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 â- " 7 5?!" *i^-';^ it yl" := ;:t-- 'â-  i: i '•*! !:*.â- â- *' â- â- -•.'" 1: {: '1 'â-  BUTTIE'S FATHSE, BT CHASkiOm H. TOUKQ. CHAPTER XXIILâ€" (Continued.) He WM confirmed in this hope bjr finding tht Mark's arrival was not unwelcome to Mr. Egremont, who seemed to have forgot- ten the unpleasantness with which he had r^arded the engagement, and only remem- bered that his npphew had been Alice's champion, resuming old customs of depsnd- ence, making him act as amuiuen«is, and arraigning the destiny that had restored so lovely and charming a creature only to snatch her away, leaving nothing but a head- strong girl and helpless baby. That poor litt.e fellow was all that could be desired at his age, but Nuttie felt her beautiful mother almost insulted when the elder ladies talked of the wonderful resem- blance that the Canoness declared to have b«eu quite startling in the earlier hours ot his life. For the convenience of one of the sponsers, he was ti be christened in the afternoon following the funeral, the others bein .â€"by his mother's special en- treaty â€" his 8Mer and Mark. Egremont customs were igunst the ladies going to the funeral, s ' chat Nuttie was kept at home, much against ner will but after the luncheon she escaped, leaving word with her aunts that she was going to walk down to church alone, and they were sorry en- ough for her to let her have her own way, especially as her father, having been to the funeral, had shut himself up and left all the rest to them. The Egremont f- mily had a sort of en- closure or pen with iron rails round it close to the church wa'l, where they rested under flat slabs. The ^re in this was open now, nd the cew ma grave was one mass of flowers, â€" wreiuh.-j and crosses, snowdrops, hyacinths, cillieriias, and the like, â€" and at the feet wa, a Lower pot with growing plants (f "«• white hyacinth called in France "//,'.. Lj fa Vierge." These, before they becan.t; :r'quent in England, had been erowa in Mr. Dutton's greenhouse, and having been favourites with Mrs. Egremont, it had come to bj his custom every spring to bring her the earliest plant that bloomed. Nuttie knew them well, the careful tying up, the neat arrangement of moss over the earth, the peculiar trimness of the whole and as she looked, the remembrance of the happy times of old, the sick longing for all tnat was gone, did what nothing had hitherto effected â€" brought an overwhelming guah of tears. t There was no checking them now that they had cone. She fled into church on the first sounds of arrival and hid herself in the friendly shelter of the great family pew; but she haa to come out and take her place, though she could hardly utter a word, and it was all that she could do to keep from sobbing aloud she could not hand the babe, and the Canon bad to take on trust the name " Alwyn Headworth," for he could not hear the words that were on her trembling lips. It was soon over and while the baby and his attendants, with Miss Headworth, were being packed into the carriage, and her uncle and aunt bowing off the grand god- fithnr, she clutched her cousin's arm, and sai'i, " Mark where's Mr. Batton " " 1 â€" I didn't know he was coming, but now you ask, I believe I saw him this morn- ing." " I know he is here." " Do you want to see him " said Mark kindly. " Oh, if I might 1" Then, with a sudden i^lpulse, she looked hack into the church, and recognfeed a black figure and slightly bald head bow- ed down in one of the seats. She pointed him out. " No doubt he is waiting for us all to be gone," said Mark in a low voice. " You go iqto the Rectory, Nuttie there's a fire in the study, and I'll bring him to you there. I'll get him to stay the night if I can." " Oh, thank yom 1" and it w:as a really fervent answer. Mark waited, and when Mr. Dutton rose, was quite shocked at his paleness and the worn look on his face, as of one who had struggled hard for resignation and calm. He started, almost as if a blow had been struck him, as Mark uttered kis name in the porch, no doubt having never meant to be perceived nor to have to speak to any one but in one moment his features had recovered their usual expression of courteous readiness. He bowed his head when Mark told him that Ursula wanted to shake hands with him, and came towards the Rectory, but he en- tirely declined the invitation to sleep there, declarini;; that he must return to London that night. Mark opened the study door, and then went away to secure that the man whom he had learnt to esteem very highly should at least have same refreshment before he left the house. Those few steps had given Mr. Dutton time to turn