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 i*pi w zi-^x-. \},*^' i**^"" ^»'---.-ii^rfS" -;-.?" STELLA; OR, AT CROSS PURPOSES. CHAPTER XVIII. (Continued Cecily's solitaey walks. They -were walking side by side now in the direction of the park. Cecily was quite cool and f elf-composed, and unconcerned; Mrs. Finch was trembling with rage and spite. She wat-, moreover, considerably out of breath with trying to keep up with her companion's pace for Cecily amused her- self by walkinc fast, and her long steps car- ried her over the ground faster than Mrs. Finch cculd, with due regard to dignity, fol- low her. " If I were to tell Mr. AUingham the way you spend your mornings, Mies Cecily, you would find J ourself in a pretty scrape." ""iou are we) come to tell him anything you like. As there is nothing to tell, it will be a pleasant txerciEe for your inven- tive £;enius." •' I covld put him up to several things if 1 chose," said Mrs. Fincn, th'reateningly. Cecily turned round upcn her sharply. "Good gracious, woman! what are are you harping upon Do you want me to bribe you " "I never was eo insulted in my life " cried out Mrs. Finch, indignantly. "How dare you talk about 'bribing,' and calling me icoman, too " Cecily laughed. "Dees that cffend you? I thought we were all women. Well, I won't say it again if it hurts yoi-.r feelings. But 1 will give you a piece of advice, and that is, to mind your own business, and leave me alone." For Cecily could be bold enough when the instinct of self-preservation was aroused. As to Mrs. Finch, she then and there vowed her destruction. From that hour she watched Cecily more assiduously than ever. But Cecily had the advantage of knowing it, and she gave up her solitary walkr â€" by daylight, at least â€" and Mrs. Finch was not able, for all her efforts, to find out anything further against her. It was some few days later that Mr. King sent one day for his youngest granddaughter into his library. tihe found that Norman was with him, and from the young man's disturbed and gloomy face, she knew that Mr. King must have said something unpleasing to him. Norman cleared his brow with an effort at her entrance, and drew forward a chair for her. "I have be en telling Norman that your wedding day must be settled, my dear," said Mr. King, not unkindly. Cecily gave an involuntary start but cast her eyes down metkly, and answered "Yes, grandpa." "I am getting an old man, and I sl^ould like to see 3 ou settled before I die." "I am sure I hope thaj may not be for many a long day, sir,' said Norman heart- i)y whilst Cecily CLly said again " Yes. grandpa." " Well, well â€" Idcn'tknow; I'm afraid my life is not very good, but still, we never know these things. Shall we make the wed- ding-day this day month?" Cecily again murmured "Yes," with duti- ful submission and Mr. King thought in his own mind, that she was stupidest girl he ad ever known. " There; go then, now, both of you," he said, taking up his book again, and almost turning his back upon her. When they were outside the doer, Cecily turned round to her cousin. He was sur- prised to see how agitated she had suddenly become, "1 am not going to do it, you know, Nor- man," she said to him. "Do what, Cecily!" ".Marry you in a month. My mother has not been dead a year. 1 cculd not think of being -«arried yet." Norman's heart gave a guilty throb of de- light. " I will not urge you to do anything you do not like," he said, not venturing to meet her eyes "but had ycu not better go back and tell him so ' "Who? grandpapa I what is the use of it he would only be angry, and he might alter his will. No, we will let him bel'eve it, and he might C.ie meanwhile, and we could take our time afterwards. I should like to have a gay wedding, you know " she added, half laughing. Norman looked up at her puzzled. It came across his miiid to wonder if she really wished to be his wife. He supposed she did, else why did she not take this oppor- tunity of breaking it cff He did not like either to hear her speak so about her grand- father it was almost as if she wished for the old man's death. "You ought to tell him your objections," le urged; "he will think you have settled it, and he will send out the