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.. . ,.,..~.W~x "' " . ...m..».~”__-., . . THE DEAN ANREIS which I had exprcssel a wish to read, and which was not within the resources of either After all, I thought to myself, why should ' “But I don"t want to discuss the matter," She ruined him in about six months after I l D R. he urged' “I: dam" “ed discumng. I she took to it." ‘only want you to say yes. Surely you can I replied that I did not know how to ~say that at once as well as the day after play poker, and had no intention of learn- j to-morrow.” ing. uI can‘t say it at all until this day Week, “T u A - u' . . .g ,and then, if I intend to say ,it, I shall bel ‘1 en are said. if )0“ keep L ear 0‘ cer‘.’ I must tell him everything. of course, as I did poor .\Ir. Bleadowsweet. But he Will have no religious scrtiplesin the matters and we may very well live very happily to. gather. Besides, I can find the money ‘for his exchange if he should ever wish to do so, or if he liked, we should have quite enough to enable him to retire comfortably, and to busy himself, if time hangs heavily on his han-ls, iii the yeomiury er the militia, although it would be best, of course, to persuade him to cut the thing alto- gether, and settle down quietly somewhere- This, however, as I felt, was discounting the future somewhat too liberally ; and yet I was not altogether without reasonable ground for my speculations, inasmuch as a certain Captain Maitay had during the sieve iing paid me a degree of attention which, altho igh not effusive, had yet been mo .‘e than was strictly necessary. I Was full of these thoughts, or rather [by the lac” tha" vague plans, as I brushed out my hair for ’5“th I happen 7-0 know alludi- tiie night, and discovered to my horror, not that it was turning gray, but that its extreme ties sadly needed singeing. Then I drew the curtains, for the sun was shin- ing pleasnntly, and was soon enough fast asleep. I believe really that dancing, if you thoroughly enjoy it, tires you more completely than even riding or skating. Captain )laltby had asked me if he might call, and I had said he might, provided it. was not that day, for he had preferred his request during the cotillion and long after midnight; so I lay in bed with an easy mind until I felt thoroughly refreshed, and then preceeded to improve my personal appearance after the most approved princi- plea. First, I wentdown to the beach and had is. delicious plunge in the rising tide. Then I had a substantial French breakfast or English lunch. Then I had round the victoria, and went for a pleasant sunny drive among the l‘reezy uplands, rich with the strong aromatic odor ef Norwegian pines. Then Ispent the rest of the day quietly at home over a novel, and, when the moon rose, felt so fresh and invigor- ated that I believe if I had had a maid as escort I should have been tempted into a ramble on the cliffs. I purposely sat up late, not meaning to rise too early, and dressed myself the next morning with more than usual care. My gown was a pretty French Surah. It was of a delicate shade, adding to my apparent height, and fitted me perfectly. I wore noth- and solitaire 3. A broad belt round my waist completed the toilette, and my hair was dressed as plainly as might be. Then I filled the room with flowers, and sat in my easy-chair with a volume of Tennyson. The officers of Her Majesty's service re- gard Tennyson much as clergymen regard Milton. They are aware he ought to be read ; they are all ready at any moment to declare most solemnly that they read him daily, but they have a certain wigglesome terror of people who actually do read him. For themselves, they would be about as likely to read Tupper’s “ Provcrhial Philo- sophy ” or Longfellow’s “ Evangeline." But I am not among those who are indig- nant at these conventional and harmless little frauds. It would be a terrible world if We all told the exact truth, almost as bad a. world as if all of us in it were to lie con- sistently through thick and thin, like the Very Reverend the Dean of Southwick. \chn Captain Maltby arrived bringing with him a Mr. Dalton, a brother officer, to act as a sort of aide-de-camp, I was quite ready to receive them. They stop- ped for the conventional half-hour, and partook of the sherry. I need not dwell upon our conversation. I set the ball rolling mysslf, kept it rolling. and took very special care that it should roll everywhere in general, and nowhere in articular. When they left, Captain Mnltliy half asked permission to call again, and half expressed his intention 'of doing so, Not bad diplomacy for a young officer in the Heavies l I, who had studied diplomacy in its most Haute Ecole, and sat at the feet of its most accomplished master. replied, in my pleasantcst manner, that Eastampton was a small place. and that I should be very pleased if we met again. That we should meet again, and before long, I intended to take very particular care. And now that Ihave brought matters to this stage, I must condense my narrative a little. Of course I met Captain Malthy several times. Occasionally he would pass me with his regiment. He was always well mounted, and it d.d me good to look at him. It is mere afl'cctatioii for any woman to pretend that she does not take ple iii-.