from a mourner to a consoler, and when Nuttie came towards him with her hand outstretched, and " Oh, Mr. Dutton, Mr. Dutton 1" he took it in both his, and with a calm broken voice said, " God has been very good to us in letting us know one Uke her." " But oh what can we do without her ' " Ah, Nuttie I that always comes before us. But I saw your work and your comfort jus" now." "Psor little boy! I shall get to care about him, I know, but as yet I can only feel how much rather I wotdd have her." " No doubt, but it is her work chat is lef c you." " Her work Yes I But oh, Mr. Dutton, you don't know how dreadful it is " He did not know what she meant. Wheth- er it was simply the burthen on any sudden- ly motherless girl or any special evil on her father's part, but he was soon enlightened, for there was something in this old friend that drew out her confidence beyond all ethers, even when he repressed her, and she could not help telling him in a few mur- mured furtive words such as she knew she ought not to utter, and he felt it almost treason to hear. " Opiates I she was always trying to keep my father from them I It too much for her 1 My nnole aaya I most try to do it, and I can't." •' Poor child I" uid Mr. Dutton kindly, thoogh cut to the heart »t the reveUtion of â- weefe Alioe'a trial " at leaat you oui atrive, and there is always a Ueaing on reaolation." " Oh, it yon knew I and he doesn't like me. I dontthink Fve ererbeen nioe tohim, and thkt vexed herl I hsven't (lot her w»y«." ** No," nid Mr. Dattoa. " bnl yon irill kuB otiMn. IjMk here, Nattb. T«b vmi ' but what does it â- lumU daly ham to look oat for take to SanODg." "' Jdm tttfartfa ««ed to be always craving for grand and noble tasks, the more diffionlt the better. I think yon have got one now, more severe than ever could have been thonght of â€" and vacv noble. What are those lines about the task " bequeathed from bleeding sire to son" Isn't it like that Yon are bound to go on with her work, and the more helpless yon feel, and the more you throw yonnelf on Grod, the more God will help yon. He takes the will for the deed, if only yon have will enough and, Nuttie, yon can pray that yoo may be able to love and honor him." Teacups were brought in, followed by Mark, and interrupted them and, after a short interval, they parted at the park gate, and Ursula walked home with Mark, waked from her dull numb trance, with a crushed feeline as if she had been bruised all over, and yet with a purpose within her. CHAPTER XXIV. FABHS OB UMBRELLAS. " He tokin into his handis His londis aad his lode."â€" Chabcbr. " Mark Mark " A little figure stood on the gravel road leading through Lescombe Park, and lifted up an eager face, as Mark jumped down from his horse. " I made sure you would come over." "Yes, but I could not get away earlier. And I have so much to say to you and your mother, Annaple there's a great proposi- tion to be considered." " Oh dear and here is John bearing down upon us. Never mind. We'll get into the mither's room and be cosy 1" " Well, Mark," said Sir John's hearty voice, " I thonght you would be here. Come to luncheon That's right And how is poor Egremont I thought he look- ed awful at the funeral." " He is fairly well, thank yon but it was a berrible shock." " I should think so. To find such a pret- ty swee: creature just to lose her again. Child likely to live, eh " "Oh, yes, he is a fine fellow, and has never had anything amiss with him. " "Poor little chap I Doesn't know what he has lost I Well, Nannie," as they neared the house, "do you wuit a tete-a-ttte or to take him in to your mother Here, 1 11 take the horse." "Come to her at once," sa id Annaple she wants to hear all, and besides she is expecting me." Mark was welcomed by Lady Ronisglen with inquiries for all concerned, and especi- ally for that "peer girl." "I do pity « young thing wh^has to take a woman's place too soon," she said. "It takes too much out of her I" "I should think Ursula had plenty of spirit," said Annaple. "I don't know whether spirit is what is wanted," said Mark. "Her mother pre- vailed more without it than I am afraid she is likely to do with it." "Complements answer better than paral- lels Sometimes, but not always," said Lady Ronnisflen. "Which are we?" asked Annaple de- murely. "Not parallels certainly, for then we should never meet," responded Mark. "But here is the proposal. My father and all the rest of us have been doing our best to get my tmcle to smooth Ursula's way by getting rid of that valet of his." "Theman with the Mephistopheles face?' " Exactly. He is a consummate scoundrel, as we all know, and so does my uncle him- self, but he' has been about him these