invitations for the wedding " " What fun " said Cecily, and burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter, then sud- denly a gush of tears filled her eyes, and her voice shook and trembled, " I cannot do it â€" I cannot do it " she wailed, wringing her hands, and then suddenly turned and left him. Norman felt absolutely bewildered he stood still for a minute, half relieved, half dismayed, and then he moved slowly away, saddened and heavy-hearted, feeling acutely that the whole story of his engagement was a mistake. He neither loved nor under- stood the woman he was pledged to marry, and, alas I he feared that he both loved and understood the sbter who, but for his own folly, might have been his by this time. Now, there lived in the small neighboring town of Loughton a very clever medical man, who had been long in the habit of at- tending upon Mr. King, of Wrexham. This gentleman was a bachelor, and lived in a small house on the outskirts of the town, and there was a short cut across the fields, which made it barely a mile distant from Wrexham to a pedestrian. Late that evening, that is to say about nine o'clock. Dr. Graham, happening to be it borne and disengaged, heard the loud ringing of the night bell. It was such a very common occurrence that he waa in no was startled by the lond and noisy peal somebody, of conree, was ill, and had sent for him, he supposed. " Better send round to the stable, John," he called out to hia factotum, who came along the pMW|w oatside his «ttiBg-room doOT a* thanunmons; "I'm sure to be wanted. Ill have the old mare to-mght Tborii^ can fmt the saddle on." Jofaa stepped back to the kitchen to send oat the neccaeary order, and Dr. Graham be- M^ matbictively gettim; on his hat and ^.wfM, and reached his thick riding Ulster hma its peg behind the door. Two minutes later John opened the door. " Well " said the master. " I don't think you will be required to go out, sir somebody wants to speak to you, and to Mr. Graham's intense surprise, a very pretty young lady, with only a light cloak flung over her evening-dress of black gauze, was ushered into the room. CHAPTER XIX. HER GEANDFATHER'S LOVE. Cecily was playing a verv difficult game. Like most people who forsake the straight roadway of truth and honesty, and who be- take themselves to the tortuous paths of de- ceitfulnesB and double dealing, there were times when she was bewildered, even in her own mind, as to the dangers and uncertain- ties which surrounded her. No one had seen her slip out of the house after dinner, on her way to Dr. Graham's house, nor did any living soul ever know what it was that the tall young lady in even • ing dress bad to say to the old doctor. In his own mind, although he answered her questions civilly and to the best of his powers â€" and although he was, even at his discreet years, somewhat impressed by the graceful girl, with her winning manner and her anxious and interested looks â€" Dr. Graham never quite settled satisfactorily to himself what it was that had made Mr. King's granddaughter pay him the furtive evening visit. He never knew whether the anxiety of affection or the workings of the basest self-interest had prompted her close and searching questions concerning the state of her grandfather's health, and he was a little ashamed afterwards that, being so overcome by the novelty and charm of the situation, he had been taken off his guard, and had answered her questions more fully and more unreservealy than he had felt it quite right to do- As to Cecily, she went home with glitter- ing eyes, and a smothered excitement of manner, which she had some difficulty in concealing. Long that ni.?;ht she paced up and down the narrow limits of her little bedchamber, think over what she had determined upon doing. Once, stopping suddenly short before her dressing-table, she caught sight of her own face in the glass there was a hard, fixed look of malignant triumph upon it, that in- voluntarily made her recoil from her own image. " What am I going to do?" she said, to herself, shudderingly. "What name would any one give this thing I am thinking about " And then she laughed aloud to herself. "Pooh what a goose I am After all, I am doing him no harm He