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my lady tongue chapter uc ax jtvestfcl wale boughton was a good del impressed at the same time that he was provoked at being thowa op in al bis fltgrant ignorance of the ilia that horse flsh la heir to they bad a tiresome walk the rest of the way for jadlth weald not remount eye brows and poor trumpeter emulating nis namo behind them was any thing but a cheerful companion how phil did with that he had been able to spring from the foundered bone all the time having a fall ooguztnco of what ailed him have whipped out hit knife and bled him and administered the whisky all without a word from judith and how he fumed over that idiotio speech about trumpeters heart he thought judith must have a oomtempt for him and to tell the truth she did she blushed to think that some of the neighbor might hsive been wltb them and heard her cousins remarks and seen the helpless way in which he stood about while she righted things as bast she could her eyes were still a good do il more red then brown when ever she allowed her thoughts to dwell up hhlm that night a he came into the drawing- roam just before dinner he fouud judith in the arms of a slim youdg man in a very elaborate costume or rather if the truth must ba told the slim yonng man was in the arms of judith who appeared to bs al ternately laughing and wiping her eyes as best she could on the lapel ot his coat as bonghton came in however she stood erect and put up her hand to her curls which ware a good deal rumpled her oyes were brown as rainwashed autumn leaves now no red in them what ever diok your cousin philip biughton she said speaking pretty coolly and boughton found himself in possession of the slim young mans hand ec glad to see you er just from paris cold here isnt it 1 said the boy languidly he was only a boy after all with a face something like judiths seen in a spoon and the same red brown curls his oyes how ever were a pale gray no i am from start to finish said boughton gravely eh said diok he did not laugh neither did judith she scratched tho chin of the black kitten in the toby- collar and looked gravely at boughton between its ears oh i see said the boy finally been out hunting dauce of a time you had judy here tells me horse foundered awful nuisance having ones horse founder ed do you like hunting i havent done muoh of it said philip honestly wishing devoutly that he had he had eyes keen to look with as well as to look at and saw the little downward olip of the girls month as she went on cosseting the little kitten ive done a lot of it in my day pursued dick laughingly and i must say it rather bores me oh does it said boughton it doesnt seem to boro your sibter nothing bores judy mister dick assured htm in the same languid tone i tell her to wait until shes grown up shes a bit more grown up than you now isnt she 1 said boughton dryly how do you mean dick asked allowing his eyes to open themselves as it were in despite of his own will while judith stopped scratching the kittens chin and ooked a great deal astonished why as yon stand there together im quite sure shes a good inch taller said boughton calmly with one hand in his pocket and tho other meditatively at his moustaohe yes a good inoh i should say he repeated dick flashed but judith grew positively scarlet the intense blush seemed to spread into her very eyes and they reddened om inously you are entirely mistaken she said in tho saiall still voice which is generally sup posed to be monopolized by conscience richard is a half inch taller than myself we were measured only last june perhaps you havo grown some sinoe suggested boughton quite unmoved not in graoe eh judy put in i ha boy goodnaturedly coming to the rescus youve got her in a perfect temper cousin pall how canyon ipsak so dck 1 oried ju dith turning upon him and dropping the kitten which fell with a furry bounce upon the polished fljor i eon that you have even less oinsidi ration than hi fore you went away and bosldes you know very well that you arc a half inch taller than 1 am suppose wo test it said boughton who somehow felt an unaccountable pleasure in exasperating her perhaps he was rcvol- inglnthe delight of taking the superior pose in his turn heros a good book to measure with if you will stand back to biok with your brother all tho blush was in her eyes now her face had gtov n quite pale you are insulting she said with her teeth shut and walked out of the room this was a groat deal more than bough ton had expected ho stood staring after her with the book still in his hand and then opened it blankly and looked io it as if for an explanation it was a volume o mi13 hannah moris private devotions and so he closed tr and replaced it on the little ta ble whence be had taken it djnt you mind her sid dick easily shes alwaj s twice as sweet after one of her tantrums this seemed ia truth to be the case