Ap i RE "WAS IT FLIRTING? Iwas engaged to Angelina Melville, and 1 onare myself the luckiest man living. Angelina was so handsome that no stranger over saw her without ex- pressing admiration, and one did not weary with the face after years of famil- farity with it. She was well bred, ac. complished and a great heiress. 1 had reason to believe that she was very fond of me. No man could be more content than 1 was, as 1 leaned back in the first- class earriasge which took me from Glas. w into the country to the Vale of sruix, where Twas to preach a fow Sabbaths. The pulpit was vacant, and 1 was going to try my wings, With my seuniary prospects 1 scarcely thought 1 ould care to nccept a call to the Vale of Cruix, but I had no ‘objection to fill- ing its pulpit for a few weeks, especially as Angelina had gone to the west coast, | bn fy Mary: | tell vou a secret if you will keep it | awhile, Mary.” and Glasgow was warm and stuffy and stupid. ] Casual remembrances of elegant par- | gonages built in Cueen Anne's of a study where the footfalls were ened by Persian rugs, and the doors draped in jortieres of velvets and a desk, carved richly as confessional, Litted through And I theught also of a with silver and rere china, with a at is head wio resembled a And 1 breathed a luxurious sigh awakened my knowledge that the Cra’ were ce ng shouted the plattorm, ani that the train was com mg to a stand-till I seized my traveling-bag from tix rack overhead and burried out of carriage. 1he porters had just pulled four or five tri old wagons sie by an oll woman in a sun-bonnet, other by a red hired LOY With bar f wir hnock-kneed cerer old gig, some mind, my queen. i us I Pron olit on horse, Wis Lite distance happiness went my companions on 1 former put Lis trunks kissed the old woman in the sun-bou took the reins and droveaway. He evidently the son of the home to spend his vacation, The of the trumks and mother, father, little boy, nurs and baby—were putin the wagon al driven off by the boy When the train moved left alone on the platform—alone but for the station-master, who sat upon a bench smoking a clay pipe. In a moment more the official. without looking at me, the remark: “Deacon Stevenson has come for the new minister. He's over in the hotel, and will be back in a min ute." “Thank you," said L The station-master took no notice of me, but having elimbed up 8n a stool and made some changes in a time register on the wall of the station, locked the door, put the key in his pocket and sauntered away down the railroad. 1 took his place upon the bench and waited. In a few minutes a prim little old gentleman appeared upon the top of the hill, carry- ing in one hand a tin ean, in the other a tin pail, and under either arm a brown paper parcel. 1 knew at a glance that it was Stevenson. “Are you Mr. Mactaggert?’ he in- quired, mildly, as he approached. “I want to know. [ hadn't any expecta tion of being kept so long; but, you see, it saves the women folks trouble to fetch things when I drive to town. Step in, won't you! I'll just bang this parafline ile on otind. Some dislike the smell maybe you do. The sugar-loaf tea and coffee can go under the seat as well as not. How's your health, sir, and how do you like Vale of Cruix?”’ 1 answered that my health was good, and that I had not, as yet, seen much of the Vale of Cruix. “No, you haven't,” said the old gengle- man. ‘Well, youll drive through it now.” And he shook the reins and the old horse began to stumble along. And on we drove past certain rows of brick houses very much like each other, and with the same flowers in their front gardens, until, having passed the church, we came to one happily set about by old oak trees, before the gate of which we drew up. A girl stood at the gate—a fair girl in a blue muslin dress and white apron. “Take the sugar, Mary, before it gots upset,” said the deacon. “This is Mr Mactaggert, that's going to preach for us. Mr. Mactaggert, this is my daughter Mary." We both bowed, with the parcels. “# hat a lovely creature!” myself. “Nothing like Angelina, but so pretty!” And | found myself thinking of hor as | washed and brushed my hair in the blue-walled bed-room on the second floor, with white-fringed counter- panes and eurining, and two black silhouettes over the mantelpiece, on either side of the china vases of roses, There were only four of us at the table-~the deacon, his wife (a stout lady who never said more than she could help), Mary and myself. Mary bad spent the last winter at Glasgow, and we talked about all she had seen. She was self-possessed without being for ward, oh, so ppktty Now, Ange. lina was splendid And queenly: so this was mild praise shat she could not have objected to, only | said it very often, 1 oi the next Sunday. It was settled that 7 should spend the summer there. 1 wrote this to Angelina: “Since you cannot te with me, it does no! mat’ cr where I am-—this stupid place as wel' as any other. Address to the care of Deacon Stevenson. 