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Tbrte St*ffc«- I. Bi^tiiOR liku ft furnace. <Jver ti*rH 10 l'»vtJ, Ut hi- UdvSKloT*-. Thiiikh rjoKirJ wa< ever UUit«MhW«ut &» Htli'. TelU yuu bI'O'i uu augel, ]:xi'L-.-t8you tongrwo. Mui>ius aud ri'inuiug. (11.1. my and in jfofto, Askw til- iTict' or poiBon. Thiiikf. lnj'U tak." a doae. \\'oijh--:j nrv t- j IlckU*. LuVt' IH hU u bhulll, 'Irtrnaj'" ib u fiiilure Liku u bruHrii (lain. III. Wtiifltliufl, t'ljtlio aad cbeerfal, Alway-i hnts'tti and gay, Dauctt.-i^. siii^'iuK. I'iu;;tiiiif;, Ml tliu livelong (iay. J'uli of fuu aud {coin:, i;a'i;^htin Kttsbiyu'H whirl, 'rillllKii UO lUOftJ of poltiou â€" (i)'. aiioilmr t'irl. Ubiit Wa» It? Gtii'Bfl what he hu.i iu his picket. Murljiuh aii'i t<Ji>0 aiiii Bundry toys, Sinti a.H »lwii>^ bfl'jiiK t i boyB, A i^iiUT Api'lf. a Ic'ft'.htrii ball Vâ€" Nut at all. \\ hat lii'l in* ha\ t" iu bin pot-ketv A hubl'h- pipu aud a rusty scr«w, A hrufiH watrh-key hrukcri iu twu, A l:i!h l.uok III a lauylo of striug ".'â€" No MuU itiiut;. What (Ii 1 hi hiivu lu bU pocket " (iinK'-rtTvad <-ruiiit/h, a whittle be made, huitoiiK. a. kutfe with a brokiMi blade, \ nail 'If two aud a rubber t;nu ''â€" Ni'Ulur one. \\ bat •li'l hr havo in bin pocket '.' |t< tiite bu know it tilyly erupt I inliT tlio irtdiurcM carefully k<*pt, Aii'l away tliry all of tbeiii quickly stole â€" FIDELITY AND LOVE. CUAITKR I. AT THE FillM IIOL'SE. It wa9 a very pletasot, homelike oM farm huuuu, ataudioit there amonf> the New Kiil{land lulls, with the aammer auuabiiie falliii*; ii|ioii U, and thu aammer air, sweet with Iho purfumea ol roaoa and Jane pinka, filling; the wide ball and ^rcat squarfl room, where, on »ho moraiD)( when oar story opona, thu utmoat coa(uaioa prevailed. Carp«t9 were up ; oartaiua were down ; bat;o boxeawere htandiut( everywhere, while into them two men and a boy were packinii thu ftirnitare aoattared promiacounly around, (or od the morrow the family, who had owtiod and oooopied the hoaae bo Iomv, wore to loavu the premiaei and aeek another homo ill the liitln village aboat two inilru away. In unu of the lowrr rooma iu thu wioK to Itie riKbt, where the Banabiou w*h iha brit^hlrut ati'1 the rose Hceiiiifd air thn HWiultHl, a white (au«d wuiiiaii lay upor a couob look inu at aiht lis'.i-iiinK to a luiv who aal talkiiif{ to her, with money an4 priite and selliibiiinii tttamped upon her aa plainly aa it the worda bad been placarded upon her back. The lady wa> Mra. Marahall-MorH of UoHtuii. whouo baudaoiiie country liouda waa not far from the red (ariiibuuae, whiob, with ita riob, well oaltivated aorea, had, by the (orooloaiire of a inort^itt;!] xhe held upon it, TLOently come into her poaaeation, or rathor into that o( her half brother, who had bidden it oS tot her. Mra. Marahall-More had once boon plain Mra. John More, bat aiaca her hnsbaiid'a (leath^ uliu had pretlied her maidiiu name. with a liyphxn to th* More. mikin)< her- hclf Mra. Marahall More which, abe thoiiuht, hail a very ariatooratio look and Hoiiod. Hhe was a Kreat lady iu her own immediate cirole of (rienda in the oity, and a greater laily in Merrivale, where abe passed hor sammara, and her manner toward the little woman on the ooiich waa (uiu of inUnito aiiperiority and patruoai{«. minxluil with a ahow o( intereat and pity Hhe had driven to the farmboaao that niornin»>, oatenibly tu aty goodbye to tha family, btit really to no ovnr tha place whiuh aho had coveted n j lon({ aa a moat deairahlo aljiinot t } bur poaaeaniona. What she waa anyin^ tu thu white. faced woman in the widiiw'a cap waa Ihia : lb" 1 am vory sorry for you, Mra. Graham, and I hopo you do not blame mo for fore- oliiainK the mortt{ai{e. I had to have the money, for Arohie'a oolliyo e.