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Ik THE NEW INMATEOF HILFONT. A THKILLINli STORY OK OLD ENGLAND. CHAPTER XIII. I surprised gltnces ; but when it became If tbos* kindand paii-.taking .piiit. who ( ^^Dt^nol^fn wnTe'twTnt^m'inutw ieauu: 1 . their ditciplt. by means of rap*, or to that the evil wai all over and the bad, any of them, condescended that night malignant influence harmless, il itaitonith- to vi.it the drawing room at Hilfoat-4nd >" h " w oon iu -rt nagKed. I saw Mr*. Crofton tulle a yawn in half an hour J .ippow from what I hear that uch im- thereafter, and Mra. Robert looked quite ercep'.ihle intruder* are in everybody'* cheated of her evening'* en'erlainmeiiL U drawing room, *o that we are often, when ' """ lgl h """ ' we are lent (ware of it, in very equivocal eciet) -il.ey mutt have found no tinall ' i the scene. Everyltody wa* / - would have been more a^rceable/to have lia't nome poetic justice, and a due and pulilic termination >(' thii comedy of real life. I could not reiist glancing for a moment sement in tne scene. r.verylKwy was i oum not ret:st glsnciiig for a moment tepared for something. It i possible that ; into th chAmbcr of the two girl* when I w..' ii..r. mioht not k.. . > w * nt up*tairs. They were seated both on trouble was nut one t > h* Kpoken of even to me, Clara, indeed, turned quite away and would not meet my look. :f dare say, in her happy revuNioo of feeling, she waaaxhamed of her fear* altogeth- er, and terrified to be tutpected of jealouiy, or even of that depth of ailection which aagfli spectator* might not have appreci- ' *? Ul "P* 1 * 1 ^ rne y w r *atd both on the ottoman, laying their pretty heads ted the fun ; but spirits who are not quit* | together, no doul.l talking over th;* event- arfec: in their grammar may be supposed I ful day, and that most eventful interview, Mftl human enough to own a imile. When | * hich *" ' doubt not, the real beginning J say everybwly I mean of course everybody I (.^u'nt.* When'T'i eminine-ltnpostible that thetwo Mr*, j from their hlf e'norac*' wit'h tud'le'ii Crofioni may have conveyed a (park of ' blushes, and stood- tremulous and shame- Miosi-.y to their retpective husbands ; but I 'IT 1 b ' ore . feeling deeply, 1 with natural delicacy, that the put he reti of tn* g^ntlema* ware .mainly - neuhghtened. At for myself my curiosity of course was quieted and set at rest ; but Mr*. F irtetcue, Mrs. Robert, and my name- aake of Stoke, all beheld the entrance f ihe gentlemen after dinner with a tense of or even 01 tnai aeptn ol ailection which xc.temant, and disposed theinielvet to i P ro '' ucv * j*''>usy, n.l which girl* are not Uok on oomfortably at th* ripenmg of ' ""IvteTf".^'^ ^"^ "I' kdt "j'!" *', th ' in imyien at all that artiest and involun Uiiidrim*. Lucy herself, perhaps, wat | tarytelf-revelation. Clara't innocent artifice the person present least disturbed, aadly planned, poor chili! of making me Sue knew well enough that Clara was ag I a 1 > t 'jnr.t<> her renuuciation of her lover rav.t.dtothepomtof doing tomething ; \ ',," f '' V .T 1 " 1 th ' "i'" uneil into somethipg very different, and Hugh Sedgewick's wcrdt were no longer adapted for a third person'* hearing anil uow her extreme emlurraitment about th* whole matter, sad reluctan' e an much ai t<i meet my eyeai. It wa* all very natural, very mnoqent; jt made me *mile, for I wa growing old; but it made me K l.d. " I have not come to talk,"" raid I,' " do not be afraid; but come and say good-uigbt to Me. Clara. I hate not. done anything ntu|htyjhave I,? Come-andiaygood-niijht. " !0h. irodmnnma ! you are not angry *" ' i hy the very clever and a :ute pcopl* Lucy waa wner than her neighbour* up to a trtain point ; but beyond that point duller than ihe simplett. Perhaps it mighi have awn oihernris* if her own heart had ever fcsx-ii concerned. She knew by intuition hat poor little Clara would do or lay lome- Uint; to relieve herself of ber unusual stiffer.ni; thii day ; but how easily honeit lve and ia! nature coild diipoae of tliafe co l >w*li*, Lu.;y, *tr*ilenedhy her very