Forgive and Forget.
Oh I torsive ana forgot, for tbishfols too fleot
in*
To waato it in brooding o'er wrong® we havo
met;
It is bettor, far better, to smother otir auger,
To teach the proud heart to fergivo and lor
ge.
In tho path we mnst tread, leading down to the
valley,
Are crosses and trials to lift and to tn-ar:
And the chalice of Ufa Iroui which wo aro
drinking
Oil boars to our lips drops of sorrow and
caro.
But lifo is so short, bo it sunshine or shadow,
That wo cannot s(Tortl to brood over a wrong;
Let us lift up our burdens and bear thorn on
bravely,
Wo'll lay them down shortly, It cannot l-o
long.
Then forgive and forgot I If the friends you
love fondly
rrove themselves to bo falao and unworthy of
trust.
Deal with them kindly, for they are but mor
tals,
Erring, like us, for,we, too, aro but dust.
Deal with them tenderly, pity their weakness;
We know every heart hath its evil and good;
Ti o all liavo ono l ather in llcaveu, heuce arc
brothers,
Then let us forgive and forget as no should.
The Alionby Ghost.
Ia all tho village cf Hax >nbolmo
Ihero was no one more nnltkelv to be
tho heroine of a romantic adventure
than poor, plain, little Margaret Heudcr
■on. Howevt r, alio was modest, swect
tempered and moderately clover, and
girls of this kind will always find seme
admirer as long as sensible men exist.
Not that at the time my ctory commen
ces Margaret had a lover; on tho con
trary, she bad always been too busy to
entertain an idea ut once eo pleasant
and so extravagant.
Indeed, there was not much room for
extravagance of any kind in Margaret's
homo. Her father was the only village
schoolmaster, and his salary was cightv
pxrands a year—not a very great income
when there was a large family to sup>-
port ont of it. And unfortunately
Margaret's eldest brother, who ought to
have been a great help to tho family,
was a great trouble—a genuine human
black sheep indeed, who had, however,
finally taken himself away to foreign
pastures.
Mngaret had been his only friend
when he was at home, and it was gen
erally believed that even in his self im
poied banishment ho kept up a regular
correspondence with his sister, but
there were no proofs of this, and Mar
garet nover in any way alluded to him.
But no ill fortune lasts forever. By
dint of hard and persevering efforts
Ma'garet at length acquired an educa
tion which ho thought might warrant
her advertising for the situation of a
governess. This applica'ion brought
her an answer signed, "Alico Selby, for
Idy Alionby." Alionby castle was in
a distant shire ; it looked almost like
going into a foreign country to Mar
garet, but, upon the whole, she pre
ferred it so.
80 Lady Alionby'a terms were at once
accepted, and a week afterword she
found herself standingalonoat thegaUw
of Alionby park. Tho stage-coach had
dropped her and her small I rank there,
and after waiting in the lodge a quarter
of an hour a quiet old lady, driving a
low pony-phaeton, called for her. She
introduced herself as "Mrs. Selby," and
after ome alight apology for not being
there when the coach arrived she re
mained silent.
The caatle stood on a slight em nonce,
and was surrounded cn three sides by
dense woods ; the fourth was open to
the wild boating cf the Atlantic on a
rough, rocky ooast. The entrance ball
struck Margaret as peculiarly dark, vast
and chilly; but they passed quickly'
through it to a small parlor in which a
coal fire was brightly blazing. Here,
over a eup of tea, Mrs. Selby, in as few
words as possible, explained to Mar
garet what she was expected to do, and
what she was expected not to do.
In the flrat place it vu evident that
Lady Alionby might be a myth for
aught Margaret would be likely to see
of her. "She receives no visitors and
has a peculiar dislike to strange faoea,"
eaid Mrs. Beiby; "and ss the left wing
of the castle ia set apart for her use
you wi'l be required on all ocoaaicns to
avoid it"
" And my pupil 7"
" The right wing ia placed at her dis
posal and yours; it ia ample enough to
render any treapaaa upon the center cf
the oastle unnecessary."
" Will not Lady Alionby give me
acme directions about the education of
the ohild intrusted to me f"
" She ia satisfied to leave it to your
discretion. Every week I shall exam
ine what progress baa been made."
There waa a strange air of authority
about the little old waiting woman, and
Margaret sat half-inclined to resent it;
bnt ahe waa somewhat awed by the pe
culiarity of her position, and tho strange
stillness and isolation uf the life into
which ahe bad droppmd.
