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ne probably the man Dryan in the next « the Democrats ident Roosevelt‘s ledges are by n> dent . Roosevelt," btlels does not imâ€" ever been known. that the nominee rejected the nomâ€" t Gazette says: ad no other camâ€" osevelt who was nomination were L:.on.‘." L ISSUED BY EGGS. RESTID. JOB ? SEVELT dest May Rus EPLY ontinues spite of hat be andidate sition ~rpenâ€" se» th ail lays that ite LY lact 1 of en Inâ€" of on t (» "She is a douce weelâ€"eddicated bairn," said Uncle Sandy, when Mona lighted his eandle and carried it for him to his room â€"a little attention he always looked for â€""am:Q{mx are wisclike to find so bonâ€" * _ nie, weelâ€"behaved a girlie to mak‘ freends wi‘â€"nane of your upsetting taupies wi‘ neither brains in their heids nor hearts in their bodies. She can bide as long as gu like, and sing for me every evening. ak‘ them gang to bed, dearie; it‘s lang “ burning the lights." L "CALADA" "My dear Mary, you are a complete success!" cried Mona, when she returned to the drawingâ€"room, and found her and Kenenth standing very close together in the window. "I do not know when my goor uncle seemed so happy and content. he will cut me out, Kenneth." "Ah! that she never will! Nor would she wish it. It was a lucky hour for us when I tmet you, Cousin Mona." "I am glad you think so, Kenneth. Now we are not to sit up burning lights," continued Mona, laughing. k 40 and 50c per Ib. At all Grocers. Highest Award St. Louis, "There‘s splendid moonlight, which costs nothing," returned Kenneth. "Let us blow out the candles and have a little talk before we go to bed; we have scarce had a word together yet." Such is the opinion of all who have once tasted | coacr t fitivn o Rrand.. sctswrept ®. utd The wellâ€"assorted trio sat for some time talking softly in the silvery radâ€" iance of the moon, the deticious perfume of the pine trees breathing on the eool night breezeâ€"and then crept quietly to their respective chambers. Lisle proved a trwe prophet. The day but one after his visit, Uncle Sandy and his xxesu had asembled in the library to their five o‘clock tea. This was a serious meal, with bannocks and seones, eookies, bread and butter, preserves, and toast. C CEYLON TEA Packed only in sealed lead packets to preserve its many excellent qualities. "How Delicious" It served to support nature till cight o‘clock nupfir, after which came prayers and bed. Mr. Craig had just "asked a blessing," when the sound of an apâ€" proaching carriage interrupted his attack C ue aoCM . .. on the toast and newlyâ€"made strawâ€" berry jam. "It is anither visitor," he said. "Why, one might as weel be in Edinburgh or London." uncle of tea." Mona hastered to the door, before which, in a light basketâ€"carriage drawn by two wickedâ€"looking dun ponies, sat Lady Finistoun, and beside her an elderâ€" ty lady made up in the most youthful atyle. e *Aht my dear Mona! So you are at | home. I am so glad." She gave the reins I to a smart diminutive groom, and stepâ€" l ped out quickly, embracing Mona with[ effusion. Lady Finistoun continued, "I ! was so delighetd to hear you were within reach. I have brought Miss Morâ€" ton with me. You know Miss Morton? No! Oh, well, you ought,; everyone knows her." * "Then I must be no one," said Mona, laughing. "I am very glad to see you, Evelyn. You must come in; we are at tea; my unele begs you will join us." Descending the steps, she courteously ; invited Miss Morton to alight. ‘Certainly, with pleasure," said that, lady, with much decision, and, followed ’ he hoth new arrivals, Mona led the way ‘Certainly, 1 lady, with mu by both new a to the library vO SHC ACC LC Miss Morton was vory tall, and rather bony; her long neck was surmounted by a small head and a face short and broad for its size, rather of the pug order, with amall, keen, li{ht-brown eyes. Her comâ€" slpxinn seemed to have anffered a good eal from exposure to weatiter, and was considerably and undoubtedly powdered. She wore a very masculineâ€"looking overâ€" coat of light tweed with a round cape, & â€" small doerâ€"stalker . cap,. and _ a white gauze . veil tied rounéi it, which at _ present was urned back with a curious effect. Lady Finisâ€" toun wore a heatherâ€"colored costume, exâ€" quisitely draped and fitting admirably 02. 