1 shall re preach here.” Was ] $y the ity away made and she vanished said I to How motherly was Mrs, As for Mary, she Sweeter every day. 1 cften wondsrel Angelina would have said could she styiel i soft | { autumn, Mary,” 1 said chairs | old | | DGITY me, table spread i Lady | | sare married 1 | good you have been to me day-dreamn to a ¥ “ ; words "yale of | | he'd i bowl of Pea hes the | : | ks on the platform. Two | od in the road, one driven | the | A young man | Ler it and a aity family | family, come | gin rest | I was | was a lamp with 8 green paper shade. Now and then a big bug would fly into the window and go humming about our heads, or a moth would try to singe its wings over the chimney, and I would drive it out. The old re ¢ would go to bed after awhile, and then Mary and 1 would find ourselves hungry, and ghe would go into the kitchen to find sbmething good. Talways held the light for her; and when something good was found we ate it in the back porch, sitting side by side on the step like two children. She was so like a child, that little Mary, that it seemed no harm to ask her to kiss me good-taght, or to hold her hand in mine as it rested on my arm in our long walks home from church on Sunday evening. The summer passed; October came; Angelina returned to the city and wrote tome. It was while we were eati peaches and cream in the back pooh that evening that 1 said to Mary: “I will for Soh, of cource I will, Mr. Mactag wy be married this “Those preity letters you always thonght came from my sister are from the lady who is to She is very beantiful, very very stylish, but very kind, You must come and see us, Mary, when voo hall tell Angelina how what a sweet little sister 1 have found ont here in the Vale of Cruix. Why, Mary ! “1 am goin to Fic, For, as | spoke, 1 felt the Little haud | | hy gis N ih | heavy in mine. 1} oe inal sagaeity. china | and eream slipped with | ground and was shattered | cold and aw her sink backward. The big a crash to the 4 UA, I ean ime to herself mr rself, i been baking k. And But 1 did not sx he next. Sh not well end now stu little Marv! 1 felt very miser Hogrever, Angelina met me at | Si more beautiful than | ore ¢legant in contrast to my and ge Was untry friend —and very soor Hut I though missed os, exactly I wrote “to ANSWer was very “I haven't much t said in her nd besides being iv I am anxions.”’ Ties letter was day when Angelina ai : bazar for burch of St. Matthey After we had roamed and bought all sorts of corted Angelina to a sen down to wait while on who, postset [£1 ¢ the Ld Eat “on this occasion « hard wo tray of refreshments, As we sat there sipping our cole women sat down at thy next tab their backs to us. “1 am very tired, Bussell?”' And the other answered “Yes, I am tired it is worth the way from Vale of Cruix to Glasgow sight : SefIng. Food, CNETous, s with I don't est neighbor and I liked and rospected her, yet did not feel quite sure how An gelina would like an introduction, #0 refrained from making royself known. “1 think we'd better have tea,” the voice: “it's more refreshing than offee. Oh, how is Mary to-day! Think of my never asking before.” “Mary is poorly,” said the Vale of Cruix. I don’t Mrs. Stevenson was about to let him ra he did! ing Mary. ovid him dearly. he went gaged to some girl afraid it's broken her heart, me all about it. ‘Oh, «he said, 'l know I ought to be ashamed, but I can’t help it. He peomed to like mie 80. | hope | shall die of this fever, for life is nothing to me.’ Ashamed! Why, it is he who ought to be ashamed. in Glasgow, She told Of all the things, a minister to be a cold, | Hugh | cruel flirt. And that is what Mactaggoert is.” I listened, but I could speak. 1 felt as was breaking: and oh, the time | suffered! not The women drank their tea and left, and | then Angelina turned to me with a cold, | sarcastic smile, “I see by your face that the little story is perfectly true, Mf. Mactaggert,”’ she said. “Angelina,” 1 faltered, “I have done nothing that should give offense to you." “Nothing but love another woman," she answered. ‘Love her, and let her see it, meaning to marry me. Don't think I'm hurt; indeed, | am relieved! I should have kept my word to you but for this; but not so gladly as I once should. You are a very good-looking man, but on the whole you don't suit me, | mot Mr, 8. at Millport, and he does. Frankly, I have been thinking what a pity it was that I must decline his ates As ny Silla-cfary, is it not! «wouldn't she make a Haine Ister's wifel” ery It eame to my mind that she would that she was the only wife for me; that Angelina, splendid as she was, wonld never have made me nappy: Bat 1 only said, “Miss Melville, if you desire to have your freedom I have no i ” hild in my arms, | { not mght that | i | with ir f | meager scraps of newspapers which had | meager scraps of 1 papers which ha i treasured like gold | out, put together, 1Wo | | party was are you not, Mrs, : | think that while to come all the | { such as contains This was the voice of Stevenson's near. and | looking round and | | ers find this disposition of the fruit t« said | | bel. Mrs. Russell. | “Oh, Mra, Cullen, what