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A 1W)Y'S J10U.M.
His Experienco at Taklnur Caro of
It Il-maalC
"Whore is my vest? Oh. here 'tis
i where I shietl it last nijrht."
. Frvd pu-keJ up his vest from lxhinil
the leil, ami then lkel arouiitl for his
collar.
I wonder, now, if that collar's leen
carried olf to the wash! .Just like
Susan! If ever I pel hold of one that
fits me h tter than any other, aud
would like to hold on to it for a little
while, otT it pes. h, lu-re 'tis. I for
f.it I was standing by the window
when I took it olT, and left it on the
sill. Uut it's all limp. IV-ar me, what
a drawer! I wonder who interferes
with my things? I'm sure I never got
it into hitch a muddle as this."
St irritifr amonir collars and neckties,
turninpr th'mtrs up ami down in a way
that would lead anyone reasonably to
jjive him credit for any amount of dis
order, Frvd at length found a collar.
"Now, my necktie. Where di.l I put
the one I wore in the morning, when I
drcsseil in the afternoon? Of course,
some one was in here straightening up
u:y room. I never know where to find
anything after that. Come in."
Fred turned a face full of abused ex
pression toward the door as, his moth
er's untrance followed her tap upon it.
"t.ood morning. Are you ready for
breakfast, dear? Here is one of your
neckties."
"Yes, the very one I was looking for.
Who took it away?"
"Susan carried uwav for the wash the
clothes you took otT when you dressed,
and this was among them. You must
have thrown it down."
"Yes, I knew somebxly must have
In-cn lu-re."
"? ly dear tu" mother looked around
with a discouraged face, "how often
r:ir.;-t 1 speak to you alout keeping
your tilings in lictter order? You really
-t worse and worse. I come in here
and set the room to rights, and by the
next day it will be as untidy as lie fore."
' mother, tidy may do very well
for girls or women. It's a real girls
word, I think."
'leod for either loys or girls. I am
sorry to see such an ugly habit growing
with you."
"Really, mother," said Fred, with a
return of the injured look, "one wo'.ii.l
think from your talk that you thought
it a real sin that yon look upon it as
jou mii-'l.t look upon tying or stealing
and such."
"No. Rut in evil habit is evil, make
the lest you can of it. Its indulgence
is sure to have an evil effect upon the
ei.arai-ter. A person sloucliy ami slov
en'.v in liis small habits is pretty lilccly
to be so in the greater thing in his life.
I wonder y u don't find enough ineon
vriii. nee from your carelessness to lead
you to wish to improve."
"My carelessness, mother? Wh-, if
my tilings could im'y be left alone. I'd
Uret a:oug well enough. When I come
in t the room. I never know where to
mid anything, because so e one has
been setting things in order. Of course
I don't mean, mother near, that all you
do is not the very lest that could le
done; but a loy, you know," Fred put
on a dignified air, "can't le expected to
be just like a girl, and ought, I think,
to lie allowed to follow out his own
way a little in his own room."
"How do you think it would work if
you were left to your own way?" said
his mother with a smile.
"Entirely? Why, mother, I think it
would le line."
I have a great mind to let you try
it," she said.
"Do, mother!" said Fred, eagerly. "I
t ever could see the use with all re
spect for you, you understand of this
everlasting sweeping and dusting. I ll
a 'ree to take entire charge of the room
ii I may le left to myself."
"Well," said mother, still with the
smile, "1 think Susan would tietter
make your lied."
"No." interposed Fred- "Sometimes
I have things -lying there that I don't
want touched."
"Then she need only attend to the
withstand. You may bring me any
thing which needs mending, for I'm
afraid that it might make the keeping
of our agreement difficult for me if I
made visits to the room."
"I will. I want to do the sweeping
myself that is. if it needs any sweei
itig for Suisan always plays the mis
chief with my spet imens."
"You may try it" And mother went
down to breakfast, still Mnilinvr.
For a few Jays Fred rejoiced in his
new-found freedom, as he called it
freedom to fling his things this way
ami that, in full assnranee that he
would have the delight of finding them
exact ly when- he had Hung them.
"Hut I must say it gets a little mo
notonous." he admitted to himself,
with a little shake of his head, "to find
all tny coats and vests ami trou--rs
piled together on the same chair, and
to hunt among dirty collars for clean
ones. Who could have dreamed that
mother settled up for me so often?