\penacg will bo very heavy, and then ( am go'ian to Knropa thia aumm^r, and I did not care to draw from my i>\her invoatmorits." " Oh, no, I hiaina no one, but it in vury hard all Ihci aame U leave the old hotiis where I linvo boon ao b«ppy," Mra. Gralimn ropliel, and Mrii. M*rahallMoro went on ; " I am n\hl t.) hoar yoi say ao, for ih- Morrivali) pioplo havub.wn Viiry illnatiimd about it and I h«vii hiard more than oiico that I hMiiuiiol tli'i firu'iloanre and intend to tear down tlit old haaaj and build a oottaK". whl'ili la f tin i." To thin M'a. <lr«li»in m»d > no T'ply, and Mra. M»rahall-M )ru cioaliuuod : " Yiiu will In ni'nh liitler off In the villatjo than In t!iM nr,i\\ rambling huua >, and yonr rhildi-nn will llnl einployniont there. M\iilii rni it hi IM, an i ou>;ht to hn a help to yoii. I liuar ah" i* a H'tiiimontal droamor, livin^^ luoitly in ths olouda wiln people only knoivn to lioraolf, an! pjrhtpi she nomlot thia clianK'i to rouao ber to tbo roaltiea of life." " Man 111 i( th i detrjd i^irl in tho world," waa th) mv.h'ir'a nuiik prot-'Ht aijainst what aniniiil like diaapprobatinn of liir diiOKhtnr. " Vea ol njurao," waa Mra. Maraliall Moro'a roap,mi â-  M »uil) ia a nioo nirl and a pretty t>irl an i will bo a *(rnat oomfort to you whim ahj w«kr>a to th'i faot that llfii h oarneat an I nil all a dream, and in limn yon will h) i|'iitii at hnppy in your now nom<i an ymi nouM hi liin', wliiro it in nil bi' very dr(i»ry ia tlm winter, when the â- now ilriftii am pile I up to ilin very winilnw lo<l|{na, and thu wind acreiniiiat yon throui^h ovorv nrovicio." " Oh h," Mra. Crabam said, with a shudder, \\Kt thonithln Koinn baok to the day whrnlliolillndini! anow had comn down In Kroat hillnwH upon the newly made liravo ill whiili Hho loft li'ir hiiaba'iid and went hack alomi to the ili-aolate home whore he would nnvnr noino uKain. It had liPdii BO tnrrihin and aiidden, bin uolnj; from lier. Well in the morniii«, and dead at iiiKht ; killnl by a locomotive and bronxht til linr ao inanulii.l that ahii oould never liavii rcnonni/od him aa her hnahand. I'eopln bad i-allml him over Kenerniia and extravauaul, and perhapa ho waa, but the others, not for himself, and, aa the holder of the heavy mortgage on hia farm faiid been oontent with the interest aad never presned hia clftim, he bad outde so efTort to lesasn It, even after he knew it bad passed into the hands of Mrs. Marshall- More, who bad oftened expreuaed a wiali to own the place known as the bpring Farm and so-oalled from the mamoroas upringa upon il. She would till it with her city friends and set apiiuite an English establiahment.abe said ; and now it was hers, to all intents and purpoBcs, for though the deed was in her brother's name, it was understood that she waa mietreaa of the place and could do what ahe liked with it. Of the real owner, Ma.\ Ciordon, her half-brother, little was known, expect the fact that he waa very wealthy and bad (or years been engaged to a lady who, by a fall from a horae, had been crippled (or li(e. It waj also rumored that the lady had insisted upon releaaint; ber lover (rom his engagement, bat he had refused to be releaaed, and iitiU clang to the hope that abe would eventaally recover. Juat where be waa at present, nobody knew. He eeldomed visited hia eialer. althoagii she was very proud o( him aud very fond of of talking of her brother Max, who, she aaid, waa ao generoua and good, althoagb a little queer, lie had bidden o£f the .Spring Farm beoaasa she asked him to do aov yrd a tew thousand dollars more or leas wen: nothing to bini ; then, telling her tu do what abe liked with it, he bad gone hia way, while poor Lucy Graliam'a he«rt waa breaking at the thought of leaving the home which ber husband had mads ao beautiful (or her. An old. fashioned pla':6, it ia true, but one o( those old-(aahioued placea to which our memory clinga (oudly, and oar thoaght.'i go buck with an intenae longing, years after the (lowers we have watered are dead, and the ahruba wo have planted are trees point- ing to the sky. A great a juare hoaae, with a wing on either aido, a wide hall through the centre und a dreplace in every room. .