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V ( if in i l i iiuflimiwipinrufii srxaurnt iMT.ir.rTr rx a jfamili: Xliree Sons of An Ayed Widow Meet Violent lJeatHa In One Day, Martin's Valley (I'a.) dispatch: Mrs. Sarah Truby, of this place, is an nged widow. Her son John, aged 31, works on the East Branch railroad. Jason, another son, nged 30, was nn crnployo in the slnto quarries. Wyman, a third son, 3S years old, was n miller. They lived with their mother, having no fnniilics of their own. Friday night last, John, whilo running to turn a switch, fell into n cattlo guard and broke his nock. Saturday morning, before the news of John's death had reached their home, Jason was drowned in a pit in the qunrries, recent ruinshaving Idled it with water. Jmes Whittnkcr arrived in the village at 0 o'clock Saturday morning with the news of John Trilby's death, and met Will Jackson, who was bearing the tidings of Jason's fate at the same time. The two walked together to the mill where Wyman Truby worked to break the news to him lirst. There was a crowd about the- mill, and as the two messengers arrived on tho scene men were carrying Wyman Trilby's dead body out of the buillding. He had been sulfocated in a grain-bin. Less than twelve hours intervened between the death of tho first brother and that of the last one. The news of tho death of her three sons so prostrated Mrs. Truby that her life is de spaired of. The three bodies will bo buried in one grave. r.ivrsa i.tKK a r.K.isr. Sad Condition of itn jmiiiic YoittU Who Took to tin- 1'orvit. Krie (Pa.) dispatch: A couple of years ago Powell Stnhl, of Conneaut township, arose from a sick bed witli his mind very much shattered, and in a short timo there after ho left his father's house and wan dered nwny. His parents, who are well off in this world's goods, used every means to nsrertuin his whereabouts, hut failed. A few weeks ago the wretched-looking individual made his appearance in tho woods near the Staid homestead. Neighbors who caught a glimpse of the man in the woods say it is rowoll Stnlil, hut no one is nine ui como near to him, as lie acts like a wild animal and flees before any nppronelt. ilo is par tially naked and has been seen to eat twigs and leaves. An effort will bo made to cunturc the demented young man, when he will bo sent to tho state asylum. Only a few years ago Powell was one of tho most promising young men in me ncigiiuornooa and was quite a beau. His wild, nude and half-starved condition is frightful to every person living in tho neighborhood. A Plain Statement of Facts. Wo English lmvo not yetfully realized what utter kimves the ruling Pnelins in Turkey nre. "We solemnly read their dispatches and their state papers as though they wero not written with the deliberate intention to deceive, and we ask thein to make pledges, as though they would bo binding on them. So Jong as we regard uieso scamps as any thing but a gang of shameless tricksters, ready to sell themselves and their coun try to tho highest bidder, we shall vainly endeavor to handle tho Eastern ques tion. Thero aro but two arguments which thev understand money nnd the .stick. If wo aro not prepared to lmv them or to beat them, we should not waste timo in negotiations, but withdraw from all communication with them. London Truth. A "(Juardian Agel." Thoro is not a Paris vintner with & epark of self-respect under his waist coat who has not at least ono "guardian angel" in his employment. Tho "guard inn angel " is a cherub of placid temper, in smock shirt, ears insensible to vitu peration, arms strong enough to parry and support, honesty that can seo gold, silver and copper without remembering hocus-pocus. When, by oft wetting his throat, a customer grows limp and so imaginative- as to see streets, houses and lamp-posts dancing grand galop in fernal oxpressly to prevent him from walking homo, tho guardian angel then makes his appearance, rides his wot countryman's pockets, draws tho weak arm in his, walks tho brainless fellow homo, gives his wife all tho contents of tho pockets, and carries away her bless ing. Scribner's Monthly. It is a remarkable fact that the city of Truro, in the center of the popula tion of Cornwall (which county has ;s;su,uuu minumants), w.tu eleven tiiou sand people and seven t incs that number within a few miles has lor many years only had three physicians, but of late two only. hou it s con sidered that in America there is ono doctor to overv live hundro I or six hundred the contrast is wouderful. White holds tho lirst rank fcr sum- mor wear. Morning dresses aro made of white wool somewhat heavier than nun's voilinjr. THE MARKETS. OMAHA. 