and I want to consult yon about it If we sell off some of our capital we can payoff all of our debts." "But how shall we live?" I exclaimed. "We must take a little cottage and keep no servants, and I must try to find aomo work as a codvIii ' dork I nm afraid that is all I am good for now." "Matthew! Yon a copying clerk again? I cannot let you do it." "There is no other way," said Mat thew cheerfully, "and so we mnst make the best of it." I said no more; no, not even when I found that after all our debts had been paid we should not have enomrh to live on, unless Jano and I found some em ployment I knew that Matthew was nrvlit am.T 41... .1 .i , , , , " "u mm it was uieoniy nonoraoie thing left for us to do. Jane has gone out as companion to an old lady, and I take in needlework and keeD our tinv cottage in order for Matthew and my eelf. We are not quite unhappy, in spite of all our troubles, but we feel the break np of our home keenly, and when I see Matthew come in, worn out and weary from his scantily paid labor, and think of the happiness he used to enjoy as he went about helpinir those in Dovertv and distress, I feel that the best wish I can bestow on any one who has an aunt is that if she should die she may not leave them her house. M. B. Whetinirin Bos ton True Flag. was possible under the circumstances. and ho no longer expected from Nich olas the absolute devotion she bad given h!m. She had learned tho sols'i ing les sen tlyit life, even the most securely or dered life, is subject to the inexorable law of change. Lottie, the cousin she loved licst. wus living in a distant town; Paul Herry, who had declared himself heart broken We were very well off until onr aunt, who wanted to do ns an ill turn, died, ana left ns rer house. Of course we were very pleased at first It was pretty, rambling place, with a low veranda quite covered with ivy and roses, and un old fashioned garden, with trim straight borders and neatly kept gravel paths. There were three of us Matthew Jane and I. Matthew was a clerk in a bank when he was younger, but as our fa ther bad left us each a little sum of money I other day, and heard a great noise, and when he died we persuaded Matthew there were two boys crawling over the to leave bis work, for he had never been roof of the corridor. Their mother was strong, and now that he was getting leaning ont of the window trying to elderly we could not bear to see him reach them with s broom, and as one of coming back paloand tired from his desk them got nwuy from her be put his foot in tne evening. We were very happy tnrough the glass. Yon never heard together. We had a nice garden to our uch a set out as they made in your life. bouse, wjiere Matthew spent most of his Our hearts sank to zero. The Wiltons time, und though we lived in a small nod taken the house by the year, and we way it never occurred to ns to wish for I Old not see how to get nd of them at more. Bnt now that this unexpected moment notice; yet before six months stroke of good fortune had befallen ns much more a year hod elapsed our we Degan to consult what we should da poor house would be a ruin, and our "i think we had better live in the garden wilderness. It was not alto- house ourselves," said Jane. "Tenanta gether with disappointment, therefore. ore always a trouble, and it would be so that in a few months' time we heard that nice to have that pretty place." Mr. Wilton had decided to leave the Jane 1' Wm f y is quite young hardly more neignporhood, and would be much than 40 and it is necessary to chock her obliged if we would release him from our when sho is too forward in giving her agreement, .A 1 ! ... .... I a.. ........ .. M..4.1 I -1 I 117. . 1 ., . ... bi ms pretiy cousins oiiiiuracy, was ui"1,,u"' ul" aiways vory e giuuiy consenieu, inougn with a married now, and settled in Savannah, wnient with her, and he said at once, Uttle outward show of reluctance. But where Bess Herry spent much of her "Yc' tne Harden would be very pleas- we could not quite understand why the tliue-and all this had come to pass with- in tne summer, and we should have Wiltons were so eager to be off. They in two years alter isicholas return. Yet. uo reut 10 P'v- naa naa mo house remarkably chean. though Winifred's life in these davs was ' always have to think for them both, considering their requirements, and it not guy, neither was it dull; for no life anu 1 "P0" UP decidedly: "There could seemed ungrateful, to say the least is dull that is filled with duties. This not be a more foolish