a pity it is that | flirting young minister came down to | know what | do | We all thought he wascourt- | She did, poor child. She just | And the day before | away he told her he was en- | I'm | Aunty Russell,’ | move or i though my heart also | tor of the church at the Vale © rutx, Mary is my wife, and wc are lain and quiet # pair as you coul ancy. '1even help my wife pick cu rants, and I have taken a turn at the garden when help was scarce. But 1 do not vnvy Mr, 8. his wife nor pine for the luxurious possibilities that I lost with Angelina, Mary and my little home content me, But one thing is on my conscience: 1 have never been able to ask myself the question, *Did I flirt with Mary?” Uf not, what was it? The Intelligent Jay Bird, {Nature ] The following instance of animal in- tetligonce may interest some of your renders: While walking through the forest here the other day, 1 found a voung jay upon the ground scarcely able to fly. As 1 stooped to examine it | was somewhat startled by a swoop made at my head by the old birds, their w.ngs actually touching my hat, De- termined not to be driven away, I re- | mained by the young bird, whereupon a | snecession of like swoops were made at | I easily succeeded in | the | different | my head. Thes parrying with my stick, although old birds frequently came in directions. After a couple of miKutes the old birds seemed to have come to the | conclusion that nothing could Ix achieved in this fashion, and one of them, flying to some little distance, kept calling to the .younger one, who half hopped, Half flew to her, 1 of course followed, and now occurred what secmed to me a striking instance The pines here are covered with lichen and a long, hairy kind of moss, which easily crumbles into dust. The cock bird pe rehed him If in a tree over my head, and began peeking with wondesful rapidity at thi ich i the moment | hen and moss, so thal 1 5% 2 " fine dust fell on ked up a shower ol As 1 followed the young bird he old one followed nx my nce. , got on a branch and sent g 3 08 Cl we LO me : FE ower of dust ubt that the me th n instances like HE LM parent knowledge of the organ of visior means of injuring it—beet the iced In Jays befor Another Mystery of the Arciies, [Cleveland Leader.) ely party sailed July 7, lays after President Garfiek he last news they received at and thes More that 7, 1881 i Wis enoouraging etit off How-men, been used for WIAPpIDG paper wer They were spread and eagerly scanned : Pres’ lent Arthur uded to, and Wis & they then knew the fatal assassin's shot: The loss of the Jeannetts was mentioned, and they supposed the entire crew had perished. The word “dude” appeared in the print. as a stunner. They had never heard before, and many and sharp were the controversies regard One of the first interroga from the throats of the feelde as they saw approaching the réscuing “What is a dade?’ jssue of tie ng its signification 5 uttersd SUrvivors Fruit Packers' Secret, [Chiengy Newn] There is one little secret to packers in regard to fruit canned or | preserved with the pits remaining in, or where ger minating qualitis are not readily killed by steaming. Every who has any Know ledge of preserving knows that in the springtime preserved f from the winter is apt to ferment. Pack large seeds One ¢ lafs i AFUE over bubble and sour a great nuisance and loss, for each fancifully labeled ean must Le rescalded to the destruction of the ia germinal instinct of reproduction mak ing itself manifest in the fruit seed Many fruits, such as peaches and plums, | have a without removing the pita iner flavor by being preserved When they are put up in this way attention should | be given to them from time to time to | see whether or not any symptoms of fer mentation is shown, and if s0 the firs should be recooxe i He Practiced, Puck.) ‘What isthat drab ou,eet hanging from the lower limb of that apple tree! askod a dude of a freckled country boy “That,” saxd the boy, “is a sort of foot ball that we strike to make cur ‘muckie big." “May I try it?" asked the dude, “I guess #0," replied the boy, as he moved off a good distance So the dude drew back and drove his fist right into an old-fashioned hornets nest and got his sleeve chuck full, Send a 2-cent stamp, with your nam and address distinctly written, to ths by if you want anything like a true! picture of the finale. We are not equal to the task. Three Letter's Charm, ‘Bill Amp) I reckon there must be some charm in three letters all ake and in a row, for a colored friend of mine came the other day and says he, ‘boss, if you is gwine to town 1 wish yg would take dis her dollar an’ get me some medicine, my ol ‘oman is right puny and don't have ng appetite to eat nothin’ and I want you to get ber some ehronic medicin'; some thin’ with three Intters on it all in a row Three B's, or three B's, or three X's o some other letters all alike. 