THE YEAR THAT'S GONE, Pown the dark vale of the past, Backward memory's glance is cass, O'er the days that fled so fast, In the year that's gone; — Fled for aye, each truant day, In the year that's gone. Fairy islands, bright and green, On life's desert waste are seen; But dark waters intervene "Twixt the Now ani! Then, Shining brightly in the light Of the year that's gone, Joyous spring with budding flowers, Dancing through the forest bowers, Headless was of Time's fleet hours, In the year that's gone;— Gipsied wild that happy child, n the year that’s gone. Many were the castles bright, Peopled with fair forms of light, Elfin kings and fairies sprite, In the year that's gone;— Bo sweet visions, that they fled In the year that's gone, Moming fragrance early shed! Childhood's dear hopes bere lie dead; Youth's wild dreams will soon have fled, With the year that's gone; But e'er bright in memory, It sLall have a throne! SRS AIR THE TIDAL TRAIN. There was a great rush for the tidal train that morning from Paris. It start. | ed at a very convenient hour, 9.40, and | was patronized by a crowd of people, As the time for departure approached, ! there was the usual outery for seats, | The French officials, if asked, shrugged | their shoulders and pointed to the | nearest carriage; what they meant was, | that there was still room to spare if | people did not cover np extra seats with | their belongings, and so monopolize | more than their share. Late arrivals | turs neglected wandered miserably up | aud down the whole length of the train, sveking sccommodation excitedly, and | i. vain, Among the rest were two ladies, one | of whom, the elder, seemed greatly flurried and put out. “I knew how it | would be,” she cried, in a despairing voice, ‘‘every seat is occupied! What shall we do? why were we so late?” She was a middle-aged, somewhat plethoric-looking dame, with an air of much importance, marred for the mo moment by helplessness and ill-teraper, | **We shall find places presently, dear Lady Jones,” replied the younger, who had the rather sycophantic air of a hum- ble friend. ‘The guard will help us,” “They never do, and they don't un- derstand. Dear, dear! why didp’t we come in time? It was all your fault Hester” —this to the maid who followed | them: as they ranged backward along the platform—*‘you ought to lave packed last night, What shall we do? Ob, thank you so much!” she cried | suddeniy, with effusion, ! A reutleman, who apparently had been watching her distress, pushed opeu the door of the carriage he ocen pied and invited her to enter, His companion, another man at {Re far end, made room by removing rugs and rags, and presently Lady Jones, with a sigh of relief, sank back into the cushions, Then with feminine selfish- ness, and forgetful of the trouble she had just escaped, she proceeded to pre | vent any one else from getting in. “Cover up the seats well, Millicent, sbe cried, ‘and do keep the door shut. Oh, thank you, sir,” she added to one of the men, who secmed to fall in readily with ber idea of keeping the carriage ww themselves, There was nothing very remarakble about Lady Jones’ new-found friends. One was a tall, dark man, with a elean- shaved face, and very dark eyes which giared out from under the shade of black felt hat; the other was smaller—s restless little freckled faced man, with a short red heard cut and trimmed to a point. They did not look Ike English- men; but they spoke tue langnage fluently with a slight accent, i The firm, somewhat fierce demeanor | of the dark man had the desired effect, | When he said abruptly, “Il n'y pas de | place,” people retired discomfitted, and a8 time was nearly up, Lady Jones | began to hope that their privacy and | comfort would not be disturbed. Almost | at the last moment a mau came to the | door, importunate and persistent, “Any room?” he asked in English, as | hé stood on the doorstep. Then get. | fing no answer, he repeated the ques- | tion iu French. ‘How many are you?” 8till no answer; so he counted for him- self, and went away, Lady Jones was delighted; bat her trinmpl was of short duration. The | last srrival camo back ai once with a whole posse of French officials at his baok the chief of whom, in a voice of authority, repeated the inquiry, “How many are you?" Four? More to come? Impossible! The train is start- ing, Entrez, movsier; entres, yite;” and the next minute the stranger was bundled into the carriage, the door was shut with a bang, the horns sounded, and the train went off at express Sus L The occupants of the carriage, Lad Jones in particular, resented this ns ceremonious intrusion, *“Extraordi I" she said, in a loud tone, aside to Millicent, ‘‘People never know when they are in the way.” “So forward and presuming!” replied the young lady, “In my country,” said the dark man, “men never intrnde themselves on ladies. ‘LUhey wait to be asked.” “We have a very short way of set- tling with