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I as yon can contribute to thenla Pnesa or comfort of auy humi, L j-e of importance in the world -u3 lure ir heart see God." HewJ |ae opening for Boul-cultare-tha |rofu^d""""'^»^«H tnal nature was given to serve J control It, and it, therefore, u J Its true sphere of service nndeJ lion of the spiritual. T must be postponed, take timebJ kck, now or never. You must lird isent, launch yourself on any waya eternity in each moment. ty, like zeal, is only valuable asitii nut most people bestow their praiM ality, and give little heed to thd to which it is directed. ' ell for old age that it is alway lied with a facility of being d or, should we see how we arensei Id not acquiesce, what would ' ns are so many sorts of defects in ola it is so liable to contempt that thl â- chase a man can make is the kind] affection of his own family comJ id fear at e no longe' his weapoDB. Tde Shades of Night. con L^dy (to husband). " My dew chink to order a. ton of coal to-day?" nd. "Yes." Con Lady. " And my shoes " nd. " Yes and" (peering out of ow) " there is a truck backing ii| oor now, but it's too dark to aea it has the coal or the shoes." A Pleasant Peature. Did you read my story in the cnr mber of the Everyothtr MoniU\ I, Miss Smith " Yes, and liked it very much." Thanks. Well writtenâ€" eh?" Very and so delightfully short, Eeas3n for All Things. do you fill up your paper will sense as this " he said to the edij John Smith, of PugViUe, i» '" ling on his many friends.' " en the offioe-boy poked his head i and said, " Mr. Smith, of Pug-j itstifty extry papers." 3 why," explained the astute edi^ latherlyâ€" " What beautiful Wetl h has ' Miss Sharptongue-" X»il er last set much prettier than Mij all take courage from the wor Eliot, who wrote ' The darke ever fell upon the earth nevern " never put out the stars. ItowJl stars more keenly, kindlyglancu )test against the darkness. Ddy, the evangelist, bad to gi«j )oys in his Mt. Hermon sohooiji because some of them endeavorwj e of their fellows. They sjot UJf md were about to put him t""^;^! f sprouts when, he P'»U«2,Sttl»l md threatened to carve into u« I first boy that touched him. r bed him. Ixr. Moody ffo*'" with it in bis hand talked W« r to his boys. They ^^f^A id undoubtedly began tne i the detenninatkm to Be *^ j year ago *» «W«f|f rf^f*"^! [lie. de Cuzien, died »P.^"^kiiif or and dismay of bar «!«»•» J produced ^^^ZU%A unting to £100,1 w, r_^j_doi*| ad other charitable in-to^^ e relatives, apparent sni^^ ^Idj brmation came """' .t,jned in I lener, who had been rew»^ »ld, that he, "»hile worW^^ lit upon al^tfffS- '» unimpeachable leg^ ^*^j*tf melon el*s8 he fonn^ \ZtiL*^\ mildeled and di^^'S'" to throw it away, ^^ w^\ er slipped from ?Ji5»^ Ctfi* j .rill framed by Mlto^^^ ^ays befwre ah* .^^tffljf whole pwp«*!y5.ri2i«*' ble taBtitatfoMwDIIâ€" FATHER. UflAPTER XVIL AN CLP FMKND. heart untra veiled stUl returns to thee."â€" Qoi.t!- ' laiin. such had been the fairy She had dreamed of To go abroad ,,, of Nuttie 1- ' mountains, Italian pujtnrea, Bhein- iofNuttieslife. f^l mountains. Its T cMties, a perpetual panorama of de- fcf aud here she was in one of the great W-\ of Paris, as little likely to see the «f that city as she had been to see kn«e of London. The party were halting for two days there Jinee the dentist, on whom Mr. Egre- nt'8 fine show- of teeth depended, praciis- S there b"t Nuttie spent a great part of V .lav aione in the sitting- room, and her rndbae and her mother's, with all their f^Lg and little comforts,. had been lost in agony of landing. Her mother's atten- J^ce was required all the morning, or what y worse, she expected that it would be, L though Nuttie's persistence dragged out Jbe staid, silent English maid, who had never been abroad before, to walk in the Tnilleries gardens, which they could see from their windows, both felt half -scared •lie whole time. Nuttie was quite unused w finding her own way unprotected, and md Marl m was frightened, cross, and mis- ^ie about the bags, which, she averr- had been left by Gregorio's fault. She ,0 hated Gregorio that only a sort of adora- jion which she entertained for Mrs. Egre- Bont would have induced her