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Fome of the incidents directly nd indirectly connected with General Huckncr's ca reer are full of ronnntic interest. They aro thus sketched in the New York World: lie was always a conspicuous man in society and when he was made a General in the Confederate army he was the popular idol of th& day through out all tho Southwest a popu larity which was intensified even by what was considered his misfor tune at Fort Donclson. Handsome, brave, with a line limire and gallant bearing, a perfect horseman and an accomplished mm of the world, he was the typical young cavalier of the South. He was marriel some time be fore the war to a Miss Kingsbury, who died after a few years of married life, nnd whose brother was an odiecr in the regular army. Lieutenant Kings bury and his sister were joint heirs to a large fortune, mainly in Chicago real estate, llefoieleavingforhispost with the army in Tennessee General Hack lier had an interview with his brother-in-law, and made over t o him all of Mis.lluckner's est ate. This was to pro tect it from confiscation, but it was verbally understood between them that the property was to bo held in trust. If General Euckner sur ived tho issue of tho approaching conllict it was to bo returned to him. Ifnot.it was to be made over to his only child, Lillio Buckner. Lieutenant Kincsbury fell mortally wounded in ono of tho lirst battles in Virginia, localizing too late that he had made no testementary provision by which Mrs. lhicknor's property should not go in with his own estate he told to a comrado the story of his agreement with his sister's husband. For some reason his dying wishes were either not communicaied to or wero disregarded by his wife, his only heir, and she entered into possession of the entire property. The warclosed. Gen eral Buckner camo back to Louisvillo and asked of Mrs. Kingsbury tho re storation of his daughter's estate. Mrs. Kingsbury refused to consider the question, and a suit of recovery was brought. It was one of the great cases of tho day, and was finally, af ter years of litigation, fully decided in General lluckner's favor. His counsel was Robert Wooley, of Louisville, a brother of Cqlonef Charles AVooley, of Cincinnati, and a near con nection by marriago with SulHo Ward, the famous Southern beauty. It was said that his feo was $1 00,000. General Buckner at once began to ex tensively improve his Chicago proper ty. The fire came, and in a day he was poorer by half a million dollars. When, however, his daughter married Morris Belknap, of Louisville, two years ago, she was ono of tho great heiresses of the South. Mrs. Kingsbury lived in Newport after her husband's death. She was a beautiful and charming woman, and remained a widow only for a few years. Then she married General Lawrence, eldest son of ex-Governor Lawrence, the richest man in Rhode Island. It will bo remembered that, after tho peril which the arrival of General Butler's troops barely averted. the cadets and appliances of tho Naval School at Annapolis wero removed to Newport. Tho young and lovely Mrs. Kingsbury was easily tho acknowl edged bello among tho impressible cadets, and when tho classof 1878 was graduated it was generally understood that she had engaged herself to Hugh McKee. a member of that class from Kentucky and a brother of Major George McKee, of the ordnance, who is now stationed at Sandy Hook. Hugh McKeo was a marvelous young fellow in his way. Ilo was bravo to reck lessness, with magnetic elements of character which made him not only tho most popular man ofhis class, hut even, without tho circumstances of his tragic death, tho best remembered of tho young officers of the navy. 1 le was killed whilo leading n small detachment up the walls of a Coram fort during our short but decisive wnr with that people somo twelve years ngo, and a memorial tablet to his memory hangs on tho walls of the academy chapel at Annapolis ono of a dozen commem orating tho most heroic acts jn tho history of our navy, Tho story of what just preceded his death is told by ono of his associates. When Hugh McKeo was ordered to tho Pacific squadron ho left theso shores witli tho promise from Mrs. Kingsbury that she would becomo his wife on his return. Ono day, in Nagas aki harbor, tho American mail