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WALTER SCOTT 3 REC RET HOW TO FALL A8LE1P A CAREFUL HUSBAND “Kiva,” said she, solemnly, -‘if we stay, locked up, for the fifteen minutes’ We can learn Hoiuething even from 1 ever have another wedding in this house, call of the friendly neighbor. To me Katie I Haiti. ••It's a taate For three years Mrs. B------had been I had often noticed that when Hn t’v thim lipH that I’d havu, an’ indade As sopn as she was gone, Harriet ran I'll do one of two things!" a sad, nervous invalid, when by the an enemy, and a friend’H failures may in deep thought, purticnlarlv m Th'iy belt»ng to me now wid yeniilf, instruct uh . That in the sort of educa* “Well, what?” asked Elva. to the door, unlocked it, and said, hur death of an uncle she came into pos there seems to be »ometning 1^ Au’ ho putty for ldfeia’ were made." riedly, “Lil, run quick! Mrs. Scott is , “I’ll either do all the cooking and all session of bonds yielding an income of tion which a biography ehould give. Sir pression ot the eyelids, the imi*'0’1’ But «he ai • veie I an’ tould me, wid eye« coming to bring home the irons!” the sewing in the dead hours of night, »3,000. At once her health began to Walter Scott'«, especially the portion espeeially, ami the eves theiugefiT That n<> »tar in the «ky could eclii »e, “Merc-yon me!” naid Li), and out she after the neighbors are gone to bed, or improve, she walked erect, and the which narrates his boyhood, gives it. apparently turned upward, as if ul'“ ••An’ it’s thru* they be ong to y< rnlf, flew, slamming the kitchen door Icehind 1'11 lock the back iloor and throw the lines of her face were curiously changed. Sir Walter Scott was a sickly lad. The Sure h >w ’nd ye kiss jer ow.i lip»?” in that direction. This ¡nvari.bh ' her, just as Mrs. Scott cqa-ned the back key down the well!” Since her marriage she had become a fact partly accounts lor his low st Hid eurred; and the moment that i “Jist an aiay," I cried, “aa to apake, At the «upper-table, they laughingly ing at school. His master called him “ a one. beggar, and beggars are not strong in I arrested the course of >| An’ «Wat t nor h »ney. The nun They didn't try on wedding garments related their smuggling adventures to health or hearing. Her husband was stupid boy,” but lived to reverse this effort, U cowhler by far. ” But aha vowei! and freed the mind from the " in the kitchen again. But while Miss Mr. Mort James anil Lily, and Harriet rich, but “tareful” almut liis money. judgment, and the pupil to regret that 1 be liken of it couldn't I e done. with which it was engaged, the ev Birch was sewing on tho die-cses, up repeated her plan to them. He never parted with a dollar if he he had not given more attention to his sumed their^ normal position Thin J < ff *re<I t’ie name t > reat< r ■ “ I know a better way yet, ” said stairs, somebody had to keep on the studies. “ I would at this moment, ” he could |s>ssibly keep it. Wid a seal jiat a*» thru» an the day; compression of the lids ceased y lookout all the time, lest some neighbor Mort, “to escape ba<-k-diM>r miseries.” But she said, “I ’u<i never take back Their house "as handsome, and their wrote, in the «lays of his tame, “give it occurred to me one night that I w u “Jtotell it!” said Harriet. What once I had given away.’’ should dodge in, and not finding any half the reputation I have had the good i table good, but while Dora, the servant, “When Lily and I build a house in w ho dressed quite as w ell as her mistress, fortune to acquire, if I could rest the re not allow the eyes to turn upward one clown-stairs, | ro -eed to come up A I’ll hi; I yt th.- lai iv ’em, dear,” keep them determinedly in the without warning. the city, we ’ ll not have anv back door, ” I replie i; but wid infinite »c »rn was never obliged to beg for money, maining part upon a solid foundation of site position, as if looking down°^ To have locked the bac k cloor, would said Mort. She axt d, di i did 1 thnk that h •» lip» | Mrs. B------ could not get a dollar for learning and science.” The sentence having done so for a short time 1 i , Were made fur to rint or t > pawn? “Well, that would be a blessing'" personal ex|s-nses without explaining, should be paste«! in every bov s text that the mind .ltd not revert t!^ | have be -n an offense against good man- [ ni-rs in Ilillborn code. The front and breathed poor aggravated Harriet. book. Thin I «at jirtt an mute as a stone! urging—begging. Pretty soon the invitations were out, street doors were k-pt locked, as a mat Though a poor scholar, young Scott thoughts with which it had hwn «... An’ niver a word «lid I say, Visiting her mother in another State, Till Katie, ona n/like, pouted her lips ter of course, but the back ones were and the wedding came off, and then the | .