to come tete- t-Hii with him, and perhaps he was visiting tig disappointment about Mentone on her. jii the afternoonnothing was achieved but a jrire in the Bois de Boulogne, when it was jt once made evident that Mr. Egremont would tolerate no questions nor exclama- His mouth was in no condition for eating in public, and he therefore aecreed that his irife and daughter should dine at the table {hole while he was served alone by Gregorio. QU was a great beon to Nuttie, and to her Bother it recalled bridal days long past at Dieppe; bat what was their astonishment when on entering the room they beheld the familiar face of Mr. Button I It was possi- ble for him to place himself between them, asd there is no describing the sense of rest and protection his presence imparted to them, Bore especially to Nuttie. He had come over, as he did from time to time, on business connected with the ma- terisJe he used, and he was beguiled into telling them of his views of Mark, whom he had put in the way of learning the prelim- inaries needful to an accountant. He had a deep distrust of the business capacities and perseveranee of young gentlemen of family, especially with a countess-aunt in the neigh- borhood, and quoted Lord Eldon's saying that to mike a good lawyer of, one it was needful criumto have'spentbothhia o^n and bis wife's fortune to begin with, but he al- lowed that youDg Mr. Egremont was a very faronrable specimen, ana was resolutely ap- plying himself to his work, and that he bimaelf felt it due to him to give all the as- sistance possible. Miss Headwoitb, he could not deny, had aged, bat far less than Mrs. Nugent in the past year, and it really was a great comfort to Miss Mary to have the old ladies together. He told too how the mission, now lately •ver,had|8tirred the Mickteth way te folk into strong excitement, and how good works had been undertaken, evil habits renounced, re- oonciliations eSected, religious services frequented. Would it last? Nobody, he said, had taken it up so zealously as Gerard Codfrey, who seemed as if be would fain throw everything up, and spend his whole fife in some direct service as a home mis- sionary or something of the kind. " He is good fellow," said Mr. Button, " and it is quite genuine, but I made him wait at least a year, that he may be sure that this is not only a passing impulse." Kuttie thot-ght that she knew what was the impulse that had actuated him, and felt a pleasant elation and self-conscious- ness even while she repressed a sigh of pity for herself and for him. Altogether the dip into the Micklethwayte world was delight- ful, but when Mr. Button began to ask Kuttie what she had seen, she burst not with, ' Nothing â€" nothing but just a walk Md a drive in the Bois de Boulogne ' and her mother explained that 'in Mr. Egre- D-nnt's state of health,' etc. '1 wonder,' asked Mr. Button, ' if I might ke allowed ' Nuttie's eyes sparkled with ecstasy. It ended in her mother, who had been wondering how Mr. Egremont could be wnnsed all the long evening, arranging that Mr. Dutton should come in an hour's time to call on him, on the chance of being ad- Bitted, and tnat then the oflfer might be icade when she had prepared him for it, ad- wsing Nuttie to wait in her own room. ^e was beginning to learn how to steer MWeen her husband and her daughter, wd she did not guess that her old friend was sacrificing one of the best French plays »r the chance. It turned out well Mr. Egremont was Mnscions of a want of variety. He demanded whether it was the young fellow, and being Wisfied on that part, observed in almost a good-humoared tone, " So, we are in for "mbrellas, we may as well go In for the Whole firm i" caused the lights to be lowered Mder pretext of his eyesâ€" to conceal the â- sck of teethâ€" did not absolutely refuse to '«Anttie take advantage of the escort, and f tt" ^^' l^^tton did come to the anteroom â„¢ the apartment, he was received with full •JJrtesy, though Gregorio looked nnutter- *^6 contempt. Mr. Button was a "«n who could talk, and had seen a good deal of the world at different times. *r- Egremont could apreciate intelligent jowersation, so that they got on wonder- W Well together, over subjects that would 7r* been