Hut it is a privilege to have a chance
to keep my specimens jus.t as I want to
keep thern."
lint even a privilege may be over
done, Fred was obliged to acknowledge
one morning not long after. lie had
brought a friend in to see hii geologic
al :-pecimens and his collection of but
ter llics.
As usual, he had set things out of his
hands just where it was most con
venient to set them. Arriving at home
rather late in the evening, he had come
in hastily and gone to lcd in the dark,
having forgotten to bring up any
matches.
"Well." he exclaimed, sitting up in
bed to take rather a disconsolate view
of his surroundings, "if I chose Ut con
fess it, I wouldn't mind having mother
and Susan text to skirmish about here
for awhile. How did I come to set
those trays and boxes on the foot of
the bed! I've had the meanest kind of
a night, those stones going rattle-to-bang
on the Uoor every time I turned
over! And oh, my! Look at my but
terilies!" In real regret he gathered tip the
crushed remains ot the pretty winged
creatures he had taken such pains and
such pleasure in mounting. While
doing so his attention was for the first
time drawn to the condition of the
carpet.
"W ell, it really is dirty. A nd no one
can say I ever liked dirt. Why, it looks
as though some one had been throwing
a lot of wool ami feathers under my beL
I'll give it a sweep to-day. I undertook
to do my own sweeping. I suppose
folks think boys can't sweep."
Fred put all his strength into the
wielding of the broom. It had been a
rainy week, and Susan's careful hands
had not supplemented her morning care
of the room by gathering with brush
and dust-pan of the mud which his
careless feet brought in. It was now
dried and ground into the carpet, to lie
raised in clouds of dust by his vigorous
sweeping, o
"Phew!" (ilad enough was he, hav
ing at length finished, to get into the
open air, burdened with a few doubts
as to whether, after all, he so very
much enjoyed the new order of things.
"I don't really believe boys were
made to be housemaids," he concluded.
"Rut it's only an experiment- There
won't be any trouble in getting back
to mother's dear, careful ways." con
scious of an unexpressed yet decidedly
increasing respect for his mother's
ways.
Late in the day Fred rushed back to
his room to make ready tor an evening
to 1h spent in company which he held
iu high esteem. Fred's slovenliness did
not. as a general thing, extend to the
care of his tH-rson, his mother having
often bail occasion to wonder at the
neat appearance with which he con
trived to emerge from the chaos of his
n m.
"Thunder!" Fred stood for a mo
ment at his room door, finding the situa
tion worthy of his strongest expletive.
The dust from whih he had tied lay
thickly upon everything, adding dis
mally to the prevailing disorder.
"I forgot all a'oout the things mother
spreads over things when she sweeps.
How I hate dust on books! Well," seiz
ing a towel and hastily whisking it
alioiit, "1 haven't time to do much dust
ing now. Jack iiarper will call for mo
in a quarter of an hour.
"lint tons oil? I forgot to take my
liest suit to mother. And there's a lit
tle rip near the coat cuff, but I can ink
that."
- Sv-tting the ink on the bureau, he
carefully darkened the white streak,
bat as he turned from a study of the ef
fect, his brow took on a deeper cloud.
"My white tie in the blacking lxx!"
He snatched it up. "The last one I
have left! And all these," tumbling
over a nuiiilK-r which were mixed in
v.iih other things thrown on the table,
"are covered with dust. Perhaps this
one will do; but there's a spot on it."
Sei.ir.g a towel, he carefully rubbed
the front of the lightest-colored tie he
could find. Rut it was the towel which
had already done duty as a duster, atid
was streaked with the sooty dust which
prevails in a house in which bitumin
ous coai is used.
As the tie soon looked rather worse
than letU-r, Fred ttirew lxth towel
and tie from him with an angry excla
mation. They struck something on the
bureau, which went with them to the
li. Kir.
"Oh. that ink! And all over those
books 1 left there! What shall I
Mother! mother!"'
Mother, quickly appearing in answer
to his lou.l cry of distress, could not for
bear a smile at the mixture of expres
sions on Fred's face. Despair, mortifi
cation and a eomu-al sense of the ludi
crous seemed striving for the mastery.
"O mother," he said, after she had
done her best to arrest any further mis
chief from the ink, "will you take me
back?"'
"Take you back?" she asked, not
quite understanding what he meant.
"Yes, me and my room. I've given j
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up. I 11 ta.ie ail you nave to say- ou
tlu- subject of lniys and tidiness if only
you'll wind me up and then ki p
me running. Rut first will you please
go down and tell Jack Harper 1 can't
i,'o to-night?"
