^i^iwi^ig^^.»jai»j.ii,u '^f^i^-" "ip^ ' r t 'f *; ' "'« ,i i m iif-i Nurse Crumpet ' BY AMBLIE BItrE Time.â€" A Utter lumuf nii^in «/•» «*G'*J«i2*- ,„ kb-u-- «. ih. Wr Aea ^^bKMTeredMtod on • getto-At her eittwf knee leu ttM HtUe Le^no««iy e^l Earl ol Sondeiidge, IiOfd HoBipliny Lemiox. :r,^«?P^-- "MEaBaKfeiifc^^ My. Kurae Onunpelâ€"lSfaj, now. Lady Dor- othy, why wnt thou be at the pafais o such a clamoring? Sore tlibn bast heard that old tale o'er a hnndred times and thoa too, my lord? Fie, thenl Wouldst seek to flatter thy old norse with this seeming eagerness €to to 1 I say thon canst not in troth want me to drone o'er that ancient narrative. Well, then, an I must, I most. Softl Hold my fan betwixt thy dainty cheeks and the blaze, sweetheart, lest the firefiend witch thy roses into very poppy flowers. And thon, my lord, come cloeerto my side, lest the dran^t from the bay win- dow smite thee that thon howlest o' the morrow with a crick i' thy neek. Well, well, be patient. All in time, in time. Soft, now xe both mind that I was a little lass when thy grandmother, the Lady Elizabeth Lennox, did take me to train as her maid- in-waithig. I was jnst turned sixteen that Majrtlemas, and not a fair- sized wench for my years either. Would ye believe? I could set my two thumbs together at my backbone in those days and my ring-fingers would all but kiss too. Lord Humphrey.â€" Ha IhA I Nurse, thy fintcers would be but ill satisfied lovers under those conditions nowadays. Eh, DoUy? Lady Dorothy.â€" Bold thy tongue for an unmannerly lad, Humphrey. Do not thou heed him, nurse, but go on with thy story. JTttrse Crumpet.â€" For jaU thy laughter, my lord, I'd a waist my garter would bind in those days, and was as light on my toes as those flames that dance i' th' chim- ney. Lord I Lord 1 how well I mind me o' th' first time that e'er I clapt eyes on Jock Oumpet I was speeding home with a jug o' water from the spring, and what with his staring as he stood at th' road-side to let me pass, and what with a root i' th' way. but when Mistren Marfan was aa-ai^tered, the Uood rushed back to her heart, and she was whiter than a lamb at the shearing, and her Ups like white tiireads. Then would the light shoot and spin in her eyes, and her nostrils suck in and oat, like thoee of a fretful horse. And she was fierce after the manner of a man rather 'tiuui of a maid. Moreo'«, she was fuU a year youimer than the Lady Patience but she looked it not rather did her ladyship look full two yews ironnger thun Mutress Marian. And I oved them both, and tried tt a Oiristita not to prefer one before tiie other but what with my lady's stealings of her arms about my neck as I sat at my stitefaery, and popping of comfits in my pocket when 1 would be otherwise engaged, and teasings, and ticklings, and sundry other pretty witcheries which I do not iat this day recall, I was fMly cozened, nto loving h« the best (Honey, I charge thee hold my fan betwixt thee and the fire.) But to contmue. â€" Mistress Marian was aye courteous and kinoly to me as heart could wish, and every night did she thank me i th' prettiest fashion, when I had combed and unpinned her for the aijdit; but. Lord I I had much ado to get Lady Pa- tience combed or unpinned at aill First would she jump with both knees upon mine and hug my very breath awayj then, when I had at last coaxed her to get down, first she would perch on one leg and tiien o' the other, s^^then be a-twisting her head now over this shoul- der, now over th»t, to see how I came on with tie nopinning, that it was witk a prayer to Gkd that I finally set her night- gown over her shoulders, and led her to bed. As for her prayersâ€" Jesu aid me and laidon her â€" 'twas a matter of hours to get th' way, I all but lost my footing. Yet did I swine round alone, holding last my jug, and ne^r one blessed drop o' water spilled I, for all my tripping. "By'r lay' kin I quoth he, "thou rt as lij?ht on thy feet as a May wind, and as I live I will dance the Barley Break with thee this harvesting or I will dance with none 1" And i' faith 'a was as good as his word, for "by hook or by crook, and much scheming and planning, and bringing o'gew-gaws to my mother, and a present o' a fine yearling to my father, that harvesting did I dance the Barley Break with Jock Crampet. And 'a was 'a feather-man in a round reel. Well, 'twas the year o' my pieeting with Jock, thou mind'st. (And a cold winter that wasâ€" Christ save us There be ne'er such winters nowadays. This night is as a 8ummr noon i' th' comparison.) 