idea. Live in it They were no sooner gone, however. sacred truth had Winifred learned from indeed! Whut should we want with a than we found out the cause of their great place like that for dust and mice to run riot in? We mnst let it of cours and tho rent will make a nice little ad dition to our incomer' her old aunt In New York, and sho had the wisdom now to make to herself nionv sweet, small duties that kept ber bunds busy ami her heart at rest. Hardlv a duy passed that she did not visit old Oil- 1 a I W 1 . ... iivri unu aioiu uee witn some littlo offer haste. Our house was a wreck. The term may seem a strong one, but it is not too strong for the truth. Both pa per and paint were practically gone, tiles I am the eldest, and I say it without off the roof, windows broken, oinea onr pride I have more common sense than ' order everything was a rnin where log a practice thnt excited Itoxanna 00111 t,le others put together; therefore once all had been so neat and beautiful. V liite s vehement disapproval. "Them two old free niggers," she was wont to declare, "will devour the colonel's sub stance, lessen that girl marries somebody wnai Kin numerate her. Hut hit II rile the colonel theduy she makes herchoico." The trees were bare for the second time since Nicholas' homo coming, when Winifred went out. one afternoon, to visit Mom Bee. The wintry sun was reddening the west when shecamo back; the air wus crisp and invigorating, und she prolonged her walk through tho grove, where she sat on tho horse block to await ber brother's return from town, just as she had done, many a time, when a child. The happiness of those blessed days seemed, all at once, to come auain. and she sang aloud for joy. Boon Aicholas rode in at thecreatcate. and he was not alone; it needed but a glance to reveal that ber brother's com they generally full in with my opinion. We watched the builders at work this even though they may not altogether time with very different feelings. There than as spinsters. Nevertlila (Jniin ' ,'KMl 01 Mehoias, as bo came uu the gives It as Ins opinion that uine-tenths 1 ' "' lorRot bis injured pride, XffMf tufer, (hit frirnd of mini it no 1 Pamo" Wil8 J,,l' Fletcher, and in uu in ttrimyrr to you' ' slant the joy that had Inspired u.r li-ht "S'poao you know," said she. in a hearted song became a dead thing, und or an persons who marry, whether widows or widowers, spinsters or bachel ors, do so for the sake of getting mar ried-London Tit-Bits. Tha tarn bar Itutlnaaa of Thraa Btalaa. The value of forest products, not man ufactured at the mill, in Michigan, Wis consin aud Minnesota, 1KIK), aggregates .rm.tj.JW. value of mill products, 1115, 6UW.004; valtis of remanufactures. fcM.. 112,010-maklna an aggregute value of rrouuetem three states of $107,837,810. Ito capital iuvested to produce this vaiut was r-,U.la3.0l3; men employed id lorests, vo.Mts, women, 00; children iu. animals, ttt,4l. la the mills the product required the labor of 87,030 men, M women and 053 children. Tht amount represented in operation of machinery and chemical appllaiioea, 1900. was .'3,J50.83t. ths expenditure of team and water power was reported as suucieui to art B.ooo.ouo tons one foot in one minute; 1.203,151.180 cublo feet of mertuauuijle timber were removed from natural growth; 7.8SK),!!M were Invested id vessels and other means of trausport, and fua.fWS.WO wereexpeuded for ubsutuuoe. supplies aud uiscellaueoui purposes. The aggregate Increase of product inee I8S0 is reported to be 20.00 per cent, In quantity and 7.V0J per oenL in value. Harper's Weekly. tragic Iiisht, with a bony linger on inured s arm, "us bow the colonel was a-writin' an' a-nesierin' ,nui-,,,i Aa (Mil I'm fur th( Da. An odd nse that the pin was put to long ago was ilintof checking the intern, perate halms of the English. 8t Dun sun conceived the idea of dividing the Uukards out of which the liquor was drunk Into tight equal parts, each part marked with a silver pin. Ths m. were generous affairs, holding two quarts. Minsequeutly the quantity from pin to pin waa half a pint, ud the regu lation was that the driuker "stop at a pin." Roisterers, however, prevented the purpose of good St Dunatan and eaten iished the rule of "good fellowship." by Which the drinker waa to stop only at a pin. if be drsnk beyoud he had to go on to the next mark. As It was difficult to stop exactly at a pin the vain efforts mwmjt riciuKi much mirth, and the trial usually ended with the draiuiug of the taukanL-Table Talk. . hia anger, his