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Ir rover li.U to ri'sct the t;.-.. s ! r v.:.;. !i I n i-.-ir.:::f : .l ii, evea m !.i to tLd iloct..rs' i'ri .-lii.Uiiiin have '"i r... r.v-:i." C. I Caioun, Aysr's SarcnpariHa, 1 ki:rAKET rv Dr. J. C. Ayer A; C3., Lowe'!, f.Uss. I'll- 0 .x U::! , f.. Tor.h () . hov.lt. """'"''HS bj sfi.tresim-,' , ltoelt 4k t o.. lOSimc. St.. Si lira. I. 'ew Torll c"tVV'i ? "' J'i est rf "tir .r...cd iie o !rJpiJ;U?Aie.Ml SW" 100 J ra r . " ! 1 ?3 J I j i ; - j. ALEC YtAiOiVS SON. :i ircr.-Tsu Arr.rsr, Y.3J. Kit:..-1, the winJ It tnoaned, A--.il luo wnite -ai tlecUe-1 tbe aoa -An' lwo-iU toCuV ii" fc-i.ppar groaned, "I had not my boy witliiai:!" S-mifta ihe trn-hoet. little John Laughed as the scu 1 swept by: H it tho fckiuper's smiburnv caeelc grew wan Aite watcheJ the nicked sUy. WouMlie vvto at h:t rcoth.-r's slile:" Ami tho hkiir,r"-4 ye were dim. 'Good Lord .n Heaven, if til betide Whut v oula becomo ol Lim F"r r.i ::iy riuscl"! are as steel, I'. r r.-.o 1 t l.sn w l.ut m;iy; c I ii niuke shut upja the keel ' I'ulillliii Lre.ik o' U.y. " I'lli ho, Ue 1- so w-ul nud small, ?.i;..ii., r, p.- ee i. ..:ai:i 10 ft land Or.tyir Kith n.r us all. 1 lias, mm iu Thy hand! ' rorThoii. vrl .3 markct Troni on high , .-..rr'-iiv-. Iu.1 ea-h one ! Sur-'!-, a l.or I, 1'Tioa lt hi'.ve an eye Ou Aiec Yeatoa' son!" T1-.--H. halm hirJ-;iort. rlirht straight he sailed Ti 'va.ils the heiullan.l lifc'.iV; T!. t v. it 1no.1r.e1U tao :nd it wailed. An J blai-;, black fell tho ntjht. Thn bur.v a storm to inako one quail Though housed from winds and waves They wlo could toll about that frale Hits; rise from nalery oraves! Su l.len it c.irr.e, as sudJea went; Kre h.i'.f the nirht was sp'-d. The wiada were Uus:icd.tTie w aves were spent, At.il the svirs slione overhead. c-x, 13 te m- rn.n mist prew tain, Tlio fnlk on Gloucester s .ore .t a liliu i.gure tl atinu la Ft. c ate, 0.1 a Lrcea oar! Ur rc-o t.iecry : "A wreck! a wreck! I :'.;. n.ato , ..:i .. -.v..te r. IroaUv ' Th- ;, kr.etv it. thou,.-h 'twas but a speck l'!oa tae edo tf death! L0-1 1 ''.''I thev m irvel in tta town T AT i;od lin straiiKO decree " T 1 -t the jtal -. art s :i, pur drown. And t: e 1 ttle chil l pofree! raouias liauey Altlrich, in Atlantic DISTANCES IN SPACE. An Express Train Journey to tho Piaaota and Fixed Stars. ST r;!i:is eiii;ai-inn t hirh bat Vajraely i.Iu-rrato tiic Immen.lty c-f th I'ul- r r-.- T!:ne and IIUtanrM lt joa.l UuDiaa Ci'inprclieiiBloa. Th. i-.) vMl-!:rtv.rn P.iyirf: that T: l- tnir.or than f.ction. Tlie i-invi'iM'-ii cf this proverb cn not v.-i 11 i.'i (,'aina.iiL 'llio mot careless n.i'.imi ol tho wo k'.om of nature as .- rt h; ti- vvoT-'ni of ours, tho most l.i. -'. v 1 uJln of t'a-i ht-toiy of raen, s.. : i ! 1 ::in-,'h to place tho matter ' .-:t I ail O'.'.f't or OMr-tliM!. TllO v 1 '.t-.vl'. iu ocfins r.r.i rivers, its !.;-. -. i forests, its plains nd o- sv:--. i s v.-iHiCo: ful human r.nd ani u:. 1 ii.e tao.-o facts aro laoro mar t". .".n tli. 111 ur.y thinj,' tho fancy of r.'.i'ir.a'Ls cor.oivcU or ever will 0 if iv. r. .t ti'.n-n we leave thU mi l':s. turt:'.': our oyos to tho 1.. .- ' 11s. lotirn s . -r-; otli! 1: lt. however ! . ' of Iho glories whii-h are there i, t.i-'n aro wo impressed with ' x t:i :t. c-oi.i pared with truth. .. '.-. , rm.vevor ftranvre. is poor, dull . ..1 u:.i:i.i ating-. If ti-.e pares of 1 :.; .-.. !i. lory, in every liue, ttli of v. !.. -s far t.urp. -litj; any set. forth i i i'r.,. w d:i'.lin.f romance, what sli.-i I be said of tho annals of aatron- Olll v ? Any one pacing at tho sky on a clear, moonless niirht, will see what will s .-in to him a largo number of little ; .i!:,'..- of liiit, so liny that many of :u o.iui.t bo held ia tho psiltn of tho i i; each apparei.tly fast fixed iu iU y ti ar.d r.li secrninsrlv within a my listnne. stiy, within trim-shot, . .1 fc-.v i.iinr.tos' walk. What he tl.H'-s sec aro hng-e. fiery globes, so va-l. l!i-. t compared with them our .Teat art u is but a plaything; rush-ii.- i.Io.il; :.t a speed to which that of exp.v.-s tr:iia. cr even of the ,:nm ball. i as !;-thi:ib-; utdiatances Ti-t that tho mind of man can not at ail 1 1 : e them. Instead of e.nall iy tin e' ite re-t and tri.ling dis t;ii:ee. he contemplates tupendous -l.:e. f 'Trful'.y rapid motion, and dia t; o i.icoiiceivablo. Among all these w.r.'