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lucille it comes hud on nato take that girl 1 william hart grumbled to hts wife when mary ran away with that french man dubreuil my father washed his hands of her and to the day it his death he never mentioned her name not even when the news of her husbands death came to us theyve always lived in france and i thought we were rid of them she has no claim on us and yet she write to me on her deathbed asking me to take her daugh ter well she thought as you and hiram got all the property and she was dlbioberit- ed you ought to give her daughter a home answered mrs hart she was almmtt as cold and hard and un- s demonstratave as her husband but unlike jiim sh u not selfish and beneath her cunsympathetio exterior she had a strong sense of duty that girl didntgive us a chance to say yea or nay 1 mr hart oontinued angrily sua writes that she would sail the day after her mothers funeral and by this telegram she mcut be here on the train to day pretty piece of business 1 ive the greatest mind in the world to send her packing 1 the harsh lines on william harts face grew harsher as he dwelt on his grievances it should not have been a grievance to give a home to a poor orphan niece he was a we ithy farmer with three sons two of them coarse and robust like himself the young est robert a weakly fretful invalid about eighteen years old i dont see the use of making a fuss mrs hart said in her cold voice hiram is dead and you happen to be lucille dub- reuils only relative so youve got to take her you cant turn a girl ot seventeen out on the world i dare say shell give a deal of trouble girls always do and then shes foreign and not used to our ways it dont matter her not being used to our ways i reckon theyre good enough fora pauper but the question with me is how are we going to put up with hers i always did despise frenchified people 1 here oomes the train now 1 said his wife and yes theres a girl getting out in deep blaok i suppose it a she the station was only a few steps from the farm gate but those few steps mr hart did not take he and his wife leaned upon the low gate and watohed curiously a little figure hurrying toward them a lad who was showing hor the way pointed to the farmer and his wife and then returned to the station she ran hastily forward her veil thrown back from her small pale face her large gray eyes alight with eagernebs and an appealing smile on her lips ah you are mon oncle i she cried and the next moment her arms were around the farmers neck and her kisses on his cheek he almost pushed her from him yes im your unole he said coldly but you neednt ohoke me this is your aunt jane his voioe and repellent manner jarred upon lucllleb sensitive nature she drew back and gazed timidly at the tall stern- faced woman before her she dared not proffer a caress which had already been re pulsed but she took mrs harts hand with a look which would have gone to any wo mans heart whether it did or not it never entered her aunts mind to kiss the girl and make her welcome yes im your uncles wife she an swered stiffly and i hope youre going to be a good girl and not make us too much trouble why she isnt but a mite her uncle said gazing at her disapprovingly and mary was a fin large girl but then that little whippersnapper of a frenchmen wasut bigger than a pint cup hush 1 sail his wife in a low voice but lucille who had never heard the word whippersnapper before and understood english but imperfectly only gazed inquir ingly at the speaker well como to the house and take off your bonnet said mrs hart she led the way lucille following hor with all elasticity gone from her steps and a half- frightened look in her eyes was this to be her home and that harsh coarse man washe her unole and ier lovely mammas brother ob why didm vmmasend her to them heres your room mrs hart said open ing a door cud theres your trunk been brought up youd better have a wash be fore you come down to dinner merci madame lucille said i mean i tank you my aunt youll have to talk better english than that mrs hart said with a grim smile or youll be laughed at hurry up for i cant keep your dinner waiting its against my rules as she closed the door lucillo sank on her knees by the bed and burying her face in it wept violently ah she sob- ed in her own dear language i dont un derstand their words but their looks yes 1 they do not want me they grudge me the shelter of their roof they despise me ah irvy when mamma died did i not stay iu duard as a servant a nurse anything rawer than come to these cold hearts ah dear dinard i if i could go back if i could wake up in my own little room and find this an ugly dream i she closed her eyes and before her rose the fields of dinard with their masses ot scarlet poprka against the dull green back ground of waving grain the solemn rhythm of the sea was in her ears she was dancing the rondt v ih her playmates by moonlight and her mothers beautiful eyes were smiling tenderly at her ah she wanted me to come i lucillo said resolutely she know what was best for mo and i will be brave and cheerful and try to make them love me as she smoothed her hair ootoro the small mirror you saw lucillo was not pretty she was pale and thin but her eyes were full of expression and her movements easy and graceful there was refinement in tho girls every look and gesture the rcfinoment of good brooding and good blood on the fathers aide and her pretty mother had been quick to mould her own habits and iaates on those of her husbands tho family was half through dinner when lucillo enter ed the kitchen her nncle looked up you cant be hungry much or you take too long to prink this is your cousin lucy boys thats