0 Sottams sloves. hat with & back with a curious effect, J21l} 20ME toun wore a heatherâ€"colored costume, exâ€" quisitely draped and fitting admirably â€"trimming, buttons, gloves, hat with a thcuant’s wing, all matching to perfecâ€" ion, and admirably becoming to the pretty brunette fact and dainty figure of the wearer "Tncte, let U toun and Miss Mona. m "I am sure I am YC!T! F ony friends o‘ my niece," Sandy, rising after two dis ang smiling on the visitors. Sectchmen, he was much mo sight of a pretty face. "\Y and tak‘ a cup of tea or & | after your drive. Here, â€"« ehair for the latdv{ by m eups and places. ere‘ll th ait? Konneth, mak‘ room ‘t Mon.’” w34 M "Thank you, Mr. Cra); Finistoun, in her soft, S eup of tea will be most 1 our lonqtl drive; for I st way, and my groom is a trusted for guidance to who thought she knew t "I did know the wa ~ KRWHK yOuy 20006 SCME U P O PIIE Finistoun, in her soft, sweet tones; "l} "Mair‘s the eup of tea will be most refreshing after | dryly, ‘"for I‘w our lom:1 drive; for I stuilodly lost m; like her!" way, and my groom is & ndoner. ‘ "I assure y« trusted for guidance to Miss Morton,‘ popular, and } who thought she knew the way, butâ€"" : E: sure, she h: "I did know the way," interrupted i "Wonl, weel! that lady, who was drawing off her;a wife, Noo, ! r in ‘nplrdiu for an attack on I‘ll go round t the good things before her. "You know seif. «hen we came to where the road branchâ€" â€" "Thank you, "Eh* Surely. Ask he $# Won at Last let me introduce Lady Finisâ€" Miss Morton to you," said I am verra rlensed to see y‘ my niece." said Uncle after two distinet efforts, i the visitors. Like most was much mollified by the tty face. "Ye‘ll sit doon ) of tea or a ghn of wine ive. Here, Jessic, set & t1dv by me. and bring ere‘ll the ither leddy room ‘twixt you and Craig," said Lady r ta tak‘ a cup ed off in the hollow you would keep to the left, though I said it must be to the right. No, thanks, no preserves; I hate sweets. I will take some cream scones and one lump of sugar, please." "I was so pleased to find Mona was here," rosumesl Lady Finistoun, as soon as her wants had been attended to. "I knew you lived here, Mr .Craig, for I have often heard Mona speak of Uncle Sandy"â€"a fascinating smile and upward glanceâ€""but she is such a bad corresâ€" pondent, she rever let me know she was here, and"if St. John Lisle had not come over to dine, we should not have found you out for ages. You take good care of her, Mr. Craig. I never saw her look so wellâ€"not even when you came out, Mona." "There is a remarkable fine air here; it‘s better than what you have over in Strathairlie," he returned. "You see, we are sheltered frae the north, an‘ we get mair sunâ€"forbye the porridge. I have just insisted on her takin‘ porridge to her breakfast." "Porridge is exceedingly indigestible, and bad for the complexion," said Miss Morton, between the mouthfuls of cream scones. "You‘re wrang!" cried Uncle Sandy. "Just look at the men at the men and women are reared on porridge! There‘s no their equals to be tound on earth!" "My dear sir, I don‘t im:gine you have seen much of earth begond your native land." + 18 "You‘re wrang there again, mem. I‘ve just come back from over a year‘s wanâ€" dering wi‘ my niece about the continent of Europe; and there‘s little I saw .there that I‘d care to tak‘ awa‘," "Ah, I see you are one of the large class who think their geese swans." _ "I‘m much obleeged for your high opeenion, mem; but I am no such a fule body. I have the maist intelligent men of all times on my side." * "Miss Morton has an intellectual love of argument," said Lady â€" Finistoun, soothingly, and is generally in opposiâ€" tion to the foeman she considers most worthy of her steel. But I am anxious to see your charming gardens, if there is time after tea. Sir St. John Lisle tells me it is a gem of a place." N l "I see, No, certainly not," returned‘ | Miss Morton, with a harsh laugh. "Now, Mr. Macalister, the room is ntier warm ; , haven‘t you a shrubbery or a garden, or | something to show me? I don‘t care to sit here any longer." Kenneth rose reluctantly. "Oh, yes; I can take you for a stroll." 6 <I 1m going to look at the grounds," . said the resolute spinuster to her chaperâ€" one, "with Mr. Macalister." | "My niece willâ€"" began Uncle Sandy, but Miss Morton promptly interrupted him. $ _ "Weel, I hope you will come as often as you like to look at it," returned Uncle Sandv. 9 â€""It is admirably situated. A family place, I suppose*" asked Miss Morton, passing up her cup. _ ___ _ "Naw!" exclaimed Uncle Sandoy. "I bought it with my â€" ain hardâ€"earned money." ~~"OB, you lucky man! Of all powers, the one I envy most is the power of making money." . NANT LAE To € "You have quite enough, dear," said Lady Finistoun. "Now, my dear Mr. Cnig, I want you to spare my cousin to me for a few days. It is so long since we were together, and as we have rather a pleasant party, and the changeâ€"*" hed Jredeimbetineitt bacitni O Arwemindin esnA mer m :P "She‘s no your cousin,"‘ said Uncle Sandy, hastily; "she has no kin except me. â€" Her grandmother‘s kin fell from her when she most needed them." "But she is indeed my cousin; and through her I claim you, too, my dear Mr. Craig, as a kinsman, if you will perâ€" mit the claim." 