has heart- disease, the doctor says at any moment he may drop down dead. He is an old man he has lived his lifs he is quite prepared to die he will not live a couple of months at the most, in any case â€" is that my fault â€" and a week sooner or a week later, what can it matter in such a case Dr. Graham said â€" he said â€" that any sudden shock â€" any dis- appointment â€" any little trifle to upset him " And then she stood still suddenly, and held up both hands to her head, and was silent for there are some things that are best unwhispered even in the remotest depths of our own hearts. After that Cecily jumped into bed, pulled up the clothes round her head and slept as soundly and as sweetly as any child of three year old. The next best thing for one's peace of mind to having a good conscience is certainly to have none at all. The next morning Cecily met Norman on the stairs, on her way down to breakfast, and laid a detaining hand upon bis arm. she did not notice that there were dark rings round his eyes, and wearied and care- worn lines upon his face. Mr. Allingham certainly had slept neither soundly nor sweetly. But Cecily did not see these tokens of dis- tress in her cousin's countenance, because her owH was cast down becomingly and modestly. "Norman," she said, with a pretty hesita- tion of manner, "I am sorry for what I said to yon yesterday â€" about â€" about our mar- riage." Norman laid his hand kindly upon hers. His conscience smote him often at times for his coldness of heart to the girl to whom he stood plighted, and who loved him â€" for of course she loved him " My dear," he said, "we all say foolish things at times. Tell me what it is you wish." " I have been thinking, Norman, that our grandfather hes been very good to us it would be wrong and ungrateful not to do as he wishes and if â€" if he has set his heart upon seeing us married soon, why â€" why " She paused, stammering and confused, as was natural and maidenly. Normal's heart gave a great leap, and then sank down cold and sick within him but he grasped her hand closely, and spoke out bravely. " You are quite right we will do as he wishes. We ought to consider him â€" it is our duty. You are a good gir' Cecily. I do believe that it will 1^ a real joy to the old man to have this â€" this matter settled and Cecily, I give you my word of honor I am not insensible to your sweet, yielding tem- per, and to the effort you have made to epeak this to me It 'shall be the object of my life," he said, solemnly and earnestly, "to make you a good and devoted husband." Norman spoke from his heart, gazing fix- edly and gravely into her face. Never had he been more in earnest â€" never had he re- solved more determinedly to fulfill to the very last letter the words he was speaking to this girl, whom he believed himself to be unconsciously wronging. Bnt she should never find it out. Never, he told himself â€" never as long as life last ed 1 Judge, then, of his surprise and bewilder- m^t, when Cecily's only answer was a stnile of such intense amusement, that it rippled up uremtrollably all over her face m a mood of ropprened merriment I He dropped her hand, and felt deeply diaap- upon pointed. Hehad spoken from the depths of his soul to her, anrshe seemed to consider it as a good joke W oaid he ever understand this girl, or have one sympathy in common with t- e woman who was to be his wife 1 After all, it was SteUa, and not Cecily, whose task it waa to tell the oM man^hat he was to have his own way abont the toar- riage that wis his darting object, Stella, who stood behind his chair white and fixed, as though she were speaking her ovni death warrant, and said to him, tremblingly ,, •« Grandpapa, thev have told me to tell you thatâ€" that â€" !