*3 *ttEB KAMK** W* JkWW& JLJTCfiKLESS RIDER. thousand poundshe had not the because she preferred a man -with ABfERICAJTCURLS. heart to punish either of them ,so title, and to- keep her uncle's estates 3* him, as he could not goto her. te Bw ne'Demonstrated the Superiority oi' ftaom the Current. severely, yqu seewasto revert to the from..being, divided* to. one who evidently American Horseinansnlp. 3 aunt accompanied her, but remained An Eminent Divine Says They Are Xof Then father took the Bible down only son of his sister, John Carson, unless was not rich, and a commoner. whereTeclined Alice's^msabwd-hero. Mere Appendages to Saratoga- Trunks. And in his clear, old-fashioned hand he should become the husband of James .Robinson was probably the But had as it was, while the dainty "Allie," he said, earnestly, "you are fjpon its Record pages brown Alice, she being the refusing party, in Fro!. Swing in Chicago Current..,. Sr^s*,- oars rose and fell mechanically, they king of the trade. Joseph Wheelock, Hewrote thenameas it should stand. very sureyou wffl never repent? There, which event the entire estate should kept saying, in low grumbling jerks, The gill of to-day, with rare* excep the actor, who was the boon companion ther^tiab1.nbt%oSlMiroachful I pass to Rupert. "John An-der-son, my Jo-John," in a tions, is industrious and with a breadth of the rider, once told me the incidents But protest came from all therest know, dear. it,Allie,the doctor says curious, monotonous rhythm that of invention and execution. The ironical The will further provided that Alice, :At giving such a little fairy, in the career of his friend during I must stay just this: W**y for at least nearly drove her wild, and when she The dearest, sweetest and the best, until her marriage or majority, should and often mean essays on the woman a.visit he paid to England about fifteen two months, and so I want my wife That antiquated name to carry. looked down into the water, a dark, reside with her aunt, Mrs. Carson. of the present often picture hex years ago. Robinson had been now, right away. Can't I have her bearded face, with such a mournful, as good for little except for accompanying The latter, be it known, had only engaged at a salary of $2,000 a week And aunts and second-cousins cry to nurse me? I won't be very trouble- pained expression on it, gazed back at" recently become a widow, having spent a Saratoga trunk on its wanderings "A name &o worn and ordinary to ride in Astley's royal amphitheater some." her. Really, it was too badit was all her married life in India, but now, in summer and for filling fashionable Dould not be found if oneshould try, in London. For four week's before he $0yt course we know how such a plea outrageous, just because she preferred As that same appellation 'Mary.'" with her son had returned to England engagements in winter. Much arrived he was heralded as the greatest was answeredby an abject surrender. Ah! but did she prefer? to pass the rest of her days. of this sarcasm is deserved by the few, bareback equestrian of the age. To Only a few friends werepresent at the And o'er and o'er again they laud Mrs. Carson was a gay, inoffensive Alice started as this question suddenly hut when the millions of girls are amuse himself he took over with him Her yellow curls, her baby grace quiet wedding, and Alice, in her agitation, woman, who hailed with delight the rose before herthe first the universal thought of as they are ornamenting "Oh, call her 'Ethelind,' or 'Maud,' a team ot American trotting was the only one who did not opportunity of chaperoning a beautiful teacher had succeeded in calling their mothers' homes in the villages Or 'Christine,' for her angel face. notice that the minister addressed the horses and a light buggy, young heiress, and', at her son's to her attention. and cities, the Honest heart cannot groom by another name than "Allen." but neglected to bring such "Buttime Mill change thisgolden fleece suggestion, kept to herself the fact She knit her broad, white brows, and but confess that the word "girl" never John Carson and his mother exchanged horses as he would need to ride. The To match the eyes in dusky splendor, that Alice was to all practical purposes threw back her head in scornful impatience, meant more than it does to-day. This startled glances. A flood of 3?a,r better name her 'Beatute,' oversight rather astonished the English already appropriated. and then, right before her being, when found in her best estate, Or 'Imogen,' serene and tender." light poured upon them and it required managers, who thought their contract As to Alice's speaking of such a matter on the glistening water, she saw something can go gracefully from her