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I .11 UAU .1 a. u.t-. it' I i ti i-'. . tiia f,- A t '.,nv t'..j i;eil of the c "loy.ii" aXir.a have u'. l tuiil an 1 srt tht ,a ru.id U'.i.U upward .!ic :ifU'rnixia In the t tu.tn a:id a woman, that vaiiiu, ilu'.icious lniiU lime of the i irtli t'n sunshine i a jjo'ideu si?:i. ;, w l.i': ' .-I i .l-; - i i . r i Ll.e t.'V.i:. v:i i;. i i in a: :.l trt-e, .. ot i slr..:j:it a-i a va.i.i:. ra,- l:t-f L'llll. Il.lt'.tlfl .'. from :! ill ec-! .11' .S'.ii With t-Vef. w::ii !. -! i' r.j-.ui- As '."; "i i 1.1. s ti p. .1 in ta '...wer v.:.u.' l'I m r.l.ni. ;.i ; l I'a-.' v. !lh her, but uniwiuei.t, t'.oio b?iii4 v i i his sajlit, woll-built :. of nervous force. :!.e,I the r:vT ai.d started t i'i.irJ t!'e mlil ihe g r'. i.. v iire.ia;. I Ulllit r ees full on l.lut as a half f r'.Shteue 1 c.i. . of that lu.le-cr.ba'.i 1 1 or y m-y, I. tit winch i: i.i-d tl .l a. by Southern i :;-cl of the ir turt e e char oil Te it her k in : f.en'4, and save a t; m to the small, some- I'V fie t v. s-t ..... I . r.i! '. is i a. y t uu:.... alal 'i-.J-ti ilir'H': wa.- Ml.irl..: l-cul:..r l.i-" at r,.u-: .'.ri'.it NVi.at Uia'au.?" he "W! know I.Vft? J i caul dr.. i;, .iter y. u . .'T.T, II V..:-t t He vory inie-tiy, "d n c yo-i rid o the San M.trcm Well, old r-opie say that if you . i that Indian tu.uden who ,1 l.irr.f here, and sen the d.i:W l.-l .r'.f l where she J..lun,-ed m, !! u.ift trouble b f.re the day is :. ' i i. t n'i;Lt I ureauied of ht-r , i d t her with an Irri: Liu: a:. I :i answered, teasiUiTly : I. ici.i, are y.i'i really so ihi ..u i.mcy that If jou y .;u r 'u j. hi will out il". he laughed out , l..e !.i-. arc like hive at 1 Il uu I l.ars. liui . th.it the V'-m flsteis in the river amwav. I Wi M .',1 1 m : vY' W :. iU ill cL.M.sli. alay ...f i. '. c. . ni'.t. '.'. y .. con. i J-i:i-t .! ; il.'u't k:. rvl '! t Lit I r "Y..u w.i:. t.. ..v hither I can avert ail the :.e.r lLahcous tle-iU'UJ or not. m.-e to do my best." tnay in i'm; fun of iu if jou t -ut if I aia uin'i!tititU!i I i ":rt i.eiii i:, IrWi i-r.mJi; uura-';" Am 1 reS'tiu.-;oin lor an ther and an old Crt-ole I i Her V ed, and she turned 1 Uu cm.e i. in t, ail the levity gone outol l.:si,:.i:.....r. Jl1 ' '-:' to wound you. Miss You tail le just ;is fanciful a. )'"U y.iii ou.y say you torsive est.iu', and Won't go my fo.ii.; home." "Wei!." cl.illUl'.!; teia'is.. ' after a lause. and witli a smile, ' I wi.l forgive you i are a man. and they are itil m .ii- i r Ic.-a Inhuman, you know; ' ut Jou n.ii -t ii-it. ever do it Uiiaiu; ami I don't he ., ,. 1 will cj home either" '.. ok:.. .'.ii-.iiuily around "the even i: !s too I. :ie to u.Ke." "Thioii y, u! And, honestly, I tloa't care l,,nv n.uc!i you abuso mv sex so T"ti ar.-h'-ii tome," be add'ed tuen t.;y,?.vi!i the little ear turned toward h:m su.th a i-as.ii. .uate look that if duml) tl.ms cjihd ii,terrret, the birds, and the tr. es, and tho ruunin water would have fieseJ lils carefully KuardcJ IHtiTI-t. Liiil.i firey, watcliinc the changing sluuli.wi .,n t. h!i!s, was unconscious -rthisi.,... After tiaubins the alope they fol eiweil the r.v.-r, ',., -e to its ed.e, intat the "I.nver'ai N.,ok," a natural .-of a in the sl.i'!t,Teil .- .,. .r a h'sh cliff, which probably ret cHc-l its n.une In primitive its it was i.,iw i.iveu over to family I'm ties a:.l !.e L'nrrsl t.ubhc: uu the ky sfe. i ;t ouiei ribaded at.'W-'l to 1' ( I-'i;' t, in t:;.....to reach an old fallen :'". u..;.h ,,;Tind a very luiurlous "".l-al.:. pi.: f.i'i:,; ber Ucs3 oa a thou.y a.-uur.t.i busli. and was field so t'-'--t yt. .i; :l b.t ,.f the pretty rulU-; had f.U'l..lcr I b ahe could V. ai:-I ed ti.virily ovr the uis.ls 'I. alter uiuch ahtipiu; ani it l.n.ihy air.tmred theuiselvea i.nu' ' t: I.. if.iou; slie on the oil w .in h. r hi a I aaiust a ni.i3--f.iv- eie I .. I . I 'iai'. ;n. l he on a flat rock a lew !! I. I.IW. 1 iii.-i.ie 1 1 oil was ciille-l a homely , tnau, t-.it his out it face. witS the clean- Lu,' -tits mid the tk'iis.tive. b-ivisli 4 c.r u, ii;,. ,-. ,v-al lia l M,,v.,o.uin-.''Uiie 1" uUl H.a.il at the auubi'.it was al- I f"'-l L-U.-is.,!,., f,,r j. W;i3 a face liiat te led b.e r.i, of the sun to trinx out . us best tint. t 1 1 e e .-4 i. a .. i , - -. ..in. uiiivi ii 111 iui snaue, iuUU"l raiiaiice that seeuia to warm without blind inn you. ma a rich Eastern color warms, although it ha no heat. They bad a tired, unsatisfied look In tin-in this afternoon, and, despite the peace and beauty of tlie acene, lie set'iued restless and disturbed, lie was in one of what Lucia called bid "com plex moods," when every opposite force in his nature aeeuied to hi at work at one and the same time. Ilia friendship had always been a perplexity to her. Smietimea he would be genUl, uierTy, a most charm In?, good comrade, and then airain cold, sad, and always more or less strange. A straggling youne phyaichin. proud and poor, fighting down for honor's sake a passionate, hopeless love. Small wonder that be aometimes moved as if in a dream, for these con flicts of the heart all the sharper for being noiseless are bound to leave their acara upon the brain. But Lucia did not guess any of this, as a more widely experienced woman might have done, and only wondered that ber friend for be did seem that to her should ba at times so unfriend like. Among men he passed for a light of heart, careless kind of fellow, geniro.is, if a little cold, but always ready to lift a burden far another, though never letting any ono come t.n near his own. They sat without talking for a while, fee' mg siienco was lies: In that lovely spot where one was so close to Xature he could almost f.vl ber warm, odorous breath on his cln ek. lr. Holt was llrst to s,a': 'Miss Lucia. I wonder what you are thinking about? Do