.do. s of sie, vpee.1 aiul distance, I s-l.:i'.t co::f.no my attention to tho la-.!, ;:ml ? ha I say a lew words about th.T distances of tho heavenly bodies. The u'.ei :i .i dlr'.a.'.t from us about 2!0 rxui miles; of ti e other bodied of tho .-yst ".n. tho smallest distances are aW'!tt!t fellows: Venus. L.OOO.COO; M.'.rs. 4.i .i): Mercury. .ri.fi0.iX; HX's-m. 'Jl,t,iM; tho asteroid-s 110,- 'i,i '; J.ipitor. :i.".',.'t(; S.-iturn. 7-.,iV ;,C-'; rraiuis, l.tHSo.jO.OuO, and N'-ptu:i- i.tl-Vi.l-KXiMij miles. Tho d! t.ir.t e hero a I'proximately cx prt -ed i;i millions of miles, no doubt .-cm ert nt enough; yet the mora .$ate :i.i nt of them ran irlvo uo true idea of l:..-;.' real in:ir:'i:i'A Indet-d. no hamuli intellect cart iu any way form a j.;.-.t conception of them. itill, s-mu-thing better can bs done than m ivly to Uulc abou. so many miles, v ia tiicr in thouand-s or in miilions. Flie il i.tai.cos must bo not merely btate.1, hil il.ustratetL Doubtless our world is enormous. .'u:Tiared with tho larretof its creature-. :'.r.d even witli tho space within which tho greater part cf such creat ures move about, its m;o is indeed i u-t comprehending. Hut so wor.dor f..l a.o tho means of travel now at our disposal, that almost any part of the earth, even the most distant, caa be reached in a very fhort time. . Ia less than a day tho modern traveler can be c irii.tl hundreds of miles. In a week, ho can go from tho Atlantic to tho i'acille. or from America to Europe. A h ia. a'o than, a mouth will Uiko him t tho ends of the earth. Thus it wl.l ea-ily be tooa that no single jou -nry t:pon our carta, however long, can occupy moro thr.n a small part ci tho nvcrnge hiiman life. The timo required for a few journeys more or Iol'Sj to CL'hina. Au-trali.v or the Capo of Good Hoik), would hardly be noticed iti coiapaiLwu wuu uu oraxiiary Lue- l.et us now contrast theso distances with some few cf tho distances in spa"f choosing as our mode of com-;.:;-ua r.nd illustration tho time it uoLild lako to travel each given dia- '...i:co at a fixed rato of speed. We v. i.l Buj'.poso cei tula railways to be built; oaourouud the world iaa . lr- feet circle, others to various points in I . , . i : ii r I. ' me soiar 6ystem. .tuu we win muun suppose that tho trains on these rail ways could be kept going at the rato of sixty miles an hour for any required length of time; that their passengers could do without food or could be sup plied with an abuadanoeof it; that the bodies of such passengers could be made capable of enduring the various changes of air, temperature and other climatic conditions to which they would bo exposed. And on our world this kind of travel would bo comparatively ea.sy, and would take next to no time. In twenty-four hours tho passenger could travel 1.4-10 miles, or considerably far ther than from New York to Chicago. In forty-eight hours he could travel us far as from Boston to Liverpool; and in less than seventeen days ho coaid go round tho world. But, as regards tho journeys in space, a didieulty in most cases insuperable would bt.and in the way. In order to visit any but a very few of tho nearest bodies in space, tho travelers on our celestial railways would need to have their lives very greatly prolonged. Were they to set out for any distant part of the system, they would all die before they had fairly begun their journey. A voyage to tho moon, to Venus or to Mars would, under the above condi tions, be possible; to any other body in tho system it would be impossible. Tho journey to tho moon would bo comparatively shorL Our companion is distant about 240.OX) miles; or, in round numbers, its distance contains ten times as many miles as are con tained in the earth's circumference. Traveling at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and never stopping, it would take between 166 and 107 days to reach the journey's end. Compared with other heavenly distances, this is a mere nothing; but compared with the distances actually traversed by the average man, it is very great indeed. Few ever travel at sixty miles an hour, and then only for short periods, and at considerable intervals. Mtiny, probably tho majority, of those who live to a good old ago cover less than iMO.OuO miles during their whole lives. A great traveler might do it in. say. fifteen years. For even a conductor or engineer of an express train, it would require several years. Venus, as already stated, is about 2".ih(x) miles away; or, at sixty miles an hoar, wi'.h.mt stopping, she is cii-tutit a journey not of three weeks. -lx months, out f me Oa tho imaginary railway, such journey v.