- sight of a handsome man. And Captain Malthy, who had it good sent, and rode a splendid charger, was as smart an officer as ever led a troop. Sometimes we would meet upon the paradnor on the pier, when it would have looked like company. I llt't‘d not say how wide is the difference between a Cathedral city and a garrison town. l-Iven when the two are combined, as is often the case, there is a distinctly religious line of caste which separates the lirahmins or with their wives and families, shatryas or warriors. At Salchester I, as a young wic‘ ow, would conventional glass of walking with an oificer, even ifaccompanied by the most creetcst of duennas. I could do as I liked. And I did. CHAPIIIE.XX\'H. leforc a month had pissed, Captain Malt- by was a regular visitor. ing in tire way of jewelry buts. plain brooch 1 not captivate and marry some young offi- Mn, l l I l l l mere ccqiiciry to avoid his: I that I shall be in town at all. die or Smith, I forget now what it was, but can just remember that it was a volume of travel in Central Africa, somewhat out general interest. I thanked him for the trouble he had taken in a manner which invited him to stop; and he took the hint, while he also de~ clined my permission to smoke a cigarette if he cared to do so. "The fact is, Mrs. (lasooigne," he said, “I came to talk for a few minutes, if you do not mind, and not to smoke or to indulge in your marvelous sherry. I want to ask you to keep a secret of mine, if you will.” “Secrets are dangerous things,” I an- swered seriously and seeing that he was in earnest. No one knows that fact better than myself. If you choose to tell me your secret it will'oeas safe with me as with your man of business ; but I shall decline to give you my advice over it." “It is not exactly your advice I wanted,” he replied, “although I will own that I am in a difficulty and want you to help me out of it. In one sense I am a little hampered what you call your own But it's for that very reason that I am anxious to tell you mine. The one thing which stands in my way and makes me feel awkward is that I know from what I have heard that you are very well off. Now for myself I am cadet of a poor house with just enough beyond my pay to enable me to get on, while even that is not certainâ€"my father might stop my allowance at any moment.“ I had felt certain from the first that he was a gentleman and utterly incapable of anything mean or dishonorable; and yet I began to wonder uneasily whether he might not have been losing at play or have found his way into the money-lender’s hands, and be under the idea that I could possibly help him. So I answered cautiously: “ Perhaps I am not- so well off as you suppose. A woman by herself can live very economically, in fact for next to nothing, and (I said this with a laugh) I have no ex- pensive tastes. But do not let anything that you may fancy you know about me hinder what you have to say. I am curious to hear it, and pleased to be taken into your confidence. His face was so tanned with the sun that I could only guess how the blood flushed to his cheeks by seeing the skin round the roots of his hair turn a vivid'crimson. “We are at cross purposes, I fancy.” he said, “and if we talk much longer I shall get bewildered and perhaps make a fool of myself. What I want to ask you, Mrs. Gascoigne, is for something which I want very much more than money. A reason- able check of mine, I am glad to say, is good at any time in Craig’s Court; and unless I want to run into figures which I have not yet touched, Cox’s would see me through. I want you to do something else for meâ€"something quite difl‘erent. In fact, what I want. is to ask youif you will marry me, and so make me the happiest and proudest man, not in the Queen’s Musket- eers, but in the whole service.” It was my time now to turn red ; and I think, if I can judge by the flush which I felt rushing to my face, that my own per; formance in this respect fairly eclipsed his and was fully as sincere and genuine. “You cannot possibly know all about me," I said, “or else you would never have asked me what you have.” “But you’re wrong, he answered. “I do know, and so for the matter of that does our chief, and so do all of us. And we are allof one opninion about the matter ;and the chief, who gets very violent when he is angry, swears that old Sir Henry ought to be made to run the gauntlet. And I’ll tell you another thing, Lady Craven. The chief‘s wife sides With the chief ; she is Madainela Colonelle, and no mistake l She is a power, let me tell you ; and the sn‘o- alteriis are far more afraid of her than of the Colonel himself. Her own expression is that the whole thing was a burning shame; and we all agree With her, only that we use shorter language. Now look here, if you think I am exaggerating in the least, I’.. back if I tell her what’s happened sheiii come and call on you to-morrow afternoon, and then you see there can’t possibly Le any mistakes, can there? For the life of me I could not help laugh- ing. I wonder why it is that all men who are worth their salt are, when you once move them, as