she came in to dinner as suave as may and took her eat beside philip with a smile yhow cross do you think i am she said leaning toward him and making a cushion for her round chin with her palms her elbows being on the tabic i am afraid i was very provoking he said eagerly i am sorry will you for give mo she said nothing but went on smiling so he took his forgiveness for grantsd and partook ol more green gooso with a light heart now it was very dangerous to tako any thing lor granted with this young lady especially when thete were little sparks of vermilion in her eyes as there wero to night but phil could not possibly havo knows this the smile she bestowed npon him was to enchanting that he did not look higher and so noticed nothing pecnlar about the eye dxk was to stop over until monday and the next day all three went out for a walk this ramble happened to be very eventful 1 may as well state that there occurred the timehonored episode with the bull but boughton neither transfixed the infuriated animal with a pitchfork nor leveled it with a wellaimed blow from his muscular fist it happened this way they were past ing through what wot then known at cary- lon at the mill meadow when a peculiar kind of rumbling noise attracted their at tention diok was the first to look back good heaveutl jndy said he its prlddles bnll is it said judith losing color for an instant and following the direction of his eyes yes it is and not a fence within two hundred yards oh 1 what are we to do i tell you said boughton straighten ing himself and feeling an abominable i clutch in the hollow between his ribs run as hard as yen can while dick ana 1 why where is dick he said blankly im going for priddie 1 oatne baok in broken bits over the shoulder of the flying youth ho can manage him v boughton said nothing he turned again to judith thats all right run now as fast as you can and i can easily keep him off with stents until priddleoom39 and leave you hero for that brute to gore and trample said judith bristling in a moment i see myself 1 she added with fine room ah this time- the bull was making a tre mendous tow row and using one of his horus as a plowshare he was coming nearer too they could see his little red eyes distinctly judith 1 beg of yon said boughton giving her not a gentle push well i will she said suddenly she lifted her walkingskirt and with a quick gesture slipped off the red balmoral petticoat which she wore underneath this she took in her hand and started off at a ion even tun before boughton well realized what she was about to do when she was within fifty yards of his bullship she gave a yiewhalloa which did more credit to her lungs than the occasion and flourished the red skirt in tho air bonghtons heart did actually stand still he gave a dragging breath got tho best of his horror whioh was inclined to make him weakkneed and started off after the girl but the brute was before him thundering on at a great lumbering pace only stopping now and then to plow the ground with that ugly left horn of his away went this modern europa in the direction of the nearest fence half way be tween it and her pursuer she dropped tho red petticoat and this his eminence tarried awhile t toss and worry and mix with tho red clay biughton had an awful fancy whioh he had no time fortunately to countenance he seemed to see judith being trampled and mangled in the same fashion as her pretty skirt by those brute- feet and horns but thank heavenl it woo only the next instant that she reaohed the fence and litarally roll ed over into the next field then for the first time looking baok she saw him gat over i get ov or 1 quick 1 she called in what voioe remained to her if he sees you he will kill you oh 1 this as bonghton just managed to put tho rails of the old snako fence between himself and the bull who rushed along bellowing like a bovine demon with hia tall an exact repro duction of hogarths line of beanty the straw ttaoks judith panted as boughton reaohed her he may tear that fenoe all to bits 1 he took her hand and they ran together to a group of straw stacks some ten yards away up which they aorambled together loosening avalanches of straw und slipping several times before gaining the top once there judith cast herself down making a littlo hollow of her two arms into which she thrust her face she was shaking from bead to foot not trembling but wrenobing with a convulsive movement whicbwent to boughtous already not too calm heard he leaned over and pub his arm about her as she liy and then as she did not pull away or remonstrate verbally ho ventured to rest his other hand on the red- brown curls some thing in their soft almost living clasp upon his fingers went through his veins strangely juidth ho said in a voico that he did not hintsalf quite recognza then he dear- ed his throat and said it over cgtin judith and thon darling tone aroused judith