them if they do,” added the short man, offensively, “And pray what do they do with them,” as the last comer, quietly, He was cool and self-possessed, with a broad face framed in by square-eut grayish whiskers, His upper lip was clean-shaven, showing bis firm, rather hard mouth, ahd a. Dg I were steady snd perotrating. Not a man to be triflel with, in apite of hs calm MARGE and unobtrosive demeanor, “Wiat do you So pestis. Shompl ih repeated, ey ard at the ivsolent hittie red man. ‘Vitel them out of tie window, or ob to the lines,” “Would you like to do it now?” said the other, *B: quiet, Thaddy,” interposed the dark man; ‘‘remember there are ladies present. “Don’t mind me, gentlenwn, if you ¥ drm # wish to give him a lesson,” said lady Jones, who had espoused the part of her first friends, The Englishman looked at her rather keenly, but made no remark. Nor, al- though they continved to talk at him and abuse him for the next half hour, did he take any further notice of them, but read a novel attentively which he had extracted from his little black bag, By the time they reached Amiens, quite a pleasant intimacy had sprung up be tween Lady Jones and the two men. The four went to the buffet and break- fasted together, Returning to their carriage thoy found that the English- man had disappeared, so they made merry at his expense, But they had not done with him yet. He was there on the quay as the train ran alongside the Boulogne steamer; they A es again on board with his Iittle hand-bag, snd always calm and imperturable, Only once did he betray the slightest emotion; it was when a man came up to him as he stood near the funnvel, and, with an almost imper- ceptible salute, addressed him as Mr, Hopkinson, *‘Hush, you fool!” he replied, an- grily. “Don’t mention names here,” “It was too late, however; many of those around had heard the name, and among the rest the two men, who were smoking close by. *‘Come aft, Thaddeus!” whispered the “Ind you hear that name?” “I did. It must be that murdering villain himself,” “And you, you fool, to get quarreling with him in the train!” “Do you think he has his eye on or “You may take yout oath of that,” “What in the name of conscience shall we do!” “Leave it to me; I have a dodge, if 1 us The steamer being very crowded, a good place. Bat, thanks to the at- tention of her friends, Lady Jones was made comfortable with rugs and wraps near one of the paddle-boxes, while Millicent and the maid sat close beside ber, The vovage across the channel was not good, and the ladies reached Folkestone in a more or less battered condition, Now the strangers, like chivalrous gentlemen, came out in their true colors, Nothing oconld exceed their kimnduess, They took and strap ap the rugs, and made them- selves generally useful. Lady Jones was 50 grateful and so charmed that she begged them to call on her in Tiondon, and gave them her address, When the porters rushed on board, Lady Jones desired one of them to go at once and secure her carriage. “Can't be done, mum,” he replied, “All the things have to be examined before they let us through to the train.’ “Absurd!” said her ladyship; ‘‘they won't examine mine I am Lady Jones." But her ladyship was no better than an ordinary person before the law, The and, in spite of her protests, all her small parcels and those of her party, were faken into the search-room, and laid out on the counter, perious wave of the hand, an official ordered her to follow them. To make raatters worse, the quiet Englishman, » whom she had been so rude in the ‘rain, was standing in the doorway, talking to two other men, and lan ghing, as she thought, at her distress. For a moment her two friends were nowhere to be seen. “I never heard of such a thing!” she said indigoantly to Millicent, as the officcous searchers turned everything out of her gold-mounted dresaing case, and then proceeded to unroll the rugs, **What do they take us for?” “Everybody is treated alike, dear Lady Jones. I suppose they are afraid of Fenians, or dynamite, BOM thing." “It 1s preposterous, disgrascful!l Sie John shall write to the papers—I beg your pardon,” This was to an official who to her twice, “What i= this?” A small parcel done up in stroog brown paper securely tied acd sealed. “I havent the least idea. Something of my maid's or Millicent's—this young lady here. I really cannot ray,” ~ Of had said customed garrulity, the custom honse officer had already cut the strings, un. done the parcel, and laid bare a small plain tin case. It had a lid, which was easily opened, Insile were a number of A 4 of a whity-brown, sugary-looking substance which might bave been tenth-rate choosiate or indifferently-made ‘toffee,’ “Some sort of sugar,” smd Lady “It's just what 1 expected,” said a Saunders, This is my affair,” “What, Mr. Hopkinson, are you here?” “Very much on the spot this time, I think, Mr. Saunders. Now, ma'am” to Lady Jonrs—*‘where are your other