\ wellkept lawn in front, doited with shade treea and tl»weriog abraba, and en one side o( it a running brook, (ed by a spring on the hillside to the west : borders and beds and mounda of llgweraâ€" tulips and roscH and panaiea, and pinks and paouies and liliea, and geraniuma and verbenas, each blossoming iu its turn and making the garden and grouuda a picture of beauty all the aummcr long. No wonder that Lacy Graham loved it and shrank from leaving it and Hhrauk, too, from Mra. Marahall More'a attc^npta at oouaolation, aaying only when that lady roaa to go, " It waa kind in you to co:nu and I thank you for it , bat juat now my heart aches too hard to be comforted. Goodbye.' " Uoodbye, 1 shall call wbcn you got settled in town, and it I can be of any aervicii to yon I will gladly do ao," MrH. Maiahall More aaid, an abe left the room and went out tu her uarri age, where ahe stood fur a moment looking up and down the road, and aa>uig to heraelf, ' Where oan Archie be ' " CHAITKUII. WIDIIK M: IIIK «\a. A long laue wound to the westward acros) a -'.rip of land called tha mowing lot, llirongh n hit of woo<it and on to a graaay hillside, where, nnder the ahade of a batti-rnnt tree a pair of (at sleek oxen were standing with a lo'-k of content in their larg>->,brighleyuaaa if well pleased with thia unwonted freedom from the plough and the oart. .Vgair.r. thu aids o{ one o( them a yuiiog girl was leaninii, with her arm lhr>>wn acroait Its neck and ber hand careaaing the long white horn ol the dumb oreaturn which ai-i-med to enjoy it. The girl waa Maude Urahani, aud she made a very pretty pii^t ire ai she Blood there with her abort brown hair oiirhng m aoft rings about her fureh<>ad . her ilark bine eyes ; her bright, glowing fane, and a month which looked aa if made (or kisstnl and sweetneaa rather than the angry words ahe waa hurling at i lie young man, or hoy. (or he wua only '-'U. who stood before bar. " Ariihie More," she waa aaying, " I don't think it very nice in yoa to talk to me in that patronising kinp c( way aa i( you were ao ina^'h my aiiporior in everything and trying tu cimvinoo me that il la noth. ing fjr IU to givn up the dear old place where every atone and stump rauann some- body to me, for I know them all and have talked with all and called llism by name, jiial aa I know the maiden (erna and water lilioa mid where the narlicHl arbntna bititaoin I III thu H[1ring. Oh, Archie, how can 1 leave Hpring Farm and never oome back again. I think I hate yon all (or tak. ing it from uh, and eapecially your nnole Max.' Hiire nho broke down entirely, and laying her faun on the shining < oat of the ox began to cry aa if her heart would break, while Archie looked at hor in r(i«l dial reaa wunder- ing what he uhuiild any. lie waa a city-bred young man, with a handaomo lioylah (ace, and ill a wny vary fond of Mauile. whom he hal knoArn ever ainoe he waa lil and ehe 11, ami ho lirHt came tu Merrivale to apend the nninmer. Tliny had played and liilieil toijetlier in thu brook, and rowed together on the pond and quarreled and made up, and latterl' they had flirted a little, loo, iklthougli Archie waa oare(ul that the tlirling ahonid not go too far, for he felt that ihorx waii a va^t difTerenoe between Archie More, mm of Mrs. Marehall- More, and Maiido (irahani, daughter of a nonalry (arnisr. And iilill ho thoiii(ht hor the awiiot, prottiont girl he had ever seen, a y.dfi/ Int hii called hor, and he writhed under hor bitter worda, and when ahu cried he wantnd to cry and tried to oom(art and Kxplain matter.) aa beat ha ooiild. Unt Maude waa not lo be appeaae<l. She had felt all the time that the place need not havn been aold, that it wan a haaty thing, and though aim did not blame .Vrnhinaho wbh very iioro agaiiiat iMra. Marahall More and her oruther,and hor only answer lu all Arohio ooiild say wan, " You needn't talk. I hate yon ail, and your nnde Max the moat, and if 1 ovnr aee liini I'll toll him SO, and if I don't you may tell him (or me I" .'Vrchiu could koop ailent and hear his mother