3 _ "It would be hard to say ye nay," be returned, a swile Fnckering up his seltâ€" satisfied face. "Mona may please herâ€" self." "It‘s very becoming," said she, with an admiring glance. "I do not wonder at Highland gentlemen wearing it, but you are all very conceited." "I am sorry you think so." "Don‘t you admit it?" "I am not sure." "Ah! that is the cautious Scot all over. Tell me, are you his nephew?" nodding in the direction of Mr. (graig. _ "Do you always wear the kilt?" saifd Miss Morton, abruptly, to Kenneth. _ er." ously PIETRR * "Oh, no, thank yo‘::: I don‘t want any young ladies; a Kig lander is enough for me"; and she ‘waikd_ofi, followed someâ€" ;ne":band she w;li:d off, followed someâ€" is very fond of you, $0â€"DUL, interruptâ€" what sheepishly by Kenneth. ,ing herself, "I hear the carriage, . Yes! "Milly Morton professes not to like and I protest Milly Morton has entrapâ€" women,"‘ explained Lady Finistoun, ped the handsome Highlander to come Imx{hing. so far with her. She is an awful flirtâ€" "Mair‘s the pity," said Uncle Sandy, can‘t live without it, in fact! â€"She makes dryly, "for I‘m thinking few men would such a fool of herself sometimes." like her!" f _ Then came leaveâ€"taking, and the visitâ€" "I assure you 2’“’! do. She is very ors drove off as the ‘soft gloom of an E’p\flu. and has had endless offersâ€"t0 autumnal night began to deepen in the sure, she has a good fortune." ‘ east. "Woul, weel! silier is nae cverythhfin "Do you mind walking back by yourâ€" a wife. Noo, if you‘ll tak‘ nae mair tea, self!" asked Kenneth. "I am going up I'llrroundtbepounds‘mhyo-my- the hill a bit to speak a word to Allan, setf. the shepherd." "Thank you," anid Lady Finiségme satâ€" . "Ohb, no. I am only a few steps from "And Miss Craig‘s brother?" "No; my name is Kenneth Macalister." "Ah! Highland to the backbone. Then this young lady your sister?" Kenneth and Mary blushed simulaneâ€" "Mostly, when I‘m amang the heath N) | isfied, her host‘s heart with exclamations of admiration and delicately administerâ€" ed Tinttery, > .. _ <.. 00 sn o o "Well, x‘ny dear sir, I must tear :fl““ away. The shades of evening be round us before we reach the Lodge, and. I have not settled about Mona‘s visit." "I just leave it to herself." # "What do you say, Mona?" turning to er. "I think, dear, you had better not trouble about it. { do not care about going to you whewou have a party; and I do not like leave my uncle, so I shall wait till you and Lord Finistoun are alone, then l’wfll spend a day with you, if you will have me." Pain@h‘ w 08 CC C ons oo es "This is sheer nonsense. Finistoun charged me to secure you. Bertie is comâ€" ing, too, and Lord Arthur Winton, and St. John Lisle. They will all be so pleasâ€" ed to see you." s "a P Nes s 6 i Ne i4 "It sounds very ungracious, but I really have not the least wish to see them." "Yes; it is most ungracious; is it not, Mr. Craig?" "Eh, I am own mind." "We‘l, Mona, you cannot refuse to come to me next 'l'hursdag, the twet::r first. It is my boy‘s birthday. He will be a whole year old. You must come!" "No, I cannot refuse. On that day I will dine with you. I want to see the dear baby again." "Thank you, dear Mona! He has grown such a dar{ing! Is there any use in tryâ€" ing to persuade you to join us} Mr. Craig?" she added, insinuatingly. uxF /5 21. 125R T shanld nasn be comâ€" "Not the least. I should nae be comâ€" pang' for a set o‘ gaj' callants! I am a thoughtful mon and puir frail body." "I think it would do you good to come to us,. However, I shall hope Finistoun may succeed in persuading you. Now, where has Miss Morton wandered to with that goodâ€"looking Highlander? It will be dark before we can get home." "I think they went round by the big oak," said Mona. "I will go and look "I think they went round by the DIG oak," said Mona. "I will go and look for them." When found, Miss Morton proposedâ€" as it was only three miles to the Lodge over the hill â€"to walk back under Kenâ€" neth‘s escort, a suggestion which eviâ€" dently alarmed him. This Lady Finistoun decidedly negaâ€" tived. "Don‘t talk such nonsense, my dear. Mr. Macalister would not get back till midnight. and you would be too late for dinner,. Three miles over a hillâ€"top are equal to six on a flat road. Come, let us be going." "You are a little tyrant," said Miss Morton. 3 "Will you walk with me to the gate, Mona, while they are bringing round the ponies? I am sure Mr. Macalister will come so far with Miss Morton." "With pleasure!" cried Mona. Having bid a cordial farewell to Uncle Eandy, and a civil goodâ€"bys to Mary, Lady Finistoun slipped her arm through Hona‘s, and they walked slowly down the ‘"I have been dying to ask you a â€" undred _ questions, _ dear!" _ she exclaimer,. "What & dmfl, inâ€" tensely Seotch Scotchman your uncle is! Quite a character, 1 am sure he is very rich. Has he adopted you ? Is he going to leave you all his morey ? _ Is ‘young Lochirvar a lover, or a rival near the throne ? _ Tell me everything." . m sufe Sosun ow dn io o memelc e approach o oS S Mona laughed, and gave Lady Finisâ€" toun a slight sketch of the situation, in which that interesting young pcerâ€" ess was immensely interested. "The ‘braw Hielandman‘ is no doubt an excellent person," she said; "but I should like to see you sole heir to your uncle‘s wealth. I suppose he is very rich ?" "Xot acording to your standard, 1 imagine," returned Mona, "though 1 beâ€" lieve he could make Kenneth independâ€" ent, and me, too; for I have found that woman wants but little here below to make her bhappy. Money can not buy what is most essential." "Oh, of course not! Still on@ wants a few necessaries. 