you kn w, your thoughts scorn to float in your ejes like fish in a stream, always there just below the surface, but not always easv to seiz-y. It is very tantalizing in you. Yui look as if you had something to impart, and a body gets to wondering and won dering what il is until he finds himself dotni; nothing elso. M really think you oujht to stop it, or else gratify a very blumeless curios ity." She upoiiel lier purple cyea wide, and, ijiviii him one of her lon , inclu sive looks, tvln'li si emed to adopt one into her tliou- its ulna,' w.th the beau tiful things alie.il there, auswered slowly. "Would ou really like to kuow? Why, I was ju;it thinking, if 1 were iiv.li, what great thiiis I would do for Uus river. It is terriblo to be poor, isn't it. There are ao few thiu s you can do." lie leaned forward, picked up a stone, ana threw it into the river. "Y'es, it is terrible to be poor. I soui. times wonder what good excuse a poor man can olter for living." II is tone was so bitter that the u'.rl ma le hast-.4 to sav: "You shouldn't talk that way; It is wicked. "Shouldn't I? Well, irhaps not. s aiietiody does say that poverty comes by llvine gift as well as riches, mi l I s'lfiHise it is inten le-l as a sort of en.t nn. I for one's supt-rrluoua pride; but vtl.rii tat-ei jtain - m u. man's nature 1 seems to run into thatlhrreis not much of the iHvor fellow left by the time the , grinding is over. There Is one thing, I however," straightenins himself u;i I and looking across the river, "that is 1 unpardonable, and that is for a man j without money or prospects o money to indulge hnuse'.f in that madness of j the heart called love. He should keep that orgau empty until his pockets are i tilled, for a full heart and a slim purse ! are an illmateM pair. Anyother course is sheer lunacy, and should be a p'.ea sufficient for imprisonment la the asylum for idiots." He paused a luomeut for iucia to answer, but aj she did not sjieak he continued in the same? strain with whimsical persistence, jeering at love and lovers, and especially at those silly folka "who married for a sentimeut, with nothing substantial to feed It on, cr themselves either, for that matter." Mill Lucia did not Interrupt him. He kept his eyes fixed on the fields to the south, and seemed unconscious of the vehemence of his words. "A man commits a wrong when he asks a girl to marry him and has noth ing to give her but his love. It is utspieable in him, and sinfully weak in hi r to permit it. It is her 9imple duty to refuse him, as she would a confirmed drunkard or any other incurable. "This 'bread and cheese and kisses' sentiment will do very well for a novel ist to use as a peg ou wuicu to uang a lot of sentimental twaddle; but it will not do for practical life. And In this I w )ild we have to be practical. "A girl ouht to marry a man who can provide for h?r, and if ahe has I choice between a rich suitor and a poor one, she will be very ailly indeed to let a foolish fancy that anybody can out live ataud in the way or ber future well, comfort, or whatever tho modern name for happiness is." There was a curious strain in his voice toward the last, and be tried to loosen it by a forced laugh, aiding, as if to himseir, "God must have been In tended exclusively for the poor, for they can love Him, at any rate, without committing a sin." Lucia arose. There was a faiut flush ou her dark checka now. "If you have quite finished we will imnift. You recited your lesson well, and. I ho;e, feel the pleasure that arises from a consciousness of having done one's duty. It was just a trifle superfluous, though, to waste ao much stron? rhetoric on me, for I never had the slightest intention of marrying a poo' man." She gathered her dress close around i. im srioke. and proceeded to climb up the bank, disdaining bis prof fered "assistance, and, alas, not seem the pained and weary look in his eyes a look as of one worn out in life's Strug 'le. And he could not guess that the proud little heart was almost burst ing and that tears were falling silenUy one' by one, for the alim young figure was carried aa erect as ever, and the head never once drooped aa ahe walked oa before him. And so these two went home throuju the March woods, with a mountain or misunderstanding between theuu Th. inn covered up bia head behind the hills, and the air grew chill. As they nMred Lucia's home they met John Terrell coming out. He was a good-looking man, tall and well put together, but with a certain patronizing manner which was very ex asperating at times. A fine town house, large interests m ranriw lumi-u-t auk i, etc.. in connection with Ins thirty-five years of coutirmed bachelor hood, made him quite lion In rural society While very general, however, in bu choice of feminine friends and ac quaintances, be seemed fastidious enooga In the selection of a wife, no one aeemimj t meet the requirements so well as Lccia Grey, whose repeated refusals only made him more deter mined. , He had cultivated persistence to that ' fine iofnt altalued only, aa a general rule, by the widowed of his sex, but bad, as jet, failed of success. He passed them with a bow and a bread, bland smile. Lucia's brother was waiting for her at the door of their small home, and Dr. Holt declining to enter, they ex changed a few careless words on the steps before he bads them good-by. He held Lucia's nana a moment at parting, and ahe remembered long afterward how dry and feverish his was; but what a firm, true clasp the fingers gave. The next evening Mr. Terrell came for her to drive. She did not want to go, but let herself be persuaded, feeling too heart-sick for anything to matter much. Once again he offered her the "pur ple and Que linen" of life, and aeciued alow to understand that she could so obstinately