blamed and himself, bat ho roiiaod ill defenno of his uncle Max. " Itato mv uncle Max ! " ho axolainied. " Why, he is thu neat man that aver lived, •nl the kindeai. Ho know nothing of you, or how you'd (eel, when ho bought the plaoe : if ho had lie wouldn't have done it ; and if he could aee you now, crying on that ox • nouk, he'll give it back to yen. That wunld he juat like him." " Aa if I'd take it,' Mand aaid acornfully as she lifted up ber luiad and daahed (ho tearafrnni her eyea with a rapid movement of both hands. " No, Arubie More, 1 shall oxiravagaui, ami perhaua be waa, but thu of both hands. " No, Arubie More, I shall money ho mionl so lavlably was alwaya (or | never take Spring Farm as a ttift from any one, muoh less from year onole Max ; bat I shall bay it of him some day if he keeps it long enough." " Yoa 7 " Archie asked, and Maude replied, " Yes, I, why not ? I know I am poor now, bat I shall not always be ao. i'eople call me crazy, a dreamer, a orank. and all that, because they cannot see what I see ; the people who are with me always, my friends, and I know their names and bow they look and where they live ; Mrs. Kimbrick, with her fifty daaghters, all Eli.'.a Anns, and Mra. Webster, with her fifty daughters, all Ann Elizas, and Angcline Mason, who comes and talks to me in the twilight, wearing a yellow dress ; they are real to me as you are, and do you think I am crazy and a crank beoauae of Ut»t ? " Archie stid he didn't, bat he looked a little anspicioaaly at the girl stanaing there ao erect, her eyea shining with a strange light a.s bhe talked to him of things he could not understand, ile had heard of this Mra. Kimbrick and Mrs. Webster before, with their hfty daughters each, and had tboni^ht Maude queer, to say the least. He was aare of it now as she went on : " I.-i the earth crazy because there ia in it a little acorn which yoa can't see, but which is still there, maturing and taking root tor the grand old oak, whose branches will one day give shelter to many a tired head ? Of ccurae not ; neither am I, and aometimea these brain children, or brain aeeda, call them what you like, will take ahape aud grow, and the world will hear of them, and of me ; and yon and your mother will be proud to aay you knew me once, when the people praise the book I am going to write." " A book : " and Archie langhed incredul- oaaly, it seemed so absurd that little Maude Graham abould ever become an author of whom the world would hear. " Yea," ahe anawered him decidedly. " A book : Why not ? it ia in me : it has been there alwaya, and I can no more help writing it than you oan help doing well. nothing, aa you alwaya have. Yea, I shall write a book, and you will read it, Archie More, and thousands more, too . and I shall put Spring Farm iu it, and yoa. and your nncla Max. I think I shall make him the villian." She was very hard upon poor Max, whoae only ofTenoe waa that he had bidden off Spring Farm to please hii> aiater, bat Archie waa ready to defend him again : " If you knew ancle Max, ' he said, " you would make him your hero inatead o( yoar villian, for a better man never lived. He ia kindneaa itself and the soul of honor. Why, when he was very young he waa engaged to a girl who fell from a horse and broke her leg, or nect, or her back, I've forgotten which. Anyhow, she cannot walk aud baa to be wheeled in a chair, but Max aticka to her like a burr, because he thinka he oagbt. I am aare I hope he will never marry her." "Why not,'" Maude aaked. and he replied, " Because you see. Max bm» a heap o( money, and if be never marries and I outlive him some of it will oome to me. Money ia a good thing, I tell yoa." " 1 didn't aoppoae you as mean aa that Archie More I and I hope Mr. Max will marry that broken backed woman and that ahe will live a thouaand years ! Yes, I do ! " The last three words were emphasized with so vigorous blows oa the back of the 01 that he started away auddenly and Maude would have (alien if Arohio