1 often wonder how poor Geraldine will get on, _ She will not hear of the horrors which wait on povâ€" erty." "May I," began Mona, with a slight hesitation, "may 1 send my love to your mother ? 1 am so fond of her. _ And you know she has a right to be angry with me. _ I did not behave well toâ€"" 2 -""-I-‘o"i)c;or Leslie Waring!" put in Lady Finistoun, as she hesitated. "No, you did not! Now, I dare say you are sorry for it "I am very sorry [ pained him, but 1 am very glad I did not marry him. It would have been bad for both of us." "Perhaps so. _ At any rate he is gone to the bad, so some one was telling me. He lost heaps of money on horses and at Monte Carlo; and he got into an awâ€" fully fast set; then he disappeared. They say he was last seen plowing or breakâ€" ing horses, or some such thing, in Texas. So, after all, he might have ruined you as well as himself if you had married him." Mona was silent. Some voice in her heart told her that had she been his wife, the tender consideration he had always shown for her would liave kept him straight. But she answered the sugâ€" gestion by the old counter question, "Am I my brother‘s keeper?" "It grieves me to hear such an account of him," she said, after a few moment‘s silence. "He was kind and generous, and deserved a better woman than I am." deserved a better woman than L am.. "Oh, you were always good! . 1 am sure we were all fond of you. My mothâ€" er took your refusal to marry Mr. warâ€" ing dreadfuily to heart; but Sir Robert would not let her write to you. Me was awfully angry. Then you know what heaps of things she always has to do, £0 I suppose she gradually forgot." Mona was silent. While Lady Mary Everard forgot, she might have starved though she acknowledged that she bad no claim on Sir Robert Everard and his wife. Thank God! there were true souis to be found with hearts and memories. "You know, Mona, you are really lucky," Rady Finistoun was saying, when Mona listened again. "As soon as you threw away one fortune, you picked up another. 1 can see that the dear unclie is very fond of you, soâ€"but," interruptâ€" ing herself, "I hear the carriage. Yoes! and I protest Milly Morton has entrapâ€" 999 no judge. Mona knows her our own road, and there is nothing to fear among these delightful hills." "That‘s true. I‘ll be back before supâ€" per," and Kenneth went swiftly on, with a free, swinging step. The sound of the footfall had hardly died away when another caught Mona‘s ear and seemed toâ€"gain upon her,. in spite of her assertion that "there was nothing to fear," she felt an odd uneasiâ€" ness that, though not absolutely fear, was unpleasant; nor was she surprised when a voice behind her said, "Good erâ€" ening, Miss Craig! I did not hope to see you so far afield." Then she was obliged to pause and turn and greet Lisle, who soon overtook her. He carried a gun on his shoulder, and was followed by a gilâ€" reply from Balmuir." # "This is a picce of luck! I was shootâ€" ing in this direction, so thought of takâ€" ing Craigdarroch on my my way back, to tell your uncle that I have had no reply from aBlmuir." Mona was anoyed at this rencontre. She wanted to walk back alone in undisâ€" turbed thought. The report of Waring she had just heard had affected her. She was so sorry for him! And now‘ came Lisle to stir up the less worthy side of her natureâ€"for Mona was by no means an angel all round. She bad deâ€" BWated with herself how sho should treat him; not with resentmentâ€"that, . she told herself, she had no right to fee‘; not with cold avoidance, which was her natural inclination, and which he would interpet an expression of displeasure; but with friendly, good humored indifâ€" ference. If , as he seemed disposed to do, he again tried to amuse a passing hour by making love to her, she would acâ€" cept it in a spirt of fun which should show out at intervals. He should never flatter himself again that he made any serious impression on her. "Can I not take the message for you," she said, looking up, with a demure smile, "It is a steep road to climb afâ€" ter your day‘s tramp over the moor." (‘Fo be continued.