space, and, seeing an sttanan, he ined to resch It or perish in the attempt. Happily it was near Mrs. Gunn, which ufforded bitn AD PXCOSe vr | to go to It. Where he stood be folt as though he was on the edge of a fearful 0. | precipice, any moment some one might avoid tumbling over Mrs. Gonn. "How do you do, my dear Mrs Gunn?" he gasped, shaking hands with ber violently, hoplog thereby to draw | ner in which he had crossed the room. “How do you do” sh answered, cold had been drinking. 1 hope he has vo ft vicious babita. He comes bern gery { often. 1 must drop a hint to Katie” Here the cenversation languished. Augustus remained wrapt in his own > re. thoughts, which were far from pleas. 3 ate of 1 ’ — to change! ith a grin; - Jove. atle ald that she thevghi wear Suan | lenth. we ng very exclt noticed the time till r 4, the hour he should | Ha adored one’s houre. amation Nhieh onel iy s {the room, but I could sot teli whore without having dieu). superintendent. he has. t himself In the glass, I carefully brushed hat ft the Bouse. Fortn- ation, the house of n t far off, and In six tanding on the door for the door to be opened | dght be ushered into the ls Katie, to wnom he afternoon to offer his rt, and his boots. le welcome footsteps of d, and his heart was h with expectation when #oward—he saw he had for- nge his boots. Do time to retreat, al- Tr was open, and, before ‘his thoughts, be found wing-room in the ty and several r again spoke. j ant. At Isst be decided he would out stay every one, propose to Katie, and { then, if accepted, be would be asked to { dinner and wonld make bis escapes un- | der cover of the night, and If refused, fell, it would not much matter then whether she saws the boots or not. He { was suddenly aroused from these re flections by bearing Mixs Gunn say: Won't you sit down, Mr. Eniper?” And awakening to the het that he | had been standing all the time in si { lence, be seated himself on the otto. ‘man. But be had put himself in the worst place In the room, viz: next to the tea table. Presently Mra. Gunn “Ab, here fn the tea. May I trouble you, Mr, Buiper, to take this cup of tea to Miss Neville. Ehe Is at the other side of the room Bear tie window.” There was nothing for it bat to ga. 80 with a cup in one hand nnd a plate j of cake fn the other ho started in hig | perilous Journey. round a fat old lady, between a lady Behind the sofa, and gentleman In the midst of a firta- n, oceaslonslly darting in a wirzag wn from the edge of a curtain to a footstool and back again to the vast . | outlaying flanger of some old dovinger, 1 gingerly skirting the groups of laugh. ing, chattering girls, he made dls er. ratic way, taking advantage of every cover with the care of a Boer, 25d at dnst reachid the farther end of the room, where sat Miss Neville {np the bow window, BAL Inst” he sald to BMlmself as he | handed ber the cake, “I've done It, hat 1 wouldn't go through that again for | $5000 And he sat down beside Mag. al pie Neville, determined nothing should j move him from his haven. “What a cosy place you've got over bere, I thought so directly I earns in, 80 1 got Mrs. Gunn to let me bring YOu your toa and come over bere for a talk™ *DId yon? 1 watched you crossing Fou were going He turned hot at the hare {dea of his being watched, Fad she sect the boots? : thing—er—peculiar—about-—-me ? Binthmersd. “No.” she sald wonderingly, “exeept perhans, your manner of walking. You didn't ook ax If you were trying to get here” “Oh, that's nothing —1 aften—r—do that. It's a way I've got.” “ITadeed.” - This was not encouraging. anything to turn the subject, he rushed on: “But 1 assure you, Miss Naville, now I am here, I could wish for no greater happiness than to remain here forever, At least, that is to say, until you go away That was perfectly true. “I'll leave a little margin for your politeness, Mr. Sniper. and won't con- sider you bound by that,” she said with 1a laugh, and then added dryly, “what would the others—what would Katia say if you sat here all the afternoon?” “I don't care what they say, My ‘present position Is the only sue to give me happiness. 