-he related, with many tears, the fol- was an insatiable reader, and often sur pied, and 1 noon fell asleep. I (Och, the rouge!) in a raviahin’ way, always left open, to admit of friendly, wonder of Hi.lborn neighbors was great. i lowing story: prised his elders by th* miscellaneous the plan again with the same resnh and after an experience of two years I “Well, it docs beat ail." -aid Mis. An’ wid dimple» to timpt all the saints, unceremonious “running in.” “I needed a warm dress, hut so great ! knowledge he |H»sseHsed. An’ wid blushes ’way up to her brow, The girls would have given up in de Brown, “how they did keep it so close! was my repugnance to asking John for He read with delight bonks of history, can truly say that, unless when s.,m thing specially annoying ,,r wonX As soft as an angel she spake, “Ud ye spair. But as Mr. Mort James came Why, I was in and out there every day!” the means that I put it off till after New travels, ¡»oetry, fairy tales, romances, like “So was I!” said Mrs. Scott, “and I Y ear's, line evening we bad company, and Eastern stories. He and a conge occurred, I have always been able |0 ’ down from the city every two weeks to To be liudin’ the loan uv ’em now?” to sleep very shortly after retirin» t” see his lady-love, of course the neigh- never saw a sign of a wedding!” and John was gratified with their praise nial friend would clioos some nook on “And so was I!” echoed Florence. of my singing. After we had retired the face of an almost inaccessible hill, test. The e ma oceasionallv bsim! b >rs saw him, and they began already A MISTAKE. to tease Lil about her beau, so the pool “Why, I just dodged in at the back door and lie had spoken very warmly of my and, climbing up to it, sit for hours difficulty in keeping the eves in the n,h How y«>ur sweet face revive» again child had about all she could stand. any time! They were making cake one success in entertaining our friends, 1 reading or telling each other stories, sition I have described, hut a dfo. The dear old time, my Pearl, If I may ils j the pretty name At last the girls began to make» the day, but, you know. I never took the thought the moment auspicious, and which were always “to be continued.” mined effort to do so is all that ja h . I called you when a girl. wedding-cake. The pantry was not large hint at all!” The boy’s memory was a fickle ally— quired, and I am certain that if kept in mentioned the needed dress. He was enough for o|H-iations, and they were “Well, I always thought they were a silent for some minutes, and then said : it retained only what pleased him, hut the down-looking position it will h, You are ho young; while Time <»f me found that cont|M>sure and sleep will U Ha,« made a cruel prey, obliged to work in the kitchen, under queer kind!” said Mrs. Scott, “You •■Why, my dear, I thought you were that it never forgot. He left school with It ha» forgotten you, n<»r »wept never could find out much about their the best-dressed woman among them. a great quantity of general but ill-ar the result. manifold interruptions. One grace of youth away. It may be said that as the continual Lily sat down to stone raisins, and affairs.” Don't you think, dearest, it's a foolish ranged information. Later in life he t’he Maine »weetface, the same sweet »mile, Elva cut citron, while Harriet beat the And they all agreed that this time» the thing to go on adding dress after dress, lamented that his reading had been so effort to keep the eyeballs in a certain The name lithe figure too! secret had been kept, in spite of the when your closet is so full that you can desultory in his youth. ‘-My app«‘tite position so diverts the attention as to eggs. vVhat did you May? “It was perchance free the mind from the disagreeable In less than ten mintes rap! rap! back cloor. ’i’«.Hir mother that I kne w?’