-.-uld be po.-sible. for t grc a at many persons live longer th ia City years. Iiutin real life no one ever Las traveled, and no one ever w 111 travel, any thing like so far. No human be ing ever has travled 5,(K00O mile -; ivnd it is safe to say that no one ever will. To complete this measure of Jurneying would require nn average of 1ia, V.) miles a year for fifty years. Pome few, perhaps, in all their lives, may have travel-d 1,Cm),(xkJ miles, but these aro probably very rare ex ceptions. Much the same statement may be made of the trip to Mars, which would take over ninety years. Even under tho impossible conditions abnve assumed, the smallest of the remain ing distances is too great to be traversed within the term of one human life, even were it to reach the extreme limit of 100 years. Mercury and the sun are comparatively quite near us, yet to go to Mercury would take more than 100 years, or rather moro than the timo that has elapsed bineo the In-ginning of the French rev olution; while the journey to the sun would lat about 17o years, or as long a t:me as lias gone by sinee the reign of Queen Anne. The trip to Jupiter would take over 7o'J years; that to the ringed planet, Saturn, no less than 1,47j years. Ail the preceding journey?, vast though they are, could yet have been taken within a time less than the Chris tian era. The cno we shall have to take next brings us back to an aire far moro remote. Uranus is 3,000 t ears distnnt- Three thousand years ago King l:ivid's life had not betj-un. and (I: eeco had yet to make for herself a name in history, or even in fublc. We come at last to Neptune, the outermost of the planets. This piauet is distant more than five thouxutd years. Could we imagine Abraham as living from his birth until now. and that with the planet Neptune as his destination he hud traveled continu ously at sixty miles an hour all that time, he would still be a long way from his goal. One more illustration and we will leave the 6olnr system. Neptune's path about tho sun measures about 16. 1kJ.0u0,0O0 miles. If bodies ns large as the world wero placed sido by side, like beads on a necklace, so as to fill the entire path, these great beads would number over 2,00o,0i0, L there would be about three times as many of them as there are words in the Bible. But, compared with even that por tion of space which the naked eye can survey, tho solar system is something liko a small corner lot to a large city. As Mr. Proctor truly observed, "tre mendous as are the dimensions of the solar system, the widest sweep of tho planeta-y orbiu sinks into in eigniCcanoe compared with the ihsUiiico which separates us from even the cearoet of the fixed stars." We have seen that ta express train, coii,' at the late of siity miles an hour, would take five thousand years to get to the planet Neptune. But to reach Alpha Centauri, the nearest of tho fixed stars a distance of some 20,m"0.Lj0.Cn),000 milew tho same train would take, not thousands or hundreds t f thou.-anus, but millions of years; in round numbers. 33,000. 0W). No one, of course, can form the least idea of what such a time really is. No one can conceive what is really meant by 1,0)0,000 years, l'ew realize the great length of time expressed by tho term 1,000,0)0 days. Think of tho clays that have passed since the found ing of the "ttci-nul city" cf Komc; yet 1,000,000 days ago, Rome was a city of the future. One million days ago, Xerxes. Miltiades and Leonidas were yet unborn; the beginning of the Christian era was farther in the future than tho Crusades are in the pasL What, then, shall wo say of 35,000,000 years To take another example: Suppose one were to travel every day as far as from here to the nun; that is to say, a distance which an express train would cover in about 173 years. Then, while tho journey to Neptune would take about a month, it would require 6'X) years to reach the star called Alpha Centauri. But awful as is the distance ot this star, it is as nothing compared with that of the other heavenly bodies. Sirius, one of the nearest of the fixed stars, is at least four times as far