kaowingneat.did i:t know. Yet. I Itelieve ' ke neueive.1 at a glance ihat her power was gone. Hv.uh -iedgewick hsd too much goed sense ati-f dri renon to inak* any remarkable hUeren--*, or indeed, any difference which au IB nrUranl spectstor could have noticed t we kniw better and so did Luey. She red with the greatest cleverness and if .thai will do at well," said I; "and better satisfied than I uuite hoped to be about the hapnineH of my dear child." Thi* iaiiouation of want of fconfidenoe did not ijuite pleaieClara. She wai quite ready now to defy all the world on the part of the immaoulate Hugh. Uwaiallamieuke/'ihcMid hurriidly ' w *' wronj and I iw it directly kill *o great that even I could almott kave owned myself deceived. She talked te**arybody juitas uiual -talke I to Hugh ; pift a* uraal -. but she made no'aa al to him a* *h had been in the habit 1 1""*. (doing. Thi* was th* only symptom of ciouin***. For the rest Lucy bshaved when I began to tnink. It wa* me. " What w you? Nevermind," laid I it it all right now, Clara, and will be all right henceforth, I think, in *pit* of all the world ; bat do you know, I heard you If ex wily a* she wa* wont to Jo and really muoh leu like a conviutsd schemer d mischief-maker than I wai, and of any than* like the defection of an admirer made s>w,;ii. Then I began to perceive, and I *V> no: <ioubl my companion* perceive I me, how cautiously ihii clever little I ha I manage.!, and how little ground we It is only a wsek since Mr. Se-tge wick came to Hilfont. l>o you call that uch very long time? " Clara looked at Alice with a little *t art, * ar, an<< Alice looked at Clara back again with J ludden unite ; hut the contradictory chronology wa* .^uite truenotwith*ianding. It wa* only a week, and >et it wa* a long lonp time, half a* long ai the whole previou* *um of Clara'* aeventeen yeaA. When I Ufi them add entered my own pecial domain*, I found Derwent lounging over a novel in my dreuing loom a very bad practice, which my unlucky acquiee . 1/i.ciiue, wuicn my unlucky acriine*. Tr>r accu.in.jhrr of any de.ire to attract ceno* at Prst made into a cuilom. f,,r 4. i A^.u.1 _ L CT-.I -i i .1 VI f s' 1 .rts'. .^ f i i . made into a cuilom, for itr. -<edgewick. Had she beenio accused *' r - Crofion, I am bound to confesi, u of H I "feel certain th.t Lucy', a.tonishment ' ?'"* .'l', tur < h * htn h ' not v f r > ">r * .. i 'j niOTijKi i" in* contrary VIPI OHOA act ~ iudigna.it virtue would have been | down in his dre*ing.gown and Ian ea." e*ffv:o<, s^-id lint her accuser mint have, ohair, will not even exert himself so far as tir*rt utterly dUconifUed, yet not the I to * toret ' until discomfort and th* chill *- r: T! ^. *\^ , ^a" 1 iii^; ) h 7:;.r:rpr!,;; o ijlu to hire been a lawyer wy .n.' -ontrnvirsy it thoroughly wa* ihe rw^re of ike difference between legal prov bit- demonstration *n<) moral prro'. -Jm.1. all thii ex. itmg .nlgtit Clara kept an corner, a* if *he had been the discomht- d party. Once driven out of her hiding fi*i i.y the well-meaut exert inns of Mary .<n, she disappeared again immediately i-r ~)'nelidy visa'* ihadow, and r-imaiii- < except by glimpsee that w hole wijfct. 1 do not think the addrened a ucje word all the time to her lover arsaialy not one which anybody l*e roald himr aud did not dare to look me in the fcv notwithstanding (,'lar wai very hap- w/. The ihkdaw of her ditquiet had floated Bttire-ly away. Yet though the wai happy, d though the cloud wa* gone, the child a* change I. Icnld not tell how, tor where the di Terence was. Yei the (fence wa* lnd'.*puUh>, and not to be unsaid. MB the night wore to an end itrange :*i of life < Here were a do7.cn people room, half of whom were breath- sly watching a *uppo**d critis whl-h sight have taken the light out of a young Ms. and broken (a* people *ay) an innocent yutng heart, while the other half, totally uiiiiciou* of any particular inter**!, win'. en chaiterlng carelessly aboul all sortt of fitlcial lubjejti, perfectly content that kit wat a mere country gangsman'* etrawuiir room, and nor a theater of aooial ' BVier i. All the elements of our drsma ay were fully develop*)!. Th* p lir of loveri, she piquant circumstances of uneqnal yearn, Vi-un-rattof ihetr*th- budding girl with the ecoir.p'.it'hed hero, ami Lucy what coald . osll her She was not A coquette - >* wai not (h>ra's rival. I do not think ii l''i any aerioni scheme in reipect io nappme** by I .