-" ., ,,. o. n- 1" " You are strangely timid. Miss Stella said Mr. King, irritably, twisting «%«flf round in his chair to look at ber. " Wirat are you stammering and stuttering for and why do you stand behind me as if I was an ogre T and who are thq/, pray " " How am I to answer three questions at once, grandpapa?" cried Stella, with a touch of her old sauciness, and a little laugh that even to the old man's ears sounded hollow and unreal. He drew her round to the front of his chair, and she knelt down by his side. " Is it Norman and Cecily whose business you are upon, SteUa I suppose they were afraid to speak themselves." She rested her elbow on the arm of his chair, and shaded her face with her hand. " They wished me to tell youâ€" the mar- riage shall be as soon as you like." He was silent for half a minute then he sighed contentedly. "Thank Heaven!" he murmured, fer- vently, "I shall see it before I die. and I shall hav3 done justice to your father's child tori was haisb to him, Stellaâ€" very harsh. May Heaven forgive me 1" And then suddenly he took Stella's face between his two hands, and lifted it up, so that she was forced to look at him. " My little girl, if it could only have been you " he said, brokenly. "Oh don't, grandpapa " burst with a cry from her white lips, and the sudden pain and anguish in her face smote him with all the force of a revelation. He kissed her hurriedly. " But you will stay with the old man, won't you, dear?" he said, drawing her ten- derly to him. "We will send Finch away â€" I bate her â€" and you and I will live together. We will never be parted, Stellaâ€" you will never leave me, will you " "Never, grandpapa â€" never!" she an- swered, impulsively, casting up her arms about his neck, whilst tears that she could not restrain â€" tears of pent-up misery and despair â€" burst forth freely at his woods of kindness and affection. It was a strange thing, this love that had sprung up between the hard-hearted old man, with his crabbed temper and his well-nigh withered heart, and the girl who, so lately a stranger to him, had crept into the empti- ness of his loveless old life, softening, and purifying, and melting the frozsn current of his soul. How she had done it was a mystery both to himself and to her. She had never tried to win him indeed, she had thwarted, un- consciously, his dearest wishes, and yet Cecily, who was about to realize them, was nothing to him, whilst Stella was every- thing. "How can any one ever have called grand- papa hard and unkind " said Stella, to her- self. "He has the warmest heart and the tenderest sympathy of any one I ever met." And Stella, who, poor child I had so little to love, loved her grandfather with her whole heart and soul. But though he loved Stella the best, Mr. Kine was not ungrateful to Cecily for her prompt consideration to his wishes. When he met her at lunch time, he took her hand kindly, and kissed her forehead. "My dear, I am glad you have consented to let things be as I wish. You know I have set my heart upon this marriage, and you are acting rightly in allowing me to settle the time of it." Cecily murmured an inarticulate reply she was rather nervous in her manner, and Mrs. Finch, who was watching her closely, noticed that her hands shook with agita- tion. Norman stood by her side and received her grandfather's thanks and good wishes also. Mrs. Finch was certain there was false play somewhere. '•She is playing a double gameâ€" I am convinced 01 it," she said to herself. " Who was it that she met in the Park the other morning? Could it have been Sir Edgar? For I am not such a goose as to suppose it was Norman I I must keep my eye upon you, young lady I" But aloud Mrs. Finch only said to Cecily, with the sweetest smile, as she took ber place at the luncheon-table " Let me give you a glass of sherry, dear Miss Cecily, for you look quite overcome and will you have some chicken or a cutlet?" "You had better order the invitation cards for the wedding," said Mr. King. oheerUy, to her, as he sat down opposite her •• and the wedding breakfast must be thought of. It is to be the 1st of May, Mrs Fmch, so mmd you are in time with the pre- parations. Here is your very good health young people " ' None of them had ever seen the old man msuch a good temper nor in such radiant spirits. CELAPTER XX. HOW LILY FAINTED. The children had all gone up-stairs to put °A,^*"[J^*^^^ "^o^^^* ^11' Lily lingered still m the school-room. Ostensibly she was putting away the books and slates but who Will blame the poor chQd that the excuse T-' a"*,,*. ""^^ **°"o^ o°e? It was the time Sir Edpar used so often to look into the school-room for five minutes, and for many days