was brought to tho mess-room of his ship. A yoiing litlitenant looked up from a letter ho Avns reading with tho ejacu lation: "Say, boys, guess who is mar riedl" McKeo was standing just back of him, fronting a classnmtowho knew of his engagement. "It's Mrs. Kings bury," continued the first speaker. "She wasmnrried to General La wrenco a month ago." Tho narrator says that McKeo made one step forwnrd, his handsomo fnco distorted, his teeth set and his fists clinched as if ho would striko tho read er. Then ho recovered himself, wect above and walked tho deck nil that night. It was shortly before that timo that an Amoricnn trading ship, tho General Sherman, whilo ascending tho Piengyangrivor, in Corea, was attacked by natives, destroyed and her officers nnd crew murdered. Admiral Rodgeru started with his fleet from Nagasaki immediately on receipt of tho news, sailing for Corea. Arnvingnt thofortH in tho rivor Van, a force of niarinoa nnd sailors woro landed. McKeo boggod to bojmt inconimandofa detachment, rushod in advaucu of hw men up the mud walls of tho fort and fell (load in side piorcod through tho hoart by u Coroan epour. The lmploris denouncement of tho marriago to General Albert Gallatin Lawrence will be recalled. Mrs. Law rence a few years since eloped with Mr. Van Ness, an attache ot tho Belgian Legation to this country. General Law rence procured a divorce. Mr. Van Ness married Mrs. Lawrence, and was sent by his Government to Kgypt, wIrto ho died. Mrs. Lawrcncestillhas a large income from her money of the Kingsbury estate an income which was not so mucii unpaired uy mo uni cago lire as was Miss Buckner's. An Kctindoriaii City. GunynquirCor. of Chicago Inter-Occnn. There is no fresh water in town, but all the people use is brought on rafts from a place twenty miles up tho river, and is peddled about theplaco in casks carried upon the backs of donkeys or men. The donkevs all wear pan talettes not, however, from motives of modesty, as the native children all go entirely naked, and the men and women nearly so but to protect their legs and bodies from the gadlly, which bites tiercel v here. Bread as well as water is peddledabout the town intho same way, but vegetables are brought down the river on rafts and in dugouts, which aro hauled up on the beach in long rows, and present a busy and in teicsting scene. Guayaquil is famous for tho finest pineapples in the world great juicy fruits, as white as snow and as sweet ashonev. It isalsofamousforitshats and hammocks, made of thepita fiber, a sort of palm. The well known Pana ma hatsareallmadein Guayaquil, but got their name because Panama mer chants formerly controlled tho trade. They aro braided under water, by native women, of strands often twelvonnd fifteen feet long, anil lino ones are very expejisive. A woman often takes two and three weeks to braid a single hat, which sells fori?o or ?i, ami wears forever. I saw a hat in Guayaquil which is said to bo worth $2 ."ill. It was made of a single straw or liber, as lino as thread and as soft as silk, and tho woman who inado it was engaged four months in tho work. Tho quinino trade has almost died out, as tho forests of Ecuador have been stripped of the bark, andtho trees have thus been destroyed. In tho meantime tho trees have' been intro duced into the East Indies by tho British Government, where they have been cultivated with great success, thus securing a better quality of qui nino with less trouble. Quinine, or Peruvian bark, was discovered by tho Jesuits in Ecuador in 1 OHO, ami was named "Chinchona," after tho Coun tess of Chinchona, tho wile of the Vico roy. A Queer City in the Air. Tho Pueblo of Acomn, situated nine ty miles west of Albuquerque, is one of the most remarkable communities in Now Mexico or tho United States. In tho middle of a valley six miles in width stands a buttc, and on the top of this is Acomn. Eight hundred peo- Xlo aro living there, and they and their ancestors havo gathered thero tho sum of their possessions for nearly three centuries. This butto is one of tho many that aro remnants of a mesa that has been worn away by tho erosion of the ages, and survives only in flat-topped mountains here anil there. Tho valleys between aro fertile, and untold generations ot men have seen them covered with men and flocks of sheep. Some timo in tho seventeenth century tho Laguna or valley Indians niado war upon tho Acomns for tho possession of tho country, and tho latter being tho weaker, occupied this butte