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,