silk dress all their self-control not to betray of course included the furnishing of "Oh, name the child Tor Aunt Louisa, to strangers, that was the last that excited her wonder. and piano to a plain garb and to work the bitterness in their hearts. horses. Robinson made light of tha For she, good soul, is well-to-do, thing a girl so proud and reserved was A low, flat platform, like a raft, with among plants, or to the kitchen, or to "M3- wife," said the young husband, The compliment is sure to please her matter and said he could break the likely to do. a pole set up in the centre, and at its a mission school class. In the city tenderly, as soon as they were left And \\Q can call the darling'Lou.'" animals to his liking ki the fortnight "You see, mother," said John, "If top a circular disk. It was evidently she can easily walk three miles. Languor alone, "I have a confession to make. interveningbetween his arrival and the -Most prudent counsel, all too late' people know Alice it not 'on the mar- anchored there but for what purpose? has ceased to be fashionable: I have deceived youyes, dear, I have. date of his debut. There was nothing 'TwKr ila,l.ichi'sa.nd Matthew's pages ket,' to use an expressive phrase, she And what meant that little skiff sleep in the day time not to be endured. Alice, my name is not Allen it is not JLppcai, unchangeable as fate, left for the managers to do than to will at once lo^e eclat, and won't have moored alongside of it? The soul is thought to be Anderson I am not a poor man I The name beloved of all the ages. swallow their disappointment and provide half the fun neither will you, as her Some one must have brought it action, not repose. am not Mr.anybody. Yes, it is all him with horses. These he rehearsed chaperone, be so courted. So let's there, yet no one was to be seen. true this time. You say you do not The ancient gem, its puiity day after day at the circus All can contradict these words o* keep quiet, that's all. Ru will not be Slowly, with some hesitation, Alice Unspoiled shallgrace ourlatest beauty want even to see your poor Cousin with skill and assiduity, but to find at here for three months or more yet, he praise because all A N ho think a mo Sometime on dearer lip& to be, drew nearer, until close enough to verify Rupert, but I hope that is not true. Tne synonym of love and duty. last that they were beasts far inferior writes me, some red-tape delay about ment can find exceptions in girls whe her suspicion that she knew the I want you to love him, just a little, his resignation, he's going to play the in intelligence to the Kentucky are always just dead with a headache, owner of that boat. It was the one for your husband's sake'" And gracious Avomanhood adorn, lord bountiful on his estates, you or as averse as a mummy to any kind thoroughbreds with which he was accust Mr. Anderson had secured for his own He held out his arms, and drew her How e\ er fortune's gifts may ary, know, now he is Sir Rupert. He writes use (and hers, as she knew well), but of conversation or activity girls who onied to deal. The night of the first close, close to his heart. Till on a da like Easter Mom like a regular muff duty, love for his where was he? who are pleased with nothing" and nobody. appearance of the American champion She heais the Master callher "Mary." "I deceived you, dearest, because I JENMECOLION. uncle, esteem for Aliceand all that These exceptions are so disagreeable arrived. The great building bearing A terrible thought flashed into her wanted a wire who loved me for my sort of stuff. He-will come to us as that they seem to mar the brain, causing a curious tightening of the historical name of Astley was o\\ sake alone. If you had not found soon as he arrives, Wonder what he whole world and make the beautiful her heart-strings. She had driven him packed to suffocation to see the performance a out that Allen Anderson was dear to looks like? Don't fancy I havemissed LOYE'S LESSON. characters invisible. In matters ol away in despair, last night. Could he of the reckless rider from you, Sir Rupert would have declined much in never having met my dear But no, no' he was too good, too this kind one can only offer opinions to carry out his uncle's will, and his over the sea. Robinson had, however, Cousin Ru. Bah' he's a lukcy fellow, brave, too honorable to seek a coward's One dare not assert with confidence. half of the estate, not yours, would in the short time allowed, been anyhow'" BY HELEN HAKCOURT. relief from sorrow. At a popular summer resort, where have been forfeited. But, thank utterly unable to train the English "Yes, my dear," said the sick man, "If only it had been you, my boy!" Nevertheless, the thought overcame