ns a de fensive position believed to bo impreg nable. Their judgment has ueen abundantly vindicated. It has proved a Gibraltcr of strength and safety. Tho comparison is not inappropriate, and in approaching it from tho north I was struck with tho rcsemblanco to tho pictures I havo seen of that grim old lortress that frowns over tho strait of tho Mediterranean. Tho height above tho valley is nearly four hun dred feet, and tho walls in sovcral places aro nearly perpendicular. Thero aro two means of ascent, ono by a flight of steps cut in tho fnco of the wall and rising at nn nngloofforty-fivo degrees, and the other by a fissuro in tho rocks leading up into the heart of tho mountain. Both ways havo been trodden by human feet until tho steps nre hollowed out like shallow troughs. Either ono is exceedingly difficult, and neither is tolerably safe. Women nt the Fnll of Khartoum. Women nnd children wero robbed of their jewels of gold and jewels of silver, of their bracelets; necklaces of precious stones, and carried off to bo sold to tho Bishareen merchants as Blaves. Yes; and white women, too Egyptians and Circassians who woro tho burko over their facc3, tho rabtah, and tho turban, and the kurs on their heads ladies clad in silks nnd satin gibbehs nnd sultahs. Mother and daughter alike wero dragged oflfrom their homes of comfort. These wero widows, wives and daughters of Egyptian officers, somo of whom had been killed with Hicks Pasha; wives and children of Iigyptian merchants formerly rich, owning ships and mills, gardens and shops. Theso were sold afterward, some for 310 thalerie3 or more, somo for 250, according 10 ago and good looks. And tho poor black women al ready slaves and their children wero taken ofl, too. Theso wero Hold, too, for 100, 80 or70thaleries. Their hus bands and masters wero slain before their eyes, and yot I hear it said there was no massaBhs at tho taking ol Khartoum! London News. "A breath ol freo westorn air and a view of Lake Michigan," is tho pro scription of a Chicago pupor for Gen. Grant. It is unfortunato that the physicians do not regard theso thing as imential to lib comfort and ulti mate recovery. Titr. would n oi'i.i) nirrri:i:. It men rami Ioms fur wealth nnd lame And Iosm for bnttle-nolils nnd glory; If writ in huiiitin lir-nttx, a imuie S'tviiiiHl better than in houij nnd story; II men, instead ol iuumiii: pride, Would li'irn to hute it nnd nblior it; II more relied on love to guide The world would lo the K'tter lor it. If ijien denlt lem in ntockx and land Anil more in bonds nnd deiMl!nierniil; II I.ovo's works hud more willing hands To link this world to the Mmorunl; It men stored up love's oil and wine And on bruised human hearts would pour it; It "yours" nnd "mine" would oncecombine The world would Ixj the better Jor it. It more would act the play ol life And fewer spoil it in rehearsal; II bigotry would sheathe its knife Till good been me more unhcrsnl; If custom, gray with ages grown, Had fewer blind men to adore it; If talent shown tor truth alone The world would be the better for it. If men were wise in little tiling Affecting less in all their dealings If hearts had fewer rusted strings To isolate their kindly feelings; II men, when wrong heat down the Right, Would strike toget her and restore it; U lhglit made Might in eery light The world would he the b-tter for it. LKARNLXd 1IKR LKSSON. HY KMIl.Y I.KXNOW "I want you to meet Gordon this summer, Helen,'' Rob said, confiden tially. "I am sure you two would like each other. I've told him a great deal about my pretty, intellectual cousin, nnd he is very anxious" "Really, he does me an honor," Helen said, hastily, with the slight arch in her slender neck which always followed the mention af an eligible man. "It is right kind of you, Bobby, to plan so much pleasure for me; but I hardly expect to be home this sum mer. I've just about made up my mind to attend the summer school at Amherst." "What! You going to leave Canon diet, and study all summer in that prosy Yankee town? My dear Helen "If I go abroad in the fall, I should like to know something about Gor man." "Hul whydon'tyou studyathoine?" "I'nder whom, jiray?" "I think you might find somebody." Helen shook her head. "I've tried, "she said quietly. "There is no ono hero whom I would think of having." "Oli, pshaw!" said Bob. "That's too bad. I thought wo would have such a nice tiniethissummer." "You will anyhow," Helen said, with a sly smile. "Alice is coming for sure, and I