disupiioiiited hopes: be ro- memiK-reu only that this, bis son who after Mek, ull ter get him home agin, " " iouiiii again, anu lie took 1 ull,'r " """'o turned Iiini adrift?" the exile In his arms. I "Yes, I know," said Winifred, reluct And there was a great silence, broken antiy. Sho did not wish to speak of the v i.mt ujr nm uiiocrts devout ejactllu- raB- tion, "Prulse be. ter Olory!" for which "Lawd. you needn't git riled." said Itoxanna. "I uin't riled, not now; but them days I hadn't got my cawnsent ter tek up my roost on this Thorne Hill, an' I was on tho wutch cawntinual, so et never one o' them pesterin' letters 11' th colonel didn't como inter Nick Thome's hands." "You wicked, wicked woman!" cried Winifred, up in the vehemence of her w rut h, I "No, I nln't wicked," said Miss White, to.ii.iuceniiy. ".Management ain t wick I 11 I - . . oum-nsi uu luasqiiarrignt ter manage, secin' ex I d picked Nick ii. I was dead sot beginst him comin" home; but bow you reck in I come ter change tuy mind?' "You rciKMited. I hope," said Wini- treu, severely. "No, I did ii. You seddown an' lemmo tell you. m nigh ex I ken mek out bit was lUIIKee. "A Yankee?" "I sajd a Yankee. Lawd. tbev've luwin plenty enougl Ulory-Ann rebuked him with a vigorous thrust of ber elUiw, and the inquiry: ia you piuiu lorgot un manners you tuk away fum Thorne llilir Dosla, beautiful still, with a certain msjestio grace, In spite of her pxr and faded dress, stood aart, proudly shy; for at this supreme moment no one thought of her ortheboy, whoniagauiil, grim giantess held In her arms with an air of determined proprietorship. To Missy her brother looked like a stranger, but when he turned to ber she threw herself into hit arms with n ,. slonulo burst of tears that had, ulas! lit tie kinship with joy. This was not the brother sho had losu The past was never to return. The colonel gave his son's wife a mora gracious welcome (hail Missy hud dared to hope, and he took bis little t rand son In Ida arms and kissed ami blessed Iiim; but for ltoxunna. White hia only greeting waa a stiff Ixiw. B Time bud 1 of late! I knou-ixl him made his mark upon this ,ur n Yai.kce that minute ho opened his vigorous amaxoii siuco the dav ah. m, tucked the Colonel on the road fiillti till she still carried her head high, and the ire in ner eves wu n..i 1... 1 lainly, in spite f tP ,ru ..., ... same Itoxanna. unterrilled and uncom promising. ',(.,, Mi,,. -.., .... have found a likeness to' her l.r..n,J 1.. mount; lliey cun't talk tiacb'rul. liL- us southerners. This Yankee was a hunt In' Nick Thorne," pursued Itoxanna, sig iiillcantly. 'Tr'ai you know soineihin" bout him." "1 know nothing whatever about it" suid Winifred, stiffly. ven, KoxaniKi continued. "I the little Imf !..'.. 1 1. . 1 . alfnli-t nL- .. I. .. i . . - , , nuiu in - n-iiiimui lagrandfuther, Job Furnivul!" Itoxanna "'ki ''"H kep' my eyes skint, an' I b wiiu, lyranuicai exultation took its place. "Why did lie co:no a'aiii?" she sighed, trembling, "I wus content. She rose up, pale but composed, :m the norsca united and their rulers disiiiu.i ited but itwaaacold littlo hand and the ghost of a smile that she gave John Fletcher when Nicholas said "Littlo sister, this friend of mine is no stranger to you. I fourd him just in nine 10 snatcii mm irom Mrs. Theodore Scott. Thorne Hill is the onlv nhie for 1..1... t-i ...1 , - . uuiiii r ii-iciier wiien ne comes south, eh. mini red.' "I shull hope for a welcome in tnm brother's name," said John Fletcher, with his crave smile: and Winifnul' hardly comprehending, as yet, that she was not dreuining, assured him that her father, her aunt, every ono, would be glad to see him. Col. Thorne had a courteous, If some what startled, welcome for his guest of two winters ngone; but Miss Elvira's greeting savored of tho question: Come you in peace or come you In wart But Itoxanna White was jubilant over the fulfillment of her prophecy. "Wha" did I tell you. Winifred Thorne?" alio suid, triumphantly. "Now you heed what 1 say; muny an luanv's tha tin.,. I've seen hit; Lovo has got Borrer fur hit's similiter; but I'm jit ter seo tliet spitin' of love can lessen the shudder." To Dosiu she said: "I been a-preachin grit ter Winifred Thorne in morial ex pectation of this same happenin'. Fur hit'll rile tho colonel." And she laughed with settled satisfae. Uon. agree with me. "Let us go and look at it," said Mat thew, "uud then we can decide what to do for the best." My aunt's house stands about three miles out of the town, in a