her name in this house for no frenchified lucille for me luoy thats your cousin stephon pointing with his knife to the larger of the tall young men who grinned and looked sheepish bnt did not rue from their teats and extend a hand of welcome this is james and hare is bob s noacoount cripple as you can see youd better sit by him i reckon youre both so puny the young men stared and looked more sheepish than ever as their cousin with her pretty graceful step went to each shook hands and tried to say a few courteous words in english wmob only made them stare harder and giggle until their faces were red if you dont talk the funniest lingo 1 her uncle cried with a rude laugh i tell you lucy the first thing you must learn is to talk eoglish so that folks can understand you she smiled good humoredly ah yes mon onole i haf no english we spik it not in dinard only in strang ers travellers are english ivill learn it bkntot my cousins vill help me with an appealing smile at them which they met stolidly to lucille that dinner was a levelation of how much men could eat and how loudly they could talk without quarrelling gaz ing at them she wss reminded of a men agerie where she once saw animals fed bob alone was sulky and silent be was offended at what his father had said about him and leaned back in his seat eating nothing and giving fretful answers to his mother when stephen and james left the table to measure a pony over whose height they had had a fierce altercation bob follow ed them and as he took his first step lucille saw that he was lame a most painful lame ness where one of his feet doubled up as it touched the floor to lucilles surprise neither father nor mother tried to assist him but his father call ed out roughly as thejboy stumbled serves you right for trying to get along witout your crutch 1 folks will notice your foot just the same if thats what youre trying to hide lucille did not understand the words of the boys reply as he turned his angry face to his father but the look and tone shocked and surprised her whatever may be the faults of frenoh training want of res pect to parents and old persona is not among them as for bob blind with anger he trip ped up against a box lying on the floor and fell fiat in a moment lucille was beside him and as ho scrambled up she took his arm vill you not lean on me she said in her sott voice i can help you out let me alone will yon he oried roughly striking away the li ttle hand repulsed and ooloring hotly the girl returned to her seat her aunts man ner was gentle to her that evening whether it was her proffer of service to the cripple who was the only one of the family on whom the stern mother lavished any thing like tenderness or whether she felt some sympathy for lucilles mortification she was certainly kinder but what words could paint the strangers homesickness as she bent over a piece of croohet to hide the tears that evening she was outside the family cirole they spoke a language almost unknown to her and they were interested in things she had never heard of no one addressed a word or look to her as she sat at some distance from them feeling herself too wretchtd to live she was startled at bobs voice in her ear i say lucy you look awfully lonesome here i lonesome she repeated what you call dob ah yes emit yes yes it is to break de heart to be lonesome well it is hard but when you can talk english you want mind you know i will talk english nevaire nevaire she cried raising her hands with a des pairing gesture it is too difficile ah but my tongue lefuse to learn rob laughed here was one inmate of the family more wretched and more helpless than himself 1 say lucy he began sheepishly you didnt mind when i hollered at you because you wanted to help me you dont know my ways yet but id rather fall tnd break my neok than have any one help me she understood enough to know that he was making a kind of apology for liia rough ness ah no 1 she cried i dont mind notin if you vill me help to learn dat dreadful eng lish dat ties up my tongue ill do it and the oompaot was sealed lucille did not know that bobs eoglish was the worst of its kind for the hart family were ignorant and had known little of schools but human interest was just then what she was yearning for in her quiet unobtrusive way tho girl made herself useful to all the family to her aunt her ready cheerful service was in valuable and even her uncle would shout for luoy when a button was wanted oa his shirts or a message musf bo sent to a neighboring farm she was bo gentle so courteous so uneolfieh and ready to obligd that a household which had known nothing of those qualities before began to find them very necessary to their comfort as for bob ho often wondered how ho had lived without his cousin to interest him in her bright stories of foreign countries to beat up his pillows and batho his head when he was ill and nuke herself a slave to his sick whims but much an lucille had grown into the hearts of the hart house hold they wero not demonstrative and in the next wo years her aunt had never ca ressed her tnd not oveu from bob had she ever hoard one word of affection how the poor sore little heart longed for loving words and looks 1 how impossible to hor emotional french nature did it seem for people to feol an affection they were neither able nor willing to express thoy did not notico that the pale thin girl bo- came daily paler and thinner and home sickness grew fiercer and stronger in her heart not so much a longing for dinard as for the loving words and tender caresses of her humble friends thoro there aro tonder simple natures like lucilles in the world but thank god thoy are few for their own sakes even lu cilles dreams became