-mild not do pretty , let* than com municate my pleasure, *o I tapped my jmgewiok. Lucy, >o pretty, > agreeable, en wnin^, 1 iitppoee, for lack of a better !', I oan i.nl) call her the villain of our wm. 'M i over 117 the l Io ! in a moment the drama -the cu rium ' did not fall upon initead of that, inelled out of tkat aarrKteuiilifaofihiiia io i, and peace t of wy Ilk* the t antformaiion of a a* very latufaotory ub if Ike audience j , ,_ ... .'. TN t wat a little utter 01 cufioity, a .pii t exchange of t of wy liu the fmiti'iu infc.' "U vi terlalnly ,', ifUi I d. , lu|{iiard u the ihouluer and began to peak. " l)o not think any more of what I laid in the morning, l>-rw^ut," *%i I I, "the matter hai nahted it*elf. Jhrr* it po harm done, aud everything ii juit a* it hould he ; bettor th*D I hopqd." " Kh ! di.l you apeak, Clare?" *aid Kerwrnt, looking np at me after a moment with nil ni'iiith full of In* novel. I really do not knowany other word which would expre** that look. 1 repeated rny ipeech w.th variation*, a little mortified. He really did noiVt-m to comprehend me even then "'hat did you *ay to me thii moroing ? Upon my honoir I've forgottenV laid my huiband, with a conuc look of penitence. "What wa* to In- done with him ?" Oh, obtuienea* of man ! For my. part I only laughud, and left him to theejijoytnent ofbiidrMiiag gown, hi* ***v chair, and hi* hook. CHAI'TKR XIV. The holid%y aeaion after thiipaued over very quietly, without, *o far a* I remember, anything occurring beyon 1 th ordinary event* of dimieitic life; and about the mid die of .Unuary we were agai|i left alone. Rolieri Crofton wa* a lawyer, and lived in London) they were not rich enough Io be fftihion^lile, and were too large a family to make a round of vmiti, *o tliey returned, aa w natural.to Ruaael xiuare. The other ( >of ton* weni back to Stoke. Bertie re- turned to hi* duty; and the Uarleya went to l heir mother'* oottage, to the all-absorb- ing and II.IMI attractive biuineu of wedd'lng preparationi. I'erhap* it wa* very unel- evating, a poor way of looking at the nl>- jert ; hut I oan not help confeaiing that my heart went with Clara into all the pretty mviteriei i>f her tmiiiieaii, and I loved her belter among all thote really bright ribbont, and silks, and mushni, and the pn-trn: flutter of preparation*, which took th solemnity off thi* dreadful accident of marriage, than if the had been thoughtfully ttudymg her duty to her future husband, a.i'l ruminating OB th* undeveloped re*pon*ii>iluie of that unknown ttale. 1 .km afraid lam very vulgar in my idea*; I don t half ijnipathice with the extreme refinement wniob rri*i ouia^aihst the (flow of a common weilhu^.day, and ilrupt off to the country to l> irnrrnjil in humility and lolituue. Kor my own part, j admit thai I wai <|iiitit KIIXIHU* to have my dear girl married at Hilfont, for the io(e purpoie nf iurroundtDg her with aM the imple iplendor I could manag* to colieci round oar little bride. I wa* not di* to mil* a tingle nosegay or wedding favor, and wit t* pleased to think of the pretty train of briJemai J*. and the enormou* cake, at Alice herself could ba ; for Clara, 1 tut- pect, when thing* cam* that longlh, would have other matter* to think of. Thit it the feminine view of the question, my lord* and gentlemen. If you take an opposite pontion, it i* becaus* you are only the bride yroom*, being but nee Iful acceetorie* to th* scene, whom not ody ha* any intereit in; .Sometimee, doubtle**, there turni oat very sni^l ^c^ajy^Jv ijoiuing, and in all ' atet-ri rra periotr* and a doubtful bonne**; but general naturegoi*} btyoodtb* individu- al, tt is the primitive inajjenabie homage whicji the world OWM to every bride. However, 1 am battening on a long way in advance of my itory. To be lift alone with Lucy, after all that had pasted, was rather trying to merely hurr.an temper and patience, a* any on* who considers tbe position of two ladle* in a country house in the middle of winter, keeing very few people, and necessarily thrown upon each other'* almost conitant society, will appre- ciate. Unless 1 shut myself up in my own room which I confess I did sometimes I could not possibly froe myself from my close and most attentive companion, upon whose innocent uncon*cioutne*i these past sceies teemed to have made no impression. 