away; while many, perhaps most, of the stars visible to the naked eye are quite four times as far away as Sirius. And when we come to some of the stars which only the telescope reveals, we find that whereas light, traveling at the rate of 10,000,000 miles a min ute, comes to us from Alpha Centauri in considerably less than four years, it can not reach us from the telescopic stars in less than thousands, and hun dreds of thousands, of years. Another illustration may be taken from tho motion of the heavenly bod ies. Look, for instance, at the bright star Sirius. Year after year it ap pears the same; of the same sizo, the same brightness, the same distance. And so, no doubt, it lias appeared for centuries past, and will continue to appear for centuries to come. And yet it is asserted that Sirius r.nd the earth are shooting apart at times over twenty miles a second. Let us stop a moment and see what this would mean. In one minute, Sirius " recedes as far as from New York to Winnipeg; in sixteen minutes it travels a distance equal to the earth's circumference; and in less than three hours a space is covered equal to that between us and the moon. Yet, to double its present distance, it would have to go on thus receding lor over 100, WJ years; and to become invisible to the naked eye, that tqeed of separation would have to continue over 1,000,000 years. D. C. Uobei tson, in St. Nicholas. THE AMERICAN BKONCO. Wonderful 1'lct are jueiiess of the Iiorse of the Western I'lainft. Stime years ao I drove up to a stage station ia the San Pedro Valley in Arizona, and the Mexican stock tender had laid a hard time in rounding up his stage slock. His herd pony had been run until, as he stood there under the i hade of a brush corral, covered with foam and dust, v ith his belly drawn up almost to his spine and gasping oc casionally as though it was his la-t, I felt sure I should see him die before I left the station. I was afterwards told by the stage boss in a bluff, matter-of-course way, in answer to my in quiry, that he had "pulled through all right; you can't kill them critters;" and now I am perfectly positive that you can not. As a saddle animal simply, the bronco has no sujerior. Tho " lope " is a term which should never be ap plied to that motion in any other breed of horses. I have watched a herd of cow-ponies being driven over the prairie where tho undulations of tho baekd in the itv-ving throng were as regular and easy as tho rise and fall of the watery Waves. The fox-trot, which is the habitual gaitofall plains men, cowboys and Indians, is easily cultivated iu him, and his light, suppie frame accommodates itself naturally to tho motion. 'Ihis particular American horse lays claim to another quality, which in my estimation is !iot l-a.-t. end that is his wonderful picturesque ness. He graces the western landscape, not because ho reminds us of the equine ideal, but be cause he comes of the soil, and has lnrr.o tho heat and burden and the vicissitudes of all thai pale of romance which will cling about the Western frontier. As we see him hitched to the plow or wagon he seems a living protest against utilitarianism; but, un like his red master, he will not go. He has borne tho Moor, the Span ish conqueror, the red Indian, the mountain-man. and the vaquero through all the glories of their ca reers; but they va ill soon be gone, with nil their heritage cf gallant deeds. The pony must meekly enter the new regime. He must wear tho collar of the new civilization and earn his oats by the sweat of his flank. There are no mo e worlds for him to conquer; now he must li.l tho ground. Fred eric Ileinington. in Century. C rllaluiiL Celluloid is one of the most perfect of iniitntimis of ivory, and at the name time is as inrl.iaimalile as gunpowder. There oujiht to bo a law forbid liiur the manu facture olVuildreii's toys from this lan jrerons snlotance. 