* hardly get into it? If you will take my for books,” he wrote, “was as ample subjects with which it had been en went the kitchen cloor. Elva flung a and indis riminating as it was indefati advice, I should A h, ye», of c mrae, it must have been, towel over her citron, and began busily gable; and since, I have had. too fre gaged, sleep will follow asa naturalcon And yet the same you seem, A LOAD OF POLE CATS. the dresses von sorting a pile- of napkins which lay And for a moment all these yeais quently, reason to repen* that few ever sequence. It is not improbable that getting more. ’ Fled from me like a drt am. A frolicsome fellow in the southern this is to some extent correct: and if sj handy. Lil, who sat with her dish and “Not another word was spoken by read so much, and to so little pur|X)se.” paper of raisins in her lap, whirled part of Arkansaw , wrote the following either of us. I diil not choose to tell Then what your mother would not give, Though Scott’» reading was unreg it is well that Iw means so simple and Permit me, dear, t > take, round, so as to bring them under the notice and tacked it on a tree: ulated, his mother looked after the so easily adopted such a desirable re The old man’s privilege—a kiss — “Glakins & Co., the largest merchants him that the dress I had Horn that education of his heart. She was gifted sult can be secured. But I think that table, out c>f sight, and sat idle. Harriet «hist for y«»ur mother’» sake. evening was my only handsome one, calmly went on with her eggs. The in. in our county, will pay five dollars and that mv only warm woolen dress with good taste anil with a natural this is not the only nor the principal W. W. St >rn. apiece for every live pole eat delivered to terruptcr was Florence1 Lockman. sensitiveness to noble ideas. The boy reason. The position in which the eves This offer is made in view of was worn out. I could not sleep, and used to read aloud to her Pope’s transla should be kept is the- natural one; tlier THE MISERIES OF A BACK DOOR “Oh, you’re al! so busy!” she said. them. before morning resolved, come wnat “Well, I just ran in to borrow vour the fact that polecats have been sudden might, I would never beg again. That tion of Homer. As is common with are at ease in it; and wlien there is nil BV MBS. M. B. I i VEK. rutiled apron pattern, please, Harriet. I ly discovered to be extremely valuable.” vow 1 have kept. During two years I boys, his enthusiasm was aroused by compression of the lids nor knitting of Two or three w eeks afterw ards, while There was going to Is- a wedding in want to cut one- for mother and I haven’t <lescriptions of battles. But when he tin- brows, the muscles connected with tie Dorsey house. Il was odd that of any pattern. Lily,, you are the only- Col. Glakins was standing in front of his have had no additions to my wardrobe, came to a passage which expressed gen and surrounding the eves are relaxed. except the woollen dress you sent to store, a strong whiff of something came tic three girls Lily the youngest should idle one, get it for me, won’t you?” me. Not one word has passed between erous sentiments, she made him pause This condition is tnu.-h more favorable ’ter married first. Lil couldn't move, of course! Harriet around the house and almost knocked my husband and self on the subject. and by questions drew his attention to for sleep than for mental activity or him down; and Is-fore he could recover Rut Lily had been visiting in the city, came- to the- rescue. deep thought.—[Chambers’ Journal. them. “ When I left my music teaching, and met a young fellow who had a good “She couldn’t find it,” she said. “I from the shock, old Mulberry l'atterson, with its large income and sweet in- The mother’s training bore fruit. a well-known hill farmer, drove around jweition, and who soon found out Lily’s put that patern away myself.” (iependence, and gave myself to John, The novelist awoke one morning to find WHAT AN EGG WILL DO dharrns. And so he came to see Mam “Oh, never mind, then, until you get with a kind of box wagon ami stopped. it was easy to make me happy. I asked himself, not famous, he bail been that as Dorsey—there wasn’t any Papa Dor- your eggs beaten!” said Florence, and “Good Lord, Mulberry, what’s the for years, but a ruined man. His folly but little, and you know, mother, that Eor burns and scalds- nothing is more ay, hadn’t Is-er. for ten years—and down she sat. “Are you making cake?” matter?” exclaimed the colonel. in living as a nobleman and his blind “Never mind, colonel, I’ve got ’em. I never shrink from care and labor. trust in his publishers, had bankrupted scsith than the white of egg, which mac •a-y were all ho surprised, and a little she asked. “Why it isn’t Saturday! lie poured over the- wound. It is softer Nobody can make an appeal to me in Now that dear Unde Eben’s bonds af him. provoked, and a good deal pleased, and Must l>e looking for company.” as a varnish for a btirn than collodion, —If n-re was going to be- a wedding! vain. Whoa, there! They’re tightin' ford me the means to clothe myself, “We are,” said Harriet, grimly. Then the mother’s training in the and, being always at hand, can lie ap and assist my nieces as I used to, I shall Wow Lily was very sensitive and “Lily’s bean, I’ll bet!” cried the in tliar, now,” he added, as a terrible noble ideas of