1 could not help looking at her sometimes, a* she sat placidly by me doing her crochet, and talking with an sate and calmnss* which astounded me. XV hat was Lncy thinking ? x\ hat did Lucy suppose I was thinking ? Could she imagine I had taken no note of hei past behavior ? Or had she herself been conscious of no particular in- tention in her conduct to Mr. Sedge ei k It w* quite impoxibl* to tell. That pretty face covered like a matk all the busy thoughts in Lucy's brain. Her eyes met mine with the moil imperturbable compos- ure; not a lymptom of pin un or mortification: not the smallest acknowledgement of defeat could anyone extract from 'Lucy. She was as wary, aa unconcerned, as animated when that little dram* cune to a coaclution aa before it began. And 1 coiifeae ber conduct haaalwayi re- mained a myitery to nje. I can not make out to thii day why the wished to detach Mr Sedgewick from Clara, ot ft tine did wish: nor why, if ihe wa* ''artful and designing," as Derwent say* w* ladle* pall each other, or meant to rrarry anybody, the did not ratherexeiciar her fascination* on Hirry Crofton, whom the 'knew too* DeHruot's heir, and who wa* a.very^ijk^*. -speison to fall in love with any pretty fr\ who gave him the chance. Harry, to be lure, was only her own age, anil the ponibly prefer- tel Hugh Sedgewiik,,. but then Hugh Sedgewick was Vngtged ! Could that be the secret attraction, after all some- body !*' properly Which Lacy had a mini to tteal away for the mere pleasure of conquest and mischief, and doing something wrong? But Lucy w%* inscrutable, lean not tell now, aud 1 nin-r oould tell And ot course I had nothing for it, after all, but to be patient: tod do my best to show full ami natural kindness to the orphan who wa* our guest. \Vha.t strange misnomer* are in thi* life ! It ilee* not require a very brigal miAktinalion to build a whole itory of pathetic lolitut* and patient *ufferingi upon the mere mention of Lucy'* poeition at Hilfont. An orphan, without fortune and without friend*, whom her hint, who wat related 'o her, liked and took aa inter- eit in, but whom herhoete**, who was not her relation, did not like. Only fancy, young ladiet, what a picture ! The emit girl spending her whole life in unappreciat ed services to that cold-hearted aunt secretly rein' vinx, in tplle of ailcruellK-v to do good to everybody around her. ami anxiously lolicitoui to chow everybody a beneficial example. Think of her deep mourning, her pilenett, her longing for that love which l.'er hard-hearted conne tion* would not bellow upon her ! But ah, if you could only have seen Lucy ami me ' Parting with my dear children, Clara and Alice parting with Mary Forteecue, my old and tender friend even ptrting from thote two young Mary*, who were common place girl* *nough, yet good girl* in their wav, to come back alone to the sole rom pauionthip nf Lucy, was nomewhat of i change. Rut of curs* w* got on perfectly well ; and when I felt diapoied to he ex- aiperaled, I either made a general disturb ana* In th* household and tcolded the ser- vant* all round, or tlse I retired to my own room. "I wonder. Aunt Clare, If I could be of any ul* to the Mis* Hurley* ?" said Lury to in- u, ir .lay. "I am ture I thould be very .glad. I me. me to offer when they were here, hut somehow I thought they did not teeni to take to me." "Indeed, Lucy ! how could that be?" aaked I. , " Nay, 1 cannot tell* .\ biMiogai and .1 is- Nking* are ril to bs e p j a^f}.. qaneoially, I rather tbinV, among vnuug ladies," *aid Lucy, with a imiltv <rWrV : T lik them very well. \Vi\l yo rr,en>i*4 n*xt time totiiee them, pfeatt, unt,''i "I am riot aware what vou y'ptild. 