refuse what aoma women an a led for. l'oor fellow! There was a kind of pathos about the way be put bia wealth before him. It he had read women better he would have known that if he were once loved for himself it would not matter whether he counted his money by the thousands or by the tens by dollars or cents. title she was nervous and flushed with annoyance, they met Dr. Holt on his way to aee some country patient. He attributed ber unusual color to another cause, and fancying he caught a. look of triumph In John Terrell's cold, blue eyes, accepted the possible for the actual as men of his sens.tive, stlf-dislruntful nature are apt to do and concluded she had followed his ad vice and taken "the man who could provide fur her." Str.in i heart of man! He had told her to do it, aud had thought ho wanted her to do it. And now? lie cettainly wauted her to be happy. an 1 h- thought he could not not make I her o himself. And yet be was con scious of a terrible pain somewhere in his breast and a burning desire to bury John Terrell's blonde beauty under a heap of his own shining coin. Lucia and her brother J.-e had lived a happy life together, and in hia fond, unselfish love she had never mlased the father and mother who, dying, during infancy, had left her to the tender care tr the crippled boy, now a aad-eyed, uildlle-ageJ man. A suQicient sum had been left for their support, and a kind aunt gave them a home until the little sister was old enough to keep house for "Drot'uer Joe." incc then they had never beeu sepa rated As the daya passed on, and Laurence holt never came again to the little cottage with the yellow roses by the gate, Joe noticed h sad and list leJ Lucia crew, although she tr.eil so bra.Ti.ij mi jv liiciij anii gay as of old. He asked no questions, for be knew that, while we can sometimes test weary limbs, it is hard to know what to do with tired hearts. One day some one mentioned, among other gossip, the departure of Dr. Holt for New Mexico, and added by way . f comment, "He was always a restles sort of fellow didn't seem to care for anybody in the world, not eveu him-sa-'.f. They aay he has gone for goixl." I' or weeks alter this Lucia went about the house with a stunned, help less look iu her eyes like a hurt animal that does not understand why it has been wounded. The summer passed, and with the early autumn days ahe grew restless. Coming to Joe one evening she put her arms around his neck as in her baby days, and told him ahe wanted aomo work to do, something to keep her busy all ttie time. "Couldn't she gather around her a little kindergarten class of children and try to fill up her l.fe with duties?" He knew that duties were cold, un satisfactory things when the heart was crying out for something alive and warm, but he let her have her way, and as day after day she studied deeper into child-liTe, and aaw how iu ministering to these little ones we are iu turn ad ministered to, she grew more content and lea impatient ot life. One bi -ight spring morning, t ao years later, the brother aud sister sat ou their porch, "watching the uowers grow." Presently Joe got up and limped to the Bteps. "Lucia, do you see that peculiar little cloud yonder? I should not be surprised if we had a storm of some kind tc-day." "O, Joe, the idea! Why, tho sun never did shine so bright- I feel al most a child again this morning, and I know it is this delicious sunshine." "I hope nothing will come to shut it out, then, dear, if it makes you happy." And he looked at her with a tender little smile. The girl jumped u impulsively and kissed his worn cheek, whispering, "You make me happy all the time." lfore the day was over his prophecy came true. A wild atorm came up, one of those sudden furiea of lightning, wind and rain peculiar to our Texas piimatp. that Interrupts the sun for a row momenta, strikes the earth a single passionate blow, and then returns to its home among the clouds, leaving nature bruised and smarting from the stroke. The south-bound train bat come In in the midst of the gale, aud a few hours later a measage was brought to Lucia Grey. But one passenger had left the cars, aud aa he stepped across the platform he atopp.'d one moment to gaze up at th frownintr heavens. As he looked a. fierv. ziirzaz line cut the sullen blue of tie sky, gathered itself into a lurid hall of danclnz. purplish flame-lights. and burst amid a grand discord of thunder, wind and rain. When the clamor of the elements ceased those inside the depot rusheJ out to aee where the bolt had fallen. They f oun 1 aome of the men who itf.n rroured outside thrown to th trround. a few stunned, and ou tia tui.'sa.ricfer from the south bound train, struck dead. When carried to the hotel he w ized as Laurence Holt. in h . n n Vet was a letter with the a.i.iresa. "To be given, iu case of my death, to Miss Lucia Grey, San Marcos, Texas." They sent it to her, and with it a scaled nacket bearing the sme direc tion which was found with the letter. Lucia listened to it all, with now and - i.i iv moan such as the dumb n,.ia wins ti In distress, and asked Joe to take ber to him aud let ber ba alone ii i. him for a little while. Aiona in the room with the dear form, so unfamiliar In its strange, white stlence, she opened the letter and the packet. The former told of so much love and happiness that had been coming on flylnz feet to meet her that at first ahe could not take this cold clay as sole answer. Laurence Holt bad met John Terrell a few days before In some Western city, and, learning from chance remarks of the latter (who has not yet recovered I from his surprise at a woman's refus ing, not him, but hia wealth) what bad actually occurred that evening, long ago, he started home at once. He was not much richer in pocket than then, but hia heart