Simple and as blunt as schoolboys. I began t1 think, in a strange whirl of ideas. of the great Duke of \Vellington and of his memorable utterance about Napo- leon’s bones, which, by some whimsical association of ideas, were suggested to me by the skeleton in my own cupboard, and I fairly burst out again into a hearty peal of merriment in which my guest and suitor joined. “Well”, I answared, “let us wait and see if she calls, andâ€"let- me seeâ€"you may come ’3 (mum in | again this day week if you like, only you must. distinctly uuderstaiid that I do not ipronilsc to be in, and cannot indeed promise I am, as you seem to know, my own mistress: and for rain, or, as uiikiu-l people would say, cap- ricioiis.” He rose to his feet as I rose to mine. I 1 that very reason I‘lly IIIOVEIYZEHIS fll'e uncer- lheld out my hand, but iie did not take it. i “I think," he said, “it would be only kind Ioi you to say something or other to ins to- { day : to give me some sort of an idea. You prim”. ;caii't tollâ€"I am sure you can't tellâ€"how from the ; much I love you, and how deeply my heart ‘ is set on this. i have hopelessly ruined my reputation by i irreproachahle of hodkinsâ€" . say the quartermaster himself or the dis- 2 Here at Easthamptonj I‘llsell out if you like, or exchange for India, or do anything. In fact I ought to have told you before this that Iwould sell out at once if you didn't llike the regiment, only 1 really didn't think ofit. I somehow let it go without saying. It was very stupid of me.” , "It was no: at all stupid,"l answered, ‘ “.md I quite believe all you have told inc : ‘ and now, you know, I really think that I 7 must be going for my afternoon drive.” “But you will surely give me some sort An officer of his of answer before Igo. I think 1 have a cand in a crack regiment is a better man right to ask that at least.” 0 the world than any ecclesiastic or diplo- l “But I canit give you an answer," I re- matist. He was making love to me as " plied: “at- least not the answer which I if he knew that I knew it. He had also the suppose you want me to give. I like you sense to be aware that he could not continue , very much, but I am alscfdetermined that this pastime indefinitely :anl without prc- ' tending to exactly read his thoughts at any given date, 1 am sure he very soon came to the conclusion that he would either have to marry me or else to give me up altogether. One morning he called armed with a book you shall not leave the r'egiment on my acsount. Ifl am to marry you at all it I must not involve your leaving the regiment. _On that point my 'mind is made up ; and as we quite understand one another :: is no good discussing the matter further." 3 here to do 80. All I can say at present is, ,that I hope with all my heart I shall be ihere." l°f due, and 05 Belentific “the: th’“ Oil After this there was clearly nothing left ‘for him, but to go ; so he took my hand. “ I have all tliafaith in the world in you.” he said, “and I am quite sure of ers. Martyn, and I shall leave you with 33!) easy heart, although the hours will be horrible long,” Now Mrs. Martyn was the Colonel’s wife, of whom we had already been speaking under her more formal designation, and I {had made up my mind Very fully that, if she did in tact call upon me, and, after hearing what I had to tell her, on assuring me that she knew it already, left me upon cordial terms, I would marry Captain Maltby as soon as he pleased; and if she did not, I was equally determined that Maltby should not have, as I knew must inevitably be the case, to leave the regi- ment on my account. So that once again matters simplified themselves for me in what my father would have termed a dis- tinctly providentisl manner and indeed I began to feel that at last in my life the chances of the game were settling in my favor. So long as I could marry Captain Malt- by without driving him from the regiment, I wanted, and in fact most sincerly wished, to do so; but I was equally determined that no power on earth should induce me to in any way cross or even alter the course of his life. I had had one unhappy marriage, and Iwas determined that under no cir- cumstances would I allow myself to be led into a second. For however much a man may love his wife, he cannot possibly love her as either he or she would wish if she has in any way crossed his career instead of having aided it and accelerated its success. Marriage is a partnership in many more senses than one ; and I was most distinct- ly and resolutely determined that about my second partnership there should be no mistake whatever at the outset. Every- thing must be entirely understood and ar- ranged, or else I should remain Lady Cra- ven, however muchI might desire to be rid o the hateful name. i i So, without another word as to the future, I again wished Captain Maltby good-bye, and paid him the compliment of watching him down the stairs. Then I sat down for a while and thought matters over, or, to be more precise, reviewed them, for they now lay entirely beyond my own control, and upon the knees of tfe Fates. The result of the review was upon the whole- reassuring. Captain Maltby was no boy. He was an officer of some