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_____..____‘_.-' ._._â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"'â€"_-â€"_~_-â€"_- A M l C0 EDY OF ERRORS. W ~ CHAPTER VH° {the bride for such an espousel. “Oh.” " Tuscany. .thOUght Jessica, “it is true! IsaWit at sudden catastrophe had startl d h ' " ' d Dear . . 3 er Into 5 worked for it. I ought to be please ‘ gearaousness. Hersmiles and her afl‘ectations l Flora! She is worthy 0f him, If any one vefyadlikye ended. With John she was now i is. And I will be an old maid like Ml“ wistfully and coloring all over if he k ' to d s to her. . But this hardly ever bappeneIIPan l at rep». never did he let his eyes meet hers. , and tremulous, watching him : Snow,” she ended, with a burst of scalding Jessica wrote to John Farqubar. a P00” u A v . llittle note, not nearly ceremonious enough ren t you gomg to tell Captain Far- to please her father. It ran thus :â€" quhar, dear Jess?” asked Flora kindly . o ' ' “MY Dear. Commaâ€"It is much better to and J esswa, clenching her hand, replied l marry the person one loves. And I no. do sadly :â€" - ' t lad ou want, who- “ I am afraid he knows ; but I am not ! :35: £12: ”15153.32”: gas mistaken in going to say one word about it unless he 1 fancying you thought the money so impor- ozfif. Oh,fFlora, let us come away.” i tant. But couldn’t we get Mr. Farquhar’s badetIei‘l. a. ew dings they went ; and John 1 will altered? We should so much rather be h hadcdm goo ' ye, and_thanked herfor all i Without all that money. Please sometimes 3 e one; but he took noleeveoiJessica. i think kindly of Jessica, who will always be ‘ n . Only a little brown boy brou h “ l 3’ g I: her from I 1 d I; k 9 ha, " shentleman a bunch of beautiful frail gum l g at“; jgfny,::eaiied £52719“... from the cm“ WhiCh grows Wild at Tangier, °h the unknOWn cousin he felt for the first time a. £3818 where fly t”? hoopoe and the golden l throb of interest, in her. “She must be a d «tester. The girls went away and visit- 1 very sweet girl, this Jessica,” he said to e rdova, and Granada, and Seville; ' himaelf. “but thank heaven! I am free.” angdthedyouiager wasdalways very quiet and l ’ ' an 119 . an seems anxious to England. to get home All last one eveuin Williams a aprived at Victoria. sgtation in Logdogjl::d CELEBS 1” SEARCH OF AWIFE' hither caipe Mr. Nevill‘to meet them. ‘ Iohu took stock of his position, for he Papa, ”581d Jessica, “don’t you remem- now thought seriously of going u-woomg. being.“ - . First, he had definitely thrown away his 150’ .said M" N971“ gr nflly. staring at rightful inheritance; but come l he was not the :maiden lady -" “Upon my word, Miss wholly without prsopects. He had certain W‘i‘lliams ‘5 not t° be recognized.” well-to-do material kinsmeu who could put A mth passage is unbecoming,” said him in the way of making a. competence, if Elf”. Wltl} composure. he would leave the army and betake him- .‘And rejuvenating,” returned Mr. Nevill self to commerce. Though fond of his pro- grimly. fession, J ohu had never meant to say in it Arrived at home, be soundly blew his beyond his father’s death, so the idea of dwell“? up. civil me wasnothing startling‘y novel. sun, “you deceived me, Jessica. You pre- beyond writing diplomatically and vaugsly sented that Miss Williams to me disguised. to his kinsmen, he did nothing rashly. The I shall not allow your acquaintance with lady of his choice might refuse him, in â€"â€"-â€".-â€".â€"o ‘ ' l the time, and he confesses it now. He Jessica was not the same after this. The l loves Flora ! Well, it was my owu plan. I CRAP I‘ER VIII. you two girlsâ€"girls, J essicaâ€"have been seemed the one thing needful ; or she might touring about Europe, and going to hotels prefer a poor warrior to a rich merchant ;’ by.yourselves ? DO you hear me, Jessica? or she might have a little money herself. It 18 disgraceful.” Not that the last seemed probable. John "“1 hear papa. But really Flora is older _ had persuaded himself that Williams was than a great many widows. And most ‘ the rich one, and her companion a poor peeple thought we were Americansâ€""- student, preparing at Girton to earn her “Abominable l” own living. “But we referred to Girtonâ€"-â€"” #1 shall get her away from there,” he “Detestable l” Itold himself ; “ a. college is a foolish place ‘for a woman.” Oh, masculine prejudice l To dub Flora’s nursery “ foolish” when it had reared her, so pretty, so brave, so prac- tical, and so lively; emancipated yet not strong-minded, after the fashion of Mrs. “ â€"-â€"and then every one was satisfied.” “ I never was so vexed in my life. And what possessed you, Jessica, to go toSpain'.