troubled by that cruel nostalgia which was consuming her life she would bo back at dinard and with tho murmur of tho waves would mix tho sweet shrill voices of hor companions as thoy sang tho ronde noua nlrons plus an bols lea laurlera sont coupes then she would wake up her face wet with tears and her bosom shaking with sobs but one morning she did not wake to con sciousness and her annt going into the room found her muttering in a kind of low delirium typhoid fever the doctor said and there is no constitution to resist it she faded slowly away patient and quiet with long intervals of consciousness until the end came she had fallen into a kind of stupor apparently the coma which pre cedes death when she suddenly open- el her eves to see her aunts face bend ing over her bathed in tears bob was was sobbing on his knees by the bed and her uncles hard face was working convul sively oh lucy lucy dont leave us my dear 1 sobbed her aunt what shall we do without you she looked at them with surprise and then her f ale lips parted in a charming smile you love me yuo want me she cried and i did not know l kiss me aunt oh kiss me onoe i her aunt raised her head and with that farewell caress the loving tender soul went forth to find its kind no cne can say lucilles life was lived quite in vain for mrs hart became gentler and more womanly because of it as for bob poor bob he never forgot his sweet patient cousin and he was a better and worthier man for the lesson of her life worth knowing a ohamois skin can be washed in such a way as to make it as sott as when new but e veryjone does not know the secret wash first in a weak solution of soda and warm water rnbbing plenty of soap into the leather and letting it remain in soak for two hours then rub until clean rinse in a waik solu tion of soda warm water and a little soap if rinsed in pure water it is hard and unfit for use it is the small partloles of soap left in the water that give the leather its silky softness wring it in a rough towel and dry quiokly pulling and brushing it well old corks make very pretty fanoy work to interest the boys cut into cubes or small bricks they bear a oloae reembunoe in miniature to certain kinds of stones abounding in brown or brownishgray spots and little holes and indentations whioh re semble old masonry they may be fasten ed together with glue or by means of a small wire passing through hem and fash ioned in models of castles or house whioh will make a pretty gift for some younger brother or sister broken up into small irregular bits and strewn thickly over the frame ot an oldslate whioh has been spread with hot glue they make a pretty picture frame this can be afterwards gilded if one prefers the isew york board of health a few years ago decided that the prevalence of diphtheria was to be attributed to the fumes of kerosene from a lamp turned low more than to any other single cause this disease usually makes its attacks at the season when days are short and nights long it is a sadly mistaken kindness on the part of an indulgent mother to allow a lamp to remain in a childs bedroom with the flame turned low a turneddown kerosene lamp is a magazine of deadly gas that the strongest lungs cannot he btfely exposed to aunt mollie a prospeotors luok tae recent sale of frank e daggetts share in the amulet silver mine near pres- cott ariz recalls the manner of its discov ery in june 1886 daggett was climbing the side of lynx creek mountain with a prospectors outfit on his shoulder he was on his way to a goldbearing quarte olaim on the other side of the mountain half way up he stooped to rest and after a nap ploked up his tools and was about to start just then his pick slipped from his grasp and in falling struck his leg hurting him extremely he grabbed the piok and struck it into the earth with all his strength swearing that it might stay there forever after a while the sharp pain ceased and daggett changed his mind and thought hed take the pick he pulled it from the earth with difficulty and with ib some shining metal he had stuck the piok into a blind ledge whioh is now the amulet mine and from which thousands of dollars of ore havo been shipped ex great ooean depths tho british surveying ship egeria under the command of captain p aldrich r n has recently made two very deep sea sound ings acoording to nature these depths were 4295 fathoms and 4430 fathoms equal to five eoglish miles the latter was in latitude 24 deg 37 mln south longitude 175 deg 8 min west the former about twelve miles to the southward the greatest known ocean depth 4655 fathoms was ob tained by the united states steamer tus- carora off the north east oaast of japan the challenger expedition fonnd an abyss of 4475 fathoms south of the ladrono islands and the united states ship blake discovered one of 4561 fathoms north of porto rioo but the depths sounded by captain aldrich exceed by more than a mile any previously found in any of the southern oceans n y herald not the offering he wanted an english clergyman and his olerk onoe called on an old quaker who was under no obligation to tho church of courao for an easter offering he politely asked them in to dinner and they accepted the invitation after dinner he set forth the homobrewed ale and then provided pipes for a smoke the olergyman and his clerk enjoyed the dinner hugely but as they rose to go the former ventured to ask his entetainer again for the easter offering friend re plied the old quaker with a solemn twinkle in his eye i have given thoo a meat offer ing a drink offering and a burnt offering d jst thou tempt me also to give theo a heave offering springfield union thonghtlt was satan himself- ofio of the crow of a nova scotian