*f*"* '^y^g^^w^f^l^KP ^i^f^^^9^:^^^A ^j^-lse^v^-s^r ifMEN OF LETTERS AS PREACHERS. of most that makes possble the self The Kroomen. HOI WINTEB. and looked up at the ky. It was light made alialo of. 'A voice sobbing respect of some. It is the score of nig- And now something about my el- calm and full of stars. Its peacefulness through it, said: "Ned Ned darling rhe Habitual Tendency of Certain Authors to gards who make possible the one gen- I (ow-passengers, the Kroomen, whose had an instant influence on her. Ned,' good-bye!" andv there was Moralize. Ha1 winter, ho! Winter, erous man. presence on the Nile at this juncture from7those* Repentent tears began to flow. She nothing to be'seen but the flood-still Our own age differs King of the northern blast! The moralist who declines to face 1 forms an interesting episode in this ex-v prayed as simple children pray rising, and the sky spread out You meet us all, you greet us all, that preceded it not least in the peculiar writes a correspondent of facts may denounce sentiment, but is pedition, writes a correspondent "Please make me good!" And all the above it. With grip that freezes fast. character of its moralists. In The Liverpool Post. The day before we sentimental still. His doctrine, being In regal pomp you've gathered up hate for Hulda left her breast, and On the morrow Jean Abbot's body former times the minister of religion Tour royal robes of snow, were to start, Maj. Smyth, the senior sentimental, can be reduced to no her love for Nedher yearning:, aching was found lying close to the old was usually the sole recognized moralist. And by their trailing men shall trace officer in charge of the men, had gone plain or inteligible principle and as it love for himsoftened into a church, whence by that time the water Here and there scientific morrlistshave Whatever ways you go. on to Wady Haifa with 809 of them does now consist with itself, it would sort of tender memory. She was still had retreated. .And Ned and Hulda, Tour grim retainers all, alack I had considerable influence ieaving Maj. Tyndale to bring up the fain make amends bv being angry like sad. A painful humility crushed her Make but a cruel tram among others, came to see it. Hulda upon the moral practice of small Of biting sleet and stinging Hinds men remaining at Shellal to aid in getting heart a longing for love oppressed an illogical man or tearful like an illogical wept. Ned stood quiet, but with a groups of educated men. Both these And ice and frozen ram. her but wuen she had prae for up the Nile boats, or"wharvers," woman. But no tears or curses strange regret in his blue eyes. The classes of moralists we still have with The rich with furs and blazing hearths herself, when she had striven with as they are technically# tell so much as a lucid indication of called. The story of her sacrifice had thrilled his us, although at present under an Your carnival may scorn, herself, the evil spirit had departed. major part of our ldt were on a barge facts. All of us feel the mvstery of our While Muth and Cheer may reign supremo heart. He looked down at her face, eclipse. Neither the clergy nor, those Soon, with her white, well-developed towed by the Fayum, and one man in From wassail eve till morn. situation, and all would like to have on which the beauty of her beautiful whom they address are quite clear as milk-maid's arms under her head, she each of the twenty-four whalers we even the least light thrown upon it. love an.d unselfishnes,s had rested in to the bias of theological doctrine pre- slept upon the mossy roof, under the took in tow. In getting the latter together Merely to show us an enormous specter But ha! Winter, ho I Winter, her dying moments, leaving an angelic! supposed in all moralizing from the canopy of the stars. and past three steamers before of the Brocken which mimics all smile upon the marble lips, and said in hat about the roor? smile dreamynway:marhla nnn rh 1ir ,rf irl in they were made fast to the stern of the our struggles is not showing us the "Who've no stronghold against the cold, a At last she began to dream. They pai noltp directly addrests a public moraliso enormous, i Th ifi can No bribe or sinecure sc barge we were to tow up, these blackskinned way over the hill. Anybody who is en "Hulda, she was pretty. I never were going to churchHulda and Ned so ill-educated, so scant of leisure, To set at bay the stinging day, boatmen gave me an exhibition good for anything has quite enough knew Jean Abbott was pretty before." and she heard the wedding bells and so eager for excitement as Or soften down the night, of their skill. The twenty-four fermenting in his inside. It is wisdom, And then he kissed her. but going in at the door she saw, instead Who note the thickening window-panes the public of modern Europe. Nevertheless, whalers were lashed two together, and not excitement, that he wants from a With sinking hearts affright, of gayly dressed guests, mourners mankind continue to