was full of joy and bright hopes, and clean-swept of all those sick ening doubts and fears which he now knew were the distortiona of a created fancy. Sometimes people die of a rush ot happiness to the heart, as well as from a rush of blood to the brain. If he had been Scotch he would have distrusted this overflush of joy, like the consumptive's sudden rise of strength that is the prelude to death. In the yellow, time-discolored paper, Lucia found a faded bunch of violets, the words of aa old song ahe had copied, aud two ragged bits of dark blue flannel pinned together with the spiky leaf or the aguarita. Ah! he must, indeed, have distrusted his joy, or else wlmt subtle prescience made hitu tkus photograph his heart for her. Those last hours shall be sacred. If she reproached herselr never him and moaned that she had not been kinder In the days that were past, had not listened more to love and less to Us rival pride; it she wounded herself with bitter words for her blindness, mocked her poor heart for its dullness, and blamed her poor lipa for their silence why, all will understand. And If she wondered, iu strange wistfulness why God made His crea tures to pass through ao much of pain, and why He gave them bodies to be racked and spirits to be bruised all will understand this, too. .... Lucia Grey went home to take up the dropped sti'ches of her aweet, patient lire, and interweave with them the beauty and pathos of our lives btight-colored threads from the hands of little children; blues aud reds that lovers brought, and purple strands, drawu here and there from sin-stained fingers; all to mingle lovingly in the spotless web of her own sorrow-crowned existence. Uexncnib?ring how Laurence had al ways loved violets, calling them little lost children from the Gardeu of Eden still laden with the perfume of God's breath, she and Jo planted them iu profusion aliout his grave, tending them carerulfy, so that every spring the earth abve him should be fragrant with the lovely purple blooms, "lit euiblcai3 of hops and of constaucv, too." An 1 1 mo an u :i o, wma - . - ner.y uue uf ie .iiuul-1 on lura ht-rluile nuAoe to iet or rlrut Ttaa a... I. auat au-ut unMiai tax. t l-e. An I wltti wistful eo tht nrrrr meet. WYti cr im b.u Is tftit uvvrr ciap, an. I Up ( V.llnjr in v.ia t i eirs ttia; n-v.-r lieiir, T.ej .eefcr.eti ttirr I..1 tiii-ir wrurr .lay., Au.l .lie uusill.dir.l ill I til. Is Kjle. llieTypit-al .Australian. The typical Aus'.raliau is, in many respects, much like the American, though a?aln, in many respects, be ditlers widely from him. He baa the same self-reliance aud the same loud self-assertion, which, correctly or In correctly, we are in the habit of asso ciating with our transatlantic cousins, but it is a self-assertion and a self-reliance smacking of the laud whence he came. No man is more hospitable than the well-to-do Australian. A visitor arriving well introduced will be passed on from villa to villa, irom country houso to country house, and from run to run, sharing everywhere the most profuse kindness, until in a few weeks he will hardly know who first started him on the progress be is making. There is little snobbery in the country, bat, as most of the people are "aelf made," the porccuu is, of course, not an unknown personage, though the circumstauces of the country and ot the people prevent him or her becom ing quite so objectionable aa he or she would lie In an older condition of so ciety. Tne squatters or graziers aro the aristocrats of the couutry, though some of the successful of them have been butchers and drovers, possibly even of humbler or less reputable ante cedents. They are imbued with ex tremely territorial instincts, aud will refer to the small farmer, who "se lects" under the colonial land laws a bit of the run he leaser from the Gov ernment, or the irrevercntlal gold digger, as an English squire would speak of a poacher, or a many-acred peer of the "city man" who builds a "snug box" overlooking his park wall. Y et while the Lnglish squire is likely to talk of everything rather than or his rent-roll or the balance he has at his banker's the squatter will hardly fail to tell liis visitor of what he got last summer for his wool, or what he ex pects to get this winter for the fat oxen which are grazing in the pretty but roughly kept padd.tck you cau sae from the veranda surrounding the couutry house, which he built when he got beyond the "hut" stage of bush- struggling existence. The ladies are well educated, but though charming company lor a visitor, they are, a a rule, somewhat "loud," aud inclined to exact the utmost defereuco from all the male world around them, and to repay it by as little veneration as pos sible. Nobody awes them. Aa are the mistreases, so are the maids, who have much of the pertneis of such young persons, as exhibitel in plays and ou the stage generally. The Stamp Collecting Mania. The mania for collecting postage stamps seems to be gaining more ground than ever in Frauce, Among the most famous collectors iu France is a man who has over 1,00'J.OOO post age stamp preserved iu 130 richly bound volumes, and another who keeps two clerks employed in classifying and arranging Lis enormous collection Add to this, there are iu Paris about 100 wholesale firms employed in the trade, and oue of the best known of these has lately offered from '3 to JL'19 for certain stamusof the year IS 30, Tuscan postage stamp, dated before 1S0O will be paid for at the rate of i'O each, while stamps from Mauritius for the year 1S47 fetch ilSO, aud French stamps ot IH J are quoted at ill each. Tha best navigation steering clar of the rocks oi contentment. OXEOK I'AltKIM'S CHARITIES. She Lilts a Little Crippled Musician Into l"aiue and I'm-iunu. The aeaaon of music was nlotin.