"U hy can't you, dear? I thought you
were so anxious to go."
"So I a; but look at me. Ruttons
off. Rips. I can't find a clean collar
in that muddle, and my white tie's
spoiled."
"I'll ask Jack to wait for you a few
minutes. 1 think we can manage things
yet."
Most boys who have mothers can
imagine the quickness with which her
hands dew from one thing to another
in making that particular ly look as
a Imy should look. From hidden
depths of her own stores a tie was un
earlhetL Ruttoas went on anil riis
hid themselves from sight- At the end
of a quarter of an hour Fred joined his
friend-, a wiser and lappier boy.
Some houis later he turned the
light high for a satisfied gaze aiiout his
room.
"This is jolly! Everything clean, ev
erything iu place. Well, it's rather
mean in me if I can't cooperate with
mother and Susan in keeping myself
straight. I guess its lost for folks iu
this world to help each other run each
other, and not b- always making things
han'cr for each other 1 mean me, for
mother and Susan ami other folks for
each other."
With which very indefinitely ex
pressed but very sincerely felt senti
ment as to every day's small duty, Fred
went to bed. Sydney Dayre, in Inte
rior. Ann ii.-.t-.. ioiii :n..i-.
In the Aiy.'iim'se language, spoken
in Cochin China, the same word is
given in::ny different meanings by the
moderation of the voice. Thus the
syllable "lia" pronounced with a grave
accent, meins lady, an ancestor. Pro
nounced with a sharp accent it means
the favorite of the prince. Pronounced
with a semigruvo accent it means w hat
has le n thrown away. Pronounced
witli the .'tave circunille.v it means
what is left of fruit after the juice has
lieen f-.quecA'd out. Pronounced with
no accent it means three. lronounced
with the ascending or interrogative
accent it means a box on the ear. Thus
"ba ba ba ba" is said to mean, if prop
erly pronounced, "three ladies gave a
1hx on the ear to the favorite of the
prince."
Iuif l p In the street or Koine.
In UnmoS'J milesof newstrectsyield-d
the following "dupups:" Nine hundred
and five amphora-, S.HC.U terra cotta
lamps, l.S-.'l inscriptions on marble, T7
columns rare marble. 13 pieces of col
umns, K7 marble capitals, lis bases,
.V.KJ works of art in terra cotta. 10
works of art in bronze. 711 intaglios
and cameos. IS marble sarcophagi. 1SJ
has reliefs, l!l-J marble stat m-s. mar
ble figures of animals. busts and
heads. M pictures in polychrome-mosaic,
47 objects of gold, :! objects of silver,
St'..!"'.! coins. Even this astonishing list
does not cover everything, but embrai-es J
only those objects" which were Worthy '
of a place in the museum. i
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
Twkti.ve TiiorsANp mierolies, strung
in a line, would make a procession
only one inch in length.
Tunr.K miles per hour is alut the
average speed of the gulf stream; at
certain places, however, this sped is
increased to fifty-four miles an hour.
(Ie.vkrm.i.v speaking, we say that
the curvature of the earth amounts to
alxmt 7 inches to the statute mile; it is
exactly li.uy inches, or 7.i'.i inches for
a geographical mile.
Aoookpixo to a promise made to her
dead husband, Mme. Schliemann is
continuing the excavations at Troy,
which made his name famous, an 1 jht
sonally superintends much of the
work.
Prof. liARNAKp's recent photograph
of the milky way shows the existence
of 5h.(hhi.(kmi suns, each supposed to le
the center of a system of pl:nets,
where hitherto it was thought to con
tain only alHut -'0.tKH,(HK) such su is.
TllE celebrated "glole fish" is not
always glo!e shaped. They have the
power of distending themselves into a
globular form by inflating a larire air
sac in the alxlomen. When this is
blown out they assume a normal
shape.
A i-orxp of rice contains Ki.in per
cent, of nutritive matter. Lear lecf
contains but Jil.s:: per cent. Fa.ln-cf
contains -i"..o:; per cent.; potatn-s. -i:i.-J4
p-r cent.; Indian corn. s.'fT por cent.;
ats, 74.0-J per cent.; rye, s-i.T'J per
cent., and wheat, s-j.54 per cent.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Jonx L. Hkheick. of Salisbury. X. C,
is ninetv years ld and weighs two
hundred and thirty jmunds.
Chaici.es Monoky, still livirg in
Kings county, X. Y-, invcnte.l the
monkey" w rench. He sold his patent
for two thousand dollars.