a mere weariness to Nuttie but ,w the excenHina °^+iofaction of hesiring a At last Mr. Dutton U: lT^ «^ceeding satisfaction of hesiring *?klethwayte voice. -- â-  ---j-n, «uiuc. j3.li loan jui.. *^â€" â€" â€" "i something about offering bis eaoort to *« '»dies, or to Miss Egremont, who used, dW "» a paternal way, to be a Uttle .1 ,, " «• paternal way, lo uo • »«u»«~ P«yfellow of his; Mr. Egremont really **»led. and said, 'Ay, af, the child is y^°°8.enough to mind sights. "Well, thank L„V, '°i are as good as to take the wi^K ' *^*y "^^^ v«ry greatful to yon, *L " "' mother cannot go with her, there's "â- 'ttaid. !o^"J^ thought she had never known him for^^^*' *°"i liardly dnrstbeUeve hw good '"'ne would tot 'i •^""•ag. And it ?«»her found, tnm the wheel before so far did that her it »'i J â- """"' or thought she feimd, tha* would not do to be out of call, and sent fe-«i to 5S Ji^"8«»™ l»dpro- trivBd°lS?tJ^^'^* «* Uoniaing was con- as poMible was wasted on the unimportant I was one of the whit» dayi of Nntode' W^ wanting nothing bnt h^^mothfrW «Jp»tum m the sight of the St. Micliel of ^rcJ^e^"*-^^'*^'^^^'-^ 7l^Zi.h *»*•»« "elfishnees, but somehow ^^^^ T!V^. f' "«"waa something SlSsTv^tiS""" " "'^^"^^ ' And thos, when she mentioned her disan- pomtanent at not being aUowed to go to " £ "y*' r*^ her uncle, heans^ered. You could not of course be spared with your father so nnweU." " Oh, he never let me come near him I ^•J^ ® "lightest nse to him I" •. â„¢*:, Egremont would have missed yon." Keally he never gave her time. He per- fectly devours her, body and souL Oh dfar, no Tv R3 for no good I was kept there, but juac pride and ingratitude, though mother tried to call it being afraid for my manners and my style." "In which, if you lapse into such talk, ^u-° u- y justify the precaution. I was just thmking what a young lady you had giown uito, he answered in a tone of banter, un- der which, however, she felt a rebuke and while directing her attention to the Pan- theon, he took care to get within hearing again of Martin. And in looking at these things, he carried her so far below the surface. St. Michael was not so much Raffaelle's iriumph of art as the eternal victory over sin the Sainte Chapelle, spite of all its modern unsanctified gaudiness, was redolent of St. Louis and the cell- of the slaughtered queen was as a martyr's shrine, trod with reverence. There were associations with every turn, and Nuttie might have spent ye-^rs at Paris with another companion without imbibing so many impressions as on t^hia Becember ' day,, when she came home so full of happy chatter that the guests at the table d'hote glanced with amusement at the eager girl as much as with admiration at the beaut^ul mother. Mr. Button had been invit- ed to come and take coffee and spend the evening with them again, but Mr. Egremont's affairs with the dentist had been completed, and he had picked up, or, more strictly speaking, Gregorio had hunted up for him, a couple of French ac- quaintances, who appeared before long and engrossed him entirely. Mr. Dutton sat between the two ladies on a stiff dark green sofa on the opposite side of the room, and under cover of the eager, half-shrieking, gesticulating talk of the Frenchmen they had a quiet low-toned con- versation, like old times, Alice said. "More than old times," Nuttie added, and perhaps the others both agreed with her. When the two Englishwomen started at some I of the loud French tones, almost imagining they were full of rage and fury, their friend smiled and said that such had been his ^st notion on comirg abroad. "Yon have been a great deal abroad?' Mrs. Egremont asked " you seem qiute at home in Paris." " Ob, mamma, he showed me where the school was that he went to, and the house where he lived I Up such an immense way!" Mr. Dutton was drawn on to tall more of his former life than ever had been known to them. His father, a wine merchant, had died a bankrupt when he was ten years old, and a relation, engaged in the same business at Paris, had offered to give him a few years of foreign schooling, and then make him useful in the business. His excellent mother had come with him, and they had lived together on very small means, bigh up in