have "Who draw their babies close and sing a tow-line was passed down six of the teacher. Hamilton at College. all in black and a cofhn before the an appetite for that moral exhortation Their shivering lullabys, pairs of boats, and up the other six, Sentimental moralizing always tends The most distinguished student of altar, and gave a scream and wakened. which they denounce by rote as dry Then sleep and dream of steaming feasts each line being made fast to the barge. to paradox, and the moralizing done Kings (Columbia) College, Alexander That hunger-sleep supplies, Bells were ringing, but not wedding and insipid, while consuming it in This brought the squadron four by men of letters is no exception to To wake at morn with shuddering sense Hamilton, matriculated in 1774. At bellsthe bells that tolled if great quantities, and with little regard Ot lengthened fast and cold, abreast. Awkward as such a string the rule. Like other preachers, they that time all men's minds were deeply there were any need of the men of the to quality. They have found new ALA find that gaunt-eyed Want hath wrought of boats must have been to manage in must live they must live by moving moved by the great question of the placeif fire" broke out, or robbers preachers among the people who write Its traie within the fold. a strong current it was piloted outside their hearers, and they can best move Revolution. President Cooper sided were heard of, or there were any rioting essays, novels, and poems, who have JHal Winter, ho! Winter, the three steamers named without a their hearers by means of the fresh and Hard your reign on these in the town. What could it with the mother country, talking and long" been accustomed to make re- "io pity such! and send warm hearts jolt or bruise, and in the quietest manner. wonderful to which their own eager mean? writing with all his power jigainst the marks upon life and conduct, but have To all who starve and freeze. The agility and experience thusshown and mercurial temperament inclines. freedom of the colonies. The tide of Jean listened. A strange sobbing, been esteemed not very successful in Maria Barrett Butler, in TJu Current. by the Kroomen augured well Thus the new priesthood is not less indignation rising higher and higher purging sound fell upon her ears. the condnct of their own lives. By for their usefulness in the work they sorely tempted than was the old and against such doctrines, it was finally Lights gleamed in all the houses of the JEAN. common consent these gentlemen have had come so far to do. A number of less than the old, if less be conceivable, determined to hold a public meeting town. The truth flashed upon her. been inducted into the vacant cure of men occupied the forward deck of is the new priesthood expected to in the open fields just above Dey street Years before, her old grandmother had "Ah, how pretty she is!" he said. souls. The literary man has become the steamer, giving me an opportunity practice what it preaches. How often on the 6th of July 1774, for the purpose told her how the old sea wall had been "Was there ever such a pretty lass, the one universal and impressive moralist, of observing the men more closely. of late have we seen men, themselves of protesting against the acts of washed away, and a tide had risen and d'ye think, Jean?" so that it is well worth while to the artificial luxuries of a most luxurious 1 obtained from Maj. T} ndale many the authorities. Young Hamilton was swept in upon them on that wild coast "Perhaps not," said Jean and she trace the effect of literary modes of and artificial society, advocate interesting facts relative to getting the urged to address the meeting, and as of Lincolnshire, carrying with it, as it took her milking pails, and followed thought upon ethics, as well as the innovations which would make all men gon the west coast of Africa, he closed a brilliant and impassioned went out, kine and flocks and little Hulda going on before with a light effect of constant ethical purpose upon Britain a less comfortable place than and his and Maj. Smytbe's early experience address, the cry of surprise^ "It is a dwellings, and even land itself and step and a gay song toward the literature. any Benedictine monastery! As these with them. The president of collegian, with which his youthful how there was mourning throughout ineadow where the cows browsed. Our literary moralists have naturally men do not lack imagination, they the republic of Liberia refused permission appearance was received, gave way to the land for those that it had done to But when she was quite out of hearing imparted to modern morals a literary must needs lack seriousness. Nor is to recruit in his territory, as the loud expressions of wonder and applause. deathmen and women and children, of Ned Weiton, sitting perched upon tinge The most fashionable virtues it alight matter that we should read policy of the republic was against warlike Young Hamilton presently young and oldso