quite a number of thej*e 16-year mortals heaven, my darling learned Love's lesson, horses to his acts, and as a consequence sighed hio mother. all else, and she sent her boat flying gazing with a loving smile upon the were met and observed daily, it after all, and so 'we'll be happy was at a sad disadvantage in over the water toward that other And John stalked gloomily away to appeared in evidence and in commor ever after.'" proud, stately girl bending over him, what he attempted. The best features empty onefaster, faster yet, as she meditate and plan how to fall heir to fame that to be full of obedience toward of the acts, including the vaulting, he I hope Rupert will arrive in England drew closer for prostrate on that a forfeited halt of the estate. parents, of kindness toward all failed in. The audience hurried, his before I go hence. I long to see the mysterious platform lay a figure that persons and things, to be industrious. "No hope with Ru," he muttered. The Heat and the Babies. exit from the ring with hisses. A more she knewah, yes, would know amidst lad once more, and I want you two to "He's billing enough, so is she now to be full of inquiry and rational talkwas N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. dismal fiasco could not have a^ aited a thousandthe peer of them all! but she may be made to kick the not the exception, but the average see each other. But if not," he added, an artist. The Englishmen naturally In this sweltering heat the case of traces. It's worth a try anyhow." of condition. He never moved as she knelt at his musingly, communing with himself, took keen delight the failure of the the children of the city is pitiable. Why should a few girls of marked Down by the sea, where Mrs. Carson, side, calling on him passionately to American, whom it was announced "it will be all rightI've fixed that. Upon them chiefly fall the calamities her son and the great heiress went, byand-by, vanity and of giggling tendencies speak to her. Heaven only knows would eclipse the best exploits in incident to summer, and it is the sacrifice Yes, yes my plan is"best for both of the latter created a sensation. what wild ideas, horrible fears had cast into reproach that multitude horsemanship as illustrated by of their young lives that swells taken possession of the proud girl. whose hearts aie as innocent as the 'them. And now kiss me, Allie, dear. English and French riders. The the death rate at this season. Heat Young, handsome, proud, immensely But she remembered afterward that June flowers and June birds? Mucr I is time you were asleep." disgrace humilated Robinson to the wealthy, she was courted by impecunious her first glance was for an empty pistol of the min of character comes in the which is only uncomfortable to grown dust. That very night he went to the A pair of lips, sweet, yet with a titles and the mothers of eligible in his hands. later years of woman, when the imprudence people is speedily fatal to the little manager of the circus to release him liaughty curve that told of an ambitious sons. His clear-cut features were turned ot late dancing, late supper? ones, and he who has eyes to see must from his contract. "All I ask," he skyward, white and drawn with pain. Her Cousin John, with praiseworthy and the mental anxiety, and, pei haps spirit, were pressed tenderly on be moved to shocked pity at the spectacles said, "is that I may be retained in the self-denial, made it his business to There was no wound that she could sorrows which come from the vain ef the broad, white brow of the dying of infantile suffering presented establishment on the salary of the biing captives, and lay them at her see, yet he remained deaf to her appeals forts of the heart to create a paradise haronet, who, for the last three years, in the streets of the city every day in tumblers with horn I will appear at feet, seeking ever to please her eye and for one word of forgiveness. of pleasure a-v\ ay from duty, make the each performance unannounced. Then this torrid weather. iiad been as a father to his orphaned her intelligence in his selections. She looked round in despair, and cheek fade early and the eye lose its I want the privilege of practicing in At evening and even late into the But it was a difficult task he had set then she saw what the trouble was. niece. luster in the morning, like sun thai the morning." The manager, glad night the poor little creatures may be himself. The one defect in Alice's The huge timbers that formed the goes behind clouds before noon. A? It was a long, lingering kiss that enough to be relieved from the heavy seen in baby carriages, or in their character (and it was only a surface r&ft were not tied very closely