stand- ing, close upon his majority, and a man of the world. It was out of the question to suppose that he had been intentionally misleading me, and it was almost equally out of the question to suppose that he was under any delusion on his own account. The marvelous thing to my mind was how they could have found out about me; but I think that even here I hit upon the right solution. In referring to the clergy List I found that the rectory of the parish in which the [barracks were situated, and in the parish lohurch of which the troops attended ser- vice, was one of considerable value, and l oddly enough, or rather not at all oddly, if my conjecture was right, was in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Salchester, who, on the occasion of the last vacancy which had happened just before my arrival in Easthampton, ,had appointed to it one of their Minor Canons, a worthy middle-aged gentleman with a fussy, mischief-making wife. I felt that I might be doing this good lady a very great injustice; but I at once jumped to the conclusion that she had heard all about my history from her husband and had repeated it, with comments and addi- tions of her own, to the wives of every married officer in the regiments, including of course Mrs. Martyn herself. But the matter was too trifling for me to trouble myself with it. I knew my father to be sufficiently spiteful and vindictive to do me any injury that lay in his power, even in the most roundabout way : and to- wards the niichief-makiiig gossip herself, my feeling was one of contempt, rather then of irritation, and certainly had in it not a trace of anything so serious as a desire tor revenge. CHAPTER \'.\'VIII. Next day Mrs. Martyn called at an orthodox hour, and in orthodox state. She Was very chatty, and with a strong mascu- line eleiiieiit in her which is almost invari- ably to he found in the wives of officers who accompany their husbands on service, and is, to my thinking, extremely pleasant. Except that she was educated and of a good county family, she somewhat remind- ed one of Thackeray’s Mrs. O’Dowd, with all her frankness, bonlicmic, and entire im- pcrturbabiliiy. Before she had been in the room three or four minutes, I was entirely at my ease. I can only give the general impression which what she had to say left upon my mind. As she chattcreil away, doing iiear.y all the talk lierself,slie gave me to understand that the ladies of the garrison, lln'l more es- pecially of the regimentmiui taken to me as kindly as had the men, and that I was generally a persona grate. “ You see, Lady Cravenâ€"or must I say Mrs. (fiascoigneâ€"wheu the men are on parade, or on field duty, or at mess, we have nothing to do amongst ourselves but to chatterâ€"the Colonel calls it cacklmgâ€"so of course we chattered about you. First we began about your jewels, and I needn't tell you we chied them. Now that the dear old days of loot are over, you don’t They are superb, tine enough for a Begum. And then you know we began to talk about all kinds of things, and it was settled at last that I should come here to-day nsasort of deputation, or as what you may call the oldest inhabitant.” I thanked her very cordially. “You will have us allhere before long,and you will find that there are quite enough of us to keep you lively, if not indeed a round dozen too many. And do what you like with them, but don’t play poker at It's a bad habit, and it grows upon you. I l l l l t l phur match. cards, you won’t do much harm among us, or come to much either. W’e are not a mischief-making set like the old women of both sexes in a Cathedral town, and iv» can enjoy ourselves in our own way. Now there is one of us, she‘ll tell you all about it herself, regularly rides her husband‘s second charger with the garrison drag, and makes him come with her. I believe she’d ride in our regimental steeplechases ii the committee would allow her to enter ; and yet, bar her passion for horses, or rather for riding, for she knows no more of horse-flesh than the man in the moon, she’s as quiet a little soul as ever lived, and I'm sure you’ll like her." I told her that I could ride a little along a good turnpike road, or over level turf,but that I was not at all likely to be seen any- where near the tails of the drag hounds. “ Ah, well! I didn’t know: and yet you ought to ride too. You’d look well on a horse. One or two of our fellows have aid so, Maltby more particularly.” I felt the color rising to my face, and she could not have helped noticing it. “ He’s a capital fellow, Maltby; one of the best in the regiment; popular with the Colonel and with everyboin else. Only, unluckily for him, he hasn’t much money, and not much chance of any that I can see. His father is a judge who married a woman with a lot of money. The money,however, is all tied up, and will go to the elder son, who made a try as a barrister, but somehow failed. They tell me he has less brains in his whole head than our man has in the tip of his little finger. “And so Maltby only has what his father allows him. It is not much, but the old man could cut it off at any time, and then, I am sure I don’t know what Maltby, would do. I suppose he’d have to exchange