justice, right, and con plied. It is also more cooling than the t&ni-l, and could not hear to be teased, merry girl, while Lily turned red. squall, followed by a decided supplement forgive, forget and be happy. John is science asserted itself. “Give me sweet oil and cotton which was former to the already intolerable odor, came urging me to transfer the bonds to him, tts blushed hotly every time her bridal “When is it gotng to be, Lil?” and let him take care of them for me.” time,” he said to his creditors, “and I ly supposed to lie the surest application was alluded to, and was frightened “In about ten years, maybe,” said from the wagon-bed. will pay you every penny.” He sat to allay the smarting pain. It is the “My daughter, will you do it?” “What on earth have you got in st tlie-idfea of people finding it out. Hill- Lily. “Elva. you might get that pat- -Why, mother, I have kissed those himself down to his desk to write off contact w ith the air which gives the«- ka n was-» gossipy little place, and if all tern, you know where Hat’s things are there?" yellow, dirty, ol<l bonds again and again, six hundred thousand dollars of debt. treme discomfort experienced from the “Pole cats, colonel.” neighbors knew it, the whole town generally.” I liecause they have made it possible for Within ten years he had written hooks ordinary accidentof this kind, and any “ Well, d ------ it, drive on away. ” vould.soon Mud out all there was to be Elva had got her napkins all put j “Whar must I drive? Whar do yer me to lw-conie a happy and loving wife enough to ameliorate his affairs and thing that excludes tho air and prevents tefci. and poor Lily would be the butt of away. She ran up for the pattern, and I tremble when I think how near I came bring peace to his mind. want ’em put?” inflammation is the thing to Is- at once ■wcrvbody's jokes. they soon got rid of that interruption. Rheumatism stiffened his fingers. He “Put them where you please, so you I to hating my husband. I shall keep wrote in spite of it. He began to liope applied. Harriet and Elva, Lily's older sisters, But in another quarter of an hour, in the bonds in my own hands! They are -were- determined that'“nobody should came Mrs. Scott, to borrow the clothes take them away from here.” The* egg is considered one of the best ‘ ‘ What sort o’ a business man air yer ? really and truly the only bonds t hilt that he would soon he free from debt, of remedies for dysentery. Beaten up know, until it was time to send out the line, and Elva ami Lil had to dodge when paralysis struck him. He insisted I bind me to life. ” few invitations they meant to give. down the cellar stairway with their laps Have me an’ my boys pokin’ all aroun’ on Isfing helped to his desk. When he slightly, with or without sugar, and over the hills after pole cats an’ then “Therd’s no use of having Lil Un full. A COURTEOUS MANNER found that his pen rolled out of his swallowed at a gulp, it tends, by its won ’ t take ’ em? ” seated to death, and we won't stand At last, however, the cakes were safe mrveless fingers, he fell back in his emollient qualities, to lessen the inflam Brusque people underrate the impor “ I tell you to drive away from here. Bt” laid.Elva decidedly. ly made and baked. But they had still chairand wept. He was mid in his bed mation of the stomach and intestines, tance of a pleasant manner. Look lx — ««life we won't!" said Harriet. “Of to he frosted. The girls waited for a and, by forming a transient c oating on neath the surface, they say, to the roots and never rose from it till bis body was these- organs, to enable nature to re amrserwe always have- Miss Birch in to rainy day to do this. lifted into its coffin. of character ; pay no attention to the “Didn’t yon stick up signs notifvin* flo -sir spring sewing, and when it comes It was Saturday, and Mr. James Mort One lesson of this life, that which sume her healthful sway over a diseased r<» Lil’s dresses, why she- can sew up- had come down from the' city, to pay the public that von wanted |»>le eats?” outward appearance, to voice or gesture, peeps out from the boy’s habit of laxly. Two, or at most three eggs per tone or manners—they may be all de “No, I didn’t.” ■taira. his usual visit. Lily, of course, was day would I«- all that is required inor “Wall, I reckin' yer did fur 1 seed ceptive. and they must be all superficial ; desultory reading and neglecting his dinary cases ; and since egg is not mere ■Bov f know one-thing that you can't with him in the parlor. I’ve got sixty cats here. it is w hat is said or done and not how it studies, we have already hinted at. He ly medicine, but food as well, the 46,7 said Lily. Harriet