‘ It is not a respectable country.” “ We were quite respectable, papa. We went to no bull-fights.” “Under your circumstances. Jessica, it was the worst taste. Did you forget that Spain, though he ran round Andalucia look- John' Farquhar is at Gibraltar? , I hope, ing for their names in the hotel books, John Jessica, you did not go near Gibraltar ‘2" at last decided he must write to “the fool- ‘her to continue. Do you mean to telee which case death on the battlefidd‘ Geoffrey Cobbel Unable to find trace of the two girls in La ~. a, «ammutummmfiwr _.._â€". fore posting it, and Was 31", ~ - - i935 Spelhi‘s’ dethewcomedyJStShdllfrgligteflo ieces, on ma. e i - - Sue ggmny differenff‘s. Williams compose “ °}1 must “Y: my dear mother that YO? write I" YO“? daughter, who Is just some 3° The"? a. man named Smith, and isâ€"walking out With him, mending his stopkings. 01‘ whatever you choose.” . ‘ My‘i‘lesr child,” said simple Mrs. Wil- lis-Hie, there is no such person. Are you afraid this Captain Farquhar may fall in love With you ‘3” “ “ Not in the least,” said Flora coolly ; but I should greatly dislike his surmising that I was in love with him. When you have finlslied that sentence, mother, say we have found out that he wants to renew his acquaintance with Talbot, and shall be happy _ to .assist him in doing so, as we knpw it Will be agreeable to her.” “‘ N0. my dear Flora,” said Mrs.Williams. _ I 81'” Older than you, and I am quite sure "i 19 imprudent to give this gentleman any hint 8-3 to Jessica’s partiality. I shall say, Though We are, of course, unable to answer for the young lady that his doing so will seem 150 her desirable.’ ” “ Well, InOther-then go on and beg him to come here on Saturday and stay with us ml Monday, so that we may take him to see her.. Don’t, you see, mother, you and I are to dill-e at Nevill Lodge on Saturday, and Jessica. has written to say one of the men has failed, and won't we, for pity's sake. bring some one. Just as if our men were plentlful as blackberries! But really its provuicntial; we will take John Far- quhar.” _ “ My dear love i” exclaimed Mrs. Wil- liams. " “.It will be thrilling!” cried Flora. “ I am just dying to see what he’ll do 1” " But, my dear child, suppose Jessica doesn’t want to meet him ‘2” “ Then she can go to bed with a sick headache. Nature provided that complaint for these emergencies. But my own Ople' ion is that Jessica. will meet him, and that it Will all come right, mother. It’s the greatest fun in the world l” cried Flora. .I‘Iow came “ that Miss Williams” to be dining in Mr. Nevill’s house after he had forbidden Jessica. her further acquaintance? The fact was, the child changed so much that her father had taken fright, and by this time was indulging her in every way he could think of. Jessica. Was frettingâ€" there could be‘ no doubt about it; and what made matters worse was that no one could tell what she was fretting about. She grew pale and thin ; her dimples were gone; her gay dresses hidden; her dancing step had become a slow andlenguid tread . She had no little jests ready; no afiectations; no merry coaxings and saucy whims. She sat much in her OWn room, and often came down with tear-stained eyes. Once Mr. N evill caught her sobbing over some dead cistus flowers. He read to her, walked with her, rode with her diligently ; he was always ready to talk to her, but their speech was of prim, i every other stone. .mewmrsmuammulwwmmww,I E _ , 2M~___________________________â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-"'/â€"_’.â€" ' I: ATE UABLERAMS: Character is a. diamond that scratéhes He that will watch providences shall never want providences to watch. The usual fortune of complaint is to ex- cite contempt more than pity. He who is most slow in makings. promise s the most faithful in its performance. "For virtue’s self may too much zeal be bad ; the worst of madness is a saint run mad. Observe the edects of rage on those who deliver themselves up to the passion. Music makes the people milder and gent- ler, more moral and more“ reasonable. Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbl- er.‘ Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids; her monuments shall last when Egypt‘s fall. We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? 'When listeners refrain from evil hearing. Most of our misfortunes are more sup-v portable than the comments of our friends upon them. In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining thou hast attained it thou art a fool. There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. . All, with one consent, praise new-born gauds, though they are made and molded of things past. Bounded in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who has a recollection of heaven. The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell ; but the husks often tell what the kernel is. There is a courtesy of the heart: it is allied to love. From. it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Reason ! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay blind, thou art in preventing them. Every man is a. hero and an oracle to some- body, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. Flints may be melted~we see it daily- SEED THOUGHTS- __.. - on" goalthâ€"mjor-Gcneral neg. Few save the poor feel for the poor. The 0” parishioners. Th Q . ~ - . despa la ,8 zâ€" e ueen is Our enemies are our outward consciences . A Logidggossible health; the cold weath. A lover's eyes Will gaze an eagle hhnd- in the “benefits Her Majesty in every re- The true art of memory is the art of at- :Eigvtvygeteas Osborne ilsdrather too relax. tention. ' hen it is mi at this seaso - r W . n. The deadliest sin were the consciousness félgefguggn has been out in the grounds °l 11° m . new, every myrtle *3; dongs .chair. - If thou wouldst be borne With, then bear 6. has taken a “"6 m e P“ 0" m the with others on hborhoed every afternoon. ‘ . . . 1 d 1 Deli t tots from Canada refer to the good The truly sublime is a ways easy an a ‘ 3 ct which has already been produced by ways natural. 5h: re cent report of Major-General Ivor on the subject of the local militia. fiedvlilelrge remembered how outspoken and in dependent that report was. General Herbert simply told the truth, but he told it in a manner Which brought home to ofli. Gig} Places how great their responSibilities were, and how seriouely toe interests of the Dominion might be jeopardized if they showed a disposition to ignore them, and the effect has left nothing to be desir- e d. The Government seems to be at last nite sensible to the absolute necessity for it to arouse itself, and is domg so in a. way which is calculated. to produce the nec. essary progress Which has been so long de- ed. 18%, is learned that the annual revenue of Duke Alfred from the Double Duchy will be about £30,000 a year at least. There is no civil list in Coburg-Gotha, his income being simply derived from surpluses yield- ed by the exchequer, and hitherto this has been about £5,000 for Cobourg and £25,000 for Gotha. But as the Duke has to reside alternately in his two capitals, the expenses arising from this dual court are very con- siderable. With his English allowance of 10,000 his Royal Highness will thus, how- ever, enjoy an income of about £40.000a year. But in addition to this he has in her ited a. private property, the estates of his uncle, including some fine shooting grounds. The committee of the Marylebone Cricket club appear to have committed themselves to the proposal that when the side taking second innings scores eighty runs less than its opponents, the leaders shall have the privilege of going on with the second inn- ings immediately or of sending the other side in at their option. This seems to be a rather violent remedy for the slight evils of the eXisting system of following on and it might be made a means of great in- justice. It is often an enormous advantage to win the toss and there is no sufficient reason for increasing that advantage. An eleven sometimes falls behind on the first innings through unkindness of the elements. Why should their very misfortune be made an excuse for giving further advantage to their opponents ‘3 , The contemplated increase of the French navy is far from meeting with unqualified approbation. Men in the best position for