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AS GOOD AS GOLD. ‘At this date there ‘iregiied in Cas- ‘om—searcel; with os pare Wakeiy’s tune, as impro he bass-viols, fiddles, and flutes under their ‘The great point, the point of wget ‘or eacl one towards © 2 biage ts lips, the becniy tt Fe 5 Tandlora piece altogether, was a ue the forty Hae curried at the The derk usually spoke with more atthor- y than the rest on account of their whom alae iy bin as aie ek toa Hen: # Quite Cae did pate ra ne gg to reply for a few moments, and his eyes gs and this brew of stnaiges I am in hopes of getting altogether out of my minor key. EA With all my heart,” mt the first mouth, ae a little, and he continu- Hun tané of wise a ten to fifteen. Igive a) Ey See aga pel be made “A asim epee Sth soon shall seize mare, thinking to Bor quite upset. wid wer thinking that ase eh thom ! Now, thea, ene fourth Psa lg instep ind oe Oe ela adel ‘uni inth, to Wiltshire, | °°" ang ng sing: i i you shall 1” cored. Bencb- repped: gona ty at hae a single one cial Ree am ‘see you, ma’am.” Lucetta ge ‘out of ti Henchard con- till that pate | <sung!” He Pee off “For we humble workmen here the table he poker, reat hopour that a lady to the door p his back should, look in and ti ce an interest SER then, ¢ ~ ahead, if ie 0} the terrified choir, looking round upon it. So the instruments were tun- ed and the comminatory verses sang. ody e,”” said Hench- moved by the strains. "Don't ye Pig Dasha, rent on in low tones, shaking his head without raising 3 ae eyes. “He mPa what he about when he wrote that. If I gout afford it, be, hanged if I wouldn't hurch choir at my own expense frae fee ain, this time gieicre d, “There's the man we ‘ve been singing aboot”. ‘maid Hencha: ‘The players =e sineées turned their heads, and saw bis meaning. “ Heaven forbid!” said the bass play- ia ‘Tis the man,” repeated Henchard mT if I'd known,” said the rer- former on the clarionet solemnly, that eant: a living man, nothin Lai sould have drawn out of my wyn ipe the breath for that Psalm, so help ine! 3 “Nor from mine,” said the ort oa “But, thought I, CH it wi ie PE | So lon: ago, and so far rs there isn't much in, it, so vale ie arinen a neighbour : for there's nothing to be said Cais Eee aval sane mies AEN arid Heachaed yepiuophantiy. “ As for him, it w iy by his songs that he got n could dareitte ies aries that and ue is n't.” He lai . i: e poker acres ems Biers, were a twi Peg anes a From the d ng jor. It was at this time that Blizabeth- ordance lation, lizabeth-Jane went up a Henchard, and — eated him to ac- company By this tou the. ‘yoleanic fires of his nature had burnt down, and having drunk no great quantity as yet, he was inclined to acquiesce. She took his arm, ai walked blankly, like a blind man, eating to himself the last words "of he sii Mand: the nex age his hated name id to her, “I to my word. I have kept my oath for and new I 6a ene. joke pied SE chook epee 4 from ae Shag y eae im I won't answer for ‘hese Tes, ards eae: ese El- izabeth—all the more by of the still isiermination ae Henchard 's mien. “What. will you nbling enchard 2 sae answer and they bere on. ae “they ne reached ce cot- in?” she sae BE “EX, ane ope "torday “said Hench- ard; and she went away feeling that to caution Farfrae was almost her duty it’ was cercainly her strong. desire. on uunday, so on sueetta. ight “pave anda butters in league for life. | She seemed t Jeasure in goin; betog visible 4 Elizabeth Jane from her wrocow aloft. The latter, Hawa ver, did * to herself, that Farfrae should be > thankful for such devotion, but full of her eee she cited Teer lind’s exclamati * Mistress, jaa down on. your neces af and fake wen fasting for a good man’s love.” oseykent, her eye upon Henchard also. inquiry for r Phos te saying that he could not eadure Abel Whittle’s pitying eyes, up- him while they work cogether in the yard. “He is such a fool,” sai Heachard, “that he can fever ‘get out of his mind the time when I was mas- ter there. “PN come and wimble for you in- stead of him, if you will allow me,” id sl tive on going to the yard to get an opportunity of ob- when the two