and Elva having all the rest one myself. bitterly deplored it. of the work done, betook themselves to Gin me three hundred dollars an’ take is said or done, that is alone deserving «‘Will.,what is it ?” But the old romancer, dying at the lighter the- diet otherwise and the quiet of notice. On the other hand, there are ’ em. ” •You can’t shut the bac k door. At the mysteries of icing the wedding top and yet working to pay his debts, er the- patient is kept, the more- certain some to whom manner is everything. “Il you don't go away from here I’ll Mast you can’t keep jieople from pop. I cake-. while a graphic lesson in honesty, is a and rapid is the recovery. Each new acquaintance has to pass the The- snowy frosting was beaten and shoot the top of your crazy head off.” jsng in that way. And when you get pathetic* warming against the foolish ----- . “All right, I’ll leave the eats here an’ ordeal of their criticism. Is he polisheii, te-the cake making, why, here'll come stirred until it was the proper consist vanity Ur.,. Bri iwn for the irons, and Mrs. Scott! ency and stiffness, and then they began go to law alsmt it,” and he opened the courteous, graceful, dignified? Then living. which tempts to extravagant A WATCH WHICH GOES BY ELECTRICITY The cats they are ready to receive him without Un borrow a tub, and Florence Lockman to spread it on the fruit cake with u hind gate of the wagon. poured out and after running around, further question ; he bears the stamp of A Jewish young man, 1!» years old. ta bring home a pattern, and what'll silver butter-knife. ABOUT WOMEN -•It’s s good thing it is stormy,” said having everything pretty much their their order. Is he rough, awkward or named Solomon Schisgal. has invented fw do then?” “Well, 1'11 see.’” cried Elva, shutting Elva. “We won’t be- interrupted this own way, they took refuge under the shy ? Then they are not to examine the The cradle of the little infanta of a watch which goes by electricity, ami colonel’s store-house. The old farmer kernel that may be hid under so unat Spain, Mary Isabel, is a conch shell, with scarcely any movement; it in mouth very tightly. “The- wedding time, anyhow!” tractive a shell. Botii these views are -‘Won’t we?” said Harriet. “Don’t drove away to consult a lawyer, and the nke must be made nt least a month be- lined with pale pink satin, the coverlet therefore simple in construction andeaey color.el after vainly trying to dislodge the imperfect and mistaken, though each of point d’Aleneon, front « pattern to handle; it is cheap, and, above all. ferchand, or it won’t cut well. So must In- too sure of that!” At that very moment, a waterpresd eats, decided to remove his stock of contains enough of truth to make it designed by the mother of the queen of keeps correct time. Herr Chwolson, At fruit eake, and if people m*e it, they’ll cloak was seen passing the kitchen win. giasls, which, in fact, he was compelled plausible. To depreciate or ignore tine Spain, in which tin- arms of Spain and Professor of Physics at the University t • do. Toe ease came tip for trial the manners is essentially absurd. Their Austria are blended. On the pillow and of Petersburg, lias written an article on •Tak » a rainy day for it,” suggeste I dow. “Oil, mercy, Hat !”crie<l Elva. “Hus. other day, and the judge held that the charm is irresistible, even to those who the eouyre-pied the Bourlstn lilies and the subject in the Nonwti, in which he flhrriet. Under the colonel should have taken the eats, and fancy themselves proof against them. her initial, Y., are interlaced. ••Then the cake wont be light. And tie it somewhere, quick! says: “In its remarkable simplicity therefore instructed the jury to bring in Yet it is not so much in themselves or .A people do come at that time they’ll table! Anywhere!” this invention can only be compared Miss Maud Howe, the author of A for their own sake that they delight us rfU) longer than ever.” Harriet sprang up, caught the cake, a verdict of two hundred dollars and Newport Aquarelle, who is now engaged with the Jablot hkoff system of electric •‘Let ’em come. I’ll tlx ’em!” said and vanished into the pantry where Lil some “scents” in favor of the farmer. in the promise of something letter and upon another and more serious book, is lightning. The watches are without deeper. They are signs or symbols of had once taken refuge, and Elva heard Harriet. anv springs, and consist solely of two character, feelings, affections, thoughts, commonly considered a great beauty, of ! wheels. Besides being true, they have But that very afternoon their miseries her «ay, as she locked the door; HE WAS GOOD, BUT ABSENT MINDED