} The summer months are an anxious tiJme gor mothers because they Rre the most @angerous months of the year for young children, Stomach and Bowel troubles _ come _ quickly during the kot weather and _ almost before the mother realizes that there is danger the little one may be beâ€" yond aid. _ Baby‘s Own Tablets will prevent s@mmer complaints if given occasionally, because they keep the stoma¢gh amd bowels free from _ ofâ€" fending matter. And the _ Tablets will cure these troubles if they come suddermly. You may save _ your child‘s _ life by keeping a box of Baby‘s Own Tablets on hand to give promptly. Mrs. Frank _ Moore, of Northfield. N. S8., says: _ "I do not know any medicine _ that can equal Baby‘s Own Tablets for ecuring stomâ€" ach and bowel troubles. _ I always keep them . on hand in case of emergency." Sold by all medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cente & box from The Dd. Williams Medicine Ca, Brockville, Ont. A large BRench is dug iz froot ef the shrine â€"about tirty 6r forty feet long and ten feet broad ard two Of three feet deep. Dusâ€" ing the nesrning this ie filled with logs of wood and fagots, whiqk 2re O# 4@ fire by the ovenimg bocome & ©ASS of wewyng, redâ€" hot emberg. After dark the peyple essemble with torches and tomâ€"toms and music, and then thirty of forty people prepare to walk 1en|€hv{139 over the qnhe{n. They are workâ€" ed lup to a great state of éxcitement by the tomâ€"toms &ad shouts of the crowd, and theon the whole thirty or forty walk barefooted, quite slowly, and deliberately, in single file, headed by ane of the "pujais." A Strenuous Form of Worship and Devil Driving in India,. AFERUST NVWE CDodice d ‘This cusgem of fire walking is quite comâ€" mon in Malabar, Kooriche, three miles from Telichery, in the direction of the French settlement of Make, is a locality reputed for fire Walking. Here a famous "‘pujari‘" . by the name pf Oochatta dwells. He actually sits on a heap fire mt am apnual fesâ€" tival, but is said to be pfouc‘hd‘ by the bark of the 31'94:- hl.ltt.hwhlch“ut:nowuo be & bad conductor 0 % the villsae of Putinam, thirtyâ€"tw8 fi!‘“ from ‘re}nch- ery, in the Kaval Tulugrh'orth Malabar, a wéird ceremony is performed annually, at midnight, in conmection with the worship of the village deity, when the "pujari," who goes by the name of Cham@ady, throws himâ€" self incessantly on a heap of fire, about six fest bigh and fifteen feet broad, until he is able to knock every fagot down and level the whole heap with the ground. One end of a rope is fastened to his arms, while the other end is seized by two Mayall low caste men, who pull the "pujari‘"‘ away each time he rushes on the heap of fire. Two womon at the same time, with brooins bring the fagots together as they are knocked down by the "pujari‘‘ and endeavor to restore the heap of fire as it is being dismantled by him. The wood is the "puum," a hard jungle wood of the Malabar forests,. When the whole heap is levelled with the ground the "pujart‘‘ brings the ceremony to a close, Khaza Prabhu, a pepper merchant of Telâ€" lichery, who died a few years ago, and who«e memory is still green, had a great name here for curing people wio we e »â€"ss i of the devil, and was a great fire enter to boot. He belteved he was often sumâ€" moned to the Sri Lakshmi Narasimha temple by the diety of this shrine to cure peopie troubled with the devil. here he was wont to incarcerate many devils that was troublâ€" ing the people of Tellichery, and every loose stone one notices in the temple precinets represents one such devil driven out of the human body au? imprisoned by bim. These stones are granite slabs, are generally three to five feet long and rest @gainst a wall or tree. 5 In the temples of Malabar there are seyâ€" eral deities, but the number must never exâ€" ceed thirtyâ€"nine each,. At Audaloor village, three and a half miles from Tellichery, one of the village deitics. Davatha Issuman by name, committed atrocious sins and the other deities pulled out his tongue, and Anâ€" garakaram and Bappuran, two warrior deiâ€" deities, drove out the other deities from the temple, allowing only any number less than forty to dwell in any one shrine. From this date Angarakaran, the warrior, carries a long sword, while Bappuran bears a sword and a shield as well, and they are the priaâ€" ciple deities worshipped during the ceroâ€" mony of fire walking. Some of the minor deities are Muthupendalyyam Khandhakarâ€" nan and Kuttichathan, but all such are not propitiated excepting Vassurymara, the smallâ€" pox god; Chamandy, who puts devils into human bodies, and I!li and Makalâ€"the moâ€" ther and her two children of the junglesâ€" who smite people with jungle fever.â€"From the Madras Diocesan Magazine. MOTHER‘S ANXIETY. FIRE WALKING. ONTARIO ARCHIVEsS f ToRronto A distance of more than three kilomeâ€" tres still separated them from their summer home when it commenced to TAD. Signora Susanna looked up, extended her arm and received the first drops on the back of her hand and on her face. Then she said to her nephew, a boy Oof between fourteen and fifteen years of age: "Ferrucio, jump over quick to old Martha, and see if she can‘t let us _hnve an umbrella for awhile, You stay here, Cecelia, Now, be careful you don‘t get the mud all over you." . 