forming accurate judgment on the matter are decidedly of opinion that the country cannot afiord to spend so much money on naval armament, when, if war comes, it dill? minim IN â€"â€" The Gilbert Islands the tion~ V A) Amerlcan Views WI Encroachment of El: Continent. England last year declar ate over the Gilbert Islan- Pacific Archipelago and rec pleted their annexation by session. The Gilberts. are coaling and cable station . -. vast commerce now being ra ed from British Columbia to now only requires the ca Hawaiian islands, to which t contiguous, to complete the vast chain of possessions an ‘Jhich Great Britain has circ to the East via the Suez 0 Cape of Good Hope to A Australia to Vancouver via Islands, and from thence act the Atlantic back to Englan ian Islands are the most 1m ~ this 'WOBLD EFCIRCLISG not only to the commerce am Great Britain on the Pacific l the protection and commerce States as well on the Pacific ~- If the infamous policy of I Gresham prevails England on will possess Hawaii. The Gi sixteen in number, cover an square miles, are near the eq tween the Hawaiian and Fiji l Britain, in pursuance of her . tecting and developing her the Pacific ocean, as she da ': else. is about to lay a. cable fr to Vancouver, making static berts and at the Hawaiias. have a population of 50,000 considerable trade with the -- cocoanuts heretofore mainly i: Americans, from which the driven. The King previously islandsto the United States. day that England declared a over the Gilberts she also pro tectoratc over the Gardnerr, Nassau Islands in the W ~ ocean, to the Northeast 0 Islands, intending to use I PegOPago as .4. course spine The same month Great Britai. sion of the Johnston islands, v'west of Hawaii, proposing . a cable station. Hawaiian under American superintend bored at the Gilberts since Americans will now lose til influence in the Gilberts. The already received orders not . and pearl shells to any ex “ We slept at Gibraltar for a night, ish place ” itself. Talbot had, of course, pa.” returned thither, her Easter holiday ended. “ Dear, dear me l I do most sincerely It was now June, and, as prearranged, J ohz.’ hope, my dear, that you did not see John was on leave and had come to England to there.” ' go a-courting; only not to his cousin the bookish subjects, which told him nothing. Neither John Farquhar nor Jessica’s for- tune was ever mentioned. At last she got a cough, and the servants said she was dealers. Heretofore the Am controlled this lucrative busin \Vhen Russia sold Alaska. t States it was not merely for t .but an ungrateful heart can not be ; not by must stand or fall by the army, and the the strongest and noblest flame. army alone. It will be a long time before But peace ! I must not quarrel with the French taxpayers forget how little their Will 0f highest dispensationfiwhich, happily, navy did for them in the last great war. ,o. ,\_ “ No. we didn’t,” quibbled Jessica ; “ but if we had, papa ‘3” “ My dear, you speak like a baby. What do you suppose John would have thought , of you 2 Running about with another girl of sixteen, and I do declare running after him l Bless my soul 1 Don’t talk to me of , accident. He would never have believed ’ it an accident. ‘ You shall be introduced to your cousin, Jessica, nowhere but in your i father’s house. Such conduct as you sug- gest might have led to his even refusing‘ your acquaintance l” Jessica ,couldn’t, she really couldn’t just then confess the Tangier escapade, which, having unexpectedly grown into tragedy,was now all the harder to describe as a mere foolish jest. But the opportune moment for confession never turned up afterwards, and Jessica became an impos- tor. - ' ' She had to listen to along account of poor Mrs. Farquhar’s death, as if she knew nothing about it ; and the girl having taken refuge in silence, Mr. Nevill said. tostily, “I do wish, Jessica, that I could get you to take a straw of interest in your l future husband!” l any one’s fault. It does seem to me it would be so much better just to send John the money and have done with it. heiress. l He procured a list of the Girton students and ran his eye over it. No mention of Flora Williams ; that was all right, for she had described herself as “gone down.” John found the name he sought ; read it, and gave a little jumpâ€"“ The Honorable