that many a household the stile, she muttered to herself, are the virtues of the literary spirit. their discourses merely as we would expeditions. The men obtained crossed swords, or pens, with his college long remembered it with woe. "Pretty! pretty! pretty! Ah, they Thus tolerance is pre-eminently a listen to a prima donna. Nothing came from Sierra Leone, Monrovia, president, who could not believe This had happened again. The sea ring the changes upon that, these men! literary virtue and our age is very more demoralizes than a termo delivered Grand Bassa, Bereby, Half Bdreby, at first that so young a man could be wall was down, the floods were sweeping as the old bell-ringer that knew but tolerant, tolerant not only in the bA a man who is sure that it will Taboo river, and Grand Taboo. The so strong a pamphleteer. In one of domain in. The bells were ringing as they iiis one tune used to, down in the of thought, but also, if in a not be acted upon to men who do not men were engaged for six months or the periods of the excitement a liberty had rung before in the ears of those church tower. Pretty! prettj! pretty! less degree, in the domain of action. mean to act upon it, and know that, longer, for boat service only, their pay mob approached the college with the who lay in their graves ringing to It's never'good it's never''honest Another literary virtue is humor, a if they did, the person most confounded being, head man, 2s. 6d per day: second purpose of laying violent hands on the tell the same tale to those who were It's never 'true.' It's always 'pretty.' quick and scornful perception of what would be the preacher himself. head man. 2 shillings, and privates Tory president. As they drew near then unborn. "Then she stopped and looked up, and is ugly, exaggerated, and insincere. Pall Mall Gazette. 1 shilling per da\. When first his residence, Hamilton and Robert The house in which she dwelt was said, with a quiver of passionate grief This virtue has passed from books into engaged, saving a cloth around their Troup, a fellow-student, ascended the old. and near the sea far from all human in her voice: "Oh, I'd give the world our conscience, has made us feel the loins, they were naked. The hrst day What Felix Did. steps, and fearful lest in this moment aid too and its occupants very I'd give half the shortest life that I vices that cling to our very virtues, out each man was supplied with a naval of irritation they might commit some Years before there was a society foi two very old people and two girls. could haveI'd give half an hour,if that and has made the best of us almost rig-out, one jumper, one jersey, excess, Hamilton, in order to give the checking cruelty to animals, an Irishman The only one who could have aided was all I had to live, just to hear Ned weakly shy of avowing their own two flannel shirts, two pairs of trousers president time to escape, harangued living in London, used to distinguish them was far away. But for this Jean Welton call me pretty! What a fool I goodness. The openness and flexibility and cloth cap, all dark blue. The men the mob with great eloquence and animation himself by defending horses could have thanked Heaven, for he ami what a fool I am! what a fool I of mind, the delicacy in discrinunating, wore their clothes as if they had been "on the excessive impropriety from ill-treatment. Felix McCarthy, was safe, and the waters were rising am!" and she went on with her pails the patience in hearing all used to them all their days, and when ot their conduct, and the disgrace they for that was his name, stood six feet even now above the windows of the toward the cowsBrown Bess and sides, the indulgent kindness in judging they got them they were" particular to were bringing on the cause of liberty, five inches in his stocking feet. lower rooms. She could see the starlight Xily White and Pretty Polly. I which, above all other good qualities, have them properly marked. Whether of which they professed to be the Though priding himself on his giant's reflected in it in gleams and -Certainly she was not pretty and I complete a finished literary character, in the garments ot the white man they champions." In the meantime another strength and that the purest blood of sparkles, and she knew that the old what there was in her face the man on can never indeed be of much account I were desirous of acquiring his color student, who had preceded the the Mac's and O's flowed in his veins, people must be drowned in their beds the stile would have been the last to i in popular morality but they are also I did not ascertain, but, if washing throngs had warned the president of yet he put both blood and brawn at if she did not waken them. She went aee. Had she been a queen, many of more account now than they ever could accomplish it, they ran every his danger just in time to save him. the service of dumb, defenceless down into the room where they slept, would have seen something strangely I were before. All