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 ::5-^'^i^^^,-.«^-iM^^ ~V^ .V.,- [AlX RlOBTS BBEaTSD.] â- a *^* "^kS^*.- I *t her feefl th. i^*»l â- ant to her *«."•â-  "hift ^y movement^'**' h' wan face SdS*?k* row. When ti- ^*'»'y h ^r the JiV-*^i LIKE AND UNLIKE. By M. B. BRABDON; ^â- ^ ^j^oR OF "Lady Audlkt-S Skcbw," "Wtuakd's Wbkd,"Eto., Ew. ^rion of tenants had occupied Mor- i«"^uj the last ten years, and had «•' kfidnpon more or less coldly by the *^^1a^i i^milieB. There is always a •^TiMPJcJon in the rustic mind »t- ii#* ' ' the people who occupy furnished •^tan idea that if they were all »»*?!i nneht to be they would have rich the -â€" « 'oe Poop •»_r^"*«*^B »'*^' an idea mat u moy » f*;ch for heri2?*Br»^nght to be they woul 'pocket of her wS?' ^M*^ ^t'^heir own. H they are r d within it. re!2L *l**S^JirbS wonders where their crossed her f2rpJ!i*'kB"'lâ„¢m K they are foreign* firlV!?i«^. f^lSSxShoodis sure the ^^^^^^^^ r crossed her f^Tpi^kl JinthecoBduetwSi*»t- Ifind my money Tkl'" ht,butlmn«?i.if^^te»' l"Me."saidtheJ^*it-" for even he J^^^^tor,, J apparent di,^]»M I the missmar ooin^^^**' I inside out.* T:^*» t«n.- l"No.it'sKone"S*»»* h ^PPealin'Sy 'att'*^ I lip3 tremb!Ljgl^»v.j of moisture riilw*' .conduetor hestSd^^H Ibardenrng his ^oi^/^ •| |ry, madam, but von ying faro." • â„¢ **»»; f it, sir but I've .a I [youwhenlcom^Ucir*? lUe money then "^5 ' ,\ rherbundfeirtftharwoS' Itement. Batthe^SS |8t the appeal, thongh.X P, he was not harahf «« w„ ferules. You'll have to 8« ' " he reached up for £ ^0 women had watched the parent interest, and at t^UDger one sprang fro" fer conductor and uttered « Before any one ooold â- ention she had opened K )tied Its contents bto th. •p-54 or $5 at least rattied /i^°JV^ oom,,whUetwo rolled oflF on the floor. Th« he generous young wonua car. Her companion iollow- ng several more pieces of sflJ or woman's lap. Theaston-j of the bounty seemed unable I 3 impulsively covered her one hand, and burying her e sleeping infant she gobbed conductor's heart was touch- d up the stray coins tai ith the reat. Then he rant f his own pocket, and retired latform and blew his noee Armies of Europe. ed armaments of the great Jrs of Europe " display their 1 a very striking manner in rk on " The European Armiei t." The mobilized strength et down at 2,051,458 troops, le territoral army, which i that of Russia at 1,922,405; 93,690, and that of Anstria- 5 955. The military strength Jw attained proportions that oeen deemed incredible ten icluding militU it is alleged 2,387 men.' If, however, a on be mde in the case of litary strength of that power be found to exceed even that Republic. Ckmpared with he numfrical proportions of ly ought to satisfy the mem- sace Society. Ir Ending onr UDteers, as well t the ^dias just muster 781,677 troops, e to serve for the defence of ibuted over a very much in that ruled by any of the ewhat Impatient. going to get that new suit ered three 'neeks ago? asked tailor, Herr Schneider, con aa you pays for dot oder u last year." â-  od tellow, I can't aflFord to ars a Belapse. 1 you say to your husband I, that, if agreeable to hm bill for services rendsW" it severe Ulness T .-ks Yes, doctor and he 1 better wait un'il he gets a iad Been There. show you this engageaient i and diamonds that Cb ;:harlie leen it before 1" re 1" was engaged to hnn W* a Narrow Escape, s just returned from the lall be awfully stupid now. Vhy so, my dear " e had all my wisdom teeth 1 the best intentions to irse, my love, yo" k"®* " aperstition, the »dea t^ ve anything to dowitft w» re to have every tootB» I it couldn't make yoojiw ,ow-or-ah,^ by the w»y. the dentist." „.tter in smoothing the «»"" a narrow escapa. *-*" ' Word Por Poetiy. writing)-" Gii*.8»^' such a word i» » P" ut », Charley, if J^ B the beat ftt I the po*ert » money If they are foreigners, the „__ is sure they are not all they rt"""" Madame is a ci devant opera- *i^^ llonsieur has a talent for card-sharp- '""ifthey are