- Satiated with praise, 1'arepa Kosa drew her fur wrap about her shoul dera and. stepping from the private entrance of the Grand." was about to enter her carriage, when "Please, mlladi," in low, pleading accents, ar rested her attention. It was only the shrunken, misshapen form of little EiQn. the Italian street-singer, with hia old violin under hia arm; but the face upturned lu the gaslight, though pale and pinched, waa as delicately cut aa a cameo, while the eager, wist ful light in the great brilliant eyes, the quiver or entreaty iu the soft Italian voice, held her for a moment against her escort's endeavor to save her the annovance of hearing a beggar's plea. "Well?" said the great singer, balf impatient, but full ot pity. "Would miladi please?" in sweet, broken English, and the slender, brown hands of the dwarf held up a fragrant white lily, witli a crystal drop in its golden heart. "Do you mean this lovely flower for me?" A passionate gesture was his answer. Taking the flower, Parepa Rosa lieut her stately head. "You heard me sing?" "Mlladi, 1 hid under the stair. 'Twas yesterday I heard the voice. On, miladi, miladi, I could diel" The words came brokenly from quiv ering lips passionately in earnest. The loud voice of the world she had just left had never shown Parepa Kosa the power of her grand voice as she saw it now in these soft, dark eyes aflame and in the sobbing, broken words, "Oh, miladi, miladi, I could die!" "Child," and her voice trembled, "meet me here to-morrow at 5 o'clock;" and, holding the lily caress ingly to her cheek, she stepped into her carriage and was driven away. It was Parepa Hosa's last nighL In a box near the stage sat little Elfin like one entranced. Grandly the clear voice swelled its triumphant chorda and rang amid the arches with unearthly IKtwer aud sweetness. The slight frame of the boy swayed and shook, and a look so rapt, so intense, came on hia face, you know his very heart Avas stilled. Then the wondrous voice trmed softly, like the faint sound of bugles in the early morn; again its sweetness stole over you like the dis tant chimes or vesper bells. Encore after encore followed. The curtain rolled up lor the last time, and aa aim ply as possible the manager told the audience of last night's incident, and announced that l'arupa KosaV fare well to them would be the simple bal lad warbled many a bitter day through the city streets by little Elfin, the Italian musician. Long and prolonged was the ao- t . .....I b ...n urn. iwi H'wt t.a-1 il t, T V'th royal grace, came our -queen of .xine. At her breast was the fragrant liiy. l teen, too, by right of her beau tiful, unstained womanhood, as well as by the power of ber sublime voice, she btood a moment, then sang clearly and softly the ballad, with its refrain of laiewell. Sweet Land." Accom panying her came the low, sweet wail of little Kliiu's v.oliiu There was si- ence in the great house at the close. then a shout went out that shook the mighty pillars. V whisper being heard that Parepa U osa meant to educate the boy musi cally, the generous hearts of a few oiieucd the gate3 of fortune for little hlun. To-d.ty he is great and famous. "the boy violinist," and they call him to play before princess. Alio Ilcply. Prudie Warner, the village school teacher, was entertaining a caller this s-ray December morning, it being holi- !ay time, and although Prudie had heard from gossiping Mrs. Taylor that Halt io llelden thought -'1'rudence Warren should have been dropped long ago, ' she was as gracious to ner as as though said bit of gossip had never reached her ears. Mrs. llryaut's annual New Year's party had beeu talked over, and Hattie ridden was certain teat her hostess had an invitation when sue nroacnea an other subject. "Mrs. Taylor was leibng me that you were making your blue silk; I am dying to see it!" "Miserable old newsmongerl" thought Prudie, as ahe brought out the dress. "Why. Prudence, It really looks well. No one would ever kiio.v that it was an old one, only, of course, those who have always seen it; aud you wore it las . year duln'l you?" "Y'es," admittel Prudie, who knew her own mind ail the ma: ice and spite of her visitor's jealous heart. "I have a new velvet," weul on Miss Kuldea. "But I supp so we shall be eclipsed by Miss lUton, who is visitiug Mra. Bryant. Lee's betrothed, you know." Unexiiecttid as was the blow, not a siiMi did I'ruilie warner give mat, rue news was ainrht- to her as she went on folding tho silk, preparatory to laying it away. "Indeed 1 do not know," she re turned, quite pleasantly. "No,lt is not known generally," con tinued Miss Belden, keeping her sharp eye upon Prudie. But that young lady held her own bravely until her mischievous friend departed, and was sarely down the steps. 'Theso village gossips, how odiou3 they are!" ahe said to Lerself, with a siah of relief. Then she went into her own little dressing-room, where lay tho despised blue silk, and her eyes grew heavy with a burden of tears. "On, bow I wish I were rich!" she cried. "I will not I never can go there now." But everything seemed to Prudie in a distorted and poverty-stricken light this morning. How she did wi.'