Lrui: Smith, of Acton. Mass., is per
haps the only man living whose rather
fought at Hunker Hill. Mr. Smit i was
in tho reN llioti himself, and is eighty.
Lr u s Lanopon Nicholas, wh has
just married Mrs. Rishop, motl or of
the late mind reader of that na no. is
said to Ih. grout-great-grandson of a
Russian emperor.
DavipS. Patterson, of Xorthllatte.
Xeb.. who is seventy-five years f age
and has 'n-en totally blind all hi . life,
has received letters patent on a t.eviee
in tho driving gear of a locomotive.
The executors of tlie estate t.f the
late Mrs. Theresa Fair, of San Fran
cisco, intend to erect to her memory in
Holy Cross cemetery, San .Mateo coun
ty, a mausoleum to cost not les.- than
S.V1.W) I. The decorations will Ik- very
elaborate.
1STORICAL DATES.
The first linen made in Englan 1 was
manufactured by Flemish ref-igees
under the protection of Henry III., in
pjri.i.
The fir?.t coins were struck in brass
alniiit 11 '.-4 R. C. and in gold an-1 silver
bv Pheidon, tvrant of Argos. aljovit si;j
II. C.
Tm: first panorama was exhibited in
Edinburgh by Roliert Rarker "ilnrnt
lTss, ly which he portrayed a view of
the ci:y.
The first champagne was made by
Pcrignon. a monk of St. Peter llant
villiers, Champaglre, in tl? seventeenth
'entury.
Tin- llrst onovelotv.edia was "Plinv's
Natural History," which contains :;!).- j
O'.Ki facts compiled from 2,000 latoks by
Iimi authors.
Movaiii.e scenery was first u-.ed in
theaters in l.V)S. It was invented by
Ral.lassare Peruzzi, and displayed in
Rome before Ia-o X.
TYPES OF AMERICAN WOVIEN.
Lizzie RoIipex has !een invit.nl by
the t.lobe-I icmocrat to lecture.
"Cavenpish" says that American
women are K-tter whist players than
are their English sisters.
Mr:. Vanki.kkei:. of I.eeds. Can., re
joices in four children recently lirn
at one birth, two loys and two girls.
Maktha Joijoax. of Dallas, Tex., is
said to le the first colored woman in
the I'nitcd States to study the pi
fession of dentistry.
Miss Piioi iiE J. V.'oopxiAX, a niece of
the ioet W l.ittier. and tho original of
his "Red Riding Hood." is cngarred to
Ik- married to Mr. C'aliga. a Roston
artist.
Miss riMii.Y LorisE Cekrt, living at
New Ilawn. Conn., is a daugh:er of
El bridge lorry, a signer of the I --clar-atioii
of Independence. Miss ! rry, it
is claimed, is the last living child of a
signer of that famous document.
JUDGE AND JURY.
Refotie lsr.rt there was no trial by
jury in Russia.
A "i.eoai. fence" has been defined in
Kentucky as one that "s "pig tight,
horse high aiul bull strong."
Tin: use of torture in legal proceed
ings was permissible in Austria until
well within the present century.
Ai;tiii rJ. Massev wants the courts
of New York to award him 52.WW dam
ages from Moses King, who pulled his
whiskers out.
A sfiT in the English chancery court
begun l.V! years ago was concluded the
other day. The government duties and
legal fc-s covered nearly the entire
sum fought for.
;(KMl-Nat ur-l IncliTirenre.
A certain g.od-natured fatalis n pre
vails in Russia as to the one csime.f
theft At Sara toff on the Vi iga a
crowded steamer was aiiout t start,
when the assistant captain, hurrying
through a crowd of third -class pas
sengers, was suddemy stopped by a
peasant, who had previously com
plained that his money had been stolen.
"Yiutr honor," he said, "the money
has been found."
"Found! Where?"
"Sewed up" in that soldier's l lantle.
I went over there to search for it. and
sure enough, there were fovty-tme
roubles and a twenty-kopeck piece in
my chamois purse."
"Where is that soldier?"
"There he is, asleep."
"Well, he must le handed over to
the police."
"Handed over to the police? Why to
tho police? IMn't touch him, let him
sleep on. Sure, the money is found;
w hat more do we want?"
Ami as tho captain proved equally in
different, the matter was dropped-
Youth's Companion.
GOOD FORM TO EE SOLEMN.
So the I JiKlli-hman la Only 'Appy Away
from "t)nie.