4n ‘5 wéoâ€";:s'i;g. 'éféuaf; _ Susanna opened Yer littie umbrella and said to her daughter : â€""Come under my umbrella until Ferâ€" rucio gets back. It will not do you much good, but it will keep off a little of the rain. Ees im o tm oaives s Ferrucio was not long in reappearing, breathlessly followed at a distance of several feet by a woman who carried a huge umbrella under her arm. "Would you not rather stop over at my house for a little while *" inquired the newcomer politely. "A shower like this can‘t last very long, I am sure. I think that would be best, signora. But if you prefer to go at once I brought you this umbrella. It is a poor umbreltâ€" “‘-‘i\"o, mamma," returned Cecelia, "it is no use for two to try to get under that tiny umbrella." $ ’la, because we are poor peq'ple ourselves, but it is the only one I have." . "Thank you, Martha," answered Sigâ€" nora Sussanna cordially, "I should be glad to stay at your house; but it is late and dinner is waiting for us, . I will take your umbrellia and let you have it back soon. Thank you, thank you." _ Ferrucio and Cecelia exchanged smiles as they regarded the large umbrella of the woman whose wings seemed caleulâ€" ated to give shelter to an entire family. "Everybody armâ€"inâ€"arm! _ Everybody armâ€"inâ€"arm?" exclaimed the girl, clapâ€" ping her hands. _ _ "What are you thinking of, child ?" reâ€" torted her mother. "You take my paraâ€" sol and Ferrucio will hold the large umâ€" brella and be my gentleman." This arrangement by no means suited the two cousins, whose faces elongated several centimetres but the signora did not observe it because at that moment her attention happened to be drawn away by the noise of an approaching carriage. It was the buggy of Dr. Lonzi. "Signora Mellini," cried t he doctor, stopping his horse and putting out his head from the buggy, "do you want to come into my carriage ? I have a place for you here." "Really?" answered Signora Susanna, "If you assure me that you will not go out of your way on my account I will accept your kind offer." rltad tfs Snhesd We ped es tX 9 "Not at all. I am going in your direcâ€" tion. And at all events, I would not leave you out in the rain that way. I am only sorry that I cannot accommoâ€" date the young lady and the young genâ€" tleman." "The young lady and the young genâ€" tleman have no objection to walking on foot," said Ceceilia, with a smile of conâ€" tentment. _And, returning her mother‘s parasol, she plunged vnder the ample firmament of the red umbrella. "This girl will remain a child until exâ€" treme old age," remarked her mother, as she was helped into the carriage by the doctor, and, turning to the young couple, she added: _ "Now, don‘t fool around, but go straight home, Ferrucio, you are the younger of the two, but you are the wiser, nevertheless. Take care of your cousin,. 1 intrust her to you." "Did you bear?" said Ferrucio, with an air of importance. _" You are inâ€" trusted to my care. _ Now, then, respect and awe in the presence of your superâ€" ior! _ Do you understand*" "Oh!‘ ‘excelaimed Cecelia, "what a formidable cavalier. _ I can push you into that ditch with ore turn of my hand." _ PDr. Lonzi shook the reins over his horse‘s neck and hbe started off on a rumn. > t "I should like to see it," answered Feruchio, frritated at this reflection on his manly strength. . â€" _ s For a moment the girl remained in doubt as to whether she would laugh or grow angry, so she contented hersolf with murmuring between her teoth, "Booby!" ‘This allusion to the anatomy of his cousin seemed to him such a stupendous niece of audacity that he regretted it before it was well out of his mouth, and he blushed and lowered his eyes. "Well, we will settle this account some other year," said Ferrucio, satisâ€" fied at having come out so easily from this embarrasement. "What account?" "What, that about my stature.‘" "You will get to be a regular Goliath, I dare say. Now here, you st:rid felâ€" low, can you or can you not hold that famous umbrella decently." _ meak It was an undeniable fact that Ferruâ€" co wmanaged the umbrella rather awkâ€" wardly, constrained as he was to walk on his tipâ€"toes in order not to appear smaller than his cousin. To make matâ€" ters worse, the wind was so strong that at every gust the umbrella was carried now on one side, now on the other. 