this, of course, is chance of success. I never went "He escaped only half dressed, over animals. and cried out, as she shook them, fair and regular in her face. Had she due to many causes, such as the social forward among them without finding the college fence, reached the shore of "The tide has lisen again The tide Meeting one day a carter, who was 'been only a rich gentleman's daughter, changes of the last hundred years but some two or three of them stark naked, the Hudson and wandered along the has risen again Hear the bells beating bis horse because the poor some one might have dreanij of it is in part due to the literary influence lathering themselves all over and river bank till near morning, when he beast could not draw the over-loaded those deep eyes and that pure brow of Then she led them, trembling and upon condnct, the influence of such scrubbing away most earnestly. The found shelter in the house of his cart up a steep hill, Felix ordered the iters but red and white, and fat and weeping in their helpless old-age, to writers as Thackeray and Carlyle, funniest thing, however, was their i friend, Mr. Stuyvesant, where he remained man to desist. The carter replied by dimples were the recognized beauties the roof, and found Hulda already Victor Hugo and George Sand. names. It was necessary for them to for that date and during the striking Felix over the head with hfs -there, as indeed they are all over the crouched there. She was crying also, On the other hand, some of the most sign an agreement, and also for their night following he took refuge on heavy whip. world, to sueh folks as her lot was cast and she turned to Jean and clutched notable weaknesses of our generation names to be entered on the pay-list. board the Kinghsher, an English shipof-war, In an instant a blow from the giant's among, and she was spoken of as her arm. are literary weaknesses. Morality as Their own outlandish names were almost in which soon after he sailed." fist laid the human brute in the street. "plain." Twro years beforeoshe had "Will the water rise so far?" she taught by literary men has lost as taken into he foolish head like Ne unpronounceable, as Maj. Tyndale Harper's Magazine. 1 The Irishman then seized the carter, asked. "Will I be drowned? I who much in definiteness as it has gained told me. As an illustration, he lifted him up, tossed him into his cart, Wilton very much and he, the farmer's was to be married to-morrow? Oh, it in expansion. Being practical, it called aft several of the men and drove to the police court, where son, had thought well enough of can't be, Jean!" should speak forcibly, unless it speaks The Lop-Sidedness of Genius. and made them repeat to me the man was fined. 1 the dairy-maid to say some verv pleasant 'Others will go with you, if you clearly. It may speak clearly in one It is an unfortunate truth that genius their African cognomens. One said In defending his favorites, Felix things to her. She had had a are," said Jean. "There are four of or two ways. It may lay down in dogmatic is not domestic, nor, as a rule, he was called something which sound-ed knew neither high nor low. He once sweet dream, but Hulda Britton's coming us." fashion a series of short, sharp amiable. Men who are great in intellect like "Oolah" and "Wadah," and saw a noble lord beating the fine horse broke it. Her beauty was very "But no other besides I would have rules, apparently without vital connection are small in emotions like a Russian the resf'Kakana," "Dwa," "Dabwa," he was riding about the hpad with a bright and rare, and Ned forgot the been so happy and so proud to-mor- or ground in reasonrules sunflower, they all run to head, and so forth. Many of the men had stick. The indignant Irishman seized i nice girl he had been so fond of chatting row." said Hulda, and bemoaned herself. which are not to be questioned simply and what is not flower is litter. Chaucer, already either adopted names or been the bridle and raising his right arm in with, for the pretty one who The old people shook and because the questioner will be punished. Shakspeare, Milton, Byron, Dickens, given "them by sailors of the vessels a threatening gesture, said: smiled and glance at him. prayed, and cried softly. Again, it may express the Bulwer and Carlsle. Brain and trading on their coasts. These were "Desist from bating your horse, or net result of serious and scientific Jean, cairn and silent, kept watch. She was not so good as Jean she heart always in inverse ratio eyes always used but others had to be invented for I'll make you!" thought about the universe and man's The lights floating about told that I Lad not half her earnestness and constancy gazing out at the misery of the the occasion. Looking over the list I The nobleman jumped off in high plaee in itthat is to say, it may be boats were out. Help might come but the face was all to Ned. world to the neglect of the misery at found among the names the following: anger demanded to know "the name definite because it is philosophic. Now, even yet, but the water was creeping So Hulda Britton wore a little plain their own hearthstones. From Socrates, Teapot, Tom, Peter, Jim, George, of the scoundrel who dared to dictate the literary moralist is usually not up. It filled the house. It lapped the gold ring that he had given her, and with his aggressive nose in every Jack, Everyday Jack, Ropeyarn, Pea to him." definite either in the one way or in the very eaves. Still it rose, higher and .Jiad promised to be his wife in midsummer stew pot but his own, to Goethe, with Soup, Tom Two-Glass, Sea-Breeze, Here is my card," said Felix, thrusting other. His wisdom flashes out from higher and higher. Those upon the and Jean knew it, and outwardly sympathy for every suffering but that Bottle Beer, Ginger Beer, Jack Go one into the nobleman's hand, time to time in orilliant intuitions, in roof climbed to the very apex of its gave no sign that she suffered caused by himself, the history of genius Ashore, Jack Never Fear, Flying Jib, "and if you will step aside, I'll give the intervals too often emitting nothing slope, and clung there, but the water only now and then, as at this moment is the history of woman's suffering, Upside Down, Jack Smart, All Day, you any explanation you may require but unsavory smoke. His reached their feet, and Hulda was quite when Ned bade her notice the husband's triumph and the Black Man's Trouble, Spy Glass Jack, but you shall not bate this animal as teaching is a series ot acute observations, mad with terror, when a light glimmered Hulda's beautyas at the moment wife's griefthe apotheosis of brains Bay ot Rice, etc. One was called? long as I have an arm to defend him." searching parables, or moving close before them, and a voice 'when she paused, meadow midst, and and the degradation of heart. Where John Bright and another John Wesley. pictures. Such teaching exactly suits cried: Felix was a parliamentary reporter said to herself that she would give half talent flies, love creeps and genius, There was a prince among the lot, the palate of an age too critical for on a London paper.Youth's Companion. of her life, were it but an hour, to hear "Good folks, there's room for some with its head in the sky, has its feet in the son of the king of Grand Bereby,. dogma, too impatient for philosophy Ned Wilton call her pretty. heie. How many of you are there?" the desolation of its own home. It bearing the name of Bob Ridley. Both but it wants unity, it wants consistency, "Four," said Jean. would seem as if great talents were They lived upon the coast of Lincolnshire, king and prince signed with a cross, Mental Phenomena Reduced to Figures. it wants forcewants very illsupplied "We've room for three," said *the destructive of the domestic virtues and it was years ago. None as did also King George, of Monarch. Any physician, we apprehend, will, by passion of feeling and voice. "Is it Welton's folk?" that with man, a perfectly rounded mt fcUaem knew how to write more than The signature or countersign of these consider it quite within the bounds of glow of imagination. So that when "Yes," said Jean. life were impossible: that what feeds their names. marketfarmer'sof The deepest. monarchs was necessary to make the lore was the price grain probability that 1 per cent, of the population we read the literary moralist for anything 1 Then a stout fellow strode over the talent is robbed from the emotions, engagement binding on the men. Outside of them, the great world of of the country is subject to remarkably beyond literary pleasure we roof and carried away the old woman, while symmetry is lost in lop-sidedness. The officers in charge, after the men. vivid dreams, illusions, visions, commonly end in downright bewilderment. and then the old man, and came back. Hero worshippers rather admire lettersgreat, at that day, as perhaps were clad, endeavored to drill them in etc. This will make half a million "We'll return for the other as soon this lop-sidedness in their heroes, It never has been at any other time something like order, and considering people in the United States. Each as we can," said he "keep up cour- Thus every serious reader of Carhie and the philosophic Germans, for example, rolled on without giving them any that they had been together only a, of these persons may be supposed to age:" and seized Jean's arm. "In "s writings must be a good deal have written many erudite sign of its existence. And none of fortnight, their success was marvelous. have titty friends orielations, ot whom with you, he cried, "There's little perplexed by his presentation of treatises to prove that the development them had ever read a novel or a poem, An amusing difficulty occurredi in 1 per annum dies. If they are subject time to spare." virtue, now as purity and now as of Goethe's genius was due to or seen a play. But they acted out the teaching them to distinguish right to a dream or vision once a week, there And