shall be out of the way. Thero will be no disagreeable third party." "Rut what shall I do with Gordon?" "Find him a girl to flirt with." "lie's not that kind." "Oh!" incredulously. "Isn't ho?" Then I think you'd better send him word not to come." "I've hnlf a mind to. Confound tho German!" His face looked very cross just, then; but tho next moment a light seemed to break over it. "I say, Helen," ho began, eagerly, then stopped short, as though a sec ond idea had arrested him. "Well?" "Nothing," ho replied. And he began straightway to whistle under his breath, while Helen gathered up her books and went into thehouso. "There is no good in spoiling a woman to mako a student," Bob muttered. "If over two mortals wero mado for each other, she and Leon Gordon were. What a sight it would bo to see them hang each other in tho matri monial noose!" It was just a week after this conver sation that Rob camo into tho library brimming over with exultation. Helen sat by tho window in onoof thosecool, gray gowns that aro so becoming. She was writing a letter of inquiry to tho principal of tho summer school at Amherst, concerning terms and hours, and items of instruction. "Hero's luck, Helen!" ho cried, flourishing a letter aloft. "A real live German professor coining to visit us." "What!" "Why," he wont on, breathlessly, "when I was over at Winnebec yester day, I ran against Professor Holstein in tho station. He's a mighty nice fellow, and is writing up a work on philology. He's had the second degreo at Harvard, and isono of your real heavy guns on the languages. " "Does ho tvach?" Helen asked,with interest. "I think ho would. He's not well off those German students seldom are. Ho was hunting up somo quiet little place where hecould hoard cheap ly anil quietly this summer whilo ho writes his book. I suggested Canon (hot, and I havo just got a note from him, saying that ho is booked at Mahlon's." t "Perhaps ho won't want to tench a beginner," said Helen, dubiously. "Leave that to 1110," said Rolf, confi dently. "I am going to bring him up hero to supper, and I proirtiseyouho'Il moot you easily." Helen put on a bewitching gown of embroidered Canton silk. Therccouy bo nothing prettier than she was bo hind a trayful of bhio Doulton cups and a jug of whipped cream. "Have you always lived in this coun try, professor?" who asked, pouring out his tea with ft'iio womanly guilo, "I was born here," ho aiiHwered, watching her quietly over a pair of gold-bowed spectacles; "but I havo spout some time abroad." "And you aro very fond of your lan guage?" queried Helen. "Most Ger mans aro." Sho was wondering just then if Nature- had trained his board in that jirotty way, or if ho was vain enough to frequent a barber's. "I am vory fond of tho Gorman," ho said, warmly. "I iimm! to lunch it a little, and if J hud moru lime, J should liku nothing butter. 1 thought ouuo that I inliM gutupaoluasthls slimmer in tho village. Do u tjjitilc it would bo worth while trying. Miis Darrngh?" "I can promise jou one pupil." she! said, eagerly. , "Helen is'going in for German herself, professor," Bob explained. "Indeed?" he said, smiling. "And if you would be kind enough to bother with nio."shosnid.npj)ealingly, "I should like very much to have you tench me. I am going abroad in the fall, and-" "It would give me great pleasure." the professor answered, politely. And it was so arranged that tho les sons would begin in a day or so. They got on amazingly, for Helen had lost sight of the man in the in structor, and for once, in the society of the opposite sex, she acted out her sweet, natural self. 'fhe lessons grew longer every day. Tho professor read to her from the German poets, and there was so much loitering over the dictionary, that Rob akcd indiscretely whether the work on philology wasn't sulTcring. "I suppose vou know, Helen." he .