together. for noble girls of 16, the Western con she gave him, and then, as she reached mothers' arms, gasping for a breath cost of the bargain, accepted the conditions. defect, after all) was her ambition and His foot had slipped between two tinent is full of them. They are in the the door, she turned impulsively to of cool, pure air, and for the most The next day Robinson had a too great belief in the power of of them like a trap, and the grinding cities,in the villages, in the farm houses part gasping in vain. How they live disposed of his trotting horses and wealth. and crushing had caused a pain so intense bestow yet another. We meet them on all streets, along al' at midday when shut within doors in vehicle, as well as other traps and that he had fainted. Dearly would she have liked to be paths in the lone and lovely country She remembered, with thankfulness, a super-heated and often polluted atmosphere, jewelry, until he had enough to purchase called "countess" or "marquis," could He had evidently been trying to They are ready for all duty and hap in after times, how a glad light flashed only their Creator knows, that have been accomplished, and her six horses of the best blood attainable, free himself, for his pocket-knife lay piness, and constitute to us older and and day by day they die in scores for into the fading eyes, for Alice Whitney uncle's estate* have remained with her, at his side, and the rope was partially none of which had ever been fading hearts the most beautiful and want of fresh air and the country's and undivided but as this could not cut. was not ordinarily demonstrative, and ridden a ring. The selection of the divine scene on eaith. coolness. be, she deemed it better to be only a With trembling hands Alice completed animals occupied some time. When the doctors had said that her uncle Many of them are ill fed and imperfectly baronet's lady, and to hold the estates the A\ork, and tenderly released at last the troupe was completed he Fir st Confederate Battle Flag's. might live for several months longer. nourished, and these fall quickly entire. the poor, bruised foot. began breaking them to his business, From Mrs Burton Harrison's "Recollections She did not knownor did hethat before the heat as they might at a Of love, Alice knew nothingnothing Just then he opened his eyes, and, a task which required great patience of a Virginia Girl in the Firs* time of pestilence. But even those this was a farewell kiss for when the of its mighty po\\ er or its infinite seeing her, raised himself on his elbows, and an absolute insight into the Year of the War," the following is tak who are better cared for in many cases weakness. She might learn but neither gazing wildly at the sweet, nature of the beast. Weeks passed. sun rose again, Sir Charles had gone en: "Another incident of note, in per find it impossible to survive these time nor John Carson had brought her blushing face bending so near him. James Robinson, who had the meantime out of the orld, leaving but an empty sonal experience during the autumn ol prostrating days. On Saturday morning, a teacher yet. /'Am I dead?" he murmured. "Is been the butt of ridicule, was forgotten. I heaven9" casket behind hima frail, perishable '63, was that to two of my cousins as we have already related, a "Alice," and Carson touched his this Nightly he was turning flip poor mother sat on a Staten Island and to me was intrusted the making shell, bearing his semblance, with a cousin's arm, "permit me to present Boom! boom! came heavily echoing flops in sawdust with a pack of mountebanks, ferryboat with her babe lying dead in of the first three battle flags of the confederacy, to you Mr. Allen Anderson." from the far away shore, and something calm, peaceful smile on his white face, some of whom did not know her arms. She had gone down the directly after congress had Alice looked up to meet the searching struck the waterdrenching them that among their number was the best that told of the quiet slipping away of bay in the early morning hours in decided upon a design for them. They gaze of a pair of brown eyes, flashing, with spray. rider in the world. About the time the living soul from the dead body. search of life-giving breath for the little were jaunty squares of scarlet crossed jeweled, enthroned in a bronzed, Never was a man roused more effectually. that the menials about the circus establishment one, and even there the search had with dark blue, the cross bearing stare Sir Charles was gone, but his will remainedan bparded setting not a handsome face, began to whisper that been in vain the poor little life had to indicate the number of the seceding but something bettergood, honest, "Good heavens!" he