What an utterly different lieing an
Englishman is when lounging on the
terrace of a hotel at ("adenabbia or on
the deck of a yacht on the ti-.leless sea,
from the same individual on the terrace
of the house or sauntering in tho park
on a fine morning! He not only looks
unlike himself, but is ever so much let
ter looking, says litidon Truth. His
garments are more picturesque, but it
is not only that His features relax
into an expression of unconscious sat
isfaction with things in general which
almost approaches to amiability.
Of course, a true gentleman would
naturally regard hiinscl f with contempt
if he ever permitted himself to look
really amiable or pleased. Except in
a tete-a-tete with a pretty woman or
while enjoying a goo 1 game of romps
with children, such a thing would be
thoroughly bad form. It is one of
Arry's social mistakes that he grins
when he is pleased and wears a chronic
unile if he happ.;:i to be a good-tempered
man. The men of our cl:i s ari l
upward refrain from any such insane
exhibition, especially when at homo,
dans lour ilo.
It lias often amused us to w:it -h an
English 1mv while at the adolescent
period of life mastering thi tumu
plishmcn:. He jH-reeives that hi:. th:i!o
elders have cnltiva'ed v. i.at at ly'e
called a cheerful stoici: in. 'i hey INtoi:
to tho funniest story w ithout a Miiile.
unlo.-s the narrator is a rsoti whom
they rejoice to honor or 1 ike to pleas-.
They make their greetings i'. hout re
laxing an iota of the gravity which
sorves thi-m a-, a mak. Tho liy, in
nutating them. sulTers many an in
ward spasm in endeavoring to render
his emotions outwardly i:ivi i.!.. He
catches hiiu: lf i Uiilinj at something
In licrons, hut immediately conquers
himself as ho sees that hi, ei ! -r . are
grave of dom.-a.ior. If hj sii o.i1 1 so
far forget himseif as to exhibit liny
pleasure or animation in cirevsinstaiices
where it would bo onlynatui.il to do
so. but in which the seniors icl an ex
ample of undemonstrative cahn. he
whips himself inwardly with a lash of
sol f -scorn.
During his transition period he de
spises women and girls, because they
laugh when they are amused and some
times cry when they are distressed.
He would rather hurt the feelings of
his mother or sisters than m:;'..- the
slightest (li.-playof gratitude or kin.lii
jiess. In fact, he is di..ngreeal)e. and
a very uncomfortable individual for the
time being. Often when he frowns it is
only that ho has no other way of pre
venting himself from smiling.
SOME WONDERFUL INKS.
furious lartfi Com-, rx.iiif; TIis.m- Known
an 1 fu-l Ijy i'reiiihmoi.
Ralelais complied a ci:r;,-us list of
inks of a sympathetic nature, which
were largely in vogue in Lis days. !n
his b.x.k. entitled "Pautagrucl." he
makes his readers acquainted with
Panurgue's exploits in try ing to !e
eipher the invisible oli-.icters of a
letter in which a l'urisian temale had
written to Pantagruel. "lie held it up
before the lire." says Ral-ciuis, "to f-ee
if it was written with spirits of am
monia mixed with Water. Then he
placed it in water to see if the writing
had not Ih-o.i done with sirup of tithv
mal. Wh;-". tVs would not work he
held- it over a cr.ndle. which would
have br ug it th ehar.u-ter.-. outh.id
they be';:i v.ritte i with the juice of
white o: lev.. Rv rubbing o. part of it
with nut he tried to ii:.d whether it
had not bee.i k. iitten with the :u of a
l:g tree. And if fr.)g"s b!,H.l had been
used in the place of ink the r.iilic li-om
the biva.-.t of woman suckling her
tirst-born daughter would have be
trayed tho soerotsof that letter."
While in Rabelais' time during the
seventeenth century French lx-op'e ad
hered strongly to the ln-liof that sympa
thetic inks of this character cnii! 1 be
and were u.-e.l. they are now- -iu high
feather over tho discovery of a 1 .iminous
ink by one of their own countrymen.
This ink mulres it possible for letters
to he read in the dark. One ni the Fn-rich
jonr'u ls roei ntly gave the recipe for
this ink. A phosphorescent ci.mpouwl
cu:i be obtained by; calcinating carbon
ate of cha ': v.-ith :-ulphur.
Messrs. Peligot and Hecquorel. ln-th
of whom gave thi ; matter a ; reat deal
of i tudy, ;.ay now that lle yellow glow
can be obtained by adding to the
above mixture from one to two per
cent, of peroxide of manganese. To
make the writing appear in a green
light it is i-eces-sary to mix with the
a I mvc a little enrlmnate of soda, and
for the blue from one to two per cent.