hesitation, i obvious’ that he had no suspicion whatever of any anteced- ents in common between her and the ee rae Se wards either of the pair, ot em fixed oe cet bond he ey keri that alone ‘bed him. A feeling of deli- cacy, Wl omen even prompted Eackren to avoid a) hing that might seem like LRT ie a tee , and to to the corn ent. Meanwhile, Lucetta, never hav- been informed that Henchard had him, but he itever Servant about phase zoe \imself, Tea Sali te ed’ by chant as more than one workmen. Meleditts fostacs andes cover stolidity, fortifviag: bis beart by drink: i it the King of Prus- en ee ‘did Elizab th-Jane, in her en- Pp ite way behind. Disc withe bumilit, hat! to her agWnilie and t! to her as le and the rest hard pardon, ma‘am?” said ener = eh pages not heard. aftern aes glanced at him entreatingly the, uneni sareasm was too bitter, too able. “Can you tell me the time, ma’am?” "she said hastily; “half-past pr vould Thank ye. An hour and a half) ¥ a four.’ longer before we are released from work. Ab, ma’am, we of the lower fiers know nothing of ee gay leisure it do so Lucetta 16 ‘ai, pair mn smiled to hatin A Boy you enjo hey fet ined her the othe ape ees away by the outer gates, 5, Seas araaees ing Henchard ag: That she Pad been taken by surprise was obvious. The bag of this faatal: rencounter re t next morning a note as put ‘ate Henchard’s hand by the man, “Will_you, said Iueetta, with muck ittemiess as she could put into mmunication, “will you kind- pees no biting undertones you used today, if*t walk through the yard ma time you no a will, ee i jury aa Poor fool ue said Henchard with were to show that to her ds usban ps | FPock 1” He threw the letter into the ih grees. Bes sini gard the ex-corn m sia. every. ev re fice to him in a little bas- ket at five o'clock. Arriving one day om th d, p- father was _ measurinj clover- seed and rape-seed in the pas -stores on the joor, and she ascended him. Each, floor a door opening under a cat-head, from which a a iain dangled for hoisting the aavben Elizabeth's head rose through trap she perceived that the upper door was open, and that her stepfather Gnd arfres stood just within it in itn fan e saw, for she had a terror of feeling cer- tain—her stepfather slowly raise his hand to a level behind Fai Elizabeth felt quite sick at heart on thinking of what this might have meant. As soon as they turned she mechanically took rans left Scag pts Foss cat ee tier ete ec deavoured to assure herself that the 0 more. Yet, on the other hand, subordinate position in an ish- ment, where Yeo aster mig) ting on him like an irri- tant ake and she finally resolved to caution Donal CHAPTER XXXIV. “Next morning, accordingly, she rose at five 0 relock, and went into ine street. | Bt was not yet lights a dense foe, pre- tailed, Lae ate she, town was as wages as e Bags 8 eee ‘well, ger only a few min- she ae the iliar bang of his door, and f hen is, quick, walle towards her. She m¢ at pout where the last’ “tee eres girdling avenue flanked the last house in_the le could hardly discern her till, glancing. inquiringly, he said, “What endhardand are ye up 80 early?” She asked him to pardon her for waylaying him at such an unseemly time. “But Iam anxious ss pea ion - | something,” she said. “And not _to alarm Mrs. SPartrae abe calling.” “Yes?” said he, with the cheeriness f a superior. ook? at “may, it be? of It’s very kind Ng [ the now felt bed dthcaly of tS ooee veying to his eS of possibilities ‘i rs somehow chard’s name. “I sometimes fear, oe with an effort, “‘that he may rayed into some attempt Poti ete “But we are the best of friends.” “Or to play some practical joke upon | Sees , Remember that he has ean a rend thinking nd PY, Sie evil, persisted in making light of fears. ‘Thus they parted, and she went Fepaired, {grai-horses going to Knowing the sats: vot bim just rhe en sand. sehen A not rn-c! fe, ‘day, be Spake, of ites 1a; | When three months old his eight was H 5 Boe eee fo if | flesh surprised them. cit that T woul sit ‘Mr. Ward, who was something of an usban: ies Tape where oe seying in Public tbat about you ewe be Continued.) BIGGEST BOY IN THE STATES. * A Lad of goa, bie