better than salvolat- ilo or a pail of ice water wnnld hwa done she bat np and a little ay from him and said there comes priddie and dick priddie armed with a pitchfork was run ning with all his might and dick in the far background was running also but with very littlo of his he had made at least thrice the time wben ho went for priddie then the bull was secured and marohsd off meekly with a prong of the pitchfork though the ring of his nose and the whilom pedestrians also betook themselves dinner- ward the colonol swore expensively when ho heard about it all and caled friddlo some very ugly names whioh gave the soul of biughton infinite comfort he vowed moreover that ho would not rest in his fourpest bed until that bull was made into beef r and gad 1 if i wouldnt like to make that d fool eat every rquaro inch of him he onded thunderously fisting tho table until the spoons and glasses gave tongue shrilly bonghton did not see judith alone after that for moro than a week it was within ten nays of christmas and sho was end- lees j occupied about something or other but sh found time however to give him plenty of smiles and gay words in pasaiog and he had sent to now york for something which ho know that sho very much wanted so that altogether though tantalizing it was not unploasanr pnillip moreover was rather anxious to find out whether he was only pretty deeply smitten or very muoh in love and he thus found time to discuss that momentous question with bin iuer man that individual who k always such a looso or tight fit for hia outer re presentative of coarse the colonel hid insisted upon bis routining until christmas and he was to bang np hit stocking of oenree ba 1 ha 1 and there should be tome yonng folk asd boafires and what not also there were tome sleighs tent np from richmond and the place was literally resonant with the voices of expectant nigs big and little on christmas eve however boughton managed to find her alone although dick hid arrived and the teemed butler than ever he waa going along the corridor of his room when be ought a glimpse of her through the half open door of a little paneled room which the called her tea caddy she was standing on the gray deerakin rug before the fire in the creamwhite frock ne liked and wearing the identical bine beads and bow which he remembered to well her feet were tunk out of tight in the thick fur but he fancied that the sported the brorza shoes there was a glisten in her eyes whioh bonghton did not think was all firelight and she chinked the beas cf her necklace hurriedly together do let me come in he said pushing the door fnrther open she looked up vaguely as though from a dream and said certainly so in he went shutting the door behind him it was a pretty room with much blue ohicz on windows and furniture and many hunting traps about there wer two old chairs on either side of the fire place which could have held eix judiths apiece and in one of these she now placed herself still keping her hand on the beads at her throat boughton sat down on the rug at her feet turkfashion and took his crossed ankles into a capable grap i never aaw half suoh a pretty room he remarked looking about bim itayou judith all over again ia it 1 she said atlll in that absent fash ion and then added with a sort of laugh yea it is rather blue to be continued the boiling oil obdeal a barbarous and cruel cmtoni practiced in ceylon recently the dlatrlct judge at ktlntara in ceylon according to tho london timea had before him three persons including a village headman charged with causing 1 grievous hurt to four others by requiring them to plunge their hands into a caldron of boiling oil the medical evidence described the hands as being in a sodden sappurat- ing condition the fiogers being in soma cases deformed in all cases the injured persons were unable to follow tneir ordinary avocationa for about a month the facta of the case as stated in the judgment were these a woman in the village bad rome plum bago and ricostoun from her a headman made inquiry and failing to obtain a clue to the theft announced that it would be necessary on the third day to hold an ordeal by boiling oil tbia appears to he a not un common custom in remote parts of the country and the formalities are as follows some oil from newly gathered king coooanuts is manufactured by ono of the friends of the complainant this is poured into a caldron and heated to boiling point each of the subjiected parties is supposed to dip his hand into the vessel of boilitg oil and is at liberty to sprinkle as muoh of the hot oil as he brings up with his fingers on the person of the complainant who stands dose at hand any exolamation of pain on the part of the suspeoted person ia construed into an admis sion of guilt if no such exclamation made the innocence of the party is supposed to be established in tho present oa30 the evidence establish ed that the