had not caught her iu hia arms. " Now, Maude," he aaid, aa he bold hi'r for a moment closely to him, " don't let's quarrel any inort-. Fm going away to- morrow to the Adirondacka, then in the (all to college, and may not see you again fur a long time ; but I shan't (orget you. I like )ou the beat o( any girl in tha world. I do, upon my honor." No you don't. I know exactly what you think ef me, and alwaya have, bat it doea not matter now," Maude answered vehemently. " Yoa are going your way, and I m going mine, and the two ways will uever meet." .Vnd so, quarrelling and makioM ap, but making up rather more than they quarrell- ed, the two went alowly along the gravelly lane until tbby reached the hoaae where Mra. Marahall' More was standing with a veiy severe look upon her (ace as she said to her son, " Do yon know how long you have kept me waiting ? " Then lo Maude, " Been crying '/ I am sorry yoa take it ao hard : behuve me, you will ba better off in the village. Neither your mother i^or you could run the (arm, and yon will lind employment there. 1 hear thai Mra. Nipe ia wanting an apprentioe and that ahe will give small wagea at tlrat, which ia not usual with dressmakers. Yoa'd bettor apply at onco." " Thank you." Man le answered qoiokly. 1 do not think I shall learndreaamaking." and Maude looked at the lady as proudly aa a qimen might look upon her subject. " Mra. More do you think yonr brother would promiao to keep Spring Farm until I can buy it back / " she continued. The idea that Maude Graham lonld ever buy Spring Farm was ao preiioaterons that Mrs. Marshall. More laughed immoderately, aa ahe replied, ' I'erhaps to. I will aak him : or yon oan do it yourdeK. 1 don't know where he ia now. I aeldora do know, bat anything addrcsied to hia club. No.--, â€" itroet. Boaton, will reach him in time. And now wo niuat go. Oood-bye." Hlio oHored tha tip] of her lingers to tha girl who jiiEil touched them and then giving her hand to Archie aaid, "Goodbye, Archie, I am sorry we quarrelled so, and I did not mean half I aaid to yon. I hope yon will forget it. Good bye ; I may navor son you again." If Arable had dared ho would have kiaaoil the aweet face which had never looked ao aweet to him aa now : but hia mother'a eyea were upon him and ao he only said 'Good bye" and took hia aoat in the carriage with a feeling that lomething whiuh had be»n very dear had dropped out of hia life. CUAPTKB III. IIOINO WKHT, It waa a very plain but pretty little cottage o( which Mrs. (Irahatn look posseaaion with her children, Mande and •lohn, who waa two years vonnger than hia niater. Aa moat of the (iirnilnro had been aold il did not lake thoni long tu settle, and then the question arose as lo how they were to live. A thousand dollars was all they had in the world, and Iheae Mra. Graham placed iu the saving's bank against a time o( greater need, hoping that, aa her frienda asaured bar, aomelhtng would tarn up. " If Ihara wo* anything I oould do, I woald do so willingly," Maude was constantly saying to herself, while busy with the household daties which now fell to ber lot and to which she was anoccoatamed. During her father's lite two strong German girls had been employed in the bouse and Maude had been as tenderly and delicately reaced as are the daughters of milliunairea. But now everything was changed, and those, who had known her only aa an idle dreamer and devourer o( books, were astoniahed at the energy and capability which abe developed. But these did not underatand the girl or know that all the atronger part of her nature had been calle<l into being by the exi^enciea of the case. Maude's love for her mother was deep and unselfish, and (or her sake ahe tried to make the most and the best of everything. StiHiiig with a smile born of a sob all her longings for the past, ehe turned her thoagbts steadily to the one purpose of her lite, â€" buying Spring Farm back '. But how .' The book she was going to write did not seem quite so certain now. Her