Americans, and scatter OH; i^pjiey in the lavish Transatlantic l*f oBinio" is against them from the out- '" The only people who are kindly look- !f,t)oa in this connexion are those whose I^and belongings are plainly set forth "n bi*" " '^ho have houses of their in other counties. To these are the 'lof friendship opened. f 1 Deverill was such an one. The Jx'giiraah, was his ostensible dwelling 'tL' and though Up, reputation was by mMiu nntarnished, he was known to be "^tleman by birth and to have begun iJj, in ft crack regiment. The two facts by thei;V«aeir, who had ooas in a leirarelv way %• «» if ^t hmd pedin. of STB »-" were a matter requfring lU penonal bell attention. tentaon. He ok«d the doSble d.^. 3 ^jTMh log on the fire, and diwwetly w- field, said the married riater. perchiig W feet upon the old bras, fendw, wdiSbrd i°i.f IfT "r ^r *»' »«»'«d inlaid Uuu heek. «' I, she quite weU, ta^i, Ou about the loveliness," answered Adrian, smilmg "but to my mind my mother i^ the prettiest woman of her age that I have ever seen. Of course, a son is partaaL As for helklth, well, yes, I think I Say say she IS quite weU. Would you like her to drive over and see you t" "Of course we should, we are dying to «?*^" .^'*^ ?*"' ^hc was not il sTiy. It iinghsh etiquette were not written in blood, like the laws of Draco, we should have made father t*ke us to Lady Belfield the day after we arrived here." ... "T°? ^?" appreciate BritUh conven- tionalities ' "1 detest everything British, present company of course excepted. We have al- ways had such good times in France and Italyâ€" and as for S witzerland, I feel as if I had been born there. I am longing to be at Vevay, or at one of those dear lutle villages on Lake Lucerne, now, when your horrid English winter is beginning. I can't think why father persisted in bringing us here. It is almost as bad as the Rock." " You don't care for Ireland " " Does any one, do you think And if L lie was an Irishman and had lived a good Z\ on the Continent counted naturally 1 his disfavour, and the county looked upon tim with a qualified approval Tie house was half a mile from the lodge, td a fairly kept drive wound along the iaae of a low hill, athwart undulating pas- nreland, dotted here and there with good «1J oaks and elms, and clusters of ancient ijwthorns, and offered Sir Adrian a view of Ur Pollack's baeves cropping the scanty n'iii of late autumn. On the crest of the lill stood the mansion, a classic villa about ikcndred years old, much after the manner of the Club House at Hurlingham, with Hole on the surface of this earth," retorted mrtico and pediment of white stone, and Miss Deverill lightly, flinging herself back miform rows of lon^French windows back in the Liberty chair, and showing rather ' " ' ' more ankle and instep than the rival estab- lishment on the other side you knew Kilrush but you don't of course. " "I have never had that privilege." "Well, perhaps it is a privilege to have lived in the dullest, most out-of-the-way hole on the surface of this earth," ud fronr. A large bay window, broken jnt forty years before, by an unaesthetio Lord Lupton, at the end of the south wing, lis the only relief to that faultless uni- fonnity. There were no servants about. Sir Adrian's groom pulled a bell, which rang with Startling loudness a long way off, peal- ing long and strong, as if it would never htve done ringing. Sir Adrian alighted, 'as- turned of the noise he had caused to be made, flung the reins to his groom, and went np the steps. The hall doors were jpen, and a girl's voice cried, " Your shot, leo," as he approached the threshold. This was embarassing, but the situation liecame even more involved when another nice exclaimed, "That bell means another county family come to catechise and stare. Je m'esguive. Bot before the speaker could escape, Adrian had crossed the threshold, and was ituding, hat in hand, face to face with two yoimg ladies, dressed as he had never seen ^Is dressed