1 would not exchange {t for a throne,” be sald with fervar. He was getting desperate, Anything {to keep her attention from his boots. | and all these Shteches which she took Ad ofiended be dared not yeimain. inthe | 1 look round; there was nothing for it | ‘0 {but & rush. He rushed. Happily he { was able to pull himae!f up In tins and ‘ber attention from the eccentric man 1 1y. adding to herself: “if it were Dot 80 | early In the day. I should say that man “Did you-—er—did yon retice any. | be “Hore 1s your tea” said young Me Donsid at this moment; “ean I fetch you anything to eat. Miss Gunn” “Yew, piease; I shonld Ike some cake” she answered, fixing Augustus, | who still held the plate of eake, with ber eye. “Where the dickens ean It be pome to?’ he muttered some minntes ater, | therenfter would uae an eBtpricn: pulls: Fo | eye. A committee of the National Rifle after hunting high snd low. “Weil, Fm blessed If there Mo't Sniper hog | ¥ing it on his knee; I'll go and inter __ J rupt him.” And be went tn Sniper's direction. Foor Augustus saw him coming and maved a litte closer to Miss Nevill, | biding bls fest under the edge of her { gown, little thinking sil this was per- J veivad by Katie, {sald to herself, and waen Jack Mew § Donald returned she fitrted desperatoby with him. keeping one tye on Anzose st | tus, however. “Well Myr Sniper,” sail | | Migs Neville In answer to one of his { | Pretty speeches; “since you say your | pleasure Is In serving me will you be “Tha wretch” she #0 kind as to fetch we another cup of tea?’ Poor Augustus! "Ot course, my greatest pleasure I to serve you, Miss Neville, but—er-- ‘when that service—er—neconsitites my 3 leaving your society, I cannot fiy to accom. plish your wish as 1 would otherwise do" He had the cap in hand and You-er—belng deprived of was balancing It idiotieally and he stammeringly sought an excuse for ree aining where he wis Just at this critical moment a friend passed at about the distance of 8 yan) and 8 half. Here was bis chance, “Thomson,” to touch him and pearly over-balane. ing as he Aid so, “Miss Neville sayy will you get her & cup of tea, pleases? Thomson, who had Jong worshiped | Maggie Neville, flew off with alacrity on this errand, “Really, Mr. Sniper, this is going too far” sald Miss Neville fo an of fended tone; “if you 4 not wish to got my tea I would not have you do 1t | for worlds, but [ think yon need not put speechios into my mouth.” “My dear Miss Neville—got wish t» get your tea? 1 sseure yool—M And then a happy dea struck Bim. “The thing was, 1 koew thet fellow wanted to come and join uwe-—-and I-er ~l~didn't want him. Bee?” Just then Thomson returned, care. foily steering his way across the room with the desired cup of tea. “Thank you, Mr. Thomason,” she said, with a gracious smile: “It I» Jocky you've come, as Mr. Sniper has de. clared he can to longer Xeop away frome Miss Gunn, god 1 saball be left all Alone” Poor Angustus! Thomson beatsed, and there wan nothing for ft but for him to rise and give up his seat and make his way to Kate, “Ob, that 1 had skirta™ be groaned. “Why wasn't [ born 6 woman?" By this time many of the gets Dad departed, end to cross the room wae & | matter of still greater dilicuity has before. However, by | darts, when ro tae wad looking, ay cove tg cover, Lie st length managed to place himself behind his beloved Katie's | chair. Ble, however, took no notices of Iw, but continued chatting gaily with Jack MeDopald, So there he stood sitting was out of the question) in si ieace, Ul the last guest had departed, and when Katie returned from bidding bern gost -Tive at the door be advan —— and sald: "1 am wo glad all those bores are pons” “You bave the advantage of me there,” she sald, havghtily. He igvored this remark ond cone tinned: “I've been walling to speak to you ail the afternoce, Miss Guan-—Katle: you know what I've come for—1 want to tell youu "Please toll me nothing, Mr. Sniper; after your disgraceful behavisr thie | afternoon nothing you can say will have sony interest for me” “But, Katie, listen to me-—you know I love you, have always loved you | from the first time I saw you, and I thoazht you did not dislike me” “Bir, you force me to speak more | plainly. In short, your language to me tn the stats you are in, after your out. rageous filrtation, fs nothing shorty of an insult, A gentle by flirting with some 006 else, por does. Le expect {o be received In respectabla hovdes when Be eanfoft even walk stralght, nar does be" as hor glance traveled downward, “come to pay & visit in such boata” Augustus fled. Poor Augustoa!-Naw | York News, A vietnam. Xo Pinte Like Home, A pative of Privce Bdward Island had gone forth to see the world When be reached Boston be engaged & room at 8 modest hotel, intending to remain there vwhile he hunted for work. “Wil you register?” asked the clerk, | banding him a pen “Register?” sald the traveler, "What's that “Write your “What for?” “We are required to keep a record of name.” our guests.” The man wrote his name and was about to lay down the pen when the clerk added: “Now the place, if you please™ “What place?” “The place you come from. Where | | feeding—an animal which the tiger had do you live? “I live on the Island.” Well, hat what sland» The other man looked at him amazement. Then he said with an em | phasis that Jeft ho doubt of his feel | ings, “Prince Biward Island, man. n | What other island is thére?"