:f a bismuth comjxiund may le used.
Ry porphyri.ing those phosphores
cent substances and adding to them a
small quantity of linseed oil, the mix
ture i-aj lie used for ty pographic im
pressions from which plates can le
prinftil. which, exposed to the 'ight in
the daytime, apjHar luminous at night
FIGURES OF INTEREST.
The population of liermany averages
2:i7 to the square mile; in the United I
Slates the average is only Is.
Nearly 45 per cent, of the 9.240.5 J7
foreign-lKirn residents in the Fnited
States are living in the 124 cities of
largest population.
The total numln r of Chinese in the
Fnited States in lsso was lor. 4 ... The
total numlier in lSiM was only 107.475. a
gain in ten years of but 2,010.
Since the centennial year, ls7C.. the
number of newspapers in Xew York
state has nearly doubled. There were
Loss published then and there are 2,181
now.
The largest block of coal ever mined
was recently brought from the Ixnvcls
of the earth at Roslyn. Wash. Its size
is twenty-four feet in length, five feet
eight inches in width, and four feet
eight inches in height. It weighs over
41,000 pounds.
MtMtic-it Art and ti.e star.
During the middle ages, when as
trology was in fashion, a character
very much like our R was the sign of
Jupiter, the preserver of health. The
physicians, then ln-ing equally devoted
to the science of medicine and of as
trology, invnriably began their pro
scriptions Wiii the following words:
"In the name of Jupiter take the fol- '
lowing doses in the order set down i
hereinafter." In the eotm- of time
this form ti In was abbreviated, until at
present only the letter R remains to i
teach in that medical art was once as- j
sociatod with the science of the stars, j
illS WIFE'S ALARM.
It Was Causod by tho Lies of a
Rascally Janitor-
"I tell you, leiys," I said, "if I was
not a married man, I should go to the
races on Monday and put all I'm worth
on Razzle Dazzie."
"Why don't you?" asked Tom Mur-
"Why?" said I. "Oh, I'm a married
man, and my wife has a horror of the
races. I've promised her to keep away
from them. A promise is a promise."
"And good enough you've made it,
sir," said our old porter. Honest Jim
we called him. "Many a man has gone
down to ruin and degradation on ac
count of them races. The lady is wis.
She is wise. I'm telling you what I
mane. Obey the lady, and you'll never
see yourself in difficulties."
Honest Jim was fond of giving ad
vice, and he broke up our chat with
these words. Murphy and Wiggins
went away to get a glassof ln-cr Ik-fore
they parted, and I taik the train home.
A brooding storm broke just as I
reached my cottage, and triad enough
was I to escape it. We had supper t--gelher
and went into the parlor as
usual. What a night it was, to be sure!
A wild night, a bitter night, a night
when there seemed to Ik strange voices
in tiie wind, and those within the house
were likely to fancy knoeKs upon their
doors and unbar and unbolt them and
cry: "Who is there'.''' when it was only
the blast that had causd them to rat
tle. Yet it was on this night that my
wife, my little, delicate, beautiful wife
Fh--.bt arose from the fireside and tell
ing me that she would return shortly,
left the room.
To leave the rtoin was nothing, but
when I heard her leave the house I
could scarcely Im-Hcvc my senses. She,
who was so timid she who Why,
no, it could not Ik. 1 went about the
house calling her. I grew alarmed, and,
fearing to find her lying in a swoon
some .v here, carried the lamp low and
looked in the garret the cellar, the lit
tle kitchen where cooking was done in
summer everywhere, in fact.
Sh w as gone, and so was the cloak,
that usually hung in a certain place,
and a hood she wore about the grounds
on cold 1 a vs. What could have taken
her out? Had ohe heard our jamy
fidgeting iir his stall or the peep of some
stray chicken? Was she anxious al-out
the day-old calf? We had ail these
luriil belongings iu the small boundary
of our little summer-home.
if so, why did she not mention it to
me? It was. no doubt, that Cold of
mine, whi'-h I had made too much fuss
alxuit She went herself rather than
to expose me. I tossed on my water
proof coat, pulled an old hat over my
ours and went out up m the porch.
The lantern was gone.
" F'.eda!"' I cried, lifting my voice,
"I'leda, I say! Where are you, Fleda?"'