Perhaps Mrs. Selby wished to teat
faer patience and self-restraint, for she
cnt in silence and impaaeiveness until
the day waa quite dead, and there waa
no light of any kind savo the dull
glimmer of the red coals in the grate.
llien alowly, and with a deep nigh,
"ho lit a candle, and aaid, "Come, if
you aro rested, I will take yon to your
rooms and yonr pupil."
Margaret followed her in a queorly
indifferent mood : all her interest and
cariosity secmod to havo evaporated.
"Ho soon,' she mattered—"so soon
huvo I caught the dream like feeling of
the place." Through long marble halls,
cold and dark, they passed, until they
reached the oastern wing. Hero there
was a broad llight of handsomely
carpeted stairs, which led them into a
suite of splendid apartments. The first
scemod to bo a kind of library and
musio-room; the second, a parlor of
great size, and very richly furnished.
lint Margaret's attention was at onoo
fixed upon a child who was lying in a
graceful attitude on a rug of long whito
silky wool. The fire glowed ovor lier
white cheeks, and made strange glanc
ing light in her silken dross, and
tipped with a rosy hne iho little white
sandals of the tiny lady. Hhe looked
curiously up from her book as the two
women approached her, and when Mrs.
Selby said, "Julia, this is your new
governess," sho stood up and examined '
Margaret with a frankness that had in !
it something extremely charming.
Evidently the scrutiny satisfied her. I
She laid her daintily-mittened band in
Margaret's and said: "You will do, I
shall like yon, I know. Mrs. Selby, you '
may go awav now."
Mrs Selby smiled at the small lady's
air of anthority, but took with apparent j
pleasure her dismissal. Then Margaret j
drew a chair to the fire and sat down, '
determined to await patiently the next
move in this strange life drama.
Julia seemed to havo also vho fame
intention. She sat on a stool in front
of Margaret, studying altc rnately tho
fir,-, a picture in her book, and then tho j
face of her companion. There was i
something uncannily premature in the
elf-like child, oven her wonderful beauty
had an intelligence about it boldly at
variance with tho baby frock and si ken
sandals.
Sy and-bye tho child stepped lightly
across the rug, and laying her open
book on Margaret's knee, said, gravely:
" l)o you believe Robinson Crnsoo ever
saw that one naked- footprint on tho
sands ?"
" No," answered Margaret, boldly.
" I do," said the child, with a posi
tiveneHl that dofl-d contradiction.
" Did yon ever read tho Castlo of
Otranto 7"
" Yej."
"don don't think the castlo was
haunted, eh f'
" Certainly not," answered Margaret,
with a still more decide 1 emphasis.
"Oh, but it was! This castle is
haunted too. You will find that ont;
all my governesses do," said the weird
little woman, nodding her head myster
iously.
Margaret was so oonfosed and
astonished by the calm assurance of
this assertion that sho could think of no
commooplaco that was strong enough
for contradiction, and half afraid of her
eerie companion sho asked, "When do
you go to bed, my lady T
" When I got sleepy. Lan not sleepy
to-night. List night I heard some one
walking about in the next room at this
time. I want to see if they come back
again."
" They 7 Whom do you mean ?"
"I don't know; do you? Alison
ssya tbey are my ancestors. What are
ancestors ?"
By this time a creeping feeling of
fear that ahe could not quite control
took p>oasession of Margaret. She
glanced cautiously behind and around
her; even the strange shapes that the
spider-like legs of the furniture took
in the dim corners of the large room
filled her with a vague, unreasonable
terror.
" Oh, you are frightened I" said the
ohild, in a voioe that was half scornful,
half indignant.
This imputation Margaret stoutly de
nied; bo', in spite of all her efforts to
app>ear indifferent she perceived that
the keen mental sight of her pupil bad
measured her weakness and despised
her for it.
" Touch the boll."
Margaret obeyed, and ilmoat immedi
ately an old woman appeared.
" Yon may put me to bed now, Alison.
I am very much disappointed;" and,
with the shadow of a courtesy sho dis
appeared with her attendant through
one of the many doors communicating
with the parlor in which tbey ware ait
ting.
It waa not a very pleasant beginning,
bnt better came of it than Margaret
hoped for. The dreamy, anperati.ioua
ohild found a kindred spirit in her
teacher. Tboy soon fell into a nurse
of reading which was aa new and fasci
nating to M irgaret aa to the child. The
library waa ransacked for weird atoriea
and poems, and the little lady delighted
in nothing so much as in hearing her
gov -mes* read or recite snob morsels
of baanted literature aa tbe " Ancient
Mariner."