.i she could have a bri'ht newdressl Everyone would have a new dress but herself. But go she must, and be as bright and gay aa Uie others, or everyone would suspeot her secret; for Lee Bry ant had been dove-eyed Prudle's greatest rrieud and devoted cavalier from childhood, and now they said he was engaged to Eva Eaton, the blue eyed fairy visiting at bis mother's house. Poor Prudie She was only a woi Kingman's daugh ter, and the village tongue thought that Mra. Bryant, the rich man's wire, of Wiilington, had made too much of her. At last, wiping away her tears, ahe stood up, and putting on her things. went out for a walk. Far ahead of her the dead leaves were whirling In little eddies, and heaping themsalves at the side of the road. She picked up a long, slender stick. and began turning over the leaves as she passed, finding a languid sort ot enjoyment In her occupation. All at once she started. Surely that was no rnouster leaf I No, but a well-tilled, worn leather pocket-book, half covered with the hurrying leaves. Prudie stooped and picked It up. At that moment her bad angel must have been passing, for she glanced fur tively around her, and seeing no oue, thrust it into the breast of ber jacket, aud walked ou with hasty steps. As she neared home she met Mrs. Taylor, who exclaimed, "Laws, child. how white you arel Have you heard the news? Old Mr. Bryant has lost his pocket-book with over five hundred pounds In IU lie's been poatin' up a reward for it twenty pounds. T here'a oue of them" pointing to a bill at tho corner. Prudie read It hastily, and excusing herselr, passed Into her father's yard. On entering the house she found not a waiting father, but a note lying upon the table. It was just at the hour of twilight. and she lighted the little readiug-latnp and read: "FltUDIK, "Your uncle la very ill at Man chester, aud 1 am obliged to leave by the 4.50 train. Will be homo to morrow. "FATriKR." Thus left to herself, she closed every blind and drew every curtain in the little cottage. Glancing stealthily around into every corner of the dark ened apartment, she drew the heavy pocket-book from her breast and opened It. Yes, there It vras, more money than she had ever seen together before in her life. Need I say that she was tempted The poverty of her every day life rose before her the bright love dream of her life, which lay in ashes at her feet, passed before her mental vision. No one saw her pick the pocket-book up. Mie could de stroy it, and even her own father would never know. Mr. Bryant was the owner of a half-million; he would never feel the loss, while she must ton, un loved, because she was poor. Instinc tively her hand took up the pocket- book and the few papers it contained. and placed them in the oiien grate. Then ahe went for wood and a match She struck the match. It burned with a feeble ray, but that one ray cast all its light upon one line of an ancient illum inated "Ten Commandments" which hung upon tho wail, aud that line shone out like a text of fire. "Thou shalt not aai.i Thn match fell from tho out stretched baud. 'llie articles were auatched from the crate, and ob re placed everything as she Urst lonud them. Then the white lips whispered "Am I a thief?" Conscience an- awered "Almost not quite." Morn ing came cold and gray, the morning of the last day of the year, tho morning before Mra. Bryant's partv. Before nine o'clock Prudie Warner was again dressed iu her gray walking-suit aud in the street this time bound tor the great house upon the hill. It was timid little pull that Prudie gave the bell, but it was immediately answered by Mrs. Bryant herself, who kissed Prudie affectionately aa she entered. "My dear, why have you not called on us before? 1 have been telling Eva all about you, and have looked for you every clear day. "We have been very lonely since Lee has beeu to London, but he returns to-day. Come iu and see Eva;" and she hurriud embarrased Prudie into the breaktust-room. "My niece, Eva Eaton, Miss Warner," she continued. "Why, Prudie, how dazed you lookl" "Well I may," said Prudie, recov ering herselr. "I found Mr. Bryant's pocket-book." "Ia that so?" cried Mr. Bryant from the other side of the room. "Where on earth was it?" Prudie explained aa well as she was able, while amidst all the exclamations and questions that followed, golden haired Eva Eaton had slipped in the seat by the side of Prudie, and had managed to whisper, "Lee told me all about you, dear." "Well, Prudie," said Mr. Bryant, "you are a very honest little girl; just the oue 1 want for daughter-in- law." "Charles!" proachfullly. said Mrs. Bryant, re while Prudie's blushes deejiened. "Never mind the joke, Tru lie; hi re Is the reward." And Mr. Bryant held out, not a twenty pound note, but one for a hundred pounds, for Prudie to accept. "No, Mr. Bryant," she said, firmly; ''I cannot take it indeed 1 cannot P And she held fast to her resolution, iu spite of all their persuasions. She started towards her home a inucli lighter-hearted little girl than when i ha left it; but still iu her heart she lUoJu'ht. "What would thuy think of me ir they knew all?" Wlieu she leached home someone was waiting for her. It was Lee. "I could not go horuij before I saw you, Prudie," he Raid. S ;a what I bought for you in London." And he held up a brilliant, sparkling ring, set in the finest gold. Then aim was obliged to answer a question which made two young hearts the happiest in all "Wiilington. "Now, darling, this your engage ment ring this ia your new year's present." And he drew a jewel-case from his pocket containing an entiro set of rubies to match the ring in setting and brilliancy. "And I want you to wear them all to-night." Miss Belden and her set gave up all thought of dropping Prudence Warner, when they saw her enter Mrs. Bryant's drawing-room that evening upon the arm of her betrothed husband, aud aaw how affectionately she was greeted by her host aud hostess. Her bright, piquant face radiant with happiness, the glittering, gleaming jewels uud the despised blue silk, make a picture no one could aurpass. And lovely Eva Eaton waa by her side, a friend whoso friendship waa ever after one of the bright spots of her existence. Long after she told her husband tho story of ber temptation. A kiss wa3 hia reply. A Man In Ionia, Michigan, has a turkey which has been trained to draw a sled. ANTIQUITY OF LAMPS. rom I he Torches r tho Ancients to tin Aruaiid Burners of To-day. I.