friends?" “How dare you speak to mel” she replied, hotly. recognizing her old enemy of the tran, “I am Lady Jones,” “Ot course, all right” replied the man called Mr, nson. “Bat there,” he went on, haif to himself, ‘we don’t want any scandal or noise, We might lose the others;” and with that he whispered » few words to an attendant, and drew back into the crowd, The examination of Lady Jones’ bag: gage was completed, everything wae re-packed, snd the party proceeded toward the tran. Just sas they passed the refreshment. a railway guard eame np, and Boy ia cap, said “I'he station master has reserved you o£ VT RE TA API the station up the hill to Folkstone- town, and Lady Jones, who was rap- idly recovering her equanimity, after a few ejaculations of delight at being home again, composed herself to sleep in the corner of the carriage. But fresh annoyance was in stbre for her. At Folkestone Tcwn station the earringe was unlocked, and three men got in; one of them, to Lady Jones’ in- dignation and dirmay, was Mr, Hopkin. son, with his black bag, which he kept on his knee, *“*You musn’t come in here,” she said loftily; *‘this carriage is reserved spe- cially for me, I am Lady Jones,” **Oh, are you!” replied the other, “It is time you should know who I am. My hame—" “1 am sure I don't care to know,” ‘My name is Hopkinson. 1 am chief inspector of police from Seotland Yard,” “Well,” said Lady Jones, still bold, but with much inward musgiviogs, “I really do not understand!” “By this time my men will have ar- rested your | friends who helped you in trying to keep me out of the train at Paris, I knew them all along.” ‘My friends! I never met them be- fore this morning! Why, [ don't even know their names!” “That won't do, You know as well as I do that they are Phelim Cassidy and Thaddeus O’Brien, American Fe- mans" “Gracious Heavens!” sttemped to convey dynamite into der, in slabs too, for convenience in packing.” “I deny, most positively! I! I!" ‘‘Oase is too strong against you, | Why, the stuff was found in your pos- | session, and I have it here in my bag; | enough to wreck the whole train,” | Lady Jones shrieked, “Do you mean to tell me that there Oh, i i { 1s dynamite here in this carriage? | do, please, throw it away!” | “The concussion would certainly ex- | plode it, and we should all be blown to | kingdom come! Don't be frightened; | you traveled with it all the way from | Paris, and would have carried it on to | London yourself,” {| “I assure you I know nothingof this, i I am Lady Jones, the wife of Sir John | Jones of Harley street. Millicent, help { me to explain who I am.” The detective shook his head doubt. { fully, “It may be as yon say, but 1 don’t | soe my way. Wait till we get to Lon. | don, If you can prove your identity, | at any rate you msy escape being locked up; the magistrate may give you bail” | With this cold comfort Lady Jones | | had to be satisfied, and ip dire terror | and discomfort she made the rest of | the journey to London. Hopkinson, it must be confessed, had alredy made up | his mind that it was as Lady Jones had { said; but be chose to keep her in sus. | pense, On reaching Cannon street, the guard | brought him a telegram. The detective { read it with strong symptoms of dis- gust, “Shpped through my flugers! | when I thought I had them, too! | the very mischief, { next?” After a pause of deep thought he turned saddenly to Lady Joaes, “Do these men know your London address? Yes? Well if vou will assist wow, I thiok 1 ean promise that nothing more shall be said about this unfortunate affair. Bot first, you must secret, silent as the grave, Can 1 trust yon? And ths young lady? Millicent aod Lady Jones answered 4 in a breath, promising to be circumspect, “My idep now is that these men only planted the siuff on you, hoping it | would pass nunoticed; whether it did or | | no they would know by the morcing | papers, which would bes sure to publish | an account of the seizure of dynamite, | | Well,’ wont on the detective, “no one must know a syliable of this; there | shall be nothing in the papers or any : To-morrow or next day they Just It's What shall I do Ha be Los where, will eall at your house to recover their | small parcel explaining that it slipped iu a.ong yoar rugs by mistake, If they do, we have them; do you onder stand? And will you help?” Li dy Jones only too gladly assented hat night the house in Harley stroet | was practically in the possession of the police. Sir John entered into the | epirit of the thing; gave his hall-porter a holiday, and instalied Hopkinson disguised in his place, On the third | day the dark man called, seut up his | card, and was given the dynamite, As | be left the house his companion joined { him, and both were arrested before | they had turned the next corper, trial, with the examination of Lady | Jones, was one of the events of the sea- ASN RO) Words theEnglish Want. No American can have traveled in