Hulda gave a scream, and power. Is the great man always the Goethe's immorality but to simple drama just as well, and Ned loved from left. It was got over, however,, is one chance out of seven that they cried, "Don't leave me! don't leave good man? In what sense can it be people who are not philosophers, and Hulda and cared nothing for Jean, and not like the Irish drill sergeant did by have one on the same day that the me!" honestly said that might is right? who have no theory to defend, the .Jean- loved Ned and hated Hulda. "hay-foot," "straw-foot," but "smallpox friend dies. Let us suppose that it Then Jean, in whose heart jealousy Carlyle nowhere clearly answers these vices of genius are the most inexcusable And Hulda knew the whole, and triumphed arm" for left, as the men hadi all takes a combination of eight separate had lighted the fires of hell but an embarrassing questions, or, at most, of all vices. over Jean, and cared a little been, vaocinated on that arm, andi and indepentent points of resemblance, hour or so before, felt that the angels gives us in equally positive terms two for Ned, because of his broad shoulders It is a sad fact, that the world's heroes "slash-arm" for rightthe one usedi between the vision and the circum-t had quenched it with the waters of answers which seem, to contradict one And bronze curls, but not over-much are anything but heroic and if for thein knives. Toward the close oi stance attending the death of the love. She wrenched her strong, white another, and are really very dificult and many a novelist would have given they are angelic as to thought they are the jpurney some of the men evidently friend, to constitute a remarkable coincidence, arm from the grasp of the man who to harmonize. Turn and twist the much to have had the little plot of coarsely clay as to flesh and it is only had become somewhat homesick. and that each of these has a held it. matter as we may, the ideas of Calvin their daily lives, to touch up and make what is left after the grave closes over probability of one-half. We shall have, "Leave me, and take her," she said, are not the ideas"of Goethe, nor can pretty with his pen. them that is deserving of admiration. in one case out of 26, a remarkable A Similarity. "I'm not afraid. I'm able to bear the modern scholar look upon this The girls slept together in an upper Had biography been an art iu Elizabeth's combination of coincidences. Putting more. And she is to be Ned Welton's world with the eyes- of one of the apostles. roo ot the house, and on her wedding Ax writer descibmg Paganini's.-v&aKn reign, Shakspeare would doubtless these results together, we may infer wife to-morrow. Save her for his Carlyle would no doubt have admitted *eve Hulda spread out gown and shoes playing, says: "When the Gx string have been a sufferer were biography that, as a matter of fact, some extraordinary sake." this and yet he would have .and cheap white veil, and dancing wailed, then tears came through, the not an art in Victoria's reign, coincidence between, the She commanded she did not implore, gone on exhorting us to do the thing about them, boasted that when the eyes, from the listening hearts of men, posterity would be grateful. circumstances of death and the dream or seem to speak from duty. the most angrily and righteously denounced, morrow's sun set she should be mistress tears of sadness and delight" You or vision by a friend of the dying person The man who listened hardly thought to close our eyes to facts and of the house, and Jean her servant. may perhaps' hane noticedthat pretty Liquor in the Army. does- occur somewhere in *the of her sacrifice. He obeyed. Hulda masquerade in the old clothes of the And Jean, thinking of the old much, the same tiling occurs nowadays Gen. McClellan found it difficult to country nearly every day in the year. was in the boat. Cromwellian republic-. "grandmother who had begged her not wheat the young man next door tortures- prevent the sale of liquor to soldiors, ScienaBi. "Keep courage until we come back," Or, listen to Thackeray's perpetual 'to lose so good a place, said nothing, a violin. When his- Gs and othei and finally gave orders that the stock he shouted, and rowed away. denunciation of worldliness. On every 'but stood silent, white-faced and wan, striags wail, then the- tears come of any one violating the regulations S6e Enjoyed Cold Weather. other page he exhorts men and women and felt a bitter hate rising in her Jean clung to the chimney side, and thorough the oyes from, the hearts of should be, summarily destroyed. The The- recent spell of weather calls to marry without much consideration heart. Ned was away at the town, kept her feet firm on the roof but they listening meitear ofc sadness and next night the provost guard visited attention to a recent article in LitlelVs of ways and meaas. On every other .and would not be back until next were ankle deep now. agony, prompted byawiil, unconquerable Springman's hotel, on