1(0. t'q help them, " said I, lomcwhaT'ung'rauibui. ly. I-;.-;, t t " Perhaps not," s*,id L-HW^v ''-O f course they have plenty otmpnay,. aad> ace able to htve tiling* door (or, them. I was rather thinking of wTj(kt I ikcuKi .have, wanted in kuoh a ca. ' " Hul you know they hav* not plenty of money," tai.t 1. Oh, I bwg yoor |, at. Inii. Aunt Clare. Of course I meant I did "not mean in- deed," sa'd Lncy, stammering a little"! thouglit you w.*uld gire it the**, and do all theil 1 troiitteau yourself; that is just what I thought." "It is a mistake," said I "I think you made a miitak* altogether about ,CUr* and Alice. Thlirmother.il i|iilt* bl to look after their interest*. I :lo.not ^eei mytelf called upon (o Interfere." There wa* a little pause after thit ; then Lucy inddenly Uuihed. Ail. looked to avert am the c*ui ol thi* mirth, I naught her *ye. She met my look entirely unabeiih- ed. "1 i-oiuM not help thinkinK how tkat pom little girl wiil feel when ihe hmla her- self mittreii of Waterflag ; n will be mch a change to her! It is an old- p!|kO*. Middling." _ laid I, rather grimly. "How *hou(d ynii like it, do you think?'.' " I I suppos*'! thai! |i*v to marry iom day, lik* other people,". taid Lucy. " Hut I shuuld not like to bv. wif* to' Mr. Heilgewiok ; he h\t oOaVitin'g wil tyrannical written in hi* very race.' 1 ' '. "Indeed I never saw th*m," laid 1 ; "hut I mutt >>eg of you not to ipeak to Clara of aay meb gu*a* a* this," "1 never tell tale* Aunt, Clare," eaid Lucy. "I heard you tell aomething about a prior engagement of Mr. Sedgewick'i in thit very room," taiil L "Ah, that wae true, you have turely not forgotten it. It wai Aunt Mary Fo-te*cue," aaid Lacy. "Did the hear it? Did the tell you? VVaeihe vexed ! Poor little girl ! 1 thould be lorry if it made hi jealou* ; und 1 am lure he would blaze up dreadfully if he thought any one wai jealoua of him." "You teem to know him very well, Lucy." WILL THE SAFETY BE ED? SUPPLANT t DBlerele Wklrk Ike Uvrvter <;,!, Be*l All Wheel B>rm*. A novelty in the cysliax line which ha* been attracting coniiderable attention for aome time pail ii a nmcycle moit ingeniot*- ly contrived to run along by lu own mom- ntum after it ha* been fairly set going by the naual pedaliing method. A forward aid I. "Oh, I met him abroad." said Lucy ; we met everybody abrutd. I recollect htm <l aite well. I knew I had seen him before, the very first day he came here." ''Hut did not say so," said I. "No, it was oo good ; and besides, if I [which the rider lean* on either *ide. cam* to tell you every ailly thing that can-.* into my head, I ihonld hore vou to death. Aunt Ciarf/' said Lacy. "Half the thing* incimition of the rider'* body keep* toe woeel revolving, and it it aaM it caa be eaeily (topped by leaning backward. Thn lame limpl* law of gravitation cu*e* it to ipin unerrngiy round *ny curve toward things in life, I nm lure, are not worth talkiug about. ' "My dear," laid I, "I wish you wer not quite *o wise and experienced' fiirlt re not expected to be philosopher* at eighteen." >. "^ * ' Lucy lanphed. "It i* all because of my upbringing," the taid. " I tuppote 1 talk jutt a* papa uaedlo talk.' I remember 1 ued to be to provoked .with him for lay- ing tuch thing*, and I fear. Aunt Clare, you are lometime* a* much provoked with me." " Oar positions are a little different 1 aid I; nnlewyou think^ Lucy, that you are a* much wier than me a* he w** wi*er than you. But more yearn bring 'certain leaaon* with them in default of wiadom ; and yon mint give me permiaiion (till to think you a girl of eighteen." " Nay, I am ture l do not with to be any older," aaid Lucy. " 1 often wonder what people in thii country though t of poor papa. Everybody doe* something here. unlee* they happen to be rich like L'ncle Derwent ; but we were quite poor, and yet papa never did anything. I aminre Homers, hi* man, di<1 nothing aH day long but take care of lh<<iii. I have not had a mud *ince I waa ten year* old, and I wai