'Twas the year o' my first meeting with Jock, and my lady your grandmothtr stnt for me to the castle, to be her waiting-maid. Lord 'twas a troublous time What "with joy at my good fortune, and sorrow at quitting my mother, I Was fain to smile with one comer o' my mouth and look grievously with the other, like a zany at a village fair. And Jock, he would not that I went, for that he could not see me, or consort wi' me so of- ten Jock was aye honey-combed wi' th' thing ye call " sentiment. 'A would grin on a flower I had wov'n in my locks by th' hour together. And 'tis my belief 'a could 'a spun him a warm doublet out o' the odds and endso' ribbon and what not he had filched from me when my eyes were elsewhere. And Jeck â€" ^but 'tis neither here nor there o' Jock. Li these days thy grandr mother had only one chQd, a littie lass, the Lady Patience. And ne'er was man or maid worse named for to ca^ such a flibbertigibbet " Patience " Were.as though one should name a f risksome colt ' 'Slumber, " or christen a spring brook '^niet." Pa- tience, quotha I 'Tnras patience in (ruth a body had need of, who was tiir^wn at all with her little laidysUp. Bu^;. there was ne'er so beautiful a nniden born in all the broad land of England nor will be again â€" not though London Tower be standing when the last trump sounds. Me seemed she was 'an elf sprite so tiny was she and her face like a fair flower, so fresh and pure. Her hair was shed about her face like sunlubt'on thistle- down, and her eyes made a uinug behind it, like' the big blue gems in Hct mother's jewel-box. mien the laughed, it was as water falling into water ^rwn.a^ short heh;ht, with tipplee, and lit^lb ' murmurs, anaa dear tinkling sound. 'iSut she was ne'er more at rest than the leaves on an aspen-tree. Hither and thither would she flit, this way and that, up and down, round and round, backward and ^rwai^ about and about. T faith, ofttimei trould I be right diszy oome nightfall, infith following of her for ere I haid been' ht, the castie a day, she took so mighty a fancy to me, that nansht would do but Ao must have me for her maid and so my lady, who (God pardon my boldness !) did utterly â- poQ her in all things, gave me unto her as a nurse-maid. â€" ^But sure ye are a-weary o' this old tale I ' Lady Dorothy and Lord Hvmphrty'Jm a brtath. â€" Nay, go on, go on. Nurse Crumpet. â€" Well, well, o' all the story-loving bidms But I must invent me a new history for the next time o' telling." Lord Humphrey. â€" Nay, that thou shalt not. We will ne'er like any as well as we like this one. So despatch. Nurse Crumpet. â€" But my lady had also an adopted daughter, t^ niece o' my lord's â€"one Mistress Marian Everyâ€" and die walked bedde the littie Lady Patience as night might walk bende day, for she was as brown o' skin as a monKua stream, and her hair like a cloud at even-tide, daj^, but of no certain color, albeit as soft as ravelled silk, and marvdlous hard to comb on accoont o' its fineness. Mistress Marian was full head and shoulders ti^Or-iiuui her, cousin, the Lady Patience^ aindlimiicoulcl lift hor aloft in her arms, tiiidnrlng ber from side to ude, as a sni^IsMjg|^ m^^s a bird, ^id her eyes wei^e dkr^ lUtd oool to gaze into, like«wKA tf-_c^att_,,^M* tfm amtumn lesves, and soantbam uierer â- jmn glints o' %1it in tiiem, lODB-ttwIjJEnketff lib' ovtada^-tiKt wiran thon AaJt igm. almnSfly jspaa raadr- ami wfeOe w wiyi te t iinniR ^aSsreDt tban were fbafi fc tf ^l ^.i iyaditedr her to say " Our Father " straight through. what with her vowing that she wished not bread every day, andhow that if his lord- ship her father forgave not trespaasers (for I could ne'er draw the difference between trepasses and trespassers into her pretty pate), neither would she j and how she did ikfadoCkioNigB friiy} ' quoth iMi "fj^J^ 'diifal'Ay wntt.