-.iu terns are an ancient institution I You remember that Diogenea used one n his eccentric efforts to discover something he did not believe in. Ths i lanterns of the Greeks and Uomans iiA.if-ilnait an nit 1-.r.e T f j al.ti.a irflm ' made of thin layers or boru, waxed parchment, linen or bladder. Glass lanterns were used In England as early as 7u5. They were expensive,. however, and a thousand years later the tin lan tern was chiefly in use among the poor people. The Chinese excel in tho manufacture of lanterns. They have used them for ages. Some of their mandarins have them built at a cost of thousands of dollars each. The word built is not out of place here, for these lanterns are twenty to thirty feet high and contain hundreds of candles. Their sides are often or rich colored Filk. Oa January 15th. of each year they cele brate tl-a '-feast of the lanterns." Why? Oh, it's a way they have they are heathens, you know. No; cradles are not tho tuost primi tive form of light. In Homer's time torches were used, even in the palaces of the wealthy. Hush lights, early in use, were rushes dipped in grease, pitch or wax. Lamp comes from a Greek word lampas. The candles of Scripture are supposed to have beeu lamps In which olive oil was burned. The earliest lamps were shallow ves sels of terra cotta, either round or ob long in shape. There was a small oihjii ing In the top in which the oil was poured ; at oue side was a handle, and opposite, a no7zlo through which the Wick protruded. This form of lamp is often represented in pictures. Many of them were ornamented with repre sentations of war scenes and chariot races. Bronze lamps and golden lamps have been discovered of such beauty as to entitle them to rank among the choicest specimens of ancient aits. In the Acropolis at Athens, according to a historian, was a golden lamp, large enough so that when filled it would burn ulsht and day for a year. Above it was a bronze palm tree to carry off its fumes aud act as a reflector. Tuat was the Kind of a lamp to have. Speaking of primitive lamps, some are still to be found In the country dis tricts. "While iu West Virginia re cently," said a traveling man, "I saw one that was primitive enough. A saucer waa filled with grease, aud over the edge of it huug a lighted wick. It splutted some, but made enough light to render the darkness visible, aud its heat was sufficient to light the pipes of tho family. It was more used for tha; purpose than any other, it appeared to me, though it waa the only light iu the house. There aie many people in tho mountain regions whose only lights are tallow-dips. A form of the ancient Greek lamp is still iu use among the Canadian French. In the remote districts of -SooUaud that crtilsip, a similar lamp, la sometimes found. Oli oil, igcauud nut oil, poppy oil and other vegetable oila are all used in various districts of the world. In the tropical regions cocoanut oil is used m lauips. The trade of caudle-making, usually com bined with that or soap-boillnir. was once an imiortant one. Franklin worked at It until he ran away. The chandler made wicks, molded, and dipied his candie3 until driven out of his business by the general adoption of whale oil as an illuminaut early iu the preseut century. Improved lamps were introduced about a century ugo. A Frenchman named Argaud, in l.t-4, invented a burner with two conceutric tubes, the inner one open for a current to pa-s through, and the outer one containing tho wick. lie had a metal chimney to make it draw and carry off the smoke. Somebody soon found out that a glass chimney was better lor that purpose. Argand's lamp, variously modihed and improved. Is the parent of all the best modern lattp3. Various substitutes for whale oil were tried during the present century, but none came into general use until coal oil was introduced. It was lirst made from canal coal, ani that is the way it got Its name. The general de velopment of the jvetroleum region iu Pennsylvania, which began in lSolMVJ, soon destroyed the manufacture of coal oil, just as It was getting to be a pro fitable industry. Many improvements in lamp3 followed this discovery. But petroleum is not a rew thing neither is natural gas. Oil was fouud in a spring ou Zacyuthus or Z.uit, ono of tho Ionian islands, two thousand years ago, and was burned in lamps in Sicily at an early age. It was known to the Indians and to the Western pioneers of America, but sonieboJy had to dis cover how to get it iu quantities aud use it before the knowledge became of value to the world. Petroleum exists lu Pennsylvania, New Yoik, Ohio, West Virginia, Canada, India aud in tha Caucasian Mountains. Tilings Oui Doesn't tiUc to Hear. "No, Mr. Smyth; but I will be a sister to you." "Good morning, I am introducing a work which should ba in every li brary." "Sorry, my dear boy, but 1 can you have the amount, for I'm 'l let deal broke myself." "Charles, it is half-past 3 o'clock. Where have you been until this hour?" "Mr. De Brown, your services will not be required after Saturday next." "You want to marry my daughter, eh? Well, young man, what are your expectations?" "Here is the milliner's bill, Algy only $75." 