au intense and artistic character. . Miss I and it is to this they owe their value “If she wants anything out of this legHn. Some of the wedding things Howe had at one time design« upon tilt the advantage of the second hand mov She was the best of wives, and to her and their charm. dtotft been Rent from the city, among pantry, tell her we haven't got it!” stage, but changed her mind ami went | ing in single momentary leaps, as in Knock! knock! on the back door. mind he was the best of husbands. To Actn Lily’s white slippers. She put usually the ease only in very costly in for literature. la- sure he was not so demonstrative in CUTTING THE ATALANTA IN TWO Elva opened it, and admitted Mrs. on, to try them, and looped a love- watches, and which is of the utmost his affection as he used to be, but he Miss Thackeray, the novelist, and scarf around her neck, and as liar, Brown. Philaiielphi Special: Several hundred utility for astronomical observation was a drummer who was dependent on daughter of William Makepeace Thack “I haven't a minute to stay,” said the wt was in the kitchen mixing bread, persons assembled at Cramp's dry These watches can also set in motion dbr just ran out there tw show the effect. lady, shaking tin- wet from her cloak, the commissions obtained from sales for i dock to-day to witness the cutting in eray, is as agreeable a woman as she is a certain numlier of watches of ths his living, and with all the cares of his a clever writer. She was spoken of by Rhe bad hardly stepped beyond the on tin- clean oilcloth, as she came in. two of Gould's steam yacht Atalanta, same construction, so that they all W»lc, when the back gate clicked, and “I just want to see Harriet a moment.” work on his mind it was no wonder. ' in accordance with the order of her some prominent person as “the most keep exact time. The invention has Affection is a luxury, and people must •■Harriet isn't here, just now,” said ■ shadow passed the kit« hen window. owner. The yacht was placed on the charming woman in England." and this i convinced me that watches can lie use*! ••Run, IJl, quick!” said Harriet, Elva -a'liily, taking care rot to s.iv “at live whether they love or not. He had i dry dock, after having some of her expression is frequently used to deneribe 1 for the purpose of telegraphy.” After •she’ll see you!” home." “I'll tell her to come over a few days’ vacation last month and upper work, smoke-stacks and light ■ her. naming several other advantages, Trot. relaxed enough from his work to hire a Ant to cross the kitchen and get out when she comes in.” Mrs. Kalakaua. wife of the king of' Chwolson describe« the invention ana iron removed, at the tipper yard. She Iterdic and take his wife down to hear IWorr Mrs. Brown got in, was iftq »os- “Oh, it isn’t necessary,” said Mrs. was then cut down to the keel amidships the Sandwich Islands, is forty-four years 1 wonder which will cause an entire rev ■94c- Brown, “I just wanted to ask her to “Il Trovatore.” At the conclusion of by removing or driving out each separate of age, < i ht years older than her! olution in the manufacture of watches the opera, seated side by side in the The pantry door wan open, and Lily stop for me to go to prayer meeting to husband. She is a devout Episcopalian. I carriage, returning to their home in the rivet, and removing the interior work and l>ear- the name of Emma. She has' Herr Schisgal is the son of a Jewish gnfqieil in there, while- Mrs. Brown night, that w is all.” of the vessel. The forward part of the watchmaker in Berditisehew.—[From Highlands, the divine music of Sealclii “Well, I'll tell her," raid the much, aa<- known her errand, an soon as the no children of her own. but has adopted I the Jewish Chronicle. still tinging in his ears, to which the vessel was placed on a movable frame several. tried Elva. fwl-rveninga were said: work and attached to crabs or capstans --------- - As Mrs. Brown went out, Florence click and rumble of the Iterdic beat a worked bv forty men, who in a short “Harriet, have yon made- anv fresh Miss ('htitnberlaine, the American! sort of dre-.imv accompaniment, he fell I.is kman came in. rew-t lilt iv?" BUSINESS FOR BOYS. time had the sections so parted that beauty wl.o ha« Iteen creating such a “Oh, Evi, cm 1 liorrow a cup of into a tlrowse, be nodded, his cares, there was a space of sixteen feet bet •«ensation in England, ha« a perfect oval •Ye«, I ma le veaat ye«terday," said his duties, his troubles fell from him coflee until after supper?” said she. ■hrriet Ai/ricul A writer in the American A'jncfu ween them. The improvements will face, large eyes, a small mouth and The coffee was in the