** AniatOldM npoa knmbls •♦TIw« Bofr ema Sol" {for tongue at not believe God would t^ul her into tempt- ation at any time, but that it was the Devil; and how it must anger God evi^n to think of such doing on His part â€" What,' I say, with all this, methonght sometimes it would be cockcrow ere I got her safely to sleep. And all tiiis time Mistress Miirian^ would be ly- ing as quiet as any mouse, with her big plait of hair between her fingers, for so she always slept, with her bair fastrin her han^ as though she lovlsd its beauty and in truth it was the one great beauty she had, for my littie lady put her out with her glit- ter as the sunlight doth extinguish a morn- ing moon. Now I had been at the castie scarce two months when one day it chances that I hear my lady a-telllng o' my lord how as her brother. Lord Charles Badnpr, dying wife- less, had left his only son to her care until he should come of age. And on that Tues- day the little lord set foot in the castle and my lady was down at thq doorway to meet lum, in a new velvet gown, with her wimple sewn in fine pearls, and my lord with her bat my two nurslings waxed shy at the last minute, and would not come down, but leaned and peered through the posts o' the stair-rail, and my little lady let fall one o' her shoes in her eagerness to glimpse at her new cousin. And straightway ran the lad and lifted the wee shoe, and looked upward, laughing, and my lord and lady having retired into the dining-hall, to see that some cold viands were in readiness (it being then near to nightiall, tiiongh not ypl^ supper hour).â€" " %o I thou littie dndeKVitch,^ Hided he " I am the prince that lifts ftwdthyihoe, and when I shall 4 have found thee, if that thy temper be as.BmaU a* thy shoe, fear not but that I will ki^ thee too!" With that, 1)0 ran 1^ ibe st^rWajr," two luid three stepi at » leap. •â- 'â- 'â- ' '• â- « '-â- â- • â- â- ' ' •*-â- ' ^â- And I followed, for I knew not what would bappen aii he (^mned bis. kiss. as he had ibreatened (knowing as.did I, tbat in verity my lady's shoe' would 'a been a tight fit for her temper;^ ^t: â- But when he was arrived at i^o tpp,lo they -had be2i fled, neither tad they left BO much as ribbcMi behind thenu -Then the lad laui^ed agun, as pleasant a laugh as e'er I bcwrd ia all |ry'4aya and qnoth he, "1 would be but a poor prince an. I bad not to searBb for^my 9fttle ^noess." So off he starts, and I after hini, ^p wd down oeriridon, in *t faalf-opoi dodrs, mt npon balconies, hither ^aod thitiier, a£%r tiie nuaner o' my littie lady on ber most unquiet dajpv, till' at kMt,,.fi»r the' sake o' peace, I did slyly lead him in the direc- tion V the gnat noneryi There, liatoh- ing sight o' a littie red petticoat, he enters, whereat and my truant Mves confMsed, Mis- tress Marian frowning and biting o' her dark hair, but my littie HiAy like to stifle, with both hands over her noath to hide her smiles, and her blue c^yte dancing a very Barley Break o' mirth among the yellow sheaves 0' hw t resses l^en there was much parley o'er the fit- tintr o' the shoe, as Qoth damsels did straightway sit down nj^giUiheir feet, ndth- for a long time would they move an eyelash, till his lordship, with a twink o' his eye at me, did suggest corns and bunions tm a rea- son for their "havior â€" and. Lord I then 'twas pratty to mark how like littie duieks be- neath their dam's feathers, first one little foot and then the other dfid steal out from the rich lace o' their petticoats. And era one could cry " Oh " for « pinch, he had slipt the shoe on my littie lady's wee foot, ami had kissed her risrht heartily. More- o'er, what I