pleasant lit tle hamlet; a branch line runs out past it, so that it would be a most convenient pluce for a gentleman of business. It certainly looked very pretty on that snmmer afternoon, and I could almost echo Juno's wish that we should make it onr home, but I knew better thun to in dulge such thoughts, and turned my mind to practical considerations. "Loi ns go over it," I said, "and see what re pairs it will want "There is something wrong with the water pipes evidently," said Matthew, as he pointed to a large pool in the mid dle or the kitchen floor. "Yes, they must be thoroughly looked to, of course, and I think the whole place must be painted and papered; it will never let while it looks so dingy as it does now." "I must say the rooms are very small," said Jane. "Don't yon thiuk while the workmen are here they might knock down the partition and make a nice drawing room." I generally snub Jane at once; it an were best in the end; but this remark naa so much to justify it that I cnnhi not but listen to her, and Matthew took np tho idea eagerly. Well done. Jane!" he said. "That would be a grand improvement; bnt if we throw that piece of the the drawing room how shall we get round to the dining room?" "We must make another rjAAJUUTA " Hair! Jane decisively. ies, but we cannot make aruusamt without a place to make it in." I had been silent so long only because was no pleasure in it now. and thomrh the bill was not so heavy as it had been before it made no difference, for there were no funds to nreet it What was to be done? Matthew sug gested thut we should sell out some of our capital, but that was clearly iin- possible, for we should then have little left to live upon. It was a difficult point, but as usual I hit upon a solution. We would mortgage the house! Mat thew did not altogether like the plan, but, as he had no better one to propose, I carried the day. The house was mort gaged, and both bills puid off. Months passed away, and still the house remained unlet One gentleman was very much inclined to take it. hut there was no coach house, and though we were sorely tempted to build one we dreaded bricks and mortar too much to venture, nuloss he would have taken the house tor at least seven years. A widow lady offered to take it if we wonld let ner have it free for the first two years, and we were rather sorry ofterward that we had not closed with the pro posal, for there seemed no chance of anything else turning np. Meanwhile we had to reduce onr expenses dailv iit .M11L.1.: ... . - iucci me mam 01 tue interest. "The next thing will be that we nfi nil not be able to pay our debts," said Mat thew gloomily, but it is always the dark est hour before the dawn, and only a few days after he made the remark we had an offer that bade fair to remove our difficulties. A gentloman and his wife came down to stay at an hotel in the town and look about for a hotwe. Hi. rectly I heard of it I got Matthew to go with me to call upon them, for I felt thatsnch an opportunity might not oc cur again. Mr. and Mrs. De Oonrcy were most pleasant people; one could see at once that they had been accus- A Kemlnlacenca. are Inllubvs for babies and there are I .-- o j . J wvu UCUUB- naa oeen revolving somethincr in mv tomed to move in the mind "Lifitea to me a moment," I said there waa an ease and p-ace about them ' " vui, jvui me, jane, Dnt i """ wu"iii pieasantiy with onr local with an addition. We will throw th manners. They received n mnt wi passage into the drawing room and run ' maJo an appointment to see the uu uu iiuujme corridor, with French win. uouse. dow s opening into the sitting rooms." can hardly hope that they will take vnoiuu; mcy oom exclaimed at u, as we walked home: bnt rnn. traryto my expectations they were en chanted with it, and fell in with all onr wishes with the most surprising readi ness. I did not wish It waa ft much pleasanter wav of hont a repairing lease, for I imfl n fro i .1 it; there was no estimate to ' they might not like it but M;iith-W once, and the matter was settled. We agreed not to employ an architect but to engage a working builder to car ry out the plan nnder our own direc tions. doing CHAPTER XXXIV. FOR WtNlKKKD'8 KAKi. leclured. irrimlv, Hut this declaration, made for th onel's discomfiture, failed of its effect, so fur, at least, aa ho waa concerned, for'he had taken himself away. It was soon manifest, however, that O.I. Thorne was not vulnerable to II.n annu a thrusts; he had tho air of looking over und U-yond her into ayce. and lua