—Youth's | be sald, reaching over forms. giving In early New England days was | the chicken ple of this description | Hi Pot ple and beefsteak ple of the res |} taprait survive to remind us of the | J! man does Bot come to ask a lady to he his wife snd begin | said the ass to the monkey, A Biber of Fears ase many expert #ifiemen arrived at the conclusion that for target practice there was nothing #0 good and equitable as & round bulls. eye. Various forms of mliseyes had been tried before reaching this des eigion, ceived that the Army would discon tinue the nee of the round bullseye and Association visited the Secretary of War and nrged that the round bulls eye be retained for the Army, but as the elliptical bullseye had heen adopted the committees was informed that po change cond be msde at that time. Following the elliptical bullseye, sil Bouetie figures were Introduced for | rifle practice In the UnMed States Army, Thess figures are of undoubted yalne, tnt they serve thelr purpose | heat 1a skirmish firing. For the train | | Ing of the regularz of the Army and the volunteers as expert rifle shots the form of target with the round bullies eye by undonbledly snperior to all oth. ers. This, we understand, is the opin. | fon of most regular Army officers and | volunieers to«lay, and we hear that the It was with no iittle regret in 1853 that the announcenient was te far 2 torests.. It Sividm tRA8 The Other trusts Whith Welsh SERION he Comirs '% Ip until what fs patesled ont is unsatisfactory fo all who oe ies 10a Hock and lostesd of sich tuum owalug. ope ml dng 1 cic ov ok ri oe he Hres fn and ona-fortieth of each of stoops are kyept off G1 4 SNOWY Mor p others. Will be care 2s much if the and will be keep the back yards in as good order as If it was his own Bons? Every man's home in his castle. He has riven his profiise to one woman and she Bas sworn foalty to Bim. But sapposs socialism steps In to plan this Rothe secording to its rules. Do fou believe hat their children will be better if reared by nurses appointed by the Bate as socialism decrees? Socialism in other domains would be Just ae sidectionalile. : Sabmerge the lividual fn the Btate, as socitlism ardatne and you destroy domestic nstitutione-atifle tho Jifatliood of the Nation. Batter let every man bear his burden, and fo bis purpose to sncesed he will do far more for the world | than if be were a mere ston in a sal dustrial creation, board of United States Army officers | revixing the firing regolations for small arms practice will return to the Na-§ tional Rifle Association target with a | round bullseye for gualifieation of the i Army. We regard thiz as mont fortunate. 3 The thew lines of the National Rifle | | Amsonistion pow azree with those of 8 the British Natlopsl Rifle Association, | and with the adoption of the same tars | get by the United States Army we are likely to have a ligher order of skill | develuped and & better understanding of thy work of riflemen at howe and abroad Shooting and Fishing. The Ovigin of Fis. edly 4 fing of meat and meat which needed “the grinding of the teeth” writes Ellen H. Richards In Good Housbkeeping. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries meat was not often kept until tender. The result of | the Lunt was cooked and eaten at once, only k small portion being car ried sway. When the guest was des cried on the neighboring hill, or when the siund of the born announced Nis approsch, the domesticated animal was Lille to sppesr on the table only 2 few hours later. of serving which should remedy this and niso which should eke out the oftentimes scanty supply would tee come a pipular one. Another advan tage was that the Ingredients of » mex] were served all together and bot, 1 or, if cold the “pasty” was still sx vory. The derivation of the word] bears out this view. Gaelle "pightann™ | Irish “plghe” or “pithan* n the dlctionary ss "a diab conalsting of | a this layer of pastry filled with a imi of meat, fish, fowl, fruitor vegetnbles, seasoned, generally covered | with a thicker layer of pastry and} This applies to the earlier baked ™ An essential dah on Thanks nocient form. aie Lady's Mistake. Formals suffrage may be & very de sirable reform, but it may alto lend to some embarrassing cistakes. A can didate at a recent election in ons of the Btates of the commonwealth where the ladies bave votes telis a story in this cunnection. The constituetcy