pressure on tho accused waa not merely moral they were foroed tc dip their hands into the burning oil no force ap pears to have been used in bringing them to the scene ot the ordeal they collected there in response to the orders of the headman who seated on a platform opposite ihe vessel ot oil appears to have acted as the presiding judge eaoh of the complainants deposed to the fact that thoy were reluotant to submit to the ordeal but were forcibly dragged up to the oauldron by the other two accused and their hands plunged into tho boiling oil they had solfhlent self- control to abstain from oalllng out except a boy of seventeen who oried out lustily and was thereupon pronounced the guilty one the judgo took the faot that it was a custom into acanunt but refused to dismiss the prisoners with a warning na suggested by their counsel ho fioed them 100 rupees each with the alternative of rigorous im prisonment for ten months again the snbwr oity further testimony at to ike wonderful ataii surfcge a dispatch from victoria b c sayt an artist named hosier representing a photographing establishment is now in alaska investigating the remarkable mirage discovered by prof willonghby at first he took emphatio grounds against the silent city and ridiculed the mirage among the glaciers on hit way to sitka three weeks ago huster stopped at the malr glacier and made a number of views after be left the mulr gltcier he inioraiwi de groff a local photographer that he had teen a startling mirage while making his views and that he was aooordingly prepared to say that the pioture of prof wulojghby was not a trick at claimed by san francisco photographers in support of the opinion that it gaining ground that prof willoughbya silent ity li not a myth the statements of two gent lemen who solemnly declare that they saw the mirage of the city in glacier by on july 2 last is published from what is learned at to the credibility of these wit nesses they appear to be reliable and enjoy a reputation for candor and uprightness christie ia foreman at the extensive harriett bay cannery and his home is in astoria where hia family now are and where he is well known tae statement is bartlett bay cannery aug 23 1888 robert christie and george patterson in the presencie cf laman b frenoh claries r lordwlloughby and miner vv bruce make the following statement to wiliough by oathc21of july 1s89 wsile sailing from muiror glacier bay into what is known as j ametb y j ust south of willonghby island aboct5 oclock in the aftorcooo we suddenly aawrising o t ag linst the side of the mount ins what appeared to be houses churches and other lurgo struoturcs it appeared to be a city of extensive proportion perhaps fifteen or twenty thousand inhabitants we watched the apparition for a long time and think it was visible for an hour or more we further aver that at the time we had never heard of what is called the silent city or that prof willonghby had photographed it we are satisfied that it was a mirage from ite appearance robert christie george patterson witnesses l c frenoh charles r lord r willonghby and miner w bruce fashion notes pretty afternoon dresses of caahmere and oamsla hair are mado very effeotivo by the nee of velvet or heavily repped ribbons these being more favoured for such decora tion than moire or fsnoy ribbons of any sort braid is still very muoh need to decorate carriage and walking costumes tho heavy russian braid aeoms to bo prefer ed this season this is certainly roi a new garni- tnre but it is one of the most effeotivo inex pensive and appropriate finishes for a plain costume of any sort i tartans chit fly in fine woollen fabrics are daily appearing in new forms and combina tions ot colour ihese are in hauusome autumnal dyes on grounds of dark green olive brown in numberless shades mahogany blue and black nasturtium colours form the outlines to the darker blocks with their bright tone8 of glowing yellow wallflower red and pale terracotta a graceful garment quito new ia style to be worn over an accordionpuatid houee dresa is made of velvet lined with either a contracting or harmonizing colour it haa a zouave front and is sleevelets and is finish ed with long direotoire coattails at the back it ia called the direotoire alip and put on over a dainty gown a rich effaat is given at moderate expense for tho slip can ba mado of five yards of velvet tho new autumn wrap3 have nearly all wide aloevoe in order to go on comfortably over tho pnfhd sleeves of the gown many of the mantles ore themsolves mado with puffed eleoves gathered into a deep crim wellion cuff of fur er velvet a groat deal of beaver and astrakhan ia uatd in trimming cloaka and short coats for tho winter mny of tho new sealskin wraps are fancifully trimmed with various kinds of fnr bands capes hoods and deep collars tho elegant effect however la lowered arid tho garment has invariably a madeover