One night tbey bad itood at tbe win
dow watching the great, wavaa of a
rising atom lash themselves into foam
and spray among tho rocks. The wind
wailed pitifully; the rain beat agaiust
tho window panes—it was a dreary
night.
Suddenly she became aware of a
draught of coldor sir, and the next mo
ment of an influence altogether strange
\ and unfamiliar. The child opened wider
| her groat dark eyes, and slightly nodded
at Margaret. In a few moments her
lips parted, and she said, slowly, "Look
up."
Murgarct obeyed her mechanically,
and saw—yes, she was sure she saw—a
wild white face peering in at them, as
a lost spirit might gaze longingly into
some paradise he never oonld enter.
From this time forward Margaret was
kept in a constant and restless uncer
tainty. Tho strangost things wore con
tinually happening. If she loft a book
that she had been reading open at one
place, tho mark wonld bo removed to
somo other part that generally in some
way or other referred to conversations
which she had believed to have only
boon heard hv Julia. Tho child's cloth
ing was changed and removed, her cur
tains parted, and in tho halls and oor
ridors onsido their usual sitting-rooms
flitting footsteps wore often distinctly
audiblo.
Nor was Margaret personally free
from annoyance. Daring her walks
with Lady Jnlia eho was often certain
that tho materials of her work basket
had been rearranged, and on one occa
sion a letter which she was writing to
her brother was taken away, and dur
ing her absence tho following day inys
teriously restored.
She began now to strongly suspect
human agency in all these) annoyances,
and a dreadful fear entered her heart;
perhaps, for some wicked reason or
other, the peoplo around tho little
Julia were desirous of utterly unnerv
ing and destroying the child's mental
powers. It was possible that such a
wicked design accomplished might
place the inheritance in other hands.
"If there is any conspiracy against
this innocent child I shall discover it,"
she said, almost angrily. And forth
with dismissing all idea of supernatural
inflnence or Interference, she set her
self, with a patient will, the task of
meeting this disturbing ghost, whoever
or whatever it might be.
Early in the spring Julia had a dan
gerous fever, and Margaret drew very
near tho chill in this crisis. As soon as
it was possible to move her tho east
wing was deserted for a time, and
rooms in the c.-nter of tho castlo were
appropriated to the invalid and Mar
garet.
Bat though she moved cautiously
and kept constantly on tho alert, she
could not see anything tangible enongh
to accost. Frequently she beard rapid
stealthy footsteps along the corridors,
and one night when the sick child bad
suffered a dangerous relapse slow, heavy
footfalls were distinctly to be board in
the room above them all through the
long honrs of that anxious night
It might bo a week after this, Jalia
was recovering again, and Mrs. Holby
had watched her until after midnight
in order that Margaret might rost
awhile. Then she resigned her place
to tho governess. But a singular fool
ing of nnrest possessed Margaret. She
could not sit still; she glided np and
down tho room, and frequently looked
out of the window and into the long
corridor that went by tho room.
There was a large oriel-window at the
end of this corridor, and in its curtained
recess a cushioned chair or two.
Aa the waning moon l>egan to rise
above the horison thia recess became
perfectly distinot in all its details, and
Margaret noticed particularly that over
one of the chairs was a abawl or gar
ment that looked in the wan cold light
aa if made of somo soft and snowy white
tcxtnre and color.
When she looked again the shawl .had
been removed. She sat calmly down
sod reasoned about thia event, and in
about half an henr again examined the
window recess. The moon shone full
into it now, and reclining motionless in
one of the chairs was the figure of a
man. Without daring to think ahe
advanced cautiously toward it. The
figure never moved. Hue stood at its
side ; ahe examined the wan handsome
face; but the man was evidently in a
deep sleep.
Margtret then returnod to her room
acd wrote:
"I have watched you aleeping to
night, and felt a great pity for you. If
I can help you, return to morrow at tho
same hour. You may trust me.
" JULIA'S OovßuxKax."
For Margaret was now certain that
some wioked plot involving both the
child and tho man was in progress, and
•he was resolved to defeat It.
Tho nest night the moon was later,
and the oriel waa in shadow,"bat there
s%t her visitor. lie bad, thon, noticed
and understood the note she had
laid within his baud. She cautiously
approached him and he rose to meet
her. An hour afterward the pale moon
touched with a strange light the eager
listening face of Margaret, and the pale
handsome tnau, who seemed very un
willing to put with ber.