was a sea ort town and one of the burning Issues before the electors was the! question of berthage rates. A lady voler came to Rim and asked whether he wis In favor of imposing these berthuge rates, because If he was she | would take good ears that neither ber husband nor herself would vote for Bim. A Dttle discussion of the matter revealed the fact that the lsdy was under the impression that the question of berthage rates related to a pollfax on balies. That candidate now doubts whether tha avernge female voter fa | not under a delusion—or, perhaps. we should say a spell —London Chronlele. Why Not Name County Roads? The naming of the reads, says the Grand Rapids Herald, is something | that should have been attended to logs apo. Every mais road sod every STs Rd road in the country ought to base 12 oificin] title, just ss do the streets fin avenues {a the eity. The roads are all | § 1ahl ont on the map, but they are un. named, and to attempt to address al farmer st his bome residence, except, perhaps, (no the poost general way, i» impossible. The Board of Supervisors might well appoint 8 committee or | comnmigsion Yo name the roads in the county, and in selecting names it would be well 10 honor the sturdy ploneers who setiled in the melghborhood throngh which the road passes. Wit the rounds named, a tarmer could be as easily addressed by Bla street and pumismr £8 can those who dwell in cities. 2A An A Une of Aesop's Fables, A tiger caplored a monkey, The mankey begged to be released an the score ul his insignifiennce, and prom. ized to show the tiger where he might find a mote vaivable prey. The tiger complied, and the medley conducted Bim to a hiliside where an ass was never seen before. “My good brother ™ “hitherto you have always brought me twe tigers. How is it that sou have brought we only one to-day? The tiger fled tor his life. Thus a ready wit wards off davger—New York | Tender meat was | pot always possible, henoe some form deined by |! ~ view of the Froat and manifnt economies of waterways It way soem inexplicable that with but few Mustrions exes Hous, their sdeantagos have apparentiy not impressed thems #elvos upon raliroad mansgerz and legislators in general, By the recognition and ise of these economies the most progeastve ations of the European continent have been abie to matntain large military and naval establishments, besides providieg froma the public tremsury for the construction and mainte ance of thelr extensive systerge of Internal waterways, while {Be Untred States bas permitted her canals to become gradeaily extinguished. One hy otis these oariler avenmuw of communication have been absorbed and abandoned; and yot statistios show that fhe cost of transportation by these trtificial changes js alont ste thing only of that by rfl, while by open water ft Ix stl wer. A nation traveporiation fs wasting its pres an economy of sixty-six per cept, in and imposing onerous burdens upon ite The early form of pie was undoubs. | People The possibiiitics of ri comntry are mignifeont; and yet but few of thers Bava bern developed, and in these cases tlie work has been done largely by private corporations or loos! interests. The Jirfe Canal still exists, a monn. went to the enterprise of the Empire Bate of wiiich it has ever been the back. bone; bat it Is becoming too weak $0 bear the jreatly increased tounsge. sad must be strengthened und enlarged 1ndess it fa desired to divert the trafic to he Sows 70s Touts tikough Canada. Owing ts the growth in the dlinensions of vessels, the antiquated coast-wise system of canals, made necessary as & wean of defense by the lessons of 1812, is no longer alle to pass more than tbovit three por cent. of the trade of the contignous bays and scands. These shannels barely pass the smallest torpedo-boats, and are wholly inadequate to meet the ywjulrements of an Interfor, strategic line xs an Indispessable part | of our coast defense, nbt to mention those of the millions of tons of const: wise commerce, only awaiting thelr enlargement and National control. ; The great work nenring compintion under the State of Illinois, connecting Lake Michigan with the Illinois River and having in view the nitimate eres ton of a fearteenfoot channel to the Gulf of Mexico, iy one that must com- : mend Itself to the country aa being of immeasurable value. The connection of the vast depots of eoni tn Westurn Penngylvania and Virginia with the fron ores of the Lake Superior region by means of x ship canal scroes the portage separsting Lake Erte from the Oblo River should be pushed with the utmost Slspatch. ~The Porum, a Ne .: By : ix oy " CHES 1 the Bezoie aa, Fioalitng 