cried, "it is the awesome piece of parch, they guessed that "blarsted Yankee" ebbed a^ ay, lea\ ing the stricken mother states. We set our best stitches upor earnest. battery firing at this target! And you, ment, whose fiat disposed, without could ride a little bit after all, Robinson to gaze heart-broken upon the otill them, edged them with golden fringe? my darling, my darling'" That night when Alice went to her called on the manager. "I wish," marble face turned up to hers, and to .appeal, of broad lands, of stately and when they were finished, dispatch room, she sat down and gazed out over He struggled to get to his feet, and he said, "that you would bill me to bear the little dead child back to the ed one to Johnston, another to Beau "mansions, of two hundred thousand the sparkling sea-waves andit fell back with a groan, and immediately reappear next Monday night. If I shadowed home in the city. regard, and the third to Earl Van D01 was very ridiculous, she told herself, tried it again, only this time Alice pounds sterling, and more, yea, far don't succeed I'll pack upandgo home.' the latter afterward a dashing cavalry These are the tragedies of city life, and so it really wastheynseemed theio held him down, her hand on his more than all theseof the future of f.he burde of With more than a misgiving the leader, but then commanding in and, alas, no remedy is adequate. be singing, and shoulder. two persons who had both been very posters were pasted up over fantry at Manassas. The ban-1 Much is done by fresh air funds, country song was, "John Anderson, my Jo "They must be signaled, they London's dead walls. Again there ners were received with all the dear to the testator, whether for weal sanitariums, children's excursions John'" must," he panted, "or you may be was an unusual throng to have their enthusiasm we could have hoped and other such things, to save young Oh, God!" -or for woe, who can say? But be sure The days sped on, riding, boating, sneer at thepresumptuous fellow whom for were toasted feted, cheered lives, and every dollar contributed tp walking, and still, in the quiet hours He covered his face with his hands .that he deemed it for weal, else he had everybody thought had long before such uses is well spent but the need is abundantly. After two years, of the night, the soft sea-waves kept as the ominous boom rang out, and me\ er so ordered their destinies, so far gone back. But the American made too great for human agencies, supported when Van Dorn had been killed in on singing, "John Anderson, my Jo again the spray fell over them. as in him lay. them laugh on the other side of their by tender hearts and generons Tennessee, mine came back to me, John'" Alice gave one glance at his white hands, to meet fully. These are the mouths. Thedisplay of equestrianism tattered and smokestained from lon face, distorted with anguish, then And by-and-by there came an hour Rupert and Alice Whitney, the orphan evil days for the little ones let us all which he gave threw the house into and honorable service in the field sprang to her feet and, snatching off when they varied the song, and uttered, children of Sir Charles' two do what can to help them in their But it was only a little while after it an ecstacy of delight. The way he her shawl, waved it over her head, in a deep, tender, musical voice, younger brothers, had been his especial time of terrible need. had been bestowed that there arrived vaulted on and off the backs of the flying while she hurried to the target-pole "Alice, I love you, I love you'" charges sincethe death of their parnfas. one day at our lodgings in Cullpeper a steeds electrified the frigid hearts and held it there, like a broad flag. If Allen Anderson had been there at huge, bashful Mississippi scoutont before him. Recall after recall made her side, still repeating it, Alice could She paid no heed to Allen's agonized The Death Kate of War. ofTthe most daring in the armywith him famous in London town. The not have heard it more distinctly, and prayer to throw herself flat on the Rupert had come to him firstan the frame of a Hercules and the face oi Medical Record. newspapers rang with his praise and somehow it was more than she could platform, but watched the distant 'honest, noblelad, full of life and earnest a child. He was bidden to come there bear. It was wretched, miserable! spoke of his previous failure as a remarkable shore with intense earnestness. It is a truism that in war disease purpose. by his general, he said to ask if 1 reminiscence. The Astley "They see! they see!" she cried. She turned from the window, as she kills more than the bullet. The detailed He entered the navy, and at the time would not give him an