before, and both of them a feat deal prettier than any girls his mem- ory snggested to him by way of comparison. " Miss Deverill, 1 think," he said to one of the damsels, "my name is Belfield, and I must apologise most humbly for bursting in upon you in this manner." "Oh, but you could not possibly help it. If architects will plan houses with billiard looms on the doorsteps, the occupants must l)ear the brunt of their folly," answered the ilder lady gaily. " We are very glad to w you, Sir Adrian. This is my sister. of the hearth. "There is something excep.tional in the fact, of course. But why, being obliged to live at the Rock occasionally for duty, my father should bring us to a remote Devon- shire village for pleasure, is more than this feeble intedlect of mine can grapple." "I don't think there's much mystery bout it," said Mrs. Baddeley. 'In the first 8 lace father is tired of wandering about the 'ontinent; and in thesecondmy husband will be home on leave in December, and I must be in England to receive him. So my father very good-naturedly suggested a country place where Frank could stay with us and get a little huntin' and shootin' If Frank had been obliged to find his own quarters the choice would have been between Lonlon I^odgings or staying with his own people, both equally odious for me." " Mr. Baddeley is in the army, I con- clude." " Yes, he is a Major in the Seventeeth Lancers, and has been in India for the last two years, and I'm afraid may have to go back after a winter in England." " You return with him?" " Unhappily, no," sighed the lady, "I cannot stand the cUmate. I tried India for a year, and it was something too dreadfuL I was reduced to a shadow, and I looked forty. Now, Helen, on your honour, didn't I look forty when I landed from Bombay " " You certainly looked very bad, dear," said Helen. "Do you think it would be too dreadful to offer Sir Adrian tea at a MiMDeverill, and I am Mrs. BadSeley. I qoarter to four," with a glance at a fine old «ni sorry my father is out this afternoon. eight-day clock. " Do you et;er take tea, fie would have been charmed to make your ' Sir Adrian I •quuintance, I know. He has talked I " A tea pot is the favorite companion of studious hours," answered Adrian, about Lady Belfield, whom he m etuaious nours »™wer .re of ki.owing quHe intimate- â- *' May I nng the bell for you? were both vounc WUl vou " Yes, please,, and you won 1 1 iiid the pleasure ^.. When they were both young Will you »me to the drawing room, or ohall we sit ud talk here Helen -and I make this our Ma for the most part. You see we have no mthers to dispute the ground with us." "I would much rather stsy here," said Adrian. Urs. Baddeley had flung aside her cue *iile she was talking, and Miss DeverUl, »no had been sitting on the table when he tot beheld her, was now standing beside n. nicking the chalkmarks off the cloth with 'r handkerchief. She was a tall slim girl, "" straight-skirted sage-coloured velveteen 8o»n, with a short waist and a broad 7«Uow sash, and with her reddish aabom ° which was superb in hue and teztnre ^quality, falling down her back in a "PPlmg mass of light and shadow. Her was short enough to show a perfect ^V, and a slender ankle, set oflf by Lane- »y«hoe8 and yellow silk stockings. The ^ed sister vrore an olive plush tea gown M an Indian red petticoat, red shoes and V°«sfflgs, and her hair, which was ditrker ™« Helen's, rolled up in a great untidy "MS, and fastened wich a red ribbon. The Jv'e and costume were altogether diff'-ent â„¢m the regulation afternoon attire :hat J^^ of the world, which was generally («ii r? "^^'^er gown and a neat linen R 'A*'" the rule, -nad Sir Adrian seen this kind of pictur- "e toUette in Bedford Park, on the per- il °'f P"igirl, he would have regarded »uh infinite disgust, for he had aU the tolorb ^°' °^ neatness and subdued Pte-^i, hut both these won: en were so "y both were so graceful, with the Psciof*" of perfect self-assurance, that to