7."1 am getting a shower bath on my right side," remnrkgd‘Cscein. s f "And I on my left," remarked Ferâ€" rucio. :;\\'ill you let me try?" said the young la Â¥, A "Let you have the umbrella ?" "Yes, for five minutes." , | "I guess I won‘t." "Come. be a gentleman." "I tell you I won‘t." s ‘But Cecelia, who was obstinate by mature, did not wish to yield, and atâ€" tempted to conquer by force what she eould rot do by kind words. She began to pull it one way and another until the umbrella, which did not have a very solid spring, closed up all of a sudden, eatching the heads of the two contestâ€" ants as in a trap When t.hel! finally succeeded in reâ€" opening it, Ferrucio had his hat cocked on one side, while Cecelia was altogether in a state of disarrangement, They were both dripping wet, almost as if they had just come out of a bath, "It is your fault!" cried the girl, "you savage!" "It is my fault, isn‘t it? Was it not you whoâ€"â€"" _ At this point, however, the humor of the situation overtook them, and the two cousins looked each other in the face and laughed with all their might. â€""That was a fine blow you got on your head." & €¢44 "I should say. so. 1 guess I must have & bxfiu on my forehead." * I, too, here." "My poor little Cecelia!" cried Ferâ€" rucio. "Don‘t laugh so," said Cecelia, strikâ€" ing up a comic attitude of alarm. "If you shake the umbrella too much it wili start its funny tricks again and witl swhut up." \ "Oh, horrors! After all, Oecélia, when I come to think of it, it wasn‘t such a bad trick the umbrella played on us, was it?" Again Ferrucio thought that he aiâ€" lowed himself to speak too rashly an® he flushed red. Cocelia darted him a glance in which there was a world of unconscious coâ€" quetry, Then disposing herself to resoâ€" lute mood she said: "Come now, let us walk the rest of the way like respectable people." e > $ i 4 Bhe passed her arm through that of her cavalier and drew herself up against him as closely as possible, "That is the way," she said. "Now I will have my whole body under cover." Ferrucio felt a kind of uneasiness, a discomfort that he had never experiâ€" enced before; but that discomfort was so delicious that at that moment he would not have exchanged it for anything else in the world. And Cecelia, inclining her pretty head toward him, spoke to him as she never had spoken to him before until that day, as one speaks not to a boy or playmate, but to a young man who can be taken into one‘s confidence, to a friend, Becing himself finally treated as an equal by a young lady almost fifteen and a half years (fid and so very pretty, Ferrucio was beside himself with joy. At first he was confused and embarâ€" ragsed, but gradually his tongue was unâ€" loosened and he began to speak with warmth and an unusual emphasis. How many things the two cousins said to each other under that umbrella! They recalled the time of their infancy when they lived in the same city and passed many hours together ever{ day, quarrelâ€" ing frequently, oceasionally also pulling each other‘s hair, but never able to reâ€" main separated. Later the families went to live in different places, and Cecelia and Ferrucio remembered how bitteriy they wept on the day of their separaâ€" tion. Yes, they wept and wept, and swore that they would write each other, but inâ€" asmuch as they were then scarcely able to make strokes with their pens thene was no possibility of keeping their promâ€" ise. But in the fall Ferrucio came to pass his vacation with his uncle and aunt, and continued to do so every year. For Cecclia this was the ploasanthest season of the year. It was true that there was an interval of considerable cooling down when Ueâ€" celia seemed to be bent on becoming a steeple, while Ferrucio evidently had made up his mind to «top growing. Then she really looked down at him. Bast@! But now all this humiliation was at an "Oh, what terrible language!" he anâ€" swered turning his humid eyes upon her. "Don‘t even say it, Cecelia!" ejacu lated Ferrucio. "You would really be grieved if 1 died ?" In answer she pressed his hand gently. This sentimental conversation was inâ€" terrupted by the sound of a voice. "Eh, children, why don‘t you hurry!" It was Signoria &lumxa. who waited for them at the gate of the villa, where they had arrived at without noticing it. "Yes, of course, Have you been wanâ€" dering in the clouds? I am not surpriced at Cecelia, she never knows where ber head is; but you, Ferrucio, shame on you! And in what a horrid condftion you are! Ail muddy from top to botâ€" "And now," continued Signoria Susanâ€" na, "do me the kindness to explain why you keep the umbrella open. It is twenâ€" ty minutes «ince it stepoed raining." "It has stopped rainmg:" exclaimed Cecelia and Ferrucio in great surprise. "Walk up quick and change your dress, and then come down at once to the table. You, Ferrucio, give this umâ€" brella to Menico and let him return it to old Martha at once. For all the good it has done you might as well have done without it." "No, mamma, believe me, it was very nice under this umbrella," saiid Cecelia, as she entered the house. Mrs. Lucy Ripley, of West Wrentham, Mass., is visitingy her nephew, Edwin Cook, of Social street, Woonsocket, Mrs. Ripley is a remarkable woman. She is 100 years old, having attained that age on June 8, and still retains all her faculâ€" "You little rogue!" whispered Ferruâ€" clo in her ear, as he caught up beside her at the door.