Market TFerriby Grammar School boasted of a rrench professor one John Henry, English by compulsion, French by birth and training. Every body could see that by his manner, his dress, his tall, furry French hat, his silver buckled French shoes. He was a diminutive, courtier-like gen- tleman, rather shabby on his pittance of a hundred pounds a year, but none the less proud of his ancestry, We believed him to be of royal blood. Yet we did not show respect, even for his attainments. Indeed, with his in- significant stature and his mindedness, he was something of a butt for raw jokes. 1 remember so well the winter (for It led we to her who has become the light of my lifey when be straved thonghtless!y nto the midst of a snow-ball fight be tween classes on the school green, Both sides joined in the attack, and the old professor was well-nigh un conscious when I resened him, set him in a hansom, and took hi to his hone A tiny cottage, on a corner near the outskirts of town, where the river drive swept into our little park Ww often I remembered it in after days. There Adelaide and her father spent their quiet, happy life, The professor was | his books: the daughter moved quietly around the house, or attended her fo So it was when 1 called a few later to inquire to Mr. condition, The Christma were on, I bad ample le what a team love and leisure For two years ‘more Ferriby wis heaven. did myself credit in certain although the professor told me ly that 1 was so well posted in « nl others that he would not find it nec- essary to examine me, which explana- my parents swallowed without hesitation, 1 I falled in any I mn coufess my greater Interest at the lit- tle cottage. 1 good hours studying a pair of eyes a pretty face and the kind of that makes yon think. I graduated with two : &- heart and absent. mn s } A DHsOroed I ias tion spent a ROSSions nest dooryard, and gave thelr tribute up she Nelghbors daughter him exclaim to some one else—~"I go back The Biv « to another and run to twice picked thelr blossoms, suld the professor und his left suddenly, Some one had come since Vihes heard to my kingly rights, | arch,” hat was all, clutched at my throat, hteen. Do you wonder I cried a lit tle? I went great new for One mornin found American ! York to the little kingdom of Barrat aria, an island the northern The writer great fetes in little 1 sind souls the return ing a nn Ol soe Then m wt Wis i clture aia a won Paris Rp pers studied months past in a year Herald, {io and ence told years b went sick, for of little Adelaide, e's daughter, wearin ress with Cars I'he old ove packed my Barrataria re foanian viiled plain, built up nees and warebous I-to-do, Many mds of hy ring their packag of nder open sheds, or frame barns. ira J per] 4 an Fis da Wm Something I was hardly the old refer BONS, the over , driven out dur | fore, there as Z 4 quaint gold ornaments de. ight and in \ naed, Others ‘KISSED HER think I far out valned there never was another none ever w But nal home, Charter's blood on the face of th leather strap awaitin 1 deviated ful month in France tion of the them of my engage and my desire to marry ately and | blow over” 1 sald to n self ing at love letters from Adelaid writing her a stream of tender re plies. Then I got mad. Vor she told me her father, old Henry, bad thrown a fit when she spoke of her contem- plated wiat he son ~~) tempest nent pring her Co-Operative as | chased back to Ferriby and dropped dn at the about tea time I ate an fo i Cid Henry's manner chilled me to my spurs, and 1 could think of nothing but army gossip, for I had graduated into an organization of prospective army oflicers, Then 1 broke what I wanted, while Adelaide dis ereetly withdrew, He was a stone | post to my entreaty, my demand, my storm. So as | had put pride benen th my heel, and could not give her up. 1 offered him a home, an annuity an Indefinite leave of absence, with pay and expenses—any old plan that would give a falr exchange for his sorrow. He shook his head. He even swore at me In French, And then he called ber In and made her dismiss me, though she did It In tenrs From India to Africa, from lee to equator, 1 moved about through Eng- lsh Army Stations. We were on a tour of England's outposts—one of the first school trips of the young officer, I attained new grades and donned new uniforms I added stars and bars, cords and fringe. 1 bad be come a real soldier. I even got Into some serimmages with the blacks In Egypt—-a gang of robbers who inhab- fted nn abandoned city, And after five years knocking about, I returned to England, But my heart was still at the little cottage, and thither I House and told him loose {lenving my uniform | morning —1 un welit on the first train, It was empty. Adelaide's «chickens inhabited the atier | I went I'oward mornh by gun firing nmediately, to | IL 5d wth, ne neck of in the i ramble of ¢ : of my | lide or no J Officer cann mist of civil wir \ merely opera bouffe among th as nd ina lk } hing ISI " Adelaide, an ot rest su 1, portman tenn, In the dark-for not yet d with the erowd and eanght the drift of the revolution. They were tired of old John Henry now gracefully styled Enrique XVIL For a time his return to Barrataria was the occasion of festivities and brilliant ceremoniais, Now they wanted a young man, There was Trastamara, Adelalde’s distant cousin He was of royal blood and fall of fire. Why not make him king And I found by questioning that Trastamara, the gambler and sport of the Island, was Inying wires along de vious paths to accomplish just that end, forcing the abdiention of John Henry and-how It floored me tak ing Adelaide as his queen. angel Trastamara's wife I would wet my