Lily had waited, and hoped, and teof'Sm'^w*"""' but she saw very Her eyes were f uU of tears as she slowly and weardy put awav the Utter of obiecte that cumbered the table. "jc^-w* "I suppose he doesn't care to come now " she said to herself; "he must bogSg quite fond of I^y Honoria. and f ouTbt ^\^^^7^ 1°" 0^ ' '». I •'ould lot r«L. *• ^t "V*?. wuld have meant to man^ me bat I did not expect that was kappmesa enough just to «» him now and then: but peAap. it j. better no^ only It 18 very Iwrd to httt 1" ""«-â€" The door opened slowly behind her and Lily turned round with a face radi»nt\rith ;|^de^'deIight-oiay ft» " i5»t»* *^« Sverrray of plea«a»e had vamsl ed o it S!f: if iSVjtor, not Edgar, wlio en- **" All alone, lovely Lily!" cried the in- truder, with a tone of bantering famibanty that was an insult in itself Lily colored d^plj^, bnt^did not answer. She haa already resented Walter s bold and disrespectfully expeesjed admiration; her pure instinct told bei-that he was not a goo. °^' It is tto first time I have had such luck since I have been in the house Why do you always run away from me?" he asked, com- ing close to her. "I have no wish to do so, Mr. Dyson," taid Lily, quietly, thoughshe was trembling very much " but I am afraid I must go up- stairs now, the' children are getting ready for their walk I must not keep them wait- ing " She moved towards the door, but W^alter stood in her way. " Nonsense you are not going away just yet â-  you are going to stay and talk to me a little. Don't you know that you are very pretty It's a shame of my mother to keep you mewed up in the school-room all day Why don't you come into the smoking-room in the evening sometimes You would al- ways find me thtre alone I go there direct- ly after dinner, while my mother and brother are hanging over Lady Honoria and her everlasting singing. That sort of thing bothers me, jou know. I'm not musical, and I'm not in love with Lady Honoria. I getaway into the smoking-room with my pipe. Suppose you slip in there to-night and hare a talk to me?" " I don't think the smoking-room would be at all the proper place for me, Mr. Dy- "Any more, I suppose you mean, tham the school-room is the proper place for rael" Lily was silent for a minute, then she said, very quietly " Please let me pass, Mr. Dyson. I really must go up-stairs." " You certainly shall not go until you've promised to come to the smoking-room after dinner to-night." " I shall never promise that, Mr. Dys:n," said Lily, firmly, wondering at her own boldness. If she had had more knowledge of the world, she would have given the promise and have broken it afterwards. But none of the arts of deception lay in Lily's cate- gory of self-defence. She was frightened and indignant but it did not occur to her to use guile or deception to escape from the man who was insulting her because she was poor and friendless. She made another attempt to reach the door but Walter Dyson placed himself so directly in her way, that, without a per- sonal encounter, it was impossible for her to get at the handle. "Mr. Dyson!" sii' cried, indignantly, "this is most ungti-crous, most ungentle- manlike " " How pretty it looks when ic is angry ' was the insulting reply. Tears of distress and terror gathered in her eyes, and then all at once she heard an advancing footstep along the passage. "For Heaven's sake let me go!" she cried, white with terror. "I hear some one coming â€" it must be Lady Dyson 1" " Then you shall give me a kiss before she cames I" cried Walter, and before she knew what he was doing, be seized her sud- denly in his arms Lily uttered a faint cry She was so par- alized with terror and disgust that she had neither the strength to resist him or the courage to call loudly for help. And then the door opened and she saw â€" not Lady Dyson, a» she had expectedâ€" but Sir Edgar, erect, and stern, and pale, and for one startled moment, upon the thres- hold, ere, with a muttered oath, he turned angrily away, slamming the door violently behind him as he went. Walter Dyson burst into a short coarse laugh. "What fun! I've shocked the elder brother " he cried. But Lily heard him not. She slid from between his arms, as one v,-ho has got adeath wound, end fell prone at his feet in a sense- less, lifeless heap Walter uttered an exclamation of annoy- ance. " Bother the girl I hate a fiinting wo- man What on earth has she got to faint for ?