pantry! And like a garment, and he slept. The give additional space to the saloon as straight nose. Imt very little character turist says he has a farmer friend *Ik>. pleas.», let me have' a little, to jostle of a wheel on a paving stone a t min«aid Mrs. Brown, “I bad Harriet had the door locked on the has sixty colonies of bees, a tine fitx’k well as a private room on deck for the expressed in the features. inside. But Elva did not want to he little taller than its neighls.r awoke him millionaire himself. The butchershop, ■>fi Ind luck with my last making.” of light Brahma fowls, and a farm of Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, the historian, and. rubbing bis eves and looking atom d '•.'ertainly ,” said Harriet. But she un-neighls r'y. so she s lid : 120 acres. He has two sons, age! i as well as other annoyances in the'for- ■‘Yes. sit down a nonent, and I will tn daze l sort of a wav. he saw his wife. I ward part of the vessel, will be removed j who lias recently been created a Fellow and 11> years respectively, and the ebl- ■w in a cold sweat, for the yeast cakes of the Clarendon Historical Society, of Silently happy in his presence, she saw ■rv drying on the shelf in the pantry, get it.” er bov has entire charge of the here , aft. The repairs to the Atalanta will | Then she disappeared in the cellar hint lean toward her; she felt his arm cost not less than »40,000. I Her rig Edinburgh, is a handsoln-, dignified of which he is very fond. He rune hi* ■of Lil was in then-, loo, in her wedding woman,affable in manner and benevolent on her shoulder and her ntm.l went | M^'pers stairway. She ran down, an I then out, 1 will he changed from a three to a two- of disposition. sections, extracts the honey, introducee Jhit there was nothing to do but open at the outside cellar door, and round in b.iek to the old courting days, and she masted schooner, the main ma’t : having queens, divides the bees, and rears thanked God that he was not like . o e Mrs. Talmage, wife of the Rev. T. De As «toor saying t'10 rain to Ute laitiy window, which b-en removed. queens with a skill which many a other husbands she knew of He drew Witt Talmage, is «till a pretty woman eran "Certainly, Mrs. Brown, you «hall was open. might envy. He is already wpi ami does not look over forty. She >■» a starting of my yeast.” “Hat, hand me a enp of browned nearer still, she felt his breath on her It has become the fashion for the known. The other takes care of the •Oh, how sweet it does smell! i coffee, quick, and ask no questions!” neck, and in those old, n -ver-to.be- bridegroom to present his ushers with dresses in the latest fashions and with fowls, and each of the boys receir«* a great deal of taste. forgotten tones she heard him speak : Bee nicely it is drying! 1 never can she said. scarf pins. At the recent wedding of Literal share of the profits of the htiei- “I say,- sis, what did you tell me Robert Racon, of Boston, the ushers Anne Whitney’s marble statue of ness. ■anl- mine do that way!” said Mrs. Harriet obeyed, and Elva went back your name was' ” Harriet Martineau will be placed for the ■b'un, pushing right into the pintry > through the cellar, ami gave the eoffee all received from him a fleur-de-lis in It i- a good plan to give the boy« ar. And there was no more sleep in that whole pearls, with stem of brilliants, winter in the Old South Church. Boston. M'inil Harriet. As she did so, shc- i to Florence. interest in the work on the farm by al herdic . Mrs. Fernando Yznaga. Mrs. W. K. lowing them a reasonable share of the gns-' -i against the door, an I it swung And Florence went home and told and that of Arthur Gordon Weld a • •• tert, concealing poor Lil Itehind it, . , her mother that the Dorsey's kept their square block of old gold with a fly cut Vanderbilt’s sister, has large dark eyes profit arising from their laltor. An English authority says the music from a large sapphire on it. and hair, and is of slender build and at-1le she stood there hardly daring to ' browned eoffee down cellar an l wasn't front making them contented to stay0* for Gilbert and Sullivan’s new opera is medium height. Irvathe Harriet got her caller out as it queer? the farm it teachers them 1-tiaiM* not com|Mwed. There are lots of operas «■ck as she could, and shut and locked After a while Harriet came out and Mme. Jenny Lind suffers greatly front Mnie. Gerster employs much of her methods and makes 8<x>i tir»! I’ b®*" 0*- good prai practical in the unevmposed state. neuralgia. <vct pantry door, and th«re Lil had to) «ent to work at her cake - again. time knitting pretty things for the baby if-ess-Htenof them. KATIE'S KISSES.