u "â-  of women who are aconstomed lion l°"'^d, approved, and made much in sn i "ocasions, that had they been clad turej "'coes as Manchester mannfac- 4jj^ to meet the taste of the untutored 4eii ' '"'"' ^*^® ***»* *he leas admired hall "f "M a large fire blazing in the wide 'ifitfttl ^^^ *^^'"® ^^^^ three" "dr four ie- edkmv "J^'^hairs (of draped an4',«n8hion- h^y^ ihont the hearth, and-' scarlet Those !5 ^^^^' Suggestive of t^tttnoon tea. Mox."" th their vivfd xeds and libji'fad tassels and f^ttcM, and bjj^silk handkerchiefs tied attltt them, •^h,^^ oelonged to Lord Lupton, whose ^ilWi^ ^*ted from the vOga «f t^rj the Fourth. Chafai ^tpd J»bi«' ^^*o importation of the I)everilla,Aian jT* glance. t *Dl2L*'^*'eesat down in iront of the While the outer doora were ahut laugh at us and call us. washerwomen for wanting tea so early." " I promise to do neither but were my brother here I would not answar for him. He is very severe on my womanish pata'.on for the tea pot." " Is he very different from you " " Altogether different" " And yet you are twins. I thought twins were always alike." " I believe we are alike in person, except that Valentine is handsomer, stronger, and bigger than I. But it ia in tastea and char- acter we are unlike. Yet perhaps, after all, it is mostly a question of health and physical energy. His lobnat oonsrttution has madfllbim moline to all athletic exercises and manly sporta, while my poor health hw made me rather womaniah. lam obliged to obey the doctors, were it only to satofy my mother." " If Mr. Belfield is as nice as you are I am sure we shaU all like him," said Mrs Biddelev frankly. " I hear he is abroad '" Ym! he U in Pitis. en rouic for Monte Carlo • but I don't think he will be long away. He is very fond of huntmg, and won't care to miss too much of it. The leisurely butler brought in the tea tray, and arranged it comfortablv m front of Miss Deverill, who was allowed to enjoy ail tfcose privileges which involved the Bligfifest exertion. Mrs. Baddeley was the veryceniusof idleness, and never pick el no a pocket handkerchief, shut a door, or bStS a boot for herself She required to be T^aited up^n ai.d looked after like a £by. She at^butedthi. lymphatic con- S entirely to the twelve months she had Steve shattered her n^es ««£ «nder- mined her constitution. Helen, who had nev^beS i^ India, was «peoted to write SerSStetteo.pii*iipbf'»^l«^l â„¢ tiiTflre bv whi2i ahe sat at aU times round the fiw, ' il they hadbeep ^*^ ?®™ nertl^ cJafly rpnnd the fiw. wifli '?^*f u*° ^l^^twoVoSaSSteed about *^"**"^i^SrSr*umi«a»atBiar- BMiding thiM BMatha of arwy TMT â- * KU- ™» «dw» pratowl to be very faM«f aa pMaantry OB tlM estate. Thev nelly ue BUM, wann-heerted onetvea tiioash I danaay they woold ahoot ns on the j5ht- eatwovooatiOD. And father hes a jaohToB ae Shannon, and altogether it b not half a iMtd life." " Speak for yonraelf, Helen." aaid her Mater, peeviahly " yon can bear aolitnde. i cant I hope the peo^ about hare give d«jmt partiea," ahe added, taming to Adrian. "They are not energetic party-givera. A oonple of balla within a radina of twenty milcp and half- a-doeen dinners, conatitnte a rather gay season. " " Gtood heavena, am I to exiat all the winter upon two balla I" cried Mra. Bad- deley. " I shall forget how to waltz. My diamonda will go off colonr'from being ahut up so long in their cases." Sir Adrian wondered a little to hear an officer's wife talk of diamonds, as if she had beena dnoheai, bat he opinionedthat Major Baddeley most be a man of substance. Cer- tainly Colond Deveiill's daughter oonld hardlyhave been jewelled from the paternal resources, whudi every one knew to be m-iagre. What a lovely woman she was, lolling back in her chair with the firelight shining on her hair and l^ge hazel eyes. Every feature was charming, if not altogether faultless. Thenose.smallandslightlyretroi'sse, tbe mouth rathor lar^e, with fuU carmine lips and delicious smile. The chin beauti- fully rounded, the