Caroline Talbot.” How came it he was unprepared for that little addition? Well, no matter. Kings and honorable women are nothing to a lover. Still a. vision arose before his imagination of a. stiff, titled papa, who might have smiled upon John Farquhar of Farquhar Court, many acres, and a. balance at the banker’s; but who would put on his spectacles at plain John Farquliar of the 509th, with his pay and no expectations. However, he wrote to Miss Talbot ceremoniously. And all day he went about murmuring her name, “Caro- line!” “Caroline 1" and wishing he thought it as pretty as “Jessica.” After a day or two came a. reply from the Honorâ€" able Caroline, who wrote a very large hand and used a. very thick pen, so thatlohn got another little shock, having expected a. round, pretty little writing like Jessica Nevill’s. sat down and began another lettertoGirton, this time addressed to Miss Williams, to be forwarded ; but he hesitated a. little about going into a decline. Mr. Nevill took her to town to see a physician, and the learned man thumped her on the chest and slapped her on the back, and stethoscoped and laryngoscoped her till she was terrified; finally pronounced that she had nothing the matter with her ;and asked her father privately if she had, perhaps, been crossed in love? Very nobly, Mr. NeVill took the hint, and sent next day for Mr. Hobson. But Jessica would none of Mr. Hobson ; and when Sir Edgar Lee, the admirable baronet, made his long-expected proposal, Jessica hunted him out of the county at once turn- ing up her little nose most disdainfully. " Still resolved to be a single woman, Jess ?” asked Mr. Nevill, in despair. “ I think, papa,” replied Jessica, “to be like Miss Snow is best. And sometimes I wonder whether I am High Church enough to get on in a. sisterhood.” More alarmed than ever, Mr. Nevill,with a. sigh told her that if she wished she might go to Girton, which is a sisterhood indeed of a sort, but one not oblivious of holidays. Yet Jessica only said quietly, “Thank you, papa, but I don’t want to go now,” and he felt more anxious than before. I‘fancy he is a. relation of yours,so it seems suitable. . . “ Oh, papa, no l” cried Jessica, with a blazing spot on each pale check. “I cannot hath ends above my reach to know. I look upon indolence as a. sort of suicide ; for the man is efficiently destroyed, though the appetite of the brute may survive. The Widest River in, the World- It is the Amazon in South America, which is fifty miles broa'i at the mouth, enters the Atlantic Ocean by an estuary 230 miles . long and 130 miles broad. The tide is felt for 530 miles; the river narrows very grad- ually, and even for ‘20.") or 300 miles above the tidal course is never less than four miles in width. Lieutenant Nunes wrote tliat‘ata distance of 1,500 miles from the mouth they did not see the two shores of the river on both sides at once. The inhab- itants of the Province of Para describe the Waters of the Amazon as the Mediterranean navigable for a distance of 2,000 miles, and in the upper parts of its course averages from one to two miles in width. With its tributaries, many of them‘ large and impor- tant rivers, the waters of the Amazon form an inland navigation of not less than 50,000 miles, a. line double the circumference of Of South America. This grand river is \Englshmen will submit to the ballot, as many miles. . The bulk of Amazon equals that of 130 rivers the size of the Thames. Its services were insignificant and its cost comparatively unimportant. The naval esti- mate for 1804 amounts to 266,000,000 francs. The reminiscence of the late Sir William Gregor, which will be published in the spring by Murray, ought to prove an extremely interesting book. Fow men have enjoyed a more varied experience of life than Sir Wil- liam, who was at the same time a sports- man,ira.veller, politician,a fine judge of art, a successful colonial governor and a man of the world. He was an admirable reconteur, and having known a host of interesting and celebrated people his records should be en- tertsining. Elections of members to the Paris Jockey club have commenced, but there are not many English names among the long list of its candidates, nor is it likely that many it has been almost semi-officially announced that no British need apply. excepting for the temporary