a many-storied lodging- house, while he daily attended the Zycee. His reminiscences were very happy of those days of cheerful contrivance, of her eager desire to make the tiny appartetnent a home to her boy, of their pleasant Sundays and holidays, and the life that in this manner was pecul- iarly guarded bv her influence, and the sense of being all she had upon earth. He had scarcely ever spoken of her before, and he dwelt on her now with a tenderness that showed how she had been the guiding spirit of his life. At fifteen he was taken into the office at Marseilles, and she went thither with him, but the climate did not agree with her; she drooped, and, moreover, he discovered that the business was not conducted in the hon- ourable manner he had supposed. After a few months of weighing hi6 obligations to^^ his kinsman against these instincts, the question was solved by his cousin's retiring. He resolved to take his mother back to Eng- land at any loss, and falling in with one of the partners of the umbrella firm in quest of French silk, he was engaged as foreign correspondent and brought his It made both hearts adie for her. even Alioo's tfi^il? k'^v'^^?" P*^ ' adf-reproaoh ^t«u i**"" 'T*" "«' «*»* «»'»8b to help her daughter better. Neither of them gaeaed at the effect that hS*?^ *^ l**® ^?^®^y y»™« Beenung widow nad had on the ahready grave self-reatrained oang man in the homelatelv made lonely, bow she had been his secret object for yeara, and how, when her history was revealed to him, he had atiU hoped on for a certainty Which had come at last, as so fatal a shock and overthrow to all his dreania. A life of self-restraint and self -conquest had rendered it safe for him to thoro^hly enjoy the brief intercourse, which had conw about by the accident ot his having come to dine at the Hotel de Louvre, to meet a friend who had failed him. These were two completely happy hours • L ..*'** three, and when they said " good- night" there was a sense of soothing and In- vigoration on Alice's mind and on Nuttie's that patience and dutifulness were the best modes of doing justice to her Micklethwayte training, although ha had scarcely said a word rf direct rebuke or counsel. While Mr. Button sped home to tell Miss Head worth that Mrs. Egremont looked love- lier than ever, and was â€" yea she wasâ€" more of an angel, that her husband had been very pleasant, much better than he expected, and, indeed, might come to anything good under such influence and as to little Nuttie â€" she was developing fast, and had a brave constant heart, altegether at Micklethwayte. But that servant who was acting as courier was an insolent scoundrel, who was evidentiy cheating them to the last degree. glowing MM%«pon thakahe and her mother were avoided by aome yonnf ladies to whom they had been introdaoiid. and whom they nw rmlarty at the daily services at St Miehaol's Ghoroh. Th^ wtra pleaaant- looking girls, with whom Nnttie longed to foatemin, and aha was mortified at never bemg allowed to get beyond a few frigidly civil words in the street, more especially when she came npon sketching parties and picnics in which she was never included. (to BK OONTINUXD.) cannot out with t^ one hand and with thia MsAs ho 4oea not ondoiake to eat The !i*5^^5«»*Md Mm Mi Im andofez- .^MMlaaiy dezfWty, battihe littie finger M deformed by growth which tiie Prinoe only imperf ecdy conceals by wearing rinsa op to near the third phalanga." PEBSONAL. CHAPTER XVIIL-A Feikkd in Nebd. " True courage often is in frightened eyes."â€" Thiugktt and Verte*. All the preliminaries of the sojourn at Nice had been settled in correspondence, and the Egremont family had nothing to do, after arriving at the station, but to drive up to Villa Eugenie, whose flower-wreathed balconies were like a vision of beauty. Ser- vants had been hired through agencies known to Mr. Egremont, and Gregorio look- ed very black at his mistress keeping the reins in her hand, and tried to make her feel herself inefficient. It was not an eventful or very interesting part of Ursula's life. She was almost wild with the novelty and beauty of the South at first, but except for what she could thus see, there was little variety. The mould of the day was