order to fetch "They are waving a flag, and now they people were glad enough to renew the had from him, and throwing herself 1 of his uncle's death was a lieutenant, some cherished object from my deai facts showing this, however, in are putting off a boat. Oh, Allen, Allen, on the sofa, wept bitter tears. original contract to retain the American sewing on a foreign station. In two old homesomething that would you are safe now!" case of our own war are of special in- i They were all for himoh, yes, entirely rider, who returned home two months more he was expected in England prove to me 'how much they thought so! The sad look in those bi own The strain over she tottered over to years later, ith a European reputation terest. The states and territories contributed on an extended furloughhis first of the maker of that flas!' after some eyes had been so pitiful when she him, and dropping on her knees beside and fifty thousanddollarto to boot. to the army of the Union 3,- for four long years. hesitation, I acquiesced, although spurned his plea, giving him to understand him, laid her head on his shoulder. Syracuse Standard. 500,000 men. Of these, during the He had never met his Cousin Alice thinking it a jest A week later I was that she considered such words Self-deception, was over forever! four years of war, there were killed in -she had lived in the West Indies until the astonished recipient of a lamented from a poor, untitled man to an heiress He held her there, nothing loth, heeding action 67,030, or 2.88 per cent. there Development of the Trotter. ber father's death, three years before bit of finery left 'within the lines,' a as impertinent and insulting. little the pain in his crushed foot. died of wounds 43,000 of 1.85 per cent., but was well aware of the earnest desire wrap of white and azure brought by He was too gloriously happy to care Brewton was a resort where the When Flora Temple trotted a mile making a total of deaths from violence of his uncle that they two should Dillon himself, with a beaming face. for a trifle like that. slaves of fashion reveled for awhile in in 2:18 3-4, remarks the New York become all and all to each other. 110,030, or 4.73 per cent. On the He had gone through the Union pickets freedom from the bonds of formality "I came out here to take a look at Herald, the achievement astonished The latter had sent him Alice's other hand there died from disease mounted on a load of firewood, and. all were free to come and go as they the target they set up yesterday, and the world. Tris was in 1859. The picture, and being as yet heartwhole, 224,586, or 9.98 per cent., disease being while peddling poultry, had presented chose, untrammeled by society's iron to say farewell to this beautiful bay. mare was looked upon as a wonder aie was well content to accept the himself at our town house, whence he thus twice as fatal as the bulletThe fetters. I was going away this afternoonshall (beautiful wife selected for him. Few then believed that a mile would carried off his prize in triumph, with a 1 still, Allie?" total mortality among Union soldiers The neighboring barracks, with its As to the proud girl herself, she, too, ever be trotted in less than 2:15. It letter in its folds, telling us how relatives A soft, hot cheek, pressed closer to gay garrison, perhaps was largely responsible during the war would be334,616 understood her uncle's wish. A boyish left .behind longed to be sharing took eight years to lower the record his, and that was all the answer he for this state of things. or 14.41 per hundred of those engaged. portrait of Rupert hung on the the joys and sorrows of those at large got. However that might be, it existed. of 2 859, and down to 1874 the best Thus over 14 out of every hundred library wall, and she felt sure she in the confederacy." "And you take it all back, dear one? One of these delightfully free customs time made was 2:17. In that year the soldiers died in the four years' war. .should like the grown-up original. i Are you surevery sure, that you was, that any lady who desired, record was reduced below 2:15 byGoldsmith This is an enormous death rate, but So, considering that he would be Sir prefer a poor man, a plain Mr.to" might, without fear of offending the Maid, who scored a mile figures are often wrongly used, and they Kupert somedaythat day had come proprieties, row herself out upon the "Hush, hush, Allen!" she said, her Allen Thorndyke Rice, the' proprietor in 2:14. do not indicate accurately the mortality nowand that their union would keep beautiful, smooth waters of the bay, eyes filling with tears. "I despise myself, of the North American Review, is rightly attributable to the war. It was then generally thought