brain children had turned traitors and tied away from the sweeping, dusting, dishwash- ing and bedmaking which tell to her lot aud which she did with a amile and a song upon her lips lest her mother should detect the headache which waa always with her, even when her face was the brighest and her song the sweetest. She had written to Archie's uncle without a suspicion that she did not know his real name. As he was a brother of Mrs. More, whose maiden name was Marshall, his mast be Marahall. too, she reasoned, forgetting to have heard that Mrs. More waa only his half-sister and that there had been two fathers. Of course he waa Max Marahall, and she addressed him aa follows : Mr MKimivxLi;. Max -Marshall, July , !â- >- Dk.vr sill,â€" I am M&udu (iraharn, and yoa bougUt uiy old home, Spriog Farm, aud it nearly bruku luy uwu aud uiauima'a heart Co have it -lold. 1 Uoa't blame you much now for buyiog it, but 1 did once, aud 1 said aome iiard ihiut;« atxiut yuu lo Archie ^ore, vour uuphtiw, wUicU hu tu&y rejieat to you. Itut 1 waa augry then at biiu aud everybody, and 1 am sorrow that I said ihem. I am only Is and very poor, but 1 ahall 1m* rich Houie day.â€" 1 aui bure ulit,â€" aud able to buy Spriutt Karm. aud I w&ut you to keep it fcr uit) aud nut sell it to anyoue else. It may be yuora. but the day will eotuu wbt-u I ^hall have tUe money of my uwu. Will you keep ttiu place till tben'.' I tiiiuk 1 shall b« happier and tiave more couraKe to work it you write aud nay you will.â€" Yours truly, ' .Mai.'i>k Uiuuaii. After thia letter waa aent and before she had reason to expect an answer. Maade began to look tor it, bat none came, and the summer stretched on into August, and the house at Spring Farm was shut up, for Mrs. Marshall-More waa in Europe, and Maude's great anxiety was to find some- thing to do (or her own aud her mother's support. Miss Nipe, the drea8maker,would give her a dollar a week while she was learning the trade, and this, with the i'i per week which her brother John waa earn- ing, in a grocery store, would be better than nothing, and she waa aeriuasly consider- ing the matter, when a letter from her mothers brother, who liveil " out West," as that portion ot New York between Cayuga Bridge and Buffalo waa then called, changed the whole aapect of her affairs, aud forged the tlrat link in the chain of ber deatiuy. He ccald not take his sijter and her children into hia own large family he wrote, but he had a plan to propoae. which he thoagnt, would prove adv antageous to Mauds, if her mother approved of it, and would spare her from bome. About six miles from hia place waa a echool, whiob hia daughter had taught for two yeara. but aa abe was about to be married, the position waa open to Maade at ?4 a week and ber board, provided ahe would take it. Maade ia rather young, 1 know, " Mr. Allen wrote ill oonoluaion, " but no younger than .\unie waa whan ahe began to teach, so her age need not aland in the way. it she obooaea to come. The oountry will seem new and strange to her ; there are etill log- houaea in the Buah diatrict, indeed, the achool' hoaae ia built of loga and the people ride iu lumber wagona and not like Buatoniana or New Yorkers, but they are very kind, and Maade will get acoualomed lo Ihem in time. My advice is that she accept. " Ai tlrat Mra. Graham refused to let her young daughter go ao far from bome, bat Maude waa peraiatent and eager Log-houaea and lumber wagona bad no terrora for her. Indeed they were rather attraotiona thanotherwiae, and Hretl her imagination, which began at onoo to people thoae houaes of olden time with Kombriuka and the Webaters, who had foraaken hor ao long. Four dollars a week >uemed a fortune to her, and she would save It all, she said, and send it to her mother, who unwillingly consented at last and fortunately (ound a gentleman in town who waa going to Chicago and would take charge of Maude aa far aa i'anandaigtia. where she waa to leave the train and finish her journey