Htatnre—tntersting his ‘The eee Ke for , age in the re. (Shain ated care nk to come again and corn. She would hie ogre vee noe should, not by de-| vitality resulting from such hot par eae (Gf his oer eile acne Bisa the seek and. I saw the effect was Z - | system of strength. ‘VER ee SICKN “When urate e “his size. Just at present, he is not at all ill-provortioned, and it [2% is only in the boyishness of his face} d. ” Not to interrupt them Temained on the steps without higher. rfrae’s shoul- 0s- is ae ; te t wrform the work of a Saad arate Hen hated ia every particular, ‘There Beat ees cepts to ae i ne own. na ale , and " introdiieed Hen- ‘sy oe HONEY FROM APPLES. fick Sencha aa let nothing in the apple | which live in the churches. They are to be the and the sons of laboun|A BABY NINE MONTHS OLD WHO is A Poe WONDER. When es Months O14 Could Lift a Damb- nary he did, not treat her | the child of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Ward, ther soun But he did not desiet i from a Kindly of Lewiston, Me. At an early age this 2 t that en-| miniature giant to show signs of remarkable strength for an infant. rred to damp it. | twenty pounds, and his parent occu ee that pucile ee »R:”. | menced to notice his unusual aaiiene 1 ment. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Ward are of large proportions, and on rapid in which their young son took on E 5.8 3 athlete in his younger days, thought that I ‘would be fifty if |he saw the foundation for a remark- ip the other fifty “Yes, yes; 60 I've heard; and there's | he was about three months old adopt- nothing to say against it for that mat-|eda gentle system of spies: through Hei plied, in pa he put young Henry every vn Lite as little son on a fate ‘was muscle producing, and in a few weeks was was lipid to notice 2 great improvement Rech aii kay eared ‘Then some ick “dumbbells were se- cured for the boy, and under Ls careful tuition of his father he soon manipu- k iy aiseldnely wal: Young enry’s wa ‘was sO for his age that he ot de- velop much speed as a sprinter, and nts About ths old Pedtall Speighing <wautyseve anuede abe lier ot tne nibs half inches without his shoes. If he |' yy el ee am @rowing at the ordin- | Ware pine oe thi mm now until he is 21 years | Sandow, says: ola, be BOE tins ev over sore feet ~ “My boy is a wonder, and I am ‘will- height. He himself believes that |ing to back him against all couiers of reaches that age he will stand | in using the dumbbells I was af fraid eee FATHER'S STORY. rd, who has full i chatee ct wl fully seven feet four inches. Me might Burt himself, but he really mt ase ae to like the exercise, and amas, Cie bee, ben pene | waa ready to cry when 1 called tine not to med- Hasee d reed that the subject is physically a weak- al i his ainlett “instructions if I and is ee to experiment a fittle, and o i tests to show was five months old E im. al ad healthy as a young dumbbell Pe grasped it and lifted it aes of the floor, ae it so nearly Heyer red him that .bis lack of years is noticeable. | 1 ig the ‘guns strong man He has the stride and carriage usual at the age ai 5 THE eee ees tin eetaordie |= eee ac oak henomenon in the eye a0 A the youngest o of a. faa a onl y cumenenoed Oe en din milk. Te, | Bot only put on flesh pil oat also bones a ue thing, abnormal. ané they look | time. Sometimes I have to ee ier upon their big brother with as much Byer from the tabs for fear he will astonishme: & as is felt by strangers. | Sac too much, and then he is sure to S§ WORK IS PLAY. ery.” inary pout is well fit. ‘Mr. Ward is enn, 6. Up mo mane min- nasium d he siocioed who can [ye lop muscles of the young. wonder. The ray, and when it | boy bi not ‘surprised at any- ie : Sones to breaking a oreo: his Beit be ag i takes his training as & s him a maste In fact; | matter of co fe ig learning to bess ‘of the tasks that are considered fat Tapidly, and is as bright because of the strength re-|dollar, Every muscle in the little fel. o perform them are child’s Ses stands out prominently, and y to this overgrown ‘boy. is flesh is as hard and ‘frm 83 pro- baby vas unusually | fessional boxer's. His biceps are de- y