that the vast estates together, Alice had in one of the many skiffs provided for I did then, whenwhen I insulted said to be the fortunate possessor oi the limit of a trotter's speed would made up her mind that she might do The ordinary death rate among male such purposes. There were several you so but I had not found $5,000,000a very comfortable sum ranch worse than to comply with her prove to be 2:10. But Maud S. had adults is about 9 per thousand annually ladies brave enough and skillful enough out" to have at one's command. Mr. Rice I uncle's desire. not yet made her appearance, nor had to enjoy this unwonted bit of liberty, "That your heart had learned Love's in this country. During the four knows how to use it to his own enjoyment Sir Charles had ioped to see his two Jay-Eye-See. The former brought the and of these Alice was one. lesson, without your consent? Well, years of the war there would have oc. and to the enjoyment of others. loved ones united and happy, but record down to within a quarter, of a then, I bless this crushed foot and This was how it came to passthat, curred under any circumstances among He is a young man, not 35, it is said, *thne waits for no man,"and hissummons second of 2:10 in 1881, and tluree those cannon-ballsa few hours early on the morning following those the three and a half million of soldiers with olive complexion, dark-brown had come before his plans could years later the latter reduced it to more and it would have been too bitter hours of pity over the "misery about 126,000 deaths attributable be comsummated. hair, large hazel eyes, a good straight 2:10. The prophets of the turf made late." she has caused to leap up into those to the war. To put it in a general way, nose and. a well-brushed, close-cut bold to predict a mile in 2 09, and He had prepared for such contingency, tender brown eyes, she went down to "No, no!" faltered Alice, "for I think instead of four men who would have even 2:08. Maud S. has rapidlv lowered however, and had, its we have beard overhung by a long mustache. the beach alone and pushed her little I should have sent for you to come "i died in the natural course of events, Jheard him say, fixed it all right." the former figure, and now President He dresses quietly, and, while his V. boat out upon the silvery waters. back." fifteen men out of every hundred died By the decree of his will, his vast Edwards of the Cleveland association, clothes are all of the handsomest material, It is not necessary to tellhow he answered She was in no "mood for conversation Eis in the course of the war. The death roperty, after a handsome legacy to expresses his conviction that that confession. he seems to have a fancy for a she knew she should snap at any widowed sister, Mrs. Carson, and the wonderful mare can trot in 2:07 rate from bullets isonlyalittlegreater When John Carson heard the news top coat that is a little worn in the one who came, to her with careless, sundry bequests to friends and servants, under favorable circumstances, and of his cousin's engagement, which he than the death rate in civil life,but the flippant talk. Everything seemed so seams, so that his clothes will not have was to be equally divided be^ Mr. Bonner declares that it will not did that afternoon, he was wild with dark, in spite of the sunny skies, and soldier has added the enormous risks the appearance of having just come 'tween his nephew, Rupert Whitney, surprise him to see the prediction veri- delight, congratulating himself and his it was so cruel to laugh and joke when from disease. from the tailor. Mr. Rice is a very busy -and his niece, Alice Whitney. ?l i mother on the success of his plans. Now, when Well, she hardly knew when, man, for besides taking care of his He said Rupert and Alicewere towed Alice would forfeit her fortune, and all or what, or why, only life was so money he looks after the interests of each other within a year of his decease, Boston papers are criticizing the that great half, save the twenty thousand, miserable, and her world had turned The Comer Stone, Masonic "organ, the North American Review, engages arid in case of the refusal of either one "pseudo Queen Annecottages, withred would be his. ''topsey-t urvey.'' savs that Sir Moses Montefior^ was contributors, and when he is in New so to do, then his or her half of the roofs and borders, with which the coun-\ The next day Alice received a message It was too bad that she should be York takes entire charge of the editorial "the foremost brotber and most estate, with the exception of twenty try is now being overrun., made to feel so like a criminal, just from her betrothed to come to denartment upon his shoulders. ardent advancer of tha craft. &