twelve or fourteen years, and has got a sort of hold on himâ€" that â€" that â€" It is no use to talk of it, but it did not make that dear aunt of mine have an easier life. In fact I should not be a bit surprised if ne had been a hind- rance in the hunting her up. Well, the fel- low thought proper to upset some arrange- ments my mother had made, and then was more insolent than I should have thought even he eeuld have b*n towards her. I suppose he had got into the habit with poor Auat Alice. That made a fulcrum, and my father went at my uncle with a will. I never saw my f athier so roused in my life. I don't mean by the behaviour to his wife, but at what he knew of the fellow, and all the harm he had done and is doing. And actually my uncle gave in at last, and con- sented to tell Gregorio to look out for an- other situation, if he has not feathered his nest too well to need one, as I believe he has." "Oh, that will make it much easier for Ursula 1" cried annaple. "If he goes," put in her mother. "I think he will. I really had no notion how much these two years have improved my uncle! To be sure, it would be hard to live with such a woman as that without being the better for it I But he really seems to have acquired a certain notion of duty " They did not smile at the simple way in which Mark spoke of this vast advance, and Lady Ronnisglen said, " I hope so, for the sake of his daughter and that poor little boy." "I think th»t has something to do with it," said Mark. " He feels a responsibility, and still more, I think he was struck by having a creature with him to whom evil was like physical pain." " It will work," said Lidy Rsnnisglen. " Then," went on Mark, " he took us all by surprise by making me this proposalâ€" to take the management of the estate, and be- come a kind of private secretary to him. You know he gets rheumatism on the optic nerve, and is almost blind at times. He would give me £300 a year, and do up the house at the home farm, rent free. What do you say to that, Annaple " There was a silence, then Annaple said •' Give n p the umbrellas I Oh What do you think, Mark " " Myfather wishes it," said Mark. "He would, as he had promised to do, make over to me my share of my own mother's fortune, and that would, I have been reckoning, bring us just .what we had thought of start- ing npon this spring at Micklethwayte." " The same now/' said Lady Ronnisglen, after SnmA «*Anb/minfT Kn4-. nFl..« JM S.L "Fortunes are and the nmbrellaa," Mid have been made on Mark. "Greenle*f has a place almost equal to Monks Horton, and Datton* though he makes no show, has realised a considerable amount." " Oh yes, let as stick to the nmbrellasl' cried Annaple " yon've made the phmge, so it does mot signify now, and we should be BO much more mdepeadent out of the way of everybody." „ ,. "Yon would lose in society, said Mark, "excepting, of course, as to the Monks Horton people but they are often away." " Begging your pardon, Mark, is there much to lose m this same neighborhood " laughed Annaple, " now May will go.' " It is not so much a question of liking," added her mother, " as of what is for the best, and whore you may wish to be â€" say ten years hence." Looked at in this way, there could he no question but that the umbrella company proniised to make Mark a richer man in ten years' time than did the agency at Bridge- field Egremont. He had a salary from the office already, and if he purchased shares in the partnership with the portion his father would resign to him, his income would al- ready equal what he would have at Bridge- field, and there was every prospect of its in- crease, both as he became more valuable, and as the business continued to prosper. If the descent in life had been a grievance to the ladies, the agency would haVe been an infinite boon, but having swallowed so much, as Annaple said, they might as well do it in earnest, and to some purpose. Perhaps, too, it might be detected that under the circum- stances Annapie would prefer the living in a small way out of reach of her sister's visible compassion. So the matter was settled, but there was an under current in Mark's mind on which he had not entered, namely, that his pre- sence at home might make all the difference in that reformation in his uncle's habits which Alice had inaugurated, and left in the hands of others. With him at hand, there was much more chance of Gregorio's being dispensed with, Ursula's authority maintained, little Alwyn well brought up, and the estate, tenants, and household properly cared for, and then he smiled at his notion of supposing himself of so much importance. Had he only had himself to consider, Mark would have thought .his duty plain but when he found Miss Ruth- ven and her mother so entirely averse, he did not deem it right to sacrifice them to the doubtful good of his uncle, nor indeed to put tlie question before them as so much a matter of conscience that they should feel bound to consider it in that light. He did indeed say, " Well, that settles it," in a tone that led Annaple to exclaim " I do believe yon want to drop the umbrellas I" " No," he answered, " it is not that, but my father wished it, and thought it would be good for my uncle." " No doubt," said Annaple, " but he has got a daughter, also a son, and a brother, and agents are plentiful, so I can't see why all the family should dance attendance on him." Lady Ronnisglen, much misdoubting Mr. Egremont's style of society, and dreading that Mark might be dragged into it, added her word, feeling on her side that it was de- sirable and just to hinder the family from sacrificing Mark's occupation and worldly interest to a capricious old roice, who might very possibly throw him over when it would be almost impossible to find anything else to do. Mofeover, both she and Annaple believed that the real wish was to rescue the name of Egremont from association with umbrellas, and they held themselves bound to combat what they despised and thought a piece of worldly folly. (to be continukd.) Hints for the Study of English is. the caption of an article in a recent num- ber of the Chriitmn Union, which is worthy the attention of all. Surely there is great need of improvement in this direction. As we move about in society how few do we find who speak in elegant, exact, discrimin- ating English. It is a delight to listen to those who are masters of their mother tongue, and we feel it would be well if in all our schools more attention was given to the study of English, and also if parents would themselves be more particular in their shoice of lan^age, and would by example *8 well as precept so instruct their children. The writer refeired to urges that children and young people should not only rtad good poetiy and good literature but should in ad- dition memorize good English. 'We quote some paragraphs from the article It is not enough tor children to read these things; they must learn them. Hire children to learn "by heart." They will thank you for it. Little folk often earn pocket money by picking up pins, weeding the garden, shoveling snow, and the like. It 18 good to give them a little mental exer- cise m the same way. I remember well when the nurserv funds were replenished in tlua way. A dollar for repeating perfectly The Deserted VilhSge," a dollaTfor the Ancient Mariner," seventy-five cents for Gray a "Elegy," and fifty cents for " Burned Mamuons swarthy cheek like fire." This money was well invested, and has brought u a ccmpound interest of pleasure and gratitude. Cultivate the habit of quotation his "Life and Letters of Lord Macau- lay Trevelyan gives a charming picture of the family circle m Great Ormond Street. When the writer's father, Sir George Tre- velyan, first jomed it he says he could not imagme who were the queer people to or I ^u^'J^*"^,*" '»°^y ^«» talking. At length he discovered that they were the charactersin novels, chiefly those of Jane Austen, with whom Macaulay and his sia- tere were so familiar that they talked paces ofherbwks. Darcy and Elizabeth BeiSftt. Jane and Bingley, were constantly intro- duced m their own very words; and who doubt, that to t) memorizing and quoK of Jane Austen ^nlay owes somethini at least of his rich store and tp ^^ words I Rnskln, in his new autobi asonbes much of his knowledge of to ttie patient stonbu away i^hja miodJttd dauy repetition of ohiantar #».«•. Ja^IZSjl same now, some reckoning, lead to?" "Well ^nothing, I am afraid," said Mark " as yon know, this is aU I have to reckon upon. The yoonger diildrea will have hardly anything from their motiier, so that mj fathers means most ohiefiy so to them.*^ " " And this agency is ratirdy dependent OB your satisfying Mr. I^iremontr' "^Tme, but that's a thSig onfy too easOr done. However, a* T«mn3r tiiis a«Bey as weU as ifca Jdiai^"i;;^jZJn2!T"f?' l».