he w ual )oxe} large; by the Ls he had reached the | veloped in an astonishing manner and e as as tall and med feel like iron. ni ined the De SS the cones ‘appearance of a boy of 16.) A WOMANS MILITARY FUNERAL. he is all hat could be ex 5 vee boy of, He is a ost of | tary display takes place at the funeral bis rather Tailed oppor for edu- of ‘any womain who does not happen te member of some be the ion, of (@ calling, in, life, S| iy, ‘The honors accorded ty tho French tes to have an inborn love for the soi. Be ee Set clare New Jersey | bias fa fair to | ¢ band, are sufficiently excep mtiiais {0 to merit record. The troops were pre- Chinese, giant, “and the late sae ee eer Se Tamented Captain Date one of the only two women of- Hon GUN THAT NEEDS NO POWDER. | conferred uy her eta her ee charities. ihe sole feminine officer of the most remarkable of war|the Legion of Honor now surviving is * wentions is attributed to the ingen-| the celebrated artist, Ross Bonheur, so uty of a Frenchman, Paul Giffard. His eae Se her paintings of animals, receii cross is a repeating rifle Rg Aven pauper eon ere ; pol cross der. Lique- | of aificar of tne ‘onder froin the Covern- re at a| ment of the r temperature hundreds of degrees be- d $ representing an PLAYING IT 10 A FINISH. xpansive power, is the pro-| Two Paris ere recently = ‘bed | suaded by a Spirtoaliai medium ee el carriage, | their bodies enveloped the spirits ae “and as thick as one’s | Mary Stuart and Queen Elizabeth. Un- eS ycely of 2s \semly Be Bote Cae embodied, the spi of thaw e two, tal faa, nls a shar and low report AS) the Virgia. Guéen's ‘money, Gloped, mak- aes yjynnoghs | ing it necessa the’ police ‘to be Shots costing but two anda half cents are after making cid- | kept and fed by the authorities on pur- go to waste. er and wie from ays apples, they ex- | pose to cateh the mice which infest all he refuse a white dnd fine-| old buildings there. ‘The ee avared spirit, and by another pro-| often be seen walking about amo ng the cess: "y procure sweet treacle, or, re} ion, Or ing ave as they term it, honey. Soae ee Nese doting tne of mass, Done ae aoe Bae The Prot’ Baar vined the longing glance from the girl's tone, for she, half turned towards habit these t man's life as draw! same lives, ie: without its ae She herself felt it, and her it. without touching 1) drous patience. me was cruel to burden, prive ee girl o' most bi sa was no new thing this waiting ace git the st: ola mother’s Le a abe had fed her heart | better seas to Site she sob je bold his mot upon this h ee is a safeguard, in all a Ae aad im some the greatest | in ecg allotted to ving Enowieage (aess fine: return his pro a cane leak | in a blue © ae pans oe: lenly bee: ioe i het out ti ae Here Step! his arms in dm mured out i joy. He bad no words He had left them eighteen years be- Bub is arm, fore in a fit of passionate resentmen his father, whose only fault the son of his old age. yoy been too great for dear Siptan tals the old ag en Sore anything had been Edu- cated at a charity sc! jomestic se called gentleman farmers, shop keepers and ae ae all, a few colonies sity failures, will to educate our sons above is to handicap them cruelly in the race yhen victims to this craze. cal ing risen by the force of his o wn and sn capabilities of his own ora vel people to the Seas a as | his son a fe vr education ee ee his career life. the od parson’s sense of Ti got Joking, and of manner whic] well at the “varsity a Task Paes rectors eyes were opened, en @ narrow-) = man’s eyes e ce opens om Stony at the heart, Stephen Leach left England, and be- r the good old lady's faith never wa- id derstood tine that the afternoon when ‘thes for him—when before Joyee had = the House pat Dm FEA toad a sugeosied that p her ey should ner wae vag bediden. su she _saic eee eel eee go to the window and draw iit exclamation me Mother,” she beta some The old lady was already, me aoe ring See Then Jo} turning, saw that mother haat tinted pee it and only momentary. ime she reached | to rout ap hold this He id with much ent Joy genees | the bea —above | old, lady's feuds is. join ered. “He will come, Joyce,” tld ever