1 onee had a lall of oelluloid which was seemingly as hard as luarbitt, but by jul touching its polished fnrface with a l;ghted match it burst into a llame that "could only Ik; extin guished .y plunging it irb wnt-r. Nice uiatt-ri.il this for little girls' bracelet- and necklaces. I never wore any celluloid cuffs or collars after that experiment Small wonder that it catches the so easily when you come to consider that it is made oot of gun-cotton and camphor gum. JVV'tt York Day $:tr. Too Mncli of a Strain. ChHt "What bus become of your new cltik?" Grocer "Poor fellow! lie wasn't cnt cut for this busirevs. The secoi.d djy utter l.e liegnn work, nnorder nasieceived fr:m an uptown laiy calling, Jtmong a l.er tuiiiKs, for a can of the best baking powder. "lie went to the baking powder shelf nnd been u studying t Le labels and circulars to Cml out hich was the best, and lull I e.iuie iu a few Lours later be wasa raving uaiuiaev" Cartoon. Xvxivcjtic Incident. BliiTins (wrestling with his infant) My dear, I never knew b;-icre how much Fiiirind.i takes after me." Wife "Tkes after yon! How" lhiillas " Well, to bt-giu with, the. Las my Lair ouiil i inc. sivjn uruw mt uuuk, I Breezy morning casts Us kltsei Oa a brazen little sign. Fastened boldly to the Irontdoor Of that little store of mine; 'Tis not prent. nor is it fancy. Has no rolden letters bright. Yet ill folki that chance to see it Squint and say: " Weil, that's just right." 'Tis no adven.smg card of "Threads Store-strings Strongest nope," Nor: "You Find a Coin in Every Pound of Dirt & Company's Soap;" Docs not say : " Of a 1 the coal oin I have found Half-water's best. And to all 1 recommend it. With a most emphatic zest." All the same It draws a mighty Eitrer crowd about my store. And Uiey keep their peepers fastened Ou the sicn upon the door; Yet I'm just as sad as if. Were within the county jail. For the sen upon my crocery. Thus commences: ' Sheriff" s Sale." X. 11. Maginley. in YanLet Bladt. GOlG Ob! FOR WOOL; And Coming Back Shorn of 6200 and a Diamond Pin. Certain irreverent and vulgar per sons were accustomed to style Mr. Kdward Carter and his friend Dr. Charles ltaymond "a pair of smart Alecks." I say nothing against this opinion, but w ould respeztfully submit I the other side of the case. Mr. Carter 1 considered Dr. Raymond's as the brightest mind (with one exception, of course) to be found in the newly risen generation; and Dr. Raymond entertained a similar esteem for Mr. Carter. No one could possibly know either better than they knew each other; so that this opinion is certainly entitled to some respect. These two choice spirits had devised various means of amusing themselves at the expense of their less gifted fellow-creatures. The professions of law and medicine, which they had respec tively embraced, not affording suffi cient scope for their energies, thej were constantly on the lookout foi new means of employing their su perior talents. Ho who discovered such away was regarded with admir ing envy by his friends. "I say, Ned," remarked the Escu lapian, walking into tho lawyer's office one fine day, Tve got an idea." "lle-mark-a-ble," drawled Mr. Carter; for they did not, as a rule, manifest in words their mutual re spect, r- "Let us investigate tho proportion ate number of fools feminine in this place," qooth the man of science. "We have frequently done so," ob jected tho legal light. "But in a way that we have never yet tried. Let's advertise for a wife." "I don't have to," resjonded the other, with easy superiority. "Oh, I know you're engaged, and all that; but I didn't mean to be in earnest about it. I mean just for the fun of the thing, to see how many would be fool enough to answer it." Mr. Carter considered the subject for a moment, but his legal acumen could see no reason for further resist ing the desire of his friend, and the two concocted a pair of advertisements which were in the highest style of the art. It is enough to say that in each one the charms of the gentlemen were 6et forth with no overweening modes ty; while it demanded that the lady should merely be young, beautiful, accomplished, rich, of domestic tastes, a good housekeeper and a brilliant conversationalist. I may have forgot ten a few of the requirements; but these were certainly tho principal qualities demanded. Erich was to keep his experience a profound secret from the other for the space of t wo weeks; at the end of that Ieriod I'r. Raymond was to resort to Mr. Carter's ortiee, and they were to narrate faithfully and in Icto, the re sults of the advertisement inserted by each. Promptly at the appointed time tho physician sought the lawyer. Ho camo reluctantly, as if he half-feared tho rece ption with which his romantic tale would be received; his coming was awaited with dread. " Oh, you've come, have you?" sighed Mr. Carter; "I