«ofata«,«id tfthrtoaia to«Sjlj5];^^ to a ^»* dafly repetition of chapter after tiiefcbU intlmmng^IamS^!i,5»rr«d at **4fa»diTiM there will not spring to his Ops the noble words of Thackeray's noUe miira. A class of school-girls once learned ver- batim Addison's charming "Spectator" paper on tne exercise of the fan. Then th^ knew Addison's sfyle, and needed to study no oritioal volnmes about Addison's style. The delipato hiqnor, -the subtile sarcasm, the restraint, the polish, and the power of the eighteenth century essayists became a genuine possession of their mmds. Again, 1 would suggest, make children, even little children, narrate. (Bargain with them, " 111 tell yon a story if you will tell me one afterward. " I knew this to be tried with a class of little children, and the result was surprising. Stumbling, stuttering, and embarrassment very soon gave way to ease and confidence in the tolling of some simple little tale or anecdote, and gradually there developed the beginning of that command of language afterwards so indispensable. Play word games. Verbarinm, word- stealing, the rhyming game, capping verses â€" these make words the subject of thought, and thought of them gives mastery of them. In this connection, tor a last and homely hint, consider where yon keep your diction- ary. If it is on too high a shelf, or too low a shdf or under a pile of other books, it will not be easy to look into it. Put Webster or Worcester or stout old Sam Johnson on a table by himself, and teach children the habit of looking to him for counseL Then language " fit and fair and simple and suffi nent " will come to them as a natural and rightful possession. others. lUlgj^i^ilS, be seen. The iiJkr^^Sl forth fromTt«^JS«^*iiisJ the old Roman IS* «c5S to me than all t "' 3?^« all the everdonP.-Pie^* Gonrtine: in the Gonntiy. Select the eirl. Agree with the girl's father in politics and the mother in religion, if you have a rival keep an eye on him if he is a widower Keep two eyes on him. Don't say_ to the girl you have no bad hab- ite. It will be enough for you to say that you never heard yourself smoke in yojir sleep. Don't put sweet stuff on paper. If you do you will hear it read in after years, when your wife has some special purpose in inflicting upon you the severest punishment known to a married man. Go home at a reasonable hour in the evening. Don't wait until a girl has to throw her whole mind into THEYWELOOMBa' A Fierce ,„„«,^;;;- »hewiate,r„^»*l Madkid, March 20 t i has returned to Sm^^rf^ Uj^ in the island of FemI- little remarkable »^kS ishind,whichisonyabo^*»»«4. long and twenty-two^SftS twenty miles from th^ZSC m the Bight of Biaf^K^t^^ wholly unknown. Th^,"*N Bubi tribe, inhabitingVetL° south coast, are among tie SI"' savages that the whil. " Though Spam now useTr-,*^ alcolony,nhewhrtesdo*uiSi' any control over the iS'?«^ tureonlyafewmi:e,fZ""?S ments. In the early daZft *? pancytheBubionoVSXl island of the enemy by 00^1 ' 7^ M. Reclus. m the ffiTf*' ;: Universal Geograpt? hvein caves and' in^^St that they are ready always; " defend themselves withlaices'^r and that their remarkably^^i' also been effective in keepingS;^ gate them has ever been mill} have mamtamed their miimim^I sight of the hundreds of ocerZ!! ply up and down the coast. By the exercise of long patience Lieut. Sorela succeeded in wjJ friendship of this tribe, and he Mi them for some time. He says the A son of their hostility to the wiiital superstitious belief which they htJ for ages that their ruler willinevia' a yawn that she cannot cover with both ... â€" ^^n, hands. A little thing like that might cause " ne is ever beheld by a white nm, a coolness at the very beginning of the af- » necessary for Lieut. Sorela to com fair. In cold weather fiuish saying good night in the house. Don't stretoh it all the way to the garden gate, and thus lay the foundation for future asthma, bronchitis, neuralgia and chronic catarrh .t^ help you to worry the girl to death after Ae has mar- ried you. Don't misrepresent your financial condition. It is very annoying to a young bride who has pictured for herself a life of luxury in your ancestral halls to learn too late that you expect her to ask a bald-head- ed parent who has been ^uniformly kind to her to take her in out of the cold. Don't be too soft. Don't say, " These little hands shall never do a stroke of work when they are mine and you shall have nothing to do in 001 home but to sit all day long and chirp at the canaries," as if any sensible woman could be happy fooling away time in that sort of style, and a girl has a fine, retentive memory for soft things and silly promises of courtohip, and occasionally, in after years, when she is washing the dinner dishes or patching the west end of your trousers, she will remind you of them in a cold, sarcastic tone. A Visit to Pompeii. It was on a bright sunny day that I drove from Vesuvius to PompeiL The city, is ,wlll be remembered, was buried beneath twenty feet of volcanic ashes and pumice- stone, just eighteen hundred years ago. About the niiddle of the last century it was rediscovered, and ever since ite excavation has been prosecuted with varying energy. A larger part has now been disinterred, and