False His Love. to First There wore not a few neo cirele of Beatrice Latham's { shook their heads doubtiu news was announced of her enga to Mr. Robert Headley her maj , ance of to talk assert that in this brief le in the tends who the nt 1 i + hat IY when TOI i only abont they had reached a de which many happily married people had failed to achieve in three wears, to point out that his antecedents as presence, singularly In spite wots of cavillers those men and girls, namely, who were jealous either of him or her, and those few older people who had some actual or personal experience of toward possibilities in love Ee- sides, in the shortness of the acquaintance was not the hazard- 1 only bh were Ye bates completely which no one de straightforward of all pla i 1 i satisfactory as his mied to be and winning. sibilities, two ie un- aflairs, } y i118 case oment and 2 -~ > 0 "y well ; And Re that spl The girl posed, altoget] the we home sce of i er eves af light-he lev £01 hey t 1 at a port, ane one, from Gibraltar, he hops «d to be with Sunday. but she were delayed a day or two; he telegraph To the impatient girl days passed with dilatoriness. They , hot, go still, so full of a summer drowsi- ness ont of all sympathy with the highly strung state of her emotions. She conld not wait quietly; unless every hour was filled np by some active ocecn- pation she fretted and chafed against the unhasting leisureliness of time, and wore herself out with restless longing for Headley's coming. On the Saturday the Lathams took port in a large nutting party, and it was a general comment that no. one stood the heat so well, or worked with such unflagging perseverance, as Bea- trice. As the shadows lengthen ad, one couple stole off for a stroll, and Bea- trice, turning round to toss a bunch of nuts into the basket held by Connie, re- marked with a smile: “I suppose I must not call those twp to task for idleness, considering how soon I shall stand in need of indal- gence myself. four-and-twenty hours Rob will prob- ably be here!” y followin o he would onaer ii woment he landed. y intervening intolerable long, so Beatrice gave a little excited ery, for Dick was Capt. Erskine, and thers was no reason why Headley should Le later than his friana “Ah!” she Surprise me, an off home. Just think if find me out!” The oth langhed at her petnosity, bu ne was quite to their merriment. and ! nod and wave of the hand sped awa) Home, The house was quiet and empty, a she fidgeted about from room to roon n state of feverish ) 1 she go and change her dreas? exclaimed, “Rob means to Ctood by, all of YOu | he should como and im- indifferent frank with a qu | suspense. Sho haps she might not have time; she had that suited her better than the simple sateen she was wearing hen the anxic ty to be found 1 leas in her lover's sight brought her to a standstill before the mirror, and she Cl utinize Jd herself Ci fully and Would he think her looking or plainer, she wondered. She away at last in doubt, difficult to judge of herself. To | she i for prettier or sweeter than now, happy expectation was breathi fi 1 over her cheeks shining with a light iy the purest love and faith. le none ine wg eritice- ¢ for it was She need looked ¥ 3 5 1i¢ HAYO ICATred, nevel Ves were i Presently, y could fw en-glass little vor Deatrice, perceiving in the acouden g 1grn fic uel to Erskine t break with the ¢ of eold water dashed saved her fi fainting, che instinctively laid her cold, wet { 5 her lizzy and eyes ne, too, in despair seized the jug vater on the table and mad her on ant over om act in Ow aio some out of the flower-vase, “1 am all right now,” she said faintly. "Goon, I must know more.” At this moment the sound at the bottom of the garden indicated the return of the nutting party, and Beatrice quivered from head to foot. “Oh, I cannot face them all!” she exclaimed, wildly. “Just one word, Richard how do you know this ?” and he confessed it.” The girl looked into his face for one glimmer of doubt, but there was noth- ing to be read in it save the deepest compassion, and bowing her head hope- lessly she fled to her room. robbed of all sweetness by the miseras he suffered the more acutely, because, in a measure, he felt himself answers ble for his friend. Notonly had he. introduesd him to the Tathama his sense of responsibility imprescibility. While the war lasted he had not been tempted to forget when on the into Due ho was thrown DOALTIce, Yovage home constant compnan- 101 hip with ier mand from the first to her feet, broke down altogether. for £OONET himself distinetly anta l than Miss 1 that he could the e which she carried on her designs be- hind his back Throughout, Hea ley } ned of his pportunities oc { letters overland, to Beatrice interms of unchaneed ion. It was so difficult to c« his perfidy in black and white. a villain 1 am,” he thought, pen between his teeth m of his writing git down I'm makin his fidelity wavered Pp iworloe eo schemes wontrived sneet not sn i CIOs base whenever « sending from Ciibraltar, humbug & love to and another atrice’ letter, and sweet drew her en he ont De graph and last alternately on the and on the loving words till +his of honor photo- dwelt face BOnse Sincere was momentarily aroused coundrel en She shal German Pade. i wi Pe f« To co tk and white and in his he carried a cane, ii hs coat, Church Wealth, [“Mahlstick” in Courier The wealth of the Roman | clinrch in this country is simpls i mons. All Europe combined conle i in the whole period of the middle