Pennsylvania Livings Age called "A Lady's Life in, page he twits them with their base morning, the morning of his wedding. The water was rising still. She knew yearning for gor,e- and revenge. avenue, and destroyed nearly $2,000 Manitoba.'' The writer says she boaght greed,, with their anxiety to get on, The old folks were asleep below. How that there was little hope, but she was The mere the striog wails, the worth of liquors of various kinds. The frozen milk by 1h pound all winter i to make money* and to rise in the easy it would be, in the dead of night, very happy. more his hearers waik and there is. guard went into the celler of the establishment,'where mustard froze in the mustard pot, world. He might as well exhort the to do this beautiful boasting creature about as much music- in one wail $ "O, dear old fellowdear, dear Ned," most of the liquor wasstored, whoch stood a loot from the kitchen, wolf ko have cubs" and not prey for some harmto mar her beauty, or in the other.Norristown Herald she said aloud, for there were none and stove in the heads of the them. For the stupidest reader who storepipe and itwofeet above th stove* .even end her life. to hear her, "there'll be no blight, for casks and barrels, pouring their contents reflects can see that all this, tugging where there was a blazing fire all day. you know you'll have your love safe TIIP thoughts grew so, and were so upon the floor, forming a pool Changpd His Mind About Her. and lugging, all this shoving and The kitten's aars froz, and broke off and sound to-morrow. What's plain 'horrible, that she could not be sure of deep enough to float a bateau. The scrambling to get a subsistence, comes so did the ears of a neighbor's pony. "I shall never call on Mrs. Smith Jean to any one Who'll miss her relief. Hulda, watching her, saw only Columbia restaurant, kept by Joseph said Mrs. Jones. *"I aevei from the difficulty of subsisting, and again,"- A pail of water left m, the kitchen all but a poor old woman who'll follow a deadly whiteness creep over her lips, Piatz, situated on the square below, all the difficulty of subsisting from the night would freeze solid before morning. want to see her ajiy more." her soon But she, Hulda, is half and with the first touch of pity in her was next overhauled by the guard, and multrdude of those who compete with When she had been ironing the "You women are very foolish to -f your life, Ned. Oh, God be iheart, folded her veil away, and said, the liquor found on the premises served us. and of those who depend upon us* top of a pocket handkerchief the lower quarsel over trifles," said Mr% thanked that I can give myself for unwisely enough, but meaning it in the same manner. The atmosphere Jones. How often do men and women bow part woujd freeze on the table. The Hulda, for your sake "Mrs. Smith is a very pleasant person] kindly. in the neighborhood of the Springman the proud neck and silence every generous thermometer went to 58 degrees below a little talkative, perhaps, but on the-V And in the starlight her face shown house was fragrant with the odor of 'No doubt, the next wedding will beating of the heart in order zero. This is commented on at considerable wW)le a very estimatblev woman. Yoir c* calm and sweet and happy, with more whisky, brandy, gin, aud cordials, and be yours, Jean." 1 that those whom thoy love and who length, and then comes this then martyr's happiness, as the water was sniffed up by the several old topers shouldn't attach any importance tc Then Jean, without a look, turned will despise tbem may be spared the arose toward it. i standing near with peculiar satisfaction.Ben: remark: "But I say deliberately that what she says. What was the trouble?'^- ifrorn her and left the room. She long-suffering ana humiliation that Pertey Poore. I would rather pass three winters on And at last her feet lost their hold, "She said you weren't very promp* sought to be safe from herself, for have filled their own lives? Ah. it is the prairie in Manitoba than one sunv paving your debts.'* and her strength was gone. She was ^fiendish thoughts possessed her and .4 because so many lives are starved and mwr." Worst than all the freezing, tfct lifted and whirled away the long "Well, by thunder shouted Jces,#!fe i longing for solitude and quiet, she A deer which, VMkilledbeing after dressed, weighedg shriveled up that here and there a few 37 8 pounds, by boy while huntin ojd, the confinement, and the whole brown hair, unloosened, Qswept far jumping to his feet, **I would give $2J& climbed a ladder that led to the tiled have space to bloom and spread .themselves chimney seekingt sa down in its shadow ea tegorr of winter, is the mosqufto, behind her the marble face gleamed rf she were a man fjmt just te.a roof, and the shelter of the mjuiUe&^i near Murnfejs, Calaveras, county, Gel, a few if?', in the, sua. It is the degradation r!Ba through rings of water that the star- she, saya,Hartford Courant. XW York Star days age. -s^sr Vt 1