vessel a native of the green isle oxpressod a wish to visit the dime museums tho other day and having been directed by tho captain whero to find ono took his way thither say ing as he left tho vessel i never eaw wan aforo an i expect to enjoy mysolf he had never seen ono beforo had never seen even an orangoutang and was greatly astonished on beholding one of theso animals on his return to the vessel tho captain asked him if he had enjoyed himself enjoy myself 1 nover bettor what did you soo what did i see why cap i saw the divil himself wid hands liko fate and fate like hand i boston courier why teeth dewy decay ot the teeth caries is exceedingly common especially so among civilized peo ple the lack of power to resist this disease may be due to the depression of vital vigor through overtaxing the nervous system or through sedentary habits and luxurious living in this as in other matters there are inherited tendencies and the children of those whose teeth decay early themselves suffer the same evil but what is the immediate cause of den tal decay 1 a paper on the subject was read by dr george s allen of new york be fore a meeting of the dental union lately held in boston according to this paper the credit of solving the question belongs to dr w d miller an ameriean residing in berlin germany the solution is found in the germ theory which has already settled the origin of so many infectious diseases the microscopic germs which are called bacteria the smallest of organized beings so small that it takes one hundred thousand of them placed lengthwise to measure an inch belong to the plant family they multiply both by division and by tho for mation of spores the spores which cor respond to seeds have great vitality and are unaffected by the temperature that would destroy the parent plant the mul tiplication by division is exceedingly rapid thus the total eradication of the germs is almost out of the question aad in even a short time if the pest be neglected it be comes difficult to limit the harm they can do that harm may be effected either by the growth of the baoteria at the expense of the oells of the body or more probably perhaps by developing a poison in their waste products it must be remembered however that many kinds of baoteria are perfectly harm less while it is possible that some aid in the vital processes of the organism the mouth is infested by several forms of innocent bacteria the saliva is never free from them therefore in order to ascertain if dental caries is due to bacteria most rigorous tests were necessary the bacteria must be found in the decayed matter of the teeth be isolated from every other kind oultivated outside of the body and the pure cultivation must produce a similar caries when introduced into a healthy tooth and this oaries mnst show the same form of baoteria dr millers experiments have conformed to these tests he found baoteria filling the tubules of the decayed teeth obtained pure cultures from them and placing the latter in tubes with pieces ot sound teeth the microscope in from two to four weeks showed a similar caries and the tubles dis tended with similar baoteria the bagging trnst the bagging trust is in trouble and re ceives no sympathy controling the mar ket for jute bagging it has about doubled the legitimate price of the product during the season at an expense of over 2500000 to the cottonraising industry of the south although the bales of bagging by the mono poly have been far below the usual fall aver age as planters have used up a great amount of old bagging and various substitutes for jute bagging buying the latter only when absolutely compelled to do bo in order to market their staple worse perhaps than the fact that a large number of jute bagging faotories are likely to start up independently after new years there are in all 24 such faotories in the country and of these 16 were bhut down having been leased to the combine and olosed to lessen the produc tion and thus advance prioes the leases of those expire after the first of january and all threaten to start manufacturing at once unless again leased by the trust the latter has a great amount of bagging on hand to be carried over nntil another season and it is very likely it will have to bs disposed of at low prices so that most of the unscrupu lous gains of this season will be lost next sic simper lyrannis may it always be thus with monopolistic tyrants rural nev york the honse mars hugh t brooks in a communication to the new york tribune concerning the importance of ventilating the csllars of the house says more inexcusable than all if such crimes can be graded are unven- tilated house cellars not infrequently are they banked up with no opening except through rooms oooupied by the family containing in larger or smaller quantities potatoes apples cabbage beets turnips in every stage of decay they bend up their poisonous exhalations to be inhaled by the family firstly vegetables except in small supply should not be kept in the house cellars secondly a flue or ventilator should extend from cellar to the roof thirdly windows of ample size on opposite sides hung on hinges should be opened and kept open whenever the weather will per mit and when it doosnt permit a oheap boxstove on a castaway cookstove put in the cellar and five cents worth of fuel will make it safe to ventilate any day cel lars are often damp ss well as foul all competent doctors agree that damp foul cellars are the breeding places of fevers rheumatisms and other human ailments when they dont originate they aggravate drainage and cement improvo damp cellars and bo does thorough ventilation begged off the jury a demure sombredressed juryman claim ed in a melancholy