did most marvd at, was that she ndther iBaSad- 'nor sought to cnff him, but dropt down her head head mtil^er hair madela vdl befoitoher face, and moved that ffot 'thereon he had S0t her shoe, gen^'back' and forth as though tie leatiier wni:atiff to h^ ankle, and I sawvat die -mittd at "tt' from un- der her lieavy luur. Bnt Mistress Marian still hdd aloof and dielv»dmpoii her dark locks 19^1 » Jk^er' oA iti^;CiuL Aim! her ^jreswen every whites dark and solemn as a very cow's. Ttns' the young lord laoihad ^fgain, and oried'OHV **Hal the ox-eyed jivmmf' or mmk jUu^ ^if^t fM llBfe onoimile dllvktd, knw ea» I bi»y t Udf botii in «M t Tktm eoMKh wife to iwiko » „ .. lOrtreas Marialtt "had M diaip times). But he was not «» «w* «r «(ffl«d» tod laughed even again, most heartily, and he said " I do not psradxa thafe^ttipa, art not fashioned dther as goddess « W^_^"*»- fore be my oomrade, tod we wiU h^t to- gether for t e weal o' y«m fairy princeM. AU at onoe she laughed too, and yidded him ho- hand, and said: "I like thee. What is thy name t" He sidd "My name is Enue and I like thee too; tiienitoe, I pray ttoe, teU me thine." ,-^, ' So she told him, and my Uttielady d- dling up, the three fell penntiy a-chatter- ing like linnets at sunrise, and from that hour on I had no trouble with them. Iwas pretty to mark than at their fto- tasies. They were aye ont-o'-door save when 'twa^ Tainy weatiior, and then methonght the oastie had scarce room enough for them. In aU thdr games Mis- tress Marian was the little lonfs oomrade, and wore a helmet o' silvnvd wood, and carried a wooden sword sUvered to match her head-gear, and tiie Uttia lord was like- wise apparelled. And he called her ever " Comrade," and clapped her o' tii' should- er, as mankind will clap one the other when conversing. But my little lady, tiiey b6th agreed, was a fairy princess and, Lord, Lord 1 'twould take me from now 'til Mwtiemas next to name the perilous 'scapes that did befall her.. They fished her out of moats, ' they bore her from blazing cBties, tiidy did driag her from the maws 'o dragons and other wild beasts I know net w to* name. Thrice was the little Lord of Badnor m dire straits at tiie claWs o' gdlin creatures. Three times, did his comrade rescue him by thwacking upon the chair which did re^esent the dreadful beast, till I was in sore dread there would be no mending of it, and me, mayhap, disnussed from the castle for carelessness. And always when 'twas all o'er, and tb^ littie princess in safety, I was cidled upon to act parson and wed my little lady to the littie lord, wlule Mistress Marian letoed oh i^" sword to witness the doings. One day, in their rovings thrbngh tfae park, they came by chance upon a door in the hill-side, but so o'ergrown with creep- ing vines that, 'had dot the little lord stumbled upon it, 'twas very like it had beoi there to this day without diacove]^. Well, no sooner do they see the door thto they must needs open it, spite o' all my scolding, and peer within. 'Twas but a darksome hole, aiter all â€" a kird o' cave i' th' hill-dde, which, tiiey did, afterward find out froni tiiy grandfather was used in time of war. And indeed it seemed a safe place, for there were two rusly bolts as big as my arm, one o' th' inside and one o' th' outside, and the creeping thing hid alL As thou mightst think, it grew to be their favorite coigne ioi playing their dragon and princess trickeries. I Wduld sit with my stitchery on a fallen log in the sunshine, while they nm in and out o' th' grewBome hole. But in all their frol- icking my little lady could n^er abide the sight o' their swords, and she pleaded ever for gentle games. One day (I shall ne'er forget, though I live to .^e, doomsday) they did crown her ^a queen, uid then my lord would have it that she dabbed him her .knight. She pleaded that prettily against it methonght the veriest boor in Christen- dom would 'a given in to her, but my little lord was stanch. So they made her a throne o' flowerSj^-and when she was seated ther^n,. lilislirfss Marian handed her the great "troo^en.