-aid. one morning, in a casual way, "that Professor Holstein has a wife and seven children?" She fairly gasped at this. That young man! with such pleasant, artless eyes! And he'd never said a word to her of his family! What a cold-blooded wretch he must be! Her heart fairly thrilled with anger. "How dared he deceive me?" sho cried, angrily. Hob looked up in surprise. "1 suppose he never thought it would make the least dilTerenee to vou," he said. "Why should it?" "Oh, for no reason in the world! Rut I don't think a married man has any right to go about with any girl as ho has been doing. Wbv didn't vou tell me. Rob?" "I? Why, ho hasn't been flirting with you, has he, Helen?" "Certainly not!" was tho haughty reply. "Men cannot dirt unless womeu encourage them. Rut I think you might have said something about this before." " 'My eye, Pip! Wot larks!' "iuot ed Rob, going ollintoagaleof laughter, the instant his cousin was out of sight. "Tho plot thickens. Bring on your villain." Helen had taken her hat from the hall-rack, and gone out into the sun shine. Sho could not explain to her self why she T'elt so indignant at Pro fessor Holstein, or why she passed with averted ga.o tho spot they had chosen for their morning readings. "Ah! how do you do?" a pleasant voice called to her, in the simple tier man phrase she had already mastered. "I thought you were never coining. I have got such a pretty little poem, which I cut out of the Gartenlaubo! Shall I read it?" "Certainly if you wish." He was too eager to bo checked by her chilling reserve. In a deep, melo dious voice, ho began to read to her a pretty spring idyl. It had a great deal of lovo in it, and a great deal of sor row. "Don't you like that?" hesaid.look ingupjust in time to sou her tears. "Ah, I knew you would!" Do put out his hand, but drew it back again. "That is what I should like," ho wont on, earnestly. "I should like to wan der away off to somo wild spot, and live thero with ono I loved with you, Helen-" "Professor Holstein, you forget your self!" "Forget? Nol Do not start from me, Helen. I lovo you with my whole soul!" "Sir,"shocried, passionately, "your lovo is an insult! Howdureyouspeak of such a thing to mo?" "Helen, what aro you saying?" "I say that you have no right toad dress mo so, sir. How dare you take advantage of tho privileges of hospi tality? How daro you abuse your rights as a teacher to-to--" "Hear mo, Helen! I havo deceived you." "I know it. I am quito well aware, sir, of who and what you are. tio I leavo mo this instant! I never want to seo you again. I despise such perfidy as yours. Go!" "Ah you say!" ho said, turning very pnlo: "I never meant to do anything wrong. If I havo erred, Miss Darragh, I am punished for tho fault. I do lovo you with my whole soul. Good-byl" He strode away quickly, and when ho camoupon Bob, at tho garden gato, ho said hoarsely: , "I was afraid it wouldn't turnout well, old boy. Helen has found 1110 out and will havo nothing to do with 1110." "Tho deuce!" Bob exclaimed. "Who told her Gordon?" "I don't know," ho answered gloomi ly. "It was a bad day for mo, Bob, when I camo to Canonchet. I shall never caro for any other woman, and now " "I'm sorry, Gordon," Bob replied, "I rather thought Helen would see tho joko, after tho first shock was over." "It doesn't seoni to strike her that way," said Gordon, withabittersmilo. "Good-by, old boy! I think I'd bet ter get away from hero as soon aj I can. "I'm sorry "Rob began. "Nover mind," said his friend, brave ly. "It wasn't your fault, I shall leave Canonchet to-night. Good-by!"i Rob walked with him a little vay, and camo back quito cast down in spirits. "I had no idea she'd fly off in that way," ho muttered. "Girls aro queor creatures. I would havo sworn sho was in lovo with him, and decpgpough for anv emergency. Helen!" Sho was just going in by tho garden gaio. "I want to speak t you a moment." "Well?" "Don't you think you wero a littlo rough on Gordon?" "On whom?" "On Gordon. Wo only meant it as a littlo joke, and it was I who put him up to it. You woro so opposed to men, and I thought you wouldQm mwo to lie friends if you could only meet." "My dear Rob," shocriod, "1 haven't tho slightest idea what you are talking uboutl" "Gordon lias gone away," ho pur sued. "He's awfully out up about it, uud I'm sure, Holon" "Gordon gono away!" ohe echoed. "What do you mean?" "Why," said Rob, somewhat impa tiently, "he did not mean any harm when he came hero in the character of a German professor, which of courso he isn't, though his mother was a Gor man, and her nnino was Holstein." "Do you mean to say," cried Helen, changing color, "that Professor Hol stein is your friend Leon Gordon?" "Why, ho said you knew all aboub it. There is a Professor Holstein, who is writing a work on philology. He is Gordon.s uncle; but he's a middle aged man, with a wife and seven children." "Rob," cried Helen, bursting into tears, which fairly took his breath awav, "I'll never forgive you for this never!" Sho rushed past him into tho house, and dropped down in a littlo tearful heap on the sofa. "Oh, if I'd only gono to Amherst!" she moaned, quito