England without learning that its peo- ple are no whit superior to ours in bear- ing or in speech. Moreover their feel- ing of complacency often deprives them of the power of changing for the better —that is, of learning. The nation that Is insulur and provincial. American is men seldom change except Ly forgeting, Americans, during a ce tury, have added hugdreds of needful \ords to the language, What we ought to do is, not and get more of them to fill up the out such words as breadstufils, bakery, (for gown), indo=se, fall (for autumn), fix (for adjust), freshet, fleshy, hard- ride (ride in a wagon), sleigh, smart, span (for pair), stoop (for porch,) sparse, store, ugly, (for cruel or cross), venison, vest, woods? These are all good, honest words, that ought to be and will be retained permanently in the language, yet none { of them are known in England in the that have recently been adopted for | convenience, The English have no comprehensive word meaning what our *“‘dry-goods” | means, and they need one, | ambigious word “print.” | For “mirror” they alwayssay *‘glass” | (“glaws”’), though, as there are a hun- dred different kinds of glass, mirror isa { word they sorely need. For “homely,” as apolied to the fea. | tures, the English, always say either “plain® or *‘ugly,” and deny the pro- | priety of the meaning which Americans | give to the word. But Americans are right, “Homely" is exactly what they want to say, for It means considerably | more than “plain’’ and considerably less i than *‘ugly.” The English have no { equivalent for it; hence, when they wish to say that a lady 18 homely, they can- not say it; they can say only that she is “plain,” that is, that she has no positi beauty, or that she is *‘ugly,” that is, deformed or repulsive—and neither is what they mean, For *“‘loafer’ English always say either “vagrant.” “vagabond.” or “dandy,” and a loafer generally neither, England has yusands loafers, but one word to describe them, The waist” “body’ of her ‘‘gown,’’ tainly neither tha wie is Of not of ak oul of English neve: of a lady’s “dress”? % Ww SD wich is Gore Corl BOT For *‘burean’ they say drawers,” which is employing « cution in place of a name, For ‘candy’ thevalways say *% which is a similar subterfuge, using ties of the article ¢ sy needfal rool in of the qua 11168 the whole thing itself. “Can Lid word, but also (which is of far less conseqgue it metymologically accurate, finding Hs French, italian, Arabic, Persian and Sanscrit. For “bench’’ the English say ‘form. It is a matter of they always va, prefera- th words had “trousers,’ re Decause shorter; In tier be retain For “hakers.” “lumber and “har ware,’ they hiave wor ix givalent a% whatever, and have to resort to plirases anid sentences Ww indicate what thes fea. For ‘perfumery’ the Euaglish scent.’ and insist that the long word « preferred by Americans because they are pedantic. Bat this charge of a preference for big words is scarcely borne but by the habit of Americans in saying “‘help’’ Instead of ‘‘servants.’” “boss instead ‘‘employer,” “shop” instead of “masufactory,” “guess instead of “‘conjectur,”” “spars justead of “thinly populated,’ and, «bove ali, ‘fix’ instead of the Latin words “‘ad just,” *‘repair,” or “renovate *’ The Revolutionary war is far off, and travel has much mixed us ap, and young men of enlbure m this country seem to think it meritorious to uniearn the vernacular and sabstitute English words, It seems to me to be mere flunkyism, without any grace. [n the application of word Bay inventions americans have shown them. selves superior to the English, When the first miiroad was bullt the English the words already in use In stage-coach- ing; while Americans adopted or invent- things. For miiroad the English say “railway’’ for depot, “‘station;” for $ : | track, *'line;” for locomotive, “engine” AA sist | (which is only part of a locomotive), Ce s——— NI to assist, and they were thus employed for centuries, till long after Shakes- peare’s time. ‘Charing Cross,” the center of London. 18 a corruption of the French ‘‘cher Reine’’—'‘dear Queen,” The word clever, as still used collio- quially in New England, is an admira- our literature. It means more than | good-natured-—it means unselfish and obliging, as well as merely amiable: land I hope to see it incorporated into cultured speech and letters, It will be, unless the dudes and snobs have their own way, and we become once more merely an outlying provinee of England, “Smart” is another word which | should be saved for a language not too | prolific in synonyms. The word “‘talen- | ted?’ does not cover its meaning at all: | it makes a natural capability which can be expressed by no other word. Our language is sadly in need of new | words, | relations, new tendencies of thought; and the refined slang and common | speech of the United States constitute | the chief fountain of its enrichment. pany tells me, and I am glad to learn