membership extended to diplomatists and other itinerants in consid- eration of a long subscription. During the last nineteen months two noble lords and the son of an ambassador have been victims line, shoulder to shoulder, and marking the rythm of the tune by beating together two small willow rods, they sing in unison the funeral song. lion dollars paid, but to serve Czar on the rest of the vscrl opinion ALL THE TERRITQH of North America from the G to the Arctic Ocean should - controlled by the United Sta opinion William H. Seward Co Henry B. Atlierton, of Xas‘nu' recent address holds that the . tiny of this country is to con' tinent. He points out the mi armament with which Great managed to surround our pres thus: “She has a military railway ' on the Atlantic to Port Mead y fie, intended to be used in mil tions against this country, and count built in a great measu imperial treasury. She has fr her fleets to the St.Lawreucc,ti\ flow the waters of the great 1 her ‘. Fon’rnsss AT 11.13.11: she could let slip a. swarm cruisers that in forty-eight her. our coasting trade, and lay our ’l 3' He continued displeased, which was very “ DEAR Sunâ€"I hasten to answer your “ Tell me something you would like, my the globe; The area drained i3 2.500.000 of this anti-English feeling. «l a trying both to himself and to his daughter, letter of the 5th, though it is evidently not love,” said Mr. Nevill, clasping her to his Square "“193, equal to ten times the area of -â€"â€"â€"- seacoast under contribution. Jr“ 7 and Jessica began to look worried and ill. lintended for me. I have never been at breast ;-and Jessica brightened alittle,and France. The source 05 the Amazon is SONG UP THE INDIANS similar caign of vantage on ll‘ 9;, fl: All this was bad enough, but far worse fol- Tangier, nor have I the pleasure of your answered :-â€" Within fifty miles of the Pacific Ocean at a â€"-â€"- Esquimault. English dominic 3} g» lowed. acquaintance. Your letter is probably for “ I should like to see my dear Flora, We“ elevation “1 the Andes, and the river Funeral Music and Self-maceration over the Bermudas, the Baham “if: it One fine day aletter came from John my gran d-au nt, Caroline Talbot of M ont- papa.” reaches right across South America. for 3. Among the Omahas. the Belize, British Guiana. Ir: :1: " F arquhar,â€"â€"a courteous, a penitential, but pellier Square, Brighton ; but as she is very Mr. Nevill hurried 05' in the tram instanv (1191581109 measuring in a. straight? line 2.000 The funeral song is sung at the obsequies badoes,St. Locia, and the Leer. 7.5 a very 'decided letter,-â€"begging re- infirm it .will be well to consult her phy- taneously, and brought Miss Williams back miles, but taking 1}? along the Windings of of any man or woman who has been greatly Bermuda, three days out reel 5; lease from his engagement to his cousin. siciun before visiting her. I am, sir, yours with him. After which there was peace the stream, covering nearly double that res caged in the tribe. Upon the déath of and New York, is equipped v: Alas now for Jessica. truly, between the two familieS; and Mrs. Williams length. From the sea. *0 tlle mouth of the we}; ,; one men in the prime of early man- tions which are described in t ,3 Mr. Nevill was even more put about Canomsu MARIANA TALBOT." and Flora received invitations for the Negro the depth 0f the main channel 0f the hood meet, together near the lodge oi the 300" as the ‘most- Pets“: and g than he had been by his daughter’s legacy. This letter went at on as into the waste- dinner-party. . Amazon is_!10Vl’h_er‘“1Ws than thirty fathoms; deceased, divest themselves of all clothing in the world.’ A submarine‘ca : He seemed quite unable to regard the mat- paper basket and John Far uhar sat bit- On the morning of the day for this festiv- highenupnit varies from ten to twelve ; and but the breech-cloth, make two incisions in the fortress at Bermuda- W113 3'" ter either “1le 01' reasonably. One would ing his nails’and wonderin civhat on earth ity behold a note from Flora to her friend’s PP ‘0 1‘55 junction wmh the Yucayali there the left arm, and under the loop of flesh so was laid only two years 33° a 3 have thought him a robber (now remorse. he should do His th at v rte d to father. is depth of water for vessels of almost made thrusts willow branch, having on it 500,000a suau ten times great i. ful) who had enriched his offspring by a Flora “7,“,th If houg I?! re 5,, her “ Dear Mr. Nevill,-â€"Jessica. asked us to every description. The depth and Width 8 ‘rays of leaves. With the blood dripping 31659-11883 between the gm“? 