^wocd, and my lord, kneeling, bade her strike him on the shoul- der with the Sat side o' th's^ord, saying, " Rise, Sir Ernie, my knight for ever- more I" S})9 got out the words b9} bade h«r, but when 't came to th^ stroke,; what with her najtoral fright, /^ui4 iwhat with th' sun- light on Uif silver[^.'d« bronghti down the heavy blade edj^ewise on tiie boy's pate, laying wide, quite a. gash abov« ibit Jtoft ctyisbrow, so that the blood trickled ddlni his cheek. When she saw that, me- seemed all th9..1lood.in her iiody. went t»- keep. Us ]com|liqr«: 'fot" she1iiaiqM^i^^au? thto' hieit-impjBr,' tod ran add sbt mc iirm about him and saith, o'er ana o'er again, " Ernie J ^rale I I haYe,kill«l,thee I?* ,;{ t ^e laiwhfl4t to ooinfbrt her, .an^ ito« lu^t of it, tod wetting his fingei! i^ ti^a. brood, dreir a croea (ua ms brow jUid aaad^ " Nay«, thou hast not killed ma,, A^d: moreo'er, I am not only .thy: kpl^hi^ bjtt thy Bed Cross Eniglife )nfo the. bairgMn,; aad thou my tfAj foreven ,Seei I.irill ^oal thee with m very blood 1" and ere abe could draw nack, he' had set. also a erosv- her white brow. She shuddered and beiTMakd? Aad I wodd 1i»to to Ml har**Ko" a doaav timn wo â- howoBldlofe Bafe MistieH Msciw said nowr lOaed*yT iMimoa of ioay ^7 how thai Bid Radnor was to rofeom |he next. in Di is ii# iA:ikj'vw4 t«?»#J*':iJF^ lags, b«kKii«Poitjto»a* m|r lord di4 tibam aB, «nd{oto mvi daf areJiAi^ npdfil. ' i;,;Sa "vr* ^^ »is.^' When he came. Mistress Marian stonding i'..th'4(reat doore' feho oastie, her hawkii^gowno' green volnn doth laced all witii diver cord ner plumed hat was on lwrovr)s,aiidh«».linilE,?«(flionher fist. And die toned and bduMlual.' ~^Ne'er did I see verierlightin earth or d^, tiunflfwh- ed into Jier face as tiidr eye* met And he doffed his hat andoame upbodde h«r on the step, and saith, witii too old laugh, but gentier, " Well mot, oomrado." Itow irima ho odhftd hue " oomrado" 'twas as when Jodc did mII me "â- wootheu't" in the old day* o' ou .wooing. She went red as the ribbon in Us slesnreo and when ' the fadcon fretted and Aook itsbdls, he didpnt his hand alid rtn^o it, and, lo it wM atill and seemed to fed himas Its maBter. And I wondered all this time where oonld bo my littielady. To this day I have ne'er seen so handaome a man as the young lord^ He was tall and straight as an oak, with curb the oolor of frost-touched oak leftves i* th' annliriit, and like toe amber drink when men hdclit aloft ere qui^big, and his whole oountenance bright and eager, and narrow like that o' a fox, but without a fox's cunning. l%ien he seemed fashioned to run, and ride, and War, as doth beoome all men wbetoer of Ugh or low estate. Then wont I within to enquire after my littie lady and Joek, who was beoome a footman 1' to' castie, ^d tell me of how he had seen her set forth to ucalk i' to' park an hour gone. So straij^fatwky I went in-'s6arch of her. (TO BI gpHTIinTKD.) onuM The largest Be^ doninChini: lui JA oonoesdmi SWutth^â„¢^, throw cd toe wallrf the » jhich nooiOnin^bope «ft^"ill of life, from the cS)lie^^S?" diuit or toe smaU vivaI^ difficulty ti»t one j5m^ •mwda of people hangina!r* Those who have not thV^ copper cash to procure uS^ watch wito horrible wistfaLS" more affluent pass in with » nZ*^ step or totter out weariiuru!? dazed expression which 5»,!r unoker's craving ha, been «SL!i transient pleasure has xjlj^ requires a strong Btonu^^Zl^-^ ening fumes with whieh th. • toickened. The douds'^iS:^^ light fnmi the numerous coImSTi numben of reclining fonM^a. faces bent over the saiall fl.»^' too pipes are lighted,^ii^« .# ,if:r â- "-_--â- • ' I « â- • y AT .tet words so :oe«*r«55to think ab i»?SLTiSArmnotsar ^^'Sf^or^ur'soidi. if^-SfforteT^t iSrrx'itnr^; »??*^T« me *« brood 1« wiU n"lp.?»« to brood lesi dckenihg sensation. But as soon as the eye becom, ed tothe scene it is notioed '^•^'dghed heavily, and I»!!fr'J!lSnd attoeir fee- I on tluttlii,! SLfT^**!