it, that the new dictionary will contain some hundreds, perhaps thousands of aew words, notably Americanisms and provinelalisms, which, by their usefal- { ness, have vindicated their right, This 15 an example of courage and discern- | ment as well as public spirit, It will | not answer for Englishmen to object { that a new word cannot be admitted as proper till they see fit to adopt { That day has gone by forever, They are outnumbered, and have ceased to be | the official custodians of the common | tongue, A majority of all English- speaking people are now on the Western Continent; in another generation three- quarters of them will be here; and to our progressive sche nd expert phy silogists is allotted task of hence forth guarding, improving, re enfore and fertilizing the language, till it make its triumphant way around world and become adapted to all races { of men. LATE § the ing whail BUA the ri A ——————— A Freepo.Out, : revenue hritling hits ago a t.1, & raiders 1 experiences sometim parity of raiders wer: ind North Georg LY Was a very quie voung fellow named ¢ party approacl men uve ent 3 feet wide and The night was or ¢ recent severe weather 3 bold dash toward about fifteen sv} inches deep, : § af tl on the off y intercept side of the him, ane both he did so Leo opposite bank, presented and sad “Halt!": The of the stream “Don? “Hell ® monnshiover stopped in dle ran,” said Cape, Leo.” observed the ig half-waist mone deep in the stiiner, andi WALES, “Hello, Mi out and give up.” “You come in and take yy ok ¥ ' icy wes,’ sald Cape, *“ ne wis IF me 11 then!” “Well, stand n “1*'11 do 11 “All right,” said Cape; “you'll stand in that water and I'll stand ners, [ can stand it if you can. ”’ The moonshiner a chatter. At last he sald “leo!” “Hey?” “1°11 have to cave: I'm coming out." **All right.” And the blockader, shivering and freezing, came up dripping from the creek, and Lee marched him into eamp, i therel teeth began to fToarning Latin and Greek. There can be no doubt that by the | ing. the student might acquire an easy | and facile use of those tongues in half he time now spent in learning {0 read the college Dons insist that the langua ges are chiefly valuable as furnishing But Fut His Cont On. Guy Tippleton is a great practical | joker. At a country house, not long | ago, when the ladies had retired for the the smoking room. “i say, Ewart,” said Tippleton, «I think it’s very bad form of you com- ing in here withon! taking the trouble to go upstairs and change your coat, If you do it again I oertanly shall have those claw-hammered tails out off.” Next evening the scene repeated young Ewart strolls into the smoking room with his dress coat on, Without more ado Guy Jand a few congenial spirits had young Ewart down on a couch and out the tails off his coat, took it very coolly. He strolled the fire _ stood in the attitude, indies alleged, to be the favorite one of the male sex. “You take it very philosophieally,” said one of Guy 's frends, “0,” replisd Ewart, “if doesn’t mat. ‘tor to me, It's not my coat; it's Tip- I w wo I jos n room in passing and put his coat on,” There was a roar of langhter, and to do Guy Justios, ug one joined in it more ELA I Tears are the shadows that fertilize | this world. t | for engineer, “driver; for car, “‘coacli;” | it may be saggested, as a4 point not for conductor, “guard; for baggage, | often considered by either side in this pe i controversy, that tbe practice of study- inggage;"” for buying a ticket, which is ny what it 1s, “Booking.” which | is exactly what it is isn’t; for switch, | “shunt,” merely a vulgar contraction | of “shun it.” In America letters go by mail; in England they go by post verbal survival from that early day when let. ters were locked in a hole in a wooden post and taken out and borne onward by another. Both words are eorrect; the choice, a matier of taste, The word ‘guess’ is used ten times as much here as in England. It is & square, honest word, and should not be shunned. English people sub. stitute for it the long word “‘conjec- ture’ or the flippant word “fancy,” which is a cheap contraction of a Greek original, and in no way preferable, So is ‘notify’ a legitimate word, The word ‘advise’ is always used instead of it in England, but such use is ambigu- ous by y for the word has another and much more important meaning. ’ I feel even like making a plea for the word ‘clever’ in its American mgnif. cation. Tie eritie nay sa Sh etymo- logically it meant sk terous, ingenious; but thousands of good words are used in violation of their inoaning. The word *““let” meant to , and the word ‘prevent’ meant itself is a clumsy inversion of the Youper or We do not make analysis of things not yet in possession. We do not cook our hare until we cateh it. Under the ex. isting system a student 1s set to study the niceties of Greek and Latin gram- mar before he knows anything at all about those languages, and there