sword In the vfilain's blood and carry off the prize myself, I saw that action was necessary if I were to accomplish anything, and the next day, early in the afternoon, attired in full uniform, made my way to the palace. It was surrounded by the K x guards, with Instructions to admit only the annointed, My highland garb, with kit and sperran, tartan and feather bonnet, was un- 1 ground | my teeth, Booner than see that sweet | known in Barrataria and attracted some attention, 1 represented myseil us 4 distant relative of the royal fu: ily on an important ulssion, and after bribing the guard, was permit ted to send fo my cards Preseuuy the guard returned, aud bowing low eutreated me to follow hi, 1 passed through the marble halls of the palace, and wus ushered luto a dimly-lighted drawing-vrovim. And n few minutes entered Adelaide, my own, my daring, holding out hands and smiling her greeting, 1 took her to my heart. 1 covered her dear face with Kisses, were quieted, 1 told her how | found her and why I had come. insisted that it was no use~that it only made her jot harder to bear, She had been ordered by the king to wed Trastamara, ‘the gambler, though she loathed him, “ub, Gregory,” sin sobbed, “if we could only be back in the little cottage in Ferrvivy. All the bitter sweet of those days the hunger for my sweetheart, the in frequent glimpses of her dear face, the haunting fear of Trastamara's schemes, For two weeks I rewalined at the hotel, while the revolution smouldered, and 1 racked my brains for a method of rescaling Adelaide Then my plan formed, 1 gat still and awaited the crucial moment, It wus the night of the Grand State Ball, With a doubtful heart, I ente full uniform, wil sword, Before many minutes I w summoned by Adelnwie’s Ch lain to meet her the iid thither I went fora b with my beloved, Near by ng } ) y, stood "Irast rk-browed desperado, hough he Knew I al hundred trusty palace and out, re is call. He had pia out | scheme that i r all tl had annual somewhat red the palace, in i # rt Hoole tibet dancing-hall, in not , and I, alone and ali i i wus there to balk b After our dance, 1 wad an opporiu to draw Adela ide I abjured her to to England-to len oe w th all Is bit Kel gu, aid be my bonnie “But father,” she would tear him to pieces we gone, And yet, helleve id go If + is #0 feeble ost inj into the ool KO Will ings on Ena faltered; if they fo reg creation. On sud threw ote arm kissed her passionately all. Then, owd: "The princess Is my afflanced i I oried let him who dare wi on this platform!™ a Impulse | and them den For facing tis soutl ees ar y owl *n waiting closed wit} but old } oh H : Sn Shon Join Henry H wking very odd It » and bare head--shor gly habiliments,. Pat n the face of the crowd, | wore alone, exactly hat 1 wanted, | side Ads de, Clos d 11 the driver to maks the southern Iu at top| , and we were off without a sin pursner, A moment Inter the king eame at {me with knotted, blood thirsty fingers He was In a fearful mage. I met him nif-way with my fist beneath his chin. He doubled up like an jack | knife and knew no more untill we were lon the mainland, in a fast train for Paris, reeling off the miles between Hell and Heaven. Henry took it unkindly, but In time he beenme grateful to me for saving his life For it was really planned that night to make way with him and to turn Adelaide over to Trastamarn Adelnide’'s elickenas have come hack, singing: the vines eurl up with delight: and the flowers bloom them selves to death, all for the lady In the little cottage, Od Henry Is In his heaven—the library: Adelaide Is In hers, the nursery. I am busy and {eontented. I have fought the good fight; I have won my queen, i Preservative For Stone. 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Lord Glamis, son of the Iarl | i eptember und the "Haunted Room” was communicated to him by kis father This has been an invariable practice on such ocea- sions [ron time Immeworial, What pecret of the supposed to be passed on to heir us he attaing his majority of never more than two persons at the same the, Conjecture an gay, however, that in when the Lindsays and Ogilyles were at feud a number of Inter clan were imprisoned and died in that par. tienlar chamber That the uncanny peculiarities voud a doubt, for the Strathmore had it walled up ting the apartment o ig termine the origin of certain which, It | tid, had for time disturbed and puzzled | opened the door rote a correspondent “and dropped into the could on wditions ngo, the room has appears to lute Lord after vis- ty hi noises lari back In his cor nd cs arms of he ever the subject experiences of a lady tle are quoted in he lips about it sy great Berlin sp t, Bir Alfred Fripp took a photograph f the intured bor ) f 1 h showed that tl bad as evet it was the agony ext ; ’ 1 Mrs | she is able to drive out ey pen Carriage Mr i ) i rd a the execu! f thu + Pp rewarded will be Ie \ en his Majesty the most exh formation As everyhody vard all formation wants fo ol ki the Sultan formation, | Encouragement to Young Writers, To voung and ambitions writ become discouraged at ance and non-aj Aran ct ] to thelr accepted ar esting to know what Stedman writes In a cur that Mr, Fields of the At nee advised him t stuff, which had !} Hehed state for five adds that one of his far the non-acrept ' ’ us Rm seven years before into print, — —— ———— The Green Prevailed, A green little hoy in a green little way A green little apnle devoured one day, And the green little grasses now ten derly wave O'er the green little apple boy's green little grave, ——— The oldest tombstone in New York Is in Trinity Churchyard. 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