I thought may le you'd have a patient that would de tain you." "Your imagination does you credit," returned Raymond; "if mine were as active, I should say that I thought may be a client would be seeking your advice; but I can not picture that state of affairs to myself." " But I've had a client," was the re pponse, with a certain air of triumph. Dr. Raymond was sure that it must be triumph, although it was so carefully subdued as to resemble disgust. "And I've had a patient, a pretty one, too," he answered, endeavoring to assert his equality; "but let's get to business. How did your advertise ment pint out?" "Oh, I got seventeen answers, and every blessed one of them seemed to think that fbo filled the bill exact!-. Sixteen of them couldn't spell, and their letters were horribly written not tho society bcrawl, but a labored attempt that showed that tho writer would do well if she could." " Deserve credit for it." murmured the other; "most of the girls try to 6ee what an undecipherable scratch they can put on paper." It can't bo worse than your pre scriptions would bo if you ever have occasion ta write any." retorted the lawyer; "but keep still now, or else tell your story first." "For heaven's sake, go on!" im plored Dr. Raymond. " I divided these sixteen into squads of four, and selected three p. m. on four consecutive days as the time of meeting; that corner across the street as the p'ace. Iaeu was to carry a white handkerchief as a signal. " ' You wrote to four to come at once?" inquired Raymond, with inter est tempered by incredulity. " Of course. You should have seen each glare at the other thrca as she noted the sign which was to distin guish her from ail others. 1 kept dis creetly in tho background up here, and saw it all, myself invisible.' " But about tho seventeenth?" "Well, her letter was different; and as 6he seemed to bo a jolly widow, I thought I'd have a little fun 'under the rose.' You know that Alice is so confoundedly jealous, tho mischiers to pay if I look at another woman; so this was a temptation. She said she was twenty-seven, that her income was sufficient to maintain her, but she desired the companionship and pro tection of a husband. She had been the belle of her native town in Ken tucky before her marriage and subse quent removal; she had had some thoughts of studying for the operatic stage, but had shrunk from the ordeal of public appearances; then she had dabbled in art, but she was not satis fied with the achievements which her friends 60 warmly commended. 1 thought there must be a hitch some where, that such a woman should an swer an advertisement- But I wrote to her and made an appointment, which both of us kept- She was a stunner, and no mistake just lots of style, and as pretty as a picture; while her manners were wonderfully fascinating." "I wonder what Miss Dennison would have thought of her?" thought fully remarked Dr. Raymond. "Oh, keep still, and let me get through, will you? She was pretty well gone on mo from the first. That isn't vanity " "Sounds like it might be," com mented Raymond, critically. "Wait till you hear Jt alL She was awfully soft, and when wo could not meet she insisted that I should write to her. Of course I couldn't see her every da but she seemed to be satis fied with a letter when I told her it was impossible to come. But she wasn't very easy to please with the letters. She reproached me for my coldness continually. I didn't want to pile it on too thick, but I got deeper into it than I had any notion of when I be gan. Finally, one day, I wrote her one that was pretty warm, and the next day she was here." 'Had you told her who you were?" inquired Raymond, with some surprise, and a keener interest than the case seemed to warrant. "What do j-ou take me for, any how? I'm not quite a fool, or at least I thought then that 1 wasn't. I called myself Mr. Edwards, and told her I was a book-keeper; I don't know how she found out the truth, but hero she came, anyhow." "It is singular how one's concealed identity can be discovered in a big city like this, isn't it?" remarked the phy sician, philosophically. "Very. But, then, I suppose she followed me stealthily from some of our meetings, and made inquiry of sorre one that spoko to me. Well, she came, she saw, and I may as well con fess that she conquered. She insisted upon interviewing me in the