the result is a revelation of the condiciona of old Roman life, such as is exhibited nowhere else. The houses, of course, are roofless, the woodwork having been ignited by the jed hot ashes and scoria. But their internal arrangements, their painting, and their con- tents are preserved. It induces a strange sensation to walk the narrow streete of this long-buried city â€" they vary from fourteen to twenty-four feet wide â€" to observe the ruts made by the cart-wheels eighteen cen- turies ago, and to see H^e stepping stones across the streets, with tlie marks of horses' hoofs. On either side are small shops, just like those of Naples to-day, for the sale of bread, meat, oil, wine, drugs and other articles. The signs of the storekeepers can, in places, be seen, and even the stains of the wine-cups on the marble counters. A barber shop, a soap factory, a tannery, a fuller's shop, a bakery,with eighty loaves of bread in the oven, and sever^ mills, have also been found. At street corners are stone fountains, worn smooth by lengthened use. The dwelling houses have a vestibule open- ing on the street, sometimes with the word " Salve," " Welcome," or the figure of a dog in mosaic on the floor, with the words, "Cave canem," "Beware of the dog." Within was an open court, surrounded by bedrooms, kitchen, triclinium, or dining- room, bto. The walls and columns are beau- tifully painted in brieht colors, chiefly red and yellow, and adorned with beautiful frescoes of scenes in the mythic history of the pagan gods and goddesses, landscapes. In public places will be read the election placards and wall scribblings of idle school boys. Opposite one shop is the warning in Latm, "This is no place for lounging idler, dispart" The public forum, the basilica, or court of justice, with ite cells for prisoners the temples of the gods, with their shrines and images, their altars stained with incense smoke, and the chambers of the priests the ^eatres, with stagn, corridors, rows of mar- We seato-one will hold 6.000 another 20,- 000 persons the public baths, with niches for holding the clothes and toilet articles, marble basins, for hot and cold water, eto., the street of tombs; lined with the monu- mttite of tiie dead, and the ancient city walls and gates, may aU be seen almost as they were when the wrath of heaven descended on the gnilty oify.' About two thousand persons are supposed *2 " PWMhed in ite mins. In the house ofWosi^ the bodies of seventeen ]»«B«ii and oUldren ware found orowded to- gettMr. At the garden gate was dlsoovared M?!.!^*^** the proprietor, tiia k^-in W«.b^ awl Mar l£tasUv« witii nu^ ]«v^ Ib the gladiator^ buni^ â- Â«i7:«b(aa akeUloitt, three et on tbdr natives that this tradition w«g t,, before he was permitted to see KImJ Moka. Success crowned his efforttl and he had several interviews with thl and did his best to impress the una] with the idea that it would oe to hii J tage to enter into friendly reMoal the Spaniards. He found that the eJ very extraordinary notions about i pie, and the Lieutenant thinks he i in dissipating most of the enon i_ King had cherished respecting ^eSfi and their country. In spite of hiiip Moka is quite a superior sortof nn{ has made some importanc impioTi the condition of his people. The i the coast have been described ae ii all respects to the tribes on t ndgk mainland but the Bubi of the i Sorela says, are active, athletic udii gent, and better fitted to receive civil than any other tribe he has met It has been supposed that the i the island was covered withimmeueii but Sorela says that the heavy fona| exuberant vegetation of all sorts d' at an altitode of 4,000 feet, ud I lofty, interior consists of large plain ij here and there with small groves, i ble to the fevers of the coast, and i ly adapted to European occnpasc;. Another Miracle' According to a story told by • I.« paper, smd vouched for by a i~ the Gospel, a miracle has lately « that city. During the Moody ni« young lady of Hebrew parentage «â-  verted to Chrbtianity. Soon »fier Ir version she bought a New TesBi* took it h«ne, and, going to her i down before the fire that filled the g was burning brightly, andbegasMj Her mother, finding her thus engipl greatly enraged, and seizing the bwl it in the fire. The young lady bo* face in her hands and wept le"' later, otter her mother had gone I room, she looked up, and happf glance at the grate, saw hier Tmb ing there unburnt. She snatched^ prised joy, fromthe fire, »°i/°jjji| had not even scorched Democrat. it-IB thaatti- exactly, For instance, know hewill»n iei. Ought to Beform the Spell» "I notice," said one Democn»l gressman to another, "that iwe^j bees, of Washington territory, «»1 duced a bUl for spellbg reform- " How " asked the other. " Well, he wants various cli so that spellin? will be easier. " I'm hang glad of that B*"" to do it?" "I don't some plan. *â-  The other member looked pnoj "WeU," he said, slowly, J»/j;^, after a minute's thought, i"" there's much reform w^f*-.. ,»_|f( we always spell It. aiot «• CrsVtc. ^ter and Sumner. About the time of the fig %. South Carolinian naval f =^g,*ii warm friendship for Sumnerw i ^^ deuce in his judgment, cw. ..