look trimming a teal coat is like painting a lily tho lets trimming such a garment has the richer it looks educational matters abroad of the 21 young women now at the brus- sals university 10 atudy pharmacy 7 phy sical sciencea 3 general medicine and 1 philosophy bafore the decision of the belgian courts against the admission of women to the br several young women frequented the university law school tho beautiful qaeen of italy has become an earnest student of volapuk she takei several lessons every week in the new lan guage and has subscribed for the volapuk periodical published in milan she oan read quite rapidly bnt finds some diffiaulty in pronouncing the curious bound wkioh herr schleyer ioj aotod into his volapuk dictionary the school laws of alsace and lorraine will bs revised shortly with the prime idea of strengthening german influence among the inhabitants the age of compulsory school attendance for girls will be raised from 13 to 14 years tho extra year it is hoped will be a means of increasing the proficiency of school girls iu speaking read ing and writing the german language another object of the provision in question ia to abolish the custom quite prevalent among parents living new the new german provinces of educating girls at the echools of alsaae and lorraine for the purpose of tvadiag the fourteenyear sohool law enforced in all other parts of germany the number of highly educated men in germany is increasing quite rapidly despite tho growing publlo opinion that there are already too many learned germans in 1869 37631 students amended the universities technics 1 high schools and sohoola of rrioes agriculture and forestry in 1872 the nnmber had increased to 20418 in 1875 to 23261 in 1880 to 26 032 in 1885 to 31755 in 1888 to 34118 in nineteen yeara the total number of atudenta haa been almost doubled in 1869 there was but one student to every 2 297 inhabitants in 1875 one to every 1828 in 18e8 one to every 1409 in these figuras bays a german newapaper is a wholesome warning for all who atudy at the higher institutions of learning and are still yonng enough to forego their gay student life whioh is liable to be crowned with bad prospects for active life the same paper bpeaka of th9 great overproduction of learned men in germany the russian ministry of education pur poses to introduce many ohanges in the organzttion and ednoational methods of the russian universities shortly the moat tnorough reform will take plaoe in the philosophical faculties which will be dlvid ed into four departments classical for language historical slavicrussian and gsrmanroman thii fall a now system of examinations for the government scrvico will be tried npon all university students who wish ta be the cztrs civil servants tho rnles and regulations for these examin ations were published some time ago the students were so frightened by the strict ness of their provisions thatalmoat to a man thoy refused to register for the examinations the impending embarratement of the whole new aj atem waa revealed by the superin tendents of the most unpopular faculties who after some consultation together in formed the students that tho offensive rnles and regulations would not bs strictly en forced and that a candidate need show only fundamental knowledge of his subjects to ba passed other faculties made the same announcement to their students through private circular letters thia promise of an easy rumination is expected to attraot applicant by the score ab binrfle dbink1ngis france orifclii of he practice and it wide preva lenceseme ol iu victim there seems to be no doubt that absinthe as a cordiil was largely made by the old french confueurt wao were experts in the science of distillation but it was only ued as a flivor to other beverages and does not teem to have become a common potation until about the beginning of tie reign of louis philippe the balance of evidence so lar as it it obtainable would seem to thow that the algerian campaign in the days when the princsa of the orleans familyworo fighting to bravely in north africa aud when the favorite song of the frenoh troops was la citquette du pere bageaud had a great deal to do with the popoiartzition of absinthe among military men the opera tions of war had to be carried out not only under a burning tun but in all seasons at all hours and very often on marshy grouad the men were exposed to continual lague and nothing 1 more probable thia tbio some skilful and kindly military turgaon observing the ravages made by branay on the health of the troops in such a climate as that of algeria prescribed as a stimulant diluted absinthe the soldiers may have made wry faces at first at a bevaraga whiob to the uninitiated tastes very like doclora stuff but with disastrous celerity they soon grew to hka it and to drink it ia excess from a camp tonic dispensed to recruit exhausted strength and which