'I say, Jenkins, I heard a good story to-day, aud I must tell it to you." "Oh, Alfred, What do you think? I received a letter from dear mamma this morning, and she'a coming to spend a month with us." "When will you be ready to return that $10, Itobinson? This is the fifth time I've asked you for It." "If ye plaze, sorr. Miss Heavyswell tou'.d me to tell you she's not at home." "And fifthly, dear brethren ' "Y'ou are a moderate drinker, eh? Now, my dear sir, let me direct yout attention to a tew statistics." Never Go evii that good may coma of It. Prudery la oftn the mantel chosen tu conceal triumphant vice. No person cau stoop so low as thoze who aie over-anxious to rise. Base natures joy to see hard luippi nes3 to those they deem happy. The best way to hold a grudgo is tc forget it. NEWS IN BRIEF. An lS-year-old hen recently died at Oskaloosa, Iowa. A parrot in Indianapolis recently died of diphtheria. Mra. Henry Wood, the English novelist, left $ 180,000. Uussia imjoorts annually raw cotton to the value of $ 13,000,000. Penny biographies of (ue3n Vic toria are on salo in London. A sturgeon Bay (Wis.) man caught 6,000 pounds of fish iu one day. A Brooklyn factory is said to make 204,jCO,OUO lislihooka annually. A five-legged pig attracts atten tion on a farm near Jacksonville, Fla. California reports a production of nearly StijO'JO.OOO worth of candy last year. The Naval Academy at Annapolis was forirttlly opened on October 10, 1S15. Nearly 5(1.000 farms have been opened up in Kansas during the past year. Corn in Florida is rep.rt?d to be twelve feet high, with thiee ears to the Halk. The salmon run in the Columbia river Is reported almost equal to that of last year. Eighty-four of Y$ le. University students have takeu the course on So ciology this year. A Greenwood, South Carolina, farmer claims to have struck a gold mine on his plant ution. The first telescope used in this henntry for astronomical purposes waa bet up ut Yule college in 1S3). Tiio Lower Danube, which lias coretofore been without that lish, baa seen stocked with 500,000 eels. John Burden ba3 been a regular subscriber of the llutlaud (Vermont) lttrald, that papir says, for 50 years. The citizens of Oswego, Kansas, raised J7O00 in half a day for the pur pose or sinking a shaft in search of gas and coal. .lack Uaiibits that are sent fioin Oregon and Id.iho to Chicago are said to return iu the form ot "ciimed chicken." Steam pipos, by a local ordinance. must be kept at a distance of three inches lroia any woodwork iu San Francisco. Virginia, it is stated, is steadily reducing her tobacco area, but is aa steadily improving the quality of the production. -Laundry men are the most bumble and forgiving beings on earth. The more culls you give them the more they will do for you. No rain3 have fallen in Crawford county, Kansas, for sixteen mouths, it is stated, and water sells there for 40 cents a barrel. The -.lmcriV'ini Manufacturer thinks iron blocks may yet be used with ad vantage for street paving instead of tlqii or wood. II. ItrJeTltgard Is desjrit.ed as -a slender nun with a line bead and a strong, well-balanced face. He 13 not much over thirty. A Chicago canning company haa concluded a contract for 1,5'j0,000 kilos of canned meat for the French army and 3,000,000 lor the navy. It is actually believed in Berlin that were it not for the strict prohibi tion of his doctors the euqeror would dance at every ball he attends. One fifth of the entire population of England and Wales are stated to bo in Sunday schools, there being 000,000 teachers aud 5,2 jO,000 scholars. The Prefect of the Seine allows Soo excursionists a day to visit, the sewers and catacombs in aid of thu sufferers from the'llaoJa in the South of France. A man in the dnchy of Anhalt has wagered :J,000 marks that within two vears he can copv the whole of the Bible, punctuation and nil, with out a single mistake. It cost Henry Irving (ho :s quoted as having stated) $15,000 to ascertain that he could not establish the reserve seat system iu the parquet of bis Ly ceum (London) Theatre. A system of analysis conducted by 1 professor of the Ch:c;ijo Medical College has been bettering the milk supply of that city, and getting some of the dealers into trouble. The inhabitants of Kansas Citv, Missouri, are enjoying free rides on m electric railway, just started there by a company which purposes run ning the entire road by electricity. The suicide of an army officer who had gouu about San Francisco under a half a dozen different names, and whose Identity they have beeu unable to discover, hii3 been puzzling the po lice of that city. "A new fruit pest" that haa thus far delied all attempts at its extermin ation has appeared in Davisville, California, ami vicinity, and, according to accounts, is working gr eat damage '.o thousands of grapevines. a on-pounu cuuuou uau was itmiiu the other day buried iu the earth in Battery Park, Burlington, Vermont. It is thought to be of Lnirlis'.i manu facture, and is probably a relic of the Kevolutiun or of 112. Ilocklaud, Maine, has had twenty live tires within less than a year, and all, or nearly all, aro believed to have been of incendiary origin. Tho Mayor now offers $ J0 reward for the detec tion of an incendiary. Daniel B. Alger, who died some days ago iu Bronxviilo, New Y'ork, is thought by bis physician to have been fatally poisoned by the dye from black aud gold-striiaed stockings that he pur chased in Paris. The Coreau Government, it is re ported, haa concluded a contract for three Iron steamers. It is also stated that one of the Commissioners of Customs baa started out to find a fa vorable place on the northwest coast for a harbor. A Canadian lynx or loup cervler was captured in a common steel trap in Hampden, Maine, last week. The animal waa about 40 pounds in weight, and so savage that the trap had to be sprung on each of its lea before it could be handled. An Augusta (Maine) paper says that a well-known liquor seller ia suc cessfully retailing imported liquora in the original unbroken packages in that city, under United States law, and the State authorities are powerless. The first motion towards good la to discover our defects. Always defend the absent aa far as tenth will admit. 1 I i t v :i i.i 1 5- bo i.l soon un LvWsaaajaS o'i V.'
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