1 think it will help her.” Well, I forgot it and t him back his dollar and his This 1" : woeli-xnown | That fermentation is caused by the | ! A HUGE ELECTRIC EEL. How It Was Brought from South Amercica=indians Killed by It. {London Daily News. ] A very interesting addition has re- cently been made to the zoological gar- dens in the shape of an electric eel— gymnotis electrieus. It is. said to be nearly six feet in length, and must therefore bo one of the very largest specimens of its kind, Those who re member the palmy days of the old Polytechnic may recollect a diminutive electric cel which used to deal out very decided shocks to visitors who had the temerity to touch it, and which use to kill, or at any rate to stun, the live fish which were put into its tank for food. The newcomer is altogether a more formidable fellow, and when he has time to recruit after the long voyage from South America, during which he was rather cruelly celled in a vessel in which he could not move without chaf- | ing himself raw in several places, it will be anything but wise to venture on any liberties with him Humboldt, when in the native of this fish, in and Colorado, measured five feet five inches in length, but though the Indians said there i were larger, he himself saw none, The captive in Regent's park is no doubt | therefore a very big specimen, and there can be little doubt of its power Humboldt thought that the of the locality referred home about the Rio some that were Indians of ‘ {to had exaceer ated ideas on this doubt had had while the illustrious traveler | have prudently refrained from | the mutter except in the ease of {in a somewhat exhausted condition. admits that it wor | RE One s sell and sty thou large and Hae within life being the wood man I'he Indi when they war ROUTE THe oo and mules ponds wu and #0 vie pent-up | and thoug! large one, he says from an large Leyd discharge than he He was affected al pain in every joi its body It seems generally a ie electric fores of this fish is closed with a violent reed 3) tality, and as the new arrival is as yet only in a com paratively poor condition, perhaps no great harm would result from bodily contact with it dependent on its general Better Than a Good Gymunasinm, {David Swing in Weekly Magnzine | After all written and spoken about | health and exercise, after all the imple {ments for making muscle have been {guthered into a heap and carefully ied and tested, the best gymnasium for a city man or a city won is an | acre or two of ground. Wher pos- | session of such a piece of earth is im- | possible, or where one has no annual va | cation for living upon said land, our ar | gument comes to naught Those persons must accept dumbbells and Indian clabs, or the Can go to hotels and summer resorts each | year the possession abd culture of a few | acres is the resort perfect. The fashion | able watering-place is a miserable tonic | compared with this atiack upon the goil, Acres upon a lake or river, because | water has a purifying effect upon the i air, also cools the air, will generate no dust, and then, what 15 s0 valuable to i the health-socker, it offers the mind va riety of scene and pursue and also per petual beauty, Nothmg il e | for pleasure i Pon it gin boat or sail-boat, The waters ripple a wekrome as though glad you have come Ihe wir fans you the me ause it can move upon a level surface. Pulling ut the oar or handling the sail ropes is an exercise which awakens the heart's When n mortal swings In an 1h but tens of thousands who Yom we IX enthusiasm dian elubs he shuts himself up in a room and acts as sadly as a blind borse in a | bark-mill, but put the same mortal in a row-boat on Lake Button or Lake Lily or Lake Bear or Wolf or Fox, with the shady shores near by and transparent water under the boat with a magnificent | cunrise or sunset on the horizon, and the nervous power of the body comes | back until the worn-out man of 50 sings Land rows and rows and sings as though | thirty years had been removed from his | past account with nature, A Huge Dredging Machine, [Chicago Herald) The dageest dredging machine in the world has been finished and will be used on the Sacramento and San Joaquin swamp lands in California. She has been named Thor, and modeled after the best dredges now in ase on the Isth- mus eanal, cutting out a channel and building a levee at the same time. The Thor is 101 feet long and 61 foot wide, and hos 84 iron buckets with a capacity oi cubic yards each, which can be filled and emptied fourteen times per minute, The Quotation Nulsanoe, (Pall Mall Gasette. } Will no eritic of eminence raise a pro- test against the quotation nuisance! A flutes desire to quote ys especially anyth ymes Ne Soging like an epidemic among our and ministers seem a { many ve | Dutt’ College, No, 4 bh Avénue, TI Bollofont Marbls NEW GOODS, JTALNG AlL OY guenae DISEASES LN ATCH. SORES, PIMPLES AHPELAS, ING WORM, JHHEY Le NEW GOOLS ARE DAILY ARRIVING AT Tne proms are molsture, stinging ching, worse at 4, tering as il pinewe Ans were ergwling shout 4 ut; the private parts ary often affected. Asa anit, economical and positive curs, Beayne's OiwyseEs tbs superior to aay article in the market. 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