Then a rapid and beautiful change
came OTcr the grave jdain governess.
Her face grow almost pretty. She
startled the atill rooms with snatches of
song. The child grew rapidly well in
the new vitality aronnd it. And ono
thing was noticeable: Margaret grew
gayi rns night approached; oven Mrs.
Helby saw this and began to watoh her
with a onrions look of suspicion.
Still it was not until tho middle of
August that tho mystery was solved.
Ono warm still night, whon tho heavy
odor of tho honeysuckles llllod tho air,
Margaret, having soon Julia in tho first
dreamless sloop of childhood, stole
quietly through tho deserted chapel of
tho castle into tho thick shrubbery that
snrroundod it. There tho ghost of tho
corridor was waiting for her, and
Margaret was c las pod in his arms, and
kissed and caressed as beloved women
havo always been kissed and caressed by
their lovers.
Perhaps thoy had much to talk about,
for Margaret staid much longer than
usual, and when she reached again tho
old chapel Mrs. Helby suddenly con
fronted her.
" Miss Henderson, whom havo you
boon to moot ?"
" Lord Ilichard Alionby.''
"Ah! You know, then—"
" I know all, my lady ; even more
than you do."
" Whom are you addressing?"
" Ltdy Alibony, Lord Richard's
mother."
" What a traitor my son has been I"
"No, my lady, you wrong him."
"Howdid you discover Lord Rich
ard T
Then Margant truthfully related all
her fright, and the way in which suspi
cion of a mortal presence had oomo to
her. She described their first meeting
in the corridor. " Your son,"' she aaid,
" weary and lonely in his long confine
ment, did mo tho honor to feel inter
ested in my life. Ho watched mo, and
being jealous of some unknown person
to whom I wroto he stolo my letter
and thus discovered that tho brother
with whom 1 corresponded was in tho
service of Colonel John Chaloner.
" What is it that you say f Hpeak
quickly. Does live V
"My lady, I have given Lord Rich
ard this night a letter from him."
" Margaret! Margaret! Then my son
may look the world in the face again?
Ho is net a murderer 1"
"He is waiting to tell you this."
" Rut come with me, Margaret —we
havo evidently one interest in this mat
ter." 80 for the first time in hor two
years' scjoura at Alionby Margaret en
tered tho left wing of tbo castle. It
Lsd l>een for six years the unsuspected
residence of a supposed murder. 80
long ago, in a quarrel with his Cousin
Chaloner, Lord Richard had shot, and
it was supposed killed, his opponent.
Chaloner did not die, but utterly
ruined in credit and reputation, when
be had found himself recovering, he
had persuaded hia relatives to circplate
a report of bis death and provide him
with the means of commencing life
again in Burmah.
What the result might be to his cousin
he had not cared to contemplate, but
certainly, until Margaret wrote to him,
he had never imagined a punishment
equal to aix years' imprisc nraent and
remorse. The general idea had been
that Lord Richard had fled to India,
or, as some said, to Central Asia, and
that Lady Alionby was striving to
atono for hor son's wrong by adopting
and educating John Chaloner's daughter
as the heireas of Alionby.
Bnt the fashionable world had now a
gennino sensation. First the return of
Colonel Chaloner with a large fortune
from Bnrraah, and a few days afterward
it was authoritatively stated that the
L uly Alionby had reopened her Lon
don mansion in order to celebrate the
retnrn home of Lord Richard.
Oreatly to tho chagrin of many fine
matrons Lord Alionby retnrned with a
wife, "an exceedingly plain person,''
ss the Dacheas of Courtney aaid, dis
approvingly. Bnt tho "exceedingly
plain prson" cares very little for snob
criticism. Bhe is the idol of her bus
bsnd's heart, and the mistress of one
of the finest homes in England.
lion Sailors rnll Teeth.
Sailors often suffer from the tooth*
scbe and have to bear the pain as best
they can until they reach the shore.