in the be ginning may have been as beneficent as the cuomyptus cordial served out to the laborers in the roman campagna abjinthe became the favorite piokmeup m the algerian cafes it soon recrossed the mediterranean left its traces at marseilles and toulon and with terrible quiokness became domiciled iu paris it seized so to apeik upon the people just as gin did on the london popu lace early in the eighteenth ocntury and has never since released its dreadful grip we had post ively to pass an aot ol parliament in george ii a time to diminish the number of gtnshops and ta restriot tho consumption of the poison by placing largely inoreased excise duties upon it oar neighbors have not yet seen fit to pass any law tending to suppress or even to restrict the sale of absinthe the deleterious stuff has absolute ly bean allowed to adulterate tho french language modarn dictionaries have not scrupled to admit the verb absinthor to absinthiate and sab3lnther whiob is to bwell or gorge ones self with absintheur and there is even an aphorism current in the brasseries if thou hesitateat abainthiate thyself poetry finally has been pressed into the darkly fascinating service of this maleficent herb absinthe has been oalled from its half verdant half opalescent hue the fairy with the green eyos infinitely baleful pernioious fatal has that green- eyed fairy been to tjas of thousands of frenchmen gentle and almpe lettered and unlettered nor among the victims of the sednctivp poison should be forgotten one of j the graatest poets of modern france alfreis de mussel the cbown of bohemia a question that is bothering the govern ment ol austrlahnngarr the question as to whether the omparor of austria shall be crowned king of bohemia haa suddenly becomo the topic of tho daysays a vienna dispatch owing to the appointment of count thnn governor of bohemia count thunii predooessor gen krans ia supposed to have been displaced beoause he failed in the policy which was to conciliate the czsohs and germane but oount thnn will hot even attempt such a policy for ho haa long ago declared that the pretensions of tho czechs and germans are irreconcilable count thnn ia a nationalist who haa always held to the theory that the 3000000 czicha of bohemia must be supreme in all things over the minority of 2000 000 german the poster lloyd aud other hungarian papers have bagnn to say that if the corona tion la to be a mere ceremony and if it will naoify the czachs hungary can havo no ob jection ro it but the german press of vien na ani prague argues loudly that the ques tion oan not be disposed of on theso easy terms the coronation as the german writers declare would be only the first step toward homo rule that is toward the es tablishment of dualiem a policy whioh would assuredly drive the germius of bo hemia to aeek severance from the czoha and incorporation withii the german father land thia question of tho ooronation is suoh a burning one and touches eo many combusti ble points in tho orgauiz ition of thia mon archy that some authoritative decision will no donbt be announced in the emperors name to pnt a stop to the angry disoussions which are now raging what he died of at a railway bookstall fashiorable conple are searching for something to read during the npproaohing journey she list days of pompeii what did he die of he dont know exaotly bat believe it was some sort of an eruption m an outlook for gore mra close as a neighbor of yours i camo in to say that i have made up my mind to keep chickens thata all right if you keep em but if they are forever leaving your jurisdiction to invade mine theres goin to ue goro in the atmosphere and you oan oount on it obt lining the necessary permission the young man rapturously and now flossie it only remains for you to name the happy day please mako it soon very veiy soon darlhg the young woman in the kitchen a few moments later- bridget would it interfere with any of your engagement if i thould be married three weeks from next wednesday evening she was in doubt and took the trick the carefnl housewife finding that the nursemaid had not come down wont np to her room and found the girl in bed looking very queer and complaining of pain and violent sickness oa being asked wbat was the matter sho explained that having a bad cold she had taken some patent medicine which had been recommended for the child- how much did you ake xj well mum 1 went by the dlrectiontii i the bottle and it said ten drops for ur a natural mistake german just ar- font thirty drops for an adult and a table- rived in new york say my frlent vili spoonful for anemetlc i knew i wasnt an you tell me vare dot limbarger cheese j infant and i didnt know what a adnlt was factory vas polico offioer- that aint no so i supposed i mutt be an emetic and i took cheese factory what yer smolla dats de i a tablespoonful and it have pretty nigh turn- streets ed me intide out