complexion of creamy whiteness. The younger suter was like her, jonly prettier, fresher, more girlish, eyes larger and more brilliant, hair brighter and more luxuriant, mouth smaller and of a^more exquisite mould, nose less coquettish and more dignified, a face to dream about, a face to celebrate in society verses ad in- finitum. The clock struck five and startled Sir Adrian from his pleasant forgetfulness of tM things bot the two faces and the two voiuos and the little glimpses of two hitherto un- known lives, revealed to him by that care- less prattle. He rose all once. " I must really apologise for the length of my first visit," he said. " You wouldn't if you knew how dull we are and how anxious we were to see you and LsMly Belfield I hope she will come soon," said the elder sister. " She shall come to-morrow," answered Adrian. " Oh, that is too good of yon. Please bring her to lunch. My father will be charmed." " I'm afraid to engage uer for lunch. I know that in a general way she dislikes going out so early. Afternoon tea is her passion." " Then bring her to afternoon tea. She shall not discover us in the hall as you did. She shall find us in the drawing-room be- having like ladies." Adrian was glad to hear this. He had an idea ^at thO' vision of ^wo g'ris playing billiards with open doors, and that exclama- tion, " your shot," would have disparaged the young ladies in his mother's estimation. He also hoped that Helen would have her hair less carelessly dbplayed to-morrow afternoon. " She shall certainly come to-morrow, un- less there is something extraordinary to prevent her," he said, " and in that case 111 send you a note, Mrs. Baddeley." " You will not put ns to the trouble of being proper for nothing. TtuCt is very kind of you. Good-bye." She rang for Donovan, the butler, who ap- peared five minutes afterwards, just «s Sir Adrian was disappearing. The sisters went with their visitor to the door, wbich he opened for himself, and went out into the windy afternoon with him, and patted and admired his horses, which had waited in the cold much longer than they were accustomed to wait. The two girls stdod in the portico and watehed him drive away, and waved white hands to him like old friends. Scarcely had he driven out of sight of them when bis heart began to fail him as to that promise wbich he had made about his ' mother. He had been so ready to pledge her to friendship with th^se strangers five minutes ago ani now he began to ask him- self whether these two young women, lovely as they were, would not appear intolerable in her eyes. His mother was the very es- sence of refinement and these girls, though assuredly charming, were not rt fined. Tbey had a reckless free and easy air which would jar upon a woman whose secluded life had kept her unacquainti^d with the newest developments in society and man- Toong weaaan iriw won their hair •K noMnl^ Md ahowed tteir ankles frady, wen an nakwrnn noe to I«4yBelfieId nor waa ahe familiar with the typt at yenpg woman who is thoiooghfy aft heme ^Mth ate e ng wa of tiie omtertte aex the minnto afterlntraaBatiini. Lady Belfield'a mannera had been formed in die qofot and re a a c fe d achooL She had never ^yed billiarda, or been iaterealad in noi^ or gi^bled In a Karaaal, or enjoyed any one of thoee amnae- menta whidi aodety amSea npoB now-a- daya. She had been an oidy daoghter and an heireaa, brought ap very atrioUy, par- mitted few amnaamenta, and enlyaohoaen drde of frienda, knowing not Hurllnghajn or Asoot, .Goodwood or Baden, oeoillating between a doll hnnae in London and a dnller house in the country, working at her piano oonacientionaly under a faahionable German maator, cultivatiiig her mind by the perusal of all the best books of the day, attending all the beat operas and concerts, dancing at half -a- score of aristocratic balls in the sea- son, and knowing as little of the world as an intelligent chud of tra. "I'm afraid shell hardl^^'like them as much as