Ono day a captain seeing a sailor's
taonth in a bad condition, asked the
c*ue. The poor fellow had soflered
si long with a bad tooth that his pa
tenco gave out Then he took a chisel
a'id a hammer and fonnd a comrade
who was willing to cut off the top of
the tooth for him. That asm a voyage
the captain was caught by an aching
tooth, the pain from which became un
bearable. The remedy of the sailor had
proved so much worse than the disease
that the oapttin was nnwilling to try
the chisel. His ooutrivsnoo for ex
tracting the tooth was ingenious thongh
intricate. He fastened a long wire
to a ballet, wliioh he plaoed in his pis
tol with the wire hsnging out. Semir
ing the wire to the tooth, he
opened his month as wids at poas'bla
and fired. His ingenuity waa rewarded,
for the tooth follow* I the ballet into
the air.
Hi fEVriPIC SCRAPS.
Rod snow is a one-celled sphering!
plant, green or red in color, wbioh may
bo incroased by division, and is pro
pagated rapidly in water or melting
snow.
In a year the number of respirations
is, in most persons, over 9,000,000;
and 12i,000 cubic feet of air carried
through tho lungs purifies ft,ooo tons of
blood.
In a uniform temperature Umber will
endure for ages. The wooden piles
on which Venice and Amsterdam are
founded remain aound because of tho
constancy of the oondiUons to which
thoy aro exposod.
Water insects carry air into the depths
of the water by holding it nnder the
wings or legs, or by the minute hairs
which cover the body. This frequently
gives them the silvery appearance of a
globule of mercury.
There is a species of acaci in Bouth
America whoso bark yields twenty per
cent, of tannin. Unfortunately it is
gathered by tho profligate method of
stripping the bsrk as high as a man
can reach, and then leaving the tree to
die.
A curious electrical phenomenon was
recently witnessed during a thunder
storm in France by M. Laroque. Tho
tallest cf a group of lilies was en
veloped in a diffase violet glimmer,
forming an aureole around the corolla.
Tho light lastod eight or ten seconds.
On its disappearance the pollen of the
flower was found to havo been scat
tered, evidently by tho electric fluid-
It is not state! that the lily was other
wise injured by tho remarkable mani
f citation.
A physical map of Japan has been
made which is indeed remarkable. It
is ."500 or 400 feet long, and is made of
turf and rock bordered with pebbles,
which look like so much water. Inlets,
rivers, mountains, etc., are reproduced
in this model. Latitude and longi
tude are indioated, and tho position of
cities. Ingenious devices illustrate
also botanical studies. This map is at
the School of the Nobles in Tokio, and
is constructed in the court behind the
school building.
Inflames of News) • er*.
A school-teacher, who had been a long
I time in his profession, and witnessed
the influence of a newspaper upon the
minds of a family of children, writes
ss follows:
I hsve found it to l>e a universal fact,
without exception, that tbose scholars
of both sexes and of all agog who have
access to newspapers at home, when
compared with those who hTe not, are:
1. Better reader*, excellent in pro
nunciation, and consequently road more
and understamliDgly.
2. They ara better spellers, and de
fine words with ease and accuracy.
3. They obtain a practical knowledge*
of geography in almost half the time it
reqnirea of others, as the newspapers
have made them acquainted with the
location of the important places, of
nationa, their government and doings
on the globe.
4. They aro better grammarians, for
having become so familiar with every
variety of style in the newspapers, from
the common place advertisement to the
finishing and classical oration of states
men, they more readily comprehend
the meaning of the text, and constantly
analyse its construction with accuracy.
5. They write better compositions,
nsing better language, containing more
thoughts—more clearly and correctly
expressed.
6. Tbose yonng men who have for
years l>een readers of newspapers are
alwaye taking the lead in debating eo
eieties, exbibiting a more extensive
knowledge npon a greater variety of
subjects, and expressing their views
with greater fluency, clearness and cor
rectness.
Ureal In Death,
The Uvea of the truly great are sim
ple and void of ostentation. Love of
display no more enters into the daily
life of a genuinely solid man, a pro
foundly in tell actual man, than does
water into the composition of pure
wine. Men of genius and men who do
the thinking for the world dwell for the
most part away and far removed from
the showy things of fashion. They
have no time to enter into the business
of trifles or to mingle in the pastimes
of the butterflies, that love novelty as
a moth doth the glare. Simple in all
things their simplicity is perpetuated
to the ending of life, and even
in their entombment no mocking
display comes to disturb their
going oat from the dwellings of men.
What more simple life can be well im
agined than that of Longfellow—than
that of his friend the poet-philosopher
Emerson? And yet they were great men.