certain extent he Ignored her. Not that he held tier devotion to Nicholas clieaiv He buil desired, indml. to im.L.. . substantial acknowlrt...ut f I,.., ... ieesto bis son. but wlmn l ... thia, in a nriviitu lm..r. i.,.. .. . arter Nicholas return. Itoxanna took fire "Pay me?" she shrieked. "Is that yo' meani,,-? V fa-, lliy ., T,i( I am I cleaned you out entire, Col. Thorne j-u vuii i m-rer cive vo eon Craiidaon mo'n what I've give u They don', 'tt.v nwl 'nl o' mouth ter git an IKwa together have bad the heart '' arrands done; an' when that air gab i i . "'uoyi ' '' ly me fur -Jw.Ter I siKike mv min.t A Maa Kka Haal El(hty Ovaraaaia. There are doxens of KVw Vnrk.n . v.. have a passion for buying clothes, aud they count their suits by the hundred. I Pierre Lonllard has a great aasorti irtit of clothes, aud so has A. M. Dodge, the Utter Drobahtv havlnir .--.I - n I tion of garments uutVmut,Z'Vmi' V' V'' T1'""'. hit the city None of the to7Z? " W ler speak has tv.r excelled the l.te W K. Bontter 1 'T . 'U- .." 1 JOU l" to the site of hisperaoualwardreb mI T.?,1'". ? " Nk'k "ri '' hilt touiid out ho was iireaohin' ter irlt Xi,.k ter mek hit up with the colonel, an' then I was riled! I had brung Nick ter my way o' thinliin' that ho could live uu' die , Umiten bis kin, an' I didu't want no Yankee meddlin' with my business. Mo'over. I s'picioned the colonel sont him" "No such thlngr Winifred contradict ed, hotly. "No; I foun' out mighty soon es hit warn't the colonel," Roxantu said, and paused; but her listener sat with averted countenance, and would give no sign; whereiiHn Itoxanna boldly declared.' "Hit was your "That is not true!" cried Winifred. "I'.lins jo' soul, nor returned Kox- snna, compactly. ".No ne-d ter gtt riled. He ain't suid so: but fjn.,1 ri.n.i i.:. Boutter was known to have had eighty overooat. New Vork bun. Three months ago an Indian prisoner named Almlrente, charged with murder cut a hole in the Knsenada iail and es caped. No trace of him could be found i.w week be rut four men In a row at Aia-no and revealed his identity. He has been returned to Knsenada to answer lor hit first crime. Ililll liai k hm i . never p4 yo Mtere. Vauae I kep Vm from him!" r -Woman!" excUlmed the colonel choking with indignation. "Yes, I'm a woman. returned Rox anna, with cooipoaure. "T),.: v gift!-d YankeeargyfleU with Nick Thome mat you Held yo heart sot on gittin' yo' brother home agin. I give In. an' con feaaedthera letters, an' I told Nick ter write home, pintly, which I hadn't x pected ter do nothin' of the sort." If she expected any show of gratitude, she waa dimmed to disappointment "Do you mean to tell me," said Wini fred, indignantly, "that m would not have written without your consent?" No," said Mine White, with sober ,!. mm Mil "I'm" frighten us, for we determined to take , 80 alarmed by our previous advent one thing at a time, and only go aa far i nre t,mt ue insisted upon it as we found it necessary. It waa a con- Mr. De Oourcy was most gentlemanly stent amnsement to go over to the house 1 must "J should have proposed "it and see how things were getting on, and mTM K yon had not thought of it " he I think we both agreed with Matthew aid- with on of those bows of his that wuen ne said, "Keally, I shall be quite maue me tcvl lb ny bonnet was very sorry when the work is done," hhby and that there was a darned place ft waa n,tl -.. l i i In mv U .. n 1 .. i , .. uu. jiicusAuv, uowever, when yi suawi. the bill came in. How it hod monnterf Such politeness reouired a lika rotn np so enormously we could not tell, but ,nd hen he ked ns if it wonld make V winy staggered ns.. I un- umerence tr be paid the rent yearly . . . iu mo uuuuer aid as- w H1"" ilJt as It would be til )in, I nn iml i.ii.ti ... 1. .. . .. a-nruf il-nl , . . .. uui wuen 11 came mu convenient to him, we '-"'"u uuuereiana it less than the bill itself. could only reply that it would make no "t think we bad better put it into a u"epenc8 at all. lawyer's hands," said Matthew. I "It will be awkward, all the same," To this, however, I would not give my ,aiJ Matthew to me afterward- "We consent "We shall onlyloee more in hav naJ to go into debt already, and if me ena, i said. "W e must pay an in- Bre 10 K1' no rent a year we shall ...11. . .... ... - .... 