and go to India, but that is not so easy as it used to be ; besides, he’d lose all his promo- tion. Nowadays, all the fellows are red hot to go to India, and shake the rupee tree. I don’t know what the regiment would do without him, I'm sure. He’s not exactly what you call the life and soul of it, for he’s the quietest fellow going. But he’s one of the best liked men in it anyhow; and we shouldn’t be ourselves without him." I said, in judiciously general terms, that Captain Maltby was a sort of man whom it was impossible to help liking, and that I could perfectly understand his popularity: and I said something also about a. regiment being very much like a public school, a. place in which every man was taken for what he was worth, so that popularity was one of the very best testimonials, if not quite the best that a. man could have. (TO BE CONTINUED.) . â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-°â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" IT ALL DEPENDS. Shit-Ii ot‘0ur Happiness Depends on How we Take Lire, It is not a very pleasant matter to con- template, but it is a truth that has to be faced that failure, disappointment and de- feat constitute a consideral le part of human life and that much of our happiness depends upon the way in which we accept them and the lessons we draw from them. While it may be better not to contemplate them much in regard to projects that require all the zeal, courage and endurance we can get together, it may not be amiss to reflect calmly, at times, upon the particular char- acteristics which are needed to meet them inanfully and secure from them' whatever benefits they are capable of imparting. These are very different from, and far more meritorious than the qualities which enable a man to ride triumphantly onthe bounding tide of popular success. The courage of high endeavor is not the courage of endur- ance; the enthusiasm that laughs at obstac- les is very different from the experience that realizes them; the self confidence which takes no note of limitations is quite unlike the humility which has found and accepted them. In the same way, it may he cmiended that the hopefuliic~s that has never been crushed scarcely resembles the modest hope which may spring up after failure, content to strive for small things when great ones are impossible. The proper way to judge of men and their motives is to consider their aims in life. \\'e can by no means extend to the selfish man the affectionate respect which is due to the philanthropist. The triumph of one may he paltry and of little account, that of the other may be noble and heroic. Y t in seasons of failure, when efforts have been defeated, when labor has been in vain, when cherished purposes have been frustrat- ed, and struggles have been vain and friiit~ less, both may be equally unprepared to meet the shock. Both may succumb to the disappointment: lose heart and courage and make shipwreck of their lives. Many a man has set out with hope and enthusiasm to engage in some noble cause or to carry out some cherished plan for the good of seeiety. For a time success seems to crown his efforts and his labors are reioublcc'. Presently, however, he loses ground, he realizes difficulties that seem insuperable, he does not meet with the response he had counted on. Flaws in his plans are detect- ed and perhaps his whole scheme proves in its present condition to be impossible. Disappointed and discouraged he throws it up and abandons thewhole field. Because he has failed in this erort he will make no other and becomes a disgruntled and dis- satisfied man for the rest of his life. However eXCellent his aim, however zealous his efforts, he has not yet learnt the lessons which failure has in store. If he were to review the past in the light of its experience he might discover the causes of his ftfilure ; he might find that while his intentions were good, his judgment was at fault and his knowledge of human nature deficient. With more modesty and equal earnestness he might set himself to do what he can, perchance in a smaller and humblerl way but with far better promise of real, success. -----â€"-â€"-â€"”0 V""‘~M~Q/ ROYALTY IN SUMBIER. ,. __ ‘ 7 ~ Hot Weather Retreats of the Kings and Queens of Europe. " The venerable Queen Victoria, for more than twenty years, has usually divided the summer and autumn months betWeen Os- borne and Balmoral castles. Often when the weather is pleasant she remains out of doors all day, reading or writing, in the shade of some fine old tree. Intiiis fashion also she frequently discusses her breakfast and afternoon tea. The life led by the Prince of Wales dur- ing the summer months is a much busier and more varied one than that of his august mother. He usually nukes the round of the great country houses of England, where his coming is always eagerly watched for; spends r. few weeks at Hamburg, and in September takes part in the family reunion of King Christian at F redenborg. How. ever, the Prince is happiest when for a few weeks he can bid farewell to the world of form and fashion, and spend a brief season in his country home at Sandringhani, a typical country house, pleasantly situated in a typical