3 theft of somebody’s diamonds. he could doubtle the? ca “ I i n, bring some one to replace your sick clergy- 0f tne Amazon are both affected once a up 0,, the green branches hanging from their In the reef-enclosed harbor a 3; “ Oh, papa, ” sobbed Jessica, “don’t 1 But come now . £3,122: t erfcppi 3111023,, man at dinner. Our friend Captain Farqu- year by the fl3°d33 which cause it ‘0 rise in aims and shoulder-blades, the men move Great Britain has a sizipbulldi Iii j blame me E I never even saw old . hurri'ougging about Girtd‘iio‘lo If 2,; how bar will be here then, and mamma thinks maid, 130’:th def 13; course 8-3 much as 30 silently in single file to the lodge where the dry dock that will lift her hem . , r v . , . , . . o - ‘ . - it if Mr. Farquhar. It mat my fault. It’ 13“.: l the deuce was he to find even Flora? He YO“ W111 h°t object ‘30 hlm accompanying “3- Ithm e diftél;na (Ijbiucihg 12931:: tzgtdds‘isf l dead lies; there, ranging themselves in a 52.330151: BATTLE: szizz acoaling station, and a va: cartbworks, mounzcd with guns. Since 1561' Great Brita mensely strengthened the garrl Please, please, please, papa, don’t ask John - . - - sendin it so much was his fear 1110138881110 to marry me when he doesn’t want to.” 3 ’ . ° 1; J hn Far uhar ' I cannot ” A CHINF‘S 'i - ' ‘ l ‘ t bet tb . _ . th t h . mee o q . - _ - A E NEWb 3, There is a. v10 ent contrast ween e .. . .2 , _ “ Ifell you what .1” 13’ Jessxca.” cried so: tidenwfidn‘foiltld 321:: lfidietrtdinnd tAhiiedpel'le “ MY 107°," said Mr. New“, “ '10 doubt __ RAB E bleeding singers and their V0031 utterances, stop and (“$35164 an emf??? ne‘ glr. lzevill ; 't‘t‘ 1:th is your fault somehow. lsat for hours staring at the. envelope, it is his own wish, to show that on neither The First of the Kind to Be Established in for the music in its major strains suggests 1)??ng basI‘Igfiaft” 13:53.3. . on a. e . . . . ' ' ~ ' ‘ . " 3“} v wri en mi somet ing ungener ready stamped audaddressed, “Miss W,1_ Side, after all that has occurre is there any Canada. sunshine, birds, and vcrdure, and has a. d Cacti-Ice together, a chain “ ous, grudging; or stayâ€"he has heard of your going about with that Miss Williams ! I dare say he saw you somewhere. Yes, that must be the explanation. Well, here’s the result, and I am sure I hope you’re ashamed of yourself.” Jessica began to cryâ€"a thing Mr. Nevill never could stand. He was all tenderness 1 in a momentâ€"and for a moment. “Never mind, never mind, my love. You must give up that most objectionable Miss . Williams, who has led you into this deplor- l able mischief, and I will write and explain to John. I‘ll tell him that all the blame lay with that Miss Williams, and with me for letting you go with her. He shall for- give you.” “Papa, please don’t make any explana- tion: to John. Oh, papa, let it be,” sobbed Jessica. “He loves some one else. That’s what it is. I know it, papa.” For Jessica bad pored and pored over J ohn’s letter till I she knew it by heart, and till she had read between all its lines. It was a very proper letter indeed, and there was one , O s v sentence in it which to Jessica. seemed; to contain the clue to it all. Something] liams, Girton College, Cambridge. To be forwarded”-â€"and he hit his nails, and an- swered crossly if any one spoke to him. and felt his heart and his hope sick unto deal-l1 within him. Meanwhile Captain Farquhar’s first epistle had been read and ridiculed by every one of Miss Talbot’s chums, none of whom had a clue to the mystery. But though the jest of receiving a letter which was al- most a love-letter from an unknown man was too good to be needlessly explained, she had a guess atthe truthherself. Private- ly she wrote to Flora :â€" “ MY coon WILLiAiIs,-Who was that [malapert miss who borrowed my name to inspect a lover in ‘3 lbs lover is looking for her. I send his missive, and leave. the mat‘ ter in your hands. Students of Moral Philosophy never regard affairs of the heart. Yours, “ TAT Bo'r ” Flora, being sensible. at once on receipt of this letter, ran to her