as much as possible after the Bridgefield fashion, except that there were no cousins at the Rectory, no parish interests, very little society, as far as the ladies were concerned. Mr. Egremont had old acquaint- ances and associates with whom he spent after- noons and evenings; after his own fashion, but they were not people to who.ii he wish- ed to introduce his wife and daughter. And the superior English habitues of Nice, the families who formed the regular society, knew Mr. Egremont's reputation sufficient- ly to feel by no means disposed to be cor- dial to the fair wife and grown-up daughter whom he so unexpectedly produced on the scene. It had been different at home, where he had county standing, and the Canon and Canoness answered for the newcomers but here, where all sorts ol strange people came to the surface, the respectable felt it need- ful to be very cautious, and though of course one or two ladies had been asked to call through the intervention of Lady Kiikaldy or of Mrs. William Egremont, and tiad been assured on their authority that it was " all right," their attentions were clogged by doubt, byreluctance to involve their mankind in intimacy with the head of the family. Thus very little of the proverbial gaiety of Nice offered itself to Nuttie and her mother, and, except by a clerical family who knew Mr. Spyers, they were kept at a distance, which Mr. Egremont perceived and resented by permitting no advances. The climate suited him so well that, to his wife's great relief, he seemed to have dropped his incli- nation for sedatives but his eyes would not bear much, and she felt bound to be always on the alert, able to amuse him and hinder his feeling it dull. Gregorio highly disap- proved of the house and «ervants, and was always giving hints that Mentone would agree far better with his master but every day that Mr. Egremont seemed sufficiently amused at Nice was so much gain, and she '.had this in her favour, that he was always indolent and hard to move. mother to Micklethwayte, but not in time to restore her health, and he had been left alone in the world just as he came of age, when a small legacy came to Hm from his cousin, too late tor her to profit by it It had been invested in the business, and he had thus graduaUy risen to his present posi- tion. Mrs. Egremont was amazed to hear that his mother had only been dead so short a time before she had herself come to Micklethwayte and fairly apologued for the surprise she could not help betraying at finding how youthful he had then been, and Nnttie exclaimed, in her original unguarded fashion "Why, Mr. Dutton, IJilways thought von were an old bachelor I" « Nuttie, my dear " said her motiier m a note of wamtog, but Mr. Dutton laughed *°«^ Not 80 far wrong I They tell me I never '^Yon°hfd°^ways to be everytiiing to your mother;' said Mrs. Egremont softiy. "Yes," he said, "and a very blessed *^i?iL*ry'^n don'r«gret now all tiiat you must have always been giving up for ' returned Alice. "No, indeed. her. Only that I did not give "ilent Martin nn more. „ "That is always the way. "ItuHindeea. One Uttie knows tiie Moreover, between his master's levee and late dinner Gregorio was hardly ever to be Gregorio was hardly ever to be found. No doubt he knew the way to Monte Carlo well enough, and perhaps preferred that the fam- ily should be farther off, for he soon ceased to show himself discontented with their present abode. Once when his absence was inconvenient, Mr. Egremont abused him roundly as a good-for-nothing gambler, but when Alice hoped that he might be called to a reckoning, the wrath had subsided with the immediate vexation, and as usual she was told " All those fellows were alike." The foreign servants were not to be in- duced to give the early-rising ladies more than a roll and cup of coffee, and Nuttie felt ravenous till she learned to lay in a stock of biscuits, and, with Martin's conniv- ance, madd tea on her own account, and sustained her mother for the morning's walk before the summons to Mr. Egremont. He always wanted his wife much earlier in the day, during his hours of deshabille, and letting her write his letters and read the papers to him. She was pleased with this advance, but