-* ai even leso in naaa toto mif^i'Mltoif. ... Lady PUiWco 1r^ %!«« Mt^tot and kaadodliofMio li«r ktmotk hmk When „ diedBB bmied ^^^tfr^'"^^ oonldrt h«tf iMHMlitoto HkopdMaMyoMaid^ too. ao faafino^KqueaiKMA quolk he, ^lUr V' "goddeaB," (for twas afterward-tai^tatood me «]H*ffaitah£ir4lifag WM » ffld- on fell a weeping, and 4rew her baud acrosf her brow tot wipe away t'ho uely staht and when she saw that she had but smeared it on her hand, she trembled more tban ever, and it was not for some days, that J could quiet her. I do but rdatothis stexy, toJhew in wl:«;t horrbr my littielady 'did evAr hold swords and bloodshed. Well, to oontinuerâ€" Thb could not last for i^ and idien two more yean were qjted, his undo sent toe littie u»d to a place o* learning; and aftnr- ward to tzavd to and fro vpoa the earto, after the manner of Satan in the Book of Job ((jktd forgive me bnt'thas ever seem^ like that to me).^ And we set not eyes oh him for eight years. Now in that time, lol I was married, andUrj^ little lady and Mis- tras Marian in long ioi^es, and Ht^ looped up upon toei^||cff(3s. i}Sfit^eml ian was yet full head tod shonldor* pXBTo my littie lady, and Ew skin as brown as ever. Bnk^^4i^e'l£^.iiji^a»br^tod dender as a sunray. They wqpld sfwak to; uw Mqip^M of LcM Itadbor. and hW'that^gttoi^JdW were saying great thtogs o^Um, and how he was ite/Sx^^^oWi^, ^..* *ivf"ious person iItogetoeE4-bilitu ithoyea^ Wtot4)y toey Meiiied not to nMi^;to tollc;iniftfe only som^tinM n^ tt|^]My/:"«aldjp4l okrtoMinur'jMr ut-auhEtL'totroDott tdM '"Ifmmi 4a^ Hiiik^ito ^tiji -â€" diaDgedt HyHair raa£jMaittf; 'â- V Boyal Scapdal in the Sboiefy Idands. King Pomare, the fif to ruler of the Society Islandsand toelandk thatlie adjaoeat'tbere- to, has instituted to action in divorce against his wife, Queen Jol|a«na,' who is an4:.abt]!ajt fifteen. Parisian lawyers are haird at work upon the case^as the youthful Qoeeii latdy came to the Frefiblr iuetropolis in o^der to place her. interests in toe hands of a wise mail of toe Wesson world.- Her Majesty's version is toat ner royal husband is in sad needed a littie advice .from jthe, i^ostl« of the Blue Ribbon movement. King Pomare is, in fact, of a pronouncedly vinous dispo- sition, andihViCondoct to his spouse whto in his cups has been anything but royal, not to say gentitananly, jiis r.'*gouigB 00 " Wan so bad that Lis youthful spouse was con- strained to fly for prdtectipntto herofotherr in-law. On the other hand, the royal respon- dent is accused of having had a lover in the shapeof aiallii;J*salt" if MJIe jumper and loose tririB^cit, trob was on^ brthe crew of a French -fdsn-df-t^. AdmirftT Serres, the Commander-in-Chief of the station, did hia best to affect a reconciliation between the spouses, and the two were about to forget each other's peccadilloeB, whto the young Queen learned t^at her husband waseoin^ from bad to worse, tod toaie was not only growing fcmder of "baccly and rum" but that he was in a fair wj»j to bgat. toe Morman prophetoin toe .matt^ of pdygaqay, Ttiis interesting divorce suit will be heard before the tiribuntkl 6f ±^iip6iti, in Otahdte. got up on an expensive wale. uVl of the lower room hangs one o^ of Chinese lamps, the ceiling â- „'?? itednH, NumeroiuloMrj too oarved wood, while the i)*int«i toicklvinlaidwitoapecuE^,, ble, which fi-ives the idea of riSt scape sketches. Numero -^^' ddes lead to toe smokers' Koutit^i the outer portion of the biSdinrr' counter covered with little bwarf ready for smoking, which a down, are kept busy handing out to the â- who wait npon the habitnes of «»« The average daily receipts are aidL about £200. The smoking apuZ*] divided into four classes. In thei are coolies, who pay abont foan thdr smoke. In the dearest the mi about sevenpence. The drug nn each class is much the same both u and quantity it is the difference a^ toat regulates the price. The ben 1 are made of ivory, the stem being laid with stones and rendered more reason of elaborate carving the u kinds are made simply of