I heard no Stiund, hut shortly, far
along the road. I spied a yellow blur
wa--'r.g near the ground, and know,
when I had watched it f. r some time.
that it was a lantern carried by some
one to light her steps along tho irregu
lar foot-path. I say "her." Itecause
shortly I could see the drapery of a
woman's dross. It was my wife, re
turning home. I was certain of that
now, and 1 called to her at once:
"Fleda, why on earth are you strag
gling alo:it in the storm? W hy didn't
you send me to do what you wanted
done? The wind is strong enough to
carry you over the hills. I've been w ild
about you."
"I did not know the wind wns so
strong."
And I asked no more questions. My
anxiety for Fleda sw allowed up every
other thought However, she was per
fectly well next day, though curiously
depressed aud abstracted.
I have not yet introduced myself. I
am Henry Carrington. My business
was that of cashier with the Dayton
Rrothers. My wife and 1 lived simply
in a liny out-of-town cottage in sum
mer; in a tinier 11 at in winter. I had
never liven extravagant, and my only
great folly had la-en to risk a certain
sum of money, left me as a legacy, at
the rae.-s. I backed the favorite aud
lust every dollar. Fleda was very
much distressed when I told her the
news.
Xot at the loss of the money,
Henry," she said, "but that you should
risk it at the races. My uncle once em
ployed a young man who became dis
honest and was finally arrested because
of going to the races and betting aud
all that. Pray, pray. In careful."
The week passed quietly. Pay night
eame again. It often happens that the
stime night is stormy for several suc
ceeding weeks. This night, however,
was not as bad as the one on which my
story opens. However, it was much
more comfortable indoors than out.
Aud yet, just as I was in the middle of
a paragraph I was reading to her from
the evening paper, I looked up and saw
that Fleda hal vanished. Again I
searched the house. .Again I found
that she h-d left it Again the yellow
light of the lantern told me of her re
turn. She was not out of breath this
time, but she was pale and trembled
a little. She shook her head when I
asked her where she had been, and said:
"Nowhere. The house felt close. I
wanted a little air. That is all''
"You didtiot fiud what I was reading
interesting?" said I.
"I assure you " she began, then
broke off suddenly. "Don't talk alout
it!" she cried. "Don't! Don't! I pray,
don't talk about it!"
I did not talk, but I thought a good
deal, and I had reason to think. Day
by day I noticed that Fleda was gradu
ally grow ing thinner and paler. Her
spirits were deserting her. And when
the same day of the week came around,
she left the house as mysteriously as
before. The presence of a guest pre
vented me from following her; but 1
discovered that, in order to keep the
knowledge of her absence from the
house from me, she entered the store
room, climbed out of the window at
the risk of her neck and returned in the
same manner. Moreover, I discovered
on the sill a few scattered coin- tn
ceut piece and two pennies which told
me that she had dropped a portion of
some money that she had taken with
her. All this made me very unhappy.
I detested mysteries, and it was evi
dent that one of the sort whioh I had
always thought unnatural when intro
duced into the pages of novels had
arisen in usy quiet little home.
I remembered that I had met my wife
by chance; that our introduction was
brought about by a chance acquaint
ance, who really knew nothing of
either of us; that she was alone in Use
world, without any living relative, it
claimed to be so; teacher of music,
with few pupils, making a hard struggle
for life. Very possibly a disreputable
father or brother had turned up. to
whom she was obliged to give assist
ance, and whom she did not w ish me to
know. It was a pity, but I would have
no more of this. I would get at tlie
truth and help her if I could. Then a
terrible thought occurred to me. Wh:.t
if it should prove that she had nu-.rried
early in life; that a worthless husband
had returned, and that she was trying
to get ej.l of him? In that case what a
goose I would lie to meddle and force
upon myself a terrible knowledge whi h
I might avoid.
It was cowardly, perhaps, but I loved
Fleda f-o dearly that I had rather be
deceived in such a way 1 never doubt
ed her utter truth for one moment
than to be undeceived to my misery.
And, hoping against hope, I permitted
two more weeks to pass by without do
ing anything whatever. Then came an
hour w hen graver doubts possessed me.
My wife hail si Id the diuuiond ear
rings which my sister had given her
upon her wedding day. 1 came by this
knowledge while examining her desk
for letters, and I ln-lieved tiiat she in
tended to give the money thus raised to
the mysterious person who had the
power to call her from her fireside w hen
he pleased.