inner of fice, although I assured her that wo would not bo interrupted here. I 6howcd her in there; she stood a mo ment with her hand upon the knob, as if she had half-changed her mind. Finally she sat down." What did she want?" was the curi ous inquiry. "She wanted to mako a fool of me, and she did it to perfection!" was tho savage response. "She spoke of tho letters which stio had received from me, and said sho supposed that I would not like Miss Dennison to see them. She seemed to have found out all about me, somehow or other. Sho admitted that they were not signed, except by the initial E, but remarked that my handwriting was peculiar, and would readily bo recognized; and when she said that they would be rather diffi cult to explain away, I knew that it was so. I knew well enough that if Alice were to see thoso letters I might as well make up my mind never to go there again; but I was so thunder struck at the woman's confounded impudence, that I could do nothing but sit and look at her. 'What do you think it would bo worth to get possession of the docu ments in question?' she asked me, with a sneering laugh. " I demanded to know if sho had them with her; and my voice sounded hoarse and unnatural, just as a novel hero's would under similar circum stances. I have them here,' she answered, and took them from her pocket as she spoke; 'if you will give me two hun dred dollars I will destroy them here, in your presence; if you refuse, I will scream until the attention of people iu the building is attracted.' "It happened that I had received a remittance of tw o hundred dollars that very morning; it was nearly every cent I had in the world, but I resolved that I would have those letters. I tried my best to beat her down in price, but sho was obdurate. She told me that she knew I had the money, and that it w as foolish to expect her to sell them for any less. So I paid her, got hold of tho letters, and burned them. That's alh" Dr. Raj mond sat silent- "Como now, old boy, that won't do." remonstrated Mr. Carter; I've told you what a fool was; let"6 havo your experience." "You needn't emphasize your pro nouns in that waj" returned the other, with an air of offended dignity; 're member that I went into it fancy-free-Have you never heard of such things resulting in life-long happiness?" "Well, yes, in stories," admitted tho lawyer, reluctantly; "but I always sus pected that the author stood in with the publisher for a bhare of the adver tising profits." "Like you," continued Dr. Raymond, serenely disregarding this offensively rnattor-ol-fHct explanation. "1 re ceived u number ol answers, but I did not praetice on confiding femininity as voa confess to have doue; it did no occur to me. I made separate ap pointments with each one; if I failed to keep most of them, it was because a distant view of the waiting female con vinced me that 1 had better not take any chances; so I skipped, without giving any sign ol my prwsencg. Lika you, 1 received one letter wmcu ex cited my curiosity 6hall I say my In terest? But slid. wa$ not a widow widows aro apt toVe tricky. She was an unmarried lady of twenty-odd years, hailing from Boston, although, much travel had made her rather cos mopolitan. A personal interview showed that 6he was 'all my fancy painted her,' and I was inclined to think that I had indeed discovered tho not Impossible She. v " I had my doubts of tho delicacy of any woman who would answer such an advertisement, but she confessed to so much shame at Laving yielded to tho whim that I could not help but forgive her. Any man can forgive a charming woman an indiscretion, par ticularly when he is the cause of it; and I waited impatiently for a second interview. She told me that sho waa engaged to a cousin, whom 6he detest ed; but family pride had forced her into it, and she dreaded tho day when she must stand at the altar with him. I hated that cousin; I wished that I might meet him under circumstances that would give me half an excuse to knock him down. I revolved plans for breaking that engagement, and de termined to discuss tho subject with her at our second interview." "And did you break it?" Inquired Mr. Carter, eagerly, " Don't interrupt; it's impolite wken I am talking, although necessary and excusable when you are holding forth. She sent an excuse tho next day. To say I was disappointed is to put it