by atage. But on the evening o( the day b<>fore the one when Maude waa to atart, the gentleman received word that hia sou was very ill in I'ortland aud requir- ed his immediate presence. " I oan go alone," Mande said oonrago- onaly, though with a little sickening of the heart. " No one will harm me. Croaaing the river at Albany la the worst, bnt I oan dj aa the real do, and after that 1 do not leave the car again until we reach Canan- daigua." " Don't feel so badly, mamma." aho i'jntiuued winding hor arms around her mother's neck and kissing away her toara. " I am not afraid, and don't you know how often you have aaid that God cared for the talherlcaa, aud 1 am that, and I ahall aak him all the time I am in the car to take care ot me, and ho will anawer. He will hear. I'm not a child. I am H in the Bible and a great deal older than that aince father died. Don't cry darling mamma, and make it harder (or me. 1 mnat go to-morrow, (or achool begins next Monday." So. (or her daughtcr'aaako Mrs. Graham tried to be calm, and Maude's little hair trunk waa packevt with the garinenta. in each one o( which waa (olded a mother's prayer tor the safety o( her child : and the morning came, and the ticket waa bought, and the conductor, with whom Mra. Graham had a slight acquaintance, promised to aee lo the little girl as (ar as .\lbany, where he put hor iu charge ot the man who took hia place. When the good- byes were aaid, the train moved on nasi the village on the hillaido, passed the iWr old Hpring Farm which ahe looked at through blinding tears aa long as a treetop was in sight, paal the graveyarti whore her l(alher waa lying, paat the meadows and â- woods and hills she loved so well, and on towards the new country and the new lite of whiob abe knew so little. CHAPTEE IV. ON TUE aoist. Those were the days when the Boatoo. train west ward- bound moved at a snail's pace compared with what it doea now, and 24 boars instead of 12 were reiinired foe the trip from Merrivale to Canaiidaign*, so that the afternoon was drawing to » close when the cars stopped in Greenbooh and the passengers alighted and rashed for the boat which waa to take them acroaa the river. This and re checking her trank, was what Maude dreaded the most, and her face was very while and scared, and her heart beating violently as abe followed the crowd, wondering if she should ev«r lind her trunk among ail that pile of baggage thoy were handling ao rouijhly, aud it it would be amasbed to piecea whea ahe did, and it she should get into the right car or be carried somewhere else. She had lost sight of the conductor. Her head was beginning to ache, and there waa a Inmp in ber throat every time she thought of her mother and John, who would sooa bo taking their simple evening meal and talking ot her. " I wonder it I can bear it," she said to heraelf, as she sat in the cabin the very image ot despair, clasping ber han l-bog tightly and looking anxiously at the people around her aa if in aearch of aome friendly face which ahe could trust. She had heard so much before leaving home of wolves in sheep's or rather men's clothing, who infest railway trains, ready to pounce upon any unsuspecting girl who chanced to fall in their way, and had been so much afraid that some of the wolvea might be on her train, lying in wait for ber. thai she had resolutely kept her bead tarned to the window all the time with a prayer in ber heart that God woald not let any one speak to and frighten her. And thas tar no one had spoken to her, except the oonductor, but God must have deserted her now, for jnst aa they were reaching the opposite shore, a gentleman, who had been walohing ber ever since ahe crouched down in the shadowy corner, and who had seen her wipe the tears away more than onoew cams ap to her and aaid. " Are you alone, and can I do anything tor yen .' ' " Ves â€" no , oh, I don't ktiow,' Mande gasped as she clutched her bag. in which was her purse, more lightly, and looked ap at the face