I do," thought Adrian, innocently. ' They are so frank, so friendfy, ao full of life, and ao different from all the girla we have met round about here. I wonder what the father is like?' And then he recalled his feelings as he drove along this road two hours ago, and re- membered with what a suspicious mind he had thought of Colonel Deverill, inclined to suspect that gentleman of the moat Macchia- veluan motives for planting himself within easy reach of Belfiud Abbey. Had be not come to Morcomb withthe secret intention of renewing his old suit to Lady Belfield, of toying to win her for his spoil, now that she was a wealthy widow, her own mbtress., young enough to marry again without pro- voking too much ridicule om a malevolent world, tree to. marry whom she chose? Yes, he had been inclined to suspect the Colonel o! hidden views in this direction and yet had he any such scheme it was strange that he should not have set about the business ten years ago, since he had been quite eleven years a widower. That such a scheme should be an after thought would be strange. And now in his homeward drive, Adrian was assured that Col. Deverill had come to the neighborhood in all innocence of mind, in his happy-go-lucky Irish way, glad to get a cheap ht.use in a picturesque country (TO BB CONTINUED. ' mSCELLANEOnS ITEMS Seven big Normandy stallions that came over on the steamship Lake Huron, and suffered much on the rough voyage, are recuperating at East Boston before going West. James Chastine, charged with the murder of Hus;h Boyle at the New Pratt shaft, has died of starvation in iail at Birmingham, Ala. persiiitently refusing to eat. Six mur- derers have died in this jail during the last few months. The Salvation Army recently needed $25,000 for ito work, land raised the amount in one week by what is called " a week of self-denial." It didn't have a single ice cream party or sacred concert or supper. Is there not here a practical lesson A farmer in Ingram's township. North Car- olina, has a wife that he is really proud of, and with reason for she can split 200 fence rails a day, and has done it time and again and he says it is a common thing for her to dip seven barrels of turpentine a day. Young men of Philadelphia who desire to do the right thing carrv their sweethearte' pictores in a case made of two silver dollars, hollowed out and fittod together so deftly that they can be distinguished frcm a sound coin only with a microscope. Baltimore has many well-to-do negroes among its citizens. There are nineteen whose aggregate wealth is $800,000. Of there. Joseph Thomas, a boss stevedore, is worUi $80,000, and James L. Bra Iford, a grocer, is quoted as worth $50,000. There is a local passenger ' train on the OnuJia Railroad, bstween St. Paul and Stillwater, that is shunned and dreaded by engineers. It is called "The Hospital Train," and other equally significant names, because every engineer who has run it in several years has either had a stroke of par- alysis while in the cab, or been severely injured. The glory of the Indian has passed in the far West. Recently a number of school boys attending the Central school at Ogden pelted two Indians who were passing with The Indiana gave oaptaMdtMM little boy, bat on hiaaaying thafthahlllMtthiewB «^ anew balla they left him go. Theladiaaa ,pade a oomplain^ b«A.ceftae ^atiarBirthai Itiaieeparted from ParJa that a jeweller theia.loat«magaiflcmt pearl, weighing 12t graiw, aiHt^aed aft fg.