English county. Emperor “'illiain is an enthusiasticliiint- er. His hunting estate in East Prussia is a great forest covering some 75 square miles of rough and rocky territory, and abounds in the finest deer that run on the Continent. Here the Emperor loves to follow the chase in the manner of the ancient founders of his house. For the mock hunts so pop- ular at Potsdam he has no patience. He is a splendid horseman and an almost un< erring marksman, and cares only for the. chase requiring the highest qualities of horsemansiiip and marksmanship. Ho de- votes at least a fortnight every autumn to the pleasures of the chase. The lEmperor Francis Joseph of Austria has acomfortable but modest villa at lschl, where he usually passes his summer vaca- tion. His habits are simple and severe, and hunting is the one pastime of which he is passionately fond. There are ample opportunities for the huntsman at Ischl, which lies between Salzburg and Cinunden The adjacent mountains are steep, thickly wooded, and over-running with game. \Vhen staying at Ischl Francis Joseph often arises before sunrise to take part in the chase. His Ministers visit Ischl only at rare intervals, but the Empress, who is an almost constant traveller, always joins her husband some time in August in order to be with him on his birthday. Alfonso, the boy king of Spain, spends the summer at San Sebastian,closely guard- ed hy his mother the Queen-Regent. The little King is now eight years old, and has quite a numerous court attached to his person, including two or three stately inajordomos, and any number of pages and domestics. The royal nurse, Rayiiiunda, who nursed him in his iiifiincy, is still his faithful guardian, and sleeps beside his bed at night. As soon as he is washed and dressed in the morning, he is turned over to Raymunda who conducts him to the Queen. The castle of Monza, in Lombardy, is the home of King Humbert of Italy during the early summer months. Here he and his Queen live with as little pomp and ceremony as possible. In September they go for a short stay in the Alps, the King to hunt and the Queen to enjoy her chalet of Gressoney, the long mountain excursions of which she is so fond. At (lrcssoncy Hum- bert adopts the costume of the Tyrolcsc inountaineers,and leads a life as simple and hardy as their own. The Italian Crown Prince spends a greater part of the sum- mer at Capo di Monte, the Versailles of Naples, where he holds his court. His mother goes every October to Capo di Monte to aid in entertaining his numerous. guests, and when later the King joins them a grand bear hunt is one of the unfailing features of the merrymaking. King Christian of Denmark loves to ramp with his grandchildren, and at Fredensborg is often seen seated in s vciy diminutive pcny carriage, trusting himself to the care of a very youthful coaciiman. Sometimes he acts as the willing horse for a. still younger driver. i'lveryafteriioonlic invites. his grandchildren to perform gymnastics, and himself enters enthusiastically into their exercises. Qupen Louise always takes advantage of having her daughters with her at these family reunions to perform music in common, and often they play eight hands on two pianos the Queen and Duchess of Cumberland at one, the Empress of Russia and the Princess of Wales at the other. +___.___ LONG LIFE IN RUSSIA. Abnormal Longevity More ('omnion In Russia Thain In Any Other European Nation. It has long been a well-established fact that abnormal longevity is more common among the Russians than among any other of the European nations. From an official report collated from well authenticated local registers, it now appears that the Government of Kieff takes the first place of all Russian provinces in this respect. Durs rig last year, it‘is officially stated, there were “Centenarian doaihsregintercd in that Government. In the city of Kiclf one man died aged 190 years, whilst within the surhur’can circle twn women died aged respectively 102 and 104 years. In Berdit- cheii' two men reached the respective ages of 101 and 114 years. In Vassikoif, another patriarch there died in his 115th year. In the same district there died a jewels aged 10.3; in Sevenigorodka, a mat: of 110 years; in Tarastscha, another of “)5: in Uman, two men aged respectively 106 and 102 years; in Radomytzei, a Jew aged [07 and a Christian aged 103; and lastly, a man of 105 years died at Tcherkassy. here are H persons, dying within the same year and within the limits of one district, whose united ages amount to in”? years. According to the Saratofl’ journals there is Bel“? “all” 0“ hm"? and Chiming ma." Still living in that Cavernment an ancient, afternoon tea; take that hint from a friend. he TemOVEd by {L0 5330“ 0‘5 3 burning sul- Bloisten the stained surface One of our young fellows actually had to and 81' 086 it fully to tile smoke,which will leave because his wife would play paker. “1‘0 6 €Ct at once. ‘9“ jewels, like ypnrs a: a garrison ball. veteran of the First. Napoleon's army, formerly Lieut. Savin, and since If“: known as Nicolai Alexandrovitch $IVID, who has celebrated 128 birthdays. ._.... mm -w ;--.,~__~..._ .â€".â€",~_.... .._._.. __ Waqw _._ F...” mâ€"-H..