voice exemption from sorving and his lordship asked in kind and sympathetio tones on what ground my lord said the applicant x am deep ly interested in a funeral that takes place today and am most anxious to follow certainly your plea is a just one the man departed and a moment after his lord ship learnt that he was the undertaker what her age was- at tho registry office clerk your age please woman voter facetiously a woman yon know is only as old as she looks clerk gallantly oh but surely madam you cannot bo so old as that crushing a calf a stout elderly lady was hanging by a strap and casting black looks at an unoffenaive but ungallant dudo who sat sucking tho head of his cane a sudden lurch of the car flung the lady upon him with great force say dash it dont you know exclaimod the youth youve crushed my foot to a jally i its not the first time ive made calf sfoot jelly retort ed the woman severely as he vanished and she prepared to sit down a very considerate man a minister from the interior of this state engaged rooms at the oriel hotel the other night and was probably told about the fold ing bed in a casual way but probably also he was absentminded and forgot all about it he went away after dinner to attend s ministers meeting and did not return to the hotel till long after midnight ob- dear he said looking about they have forgotten to put a bed in my room but they are probably all abed long ago and it would be too bad to disturb them now so i will write on my next sundays sermon nntil morning he did so though on trying to open what seemed to be a desk he could not find a keyhole and muttering tneyve even locked the desk so i cant gat into it wrote on the cold marbletopped table nntil morn ing eirly in the morning he punohed the elec tric bell and said to the waiter who an swered the summons ask them to have a bed put in my room please as i am very tired having been obliged to sit up all night because of their lorgetfnlness he was considerably amazed when told that the desk he had tried to unlock was a nice new bed with mattrass springs and everytmng else requisite inside and when the story leaked ont in the oriel there was but one straight faoe in the house and that was the ministers san franolsoo call a warm disouasion benevolent citizen bub why do you stand out on the doorstep shivering why dont you go into the house small boy i dassent mister i pa and ma are discutsin the question is marriage a failure and ma has got pas head down in the ashpan and shes givin it to him there dont you hear him yellln polioe i youd better move along mister when ma gets into discussion she makes things warm and dont you forget it 1 what she wanted the lawyer was sitting at his desk ab sorbed in the preparation of a brief so bent was he on his work that he did not hear the door as it was pushed gently open nor see the curly head that was thrust into his office a little sob attracted his notice and turn ing he saw a faoe that was streaked with recent tears and told plainly that the little ones feelings had been hnrt well my little one did you want to see me j are you a lawyer yes what is it you want i want and there was a resolute ring in her voioe i want a divoroe from mv papa and mamma they oozed scone on the parlor sofa half- past eleven saturday night cholly looking in her soulful eyes by the gaslight dimly burning oob oo is oo chippettino oos oo cholly oo chippettina oo 1 old man at the door ooghh ooze out o here ye young goslins i they oozed i satisfactory he with evident agitation m miss grimes do you sing she a little he and play she yes he sighing paint too i suppose she some he recite any she once in a great while he do you cook she no 1 he thank heaven miss grimes will you be my wife she oonfased him climbhigh inclining to sentimentality oh i my dear mrs sohley would it please you if i were to absent myself for an indef inite period from my native land mrs schley far from it she said it in such an arch way that climbhigh turned red and btemed lost in meditation on tho exaot mean ing of her words a relative by marriage- a jolly englishman now a clergyman in this country shortly after his marriage to a country girl in old england was walking with her on the streets of liverpool when suddenly a large donkey stepped up on the pavement in front of them mr b stopped threw up his hands and exclaimed my dear is that any relative of yours oh yes she said with a merry twinkle in her oye but only since my marriage subjoot dropped waitini for the pirst three it requires no great intelligence to pick out the boy that threw that spitball ex claimed tho teaoher william slasher comes forth not a boy moves william slasher do you hoar me yen sir then why dont you oome forth as tell you j cause im waiting for the other three follows to go first how can 1 come fourth less they go first he got the glass a teototal ministor who was very partic ular abouthia toilet went to proaoh one sun day for a brotherminister in a parish church in kinrossshire on entering the vestry he looked around in search of a mirror to see that hjs toilet was all right before entering tho pulpit but failing to find one he said to the beadle john can i not have a glass bofore entering tho pulpit certain ly sir i replied john jiat bide awee and ill got ano for yo immediately and he left the vestry at once on his return the minister said well john have you succeeded yes sir replied john ive brocht a gill thatll bo a glass for tho forenoon and anither for the afternoon western society is the name of a weekly newspaper devoted to literature and metaphysics which has appeared in denver mrs agnes leonard hill spoken of as the most talented female writer in colorado is the editor