it gave Nuttie a great deal more solitude, which was sometimes judiciously spent, but it was very hard not to be desultory in spite of learning lessons in French, Italian, and drawing. Later in the day came the drive or the visit to the public gurdens when the band was playing, but this became less frequent as Mr. Egremont observed the cold civility shown to his wife, and as he likewise grew stronger and made more engagemento of his own. Then Nuttie had happy afternoons of driving, donkey-riding, or walking with her mother, sketching, botanising, admiring, and laving up stores for the long descriptive letters' that delighted the party in St An- bro se Road, drinking in all the charm of the scenery, and entering into it intelligent- ly. They spent a good many evenings alone together likewise, and it could not but give Alice a pang to see the gladness her daugh- ter did not repress when this was the case, even though to herself it meant relaxation of the perpetual vigilance she had to exert when the fatiier and daughter were together to avert collisions. They were certainly not coming nearer to one another, though Nuttie was behaving veiy well and snbmiasively on the whole, and seldom showing Bymptoma of rebellion. Tlua went on thronSOi the early part rf their stay, bat latterly thore waa a Sir Edward Henry Lieveking is the new physician in ordinary to the Enj^lish Que«i. Pauline Lucca hasannonncediher intention of taking up her abode in Vienna and giv- ing ^nging lessons. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone left orders that no letters should be f urwarded to them from England during their stay in Italy. Queen Victoria is to receive the first bar of gold taken from the newly discovered Gwyn-fynydd Mine at Dolgelly^ Wales. Madame Sollier, a beautiful mulatto wo- man, the wife of a French professor, has passed her examinations and been received as a Doctor of the Paris Faculty; Von Moltke's simple habits are likely to insure him a long old age. He enjoys family life, shuns company, and talks rarely, but pithily, and relishes a good game of widst The Austrian Minister of Public Instruc- tion has issued a decree forbidding the use of small printed books in public schools, as the cause of the near-sightednes9 so prevalent among school children. Mme. Adelina Patti has decided to for- sake Wales. She was shocked by the recent burglarious visit to Craig-y-nos Castle, by which she lost one of her most valuable rings, the gift of a distinguished admirer. She has determined to part with her Welsh estate, and it will soon be in the market. De Brazsa, the African explorer, says the npper Congo region teems with ivory. He found large quantities of tosks in some of the villages, and they were often offered to him for small quantities of beads. While he was floating down the river he saw in eight days 105 elephants along the bank. George W. Rosure, known as the " cow- boy evangelist," is said by an Arkansas newspaper to be worth $700,000, which yields him an income of $150 a day. His fortune was made in cattle and by lucky in- vestments in real estate. He is just 40 years oli, and in his youth was reputed to be one of the most lawless of the desperadoes of the plains. W. J. Florence, the comedian, is the pos sessor of more than 100 volumes of rare old. plays that were given him by the Duke of Manchester. Among them is a copy of the first playhouse edition of " Hamlet," which was once the property of Better ton, and is annotated on almost every page by his pen- oil. The Crown Princess of Austria presented her husband, Prince Rudolf, with a complete outfit of geometrical instruments as a New Year's gift The case of walnut, inlaid with silver, which held the instruments also con- tained a pretty letter from the Princess trusting that their lives would " henceforth be happier." Miss Tasker, a rich and eccentric old lady, died just before Christmas at her country place in Essex, England. She was a persis- tent disbe'i aver in railways and never enter- ed a railw ay carriage, but always traveled in her own coach, following the old fashion- ed method when undertaking a long journey of having her horses changed at the roadside inns. A fashion paper tells of a