is manifest absurdity in the method, how. ever valuable such study may be when properly pursued. It is lke setting a child who has just learned to say “mamma’ to consider the relations between verbs and their nominatives, or the methods of forming preterites, it we oigil devise tho Ytte oF Byut years of preparatory y in Latin Greek, not to the grammar, but to the work of acquiring the facile use of those tongues, our Freshmen might then ra tionaily and profitably take up the ana- Iytical study of their grammatical strue- ture. Ast is, we require our youth to thd seven or eight years in studying structural peculiarities of two lan guages which we give them no chance to acquire at any time A cursing driver may spoil your team, A Btrasge Acquaintances, On a dark windy April night a car- riage conducted by a sleepy coachman and containing one passenger, passed along a part of a highway which, bore on the other by a deep declivity sloping favorable for ambuscade, and where attacks by armed men had already oc- curred, Suddenly, when least expected, four ers. The attack was serious, the driver ravine where he remained quiet, and the passenger, attempting to defend him- self, received a knife-thrust on his arm, when he was saved by the un-hoped-for a man who dispersed unexpectedness of his share in the fray, While the coachman regained his “Young man, you have certainly nize that service,’ “Thanks, sir; I have only done the not do anything for me,” “Perhaps you are mistaken without being rich, I am well off, and." “Thank you again, sir, but I repeat it, you can do nothing for me.” “Pardon me if 1 insist, my brave de- liverer, bul you appear poor and suffer- 2: you have not enough clothing fo this cold weather and At least take a little for something better.’ “1 will, but it is for “H in . yur face is pale, vi wd while waiting or » another. be here fo when I was yw did you Lappen to help moment about to be “Oh! 1 i he road—I heard a nois ou know the rest.” “Yes, I know you, and I wou '« I followad i hurried y » my life to be of service 5 scarcely pr But whol i YOUur name ‘he traveler knitted } remained silent, “Did you hear mj ' Young man. “Excuse me from ny profession my name,’’ said raveler, “Perhaps you would regret having done me a service. But if yo cannot come to claim my aid 1 can always come you mine, Tell me your game and residence.” dr EE ti telling you either Or i tes Living WO LIE @ young man sighed oped b ead and re 31 sent. “Did you hear me ’ asked the trav ol know my resi haps you would i now show.” me last look by on the cart age Couversation. the road 3A 1 rose lowed the traveler 4 % © 4 " was throng- 13 s skenel . id men, and bovs § rogls 1 Le and execution. Just entering town, pen jo What reing on? g i going to guillotin #0 an Strange Peddie: pausing near t 8 Sexton y Are a vt yd1 And what has he done? nan -—He has killed his moth- but that is WAS A exton-—It Andre Marcel am sure he did not nas done nothing but fellow, since he has been in prison. At this moment the crowd became excited. Here Le is] Here he isl" was cry everywhere, All eyes were fixedona li cart which slowly ad- vanced toward the scaffold, “lcan’t see! I want to see!” a child Eel erving. The peddier raised him very distressing, f very good boy, t wilfully the Gr I i He poor Go weep, $41 via The condemned man descended from the cart. His head was veiled. His confessor helped him to mount the fatal steps. A large man dressed in black had already preceded him there. {dilence solemn and affecting.) in the twinkling of an eye all was ready. The executioner drew off the black veil which covered the criminal’s bead. Their looks met and both ap- peared petrified. “Hel” *“Youl” That lasted but two seconds. The executioner grew suddenly haggard and bent as under some invisible burden. It was with a feverish and convulsive movement that he made the fatal knife fall, From that day the executioner became ancholy. . He gave up his position next day, and, although not rich, he gave brave man to moarn for his son. AH AI IO She Knows More Now. A fashionable scciety girl married a man who lived in a country town, and as she really loved her husband, she wanted to do all she could to please him, says the Merchant Traveler. One day she told him she was going to make some nice home-made cider for him, apd when he came home she had about two bushels of little hard apples piled up in the kitchen, “Why, Mande!” he exclaimed, when he saw them, ‘*what have you got here?” “Apples, darling,” she ted, with a smiling face, “Where did you get them?” : ** Bought 0 of course, love." “But what did you get such hard ih “Di you say you wanted me to make you some home-made cider?” she asked, with a trace of quiver in her oy on, det, but these are not good cid **Why-—why--** she hesitated “you sd you kd bad Shr, ad of cour ve hard apples to make with, didn’ I?" "
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