4A . ; . .... H muuirai bow, ana when we have let it B ueeper still. we can pay the rest out of th -vit i anow that, but what conld Art "When we have let it!" Tho words We mi!ht have them altogether if passed into household phrase before reiuseu. and with such excellent uiat wngeu tor day arrived. We pnt an renc" onr money is safe enough." advertisement in several papers, and When ,hinf done there U no use many people came to see it bnt they all m di,lons,iinK t; we had got our tenants, had some objection or othp- ,.v- and I think we were clad to wt thom . come my heart ached an' burnnl fur cUioni "I ain't no sich a f4 es ter un Nickan DomUwheo you flung- Vnioff d,r,a't9 ter teU befo hand what Ue oo Ituk rui fur mine, an I'm got a grip on "" o' Adam niought or moughtn' w um snooc a-toosaV Whf uu 1 "n tell, an' aial doubtin' taid ITimiAW. ami lAa nuf a oit is kit again. "Do you know whv I pm Kah o!.i . . tn . - - ' i .in. inm John Fletcher abruptly one morning, corridor. - i ii.mi-e.1 to nnd himself alone witn inirrod. They were i that rl,-i-Uv arrnn,-e,l parlor, with the asm uble lietwei-u them across which he had stretched hia band, thai she would not see, two years bef ore, Himfred looked up, but l?fore she could frame a reply he went on. hurried ly: "You know I did not have an oppor tunity to say good-by." fro m orruicKn.i i Borne thought it too big, some too small, DT Price- No People could have been ( more pleasant than they were; they fjorne too far from tha tom-n ) naJ no difficulties abont anvthin too near; some wanted more beJrooma. , ni were always friemlly and cordial and some even dkhlte.1 nnr ,iui;.m whenever wav saw them. Aimin .ta dor. ; again we congratulated ourselve on nm "ery pretty! Oh. yes, very pretty ' ,ortnne- inueeur said one lady as we pointed it 1 . " e wer9 TeT K'ad all the some when out to her; "but it is a perfect wilder ness of cold draughts!" e were silent; we could not deny it f.. al. . ... the year drew to a doee, for of course we had been obliged to pay the interest as usual, and as we had only onr regular Matthew said something rather feebly ' income with which to meet it we had bout cocoanut matting, but the lady D iato det 0 all side, left without listening to him. e will be trp in fortnight Things were getting very desperate now" 1 when Matthew waa groan when one day gentleman rail.! an.? OB over onr unpaid bills. lid that he had heard that we had a 1 . Th next da-T WM fine and bright and house to let. Instantly we were all in X'P0! that we ahooJd o out and There waltzes for youna maidens drinking songs for the wild oat sowers and love songs for them that love to tarry in the gloaming. But 1 heard Sunday the one piece of music that twanged upon the heartstrings of the married people. Gilmore's baud was playing "Remin iscences of Mendelssohn," and a thou sand heads were wagging au accompani ment. Suddenly, by way of anale. the "Wed ding March" 6truck np. The effect was electrical. All over the audience tne wedded pairs looked at each other and smiled tenderly. It was a reminiscence. What happy visions it called up! Here was a couple, homely, raw. from the country evidently, who had jus started out to guide the plow together. The march hud been played Tor them in the little village church not long ngo, but now they heard it played indeeiL They leaned a little closer 'together. and her big hand, fixed out to kill in cotton mite, which showed the wedding ring, sought his and held it. And all through the audience I saw signs of the pictures called up by tliat fragrant and alluring bit of music. Old couples and young, rich and poor, those who live like cats and dogs together and those who have learned the pleasant alchemy of forbearance in wedded life, all were for the moment bewitched. Ta. ta. tara-rara, turn tiddle de dura de di da It fairly makes me reminis- ceut myself, though they played Wag ner at my blessed wedding. New York ueraio. Clothea That Royalties Wear. What funny people royalties are! If I were to visit a Persian in bis home it wonld never occur to inn nut . . flowing robe aud a sheepskin hat and to expect the Persian to receive me in Euro pean garb. But royalties never a..m able to meet without exchanging clothes. For instance, when the emneror arrival at Port Victoria his majesty made bis appearance in the garb of an English ad miral, and the Pnnceof Wales reanon.W to this delicate attention hv dnnnir, i, dress of a Blucher brothers and son masqueraded aa(Wn,n hussars and Uhlans. London Truth. Vfhy Sim Named tha Trirar. "So t: bell of the choir haa m.rri-,1 ih tenor r Yea." 1 tnought aba favored the baP X but ahe rot mnmm h.K i . "" UlMlH Into her bead and thr k. . troor- ,urM- "For what reaaoor "Buat the tenor waa mora thru tooad. -Buatou Counar.