41 sri Ta the Sumber and servies of its heroes. There Is a lieve in the Philippines today. He was & wise Judge and strongly opposed our forelag ourselves upon fhe people there, but at the eall of duty he went to serve his country | 4nd benefit that people. The ighest office. save ane, In the land | was within Ain reach, the height of Bis ambition at bome. He res sisted the tempiation, impaired as his bealth was. He elected to plunge into the waves, as it were, to gave the drowning people we - | Reeday! Bis Delp. Judge Taft ls 8 true bero; be bas risked his life ‘ws fot Bis fellows. A fromil® her In New York recentiy—I wish I could remember his name rushed {ato danger through fire and smoke to rescues a child, and fell In the at. tempt. Buh Instances ocrur almost every week In coe or other of our cities Physicians almost dally saerifiee thelr lives in their noble calling. Verily we lve In a Beroie age, and It becomivs ua te celetirate. appland and bonor thesd grandest of heroes, whir reraind ug by their acts that they fool “the Sttest place where man oan dle ia where be dies for man” There shoald be 8 National orpanizgacion akin to the Natisoal Life Saving Sodiety, or, per bape, better still, that society should appeal for funds to support the families of such Boross sad add a department Yo administer the fund properly. : The fanilly of vo Hero who Jsey his life while trying fo roscoe a fellow ran should ever suller want, por should the bare himself, If Injured. He do serves a patision, with the thanks of the community, as well as 3 gold medal to be worn afterward and handed down to his family as a badge of true nobility. There 1a a wursidp which uplifts, a deference which exalts, x tribute which raises all who give It. aud this meeting will fail to fowtily itself if we nemble te do hoor to a hero and are pot ourselves, in contemplation of his act. raised In sore degree to Deol level The great advauee which all religions bodies are making snd must cone tinue to make or perish is along this road, the recognition of the truth thae the kiugdoos of God is within man lepe and now, and that In order to Werit beaven In tie future or to Le ft to exist there I bs necessary that we begin to pale sotsething of the teal houven bire Bow off earth, 2 By Julia Ward Howe. B FEAR hat the evi] caster of plavinge for mosey bas made corsidd rales proves In faslidnbiabie society. Heads of lame Biles in one pay olties are sumetinies josde aware of the nbir | ¢hangy between Bele own and other young people of checks i» Sntendad to cuver Mecha losses 22 cards, } Yang ladies are Beard to Toast of the gains of a season § at Newrpori—these jain, by some esses, exceeding $1000 We bear of Invitations to fashionable bDouses which sre de elnesl by voulbs of small or tioderste {Deomes who anpot afar fosaes 21 the curd talle ‘This feghre of our Hime appears [oH me a Perversion to the kabits of & low stage of efvfilzaton, iz which poverty of object induces the passion for grows of hnsard wich bs commen among barbarcos people It seems also to be a part of that aping of foreign customs whieh shows Itself a good deal among our people of wealth and leisure. Royuities and persons of high rask is the OI World have been kvown to indulge ta gambling fo 8 ruinous extent, and the custom of playing for suns farge or small stig frrevails in Buranean vauntries, This fact ay lead certain young people to consider 18 a tralt of aristocratic breeding to Bk money In gles of phanee. The better culture attainable in weders seclety should do mueh eliminate this false impression. Our Western Workl ts vieh in opportunities of social intercourse. Our young men and maidens eet frevly in college, in the prulessions and in the diversions appropriate to the wasan of youth Pity were it If this moocent freedom, profitable for mutual help and good understanding, should be made subservient to uhiworthy tastes and dangerous passions. Iu this land of ours the State has proliibited the lottery system. The clopreh has set Bersell resolutely against raffies at fades Public opinion in eivher avenue ought to set ited! against this crosl love of a gnin which necessarily implies loss to others, It ls a ois among us to-day that the exercise and enjoyment of Hberty must found self upon good sense and good morals, If we wish to svall carsalves of American freedoms we must adhere to Awrican kivas of pod condiet. The standard of the Puritans may we enlarged and sdvanced by a cuiturg more liberal thar theirs. It should not be nded by 8 course of setion based upen & suteelt of Nie pace, mn 4nd enpty—New York News.
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