^ day in visible embarrassmen^ Ido,"heasked, "ifmyBh»Pj,v the South t»coercemyownp^^^ I'B OWH roG. hU**" •' vision. ij--, the fog i» about th Pyjl the conditions of his irfau*" ^Q understeB ' MSTnevertheless. that r^Jwic and other effects ai if^-^ters by these lummoi J? u violated in these sci K. horrible braying of the ReWified fluttering of tl l%l The kind of fog I h fu^e snowUke body of vapoi itry ""cl' taller than the I'Smetimes so low lying,! ;.vie« *»»« lofty 8P»" «* foutof it intotheblae, iiie, when the rest of the fc-'^Ssolntely hidden as an flwooLAsaruleverylittl thdr appearances. Ih nnokelike, sparkling pi r softly, and it is therefo L in its revelation, snbi LUch the matter of its dii rSderbeautifnL Amanst tol a ship in the heart oi « thicknets may not be foMt fro° the.distanc( is peculiar there is a ^pressiveness init;nor BoH^a, for though there be i^sea, yet when you emer |4e difference between the s auitted and that vhich yc â-  instantly perceptible, ft I little flaw, a chasm opem I body of whiteness the s] L gUmces Uke steel around 1 itii narrow horizon; thei iTwiahtening of light, though Ltft of the ship is still hi L^ and the only mast you Efit were sawed oflf a few fee 1 If the coast be nigh or f [there wiU happen now a slo J of objecte, and the sight I think every man who has Ul with admiration. Ever a ship I was aboard o £ a fog as I am describing Iniotion for some hours in tb Vny trickle of tide there ms bt company with the vapor. ir, and the water came ou J to the bends with the pel J oil There was nothing t Ist but the distant faint thu h of surf, or sometimes the of a ship's bell, or the rai Inch in some nearer craft tr e ear like musketry. ntly there was a movement he soft fingers of the draugl r drew aside the curtains of ires oflfered were a seriea of 1 J, All about us stood the v -e sea in elbows and points, i I and defiles, like to „the sea toog front of chalk clifF-s, i fonld ooze out a little tmao i within the vapor held you I the sunshine smote it into â-  and color of some cutter c traft, with reddish mainsa and a sou'wester or two d now, as the snowlike i afresh some stout brig ^ered sides and a blue vein ff straight out of her galle^j m arching over like the would be unveUed, and j^y the craft was that woul uy confessed the witchery oj ground of cl:ud entorec Iher as dainty and delij I that owed nothing t jren a wretched little co-u Iforoeail, and a suit of canvl I IS Joseph's coat met the i anty from the buttons of I ^ie tremulous silver off f her sails under her. presently glimpses of the r-u, the flash of sunward i tuhore, the vivid green ni to the edge of the white "T with rsbking funnels can^ i the twinkle of feam upo â-  grayish shingle. A Great Smeltine: WoJ bent capitaliste of StL I dty and Helena recentll tay for the purpose ox r itensive reducing w^ Jd States at Great Falls, F^r has a capital of $^ ^ll,SeO.OOO has been paidi " porators are Eiwl hraham S. Hewitt, Onmees, of New Yi '^Col. Broadwater, on Iffll and others of StJ ' *iu be the largest in and tile machinery tn I iBproved for the purpo] *»orkB will be a great tl J» « course, but the be J^*«« an extensive concer ~«t Paul The great^ needed will be j.urchJ •M will certainly ^^taty. I'slls is a booming! ' of the Manitoba i nUroads on the un â- Ffc^r" a magnificent! ^V° I* greatly improvl njliacomtng yesur. A n Wj'bBilt from the townl '-^tf* "noiting wiU [/l^JwemBtobe onel • of Northers r your commission, sir, w» suppose my ship w "«'*? » 'Read your commissio^J" if or, what if I i^^^^i^^Zro^ it^ of my birth?" ^^ftO^^ tor, city sir, l^T"â„¢" growth during i^_5* be ht suritassed Manitoba railrl to bnild up thef W'^ations and in thl y»aiita1i«» to invJ „. T^LX^Mtaiji^i^p^astJ:^^^ to his flag, and fortunate y, ^^ "â€" " ««ore it.-, never put to the J^'^j.^itP'^^ Wi^ ^â- Mmben havl ' el Putnam's Pf *jekeenolinJ 'we good wi ' nuiUe, an| ' witii Pu^ never pul to the *^^.%itp* feared. Some of Sam««r»»J be quoted as good thuiga net*' If George Waduii«»° J^rf j*, obably Martha ^^'J^rti*' rod her just as much M^ The M«nt»«!iS?£l»^Jrf steadfly decreased Jr J ^* •nd is now only v^^^^tK to be ^irla have no fsathe t^Uei»«^ iiii â- ^ E5;â- :»^:^