very mildly; and I wrote her a note telling her how I longed to break the hated bonds that kept her from me- Yes, it was rather sudden, I know; but I really couldn't help it. She answered evasively, and I wrote again. urgiDg her to 6eo me. That's the way it went on. One day I was surprised to hear that my professional services were re quired." , "I should think it would bo a sur prise, remarked Mr. Carter. "as it the fair Bostonian?" " Tho messenger told me that Mrs. Gray wanted me to come at once, and of course I went- I had no thoutrht of any thing but surprise at receiving such a summons from an3' one, and 1 had never heard of Mrs. Gray before. I reached tho house, and was con ducted upstairs; then, for the first time, I saw that it was my inamorata that I was to attend. She blushed and stammered charm ingly when sho saw me. Sho had not been feeling well, sho said, and had asked Mrs. G. ny to send for a physi cian, but did not know that I had been summoned Mrs. Gray was consider ate, and left us alono together. She drew from beneath her sofa-pillow tho letters which I had written to her. " ' You urge mo to break the bonds which bind me to another, and bo united to you. That other is my hus band,' she said, in a low voice; 'what do you suppose that your rich, gener ous and straitlaced maiden aunt would say to your making love to a married woman?' " ' But you told me ' I began, and I couldn't get any farther. She laughed, and put out her hand to me. "'You're a foolish boy,' she said, and I forgive you for it- I suppose you really couldn't help falling iu love with mo; but tho letters that you havo written would shock your respected relative dreadfully. Wouldn't they, now?' I stammered something about her" betrothed, but she laughed again; and I remembered that the expressions I had used would apply to a husband a well as to a lover, to a divorce as well as to tho breaking of an engagement, i " ' Give me the pin which you wear. she said, 'and I will give you tho let ters.' "I looked at her in astonishment. The pin was a valuable stone, a gift from my aunt last Christmas; and tho proposition seemed preposterous. Sh was In earnest, however, and finally I made the trade. I really could not af ford to have my aunt get possession of those letters, with any such interpre tation attached to them." " But you said you wero in levo with her," objected Mr. Carter, apparently bewildered by the change in the senti ments of his friend. " And so I was," replied Dr. Ray mond, coolly; "but I'm not quite bo much so, now. Did you havo an idea that you were tho only individual that could indulge in buying up hi6 own letters." "Well, it strikes mo that w-o havo both been doue," remarked tho law yer, contemplatively. "By the way, what did your divin ity look like?" inquired Raymond, a sudden suspicion crossing his mind. "This," was tho laconic reply, as tho lawyer opened a drawer of hi desk and produced a cabinet photo graph of tho dashing brunetto. "We've both been done," returned tho physician, reverting to his friend's former remark, as ho gazed at tho photograph; "ncd, by George! it's tho barno woman that's done it," "Did you ever hear of going out for wool and coming back shorn?" was Mr. Carter's inquiry, after tho pair had expressed their feelings rather more freely than I like to record. Yes, I've heard of it, but I never want to hear of this particular instance again." was the answer: and the tono was by no means lamb-like, although the speaker may have felt sheepish. Neither Mr. Carter nor Dr. Ray mond couid afford to violate the confi dence which the other had reposed in him, and they continued to manifest the samo flattering regard for each other. Tho Kentucky widow, alias tho traveled Bostonian. was not given to telling all she knew, and never whispered to any one how sho camo into jiossession of that two hundred dollars and a diamond pirn How, then. dil the present chronicler get jxisses sion of the facts? A good story iT suggestive. This ono suggests that, question. Miriam K. Davis, ia Dem orest's Monthly. Tho number of meu and women in London who make their living by iilevaluro is estimated at 14,000. Julian Hawthorne states in a recent article that the number of imtsOiis en gaged in literary work in tho United fcUtca can not be far short of 50,000.
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