obliged to learn to do a great many thing* for mytelf, but poor Somer* never had an hour'* reti away from papa. I often think of it now ; odd. it i* very How do people get to be o helplets, Aunt Clare, when they are (till poor?" "Poor Mr. Crofton wa* lu delicate health," *aid I. " Ye* ; but he wu not bad enough for that," uid Lucy, with perfect calmnet*. " He uwd to tay he had no energy, and could not bear the buttle ot Kngland. H- *aid it would wear him out in a year ; but that i* all very well for rich people we were poor." You had enough," I upge*ted, with diffidence. " Ye*, enough to tpend to the lait day of tail life," aai 1 Lucy, still with entire compoinre, "but nothing over after for me; enough to gel all hii luxurie* and pay Somen, wiom ke could not do without ; out nothing for me. It i* a very odd thing ; I cannot make it out ; for papa never had any great deal ot money ; he wa* alwayia yo-mger ton, an. I poor." ' Hut I have no doubt he wa* a v,-ry kind father," aaid I, rather apologetically a* I could not but be aware. "Oh, ye*, viry kind ; and he thought he know (he world very well too," taut Lucy. " Poor papa ! Somer* wai a very good servant to him ; he ttayed till after the funeral, then he got another place, jutt be- for* Uncle Derwent came. I taw you look ing at come letter* on the hall table the other day. Aunt Clare. One 'of mine wa* to poor Son.ert at i'lanttgenet Hall. He ha* gone to be servant to on* of the gentle- man there. I thought you might be tur- prised at t lie add ret*,' "1 ilnl not look at the addreac," laid I. "Plantagenet Hall it the great manufactur- er'! hou*e that ihereare auch account* of in the paper* I tuppoee. I* it in thi* neighbor hood ? I don'i recollect the name." "Oh, I believe they have built it them solve* ; they are ,'ery, very, rich," aaid Lucy, with more animation than uiual. "Mr. Broom said he had a very good right to call hi* hou*e PUntagenet. \V* uted to kuow the family a little. Homers i* with Mr. Broom't ton. People u*ed to say *ney were made ol money. There are two daughter!, but only one aon, and I luppnee he i* to have I'lanta^enet Hall : but it i* near London ; it i* a long way od from here." 'Indeed," laid I ; and then I think the conversation dropped, for I had no parti- cular interest in trie family of Mr. Bioom, though he wa* made of money, and could not under*' nd how Somer*, if he were ever to good a (errant, thould form a link of connection between the daughter of hi* old maiter aild'hit new one. Reiide*, it occurred to me juit for a moment for I ie*n the letter, though I certainly did not look at it that Somer* wa* not the nanw which, preceded that pompon* Plan tagenvt Hall. However, the thought wa* mentary , ao>i the maiter perfectly un- important. U Lucy .had corresponded wivrt Ihi- mtn, w-nal wa* that to me ? < \TO Bl The machine ha* no iteering gear and i* aaid to require none beyond the tendency given to it* direction by the poite of the rider'* body. The motion is generated a* in a safety bicycle until the imall innor wheelt set the outer or traveler wheel (pinning. It doc* the reit and cover* to much ground at each revolution a* would enable an average rider to compaae a Mile A New Fad In Diet. Vegetarian* are outdone by a new diet- reform prepljet. who advocates the ration of food*. His name i* Mac- lon'aVl t "'4n>t he seems to have gained of adherent* in Part*. It * a park; of t^e y*tem he advocate* never to cat ot*lnnk anything but vegetable foode art HaMfsd iiqunli, precisely in the ttate n which ay are found iu natnre. Hot fall piitkiiar* specially oondemned, * It il not quite easy to aee how the 'arrott and turnip*, bean* and po:&to*'w mutt eat saw, it teem*, -if We value oir health, and fruit we mu*t eat just M nature give* il to ul. Whether thit meant thai we mutt not peel an apple i* not ttal-rt kli Mac'iMiitM kimielf ea.1* rJ oainal aot nat*), which, a* aSco'.chnni , Jm M^ukl ol only xtreiT.ely nouriihitag, oui palat- able a well. An -Unanswerable ArfTHiftugt. i Little Kthel" I wiih I had a new d.,|l ' Mamma" Your old doll ri-iif 1 jfottd at v*r." Little