hard wood. The rooms also are furnished accotl class. In the most expensive the upon which tho smoker reclines ii 1 velvet, with pillows of the same i toe frames of each couch are inL mother-of-pearl and jade, and they_. of these rooms is one of sensnom Id There is also a number of private n In toe poorer section wiU be aeoiL wearers of the tattered yellow udi robes of Buddhist and Tavist prietti. men form a fair proportion of the a The common belief is that the opii is attended by a mild, pleasurable deli with brief glimces of Elysiam W i the.exc^ption, not the rule. People 1 to satisfy the craving begotten of pp indulgence. There is accommodatonforll onokers at a time, and there is seldom 1 cancy very long. The stream of goes oa from early momini; till i when the place closes the clouds of 1 go up incessantly all day Ion?. bewiWered.to ntte ••J^ about.hia oompanic "wXd beside Wmashe. ' 'ST- were aohoolboys J5owaceofti»aoto)nbey [^friend: The Fay of Etm^etaii L^^ulattot- Spitae OuriOns statistics have'beto publish- ed concejmtog toe salaries giv^n to members of Parliament, iu: valrionk. foreign nations.; To begin with-Franco,- toe Senaton!-*M*^: Deputies repeive rthe isame lemuninadpnâ€" namelyi £i sti^rlittg a day. In Bel^um' each member of toe ChandiBr of Heprtmenisk- tivses gets £17 a moifth. In i)enmark the mombers efi iiie Laadstoing af«' paid about 1$B. «â- di^w â- In Portagal toe Paeni--aad QonWAons are given^tbooaine total, ^HiiOh is £97 a.yc^. In Sweden tho-tnembers of toe- Diet r9eeive,£66for«.Mtdonof fouruioaths, bujt tow li^Yetojredtnnda'ffiieo^l^ forovery, dayWabssnee. !»iat Is^ not W bad idea. 'jUi, Switzwfauuirtfae iieUibers Jf^th^ Nat^al Cc^i|Milgeto^;]iM;^a«-tod tooae fi itoe- Coimcil a,9^ta6B, io f,^ JAjSQrmt^ tho, memows of the' Blionhiiig reodve 14a, a during toe^'ilMdoii^^UcAlasW Mdt w«bks.-t.lB;Ikaly« tii*^enatonJtod Itapukiee arenofc pai^i'hat toey/aro sdlesred traveUag expenses aal.oertaiA piivi}«ipai' "In S]^tdn-' the membera of the Cortes are also un|Wllr but enjoy manx advantacea and immunit" In d«M% iibi^^omSriSikleinihutA tooa^ifki^ £tQ( -^Sflktotoy tft4 â- entatives reodve an (rf^averam^ni^ a Li A»rt7Jhite{Nndb^^^^ fFa'clay. '£n^nna Is the raly country â-¼bere me|^^^of.IteI»K^ only unpaid, but nave no right to privileges. ly.. A GxyxBOUS'^pntafr^il^tbeantifnl pre- sent will be giv^^^^eiBliiilliaken' Toast Company, of Toronto, to nearly every one, as long as toey last â€" firsfe-oome first served. Tho anst aoeomplidMdwMBaa haaatflB wtoe- tiuag: worthy te bo addod toiler list' if die has nover ' yet imade a goiad s we et white hmtof bread. â- SoeBcourf^[(etoeart'otHoMe Bread-making tois "^iipinptoy hawe â- eo w d ten toonsaadi-preaeBlls, idiioh will be sent to aU' who .itojlqp^ wito toofr terafc t XM^ ^trant all who are old enough eitoer to f of* loW'-direetioBS or wui'k under iiuu'UvUous,- to learn hqw to make br^id., .They, will take S^oui^l^rd l»rl4twhtosy(b4ha^Mlc- oeeded .to -your ownSististtbttoii iir usiAg toefr Hop Yeast, andjcxite toem to say so, endoeMigr«^wi»nP9r of «4y« oout IN#«K» Ot Thb B RMIWfARIIB ^MA$ft»mhmmu-vQSi. sieadto»dr!w^a4«)^y,g^i;3Ehiiioftax' to«ayyoragrlady,^«irl, duglew womaa^; iQa^a or ,^ouie|(H!psr«.»rlio likaf, never before made a loaf of bread. Auy Qd^^^J^ow haUM- fWjtoa frcwly, and «lHHWwfbd totMmtoe 1#lAi[^i^ of a pacxage, and writ« nJ^»t effect, will re- odye a ^^oU .hettai^ 1^ of fjift to»n.,^ tha^ sdit iniddii^ .fliflirAf^Y pwviot otoctr yto^^^Mf ;i y/ofteat^1 '*^l^i«^% ,v:of,^ir,i a.K How the Old Man CoineiedEii' He was Scotch, and therefore culi about akicepting any statement ai ui Siestionable fact. It was with grave dot erefore, that be read a publication bja mninent phydeian in which it wmU down that alcohol, from a medical point! view, "was practically an "instnmest^ precision " â€" ss much so in fact as a moi rifle.; In eage^; search after truth he d mined to make experiments on agrandi upon his owil'perEon with whitkey one i l^xt day he narrated the result of ba i •vestigations to an intimate friend, thu: 'Eh, mon I I was awfu' dmnlr inicht. • When I got hame my f*ither to] bfd wi* toe door o' his room a wet li** idpen. Sol went crawlin' an' crawhni !thO stair- tillTwiM near the door, wha» ;cries oot, 'Donddr and I says faitoer.' He says, 'You're drunk, " sayM,^rm no drunk.' Then he »yii 'toin* mafr, an' I went on crawlia' W ' jSfcair., Suddenly he cries oot agsin, Wd T^ t says, « Yuss. faither,' ' You"»ib« !i«t*i,?toyshe." Eh, mon! n.y netf^f. lonped to my mooto, for I cowans â- ! • ItoMoated.' " Crepe Bnk ii"a beautiful tissue, bnti becoming to any complexion. oB" " likUa f toldenable for neck lingerie. Ate ^on sad, despondent, gloomy Are you soie dlBtreesed ' UstMi to the welcome blddinr- Smn von a«*e8 and pstos unn« 'PoiM^ life's Golden Cup J ll aoisbea" lUfak'aol there's no bidni w 6Be»d,i» â- "CHvett up." " A Golden R*toedy awaits TOtt- Oddeaoot alone in oams- jt Beaoh.oh,su«erinjrone.»ndg»«P»' -Health reclaim. Thefe ai blit one •« Golden "BemeJ-^l Heroe-b Golden Medicd Ducovaj^, Stands aloue'as theipeat 'bloodPjJ, "jitmigto-renewer " and "^^^r^\ orthe 4e I The Liver it r^ff^J^* ingalliapnrities. The Lungs it » em, detosing and nourishing tbe^^l whole system it buUdsnp, soPRlgVl above sdl other things most Beeoeu-r- â- richRlood. ^1 Good iptoners and good moiau «• friends tod firm allies. -BartoL In answer to casual «in«**"",ii jfi How em Md truSMuI tojeU » A core for tho worst ini To take'Fieice's Pur The diatdiest buUding man can thfi ivy'aiood' it lfcst.-Dickens. ^="r Don't "Want EeUef. BntCutt Is "'^e «ixcTaiaation of ^thousandB ";;_ from catarrh. To all tins we wy- j^ eto be otti^liy Dr. Sage's^^^nh^ Itihop b«B*doi* i* toouaandsoio^^l gomgaway."hesaidagai •^OTghtueveirtohavec ',^„«lJuwebeenro Iwiibbed I' ejaculated Garret. 'T^a'SStp'aS?' jKSeSrdSl fear and s, :^â€" " Hie f««e grew jreTand his voice was hoarse a femotivet But canyon^ "who robbed you!" Mked( by thew» half -oonfidence r can. How it was done w diproba^mty*! *«"' aifcdly ca^ *?\°^7 tiie samfc.So.Iehidl rto-night." ^. ,. tioS0»etoet5iw*»l^P« and what bad been sM baok^andonb^asked- F7r where? la it;NewYorf ^Yes, I suppose soâ€" Lon • fou will not f«rget your I will writo to. me, 6Iyi^ ^broourse I and I shall war vour love-makupg V pr^S live my mastor"â€" with a » in for my cousin, the heirc hes» how, ho i*re» ^^ Ih, phe will refuse him, o more contemptoously pe las heMigbt to know! L Cyril ^nditon have had I proud lbs. 1 doii4i think d k take the golden cirole unl( IS it and eve$a ninety toous I hardly buy a prince nowadt "he ex-trooper listened toth 1 wito what seemed to hia i don of reUd, and toen stop] hii band, sayingâ€" 'VN'dl, good-bye toen, deal 1 be sura to write to me. Tl I down this pato to toe stabl nr"â€" wito asniUeâ€" " I must Qg in order before I go." r toook hands as men d betoer they may ever _j Glynnâ€" a tall and athleti tnnmistaluble air of a gent itioongh Us groom sdress â€" Bg toe trees, and Garret C sos^doudy moist, went Ian-haired enohtotress to for bis long absence. CHAPTAR IX. t warn mooidees August i Abbey was full of guests. 1 floated out through t V blaze of light shone l-drawn dUieu ourcalns 1 I of skillfully-arranged f ats. mual ** breaking-np" 1 merrily toe luthl lof daodlig foot; toe soft ' toe hum of tout of too wittdows 8 TItfEarlof Redshire r week attoe Abbey woul this health, and ao he to toft eounty, as he i k dlanor and a danoe. '•tKtdyLaodtriitoer di the Abbey :ehck had 'V tod Mmeothirty oonpl J nmnd and round on toe MtoiKae h«ll .«o tiw mud [TMndioirl^toe itiK' toloi^^ffutoi that aho was o: tltatj|toh^bp«a •wnagdowly round " tcLt^Mne* evto to t _jl«:Mer 10 was claf j'^^'me-'S " tytd time t Lto was also not in yours? Your dimgtf "pjg-rfjf Enddto'-a stamp to Worlds W^f, Mftftod"Atoodation,- Buffalo. J' pamphlet on this disease. m thi* " ocymn*nJabirt- is now better p« hnvbosn for years. ^a ««mle JUV snaerin? ^^j^J^^,*^ lsyeja^S^fc5s i8iK.TofOBto.Ont. ""^--ee 9li mn â- '" ' .-**« «Sf*^ i»'-^ •**