^tL Headvertiaed liberally, and a month afterward a ragpioker baooght the gaat to the store. She aaid tha£ ahe had three weeka befon gathered up the eontenta of an aah box in firnnt of th* jeweller'a, and when ahe eame to aort theat over ahe found the pearL A newspaper of Ibtanaaa^ Cnba, haa oat- bodied in an advertiaement of a new brand of cigarettes a paragraph, of which this ia a translation " Photographs of the moeft bekntifnl woman in the worid, Senora Fran- ces Folsom de Cleveland, the Lady of the ' White House, the idol of 69,000,000 of peo- ple, the wife of the Preeident of the United Statesk Ask for theâ€" â€"cigarettes." The yonngeat of the thirty-eight living widows of Revolutionary soldiers ia Nanoy A. Green, of Versailles. She draws a pen- sion, but then there are those who qnestkm her right, and for this reason. She waa bom in 1818, the Revolutionary war ended in 1783. If her husband was 21 years old when he waa mustered out, he was 56 years old when she was bom and if he married her when she was 18 years old, he was tiien a man of 74. But stranger things than that have happened. Mr. J. B. Wilson, of Griffin, Ga., is a re- markable m»n. He was born at sea lived in sixteen diffierent States in as many yean grew up without education, wild and wick- ed. A few years ago he became a Christian, and since then has lived consistently with his profession of faith. One night he dream- ed tnat he must read a certain chapter in the Bible. The dream so impressed him he obeyed it, and although he did not know a letter of the alphabet, found the chapter and read it through. Since that time he has read the Bible regularly. He can read any chapter in the Bible, but not a word in any other Iwok or newspaper. A life convict at Joliet recently wrote te the Chief of Police of St. Louis, begging him to find the convict's three children, m whom he had not heard for years. He said that after his conviction his wife S!Ot a di- vorce, and married a man named Lee. i9t Louis reporters found Mrs. Lee supporting her family by taking in washing, Lee having deserted her. She was touched by his anx- iety about his children, and promised to write to him, although the crime for which he waa imprisoned was the murder of the husband of Mrs Lee's sister at the solicita- tion of the sister herself, with whom Mn L^e's husband had become infatuated. The sister is serving a sixteen years' term in the same prison. The Drift Cityward. The great, brilliant successes are, as a rule, in onr cities. They attract notice. All men hear of the man who rolled up a fortune in a few years. Only few hear of the twen^ that failed on the same lines. ' " What ia hit is history what is missed is mystery." One cineequence is that the movement ia from the country to the town. Young Thateher is not going to plod along year after year on the farm when he might wit^ less toil make his thousands in the city as a politician or a man of business. " Why, there is Baker â€" I'm just as smart as he is â€" and he is near the top of the wheel they say he will soon be an alderman." So the tide is townward. Now it is true that one may find the best people in the towns, for mind quickens mind but you may also find the worst and in this word evil works at a tremendous advantage. No better popula- tign for morals and trustworthiness is found in any Christian country than those Who live by the tilling of the soil. We do not ignore the value of cities, but " God mvle the oountiy, and man made thn towm,' and without|building on any forced exegesia of this passage we cannot be blind to the fact that city life multiplies and complicates the problems with which Christian civilisa- tion has to deaL No 5,000,000 of country people in England present so much that M discouraging as you find among the same number crowded together in London, â€" [Dr. John Hall, in New Princeton Review for January. Little 3 year-old's verdict " My dollie dat sed mamma so 'tweetly on Kiamas wont • mam ' no more." The monkey and the dude are the aristo- cratic types of the hnman race. Anyhow, they won't work. He (to his fiancee) f I aAT, Tclia, oid gibl, have tou kvbb hotickd She (who hatea to have people talk to her whe n stie is reading) No. He What Not ^kkn this swiet thino n? ouima She (with enthutiaam) Oh I m ohika What is r? He: SuoAX. [She breaks the eagagement] this f. â-  m â- â- ' â- Hi"i p-||:li mm i: m |l-s:;'rl?^' II â-  » W H- ^^ H' t â- ' â-  • I •â- â€¢, M i' .^v :.â-  ..l^-:'a'S'.--';i^j.