The night cn which I followed her
was as beautiful as night could 1m. Tho
air was warm and full of the breath of
flowers. My wife wore a white dress
and a pretty hat with daisies around
the brim. She had told me a deliberate
falsehood, asking me to stay at home
to receive a friend who might call
while she went to the dressmaker's
house.
A w ild li-po that she had only been
to this dressmaker before, anil that the
jewels were sold to pay some extrava
gant bill, filled my he-rt, but it van
ished as I followed her, and saw her
leave the road after going a few paces,
and take a by-path which ran baclc
into our own orchard. It was a small
place full of old apple trees. The moon
light failed to fiil it, but I saw amidst
the shadows of the foliage the darker
shadow of a man's figure.
"Ye've kept me waiting," he whis
pered. "I could not help it," my wife re
plied. The man gave a low growl.
"Ye've got the money?" he said.
"For your own iutherest you've got
the money, the fire hundred do!l - "
W here had 1 heprd that voice lwf.-ro?
"Xo,"ir.y wife faltered, "n t so much;
the jeweler would only give me tiir. o
hundred, but I nave that"
"Ye must raise the other two."
growled the m;tn. "Oh, you'll do it it
won't lie a groat dale to pay to save
them we know of from twenty years in
jail. Prodhuce it and tell me w hin, or,
afther ali, I'll tell the truth; it's my
duty anyway."
"Oh. good Heaven! I've given you nil
I have'." cried my poor wife. "I can get
no mori.'
She seemed almost to faint What
ever this mystery might be, it w as my
duty to defend her.
I strode out of the shadow, and, with
out warning, stood before thern.
"Fleda." I cried, "what does this
mean? Whom are you talking to? I
miu-t know! I w ill know! Do you fancy
I have been blind to your meetings w ith
this scoundrel?"
"Oh, don't speak so, dearest"' she
cried. "Don't anger him. Oo away.
You don't know your danger."
" 'Danger" " I tried, clutching the
collar of the man. w ho strove to rush
past me. "Come; let me see whom I
have here."
I dragged him into the light, and
saw our porter. Honest Jim, and no
otln. r.
"Jim, by all that is comical!" I said.
"And w hat is he to you, wife?'
"Oh. don't! Don't!" cried Fleda. "He
knows all! He knows alii"
"Fleda," said I, "whatever he may
know about you, have no fear. You
are my wife, I love you. Nothing can
alter that"
"Oh, it isn't I, Henry! It is you! He
knows all about Razzle Dazzle, and
what you did to get the money to let on
him. It was such a temptation, I know,
my poor husband! And he swore he
would not betray you if I gave him five
hundred dollars. Rut I have not loen
aide to raise it. I will, though. Span
my husband, and I will! Yes! Oh, 1
will earn it, somehow!" cried Fleda
wildly.
"What confounded blackmailing trick
is this?" said I, shaking Honest Jin.
furiously.
"Pl'ase. let me go!" groaned Jim.
"You put it into my head with your
talk of your missus fearing you'd go
w rong. 1 was up liefore you the night
of the storrum, aud she met me, ami
wus ai-y tuck in. An' I tried it ag in
You an' the divil put it into my head.
Here's the money back. Don't choke
me! Here is the money back."
"What did he tell you, you sillv
child?" 1 asked Fleda.
"That you had robbed your employ
ers to get money to stake on Razzle
Dazzle," said she, "My only thought
has lx-en how to save you. "
"Go!" I said to Honest Jim. "Show
your face in the ollice again if you
dare!" J
I dismissed him with a kick and took
Fleda in my arms.
"So you'd be true to me if I were both
fool and rascal?" said I. "Poor little
goosy :"
"And you'd love me if I had some
dreadful story in my life?" said Fleda.
And we were very happy as wo
walked home together, arm in arm. my
wife and I. M. duly, iu N. Y. Ledger.
Mourniiid Co'ora iu liu-M-'a.
Rlack is the n'most uni vcr ul mourn
ing color in Europe, but there are a
few exceptions. I or instance, in Rus
sia black is never used for covering
coffins, the cloth U-ing of a pink shade
when the deceased is a child or young
person, a crimson color for women and
brown for widows. Italians do not
Use black cloth, white being used in
the ca -e of a child and purple velvet in
the case of a l""1ts
Mr. Chimpanzee "That ostrich eats
enough for two birds. What do you
suppose makes it so greedy, Mrs. C.?"
Mrs. Chimpanzee "I hoard the keojH-r
say it swallowed a pair of strong eye
glasses yesterday, and they magnify its
appetite." Vogue.
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