remarkable wed- ding in London recently, where the bride was attended by a lot of little girls clad in black velvet frocks, red stockings black shoes, red cloaks, and red three-cornered hats, trimmed with black velvet, and carry- ing red bunquets tied with red and black ribbons. Somebody said that they looked like a lot of littie devils â€" a very good des- cription, to judge from the costumes. A correspondent who had a personal in- terview (or says that he did) with the poet Whittier on his eightieth birthday, writes that the good old man seemed quite sad (under a strong impression that it was his last birthday. The subject of marriage was in- troduced, and he said " as a cloud gathered over his face " " Ah,. I was so interested in my poetry and in the slavery struggle that I permitted those golden days to go by with- out getting married, and now I am sorry." A man named Zeli Baba, aged 102, who was the last cf the Janissaries, has just died at Sarajevo. When the Janissaries were massacred in 1826 by order of the Sultan, Mahmoud II., Zeli Baba escaped and took refuge in Russia. He subsequently return- ed to Sera jevo, and was earning his living there as a schoolmaster when the Austrians took possession of the country. He was a man of great abilities, and published a book of Persian poems, which are much read in the East. Phil Armour's method of distributing Christmas gifts to the 2,000 Sunday-school children of his $200,000 mission was peculiar. After the usual Christmas services tiie lights were turned down and then was seen on the platform, brilliantiy lighted, a miniature fac-Bi(iile of the mission building. Every architectural peculiarity and characteristic was reproduced. As the children marched past the portico of the little building men within handed out Caristmas presents,- and when they were all gone the building was taken to pieces and was then found to be made of articles suitable for gifts and which were distributed. The millionaire pork .packer was present with his family, appar- entiy as happy as the happiest child there. If the throat trouble of the Crown Prince of Germany causes his death soon, the heir to the throne will be his eldest son. Prince Wilhelm, of whom the Countess von Krock- ow writes " The Germans cannot for- Absolute OonfidenoBi The affairs of Montenegro were conducted in a very peculiar fashion when Mr. Law- rence Oliphaat visited it aome yearn ago. On at riving at the littie town of Cettinje, the capital of the principality, he found thaa it contained no hotel, bat that room waa made for the rare stranger at a lodging- honae containing one or two Biare bed-rooms. Having been put in one of theoe chambers, he fotmd it simply furnished and, as there was no table, his dinner was spread upon a large chest which it contained. While he was enjoying his repast, the door suddenly opened, and a stalwart Montenegrin stalked in. Says the traveler-^" He addressed me with great politeness in' his native tongue, at leaat I gathered from hia manner that h was polite, for I could not understand a word he said. I rose and bowed with much ceremony, addressing him fluently in the English language, upon which he drew an immense key from his pocket and pointed to the look of the chest, thus giving me to un- derstand that he wished to epen it. In order for him to accomplish this, it was necessary for me to remove my dinner, an operation which was speedily perf or xed. As he seemed a frank and engaging sort of person, without any secrets, 1 looked over his shpulder while he opened the chest to see what was in it To my astonishment, it was full to the brim of bags of money. Not only this, but my strange visitor opened one of them, and poured out a handful Of gold. When he had counted out what he wanted, he tied up the bag again, replaced ic, locked up the chest, helped me, with many Sclavonic expres- sions, w ich I have no doubt were apologies, to spread my banquet again, and, with a final polite salutation, vanished, leaving me alone with the untold treasure which he had thus revealed to me. The absolute confidence placed in ms, an utter stranger, appalled me, and I went to sleep vainly trying to unravel the mystery. It was not solved until the