â€"From the Italian of Funrico Casteinuovo in Current Literaâ€" ture. Mrs. Ripley went to Woonsocket last Saturday, making the trip alone on the electric cars from West Wrentham. Last Baturday night in a party of four she played whist without the aid of glasses, and in other ways impressed those preâ€" sent. She refused to talk about herself, eaying that a woman as young as she feels has no right to be distinguished above others.â€"Providence Tribume. 499 \¢ Plays Whist at 100. "Advertising is the backboue of all svccessful trade." Ro Mr. F. Hunter, of Galt, told the master bakers‘ convenâ€" tion. "Get the best machinery," said he, "turn out good products, and tell the people about it in the newspapers." Mr, HMunter is not only a good baker; he‘s a philosopher. Sixtyâ€"two suicides a month in New York City. Suicide is bad, but then livâ€" ing in New York is no joke, either. Prof, Behring is about to place his new discovery for the cure of tubsreulosis, tulase, in the hands of the clinicians, Me does not think that it has been suffiâ€" ciently tested, but much is hoped from it. Behring‘s success with antitoxine was great, and much interest will be felt in the new discovery,. British Postoffice Savings Bank de positors hold about $130,000,000 of 214 per cent. consols and terminable annui ties, besides $520,000,000 of other secur tiez, That takes no @account of the $150, 000,000 in Trustee Savings Banks, and all the other savings institutions cf the United Kingdom. Your Briton ty fellow, While we hear so much derog to the Doukhobors in the Nort] it is pleasant to be told that they some good points. Mr. F. W, Moore eral Manager of the Grand Trunk fic, who has just returned from : west, says that there are about hundred of these people employed « G. T. P. and that they make ideal men. They are principally teamste: very fond of their horses, and treat with the utmost kindness. Tally o the Douk. The proposed naval alliance b Great Britain and Spain. is leading newspapers to comment on the | such an alliance would be to Brit is said that the use of Kpanish would be invaluable to her during But with whom is she to fight King has made friends with Franc Austria, Portugal, Denmark and and he has just now given the gla to Emperor Wiiliam. _ Russia is mood for fight. Turkey is out question, and no other nation is i looking for trouble. One of the latest storfes in the Thaw murder case is told in the New York despatches. It is to the effect that some chorus girls for a lark called at White‘s studio and finding him out left word to say that Mrs. Harry K. Thaw had called. The story goes on to intimate that White in return sent a note anad flowers,. On the strength of that yarn we are told that counsel for the degenâ€" erate millionaireâ€"murderer said: "When the story of this case is told, Harry Thaw will be freed. I am absolutely conâ€" fident that Thaw can never be convicted of anything." That looks like making easy the path to murder, does it not? But, unfortunately, the U, S. courts look very leniently on murder when the murâ€" derer has millions to excuse it, {eit, â€" places heard statements as to the thousands killd but after all reasonable deductions a C3 um 40 were substantiaily clhifs are terraced, and in recent yea rows of housos have been built, one ove looking the other, It is really the cor mercial capital of Chili, The latest ce sus returns give its population as 12 447. Santiago is the capital of the : public, It is a beautiful city of 258,4 inbhabitants, well laid out, and the p vailing style of architecture is Span stre inhabitants, well laid out, and the preâ€" vailing style of architecture is Spanish, Several simall towns are reported as almost obliterated, and it may well be conceived that if nearly 400 earthquake shocks, some of great violence, have been endured within three or four days, the destruction must have been great, Sciâ€" entists incline to the belief that South America was once the ecene of a cataâ€" clysm that suddenly wiped out a great people of a high degree of civilization, some of whose works still remain to proâ€" voke admiration. There are evidences that more than one locality has suffered from disturbances of an overwhelming :’-m. and the disaster in Ohili may anoth a lesser on tm mds o s ind Duiit n The «tri n curRa CoIA. | i TV pi n 1 C it is t erv no ntia i# th $U n ind may and the ro« €11 a part thquake disaster to n have suffer Lt ma v tae n cities An aliccle Usinc n t ual sc teart fir be that ed distr a trifle w c App The that at mus C dJ 0i t left word . Thaw had to intimate a note and f that yarn r the degenâ€" said: "When repo aIDnaralso 18 18 cliffs, and 11 a WA itory we yen over em np > rts v@ no r L1 % n l 1