mother and told her the outlines of J essica’s historY- And Mrs. Williams, being still more sgnszble, about “the only sort‘of marriage congenial i wrote a letter to John explaining the WhOle scan Englishman” and a. vagueâ€"a veryl Milkâ€"hint that he had already selected course of errors. Flora, however, took toe precaution of reading her mother’s letter be- feeliug of soreness or grudge." “ But I believe he’s engaged to Flora l” burst out Jessica. _ “ To Flora! Bless me ! is that how the wind blows? You queer girls, never to have told me she ever knew him 1 Come now, Jess ; for your friends sake, if for no other, you must oblige me by being civil to your cousin.” And poor Jessica stood looking at her father with piteous eyes, wishing she had courage to confess and to explain. She could not do it,and she crept aWay and cried bitterly in her own room. “ Oh, it will be hard to see them togeth- er l” she sobbed. “ But I have got to bear it, for it was my OWn plan, and Flora. will expect me to be pleased. No one must ever know how I really feel. No one ! no one i” , (To BE CONTINUED.) -â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"-¢-â€"â€"-â€" “ Wouldn’t yer like to be a musician?” asked Ploddiug Pete. “ I used to think I would,” replied Meandering Mike. “But I oncet heard a man say they was some- thing about strikin’ a chord in music, an’ I lost all heart fur it. It'reminded me too much of an ax and a woodpile.” ‘" The Chinese of Canada have decided to start a newspaper of their own. Toronto Celestials have been notified that the Ving- wsw Bo Printing and Publishing Comoany (Ltd.) has been established at Vancofiver, B. C., and. In a few days a weekly neWS' p‘apeif", which, by the way, will be called 'Ihe ulobe-Reporter, will be started. The company has been in formation for several mpnths past, and subscribers have been obtained from all parts of Canada- hollowmg the example of English papers, The Globe-Reporter modestly lays claim to possessing the largest circulation in the Orient and. United States of any Chinese paper published in America. The leading articles in the Celestial “ Thunderer” will be from the pen of T. Jung Gentjee, who Will discuss all current topics affecting the Chinese potion, especially concerning the Chinese in this country. _. Tommyâ€"“Mr. Yab e ister Lee” said at the table thisalnsidrising that She thought you had the prettiest mustache she ever saw.” Yabsley_“ You oughtn’t to tell things you hear at the table, Tommy 3’ dime for telling you.” Tommyâ€"“But she’s going to give me a fleet,happy movement. Nevertheless, there must be some latent harmony between the song and the ceremony. Music, the In.- dian believes, has power to reach the un- seen world. The spirit of the dead man can hear the song as it leaves the body, and the glad cadences are to cheer him as he goes from those who have been dear to him on earth. He hears only, he cannot seeâ€"so the song is for him; the bleeding wounds of the singers are expressions as the loss felt by the friends of the dead; his kindred can take note of the manifested sympathyâ€"the wounds are for them. . A Great Scheme- The Statesman’s \Vifeâ€"“ This paper says that they tax funerals in Paris.” The Statesmanâ€"“ Why, that’s the bright- est idea I ever heard of. A man don’t care how many taxes you pile on him after heig dead.” At least, I guess he don’t and if he did, he can’t vote. Bodkinsâ€"“Doctor, how can insomnia be cured?” Doctorâ€"“Well,the patient should count slowly and in a meditative manner 50!) and thenâ€"” Bodkins--â€"“That’s all very well, doctor ; but our baby can’tcount.” fortification is constituted w. days' reach of every Amer-leap A board city. Each is mounted u the most cfi'ective modern typ capable of equipping vessels for instant's notice. A cable con all with each other and with Lo: “In the South seas Briti: spreads over immense oceans almost every dot of land that 1 them. On one of the Falklai just north and east of Cape Ho: another. There is a third, rec and equipped and splendidly Fiji Islands; and there are th fences at uimault, from w hour’s notice Seattle and Tacom laid waste.” W Surprised. A school teacher, who had the Itory of David, ended wit] this happened over 3.000 years A little cherub, its blue e; Wide With wonder, said, after wt, “Oh dear, ;hat a l have gas 3’!