unconcious that somo one in the doorway was regard ing her with a startled gae. "I I bog your pardon!" stammered Gordon, the ex-professor. "I left my German dictionary in here, and Rob said Helen!" ho was down on bin knees beside her, holding one of her hanrts "can you ever forgive me? I do not ask or hope for anything, though my life will bo very empty now without you. If you will only say that you will not hate me, that you will think of me sometimes kindly; I shall trv to be content." "I think of you entirely too often now," she said', witha final sob, assho. shook out a verv wet handkerchief and. looked at him through her tears. Something in her face must havegiv on him hope, for one arm was slipped around her, and ho drew the lit tie, pas sive hand, which bo held, to his lips. "Say you will forgive me!" he urged, with sudden boldness. "Think how hard it w ill be, and how inconvenient, to get. a new German teacher in tho middle of tho summer. Helen, don'b you think you niight marry me'Thcn. we could continue our lessons indefi nitely." Slowly but with a sense of appro print ion sho felt herself being drawn in to his arms. "I ought to hato you," she said, weaklv. "I'm suro I meant to, but t can't.'' It was quito a surprising tableau that Rob burst in upon some timo af terward. "I beg your pardon!" ho exclaimed, wheeling around in tho most absurd, way. "I had no idea Upon my word, Gordon, you beat tho Old Roy! Ieho liebe, I love; du liebst, thou lovest; op liebt, he loves How does itgo? Well, well bless you, my children! Let our congratulations bo mutual. Alico is coming to-morrow!" . Helen and Gordon wero married in the fall (sho had learned a good deal of German by that time), and they went abroad together. Rob will never enll his new cousin anything but "Professor," and Helen has a son named Holstein Gordon a, very bright boy, too, who knowssomo German already. A Candid Lord-Lieutenant. Daniel O'Connell, in tho zenith ofhis popularity, was tho idol of tho Irish peoplo. When ho was released from prison, whoro ho had been confined for somo ofTenco against tho Government, it was feared that his appearance in Dublin would bo tho signal for a riot. Tho troops remained in their barracks, and tho Lord-Lieutenant visited them to await what might arise. To whilo away tho time, ono of tho cavalry officers, Lieut. Twigg, con ducted his Excellency over the regi mental school-room. Tho lieutenant, in talking about tho best method of educating children, emphasized tho idea that it was a mistako to teach them lessons by roto. Tho proper system was to cultivato their reason ing powers, so that thoy would under stand what answers they should givo. "Now here's a most intelligent pupil, Rill Jones," said tho lieutenant, anxious to illustrate tho success of his educational method. "Tell 1110, Rill, who is tho greatest person in tho king dom of Groat Britain?" "Her Majesty tho Queen," answered Bill. "Good. And who is tho greatest person in Ireland?" continued the lieutenant, confident that tho l'oply would bo, "His Excellency tho Loru Lioutenant." "Daniel O'Connell!" answered tho boy, with promptness and vigor. - "Pon my word, Mr. Twigg, I am afraid tho lad, is right," said tho Viceroy, smiling at tho blushing offi cer. Tf (wked tho "Wroiifr Ituulcet, From tho Sun Frnnclsco Altiv. "Ma and I," sho said shyly, "aro moro like sisters than mother and daughter." "Yes," ho said, with a lingering in flection on tho after guard of his "yes," which rose clear to tlio coiling. "Yes, indeedi' said tho girl, with a rosy flush oti her cheeks making her infinitely mdro beautiful than ovor. "Jtfe. Itnd I ro inseparable. Wo havo nover been seitftrated a singlodaysinco I was a little baby." "N-no?" ho said, this with an inflec tion on tho second section of "no" that went only half wiy to tho ceiling and back again. "Oh dear, no," tho girl went on in hor artless way; "and ma always said that when I was married sho was going to lovo my husband like her own son and como and keep houso for us." "Oh-hl" said William, withncircunv. llox. Then lro roso up sltSvly nnd firm ly, and said that ho had a note in bank to tako up at Jl o'clock; as it was now 0:!10 ho would go. And ho did go. And ho didn't como bnck again. Nob never. And ma said to tho girl: "That's whoro you missed it in not trusting your mother. Why didn't you tell me that man had been mar-, iled before? Had 1 known ho was a widower, I would havo played th 'homo (or old women' racket on him,'