â€" squeamish little piece of propriety â€" why couldn't she just have a little harmless bit of fun like any other girl If I had kissed her it would not have killed her Well, I suppose I had better get out of this there'll be every woman in the house here paesently with smelling-salts and sal-vola- tile She'll coma to fast enough if she's left alone." And Mr. Walter, with no further thought or consideration for the unfortunate girl who, by reason of his unmanly and unprinci- pled conduct, lay now stretched, while and unconscious, on the ground, ignominiously departed as speedily as he could, without attempting to render the slightest succor to the unhappy governess 1 Lily lay there still, and motionless, and white, like the flower whose name she bore. Afterward she found it in her heart to wish that she had never a*vakened from that death-like swoon. Presently there came a buzzing in her ears, and that battling, choking sensation that accompanies the return to conscious- ness. And then a voice that seemed to speak to her out of a fogâ€" calling her by name " Miss Pinchâ€" Miss Finch " Then more whizzing whirring in her ears, and another dead, still interval of unconscious peace. After that a violent pricking and stineine at her eyes and nose, which made her gasp and choke. Somebody was holding very strong salts under her nose her he«i was being .ifted up and there was a splash of cold water against her face. " She is coming to now, my lady," said "Sprinkle a Uttle more water over her forehead," said another. Lily gave a shiver and then a gtoan then suddenfy she sat up on the floor, and looked bewilderedly about her. {to bb cohtinukd.) m.Jfe'?*"TJ"*?.P~**°«^ «n»e little oom- motoion m Wadungton itKiantly by waking ir^/iS* •"*• t^^" to be an inSkne Iriih- man of the name of Looney. shape the panu^r ^^iu depended very much „ ""' «0' ultyofthePreirateWiS Of oil â€" -J and cersofthelineaamiW";;"" case. a*' hivi Before taking the fl u sneak- thieves were .â-  â-  « fe» about among the tent8l?'««d ly drummed out of thl' "'^wei,' the "Rogue.' March "trPtotJ shouting in derision -- â-  ""1' reached the limits of f?*^ '"ei were told to be gone i^"^P' faces in camp again in handling. '"'""^au If, while wo were Ivinr, â-  fused to do his duty bp „ '^â„¢Pih, totheguard-houJ.'ijY^'^l name for "lock-np 'â-  "â- P cretion of the cHi^er^ h^"'"""'N mfined and put „„ â- 2^. «ti(!j reordered to carrl ' "'i^ knapsack fille'i with «4^^^' and two oft," day and L^^ time as He was deemed to h!?«l lent penance. l^ n,o,/*'«m court'maftia! was h6\l"".1j^"'°" ;l One day,' d'owrirf^^^.^' imhpr nf no U..J 1. "1 reie forfeiture of a]l7ardu;'Sht- thirty days, or the l?e?was r^^ number of us had been m=v call on some ac,uainS:t?f regiment. As we were retuS came acros, what we took to be f wishing a drink, we aUstopJir in question as was usual ther^ J, but a barrel sunk in the grc J ^1 places the ground was so fuii,;7 m order to get water, all yon h' tosmkaboxorbarrel,andthw.y soon collect of its o.-n accord ,^ down and looking into the bam ul tion. Andy discove.id a man "f.7,^u' ""g^S'^^l 'Q l^ailingouttr, •\\hafshe doing there in £ asked one of our company " Why " said the guard, who J mg near by, and whom we hadtakeji customary guard of the siiring comrades, our Colonel has hi^oit.h punishin' the boys. One thing he nl 'em doâ€" he won't let 'em get intoiia they do, they go into the gopher! there, is in the gopher hole note. Im, has a spring at the bottom, and ib] comes m pretty fast and if Jm„ keepdry, he's got to keep dippini, the time, or else stand in the waterml waist â€" and Jim isn't so might; 1 water, neither."