which waa above her. It waa auzb a pleasant face, and the voioa was ao kind and reassuring, that she tor^fc the wolves and might have given him bar bag, purse, chec^k and all, if the condactor had not juat then appeared and taken ber in charge. Lifting his hat politely the alranger walked away, while 'daude went to identify her trunk. tTe be Coutlnoed'. CItarcli StalUllt's Cuiiiiiiirfd. The comparative etatiatics of the three Presbyterian Churobes ot Sjolland ore always curiously scanned by those who think the prosreaa ot a religions body ia to be measured in terms ot the multiplioa- tion table. This year the returns of tha oharchea, while presenting nothing deai>iv« one way or other, gives the friends of tha voluntary principle eufl'nient ground for satisfaction. Aa regards communicants, the Established Church claims ,'i41,S6<.>, and the Free Church aud I'niled I'reabyteriao Oharoh together 504.:l55, being in the former oaae an in.-reaae o( '-' o>'>'i daring tha year, and in the latter an iooreass of 4,0:<0 . so that while the Established Church maintaina its auperiority according to ita unpurged roll, il doea not ahow ao high a relative advance. In paint o( oon- tribuliona. the atatiaiica are very maah agaioal the State Church, which reports the aum ot i.':i'l9,'.>73. or a decrease of i.'7,'J57 ; while the other two churohea are able to repjrl contributions amoanting to £1.014.045, or an inore.-i?e of £53,180. Another point ot comparison ia afforded by the Sanday achools The Eatabliabaa Churota claims an increase ot \.'M)'2. and • total of 31ii,4t() , the Free aud United Presbyterian Churches together report on increaai- ot '.I, HIT. and a total ot 'J7C.434. How a l*lctur« la Telesfi-.tptieil. Tbe/ae-jimii« telegraph, by which mana- a> ripl, mapa or pictiirea m:iy be trann- milted, ia a ai^eciea of the atitomatio msthod in which the receiver ia actuated synchronoualy with ita transmitter. By Leiioir'a method a picture or map is oat- lined with insulating iuk npon the cylin- drioal aarfaoe ot a rotating dram, whiob revolxea under a point having a slow move- ment along the axis of the cy Under, and tbua the conducting point goes over tha cylindrical surface in a spiral path. The electrical circuit will be broken by every ink-mark on the cylinder which is in ita path, and thereby corresponding marks are made in a spiral line by an ink-markec upon a dram at the receiving end. To pro- duce these ontlines it is only necessary that the two drums bo rotated in nniaon. This ayatom ia ot little ntility, there being no apparent demand for /.u- /inilf tranamis- aion, parlioalarly at so great an expeose of SfieiJ, for it will be -sen thai instead ol making a character of the alphabet by a very few separate poises, aa ia done by Morae. the nuniber muft be greatly in- creaaed. Many liots become necessary to show the outlines cf the more complex oharaclers. â€" S.-n.'iricr'i .llJiMcinc ExTiiKMK wakefulneaa, .liatrcssing ner- vouaneae, chronic rhcnraatiopaina, loiatioa, neuralgia ; any of the above liaordera are aymptoma of advanced kidney or Bright'a biaeaae Prof. Wm. H. Thompson, of th« I niversity ot the city of New xork. aaya : " More adulta are ctrried olT in this coim- Iry by chronic ki.tney disease than by any otnor one malady except consumption." The late Dr. I'io Lewis, in speaking of Warner's Safe Cnre, said over his own siunaliire : " If Hound myself the vlciim of a serion^ kidney trouble, I would nee your preparation." Tliey Sralril tlio VTitlla. Six Inmates escaped (rvim the Meroar Uefonnatory on Monday evening by acalini{ the walla. So far ouly one has been found, and she waa discovered by P. C. Stewar* (U<.)) in a shed in roar of 4'J Centre siroek. 'Tho aathoritiea have endeavored lo keep the mailer secret, but it leaked out yee- terday. ♦ Mnlioniat anil rilta'a r*»k. Patron This set ot teeth yon made me ia too big. Dentist Ves, sir. Bit down in the ohaic and I will enlarge yoar mouth a little. ♦ ♦ t P i> r ^ ^ t it K .1