Kthel" Well, I am juU-a* goo.i A* ever, loo, but tha angeli gave, you a new baby." TIIK WIIMU well nnder two minute*. The inventor think* a record of half that time within the potsibiliuei with an expert in the caddl*' and u at present engaged on improvement* which he claim* will obtain universal re- cognition for the contrivance. The inventor's brain ha* been revolving in cycle! in;o he conceive! the idea of a bicycle thirty year* ago. Some four year* ago it occurred to him to electrify the wheel world by introducing a unicycle, and the pr*sent machine is the result. He com- pleted it a year ago and had it tried wi-h satiifactory results at the Syracuse Armory. A* the wkerl now stands it meaauree tix feet in diameter and weigh* 135 pound*. It co*t all told about $600. The more modern typei which the inventor ii preparing to produce will be built on a much lighter scale. In fact, he think* he can get the weight down fifty poaud* and reduce the cot of output to j'JuO The unicycle it not so difficult to mount as appears at a first glance. In fact, the ssme graceful method which aecurei a. e*at a lady'* safety help* the rider to tak* control and set the pedal* gcing. The teat i* a capacious affair, protected by handle* on either tide, which afford a secure grip when the rider i* mounted. A few even- ing* ago a curiou* vnitur mastered the re- quisite preliminaries in a few moments aad then took a jaunt around the block to the ecstatic turpnte of the local small boys. It woul 1 be interesting to see what an ex- pert could do around a track such as that at Manhattan Field. NINETY-NINE YEARS A PRIEST. > er Left Ike Vlllaxe m Wklrk Mr Wa. era. There died in Trikhala, in Theiialy, re- cently a (Jreek priett, aged 130, according to the records. In this long period he had never left the village in which he wa* bom. He aicnhe.i hi* long lift and vigor to tne tin pie way in which he lived. Cntil a few year* ago he ileot summer and wnter in th* open air, drank no wim- or alcoholic liquor*, except iu communion, and tmoked no tobacco. For a thort tune he used *na(f, but gave it up, a* it did not agree with \iin. Meat he seldom ate in the Bourse of tne year. Hit nouruhmeat contitted chierty of frui\. nut*, vegetable* and bread. He always rose from hi* .imple bed which wa* invariably turned toward the eaat hefnre the tun was up, aud only prteilly duties oould induce him to break hit habit of retiring at 9 o'clock. Hi* face at the time of hi* death wa* comparatively free from wrinkle* ; he h-'ard without any difficulty and read without glass**. The only evidence of advanced age wa* Ice* of memory of recent event*. He wa* able to remember everything that had happened in hi* early 'lays, but hi* recollection of new thing* became so poor thnt he often forgot whether or not he had eaten. The result was -strange a* it may toeni -that he often, in the belief that hi wa* following out hi* ystem of regulaiily at to meal*, ate two niealk do*e together or fasted entirely. On thi* account hit itomach became dis- orded and indirectly brought about hi* death. Throualiout hi* life, it is aaid. he was never tick *nd never a*ed medicine. He died easily, his 1-ut words beinit. "N'cw Let tbfaiv4nt depart in peace, O Lord !" ii*it[ad.afted at priett in Tnkhala ur ; i 1 - -**Hlngr War on Wasps. <],4aoiHkiernorel plan h been adopted by * Pr JaS down* "**"* ' nh ' hlUnU ' th< tillage of Beenham, ' 1 4fckf n lff<ding, Kngland, to prevent a repeti- tt*jK*tttlwaippla<utof 1S93. A tubicrip tion list-Was opened in the village tor wag- ing war with the wasp*, and a turn of 4 >*.-i**ji tailed. The local schoolmaiter then ngonnced to his icholar* that one penny would be paid for every queea wasp brought to him during the month ol April. Th* lit wa* the destruction of 668 of these (eot*kt a co*t of '.' IS* S,t In May the price was' lowered to one halfpenny per wnp, anil the till destroyed' therefore only cot 1 V | ,v,. 7d. The small balance of the kind Wavgiven to children who hrought waapa! nesU and who, in earning th*ir scanty reward, nrohably tuffered tome dis- comfort. ' t. I