The world pronounces them snob, and
over their newlv-made graves two con
tinents stood in mourning. Mot only in
their works is contained the wisdom
they wrote, bat in their lives as well, and
not the least Important lessen to learn is
the simplicity attending their peaceful,
unostentatious funeral in the quiet
country ohorehyards of Oaaabridge and
Oonoord.— Ow ContinmU.
CLIP PI *OB FOR THE CUKIODB. *
An ostrich egg in considered erjuivaJ
lint to twenty-four eggs of the domestic
lien.
Ante, always waging war on each
other, are said to (liatingaiab friend from
foe by the odor.
Awiaasin, assassinate an 3 their de
rivatives come from hashheesh, the
Arabian word for hemp.
In 1806 certain seeds which bad been
brought from Itrazil in a fleece of wool
germinated after four boars' boiling.
Analyses of pumpkins show that th
rind of the vegetable is nearly three and
a half times as rich in albuminoids as
the flesh.
I'aper mad< from strong fibers oaa
now be oompressed into a substanoe an
hard that nothing but a diamond can.
scratch it.
The largest human skull has a ca
pacity of lit cubic inches, being about
twice the size of the smallest adult
human skull.
A proposal has been made to treat
yellow fever patients by artificial oold
in order to kill the poisonous germs of
the disease.
Ar. English fishng Lost lauded a hali
but weighing 187 pounds, in wbosa
stomach was found a fine salmon weigh
ing twenty pounds.
An American anatomist maintains
that owing to the diminution in hard
knocks and butting the human skull is
becoming thinner.
A strip of land bordering the Medi
terranean, 100 miles in length and five
or six in breadth, is the raiain-produo
ing territory of Spain.
In Western China the mountain Omi,
which has a "halo" and which is in
height 11,000 feet, is almost exclusively
inhabited by linddhist monks.
The art of iron im lting was known
in England daring the Roman occupa
tion, and steel working was practiced
there before the Norman conquest.
The common synonyms for the Devil,
Old Nick, Scratch and Harry, are all
derived from Finish or Scandinavian
terms Nickel, Sohrat and Hari or
Herra.
Arkansas nasa mineral spring whose
wslcrs turn as red as blood when bot
tled, and Kentucky has an oil well from
which refined petroleum, all ready lor
domestic use, profusely gurgles.
It is a curious fact that there is now
running in Alsace a petroleum refinery
which is supplied by wells dug by hand
to the oil bearing rock, instead of be
ing bored as is done in this country
and the whole industry of producing
and manufacturing has been in the
bands of one fsmily and successfully
conducted for over one hundred and
fifty years.
A Hint for Sleeper*.
A plenty of bresthing space round
one's bod, remarks the Christian Union,
can l>e only an advantage and benefit;
and it is raggtwted that some of the
" morning dullness " and actual head
ache so often complained of may be
traceable to sleeping close to the side
of the room and breathing all night the
air reflected from the wall.
A physician was lately called to pre
scribe for a young lady. Ihere was
"nothing the matter" with her aba
declared, " nothing bnt a terrible head
ache." Erery morning she awoke with
a headache and it lasted nearly half the
day. It had been going on for months
, —ever since they moved into their new
house. The doctor tried all the old
remedies and they all failed. Riding
and archery were faithfully tested, study
uid practice were cheerfully given up.
Nothing did any good.
•• Will you let me see your bedroom?"
asked the doctor one day, and he was
shown up into the prettiest little nest
imaginable.
Nothing wrong about tbe ventilation.
The windows were high and broad, and
were left open every night, the patient
said. The bed stool in one corner
against the wall.
"How do you sleepf" says the
doctor.
"On my right side, at the book of the
bed, with my face to tbe walL Lou lit—
the front best."
" She does P says the doctor. ' So,
do I. Will yon do me the favor to
wheel that bed into the middle of tbo
room and sleep so for a week ? Then
Ist me know sboat the headache."
Tbe middle of the roosa, indeed t
And there wars the windows on one
aide, and the two doors on the other
aides, and the mantel with its Macramn
lambrequin on the fourth aid*. There
was no place for the bed bet just where
It stood, in the corner.
" Never mind, saenfio* your lambre
quin," urged the doctor; "just for *
week, you know."
The lambrequin was eaortflsed, tbe
bed moved where it had free air an
both sides, and the heeloobe disap
peared. _____
The Alitor who was as ted by a "bash
ful subscriber'• if he could tell him
" the first step toward matrimony " and
replied " mis step," was either s pun*)
star or e horrid old .bachelor,—Mo nfc
teim Htraid.