have to id. ventor: "Yes," she seeap oe grow to mers were, 50) ‘ti knew skin oh What was, The old aay "seh fixed on his f lovingly. over his fi deep cut from cheek-bone to jaw qui is ve pro raising bis ey posh ras the Prodigal. After right moment in the the pone ‘The girl noticed if, bate uman sty an d pent via Ste mee etree tive young in, ‘ie 2 evening people Nee Relates How His ernaztes to We Truk Wi a 2 in said ay on and sherman In all m; career [guarded against impos fad tau of all winds, well knowing loves to be humbugged. of the kind in particular coors to iy Hines Loy e fol b During that shone even. | ing, was the atone i howman Iever Leach a ah ee He | pecans: aa mate ey, Ps finess ‘of walk, angi! dngsted that. Saves, abe has as to} ee for he had been w' r mise of a : eae raed i ine d. Thad no one to take his place. It | Celtic eee ecaaliy eens i fa | w. we to be | ef nd uietl; aan ae ere with the result that the ‘Span- iron man _w n yee the The dull, ee had Ay s aot isiening for the i ‘i ae oe os other in echo of another voice in bis deep quiet |) "that a, ac she had ad na. oa his partes al. ps NP door he turned to justify hi u- “that ately ‘ischar mad iy arrangements for your eens ed. ban ey lenly- She gave a little gasp, but made no as ite ee Laan bh Siler ae quiet foretaste of a tbave ue ‘or the "frat ae gh Beaker 2 med to been alon now that man-like, she br ith a —_ doc we we silent me soa = val a 50 eloau i | even ee oa gi ne worrehout delay I 1 went behind the our, fous “uae cs apple "i tT nvasmat y does Miss Agely affect such | fife for his pa THE VETERAN SHOWMAN] — SOME GOOD STORIES TOLD BY THE FAMOUS peas RICE. 1 Assistant Often Fol Magers Sais are tricks in all trades ane iness is includ. It was ae pring the Eastern | States in the y 50s that I picked up Bill oe tho, I am sa! i saw, “t 2 was eeodan amt nd as he was unscrupulous. Bill |was a likely-looking nee ‘Yankee, uid go |smart and active, Adresse. one etre to another he be- aot aoe, a from assistant es ae = circus, Reet: tine Newborriart Mass., Sig. Gustivo, aida ae Jian Samson, otherwise Bill | throw a sone ENE Aa hey went p-siairs together end told (saith, of Bennett's Mills, NJ., who for, rangement, Joyee | had been astonishing circus-goers by bis | ago a Sepa tebine ee inother's peaoeful roan feats of strength, got ang- fou mmething and deserted the show. | which. whitened the teh Pate me in a serious t Gu juncture fist Bi n- ind sought an siege orth me at my hotel, which ended in he polled her. two: im ing, at $100 a week, ate fe ea the nish man of iron, ose specialty was toying with ow LARGE CANNON BALLS. Turner was engaged at a moderate yh shouldes re. ‘ da third to the | thes vile Noe ats racefully caught | excite envy, saw, TOSS ‘The audience went | of look ag vaiee, im Dar) fess ce is its descer';formance, and main- | ma ‘Eiue eyes beneath | fested their enthusiastic appreciation, mi more ; ed to be one Don Sebastian, proved, toe my cireus taken over, for nae! iron to be a rank ae ‘The cannon balls caer ie Ve mane of rubber, sos were inflate ae SO mee sais when the balls to perloy’ lat oa when the teen a heavy baat -—out |the hands of an accomplice Benina | he 3 subsequent a Si and scanty discovered that it was cley erly made of Linsey woolsey and stuff: | the tremendo a fed, vith sawdust. ee rota bacl <6 Gre! over the Pace mn plainly: see t! veteran clown with 2 ‘The: quietly, and ‘Then he closed |was HE INEBRIATE BEAR, ae 2 for instance. That was. ar ae ite apples held. throughout the coun- ‘was somewhere in the can appropriately tter didn’t eae there for the news- tweel matter got hold of the affair, and vig- | shipped trom: Halifax on ma of Mock ta th uae Shetland aia y of the Tnntise Tier gir erases and dangerous custom which prevails ‘The Noss is called an island, and it answers to the definition, since it te ised crow, but ‘the sen. ‘lated one ictim. Mere, of pane in tthe Market- The nee ante esate made great supply and low prices, have clean- ed up to a considerable degree the sup- 3eiexed conscientious rules, said the | plies put away last ao a caused a a is it, Bill Turn- in, stripped the bears! from the