next day, when I acquired the information that the. chest upon which 1 had dined con- tained the entire finances of the principality, and that the Montenegrin who had unlocked it and vacated his chamber in my behalf was its Chancellor of the Exchequer." Methods for Despatohing Oriminala. Auto da fe or execution by the Spanish Inquisition, usually by burning. Beating with clubs, practised by the South Afiican tribes. Beheading or decapitation, known to the Greeks, Romans,' and Jews, and used for- merly in England and France, and now in China and Japaq.. Blowing from cannon, employed in quell- ing a rebellion among the Sepoyfi in India. Boiling formerly used in England in the case of poisoners. Burning, a familiar mode of execution in the time of the early re igious persecutions. Burying alive, emp'nyed among barbarous tribes and even in civilized countries. Crucifixion, a very ancient form of execu- tion. Decimation, employed by military trib- unals where every tenth man was chosen by lot to die in cases where a large number of soldiers mutinied. ' Dichotomy, or bisecting, mentioned in the Bible, where' it is written men were sawn asunder. Dismemberment, used in France in tho seventeenth century. Drowning, in vogue in ancient Sri% Greece, Rome, and Persia. Exposure to wild beasts, an ancient pun- ishment. Flaying alive, formerly used in England. Flogging with the knout, used in Russia. Garroting, a punishment originally de- vised by the Arabs and Moors. The guillotine, haii-kari, impalement, pois- oning, hanging, pounding in a mortar, pre- cipation, pressing to death, the rack, rim- ning the gauntlet, shooting, stabbing, ston- ing, strangling, and suffocation. A Nice Little OhristiaD. Fashionalla Rector (to little girl) â€" So you love to fr o to church, Kiossie, and be a good little girl 7 Flossie â€" Yes, indeed, Mr. Whitechoker. Rector â€" Do yon know many of the little girls who belong to the church Flossie â€" No, sir; not very many. I only care to know those who sit in the middle aisle. give an heir apparent of the throne having been bom mediocre in figure and imperfect- ly formed. Prince WUhelm has a crippled arm. The fingers are mere knoba. In the Hussar uniform there is a pocket, and he wears it because the three fingers of the helpless member can be hung in the pocket Otherwise it hangs awkwardly and help- lessly in its sleeve. His horses are especi- ally trained, and before the Prince is ta mount are ridden three-quarters of an hour to wear them down. He can just manage to hold the reins. We were together in a country house. I looked with our hostess at the fork with which he eats. It is of nlver, and not conspicnonaly different from otiiers, but fixed to the onder tine there ia a sharp, small blade. What the Prince Familiar With the- Langnage. Irish Woman (to Chinaman in street car) â€" Shove yersilf fernnist the earner wid yer blue sbir-rt, ond give a leddy a chonoe to set down, bad cess to yez Chinaman â€" Wow Irish Woman â€" Can't yez talk English, ye yaller haythen Chinaman â€" If 1 couldn't talkee English mnchee bettie old Ilish woman, yep, I shootee my glandmothle I A Bule that Doesn't Always Work. " Blessed are they that expect little," he said to the convict, " for they shall not be disappointed." " Hold on there, pard. That's just where you're out. I expected Uttie when I was up for burglary, and got twenty years." "As the Twig is Bent." "Oo ittle totsy Wotay, I 'pecs oo bettah dit down on de f'o' an' 'et momma wnk." "Flo'nce, wha's de use raisin' de baby wid sich baby telk? Does yo' wan' de chile ter talk like dat when he'a a grow'd-up man An' he will 'f you 'dress him in dat fash- ion. Why doan yo' say, 'I's ob de 'pinion ya' bettah set on de flo' whUe yo' mnddah pufoms her duties,' an' hab it grow np an' speak good English whileyou's 'bout it " Vice Versa. " When she ia mine," I marmdred in my heart " I'll, mold her in a thousand ways Her fatiltsâ€" dear, tioy blemishesâ€" will start And melt away like Summer haze.' Ah, now we're married but my tender dreaoi Has laded into horrid blan I fetdi and oanyâ€" like a slave I sesiii She is not mine 'til I am b«n I »'*--,« 111 'â- ' .434 ?-â- â-  â- ' 1«^'»- â- â€¢!"â-  -•f»l ' p. ' ;i.^5