ages, | show such possessions held in “mort | main.” The church buys land on the { ontskirts of a growing town, and in the march of time this property not unfre- quently becomes the geographical and | financial centre of the community. | Their property grows like a rolling snow-ball, for the owner never dies, and has, as a rule, brains and judgment requisite for its management. It is as if John Jacob Astor had been born to live forever, and without child ren, An Author's Way. Mr. W. D. Howells is quoted as say {ing he always keeps his manuseript six or seven months ahead of the time for | publication. His nervous disposition | makes it impossible for him to furnish i laatter at short notice, sds — Oleomargarine's Ovigin, [Chicago Times] During the seige of Paria it became necessary to find a substitate for butter. Experiments resulted in the preduction of the substance known as oleomer | garine, | “Yes. I'm a cop, and I'vo several little | copies,” vemarked the policeman, {| Mise MLE, Braddon has written forty i Ole novels. A FUNERAL ONTHE CONGO. An Unloaked Vor Expression of Feels an Old Afviean Chief. Se nr their rpletity Lieut ing From Orban vOoiuntee: of twenty « - toy ’ 1 round not these ?) Bo thought the the « tone he { ps you, pointe old pase, took us to leadin Ordinarily the Af ouahly from him a elie materia What Dees History Teach ¥ cle eis things, a: a slender, longn most skillful Canada; bn ident that favorite wn hill one 1 his fac twisted a0 tf k of his everal , hie died insane BIW Years ii a ~l1is brain A Question of Freedom, {Arkangaw Traveler.) “I fought for vour freedom,” said a whom a negro policoman was conducting to the lock-up. “You needn't try ter fight fur yourn, eap’n, fur if yer does I'll hit yer” “Ain't you get no respect for a man “I ain't steadyin’ "bout dat, cap'n. Ef yer had enuff sense to fight fur my free- hab enufl ter "habe yerse'f pirter l'se freed. Doan pull wack dat way, I'll gin yer a lick fust thing ver know dat'll ring so lond dat de fire engines vill come out. Yer own freedom seoms ter bodder yer much more den mine,” Went to the Shop. [Paris Letter.) The china toflet set of the late Ade- laide Neilson, every piece painted with her monogram, encircled with wreaths of roses, formed for a long time the chief ornament of a bric-a-brae shop on the Rue da 4 Septembre, in Paris, Arkansaw Traveler: A pusson what ain't got no sussy fur a animal ain't fot none fur a fen, an’ is only kep' {rom beatin’ a roan "tase he's a coward. | THE HAT BOY'S FACULTY. i A S- Never Forgetting Whirh Fat of no Hundred with Whieh Face of Five Meore. zon They in a mired f ed hotel irom HNE-rooin, ol 1 chargo of the hat boy haps the most remarkable iat bove in New York is an at ] le man who has charge of iid of the of the Fifth Avenue He is small and wiry, and seldom # to take his eves from the racks r-room on either sid hat he sly, and puts the lu racks. Wh the dining-roos errienta he ante visitor's * ATE le the several man comes out of Lour later, the } witiiont a is it to ham. nanas ‘ x $04) hats F picks out ha nt’ hesitation (iften he has 1 his racks i moin S00 to this Table” of the Yellowstone Park 6G ysers, “Time Where Will Power Tells, find v are wiils { other Lar ks 80 have others w $ ot attention » yielded up the palm hh scarcely a struggle. yisid “Stonewall” Order to Mahone. An ex-Confederate surgeon relates § The Cleveland Leader that during ¢ war, while a terrible thunder storm was raging, “Stonewall” Jackson ordered Gen. Mahone to charge the Unio forces. Then, tired out, Jackson lay down under a tree and fell asleep. Soon he was aroused by one of Malone's aids, who said: “General, I am sent by Gen. Mahone for orders. He save the rain has wet the ammunition of his troops, and wants to know whether he shall return.” Replied Jackson: ‘Ask Gen. Mahone if the rain whieh God sends to wet his ammunition will not also wet that of the enemy, Tell him to charge them with cold steel.” Ma. hone made the charge. The Last Stone Gone. {Chicago Tribune. ] The last stone of the Tuileries has been removed, and naught but the name now remains of the famous historical palace of the Bourbons, The Germana, after their victory in 1870, held high revel there, and then the commune doe stroyed the building. Addison: Friendship improves one nappiness and abates misery by doubr ling our joy and dividing our griel. Where the Singing Canaries From Bail journ expense Educated by the Newspaper, ew York ber of a manufacturing firm the Horald } A men that senate men told committee yi sterday that the knowledge he possessed he got by reading the newspapers, and not from books, and that by reading the papers he kept himself informed on the liter ature and current eveuts of the day. Thousands of other prominent business men would make the same acknowledge ment if questioned on the subject. The tendency of all literature 1s toward expansion, so the most industrions reader of books ean searcely in a life time bedome well informed newspapers, ou the conirary, condense nearly every» thing into as fow words as ‘possible, Were a student fo atbemapt fo give the political, social, religions and literary history of the world fora day he might do it in far more elegant style than the newspapers, bat bis story would ocoupy the renders time for at least a week. The newspaper is the true American university. empl a Stanley has boon elected “Father and Mother” of the Cougs country by the dark complexioned inhabitants,
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