â€" i-om "Rio^kim^ Drummer-hoy," bt/ Harry M. ftpcl Stplemher St. Nicholm, A Disappointed and DlEgnst«d About S o'clock yesterday m man smoking plug tobac:o inaa oli| pipe walked out of a Michigan aveiiei with a rat in a trap. He looked isil the right nor to the left until he haai the middle of the street. Then he] the trap on the ground and whlnltii dog. If he had a dog, the ammi! respond, but the public did, In 1«| two minutes thirty men were rasliiMi spot. " Hi there Don't let him oattll my dof," shouted one. '• Held on Wait for the dogs half a dcz3n voices atouce. " Keep cool and form a circle Toa ed a policeman, as he took a finneji his baton. The man with the trap spread il handkerchief over it and waited, f not a bit excited. On the contrary as placid as a ship sailing in the was: " Whar' did ye ketch him?" W newsboy. The placid mr.n did not deign toiKl " What'U ye take for him?'a8t» other, but his inquiry was treated iril same silent contciiipr. Then four or five men came with dogs under their arms, aoo fifteen dogs on foot following bahiiw. was a fight between a bull aoganai: foundlauci, and there would have bes] between owners had not a secondpoli appeared Order was finally restojei^ dogs were arranged in a circle their collars, and the placid miij knocked the ashes from his pipe, WM fully round, and then raised tne shook the rat out. AH the dow rush, but in ten seconds each ariJ^ canine walked otl' on his ear be hurt in his feelings. A boy stepp ward and held the rat up Wâ„¢" "It's a crockery rat:' he yei^" whirled it around. ,. "Yes, it Yhas a grogg^'^,.'?::! cost me den cent?," calmly rephe1.». man as he walked off with his trap. Women as Clerts. Of late years the employment J'jl as clerks has greatly i^'^^^'T. „ as well as in France and in J"' it is generally agreed that the ^^^ satisfactorily. At the Bank of f"' are now 160 female clerks, »j, francs a day to commence wi^"' f^ annual salary, after a year °V* p« rises to 1,800 f ranee .a^^t' jis ' ces of the Credit f oncier jher^^ a large staff of woman, the re .^ ginning at 3.^0 francs a day, ^_d cases to as much as ^.O^iâ„¢" ^/f year. In both estabhshmenK ^^ attendance are from 9 t" °" lecia' week and the male and '« beiU in different rooms-the wome ^^^ intended by ctHcials o^ "'"^blea«' thus enjoying the greatest p« privacy. I gtrength of man s t( Lch WM illustrated r where a burglar w r'inapewof St.Pe ., scattered around h Missionary Shaw ii Led and acquitted. Uove all soreness agland. It may, I that it won't. T fcver given a colorabl ith Madagascar at Louis butcher has c'his neigh^r, who in the presence oi Ihe butcher sold ho f He claims that bis Led to the extent of Ire was a competitive â-  at Nantasket Beac Ivenings ago. One Ited a hive with a s' round it, and 'anothi en two fiery bicycle per was loudly appl ieitors. J now we are threatc louse Investigation i details will out-T Wheeling, W. ^t for notoriety, forrors which an il will overshadow i public, or indeed di ie preat orator Caste i Ed from public life, Ipanish Congress are irs, Senors Canalaj^ r quite a young in: 1 an Alfonist Repub J, the same position 1 |es Dilkie does in Ei 1 English missionary jfing interestina sum la population of ol'ij- 834,707,000; Af: lica. 94,405,000 I, 231,000 and the J giving a total ol 1 bcrease of 16,77S,O0t jt-n censuses. eel tools sprung in ghtened in temperio 1 not enough to ch; â-  color or purple, is aled steel when cole hardening can, wl: with a hammer, or, without danger ol el Stoddard, an aj Jjty, Iowa, w-as attac jle mowing along the npting to escape ht lly severing one of the ditch. He la; ply two hours, the bt ckon him. It is c I recover. a suburban city 1 lowed groom ot seve altar a blushiui jthe conclusion of t Ipioposed to enliven But the feelings r be imagined when wd sung with the h nat shall the harve 'No, Aunt," said â-  r t get on well at alt way there is one tf M she puts chalk Ts nothing," replied " A nice soldier y ild'nt you If you prge, how can you e T engagement " 'itampede of Texii !*ew Orleans a few F» for the police. **, and two hors number of steer It twenty, but, a "^red over the city 1*1 their tracks so ol loe hundreds of tl: Did not *•*â-  t»bl«:J • at t*"' Baby is very e""^| bseo »?; mother has. in eonsequenc^ " p, forbid her to ask ffr anyti^cs.!^^ day there was a disbotm^^^te berries upon the table, ^^a" with longing eyes. JJ' dW"""!! ing glance at her mother^*" ^tfj tJtev. but this characte^^ I unsuccessful. Biby w«J^;" uttered a deep "8*^ Jt 1 be **• I her father's side. 1° a*»Sn. tl*'" she «id:" Papa, tdlnu^" notaakedforanystrawuerr ^:M..::/»:iaiS.